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------'------Serving the Howard University community since 1924 February 24, 1995 ~rapplers slam. arry, City Council, Congress ~organ State, eliberate over District budget He said the District is burdened not paying hundreds of millions in job reductions. While reducing capture MEAC By Rasheeda J. Crayton with the fiscal responsibilities ofa bills. The District faces even other personnel. 1he District Hilltop Staff writer slate. bu1 does nol have the greater re\'enuc-expendi1ure gaps government increased lhc number au1hority of the s1me. tn the fu1ure:· said John W. Hill, of full-time equivalent po~itions, D.C. Mayor is '"We cannot solve these director of Financial Management similar jobs. bu1 wilh different ~hampionship learning the hard way 1ha1 problems by ourselves because of Policies and Issues. titles. Congress may no1 be 100 eager 10 the structural inequities [of Home Hill suggested changes in '"The number of reductions bail the nation's capital out of its Ruic]:· Barry said. management and procedures to reported are significantly higher $722 million debt. ··The District is given s1a1e change the course of 1he dis1ric1·s 1han the actual decline in FfE's." '"Whenever I used 10 complain functions without state au1hority fi nancial situation. Hill said. "'The most outrageous of as a child, my mother would say - stale prisons, Medicaid, ··The District's rlan 10 address which was in DC. public schools. ·you·ve made your bed, and now Universi1y of 1he District of its current financia situa1ion mus1 The Dis1ricl°s announcement you have 10 he in i1." And now Columbia. We have 5-1 functions include major s1ruc1ural and showed 90 staff departures, lhe that's what\ happening to the outlined here that no 01her cil) in management changes if the plan is actual FTE data showed an District,"' said Congrc~,man James America has to deal with. If we to be cffec1i,-c," tlie director said. increase of 404 FTE"s."' Walsh. Chairman of the District of didn't have all 1hose functions 10 Management questions arose The GOA also 1cs1ified that the Columbia Appropriations perform. we would111 need to pax because theci1:(s quar1erly reports District has not complied wilh the 1 Subcommittee. al a Congressional all those people 10 perform them, ' were of ·'li mited usefulness:· Dis1ric1 of Columbia Fiscal Year hearing on the District"s financial the Mayor added. because they failed 10 provide 1he 1995 Appropriation Act, which situation Wednesday. Barry wanls the federal data necessary for a true capped the amount ofexpenditures "I will not bring an government pay $267 mill ion in evaluation. for 1995 at $3.25 billion. which appropriation bill 10 the Congress Medicaid expen~es for fiscal year The Dis1ric1 also provided See BUDGET, A3 10 give the District more money;· 1995. and $141 million for 1hc incorrect information concerning Walsh told Bttrry after the mayor 1996 fiscal year. asked Congress 10 help alleviate Barry also suggested allowing Portion or Cumnt Federal Payment Used to Pay Prior Billi the Dis1rict"s muhimillion dollar the District of Columbia 10 tax (In MlllloD! or Dollus) disaster. federal properly. which comprises $700 r;l.;;:Aodcrll=:;,Pa;::--:ym::-:en-.,~'-;l=Pri-:-or-·::-•.....:.• B::-:U~II.:....:;::..______~ Barrr has gi,·en up on saving the majority of the District. the city independent of the Federal '"We can only tax 43 percent of Fleshman Jason Guyton overpowers his competition. government. saying an the land in \V.1shington," Barry $600 By Shana Harris diff~rcn1. . . mdependenl study show, DiMric1 said. ..The federal government H,1~op Staff Writer Last ),e.ar, I sai~ we would '".'" finances are irreparable. owns more than 50 percent of the the MEAC 1n 1995. the coach said. "Even if 1he Dbtrict did land. Yet, the federal allocation is ssoo Howard totaled 93 point,, while e,erything everyone was asking it only 60 percent of what ii would last 1imt 1ho lio\\ ard Morgan State finished second \\ith 10 do. it could on!} sohc a third of be 1>aying if ,the properly was $@ It) Wre,1iing team, the 70. the Distriet"s prtiblcm;· Barry said. taxable:· r,, \\Oil the l\lid-Ea,tcrn The Bison collected two ..Thal lea,e, IWO•lhirds tor the The United States General Conference championship individual awards: Freshman Jason federal governmen1:· Accounting Office, who reviewed $300 1973. J\lorgan Staie Guyton who wrestles in 1he 142- Bui the commiuee was the cities budget. 1es1ified the tv held a stranglehold on pound divi-.ion. was selected by unsr,mpathclic. District is still doing a poor job of !or 10 }e,trs Unlit Feb. four head coaches as the MEAC . If I WO-thirds of lhe handling its money. SlOO lhe Grapplers won four of Tournament's Outstanding responsibility is ours, why should '"The District is facing an 1dual 1itles to capture the Performer. while Conon earned his there be home rule?"' asked Walsh. enormous financial .crisis which Annual MEAC Wre,1ling first MEAC Outstanding Coach "Don't answer, that was a has increased si nee our report in SUXl _n,hip held at Delaware Award. rhetorical question."' he continued June. District spending is ,er-;itv. Senior, Damon Bryant and Sean with a smile. significantly above approved so end of last season, Head Cla) ton. and Junior Melvin Yates Barry blames 1he debt problem budgets, and the Dis1ric1 only ha~ 1991 1992 I993 1994 1995 1996(<0!)' .r, Coach Paul Collon on the limitations of Home Rule. casn now because the Dis1nc1 is d next year would be Set GR.\l>PLERS. A3 • 1996 Fbcle11! Payment lnol-Sl32 l!oorow 'son basketball Candidates vie for student support ams prepare for at General Assembly speak out Barney can implement change. Undergrad candidates spoke. ovation. AC tournament By Natalie Y. Moore "There are shortcomings at Clieo Hurley said being a Studenls said they left the Hilltop Staff Writer Howard. They can't be solved ··regular student"" will be an speakoul more informed. is ,1cpping up: it's now or never:· Though accused of apathetic overnight. But we spend lime on advantage if elected Undergraduate "The majority of candida1es By Kisha Riggins and senior forward Scan Turley ~aid. allitudes. voter, filled a standing­ solutions and arc taking internal Trustee. gave solutions and some were Shana Harris De:,pite the hardships faced by room only Meridian Hill Hall as sleps 10 solve them;· he said. 'Tm not going 10 be a politician. contradictory from the previous H ltop Staff Writers the Bison rhi, season, a few briehl Howard University Studelll HUSA candidates Oronde I'm a student fi rst. Forge1 the speakout. But it was effecllve. Now ffi)'. view has changed."' Kamilah t Howard Baske1ball spots have emerged. Junior Pnil Association and Undergraduate Miller and Melanie Alslon said the rhetoric and niers. Issues arc 10 Chenier was player of 1he week in Trustee candidates voiced student theme Sankofa symbolizes include each and every one of you Gilmore, a junior oiology major, lhe beginning of the Mid­ said. Athletic Conference season the MEAC last week and has concerns al the second General continuance of 1he Howard family and revam1_>ing the library sys1em. developed the confidence needed to Assembly Elections Speakout and their leadership acumen can I'm not JUSI talkin g bu t am Savoy Brummer said he became tr men jumping 10 a 4-0 ,1ar1 more enlightened after hearing the llit Lady Bison defeating the be a leader nexl year. Wednesday night. further the Uni\'ersi1y. implementing."' The Lady Bison picked to finish Elections Vice-Chair LaMonl '"We can't afford shaky Incumbent Omar Karim candidates. )•fa,ored Florida A&M "I go1 10 see different ii} Raulereucs to compile second in 1he Pre-Season MEAC Geddis was pleased wi th the leadershiP. when the administration defended his position of solely rankings are currently in third s1uden1 turnout. doesn'I take input of 1he Mudents," lobbyi'hg flat 1ui1ion for next year ~rspec11ves,"' the sophomore said. of 3-1. the, have cooled ··The speakoul was better ronsiderabl) going into 1hc place. When the regular season ·'This is one of the largest Miller said. ··we can relate 10 1he and the eleminated in1erna1ional ends tomorrow after the game turnouts," he said. •·sruden1s are problems:· s1uden1 surcharge. coordinated than last year, but I'll I.IC tournament. held at '"h's not me. Omar didn't do it. have 10 go 10 more speakou1s to be State in . MD. against 1hc University of Maryland, gelling involved. We had a larger Jamal Joncs-Dulani and E.L,tern Shore. the Lady Bison ( 13- turnout al Meridian than on Earamichica Brown, also for the Ifs we, the movemen1:· he said. more educated." 1-1. If elected for a second 1erm. While fourth-year political le men arc currently in a two• 1O. I 0-4 in MEAC) will more 1han campu<· HUSA presidency slates. said it is likely go into 1he MEAC The candidates not only the responsiblity of the students to Karim hopes to improve the scier,ce major Memone Paden said ~iirthird place in the MEAC communication be1ween Trustee there was no mud-slinging. she SorlhCarolina A&T. Overall. tournament playing South Carolina addressed Howard's problems but make sure leaders perform their Stale who is in sixth place in 1hc said they will no t disappear duties. board members and students. thought the candida1es received li!OO"s season record is 9- I 5. "Everyone has 10 be involved," "I want to invite board members light questions. non \\ere hil hard this ,cason MEAC. . overnight and encouraged students Even though the tournament rs 10 choose leaders who can offer Jones-Dulani said. 'There should to classes and dorms. And I invite '·More substantial issues need ~, of senior center Grady be checks and balances. You must students 10 borl'rd meetings;· he 10 be brought out. Deeper questions ,ton. But. Livin~ston has played on 1he road. the Lady Bison effective solutions. have continued to win away from •·we wrote down all of Howard's stay on 1he leaders and work said. need 10 be asked:· she said. and the resl of me season together:• Apri l Silver, a former HUSA Logistics and public relations looking much belier for 1he home. accumula1ing a 5: I record problems;• fabari Dunbar, vice on the road. Going 11110 1he presiden1 ial running-mate of Presiden1ial candidate Chiquita president. gave a surprise speech. direc1or Havanah Llewellyn hopes James and running-mate Shrya During her 1990-9 I tenure. a large 1urnou1 will also be Bi10n will lmve a clean slate 1ournamen1. 1he Lady Bison look to Demetria Edwards of the , return 10 lhe championship game ~s Renaissance slate said. ·•ean we Gregory once again emphasized University students took over the refledh-e on election day, March 7. MEACTournamcnl and tht;,i· 0 rcalislically solve them? You \'C got 1ha1 siudcn1s are not clients at Administration building. She urged '"S1uden1s need to use their voice 10 make the best of a g0<•d the)' did Asl ye:1r. C:oae~ _Ty ler 1s 10 make change,"' he said. ·'They confident o1 tbc team s ab1h1y 10 ge1 to put this government back in Howard. candidates and studems to be aware l) to prolong their S0 11 1 their ~chools and chairperson of meeting with Nimrod Barkan, the Israel and the University is not an Camru, Pit\,, \3 Peopll­ effort 10 amend relations after la,1 llusmc,,s 1W By Natalie P. McNeal and their departments. Faculty Embassy's minister of public l«a \ ~ 86 Marvin C. Bryan, Jr. member, were also recommended affairs, Dr. Orlando Thylor. vice­ year's comroversies sparked by !lational \ 5 Pulse speeches made by Malik Shabazz Spor ts 86 Hilltop Staff Writers by the heads of 1hcir respective presidenl of Academic Affairs and lllemational \(, BIO Interim President. Dr. Joyce Ladner and Khalid Muhammed. Editorial ,\8 Hilltopic:s schools. Second year law student Charles Eventually. facuhy par1ici1_JanlS decided to initiate a program. "'The imeraction with the Israel ~ pecthes A9 '"Both Dr. Taylor and Dr. Ladner Embassy and Howard s1ar1ed Callery A IO Anderson has always wanted 10 were selected by the lnternauonal ; of Afro American Unity. He return 10 hrael. The las1 time he Affairs Center's Qualifications have traveled 10 Israel and decided before the controversy," Drake said. B Hajj Malik cl Shaban 7411 011 "Israel is not the on ly interna1ional ,n .,de .,l pilgrimage to Mecca m 5'-,ud.~ wa~ there. 9 years ago. Ethiopian Commiucc. while s1uden1s 1ocollcc1ively involve Howard and May 19, 1925- \r,tbia alld ,idopled 1he nam~ El I ldJI Jews were immigrating 10 1hc participants were selected by a the State of Israel."' Ross said. bridge building Howard has done. February 21, 1965 Middle Eastern country by 1he student affairs comminee. The approach 10 the academic We liave a number of global-typ,! M,tlik d Shab,,n. He w.1s ,lam mer• initiatives.'' nb, young M,111 ., ._ ·,,, I OAAU supfX>rh.•rs w,1tchl..>d. exception, unlike now. Now I want overseas relati onships:· Charles along with the Embassy, co­ er • , • :ro , . ·-' Hill. an African Studies major, sponsored luncheon seminars interacti ve program. littlec.cclled ocad~mic.,lly "" l ,, .i. ,cor·1hcll!Ll I 1sd<'Y· to see the d iffe rence. if any." '"Israel is a very diversr country of b,:coming ,, lawy1;r I 11 Anderson said. Anderson also said. Hill, who is one of the 1wo where scholars discussed common ia 11,•d lo the memory of •'. ,trong, undergraduate students chosen, has economic development and other 1ha1 is al 1he crossroads of wa, broken when i\ 1,•.1cj,cr prt>grt ,,w b,rolher who 1,relcssly wants to compare and con1ra>1 the civilization. lt is a mix1 ure of him th.11 lx-c,1u~ he w,1, Olack, legal systems of Israel ,md the already done research in other related issues. champior•<'-l the rights of Black p_co­ The trip 10 Israel, which is modern and ancient 1imes. While 6uuld per,,w c.,~J•lr)' 1nslc,1d. United States. countries. plc in . \nwrk,i ;\J'\d across the d1~s­ fu nded by the Embassy and in Israel, one can go 10 a mal l.1hen lltchangcd draqr.1hc,,py in the In a conlinued effort to foster "'The trip to Israel is part of an por,,. An .,dvo.;J tc of 81,,~k u~•ty, rela1ions between Howard ongoing process between the discretionary funds contributed 10 travel and see ancien1 sacred lo follow; but afkrol")rcoming self rclia n'-•c..-. ,,nd pan-Afr1canis~1, Embassy of Israel and Howard Howard, is an extension of ruins," Ross said. lines Makola'l lo embrace University and Israel. Anderson. c,in,, slt'carne a Academic Liaison of the Embassy According 10 Regi na Drake of Edmond Lahai, Anderson, Keisha their own ant¼ hdp,...t l,1\ t™1 foun· opportunity to visi t 1he country Kuy Kenda. Hill and James Curtis. lfigur,, rn th . dntion for thoS---· make sure they start off with a pay for four years and we gi,c N< Last fall, the University reduced decent GPA that they can be proud a three and a half year scliol ov some of its operating costs by selling ~ or. and to gi,-e them theopportunitY, you can imagine how much th. its asset.S, and laying off 400 staff to work in a ~ood envtronment.' that takes off of them." sh employees. Earlier this month, the $4.000 -V Fletcher said. ·we need people to said. pr, University laid off hospital manage things, we don't manage Fletcher stressed the im~ employees. ' ~ people_." • . . . of the ROTC office's oper :i Jumor po1 1t1ca 1 science maJor policy toward all int ' Administrators attribute la.~t year's -~ .. projected 1995 deficit lo an array of 53.000 . - Joe Pollard said the mission of the students. ov problems. Personnel-related costs, .,..., I, ROTC program has worked for "lt means a lot to us here fo, such as benefilS increasing faster than him. able to get out there and S3) the rate or inflation, a deferred "It has exposed me to some of this an option ...you don't~ ~ the sharpest students on campus," take it.'' Fletcher said. "B ,i building maintenance problem and $2.000 7 • I ' • . Pollard said. 'The program has also rather for a student to know declining student enrollment were 8445 3.1-86 ~' 17.gg gg.39 39-90 ' 91~2 92-93' 93-94 94~5 factors contributing to the deficit. helped me to achieve a higher GPA [the ROTC program] becau Academic Year-I because the ROTC program offers better for someone to say 'I ot "Although other revenue sources such a positive e nvironment that I want it' than to never know Ir, ha,·e increased over that time period, Chart indicates a steady increase In tuition rates since 1984. For the 1995·96 academic yea r cannot help but to excel." !h!! P.rogram and really " Bi it is very. very difficult to fund administrators have held tuition rates flat. ' Fletcher. who spoke highly of J0tn. SI increased costs when 55-60 percent the Air Force component of the For more information a hi of your revenue base is essentially Trustees had originally voted to raise minimize housing increases. The meaningful until we estimate the ROTC program, welcomes student, Howard University ROTC prr- ju flat," Jarvis said. tuition at its Jan. 28 meeting. adjusted housing fees forthe I 995• level or our federal appropriation." of all academic concentrations. call 806-6791 or stop by their, Assistant to the President Horace Howe,-er, upon hearing of their plans, 1996 academic year range from Jarvis added. . "Whatever a person is majoring on the basement le\el of Fro th both he and Graduate Trustee Kasim $1,510 to S1,535 for a regular air Dawson admitted that not all of the In 1990, Howard received 63 Ill, we can usually work it into the Douglass Memorial Hall. p,

