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Lomotey opens door to SU
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As an extended effort to improve communication on campus, Chancellor Kofi Lomotey will be having his first one-hour open hour session for students. The first of these sit-down sessions with the chancellor is Wednesday from 4 p.m.-5 p.m. “The administration, along with some faculty, students and staff, are concerned about the limited communication on campus. The town hall meetings, the Monday Morning Memo, the designating of 11:00 am to 12:20 pm on Thursdays as no-class time and the administration’s monthly meetings with faculty are all efforts to improve communication on campus. The Chancellor’s open hours for students is another effort to improve communication,” said Chancellor Kofi Lomotey. The Chancellor’s open hours for students will occur every Tuesday from 9 a.m.-10 a.m. and Wednesday from 4 p.m.5 p.m., except on days when the Chancellor is out-of-town or unavailable due to other engagements. No appointment is necessary for these times. As an effort to assist and speak with each student participating in that day’s open hours for students, each student will be given a limited amount of time to talk to the chancellor. “These open hours will occur each Tuesday from 9 a.m.10 a.m. and each Wednesday from 4 p.m.-5 p.m. during each semester—except when the Chancellor is out of town or otherwise unavoidably occupied. Meeting times will be limited to allow as many students as possible to dialogue with the Chancellor. In instances where more time is needed for a particular student, a regular appointment will be made. As this is a new initiative, we are not yet certain how much of a response we will receive; we will respond accordingly,” he said. The chancellor hopes that students take advantage of the opportunity to come and sit down with him and discuss any occurrences affecting the students.
Various Southern University professors and faculty members team up to fix institutional issues reported by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). The SACS commission on colleges set forth standards and guidelines for institutions in a range of areas to insure that they represent good practices in higher education and establish a level of accomplishment expected of all members of that institution. Southern University is now in the reaffirmation stage of the accreditation process for 20092010 after completing their compliance report, which shows the university fulfillment to all of SACS rules and regulation. SACS sent their preliminary response to Southern University’s report which states their noncompliancy with the SACS guidelines in areas that challenge the university mission statement, various support programs, and learning resources for students. “The big issue that the university is not compliant on is the lack of evidence that it shows on having establish institutional effectiveness,” said Jacqueline Howard-Matthews, an associate provost of the office of planning, assessment and institutional research. In response to their noncompliance the university reorganizes their leadership committee which consist a “task force” of 13 teams with faculty and professors in which they are assigned different section in the university responsibility checklist for focus reports submitted to SACS. Each “task force” is given the checklist that states a well-defined notion on what has to be done to correct the problems in many areas around Southern University. “That financial aid doesn’t have a large amount to do with See SACS page 3
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New orleans saints cornerback tracy porter holds a super Bowl champions towel as quarterback drew Brees stands nearby with his son Baylen after the saints beat the indianapolis colts 31-17 in the NFL super Bowl XLiV football game in Miami sunday. diGest staFF report
The New Orleans Saints’ run to Sunday’s Super Bowl victory over the Indianapolis Colts not only sparked celebrations among fans in New Orleans, but fans among Southern University students as well. With Tuesday’s parade honoring the NFL champions hours away in the Crescent City, students express their feelings on the game’s outcome. Many students whose home teams were knocked out of the running like Porsche Love, a senior business management major from San Antonio, cheered for the Saints because she felt if it wasn’t her favorite team, the Cowboys, then it had to be the Saints. “I was so happy that the Colts had lost because at one point they had beat the Chicago Bears. So I was a Saints fan for the night,” said Cedric Clarke, junior finance major from Westmont, Ill. “I believed they deserved it.” Also many students like Deante Thomas, junior engineering major from Baton Rouge, felt that this win was for more than just the Saints, but for the whole state of Louisiana as well. “The Saints played an excellent game. Its great that a state that’s been last in everything comes out best in the nation,” commented Henry Watson, a sophomore computer science
major from Jonesville, La. “For everything that the city of New Orleans has been through it couldn’t have happened to a better team,” said Dawnestle Milligan, senior nursing major from Houston. People lined up by the hundreds to buy Monday’s Times-Picayune, which hollered “AMEN!” from its front page. The Saints’ Super Bowl victory was a prayer answered in this struggling city, and New Orleans itself seemed different for it. Swarms of fans in black and gold greeted the players as they stepped off a chartered plane at the suburban airport, cheering them with “Who Dat!” chants. The Saints, cellar dwellers for decades, delivered not just their first Lombardi trophy but optimism for their city, a new sense that the unimaginable — better schools, less crime and even honest politicians — really is possible. “The Saints kept hope alive in this city that better days were coming,” said Shannon Sims, a 45-year-old criminal-court administrator in the crowd. They “were the force that kept us See SAINTS page 3
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Saints raise their city’s spirits, maybe for good NEW ORLEANS (AP) — People lined up by the hundreds to buy Monday’s TimesPicayune, which hollered “AMEN!” from its front page. The Saints’ Super Bowl victory was a prayer answered in this struggling city, and New Orleans itself seemed different for it. Swarms of fans in black and gold greeted the players as they stepped off a chartered plane at the suburban airport, cheering them with “Who Dat!” chants. The Saints, cellar dwellers for decades, delivered not just their first Lombardi trophy but optimism for their city, a new sense that the unimaginable — better schools, less crime and even honest politicians — really is possible. “The Saints kept hope alive in this city that better days were coming,” said Shannon Sims, a 45-year-old criminal-court administrator in the crowd. They “were the force that kept us moving forward.”
