Opinions: Never too QuinTango kickoff Volleyball team 4 late to convert 9 celebrity series 16 on the right track Friday, September 21, 2007 Serving the University of Alabama since 1894 Vol. 114, Issue 28 Students question justice in Jena Case against black teens accused of hanging nooses in perfect strangers, united for a tree on their high school About 30 students make one day with a common goal: similar to old cases grounds. The white teens were trip to Louisiana town protesting the prosecution of suspended from school but the teenagers dubbed the Jena BY JARED CULVER were not prosecuted. BY CHARITY SCOTT 6. Staff Reporter Five of the black teens were Student Life Editor As the sun rose and the initially charged with attempt- ■
[email protected] crowds swelled, the clear blue A hangman’s noose tied to ed murder. That charge was skies above their heads belied a tree outside of a Louisiana later reduced to battery for JENA, La. — They came in the proverbial storm brewing high school has created a all but one, who has yet to buses, cars, vans, trailers and in their hearts. national debate among col- be arraigned; the sixth was pickup trucks covered in mos- Amongst those who came lege students about racial atti- charged as a juvenile. quitoes and mud. was a small contingent of tudes 40 years after the Civil The beating victim, Justin They came on bikes from about 30 UA students. They Rights Movement. Barker, was knocked uncon- the next town and in planes came by bus, which they piled The story of six black, scious, and his face badly from six states over.