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TRILOGYA UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLICATION

APRIL/MAY 2011 VOULME XX ISSUE XXX EST. 1977

FOUNDERS DAY:UDCS SYSTEMATIC

DISMANTLINGIs there a word for academic dereliction ofduty? Of course there is - banality. Page 4

Clarence

Tomasmaking alse

nancial

statements.

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SPECIAL EDITORIAL ISSUE | CITY & CAMPUS NEWS |HEALTH & WELLNESS

He will be a fresh voice

that the city needs, keep-ing the city government

honest and account-

able...

Perhaps most notablyknown on campus or co-leadingthe protests o tuition increasesthat erupted in a 2009 in responseto the administrative announce-ment o doubling tuition ees andending open enrollment, Josh Lo-pez is making a name or himsel

as a local political hopeul.

Te movement was successul inorganizing thousands to protestand delay the proposed new poli-cies. As a result o the protests, theadministration opened its deci-sion-making process by adding

more student voices.

Alumnus Running For DC Council UDCs CairoCampus

Lopez served as Ward 4coordinator in Fentys 2010s re-

election campaign. AlthoughFenty loss in the primaries, Lopezlead a historic, Write-In Campaignthat produced nearly 30,000 writein votes according to his ocialwebsite. Te site goes on to sayHe will be a resh voice that thecity needs, keeping the city gov-ernment honest and accountableto the people they represent. A voteor Joshua is a vote or a new voice,with resh ideas and a renewedcommitment to serve. Visit www.

joshlopez2011.com or more inor-

mation.

UDC Flashship not

needed?Statements about how

much no one needs the

UDC Flasgship? Who

knows? I dont

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Sugar is not soSweetRened sugar is hidden ineverything, rom toothpasteto milk to aspirin to breadand ketchup

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

CAMPUS NEWS

INSIDE:OUT

At the epi-center of thetravel cost controversy

of Dr. Sessoms, is on

a trip to Egypt.

He was there on ocial univer-sity business. He had a right tobe there because the Universityo DC has a satellite campus inCairo.

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TRILOGY STAFF STUDENT SPOTLIGHT : Maurice Toyer

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How You Know Him:We rst got to know Mau-

rice as a member o eam 100. He is known or his

help with community service projects and

being active in the undergraduate student

government association and as a team

member on Americorps Jumpstart

UDC team.

His Current Project: Mau-

rice is co-supervisor o the 4.0

Health & Fitness program.

Motto: In order to earn respect,

you have to give respect

In His Own Words: Im the rst [in my immedi-

ate amily] to go to college. I want people to know

black men are serious about education. Tere

are men who are willing to risk their lives or

the betterment o all mankind.

His next move: Im looking into in-

ternships at the EPA.

Meet with Maurice, and the rest of

the 4.0 Health & Fitness team in the

workout room of building 47, every

Tursday at 2:00pm to burn some

calories.

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Roshan Ghimires photo, Glass Cleaner, has beenselected as a nalist or the 31st Annual College

Photography Contest, an annual contest co-spon-sored by Nikon. Nearly 14,000 photographs romall over the world were entered into the contestthis year. Te photo will also be published in thehardcover book Best o College Photography 2011.Glass Cleaner, a portrait o 22-year old Jairo Mena,

is rom Roshans series titled We the CommonPeople. He describes the series as:

Journey of images of common people inAmerica.

Journey to appreciate their works anddedications in America

One morning my own journey starts withlens and a camera.

USGA PresidentInnocent o AllAllegationsVia UDCs depart-ment o Relations& Public AairsWashington,DC On Friday,

March 4, 2011, the Universitys In-ternal Audit Department concludedan investigation o the USGA Presi-dent, Racquel Layne and the specicallegations o the Code o Conduct

violations and misappropriation ostudent ees. Te Internal Auditorsinvestigation included interviews, in-spection o documents, and review oUniversity practices and procedures.

Te Internal Auditor con-cluded that there was no evidence orinormation to support the allega-tions o wrongdoing. Te suspen-sion o USGA activities will be liedeective Friday, March 4, 2011 andall activities will resume on that date.Te matter will be orwarded to theDivision o Student Aairs judicialhearing ocer or consideration andurther handling consistent with theCode o Conduct.

Editors Note Te rilogyscheduled two interviews with Presi-dent Layne but both were canceledwithout notice.

Internal Audit

Clears Racquel

Layne

Phi Eta Sigma Tenants Get Bad VibeFrom Nice Students

CAMPUS NEWS

UDC Student is a Finalist

Annual Nikon College

Photography Contest

Glass Cleaner, Roshan Ghimire

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STUDENT QUICK TIPS

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Information shared will

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SORY CREDI PROVIDED

Phi Eta Sigma Honor Soci-

ety welcomed new induct-

ees on April 4, 2011. Tis

semester student-athletes

Mario Banegas, RichardBarrett, Demia Franklin,

Philip Izevbehai, Carlos

Quiroga, Jasmine Smith and Miguel Uzcategui

represented nearly a third o the societys

new members, according to the atheletic de-

partments website. o qualiy or the society,

prospect must attain a 3.5+ culmulative grade

point average in their rst two semesters o

matriculation. For more inormation contact

the chapter coordinator, Ms. Kendra Greene, at

(202) 274-6897 or [email protected]

Te Northwest Connector paper reports

the universitys dormitories may be in

attack rom the tenants association.

enants eel that the students changethe character o the building although

they were nice people. o try to evict

students, some residents prepared

testimony that cites the Archstone is

not zoned as dormitories, but as apart-

ments. Te university maintains that

its dorms are simply structured living

arrangements similar to those ound at

other universities that also house stu-

dents in the Archstone.


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Without judging the merit o pur-chasing such an expensive airlineticket, the President o UDC hasto appear periodically in Egypt toreinorce organizational ties, to

perorm ceremonial duties andto rally the troops. It is a littleknown act however, that the Uni-

versity o the District o Columbiaactually has a degree-grantingcampus in Cairo, the capital oEgypt. Until the disclosure oPresident Sessoms visit to theCairo campus during testimony ata recent City Council hearing, thestudent body as well as the gen-eral public knew very little o theEgyptian campus existence.

The lack of informationabout UDCs Cairo campus

though, is disturbing.

Te UDC/Egypt aliation is oneo long standing. University oDC students were sent to Cairo ora summer o study in the 1990s.Te lack o inormation aboutUDCs Cairo campus though, isdisturbing. Questions that cometo mind include; 1) how manystudents are enrolled on the Cairocampus? 2) what are the majors

being oered?, 3) is there an

exchange program in place be-tween the two campuses?, 4) whois the Dean/President o the Cairoacility?, 5) how is the programaccredited?, what is the name othe acility and nally, 6) what isthe address/location o the school?Te answers to these and otherroutine questions should be com-mon knowledge within the UDCcommunitybut it isnt.Here is what is known: the nameo the aliate institution in

Egypt is the Modern Academy inMAADI Egypt; there are pres-ently 615 students enrolled; thereare ve (5)dierent ma-

jors: ComputerScience, Electri-cal Engineer-ing, MechanicalEngineering,Accountingand Business Management. Tatsabout it.

Tere obviously is not an

attempt to maintain any sort o se-crecy surrounding the existence othe Cairo campus; its just that thediscussion o it seldom comes upin the context o overall academicprograms sponsored by the Uni-

versity o DC. Whatever the case,not publicizing such a valuableasset is a grievous oversight. Tattactic must be changed immedi-ately.

In the last ew months,Egyptian society has eruptedinto ts o political outrage over

reinstating the rights o its people,relie rom oppressive governmentand an end to crushing poverty.Its sitting president has beenorced to leave oce by massivepopular demonstrations by theEgyptian people and the supporto the Egyptian armed orces. TeEgyptian people are demandingdemocratization o the politicalprocess and a redistribution owealth. In the past, these kind oideas resulted in torture, impris-onment or worse. oday, brutalrepression seems to be a thing o

the past. But, what o Egypts u-

turewho will lead? what modelwill be used?, what structure willbe employed?

It would appear that theUniversity o DC is in an excellentposition to contribute to the re-conguration o the new Egyptianstate. What will be the highest andbest use o UDCs services andconnections in the context o re-constituting the Egyptian nation?Tis question cannot be answeredwith certaintybut surely there

is a role to be played. Tere isperhaps, in the aermath o thepopulist struggle o the Egyptianpeople, a more denitive, interna-

tional, educa-tional role orthe Univer-sity o DC inEgypt. Maybeacilities onthe MAADIcampus will

need to be expanded. Perhaps, un-der a new, more moderate govern-ment, enrollment on the Egyptian

campus will increase. However thepolitical changes in Egypt mani-est themselves, UDCs Egyptiancampus should be ready to pre-pare the new leaders or technicaland entrepreneurial tasks. Teuniversity should never wait untiltimes o trouble to almost make apublic apology or having an inter-national presence.

At a recent HBCU Coner-ence, one o the breakout work-shops was on international/global-ization connections with emerging

markets and the establishment o apresence in selected nations. Aersome discussion o possibilitiesand intentions by the participants,the UDC representative an-nounced that their university hadan active campus in Egypt. At rstthere was an astonished silence,and then a barrage o questions.Te University o DC was the onlyHBCU in the room that had aninternational presence. Tere isa responsibility that comes withthat distinctionit must be usedwisely and productively.

