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Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 2000 - 2010 The iH lltop Digital Archive 2-13-2001 The iH lltop 2-13-2001 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 2-13-2001" (2001). The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010. 19. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010/19 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the The iH lltop Digital Archive at Digital Howard @ Howard University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The iH lltop: 2000 - 2010 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ILLTOP The Student Voice of Howard University VOLUME 84, NO. 21 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2001 http://hilltop.howard.edu Howard Students Extend Voting May be at ' Support to Gallaudet U. Your Fingertips By IRA P ORTF,R dent Activities, New Touch Screen Polls to Managing Editor they set up shop in the basement If not for Howard University of Blackburn ~eplace Election Machines students Rukiya Wingate and and in front of Nakesha Mincy, the students at Cramton. By BRAKKTON BOOKER the voter proceeds just as in the pre Gallaudet might not have been Then, came Hilltop Staff Writer vious scenario. smiling Friday afternoon. They the unexpected According to Mason, the change in might not have come outside to onslaught of When Howard's election day rolls voting systems was necessary shake hands and take pictures in supporters. around on March 5th, students will no because the company that provided the gusty wind. "My expecta longer have to endure the outdated the voting machines of previous years But, they did. tions were that system of pulling levers and punching went out business. She also pointed Wingate and Mincy presented we would fi Uthe holes through ballots. Instead Howard to .. lots of discrepancies" in the lever Gallnudet's student body with a first banner, but students will be able to cast their vote machines. 60-foot banner with signatures on we filled that in by touching a screen. Mason's hopes to avoid a replay of it from more than 1,000 Howard four hours," The General Assembly recently last year's College of Engineering, University students. Howard stu Wingate said. approved a measure that would update Architecture and Computer Sciences dents signed the banner and scrib The first banner the voting system with new millenni elections debacle. It took a recount of bled notes reminding Gallaudet was only 15 feet - um technology. The system will cost the ballots in that college 10 determine students that they were praying for long, so they had between $4,000-4,500. Genetal Elec that Russell M. Dmke had indeed won them after the Feb. 3 murder of 10 get a few tions Chair, Tori Mason says she won't the vote to be student government Benjamin Varner, a 19-year-old more. And, 1ha1 know the exact amount of the touch president. freshman at GaUaudet. This was was just Tuesday. screen system until the demonstra "I won't have n Florida situation - the second murder on the campus By Thursday • tion day scheduled for I p.m. Thurs we'll know the next day, .. Mason said, in less than a year. afternoon, they day in room 148 of the Blackburn making reference to last November's "We just wanted to do some filled up the four Photo By Shala Wilson Center. drawn out presidential election. thing to let the students know that banners and put Howard seniors, Ruk!ya Wingate and Nakesha Mincy, hold a banner with signatures from The touch screen polls, provided Current HUSA president Sellano we undeistand what they are going them together. more than 1,000 Howard students to the students of Gallaudet University Frida)< Below by Shoup Voting Solutions. wou Id Simmons agrees with Mason in that Wingate presents the banner to Gallaudet Student Body President Chris Soukup. through. We just wanted 10 show Friday, it was off operate similar to the job search a new system of voting is long over some kind of gesture the students 10 Gallaudet. television screen already on the first due. made;• said Wingate, a fourth year Wingate and Mincy attributed floor of the Blackburn Center. where ·•1 think ii will be an efficient way chemistry and Math major. some of their success to the high you simply press the desired icon on to vote," Simmons said. Simmons was Wingate was the mastermind volume of people in Blackburn the TV and the system responds concerned, though, about the sys behind the idea. She recruited and on campus for the taping of the accordingly. tem's integrity. "People are only as Mincy, a friend who also lives in television show .. Politically Incor During the elections the system is smart as the people using them and all Slowe Hall. After he.