Many ECU Students UnInformed

By: Arthur Mondale/Eyewitness News 9 | WNCT
Published: January 16, 2008

Campus police are still investigating a noose found on ECU’s campus...and it has many students on ECU’s campus talking--or does it?
According to ECU’’s SGA president, student leaders have been looking at diversity and race relations for years within the campus.
But is any of that working. Last night only 40 people on a campus of 26,000 showed up to talk about diversity.
So the question is, whose listening.
“Life's too short to look at people about color and hate people because of the color of their skin, we're all here,” said Erica Bonner. A sophomore from Winston-Salem whose attending ECU. Like other students she is enjoying the college life.
But her second year isn't going as planned.
“Being that it happened before I wouldn't think...they would do something again because they were supposed to do something the first time,” said Bonner,
What Bonner is referring to is another noose found in a dorm basement 4-months ago.
But many students haven't heard about something similar happening last Friday. .
Well first of all I had no idea it was found and I'm pretty shocked.” Said ECU freshman Michaela Henry.
Ellen Keane is another freshman who agrees, ”I never ever heard about it, and it's shocking and sad too,” said Keane.
“I guess the biggest thing that goes through my mind is probably the fact that the lack of information about the incident that occurred and perhaps we need more information spreading around our campus,” said doctorate student Ken Riley.
“This is not just something that student leaders are focusing on, this is our campus. This is our community and we need to make sure that people are aware of what's going on”, said SGA president Keri Brockett.
So why such a low turn out on a campus of so many students?
“You can't fault a student for not always looking at all the emails, but I don't think we should point fingers. I think we just probably have different steps we should probably go about or additional steps we should take,” said Brockett.
But that may be too little from student government for most students.