As a glimpse of color sprinkles the grass, notifying us that spring is rapidly approaching, students at Howard University begin to prepare for ResFest, a weeklong, inter-dorm competition held every year during the spring semester. Anticipation floods the halls of each of the university’s residence halls as the posters reveal this year’s theme: 2010 Olympics. The seven-day, student run festival is known particularly for its dance competition and step show.

“This year we encourage students to support the other events as well,” said Grace Lowe, a senior marketing major and one of the coordinators for this year’s festivities.

ResFest is comprised of a series of competitions between teams formed by representatives from each of HU’s seven dorms, and allows students to take a break from their everyday routines and studies. ResFest encourages students to exercise leadership skills and teamwork in a fun setting, in addition to receiving 10 RSVP points for their participation.

“ResFest gives students the opportunity to exhibit hall pride and develop camaraderie amongst peers,” said Marc Lee, dean and chairperson for this year’s ResFest competition. “It allows students to socialize with other dorm-mates that they may have not have met. It gives the different dorms a sense of community spirit.”

This year’s coordinators are chairperson Grace Lowe, co-

chairperson, Olivia Robinson, and logistic coordinator Alibia Henry.

“Things are going to be slightly different this year,” Lowe said. “We wanted to add a creative twist. Instead of Taboo, we are going to host a game of Family Feud, ‘Howard Style.’ It is a spin on the popular television game show centered on Howard University trivia. Also, students began the celebration early with Recyclemania, a competition between residence halls to encourage recycling,” Lowe said.

Lowe continues, “My favorite part of ResFest isn’t a specific event. It’s actually the spirit element of the entire week. Although normally unlikely, you may see a senior throwing up the Quad sign, and that doesn’t just mean the dorm, it symbolizes something significant in their

experiences while residing in that particular dorm.”

Lee differs in opinion when it comes to favorites. “My favorite event hands-down is the Academic Debate,” he said passionately. “It allows us to see from freshmen to seniors, the intellectual capacity of our student body. This year’s judges for the 2010 ResFest Academic Debaters are Gil Robertson, Dr. Whetsel-Ribeau, former president H. Patrick Swygert, and Dr. V. Nenaji Jackson.”

The Academic Debate is today in the School of Business. The dance competition will be held on Wednesday, April 7, Burr night is Thursday, April 8, and the Step Show will be on Friday, April 9. These events will conclude this week’s festivities, and all three will be held in Burr Gymnasium.

This past weekend, a team of four Howard students from across the university participated in the 2nd Annual Great Debate in New Haven, Conn.

The event, which was sponsored by the New Haven Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), branched out this year to include four teams as opposed to the two that competed last year.

New to the exhibition this year were teams from Columbia and Hampton University, while the returning teams were Howard and Yale Universities.

Max Webster, a sophomore political science major at Yale University said that on stage it was “very comforting knowing that the audience would be receptive of what I [was] saying.”

Nate Parker, an actor in “The Great Debaters,” hosted the event and said that he was “here because this is where God ordered my steps to be.”

“I was thoroughly impressed by all four teams,” Parker said.

“These are the minds of tomorrow debating the issues of today that could become the problems of tomorrow, and I am just really blessed to have been a part of this,” Parker continued.

The topics for the evening had been chosen in advance, and the teams were granted the opportunity to prepare arguments.

Starting the night off,

senior legal communications major Andrew Jones correctly called “heads” on the coin toss, giving Howard the opportunity to choose whether to argue the affirmative or the negative.

The topic presented was

whether the United States should or should not incorporate universal health care.

Howard took the affirmative, or the government stance, and argued that the United States has an obligation, according to the

Constitution, to provide health care to all citizens.

Yale, the opposition, argued that universal health care would prevent competition among health care providers and give the government a monopoly on the

industry.The next topic was on the

legalization of marijuana. Winning the coin toss, Yale decided to take the opposition.

