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Students will be able to graduate in a more timely manner with the cut back in course hours in some schools and colleges on Howard University’s campus.

In the Division of Fine Arts, Department of Music, Chairman Chris Royal said there would be a six to 20-hour credit reduction. This will help students to graduate on time and get rid of courses, such as having to take two physical education classes instead of four.

Royal said it would be a matter of reduction in electives as well. “Four-year programs should take four years,” said Royal. “We want to help the students and they still will receive the same education regardless of the cut in some credit hours.”

The chairman said this is not related to the Presidential Commission on Academic Renewal (PCAR), which deals with how to efficiently go through the process of academic renewal. When the accreditation board visited the Division of Fine Arts, Royal said they gave the division of Fine Arts

the confirmation to cut back on credit hours and modify schemes in the music department.

For some students, the possible reduction of credits is bittersweet. On one hand, students feel relieved from their rigorous course load in the Fine Arts department, but on the other hand, students are waiting to see if the department will actually make a cut in credit hours.

Senior voice jazz studies major Debra Wise said the initial increase in the amount of credits needed to graduate in the Division of Fine Arts is due to their merge with the College of Arts and Sciences (COAS).

“Ever since we were merged, we had to fulfill COAS graduation requirements as well as the Division of Fine Arts requirements,” said Wise. “Some students do not want to fall behind, especially since some music classes are not offered during the summer semester; they keep saying they are going to reduce the credit hours but nothing is finalized.”

Wise said she believes two schemes in the division of Fine Arts, music education and music

business, are the hardest for students attempting to graduate.

Sophomore Victor Young, music education major, said it is hard to keep up with his classes, particularly his music education classes. “There is a lot to be

learned, like learning how to play different instruments, learning how to teach others how to play instruments and eventually how to repair instruments,” Young said. “But, sometimes, they don’t have teachers for some classes.”

“I am grateful for the classes that I have taken this far but…I’m just trying to graduate,” Wise said. “However, I think this can be good for the Fine Arts’ students and make way for improvements in our division.”

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As tours commence on Howard’s campus and administrators prepare to welcome the class of 2014, the senior class of 2010 is attempting to make the transition from undergraduate life to the real world.

To celebrate the great accomplishment of receiving an undergraduate degree, Howard University will hold its first annual Senior Week, April 15-23.

“The goal of this week is essentially a celebration of a senior’s accomplishment in [graduating] from the university,” said Kimberly Williams, senior advertising major and co-coordinator of Senior Week. “It is like a ‘Good Job, pat on the back’ for students.”

The idea was formed last year with the former UGSA administration, but was unable to get off the ground due to issues with funding and other logistics. This year, students chose to present it to the university in full detail, enabling them to receive administrative support and funding by the University-Wide Appropriation Association.

With the help of Ms. Norkia Baker of Student Activities and co-adviser Spencer Chenier, the first annual Senior Week was produced.

Royce Bable, senior marketing major, and Ashley Tannehill, senior public relations major, are also coordinators of the week, along with Williams. Bable is excited for the week, but wants students to take it for more than just a series of fun events. “Being that this is the first senior week in Howard history, this is something we can definitely be excited about,” said Bable. “This just starts the matriculation from being undergrad to becoming an alumni just a little earlier. We want to come back 30 years from now and see that senior week is still going strong.”

The events start on Thursday, April 15, with a kick-off event in front of Armour J. Blackburn Center to promote the week at a glance. Sunday begins the daily

BY LAUREN GASPARDStaff Writer

The 2010 Paul Robeson Awards presented an opportunity for the Howard University film community to remember the past, honor the present and take a glimpse into the future of African-American filmwork.

Just less than 100 student attendees were encouraged to live in the essence of late renaissance man Robeson who paved the way for black actors before Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte. This year, Julie Dash was the key honoree. Dash, director of nationally registered film “Daughters of the Dust,” was recognized for breaking barriers as a black female in film.