Hurricane Katrina battered the Saints and even knocked them out of town for a while, as it did to many New Orleanians. Now the team is better than ever, and its hometown fans hope to follow suit. “It shows the rest of the country that we have resilient people and this is a city of winners,” said Dwight Henry, 46, a coowner of the Buttermilk Drop bakery and cafe off St. Claude Avenue near the Lower 9th Ward, one of the areas hardest hit by Katrina. “Since Katrina, we’ve been able to start successfully from the bottom,” said Henry, whose business was badly flooded. “We couldn’t go anywhere lower.” The win was not just about football for New Orleans, said John Magill, a historian at Historic New Orleans Collection. “We’re all being told that we’re sinking, why bother rebuild it, there was so much of that attitude,” Magill said. Thanks to the
Super Bowl win, he said, Americans will view the city in the positive light the city deserves. The day before the game, the city elected a new mayor in Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, the son of the majority-black city’s last white mayor. Landrieu won with 66 percent of the vote, garnering votes across racial lines. Hope is high that Landrieu will lead the city in the right direction. About 80 percent of the city’s pre-Katrina population has returned and hundreds of millions of dollars in rebuilding money still has to be spent, but the murder rate remains high, the city’s levees have not been fully rebuilt and the city could be flooded again. For now, though, it seems the sky’s the limit, and the Saints’ 31-17 upset of the Indianapolis Colts is the reason. It looked like a wild Carnival parade Monday along a nondescript strip of road
leading from the airport where the team’s airplane touched down. Thousands of fans lined the road with their Saints jerseys, “Who Dat!” chants, homemade signs, fleur-de-lis garb, face paint and Mardi Gras costumes (like the Saint-a Claus fellow). Coach Sean Payton held the Lombardi trophy aloft through the sunroof of his car, eliciting wild screams. At the airport, 37-year-old courier Aaron Washington said “the dawn of a new day” had come. A brass-band version of “When the Saints Go Marching In” blared from his car stereo. “This team has allowed us to get past Katrina and look forward to better things,” Washington said. He watched the game with dozens of friends and relatives on a big-screen television in front of a home in eastern New Orleans that was rebuilt after the 2005 hurricane flooded it with 9 feet of water.
