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• DEDICATED TO THE BLACK FACTS - FOR ONCE AFRICAN PEOPLE KNOW • THE TR UTH THEY Will FIND THEIR WAY TO FREEDOM. HOWARD UNIVERSITY • STUDENT NEWSPAPER ..
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natural scie nces saying, "we political si tuations. "we 111ust 1 be about something should bf about eq uipping " T here is nothing that we do m~He' Utah getting high ; Vl' ourselves with altitudes and which does not involve politics," sh buld bf educating o~ rseh .:s , skills with which we can help the said Hall , " and therefore HUSA and liberating o urselves." Black comn1unities from which politics for 19.71 -72 · must be Fo ll o wing the addresses of we come. " Black. Our politicul ideology the II USA executives, Raymond • He closed by declaring to the must be. about the mind." J ohnso1i senator · from the gathering "we will make th.is a Then addressing the freshmen School of Liberal Arts, spoke on progressive and active year" and directly the junior from behalf of the student then listed some of BUSA 's Alabama declared, "the campus • governn1ent senate. . planned . programs. which is in a mess and if 'we (student "l1'reshn1en, you are Just what included a free breakfast government) fail toi move, you we need to get Howard going program, an adult education have the right to mo1~ fol , over, agai~, " said Johnson. He then program, a used-clothing drive, or above us." " But °give us a adqt q, " If Howard UO:iversity __.. and continuation of the D.C. chance," he immediately added, ge~s 'itself together, _then the Project's South-East project and "because we are ready." Black world can get itself Photo Six rented an efficiency ~~;;:;,!g Community intern program. Ron Hayes, treasurer of (Continued on page 4/ I
• The HILL TOP Fri., September 17, 1971 ' Page 2 • • _NeW hospital for H.U. " ast .. year 1n rev.1ew •
by Robett "The Black" Taylor He had promised to keep in This fact was dramatically by Phil Anglade \ · The J\owa rd University The ----1970-71 Howard close touch with the student shown wh en the student .. academic year began calmly body and was given his first gove~nment senate saw fit to Gro undbreaking cere monies Hospital wUI be a seven story, ! enough. However, it was a opportunity in last September freeze further executive for the proposed Howard 500 bed, 632,707 sq uare-foot b eg inning which mere ly when Howard students allegedly spending of the $300,000 University . Hospital were held edifice with a two story glass fo reshadowed controversies, parti c ipated 1n racial budget, charging "squanderin'g early this month and were pedestrian bridge connecting the ego-trips, rip-offs and credibility disturbances in the 14th Street of monies, · no report of highlighted ·by the visits of hospital to the Colleges of gaps. The year vividly showed area of Washington. Cheek and transactions, and short changing Washington Mayor Walter E.t- Medicine and Dentistry. the general lack of togetherness Harris addressed students at of the senate by various Washington, Secretary of th~ Admissions, information, and direction of the Howard Meridian Hill, warning them co mmittees and student Departm.e nt of H ealth, ou t patient c linics and University Student Assoc iati o n~ "not to throw a bottle and invite councils." The central issue Education and Welfare Eliott laboratories all will be locat ed a bullet." seems ·to have been the 'priority ( HUSA). Howard's student • \ovcrn 1nent began the year an1id Along with the political and given to the D. C. Project by the a myriad of hopes, accusations · administra tive activities of Harris administration. and rumors, all largely predicted Howard's two presidents, other The next week , following an upon a $300,000 budget ' (the important developments were e1notional pl~ by Harris, the largest in Howard history and , taking place on ca mp us. There budget was unfrozen, but the reportedly, the second largest in existed a rather serio us housing scars of controversy and conflict the nation). · problem, the supply of financial remained. Th en ll USA President aid wa s woefully below the Then in its weekly Monday Michael Harris, interviewed for demand, and the freshman class meeting on October I 9, the fi rsl issue o f last year's was labeled "tired." A label that, HUSA Senate passed two HILL TOl> , declare d that if political activity 1s the seemingly harmless resolutions 1970-71 ' would be a good year criterion, proved to be no that were to send shock 'waves of I with the i"mpli men talion of his understatement. con troversy throughout the ambitious f>ut ill-fated $15.0,000 The lack of political activity , campus for the ramainder of the D.C. Project as the major HUSA however, could not be blamed year. HUSA voted unanimously on a lack of inspirational to support the attempt of the goal , tp take Howard from its 1 ebony ' tower into the Black speakers. For, during the first BlaA.k Pan_ther Party to use ' comn1unily. few weeks of school last year, facilities at Howard University But whil e student the student body heard the for their Revolutionary rhetoric not only of student Constitutional C,dnvention and government was making a rather . -· dubious start m last year's leaders and adrninistrators but granted the H omeco1ning involve men l race, the president also of such personalities as Dick Committee authority to sponsor of Howard, J an1es E. Cheek, Gregory, Doug Moore, Black a pre-dawn Rock Concert in the arrived on the track with an aura Muslim Minister Louis Farakhan Men's Gymnasiun1. and representatives of the Black. The resolution to support the of good feeling between the Anglade Photo student body and himself. And, Panther Party. Panthers resulted 1n a bitter But wh en the euphoria by his deeds and prornises, he• ideaological and verbal split on the. gro und level. The second. procla i nlecl hi mself a man of created by eloquent calls for bet,veen the Panthers on one Richardson , and Board of floor will b e d e voted to unity of purpose and direction act ion who wottld )ead Howard side and the student government Tru s t ees C h airman Asa administrative offices, a in a new direction in the decade had ceased, the problems of and administration on the other Spaulding. cafeteria, and an outdoor terrace (Continued o n page 16) of the seventies.'' Howard remained. Howard President James E. for patients and sta ff. The C h eek presided o ver the remaining five floors are fo r - ceremonies for the esti1nated patients' rooms and research • • ' / $42 million complex, which is facil ities. scheduled for completion by The hospital complex will be Larld for animal res ear 1975. erected between Fifth. Streett and' H oward University has cannot be obtained from animals quality for medical research and .. acquired I 08 acres of land in of poor quality, it is necessary teaching programs and will Prince George's County for· its for Howard University to increase the University's ' research and education programs develop a program of excellence graduate program flexibility in Black bid ·deriied in the biomedical sciences that ·in laboratory animal care and such areas as genetics, behavior, by Robert "The Black" Taylor medicine as it uses the Beltsville nutrition, and pathology to . .. require animals, Dr. James E. Angered because the nearly facility to produce select species, unlimited studies involving C heek , University President, $40 million contract to build the -- i s o I a t e a n d q u a r a l1 t i n e biological systems. announced recently. proposed Howard University The acreage, 17 miles fro 111 _n_ewly-produced animals and '' Howard Univ ersi ty hospital was awarded to a white maintain animals on long-term maintains five different animal the University ca mpus, is ·in the co mpany , a local Bla c k studies." facilities o n its northwest n ortheast section of the co n tractor is considering Agricultural Research Center at In order that the University Washington campus and only ' can