Actually the article was not authored by a journalist from the college. The author is Vanessa Gezari who is a Foreign/National Correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times.
Vanessa Gezari has been a foreign and national correspondent at the St. Petersburg Times since June 2004. She came to the Times after nearly three years freelancing in New Delhi and Kabul, writing about politics, conflict and culture for the Chicago Tribune, The (Baltimore) Sun, Slate and others. In 2004, she trained Afghan journalists with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Before moving to South Asia, she was a one-year resident at the Chicago Tribune and a general assignment and city hall reporter at the Toledo Blade.
Google and check out some of her other works like:
http://www.freesamialarian.com/media/media89.htm
Growing up Al-Arian
Also Current Campus Echo Staff Members :
http://www.nccu.edu/campus/echo/staff.html
Shelbia Brown Production Assistant Ihouma Ezeh Staff Reporter Anisa Holmes Staff Reporter Tiana Robinson Staff Reporter Julius Jones Staff Reporter Ebony McQueen Staff Reporter Carolyn McGill Chief Copy Editor LaKela Atkinson Copy Editor Greg Wilson Copy Editor Brandon Murphey Cartoonist David Morris Cartoonist Sheena Johnson Alumna Advisor Mike Wiliams Alumni Advisor Danny Hooley Alumni Advisor Samantha Draughan Business Operations
Dr. Bruce dePyssler'dp' Faculty Adviser
Kristiana Bennett doesn't appear on the Echo staff. Was the article an out-right fraud? If so, that is even stranger and totally irresponsible.