The Hilltop 4-5-1968

Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1960-70 The iH lltop Digital Archive 4-5-1968 The iH lltop 4-5-1968 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_196070 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 4-5-1968" (1968). The Hilltop: 1960-70. 170. http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_196070/170 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: 1960-70 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. • • •• , ' • ·' • •. ' . ' • I i· i • • • ' . vol. ~o No. 2~ ' Howard Unlwerslly, WaahlnctAll , D.C. i\prll 5, 1968 ' ' ' r _·· ' • • ' • • Tha1a ora Iha fllur •-ltera ef The loolll of TNataea Jall•, Nolo, Clo• oatl Pel.. .j ti • few. .ef tlte •-•••• ef tile Staall•t C1•ml11aa af .... Sit-la, 1 ..wa, Manns, Harris, Ayars, Gi.ttans and Jackson who nagotiat.d Iha 1 ..tl.-.ant of tho Sit-la. : (Photos lty Gaines) • 1 ------r-- • NahritConcernedWith Sul let in !! I i D.r. M~rtin Luther K1,ng, • ''Fate of ·University'' · Jr., I 1 lleail. The 39·voor Campua Greekletterorplll&a ,..,,_that the Pan Hellenic Council ls tloo1 may be faced with bml1ll • by Cindee Morshall eld non-violent advocate' ••not repre-tattve of Greek or- ment this aeme.ter as a reault pnl11at1oo•• In that ••moot of the and1 winner of o M · Ital At 12:15 Thurs<311y afternoon the problem to a solution. of a $2,400 debt to the Liberal Greeks were oppoaed to•• the James M. :Nabrlt, .president of Nabrlt praised the faculty, Peace Pri 1a was ltio1 ght Arts student Council, The Pan conce~. Mike Hanll, frelhman Howard University, delivered a saying, "One of our best assets to a Me111phi 1 Ho1pl al; Hellenic Council which hu re- . clui" prealdent, said ' that the· speech to an audience of faculty II\ our resPO!lllble faculty,•• Tann., In critical ca 1 iii· preoentattvea from ail campus LASC - must demand the repay Greek organtzatlou failed to re ment of .the debt bec11111e failure members, Students were not of Continuing, Nabrlt told his al! tlon la1t night around 4 :20 • ficially Invited to attend the talk, dlence, ••We need · 1eadet'shlp pay the Council a loan fdr a ·to do so, Just as the Gr~eks which was held In Cramton audi- from the faculty, ... We need to PM aftor receiving o · hot Greek Week Concert, Thepay failure to pay the debt are a through the neck whil 1 ~ In ment was due on April I. ••serious ottense against , all the torium, . 1 . restructure it so we can have • Stating first that his main con a more effective, functioning the balcal)y af the m ttal ' The concert, which was sche students In the college of Libe cern was the "fate ot the uni faculty,.'' where ~· was staying H • duled during the week of the Sit ra! Arts.•• The student Council versity," Nabrlt went on to state ''Let us make a reassess died a few . moments jftar In protest at ·the Adm~~j';tlon operating fund comes from Stu • that the young American Negro ment, re-evaluation, and re Building was a financial f ure. dent Actltlty Fee. , was Indeed In ·a. state of revolt. examination of Howard In order getting to hospital. :·wo The Council's representative; "This revolutlotl Is unli to make It a better university,'' suspact1 have lean Lou Simpson, tol<t the Student . ' mited,'' Nabrlt admitted, He said Nabrlt suggested. · picked up in connac 'on Council treasurer that they would be able to return ooly $235, Lou that It has spread downward from He closed by adding that the with the shooting, · and • Comm.Holds the colleges, through the high National Planning Commission had signed a statement on Feb- . palica have ·i1ssuad, an s:C hools~ and was now even being had approved Griffith Stadium as ruary 21, ·J968, agreeing to "re ; , encountered In the elementary the site of !he new hospital. Also ol art on on a whi ta yo!' th, imburse•' the Council, Clyde 1st Hearing schools. approved were new boundaries . wall-dressed, who 1wa1 Avellhe and Judith Martin were • He stated that the entire so for the campus, These bounda- · seen leaving the sigl t of witnesses to the ·signing. ciety has In recent ye;irs become rles run from 4th st. to Florida The· Council· ts faced with the 1haoting in a lato· • On 'Charges' embroiled In various kinds of Ave.' from Florida Ave. to Geor having the cancel the campus demonstrations, The civil rights gia Ave. to V St., from V St, modal white CCI!'· .