Reed lobbied 10 keep tuition COSlS conditioned single room, from ~ University's budget cutting measures percent of its budget from the Air___ Force__:_ program...... ::;__ __ because_ _ we______have cc have met universal approval. He flat. $1,075 to $1,092.50 for an air­ "We felt that if tuition were conditioned double, and rrom $955 federal government. But that gl maintains that the decisions made percentage has dropped to SC increased again there would be an to $980 for an air-conditioned 56 were not "in secret," but in the best percent this year with $341.6 interest of the University. even lower student morale, and that triple. In addition. Park Square hi Howard would not be able to retain Apartments will cost S 1,205. million in fundmg from the federal Visiting professor "You can't sit down and run an government. th educational institu1 ion with majority more student.S by not raising tuition;' Other measures the University si. vote," Dawson said. Karim said. took to c ut costs included the Officials now say that efforts to preaches need to se Both Ladner and Jarvis maintain "In the end any money gained by implementation of an early broaden the University's funding that eITorts 10 enlarge the University's increasing tuition would equal the retirement and voluntary give back base will start immediately in order ni funding base will not interfere with money that would be lost when program. It also sold two or its to compensate for a decrease in its nurture mankind [v their efforts to keep the cost of students, not able to afford the higher center-city dormitories. federal appropriation. Ct undergraduate tuition at $8.150 per tuition, would have to leave," Karim ·• A It hough we would prefer a and order the bombing or (s1 G "We will have to leave no stone By Awanya D. Anglin family] homes?" year. added. . longer plannin,g and budget cycle. Hilltop Staff Writer But according to Undergraduate Jarvis said the University has we are constramed by the fact that unturned to raise as much money as Weems articulated to thee, tc also made a substantial effort to no budget plann111g can be we can." Ladner said. audience the reason why p re Trustee Omar Karim, the Board of Mankind, according to Divinity makes perfect. Professor Renita Weems, needs to "If you learn to cook that e< be more nurturing and chicken over and over ugain.~ N compassionate toward one another. learn how to take that one pa A Weems, an associate professor of write it over and over and Hebrew at Van_derbift Divinity again, eventually. God wills 01 University sponsors forum to rally for School m Nashville. Tonn .. voiced us in the repetitiousness of _ her concerns during a sermon last labor," Weems said. Sunday at Howard University's In an interview art~r ] journalist on Pennsylvania's death row Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel. sermon. Wecm~ told The HI "Mo!(! importantly. the blessmgs that young adults need to give Journalists. of miracles, the joy. tlie than they receive. By Natalie Y. Moore poss i'?ilities, the theology of Hilttop Staff Wr~er In 1981, after protecting his . ")'.oung people need to be IC • brother, Abu-Jamal took a near-fatal nurturing comes from caring more mtenttonal about helping thol s. and toucbing the lives of others " need," Weems said. "They sb bullet in the stomach, was arrested, Weems said. ' be more responsible for takini re . Mu~a ('-b_u-Jamal is on death row in Pennsylvania. The outspoken beaten and dumped by police before JOurnahst s1t.S m solitary confinement awaiting his turn in the electric chair Weems renected on her of people." P. being charged with killing a police childhood and the things she did Weems also spoke on the g. for a crime he furiously denies. Abu-Jamal was convicted in I 982 for officer. then and is doing now to belp touch "nurturing" when in referelXI 4 killing a police officer in 1981. "Mumia is somebody that we need the Ii ves of others. family life. Known as the "voice of the voiceless," Abu-Jamal said he was framed desperately. At a time like this. we "Nursing and nurturing is holy "A man can say that he Th1. and is facing the electric chair because of his affiliations with the Black work," Weems said. "There is a cannot afford to let them take such a his family by working and bri ~ Panthers, MOVE and other activist groups. He said his poignant columns healing that comes from helping home money. but there is n voice from us without putting up a are also the reasoo why the government wantS him to pay for his crime. others :-- combing hair, hugging when he 1s also emotion S struggle of g igantic proportions," those with AIDS, and bathin~ tllose attached," she said. 2 Tomorrow, H~ward University will sponsor a forum at p.m. in the Ossie Davis said at a New York speak who can't bathe themselves. ' "What (Weemsj said is , tt Undergraduate Library Lecture Room in an international campaign to save out sponsored by the Committee to Weems went on to say how even overlooked by peop e.'' Che K the acttv1st. Save Mumia Abu-Jamal and the the federal government has Douglass, a senior majorir.1 "My res~ch ~n Mr. A?u•Jamal 's case leads me to strongly believe that forgotten bow to nurture the telecommunications manage· \I Partisan Defense Committee. Imprisoned since 1982, Abu­ A"?,erican P,COple. said. " In reflection, you " s, he was de111ed his consututtonal right to a fair trial and that he was More than 40,000 people and Jamal said he was framed. sentenc~ for execution solely because of his political views and activities," Tho~e m government and in realize the importance of the c organizations world-wide support corporations are estranged from the things in life, it is what k~­ said JoNina M. Abron, assistant editor or Toe Black Scholar in Oakland very "'.Ork God has created - to CA. ' Abu-Jamal's fight for justice. Petitions have circulated across the country ste~~y. it reminds us of who ] and notables such as Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, California hu~amze, to humble." Weems said. are. The A_bu-Jam~I c~e has been called a racist legal . During the . Ho~ do you stay up rocking a Congressman Ronald Dellums, Whoopi Goldberg and Danny Glover Dean Evan Crawford, ro 198 1 Phtlad'?lphia_ tnal, h_e was unable to represent himself, pick the s1_ck child, changing their soired dean of Andrew Rankin C attorney or_his choice or ~1tness most of the prosecutio n's argu ment. The champion the "Mumia Abu-Jamal Must Not Die" cause. diapers... and then return to your was especially pleased ~ury comprised of 11 Whites -one who openly admitted impartiality ­ 'The prison has received so many faxes on Mumia behalf that it knocked office building and sign the form to Weem's sermon Sunday lJ((itl the system out of order. Wherever l go to speak about lay of~. tens or tnousands of he said he could relate to nur~ ma 40 percent Black city. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the U.S. people? Weems asked. those in need. ,.. Suprei:ne Court h~ve refosed to hear Abu-Jamal's appeals. Mumia's case people ask me how is it possible that an award-winning "How can you get down on your "(Weems'] message ~ Police officers m the city of ''brotherly love" have tried to silence Abu­ Black J0urnahst could be on death row;· said Len Wcinglass, chief ~nces and clip ihe nails of the inspmitional and soundlybibli(£ Jamal for quite some time. He was co-founder and Minister of Wormation defense attorney. infirm, C0t!1b the hair of the Crawford said. "My mother• in't or t~e Philadelphia chapter of the . At age 14, h; was comatose, wipe the drool from the will be 99 xears-old on Febllli• Speakers at Saturday's forum include Carla Williams of the Partisan mouth of an Alzheimer's patient or wnu_ng for the Black Panther newspaper and eventually was elected 28th. My wife and I understand Defense Committee and Leigh Dingcrson, Executive Director of the feed your grandbaby her first bottle need to nurture her. It made me president or the Philadelphia chapter of the Association of Black National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. or baby cereal. and then turn around included." '

~ ry24, 1995 THE HILLTOP A3 PUSPLUS au Press offers program in book publishing - - "3 BPI is o ne of four intensive said despite the adage, "Black people do o n experience with the daily marketing publishing courses in the U.S. The others read." There is, she said, "an outcry fo r work of the Press. They will assist with the are Radcliffe College, The University of more multicultural books." - daily advertising work of the Press, and Denver. and New Yo rk University. Gordon said the press is continuously with its [l_ublicity work. Howard's, however, is the o nly institute expanding its horizons. Design and production interns will completely affiliated with a University ''We are looking fo r books that assist with the design and layout work of lhe Press. focus on women's studies. Latin American Press. Students win also be trained to assist Howard's BPI offers a lot for not studies, drama and communicatio ns ." with the pre-production and production much money. A little less than $2,000 Gordon said. work of the Press. covers tuition, room and board. This fee He said the Press is also branchin_g . !Jordon ~uggests stu~ents perform also covers books and art supplies as well . out into trade publishing with an emphasis mternsh,ps required by their respective Financial aid in the form of scholarships is on art/photography books and biographie.5. schools with the Press. He stressed that the also available. He hopes to rncrease the Press's consumer close-knit working environment of the William Mayo, Assistant base by expanding into these areas. Press makes it a great place to intern. Director/Business Manager said this is a Mayo saicl the best war to get your Senior Editor Fay Acker, who has batJlain by anyone's standards. Comparable foot into the door of the publishrng 111dustry worked at the Press si nce its inception insututes, according to Mayo, arc far more is to intern. And aside from ihe Book said it is an exciting place to work. And expensive. Publishing Institute, the Press offers a well­ judging from its expanding book lists and This program is not just intended rounded internship program for 1L~ successful training programs, it will for recent college graduates who are serious matriculating students. And, he said. people certainly remain so in the future. about making publishing a career, but also should not worry if they are not an English lf you arc interested in either the for people wlio have been out ofco llege fo r or journalism major: there is a place fo r the P ublishing Institute or the internship By Shahnaaz Davids on . Releases on the Press's top IOlis t programs, call the Pre5$ at 806-4943. The r inciu_de Split Image: Africans in tne Mass a while and want to apply their traini ng and political science, biology and anthropology Hilltop Staff Writer experience to publishing. Those interested major. In fac1, if you have an excellent next BPI class wi ll be held in the summer Media by Janelle Dates. acting Dean of command of English, you are encouraged of 1996 and internships are on a semester The staff may be small, the offices Howard Universi1y·s School of in setting up a publishrng company and ,. IIO! be fancy, but the rich treasures would like to get an overview of the to apply regardless of your major. to semester basis . Co~munications, The New Cavalcade: Internships are offered in the areas ..aJ at the only African-American African-American Writing from 1760 to complete process are encouraged to apply ,cr;ity press are endless. Howard as well. ofeditor ial, marketi~g as well as design and the Present, Volumes I and II, by Arthur P. production. Participants must comnut to at ,eisity Press has fi lied a void for Davis, J. Saunders Redding and Joyce Ann Another advantage of the Press's I , l l 1L COTO\ -..112-American scholars, while serving BPI is it is well-known throughout the least a two- semester internship, and be able t> Joy9c, and How Europe Underdeveloped to work at least 12 hours per week. Interns , training ground for aspiring young A fr1ca by Walter Rodney. Books published publishing industry. -.:.lll-Amencan publishers since 197Z. "The industry comes here to should expect to actively particirate in the by the press are offered to students daily functions of the press. BP said they The Press serves 10 publish works In its role as a training ground fo r recruit," Mayo said. contribute to finding ,olutions for Why should will not be gophers stuck at a copier. aspiring publishers. the Press has offered ObJectives of the editorial -,ll) :ind social problems in the United consider careers in book publishing? Mayo the Book Publishing fnstitutc si nce 1980. internship include training individuals to ~ and abroad. It gives priority to This intensive five-week summer program says it is critical that minorities. period. get •:1bing books that increase the into publishing. support the Press's long-term new 11roject focuses on the editorial, production and acquisitions, and developing in an mtern, Xl\tandi ng and appreciation of t he design, and marketing and business aspects "We need to be in all areas of lll,utions and interests of peoples of publishing ... we are creating a product that not only the mechanical ski ns of scholarly of publishing. book publishing but, more importantly, .:.111 descent around the wor1d. Stuclents participating in the there is a need fo r, we are satisfying a ·There arc few Black outlets for hunger," Mayo said. editorial judgment. summer program will take tours of-a major It is important, he said, for Blacks Editorial interns will be JI material." Director Ed Gordon said. publishing house. The Library of Congress responsible for reading manuscripts, For this reason, the Howard and a book manufacturer. BPl participants to increase their numbers so there are ,mity Press plays a vital role in significant numbers of African Americans participating in weekly editorial meetings, also have the benefit of career counseling in publishing positions so they can mentor attending 1ocal conferences. library 1ding th ese works which would ~y professionals in the book publishing research, copy editing and proofreading. ;l!lise go unpublished. younger African Americans in the industry. industry. Managing Editor Renee Mayfiefd Marketing interns will get hands- Budget, from Al Worn.an to Worn.an Conference ,,ired the di&trict to CUI $140 stay in business. I prefer a board 11 in ,pending. Instead, the designed by the Congress in 1cl rescinded the cuts, conjunction with the District." .csted an additional $267 Despite Congressman Walsh's enlightens young attendants 11 lor Medicare, and overspent st~ong objections 10 giving the .. dditionai $224 million. District more funding now, Don'1 Live On My Street." By Janine S. McDonald Foston, who has published three , District says it is doing the Congress will not let 1hc city fail Hilttop Staff Writer 11 can, given the situation. into disarray, said Congressman volumes of poetry. donates the .:resswoman Eleanor Holmes Cardiss Conins (0-111.), ranking proceeds to a teen development ~JD reiterated her belief in an minority member o n the "We are here as sisters, together center in her home stnie of Indiana. Orne people might not choose thrilled to finally conquer the Rebera Ellioll Foston, M.D. shared Grace Bay. a student at Cardow M EAC. lhey have bigger goals in a few of the poems she has wrillen High School who wants to own her conference. "Gelling the chance to even disappointed because their ,restle this close to the interact with the speakers was really schools had to leave early." . :mis, but we have to keep our mind. w ith 1hc audie nce members, own chain of beauty supply shops cl." Cotton said. Sophomore heavyweight including 1he high iv-popular "You one day, said the auende:-s of the \atv.~k. the Bison head 10 the wrestler William Ray Thylor LI said. :\A regional tournament in "We are so happy we won the Ga. Every year the winner MEAC. now lherc 1s another level Black female vets reclaim their history we need to get 10." MEACtournament competes Office and get the application to apply. That was By Criste! Williams far harder tl\an passing the mental alertness test. Hiihop Sta ff Writer I have heard other women recount similarly." The first contingent of officer,candidates An epidemic of hopelessness, the thunder of arrived at Fort De.5 Moines, la., on July 20, 1942. Basketball, fromAl endless explosives and a stale reminder of death, Most of the women were from the south, and found the the army would not serve as an escape 11n1t o lose after all the hard work that we put in to get there," 'Tyler is what comes to mind when recalling World War II. Unfortunate ly African Americans. from racial tension. Roundtree discussed the 1be' Lad Bison are led by forward Alisha "Tuff'. Hil\, this week's particularly women, arc often left out of these obvious racial tensions fe ll between the Black thoughts. despite the role they played during and White WAC soldiers. ~ of the week who also is secon~ 111 tl)e na~1on in fie!d goal "We marched or walked and when we got 'lttntage at .662. second in t11e MEAC ,n sc!)rmg with I 6.7 po1111s per such turbulent times. there the White girls had marched in. for "[The ~and fourth in the conference in rebounding al 9.7 a game.. . Dr. Janel Sims-Wood, the assistant chief librarian for Reference/Reader Services at the White women l were all together and when you ~Bison guard Candice Hynes i~ third in [he M EAC in ass1.sts with march in together as scared as we were, you ·~agam e and first in the conference 11,1 three-point percentage with .3~8. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, is doing her part to make the achievements of Blade naturally sit together," Roundtree recalled. She Udy Bison Center Oenique Graves 1s the ~eco_ndleading shot-blocker went o n to say how a sign with the word ' bcMEAC with 2.37. sixth in rebounds w1t,h s1~ rebounds.a game and female veterans of World War II known. Her "colored" offended the Black WAC members. ''IXUercnce's third leading scorer behind Hill with 15.3 point~ a g~me. lecture, entitled, "We Served America, Too," took place Wednesday in the MSRC. "I contacted Dr. Bethune to let her know that Those interested in attending the to ur n~e.nt should contacl Oaanen Janet Sims-Wood, assistant chief we couldn't eat with that signs and the -~ban at the Office of Student Acuv111 es a nd 1nq u1 rc about "I decided to do a lecture o n the Women's Army Corps because there isn't very much llbrarian for Reference/Reader Services [American] flags o utside. Something was ~tion to the to urnament. information abo ut it," Sims-Wood said. Charity Adams, Dovey Ro undtree, Martha wrong," Roundtree said. ~ h 'Jyler stressed the importance of fan support a1 ~he to urn_ament. By the end of the war, there were 99,000 '11iis year both Howard basketball teams have a leg1umate chance to World War II is known as the greatest and Putney and Clementine Skinner. most destructive war in history. The world had "I knew Dovey Roundtree because she is a women under WAC director Col. Oveta Culp al!ic ME.AC it would be a shame if our fans cou1d not be th.ere i'o Hobby. The WAC was granted regular army ~ us and miss out on the opportunity to cheer us o n m t 1e no idea that this war, which started in 1939 and minister in my church,'' S ims-Wood said. "I lasted fo r six years, would put many countries began the project in 1991 and finished the status but later was dissolved. Many of the ~ onship games." o n the edge of collapse and claim lhe lives of dissertations in 1994. I was introduced to the women took advantage of the G.I. Bil! and approximately 17 millio n people. other ladies when I went to some of the WAC continued 10 work for the government. The lt was at a point of desperation that Congress meetings;· Sims-Wood said. women look back on their experience with pride, pa%ed a bill May l4. 1942 creating the Women's Blaclc women who attempted to apply for the despite lhc brutality Black soldiers endured after from Al the war. Israel, Army Auxiliary Corps, later becoming the WAAC found it would not lie easy. Many Black Each story is mixed with a reminiscent bitter­ Professor Eldar is_ particularly Women's Army Corps. This non-comoati ve organizations believed the WAAC had never set swce1ness. Some touch on segregation. while ~ g with Dr. Victor Dzienyo, ple_ased_ to work w 1tn Howard group allowed men to go into combat, and a ro percent quota, because the number of Black ffYal Ro5$-Sheriff, Dr. Alcie ultimately changed the lives and mind set of the women in the Army was considerably low. others reveal the impact the WAC had on their . s, Dr. Kriner Cash. O r. Univcrs11y. lives. However. the one thing missing from the ,,African Americans and us have women involved in the war. Instead, WAAC may have limited its Black smiling faces in the pictures and stories told was ~ Boner. chair of sociology so many common interest such ~s Sims-Wood's iec1ure focused on o ral history, enlistment to women who had only met the ....~nt hropology, Dr. S helly but she also used bibliographic and military immigrat ion the. :!1t erest , .m highest standards. reg"r [eItt. 1. s .im portant l t h at th' 1s h1' story 1s' sh arc d", • .,n of the School of preserving the family, Eldar said. histo ry. Her presentatio n gave those in Roundtree recalled how difficult it was to get ~ nic.itions and Dr. Norma auendance an opportunity to travel through time a WAAC application, saying, 'The most difficult Sims-Wood said. "The accomplishments ofthese " When we SJ?Cak, we h~ye great women are 001 given nearly enough ~s of the Socia l Wo rk dialogue that ,s very rare. by providing a peck into the past using authentic part of it, the one that B iacl, women overcame, ., ~nl, slides and testnnony from fo ur former WAC's, was to knock down the doors of the U.S. Post recognition," she added. THE HILLTOP February 24,, fetl A4 ~

