 Hi everybody, welcome back to our show. We're going to go in line and introduce ourselves and then we're going to tell you what we're doing today. I'm Mia, I'm a junior. I'm Faith, I'm a sophomore. I'm Rebecca, I'm a junior. I'm Ben, I'm a sophomore. We're all college students at the University of Vermont and today we're going to be talking about social media on campus and how it creates a community or isolates us. Now, it's nice to see you all. So my first question for you is how does social media help you create a community at the DM campus? Me, well I actually, I met my freshman year roommate on Facebook and we're still roommates now so it obviously turned out really good and I literally, like I met her through Facebook. She literally just posted like a profile and I clicked on it and like texted her and then we just texted and became roommates so I think that's a very unique way that social media has like helped me connect with someone on college campus. Wow, that's awesome. I also found my freshman year roommate through Facebook but not only can you find your roommate there, you can also meet other people before you even come to college off of different social media pages so you already have connections before coming to school. That's amazing and what about you? Any insights? I've seen a lot of people who really take off with like having clubs with social media followings because they can help you like find friends and also find things that you could be potentially interested in. Like if I see a sick clip by like SSC I'm like yo like I want to go see you now and then I go sign up and I have like more people that I know so I've seen that help. Yeah I agree. I think you can find a lot of different clubs and information about the clubs off of social media that are within the school and you can find out when the events are for said clubs and it just gives a lot of good information and awareness in general. Not only clubs I feel like UVM puts on a lot of events around campus and like that's also very accessible and easy to find through social media. I feel like it's a great way for students to get connected with each other. That's awesome and do you guys think there are any negative impacts of social media on you being a college student? I think that maybe for example like when you're a freshman and you feel kind of alone and you see these people who are also in college with you going out every night and like they're huge groups of friends and you're like I haven't really figured that out yet it can make you feel super isolated and like you don't know what you're doing at college yet. I'm sure. I definitely think especially in college because there are so many people you can find it so easy to compare yourself to others like you said I know like when I first came to college like as a freshman literally second week of school I'd see people posting with like 15 other people and I would be like there's no way you already have a group of 15 friends like yeah yeah. Any last thoughts before we wrap it up? Um yeah I was just gonna say like kind of social media amplifies the FOMO a lot because it's like there's always something you can be doing and there's always something you can be missing um and I found that like sometimes you just gotta like turn it off because otherwise it'll feel bad about like oh I missed out on like going to bowling or something. So true thank you guys so much for being here and sharing your experiences with social media as college students. Awesome. Hi everyone welcome to our talk show called Students Speak. I'm your host Emma and today we're asking students questions and they're going to speak. We're here with Emily, Ella and Sam and to start off Emily or Ella from your perspective how would you define free speech? Um it's kind of twofold in a very literal sense of the word it's saying whatever you want whenever you want and however like you feel but in a more practical sense there are certain things that society has agreed our taboo to talk about at certain times or in front of certain audiences or you have the potential to offend a lot of people so freedom of speech only goes so far depending on who you are and how you want to interact with the world um so although the literal sense of it is saying what you want I think that society has kind of created our own rules around that um and it's not actually as free as we sort of make it out to be because even if you're allowed to doesn't mean that society is going to accept that. Absolutely. All right shifting gear Sam how does the conversation around free speech change in the context of social media? Um I think kind of to add on to the point just earlier now on social media you can in a sense post anything say anything but when it's something hateful or somebody is saying something bigoted or it's just something that you don't want to see on your feed I feel like that takes off a lot quicker than like just good stuff as well so there's kind of this conversation about an algorithm on social media that seems to draw attention to just clicks and views so it seems like hateful things that may technically be free speech because you can say anything feels like it should be monitored and maybe monitored better by the social media platforms that allow you to post anything. Absolutely um and finally Emily what do you think that the benefits or the risks of censorship of free speech are and who do you think is accountable for it? So this is definitely a tricky one because of course hate speech is horrible and I definitely don't think it should be promoted or allowed in any way but then we sort of get to a conversation about censorship and what that can mean depending on who the person censoring is because obviously I do think there should be consequences for hate speech or speech that incites violence because that's not just speech it's creating something bigger and more violent than the words itself um but the issue comes around when we allow too much censorship because then we're allowing the government or corporations to choose what is right or wrong to say and that can get really risky when we step into that. Great thank you all for your responses that is all um and thanks for watching and we'll see you next week. Hi my name's Elani. My name's Saraj. My name's Ella. And I'm Quinn. And today we're going to be talking about how certain social media accounts um that a lot of UVM students follow can bring them together. We're going to be focusing on the Instagram account UVM Finder, Haughty Finder, sorry. Do you want to tell them what that is? Yes it's basically an account where people have submissions of descriptions of people in a funny way like um and we're going to talk about that in our talk show soon. Yeah the Instagram page itself has over 4,000 followers and it's anonymously ran and it's for the student body to be able to click a form and fill out someone that maybe they thought was cute and they don't know their names. I have two UVM students here and they have picked some posts that they thought were rather funny to read to you guys today. All right so I guess I'll just go first um this post was from September 13th