realize a significant degree of one, the College of Medicine, is• laun ching a campaign to Beltsville. It has been deeded to publicize the unfair treatment efficiency at the Beltsville capable of handling aii\mals the Universityst by the U.S. given Blacks in the construction operation, Dr. Cheek said that largei: than rodents," Dr. Cheek Government under th e field. provisions of the Federal the necessary laboratories and said. "Large animals are required supportive services will be for select heart and blood vessel R obert Garn bet, a vice Property and Administrative president of C&C Contractors, - ---G111nbe/ Services Act of 1949, which developed at the new site. studies, for skin diseases a nd Facilities being planned for arthritic studies and for organ ~ ha rge ~ in a recen.t HI LLTOP of.i,ie(° they have stated that the allows the disposal of Federal 1nte rv1ew that hlS company £ospital will not officially surplus property for educational the properly include a variety of transplantation .and equilibrium submitted the lowest bid for t e 'becon1e t properly of Howard purposes. housing provisions, varying from studies. Our faculty and students o p:,e n p c n s t o specifi c travel to Tuskegee l nstitute in b.uilding o f t~e federally / . ty until after it has been Th ere arc four small financed ·hos pital but was con1plc ietr . structures and a well on the. pattoge n- frce e nviro nments. Alabama for resea rch projects 1 Pastrre areas will be individually requ1nng large ani1nals. The neverthtjless de nied t_he c·cm.tracJt • , Garnbel, 1too, stopped short / ' property, which had been used because of wntte n an of charging the University with / .. as a research facility by the fen ted and overall security Anin1al Center at Beltsville will fen Qing will be instplled al the enable us to develop a scientific ur1writt"l::11 1'61.icies that anything, saying that he realized military. discriminate against small Black Howard's positio n. " Our teaching and research site. Eventually, the•University's center of the highest quality and · research and educational capability." contractors. He stated that one of his programs 1n the Colleges of He asserted that his major company's major reasons for Medicine and Denti'stry and the r esources at the Beltsville Howard's College of Medicine location will accom1nodate short animal section, expanded and gripe was that "The GSA seeking the contract was not to Departm e nt s of H ome ( G e n e r a I S e r v i c es put Howard on the spot , but to Economics; Zoology and courses, symposia , graduate and improved by University and post-doctoral training. National Institutes of Health Ad ministration) wo uld come keep the n ow of money within Psychology require animals of into a Black community. at a the Black community "so that defined quality 1n terms of Animals to be housed at the grant funds, was among the first site will include dogs, ca ts, 10 such facilities in the country Black university' to build a the brothers can get a share." g e n et i c c h a r a c t e r is t i cs, hospital and not give brothers He admitted, however, " I envi r onn1e ntal e xposure, rabbits, guinea pigs, special to be accredited by the s trains of rode)ltS. monkeys, American Association for the anyofthe work." . do n ' t think w e (C&C nutritional state and health Ground breaking ceremonies Contractors) have handled a status," Dr. Cheek explained. sheep, swine, calves, and horses. AcGredi~t-io.n ·or Laboratory The animals will be of required Anin;aK'are for the hospital, which is construction contract before." "Because valid scientific data scheduled to be completed by But the Black contractor , 1975 , were held ea rly this who is also a minister, Security initiates parkillg rules month and were attended by immediately added that he kne w D.C. Mayor Walter Washington; (Continued o n page) 6) copies will also be displpyed in and Administrators who are Secretary of Healt.h , Education, A · new traffic and · parking other pro minent places for your authorized to allot parking and Welfare Elliot Richardson; . WANTED • program to become effective on . convenience. spaces. Chairman nf the Howard Board I October 1, 1971, has been These regulations are also Initially, Security Officers of Trustcv,. Asa Spaulding and Attractive Waitriesses ' implemented. being distributed to Faculty and will place warning notices on other dig.r 1taries. Ap'ply in person vehicles parked in violation of Students, Faculty and Staff Staff. Presid ·nt James E. Cheek .Between 2 and 5 p.m. Daily at will be required to register their Re.gistration of all vehicles regulations. The warning will put presided )Ver the ceremonies. vehicles (including motorcycles will be accomplished during the all concerned on notice that Whe:, contact ed by student EMERSON$ l TD. and scooters) annually. regular registration period for violators of traffic and parking govern 1 1ent officials concerning RESTAURANT ~ A brochure of the students and within the first 72 regulations will soon be given Ga m l· ~ l's c harge , President 1511 K St., N.W..... 659-8170 University's Traffic and Parking h o urs of employment for actual tickets. Chee~ reportedly responded that Wildwood Shopping Center ... Regulation, adopted on January Faculty and Staff. Tickets will require alleged the l niversity had nothing to do 27, ' 197 l , has been published Registration alone does not offenders who contest traffic w i t 1 the a war ding of the ...... 530-5300 and copies will be available in give the registrant authority to penalties or fail to pay filltls to C\Jr tract. The decision rested 7820 Eastern Avenue ...... the lobby of the Administration pa·rk on campus. Pa rking permits appear before the University er .irely with the GSA. As a ...... 726-7300 . regis~ration must be obtained through Deans Traffic Court. r .at ter closed to the president's Building during and .. J •
Fri., September 17, 1971 The HILL TOP Page 3 • Black Communications Society The:,Ml-RDER of Ge(>rge Jacks<)n by Victor McKoy · begins at Howard · Soledad Brother George Davis and the Black Panther by Frances Christian Jackson, Field Marshall of the Party championed his cause after the largest and m ost , have been made for a three Black Panther Party, is dead, he, J ohn Clutchette and Fleeta Coinciding with the I opening of a School of prestigious representation 'of : day First Annual Convention murdered by the guards of San Drumgo were accused of killing ~ Communications this Blacks in the fields of \ to be held February I I , l 2, Quentin prison in an alleged a guard at Soledad State Prison. C o rrPm u n i ca t i o n . A ct iv e l l 3, I 972 here in Washington. escape attempt. His death will Thus, the Soledad Brothers came semester, the newly founded I National Bla c k membership in NBCS will be ! Arrangen1ents have been made probably mean another postei;, a to be. Brother George was also I Co1nrnunications Society has open to any member of the ! to accommodate new button, and maybe a recogniz~ as an author after his J been organized by study body or Blac~ I approximately 500 people. bumper sticker, but his life and letters were pubJisheg' in the communications students of professional interested in the I Those invited will include death have taught u,s something. book, Soledad Brother. I Iowa rd University. field of communication. l professional communication Hopcfully, the discussion of· Their case led to the August The NBCS has been Approved by Dr. Carl 1nembers, ambassadors from the many inconsistencies of the 7, 1970, shootout at the Marin • structured to include the Anderson, Vice President of the African embassy, two whole affair will afford some County courthouse in w,hich broad cross-section of Black Student Affairs, this May the delegates fron1 each of the illumination. George's brother Jon a than, two people throughout the · pioneering Howard Chapter of 115 Black schools, 79 white The alleged escape attempt in convicts, and a judge were killed. Pan-African