DOXING: a MODERN HORROR STORY by Nathalia De Souza and Logan Smith
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Issue 9 Dec 2017 DOXING: A MODERN HORROR STORY By Nathalia De Souza and Logan Smith The internet. From access to friends the identity of an enigmatic persona, says across the world to the ability to search up Megan Garber of The Atlantic. The term was anything fathomable, the web is one of the later revived in the 1990s, when people on a greatest creations of all time. Not to mention the discussion board network began releasing each fact that you can order from almost any fast other’s personal information, which Garber food place whenever you’d like! Despite its said was “a retaliation mechanism [used] endless, wonderful abilities, the internet can during arguments.” And that’s exactly what also be a place of sorrow and fear. As an doxing is used for today. omnipotent tool that acts as the center of most This may sound like an obscure people's’ lives, it’s not crazy to think about how practice—after all, how many people do you harmful it could actually be. Another scary way know who have gotten doxed?—but in reality, the power of the internet is shown in daily life it happens in every corner of the internet; even is through doxing. on your favorite sites! Twitter, 4Chan, and Everyone loves privacy; that’s why Reddit are notorious for the doxing that occurs doxing is one of the greatest fears an internet on their sites. In the mid 2000s, groups and user could ever have. Defined by Oxford websites were created for the sole purpose of Dictionary as the “act of searching for and doxing others. (Does the group named exposing somebody’s personal information on Anonymous ring any bells?) But the question the internet,” doxing can ruin a person’s life still stands: why are people being doxed, and with just a few clicks of a mouse. The word who decides if they deserve it or not? “dox” was once used as a derivative of the word (Continued on the centerfold…) “docs,” which described documents revealing upcoming winter events page three recap photos page four panther post website preview page five is santa claus real? page six winter legends page seven news in america page eight additive teaching page nine feature: doxing page ten feature: doxing (cont.) page eleven christmas creep page twelve movies & tv shows to binge-watch page thirteen gov’t surveillance conspiracy page fourteen on rotation-music highlights page fifteen horoscopes explained page sixteen december horoscopes page seventeen old-school cool photographs page eighteen seasonal photographs page nineteen foods a-z word search page twenty 2 UPCOMING WINTER EVENTS! By Laila Noble Candy Cane Grams Winter Formal Candy cane grams are being sold this Winter formal is coming up soon on December from the 11th to the 15th by our January 12th, and it’ll last from 7 ; make sure to awesome ASB Leadership group, and after that, dress snazzy! The theme is Harry Potter’s “Yule the seniors are selling World’s Finest Chocolate Ball,” featured in The Goblet of Fire book and in January. Below are examples of how the movie. Have a magical celebration! candy grams will look. 3 CAMPUS NEWS RECAP PHOTOS By Gabby Hicks Gravy Bowl 2017 Jingle Night 2017 Girl Up Thanksgiving 2017 4 PREVIEWS The Panther Post Journalism website is coming next semester! Stay tuned for sneak peaks of our brand-new columns… Music is Taking CTRL By Alex Panzera control their devices. All products discussed will Technology is crucial in our daily lives. 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As I quality user submit articles experience, a more about food, will you personalized and use that expressive look, and information to an all around better become a food device. master, or will you Each column succumb to the will focus on a subject, laziness and let and show all the ways users can personalize and food master you? 5 IS SANTA CLAUS REAL? “Yes, because I get presents every single By Jaron Beltrano Christmas and I put and Alessandra Tolentino milk and cookies in People create their beliefs when they my living room and have enough information to believe they are the next day, they’re true and especially if they have been passed gone.” down through generations. Now that -Bomiao Xu Christmas is coming up, the existence of Santa Claus is once again in the central spotlight full of different opinions and beliefs. Many controversial and imaginative ideas were confabulated between adults, teens, and even “My dad told me children. However, they do not know the real he wasn't. Hurts historical facts of how, when, and why Santa my soul a little bit, Claus came to life. but I have to take it.” Santa Claus was created around the -Clayton Lahodny third century by a monk named St. Nicholas. He is said to believe that St. Nicholas helped poor and sick children. According to history.com, “He became known as the “No because I have protector of children and sailors.” This idea never been in the led to the development that Santa Claus is just North Pole. I have a representative for the monk named St never seen a Santa Nicholas. Claus in my life.” -JT Walker “Personally, yes, Question: DO YOU THINk he’s real, because SANTA CLAUS IS REAL? my parents are poor and there is no way that they afforded my camera.” -Nathalia De Souza “Most definitely!” - “No. Santa Claus is my mom.” - Isaac Dudley 6 WINTER LEGENDS By Rosalynne Jones Winter has been called a time of darkness and death, but it can also be described as a period of rest and renewal before the revival of spring. Many different peoples have created stories and legends surrounding this season, from fears of dark nights to celebrations of family and friends. Sinterklaas dead, her name derives from the old Irish term While we may know him today as meaning “veiled one”, although in Gaelic it’s Santa Claus, our favorite jolly old translated as “old woman,” or man first found expression as “hag.” Typically portrayed as an Sinterklaas, a legendary Dutch ugly elder with one eye, matted figure based on Saint hair, and bad teeth, Nicholas. As the patron legends also say that she saint of children, Sinterklaas ages backward into a protects good children and beautiful young woman brings them gifts on with the coming of spring! December 5th along with his companion, a half-man, half- The Legend of Nian beast known as Grumpus, The Legend of Nian tells of a Krampus, or Zwarte Piet. To bad Chinese monster that has the head children, however, Grumpus rattles his of a lion and the body of a bull. It chains and threatens to steal them away in appeared on the first night of the Chinese his black bag. New Year and consumed crops, livestock, and even the villagers, especially the children. Yuki-Onna Living in fear every winter, the villagers put out The legend of the Yuki-Onna is a tale tracing its food every New Year, believing that the origins to Japan. Translated as “Snow Woman”, offerings would sate Nian’s hunger. Eventually, she has many forms. One of the first reports, though, they discovered the beast’s three written by a monk, describes her as a gigantic weaknesses: it feared the color red, fire, and young lady wearing all white, with inhumanly noise. From then on, every year, they celebrated pale skin and white hair. Another famous tale the New Year with a festival paints the Yuki Onna as a terrible yokai (spirit) where they would that haunts snowy forests and feeds off of her hang red lanterns and victims’ life forces (Seiki) after freezing them to scrolls, and throw death.