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For more information, please contact [email protected]. • The Nation''s Largest Black Student Newspaper VOLUME 84, NO. 7 Friday, October 13, 2000 http://hilltop.howard.edu Farrakhan Library, iLab Pushes for Stronger Slated to Open Families 24 Hours Sunday By CHRISTOPHER WINDHAM By IRA PORTER rations to open the lab and library on Campus Editor Managnig Editor the new schedule, i'!immons said the need to protest had been averted. Nation of Islam leader Minster The iLab and Undergraduate "I think President Swygert and I Louis Farrakhan, said the black fam­ Library will begin operating on a 24 share the same vision, and that is to ily "is- in a deep crisis on all fronts," hour schedule Sunday, University have 24 hour library and computer in his officials announced earlier this week. facilities," he said. "I don't think any­ address President H. Patrick Swygert one is losnig. I think everyone wins." Wednes­ approved a pilot program earlier this The task force will use the next day to stu- week to open the facilities around the two months to gauge the frequency 1 dents and clock for the remainder of the semes­ of student usage of the facilities, commu­ ter, Interim Associate Provost Dr. Lacy said. She added that the Uni­ nity lead­ Gwynette Lacy said. versity will also be paying close ers in the T_hrough ,the program, the iLab attention to the added cost of the DC area. will operate on modified hours from extended hours. The cost of the pilot F a r - Friday through Sunday, and 9pen 24 program is expected to top $100,000 rakhan hours Monday through Thursday. over the next two months, Lacy said. made his The Undergraduate Library will fol­ More important than the cost of remarks low the same schedule. In an effort the extended hours is student safety, by way of Min. Louis Farrakhan to allay safety concerns, the Univer­ Lacy added. Photo by Karleen Roy phone sity's shuttle service will make stops "The students have to take pre­ from Chicago at a symposium held in According to experts, youth weight gain is growing at a rate so rapid that national health organizations have now made the issue a chief concern. at both locations every 30 minutes. cautions to be safe," Simmons said. Cramton Auditorium. The brief The two-month pilot program was "The task force suggests that stu­ speech served as the opening session • devised by a 12-member task force dents walk with groups to and from for a three-day Million Family March which comprised University officials these facilities and make use of ttte Scholars symposium, set wrap up at and one student representative, shuttle service." noon today. Howard Students Struggle to Howard University -Student Associ­ The announcement of the extend­ "This conference is born out of a ation President Sellano Simmons. ed hours was.well-received from stu­ vision that speaks to the needs of all The announcement of the two­ dents and administrators earlier this of us," Farrakhan sai~. The Sympo­ Beat the 'Freshman 15' month program comes just weeks week. sium is a part of the opening ceremo­ after Simmons set a November 13 '"Our intention is to be as respon­ ny for Monday's Million Family By MONICA BARBARA gain is the ever-present culprit, tis are accredited to excessive body deadline for the University to open sive as we could to the needs of the March, and featured scholars and pro- • Hilltop Staff Writer fast food. fat A recent onset of Diabetes 2 the facilities around the clock. Last students," said Dr. Charles Moore, fessionals who participated ni panel Still others blame the cafeteria (a form _of diabetes normally asso­ month Si1nmons said students would director of user support services and discussions on issues that impact undreds of freshmen food as a cause of weight gain. ciated with adults) in youth is be forced to protest if the University black families. Freshman Sheena Smith said proof of the effects of excess body failed to meet the deadline. This Farrakhan said "marriage is the jump from high school to college each year the cafeteria food contributed to fat, Wallace added. week, as the University 1uade prepa- Please see iLab, A8 nistitution upon families are built" H her IO pound weight gain. Smith, Wallace also encourages stu­ "We build our families on a woman with the goal of having the college who is a fashion model, said, dents to have a planned physical and a man," he said. "It bothers me experience and earning a degree. "They [the cafeteria] offers two activity. "Technology has caused that as a male and female we don't Unfortunately, some individuals main courses, and both look young people to become 'couch grow wiU1 each other in marriage." pick up a little something extra: apJJeal n., 'she said. "So, yoti g0 p<yato~s."' <:>?i.-l 'j''-'aHate. \t 1c·.i t The sy.mposiwn featured panel top­ unwanted weight. -\ccordi;lg to back for the second one." Realiz­ 30 nJinutes uf j,hysical activity 1llo,va1 d Names\Vo1ne11'~ ics which nicluded: empowering chil­ experts, youth weight gain is ing that losing the weight will be every day is recommended. Activ­ dren and youth; education; parenting growing at a rate so rapid that a greater task than gaining it was, and youth development; enduring cul­ ities can be as simple as taking a Basketball Head Coach • tural values of African-American Feature Story Smith has gone so far as to request walk around campus. families; and racial profiling and the the help of a personal trainer. prison-industrial complex. Several national health organizations have Though most blamed both fast Tips on How to By BRANDON M. BICKERSTAFF she holds the school record for total Howard professors served as panelist now made the issue a chief con­ food restaurants and cafeteria food Keep the Weight Off Sports Week Editor career points with 2,128. Her jersey for the sessions. · cern. for weight gain, freshman Andy was retired at the university in 1986, "Weight gain amongst young Green singles out the cafeteria Farrakhan also spoke on moral -Look at your overall lifestyle. Howard University's search for a and she became the first woman to be people has become an epidemic food as the cause of his weight A variety of foods, using the character. new women's head basketball coach inducted into the university's Sports problem," said Carl Wallace, a loss. Green who said he has not, food JJyramid as a focal point, "Scholars need to address spiritu­ ended yesterday when the Universi­ hall of Fame in 1996. al, moral and intellectual develop­ dietitian at Howard University "acquired a taste for the cafeteria's should be consdmed. Hospital. fine cuisine," has not worked out -The base of your diet should ty named Cathy Parson to head the Parson replaces Sanya Tyler, who ment," he said. ''God gave us knowl­ program. was terminated by the University last edge so that we may grow in our Freshman college students are in a gym. However he has lost be plant foods, fruits and veg­ weight because he has not been The announcement was made yes­ month due to alleged violations of lifetime in every dimension of most prone to weight gain, experts etables. Grains along with high eating like he does at home. protein foods, such as meats, terday during a press conference held University policies, Tyler has main­ growth." say. Wallace says the problem is not should act almost as side dish­ He said students often don't know Sophomore Danika Santos by the University. tained that no violations occurred, excessive weight, but, "excessive es. Concentrated sugars and · how to be good parents. "Students experienced "the freshmen 15" Parson most recently served as and has since filed a lawsuit aganist fats should also be kept to a don't get a degree in the skill of par­ last year. This phenomenon is the body fat" An imbalance between associate coach at the University of the University citing a breach of her minimum in your diet. enting." 15 pounds college students say the amount of calories consumed Richmond last season. Parson also contract. and the amount of energy expend­ -A diet that consists mostly of Million Family March coordina­ they gain during freshman year. served as an assistant and later as 'The women's basketball team is She said her meal plan of two ed causes excess," he said. fast foods should also be altered tor, Benjamin F. Muhammad said the ' interim head coach of the WNBA:s coming off of a Regular Season meals per day caused her to gain Though the freshman 15 is often due to fast foods' excessive fats symposium was an effort "to fmd not Washington Mystics in 1998. She and sugars. Candies and pas­ Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference only what is wrong with our family, more than 15 pounds.