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Nov. 41 Monogram for actor Marshall 42 “Million Dollar __”; Jon Hamm baseball movie (c) 2017 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. 43 Hawaii’s Mauna __ 2 News Fake IDs: How many students drink illegally? PARKER MALATESTA| NEWS EDITOR Fake IDs have long been a staple on According to a study in the journal college campuses. With technology Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental creeping into our everyday lives, Research, students used fake IDs about purchasing fakes has become easier 25 percent of the time they drank alcohol without increasing surveillance. before they turned 21. Outside of that, “I’m about six of them deep,” a third-year students obtained alcohol through friends engineering student said. “I always had and family members that are of the legal someone else’s fake or real ID. A kid from age limit. The more frequently the students high school, two of some random guy utilized their fake IDs, the more often they from Tennessee and then three real IDs drank. of someone I know. The real ones worked “My fake works well, but I only use it best.” where I know most people’s work. Like According to the National Council on Woody’s and Ladder [19],” a freshman with Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, 11 a West Virginia fake ID said. percent of the alcohol consumed in the Uncle Woody’s Pub and Ladder 19 did United States is by people age 12 to 20. not immediately respond to comment. “Friend of mine ordered it, I’ve never She ordered hers on the Internet over the been rejected,” said a second-year student summer, but said most people she knew who reps a North Carolina fake ID. “It ordered in groups through people. SCREEN GRAB FROM SUPERBAD mostly works at the bars and stores that “Almost everyone I know has one or has there’s a reputation that people don’t care ordered one. I think it’s easy and I forget about fakes. Most of the people I know it’s illegal; it doesn’t feel like a big deal,” have fakes. I was terrified at first, but now she said. just fine. I purchased it online using it’s not that big of a deal. The cops should “I got my fake the summer going into “I got my fake the bitcoin,” a third-year student with a North worry about other things than college my sophomore year — very easy to get — Carolina fake ID said. “It doesn’t hold up students using fakes to get drunk.” ordered it online from a website on Reddit, summer going into to being scanned, though. A majority of Some students use the fake IDs to avoid ‘r/fakeid.’ It took a month to get here from my friends have or had fake IDs. I’ve got to being separated from their of-age China,” a third-year student in the college my sophomore year no real problem using it. It’s a great tool friends on the weekends. of arts and sciences said. “My fake worked — very easy to get for expanding your horizons through your “I never had a fake ID,” a third-year at any bar and restaurant in the Clifton initial years of college.” student said. “The first two years of school area, even Murphy’s Pub. Now that it got — ordered it online A study by Julia Martinez, Patricia without a fake ID were definitely a little cracked, not having it is going to be hard, Rutledge and Kenneth Sher published tough when it came to meeting up with because my friends all have one.” from a website on in the United States National Library of friends. Now, I have no worries. However, Murphy’s Pub has not been able to be Medicine examines the demographics of going out with people who are using fakes, reached for comment. Reddit, ‘r/fakeid.’ It fake ID use on college campuses. Through especially considering that I don’t look The subreddit, r/fakeid, serves as an a sample of 3,720 undergraduate students, very much like a 21-year-old, is sometimes ecosystem for fake ID suppliers and took a month to get the authors were able to establish a few difficult. There’s always the chance that consumers. They offer a weekly-updated trends and dynamics. you get in to a bar and the friends you list of verified fake ID vendors based on here from China.” Results from the study showed that came with didn’t because of their IDs.” quality, estimated time of arrival and price. fake ID ownership increased from 12.5 The specific online forum boasts over percent before college to 32.2 percent by 30,000 subscribers. nothing less and nothing more. Illegal the students’ fourth semester. They also “Reselling fake IDs allows me to shit doesn’t happen on Reddit,” writes r/ concluded that Greek life members were “I’m about six of capitalize on otherwise ‘useless’ skills such fakeid user u/AKAdelta. “Each vendor has more likely to have fake IDs. Ownership as Internet anonymity,” writes r/fakeid a site or email they sell through. Reddit is of a fake ID resulted in concurrent heavy user u/datboisd, when asked about how advertising only. Moderators verify legit drinking including the following semester. them deep. I always vendors that advertise on the subreddit. the online forum serves as an economic 15, 2017 newsrecord.org Nov. machine to the counterfeit market. People pay vendors with Bitcoin usually. had someone else’s “Anyone can buy a fake ID online, but You send the relevant information for your it takes certain skills to be able to resell order through email channels and then fake or real ID. A kid successfully while keeping operation you get your product a few weeks later.” security high. Those who resell lots with A first-year student who uses her friend’s “Reselling fake IDs from high school, no operation security will fall. Those who Pennsylvania fake ID said that while she resell with high-operation security will be does use her fake regularly, she is still allows me to capi- two of some random around for a long time without getting in wary of the consequences. trouble.” “It works pretty well because I just use talize on other- guy from Tennessee Online marketplaces allow for clearer it at freshman bars,” she said. “I just use communication with little transparency. it to get places with my friends. I’m fine wise ‘useless’ skills and then three real The only stipulations required are a good using it, but of course there is always a picture, some personal information and chance that I get denied. It’s kind of nerve- such as Internet IDs of someone I then a money transfer. Most vendors on r/ wracking, especially if there is a chance of fakeid prefer bitcoin, which can easily be it being taken and it’s not even mine.” anonymity.” know. The real ones bought and transferred through platforms “Buying alcohol at like Kroger or big such as Coinbase. liquor stores is always a bad idea,” a third- worked best.” “[r/fakeid] is just a meeting ground, year student said. “For most places in Cincinnati, it works 3 News Spencer’s impact felt across the country; UF editor condemns protestor violence PARKER MALATESTA | NEWS EDITOR anything get violent. We’re lucky in that the protests didn’t turn out violent.” The discussion and debate of Richard Spencer’s upcoming Spencer and his aides are actively pursuing events at visit has reached all areas of campus.