Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 2000 - 2010 The iH lltop Digital Archive 11-21-2006 The iH lltop 11-21-2006 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 11-21-2006" (2006). The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010. 354. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010/354 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: 2000 - 2010 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ILLT The Daily Student Voice of Howard University VOLUME 90, NO. 59 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2006 WWW.THEHILLTOPONLINE.COM T BREAKING NEWS METRO u~ EC TEENAGER SHOOTS HIMSELF CVS PUTS CONDOMS ON LOCK-DOWN l\JES. 11/ 21: WED, 11/22! s c SUNNY SUNNY D~ AN INVESTIGATION HAS RULED THAT THE 15-YEAR-OLD MALE D.C. HAS AN ALARMING RATE OF STD AND HIV/AIDS CASES SO HIGH: 49, LOW 35 HIGH: 5:', LOW 41 ~ WHO SOUGHT HELP IN THE HOWARD SERVICE CENTER SUNDAY WHY IS CVS MAKING IT MORE DIFFICULT TO GET CONDOMS? AC NIGHT SHOT HIMSELF, ACCORDING TO CAMPUS POLICE. PAGE4 y~ Nichols to Debut on 'The Real World' Man Shot, Dies .Near Library ' BY TRAVER RIGGINS Hilltop Staff Writer Most people would not join a club or an organiza­ tion they kne\' nothing about. l.Viost people would not put eve!)' moment of their lives on the table for the whole world to sec. Most people would not give up hei1 su nmer to li\'e in a city they ha\'C never been to with six people they have never met before. f.lost people would not dream of juggling a career in student politics "ith one in the limelight. Senior Stephen Nichols But then again, Stephen makes his debut on MTV's Nichols is not nlost people. 'The Real' on Wednesday. Starting ton1orrow at 8 p.m .. the Howard community Having already entered will be able to follow the life into a contract v.ith MTV, of their Howard University under the impression that Student Association (HUSA) with 20,000 other people in vice president, a senior clas­ his same situation there was sics major, on MTV's "The little chance he would actually Real \.Yorld." be picked to do thL show, the Nichols had never seen an ne' •ly elected vict president episode of the show when he found himself between a rock was persuaded by family and and a hard place. friends to submit an audition Nichols told producers Otn'U Smhh · Sblff Photoitntphr-r tape. that his pa1t on the show was Students and faculty at the health sciences library last night were unaware of the violence that occurred just • '1he first time I saw "'The contingent on obligations he blocks away. Police responded to a dispatch call around 10 p.m. and found a man fatally shot on W Street. Real World" was when I was had already made. BY EBONI FARMER in L.A. at my final inteniew. "Basically put, Howard Hilltop Staff Writer scene at around io:10 pm. Police, the victim is not affili­ Howard metro when he saw I told my producer that [I'd is definitely a focal point of The male victim is ated with the university. the crime scene. never watched it] and they who it is that I am," he said. A black male was gunned belie\·ed to be in his 2o's and l'vfary Wilson, who has '"There could be n1ore made me watch a couple epi­ HUSA is second on his priority down and killed around 8:40 had not been identified at the been a resident of Elm Street, done to improve neighbor­ sodes just so l kt1ew ,,·ha. l was hst ri1 I-it after sc.l oo\, which p.m. n fron• ot Highwa) tiine of press. which is near the crilne scene, hood safety. It's surpris­ g ettin ,~ myself mto. ·· Nichols liecmne center in hh lite.after a Chrislran Church loc<ited on Polict: reported that resi­ !Si rice her childhood said t11at ing that there is so much said. failed attempt lo break into the the 400 block of \.\' Street dents heard between eight she neYer sa" violence while that looks so bad around The journey before his business world left him out­ Northwest, according to to nine shots, but only three growing up in the neighbor­ Howard,"Retyer said. final interview was full of deci­ side of school between 2004 Metropolitan Police officials. cartridge shells were found hood. So1ne students and staff sions and surprises. It was and 2005. Metropolitan police said on the scene. Toby Retyer, who lives in the Louis \.\1• Stokes Health tvlarch 2, 2006. HUSA election· "There are certain things they received a dispatch call According to l..'