Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 2000 - 2010 The iH lltop Digital Archive 11-22-2002 The iH lltop 11-22-2002 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 11-22-2002" (2002). The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010. 95. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010/95 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]. Life & Style The Bayou Classic Predicted THE to be Successful. ILLTOP B4 The Student Voice of Howard University Since 1924 VOLUME 86, NO. 26 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2002 www.thehilltoponline.com Al Sharpton Makes Visit to Campus H.U. Administrator SlitlTJ'JtfJl'l Works for Morris Speaks at Brown While on School of 'Sabatical' Medici11e By Josef Saw)er Campus & Online Editor who takes leave shall be paid Monday and treated as if he or she was Go to the second floor of performing work as usual the Adniinistration Building during the time of the leave." By Melanie R. Holmes and ask for Sheryle Turner­ Provost and Chief Contributing Writer Spivey, Dean of Financial Aid Academic Officer A. Toy and Student Employment . Caldwell declined comment Rev. Al Sharpton spoke at The likely response from about Turner-Spivey's cur­ the School of Medicine audito­ any office worker is that she rent job situation. But Clyde rium on Nov. 18 to kick off this is "on leave• and will be for Cash, Howard's assistant year's Black Examples Sharing the nexxt six months. vice-president for human Their Stories (BESTS) series. Call Morris Brown's resources said he was Presented by the Arts & Office of Financial Aid and unaware Turner-Spivey was Pho10 by F.milia Adam> Sciences Student Council, Turner-Spivey will answer. working elsewhere. Reverend Al Sharpton visited Howard Monday for a book signing and a speech at the Sharpton took to the podium at On November 14, the "It is almost impossible School of Medicine. approximately 7:30pm, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution for someone to work at ended around 9 pm. Seated on (A.JC) quoted Turner-Spivey Howard fulltime and at stage along with Sharpton were as Morris Brown's new Vice another university's adminis­ student council members President of Enrollment tration fulltime," he said. Sharpton Signs Books in HUB Jacques Purvis, Jason Ravin, Management. Travionne Shaw, human By Dominique Ann Rouzan Conrad Woody, Tiffany Ganer, "Turner-Spivey, who resources assistant at Morris Contributing Writer I went to the Middle East and worried because he knows he and Daniel Blankmore. started in the job nine days Brown said Turner-Spivey met with Ariell Sharon and has a good chance ofwinning if In his speech, Sharpton put ago, already has submitted was hired as a fulltime A sparse crowd at didn't Yasir Arafat so this is not some gets the minority vote. forth the idea that the Civil aid requests for 115 other stu­ employee. discourage Reverend Al ivory tower stuff," Sharpton "If blacks, and Latinos Rights Movement is not a thing dents, and hopes to soon start "Her position was need­ Sharpton Monday as he pro­ said. made Clinton president why of the past, but a current and submitting 400 requests a ed badly," Shaw said. moted his new book 'Al on President H. Patrick not vote for your own?" ongoing struggle. week," the A.JC reported. "(Turner-Spivey's job] is an America,' and spoke of the pos­ Swygert was among those in Sharpton asked. "People look at the civil Turner-Spivey said her at-will fulltime position that sibility of running for attendance to show Sharpton Sharpton plans to join the rights movement as a fashion position with Morris Brown is is not interim." President in 2004. support. Democratic Party and has rather than a cause." he said, a personal choice she came to • As long as she [Turner­ The Civil Rights Activist Sharpton has been to already gotten corporate sup­ "but there's as much of a rea­ after taking a "sabbatical," Spivey] wants to work here held his book signing at the Howard on many occasions to port from Percy Sutton Chief son to be fighting the civil from Howard, which is and as long as the adminis­ Howard University Bookstore. garner support for different Executive Officer of Inner City, right~ movement today as there unpaid. tration wants her here she His second book 'Al on causes Swygert said. and Russell Simmons Chief was years ago.