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The Hilltop 3-10-1989 Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1980-90 The iH lltop Digital Archive 3-10-1989 The iH lltop 3-10-1989 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_198090 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 3-10-1989" (1989). The Hilltop: 1980-90. 219. http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_198090/219 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: 1980-90 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. • • ·. • • • ' J ·. ' • ' I • • • • reva1 ID ree- eover ' • , ' • \ • • • Cheek negotiates; HOW far • • • • •• Wjf_f • way Ill .Students' . get their • . • • By Keith L. Alexander local supporters. · Hilltop Staff Reporter At the Charter Day luncheon in the Armour J. Blackburn student center After six days' of protesting bY ap- Friday, April Silver, ·a represeritative proximately 3,000 Howard Universi­ of Black Nia ·Force; along with other ty students, the remo~val of students leaders, met with Df. James Republican National Committee E. Cheek, president of the univers.i­ Chairman Lee Atwater from the ty in order to arrange a meeting date ' , ' university's board of trustees served to" discuss their demands .. as the last of the students' seven de­ ''We .come in peacc;:,.no confron­ mands that were to be met. tation," said Silver. ''You have to According to Atwater's press concede to the power Of th-e stu­ '· secretary Leslie Goodman, Atwater dents;/' Silver said after confronting wrote his l'etter of resignation Tues­ Cheek. · · day evening after he . watched the A meeting was decided.-Jlpon be­ • confrontation between protesters tween Cheek.and the student leaders ~d D.C. Metropolitan police on the for -Saturday: ... evening news and ''witnessed the At that meeting, students met With potential for violence.'' rheek for over six hours discussing -Sp"eaking for Atwater, Goodman their list of demands. As a result of said 'he '.'saw a threat of real violence the meeiing six of the seven students' and if one Howard stude'nt we"re to demands were met. The last of which . get hurt he would not have been able was'" the Atwater issue was· not . • to live with that.'.' After the meeting Saturday. after­ 1 . ''If iou scratch the surface of this noon, 'the .students tvl!.d a· clqsed • issue, you will find this is nothing meeting· in, Douglass Hall to discuss Students c~nfront Cheek in the Block~urn ofter disrupting t~e Charter Doy conYoCation lost Friday. The proteSt included a boycott of classes. i'nore than bare partisan politics at their next plan of a'ction. ." , play,'' Goodman later said. · Five committees .were formed and pus before proceeding to the adminis­ and national, flocked to the campus• The pfotest took its initial stage met seperately to determine what tratioh building with the intentions of to cover the three dax_ ordeal. last Friday morning at the Charter their next plan of action woulli. be. As a peiceful sit-in. Day service, that Was to be held '. at . a result of those meetings they deter- . On the second day of the proteSt, 1 People showed their support by · Cramton Auditorium, to celebrate mined the strategy of an admin:Stra­ approximately 100 Metropolitan donating food and sllpplies as well as the university's 122nd birthday. En­ tive takeover and t·he closing down of police officers dressed in full riot gear sending telegrai:is •. making phone tertainer William H. Cosby, Ph.E>., the university.. and armeO with tear gas, rifles, and ~a ll s,- an~ stopping by t h~ campus was. to delivei: the keynote address. On Sunday afternoon one of the riot Sticlss stormed the: building fr6m . JUSt ·to witness the students protest. Students groups like Black NIA committees did research in Founders the roof, side and front doors. ~· . f .O.R.C.E., the Howard University Library on .behalf ·or the organizers Seven· hours later, at a press con- ~uch African-American leaders as .CStudent Association, NAACP and . Of the.protest, while the media ~9m : . ference with Cheek.•. and Mayor Sonia Sanchez, ReY. Ralph Aberna­ the Progressive Student Movement mittee printed and passed out fliers thy, and Rev. Jesse Jackson en­ along '"Yith hundreds of students announcing the rally that was to be Marion,BarrY; Cheek 3.nnounced that couraged th'e students by visiting 1 rushed the stage of the auditorium · held · Monday morning. · • he was ''calling the officers off and them,and aided with negotiations be­ · and refused to leave until their needs . Sunday evening a diagram of the giving the administration building ·tween them and u.niversity officials. , were met. , inSide<Sf the administration building 6ver to the- students.'