COURTBOUILLON A DILLARD UNIVERSITY student production 24 September 2009 www.ducourtbouillon.com

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INDEX

2Administrators to offerincentives to students tolearn about SACS’ QEP

NEWS

7New Dillard students discuss their experiences with registration process

OP-ED

SPORTSBobby Williams, DU’s new coach, team bring cross-country to campus

4EDITORIAL21st century processes:Improve registration everyone’s responsibility

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Off to a good start

Photo by Stephawn Spears | CourtbouillonPeionka Conners, a freshman mass communication major, looks at a new textbook while sitting on the Oaks recently. The fall semester started Sept. 8. The

fall season started officially began at 4:18 CDT on Tuesday, Sept. 22. Fall, also known as autumn, lasts from the autumnal equinox (September) to the winter solstice (December).

Dillard to be evaluatedin on-site SACS review Jeannine Cannon

Managing Editor

About 20 students gathered in a circle of prayer in front of Kearny at noon Monday to mourn the loss of DU freshman Christopher Evans of New Orleans, who was shot and killed Sunday morning after a carjacking.

According to the Rev. Gail Bowman, university chaplain, services are set for 11 a.m. Saturday at Thompson United Methodist. A memo from University President Marvalene Hughes said a “Blue and White Fair Dillard” bereavement

Prayer circle mourns student

More than 1,000 register for fall

Jeannine CannonManaging Editor

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, or SACS, is planning an on-site evaluation at Dillard for three days next month.

SACS guidelines require

affirmation of accreditation every 10 years. Hurricane Ka-trina had affected DU’s regular schedule, but it’s now back on track with an on-site evaluation set for Oct. 13-15. Its status is expected to be announced in

See SACS on Page 2

Charley StewardEditor-in-chief

Administrators are trumpeting the turnabout in enrollment at Dillard Uni-versity this fall, with a 20.9 percent in-crease in the student census, including 469 new students, according to Dr. Toya Barnes-Teamer, vice president for Stu-dent Success.

Some 1,029 students registered this fall, according to the administrator, citing data as of Sept. 11. Registration ended Friday, Sept. 18, and the official census report will come out Friday, Sept. 25, two days after this issue of the Courtbouillon went to press.

Of the new students, 325 are new freshmen and 93 are transfers. The bal-

ance includes concurrently enrolled stu-dents, readmits, special students who are a part of a consortium with other col-leges and teacher assistants.

“It’s like we basically doubled” the number of applications, Barnes-Teamer said, explaining the increase. She added

See Enrollment on Page 3

See Evans on Page 2

June 2010.The school had been on SACS proba-

tion over fiscal issues; that probation was lifted in June, officials announced earlier in the summer.

Although Dillard’s reason for being on probation was financial, accreditation is based on more than just money, explained Dr. Phyllis Dawkins, the new associate pro-vost. SACS representatives will be visiting the school to assess a number of areas, including the following three core require-ments: institutional effectiveness, faculty competence and the university’s “Quality

Enhancement Plan,” called the QEP.Institutional effectiveness, according

to SACS, is based on how “the institution identifies expected outcomes, assesses the extent to which it achieves those outcomes and provides evidence of improvement based on analysis.” Under this category, the school will be assessed for its educational programs, administrative support services and educational support services.

Regarding faculty competence, SACS reviews the level of education of faculty and whether is keeping the curriculum up to date.

Dawkins said, “Dillard has a great fac-ulty,” noting than more than 75 percent of the faculty holds doctoral degrees.

The Quality Enhancement Plan is, ac-

cording to SACS, a report and plan to sup-port student learning and accomplish the institution’s mission. The report’s research and plan was compiled by faculty members and Dawkins for SACS approval; it has been submitted prior to the on-site review by the commission.

Titled “Communication Skills En-hancement Grounded in Critical Think-ing,” Dawkins said the Dillard’s proposed new QEP, if approved, would link two to three courses together for integrated as-signments; grounded in critical thinking, the proposed plan will emphasize writing, speaking and reading.

It would create learning communities and strengthen the student experience in all four years, she added.

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Learn about new ‘QEP,’ win incentives with game

SACSFROM PAGE 1

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Want to win a prize? Learn the title of the new proposed Quality Enhancement Plan, “Communication Skills Enhancement in Criti-cal Thinking.”

