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The St. Louis club and other Howard students stand in solidarity supporting black students at University of Missouri on Wednesday, Nov. 11
“As Howard’s students, we know very well of the power to push back against oppression and the systems that are not conducive to the growth of our students. Therefore we stand not only in solidarity but in action with the students of the University of Missouri and the students around the country who enduing racial charges on their campuses”
- Howard President, Brendien Mitchell
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Missouri police arrest man after threat to shoot black students Anthony Romano and Madi Alexander Reuters Media Express COLUMBIA, Mo. (Reuters) - Police arrested a 19-year-old white man on Wednesday on suspicion of making threats on social
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media to shoot black people at the University of Missouri’s main Columbia campus, just two days after the school’s president and chancellor stepped down following protests over their handling of reports of racial abuse. Tensions at the campus are still running high after the resignations on Monday, with a greater-than-usual police presence and several students leaving the area saying they felt unsafe. Police arrested suspect Hunter M. Park in Rolla, Missouri, which is about 95 miles (150 km) south of Columbia, at about 1:50 a.m. local time (0750 GMT). Park is a sophomore at Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T) in Rolla, which is part of the University of Missouri System, according to a spokeswoman at the Rolla campus. He is studying computer science. Police said the suspect’s threats had circulated on social media, including Yik Yak, where an anonymous post tagged ‘Columbia’ late on Tuesday read: “I’m going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see.” “Some of you are alright. Don’t go to campus tomorrow,” another post read. We are waiting for you at the parking lots,” said a third post. “We will kill you.” Yik Yak is an anonymous social media app that allows users to create and view posts within a five-mile radius. Yik Yak spokeswoman Hilary McQuaide said the company worked with police to identify Park, saying it may do so when a post poses a risk of imminent harm. “Threats of violence of any kind are not tolerated,” said Cheryl Schrader, Chancellor of S&T, in a statement on Wednesday. “We will take every threat seriously and act on them appropriately to protect our campus community,” Schrader added. The school had not taken any action against Park as of Wednesday afternoon. Park is from the St. Louis suburb of Lake St. Louis, Missouri, according to jail records. His parents could not be reached to comment. He was arrested at an S&T residence hall by university police under Missouri law which prohibits communication of a lifeendangering threat to at least 10 people. He was transported to Columbia and is being held at the Boone County Jail on $4,500 bond. Park’s initial arraignment at the Boone County Courthouse is set for Thursday afternoon, according to a spokesman for the jail. No attorney was listed for Park in the jail records. On Twitter on Wednesday morning, the hashtags #PrayForMizzou and #BlackOnCampus were trending in the United States, and many postings highlighted the anonymous threat on Yik Yak. ‘Mizzou’ is the colloquial name for the University of Missouri. Despite a heavier-than-normal police presence on campus, a few students decided to return home because they felt unsafe, students told Reuters. University authorities said classes were operating on schedule. However, some professors, acting individually, canceled classes. Other teachers gave students the option of not attending classes. Bradley Smith, a graduate instructor of English, took to Facebook on Tuesday night to cancel his class. “By holding class at our regular time, I would be forcing my students who do and probably should feel threatened, to implicitly disobey me in order to protect their lives by not attending my class,” he wrote. Some students expressed frustration and anger at the school for not officially canceling classes on Wednesday and downplaying the threat, students told Reuters. On other U.S. campuses, peaceful marches or walkouts have taken place this week, over what some demonstrators see as soft handling of reports of racial abuse on campuses. Soon after Missouri president Tim Wolfe announced he would step down on Monday, a crowd of more than 1,000 gathered peacefully at the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, for a “March of Resilience,” in solidarity with Missouri. The crowd sang and chanted for an end to racism on campus. The issue has been in focus at Yale after a fraternity turned away black guests at a Halloween party, saying, according to reports at the time, that only white women would be admitted. A walkout organized by a student group called People of Color at Ithaca College, a private school in upstate New York, took place on Wednesday afternoon, attracting hundreds of demonstrators demanding the resignation of Ithaca president Tom Rochon. Rochon, like Missouri’s Wolfe, has come under pressure for perceived soft handling of racial incidents on campus. Hundreds of students also walked out on Wednesday at Smith College, a women’s private school in Massachusetts, in solidarity with students at the University of Missouri and Ithaca College. (Additional reporting by Shawn Shinneman and Lakshna Mehta in Columbia, Missouri, Barbara Goldberg, Angela Moon and Melissa Fares in New York, Matthew Liptak in Ithaca, Brendan O’Brien in Milwaukee and Ben Klayman in Detroit; Editing by Bill Rigby)
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College Confession: Understanding The Working College Student
Jazmin Goodwin Campus Editor
24 hours in a day, but she works 20 hours a week part-time, rides a bus to work four hours a week, takes 18 college credit hours, and studies 14 hours a week.