wotld. NBCS has the National Bta ck schools having significant which Jackson, three white Thus, through his own actions designed a format which will Co1nmunication Society has Black enrollment, and \Vest guards and two other inmates and many of the events that provide communication links twenty six charter men1bers Indian and African delegates. died, occurred on the afternoon surrounded the case, George a type of network system though most initial The goals. for' the of Saturday, August 21, 1971. Jackson had begun to focus fostering better means of organization was under the convention vary. Of primary Prison officials contend that international attention on the communication between all codirection of three seniors importance will be the Jackson tried to escape after hostile and repressive conditions predominately Black n1ajoring in journalism Robert granting of co~llege and rcceivi ng a gun from his lawyer, in the California penal systen1. institutio'ns in Jhis country. N. Taylo r the I 971-72 Editor professional charters, the Stephen Bingha nL while institutions with a in' Chief of the Hilltop, · Mrs. election of national officers This gun is reported to have significant number of Black Clara McLaughlin, 1:-.ditor in and the adoption of a national been "concealed in Jackson's students and universilieis in Chief of the 72 Bison C'an1pus constituti~n. Workshops will Afro-style hairdo" and then later - the wost ln
., Sept. 18, birthday of Pan African Scholar
Tomorrow we celebrate the While working on his doctoral Six years after the masses of Her present " Prime Minister," Compiled by Dabu Gizenga birthday of the most prolific and degree in philosophy, he taught Ghanaian people re-established Pig-Busia, dreams about a profound Pan-Africariist theorist elementary Greek} Black history their independence, two thirds dialogue 'with the devil in rus hope All people of African descent, . . ~ ~ and practicionist on this planet. and philosophy at·the University of the motherland was 'free. In of preventing a catastrophe (for whether they live in North or Osagyefo (the redeemer) Dr. of Pennsylvania to his always the remaining colonial nations, white settlers) in·, Southern South America, the Caribbean, Kwame Nkrumah, first and , in a packed to capacity classes. In third liberation movements were Africa. Meanwhile he is busy or in any other part of the real sense, the only President of 194 5, he was honored by the organizing armed r.esistance to welcoming British troops (600 world, are Africans and belong the Republic of Ghana, was borh students of U.P., who voted him free the land. Dig?. and setting up military to the African nation. in the village of Nkroful in the most outstanding professor Thr ough Nkrumah's outposts on the roads Osagyefo - Class Struggle in Africa Nzima, land in the southwestern on that ca mp us. Hoping to finish economic programs, Ghana laid built to serve the people, the portion of what the white man research for his doctoral thesis the foundation for an nation, and the unified Africa lt must be understood that out of ignorance ·called the on logical positivism, he left industrialized socialist state. that must be. He occasionally liberation movements in Africa , "Gold Coast." America in 1945 to attend the Nkrumah built cities · and p dlitically masturbates about the struggJe of Black power in Nkrumah was raised in a very London School of Economics. harbors, expanded the railraods, "the mess Nkrumah left me" America or in any other· part of large, polygamous family of 14 I ,-"J;';'; and h ow wonderful the world, can onJy find brothers and sisters. By the age " democracy" is working in the consummation in the political of 17, Nkrumah was not only ,. .~1' ~. . .~1.·~ ~ new Ghana. In truth, Ghana is unification of Africa, the home teaching in elementary school .t. '<. ,,. ' again the Gold Coast and a' of the Black man and peorle of but attending Prince of Wales second revolution will be needed African descent throughout the College as well. It was in this, his fl· to rid the country of these new world. first, college that he received his colonialistr n black skin. - Spectre of Black Power introduction to Africa n natio'nalisn1 via the teachings of Since the tragedy, Nkrumah The close links forged between Dr. Kwe.gyir Aggr'1:y, then· editor has stayed in Guinea where he is Africans a,nd peoples of African of the African ftlorning Post, Co-President, with Sekou Toure, descent over half a century of future President of Nigeria ; over the republit. He has common struggle continue to N namdi Azikiwe; and Sierra analyzed his mistakes, speeded inspire and strengthen us. For, Leone's Walla ce Johns.on, tlw up his writing (two boo~s this although the outward forms of first labor organizer in West year alone. My Revolutionary our struggJe may t hange, it Africa. His unqucnching thirst Path and a second on Rhodesia remains in essence the same, a for knowledge led him lo and settler politics), undergone fight ' to the death against America and to Lin coln military training in various types oppression, racism and •. University where he hasseled at of rural and urban guerilla . exploitation. everything from dishwashing to warfare, and generally prepared .;. Spectre of Black Power messroom waiting to raise funds for the new phase of the for his B.A., which he finally Pan-African Revolution. The Military strategy presupposes earned in economics and struggJe to the death against political aims. All military Osagyefo, Dr. Kwa1ne Nknunah sociology in 1939. ii m per i a I ism, neo-colonialism, problems are political, and all Young Nkrurnah joined the • racism, and capitalism; and for political problems arc economic, Phi Beta i,.Sigma fraternity and There he met Professor Laski, helped diversify Ghana's the struggJe for socialism and the - Revolutionary Warfdrc became a Freemason of the who further encouraged him to agriculture, and built a dam on ' political unificatjon of the Thirty Second Degree. If get into a political-economic and the Volta River that created the African continent and people of Countrymen: Africa is not Nkrumah then had been a law thing. largest artificial freshwater lake African descent throughout the dismayed by the events which · ~tud ent at Howard today, you'd Nkru1nah decided to stop his on the face of this planet. world. have taken place in Ghana and -never see him socializing at the academic research for his Ph.D., Nkrumah ·was a nation builder. elsewhere in 6ur continent. Whlit Quad or partying every chance which in later years he wouH.I Tw o months before this means is that Africa is ripe he could get. You'd probably receive, honorarily, from neo-colonial, Western-backed Understanding ours is a long for a new revolution - an armed find him in the Moreland Room, Lincoln University , to dedicate puppet Colonel Ankrah toppled generational struggle that revolution. A new phase of tlfe steadily studying. but you better himself totally to the struggle of Osagyefo's progressive d emands clear concise and African ~evo lution has been not disturb him for, you sec, African people for nationhood. government, Nkrumah laid the analytical thinking as well as reached .. /fhis revolution must Nkrun1ah believed," Unless I was He joined the West African foundation for an atomic reactor physical and mental fitness, overcome and triumph over busy pretty well the whole of Student's Union, organized the that, like the rest of the Nkrumah spends 40 days and imperialism , racialism and the 24 hours of each day I was P an-African Students progressive government's plans, nights every year alone, fasting, neo-colon ialism. It must finaUy wasting n1y ti me.. l spent my Association in the Americas and, was immediately cancelled. meditating, toughening his body usher in the total em~ncipation spare rr1oments reading every with Howard graduate George In the five years since the ahd spirit fol the armed phase of and the political unification of the Pan-Afr\can Revolution. This