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Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1990-2000 The iH lltop Digital Archive 9-27-1996 The iH lltop 9-27-1996 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 9-27-1996" (1996). The Hilltop: 1990-2000. 166. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000/166 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]. Serving the Howard University community since 1924 September 27, 1996 This Week's Highlights: Theater professor murdered in Md. I I CAMPUS Faculty, students remember teacher's 'living legacy' Homecoming is still By Steven Gray "He was more than a without signed acts. Hilltop Slaff Wrrter A2. teacher. He was like A Howard University professor an uncle, he treated was ~hot and killed Tucsilay night in us like family and was a bizarre and sudden shooting SP.rec CAMPUSPLUS that left two other people de:1d in a always encouraging Maryland school parking lot. us to strive for our Howardites reap Theodore Cooper, a theater professor in the College ofFine Arts, dreams." satisfcation as big was on his way 10 a program a1 the - Amber Stuart, senior Hollywood Elementary Scbool in ''brothers and sisters." Colfcgc Park, Md .. when the ~hooting occurred. authorities S:tid. one of the region\ "grizzlies1" A3. According 10 Prince George's murders on record, faculty and County Police, Cooper, 57, ancfhis students at Howard University companion, Cymhrn Ann Shifer, continue to grieve and rememhcr 36, liad just parked their car in the Cooper's le11acy in the aflermalh of WCAL school lot when Torry Douglas what many in the College of Fine Shifcr, Cynthia Shifcr's estranged Arts called "lhe loss of a rare The District's husband, shot her as she jewel." unknowingly exiled the car. "I am s1ill trying 10 gel it in my Photo by Jim ~I• "Unsafe" water leaves Cooper jumped out of the car head that he is gone," said Henri Theodore Cooper, e professor In the theater department In the School of Fine Arts, Is characterized by and ran across the parking lot in an Edmonds, one of Cooper's closes1 his students es an old friend. He and two other people were kllled Tuesday night In a shooting In a students buying bottled. ancmpt to escape. students and friends in the Maryland school parking lot. The assa~sin followed Cool)Cr Department of Theater Arts. A6. to a nearby 1ra.~h can and shot liim 'He was great, quick 10 laughter Many of the 1housands of about theater. I called him at home. would go on as scheduled at close rnngc, police said. and quick 10 anger. He loved s1uden1s whose lives were touched II didn't stop nt school. That's just Wednesday morning so that Torry Shafer then shot himself. Howard. He was so proud 10 be by Cooper said he had an the kind of teacher he was," said students could review for a lest on While the exact motive for the from Howard. He was emotionally unforgenable, irreplaceable zeal for junior 1hca1er arts educa1ion major next Monday. NATIONAL murder-suicide hnd yet 10 be connected 10 this place." cncoura_g.ing young people 10 enter Ruby Tyree. Edmonds said 1ha1 Fine Arts identified at Hilltop presstimcl Cooper first came 10 Howard as the worl<l oT theater. During his career, COOP.Cr students will hold a memorial Aformer DEA agent's police said i1 could be the result 01 a student from Miami, Fla., in the "He was more than a teacher. He establi;hed several theater companies service for Cooper. a domestic dispute between lhe mid-l960s. was like an uncle," said senior 1hroughou1 the East Coast, and "One 1hing is certain: the journal connects CIA estranged husband and his wife. I le graduated from 1he College Amber Stuart. published several plays, many which students will nol he affected," Cynthia Shi fer 's daugh1er wa~ in of Fine Arts in 1969 and returned Stuart said a picture of a lion on have been performed on campus. Edmonds said. drug trafficking. AS. the sixth grade al 1he suburban to 1hc University in 1971 as a his door and briefcase symbolized Cooper announced 10 his "That's the lcgncy of the theater Maryland school and was not theater professor. his strength and determination. "I le students Monday th at he was -the show must go on, painful as involved in the incidenl. From 1972 10 1978, Cooper was was a king," Stuart said, her eyes scheduled for surgery in Annapolis, it may be. Tod would be the last But while investigators continue the chairman of what was then the flushed wuh tears. Md., on Wednesclay afternoon. person to let us stop the show. His 10 peel away