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The Hornet Tribune VOLUME 55, ISSUE 7

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The official student newspaper serving the Alabama State University and Metro-Montgomery communities STUDENT MULTIMEDIA

New editor offers a different vision

BY ABRIANNA WRIGHT Staff Reporter/Writer abrianna.wright@gmail.com

“Serving as editor is a job that takes guts; it takes persistence, faith, and willpower and without those things you will not make a very good editor,” said David Lee King Jr., a junior political science major and Gary, Ind. native who was recently appointed

by the Alabama State University Student Media Board to serve as the editor-in-chief of The Hornet Tribune.

The newly appointed editor says this is a new experience for him, considering he was very interested in politics and government and never considered a career in journalism.

King said in the short time that he has held this

position, it has taught him that some people will be offended because of the news coverage, but he has learned that the purpose of news is to reveal the truthful details and inform the public so people can make informed decisions.

Despite his interest in politics, policy and government, he has learned the role of journalists.

“It is the job of the editor

and staff to be neutral, despite the situation and those involved and report the facts and let people create their own opinions and views about a situation,” he said.

“I am faced with the challenge on a day-to-day basis to make tough decisions,” he said. “Do I cover this event because it is a hard news See VISION on page 5

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Newly selected executive editor David King Jr., meets with members of his staff to talk about stories for next week’s issues.

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION

Connection Day attracts hundreds of HS students

BY DESTINEE WHITTINGTON Staff Reporter/Writer desiwhittington@gmail.com

Alabama State University held its annual Connection Day this past weekend. Connection Day is a time when students from high schools across the state of Alabama can visit the university to discover what it has to offer them.

It is also a day when the students and their families can tour the campus.

Many of the alumni came out to see what new construction or new programs the institution has to offer.The day is packed with a full schedule of events.

The day begans with the “Discover ASU Welcome Program.” This is where prospective students received an orientation regarding the university’s academic departments, the Student Government Association Street Team, the cheerleaders, and the Mighty Marching Hornets. The crowd also heard a motivating speech from President Gwendolyn E. Boyd, DM. Some prospective students had great things to say about their visit.

“This is my second time coming to Connection Day,” said Autaugaville High School student Zanesha Rhodes, “and I like how we get to see the different sororities, interactions, and the tours. I think that ASU has a great basketball and band program. I can possibly see myself attending this school, majoring in legal studies or criminal justice.”

There were student sessions for high school juniors and seniors; a parent informational session, an underclassmen pathways to college, campus tours, legacy walk, a Hornet block party, and prospective students had an opportunity to attend the first home football game.

“The hype and entertainment is fun here! I love the unity and family environment. I am very interested in the dance team here. If I were See ATTRACTS on page 5

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President Gwendolyn E. Boyd, DM, delivers an emotional and inspirational ‘State of the University” address to hundreds of students, faculty and staff during the Fall Convocation in which various organizations on the campus were noted as well as a special presentation from the Department of Theater Arts.

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION

Boyd describes the ‘State of the University’

BY ETTA QUAYE

Visiting Staff Reporter/Writer quaye.etta@gmail.com

During the 2016 Fall Convocation, which is commonly referred to as the State of the University Address, President Gwendolyn E. Boyd, DM, highlighted a list of achievements acccomplished by students, faculty and staff during the past academic year.

After stating that the state of the university was great, she also addressed several misconceptions, fabrications and hyperbole that had been assailed against the university over the past year.

“I am delighted to tell you the ‘state’ of our University is great.” Boyd said.

“Our biggest and greatest achievement of the year was the announcement in June of the removal of the University from warning by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, otherwise known as SAC-

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Shane Parks, SGA president, introduces Alabama State University’s 14th president, Gwendolyn Elizabeth Boyd, DM.

SCOC...it took two long years of very hard work by a dedicated team of professionals...to make our case to SACSCOC regarding our financial stability, and together we did it.’

She made it known that ASU is moving forward and is not slowing down by referencing the addition of two new academic programs: the master of social work program and the biomedical engineering program.

Boyd gave special greet-

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Theater professors Bryan Martin, MFA, and Professor Wendy Coleman, PhD, lead the dramatic finale during Fall Convocation.

ings and acknowledgments to faculty while thanking them for their work. She also noted the arrival of the new dean of the College of Health Sciences Dr. Cheryl E. Easley along with the new Commander of ROTC Major Ann Graham congratulating her on her upcoming commission as Lieutenant Colonel Graham.

you this morning that you are the brand, you are ASU.” President Boyd continued with recognizing many if not all of the students whose accomplished internships in foreign countries, job offers prior to graduation.

In addition she congratulated student athletes who work hard on and off the field, and the Mighty Marching Hornets for being You Are The Brand featured in the movie “Billy “We are here for the stu- Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” dents and I come to remind alongside major stars such as

Vin Diesel and Chris Tucker which premiers in theaters in November.

The President mentioned other significant accomplishments that hornet nation received. She recognized SGA President Shane Parks and Miss ASU Suna Njie, who have interned at locations such as J.P. Morgan and Wall Street as well as Massachussetts Institute of Technology respectively See DESCRIBES on page 4

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION

General Mills’ snack division president offers advice on leadership, integrity and courage

BY DAVID KING

Interim Editor-in-Chief executiveeditor2016@gmail.com

PHOTO BY ISOKE JAMES/VISUAL MEDIA EDITOR

Anton V. Vincent, president of the Snacks Division of General Mills is the inaugural speaker for the “Student Success Series.”

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“Everyday, you have to go out there and kill it,” said Anton V. Vincent, President of the Snacks Division of food giant General Mills.

He spoke at the inaugural “Student Success Series” sponsored by the Office of

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First Year Programs and Services together with the Center for Innovative Educational Practices and Services, University College, and Williams Communications, LLC. The special event took place on Sept. 22 in the John Garrick Hardy Student Center Theater.

Vincent, who is a native

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of Jackson, Miss., became President of the Snacks Division of General Mills in 2014. His division is responsible for the growth of some of America’s favorite snack brands including Nature Valley granola bars, Betty Crocker fruit-flavored snacks, and Chex Mix. In 2010, Vincent was

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president of General Mills’ Frozen Foods division, where he was responsible for name brands like Green Giant, Pillsbury, and Totino’s.

Vincent’s presentation titled, “Leadership, Integrity, and Courage,” urges students to be the best they can be by See OFFERS on page 5

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ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF EXCELLENCE

“From 1867 to 2017: The Bama State Story” PART VIII

Lincoln Normal University threatened with abolition STAFF REPORT Editor’s Note: For the next 10 issues, The Hornet Tribune staff will chronicle the evolution of the Lincoln School of Marion to Alabama State University.

Around Dec. 9, Marion’s white citizens started a petition to remove Lincoln Normal University from Marion.

The reason for the petition was simply “in the interest of the good people here.” The petition made it clear that it was “not from any prejudice toward the education of the Negro, for should this school remain here, it would inevitably close the other four institutions now fostered by our town. It has proven to be a stumbling block to our prog-

ress, by standing off those who would locate here to educate their children in our schools.”

The once boasted-about and signature of pride for the white citizens of Marion had now become a stumbling block because of an altercation that occurred between some young men of Howard College and the Lincoln Normal School.

According to the a letter that William Burns Paterson, principal of the Lincoln Normal University wrote to Booker T. Washington, principal of Tuskegee’s Colored Normal School, “There were 20 to 30 Howard cadets surrounded one of our students.

Because he would not get off the sidewalk to let them pass,

they clubbed him and would have killed him but for agility and bravery. He defended himself heroically and no one knowing the truth can blame him. There was great excitement for a few days, and we were prepared to repel an attack by Howard Boys … This question of self-defense must be settled and the sooner, the better. An educated man will not and cannot take the abuse that an ignorant one will.”

However, the white citizens of Marion did not see the incident in the same way, and they wanted W. Daniel Brown of Sumter County, Alabama, who was a member of the senior class at Lincoln, to be arrested. But due to the efforts of Lincoln Normal School students, Henrietta

H. Curtis, Alexander Curtis’ daughter, and Paterson, they shielded Brown from arrest and eventually found a way to move him up North.

Despite the efforts of the black citizens of Marion, under the leadership of W.H. McAlpine and Stephen Child, to work out a resolution attempting to ease the tensions between the two races, the appeal did not stop the removal efforts. Brown was never arrested and someone or something would have to pay.

According to the Marion Standard, during the month of February 1887, the white petitioners succeeded in getting help to remove Lincoln.

See STORY on page 4

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION

University to no longer host regional tournament STAFF REPORT Alabama State University will no longer host the Central Regional Basketball Tournament.

According to Alabama High School Athletic Association executive director Steve Savarese, he was notified by Alabama State University recently that it would no longer host the high school basketball tournament.

The specifics behind the university’s decision to drop the event aren’t clear, but sources close to the university said that the university was losing a tremendous amount of money on the tournament and could no longer afford to host it.

The regional tournaments are not big money-makers for the host venues, and most lose money. But the colleges view the chance to get thousands of high school students on their campus as a marketing expense.

According to city officials, the Garrett Coliseum is the new home for the tourna-

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Keith High School’s Carstella Hayes (32) steals the ball from Loachapoka’s Jywan Moss (11) during the ASHAA Central Region Tournament at Alabama State University in Montgomery.

ment.

The contract with Garrett Coliseum, which seats 8,500 with capacity to add up to 4,000 more seats, will be for three years (2017, 2018 and 2019). The 2017 tournament is scheduled for Feb. 16-22 and will feature 28 boys’ and 28 girls’ teams, four each in seven classifications, qualifying through earlier rounds of the AHSAA state playoffs.

The regional winners will

advance to the 95th annual AHSAA State Basketball Tournament in Birmingham the following week (Feb. 27-March 4).

The AHSAA was thankful to university for hosting the tournament for nine years.

“We thank Alabama State University for serving as a site for this tournament,” Savarese said. “We are also very excited about the Central Regional at Gar-

rett Coliseum. This arena has so much history. We have an outstanding relationship with the City of Montgomery. They already host many AHSAA events including the state baseball and softball championships, super sectional wrestling and super regional volleyball championships. We truly believe playing at Garrett Coliseum will be a memorable experience for our member schools and team participants.”

Mayor Todd Strange believes that keeping the event in the city was important to city and county leaders.

“We offered a couple of options to the AHSAA, and they were very willing to work with us on keeping the event here in town,” Strange said. “That’s the most important thing, keeping that revenue here. We have some concerns to work through at Garrett, but we’re getting there.”

Strange said the biggest concern is heat. Garrett has

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CAMPUS NEWS BRIEFS

Campus Activities Board hosts 5-5 basketball tourney

On Sept. 19, the Campus Activities Board hosted a basketball tournament in Lockhart Gymnasium. Students had a chance to pick their own teams to compete

against one another. There were multiple games played with different students taking to the court each time a new game was started. The players had a total of 10 minutes

to play each game, which had all the students watching very enthusiastically.

When asked how they felt about the tournament, a couple of the students said

that they were really enjoying the games. They also stated that they would hope that the Campus Activities Board will have many events like this in the near future.

For the 5th consecutive year, Alabama State University undergraduate students have been awarded scholarships in STEM disciplines.

These scholarships were made possible by a continuous grant from the National Science Foundation.

The scholarships were awarded to 27 students with grade point averages of 3.0

or higher and who are enrolled in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Approximately $78,298 was awarded in the fall with some awards beginning during the summer 2016 semester.

“The S-STEM scholarship has helped me tremendously in achieving my goals throughout my undergraduate

years,” said Uriel Rose, who is a senior majoring in biology. “I appreciate the honor and will continue to fervently pursue excellence in my scholastic endeavors in the future.”

The grant has provided assistance to more than 120 STEM students through scholarships totaling $388,358 within the last

5 years. The grant helps increase ASU’s graduation and retention rate in the STEM disciplines (biology, mathematics, chemistry, forensic chemistry, computer science and computer information system). In addition, the program provides tutoring services for STEM students.

Virginia J. Harper, a 1972 ASU alumna retired as executive director of the ASU Foundation.

Harper’s work with the Foundation began in 1995, when she joined the Board of Directors. Since then, she has served in many capacities: recording secretary, chair of the

fundraising committee, member of the finance and investment committee and Chair of the Board for six months.

In 2006, Mrs. Harper became Executive Director of the Foundation. The position was supposed to be part-time because the Foundation could not afford full-time employ-

ees; however, Mrs. Harper worked more full-time than part-time hours, but still for part-time pay.

She also helped to generate more than $150,000 for student aid in addition to named scholarships by individual donors, the ASU Trust Fund for Educational Excel-

lence and financial awards provided by the ASU National Alumni Association. Additionally, she has provided individual support for students who were in dire need of clothing, books, food and other assistance.

Students receive scholarships in STEM disciplines

Longtime exec. director retires from ASU Foundation

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CRIME REPORT

PHOTO BY DAVID EVANS/CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER

Student Government Association President Shane Parks takes his Oath of Office as Chief Justice Alexis Thackurdin administers it.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

SGA PRESIDENT INAUGURATED

SGA officers formally sworn in, Parks emphasizes why students should become involved

BY JAELYN BROWN

Staff Reporter/Writer jaelynbrown80@gmail.com

“It’s all about us!” rang throughout the Dunn Oliver Acadome on the evening of Sept. 14, as Student Government Association President Shane Parks delivered his inaugural address during his formal swearing in.

Using the slogan of “Acknowledge, Eradicate and Address,” Parks emphasized the importance of students becoming involved with the university and working together to solve issues and problems.

“Since 1867, the vision of nine freed slaves to provide an education for a welldeserved yet underserved population has grown into the opportunity-filled enterprise that we know today as the illustrious Alabama State University,” Parks said. “The Marion 9 had $500 dollars and a dream and that dream was to provide an education

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The Office of Housing and Residential Life Director Gourjoine Wade served as the keynote speaker for the SGA inauguration.

to a population, and by population I am insinuating students. With this implication, it is clear to see that this institution was founded under the notion that as students, it’s all about us!”