+. .. ea· literary magazine, the Prome • marches, the Vietnam War pro west back to Georgia Ave,, north pan was also recova ad. Preliminary hearings for the 1 thean, cut the Project Awareness tests, and the teachers' strikes on Georgia Ave. to Columbia (See Editorial. Pas• 4) budget, or cancel Its banquet 39 students charged with dlsrupt were among the examples he Road, and then east back to because the Pan Hellenic debt ·1ng the nor - processes of the cited, 4th st. : . left ooly $3,500 In Its treasury. University are now being 'held. ''The recent Howard dem 1 Prlntlog ·· the Promethean will ' onstration mirrors the demon Although a ••true dlsclpllnary cost $1,600, Project Awareness Board has been selected and ap strations In the larger society," Bo·wie St~ Trustees plan' approach $1,000 and fun~ Nabrlt declared, proved by the Student Assemply'' are needed tor the Grapevine to hear tl\e cases there has been He continued to explain that and class activities according to . colleges usually use one of three ·some doubt as to the validity ' the budget submitted by Council of the charg~s brought to _the· methods of dealing with dem Meet· With Student treasurer, James Mo8by, · onstrators on their campuses, by Robert J it ff a rs Administration. Student Assem The council motloo was to bly President Ewart Brown has • First, they could, and have, call Many of the Members of the Roland B, Smith, the r tudent ' ed' In the police, who often use send letters to each Greek or appointed a commission with two Board of Trustees of Maryland Government President was ganlzatlori ;ind to the Pan-Helle faculty members c- Professors violence,. State Colleges have announced prompted to say that a ••m anlng Secondly, they could try to have nic Council advtslngthemthatthe Frank Reeves and James Wash their agreement to back a crash flll dialogue'' had been lopened debt Is overdue and that the ington of the Law School -- a dialogue with the st\idents as · program to Improve conditions with the trustees. The sludents • long as there was a llope of a 1 · Council expects to be repaid , an<Ltbree students -- law· stu at Bowle State College1 In a were backed In their d~mands $1,600 of the ·money by May I dent""Althea · Lester and Alvin solution. T.he third Is the use of meeting with student protl!st,Jea by Bowl!! President, MY , rs, .He outside Influences, , · and the rest by May 17. If the Chambliss and Brown himself ders and the President ofthe Col has also called for a ''r asstve thems are not complied with by who Is also the chairman to de The main consequence of t))e lege, Samuel L. Myers the trus lnfllslon of funds'' lri or, er that first method ls that where the May 1, the Council will take the termine the validity of the . tees said they were unable to Bowie might · become a model matter to ·the University Wide charges, U It Is found that the p0llce have been called In there commit any 'funds . at the Imme school. ' '· has been a wholesale 1exodus of Committee on Student Organlza charges 11-re Invalid then there diate time to correc\ deficien Maryland's Governor, tloos , and Activities wlllch has will be no hearing witli .the fllll ' faculty members from the col cies although they plan to great .Agnew has refused l o .m " -• with lege Involved, This has, of the authority to banish I the board and the charges will be • ly Increase funds for the College the protesters, althd gh he Greeks. The motloo was paslied drC41Ped. course; put those colleges In se for the next five years. directed the T nistees tc Inves • rious trouble. 7 yes, 1 · no, and I abstention, The Bowie students who Jlad tigate coodltlons at the school. At least 5· of the 9 Council mem In a three hour session Tues "We have used every method ' been protesting conditions at the The State Attorney 'peneral day, ·charles H. Bush, the Super to avoid bringing armed forces bers present are members of school for over a week and In Francis B. Burch and aJdelega Greek organlzUloos. The UCSOA visor of Off-Campus' Housing re Into Howard,'' Nabrlt stated, cluded among their demands $25 tl<Jll of state ,legislator. toured presented the Admlnlstratloo In "And we have been severely Is a joint student-fac_ulty million over the next "two or · thelcampus and met wit~ student committee with. equal represen- • the evidence tor the charges crltlclze'd for It,'' he added, three y~rs•• to Improve the !~rs Tuesday, '. · ' brought against the 39 students He wept on to say that this tat Ion. ' school were told by Samuel Hop ~e legislators "ron1tsed to the commission recessed until does not mean that the university kins, chairman of the trustt.ee•s sp$k with Gov.

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