<p>I've noticed that no one to the opportunity write about this on CC. I'm guessing its due to the fact this is a very sensitive matter. But what do you parents, prospective applicants and current students think?</p>
<p>This student is an adult with free will and what she is doing is not illegal, so from that perspective it is not our business, however, if one wants my take on her decision, she states she is doing this primarily to pay tuition for four years, and as a result, is engaging in an activity that will last for a lifetime. This seems out of proportion to the problem at hand which is getting a college degree.</p>
<p>Even if she stops, there is a permanent record on film of her activity. She may be fine about this now, but nobody can predict how she will feel later, perhaps as a wife, mother, and even grandma. Not only can the world see these films but so can her parents, future children and possibly grandkids will have access to grandma doing porn. What if she later has a high profile job in politics, teaching, or another area where colleagues and others can see these? </p>
<p>Duke, at 60 K a year ( she may not meet financial need requirements) is not the only way to get a college degree, and sorry Duke, but there are many ways to get just as good a degree that do not involve a permanent record of porn activities. As a parent, I send my kids to college not just for an education but to provide a foundation for a future they can be proud of, not later regret. To me, it would be better to chose an affordable school, and not pay for it with this kind of activity.</p>
<p>@Pennylane2011 I see your point. I just don’t believe she’s doing it to pay her tuition because I mean what parent wouldn’t pay for college to stop their child from becoming a sex worker. I mean a parent would do anything for a child. I also think in future, she probably might regret it. Especially, when/if she has kids and start a family.</p>
<p>I agree- she says she is doing it to pay tuition, but then she also states she enjoys it. I’m not sure that tuition is the only reason since there are other options. I don’t know what her parents’ role is in this, and if they can’t afford Duke. They could have encouraged other ways to get a degree before she resorted to this. </p>
<p>There are many examples of celebrities, politicians and other public figures being embarrassed by someone revealing old films and pictures of them from an earlier time. I think most parents would not condone this student’s activity, but she has chosen it.</p>
<p>I’m sure she’s the first college student ever to enter the adult film industry. I guess it’s gotten more press since she has written about it and goes to a school like Duke…</p>
<p>I must say that her essays probably was the key thing that got her into Duke, because she is one hell of a writer! The writersblues.com open letter above, clearly shows that she could have funded her education without going into the porn industry.</p>
<p>Well anyone consider that she enjoys this line of work? And it apparently pays well. Hell, it’s her decision. Who are we to judge her for it. It’s not necessarily stupid of her like many of you are saying. I’m sure she considered the fact that it may resurface later in her life, and consciously became a sex worker anyways. There is nothing wrong with it and is her choice. It is not going to stop her from having a good career in her future. </p>
<p>Watching her on Piers Morgan I am left wondering how she was accepted to Duke because I honestly don’t think she sounds too bright. Sorry but that’s my opinion.</p>
<p>I think she went to Duke to promote and market her name and career. No one would care about a porn star from a community college or state flagship. </p>
<p>Not a choice I would have made and am glad D didn’t make this choice either. Seems like at the moment, she’s content with her choice. Wish her good luck! One woman I knew had a S who stripped and was a part time male model and extra to help make money for college. She and her H and S were all fine with it. </p>
<p>Being a porn star seems to leave a much longer video and media footprint. Hope this young lady doesn’t have huge regrets about choices she has and continues to make. </p>
<p>I do think that the entire issue is overblown and that her choice ot do porn is just that, her choice, but I’m not at all pleased (and rather quite angry) about how she is twisting this to be about FA in recent national interviews (where she is showing her face publicly). A student who gets into Duke has far more choices than just Duke, and with an EFC of $47k (Piers Morgan interview) her family easily makes at least, what, $150k?</p>
<p>By making this about financial aid, she’s blaming an institution at Duke that, before she enrolled, let her know exactly how much aid she was getting-- and she still chose to attend. There are serious issues of college unaffordability in this country-- many of them going to low-income students who finish their degrees one class at a time or midle-class students with average grades who aren’t eligible for scholarships. She had far more choices open to her than she is intimating, and to steal the words of a friend, her experience do not represent mine at all, as a student with financial need on Duke’s campus-- or as a woman on Duke’s campus.</p>
<p>^I agree. Her father is a doctor…and with her family EFC, I’m sure he does pretty well. She got a full-ride to Vanderbilt (academic merit scholarship), so obviously she had other good choices. Clearly, she just enjoys the work and doesn’t mind the extra cash…if she was really being forced into something that she didn’t want to partake in, she could have easily attended another great school in Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>But what else was she supposed to say? “I do porn because I enjoy it”? No, with society’s traditional implications for the female sex, saying that she did porn to pay for college tuition seems much “nobler” and thus perhaps more acceptable to the media; that’s why she had to say what she did. </p>
<p>She didn’t have to say anything, and she spends rather a large part of her interviews talking about sexuality at Duke and repression and ‘femininity’ (some of which I agree with). But she’s moved from abstract mentions of paying for tuition to citing exact numbers and then, in the last Playboy article, outright blaming Duke for not giving her “proper financial resources.” The truth is that she didn’t plan properly/think things through, and that’s why she can’t really afford the college she’s at. We get stories of students all the time on this forum (financial aid section) who can’t afford the schools they’re at (even though they enroll knowing full well how much they owe) and none of that is the school’s fault.</p>
I guess it’s gotten more press since she has written about it and goes to a school like Duke…</p>