From this podcast, a reader of this blog can expect to learn about an on campus organization here at Rutgers called Women Organizing Against Harassment. The goal of this organization is to inform women of their resources on campus, and also to unite them and have them understand that they are not alone. My group mates and I each chose our own topics within the realm of issues women face; the topic that I chose to research is date rape drugs and statistics. Women are most likely to be victims of date rape between the ages of 18-24, so it’s important that as a 21 year old myself, who is surrounded by other girls around my age, that women are educated and take precaution where they can. It is also important that women know they are not alone in their troubles, and that they have resources available to them if they need it.

Work Cited:

https://rutgers.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/WOAH

http://nj1015.com/rutgers-frat-accused-of-spiking-sororitys-drinks-with-date-rape-drug/

https://www.womenshealth.gov/a-z-topics/date-rape-drugs

https://www.creditdonkey.com/date-rape-statistics.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=AnKGWlZG_ncC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Ashlyn+K.+Kuersten%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwia9Pi16_XeAhUlh-AKHYCTB3UQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Group Members:

Maria Lozano- marialoz.wordpress.com

Erika Etkine- erikaetkine.wordpress.com

Sarah Osmun- tattoos.home.blog

Jessica Plante-Campbell- travellingfoodie.food.blog

This is a blog for Rutgers students to find their news, written by a Rutgers student. However, this blog differs a tad bit from other news sites that are offered to Rutgers students; instead of reporting on campus events, and highlighting special guest speakers who come to campus, this blog follows student life in a behind-the-scenes type of way. When other websites report on Rutgers student, it always has something to do with accomplishments or emergencies, or something big and considered “newsworthy.” This is a blog that is dedicated to following the shenanigans of Rutgers students, the daily happenings that are easy to laugh at, but also really easy to gloss over. Being a student here at Rutgers is a lot of fun! With this meme, it could be about blatantly ignoring the rules, but I feel like it better relates to being unorganized and running away from the responsibility of getting organized. “Memes can be fun, or they can be dumb” (Haddow). Why can’t they be both?

Meme Source: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1418070-floating-boy-chasing-running-boy

This blog is supposed to make Rutgers students laugh and remind them that they can have fun! Are you wondering why there’s a cat reading a newspaper? I can answer that for you- my roommate has a cat, and when I do silly things she sits on my bed with me for me to tell her all about it. She hears about my Rutgers life, and I suggest your cat(s) should too. Why is the cat reading a newspaper and reacting? Well because she’s reading this website! Maybe if she had someone to read it to her, she wouldn’t be so sleepy.

Meme Source: https://pixabay.com/en/cat-animal-newspaper-yawn-3482623/

This last meme is observing the college students themselves, just hanging out and living life. They’re laughing and talking with one another- what are they talking about? This blog, clearly.

Meme Source: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1418070-floating-boy-chasing-running-boy

Please note: All images were found through knowyourmeme.com or Creative Commons

This is a public service announcement to bring attention to a group that has resources for women who have faced abuse and harassment. Women Organizing Against Harassment (or WOAH for short) is a group here at Rutgers that helps women in need of a space safe and a sense of unity. The group, according to their website, is for “eradicating gender violence and sexual assault as well as educating the community about rape culture and enthusiastic consent.” In addition to promoting the concerns of sexual harassment and violence against women, it also focuses attention on basic issues of a patriarchal society implementing systematic misogyny at home, at work, and at school. Young women are one of the most vulnerable populations for sexual assault and harassment, and it is important that we know the facts and statistics, along with our rights that we are entitled to and the resources that are available to us.

1. The header image that I’ve designed for my website was designed intentionally to make readers aware of the content of the site immediately; with the background of a newspaper and a Rutgers logo, any individual who visits my site could guess that this is a Rutgers news website.
2. I found the sources that I used through the creative commons app, specifically through the commons’ “wikimedia” section. I know that the images I picked are okay to use because the newspaper photo that I chose is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share, which makes it okay to share and edit it as I see fit. I know that the picture of the Rutgers logo I chose to insert into the header is okay to use as well because being that it is only made of geometric shapes and text, it does not meet the threshold of originality needed for copyright, and is therefore considered public domain.
3. In order to produce the image created for the website’s header, both photos had to be added to the pixlr as separate layers to create a new image. The separate layers were important to the creation of the image because it separated the editing process for the two; I could edit, crop, cut, or expand one image without affecting the other. In Manovich’s article, he articulated the importance of the newfound ability to edit each image separately because of the layer feature. Now that one had the ability to do so, they could create entirely new images out of using the same ones.
4. Davison’s article, which focuses on the importance of the graphics program MS Paint, draws similarities to the image created in pixlr for my website. However, the processes differ in realities of such, being that paint relies on images made from scratch, and the pixlr image came from two already existing photos. Although they are both meant to be customized, the properties in which the images are produced differ.

Works cited:

Manovich, Lev (2011) “Inside Photoshop” http://computationalculture.net/inside-photoshop/

Davison, Patrick (2015)  “Because of the Pixels: On the History, Form, and Influence of MS Paint.” file:///C:/Users/caraa/Downloads/w5%20davison%20MS%20paint%202015.pdf

        “We would get less speech without copyright. Limiting the freedom of some people to copy creates incentives to create more speech” (Lessig). In limiting the ways that one can copy the work of others, one would be forced to develop their own speech to defend, digress, explain, etc. When someone is writing something that is inspired by something else, it would be ill advised to have them take direct quotes without citation. At the same time, it would also be ill advised for one to take direct quotes, even if cited, and nothing else. With copyright and plagiarism concerns, one is not able to make the words of someone else into their own. One would then be forced to develop their own analysis, their own explanations, and their own observations that could either agree or disagree with the original content that they find. By having to put things into one’s own terms, they are developing a new view that otherwise would not have been conceptualized. In terms of news, it is important to write down exact quotes and who said them; that being said, news stories cannot be driven on quotes alone. A journalist would have to develop an analysis of what they observed, which can develop new arguments and revelations that just the words of someone else would have never provided.

Source: file:///C:/Users/caraa/Downloads/w4%20lessig-remix.pdf

        Hello! Welcome all Scarlet Knights to The Scarlet Knights blog! This website is a one-stop shop for all Rutgers students to access the news they need to stay informed of all student events, both academic and extra-curricular. In addition to reporting on the on goings of student events and activities, academic lectures and show casings, and extracurriculars such as club meetings and events, this website will mainly report on the many things that go on in a more general encompassment of student life. The goal of this website is to provide the audience with a view of student life that those looking in from the outside cannot see; this website will provide detailed analysis through the eyes of students of their own experiences. However, the content on this website is entirely fictional. All of the encounters and experiences posted on here will be merely a satirical outlook on student life. As a transfer student myself, adjusting to campus life has been harder than I had anticipated it would be. Rutgers, being as big of a school as it is, is an easy environment to get lost in and is easy to feel overwhelmed with all of the new experiences happening. It can be difficult for one to find their footing. However, with Rutgers being as big as it is, students can create the lives they want for themselves, and that is why so many can get lost. The ones who do just need help in finding their niche at this school. By humanizing the students, even if just in a fictional, joking matter, I feel that anyone who is struggling at this school can find comfort in that humor. This website satirizes the students, their experiences, and the environment we are all in to make adjusting to student life easier to understand and relate to.