Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 2000 - 2010 The iH lltop Digital Archive 2-25-2003 The iH lltop 2-25-2003 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 2-25-2003" (2003). The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010. 112. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_0010/112 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]. Life & Style See what hap­ pened at the Grammys ... ILLTOP HE __ • Bl The Student Voice of Howard University Since 1924 VOLUME 86, NO. 44 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2003 I www.thehilltoponline.com Howard Brings in· the Money Howard Receives Silcott Brothers Do}J.ate $1 Million to Univ. Annual Allotment By Janelle A. Williams Contributing Writer from Congre~s Howard's legacy of "Leadership for America and the Global Community" was By D avi d Johns leges and universities to portrayed and commemorated Hilltop S!aff Writer provide quality education, at a program held last Friday, stands to be increased which honored two men, President George W. under Bush's 2004 budget. James E. Silcott and the late T. Bush's 2004 budget propos­ The budget will increase George Silcott, brothers and es an increase in funding fo r funding, for all HBCUs, by 5 pioneers in the world of black Historically Black Colleges percent where $224 million architecture. and Universities (HBCUs). will benefit H BCU nnder­ At the ceremony, held in While all HBCUs stand graduate institutions and the College of Engineering, to benefit from a White $53 inillion for HBCU grad­ Architecture and Computer House initiative designed to uate institutions. Sciences (CEACS), the School provide a structured effort Additionally, Howard, of Architecture and Design to help HBCUs access feder­ being designated as a spe­ established the James E. Silcott ally funded programs, cial line item in the presi­ Endowed Chair; the school's PIIOffl BY ~1ELAN IG ~l!SBITT Howard has been designat­ dent's budget will receive an first and dedicated its gaUecy to ed to receive an additional added increase of $234 mil­ the late T. GeorgE} Silcott. Above, the wife of the deceased T. George Silcott for who a gallery will be opened. The federal allotment of $224 lion. J ames E. Silcott graduated dedication ceremony took place in the School of Architecture. million. HBCUs were created by from Howard University with a Executive Order 12232, a second Morrill Act passed Bachelor of Architecture degree • ... moral obligation, historic LQs Angeles area. Silcott is cur­ Planning Commission by Mayor which established a federal after the initial establish­ in 1957. Since then he has estab­ trust and social responsibility.. ." rently board member of the • James Hahn. program to overcome the ment of land grant institu­ lished an exceptional career and to the black community. Kennard Design Group, which His dedication to the uplift­ effects of discriminatory tions designed to teach has in the words of Harry G. This Howard alumnus built is the largest black architectural ment of the black community, treatment ·and to strength­ Robinson III, Dean Emeritus a reputation as one of the fore­ firm west of the Mississippi and en and expand the capacity See CONGRESS page A7 for the School of Architecture most African American archi­ was recently re-appointed to the of histori cally black col- and Design, demonstrated a tects and public servants in the South Los Angeles Area See DONATE page AS Candidate Speak Outs Resume After Halt Farrakhan Visibility Speaks at Revised Below Speak Out Armory Schedule By Melanie R. Hohnes Students' Contributing Writer All Speak Outs Start Standards Hundreds gathered at the at 7:30pm Washington D.C. Armory lo By Ruth Tisdale view the speaking of the honor­ Hilltop Staff Writer Feb. 25th- Quad able Minister Louis Farrakhan, Feb. 26th- Slowe live via satellite, on Sunday. At With elections just under approximately 3 pm, a wide two weeks away, many stu­ Feb. 27th- Drew screen television was turned on dents complain they have not to deliver the message ''war is seen much of the candidates. not the answer," sent from Some lay the blame at the Chicago throughout the world. feet of the election officials After donations were taken and others blame the candi­ * Feb.25th-Free for up for the Nation of Islam, dates. all 12-3PM Farrakhan took to tl1e podium "We as Howard students around 4pm and demonstrated aren't properly informed e.xtreme distaste for President about the Speak Outs," Kia * Feb.26th-Yard Bush, aspects ofthe administra­ Hallett, a junior internation­ Style Party 12-4PM tion, and the War on Iraq. al business major, said. "This is indeed a very, veiy "Speak Outs are an