book I could lay my hands on." Padmore, organized the Fifth reactionary clique forced its • our continent. Africa must be After graduating with a 4.0 Pan·Africanist Congress chaired control over the people of may be one of the reasons free; Africa must be united. . from Lincoln Theological by W.E.B. Dubois. Ghana, her economic, political Osagyefo is able to look and act - Voice from Con11kry Seminary, he continued his In 1947, Nkrumah returned to and cultural progress has Hke a man of 30, although studies, this tin1c in phiJosophy the Motherland; by 1957, Ghana stagnated. The white boy is back tomorrow' is his 62nd birthday. was free and had become the with a coppertone tan' foreign By . t,he grace of God; and education at the University ,. of Pennsylvania for his masters focal point of Pan-African "aid," soul to soul and, of Osagyefo live forever! Ahti-Nkrumah in education, which he received nationalist and revolutionary course, control over Ghana's with high honors in 1942. movcn1ents on the Continent. political and economic life. DABU GIZENGA bill passed 1 by Emmanuel J . Muganda. East to West Africa HighWay H~SA meets • An urgent bill outlawing the revival in any form of former Reprinted from "The Sunday News Tanzania" frosh President of Ghana Kwame 1 I I • Nkrun1ah's Convention People's ~ (Co ntinued f'ron1 page I) Soon. there will be a Trans Very importantly. the T rans- ween Nigeria and 1he countries Party (C'PP) has been passed by A frican Highway-7.059 African High\\. a}' will join at 10 1he nonh and nonheast. And together." the Ghanian Parliament. kilometres or abl)Ut 4.412 miles Kano with both the trans-West in terms of intra-African tr'ade. After all the addresses had In an en1otional, I 6-hour debat e, government and long. with modernised standar Africa'n network, extending an aspec1 of the st ragey for 1he been given, the floor was thrown opposition rnembers were said to •dizc pavements, shoulders. from Nnuakcho11 (Mauritania) l 970's, Nigeria and the Central open for question from the curves and bridges--traversing 10 Foti Lamy (Chad), various and East African countries will f rcsh 1nen, most of whith have argued fiercely over the legality of the bill, which was, the heart of Africa. and linking portions of which have already find it more profi1able to ex Ct'ntcred around financial aid - however, approved by 92 votes its East and West coasts, from been studied and submitted to change goods overland than by or more accurately the lack of it Mombasa, in Kenya, through aid and finance agencies for sea. and criticism for Howard's lack to I 6. Under the bill, any person ' Uganda, Democratic Republic consideration, and with the of organizational efficiency. who cam paigns for th e and Cameroon. to Lagos, Trans-Saharan Road, whose The Trans-African H ighway restoration of Dr. Nkrumah or Nigeria. prefeasibility study has been However, Charles "Gay pop" passes through four of the six his party will face a minimum The major role of the High completed under the auspicies White, freshman counselor, capital cities: Nairobo, Ke nya, five-year jail sentence. It will way will be to ,stimulate of the United Nations Develo p raised a question concerning Kampala, Uganda.,Bangui. Cen also be illegal to carry CPP economic activity in the region, ment Programme (UNDP(. HUSA setting for itself a . tral African Republic and symbols and banners or to and promote better relatio ns, deadline by which it woula Lagos, Nigeria, In Nigeria, it publically display photographs economic co-operation, intra. pledge to have acted upon will also pass through Kano, 1he of the ex-president, who lias African the trade and tourism, The project wi II help, getting freshmen into classes to international cross-roads ~ity been living in Guinea since his Economic Comn1ission on possibly. not only to increase which they had been denied and Ibadan. claimed to be ?rte overthrow in a 1966 coup. Africa. (ECA) has noted. It will the volume of trade between entrance. Daly explained that largest ci1y in Black Africa. Meanwhile, news dispatche.d also help the efforts to build Kenya and Uganda and student ,government had aldrady. by the Ghana News Agency in communications networ}
I Fri., September 17, 1971 The HlLL TOP Page 5 Join Operation 4Help · by Lillian Horton Selective Service Draft Laws I Do you believe th~t we can breakfast program. make it with help f rom our At Operation HJ:LP , many of The Selective Service Systen1 are 18 years old and only 20% expired on June 30, 197 1'. If friends? The Howard 'University the progr ams initialed and today clarified expected policy are 19 years of age or older. The Congress 'does not reinstate the Stu dent Association and the impl emented by conlmunity changes on undergraduate 18 year olds will receive their general induction authority, the United Planning Organization, groups will ·be on d isplay student deferinents. lottery nun1bers in 1972, and President could authorize the t he District's apti-poverty Sept ember 29 from 10 to four ip College studrnts who were they will not be subject to induction of those registrants agency, believe it a2d invite you the upper lobby and lower • enrolled full-time in the 1970-7·1 induction until 1973, when draft w ho ho 1 d or have h eld to join us at Operat;.on HE LP. I o u nge of the C r a mpton academic year will be eligible for calls should be low. T he 19 year peferments. In this unlikely The idea o f " helping folks" is A uditoriurp. Slide shows, student deferments in the a concept that is as timeless as . colorful and picfo r ia l o 1d fresh men received their event, Selective Service officials ' 1971-72 school year if they lottery numbers August 5, this believe that manpower history itself. 1]he giving of presentations, will show you continue to make satisffictory year, and will be subject to requirements of the Department ' energy, time, skill is intricately a where the programs are going,, progress in their progran1s of induction next year; at least one· of Defense probably could be part of our culture as Black what they are doing, and where study, Selective Service officials .,half should have high. ~ enough met by inducting those young people. In the face of limited you can fit in. You, individually, said. However, young men who lottery numbers to preclude men who have dropped resou r ces and under many and the various groups you , entered school for the first time their induction. Of those deferments recently because constraints, since the arrival of represent are invited to becorue this surnmer and those who remaining, approximately 50% they were graduated, dropped the first Africans, Black people acquainted o n a first-hand basis enroll as freshmen this fa!J will · will be disqualified on mental, out of school, or changed their found it imperative to help and ultin1ately involved with the • not qualify for student moral or physical grounds. This ·. occupations. then1selvcs in order to survive . agencies and organizations in our deferments if the pending means that a maximu1n of Currently, there are · Church activities, the community that are designed to • changes to the Selective Service 50.000 men will be directly approximately six million young underground railroad, the idea help end lasting poverty in our Act arc passed by Congress. The affected in 1972 by the student men with deferments under age of the extended family where city. I louse has completed action on deferment phaseout and one-half 35. Approxi mately 500,000 of friends and relatives would By giving of your free tim ~ lt\t bill and final Senate action is of t hes e , o r 2 5 , 0 00, will these normally lose their underla~e the care and and e n ergy, working a.nd e~pected this month. . probably not be inducted deferemnts during a I 2-h1onth develop1ne.h t of children and involving yourself directly in ~e Or. Curtis 6 W. Tarr, Selective because of enlistments in period. T he largest groups of elders in time of personal crisfs, issues that