Starting Wednesday, Sept. 30, through Wednesday, Oct. 14, a game will be played around campus in which two students will ap-proach unsuspecting students in various build-ings on campus and ask the question, “What’s the title of the QEP?” Correct answers will earn a prize.

Mass Communication Department students will film the impromptu questions and student responses and will screen excerpts.

The QEP effort is led by Dr. Phyllis Dawkins, associate provost, and the informational cam-paign committee is headed by Dr. Ruby Broad-way, associate professor of biology.

Starting Sept. 30, faculty, students and staff will receive information about the QEP in a va-riety of ways, including banners and talks during freshmen Jubilee Assembly sessions.

bouquet will be sent.A memorial service also may

be held on campus, but a date has not been set.

Evans, 17, was found shot to death after a carjacking in Gentilly in the 4600 block of Pauger early Sunday. A friend in the car, who remains unidenti-fied, was gravely injured. Two

19-year-old men have been booked in connection with Ev-ans’ death on one count each of first-degree murder.

Bowman, who led the prayer service, said Evans was in her African World Studies class. Bowman said she appreciated the student body for coming up with the idea of prayer.

Carmelita Foster, Miss Dil-lard 2009-2010, expressed her condolences, saying, “I am deeply saddened about what

happened.”The DU president’s memo

Wednesday stated that Ev-ans’ mother, a Ms. Gibson (no first name provided), said she is deeply appreciative of the warmth and concern Dillard showed during her brief visit to campus Monday.

The memo quoted Ms. Gibson as saying, “The stu-dents were buzzing with con-cern. When they learned that I was the mother of Christopher,

they hugged me and offered their talents for the services on Saturday. One of them volun-teered to be soloist ...”

Bowman encouraged stu-dents to keep safe: “Do not be frightened by what has gone on. Just take the proper precau-tions.”

Hughes’ memo offered the following tips: Be careful of your surroundings. And notice the people with whom you in-teract.

EvansFROM PAGE 1

Art show set to start Oct. 1The opening reception for the photography

exhibit “People I Know” will be held at 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, in the Cook Hall.

The exhibit by Terrence Sanders, editor of ArtVoices, will be available for viewing un-til Oct. 30. Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday and by ap-pointments.

that the recruitment goal in the enrollment recovery plan for new students was 400 stu-dents, so the goal was exceed-ed by 69 students. While the goal for continuing students of 575 was not met, Barnes-Teamer insisted that “we are ahead of the game.”

In fall 2008, DU had 851 students, down 12.3 percent from fall 2007’s census of 956. Fall 2009’s total is 1,029, up 20.9 percent from fall 2008. The pre-Katrina enrollment high was 2,092 in fall 2003. The university had 1,993 stu-dents enrolled in fall 2005 when Katrina hit and 1,084 in spring 2006.

The number of new stu-dents is not the largest in Dil-lard’s history. For example, in 2001, Dillard had 653 new freshmen, not including re-ad-mitted students, transfers and others. However, it is the larg-est number of new students post-Katrina.

The news was touted in the Sept. 14 edition of the Times-Picayune, which noted that

Dillard had seen the biggest increase in enrollment of the 10 local institutions of higher learning.

Dr. Marvalene Hughes, DU president, was quoted in that article saying that the increase was the result of new market-ing and recruitment offers.

“The president specifi-cally speaks to the fact that we beefed up our marketing and public relations,” Barnes-Teamer told the Courtbouil-lon in a recent interview. “We beefed up our recruitment initiatives because we actually hired more staff, so we put more resources in enrollment management in an effort to get us to these new numbers.”

Barnes-Teamer said 4,675 applications to Dillard were re-ceived for the 2009-10 school year, compared with 2,349 ap-plications in fall 2008. Of this fall’s applications, 2,161, or 46.2 percent, were admitted, and 469 new students, or 21.7 percent of applicants, enrolled and registered for classes.

Barnes-Teamer said the ad-mission percentage is down slightly by about 1 percent this year because admission stan-dards are back in place.

She said some students weren’t admitted because they either didn’t submit their test scores, didn’t submit their high school transcripts or addition-al required documentation. She said some were advised to go to a community college and then consider transferring to Dillard in the spring.