More than 15 students were honored in eight categories

including Best Video Public Service Announcement, Best Short Screenplay, Best Actor and Actress, Best Sound Mix and Best Editing, among others.

Alesyn McCall, a senior film production major, won four awards for her short documentary on the Howard women’s bowling team. “It’s a borderline trailer for a bigger project I’m working on,” McCall said. She plans to make a longer documentary about the team’s season.

The short film “Thomas Jefferson” took away the most prizes for a single project. It was directed by junior flim production major Faraday Okoro and produced by graduate student Vincent S. Williams, who won Best Director and Best Short Production and

Producer, respectfully.Son of late Howard

University President James E. Cheek, who shares his father’s

Paul Robeson Award Recipients Shine, Rise to the OccasionBY TRAVER RIGGINSManaging Editor

Changes Lead to Higher Gas Costs

Energy prices are on the rise, and it’s not simply due to increased air conditioning use with the latest heat wave to hit the East Coast. However, that may be one reason why many dorm rooms are still quite unbearable. The principal reason for the increase in prices is due to larger structural changes.

It’s no secret that the economic recovery is upon us, however slow it may be, and with that comes a subsequent rise in energy prices. The stock market is recovering from its freefall two years ago, and just yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial

Average approached the 11,000 mark. Energy prices across the board are following the good performance of the market, especially that of the S&P 500. Oil prices, for example, are up and according to Associated Press, “crude has become a major investment vehicle for financial companies.”

This week, crude oil shot to an 18-month high to above $87 per barrel, which is up from $69 in early February. The gains in oil since that time two months ago, when Snowmaggedon ravaged this campus, is due to optimism that oil demand would increase with a recovering global economy. Yet, American petroleum consumption remains weak.

However, this news has not stopped gas prices from rising.

Gasoline prices have risen 1.2 cents per gallon to national average of $2.86 according to AAA, Wright Express, and Oil Price Information Service. In the past month alone, gas prices have risen about 10 cents, and are up approximately 81 cents from a year ago. The United States Energy Information Administration, a branch of the Department of Energy, reports that early summer gas prices should average out just shy of $3 per gallon at $2.97. They predicted figures would be up from the $2.44 per gallon of summer 2009.

For Ashley Henderson, junior public relations major,

who lives off campus and drives to class, high gas prices are an everyday reality.

“I think gas prices are still high, and after they rose, they never went down,” she said. “I remember when gas was $1.90 to $2.00 a gallon.”

For vehicles that require diesel, as many European imported vehicles and heavy-duty trucks, they will see an increase of 7.6 cents per gallon to a high of $3.02. This will be the first time diesel prices have broken the $3 ceiling since the month of November 2008. The Department of Energy doesn’t expect these prices to get too high, however, and should range between $2.95 and $3.12 this year and next.

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Researchers see soar in crude oil as industry structural changes begin to take place

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Julie Dash, director of “Daughters of the Dust,” was recognized for set-ting the bar for other black women in film. > See AWARDS page 3

Do you remember Pinky and the Brain trying to take over the world everyday? Or how about the original 150 Poke’mon, Doug Funny and his crush on Patty Mayonnaise, or Arnold with his football-shaped head? These were cartoons that the “technology age” generation grew up on and try to find online to watch to their favorite episodes.

Moving forward into a new generation, however, many of those born in the 1990s do not even know about some of what this generation considers classic.

Many have made the ar-gument that the cartoons that this

generation is being raised on do not compare to the cartoons of the nineties.

Junior Erika Bakkar, whose favorite cartoon growing up was “Tom and Jerry,” believes that car-toons today try to do too much. “[Tom & Jerry]” was simple and ev-eryone could understand it…There is no creativity [in the new shows]. Just randomness,” she said.

Bakkar also expressed that the new cartoons that have surfaced are not meant to stretch across gen-erations.

“I love “Family Guy,” but I don’t think little kids should be watching that,” she said.

