Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 2000 - 2010 The iH lltop Digital Archive 3-30-2005 The iH lltop 3-30-2005 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 3-30-2005" (2005). The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010. 233. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010/233 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]. • The Daily Student Voice of Howard University VOLUME 88, NO. 56 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2005 WWW.THEHILLTOPONLINE.COM WEDNESDAY NOf EJOOK CAMPUS NEW CROWN-HOLDER ON CAMPUS THE UNIVERSITY HAS A NEW CROWN-HOLDER, AND SHE'S HOPING TO BECOME MISS BLACK U.S.A. FIND OUT WHO SHE IS INSIDE. PAGE 2 NATION & WORLD ZIMBABWE GEARS UP FOR ELECTIONS ZIMBABWE IS GEARING UP FOR ww·w.lhc411onlin~.com nod Vio« Bucci· 1"hc New York 'nines ELECTIONS After fighting a long battle, Johnnie Cochran, 67, passed away Tuesday, from a brain tumor. Cochran made his start in police brutality cases and gained TO BE HELD fame as an attorney for celebrities. He will be remembered as a great lawyer and a man of integrity. THURSDAY AMID CON­ CERNS OF VIOLENCE Famed Lawyer Died of Brain Tumor Yesterday AND COR­ RUPTION. FIND OUT BY JONATHAN DAVIS University students. according to msnbc.com and in the 1950s practice five years later. Contributing Writer WHO THE "It was very shocking and devas­ was one of 24 black students that inte­ The case of the People v. Pro CANDIDATES ARE AND IF tating," Adam Hunter, a senior politi­ grated Los Angles High Schools. Cochran Football Hall of Farner O.J. Simpson in Throughout his entire career as an cal science and economics major, said. attended UCLA for college and received 1994 brought Cochran worldwide fame. THERE IS A CHANCE ZIMBA­ attorney, Johnnie Cochran put his best BWE PRESIDENT, HUBERT "America has lost a great legal thinker his law degree from Loyola Marymount His catchphrase during the trail, "If it foot forward in his fight for truth and and litigator. It's a major loss to the legal University. He passed the California bar doesn't fit, you must acquit," would be MUGABE WILL BE VOTED justice in defending famous celebrities OUT OF OFFICE.PAGE 4 system and the black community. n in 1963, and took a job in Los Angles as quoted and parodied for years to come, and unknown figures. Unfortunately, the "It's very shocking," said April a deputy city attorney in the criminal according to msnbc.com. famed attorney lost one of the biggest Harley, a junior English major. "I knew division. By the jurors finding Simpson not battles anyone can ever face. SPORTS he was a little bit up in age, but I didn't He began his own law practice in guilty of the slaying of his ex-wife Nicole Yesterday, in his Los Angles home, know that he was that much older. I hope 1965 and eventually opened his own law Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald ---ARENA FEVER- Cochran died of a brain tumor. Pastor his family is okay with everything." firm called Cochran, Atkins & Evans. Goldman, Cochran won a case that was William Epps ·of the Second Baptist Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., 67 accord­ In the late 1970s, Cochran started to considered the crowning achievement in IN 1981, JAMES F. FOSTER Church, which Cochran attended for 18 ing to CNN .com, was born in Shreveport, make his mark in the African-American his career. HAD A VISION. TWENTY­ years, told CNN that Cochran had been La., on Oct. 2, 1937. He was the great­ community, litigating a number of high "The clients I've cared about the FOUR YEARS LATER, THE in a hospice suffering from a neurologi­ grandson of a slave, grandson of a share­ profile cases that dealt with police bru­ most are the No Js, the ones who nobody ARENA FOOTBALL LEAGUE cal problem. cropper and son of an insurance sales­ tality and cri1ninal cases. Cochran joined knows," said Cochran according to GIVES FANS SOMETHING TO His sudden death was a shock to a man. the Los Angles County district attorney's nisnbc.com. SHOUT ABOUT ALL YEAR. lot of people, including some Howard He moved to Los Angles in 1949, office in 1978, but returned to ·private PAGE9 Annan Cleared in Oil HU CALENDAR For Food Progran1 BY KEVIN HARRIS directly with the Secretary General, Mr. April 8 Nation & World Editor Kofi Annan, and possible conflicts of interest," Volcker told reporters after LAST DAY TO DROP A CLASS A report released yesterday said the reports release. there is not enough evidence to convict Annan, said in a press conference April 28 embattled United Nations Secretary yesterday that he is aware of Volcker's General Kofi Annan of any wrong doing comn1ents and said although this report FORMAL CLASSES END in the Oil for Food scandal. was limited he is confident