Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 2000 - 2010 The iH lltop Digital Archive 4-2-2007 The iH lltop 4-2-2007 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 4-2-2007" (2007). The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010. 410. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010/410 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]. ...__... E ILLT The Daily Student Voice of Howard University , VOLUME 90, NO. 112 MONDAY, APRlL 2, 2007 WWW.THEHILLTOPONLINE.COM e,~t . M~ I BREAKING NEWS LIFE & STYLE ,,, ! 0 MOTHER PIMPS 7-YEAR·OLD DAUGHTER WHERE ARE THEY NOW? MON, 4/21 TUll1 4/31 01 • UNNV MOITl.VI UNNV N,.g A WOMAN WAS ARRAIGNED SUNDAY FOR ALLEGEDLY OF­ HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED ABOUT NEWSMAKERS AND HIGH: 80, LOW: 55 HIGH. 81, LOW: 57 D _._~ I A ........ I FERING PORNOGRAPHIC PHOTOS OF HER 7-YEAR-OLD CELEBRITIES WHO SEEMED TO HAVE FALLEN OFF TH E FACE y ~ . DAUGHTER AND SEX TO AN UNDERCOVER POLI CE OFFICER, OF THE EARTH? FIND OUT tN LI FE & STYLE. ACCORDING TO CNN.COM PAG! S BY MERCIA WILLIAMS­ storyline based loosely on a girl wore curve-hugging dresses MURRAY nan1ed Uforiya, who aspires to with lively colors and the glitz Hilltop Staff Writer be on top and whose nightly that was popularized during dreams take her on fantastical the roaring '20s. Some of the Uforiya's subconscious adventures. dresses were short and some led her into the jungle where The opening sequence were long, but all were jazzy hunters roamed and sightseers featured the male models and elegant. moved about. In the jungle, dressed primarily in camou­ Intermission gave way to animal prints from cheetahs, flage and the women wearing a show filled with energetic leopards and sparl<le-embel­ bright, vibrant colors. Coming beats and featured members lished zebras were all the rage. down the runway were dot of the How Hood University Balancing the prints were and striped patterns, strips record label, including artists neutral colors such as olive, of denim turned into corsets Johnny Walker, SD-13, LS and tan and brown. Men wearing and polka dots fashioned into DPoz. safari jackets and ladies don­ belts. One model wore a pink According to the narra­ ning fonn-fitting dresses and and purple metallic skirt and, tor's voice, Uforiya continued cargo-styled pants explored in the na1ne of high fashion, to have dreams of greatness the rough terrain. another sported a pair of gold night after night even though This is not a scene from a and silver sequined underwear she considered herself a 'plain movie, but rather a sequence over black tights. Jane.' However, as she got from "Oneiro: A Nocturnal After watching "Lady older, her dreams changed to Submission," the fashion Sings the Blues" on television, those of the romantic nature, show hosted by the University Uforiya had yet :another dream. particularly about one of the Fashion Council (UFC) and $he pranced onto the stage boys in her class. Uforiya, Howard's first and wearing a ruby red sequined With hoodies opened, the only model troupe. dress lined with black lace. men of the show strutted their The show, held Friday The male models wore stuff once more. Most of the night in Blackburn's ballroom, blazers, slacks and dapper ladies wore lacy shirts, corsets, 0 displayed not only fashion but vests that were typical of the Animal prints ~nd neutral colors adorned the models in the University F;;;i~~"c ~8;;~"~(j' also lively choreography and a Jazz Age. Most of the women See UFORIYA, Page 3 and Howard m del troupe Uforlya's presentation of "Onelro: A Nocturnal Submission." Panelists · e oard of Trustees Votes Hip-Hop Issues o Divest from Sudan BY BRITTANY HUTSON 35 to 45 students "c l•\.I• ~~ ·,!.! f B DREW COSTLEY University of any company doing smpus c:cihvr in- the audi'e1'l.ce •• Campus Editor business in Sudan by June 30. during the earlier Taofeek Syinbola, the president panels. Howard University's Board of of the African Students Association, Diverse and intellectually Wright said, Tru tees voted on Jan. 27 to divest said that while it is good for the stimulating conversation filled "My only concern fro Sudan and any company doing University to fight for social justice Cramton Auditoriu1n on Friday, was the small busi ess in a country that has been for blacks, more students need to get March 29, as experts from across turnout. We were invo ved in a system of ethnic cleans­ involved in the effort. the spectrum of entertainment competing with ing s~·nce 