Posted on 01/05/2007 7:56:09 AM PST by freespirited
At least I did keep a copy of the pdfs of the Duke faculty's anti-player ad, and the 88 signatories. As hosted on a duke.edu server, by the "African-American" studies dept, or whatever they call it.
I knew we were going to want that one.
I wouldn't be surprised if the NCCU statement weren't buried in an early FR thread on this.
Found this:
4/4/06
NCCU responds to alleged assault
Victoria Ward
Hundreds of people gather at North Carolina Central University for a vigil Monday in light of recent allegations that an NCCU student was raped by Duke lacrosse players.
Media Credit: DANNY COHEN/THE CHRONICLE
Hundreds of people gather at North Carolina Central University for a vigil Monday in light of recent allegations that an NCCU student was raped by Duke lacrosse players.
Students from NCCU participate in a vigil held Monday to support a student who was allegedly raped by three members of the Duke lacrosse team.
Media Credit: DANNY COHEN/THE CHRONICLE
Students from NCCU participate in a vigil held Monday to support a student who was allegedly raped by three members of the Duke lacrosse team.
A crowd of about 250 students and community members held a vigil Monday night at North Carolina Central University to promote healing.
They gathered to show their support for an NCCU student who alleges she was raped by three Duke men's lacrosse players at a March 13 party.
The case has sparked rallies and protests almost daily at Duke and in the surrounding area.
No charges have been filed.
NCCU's Voice for Planned Parenthood sponsored a Clothesline Project before the vigil, allowing crowd members to sign a banner and T-shirts to address the problem of violence against women.
Speakers at the student-organized vigil included religious leaders, NCCU students and alumni, Duke graduate students and Durham community members.
They spoke hopefully, encouraging students to unify peacefully as a family in the face of adversity.
"We are standing in an effort against sexual assault," NCCU junior Sasha Vann said.
Organizers planned the event in order to make their voices heard at NCCU and said they also hoped to "help Duke students fight their fight."
"I was glad to see the students of my university show up as a family," said NCCU junior Maya Jackson, one of the organizers of the event.
NCCU Student Body President Renee Clark, a senior, read an official statement from the university and urged the crowd to consider the alleged victim "as someone we personally know."
Mindful that the investigation is still underway, Clark asked the NCCU community to embrace patience in the coming weeks and months.
"What is done in the dark will always come out in the light," she said.
A local Durham artist who is also a member of Men Against Rape Culture said he hopes to change the circumstances that often allow rape to happen. He read a piece of his poetry to emphasize his message of an improved sense of community.
"I love to hear people talk about an NCCU family because family is needed, unity is needed... and retaliation is not the answer," he said.
Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, emphasized that those who demand justice in this case "must not be wrongly described as a lynch mob."
Barber also noted the importance of seeking God for guidance and asked the crowd to pray for the accused because they "are suffering themselves from a deep sickness in their souls."
After a moment of silence, organizers offered an opportunity for anyone in the crowd to speak.
An NCCU student who identified herself as a lesbian told the crowd she was once raped by a man. She said people would never expect her to be a victim of sexual assault.
The young woman encouraged others to speak up about their experiences in order to avoid "a life of misery and pain."
A Presbyterian minister who works at NCCU condemned the media's portrayal of the allegations.
"We hear the lacrosse team mentioned in a positive light, and we see the young lady as a stripper, and we won't have it," she said.
Vann said she would like to see the Duke administration punish students for "confirmed" violations, referring specifically to racial slurs heard by neighbors.
Although many have criticized the Duke administration's reaction to the allegations, NCCU senior Larisha Stone said she would like to see the NCCU administration
"take a stance on the issue."
"We want facts, and we want answers from our administration as well," she said.
Rann Bar-on, a third-year graduate student in mathematics at Duke who is known for his work with the Progressive Alliance, noted it was important that Duke students attend the vigil at NCCU.
"I hope that this [controversy] will bring Central and Duke kids together," he said.