CAMPUS NEWS

Cairo Campus Has Vested Interest

in Stability of Egyptian Governemnt

How many students

are enrolled on the

Cairo campus?

What are the majors

being offered?

Is there an exchange

program in place

between the two

campuses?

Who is the Dean/

President of the Cairo

facility?

How is the program

accredited?, what

is the name of thefacility?

What is the address/

location of the school?

EGYPTIAN

WONDERS

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

?

The university should never

wait until times of trouble

to almost make a public

apology for having an inter-

national presence.


INTERESTED IN THE

CAIRO CAMPUS?

We all are. Dont

be fooled, thiscampus reeks of

laundered money.

Sike?

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Founders Day 2011 at UDC was

an occasion o wrenching irony

had all the pretense o a poorly

disguised wake.

Heres the deal in an email to the appropri-ate VPs, the universitys VP o AcademicAairs announces the dismantling o 10-15major programs. Te rationale these majorshave little job potential or they are consis-tently unsubscribed. Balderdash, nonsense,ridiculous, insulting, condescending. Is therea word or academic dereliction o duty? Ocourse there is, banality.

On the occasion o the 160th anniver-sary o our universitys ounding, the presentadministration proudly and dutiully presidesover its systematic dismantling.

Our founders have to be spinning

in their graves and wondering

why no champion has stepped

forward to stem the bureaucraticacquiescence to virtual

dissolution.

Pride, commitment and institutional mem-ory has to prevail over the vague, but persis-tent, orces o programmatic evisceration.Tere seems to be essentially two rationalesor throwing important programs under thebus: 1.) lack o subscribers and 2.) poor jobprospects in the eliminated major. Considerthe ormer: it would seem to a reasonableobserver that i a program is undersubscribedbut known to be popular and occasionally

viable, it is the responsibility o the adminis-tration o the University to properly recruitstudents to ll the courses and majors. Tisapproach is actually a sophisticated version oblame the victim, and no one is calling theuniversity out on it.

Ten there is the standard, reason o last re-sort or all bureaucracies when they begin tocannibalize themselves budget constraints.Programs are out, and bonuses to adminis-

trators are in. Something is wrong with thispicture.

o the second rationale: poor jobprospects in the major. Tis is one o thesanctimonious dismissals the administratorsare amous or using. It amounts to a breaod,categorical negation o importance o an ideaor issue. Tis is supposed to be no response toa pronouncement because the issuer is au-thorative. Not good. Go to the Department oLabor job outlook site on the web and see ithe majors being recommended or elimina-tion are the weak job prospects the adminis-tration deems that they are, both rationalesare weak and insulting.

Where are our leaders? Is the mayoraware o this situation? Has the City Councilabandoned us? Do we need civil disobedienceto create a orce or political action? Some-thing has to be done and time is running out.


FEATURE

UDC Founders Day,Where are Our leaders?

Headline in Redwhy can I type in here, but not

there?

FROM THE FRONT PAGEHAVE YOU REGISTERED

FOR SUMMER CLASSES?

Visit Building 40 some-

thing in order to register

for classes.

No? Let this year be

different. Plan ahead.

PRE REGISTRATION

DEADLINE:

07/24/2011

SOME OTHER

DEADLINE:

07/24/2011

AND ANOTHER

DEADLINE:

07/24/2011

Tis semester student-athletes Ma-

rio Banegas, Richard Barrett, Demia

Franklin, Philip Izevbehai, Carlos

Quiroga, Jasmine Smith and Miguel

Uzcategui represented nearly athird o the societys new members,

according to the atheletic depart-

ments website. o qualiy or the

society, prospect must attain a 3.5+

culmulative grade point average

in their rst two semesters o ma-

triculation. For more information

contact the chapter coordinator, Ms.

Kendra Greene, at (202) 274-6897 or

[email protected].

Phi Eta Sigma Honor

Society welcomed

new inductees on

April 4, 2011

olu Osanya is now the President, ranesha Christiethe

Vice President, eraesa Holland is Secretary and eresa

Olwit is reasurer.

Te undergraduate student body elected

their SGA executive council April 11, 2011.


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CAMPUS NEWS

By Bakara

Supreme Court Justice ClarenceTomas, who is no stranger tocontroversy aer his nominationto the Supreme Court in 1989, hasound himsel under scrutiny ,once again, or making alse state-ments on each o his AO 10 Finan-cial Disclosure Reports, since 2003(Te Ethics inGovernmentAct o 1978

requires allederal judgesto disclosetheir spousesemployer and non-investmentincome.). Apparently he has beenchecking none in Part III B othe disclosure report or no spou-sal non-investment income, andnot disclosing his wies employers.His reason or withholding thisinormation was due to, what hecalled, a misunderstanding.

What makes this situa-tion even more startling is the

act that letters were written to

amend the disclosure reports andquickly submitted to the FinancialDisclosure Oce, date stampedreceived January 22, 2011. Tisis a Saturday, a day when ederalgovernment oces are usuallyclosed. Te urgency was probablyto mitigate any damage that wouldcome as a result o press coverage.Copies obtained by a watchdog

groupcalledProtect

OurElections(pro-tectour-

elections.org), conrmed thatthey were in act submitted onSaturday, January 22, 2011. Tedisclosure amendments are orreporting spousal income or years2003-2009 and or reporting hiswies places o employment 2009-1989. (http://www.velvetrevolu-tion.us/images/clarence_Tomas-FD_amendments.pd).

Tere is a clause at the

bottom o most government

orms that require asignature to certiythat the inorma-tion on the reportis accurate, true,

and complete to thebest o my [signees]

knowledge. Tequestion then is; hasSupreme Court JusticeClarence Tomasbroken the law andcommitted a crime?According to the U.S. Code: In ILE 18 > PAR I >CHAPER 47 > 1001. FRAUDAND FALSE SAEMENS, itstates in section (a) the ollowing:whoever, in any matter within

the jurisdiction o the executive,legislative, or judicial branch othe Government o the UnitedStates, knowingly and willully(2) makes any materially alse,ctitious, or raudulent statementor representation; or(3) makes or uses any alse writingor document knowing the sameto contain any materially alse,ctitious, or raudulent statementor entry;

According to Te Los An-geles imes, the amount which hehas ailed to disclose in spousal

non-investment income, rom

Supreme Court Justice

Above the Law?

The question then is; has

Supreme Court Justice Clar-

ence Thomas broken the lawand committed a crime?

2003-2009, is estimated to bealmost $700,.000. Puzzling still isthe act that he omitted his wiesemployers, and the organizationshe launched in November 2009,which channels ea Party rheto-

ric. Can citizens expect or believethat impartiality in a SupremeCourt justice and their spousesmean having no political agendaor ideological opinions, or is thata antasy? One thing I do know isthat Justice Tomas is an expert inthe law, who has, inadvertentlyomitted critical inormation ona Federal orm, not once but oryears?Is he is above the law? Is his mis-understanding just an acknowl-edgement o his ignorance? He oall people should know ignorance

o the law is no excuse.

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Declaration of Bankruptcy,

States Shed their Debt

By Bakara

Circling the halls o Congress orthe past two years is talk aboutintroducing legislation that wouldallow states to seek bankruptcyprotection in ederal court. Cur-

rently, laws allows or corpora-tions, individuals, cities and townsto le bankruptcy, but not states.States are sovereignchie lawmaking authority in its juris-dictionwhich would make itdicult, i not impossible or abankruptcy judge to impose termsupon it. As a result, any new lawwill preclude: 1) any person orentity rom orcing a state intobankruptcy and 2) a judge rompersuading a state to change theirspending habits or tax policy

while in bankruptcy. Te verdictis not in as to whether or not the

Constitution allows a ederal courtto reorder a states nances.Working behind the scenes arepolicymakers desperate to developa script which would help statesget a grip on their scal challeng-es, including shortalls in pen-

sion andhealthcareobligationspromisedto retiredpublicworkersand ndingrevenueto supportcriticalpublicservices. With the current budgetshortalls echoing previous years,

states scal conditions remain ina canted rame even in the ace

o an economy moving in thedirection o recovery. With ewescape values, states are orced toweigh the options: 1) drastic cutsin services, 2) an amplitude olayos, 3) signicant tax increases,4) a ederal bailout, or 5) a ederalsanctioned bankruptcy.

Supporters o state bankruptcysee it as the only way or states toescape their massive debt ac ross

the board,with littleimpact ontaxpayers;while somepolicymak-ers thinkthat sincestate gov-ernmentshave theability to

balance their budgets by cuttingspending, cutting services, raisingtaxes, etc...they should not expectWashington to solve their scal

problem.

Public employee unions andnancial experts are both in erceopposition to the idea o a sanc-tioned state bankruptcy. Unionleaders presume that it would beused to strip members o theirpension and healthcare, and togive states leverage over unions.Financial experts warn that itcould wreak havoc on the munici-

pal bonds market, which is viewedby the average American, as oneo the saest investments, in that astate government is never expect-ed to deault on their obligations.

