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• Page 8 7'/lt: 11/LLTOP · Septetnber 19. 1975 • Oil The , • Sports Hilites • •
' Rill JN Ho ward squeaks by Wayne State, 7-,6 ' No. 1 Soccer team to play Madison College ' Gymnastics Grows 01arlic Neat: Voice of the Ho ward Bison Spoi'ts Morgan St. ,Crunched • Bl\JC Machine Opens Fal l Season ' • , New Howard 'Netters' By Roy Betts ' It's the opening. moments of the ' I Howard' -Wayne State football game with the Bison in pOssession of the,,/\ bal~~:h~he~ ;aa:~~~·B1i~o~3~~~~~=;back l. ' ·Bisons Hold Off ayneSt. has just attempted a thirctldown pass1 • By Roy ~tts play to wide receiver Nor.man Gavin exceptional ball players and should The Howard University Bison that falls inco.mplete. provide 'lots of excftement 'to every f otball team stymied a late fourth l't is fourth do'wri now and o Howard fan. • uarter assault by the Wayne State ; comes Julius Gamble, Howard's firs Michiel Banks and Kenny Warren 'iarters' and successfully opened , · string tight end1 and . field goa hooked up for 77 yar9s through_the • t eir 1975 season, winning, 7-6 -las1 ., specialist· to attempt a 27 yard fie_I air in tile first game g~ the seasori so aturday afternoon 1n Detroit, ' goal, well within his range _ look out for them tori'ite as well. ichigan. The kiCk is u~. l't's good accordin Defensively, .the man of the hour Before a near capacity crowd of ' to one official po ~i tioned in the en last week was right linebacker Jeffrey ~,200, the Bison opened the scoring zone. He gives the proper sign an Simmons who made the key tackle ' l_irst at 6:46 in the second Qµarter i m med i a tely. '-"!'ithout hesitation. of the day, stoppi~a Wayne State f'ith a three yard plunge by fullbacK another official drops his flag; citin ~ ball carrier on the goal line late in the 11 Donald Barnes. who finished the day an 'infraction upon the Bi}on offense fourth quarter. His t ckle made the kith 82 yards rushing. Julius Gamble The penalty wa ~ 15 .big yards fo difference between victory .and ickcd the e~tra point that later holding and moved the ball back t defeat for the Bison. ' . roved to be the margin of victory. the Wayne State 25. Gamble'· All ·American defensive tackle Ben Unfortunately, penal I tie ~ · and attempt failed' this time and so. Harris and offensive' tackle General ostly fumbles plagues the Bison Howard was forced to 1give up the Rooney, both seniors were qui_te throughout the game. The first half ball . • ii impressive against State by pressuring ended with the score Howard 7 and Saturda~ Such was the case 'Tartar' quarterback Ed Skowneski1 Wayne St. 0. At this point the Bisbn, afternoon in Detroit, Michigan as the all afternoon. 'Big Ben' and 'The who accumulated a surprising 150 Howard University Bison opened its General' will definitely be on the yards in penalities as compared to 1975 football seasonI wit. h an prowl for Hawks this evening a118:00 State's 31, had 67 yards lost to 0 astonishing 150 yards jin penaltie ~. p.m. penalities and two fumbles. Hardly charactefistic of a Bisor.i Wh ile the Bison struggled to Highly regarded 'Tartar' football team. · l victory, t"he U'niversity ot quarte rback Ed Skowneski was Each1 time the• BisonJmoved dow Maryland-Eastern Shore was hit for ininus 8 yards rushing~ li~ted t.o t~e field, · they were victimized bf ,over 200 yards in penalties during 9 yards in the passing departmenvat some officials poolij judgemen\. their/ first game. Johnson c: Smith ' tl1c half as the fierce Bison defense Wayne State on the other hanit tap~d the Hawks in Charl~tte, N.C. f)revailed . Fullback Donald Barnes crashes over the goal line with 6:46 remaining in the second quarter as the Howard accumulated a mere 130 yards i 26· 14. The second half appeared to be a Universlty Bison football team defeated the Wayne State 'Tartars' 7-6 in Detroit, Michigan last Saturday. penalties. Tµrning to other Howard sporting ' replay of the first as the Bison and ' activities this week-end, the Skowneski rolled to his right and schools. The next meeting is set for Last year's "MEAC 'MVP'. Michael Between you and me, we were HoW~rd 'Tartar' defensive units would not be lucky to get out of Detroit alive wi t University Bison Soccer team (1974 hit tailback Terry ,Grimes with a pa~s RFK Stadium in 197p. · Banks completed 5 passes for 96 out-done. 1 NCAA .Soccer Champions) will open on the Bison 12, but quickly Howard The Bison had f47 total yards . yards and suffered one interception. so many flags flying all over the But with 3:52 remaining in the place. · tbeir season on the i-oad against linebacke r Jeffrey Spencer moved up offensively while limiting Skowneski Defen~· ively, Jeffrey Spencer was 1 j game, Barnes fumbles on Howard's Madison College in the Tour of from his position an.d la id a jarring led 'Tartar' offensive unit to 158 theman with 6 tackles, ·6 assists, and Fortunately, the Bison suffere'tl 19. The 'Tartars' recovered the ball Champions at Harrisburg, Virginia. blow on Grimes stopping him within yards. the key hit of the day, followed by no serious injuries r o any ke and quickly moved in to score on a There will be two ffiatches for alt three yards of the goal. Senior tailback Anthony1 ''The tackle Kevin Cunningham with 8 personnel in last S3turday's 7-~ 12 yard spurt through ·the right side squeaker over Wayne State and you ~ports enthusiast.s who might Howard took possession' of the Juice·· Tapp had an outstanding day in d ividual tackles and se nior 0 of the line with 1 :58 left in the should go into to1ite's. contest decide to ma.ke the trip. The first is _ ball at their own 45 and simply ran for the Bison as he rL1sh ed for 91 co-captain 'Haywood Corley with 7. game. against the Uniivers1ty f at 9 :00 p.m. ahd the next is at 4:00 7-6 Howard, the out the remaining seconds on the yards on 21 attempts. Donald Barnes With. the score Maryland-Eastern Shd re at ·f p.m. Next week the ~ILL TOP will clock. "finished second in rushir1g with 82 'Tartars' elected to go for. the strength. ] take' an indepth look into the recent Th is g
• I se,,,,.,,1ber 19, 1975 • 7'1/£' /JILLTOP • I I - Page 9 I • ' Fall Season Opens, Voice of By Peter Harris his four hits in Saturday's secono Big Blue Fail· l HI LL TOP Staff Vl/riter game). I the Bisons By Peter Harris I Int the first weekend of Fall In the opener at Catholic, Howard By Sheila (SAM) MaddoX HILLTO_P - sta~ Writer o t ~ e first three. They ;teft seven competition, Howard's baseball team was defeated' oti a one-hi ter by ·HI LL TOP Staff Writer · Wednesday 1n Fairfax, the Geo_rge r nners on base during that span, and came away sporting a 2-1 record Cardinal's righty Ray Peloq1o1i . For those who lack transportation ,Mason Patrio_ts blasted the Bf is~ns 1 l t~ entire game. ! /"' after defeating American University · They stra11ded men in scoring or time . to attend Bison football 11 ·3, banging o_ut 12 safeties Howard totaled 11 hits 6ut failed 9-6 ' last SundaY, and splitting a position ir1 tiie top of the second, • games, efforts have now been made including five extra bfse ~its. t stririg them together bu o~ce; the double-header at Catholic Univer ~ity when shortstop Calvin Smith ras left ,to bring the games to you through · Freshman le.ft -hander Gerald t· ird inning,' when ri,g t fielder Saturday (losing the first game 2-0 1 - I . ' on third, aqd in the fot rtr.1 when radio station WHUR (96.3 FM) . ''Tub'' ir'r his fi rst sta·rj this Bailey singled, .firJt baseman and capturing the second 8-4). G~skins. i~-c~nt frosh rightfielder Vincent Bailey led season, sJffered the loss. He pi ched riarl Wallace singled., arid catcher Against A.U., the Bison's offense off with a double, and di ed there. Charlie Neal, former wide seven innings before being replaced Hugh;' Campbell smacked an RBI base banged out 13 hits to compensate tOr Bison senior. John Chestnut, 1n receiver, kickoff and punt returner by lefty Brvan Nichols. ~ t .ta left. ~ six errors and 14 walks by the 1 defeat, allowbd only five hits but for Cleveland Browns and later for Mason catcher Joe Neff led thei~ cdmpbell also had two other hits, defense. walked four, including three in the Philadelphia Eagles. is ser.ving as attack with a two run homer in the ing three for four for the day. After scoring twice in the first' first inning, leading to one run.. A ''voice of the Bisons. '' bottom of the first inr1ing, and a two Howard's next game is tomorrow inning. Howard fell behind the Eagles two out triple and double in the run double in the third. ainst Catholic University at the as they tallied one run in the bottom sixth scored Catholic's second run. Wa_shingtonians will reme1nber The Bison went scoreless the last I Ellipse, their first home game this of the first, two the second, and Howard came back in the second Neal as the ··soul-rockin', Charlie Neal "six innings after tallying once in each Rail. • three the fourth, to take a 6-2 fifth game, however, scoring once in the mind-sockin''' D.J. on WOOK radio Asked how he viewed this year's , inning leai:I. Fi.rst Inning, and bLinching four in the ·and as sportscaster for WAC TV. Bisons, h.e replied ''From what I've '; Scoring . in all of the last five second. Big hits that frarrye were • seen, they have good size, terrific i nnin~. the Bison surged back into fre.shman first baseman I qerald Neal at one time worked at WSRC running backs, h'igh caliber freshmen unched the ga Te. pushing tw~ runs across in ''Tub'' Gaskins' RBI triple, ~ second . radio In Durham and is presently ' and with assistance from the vets By Rome I the fifth and seventh, a11Q single runs baseman Burt Herron's tvyo RBI doing play-by-play coverage of the they have the prJtentiat to · go 1 . l HILL TOP Staff Writer harrty yan1e sµo11sore~ by th!? in the sixth, eighth, and ninth. single, and H.olland's run-scoring WFL's Philadelphia Bells. ln Detroit, undefeated.'' A crowd of nearly 30.000 ational Urban Leagu~. ~he Classic SoJhomore right-hahder Greg single. where he resides, Neal i's director· of Despite tQ.,e great d~al of respect 1 gathered in RFK· stadium Saturday 1";.;s played in Yankee Stadium which Scarbcirough, 4-0 last Spring, pitched Howard also scored one in the sports for CBS. He hosts two for the Bi sons, Coach Porter, his and witnessed the rugged Grampling if .novv bei119 renovatecl. a complete game,!earning a win in his fourth and two in the seventh, while television shows--''·Pro-Football staff, and fans which Neal says he • powe,rhouse team crunch helpless I The Gra111bling · M~rga11 game has first outing. , Catholic tat lied once in the third and Today'' which precedes all Lions possesses, he contends that he will be Morgan State 40-7. The occasio11 was Decome mar~ thar1 just a footlJall Left fielder Elwood Holland three in the fourth . games ·and ''Big Ten Previer'' which honest in his cove rag e. 1 the Timme_Classic , - a charity football ar:ne. It has 11ecome a social event - a · walked three times and singled, Southpaw Gene Fleet bested precedes all Michigan 'State games - ''Comment.'.!ting is like refereeing, in game sponsored by the T ouchdow11 0~1Jomi11g ; where folll from all , stretching his consecutive times on Catholic's Bob Garrley, issuing six and does coverage of Piston that one c<:::i11ot show favoritism ''hf' . ' Club. ver the country con1e ta sOcialize, .base streak to eight at-bats (counting walks and allowing five hits. basketball games. stated. But the social significance of 1he . pa ty, to reuni te with· old friends , Morgan -Grambling game goes beyond ' d ~ o pay tribute to t~e football ' . the Timme Classic. It goes back to I gacy that the two traditioiial Black ' New York where the game was • allege football . powers hav(: . Bison Roster I Hawk Roster ini tially played. The game began as a e tablished, • • ' ' I . { ' • . . • . • . . • • ' New . uns \\r l . {' [. ,\SS " • NO. NAMI·. l'(JS. 111 . I IO~tl ·:· 1 O\\I N NO NA¥1'. l'OS. 1r ·r. w·r . ("LASS 1-:IOM El'O\VN ' ·I By James H. Hunt tr I l ~ g e · in Omaha, Nebraska is ... • HI LL TOP Staff Writer .' 55 f'mbrose,' ' D. c 6-2 230 2 Detroit, Micl1 . '1 21 A11derson. J. DE 6-2 180 Fr. ' Cape May, N.J. I.I:a otl:f.r addition. He was chosen to: 84 Ball,P. DE 6-+ 205 2 Wasl1i11 gcon, D. lt. 88 Armwood, A. WR 6-2 179 F•. Baltimore, Md . The 1975-1976 ~award Bisons the 4 11 -Nebraska 1st tea1n of jL1nior 27 Banks, H. RB S-8 I 70 4 Arli11gto11, Va. 52 Black , K. LB 6-11 185 F•. Newark, 'N.J. ·'' basketball team has a few new faCes. cd1 1eges. 6-2 21 0 3 Detroit, Mic l1 . I 2 Banks. M. QB 3~ Butler, J. CB 5-1 I I 78 s •. Mecl1anicsv ille, Md. f , First, it has a new Head Basketball Alf r1g wjtt1 ·these outstanding Barnes, D. 6-2 225 Lakewood. N.J • 34 RB 4 . 43 Butler, M. · s S-1 I ISO F•. Palmyra, N.J. Coach, A . B. Willia' m son. and PrjoSPf!Ct~. the team "t1as ~11 - MEAC Brady . D. • DE 6-5 229 I Flint, Micl1 . 70 77 Collin's. F. OT 6-4 295 FL Detroit, Micl1 . Assistant Coach, Oscar Pendleton, up ~rfo~mcrs Vadnay Cottor1, ~era!d 3S . Breakfield, J . RB 6-0 215 2 Sl1revepor1, La . • 72 Cresro, H . OT 6-2 230 F• . New York, N.Y. I from the J.V. ranks. Also. the team G\over
