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Security Act, was renamed in
1986 in memory of 19-year-old
Lehigh University freshman,
Jeanne Ann Clery, who was
assaulted and murdered while
asleep in her residence hall
room.
In the public safety office
(located in the basement of
Bauman) "your right to know"
cards are available at the front
desk to better inform students
about the law. Their contents
include two paragraphs explain
ing the guidelines, how they
can be obtained, a contact
number, and a web address
(www.guilford.edu/admin.) on a
grey, six-by-nine note card.
"I think it's a good idea for the
students to know what crimes
happen and maybe
it will help you to avoid being
victimized in the future," said
junior business major John
Matthews.
"I find it very, very useful
information for the parents of
under-aged students who pri
marily live on campus," said
control room coordinator La
Shaira D. Fullwood. "It's a very
wonderful utensil."3€
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club and two community outreach
groups, spoke on behalf of A&T.
"College students of A&T and the
greater Greensboro area have been
active in supporting community enrich
ing events and demonstrations for a
long time. I am calling out once more for
the college students in this area to unify
and help the Truth and Reconciliation
Project of Greensboro" Johnson said.
Speaking for all college students
Johnson said, "Let it be known that our
civil liberties cannot be subject to intimi
dation."
Guilford senior Liz Nemitz said, "(we)
have invested a particular interest in the
events we are here to remember today
both personally and on behalf of my
school. Guilford is devoted to issues of
social racial justice. Many of the things
that I have come to realize, through my
involvement with the Greensboro
Student Action coalition, is that this city
is my home and this is my community
and I have little excuse for ignoring
either its history nor my neighbor's cur-
WORLD & NATTON
Osama delivers pre-election message
Dylan Black
Staff Writer
On Oct. 29, the satellite
Arab television network
Al-Jazeera aired the first video
of Osama bin Laden that had
been released in over a year.
In the video, bin Laden delivers
a message aimed at the peo
ple of the United States, and
makes his first claim of direct
responsibility for the Sept. 11,
2001 attacks on the Pentagon
and the World Trade Center.
According to bin Laden, they
were a response to Israel's
1982 invasion of Lebanon.
Bin Laden's message con
tains attacks on U.S. foreign
policy, and compares Bush's
presidency to Middle Eastern
totalitarian regimes.
"We found no difficulties in
dealing with the Bush adminis
tration because of the similari
ties of that administration and
the regimes in our countries,
half of which are run by the
military and half of which are
run by monarchs," bin Laden
says on the video. "And our
experience is vast with them.
Those two kinds are full of
arrogance and taking money
rent quality of life."
Speaking about how the massacre
effects students who were not alive at
the time of the events, Nemitz
said,"Being a significant event in our
nation's history, this was an event that
happened in our town and we were not
learning about it."
Mitchell continued, "Those that are
attending Bennett College had a sister
that was one out of the five that died."
In plans for after the march, Mitchell
explains that "we are going to go to
campus to campus and we are going to
set up house, ask people how did they
feel about the march and what did they
learn from the march. After the march it
is not stopping there we still have a lot
of work that needs to be done."
Liz Welton, junior and Guilford College
member of the GTCRP, said, "We are
opening up the idea of Truth and
Reconciliation commissions as an
emerging form of restorative justice in
this country. For Greensboro I think that
this project will bring some resolution
and end some animosity among the
community."
illegally."
Bin Laden also speaks about
the U.S. presidential election,
and its relationship to terrorism.
"Your security is not in the
hands of Kerry or Bush or Al
Qaeda," he says at the end of
the video. "Your security is in
your own hands. Any nation
that does not attack us will not
be attacked."
Both President George W.
Bush and his challenger, Sen.
John Kerry (D - Mass.), had
framed their campaigns around
the ongoing war in Iraq, and
the aftermath of Sept. 11.
When the video was released,
both the Bush and Kerry
camps were quick to respond.
Vice President Dick Cheney
attacked Kerry at an Oct. 31
rally in Fort Dodge, lowa.
"The thing I find amazing
about it is that John Kerry's first
response was to go conduct a
poll," Cheney said, according
to The Associated Press. "He
went into the field ... to find out
what he should say about this
tape of Osama bin Laden."
The A. P. reported that Kerry
also had harsh words for his
opponent.
"I believe I can run a more
effective war on terror than
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Liz Nemitz speaking on Nov. 5
George Bush," he said during
a satellite broadcast interview
Oct. 29. In a later radio inter
view with WISN in Milwaukee,
Wis., he reiterated his criticism
of Bush for not having cap
tured bin Laden. "He didn't
choose to use American forces
to hunt down Osama bin
Laden," he said. "He out
sourced the job."
According to an NBC/Wall
Street Journal poll conducted
Oct. 31, the tape had little
overall impact on likely voters,
with 24 percent of respondents
saying it increased their likeli
hood of voting for Bush, and
12 percent saying that they
were now more likely to vote
for Kerry. Bush maintained an
overall lead of 49 - 46 percent
in that poll.
Even before Al-Jazeera
broadcast bin Laden's latest
video, there was some con
cern that terrorism could have
a direct impact on the presi
dential election itself. In July,
Homeland Security Secretary
Tom Ridge announced that
there was a possibility another
attack could occur on or
around Election Day.
"Since Sept. 11, 2001, we
have had intelligence that al-
Greensboro. N.C.
Qaeda intends to launch more
attacks against the homeland,"
he said in a press statement
issued July 8 on the
Department of Homeland
Security's Web site. "Credible
reporting now indicates that al-
Qaeda is moving forward with
its plans to carry out a large
scale attack in the United
States in an effort to disrupt our
democratic process."
Election Day, however, came
and went without those fears
being realized.
Now, with the election past
and Bush set to spend another
four years in the White House,
the question is now how bin
Laden and Al Qaeda will
respond.
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Osama Bin Laden appearing on
an Al-Jazeera broadcast
estimate that 200 Guilford College stu
dents will attend.
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