Instant Alert: College students are using an app to express outrage over a 'Muslim bomber' Halloween costume

MANAGE SUBSCRIPTIONS   |   UNSUBSCRIBE   |   VIEW ONLINE   College students are using an app to express outrage over a 'Muslim bomber' Halloween costume by Julie Bort on Oct 31, 2015, 11:27 AM Advertisement An app that lets you peek inside the culture of college life has surfaced an interesting controversy going on at Penn State University.  Students are using an app called Yeti Campus Stories to express their outrage or support for another student who dressed as a "Jager Bomber" for Halloween. Students make "Jager Bombs" by dropping a shot of Jagermeister into a glass of Red Bull and downing both drinks at once. The student's costume is a play on that. He imitated traditional Middle Eastern clothes, then wore an army vest stacked with Jagermeister and Red Bull cans.  Then he posted a photo of the costume to Yeti. Yeti creates social networks for colleges where students show off images of college life. It launched in March and has gone crazy, with hundreds of thousands of daily active users, adding over 10,000 new users a day, the company tells us. Here's what happened next... SEE ALSO: College students are using this app to show off their loaded guns and other weapons Here's the costume that sparked the controversy. RAW Embed It didn't take long for another student to post a response saying the costume was offensive. RAW Embed   Which caused other students to jump in and defend the costume. See the rest of the story at Business Insider   Share the latest business news with your network: Email sent to:   |   Manage your email preferences   |   Unsubscribe Terms of Service   |   Privacy Policy Business Insider. 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011