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Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1970-80 The iH lltop Digital Archive 10-27-1978 The iH lltop 10-27-1978 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_197080 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 10-27-1978" (1978). The Hilltop: 1970-80. 222. http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_197080/222 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]. The Voice Of "It is better to protest The • than to accept Howard injustice" Community - Rosa Parks 1963 VOL. 61 N(). ~ GSA uestions Howard's ·image upon which we can base a part· By Brigette Rouson nership''--a proposed informal Hilltop Staffwrite1 coalition of students. faculty and administrators_ ~ This group, he said, would work to The Graduate Student Assembly strengthen graduate programs where (CSA) put imagemakers on trial last necessary. But more importantly, it week at a forum in the School of would serve to give a full picture of the Human Ecology living room . University to people within and ''One of our problems is that we're outside of Howard. · people at Howard University so bu sy ''When the partnership is not there, blaspheming ourselves," sa i d the image of the University goes Graduate School Dean Edward down." said Obayuwana. ''Students, Student Joel Reiley was wounded while jogging through Malcolm X Park. Harry Haywood , ex- Communist Party member. Hawthorne, one of two principal when they get through here ... if they speakers for the event. ''We sit around think they did not get the proper all day talking about what's wrong, assistance, they go away from here instead of saying what's going on of thinking they graduated in spite of Soft Words of an !importance] '' Howard '' Qbayuwana, a medical student, said Howar Hawthorne said rnost people ask. as Stu ent did the GSA by hold ing the evenf when he graduates. ''1 will carry with ··what can we do to improve the image me a part of Howard, and I will leave 0 Old War_rior of Howard?' '' Instead, said the dean. Howard a part of me ,. • re1attve1y ddhere to a common By Kervin Simms people in the University should ask. ''You see what we're getting at ?'' he biological makeup." ''What can we do to present the proper asked the audience enthusiastically 1n Park Hilltop St~flwriter Shot The next aspect of the lec ture gave a image of Howard?'' ''We have some problems here. but hi storical account and analysis of Paul Hathaway, directo r o f we have a lot of strength," satd School Harry Haywood. considered by certain key figures and movements ankle. University Relations, al so keynoted the oi Soc ial Work Dean Jay Chunn . " I By Olivia Winslow Reiley said Banks informed the many to be the leading political which' manifested 1n the Black com program Hathaway complained that would suggest that we continue this Hilltop St~ffwriter Embassy pqlice, and he was im strategist in the 1930s and 40s was the munity the news media tends to publ ic.i ze type of dialogue (on) the issues that Joel Reiley, a student of Howard mediately taken to Howard Univers1tv guest speaker In the lecture ser ies ''The Peop!e such as E Franklin Fra zier. negative aspects of the Universi ty dffect us '' University _ was shot Culture of Social Struggle," Monday at Alain Locke. W.E.B Ol1bo1 s. .and Hospital for treatment. Howard, he said. cte serves ·· an image Bill Keene . executive assistant to the while jogging through Malcolm X Park Reiley had been sh'O( with a the School of Soci a! Work ,'v\arc us Carvev were analyzed 38 Haywood's topic was '' The Black t·hat is true, that 1s forthright, of an Vtce Pres ident for Student Affairs. said last Saturday morning. according to caliber pistol. according to Bul lock Haywood said, '' I wa s puzzled by the inst itution that ha s so mething to sa y the dialogue should extend to un HUSA representative Ste.ve Bullock. Johnson said that there were no liberation Movement and the National C arvey M ovement and came up with Question: An Historical Accounting '' that has son1ething to do ., dergraduates as well. Detective Micheal Johnson from the suspects, as yet, in the 1nc1 dent. but the conclusion that it had a defeatis,t ''Public relations is everybody's Forum participants si ngled out a Third District Precinct confi'rmed the that there was a composi te, sketch From the inception o f the discu ss io n, attitude '' Accord ing to Haywood the