Is bankruptcy an easy solution toa dicult problem? Te risks arehigh but the consequences aregreat.

In theory, a ederal bankruptcyjudge could orce lenders, munici-pal bondholders, annual payoutlottery winners, and retired publicworkers (unions) to settle or less


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What I am a proponent of

is alumni becoming more

engaged in the academic

growth of an institution,

the nancial stability of

an institution, and the

marketing of an institution.


FEATURE

In Decem-

ber o 2010,

I spoke with

and inter-

viewed Jar-

ret Carter Sr.

Mr. Carter

is a graduate

o Morgan State University in

Baltimore and the ounding

editor o HBCUDigest.com, a

air and honest source or allnews regarding Historically

Black Colleges and Universi-

ties. I asked him about his

eelings about the relevancy

o HBCUS and other presently

pertinent questions.

Me: What is your position at HB-CUDigest.com?Jarret Carter Sr.: I am the Found-ing EditorMe: Te questions constantly o-ered by ellow classmates o mine

was the relevancy o HBCUsJarret Carter Sr. : Tere is a mul-titude o reasons HBCUs alwayshave been and likely will be alwayswill be relevant to Arican Ameri-can students ; and to the entireAmerican Education landscapeAcademically, you have a chanceto receive a world-class educa-tion at a relatively inexpensiveprice, which is very important ineconomic times like these. It isnot as i you going to UDC, youreceive any less training than you

will at Georgetown. Te materialis taught by world-class proes-sors who are oen experts intheir eld. Not only that, but theyalso care culturally and indi-

vidually about the success o thestudent(s.). Because the Culture oan HBCU demands that, you pushyour students to be more than ex-cellent just to prepare or a globalcompetitive market.Culturally, I think it is important,even in 2010, that minority stu-dents have the opportunity to goand pursue a degree without the

burden o diversity. What I mean

by that is sinceintegration, it isnot as i whitestudents have had

to go on to HB-CUs; it has been

the other way around. Studentso color have had to go on tocampuses with white classmates,white teachers, white adminis-trators, white aculty, and oentimes you deal with the burdeno cultural disconnects, even inan academic setting. You have toconsider, with unique situationsthat come up, Does race have todo with anything. You have toassimilate, a little, into anotherculture so-to-speak. You have tothink a little dierently when talk-ing to your classmates and otherolks on a predominately-whitecampus. Not speak dierently,but be conscience o what youare saying, how you are saying itand how it comes across to otherpeople. At an HBCU that may be asmaller concern maybe because ogeographicand dierentdivisions likethat but theblack experi-

ence tendsto be thesame acrossthe board.When youattend anHBCU, youknow your grade is based uponyour perormance and not becauseyou did not have an opportunityto speak to your proessor i youneeded extra help or you hadcultural disagreements that theproessor did not like or eelingsisolated rom a group based onyour race or ethnicity. HBCUsprovide that, you do not have toworry about those things whenyou are on campus and in theclassroom.Me: I guess that alls in line withthe current mission o HBCUs.Overall, they are still oeringworld-class education. What areyour eelings about HBCUs closingand whether or not HBCUs shouldmerge?JC: No, I do not think HBCUsshould merge at all. I eel very

strongly about that. I eel every

college or University, whether itis an HBCU or not, deserves itsown autonomy. Tey serve dier-ent geographic populations. Tey

opened up or a reason; so whynow close, because o economic/ctimes or hard times? Tis is notthe rst time we have seen rougheconomic times and this will notbe the last. But it seems that itspropitious or people to say, osave money lets merge HBCUswhy not merge PredominatelyWhite Institutions? What are theyserving academically, culturally,socially, economically to the citiesthat they are in that HBCUs donot?For example, iIt would not makesense , or a UDC or example,in the Northwest corridor o thedistrict and all the business itbrings into that area o the cityrom students eating lunch, to thebasketball games that bring in thecommunity to watch, to the art ex-hibits, to the perormances; UDCmeans something to that area.

Whether thepeople thatlive thereknow it ornot, that

doesnt meanthat theirneeds, theirprovisionso serviceand theirprovisions o

culture and provisions o presencedoesnt mean anything; . It meansa lot. It means a lot to the studentsand it means a lot to the alumni.So, Im not a proponent o mergesat all.What I am a proponent o isalumni becoming more engagedin the academic growth o an in-stitution, the nancial stability oan institution, and the marketingo an institution. Part o the rea-son people want to merge HBCUsis because we dont tell our storiesin a strong way. Tere are so manygreat things happening at HBCUsaround the country. Yes, somemay have their downalls and havetheir ailures, but there are sometremendous things happeningand we havent done an eective

job o getting the word out about

those successes. I Because i more

15 Minutes with

Jarret Carter Sr.than they are owed and currentunion contracts could be rene-gotiated or cheaper ones.

As state revenues continue tobe projected as shortalls, pen-sion accounts sit almost empty;there is no money or states tocover pension deposits due inthe coming decades. Cleary,something will have to give butthe idea o lumping municipalbond obligations, annual lot-tery payouts, annual pensionshortalls, which shrink or growover time, in with state annualdecits, which require an imme-diate solution, is not a signicantreason or a sanctioned statebankruptcy.

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ISSUES & OPINIONS

people knew how successul wewere; the type o graduates weproduce, the kind o impact we

have on business, science, art,entertainment, culture, politics,the more people would be condi-tioned to say Tats an institutionthat deserves my money and myattention. You have money andattention; there is no need to com-bine with another institution.Me: What Inspired you to startHBCUDigest.com and what doyou say is the mission behind thewebsite in regards to all HBCUs?JC: I graduated rom Morgan[State University] and my back-ground academically is Journalism

and I notice there is coverage oHBCUs but it isnt always the bestand thats not something that isunique. Weve had local newspa-pers, national newspapers whovealways seemed to jump on the sortwhen something goes wrongand they should. Tere has to beaccountability, and journalismis that measure o accountabil-ity when its done airly. A lot otimes, with any HBCU, its notdone airly. So there was a nicheor proper coverage. When I say

aid proper I mean being able toannounce that Yes, UDC had ashooting nearby last week, but

this week they just received a $3.5million grant towards the [DavidA. Clark] law school or towardsthe school o Childhood Develop-ment.

You cant do one and not the other.Tere is no integrity in that, itdoesnt serve the University prop-erly because there is a ramingthat takes place in that the onlythings that happen at UDC arepeople get robbed and stabbed..Not the act [UDC] is produc-ing lawyers, not the act they areinnovating the new methodolo-gies and approaches in childhooddevelopment. I [people] knewthe positive storiesy, they you canthen counteract the negative sto-

riesy that people hear, which is notuncommon at other campuses, itjust happens to be the big stereo-type o HBCUs. White Institutionshave violence as well, but they alsohave successes as do HBCUs, andI think that the Digest oers thatbalance, the good and the bad.And I write it in a way that thebad is presented airly and in theright context. Oen times we hearabout violence, or we hear aboutembezzlement, the rame is thereis a culture o violence at HB-CUs.. What I try to drill down to

is i there is a story about violence,where does it happen on campus,who is involved, how the school

appropriately - or inappropriately- responds to it and to make surethe students know and the alumniknow that this is an incident, thisis not a culture?.

I think that rom that missionitss just trying to get students andalumni aware that there is bal-ance, there is another side o thestory that you wont commonlyhear. I we can get some o thesebetter stories into the minds andhearts o some people, we canhave an opportunity to reallygerminaterow these institutions ina quick way and reallyand beginto position them as universallycompetitive institutions o higherlearning. [We can] get students

and Alums to be proud o theirschools. Part o the reason alumnipride is so low is that were notproud o them. We are loyal tothem, but loyalty and pride aretwo dierent things. Te Digestand my goal is to build that prideand take that pride and turn it intoaction.JC: I dont like it. I think we

should be proud o our heritageas Historically Black Collegesand Universitiesy, but what I alsobelieve is that we shouldnt steeraway rom what weve always

been, which is a school that wel-comes all kinds o people. One othe stereotypes among blacks and

other people is that HBCUs areor black people and just or blackpeople. Weve been welcomingwhite students since the very be-ginning. White proessors, White

Administrators, a lot o HBCUshave history with White Phi-lanthropists helping to establishthem. Tese institutions werent acounter to racism; they were a re-sponse to racism. But they werentcreated to advocate black racismor black separatism; they were

just established to make sure thatBlack Americans had a chance ateducation like every other student.I dont like that some Presidents,in eort o being orward-thinking say that We can be

HBCUs without saying the ourletters. You can, but I think thereare generations o students andalumni who are proud o thatdesignation. Tey take honor andpride in that label. You can stilladvance your cause and say youreor everybody, let the world knowyouve always welcomed everyonewith open arms, and youre be-yond adequate in producing greatproessionals among all kinds opeople but be proud o the act wewere created to educated Arican-Americans and that we will be

here to educate Arican-Ameri-cans. Historically and presently,we are about upliing that group.