Sophomore biology major Nate Alabi said that his favorite

cartoon growing up was “Dragon-ball Z,” because “the storyline was amazing and the show was full of action, drama, comedy and sci-ence.”

Agreeing that the cartoons of today are less entertaining and harder to follow than the ones from the 1990s, Alabi said that the car-toons this generation grew up on was more aimed at longevity than the ones running today.

“It had the right balance of fantasy and realistic events. Even to this day I may watch an occa-sional episode,” Alabi said. He also felt that this generation had a bet-ter group of cartoons to watch be-cause there was more of a variety of shows to watch.

According to Listverse.com the most popular cartoon around while college-age students were growing up was “Rocko’s Modern Life.” The cartoon first appeared in 1993 and had three seasons, even though the show ran for more than three years. According to the site, the reason why “Rocko’s Modern Life” was so popular was because it was aimed at kids and parents and found the popular balance to make it suitable for both generations.

Listverse also states that the show was popular because, “the animation was very unique, with no parallel lines, hand painted backgrounds, odd colors, and oddly shaped anthropomorphic animal characters.”

The longest-running car-toon “The Simpsons” is very good at making a storyline that is aimed at parents and children, but it has been running since 1989 with some of the same people on development that have allowed the show to re-main where it is.

However, according to Neils-en ratings, the average run for new cartoons is three seasons. This, compared to a seven season average in 1999. This seems like another indicator that the cartoons of the 1990s are better than the cartoons of the new mellenium.

Last week the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced the updated employ-ment figures. According to the Employment Situation Summary released by the BLS, the unemploy-ment rate remained constant at 9.7 percent, despite a balancing act of losses and gains in the labor mar-ket.

There was also an increase of 162,000 in payroll employment in March, according to the most re-cent BLS report, however the true meaning of this number is being contested by both sides of the isle.

The Obama administration responded to the new statistics im-mediately with Chair of the Coun-cil of Economic Advisors Christina Romer releasing a statement the very same day confirming the posi-tive direction of the employment situation.

“Even after adjusting for the 48,000 temporary Census workers hired and a rebound effect from the February snowstorms, this number suggests an increase in underly-ing payroll employment,” Romer pointed out in her April 2 post.

The administration also pointed out a drastic shift between the first quarter of 2009 and 2010, citing the change from an average job loss of 753,000 per month in the first quarter of 2009 to the now

average job growth of 54,000 per month.

Despite the current eco-nomic turn-around, the Repub-

lican resistance has made claims that some of the numbers may be distorted. The same day the BLS released its report, Fox News re-ported what they termed the “un-der-employment rate,” referring to the discouraged workers who stopped looking for jobs (discour-aged workers are not counted as part of the labor force) and those who are currently working part-time jobs when they sought full-time employment (part-time em-ployment is counted as employed and therefore has no bearing on the unemployment rate). Factor-ing in these two populations, the unemployment rate of 9.7 percent rises to a stunning 16.9 percent.

The state of the job market has been an intensely debated issue as Republicans seek to capitalize on President Obama’s declining popu-larity and Democrats seek to stabi-lize a turbulent Washington.

Though March played host to the largest job growth in three years, it is still clear that both Re-publicans and Democrats remain certain that much more is needed.

Commenting on the culture of anxiety and uncertainty created by the sharp economic downturn, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D, N.Y.) said, on Fox, “Given the number of jobs lost, it’s going to take us a long

time to bring down this very unac-ceptable unemployment rate.”

This long-term battle for job creation is not being helped by the Republican opposition in the view of many Democrats who see their resistance to health care reform and the view that health care reform will discourage hiring as obstructive and uncooperative.

President Obama, during a speech in North Carolina addressed the issue stating, “The worst of the storm is over [still]. Government can’t reverse the toll of this reces-

sion overnight, and government on its own can’t replace the eight mil-lion jobs that have been lost.”