He concluded his inaugural address by saying, “ If you aren’t a part of the solution, you are probably part of the problem.”

The Parks Administration was sworn in by the SGA Chief Justice Alexis Thack-

erdin. Among those sworn in was Tiffany Allen SGA Secretary, Keldrinesha Davis SGA Treasurer, and Shane Parks SGA President for the 2016-2017 school year.

The keynote speaker was our Housing and Residence Life director Mr. Gourjoine Wade. He asked an extremely important question: How can you expect your student leaders to stand up for your rights, when you don’t do it yourselves?

He used the example of a dog to illustrate how students expect the SGA to assist them, but they do not support the SGA. “The SGA is the ‘Big Dog’ of campus organizations,” Wade said. “As with any animal or pet, it has to be nurtured, loved and supported. The NAACP has a saying, ‘Have you fed your dog today?’ If students need advocates, they need the SGA-to growl, to bark and bite if necessary, to protect the interest of the students they serve and protect. So, I ask you students, ‘Are you sup- porting your SGA; have you fed your dog today?’ Many of you don’t feed the dog; you kick the dog; you hit the dog; and you still expect the dog to help you.”

He emphasized ways in which the students can assist the SGA by participating in their events and not running to social media to talk See SWORN on page 5

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Poindexter, Sutton confirmed by Student Senate

BY ALEXIS BUTLER

Staff Reporter/Writer alexisbutler57@gmail.com

The Student Government Association Senate confirmed Senate Pro Tempore nominee Autumn Poindexter and Attorney General Clarence Sutton during the Sept.

13 senate meeting in the SGA Conference Room.

Sutton presented himself to the group and elaborated on his goals while he holds this position.

A senior business management major, Sutton has a passion for people. He said to the group that he is “Team Students,” and he is willing to set aside any personal re-

lationships with anyone who is a part of SGA. With this he was able to win over the student senate board and become the Attorney General for school year 2016-2017.

Sen. David King presented the “Residence Hall and Student Leader Support Act” bill. This bill would take action on October 1, setting a budget of a minimum of $2,300 for residence halls, which would be split between the halls, giving each dorm $176 dollars.

These funds would be used to provide programs and events for students, so that they might bond with other

students and allow students to enjoy their dorm living experience.

The funds would be provided through the SGA annual operating budget. Because of lack of funds within the university, the bill was tabled

by Pro Tem Autumn Poindexter. The bill will be put on hold until the university distributes budgets, so that the student senators are allotted the time to know whether the budget is bigger than expected (and they can distribute more than $2,300 to the residence halls) or if the budget is smaller (and they have to minimize the presented amount).

King asked the group that the amount of $2,300 be the minimum and no matter what the present budget is, that they distribute nothing less to the residence halls.

SGA Executive Assistant Thayvez Davenport suggested that the Student Senate “see if someone could match the funds in the university” because the presented budget was an “insult” to the university.

Student senate meetings are open to all, and are held every Tuesday at 11 a.m., during which very important issues are discussed to benefit the needs of students.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

King introduces Morale and School Spirit Act

BY ALEXIS BUTLER Staff Reporter/Writer alexisbutler@gmail.com

If it is left to Sen. David King, the student body will have to abide by the “Hornet Nation Morale and School Spirit Act.” King introduced the bill on Sept. 20, during the Student Senate meeting held at 11 a.m. in the SGA Conference Room.

This bill was confirmed by the group and will start immediately. This bill was set out to increase students’ morale and spirit. It will take place every third Wednesday, being called “ Spirit Wednesday.

During this event the Campus Activities Board will help students learn chants, have different raffles set out, and even have different trivia games, in hopes of having help and volunteers from people all over the

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Sen. David King introduces his ‘Hornet Nation Morale and School Spirit Act’ during the Sept. 20 student senate meeting.

university, like the greeks, NAACP, SGA Street Team, and more.

“Awesome” was the word used by SGA president, Shane Parks. Parks believe that this is a great plan of action and it goes hand and hand with one of his two goals that he had for this year. With this bill both Parks and SGA Vice President, Nicholas Ivey,

hope that this will get students up and excited and that this will increase participation in school hosted events.

Although the budget was up for discussion, with this new bill. Sen. King pointed out that the campus activity board has stated that they are willing to help out with all funds. Within the meeting it was also brought up that not

all things cost. With the hopes of getting help and volunteers from all the different organizations, departments, and colleges there is also hope that these people will be willing to donate funds, apparel, and anything else that will help this event become successful.

This event is to be of the students likings, so they are open to do themed events, and as well as taking suggestions from the students, so that the participation percentage is high.

A first-year student Jimmy Ferrell said, “I think it’s a good idea… I can help out by attending these events, because a lot of people don’t show to stuff like this and that’s what makes the school spirit here low.”

Joshua Hart agreed.

“SGA normally does See EXPRESS on page 4

Date: August 25, 2016 Date: September 12, 2016 Time of Event: 4:00 p.m.

Place of Event: 915 S. Jackson Street

Montgomery, AL 36104 Incident Occurred: Harassment Description: N/A Case Status: Pending Sex Involved: Male Date: September 13, 2016 Time of Event: 2:45 p.m.

Place of Event: Card Hall/ CJ Dunn Hall Incident Occurred: Robbery Description: Kappa Bag/ Car Key Case Status: Closed/ Unfounded Sex Involved: Male, 21 years old Date: September 13, 2016 Time of Event: 4:16 p.m.

Place of Event: 915 S. Jackson Street (MLK RM #401) Incident Occurred: Burglary/ 3rd Degree Description: Single Bill (Money) $20.00 Case Status: Pending Sex Involved: Male, 18 years old Date: September 13, 2016 Time of Event: 5:00 p.m.

Place of Event: Parking Lot G-East

Montgomery, AL 36104 Incident Occurred: Unlawful B & E of a Vehicle Description: Black and Grey Jordan Book Bag, Several Clothes Items, Black Leather Wallet, Driver’s License, Silver and Black IPhone 6, and Rear Driver Window Case Status: Pending Sex Involved: Male, 19 years old Date: September 15, 2016 Time of Event: 1:11 PM (Time Reported) 07:00 PM (Time Occurred) Place of Event: 1101 N. University Dr. (Tullibody Music Building) Montgomery, AL 36104 Type of Incident: Harassment Description: N/A Case Status: Pending Sex Involved: Female, 18 years old Date: September 15, 2016 Time of Event: 6:15 p.m.

Place of Event: Robert C. Hatch Drive Montgomery, AL 36104 Type of Incident: Unlawful Possession Marijuana/ 2nd Degree Description: Large plastic bag with green leafy substance believed to be marijuana, brown paper rolled with green leafy substance believed to be marijuana Case Status: Closed/ Cleared by Arrest (Adult) Sex Involved: N/A Date: September 18, 2016 Time of Event: 9:00 PM (Time Reported) 7:00 PM (Time Occurred) Place of Event: 915 S. Jackson St.

Montgomery, AL 36104 Type of Incident: Unlawful B&E of a Motor Vehicle Description: Rear Passenger Window Case Status: Pending Sex Involved: Male, 23 years old Date: September 19, 2016 Time of Event: 9:55 AM (Time Reported) 4:00 AM (Time Occurred) Place of Event: I-65 (50 Yards from I-65/I-85 Exchange Montgomery, AL Type of Incident: Theft of Property Description: Vehicle Windshield Damaged (Passenger Side) Case Status: Closed/ Administratively Cleared Sex Involved: N/A Date: September 19, 2016 Time of Event: 10:15 PM (Time Reported) 7:20 PM (Time Occurred) Place of Event: 915 S. Jackson Street (Student Center) Montgomery, Al 36104 Type of Incident: Theft of Property/ 3rd Degree Description: I-Phone 6 16GB Case Status: Pending/ Administratively Cleared Sex Involved: Female, 21 years old Date: September 19, 2016 Time of Event: 11:19 PM (Time Reported) 11:00 PM (Time Occurred) Place of Event: New Facility B

1173 Ross Dunn Drive, 2nd Floor Type Of Incident: Discharge Firearm within

city limits/ Bldg.

Description: There are four holes in the drywall of the building Case Status: Pending Sex Involved: N/A Date: September 20, 2016 Time of Event: 5:28 PM (Time Reported) 10:30 AM (Time Occurred) Place of Event: 915 S. Jackson St. Montgomery, AL 36104 Alabama State University Type of Incident: Theft of Property/3rd Degree Description: Solid Black Wallet, Visa Debit Card, and Driver’s License Case Status: Pending Sex Involved: Female, 18 years old Date: September 20, 2016 Time of Event: 4:00 PM (Time Reported) 11:00 AM (Time Occurred) Place of Event: 1155 N. University Dr. (Busky Building) Montgomery, AL 36104 Type of Incident: Criminal Mischief/ 3rd Degree Description: 2013 Maroon Kia Optima Case Status: Pending Sex Involved: Female, 54 years old Date: September 21, 2016 Time of Event: 2:00 PM (Time Reported) 9:15 AM (Time Occurred) Place of Event: N/A Type of Incident: Possession of Marijuana Description: Large plastic bag green leafy substance, small plastic bags with green leafy substance Case Status: N/A Sex Involved: N/A

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STUDENT LIFE

University sponsors ‘Student Success Striving for Excellence’ series

BY DAVID KING

Interim Editor-in-Chief executiveeditor2016@gmail.com

The First Year Programs, Center for Innovative Educational Practices and Service and University College are sponsoring Student Success Striving for Excellence Series over a six week period. The sessions began on Sept. 22, with Anton Vincent, President of General Mills; Sept.

27, with Marc Williams, CEO of Williams Communication LLC; Oct. 4, with L. Simone Byrd, Associate Professor of Communication; Thursday, with Nicole Kelly, Miss Iowa

2013; Oct. 25, 2016 with Eric Smith, Financial Coach for Pro Athletes and will conclude on Nov. 1 with actress Charnele Brown as the guest speaker.

Marc Williams, Ph.D., shared many of his life experiences in hopes of imparting wisdom into the students and staff of ASU. Before beginning his presentation, Williams paused for a brief moment of silence in honor of recently deceased freshman student, Jerrett Mumford.

Williams began the presentation by asking students, “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not

fail?” The responses ranged from curing cancer and becoming president to starting a rehabilitation facility to building a nation. Williams proceeded to explain ways to go about fulfilling those dreams and turning them into realities.

Shocked that most college students were only familiar with social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram or in Williams’ words “Instabrag,” Williams encouraged students to create LinkedIN accounts as a way to enhance their networking. LinkedIN is a social networking app

that allows people to connect for career and business opportunities.

“We’re so focused on things that do not matter,” said Williams. He emphasized the importance of embracing each moment and looking up. He also said that this generation is so wrapped up in technology that most students do not realize they are crossing paths with future business partners, employers and possible spouses. Williams says most young people focus on things that do not uplift and empower them but things that distract them from what is truly important.

“Run your own race,” said Williams. Coming from a prominent family, Williams felt it was important to live up to those exact standards. Ideally, Williams had dreamed of the future he wanted but because he was unhappy working in corporate America, he made a change that eventually led him to where he is now. He urged the audience to do what they are passionate about and follow their hearts because everything will work out. Favor is another element that Williams said has impacted his journey because the struggles he has faced made him into

the driven, motivational and hardworking individual he is today. Ultimately, Williams encouraged students to believe in education by any means necessary.

Many of the students in attendance agreed that Williams is a tremendous asset to Hornet Nation. “Dr. Williams is a phenomenal speaker who is well connected and a people person,” said Director of First Year Programs and Services, Herbert H. Thomas Jr., Ph.D. Be sure to add Williams on social media outlets including LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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On Feb. 9, 1887, House Bill 902 was introduced in the lower chamber of the Legislature. C.D. Hogue, representative from Perry County, sponsored the bill calling for the abolition of Lincoln and providing for another institution to be located elsewhere and to be called the “Alabama Colored People’s University.”

According to Joseph Caver’s Alabama State University: 1867-1887, after the bill was introduced, many friends of Lincoln wrote to Gov. Thomas Seay in an attempt to save the school at Marion. Some members of the white community supported the blacks in their efforts to keep Lincoln. Vouching for the black citizens of Marion, the mayor said that they were “orderly and well-behaved and in advance of other places in our state, in culture and good morals.” He also stated that he had not had any of the black students from Lincoln before him for violating ordinances.

One of Gov. Seay’s good friends also wrote in behalf of Lincoln. According to

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James H. Graham letter to Governor Thomas Seay, he said, “I consider it’s removal a great hardship upon our colored citizens and especially upon those of them who have purchased property near it, so as to be able to educate their children. I feel that the discipline at Lincoln is fully as good as that of any of our white institutions.”

In a petition to the Governor, the blacks of Marion charged that the real motive for the removal of Lincoln grew out of the fact that the white Baptists wanted to move Howard College to a city in the state where there was more business activity and the white Baptists of Marion were trying to stop this by the removal of Lin-

coln. The petition also stated that the movement to remove Lincoln does not represent the views, feelings or wishes of a large part of the white people of Marion.

Caver states that Paterson petitioned the Governor and informed him that the petition to remove Lincoln was started by the trustees of Howard College and the altercation between the students was not the issue. He said, “Until the question of moving Howard College was discussed in the Baptist State Convention last July, the greatest harmony existed between the two schools, and the two races in Marion.

But a difficulty occurred, and the Marion Baptists used it as a pretext for abolishing the normal and hoped thereby to retain Howard College … A leading Baptist in Marion admitted to me that but for the effort made to remove Howard, no steps would have been taken to abolish the Normal.