that a more An investigative committee, head­ thorough investigation would have the ed by former U.S. Federal Reserve same conclusion. WEATHER Chairman Paul Volcker, found that "But I knew that to be untrue and I Annan did not pressure officials to was therefore absolutely confident that award a $10 million contract to the TODAY a thorough inquiry would clear me of Swiss company Cotecna Inspection, any wrongdoing," Annan said. "After PARTLY CLOUDY which employed his son. High:65 so many distressing and untrue allega­ Low:45 "Based on the record and lack of tions have been made against me, this evidence of impropriety, it is the find­ exoneration by the independent inqui­ ing of the committee that Cotecna was ry obviously comes as a great relief." awarded the contract in 1998 on the Officials for Cotecna Inspection ground that it was the lowest bidder," THURSDAY also released a staten1ent Tuesday read a statement released along with saying that the report vindicates their PM SHOWERS Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton encouraged students to remain the report. High:60 company as well. aware of social security benefits and issues surrounding privatization of Tuesday's repo1t was not as kind Low:54 social security funds. "The con1mittee's repo1t demon­ to Annan's son Kojo, who alledgedly strates clearly what we have been say­ used his family connections to receive ing all along, that we were awarded Norton Holds Panel money in exchange for helping com­ this contract fairly, based on the merit panies secure contracts with the oil for of our proposal and on our worldwide food program. leadership position in inspection ser­ INDEX Discussion on Social Security "Significant questions remain vices," a statement from Cotecna CEO about Kojo Annan's actions during the Robert Massey read. CAMPUS ......................................... ..... 2 fall of 1998 as well as the integrity of Des,l)ite the reports exoneration of BY KEVIN HARRIS years, Norton said that students should his business and financial dealings with NATION &.. WORLD ...................................... 4 Nation & World Editor not wait until their golden years to be Annan, U.S. legislators still continued EDITORIALS & PERSPECTIVES........... ...... 7 respect to the oil for food program," their calls for the secretary general to concerned with social security because a committee statement read. "He also LIFE & STYLE ......................................................... 8 Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes many are receiving benefits now with­ resign. Among them was Republican SPORTS ................................................... 9 Norton (D-D.C.) hosted a panel discus­ 'intentionally deceived the secretary senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota out realizing it. general about this continuing financial sion Tuesday on the future of social "Right now in a class at Howard who says the report still concludes that security and the impact privatizing relationship." Annan was negligent in managing the University, many of you are sitting next The report, which was 144 pages, the program will have on Howard to a person who is receiving social secu­ program. University students. was the ~econd investigative report When asked at a press conference rity survivor benefits," Norton said. released on the mis1nanagement of /~R- · !'NI Joining Norton in the School of Survivor benefits are funds dis­ if he would resign, a defiant Annan ~ !IVMW Business Auditorium was former more than $60 billion in the oil for food answered "Hell no." Annan has been persed to a working person's family in scandal. Though Annan was cleared, COLLEGE Congresswo1nan Barbara Kennelly and the event that they die. Many women, under increasing pressure to resign fol­ Dr. Maya Rockeymoore, a social secu­ the report does suggest that the secre­ lowing the scandal as well as reports who are vvidowed depend on survivor tary general was somewhat negligent rity expert. Keeping in mind that most benefits to raise their families after that U.N. peace keepers have raped Howard students will not begin receiv­ in his handling of the program. "While' girls as young as seven while on peace­ ing retirement benefits for at least 40 See NORTON, News A5 the scope of the second report is lim­ keeping missions in Africa. ited.. .it does deal with matters dealing MARCH 30, 2005 THE HILLTOP NEWSA3 ' • l 867 HOWARD • UNIVERSITY TO: THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY ' The University wants to make certain that the Howard University Community is aware of the status of the University's efforts to reach a new Collective Bargaining Agreement with Local 82, Service Employees International Union (SEIU).