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BLACK HISTORY QUIZ MECCANISMS 171 WEATHER /11 43 ~ 35 Tomorrow: 43 27 The Daily Student Voice of Howard ·University Established VOLUME 91, NO. 92 WWW.THEHILLTOPONLlNE.COM 1924 Friday, February 29, 2008 BREAKING NEWS CAMPUS SPORTS LIONEL GEORGE YOUK.AM, 14, OF GERMAN­ WANT TO GET A BETI'ER SENSE OF WHICH THE HIILTOP SAT DOWN FOR AN EXCLUSIVE Friday TOWN, MD. WAS FOUND DEAD IN THE BASE­ CANDIDATE SHOULD GET YOUR VOTE FOR <»A WITH WOMEN'S BOWLING TEAM ROOKIE MENT OF lilS HOME THURSDAY, ACCORDING GRADUATE TRUSTEE? TURN TO CAMPUS AND ALESYN MCCALL. Notebook TONBC4.COM SEE WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY. • PAGES4&5 PAGE6 Financially Strapped Fisk Un•versity Ends NCAA Athletics BY SHAUNTEL LOWE were ending all of the university's is majoring in physics witl1 plans Europe in !he early 1870s to raise this month, the Georgia O 'Keeffe scrambling to get a hold on its Black College Wire NCAA athletic programs after this for a career in astronomy. money for the school. The group Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., heir financial situation through fund­ year and will develop a system of Howard junior psychol­ is honored with Jubilee Hall on of the O'Keeffe estate, argued raising and budget cuts. Univer­ Clad in his Greek let­ intramural sports in their place. ogy major Derrick Price believes the Fisk campus: that the agreement between sity Spokesperson Ken West said ters, Fisk Univ~rsi ty senior David According to a state­ sports provide opportunities for But this period of strug­ O'Keeffe and Fisk forbids selling the university annually spends· Hill would make his way to the ment by Provost Kofi Lomotey, students. gle fo r the university has attracted or sharing any portion of the col­ $263, 075 to support the ath­ annual homecoming basketball released Feb. 25, the Nashville "I'm curious to know nationwide attention as Fisk has lection and Nashville Chancellor letic program while only generat­ game, on the lookout for his fra­ university views the move as an what will happen to the players on battled in court over the right to Ellen Hobbes Lyle ruled that this ing 810,000 in revenue from an ternity brothers, old and young, opportunity to involve more st1:1- scholarship," Price said. ·"Some sell, or at this point simply keep, proposition violated the wishes of NCAA grant for participating in of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, dents in sports. people have no other way to pay the l 0 I-piece Stieglitz collection O'Keeffe. certain games. West said none of Inc. They might embrace or just But many current stu­ for their educations." of modern art given to tl1e uni­ Now tl1e O 'Keeffe mu­ the scl1ool's approxil)lately l 00 say hello, the older Omegas dol­ dents, alumni and faculty see the . The move is just the lat­ versity in 1949 by renowned artist seum 1s trying -to reclaim the athletes are on scholarships re­ ing out pieces of wisdom to the loss of the sports program as po­ est strategic shift for the university, Georgia O'Keeffe, wife of pho­ entire collection on the grounds lated to their participation in the younger frats. But not anymore. tentially devastating to student life which has been struggling to gain tographer Alfred Stieglitz. that Fisk violated the terms of its NCAA Division Ill sports. He ''Usually everyone has a on campus. traction in its race to raise funds The university has tried agreement with O 'Keeffe and has said the university expects' the in­ homecoming football game. We "It decreases the cama­ before it runs out of money. to sell pieces of the collection forfeited its rights to the collec­ tramural prograh1 to cost $60,000 just have a basketball game. And raderie between students now that Financial struggle 1s and proposed a $30 million deiJ.1 tion. F1Sk and the museum made annually. now, we're not even going to have you don't have a function or an nothing pew or uncommon at Fisk, to share the collection with the closing arguments in that case be­ While West said no rev­ that," Hill said. event where students get together. known for the historic ful).draising Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, fore Lyle on Feb. 19 and are cur­ enue is generated from ticket sales Amid a deepening fi­ It decreases school pride. What efforts of its student chorus, the founded by