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Sugar is not so Sweet HEALTH & WELLNESSBy Bakara

So you think one teaspoon orened sugar is harmless or thatit may not seem like much. Tetruth is, during the course oa day the average person con-sumes more than 41 teaspoons.Whether consumers know itor not, rened sugar is hiddenin everything, rom toothpasteto milk to aspirin to bread andketchup, every commerciallypackaged and processed oodon the ood market today. Inall o its many ormswhitesugar, brown sugar, cane sugar,turbonado sugar, demerarasugar, corn syrup, maltodextrin,

dextrose, sucrose, ructose, ga-

lactose, honey, high corn ruc-tose syrup, malt, maltose, maplesyrup, molasses, powdered orconectioners sugar, rice syrup,on and onhas caused con-sumers to become unwillingparticipates in their own sugaraddiction. It is an addiction thatno one really talks about, andit appears that most o us arein the dark about its hazardouseects, despite public interestgroups increasing public aware-ness about sugars addictivenature.According to Dr. Llaila Arica,sugar is a drug. Dr. Gary Nullcompares its addictive natureas being hand in hand with

alcoholism or a drug addic-

tion. Yet this negative image isnot the public image that theood industry wants us to see,thanks to their clever labelingand advertising techniques.Nor do they wantus to know

that there is no purpose in eat-ing sugar, especially aer it hasbeen rened because it containsno ber, minerals, or vitamins;


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Te world is ocially plugged

in. We use the internet to shop,

to work, to go places, to look up

inormation, and more so than

in reality to interact with other

people. Te interactions people

have in virtual reality have

somewhat replaced aspects onormal human interaction.

In some situations, this can belooked at in a good way. Videochatting with ar away riends andrelatives, protest that are orga-nized aster through masses who

just have to log on to Facebook ortwitter, or people planning to meetup and be social with new peoplethey may have not met otherwiseare some o the positive thingsthat Social Networking have en-

abled people across the world to

do. However, there is also a sideo Social Networking that has hada negative eect on people, and italways relates to online issues withothers.Social Networking has enabledthe world to become punksor a lack o better word. People

now ght and argue more on theinternet than we do with peoplethat we actually come in to physi-cal interaction with. We have allseen this happen beore: back andorth arguments between peopleon a twitter timeline; couples whoplace their argument directly onthe internet or all to see in eortto seem superior over the per-son they are dating; or , the worstexample, internet bullying andembarrassing. People have gottento the point that instead o keep-ing things personal and talking

them out in person, to display

all their eelings and emotionsin a public sphere or all to see;or what reason I cannot say. Tequestion is this: When did peopledecide that conronting anotherperson they have issues with meana virtual conrontation as opposedto meeting ace to ace?

Te internet has becomea place or countless amount opeople to vent and complain, and

judge other people, whether theyknow that person or not, andexpress their opinion to all theychoose to. However, the ability todo so has destroyed our (as I amincluded in this) ability to talkabout issues and come to conclu-sions with people ace to ace.People have so much to say be-hind their phones, computers, andinternet tablets yet when it comesto being ace-to-ace with another

person, the conversation ceases.

Maybe it is because arguing, bul-lying, and embarrassing are easierto do behind a orm o protec-tion that the internet gives peoplewho anger others. Nevertheless, itis discouraging to see how easilypeople can network socially viathe internet yet have issues com-

municating with others aboutproblems ace-to-ace. Unplug-ging ourselves every now and thenis important, and that means inways o just going out and catch-ing resh air, as well as discussingproblems ace-to-ace with people,we have a problem with. Yes, it ispossible to live out your entire lieover the internet, but why wouldyou want to?


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as a matter o act it robs thebody o vitamins, especiallyvitamin C, and E.Although it is well documented

that sugar causes tooth decayand cavities, there are moreharmul eects that will weighon the mind and body, espe-cially over time. Consumers canexpect to experience a mul-titude o reactions including:violent behavior (unprovoked),

temper outbursts, memory loss,rampant obesity, and prematureaging; it damages the heart, liv-er, kidneys, and liver; it causes

diabetes, immune system breakdown, low blood sugar, hyper-tension and learning disordersin children. Tere is evidencethat sugar even causes depres-sion, muscle soreness (includ-ing lower back pain), and inter-erence with sweat glands. Te

eects are just too numerous tolist here.In an America where sodrinks and processed (junk)

oods are the dietary staples, inlieu o resh ruit, vegetables,ber rich grains, legumes andpure water, it is imperative thatwe re-train our taste buds toonce again appreciate wholeoods. We must learn, andteach our children to limiti

not eliminaterened sugar(in any orm) rom our diet,and to provide our body witheverything it needs or optimal

health, thereby reducing ourdesire or sugary sweets. In thisway, we can create the healthyhabits that will ensure a longand happy lie.


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Jean-Michel was a

Brooklyn native whosecareer in grati paint-ing has garnered himworldwide acclaim orhis extraordinary pieceso Art. His career beganin the early 1970s undera neo-expressionismmovement to him be-coming one o the mostrecognizable people in

Art until his untimelydeath at the age o 27.Basquiat was born in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti to a Puerto Ricanmother and a Haitian-Americanather. He also had two youngersisters, Lisane and Jeanine. At theage o 4, he was gied in drawing,reading, and writing by the age o4. By the time he was 11, he wasfuent in Spanish, English, andFrench. His teachers noticed histalents early and encouraged his

mother to enroll him as a JuniorMember o the Brooklyn Museumwhen he was 6. By the time hewas 20, instead o spraying wallswith grati in Lower Manhattan,he was selling his work in SoHo

galleries. Art collectors

began buying his art andhis gallery shows werequickly selling out. By1985, he was on the covero Te New York imesMagazine as the ace othe hot, young artist inthe booming work o Art.Critics began to quicklynote his originality andbegan exhibiting hisnest works around theworld.Holland 2

He was a key gure in theearly 1980s that was notaraid to display worksrom his own heritagewhere he contributed toand transcended Aricanpieces o work.

He also hadan interest or cartoondrawing, cars, comicbooks, and Alred Hitch-cock lms. While attend-ing the City-as-School,an alternative high school, he

created a ctional character whoearns a living by selling ake reli-gion. He also became riends withgrati artist, Al Diaz rom theJacob Rils Projects on the LowerEast Side and the two becameclose riends. Tey were bothinterested in grati art anddisplayed it around Lower Man-hattan with spray painted mes-sages that targeted the D traino the IND line. Teir messageswere more about social com-mentary and strange messages,some oen poetic. Teir signa-ture phrase was signed with thename SAMO, which representsboth their corporate logo and thephrase same old shit. Tey werear more literate than they were

vibrant.He was one o the young-

est artists ever included in theprestigious international surveyo contemporary art, Docu-menta, Kassel, Germany, 1982.His exhibits and paintings werealso shown in 37 galleries (groupand one-man shows) through-

out the United States (including

Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta,Saint Louis, Dallas, and BocaRaton), and worldwide (includ-ing Paris, okyo, Berlin, Zurich,Amsterdam, Bologna, and Seoul).He rose rom an anonymous,homeless grati artist within veyears to one o great recognitions,with sales o his works grossingmillions o dollars. During hiscareer he threw lavish parties,suited himsel in clothing by Ital-ian ashion designers, and wouldtreat crowds o people to expen-sive restaurants. His lie would be

short-lived when he died rom a

heroin-overdose ace down on hisbedroom foor on a hot Augustaernoon.

Jean-Michel Basquiat


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NO REALLY, HES

THE MAN

Andy Worhol

especially thought

so. Down with

dope, up with hope.


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SPECIAL FEATURE : APRIL 2011

Charles J. Butler

You nd yoursel conronted withthe most critical question thatcauses you to look both withinyour own psyche and at the en-

vironment or external physicalcontext that you nd yoursel in.Tere is almost a pre-occupationwith the burning question o, whoam I. Followed almost immediate-ly by, where do I come rom andnally why am I here in this placeat this particular point in time.

In your search or the answer tothese questions one begins tomove immediately to a descrip-tion o ones sel. You investigateyour name and its origin, yourphysical dimensions, your likesand dislikes, your sexuality, yoursocialization, you begin to analyzeyour behavior and how it is di-erent or similar to others aroundyou. You begin to study what oth-ers say about those who l ook likeyou and those that do not. Youstart to orm opinions and belies

about the whole o man/woman-kind and how they relate to your

existence and even other lie orms

you nd around you.Eventually you come to a seldetermined denition as to whoyou are. Your name is , you area man or a woman, boy or girl,age your ethnicity and race isdened by what you think youneed to identiy yoursel as andso on. You nd yoursel associat-ing with people who generallythink and identiy themselves in asimilar ashion as well. You seemto have some grasp as to who youare and then when you turn yourattention to where you are, this in-ormation is a little more sketchy.You know what country you areborn in, what city and the date,you know where you are currentlybut you know less about how yougot to be there rom an historicalperspective. Te story o your be-ginnings is never quite clear, con-cise and easily repeatable. You ndyoursel oen times strugglingto dene the exact beginnings oexistence beyond your great-grandparents, and yet you know thatall o the generations beore them

have a history and at some pointthere must be a beginning. Terehas to be a beginning o people,and place, as well as culture orcivilization.Robert Bauval (author, Research-er, Egyptologist), seems to haveprovided an answer to much o themystery that surrounds our origin.Where we came rom, what we didto create culture and civilization,and how it evolved in its earlieststages. In his study o the situa-tion and documentation o his

ndings, he has been able to veryconvincingly reconstruct how our

ancient ancestors, the Egyptionso the Nile Valley on the conti-nent o Arica as they were calledby the Greeks, brought orth thehighest level o civilization thathas ever existed on the planet by

their study o the stars and theheavens in relation to the Earth.Tese Kemetic people, as they re-erred to themselves in their ownwritings, were Black melanatedpeople o the same genetic speciesas the people we reer to today asBlack and Arican people. Blackpeople o today much liketheir ancient ancestors,have brought art,music, cultureand scienceto the world.