Council member Bill Lightfoot introduces~ legislation to eliminate D.C. school board :

fj f h · " w·1 R or;ration of the school system in the hands "The city council has enough problems power to the mayor and city counci~ f ,seal pro bl ems o t e city, I ma . . h ·11 be they have not attended to efffoiently. The improve the school system's fi ~ett Harvey, oresident of the school board, said. o the superintendent, w o w1 come a . , bl d h at By Omar Browne The c1ty wants control of the $50 million member of the mayor's cabinet, according school board has 1t sown p,ro ems an t e matters. Ad' HilHop Staff Writer in assets the school board has to generate to the mayor's office. legislation is not helping,· he said. Earlier this week, the Ge~was needed revenue, she said. School board members object to the Ericka Lanburg, council member for Accounting Office declared the Di4' r School board members have criticized ''The legislation does not address the superintendent being a member of the Ward 3, complained that the legislatjon, if government financially broke. wat Council member Bill Lightfoot's bill to chlldren's needs; instead the children are mayor's cabinet since 11 will give the mayor approved, would put education on the back abolish the city's elected school board, . d r · I " H undue influence over hiring and firing burner because the mayor and city council '"Today, the District is insolven~"~org bemg use as a po ,tica pawn, arvey liave other m,a; r problems to deal with. testified before the Financial Oversi-'eJCC< saying it will not improve the school said policies in the school system. , 0 f C b" be " 1 system's financial crisis. Lightfoot introduced legislation to get ''II is an unfortunate r1wer grab by the The school board has consistently kept !~edDistric t ~ ohI om •~ su 0~!i "The legislation to abolish the board is rid of the school board two weeks ai;o. The mayor and city council,' Jay Silberman, a a balanced budget. . t ?,CS not ave t e cas to pay ~e a smoke screen to divert attention from the measure would place more power over the school board member at large, said. She could not see how transferring b1l 1s. a u ------;,;c·11 the Towers residents 0~ Howard University Law School e1 Dunham, a senior exercise models. Howard University's administration Shabazz learned the essential skills Black community foce '"I use Howard people as By Reglnold Royston building, and member of the needed to oq;anize his current Richardsen, a political scit"le physiology major, spear-headed Hilltop Staff Writer ihe orgamzation of the program examples as often as 1 can. We tell Progressive Student Movement and ··grass roots' campaign in the maJor,· sat'd . liewh and said most Howard students do them 10 look at the Howard Unity Nation. which has brought mostly African-American students, they always have books. "When you look at his a not take care of local schoo I controversial Black leaders Steve Anacostia area. he is the only candidate children as much as they should. They are always studying. That's Activism and community. That Cokley and to the "In Barry's •92 campaign, I saw what xoung African Americans precise and putting into detail lo searching fo r a school, Gage is what Malik Zulu Shabazz hopes Howard campus. a man who had been jailed and fell he wants to accomplish. Eclcington Elementary stood out look ltke," Brown said. to brin_g to the residents of Shabazz has been an a11,gressive victim to his own inadequacies. All of the Howard P laza God wa.~ working with that man to something l don't see the to Dunham because of its Anacost,a in the race for the Ward proponent of Afrocentncity for doing." convenient location to campus. Towers West resident assistants 8 City Council seat. several years. resurrect him," 'Shabazz said. "I The school's students range from and some members ofthe Howard '"I have never sought to run for '1'he ideology that l have is that saw what Barry meant to our Malik Shabazz was thru~ pre-Kindergarten to the sixth Plaza management are any type of political office because of . I believe that people. He gave them hope and the limelight after a speech ~ grade. Dunham believed since the participating in the project. I have seen too much hypocrisy in Black people should control the encouragement to change their lives Khallid Muhammed on H01 students are at an impressionable "I think I must give first. I am politics. However, after having businesses in our communit)\ the around and that is what inspires last April. Members of the Jiyn age. it is important to provide sacrificing my time in ho~ that worked for Marion Barry in 1992. schools and politicians in our me to continue his mission." community and national mn them with positive role models. others win follow;· Julius Bailey, I now see the need and have the community. \Ve must be in control The City Council board acts as agencies assailed Shabazz aDC>f To date, approximately 35 building coordinator of the desire to help our people in of our own destiny, of our economy an advisor committee to the mayor supporters for being anti-Serna students have signed up to Howard Plaza Towers, said. "I am Southeast," Shabazz, wbo will be to self-employ and to make our and its members are elected from their remarks. ~~ [>articipate in the program. involved in education and this is completing a graduate degree in neighborhoods safe," 28-year-old the ei_ght wards that make up the "I have made no anti-Sed11l Freshman nursing major Shanda the kind of thing I do." law this year at Howard Umversity Shabazz said. District of Columbia. The statements and I stand behindd Broune believes getting involved Volunteers said tutoring keeps Law School. said. Serving as a security guard, economically-depressed Ward 8 word I have srud. My conC(ll10 with the school children is the tutors in perspective. It was in 1988 that '"the spokesman, and campaign was a key ,'Otmg bloc in Barry's •94 with the people of Ward 8 and tr"< im~rtant. "Yeah, we are at Howard. We Movement" began for Shaban. As organizer for Barry's City Council mayoral campaign which received make it plain that Jewish _peop: 'The students will learn more are at the Mecca, but we have a participant in ihe 1989 takeover of race and 1994 mayoral campaign. much press for its Afrocentric not the , ssue in Ward 8.' 13 and become more involved in more important things to do than ;o school," Broune said. i;etting the grade," Johnson said. Faraji Johnson. also decided It's all in vain if we don't go out to get involved with the program. there." Spirit of Black history month filli Forest Village Park Mall's hallwaysl asked her to develop something for Black history suspended from leather straps around theiri-­ By Monica Holly month. The echo from the drums filled the mall fl HilHop Staff Writer "Harriet Tubman has always been a heroine one end to the other. of mine because of her strength. So I went to the The Wo 'se dance theater combines a mnl­ Music, drama and dance filled the Forest library and read and read until I came up with a of African dance and folklore from the c~ Village Park Mall this past weekend as WHUR- script," Gunn said. of Guinea, West Africa. )l 96.3 FM hosted a celebration for Black history Next, the Wo'se African Dance Theater of The finale to the Wo'se's performance 11ilc month. Northeast D.C .. dressed in cowry shell halter invitation for audience members to loiop The gospel music of the Moye Ensemble tops and wrapped skirts made of African fabric, women dancers and follow along as they unilf,' brought the crowd to its feet as the song '"How moved their htps and arms in syncopation to the the movements of a vast array of Afrm beat of the Wo'se drummers. The drummers animals. ...C Excellent" resonated throughout the mall. The 0 ensemble, comprised of 15 women and five pounded with furious hands on swaying drums Lisa Hoffer, marketing director for Foli .c Village Park Mall, who along wi th Wlitt >, men, was dressed in majestic purple robes. Ulysses Moye. founder of the ensemble said helped put the event together, said she e1 :E"' the group includes singers from more than 15 pleased with the outcome. >: ., different congregations. Hoffer and WH UR have also planned S(l!lc 0 more Black history month feMivities. Or. S £1 Following the music was a live dramati7.ation z of Harriet Tubman which delighted the children Feb. 25 a step show comprised of sororiti~I fraternities will be held at the mall. Gilbcll in the audience. All eyes were glued to Gretchen store in the mall specializing in Gii'i Gunn as she brought the historicaJ figure to life organization paraphernalia, will also and pulled a toy revolver from her dress and sponsoring the event. re~ated the infamous words of Tubman, "you will be free or die:· An essay contest is also being sponsortl'i conjunction with Watch Tune UP, a store ir,)1 Senior Desmond Dunham spearheaded Gunn began her dramatizations of Tubman mall. The essay contest is entitled, "Fruil Each One Teach One more than three years ago after her co-workers African Americans who are meaningful tOljl• t Ramadan allows time for reflection, self discipline t I 1, And the pre-dawn phone calls are the Islamic lunar calendar. "It is written that when we fast light, usually an odd number of the Nitiht Of Qadr(Power). ) By Natalie P. McNeal to ensure that Alia and her Muslims Ramadan is part of Fard, the during the day we show our dates along with mi lk or water. "It IS a night better than ll Hilltop Staff Writer friends collectivetr begin the day five obligations that Islam is based devotions to try to rise above the Then there is Adhan, or call to months.'' Abdul-Malik said."­ according to Allah sword. on. The ol>ligations are testimony of usual animal ways;· Zaki Salaam prayer. Maghrib, the evening occurs during the last IO da)I During the month of February, Ramadan is the ninth month of faith called salat, the five daily said. "It gives me time for inner prayer of the five prayers is done Ramadan on odd numbered ( Alia Hashim's daily ritual has the Islamic lunar calendar and is prayers, called Zakat, paying a growth ancl contemplation because collectively. Next, Iftar, or the usually the 25 or 27 day of changed. Instead of waking up just also a time for fasting and reflection charity of 2.5% of net annual fasting gives the body a chance to communal eating during Ramadan month." for those of Muslim faith. income, Saim Ul-Ramadan, fasting in time for her 9: IO classes, her clear itself out." takes place. According to Islam, the ~ alarm clock rings at 4:30 a.m. She "Ramadan is the month that during the month of Ramadan, and But not all are required to fast. At 7:45, the night prayer, lsha, is Allah decided to deliver and reveal Hajj, ihe pilgrimage to the house of Women who are menstruating, done. was the night that Allah had tip toes to the telephone to avoid Quran delivered from himseb waking her roommate, and starts a all of the letters ofth e Qur'an to the Allah, or God, in Mecca. pregnant, or nursing a child do not At about 8:00, "When the sky is chain of phone calls. Ordinarily, Last Prophet Muhammed," Amir "Ramadan is a very spiritual fast. In addition. people who arc devoid of any night from the sun­ earth. During the nil such calls would not be welcome at Johari Abdul-Malik said. An Amir time. Its meanin_g is bigger than sick, or mentally hanilicapped do no residual sunlight, We do worshipping is intensified. such an early time of the day, but is a leader o r organizing just fasting during the day. Jt's not participate. But not all segments Tarawceha," Abdul-Malik said. When the sight of the JJ this is no ordinary day for Aha and coordinator, in the Muslim faith. practicing self restraint and of t_he population understand the "Thraweeha JJrayer is only done moon, Shawwaf, is seen · her Muslim counterparts. During the holy month of cleansing your soul," Hashim said, fastmg rufes. durmg Ramadan. Ramadan is over. On this da This morning and every Ramadan, all of North America's :· It's fincltng out who you are and Ramadan, as with all aspects of Thiaweeha prayer, is often Ion* Muslim holiday, E'Id Al-F1 : morning during the month of 200,000 Muslims, along with other ,mprovmg yourself." Islam, has detailed ritual. TI1e daily because I I Rakats, are done celebrated. "People gather, 1· Ramadan, breakfast is not eaten Muslims across the world fast in The fasting is to allow time to fast is broken promptly at sunset. Rakats, is the motions that one must chari for poor ople, and , with the company of sunshine, but order to celebrate the holy month. concentrate on self improvement. Beforehand, many Muslims do complete ~uring every prayer. TI1e gifts.1t lasts for t~ree days. ~j instead with the calmness that This year Ramadan began on Muslims are to abstain from food, Sunnat, an optional Arabic prayer number of Rakats vary according to people say Ramadan Mub~ comes with the earth before sunrise. February I st, at the sighting of the drink, tobacco and sex, between in Islam. Afterwards, the fast is the prayer. blessings of Ramadan be in J new moon, but varies according to dawn and sunset. usually broken with something Also during Ramadan, there is Abdul-Malik said. · ~24, 1995 THE HILLTOP AS iyrlie Evers-Williains elected to rescue the NAACP ey LAWanda Stone New York last weekend, about 700 ," Evers-WiUiams August. But Evers-Williams said faitop Staff Writer delegates passed a motion of no­ said. This promise of renewed the search fo r a permanent confidence in Gibson. After he was activism comes as leading executive direc1or is sull on. defeated in a 30-29 vote the Republican presidential candidates, "We will be looking for someone r,.1 Myrlie Evers-Williams. NAACP board seated in his place Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who is a good administrator, who ,1 elected as chairman of lhe Ever~-Williams, its hand picked Tuxas Sen. Phil Gramm and ex­ understands the NAACP," she said. ail Association for the candidate. Tennessee governor Lamar "A big name is not a top ,¢ment of Colored People W_hen word spread of her Alexander, promised to attack requirement." tit,: c.lSY part. electton to the seat. a crowd of affi rmative action. Names being mentioned are ~"' she has to heal divisions e lated NAACP members were Evers-Williams urged the nothing less than big: National \llt nWly torn the civil rights ready to celebrate. NAACP to unify against Press Club President Delano · ii111ion apart, hire an "One word: Hallelujah," said C. adversaries. Lewis; ex-Texas Representative ':.01edirector who can raise its Dolores Tucker, a delegate from the "This I 04th Congress is a Barbara Jordan; retired appella1e ~ip, driv.! it back onto the District of Columbia. "A new day dangerous one," she noted. court j udge A. Leon A1ggin­ JJ!Old; of the nation's political has begun. The people have spoken. When President Clinton called botham; former Atlanta mayor di and, p_erha1,>s most !'low ,ye can return fiscal and moral to congratulate Evers-Williams, she Maynard Jackson; former New fi:iiging. erase tts est11nn1ed S4 integrity to the NAACP." put him on a conference speaker so York mayor David Dinkins: Jewell -:e~ebl. Evers-Williams, 61, is "Free at last! Free at last!'' that all NAACP board members Jackson-McCabe, president of the rsl woman to head 1he shouted Hazel Dukes. fo rmer could hear the conversation. National Coalition of 100 Black ~tion in i1s 86-year history. eres1dent of the NAACP board. "We were encouraged when (he] Women; New York Unjversity law 1,,pmin _Chavis. the former 'Thank God almighty we're free at called and spoke to us and said that professor Derrick Bell and former 1u,e director. expressed last." we had a lot of work to do and that Atlanta mayor and U.N. ·:11 fur 1he new chairwoman . First on Evers-Williams' agenda he looked forward to working with ambassador Andrew Young. Myrlle Evers-Williams speaks to media after he r election. iurttd her 10 end the internal 1s to rally members 10 support us," Evers-Williams said. She Evers-W illiams also plans to .,tfizta1ening the organization. surgeon general nominee Henry quoted board members as telling appeal to fou ndations and corpora­ civil rights leader Medgar Evers. over a year that I've been able to put 1 •ill do everything to help Foster, op1,>0se wel fore changes in Clinton: "We need your help too, uons for money to help relieve 1he knows abou1 challenges: since he my fists up and say, 'Yea!'" said ·(hl1issaid . .. Division among the Repul)lican Contract with Mr. President" • deb1 of the organization. However. was gunned down in Mississippi in Evers-Williams as she met with 1llJt,ctl

COURT DECIDES IF VACCINE RESPONSIBLE FOR . WASHINGTON, D.C. - Maggie Whitecotton, 19, is seeking g!)vernm~nt compensation under the Nallonal Vaccine Injury Act. She developed cerebral palsy the day after ¥mg vaccrnated at the age of~ month~. Health aand Human Services Secretary, Donna E. Shalalla says there 1s no sohd evidence thal Whitecotton s illness is the result of th~ vaccination. Lifetime assistance.for Whitecotton is estimat~d at$ I _million and could trigger hundreds of similar cases amount mg to $200 nulhon. The Supreme Court wi ll consider the case on Feb: 28.

