le “No regrets for student on MTV,” Julie Stoffer, who is a student at Brigham Young University (BYU) and one of seven young people to star in MTV’s new season of “The Real World,” could be barred from returning to BYU for having broken the church-owned school’s district Honor Code. “When I was there, I wasn’t worried about my behavior and what people would think. I just lived,” said Julie (Stewart A6). BYU prohibits single students from living with members of the opposite sex. The concern is that how many more youngsters will look after Julie and waive their traditional values. Teaching teenagers to be on their own is good or necessary in some cases. However, sexual involvements, underage drinkers, and other social maladies in the show do not need to be exposed. Perhaps, it could have been improved if MTV was more prepense on educating the negative consequences that occur in the group rather than freely broadcast it.Vo 4Another subject that has drawn attentions of teenagers the most is music video. Why? Perhaps, the video director has beheld the critical point that makes youngster stick with their releases. Some of the music videos on MTV are extremely dangerous for young girls and women in sexual aspect. In the article “MTV turns innocent fun into lesser values” by Laurence Herman, the author reminds “I wasn’t too old for MTV; In fact, I was a teen when it was lunch. But back then, MTV had a simple formula with some cheap special effects. It was relatively good, clean, mind-numbing fun. But as MTV became a broadcasting juggernaut, its programming evolved. The videos still exist, but they’re now sexier and grittier—even more so than those days of my teenage yore, when you couldn’t mistake what a Madonna video was about, and a viewer favorite was peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer (If you have to ask, you don’t want to know).”As f...