It is or thisreason that wecelebrate thesecollective con-tributions dur-ing the montho Februaryand giventhis long his-tory and itsoverwhelmingimportance, iswhy we broughtRobert Bauval tothis campus.It is in the interesto becoming a worldclass research institu-tion o Learning andscholarship thatmy collegue(J.PurnellPinkney)and I setout tocre-

ate a platorm or this kind ointellectual exchange to take place.Now that we have arrived on thisplatorm we are now challengedwith the task o remaining hereas a viable orce to help move the

intellectual exchange orward.Tis is not a challenge that wetake lightly, nor is it one wherea single eort will suce as ouronly achievement. What we nd is

Due to extenuating nancial circumstances in recent month at UDC, the rilogy was unable to publish its usualBlack History Month February edition. Tis special section o the regular paper is ofered later than its regularly

scheduled appearance in acknowledgment o the rilogys awareness o its heritage and commitment to the

Arican American community; Ms. Ayesha Johnson, Editor-In-Chie, and Mr. Purnell Pinkney, Staf Advisor

produced it. We hope you nd the articles on these selected Arican Americans inormative and interesting.

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BEYOND BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Black History at the University

of the District of Columbia

During the lie andtimes o a human be-ing on this planet thereare several important,lie changing questionsthat one must seek outand nd answers. Terst and most pressingquestion is the quest orones own identity.

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that we are now on a journeythat has an awesome beginning,but an even more awe inspiringcontinuum. We have been suc-cessul at spurring the interest othis community in learning andexchanging ideas and inormationon research and scholarly endeav-ors, o which, we plan to nurtureand develop a series o lectures,and programs both in a live orumand through our cable televisionnetwork U.D.C. V to eed theminds o those who are interestedin these kinds o activities. Dr.Leonard Jeeries, Anthony onyBrowder, Legrand Clegg, Dr. Ro-salind Jeeries just to name a ewo the more well known scholars,

will be presenting their scholar-ship to the University commu-nity, as well as a number o lesserknown scholars that have doneserious work on behal o scienceand learning to help us help thisUniversity achieve all that it canbe to the community that it serves.So as you contemplate on your

purpose and mission in lie knowthat the ground work to help youachieve your lies mission beginswith the academic experiencesthat are provided here at the Uni-

versity o the District o Columbiaand that the avenue and ability toshare and exchange ideas is a plat-orm that is available to you, cre-ated by and or you, through likeminded individuals who seek thesame intellectual growth and de-

velopment that you seek, so bringyour thoughts to the table and letus exchange and consume eachothers wisdom by honoring thislegendary period o Black History,in this culturally diverse and richcity. Tis in some small way helps

to dene who we are, where we areand why or to what purpose wend ourselves in this place at thisparticular point in time. Culturaland intellectual growth is ourmission and purpose. Learning isa lie-long experience and a two-way street. Our students manytime nd themselves being en-

tertained but not inner-tained bya medium that only sees them asconsumers and not people in needo conscious-raising inormation.As a result most o television pro-gramming has become a series osleeping pills reducing our atten-tion span to ten 10 second soundbites ,with a series o blitz-likemis-inorming, mal-inormingand non-inorming commercialsand programs. Tis is directlyrelated to the poor perormanceour students have in school thathas resulted in the United Statesperorming so badly on the worldplatorm o education. When ourstudents can identiy themselveswith origin, creation, and culti-

vation o knowledge and learn-ing then they take pride in thatownership, their sel-esteem andsense o sel worth takes on newmeaning and they perorm betterin school.


SPECIAL FEATURE: BEYOND BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Charles W. Chestnutt neverintended to become a writer. Hadthings gone as planned, he wouldhave become a grocery storeowner, just as his ather had beenand lived a modest, uneventullie. Such was not to be the casehowever, and ate chose a pathor the young man ar rom theordinary, but sae existence hehad envisioned. Charles Chest-

nutt was born in 1858, the yearo the Lincoln-Douglas debatesover slavery, and died in 1932, theyear Franklin Roosevelt was rstelected to the presidency. He led aull and engaged lie during someo the most tumultuous times inthe history o the modern era inthe United States.

Charles was born inCleveland, Ohio, the rst childo Jack Chestnutt and Ann Ma-rie Sampson. In Cleveland, JackChestnutt was a horse-car conduc-

tor. Charles mother was a borneducator who taught slave chil-

dren clandestinely in deance othe law, according to Sylvia LyonsRender in her biog-raphy, Charles W.Chestnutt. WhenCharles was eightyears old and aerreceiving some ear-ly public educationin Cleveland, theamily moved to

Fayetteville, NorthCarolina wherethe ather openeda grocery store.By the time thatCharles was 13, thegrocery store hadailed and the young Chestnutthad to go to work to help the am-ily. He was a teacher or a brie pe-riod in South Carolina and NorthCarolina. Chestnutt was hiredas a teacher at the State ColoredNormal School, later becoming

an Assistant Principal in the sameschool. Te school later became

the present day Fayetteville StateUniversity.

Te youngChestnutt soonbecame dissatis-ed with the lim-itations o lie inNorth Carolina.In 1882 he wrotein his journal:I get more and

more tired o theSouth. I pine orcivilization andequality. And Ishudder to thinko exposing mychildren to the

social and intellection proscrip-tion to which I have been a victim.Is not my duty to them para-mount? In the summer o 1883,Chestnutt relocated to New YorkCity and took a job as a stenogra-pher and reporter. In November o

that year he took a job in Cleve-land in the same capacity or the

Charles Waddell Chestnutt:

First African American Novelist, Civil Rights Activist,Social Critic 1858 1932

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Nickel Plate Railroad Company.As a result o working with thelegal oce o the railroad com-

pany, he began to study law andpassed the Ohio bar examinationin 1887 with the highest grade inhis group. In 1888, he opened hisown oce as a court reporter. Be-tween 1899 and 1901 he closed hiscourt reporting business to pursuewriting as a ull time proession.His rst book, Te Marrow ra-dition did not do very well andhe had to reopen the court report-ing business in 1901. Te bulko Chesnutts literary work waspublished between 1899 and 1905.

It should be noted that

although Chestnutt never tried toconceal his background, his racialidentity was not widely knownat the beginning o his career asa writer. Chestnutt qualied asa voluntary Negro, meaningthat he was so light-skinned thathe could have passed or whitehad he chosen to do so. It is thisgod given physical eature whichhelped shape his experiences andperceptions o the duality o theracial caste system in America anduniquely qualied him to address


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strident college activist group inAmerica at the timethe Stu-dent Non-violent CoordinatingCommittee, SNCC (SNICK) asit was called. Not one to need

the spotlight or his work,Ralph threw himselinto teaching orSNCC and thenorganizing orSNCC andsoon be-came thatstudent or-ganizationsNationalProgram Di-rector. Ralphdid something

else; he chose ashis eld o opera-tions the two most raciststates in America at that timeMississippi and Alabama. Despitethe obvious personal danger, as anorganizer, he was a great success.At a time when advocating publi-

cally or the rights o Black peoplecould easily result in death, Ralphdid so earlessly. He supervised theopening o 40 or more FreedomSchools throughout the South.In Mississippi alone during thesummer o 1964, more than 3000

students attended these schools.

Each time that Ralph dedicated anew Freedom School, he placedhis lie in peril. Tat same summersaw the homes o 30 Black amiliesrebombed and 37 Black Church-

es rebombed. Over 80volunteers were beaten

by white mobs orby racist white

police ocers.It was a dan-gerous timeactivists.By 1970Ralph was

a newlywedand an in-

ternationally

recognized civilrights leader. In that

same year, while driv-ing a car near a small Marylandtown on the Eastern Shore nearCambridge, a bomb exploded inor under the car and killed RalphFeatherstone and a passenger, Wil-liam Che Payne. Ralphs riendsand amily were stunned and inshock. One o DCs courageoussons had allen and as the news ohis death spread across the city oWashington, there was an un-

Ralph Featherstone was the un-likeliest candidate on the cam-pus o the D.C. eachers Collegeduring the 1960s to become amilitant Black activist. He wasquiet by nature and unas-suming in demeanor. He wasrather short by the standardso the time or mens heightand possessed a rather slenderrame. Some would say he wasa so-spoken introvert. None

would ever suspect that belowthe surace o Ralphs low-keyexterior , beat the heart o aearless warrior.

