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Senate votes on Fee Referendum Bill With only 148 respondents to Student Government’s fee survey, the Senate concluded the responses were ‘unusable’ and did not affect the bill’s construction. Chelsey Francis Deputy News Editor
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Student Senate President Stephen Kouba, a senior in political science, speaks at the Senate Body Meeting Oct. 4. The meeting was held to discuss the tuition and fees increase for the 2011-2012 academic year. Other topics of interest included local hunger, agriculture appreciation, orientation counseling for the 2011 summer and Women’s Center awareness.
Actor brings popular local memoir to Stewart Theater Chris Boucher Deputy News Editor
Tuesday night at Stewart Theater, actor Michael Wiley performed his critically acclaimed one-man show based on a popular memoir detailing racially charged events during the Civil Right era. Wiley brought Blood Done Sign My Name, Tim Tyson’s memoir about a 1970 murder and subsequent public unrest in Oxford, to the stage for several hundred attendees. Gospel singer Mary D. Williams provided backing vocals and hymns during the production. University Scholars and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion co-sponsored the event. Wiley said he is always happy to perform Blood Done Sign My Name for college students, because it’s a part of history that they should know about before they leave college and enter the adult world. “I think it’s important that students of all ages, especially college students, look to this recent history to make ties to current socioeconomic problems, political policies, the widening of the achievement gap,” Wiley explained. During the performance, Wiley estimated he plays about 20 characters, among them: Tyson, Tyson’s father, a 10-year-old white boy, a white rac-
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Student Senate proposed a $108.96 fee increase for the 2011-2012 school year. The bill passed with 31 votes and eight against, with also two senators abstaining and eight absent from the meeting. The Fee Referendum Bill included requested fees from several departments on campus. These departments include the athletics department, Campus Recreation, Student Center operations, Student Health, Student Legal Services and University Transportation. Combined, the six departments requested a fee increase of $86.90. The committee recommended increases totaling $55.69. Because of amendments to the bill, Student Senate ended up recommending a total fee increase of $55.41, not including the second phase of the Talley Student Center. According to Student Senate President Stephen Kouba, the total fee increase is presented as a package recommendation. “The fee committee itself is not interested in looking at different bills,” Kouba said. “Each senator is welcome to amend any of these amounts. The recommendation can only be as high as the department originally requested.” Before debate and amendments began, senators said they were concerned with whether the money each of the six departments received from student
fees. Thomas Stafford, vice-chancellor of Student Affairs, explained the process for interpreting previous fees. “The best way for you to answer [if each department used the money from last year as they indicated] would be for the Tuition and Fees Committee to look at how the fees were used for the 2010-2011 school year,” Stafford said. According to Senator Patrick Devore, the survey Student Government conducted did not receive enough student input to use that in making the decisions for the bill. “The survey had 148 respondents. Only four-tenths of a percent of the student population voted, rendering it unusable,” Devore said. Senator Ethan Harrelson, said he doesn’t like fee increases, but he still supported the resolution. “I don’t think anyone in this room likes fee increases. With this bill we’re able to say this is where students want their money to go. I can’t think of anything Patrick [Devore] has brought up that is debatable. Let’s forget the economic times and think about the expansion of our University. I support this bill,” Harrelson said. Every department gave the Senate a line-by-line division of what the money they were requesting was to go for, except the athletics department. According to Devore, the sponsor of the resolution, since athletics didn’t give the division, the committee chose to recommend $25. After debates, the decision was made to decrease that recommendation to $20. The overall longest debate over
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Man arrested after Jackpot Bar attack Nathan Hardin News Editor
Raleigh Police Detectives charged Charles Zachary Poll Monday with assault inf licting serious injury in connection with a Sept. 30 incident outside 1303 Hillsborough St., according to a press release from Jim Sughrue, s poke s pers on for RPD. Poll was taken into custody without inciCharles Poll dent, according to the release, and has been Hillsborough Street attacker transported to the Wake County Jail. Sughrue also explained tips stemming from media coverage of the case were instrumental in identifying Poll as a suspect. On Sept. 30, 23-year-old Evan Lawrence stepped outside the Jackpot Bar in downtown Raleigh and was involved in an altercation, according to police reports. Lawrence received life threatening injuries and was transported to Rex Hospital where he remains in critical condition as of Monday night. According to an Oct. 3 News & Observer report, Lawrence walked outside the bar for a cigarette. Upon accidently flicked the cigarette onto a man, the unknown person attacked. Lawrence arrived at the hospital Thursday evening, the article says, and was wheeled into surgery by 10:30 p.m. for a blood clot in the his brain.
Muslim Chaplain invites students to combat “Islamaphobia”
ist secretary, and a black Civil Rights activist trying to call attention to the killing and trial. Other than Williams and Wiley, the stage featured just a few props and a video screen that flashed pictures and news clippings relevant to the events in the play. The story centered on the murder of Henry “Dickie” Marrow, a black Vietnam veteran who was gunned down in the streets of Oxford. Three white men stood trial for the crime: Robert Teel, his 18-year-old son and his 21-year-old stepson. Despite testimony from a pair of black eyewitnesses, an all-white jury acquitted the three men, setting off a series of marches, boycotts, and riots; two tobacco warehouses burned during the unrest, and glass from shattered storefronts littered the streets of Oxford. The event is credited with galvanizing the Civil Rights movement in Granville County. It also nearly tore the town apart, however, as the trial brought out both angry black protestors and white supremacists (most notably the Ku Klux Klan) that showed public support for Teel and his sons. Wiley’s treatment of the material has earned high praise from Tyson. “Mike is a brilliant artist and educator. This [story] is about mending the broken world through the power of story … I am proud to have Mike as a colleague in those efforts,” Tyson
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Imam Abdullah Antepli spoke to students about the sharp rise in the fear of Muslims and hopes to inspire students to learn the truth about Islam. Brooke Wallig Staff Writer
This message, “Islam is evil, and Muslims are terrorists,” is one that Imam Abdullah Antepli is trying to combat every day, and he said he hopes students will join him in the fight. Antepli, Duke University’s Muslim Chaplain, spoke to students on Monday night in Withers Hall about the realities of Islam and the world’s controversial perception of Muslims post-9/11, calling it “Islamaphobia.” After providing a brief overview of the different perceptions of Islam, Antepli said Islam is not a monolithic institution to be fought as the United States fought the Soviet Union during the Cold War. “Islam is not the ‘scary monster’ that the media likes to portray it as. This view is somewhat new, but it is fabricated.” Citing media outlets including Fox News, Antepli said this is an inaccurate representation of Islam and has been circulated so much that, to many people, the truth no longer matters. “There has been an extensive and sophisticated campaign to give Islam a negative image, and this quick association of Muslims with violence and terrorism is one of the biggest problems we are facing,” Antepli said. “People view Islam as if our values are irreconcilable with Christian and Western beliefs,” said Antepli. “Muslims today are marginalized, and we feel like the
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Abdullah Antepli, an imam or religious leader at Duke University, speaks to students during a lecture on Oct. 4. “We don’t want people to fear Islam because that’s not what it’s about.” Antepli said. The speech also discussed the four practices of Islam and what each one meant.
unwanted members of the human family.” Antepli’s talk stressed the separation of the violence of extremist terrorist organizations and the Islamic faith, though he acknowledged members of the public often come to the conclusion that they are one and the same.
“I’m not denying the existence of some evil people and their horrible actions in the name of Islam, but the number of these people is disproportionate with the global Muslim population,” said Antepli. “You have to put
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