Howard College was a white Baptist school founded in 1844 in Marion. By 1885, with only 108 students, the college was suffering from a lack of endowment and

from competition for white students with other schools in the area. The trustees, meeting at the Baptist Convention of 1886 in Birmingham, proposed that the school be removed to Birmingham where it stood a better chance in the booming economy of the “Pittsburgh of the South.”

This controversy raged for more than a year between advocates of removal and those who wanted the school to remain at Marion. The feud almost caused a factional split in the white Baptist churches of the state. After a bitter fight, Howard was finally removed to Birmingham in 1887 and the name was later changed to Samford University.

However, the bill to remove the Lincoln Normal University passed the legislature without a dissenting vote. It was signed by the Governor on Feb. 28, 1887.

Paterson and numerous citizens made appeals to Seay to veto the legislation, but to no avail. While passing through the State Senate, R.H. Sterrett, a senator from Jefferson County, attached an amendment providing that the university “shall not be located

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in any community there without the consent of the citizens and said community.” The amendment called for the appointment of commissioners by the governor for the purpose of locating the “colored university.” The statute also provided for an appropriation of $10,000 for the erection of the building and $7,500 to be appropriated annually for the support of the school.

According to Caver’s research, the removal of Lincoln dealt the blacks and white merchants of Marion a serious setback, more so the blacks than the merchants. The blacks had lost their only means of providing their children a higher education unless they sent them off to school. The mer-

chants would bounce back once the tension had died down.

However, several white businesses, which were blamed for destroying the school, were boycotted and forced out of business. The blacks also retaliated politically. During the municipal election in March 1887, this dissatisfaction of Marion’s blacks “had a great deal to do with the results.” They “opposed almost uniformly those candidates who had actively favored” the removal of the institution.

The blacks did not stand idly by. They immediately went to work in securing another school for their children. In the fall of 1887, the state gave them permission to use the old property of Lincoln Normal University.

The school continued the name of Lincoln and eventually became Lincoln High School. The school existed in Marion until 1969, when it was closed for integration purposes.

Many of the excerpts used in this article are attributed to Joseph Caver’s master’s thesis titled, Alabama State University: From 18671887.

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and those who have interned in other countries such as China and Peru. She also saluted Joselyn Miller, who has been selected for the HBCU All-Star internship program, sponsored by the White House Initiative on HBCUs. “For students who have yet learn to who President Gwendolyn E. Boyd truly stands for her, after everything she touched upon, it was clear that there was true sense of pride to be a part of Alabama State University,” said Rita Pulliom of the senior class.

150th Anniversary In the upcoming year 2017 ASU will celebrate its sesquicentennial.

“We will be 150 years young, we will celebrate 150 years of being at the forefront of social and political change of change not only in here in Montgomery but all around the world…” She described the movement for educational that began with 500 dollars in 1867 and ended with what we know today as “The Alabama State University” said Boyd.

Rumors and Lies “With achievements come struggles and Alabama State University has not been the exception,” said Boyd when she took control of the so-called rumors that faced the University, essentially so she can “put them to rest.”

This hearsay touched upon housing conditions, lack of food for students and near shutdown of the whole Alabama State University.

The truth is that most students all have heard these rumours which has raised concerns across the student body.

“The first lie is that we are about to close. It’s a lie from the pit of hell,” said Boyd. “The second lie: We

are broke. We have limited resources but we are not broke. We will make it...”

“I have no idea where this comes from; we have no food. The next one is our custodians are on strike but there are no unions.”

“Everything is a triage process ... we ask for your patience. With limited resources we cannot do everything overnight,” Boyd said.

Students were asked what they think of her addressing the concerns that the students may of had. Overall they were content but still anxious about what was to come.

“I think she is giving us the run around, these rumours did not come from nowhere but I am glad she acknowledged the rumours and addressed them.” said student Deja Pino.

Boyd said the popularity of Alabama State University as a hot spot has left little to no housing for students, therefore she promises that “we will have to build a new residence hall as soon as possible, and we must build because we will grow.”

Final Celebration The Convocation closed with smooth but powerful voices from the University Choir, student dancers and the Mighty Marching Hornets, ASU street team which performed the song worth by gospel singer Anthony Brown.

Additional performances by the theater department were led by Chairwoman Wendy Coleman, PhD, and Associate Professor Brian Martin who wore black and red.

“We wore black and red for this performance,” said Martin. “The red symbolizes the blood that was shed by our ancestors so that we could be here today. ASU has a rich legacy, and we want this generation of students to

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The Bachelor of Fine Arts students performed during the State The Student Government Association Street Team, dressed in red of the University Address immediately after the keynote address. and black, sang along during the concluding performances.

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Staff employees Darrick Long, Muriel Pannell, Kay Brown and Ron Brown, PhD, listen carefully as President Gwendolyn Boyd outlines all of the accomplishments of the faculty, students and staff during the State of the University Address.

know that and realize their own worth and potential.”

“I was really proud to see Dr. Boyd honor our students for their achievements,” said Jeremy Hodge, director of the Office of Career Services, the department that assists students in the areas of career exploration, career development and career transitioning.

He continued.

State University News web“These opportunities for site. experiential learning assist in catapulting our students from the classroom to the boardroom and let the industry know that ASU is a great place for talent selection and that opportunity is truly here.”

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story that deserves coverage or do I not cover this story because I know it will make my friend look bad?”

For the most part, King said his work has received wide-spread approval in terms of faculty, staff and administrators, however, he has received criticism from from a few people, who find the content to be negative.

“We do not make the news. We just report it,” King said. “We attempt to balance positive and negative news, but as editor in chief, I believe that though some people complain and are upset, we are doing our job and getting the facts out, not misleading or misconstruing stories as many people might think the media on this campus does.”

As editor, his main objective is to print a consistent publication that covers hard and soft news that report facts behind all situations that impact students, so that students are informed and decide accordingly.

Some of the goals King has for The Hornet Tribune this year include printing weekly, providing solid training for staff, provide career and internship opportunities for staff, provide collaboration efforts with other institutions newsrooms, providing more news coverage on real issues with solid facts from solid sources, and educating the students and community.

“The whole idea is to give this paper a new face and allow students to have a more active role in the paper, by seeing themselves more in the stories,” said King.

He seems to have built a good relationship with his staff.

“I love the staff tremendously,” King said. He makes a priority of checking in with staff members weekly and asking how he can better serve them.

“One of the greatest things that works for me is debriefing with the reporters and staff members after assigning them something because they usually share the good, bad, and ugly and then he shares his personal experiences and how he overcame similar struggles.”

He believes the key to leading is doing so by example and not asking the

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staff to do something he has not done because he knows that he cannot lead without the experiences to identify with them. He emphasizes that he too, is a student taking classes, active in organizations, with other obligations and also other concerns, but he intends to remain committed to the staff’s personal development and growth and the growth of the The Hornet Tribune.

“I take time out with each staff member to have conversations during the week about any and everything to get them comfortable with being on staff and get them to buy into the vision and goals, so that it is not just David saying something has to be done, but that David is casting vision that every single person on staff is invested in and has helped to craft,” King said.

After speaking with several of the staff members, they described King as being a great editor and a hard worker who is very passionate about the paper.

Staff Reporter Alexis Butler said, “He’s hard on the staff because he knows what he wants; ultimately, he wants the best for the people and the paper.”

King’s plan is to make the staff a family that is strong as individuals with talents and gifts, and stronger as a unit because of the diversity in gifts and talents. Hopefully, the staff will learn about each other and learn how to gain a greater appreciation for the next person despite the differences.

He wants the staff to not just be a team in the newsroom but a family outside

the newsroom and will seek to support each other, uplift each other, and build stronger reporters, staff members, and ASU Hornets in their fellow staff members.

One staff member appreciates his leadership.

“David really exceeds the expectations of an editor and he handles tough situations with professionalism,” said Jaelyn Brown one of the new staff reporters/writers.

“David is very focused and making great strides toward the periodic releases of The Hornet Tribune,” said former editor-in-chief Justine Johnson. “He is able to keep his staff encouraged and excited which is great because with no staff there is no student newspaper. I believe his work ethic will continuously push The Hornet Tribune forward and hopefully obtain a larger reader base.”

“The staff this year will be charged with serving as the agents and leaders for change through the power of the pen,” King said, “because what they will write will and transform this campus, moving the administration to do something about the issues that matter.”

He also plans on adding to the content of the newspaper with an activities section that features things such as crossword puzzles, word searches, and campus history trivia to make the paper more interactive. He also wants a section highlight news occurring across the US at other HBCUs and non-HBCU campuses will be added to keep ASU students informed about other colleges.

While King sees himself

married with a child five years from now, he hopes to be serving for at least 1 to 3 years as a campus staff member with Intervarsity Christian Fellowship at Alabama State University or another college, as well as serving as a pastor. He hopes to also have obtained a master degree in education or ministry and a doctorate in either one of those fields.

“I want to continue to plant seeds for Christ and empower people using God and education,” he said.

King says his inspiration to enter ministry and education came from his late great uncle, Pastor Solomon Dye. “He introduced me to have a deep love for Christ, history, and helping others,” he said. He would take me to the library every Saturday while all of my friends were outside riding their bikes and having fun, I would find myself occupied with books about dinosaurs, black history, leadership, God, and changing the world,” said King.

King said the greatest piece of advice he can give to students is know that they are the only thing that can hinder themselves from making a difference. He is thankful that as editor, he has been given a unique opportunity and platform to change the spectrum of the campus.

He believes every student ought to seek to understand situations that occur at this university, in the national and world news, and see how they can best help bring about a solution.

ways the smartest or greatest person in the room.”

Vincent emphasized the importance of African Americans understanding that we have to continue to work against society to become better.

“Tthe idea of working two times harder than white people might not be fair, but it is what we have to do,” Vincent said. “Do you think that I am going to worry about whether working harder is fair? No, I am just worried about going in and taking it all,” he said. “If anyone every tells you that you do not have to work two times harder than any person, then they are lying to you,” Vincent said.

With everything going on in the world with African Americans and America, it is the students who sit in the classrooms and college campuses across the world that are going to change the world. “You all have the greatest opportunity to be on this campus because you determine for yourself and so many others a better future,”

Vincent said.

He gets inspiration from many celebrities like Prince Rogers Nelson and Adrian Peterson. “You know I like Prince, and besides his music this man was a genius and a philanthropist,” he said.

“Prince gave to many schools and to education and strived to keep the school open that he attended when he was younger despite the financial struggles they endured,” Vincent said. “This is what I strive to do everyday --give back to the lives of those behind me whether it is through conversations like this or in other ways that I am capable.”

He pointed to Adrian Peterson, “whose initials on the field are ‘A.D.’ meaning ‘All Day.’ He exemplifies how everyday and all day he goes on the field ready to kill it and take home the win,” he said.

“Peterson gives me that inspiration to do just that even in my arena as a president of snacks division at General Mills,” he said. “Sometimes, my favorite thing to do is stand in the elevator and an-

nounce myself like I am approaching the basketball court or the field and basically psych myself up that I am going to kill it today and take home the win.”

On behalf of the University College, the Office of First Year Programs and Services, Williams Communications, LLC, and Center for Innovation and Educational Practices and Services, Brianna Wren, a junior social work major, presented Vincent with an award of appreciation for his service and commitment to inspiring and changing the lives of many youth.

Vincent’s presentation will be followed by several different leaders and personalities from all areas of expertise, including diversity, financial awareness/healthy financial habits, social media branding, leadership training and motivation. This lecture series will close with a presentation from ‘A Different World’ actress, Charnele Brown.

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working two times harder to dominate at what they want to do in life.

“Everyday, I make it my mission to go and kill it,” Vincent said. “I have to make sure that when I enter a room, that I am dominating and everyone has no choice but to remember me through my impact and work ethic.”

Vincent shared many inspirations from his early life in Jackson up to his current success as a leading executive at a multi-billion dollar snack company.

“I had a number of role models and figures in my life who helped me become the man that I needed to become,” he said.

Vincent shared the importance of being confident but knowing the difference between confidence and arrogance.

“A lot of the lessons that I learned in my life, I realized that I could have avoided them if I had just known that I was not al-

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about our problems when we should address the issues to the SGA directly.

“Emotion should lead to action,” Wade said.

President Gwendolyn

Boyd, DM gave remarks targeted toward the younger generations about caring for the school by way of showing school spirit.

The officers were elected in April and began work in May, but the official inaugu-

ration is held at the beginning of the academic period during which they will serve.

There were few students in attendance for the ceremony which was held in the Dunn-Oliver Acadome.

The program participants

included ASU President, Dr. Gwendolyn E. Boyd; Miss ASU Suna Njie; Pastor Courtney Meadows of First Baptist Church in Whitehall, Ala; and a song by Sigma Alpha Iota Fraternity, Inc.

Alabama State University has recently been awarded a $40,000 research grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will give students valuable experience in the area of forensic science.

The students will study with Dr. Gulnaz Javan, an assistant professor of Forensic Science and the principal investigator (PI) of the grant.

Javan’s lab at ASU is one of only two such facilities in the United States that have permission to research the internal organs of cadavers involved in casework from actual criminal investigations.

The goal of the NSF funding is to identify the microbial community signatures in 50 liver specimens obtained from Tampere, Finland. The samples will be used to estimate the time of death accurately.

“These experiences will provide students with a competitive advantage when they apply for future academic or professional careers,” Javan said.

The students will be actively involved in extracting DNA, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), DNA quantification and gel electrophoresis. They also will have the

opportunity to present their research at local and national meetings, and submit a manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal.

Undergraduate students will be actively involved in conducting autopsies, which will enhance their understanding of forensic biology.

This project also will provide firsthand experience for forensic pathology candidates.

Students also will be exposed to and acquire experience in theoretical and practical methods in molecular biology.