plague our urt:>an Service Director, said, "Few regular , reserve or National deferred men arc those who have are typical instances where Black areas, the community will not be incoming Freshnu:n students are Guard units, participation in received fatherhood , people dut of dedication and the on I y beneficiary. It jis likely to be inducted in the near commissioning progran1s or occupat i onal or student persona_1com mit ment have given without que~tion that by helpi~g fut ure because of the studen t because of procedural delays. defer men ts. of the11_1seh1es to help others. commun~ty people, he l p deferment phaseout. Of the The President's authority for More recent examples in cl ude then1selves, coll ege students and 1,034,000 incoming freshrnen ~ the · induction of all men under T here will be a meeting of the voluntr.ers involved in th e sit-ins .faculty w ill not only be serving males estimated by the Office of 35, except for those who have or National Black Comn1unications fron1 Jhe Carolinas to the West in a meaningful way, but will Education, approximately 80o/o Coast Black residents of public also be the recipients of relevant who have had deferments, Society on Mo nday, September 1 20, in the Hilltop O ffice at 7: 30 and privately owned housing learning experiences. Join us at .gets p. m. All members are asked to banding together to effect O peration HELP, Sep tern ber 29, Howard Board attend . cha1 ge in their living conditions, I 0 to f our, C r a m pton or the Panther Party's f_ree Auditorium lobby and louneP new:Chairman '
Washington, D.C.- Asa T. received the Freedom College of Medicine information • Spaulding, president of a Foundation's Exemplary Medal ' However,· -the Admissions business consultant firm in Award, the third time it has The . Ad m i ssions to present eight semester O ffice 'has counseled· aU Durham, N.C .. has been elected been awarded in 22 years and Committee of the College of hours in General Chemistry, 'pre m edical stude n ts t o Chairn1an of the Board of the students and faculty of t'.e Medicine has announced that Ge n eral Biology, Organic attem t to achieve the highest Trustees of Howard University. University of Michigan Grad•.ate the deadline for applications Chemi5try and Physics: T he .... possib e overall average on the Mr. Spaulding, president of School of Business awarded him t o the e n tering class of applicant's chances of MCA because of the stiff the Asa T . Spaulding. Consulting its Business Leadership A ward Sep t e n1ber 1 972 will be acceptance depend in large co m etition among and Advisory Services, a firm for I 971 . December 15, 197 1. n1casure on achieving above applicants. For exan1ple, the engaged in getting 1nore Negroes He is. serving his second . ter m A p p 1· i ca t i o n s w i 11 b e I ave rage grades 1n these College o f Medicine received into business, succeeds Scovel as a mernber of' the Durham processed,' through the / courses. mo re that 900 applications Richardson, J udge of the T hird County, N.C., Board of A n1e r ican Medical College( fron1 Black applicants alone Division of the U.S. Custon1s Commissioners. H e was a Application Service (AMCAS) The Ad 111issio n st:i • and , in determining which of Court in New York City, who primary winner in the Durham and application request cards Committ6e also noted that re s i g n c d as ('ha i r n1 an• of mayoralty election but was n1ay be obtained from tht relatively few students took two stud en ts with similar college gradrs should be I loward's Board of T rustees last defeated in the May general Office of the P ren1edic~l the Medica l Col l ege Novc1nbcr. election by a 1nargin of about Advisor or from the Dea1fs Admissions Test (MCA T) in admitted, the high MCA T Office in the Co!Jegc of may spell the differenc~ A retired president of North 1.200 votes. May. T he next MCAT will be Carolinu Mutual Life lnsuriince Elected as trustees of lloward Medicine, Howard University. given on October 16, 197 1, between · acceptance and Con1pany, Mr. Spaulding has University at the board's annual The Admissions Committee and the deadline for applying nonacceptance. Th e been a I rustec of Howard meeting d,uring t·om mencement has noticed the unfortunate is Septernber 29, 1971. The Admissions Committee has Univcr!.ity since 1961 . I le served week were: tendency of many students to MCA T includes four subtests: announced that most as vic.:e chairman of thl' board's Henry \Vyat t, of Covington. postpone completion of Verbal Ability, Quantitative interviews for \Vash1ngton finance committee and as a Ga., a junior in the College of\ applications until the deadline Ahility. General Information students will he held during n1 c m b e r o f t h e b u d g e t Medicine: Martin F . Bolton, of date and urges that and Science. The Quantitative the Christmas break and that committee and the non1inations Hampton·, Vu., a Junior in the applications be con1plcted as Ability and Science Sections interviews for ll owarcl l)nivt•rsity stu dent~ from out and degrees committee. College of Liberal Arts: and soon as possible. shou ld be emphasized inasmuch as they have greater of town will be scheduled. if Mr. Spaulding is a trustee of ·John E. Jacob, executive dicctor Undergraduates who relevance for the n1edical possible, before the Christmas Washingt on Technical Institute of lhr Urban League in San intend to try for admission to I break. and a me mber of the boards of Diego , Calif. medical college arc required curriculum. directors of the W.T. Grant Company, the North Carolina . I Mulual Life Insurance Company, the Mechanics and Fai1ncrs Bank, and the Mutual Savings I and Lonn Association- in liberal Ar\ts Student Council Durham, N.C. A former student at Howard, he earned his B.S : at New York Presents I University, and an M.A. at the • University of Michigan. He has honorary degrees from several uni ve rsi lies, including Shaw University in Raleigh , North Carolina. He was the first Black to receive honorary degrees from Duke University and the U niversity of North Carolina. • This ye a r, Mr . Sp au 1ding •
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Page 6 .. The HI LL TOP Fri., September 17, 1971 White freshman reasons Japanese offered Priceless lec•ture tapes • for enrolling al H. V. • Shirley Washington, a and serve the best interest of by G.W. I by Barbara Stith quality of education I would political science student, Blacks." ~ receive at Howard , the I . ~ recently presented a series of, "There are many things that This fall GW will offer its A fun ny thing nappened to opportunity to learn to relate to \ lectures taped by Dr. C)lancellor/ we, as students, can do to first course in Japanese • Howard this year, only the Black the world outside my middJe • W i 11i a m s t o t h e H o w a 1; ~ improve tije q uality of life on lan~age. The six-hour course • students arc not laughing. On class u pbringi ng and the . University History Department. our University wi thout in beginning intens ive •' the road to be9oming one of the financial support~ H'O ward • The tapes were presented to necessarily , depending on Japanese is being given in th:e • Blackest universities in the offered me. • t he department "as a token.' bf insufficief' tly allotted funds." Department of East .Asian f country, Howard took a detour "The financial aid wa·s very 1 my gratitude to the professo~ / to Sister Washington then hit· Lctnguages and Literatures. and enrolled quite a few white · important because my parents the University and to the Howard students for their lack The new course will be students in the Undergraduate objected to me coming here. History Department," stlted of pride. taught by Professor Harold Program of Studies. However, I am now in a stage of Sister Wash I ngton. " Tht Moorland Collection Chu of Georgetown under a The Ad ministration has, yet, my life where I want to be Sister Washington got the housed in Founders Library has special arrangement between not disclosed