at wbal has been called Department of Drama. "Whenever I had a question He promised them that class legacy is alive in the students.'' INTERNATIONAL Drinkers Beware NOi barred from School of' B' America's foriegn and World Day ofAtonement seminar preludes March anniversary :hug policies have con1e under attack fullowing By Usa Prince lhe CIA-Crack scandal. Hilltop Staff Writer A9. Howard University is no Mranger 10 the Nation of Islam. But last 'Thursday night, leaders from Louis Farrakhan's organization TEMPO hosting a World Day of Atonement seminar were greeted by barred Students '"' take it off' doors in the ousiness school auditorium. alittle bit of extra cash. "The storie., kept chan_ging. ·we didn't have enougli securny; or our Bl. room request form was invalid because we listed one speaker instead of 1wo;· said David Muhammad, Nation of Islam PULSE campus spokesman. "Dr. [Sieve] Favors (vice president for student New Edition brings it affairs) did not want Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad (NOi on" home" with a new spokesman) to speak on campus." Photo by Jeffery Owens Dr. Favors hail not responcfed 10 NOi ieaders met locked doors on Howard's campus when attend album after seven years. the allegations al press time, but Ing a post-Million Man March seminar. Belinda Watkins, Director of B2. Student Activities, said she would Bevel. World's Day of Atonement petitioned Raymond Archer, dean have had no problem approving International Coordinator and Dr. of student life. Alim Muhammad 10 speak . Abdul Alim Muhammad. According 10 Archer, the "Wilh increased publicily But on the day of the program, Mosque on campus failed to follow BUSINESS surrounding Alim Muhammad, Muhammad said he was informed the proper procedures for allowing different protocols such as by University security 1hat they a figure such as Alim Muhammad Eruptions of Funk cafc: increased security should have been were not allowed in the School of on caml)US. taken. If he had said Alim Business. "David did not properly de.'SCribe llffeehouse opens walk Muhammad was coming, I would "The form that I signed had Or. the event on his form 10 the Student have approved it. The issue was not James Bevel on ii and when I talked Activities. He was approved' for ing distance from cam the speaker, the issue was he did not 10 David, I asked him if this was the Bevel but not for Alim, and Alim 's list him on the request for 1he speaker he said Bevel was going to name was not mentioned prior 10 pus. B4. facility," Watkins said. be there he did not show me the the posting of fliers, which in the The event. billed as a post flier advertising both Dr. Bevel opinion of Student Activities did Million Man March seminar. and Alim Muhammad," said not reflect the request for the Muhammad said the School of Belinda Watkins, director of speaker." Archer said. ,. HEAITH Photo by Alda Muluneh Business auditorium was reserved S1uden1 Activities. ·•1 approved the Bui Dr. Alim Muhammad said .. Students express growing concem about the safety of the District's and confirmed for Sept. 19 by the request for an event w11b James the program suffered in the end. & water &upply and the need to purchase bottled water. STORY: AS. University Scheduling Office. Bevel. I did not a~prove ii for Bevel "Welost a 101 of people with the Fliers hung for a week and Muhammad. room change and time because the FITNESS announcing the affair wi1h the The forum moved 10 the scheduled speakers, the Rev. James Blackburn Center af1er students 5-NOl,A3. Women have a nonsurgical approach Holocaust Memorial Museum honors NAACP lawyer to speak at to terminating today's opening convocation pregnancy. B6. Black Olympic athletes in exhibit • 10 be the firs By Reginold Royston female head o because of1he racism going on back home," Wiggins said Hilltop Staff Wrtter lhc organiza SPORTS By Aprill Turner The 1-titlcr•led Nazi party anempted 10 use tbc lion's law ilivi Hilltop Staff Writer Games as a stepping stone 10 prove IIS dominance in Howard Universiiy has had a long sion. Acting Academic lhe a1hle1ic and political arenas. But the success of radition of partnership with the She aided in American athletes, particularly African-American AACP Legal Deti:nse Fund, gradu• number of civi Advisor helps athletes Sixty years after they straddled their way 10 victory athletes, crushed any and all Nazi auempts 10 tout racial ting such prominent figures 10 its righ1s case and triumphed over racial discrim ination al the 1936 superiorily.