Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1990-2000 The iH lltop Digital Archive 9-5-1997 The iH lltop 9-5-1997 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 9-5-1997" (1997). The Hilltop: 1990-2000. 191. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000/191 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the The iH lltop Digital Archive at Digital Howard @ Howard University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The iH lltop: 1990-2000 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ILLTOP News You Can Use Since 1924 OLl',tE 81, No. 2 THE NATION'S LARGEST BLACK COLLEGIATE NEWSPAPER SEPTEI\WER 5, 1997 THIS NY Police Brutality WEEK'S ISSUE Case Insights Protest By J ANl'IE A. HARPER ily. The march, protesters cau­ Army Plaza. blocked the Brooklyn MIPUS tioocd, wa, not anti-police, but ant,­ Bridge and stopped in front of City FreeS1yle Editor policc brntnlity. Hall. NEL OUTLINES New York Mayor Rudolf Giuliani "Just thinking about it makes my RATEGIC NEW YORK --The outraged chant and about 2.500 police officers blood tum. I mean, to take the time "NYPD-New York Plunger Depart­ nanked the march route. to put on gloves." said Sandy AMWORK ment,• roared across the Brooklyn Some ,igns read in Creole: "Jis­ Dorsinvil. J-ISA president, about Bridge 10 Lhc doors of City Hall. tis Pou Abner louima.' But the reports released accusing Officer EYOND MERGERS Fifteen Howard students marched message was clear -- the people. Justin Volpe and three other officers 2 alongside the thousands of nag-wav­ whether immigants, American, of the sexual assault. ing protesters last Friday to decry the Black, white and Spanish, demand "They act like because we don't alleged sexual abuse of Haitian JUSticc. speax the language, that they can do immigmnt Abner Louima by scvcr- "This has happened time and time what they want to foreigners." 111 NY police officers on Aug. 9 ag.iin," said Reginald Romain, a Dorsinvil said. ITY The alleged sodomy with the junior chemistry major who auend­ The incident occurrcJ almost one wooden handle of a plunger, cd the protest. 'But this time they year after the publication of a occurred in a 70th precinct bath­ messed with the wrong person." Amne,ty International document, room and left Louima hospitali1.ed "When I heard of this incident it which ranked NYPD a\ one of the with a lacerated intestine and a touched me deep in my ... coeur." most brutal forces in the world. punctured bladder. J-1 is teeth were said American-born Romain, paus­ Samuel Nicholas. Louima's broken when officers allegedly ing a moment to remember the Cre­ cousin. brought news of improve­ forced the same blood and fecal­ ole word for heart. It is the native ment in his condition. covered plunger handle down language of his parents. " I shall not die," said the message Louima 's throat. The trip. organited by the Haitian from Louima that Nicholas shared Draped in nags and carrying Students Association and 1he with an emotional crowd. UKE ELLJNGTON' S plungers and signs mocking the National Organization for the The incident also moved local NYPD's public relation's CPR Advancement of Haitian People, celebrities to the streets. URAL GRACES U campaign (which stands for Caring. left Friday from the School of Busi­ 'I'm just here to show my suppon Professionalism and Respect, but ness at 11 p.m. for the brother.' said Lord Jamal, a wa, changed to read Criminal~. Students arrived before dawn to member of the hip-hop group Photo by Edouard Leneus Per,ens and Rlcists), about seven join the march, organiLed by a Brand Nubian,. Protostors demonstrate tho beating of Haitian Immigrant Abner Loulma on the thousand prote,tcrs rallied ogain>t coalition of Haitian groups. Brooklyn Brfdge. Howard studentll also traveled to New York to rally against the latest incident of police brutal- Demonstrators >tarted at the Grand Please See RALLY, A3 poll<:41 brutality. O1 d Gym Only Home For Dance Dept. By BRANDI ALDRIDGE dinator of the dance pro­ gram. Hilltop Staff Writer The eight faculty mem­ bers, including Berry­ Behind the Fine Am' Childers Hall man-Johnson, share one sits the Physical Education Women's office, lined with plastic Annex Building -- condemned, but to keep rain water from lOWARD STUDENTS, pulsing with life. destroying the electron­ ~!STRICT RESJDENTS The front windows are covered with ics and other valuables. posters. There arc no bathrooms. Most "When I look at [this RALLY FOR D.C. AT of the upstairs ceiling is caved in and the building], 1 know that it f H.ECAPITOL classrooms are filled with logs and is only through