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Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 2000 - 2010 The iH lltop Digital Archive 2-19-2008 The iH lltop 2-19-2008 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 2-19-2008" (2008). The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010. 492. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010/492 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: 2000 - 2010 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STUDENTS FIND GEORGETOWN PRICEY MEl'ROIPAGE 4 WEATHER M!NJ!W YI 48 20 • Tomorrow:a 4o ' .. , ' 26 The Daily Student Voice of Howard Univers_ity Established VOLUME 91, NO. 84 WWW.1"HEHILLTOPONLINE.COM 1924 • Tuesday, February 19, 2008 BREAKING NEWS SPORTS METRO ENVY, A WASHINGTON NIGHTCLUB, HAS BEEN THE WOMEN'S AND MEN' S BASKETBALL TEAMS MORE THAN 800 SWIMMERS FROM ACROSS Tuesday SHUT DOWN BY POLICE AFfERA PERSON WAS LOST TO THE VISITING SOUTH CAROLINA THE COUNTRY GATHERED FOR THE 22ND AN FATALLY WOUNDED NEAR THE CLUB THIS WEEK STATE BUUJ>OGS MONDAY. NUAL BLACK HISTORY SWIM MEET. Notebook END, ACCORDING TO THE WASHINGTON POST. PAGE2 PAGE4 HUSA Candidates Attack Rival Platforms International Students' Concerns Main Topic of HUSA Speakout Debate BYALEE SA MANN stand documentation is a problem." Thompson outlined the duo's plan coming event. It was their biggest fund by the African Students Association and Staff Writer The Student Affair Commission to provide S500 to SI 000 to the Interna raiser last year, and t11at means that they Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. ' is an initiative in his Frontline platform. tional Pals during the summer so that the do not have funds." After answering questions from the HUSA candidates participating in "[The Commission] will work with major organization will be able to begin early Running mates senior political sci audience, candidates began to square off, Monday's Speakout all hacl one common aspects on campus froni residence life to prepamtions for their programming. ence major Abimbola George and junior taking questions from one another. Ex goal in mind: reaching out to the interna financial aid and with these liaisons we "[We plan on] helping t11em out English major Tiffany B1ight also spoke perience, past performance and policy tional student population, but what was will be able to communicate and make with funding," Thompson added. "We of increasing communication between became hotly contested as candidates de an opportunitY. for candidates to voice sure international.students are aware of wanl to give them fonding in the earl iest international and national student orga fended their positions. their plans to bridge the cultural gap be the different deadlines and documenta part of the summer so they can do the nizations. 'VVoods and Caldwell and his run tween national and international students tion that is necessary for them to com things they need to do at the beginning "\'Vith the administration that we ning mate, Kimberly Jones were ques quickly turned into a tense debate as they plete." of the semester." would like to have, we don't want there tioned about their lack of experience faced off against one another, asking each Under their New Deal platform, Candidates also addressed the dis to be this divide," Bright said. "There is since they have not served as president of other questions. junior telecommunication management parity between international and Ameri no reason with all iliese dilforent avenues a school or college. Candidates fielded questions from major Darrion \Voods and sophomore can students and organizations. that are in place. \Ve should not be stmg "Experience is not based on a ti the audience ranging from how they plan political science major Stefan Thompson "[International students) feel like gling with this issue. \Ve would utilize tle," said J ones, a junior finance major. to handle issues faced b)' international identified tmst in the student government they arc second class students at How the United Assembly of Student Orga "Experience is about being here." students to what programs they plan to and funding as major concerns of inter ard," said Nick Owens, a junior legal nizations (UASO) so iliat t11cre is greater Owens w:is forced to respond ta inlplement to provide support to the in national students. communications major. "HUSA is sup communication with our liaisons so we comments made by \\'oods, who said ternational comrnunit)'. "So many times, we make promises posed to be the e)'CS, ears, the voice of all know what the issues are." Owens' plans to "streamline the student "\\'e understand issues facing the to [international student organizations) students, and