She was the black sheep, the quiet freak according to her friends and classmates. Every day in school she was confined to her own solitude. It seemed she could never find her social niche, it appeared forever shunned and cast out for being me. Her divorced parents do not support her matriculation in college.
She spends most of her weekdays dashing from classes at 1 pm to catch the G2 bus for a forty-minute ride to Georgetown by 2 pm, to work an eight hour shift for nine dollars an hour. Nine dollars an hour that will make all the difference in the world if she is able to afford to come back to Howard University for her sophomore year. It’s a sad reality to wake up every day, and see the hope, innocence, and youthfulness in her peers as they prepare their outfits and makeup for parties, while she is stuck in a retail store for 8 hours greeting customers with a smile and “welcome.”
Despite the odds, she enrolled in Howard University. This once-strange bird made a conscious decision to look to the sky and take flight into the direction of greatness. She has been immersed into a culture of excellence and surrounded by peers who have set standards of excellence for themselves just as she has.
For Brianna, working is not a choice but a necessity. Despite taking 18 hours of college credit, attending classes Monday through Friday, and having two internships, working to fund her education is the exhausting sacrifice she must make, but one that will surely pay off in the long run with the development of real-world experience and time-management. .
Thinking she has reached emotional and academic fulfillment, she was jolted by the fact that she has to try to make sure she has food to eat or textbooks to read.
Her story is one of many college students across the country and I hope it can shed light on providing resources for college students who have no choice but to work.
No one really could have prepared her for this financial reality she would soon find herself in on the campus of Howard University. There are only
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HBCU Shootings on the Rise: Are you aware?
Jazmin Goodwin Campus Editor HBCU Shootings on the Rise: Are you aware? By Kennedy Rose, Staff Writer WINSTON-SALEM UNIVERSITY: With the suspects still unidentified, a shooting on Nov. 1, on Winston-Salem University’s campus left 19year old, Anthony White Jr., killed and another, whose name hasn’t been released, injured. Both students were shot near on-campus dorms, which ledto a three-hour lockdown in order to ensure the safety of the students. TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: At Tennessee State University on Oct. 25, an argument between local residentsover a dice game ensued in the campus courtyard. The result was an unidentified shooter killing one man and injuring three female students who were passing by. MILES COLLEGE: Keenen Tajae, a 21-year-old junior communications major at Miles College, was fatally shot during a robbery on Oct. 29 by three other students at the college. One of these students was 18-year-old Cameron Green who has been placed in custody, while the other two suspects remain at large. Though the campus security characterizes this crime as an isolated event, Miles College has had 12 incidents of crime in 2014 alone, including murder, robbery, rape and drug violations. NORTH CAROLINA A&T UNIVERSITY: On Oct. 24, 26-year-old Shawn Rorie was shot while attending a North Carolina A&T University
homecoming party. The party was not affiliated with the university, but 300-400 people attended with over a majority being university students. The victim nor the alleged shooter, Timothy Calvin Armstrong, attended the university. NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: A 19-year-old sophomore at North Carolina Central University, whose name has not been released, was sent to the hospital with non-lifethreatening injuries on Oct. 25 after being shot by an unidentified suspect. Following the shooting, the university had a 40-minute lockdown in order to prevent further violence. The shooteris still at large. TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: Brent Randall, an 18-year-old freshman student at Texas Southern University was fatally shot outside student housing on Oct. 9. There are threesuspects who have both been arrested for the shooting whose identities have not been released. This was the second fatal shooting of the day in the area, and even earlier that semester, a similar shooting occurred around the same complex.
