Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1990-2000 The iH lltop Digital Archive 4-16-1999 The iH lltop 4-16-1999 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 4-16-1999" (1999). The Hilltop: 1990-2000. 237. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000/237 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: 1990-2000 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Voice of Howard University Since 1924 VOLUME 82, No. 26 FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1999 http://hilltop.howard.edu • • Student, 22, n1vers1 Dies at HU Hospital rove Friends Remember Mark Holland as • 'Compassionate' ID By APRILL 0. TURNER this summer. And in the Tubman Hilltop Staff Writer Quadrangle, Truth and Crandall Halls will open by December, with air con­ The University is planning a series ditioning. Elzey said the University of construction projects in the com­ plans to wire the Quad for cable and ing months that will result in a new other computer services. He did not bookstore and the reopening of Truth however, say when or if the Univer­ and Crandall Halls, officials said sity would provide cable access to the recently. Quad or any other dormitory. The 4th Street Bookstore will be For much of this decade, schools moved to the Howard Center on Mark Holland around the nation have provided its Feb. IS, /977-April 14,1999 'Georgia Avenue. The new store, students with access to cable televi­ which will open in August, officials sion. Only students living in certain said, will have a cafe·, a reading area, sections of Howard's Meridian Hill By BRANDI FORTE and will sell everything from Howard Hall have access to cable. Hilltop Staff Writer paraphernalia to Afrocentric books. The University plans to "enhance" Officials say the store will also have Mark Holland, a Howard Univer­ its classrooms, as 12 to 15 "smart a space for authors to promote new sity senior, died Wednesday of an classrooms" will be installed. The books. undisclosed cause. He was 22. so-called state-of-the-art classrooms "We hope to attract prominent Friends said that Holland, a senior Hilltop Staff/ERIC HALL are will be filled with computers. authors for book signings," said advertising major, was rushed to Members of the Howard Univeristy Environmental Society. Students with laptops will be able to Thomas Elzey, the University's chief Howard University Hospital late plug-in and download information operating officer, vice president and Tuesday, saying he had trouble and professors' notes. financial advisor. breathing. Hospital officials refused Perhaps one of the biggest initia­ to reveal information about his death. When the bookstore is completed, Environmental Group Equals tives is the planned computer "Super The District's coroner's office was the University will begin construction Lab" to be bui-lt on Wonder Plaza's 2d unavailable at Hilltop presstime. on the student Health Center. That floor. That lab is expected to be open His sudden death shocked Hol­ facility, which will focus on women's in late 2000. land's family, friends and professors New Generation of Activism health issues, will be complete by Elzey said the University is con­ at Howard, many of whom remem­ spring of next year, Elzey said. sidering building a new athletic cen­ bered him as an active member in the groups aiming to raise environmen­ work, live and play. That means the What's more, construction of the University's hip-hop community. ter, possibly near Banneker Park. By JOHN-JOHN WILLIAMS IV tal awareness at universities around environment affects everyone,'' Peter­ Health Sciences Library will begin "There aren't too many real people Hilltop Staff Writer the nation. The group became an offi­ man said. on this campus, and Mark was cially recognized organization this Even though it's new, 20 students beyond real," said Bienvenido A different kind of activist has sur­ semester. have joined the group, organizers Lebron, a junior Radio, Television faced at Howard University. They "We're a new type of activism," say. Members joined for various rea­ Violence at Black and Film major and one of Holland's don't push for the same issues as the Peterman said. "We 're not talking sons, but all say they want to help closest friends. legendary civil rights activist Kwame about deforestation and saVing the improve the environment around the Holland. who lived in Mt. Vernon, Ture. whales." University. N.Y., was planning to complete his But the Howard University Envi­ Members of the group contend that Tarik Gause, an economic develop­ College Weekend ' degree in December. ronmental Society, or