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Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1990-2000 The iH lltop Digital Archive 3-31-2000 The iH lltop 3-31-2000 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 3-31-2000" (2000). The Hilltop: 1990-2000. 263. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000/263 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: 1990-2000 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Nation's Largest Black Collegiate Newspaper VOLUME 83, NO. 25 FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2000 http://hilltop.howard.edu New UGSA Reps to Begin Executive Office Elections Current Members Offer Advice to Newly Elected Student Leaders By C HRrsToPHER w1,011A.\1 are coordinator, vice-coordinator, opportunity to get started,"' said fulfill their duties. hopes UGSA "'ill clearly define it's grams and affairs. serve as the cen Asst. Campus Editor financial adv,-.or. public relations Alston .. I reaHy believe in this next purpose next year. tral governing body of the Schools director. program, director, and She said last year's transitionaJ group." she said. ·· I see a \'cry bright Current reps said they no" realize and Colleges. UGSA is also central Newly c-lecte<l Undergraduate Stu grievance director. Candidates are mee1jng did not occur until April 26. future for chis univen,it)."' the shortcomings of this ycar·s \'Oting body in the Howard Univer dent A,sc:mbly Reprcs,·ntati vc~ requm~d 10 submit their proposals on The i,er ,or marketing major, Re-elected rep, Sophomore En.k administration. Sil) Studenr Association·s General checked in for work Tucway in the Apnl 11 at UGS.A:s monthly meeting. Abmn. said last year\ senio~ were Watson from the School ol Engi Senior Toi Outerbridge. current Assembly. UGSA is made up of a Blackburn Center during U(jSA\ Candidates must go before the cur tmished with final exams before she neering. Archnecture. and Comput College of Arts&Sciences rep. said two reps. from each school or college first official tran,itional meeting. rent UGSA representative voting was elected as coordinator. er Sciences said UGSA will strive to conflicting interes1 has been the regardless of size of enrollment. Any More than two weeks after gener bcxly for their 2/3 majority vote of Current UGSA reps offered advice improve on this year's administra downfall for some UGSA reps dur school with enrollment of five hun al elections 17 of the 21 new reps approval. 10 new members. tion. ing her first year in the assembly. She dred or more full-time students will were in attendance for the annual Current UGSA coordinator Alisa Alston advises new reps that time "I hope we will have people that said when personal responsibilities receive one seat for every five hun meeting. Al\ton ~aid next year's reps will have management b very important. She care about doing things the right conflict with student government dred students. The vice-presidenr of Current UGSA Reps briefed the an edge over their predecessor!.. She !.aid UGSA i~ not just a extra cur way;· said the former UGSA finan responsibilities reps. usually fail to each student council automatically new rep, on everything from parlia said the new reps have an advantage ricular activity but a part-time job cial advisor. Watson was removed perform their duties effectively. hold one of the representatives seats mentary procedure to how to prepare have because the reps will have more also. from his post last semester because According to the UGSA constitu .Howard's largest school, the College for executive offt ;er elec11on,. preparation time. Alston said she is confident the he wa~ uncooperative with current tion, the assembly's central function of Art&Sciences, has five reps-the Among the vacant paid position, " I am trying to give them the 2000 UGSA reps will successfully UGSA members. Watson also said he is to institute and implement pro- largest number of reps. - - Black Arts 'Reared Against The Eastern Sky... ' Supreine Court Festival to Upholds Activity Kickoff Fee Allocation to Sunday • By C.:IIRIS'IOl'll~:R W1'l1>ll1\ \1 Unpopular Clubs Asst.Cam pus Editor By APRU,L 0. T URNER Action Network to the Calvary To i.howcase student taleni in the Editor-in-Chief Lutheran Student Association, the field of a, ts, tht Undergraduate Stu• Knitting and Craft Guild, and the dent Assembly will kil.:koff its 22nd A unanimous Supreme Court campus ''As a conservative and a Annual Spring Bluck Ans h:stival on earlier this week ruled chat public Christian, it was frustrating to see