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' ' ' • s, : QUESTION 1: ' • ' What do you feel the role of the student,gc{vernmentj. · , should be?. I • 1 QUESTION 2: • \ What do you think about the busing situ tion? " ' ' • , • I . Will Allen Libra-Scorpio: • • I • 1. To protect 1he rights of the D••id Lloyd Poliiical JuniOr, Aries: ' student and to pnevent the ' Scie~ce, 1. The role of student gOvern I abuse of the studejnt by the ment should be to control facul.ty or any other University student conflict, act as voice of .. function. · Rhond.Ji Holmes the student body to the admini- • • 2. It is a sign of ''1ack of in· Psych_ology, Sophomore, , • •• 1 ·.stration, keep student morale • telligence'' and '' cu l tural Pisces: • progress.:' . The t ~ ought of high ~hrough various extra ------+---+f.- 1·. I think the student govern- • curricullar activity, and be con- having Blacks buse ~ to white ment role ':5~ ou1d deal strictly to . l b h . ' sc hools is no different than nect1on · etween t e un1vers1ty 1 and for the needs · of the , .. and the Sl!rrounding neighbor - having people of other nationa students. And if there is to be a I hood. lit ies placed there. This is • significant change, it should be • • brought on by paSt ' feelings 2. I feel that ''busing'' is a very based·on the majority's decision about Bla c k s as being ' useful .tool in closing the gap and not through personal views. • something less than a man?! between tbe black and white I also belieye the student races. It is_ from i_gnorance of government should affiliate • • each other , that the gap was themselves with the surround created and it will be know- ing community to get th,e moral -·-- _s '-"------+------ledge of each other that will tSackup. . 1 . ' ) close it. The absence of either •2. I think is needed • • 1 bu ~ irig group from ·your peer group, and Will have a very meaningful • f ·particularly during the inform~ outcome. One ,of the main • ----~-~·------~---1------~--- \ ---~t1ve • years of pre-adolescence, problems · of this society is . Music Therapy, J'unior, Virgo: can only continue the myths ignoranCe about o'ur fellow 1 . Being a c ommu·ting and hatred of years past. man. I think with busing we student, I ha~e . ha ~ . r~re oc won't have that problem in • • casion to be 1nvolvefJ 1n cam- • years to come. it' s bringing the .....J? US polit'ics. The functi.on .of any ' races ·together and that's an ad 1 st udent government should be vantage for blacks. It' s helpingi • a true repr·esentation o.f\· lhe Gregory B. Nero blaCks to deal w ith and under ~ • student body, and t ~ ·represent Zoology{ Sophomore, Sagf.. Stand whites. And with that type All facets of the stu ent body, ttarious: . ,' of knowledge, we Can definitely • • 1 including foreign st dent s . ~ 1. The role of student goverl.1 - reach our goals . .... 2. Hopefu lly lhe day fa ill ment should be exactly what·'lt ' ' never come when we HAVE to says: students helping students bus our chlldren to white on ... problems relating to all sc hools in order to receive a stuqents. \ decent education, but to look at 2: I think that the busing • • it realistically, until w e hav,e bet- situation could be better con ter qualified' instruc tors o ur- trolled by starting out' on a selves we' 11 have to see ft as a voluntary basis. Also, it isn' t the · ' necess~ry evil. sc hool, it's t_he school, it's the I teachers whicli make a better sc hool. So bus the teachers. .. • • l . ' • Guinetti Jones .I liberal Arts, Sophomore, S.Jigi ' • ttarius: • ' 1. I feel student governmen Valencia Strong should be jLtst what it says: 1 \ I , Business, Freshman, Taurus: govern_ment for the stude~ts, t 1. The role of student govern speak 1n behalf of us on ·issue • ment is to serve and lead the that· would benefit us. ! students to its highest potential. 2. If the children wee polle 2. I feel no one should be' • ------tor their opinion, I believe i bused fifteen miles or so across , ~ would diff~r greatly from th ~ tdwn to achieve an education . - adult's opinions. Since th ~y ar ' w 'hen there' s an institution juJt • . • • ' the ones beirig busedj w around the block. If your heart's sh.ould listen more intenily t • ' • ' not into it, what can you learn? "1--- --,---t-hem instead . of others. I ( • • • • • -r
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Featured will be Elijah B?yd, the School of Business U.S. Labor Party Representative for lmprov~ment Student Freshmen the Popular Movement for the Organizations • liberation of Angola. · · Comm • The Office of Student Life is Ladies and Gentlemen who have The Howard Uni·versit •r.equesting that all recognized just entered the School of Business Improvement Committee · (H .U.1 .c'. • • Prison Visit Student organizations submit the your Student Cquncil . urges • and is composed q~ concerned students names and addresses ,of officers and challenges you to get involved by On Wednesday September 24, who wish to effect positive changes ·advisors to the office ·as soon as becoming a member of the School of , i11 Howard University and the' 1975, there will be a "field trip tp possible, but no later than September 1 Business Student Council. Lorto'n Refor,matory. Limited ~., mmun ity. For ~he present yearJ 30. 1975. f; To be eligible you must pick up number of students will be altciwed the following problems, amOng othe This information is 1 necessary for an applicatio11, in the Student Council to participate on thC field trip and things, will be addressed·: increase1 the 1~75-76 Student' Organization Office of the School of Business anti interested students sh?uld contact tuition, Cafeteria prices, dormitorY, Directory. Public Administration Room G-9. ..Chaplain Eric ,V . Payne at 636-7292 problems, i:9mmunication betwee The deadline for submitting an · • men find women on campus,. an •· or 291-9169. Yearbook application is Friday Sept. 26 at 5:00 ' . ' StudEints participating wilt meet at :congression.al opposition t ' The 1974-75 BISON · yearbook 1s pm. Campaigning will begin Monday .. tor-~ ..... 9:45 in Thurman Lounge located in 1Howard's feder'al funds_ · almost realityllll , v ' .. ,.., . ~ Sept. 29 and elections are scheduled . I .~· ...~,. . the lower level of Rankin Chapel . . We thank• you for your patience .. Membership is open to alt " for Friday Oct. 3. Transportation' to Lorton will leave and if you can · bear with u.s a little at 10: 00 a.nj. Sharp! students. ~onstructiv e inp.ut · if loriger, the Yearbook Will bej ere in Crucial Elections encouraged. ~ October. __ '. • I . • • ...... ' .' (202) 636-6868 ' for Grads Dorm Bible Studies ... '' " • • -I' ···~·•' " •" Looking for a lively discussion • ... -,,'. ..- ·' " . Important! All graduate students. ~' '' • < _, group _in your dorm? Check out the Crucial election-mee ting, Thursday, Dorm Bible Studies. More than just a " " Sept. 25, 5:00 in the Graduate !at of heavy ideas going down, the Student Council O.ffice, 303 Howard dorm bible studies are a spir"it1,..1al ' • Hall. Speak now or.'forever hold your encounter with community and 1 peace. I . fellowship. i. Study groups will be held on the , 1 • · Angola Forum evening of September 22, 1975, in r the following dormitories: Dre~ Hall, the Blue Room; Bethune H~I J. The U.S. Labor Party will hold a I the Multi-Purpose Room; Cook Hall, • forum entitled ''ANGOLA AND , the Lounge; and the Small Parlor of PORTUGAL • WHAT IS AT The· New Hilltop - Baldwin Hall, servicing the STAKE?'' in Douglas Hall on ' ' · Quadrangle. Wednesday , September 24th at 6:30. . Unclassifiep Ad Section ------~------·I • 20%0FF · I 4 lines f°' $1.00 ,. I 1 , I reaching ov, 1~ ~en LARGE ORDER FRENCH FIRES ONLY .40 I I l11terested? {reg. 50) I ' - • ! Contact pe'rtrious Powers · • ' WITH THE RETURN OF THIS COUPON l People in the know and on the go read THE HILLTOP. Like so • I. . AdvertlSlng Editor· I TO THE UNIVERSITY SNACK BAR • cial ~ctivist Dick Gregory. THE HILL TOP. We're objective, from I. at6 a Black perspective! ______!I • • ------·- . I •
resses IO I I I , • , Hilltop Hi lies Lile a sword t • I . . The Hiltop Is weopon • , Denistry ...... p. 3 , • for 11 eedom, Ben Hooks .....•.....•. p. 5 • • " Blacks In Film...... p. 6 and truth is the ''COMMUNlCATE TO Bison Boaters...... p. 7. • ' EDUCATE TO I foundation of LIBE~ATE" • • our efforts. I \ I . VOLUMN 58, ISSUE NUMBER '4 • I· . HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D .C. 20059 Author of Cress Theory Band·Rocked _,. ~ . . - by I Velma Thomas and Charles Bar.ber • • •• Seven persons were injured wheni There have bee? no reported ire a 'bus Ca'rrying the Howard Universi·tv arrests from the incident_ Marching Band was attacked by One of the injured was freshman by Michelle Borders Unive'rsity · receives its major funding ''approximately 20 to 30 juveniles'' communications student Donna Hilltop staff writer from white people. Those who after the September 19th game at Borders. Glass from a . broken Administration officials have control the major funding, influence RFJ stadium, according to an offi ·al window of bus nu1ber one struck given no explanation for the the directioo of the institutions report from the Office of Secur her in both eyes. Her in jury forced dismissal over the summer of , Dr. wtlich they fund. This is a fact of Injuries sustained included cu Donna to visit an ev(e ·specialist- and Francis Welsing, noted Howard poljtical reality.'' · head in juries due to thrown objects, to date she still cahn0t see out of her professor and author. • When the formal recommendation one case of inj ured ribs, and glass · right eye_ Dean Mann of the Medical School for' Welsing's academic promotion splinters in the eyes of several orders f remembers sitting said he would hold no discussion on and tenure was submitted to Mann students. The injured were treated towar s thel "tron.t rhen someone the firing with the HILLTOP or by the Chairman of the Department and !released from Rodgers Memorial yelled '' Due ~ ! '' as bricks and rocks anyone else. Dr. Cheek was not of Pediatrics, Dr. Melvin Jenkins and Hospital. · begar1 hitting the bus. The girl sitting available for comment. the Executi' ve Committee, it was ' . • According to the complaint issued next to her jWas sho~ed into her lap According to Dean Mann, he did turned down by Mann. Accordipg to by W:lliam Brawner, business and BordersJ who is rather tall, could not want to ''preempt any discussion • Welsing, he gave as his reason the fact manager of the University Band, a not get ~own far enough. ''I on the matter''. A committee· ·has that Welsing did not have specialty brick was thr(!wn through the bus remember ~c r eaming hysterically,'' been set up to handle such matters, boards 1n Psychiatry or Child window inj uring the band director said Borde .r ~ , ''why I re they doing he explained. Psychiatry. and ~ ix students. this to us." i Welsing met with Dr: MariOn ' Welsing stated·, that it . was ljhe report states that the incident Later, '80rders' sat in Rod~rs ''shocking'' because other College of Marin, Dean of the eollege of l\/Jann: 'No Col1•1Ent'' !v\Elsing: 'Academic Freedom' began af ter several male band Memorial Hospital holding the hand Medicine faculty persons have been Medicine on November 8, 1974, to • ' members asked the juveniles who had of a girlfriend. Band Director discuss the rumors. Mann indicated -Black people because whites lack under Employment Policies, sect n I granted promotions and tenure ''jumped ·into their ranks," to Richmond Myrick, h'imself a victim to Welsirig that \her tenure was skin color." ~ in Academic Freedom, states th tan without boards. She added that refrJin from harassing the flag girts· of broken glass:came over.to console questionable becauke of the paper According t o Welsing, she instructor is entitled to freedot' to Mann never mentioned to her. and the majorettes. · · explained to Mann that what she said research and pt.lblicize previously that he felt she was no.,t her. Said Borders, ''H ~ took time out she wrote, Th"e Creskrheory of Color ' ' Als the band en!red the parking. and saw everybody, not caring for Confrontation and Racism (White about white peoPle was based not on Welsing speculated that there ay qu~lified because she lacked board' lot ~he ''juveniles · an throwing himself . He told me hat he wished · what Black people believe white have been 'o utside . pres ~ure s _ certification. Suprernacy). Welsing described her • bricks, bottles and stic s at the band all the pain was on him a'nd not on initial feel ing as ''shocked." ''!; people think but on what she had influencing Mann's thinking al,K>~ Welsing then requested a us ... observed about whites and what her theory on racism. Manri de ie members," the report continued. It • When Welsing talked to Mann. 1= f Grievance Committee hearing due to stated that as the bus approacl1ed the In explaining the Security system allegedly said, ''It didn't ma f whites told her. VVelsing expressed a to · Welsing that therej had been a Mann's refusal tor-, forward the intersection of 19th and C Streets, at RFK, Bitty T. Nor.cod, Director sense." Welsing said, ''He doubt that Mann had .read The Cress Su.ch pressures put on him. recommendation to the Committee ' . ' N.E. a brick was thrown through· the· of Security and Safi t:, stated that specifically objected to my Theory. In •explaining h~r suspici ns, pn Appointments Promotion of the 1 The Howard University Handbook Wei sing meriiioned that ''Ho ard window of the bus. _ {continued on page 31 saying that whites were envious of (contipued on page 3) • .. ' SAGA Seeks l~put '