the percentage of independent of my parents' George Washington and white students enrolled, where tradition, ideas and money too. Georgetown Un iversities they are being housed or It is time I stopped complying to through the Consortium of whether or not financial aid is the white middle class in me, Universities. The arrangement being given. and developed my di ffers from the usual practice However, sources revealed individ ua I ism." "Nothing is going to happen in the Consortium of sending that 25 percent of the Law students to other area as long as.white peopl\! ·continue J School freshman class is white. universities to take courses to resist change. I know that this Det ermined to get some not given at their home country is a racist system a nd insight into the situation, after universities. In this case the that they refuse to face the fact little information from special faculty resources of a ad mini st rat ion officials, the that a change is inevitable. It is sister un i ve~sity are being constantly bestowing racist HI LL TOP decided to interview made availa l;>le at the home - injustice upon the minority one of the white students in an university. / ·, • groups, especially the Black · undergradua~e school. · , The laJguage course is political prisoners. Then they " I was brought up to be a being coordinated with the can't accept the conseq uences." r a c is t , " co n f e s.se d A nn ,inauguration of a program of Ann was asked about her RazgJnas':' but I try not to let it J apanese studies in GW's intended social life on an all control me. I am not here to try . Ins t itute for Sino-Soviet • Black camp.us. She laughed and and change the Black students Student presents tapes R.D. Photo Studies. In addition to current replied, " I don't expect to be on campus, only to understand . offerings in the East Asian doing too much partying. I . them." · idea to tape the lectures from a the greatest array of books on area, courses in Japanese • didn't come here to get a Black Ann is an 18-year old girl former law student, Carl Carter. Black people anywhere in the · his t ory, politics and from Detroit, here on a $2,300 man either. I did date Black men Carter felt that the lectures of world. Yet every year many economics will be introduced yearly scholarship, enrolled in back home, but I can anticipate certain priceless Black scholars precious books, some no longer in the spring se1nester of the School of Liberal Arts. She the animosity and hostility that should be taped so that they can in print, disappear. We could 1972. comes from a middle class such a situation would ehtail. be used by future students. resolve to do what we can to • • environment, with very little Maybe the time will come when " Last year, we still had on preserve this collection by exposure to Black people and I will want to date, and it'll can1pus poet Sterling Brown, resisting the urge to walk off Black life. Having lived in a probably be with a Black man writ er Mercer · Cook and with a book and not return it. white middle class 111ei~borhood because the few white boys I've historian Chancellor Willia ins," " Howard University is one of N. T.E. Exa.m • and having attended an <11! white ~een around don't interest me. stated Sister Washington. ''While the best schools in the country," school, she claimed that she did . " I know that there arc son1e Professors Brown and Cqok stated Sister Washington. "The College seniors preparing to not encounter any part of the · Black guys who arc curious to have retired, we still have University is expected to do teach school may lake the Black world until she le(lrned to date a white girl, just as there arc Professor Williams with us so I something for us so we can do National Teacher Examinations drive and explore on her own. some who resent tile sight of an decided to tape his lectures." something for the University. on any of the four different test She also· dai1ns, " I act interracial couple. But I do like Said Sister Washington qf the "We have ma ny precious d,ates announced today by to listen to the .blues and I like timidly w,hite, but I am human tapes, reco,rded at · her own possessions at Howard and they B'ducational Testing Service, a to dance." first and you can't truly : expense, " This is how a sense of belon'g not only to us, .to Black nonpr o f i t , educational Her relationship to the other understand <111yon~ unless you, history a.nd the convenience of people t!Verywhere now and for organization which prepares and, white students on ca111pus? have lived with thch1.;' modern technology can n1ce t · the future," she said. administers this testing progran1. ~ " I've talked ' to another white Why did she choose Howard New dates for the testing of girl briefly. I got the in1pression over Wayne State and the prospective teachers are: that she thinks she's on a new University of Michigan, both November 1 3 , 1 9 7 1 , a nd prcdon1inatcl¥ \Vhite schools? kick. I don•t think she's fully ·Mungo - Still at -it. January 29, April 8, and J uly aware of what she's here for." 15 , I 97 2. The tests will be given Ann had this to say As for her own awareness, T wo of Howard's better of the hill. I ran over and there at nearly 500 locations " Howard is an academically Ann had this to say ... " I have known student personalities and was Joel Mungo in the center throughout the United States, con1pet itive as any oth'er school. . seen the hostile stares that I was · activists, Joel Mungo and (naturally) of it all verbally ETS said. I gave careful and ex pc ct i ng. Right now I'm Anthony Stewart, got into an running down some dude who . exten~ive Results of the Nation&! thought to the race problem that pessimistic and there will argument which resulted in fight he had knocked down or- who Teacher Examinations are used I would encounter and have to probably be times when I might last Monday night, but except had bee]l shoved down (there is by many large school districts as overcome if I was to accomplish think it would·ve been easier if I for a swollen lip and a few some confusion as to exactly .. . . . one of several factors in the my goals, which are to acq uirc had gone to a white school, but bruises no 1nJunes how the brother was injured). , selection of new teachers and by an education and expose myself l'1n here to stay. I didn't con1e occured. But it seen1s that he had gotten several stale$ for certification or to the ways and reasoning of here to start trouble. Howard is into an argument betweep 1icensi ng of teachers. Son1e Black people. So my final a good school and I can't help it This is the way one Mungo John colleges also rcq uire all seni?.rs,. decision was' based- on the· ,if I was born white." HILLTOP reporter described Roberts and paid for it.:' " But preparing to teach to take the · what happened : "I was on 'the during Mungo 's woofing, he then \ exahiinations. The . sch ool Wall' Monday night joking with got into an arguemtn· · with systems and state departments G.R.E. Examinations some people when all of the Stewart resulting ·in a fight which, in this reporter's opinion of education which use the sudden people rushed across the examination results are listed in The Educational Testing ' by the requirements of street to the fence at the bottom Stewart won." Service announced today that gra d uate schools or an NT E leaflet entitled Score undergraduates and others fe llowships to which one is Users, which may be obtained preparing to go to graduate applying. Scores arc usually by writing to ETS. schqol 111ay take the Graduate reported to graduate schools On each full day of testing Record Examinations on any five weeks after a rP:;t date. prospective teachers may take of six different test dates The Graduate Record the Common Examinations during the current academic Examinations include an which measure their professional pir eparation and general • year . Aptitude Test of general The first testing date for scholastic ability and educational