of this year and it reads to the deeply unsettling man with no eyebrows and no sideburns who was always carrying around a pot of cereal. Hey cutie um yeah so this could sort of be perceived two ways I mean like one like that could be like a little offensive I guess for calling him out with like saying he has no eyebrows or sideburns but I guess in a way you could also take that as a compliment that somebody like picked you out of the crowd to like sort of notice you and I mean a lot of people are seeing this post so I don't know I feel like personally for me any attention is sort of like good attention it's better than nothing so yeah. Good to be recognized for your pot of cereal. I chose one from September 9th of this year and it says to the guy that bit me at rira's last night um do you have rabies um and this kind of highlights maybe the negative side of haughty finder where you could get called out for something embarrassing that you did um but it also like provides entertainment for like the people reading the post we all thought this was really funny and everyone could get a good laugh out of getting bit at rira's. Has anybody here ever gotten one? Is that in about them? No. Some vague ones like like is it me yeah and like yeah that's me um but yeah that's it's hard to tell like sometimes they're really vague sometimes they're really specific too um but yeah haven't got called out by name. And I believe we are doing a section on how to submit a UVM haughty finder. Just so everybody knows how to do it in case you guys want to send one in about one of us we can show you how to do it. So we have someone in mind. Yes we do in fact someone we do in fact have someone in mind um he has a really beautiful minivan beautiful minivan along with beautiful sideburns they kind of hook in here because he has upside down sunglasses yeah it's blue hat oh we've got a bandana on yeah we saw him outside of the theater today briefly um and we are going to go on the instagram and click on the link in the bio and submit this hopefully you can find this person because we want to find them. So yeah University of Vermont bringing secreted minors to a whole new level. This is a fictional scenario hey Miranda for your next assignment I need you to look into the public record for Miles Jewel. Okay um unfortunately I've never heard of a public record I probably shouldn't be telling you that because you're my editor and I guess that makes me maybe unqualified for this position as um a news writer but man conveniently today I'm here at CCTV Burlington where I am with two wonderful experts on public records. Hi there I'll give you I have so many questions for you that's great um my first question so for this next um article that I'm writing about this mysterious figure Miles Jewel never heard of him um I need to know what is a public record it can be really anything um anything that involves government workers or government dollars um so it's very broad. Okay um that helps narrow this down a little bit um I guess my next question is how do I obtain somebody's public record? Well the Freedom of Information Act um provided the public with the right to request access to records from any federal agency typically you can just reach out to the agency and tell them what information you need. Okay um that also helps me narrow this down um who can these access like who can these records be accessed by and under what circumstances um your switch numbers I thought you were experts we're in training so um be forgiving um in Vermont oh well are you googling this right now I'm new I'm new in Vermont agencies have three days to respond to a public records request okay um can anybody access them or can I access them yeah anybody can access them okay um you if some things are harder to get but for the most part anyone can put in a public records request okay uh where are these records kept is it an archive is it like physical digital like where do these records exist so public records actually exist in all shapes and sizes some are digital and some are only accessible in person okay uh that helps me a little bit um now I have a really important question what are my rights if somebody requests a public record on me like Miles in the situation what would his rights be it kind of varies by state but for the most part um you have the right to um access any agency records about yourself um so anything that you're in the subject of there are a few exceptions so if you are in an active investigation that might get a little tricky or military things get tricky um but in some organizations also will block out certain things like credit card numbers or your social security numbers so kind of case by case basis but um you can usually access them for yourself okay that's all really wonderful information thank you so much for sharing this with me today I now feel thoroughly ready to investigate Miles Joule hi folks welcome back to channel three news um that we are all UVM students my name is Gwen my name's Tim and I'm Lauren and today we're gonna be reporting on some breaking news that we saw in the news cycle today I don't know about you guys but I saw that Bernie Sanders just got engaged to Katy Perry and that they're starting a non-profit down here in Brailington that's crazy yeah that's a real firework yeah no honest to god and they're um dealing a lot with like plastic bags drifting through the wind wow that's that's lyrical yeah wanting to start again for the most part that's awesome cool speaking of love I heard that love letters came out between Trump and Putin I'm really confused I saw that too yeah that was all over my Instagram feed yeah that's weird right I would have thought what about did you hear anything yeah my news is going pretty wild today um yeah we there was a champ signing last week and then also there was something about birdbikes how uh you can actually take them underwater so me and a couple of my buddies I think are going to go explore look for champ that's awesome I think I saw a sign-up sheet for that really yeah you can do the center yeah and the David yeah right next to the condom yeah yeah that's wild yeah that's insane oh my god wait I think our producer also has some more breaking news you know I heard that aliens are taking over the earth no you didn't wow are you serious are you being no I'm not serious you need to fact check your information oh wait so did you guys fact check any of your information no usually I just blab on I think I just spread fictional news yeah too maybe we should start fact checking our stuff I think so I heard it's really important that you're supposed to be getting stuff from reliable sources maybe we get more clicks though if we just that's true good point it makes more money I don't know that's just a just a thought daily mail isn't necessarily a good news source as I thought it was serious yeah how are we supposed to know stuff like that I don't know yeah we really got to figure out a better way to find our information well it's more funding yeah please send us money so if you guys have any way to let us know how we can figure out how to stop getting misinformed please do yeah