The economy may be taking a turn for the better in general, but it is quite the contrary for young people in the work force. Reuters reports that due to several factors, the older baby boomer generation returning to the work force as well as low-paying jobs to name two, the labor situation is much more bleak for those under 25 in the la-bor force.

According to an Economic

Policy Institute (EPI) study released on April 7, the unemployment rate for those between the ages of 16 to 24 hit a record high of 19.2 percent in September 2009; one out of ev-ery four unemployed people in the U.S. are under the age of 25. The BLS echoed the data, reporting the teenage unemployment rate is more than 25 percent.

The recession may be over, as some claim, but there is still a long way to go before the effects of recovery are felt by all.

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Friday Follies

BY PHILLIP JOHNSONContributing Writer

Photo Courtesy of www.bls.gov

The table above indicates the drastic change in unemplyoment raises in the past five years; through two presidents and very different economic situations. Pundits argue that the change in leadership will help decrease the number.

This illustration demonstrates the widespread belief that Republican politi-cian and previous candidate for Vice President Sarah Palin has always been searching for celebrity as opposed to trying to make a difference in this country.

Where’s the funny?Mrs. Palin has a degree in journalism, and has been working in politics since the 1990s. In her run for Vice President, and subsequent actions, people continued to say that she was only trying to be a celebrity. She now has a reality show coming out on the Cartoon Network. So it really seems as though everyone’s feelings have been confirmed.

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Freedom Blues

How many brown eyes Have gone red

From the blues?

In what syncopated tune Does your soul moan For distant oceans?

In what meter do song birds In your belly sing

Of freedom from lungs and bones?

How many brown eyes Will go red

From the blues?

No space to flap wings Blood boils in this cold Deferred dream cavern

Birds hear palpitating drums above Reborn wishes weep below

Then leap for freedom above

So many brown eyes Must go red Freeing blue

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The Poetry Corner

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Report Releases New Unemployment Statistics

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activities with a special senior chapel service followed by a reception. Monday will be a book drive for seniors (as well as other undergraduates) to give their old textbooks back to the university and the D.C. community.

Monday evening, a candlelight “passing of the torch” ceremony will be held on the main Yard. The class of 2010 will pass the torch to the junior class, and will continue to pass the torch until it ends with the class of 2013.

In addition, fallen Bison, including senior Davon Green-Franklin who passed in a tragic swimming accident during Spring Break, will be honored.

There will be an alumni mixer that will give students a chance to foster new relationships with Howard alumni, as well as other events. Bable is looking forward to the mixer

because of the opportunity it presents for seniors to begin their transition.

“There aren’t many events that we have a chance to do something like this other than Charter Day or Convocation,” says Bable. “This is the opportunity to make these relationships.”

There will also be a variety show, where students will have a chance to express their four-year matriculation through skits, dancing and more.

Overall, Williams feels the best part of the Senior Week festivities is that they are not strictly for the seniors, but for the entire student body and faculty.

“We want to use this time to encourage underclassmen as well,” said Williams. “It’s about continuing success and starting a tradition that can continue for years to come. In order to do that, we want everyone to participate and enjoy themselves.”

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name, won the Sandra Gaines Audience Choice Award in honor of the well-known School of Communications academic adviser who died last spring.

Cheek dedicated the award to his father who established the School of Communications during his

tenure and said his father said that until black people seize the images portrayed of them, “they have no right to sit in a dark room and scream injustice.”

Building up to the awards ceremony, Dash taught two masters classes to undergraduate and graduate students during her week-long visit to campus.

And when she dropped

by Sankofa Café for a talk on Tuesday, she chose to chow down on the Larry Clark sandwich instead of the one that carries her name. Sankofa, which is across the street from the School of Business and owned by professor and director Haile Gerima, names all sandwiches on its menu after black fi lmmakers.

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Fifteen seconds remain on the stop-clock and the competing intramural basketball teams are talking smack back and forth across the paint as a member of the ‘Blue Chips’ take his two free throws.

