VOLUME 113, ISSUE 4
UNC junior attacked in hate crime
GLBTSA GROUP MOBILIZES IN SUPPORT OF INJURED STUDENT
BY RYAN C. TUCK
CITY EDITOR
A University junior was assault
ed while walking alone on Franklin
Street on Friday morning in what
Chapel Hill police are investigating
as a hate crime.
And the University community,
particularly members of the Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender-
Straight Alliance, is mobilizing its
resources to show support.
The 21-year-old student was
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UNC freshman Marie Garlock marches in the Student March Against AIDS in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. About 100 UNC students joined in the second largest anti-AIDS rally in U.S. history.
BY INDIA AUTRY WASHINGTON, D.C.
STAFF WRITER
About 100 UNC students joined a crowd of
thousands in the nation’s capital Saturday
to rally for policy change relating to the
AIDS epidemic, which kills 8,000 people
each day.
The Student March Against AIDS will go down as
the second largest anti-AIDS rally in U.S. history, the
last one being about 10 years ago, and UNC partici
pants say they’re hopeful their demands for improved
SEE MARCH, PAGE 5
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BY ALLISON ROSE
STAfF WRITER
As the end of Dance Marathon
slowly approached Saturday night,
the only things that weren’t droop-
ing were the post
ers on the walls of
Fetzer Gym.
And when
Overall
Coordinator Julia
Shalen took the
stage to announce
the marathon’s
fund-raising
total, almost 600
sleep-deprived
dancers gathered around, rubbing
their swollen ankles.
The marathon raised
$184,872.40 for families of
patients at the N.C. Children’s
SEE MARATHON, PAGE 5
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walking near 100 E. Franklin
Street at 2:04 a.m. when six to
seven men began making deroga
tory remarks about the student’s
sexual orientation while walking
behind him, police spokeswoman
Jane Cousins said.
The group of men then began
attacking the student, hitting and
kicking him in the face, upper torso
and all over, Cousins said.
The individuals were calling him
derogatory names throughout the
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incident, Cousins said.
Police arrived on the scene at
2:06 a.m. and found the student
kneeling on the sidewalk, where
he was treated for injuries.
Those injuries were initially
characterized as minor but have
now been revised to include broken
bones, Cousins said Friday.
The student was not transported
to UNC Hospitals.
To respond to the incident,
GLBTSA executive board members
HIV becomes a call to service
BY KATHY CHO
STAFF WRITER
Elizabeth Gordon of Pretoria, South Africa, was told
HIV would kill her in four years.
She thought, “Nobody can predict when someone
else will die.”
She saw it as a challenge.
Her husband, however, was “shattered.” Seven years
later, he was dead of AIDS.
Their daughter Bernice has never known a life without
it. Born with HIV, she is now a budding AIDS activist.
Everyone reacts differently to the initial diagnosis
decided Sunday to organize a rally
in the Pit to take place Tuesday.
Beginning at 6 p.m., students will
gather to show support for the stu
dent and to speak out about the inci
dent using an open microphone.
Those assembled will then hold
a candlelight speak-out and will
march to Franklin Street where
the student was found.
“People are obviously upset and
shocked about it,” GLBTSA execu
tive board member David Ruskey
BY ANTONIO VELARDE
STAFF WRITER
The tiny house shook with a
cadence of striking hammers,
while the hollow scream of a buzz
saw rose above the noise.
Students and workers for UNC
Habitat for Humanity carefully
hammered down the remaining
window frames
and rolled out
the last of the
tarp onto the
roof beneath a
gray sky holding
the promise of
rain.
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Habitat for
HUMANITY
Blitz Build
As the last of the work was
being finished Sunday evening,
Peter DeSaix, University employee
and chairman of the partnership
between UNC Habitat and Chapel
SEE HABITAT, PAGE 5
INSIDE
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
The University's history has been shaped by black
students, employees and faculty members PAGE 6
said. “The biggest emotion I’m feel
ing is disgust.
“Obviously... there were people
on Franklin Street who saw this
and didn’t call the police.”
Ruskey said the organizers are
asking that all in attendance wear
white T-shirts to show unity.
Friday’s hate-crime incident is
the second involving a UNC stu
dent during the last year.
Gagandeep Bindra, then a UNC
senior, was attacked on Franklin
Street on March 27 in an incident
of what was eventually classified as
ethnic intimidation.
of HIV. And every day around the world, 15,000 more
people are thrust into that situation.
Thousands of students around the world participated
in events to fight AIDS on Youth AIDS Day on Saturday.
More than 8,000, including about 100 from UNC, con
vened in Washington, D.C.
According to the Joint United Nations Programme
on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, people between 15 and 24
years of age account for half of all new HIV cases.
It was during that time in her life when Tara, who
SEE LIVING, PAGE 5
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Richard Turlington (left) and Linda Parson build as part of UNC Habitat for
Humanity's effort Saturday. Parson and her children will live in the house.
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Three teenagers assaulted
Bindra after calling him al-Qaida
leader Osama bin Laden.
When the event initially was not
classified as ethnic intimidation,
Bindra successfully challenged the
charges against his attackers.
Antonio Burnette, 18, of 311
Lindsay St., and brothers Frederick
and Kenneth Perry, of 2534
Gemena Road, each were charged
with ethnic intimidation, simple
assault and assault inflicting seri
ous injury in the altercation with
SEE HATE CRIME, PAGE 5