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dents reported sexual assaults to
University police during 2003.
But when a student makes a
blind report to Student Health
Service or at the Office of the Dean
of Students, no investigation fol
lows.
Yet the school can use blind
reports to track trends such as
the involvement of alcohol in
sexual assault and to tailor on
campus education programs at
C-TOPS and during the school
year, Manning said.
When filing a blind report,
students can include or exclude
whatever information they choose,
which limits the police’s ability
to track trends in the frequency
and circumstances of on-campus
rape.
But any information about
an assault can be useful for the
University, Manning said.
She said that nearly all of the
women who submitted blind
reports this year knew their
aggressors and that most of the
sexual assaults occurred in off
campus residences or fraternity
houses.
According to the NCCASA
study, nine of 10 victims of sex
ual assault and rape knew their
aggressor.
HEARING
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of negative campaigning. Some
Board of Elections members said
at the time that the charges were
difficult to pursue because nega
tive campaigning is not specifically
defined in the Code.
Most officials Monday came to
the consensus that it is necessary to
add the definition to the Code, and
the focus of the debate centered on
the wording of the legislation.
“We have to be very specific in
describing what is and isn’t a viola
tion,” said Student Body President
Matt Calabria.
The proposed amendment
defines negative campaigning as
“public remarks or actions by a
candidate or campaign worker
meant to defame, disparage, or
cause injury to another candidate
or their campaign.”
Matt Liles, UNC solicitor gen
eral and leader of an independent
committee revising the Code, said
that criticism of a candidate’s plat
form would not be illegal but that
attacks on individual candidates
would. Injury to a candidate’s prop
erty, such as defacing a poster, also
would constitute a violation.
Some audience members and
officials questioned the vagueness
of the amendment and claimed that
it is still difficult to determine what
constitutes negative campaigning.
“As far as vagueness, I don’t real
ly know how much more you can
do to make it specific,” said Walker
Rutherfurd, chairman of the Board
of Elections. Rutherfurd also added
that the enforceability of the law
depends on the situation at hand
and how it is discovered.
Others questioned the possibility
of how the proposal could limit free
speech. Sara Peach, representing
the Student Environmental Action
Coalition, expressed concerns that
candidates would be inhibited from
talking about issues.
“I know we’re not going to be able
to pin down what negative cam
paigning is, but I think there’s more
room here to be more specific.”
Calabria said the proposal has
potential to be more damaging
than any other amendment.
“I’m very worried this legislation
will create a chilling effect on what
candidates say.”
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er in part because of his focus on
advocacy.
“Activism is important.
Involvement is what’s going to build
the community,” said Shaival Patel,
publicity chairman of Sangam.
Singh stressed the importance of
building coalitions on a local and
national level.
His task force, along with other
groups, has worked with Congress
on the Local Law Enforcement
Enhancement Act. If passed, the
act will expand the definition of
hate crimes to include crimes based
on sexual orientation, gender and
disability in addition to race, color,
religion or national origin.
“Legislation is important and
coalitions are important,” Singh said.
“But we need to live every single day
as if we won’t allow anyone in our
community to be denigrated.”
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Singh
said, he noticed a remarkable rise
in grassroots Sikh activity.
“A lot of times we hear about
just black and white,” said Prerak
Bathia, political co-chairman of
Sangam.
“So we wanted to look at
other issues and get more people
involved.”
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And blind reporting tends to be
most common method for report
ing these date and acquaintance
sexual assaults, said Margaret
Barrett, executive director of
the Orange County Rape Crisis
Center.
“It’s always harder to report an
acquaintance rape,” she said.
The University relies on the
rape crisis center to help stu
dents in situations in which the
student chooses not to report a
sexual assault to UNC, Manning
said.
“Some students are really afraid
of the University finding out about
(the sexual assault),” she said.
Between July 2003 and June
2004, the crisis center served 12
women who lived on campus, as
well as other students who did not
live on campus, Barrett said.
The center served 496 people
between July 2003 and June
2004. Primary survivors those
who directly experienced a sexual
assault accounted for 251 of
these cases.
The rape crisis center also
served friends and family mem
bers of victims, professionals who
needed assistance with sexual
assault cases, and other referrals,
while reaching people throughout
the county through various educa
tional programs.
Manning said she would like
DEBATE
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But Ballantine disagreed with
Easley, offering different numbers
that reflect negatively on the state's
progress.
ThelO-year state Senate veteran
said he supports testing but thinks
scores are too low.
“I believe in testing. I also believe
our testing director, and the test
ing we have in the state today is an
abomination,” Ballantine said.
He also said he is the right choice
because he has been a “champion
for education” all his life.
“I stand with the teachers, chil
dren and parents,” he said. “The
governor stands with bureaucracy.”
But Easley said he was not con
vinced about Ballantine’s fight for
education, especially when looking
at his opponent's voting record in
the Senate. “If Patrick Ballantine is
a champion of education, Saddam
Hussein is a champion of civil
rights,” he said.
