Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 2000 - 2010 The iH lltop Digital Archive 4-11-2003 The iH lltop 4-11-2003 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 4-11-2003" (2003). The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010. 122. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010/122 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 Men who refuse to identify as gay, bisexual or THE straight... Bl The Student Voice of Howard1/ University. Since 1924 VOLUME 86, NO. 54 FRIDAY, APR.JL 11, 2003 ,/ www.thehilltoponline.com . Morris Brown Loses Accreditation By Kerry-Ann Hamilton accreditation loss is severe. Howard University · Campus Editor Morris Brown will immediately President H. Patrick Swygert lose access to millions of dollars commends the efforts of the Despite the tireless efforts of in federal financial assistance, Howard faculty, staff and espe­ several members of the Howard which approximately 90 percent cially the students that worked University community to stop of its students receive. relentlessly to bring the plight of sister school Morris Brown The loss of accreditation Morris Brown to the forefront. College from losing their accred- also suspends the school's affilir "Our efforts here at Howard itation, what was feared has ation with the United Negro University have not failed," occurred. But the coalition · College Fund, a major fi nancial Swygert said. "We were and still maintains, the struggle contin- source. According to the UNCF are committed to preserving the ues. regulation, a school !lutomati- legacy of our sister school The Southern Association of cally loses its membership if it is Morris Brown. The Howard Colleges and Schools on unaccredited. Community came together to Monday decided to mafutain its In addition to the grave help keep the. gates of this his­ Dec. 9 decision to rescind the financial consequences, the toric institution open. accreditation of the Atlanta- enrollment at the College could Unfortunately ,ve were unable to based school. be further affected. do so, but the battle continues." The SACS report cites the Approximately so percent Olu Burrell, a senior English College for poor record keeping of its 2,500 students did not major, who spearheaded the and misspending of federal return for classes this spring. financial aid as some of the insti- Many transferred to neighbor­ tution's violations. ing schools in the Atlanta See BROWN page A4 t PHOTO COURTn.\-Y OF MORRISBROWN$ The financial impact due to University Center. Morris Brown College, located in Atlanta, Ga., recently lost Its accredldation. ...• "'tr·-[. ResFest Step Show Takes Place Physical Therapy Fights for Ph.D. By David Johns • As a class we initially Assistant Campus Editor entered this program with the I impression that we would be Students from the School of able to receive a doctorate in Allied Health And Physical physical therapy," first year Therapy marched yesterday in graduate student in Physical an attempt to gain th,e attention Therapy, Monique Webb said. of the University Bo/rd of "The program was not estab­ I 'ftustees. I lished but there was such opti­ The march was an attempt mism about the approval." to present .a programf change While students at the before the Board of'I'ru.stees, the Sehool of Allied Health And final approval necessary to Physical Therapy maintain that implement a change in curricu­ they have been "kicked off' of lum that would allow students to the Trustee's agenda three receive a doctorate of Physical times, Senior Vice-president Therapy. and Secretary for the Board, While the program, as is, · Artis Hampshire-Callon main­ allows students the opportunity tains tliat somewhere within the to pursue a masters in Physical communication of this program Therapy, students in the School change information has been Of Allied Health And Physical lost. Therapy cite extreme optimism "The board does not during the recruiting process retroactively authorize the which pointed to the 'virtual' issuance of certain degrees," approval of the program. Hampshife-Callon said. P1 10T013\' AMI.NA HAU. Now that students are near­ "Typically, a program is author­ The ResFest step show took place Wednesday. The Bethune Annex and Carver Hall won the female and male ing the completion of their first ized and then students are competitions, respectively. year, finishing courses in a cur­ recruited into the program and riculum designed for a it goes forward form there." Doctorate program, students are Students in the Allied See story, page A2 attempting to get the necessary degree approval from the Board See Ph.D. page AS of Trustees. · , Hilltop Board Misled, If.You Can't .Keep Up, Stop Running Undergrad Trustee By Bernard Murr.ty Michael Merritt said. 