\wrence on First and Bryant streets, day, when Nichols got news that I did to make sure that I at 10 p.m. and were on the Thomas, Chief of Campus was coming from the Shaw- that he was one of the show"s See SHOOTING, PAGE 3 15 finalists. See NICHOLS, PAGE 3 Comedian Launches Racist Rant The District, HUH Cited BY TIFFANY WILLIAMS-COE you upside down with a [exple­ question of where the line Contributing Wnter ti\'e] fork up your [expletive] ... should be drawn when talk­ Richards continued, "You can ing about other races in con1- in Wrongful Death Suit Last Friday tvlichael talk, you can talk, you're brave edy. Some believe a double Richards, best known as now [expletive I. Throw his standard exists. Kia Cain, a pita! staff made critical mis­ "Krainer'" from the television fexpletive) out. He's a nigger! sophomore television produc­ takes v.hile rendering care "Seinfeld," performed at a He's a nigger! He"s a nigger! A tion major, disagrees. Though to Rosenbaum that led to fa1nous Los Angeles comedy niru;cr. look, there's a nigger!" African-An1ericans arc known his death. dub called The Laugh Factory \fter Richards started mak to make comments about According to city where he used racial epithets int, those conunents · many white people in their jokes, investigators. cmergenC) in his act. people in the crowd began Cain believes they do not do it workers initially believed The \\1eb site 1~1Z.com to get up and leave. Some to be blatantly racist. Rosenbaum was drunk and posted a clip of Richards" act. audience m·embers shouted "I feel that his actions are determined he was a low According to TMZ, while a back at Richards, sa)ing the going to ruin his. career. It's a priority while not trying to group of African-An1cricans statements he made were good thing that the audience correctly identify whether were sitting in their seats, unfair and uncalled for. Some did not start a riot," Cain said. or not he was injured. The they began "playfully heck­ angry members of the crowd "There's no excuse for what he ambulance then bypassed ling Richards." The comedi­ ev~n called him a ·•cracker." said, it was extremely uncalled the nearest hospital and took an, however, did not seem to Richards responded to the for and out of line." him to Boward University appreciate the hccklmg dur i n~ audience b) saying, "'The) "re After clips of the tirade Hospital, which was hvo his performance and turned going to arrest me for calling a were air"d on various televi­ miles out of the way. Upon his attention to the group. f black man a nigger." sion stations including CBS arriYal at the hospital, the "Fifty years ago we'd have The incident· raises the Evening News, Richards lawsuit alleges that nurses released statements to the inco.rrectly diagnosed him public. as intoxicated and failed "I lost my temper to regularly check his vital onstage," Richards said in his signs. The hospital's neuro­ statement, clips of which ran logical team did not evalu­ on "'CBS Evening News ..,; th ate Rosenbamn until 2 a.m., Katie Courie" Monday. "I was nearly four hours after he at a comedy club trying to do \\as admitted, according to my act and I got heckled and the lawsuit. I took it badly and went into At almost 6 a.m. he a rage. For me to flip out was taken to the operating and say this crap, I'm deeply, room. He died the follow­ deeply sorry," he added. "I'm BY JANELLE JOLLEY Hospital. Rosenbaum was ing day. not a racist - that's what's so Metro Editor beaten with a heavy plas­ After the city inves­ insane about this." tic pipe and robbed in his tigation, one of the emer­ Some argue that black The family of veteran Northwest neighborhood gency medical workers was comedians make jokes about New York Ti1nes reporter during an evening stroll on fired for failing to adhere-to whites all the time and that David Rosenbaum has filed a Jan. 6, 2006, at age 63 . proper protocol: Richards was merely doing the S20 million wrongful death The lawsuit claims As of press time, san1e. After his apolog) how­ lawsuit against the District that District emergency Howard University had no ever, there are still those who a.nd Howard University response workers and hos- comment on the lawsuit. l)ninf' Cltnunin'. Sh•rt'Pholnj1,1i.1pht'r believe Richards' 8CtiOnS are Michael Richards (left) made racist comments after being heckled.by black audience members during his act.