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Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1990-2000 The iH lltop Digital Archive 4-11-1997 The iH lltop 4-11-1997 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 4-11-1997" (1997). The Hilltop: 1990-2000. 187. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000/187 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]. II lume 80, No. 26 Serving the Howard University community since 1924 This Week's Highlights: Before and A~er Students CAMPUS arrested I :;-~~... .:.~· .. r ·-!II~ 'I I . ~ -- ~ ~ •~ . ,;..,.......... at local Students, adminis trators react to the cybercafe beatings of HU students. from the March 11 Administration By Valyncla Saunders and building takeover. A2. Bishop Chui Hilttop Staff Wr~ers Muhammad said the meeting of students ''planning to make Howard a better place" was disrupted by CAMPUS PLUS An argument over a coffee table police because of the organization's resting on a sidewalk erupted into positions on Black education and lfUSA offers retrea a melee with police last week, end the Anti-Defamation League. ryoung Ne"v Jersey ing with three Howard students and ''There were not 52 cars called in 1wo alumni arrested on misde under five minules 10 a table outside students. meanor charges. A pre-trial date is a cafe. I think that's apparent," set for August I8. Muhammad said. "Did [the ADL) A3. Witnesses say a Oeet of police use their inOuence on the police cars quickly swarmed Eruptions of force to gel them 10 send 52 cars to Funk Cafe at 900 Florida Ave. N.W. break up our meeting, to break up LOCAL last Thursday after cafe co-owner our productivity? Who made tl\e Michael Kheop refused 10 move a call that an officer was in distress?" • ''Hero" pizza man table from in front of the business It was this distress call that dis prevents robbery. after Metropolitan Police ordered patched what witnesses are saying him 10 do so. was a 52-car riot squad. Michael AS. Police arrested undergraduates Muhammad, a Howard alumnus Janine Harper, Jerrah Crowder and and a community NOi minister Michael Lawrence and cafe owners who is also HSUBE's adviser, said NATIONAL Michael Kheop and Patrick Castro. the incident smacks of II conspira Photos by Rashida Harrington and Chris Bell .A passer-by was also charged. cy. Florida couple Renovation of Howard Halli the oldest bulldlng on campus, continues. When renovation Is Witnesses allege the law enforce "We were 001 trying to see it as a complete, the structure wll house the General Alumni Association and serve as a meeting ment brutalized the defendants fol conspiracy," Muhammad said. "But starts business on place for alumni. lowing the heated exchange, strik• when i1 was all said and done and the Internet. ing students and patrons ofthe store the table was still !here, we were left indiscriminately after s1 uden1s to wonder, what was this really A6. attempted to separate the lighting about?" parties. Michael Muhammad and others "I saw men of 6-foot stature, 260 are calling on Mayor Marion Barry INIERNA110NAL Research syinposiuni pounds, pick up a young lady ... and Chief of Metropolitan Police maybe 95, 100 pounds, maybe 5 Larry Soulsby to investigate this ~ATO expansion is feet tall, wrestle [Harper] to the incident and to hold all participat ground and hit her repeatedly with ing officers accountable for their suspicious to einbraces undergrads their hands and clubs," said Dar actions. critics. nese Daniels, a junior. Rodney Ward, co-owner of the 1\vo other Howard students, fresh cafe, said he was "appalled at 1he the symposium, such as "Does she each participant received a man Alturrick Kenney and Marcus A7. By Shanlkka Wagner have to have it?" by Clarissa certificate for panicipation. Two incident" and agreed with Muham Davis, were arrested in connection mad when saying the police did not Hilltop Staff Writer Cummings, who is currenlly in the students from each division with the incident, but were released Graduate School of received awards for their research. uphold the law. after being given a citation and pay "We could see cops, policemen, TEMPO This year, the Grndua1e Communications. Cummings First place winners received ing a fine because they are minors. Slaned her presentation with the plaques and $200; second place going around high-fi vi ng each Black women still Symposium added a younger The defendants, who were threat other, beating their chests, talking element to the day's events by description of 1be old Mammy in winners received SIOO. ened with felonies, including incit• the movie industry and ended with ''That·snot pocket change either," about what happened as if it was compete with each allowing undergraduates