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OP-ED: Tell your Congressman to pass the Voting Rights Cameron Clarke Contributing Writer
THE HILLTOP submit to federal preclearance for any change in voting procedure or law. In addition, instead of confining its scope to southern states with a more visceral history of civil rights abuses, the legislation would be able to combat the more insidious discrimination practices that plague the entire nation. Unfortunately, like so many ambitious legislative projects of its kind, this bill has stalled in a deadlocked Congress. A new speaker in the House, however, offers a new opportunity to force this legislation for a vote. But it won’t be possible without considerable public pressure. In 2011, Alabama passed a law that went into effect in 2014 that requires all registered voters to show a government I.D. in order to enter a voting establishment.
This past month, Alabama announced that it was closing 31 driver’s license offices, with the disproportionate majority of the closings affecting the state’s largely Democratic, predominantly African-American counties. Fortunately, there is hope on the horizon. Congressman John Lewis has sponsored a bill to restore the overruled portions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, in a way that would make them acceptable to even the most restrictive Supreme Court Justices. This legislation, titled "The Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015," would force any state that has had 15 or more voting rights violations in the past 25 years to
Ben Carson: What Will He Say Next? Aesha Atherley Staff Writer Detroit native Ben Carson, the only African-American candidate running in the 2016 Presidential Election, has Americans nationwide have expressing their sheer disdain a result of his questionable views on an array of topics, including women’s rights, the LGBTQ community and Muslims. The republican candidate boasts an extensive career in medicine, previously serving as a Professor of neurosurgery, oncology, pediatrics and even serving as Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Abortion In a FOX interview on Aug. 12, Carson took it upon himself to repeat debunked myths about Planned Parenthood’s health care mission. “One of the reasons you find most of the clinics in Black neighborhood is so you can find a way to control that population,” Carson said.
Two years later, the state in conjunction with several other states in the southern United Statessuccessfully persuaded the Supreme Court to strike down one of the core provisions of the Voting Rights Act, allowing the state to change its voting laws without permission from the federal government.
CAMPUS A comprehensive examination of voting fraud allegations found that there were only 31 credible examples of voter fraud out of the more than one billion ballots casted in general, primary, special and municipal elections from 2000 through 2014. In 2014, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, in an opinion on a recent restrictive voter ID law, mentioned a case in which a supporter of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was charged with 13 counts of election fraud. According to a report on Talking Points Memo, he was charged for registering to vote in more than one place, voting where he didn't live, voting more than once in the same election and providing false information to election officials, More than likely, Wisconsin's I.D. law wouldn't have prevented any of the alleged violations. These laws, though their professed purpose is to discourage fraudulent voters, have only really succeeded in dissuading two key demographics: minorities and the poor. By creating unnecessary barriers to accessing the right to vote, these laws work only to inconvenience and frustrate the least-advantaged voters in our society.
But, the state of Alabama isn’t unique. There is a coordinated movement in the United States to suppress the prevalence of African-American votes. To date, 36 states have passed laws that request identification at polling stations, and 32 of those states already have laws that are in full effect. Presumably, these ordinances are passed to rectify and prevent the apparent issue of voter fraud, and there is a stark amount of states that aren’t working to combat the alleged fraud.
