Cornell students search Craigslist for casual sexual encounters
February 22, 2008 - 1:00am
By Elizabeth Manapsal
Too tired to talk to that cutie at the bar? Thanks to the Internet, you don’t have to. In an emerging trend at college campuses across the nation, many students and even some professors are looking to online websites for one night stands, most notoriously using the classified website Craiglist.
Last November, the blog IvyGate exposed a female Cornell student who posted an ad on Craigslist under “Casual Encounters” looking for a male student to join her and two friends in an orgy. While it is unknown whether this ad was real or fake, clearly “casual encounters” is one part of the hook-up culture that exists at Cornell.