Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1990-2000 The iH lltop Digital Archive 11-22-1991 The iH lltop 11-22-1991 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 11-22-1991" (1991). The Hilltop: 1990-2000. 39. http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000/39 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]. - Graduate school enhances research~ MORE FUNDS: Ayearaftera commission recommended that Howard become more research oriented, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has started a program to raise funds for more ed to bring in more money. students to conduct research. A3 By Depelsha R. Thomas ADUATE LOFAR Green is director of the Collaborative Core Unit Hilltop Staff Writer • in Labor, Race, and the Political Economy. DAVIS' DAY: Actor Ossie Davis He said, '''!'he~ groups are heading .attempts at will be on campus In acch{'dance with President Jenifer 's Howard Enrollment: 1,073 (based on 1990-91 figures) Howard Un1vers1ty to foster research systemati­ Monday as part of a 2000 pl')', the Graduate School of Arts and cally." lecture series spon­ Sciences 1s creating new initiatives to recruit top­ Number of programs: 30 Sadler said making the transition to a research sored by WHMM­ notch students and to make Howard a more institution is critical for the graduate school. • research oriented institution. Meanwhile, SO!'Ile Specializations: More than 100 ''A graduate school has to have a strong base in TV. A2 restructuring is currently underway in the various research if it is to receive national prominence. departments on the school. Number of faculty members: 325 Also, only through strong research p·rograms will HOOPS Dr. William Sadler, dean of the Graduate School we bring in the funds needed to support stu­ TIME: of Arts and Sciences, has initiated a partnership *Largest single producer of African-American graduate degree recipients in the areas dents," Sadler said. plan which is designed to raise money for student of chemistry, zoology, and psychology Sadler said that last year there were four black As basketball season stipends. In his plan, Sadler asks faculty mem­ mathematics Pb.Os. produced in the nation. Two Ossie Davis begins, Howard's bers to apply for research grants, and in return for of those came from Howard. *Founded in 1934 first organization of a graduate school.;Became the Graduate basketball teams have high goals for making grant applications, they are given money as ''Our department of math, with little assistance, School of Arts and Sciences in 1976. ' themselves. Cl for travel, assistance with preliminary research, could easily produce four Ph.Os. in math a year. and help with producing publications. tion to the stipends, 120 tuition waivers are given research efforts. We have the capacity at Howard to double the FACELIFT: The number of Approximately $200,000 has been raised in the to exceptionally gifted students each year. ''What sets a program apart frOm otherS is the number of black Ph.Os. produced per year. blacks seeking cosmetic surgery has one year that the plan has been in existence; this Cosmos Okoro, a fourth year student pursuing a amount of research it does. Howard needs to Howard is the only school set up and equipped to will help support 22 students. Dr. Rodney Green, Ph.D. in organic chemistry, has paid his way work with other universities and institutions on do that. We have more Ph.D. programs at increased over the last few years. B7 Howard University, by far, than' all of the other • a professor in the department of economics, is one through graduate school in sev~ral ways . research projects," Law said. PROJECT HARVEST: of more than 50 faculty members already ''I was a teaching assistant my first year. Now, Okoro said he thinks Howard docs enough black schools combined," Sadierlaid. involved in the Partnership P1an. I'm receiving a Minority Biomedical Research research and that the laboratories here are compa­ It was because of Howard 's P.h.D. program that Efforts are once again underway ·for Green, who said he has brought in approximate­ Rufus Barfield, a 'first year graduale s·tudent Grant of $8,500 a year that comes from 1the feder­ rable to those at other school s. WHUR's annual Thanksgiving food drive ly $1 million in research grants, said the plan al government. Only four or five students in our ''I came to Howard because of its good reputa­ studying organizational communication, came for the city's Jess fortunate. B4 ''helps the research agenda and strengthens stu­ department get it. The grant money isn't enough, tion and excellent faculty. My boss, Dr. Paul here. dent support." but the chemistry