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Anonymous app allows for online harassment Organizations advocate for monitoring of social media
goal should be to undermine the ideology itself, not its voice.” Rachel Storm, assistant director at the Women’s Resource Center, said social media can be used for social justice as much as it can be used to exploit BY IMOGEN LINDSLEY or harass others. STAFF WRITER “Social media has been Yik Yak is an anonymous a tremendous space for social media site that allows calling out racism, sexism, individuals to “get a live trans-phobia and other sysfeed about what everyone’s tems of oppression,” she saying around you.” But a said. “If you see something problem occurs when the oppressive online, speak up users — 95 percent of which and if someone is harassing are from colleges and uni- you or someone you know, versities — also receive a reach out for help.” live feed about what everyEfforts to protect students against one is saying harmful about them. On Oct. posts have 21, 72 womresulted en’s and civil in 130,000 rights orgaschools in the U.S. banning nizations the app. gathered in M atthew Wash i ngMullen, a stuton D.C. to dent at Michadvocate igan State for the U.S. University, Department JUSTIN BROWN posted, “I’m of EducaASSOCIATE DEAN OF tion to insist gonna (image STUDENTS that collegof a pistol) es monitor the school at 12:15 p.m. a nonymous social media for racist today,” on Yik Yak on Nov. and sexual comments to 24, 2014. In March this protect students who are year he was sentenced to identifiable. two years of probation and However, the University charged an $800 fi ne. is not monitoring or banIn April, over 500 stuning the app to prevent dents protested against racoffensive comments. ist comments on Yik Yak at Associate Dean of Stu- Colby College in Maine. In dents Justin Brown said May, female students at silencing hate does not help. University of Mary Wash“Hate always fi nds a way SEE BULLYING | 3A to be heard,” he said. “Our
KAROLINA MARCZEWSKI THE DAILY ILLINI
Madeline Skellie, a HungerU crew member tells students what the organization's goals are and how students can help on the quad Nov. 4, 2015.
HungerU educates students on food security, makes local donations man said. “We know that we can engage a lot of students here.” She said there are several ways students can get involved in ending food security, on and off campus. HungerU’s goal is to start a
three digital screens that displayed statistics on global food security and a prize wheel, which gave students who took a short quiz about international food security a chance to win frisbees and backpacks. For every quiz
BY LILLY MASHAYEK STAFF WRITER
A banner reading “let’s give hunger an expiration date” greeted students outside of the Illini Union Wednesday, encouraging passers by to visit the mobile HungerU RV that was parked on Anniversary Plaza for the day. The University was the last of eight stops on HungerU’s semester-long campaign to educate students about hunger and global food security. “Our goal is to get students more aware of these issues, to talk about them — with the role that modern agriculture plays in solving them — and to get them more engaged, whether in their community, or with their major,” said Fiona Coleman, a HungerU crew member. The HungerU RV housed
“Illinois is on our list being that it has a big agriculture program and also that it’s a really big, bustling, active campus.” FIONA COLEMAN
HUNGERU CREW MEMBER
taken, HungerU donated funds to local campus kitchens to help provide meals. “Illinois is on our list, being that it has a big agriculture program and also that it’s a really big, bustling, active campus,” Cole-
campus conversation about food security and to urge students to think about how problems surrounding global food security problems can be solved. Michelle Stewart, an Illinois farmer and member of
“Our goal should be to undermine the ideology itself, not its voice.”
the Farm Journal Foundation was on campus to speak to students about food security. She said HungerU is a Farm Journal Foundation initiative. The Farm Journal Foundation educates legislators about the Global Food Security Act and ways to ensure that money is spent improving agriculture infrastructure in other countries, rather than only supplying food, she said. Coleman said it’s likely HungerU will visit the University again within the next couple of years. “We’ve had such an amazing outcome here on this campus, it’s been our busiest campus yet,” Coleman said. “A lot of students really want to know what they can do.”
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Misuse of drugs due to lack of education Have you ever used the following prescription drugs for non-medical reasons? (% Yes)
30
Undergraduate Graduate/Professional
25 20
18.6%
15 10
10.2%
8.9%
Nearly 43% of kids have been bullied online 1 in 4 has been bullied more than once
6.1% Pain Medication
STAFF WRITER
11.8% 6.8%
Sedative
Stimulant
Pain Med., Sedative or Stimulant
How did you obtain your prescription drugs from your friend, relative or peer? Pain Med. Sedative Stimulant
100 80
Study finds increase in prescription drug accessibility BY JOE LONGO
5 0
27.4%
24.8%
Studies show online harassment is frequent among young people
85.3% 83.6%
79.7%
60
49.6%
40
34.9% 36.6%
20 0
21.4%
11.6% 4.5% Took it without them knowing
Gave it to me
Paid for it
One in four undergraduate students reportedly misuse prescription drugs, according to a study by Ohio State University. The study, conducted by a center at Ohio State University, notes prescription drug abuse is rampant on college campuses. 18.6 percent of students reported using stimulants, primarily to boost their grades. About half of students who reported using non-prescription pain medication said that they used the drugs to get high. University of Illinois Police Department Sgt. Joe McCullough said that most University students charged with misuse or abuse of pre-
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SOURCE: The Ohio State University Office of Student Life
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70% of students report seeing frequent bullying online
90% of teens who have seen social-media bullying say they have ignored it
81% of young people think bullying online is easier to get away with than bullying in person
Girls are about twice as likely as boys to be targets of cyber bullying SOURCE: DoSomething.org
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