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BY MESSIAH RAMKl~SOON ·
Contributing Writer
Students gathered last night in the Blackburn Reading Lounge to listen to
their fellow classmates engage in an open panel discussion.
The event was convened by Golden Key, the Howard University NAACP chapter and the College of Arts and Sciences.
The panel, which was moderated by Afro-American studies professor Gregory Carr, focused on promi~ent
issues such as Hurricane
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Katrina, stereotypical imag-es of blacks in mainstream media as well as the upcom
-ing presidential election.
The forum featured
'Brandon' Adams who holds a bachelor's degree in journal-ism and is a gradufil!! student from California. The others were Undergraduate. Trustee Jabari Smith and Kareem Redman, a senior political science major.
· Smith, who is a native of New Orleans, opened up the panel discussion· when asked
about lessons learned and
things to be done in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
"It was a gift and a curse," Smith said. "It was a curse because we lost everything.
However, it was a gift because it proved to us that nothing is guaranteed, and your spir-it is worth more than mate
-rial things. We are not only rebuilding the city but rebuild-ing the spirit of the city, which is more important."
The forum gave the panel -ists the opportunity to convey their opinions on the topics that related to their specified focus.
Students were later given the opportunity to make
com-ments and ask questions. A major {ssue, which intensified the discussion and served as a catalyst for audience involve-ment, was the role of blacks in the media.
Adams was the lead pan-elist on this issue, focusing on the hierarchy of the news-room as it relates to the power
of gatekeepers.
· "Black people are heav
-ily misrepresented as a whole, particularly in journalism," Adams said. "We are looking at a trend that has already been set in the industry by owners who create the agenda and people who follow, which
creates public opinion:"
Adams concluded, saying,
"In order for us to change the . images·on television, we have to own media and not fall [into] the brainwashed men
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Golden Key sponsored a forum for students to voice their opinions regarding the black ·
community and Issues, such as blacks In the media. Brandon Adams, Jabarl Smith, and Karee'!' Redman were on the panel.
tality." twenty-five inch rims. They Senior print journalism need a 401K plan, and if they
major Michelle Nealy corn- don't know-what that is, then mented on Adams' presenta- they will never have one,"
tion as it relates to the si:e- · Nealy said.
reotypical portrayal of African Along with the current Americans within the differ- , focus from the media on the ent facets of media. 2008 presidential election,
"Everyone doesn't need Redman reminded students
to vote, but to not get caught up with playing the race card.
"We get caught up in letting people assign our beliefs,
say-ing that because you're young
and black, you must be voting
for Obama," he said.
Redinan also addressed
social injustices, saying, "A
white convict has an easier time getting a job than a black person without a record and a
college degree."
Some of the other top-ics that came to the surface
dealt v.rith the division of
blacks within our communi-ties, pa1ticularly throughout
the inner cities but also from
a global standpoint. Junior international busirless major Corinne Collette spoke on the need for unity. "There needs to be diversity sensitivity training within the African Diaspora. People of African descent across the globe
con-stitute the international black
comrnunity. Especially at an HBCU, I am appalled at the
. indifference, intolerance and
general apathy of so many
students as it relates to blacks
from the Caribbean, Africa
and Latin America."
Sable Nelson, a senior biology major and president of Howard's chapter of the NAACP, said, "We must dis-pel the rnyths that the civil rights movement is over. As
long as there. are disparities in health; education, wealth
attainment, et cetera, there is
a reason for discourse and a plan of action must soon be
articulated, then executed."
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Black
Women
in
the Media
BY EBONI FARMER
Hill/op Slaff Writer
The members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Incorporated . held "Black
Women In Media," a discus~
sion about black stereotypes
and presented 'solutions ·to these issues, as well as ways to progress the black commu-nity.
Ray Baker, a senior
broadcast journalism major, moderated the event.
"We put together this event to discuss issues within
the black community that are not understood," Baker said.
"Events like this make people ask the questions as to why things happen rather than just making judgments with
-out knowing the facts."
There was a panel of distinguished figures from the Howard and black com-munity, including Dr. Clint Wilson and Dr. Rochelle Ford, professors in the School •
of Communication, Carla
~railey, who serves in Mayor Adrian Fenty's cabinet as the director of boards .and' com-mission, and Sloane Signal, a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Members of the panel,
ranging in expertise, addressed the controversial .
questions asked by Baker.
.. , They answered questions
. regarding stereotypes of how
. the media portrays a beautiful black woman.
"Advertisers are lot>king for a certain type of women to sell their products t.o
consum-ers," Ford said. "The first ads of black people were slave ads. Aunt Jemima syrup was an image, and today that image has changed. She no longer
has natural hair. She has a set
and perm. It's all about the·
tilnes."
She continued,
"Essence models are usually
Eurocentric-looking black
women with few exceptions."
Brailey identified the three different types of women that are portrayed in the nledia as the Jezebel, who is seen as very loose like Beyonce' Knowles, the Sapphire, who takes over the man's role and does things
women are not supposed to do such as Condoleezza Rice and the Mammy, the women who has her sexuality stripped fro111 her and has absolutely no sex appeal.
