FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Press Contact:
Campus Pride
Phone: 704-277-6710
Email: info@campuspride.org

(Charlotte, N.C. -- November 4, 2009) Stop the Hate, a national bias and hate crime prevention program for colleges and universities, announces the dates for its upcoming Stop The Hate Train The Trainer program. The three-day training will begin on Thursday, Dec. 3at 8:30 a.m. and will conclude on Saturday, Dec. 5 at 2:30 p.m., hosted on the campus of the University of North Carolina Charlotte in Charlotte, N.C. Registration is open until November 26, 2009 with early-bird special discounts at http://www.stophate.org/events.html

Bias incidents and hate crimes are a prevalent, growing issue at colleges and universities across the United States – even the Carolinas. The organization cites these select headlines from North Carolina and South Carolina over the last three years to name a few.

May 16, 2007: The death of Sean Kennedy, a gay young man, who was brutally killed outside a bar after being called “Faggot.”

November 5, 2008: The epitaphs scrawled on a tunnel wall on campus: "Let's shoot that (N-word) in the head," and "Hang Obama by a noose.”

September 14, 2009: A rock with a letter attached threatening a gay student with death threats saying “You don't deserve life like the rest of the world. It's bad enough without all the gay crap pulling people down. It's sick, unnatural and death is almost too good for you. Almost."