So I implore you, reach out. Contact your senators. Contact your representative. Contact House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Let them know that voter discrimination, in the form of onerous ID laws, is real, significant, and part of the lasting legacy of Jim Crow.
Women’s Rights Carson has certainly alienated quite a few women voters with his comments on women’s issues and rights. Carson has expressed his opinion about violence against women, stating that he isn’t sure violence against women is a terrible plague. Carson also said that men need to re-educate women on their role as women so they wouldn’t get so riled up over of abortion and their own reproductive rights.
Carson continues offending those in the gay community as well as those in prison with his comments during an interview on CNN’s “New Day.” “Go into prison straight- and when they come out, they’re gay,” Carson said.
The LGBTQ Community Carson has managed to alienate another community when he equated the LGBT community with pedophiles and those who practice bestiality. According to MSNBC, Ben Carson said “marriage is between a man and a woman and that no one can change the definition of marriage, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality.” Ben Carson also thinks giving equal rights to transgender people are giving them extra rights. According to POLITICO, in relation to transgender bathrooms, Carson said, “It’s not fair for them to make everybody else uncomfortable.” He went on to say “I’m not sure anybody should have extra rights- extra rights when it comes to redefining everything for everybody else and imposing your view on everybody else.”
Tell them to seize the opportunity to write themselves into the history books. Tell them to pass the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015.
Muslims Carson believes that the fate of America’s president should be in the hands of a person who has a faith that conforms to the traditional value of America, expressing his belief that a Muslim should not serve as the leaders of the United States. “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation,” Carson said on an appearance on “Meet the Press.”
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OP-ED: Howard University Hospital’s Competition for Gentrifiers Stepping Up Their Game
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Howard University has staked much of its future on the financial success on the hospital it owns and the medical services in general. In a given year losses can and have ballooned to twenty, thirty, or forty million dollars with no relief from any government. The hope has been that better leadership can make Howard University Hospital (HUH) profitable, but every new administration finds that new conditions make that problem more difficult. No sooner than one challenge is met, here comes another. The newest comes from an old competitor, Georgetown Hospital.
Increasingly Howard University is forced to compete with these hospitals for patients, White, Black, and Brown. Race and demographics are at play. Howard’s traditional population—the Black poor of Washington, DC—is being pushed out
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of the city by the predominately White gentrifying population. And while many who are left have expanded health benefits under Obamacare, they are now more attractive to hospitals with the newer facilities. The same goes for Latinos who have Obamacare. HUH finds its shrinking client pool in the Northwest now have new choices.
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Owned by the healthcare giant MedStar, Georgetown has announced plans to capitalize on the changing demographics of the city. It wants to expand its hospital by over a half-billion dollars. The whitening of Washington brings in people with money and pushes out the poor. This new facility will allow it to better compete with George Washington Hospital, which opened new facilities just over a decade ago. To the gentrifiers entering the city, these two hospitals, affiliated with wellknown predominately White universities, are go-to places to receive health care. The new Georgetown facility will only reinforce that race-and-class reality.
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White gentry.
This poor folks business is not the best anyway. Some may grimace and express moral outrage at this sentiment, but Howard University—and by extension its students—are affected by the losses massed by HUH. For HUH—and Howard University— not to deteriorate more, there must be patients whose insurance pays more. The poor are not enough. Whites with good health care insurance is the expanding market thanks to gentrification, and if HUH is going to break even, and not completely destroy the rest of the University, it must attract the
Good luck with that. Black hubris makes people think they can overcome the racism of White people. Even if Howard had a sparkling new facility, it would be hoping against hope that it could compete with the biases that live in the heads of White Americans. With Georgetown and George Washington having new facilities, it would be foolish for Howard to bet its future on competing. Even with a new facility, the future of HUH in DC would not be bright as it becomes surrounded by a sea of people who want the city virtually free of Black institutions.