The panelists agreed that it is hard to think of a modern Mammy.
Baker askea the pan el-ists a controversial question in relation to hip-hop and its
subjugation of black women.
"Music videos are the backbone of BET," Wilson said. "When people who do not know much about the black community think of black women, they think of the music videos and that is the only image they have."
He continued, "I'm con-cerned that we have become unable to distinguish the dif-ference between the black woman in the videos and the beautiful black women on Howard's campus. Even in video games, 80 percent of
the time black women play insubordinate roles and are subjected to abuse and vio-lence."
. Wilson said that until the people take a stand and say they are not going to watch the videos or buy the music,
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the medi9 is going to
con-tinue to portray black women in degrading ways.
Baker questioned the panel on how the black coin- ·
munity should go about
changing the views of black wo1nen in society.
· "A woman's sexuality is
her own. Women may use
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theirs in ways that we don't
agre~ with, but it is still theirs," Brailey said. "It is not for a man to take when he wants it. It is crucial that men understand that, and having
respec~ for black women is not a choice black men have but it is an obligation."
Brailey also stressed the importance of a village, which means that a comn1unity rais-es a child not only the par-ents.
The discussion ended with students taking the floor and posing their opinions and
'
questions.
A student who was raised in England suggested that the way to open people's minds and get them to understand how they should go about representing themselves
is through knowledge and expanding their horizons to other cultures.·
"The event was very inter-esting," junior pre-physical therapy major Andrew Carter said. "There are things th,at
we don't think about when we address the black co'rnmunity. Black wome1,1 are precious and need to be portrayed in a better light. I believe that it comes 'from within our com
-munity. We can't blame the media for everything."
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In Burr Gymnasium. The event, which lasted from 7 p.m. to midnight
featured Caribbean food, dancers and models. Music was provided
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by the Basement Knok'ers. Organizers thanked
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came
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out to the event. They plan to hold the event again next year.
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FEBRUARY23, 2007
CapComm
Challenges Students
Black History Profile:
BY TRAVER RIGGINS
HJ/flop Steff Writer
Since i990, capComm has been working with advertising
and public relations majors in
the School of Communications
to provide students with the work experience of a real adver-tising firm.
The agency, which is run by
graduating students, focuses on providing students with
entre-preneurial skills and hands-on
experience through their
inter-actions with various clients. "It's very good because we actually each have a real client
and real money we're working
with," senior public relations major Jazmine Williamson said.
An account supervisor leads each group with subcategories
under it.
"A creative team and produc-tion team is made up of adver-tising students and they make up the logos and the print. The media relations tean1 responsi-ble for getting advertisements in
The Hilltop and other papers,"
said Bianca Williams, a senior
public relations major.
This semester, students
are working in groups with the Washington Post, Jumpstart, the International Anti-Counterfeiling Coalition and the Congressional Black caucus Foun?ation (CBCF).
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Morehouse, Bowie, Spelman and Fisk have hopped on board the initiative to educate 18-24 year olds.
"We have a lot of health
dis-parities within the black com-munity and this is a creative way to tackle them," said Lisa F.ager,
CBCF program director.
Student firms are awarded grants to accomplish their tasks.
"We know that HBCUs don't
usually get the opportunity to get a lot of grants and that's why it's important for us to reach out to these universities and colleges," Fager ~aid.
T.:e CapComm group has a $20,000 budget to work with to
get their message out. •
Solomon G. Brown
BY CHARLOTTE YOUNG
II/top Staff Wrlter
Deep in the history f Southeast Washington,
.C. lies the story of olomon G. Brown.
Known for being the
1rst black 1nan to work t the Smithsonian
muse-1ms, Brown, \~as born a ree man in the District
round 1829.
Brown was one of six
hildren. v\Then his father ied in 1833, Brown was nable to attend school hile s'upporting the fam-'ly.
Pboc.o tol.lrtH)' of ~darchh·f'.s.a;i.tdu
Students in the class are
divided into groups of about seven students. Each group is
assigned a client that they must work with to deliver the message
the client wishes.
The CBCF group has been
assigned the multi-tiered task to increase tobacco awareness in the black community along with the ·
African American Partners for a Tobacco Free Society's D.R.0.P. Squad. Other HBCUs such as
"The money is going to be used for basically building aware-ness around the community and campus," Williams said.
This includes smoke pre-vention.
But being determined o learn, he educated
him-elf.
From 1852 to 1906, rown remained in constant ervice to the Smithsonian.
Solomon G. Brown, the first black man to work for the
Smithsonian, spent 54 years In the museum system.
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CapComm is an advertising and public relations agency working In conjunction with the School of Communications.
"We want to just niake young people aware that, it sounds kind of cliche, but smoking is not cool," Williams said.
Williams said OlpComm has planned three social mixers at Cloud nightclub so, "people
can
see that you can be socialwithout smoking."
Also in the plans for aware-ness is National Kick Butts Day on March 28. On this day, the CapComm group
will
have stands with informationallit-erature, blood pressure testing and perhaps giveaways.
