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Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1990-2000 The iH lltop Digital Archive 4-14-2000 The iH lltop 4-14-2000 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 4-14-2000" (2000). The Hilltop: 1990-2000. 265. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000/265 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 Nation's Largest Black Collegiate Newspaper VOLUME 83, NO. 27 FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2000 http://hilltop.howard.edu This Elian's Father Pushes Forth His Plight Frustrated Juan Gonzalez Through With Negotiations Week's By APRIi.i.. 0. TURNER telling them where and when to relinquish Editor-in-Chief custody of Elian. "The timing of the Iener is now in Reno ·s WASHINGTON DC-The CuMody bat hands;· Marlin sa.id. tle over six- year-old Elian Gonzalez made A Justice Departmenr official, requesting Hilltop new developments as the Attorney Gener anonymity, explained that if Reno and the al Janet Reno headed to Miami in efforts faniily can agree on plans to transfor the boy, towards resolution. Meanwhile, Elian's the letter won't be necessary. father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez met with At Hilltop Press Time it was learned that New Homecoming Chair officials of the Cuban Interests Section on the latest draft or the letter called for the Wednesday • across from Meridian Hill transfer to occur ar 9 a.m. Thursday at Opa Hall Dormitory to discuss the safe transfer locka airport outside l\•liami. The transfer of his son back into his care. could also be moved back to Friday. Yesterday Anorney Janet Reno, taking a Under the governmem plan. Elian would dramatic step toward arranging a peaceful be transferred either to his father or anoth transfer, planned to meet with the Miami rel er great-uncle. who would take the boy to atives who have cared for Elian since two meet Juan Miguel. men on a fishing trip pulled him from the Reno also planned to meet with commu sea Thanksgiving Day. nity leaders in her hometown, where she "She wants to do anything possible to served as stnte·s attorney for 15 years and resolve this," Justice Department where Cuban exiles now wield signs spokesman Myron Marlin said. "She real denouncing her and depicting her with PllOCo B> Aprill 0. Tomer izes it's a tall order but believes she may be horns. Juan ~liJluel Go117.al,z met "itlt officials \\Wnesdaynt the Cuban lntc.-.st S«<ion on 16th Street, North• the one who can do it." Elian's frustrated father, Juan Miguel '"est. DC to dOOJ.SS the safe l.ntnfer or his son back into his care. Armando Gutierrez, a spokesman for the Gonzalez, remained in Bethesda, Md .. Miami relatives, called her trip "a good where he has been staying since last Thurs "He is going to simply ask now that the The boy's great-uncle Luaro Gonzalez sign." day. He indicated Wednesday. the day after attorney general issue a court order and that moved Elian on Wednesday from his polit Reno's visit at least temporarily post a meeting in Washington with the Miami rel the boy be returned immediately to him." icaJly charged Little Havana neighborhood poned a letter the government had planned ative., was scheduled and abruptly canceled, said the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, who to the Miami Beach home of Sister to send the Miami relatives Wednesday that he was through negoriating. met with him. See ELIAN, A3 Ste,'en Claiborne was rectnUy named the 2000- 2001 Homecoming Steering Faces For The Future Committe Chnir. Graduation Rates Campus,A2 The Carolina Connection Reach all-time Low for Black The Award Goes To ... Basketball Players By KI\IOTHY K. BROWN Managing Editor Emerge Magazine recently released ,ts "Bonom SO" li,1 of college, and universiues that consistently fail to graduate male African American basketball play~:,. For the fir:,t lime in the sewn-year history of 1be list, none of the schools grnduared a single black player for the period of evaluation. The "Bottom 50.. lists schools with the wor..t graduation rates of black players. The information was provided by the Nauonal Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) tracking of graduation rates of scholarship-athletes who were freshmen from 19&9 through 1992, and completed their require ments within six years. Graduation rate., for African American basket• ball players plummeted from 17 percent to 33 per cent for the incoming cl."" or 1992. which 1, the Sportswcek Awards The Best of The lowest rate since Proposition 48 "as introduced in BesL 1986. Proposition 