Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 2000 - 2010 The iH lltop Digital Archive 8-30-2005 The iH lltop 8-30-2005 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 8-30-2005" (2005). The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010. 246. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010/246 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]. I The Daily Student Voice of Howard University VOLUME 89, NO. 3 TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2005 WWWTHEHILLTOPONLINE.COM TUESDAY NOf EJOOK CAMPUS REMEMBERING A LEGEND HOWARD REMEMBERS BENE­ Hurricane hits New Orleans, causing major damage and personal crisis FACTOR AND ICON IN A TRIB­ UTE TO JOHN H. JOHNSON. BY CHARREAH JACKSON were flooded, the arena was LOOK INSIDE TO LEARN MORE Managing Editor not immune to the powers ABOUT THE LIFE AND LEGACY of the hurricane as nvo holes OF A MEDIA GIANT. PAGE 5 Though far from the Gulf were ripped into the struc­ Coast, the Howard communi­ ture's roof, but those inside ty is feeling the strong affects remained safe. of Hurricane Katrina, which With the power shut down tore through New Orleans and for Xavier and the entire city, Mississippi yesterday. communication failures have The damage from Katrina also occurred. Rosario said was not as bad for the city of he was told by Xavier offi­ New Orleans as officials feared, cials that the school would be however the storm system closed at least through today. managed to wreak havoc on "Campus websites and hot­ many states along the United lines are still down at Xavier," States southern border caus­ Rosario said. ing deaths in New Orleans, The lack of electric­ Mississippi, and Alabama. ity created some anxiety on Leaving New Orleans vir­ Howard's campus. Many stu­ METRO tually under water, Katrina dents \.\Tith loved ones were moved on to southeast unable to get into contact with ENDING THE Mississippi and had been family members who may VIOLENCE reduced to a Category 1 hur­ have been affected by the mas­ ricane by evening. Though the sive storm. THE MOTHERS OF SLAIN storm's winds have died down, According to the HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS its effects are forecasted as Associated Press, it could take ARE JOINING WITH THE not even close to concluding. two months before power MOTHERS OF THEIR CHIL­ Officials now fear that spin­ is completely restored to all DREN'S KILLERS TO END off tornadoes may form in the affected by Katrina. VIOLENCE IN THE DISTRICT. aftermath of Katrina. Over 750,000 people, READ THEIR STORY IN THE "I am very concerned with from the Florida Panhandle 4 METRO SECTION. PAGE what's going on down there," to Louisiana, are said to be Tracey Albert, a senior sociol­ without power. New Orleans ogy major said, "I found out hospitals are relying on gen­ early today because my broth­ erators to treat patients and er goes to Xavier and had to those injured by the hurricane. evacuate." The federal government sent With students having emergency supplies, along friends and family, and some with doctors and Pentagon being natives themselves of agents to help in search and areas affected, Katrina bas hit rescue missions for those who close to the hearts of many were unable to evacuate and on campus, including Andre may still be trapped. Rosario, freshman biology/ Center: Katrina was centered over Birmingham, Ala. last night. It left New Orleans In Though not in the midst shreds after coming down on the city on Monday. LIFE & STYLE pre-med major at Xavier of Hurricane Katrina, Howard University in New Orleans. students sympathize with those FRESH FRESHMEN? Rosario nervously awaits the suffering with the aftermath."If as he passionately relayed out on time, on one of the last Students unable to evacu­ FRESHMAN CLASS FEVER: fate of his university, while something like that happened at his journey of being awak­ flights leaving New Orleans ate stayed in elevated parts INFESTATION OR WELCOMED home with his uncle, a com­ Howard, I would be in the same ened by Resident Assistants on Saturday," I feel really of campus, on the top levels ADDmON? FIND OUT MORE munications law professor at position I am in now, homeless on Saturday morning as they bad for people who couldn't of buildings with emergency IN LIFE AND STYLE. PAGE 8 Howard. and confused since I don't have "My parents realized how told students to try and make make it and for the city of New food and administrators