Dr. Georgia Dunston lectured on many different things. "Since its founding, Howard University represents a full embrace of its foremost responsibility as an agent for the reawakening of that legacy of learning." This statement tells us one of the many purposes of Howard University as an HBCU. During the last month of Freshman Seminar I once heard a girl say that Howard is too focused on the black aspect of everything. Clearly the purpose of an HBCU is to teach us that many of us have been miseducated about the origins of many things. In many of our classes we will learn that the origins of many subjects are rooted in Africa. Mathematics came from the Egyptians, who were Africans. Howard University is trying to keep the legacy going with this new generation. You never know what Howard graduate may discover some new medical treatment or invent something very useful. I also learned that Europeans, Africans, and Asians are all genetically related, but the largest portion is from Africans. This shows me that even though our ancestors captors' skin color was different, there is a possibility that they may have been related. However, this factor does not determine the type of person you are. Every person is different and it is because of genomes. Your genomes determine your hair color and texture, your eye color, your skin color, and other physical traits. Genomes even help characterize the different aspects of different diseases. "At the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we began, and know the place for the first time." (T.S. Eliot) This quote means that once we are finished exploring and researching all the possibilities we will come back to where we started and find something totally new to research. If you keep looking at something for a long time you will discover new things about it.
By Christiana Flood
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