The Hilltop will feature stories on subjects from smok-ing in the workplace to African-American directed advertising of tobacco products in a six week
series in cahoots with CBCF and CapComm.
During his 54-year enure at the Sn1ithsonian, rown worked in many apacities.
In the Smithsonian nnual reports he was list-d as "Clerk, In charge of
ransporta tion."
He was a general aborer and built the cases or exhibits, n1oved and leaned furniture and elped with the prepara
-ion of maps and drawings or the lectures held at the
mithsonian.
But Brown's work
id not stop with the mithsonian.
He also worked in the nternational Exchange
ennce.
Because of his years spent at the Smithsonian, Brown was able to gaii1 knowledge in natural his-tory.
He became so knowl-edgeable in the field that he gave lectures on natural histo1y.
Bro\m frequently gave lectures among scientific societies in the District, Baltimore and Alexandria, Va.
He was also a poet and bad several pieces pub-lished in the Washington Bee, a popular black news-paper at the time.
From 1871 to i874, Bro\m served three con-secutive under one-year terms the Territorial
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Government of D.C. asmember of the House o Delegates.
In his community Brown was also known t
·be an activist.
He founded the Pionee Sabbath School and wa the superintendent of th
North Washington Missio
Sunday School.
Brown also serve as one of tie trustees fo Wilberforce University.
Bro\m spent tl1
rest of his days in th Anacostia neighborhood o
Washington, D.C. with hi wife Lucinda. He died at hi. home in June i906.
Alumna and Drumm
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Cora Dunham Rocks
the Super Bowl
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BY MERCIA WILLIAMS-MURRAY She said that she was
Hilltop Staff Writer able to network with a lot
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Cora Dunham, a 1998
alumna, said her time at Howard opened her eyes to
a different culture she had never been exposed to known
as "the Black college experi-ence."
of knowledgeable people
and met a lot of people who remain good friends of hers to. this very day.
However, the time·
she spent in the Howard
University Jazz Ensemble, in the marching band and in the
l'boto Coul'1ts) of Dana ~lofJtDn Howard alumna Cora Dunham has performed with Prince
and music producer Will.I.Am. from the Black Eye Peas.
concert band best prepared her for her current position as R&B and rock icon Prince's drummer.
Even though she became very active in Howard's music department and also partici-pated in American University's orchestra, Dunham did not start off on this path.
Coming to Howard
short-ly after her mother died: Dunham joined the diving team.
"I couldn't stop beating on things," Dunham said.
After the professor who oversaw the marching band told her she should join the team, she made the decision to commit to music.
Dunham tried to be a part of every ensemble that she could, but said prioritizing and focusing on music did not take a lot of work.
"The more I performed,
the more I wanted to per-form," she said.
As in college, her career
path after graduation was not
streamlined towards music. She moved to Los Angeles and
started teaching and n1entor-ing children at a community center. She was performing, traveling and touring
sporadi-cally with musicians.
Although none were as acclaimed as Prince, one big name she played with was pop and rock singer Pink best known for her songs "Stupid
Girls" and "Get The Party Started."
About two years ago, Dunham said, "[Prince] and [jazz vocalist] Rachelle Ferrell came to a gig I w'as doing in Los Angeles."
Dunham said she and Prince talked to one another
for 20 minutes before he left. His assistant approached
her shortly after and said that Prince wanted to buy her tbe drum set of her dreams.
About . five weeks later, Dunham called to thank Prince for tl1e drums. At the time, she and her husband, who was her boyfriend then and Prince's bassist, Josh Dunham were rehearsing for a concert in Japan. Prince invited the couple lo a party and Dunhan1 sald everything evolved from there.
In addition to working with Prince, Dunham is doing
some work on the side, but
says that being in Prince's band is a pretty large
comn1it-ment. Dunham writes music
and is also working on a book that is geared towards high
school students.
Dunham works primarily in Las Vegas, but travels inter-nationally and experiences
diverse cultures often.
She said recently Michael
Jackson catne to one of her
shows. She has also met Queen Latifah and played with Black
Eyed Peas star Will.I.Am. Even with the constant contact with celebrities and
trav~ling the world, Dunham
said the best part of her job is working with her husband.
Just a few weeks ago, Dunham played during
half-time at the Super Bowl.
'"You know, [playing dur-ing the Super Bowl half-time performance] wasn't bad. Josh [and I), we were
laugh-ing. It felt like college again, being out on the field. I wasn't nervous, it was more exciting
tl1an anything."
In the future, Dunham
said that she would "like to
continue to play, continue to do a lot of performances,
con-tinue to record and write."
Haitian
Student Association
body at Howard University.
1 - - - o u r mission is to promote, The Haitian Student
Association (IISA) is an orga-ni:r.ation designed to address the needs of the Ha\tian stu-dent bod) at Howard.
1t was created in 1983 in response to specific prob-lems and issues confronting Haitian Students and the
Haitian Conununity.
HSA is one of the four international clubs on cam-pus, with the Caribbean Students Association, the African Students Association and the French Club being the other three.
