Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1990-2000 The iH lltop Digital Archive 2-21-1997 The iH lltop 2-21-1997 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 2-21-1997" (1997). The Hilltop: 1990-2000. 181. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000/181 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]. = 1 101ume 80, No. 20 Serving the Howard University community since 1924 February 21, 1997 .,I This Week's Highlights: Jesse Jackson, HU send Peace CAMPUS Corps group to South Africa 'HBC is working to cure its By Keren Thomes Jackson South African primary school visiting South Africa. Hilltop Staff writer encouraged teachers, local leaders and students "Be prepared to learn as much as financial '"voes. the group to in the country's Northern Province. you tcacn, for South Africa is an expand its The volunteers will operate as A2. The Rev. JeS$e Jackson recently extraordinary country full of his­ world views resource persons on a project tory, culture, enterprise and hope," joined Howard University President and be open­ called, "De,·eloping Resources in H. Patrick Swygert and Peace Gore said in a video address. minded to Schools and the Community," "South Africans and Americans Corps Director Mark Gear.in at a face the which focuses on rural areas campus send-off ceremony for the will be enriched by your work LOCAL challenges in previously neglected by the there." first delegation of Peace Corps South Africa. apartheid government. ~earby aerobics volunteers to serve in South Africa. ''Do not In his usual biblical tone, The agreement to send Peace In his send-off address last go there Jackson counseled volunteers on Corps volunteers to South Africa s at recreational Thursday, Jackson urged the team p l ayi n g the divine law of reciprocity and the was signed December 1995 by of33 volunteers to connect nations Tarzan to blessedness of giving, ~aying that Gore and South African Deputy tenter rivals large in order to make the world more S a V C when they help others, they help President Thabo Mbeki in Pretoria, l?Caceful and secure and to break somebody; themselves at the same time. follow ing earlier plans announced ~alth club chains. down walls of ignorance, racism you arc going "Your character is 1he only thing by Presidcn1 Bill Clinton and South and division in South Africa and at to learn and worthy of praise," he said. "Thke African Prc.~idcnt Nelson Mandela AS. home. get help. You that character to South Africa, be a during a visit to the White House in More than 110 Howard will be betler r,eople and make this a beuer October 1994. University alumni have volunteered helped more world.' Established in 1961. the Peace in the Peace Corps since its than you will Peace Corps Director Gearan Corps today serves 90 countries NATIONAL inception. Among the 33 volunteers h~lp, and you prniscd the organization's effort to through the efforts or some 6,500 going to South Africa arc two will come work in South Africa, calling it volunteers. HU students Hownrd alumni: C.D. Olin. a 1996 back bigger another powerful step in Projects generall y focus on political science graduate and Earl and belier strengthening the bond between the educat,on. environmental, health, approve of Clinton's Yates, a 1967 graduate. Yates will Photo by Pedro de Weever because you two nations as the volunteers work business and agricultural programs. be the Peace Corps' South African The Rev. Jesse Jackson joined president H. will have with South Africans 10 build a new plan to fund Country Director. Patrick Swygert In a send-off ceremony for the m o r e better future for their children, "Be prepared to learn," Jackson "Happy birthday," Jackson first delegatfon of Peace Corps volunteers to equipment to communities and country. He also echoed the vice president. higher education. greeted t.fu: volunteers, cmphasi1.ing serve In South Africa. work with." urged students to consider Peace "South Africa is both treasure ihc beginning of a journey that win Once in Corps service. and tragedy. extremes or wealth and A6. change their li\'es forc,cr. •'You will become reality, and dreams will be South Africa, the volunteers will U.S. Vice President Al Gore poverty." he born ane,,. Imagination will built upon dreams." spend two years working with stressed the educational value of l\TERNATIONAL Pakistan's Benazier Fut11re gro-ws dinuner Singin' Good Bhutto has not lost her popularity. AS. for Hip-Hop Conference firne Annual event has not been confirmed for this spring