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North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship NCAT Student Newspapers Digital Collections 4-9-2008 The Register, 2008-04-09 North Carolina Agricutural and Technical State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.library.ncat.edu/atregister Recommended Citation North Carolina Agricutural and Technical State University, "The Register, 2008-04-09" (2008). NCAT Student Newspapers. 1409. https://digital.library.ncat.edu/atregister/1409 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Digital Collections at Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in NCAT Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Jimi James 'JL■KJVx Aggies qualify for NCAA regionals during relays M Alum talks about new album and experiences ]R .SOFTBALL: Lady Aggies sweep WSSU • PAGE 7 PAGE 8 \% The A&T REGISTER VOLUME LXXXI, NO. 27 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2008 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY theYAR TELL US WHAT YOU THINK? Aggie Fest Do you feel like the university has a bias towards engineering majors? Let us know what you thinkat www.ncatregister.com lineup finally theWORLD unveiled LEROY MIKELL Dir. ofPhotography Aggie Fest is the first chance forA&T and the surrounding colleges to experience the rehab of Aggie Pride. The week long event is expected to restore Ag- gie Fest to the time when it was in competition ARMY CALLS FOR with homecoming for size and stature. Aggie Fest is the last official event for the cur- TROOP'PAUSE' rent Student Government Association members and the welcoming party for the newly elected Petraeus for a GeneralDavid called staff. Events are planned for the entire week in- 45-day troop pause to keep recent that they are mainly geared towards JOMC majors, but she hasn't seen it a a concerts, a gains made inIraq. MARVINPOWELL cluding prom, step show, and bas- Contributor engineering majors. lately. ketball tournament. Tracey Battle, a junior JOMC Joyce Edwards, executive director Senior theater major Asha' Al-shair said that the Do the people in Dowdy have a major said, "I think it's disturbing to of career services and experiential Aggie Fest has not lived up to its hype in the past. soft spot for the students working in know that it's only geared to those learning, feels that students should "I think the events in the HollandBowl is usually McNair? [engineering] majors because there begin by going to the career services pretty fun because people can see it just by walk- FINANCIAL The Office of Career Services ed- are such a variety of majors on the Web site. The site has a large data- ing by and getting involved and it is nothing you about employ- RETARDATION? ucates students on how to search for campus." base with information have to buy a ticket to." jobs, write resumes, interview and Battle said she goes to the career ers, job postings, internships, and a Al-shair said that since she is a theater ma- The site also While some studentsactually network to find employment. The of- fairs and feels that she is at a disad- resume referral service. jor, she doesn't get out much and she wishes that know their farshare about money, fice also plans job-focused events on vantage because the majority of the has information on events career ser- more events for homecoming and Aggiefest were manyAggies are financially campus for students. However, stu- companies' representatives are not vices offer on-campus. on campus because the events are about commu- retarded. PAGE 5 dents have been complaining that the looking for people in the field of When asked about the career fair nity. career fairs planned by The Office of study she chose to pursue. Battle said Edwards said, "We don't justcaterto Career Services are not effective and she used to go to a fair designed for the See ENGINEERING on Page 2 See AGGIE FEST on Page 2 IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY... Bringing the politics to the people Miss A&T speaks about harsh comments she's faced just one week into herreign. PAGE 6 House majority whip Jim Clyburn speaks on the yard theSCORE MICHAEL J.McCRAY asked the 6th Congressional dis- Barack's race against him and » Editor In trictrepresentative some serious that's a con for both of them," Chief JAYHAWKS NEW questions about the current po- said Clyburn. Thisyear's Warmoth T. Gibbs litical environment. "Believe it or not, she will NAT'L CHAMPS Lecture brought House majority Asking any Democrat what energize women in a way wom- whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) to they