HSA President Lily Doxy said, "The organization strives to represent the inter-ests of the Haitian student
sustain and increase a better understanding of Haiti, its people and its culture."
She adds that the
chal-lenge of this organization is to sensitize and inform lhe public of the truth about Haiti and to debunk the neg-ative myths and cultural ste-reotypes that currently exist.
HSA historian Cedric Loiseau says, "[HSA] was the first organization I
joined when I got on cam
-pus because I grew up in a
Haitian household. HSA is
home away from home." HSA Treasurer Theresa
Fortillus said that because there are not a lot of Haitian people in the District, HSA is a good way for students
from a Haitian background to get together and socialize.
Of the organization, she says, "That's my peoples."
Fortillus adds that at the
same time, there are a lot of students of Haitian descent
who do not participate is HSA because they feel that
it is their parents who are
Haitian, not them.
Loiseau says that although lhe organization
has not done much in the past, everyone in HSA is working to change that now.
As for recent activities,
HSA held its first date
auc-tion called "Fantasy Island"
on Feb. 12.
In the auction all of the
participants worp masks to
conceal their faces until they were sold.
For upcon1ing events,
RSA will have a panel dis-cussion on Haiti·s place in the Caribbean with Gregg Carr, Ph.D., a professor in
the African-American stud-ies department.
Other professors from
Howard will also participate
on the panel.
Fortillus said in a recent panel, two professors talked to the organization about political issues that Haiti is facing, as well as the work
they have done in Haiti to
itnprove the environment, such as building schools.
According to Forlillus, HSA will be going to a
nation-al conference that features
HSA chapters from different colleges and universities.
Doxy said the
organi-Photo Counl~:.> or '~~""'rar:>Afron1.rom
The Haitian Student Association are planning a
discus-sion panel to discuss Haitian and African Influence.
:tation is in the process of tant role they have played in
putting together its Yery first black history. He said that
fashion show too. it was Haitian people who
Loiseau added that a set the blueprints for revo-lot of people make fun of lutions against oppressed Haitians and their culture blacks throughout the world
but·do not realize the impor- lo follow.
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Coca-Cola
to Include Caffeine lnformcition on Cans
BY AMBER ENGLISH
Naffon and World Frlttor
In the midst of increased awareness of caffeine
con-stnnption, the Coca-Cola
com-pany announced iliis week tl1at it will unveil new cans detail-ing ilie caffeine content of its
soft drinks.
The nutritional labels will include the exact amount of
caffeine in each serving. They will be unveiled on Coca-Cola Classic packaging in May, and •Nill expand to Coca-Cola's oilier brands throughout ilie year, according to a press release by the Coca-Cola
com-pany.
This information is already included on ilie pack-aging for boili of Coca-Cola's energy drinks, Full Tluottle and Enviga.
This is an expansion of Coca-Cola's "continued com-mitment to expanding nutTi-tional labeling."
Currently, soft drink man-ufacturers are only required to provide_ basic nutritional infor
-mation on tl1e packaging.
The Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers caffeine as "safe for all consmners, including chil-dren." .
Despite the approval of the natipnal authority on food and beverage safety, health
advocates question ilie healili
effects of caffeine consump-tion.
One of ilie biggest argu-ments has been tl1at ,caffeine is
addictive.
However, various healili organizations have released findings whicl1 say oilierwise. These groups include ilie
World Healili Organization and ilie American Psychiatric
Association.
Scientifically, caffeine is considered a mild stimulant.
Starting In May, Coca-Cola will begin noting cafflene
content on Its packaging. Pepsi is expected to follow.
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In 2005, the con1pany started to label packaging wiili basic nutritional information for boili an eight-ounce serving
and total single-serving sizes.
The Coca-Cola Company
confirmed ilie new packaging
around ilie same time PepsiCo
announced that its new energy
drink, Diet Pepsi MAX, will hit
stores in June.
Though people may enjoy drinks wiili caffeine in iliem, if
they choose to stop consump-tion, t11ey do not experience the physical wiilidrawal asso-ciated wiili stopping ilie use of oilier addictive drugs.
Of even greater concern, however, are ilie additional
contents in soft drinks, includ-ing ilie caloric content and High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).
officially considered safe by ilie FDA, it raises concern in
terms of· ilie risk for Type 2 diabetes.
However, in oilier parts
of ilie world, ilie reaction has been more severe.
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The new drink will have
zero calories with an extra
boost of caffeine and ginseng
for energy, according to the PepsiCo Web site.
As listed on the Coca-Cola Web site, HFCS is a sweetener used in most soft drinks iliat
are not diet.
In the United States, some
school districts have even gone
so far as to ban soft drink machines in schools.
Others have simply made it
a point to make other alterna-tives, such as juice machines, available.
In Thailand, nearly 600 schools banned soda and oilier sugary drinks in an effort to
curb rising rates of childhood
obesity, according to ilie Korea
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In regard to the caffeine
labels, analysts expect PepsiCo to follow Coca-Cola's move.
''We've
Got Issues ...