blessings other debris. that we survive," Berry­ 6 Despite its look. the Women's Annex man-Johnson said. has remained the University's center While the rest of the for dance. Established in the mid­ University is undergo­ I940s, the Annex also housed the wom­ ing major renovations, RENADA' S 1ST en's physical education program. Berryman-Johnson said IME MlNISTF R In I 992. all physical education pro­ President H. Patrick grams were moved to Burr Gymnasi­ Swygert has not made FTER BRITISH um, but the dance program cominucs to definite plans to restore ULE DIES use the Annex. the Women's Annex. For the last five years, the building has At Hilltop press time, been an eyesore. Faculty say about Preside~t Swygert was The front entrance of the Women's Annex (left) Is the only part of the building t:ar:n,:::e::.erson INNIE MANDELA seven-eighths of the building is not not available for com- The back of the buildlnQ (right\ displays the extent of damage to the building. The Women's Annex, Is safe, leaving dance majors with a small ment. located behind Chllder s Hal. the dance department Is housed there. ACES SOUTH area in which to work. Only three of the Swygert released a let- vation process would be extensive and Princess Mhoon. a senior dance major. seven large rooms can be used. The ter in late August to the students and costly, Berryman-Johnson said. Con­ "We have to mop rain water off the floor entire upstairs level and most of the faculty of Fine Arts informing them of OMMISSION sidering !here is no room in other build­ before we can practice. In the dead of lower level, the gym and locker rooms the renovations of Childers Hall. No ings to move the dance department, she winter, we have to run outdoors 7 are not in use. plans for the restoration of the Women's said it would make sense for the Uni­ drenched in sweat to use the bathroom The building also has electrical, Annex were mentioned. versity to pay for it. plumbing, roof and rodent problems, Because the building has been con­ "I think lhe situation is horrible," said Please See DANCE, A3 EST\:1.,E said Sherill Berryman-Johnson, coor- demned for about five years, the reno- U STuDEt-.'TS LrKE Howard University Lifts Organizers: Million Woman March A Day Ban On Student Activist Of Spiritual Rebirth they are supposed to have, then we C ASH OR CHARGE? By B OBBY WlttTE Wyatt Johnson Administration building. By ALICE Rocmt The editorial received an onslaught of press coverage would not have the problems of 1 Clll11p11.• Editor and Muhammad, being the Editorial editorofT/re /Jill- Hilltop S1aff Writer crime, brothers killing each other, 1op at that time. said he received the majority ofthe neg­ and us always trying to hold each In late July. after a summer of leuer writing and help ative coverage. President H. Patrick Swygert 1\vo years after a record I million other back. We need to learn to PULSE from HUSA President Jonathan Hullo, Howard Uni­ denounced the editorial. saying it slighted the memo­ Black men galhcred on lhe Mall for work with each other.• versity lifted the ban on stu­ ry of the first African-American president of Howard. what became one of the largest The self-empowering themes of MARY J .BLIGE dent activist David Muham- --­ " II ticked a lot of people off," said Muhammad, also demonstrations. Black women are the Million Woman March are said mad. known as David Gaither. planning to do the same. to be similar to those of the Million H EADLINES Imposed by Vice-President Muhammad said his relationship with the Howard Organizers say they are now in the Man March. SUPERFEST. of Student Affairs Steve administration faltered even more. process of fine tuning the agenda Planning began in May when Favors, the ban stemmed from No less than a year later. after a series of what he calls for a Million Women March, sched­ Philadelphia resident Phele Chione­ what Muhammad called 'bogus accusations." Muhammad received an official uled to take place in Philadelphia sa decided it was time for women "administrative animosity.' notice from Chief of Campu~ Police Lawrence Daw­ on Oct. 25, 1997 -- just nine days to begin the process of repentance, HU CAMPUS STORE Muhammad said the conflict son barring him from campus. The letter said that after the second anniversary of the resurrection and restoration. STARTS Se1.uNG staned with an editorial in Tht• Muh.immad had "engaged in actions on our campus Million Man March . Chionesa said the Philadelphia Hilltop about the Anti­ that have disrupted the orderly conduct of Lhe Univcr• Local organizer Aaran Williams community is welcoming the APES.