There aren’t many African-American heroes to survive through World War II, racial segregation and combative race riots and to witness the first African American President take office in the United States. However two Tuskegee Airmen can say they have. At the age of 83 and 88 years old, Alex Jefferson and Bill Hollowman have traveled the nation, sharing their personal struggles with racism while fighting for America in WWII. Hollowman and Jefferson are two of the 385 Tuskegee Airmen still alive and are enjoying their time talking to high school students who have never met legendary war heroes.

Today Jefferson and Holloman will speak in Cramton Auditorium at 7 p.m. The cost for students is $5 and $10 for general admission. These Tuskegee Airmen’s amazing triumph paved the way for former President Truman to desegregate the military in 1948. Ken Buckles, a former high school teacher in Oregon did not know who the Tuskegee Airmen were, but after meeting the war heroes and hearing their stories, he started the “Remembering America’s Heroes-Veterans” tour.

“For the past 15 years, I have traveled with the Tuskegee Airmen to speak at high schools around the state of Oregon. It has been an incredible experience watching the respect and admiration they have received from the students, teacher and local communities,” says Buckle.

For the first time in over 40 years, Alexander Jefferson will be

returning to Howard University’s campus. Jefferson attended Howard University in 1942; however he wasn’t allowed to finish his Master’s degree in Chemistry because he was ordered to pilot training at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in April 1943. Jefferson flew 18 complete missions and was shot down on the 19th. He was captured and spent the rest of the war as a Prisoner of War (POW) at Stalag Luft 3, a camp that housed air force servicemen.

“I’m pretty sure I will not see any familiar faces,” Jefferson said jokingly. “However I am looking forward to meet our nations’ future leaders of Howard University.”

Jefferson will be accompanied by his good friend and fellow Tuskegee Airman Bill Holloman. Holloman not only flew as a Tuskegee Airman, but also for the Air Force during the Korean War and was the nation’s first Black helicopter pilot for the Air Force during the Vietnam War. Currently, Mr. Holloman is the historical advisor for George Lucas’ new movie “The Red Tails” starring Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr.

All proceeds will go to Alex Jefferson and Bill Holloman for a speaking honorarium. Ken Buckle has reached out to Howard students faculty and staff in hopes that no one would miss out on this opportunity. Buckle says that at their age this could be their first and last speaking engagement in Washington, D.C.

“American legends and heroes should be received as superstars wherever they go especially at Howard University.” Buckle said.

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BY COURTNEY JOHNSONContributing Writer

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Howard students, along with students from Columbia, Yale and Hampton Universities participated in the 2nd Annual Great Debate in New Haven, Connecticut. Melech Thomas, Victoria Miranda, Andrew Jones, and M. Daya Bean represented Howard at the debate.

After 35 years of serving on the United States’ highest court, Justice John Paul Stevens an-nounced his plan to retire on Satur-day. Celebrating his 90th birthday this month, Stevens is the oldest current justice.

Nominated as an associate justice on 1975 by President Gerald Ford, Stevens was granted Senate confirmation on Dec. 17, 1975 and has served through seven presiden-cies; the only current Justice to hold said honor.

Many have referred to Ste-vens as a truly bipartisan judge, as he has agreed with and ruled in fa-vor of Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives alike. In a March interview, Stevens an-nounced that he would retire some-time in the next three years, but refused to give a time frame beyond that.

“I can tell you that I love the job, and deciding whether to leave it is a very difficult decision,” he said in an interview. “But I want to make it in a way that’s best for the court.”

Referring to President Ba-rack Obama, Stevens said “I will certainly [retire] while he’s presi-dent,” giving Obama his second appointment to the Supreme Court

in a year.Political pundits have specu-

lated since last year that Stevens would retire when he only hired one required law clerk, as opposed to his usual four. President Obama is being called upon now to make a selection that will uphold the same

ideals that Stevens held in his time on the court; often ruling against his own party in the interest of justice.

