The Hilltop 1-29-1999

Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1990-2000 The iH lltop Digital Archive 1-29-1999 The iH lltop 1-29-1999 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 1-29-1999" (1999). The Hilltop: 1990-2000. 231. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000/231 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]. ILLTOP The Voice of Howard University Since 1924 • VOLUME 82, No. 17 FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1999 http://billtop.howard .edu Slowe Car Break-ins. Sp~k Co01plaints Ri By M ELVIN MOORING II Hilltop Staff Writer Proposed University Core Bylaws Just four weeks into the spring semester, four Would End Student Voting on Slowe Hall residents claim their cars have been broken into, their possessions plundered by Faculty Committees thieves-some of them brazen enough to commit break-ins during broad daylight. · Howard student Turence Jackson said crooks By APRILL O. TURNER While Thornton made it clear that made off with bis 12-disc CD-changer and ampli Hilltop Staff Writer student voting is needed on mos\ fier-all while spectators on the opposite side of committees, he opposed student Third Street, NW; watched and did nothing. In 1968, in the aftermath of participation on committees whelC While the car alarm blared, an on-looker in a car numerous demonstrations and a there is a conflict of interest. told him he would chase down the assailant for takeover of the Administrati on "We do not allow students to sit money, Jackson said. Faced with an estimated Building, Howard students fo ught on committees that deal with schol $1 ,200 worth ofdamage to bis car, Jackson called and won the right to sit as voting arships and fellowships. The stu the Metro Police Department, which took fin members on faculty and Universi dent could possibly be in competi gerprint samples. ty-wide con1mittees. tion with someone." So far, there have been no leads in the case. ERIC HALUHWtop Staff In contrast to those triumphs, Jonathan Hutto, Undergraduate Bad luck also struck a 1991 Toyota Camry however, some student and fac ulty Trustee, and Graduate Trustee owned by sophomore Jean Joseph. Around 8 a.m. Howard University Baseball team's assistant coach, Chico Hinton, looks on as figures believe a new set of guide one morning, Jose~h left bis room in Slowe Hall Randy Short, recommended the li nes limiting students' input in to find the front passenger window of his vehicle outfielder Keith Ferrouillet (left), and Charles Maclin (right) practice for the. institution of a University-wide shattered and the glove compartment emptied. spring season, which begins today. The team opens a three-game series against programs of study have the poten policy giving students the right to He, too, notified the MPD. Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., today. See story, B4 tial to set student progress back 30 vote on all committees within their The Howard University Campus Police Depart years. respective departments- with the ment says they are responding to the thefts with A proposed change in the Core exception of the Appointment, Pro • the aid of the MPD's Third District Precinct. Bylaws, which prescribe a com motions, and Tonure Committee increasing the level security around Slowe Hall. mon set of rules for the Universi (APT) and budgetary committees. Police Chief Reginald Smith admits that securi ty's colleges, have some up in arms On!y tenured fac ulty are alfowed to ty may be an escalating problem around Slowe Bare Bookstore Shelves Leave over the denial of student voting vote on the APT committee. Hall, but that security was tightened on-campus rights on fac ulty committees. "Students at Howard fought for at the semester's start. Article V, section V of the pro the rights and responsibil ities that In a move that may bring some relief to Slowe Students Looking for Alternatives posed bylaws states: 'Toe Supple we now have. It is our responsibil residents, Sgt. lfonnie Foye, the liaison for MPD, mental Bylaws of the College or ity to maintain these rights and to said undercover officers will now be stationed More Students Thn,ing to On-line Boosktores, Other Universities School may provide for the partic fight for those students destined to around the area. In addition, at least one officer .. ipation of students or student rep follow in our footsteps," said Hutto . will be posted at Slowe and a Campus Police By J AMVF. E. SPILLER purchased her books on-llne, and received them resentatives at facnlty meetings, '1"he attempt to stop student voting cruiser will make routine patrols through the a11d LYNN SIMMONDS two days later. provided that students shall not be on fac