Feather, as I calledRalph, was originally oncourse to become an ordi-nary public school teacherand dutiully blend into thebackground. He was a collegeman. He graduated rom DCeachers College, taught in thesystem briefy as a speech patholo-gist and then no one saw him or

a while. Vietnam was burning,the Civil Rights Movement was at

ull throttle and at the same timewhite college campuses were inull social revolt. It was the 60s.

Unbeknownst to most o

those who knew Ralph, he hadquietly become one o the lead-ing proponents o civil rights or

black people as well as assuminga leadership position in the most


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Ralph Featherstone:Activist, Freedom Fighter,

Friend 1939 1970

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the unjust spirit o racial prejudicein all o its orms. His work is oand rom the lie and times o this

writer who grew up as a witnessto the vestiges o slave state thatAmerica was previously.

In addition to short ctionand novels, he also published aprolic number o essays. Mostnotable among his keynote worksare, Te House Behind TeCedars, (1900) which drawsextensively on his knowledge oturn-o-the-century Fayetteville,North Carolina. His biography oFrederick Douglass, (1899) isdescribed by Render as brie but

excellent. Te Conjure Woman(1899) is a collection o shortstories involving the employmento voodoo to obtain objectivesthat normally wouldnt occur andall o the twists and turns o howthat kind o thing can go hilari-ously wrong and tragic-comicallyright. Te Wie o His Youth

was Chesnutts second book andit contains some o his signaturestories; Te Sheris Children,

Te Passing o Grandison,and Uncle Wellingtons Wives.Nearly 80 selections o short c-tion have been collected by SylviaLyons Render in Te Short Fic-tion o Charles Chestnutt. Un-published materials by Chestnuttare ound in the Fisk UniversitySpecial Collections. Tese includesix novels, early versions o hisrst novel, a drama and miscella-neous works o ction.

Chestnutt was a con-temporary o W.E.B. Dubois

and Booker . Washington. Heworked with the NAACP duringits ormative period and even-tually became one o the early20th centurys most prominentactivists and commentators. He,along with Du Bois, wrote orthe Crisis the NAACPs o-cial magazine ounded in 1910.Among the eras literary writers,Chestnutt was well respected. In1905, Chestnutt was invited toMark wains 70 birthday partyin New York City.

Chesnutts writing styleis considered ormal and subtle,demonstrating little emo-tive power. His subject matter,though essentially racial, was alogical extension o his havingwitnessed reedom or blacksachieved and then lost in hislietime. Te great ailure o theReconstruction period which ol-lowed the Civil War, marred hiscondence in the white peopleo America and convinced himthat they could never be air inmatters o race; a belie he held

or his entire adult lie. owardthe end o his lie, his work began

to refect an increasing bitternesstoward race relations in Americaand toward whites in general.Te Harlem Renaissance eclipsedmuch o what remained o Ches-nutts literary reputation. Hisrelegation to obscurity by literarycritics however, ailed to diminishthe power o his realistic writingabout an era in American his-tory which he so entertaininglycaptured in his work. Chesnuttslonger works laid the oundationor the modern Arican American

novel. His shorter works madewonderul use o slave dialect.

Many times, the ironic outcomeso the plots used his short storiescause laugh out loud reactions.

oday, a ull apprecia-tion o Chesnutts contributionto American writing is beingproposed. A U.S.Postal Stamphas been issued in his honor andthere is a renewed interest in all ohis work. Charles Waddell Chest-nutt died on November 15, 1932at the age o 74 and is interredin Clevelands Lake View Cem-etery.



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W.E.B DuBoisis arguably thegreatest AricanAmerican

scholar, writer,intellectual,and civil rightspioneer o the20th century.DuBois, whoselie spannednearly acentury, was animmediately

recognizablegure, a brilliantscholar and aprolic writer.

He was born February 23,1866 in Great Barrington,Massachusetts. In 1890he graduated cum Lauderom Howard and attendedthe University o Berlin in1892. In 1896 DuBois be-came the rst Black personto receive a PH. D romHarvard University. Aerteaching at WilberorceUniversity in Ohio and theUniversity o Pennsylvania,he went on to establish therst department o sociol-ogy in the United States atAtlanta University. W.E.B.DuBois devoted his lie-time to the tireless eort oadvocating or the rights oArican Americans.

His 1896 book

Te Philadelphia Negro

is credited with single-heartedly creating the pro-ession o sociology. Tisepic-work orever changedthe approach to the studyo people and their cultural

characteristics. An equallymonumental work was hismeticulously documentedbook Te Suppression othe Atlantic Slave rade.Tis voluminous work pre-sented the Atlantic slavetrade in precise detail.Subsequently, books on thesubject never seemed tomeasure up to this stan-dard set by DuBois. Anequally masterul workBlack Reconstruction inAmerica (1935) aston-

ished the literary worldand contained DuBoissophisticated approach torevealing the insidious na-ture o racism in America.

Much has beenmade over the highlypublic disagreement thatarose between DuBoisand Booker . Washing-ton concerning the bestapproach to civil andeconomic rights or BlackAmericans. Teir classic

dispute was generated byDuBois insistence that atalented tenth made upo the most capable 10%o all Arican Americansshould lead their people tocivic, political and eco-nomic parity with whites,as opposed to Mr. Wash-ingtons idea that blacksand whites should be sepa-rate in all things social andtogether in all things es-sential to mutual progress.Tis dierence o opinion

and philosophy lasted

among thegeneral publicrom the begin-ning o the 20thcentury untilthe passage o

civil rights legislation bythe U.S. Congress in the1960s. In the latter stageso his lie, DuBois com-mented in a 1965 AtlanticMonthly article that It is my opinion that Mr.,Washington died a sad anddisillusioned man who eltthat he had been betrayedby white America. I dontknow that, but I believe it.DuBois said, in that samespeech (Booker s At-lanta Compromise speech

about the ngers on a handbeing separate but equal),he (Booker .) implicitlyabandoned all political andsocial rights (or blacks).

One other pointon the Booker ./Duboisdisagreement; whenasked in early 1963 andwith only months tolive, what did you thinko Booker . Washing-ton, this is how DuBoisrepliedthere was a

long pause. Duboissaid I never thoughtWashington was a badman, he said. I came tobelieve him to be sin-cere, though wrong. Heand I came rom dier-ent backgrounds. I wasborn ree. Washingtonwas born a slave. He eltthe lash o an overseeracross his back. I wasborn in Massachusetts,he on a slave plantationin the South. My great-

grandather ought with

the Colonial Army in New

England in the AmericanRevolution (Tis earnedthe grandather his ree-dom.) I had a happychildhood and acceptancein the community. Wash-ingtons childhood washard. I had more advan-tages: Fisk University,Harvard, and graduateyears in Europe. Wash-ington had little ormalschooling. I admired muchabout him. Washington,

he said, a smile soeningthe severe, gaunt lines ohis ace, died in 1915. Alot o people think I died atthe same time.

In addition to hisliterary skills and proound

scholarship, at one time or

another during the courseo his long lie, DuBoiscould be characterized po-litically as an integration-ist, Pan Aricanist, Social-ist and Communist. Hewas a ounding membero both the Niagara Move-ment and the NAACP, andeditor o the Crisis, theNAACPs literary organ.He either participated in,or sponsored hundreds oconerences, meetings and

seminars on racism. 1961,during the twilight o hislie, DuBois was honoredby an invitation rom Pres-ident Kwame Nkrumah oGhana, to lead a group oscholars in producing an

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Encyclopedia Aricana.All o DuBois impeccably

written, scholarly based booksattracted the attention o a hos-tile Federal government. He was

branded as a oreign agent, pub-licly discredited as anti-American,but the attacks seemed to onlyserve to strengthen his resolve toadvocate or black people. He isquoted as saying had I died at theage o y, I would have been ac-claimed. At seventy-ve my deathwas practically requested. Viliedin the land o his birth, W.E.B Du-Bois died in Accra, Arica August27, 1963 as a Ghanaian citizen.

For urther inormationon the lie and times o Dr. DuB-

bois, a Pulitzer Prize winningbiography o the second hal oDuBois lie has been written by Dr.David Levering Lewis. Te book isthoroughly researched and is oenused by the author to do read-ings in a sort o one-man playormat, where he is in-characteras Dr. Dubois. Tese readingsare ascinating and thoroughlyengrossing. Dr. Lewis is also aormer member o the aculty othe University o the District oColumbia.

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As part o the University o the Districto Columbias Black History Month spe-cial events, the internationally-acclaimedEgyptologist, cosmetologist and astrono-mer Robert Bauval delivered a lecture onthe origin and purpose o the Pyramidso Egypt in early February 2011. Withover 700 rapt listenerssome who camerom as ar away as Philadelphia, renton,Richmond, and Baltimorein the UDCAuditorium, Bauval presented his ndingson the pyramids o Giza Plateau. Based

on decades o study, critical thinking, and

analysis, his conclusions are that theorigins o Pharonic Egypt are to beound in the interior o Black Aricanear the abesti mountain range. Helectured or nearly three hours andall the while, the audience remainedcaptivated by a discussion that was ac-companied with convincing photographicsupport o his archeological ndings. Tisscholar, raconteur, and scientist managedto fip conventional ideas in Egyptologyon its side with his radical but rational

new theory.


