Morehouse student recovering after attack

ATLANTA - A Morehouse College sophomore is recovering from a fractured skull after being beaten with a baseball bat by another student who accused the victim of looking at him in the shower, officials said. <br> <br> The injured student was in the Morehouse infirmary Monday after being released from Atlanta Medical Center last week, three days after the Nov. 3 attack, dean of student services Eddie Gaffney said. <br> <br> Sophomore Aaron Price was charged with aggravated assault and released from the Fulton County jail on Nov. 4 on $10,000 bond. Morehouse officials said Price had been expelled. <br> <br> ``It sounds like yet another version of the gay panic, a feeling from a heterosexual student that someone made a pass, whether or not that was the case,&#39;&#39; said Cathy Renna, a spokeswoman for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. <br> <br> School officials said the case was still under investigation, and it was too early to determine if it was a hate crime. <br> <br> The victim, a music student and member of the college glee club, told campus police that he was attacked as he prepared for a shower in the first-floor bathroom of his dormitory of the all-male, historically black college. <br> <br> Authorities could not say what the victim&#39;s sexual orientation is, or whether that was relevant to the attack. <br> <br> Mubarak Guy, a friend of Price, said some students ``believe that he deserved to get beaten up if he was looking in the shower stall.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> ``But everyone thinks the bat was a little extreme,&#39;&#39; Guy said. ``Nobody deserves to get beaten with a bat.&#39;&#39;

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