http://www.newsobserver.com/100/story/536409.html
Published: Jan 26, 2007 12:30 AM
Modified: Jan 26, 2007 03:25 AM
Campus brawl brings FBI
5 Guilford football players charged
Kristin Collins, Staff Writer
Two more Guilford College football players were charged Thursday with beating a group of Palestinian students during a drunken weekend brawl, and the FBI is investigating whether a hate crime occurred on the small Quaker campus.
Five members of the Greensboro school's football team now face charges of assault and racial intimidation.
Three Palestinian students, one of whom attends N.C. State University, told authorities that, early Saturday morning, the players pummeled them with fists, feet and brass knuckles while calling them "terrorists" and shouting racial slurs.
The incident is prompting concern among Muslims all over North Carolina and drawing media attention from around the country. However, details of the fight are still unclear.
Aaron Fetrow, Guilford College's dean for campus life, said his staff has interviewed a dozen witnesses and several participants in the fight, which occurred outside a dormitory. He said school officials have gotten contradictory accounts, and still don't know what started the fight.
He said most witnesses agree on only two basic facts -- that there was a large fight and that racial slurs were shouted.
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http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/536271.html
Published: Jan 26, 2007 12:30 AM
Modified: Jan 26, 2007 03:24 AM
Professors say Nifong mishandled Duke lacrosse case
Anne Blythe, Staff Writer
DURHAM - This was not a crowd in which you would expect to find an ardent supporter of District Attorney Mike Nifong.
It was Duke University, after all, the school attended by the three former lacrosse players charged in the sexual assault case that has stirred torrents of criticism.
Three law professors on a Duke panel Thursday afternoon dissected the actions of Nifong over the past 10 months, and they concluded that he is a prosecutor headed for serious sanctions by the State Bar.
"If everything's established, we're looking at a significant suspension," said Tom Metzloff, a Duke law professor who also serves on the bar's ethics committee, which had nothing to do with the charges brought against Nifong.
The bar's Disciplinary Hearing Commission will weigh the ethical and misconduct charges. On Wednesday, less than a month after the bar accused Nifong of making inflammatory public statements about the case, additional charges were filed accusing him of withholding DNA evidence favorable to the defendants and lying repeatedly about it to judges and the bar.
They'll make a much bigger deal out of the "hate" aspect of this than they have the muzzie who tried to kill a bunch of students with his vehicle at UNC because they're Americans.