votes across racial lines. Hope is high that Landrieu will lead the city in the right direction. About 80 percent of the city’s pre-Katrina population has returned and hundreds of millions of dollars in rebuilding money still has to be spent, but the murder rate remains high, the city’s levees have not been fully rebuilt and the city could be flooded again. For now, though, it seems the sky’s the limit, and the Saints’ 31-17 upset of the Indianapolis Colts is the reason. It looked like a wild Carnival parade Monday along a nondescript strip of road leading from the airport where the team’s airplane touched down. Thousands of fans lined the road with their Saints jerseys, “Who Dat!” chants, homemade signs, fleur-de-lis garb, face paint and Mardi Gras costumes (like the Saint-a Claus fellow). Coach Sean Payton held the Lombardi trophy aloft through the sunroof of his car, eliciting wild screams. At the airport, 37-year-old courier Aaron Washington said “the dawn of a new day” had come. A brass-band version of “When the Saints Go Marching In” blared from his car stereo. “This team has allowed us to get past
Katrina and look forward to better things,” Washington said. He watched the game with dozens of friends and relatives on a big-screen television in front of a home in eastern New Orleans that was rebuilt after the 2005 hurricane flooded it with 9 feet of water. The Lower 9th Ward erupted in jubilation, with neighbors hugging and screaming. “It felt really good,” said Ann Schexnyder, a 51-year-old dental lab technician. “They’ve come along and we’ve come along.” For her, it was a moment of joy surrounded by stark reality. Her street is dotted by boarded-up homes, abandoned by flood victims who were unable to come back or couldn’t find the will to rebuild. “One house after the other is empty,” said Schexnyder, whose own house is still being rebuilt. “I had some bad luck with contractors. I have extension cords around the house. My plumbing is not finished. FEMA took my trailer away.” The Saints were temporarily relocated to San Antonio after Katrina. In exile like the rest of the city, the players lived out of hotels and did weight training at Gold’s Gyms. They went 3-13 that season and for a while practiced at a high school.
Meanwhile, San Antonio’s mayor said he had set up talks with team owner Tom Benson about moving the club to Texas. Even the future of the Louisiana Superdome, where thousands sought refuge after Katrina, was in doubt. “They wanted to tear down the Superdome! You can’t do that to us,” said Lacey Hyer, holding a mimosa after a noisy, all-night party in the French Quarter. The stars had begun to align for the Saints by 2006. The Dome was fixed up. Payton and quarterback Drew Brees were brought in. Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush was obtained by a stroke of good fortune in the draft, and the Saints sold out their season tickets. They went to the NFC championship for the first time that first season back in New Orleans. And on Sunday, after only their ninth winning season in their 43 years, the Saints became champions. Longsuffering fans throughout the city shot off fireworks, danced in the streets and on rooftops, and celebrated a team, and maybe a city, reborn. ——— the associated press contributed to this report.
SACS from page 1 moving forward.” Hurricane Katrina battered the Saints and even knocked them out of town for a while, as it did to many New Orleanians. Now the team is better than ever, and its hometown fans hope to follow suit. “It shows the rest of the country that we have resilient people and this is a city of winners,” said Dwight Henry, 46, a co-owner of the Buttermilk Drop bakery and cafe off St. Claude Avenue near the Lower 9th Ward, one of the areas hardest hit by Katrina. “Since Katrina, we’ve been able to start successfully from the bottom,” said Henry, whose business was badly flooded. “We couldn’t go anywhere lower.” The win was not just about football for New Orleans, said John Magill, a historian at Historic New Orleans Collection. “We’re all being told that we’re sinking, why bother rebuild it, there was so much of that attitude,” Magill said. Thanks to the Super Bowl win, he said, Americans will view the city in the positive light the city deserves. The day before the game, the city elected a new mayor in Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, the son of the majority-black city’s last white mayor. Landrieu won with 66 percent of the vote, garnering
SACS from page 1 the accreditation process for SACS, but the department has to make sure that they are doing well developed audits on time so that the university isn’t in any possibilities of losing its financial aid programs,” commented Ursula J. Shorty, a director of the office of student financial aid. “SACS will look at the past goals and objectives of financial aid and verify if the department’s participation in the title IV program is safe which “does not pose a problem,” she added. According to Ms. Howard-Matthews the budget cuts that affect all universities in the state will not weigh in on the accreditation process. A task force is assigned this issue in which they cover the standard declared by SACS for the university to show if there are physically
stable and what they are doing similar to other university to show their institutional stability. “The university has maintain a review of what is coming from the governor’s office, monitor the mandates from the board of regions and then make changes accordingly, which in those changes we try to assure that students by in large, as best as possible have access to what they need to get in, have a successful experience, and get out in a timely fashion,” Howard-Matthew continued. The leadership committee is steadfastly working to meet the Mar. 12, 2010 deadline for their focus reports and also they are continually alerting faculty members with the faculty convocation that was held Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010.