job," said Hathaway ·· so I 1nv1te you lack of pride as one of the foremost report that Joel Reiley, a resident of who has not been identified Haywood's soft, retiring voice assess ed struggle wa s not esc aping to Afric a but to criticize. to contribute to remain obstacles to proper imagemaking, but Meridian Hill Dormitory. was an in Reiley said that he had no the Blac k Liberatio n Movement today wa s right here in the United States. more vigilant of the fac ts, the ac they were equatlv critical of nt>ws nocent by stander who was shot as a description of the man who was doing as reflection o f what is goi ng on in the In 1923, Haywood joined the young tivities, the people that will make this media's ro le result of an argument between three the shooting, only that he saw ·a Third World. Haywood a na lyzed case communist league but wa sn't satisfied institution more meaningful from a ''The annoying part," said one unidentitied men. bunch of people coming my way ·· situations such as the forn1at ion of the with the communist party and the [media) standpoint '' graduate student, is that ''rather than Reiley, a freshman, said he and his The investigating officer, Detective United Black Front in Brooklyn, the inadequate role it played in aiding the The forum. which la sted two hou rs simply presenting the news, l think jogging companion Richard Banks Kelleher of the Park Police. could not upsurge against (the KKK ) in Decador. Bla ck struggle in the U.S. Dissatisfied, or more and a1tra.cted perha ps 15 Howard is often given that kind of were in the park, and then they saw be reached for comment Alabama and Toupalo, Mississippi Haywood introduced '' the Black people. was accord ing to CS A editoria l comment'' that le'O area news many people running toward them. The investigating officer. Detec tive comarping them with si mi lar events in national question and the struggle to Coordinator Alphonsus O bayuwa11a repo rts a t alleged NCAA violations by He said, ''We heard one shot and Kelleher of the Park Police. Lou ld not Third World countries upho ld the right of se lf determination the first 1n a series of d i dlogu e~ c:SA Howard to con clude that post-season then hit the ground_ Reiley thought he be reached for comment Haywood also spoke on the in the Black Belt'' as a theme to the would sponsoi ''We will visi t every Jnd telev1s 1on sus1lens1on were light. was first shot in one ot his ankles. Reiley, sa id that he fee ls fine, ~ 1 ut ne legitimacy of Blacks in the United Comrnl1nist Party Its adoption took school, every dean.' said tl1 e coor While he was still on the ground. He added that he stilt feels "slig ht pa1r1 ' 111 States as an opµressed nat1or1 ''Bla cks place bv th e Co1111nuni.st International !:lee GSA, page 7 are united by a common ·origin, we dinatot '' I vvant tt) start a foundatio r1 said he was then shot 1n the other one of his ankles. See Haywood page 7 have a national culture. and we ' ' . • • • • ' Sekou Toure Turns To The West ' • France and ne ighborir1g African capital of Conakry and Kankan. French Sunni Khalid By nations, Gu inea ha s stood firm 1n its Prime Minister Valery Ciscard Hilltop St~flwriter ' political stance for all of its 20 years d'Estaing is scheduled to visit Guinea • •Jnder Toure early next year. Jn regards to relations between lt appears that Guinea. like many • However, tne African continent has • other African nations, is ta king si.nilar always been the scene of perpetual neighboring African states. Toure also ,• appears to be leading Guinea out of its • steps to renew formal " economic change, es pecially since the era of -• relations with Fran ce, whic h have independence The winds of change self-imposed isolation from its French manipulated neighbors of Senegal and ••c brought out a strange sequence of appear to be making their mark in a c events that have raised suspicions number of African nations, which not Ivory Coast > Earlier this year. Toure traveled to .. among many prominent leaders in long ago, attempted to follow the path ' •0 Africa. of Toure 's Guinea. ,\1onrovia. Liberia, where he met with "> The Congo-Brazzaville. which left President Houphouet-Boigny of the 0 Ivory Coast, and President )enghor of 0 In 1958, Guinean President Sekou the French Commonwealth under 0 Toure announced that the Guinean similar circumsntances as that of Senegal, where the three agreed to -& people ''preferred the poverty of Guinea.