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Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 2000 - 2010 The iH lltop Digital Archive 4-10-2001 The iH lltop 4-10-2001 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 4-10-2001" (2001). The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010. 29. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010/29 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 Th e Student Voice of Howard Universi ty VOLUME 84, NO. ·33 TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2001 http://hilltop.howard.edu General Assembly Approves HUSA Budget By KllRRY ANN HAMll:roN plagued other administrations," the budget was approved without Michael Winston, curren1 gradua1e the Assembly," Brown said. Hilllop Staff Writer Dixon said. much hassle because 1hey did care trustee. Winslon said thal there are too Minor items to the budget were ful research of1his year's s1aff. The presen1 HUSA budget alloca- many paid positions in student gov The 2001-2002 HUSA adminis adjusted by the Gener-al Assembly. "The incoming administration will 1ion for the Bison ball was approxi ernment. However, Presidenl elect tration should have a easier time get Brown's budget authorized $1500 nol have any programming or finan ma1ely $9,600. Thal was an under Brown said she saw the need for stu ting staned now that the General for summer housing, the assembly cial se1backs due to General Assem es1ima1ed sum. The 1otal cos1 was dents to be compensated. "Studen1s Assembly approved its budget recommended $750 for the fee. bly apa1hy," curren1 HUSA Vice approxima1cly $ 13,000. The incom are willing 10 dedicate their time to Thursday. The Assembly also added an extra Presiden1, Nikkole Saller said. ing HUSA administration proposed student government and because so The $103,090 budget passed the $750 each in stipend assistw,ce for Assembly members ques1ioned allo a $13,000 budget alloca1ion for the much is required of them we recog General Assembly without much siaff members. The increase totaled cations for the Bison Ball, the Youth Ball, which faced questions from the nize the need to be monetarily debate, leaving HUSA President about $3000. II will be reallocated to Summi1, and stipends. "I 1hink Assembly. "We made this allocation rewarded for their work," Brown Elect Stephanie Brown relieved by other budget sections. Brown and Dixon fielded questions so 1ha1 we would have enough said. the prompt approval. Chief of Staff for next year's very well, they well poised and money to work with 10 avoid con The General Assembly will have '1'his is a big step in the right HUSA administration, Kenrya informed aboul dieir allocations, I slantly asking the body for more an emergency meeting, April •17, 10 Filel'holo direction, so we can begin 10 work Rankin was happy with the budget's did not agree on some allocations, money, as was the case this year due approve the HUSA 2001-2001 staff H\:SA President~JN.'1 S1etanie Brown without budgetary problems which approval. Rankin said she thought but their rationale was sound." said to the underestimale approved by positions. MIT Will U. Penn Relies Offer All On Tuition Courses More Than Ivy Online League Peers By KATE L . R,KOCZ\' By TRIST\N SCH\V.:JGER Harvard Crimson Daily Pennsylvanian (U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - (U-WIRE) PHILADELPHIA - A large MIT announced Wednesday it intends to chunk of the Universi1y of Pennsylvania's recent make malerials for nearly all i1s courses 4.9 percent tuition increase will go towards the available through the lmemet to the gen school's operating budget, a transfer of funds that eral public - at no charge. differs in size from the majority of its Ivy League The 10-year project, dubbed the MIT peers. OpenCourseWare(OCW). is a radical new Schools like Harvard and Princeton universities step in Internet policy among institutions look instead to 1heir skyrocketing endowments to of high•r learning. For most colleges and finance their operating budgets - a lu,,ury lbat universities. course Web si1es are current Penn does not have wilb its comparatively small ly 1he ex1ent of 1heir use ofthe lmemet for $3.2 billion endowment th.It posted losses in Fis lhe dissemination of academic 111a1edals. A cal Year 2000. handful of 01hers are involved in develop l'wo weeb •so, <ne vv,.·~.