MENT DRIVES "MOTOR VOTER" LAW JUSTICCE _DEPA:nT. nistration is pushing for state mandates which require motorists 10 WA'fCH YOUR AIR BAG I•• 11 NEW YORK . The next time you secure your car, don't overlook your valuable air bag. Air _bag theft is ,,.,HINGTON, D.C.- The 1mto~ a , . n~es or social services. Resistence to the law 1s being epressed to Yote when lhey app\y for. dri vers hce ni~ fllinois and South Carolina. Lead by California Gov. Pete becoming tin epensive trend in some urban areas like . N_ew Jersey, Florida and Cahforma. The tral states including Cahforma. ~~n?l~ote;" hw is another "unfunded federal mandate," forcing state safety device is designed for easy replacement after use. Thieves are 1akmg advantage qi(R), the opposition claims the Afi~rney Ge'neral Janet Reno is determined to enforce the law which and stealing these parts. The stolen parts can_br 111g mas much as $300 at body shop~wh1le factory _replacements 'lll ll'lthout granting fede~al resources. who have traditionally been unregistered. Wilson claims may run as hilth _as S l,800. The New-York folice Department retrieved 2, I00 stolen air bags and engme computers ~ make voter registrauon easier fo rdthcoo::s 8 mi llion annually, but the California chiefe lection officer last August cfunng an undercover operation . .·~ ucnt ofthe "Motor Voter" law wou 1 35 · • can be done for $5 mi Ui on. Compiled by Gloria McField ~ ------' THE HILLTOP February 24, J FE A4 LOC Council member Bill Lightfoot introduces j legislation to eliminate D.C. school board = operation of lhe school system in the hands 'The city council has enough problems power to the mayor and city counc1l1t fiscal problems of the city," Wilma R. they have not auended 10 efITciently. The improve the school system's fi~ ge Harvey, president of the school board, said. of 1hc su~rintendent, who wiU become a By Omar Browne member of the mayor's cabinet, according sch.ool boar_d has it's o~vn r,roblcms and the mailers. N; Hilttop Staff Writer The city wants control of the $50 million in assets ihe school board has to generate to the mayor's office. leg1sla11on 1s not helping, ~e said. Earlier this week, the Geii ~. needed revenue, she said. School board members object to lhe Ericka Lanb~rg, council m~m~r fqr Accounting Office declared the Dit ' ' School board members have criticized " fhe legislation does not address the superintendent being a member of the Ward 3, complained that th~ leg,slauon, if government financially broke. th Council member Bill Lightfoot's bill to children's needs; instead the children are mayor's cabinet since 11 will give the mayor approved, would put educauon on the back , . . . . " abolish the city's elected school board. undue influence over hiring and finng burner because the mayor and city cou.nci l '.Today, the D,sm ct 1s ,~solvent,. Qor being used as a political pawn,'· Harvey have other major problems 10 deal with. 1es11fied t?efore the Final)cial Ove~1iteic saying it will not improve the school said. policies in the school system. system's financial crisis. "It is an unfortunate Rower grab by the The school board has consistently kepi the D,sm ct of Colombia subco~m Lightfoot introduced legislation to get a balanced budget. "!t d?,CS not have the cash to pay a114111 "The legislation to abolish the board is rid of the school board two weeks ago. The mayor and city council, Jay Silberman, a a smoke screen to di verl a1ten1ion from the measure would place more power over the school board member at large, said. She could not see how transferring bills. ~f. Q1 th Towers residents or Howard University Law School e, SU mentor D.C. youth ar " Because I am a part of the st By Raslna D. Harvey community, although temporarily. student seeks Ward 8 Council seat Hilltop Staff Wrtter I should give back 10 it," Johnson. a sophomore marketi ng major focus. ui ln an effort to bridge the gap said. "Besides, the kids arc cute." Originally from Los An p1 between the District ofColu mbia Gage Eckington's third grade Shabazz, who has lived iu D. youth and members of Howard's scored the highest in the city on the past IO years, first bcqe, student body, some Howard Plaza standardized ,tests last year. conscious of Black national.isi p1 Towers residents are participating T hough proud of the scores an undergraduate political ~ al in a program that will hopefully received by students in of all the major at H oward. Now he 5115< enhance the academic ability of grade levels last year. Principal is his "calling" to work fat_ one group and provide a Persephone Brown was quick to betterment of the District. rewarding exper ience for the point out !hat each year is a new "Now that !he U.S. Con~] other. year and help is always welcome. set a course of path that they~ The prowam, "Each One, "The teachers and I appreciate retaking the District, !he · Thach One,' is a mentoring and having [the tutors) here. The now ripe to stand up to our 1l tutorial program for stuilents children were looking forward to of statehood and autonq ­ attending Gage Eckington seeing them," Brown said. 'The Shabazz said in reference to Elementary School, located in the Parents and Toachers Association current fiscal crisis. 411 LeDroit Park section of applauded the idea." ~ "Why should the United Si Northwest, D.C. at 3rd and Elm Dunham would like to see the government force D.C. to 1>4- Streets. program i;row. to include a Big our budget when the Fe~ 'The goal of the program is to Brother/B1g Sister program, m government is making no ani help students at Gage Eckington which Howard students would 10 balance their own, or lheircl:'­ Elementary School fu lfill their spend time. not only with China and Japan," he sai. educational needs as well as academically, but socially as well. promote interaction between the Jania Richardsen, a juruto "Here, we work on the total Howard, is taking her first Sttp1'1 various students of Howard and child. Citizenship, scholarship the public arena as treas~11 children living within the and class attendance. Of course, community surrounding Shabazz·s campaign and Hal the Big Brother/Big S ister University studen(liaiso11. b Howard," Desmond Dunham, a program is a possible second resident assistant in the Howard phase." Brown said. " We need leaders that v.il! n Plaza Towers' West Building, said conform to the dominant po11tl Brown also said they always Shabazz says Ward 8 needs leaders who will not conform to dominant political forces. forces. Malik is conscious in a letter describing the program use Howard students as role at to residents of the complex. his people and he's going to ~ F Dunham, a senior exercise models. Howard University"s admi nistration Shabazz learned !he essential skills Black community fli "I use Howard people as By Reginold Royston building, and member of the needed to or~anizc his current physiology major, spear-headed Hilltop Staff Writer Richardsen. a political sciit ihe organization of the program examples as often as I can. We tell Progressive Student Movement and "grass roots' campaign in the major, said. them to look at the Howard Unity Nation, which has brought mostly African-American and said most Howard studen1s do students, they always have books. "When you look at his ag~v not take care of local schoo I controversial Black leaders Steve Anacostia area. he is the only candidate ~h children as much as !hey should. They are always studying. That"s Activism and community. That Cokley and Louis Farrakhan 10 the "In Barry's ·92 campaign. I saw what r.oung African Americans precise and putting into detailC3 In searching for a school, Gage is what Malik Zul u Shabazz hopes Howard campu5. a man who had been jailed and fell he wants to accomplish. Twc Eckington Elementary stood out look hke," l3rown said. to brin_g to the residents of Shabazz has been an aggressive victim 10 his own inadequacies. A ll of the Howard Plaza God was working with that man to something I don't see the t to Dunham because of its Anacosua in !he race for the Ward proponent of Afroccnmcity fo r doing." c convenient location to campus. Towers West resident assistants 8 City Council seat. several years. resurrect him,'' ·shabazz said. " I The school's students range from and some members ofthe Howard "I have never sought to run for "The ideology that I have is that saw what Barry meant to our Malik Shabazz was thr~J pre-Kindergarten to the sixth Plaza management arc any type of political office because of Black nationalism. I believe that people. He gave them hope and the limelight after a speech ~ 1 grade. Dunham believed since the participating in tne project. I have seen too much hypocrisy in Black people should control the encouragement to change their lives Khalhd Muhammed on Hot students are at an impressionable "I think I must give first. I am politics. However, after having businesses in our community, the around and that is what inspires last April. Members of lhe l11f age, it is important to provide sacrificing my time in hopes !hat worked for Marion Barry in 1992, schools and politicians in our me to continue his mission." community and national Efl them with positive role models. others will follow," Julius Bailey, I now see the need and have the communi ty. We must be in control The City Council board acts as agencies assailed Shabazz ar < To date, approximately 35 building coordinator of the desire to help our people in ofour own destiny. ofo ur economy an advisor commiuee to the mayor sup_porters for being anti-Serr students have signed up to Howard Plaza Towers, said. " I am Southeast," Shabazz, who wiII be to self-employ and to make our and its members are elected from their remarks. I participate in the program. involved in education and this is completing a graduate degree in neighborhoods safe." 28-ycar-old the eight wards that make up the " I have made no anti-Sm 1he kind of thing I do." statements and I stand behindlf Freshman nursing major Shanda law this year at Howard Umversity Shabazz said. District of Columbia. The 1 Broune believes geuing involved Volunteers said tutoring keeps Law School. said. Serving as a security guard. economically-depressed Ward 8 word I have said. My concat with the school childre n is the tutors in perspective. It was in 1988 that "the spokesman, and campaign was a key vo11ng bloc in Barry·s ·94 with the people of Ward 8 arxlll' im~ rtant. ''Yeah, we are at Howard. We Movement" began for Shabai.z. As organizer for Barry's Cily Council mayoral c,tmpaign which received make it plain that Jewish fCfX' 'The students will learn more are at the Mecca, but we have a participant in lhe 1989 takeover of race and 1994 mayoral campaign, much pre~s for its Afrocentric not the 1~~ue in Ward 8.' and become more involved in more important things 10 do than school." Broune said. !felling the grade," Johnson said. Faraji Johnson, also decided · It's all in vain if we don't go out to get involved with the program. there." Spirit of Black history month fill; Forest Village Park Mall's hallways asked her 10 develop something for Black history suspended from leather straps around !heir r By Monica Holly month. The echo from 1he drums filled the mall r Hilltop Staff Writer "Harriet Tubman has always been a heroine one end to the other. of mine because of her strength. So I went to the The Wo'se dance lhe.iter combines a mili Music, drama and dance filled the Forest library and read and read until I came up with a of African dance and folklore from the cu\1 Village Park Mall this past weekend as WHUR- script," Gunn said. or Guine.i, West Africa. 96.3 FM hosted a celebration for Black history Next, the Wo'sc African Dance Theater of Thcfinale totheWo'se'sperformance~a month. Northeast D.C., dressed in cowry shell halter invitation fo r audience members to loin The gospel music of the Moye Ensemble tops and wrapped skirts made of African fabric. women dancers ruid follow along as they llllll brought the crowd to its feet as the song "How moved their nips and arms in syncopation to the the movements of a vast array of Arr• Excellent" resonated throughout the mall. The beat of the wo·se drummers. The drummers animals. ensemble. comprised of 15 women and five pounded with furious hands on swaying drums Lisa Hoffer, marketing director for F. men. was dressed in majestic purple robes. Village Park Mall, who along with WH Ulysses Moye, founder of the ensemble said hclpecl put the event together, said she the group includes singers from more than 15 pleased with the outcome. different congregations. Hoffer and WH UR have also planned SC' more Black history month festivities. On ) Following the music was a live dramatization Feb. 25 a step show comprised of sorori1ie;: of Harriet Tubman which delighted the children fraternities will be held at the mall. Gilbcr. in the audience. All eyes were glued to Gretchen s tore in the mall specializing in Gr. Gunn as she brought the historical figure to life organization paraphernalia, will also and pulled a toy revolver from her dress and sponsoring the event. re~ted the infamous words of Tubman, "you An essay contest is also being spoos~ w,11 be free or die." conjunction with Watch Tune UP, a store ii Senior Desmond Dunham spearheaded Gunn began her dramatizations of Tubman mall. The essay contest is en1illed, "Fa:i Each One Teach One more than lfiree years ago after her co-workers African Americans who are meaningful 101 Ramadan allows time for reflection, self discipline