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List forms for Landrieu’s post By melinda deslatte associated press WRITER
Preparing for his new job as New Orleans mayor, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu will leave behind a position sought by a lengthy list of politicos vying to be secondin-line to the governor. But before anyone can run for the vacancy, Gov. Bobby Jindal will make a temporary appointment to the post and lawmakers will decide whether they want to abolish the job entirely, as Jindal is proposing. The governor said Monday that he was talking with people hoping to become the interim replacement for Landrieu until either a new lieutenant governor is chosen in fall elections or until the office is scrapped. Besides being first in the succession line if something happens to the governor, Louisiana’s lieutenant governor oversees the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism and manages parks, museums, the state library and tourism
efforts. Jindal wouldn’t give names of contenders to fill Landrieu’s job, but he said he is looking for an appointee who doesn’t intend to run in the fall. “Literally, dozens of folks have expressed interest either directly to me or indirectly to me. I’m certainly more than happy to meet with the folks that have an interest,” Jindal said. He added that he’s heard mainly from elected officials so far. Landrieu said he’ll stay in the lieutenant governor’s job until May, so Jindal said he won’t rush a decision for the appointment. Among the names mentioned as possible appointees are Hunt Downer, a Republican former state House speaker and major general in the Louisiana National Guard, and Scott Angelle, a Democrat who works as the governor’s legislative liaison and natural resources secretary. Many others are weighing a run for the office in the Oct. 2 election. With the rare opportunity of
PHOTO BY bill haber/ap photo New Orleans mayor elect Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu holds up the front page of the Times Picayune while talking about his election night victory and the New Orleans Saints in the Super Bowl at a news conference in New Orleans Sunday.
an open statewide office and term limits looming for many lawmakers, a vacant lieutenant governorship offers an appealing opportunity. But anyone winning a fall special election would have to run again a year later in the regular statewide election cycle to keep the seat — if the job isn’t
Six plead not guilty in Rutgers sorority hazing case NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Six members of a suspended Rutgers University sorority have pleaded not guilty to charges of hazing. A lawyer for five of the women said Monday that they deny the allegations of paddling Sigma Gamma Rho pledges. Each woman is charged in Municipal Court with aggravated hazing for allegedly striking several new members on the buttocks with paddles between Jan. 18 and Jan. 25. Campus police say the incidents occurred between Jan. 18 and Jan. 25 and at least seven women sustained injuries.
One sought medical attention. One woman claimed she was struck 201 times with a paddle over a week. The six women could face disciplinary action and possible expulsion under the university’s code of conduct. They are free on bail. National leaders of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority suspended the Rutgers chapter. The North Carolina-based sorority took the action after the six women were charged with aggravated hazing based on allegations they paddled prospective pledges and denied them food. Rutgers has also suspended the sorority.
Saints’ victory parade to have Carnival flavor
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — No ticker tape, no convertibles, but the parade the city is throwing to honor the Saints for their Super Bowl victory will fit right in during Carnival in New Orleans. The parade, which starts at the Louisiana Superdome at 5 p.m. CST on Tuesday, will have 10 floats donated by Mardi Gras Krewes and 12 marching bands. The players, coaches and other team officials, will ride on floats from 10 different Mardi Gras krewes, including Rex, Zulu, Endymion, Bacchus, Muses and Orpheus. Each parade has donated use of the float the krewe’s king, queen or grand marshal rides on. Float builder Barry Kern said on Monday it was the first parade that had floats from various krewes rolling together. The Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in Sunday night’s Super Bowl.
abolished. At least one name can be crossed off the possible contender’s list: Former Gov. Kathleen Blanco, a Democrat who was lieutenant governor from 1996 to 2003, has no intention of seeking the number two job again, her spokeswoman
Marie Centanni said Monday. Still on the list of potential candidates are Secretary of State Jay Dardenne, Senate President Joel Chaisson, Treasurer John Kennedy, Sen. Sharon Weston Broome, Sen. Mike Michot, Sen. A.G. Crowe and Rep. Rick Gallot.