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Funding
for HIV/AIDS
'"We've Got Issues ... "
will
appear
in The Hilltop every other Friday.
Produced in part
by
Project
Voice,
"We've
Got Issues
...
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look
at
a
particula
r
topic that is pertinent
to the black community. It will
also
present
the
basic
facts
and
the perspectives of the conservative
and liberal wings. Then it's your turn:
after reading both
perspectives, tell us what YOU think.
Issue:
According to t11e Department of Healili and Human Services, in 2004, blacks accounted for jusf i2.2 percent of the U.S. population, but made up
49.3 percent of estimated new AIDS cases. The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, passed in 1990, is a federal legislation that addresses the health needs of persons living witl1 HIV iliat have previously gone unmet.
The CARE Act was named after Ryan White, an Indiana teenager whose courageous struggle wiili HIV/ AIDS and against AIDS-related discrimina-tion helped educate the nation. Recently, ques-tions regarding its reauthorization surfaced when
la,\makers changed the fonnula that determines resource allocation to better assist rural areas
expe-riencing an increase in AIDS/HIV cases.
Question:
Does
the
Reallocation of
Funds to
Rural
Areas Hurt
Urban
Areas?
Conservative
View:
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The reality is that HIV/ AIDS is being experienced at a greater rate in rural areas. In fact, between 1991
and 1995, AIDS cases rose from 4.9 to 8.8 cases per l00,600, an 80 percent increase in rural areas, according
to ilie Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention. Yet, it took a renewal of the CARE Act to address this shad-owed and often ignored demographic.
The new funding formula, in particular, redistributes funds, not necessarily taking away from regions, but expanding its ability to deal wit11 HIV/ AIDS in oilier areas. Congressma.n Charlie Norwood of Georgia articulated it best when he said, "The money should follow t11e infection .... [and) no one should receive the
short end of ilie stick because of where they live." HIV/ AIDS is not a regional problem, but an.American one that must be addressed across the board.
*These
opinions
are not those of The
Hilltop. Project Voice
is
a
stu-dent organization dedicated to increasing political awareness on
the
Howard
University
campus. For more
information
on Project Voice,
and
to
give
us YOl.)R opinion, e-mail
us
at
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Liberal View:
Eligible metropolitan areas, under ilic CARE Act, were the initial targets of ~1c legislation because of the prevalence
of HIV/ AIDS cases in thei:;e areas. Metropolitan statistical areas witl1 at least 500,000 inhabitants account for roughly
84.5 percent of AIDS cases, according to the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention, where rural areas only accounted for
5.36 percent in 1996.
In considering this statistical make-up and the fact iliat
52 percent of the CARE Act clients were African Americans, it
would seem that urban areas deserve priority. Under the new
formula proposed by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., ilie legislation will potentially move funding from the west and northeastern regions to southern states.
Sens. Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer of New York
opposed the renewal of this legislation as amended, under the impression iliat iliis new formula would cut into ilie services
being received in their dense urban areas, where ilie virus has the most potential to multiply.
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BY ERICA ROBINSON
Hill/op Staff Writer
is used to provide scholarships for those athletes in cheerleading, intra-mural sports and the marching band, as well as to help provide newer facilities where these students can practice. The primary goals of the group are to increase alunmi support and to get other friends and alumni to support the athletic department financially.
HO'W'.ARD UNIVERS
An athletic department cannot be successful without a source of income to provide more opportuni-ties for athletes. The Bison Express, a booster organization of alumni and friends of Howard University atlllet-ics was created in the late 1990s in an effort to support Howard sports.
The organizati0n centers on Howard alumni that are willing to give back to the University and over-all help to contribute to the success of Howard University athletics.
' "You have to get the alumni to understand there is no mysterious oil well of money," Bison Express President John Mercer said. !Vlercer has been preside.nt for the past five years, and his struggle has been to educate the alumni.
Raising money to support the band and the cheerleaders, the orga-nization assures that the best envi-ronment will be provided for student athletes.
The money donated by alumni
The success of the organization is dependent upon alumni's willingness to give back to the University.
"Athletic programs are successful because alumni raised the money," Mercer said. "We [students] have never stepped up to raise money."
If the Howard alumni want to improve anything, they have to put their money up. Mercer agreed that having at least ~.ooo to 2,000 people contribute would be very helpful. He said this could lead to about a million dollars being put into athletics annu-ally plus interest.
With Howard going to the NCAA every year, a support.syste1n can real-ly change the athletic department.
There are former athletes that
are currently lawyers and
doc-tors emphasizing that atllletes can flourish at Howard with the proper encouragement and facilities.
Karen House, the director of the Bison Express, plays a key role in the recognition of outstanding atllletes.
She reestablished what is called
th~ Hall of Fame, which occurs every two years. The program is a full mechanism of the University that highlights the accomplishments of individuals that were superlatives such as the MEAC player of the year. There is a reception with dinner and awards for the star players as
"Athletic programs are suc
c
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because alumni
rai
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have
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well as a recep-tion for the new football coach and the soccer coach.
