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WHAT: The State of Art Criticism & Art Blogging with Meg Onli
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ABOUT: Join Chicago-based artist and writer Meg Onli in a discussion on the state of art criticism in the Internet age.
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Phone app combats sexual assault
EMILY DONOVAN
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He had already been turned down once. As he asks one of her female friends to dance again, he doesn't notice Alexa Roy make eye contact with her friend who casually but purposefully adjusts the collar of her blouse.
"Oh, I really need to go to the bathroom," Roy says before grabbing her friend's arm and leading her away. "Can we go?"
Pulling on her shirt may seem like an insignificant act, but the simple signal has helped Roy, a sophomore from Shawnee, and her group of female friends save each other from countless undesired, "weird" experiences with men. They stick together, they communicate and they keep to a plan.
Now, they have a default plan — thanks to their smartphones. Circle of 6 is a free iPhone and Android application designed to combat sexual assault.
This mobile buddy system allows the user to discretely send a text to six friends asking for a safe ride home with a link to her location on Google Maps, asking for them to call and pretend it's important to provide an interruption or asking for advice to prevent relationship abuse. An exclamation point icon dials a national rape or sexual assault hotline, a relationship abuse hotline and a programmable custom number.
"If you're in a bad situation, a lot of the time it's not as easy as picking up your phone and calling 911," Roy said. "A lot of the times, you don't really know what to do; you don't know who to call; maybe it's not an emergency. Circle of 6 is great because it provides options."
When Christine Corbett Moran,
Roy likes the app because she believes that if she weren't thinking logically or wasn't sure what she should do next, Circle of 6 would think for her to help her make the right and safest decision.
the programmer who created the application, awoke in the middle of the night to find an acquaintance-turned-stalker staring at her from the floor next to her bed, she was flustered. After she rushed him out the door, a Google search eventually landed her on a suicide hotline rather than with the support she really needed.
As Vice President of Philanthropy for Alpha Chi Omega Sorority, Phi Chapter at the University, Roy works to make her peers recognize dating violence and sexual assault. Nationally, Alpha Chi Omega supports domestic violence awareness and prevention. Locally, the sorority's fundraisers benefit the Willow Domestic Violence Center, headquartered in Lawrence.
"Any funds that we raise go directly into the community." Roy said. "They help women who we might see at the grocery store."
Brian Hillix, a junior from Camden Point, Mo., believes that men and women should be aware
of the prevalence of sexual violence if they hope to prevent it. If one of his friends contacts him in the middle of the night, he's prepared to get out of bed and give him or her a ride.
"Without questioning them further, I would head to my car immediately." Hillix said.
The deceptively simple application targets college-age women, attempting to combat the statistic that one in five women report being sexually assaulted before they graduate.
"If we can get just six people taking care of each other, taking care of their friends, how many instances of sexual assault would that prevent?" Roy said. "It's like the butterfly effect — maybe everyone has each other in their circles, and it just becomes a lot safer on campus."
Edited by Megan Hinman
HEALTH
China home to new lethal flu
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — A new strain of bird flu that emerged in China over the past month is one of the "most lethal" flu viruses so far, worrying health officials because it can jump more easily from birds to humans than the one that started killing people a decade ago. World Health Organization officials said Wednesday.
Scientists are watching the virus closely to see if it could spark a global pandemic but say there is little evidence so far that it can spread easily from human to human.
WHO's top influenza expert, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, told reporters at a briefing in Beijing that people seem to catch the H7N9 virus from birds more easily than the H5N1 strain that began ravaging poultry across Asia in 2003. The
"This is definitely one of the most lethal influenza viruses we have seen so far," Fukuda said. But he added that experts are still trying to understand the virus, and that there might be a large number of mild infections that are going undetected.
Health experts are concerned about HYN9's ability to jump to humans, and about the strain's capacity to infect birds without causing noticeable symptoms, which makes it difficult to monitor its spread.
H5N1 strain has since killed 360 people worldwide, mostly after contact with infected fowl.
The H7N9 bird flu virus has infected more than 100 people in China, seriously sickening most of them and killing more than 20, mostly near the eastern coast around Shanghai, Taiwan on Wednesday confirmed its
first case, a 53-year-old man who became sick after returning from a visit to the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu.
In comparison, the earlier bird flu strain, H5N1, is known to kill up to 60 of every 100 people it infects.
Wednesday's briefing came at the end of a weeklong joint investigation by WHO and Chinese authorities in Beijing and Shanghai.
Experts said they still aren't sure how people are getting infected but said evidence points to infections at live poultry markets, particularly through ducks and chickens. They said it was encouraging that reported infections appeared to slow down after the closure of live poultry markets in affected areas.
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