Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1990-2000 The iH lltop Digital Archive 10-15-1999 The iH lltop 10-15-1999 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 10-15-1999" (1999). The Hilltop: 1990-2000. 247. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000/247 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 Student Voice of Howard University Since 1924 VOLUME 83, No. 10 F RIDAY, O CTOBER 15, 1999 • http://hilltop.howard.edu Ho~ard.. Vendors Threatened .by Move to Privatize Sixth Street By B IIANDI Fmn f. Last Word E<lttor ' or d~cades 1he priva1izalion of 6th Street ha.~ been an issue, Fand in i1 lies a story that Howard vendors would like to tell. "I have been a vendor for JO years and me and my wife Jennifer have been ca1ering to students· needs for awhile,'' Gibril Mansaray said. "I nm PIIOCO Bi· ll'o)· Ticuel against this form of privatization because this is not about vendors los­ Dr. Elc:mor Tra) lor "J>01.:C at \\C'dne..,day\ Core Curriculum mt.:eting. ing their jobs, because we are self­ employed and ha\'e business licens­ Students Give Core -Curriculum es and degrees. This is about srut.lenis losing their righls." Gibril mentioneil ti\e significance of An 'F' at Town Hall .Meeting 1he late Kwame Tore (Stokley Plan Threatens African American Carmichael), and how his activism on 6th Street helped to change many Studies, Some Worry aspec1s of Howard University stu• dentpolitical power. By RAFIAH DAVIS oped in 1996. Politics is a vocation at Howard. but Hilltop Campus Editor Dr. Tuft Broome, undergraduate foe­ Flood, the eldesl of the vendors. said . ulty trustee opened the queslion-and­ 1ha1 students need to look at 1he big­ African American S1udies focuhy answcr period with a few gripes of his ger picture. and siudents were among those who own. He 1old the approximately 70 "I ha,-e been here for 25 years, and turned out Wednesday 10 voice their students in anendance 1hai they were all the vendors located in front of displeasure about th'e proposed Core there to give 1he proposal a grade. are 1be School of Business," be said. ·Curriculum. The African American S1udic, "And you would think that the School A 1own hall meeting, hosted by the department ~epreseniatives w~re Photo By Th>) Tieucl of Business would suppon us in our )'f'3rs.. student 1rustees Che Sayles and up,et about the proposal's wording Sludcn~ h"'t purchased from the H~ndors oo SL\th Street for l'lans to prh'-athe tile street ma, send the ''-'ndo~ pa\'.kinp;. figh1 against privatization simply Louis Sterling, was held in the that a suggested Human Awareness because their students benefi1 the • School ofBusiness Auditorium to get track should replace the African ANC voted against the privatization cism, providing students and faculty appear. uncertain, but ask Big Mays An1erican courses already in place. most. Bui they don't teach students of 6th S1ree1 and will continue to with snacks, warm luochcs, winter what the real secret is. and in an student feedback on 1be proposed cooperative economics." Curriculum, so the trus1ees could "African American studies is a gale­ smnd firmly against the issue. accessories, organizers, books, jew­ monotone voice she responds. "With­ take 1he information to the entire way science:· said Michael Twiuy, an Students aware of the issue said that "I don't have a meal plan so the ven­ elry, and affordable art,vo~k. Around in fi,-e ye,,rs we will not see black they were concerned aboul the pri­ Board of1rustees this weekend dur­ African American S1udies major. dors are convenient. They are also 8 a.m. the \'Cndors set up and until vendors on cnmpu,. I have been here vatizaiion of 6th Streel, but were ing its first meeting this year. ''The recentering of our curriculum reasonable, but il's funny how admin­ .sundown 1hey arc responsible for for 12 years and 1he University more appalled aboui the possibility Answering questions from the audi­ will decenter my peers from becom­ istration tries to capitalize on every­ making life easier for student patrons always Ines 10 buy the streets. This that daily vendors might not be ence were the co-chairs of the panel ing what I came here to be." thing as if students are not paying who need a bag of chips and a Coke is Howard's eliti,,1 atti1ude towards allowed depending on the vote. Dr. James Donaldson and Dr. Eleanor Despite the assurances Traylor, en01igh.'' said Edward McSchan, in-between