Community finds further discussion of racial attack necessary

IU students, faculty, staff and police representatives gathered Monday at the Indiana Memorial Union for a panel discussion regarding the battery case on Oct. 31.

The incident involved a group of Asian students being attacked and robbed on campus.

Officials from various campus organizations as well as University administration members attended the meeting.

IU Police Department Chief Keith Cash confirmed that after the arrest of the first suspect, Terry Lee Campbell, the department has issued a search warrant for 19-year-old male and non-student Aldwin Jamal Shade, who resides in Jeffersonville, Ind.

Cash said IUPD has plans to arrest Shade, but they are not sure when the arrest will
take place.

Cash said the incident was barely seen on this campus and he hopes students can feel safe.

“Ninety-eight percent of people on this campus are good people,” Cash said. “Those
2 percent just don’t belong to our community.”

Eric Love, director of the Office of Diversity Education, seconded Cash and suggested students move out of their comfort zone and become more comfortable with others.

“Students interact with their own group most of the time,” Love said. “That way, they will get cheated out because they don’t know about the others.”

Love, along with Pam Freeman, co-chair of the Racial Incident Team, said they are trying to facilitate a dialogue between African-American students and Asian students on campus to overcome the misconceptions.

Asian Culture Center Director Melanie Castillo-Cullather said it takes a long time to advance the multicultural interaction, but culture centers on campus will still have events each year.

“There is a hope to sustain the long-term interactions among different students,” Castillo-Cullather said. “It will become possible once students find the modelings.”