NCCU junior Krystal Applewhite said she believed that if the tables were turned, the case would be treated differently."If it was our football team, they'd be in jail right now," she said.
The vigil was the first of many scheduled events to take place on the NCCU campus this week in response to the rape allegations.
http://www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2006/04/04/News/Nccu-Responds.To.Alleged.Assault-1779245.shtml?norewrite200701061658&sourcedomain=www.dukechronicle.com
Rann Bar-on: poster on DurhamResponds
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=97702&SecID=2
NCCU murder appears random
Updated: 1/6/2007 3:00 PM
By: Ann Forte
DURHAM -- Stepped-up security greeted students as they returned to the Campus Crossing Apartments after winter break. The increased security comes a day after 25-year-old Denita Smith was found shot to death at the apartments.
"This appears to be a random crime. We haven't had any other incidents out at the apartment complex during this year or last year that we can remember," said Cpl. David Addison of the Durham Police Dept.
(snip)
Random crime, not random bullet. Does "random crime" mean not gang related? I need my DPD to English dictionary. BTW, where's Chalmers?
These people--Rev Barber and his ilk--have reverted to the worst kind of reverse racism. Simplistic, moronic, unenlightened:
Black--GOOD
White--BAD
It makes me think this country is going backwards, at least in North Carolina.
>>"We are standing in an effort against sexual assault"
I wonder when their vigil against false accusation of a felony will be held? Ping me if you see a date/time scheduled. /s
>>"What is done in the dark will always come out in the light,"
Yeah, and the results aren't what they thought you would be, are they?
>>Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, emphasized that those who demand justice in this case "must not be wrongly described as a lynch mob."
Well howdy, Rev! How would you describe the nonsense you helped sponsor? It was obvious then, to anyone paying attention, what was going down. Now it should be obvious even to someone of your limited mental abilities.
So many stupid quotes in that article, so little time . . .
It should, but I doubt it will.
Yes, a portrait of the "infected."
'person of interest' and 'appearing random' are not mutually exclusive.
I doubt this was random, though, and it's a careless usage if they have a suspect because it tends to heighten neighborhood fear.
You are correct that 'person of interest' is sometimes used to keep certain constitutional/due process protections from being triggered too soon in the game, but there are also plenty of situations in which certain threshold evidence and criteria haven't yet been met such that someone hasn't actually become a full-fledged "suspect" but definitely need to be interviewed. In other words, 'person of interest' can be a coy term for 'suspect' or it can mean 'just a possibility' until something eliminates that person from the universe of possibles.
HaHa!
Or maybe he should have been reading Nifong his Miranda rights, and then the "Oops!" :>
Unless it was moved.
Random, but extremely coincidental that she was related to the NCCU newspaper that just happened to know more than they reported. Someone may have been looking for pictures of Crystal Gail Mangum?
As we know, if the body was moved, there will be some signs, such as blood drippings, scratches on the stairs or sidewalk where it was scraped. Fundamental forensics can prove that, but then again -- we are talking Durham. "Call it 'random' and no one will expect us to solve it!"
Dear Cathy,
I don't believe you.
And ruining 3 young mens' lives so you can feel better while you wallow in sanctimony, addressing "social disparities" is hardly a cause for celebration and is definitely not an appropriate function of college "professors."
My daughter wishes to attend Duke.
Over my dead body.
Quite Sincerely,
Sauropod.
"... that we can remember."
Reassuring statement, isn't it, considering their accessible data bases?
Where the hell is Chalmers?
"... that we can remember."
Shades of Clintoesque speech...
So this particular moonbat is saying that the Duke lacrosse players specifically called up and ordered 2 black women (I refuse to call them persons of color) so that they could excercise their "power dynamic" on them by having them gyrate and strip while the white boys shout, "Dats right...strip it off for da white Massuh!"
Riiiiight.
Nothing to see here folks ... move along ...