! ! Issues such as changes in the finan­ was drawn up and strategic· actions • At 3:30 a.m. on Thursday, stu­ cial aid processing syStem, strikingl were planried as to which dodrs' • After finding qut late that evening dents began tq leave the building for • down a proposed tuition increase and , would be locked off, who would be Atw{lter had resigned from the their pro.;pective dormitories and the removal of Atwater from the in charge on the inside and how food board, students continued to sit-in homes. · board caused students tor take over and suppli'es ·would get ip ~ the pro- ·until ~he Y r.eceived Written confir­ That morning faculty and adminiS'- the Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Ad­ testers. • mation. tration went back to work and class­ ' mini~tration Building, .escorting Monday morning students carryi~ Wednesday evening the protest fi­ es tesumed as normal. At the same faculty arid staff out, and sit.ting-in · their overnight bags containing their·· nally came to an end after all of their time, janitors and housekeepers photo by Keith 0. Leadbetter for three days while food, water and toiletries, school books, and food demands were met and put in \Vriting. began th_eir duties of cleaning up the other supplies wer~ brought in from met at th_e flag pole pn the mai11 cam- MemQers of the press, both local administration building. • • • Protesters convey their message and raise each othels spirits. • • ' ,. -• . Student Demands Jackson·visit .aids in negotiations • J. ·promotion of a irtore Afro-r;eiltriC curriculum department. .. BY. Eric Smith ment of Republican National Com­ chance to see Jackson in person. Hilltop Staff Reporter mitte Chairman Lee AJ.water to the Protest leader -April Silver, who • Howard University board of trustees. 2. Establish a university wide program that would alJOw students to ' • spearheaded the protest, called the receive academic credit for community service ACcompanied by Rev. Jesse Jack­ At the request of student protest conclusion a ''victory party''and . son, hundreds of Weary but trium­ leaders, the three men took part in a . relinquished the microphone to Jack­ 3 .. Increased efficiency in the fjna11cial aid process. phant students poured out of the five-hour advisory session, discussing so11, who had surprised the protesters • • I ' Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Adminis­ possible avenues that could be taken by momentarily sitting with them on 4. Strike but "the propOsed 15 percent tuition increase. ' tration buildlng early · Thursday during negotiation.s with adminis­ the floor. He prayed with students • morning, endihg a ttiree-dayrseige 9f trators. and then praised the students' dedi­ 5. Guaraii.teed improvement fn the general maintenance of Howard the building. ' The Crowd of protesting students cation. Recalling the protests of the University Housing · Jackson. as -well as District Mayor wa·s at its largest Wednesday1 night. 1960s, Jackson said, ''Moments • Protest organizer Robert Turber Jr. Marjon Barry and' Rep. Walter Faun- com~ in cycles,'' and said Silver·••was • . troy D-Wash. D.C., 111et with stu­ estimated 3,000 students packed 6. Enhance the effectiveness of security: increase the number of of, . in the tradition of Rosa Parks." • ficers, and incrCase the"ir wages · • dents in support of their protest for themselves into the building. Five ''These struggles can make life bet­ improved housing, ' security arid hundred to 700 more who could not ter. You stood up and said, 'we have • • \ 7. The immediate removal of L~Atwater from the board of trustees financial aid processing: Stu'de"'.1tS be accommodated waited longingly aninsult level .' Howard can serve as outside in the frigid weather for the Jesse Jackson were also angered, by the appoinl- a watershed movement.'' • . ' Atwater: the man·hit by the issues • • ' . By Ro rt J. Vickers E".en as a fr~shman at. Newberry . and quickly moved up to becoine na­ S'pecia to The Hilltop College J:ie volunteered t<;> assist tional executive director of the or­ Strom Thurmond's senatorial cam- ganization, wliich called fot him to Long befor ee Atwater became paign, matki.n.g the start of his .much move to Washing~on . Among the vauQted pol1t1cal· career as a cam- • first people he met and befriended chairman oft e Republican l"}lation­ paigner. He rates his.success by a win,, , ' ~ . al Committee, . proba,bly before he had even heard of Howard ·Univer­ or a loss; th~re · a:re no d·raws. .was George Bush, then RNC chair- • sity, he only; dreamed of bc;ing a . man during the Nixon adminis- rythm and blues guitarist. · tration. • " The 37-year-old Columbia, S.C. • He continued to asse1·t his growing native \1sed to play backllp guitar for News Analysis influence in th= following years, R&B groups like the Coasters, the returning to his hometown and • Drifters and Percy Sledge's band in • m'anaging state campaigns across the the 1960s and didn't want to .go to ' After .working in th•t: successful South.
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