Quaker Schools / Violence - period ended 2.1.2007

Three American students charged by local authorities with Assault and Ethnic Intimidation. Three other football players have also been charged in an alleged attack on three Palestinian students.

Quaker Schools/Violence/Friend Speaks My Mind/Guilford College/Alleged brawlers and accusers asked to move off campus/CNN/Atlanta/GA/USA/25-Jan-07/Associated Press/Chabotar announced the request by the school, which has a Quaker background, at an emotional forum held Wednesday evening near campus. ...

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Quaker Schools/Violence/Guilford College/3 football players charged after fight/Baltimore Sun/Baltimore/MD/USA/24-Jan-07//RALEIGH, NC // Three football players at Guilford College, a school with a Quaker background, face assault and ethnic intimidation charges after an attack ...

Quaker Schools/Violence/Worship/Guilford College/Students Walk Out Of Class/WXii 12.com//NC/USA/25-Jan-07//In addition, some community residents walked across the quad as part of a candlelight vigil and Quaker worship service in response to the assault. …

Quaker Schools/Violence/Business Meeting/Guilford College/Guilford president urges patience with investigation as students .../Yes! Weekly//NC/USA/25-Jan-07//Few student-athletes spoke at the traditional Quaker business meeting during an open comment period billed as "speaking from the heart," but a member of the lacrosse team privately expressed confidence that the administration would gather the facts and act appropriately in due time.

"This is a sad time for our community not only driven apart by Saturday's incident, but also driven apart by underlying issues only exposed by Saturday's incident," Chabotar told a capacity crowd of students and faculty, some of whom sat on the floor or crowded into open doorways. "The eyes of the world are on Guilford College. The underlying issue of Saturday - the divisions, I don't have to tell you about the divisions. ...

Quaker Schools/Violence/Social Conscience/Guilford College/Quaking in their cleats/The Phoenix/Boston/MA/USA/31-Jan-07//…Way to go, Newsweek. America’s leading health-fad-and-campaign-dreck news mag named Guilford College, a Quaker school in North Carolina, the “hottest for social conscience” in 2006. Right on cue, the school became the site of the first ever football-Islam hate crime, opening the door to a whole new world of unacceptable beer-fueled behavior for America’s athletes. ….

Quaker Schools/Violence/Separation/Guilford College/Guilford College asks fight's five to move off campus/Wilmington Morning Star/Wilmington/NC/USA/26-Jan-07/AP/Administrators at the school, which has a Quaker background, said Wednesday they are trying to determine whether some of those involved were fighting or ...

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Quaker Schools/Violence/Quaker Values/Guilford College/Guilford students stage a walkout/News 14 Carolina/NC/USA/25-Jan-07//... the school has not officially called the incident a hate crime, gathered at Founders Hall at 10:15 am to discuss community, safety and Quaker values. ...

Quaker Schools/Violence/Pacifism/Guilford College/Guilford players charged in assault/News & Observer/Raleigh/NC/USA/24-Jan-07//Guilford, a school with a rich heritage in the pacifist Quaker faith, will proceed with its own investigation as the criminal charges play out in the ...

Quaker Schools/Violence/Guilford College/Football trio allegedly beat Palestinian students/MSNBC/New York/NY/USA/25-Jan-07/AP/RALEIGH, NC - Three football players at Guilford College, a school with a Quaker background, face assault and ethnic intimidation charges after an attack on ...

Quaker Schools/Violence/Football/Guilford College/More Arrests Follow Assault on Palestinian Students at Guilford .../Chronicle of Higher Education/Washington/DC/USA/26-Jan-07//Some have even questioned whether a sport like football has a place at an institution that espouses the pacific values of the Society of Friends. ...

Quaker Schools/Silence/Meeting for Worship/Guilford College/Guilford College alumni group issues statement/Greensboro News Record/Greensboro/NC/USA/26-Jan-07//A series of community meetings are being held, including a silent Quaker Meeting for Worship and an open forum in the tradition of the Meeting for Worship with attention to business that took place on Wednesday, January 24. ...

Quaker Schools/Violence/Law/Guilford College/Two more charged in Guilford College fight/News 14 Carolina/NC/USA/26-Jan-07/AP/Faris Khader and Osama Sabbah are students at Guilford College, which has a Quaker background. Omar Awartani is a student at North Carolina State University in Raleigh who was visiting friends at Guilford. ...

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Quaker Schools/Violence/Hate Crime/Guilford College/FBI digs into brawl at college/Kansas City Star/Kansas City/MO/USA/26-Jan-07/McLatchy/RALEIGH, NC | The FBI is investigating whether a hate crime occurred on a small Quaker campus last weekend. Two more Guilford College football players were ...

Quaker Schools/Hate Crime/Guilford College/7:33 am | FBI investigates Guilford campus brawl/Charlotte Observer/NC/USA/26-Jan-07//He said two of the Guilford students, Osama Sabbah and Faris Khader, had attended a Quaker school in the West Bank city of Ramallah and had received ...

Quaker Schools/Hippie/Liberal/Guilford College/‘Hate Crime’ of Beatings Divides a Campus/New York Times/New York/NY/USA/27-Jan-07//….GREENSBORO, N.C., Jan. 26 — In this business-minded Southern city that looks more like a sprawling suburb, Guilford College stands out like a hippie commune, a Quaker liberal arts school where students call professors by their first names and regularly stage antiwar protests.