“We will examine the thanatomicrobiome in the liver of 50 cadavers, with the intention of establishing the Human Postmortem Microbiome Project (HPMP),” said Javan.

The HPMP is an initiative to create a consortium with the goal of identifying and characterizing the thanatomicrobiome (i.e. internal organs) and epinecrotic communities found in association with decomposing humans.

In addition to Dr. Javan, members of the project team include Sheree Finley, who is enrolled in ASU’s Ph.D. in Microbiology Program, and Amber Hall and Chanell Miles, two Forensic Science master students.

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to attend State, I would definitely major somewhere in the medical field,” said Autaugaville High School student Dominique Scott.

Connection Day ended with a game of football. A large crowd came out for the first home game of the season. Apparel was sold, and there was tailgating, dancing, and more. Plenty of fans filled nearly all of the stands.

During the halftime of the football game, one alumnus donated $75,000 to the scholarship foundation.

Alumnus Clarenton “Nicky” Crawford and his

wife, Deborah, were honored during halftime for their $75,000 gift to the University. Nearly a dozen family members shared the proud moment with the couple, including several who are also ASU alumni.

The donation will be used to provide scholarships for students like Zaria Ball (pictured above with the Crawfords), who was able to enroll in ASU after receiving the first Rosa Bell Crawford Scholarship earlier this year.

The scholarship is named for Crawford’s mother. Four of her five children graduated from Alabama State University.

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no central heating or air, and in February, when the tournament is usually played, Garrett could be a bit chilly.

“We are planning for now to bring in blowers to help move some heat around there, and I think that’s something that could be OK,” Strange said. “I don’t think AC will be an issue at that time of the year, but we will need to have a plan in case it is too cold.”

Updating Garrett Coliseum has long been a desire for the state-owned facility, but like most state-owned property, it has been forced to cut all unnecessary expenses.

Strange is hopeful that moving the regional tournament — where 10s of thousands of fans will come and go over

several days — will help the push to repair Garrett.

“It could only help. If we could show that we can pull a $100,000, $200,000 profit, I think that would move the opinions,” Strange said.

“Currently, only operating seven to nine months out of the year, we’re either breaking even or turning a small profit.”

Doing the basic repairs — installing an HVAC system and fixing the lights and plumbing — would cost roughly $10 million to $12 million, Strange said. That’s well below the $30 million price tag officials said a complete overhaul would cost.

“I think we could get a pretty good Band-Aid on it for that amount and start to show a good profit,” he said.

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a good job with connecting with students.”

Some students are looking forward to this bill.

“I’m looking forward to this and hopefully it’ll be a good time,” said junior

Raveen Johnson.

Sen. King has several people standing behind him willing to pledge their participation and support.

The upcoming “Spirit Day” will demonstrate Hornet Nation Spirit.

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The President emphasized that understanding African-American history and the struggles of all Americans is an “act of patriotism. To officially open the museum, the President and the First Lady joined Ruth Bonner, the 99-year-old daughter of a man born a slave in Mississippi, to ring the Freedom Bell.

Singer Patti Labelle beautifully performed “A Change is Gonna Many Black celebrities also attended the monumental event inCome.” cluding Oprah Winfrey and Will Smith.

The Obamas were joined by past members of government including former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush.

The Obamas, Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith open Smithsonian’s new African-American Museum

(AP) It’s finally here!

On Saturday, thousands flocked to Washington, D.C. to witness President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama helped open the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African-American History and Culture.

“This national museum helps to tell a richer and fuller story of who we are,” Obama told the crowd.

“By knowing this other story we better understand ourselves and each other.

It binds us together. It reaffirms that all of us are America, that AfricanAmerican history is not somehow separate from

our larger American story,” he added. “It is central to the American story.”

The President also stressed that understanding African-American history and the struggles of all Americans is an “act of patriotism,” CNN wrote.“A great nation doesn’t shy away from the truth. We’re not a burden on America or a stain on America or an object of shame and pity for America.

We are America. And that’s what this museum explains,” he said. “Hopefully, this museum makes us talk to each other and listen to each other and see each other,” he added.

And while the museum

pays homage to our rich and resilient past, the President stressed that it’s also linked to our present and future, especially given the tumultuous racial times we’re currently living in.

“Perhaps it can help a white visitor understand the pain and anger of demonstrators in places like Ferguson and Charlotte. But it can also help black visitors appreciate the fact that not only is this younger generation carrying on traditions of the past, but within the white communities across the nation, we see the sincerity of law enforcement officers and officials who, in fits and starts, are struggling to understand and trying to do

the right thing,” he said.

“It reminds us that routine discrimination and Jim Crow aren’t ancient history.

It’s just a blink in the eye of history,” Obama continued.

To officially open the museum, the President and the First Lady joined Ruth Bonner, the 99-year-old daughter of a man born a slave in Mississippi, to ring the Freedom Bell, the Huffington Post reported.

“Today, we have with us a family that reflects the arc of our progress: the Bonner family ― four generations in all, starting with gorgeous 7-year-old Christine and going up to gorgeous 99-yearold Ruth,” the President said

in a speech before ringing the bell.

Ruth’s father, Elijah Odom, was born into servitude in Mississippi. He was born a slave. As a young boy, he ran, though, to his freedom. He lived through Reconstruction and he lived through Jim Crow. But he went on to farm, and graduate from medical school, and gave life to the beautiful family that we see today ― with a spirit reflected in beautiful Christine, free and equal in the laws of her country and in the eyes of God.” The Obamas were joined by past and present members of government including Vice President Joe Biden, Dr.

Jill Biden, former President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, House Speaker Paul Ryan and civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis to name a few.

“While the journey has been long, today the history of African-Americans will finally take its place on the National Mall next to the monuments to Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson — exactly where it belongs,” Rep. Lewis told the crowd.

Many Black celebrities also attended the monumental event including Oprah Winfrey and Will Smith.

Tulsa police officer charged in Terence Crutcher’s death

The family of Sandra Bland, a black Chicago-area woman who died in a Texas jail after a contentious traffic stop last summer, has reached a $1.9 million settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit, the family’s attorney told a Houston television station Thursday.

Lawyer: $1.9 million settlement in Sandra Bland lawsuit HOUSTON (AP) — The family of Sandra Bland, a black Chicago-area woman who died in a Texas jail after a contentious traffic stop last summer, has reached a $1.9 million settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit, the family’s attorney told a Houston television station Thursday.

But local officials said the agreement hasn’t been finalized and was supposed to remain confidential until a final settlement was reached.

Bland died in her cell at the Waller County Jail three days after she was arrested by a white Texas state trooper for a minor traffic offense in July 2015. Her death was

ruled a suicide, and Bland’s family later sued the county and the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The family’s Chicagobased attorney, Cannon Lambert, told Houston television station KTRK that the $1.9 million settlement includes a provision that the jail have a 24-hour nurse or emergency

medical technician on duty.

Bland’s mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, told the station any legislation passed which benefits Waller County must be named in her daughter’s honor.

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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Prosecutors in Tulsa, Oklahoma filed first-degree manslaughter charges Thursday against the white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man on a city street.

Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler filed the charges against officer Betty Shelby, who shot and killed 40-year-old Terence Crutcher on Sept. 16.

Dashcam and aerial footage of the shooting and its aftermath showed Crutcher walking away from Shelby with his arms in the air.

The footage does not offer a clear view of when Shelby fired the single shot that killed Crutcher. But Crutcher’s family immediately discounted that claim, saying the father of four posed no threat to the officers, and police said Crutcher did not have gun on him or in his vehicle.

Shelby, who joined the Tulsa Police Department in December 2011, was en route to a domestic violence call when she encountered Crutcher’s vehicle abandoned on a city street, strad-

dling the center line. Shelby did not activate her patrol car’s dashboard camera, so no footage exists of what first happened between the two before other officers arrived.

The police footage shows Crutcher approaching the driver’s side of the SUV, then more officers walk up and Crutcher appears to lower his hands and place them on the vehicle. A man inside a police helicopter overhead says: “That looks like a bad dude, too. Probably on something.”

The officers surround Crutcher and he suddenly drops to the ground. A voice heard on police radio says: “Shots fired!” The officers back away and Crutcher is left unattended on the street for about two minutes before an officer puts on medical gloves and begins to attend to him.

Earlier this year, a former volunteer deputy with the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office was sentenced to four years in prison after he was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Eric Harris.

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Google donates $1M to National Museum of African American History (AP) This weekend, history will be made as we welcome the newest Smithsonian museum to American culture.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) officially opens to the public on September 24, and considering the most recent events that have transpired in America, its opening is happening right on time.

The grand opening of the NMAAHC has a historical significance to not only African-Americans, but to all Americans, making this an international cultural event unlike any other in recent history. Almost 100 years in the making, the NMAAHC takes visitors on a journey through African-American history, diving into the important stories and contributions made from influential AfricanAmericans in the United States.

Located in the heart of our nation’s capital, the

NMAAHC is more than just a collection of artifacts and mosaics, but instead immerses museum visitors into African-American history like they’ve never seen it before, and with the March 2017 launch of the first-of-its-kind 3D interactive exhibit created

by Google, the museum will officially be the most technologically advanced museum in the world.

Google’s $1 million donation to NMAAHC, as well as their development of a high-tech 3D exhibit, is yet another example of Google’s investment in the Black community.

To celebrate the grand opening of the NMAAHC this weekend, the institution is hosting a plethora of events all weekend long, each of which is free and open to the public. To find out more about the grand opening, visit the museum’s website right here.

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the $500 bail, according to investigators.

Video from the traffic stop shows Encinia drawing his stun gun and telling Bland, “I will light you up!”

She can later be heard offcamera screaming that he’s about to break her wrists and complaining that he knocked her head into the ground. The video provoked national outrage and drew the attention of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Encinia was later fired and charged a misdemeanor perjury charge stemming from the arrest. He has pleaded not guilty.

In an affidavit, Encinia’s said he removed Bland “from her vehicle to further conduct a safer traffic investigation,” but prosecutors said grand jurors in Waller County found that statement to be false.

Bland, who attended Prairie View A&M University just outside Hempstead, was in the process of moving to Texas from the Chicago area to take a job at the school. Three days after her arrest, she was found hanging from a jail cell partition.

A medical examiner ruled the death a suicide, and a grand jury declined to charge any sheriff’s officials or jailers in the death.

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Times newspaper. “It’s a victory for mothers across the country.”

Waller County attorney Larry Simmons said Thursday that a potential settlement has been reached but isn’t final. He also said the parties involved agreed in writing that the agreement would be kept confidential until it was finalized.

Simmons said the county and lawyers for Bland’s family were “still working through a few details,” and that any settlement must be approved by the county commissioners. He also said the county “vigorously” denies any fault or wronging in Bland’s death.

Bland’s sister didn’t immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment from The Associated Press.

Bland was pulled over by a state trooper in Prairie View, northwest of Houston, for changing lanes without signaling. The stop grew confrontational, and the trooper, Brian Encinia, ordered her from the car before forcing her to the ground. She was taken into custody on a charge of assaulting a public servant, but she was unable to immediately come up with

The Office of Student Life’s Student Expression and Multimedia Division will be initiating a new online collegiate magazine titled ENVISAGE for the 2016-17 academic year.

Currently we are looking for eight students who would like to obtain magazine design and writing experience and students who have a background in journalism.

We are also looking for five business students who might be willing to be a sales representative and secure advertising for the magazine.

If you are interested, please contact Kenneth A. Dean at kdean@alasu.edu

Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency Wednesday night and called in the National Guard after the police chief said he needed the help. The North Carolina National Guard arrived at a Charlotte armory early Thursday at 8 a.m.

Scott’s family will be allowed to watch video CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Charlotte’s police chief said Thursday he plans to show video of an officer shooting a black man to the slain man’s family, but the video won’t be immediately released to the public.

Charlottte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney told reporters during a news conference that the video does not definitively show 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott pointing a gun at anyone.

Putney said he is working to honor the request from the family of Scott to view the video. It’s unclear when or if the video might be released publicly.

“Right now my priority is the people who really are the victims of the shooting,” Putney said. “I’m telling you right now if you think I say we should display a victim’s worst day for consumption, that is not the transparency I’m speaking of.”

The video could be key to resolving the chasm between police, who say Scott refused repeated commands to drop his gun, and residents who say he was unarmed.

Residents say Scott was unarmed, holding only a book, and disabled by a brain injury. But it’s unclear what the body cameras worn by three officers who were present during the shooting during the shooting may have captured. The plainclothes officer who shot Scott, Brently Vinson, was not wearing a camera. He has been placed on leave, standard procedure in such cases. Vinson is black, As officials tried to quell the unrest, at least three

major businesses were asking their employees to stay home for the day as the city remained on edge. Mayor Jennifer Roberts told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that officials were considering a curfew, and she said in an interview with NPR that the timing of the video’s release depends on how the investigation progresses.

When asked if officials shouldn’t be more transparent, she said: “The transparency would be helpful if the footage is clear and if it covers all the different parts of what happened that evening.

Since I haven’t seen it, I’m not certain of that and that may be the case. There were a couple of different body cameras, there was a dash camera, but as you know sometimes those can be not clear.”

North Carolina has a law that takes effect Oct. 1 requiring a judge to approve releasing police video, and Police Chief Kerr Putney said he doesn’t release video when a criminal investigation is ongoing.

The streets were mostly quiet Thursday, but Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Duke Energy all told employees not to venture into North Carolina’s largest city after Gov. Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency Wednesday night and called in the National Guard after the police chief said he needed the help. The North Carolina National Guard arrived at a Charlotte armory early Thursday, and Guard vehicles left the armory about 8 a.m.

Federal help also is on the way, with the Justice Department sending to Charlotte a team of trained peacekeepers

designed to help resolve community conflict. The department’s Community Relations Service has been deployed to other cities roiled by tense flare-ups between police and residents.