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Well Hello, Autumn: Three Fall Fashion Essentials Montana Couser Contributing Writer
Fall is finallyin full affect! Remaining chic in colder weather is sometimes difficult. Check out these tips to help guide you through the fashion trends of fall. Hats for Days Everyoneneeds a fashionable hat to add to their fall wardrobe. When it comes to hats, step outside of your comfort zone! Don’t just grab your usual beany.. Spruce your style up with fall favorites likefedoras, floppy hatsand Panama hats. The materials on these hats should either be wool or felt so that it gets you through the chillier weather.
These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ Boots are the fall essential that won’t go out of style.Currently, the most beloved boot styles are ankle and over-the-knee boots. These two styles are super trendyand can be dressed up or down- especially when the boots are heeled. Those two styles as well as the traditional mid-leg boots and the popular peep-toe style can be found at stores like Aldo Shoes and Steve Madden. Coat SZN The time has once again arrived to dust off your winter coats for the chillier weather. The ultimate outerwear goals for the fall are peacoats, trench coats, faux fur coats, ponchos, leather and jean jackets. These coats often look best in the colors olive, grey, burgundy and traditional black. Along with your coat, accessorize with your favorite winter items! An infinity scarf, earmuffs, a fur ear band, leather gloves, sunglasses and many other pieces can add personal style to your jacket.
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Op-Ed: Why you should take classes outside of your major Dawn Richard Contributing Writer
Nothing is more boring and annoying than hearing people complain about the classes they are required to take for their majors, but ultimately hate. I completely understand that many students chose their majors because they expect stability and a decentpaying job after graduation, but at what point do you step back and ask yourself if this is something you really want? I firmly believe that too much money is invested into your college education to drag yourself through classes you no longer enjoy when there are so many other classes you can take and explore other interests.
If you can afford to add one class a semester that is not required for your major, I strongly encourage you to do so. I’m not sure who told people that you should only go to college to learn to do one thing or to focus on only one field. Furthermore, if you can manage to minor in another area of study, you should also take advantage of that opportunity.
Dress Up Your Room For the Winter Cache McClay Contributing Writer
As we welcome the winter time and the inevitablechills that come with it, be sure to warm up your dorm roomor apartment with stylish décor. These few décor do’s will provide the finishing touches to ensure that your room is the coziest and cutest for the upcomingseason. Begin with a color scheme with a hue of your choice to set the tone of any room. Then the fun begins with pieces that will surely warm upyour home. Just Hangin’ Out Tapestries are an absolute favorite to hang on your wall. They are a decorative way to maximize space and add some embellishment to any bare wall in your home. Tapestries are sold in many different colors and styles to make them a personal fit for any dorm or apartment room. You can even create a make-shift tapestry by grabbing a larger scarf with a pattern you love and pinning it onto your wall.
Do not spend all your years in college taking the same classes over and over again. Instead, spend some time researching the different courses your college or university offers, and you will be astounded by the courses you can take. For example, I am a journalism major. While I love to write and could easily follow my advisor’s scheme all four years until graduation, I also love learning about other cultures and art. Last semester when I told people I was taking Egyptian Hieroglyphics, the reactions were very interesting. My favorite reaction was when people asked, “Is it required for you to take that?” It’s disappointing that other people don’t see their college experience as a time to venture into a new subject, hobby, or interest. This semester I am in Figure Scultping, where I am learning about human anatomy and how to form the human body using clay. Just like last semester, I get questioned why I would take a course if it’s not required. I have thoroughly enjoyed the classes I personally choose. I understand that some people have no time to take electives or courses that aren’t advised, but if you have a hole in your semester, take up a class you normally wouldn’t. Along with learning something new, you will also meet people that you don’t normally meet in your normal classes. Taking classes outside your major is so worth it. Oughta Grab an Ottoman An ottoman is a must have for storage and stylish touch to your room. These elegant pieces come in many different styles and colors ranging from leather, suede and cotton. On top of great storage space, ottomans are an added chair for your room when you have guests. Curtains Make the Room Stylish curtains can make all the difference in your room. Instead of settling for plain old blinds, grab curtains in order to pull the whole room together. Plus, they’re perfect for extra coverage to keep that early morning sun out of your eyes. Sleep Easy The bed set is the final touch to make or break any room design. Before primping your bed, be sure to add a mattress pad for cushion and comfort. Top it off with a bed set that matches the room color scheme or a bed set that provides a color block effect to the rest of the room. Decorative pillows are the perfect statement piece to finish off any home décor with panache.