“I think we need someone who will step into Justice Stevens’ shoes, who will be very tough on the issues of executive power,” said Democratic Senator Arlen Specter

on “FOX News Sunday.” “A federal court this past week

declared the warrantless wiretap-ping [ordered by the Bush adminis-tration] unconstitutional. I think we need the kind of balance that Jus-tice Stevens has provided to offset the majority on the court, which is

in favor of executive power.”For the past 15 years, Ste-

vens has lead the liberal wing of the court, having the uncanny ability to sway the justices – such as retiree Sandra Day O’Connor – who were in the middle on judicial decisions. Ignoring party lines, Stevens served as the author of most of the rulings that struck down the Bush adminis-tration’s policies on the rights of de-tainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Junior political science major Kimberly Glover believes that in his trend for setting precedence, Presi-dent Obama will appoint another minority to the court.

“From a personal perspec-tive, I would love to see a liberal African American, but at the same time, [the president] is all about set-ting precedence and I believe that the next justice to be appointed will be an Asian American.”

Junior Charles Frazier agrees with Glover, but takes a different outlook on who he would like to see hold the position.

“I can almost guarantee that it will be a liberal, and a minor-ity. Most people think it will be an Asian,” Frazier said. “But, I would like to see someone who is qualified and that is going to represent the law to the fullest. I am a conserva-tive, but I want someone who will do the job right.”

Even though Women’s His-tory Month, a month celebrating the hard work of female pioneers, just ended in March, systematic in-equalities are still relevant in today’s society. According to Grant Thorn-ton’s International Business Report (IBR), a report representing 81 percent of global GDP, “four in ten businesses worldwide have no women in senior management.”

Asian countries lead the way, with the Philippines having 97 percent of their businesses with women in senior manage-ment. Mexico, Russia and Italy were among the countries that experienced a decrease in wom-en.

The U.S. reported a 6 per-cent decrease in female senior managers. The reasons behind these statistics have been argued for sometime, but for Sharon Grant, technology manager at Legal Aid and Defender Law Firm (LAD) of Detroit, this is an age old issue. “That’s still going on. Men get more money and better jobs – it’s part of natural networking.” Grant works for a predominately female law firm and believes that a big factor is the way people bring their counterparts

into management positions – wom-en bringing women and men bring-ing men.

The reasons behind the sta-tistics has been argued for quite a while, with many critics suggesting that women are scrutinized more than men. Even White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, wasn’t exempt from this theory.

Last November, Rogers was

widely disparaged after an unin-vited Virginia couple attended the Obama’s state dinner in honor of the Indian prime minister. By Feb-ruary, Rogers had decided to step down from her position and to ven-ture back into the private sector.

Rogers joined Ellen Moran, Obama’s initial communications di-rector, who resigned from her post three months after the administra-tion began. She was soon seceded

by Anita Dunn, whom also resigned from position seven months later.

“There are a lot of precon-ceived notions that we may not work as hard – it forces us to work harder,” says Candace Smith, junior broadcast journalism major. “I hap-pily anticipate the day when women are viewed as just as capable, if not more than capable than men to handling any task – whether secre-

tarial or in a position as CEO of a company.”

Smith says that she’s noticed how the effects of the real world has even influenced Howard culture. “The stats we see often translate into Howard where we have a 7-10 women to men ratio, but the highest lead-ership positions are currently held by males.”

In an effort to encour-age female students on striv-

ing in the real-world, the Office of the President and the Women as Change Agents will be hosting an event with President Obama’s Se-nior Advisor Valerie Jarrett.

Jarrett will be addressing female graduate and undergradu-ate students on how to succeed not only as women, but also as African -American women. The program is scheduled at 5:30 p.m. today in the Blackburn Ballroom.

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Remove Sanctions Before I Concede, Mugabe says Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has ruled out making any concessions to the demands made by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) until all Western sanctions are removed. Mugabe was referring to negotiations with his coalition partner in Zimbabwe’s unity government, which has been affected by disagreement between the two sides over the sharing of key cabinet posts, President Mugabe’s unilateral appointment of the country’s attorney general and central bank governor, and his refusal to swear-in the MDC’s Roy Bennett as a deputy minister. The ongoing negotiations were jump started by South African leader Jacob Zuma’s mediation visit last week.