And the pre-dawn phone calls are the Islamic lu nar calendar. " It is wrillen that when we fast light, usually an odd number of the Ni$hl Of Qadr(Power). By Natalle P. McNeal to ensure !hat Alia and her Muslims Ramadan is part of Fard, the during the day we show our dates along with milk or water. "It IS a night better than I Hilltop Staff Wrtter friends coUectiveJr begin the day five obi igations that Islam is based devotions to try to rise above the Then there is Adhan, or call to months." Abdul-Malik said. according to Allah s word. on. The obligations are testimony of usual animal ways," Zaki Salaam prayer. Maghrib, the eveni ng occurs during the last IO dar During the month of February, Ramadan is the ninth month of faith called salat, the fi ve daily said. "It gives me time for inner prayer of the five prayers is done Ramadan on odd numbered Alia Hashim's daily r itual has !he Islamic lunar calendar and is prayers, called Zakat, paying a growth and contemplation because collectively. Next, rftar, or the usuaUy the 25 or 27 day of changed. Instead of waking up just also a time fo r fas~ng ar:id reflection charily of 2.5% of net annual fasting gives 1he body a chance to communal eating during Ramadan for those of Mushm faith. income, Saim Ul-Ran1adan, fasting month." in time for her 9: IO classes, her clear itself out." takes place. According 10 Islam, lhe 1 a.larm clock rings at 4:30 a.m. She "Ramadan is the month that during the month of Ramadan, and But not all are required 10 fast. At 7:45, the night prayer, lsha, is Allah decided to deliver and reveal was the night that Allah had tip toes to lhe telephone to avoid Hajj. Ole pilgri~age to the house of Women who are menstruating, done. Quran delivered from himstl waking her roommate, and starts a all of the leuers of lhe Qur' an to the Allah. or God, m Mecca. pregnant, or nursing a child do not At about 8:00, ''When the sky is chain of phone calls. Ordinarily. Last Prophet Muhammed," Amir " Ramadan is a very spiritu al fast. In addition, people who are devoid of any night from tbe sun­ earth. During the o' such calls would not be welcome at Johari A6dul-Malik said. An Amir time. Its meanin_g is bigger than sick, or mentally handicapped do no residual sunlight. We do worshipping is intensified. such an early time of the dl\)', but is a leader or organizing j ust fasting dunng the clay. It's not participate. But not all segments Taraweeha," Abdul-Malik said. When the sight of the this is no ordinary day for Aha and coordinator, in the Muslim faith. practicing self restraint and of ~ e population understand 1he "Th[aweeha prayer is only done moon, S hawwaf. is seen her Muslim counterparts. During the holy month of cleansing your soul," Hashim said, fasting rules. dunng Ramadan. Ramadan is over. On this da) This morning and ever )' Ramadan, all of North America's '.' It 's fi!)ihng out who you are and Ramadan, as with all aspects of Thraweeha prayer, is often Ion& Muslim holiday, E'ld Al-Fil morning during the month of 200,000 Muslims, along with other 1mprovmg yourself." Islam, has detailed ritual. TI1e daily because 11 Rakats, are done. celebrated. "People gather, Ramadan, breakfast is 001 e.iten Muslims across the world fast in The fasting is to allow time 10 fast is broken promptly at sunset. Rakats. is the mot.ions that one must charity for poor people, and with the company of sunshine, but order to celebrate the holy month. concentrate on self improvement. Be forehand. many Muslims do complete during every prayer. The gi fts. It lasts fo r three days. ~ instead witn the calmness that This year Ramadan began on Muslims are to abstain from food, Sunnat, an optional Arabic prayer number of Rakats vary according to people say Ramadan Mubl comes with the earth before sunrise. February 1st, at the sighting of the drink, tobacco and sex, between in Islam. Afterwards, the fast is the prayer. blessings of Ramadan be in) new moon, but varies according to dawn and sunset. usually broken with something Also during Ramadan, there is Abdul-Malik said. THE HILLTOP February 2~ fel ~A~6~======"""=:':':"""""'::::::-='::~~~~===~=~~=~':~""':::::""'~~""':::~=====INTERNATIONAI4 ======~; ,,,,,,,. Authorities debate immigration problem in Gabo t 1. Learned Dees. program officer for the produclions. Extrac1ion of oil is very j By Ndlmyake Mwakalyelye National Endowmenl for Democracy expensive. Price of oil is unstable because CAMEROON I Hilltop Staff Writer believes ii is discriminalory. profi1 is determined by the value of the U.S. +• "The people who are charged the most dollar, which is unsteady." j Immigration is not an issue that plagues arc the ones war11ed 1he least," he said. The imposition of strict immigra1ion the United Slates alone. Gabon, a Cen1ral The counselor at the Embassy of Gabon laws was also at1emp1ed in 1978 when the African nation. is curren1Jy laying down emphasized 1ha1 illegal ifllmigrants economy experienced a downturn. laws tha1 aim to reduce the number of constitulc what lhey call an "informal "Gabon is experiencing the pinch again illegal foreigners considerably. sector.H and trying to regain contr0l of its economy," "We have too many foreigners who "lllegal immigrants don't pay taxes and Dees said. come into Gabon without any visas or legal have no fixed abode, yel they commil many According to Dees, only in I978 and authorization," a counselor at the Embassy crimes. Unemployment is very high," he recently has immigration policy tightened of Gabon in Washington. D.C., said. "We said. "Once [the immigrants] are on foreigners. Before, the policy was soft have not asked anyone to leave. We jus1 registered, the governmenl will not lose its on illegal immigrants because they did the want them to register and become legal in 1ax money." menial labor that no one else wanted to do. the country." Though small, with a population of only "The president and government aides Though the issue is simply regis1ering two million, immigrants have been drawn don't instigate or stop it from happening. and gaining official status to remain in 10 Gabon since its independence in 1962 The borders of Gabon are very porous thus Gabon, many foreigners arc leaving by the because of the economic opporiunities lhe people come in and out without any thousands and going 10 neighboring oil-rich country provided. problems," Dees said. countries because they could not afford to "Gabon has the largest pclroleum Yet, he said the government is neglect~ng pay the high residence fees by the February resources and the highest per capi1a income the real issue, which is a crumbling 15 deadline. in the whole sub-Saharan region,'" saio economy that resulted from poor Also, reportedly, immigran1s are being Adonis Hoffman, senior associate for 1he leadership. Consequently, the government discrimina1ed agains1 based on their Carnegie Endowment for International is blaming Gabon's problems on country of origin. Some are made to pay Peace said. "Gabon is cited as a model of immigrants. more for their residence cards than others. success in Africa as a whole." ''The government is seeking legitimacy However, according to the Embassy, this However, the economic s1ability of the by finding a scapegoat," Dees said. "The act is nol discriminatory. country has been shaken recently. first way to deal with this problem is to be Immigrants who come from countries t "The economy is declining in Gabon politically stable and long-term policy that arc part of the Common Economic and because it is based on preying of raw should be made as opposed 10 short-term Cuslom Union, a Cen1ral African trade ma1erials such as oil, timber, manganese policy in terms of how they deal with organization, are charged less than other and uranium," the counselor from the immigration." immigrants. embassy said. .. Ac1ivi1y is low in all China, U.S. negotiate trade laws Nigerians, African Americans Some importc;p goods from knowingly, to pira1e American By Joseph F. Glasco China which may be affected goods. express solidarity in Catholicis Hilltop Staff Writer include: answering machines, "There is no company set up Though 1hc differences in giftsofourchurchandour shoes, sponing goods, winier in China to pirale 1he products of B}'. Patricia Hardin worship styles of the Nigerian then we will go forward t The Uniled States and China apparel and electronics. 01her countries,'' he said. ''There is Hilltop Staff Writer Catholics and the African- Without one another we continue 10 negotiate in hopes of Tianjun Hou of the China a lack of awareness of this type of American Catholics were few, nothing." avoiding a trade war that may erupt Council for 1he Promotion of Fair law in China. Chinese goods are The notion held by some that Wilson said the differences she Catherine Uzoma, diret: if an agreement, about U.S. International Trade said sanctions also pira1ed in China. so the Catholicism is a "White man·s noticed, such as the African the Newborn Sickle Cell~ demands fo r more strict are not a solution because he claims Chinese arc the number one victims religion•· was strongly disputed by drumming during the musical up program al Howard Uru enforcement of its copyright and the Chinese have responded of piracy." priests during a combined mass selec1ions, were enjoyable. and member of the Nig piracy laws on American-made favorably 10 U.S. requests. held Sunday with the Nigerian "1 especially enjoyed the way in Catholic Community Arcbdi Though China has persistently goods in China. is not reached by "Within 15 years, we have had Ca1holic Community and the which the Nigerian choir used their agreed. evaded complying with U.S. Feb. 26. patent law. So, China has made predominantly African-American own singing voices as major "This is the best tir. These laws are designed to greal progress in creating laws," he demands in 21 negotia1ingsessions Na1ivi1y Catholic Church in instruments," she said. 'They were worship-as one," said U reserve the exclusive legal right of said. in the past two years, lasl July Northwest Washing1on. so full of life." who sings in the Nig the US 10 reproduce, publish and In re1aliation, China has President Clinton ex1ended most ·'Catholicism has existed in Wilson also said the many Community choir. •·we war favored nation trading status 10 sell a form of li1erature, musical or threatened to increase its own Africa since before Columbus fan1ilies and children she observed Nigerian and African-A China despite its past artistic work. tariffs by 100 percent on popular sailed to America," said Aloysius al 1he mass made her feel more at community] to realiie thr However, the Chinese U.S. imports including video abuses. Achonwa, chaplain of the Nigerian home. are a part of each other." government claims that U.S . games, cigarenes and alcohol. Mike Jendrejcyk of Human Catholic Community Archdiocese But despile any difference of Af1erthe service, Wilson demands for betler enforcement of The Chinese, who boast the third Rights Walch feels 1hat the Clinton of Washington, D.C. religious practice, many Nigerians the pew smiling. re0ectingcr copyrights on compu1er software, largest economy in the world, are administration has been The mass, hosted by Nativity and African Americans viewed the she had just experienced. music tapes and compact discs are also being asked 10 shut down 29 hypocrilical when dealing with Catholic Church in honor of Black opportunity to commune with one "Solidarity," is a word ·. unfair for their developing nation. plants thal have produced over 70 China. History Monlh, gave many another and worship God together used to describe the conq "Some demands of the U.S. million bootlegged {illegally "There is a definite double African-American Catholics as mosl importan1. the Nigerian community ml cannot be fulftlled by the Chinese copied] compact and video discs for standard concerning how the insight in10 the religious tradi1ions "We share a common mo1her the Nativity Church mass. side. Some of these demands their markel and 01hers abroad. administration is treating copyright of the Nigerian Catholic Africa and a common mother of 'The Mass Nativity wasi, canno1 be fulfilled by the U.S. In addi1ion. the Cirino Daily laws with 1ough sanctions whi le community. the Catholic Church. We should because [Black people itself,'' government spokesman for newspaper reported that Seaule's totally ignoring the human rights Jacqueline Wilson. executive use the gifts of our mo1hers to celebrating our heritage,"