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Jags stumble on road, hurt chances Southern falls to Grambling State, Jackson State; drops to ninth in SWAC standings By JUsTiN WOOTEN digest sPorts Writer
It’s been over nine years since the Jags have won a game against their arch rival Grambling st on the road and that streak will continue at least till next season. Southern (418, 2-8) lost their 15th straight road game dating back to last season and their 8th straight road game in the SWAC. Letting a close game slip away and losing in the final. Tony McGilveary made a free throw with 58 seconds to play to cut the deficit to 58-55. But, Tigers guards Donald Qualls and Ariece Perkins, who in this game, beat the Jags last season with a last second 3 pointer, each hit three free throws to push the lead to 6455. Beating the Jags 65-59, continuing their home winning steak against Southern for over
nine years. Madou Bol was the only Jag in double figures with 11 and he contributed that off the bench. The bench was the only production Coach Spivery had to keep this game competitive. The starters combined for a total of 22 of the Jags 59 points on the afternoon and only had eight assist on 20 made baskets. The Jags shot a descent 43 percent from the floor but they also gave up 14 offensive rebounds to the tigers, which ended their 5-game losing streak. All three of the tigers conference wins have been against teams at the bottom of the SWAC standings. With the lost, Southern is now a 1-game back of Grambling for the 8th and final spot to determine the seeding in the SWAC tournament. With only 7 games remaining in the regular season, every
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southern’s Brandon White looks for a teammate while grambling state’s Kevin Loyd defends during saturday’s rivalry game at grambling. the Jags fell 65-59 to grambling and 63-53 to Jackson state monday night.
game will become more important as the Jags fight for position for one of those final eight spots. 6 of the Jags next 7 opponents are ahead of them in the SWAC standings. The SU men also
stumbled Monday night at Jackson State, falling 63-53. Statistics were not available at press time. Meanwhile, the SU women saw its winning streak snapped at Grambling State. The
Jaguars fell 69-58 to the Lady Tigers. Hannah Kador led Southern with 21 points. Southern regrouped Monday night, edging Jackson State 5453. Statistics were not available at press time.
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black facts February 9 1995—Bernard Harris, an African-American astronaut, takes a space walk. 1971—Leroy “Satchel” Paige inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame 1952—Author Ralph Ellison’s novel “Invisible Man” wins the National Book Award 1944—Novelist Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Ga. 1906—Paul Laurence Dunbar dies in Dayton, Ohio.
Dyson’s April session next for Speaker Series By mary davis
digest managing editor
The Chancellor Lecture Series scheduled for this week has been rescheduled due to a conflict with the speaker’s schedule. Sister Souljah, author of “The Coldest Winter Ever and Midnight” was expected to headline the Chancellor Lecture Series, which was scheduled for Wednesday. The author-film producer had to reschedule her appearance at the university when plans to begin production of a movie based on one of her books came through late last month. The next Chancellor Lecture Series session is scheduled for April 21. Michael Eric Dyson,
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The Southern University community will have to wait a few weeks until it gets another session of the Chancellor’s Speaker Series when Michael Eric Dyson, shown here in a 2007 appearance at SU, returns to the campus in April. Sister Souljah, who was slated to speak Wednesday, will not speak at SU due to a scheduling conflict.
author of “Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur” and “Come Hell or High Water,” is scheduled to headline that series. Dyson received his B.A. from Carson-Newman College in 1982 and is also a graduate of Princeton University where he received his M.A. in 1991 and Ph.D in 1993. He is a longtime professor, teaching at universities such as Brown
University in Providence, Rhode Island and lecturer. The series, which began in November 2008, costs an average of $11,000 plus transportation and housing per lecture. Federal funds are used to cover the cost of the series and will no longer be allocated after 2010. “The money used for the Chancellor’s Lecture Series is a part of supplemental federal
funds called Title III funds. The supplemental funds are for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 fiscal years only. There are specific things for which these funds can be used. The proposal for the series was submitted to the federal government in my initial semester on campus, prior to our being notified of shortfalls in the state budget,” said Chancellor Kofi Lomotey.