Recovery planThe projected goals for fall

2010 in the recovery plan is to have 1,101 students, including 150 graduating seniors, 501 re-turning students and 450 new students.

Barnes-Teamer said, “The recruiters are on the roll. We’ve already started on spring and fall of 2010.”

Several programs and ini-tiatives outlined in the enroll-ment recovery plan are de-signed to assist with meeting these goals and recruiting and retaining students.

Barnes-Teamer said, “Re-tention, just like with recruit-ment, is not attached to just to the division of Student Success. Actually, everybody needs to be involved, so there are some specific things that we’re doing, like working in collaboration with Academic

Affairs to ensure that we are on top of what we need to do to retain students.”

The initiatives include:-- Early alert: Faculty are

asked to provide early notice to students of their status in each class so corrective action can be taken. At midterm, if a student is not doing well, he or she is strongly encouraged to go to Student Support Ser-vices to get the additional help they need to ensure success by semester’s end.

-- Financial literacy coun-seling: If students don’t do well in class, their financial aid and/or scholarships are jeopardized, so the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship will meet with students to en-sure that they remain in good standing at the university.

-- Several recruitment ini-tiatives, such as the Commu-nity College Initiative and the International and Racial/Eth-nic Initiative, focus on specific target groups.

-- Campus tours and church outreach: Since Dillard is affil-iated with the United Method-ist Church, it works through ministers to recruit within the church community.

COURTBOUILLONCampus&Local24 September 2009 3

Freshmen to fill4 spots in runoff

Right on cue

Stephawn Spears | Courtbouillon

Mitch Moffett, a freshman music industry major, plays pool recently in lower Kearny. The bottom of Kearny Hall is the current recreation spot for students. The new 57,000-square-foot, three-story Student Union under construction will provide more opportunities for socializing. The building will include a bowling alley, theater, exercise room, yoga center and wellness center. It should be complete early next year.

EnrollmentFROM PAGE 1

Angelica R. BoydRunoff elections for four

Freshman Class spots were to be held Wednesday, Sept. 23.

Tajeve Wright-Young of Houston, a chemistry/pre-medicine major, was elected class vice president with 111 votes (50.5 percent) to beat out Hannah Ingram of Detroit, a psychology major.

Bridget Sisney of Jackson, Miss., a biology/pre-medicine major was elected chaplain with 155 votes (72.4 percent) over Charne Thomas of New Or-leans, pre-dentistry.

The three who were unop-posed are Chris Neal, treasurer; Mickal Todd, parliamentarian; and Kia Hill, on-campus repre-sentative.

The primary was held Thurs-day, Sept. 17. Results of the pri-mary, posted at Kearney, indi-cated runoffs for the following positions:

-- President: Charlie Cole-man, a Shreveport political science and English major, 98 votes (43.6 percent) and Terry Webb, a New Orleans nursing major, 87 votes (38.5 percent) are in the runoff. The third candidate was Kayla Blain, a St. James voice performance ma-jor.

-- Secretary: Rachel Williams of Baton Rouge, psychology and Spanish and Andrew Web-ber of Mobile, Ala., political science, are in a runoff with 96 votes (43.6 percent) and 85 votes (38.6 percent), respec-tively. Also running was Chillia Jasmin of St. James, biology/pre-medicine.

-- Class attendant: Taylor McGhee, 41 votes (18.2 per-cent), of New Orleans, nurs-ing, and Farren Washington, 91 votes (40.4 percent) of New Orleans, biology/pre-medicine, will face off. The other candi-dates were Jamie Renee Elliot of New Orleans, criminal jus-tice; Dasha Parker of Baton Rouge, elementary education, and Briana Katz of Los Ange-les, nursing.

-- First gentleman: Jerome Bailey Jr. of Houston, mass communication, 64 votes (29.2 percent) and Deshawn Dab-ney of New Orleans, theater, 61 votes (27.9 percent). Other candidates were Jhory Buskey of Mobile, Ala., theater; and Dorian Webster of Richmond, Calif., nursing.

Mario Martin Sports Editor

DU’s new cross-country team debuted Sept. 12 at Loyola’s invitational cross meet with senior Anthony Hingle leading five other team mem-bers with a 21:23 time.