classes, or e,-en a con­ 1hc s1uden1> and comrnunit)c l11ey Recen1ly. Advisory Neighbor Com• Traylor, md Uni vcrsity Provost Dr. SteCORE,A3 s,enior management major versa1ion with Big Mays at Uniry want to ,hul the comrnunuy 1hat they mission (ANC) Commissioner Sin­ Antoine Garibaldi. The Core tur­ The vendors continue servicing the Vendor S1ands. li\'e in 01.11, and that is unrcahstic." clair Skinner of I BOS s.iid thal the riculum proposal panel wa, devel- Howard community dc,pile criti- The future for Sixth S1ree1 ,~ndors • lDrew Hall Meeting Thwarts Protest .. Dorm Council Not Buying Into Residence Life's Promises By C11111stoPHER WtNDIIAM But many at the meetmg said they hold liule s1ock in llilltop Smff Writer Campbell's promises. "I have very li11leconfidence in 1he Residence Life\ im- • With a small group ofs1udents p01scJ 10 .can a hunger 1ia1i,·e 10th the problems." ,aid Dorm Council Presid~nt. slrike and mllyon 1hc lawn ofthe Adminis1ra1ion Build Marques Rice:· They didn't speak with us un1il we ing to pro1es1 wha1 they call poor voiced our opinion in n,e living conditions in Drew Hall, Acl- ----------------­ Hillrop." ing Dean of Residence Life York ln the ,wo-hour meeting Campbell fielded ques1ions from "When I n1ake a promise, you students described a dormi­ Drew Hall residents for the first can take that to the bank," tory infested with mosqui­ time. toes, mice, mts and bats, and During the hastily called mee1ing a building plagued with Wednesday, Campbell promised 10 --York Campbell, Acting Dean of ~nfety viola1ions. HlcPhoro put mainlenancc crews in 1hc dorm Residence Life 011 promises made The elevator in the all­ NBA Legend \\'l11 Ommberlin di<d "until the job is finished." male freshman dormitory \\~nesd;,y or natural C<II"'"- The meeling included Residen1 to Drell' Hall Dorm Council does not display a certificate Assistant,, the dorm council, 1he _________________ of inspection nor does 1he hall community director, HUSA elevator con1ain an emer­ and police officials. • gency phone. The elevator has also been known 10 sud­ Basket ball "Residence Life will get the problems in focus. We'll get denly Photo B) AiJlil.ih Jolin,..., things done," Campbell said. "When I make a promise, See OREW,A3 Students discu,,sed the th'ini: ronditio"' or D= Jlnll \\ith \cting Dean \ork Camp­ Great Wilt you can mke that 10 the bank." bell al a ml.'elin~ on \l'tdoc,,ct,iy. Some sa, rondition, are at nn :di-time'°"- Chamberlain Incoming Dean Stresses Tochnology, Cooperation THIS Dead at63 By BRIAN J. Cox Arts and Sciences]," ,aid Donaldson Now, 42 years and three degrees in Hilltop Staff Writer during his acccplance remarks at a mathematics laicr, including a mas­ By KEVIN D. STEWART special 111ce1ingofthe focullyofArL~ ter's and a docromtc from the Uni­ WEEK'S Sports Editor When Howard mathematics pro­ and Sciences on Oct. 5. versi1y of lllinois (Urbana-Cham­ fe,sor Or. James A. Donaldson takes Indeed, it ha, been a Jong, strange paign), Donaldson, 58. says he·, One of the greatest players to ever over a, dean of the University's sto­ trip tha1 brought Donaldson, once a ready 10 rise to the challenge of HILLTOP play the game of baske1ball and the ried College of Arts and Sciences reed); 16-year-old armed only with a speameading efforts 10 be11er the edu­ only player 10 score 100 points in an Nov. I, i1 will no1 only signal the end high school diploma and a love of cation of students in tbe College of NBA game, Wilt Chamberlain. died of a two-year nationwide search for arithme1ic, from hi\ home on a small Aris and Sciences, employing the Tuesday at 1he age of 63 of an appar­ a head for the Universi1y's largest farm near Madison. Fla., to the hum­ smart use of technology and direct­ Sports Week ent heart anack in bis Los Angeles college, bu1 it will al~o represent 1he ming corridors of academia. to the ing availnble resources where they home. culmination of Donaldson's Howard vicc-ehairmaMhip of the Lincoln are needed the most. Take a look at how me '•Wilt the Stilt" and "The Big Dip• career, nearly three decades into his Vnivcrsity (Pa.) board of trus1ees, "I'm not very hnppy with where the Basketball team will shape per" were lhe names the 7' I" Cham• 1cnure as an educaior here. and linally to 1he office of the dean college is in using technology :is a berlain was given. He dominated the "I never dreamed 1hat I would be in .-\lain L. Locke Hall.