'The weath­ Sports Editor er has been hampering our train­ ing. We've l1ad to train harder." Grade Rescinded What sound does a bison The winter that pounded the make? East Coast has carried over into Compiled by Staff Apparently, The Discovery spring. The inconsistent, weather Reports Channel and Animal Planet have has left spring athletes training , , beei1 wrong all these years. sporadic at best. '.; ,, ,1 -t, When Jaha Howard, If they came to Howard, they When the temperature drops I • •.-, undergraduate trustee, left would know the distinct sound below 60 degrees, it takes mus- - J.} . The Hilltop editorial board when they heard the sound of cles twice as long to warm-up and u•t=,a.'.!.t.=""'-:......;1,,,....t....;:li.;;;a....:...__ _ ...;!__ _ _ .1....L...1......J Track Bison coming · even with proper preparation, "' meeting Sunday, the seven ' PI IOTO 8Y MAIU<COLE\I~~ editors seated at the board "We're making great ---------- ·' , table felt they had a good progress, but injuries are taking See RUNNING page A7 David Oliver, le~. leaps over hurdles in last week's meet.~;' · understanding of Howard's their toll on us," Head Coach ' {. work performance for the year . 1il . They also understood that among oth~r Graduate Trustee Reflects ·on Termy~ things, Howard The Hilltop will not grade Porter, because a fair assessment of helped lower Jaha Howard, undergrad the tuition trustee. his term could not be made by the staff. .: t·: increase and I t ~ r-, produced a By Veronica Marche Miller Now, nearing the completion of interview Wednesday night. He issues ini:luded tuition pamphlet intro­ Cowan, contacted The Hilltop Staff Writer 1• his term, the third-year law stu- focused on encouraging graduate parking availability, and op - Hilltop and said Howard had ducing members dent feels he has been effective in · students to voi~ their needs and nities for professorship. • y Job no involvement with the pro­ of the Board of Back in September, graduate making the graduate student pop- opinions to himself and the Board was to make sure issues were duction of the trustee pam­ Trustees. trustee Marwan Porter told tl1e ulation aware that they too have a of Trustees. communicated to the board," phlet. But when the cover story· Hilltop that the major objective of voice at the school. Porter found himself doing Porter said Since grades are based on ran, with Howard's grade of a his platform, "Vision," was to 'The main. objective of my quite a bit of legwork this year, In terms of the Board of "B-," the Office of the increase graduate student partici­ platform was to let all the gradu- traveling to the various campuses • Secretary, Artis Hampshire See HOWARD page A4 pation and implement strategic ate students know that they have where . graduate schools are advancements for the University. _representation," said Porter in an· housed. For graduate students, See PORTER page A6 IW -' . J Voices ResFest Step Show a Success Washington Post By Ruth L Tuclale Increases Students & Hilltop Staff Writer Residents from dorms cam­ Financial Awareness pus wide poured into Cramton Views Auditorium Wednesday to view the 14th annual ·Resfest By Donald Lank IQ and level of debt that Ho,vard What did you. Celebration step show. Contributing Writer University students currently With a cheering audience, have. think about Bethune Annex, the returning Eleven financial consultants Some students, however champions from last year's step gathered in Blackburn's found themselves disappointed ResFest? and Carver Hall c,ptivated the Ballroom Monday in an attempt with the turnout. audience and the judges with to increase student's financial "The title of the event was their originality and took home awareness. 'How to Raise Financial IQ' and I PHOTO DY AMINA HALL the show. The event, hosted by the was disappointed that more stu· Ladies from the Quad were Winners of the ResFest Step Show celebrate ln Cramton. Washington Post, the School of dents weren't there to get some of first to take the stage. Communications and School of this valuable information," Tim "We have been practicing Although the Anne.x took near flawless routine. Business, was intended to Butler said. "What most students ever since Spring Break," fresh­ home the show, many members "We had many people at the enlighten students on how to not need to remember is that credit is man biology major Denis of the audience agreed that the ttyout and we had to even cut make terrible jinancial choices. not your money, its somebody Weathersby said "Our coordina­ step routine of the ladies of the people becal15e there was too The program was divided else." tor said that our routine was vecy Quad was one of the best of the many," Crawford said.