2003. The vote was made "Howard University has shown shared their opinions, knowledge other events for publi Friday. that they are committed to the fight and personal experiences with that day." e resolution, which was passed for social justice not just for blacks in students on the topic of hip-hop During the by a oice vote, makes Howard the America, but for black people inter­ music and the effect it has had first panel, titled first ~·stor i cally black college or uni­ nationally," Syinbola said. "But it on society at the second annual "Hip-Hopis Dead? versi to take such action. Howard [is) also very important for students Hip-Hop and Higher Education The Current State Unive ity President H. Patrick to get involved in the same global Symposium. of Hip-Hop," Swyge t said in a press release that efforts as the University.'' The music and culture ofhip­ Nixon said hip­ divestment is an obvious course of He added that the destruction of life in Darfur at the hands of the hop was born out of the excite­ hop is going down action for the University. "Clearly, it is the right thing to government is despicable and that he ment and creativity of inner city a materialistic do," Swygert said. "The situation in is glad the administration is behind youth from New York City during road, and it is the the Sudan is intolerable and has been the effort. the 1970s. In its early stages, hip­ responsibility of so for a long time." Mafake Kane, a junior econom­ hop was associated with freestyle the current gener·· He also said that because ics major, is a native of Senegal and dancing, graffiti, b-boying, break ation to revive it. l'yron«- Clt·n1mon~ • A~I. Photo &Htor Howard has historically fought for once had close ties to the son of the dancing, DJs and MCs. · "All we're The second annual Hip-Hop and Higher Education oppressed people around the world, Sudanese ambassador in Senegal. Today, the concern over hip­ talking about is Symposium discussed the genre's impact. the University has to take action to She said that she does not trust hop is that the culture has slowly cars, rims and stop the senseless killing of so many many American media reports of the ' but surely beco1ne destructive girls. All we're doing is taking a lot of artists- they think it's people. situation in Sudan, but it is good among adolescents and young a nursery rhy1ne and putting it cool-but when they see the con- "As an institution that has always the University is attempting to put adults. Distress over the commer­ v;ith a Timbaland beat and call­ sequences they feel it in their opposed such flagrant disrespect for pressure on the government to take cialism, materialism and negative ing it a hit," she said. "Hip-hop is soul." human rights, Howard University action to end the ethnic cleansing in false images portrayed by artists not dead, but it definitely needs Doug E. Fresh left the audi- has to use whatever options avail- the country. as well as the blatant disrespect rejuvenation in a positive way. ence with his wish that people able to pressure the government," "It is good for Howard to pull towards women shaped the foun­ You guys have a responsibility to use hip-hop to better their lives Swygert said. "And hopefully bring the money of the country," Kane dation of this year's symposium. change it." and the lives of their families. He to an end, sooner, rather than later, said. "Because whether or not the The eight-hour symposium Hohnan offered a different would like to see hip-hop used the suffering and wanton killing of so Sudanese government is still respon­ offered the Howard community perspective. He said hip-hop has as a tool to commm1icate with all many people." sible for the genocide in the country, it will help put pressure on the gov­ five main panels featuring dis­ ·been dead since the 1990s when people. To date, the conflict has resulted ernment to do something about the cussion about the current state "record companies and execu­ The audience reached a in the killing of as many as 450,000 people, the displacement of 2.5 mil- situation." of hip-hop, business skills for tives decided to coin the term few hundred for the final panel lion and fue the hip-hop generation, the por­ 'hip-hop' for profit," Hohnan discussion, "Sex, Violence and eradication of trayal of black males in hip-hop added, "The focus on 1naterial­ Disrespect: What Hip-Hop Has 90 percent of and the effect hip-hop has had ism only is the greatest destroyer Done to Our Women," which :· the villages in on women.