department doesn't have Hurdlick, is a renowned specialist in his field. We ''Howard has one of the most elite programs in ''I got tuition remission for eight to 10 students enough money to supplement it," Okoro said. have a lot of research groups in chemistry. I my field in the nation. Bowie State, where I fo work \vith me on my research project. The plan ' Sadler said that the science laboratories at believe Dr ..Hurdlick has graduated more minority received my master's degree, didn't have a Ph.D. made it much easier for me to bring them on. Howard are totally outdated and not adequate to Ph .D.s in organic chemistry than anyone," Okoro program,,, Barfield said. There are only about 50 to 60 graduate assis­ conduct modern experimenta l research. said .. Barfield, who is a teaching assistant, paid for his Campus A2 tantships, which leaves most students unsupport- Ken Law, a third "year graduate student pursuing Green is excited about the new Collaborative master 's degree by working for the General ed," Green sai d. ' Editorial A4 a master 's degree in physics, agrees and thinks the Core Units program , whi ~ h se t up a number of Tuition in the school is $6,625 per year. In addi- please see Research pg. A3 Commentary A5 school needs to be ''a bit more aggressive" in its research groups within the school and are expect- International A7 Tempo B1 Engineering Sexual Harassment on t e College Campus Sports C1 group helps Unsolicited Overtures College students get QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Percentage of Men and Women Who Soy They ''Gossiping and scandal-mongering Negroes school build Hove Ex.perienced These Forms of Sexual Harassment of course, come to their assistance. Mis-edu­ , involved in fighting cated by the oppressors of the race, such 40% Negroes expect the Negro business man to fail its offerings rn Men sexism, harassment anyway. They seize, then, upon unfavorable '- 0 Women reports, exaggerate the situation, and circulate By Leslie Tims falsehoods throughout the world to their own Special to the Hilltop By Jim Haug 30% National Student News Service undoing. '' • Politically, culturall y and geographically Carter G. Woodson diverse. These are all attributes the members of (NSNS)· While the nation listened to tales of Mis-education of the Negro the Engineering Coalition of Schools for Long Dong Silver and pubic hair on Coca-Cola Excellence in Education and Leadership (ECSEL) 20% cans during Cl~rence ThomaS's Supreme Court use to describe their organization. confinnation, students across the country also Their objective is curricular reform: to actually began re-examining their own attitudes toward sexual harassment. White Student ~evelop creative new ways of teaching engineer· 1ng so as to attract more women and minorities 10% Many female students have been active in and maintain the fighting sexual harassment for a long time. But ints:rest of all engi· recently, a growing number of ma!C stUdents Union sparks have become active in the feminist movement ' ne~ring majors. by fanning male anti.sexism groups on campus EtSEL is com­ 0% prised of seven to fight what they view as no longer solely ''a controversy • •m women's issue." schools and col­ ....• • :a·= 1! .~ • E •• -~ ."I l ~in~ the nlcn's groups are a very positive By leges of engineer­ lj J: .: • • =~~· Rene Steele ·~ a~ sign, 1 said Rosemary Dempsey, the Action Vice National Student News Seivice ing dedicated to renewing the President of the National Organization of Souru: US Merit Systems Protec:tion Boord Women (NOW). "I think only men can change undergraduate 1991 Survey ol B.523 Fede<cl Employees MINNEAPOLIS, MN (NSNS) - In an effort to other men's behavior. What they 're doing is a fight an organization they accuse of espousing engineering edu· cation and its healthy reaction to the incredible increase of white supremacist beliefs, students at the sexual crime and violence that has occurred in University of Minnesota rallied on Nov. 14 to infrastructure. This five-year the last 10 years." protest the establishment of a white student uion . Former H.U. bus driver to be While many men's groups are taking direct The rally organized by students from the effort by the insti­ tutions is primari­ action on their campuses by holding protests or Co~lition Agains~ White Supremacy, protested ly being funded demonstrations against sexism, others are seek· White Student Union founder Tom David and the by the National Dr. Lucius Walker sentenced on assault charges ing to educate their fellow classmates. Still ten members of hi s organization. other men's groups are simply trying to deal Science Foundation at $3 million per year.