In all, the organization wants to provide the very best
envi-- John Mercer, President
ronment they can
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Dennis Jolmson, a five-time NBA All-Star guard who was a member of three championship teams, died Thursday after collapsing at the end of his prac-tice session \.\ith his NBA Development League tea1n
,the Austin Toros', according to The Associated Press. He was 52.
Paramedics tried to resuscitate Johnson for 23 minutes before he was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
"He was one of tl1e most underrated play-ers in the history of the game, in my opinion, and one of the greatest Celtic acquisitions of all time," former Boston teammate Danny Ainge told AP.
"D.J. was a free spirit and a fun personality who loved to laugh and play the game. We had spoken at length just the 0U1er night about bas-ketball and his excitement about coaching tl1e Austin Toros," Ainge said.
Johnson was a vital part of the 1984 and 1986 Celtics championship teams and was nan1ed NBA Finals MVP in 1979 witl1 tl1e Seattle Supersonics.
Johnson was tl1e 29th overall pick of the 1976 draft when he was selected by Seattle.
He spent 14 seasons in the league before retiring after the 1989-90 season.
Johnson is survived by his wife, Donna, and three children, Dwayne, Daniel and Denise.
for student atllletes and their coach-es. They also stress the point that they want atllletes to graduate. "\Ve have a responsibility to give back to the school that gave us an education," House said.
To encourage former students as well as friends of tl1e University to give back, there are several new projects in effect. Mercer is working on establishing a media structure to broadcast games on TV and radio. Currently, the organization utilizes Internet radio to reach an audience of about 3,000 listeners.
"We have to work on the physical facilities," ?.1ercer said. He believes better facilities will attract more ath-letes to Howard. He is excited about all tl1e places atllletics go.
'"It's a calculated effort," Mercer said.
Any fans or Howard alumni that are willing to support athletics can be a part of Bison Express and can contribute to the improvement and success of Howard University sports.
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a
112-102 loss to the Houston RocketsWednesday night. After being examined by team physician Dr. Harlan Selesnick, Wade is con-sidering season-ending s11rgery to repair the injury.
Miami's game against Houston also marked the return of head coach Pat Riley from time off for surgeries of his own. Wade's co-star, Shaquil\e O'Neal, also returned to the defending NBA cha1npion Heat recently.
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Sporls Editor
No. 10 Pittsburgh vs.
No. 12 Georgetown - Sat.
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CBSAs March and NCAA tournament time creeps nearer a.nd nearer, there is only one team that has vir-tually secured a spot on tl1e brackets.
The defending NCAA chan1pion Florida Garors have proven that last year was not a fluke, but there are a number of teams still fighting to finish the season strong. 1\vo such teams are the Pittsburgh Pantl1ers and Georgetown Hoyas.
The two teams enter Saturday's contest atop the Big East conference with matching 11-2 records.
The Hoyas are on a 10-game winning streak and return to the District to face
the Pantl1ers at the Verizon Center after a two-game road trip.
Georgetown is only the first of three ranked oppo-nents Pittsburgh will face to finish off their regular sea-son schedule.
In their previous meet-ing on Jan. 13, both teams ca1ne into the game unde-feated, however, Pittsburgh emerged with a 74-69 vic-tory.
In that Pittsburgh Win, senior center Aaron Gray, who sat out the last two games with a sprained ankle, contributed 11 points.
The Hoyas have domi-nated conference Player of the Week titles in the month of February.
This week, junior for-ward Jeff Green was given tl1e honor. He was preceded last week by fellow junior center Roy Hibbert who was named Big East Player of the Week for the second time
this montl1.
My Pick:
Pittsburgh will miss their leading scorer, Gray, if he is forced to sit out again with a sprained ankle. If he does play, his play may still be affected.
The Hoyas are rolling as of late. Their players are stepping up and Coach Jolm Thompson is orchestrating the game plan to perfection.
Georgetown by six. BY ELLIOTT JONES Sporls Editor No.4 NorthCarolina vs. No. 1 Duke - SWl. @ 4
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Not to take any of the credit away from either of these great basketball teams as a whole, but these two dynamic leaders have a ten-dency of stealing the spot-light in most games, espe-cially when the pressure is on.
Since her introduction to the national stage in the 2003 McDonald's High School All-American game, UNC's Latta has staked a
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claim as tl1e besl true point guard in women's basketball in the last decade. She holds many Tar Heel records and is steadily working her wa) up the stat lists for the entire Atlantic Coast Conference.
Latta has led UNC to a 26-2 record heading into this weekend's rivalry game, however, its first loss of the season was at home to the Blue Devils by u points.
Conversely, Duke is fresh off of a 69-57 victory over the defending champi-on Maryland Terrapins on the road. Harding set the tone for her team, scoring Duke's first 11 points and starting the game 8-8 from' tl1e field.
Harding would finish witl1 a career-high 29 points to help preserve the Blue Devils' 28-0 record, the best start in school history.
