In 1989, at a Friday night party, Alex Orange, a West Charlotte High School student, was shot and killed. Members of a rival high school had shown up and were carrying weapons. Alex asked them to put the weapons away and even invited them to join the people already there. They shot, killed him, and injured others that night. Angie Bynum, a good friend of Alex, would not sit around and let incidents like this happen. She, and several hundred other students gathered after the next day of school to do something about Alex's death. That day they created Students Against Violence Everywhere, a club that students could join and work together to fight off violence. This orginazation has now grown across the state of North Carolina and into other surrounding states and is growing ever so rapidly. We are not the answer to the violence problem, but we are most certainly part of that solution.

© 2000 Northern High School SAVE Chapter, Durham, N.C.