by ~heila' Vance • between 4 :00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. • HillioP'staff writer . positions to' food service •• S ~ uoent Qovernment officials the administrators . According to ''If all these tools are going on. •• why do they need another," he said. Univer/i ty, and SAGA Food Service Holman, ''By conducting· a hearing, . . ' ''Communications is the biggest corporatronI ' · are p I anning· programs t o more people can get 'involved and ' . . "problem regarding the food service!'' maximi_ze s tudent~ inpu_t. in the know both sides of thk issue." said Morris. He added that various universtty food service dec1s1ons. He hopes that the]committee will student government oFganizations do · u 1<5SA is , organizing a also come up •With '••rec.ommenda· not tell each other or the students University-wide Food Service tions for the betterment of the food what input programs ar' e already Investigating Committee and plans to service." ' operating. conduct ''hearings'', according tci ''The problems of the food servi ce Under SAGA's operation •. Morris E:K . Holman, UGSA bu d~t existed before SAGA took control . continued, tht!re are more' studen ts chai~man committee organ izer, and We need time ' to J iron out the working in the cafeterias. Cafete r i~.' Steve Poston, UGSA coordinator. problems, and that <;:annot be ~ done ' The' university-5ponsored Food workers are not losing any benefits, -. overnight," Morris argued. or being prohibited from · having1 Service Advisory Committee, which He said he ''wanted to get the is composed of stude nt union affiliation, he said. Morri s feedback needed to do (his) job." ' representatives and administrators, • l • added that both SAGA and Howard According to Morris, the UGSA met September 21 and will conti,nue employet s are working 1n t~ e cSouthern University, the Panther 21, the Angela Davis defense, and the Soledad Brpthers case. . ' The Broadcast and Cable subcommittees of NCBL will sponsor two symposia ·on 0c;tober 31 and November 1. Further information may_ obtaine~ from Cunis White, n of the. D.e. Chapter of at the Citizens Community Cente located at 1914 Sun~rland · Place, fj!W. tonvOCilliQn Set The' convocation ceremony will be ~eld , f~ay ." . at 11 a.m. in Cramton Audi f orrium. Faculty an~ administrative offia!rs are asked ti:> partic ~ pate in the acadefl'.'iC · Procession attired in[their academic dress.
1 • Classes will be suspended from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in order that students 8~st8tf members may attend. The Univt?rsity' Choir and the Concen Choir will sin .,,,______, • ' • ' • • • •
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• I • , - P, syc h1atnc LA Vo,lunt~ers .· I , • • ' Security Ed I Conference I your ID Number appears below, please report immedirately to Needed • I . ·Med Students · the ffice of the Registrar, Room 128. Mordecai Johnson Building. I . ' ' ' Ask to see any.of the following indivi uals: 1 The Liberal Arts Studef')t The Offii:e of Security and Safety The How~rd ~ Universit . Research Department of .Psychiatry and th Mt. Cecil Frankli • egistrar • Council needs volunteers to sit Se rvices is offering a security · '·Office of Coni ii;iuing Medica Ms. Lucindia mon on the · following commi1:tee and education program to inform the Thirty-six medical students Ed.ucation will cosponsor a two-da . Mr. Levell tis task force s: community about crime prevention. piirticipated in a summer research , conference. entitled, ."The Role o I I a. Project Awareness Board According to Director Billy. li. assistal)t program coordinated by • 023269 719570 905187 915138 922270 925460 , b. Community Thrust Task Norwood, it is important that the Ps'(chiatry in ~e Universit\t Medica . Assistant Dean for Research, Warren Center," October 2 ·3 . The K. 040275 731750 905784 915144 922587 925527 fiorce • commun ity be more ''security Ashe, Coi'lege of Medicine. conference will be . held at the 060120 768590 906183 915252 922669 925701 c . Aca de mic Ad vise ment conscious.'' . Students were involved in such H o ward University Hospit
(continued from page • ' GJ Ww-pk'J ~ Supper C/ul SAGA • iseo Mees 2308 Georgia Ave. N.W. I • take over a university furiction, said 234·3617 ,Poston. According to a UGSA o.ii · · ?W,~ research document, SAGA foods was contracted to operate university food Super Special "ttraction services in July 1975 because ~he Howard University Food Service Donny Hathaway ''was IOsing money on a regular: basis." Thurs. Oct. - 2 Shows · Five and ten cent reductions on Fri. Oct. 3 - 3 shows vegetables, soda, cake, milk, and orange juice took effect September· Sat. Oct. 4 - 3 shows 18 Morris stated. However, Holman Sun ·. Oct. 5 - 2 shows said he is ''not satisfied With the ' reductions'' and would work towards· • • • more. Holman ·expects the food ·service I I committee , to be in complete I operation bv approximately Octobe,r AdvaQce tickets are now on sale at 1 Members will be chosen from the • • Committee· for Concerned Students ' and dormitory officers, among Contact Mike Evans - LASC Activities C ordinator i' others. • . . I - Morris said minutes from the 2308 Georgia Ave ., N.W. office of Student Life 1 Food Service Advisory Committee • meetiOg will be posted in all For further information call • . Rm282· I I university dln1ng facilities: The next 234-3617
meeting is(scheduled for October 9. • • Phone - 636-7009 • ~"------:-----.------+-----:-. ---- •
• ' • • . I 4 ' THE' /JILL TOP . 26September1975 The Struigle ~ontinues ! ' I Destinies: Bea.-st's Decided, BUjs Uncertain ' . • ! . ' • ·Fo • concerns by the students who were believes Patty will get anything more revolution. The rest of us have to Howard University has entered into agreement with than a slap on the wrist for being a play for keeps. I I there. •• * ..... In ,response to a question -about Saga food service for a period .of one year, July I, 1975 ''nau~t.v girl." Already. she's started I copping her plea. Poor brainwashed On another level, Howard's new. he~ philosophy concerning the until June 30, 1976. Saga is, without doubt, one, of the · prisoner! Chairman of the Board of Trust~s. direction of Howard, Dr. Woods said largest food service corporalions. A brief review of the If you stop and think about it, the Dr. Geraldine Woods, met Saturd\y she wante.d the u·niversity 1:0 be a ' 1974 annual budget report revealed an · .approxim'\te FBI surely knew she wasn't jn that night ' With a group of studel)t ''center of excel tence ." Los Angeles house .that fateful day, government leaders and this writer as While this may be well and good; • • • annual revenue of $294 million. or they wooldn't have been so quick part of her series of meeti.ngs with what many of us were pointing out ...... Saga operates in over 45 ·states and the District of to ''fire it up'' ana kill all of those the various components of the was thai Howard must be committed university. Columbia. It presently services over 338 colleges and people. to BLACK excelJence; that our • .. Also, considering the FBl's claim Considering, the ti ~me and students must not only be able to universities, four of whom are predominately Black, environment of thEi session - a . .... to have involved over 3,000 agents compete in society-at-large but be also 205 business firms, 70 hospitals, and employs over throughout the ·world in search of Saturday evening dinner iri a Hilton ' . . . 1 able and motivated to create 30,000 workers. the newspaper heiress, it seems as if Hotel suite - it was logical ~o deduce alternative institutions to rebuild our Considering the very nature of a corporation this • they have known of her whereabouts that her purpose was little more than I depfessed communitieS. ' for soir}e time and -were simpl'y to simpty ''get acquainted'' . with President Cheek addresses the · size there was little doubt that under Saga food prices Hodari Ali 1 ' . ''timing'' her arrest. some '. responsible'' students in a · Howard community today. were going to rise, as they surely did. We are presently The odor- surrounding the entire The lesson from l this episode is non-~siness atmosphere. IAh, but Hopefully he will speak to this issue. liv'ing in a monopoly corporation periOd and there is a ''Patty Hearst episode'' is growing clear. The Hearsts belong to the not so. , . If not, he and the administration touter and fouler each day. It all wealthy class, which is the privileged What came unexpectei::I to Dr. should be chclllenged to direct great danger to the students ~nil the university if Saga I , . seems so phony. class, which is the class that is above Woods was the very ~ocal and Howard niversity on a decided and some of the other large food corporations - Mar No one I've tcilked to really the law. They Can afford to ''play'' as~rtive articulation o~ ·student course of improving Black life. ·riott, Canteen, and Af\ V - team up together and decide to raise prices. If we don't obgerve the actions of Saga, we may all be ·Letters. • • • paying $5 for a slice of bread! Bison Fan • Lonely 1-he prices · we are paying now are too high for the • I I . Dea~ Editor Dear Editor, amount of food· we receive. Now, we are even charged Friday n·ight I took a short flight . I am presently confined at the Words bl Wisdom tax on the food, which is unfair, considering the tax ex- Where I went, I saw a terrible sight. London-Ohio honor camp and am • very lonely. I do not receive any type .. empt status of the university. According to Saga, the I went t~ see a Football game -· of mail. • reason students now pay tax is because THEY have to ' instead, I saw one team get put to f ~ . . I: shame . _I would like for you to print my • • • pay taxes. letter in your paper with the hope . i They lost from the point of f Follow Through! ~n all you d,, We think that this is ·a ri'p-off, considering that ac origin ., They didn't get a ctiance to that I will . hear form any reliable cording to the 1974 annual report, Saga made a. profit ·begin . . female - size, looks, creed, color ''It is always easy to covet a other man s success ,without , Howard took the game and the dor;i't matter. Any form of envying his labors:'' of $4.7 million compared to $4.3 !l'illion in 1973. correspondence will be appreciated. leci d. Boy did the points exceed. ' We will t?e watchi.ng Saga this year to see if Howard • • I'm 5' 10'' and 150 lb. with black ~ , I felt real good at the end of the '''Anyti'me you depend on your nemy' for a job, you I're in bad ' hair, brown eyes, and am olive .. . I students are being ripped-off. It is important to remem ·game. Because our team didn't get sh ape. Bro. MalcolmX put to shame. Brown complexion. I love Jazz, ber that the Saga-Howard centract only lasts for one chess, handball, photography and am • ., .. , Kenneth Galloway ' year, with the option to. renew at the end of that period. 26 years old. , I . · Loves Us · Chuck Johnson If things are not satisfactory; we will not hesitate to let , Vietnamese proberb: 'The pressu of the water bursts the dike ' • 136·559 Box 69 My Dear Brother Hodari ; the administration know that we· do riot want them to London, Ohio 43140 renew their contract. ' The paper is beautiful , brother! • Chinese proverb: • he beginn ng of all wisdom is to call • The tremendous amount of work • tl1ings by their rigt1t names'' • you've put in is obvious from the Thanks • ;·Support Local outstanding quality of the finished Dear Edi tor, ' . produ~t. Good fuck with your entire · I ~- h to extend my personal program during your last year at l hanks o you for publishing the ''Jr.· Howard. Class'' letter in last week's Hilltop. I • • • Businesses As-Salaam-Alaikum would also like to congratulate your ' Your br6ther, superb handling of the camp45 ·· oo you people listen to the radio station (WHUR)," newspaper for this academic year. Keith F. Woodard questioned a disgruntled Ed !Murphy. 