background and a the GRE•is October 23, I 971. Advanced Tests measuring Teahing Area Examination Scores from this achieven1ent in 19 major which measures their mastery of administration will be fields of study. Full details the subject they expect to teach. reported to the graduate and registration forms for the Prospective teachers should schools around Dece"mber I. G RE are contained in the contact the school systen1s in Students planning · to register 19 7.1-72 G RE /11fornwtio11 which they seek employment, or for the October test date are Bulletin. The Bulletin also their colleges, for specific advice advised that applications contains forms ind on which exa n1inations to take· received by ETS after October i nst r uctions for requesting and on which dates they should 5 will incur a $3.50 late t ranscript service on GRE be taken. registration fee. After October ' scores ' already on file with St ewart,-vs-Mungo Terrell Photo The Bulletin of Information 8, there is' rio guarantee that ETS. 1nis booklet is available for Candidates contains a list of applications. for the October on most campuses or may be $$$$$$ test centers, and information Can y ou spare one o r two days per about the examinations, as well test date can be processed. ord ered fro m : Educational week to ea rn some extra money? The other five test dates T e's ting Service, Box 9 5 5, Enjoy the cash without the respon as a Re.gistration Form. Copies are December 11, 1971, Princeton, New Jersey 08540; si b ility of a full-time job. We have Kingsize Waterbeds - $15.95 may be obtained from college positions in the o.c.; Maryland, placement officers, school J a nuary- 15, February 26, Educat ional Testing Service, and Virginia areas that last from 20 year guarantee. Fast deli April 22, and June 17, 1972. I 94 7 Center Street, Berkeley, one day to a week. The pay is good personnel depart ments, or and there is no fee. Come in to very - Heavenly Waterworks, Equivalent la t e fee and California 94704; Educational morrow and st art immed iately. directly from National Teacher 622 Ipsw ich Boca Raton Fla. registration deadlines apply to Testing Service, 960 Grove STAFF BUILDERS . - ' E x a mi nations, Box 9 1 1, 1717 K St., Suite 203 33422 391 -9406. E d ucat ional Testing Service, these dates. Choice of test rStreet, Evanst on, Illinois . PhGR!': 293·2285 'tel. dates should be determined :60201. Princeton, New Jersey 08540.
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procfaimed spokesman • Nat's Comin? by Lamont Flanagan by Ramona MeNair • movement in the South but Mr. Agnew should receivq the Mayor Daly of Chicago may usurped power and coordinated a highest form of punish111cnt the • A heated conve rsation pol ice; othl!rs say he was • be the last of the big city bosses. movc1ne nt tlrnt..shook the moral , Black Code of Justice can httwccn a llowa rd University arrested. \. but Spiro Agnew Has just been and humane foundations of despense. He should he ban.ne
Fri., September 17, 1971 Page 8 The HILL TOP Edito~rials · Housing • • •
For the second consecutive year,' Howard tewer stuoents. :since being Hlack in University faces what administration of America means that you either progress or ficials have termed a "serious shortage" of you die, we, therefore, must accept the for , • housing for its students. Nearly one out of mer alternative - build more. every five students have applied for living A few years ago, predominantly Bl acR
accommodations in the University dor Florida A & M University faced a growing 1 ' mitories this year was turnetl down. pains crisis si milar to Ho~r d 's. Because ' .. Several major factors are responsible for State and Federal monies were not forth th is situation although the primary one ap coming, Florida A & M facilities could not pears to be a lack of foresight and cen keep pace with it~ population growth. Just tralized planning at top University levels. recently it was reported that the school rnay Apparently, a serious ~omm unications gap be merged out of historical eiistence and • ex ists between the Office of Admissions, become a part of the predominantly white which admits students, and the Office of Florida University Complex. Housing, wh ich is suppose to house them, While we are not suggesting that Howard whenever 20% of those admitted can not is at this point because of a one-year be accon1modated. housing shortage, the HILLTOP does feel . ' This supply a'nd demand situation merely that a continuation of the. present situation may have graver implications than just the dictates that, eventually, the Un iversity "With all that you learn in n1ust either build more facilities or admit inconveniencing of 600 students. these so-called halls of learning, you came in here a fool and if .., · .. you're not careful you mi~ht leave here a fool.'' - Louis Farakhan Busing integration :f education . Howard ·dialectics ~ Therefore, today, as a result of the One of the first lessons we learn in by David Poyer between the two. With this logic and scientific reasoning is that if one intellectual processi;s .)f history, the the process then re pea ts itself. bases an argument or action upon a false An1erican socia: ~i · esis call s for integration Dear brothers and s1sters, President Check played an may I first welco1ne you to prc1nisc. then it is virtually in1possible for and the brea ' , 0 , • I Fri., September 17, l 971 The HILL TOP Page 9 • • J - .... etters • I I J I • Welcome from HUSA IS dynamic: Ui ,mma I by Sandy Daly I Pres. HUSA de'-emphasize the monetary Dear Brothers an~ Sisters, colleges and universities apd" ; to these problems the first time I aspect of the programs that will Welcome ' to · Howard "walked off" with top ho7ors .. around. If you "blow," you We in Student Government at be in operation during this University. For' those of you (summa cum laude, cum l~ude, would have failed t0 maximize Howard University have been school year. who are already familiar with magna cum Jaude and', oh lord, the opportl.lnity - a luxury we thrust into the so-called leaders' In speaking of Howard's the school and its dynamics, I anything else they had to offer.) position. campus, there ·are duri'ng these wish you welcome back, but I Yet, they were unable to make it • The concept of Black student sad ti 1n es - or have we forgotten We lc(•me 1t leadership as expressed by the Fred Hampton, Rap i Brown, hope thaf your summer vacation h ere al Howard. Don let Student Association is Angela Davis, George Jackson, was very hip. anybody run that game down on fr(>n1 L.A.S.C. exemplified by the brother who and Attica-many proble1ns To Brothers and Sisters for you, that Howard's standards are throws his body-· and soul into which we as students should whom H oward is a new low. Some of the best minds in by Lamont Flanagan working in the field, unceasingly move to rectify. It 1s experience, I also welcome you the world arc on this ~a mpus. for the moral. physical, and unforgivable that on "the largest to this renowned and revered These instructors' standards are Pres. LASC educational upliftn1ent of his black campus in America," the i n s t i t u t i o n . H o w a r d is a very high and you must strive to I welcome all new entrants to people. T his brother shys away sisters and brothe rs think so "dynamite" school. Some of the achieve them. There is no doubt from crea ting and maintaining lowly of one another, al> the greatest Black institutio n in best Black brains known to "you can accomplish what you elitist groups who naturally evidenced by the last page of an the world, Howard University. mankind were nurtured a~is , will." If you want low standai;9.s, assume an aura of supernrncy. Hilltop Publication last semester. Howard Vniversity is the transfer lo the white colleges lie. instead, establishes as a Isn't it troubling to find that very institution. · •, center of Blac k education and You may have heard that where the living is easy. Do you the trai ning ground for the