The new cross-country team is coached by the newest addition to Dillard’s athletic department, coach Bobby Wil-liams, 30, a New Orleans native who graduated from McMain High School in 1997. Williams, who attended the University of New Orleans on a four-year track and field scholarship, also is pastor of the Christ Worship Center in New Orleans East. While he was at UNO, he and his teammates broke a school record in the mile relay.

Competing against run-ners from Loyola, the Univer-sity of Alabama at Mobile and Belhaven College of Jackson, Miss., Hingle finished 23rd of 40 runners.

Other teammates and their

times and rank included freshman Byron Miles, 23:03, 31st; sophomore Mar-cel Williams, 23:15, 32nd; sophomore Earnest Porer, 23:47, 34th; and seniors Da-vid Pittman and Jarrod Little, both with 23:51, 37th and 38th respectively.

Hingle, a senior psychol-ogy major, said, “Only two guys on our team actually ran cross-country in high school. With that in mind, I think we did well, and I’m proud of our entire team.”

The coach called the Loyola event “a good start.”

“We are working with a lot of guys and ladies who haven’t participated in any sports since high school, and many of them are now juniors and seniors in college. It was good to see them all compete and complete the meet,” said Williams.

Williams said his roles as a pastor and coach complement each other: “I tell my athletes

faith is the main concept when you’re doing something in life – athletics, school – faith will get you through any obstacle.”

While nine men and five women currently are on the new team, Williams said he is trying to recruit more females

for the spring track team.“We are in the process of

building a good foundation for the years to come.”

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New coach, team bring cross-country to DUSports

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Stephawn Spears | Courtbouillon

New cross-country coach Bobby Williams practices with his team on the Oaks recently. Williams called team’s first event “a good start.”

Freshman runner leads team in time despite illnessMario MartinSports Editor

Freshman cross-country runner Byron Myles didn’t let a little thing like flu symptoms stop him from lead-ing the Blue Devil runners in last weekend’s 37th an-nual 5K Azalea City Classic hosted by the University of South Alabama in Mobile.

The next meet is the LSU Invitational, set for Satur-day, Sept. 26, in Baton Rouge.

Myles had a time of 21:49, placing him 41st of 59

runners. Placing after Myles for Dillard runners was the previous meet’s top runner, senior Anthony Hingle, with a time of 22:02. That time was just off his previ-ous best of 21:23 at the Loyola Invitational. Sopho-more Marcel Williams rounded out the top three for Dillard at 24:06. The winner of the race was the host team; South Alabama’s Micha Tirop led all runners, completing the course with a time of 15:43.

On the women’s side, Dillard had three finishers although they did not place. Senior Jasmyne Fine and

juniors Neshara Boyd and Tiffany Young all completed the women’s 5-kilometer race. Southeastern Louisi-ana’s Kapkiai Dorcus finished first place with a time of 19:35.

Myles, 18, a history major from Los Angeles, ran track all four years at Beverly Hills High. Despite hav-ing mild flu symptoms, Myles said he continued to practice.

“I believe [the cross-country program] is headed in a very good direction,” Myles said.

2009 cross-country schedule

Four of six cross-country competitions remain for Dillard’s new team, with the closest set for Saturday starting at 9:45 a.m. at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

Other events include:• Oct. 3 at 8 a.m., Gulf Coast Stampede• Oct. 24 at 9:30 a.m., Mobile (Ala.) Rampage Invita-

tional• Nov. 7 at 8:30 a.m., GCAC Championship• Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m., NAIA Championship

Cross‐country/track roster 

Men’s 

Name  Height  Year  Exp.  Hometown  High school previous school 

Anthony Hingle   5‐foot‐5  Senior  HS  New Orleans  St. Markus Hig Earnest Porter  5‐foot‐11  Sophomore HS  New Orleans  Ferriday Marcel Williams  5‐foot‐8  Sophomore HS  Detroit  Harrison John Kennedy  5‐foot‐11  Senior  HS  New Orleans  Redeemer‐Seton Jarod Little  5‐foot‐10  Senior  HS  New Orleans  Brother Martin David Pittman  5‐foot‐10  Senior  HS  Kenner  Destrehan Andrew Aguillard  6‐foot‐2  Senior  HS  Destrehan  Destrehan Byron Miles  5‐foot‐8  Freshman  HS  Los Angeles  Beverly Hills Kirk Roche  5‐foot‐5  Freshman  HS  New Orleans  Warren Easton Sherman Coleman  ‐‐‐  ‐‐‐‐  ‐‐‐‐  ‐‐‐  ‐‐‐  

