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The Daily Tar HeelServing UNC students and the University community since 1893

www.dailytarheel.comtuesday, april 12, 2011VOluMe 119, issue 30

By Paula SeligSonStaff writerQuinn Matney was having trouble sleeping.As the freshman took a walk on South Campus at

about 3 a.m. on April 4, he said he ran into an acquain-tance on the Craige Residence Hall footbridge. As thetwo spoke, a man sitting at a nearby picnic table stoodup and grabbed him by the wrist, he said.

“Here’s a taste of hell you f---ing fag,” Matney remem-bered the man saying.

The man branded Matney, who is gay, on the left wristwith an unidentified object, causing third- and fourth-degree burns that damaged three nerves and a tendon,leaving the freshman with no feeling in his thumb andlimited mobility in his index finger, he said.

Matney said he tried to pull away — but the mandidn’t let go until he received a hard punch to the face.

Matney said he then walked away quickly, trying todistance himself from the man and his two friends, whoboth appeared drunk.

“I’ve seen him two or three times before this, alwaysout on that same bridge,” Matney said of the man,

whose identity is unknown.Jeff DeLuca, co-chairman of the Gay, Lesbian,Bisexual, Transgender and Straight Alliance, said he is

alarmed by the administration’s silence on the attack.University officials did not officially comment untila post on Alert Carolina on Monday evening, almost aweek after the incident.

“A very blatant hate crime against a GLBT individualoccurred on this campus, and we only heard about it by word of mouth,” DeLuca said.

The man is being sought on charges of aggravatedassault, said Jeff McCracken, chief and director of theDepartment of Public Safety.

“We don’t have any suspect information that wecould comment on at this point in time,” he said.

UNC plans to report the incident as a hate crime tothe federal government, Chancellor Holden Thorp saidin an informational e-mail to students.

Matney said he thinks the man who attacked hadoverheard conversations with friends in the past thatmight have revealed his sexual orientation.

After going to the emergency room and leaving afterhours of waiting the night of April 4, Matney said hereceived treatment at Campus Health Services the nextday. Only then did he file a police report.

The man appeared to be a white 19-year-old, standing

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A year ago, Justin Robinette, a junior atDuke University at the time, was removedfrom his position as chairman of the DukeCollege Republicans for reasons that are stilldisputed.

Robinette claimed he was impeachedbecause of his sexual orientation — he is gay — but members of the board who impeachedhim cited other reasons, such as neglect of his responsibilities as chairman.

Robinette approached university admin-istrators with details of his harassment, buthis complaints were sent to student govern-ment and ultimately dismissed, so he turnedto the U.S. Department of Education to takea look at the ways he believed Duke failed totake appropriate action with his case.

After months of filing complaints withdifferent governing bodies, Robinette isstill fighting in hopes that the outcome of the federal investigation will establish a setprocedure for students who are harassed toseek help from the university.

“I would like to see this whole p rocess asbenefiting other students in the future,” hesaid. “It’s broadly to make the environmentbetter for everyone else.”

Although Duke is a private university, itreceives some federal funding, so it can besubjected to a department investigation.

Since his April 2010 impeachment,Robinette and Cliff Satell, a supporter of Robinette and former vice chairman of theDuke College Republicans, have filed fivecomplaints with the department.

Three cases based on their complaintsabout discrimination, sexual harassmentand retaliation at the university are beinginvestigated, according to a departmentspokesman.

Larry Moneta, vice president for studentaffairs at Duke, and General Counsel PamelaBernard both declined to comment on theinvestigations.

The investigation of Robinette’s com-

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By kelly ParSonSaSSiStant SPortS editor

In North Carolina’s 72-65 Sweet16 loss to Stanford on March 26,forward Jessica Breland had just

two points.The 6-foot-3 forward’s rareunderwhelming performancemight have been her last showing asa Tar Heel, but it won’t be the finalgame of her basketball career.

In Monday’s WNBA Draft,Breland was selected 13th over-all by the Minnesota Lynx beforebeing traded to the New YorkLiberty. UNC guard Italee Lucaswas selected by the Tulsa Shock asthe 21st overall pick.

Coach Sylvia Hatchell was over-joyed with how it turned out.

“Our style of play, the WNBA loves it,” Hatchell said. “The mostimportant thing is not the numberthey go, but the fit. I think for bothof them it’s a good fit.”

Breland, who finished the 2010-11 season second in both scoring

and rebounding, was one of 15players invited to Monday’s draftat ESPN’s headquarters.

Having watched Breland excelsince her recovery from Hodgkin’slymphoma, Lucas raved about her

By iSaBella cochraneaSSiStant State & national editor

New academic standards at N.C.Central University have put morethan 500 students in jeopardy of being kicked out of school.

As many as 519 students at theuniversity are on a warning listbecause they do not have a 1.9 GPA.The new requirement is part of anincremental policy to help improvethe school’s academic standing.

Students are expected to main-tain a 1.9 GPA instead of a 1.7 GPA to continue enrolling in classes. Andstarting in the fall of 2011, they willhave to maintain a 2.0 GPA — thesame requirements that a studentmust already have to graduate.

“They have to have a 2.0 forgraduation,” said Bernice Duffy Johnson, dean of the University College at NCCU. “If students arenot anywhere near that, we look at itas being a waste of somebody’s timeand money for letting them lingeruntil they do have the grade.”

The old policy allowed students

to continue enrolling in courseseven if they weren’t up to gradu-ation standards, and also put stu-dents at risk for losing financial aidopportunities, Johnson said.

“It’s about equity and fairness tothe students,” she said. “Studentshave to earn hours in 67 percent

of the courses they attend in orderfor them to be eligible for financialaid.”

At its meeting last week, theUNC-system Board of Governorsmentioned looking into decreas-

ing enrollment for the 2012-13academic year as a possible solu-tion to cope with the consistentdecreases in state funding. Butuniversity administrators said thereason for the crackdown on GPA requirements was not budget-related.

At UNC-CH, students are expect-ed to remain in “good standing,” by maintaining a 2.0 GPA to enroll inclasses for the next semester.

NCCU’s new requirements wereannounced to students in Decemberby Chancellor Charlie Nelms.

“Many of the students who wereon that list were first semesterfreshmen, who if they take a cou-ple of summer courses will be wellbeyond the 2.0,” Johnson said.

Johnson said the school’sexpectations of incoming stu-

dents is actually higher than itspolicy.“We expect them to do a 3.0,” she

said. “They are expected to performat a B average, and one of the rea-sons why I tell them that is because

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“There are still people out that area little unsatised or displeased

with openly gay people … peoplejust need to be safe and careful.”

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