'I nodded yes in George Conover. Director of F3rm Operations ' uncertainty. NATION OF ISLAM Jr. Class President l . - "Before I put in another dime into the Howard .. • I - I . niedia, he continued, I want ~ o see some results. I just Wants C~, :an Fountain. • can't understa·nd why my business, which has live en Dear Editor, ~ SOON WE FORGET. ••• and 'r"or e Letters The simple drinking fountain can Such a careless regard for the tertainment every weekend and'. is just two blocks I . ~ be considered a symbol of freedom health of others makes me Wonder if OAS ~oughly from any on-campus dorm, is not supported by • Prisoners SeekNljl ail, ., j for Black Americans. the fight .for this particular freedom Recommendations the Howard community'," he said. · Hundreds of Blacks have been was in vain. For those who practice • ''Even during the day I have restaurant facilitii;s; a degraded, beaten, ,and even lynched these careless, unhealthy and , 1. ·Dear ~di tor jukebox and a cozy atmospho;re for any student to want just for daring to drink water from senseless antics, ''WOULD YOU the fountain designated ''FOR WANT TO DRINK FROM A I attended the convention 1 of to come and hang out. And it's not just me that's hur FOUNTAIN STREWN WITH SPIT. Dear Editor, . WHITES ONLY'\ ' I am presently a resident of th.e African Students., members of the ting but a lot of these .Black businesses on Georgia Ave. The story of ''Miss Jane Pittman'' CIGARET>TE BUTTS, CANDY Federal Prison located 'at Marion, OAS at Howard University, held on had its most dramatic moment when WRAPPERS, ETC? • 1 mean what 1s it? Folks still want to run. to Illinois and am being deiained on a Friday September 19, 1975 and was Miss Jane walked up the steps to Though you did not participate in amazed at the chaos and confusion Georgetown," he said in disgu.st. charge of bank robbery. Al thou~ I . declare, her emancipation by drinking • the struggle to fight for the right to reflected during the session. The • confess my guilt, I am not a criminal I shrank further and further in my chair, unable to fro'm a water fountain - a priviledge / drink from a public water fountain t~at and hope I will not be stigmatized main problem, apparently, was explain this common problem that has sent a good denied to Blacks in the early years. try to reffiember that others gave the outgoing executive committee • th"eir LIVES for just that right . Personally. I consider myself • amount of Black businesses to the sidelines in despair. Today , her e at Howard ''terrific'' guy. j · failed to produce before the general University , there are those who use • LETS BE KIND TO EACH assembly evidence of its financial J I am seek·ing ~orrespondence wit ··well," I cleared my throat ~nd found it suddenly hard 'OTHER AND KEEP OUR . . I thf1 dririking fountain for a spittoon, Sisters. I am BlaCk, down - but no trarlsactions sinCe it took office. to figure out what to say ne~t. "If you give us just one ash tray; or waste paper bask et. HOW · · FOUNTAINS CLEAN. 1 ·To overcome this deficiency in V. M. Paige out, - and still proud. • j critical inquiry, we m·ust look into more chanct• and run the ad at least for four weeks I'm If anyone responds, phOtos will 'the causes (i .e., the breeding sure you'll get some response," I said. . Housing Dean Responc1s considered an additional 1pleasures. grOunds) of these prOblems. I am · wil l include a photo whep I respond "O._k., I'll try you lguys out again, but this time for the . . .• further convinced that · the causes, Dear Editor, • student$ had not returned their Help me make the best ?f a_ ba last time, 1f 1 ·don't get a response from my IJ which w!ll only be eliminatea· by a fa~ orable Housing Agreements. The majority ' situation. Thanks. • Donny Hathaway show, thenl that's it," he said sternly. · Orie of the ~ost importan~1 of these students were constitutional ammendme11t. addfess fUnctions and responsibilities of th~ upperclassmen. Follow-up letters of. Mayo W. Turner,Jr themselves to ~o basic themes.·· ''Oh I'm sure the student ~ody will cqme thru this. l One, the introduction in the Offic~ of Residence Life is to prpvide inquiry were sent to each of the 642 I 88036-13~ ti111e, you'll see," I said (]lli l·k!~: shaking hands and · 1 c~stitution of th~e idea of checks living accommodations both on and students not' replying in an effort to P.()l. Box 10Q0 off-campus lor those students and balances. departing. "This Friday when this ad appears you'll see determine their housing plans for the Marion, Illinois 6295 desiring this service. The resources Two, a proposition to include a thein come down in droves, the brothers and sisters • fal I. • available, in view of the needs, are July applicants were advised by constitutional clause that ensures always try .to support the Black community," I said · effective participation, by one and all I imited. There are eleven ( 11.I letter that there was very little 1 closing the door behind me. I turned around looked residehce halls with a total capacit1 ,. likelihood that they could be housed • of the OAS members, in the living issues ·at the organization and its over Ed Murphy's Supper Club for the second time and o"f only 2557 spaces. in the residence halls at the beginning 1 However, this number of spaces of the term. They were further _and lnfonnation members. sadly hoped that I had not lied again. The alleged misappropriation of · Hilltop Advertising Editor for · thEi housing of student advised that some :spaces might represents approximately 31.4% of become available after all the ~ funds and abt,lse of power by some of the total enrollmerlt, and is well assigned students had an opportunity the members of the outgoing OAS • • above the national norm of 25%," to report. . . ' Dear Editor, l executive resulted from presence • • which is the · accepted standard · It w~s also. suggested that they try I . within the Constitution of estalbl ished for universities ( - to secure h·ousing in the City with ' As-Salaam Alaikum. ! am , th possibilities for concentration of b( Minister of Information for a bos power within an executive which, throughout the country. It should friends or relatives for a few weeks if I remembere;that no University limi possible, or they could take group of inmates here called thi after elections, does not become its enrollment to the number o~ } temporary housing in a lounge ''Bonafide Black _Brothers'' ~l responsive to the general body and '" Vo1cE OF rHE students that can be housed in thfJ pending an opening in the residence "BBB.'' l .• . whii:h, afte.r all, does not feel the Ho1i--'Ito co.\!•· r_esidence halls. Therefore, it is halls. T~e term ''temporary housing'' Our ranks consist Of Brother sting of not being elected into the · '"'UNIT)" · imperative that an effective ~s fully described in the letter as from all walks of life, Bro hers' of a.If next government. THE HILLTOP STAFF 1975-76 SCHOOL YEAR .Off-Campus referral program 1s sleeping in a lounge with other faith's, convictions, etc. We are united ' To effectively remedy the above established and maintained. students for approXimately five (5) in an endeavor to...- elevate and EDITOR·IN.CHIEF .... .•...... •...... •...... Hodari Ali Let's take a look at the Fall days. renovate self and kind here 'and pitfalls inherent i'n the existing MANAGING EDITOR ...... : .... '...... William Scott Semester 1975-76 Student Housin( The letter further advised these elsewhere. We numbei' fifty-seven a ~ constitution. I recommend that the ADVERTISING.EDITOR .....•...... Demetrious Powers Program. This program began ii present but ctre bound to gro~ an~d / existing executive body be dissolved students that the Office of Residence and its powers decentralized and PRODUCTION EDITOR ...... " ...... Shiba (Vikki Freeman) April 1975 with the returninv glow! Bet that. ' 1 Life would assist them in locating · shared by three.bodies: NEWS EDITOR ...... T..itilayo (Yvonne Horne) students reservation process. At th· housing in the City. We are without funds and are not FEAT\.IRES EDITOR •...... ••.•.....••...\ ...•• Paulette Stevens time all students residing in th They were requested to advise the rewarded tJ our hard labor herel. ; SPORTS EDITOR ...... ,<•...•• . .•• Roy Betts residence halls Were given the • Office if they wished ,. to take Why am I stating all this? We desire a ( 1) a new executive consisting of PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR ...... •..••••...... Calvin Reid opportunity to reserve their room for termporary housing. The majority of •gratis subscription of your newspapef an elected president.Jrom the general COPY EDITOR ...... , •...... Kadallah Khafre the fall semester. The next phase of them did so by letter and telephone. and an old or new yearbook. lnfacl assembly and a cabinet appointed by ' . I • CONTRIBUT.ING EDITOR ...... •...... Charles Barber the program, the mailing of the Their names were then listed with we request any and all literature yo the President. ' • ACCOUNTANT ...... , ...... Eric Eaton Housing Agreements, took placfi! the halls for temporary housing, and can senCt that is conducive to oJ 1 (2) · a review committee elec~ed by ART EDITOR ...... 1 ••••••••.... • :. Lucious Williams dUring, the months of May and June openings were provided accordin'g cited' endeavor. Thanks in advanc' t~e general assembly. THE HILLTOP is a weekly studenlt publication of li_oward University. 1975. that list. Studtints in temporafy Power to Our People! I, . \ (3) Peoples• assemblies (or bodies) It is distributed free each Friday morning at .co'1venient locations formed freely from among the Thery were 2,415 Housin~ housing, elected this alternative. , ' • • • throughout the campus. Mail subscriptions. nre $5 'per year. · Agreements mailed as of July 1. · This overview has_ attempted to members in the general assembly Each Tuesday at 5:00p.m. js the deadline for campus calender items, who actually have or feel they have le.tter of ~ nstructions was enclQsed iry delineate some of the housing • un'classified ads and letters to the editor. each letter requesting that the signed policies. procedures and problems. Brother Bobby Angelo commoh interests or existential concerns. We are located next to Bethune Hall, at 2215 4th;>t. N.W. Our mailing agreements be returned immediately. • • 025791 address is THE HILL TOP, Howard University. Washington, D.C. 20059. On July 21, 1975, three (31 weeks Edna M. Calhoun .Our phone number is (202) 636-6868 .. after the estabtiShed· deadline, 642 Dean of Residence tife Raiford, Florida · John Ayong ' I • •
• • . ' • • • • • ( ' THE HILLTOP 5 • ' Bring It Down Front At • this very hour, the quiet oints Open Let t er t o Howardite has become confused and 1Dewildered over the intent and • • President !direction of How.,rd University; over ' ,the intent and direction ·of the world. • Chee The quiet Howardite sits at his desk Books timist.ic About Jobs and' wonders, lies in his bed with the ' lights off and cun;ains open and Wonders, strolls' through main campus with the weight of a black
Much of this appeared last Spring ~ nation upon his shoulders - and winning. Look at current TV By the way, broadcasting has in an article in the Afro-American more tl1an_ _11 . l?f!!Icent minority,. Indeed it is - and wonders, wonder.s Newspaper. But since the question programming. A few years ago there Mr. PreSident, wonders what is next? were few Black performers in drama, employmt?nt,, presently, compared to ~rsists (almost everywhere I travel the print media where Blacks in Don't misunderstand, Mr. someone raises it) and will perhaps comedy or commercial news President, this University is very dear presentations: Today, althougtl you ~ editorial positions in the continue for the duration of my stay metropolitan newspapers, are less to my heart. My feelings are at the Federal Communications r:nay quarrel with the quality of such reflective of the quiet Howardite. pfogramming, you are forced to than two pe,rcent. Commission, I want to address it in for these young people who may ~oweve r, he is t:>ecoming vastly print once more. admit we are certainly a lot more disenchanted and rightly sb. visible in a lost more positive aspire to oWiiershiP of radio and TV Let me say at the outset; yes, (there are presently about .AO Black After the advent of the late 60's ( situations than before. ' there are obstacles to increased and radio licensees of more than 7 ,000 t.he students of Howard University better employment of Blacks in th"° Not long . ago, Dr. Carlton G. William Scott Goodlett, president of the National radio stations in this country, , made a demand upon Howard industry and their ownership of 1 University - a ~ demand that it N ~wspaper Publishers' Assn. noted although there are about 200 radio broadcast properties. But there are stations which emphasize Black there were ''more Black youths in Mr. President, I- ·• beco.me a black University, not Black opportunities, as well . programming; likewise Blacks own • inst\tutions of higher learning that in I greet you on the morriin of to destroy America, but Black to A't the Federal Communications ~ only five of the 900· TV stations in • construct a just America, whereby I Be njam in Hooks- F .C.C. Commissioner tom'mission, there are a number of institutions