48 is a rule designed to improve gmduation rates and required freshmen scholarship Sportsweek, Bl a1hle1es 10 have :i minimum high school grade point average of 2.0 and a minimum SAT score of l'l10Co lly Chandra Ander.on 700. David "'alton and Bobby PaUenon aame to Ho,rnrd Unhenit) "ith n goal in mind: to put Charlotte on the map. Tllm years lattr, the two A few top collegiate basketball programs were juniors are making that goal a rtalit)~ PullerM>n brou1thl n hip-hop cionfercnce to campus. WaHoo hosts his Mt n show on BET. high on the list, including Syr~cuse, Cincinnati and White in a Black World Oklahoma. Syracuse graduated 100 percent of its white players. howe,-cr. Cincinnati Down South Boys Make Mark on Mecca See, GRADUATES, A3 By J OHN-Jom, WtLLIA\IS IV label and David co-hosts a new show on and work in the music industry." Patter Copy Chief Black Entertainment 'Television. son said. "I figured that Howard was the UGSA Selects 2000- For those who know the two juniors only university in the big city... so l'd 2001 Executive Board can "Puffy'· Combs, Ananda the recent success is more than a coinci have a chance to network." Lewis, Haqq Islam, Paula Jai Park dence. It has been a plan-of-sorts. When the two both applied to Howard Walker Named Ser, Robert Townsend. The list is It all started when Walton transferred and went, they were a small minority in endless. Howard University breeds enter from Mississippi to Patterson's high their graduating class. Assembly Coordinator tainment celebrities. school in Charlotte. "We were the only two from high The next generation of future celebri "We were acquaintances," Walton school that left the state," Patterson said. By C1tRtS1'0l'HRR Wl"IOttA \I ties is walking by you right now. Bobby said. "By senior year we were on the The minute Walton and Patterson set Asst. Campus Editor Pntterson and David Walton might be one same level vibing." foot on campus they marched to the beat of those future stars. "I was class clown," Patterson said. "I oftheirowo drum. From having stripper Newly clect.:d Undergraduate Student Assembly Three years ago Patterson and Walton didn't have any goals. I barely got out of parties in their dorm room, getting n Represcntat ivcs selected Sophomore Khalfani arrived at Howard with one goal in mind: high school." stretch limo for Valentine• Day, and liv Walker to serve as coordinator of the 2000-2001 to put their hometown (Charlotte, North It was Patterson's sister that encour ing in the upperclassmen Howard Plaza executive board Tuesday during UGSXs monthly Carolina) on the map. The two juniors aged him to go to Howard. Tower's as freshmen, the two have stood meeting. have done just that while pursuing "She went to Howard and graduated apart from the crowd. The reps also culled College Pharmacy, Nursing degrees at the University. from the school of "B." She loved it." "We·ve always been stand-out type of and Allied Heath Sciences rep, Tiffanie Nowlin as The Hilltop profiles Richan! Wilkin, They have taken different paths to get Patterson said. people," \Vallon said. vice-coordinator. School of Business representative, on bil; experiences of attending a predomi nantly African- American Unh'ersity. there, but the Generation X'ers are It was also Patterson's love of the David currently co-hosts a new show Romesha Williams as financial advisor, College of knocking on the door of fame even as we music industry thnt made up his mind. for BET Action network. Arts & Sciences representative, Shshunda Murray Lifestyles, BS speak. Patterson owns his own record "I knew I had to go to a black school See SOUTH BOYS, A3 as programs director, School of Communications rep, Latrica Simpson as public relations director, and School of Business representative, l(jrstyn Fields as grievance director. INDEX Student Participate in Protests of World Bank and IMF Sixteen bf the 21 new UGSA reps were in atten• dance to grant the elected officials the required 2/3 Campus A2 Compiled from Staff Reports the organizatins' buildings on 18th and able for comment by press time. majodty vote of approval. According to the UGSA 19th streets. The Hilltop has also lenrned Already members of the Howard Uni constitution, new reps should take office following Thousands of protesters are expected to tha1 the police chief has sent out letters to versity Student Association have joined in Commencement in May. Nation & World A7 gather in Washington this weekend to area university officials alerting them the the protests of the controversial organi Ne.tt year, Walker, a sophomore English major.