The Register, 2008-03-19

              the who would have thought the irs of all people would give students tips for keeping them out of your finances this year pages thescore lashawn parker managing editor beijing olympics under scrutiny after reviewing the figures and mortality rates musavuli concluded there were more from congo the united nations reported 25 million mineral profit was made from illegal extractions players pacemakers and many other electronic devices is one of the many minerals illegally extracted and deported from the mines in africa said musa vuli after reading an interna tional rescue committee spe cial report released in 2008 that reported 5.4 million people had died because of war related causes in war in his country since 1998 due to illegal min he had created an event about a cell phone boycott he was pro moting to help raise awareness about the situation in africa untarily terminated his account in january musavuli started his face book account in 2004 and the people behind facebook invol musavali a civil engineer ing major was able to connect the situation to people here in america as a result he was kicked off the social networking site facebook musavuli a native of congo was using the online communi ty to spread the word about the war going on in his homeland musavuli has those priviledges on one site revoked coltan a mineral used in computers cell phones dvd the culprit musavuli set his sights on wasn't a precious gem but a mineral called colton if that same situation hap pened on a&t's campus with those same numbers everyone on our campus would be dead within a week this situation is very similar to the one depicted in the movie blood diamond himself die without receiving any me dia coverage musavuli asked while the internet allows people to communicate eas ily through instant messaging chat blogs or spread a mes sage to people junior kambale however you communicate with those near and dear just think for a minute if that was taken away what's your best line of com munication your phone the in ternet mail word of mouth how can that many people avoiding tax time headaches student project hits road blocks ends good 7 mystery unsolved karen thompson register reporter lady aggies moveontownit questions surrounding the death of willie grimes still linger 38 years later the lady aggies basketball team don't have any time to dwell on their meac tournament disap pointment as they prepare for the women's nit tourney page 6 season ends on a sour note dexter mullins register reporter thescene the men's basketball team said goodbye to seven seniors who helped bring back the program back to respectability after a meac tourney loss to delaware state over the weekend page 6 they the national guard assaulted the buildings on cam mayor jack elam had placed the city under a curfew and had the national guard seal off the campus the institution had been stripped of its power said lewis brandon iii coordinator of the grassroots history proj ect of the beloved community center of greensboro disrupt these tumultuous events lead to the death of grimes and the legendary scott hall riots between the north carolina national guard and a&t stu dents which remains vividly etched in the reflection pool of the aggie village ing the school day arrested students for after the intense student government elections at near by dudley high school where black students were unjustly denied the presidency things took a turn for the worst as lo cal police tear-gassed beat and willie grimes a former a&t student was shot and killed early on the morning of may 22 1969 near carver hall and what is now the new sci ence building it only takes a moment to kill someone it usually takes a few months to solve a case but it has taken greensboro 38 years to ignore the city's oldest unsolved homicide larry kirby an a&t stu dent at the time and persh ing rifle fraternity brother of grimes described what hap that night grimes and his friends headed to the local mcdonald's on summit av enue just a few hours earlier the mayor had ordered the na tional guard to reinforce order on the campus grimes would never reach the mcdonald's that night and the decision to leave campus would prove fa tal pus by shooting off the locks to the student union and scott hall when they could have easily asked dr dowdy for ac cess keys the rest of the students ar rived later and they all crammed into camp sunshine along with 70 other volunteers from other the only problem was camp sunshine did not look at all like its name the students quickly realized that they were going to live in an old salvage building which contained lots of junk and was well below what most would want to visit much less live in tire week which took them in for the en the volunteer house they were re-directed to another build ing called camp sunshine contact with the person who booked their reservations at after hours of trying to make full and could no longer accom modate them christian they learned that the volunteer house that was set up to accommodate them and the rest of the students coming was the students from gtcc left early on friday feb 29 the friday before spring break of ficially began and traveled 16 hours by van as soon as they arrived friday night in pass a good disposition were exactly what the students had to exer cise during the entire trip to events and situations that al ways occur and flexibility and at the beginning of the trip dr palmer director of the multi-cultural student center on a&t's campus advised and encouraged the students taking the trip to have flexibility and a good disposition for the huge task that was set before them the trip was well planned by dr palmer however she knew that plans have to quickly adapt the students participated in this event through a non-profit organization called god's pit crew which loaded the house and pulled it 16 hours southwest free of charge this organiza tion was created specifically to assist victims of natural disas ter by hauling houses and other structures that are desperately needed for disaster areas by building them a new house pass christian is an area at the southern most tip of mississippi that was completely devastated by hurricane katrina christian miss to help out a single-mother with two children about 36 students from a&t and four carpentry students from guilford technical com munity college traveled to pass a success the post-katrina trip to pass christian miss during spreak break can only be described as ► see katrina on page 3 ► seegrimesonpage2 greeks stroll on the yard dodge digital hurdles and raise funds online candidates democracy goes forget the coliseum aggie greeks bring the show to campus page 8 michael j.mccray editor in chief index thursday sunny | high 62 friday mostly sunny | high 68 thescore thescene theyard theworld thebiz democracy goes digita lo 47 weather ► democracy goes digital podcast with full length interviews with everyone quoted in this week's story available online at ncatregister.com ► next week are candidates losing their personal touch by killing some of the power of those groups this bipartisan act essentially opened the door by organizations that are not contributed directly to a spe cific campaign and doesn't say whether you are for or against any particular candidate soft money is funds spent and i approve this message the law came into effect in 2002 to handle the increased role of soft money in campaigns and basically created the cam paign issue line i'm tal democracy candidates can thank the mccain-feingold act for that as far as cashing on digi the bad part of it is its all there in black and white it you do something stupid as a can didate it's there it's not going away so you have to walk this fine line you're walking on egg shells to a certain extent the good side of the digi tal hurdle is when a newspaper cuts a little piece of the quote from you and misquotes you and makes you sound bad and you can immediately respond in your own words with the full quote and say this is what i re ally said said ovittore gressional candidate says there is good and bad to the digital hurdle jay ovittore a human re lations commissioner for the city of greensboro and a con candidates and campaigns have to keep their eyes and ears open to anything that could be detrimental to their cause but there are some positives for all the negative digital hurdles web videos are a good plat form the get your message out to say this what i believe these are the issues that are important to me and it's a lot cheaper than buying television time can be caught on video and they have to able use that said brent woodcox communications di rector for the north carolina republican party every candidate has to be aware that everything they say and do can be caught on film it it happened to barack obama last week his campaign has raised millions of dollars online but almost had a video that went viral derail his candidacy before the senator addressed the video tuesday the double-edged sword of digital democracy is for ev ery dollar campaigns manage to raise online they are just as likely to lose votes for some thing posted online they have no control over ► see digital on pave 3 in-depth coverage ofthe 2008 student elections next week the a&t register nca&t state l iniversity greensboro nc 27411 d bluford library archives volume lxxxi no 24 the student starts cell phone boycott sga candidates hit the podiums wednesday march 19 2008 the student newspaper of north carolina a&t state university candidates for all student govern ment association positions had the opportunity to speak at a forum tuesday page 3 theworld » ► see boycott on page 2 more public figures are speaking out against the 2008 beijing olym pics again as opening ceremonies are just months away page 4