to ing a riot, assaulting a police offi some type of game." Ward said. participate. her feelings toward Spike Lee's film said Kelechi Egwim, who is cer and behaving in a disorderly other, experts say. "She's Gotta Have II." working on a Ph.D. in chemistry. Angela McMillan said she was The symposium, which 100k place manner, were arraigned on Friday accosted during the incident. Wednesday in the Blackburn This year's symposium also Marva Coarley, an award winner Bl. for charges of simple assault, a mis "l\vo or three cops picked me up Ce nter, was divided into four stressed the inclusion of for Social Science, said the demeanor. undergraduates. who presented symposium should have been and threw me outside. He took the sections: Aris and Humanities; Five of the six defendants were cuffs oul and [began 10) put them on Social Sciences; Engineering and reports ofresearch activities in their advertised belier. taken to D.C. General Hospital al my hand until some other brothers PULSE Physical Science; and Biological fields. ''Tickets for the banq11et should 12:30 a.m. Friday after being Lyndrey Niles, a faculty member have been given 10 grad students to pulled me back," she said. HU alumna 1racey and Life. processed a1 the Metropolitan Third ·•1 was trying to calm Alturrick Physical scientist Dr. Brenda in the School of Communication~ ha,•e a belier turnout," she said. District Headquarters on V Street. and chairman of the event, was But Mohamed Fofana, an HU down and [a police officer] started Lee makes debut Swann Holmes, the keynote "An officer grabbed me by the choking me," Brian Livingston pleased with the undergraduates' graduate, said he was pleased with speaker and a Howard alumna, shirt, and I grabbed his arms," Ken said. "I asked, 'I was trying to calm with new album. performances. the large number of participants at highlighted the imponance of ney said. him down; why were you choking ''This serves as a practice session this year's symposium. Fofana B2. research and giving back to the David Muhammad, a former me?' He said. 'Because you were community. for the future convention and participated in the symposium in Howard student and minister of the conference activities," Niles said. 1995 and 1996. holding him, you need to let him "To live, love and leave a legacy, Nation oflslam's Campus Mosque, go.' I said 'Why? So you can shoot ·•and hopefully encourages the "I feel that this event is a I hope Howard will do 1ha1," was presem at the scene of the inci him?"' WEEKENDER increase of both faculty as well as contribution 10 the improvement of Holmes said. dent. He was attending a meeting of The officer reportedly replied, students." At the awards ceremony academic research at Howard," This week's spot- Various other topics were Howard Students United for Black "I'll shoot you." discussed during the sessions of portion of 1he symposium. Fofana said. t is on Blues Alley. Education. a group that formed Please see ARREST, A3. B3. Sudanese ambassador dismisses slavery allegations HEALTH Muhammad said. rights organizations have called slavery on In 1989, the country reportedly had five By Bishop Chui Speaking at the International Affairs Cen warring tribes who, when fighting over ca1- universities and three colleges. but since & Hilltop Staff Writer ter, Muhammad called the allegations a plan 1le, land and water supply, kidnap rival tribes beginning its education campaign, it has FITNESS 10 abort the Islamic revival in Sudan. members and loot villages that have defeat Mahdi Ibrahim Muhammad, Sudanese According 10 Muhammad, the U.S. Stale ed in battle. increased that number to 25, Muhammad Fast-food fanatics ambassador 10 1he United States, recently Deparlment is aware. through its own inves 'When these conflicts happen usually 1.he said. get useful denied claims that Sudan practices modern tigation, that slavery is 001 practiced in big [chiefs] of the neighboring tribes come day slavery. Sudan. in to mediate," Muhammad said. "When there is conOict there are always information. "There is no sense of slavery," Muhammad The information, in fact. is printed in a The government of Sudan established a problems," Muhammad said. BS. said at a forum sponsored by the Howard human rights report. commiuec 10 investigate slavery aod disap Is lamic Chaplain tilled ·"Africa, Con0ic1 and "Sudanese laws prohibit forced or compul pearances in the Nuba mountains in response "We have started this project that will lead Resolution." sory labor, and there was no evidence of 10 a resolu1.ion passed by the 1995 United to an agreement of policies or referendum, He called the allegations a big insult con organized or officially sanctioned slavery," Nations General Assembly.