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The University Guild of Students and the principal of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, are expected to discuss in a meeting today a controversial web page that was created on Facebook describing the sexual exploits of several present and past students.
The web page, which went up on Easter Sunday, bore more than 50 photos of persons from UWI along with rather slanderous information/comments about the individuals.
<span style="font-weight: bold">It was forcibly closed by a hacker on Tuesday who was apparently one of the persons listed in the group</span>. When it was closed down there were photos posted of persons mainly residing on the Chancellor and Rex Nettleford Halls. <span style="font-weight: bold">On Tuesday, the site was re-launched</span> and was hacked into again by another individual who was also listed on the site.
On the site, <span style="font-weight: bold">the persons being slandered were listed as 'whores of the past', 'current whores' </span>and more. Information posted ranged from allegations of extensive promiscuity among females, abortion, or as it was posted 'dash whe belly' and homosexuality, womanising ways and the granting of questionable sexual favours to females, on the part of the targeted males. <span style="font-weight: bold">There were also postings about males who boasted rather small private members</span>.
One of the programmers who shut down the page by hacking into Facebook said it was creating quite a buzz in cyberspace with membership and viewers soaring to over 200 in a matter of hours.
The computer whiz said after hacking into the site and shutting it down, he got a hold of an email address that seemed to have belonged to the original creator of the troublesome group.
"I got an Internet Protocol (IP) address through that email and it traced back to UWI Mona campus. So whoever created the group did so from that location," he said. "I have not pinpointed who it is exactly or which of the halls that person is from but I'm still looking into it."
The hacker said that when he deleted the group on Tuesday, there were approximately 70 photos posted of people who were both past and present students and users were leaving nasty comments left, right and centre.
"<span style="font-weight: bold">I deleted the photos because a lot of those people are working professionals now</span>.
They have their careers and are settled and that stuff could be damaging for them," the hacker said. Vishwanauth Tolan, newly elected guild president, said they are aware of the situation and termed it as very childish and irresponsible. The guild president said while they have not confirmed that an actual UWI students created the group, nonetheless, it was very disappointing and damaging for both the persons slandered and the university's image.
"We are going to make a statement to our students about the situation before the week ends," Tolan said. He said that the guild would play its part in assisting the administration and any other authority that may be brought in to investigate the matter.
Tolan continued that if it is confirmed that the perpetrators are indeed students, the guild constitution also allows for them to be barred from all guild services and activities, including the bus service and the UWI Student's Union. The UWI Administration may also enforce further penalties.
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