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A return to discrimination on campus

By KevinCollins - Mar 6th, 2005 at 8:51 pm EST

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The Alpha Iota Omega fraternity at the University of North Carolina has won an injuction forcing the university to provide access to funding and school resources while the fraternity continues to discrimnate. After the fraternity refused to sign the University's non-discrimination statement -- AIO wanted to ban gays and non-Christians from membership -- the university yanked its funding and the fraternity sued. Now the frat has won the first of many legal battles in getting an injuction to reinstate funding until the larger case has been settled.

Read the whole thing at Pandagaon here and here.

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One quick addendum

By elhooliganunc Mar 7th 2005 at 2:38 pm EST

I'm a student at UNC-CH, and I'd just like to clarify that this injunction is very preliminary and pretty customary when a judge cannot find immediate proof that an organization's privileges should be revoked. In other words, things are back to "normal" until the trial is finished because AIO is "innocent until proven guilty".

Momentum

By ddoner Mar 8th 2005 at 9:59 am EST

I wonder if the hate crime that took place against a gay student on Franklin St will have any effect on this. The issue is certainly fresh at the University, I hope we can keep up the momentum.

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