A peaceful prayer vigil Wednesday night turned into an angry march and then a night of violence after a protester was shot and critically wounded as people charged police in riot gear trying to protect an upscale hotel in Charlotte’s typically vibrant downtown. Police did not shoot the man, city officials said.

Video obtained and verified by The Associated Press, which was recorded right after the shooting, shows someone lying in a pool of blood as people scream and a voice yells for someone to call for help. People are then told to back up from the scene.

The unrest took many by surprise in Charlotte, the banking capital of the South with a population of 830,000 people, about 35 percent of them black. The city managed to pull through a racially charged shooting three years ago without the unrest that erupted in recent years in places such as Baltimore, Milwaukee and Ferguson, Missouri.

In 2013, Charlotte police charged one of their own, Randall Kerrick with voluntary manslaughter within days, after the white officer shot an unarmed black man who had been in a wreck and was looking for help.

The jury deadlocked and the charge was dropped last summer. The city saw a few protests but no violence.

On Wednesday, hundreds of protesters who were shout-

ing “black lives matter” and “hands up, don’t shoot” left after police fired flash grenades and tear gas after the shooting. But several groups of a dozen or more protesters stayed behind, attacking people, including reporters, shattering windows to hotels, office buildings and restaurants and setting small fires. The NASCAR Hall of Fame was among the places damaged.

Authorities said three people and four police officers were injured. Videos and pictures on Twitter showed reporters and other people being attacked.

“He got out of his car, he walked back to comply, and all his compliance did was get him murdered,” said Taheshia Williams, whose balcony overlooks the shady parking spot where Scott was Tuesday afternoon. She said he often waited there for his son because a bicycle accident several years ago left him stuttering and susceptible to seizures if he stayed out in the hot sun too long.

Putney, the police chief, was angered by the stories on social media, especially a profanity-laced, hourlong video on Facebook, where a woman identifying herself as Scott’s daughter screamed “My daddy is dead!” at officers at the shooting scene and repeating that he was only holding a book.

Putney was adamant that Scott posed a threat, even if he didn’t point his weapon at officers, and said a gun was found next to the dead man. He also said: “I can tell you we did not find a book.”

“We don’t create the news. We just report it.”

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VOLUME 55, ISSUE 8

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The official student newspaper serving the Alabama State University and Metro-Montgomery communities

What should it mean to be an ASU Hornet?

A year ago when I came to Alabama State University, I was honored and excited to be partaking in what many considered a golden legacy of trailblazers and molding of agents of change.

When I arrived, I was immediately brought back to the question that resonated in my heart, two and a half years earlier when I was on an Historically Black Colleges and Universities tour: What did it truly mean to be a Hornet?

After spending little over a year here, and learning so much about this institution from its past glory and the culture of the present, I have changed that question to what should it mean to be a Hornet?

Let me explain why I have posed this question…

One of the things you realize when you are spending a large amount or portion of your college career at an institution, you learn about

the meaning of being there and being part of their community.

So to me, what should it mean to be a Hornet, because sometimes when we look at what many says it means to be a Hornet, this often times might not correlate with the mission, ideals, or even the past of the university of producing contributing trailblazers to society.

The first thing I believe is that a Hornet should possess is true school spirit. What do I mean? Well, school spirit is not attached to a t-shirt, and not primarily expressed during sporting events, but school spirit is primarily attached to morale. Instead of flaunting a great deal of paraphernalia from the bookstore school spirit is about members of Hornet Nation fighting for the continued upholding of our highest ideals such as excellence, service, humility, charisma, talent, accountability, and responsibility.

David King, Interim Editor-in-Chief I believe that members of Hornet nation should make it a point to constantly possess and express the highest morale for their institution, in hopes that it would continue to grow despite mistakes and challenges, and spirit that no matter what this institution continues to play a vital role in the development of their future.

Another belief is that a Hornet should be willing to

sacrifice for the greater good and opportunity for everyone.

One of the qualities that have been known to the great Hornet Nation is the molding of educated, civically engaged, and advocating citizens who contribute to greater good of American society.

People like Rosa Parks, Attorney Fred Gray, and Rev. Ralph David Abernathy were all individuals who fought long and hard during the

Modern Civil Rights Movement for social justice and change in the situation and lives of African Americans.

Even Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who obtained his doctorate from our institution, was one of the most prominent and powerful leaders in the movement.

These people sacrificed the health, risked their lives, and placed everything that was near and dear to them on the line so that people they did not know, in the generations after them would have an opportunity to inhabit a world, that was based on one’s racial makeup but their character.

It is this value that should stand true today for Hornets of Alabama State University.

Students should be willing to overlook their personal desires and things that please them, to seek what might have a greater impact and be much greater for all students.

This means if prices in

the bookstore are too outrageous, and a bookstore strike is orchestrated, scholarship students cannot be more concerned about their scholarships and using them to get class material, when the greater population still suffers at the burdening prices of those materials.

As Hornets, we should hold dear to our hearts to be one in the struggle of college, and be willing to sacrifice as necessary in reasonable realms for the greater good.

It should also mean that one is seeking a path of empowering others and supporting others and not just looking out for self.

What of the things that I remember hearing the most from alumni and family friends who went to ASU at least over 15 to 20 years ago is that ASU was truly a family. Every student worked for the betterment of their peers, See MEAN on page 12

Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons (l.) comforts Tiffany Crutcher, twin sister of Terence Crutcher who was shot and killed by Tulsa Police. After police responded to a 911 call concerning his car, Crutcher was gunned down.

ANOTHER BLACK MAN KILLED BY POLICE Crutcher shooting reminds us that blacks are treated worse than dogs, even in America

BY DAVID LOVE

Guest Columnist Special to The Hornet Tribune

Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man, was shot to death like a dog by the Tulsa police last Friday. But in America, not even dogs are treated the way black people are these days.

On Sept. 16, Crutcher, 40, was on the road with his stranded SUV. After police responded to a 911 call concerning his car, Crutcher was gunned down.

They claimed he was armed, but there was no

weapon. Someone in the helicopter taking the video is even heard saying, “That looks like a bad dude too. He might be on something.”

One officer, Tyler Turnbough, tasered the poor man, while the officer who took his life, Betty Shelby (who should be in jail), said Crutcher was not cooperating with police. And yet the video shows he had his hands up.

The man needed help, and yet he found himself in a great deal of trouble not of his own doing. They shot him, and then they left him

there on the ground — like a dog, or worse than a dog — the way they always leave us when they seek to take us out of this world.

Tulsa police chief Chuck Jordan called the video disturbing and asked the Justice Department to review the case. And we know how that usually turns out.

Meanwhile, had these cops put down a dog the way they killed Terence Crutcher, there would be national outrage and a call for these officers’ heads on a platter. Actually, there wouldn’t have

been time for that, because those cops — most certainly Officer Shelby — would have been under the jail. Because Americans love their dogs, but do not love black people. And certainly, many of the Blue Lives Matter, White Lives Matter and All Lives Matter crowd would be participating on the frontlines of the protests, because while they believe black people are animals, dogs are their best friends.

Everybody loves dogs.

Dogs are very helpful and loving pets that provide com-

panionship. Dogs were also used to hunt down slaves in this country, and during Jim Crow, the police unleashed dogs on protesters to tear into their flesh. That is, two-legged dogs, as Malcolm X called them, sicked four-legged dogs on peaceful civil rights protesters. So they served a useful purpose.

Meanwhile, let us not forget about the city of Tulsa, the place where Terence Crutcher’s murder took place.

Tulsa was the home of Black Wall Street, the thriving African-American com-

munity of Greenwood. On May 31, 1921, a white mob decimated Tulsa’s black community on the ground, while staging an aerial bombing, burning down nearly every last home and business. Hundreds were lynched, and thousands were left homeless. Tulsa still has not come to terms with its sins — the wholesale slaughter of its black residents 95 years ago — and it remains the single largest massacre of black

100 people to come up with the reasons for the looming teacher shortage in New York and potential solutions to it, and you’ll likely get 100 different answers…”

While that old saw can apply to almost any problem, the answer to the teacher shortage likely boils down

to just a few. For decades, America’s great Right Wing has been railing against public education and, especially the teachers and their unions.

Think tanks of the rich and powerful have zeroed in on the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association and

all of their local chapters, charging that they are the reason that education in the U.S. trails the results of most developed countries.

And, they have more closely concentrated on the “powerful teachers unions” as a cause of the downward trend of education results

in our public schools. They don’t say how these “powerful unions” negatively affect education, but Corporate America has lots of think tanks filled with “fellows” and “associates” who come up with rationales to continue the bashing of public schools and teachers. It’s what they

do for a living and they have all day to do it, every day.

They are salaried propagandists.

What really galls these people and their paymasters is that, in most places, the teachers’ unions have some

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Why is there a looming teacher shortage in America?”

BY DAVID FUNICELLO

Guest Columnist Special to The Hornet Tribune

In the past several weeks, there have been reports in the press and in newspaper editorials, trying to wrestle with the problem of a teacher shortage and one local paper started out with: “Ask

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editorial board David King

INTERIM EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Tiffany Davis MANAGING EDITOR

Catherine Gould

Isoke James

GEN. ASSIGNMENT EDITOR

VISUAL MEDIA EDITOR

Gita Smith

Kenneth A. Dean

STAFF ADVISER

GENERAL MANAGER

The Hornet Tribune is a weekly newspaper written and edited by the students with the advisement of the staff adviser. Editorials and letters to the editor represent the views of the writer(s).

Views expressed within do not necessarily represent the opinions of the faculty, staff, administration or ASU Board of Trustees. The editors determine the time of the publication and the ethical qualities of all articles. Articles and other materials in The Hornet Tribune cannot be republished without the expressed written permission of the editor, adviser, coordinator and Student Media Board. Letters to the Editor are welcome. Editors reserve the right to print or reject for publication any letters received. Letters must include the author’s name, address, email address and telephone number. All letters are subject to editing for both space and libel considerations. Materials must be submitted by Thursday at 5 p.m. for publication that next week.

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Abrianna Wright, Staff Columnist

The importance of voting among college students Just over 50 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr., along with hundreds of protesters, began the unforgettable march from Selma to Montgomery in an effort to register African American voters. Thankfully, the heroic efforts of the civil rights movement were not in vain; eventually, they led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The passage of this act granted African Americans the right to vote without limitations, such as literacy tests.

These people protested and risked their lives so generations following them would have an opportunity to let their voices be heard no matter their gender or race. With this opportunity at hand, it is our civic duty to register to vote and carry out the voting process.

The 2016 General Election is one in which every vote will play a part to determine the next president of these United States. Republican nominee Donald Trump, Democratic nominee Hilary Clinton, Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, and Green Party nominee Jill Smith, have all expressed their views on major issues plaguing this country, and it is up to each voter to research their positions and decide accordingly.

Racial profiling, health care and tuition-free college are a few of the major political and social concerns. Ultimately, it is the voice and opinions of the American people that will impact both present generations and those to come.

After polling the campus, the decision to vote or not has become a common issue, especially among the freshman class. After hearing and reading about the hardships of those before us, it would be careless to let their efforts go in vain. Although many people have been making light of this election, it is a very serious matter. The impact of not voting could be detrimental and have long term effects on the progress of the U.S. It is important that everyone understands there will be successes and failures during each presidency, however, the president is elected to represent the American people and fulfill the others duties of the office.

During the upcoming weeks, there will be televised debates with Clinton, Trump and their running mates. Hopefully, this provides those who are still unsure about who they will vote for, the opportunity to hear the candidates thoughts on critical issues facing the American people as well as hear possible solutions. There will be debate viewings for students in the Levi Watkins Learning Center Lecture Hall, from 8:00 P.M. until 9:30 P.M. Students will also gain the opportunity to meet new people and converse with those who have similar ideologies.

Voter registration ends on Oc.t 24, 2016. It is essential that everyone who is eligible casts his or her vote on Tuesday, November 8, because the future of America is truly at stake.

Sept. 28, 2016

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Tipping is serious - not to be taken for granted After talking to several of my friends who work as servers in the restaurant business, I was prompted to write an editorial on tipping in the restaurant business. One of the biggest complaints was the stereotype of black people not tipping.

According to them it’s not just a stereotype, it is very much true. Black people don’t tip. It was brought to my attention that the stereotype is not so much geared to the older generation of black people as it is to the younger generation.

As I listened to my friends ramble and rant on and on about how our black peers either don’t tip at all or don’t tip within the right percentages of their bill, a couple of questions came to my mind.

The first question that came to my mind was, what is really the big deal about tipping? I’ll be the first to admit that I was a little ignorant about the topic and when it comes to my tipping habits. I’ve never really put that much thought behind it.

My tipping habits were not very complex, it was rather simple. Terrible service equals one dollar, or zero dollars at the very worst. Good service equals about two or three dollars. Excellent service equals four or five dollars.

If I’m trying to be a blessing to you, you might even get a couple more dollars on top of that. If I’m paying with a card and don’t have any extra ones, I might tip you

Tiffany Davis, Managing Editor based off of me rounding my bill to the nearest tenth.

Now, being that my bill at any restaurant will rarely exceed $20, I’ve never really thought much about tipping outside of the numbers I just gave you. However, had I not received proper schooling on the art of tipping I would have most likely carried my cheap art of tipping to much larger bills as I got older.

Finally I decided to call one of my marching hornet sisters who has been in the restaurant business for a while for some information about the importance of tipping. According to ASU senior Andreka Williams, when someone doesn’t tip the money ultimately comes out of the server’s pocket. So if no one tips the server the entire night, they’ve made no money, plus on top off that they’ll have to pay out of their pocket what was not paid.