Wal-Mart heiress Al­ rently awaiting a ruling that could or concessions, JoVan Kearse, nancial crisis, Fisk administrators are you rooting for, other than FiskJubilee Singers, who traveled ice L. Walton, according to The take up to 30 days. recently announced that they your academics?" said Hill, who throughout the United States and Associated Press. In cou11 earlier Meanwhile, Fisk IS > See FISK, Page 3 Panel Questions Need for Reform, Revolution nity. Ward said it will take more than civil ·and social changes and that there needs to be economic reform. "I generally believe that the measures we have in place do generally work," said vVard, a legal communica­ tions major. "I think we have a solid foundation in which we can woth: from to address some of the changes that we are trying to get in the African-Ameri­ • can community." Chigozie Onyema, an Afri­ can-American studies major, had a dif­ ferent idea on the route black people should take. Onycma, who refers to him­ self as a "Pan-Africanist," said "it is im­ possible for us to become equal under a capitalist institution." 01).yema sup­ ports revolution. Comments about whether the current capitalist system is benefi­ Jamlsha Pooly • ConlJWing Wriler cial to black people led to an eruption Panelists and audience members with varied beliefs discussed the state of the black comll)unity Thursday d.uring the event "Where Do We Go from Here?" of comments from both panelists and members of the audience. The discus­ BY JAMISHA PURDY seek - in earnest - what our strate­ sion then turned into a debate between gics arc, what our goals are, and what is panel members regarding whether Tnimaine Robinson · Conributing ""'*>grapher Contributing Writer Miami rapper Rick Ross visited the Punchout Thursday to promote his sophomore the best and most effective way to reach blac\;. people benefit more under a so­ album, "Trilla," which includes collaborations with R. Kelly, Li l Wayne and T·Paln. Last year, protestors took to that place." cialist or capitalist economy. the picket lines of America in response The panel-style discussion, Audience members didn't sit • to the treatment of six black teenag­ tilled ':Where Do vVe Go from Here?" quietly, but challenged panel members' ers in Jena, La. Later dubbed the Jena included Howard seniors from a broad beliefs. Rick Ross Keeps it '6,' this case was highlighted across spectrum of beliefs. Eacl1 panelist was Baker encouraged the audi­ America's civil tights groups, ultimately asked whether they believed the black ence members to take the discussion to leading to the reduction of charges and community should push for reform or another level. the ultimate dismissal of some of the revolution. "There is something, in some 'Trill' in the Punchout cases. Michael Varner, a political way you can involve yourself," Bake r More than a thousand How­ science major and the president of the said. "Let this have been a way for you a.mi." With a variety of guest appearanc­ ard tJniversity students poured into BY JADA F. SMITH College Republicans, said the question to find how you can involve yourself in es, Ross hopes to bring more attention to Cramton Auditorium to rally for the staff Writer of reform or revolution depends on the a serious and progressive movement. the South and prepare everyone for ''The cause, but months later some students type of change. Please, please, please, don't let this fall Students lined up in the Pun­ movement." wonde1; what's next for the stare or ''I think that the focus needs on deaf ears. All of this, all of our con­ chout around 4 p.m. Thursday as rapper "On the album, we have Trick black Americans. A multi-sponsored to be more on what the African-Ameri­ versation, is for nothing if we don't take Rick Ross arrived to sign autographs and Daddy, [Lil] Wayne, T-Pain, R. Kelly and discussion yesterday focused on-two of can community can do for itself," Var­ action." take pictures with fans and students alike. other artists and producers that I worked many possible routes Aftica.n Am<;ri­ ner said, "versus what particular legis­ The discussion was sponsored Hosted by vVHBC and DefJam Records, with," Ross said. ''\Ve startin' a move­ ca.ns could take: reform or revolution. l atio~ and the goverrunent can do for by the Kwame Ture Society, Political Ross made tl1e cameo to promote his new ment. Flo-Rida and Briscoe come h¥d.