Lighten Up Of course, every room needs lights. Cotton ball lights are a cheap way to make any room cute and chic. String them around your room and subtly lighten your room up on the colder, winter nights. Rugs: Décor’s Feet Warmers Don’t buy just any rug. Choose them strategically!A shag rug is a delightful item to add comfort to any room. Grab a warm, fuzzy shag rug to warm up freezing winter toes.
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Women’s Soccer to Face No. 1 Seed Virginia in First Round of NCAA Tournament HU Bison
A No. 4 seed in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Tournament with a 7-3 conference record, Howard (13-7-2) secured its first-ever trip to the NCAAs with a 2-1 victory over No 3 seed Alabama State Sunday afternoon in Huntsville, Alabama. The title was the Bison’s second straight in as many seasons in the SWAC after claiming regular season & tournament championships as the No. 1 seed in 2014. However, Howard was unable to accept the conference’s automatic bid to the tournament last year because of its first-year affiliation status. HU’s back-to-back titles marked the first time a SWAC school has repeated as women’s soccer champions. The Bison have also posted back-to-back, school-record 13-win seasons in their SWAC Championship campaigns. The Bison’s accomplishment provides them with the opportunity to go up against a Cavalier team that earned one of the tournament’s four No. 1 seeds, joining Stanford, Penn State and defending national champion Florida State atop the bracket. Virginia (16-1-2) earned the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) regular season championship and reached the ACC Tournament Championship Game before falling to Florida State in a shootout on Sunday. UVA will be making its 28th overall appearance out of 34 NCAA Tournaments and its 22nd in a row. The Cavaliers fell to Florida State, 1-0, in the 2014 Women’s College Cup Final.
Via HU Bison WASHINGTON, DC --- The Howard women’s soccer team will make its NCAA Tournament debut against the No. 1 seed University of Virginia Cavaliers, the NCAA announced today with the release of the 64-team Division I Women’s Soccer Championship bracket. “This is a terrific day for the soccer program, for the athletic department and for Howard University,” said Athletic Director Kery Davis. “Coach Leiba has built a great program and these ladies represent the best of Howard.” The Bison and the Cavaliers will meet on Friday, November 13 at UVA’s Klöckner Stadium in Charlottesville. First touch is scheduled for 6 p.m. “It’s a surreal feeling, knowing what we’ve accomplished - winning that first championship, repeating this year and finally getting to be in the ‘Big Dance’. It’s a fantastic opportunity and a fantastic experience for this program,” said Howard Head Coach Brent Leiba.
Even with one of the top teams in the nation standing in Howard’s way, senior Dytria Ruddy - the only player to play in all three of Howard’s conference championship games (2012 Great West, 2014-15 SWAC) - is confident that the Bison will be ready for the task at head. “We were a Cinderella story back then, what’s to say we can’t be one now? We’ll be ready for this next match because in the end, we want people to remember Howard,” Ruddy said. More information, including a full match preview, will be made available on HUBison.com throughout the week. VIA VIRGINIA’S ATHLETICS WEBSITE - Tickets for the game are $9 for reserved seats, $7 for adult general admission and $5 for youth/UVA students/senior citizen general admission. Fans can order tickets for the tournament online at VirginiaSports.com and by phone through the Virginia Athletics Ticket Office at 800-542-UVA1 (8821) or 434-924-UVA1 (8821). Tickets are also available at the gate beginning one hour prior to the start of play. - Free public parking will be available in the Emmet/Ivy Garage. The Virginia men’s basketball team hosts Morgan State at 7 p.m. on Friday, so the John Paul Jones Arena and University Hall parking lots are reserved for men’s basketball permit holders.
