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Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1970-80 The iH lltop Digital Archive 2-20-1976 The iH lltop 2-20-1976 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_197080 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 2-20-1976" (1976). The Hilltop: 1970-80. 155. http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_197080/155 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: 1970-80 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. , , • , • . • Hilltop Highligl1ts, • Like a sword • ISA Controversy ........ ,,,,,,',,,, .. ,,p. 2 The Hilltop • • . , ' is a . weapon Eye On Africa ...... ,,,, ..... ,,,, :,,,,,,p. 3 • for freedom , "Black &.vival lllllek" ..... ,,,,,,,,p. 5 and truth is the , ''C0/\-1MUN IC ATE TO w.i1,.,, Terri oo Vietnam ..,,.,,,p. 6 EDUCATE TO fo J·ndation of l\Ewll/l.s' S I • LIBERATE'' ocal tory ........ 1',,,,,,,,p. 7 our efforts . \ NCAA Invites !Vile Relayer.; ,,,,,p. 8 Bison Seni as Reflect ......... .. ,,,, p. 9 ' • VOL 58. NO. 19 :ZO ·FEBRUARY 1976 , • • ' j • Ossie Davis, Media Reps His onan .warns of on Hand 'for 'Invaders of Africa', Communication.s Confab • . I Ancient & Q.Modern ' By lm.i.n1 (Terry M . Crosby) the communicator as one who By Venola Rolle es1ablish priorities and there must stands ''first in line,"1 through whom " We (Blac ks) need to begin to be bridges to stand where there 1s With the tt1cme a~ ''360 Degrees the message pa sse1 primarily, Davis look at o u rselves .and develop the n ~ o "argumer•t," Dr. Clarke taid. • o(~ tal Commun1c<1t1 or1s," the Fifth said ''We must stop talking about essential selfishness of survival," Further commenting on the An ual CornmLznicalions Con 1obs in the field and start using Dr. lohn Henri k. Clarke, noted Bla ck ~ European ar1d Asian influence 111 fer ce of Howard~ SchOol of every resource we have to take his1or1an and author, told about JO Africa, he said, ''Everybody 1n Africa Commun1cat1ons was held February over the vacant pos1!1ons in this im people Wednesday night in the who "cannot be classified as an 13-16 on thf> Dunbarton Campus portant area (communications).'' Human Ecology Building African, is an 1nvaCler or a decen for th € purpose o f c areer When this happenf . he predicted, a Auclitoriurn. • dant of an invader." placement, part1c11)at1on anrl 1n ''cu ltural explosiop' ' w ill occur in ''We are at a critical period •111 1 Dr. Clarke said Afr1car1 men and ves11gat1on into the s1t uarior1 of Ame11ca . history, because we have not lea1' wOmen are the fathers and mothers •0 . ' Blacks 1n the mass media. Advisir1g that ''We rnust become 0 ned the lessor1s that histpry has o'f mankind, arid that "Slacks need to . e11:amine the ''phraseology'' they so Playwright/TV film l)roducer as ser ious as the Europeans were in ::;• taught u s," said Clarke, whose ap easily acc ept He added that Blacks Ossie Davis \va s arnong the taking gunpo \vder from t he pearance ~va s sponsored by the prom1ner11 ·s peakers at various Chinese, " Davis cor1cluded his -0 Afro-A1nerican Stud ies Department. need . to· establish a new frame of reference 1n rnatters re!a!1r1g to par.el s, luncl:ieons and banL1~cts of spee{h by advocating the use o( all - ''A recurring \veakness' . in our the conference. In his addre~s .to tools and techniques of the n1edia history, he added, is manifesting it- African history • the 300 fJe1 sor1s --Who-.a.u~ndec J the by communicatdrs to promote t self i r1 Angola nuw . ' The pf1ra se '' Bla c k Afri c a·· Scholarship Fund Banquet,-!t1 e for progress for ''Blac k people and op 0 Citir1g early examples of Asian, presupposes that there is a white mer Howard Board of Trusiee pressed people every where. " -0 and European 1,nvasion of Africa, Africa; said Dr Clarke, adding that member foc\.Jserl on the ''Future of A cco rd i ng to a statement €. Dr. Clarke said that because of there is no such thing as a '' ne~ro · Black Commur11cators." released by Lawrence Still, Assistant Portrait of Frederick Douglass loon1s in ,background as To·m Jol1nson, reporter ''fragn1cntat1on'' w11hin the culture, Africa '' when there is no_,,:negro." Dean of the Sc hool of Com for the NY Tir11es, and Donatl1an Gay, Director of Rescarcl1, Congressi onal ~' ou t s iders er1tered a family n)un1cat1ons, an estJmated ''1,000 Black Caucus, !)articipate in ''Tl1c State .of t\1e Otl1er Natior1'' panel, one of cl is pute·. " stu dents. job applicants, and several convened cll1 ring the Fiftl1 Annli.11., Con1rnl1r1ica1ions