Phantastic Photo!

Attention, Penn students: if you take photos of two people have public sex, you could risk, oh, charges of sexual harassment.

Some background, real quick: Penn has three high rises between 38th and 40th streets. Sometime last month two people had sex up against the window of one of them in their room (at left). And another kid, in another high rise, saw it, snapped a photo.

Naturally, it started making the rounds around campus through e-mail, and even got sent to alums like me. I considered posting it here, but eventually lost interest. And probably forgot. This was a while ago, though, and I hadn’t thought about it in forever. Until an article in today’s Daily Pennsylvanian, the Penn student newspaper:

What started out as two risque pictures has turned into a very serious matter for one Penn student.

According to confidential University memos obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian, an Engineering junior — who snapped photos of two students appearing to have sex in the window of a Hamilton College House dorm room — currently faces sexual harassment and other charges from the University.

These photos and others were widely circulated via e-mail on Penn’s campus and one now appears on the popular Web site collegehumor.com.

The University has alleged that by featuring the photo on his personal Penn Web site, the photographer violated the school’s code of student conduct, sexual harassment policy and policy on acceptable uses of electronic resources.

Oh snap. This is just the start of something big, especially if the student gets in major trouble with the school.

Racy photo lands student in trouble [DP]