H.U.E.S., say the env1ronment affects everyone, ·ment major, said he joined "·because "I remember his smile," said Con­ they're a group of activists dedicat­ and say they hope that through their the group is so broad. It allows me to nie Frasier, a professor in the Depart­ ed to 1noving students to help clean efforts, students will gain a better find out more on the environment. ment of Journalism who said she the neighborhood surrounding the understanding of environmental "Everyone has different things they Ignites Fury knew Holland well. "He was a very University, and indeed, the District of awareness. bring to the organization,' he added. nice young man, and he enjoyed life, Columbia. "Everyone has a stake in the envi­ 'I think it's important for people to during the three-day event. A man By KIMOTHY K. BROWN though it was short." Carla Peterman, the organization's ronment," H.U.E.S co-founder Jen­ realize problems in the environment was killed and four police officers Hilltop Staff Writer Some of Holland's classmates co-founder, said H.U.E.S. was nifer Brown said. today," sophomore Erica Rochele were wounded in the 1998 ·shoot-out. In the wake of last weekend's vio­ learned of his death early Wednesday launched last semester with the Seeds "The definition of environment is See HUES,AS A year after a police shoot-out , morning, during an advertising class. Grant, which helps students start any place where we lence, city officials are calling for an "It's just so sudden and so sad," said abruptly ended Black College Week­ end to the annual gathering of black See HOLLAND, AS end, a wave of violence at last week­ college students from schools around end's event in Daytona Beach, Fla., the nation, mostly from the South. left one person dead and at least But national civil rights leaders Brazil three others seriously injnred. strongly contend that much of last It's Tax Time, A Jacksonville, Fla., a man died of weekend's violence was fueled by gunshot wounds Sunday, while a 24- the heightened presence of law year-old Miami woman and 20-year­ enforcement officials that might have o]d Daytona Beach woman were created a tense environment in which seriously injured in separate stab- violence was inevitable. Blacks ? bings, the Associated Press report­ The Daytona Beach chapter of the ed. NAACP characterized the treatment What's more, police as unfair and unjust. Furthermore, arrested more than 300 the group said the police unfairly • people, 12 for firearms targeted Black students for crack­ dents, those possession and related downs. By KEYA GRAVES rare, technologi­ Activist charges. In addition, police The NAACP pointed to the fact Hilltop Staff Writer cally savvy, numerically issued approximately 2, 400 that while the city celebrated the tra­ gifted students, filled out fed­ citations. ditionally white spring break, they By LYNN SIMMONDS llison Harvey, 19, knew it eral and local income tax forms Last year, 329 people were arrest­ See DAYTONA, AS Hilltop Staff Writer was that time of the year and then turned them in through ed and 926 citations were written A again. That time was yes- email. Others sent their forms in the say Fernando Conceicao, a member of terday, April 15, the day when mil­ old fashioned way: Via snail mail. t h a t Movement for the Reparations and lions of people around the nation At income tax time, it's the adding Fields should Affirmative Action Committee for frantically dumped their tax forms and subtracting of numbers, the fill­ start filing her White Bound For NFL Draft Black People of the University of into the mail. But Harvey, a sopho­ ing in of boxes that sends some stu­ taxes, because she could Sao Paulo, received wide media cov­ more English major, says she didn't dents cringing. Nonetheless, students face expensive penalties from erage when he and 11 friends entered spend much time worrying about say they're hoping for at least a small the Internal Revenue Service in the an expensive, Well-known hotel taxes. return . future. • restaurant, ate the most expensive Taxes? "I never know what I am supposed Aisha Diggs, a junior biology dishes available, and "paid" for the Who needs them, she says. There to file under, and the [income tax major, said she doesn't let tax time food with a note that said, "Brazil should be a flat tax rate, she's quick form] is confusing," said Marsha stress her out. She, like many other owed them." to argue. Field, a sophomore English major. students, simply sends all her forms The award-winning journalist at Oh, what about tax forms? "I look Fields says she doesn't bother filing to her father in Texas.