burnet44
03-19-2007, 12:38 PM
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Legal Briefs in a Bunch
We don't have Boston College to root for in the NCAA anymore, but a Boston College pennant has made quite an impact on the local media and BC's law school.
A law student named Adrienne E. Reynolds posed for the free mag Barstool Sports, which specializes in sports talk and images of scantily clad women. On the cover of the "March Madness" issue, Reynolds was wearing nothing but a BC pennant and white briefs. Some of her fellow law students are not amused, and it sure didn't help the Eagles advance another round in the tournament.
The potent combination of semi-naked girls, sports, and righteous indignation fired up the Boston Herald, which slapped the story on its front page. On that front page, it was Adrienne Reynolds on top and BC player Jared Dudley on the bottom. (No, not in that way, people!)
But it's not that big of a deal. As far as semi-naked girls go, Reynolds isn't completely naked. The pennant and the briefs cover the naughty bits, and the picture isn't any different from what you'd see on the covers of Maxim or FHM, so we don't know what got BC students' briefs in a bunch.
And those briefs are indeed in a big, fat bunch. We checked out posts on one of the legal blogs mentioned by the Herald, abovethelaw.com. The post on Reynolds, which featured her Barstool Sports cover photo, actually led to a debate over whether or not one "takes" or "pleads" the Fifth, a discussion over whether or not Reynolds is hot, and an argument over whether or not Reynolds is transsexual. So, if you define a firestorm as a "barrage of silly comments," then this is a firestorm.
The BC Law School blog was hit so hard with comments that the editors took down their entry on Reynolds. One of the blog's writers, Austin Evers, has accused Herald writer Joe Dwinnell of "[lifting] my quote from another source." Evers said he thought Dwinnell was running a "slime piece" about BC. A reporter and law student mixing it up over sources is actually a bigger scandal than a BC law student doffing her top.
However, one comment on abovethelaw.com did stand out as perfectly reasonable: "Way to set an example for all of our daughters who are trying to get somewhere in this world with their BRAIN."
Bostonist was a little troubled that, in her Barstool Sports interview, Reynolds said she wanted to use her law-school education to be a stay-at-home mom, but it's her life, not ours. What she does in her spare time is none of our business, and it's nothing for BC students to worry about.
The big winner out of all this is not Reynolds, who has been dodging interview requests, but Barstool Sports, which proudly boasted of the publicity it received from the Herald's cover story.
Image of Adrienne E. Reynolds on the cover of Barstool Sports from abovethelaw.com.
Legal Briefs in a Bunch
We don't have Boston College to root for in the NCAA anymore, but a Boston College pennant has made quite an impact on the local media and BC's law school.
A law student named Adrienne E. Reynolds posed for the free mag Barstool Sports, which specializes in sports talk and images of scantily clad women. On the cover of the "March Madness" issue, Reynolds was wearing nothing but a BC pennant and white briefs. Some of her fellow law students are not amused, and it sure didn't help the Eagles advance another round in the tournament.
The potent combination of semi-naked girls, sports, and righteous indignation fired up the Boston Herald, which slapped the story on its front page. On that front page, it was Adrienne Reynolds on top and BC player Jared Dudley on the bottom. (No, not in that way, people!)
But it's not that big of a deal. As far as semi-naked girls go, Reynolds isn't completely naked. The pennant and the briefs cover the naughty bits, and the picture isn't any different from what you'd see on the covers of Maxim or FHM, so we don't know what got BC students' briefs in a bunch.
And those briefs are indeed in a big, fat bunch. We checked out posts on one of the legal blogs mentioned by the Herald, abovethelaw.com. The post on Reynolds, which featured her Barstool Sports cover photo, actually led to a debate over whether or not one "takes" or "pleads" the Fifth, a discussion over whether or not Reynolds is hot, and an argument over whether or not Reynolds is transsexual. So, if you define a firestorm as a "barrage of silly comments," then this is a firestorm.
The BC Law School blog was hit so hard with comments that the editors took down their entry on Reynolds. One of the blog's writers, Austin Evers, has accused Herald writer Joe Dwinnell of "[lifting] my quote from another source." Evers said he thought Dwinnell was running a "slime piece" about BC. A reporter and law student mixing it up over sources is actually a bigger scandal than a BC law student doffing her top.
However, one comment on abovethelaw.com did stand out as perfectly reasonable: "Way to set an example for all of our daughters who are trying to get somewhere in this world with their BRAIN."
Bostonist was a little troubled that, in her Barstool Sports interview, Reynolds said she wanted to use her law-school education to be a stay-at-home mom, but it's her life, not ours. What she does in her spare time is none of our business, and it's nothing for BC students to worry about.
The big winner out of all this is not Reynolds, who has been dodging interview requests, but Barstool Sports, which proudly boasted of the publicity it received from the Herald's cover story.
Image of Adrienne E. Reynolds on the cover of Barstool Sports from abovethelaw.com.