DHA eyes deal with developer
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
June 22, 2006
Author: RAY GRONBERG gronberg@heraldsun.com; 419-6648
Estimated printed pages: 2
The Durham Housing Authority wants to sell its Fayette Place complex to a Philadelphia developer that would raze it and build housing for students at N.C. Central University.
On Wednesday, the authority's board of directors gave Executive Director Harrison Shannon and his staff permission to work out a purchase contract with Campus Apartments Inc., which beat out two other companies that wanted to buy the 200-unit apartment complex.
Campus Apartments has offered to pay $3.1 million for the East Umstead Street property, and will bump that up to $3.9 million if DHA officials can convince Durham's City Council to rezone it to accommodate up to 17 units an acre, said Joe Styres, the authority's finance director.
Another company, TCG Development Services, offered $4 million for the 20-acre tract but wanted to use it for an affordable-housing project that would have taken much longer to assemble, Styres said.
The remaining bidder, an outfit called HSFC, is tied to Durham's Fayetteville Street Planning Group and offered $2.6 million. Authority officials believe HSFC wanted to use the property for rental housing, though its leaders never specified their intentions, Styres said.
Campus Apartments also offered more money down than its competitors -- $150,000 versus $10,000 from TCG and $5,000 from HSFC, Styres said.
The firm already has a track record in Durham through the Campus Crossing project near NCCU, and recently acquired $300 million in investment capital from the government of Singapore, Styres said. It owns 220 properties.
Styres added that the Philadelphia company is offering a "very clean" deal that could close in seven months.
Before selling Fayette Place, the authority has to obtain the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's approval.
Among other things, it will have to help relocate the 78 families that live there, many of whom rely on HUD rental vouchers that can only be used at Fayette Place, Styres said. The authority will ask regulators to convert them into ones that can be used anywhere.
Wednesday's 4-0 vote capped months of behind-the-scenes effort.
Fayette Place -- the former Fayetteville Street public housing complex -- is part of the authority's small portfolio of affordable-housing projects it controls through nonprofit shell companies.
The authority got into trouble with HUD two years ago when federal auditors discovered that it had improperly diverted public-housing subsidies into the affordable-housing projects, which were supposed to stand on their own financially. It's now under orders to recoup the money and put it back into public housing.
Fayette Place makes a small amount of money for Development Ventures Inc., one of the nonprofits officials set up for the affordable-housing program. Two other projects owned by DVI, Edgemont Elms and Woodridge Commons, lose money and are hemorrhaging tenants because the authority hasn't renovated them.
Some of the money would be available "for other affordable-housing activities," including potential renovations of Edgemont Elms and Woodridge, Styres said.
//
Crime Log
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
April 22, 2006
Estimated printed pages: 2
Men charged with vandalism
Two Duke University students were arrested on charges of vandalizing a lamppost Friday in Trinity Park.
EXCERPT
Man arrested on stalking charges
N.C. Central University police arrested a 22-year-old man on stalking charges Friday, according to warrants.
Maurice Taylor, of 602 Campus Crossing, allegedly choked a woman and hit her in the chest on April 6, warrants state. Since then, police allege Taylor has been stalking the assault victim.
Taylor was held at the Durham County Jail on $1,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear May 15 in Durham County District Court.
//
Dancer's father: broomstick used
New Black Panther Party steps into the limelight of rape case
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
April 28, 2006
Author: PAUL BONNER pbonner@heraldsun.com; 419-6621
EXCERPT
Shabazz will be joined at the news conference by other New Black Panther members and NCCU students Monday at 10 a.m. at Chapel Drive and Duke University Road. They will discuss the rape case "as well as hate literature, graffiti and disrespect by Duke University students" against those at NCCU, according to a press release.
The reference to graffiti is to an April 13 incident at Campus Crossing, an apartment complex off East Cornwallis Road where NCCU students live. On April 13, a resident reported to NCCU Police finding "Duke Number 1 NCCU n------s last" in blue spray paint on doors and a stairwell.
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