-"IY lJoard of ing the technology for dis1ance learning Trus1ees approved 1he highe,1 rate increase in the programs. Ivy League for the upcoming academic year. And MIT's project goes far beyond 1he While adminislrntors maintain thal Penn's five scope of most distance learning programs year average tui1ion hike - which stand~a 1around - none of which are offering full courses 3.9 percent - is modera1e compared to its peer to the general public wi1hom a fee. groups, University tui1ion nonetheless makes up The project will feature lecmre notes, almost a third of 1he opera1ing budget. course ou1lines, reading lisls and assign But a1 several of Penn's Ivy peer instilutions, men1s for each of MIT's nearly 2,000 tui1ion makes up less than 20 percen1 of the bud courses. ge1. Harvard Provost Harvey V. Fineberg According 10 the numbers from FY 2000. 29 per '67 said the University will have to weigh cen1 of Penn's operating budget - excluding lhe its op1ions carefully before deciding Health Sy,1em - i, financed by tui1ion. whether to follow MIT's course of action. Brown and Northwes1ern universities bo1h rank "Every university, including Harvard, higher, wi1h rui1ion respectively accoun1ing for 33 will need to make decisions about the type, percen1 and 32 percent of their opera1ing budgetS. form and extent of informa1ion it places on However, Dartmou1h College, Stanford Uni the Internet,'' he wro1e in an e-mail. Blossoms in the Basin versily, Harvard. Princeton and Duke University all Wednesday's press release emphasized have budgets much less depeoden1 on student 1he enornious impac1 MIT hopes the ini tuition than Penn, relying ins1ead on endowments tiative will have on would-be s1uden1s thal have seen success in 1he pa;.t few years. be around the world. In addi1ion 10 inspiring f it's spring it must time for the annual Cher Princeton. Dartmouth and Harvard, fueled by self-study by interested individuals, OCW ry Blossom Festival, which wrapped up this these endowmen1s. also recently announced sig may help developing nations build their Iweekend. Yesterday was a prime time to visit the nificant changes to 1heir financial aid sys1ems to own systems of higher education, staning Tidal Basin where the more than 3,000 Japanese reduce the fiscal burden on undergradua1cs. wi1h 1he MIT curriculum as a model. cherry trees. Bui Vice President for Budge1 and Management MIT also stressed 1he po1ential OCW Analysis Michael Masch said that Penn is in tlic has to open the dialogue on education by middle of i1s peer group in terms of its finnnclal fostering an environment in which curric dependence on 1uition. ula can be more easily discussed and com Masch added that schools like Harvard, Prince pared. ton and Yale University, which have very large ·•we see it as a source material 1hat will endowments, cannot be compared with the rest of support educa1ion worldwide, including the Ivy League. innovations in 1he process of leaching and "Harvard. Yale and Prince1on are differen1from learning itself," said MIT President Charles everybody else,'' he said. M. Vest in a slatement. In general, the schools 1hat are less dependent The projec1 is not withoul ils crilics. on tuition than Penn generaie much more revenue One response to the initiative has been from their endowments. Princelon. for insttl)l~. 1hat increasing access 10 materials offered which derives 14 percen1 of its opera1ing bu~get by MIT courses will decrease the value of from student fees, finances 34 percent of i1s oper an MIT education. ating budge! from endowments. "I hearthat as a potential concern," said Photos By Ira Poncr Please See Mrr, A2 Please See Penn, A2 The Hilltop Tuesday Campus / News Engage Howard will host the The Reparations debate Howard Student pub Christian Leadership Con hit campus and students lishes his own book of ference April 19-21. spoke out about it. Check poems. Catch an it out in News. upclose interview with Droopy. A2 A3 A5 A2 TUESDAY APRIL 10 2001 · THE H ILLTOP CAMPUS I Voices >_ Restrictions On Book Costs Differ Nationwide By DEOORAII H IRSCII dards associated with textbook Studies taught last quarter. most competition comes from Views purchases or authority over which required 16 books at a total cos1 other bookstores. Daily Northwestern (Northwest Campus U.S.A. em U.) books are ordered and how many of more than $200. This quarter Textbooks are very important are required for each class. said Prof. Gary Fine·, Collective for business at independently (U-WIRE) EVANSTON. 111. - Nortltwesten1 University Jeremy Boni. manager of the text Memory course required I 0 owned Great Expectations. mak ' .. Cost of 11 books: more than book department at Norris Book books costing about $230 alto ing up about 50 percent of all Will You Donate $200. Cost of two course packets: a step further. employing rental store, owned by Barnes & Noble. gether. Classes in literature. soci• sales, manager Marc Giordano about $ 100. Total expense of one services to mitigate high price Inc. ology and African-American said.