of higher learning in •your state of the Un iversity add_ ress, this country, only three of which are 1 one day their children will be able to .Great Britain ..th a 55 million 1 1 I am often asked the question: skilled j~b openings from time to on the ai.r at present, two· of which co~ mmonly known as· Y ur attend the schoo1 s of their choice ' ''What is the real situation in terms time. The most sought ,after population." y convocation address. Perhaps you are · are in the Virgin Islands) let me say wondering why I, managing edit of without federal troops, whereby it of Blar~k employment tn and professionals are lawyers and National Education Associatiorl figures from last year bear him out. the road may be harder. The cost of the Hilltop, would bbther t6 rite wi ll no longer be ~umorous to see ownership of properties in the engineers. But until I came aboard ownership of such properties in Black men and women dying from .A~co rdin!,J . to NEA, there were comriunications industry, July .5, 1972, aS the first Black , you this. letter as I opposed to clope and alcohol, whereby a black 659,opO Black youths in public viable {top SS0-100 markets) in this I· part:~ula~ly in broa~casting''~ I Comrpissioner in the history of the conversing with you i person as I institutions ~f higher learning and inflated pei'lod is almost prohibitiveL frequerltly do. professor will be able to express her Wilt 1s really increase 1n· both FCC, there were only two Black 155,000 young Blacks enrolled in In putting together financial And, understa dably, y ur views without being 'fired simply areas? Do Blacks really have a future lawyers of a total of m~re than 200, ' private institutions of higher learning ''packages'' to purchase a . . because they were cohtrary to the in the industry, or is it as in too and only three or four Black c_u r _1os~ ;s' v_ alid. However, I can ~ ot - a whopping total of 814,000 Black broadcasting property or to acquire a ~ < status-quo. many areas. of life, a case where the engineers. Today, there are more 1 st~dents enrolled in such institutions cablecasting un it, the Black ~~i :~ b:n~itha~:ennin rai~~n~:~~~ h~ 1Mr. P"resident, vyhat has happened prpmises far outstrip the actual than 17 minority lawyers and more last year. prospective buyer should be careful Howardite''s voice anti conce.rns go to that demand? 'fou are at the head performance? than twenty engineers of color. 1 · Some of these ambitious young that what he is buying is not unheard. Mr. Pre~iderlt, that w Id ot the ship. There are turbulent ! The· inclusion of the term ''really': This is a small start, to be sure, bu t educational waters ahead. As I look students are enrolled in schools of overpriced, forcing him to borrow i1 the question says a lot il1' respect the FCC is now committed to · be a g~oss misca.rriagi of justic - communications in Atlanta (Clark additional 'sums that can make it something that, 1 m s·ur~. yo\J w rL over the side. I can ~ see the storm to the kinds of experiences Blacks employment of ~lack professionals , College) in Jefferson City, Mo. increasingly difficult for him to meet not tolerate - somethir\g that I ul t approaching. Mr;, President, the h~ve had, expressing as it does their and we sh al I go forward . -....._ . . ;- (Lincoln University) and Washington, his monthly overhead. what with not allow fo happen. I question remains: will you guide us understandable skepticism and 1n the industries we regulate ~ payments made on principal and Bas ical ly, 1 am concerr e.d here With through or will JOU aliandon ship? sometimes outrigit disbel ief and and radio, telephone, satellites, cable, D.,C. (Howard University) to name a interest on the side loan. the quiet Howard students .Jho lihe quiet.Howardite wonders. cyn1c1sm. specialized common carriers - there few . Others are enrolled at leading In closing, I remain ever the only to jbe heard. 1 ' , In this brief space, I want fO is an on-going need of employees White schools· of communications at reas~nably . ask j Stanford, Columbia, Northwestern ORtim~t. There are yet obstacles tol devote attention to Blacks,, alo~e. possessing professional skills. . ' Michigan State University, and many Black entry to the pwerful broadcast However, what I have to say It is not enough these days to say: ' . Following is the Congressi J al Black Caucus 10 point Plan for others. They are training for jobs in media, yes; but there are • concerning them can be applied ''I'm Black, so my chances are effectively moving any issue t reugh the legislative process. Many are the broadcast industry, for upward opportunities, as well. There are almost equally to other minorities limited in the jo~arket, because of already being implemented by the Caucus; others are or need to be obstacles, big ones, to Black a,nd to women, b6th groups of whith institutional and overtly expressed mobile positions, and they will not developed by other prganiza 1ohs in cooperation With the Caucus' bel denied when they come seekfng acquisition of broadcast properties ' a~e. like Blacks, among the last hired racism." Racism, institutional or . legislative thruSt. The worksho provides a forum fo~ testing out the . (and FCC licenses) but there are and first fired, or kept at entry-level, otherwise, is a given. But Blacks employment ..!. at least not all of ten-point process. opportunities, too. · going 'nowhere jobs in the indust7. everywhere are challenging it and them. Point One - Legislative Agenda evelop.ment ' . . I We must structure •a ;pro ess for. securing the broad input of all _ segments of the Black po ul!ation in th\ilegialtive process and in the development of a National Legislative Agenda . \ / . Hypertension •• A Black Kill I • Point Two - Legis1ative Mol itoring of *he Administration of ' I Existing Laws · . • • by Dr. Eddie Newsome We must establish a pioce~s that involves all segments of the Black and Dr. Zelma Dunn . . . . I . , community 1n on~o· 1n ,g m n1toring of legislation, ifplementation of enact~d laws, publicly funded programs and policies. This ' Comparing black and white ''Obviously," he said, ''more monitoring would occur at the federal, state, and local level. No one is niore' knowledgeable Too many . programs have been populations 1n incidence of blacks have • a predisposition to ' about blacks and hypertension.in the hypertension, we find that the hypertension. 1 believe that blacks started and have faded out. It has United States than Dr. Charles L: been said that black people are tired • National Health Examination Survey a rre highly sensitive to their Point Three - Legislative SuppoT Groups,By Congressio1al ~istrict Curry, Professor of Medicine and shows for age 25 to 44, the black environment.'' of being surveyed and not serviced." Chief, Division of Cardiovascula'r males had ·a percentage of 20.4 ' We must develop and expa~d a network of individuals ·and groups (at Diseases, Department of Medicine percent and white males had a the Iota.I and n ati. ona~ level) who wi ll support and push for items in Fre·edman's Hospital, Howard percent of 5.1. For black females the Some other factors invoved , in the National Leg1slatrve genda at the Congressional-District level. University Medical School Concerning primary prevention of • • percentage was 18.7 and for white hypertension, he mentioned were: Legislative deve lopments ithin state legislatures, ic ity ,government, hypertension, Dr. Curry had this to females it was 3.4 percent. p~ysical stress, cigarettes, obesity, congressional di-stricts and wards woulq be examined in relationship In an exclusive interview, Dr. say, ''We rTientioned that reducing diabetes. hemodynamics, and to the National Agenda. Curry expressed his views on blacks 1· salt intake might. be a form of . . hypercholeste'rolemia. Dia~tes is a . ( . and hypertension. primary prev~nt1on . In considering Dr. Curry's ideas on the effect of disorder which shows itself in an Point Four - Coalition Development the influence of diet on' socioecon.omic factors on inability qf , the body to handle • hypertension, I would like to point hypertension in blacks were : ''The glucose. Hemodynamics is concerned We form linkages oJ alliances with other groups around our Two kinds of hypertension .are out that black. people have fairly ~ mu~t National Health Examination Survey with cardiac output and peripheral common interests, issues clnd needs in order to broaden our impact essential hypertension and secondacy specific dietary h{lbits. Should we hypertension. Dr. Curry regard$ in 1960 to 1962 showed that in resistance of the blood vessels. in advanting issues in the llational legislative agenda. advise bla~k people to change their • black males with a family income Hypercholesterolemia occurs when • essential hypertension, not as a dietary habits?'' A change in the between $2,000 and $4,000, the the~e is excess cholesterol in the disease, but as a state in which the . dietary hiibits of black people would percentage with hypertension was blood. Point Five - Black Media Perspective and Strategy Deve.lopment blood pressure is set at high levels. indeed be ditficultt ·o achieve. Secondary hypertensiOn occurs when 21 .6, while it was 26.6 in males with a family income above $10,000. So~ We must develop a Black perspective anO strategy for a disease such as pyelonephritis dr ~ Black people have very little faith .;, nati ~ nal glomerulonephftis · precedes the in that survey, higher income did not in projects set up in their effectively using print and electronic inedia to prdject the National appear to be a protective factor for development1of unust,1ally high blood communities to meet their health It is generally accepted that the Black Legislativei Agenda . blacks." pressure . needs. Dr. Curry expressed this view cutoff level for treatment of • in these remarks ... "in the inner city hypertension is usually 140/90 mm. Point Six - Legislative Research & Information Dissemination black community there is a great deal Hg. Levels below this are considered • Psychosocial factors as related to ' of suspicion of any new program. normal. ' hypertension in blacks, were viewed ~e mus.t research. asser;n bte, review, analyze, and disseminate Dr. Curry stated, ''Our screening by Or. Curry in this manner, ''I 1nformat1on .on the national legislative agenda to the Caucus' • programs 1n Washington, D.C. think," he related, ''that future Polity on Columnists legislative support networ~ throughout the country. irrespective or areas, have shown that studies will show that the average 28 percent of adults screened have a blood pressure maintained over a Po;nt Se•en'- M;nority Leg;sJat;t e Tra;ning and Staff ~evelopment . blood pressure of 160/95 mm. Hg. or 24-hour period is related to the THE HILLTOP policy on columnists is another example of our effort greater. Those screened are to serve our readers by providi:1g fo'rums for various writers·· both students We must encourage and establish vehicles for training anCI ~nvolving predominantly Wack. The National and non-students··on important issues of the day. ' blacks in the legislative/pqlitical process through on site experiences Health Examination Survey of 1960 complications of hypertension and Colurpnists are not paid but choose their own topics. Columns should in how the legisli'!tive pror' ss works at all levels of government a-nd to 1962 showed that about 30 black people are confronted with not exceed 2% rypes and double-spaced pages, ' and-must ,be in before the .how to operate it: .: Tuesday, 5p'!' deadline. I , many stres situations that would be percent of black 1 adults have Columnists are . selected, usually 1n a rotating fashion, by the expected to elevate the blood Point Eight - Financial ResOutce Development hypertension. · pressure.'' Editor-In-Chief. • • We ~ust ~evelo a systeratic ~n<:J creative procedure for securing • t the. ~1nanc1al su8p~rt of] the Black community for all legislative j ' • a~trv1ty and agenda develTment needs. _ · 1 [>o<-ic:>RS• ~vE1l,. /'1111# Z VE 8ECN "Tlot1i A€' /(\f''{ & ti" ... :r"ST 1 • 1 Point Nine - Candidate Development and Support 11tA1r1 NU. NEQfi" • .:fVST TA ..... K.\N' ANb ffll'"~E ... or= :r blt1 N~\tJC. C.oFFEC.. 1 ,~ ... ftlV ')>£A/) ~ •L We mus; ;dent;_ty and det elop Bl.ack cand;dates for elect;ve so l.llN6// • "• • ft"A\I 86 T'HCV ~ff;ces • •• 6C't' SO"'E S~ WC:i, around a progress ve national leg1slat1ve agenda. We must assist them :r V., 't' F1> It '"> T I C> in projecting their local antl national issues_ 0 p(Sc.>V'T m.€ · t> 0 ' 0 ' 0 Point Ten - Voter Edu tion aI' Registration • Cl 0 0 We must increase the si e of the Bl~ck voting populace, thereby • leveraging Black political and legislative influence. During the forthcoming Bicentennial election year, voter registratiOn should be among the top priorities of all Black organizations. This should be U Jil \.I cit. f. accompanied by a1 intensi ~e voter education effort~ , , t\ °\!""r" ~ .. -'"" , .. Tr E Hl.L LTOPCRE.ED .
