Last January, my co-host Alex Goldman reported a story about racism, harassment, and the internet

set at Colgate University.

This past month we've seen a flood of similar stories at colleges like the University of Missouri,

Yale, Georgetown.

And so this week we're returning to our story from last year to try to understand it in

the context of everything that's happened since.

So first we're going to play Alex's story and then after the break we'll follow up with

further reporting from this month.

Alex will take it from here.

Colgate University is a tiny private liberal arts school, just 3,000 students, way up in

the mountains in Hamilton, New York.

It's the most beautiful college campus in America according to the Princeton Review, located

in the 11th-Frenliest town in America according to Forbes.

But not according to Melissa Melendez, who's a student at Colgate.

Like one of the first things that I saw about me was like, it was like, bash that bitch's

head in.

Melissa saw that comment and much worse on an anonymous social media app called Yik-Yak.

Yik-Yak lets you see posts or yaks, as they're called, from users within a 10 mile radius.

So it's no surprise that it's really popular at college campuses.

People can post anonymously on Yik-Yak about lame frat parties or hot arrays or boring

classes.

But at Colgate last semester, the site also became a screen onto which the student body's

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