Apparently, in most restaurant businesses servers

staff editorial

HBCUs should follow the theory of W.E.B. DuBois One of the questions recently posed at a Hornet Tribune Editorial Board meeting was whether historically black colleges and universities were meant to teach African American survival skills or an attitude and skills of striving?

After a very emotional discussion, while we never came to a definite conclusion, we threw around a few ideas behind understanding both concepts as they pertain to the role and importance of the HBCU. HBCUs were created with the sole intent of serving the African American community, beginning with those who once were slaves and needed training and education to operate in society.

One of the most famous debates and rivalries in the history of leaders within the African American community was between Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee University, and W.E.B. DuBois, powerful educator and activist for African Americans.

Washington would argue that Africans Americans needed to compromise and ‘cast down their buckets where they were.’ His passive argument urged African Americans that we had to earn our way up the ranks of society and prove our equality to white Americans.

Washington believed that instead of learning languages and liberal arts subjects, students needed to invest their time in learning how to till a field, learn a trade, and do the dirty, least appealing work, because this built character and a strong work ethic.

However, DuBois urged African Americans to reach higher heights and demand social equality, through the learning experiences of a liberal arts education, being able to vote, and being able to be socially equal to our white counterparts.

Therefore, two ideas emerged regarding the philosophy behind what role an education was expected to play for African Americans.

HBCUs were created to help educate African Americans who were newly freed from slavery and needed the basics in order to excel in a society that was from the very beginning structured for their enslavement.

African Americans, during that period, needed to understand the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic, because without those basics they were doomed to be victims of enslavement again.

But at what point do we stop teaching to survive and start teaching to strive? Teaching students to go out and dominate, and viciously excel, in a good way of course?

You see, this means that education for our people back then meant something completely different than what’s needed for our people now, because the times are different.

During that time, when HBCUs were created, it was important to teach African Americans the basic skills of survival, which still are applicable today. However, there is a time for an investment in the something greater, something called striving.

An HBCU in this day and age, should be using the history of our ancestors and predecessors, the struggles and stories of struggles regarding the pain, bloodshed, and even life sacrifice as means to strive for greater.

Now is the time to transition into how DuBois envisioned education: a means by which African American men and women could expand their skill set and minds, and break the chains of mass misery and bondage and exSee THEORY on page 12

have to do a tip out to host and bartenders and when someone doesn’t tip them they’re still going to have to pay that tip share that the customer didn’t pay for. So off of every check, customers should at least tip 10-20% due to the fact that servers have to tip out host about three percent at the end of their shift.

In all actuality, this sounded really dumb and shady to me. Why do servers have to pay three percent of their tip out to hosts and bartenders? It’s funny to me how the restaurant business pay servers so little that they are required to depend on the good heartedness of the customers to cover the costs that the restaurant owners should be paying its workers.

This leads me to the second question that came to my mind. Are servers really even necessary? Being that I really wasn’t in the mood to get cursed out, I decided to keep this question to myself

until I was better able to explain myself.

Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of posts on different branches of social media that make statements along the lines of, “if you don’t have enough money to tip, don’t go out to eat.” I have an issue with that statement.

Who are you to dictate how people spend their money? If someone wants to spend their last $15 on a big burger, fries, and strawberry lemonade, I don’t agree with other people who feel entitled to things making them feel bad for not paying them to bring items from the kitchen to the table.

Think of all the other professionals that handle jobs that require them to wait on people hand and foot. Look at nurses. When you go to the hospital, your primary caregiver is most likely a nurse who has to do a lot more work than delivering food and drinks to tables. Where is their tip?

Financially, when it comes to nurses and servers, the key difference is nurses get paid pretty close to their worth. Servers do not. However, it should not the customer’s responsibility to pay servers what they deserve to be paid.

Tipping is still an option at the end of the day. It is something that is not a requirement. If push came to shove, customers could pick up their own food and drinks See CHOSE on page 12

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Destinee Whittington, Staff Columnist

Young women have to realize their self worth and beauty An extremely controversial topic that still has an openended response: Women seen as sexual objects? From Victoria Secret Ads to everyday life, it is clear that a woman’s body is oversexualized. Throughout history women are seen for what their bodies can provide: having intercourse and reproducing.

It is now the 21st century but have things really changed?

In today’s pop cultural society, we as media consumers, only see one vision of the perfect woman. The woman with the long straight hair, small waist, flat stomach, large butt, DD cup breast type of woman. We still see women as being sexual objects not only in society but throughout media.

On social media there are thousands of women trying to find the best waist trainer, hitting the gym so that they can complete the squat challenge for that perfect butt, or they are searching for dietary pills to get rid of the dreaded muffin top.

Young ladies and women are even using social media to devalue their self-worth by posting half-naked pictures looking for reasons to gain the attention and eyes of men across the social media world.

Young ladies and women have to realize their worth and beauty are far greater and beyond that of social media and pop culture.

While women are trying to get the “best” bodies men are still whistling at them for their attention, calling them by the color of their clothing or pet names. Discrediting them of their value as a woman by not walking up to them and speaking to them properly. The men also stare at them like a prized possession when they walk past.

Guys drool and lust after the physical appearance of a woman, whether they are in a relationship or not. There is a population of young men on this campus interested in one thing, and one thing only, satisfying their personal pleasure.

“Some guys here on campus brag to their friends about how many girls they can have sex with and it disgusting. Not knowing what wonderful and beautiful Queens we truly are”, a student from the Class of 2020 said who preferred to remain anonymous.

However, the student’s at Alabama State University think otherwise and believe that women are so much more than sexual objects.

“Women are more than sexual objects. Women are intelligent beings that contribute to society, rather than just being a pretty face. Society has focused on what women can bring to the table physically but has not truly gave them credit for their intellect,” Mikayla Carter, a student in the Class 0f 2020 said.

Numerous societal advancements have been made possible because of women. Women such as First Lady Michelle Obama, Tyra Banks, Oprah Winfrey, and so many more. EvSee WORTH on page 12

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Whatever happened to the ‘War on Poverty?’

BY DAVID FUNICELLO

Guest Columnist Special to The Hornet Tribune

In all of the bluster and rhetoric that has been spewed during the presidential primary campaigns and the current campaign between the Democratic and Republican nominees, there has been little to no mention of poverty in the U.S., let alone what should be done about it.

At another time in our history, it would have been one of the top priorities on any national candidate’s list of issues. But these times are different. There has been a period of several decades in which Americans have been told, almost on a daily basis, that applying for and receiving any kind of assistance is proof that they are lazy and a burden on the rest of society. Too many have come to believe that and many have given up looking for work that doesn’t exist.

Despite what is in the business journals, in newspapers, and on television, that times are getting better, that the economy is “improving,” and that all job-seekers need is to get educated or trained to apply for the jobs that are out there. They are not reporting on the reality of poverty and the disruption that it causes in society, the chaotic conditions that arise as a result of poverty.

Much of the blame can be placed directly on the political system, which tolerates racism, classism, and which allows regions of the country to fester in unemployment and poverty. When connecting poverty to politics and then to the unrest in the country, never forget the Nelson Mandela statement that “poverty is no accident.”

President Lyndon Johnson, when he signed the Economic Opportunity Act in August 1964, said that the program aimed not only to cure poverty as a societal ill, but to prevent it. And, just as surely as he signed the “War on Poverty” act, the rumblings on the right kicked into high gear, voicing their opposition to anything that smacked of government intervention, or the slippery slope to socialism, as they saw it.

It was the opinion of many elected officials on the right that the poor should be made to pull themselves up “by their bootstraps.” Turns out, there were few bootstraps. And there were fewer ways out of the misery of poverty. The bootstrap philosophy is one that is just a fantasy of those in power, but the fantasies are just cover for hard-heartedness and avarice.

Any number of analyses of the anti-poverty programs show that they did work, but in the past 30 years, the relentless attacks on social

“Basically, the report was a cover to slash payments to childcare, college Pell grants, and welfare programs of any kind.”

programs in favor of the military, defense, and the country’s seemingly endless wars have taken their toll. There has been less and less support for policies and programs that benefit the people, especially those in most need.

In the current presidential campaign, and in down-ballot campaigns, there is much talk about “creating jobs and stimulating the economy,” but little about poverty and the causes of poverty. Job creation should be high on the list of any aspirant to the presidency or to either house of the Congress, but that would be a big ship to turn. For decades, the substance of the U.S. economy has been hollowed out by the shifting of manufacturing to other countries, until there are young people wandering around looking for a job for which they were educated (bachelor’s and master’s degrees) and trained, and finding only service jobs at minimum wage or just above. In addition to that obstacle, they face years, if not decades, of monthly payments for student loans. Their lives are put on hold for a long time and that’s a waste of talent and

time for society.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, when he was chairman of the House Budget Committee, released his committee’s report, The War on Poverty 50 Years Later. True to form, he and his committee, along with the Republicans in both houses, declared that the 92 programs in the half-century effort had not been successful. Basically, the report was a cover to slash payments to childcare, college Pell grants, and welfare programs of any kind. President Richard Nixon ended the Office of Economic Opportunity (Donald Rumsfeld headed the OEO in his administration) in 1973, but many of the 92 programs were dispersed among other government agencies and are still in effect today.

Numerous observers in the intervening years have asserted that the attention paid to Black America by the War on Poverty generated a backlash against any and all programs to benefit the poor.

That animus is still present and can be seen in such slogans as “take back America” and “Make America Great Again,” all thinly disguised to ram black Americans back

into ghettoes. To the political right, President Johnson’s “Great Society” was not their friend and, in fact, had to be stamped out.

One of the most important parts of the “war” was the expansion of Social Security and the food stamp program that became SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), which politicians of the right and their handlers in Corporate America have been trying to reduce or eliminate for many decades.

However, since it has kept untold numbers of families from food insecurity and hunger, the programs have persisted and grown. The remaining programs from the War on Poverty have gone a long way toward keeping large areas of the U.S. from resembling the conditions of developing nations, although those conditions do exist in some parts of the U.S. An alternative would be an economy that includes everyone, with a job that pays well and that can support a family in good health.

That economy has fled and a large percentage of the nation’s manufactured goods are made in those developing nations, where the pay is so low that Americans never would be able to compete in the so-called global economy. Big Business has been sending jobs elsewhere for a long time, but the flow out

became a river, when President Bill Clinton signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an agreement that caused job losses in all three countries. It put out of business thousands of small farmers and small shop owners in Mexico and caused the loss of 500,000 Canadian jobs in the first year.

Americans are told repeatedly that the federal government needs to cut social programs to reduce the budget, so that taxes can be cut (mostly for the rich and big business). In Ryan’s report on the 50-year anniversary of the War on Poverty noted: “…there are dozens of education and job-training programs, 17 different food-aid programs, and over 20 housing programs. The federal government spent $799 billion on these programs in fiscal year 2012.” These are the programs that Ryan and his Republicans want to reduce and cut, where possible.

Meanwhile, in each year’s federal budget, there is some $700 billion allocated for military and defense, and that may not be all of the expenditures on “defense” and war making. There are many programs and departments that are directly connected to our continual war efforts, but do not show up as defense exSee POVERTY on page 12

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Mean: “As Hornets, we should es- Why we need our own Montgomery Bus Boycott sentially be firm and place forth ...” sit at segregated lunch coun- ther taking a knee or raising a ing in a day age where more

BY DAVID FUNICELLO

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and held each other accountable.

Students, faculty, and staff seemed to have possessed a mentality that “No matter how much I have achieved for self, I have not made it, until every person behind me has had the opportunity to make it as well.”

As Hornets, we should essentially be firm and place forth our best efforts to ensure that the slogan we hail to be our motto, “Land of Opportunity” never fails to be true for every single life that is directly or indirectly touched by this campus. We have to fight every single day to ensure that this motto is not just a saying we place on recruitment and ASU material, but that this is a

lifestyle quote, that when it is said, it is stated with pride because it is not just words, but it is reality.

As Hornets, there are many things that we should be, but I can think of no better way to sum it all up than this: As a Hornet you do not fret challenge, and you do not lie down to accept defeat.

As a Hornet our high call by virtue of this registration to this institution requires us to stand against injustice, be vocal for the voiceless, and be a bridge to opportunity.

The essential idea is that as a Hornet life is not about what you can for yourself, but what you can do empower and build others.

David Lee King Jr. is a junior political science major who serves as editor-inchief of The Hornet Tribune.

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people in the U.S. This is a society conditioned to accept, even embrace the genocide of black people. Could anyone imagine the slaughter of hundreds of dogs? Of course not. But black people are another story. After all, we are dangerous criminals and thugs, so they tell us.

Cops took us out on the slave plantation with reckless abandon and with the protection of the law, and today it is no different. They tell us we’re always up to something, unworthy of empathy, even our babies.

Besides, no one understands the challenges police officers face on a daily basis, so they say.

And with no police officers in jail for murdering Mr. Crutcher, we must ask what it would take to hold cops accountable for taking our lives. This is a nation

that will suspend a black football player for protesting racist police violence before it suspends a cop — much less arrests or indicts her — for the murder of a black man, woman or child.

When you ask how Terence Crutcher — like so many other black souls — can meet such a horrible fate without any consequences, remember that while dogs are “just like people,” black folks are regarded as less than human.

We always were, and no video will change that.

David A. Love, JD Serves BlackCommentator. com as Executive Editor. He is journalist, commentator and human rights advocate based in Philadelphia, and a contributor to theGrio, AtlantaBlackStar, The Progressive, CNN.com, Morpheus, NewsWorks and The Huffington Post. He also blogs at davidalove.com.

Contact Mr. Love and BC.

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from the kitchen.

Rather than using all of this negative energy to argue with people over something that is not required of them, I have a hard time trying to figure out why these same angry servers don’t channel that energy to the restaurant business.

All in all, it’s really the restaurant business that is screwing them over, not the customers. Why do servers get paid a little over two dollars an hour? I have an issue with that. I believe the true source of anger has a lot to do with frustrations in regards to employers rather than the customers.

