The Hilltop 10-16-1987

Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1980-90 The iH lltop Digital Archive 10-16-1987 The iH lltop 10-16-1987 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_198090 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 10-16-1987" (1987). The Hilltop: 1980-90. 183. http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_198090/183 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]. • • . ' • \ •··- • • • • • - Vol~me 71. Number 7 The Motion's Largest Black Collegiate Mewspaper' • Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059 ·October 16, 1987. Dorms get visitation limit Five .university dorms denied 24-hour visiting rights • By Glenda Fauntleroy due to overcrowding in the usual Hilltop S1aff Reporter freshmen facilities, dorms such as '· Sutton Plaza, Eton Towers and Park Vacant rooms . ' Most students complain that dor Square have fallen into this category. leave students mitory visitation hours end too ear ''There are 150 or so freshman in ly, but according to various univer Sutton Plaza and so that is taken in· upset with policy sity administrators, 24-hour visitation to consideration when setting the will not be extended to all residence hours,'' said Keene. · Gray explained that earlier hours By Michelle Miller halls. : . Hilltop Staff Reporter Currently four of the university's in the Quad, an all female freshman nine dormitories have 24-hour visita dorm, can also be attributed to its size, which unfortunately offer.s ..<\.number of empty rooms in tion. They include Mefidian Hill J Howard's -residence halls is I;Iall, Bethune Hall, Carver Hall and many places where males can hide when they attempt to enter the causing some students toques Slowe Hall. tion the housing offiCe's Visitation policies currently will building without being properly ''signed in." vacant·room policy. not be extended to the five remain l;here are approximately 150 ing dormitories. A s~ond determinant in extending dorm hours is that of room occupan vacant rooms among Howard's Double and_triple occupancy of eight dormitories. Thirty of rooms, location and classification of cy. Dorms with single rooms can ad mit 24·hour visitation ..yithout these rooms are unoccupied residents are some criteria which because of major repairs, ac determine what1 time co-eds must jeopardizing the. privacy rights of another student, according to Gray. cording to York ' Campbell, leave their h6si's rooms, said ad assistant to the dean of ministrators. Some dormitories that The same is the case in rooms of two or three residents. residence life. York has attemp house freshmen students fall victim ted to dispel! speculation about to early curfew hours. According to Keene, stt1dents who feel the visitation policies are too the empty rooms and clarify the ''It {the hours) has been more or sitl1ation. less of a tradition established in the restrictive have made a choice to live in the dorms, and they are not forc '''fhere are always empty Photo by Keilh Leadbetter various halls over the years, and they rooms," said York Campbell, will continue as such, ''said William ed to do so. Students react ,atter hearing who the artist will be for the 1987 Homecoming .Concert Nov. 1. ''Many schools have fewer or more assistant to the dean of Keene, dean of the Office of residence life. ''We do. have a Residence Life. restrictions placed on students, I feel that we're [Howard] in a happy procedure to help us determine According to Valerie D. Gray, how many students will be head counselor of the Tubman medium," he said . • A staff member in the Office of returning,'' he said, adding that Quadrangle, earlier hours are geared · the system is not full-proof. Nona Hendrix to highlight specifically to younger students. Residence Life:at George Washington Maintenance accounts for 20 •• Because some upperclassmen University: however, said, ''There are no set hours when students can have percent of unoccupied room dorms have housed freshmen Continued on page 2 · '87 Homecoming pop concert students during the past few years Continued on page 3 t·~ ' By Robert Frelow, ~r. Before the announcement, Hendrix, l wanted to laugh. It's • Hillt op Staff Reporter rumors circulated a,mong students sad that other smaller black Bookstore cuts back book supply that at 3:30 p.m., pop singer Janet schools can attract bigger and bet· ~ Approximately 150 students Ja-:: kson would be on campus. The ter names than [Howard) can for listened at1entively and then sigh announcement, which \Va s a homecoming concert,'' he said. By Franscino Crowelle, Jr. ed Wednesday as promotional originally scheduled to air earlier The concert, set for Saturday, Hilltop Staff Reporter that day was moved back to 3:30 representatives of the Homecom Nov. 7, w'ill