near housing." said Albert. "I would serious it was and got me plans to leave. Being informed Orleans and for my school. I by. Others still in New Orleans just have others to join in (and out on time," Rosario said, of his 4:50 flight at 3:30, he was only there for two weeks, headed to the Superdome feel) my pain." still wonders how he made it but I really feel connected." for cover. As neighborhoods SPORTS WOMEN'S IACROSSE CHALLENGE THE WOMEN'S LACROSSE Life on the Waiting List: Students In Housing Li01bo COACHING STAFF UNEX­ Dennis. PECTEDLY RESIGNED LAST BY MORGAN NEVILLES-MOORE Staff Writer "I didn't realize that getting the $200 SEASON. CHECK OUT THE deposit in was so mandatory, I didn't SPORTS SECTION AND SEE Once again the scramble for campus make the first 1,500 at all," she said. WHAT THE TEAM IS DOING housing is on. Students who didn't pay The list also contains students '\Tith TO KEEP LACROSSE ALIVE their $200 housing fee in the spring have special cases like Tae Judge, junior audio AT HOWARD. PAGE 9 two options: Sign your name to an ever­ production major. growing list of other HU students seeking "On my bill statement it says that I housing or search the District and sur­ have a room and am being charged for rounding areas for affordable housing. it but on the residence hall roster I'm "The waiting list is for people who for not listed," Judge said. "I've never had a whatever reason didn't secure housing problem \\Tith housing or Residence Life and would like to attempt to now, at this before and I know that this is mostly point the list is the only way to be consid­ my fault since I didn't pay my housing ered for campus residency," said Charles deposit last spring." Gibbs, dean of Residence Life. However there are a few people who Most students, who are on the list, felt that RSVP wasn't the way to go and HU CALENDAR are there because they didn't manage to would apply for housing in the fall. AUG. 24 - SEPT. 2 make the 1,500 student cutoff like sopho­ Several student s showed up to school hoping to get housing, only to find Consortium Registration more business management major Zenna See LIMBO, Campus A2 themselves on a waiting list that gets longer every day. AUG. 26 - SEPT. 2 Penalty-Free Add/Drop Period SEPT.4 Howard Ranked 24th Best Buy in United States Deadline for 100°/o Refund SEPT. 5 BY SHAENA HENRY to be so today due to the facul­ enhanced by the national rank­ for what it charges students to heritage," Irby said. Labor Day - No Class Staff Writer ty, staff support and the diverse ing," said Thornton. "The rank­ attend. Rhianna M. Benberry, U.S. News reports that SEPT. 23 experiences students share \\Tith ing \\Till add to the university's a junior psychology major, does the average cost of attending Opening Convocation Howard University has been one another," Swygert said. status as a first-choice national not feel she is getting her mon­ Howard after receiving grants ranked 24th in the top 50 "great Associate Provost Alvin and international university." ey's wo1th. "Our money should was $11, 334 in 2004, which is WEATHER schools, great prices" in the U.S. Thornton said Howard's rank­ According to U.S. News, a leave a campus problem-free, a 45 percent discount from the TODAY Thuoderstorm News and World Report's 2006 ing reaffirms the university's school's ranking is determined but we still have the constant average total cost of $16, 434. High: 83 "America's Best Colleges" issue. commitment to its historic mis­ by using a formula t11at relates administration problems as Last year, 29 percent of Howard Low: 76 WEDNESDAY The new ranking is an increase sion of providing high qual­ a school's academic quality to well as the mediocre housing." students received grants based Thunderstorm H19h: 89 of four positions over Howard's ity education at an affordable the net cost for a student who Sudana Irby, a junior on need. Low: 72 ranking last year. price. Thornton added that receives the average level of broadcast journalism major, Case Western Reserve President H. Patrick Howard's ranking would add to need-based financial aid; the agrees that Howard suffers as University in Cleveland, Ohio INDEX Swygert said the ranking is an the university's overall appeal higher the quality of the pro­ far as organization and admin­ ranked right above Howard at indication of the quality of the to students. gram in relation with the lower CAMPUS . 2 istration, but said she believes 23.