Sunday. universities do not violate First the money going to organizations The wee!. long leslival entitled Amendment rights by using I personally disagree with," said "Expo1,c" because ii will exhibit the mandatory student fees to finance Mr. Southworth, now a lawyer, lalcnt\ of I Inward ,1udcnt,. The festi- campus organizations that students whose list of 18 groups he didn't val will find offensive or politically antag support included the Lesbian, Gay, __________See Cost Guide on Page A4 featurea vari- onistic. Bisexual and Trans gender Campus "It is not for the court to say what Center. ety of prngram, from s1udio dance is or is not germane to the ideas 10 ··we must begin by recognizing clasM:s to vi,ual art exhibits. be pursued in an institution of high that the complaining students are Acco1dmg lo UGSA coordinator er learning," Justice Anthony M. being required to pay fees which Alba Al,ton . th<· festival will have Kennedy wrote. are subsidies for speech they find more ~,u lent i1w1>l\,Cmcn1 \hen m pas\ The ruling came in a lawsuit by objectionable, even offensive," Jus yt·ars. conservatives against the Univer tice Kennedy wrote. ., " We ( UGSA) arc trying tu sh0w sity ofWisconsm at Madison, with The court voted 6-3 over por . the community what the students and 40,000 students one of the largest tions of the ruling that hinged on faculty of Howard has offer." she in the nation and among the most stipulations by lawyers for both said. liberal. Had it gone the other way, sides that no group was excluded In addition to traditional SBAF the decision could have forced from the program because of its events such a~ the poetry. fashion and Howard University ~tudents were greeted with nice 11 eother os abandonment of a funding system beliefs - in legal terms, the pro rnlcnt shows. this festival will unfold Spring made iL~ npproach on the used nationwide. gram was "content neutral." the" Old School Funk Fest," a concert Dhtrict. ''Today's ruling is a total victo The ruling made many looked at celebrating popular music of the ry for the First Amendment. It is Howard's Student Activity Fee, Photo:. By Chan<lm Ander,on l 970's. The concert is schdueled for clearly desirable for students on raised last year 80 percent from $75 \Vencsd,1y at 7·00 p.m. in the Black university campuses to have the to $135. Howard, although a pri burn Ballroom. The cost is $J.OO for opportunity to hear from many dif vate institution, is still funded part student nnd $5.00 for general admis ferent viewpoints and to be able to ly by the government. sion. express the views that they hold Kristy Hinds, a senior English Alston said UGSA has strived to important," Wisconsin Attorney major says that when students make studem t1cke1 prices .iflordable. General James E. Doyle said. make the decision to Howard Uni Events held on Monday. Tuesday. and 29 friend-of-the-court briefs versity they should not have the Wednesday arc $3.00 for studcnh. were filed representing hundreds of right to "pick-and-choose" how Proccds for the events will go toward groups, with 15 supporting school their student activity fee is spent." the 2000 UGSA m.lmin1,1ra1io11's pro policy and 14 backing former stu• The losing lawyer, Jordan grams fund. Eight of 1hc festtval"s 13 dent Scott H. Southworth. A single Lorence of Northstar Legal Center events are free of charge brief included many of the 623 in Fairfax, Va., said justices over According to .-\lston the mort· tra groups whose extracurricular activ interpreted his limited stipulation \littonal evl·nts "1 II rctkct the stu ities are financed by the $33 1.50 on content neutrality and appar dc-nts mon.· yearly fee on the Madison campus, ently failed to recognize a lopsided The fash1lm shim t"lllltled · con ranging from the East Timor FEE,A4 tro,cn.). "will include student dt·,1gu crs for the ftr,t time as well as studcm models. Controversy, \\Ill be held Thursday tr1 Cramton Auditorium. Ticl.cts arc SI 0.<X> for students and $15.00 for gt·ncr,11 admisswn Rash of New York Police Brutality Cases Concerns HU Students Tiw, yc:\r's pi.'ICtr) sht"'· ··tntdlec ttrnl Abstractwns In the rc:mpk of B, K1'101'11) K. BRO\\", mond to sell him some marijuana, outrage and chaos among communi side his family's home in the Bronx. Anwnhotcp" ,, 111 ac..:1\1d111g to Al,ton. MannJtinJ? Editor Evidence rc,ealed that Dorismond ty and state leaders The family of Baez sued for wrong combmt' ,tudcnt pot·tr~. I~ rKl'•lll. was in no possession of marijuana, This latest incident is the latest in ful death and won a $3 million set songs.