Quinnipiac Dismisses Three Students Over Harassing Phone Calls

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Two of the three students who were dismissed from the school didn't actually commit a racially motivated crime. They had just watched the film The Ring and were prank calling people around campus at random, saying that the person who received the call would die in 7 days. It just so happened that they called a minority RA at the school who panicked and alerted authorities. It was dumb of the two girls to do this, but probably was not bad enough to get them kicked out of the school.
Charles Merrit was the boy who was arrested for harassing the Basketball players. What is odd is that he was actually a roommate of the two basketball players and appeared to be good friends with them. He was arrested late at night at 100,000 bond
He did apparently admit to the crimes, but there are rumors that he had been interrogated for 7 hours without the presence of a lawyer.

of NY 12:03AM November 01, 2008

This is a very tricky situation for Quinnipiac. As a student who is at Quinnipiac right now, there was another incident that took place the next night after the students were arrested at the Quinnipiac Polling Institute. This news has been suppressed by the Univeristy. A car that was parked outside of the polling institute had the n-word scratched onto it.

of NY 11:55PM October 31, 2008

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