impor­ dangerous time, and we are tant part of the race. The Election Day: entering a period of darkness," time that lapses between he said. "President Bush is going . Speak Outs and the election Thursday, March 6th to lead America to her fall." leave students without any PHOTO OY IIAAVt Y JESKINS Minister Farrakhan stated information." Undergra duate Trustee candidate, SIias Cardwell, s peaks to students at the third speak out that both the Bible and the on Sunday. Eleven speak outs were scheduled to have take n place by Sunday. Koran are books that contain warnings to the rulers of the See VISIBLE page A2 world and are not meant for entertainment purposes. "Don't teU me that America doesn't need a warning," he Candidates Frustrated.with Elections Staff said. "Ame.rica needs someone to tell them they must repent or By Stephanie Crouch occurred, with reasons for their outs because of the snow," they will be destroyed.• Campus Editor cancellation varying from Cunningham said. "I didn't If you do not know where to Cunningham jokingly telling a want to put candidates who place America in the Bible or the Nine days remain until elec­ Hilltop editor that he was don't have transportation in risk Koran, said Farrakhan, then you tion day and the General "tired," to th~ snow storm and of taking tl1e shuttle. I still do not know how to lead the Elections Committee is finding his decision to attend the HUSA encouraged candidates that had country. itself submerged in accusations sponsored HBCU Think Tank in their own transportation to go "The United States of of disorganization, poor com­ Memphis, Tenn. over the week­ and talk to students at the America is at a crossroads, and munication and lack of promo­ end. School of Divinity." we too are at the crossroads," he tion. A number of candidates Cunningham said although said. The minister defi ned a These claims are centered have complained that they were he canceled a speak out because crossroad as a crucial point in around the frequent cancella­ unable to get posters approved of his trip to Tennessee the third which a decision must be made. tion of speak outs, the alleged because of Cunningham's trip. speak out, which took place in "An1erica is in the valley of deci­ preferential treatment of some Some said they were upset that the Bethune Anne.x residence sion. The country has to make a candidates and the aUeged non­ Cunningham refuses to speak to hall on Sunday, proceeded in decision between death and chalant attitude of the Elections tl1em, as outlined in his guide­ his absence. continued life. If the decision to Chair, Corey Cunningham. lines. The speak outs, which However, the event was go to war is a decision in error, Cunningham was also have been rescheduled a num­ poorly planned.:..tl1e room was not only will death· come to the accused of not being familiar person who makes the error, but ber of times, have been poorly not reserved in advance of the flUi PltOTO with the elections guidelines. publicized and have attracted to the o~pring of the error.• At the time of press, only, fewer students. Corey Cunningham, the general elections chair, has upset See ELECTIONS page AS four of the 11 speak outs had "We cancelled several speak some candidates by canceling speak outs and refusing to speak to candidates-- as stated In his guidelines. See AR.MORY page A7 i \ Voices Bison Weigh In & Terror Alerts Don't Stop Daily Life for Students . response to the internally and externally by By Danielle Scruggs . nation's current D.C. representatives." Views Hilltop Staff Writer high-risk status Lorenzo Morris, Ph.D, or code orange chairman of Howard's political Since last Wednesday, the threat condition science department is skeptical United States has been on high Are you for terrorist of the terror warnings' effec­ - orange - alert for the threat attacks, both tiveness. of a terrorist attack. alarnzed about Howard "Terror alerts can certainly According to Homeland University and make people more conscien­ the levels of Security Department, the cur· the city of tious in their behavior about rent threat level is orange Washington, possible danger but it can also terrorist because "recent intelligence D.C., have gone make them unduly sensitive reports, corroborated through alerts? to great lengths and sometimes hostile to multiple intelligence sources, to plan for unusual events," Morris said. • I suggest an increased likelihood emergencies. think these terror alerts can that the al-Qaeda terrorist net­ "The city scare people into doing irra­ work may attempt to attack has implement­ tional things and possibly get Americans in the United States ed the District support for the government.