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Article: Web site slams student candidate
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- March 20, 2008
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Racial comments posted on a social networking Web site prompted
students at West Virginia State University to hold a public forum on
Wednesday.
Comments posted on Facebook attack the race and religion of Nadir
Mirza, a student who is campaigning for student government
president.
Students and members of the Student Government Association
gathered at the university's student union to discredit the
statements and discuss discrimination on campus.
Mirza is Muslim. A Facebook group titled "Friends of Nadir Mirza