The shot goes up. He misses. He takes a step back to compose himself as his team members and the members of the opposing team, ‘Scoregasm,’ continue to talk back and forth.

Second shot goes up, it clears the net. Seconds later, his team members jump up for the rebound and begin the fi nal seconds of the fast-paced game that at times was both desperate and dirty.

On Monday, on the lower level of Burr Gymnasium the intra-mural basketball teams of Howard University competed in multiple rounds of street-style basketball to kick off the intramural playoffs.

On the furthest court from any puff of fresh air being circulat-ed by the doors of the gym, teams ‘Scoregasm’ and “Blue Chips’ dis-played an interesting, to say the least, attempt at taking the title of champions of the intramural divi-sion. In the hour-long display of collegiate level athleticism, Score-gasm fell short of victory and lost 37-46 to the Blue Chips.

In the hot and stuffy gym, eight teams played in the quarter-fi nal intramural playoff competi-tion. This Monday and Tuesday, April 12-13, “Docs Dogs,” “Stars,” “Game Tyme” and “Filthy” will

compete to see which two teams will face off in the Champion-ship game to be held in the Main Gym Wednesday, April 14.

Before the 7 p.m. game, Blue Chips team member An-drew Schell, a senior market-ing major, said “Scoregasm? If we don’t beat them by 40, then [the Blue Chips] did something wrong.”

The Blue Chips didn’t hold a 40 point lead at any point during the game, but the fast-paced game certainly kept the crowd of 15 on the edge of their sweat drenched seats, and the team in blue went on to the next round of the playoffs where they lost to Doc’s Dogs.

But, what is a ‘Score-gasm’? And why did this motley crew, comprised of team mem-bers who have graduated and play football at Howard, think they had what it took to go all the way in the intramural cham-pionship?

Patrick Scott, a senior mar-keting major, and member Score-gasm, explained that the team was created after members who played for the intramural football team discovered the opportunity to play basketball in a similar capac-ity.

“We heard about it after the intramural football season and we just wanted to see what it was about. We were just out here having fun and we ended up winning more games than the Howard Basketball team,” Scott said jokingly.

Scoregasm had a ratio of

wins and losses comparable to the Men’s Bison basketball team, as their 4 wins and 5 losses compare to the Bison’s 6-10 conference record and just like the Bison, Scoregasm lost in during the fi rst round of the playoffs. But unlike HU’s men’s team, the numbers don’t matter for Scoregasm, who were pleased as long as their fans were pleased.

“I think the team works well together, because they had relationships prior to forming the

team,” said Datrianna Meeks, a sophomore marketing major who attended a Scoregasm game dur-ing the intramural season. “I only went to support my bro Patrick, but I’d defi nitely go to more Scoregasm games.”

“The name Scoregasm, came to me in a dream; we do this for the ladies,” Scott said. “Our pregame meal is Skittles and Ho-Chi; we just show up to play basketball.”

The team suffered a set-

back this year when the intramu-ral league schedule changed and none of the members of the team were informed, but the team has remained cheerful and plans to re-turn to the paint next year to try at this again.

“We’ve grown together as a team and gotten better as the sea-son has carried out,” Scott said. “We’ll be back to make sure all of our fans get a second season of Scoregasm.”

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One of Howard’s intramural basketball teams, Scoregasm (pictured above), is getting attention from the student body be-cause of their unusual name, as they continue to promote their team around campus.

The Washington Redskins didn’t have the best of seasons, and their (4-12) record in the 2009-2010 season was just an indication of their struggle as a team.

After getting former Philadel-phia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb in a trade, Redskins fans are optimistic that McNabb could be just the inspiration the team needs. With fi ve free agents on their team, the Redskins need stability, and con-sistency to improve their record. Will the McNabb trade be benefi -cial to the Redskins in the future, or did they pick a player who is past his prime?

