Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1990-2000 The iH lltop Digital Archive 10-29-1999 The iH lltop 10-29-1999 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 10-29-1999" (1999). The Hilltop: 1990-2000. 248. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000/248 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. 12 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1999 http://hilltop.howard.edu Students Gear NCAA Up for Last Violations Homecoming Allegeged OfMillennium By Jo,;11,1.1. Wm [I OCK Mens Basketball, Base­ Hilltop Staff Writer ball Questioned Today marks the beginning of the • By KJ\IOTIIY K. BROW'­ last Howard l:ni­ Managing Editor versicy Homecom­ ' ing ofthe 20th cen­ In the mid.I of walk-on tryouLs for the tury. Between now men's basketball team. Howard Universi­ and next Sunday, ty is curremly conducting an internal alumni. entertain­ investig;11ion of possible secondary ers, innuential NCAA ruk, violation, 111 both men's bas­ leaders, family, and ketball aml baseball team,. friends totaling a Howard has recei,..:d a le1ter from che close 10 80,000 w,11 Vil;Pho«, NCAA about 11, baseball program, ,aid be on campus, Rob Hall, Director of Uni,ersicy Communications I lomecoming chair Homecoming offi­ Donna Brock. According 10 Uni,-ersicy cials said. oflicials, che allegations arc concerned "The whole world i, going 10 be here," with the use of ineligible players a few said Roh Hall. Chairman of the Home­ years ago and were raised before the coming Steering Commiuee. Bison's Mid Eastern A1htc1ic Conference For some alumni revisiting the Univer­ Dt.MURSES ~ championship lase year. sity the experience may be excrnordinary: II is belie,-ed that the possible viola­ but for 1hose presently enrolled at Howard tions wilh the men's basketball team the annual event will be more routine - Pbolo Bi Tr<l) 1ieucl occurred under second-year head coach last of the millennium or not. Dc)lkn)orm1n.es picketed In front of llo"ard Unhersit) llospitnlon Frid3), Asa ~I of the strike tbe nu~ recth-ed l>=\l increases until the ,eor 2001. Kirk Saulny. The are.1s ofconcern are aca­ "There's nothing profound about the lase demics, recruiting and extra benefib. offi­ Homecoming," ,aid Stephen Munroe, a cials said. graduating dental student, "It's not like The Unh-ersicy has hired New Orleans­ we're going to blow up. It's the last any­ Strike Ends With Three-Year Deal based a11orney Robert L. Cla}1on to deal thing:· with the legal mailer, surrounding the But for others. anything associated with alleged violations. The Uni,-ersity ,till the closing millennium is phenomenal. One-Day Protest Wont Save Nurses From Forced Overtinie at HUH does not know the earnescne,s of the pos­ Junior eco11<1mics major, Marcus Casey sible violations, however. said he is enthusiastic about the final Saulny, whose team went 2-25 la,t sea­ By CIIRISTOPIU-:R W1,-.DHA \I did gr:1111 nearly all of the demands of the versicy. She said he had been working ac the son, did not respond 10 calls from 771e Homecoming. "I hope it's a good one. We Hilltop Scaff Writer Union. The contract calls for the .JOO-plus HUH for more than 18 years and doesn't need to take it out in style. Have fun," he Hilltop. In addition, President H. Patrick unionized nurses at the hospital to receive a understand why the University treat's its Swygert and Athletic Director Hank Ford said. Ln a strike that is being called a success by two percent pay raise that will begin July I, workers ,o poorly. With events such as the football game, declined 10 comment about the situation. ,rudent leaders and health-care workers alike. accompanied by a misc of three percent and "Its not like we want 10 go anywhere. I Retired baseball Head Coach Chuck Hip-Hop concerts. the yard-fest. and step members of the D.C. Nur,e, Union squeezed two percent in the next two years. The agrce­ enjoy what I do, but the condition, are bad," shows fun is almost guaranteed. "I love the Hinton also declined 1ocommen1. Hinton the University into granting all but two ment_wa, reached FriJay nishc. she ,aid. i, not being cited by the NCAA a, part of club ,cene during Homecoming but 11 can demaud, TI1e July 1 raise ,viii be the first pay Ille ,trike began at 7 a.m. Frid3y morn• be too mmdeJ md harJ 10 find parking," the i.nve,1i!!ation. ac~ording to a former :\ conrra,·t ;igrel'menr that endc-d the one­ i11crea,e for