Super Bowl blitzes TV watching records NEW YORK (AP) — The New Orleans Saints’ victory over Indianapolis in the Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of “M-A-S-H” to become the most-watched program in U.S. television history, the Nielsen Co. said Monday. Compelling story lines involving the city of New Orleans and its ongoing recovery from Hurricane Katrina and the attempt at a second Super Bowl ring for Indianapolis quarterback Peyton Manning propelled the viewership. Football ratings have been strong all season. “It was one of those magical moments that you don’t often see in sports,” said Sean McManus, president of CBS News and Sports. Nielsen estimated Monday that 106.5 million people watched Sunday’s Super Bowl. The “M-A-S-H” record was 105.97 million. The viewership estimate obliterated the previous record viewership for a Super Bowl - last year’s game between Arizona and Pittsburgh. That game was seen by 98.7 million people, Nielsen said. The “M-A-S-H” record has proven as durable and meaningful in television as Babe Ruth’s record of 714 home runs was in baseball until topped by Hank Aaron. Ultimately, it may be hard to tell which program was really watched by more people. There’s a margin for error in such numbers, and Nielsen’s Monday estimate was preliminary, and could change with a more thorough look at data due Tuesday. “It’s significant for all of the members of the broadcasting community,” said Leslie Moonves, CBS Corp. CEO. “For anyone who
wants to write that broadcasting is dead, 106 million people watched this program. You can’t find that anywhere else.” Moonves predicted CBS will earn more in advertising revenue than in any other Super Bowl. The good ratings for the game and football in general also set CBS and other football broadcasters up well when selling advertising for next season, he said. The Nielsen estimate also drew some congratulations from Alan Alda, the star of “M-A-S-H,” and the slugger whose record was beaten. “If the `M-A-S-H’ audience was eclipsed, it was probably due in large part to the fact that the whole country is rooting for New Orleans to triumph in every way possible,” Alda said. “I am, too, and I couldn’t be happier for them. I love that city.” There are more American homes with television sets now (114.9 million) than there were in 1983 (83.3 million). An estimated 77 percent of homes with TVs on were watching “M-A-S-H” in 1983, compared with the audience share of 68 for the Super Bowl. Nielsen also measures only the United States, and it’s possible some World Cup soccer games were seen more worldwide. Accurate measurement of television audiences outside the United States is spotty at best. Alda also wondered whether the numbers were too close to declare a new champion. He thinks Nielsen didn’t take into account large numbers of people watching “M-AS-H” communally, which is often the case for football games, too. “Not to say I’m competitive, but in part
we are talking about sports,” he said. “And I actually AM competitive.” McManus didn’t want to jinx it, but the abnormally strong viewership for football this year left him hoping for a record. The NFC and AFC championship games both had their biggest audiences since the 1980s. The growth of high-definition television and its appeal to sports fans has also helped. A competitive game until the final minutes sealed it. McManus acknowledged some nervousness when Indianapolis jumped out to a 10-0 lead — a Super Bowl rout often makes people turn away from the game — but New Orleans roared back. The Mid-Atlantic blizzard also helped CBS. After New Orleans, the highest-rated market was snowbound Washington, Nielsen said. More people watched the game from their homes in that area instead of going to parties or bars, and Nielsen does a much better job counting viewers in homes than outside of them. “Bad weather in the Northeast and good weather in Florida was a good combination for us,” McManus said. The Super Bowl also proved a strong launching pad for the new CBS series “Undercover Boss” that premiered after the game. An estimated 38.6 million people watched the first edition of a series about corporate honchos working secretly as lowlevel employees in their own companies, Nielsen said. That’s third only to a 1996 “Friends” and 2001 “Survivor” as the mostwatched program after the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, Doritos was a big winner in a measurement of interest in the commercials played during the Super Bowl. TiVo Inc.
February 10 1992—Alex Haley, author of the novel “Roots,” dies. 1966—Andrew Brimmer becomes the first AfricanAmerican governor of the Federal Reserve Board when he is appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. 1964—Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed by the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 290130, ending 12 days of debate and voting on 125 amendments. 1854—Joseph Charles Price, founder and first president of Livingstone College, was born in Elizabeth City, N.C. February 11 1990—Nelson Mandela released from prison after serving 27 years. 1976—Clifford Alexander Jr. confirmed as the first AfricanAmerican Secretary of the Army. He held that position until the end of President Jimmy Carter’s term. 1961—Robert Weaver is sworn in as administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, the highest federal post held at that time by an African-American. 1644—First black legal protest in American pressed by 11 blacks who petitioned for freedom in New Netherlands (New York). February 12 1962—Bus boycott started in Macon, Ga. 1952—Congressional Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to Sgt. Cornelius H. Charlton for heroism in Korea. 1948—First Lt. Nancy C. Leftenant became first AfricanAmerican accepted in the regular Army nursing corps. 1930—In Tuskegee, Ala., the Rosenwald Fund made grants to the Alabama State Board of Health to help meet the cost of a study of syphilis in African-American men living in rural Georgia and Alabama, thus beginning a four-decade long study of syphilis without treatment. 1909—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in New York. 1900—For a Lincoln birthday celebration, James Weldon Johnson writes the lyrics for “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” With music by his brother, J. Rosamond, the song is first sung by 500 children in Jacksonville, Fla. 1793—First fugitive slave law enacted by Congress February 13 1970—Joseph Searles becomes first African-American admitted to the New York Stock Exchange. 1957—Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized in New Orleans with Martin Luther King Jr. as president. 1635—America’s first public school, the Boston Latin School, opens. Black students were excluded from attending.
