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Assault: Directors discuss security procedures
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hear any concerns from students in
case some felt threatened or uneasy
after the incident.
“From the interactions that
Heather’s had, it doesn’t appear
that students are feeling like that,”
Eyster said.
Eyster said he has received two
e-mails from parents regarding the
incident, and both focused on
concerns about students in the High
School Equivalency Program living
in the residence halls with
University students.
Valencia-Torres is a graduate of the
University’s High School Equivalency
Program and the students he alleged
ly assaulted are currently enrolled in
the program.
The students did not know Valen
cia-Torres, but they were living in
the room where he lived while he
was a student. This was a connec
tion that police say Valencia-Torres
tried to use to strike up a conversa
tion with the students and “more or
less hang out with them,” Cromp
ton said in an April 28 Emerald arti
cle. The incident occurred around
6 a.m., police said.
Eyster said the parents who wrote
the e-mails seemed concerned about
the age difference between students
in the program and University stu
dents in the residence halls and the
steps taken to integrate them.
Eyster said the age of the students
is not something that should be of
concern. However, the incident and
student and parent responses have
shown housing officials that more
needs to be done to help integrate stu
dents from the program with Univer
sity students in the residence halls,
Eyster said.
“We’re definitely going to be
there to orient both groups to each
other next year,” Eyster said. “That
is a certainty.”
Eyster said he and High School
Equivalency Program Director
Emilio Hernandez will be working
with housing officials during the
summer to plan a better orientation
program for HEP students. He said
they will try to come up with more
integration activities.
Conversations also centered on se
curity procedures and the need for
students to refrain from letting
strangers into the residence halls. It is
not known how Valencia-Torres en
tered the locked residence hall twice,
but housing officials said they suspect
another student let him in or that he
came in behind someone.
Hernandez said most of the com
plaints he receives about the High
School Equivalency Program center
on the race or ethnicity of the
students involved.
“It all starts with the fact that
they’re Latino students,” Hernandez
said. “It turns into this racial thing of
‘why are they here?’”
Hernandez said he is committed
to doing whatever it takes to
improve the tarnished image that
the Valencia-Torres incident has
given the program. He said the bias
that exists in society means he must
hold his students to a higher
standard in hopes of breaking
such stereotypes.
“I have to really be a hard hand
on it because those daily stereo
types will destroy a program like
that,” Hernandez said.
Because the housing department is
not directly involved with the search
for Valencia-Torres, housing officials
reported that questions about the na
ture of the HEP program were the
biggest issues they had to address, be
sides typical concerns about security
and safety.
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Ebony: Winners selected from 30 candidates
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history major, was the first person
awarded during the ceremony. He
nau goou acauem
ic standing in his
courses and is
very active in
campus student
activities.
Grace said the
ceremony’s
arrangement was
“exceptional,” and
he and his friends
had a lot of fun.
“I have been through all
those struggles, but I
overcame them ... and
now I’m back. ’’
Cory Mainor | Winner, Ebony Man
Showcase
He believed the University’s black
community is like a big family and
getting recognized by family mem
bers is “a great honor. ”
LaTina Lewis, co-director of the
Black Student Union, was the only
woman awarded in the ceremony. A
J U U I II dll 5 III
student, Lewis
worked on a
documentary
“Forgotten
Ducks,” which
explored the
first black
athletes on the
University’s
football team
in the early
20th century.
Lewis said she was really hon
ored by the award and appreciated
the efforts of everyone who organ
ized the event.
Lijin Abraham, who helped
arrange the event, said she is happy
it turned out well and everyone
seemed to have a lot of fun.
She said the decision deciding
who would receive awards took a
lot of time. About 30 candidates
were selected in the first round, and
the final winners were decided
according to their academic records,
public service records and
personality or influence in the
black community.
She believes there are several
more black students who could
quality for the awards but missed
the competition this year.
Leiberman: Award honors willingness to sacrifice
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Controversy has swirled around
the Sinclair Broadcasting Group since
last spring, when the group forced its
stations to block an episode of ABC’s
Nightline in which Anchor Ted Kop
pel read the names of U.S. solders
killed in Iraq.
Leiberman revealed to the press
during the election season that the
group had discussed preempting
programs on its stations to air the
Kerry documentary and that he had
been fighting what he believed to be
unbalanced news programming
over several months.
“They have a First Amendment
right to run what they want on their
television stations — 62 of them,”
Leiberman said in an October article
in The Baltimore Sun. “But when
they called it news, it stepped across
the line.”
Gleason said the Payne Awards
strive to honor those who uphold
ethics.
“(Leiberman’s decision) speaks
loudly to the power of journalism
ethics and the practice of journalists
who are willing to sacrifice careers to
do the right thing,” Gleason said.
The Payne Award judging com
mittee consists of eight individuals
in the journalism industry, includ
ing editors, professors and one f
ormer executive. Only two members
of the committee, Gleason and
Journalism and Communications
Professor Tom Bivins, are part of
the University.
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