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Rwanda could use one. M er-__ Jamie pl C c.an·t qo '° scnool p< toda4-- l.lh, ur Hom.eschooling: A new re\i(\iOJ& ho\idaf+. fo ei-,un-• ~: The Feast of. - toy for religious zealots? 'ot--lJ'n-- c:r bJ C( 7amai-.. 14eo\--.-. ar ore school-age children are being taught at Such a scenario is not as far-fetched as it may ar home in Virginia than at any other time in sound. The politically active within the ranks of the 5t. JoN\ar. le Christian Righi arc very adamant about their positions (r Mrecent history. This is because an obscure ;n Virginia law allows parents to withhold their children on various issues. Across the nation. their zealous from the state's educational system and standards on political activity has resulted in books being removed a, religious grounds. It has been increasingly employed from library shelves. the bombing of abortion clinics by residents of that state. Citing a 23 percent increase and 1he revision of school system curriculums. It is no di in the number ofchildren with religious exemptions in secret that among the major political factions in this w the last year. state officials want to study the practice country, the Christian Right is among the most p: ofallowing "no questions asked'" religious exemptions. determined and influential. They must not be allowed p This issue is one that will assuredly prove to be a 10 turn Virigfoia's exemption law into a political 10y. divisive one. Stereotypically, parents who choose to The fanaticism with which many have careened to ~I teach their children at home are either liberal ex­ the Christian Ri_ght in recent years may indeed. be 1he hippies or backward, back country inbreeds. Actually, reason more kids are receiving home instruction. h their ranks include regular, professional people who Christian political-musclemen have besieged the nation E happen to have strong objections to state-run education. will calls to introduce prayer into the school systems. p Knowing how important the issue is to many Largely unsuccessful m these efforts. the Christian )l Virginians, candidates for state offices often proudly Right has been searching for other ways 10 make i! mention their support for home education in campaign political waves in the name of Christian mornlity. It is literature. apparent that, in Virginia at least, !hey have resorted r, There arc fewer than 2,000 children with religious to pulling their young ones ou1 of the system. a Under proper guidance and with concerned ,a exemptions in the state. however, their parents arc. more J, often than not, staunchly conservative and radically Instruction, any child who receives home-schooling can Christian. Their ties with the larger Christian-Right do as well academically as any state-taught pupil. The p forces within the state may make any attempt to repeal issue at hand here is not quality of education. The issue C or limit this law a futile one. at hand is whether or not Virginia will allow politics Virginia is the only state in the union that allows to masciucradc as religion for much longer. p religious exemptions for '"any pupil, who together with As frightening as it may sound. some methods muM his parents, by reason of bona fide religious training be employed to oversee exempted students and families. '1 or belief, is conscientiously opposed to attendance at This is not religious or interference and to school." Parents simply fill out forms stating their do so would not represent unreasonable stnte intrusion C religio!JS beliefs and are routinely granted the or harassment. If Virginia docs not act to regulate home iJ exemption. schooling closer it could eventually witness total j1 This Virginia law is a good law. It 5hould be s_ystemic collapse. The politiciwtion of the issue by the p maintained. However. as the Tisi of exempted students Christian Right demands that religious exemptions be continues to grow, more and more pressure will be put carefully examined now while it simultaneously '------~I on politicians to act somehow. 1f they do not. radical threatens to subvert any future attempts at restructuring I members of the Christian Right may attempt to make the present system. WE WELCOM & Y OUR LCTTCRS ANO COMMENTS a mockery of the law by xanl(ing their kids out of the public school system until prayer is allowed. TH£ HILLTOP W ELCOMES YOUR VIEWS ON ANY PUBLIC ISSUE. 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D,C. 20059 at Rutgers know: White PHONE: ( 202) 806-6866 America is no cup of tea Our brothers and sisters at Rutgers were fortunate s it possible that in the five years Francis L. in that their president was dumb enough to publicly Lawren_ce has been president _of Rutgers make such outlandish statements. Instantaneously, they THE HILLTOP IUmvers,ty, he has ever put such a big foot m his had an easily-identifiable enemy (Lawrence) and a mouth? We certainly hope not. What makes this cause to fight for (his resignation). The combination situation so interesting is that for a moment (during proved to be all that was needed to get the protest Black History Month to boot) young Black people were underway and the news crews flocking to New Jerse>'.: moved on college campuses 10 combat the ever­ Here at Howard our outrage at Lawrence s emerging face of racism and did so genuinely and comments was not as innamed as his students'. These Portia Bruner, Editor-in-Chief passionately. The reaction of Black students at Rutgers students chose to go to school at a large White­ University to comments their president made that institution were they knew racial animosity and Co-Managing Editors linked their comparatively low SAT scores to their 1en~ions would exist. Whatever, the personal reasons Michael Browne Valarie Williams geneti_c, hereditary background was appropriate and are for choosing to educate oneself (one's Black self) msp1rmg. in such an environment, these students had to realize When hundreds of Black students prevented a that such things were bound to happen. nationally televised basketball game, featuring the As Howard University students, we are blessed to Derricke M. Dennis, Campus Editor Keisha Brown. Production Coordinator top-ra!lked teah1 in the nation from continuing after be able 10 deal with the challenges of attaining our Monica Lewis, Campus Plus Editor Tumara Bythewood. Production Assistant half-ttme, cobwebbed images of past sit-ins and degrees without the added paranoia and anger that Melinda Spaulding, Thmpo Editor Tina Duncan, Production Assistant demonstrations abounded. Many Howard students comes with going to a White school. We know we will cou Id be heard talking around campus about what our never come across such ignorant racism during our s1ay Paul Arnold, Editorial Editor Edward Rice JII. Production Assistant brothers and sisters were doing in New Brunswick. Just here._There is great solace in knowing that even if 11 Leslie Harris, International Editor Stephanie Elam, Copy Desk Chief ~s freque 1_11 as the conversations was the question: remams unspol(cn. Arnesa Howell, Pulse Editor E lsie Theodore., Copy Editor Why don t Howard students hop buses and.support our Maybe ~ur apathy_arises from coml)lacency. We are comrades on the front lines? After all this is our battle, satisfied with cond1t1ons as we experience them and Kisha Riggins, Sports Editor Torri Prettyman, Copy Editor too!" believe they will remain constant. However, each May Elaine Myada, Local Editor Tanika White, Copy Editor In years past this may be exactly what would have thousands of us are forced to seriously contemplate life LaWanda Stone. National Editor Leslloyd Alleyne, Photography Editor happened. However, as we all know and should be outside of the Mecca where racism 1s perpetually '"in ashamed of, we are a wry apathetic and lazy group of your face:· If we all know we must eventuany leave this Me lissa James, Business Editor • Kris Johnson, Assistant Photography Edil students. The fire that burned in the hearts of our oasis and enter the racist world one day. wouldn't we Ralee Cook, Computer Systems E ngineer Vladimir Leveque C h ief Artist I>-!fl:nlS_and grandpare_nts during this country's historic want to actively work to squash racism wherever it Stephen Watkins, Business Manager ' ~1v1l Rights Era ts extmct. For the mos1 part. our words exists'/ We are sure how our brothers and sisters at m support of the greater Black good exceed our deeds Rutgers wou ld respond. How will you? We talk about it when we should be about it. · Kirt Ro llins, Assistant Business Manager Aiesha Powell, Advertising Manager Kofi S impson, Office Manager Sahima Choudhary, Assistant Ad. Managct ~24, 1995 THE HILLTOP A9 PERSPEC11IVES Accusations aimed at Qubilah are bogus ,.-- o~ Manning Marable ~at, a long history of involvement as an FBI King stated at the event, "As my sisters Farrakhan only weeks before his murder. In American leadership thrOuf1hout the · '" (?r_mant and _as ~ membe~ of extremist here will undoubtedly agree, the families of his recent press conference, Farrakhan country in the 1990s. Our cities are in ·trectnt accusations that the second. pohtica! orgamzations. Fa~mg a cocaine African-American leaders are often the astutely played into this myth by reminding economic and social crisis. The center of ,d.iu~hterofMalcolrn x conspired 10 ~~session 1<:harge l!fter bcmg arrested by target of tactics us_ed 10 _divide. conq~.er, listeners that "Qubilah 1s a child that ) White America~ politics a pears to be • rd r h d f: . in neap? is pohcc in. N_ov. 1993. separnte. mahgn, d1scrcd)t and destroY:. knew and held m my arms as a ba~y. • moving once agam to the far right.11 with the ~Jr-~ipfe': °tou1~ p~~~~an~t~~~~ F1t2:patrick_1 thprobablY used his prior per:onal Because ofthe emphasis on personalities Farrakhan asserted that "I wa, never a rival elcc11on of a conservat1ve majority in .:ittd sbarp but pc,iorly focused ?on~acts; Shaban1olurehcrintoaplot and the logical story of revenge. most of Malcolm X. Malcolm was my mentor Congress and the success of Proposition -iari· across Amen. ca. Tn general, asAo~e 10 appeal feder~I prosecut(?rs. o_bservers have f!)iled to gr:asp the ccn_tral a!1d '1,1,Y teacher. I never considered him my 187 m Cal_ifornia las.1 year. . ... 0 f Ih d 13 s a result. most African Americans s1gmficance ofth1s story. Without quesllon, rival. For Afncan Americans, there 1s a logical .~tef e me th analysis has have COf'!cluded lhat the prosecution of the federal government's allegations against Howe,•er. more than any other figure. reaction which seeks Black solidarity in the (ll]v~:itnaJly above e ~prd cultural Shabau ts only the most recent chapter in Shabazz represent a continua1ion of lhe Farrakhan wa5 responsible for setting an face of growing political inlolerance. 1/''ln,i e Editi_on''00 an\' 1 a Copy." thedf~deral government's elaborate efforts surveillance and assault against the political atmosphere of violence and rc,'Cnge agains1 Farrakhan can appeal effectively 10 a Black :rio31 p.:rspecuve . 1 c Slory as it to 1srup1_ the Bh\ck movement. Black legacy of Malcolm X. lfowever. the other Malcolm X. The Nation of Islam had audience, in part. by arguing that there arc ~-o": l~~i!:t:inJ'.~e~~~1~n Q~bn~c~ schola~th Micha~!.1 Enc Dyson has obsen'Cd r!)aS_on that, th is story ~as nation~) advocaled an eclectic blend of religious no lo~ger importam al!ies, who believe in ib Shaban and Farrakhan. the t~at11st0 1 is case s part and parcel of the s1gmficance 1s due to LOUIS Farrakhans fundamentahsm and conservative Black cguahty and socia!Jus11cc 111 America. But _.,1kandcontrovcrsial leader of the B1 ~c legacy_ of the FBI intervcni~g in pos!lion as a. major leader within the n~tionalism, which C!Jndemned interracial i(we truly separate myth and l_egend from - ack leadership culture. They surve1l1ed, African-American community. Farrakhan dialogue and any direct rnvolvement 1n h1s1oncal fact, we can begm 10 build tol hlam. they undermme~. they carried on a massive expresses the alienation and rage of politics. During the mid-1960s, Malcolm bridges of racial dialogue and common J four-year-old chi Id. Shabazzth campaign of d1s1or11on of Black l~ders mil!ions 9f A_fric~n Americans. AnY, attack gm~ually t?egan 10 repudiate his older anti- understanding. That awareness ofc_ommon .,__ !hem~~i~li~~ 1~c~mh~; Afaudcu•rbobny from Pa\11 R?beson to Jesse Ja<:kson. . against h1!1J, m 1h1scomex1, !S perceived by Whue ~sll10ns, and looked to Africa and huma~1ty d_raws from t_he real contributions - • S In solidarity and sympathy w11h Oub1lah the maJomy of Black Americans as part of 1he Third World 10 empower the status of and h1slorical evolution of Malcolm X. · ,,m on Feb. 21. 1965. Although lhc haba7.l., a group of prominent Atrican• 1he larger conspiracy and systematic assault Black Americans. The sad effort by federal prosecutors to ·td men had connections with lhe American women came together late last 10 undermine Black leadership and As Malcolm 's version of Black charge Malcolm X's daughter with a ,,fhlam. none implicaled Farmkhan m!>nlh at Harlem's Schomburg Center 10 advocacy organizations in general. nationalism became increasingly ridiculous conspiracy only helps 10 build tnal. Supposedly, Shaban and a r:use funds for her defense. Or:ganized by Even before Spike Lee's 1992 film internationalist :md humanistic, he incurred legitimacy for Louis Farrakhan. high ,chool classmate, Michael Jewell Jackson McCabe, 1he Cnairwoman "Malcolm X." many Black Americans the wrath of his former colleagues. It was Fitzpatrick. plotlcd the possible of the National Coalition of One Hundred constructed a series of myths around in this confromatio1.al context lftat an angry The writer is the Director of Columbia all()n of Farrnl..han. As the facts Black Women, participants included Rena Malcolm. One popular myth, for example, young Farrakhan declared that Malcolm U11iversity's f11stit111e for Research i11 t,J 1hc case have become public. it Evers, the dau_ghter of slain civil rights suggests that Malcolm X was about to was a "Judas'' who was "worthy of death." Africa11-American Studies. b((ome clear that Shabaz7 was leader Medgar Evers, and Bernice King, the reconcile his disagreemems with Nation of Farrakhan's current popularity is a litmus entrapped by Fitzpatrick, who daughteroflhe late Martin Luther King Jr. Islam leader and 1cs1 on the current crisis of African- Howard's obsequious "professional Negroes" administration writes: "Jalloh's total disregard of facts Or. C hcrnor J a lloh naive politicization of intellectual desert; 1ha11he depressively nauseating intel lcctualendowment ofthat and his intemperate Mylc ... suggests that Ile is a poor department is a repulsive brew of Keystone "pitiful department." lawyer and an even worse philosopher." This syntactical ~ustlingprofessiona_l Negroes and confirmed, 110 characteristically craftless, administration trash bas lhe form of the sentence: "Frazier's uuer Accordingly, the unequivocal and merciless .dle~d responses lo my perspective piece irrevocable Eurocentnsts . nullification of thcin1cllec1ual corruption that produces inability to write and Gbadagesin's coi:nitivc i,><>verty This unholy al liance has produced the following .rd\ Queen of Spin" 2/10/95), Professor is conclusive evidence of tlie administrations poor and reproduces professorialcourtiers like Gbadagcsin Frazier ("Whining Professors are an ancient uncomfortableconsequencc: no African American is a and Frazier constitutes an explicit condition precedent taste." Clearly.Fra,ier can not effectuale a subJect­ tenured member of the"pitiful department," and no 11 Ho11,ard") and Professor Scgun Gbadagesin verb agreement. for rekindling the fire that once madcgenerations of nt of Philosophy has a totally different senior African-American philosophyprofessor would students Howard proud.\ And this documented and certified bloke is a even dream of seuing up shop at the philosophy sty. In the absence of such a radical re-appropriation, ,ti,e") predictably, demonstrably and professor at Howard! Given the blinding, nauseating 1<1Cally demonstrate that the administration. Gbadagesin's banal, soulless and ideologically this once mighty bastion of Africanexcellcnce, once spectacle of this half-baked Ph.D., only the gods can transparent article is an apt example of how power can shining vital proof of the spiritual. ethical '.!JI an ageless tradition. has its spies in the save our students. Moreover. the camp of the fifth hijack and corrupt critical thought. iatc: opponunistic, unwashed, intellectual column professorial oughl to advise Frazier to andintellectual endurance of the sons and daughters of Professorial courtesans. Thal Ladner is burdened by fatal character flaws is African slaveswill sink into the dustbin of history. religiously stay away from reasoned professorial not refuted one bil by counting the crumbs she has ioc<>hcrent and shamelessly obsequious pieces debates and. above all, 10 refrain from making silly and The Board ofTrustees' action paradigm is obvious: 1111trly despicable front men of Howard s fiflh oppor1unis1ically dropped in the philosophy sty. say yes tore-appropriation of respect for Howard and uninformed determinations of professorial competence Moreover, that Gbadages1n wrote in Ladner's "defense" say no 10 a Lailnercandidacy. To make her president 1fe,soriat.: regrcuably. but perspicuously until and unless he learns tu make his subjects agree ulll, portray 1hc icy depths of despair, doom prove, what philosophershavc always been: easy marks "would constitute a deliberate andmalicious creation with their \'Crbs. It is a sure bet that an inabilm· to string for sharp operalors. of civil war conditions on 1his campus." px,n, 11110 which this cnawhilc great center of words correctly suggest< a crippled ability fr, connect In the history of Howard. Gbadagesin is the only g ha, been sunk by i;encrations of correctly substantive thoughts. "chair" of adepartment to slavishly pitch a department s nl\trators, the Ladner interim administration The writer is a professor ill the Deparrmem of Accordingly, the only meaningful, historically tent al the "A•building."This constitutes an expected Philosophy. founded and ideologically adequalc categorization of and dramatic corroboration oftheservile. uncritical and "demh of taste and horse sense in the Ladner the faculty on the basis of its relationship to the .•!ration became all 100 obvious when it administration is this: obsequious (servile, "suck up") ii> two obsequious "hired guns" to do battle faculty and critical faculty. The category "whining" :r. l:nfortunately the two brainless and tactless professors, which Frazier disingenuously fabricates for hire are intellectual and ethical pygmies. from the whole cloth of professorial reaction and Ny obscurantism and then fraudulentlygrounds in antiquity. trazier. This alleged professor appears to is an oxymoron at Howard. ~ m the habit of self-refutation. Example: If I Thus, it is quite clear from Frazier's piece that he tobc taken "seriously." why did Frazier spend belongs to a small.intellectually limpid and . \\,hich he should have spent boning up on backstabbing, obsequious faculty cabal - ''profcs,ional h grammar. to read and respond 10 my Negroes•· according to Malcolm X. This constellation ~i,e piece? Proof certain that the Ladner ofobsequious faculty constitutes the vanguard of ..:tncy syndrome. discussed in my initial piece. reaction inunivers1ty politics: administrative tous in the fifth column professoriate. courtesans. DIO\er. it is obvious that a professor should have Second. Gbadagesin. The so-called chair of the l(f that an auemrt to drum up Ladner's wobbly philosophydepartment. Segun Gbadagesin, wrong en presidentia candidacy on the basis of her headedly, dictatorially (in thefashion ofAfrican "big • mempt> to fix eroblems largely caused by men") and tautologically asserts tha1 thedepartment of \ administration (in which Ladner was a big philosophy, that "pitiful department," does not sharemy . i, completely, viciously and spectacularly rather easily pro1en thesis that Ladner is haunted by That Frazier and Gbadagesin failed to spot this the divergence of her words from her deeds. It is a logico-,ubslanli ,c circularity suggests that the historical fact that philosophers. from Plato 10 oow, are not professorial materiaf. Heidegger, have always sheep1shlyworshipped at the • er\ linguistic competence is completely. temple of extra-juridical power. inably. unarguably and embarrassingly Nevertheless no obsequious rhetoric, can negate the ,:. It is clearly oelow the level ofa \\ell coaclied following facts about the philosoi>hy department ,'!tool student. For example: in an ignorant, That Clarence Lee, Dean of College of Arts and ..i:al and comical auack on my philosopli1cal and Sciences, and JoyceLadner. in her position as Vice :..:ilcompetence, (that this reckless nerd foolishly president for Academic Affairs.improperly, if not I :ruto pass on a discipline and a profession thal 1llegally, awarded tenure 10 Segun Gbadagesin ~ his cognitive reach speaks volumes a!><>ut andJoseph Asike without the vote of the department's ;iititi1ecapi1al of the fifth column profossonate) tenured facu lty;thal salary gaps in the philosoph,Y ~ling unofficial, Negro mouthpiece of Ladner department speak volumes abouuhe admmis1ra1ion s Ooh La La Act now or forever be enslaved dancers deserve receive financial aid. And now Congress debates mastered all that exists and it is us who have lhe David Gaither whether or not to privatize the jails, making power to rise back 10 that level. Our limitations prisoners _1he priyate slaves of the compl\ny that are self-imposed. Though road blocks may be your respect Black people across the country are now owns the msm1a1on. put in our way by those who prosper from our questioning whether we are slipping back in time With the rapid expansion of the technology , they are merely speed 6umps on the needed entertainment. As a four- as days progress. Blatantly racist and divisive age and the abundance of cheap labor found m road of unlimited development. F.amestina Moore year band member. I understand policies are growing steadily. Media and prisons and third world countries, America is When a man has the knowledge of self and and am well aware of the press~res legis lative attacks on Black leaders. beginning 10 believe there is no more use for the knowledge of God and is in tune with himself · t 12ain, the time has come and hard work that go into organizations, entertainers, athletes, politicians Black people. and God. he can bring imo existence whatever H~ard ~tuden1s a lesson on performing in front of large crowds. ancl all (lrOfessions arc ubiquitous. O.J. Simpson. It is time for another mass movement in Black it is he desires. All that we need to sustain a ·•wld. As Howard students, we nee

• A10 THE HILLTOP Feburary,( ~======.,,,,,;;~~~=""""",,,,="""=="'==="'======,~ LERY 4 Personal 'Tfie P[ura[ity ofPassion THE OFFERING Pain Can it 6e tliat eacfi R.,_iss gets wnger, aeeper? 'Eacfi toucli gets softer, sweeter? A woman taught me how to eat, Remembering 'Every nerve is pric/tc A woman taught me how to read, I sense her.. . ana re~es me Now my mind strives for perfec­ piercing {if(g, a warm 6atli. Couuf it 6e tliat I /i;J,,ow liow you fee{ - tion. the silent, A woman taught me self-esteem, 6ut dark not wliat you feel Now I've conqueredd life's rejec­ tfiat pusfies ana puffs me, enveloped room ma/qs my lieart-6eat fast tion. The my relaxed body ana my mina move s{ow? en1 In tensing th, A woman taught me how to lust, Is it tlie syndironi.zatwn And I thought life was complete. mood­ tlie spontaneity, A woman taught me Friendship, readily anx­ tlie contraaictions, ,h tlie o;rymorons, u.i And I learned how to receive her. ious tlie liyper6oCe, 19, It~ lying naked next tlie mystery, of A woman showed me Selfishness, tfie arama, to tlie music, And I learned how to deceive her. tlie rliytfim, Then, a woman showed me you in her world Understanding, wondering if tlie fCesfi against tfie fCesli you'll tlie mina witfi mina And I learned how to receive her. tliat drives us tliis way? ever love me 'We cannot stop· A woman hid herself from me, as you turn 'But fiave we even 6egun? And my efforts only teased her. :May6e tlie R.,_isses are getting wnger and aeeper, your tlie toucfies softer ana sweeter A woman shared her thoughts back without 'But tlie nigfit is coming to a cwse tlie aay is drawing near. with me, good-night :Juu{ wlien tomorrow 6ecomes toaay, And my slightest actions pleased 1.l or kiss on my tlie passion 6ecomes calm- (( her. 'WiCC we fina tliat fast nigfit 's trutfi 2 forehead, (t is tfiis morning's Cie? ?, A woman showed me Scandal, simple intimacy, (1 4 And from then, I could not trust as I silently ( 'TaniKfl, 'Wliite© 5 her. scream A woman showed me righteous­ Damn, this bit­ ness, A Cycle of Life' ter-sweet 1. and Scandal lost its luster. torture. .. Moving straight forward I begin to form images ~ with my mind, 1, A woman taught me games of maybe you ought to curves, lines, figures and symbols all destine a Love, ,i leave me ... to meet in time, ( And I learned them to compete. • A woman had more cunning, as teardrop fell ( selecting a curve I try to follow it unitl it And in games I found Defeat. upon your chest ends, awakening you , A woman set aside her dreams it takes me many places, while exalting all of .( I fumble ' for me, my wind, t to find an On Retreat her love was based. excuse so and just when I thought I was too tired to follow A woman found her dreams any more, again, you aren't cer­ And her love was soon erased. tain this curve comes to an end, in front of a wooden that it door, A woman gave this world true hurts. gifts, · and after I have rested, I take my chances and op the door to go in, In accord with Divine plan. -cassandra At least I must repapy the debt, bedeau© fmding inside an image of a line and thinking to By offering a m a n. myself " HERE WE GO AGAIN." Leavy Matthews III© H.A. Jackson© THE HILLTOP B1