Information from www.NewsFromAfrica.org

ICC May Launch Kenya Violence Investigation Soon The International Criminal Court may make a decision early this month about whether to begin investigations into the masterminds of Kenya’s 2008 post-election violence, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Friday. Annan, who brokered a power sharing deal that ended the violence, spoke in Nairobi, where he is brokering unity between the country’s principal leaders, President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who are feuding over the fight against official corruption. Over 1,300 people died and 350,000 were displaced in post-election violence after Kibaki and Odinga both claimed victory in the country’s December 2007 presidential election.

- Compiled by Marquis H. Barnett, Nation and World Editor

BY RILEY WILSONStaff Writer

BY SHELTON J. MURPHYContributing Writer

Senior Associate Justice Announces Retirement Plan

Photo Courtesy of www.wikipedia.org

Pictured above is what is known as the “Roberts Court,” after current Supreme Court Chief Justice William Roberts.Justice John Stevens is pictured seated on the first row second from the left.

The retirement of Justice Stevens will give President Obama the chance to change the political makeup of the Supreme Court

Ode to Sun’s Daughter

Slipped into eternity Looking down Afraid of what’s after now. It can’t be the same as it’s always been, Can it?

Eternity’s eyes Full-flavored reality Tasted in your smile

Say-say, what’s the time? Gotta remove the blinds Get things cooking in the kitchen Spices from the sage Savor the flavor of

Eternity’s eyes Full-flavored reality Tasted in your smile

Glow with a beam on my skin Radiating presence Must be from heaven Who supplied your hue?

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Say-Baby, Touch the earth Kiss of life. Raise the dead Awaken sleepwalkers & daydreamers with Your Eternal eyes Full-flavored reality Tasted in your smile

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“I happily anticipate the day when women are viewed as capable, if not more than capable than men, to handling any task...”

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Gender Inequality Still aReality in the Workplace

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Don’t Forget that FridayApril 9th is the last day to drop a class!

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HU, Hampton, Columbia, Yale DebateHoward’s argument was

centered on the fact that marijuana is less deadly than a lot of legal substances in the U.S. and that keeping it illegal deliberately targets minorities. Yale argued for the decriminalization of the substance, but to leave it illegal and give sanctions for marijuana possession.

Manti Bean, a senior political science and history double major, said that the chance to debate was “a humbling experience because [the team was] not in it for self-gratification, but we were doing it to uplift a community and show the youngsters in our community that it is okay to speak well and not be burdened with ‘talking white.’ It’s okay to have knowledge and to be intelligent.”

The topic for the Columbia-Hampton debate was on whether or not the United States should be a free-market economy, and whether or not the government should put a cap on consumer loans, also known as “pay day lending.”

The team consisted of four debaters, a two-person behind-the-scenes research team, and coach Javaris Powell, who also serves as the head coach of the Speech and Individual Events Team.

Besides Bean and Jones, other debaters on stage Saturday were junior political science major Victoria Miranda and senior communication and culture major Melech Thomas.

“I am grateful to coach Javaris Powell, to my teammates and to the NAACP of Connecticut,” Bean said. Photos courtesy of Ryan Hamilton

Senior communication and culture major Melech Thomas poses for a picture with representatives from Yale, Columbia and Hampton Universities. There was no winner at the debate because it was an exhibition.

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Bernard Hopkins got his revenge on Roy Jones Jr. after 17 years of waiting on Saturday in a 12-round bout between the two middle-age heavyweights. Both fi ghters showed their age in the fi ght, which would have been a blockbuster years ago when the two fi ghters were both in their prime. In the fi rst matchup between the two boxers, Jones delivered punishing blows to Hopkins to defeat him in 1993.

John Wall, Evan Turner, Demarcus Cousins, Wesley John-son and Scottie Reynolds have two things in common: fi rst, they make up the 2010 Associated Press NCAA Men’s All-American basket-ball team; second, none of them will be playing in this year’s NCAA men’s championship game.

The only star power in the Fi-nal Four came from coaches Tom Izzo and Mike Krzyzewski.

In the most competitive NCAA tournament ever, the vast majority of the high-ranked teams were eliminated.