Women’s 

Name  Height  Year  Exp.  Hometown  High school previous school 

Tiffany Young  5‐foot‐3  Junior  HS  New Orleans  Statesboro High Jasymn Fine  ‐‐‐  Senior  HS  Los Angeles  ‐‐‐ Neshara Boyd  5‐foot‐5  Junior  HS  Fayetteville, GA  Whitewater Destiny Dickens  5‐foot‐6  Junior  HS  Los Angeles  Inglewood  

24 September 2009 5

Yugoslav is among sixto join DU basketball

Stephawn Spears | CourtbouillonJerry Thompson, a freshman mass communication major from Mosspoint, Miss., and Mico Sjekloca, a freshman

political science major from Yugoslavia practices in the gym recently. The 2009-2010 basketball season begins on Nov. 6 with six new players, including Thompson and Sjekloca..

SportsCOURTBOUILLON

Six-foot-seven, 205-pound starting center Mico Sjekloca of Yugoslavia is one of six newcomers to the Dillard Blue Devils men’s basketball team, according to head coach Dale Brown.

Other new team mem-bers include:

-- Maurice Steen of San Antonio, Texas, a junior criminal justice major who will start at the shooting guard position.

-- Jerry Thomas of Miles Point, Miss., a fresh-man mass communication major who will play small forward.

-- Oscar Moore of Grif-fin, Ga., a freshman biol-ogy major who will play in the power forward posi-tion.

-- DeCarlos Riley of Biloxi, Miss., a senior public health major who is point guard.

Robert Byrd of Newark, N.J., a freshman criminal justice major who will play shooting guard.

-- Brown said the team has gained strength in many areas, which it needed after the loss of “five big players” in David Manning, El-liot Dowle, Lance Bell, Cory Williams and Bobby Joe Walker. He said the team expects to improve on its record last season of 20-28.

Sjekloca, 23, is from Montenegro, Yugo-slavia – nearly 6,000 miles away from New Orleans – but he transferred from a commu-nity college in Sacramento, Calif.

“My country is small, but it’s the most beautiful place in Europe,” said Sjekloca.

He said he has been very busy since his ar-rival here in August: “Most days, I have three practices and three classes. Then I’m in bed

by 8.”He said his biggest chal-

lenge here is improving his English. He has been visiting the Writing Center and is looking for an Eng-lish tutor. Nevertheless, he said, “Everything is per-fect…I like New Orleans. The food is good, the peo-ple are great and my team is nice to me. I hope to win a championship.”

Sjekloca, a junior in po-litical science, said his fa-vorite foods in America are

chicken and pizza although his favorite food back home is lamb.

Steen said it’s been quite a transition, but he is focused on helping to place Dillard in the Top 10 in the NAIA Conference. The other incoming athletes agreed with that re-solve.

Moore said he wants to bring rebounding, running and scoring when his team needs him. Byrd said he will bring defense, assists and “three-ball” to the team.

Average points per game are 22 for Steen; 16 for Riley; 15 for Sjekloca; 12 for Byrd, Thomas and Moore.

(Vincent Michael Lewis contributed to this re-port.)

Volleyball, b-ballteams gearing upRalph James

Members of Dillard’s vol-leyball and basketball teams are optimistic as the teams gear up for the new season.

The Lady DU Blue Dev-ils volleyball team is returning from a 7-17 overall record and 2-6 in conference play, but cap-tain Keisha Smoke, a 2008 All-Conference player, remains op-timistic about the new season.

After losing four players last season, the team has added nine new players.

Smoke said, “I have very high expectations for the team this year; we have a group of talented girls who love the game. I see us being very suc-cessful this year and winning the conference championship.”

The Lady Blue Devils opened their season on Labor Day weekend at Texas South-ern University, starting out 0-4 against Division I competi-tion, but opened at home last Wednesday against Alcorn State with a 3-0 victory.

