Reynol Junco, who has studied Yik Yak extensively as an associate professor of education and human-computer interaction at Iowa State University and a faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, on Wednesday said he would hate to see colleges prevent students’ use of the application, because many of the statements made on it, including those directed toward marginalized populations, are positive or affirming. “If you get rid of Yik Yak,” he said, “you will never get a really true sense of the campus culture.”

Source: Women’s Groups Urge Colleges and Government to Rein In Yik Yak – The Chronicle of Higher Education