• Sharpton "I left Howard University can stay," Shaw said. I mcrica' is what he calls his Although Sharpton has not Executive Officer of Def Jam pointed out that blacks are four for personal reasons for six President of Morris policy views on America from officially announced he will Recordings. times as likely to have inade­ months and I will be back Brown, Charles Taylor, said health care to the Middle East. run for the presidency in 2004 Sharpton is confident he quate healthcare than whites, after six months," Turner­ the school is aware Turner­ "The book is my own expe­ he has faced criticism from can also draw support from and five times more likely to go Spivey said. Spivey's is on leave at riences and what I think works many who say he does not have whites due to prior experiences to jail than white people with Howard's policy on sab­ Howard. by talking to people who have a chance. with elections. "When I ran for the same educational back- batical is generally reserved Taylor declined comment been in the trenches. I have Sharpton said he was for faculty, but for adminis­ as to wheher Turner-Spivey been stabbed and gone to jail. aware of the criticism but it not See HUB page A11 See MED page A11 trative workers Howard's will continue work at Morris website states "an employee Brown after six months. Ja Rule Turns Celebrating A Soul Gone Too Soon Dream Into a Nightmare Analysis By Jozen Cummings Life & Style Editor He may be all of five­ foot-two, but Ja-Rule has the stage presence of a man twice his height. Like the short guy who makes you wonder how he's bullying around his huge sidekick, the way Ja controls a crowd is mind-boggling. This past Wednesday night Ja-Rule lived up to his name by ruling the crowd at Dream nightclub. Rule was file pholO in town to celebrate his lat­ JaRule performed at Psalmayne 24 performs at the "State of Black Music" benefit concert to raise money for the KIShawnda McRoyal Fund est release on the Murder Dream Wednesday night. Wednesday. Inc. label "The Last more than necessary, as Temptation." Rule had none of his After starting approxi­ Murder Inc. crew to back mately three hours behind him up. Recruits Hindered By Academic Requirements schedule, Ja Rule let every­ Known for his signature one know what the plan was brand of ear-candy hip-hop, By Soraya McDonald going to be for the rest of Rule went through each of Hilltop Staff Writer high school athletes to have a play the game of basketball and program is playing on ABC or the evening. his hits, many of which GPA of 2.5 and an 850 on the make it here academically as CBS, being televised," said "I'm going to take you weren't even featured on his SAT (the NCAA minimum well," said women's basketball Bison football Wide Receivers all from the first album to albums. The concert was, As one of the nation's old­ requirements) to be accepted, Head Coach Cathy Parsun. Coach Gary Harrell, who con­ my {'The Last for the most part, similar to est and most respected histori­ Howard's College of Arts and The task does not get any sidered several big schools Temptation'),'' Rule told the a sample greatest-hits pack­ cally black universities, Sciences requires a 2.5 and an easier when competing for before making the decision to crowd. "It's been too long age. Save for one song, the Howard University has an SAT score of 980. Admissions players with schools that have play at Howard in 1990. since I last came to D.C. so Queens native performed admirable academic reputa­ requirements for other schools, better facilities. Players almost The glamour of a school in I'm ready to murda the only a portion of most of his tion. So it should come as no such as the School of Business have to know that they want a large conference such as the joint!, songs. To his benefit, a lot surprise that Howard expects and College of Engineering, are the Howard experience. Parson ACC or the Big East, where the Beginning with the song of familiar hits performed more scholastic excellence even more demanding. cited the loss of a former presence of major television that birthed the millenni­ were originally collabora­ from its athletes than most of Howard's higher-than- prospect to the University of networks and nationally broad­ ums catchiest phrase, tions, songs such as 2002's the institution's MEAC coun­ average standards have some Syracuse, an institution with casted games loom large cer­ "Holla, Holla," Rule ran "Rainy Dayz," with Mary J. terparts. sort of an affect on the recruit­ outstanding facilities.