The men’s and women’s bas-ketball teams are preparing for their upcoming season as well.

The Lady Blue Devils are re-turning from a 9-22 overall 5-13 conference record. Their first

signee of the year was JUCO standout guard/forward Quan-essa Baptiste of Mansura, who averaged 15.9 points per game and 6.7 rebounds for the LSUE Lady Bengals last year.

The Lady Blue Devils also signed All-State forward Jazzmine Smith of Lake Charles. She averaged 16.2 points per game and 8.1 rebounds at St. Louis Catholic High.

The men’s basketball team is returning from a 12-18 overall 8-10 conference record.

Of the new players joining the team, junior guard Kenyon Harper said, “We have a couple of new players added to our nucleus, so once we get our chemistry together, we think we have what it takes to reach Kansas City and bring the tro-phy home.”

The Blue Devils landed two exhibition games against Divi-sion I opponents Arkansas on Nov. 2 and Oklahoma State Nov. 10.

Both teams will start the sea-son Nov. 6 at Texas College.

In addition to volleyball and basketball, the DU athletic department has added cross-country, softball, and track and field to the program this year.

Stephawn Spears | Courtbouillon

No.9 Keisha Smoke, a senior from Houston, and No.6 Zorana Piljevic, a junior from the Republic of Serbia, wait for the ball to return during the game against Spring Hill College on Friday, Sept. 18. The Lady Blue Devils earned its first conference win 3-1. Smoke earned 10 kills, and freshman outside hitter Paula Ogbevoen earned 11.

“Everything is perfect…I like New Orleans. The food is

good, the people are great and my team is nice to me. I

hope to win a championship.”

-- Mico Sjekloca, DU’s new center from Yugoslavia

Jeannine CannonManaging Editor

Jan. 20 was a huge day for African Americans. Barack Obama was sworn in as Amer-ica’s first African American president. It was the start of possibly the hardest four years of his life as the weirdoes stepped out of the woodwork to impede progress on the tough job he faces: getting our economy back on track while getting us out of this war.

During President Obama’s Sept. 9 address to Congress on health-care reform, Repub-lican Congressman Joe Wilson “spontaneously” yelled, “You lie” – an action for which he was reprimanded (and justi-fiably so) by his House col-leagues.

After reading about Wil-son’s outburst and some of the other things American opponents have been saying about Obama, I have come to the conclusion that racism is still very much alive, and it is getting in the way of Demo-crats and Republicans coming together in everyone’s best in-terest.

Former President Jimmy Carter had this to say Tues-day on NBC Nightly New: “An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated

animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man…” In this interview, Carter also mentioned incidents such a protester holding a poster that said, “Obama is a Nazi.”

Does this false allegation really have anything to do with why that person did not agree with Obama’s health-care plan? I think not.

Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee and an African

America, rejected Carter’s statement.

Did Wilson have that much of a problem with President Obama’s health-care plan that he had to make an outburst like that? Where was Wil-son when former President George Bush and his Cabinet lied about weapons of mass destruction and sent people your age and mine into Iraq?

In January 2008, CNN re-ported that former President George Bush and his aides made more than 900 false statements about security risks posed by Iraq. I don’t remem-ber anybody publicly calling Bush names or making rude outbursts.

As long as we have these kinds of complications among our government leaders, those who should be the role models for decorum, nothing will ever get agreed on and resolved, to the detriment of Americans of all races.

Republicans and other non-supporters need to get on the bandwagon, accept the fact that the United States of America has its first black president and then move for-ward toward coming to a con-sensus about the myriad prob-lems we face, including the growing cost of health care. This is 2009, not the 1960’s.

Our policyThe Courtbouillon is published by the students of Dillard University. Views expressed on the opinion pages are those of the individual writ-ers, and not those of the administration, faculty or student body. The Courtbouillon reserves the right to edit all writings for space and libel.

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To Obama bashers: He’s president. Get over it.

Jeannine Cannon

Everyone responsiblefor better registration

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Questions, comments or concerns? Voice them!!

Letters to the editor should be no longer than 250 words. Send your let-ter along with your name/title, address, e-mail address, phone number and classification/major if you are a student to: duopinions@gmail.com or mail to: Dillard University, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70122Room 146 Cook Center. Deadlines for fall issues are Sept. 17, Oct. 1, Oct. 15, Oct. 29, Nov. 12 and Dec. 3. Letters must be signed and will not be returned.

