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COM 1924 T uesday, November 6, 2007 ' BREAKING NEWS CAMPUS LIFE & STYLE GOVERNMENT WATCHDOGS F1ND THAT 21,000 NANOTECHNOLOGY APPEALS TO STUDENTS YOUNG COUPLES LOOK BEYOND 'ENGAGED ruesday PEOPLE WERE MISTAKENLY LET INTO THE U.S. USING A PIMPED Ot.rr VAN - ·ffi-TECH STYLE. AND UNDERAGE' LABEL AND FOCUS ON THE Notebook LAST YEAR DUE TO.SECURITY LAPSES, CNN SAID. THE SYMPOSIUM ENDSTODA~ IMPORTANCE OF STRONG RELATIONSHIPS. PAGE2 PAGEIO Bush Administration 'Reviewing' Aid to Pakistan BY MARK SILVA alistic option for trying to protect firing the chief justice and plac­ essarily suspending all of the aid C BS' ''Face the Nation," called the of dollars the U.S. has given to his Chicago Tribune (MCT) U.S. interests in Pakisl:an. ing supreme court justices under it provides to Pakistan because of U.S.-Pakistani alliance "the most country in military aid. Many in Much of the alliance house arrest, the Bush adminis­ the state of emergency declared dangerous and complex relation­ Washington have criticized him , WASHINGTON In that President Bush has forged tration comes face to face with the Saturday night. ship that we have .... Right now, for not doing enough to combat light of the state of emergency with Musharraf -- including de­ conflict between its own policy of Yet critics of adminis­ they have their nuclear weapons terrorist groups along his border declared by Pakistlll'l's embattled livery of $ 11 biilion in U.S. aid promoting democracy in troub~ed tration forcign ·policy say Bush's · and the delivery systems ... their with Afghanistan. president, Pervez Musharraf, the to Islamabad since 2001 -- has regions of the world and its reli­ partnership ,vjth Musharraf is the missiles . .. in separate places ... Rice said Sunday that ~ush administration said f3unday ' centered on a mutual interest in ance on Musharraf to maintain sole ' element of U.S. policy toward and guarded by the military. The "We've been very clear that we it is "reviewing" the billions of hunting down terrorists as well as control of a potentially volatile Pakistan. bottom line is, at the end of the don't support tf1e action that was dollars in aid the U.S. provides keeping Pakistan's nuclear arsenal nation. "This administration day, if radicals and Islamists con­ taken because it was extra-con­ to his nuclear powered nation in out of the hands of Islamic ex­ Secretary of State Con­ has a Musharraf policy, not a trol that country, they are going stitutional. We've concentrated the heart of a terrorist-threatened tremists. doleezza Rice insisted Sunday Pakistani policy," Sen. Joseph to marry those nvo things ... the in the last few hours, since the region. Yet now, experts say that the U.S. has not "put all its Biden, D-Del., chairman of the weapons and the ability to deliver declaration .. making very clear But despite Musharraf's Musharraf's much-questioned chips" on Musharraf, who is also Senate Foreign Relations Co.m­ them." our expectations that this state crackdown on opposition leaders ability to pursue any offensive the army chief of staff and first mittee, said Sunday. ''It's tied Biden also was among of emergency needs to be aban­ an'8 likely delay of elections, crit­ against terrorists could be even seized power in a military coup to Musharraf, and its hands are a number of critics calling into doned and return to a constitu- ics say \>Vashington's hands may more limited. And 'vith Mush­ in 1999. She announced that the pretty well tied now. " question Sunday how effectively well be tied for lack of another re- arraf locking down his capital, U.S. will be reviewing but not nee- Biden, appeanng on Musharraf has spent the billions >See PAKISTAN, Page 3 The Hill Com·es to Howard BY JADA SMITH and was in the same position as the au­ Universities (HBCU) - Clark Atlanta Staff Writer dience. University for his undergraduate de­ "My goal for tonight is to inspire gree and Texas Southern University for T hree organizations came to­ the young people to be the best at what law school - Johnson stressed the im­ gether last night to rekindle what they they chose to be and to maintain an ide­ portance of coming back to HBCUs to hope \viii be a closer connection be­ alistic, youthful spirit no matter how old motivate young