During the debate, Ballantine
presented his plan for a program
called “Read to Succeed,” which
aims to have all students reading
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to work with groups such as the
White Ribbon Campaign and
Advocates for Sexual Assault
Prevention to see more programs
about sexual assault on campus.
“We should be spending a lot more
time educating all of our students,”
she said.
But she complimented the
efforts University police have made
thus far: “I think Public Safety
has done some terrific outreach
in order to encourage students to
report.”
She said she would also like to
dispel myths that the University
will inform a student’s parents
after a student reports a sexual
assault.
“All of us are really careful about
confidentiality. We don’t do any
thing without anybody’s consent.
... We absolutely do not notify
the parents of rape survivors,”
Manning said.
And students can always talk
confidentially with her about sex
ual assaults.
“(Reporting a sexual assault) is
a really tough process,” she said.
“My preference is for survivors
to work with whomever they are
comfortable working with so that
they can receive the assistance and
support that they need.”
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“I’m not saying
we’re great. I’m
saying we’re
making great
progress.”
MIKE EASLEY, GOVERNOR
by second grade.
Easley has implemented a vari
ety of similar programs, such as
Smart Start and More at Four. He
now touts a K-13 system, in which
a student can graduate high school
after an extra year with an associ
ate degree.
“In high schools, we need to get
the graduation rate up,” Easley
said. “Stay five years, and I’ll give
you a college degree.”
But Ballantine said he would
focus more on the existing system,
suggesting a partnership with com
munity colleges to inspire students
to extend their education or prepare
them for jobs upon graduation.
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as director of the Campus Y.
“The University was still working
with the basic integration issues of
welcoming African-American stu
dents.”
Members protested against a
fraternity that, they claimed, hired
students to wear racially offen
sive signs during the annual “Beat
Duke” parade in the fall of 1968.
In 1969, the BSM engaged in
a more aggressive battle for the
rights of black cafeteria workers at
UNC. The group boycotted Lenoir
Dining Hall and opened a kitchen
in Manning Hall until workers
received pay raises.
During the early years of the
movement, BSM members also led
efforts to improve the academic
atmosphere among black students.
They threw their support in 1968
behind Professor John Dixon and
his initiative to remove racial barri
ers at the University. On Dec. 11 of
that year, members of the BSM pre
sented then-Chancellor J. Carlyle
Sitterson with a list of 22 demands
to improve race relations at UNC.
The group marked its 30th
anniversary in 1998 by rally
ing in support of the University’s
housekeepers and groundskeepers
and presenting then-Chancellor
Michael Hooker with a list of 22
new demands.
Many say the Sonja Haynes
Stone Center for Black Culture and
History, which opened its doors at
the beginning of the semester, rep
resents the movement’s most tan
gible accomplishment.
The center, which seeks to raise
awareness of and appreciation for
black culture by the campus com
munity, is the culmination of a
decade filled with controversy, advo
cacy, planning and fund raising for a
freestanding black cultural center.
Today these efforts are reflected
in much quieter initiatives, such as
efforts to place a historical mark
er outside the Old Chapel Hill
Cemetery, political awareness and
the formation of a minority student
recruitment committee.
BSM President Erin Davis said
these more cultural initiatives are
still significant.
“It is important because if you
are the minority on campus, it can
be hard to find a place to fit in. It is
very easy to get lost in the shuffle,”
Davis said. “By sharing ideas and
thoughts and feelings and celebrat
ing the difference, you are bringing
these cultures to light.”
But as the organization’s efforts
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Members of the Black Student Movement attend one of the first
meetings after the organization's founding in November 1967.
have stayed out of the headlines,
officials say their organization still
is just as powerful as before.
“To a lot of people it seems like
if you aren’t out on the front lines
then you aren’t doing anything,”
Davis said. “One of the things that
is important to the BSM is that
the culture is protected, that we
do have a unique culture and that
we celebrate it.”
At the same time members of the
BSM stood on the front lines, wav
ing their signs in support of minor
ity issues, they opened the gateway
to establishing other cultural orga
nizations at the University.
“Blacks have paved the way for
other groups to be recognized and
be affirmed,” said Chimi Boyd,
BSM president from 1994-95 and
current assistant director of the
Carolina Women’s Center. “It cer
tainly made people aware that it is
important to recognize and sup
port other cultures.”
Officials said the BSM has set
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an example for other student orga
nizations by showing them what a
cultural group or movement can
achieve.
“I think the movement relies on
preserving culture and history and
that the culture relies on preserv
ing the movement,” said Lily West,
co-chairwoman of Students for the
Advancement of Race Relations.
Several groups from the
Asian Students Association to the
Carolina Hispanic Association and
the overarching Masala, an organi
zation that unites cultural groups
to stimulate awareness have fol
lowed the BSM’s path.
“It is just really inspirational
to see that minority groups can
make a difference if they really
try,” said Diana Suryakusuma, co
president of the ASA. “We can all
work together in terms of minority
issues.”
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