PAN-ATLANTIC TIMES

< Back Pan-Atlantic University Students Allegedly Cyber Bully Their Peers Using an Anonymous Website Onyinye Oguaga 24 Jan 2024 Pan-Atlantic University’s first year students are allegedly being harassed by their peers on an anonymous website. According to a business administration student that wishes to remain anonymous, the link to the website was posted to the class’s group WhatsApp on Wednesday, with the instruction that students could go on to write their opinions of their classmates. Another student who also wishes to remain anonymous claims that Economics, Information Science and Media Studies (ISMS) and Business Administration Year 1 department all use the website in varying degrees. According to her, students in the Economics department use the website intensely. She reported seeing explicit messages about parents that were ‘description of sexually positions to put certain classmates in, who is kind, has a nice smile, is arrogant, or has a body odor, and the most beautiful and the most handsome people in the class. An economics student has said that the messages have caused resulted in tense interactions and relationships between his classmates. The source also disclosed that usage predates their admission into the university. She said first learnt about the website three years ago. Previous Next

< Back STUDENTS GEAR UP FOR THE UPCOMING EXAMINATIONS Edidiong Antigha 26 Jan 2024 As the end of the semester gets closer, many PAU students have begun their preparations for the end of semester examinations. This upcoming examination will be the first one written by the current first years and one must wonder how they are dealing with the pressure. During an interview with some of the first years about that their thoughts of the exam reveals mixed results with some students expressing their anxiety and fear about how the exam would be, some other students were even excited and believed that their hard work would pay off and some other students held little to no fear and were confident that they would do well. “No one is ever a hundred percent confident, it’s the amount of work I put in that will determine my mark”, first year ISMS student, Njoku Osinakachukwu stated during his interview. Another first year, Adeya Omofolarin David, stated, “I don’t feel that anxious. I’ve written enough tests in this school, so I know what to expect from the examinations”. The atmosphere of the school has also changed as an air of concentration has come about as a response to the approaching exams, with many students using their break during school hours to study by heading to the library or forming study groups to go over what they had previously learned in class. As the weeks of exam get closer, the air of focus and determination surrounding the school will intensify as the students study harder to reach their goal. Previous Next