~ S tudent apa thy a f fect s all on carr1pus long lines and of professors that By Rashida Syed just can't teach. Bui at this point, I Hilltop Staff Writer I ju\l deal with it. I guess I'm """""w • • tho~ghe-. tired of being here," Shannon . Long. dr:!wn-_out registration Bellamy. a junior majoring in - hoes. financial aid blues, profes­ psychology, said. "Howard can t never l>e s t upid enoueh to eay, or emari sor problems. student-adminis­ wear you Olli. I'm just trying to get out by any means necessary." ioaamt. you ",:now· "hat eomeone ele,e ie tration connicts, poor housing. l?aSteless food - this is student Altitudes li~c these raise one ?iout The momenL you do, your learning h fe for more 1han a few Howard very important question. W hat University students. about those who wi ll follow in ·Awo Oeun Kunle But what is the average stu­ the footsteps of future alumni? ,­ Bellamy said she is concerned ..6,uree: Acte ofFalth, February 24 meditation dent doing 10 solve these seem­ ~ mgly endfess problems? for students who will come after .,, You know the student who is her. but the same problems stu- i5' always complaining. He is the dents face today \\ere here when i she came and will remain long -' '!1ell: have ':f"'U eve• h d ~ with wom,m student approuching !l,raduation. y~t has not joi_ned a Mngle orgu- after she is gone. 1, 1uden1 who " I ha"e enough of my own g _,, Time Magazine has all the answers 10 every Uni­ personal stress riehl now without 2 versity problem. trying 10 deal with anyone else's "­ Call ll la,iness. Call ii all talk probfom." she said. Bill Cosb). They rushed the stage busines- was handled. In the New& ... and no action. But the truth is In Seai·ch of The fact 1hn1 Ladner "got her and rerused to lea\'e until their "Protests and dcmon,trations an ':! ,.,,e,nment d ecided allow that most s1uden1s are being Leader ship way" di>.1urbcd some students t" ' ' to needs were met. get allention. bu1 the wrong labeled apathetic. That's right­ Students gave manr reasons who still insisted other measures " M c;heal J.ick,xm to perform in Seoul. could have been taken. However. then-President auention. Pro1es1s often become tr ,ernment banned J.ickoon eayin9 just plain uncaring. unaware, for their lack of responsiveness 10 fames Cheek refused 10 remove emergency situations and only uninvolved and uninterested. University issues. But one of the "It's like when people were w 1/tend Kore,in Cuetome. slaves. We're all living under Atwater. So students formed bring about t<:mporary changes. And according 10 several inter­ most common explanations President Ladner. And-she's a committees and took over the And media paint a very negative ~: The Washlng1'0n Poet views. the same folks who refer among some students addressed hard master. The way she did administration building complete picture:· Watkins said. 1oyoung people as "Generation lack of strong le:1dership. a things was cool bu1 with more with overnight bags. They Apathy vs. X ancf the "me-generation." According to Johnson. "Stu­ Health Wlee... notice things could've been bet­ camped out. hahin11, all work and l nvolvemenl unfortunately appear to be cor­ dent leaders navcn't been doing ter.'' Johnson said. cla,ses until conlinnation of Howard I,.ee. . a junior "n w AID:, c we ,imona women ,n the rect. anything. It's like having the Some HUSA officers have A1water·, resignation. C.O.B.J.S. maJor. s:11d students solution and doing nothing with n •e "'" al,out 17',. each yea r elnce Up I n Arms also been critici7ed for not cor­ But. it see'ins like that was are no1 concerned with issues on it. Plus. a leader has to be some­ ,3ro.... t19 the q uicke&t amonq minor "Thi, school is unorganized rectly represeming student, and then. and this is n0\\. campus until ii affects them one you want to follow." ""O 1 Jnt•" for npprox,m;itely 75 and need, a 101 of help.'' Ra,enel addressing their needs. O,er the year,. Student Activ­ directly. But ii is nearly impossi­ Johnson. sophomore who has ,;Reginald X [HUSA ,•ice ~AJDS I: 1n "~1 W0/11e'1 ,n 1994. a Their method. a, explained ities Dirccwr Belinda I ightfool­ ble for any student to escape the not decided on a major. said. president. 1993-9-11 was doing by Walker. was one where she W.ukins ha, obser\'ed a change registration fiasco. Sometimes rce: T,me Magazine "Hmv,1rd is not conducive to something. He "a, "orking ror and Akoma first tried to gel a in student auitudes toward Uni­ direct invol\'ement i, nlll enough learning. You can't even go 10 the studems. but people didn't grasp of the actual problem. \'l!r~ity issues. to incite student activism. class because you're trying 10 like him. People like Chidiadi omen Coming on to Men: 5 Reaeon& Then they would gather student "Students 1oday are largely Watkins complained some get validated." Akoma because he's popular, but ideas and input and sit down interested in ·J-mei,m.' And students just will not participate. Men Encourage It" Howe"er, Johnson does not we need someone who's sin­ ··sensibly" wnh Ladner to work being involved isn't glorified. "On a good day only about I 0 cere." Johnson. who is not 1 It <>upport! t he m 1n In "keepin<3 hie think he can change anything. things 0UI. The students of '89 had a differ­ pcrce111 of the student population cool" "What point does it make 10 involved in student government. But Akoma and Walker are ent kind of consciousness:· comes out to vote. That is a &ood try I(? change things ir_rou knludem apathy, she 2 lte a role reverea l t hat likely will relieve not the first student leaders to nothmg will happen? he sa,d. In his defense. Shaconda ha,e 10 deal with this 1ype of McKinney said her participa­ said. anx'ety. Freshman Kameka Stevens Walker. HUSA vice president, pressure. tion in the protest was the clos­ Watkins advises more SIU• ~ • et mulate!II hie fantasies. seems 10 agree. She is satisfied said Akoma did all he could 10 That \Vas Then . . . e,! she could get 10 li"ing in the dents 10 join University-wide with her classes. but sa)s she help students with registration commiuecs 10 aid in changing 4 t re :,,cs h m of l>i.lmM for The year wa, I 989 and stu­ socially-conscious si~ties. cannot stand the prevalent prob­ without pulling nnmense pres­ "I saw students caring about the things "ith "hich they dis". oomet-h t,e di.:! not nit,ate. dents were angry. Concern" very ne lems with administration a11i­ sure on administrators. similar to present issues includ­ each other and looking out for agree. 5. 't prom eeo economra benefit&. tudes and inadequate financial "It may not have looked like ed financial aid. tuition increas• one another. We v.cre one with a "Students muell University. Period. [Ladner's] wax. but we were all registered in one day. And that's tion celebration. Terri Wade. Cessor of journalism. constantly m'e $22 95) "Yes. I'm tired of waiting in working on it.· Walker added. because of what we did," McK­ HUSA presidem 1993-9-1. inter­ reminds students. especially rupted the introduction or those in campus media. to thor­ & LOVttre uy Conn e Bri,e<:oe inne~· said. \\ hat they did was organize a ke)n0tc speaker. President Bill oughly address University issues n • $a) sit-in in the administration build­ Chnton as studentschamcd "Let and problems. !fact &etty t,:,, Walter Moeley ine for three days. And they Turri speak'" Her intentions were ,;One student cannot fight a protested for a total of six. One 10 force former president system.'' Kaggwa said. "Apathy " '" 19.95) of their se\'en and largely publi­ Frankl)'n G. Jenifer to meet sev­ plus a lad.. of foresight will lead Way& by Tina McElroy Anea c ized demands was tfie removal eral demands, including removal 10 the same problems next .rt 13race, $19.95) of Lee Atwater. a member of the of the International surcharge semester. All students should Board of Tru,1ecs at the time. and allowing 1·endors to rema111 show interest in things that will Ae I Am ~ E.Lynn Ha r ne During a conrncation com­ _on Sixth Street. inevitably affect the m whether ·!• . ;,('l 95} memorating Lhe University's The student leaders achie,ed they like it or 1101:· I 22nd birthdn) in early March of their desired end. meeting most I 989. s1udcnts preempted the of their requests. bul many dis­ Nonfiction keynote address to be given by agreed with the manner i 11 which

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for young Howard entrepreneur TRAVEL AGENTS RALLY For example. Yates said, he plans to purchase books for $47 and sell By Shenlkwa Stratford them for $55. -Thi? American Society of Travel Agents Inc. plans to u. Hilltop Staff Writer M.Y. productions is not making a large profit. accordins to Yates. He campaign to fight t~c travel ~g~nt commis,i~n c~ps that were rt. say~ he does w~at he does to benefit the ~tuden_ts while gaming valuable en_a~t~ by the maJ- -The British a~vertisng l!gency ~aatchi & Saatchi has ann4 In the summer, M. Y. Enterprises transforms into a fu ll-scale moving~ plans to rename itself Cord1an1. This name change comes in q and storage company. 0o the departure ,?f the agency"s founders and namesakes. Mnurit .. We are mostly Howard-based, and are a whole lot cheaper than other Charle~ ~natch,. The company has said the new name will bring companies. You can store the first four or five items for only $69 for the -ff. new spmt of harmony. whole summer. Other companies would charge you $75 for each month" Melvin Yates, owner and operator of M.Y. Enterprises the 21-y~ar-old entrepreneur said. ' The diverse company has storage facilities in both Washington. D. C. Howard students not only recognize his name, but value Yates' services. and Maryland to allot for a larger cliemcle. ··1 appreciate the services because as a college student, I don·1 have a BROADCAST SALE If three different companies are not enough, Yates plans to offer a lot of money. Plus, the services are close by. l could go right over to collegiate textbook service next fal l. Bla_ckburn_ to get my Valentine's present." sophomore communications -Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has announced the "P-eople are always complaining a1?<>ut the prices of bo

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"The Life of Frederick Hilltop Staff Writer beginning. importan1 periods in American Do.iglas. · and three novels: 'The According 10 Pickens, History." business successes, the publication 1ha1 Chesnutt was a For Clark Atlanta University During 1895-1900. 1here was a of a few short s1ories in newspapers House Behind 1he Cedars," 'The associaie professor Ernis1ine disfranchisemeni movemcn1 Chesnull. who was born in Marrow of Tradi1ion" and "The complexioned Black who throughoul 1he South 10 take money Cleveland, Ohio on June 20. 1858, and magazines sparked his love in have passed for While [bu1 Williams Pickens, what began as a wri1ing. Colonel's Dream." gradua1e school research project away from 1he African-American was 1he son of two freed Blacks. At "My book 1akes a look at nOI 10] mo1iva1ed him 10 do 1he age of 8, Chesnun's family "Cl\esnutt was the most he could for his people. Be lias resul1ed in more 1han 11 years communily. And although Blacks p roductive be1ween 1898 and Chesnutt's life as an activisl in a of research al\d a book en11tled, had won 1he right 10 vote afler 1he moved 10 Fayeneville, NC 10 join historical movemen1:· she s1ressed. ambitious, discipfined i11dil !vs fa1her who was serving in 1he 1905." Pickens said. "Unlike 1he he felt ii wru, his moral duty~ "Charles W. Chesnutt and the Civil War, most of their rights were explann1ions of some critics, who "Whal I do is examine him as being Progressive Movement." 10s1 during the lale 19th century. Union Army. a progressive tool. All progressives he could for "the cause." Afler his mo1her's dea1h. I3- sax he wro1e nothing else afler tha1 Chesnutt was a very , "l became interested in Chesnull Chesnun's s1rong views led him 10 1905. that is ab,olu1ely not true. His didn't light the big business tycoon. when I was in graduate school and a consian1 fight agains1 1his year-old Chesnu11 qui1 school to Some were ac1he in other areas of wriler, and he voiced his op become a salesman and later last published slory was in 1930." I was assigned 10 do research on disfrnnchisemem as well as wi1h Throughou1 his lifetime, American life." aho111 anything he fell 1hrt Booker T. Washing1on:· explained Washington, who was one of 1hc worked is hi s father's grocery s1orc. The his1orical movemenl in the African-American comn leading spokesman for African­ When his father losl the store, it was Chesnun made i1 a poin1 10 use his This was clearly c~hibi1ed Pickens. who teaches English. "I talents 10 focus on tile issues facing which Pickens refers to is the was 1he only African American in Americans al thal time. Chesnutt's responsibility as 1he Progressive Movemenl. a term he rejected the degrading\\' At a recem readinll al Vertigo eldest child to continue to supporl Black people a1 1he lime. 1he class, so I wan1ed 10 do an The lirs1 collec1ion of Chesnun's given 10 the middle class movemenl of William Hannibal Th opposing view [from Booker T. Books, Chesnu11 s grea1- the fami ly. between I 895 and I 920.. which resulted in the book granddaugh1er, Pa1ricia Morris, "Af1er he lef1 school. he writings, '"The Conjure Woman," Washing1on's)." includes nine short stories and a During that era, many laws were pulled from book shelves. Picken's daugh1er and other friends, continued 10 1each himself. He was "I don't know of any \\T And 1hc book that sparked the few iales. These stories were passed 1ha1 became 1he basis for flame of interes1, Chesnun's "The former studen1s and admirers actually a self-iaught man. He any other person in Ame learned Latin, French and German wrinen 10 counter 1he "Planlation 1oday's Food and Drug Act and Sheriffs Children." joined as 1he author summarized Child Labor Laws. litera1ure who had such JJl 1he life and accomplishments of wi1h the aide of a few tulOrs," she School Philosophy" which "I figured thal anyone who wrote promo1ed the idea that was In her book, Pickens 1akes greal with 1he pen," said Pickens. tha1 probablt would disagree wi lh Charles Waddell Chesnun. !Old her audience. of Chesnun's work is the er Upon leaving Fayetteville in meam for Black people. no1c of Chesnun ·s contribu1ions 10 Washing1on s views. Ever since "This man's life spanned the 1his period, including his of whal one can do with Civil War 1he Rcconstruc1ion 1883, Chesnull returned 10 ln his second collec1ion. ·The then. I've just kept up my research," Wife of His Youth." Chesnun dealt es1ablishmen1 of a set1lemen1 house The pen b mightier than the she added. Period. 1he Populis1 Movemem, the Cleveland and became an well­ in Cleveland. And allhough and I 1hink Ch~snun prove, Progressive Movement, World War es1ablished businessman. And in wi1h lhe transplanted African• The au1hor's recem publica1ion American after the Civil War who African-American, weren't seen as chronicles the Progressive I, the Harlem Renaissance and 1hc I 887. he passed the Ohio bar Creative souls of artists ignite partnershi

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The elements of environment and composition are ever-present factors In Venable's work. "We think a l01 alike as far as the By Autumn L. Mazyck way we deal wi1h pho1ography.'' Hilltop Staff Writer Wallace said. "He reflec1s whal I m trying 10 do and vice-versa. We Richard Avedon, Irving Penn have a common goal." The Jerky Boys (1-r) Johnny Brennan and Kamal get their and Alben Walson. Such a Mrong commi1mcn1 10 laughs making phone calls. To many, 1hese names arc An-nesu Communication (which is would ius1 laugh un1il 1hey unrecognizable. Bui to young used primarily as a marketing 1001) B)' Miguel Burke gagged,· said Ahmed. "And ar1is1s wi1h aspirations 10 succeed has led 10 each artist gaining some Hilltop Staff Writer everyone would say, · You guys go1 in the pho1ography industry. these well-known cliems. No one truly knows what a somc1hing."' three men represen1 1alen1 wilh a Venable's projec1s include lhc seriou, case of boredom can lead Brennan and Ahmed now have large dose of ar1istry. publication of various pho1os in 1he 10. But in 1he case of Johnny two platinum albums. a number of These accomplished August 1994 issue of VIBE Brennan. a former New York MTV commercials, a book and a pho1ographers have given magazine as well as a series of construc1ion worker, a day off recently released movie. "The motivation to a handful of skilled produc1ion sho1s for New 'tork­ from work evolved into a hard to Jerky Boys." Howard Univcrsily s1udenLs such as based wallpaper manufac1urer, kick habit - making anonymous Since 1he duo's gain in Chago Venable. Jason Wallace, Elizabe1h Dow. prank phone calls. popularity. their craf1 has Nicole Mayhorn and Anhur "Chago is an outstanding artis1," After discovering the thrills his undergone some minor changes. Man1le. Dow said. "I see him as a uni9ue family gained from listening 10 While 1hey once phoned homes. problem-solver with a poin1 of view his voice disguises over the phone, they now make calls in response 10 An-nesu Communications which comes across in his he enlis1ed tl1e help of friend and newspaper advertisemen1s. pho1ographs immcdin1ely." fellow Queens residen1, Kamal "We have a 'motus operandi' Venable, a graduaiing photo• Wallace is currently busy Ahmed. where we only cat: businesses." graphy s1uden1. and Wallace, a developing a promotional package "It ~1ar1ed as a joke for family Ahmed admiued. ihiro-year painting s1udent, arc 1wo for 1he Washin111on, D.C. based and rncnds and we made copies Bm even lhe besl planned calls artis1s "whose an is wor1hy of non-profit 1cchnical managemcn1 and copies and copies [ of tapes] can have a few snags. As was lhe nobili1y." The aforemen1ioned quote firm. Foxworth and Dinkins. His and ga, c lhcm 0111; Brennan said. case when 1hc pair a11emp1ed 10 is 1he meaning of1hcir live- momh­ other credits include work with area And thus, 1he concep1ion of reach a man wfio owned a nude old business. named An nesu business Grayhorn S1udios and The Jerky Boys. beach, and acciden1ally phoned Communications. group "Brotherhood Functions.'' a Before going mainstream. The his mo1her. Under An-nesu, Venable and Jazz band comprised of both Jerky Boys' taped recordings of "When she found ou1 [ we were Wallace work on commercialized s1uden1s in 1he College of Fine Arts projects, bu1 mos1 pieces for sale are and Howard alumni. Actress Michele Mordlca ca ptures the essence of glamou prank cans gamed populan1y in making a prank call and her son sophistication from the vision of photographer Arthur Ma 1he underground circuit. Bui in owne! describe it. bu1 Blnck artis1s who have c Aris. "Jason is more like a trumpc1 portfolio pho1ographs for aspiring of charac1ers such as Frank Rizzo. \hal's all we're doing - making models. 11 s !here, and lhe 1wo st yles 1heir inspiration and con,· 1he wugh guY., .and Tarbash 1he Jokes an~ making siny linle gags or sax because his work is much absolutely compliment each other." into a prosperous busine! EgtplHln Magician. and makmi; people laugh and feel more improvisational." As a result, this young company with continued de1crmina1i ·Whenever I called a friend 10 good. That s all tha1 mailers." Bui despile 1he differences. a ~as worked wi1h aspiring models Un~oub1cdly, each of 1hese may become the next F play stuff [like 1hc Tarbash ~eep-roo1ed friendship and mu1ual like sophomore fashion major ar11sts s1ylcs can be seen in individual projects 1hey·1•e worked Avedons, Irving Penns or characler] over 1he phone, 1hey interests have kepi 1hem as a 1eam. Tiffany Davis. Wa1sons. _,y24, 1995 THE HILLTOP B7

