The Famuan: October 2, 1986
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FAMU's victory over B-CC has earned the -o41.otie Index FAMU 31 MEAC title and a NEWS 1-2, 4 berth to the Division B-CC 28 I-AA playoffs. HEALTH 3 Sports 11 RlFam CAMPUS NOTES an CLASSIFIEDS TVCOLIA UVS OPINIONS ITwi.thefam an.rom LIFESTYLES 8-9 VOL. 92 No. 23 / TALLAHASSEE, FLA. I SPORTS 11-12 - NOVEMBER 20, 2000 - Supreme .T~l SCourt to Valerie 0. White -i] [; I [ : I- _I decide on Complete -j recounts freedom By Gustavius R. Smith Staff Editor The state Supreme Court will includes meet today at 2 p.m. to decide whether hand recounts of bal- A lots in three South Florida speech counties will figure in final election totals. If the manual tallies are allowed, it could be a Free speech. This topic matter of days or weeks before seems to escape many inthe we know if either Texas Gov. university community. Most George Bush or Vice President people know that free speech is -, amisnpus, Marice Cohn Al Gore is the president elect. a right guaranteed by the U.S. If the recounts are not per- Constitution, but these same Ivy Korman, of the Miami-Dade County election board, shows some of the federal write-in ballots that have mitted, it appears that Bush come people falter when it comes to in on Wednesday, Nov 15, 2000 but have not yet been counted. The state Supreme Court will hear will be win the electoral vote. respecting another person's arguments today to decide whether the manually recounted ballots will count in the final total. With absentee ballots now in opinion from overseas, Florida's With the arrest of Chemistry Secretary of State Katherine professor Robert Flakes for Harris said Bush holds a 930- carrying a sign criticizing vote advantage over Gore as of President Frederick BOR chooses Orlando Saturday night, which was the Humphries, it is clear that deadline she set for certifying there is an intolerance of Members vote unanimously in city's favor the vote before the case was other's expression. Regina taken to the Florida Supreme Stone, editor in chief of The official site for Florida A&M biggest advantages Orlando Court. Gore hopes the recounts Famuan, wrote a sarcastic col- By R.C. Rique University College of Law. offered was it proximity to a will allow him to eclipse the umn in the first issue Staff Editor of this FAMU President Frederick black community. Bush lead. semester. Comments poured in It's official, finally. Orlando Humphries and Chancellor "This professional Friday, the Florida Supreme mainly in favor of her opinion, support is the future site of FAMU's law Adam Herbert presented network in Orlando, coupled Court told Secretary of State but there were some who dis- school. Orlando as their choice after with approximately 2,000 Katherine Harris that she sented. Even recently. Gov. Jeb During a Board of Regents two months of reviewing the FAMU alumni and 200,000 could not put her stamp of Bush's public relations person meeting at Florida proposals from Orlando, African-American citizens in approval on the statewide total called to demand a front-page International University on Tampa, Lakeland and Daytona the metropolitan area, provides Saturday night and that she retraction of a column criticiz- Friday, members voted unani- Beach. must wait until the high court ing Bush's One Florida execu- mously to select Orlando as the Herbert said one of the Please see Law/ 4 decides what should be done tive order. about a series of hand recounts All of the above scenarios in the three South Florida show specific intolerance of counties: Palm Beach, other people's opinions. Vietnam visit to open doors Broward, and Dade. Needless to mention, the above Denied the opportunity to address the past but on how found here, like a standing por- episodes were speech waged By Michael A. Lev certify the results Saturday, America can improve tion of the infamous "Hanoi against public figures and pub- TMS Campus Harris released a statement law Vietnam's future. Hilton" prison that held lic officials. The is clear in with current totals, HANOI, Vietnam - At Mrs. "Of course I'd like it if he American POWs. But the ener- absentees these instances. The law basi- included. The tally showed Hang's tiny beer stall, just apologized, but politically gy of this very pleasant lakeside cally says criticism of their Bush picking up 1,380 votes work is fair before President Clinton was that's very unlikely," Dan said. city, teeming with motorbikes game. from overseas and Gore 750. Differences of opinion make scheduled to arrive here So instead, he hopes to see and dotted with cellular tele- Thursday, The Florida Supreme Court for lively discussions. The