Servers are severely under paid. A lot them see the pros of being a server and see the cons much too late.

After all, when the restaurants are busy and people are constantly coming in, things are wonderful. No

one is really thinking about how little their employees are paying them. However, it’s the slow weeks when no one is really coming in, that cause the biggest issues. No one should have to depend on an unsteady income.

To an extent, servers should still take responsibility for some this. If you choose to deal with having a fluctuating income that can be extremely well some weeks, don’t get all upset and brand new when you have some extremely bad weeks. That’s a price that you choose to pay.

Hopefully, servers will find a way to get restaurant owners to pay them proper wages for the work that they do. As for me, now that I know better, I have made a conscious effort to do better when it comes to tipping and it is my hope that my peers will do the same.

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ery one of these women has made great and everlasting impacts upon young women today.

Women are more than sexual beings. Women are valuable and give to the world great gifts that are unmatched. Women endure pain and struggle to reproduce life on the Earth and continue to day in and day out show their families that something can be made out of nothing.

Women are priceless,

and more importantly women shape the way of society and the world. Ladies, do not allow yourself to be devalued, and remember I said DO NOT ALLOW, because the choice of your value and it’s enforcement is all in your hands and control.

So not only have women continued to give to the Earth tremendous things, but we will continue to strive and display our worth through the many accomplishments and self-confidence that we possess.

GO HORNETS

Guest Columnist Special to The Hornet Tribune

When you are living in a moment, it can be hard, almost impossible even, to truly understand the historical context, the weight, the gravity of that moment.

If we could travel back in time to 1955 & 1956, and go to Montgomery, Alabama, we’d find that Rosa Parks and Dr. King didn’t even call that beautiful 381 day boycott of the segregated busing system – The Civil Rights Movement. In fact, that phrase, the Civil Rights Movement, wasn’t created until many years later. It took us reflecting back on that time to realize that it was a part of a broader movement and struggle for our full freedom in this country.

Rosa Parks and Dr. King were just two of thousands of Black folk in Montgomery who were simply sick and tired of being humiliated on the bus. The Montgomery Bus Boycott wasn’t about Black folk wanting to sit next to white folk on the bus. That was never what the Civil Rights Movement was about.

It was about people being humiliated and embarrassed and treated like second class citizens and they had been pushed too far for too long.

Black folk weren’t dying to

ters so that we could order a vanilla milkshake, but what we wanted to know was that if we ever so chose to sit down and place an order, we simply wanted the legal protection to ensure that we wouldn’t be humiliated or embarrassed.

It’s hard to understand how historical a moment is, when you are in it.

I like to say it like this – Jesus’s last name was not Christ. His parents weren’t Joseph and Mary Christ. In fact, when the Jesus we see in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John died, he wasn’t even popular – even his own crew had bailed out on him, and in that moment, it would have been impossible to perceive just how historically significant he truly was.

I said all of that to say, I believe we are in a historical moment.

Black folk are sick and tired of being sick and tired in America and it’s not just Colin Kaepernick. Dozens and dozens of NFL players are now taking a knee or raising a Black power fist before each and every game during the Star Spangled Banner.

What may be even more powerful is that hundreds and hundreds of elementary, middle, high school, and college students all over America are following their lead and ei-

fist on sports fields and courts everywhere.

They are tired of injustice.

For over two years now, hundreds of thousands of us have protested and marched in every major city in America over police brutality. We don’t march and protest because we like to march and protest – in the words of J. Cole – “all we wanna do is be free.”

The young people all over this nation who are blocking traffic and shutting down interstates don’t enjoy putting their bodies in harm’s way. They are doing the only thing they know how to do to get this country to see that they’ve had enough. They, too, are sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Last year in the United States, 1,207 people were killed by American police officers. That’s the highest number ever recorded in this history of this nation.

At least 102 fully unarmed Black men, women, and children were shot and killed by American police last year. Let me give that some context.

We would have to go all the way back to 1902 – to find a single year where more than 102 African Americans were lynched in this country.

In other words, we are liv-

unarmed black folk are being shot and killed by police every year than were lynched in any year in the past 100 years.

A lot of people say what I’m about to say because they think it’s true but it isn’t. They say, “police brutality isn’t actually getting worse, it’s just that social media allows us to be more informed.”

No, it’s getting worse.

Social media may indeed keep us better informed, but it is keeping us better informed of a worsening problem.

It’s time for our own Montgomery Bus Boycott.

If our cities and states refuse to take police brutality seriously, if they refuse to pass meaningful reforms that will drastically reduce the number of people shot and killed by police, if they refuse to respond to our pain and our pleas with any substance, we must do now what we have done before-and we must consider a serious, sustained boycott of the cities and companies which continue to get in the way of these reforms.

God bless all of the petitions that we continue to sign, but I can only speak for myself – I’m tired of signing petitions. I’m tired of retweeting about the change I want to see. I’m at a point where I need to see the change for myself.

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penditures. These allocations and budget items will not be cut. Rather, they will grow, as new targets are found and new excuses found to bomb them.

This is an ancient choice for civilizations throughout history: guns or butter. You can’t have both. The U.S. has tried for a half-century to do that and it hasn’t worked. The

country is in decline in many ways, as if trying to prove that a nation and society can have both, but the proof that it can’t be done is all around us: failing infrastructure, mass incarceration, environmental degradation, underemployment for the masses, lack of health care for tens of millions, substandard housing, student debt, bad water, unclean air, and industrial food production.

Two presidents, Eisenhower and Johnson, explicitly warned the U.S. about this but the warnings have gone unheeded. The solution might be as simple as a renewal of the War on Poverty (not a war on the poor, as we are seeing today), for lifting all of the poor from their condition will lift the entire country. There must be a demand for the renewal of the War on Poverty. The alterna-

tive is the impoverishment of the whole and that won’t be a pretty sight to see.

John Funiciello, is a long-time former newspaper reporter and labor organizer, who lives in the Mohawk Valley of New York State. In addition to labor work, he is organizing family farmers as they struggle to stay on the land under enormous pressure from factory food producers and land developers.

Theory: “We have become so strung out on teaching our students that ...”

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cel upward in society.

HBCU education should be about bringing African Americans from underprivileged, well-off, and rich pockets and communities of America to unite under the cause of learning about the ins and outs of the system which has oppressed them for so long, and give them the tools to overthrow it.

You see we invest so much time in telling our students “you have to dress a

certain way, you have to cut your hair because people are offended by it, and you have to do so much more to make white people accept you and like you,” but at what point do we use the platform meant to push our culture and life to actually do so?

When do we teach our students at HBCUs that you don’t have to survive wearing a suit and tie every day, but you can also strive wearing a dashiki? When do we teach our students that you do not have to cut your hair to sur-

vive in the white society, but rather you can strive wearing your natural hair?

We have become so strung out on teaching our students that they have to survive to meet a white society with high standards, that we forget in order to create excellence, you do not meet the standards of other people.

You create your own.

Yes, Washington was right to the extent that the basics and necessities should be our first step, but it cannot continue to be our only step.

We have to be able to bring African Americans who are hurting and have been victimized by the pains of slavery, which still haunt us, and show them that we can enter eternal freedom by allowing our minds to be taken to newer and greater heights.

The HBCU was meant to teach you to survive, but when will we teach students to strive?

Written by David King Jr. fo the Editorial Board.

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power in politics and, for whatever reason, they don’t like that political power.

And this, despite that many unions, including teachers’ unions, are just as likely to endorse and fund Republican candidates at the state and local levels. And this happens, once in a while, even in congressional races. It’s just that the rich do not like teachers having anything to say about anything political.

It may seem that people like the billionaire Koch brothers, funders of so many Right Wing enterprises, just don’t like teachers. It’s likely that they don’t care so much for teachers, but what’s really eating at them and their fellow billionaires and millionaires is public education, itself. They don’t like it.

That’s why, many years ago, they set about a grand plan to privatize public education, just like they have been scheming for decades to privatize all public services that it’s possible to privatize.

Examples: trash collection and disposal, municipal water systems, the U.S. Postal Service, the U.S. military (substantially accomplished already), Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. This is

a very short list of services to be privatized.

The charter school “movement” was not a movement at all. It was started by people like the Koch brothers and other billionaires and their rich friends as a way to eat at the substance of public education. Charters in a given school district, get much of their funding from school district taxpayers, who do not have any appreciable control over these “private-public” schools, although they foot the bills. They have their own school boards that control curricula, books, and working conditions, until very recently, they had no unions (there are now a few) to protect their teachers’ pay, benefits, or working conditions.

This was followed by demands that teachers “teach to the test,” Common Core, in which a standard of testing was set up for virtually all students, no matter what the conditions of their cities or neighborhoods and, if the students didn’t deliver, the teachers were held responsible for students’ failure. All of this adds up to gross disrespect of the teachers and their profession. It’s a primary reason why graduates don’t go on to get teaching certificates and go into the schools.

A retired teacher, asked this month why young people are not going into teaching, thought for just a moment, and said, “Common Core.”

Another overriding problem is that teachers are paid considerably less than others who have the same level of education and experience.

The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), reported in August, “Since 1996, teachers’ weekly wages have decreased $30 per week (adjusted for inflation) while all college graduates’ average weekly wages have increased $124.”

And, EPI noted, the wage penalty has grown “astonishingly” among women, in that in 1960, women teachers earned 14.7 percent more than women workers with comparable education and experience. In 2015, there was a negative 13.9 percent wage gap for women teachers. The institute also reported that, in 1996, teachers made just 2 percent less than workers with similar education and qualifications. So, you don’t have to go back to 1960 to see that tremendous negative gap for teachers. Again, it shows that the drumbeat of animus against teachers, their unions, and public education has had a profound effect on both teachers and public edu-

cation.

If this disrespect for teachers, wherever they teach, along with a lack of competitive pay, are primary reasons for the teacher shortage, it is clear that the problems in poorer districts, in inner cities and rural areas, are several times worse than the average for all teachers.

Although privatization of all education is making inroads across the country, it has not reached a crisis, yet.

However, what it has done is to make teaching in public schools less valuable to society and more competitive with charter schools, which pay less, provide fewer benefits, and tend to be willing to work teachers to exhaustion.

These two significant reasons for the teacher shortage should be part of every discussion, in every state, at every level of government, and in every newspaper editorial, but they are not given the consideration they deserve, if they are considered at all. This especially true of the project to privatize the schools.

BlackCommentator.com Columnist, John Funiciello, is a former newspaper reporter and labor organizer, who lives in the Mohawk Valley of New York State.

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Hornets fall to Southern Jaguars 64-6

BY LAJARETT TARVIN

Special to The Hornet Tribune ltarvin6985@myasu.alasu.edu

The Alabama State Hornets found themselves in a hostile environment as they traveled to Baton Rouge to face the Jaguars of Southern University.

The Hornets, in the 64-6 loss to Southern, gave the ball up six times.

“In games like that you’re trying to find answers and before you get the answers there is another mishap, another miscue and it’s tough when things happen.,” said Associate Head Coach Allen Suber.

Senior quarterback Quinterris Toppings had a careerhigh day completing 24 passes for 248 yards but he also

threw three intercepts. Sophomore quarterback David Whitlow relieved Toppings in the fourth quarter.

Whitlow led the Hornets to their only scoring drive for 72 yards on 13 plays. The drive ended with an 8-yard touchdown rush by Whitlow.

He ended the game rushing for 43 yards and passing for 25 yards, completing four of

his five passes.

The Hornet offense as a whole gained a total of 416 yards. Senior running back Khalid Thomas led the Hornets once again, ending the day with 82 yards on eight carries.

The Hornet defense gave up a total of 541 yards; 349 yards came through the air while 192 yards came on the

ground. Freshmen defensive back Joshua Hill led the Hornets in tackles with eight.

The defense caused one turnover which was an interception by senior Bradley Street.

On Hornets’ opening drive, they drove the ball down to the Southern 20yard line before the madness begun. That was one of the

four turnovers in the first half.

“It was tough,” Suber said.

The Hornets will be back in action on Sept. 24, when they host the Tigers of Texas Southern University. This will be the Hornets first game at home after traveling three straight weeks. The game will take place at the ASU Stadium at 6 p.m.

PHOTO BY DAVID EVANS/CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER

Hornet running back Kenneth Thomas has an opportunity to gain 13 yards against the Texas Southern Tigers right after the first half of play. The Hornets lost in the final minutes to TSU 31-27.

Hornets lose heartbreaker in final minutes STAFF REPORT

MONTGOMERY – Khalid Thomas rushed for a game-high 84 yards and a score, and Quinterris Toppings topped 300 yards passing for the first time in his career, but the Hornets could not hold a late lead in a 31-27 loss to Texas Southern.

The Hornets offense was clicking with a season-high 445 yards, out gaining the visitors by 142 yards.

“I saw improvement we just did some things that a young ball club can’t do and we’re a very young ball club,” Head Coach Brian Jenkins said. “Regardless of how I try to spin it, look past it and we’re not going to make an excuse, but we’re a young ball club.”

It was the second consecutive game Toppings had set a career-high throwing the ball as he completed 21 of his 31 pass attempts for 323 scores and one touchdown.

“He (Q.T.) did good,” Jenkins said. “He operated our offense the best we oper-

PHOTO BY DAVID EVANS/CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Hornets offense was clicking with a season-high 445 yards, out gaining the visitors by 142 yards.

ated all year. He was throwing the ball and made good plays throwing the ball.”

Willis White was on the receiving of a lot of those yards catching eight passes for 132 yards, both careerhighs. “Willis White is a true

guy that’s committed. He is a workhorse. His number was called and he made some plays. I was glad to see that as well as Josh (Davis), Nygel Lee and other guys.”