-iring of Varn rect," but they also credited going 10 work one of two ways: The the students should have the capabil er's murder, Wingate knocked on Howard Students with 1he com first scenario. Mason said, is that ity.'' Miocy's door and asked her to help passion 10 reach out in Gallaudet's •·each school will have a specialized Integrity was the key reason that the get the signatures mourning time. ballot... The voting system will have General Assembly cho,e to imple Mincy agreed right away. "It ··Howard University student, icon, for all HUSA. UGSA represen ment the new system instead of was such a small g_.!~tun.: . .S\l. I was i\lJ..Ql)mpas,iomue human being, ." bti Cfi. hllC ,;}l UI' :¢lp~ Juutl! or graJ ~.. : . ·'s • " ,..jnaJ itl · ... o · ·"· nc by just like 'why not do i1;·· Mincy, a Wingate said. "People alwnys uate positions within the respective Internet. Advisor,; told Mason that fourth year English major said attribute bad things with Howard, schools. hackers posed a problem. so the touch humbly. but those 1,000 signatures signify The second and more cost effi screen was proposed. Wingate and Mincy got more that we are compassionate." cient scenario is almost as identical If the system is implemented it may than what they expected from their Gallaudet students were grate 10 the first; however, instead ofeach draw more auention 10 the poles. small gesture. Howard University ful. ·•1 am very touched for the this kind of suppon." District have called and expressed school having a designated station Sophomore radio-TV-film major Bookstore donated all the paper community reachlng out," Chris Howard was not the only uni their support, said Pnni Kunkle, there would be additional icons on Roilyn Graves ,aid, "I think it's a and markers. Soukup, student body government versity to show its support 10 the executive assistant 10 the president the touch screen with the mdividual great idea. I really hated waiting in After Wingate and Mincy filled president for Gallaudet, said. '1nis Gallaudet community. Presidents schools. Once those icons are those ridiculous line, la,1ye ar. I want out all the paper work from Stu- means a lot to the ~tudents 10 have from all of the universities in the P/ea,e See Ga/la11de1, ,14 pressed the system then displays the my vote to be ea., y and eftbnless," she ballots for the individual school and said. The World's Greatest Basketball Players Give the City a Weekend to Remember Students Opt for Work Instead ofAll -Star Nightlife By CIIRISTOPHP,R Wt:-lllHAM had a vital purpose: to keep the fans Campus Editor happy. Some students e,·en volun East Rallies in Fourth; Iverson MVP teered 10 help seat VlP guest during Sophomore David Hawkins did Sunday's game. not spe11d his NBA All-Star Week When the West jumped om to a 11- ··we wanted 10 win,'' Iverson who "I mostly helped people solve end stargazing at local nightspots 0 lead during the game's first four min was the game's MVP. "I mean, from the problems," Hawkins said. "We were like many of classmates. Instead, utes Sunday, it seemed as if the 2001 beginning when we first threw the ball very busy." Hawkins headed to the arena, not NBA All-Star game could transform up because we knew everybody was Despite the long hours, the job for the festivities-but to work. into blowout loss for the East. But saying we couldn't win, because of our apparently came with a few perks. Hawkins, who is assistant man thanks to last minute heroics from game size. but it's not about the size on paper. Hawkins said he had the opportuni• ager for MCI Center's Levy Restau the Philadelphia 76crs' Allen Iverson h's about the size of your heart." ty to rub elbows with celebrities like rants, worked 29 hours during the and the New Jersey Nets' Stephon Mar Iverson scored 15 of his 25 points Michael Jordan and Portland Trail NBA's All-Star Saturday night and bury, the East was able 10 raUy from 19 in the final nine minutes, and blazers forward Rasheed Wallace. Sunday All-Star gamo-four times down after three quarters and win 111- Some students were even lucky his normal weekend workload. "l 110. Please See Iverson, A4 enough 10 sneak a peak of the game couldn't believe it," he said. "lt (the while working. weekend) was hectic." When time ran out in Sunday's Many Howard students just like through the MCI Center's doors. game, no one was probably happier Pboco Cour1<-,y of NBA.com Hawkins worked overtime during the weekend 10 Students worked on around the clock.