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• • THE HILLTOP B8 SPORTS ,, ======fil Baseball season may start without niajor leaguers m negotiations between the MLBPA and team pacify representatives from the MLBPA with these players and the teams 1ha1 hire the league will make a determin·,.fiJ By Kisha Riggins owners will begin this week," MLBPA who believed that Usery favored the owners them. some point during the spring about ;ID Chief Donald Fenr said. over the players' needs. Detroit Tigers Manager Spark)' a lawsuit. ~ Hilltop Staff Writer According 10 Fehr, the schedule for Al the Feb. 7, White House meeting, Anderson was placed on an unpaid leave of Around the major league, labor T he major league players' strike is bargaining sessions will be determined President Clinton, Vice President Al Gore. absence by the Tigers after he refused to are urging St. Louis area union currently in its seventh month and bas fans dunng the talks this week. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and Usery work with replacement players. stay away from Cardinals games in,~ of the nation's favorite pastime wondering Apparently, special mediator W.J. Usery met with representatives of team owners "There ain't no pince in our game for replacement workers. ·~ if baseball will ever be the same after this will spend time discussing ideas and wants and striking major league players, but liule replncemenr playets." Anderson told Ken Griffey Sr. quit as Mnrinen'1,i strike. with tne parties separately. was accomplished. reporters in Florida. "l will be back to league instructor, re1>9rters were b© With the opening day of Major Leag_ue Representatives from both sides are Since then, many teams have hired manage the Detroit Tigers when regular from the Kansas City Royals minor Ii;; Baseball slated to occur in April, the MaJor optimistic that there could be a settlement replacement baseball players from the players come back." he said. clubhouse and Toxaco Inc. said it "~ League Baseball Players Association and before Opening Day, and major league mmor leagues and retired players in The Baltimore Orioles informed Ma/·or distribute al l-star ballots at its 1,400le!) representatives from team owners have baseball will resume soon. anticipation that MLBPA players ,vould Lel!gue Ba~eball that they will not P. ay stations even though it is the titles~ decided to begin talks with each other, so Thlks broke off more than two weeks ago not pfay when the season opened. spring tra,mng games against teams usmg In other news around the I replacement players will not play on when the framework offered by Usery and Replacement players have met resistance replacement players. Michael Jordan hit his second and , Opening Day. suggestions presented to both sides and 10 within the league. Several manaiers and Jf there is no seulement and the Orioles baning practice home run at the\~ "I' m reasonably confident that labor the Clinton administration did little 10 teams have refused to have anything to do due not preparing a team for Opening Day, workout in Florida. !.I .------~------a mu~:~;:,,.lj Sharks excel in unfriendly waters I few Black officials that were swimmer and was clearly the proud despite their many harotl outstanding swimmer at the meet. Ewing placed fifth in Lhei present. And in spite of the three-meter diving com Bag{etbalJ environment. I protested-officially [the fac1 that -Akron Basketball Coach "A lot of swimmers swam their the Davidson swimmer won most Harrison placed eighth in tli outstanding performer], but they meter competition and l~ Coleman Crawford and an personal best," Wade said. placed tenth in the one­ assistant coach were reprimanded "Whenever [the Sharks] ,von a still ga,-e the honor 10 the Davidson by the Mid-American Conference race, we didn't get a whole bunch swimmer," Jackson said. competition. Wade placed second in the 50- ·'We weren't used 'r:B for unsportsman-like conduct of applause," Sharks member facilities, and we still don't after a 75-58 loss 10 Ohio. Tamm, Ford said. vnrd free~tyle sprint. He also placed -Bernie Bickerstaff resigned as Sophomore Stefan Steer put an l'irst and received a gold medal in diving coach; but we pc the 100-yard freestyle with a time well O\'erall." Harrison sai~d. the General Manager of the exclamation point on the Sharks' Ewing believed e,-en thou Denver Nuggets to take the championship performance by of 47 .23 seconds. position as tlie Nuggets' head breakmg three records. First. he During the I 00-yard freestyle diving team did not place, coach. Interim Coach Gene Littles broke the I 00-yard bunerfly record qualifying finals round.Wade was ~ompeting i_n the champion~ will return 10 his assistant's job. of 51.66 seconds in the qualifying the last person of eight 10 qualify; ,ts l?ood points. ~ -The Golden State Warriors trials, selling the new record at yet. he finished first in the actual Competition was experience. and we will do traded fo rward Tom Gugliotta LO 51.51 seconle there," roared. But when Howard or was ripped off after a swimmer backstroke leg of the relay. ::~~;;·;;3;~;::;;~;;~ first player in NBA history 10 Swim Team Captain Sherwyn FAMU won an event or broke a from one of the other universities Tamanika Haven and Tommi weeks. and already Coach J reach I0,000 assists when the Millelle said. record. there was a hush over the was chosen as "swimmer of the Ford both performed well in the is selling their sights 01] Utah Jazz defeated the Boston The Sharks participated in the crowd," Jackson said. meet.'' e1-en though he only broke breast-stroke. championship. "Our goal fo Celtics Feb. 18. championships at Davidson According 10 JnJa Wade. a one championship record and Steer Diving for the Sharks were year is not only 10 win mdivi

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C:in rcflec1io11 o n how I feel about in full. the Monday before publi­ for an information session on you ever find it in your merciful you. I love you! -PJA cation. Announcements by cam­ Wednesday March I . 1995 at heart lo forgh•c me. You know AWANYA. I d idn't lorget about pus organizations for meetings, 7:30pm in the be School of Engi­ that you arc the tru luv of my you! Soooo. did you get a bless­ seminars or non-profit events are neering Auditorium. All proceeds life. "69" free for IO words or less and $ I will be donated to ARFICARE. (Got you HEE-HEE-HEE!!!) ing this week? -SC for every add it ion al five words. HELP WAN'l'ED I hanks to all of the srudents C.1mpus announcements for prof­ Summer Jobs for the who came out to the volunteer I promise --NO MORE DRAMA! -AWANYA ii are charged as individuals. Environment meeting. You wi II be hearing Individuals advertising for the Earn $2,500 to $3,500 from us on or before March I. What 's up lo i11e most sexiest ard University man at The Hilltop. You know purpose of announcing a service, and Free the Planet We appreciate your support. -The Cultural lnitjative who you are, Mr. One Lo,er. vs ~':}¼/ buying or selling are charged $5 campaign to save endangered • for the first 20 words and $1 for species, promote recycling and ALAMOOO - What's up baby'! (smile!!) ~very additional five words.Local stop polluters. Work with major Portia - '16 the LA/Conn. Crew 160 , ~~i-ty O:f M~lan :ompanies are charged S 10 for environmental groups such as You're the best. hang in bad Conn. and New York missed the first 20 words and $2 for Pirgs, Sierra Club, and Green there and take it all - the festivities this weekend, but ·\:.-fi~rn ~Sli~ ~e :very five words thereafter. Per­ Corps. you'll be out in May. I'm there are many more to come. sonal ads arc $2 for the first I 0 Positions in 33 states and DC. so proud!! Especially next weekend. KB r·'""'--• J words and $ I for every additional Campus interviews: 2-28, 3-1. Luv ya 'lb the La/Conn Crew Its gomg rive words thereafter. Jamie: l-800-75EARTH Kiesh to be on and poppin at the Clas­ ANNOUNCEMENTS COMPO'l'Ek 'fkAlNING SABR2I'R sics tomorrow. Let's party like it W.F.W.P. STJDY GRANT INSTRUCTORS The Consor• Reputations mean nothing to me. is 1992. '\VA ILABLE · 10 STUDY tium for Services to Homeless The only thing I care about is the All Production assistants please GRANTS FOR $2000 EACH Families (ConServe) is in need of present and the f utu1e. contact Keisha to schedule a 1 fhc Women's Federation for instructors proficient in any of -THE PATIENT ONE mandatory meeting. World Peace in Japan, in recogni- the following Windows software fi; i"I EN 'IION 2nd Floor at Drew l'hank you to all stall members 1on of the fact that future of the packages: WordPerfect, Excel, Hall. Don't be alarmed I am still who work hard everyweek to put .Jnited States is equally impor­ Lotus, Quattro Pro, Word, or the head honcho. The HNIC. out a beautiful product, such as ant to the future of Japan. has Pagemaker. All positions are Quiet hours still exist on the sec­ The HLLLTOP. :reated the Peace Fund Scholar- paid. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 ond floor. Ya heard me. I WOULD COON'I DOWN •hip as an offering of friendship p.m .. Mondays and Fridays. D.C . Stacy 8., RA HOW MANY DAYS LEFT FOR o the people of the United location. Call Janet Thompson or Happy B-Day THE SENIORS, BUT I DON'T ~tates. Tun study grants for $2000 Susan ChuSIL, (202) 639-9760. Nat Dog KNOW. BUT THE IMPOR­ !ach will be awarded each week Looking tor md1v1duals with an Lo,e Your Pound Puppies, TANT THING IS THAT WE o the American Women panici­ entrepreneurial spirit. Earn a sig­ Deniese, Janelle. Criste(, Farley WlLL BE OUT BEFORE WE >ating in the Si;ters of Peace nificant income in your own and your "husband" 'Tyson KNOW IT. 'cremony. For more informatjon home town while you are away at KWESI. '16 the LA/Conn Crew, Why 1s >tense call (30 I) 422-8266. school. Career or job, your THANKS FOR AN UNFOR­ it so cold? It needs to warm up ROSC Bruce Monroe , Lliw1s choice. Flexible hours, possibility GETTABLE VALENTINE'S so we can wear those booty iig Brothers I Sisters - Smith­ of travel. great networking~ppor­ DAY. - OTIS & CO. shorts. KB ;onian trip Sat. March 4, 11 :00 • tunities and excellent economic DAMON, I nomrnate Lele camera woman ' ramton Metro/Food J1\0ney. benefits. People wanted from HAPPY BELATED 22nd of the year. Great close-ups. MD fi:l"I EN I ION : Arts and Sc1- Miami, SC, Charlotte NC, BIRTHDAY· O.G. TUESDAY No more depending on others no :nces Senior Class Meeting Birmingham, Memphis, Nor­ WAS EXTRA SPECIAL GLAD good, lazy. trifflin people. You }raduation information for May folk, Richmond, New Orleans, WE SPENT TIME TOGETHER finally got your car back Conn. :rnlluates will be distributed by and Chicago. (Limited positions "TYPING" ALL NIGHT AND so maybe we can roll like we did ,tudent Advisory Center. available.) Only serious appli­ GETTING STUCK IN THE last semester. KB ~esume workshop will follow. cants need call between the hours ELEVATOR. STAY SWEET. 'lb the other sexy man at I he .:bruary 28. 1995 in I 05 Locke of 9:30am to 4:00pm at LUVYA Hilltop. you know who you arc. foll. Please be prompt. (202)434-2907. TWEETY Good job on always having a A1tcnt1on all Big Brother and \vAN I Eb: FEMALE VOCAL­ Flanders. Babbie, One Mmute consistent and well thought out Man. Splat. little Ashy Monster, page. Oh yeah, good job on i3ig Sisters! It's that time again! ISTS FOR UPCOMING PRO­ Flyer By Shadow Prductions (202) 608 • 01 'lease call Lynn at 865-2374. if JECT. PREFERABLY WITH Short Fuse. Ra-Ra. Jordie and learning production. Thanks for ;ou arc interested in helping put OWN BAND. MUSIC GENRE Sleepy : Congrats on a great the help. 1io ogether the phattest event of the IS R&B WITH A JAZZ meet. Love. Krusty the Clown OOOOOOOHRRARRRR-wE -Ii< 'I hanks to all my most gracious I'm tired from all these shout­ tir tear. APPEAL. SERIOUS INQUIRES .: h "Annual Race For 'I he Cure ONLY. IF INTERESTED sorors who came to my last swim outs. Peace LA/Conn. Crew. ,cheduled" The Annual Race PLEASE CALL (202)986-7753 meet! I felt very loved!! Happy B-day. Devon! Luv Steph t>r the Cure to benefit breast can­ SPONSORED BY Love. Inside Edition 76-A-94 er education, research, etc., ASE COMMUNICATIONS 6-A-94: JI 's over! Get some ,ponsored by the Susan G. FORSAI..E rest!! 30-A-94 foman Foundation for Breast 5 Bedroom townhouse near MISSING: ·anccr Research will be held Howard Hospital. Totally reno­ GLORIA McFIELD ;a1urday. June 17. 1995, at 14th vated and CAC. use for residence LAST SEEN FEBRUARY 13th. 111d Constitution Avenue. The or business. $3.200 down possi­ If seen please contact the people -loward University Cancer Cen­ ble. Ms. Kazana,c. 21 - Dodson. who love her. We cr's High Risk Brea;i Cancer (301 )779-6948 miss you Gloria!!! ;~reening Project is beneficiary SERVICES 'lb the NEW CAMPOS PALS: >f this race. All employees are Need help m Spamsh'!'/ Please Welcome to the Family! We arc SATlJRDAY,PEBRUARY,25TH,1995 1,l..ed 10 register for a walk or anend Spanish Club's last tutorial counting on all of you to make us un. Please phone 865-5398 or session for help with Midterms. a strOll!!Cr organization.- The Pals ...... 165-4613 for information. This Free for Spanish Club member.; CONCRA'l'UL.\'I IONS 'l'O: ear it is hoped at least 200 ! ! Come to i..KH, Room 202 from OON LADI , DA NETTE, fowanlites will be registered. 6:00 • 7:00 p.m. MEEOIE, CRISTEL, RHEA, Nattonal Council of Negro FOR RENT JENNA, ANDREW, FARAJ!, 'l'HE PELIOAN OLUB ,Vomen Present: lleahh Issues 2 Bedroom Apt. renovated secu­ REG INA LD, VINCENT, \fleeting African-American rity building. walking distance to WARDELL, EBONY, .Vomcn with Dr. Kimberly Jef­ campus, convenient to subway. NATANYA, KENYA, ATIF, ric,-Lconanl. Wednesday, bus. and shopping. $575.00 plus CHRISTOPHER, PAPA, 1834 OOLUMBli RD.,NW ,1arch I, 1995 at 6:30 pm in electricity and cooking gas. GEN ISE, KAlN ILA, TIFFANY, ocke Room 105. Please Be (202)588-0568. AND SHAE! WE AIN'T GOT IN THE ¥ OF !DillS MORGAN 'rompt!! Newly renovated rooms arc for NOTH IN BUT LOVE FOR Plans for Sprmg Fling '95 at rent at $300 per month. Conve­ Y'A LL!- T HE PALS! 9:00 P.M. - 8:00 !.M. ,:30 pm. Cnme be part of the nient to Union Station and near EP: I'm glad lhtngs are wnrk mg un!! Galluadet University. Contact: out. Continue to stay focused and FOUND ! ! ! Pnir ol glasses - Raymond A. Fowler (202)546- remember who cares. Always. DOMINIQlJE AND R!Y LLANOS INVITE 'orning Optics - Serengi Drivers 0049 KW ,,IJ6R. Check Student Activities Seeking NS Pe male Student to Mr. Right Kmd of Lover: I YOU TO OOME FEED YOUR SOUL WITH: )ffice Rm 137 Blackburn share two bedroom apt. in quiet miss you, but I know this ·separa­ \bsalom Jones/Canterbury - S.E. neighborhood. S250 utilities tion' is worth it! You know I love loly Eucharist. Sunday. Febru­ incl. Minutes from Green Linc. you. whether you're here or there. I. LIVE JAZZ/POETRY SET­ ry 26. 1995. 4pm. Carnegie Lit• Call ((jesha at (301)967-2256. but get back here as often as you le Chapel. Ash Wednesday. N. W. • Rouse to Share can! Fore,·cr yours, Ms. Write II. FUNK/DISOO OL!SSIOS '1arch I, 1995, Holy Eucharist Near Howard Univ. Stuff. Imposition of Ashes) 12: 15 pm, Renovated Victorian RAPPY BIRl'RDAV DON l'E III. OLD SOHOOL/HIP· HOP tankin Chapel. Cle:m. bright atmosphere CONGRA'I'OLAl'IONS GUY­ I he Ladies of Alpha Chapter, $300.00 - 350.00 TON, D.B. SEAN ANO IV. ROOTS RRGGAE/DANOEHALL ~ \lpha Kapp~ Alpha Sorority. Inc. Call (202)387-4066 MELVIN FOR BEING MEAC re sponsoring the First Annual Private home : (I) Bedroom CHAMPS!!!!!!!!!! ,LAleron Cloud, Dr. Alice McNair, Gloria.· ARE PROUD OF ALL OF nd Johari Abdul-Malik No more "short change." I've YOU? -YOU R FANS ,larch 12-19, 1995 found the right one this time! ma, ponsored by : The Religious - Hershey Thanh for laying out my page at ·ellowship Council- ''To promote Sah1ma - Who would have 11 at night. :ligious wlcrance, and preserve thought -- A REVEREND!! CONGRA:I'ULA'l'IONS RO piritual individuality." Awanya D. SWIM TEAM, THE SHARKS, 1/\LE - FEMALE RELATION­ For all those who are 11tvtted, the FOR REPRESENTING US IIIPS, AND slumber-party is next weekend. WELL INN. CA ROLINA. :ELIGION. From the LA/CONN Crew Congrats to Martm tor your per­ INFORM YP. SELF If you can hang, part 2 will be formanco in the diving champi­ I he Ladies of Alpha Kappa on Saturday!! onships. dpha Sorority Inc. Alpha Chap­ From the LNCONN CREW --your two new hanging buddies •r invite you to participate in the CRE' • I truly apologn.e lrom Hey Angelina! Sorry I keep so