Conferc11ce last week. ''Fo r a people to exist they mu s! professibnal c ommunicators at-' • , • tended the sessions." Other notable speakers/panelists . included Maureen Bunyan, WTOP • newswon1 a11 ; ~oel Orey_luss, Washington Pos.t r reporter; Cal:vi r1 NBPA Wants B·ond for President ! Rolark, publt ~ her of the § Wa~hington Informer; Bob Adams, sc heduled to open Marc h 17 1n ''A new society based on the 0 !i president of the N ational Academy C1nc1 n11at1, w ith a rocus on the principles and reali za tion of 0 E of Telev fs1o n Arts and Sciences; building of a 111ass ba sed Blac k economic democracy mus t be 0 - ..:=. Sam J el Yette, Sr;:hool Com· pol1t 1cal movement for 1976 and borne, and. in 1976, starting with >- of~ . rnunications jourpa!ism professor; bf'y(ind the National Blac k Political Con •" vention, \ve intend for Black people E w Gweri franklin, Assistant Program 'A new society j E Director of WHUR; and Jciy Epps, to take the lead ership 1n forging a 1 > • o Director of Public Aff<iirs, WMAL based on : the prin r1ew r1atioria! movement to bring a ,, 0 radio. new society into existence." ~- , ~ and realization ~ ''A total of 2I reprl'sentatives , .- The Convention will include a f . Ossie Davis, film producer and piay tra m media f1rn1 were fisted as r e~timonial luncheori in salute to Historian v. rigl11 prcdil.tS ··c.ultuial cxplosior1': recr u i ter~ c! q ual1 ietl app! 1c .. r1t'.; fo, ·1heodore Berry, former Mayor of , positio11s rang1r1g frorn newsrepor Cincinnati, 14 l nformqtion and Stot1r1g tl1at tl1e rna1 n slruggle at ters to c opy ed 1t0rs to advertising Iss ue-Oriented Open Forums, Skill H e cited the expression 1 ''Third Blacks 1s 10 secure the elemental account execut j ves and c·om Development Workshops, and a World'' as 1ust another phrdse The first meeting o i the '\/at1onal right s given to thern 1rorn birth, mun1cat ors satellite engineers," the Political and Organizational whites have imposed o n people oi Committee fur People'~ Politics Davis emµhas1zed, It 1s the ri ght rel ea se continued Development Institute. color. ''You can r101 kno\v Black for hurna11 beings to hove a !Ob We Dean Still later reported tt1a t 18 (NC.Cl') \VIII be held In Washington, history ur1t 1I you kn o w ( \vorld Georgia State Senator Julian Bond Presentations will be made by as Bla ck J )t' O~)fe cannot acce1)t t~ re1)resen1atives a<j tually conducted D .t., Feb 20-22. The NCPP 1s t l1e three key NBPA Offi-cialS·. Political history," Dr. Clarke stressed and ' ... draftee! as J)rcsidcnt ial cat)didate. offi cial c.01rnpaign org.1ri t ormed by one by one 1n clus 1on of o r1e by one intcrvieW>s.Ou t of app;oximately 500 and Organizational Development he- salcJ the reason Black history ., tl1e NBPA to acqLi1re ballot status was so l1rnited \va s becau.;e ''lt <. on 1ntegra11 on-)ht.•re are too rnar1y of 1r1terviewees, o n1 ¥ (hree o f them By Lillian \\'ashington C hairperson M ' tanguliz~ Sanyik'a ·' rcr 1976 ran,d1clote Jul1ar1 Bor1d. re ported that they' w~ould be further Georgia ~ate Senator Julian Bond (fo1merly Haywood Henry). will ceritrates only on Blac k history'' A local co11vent1on to elect 100 "' Adding tha.1 J)art 01 the respon· -co ntac ted by the interviewers. has been nominated d S· in disc uss the Assembly' s 1976 " Get the family to gethe1 first, arid delegates to represent DC at the s1b1l1ty o! communicators 1~ to raise l he t onference formally opened dependent <. and1date 1n the 1976 Poli tical Strategy; National Co . rorget ideology," Dr Clarke . \var· NBPA Co11vent1on 1n C111c1 n nat 1 hell, Davi s suggested, ''Tu make our. February 13 with a welcome by presidential elections by the ·~ Chairperson Mashariki Kurudisha r1~d , cpmr11e11t1r1g on the tendency ' -.vas held r\1ontlay. fPbruar) presence r<'lt . v.·e must do 11 col\ec· Lionel C. BarroJ.., Dean of the National Bla c k Pol1t1cal 1\ ssem bly fJ her~ will present the 1976 Black Political of Blac ks to ad o p! MJ.rx1srn . and · 16 r\ lso d 1 s<.u~sed al the 0 C. Con t1vety '' t-te· 1r 1 teprct e~ i com- , Sc hool of cprnmunication s. ( NBPA) as a l)arl of 11'> ov<:>rall 197b Platform; and National Chairperson o!her .'Jforeign''· forms ol soc1al1srfi. ve ntion wf're the r1orni'n at1on oi mun1ca! 10 11s as a ''riew way 0 1 ·' Studen t participation throughout political strategy. Ron D. Daniels will outline the ''Socialism is good for Alack pf.>o ple, Bor1d, a platform of 1s~ues, and a sa\1ng someth111g abo11t ar1 old ac- the conference inc luded excerpts With the theme, " Wh 1tl'".