Correction appended

It’s hard to imagine why the owners of a bar that is notorious for providing drinks to underage girls would want to be associated with a pornography company that has just been prosecuted for filming, you guessed it — underage girls.

Yet, Bar One, which less than 10 months ago changed ownership and paid $45,000 for admitting a minor and then falsifying evidence about it in court, is practically ushering the recently sued Girls Gone Wild out of the courtroom and into its establishment this Friday.

Mantra Management, AKA Girls Gone Wild’s production company, pled guilty Sept. 12 to failing to document the ages of girls in their sexually explicit videos. The justice department said this is the first case filed under a law meant to prevent the sexual exploitation of children, according to a Sept. 12 article from www.cnn.com.

We should not only be asking why Bar One would want to embrace this scandal, but why DeKalb would degrade itself by hosting such an unethical and exploitative company. Girls Gone Wild videos, which often feature college-age girls baring all and are mass marketed across cable channels as early as 11 p.m., would be a rather humiliating and counteractive way to bring attention and visibility to our developing town.

Word about the company’s visit has spread throughout campus and members of several campus groups, such as the Women’s Alliance and College Democrats, among others. Some of these groups are planning to protest the event. In the case of Girls Gone Wild, perhaps the only way to greet such misconduct is by letting them know their practices are unacceptable.

05 Oct.: The Star would like to clarify that Bar One has since changed ownership and the previous owner has paid $45,000 for admitting a minor and falsifying evidence about it in court, not the current owner.