A culture of Joking through the Pain

There are numerous instances in which University of Oregon students are confronted with harmful situations. Take the Eugene Fondler, for example, a serious case of sexual harassment in our streets and oh boy is it lauded by the student body as a laughing matter. Platforms such as YikYak and Fizz perpetuate a culture of anonymous joke-telling spanning from fraternity jabs to victim blaming and poking fun at a Celtics jersey-clad man grabbing impressionable first-year students by their private parts. Has it become a new part of the University of Oregon culture to humorize our downfall?