A New Take on the Pyramids:

The Robert Bauval Lecture

UDC Black History Month Event

Bauval held a book signing ater the lecture and answered the questions o many

who had either travelled to Egypt or who were interested in the subject o Egyptian

antiquity. Purnell Pinkney 66 and Charles Butler 81 and 90 arranged the Student

Afairs Division evening o discovery. Tese two alumni plan to build on the

programs success and bring to UDC other personalities who represent a wide range

o scientic, social, business, historical, and religious thought so that the University

Community can continue to be exposed to cutting edge intellectual inquiry. Below

are some o the comments that Pinkney and Butler received ollowing the program:

Tank you or stepping outside the box andproducing such a wonderul presentation asMr. Bauvals lecture . . . I traveled to Egypt in2007 and was witness to Dr. Hilliards lectureon Mr. Bauvals ndings . .. At the insistenceo a riend, I had purchased Mr. Bauvalsbook beore I lef or Egypt. It was thrillingto hear how he arrived at his discovery.

Alverda Ann Muhammad, RN 91

I just wanted to send a note o congratula-tions and thank you or the wonderul pro-gram last night . . . As a graduate o the Uni-versity, I was thrilled to see UDC sponsoring

such an event; truly elevating the image andperception o the institution. More programso this type in the uture, please.

Deborah Collins 07

OMG! outstanding program! bauval isquite the character, his work speaks volumes. . . ground breaking with ar reaching impli-cations.Rodrick Darby

All I can say is Kudos to you, Pur-nell, to you, Charles, and to UDC!!! . . . Itmay have been a long road to get the neededpermission to begin planning and pullingeverything together, but you succeeded inpulling o a coup uesday night!!! . . . Youguys are to be commended or having theopen-mindedness to listen to your studentsrequests . . . And Mr. Bauval must havea pure heart o gold to consider travellingthat distance or one day just to speak to usassembled in the auditorium . . . o impartthat inormation to us . . . as well as implor-ing some o the youth to pursue archeology/anthropology, etc. Im really glad there was a

good showing or him.Brenda Featherstone 78 and 91

A sculpture o the ancient Egyptian GodAnubis. His original name is Anpu, god oembalming and sae passage into the aterlie.


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RALPH FEATHERSTONE FROM PAGE 17

easy silence in the black community. Young blackmen in D.C. had to control their outrage. Ralphsamily pleaded or a calm, measured, non-violentresponse to his death. Te amilys request washonored, but or many, the pain o this tragic loss

is still alive.What is known about the circumstances oRalphs death is this: given his position in SNCCand his popularity among its members, it wasbelieved that his death was an assassination. Noone was ever brought to trial or the death oRalph. He became a casualty o the movement.Te case was never ully resolved. A good mandied that night on a dark country road, milesaway rom his hometown, in the struggling orthe reedom o his people. He was 30 years old,in the prime o his lie and brimming with an un-common courage. For those who knew him, hewill remain rozen in time, 30 years old orever

a lie taken too soon, a riend lost orever. Hisashes were interred in Lagos Nigeria on April 7,1970.the


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Note to all musical art-

ists and perorming

acts: Perorming with

live musicians makes a

better impression than

perorming with a DJ

any day o the week.

O course, many people will notagree with this stance, but thosepeople were not blessed to witnessthe perormance alib Kweli gaveon February 8 at the Black Cat inWashington, D.C.wo weeks aer releasing his newindependent album Gutter Rain-bows on January 25, the Brooklynnative began touring with a CDrelease show; a show that quicklysold out with the ridiculous (ina good way) price o $20. With

Gutter Rainbows debuting at 29on the Billboard 200 charts (out-standing or a digital only release

and an independently releasedalbum), the line to enter into theBlack Cat or the show was verylong, lled with Hip-Hop anso various ages and many back-grounds. While the show had an8pm beginning time, the doorsor the Black Cat remained closeduntil 8:45, an uncomortable situ-

ation on a sub-30 degree nighton 14th St. NW. However as thedoors opened up, the lines brokeo into two, will-call and ticketholders. Te unrest amongst thosewaiting to see alib take the stagewas building.Te Black Cat is one o the small-er, more intimate venues in Wash-ington, D.C. Upon walking in,there is a small bar area to the leo the ront door, and to the righta larger lounge with a bar, booth,and pool tables within it. Straightahead is a large staircase leading

up stairs to the large room wherethe shows are held. Once walkingupstairs, the room is very low lit,

but enough oreveryone to seethe upstairs areais completelyused. On the leand right o theroom are decentsize bars; tothe right o thestaircase cor-ridor is an area

with seats andtables or thosewho did notwant to standto see the show,and to the le othe corridor was

the $2 coat check and bathrooms.

Straight ahead rom the staircaseis the huge dance foor leadingto a stage about two eet o theground and een eet straightback. A very intimate setting,which worked well or the crowdo people who were all ans osimilar types o music and cordialin speaking prior to the show.Te foor lled up quickly and a-ter the opening act, a D.C. Nativeby the name o Von opened up,alib Kweli took the stage with oneo his bangers o his new albumcalled Im On One produced by

Khrysis. Te perormance o thetrack by a live band was as impres-sive, i not more impressive, thanthe great production o the initial

version on the album. alib tookthe time to speak to the crowd inbetween each song, in eort togive him, as well as the great banda break. A break that all in at-tendance did not mind, especiallyconsidering how much energy heput orth in every word that herapped.In line with the CD release

theme the show had, alib per-ormed standout tracks rom thealbum including Cold Rain,Uh-Oh, and two avorites Pa-lookas, where alib unabashedlytells those who are listening Myworst rhyme is better than your

best one and Waiting For You,

a track where he speaks on themusic industry and doing whatyou eel regardless). Te realtreat, however, was alib Kweliand his band perorming manysongs that have created his hugean base over the years, includ-ing tracks rom his pairings withProducer Hi-ek as part o thegroup Refection Eternal, songsperormed as a part o BlackStar while paired with Hip-Hoproyalty Mos De, and many othersongs rom his solo career. Teresponses o the crowd while he

perormed songs such as Just toGet By, Te Blast, and I rythrew the crowd in the renzy, tothe point that Kwelis microphonecould have broken and every soulin the crowd would have beenheard singing the lyrics as thoughthey wrote them.Overall, the greatness o alibKwelis Gutter Rainbows grewexponentially with such a peror-mance by the band and himsel.Aer the show, the hard copies othe album sold out, many o which

to people who had already boughtthe album online. Kwelis concertwas one leading music ans to allin love with not only Hip-Hop, butmusic all over again.

Talib Kweli, LIVEat Black Kat

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ART & ENTERTAINMENT

CONCERT REVIEW

IMAGECREDIT

YOUR

EVERYTHING

MANTwo weeks after releasing

his new independent album

Gutter Rainbows on Janu-

ary 25, the Brooklyn native

began touring with a CD

release show.

SEEN ANY LIVE SHOWS LATELY?

Well be announcing several shows in the area. Not just UDC sponsored events. Theres a whole city available, go

play.


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Dear Editor:Te issue o the impend-

ing NFL lockout should be nulland void. Te National FootballLeague and the NFL Players As-sociation have agreed to an exten-sion o their collective bargainingagreement that was due to expireon March 4, 20011 at midnight.Tese negotiations are now beinghandled by a ederal mediator be-cause the two sides are unwillingor unable to nd common ground.Im really perplexed about the di-culty in resolving the matter.

Te National Footballleague is the dominant sport o

our society and generates ap-proximately $7.8 billion annu-ally. Each team in the league hasshown annual revenue earnings oabove $200 million, with the topthree most lucrative teams earningbetween $270 and $330 million.A NFL players annual salary isabout $1.8 million. Te averagecareer length o an NFL playeris ve to seven years and manyo them retire with some sort ominor permanent injury. Al-though a great deal, these players

are living a childhood dream andare being compensated lucrativelyor it, they subject themselves toan enormous amount o stressand physical abuse or the lovethis game called ootball. Withoutthem there is no ootball.

Why are we wasting thiskind o energy and news coverageon this non-issue? I can under-stand the owners concern orkeeping their operating cost downso that they could invest thatmoney to produce a high qualityproduct. Im a little conused but

I thought the player is the prod-

uct. Isnt that what why the anscome to the stadium and pay all

that money to see? Please excuseme or being repetitive, but with-out the player there is no product.Te resolution is would be prettyclear cut to me i I was mediat-ing. I would be rst ocus on theneeds, concerns, and desires o theplayers and then work toward themiddle. Whatever happened tothe business model o investing inpeople rst? oo many compa-nies have gotten away rom that.Maybe this is the reason that Imnot a billionaire.