TEMPO Timothy Jones said the conferences in the past were By Bishop Chui Although the Hilltop Staff Writer well attended and provided opportunities and solutions for up-and-coming hip-hop artists with large industry Hip-Hop participation. For the last six years, spring on "the Yard" has been nference won't be heralded by celebrities, recording industry agents and "We wanted to educate individuals about the business hopeful MCs taking part in the Hip-Hop Conference. side of the industry, but also to talk about preserving on campus, But as students gear up for the warmer days. public­ hip hop as a culture and how the industry should not hip hop is still a ity has been scant surrounding the even1 sponsored by be given that responsibility," he said. Cultural Initiative, a group of Howard alumni and for• But Jones also added that the group has reached acer­ rt of HU culture. mer student govcrnmenl representatives. tain point of achievement, and that hip hop has changed Bl. At last year's conference, Cl officials said that should greatly in the past few years. forcing Cl and the con­ the 1996 conference be the last one, they were confi­ ference to change also. dent they had represented hip hop well. For the Howard community, the statement created a Rumors ha"e recently surfaced that CI can no longer afford to hold the event because of it was no longer PULSE wave of uncertainty surrounding an annual event tha1 1 some believed had become a large part of the Howard profitable. ramton '"vas alive University experience and was properly set at the But Jones said there arc no definite plans for the con­ ith classic music nation's largest historically Black university. ference this year other than the Fourth Annual Hip-Hop A month away from the conference's annual date, Show on Apri l 12. which sells out annually. 1roups and classy there has still been no comment about the likelihood "We have to take a minu1c to re-evaluate, to develop of the event, and with no definite answer from Cloffi­ a conference that is on the forcfron1," Jones said. couples on cials, it's likely that there will be no Hip-Hop Confer­ "Howard is keyed into the industry more so than they ence this year. reali1.e. Students and the Uniwrsity don't use their mar­ \'alentine's Day. Timothy Jones, president of CI, said the group is ketability to their advantage." C' B2. working with organizers for the annual Spring Black In February of 1991. a group of Howard University Arts Festival, but representatives of the Undergradu­ seniors - in conjunction with the Howard Universi1y ate Stvdent Assembly, which runs the Spring Black Student Association, canipus activist group Black Nia Arts Festival, said they currently do not have plans to Force and record label 'Jransatlantic - set out to pro­ WEEKENDER work with Cl on a hip-hop conference. vide the Howard community with a hip-hop forum. Yusef Battle, coordinator for the gospel concen, said The group, formally known as "the Cultural Initia­ Weekly spotlight: he had no knowledge of a hip-hop conference being tive," organized the first hip-hop conference, which was party promoter held in conjunction with the arts festival. supposed to be a one-time event, bu1 the effect of the e, • Zhaundra Jones, program coordinator for UGSA, conference prompted Cl to make the forum an annual ,g \nselmo Gordon. confirmed that there arc no joint plans with Cl. UGSA event. ,I- is sponsoring a spring fashion sho,v, but it will be inde­ In years past, forums and panel discussions at the con­ a B3. pendent from Cl's event. ference attempted to legitimize hip-hop culture and pro­ "1b my understanding the only thing they're doing is \"ide resources for artists. The events were allcnded by js ,r. the [Hip Hop] fashion show," Zhaunclra Jones said. "It 's rappers buch as Chuck D, A+ and A Tribe Called Quest. Photo by Alda Muluneh HEALTH not going to be a conference as we have seen in years Local concerts often followed the events. The Whispers crooned to lovers last weekend at the Valentine's past." Day concert In Cramton Auditorium. & FITNESS ( Xew, larger health center may make Poets, students gather to remember Sterling Brown , tting medical care By Shanlkka N. Wagner Blackburn Uni vcrsity Center, to inspiration for his writing from the Hilltop Staff Writer hear panelists commemorating struggles of African Americans easier. Brown's li fe. The event was during the Great Depression as an S1ephen Jenkins didn't have sponsored by Howard Unh<ersity's editor for the Negro Affairs Writing BS.