think about the Clinton en have not been energized be- overcame a The Kansas Jayhawks the yard. and Obama campaigns has be- fore and he will energize blacks late deficitto beat the Memphis Clyburn, who is the third come second nature and like a in a way that Blacks have never Tigers 75-68 in overtime to be- of been energized before." come national champs. PAGE 7 ranking Democrat in Congress, true politican the former head was the keynote speaker for the the Congressional Black Caucas When asked who he supports 20th anniversary' of the event answered the questions but left he shined light on whyhe's been theSCENE and centered his speech around the real answer up in the air. re-elected seven times. the current state of affairs in "Well they both have the "I tell people that I am not MfflttfY American politics and took time same pros and cons. Hillary public in my support, I cannot TBt — to reflect on the 40th anniversa- Clinton, no matter what any- tell you that I am undecided, mm 31 ry of Dr. Martin Luther King's body saysto you to the contrary, I'm not," said Clyburn. assassination. there are people who hold her "I voted on January 26 in the Members of the media had gender against her and no mat- Democratic primary in South the chance to speak with Cly- ter what anyone says to the con- Carolina and I voted for some- PHOTO BY BRANDON BELLAMY - REGISTER his speech and got trary, there are people who hold making conscious politically aware. burn before See CLYBURN on Page 2 REP. JIMCLYBURN speaks to studentsabout a effortto be CONCERT REVIEW lc **r stl?e^ranf ENVIROMENTAL ISSUES GNARLS BARKLEY IS AT IT AGAIN Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige GreeneTflays ahead in Aggieland industry's oddest One of the music Society ofAgricultural and Bi- The idea of the group came couples release an album that says STACIE BAILEY Register Reporter ological Engineers also known about last semester and be- justthat. PAGE 8 the Boro hit the heart of as, ASABE. came more concrete during the Dr. Crawford, by and into the stands, video of 70-degree days in winter In their collaboration, they spring semester. LASHAWN PARKER raised the issue ofthe WEATHER Managing Editor what seemed to be a documen- what? are intent on making students who has his contempo- » tary of backstage commentary Something's wrong hereand aware ofthe importance oftak- environment in world classes, is not only by the two artists on how the ithas a lot to do with the pollu- ing care ofthe environment. rary Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige group but Greensboro Coliseum tour came to be. tion and its affect on the ozone. Freshman natural resource the advisor for the 7 took the recyclables near Hi: 71° literally, last Satur- Lights went downand Mary's At the rate we're going, things management major, Annette has boxes for by storm, Aggies a his office and takes them to day with their Heart of the City signature "la-dee-daa-da-daa" will only worsen if something Sparks, joined the ago differentrecycle stations in the Tour. rang through the building while isn't done about it. couple months after hear- ™^m^m*^ county. faithful Jay-Z's chant, "Roc-A-Fella Groups at A&T are ensur- ing about them through her Through rain many Also, he is directly involved THURSDAY: Sunny | High 79° and excited fans trudged along ya'll" came in. The lights go up ing that they take part in fixing Contemporary World profes- sor, Crawford. in one ofthe Green Paw's fu- Mostly High packed parking lots and traffic and "Can't Knock the Hustle" the issue of pollution by en- Dr. James FRIDAY: Sunny | 76° a dealing with bio- filled sidewalks and streets to rocked the entire Coliseum. couraging their fellow Aggies Sparks, who has been ture projects Smoke, screams and the high to recycle. member of ASABE since she diesel, which he uses in his what may be Spring's biggest regular diesel. INDEX featuring two of New energy of the crowd raised the One of these groups is the began her career at A&T, initi- truck instead of concert type gasoline does icons, the self- temperature through the colise- Green Paw Aggies. Although ated the unionbetween ASABE This of York's biggest not harm the environment and theYARD... proclaimed and publicly ac- um'sroof and this was only the theyare not,yet,an independent and the Green Paw Aggies. theWORLD as a gets the same mileage as regu- knowledged soul hip-hop queen opening song. ' organization, they are working "I joined new member theBIZ lar. The diesel can be made rapper Mary congratulated Jay-Z on their way up to becoming one and I saw the potential of the theWORD.