The actual Final Four had two fi ve seeds in Butler and Michi-gan State, a two seed in West Vir-ginia, and a single number one seed in Duke. Now that Michigan State and West Virginia have been elimi-

nated, the two remaining teams are set to battle it out for the NCAA title on Monday night.

Senior radio production ma-jor Malik Washington said he isn’t surprised by anything that has happened, including the overall top-seed Kansas losing in the fi rst weekend.

“These higher seeded teams didn’t take the lower seeds seri-ously,” Washington said. “Kansas didn’t want to start to playing un-til there was four minutes left in the game. If a team doesn’t come to play, it’s not a shock when they lose.”

A new rumor that has been spread all over the sports world is an expansion of the tournament. The NCAA will vote on whether the tournament should be expand-ed from 64 to 96 teams. This is partially a product of the smaller schools playing so well recently.

Senior audio production ma-

jor Emmitt McGee III said this year’s tournament has shown seed-ing means nothing. He hopes it can lead to benefi ts that smaller teams

can use to be more competitive in the future.

“The perception is the well-known teams get more funding than the smaller ones and are therefore better,” Mcgee said. “It’s good these lesser teams are getting some recognition and hopefully they can get more funding to be consistently competitive.”

Ratings are also a concern for the Final Four without much star power to drive the event. ESPN reported on March 31 that CBS is losing money covering the tournament.

Senior psychology major Al-fonso Campbell said he thought the same amount of people would watch the Final Four and will watch the fi nal championship game as usual.

“Hopefully, next year will be different, because I like to see the bigger schools play,” Campbell said.

One team that gave a good showing was the MEAC’s own Morgan State Bears. After beating the Maryland Terrapins in College Park, the Bears won the MEAC for the third year in a row with a 27-9 record.

The Bears took their 15th seed against West Virginia in the fi rst round and jumped out to an early lead before losing 77-50.

Morgan State Head Coach Todd Bozeman said parity in col-lege basketball is why there were so many upsets in this year’s tourna-ment.

“The smaller schools aren’t scared of the bigger schools,” Boze-man said. “Many of the players know each other from the AAU cir-cuit in high school. So the players at the smaller schools are familiar with the players at the bigger schools.”

Tournament Displays Parity in College Basketball

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Duke’s Lance Thomas (above) celebrat-ing after Duke’s victory against West Virginia.

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We throw some of the most infamous parties and events, from the na-tional, grandiose attraction of Homecoming, to the sweaty, $3 house parties we frequented freshman year.

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We enter the university as freshmen, given detailed graduation schemes that come along with expected dates of graduation.

We take all the man-dated classes and strive to complete the recommended

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If you changed your ma-jor, or sincerely had academic or fi nan-cial struggles, we’re not faulting you for being here a couple

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Every time a tele-phone rings that I have to answer, I say a prayer to the Good Lord, that whatever I reply will “be acceptable in His sight.” There are alum-ni in business, government, embassies around the World that graduated from Howard University, who keep in touch with what is happening at Howard University whether it is real or imagined through The Hilltop, and Washington, D.C., USA by calling on the phone to many of us alumni and staff.

When my telephone rang at home at 5:30 a.m. this morning, April 1, 2010, with a colleague in the In-ternational Community ask-ing me what is happening at Howard University, that there is the headline that the University “will cease at noon.” That individual was extremely concerned. They had read about the “defi cit of over Million USA $200

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Does The Hilltop under-stand that many educational institutions have to close be-cause they lack funds?

It is inappropriate for The Hilltop to think that all of the World – all the con-tinents are interested in be-ing “April fools” on April 1, 2010. I am expressing my concern and displeasure that The Hilltop should be allowed

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The Ladies of Alpha Chapter,

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Present:

THE INITIATIVE :

Accessibility for OUR Howard

A Discussion on Handicap

Accessibility

Founders Browsing RoomMonday April 5,

20107:30pm

2010 Sorority of

the Year is…..Stop

by

Cramton and Get

your ticket TODAY

for Bison Ball

2010! See you at

Marriott Wardman

Park at 7:00pm.

Email huexcel-

lenceawards@

gmail.com to

reserve your table.