~ur objective 1s tcp mot1 ate our read~rs to be .dedicated to serv1r1g our ~eople ail~ r~bui di11g our communitiks. ,. • We d_u this by prQ.y~d 1 ng levant news·, informatio11, pictures, ' art and 1ddas. '1. :1 · l!.ikt! a s~ord Tne ~illtoJ is a weapon for freedom and truth , ir U1e foundati•:l.11 .Jf oar eff ~rts. · . ' ' • I ' I • ' • - • '. 6 • TliE /llLLTOP 26 September 19 75
• •••• • ••• COSMIC ECHOES: • New Look at Old Stereotypes
by Phyllis Jean I I • . prostitutes and matriarchs'' are Feature Staff Writer ; political impact they were made," in • a film lecture series ''Bl~ks In present day Black stereotypes. ''Each by Billy Hall • instrument, ''the bean," Coleman American Films'' according tb Larry ' one of these is . a carryover Of past Futur• Staff Writer Rediscovery·v1.: Hawk.ins. . stereotypes again a Many of us are familiar with the ''Pres'' stayed with Fletcher Klein, theater supervis~r of AF I. · one-dimensional i::oncept of a Black spirit of John Coltrane. Some of us Henderson for only a few months Blacks In American Films Klein views ,the ''Blacks In person. The Black performer is being are familiar with the ''Yardbird''. before joining Andy Kirk's band, in American Films'' se;ies as bei g put into a box," he said_ Chlrlie Parker. But how many of us Kansas City._ After a short stay with important because it is offe.red at t e . ''In theater we deal with the k~ow of the music of our first Kennedy Center. The Kennedy Kirk's band, ''Pres'' returned to totality of the character: In film we • ''President'' of the tenor saxophone, County Basie's band. Center does not for th.e most part ~o ' . often get confused. by the image. It's Lester Willis Young? programs for the Black community . Born on August 27, 1909, in and yet here they are 'in important that we begin to exist as Washington, D.C." ''Blacks Jn BlaCks rather than as acting Blacks. Woodvil.le, Mississippi, Lester In 1940 he formed a group with American Film"s•• is the sixth filht .You can't get rid of a stereotype by Young-the idol of the immortal his brother where he stayed until lecture series in AFI 'S: Rediscove y ignoring it. We have to look at it for Charlie Parker - beg~n his 1943. In 1943 he was drafted. program. ., what it is, from Stephin' Fetchit to 'professional career as a child Lester's experienCe in the Army was Topi~s of the ''Blacks Jim Brown. If a person sees drummer in a band man'aged by hi ~ to leave an indelible ma,rk on his n 'something he doesn't have to go· out father, Billy Young.The Billy Young psychqlogical state. He · was arrested and do it. Even if there are Orchestra as it was called, was Yokiile in the Ariny on trumped-up American . Films'' series., ·.- ra ge ' ' ' I ster.eotypes in today'~ ' film's ..... at comprised e:ntirely by members of charges and as a result spent time in a · fromearly Black filmmakers ltb e least it has given us a chance to deal the Young family. detention barracks in Georgia. future of Black films. to be discussed with the ,beauty . of the Black All of the Young children were When Pres returned to the jazz by various instructors l from images," said Poe. able to read music and play at least• world he found that behop had taken 'universities and ex~rts inl filr,. one instrument by the age of six. over and many t.enor players were Participants in these d jscussiqns will ''It's important that Blacl( films . ''Pres's''' father, Billy Young was imitating his style. From 1947-1949 include Abiyi Ford, DepartmJnt today be taken seriously. In order to Chairman of TV/ Film at Howard '*1d do that you have to ·talk about them featured on trumpet, but could play he recorded with Aladdin Records. I .. all the instruments_ Mrs. Young was These were to be his last great Harry Poe, creator·of ~he .,..,ser i es a-id as ~xpressions and as images. Whites the pianist while brothers and s!sters recordings. artistic director of E~ny lmpro~tu tend to lump all Black films together_ filled in on strings and horns, ''Pres'' His quixotic personality. clashed Theater in WashinJJtQ,A. Though q_ot All films are not the same. 'Georgia, Georgia' and 'Claudine' _ . 'The was the orchestra's drummer and was with the one night stands, booking all the scheduled lecturers are BlaCk, Learning Tree! and 'Cooley High' __ . making regular tours by the age of agents, and a racist society which nas Poe views each ''an authori!Y n eight. Tent · shows and small · circus never had any respect for a black Black films ." they have different ranges of • ' expressions. When you can look at companies provided employment for maverick in the arts. Pres was a man ''As far as the Black .populu~ •is films that way . _ . at least to that the Billy Young Orchestra. of peacet gentle and withdrawn, concerned, I felt a need for us to deal extent things have improved . . . Early in his teens Lester switched much like ,the late John Coltrane. with the stereotypes head on; take a because films are to some extent a ' from drums to alto sax. At the. age of Billy Holiday, who had been at one · total look in retrospect l)>f fi ur reflection of the way people think of sixteen he resigned from the family time the love of Pres's life and who (Black) pe~;or':1ances, > fr~m tt1e ~O's themselve~ and their rqle in society," ,.. band and joined Art Bronson's had given Pres his nickname said at until now, said Poe noting easons Klein .said. • Bostonians, a dance . band out of his fun~r~ I on March 19, 1959, ''I'll for creating fhe series_ j ''We should always deal with the Salina~ Kansas. From then on, ''Pres'' be the next to go." ''Mammys; bowing, scraping nd total .objective point1otview, lookir:ig was on his own. . ''Lady Day'' survived Pres_ by shuffling nigger; the intelligent, ui , !1t the history, the tr}Jth qf the times After a rift with the bafnstorming four months_ L~ ke ''Lady Day'' he incapable Black; maids; butlers nd:::i and personal truth . Young Oklahoma City Blue Devi's band he was ahe11d of his time, consequently • • many more," were the Bl ck film-makers should deal with their journeyed to Tom Pendergast's Las he had to bear the burden of stereotypes of earlier films accor ing Vegas and joined Count Basie's band_ loneliness and frustration which he truth as totajly as possible within to Poe. ~- that meQium (film) and in all aspects By this time ''Pres'' was playing .never was able to come to grips with. Edward Steichen's portrait of Paul Robeson as ''The Emperor Jones'' ''More roles are now availabl ~· to of communications,'' Poe•adqed. tenor sax. Fletcher Hendenon hired But then this is just another episode Black actors and actresses. Maybe in . The ''Blacks In American Films'' him in 1934 to replace the first man in the continuing saga of ''our A tremendous interest in Black impact of Black films and images, the • • . I the process we re creating a new series meets each Tuesday, 6 p.m. in to legitimize the tenor .sax as an spiritual strivings.··! films and images has sparked Up American Film Institute (AFI) ''has stereotype," said Larry Klein, f ho the AFI theater at the Kennedy among Black and wh ite audiences combined the idea of merely showing helped Poe coordinate the ''Blacks In Center and ls offered to students for alike over the past few years. ln an 'You've Go:t.Me SIQiling' performances, with discussions on Americpn Films'' series. I credit_ It is open to the public for effort to view intellectual ly •tne the films wjthin the social and Poe stated that ''pimps, j un ~ ies, . By Mike Alexander $35 and $25 for students_ HI LL TOP Staff Writer • Contrary to what some students! makes you feel good." may believe, there are peep.le in the BotH Barbara and Shirley pointed Administration building who don't out how important the administrator I Career Day • ' think their primary function is tOI is to the atmosphere projected by the hassle students who requi{e their1 1 office. They were filled with praises As _Career Week comes to an end, will be available to discuss,job' car ers radios, tape recorders and even food. services. , for Mr . Walter Jackson, their and preparing1for an interview will be preparation for Career Dav begins by explained thrbughout the day during with interested students.' Drawings will take place every two or Those Who dori't believe shouldl supervisor, and agreed t~at ''you the bttice of Career Plfhni11g and the open house. Refreshments will be provided or three hours throughout.the day, so it step into the Office of Student Loans won't find a better person to work .. Placement. Students .!: an gather information those students attending <;:areer y, is important for all student$ to and see Shirley Campbell and f or. ~ ''Open· Ho'Use' ' will ~e the las t about Career Day which will be held and all reQistered stude.nts will be register. Barbara Ann Dobynes. Barbara, who is 24 and has . ' event of the week, givi~g stu,derits on October 1, in Burr Gymnasium. eligible for one of the man¥ door Gregory Hayes , Pr;ogram According to students, Barbara worked at Howcird for two years the opportu ni ty to! acqtlaint Approximately 90 companies have prizes. Prizes will be •sponsored _I by ·coordinator says ·he rs very ahd Shirley are the kind of people hopes to 1eceive her graduate degree themselves with the Pl aciment s1tatf . been invi ted to participate in th is the various comaPnies and include optimistic about Career Day and ~ they don't mind taking their in personnel administration so she The techniques of resu\ne writ i119 year's activities, and all companies sue~ . gifts as book schol ~rsh l ps, urges all students to participate. problems to. They possess qualities, can come back to Howard as an • studeQts claim, that a lot of Howard administrator. Shirley doesn't tell her • I employees seem to lack. Many age to anyone, ''not 'even my 10% OFF All PUROIASES OF $5.00 OR MORE students, after having been helped by husband'' she joked. '; them, have sent cards, flowers, and • WITI THIS / ' • . ... ' • _l ' • 26 Sep1e111 ber 19 75 THf: HILLTOP 7 ' ••• • •• \ ' I • Movie Review: • • I ' , ' • Coonskin ' v .,' • ' ' '' ( Stirs • r ' I • ' Controversy ' by Paulette Stevens FNtUre Editor thrives off labels, titles, Coonskin_ Shufflin' shiny -faced South and go to H_arlem where they Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) decided to change the of the condemned the film without having classifications and so on. But if this is wide.eyed 'negroes' tap danci ng their get entangled in chicanery and for one has initiated a campaign to origi.nal script Coonskin '10 More to even seen1it , as did several ·members the case, I sincerely believe it is, then way through cotton fields as they corruption and ultimately destroy suppress Coonskin. They feel the1 :Coonskin because they t~oug,t it of the !Los Angeles chapter of CORE , the movie must be critiqued from 