Updated at 9:52 p.m. Feb. 9. Students and faculty at UW-Eau Claire are calling for justice after photos of a student’s private Snapchat stories, titled with racist language, were leaked on social media. A private Snapchat story is a collection of photos and videos which disappear after 24 hours and can only be seen by select people. The name of the story can be changed. At one point the story was titled “Salt & Vi* chips,” with an emoji of a Black farmer being used in reference to the N-word. At another it was titled “George Floyd’s Breathing Tips,” referencing George Floyd, a Black man who died shortly after a police officer kneeled on his neck and pinned him to the ground for 8 minutes and 46 seconds during an arrest May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis. Nick Starich, a second-year business finance and economics student, said he sent videos in the private Snapchat story the night of Friday, Feb. 5. Photos of the story were spread across social media beginning Saturday, Feb. 6. While the incident draws certain parallels to that of the racist messages sent by members of the Blugold football team in November 2019, this case is expected…
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Campus calls for justice
