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THIS WEEK: Nov.6-Nov. 12,2007 Movie Review: American Gangster ARTS PAGE 9 THE Privacy Up In Smoke OPINIONS PAGE 6 man THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER 0E UNCG www.carolinianonline.com Getting Off On The Right Foot *: FREE-Former inmate speaks of life on death row After being wrongly accused, Juan Melendez shares his story with UNCG -.* Danielle Moore Staff Writer As the Bryan Auditorium slow-ly became crowded with students and faculty on Thursday evening, Mr. Juan Melendez, the 99th per-son exonerated from death row, was preparing to give an emo-tion- filled speech about violence, justice, and death penalty policies in the United States. Kelly Travison, a senior, and president of the Sociology Club, helped to introduce Mr. Melendez. "The Sociology Club wanted to host Juan Melendez because he is just one example where the justice system wrongly accused an innocent man," said Travi-son. "We wanted to make people aware than this is an irreversible process that should clearly be put up for review in the U.S." After a brief introduction, Me-lendez was given the floor, and immediately grabbed the audi-ence with his sense of humor. "If you feel like crying, cry. If you feel like laughing, laugh. But please don't fall asleep on me," began Melendez. He went on to give a brief his-tory of his childhood, and the move he made from his home in Puerto Rico to the United States, where he hoped to find a better life. However instead of living the American dream, Melendez was accused of first-degree murder. Despite the fact that there was no physical evidence to tie him to the crime and the two witnesses who testified against him had criminal records, Melendez was tried and found guilty. Melendez talked about his ex-perience with the legal system and, in particular, his inability to understand much of what was happening to him because he did not speak English well at the time of his trial. In great detail, he took the audience to his time spent in prison, describing the horrible conditions he lived in for almost 18 years. "Death row is hell," explained Melendez. Melendez's strong faith in God also showed through in his speech. After three failed attempts to appeal his case, Melendez be-gan to fear he would be executed for a crime he did not commit, and turned to God for help. "I learned I had to trust some-thing more powerful than the system, and the only thing I saw more powerful than the system was God," he continued. Melendez told the audience that he was given a miracle from God. A new lawyer decided to help Melendez and after some digging, found the key to his freedom. Melendez was released after a video of the real killer's confes-sion was discovered in some old files relating to his case. Although he could not believe the evidence had been there all along, he was still ecstatic to be free. "I was in a state of shock, but smiling," said Melendez. "And I'm still smiling today." Melendez spoke about his belief that the death penalty as punish-ment is a faulty policy and should be abolished. Citing the reasons' for his belief, he said the process is unfair, costly, and racist, but the biggest problem lies in the fact that there will always be a chance of executing an innocent man. "The death penalty will be abolished," proclaimed Melendez. "The question is when. I pray to God that it's in my lifetime." A short question-and-answer session followed Melendez's lec-ture, and many students thanked Melendez for taking action. Milo Irsula, a senior, comment- SEE INMATE ON PAGE FOUR Google email to possibly become primary system Jerry Arnold Staff Writer E-Spartan beware, there is a new system in town possibly tak-ing the place as UNCG's univer-sity- wide e-mailing system in the near future. The new UNCG student e-mail system is powered by Google and is currently in its trial stages on campus. As of Friday, Nov. 2, there were 1,332 students using the new Google e-mail pilot. "Our current plans are to eval-uate the success of the UNCG Student Email Pilot sometime in mid to late January," says Todd Sutton, assistant vice chancellor for Application Services with the ITS department at UNCG. "At that time we will make a 'go/no-go' decision as if we will move all students to the new UNCG Stu-dent Email system." If they decide to "go" and switch the university to the new system, ITS will begin to develop a migration strategy to move ev-erybody to Google. "Our initial plans are if we de-cide to go with Google, by the be-ginning of the Fall '08 semester all student e-mail accounts will be in the UNCG Student Email sys-tem and out of E-Spartan," says Sutton. Students signing up for the pilot are assigned new e-mails, using their username@spar-tan. uncg.edu, rather than the old username@uncg.edu. Their username and password stay the same, and all e-mails sent to the student's E-Spartan account will be forwarded to the Google pow-ered e-mail address. Students who register for the new system will have 48 hours to access both E-Spartan and Google powered Spartan E-mail, where they are expected to forward any e-mails they wish to keep to their new address. There are only a few differences between the two systems. The UNCG Student E-mail Opt In has up to 4255 megabytes of space for e-mail storage, whereas E-Spartan only had 65 megabytes. The new system still has spam filtering, options for folders, cal-endars, message filtering, and message searching, but also has file sharing and instant messaging capabilities the E-Spartan system did not have. The only downside is that you can only attach up to SEE GOOGLE ON PAGE FOUR THE CAROLINIAN ESTABLISHED 1919 Y0L LXXXYIII ISSUE 12 CONTACT US DIRECTORY FAX: News Classifieds Corrections the_carolinian@hotmail.com PHONE: 336-334-5752 $? inions 336-334-3518 2-4,18 2 5 5-7 8-10,19 11-13 14-16 ON THE WEB AT: go Bookmarks look _efc 0@®1 ■trr,..._.i
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Title | The Carolinian [November 6, 2007] |
Date | 2007-11-06 |
Editor/creator | Busam, Andrew |
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University of North Carolina at Greensboro--Newspapers College student newspapers and periodicals-- North Carolina--Greensboro Student publications--North Carolina--Greensboro Student activities--North Carolina--History |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The November 6, 2007, issue of The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
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Original format | Newspapers |
Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
Language | eng |
Contributing institution | Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
Publication | The Carolinian |
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Additional rights information | NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material. |
Object ID | 2007-11-06-carolinian |
Date digitized | 2011 |
Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries |
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Sponsor | Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation |
OCLC number | 871559250 |
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Full text | THIS WEEK: Nov.6-Nov. 12,2007 Movie Review: American Gangster ARTS PAGE 9 THE Privacy Up In Smoke OPINIONS PAGE 6 man THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER 0E UNCG www.carolinianonline.com Getting Off On The Right Foot *: FREE-Former inmate speaks of life on death row After being wrongly accused, Juan Melendez shares his story with UNCG -.* Danielle Moore Staff Writer As the Bryan Auditorium slow-ly became crowded with students and faculty on Thursday evening, Mr. Juan Melendez, the 99th per-son exonerated from death row, was preparing to give an emo-tion- filled speech about violence, justice, and death penalty policies in the United States. Kelly Travison, a senior, and president of the Sociology Club, helped to introduce Mr. Melendez. "The Sociology Club wanted to host Juan Melendez because he is just one example where the justice system wrongly accused an innocent man," said Travi-son. "We wanted to make people aware than this is an irreversible process that should clearly be put up for review in the U.S." After a brief introduction, Me-lendez was given the floor, and immediately grabbed the audi-ence with his sense of humor. "If you feel like crying, cry. If you feel like laughing, laugh. But please don't fall asleep on me," began Melendez. He went on to give a brief his-tory of his childhood, and the move he made from his home in Puerto Rico to the United States, where he hoped to find a better life. However instead of living the American dream, Melendez was accused of first-degree murder. Despite the fact that there was no physical evidence to tie him to the crime and the two witnesses who testified against him had criminal records, Melendez was tried and found guilty. Melendez talked about his ex-perience with the legal system and, in particular, his inability to understand much of what was happening to him because he did not speak English well at the time of his trial. In great detail, he took the audience to his time spent in prison, describing the horrible conditions he lived in for almost 18 years. "Death row is hell," explained Melendez. Melendez's strong faith in God also showed through in his speech. After three failed attempts to appeal his case, Melendez be-gan to fear he would be executed for a crime he did not commit, and turned to God for help. "I learned I had to trust some-thing more powerful than the system, and the only thing I saw more powerful than the system was God," he continued. Melendez told the audience that he was given a miracle from God. A new lawyer decided to help Melendez and after some digging, found the key to his freedom. Melendez was released after a video of the real killer's confes-sion was discovered in some old files relating to his case. Although he could not believe the evidence had been there all along, he was still ecstatic to be free. "I was in a state of shock, but smiling," said Melendez. "And I'm still smiling today." Melendez spoke about his belief that the death penalty as punish-ment is a faulty policy and should be abolished. Citing the reasons' for his belief, he said the process is unfair, costly, and racist, but the biggest problem lies in the fact that there will always be a chance of executing an innocent man. "The death penalty will be abolished," proclaimed Melendez. "The question is when. I pray to God that it's in my lifetime." A short question-and-answer session followed Melendez's lec-ture, and many students thanked Melendez for taking action. Milo Irsula, a senior, comment- SEE INMATE ON PAGE FOUR Google email to possibly become primary system Jerry Arnold Staff Writer E-Spartan beware, there is a new system in town possibly tak-ing the place as UNCG's univer-sity- wide e-mailing system in the near future. The new UNCG student e-mail system is powered by Google and is currently in its trial stages on campus. As of Friday, Nov. 2, there were 1,332 students using the new Google e-mail pilot. "Our current plans are to eval-uate the success of the UNCG Student Email Pilot sometime in mid to late January," says Todd Sutton, assistant vice chancellor for Application Services with the ITS department at UNCG. "At that time we will make a 'go/no-go' decision as if we will move all students to the new UNCG Stu-dent Email system." If they decide to "go" and switch the university to the new system, ITS will begin to develop a migration strategy to move ev-erybody to Google. "Our initial plans are if we de-cide to go with Google, by the be-ginning of the Fall '08 semester all student e-mail accounts will be in the UNCG Student Email sys-tem and out of E-Spartan," says Sutton. Students signing up for the pilot are assigned new e-mails, using their username@spar-tan. uncg.edu, rather than the old username@uncg.edu. Their username and password stay the same, and all e-mails sent to the student's E-Spartan account will be forwarded to the Google pow-ered e-mail address. Students who register for the new system will have 48 hours to access both E-Spartan and Google powered Spartan E-mail, where they are expected to forward any e-mails they wish to keep to their new address. There are only a few differences between the two systems. The UNCG Student E-mail Opt In has up to 4255 megabytes of space for e-mail storage, whereas E-Spartan only had 65 megabytes. The new system still has spam filtering, options for folders, cal-endars, message filtering, and message searching, but also has file sharing and instant messaging capabilities the E-Spartan system did not have. The only downside is that you can only attach up to SEE GOOGLE ON PAGE FOUR THE CAROLINIAN ESTABLISHED 1919 Y0L LXXXYIII ISSUE 12 CONTACT US DIRECTORY FAX: News Classifieds Corrections the_carolinian@hotmail.com PHONE: 336-334-5752 $? inions 336-334-3518 2-4,18 2 5 5-7 8-10,19 11-13 14-16 ON THE WEB AT: go Bookmarks look _efc 0@®1 ■trr,..._.i |