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The Hilltop 4-17-1998 Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1990-2000 The iH lltop Digital Archive 4-17-1998 The iH lltop 4-17-1998 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 4-17-1998" (1998). The Hilltop: 1990-2000. 215. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000/215 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the The iH lltop Digital Archive at Digital Howard @ Howard University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The iH lltop: 1990-2000 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. News You Can Use Since 1924 VoLUJVIE 81, No. 27 THE NATION'S LARGEST BLACK COLLEGIATE NEWSPAPER A:PRn. l 7 1998 -• -------1--· -------- IOD 1asco • ...... ensors I By CRYS'D\L ROBINSON said Zhaundra Jones, Undergradu­ However, the contract for the ate Student Assembly coordinator. designers was not signed until the Hilltop Staff Writer "There is confusion from what [the] day of the show. administration and students think Harrison also said he was forced Groans and boos filled Cramton their rights are." to pay the ticketed price every time Auditorium when the lights went Joel Harrison, fashion show coor­ he re-entered the auditorium. out during some scenes of the dinator, said censorship was not the "It didn't make any sense for me Spring Fashion Show last Thursday. only setback. Harrison said UGSA to pay $50 to enter my own show," The content of the hip-hop and lin­ did not give him the money to pay Harrison said. Photo by Edourd Leneus gerie scenes was too explicit, designers. To prevent the designers With regards to administrators Students were evacuated safely after firefighters responded to a according to administrators. from retracting their clothes on the censoring the show, Harrison does smoking light fixture in Founder's Library. Sponsored by the Undergraduate day of the show, Harrison used his not understand why certain scenes Student Assembly, The "Odyssey" own money. were cut. was a part of the Spring Black Arts Jones said checks were not avail­ "I don't appreciate them cutting a Smoking Light Fixture BARRY SPEAKS AT Festival. Last week, a similar situ­ able for the designers because it show I've been working on since ation occurred when the Comedy takes 10 days after a contract has November," he said. "This is my DrvINITY SCHOOL'S Show was shutdown due to pro­ been signed for a check to be cut. career and some of the models are Causes Library Scare fanity. The Vice-President of Business and trying to make this a career also." UNVEILING OF By SUFIYA ABDUR-RAHMAN and told everybody to run out the "Censorship is an infringement Fiscal affairs mnst sign the checks. Please See SPEECH, A4 front door," Skinner said. · of our First Amendment rights," Hilltop Staff Writer But thanks to an emergency sys­ tem installed just a few weeks ago, Madeleine Fire alarms in Founder's Library students were successfully evacu­ sounded Tuesday night at about 10 ated and no one was hurt. p.m. as a result of what some stu­ "The beauty about it is that we Albright's dents thought was smoke coming have [in J place a system that really CITY from one of the library's book works," he said. Now flashing Discussion stacks. lights accompany a continuous Although students from both the ringing that can be heard through­ Undergraduate and Founders out the library, which Mekkawi said Disappoints libraries were evacuated, the situa­ is state of the art. tion turned out to be more luke­ "It's part of a University-w_ide warm than flaming hot. installation that the University has Students Campus police officer John Cook been undertaking," Mekkawi said. said a light fixture in one of the Founders was the frrst to receive the By KENNETH RUSSELL stacks burned out and began smok­ system. Mekkawi said the public­ ing. announcement system was installed World Editor "It set off a bad odor that smelled in the stacks as recently as two like something burning," Cook years ago. Secretary of State Madeleine K. said. Library director Mohamed But the close call should be a Albright said protecting the United Mekkawi said somebody smelled reminder to Howard security of the States and its citizens from the threats the smoke and pulled the frre alarm, need for a substation on campus, of the 21st century is a complex issue which caused the evacuation. Cook Mekkawi said. to which there is no simple solution. added that smoke seen above the "A place like that is so critical to "The most dangerous threats, library was actually from the power education, it's important," he said. nuclear weapons, biological weapons, plant on Georgia Avenue. The District of Columbia Fire know no boundaries," Albright said. "At first nobody really paid them Department arrived in two fire "Drugs know no boundaries, refugees any mind," Ty-Juan Skinner said. trucks at about the same time stu­ know no boundaries, El Nino knows The sophomore film major was dents filed out of the library's doors. no boundaries." studying for a final exam when an A half-hour later, the burned-out Albright delivered the Patricia announcement was made for stu­ light fixture was removed and stu­ Robert-Harris Public Affairs Lecture dents to evacuate. dents were permitted to re-enter. in Howard's School of Business "One of the librarians came in Auditorium. Sponsored by the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Cen­ ter on Tuesday, the event was the third in the State Department's "Secretary in the Classroom" lecture series. I Contrary to popular opinion, Albright said the world is more dan­ gerous now than during the Cold War. She said Americans should not fear the United Nations or see it as a threat to America's interest. "We invented the U.N., we are the U.N. [and] we ought to pay our bills at the U.N.," Albright said referring to the U.S.-billion dollar debt to the United Nations. "The U.S. is the orga­ nizing principle of the international system." Photo by Belinda Vickerson She added that the U.S. doesn't want Secretary of S!ate Madeleine K. Albright addresses students in the .b. f . School of Business. to bear t he respons1 11 1ty o main- taining world order by itself and is interested in form- investing and living all over the world. ing a union of countries to share the burden. The State Department's "Secretary in the Classroom" When asked about the threat posed to America by lecture gives college and university students the oppor- refugees, Albright said the problem otcurs when ille- !unity to talk about foreign policy. The first two lectures gal immigrants come to this country and "undermine were held at Tennessee State University and the Uni- the system." versity of South Carolina. "Generally, the whole issue of refugees is a concern Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state, for the United States," she said. Albright also pointed answered students' questions about the U.S. stance on out that she came here as an immigrant and a refugee international issues. But most of those who asked and that U.S. foreign policy has become more complex Photo by Belinda Vickerson because of the need to protect Americans traveling, Please See STATE, A4 Workers finish construction on Burger King, which opens today. HU Law Students Call Emergency Meeting With Dean Forum Participants Complain Of Faulty Facilities, Low Bar Passage Rates By NATALIE HOPKINSON "We are here to put Dean Bullock on notice: year law student Omar Karim played a video such as scholarships, attendance policies, the needs of the students must be met," said showing deteriorating facilities that one stu­ student loan issues and lack of alumni sup­ Hilltop Staff Writer Alvin Thomas, a third-year student who mod­ dent described as "better suited for a third­ port. erated the event. world prison." They also complained that the administra­ Howard University Law students held Dean Bullock was taken off-guard by the bitter The video depicted leaky roofs, hanging tion was not taking enough steps to increase Alice Gresham Bullock to fire Wednesday at tone and urgency of the meeting, which came wires, decrepit walls and missing tiles and the school's passage rate. Last year, the school an emergency town hall meeting to explain just a few days before final exams. Bullock ceilings. Karim's video contrasted the con­ sustained a blow to its reputation when the the school's dismal bar passage rates, dilap­ said she was surprised, especially because the dition of student areas to the administration passage rates were published for the first idated facilities and lack of communication students had not come to her before with the building, highlighting Bullock's private mar­ time by the American Bar Association, the with students. laundry list of concerns. ble bathroom with wood-paneled walls. body that accredits law schools. In July of Nearly 200 angry students, almost half the "What you need to understand is that there Bullock acknowledged that the school 1995, 29 percent of students passed the Mary­ student body, planned the meeting within a is a process to getting things done, as you will needs nine custodians, although they only land bar exam, where the majority of students day to appease radical factions among stu­ see when you get out into the workforce," have four. But, she said like many of the take their exam.
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