people in the same way l\veen H oward University and Capitol they become and to make a positive dif­ he was motivated while in school. Hill. ference in the world," Johnson said. "I remember a senator coming to Alpha chapter, Delta Sigma The­ Henry "Hank"Johnson was elect­ speak to us in one of my classes while at ta Sorority, Inc., Alpha chapter, Omega ed to be part of ~e 110 ~' Congress in Clark Coll ege which gave me someone Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. and the H oward the election that led to Democrats 'vin­ to look up to," Johnson said. "It's won­ University College Democrats held ning control or tlie 'House and electing derful to see so mnny young people here ''From HBCU to the Hill" 'vith Con­ the first female Speaker of the House. today and in the political process. O ur gressman HankJohnson as the keynote He has recently been appointed to the future looks bright when young people speaker. Armed Services, Judiciary and Small are in touch and in tune 'vith the politi­ Johnson, member of the House Business committees. Johnson also em­ cal system. I have very high hopes for of Representatives representing the 4th ploys one of the only black Chiefs of the youth of this country." congressional district in Georgia, stood Staff on the Hill. Paris \Valker, the vice president in Congressman Kendrick Meek's place As a D.C. native, a graduate of of the HU College Democrats and and spoke about returning a favor he Roosevelt High School and an alumnus > See POUTICIANS, Page 3 Pll*Cotftsycl....... ~ received while he attended an HBCU of l\vo Historically Black Colleges and The convention center is being renamed after Walter E. Washington for his service to the city. Convention Center Renamed Alter Fortner D.C. Mavor BY RACHEL HUGGINS guidance because he had no one to follow," _ Metro Editor Washington said. In regards to her husband's tremen­ Serving as D.C.'s first mayor, Wal­ dous leadership and high expectations, she ter E. Washington is a figure remembered recalled his strength during a dinner in his for his love for the city and its citiiens. On honor at the convention center in 2003. Tuesday, D.C. citizens, Mayor Adrian Fen­ In his last public appearance before ty and city officials gathered at the Wash­ dying from heart and kidney failure on ington Convention Center in a dedication Oct. 27, 2003, \Vashington suffered from ceremony where the building was renamed painful gallstones during the dinner, but in Washington's honor. endured his pain for the public. "I don't "He cared deeply for the city and the know how he made it through because he people that lived there," said Washington's was in agony, but he had to go and didn't 'vido'v, Mary Burke \Vashington. want to let the people down," she said. Appointed Mayor-Commissioner in During Washington's mayoral ap­ 1967 by former President Lyndon Johnson, pointment., he accomplished several sig­ Washington was not only the first mayor of nificant achievements. He became a key D.C., but became the first African Ameri­ figure in the Civil Rights Movement where Tyrone Clemons • Slaf Phologfll'he< can to lead a major city. "His personality he helped disband racial tensions after the Three organizations on Howard's campus hosted a program on black students becoming more politically aware. The keynote speaker really helped him cope because he knew for .the event was Congressman Hank Johnson. · he had to succeed, and he had tremendous > See WASHINGTON, Page 3 ·Lecture Series Add~esses Racial Disparities Within Educatio.n BY TRAVER RIGGINS itself, that the test is biased," he said. because they are not expected to do individual and collaborative, focuses of the Journal of Negro Education, ac­ Campus Editor Standardized tests can target specific well." on how schools arc influenced by Rocial cording its \Vcb site. cultures and demographics more than Considering Howard's position and economic conditions in an urban He worked at Howard \\ith In times of continuous struggle others. in the black community as a promi­ setting, according to the Web site. Mordecai \VyattJohnson, who was the to close the educational gap between Stills said an example would be to nent historically black university, Stills He serves as the executive director university's first black president.