open with comedienne • ing Steering Committtee announc p.m., causing some studehtS to Sylvia Tramore, and will also Many students have been and con ed Nona Hendrix as the headliner think that she would appelar as the feature rhythm and blues vocalist tinue to be frustrated by the lack of of this year's pop concert. homecoming concerts feature Roger Troutman. The shows are required textbooks and supplemental readings at the Howarq,.U niversity-- Botk Bobby Bc1111ctt a11d-Gerry artist~ scheduled for 7 and 10 p.111. No - Bledsoe of WHUR-FM - a pro ''I heard Janet Jackson was go ticket prices have been announc Bookstore. ·~ - moter of ''Back to the Mecca," ing to be On campus at 3:30 p.m., ed yet . ''I was upset because by them not 'having the books. That put me ~ this year's homecoming theme - so when the horhecoming [com Neither Homecoming Commit made the announcement during a mittee) changed the initial.time of tee Chairman Joseph Gibson nor .behind in my class," said Angela 20-minute program geared at ask the [program), I was expecting to any of the other executive staff / Fifer, a sophomore majoring in inter ing the Question, ''Who we got?'' hear that Janet was going to be members were present for the an \ national business. ''They should The question was posed by the playing at Howard," said Thomas nouncement, with the exception of order an adequate amount of books I homecoming committee to answer Thorn, a junior , majoring in Donald Walker, the committee's from the beginning." the student body's concern of' engineering. operations manager, who declin Calvin Flowers, also a sophomore · what ihe agenda for this year's •·•when [the pi"omoters] began ed to comment. said he worries about his grades and \fe stivities would be. calling out Roger, Zapp and Nona Continued on page 3 whether he will do well in class without the required texts. ''I had to inconvenience others to photocopy pages of books and bor row them," said Flowers, adding that Clarke stays he felt ''frustrated, angr)' and push ed aside.'' Flowers said he has been ~oing to I despite vote the bookstore on a weekly basis all semester to acquire his books with no results: to oust him ''We're reordering. We' re doing -· . Photo by Fnnscino Crowelle By Lauren Cooper our level best to reorder, but then the Empty shelves In the university bookstore. Hillt op Staff Reporter vicious factor in reordering is time they're frustrated and they turn it on Jones credit fOr structuring her class . lost." said textbook manager Liberal Arts Student Council Abraham Thomas. me,'' said Thomas. ''I don't like in a way to work around the lack of (LASC) members left Wednesday's Thomas, who bears the brunt of what they' re saying, but I don't text books. meeting confused over the outcome student complaints about the shor blame them.• r ''If she didn't handle it well, we of a vote to determitle whether presi tage of books since he is usually the Some students said they manage would have lost out,'' said Webb. ,dent Maynard Clarke would be i1"9- first person the student meets at the the best they can without books. Other students did lose out because peached for his involvement in book counter, says the complaints Kym Webb said, ''We had a test, of the lack of books. Prdfessor Ray forgeries that occurred this summer. have not all been pleasant. but the only thing we could do is mond Boone of the School of Com Although there was a majority ''The student's time is lost in tur study from our notes,'' said Kym munications said students in his class ning in some assignments late and Webb. Webb gave her professor Joni Continued on page i! vote, 7-4, for Clarke's impeachment, I '· Photo by lames" McKesslc it did not consummate the two thirds of the voting body required for im LAS~ treasurer Kimberly Churchw~ll, ~~l?_reta_ry _ Kelli Richardson and peachment. There were three absten president Maynard Clarke during the council meetlngWednesday. Academic ills taper off, tions in the vote. meeting. According to Phyllis' Grif exact percentaies Orthe Outcome, but ''You voted not to impeach," fin, parlimentarian, ' 'technically the due to an oversight it was summized Clarke told councilmembers, ·\Yhile meeting was still in session." that Clarke would be impeached. :23 percent ·still seek help continuously stressing that the vote Griffin said that.<. ·.his point, Kell i Richardson left the meeting stating did not indicate his impeachment. that, ''Maynard is impeached." Richardson, executive secretary, was slight improvement in the last three Bostic Beard, vice president a'.nd app9inted acting chairman of the · Clarke, who was waiting outside of by Kenya Parrish acting chairman during the vote, ad ; the closed door, immediately cited years.

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