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The Voice ofHoward University Since 1924 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1998 hilltop.howard.edu VOLUME 82, No. 13 Women's G-roup Aims to Bolster Awareness At Predominatelyjemale Howard, Group Aims for Women's Studies Program ways to raise the consciousness of By CHARLES COLEMAN JR. female students toward leadership Hilltop Staff Writer roles on campus. "In terms of females in positions Aiming to raise the level of con­ of leadership, we are definitt:ly sciousness toward gender issues at underrepresented, given the number Howard University, leaders of the (of women] in the student body," Women's Action Coalition say they said Lakeysba Thompson, a sopho­ arc vehemently pushing for the cre­ more history major. "Having more ation of a women's studies pro­ women in leadership positions on gram al Howard, and say that it's campus helps bring women's issues time for a new era of female polit­ closer to the forefront," she said. ical leadership. Thompson echoed the sentiment of "We seek to make the campus the group as a whole, saying, "We HiUtop Staff/ERIC HALL more aware of the lack of female· would definitely be very interested The Howard University School or Communications Center ror the Study of Race and the Media held its first forum Tul'Sday at WHUT-TV. The forum, caUed leadership, and the low sensitivity in supporting a female candidale on "The ~ the President and Black Loy-J!ty: After the Vote:' drew many or the nation's premier journalists, induding Washington Post Ombudsman E.R. Shipp, toward women's issues," said WAC a HUSA ticket." Boston Globe Washington Bureau Chier D-avid Shribmao, and Pnul Delaney, editorial writer at the Baltimore Sun. The forum wns moderated by host Kojo Nnamdi. President Monique Richards. Still, there are those who don't see SuSto,yonA2 Richards, a senior chemistry the need for a greater concentration major from New Jersey, is quick to on putting more females in campus speak out against the negative opin­ offices. ions that she says many people have "As long as there is someone in At U. Md., Debate Team Tests Confirm of feminist groups. office who is doing a good job and "WAC is a feminist group, but getting things done, it really doesn't labeling us as 'men-haters' is high­ matter to me whether they are male Snags First Place Title Jefferson ly inaccurate. We see feminism as or female," said junior biology a celebration of womanhood, and major Nadine Morrison. Many debate team's president, Ekilah Poles, a junior not the persecution of men or any­ females on campus said they share By IRA PORTER Spanish and French double major. "A lor of thing else," Rfohards said in an mat same sense of political apathy Hilltop Staff Writer schools from different areas of the country Fathered interview after a WAC meeting toward student government, and the competed." Monday. current gender imbalance that some In an intense competition bet ween 26 The University of Texas won the second­ "We promote the empowerment say exists. schools from around the nation at the Uni­ place title, while Buenavista University won Child With of women 10 create their own space Tasha Brown, a senior education versity of Maryland at College Park last third place. The University of Maryland, one and use their own voices within major, said she really didn't "care weekend, Howard University's debate team of Howard's toughest rivals and the team society." See WAC, A3 captured the first-place title. that clinched the National Championship last Members at the meeting seek At the annual Capital Invitational, the Mar­ spring, took the fourth-place title. Slave tin Luther King, Jr. Mock Tri.al Debate Team The Howard team's coaches and members competed against such schools as Duke Uni­ said it was difficult competing at the Univer­ versity, the University ofTexas at Austin, and sity of Maryland. By TAMARA TOWNSEND and the University of Miami. "It's never a piece of cake there," said Dr. BRANDON BICKERSTAFF Students Balk at "The competition was very fierce," said the See DEBATE, A4 Hilltop Staff Writers After nearly 200 years of speculation, scientists have Howard U. Hosts Tribute revealed the truth behind rumors that President Thomas Shuttle Bus Service Jefferson had a sexual relationship with his slave, Sally Hemmings, who was the haU-sisterofhis wife, Martha. as well as a schedule in order to best to Black War Veterans Results published in the Nov. 5 