It started as a crude joke among friends at the University of Michigan’s Student Veterans of America chapter, one member ribbing another in an online chat about her sexual proclivity.
But the joke didn’t land well, and the female student — the target of the joke — was angry. Apologies were swift, effusive, and sincere. The joke had been meant as a friendly play on the female student’s own joking commentary about her sex life, but the apologies weren’t enough.
“She went right to the university and tried to burn us down,” Joe Jackowski, a former member of the veterans’ group, told …