My pick:
Wilh Duke beating the Tar Heels at Chapel Hill
aided by 16 points, nine rebounds and seven assists fron1 Harding, Latta and the rest of the team would prob-ably love notl1ing more than to return the favor, while also ending Duke's monu-mental winning streak. ·
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STYLE
F EBRUARY23, 2007
'Vagina Monologues'
Coming
to A Stage Near
'U'
BY STACY A. ANDERSON
Copy Chief
An all-black, female
ensemble will perform "The
Vagina Monologues" at U
Street's historic Lincoln Theatre Saturday evening.
The cast members include
erotic book best-seller Zane,
reality TV star Omarosa
Manigault Stallworth, come
-dian Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
from "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," Sister to Sister
Magazine publisher Jamie Foster Brown, actress Vanessa Bell Calloway of "Biker Boyz,"
Radio One personality Jeannie
Jones, talk show host Rolonda
Watts and singer Tanya
Blount, best known for her 1993 remake of "His Eye Is On
The Sparrow" with then Uttle-known artist Lauryn Hill.
The show, which is
pro-duced by Los Angeles-based
YettaYoung Productions, is
an adaptation based on Eve
Ensler's winning Broadway
play.
Ensler developed the play
after interviewing more than
200 women about their body.
"It's literally about the
vagina, but don't let that scare
you," said Yetta Young, the
show's producer. "We talk
about tl;tings we think about,
but are afraid to talk about.
Or, it's what they talk about
with their friends and sister
circles."
Young said the play covers
every aspect of female life with scenes depicting childbirth to orgasms.
Other serious topics are
addressed in the show, like
one scene titled "Under the
Burqa" that examines the life
of women in Afghanistan and
"what it's like to live under
that dark piece of cloth an the
time," Young said.
The cast is directed by
Erma Elzy-Jones, whose
television credits include
"Girlfriends," "That's So
Raven," "Moesha" and "Sister
Sister."
The production is raising proceeds for V-Day, an
initia-tive to prevent abuse such as
rape, incest, battery, genital
mutilation and sexual slavery
toward women and girls.
The event will also ·
ben-efit the Rebecca Project for
Huqrnn Rights located in the
District, which helps to
reha-bilitate women leaving the
prison system.
In addition to local
charities, V-Day supports
LEMUSICA in Mozambique.
The organization, which is
named after an African
acro-nym meaning "rise up woman
and take your path," fights
against domestic and sexual
violence against women and children.
Watts, who hosts a
week-day radio show at \'l'WW.
radiorolonda.com, will play a
humorous 72-year-old senior
who is naive about her own
body.
"It's an honor and great
opportunity to do this,
espe-cially when so many women
and young girls around the
world are in need. It's an
important, tremendous piece,"
Watts said.
The Washington, D.C. pro-duction of the play also marks the debut of Young's version
on the east coast, thanks to
cast member and author Zane,
who asked Young to bring the
show to her hometown. Zane has penned nine N•'W York
Times best sellers,
includ-ing "Addicted" and "The Sex Chronicles."
Young said the
adtli-tional support from sponsor
Phytospecific also made the
show in the District a reaUty.
She is currently seeking
sponsorship to take the show across the country to top black markets like Detroit, Chicago,
Houston and Charlotte, N.C.
Young first produced the
play with an all-black cast
in 2002, starring comedian
Mo'Nique, actress Wendy
Raquel Robinson of CWs "The
Game" and Calloway.
The historical production
raised more than $13,000
for two Los Angeles women's
shelters.
The second edition of the
play the following year starred
comedianSommoreof"Queens
Counselors
Claim to
'Cure' Homosexuality
BY MONICA HARRIS
Hilltop Staff Writer
Today there are varying opinions about what
homo-sexuality is and whether it is
a permanent way of life, or if one's sexual orientation can
change at will.
The debate questions
whether one is born gay or if one becomes homosexual as a
result of the environment. Famous evangelist Ted
Haggard resigned in November
as president of the National
Association of Evangelists and
was forced out of his position
as pastor at New Life Church of
Colorado Springs, Colo. aft:er a
former male prostitute alleged
that the two had a three-year
long "cash for sex
relation-ship."
Haggard did not deny the
allegations but admitted to tak-ing part in what he describes as
"sexual immoraUty."
Recently, Haggard entered
a three-week long therapy program to become straight.
A counselor who oversaw
Haggard's progress, Rev.
Tim Ralph, now claims that
Haggard is "completely
het-erosexual."
The American
Psychological ' Association
made stated that, "It has been known for over three decades
that homosexuaUty is not a'
mental illness. Medical and
mental health professionals also know that sexual orienta-tion is not a choice and
can-not be altered," according to
All psych.com.
Steven Caldwell, a junior
film production major and
a member of the 'Bisexual,
Lesbian, And Gay Organization
Of Students At Howard (BLAGOSAH) disagrees with
the claim that sexual
orienta-tion can be altered through counseling.
"If you are truly gay or
lesbian and not simply experi
-menting, then there is no way
to 'change.' Just like your race, you cannot stop being a
homo-sexual. Homosexuality is not a choice," Caldwell said.
Despite the beliefs of most
psychologists who say that
gay to straight counseling is
not only ineffective but
poten-tially harmful, there are still
scores of organizations that pride themselves on
suppos-edly being able to accomplish
such a feat.
