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Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 2000 - 2010 The iH lltop Digital Archive 11-3-2000 The iH lltop 11-3-2000 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 11-3-2000" (2000). The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010. 11. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010/11 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]. ----------~----------;----------------------- Don't Forget to Vote Tuesday, Nov. 7 ILLTOP \ The Nation's Largest Black Student Newspaper Volume 84, No. 11 Friday, November 3, 2000 htttp://hilltop.howard.edu "Being that this is the 'Mecca,' we of all schools should be pumping up this election," - KAREE.tvl NULAN, Student Presidential Race in a 'Dead Heat' Days Before Election By ANDREW BUCllERT Lorenzo Morris, chair of the Black Politics bered to vote Tuesday. ence Research Laboratory. The Technician & field at Howard. "[Student apathy I bothers me more than ''The most important factor is the Nader Where To Vote factor," Vasu said. "Nader is taking more like• The following polling sites arc the clo,e,1 to J ASON T. SMITH "Not a single Democrat would be in the anything. Being that this is the 'Mecca,' we Hilhop Editor-in-Chief White House today if it wasn't for Blacks," of all schools should be pumping up this elec ly voters from Gore than Bush, and it appears Howard's variou., rcsidtocc hall". Morris said- tion," Nulan said. Nulan, a Colorado native, that tl1e west coast states of Oregon, Wash• With key issues like racial profiling, com said he would be voting by absentee ballot , ington and California h\:tve a higher propor• Date: November 7, 2000 (U-WIRE) RALEIGH , N_C. - The out nme: 7:00 a.m.• 8:00 p m. come of next Tuesday's presidential election munity development. urban pollution and ''This election could yield one of the clos• tion of Nader voters." Although Nader and Buchanan are not will be very close and largely dependent tl1e selection of Supreme Court Justices at est election outcomes in maybe 60 years," Slow, a11d Caner llali: Auditorium of Gage• registering much support in the polls, with upon several key states, namely Florida, Wis stake, Morris said he believes that blacks will said Oliver Williams. ~lorth Cru-olina State Uni Eckini:too School, located at 3rd and Elm Slrttts. consin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Oregon, likely turn out in larger-than-expected num vcr.;lly political science profc1;sor and expen ln Nader showing between 3 to 4 percent and N.W. Washington u~d Califomia, according to bers Tuesday. contemporary politics. Buchanan boasting a mere I percent. their leading political scientists from Howard to Still students are pleading for other stu The nature of the electoral college, Bush's presence on the ballot may prove critical to Btthu11e ,\1111tx, Tubman Quad, Cook and North Carolina State University. dents to take Tuesday's election seriously. and Gore·s strengths and deficiencies in each the outcome of the election, Taylor said. Drew Hall: Gymnasium of Bruce Monroe And according to most political scientists, Kareem Nulan, a senior international busi of the key states, as well as the effects of "Because Nader is getting more of the School, 3021 Georgia Avenue, N.W. the black voter tum out will be key to decing ness and finance major, spent most of his third-party candidates Ralph Nader and Pat third-party vote than Buchanan, and because week with a stapler in one hand a stack of Buchanan, will prove to be the critical fac he takes almost exclusively from the Demo H oward Plaw Towtn: Multi-purpose room of Tuesday's election_ Meyer School, I Ith and Clifton St.. N.W. ''The polls showing the marginal differ Gore/1...ierberman placards in the other. He tors in determining the outcome of the pres• cratic Party vote, Nader is going to cause a idential race, said Michael Vasu, NCSU asso• problem for Gore," he said. ence of one to two percentage points giving and a small group of Howard students can Mtridia11 Hill Hall: Lower 1c,.,1 auditorium. Bush a miniscule edge might be reversed in vassed Georgia Avenue with the placards in cia1e professor of political science and public See ELECTION, A5 H.D. Cook School, 17th and Euclid St.. N.W. the electoral college at present," said Or_ the hopes students and passen,by remem- administration and director ofthe Social Sci- To Borrow or Not to Borrow ' As Registration Nears, Homecoming Fades, Students Debate Cost Memories Linger Of Educational Loans By WAI.TRINA N. MIDDLETON Hilltop Staff Writer Poor Planning By AKOSUA AMOAKO•A'n'A "Grants and things like that, do not Howard University celebrated Gives Way to Hilltop Staff Writer really pay for anything. Because more than just a 14-0 homecoming this University is so competitive, victory on Saturday. at Greene Sta• Frenchie Davis, a senior Music even if your g.p.a. was through the dium. In the midst of battle songs Average Week Theater major University, knows roof you still wouldn't get sufficient between Norfolk State and too well what it rn,·.m, tu I· · iuJcl>,. ,ud." Da,1is ..