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BYTEing Question Responses: If you could dress up as any character for Halloween, who would you be?

Responses submitted by fans ________________________________________________________________________ Brad Gonzalez     I'm already dressing as Princess Peach (the girl dressing as Mario) but I would love to dress as Sly Cooper. ________________________________________________________________________ Nadia Baca   It would be really cool to dress up as a realistic zombie, such as the ones from The Walking Dead.



CHECKPOINT: Getting Wasted in the Wasteland

New characters were unearthed for Street Fighter 5, Paranormal Activity is getting a video game, and Fallout is getting its own beer. Hosts: Kelsey Hayes & Aidan Hall Camera: Dalton Martin Teleprompter: Andi Tolentino Editing: Dalton Martin Music: Lex Bravary Graphics: Meghan Duffy, Lauren Lucas, & Sam Noble Producer: Andi Tolentino


Panels discussing online harassment cancelled at SXSW due to “violent threats”

Two panels at the upcoming 2016 South by Southwest Festival have been canceled due to “numerous threats of violence”, according to the panelists.  One of the panels, called “Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games,” was set to discuss online harassment culture.  The other, called “SavePoint: A Discussion on the Gaming Community”, featured pro-Gamergate speakers. Anti-harassment activists Randi Lee Harper, Caroline Sinders, and Katherine Cross were to constitute the “Level Up” panel.  It became part of SXSW’s scheduled program thanks to the winning votes on the festival’s interactive voting service, “Panelpicker,” something that Gamergate supporters weren’t happy about. Gamergate began in August 2014 after game developer Zoë Quinn garnered what some thought was “undue attention” for a game.  The backlash grew into harassment via distributing private information such as home addresses, threats of rape and extreme violence, and threats of mass shootings in response to Quinn’s outspokenness.  Fellow game developer Brianna Wu and cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian were also targeted, as was actress and gamer Felicia Day. On Monday, Harper was informed that the panel had been canceled.  The cancelation came after SXSW received “numerous threats of violence” to the panel.  It was a surprise to Harper, who had been working with SXSW on security for the panelists, due to the regularity of online harassment activists receiving threats. Cross told Jezebel that she is “bitterly disappointed” about the panel’s cancelation.  She added that the panel “was not about Gamergate.  It was about the wider problem of online harassment.” The pro-Gamergate panel “SavePoint”, whose panelists included pro-Gamergate game developers Nick Robalik and Perry Jones, adult film star Mercedes Carrera, and NBC producer Lynn Walsh, was also canceled. ----- Source: Jezebel Image: SXSW




At a journalism Professional-in-Residence panel discussion Oct. 27, four students spoke about their experience with cultural stereotypes after moving to America or studying abroad. DN PHOTO ALLIE KIRKMAN

International panel discusses cultural stereotypes

Although students are surrounded by cultural diversity everyday, many do not care to learn and explore differences and would rather find cultural stereotypes to be true, according to students in the audience at a journalism panel. 


DN illustration Stacie Kammerling.

Ball State professor invents monster spray

The thought of monsters hiding under the bed has plagued children for generations — enough to inspire films like “Monsters, Inc.” and “Little Monsters.” One Ball State professor is known for creating a possible solution to the things that go “bump in the night.”