The Guilfordian

Issue date: 9/25/09 Section: News

Media Credit: Jesse Crews

On Sept. 14 a Bryan resident filed a Public Safety report and informed Residence Life that a note had been left on his room door that read "Die you MF fag. Nobody wants your kind on campus."

It was soon followed by a second threat. On Thursday Sept. 17 a rock, with a note attached was dropped in the students' room at around 11:30 pm.

The note said "I hope (the rock) hit you in the f---ing head faggot. You don't deserve life like the rest of the world. It's bad enough without all the gay crap pulling people down. It's sick, unnatural, and death is almost too good for you. Almost."

The person or persons responsible for this act still remain unknown.

"The difficulty in these anonymous acts is ever knowing who did it," said Fetrow, "and that is why it is very important to respond. We have to say something about it. We can't just let it go."

While there is speculation around campus on the identity of the reporting party, neither Public Safety nor Campus Life would validate any speculations.

"The name is not released because the person who filed the report wishes not to be identified at this point," said Dean of Students Aaron Fetrow.

President Kent Chabotar published a statement in the buzz on Saturday Sept. 19 in response to this incident, explaining that while it is the responsibility of the Bias Incident Group to respond to anonymous acts of bias, the group for this year has not yet been formed.

Fetrow said that the group will be formed in a week or two.

Associate Dean for Campus Life Jennifer Agor said that the bias incident group will determine what needs to be done after the initial responses.

"Since they had not yet convened, (Campus Life's) plan was to ensure that we had a timely, appropriate response to these incidents," said Agor.

While the members have not been set in stone yet, the Group is traditionally chaired by President Chabotar and includes three students and several staff and faculty members.

"Clearly this messages are harassment in violation of numerous college policies and are criminal acts under state and federal law," said Chabotar in the statement, which was made available to the entire campus.

"Making this information public might help in the investigation process for all of us to know the information in case we might see of hear anything," said Bryan resident and sophomore Kalyn Howard.

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