Letters to the editor

In January 2008, CNN re-ported that former President George Bush and his aides made more than 900 false statements about security

risks posed by Iraq.

What happened this year with fall registration? Appar-ently, Dillard was not prepared to handle the largest volume of new students since Hurri-cane Katrina. On the heels of the good news that our student population is recovering came complaints about the process of getting into school.

According to many disgust-ed freshmen, they were jammed in the gym starting at 8 a.m., with many still around trying to finish up at 11 p.m. “It was hor-rible,” said one freshman. Ad-vising was done in side rooms in the gymnasium; at least some of the rooms had no access to computers to access DU Today to check class availability nor copy machines nor even carbon paper to make copies of what had been advised.

To add to complaints about the crush of people and lack of technology for advising new students, returning students ex-pressed frustration over finding classes had been deleted. Was it so hard to send an e-mail advis-ing upper classmen of this fact, some grumbled. “It was ridicu-lous,” said a senior. “They had SOAR leaders doing freshmen schedules.”

Maybe Dillard should take a cue from Southern University in Baton Rouge, which made local news recently for having

everything computerized and no lines this semester. This is, after all, the 21st century. And part of retention would seem to involve being “customer-friendly,” one would think.

In all fairness, although the university plays a big role in registration issues, students must share their responsibility for being a part of the problem as well.

New students must do their part by committing to a school early on since only a portion who are admitted to most schools, including Dillard, actu-ally attend. Continuing students must do their part by being advised and pre-registering for their classes. At a recent meet-ing with the majors in the Di-vision of Humanities, Dean Danille Taylor made that very point.

“Let’s be the first” to do the right thing, Taylor urged in a talk to a group of mass communication students. She said students shouldn’t be sur-prised to return to school and find classes have been dropped when most students have wait-ed to register and only one or two names are on the rolls prior to the start of the semester.

So to both sides, we echo Taylor’s words: Do your part so Dillard can join the 21st century and forgo the registration head-aches.

Memorable quotes“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty min

with an open one.”-Malcolm S. Forbes

24 September 2009 7Opinion&EditorialCOURTBOUILLON

The column “18 Questions” is a popular one with many Dillard students, who may ask questions serious or facetious, insightful or inane. It is named after the year the univer-sity was founded,1869.

The following questions were compiled by writer Jeannine Cannon from the offerings of various students recently.

If you have a question, send it to Cannon at ducourtbouillon@gmail.com .

1. Why do we have a flagpole on campus when a flag never flies?2. Why don’t we have more parking?3. What is the point of having new lights installed on the Oaks when they’re are turned on sporadically?4. How long will it take Dillard to replace a bulb in the new spotlights when they go out?5. Why did Dillard fire so many professors when we have all these freshmen on campus this year?

6. Why is there not enough financial aid for upperclassmen?7. Why is Dillard so concerned about these new buildings when some students still don’t have housing?8. If the Health and Wellness Center is so concerned about safe sex, why don’t staff there provide condoms that fit?9. How is everybody supposed to eat in Kearny when they cut dining hours this year? There are too many students. 10. Why are there not enough workers in Kearny?11. Why does it take so long to get repairs performed in Williams?12. What’s up with the random new resident assistants?13. When exactly do they do room checks?14. Why are some of the workers in the bookstore rude?15. Why do we have to pay to get into the games this year?16. Why did Dillard pay to get new drains, and they don’t even work?17. Why is the administration neglecting the seniors?18. Where is President Hughes?

18 QUESTIONS

WORD ON THE AVE: What was your registration experience like?

“It was good. The people (admin-istration) were nice. The hard-

est part was getting into dorms because everything else had to

be cleared first.”

Ricquel Hale:Freshman

public health major

“Exhausting. I traveled from northern Louisiana, came in at

10 a.m., did not leaveuntil 11 p.m.”

Aleah Henderson:Freshman

biology/pre-med major

“I met a lot of new people. The process was screwed up, annoy-ing and irritating and unorga-nized. Too many students, not

enough adults.”

Brittney Hale:Freshman

business major

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