th<' hospital', nurses in three ing. just a few hour, after Ilic union o,-er­ ,aidj1iniur'!)m1ca Carroll. Nol only do sru­ ,0Jun1eer ""is1an1 cooch day nur,es strike m Howard Uni,crsll) Hos­ years. agreement "ill give the nurses whelmingly rejected" hat rhey 1h,1ugh1 w.i, dcncs find Homecoming e,,·nc, cnJoynblc, n,e NCAA rule, slate thal a secondary pital failed to end the hospical's forced over• more control of the selling .md ,cnffing of the an "unacceptable offer" ofa 2 p.:rcenl bonus ,•iolation is one chat provides only .1 hm• some saLd the: social S\. ·nc itself i\ enter­ time practices and tell short of giving the employees. Some nurses say chat the staffing payment the first )·car. 2 percent pay raise the taining. "Howard\ HomL-commg is an easy iced competitive advantage and that is nurses a proposed 4 percent bonus. Union has made it difficult 10 observe patients inti• ne.<t year and an uncertain raise in the ye,tr isolated in nature. Most secondary c,Lses way 10 meet a 101 of people from different official, said. mately. Hospital officials did say they will 2001 by hospital officials. areas." Carroll said, "Like the immature arc self-reported (either by the institution This wa, the fir.tt time in more!: 1han two also reduce their enforcement forced over• With a I 0-day adv-.ince notice of the strike, guys who come to the yard and lape girls or or through a conference office). It b not decades 1ha1 the Union at the Hospital went time. but 1101 outlaw it. ho,pirnt officials announced Thursday that known who reported Howard', J>O"ible for their \friends I back home.'' on strike. "We are overworked and underpaid," ,aid they would hire replacement nurses through As far as en1ertainmen1 goes, the heavy violations. The three-year agreement struck by Uni­ one nurse who declined 10 give her name. See HOMECOMING, A4 versity officials anti the D.C. Nurse, Union saying she feared recaliacion from the Uni- See HOSPITAL, A4 S,,,. NC-\A, A-I Shuttle Buses THIS District Protesters Assail Congress on Initiative By APRIi.i. 0. TUR'<EII Make New Editor-in-Chief Safety Rules WEEK'S Nearly a year after Initiative 59, which legalizes marijuana for medicinal purposes, ID Required for Staff passed with 69 percent of the vote in every HILLTOP ward and every precincl in D.C., protesters Facul()~ and Students Oocked 10 One J udicinry Square Wednesday By ArRILLI, 0. Tt R1'H 10 cry to ensure ll1a1 1ha1 vote is honored. Editor-in-Chief FILM STUDIES Voters voted la,1 November on the issues. A O.C. appropriations bill with social "anti-democratic" riders .iuached to ic was Geeting on the bus "ill become a little safer for Howard Univer,icy due to be voted on al Hilltop press time. The faculty, staff, anti student,. Beginning riders advocate 1ha1 last November's vote be in mid-November. riders on the disregarded io favor of killing the lniciach-e Howard University Bu, Sy,tcm and keeping marijuana illegal in all instances. Photo 8) TM) T«u<I H USA Pmident ~lnril)n lloown partlci(llllcd "ilh pro1es1e~'l11«<lll) at One Judicial") S<1win-. The rnllJ (HUBS) will be required 10 present lnitincives of this kind have passed in Cal­ was meant 10 call attention to Congres.~·s ·"nnli-den,oc'mlir" tmumcnt of the District. valid Howard identification before ifornia, Arizona. Nevada. Oregon. Washing­ hood ... No Pcace! ... No Democracy... No senrncion b still wrong today in 1999," said bonrdmg the shu11les. ton rulCI Alaska. Advocate, for the drug say the Pcace! ...The Capital of the Nation ls the Last Jonathan Hullo, former HUSA president and The new policy is being imple- herb gh-es people with terminal diseases a rel­ Planrntion ... Free 0.C.!" Undcrgrndume Trustee. He is currently the 111cn1ed to provide excrn security for atively safe reprieve from their agony. Peopl<> Washington, D.C. has a long history of Communiry Outreach Director of the Amer­ the Howard conununicy. officials say. ,uffcring from illnesses like AIDS. cancer and ignoring the wishe., of the constituents as evi­ ican Civil Liberties Union Nation.ti Capitol HUBS, a black-owned ,huule bus glaucoma, among ochers, sometimes turn 10 denced by this vote, some say. This is just the Are.i. "The face that there are stiU 600,000 company, was introduced 10 I Joward marijuana on ll1e advice of their doctors when last in a long line of offcnsh..: seep-ins by the Americans 1h01 live as second•cla" citizens earlier this semester.