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FAMU needs an Summer movies Cook and Two legends return overhaul on the way: James: the vice to their sports in technology a preview presidents speak options Opinion 8 Entertainment 10 Lifestyles 1 &13 Sports 16 The Famnan --'- APRIL 6, 1995 The Voice of Florida A&M University - Tallahassee, Fla. Vol. 81 - No. 12 '2 . Welfare cuts "' RESULTS protested at Junior Senator Sophomore Attendant Cheree Haswell 62 Ki-Afi Moyo 129 Capitolfor Valencia Hawkins 36 Sharonda Britton 121 Senior Attendant Children's Day Jamila Williams 77 Vanessa Weatherspoon 49 B RUITH DRO The 8th Annual Children's Day brought out more than 500 children to the Court won't replace Capitol Tuesday to protest proposed wel- fare cuts. March SGA elections At the Children's Day. sponsored by Florida Children's Forum, children and their parents were entertained with songs BY TACUMA ROEB ACK In the Miss FAMU race, win- and skits performed by preschool chil- STill WRrm ner Djena Graves got 107 dren. At noon, everyone sang "We've Got The Famuan LESLIE D. STEELE The votes more than Townsend. The Whole World in Our Hands." Hanedprints of the children of Florida in the SGA elec- The petition sought new The children decorated paper plates, New Capitol rotunda will hang until Friday. tion results elections to replace the construction paper and anything they Joyce Sealev, legislature planner for Health will stand, March 14 elections on the could find with their hand prints. They were and Rehabilitative Services, said the proposed according to grounds that the electoral hung in the Capitol rotunda. Arnold Amendment, now in the House the student commission violated the "This was to remind legislators that kids Committee, will cut child care Supreme election codes within the stu- need their help right now," said Rue Lutrell, co- Appropriations Court's dent body statutes, according programs such as subsidized child care and Sturrup chairperson of Big Bend Community decision to a judicial review. Coordinated Child Care. Pt OlIILDRE./3 Saturday "We thought it would be regarding best to hold it over for trial," the presi- Skye Berry, student Supreme dential and Court solicitor general, said Miss FAMU of the complaint. Chemistry professor pickets at President tickets. The decision to uphold The S elections came from the lack Humphries' house, says FAMU is unfair March 30 of proven violations that trial was Farrington occurred during the runoffs. BY KEVIN NEALE out of the window yelling, STr rmxra States Demand More held after "We ruled on actual vio- Classroom Time From "FAMU is unfair, FAMU is senator Oliver Gi Ibert filed a lations that occurred, but not At 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, you Professors / 7 unfair!" petition on behalIf of plain- possible ones," Rayford could have found one man, Adjunct professors compose time and do not hold regular tiffs Randolph Sturrup, Paul Davis, an associate justice on chemistry professor Dr. Robert approximately 24 percent of office hours. Farrington and Rhonda the court, said. "There were Flakes, pacing on the sidewalk in FAMU's faculty, according to the Humphries was out of town Townsend again st Clifton three (violations) that were front of FAMU President provost's office. at The Famuan's press time and Goins, electoral commission- proven beyond a shadow of a Frederick Humphries' house. "The (adjunct) teachers' cre- was unavailable for comment. er, on March 16. doubt." "FAMU is unfair to its facul- dentials are not scrutinized, and the support The Sturrup/Farrington The first violation dealt ty," is what his picket sign read. Flakes received as a result students are being drivers who honked ticket was defea ted by the with the hours each precinct Flakes said he believes of some short-changed," Flakes said. their fists Larry Tait/ShaR:on James opened. All eight precincts FAMU's administration is failing their horns and raised Kisha Gipson, a freshman ticket by 178 votes during the both its faculty and its students through their windows as they psychology student, agrees. She March 14 run-offf elections. PLSESEt ELECIONS2 adjunct pro- passed by and one student on a by having too many Pls sa PROFESSRI3 fessors, those who teach part Leon County school bus leaned Two FAMU students arrested in connection with rape BY KATRINA MILES morning hours March 27. apartment later that night, a rape, but he and Holiday are STr WRITER The rape allegedly Tallahassee police official said. being held in Leon County jail Safety Tips The Tallahassee Police occurred in a bedroom in the Neighbors reported hear- without bail. is a crime of oppor- > If you come with a group, Department arrested Alshawn suspects' apartment. ing the victim's screams and "Rape leave with a group. said Mark Meadows, an Holiday, 20, and Oliver Louis The victim told police she high-pitched noises, but said tunity," • If