The Hilltop 3-8-1996
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Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1990-2000 The iH lltop Digital Archive 3-8-1996 The iH lltop 3-8-1996 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 3-8-1996" (1996). The Hilltop: 1990-2000. 157. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000/157 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]. Serving the Howard University community since 1924 March 1, 1996 few centra! com_puter center updates ~oward Un1vers1ty's technology hours a day, seven days a week. is Lastly ISAS. maintains sludent accounts, records and classes. ,::,11erHopson very secure. Access to different computer laboratories. The labs are BANNER will reduce complicated Staff Writer P•t:ts of the three-s1oried building is spread ou1 in 4 locatio ns: th e lines and confusion, and use lime gamed through the use of proximity School of Communicatio ns, the cards. more effectively and efficiently. IOlldcr who controls your School of Business, 1hc School of There are also plans to wire all IIXOUOl or what computer . IS~S has four main jobs. The Engineering and a 1esting unit in the faculty offices wilh computers to first 1s the mainframe operation Administralio n Building, which is allow University faculty members ,.,ur student loan? Well, Computing Opera1ion and Systems mation Systems and a test scanning lab. to plug in10 the Internet, as well as ( C.0.S.S.). C.O.S.S. controls the Or. Charles Moore, director of plans 10 develop a mail system to (lSAS) docs. n_iainframc computer, and all ed from the basement ISAS, is very excited about the access olhcr services on lhe campus fin~ncial_ service~, including things to come. "We want to bring Hill lo the second floor of reg1strallon. cashier's office, including World Wide Web and the J!auon Dcc. l7 and 28 of technology 10 the students, fncully Internet by mid-year. s tud_en.t accounts, hou~ing and and staff, 10 be a leading edge in the ne building was created ad011ss1ons, the budget office and Small computer clusters in 1tdcral granl to provide a use of 1echnology," he said. dorms will also be hooked up like sludent loans. "Hopefully in the Fall '96 (lllll'IJling environment." the faculty computers to allow I11e second function of the ISAS semester, there will be a full I) decorated in black \s the applic:uions systems, which students to communicate with with planti. dispersed scrvicc, 24-hour, seven-day-a-week is ~csl?o.nsible f<?r writing and Sludent computing facility," he said. facully easier by leaving e-mail for the office, the new marnta1111ng all U01vcrsi1y business them and to be able to receive lilly equipped with hi-tech Moore hopes to have this faci li1y systems. equipped wilh JOO-ISO computers homework from them. Drew Hall mce1ing rooms. an audio ISAS is also respons ible for the will be the first dorm equipped with ll'Om, a dark room, a available for s1udents. Tolccommunica1ion Services. This A student information system the computers. ud classrooms. Every unit supports all voice services a1 1-800-HOWARD-U, which is iqaipped with voice and called BANNER is also being the Univers ity, including dorm developed. already in use, is a voice and is accessible 10 1hc phones, long distance. data lines information service to inform lakrnet service. This system will allow students a nd 1hc Howard Univcrsi1y to use 1hc 1clcphone to attain prospective students aboul Howard llllding, which is open 24 ne1work. information regarding lhcir swdcnt Un iversity. Dr. Charles W. Moore, Director of Information Systems and Services f,s. Solicitor General to Marian Wright Edelman eliver University's 129th encourages students to barter Day address put children first Finally, he was confirmed by 1he recipient of the Bronze Siar Medal. Senate to serve as Assis1an1 A lumnus Andre Dennis was the .=-Gatewood Attorney General for Civil Rights, first African American to serve as President of Children's Defense Staff Writer where he served until 1981. chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar However, Days is only one of the Association. During his year as Fund speaks at Rankin Chapel L'nivcrsity celebrates its many distinguished g uests chancellor, he established. several Oancr Day Convocation, participating in lhis year's Charier new programs geared toward emorates the 129th Day festivities. Five University finding affordable legal services in front of the. Lincoln Memorial. dishonorinp our mothers and of its founding. today at alumni will be honored at the fo r poverty-stricken Ph1ladelphians. The program is designed 10 daughters,' Edelman said. ■ Crtmton Auditorium. Charter Day Dinner. About 2,000 He bas also