issue of the Journal By ERIC HALL and fit the needs of students," Brown of Nature confirmed what many Americans bad long of the Nazis, aod to the courage of men who JEANIQUA FRANCIS said. j speculated: Jefferson, the third president of the United University officials were unavail- , By NICOLE A. TONG were battling racism in a segregated army, Hilltop Staff Writers States, fathered a child named Easton, Hemmings' able for comment Wednesday. Hilltop St(Jff Writer even as they fought 10,liberate Europe. youngest son. As exam time approaches, resi­ Besides safety, students say the , After the screening, there was an hour-long Some historians have vehemently argued that Jeffer­ In l\onor of World War II veterans, Cram­ dents ofMeridian, Slowe and Carv­ issue of efficient service is a con- ' panel discussion that allowed students, fac­ son couldn't have fathered at least one of Hemmings' ton Auditorium Tuesday hosted a 90-minute ulty, and alumni a chance to give feedback. er Hal ls say they arc again con­ cern. "My concern is that some dri­ children, because of his public views against the mix­ documentary film celebrating the work of fronting inadequate University vers are not keeping their route," Dr. Walter HiU from the National Archives ing of races, and his position as one of the nation's African American soldiers who helped liber­ shuttle bus service. said Mikki Grant, a graduate stu­ said he believes that African Americans have founding fathers. ate the concentration camP.S of Europe-all a duty to record their history. Lisa Thompson, a junior biology dent and Slowe resident. "Some­ Je!Terson, in a 1814 letter, wrote: "The amalgamation while fighting for equality at home. times they are ten minutes late, or " I believe as an historian, there is a great deal of whites with blacks produces a degradation to which major, said she is not happy with The film, ·entitled Liberators, was written the revised shuttle route. six or seven minutes early and they of African-American history that cannot be no lover of his country, no lover of exccUence in the and directed by Bill Miles and Nina Rosen­ don't wait," Grant said. written without federal records," said HiU. humao character, can innocently consent." "It's ridiculously plotted. The blum. 'They are trying lo accommodate "You cannot expect other people to do your Despite Jefferson's beliefs, the story was considered Carver and Slowe shuttle [to main The film tells the little-known story of the too many with such a small bus," research. You have to read and find this his­ true by many in the African-American community. campus] stops at 3:30 p.m.," she • African-American battalions that spearhead­ tory on you own." she added. "l never doubted it," said Heather Victorine, a senior said. ed Gen. Patton's Third Anny, and helped lib­ In reference to the film and observing how Thompson said she agreed to live Despite the criticism, Marcus l, erate the concentration camps in Germany. biology major from Miami. "It was common for whites Brown, a senior administration of black soldiers were treated in World War II, to sleep with their slaves. What makes Jefferson an in Slowe because she thought the The 1992 documentary bears witness to the 1975 Howard graduate Dimetrius Jackson justice major, contends that the exception?" shuttle would provide a safe way of role African Americans played in the defeat See VETERAN, A3 shuttle bus is doing fine. 'They are See JEFFERSON, A4 getting to campus. But now, she says, "three weeks afterwards, they headed in the right direction, but got rid of that Safeway. Subse­ they need fine-tuning," he said. "I quently, several unfortunate events like the idea of having shuttles that have occurred, and I find myself go all around campus, and a sepa­ walking home at 3 and 4 a.m. in the rate shuttle that goes directly to Opera Singer Leontyne Price Teaches Class at Cramton morning." campus, but the shuttle that runs direct!)' to campus should run just Scores of students flocked to Cramton, nearly dance. Echoing sentiments ventilated by several students, Latoya Brown, a as long as the other." By RAFIAH DAVIS filling the roughly 1,500-seat auditorium. She used terms of endearment, such as "dar- . junior broadcast journalism major, Brown added that the University Hilltop Staff Writer Price, several members of the audience said, ling," beauty," "angel," and "precious"-making Administration should have taken , was every bit the diva they expected her to be.