Perplexed and disgusted,Sherwyn Benjamin

Dear Editor:

When will the American publicstop paying or the decisionsmade by our elected ocials?Te current ederal budget crisis isa prime example o a ew citizensmaking decisions that the rest othe public pays or. In states acrossthe country, citizens are aced with

urloughs, job loss, home loss,debt, and limited or no healthcare.Decreases in income and increasesin the costs o ood, gas, andother commodities are hurting themiddle class. Locally, there havebeen threatened urloughs, reezeson salaries, and a proposed shut-down o the ederal government.Most citizens are willing to worktogether or the good o the coun-try. However, when the leaders inCongress and the locally electedocials do not submit to the sameconcessions as the public, there is

something inherently wrong.

First, all the major decisions about

budgets have been decided byCongress and the locally electedocials. Te reasons or the majorshortalls have to all at the eet othose making the decisions. Andyet, no one in the decision mak-ing positions has stepped up totake the blame. Instead, everyoneseems to be blaming someone else.In the Congress, either our cur-rent situation is because o Demo-cratic decisions or Republicandecisions. Both parties are culpritsin the situation and until the pub-lic recognizes the blame game is

just a arce used by those in poweras a distraction tactic, and holdthose in decision making posi-tions accountable, we will alwaysbe paying or their decisions.It seems every day we are readingabout excessive spending or perksthat are aorded to our elected o-cials. It seems common practiceto eat in expensive restaurants,drive luxury vehicles or be driv-en, extensive travel, and excellentbenefts packages (salary andinsurance). None o the decision

making ocials have cut theirsalaries and benets. O course,when one o them is exposed ortheir excess it is addressed, butonly then and with limited results.It is imperative at this time thatwe all cut back or the good o thecountry. However, the cut backsshould start in Congress and withour elected ocials. It is time orthe ocials to take a stand and setan example. Te cuts should beas deep as possible, starting witheliminating excessive sta, and allperks. Salaries should be rozen

and no increase until the budget

Dear rilogy Readers:

One o the highlights o our Political Science Program is a three course sequence involving

Methods o Political Science, Research Methods and culminating in a nal course called

Senior Seminar. Te three course sequence teaches students to think critically about issues,

learn how to express themselves both as scholars and as concerned citizens, and to use the

resources available to them. Te letters that ollow are part o an assignment to crat a letter to

act. I hope you enjoy them and they give you some new things to think about.


OPINIONS: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

is balanced. Te benets packages

should be decreased to equal whatthe average government or localsta worker receives. It is time orthose in charge to be accountableor their decisions.

Sincerely,Cynthia Cole

Dear Editor:

I am writing you this letter toexplain to you why I think UDCstudents should get discountsor riding metro transporta-tion. High school students andsenior citizens get discounts, whyshouldnt college students get adiscount?Over the last couple o years metrohas made a lot o changes. Teywent rom using paper transersto only using Smarrips as yourtranser, and i you do not own aSmarrip then you pay extra orusing paper are cards on the train.Tat was not the only changethat they made, they have also

increased the bus and train are.Tere was an increase o ten centsto metro are in February 2010,this meant that the train regularare went to $1.75 and the maxi-mum are would be $4.60. Andthe student monthly passes werenow thirty dollars, day passes werenow twelve dollars and a ten packo tokens or students went up to$6.25. Aer this increase there wasanother increase that happened inthe month o August. I am surethis will not be the last increase in

metro rates.I understand that metro has toincrease its rates because o theeconomy, but in my opinion Ithink that metro should giveUDC students a discounts sinceover 95% o the students attend-ing the university are commutingstudents and college students areunable to gain access to a monthlystudent pass. Its hard enough topay or tuition, but on top o thatwe have to pay high transporta-tion ees every month to get aneducation. Its even harder on the

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SPORTS EDITORIALemployed. I am an example o astudent how is currently unem-ployed, I spend about $4 to travelback and orth rom school, and Ispend $20 a week, and about $80

a month, but i I were able to get astudent monthly pass I could savey dollars a month or even ithey gave us students a discount Icould save a lot o money.Discounts are given to seniorcitizens and high school students;I just think that college studentsdeserve to get the same type odiscounts. Senior citizen receivediscounts because by them beingelderly many o them do not workand their only source o incomewould be social security so they

are unable to pay ull price ortransportation. But in order toreceive this discount they have tobe 65 and older or show that proorom the doctors that they havea disability. High school studentsalso receive a discount or ridingmetro. In order or them to get astudent pass they have get a copyo their high school transcriptto prove that they are currentlyenrolled in high school.All I am asking is or some type odiscount or UDC student or thesimple act being that a majorityo the student attending the uni-

versity use public transportationto get to and rom school ve daysa week. We are students and justbecause we are not in high schooldoes not mean we should not beable to get a student pass or sometype o discount.

Sincerely,Brittany Clements

Dear Editor:

As AmeriCorps alumnae,I strongly believe that the govern-ment is making a big mistake ineliminating the unding or thenational community service pro-grams that are currently running.Giving back to the communityis an essential part o achievingthe experience o being put in adierent environment other thanyour own. I was given the chanceto serve in Philadelphia (when?)and must say that experience wasta lie changing one. Not only didthe program allow me to continue

my education, but also, meet di-erent people rom other partso the world. Te cut o theseprograms would really have anegative eect on the community

and would put children behind inhaving the opportunity in gettingeducated at an early age.Discontinuing programs like Citi-zens Schools, City Year, Habitator Humanity, Jumpstart, YouthBuild, and each or America,as well as literally hundreds oother local programs and initia-tives working in churches, seniorhomes, schools and governmentagencies would be disastrous. Mil-lions would be out o a job; manywont be able to pay or their edu-

cation and children wont receivethe benets o being able to havean early start on learning. Tiswill also be a major impact on theparents. Without these programs,some parents would have to make(housing, ood?) arrangementsthey cant aord in some cases.Tese ree programs are very ben-ecial to many parents and endingthem will cripple them in the longrun.Just imagine how many kidswould be back in the street com-mitting dierent type o acts o

violence. Tese programs are sav-ing lives and encouraginge poorercommunities to not give up, butto help these children to succeed.Having these non-prot organiza-tions on the ront line shows thereare people out there who careabout the community and wantto serve. Volunteering is such apowerul way o giving back andI believe that i the governmentdoes eliminate unding or theseprograms, things will get worse.Its a shame to see that the govern-

ment doesnt care about the kidsand its ridiculous that Americanpeople would allow this to hap-pen. Where are our morals andcommon interest in taking care oour own? It seems like every manor themselves, but in my opiniononce its gone or good; then willthe American people realize thatthese programs are needed.Sincerely,

iwiya HughesWashington, DCAmeriCorps Alumni 06


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

By Mario Banegas

In the most recent newso University o the District oColumbia, you will nd issuessuch as the SGA President oo taking a million dollars andspending it elsewhere as well asthe incident with UDCs presi-

dent, Dr. Allen . Sessoms, usingthe universities money onextremely luxuriousthings. However,outside the class-room, thereis anotherissue that hasbeen going onever since thebanning o UDC athlet-ics to participate in any NCAAtournaments. From not beingprecise on the Clearing Houseregulations, to spending or tak-

ing away too much money roma players scholarship, UDCAthletes have had their shareo irresponsible actions. At theend o 2007, UDC dismissedup to 6 coaches or violating

various acts stated in the NCAAhandbook. Now we return againto a similar issue. Coach KerryStockton was one o two coachesnot red during the reign oterror in 2007 but his actionsrecently caught up to him. In areport by the Mens Soccer eam

and the Athletic Department,Kerry Stockton was let go onuesday March 1, 2011 or vio-lating NCAA regulations. Tese

violations have been conrmedby Coach Stockton but not bythe athletic department. Hestates that, one o the players(David Oben-darko) reusedto clean up the Mens SoccerLocker rooms, the rest roomsoutside the entrance o the gym,along with giving an apologyto the team regarding his latearrival to a practice. On this

note, coach said he gave David

FirebirdsSoccer Head

Coach Fired

various opportunities to ulll

his punishments, that everyoneelse did, but he reused and wascut rom the team. David wenton to tell the athletic director andCoach Stockton stated that be-cause o the extreme conditionsthat David reused to go alongwith eventually got him in trouble,along with the evidence that KerryStockton had broken a rule o theNCAA in 2009 by starting prac-tice earlier then what was permit-ted. Coach Stockton then statedthat the players should rally up to

deend his positionas a head coach but

later mentions thateverything is ne and

he is still the head coacheven though the athletic

department released him.On various occasions includ-

ing March 1, 2011 and again onMarch 7, 201, the athletic depart-ment tells the team that he is red,but continues to say they cant goin detail about the issue becauseo personal and legal rights. Teystate that, i you were in our

shoes and you were aced with thesituation that your head coach wasin, wouldnt you re him. As onow by gathering all the inor-mation set, it seems that CoachStockton lied about the issue ohim not thinking he did anythingwrong and that his statement ostill being the head coach o theMens Soccer program was alse.In this regard, we ask you to senda mass orm o communication toocially put this situation to rest,and send a message to coaches

that are qualied, to take this joband bring them here to interviewthem and ultimately have smoothtransition o power so that we canocus on the next season. I thissituation is not dealt with, thenthe program, including the uturerecruits, will nd themselves inmuch chaos moving in the all. So,I urge you to help us at this timeo crisis to bring balance and or-der back to the Mens Soccer eamo the University o the District oColumbia.


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