idea there was lively talk signs of a deepening relation- phone stores, is all pointed of the war, of names is made up of seven justices behind free speech is to allow from his- ship based on trade and invest- away from historical reflection. tory like Johnson and Nixon ment that will bring prosperity. After decades of war fol- appointed by Democratic gov- more ideas into the market- ernors, and of customer Nguyen Van "Whether we close the past will lowed by 20 years of isolation although they formally place, not to limit ideas. The have no Dan's two fateful days in 1965 depend on what America does." and then some hesitant partisan ties. Today consensus of First Amendment will be the first time they hear scholars isto encourage more when his anti-aircraft battery This is the prevailing view attempts to join the global shot down American oral arguments concerning the speech, opinions and ideas. jets. from Hanoi, a city still deeply business mainstream, Vietnam "I recount. When speech is limited who is was so proud," recalled etched in the American psyche has a pragmatic rather than Dan, who said Yesterday lawyers for Bush to say what is good speech and the pilots eject- as an enemy capital. psychological point of view. It ed in the distant sky. Nonetheless, in the reality of is looking at the Clinton visit as filed legal briefs with the what is bad speech. Florida Supreme Now a 60-year-old construc- modern Vietnam, Hanoi a way of enhancing its political Court prior to The Supreme Court has spo- Monday's key court hearing, ken concerning that as well. tion manager, Dan's anger at appears far less preoccupied legitimacy and jump-starting the United States over the war with history than Clinton will international investment rather arguing that no extraordinary But the terminology is not circumstance justifies the good and bad speech but pro- has never faded completely, be during his four-day visit, than settling accounts. but his extension of the statutory tected and unprotected speech. perspective has soft- which will focus on American Vietnam's government has ened and his interest in the MLA.s and unexploded mines as been silent about any expecta- deadline of Nov, 14. The brief Some areas of unprotected also stated their position that speech include obscenity, libel first visit by an American presi- well as business ties. tions it has for how Clinton will dent to a unified Vietnam is There are still some Harris was correct in omitting Please see White/ 6 focused not on how Clinton will reminders of the war to be Please see Vietnam/ 4 Please see Election/ 4 2 The Famuan / November 20, 2000 www.thefamuan.com News giving birth to another child, and I Williams was raised by a grandfather. Williams later finished high school B News and Morris Brown College and taught RIEF chemistry briefly. He joined the civil rights movement full time in 1962 while living in Hosea Williams, civil rights activist, Savannah. He recalled his children " died of cancer last Thursday at a hos- crying in a Savannah drug store when pital in Atlanta at the age of 74. he told them they could not join white P! Jailed more than 125 times, he con- children spinning on soda counter tinued his battle for civil rights 30 stools because of segregation rules. years after the death of Martin Luther Over the years, Williams served in King Jr., who he worked with through- the Georgia Legislature, on the Atlanta out the 1960s. City Council and on the DeKalb In 1970 Williams started what came County Commission before retiring to be one of the largest feed-the-hun- from politics in 1994. He also operated gry programs in the country. His Feed a bonding company and a chemical the Hungry and Homeless program, company that specialized in cleaning which serves 35,000 meals on supplies. Thanksgiving and Christmas, will be His wife, Juanita Williams, died temporarily taken over by his daugh- Aug. 23 of a form of anemia at the age ter, Elisabeth Williams-Omilami. of 75. Their son, Hosea II, was 43 Williams' following was strongest when he died of a rare form of among older blacks, who identified leukemia in 1998. with his hand-clapping, singing rhetoric that recalled a more turbulent Compiled by R.C. Rique time. Sources: The Associated Press, The Florida A&M University & Williams was born in Attapulgus, Washington Post and The Atlanta Ga., the son of a blind girl who fled a Journal and Constitution state training school when she discov- Florida Department of ered she was pregnant. She died while Suit against UM challenges Health Bureau of HIVIAIDS Breaks the Silence About AIDS affirmative action practices with the Unveiling of the By Maryanne George admissions.