'tote ' that bargE!, lift th at bail' . _ the gangsters who control the ghetto. film is racist in that it depicts Blacks was catchier! · admitled they have. I suspect that that perspective. After all, let's call a ' Voluptuous Btac~ whores. and some Other black characters portrayed in slaves, hustlers and prostitutes. the title had some influei1ce m1 their • spade a spade. as .. I ( not so voluptuous, se lling their wares the film include a false prophet, a Which in fact it does, as did Superfly, de c1s1on. . Coonskin is really not that bad of When distribution of the film was for lack of a better way are just a few shoe-shine man and a number of Sweet, S...veet Back, The Mack and, of the i.mages that comes to mind at a movie. Created by Ralph Bakshi , turned over L to Bryanston Films, tenament dwellers, hoods and . Shaft. However. thiS In fact is reality. • As l l stated pr e vi~sly , realize the father of Fritz the Cat and Heavy the mention of that word prostitutes. White characters inclu~ somewhat over-emphasized but none Bakshi considered chaning i't back to that . We live · i~ - a label-orie11ted • Coon°sktn . Traffic, the film opens with a live · a.cop, a bartender (who is gay) and·a it's original title lXJt Fe\onsidere:d as societV but that doesn't mean we the less reality. ' Unfortunately, tl1is seems to be action sequence: two Black convicts maf ia family obviously modeled after he felt it would be an admission of tiave. tb conform to those standards. the root of the problem conerning are planning an escape from prison. the Carleones, who are all · CORE's attempts ,to suppress guilt (to racism). However, his failure We should be less concerned with • Bryanston Films most recent release While they are waiting for the homosexuals. Alt of the characters Coonskin were successful in that to do so was resulted in serious defending' ourselves against labels .. Coonskin nuw showing at the getaway car; one convict te ll s the are ferociously exaggerated. Paramount, the original distributors complications as the tWo titles imposed upon us and !ocus our other a story which unfolds in Lincoln Theatre and Janus 2. It is Bakshis films are known for t~eir under oontract to sell the movie connotate two entirely different energies~n more· relevant issues like . ' not the content of the movie, but the ani1nation . The major characters in l?O litical implications. Coonskin is no decided aginst doing so after .CORE meanings with the title Coonskin · dealing __ 1th the f ~ ts. title which appears to be r'aising anifa.a-t...ion are Rebbit, t he exception. It is about oppression and vehemently voiced their opposition' 1vi,ng a less than positive impression eyebrows from here to California in revolutio11ary ; Bear, the boxer; and revol ution in the ghetto. to the movie. It was Paramount of what the movie is really about. Remember: ·Sticks and Stones disapproval ; and understandably so Fox, the preacher. However, several people disagree Pictures, which •is a branch of the may - ~ reak our Bones, but Names since we have created a society that Rabbit, Bear and Fox leave the with that interpretation. The Gulf Western con~omerat~ that In effect some ~ olks have Can Never Hurt Me. /jfi- Astrology: R~w · 1iWorks ' /Jj(• i.\' <1 q11111t.' uj·(·/1lttll'(' by Cassandra Wimbs planets in relation to one anothef_ pract cally, Aquar1us - broad~1ndedly, /)/{'// d All the soup ou can ladle. • • • • P~US • All the salad you can make. . PUUS All the French Fr ies and hot breads. ,, • • Children unL r 6 ..· . F ~Ei ! , •S[/\l"OOl)Sf Cl/\LS O N L VI ' • PETE LARKIN .3to7pm I ONS"" ' Cocktails. wine d beer av~ ilable . 5th & Eye Sl•••tf (Waterside Mal) • Southwpst D.C. . • 484 3306 • Photo by Bill Cunnir!ltl•m Washington. D.C. , • - • • \ , Rooters by Roy Betts . . ' HI LL TOP Sports Editor ' First, the Howard University Thi ~ seas~i d _- Eas·tern Athletic Lose Soccer team did NOT LO~E this paSt conterence play ~ expected to week end according to ~ the NCAA 1 I · ~ rov ide sports ' enthusiasts • to• standings. repeat the soccer team ' did not lose according ti:i the N.CAA. ~ hroughout the country with staridings. fspine-tingling action amidst the ·Adelphi beauty and pagentry of college Coach Phillips and ~is band of • 'Booters'' t(aveled to Harrii sburg, Va. , football . by Robert Utsey ~o - play Adelphi .. College in the Suell battles as Howard vs . the HI L·LTOP Staff Reporter Tournament of Champions at . South Carolina State Bulldogs, • Howa,rd University's Bison Madison' College; (See detailed story Morga ri· State vs. North Carolina Boater~ were defeated by Adelphi and unpredictable Nor.th by HI LL TOP -,,reporter Robert Ce~ traf, College September 19, in the Utsey.) Carolina A& T vs. Maryland Eastern Tournament of Champions at A s und e rstand th e Shore ~ave been thrilling 'chillers' in • Madison College. developments, at the end -of the the past and this season should be no But the Boaters did not despair ·regular playing period the, score was exception! a.nd came back to win the knotted at 3-3. If this had been a . · Novy back to Howard's shellacl ' I • ) • • • • ' ' • ,. ' ' 26 September 19 75 THI;' HILLTOP • ' ' • ' 9 • Bisons Avenge ~o~ by Peter Harris HI LL TOP Staff Reporter Howard bcisebq,11 team defeated. \crac k e d e1g. h t h.i ts, compare d toI 1ust Dashiel allowed just one run in tive Catholic University 5-0, in a revenge ~ wo in the teams previous mJ ting. innings of relief . ' match last Saturday against Cardina11 phortstop · Calvin 1 S~ith hadt two By the second game, southpaw pitcher Ray Peloquin, who shut them singles and an R ~ BI . and fres man Gene Fleet's family had arrived from out · in the Fall season opener two1 ~ ight fi elde r Vihcent .Bail ey ad a Br~ndywine to cheer him on, and he weeks ago. • fourth inning triple. responde.d tossing a two-hitter. to •' The Bison split a doubleheader I Howard scored once in the win his. second consecutiv"e game. He bottom of the first, the third, the • with AmeriC.an-:_ University on Sunday had a no-hitter going until the sixth . losing the first game 6·0, and winning ~ ix th , and two in the eighth . catholic In the fourth inn.ing, the Bison - . the second 6·2, behind a superbly · never mounted a scorjng threat.\ scored four runs. Left fielder Elwood .. pitChed game by Gene Fleet, and an •. In Sunday's games, it was family Holland's grounder, Smith's walk, e xplosive four-run inning. day - of sorts· as two of Brand./wine, and catcher Bria~ Wa ll ace's fielder'$ Right-hander Greg Scarborough Maryland's pitching contributions to choice loaded the bases; followed by • limited Catholic to' just four hits on Howard Performed, · with quite Bailey's triple to right center.\ Saturday, and went the route in different results. Designated hitte\., Hugh Campbell notching his second strai!J"lt win. · With his father attending the followed with another triple Pe loquin's riddle of opening day .' game, John Che~tnut, senior knocking him in . ·""- \ was solved by the Bison as they right-hander from 'The Wine' lost the Even without a hit, A. U. scOred . first game, , allowing four runs ir the first, as errors by second baseman / 'first inning on three walks, a double, Burt · Herron in the first, and third _.._ • . ' HU· Faces: and a sacrifice fly . t;>aseman Kenny May in the ·second, . . He walked one and gave up .. a both lei:I to.single runs. si_ngle in the second before ~tng ' The Bison(S final two runs came in lrel ieved by Frosh Vaughn D ~s hiel, · the sixth on a hit batter, another Top ]failing in• his seco'nd try to win a triple by Bai ley, and 'a sacrifice fly by. game. In his. first Bison appea ~ ance, Campbell. Coach~• Corner • Defense I • • • Special t~ the HILLTOP '• ' ' ' i . , ' ~ In 1974 the South Carolina State • • Ken Warren and Anthony 'The Juice' Tapp, two heralded Bison football players, were recently named MEAC OFFENSIVE College defense was tops in the PL.AYERS.of the ~E.EK. Against the Unive,rsity of Maryland-Easterr1 Shore last week, Ken caught-two touchdown • pa;;ses and The Juice caught one TD pass and has ru.sl1 ed for 2QO net yards ir1 two games. Mid-Eastern Athlet ic Conference and fifth among NCAA Division 11 ·col leges. In the same year H owar~ Swimmers Miss Ineligibles Un(versity's offense was tops in the ' MEAC. Therefore, with both teams staffed by relatively the same • per_so n·nel this season, the ' Bison-Bulldog tussle in Orangeburg, S.C., at 2 p.m. this Saturday will be cl by 'Dee Dee' ba"ttle of opposing s trengths HI LL TOP Staff Reporter ' - ' There is one si milarity betweenr said that last year's team had a ''lot South Carol ina, which won its 1the Bi son football and soccer teams. of quality dedth," but, due to the I season opene.r last Saturday night at lt seems that both the taptball I oss 'of Kenneth llodigwe, to • ' and the soccer teai;ns possess very by Karen Mackey home over tough North Carolina Clemson, and 1t~e addition of only 1 HILLTOP Staff Reporter------' A&T, 7-0, ~l l owed on~y 78.3 yards 1ittle de.pth this season. ! 1. ·' three new men (two are from D.CJ. 1 Howard University's Swimming ho urs at the end of the year. This year th·e Bison swimmers will rushing per game last year and only I 'Doug Porter, "head coach of the ''this year's team has no depth." Team, coached by Joseph Bell, wil l Uppercl assmen must have a 2.0 grade be starting with five swimmers: Jeff 159.6 per gamP .total offen~e in . football team. said that this ~ea r's Although both coaches expressed have their first meet December 5 Bassinett, Paulette Cox, Keith winning the MEAC Chari1pionship. average at the end of the first . team is ''the best yet," but, ''if any. conc;em about their similar plight, it • _against South Carolina State. semester, as well as 24 hours at the Gaines, Charles Green, and James Howard, , on the t ,'.""