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The Daily Pennsylvanian lost a good man this weekend. After seven months blogging and another four writing columns, Stephen Morse finally succumbed after a long battle with facts, journalistic principles and people in general.
As a columnist last Spring, Morse took on discrimination towards broad definitions of sexual harassment in the university’s handbook on the subject and other hot topics.
As a Spin blogger his ambition (and notoriety) only grew. After attending a Darfur rally he asked the question, why aren’t more African Americans doing more for their brothers and sisters in Darfur? Later he tackled an odd smell in Logan Hall and a hazardous crosswalk at 33rd and Locust.
Morse achieved cult celebrity status, at one point garnering his own tag on Penn alum authored blog Philadelphia Will Do, written by Daniel McQuade. In December he was even named one of a Philadelphia Will Do’s People of the Year.
And yet after his brief but illustrious career, Morse came to epitomize that epithet made famous by Kurt Cobain, “It is better to burn out than fade away.”
In Morse’s final moments as a blogger he took on those bastions of corruption, the Preceptorial Committee and the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.
Unfortunately for Morse and those subscribing to his cult of personality, while the details are hazy (and privileged) one thing is sure: Morse is no longer with us.
Morse, you were the O’Reilly to my Colbert, my inspiration, nay the wind beneath my wings. The Blogsbe Nation mourns your departure from this blog, but feels confident that you’ve moved on to a better place.
P.S. For those wondering the betting line for impetuses behind Morse’s departure was as follows: Amy Gutmann 3:2, Black Student Union 4:1, Students Taking Action Now: Darfur 7:2, Bob Casey 10:1, Dan “D-Mac” McQuade 13:1, Dan Savage 25:1.
Editor’s note: While Stephen Morse will no longer be blogging for The Spin, new pieces by Morse will still be available in 34th Street. “Well…that was awkward” will continue on Thursday.
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February 20th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Good riddance.
February 21st, 2007 at 12:20 am
Good Riddance is right. Morse looks like a giant booger.
February 21st, 2007 at 12:21 am
WHAT is the Daily Pennsylvanian DOING to us?!?!
February 21st, 2007 at 12:49 am
So now we’ve lost one of the only guys who made this blog worth reading? Well done DP - I take it this was a Zoe Tillman move - for screwing up once again.
February 21st, 2007 at 8:57 am
Morse’s boundless sense of entitlement and his hair-trigger outrage over the most trivial of issues perfectly encapsulated the spirit of all Penn students. He will be missed. Good night, sweet prince. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
PS. I hear he’s a rock star in the sack.
February 21st, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Leave it to you, Mr. Blogsbe, to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. You could write a tribute to Lucifer himself and it would undoubtedly be so eloquent and heartrending as to leave me with tears streaming down my face. It is as though choirs of angels dictate your Spin posts to you. Bless you, sir.
November 4th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
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