sought to increase the encourage peoJ)le lo improve the "Women, never answer out of your S. Days Ill. solicitor people arc expected to attend tll is number of mmority lawyers By Awanya Deneaee Anglin quality of life for the children in name." the United States, has S250-a-platc event, held al the employed at Philadelphia law firms Hilltop Staff Writer theircommunilics. Suggestions for Reigning Miss Howard to deliver the main Washington Hilton and Towers and businesses. improvement include reading more University and Miss Ois1rict of the Convocation. The tonight. Dr. Marion Mann, former dean Children's Defense Fund to children (whether it's your own Columbia, U.S.A. LaChanda r.ill also present Days Among the honorees are Dr. of the Howard College of President, Marian Wright Edelman, child or someone else's), mentoring Jenkins is a volunteer for the "Stand ry Doctor of Laws Lillian M. Beard. a practicing Medicine, will also be honored in challenged 1hc Howaro University, and voting on laws and regulations for Children" program. Tbe 1k eveot. pediatrician in the Washington area. tonight's ceremonies. As dean, community 10 ''stand for children· of bills tftat will posi1ively affcc1 SOJ)homore broadcast journalism been a professor of 'This New York native graduated Mann established several new at the Andrew Rankin Memorial children. major hopes to gel Howard students University since 1981 with bachelor of science and doctor programs and projects in the Chapel's 11 :00 a.m. service Sunday. According 10 Associate Director and the surrounding community · sworn in to his current of medicine degrees. college. Although he resigned from While delivering the guest Jonah Edelman, the program is "a involved. ill 1993. At Yale, his Beard is currently an associate this position in 1979, Mann later sermon,Edelmancomparcd herlife day for Americans of every race, " I am excited to be involved and writing centered clinical professor of pediatrics at returned to the Universily to serve experiences to the deteriorating age, religion, income and faith to [wi1h the program)," she said. areas of Supreme Court George Washington University, as as Associate Vice Presidenl for environment in which children are unite in Washing1on, D.C., as a ·'There arc peoP,lc who have a ■ti-discrimination law, well as an assistant professor at the Research until 199I. Mana is now being raised today. national commun11y in support of genuine concern. ' · nal human rights . Howard University College of a diplomat of the National Board pf While she was Edelman also uating with honors in M edicine. She has a lso been a Mc<lical Examiners and of the growing up, "pin the inspired many. ture from Hamilton contributing editor for Good American Board of Pathology. tail on the donkey" It's a,nazing how families don't eat s1ui:Jcn1s who hcaro Days earned his law Housekeeping magazine where she The final Charter Day honoree, was a game 1hat she her speak at Rankin Yale three years later. authored a mo nthly "Ask Or. Dr. Michael R. Winston, is a magna and her friends played together ... Today's kids don't know to do the same. iced briefly with a Beard" column. cum laude graduate from the for hours at a lime. "She (Edelman l io Chicago. and later Among the o lhe r honored University. This elected member of Today, however, she how to make anything from scratch was motivating;· said Ille Peace Corps as a alumni is Rodney A. Coleman, who Phi Beta Kappa has held said. youngsters s o p h o m o r e in Honduras. earned a bachelor's• degree in prestigious positions, ranging from entertain their libidos because of McDonald's and Burger arch11ccture major wi1h his many other arch itccturc. Now an assistan1 teacher to historian to author. by pl~ring "spin the Kuwana Moore. "It ents, Days was a staff secretary of the Air Force, Coleman Winston has written articles and bottle. King. made me want to give or the NAACP Legal is responsible for organizing plans reviews for many scholarly and Edelman also more to the find in New York, where and programs fo r Air Force professional jo urnals and is added that today, -Marian Wright Edelman, president communi1y." Rosie · ipated in school manpower. Coleman served on currently doing research for a new families do nol Banks agreed. "There ion and employment active du1y in the Air Force for 10 book, titled A History of the World. socialcommunicateize in the sameor _ __......,.of __________ the Children's Defen....., ________se Fund whatwas a slothe ofsaid merit. She in · n cases. Taking a two years, attarning the rank of captain, The Convocation program will of absence from this while build ing a distinguished be broadcast live o n WHUR-FM, wax people d id years before.