One group 1s The
International Healing
Foundation in Bowie, Md., a
non-profit established in 1990.
The organization offers heal-ing seminars, teleconferenc-ing classes and literature such
as "Practical Exercises for Men in Recovery of Same Sex Attraction.''
The International Healing
Foundation also offers
coun-seling training programs for therapists, clergy and
minis-try leaders who "wish to assist
those going through unwanted
same sex attraction (SSA)" as
the Web site for the
organiza-tion says.
The organization views homosexuality as a mental
ill-ness and claims that there are
numerous causes of SSA.
"I don't think that gay
people can turn straight from
some counseling. Once you
cross that line, that's it, there's
no coming back," said David Zuber, a freshman accounting
major. "I don't think [gay
peo-ple] are born that way though.
I think [gay people) become
that way from their
environ-ment."
BLAGOSAH member
and freshman English major
Meilani Clay says the notion
that gays can change through
therapy suggests ·that
homo-sexuality is a mental issue or a phase.
"Homosexuality is not
about what you do, it is about
who you are . . Jt is ridiculous
to claim that counseling will
make someone 'straight' and
it is ridiculous that in this ~ay
and age such a claun is still
being made because of
preju-dices people still hold," Clay
said.
As of now, there is no way
to measure change in sexual
orientation or lack thereof,
so tl1e validity of counseling
remains questionable to many.
The debate about whether homosexuality Is Innate or if it is a learned lifestyle was fueled recently by Rev. Ted Haggard.
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After a two-year hiatus, the
show returned in 2005 with a
cast of TV show host IyanJa
Vanzant, Vanessa Williams
of the Showtime "Soul Food"
series, Terri J. Vaughn of
"The Steve Harvey Show" and Stickney.
YoW1g said she hopes the
play empowers viewers and
makes them more comfmtable
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"We need to keep talking
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The Mammy Effect in Hollywood
As the black community
anticipates the 79thAcademy
Awards this Sunday, we have
to take into consideration
the images that are released
and accepted in mainstream
entertainment. Although
it
most likely will not garner
any Oscar attention because
it is a low-brow comedy, "Norbit," starring Eddie
Murphy, opened
in box offices two
weekends ago to
erinarian and a university professor, respectively.
But the problem did not
start and does not end with
Murphy.
Many successful actors of
our time have had to emascu
-late themselves in roles that
helped their careers.
Jamie Foxx, who became the second African American
Our View:
African-American woman.
It will only change if more
directors, writers and
pro-ducers who make these
deci-sions are African Americans
strong enough to.portray all
African An1ericans in a
com-plete and accurate light.
$34.2 million in
ticket sales.
The role of
Rasputia, the
central
charac-ter who roman
-tically pursues
Nor bit, is cr
e-ated around
the same image
Spike Lee's first movie,
"She's Got to Have It,"
intro-duced Nola Darling, who
was an assertive,
successful and
beau-tiful young
African-American woman in
control of her sexual
Playing the role of the
ma1n1ny only serves to
per-petuate negative stereotypes
about black wo1nen and the
destiny.
Sana a Lathan,
a graduate of Yale's
School of Drama,
usually takes roles
of successful,
lev-elheaded
African-African-A1nerican co1n1nunity
as a whole .
American females likein "~rown Sugar" and
"Something New."
many Afric
an-American actors and actresses have
throughout history
mammy.
played
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Rasputia is another
exan1ple of the heavy set,
simple and insolent
African-American female that has
been the main image of the
African American woman
conveyed in the mainstream
for years.
The plotof"Norbit" corn es
from the same mind that
came up with
ground-break-ing films such as "Coming to
America," ''Doctor Dolittle"
and "The Nutty Professor."
In all those movies the main
character has a respectable
occupation; a prince, a
vet-to win an Academy Award
for Best .Male Actor in a Lead
Role in 2005, played Wanda,
a sexually aggressive and
tacky female on "In Living
Color."
Martin Lawrence, Wesley
Snipes and even Tyler Perry,
who has been an influential
director and producer in
Hollywood since his "Madea" movies gained popularity in
2005, have all taken on the mammy role.
Even if film directors,
writers and producers have
chosen African-American
males as the vessel for the
mammy image, it is still an
inaccurate portrayal of the
Since before Hattie
McDaniel became the first
black actress to win an Oscar
for Best Supporting Female
Actress in a Supporting Role
for Gone With The Wind, the
African-American
commu-nity has had a consciousness
about her role's title.
Booker T. Washington
was the first to introduce
the mammy symbol in Up
From Slavery. So why do African Americans continue
to allow the negative
sym-bols that he introduced to be
the only ones that represent
the African- American com-munity?
Correction: 2/22 Edition
The Hilltop apologizes for a mistake in yesterday's article titled Meridian Students React to UGSA Poster Prank.
The article incorrectly stated a smoldering poster set off fire alarms on the fourth floor
of Meridian Hill dormitory. No fire alarms were triggered, however.
Again, we apologize for this error.
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