February 2, 2007
Volume 93, Issue 15
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On Jan. 25, students and faculty stepped out of classes at 10:15 a.m. for a day of stump speeches and anti-hate protest.
Adra Cooper | Staff Writer
Nasimeh Easton | Senior Writer
On Jan. 25, two more Guilford
students, first-year Jazz Favors
and sophomore John Underwood,
were arrested for assault and eth
nic intimidation in relation to the
Jan. 20 altercation in Bryan Hall.
On Jan. 29, senior Micah
Rushing was arrested for assault,
bringing the total number of stu
dents arrested up to 6.
Favors and Underwood were
released on $5,000 bond. Rushing
was released on a written promise
to appear in court. All six students
charged are expected to appear in
court on Feb. 23.
The Greensboro Police
Department announced that it had
completed its investigation of the
case. Prosecutors are not pushing
the case forward in the courts until
Guilford has completed its own
judicial inquiry.
Last week, the FBI began
investigating some of the students
involved as well.
Guilford's Judicial Board has not
charged the three recently arrested
students. However, the five origi
nal charges against Chris Barnette,
Michael Bates, Faris Khader,
Osama Sabbah, and Michael Six
still stand.
"'Charged' is a bit of an erro
neous word in our system," said
Dean for Campus Life Aaron
Fetrow. "It means to come forward
and talk to us. There will be no
cross-examination or lawyers."
Fetrow stated that the arrests
and police investigation are and
will remain separate from the
school's judicial process. Though a
hearing date has not yet been set,
Fetrow expects the process to be
completed by the end of February.
"Our process is good and
sound," Fetrow said. "It's long
and painful, but it's focused on
justice."
Since the incident, students
have brought many campus issues,
including justice, to the forefront.
Through discussions and open
forums, topics such as racism and
the divide between athletes and
non-athletes have been addressed.
Many students have expressed
their concern over the continuing
presence of racism on campus.
"In meetings after the fight, I
Continued on News Page 3
Guantanamo rules changed
Jake Blumgart | Staff Writer
"They've redefined torture to extend
to anything short of death," said Assistant
Professor of political science Robert Duncan.
"But all this redefining of torture, it's just
semantics, like arguing how many angels
can dance on the head of a pin."
New rules released by The Pentagon will
allow for the use of evidence in trials based
on hearsay and coercive interrogation in the
prosecution of the enemy combatants held
at Guantanamo Bay.
The new 238-page manual revealed to
Congress on Jan. 18 outlined the procedure
for prosecution by military commission of
suspects being held at the American mili
tary base. If a suspect is found guilty, life
imprisonment or even execution could fol
low.
Human rights groups, defense lawyers
assigned to the base and many Democratic
senators have expressed concerns with the
new manual. Although torture is officially
banned, the allowance for coercion has out
raged many.
"Mental, physical, psychological coer
cion, whatever you call it, it's still torture,
which is banned by all civilized nations,"
Duncan said, "although it is still practiced
by all civilized nations anyway."
"As long as you are willing to use what
was obtained by torture, you are endorsing
torture," said Jumana Musa, an advocacy
Continued on World & Nation Page6
First-year class out of control?
Ben Dedman | Senior Writer
A negative reputation has reportedly
become attached to this year's first-year
class, largely due to rumors of rampant
drug use and reports of bizarre cases of
vandalism in their residence halls.
A wide - and alarming - variety of
illegal drugs has reportedly been circulat
ing among the first-year students includ
ing marijuana, acid, mushrooms, ecstasy,
cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, hero
in, and prescription pills like OxyContin,
Xanax, and Adderall. This list was pro
vided, in parts, by two first-years, Jonathan
Richter and Alice Reville, and Alyson
Kienle, associate dean for Campus Life
and director of Residence Life and Judicial
Affairs in Campus Life.
Some bizarre acts of vandalism have
also been committed in Milner Hall, a resi
dence hall exclusively for first-years.
"There have been incidents, specifically
in Milner, of people spreading feces all
over the walls (in the bathrooms), and it's
happened more than once," said Kienle.
"They had a meeting for everyone in
Milner about people being crappy to the
dorms," said first-year Meredith Ward.
"Everyone was messing up the bathrooms,
stuff like feces on the wall in the men's
bathroom, someone ripped off - or did
something - to one of the phones outside
of Milner, and someone threw something
Continued on Features Page 10
Film Studies Veils in Education Tenure System Is MySpace safe? Hoops for Heart
Starting this semester, the theatre
studies department has added a
concentration in "film and video";
this unusual move for a small
liberal arts college has been sup
ported by student demand.
News Page 4
Aishah Azumi, a British teaching
assistant, was recently suspended
from duty for refusing to remove
her veil; some school officials ar
gue that the veil impedes commu
nication with her students.
World & Nation Page 5
What is tenure? Guilford profes
sors help to define this practice of
protecting academic experience
by guaranteeing employment for
life. The question remains: can
tenure reviews be objective?
Features Page 11
Families of five teenage girls who
claim they were sexually assaulted
by men they met though MySpace
are suing the site. But is the Web
site, now more popular than Face-
book, really to blame?
Forum Page 13
The women’s basketball and men's
baseball team give to the greeater
community through mentoring
elementary school students, sup
porting cancer research, and as
sisting in the Special Olympics.
Sports Page 15