“They will be a better team, and may make the playoffs. I am slightly upset about the move, be-cause it shows that the Redskins are content with getting superstar play-ers past their prime as they did with Deon Sanders, and Bruce Smith in the past,” said Roland Carter, a se-nior mathematics major. “History has shown that a championship can-

not be bought, you have to build a franchise such as the Patriots.”

Alexander Cruise, a senior bi-ology major from Washington, D.C. is a diehard Dallas Cowboy fan, but stands by the Redskins decision to release Jason Campbell, and pick up McNabb. “At the end of the day, the Redskins, and the Eagles benefi ted from the trade. The Eagles got the opportunity to get a high draft pick, and Kevin Kolb seems like he has potential,” Cruise said.

The Redskins struggled offen-sively throughout the season, but with McNabb on their hands, they could make a turn around for the better. Victor Lumpkin, a junior account-ing major is certain that the Red-skins need more than a new player to boost the morale of the team.

“If the Redskins draft some good offensive lineman they could make the playoffs next season, they have potential to be a better team though,” Lumpkin said.

McNabb has only been with the Redskins for less than a week, but fans are excited and anxious for next season.

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Pro Bowl quarterback Donovan McNabb was acquired by the Redskins this week.

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USC star Cheryl Miller was enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995. After her collegiate career at USC, Miller suffered knee injuries which prevented her from continuing her career. She went on to coach the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA for four seasons and also served as the general manager.

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Thursday marked the much-anticipated release of the 2009-2010 yearbook. Students towed their books to class, fl ipping through pages eagerly looking for fa-miliar faces and events, and hurried to computers to pre-view the attached DVD.

We’d like to offi cially commend the Bison Yearbook staff on their usage of theme and for compiling a DVD that did a great job of chroni-cling the school year.

Fashioned to look like a Mac laptop, the yearbooks were simi-larly packaged in white cardboard boxes with handles, while the books were likewise pristine white, featuring a keyboard and screen simulation on the inside of the front cover.

The theme was not only consistent, but also attractive throughout the book, featuring references to Mac applications like iPhoto for the organizational photo-graphs, and themes for dif-ferent sections such as iWait in reference to our annual long waits in the administra-tion building, and iStyle, in reference to Howard’s noto-riety as a fashion Mecca.

Also, the staff did an excellent job with the newly introduced “Words From the Wise,” a staple that high-lights Howard alumni and their experiences while here at the Mecca.

However, many stu-dents did feel the yearbook was too “organizationally

focused,” which did put a slight damper on our year-book experience.

Although Howard is a very organizationally-driven campus with more than 100 student organizations, many students still do not partici-pate in any of these organi-zations.

This presented a small issue, as the average students may not have found them-selves represented in the yearbook. Instead, fraterni-ties and sororities, as well as

other campus organizations, essentially stole the show.

Furthermore, the amount of errors – includ-ing, but not limited to, dis-placed senior ads, misplaced Who’s Who recipient photos, the lack of page numbers with an index and erroneous captions in the organization-

al photos – put a bad taste in the mouths of some students.

As an organiza-tion that is constantly criticized for errors, which are inexcusable, we are taken aback by such errors from the yearbook staff, who, unlike us, have months to prepare for this one major publication. Still, the Bison Year-

book has come a long way and we are proud to say that this book is, yet again, one of the best we have seen thus far.

Last year’s book, Déjà Vu, was exceptional and, aesthetically, this year’s book surely does not fall short of our expectations. The Hilltop would like to congratulate this year’s Bison Yearbook Editor-in-Chief, Imoni Hampton, and the rest of her staff on a job well-done.

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April 9, 2010

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“It Takes a Village: The Role of the

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“History in the Making:

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The Homecoming

Steering Committee is hiring for the

following positions.

1. Audio Visual

Specialist

2. Web Designer

3. Graphic Designer

4. Vending Liaison

5. Sales Representa-

tive

6. Gospel Coordinator

7. Celebrity Basketball

Coordinator

8. Opera-tions

Manager

9. Treasurer Assistant

10. Interna-tional

Coordinator

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