Students at colleges and universities across the country held marches and vigils last week to mourn Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming here who was beaten to death.
As far away as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 200 students participated in a candlelight vigil; at Old Dominion University, 150 students did the same.
On the campus here, hundreds of people wore yellow arm bands in Mr. Shepard’s memory while marching in the university’s annual homecoming parade.
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