2015 November Home Sports Schedule # F I L LT H E S TA N D S Team
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NC Central
11/14/15
Greene Stadium
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Men’s Swim
NC A&T
11/20/15
Washington, D.C.
6:00 p.m.
Women’s Swim
NC A&T
11/20/15
Washington, D.C.
6:00 p.m.
Men’s Basketball
Medgar Evers College
11/20/15
Burr
6:00 p.m.
Women’s Baskbetball
LIU Brooklyn
11/22/15
Burr Gymnasium
2:00 p.m.
Men’s Basketball
William & Mary
11/28/15
Burr Gymnasium
4:00 p.m.
Men’s Basketball
Central Penn College
11/30/15
Burr Gymnasium
7:00 p.m.
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NOVEMBER 12, 2015
A Cinderella Story in the Making?: Howard Women’s Soccer Clinches First NCAA Tournament Bid Nkechi Nnorom Sports Editor 1997 is possibly the year some of The Hilltop’s readers were born. 1997 is also the last time a Howard University athletic team clinched a birth to the NCAA Tournament after the men’s soccer team qualified for their 12th tournament. Now, it’s the women’s turn. On Monday, Nov. 9, the NCAA Selection Committee announced the competitive fieldof 64 teams that would be booking a trip to the Big Dance. Howard University (13-7-2), the automatic qualifier from the Southwestern Athletic Conference, was among those teams. The Bison was matched with one of the four No. 1 seeds, the University of Virginia Cavaliers (16-1-2). The Cavaliers are coming off 1-0 defeat against defending national champion Florida State Seminoles in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Championship Game. The Cavaliers will be making their 22nd consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance and its 28th overall. The Bison and the Cavaliers will meet on Friday, Nov.13 at UVA’s Klöckner Stadium in Charlottesville. Kick-off is scheduled for 6 p.m. The Bison stamped their ticket, after defeating #3 Alabama State Hornets 2-1 in the SWAC championship match at John Hunt Soccer Complex in Huntsville, Ala. The Bison’s victory marked consecutive conference titles in their two lone seasons of being in the SWAC. Last year, however, the Bison, a No.1 seed in the SWAC, were unable to accept their automatic bid due to their first-year affiliation status. This year, the Bison, as a No. 4 seed, had to brush the chip off their shoulder and prove that they were once again the best team in the conference. “I’m still pinching myself. It’s surreal just knowing what we’ve accomplished, winning that championship and repeating it twice,” said Howard Head Coach Brent Leiba. “What a fantastic opportunity and a fantastic experience for this program. We’re definitely looking forward to the challenge of playing UVA.”
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Prior to entering the SWAC, the Bison won the 2012 conference championship for the now defunct Great West conference. Senior Dytria Ruddy—the only player to have participated in all three conference championship games—is not consumed with fear of being the underdog. Rather, she is excited for the challenge that is ahead. “We were a Cinderella story back then, and that doesn’t mean we can’t be one now, “Ruddy said. “We are ready to fight against whomever we are going to play against. We want teams to remember Howard, and know that we aren’t going to lay down and take it.” According to Virginia’s Athletic Website, tickets for the game are $9 for reserved seats, $7 for adult general admission and $5 for youth/UVA students/ senior citizen generaladmission. Fans can order tickets for the tournament online at VirginiaSports.com and by phone through the Virginia Athletics Ticket Office at 800-542-UVA1 (8821) or 434-924-UVA1 (8821). Tickets are also available at the gate beginning one hour prior to the start of play. Free public parking will be available in the Emmet/Ivy Garage.
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