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De1plt• bllllon1 of dollar• 1pent by Con;rt11 to 11cur1 th1 homo­ PAGES land, poll• 1how that many Am1rlcnn1 do not foel any 11f1r today and fear 1noth1r t1rrorl1t attack. Many Howard 1tudent1 1h1re the public'• 1tntlm1nt. country. common in the past. around the world." son1e who do feel safer. an excuse to skew the defi­ BY LATAVIA GREEN Contributing Writer Despite these efforts, a "The U.S. is and has Even though the gov­ Graduate student Mario nition of what it is to be recent survey by the nonpar­ always been under attack by ernment has taken steps Odighizuuwa said that he an American and since we Sunday marked the tisan Council for Excellence people on their soil. There and pu111ped billions of dol­ feels 1nore secure, especially were already on the margins four-year anniversary of in Govern111ent reported have been attacks such as lars into homeland securitv, here in \Vashington, D.C. in regard to our posit ;on as the Sept ll tenorist attad:s that ;-c,·•er than hhlf llI all V\'ACO, Ol:alahom< City Jwuor English nd Htstoiy '"I do feel safer bl'Cause Amencans "e have only against the United States Americans think the coun 1nd Columbine to name a major Nathalie Pierre said I'1n in the nations capi­ been remo"ed even further where three high jacked try is safer now than it was few," said Prude. 'This time the goverrunent has not tal and security has been from that definition.'' planes crashed into the on September u, 2001. it '''as just executed strategi­ done enough. stepped up significantly Tyler Brewster, a senior World Trade Center, the The survey's results cally 'vith a lot of patients "As a New Yorker I here," he said. psychology nlajor, said Pentagon and a field in also reflect the attitudes of by 'al-queda'." Prude went think that securil) is a ~1any professors on though the attack nlay ha,·c Pennsylvania. The attack some students on Howard on to say that the attacks of nlyth," she said. "Visually it campus declined to share left son1e A1nericans on edge SPORTS killed over 3,000American's University's crunpus who Sept. 11 changed bis life. may seen1 like we have bet­ there views on whether in regards to national secu­ and was the worst attack on NOT THE REAL HU also say that the) don't feel 'The only thing that ter security S<..>cing national security has been improved rity, the attacks did bring U.S. soil in history. any safer today despite the has changed and reshaped guard soldiers \vith auto- since the Sept. 11 attacks, the country together. TURN TO THE SPORTS In response to the go\"cnunent's efforts to pro­ 1ny life is that air-travel 1natic weapons in the air­ however African-American '"For one brief period SECTION TO SEE HOW THE attacks, the U.S. goven1- tect the homeland. has becon1e a painful "llld ports or at landmarks tnight studies Professor Gregory in tirne it brought l'Vcryonc BISON FAIRED IN "THE ment led by President Bush, Jiln1ny Prude, a senior expensive experience," he give on1' th: it itnprcssion, Carr ·lid weigh in. "No, Of together and made us see BATTLE OF THE REAL HU" has v.'aged two militaiy cam­ inform·1tion sy tems analy­ said. but they arc not lookmv in course not," Carr said when each other as An1ericans LAST WEEKEND. paigns in both Afghanistan sis 1najor c:;aid he f<..>cls no It's kind of funny in a peoples book bags nor are asked if he felt any safer above all else," he said. PAGE9 and Iraq. safer today than before way. Sept. 11 also provided they screening people's lug­ since the attacks. "[Sept. Congress has autho­ Sept. 11 he<.'ausc attack<i on insight into how An1erica is gage on trains or buses." 11) has just given certain rized billions of dollars to American soil have been viewed by other countries However there are elc111ents in this country be spent on protecting the • N.C.A T Kappas Win Step Show Songz Visits HU BYCHARREAH Nicole MeQ teen, a soph­ JACKSON omo ·e business ma.mgc- BY MORGAN MOORE Managing Ea11or Hilltop Staff Wtiter 111ent. "I love his album New R&B sensation and I an1 glad he came." The Alpha Nu chap­ Trey Songz performed Host of the night and ter of Kappa Alpha Psi for students in HO\\'ard's Fraternity, Inc. won the member of Alpha Phi Blackburn Ballroom yes­ Alpha, Phillip Murray Black College Weekend terday e\·ening. Part of brought to the stage rap­ step show, sponsored his HBCU tour sponsored pers, singers, poets and by the Undergraduate by Cingular Wireless, even a perforn1er dancing Student Assembly, the event \\'3.S filled \vith to the sounds of Michael HU CALENDAR Saturday evening entertainment as it was ,Jackson. For son1e the tal It looked like a scene n1erged with Alpha Night ent featured before SOnfSZ Sept, 19 from one of the illustri­ at the Apollo. ous Howard University was their initial dra\v Financial Aid files closed The evening of enter­ "I caine out to sup­ for determination of credit homecoming events. tainn1ent bought those Crowds of students from port 1ny hon1.eboy Elliot hours for Fall 2005 aid who were just glad to Brown, [also known as] disbursements many different HBCU's attend a free concert were gathered in the Broadway Mill, S-WAT together with die-hard baby perforin "Chillin Sept, 23 front and on the sides of listeners of Songz. Cramton auditorium. Opening Convocation '"l'n1 a real fan," said See SONGZ, Page A6 Some students started the line at 4:30 p.m. and remained there until doors opened \l.l) < n1 ~ 1 I 1t•lf . at 6:15 p.1n. As a part of Black College Weekend, sponsored by UGSA, the step competi­ WEATHER "I should have tion featured several Greek fraternities from other HBCUs. Mondoy known that I needed High: 86, low: 66 start to Black College Week with crowd hype throughout the night by to be here early, after all this is a step show representing members giving shout outs to people from Howard where every event on cam­ from the different historically black the east coast and the south, and to pus seems to have never ending colleges. those representing different schools lines," said Terrence Barker, sopho­ The event, hosted by Ho,vard and colleges at Howard. Stewart more English major. University Student Association also engaged the crowd· in singing INDEX Walking into the auditorium president Byron Stewart and WHBC two verses of Montell Jordan's song, CAMPUS 2 nothing could be heard but the bass assistant program director Angie "This is How We do it. NATION &WORLD 4 filled sounds of hip hop music. DJ Brown, star~ed off with a rendition '"I really enjoyed the show, it BUSINESS &TECHNOLOGY 5 premonition was ready to get the of the black national anthen1 sung was kind of tailored towards the ED. &PERSPECTIVES 7 crowd started. \u.~lc N.cfd .. s1,.fT l'hol~'"·rtw:-r hy the Howard University Gospel female crowd," said Nikita Willian1s, Troy longz porf ormod hi• hit 11Qott1 Mak• It" and LIFE & STYLE 8 Howard's own Undergraduate Choir. sophomore international business SPORTS 9 Student Assembly kicked off the othor 1olootlon1 off hi• now rolo11td album on Brown and Stewart kep~ the major. 8und1y In Blackburn Bolf room. I CAMPUS , SEPTEMBER 12, 2005 • CAMPUS WHBC Radio Celebrates 30-Year Anniversary BY DANIELLE DAWKINS want to make WHBC better. do is just add a few more things BRIEFS Contributing Writer Under new management, that could have been heller as ' As the new school year just the station hopes to gain more far as on-airs doing more." gets started Howard's Black listeners and can1pus wide sup­ The station will have events Co1nmunicator, also known port. Except when the n1usic on campus as well as off cam­ as \VHBC, is celebrating three escapes the office out into the pus, but those who wish to join decades of progran1ming by hall, the station is often forgotten the street team are warned that looking towards the future.