ufly committees is reprehen area in the evening. Hi lltop Staff Writers "My parents gave me a credit card for Christ afforded a right to vote at such sible and morally indefensible." "[Campus Police] are doing what they can with mas," she said. "I was only going to use it for meetings." Though a decidedly negative out what they have. Campus police have a tough job s a bookstore without books still a book emergencies, but I believe this can be classified Dr. Alvin Thorton, Chair of the come exists fo r students resulting because they have no jurisdiction outside of the store? Nearly a month into the semester, as an emergency." Political Science Department. in an from the adoptation of the the pro dorm:' said Sgt. Foye. "With student complaints, the University's bookstore is out of, well, interview Wednesday, voiced sup it puts them between a rock and a hard place." Fueled by the Internet's emerging popularity, posed bylaws, the student body has books. port for students voting on faculty Students said they would welcome the new the number of on-line bookstores has grown a relatively small role in the deci IMost Howard students have received syllabi security measures. rapidly in recent years, surging profits at online committees. sion-making process. "Campus Police should make more patrols dur from professors. Most have been flushed with chains such as Amazon.com Varsitybooks, and "Students should be allowed to Provost Anotlne Garibaldi was ing the day as well as the evening," Jackson said. homework assignments. Now, many are being E-Follet. In fact, the stores have started running vote on most committees," Thorton unavailable fo r comment by press For additional security, Chief Smith strongly forced to confront book-less shelves, and the television and radio advertisements promoting said. "In my department, I encour time Wednesday. encourages students to use 'The Club', the pop pressure of finding alternative means of buying the non-traditional way of buying books. age maximum student voting on ular anti-theft device which fits over the steering text books. Antwan Clinton, Director of the University these committees." See COR E, A4 wheel of a car, effectively rendering it immobi le. Toke Tia Mouzon. Bookstore System, attributes the problems io a "[The Club] has been an effective tool in deter Mouzon, a freshman psychology major, new text book distributor and the recent harsh ring and preventing automobile theft;• said Smith. searched the Fourth Street bookstore for weather. As a precaution, Chief Smith and Sgt. Foye books- to no avail. Running out of time, she Elections Team advise students to remove any items of value from decided to search an on-line bookstore. Mouzon open view as well from as the trunk. "Someone See BOOKS, A4 could be watching as a student puts valuables in the trunk," Foye said. Unfazed by Scant Time TO OUR READERS After Six Percent Housing Increase, By J EANIQUA N, F RANCIS oi;i a good candidate for HUSA," Dorm Improvements Underway Hilltop Staff Writer Scott said. o tell the story of Howard Universi But GAEC Vice Chair Fabrice ty is to tell the story through the He was selected two weeks ago, Laurent attempted to quell student pages of The Hillrop.Tbis year marks and now he's facing the challenge concern Tuesday, saying "even if By N tCOLE A. T ONG hope to have some word on this very soon," the 75th Anniversary of The Hill- ofcomp leting the election process they're)lot looking, they're going T Hilltop Staff Writer said Keene, who unti.1 last year served as dean top-an institution that has served lhe Howard before Mar. 10. to fi nd out what they need to University community, as well as the trai ning of residence life. Ne,-ertheless, Anthony Santagati, know." Nearly a year after boosting housing rates ground for generations of writers and leaders Initially, the Division of Student Affairs and the 1999 General Assembly Elec Tbc election season bas been by six percent, the University's Office of Res in fields around the globe. It is an institution the office of residence life proposed to pur- · tions Committee chair, is opti shortened this year, due in large deeply rooted in the tradition of such esteemed idence Life has started in!proving its dormito chase furniture for 50 student bedrooms, but mistic. part to the General Assembly's writers as the author Zora Neale Hurston and ries. actually bought 150 sets of furniture instead Santagati says he's enthusiastic failure to obtain a quorum last Isabelle Wilkerson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The University says the additional improve for the Towers, the Tubman Quadrangle, and about the Mar.

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