when we talk about com Kellen Moore, a sophomore politi government" made "HUSA a dictator international students range from differ and they are not fulfilled," \Voods said. munit)) we talk about evel)"Onc within cal science major mnning with Owen un ship." ent students coming from all over and "The International Pals rely on funding, Ulat community. \\'e want to make sure der t11e Taking It Back platform, promot ''\\'e arc not communist,'' Owens wanting their siblings to come," said pres and they are scared to speak out against that these [international] organizations ed collaboration between the different said. "\\le just want to make sure that Ille idential candidate Christopher Caldwell, other organizations, because they know if feel like they are at home. I felt bad when student organizations. Owens proposed student government stmcture is under a junior finance major. "\Ve also under- they don't like you, they don't get their t11e CSA [Caribbean Students Associa that HUSA help by co-sponsoring events standable to all students." funding." tion] did not have t11eir annual home- like "Bridging the Gap," which is put on Angie Stone Shares Her Secrets of Success BY BRIITANY HU TSON to me that they have a guide on what save the industl)~" Business &Technology Editor they are up against. [Upperclassmen] \ Vhite, however, expressed one have a high risk of going out into the concern that she left Ille discussion Award-winning singer, songwrit industry oblivious to what's really going with. er and actress Angie Stone offered her on, and I wanted to bring some imme "l understand her job is to plant "~sdom and guidance about the reali diate awareness to what's going on right t11c seed of the Linitiacive, but) what ties of the entertainment industry in an no\') as opposed to what they think is happens now? l just wish there hap intimate gathering with students Sun going on." pened to be a more tangible way to .. day afternoon in Cramton Auditorium. ·~ Talk Back Session: One-on make it happen, but it really starts with Stone's visit to Howard was a One with Angie Stone" was sponsored t11c individual," \Vhite said. "You have part of her goal to educate and em by Endustry Power Players and Cram to change yourself before you change Phcl40Coulasy ol -googi.a:n power students who are interested in ton Auditorium. During the session, the world." More than 1,000 Kenyans have died In fighting that began after the Dec. 27 presidential election. entering the music industry. She is cur Stone recollected about her career in Stone cautioned, "I see for the rently visiting a select nurnlicr of col the music industry. She also explained future of the music industry, unless leges, including Wiley Collegc,Johnson how to break into the business, industry change happens, is it becomes extinct U.S., Kenvan OHicials Call tor C. Smith University, Benedict College dos and don'ts and how to maintain a like dinosaurs. After a while, people arc and Wayne State University, to spread career in the business. She also focused not going to be able to get jobs. They're her initiative. on the declining nature of the music in not going to want to record because ev ''Power Sharing'' in Kenva "There's a triple threat going on dustry due to downloading, networking, erything is being stolen. Everything ·is as well as the importance of remaining to the future of entertainment," Stone being taken for granted." BY VANESSA ROZIER would have to come to t11e point of collabo· said in an interview with 1ht Hilltop. "I an individual despite the obstacles in According to Stone, as result of Nation & World Editor ra1ion. Tribal affiliations are deep, and be wanted to set a position of 'r!!ady, set, the industry. the current state of the industry, "mu cause it's tribal affiliations, it's a lot deeper go' to the next generation of up and "I loved how she encouraged us sic's healing power fades to black be The deaili toll in Kenya has sur than political parties." coming entertaine1 s, entrepreneurs and to be ourselves," said junior theater arts cause music is designed to inspire and passed 1,000 since the sub-Saharan coun Bush left for his second trip to Africa people. that are pursuing film, television, major Evette White, one of the attend heal, but if there is no positive music, if try empted into violence after disputes over last week, planning to make stops in Menin1 as well as marketing." ees who enjoyed the session. "I like t11e there is no good feeling that is a result of the latest presidential election. Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Liberia, She added, "It's vel)' important concept of trying to save the music and great music, it becomes extinct and we On Dec.