you drink, Hargett, 19, Tuesday in connec- went there with friends to they did not know what the officer with the TPD Crime know your limits. tion with the rape of a FAMU watch a movie. When most of noises were. Prevention unit. "And wrongly • Know your surroundings student. the others left, the woman Police said there are multi- the victim may feel she had > Trust your own instincts, According to police stayed behind, talking and ple suspects in the case and something to do with it." • Just because you meet someone for 20 minutes, reports, a 19-year-old woman drinking with one of the men. they are still looking for the Meadows said to protect doesn't mean that person was raped for three hours at a The woman told police she others. yourself against the possibility got drunk. Hargett initially denied Isn't a stranger. duplex in the 700 block of PTJtE S lAE/3 • Don't talk to strangers. Liberty Street during the early Several men returned to the knowing anything about the 2 THE FAMUAN /APRIL 6, 1995 and opinion. EEF'TIOS that there are to be eight election "The electoral commission Senate's Election fIlo 1 volunteers and a member of the can't make people volunteer," Appointments committee, "Never once did the court electoral,commission at sites. Pamela Davis, attorney for Davis said. ever consider how many votes should have opened at 8 a.m. Goins, said. decided the margin of victory and closed by 6 p.m. But Townsend testified that The third violation deals It was because of these and compared it to how many "Tucker Hall didn't open in at the architecture building, for with the lack of members pre- three violations that Chief people were affected by the time nor did the architecture site example, there was only one sent when votes were counted. Justice Rahman Khan disagreed alpha listing problem," Khan or the Dyson Pharmacy build- yolunteer working at the Representatives were miss- with the decision to have the said. "We can not excuse the ing," Gilbert said. precinct during the morning of ing from the Judicial Branch, election results stand. Khan had electoral process because it's The election codes state the run off elections. Student Activities and the offered the only dissenting new. Rickards ,tHigh / Filmmakers Left: Rickards High School Students pose for a picture while in Orlando for a state film contest. Below: Rickards students Marvin . , Perry and Dwayne Ash having a Sgood time at Universal Studios -. Florida. Photos Special to the Famuan Rickards in semifinals for Universal Studios film contest BY KIMBERLY N. MCGHEE test," said Kenneth B. Jones, ly transported to the dream. To STId.TrIT FAMU alumnus and instructor return to safety, they had to con- With the help of FAMU of the TV. production class. front their fears. alumni, students at Rickards Rickards students submit- "I wanted my students to High School are proving their ted their script titled "Love stretch their minds beyond the talent through the use of film. Hurts," a film about domestic regular 'hood' type stories," Of the 150 schools that violence. Jones said. entered the Universal Studios The T.V. production class Some students said they contest for junior film makers, took 10 students to Orlando Feb. were pleased with the film and Rickards' T.V. production class 25 to shoot their second film, their performance. was one of 16 selected to the titled "Time Zone." "It was a good for ama- semifinals. "Time Zone" was about teurs," Jackson said. Winners received a video four students who wandered into Marvin L. Perry, a senior Studios April 19. Universal $10,000 grant. camera and an all expense paid an abandoned house known as who directed the film, said the Studios will make their final "These kids are really tal- weekend trip to Universal "The House of Fears" that experience taught the students another selection of three schools April ented and I want them to contin- Studios in Orlando. lurked with the spirit of Lucifer. "how to work with one accord." 26. They will hold a ceremony ue to challenge themselves," "It's the first time Rickards Whenever one of the four and do things on one The students will edit their and announce the winner May Jones said. ever participated in this con- students would reflect on a nightmare, they were all instant- film and resubmit it to Universal 10. The winner will receive a Community is the focus for volunteers graduate student. BY KIMBERLY N. MCGHEE "For those peo- 1 i start now. STnal WR TuI ple who cannot ~ZIICI~ In 1992, Rickards High School did FAMU students are also greatly not have a functioning newspaper. Now, appreciated at Bond Elementary school, FAMU's motto, "Excellence with come to FAMU, we J about 22 students go to Rickards once a Mary Allen, assistant principal at Bond, Caring," is not only present on campus, will come to them," week to assist the high school journalists said.

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