“It was good to see our offense get it rolling, but

we have to talk about some things we didn’t do well and look at those things and those things contributed to us not being successful tonight and well enough to come away with a victory.”

Thomas scored from two

yards out late in the third quarter to put ASU up 27-16, but ASU would not score any points the rest of the night.

TSU was able to come back and score a touchdown on a pass play with seven minutes left in the game, and

the ensuing two point conversion cut the Hornets lead to 27-24. TSU would score the game winner the next time they got the ball on a 41 yard pass with 4:33 left in the game.

ASU carried a 17-6 lead into the locker room at halftime. After TSU kicked two field goals to take a 6-0 lead, ASU came back and scored on a David Albert 30-yard field goal and a Kenneth Thomas 13-yard run and a 38-yard scoring pass from Toppings to Josh Davis.

“One thing I can’t do is hang my head,” Jenkins said.

“We don’t have time for that and it’s not going to fix anything. We will stay true to the core values that I believe in and that I’ve been taught.

You just have to keep going back and working, keep teaching until you get it right.

It’s tough and it’s very painful. The support has been wonderful and we just have to find a way to get it done.”

The Hornets will be back home when they host Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Oct. 1.

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The ladies team was paced by senior Tatiana Etienne. She covered the route in 19:35 to place 146th overall.

Hornet Cross Country teams completes Commodore Classic STAFF REPORT The Alabama State University Cross Country teams participated in one of the largest fields of teams and runners thus far this season during Vanderbilt’s Commodore Classic. The men’s team placed 23rd and 24th in a field of 25 Division I entries in the event held at Percy Warner Park in Nashville, Tenn.

Eastern Michigan took first in the women’s 5k race, posting 68 total points. Ohio State (87) was a distant second, followed by the top five by host team Vanderbilt (124), Butler (134) and Missouri (148) Alabama State finished in front of Western Kentucky.

The ladies team was paced by senior Tatiana Etienne. She covered the route in 19:35 to place 146th overall. Freshman Arion Span was close behind, posting a time of 19:47. Third across the line for State was Janice Lane with the time of 20:23. Alabama State’s other counters were Haley Spears

(21:01), senior Brandee Ebert (21:10), junior Sade Lavallias (21:16) and Chyna-Joi Staton, who rounded out the team with the time of 21:21.

For the men’s team MTSU led all teams with the score of 63 points, Georgia followed with 81 points, while Ohio State (106), Butler (116) and Missouri (150) rounded out the top five.

Alabama State’s top runner in the men’s 8k event was junior Gregory Thigpen, with the time of 28:00.9. Senior Tyree Newton followed Thigpen with the time of 28:19. Third for State was freshman Joshua Coffelt who had a time of 28:53, while sophomore Andrew Jackson paced a time of 29:41. Also running for Alabama State was Andrew Coicou who rounded out the Hornets team with a time of 30:08.

The Hornets will take a week off as they will return to action on October 1 at the Foothill Invite hosted by Jacksonville State in Oxford, AL.

Lady Hornets breeze past Faulkner Eagles STAFF REPORT MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Three players scored multiple goals, two others added a goal apiece and a few milestones were reached as the Alabama State women’s soccer team ran past Faulkner 8-0 on Friday night at the ASU Soccer Complex.

Aaliyah Lewis, Ariela Lewis and Lexi Krieger all scored twice while Inma Martinez and Britanee Harris also found the back of the net as the Lady Hornets controlled possession from wire to wire in a complete team effort to pick up their first win of the season.

Ar. Lewis also added an assist to become the fourth active player in Division I women’s soccer to accumulate at least 30 goals and 20 assists in their playing careers.

Adding to the milestones on the night, ASU head soccer coach Jodie Smith earned his 150th career collegiate victory and Harris scored her first career goal.

Fellow freshman Lauren Camp also saw her first regular season action and picked up her first career save.

“It was nice to see us get into an offensive flow,” Smith said.

“We got one on the board early and the game settled in. I felt like we wasted a couple of chances early. But we found the game a little bit and I was really pleased. We were able to find different players and respond on the field. We combined really well. And when you do that, you’re able to give yourself a chance to score in that final third. A lot of goals were scored close in on combination plays.”

ASU struck early and often as it took the lead in the fourth minute on Ar. Lewis’ goal that came off a rebound and into the right corner of the net.

The Lady Hornets put up four more goals in the opening half.

The second goal of the night came on a cross from Ar. Lewis to her sister Aa. Lewis.

It was followed by a header from Krieger, a breakaway goal from Ar. Lewis who deflected it off the keepers’ hand and into the net and another goal from Krieger, who also put one in off a rebound.

Alabama State will next take on Gardner Webb on Sunday at 1 p.m. from the ASU Soccer Complex.

Men’s golf holds lead heading into final round of Black College Hall of Fame ATLANTA – The Alabama State men's golf team will head into Sunday's final round at the Black College Hall of Fame Championship with a 10-stroke lead over rival Southwestern Athletic Conference member Texas Southern.

After being tied heading into today's round after yesterday's 288, the Hornets came out firing at the pin in the second round to shoot a -3 under par 285 to grab the lead heading into tomorrow's final. "I am extremely pleased with our guys final round," Head Coach Dr. Gary Grandison said.

Quincy Stith led the round for ASU with a -4 under 68, and moved up seven spots and is now tied for third

with a 141 (-3). ASU's leader on the team continues to be Charles Griffin who followed yesterday's 69 with another sub-par round of 71 (-1). He now stands in second place with a 140 (-3).

Kirabo Reed shot a 74 today and is in 11th place with a 145 (+1). Mbongeni Maphosa shot an even-par 72 and is tied for 21st with a 147 (+5) while Alex Roxes is 23rd after today's 75 and has a two-day total of 150 (+6).

"Our guys played well in many stretches, however, their inexperience cost at least eight shots each round," Head Coach Grandison said.

"I am hopeful that we learn form the experience and make the next progression."

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Harvey releases Turkey Day Classic schedule STAFF REPORT Social media is buzzing with the news of Steve Harvey’s release of the 2016 Turkey Day Classic schedule.

Harvey has been hitting the airwaves himself for weeks building the excitement about Alabama State University’s Homecoming and promising to bring “Hol-

lywood to Montgomery.”

“Alabama State University is extremely excited about our partnership with Mr. Harvey and HarCal Live,” said University President, Gwendolyn E. Boyd, DM. “His team has worked with the University to produce a schedule of events that has broad appeal, while remaining true to ‘that Ole ‘Bama State Spirit.’”

The Homecoming schedule actually begins on November 19.

Events include the Steve Harvey Golf Tournament Challenge, three starstudded concerts, a comedy show, a day party, pep rallies, an Entrepreneur Summit, the “Bobby-Que” contest, Daniel Marshall’s Cigars and Stars After Party and a live broadcast of the popular Steve Har-

vey Morning Show.

The President’s Gospel Explosion on Sunday, Nov. 20, features Byron Cage, Yolanda Adams, Kirk Franklin and the ASU Gospel Choir.

The Hornet Nation Comedy Show follows on Monday, Nov. 21, with DC Young Fly, Clayton English, Karlos Miller and special guest, DJ Tone.

On Tuesday, Young Dolph and Migos will perform in the Hip Hop Concert, sponsored by university’s Student Government Association.

Hornets faithful will enjoy the Old School Concert, which features R&B/soul singer Kem and the ever-popular, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly.

“All of these events and

so much more will be here at ASU and in downtown Montgomery, leading up to the Hornets’ big game against the Golden Bears of Miles College,” said Boyd. “We’re expecting Hornets from across the country to be here for a week of fun and festivities. This will definitely be the place to be for the best Hornets Homecoming ever!”

November court date set in crash that injured Tracy Morgan

Recently married Tracy Morgan and Megan visit the Emmys which comes 14 months after a horrible highway crash almost took the comedian’s life. Authorities have charged Wal-Mart truck driver Kevin Roper of Georgia with aggravated manslaughter.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Prosecutors and the defense lawyer in the 2014 crash that injured actor Tracy Morgan are due in court in November.

The Home News Tribune reports Nov. 9 was set for a status conference after both sides met at the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick on Thursday.

Authorities have charged Wal-Mart truck driver Kevin Roper of Georgia with aggravated manslaughter, vehicular homicide and aggravated assault. He has pleaded not guilty.

Kevin Roper was going 65 mph in a 45 mph zone when he hit the vehicle carrying Morgan. The NTSB found his fatigue likely caused him to miss obvious signs that traffic in front of him was slowing. If he hadn’t been speeding, he would have had time to brake and prevent the fatal crash.

Walmart settled with Morgan in May for an unknown amount (“Walmart did right by me and my family,” Morgan said at the time), but Roper still faces charges of death by auto. He’s pleaded not guilty.

Driver In Tracy Morgan Crash Turns Himself In, Reportedly Out On Bond Kevin Roper, the 35-yearold truck driver who was reportedly dozing at the wheel when his tractor…

The truly alarming thing

about the situation, according to NTSB investigators, is that Roper was nearing the end of a 14 hour shift— the maximum legally allowed—and couldn’t have made it to his destination without going over.

He didn’t have to accept the final load on his shift without sleeping, the NTSB’s Michael Fox said.

And, in fact, he would have made more money by turning it down, because Walmart would have paid for his rest time.

Roper had driven 800 miles, from Georgia to Delaware, before he even started the shift. After the accident, Walmart banned drivers from traveling more than 250 miles to work, unless they get nine hours of sleep between arriving and beginning their shifts.

The report also criticized New Jersey emergency workers for taking nearly 40 minutes to get the crash victims out of the limo bus, and moving them without precautions, and Morgan and his party for failing to wear seat belts.

Investigators say Roper was speeding when he crashed into a limo van carrying Morgan and others on the New Jersey Turnpike.

Morgan was injured and his friend and fellow comedian James McNair was killed.

Morgan settled with Wal-Mart last year.

Viola Davis becomes rape foundation advocate BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Viola Davis said Sunday that her own experiences with sexual assault led her to become an advocate for the Rape Foundation and encouraged others to visit treatment centers so they’ll become supporters.

“You must,” she said.

“And then let your heart do the rest.”

“Myself, my mother, my sisters, my friend Rebecca, my friend from childhood, we all have one thing in common: We are all survivors of sexual assault in some way, shape or form,” Davis said

Sunday at a benefit for the foundation.

It provides free medical treatment, counseling and legal aid to sexual assault victims at its Rape Treatment Center and Stuart House, which specializes in caring for sexually abused children.

An advocate for the group since playing its founder in a 2010 film, Davis was among the guests of honor at the organization’s annual fundraising brunch held at billionaire Ron Burkle’s Greenacres estate in Beverly Hills, California Davis said half of the

survivors helped by the Rape Foundation are children, adding that one in four girls and one in six boys are sexually abused before age 18.

Her own sister is among the casualties: She was sexually assaulted at age 8 and still struggles today.

“I continue to pray for my sister,” said Davis, who has previously spoken publicly about her sister’s attack.

The brunch was held in a tented space in Burkle’s backyard, where “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, “Vampire Diaries” actress Nina Dobrev and the

supporting cast on Davis’ “How to Get Away With Murder” were among the guests in 95-degree heat.

David Schwimmer was the master of ceremonies. The actor-director started working with the Rape Foundation during his “Friends” days and has served on its board of directors for the last 12 years.

He said the brunch supports a year’s worth of services at the Rape Treatment Center and Stuart House.

The Foundation provides educational programs for first responders, middle and high school students.

An advocate for the group since playing its founder in a 2010 film, Davis was among the guests of honor at the organization’s annual fundraising brunch held at billionaire Ron Burkle’s Greenacres

NEW YORK (AP) — Brangelina is no more. Angelina Jolie Pitt has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, bringing an end to one of the world’s most star-studded, tabloid headline-generating romances.

Jolie Pitt cited “irreconcilable difference” in divorce papers filed Monday in Los Angeles. She is seeking physical custody of their six children, with visitation rights for Pitt.

An attorney for Jolie Pitt, Robert Offer, said Tuesday

that Jolie Pitt’s decision to divorce was made “for the health of the family.” The filing dated the couple’s separation as last Thursday.

Though together for 12 years, Pitt and Jolie Pitt only wed in August 2014.

They married privately in the French hamlet of Correns in Provence with their children serving as ring bearers and throwing flower petals. They announced the ceremony days later.

Their children are: 15-year-old Maddox,

12-year-old Pax, 11-year-old Zahara, 10-year-old Shiloh, and 8-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.

This is the second marriage for Pitt, who previously wed Jennifer Aniston. It’s the third for Jolie Pitt, who was previously married to Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller.

Their initial romance sparked a tabloid avalanche unlikely any in recent memory. Pitt and Jolie became close while filming 2005’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” prompting

widespread speculation — consistently denied by couple — that Jolie prompted Pitt’s divorce from Aniston. Pitt and Aniston announced their separation in January 2005.

But after the media upheaval, Jolie Pitt and Pitt settled into their own unique kind of globe-trotting domesticity.

The pair adopted children from Cambodia, Vietnam and Ethiopia. And they sought to direct the glare of their celebrity toward other causes. Jolie Pitt, a goodwill ambassador

for the United Nations, became an outspoken voice for refugees and various causes in Africa, as well as for breast cancer treatment after undergoing a double mastectomy.

Jolie Pitt also launched herself as a film director.

Last year, the couple starred together in her “By the Sea,” playing a glamorous couple vacationing together in France while their marriage was on the rocks. It made a mere $538,000 at the box office.

In a 2014 interview with

After ten years together and two married, Angelina Jolie files for divorce

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The Associated Press, Jolie Pitt said playing a couple with marital problems was cathartic.

“It almost makes you get past those issues because you can laugh at them,” Jolie Pitt said. “You do a film about bad marriage and you witness that behavior. You study it, you let it out, you attack each other and then you just want to hold each other and make sure you never behave that way.”

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