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20 Questions I’M JUST ASKING STATEMENT
I’M JUST ASKING is for entertainment purposes only. These remarks do not represent the opinions of the DIGEST staff, Southern University or the Office of Student Media Services.
1. Who didn’t watch the Super Bowl? 2. Why were there so many dang Doritos commercials? 3. Why did it have to be a black single mother one of the commercials? 4. Who would have slapped that little boy back? 5. Who thought Piyush “Bobby” Jindal was going to declare Monday, the WHO DAT Holiday? 6. Did you know that Piyush is his first name? 7. Who makes their own nickname? 8. Who didn’t go to class Monday? 9. Who went to New Orleans after the game? 10. How many drunk white people high-fived you on Bourbon Street? 11. Are the days of a “blackowned” Southern almost over? 12. Does this mean refund checks will be on time? 13. Will classes be on time also? 14. Will the potholes be fixed too? 15. Who heard about the SGRhos at Rutgers hazing? Really SGRhos? 16. Were those the “follicallychallenged garden tools” that Don Imus was talking about? 17. Who now claims to be related to Randall Gay, Tracy Porter or Pierre Thomas? 18. Who claimed to be Drew Brees sister’s cousin’s uncle’s granddaddy’s second cousin? 19. Who waited in line for a Monday morning “The Advocate?” 20. WHO DAT! —BONUS QUESTIONS— 21. Did Sistah Souljah drop speaking at SU like a class she didn’t want to be in? 22. If so, does that make it the “Coldest Speaker Series Ever?”
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The wagon hasn’t stopped yet Throughout the course of the football season many New Orleans Saints fans have been labeled as “bandwagon fans.” Who cares? I mean really most of the “bandwagon fans” are from Louisiana and they are like the song says “rooting for the home team.” I think the people who root for the other teams (Patriots, Vikings, Colts, etc.) are mad because the Saints were doing so well. Come on, give credit where credit is due! They didn’t win Super Bowl XLIV by sure luck. Drew Brees has been to the Pro Bowl four out of nine years that he has been in the NFL. He was the offensive player of the year in 2008 and the MVP in Super Bowl
BREANNA PAUL XLIV. His arm is like amazing! Let’s get on to Darren Sharper, can read plays like a (enter choice of expletive)! He had nine interceptions this season alone and 71 tackles. Of those nine interceptions, he ran three of the back for touchdowns. So yeah these boys are talented! And for every fan, there is a “bandwagon hater.” How many
of the people saying “Mayne, eff the Saints they ain’t (expletive)” before this season? Don’t worry I’ll wait (oh, and by the way, I said that in my Katt Williams voice)! Seriously, how many people were like I really can’t stand the Saints … before this season? I’ve heard of people saying “I hate the Steelers” or “I hate Brett Favre’s Wranglerjean-wearing, Sears-endorsing, interception- throwing … butt.” No one had a chance to say that because our fans were busy wearing paper bags over their heads while the team was called the ‘Aints. But during all of that, weren’t they at the game? New Orleans Saints fans are amazing! How many people do you know actually go to
Detroit Lions games or how about Jacksonville Jaguars games? You don’t see rich people buying suites for those games. But now all of a sudden when people want to support the team, they are called bandwagon fans? Just because someone doesn’t update their Facebook status with “WHO DAT?!” or “I’m glad I live in LaBreesiana” or take advantage of the fleur de lis special at Effum BodyWorks doesn’t mean they aren’t faithful fans. So let’s embrace these bandwagon fans and let them become a part of the WHO DAT NATION! Why can’t we just let them be a part of the WHO DAT NATION? “The more the merrier,” right?
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