-.aid. ··Gt"Uing Ioan'i i~ \\0\, .,u1\''\ •'Sh\'\\T1mI· Banl:' there 1',i.1 News Analysis wu, reported by ' P'or her, owing began when she first much easier than any other avail were more than cheer, for defense the Editoria! Board of11,e Hilltop. enrolled at Howard and applied for able financial aid.'' and a fancy touchdown dance a loan. A simple misinterpretation Currently Howard offers two fed there were tears shed, hugs and If Homecoming 2000 was a hurri involving the process ofs igning of eral loans to students. They are the sweet memorie~ that resurfaced cane, it would have barely knocked promissory notes led to the com Stalford. Plus, Federal Perskins and when many Bison family members down a house. plete cancellation of her financial Federal Nursing loans. returned home. It was a reunion for TI1ere were a lot of things wrong aid and a surprising bill that stated According 10 tlie Princeton Review. many nnd a personal victory for at with Homecoming 2000. And there that she owed the University the average Howard University least one. was were a lot things right with the $11,000. freshman loan is $9,457.00. Most "A lot has changed and a lot has week. But ''The problem was partly Howard's of these loans have reasonable not," Miguel Burke, class of 1975, somehow it and mine," Davis said. "My fresh interest rates ranging from 5· 8 per• <aid. Burke traveled from Hous seemed like itllleco1111ug man year, I was under the impres• cent. ton, Texas to the game with three the bad out• eport Card sion that when I signed the required 11But loan i:,; the easy•sure \\.'ay. generations ofhis fantily to suppo,1 weighed the promissory note for the loans 1hn1 though you will be paying for a his duughter LaVonne Burke. good that would be used for the follow long time," said Giselle Dean, a La Vonne is a chemical engineering F o r C ing semesters here at Howard. Then senior public relations major."! will major and reigns as Miss School of example, See Editorial my sophomore year, when I was probably owe more than S 19,000 Engineering 2000-2001. "'The spir the campus Alo notified that that wasn't the case. after I graduate. I feel like I am it is ~till here .. .... he said. Burke became a the University canceled my aid placing myself in debt, but gaining also recognized the change in weekend without my knowledge. I complet at the same time," Dean said. styles, dress and music. "I really zoo. Thou• ed my sophomore year, then at the Some Howard students say owing appreciated the band when they sands of revelers swung end ofthe year they sent me a back money is one thing, but gening it on took us back down memory lane. through campus from all over the balance statement of like $11,ooo:· time is another. They played traditional songs like country. The crowds posed major As students prepare to register for "Every year I have problems with 'Stay In My Comer' by the Dells.'' security coneems. the Spring semester in the General student financial aid and my loan Photo by D,11101 Bingham Miguel Burke and his wife smiled There were a few reported cases of Mandatory Registration Monday, processing. It's like a tradition for Ifs halftime at Ho"urd\ llomcoorning ~ame, in ,,hich Howurd defeated Norfolk State. as they reOected on the "good ole armed robberies on or near campus. l\1cnll.K•r. of 1he b.lnd rook the lime to pul on a Stood sl10" on nnd ofTthe field. more and more people will again be Howard,'' Dean. "I fill out my loan days." The West Towers wa,; Oooded with looking for ways to pay for college. applications in May for the follow• "I'm glad to come back and visitors who petrolled hallwnys as if Though most of them have signed ing semester and the loan request especially to support my daugh they were campus police, re male stu their promissory notes already. will still be pending by the time I ter ..