-?ther hand, key men are injUred it could ~eally was evident by the pleased The team's first scrimmage is with end of the school year. The NCAA Washington, plus seven walk-ons, averaged 327 yards pei: me to lead hurt the team." According to ~orter exp r es ~ ions on their faces that both .the MEAC in all t - 1 offensive Towson State College on November establ ish ed th e 12 t1rs. per semester according1to Bell. the team is ''relying very heavily on teams ~ ntend to ''go to the mo4ntain ' 12. In preparation for this Coach Bel l requirement. . , , Coach Bell, who is also director of categorie's (2, 167 yard"ushing and it's returning seniors.'' · . l and conquer it." And· each coach said, ''I have confidence in all my ''Although many of the i11 eligibles the Upward Bound Program said, 1,436 passing). But the Bulldog The head coach of the Na ional emphatically stated that this year's,.. · defense prevailed ave; the Bison swimmers, and walk-0ns. Our diver, we re th e nucleus of the tearn, they ···upward Bound is ,a program tot Soccer Champions, Lincoln P ~i llip s: tea~s are '"TfiE . ~ESJ EVER ." NCAA Gary Ward champions.hip. aren't indispensabl e. South Carolina high school students, but there are offense in a meeting at RFK Stadium ... Jeff Bassinett, and Paulette Cox (tl1e State, who was MEAC charnpions last yea.r as· Howard was held to . I 1 college students and local high school only female swimmers), are last· year will l1ave 16 me mbers to oUr te.achers available to tutor members minus eigh.t yards in the ai r. compeiitive and ready to work hard 9, but hard work and confide nce will of the swin1ming team." ''We have a lot of work to do, in the framework of one month's keep my swimmers.fr om feeling that Asked what the future of the especially on our goal line offense," , prepl3r1ation.'' said Porter · this week . ''Soutl1 th ey are defeated before they even Bison swimmers looks like Coach • • ln order to b.e academically get in the water." • Bell said, ''I have no doubt that each Carolina has one of the top defenses . eligible to participate in a varsity The lack of academically eligibl e 6f the swimmers loves to swim. My in the country; we'll have to play our sport students must meet the swimmers th is semester is attributed, goal is to see to it that a_ll of the best ball ·of the season to win." university requirements . For pa rtly, to negl igence on the pat of swimmers· are eligible next semester, • • • freshmen that includes a minimum the team members wh o fai led to remain in good academic standing grade point average of 1.8 at, the end ''reap the l)enefi ts'' of the tutors at an d go into the NCAA 'South Carolina will be led by of the first semester and a total of 24 thei r di sposa l. Ch ampionships." } defensive end Harry Carson, who had 16 tackles and two quarterback sacks last weekend. Tackle Robert Sims TEAM VOTES W·L POINTS (6· 5,300) 1s an al l-conference defensive toughie while cornerback 1. Grambling 12 lntramurals 1 2·0 220 Leqnard Duncan is getting a hard ' 2. Jackson $ tate 1 2·0 180 look from pro scouts. J 3. Southern Un ive rsity • 1·0 140 Again the Bulldog offense will be 4. Howard Univers itY 1 by Andrea Shelton ' 1 1·0 127 a big question mark ·~th starting HI LL.TOP Staff Re porter · 5 . . Norfolk State 1·0 • 100 1 fu llback Neely Dunn e~n t with a • The Intramural and Recreational 6. ' North Carolina · Central 1-0 separated shoulder. T ~ir leading J Activities Program provides Howard 7. North Caroline Central 1-0 71 rusher last week was halfback Ricky students with faciliti es to enjoy a 8. North Carolina A&T 1·0 .64 Anderson, who tall ied 39 yards. variety of athletic and recre • • • • • • ' I ' JO • J 2.6 Sep tember 1975 • • THE HILLTOP • ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~~~--;;;;:;;:;;:;;::::::::::::::::::::::::-~~~''--'· ~' ''---;-:;;:;:::;::--~~-;"! 1 • • • • , • ' 1. What do you think about the New U niversif)' food services? 2. In what direC,ion would you like to see the • · Black Lib-:ration movement go todayl I • I ! JON BAILEY (BUTCH), Physical JANE COREY , Communications, I ' Therapy, Sophomore, Taurus Freshman, ~quarius l. Why H owa1d found it 11eces- 1. It t1,1 s ii~ UjJ'> a11tl tt ow11~- Mort· 1 s ry to list !he aid ot a \vh ite toad cjc)\V1 1s' th.in u1J~ . J er ·sJrvic:e' which haS only succeeded L 111 t!1t ~ r1gl1t dirc~ct1(1n. l l1ey ' r~! • irJ rai sirig increaSing talkir1~ lcJucl ai1cl ~ay'1ri . '>u rnethir1g. ~ir ices ~w ithout qLality ,I' ll never know. l hope the !)ut \V l' r1e~c ! .i wl1t1le 1(1\ nicire lib . a ~r nir1i s trati <>r1 i'> '>atis!ieql that !!1ey t'ratc11 ~ Ill 111,1kf' it \VlJri.. . • d,fn't have to fe~d Bla ck·s al a ~ire • dominaiely Bla dk College. jve're ohly the future of B.lac..k r\merica ,and Afrika. ·( 2. 1'he Black Liberatior1 move • ment should make a niove to show t ~e majority of Black 13'eo ple \vay~ I? prosper rather than to just sur GARY 8LACH f1 Zoology, Sopho vive in this while society. 1·0 mar1y more, Pisces • , nrove~ents are going u11derground I . I thir1k tha it's a shame tl1at • • ' ar. d losing touc h With the people Ho\-vard le l a white-o'1ned cur • ,. \~ho are lo(Jking for so~ne direction_ • pcJra l ion take ovec the foocl serv- .' • ices. I or1 ly hope that the ur1iversi!y • • , • cloesn't give !l1em ·a long- term curl· • ,, • tracl . 2. Forward: It '>eems tod·ay that a~ Blacks clirnb the eco r1ornic ladder, • • they try to assi milate ttie white cul MONl"E RI CH ARDS, Elel·lrical , ture arid tend tc; fcirget about the Engineering, Sophomore, Libra liberatic1n of their less f ,' . .. , , . ' • • , , I • ' Black Caucus by C. K. Barber • Hilltop Contributing Editor ' ~elp Wanted • Sunday Chapel · The Congressional Black Gaucus gave no reply. As of late summer, they are not adequately represented will hold a legislative workshop FCC Protest SGA President Malcolm Jones was in the selection process. M"eanwh_?, _. Any person wishing to w o.rk Dr. David T . Shannon, Dean. of during th"e Caucus' Fifth Annual Proceeding with plans to file suit. as many Black Stu_dies prograrr\5 at • Some 200 Federal City College -w on the Variety Show committee Faculty, Pittsburgh Theological Dinner Weekend. September 2.6-27, White universities are being phased students marched to · the District should contact: Seminary, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1975. The WorkshoP, co-sponsored out, • UMASS's Black Studies Building last week to air a variety o'f ' Ricky Wilson Rm. 281 will be guest speaker at the Sunday ~Y the Joint Center for Political Football Death Chairman. John Bracey s"ai d, ''We grieva·nces before City Council Student L-ife Offices Chapel Service in Andrew Rankin Stt.idies, will take place on Friday, '· (the' Black Studies Dept.) will not·be member William Spaulding. · 1 Tel. No.636-6920 · ~ M e mor ial Cha~el on Sunday, ~ptember 26, 1975, 9:00 a.rn . to A football Player a>(.jolcrfiS cut . any" worse than any other The march was sparked by September 28, 1975, at 11 :00 a.m. !;>:00 p.m. in the Rayburn '· ouse College died unexpet :lly department.'' Dr. Shannon's sermon topic will be: complaints ,of ill planned registration or Office Building (rooms B3~¢-. 4b) . first day of footbJ11 practice is procedures which resulted in lengthy Kyle San ford "l'M 0.K.; YOU'RE O.K.>" The workshop is design to month. j - lines for both registration and book California Soul Tel. No.636-4165 • At 6:00_ p.m. on Sunday, the provide participants J briefi on , The first ~practice h'ad just been • purchases. Students had to wait up ' 28th, in Andrew Rankin Memorial current legislative issues and completed when l team member '• A move was made to coordinate · ' to eight hours to register for classes ' . Chapel, THE CHAPEL CHOIR will legislative/politiccil strategies of Alfonso Taylor passed out in the the efforts of Black universi.ty and and up to ' five hours to purchase I' be presented in Concert. This concert aoncern to black, poor and other locker room. The team trainer co llege students throughout book ~ in the school's, only pock is a .Part of the Re-entry Americans. Hundreds of elected and· administered mo~th to mouth California to counter the rollback of store. Many FCC students work and . . Marketing Club Celebrations for the repaired and appointed officials, as well as other resusitation ~ then r ~ shed Tt1ylor to Black participation in their, respective • • ''don't have time to wait in line." 1 ' . • I . refurbished.Rankin Chapel. citizens concerned with the 1 the hospital w here he was schools at a recent co.nference held in , said Joseph Gatling, president of the legislative process are expected to pronounced dead. l ccording to M.J. Berkely, Calif. attend. People's Government Associ ation. Powel l, assistant t~ f the president of The conference, held at the There will .be a ''Meeting of the < Other grievances included: lack of MB, the cause of death has not yet University of California, resulted in Minds'"' for atl students interested in • parking at the colleges 16 schools, been announced. ari affirmation of Black student's joining the American Marketing lack of students control over activity The Wolverines have announced ''responsibility to Pursue meaningful ~ssociation . All business students • Wine and Che fees, and a call for the replacement that they will dedicate this ~ason to partii::ipation at every level." The wfio would like ·10 join the Marketing Concerned Students of top FCC administrators. Taylor, a third yJar student from issue revolVes around efforts of white Club please attend. Bring all your , Chicago, Ill. u[niversities aimed at ''the ideas with you. Freshmen and Zeta Phi. Beta Sorority neutralization'' of Afro-American Sophomores needed!! If you are concerned about Southern Suit student problems such as tuition presents.a , I 'Studies <1ePartments and Black The Student G ~ vernment Cutback at Mass , teachers, accord;ng to tJC soc;ology . ' increase, the · phtasinQ. u. REFRESHMENTS and out of Black schools. Wine and Cheese Sip Association of Southern Uni'versitlf' ) •i t • professor Harry: Edwards. MUNCHIES will be served. . dormitories being overcrowded, - has r11acted to a possible libelous The New Afrik!a House Cultural El:lwards, widely known for his 29 , DATE: Monday, September , SAGA food, faculty tenure, the For Freshman Only! statement made on the Louisiana center, a community service cent~~rticipation in the 1968 Olympic ' 1975 I price of books in the book store, · House floor with plar,is to sue the a.nd formerly the Jenter of, all Blafk · i:;oycott, is · himself the victim of • 1 "the Health Service, and many September 26, 1975 speaker, ~ Representative Johnnie activities at th~ UniWrsi'tv of ! a1tempts ' to discredit Black ' faculty Massachu·sse ts l is to date, · members. Edwards' is a Ph .D. who - more vital issues,then sign up for Jones. ~ . TIME: 5:00 ~.m. • According to re ports, Rep . Jones ''n?nfu_nctional ."" j while all o~her . has written textbooks now being • the Committee for Concerned Human Ecology Living Roorn"' PLACE : ·School of Business, un1vers1ty departments and in over 100 college courses, but • Students. . , ... attributed Southern's ''downfall'' to off1~s ~sed • Room 105, Sherman -Aven1:Je, N .W • • Sign _ up in the U.G .S.A. 6 to 7:30 p.m. ''those lousy, rotten students we are running as usua~, the New Afr1ka ijas been told that he will. be For more information, p l ea~ call House has no coordinator. · within three years office, room 283 Cook Hall or have up there." A written apology ~er minated 636-7440. call 636·6918, 6919. '/ was demanded by the SGA but the The delay reportedly· is due to ·because he doesn't meet the ''high ' representative from Baton Rouge protests from the community that Jiandards'' of the U.C. system. I . . :cf ' • f • , I ' .