“I regard Guilford as a kind of sanctuary from the madness of the outside world,” said Parke Puterbaugh, 51, who began teaching a course about the history of rock music last fall. “A different environment altogether. Dreadlocks, flannel shirts, liberal outlooks and a high tolerance for people’s backgrounds and lifestyle choices.” ….,

Quaker Schools/Quaker Values/Violence/Guilford College/After 'hate-crime' melee, calm eludes Quaker school/Christian Science Monitor/Boston/MA/USA/28-Jan-07/CSM/The altercation shocked the campus and the surrounding community – in no small measure because Guilford is dedicated to core Quaker values like diversity, ...

Quaker Schools/Violence/Guilford College/Hate crimes against Arabs and Muslims surge nationwide/Arab American News/Dearborn/MI/USA/28-Jan-07//In Raleigh, North Carolina last weekend, three football players at Guilford College, a school with a Quaker background, face assault and ethnic intimidation ...

Quaker Schools/Guilford College/*no mention of Quaker/6th college player charged with assault/Pioneer Times-Journal,/NM/USA/29-Jan-07/Associated Press /GREENSBORO, NC - A sixth Guilford College football player was charged Monday with assaulting a Palestinian student during a fight at the school, ...

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6th football player at US college charged with assaulting .../International Herald Tribune/Paris/France/E.U./29-Jan-07/Associated Press /Five other football players at the Quaker campus were charged with ethnic intimidation in addition to assault. A school statement said the altercation, ...

Quaker Schools///Guilford fight still topic of moment/Greensboro News Record/Greensboro/NC/USA/29-Jan-07//The silence this morning is the Quaker tradition for reflection, a time to bring a message, share a concern or affirm some ideas or ideals out of worship. ...

Quaker Schools/Violence/Inclusiveness/Guilford College/Trouble at Guilford/Winston-Salem Journal/Winston-Salem/NC/USA/30-Jan-07//But what's probably more at play at Guilford is the school's Quaker influence, which emphasizes open-minded explorations of all sides of an issue. ..

Quaker Schools/Sports/Non-Violence/Guilford College/Vigorous athletics program clashes with activist culture at .../Yes! Weekly//NC/USA/30-Jan-07//In a Jan. 24 e-mail to YES! Weekly, Kendal Van Doren of Gainesville, Fla. wrote that freshmen football players helped her daughter move into her dorm at Guilford. Van Doren added that her daughter was friendly with two of the Palestinian students who were allegedly assaulted. At the end of the semester, the first-year student transferred to the University of Florida.

"Guilford pushed their Quaker values, non-violent views, etc. on us when we visited and I guess we fell into that trap," Van Doren wrote. "The school has become a school that is concerned about money and a better sports program.

"What a shame - or should I say sham," added Van Doren, who is an administrative assistant for development at the University of Florida Foundation, "that Guilford puts this peaceful, community-oriented, non-violent front out there when that is not the case at all." ...

Quaker Schools/Guilford College//Reconciliation group plans meeting on Guilford College fight/Greensboro News Record/Greensboro/NC/USA/30-Jan-07//This is surely testimony to Guilford's splendid Quaker tradition. We pledge to all the members of that college community our whole hearted support as they ...

Quaker Schools/Violence/Ethnic Hatred/Guilford College/Joharah Baker: For Palestinians, the World is a Dangerous Place/Palestine Chronicle/Seattle/WA/USA/31-Jan-07//Earlier this month, three Palestinian students were brutally beaten by a group of football jockeys at Guilford College, a small Quaker institution in the ...

Quaker Schools/Religious Faith/Guilford College/Carter, Max/Religious Emphasis Week highlights college's Quaker roots/Guilfordian/Greensboro/NC/USA/1-Feb-07//Despite the college's deep ties with the Quaker community, getting a typical Guilford student to do anything with the world "religion" attached to it has ...

Quaker Schools/Guilford College/Friends Association for Higher Education/Mays, Rebecca/Values and Questions/Inside Higher Ed/Washington/DC/USA/30-Jan-07//Guilford, with approximately 10 percent of its student body identifying as Friends, is at the high end of the spectrum in terms of Quaker representation at Friends colleges, says Rebecca Mays, clerk of the Friends Association for Higher Education. What distinguishes Guilford and other Quaker colleges as Quaker institutions is not a plurality of Quaker students, Mays says. There just aren’t enough Quakers around aspiring to enroll. Instead, the colleges are known for a commitment to the religion’s peace testimony and for fostering a sense of inclusiveness through silent worship service and an embrace of patient listening.

“It’s why you can have a Quaker school with only 10 percent card-carrying Quakers. The meeting for worship in silence allows for an inclusivity that’s remarkable. And so anyone whose practice is at all grounded in the spirit will find a place to walk there and be respected,” Mays says. Guilford is among institutions like Earlham College in Indiana that still maintain particularly strong ties to their respective regional Quaker associations. Other colleges — founded by Quakers and still embracing parts of their philosophy — are now officially secular. These include Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges in Pennsylvania. (Quick fact: “Hold onto your bonnet,” says Max Carter, director of Guilford’s Friends Center — North Carolina has the highest percentage of Quakers in the nation).

“There’s a particularity going on and an inclusivity. It’s very exciting. And high-striving, which is why when something happens at Guilford like it did, it’s newsworthy, because it’s very high-striving. It’s a high ideal and when you strive for a high ideal, people point a finger at you more when you fall short of it,” Mays says...

The beginning of the story….reported in QiN NewsFlash 1.24.2007