Black. pattern o f behavior his very life while we preach community I style fro nt which others might involve 1ne nt, we arc more Howard has one of the highest know of any historioal instances intelligentsia. Howard University • emulate. • concerned with the petty student dropout rates a1nong where (he enemy prepares his possesses a rich heritage in that The 1l oward University jealousies, back-stabbing and colleges and universities. That . adv~rsary · to compete against it was the intellectual haven for $1 u dent Association of undennining that is Howard's fact is true yet, to dispel fear, it him? I such · men as W. E. B. Du Bo is , 1971 -1972 is charged with the campus. When will we learn that n ,ee ds qualifying and A dynamite school is o nly as Franklin Frazie r , Kwam e responsibility o f directing the the cheap high only continues to quantifying. In an environn1e nt potent as the student body Nkrumah , Al ain Locke. Thurgood' Marshall, and Stokely Student hody ·toward take costly black lives, and will that is 99.44 percent Black , you desires. ' involvement in students' continue until such time that we Carn1ichacl. Currently, Howard can believe that the con1petition Each studen t body has the probll'ms. in the con1munily of realize that we :ire only pawns remains among the institutions· is going to be rough. Have you power potential to chart the of the world as the vanguard in our own Black people in for a system that trl·ats us as 1 America. the countries ol the though we were invisible. ever participated in competition co u rsc of history that an Black education and its future Third World. and the Mother At Howard, there exists a ~wi th Blacks? If yes, then you educational institution ts to will be as ri ch as its pasl, as long C'ont1nen1 . wide-spread drug culture that is kncrw what I am tal,king about fol low. It has been sa id, "An as people like you, The Class of On the smaller level. · this tearing away at each of us, (Aggressive folks, ain't they?). If . equal chance isn't equal, a '75. co mn1i t yourselves to entails the cooperation· bf directly or indirectly, and a no, then your experience here decision must be made." The making Howard the pedestal of • Black education . student~ 1n manning the problem that this Studcn·l could be kind of rough. It a ll decisions you mus.t make during progr<1ms structured for their Association plans to eradica te. · Again I welcome you. C'lass depends on th~ nature of your these turbulcnl times are very hencfit, under the auspices of There is also the problem of of '75, for you hold the dl'stiny 1nenta! attitude. crucial. Not only must you d eal I !.U.S.A. students who have adopted the of Howard in the palms of your Many students who havo with problems you di9 no.tcreatc, This year, we intend to place white mans cravings ancl values, ' . . hands. emphasis o·n tiie quality and su much so, that materialis1n and been labeled a· " Howard you a11e also burdened with the quantity of work produced by University Mor'tality" have gon~ added responsibility of devising . correct solutions and alternatives all interested students, and to (Co11ti11ued 0 11 fJage 16) on to "prestigious" white Project hip Dear Brothers and Sisters, So what is Project Hip, you say? Project Hi p can be Af ric·an dnalyzes Howard described as a bond between the campus and the com in unity. The by Toxy Yomi Tokosi see were sky-scrapers, big studies. To crown all , Howard bond is between us and the The memory ot my first few . luxurio us cars and the best o f has a lar~er percentage of children of the con11nunity. the elass <>f '75 days at H o ward University fashions in the universe. You foreign students than any other For the past two years, a few brings back the unpleasan1 might have thought it would be American unive r sity and. Howard students· have been • ' feelings of confusion , insecurity unnecessary for you to receive suprisingly e no ugh, this year's g1v1ng up their Saturday and, above all, fear. Fear of 1his an income fron1 home; I bet president of H .U.S.A . is a afternoons in order to tutor fo reign country, foreign culture, you, this is going to the most foreign st udent who aimes to children fron1 the two local hy P. Philipp l' A n ~h1 dc fo reign people and probably necessary thing. It is difficult to assist foreign students in getting gra111mar schools, Lucretia Mo tt Senator, L.A. foreign language. During 1his wo rk for mo ney, here. The used to tpe Howard University and Katie C. Lewis Elementary period, l tried to seek Cl,mfort works are laborious and too community. There is also an Schools, located on 4th and I want every one o f you to in the company of o ther foreign tedious to combine with full o rganization called the Campus Bryant streets near Bethune personally kno.w that I am n ot students who were undergoing t i me studies. Deccn t jobs a re Pals, ward University comrnunity history, arts a nd crafts, scknce, have observed for the last few to the dormitory from home. II be expressive, , impetuous, war111 life. ·These two <.>rganizations and African music and dance. days or so. l feel very strongly look ri1e a couple of ' weeks 10 and brimming over with affc c1~ and a couple of others afford The tutoring sessions were held that your particular group of overcome the " planted" in t ion. you the opportunity to meet every Saturday afternoon in • si te rs and brothers is going to feriori1y complex. I say " plan Ignorance: the majority of many st udents, bothrforiegn and Frazier Hall and Wh ea tley llall really bring about the new ted" because I was made to the Americans have been brain American. lounges. direction everyone has been believe that U.S.A. is another washed about life in Africa and Fa m i I i a r i La I i c)n : A n As in any newly-formed club talking about o n the campus. "he~e n " on earth, not knowing 01her places in the w'orld. They idealistic and well · o rdered or organization we have had our it is "more hell" than my have been made to understand familarity often pays a foreign problems with organization and • beloved country. that America is just the o nly student, but you have 10 be memb e rship. W e, th e There are a lot of difficulties place fit to live o n earth. So smart with the a pproach. Life co-chairmen of Project Hip, have There are j usL a few things facing foreign st udents, most of d on't get baffled when some here is that of " rugged in worked all slimmer on a new wq uld like to bring your atten which are generally surpassed in American student asks you, " I dividualism;" no one is ready to program that we are sure will tio n to now. Most people have the first few weeks at Ho ward like your suit; did you stop at help the o ther. A lot of Ho ward prove t o b e in t ere s ting, to experience. them before they University. London to buy it?" or, rather, students believe that foreigners, beneficial and educational for realize that it is almost time to C ultural Shock: Like most despite your Ph.D. in English, particularly Africans, do not both the tutor and his child. So leave here and already too late foreign students, the initial an illiterate tells you, " Yo u like them because they are dif we feel that our problem of to do anything. These can be p roblem is the completely speak bad English; have you just ferent, different in the form that organization has been somewhat summarized in just a few stran ge cu lture o r , rather, lack ar rived here?" H er~ the dif they feel either superior or in remedied. NQw we are interested phrases: Be involved, get hip to of culture. In o rder to ease your ference in accents is ter med as ferio r to them. I would advise i n concerned students of what your instructo rs are doing adaptation, you need not reject bad ~ngl i s h and r?t. the ' con any fo reigner , particularly Howard, esp<:cially freshmen and and support your student gover your culture, Show yourdistinc-_ struction or grammatical error. Africans, to have the feeling of sophomores, who feel that a nment. There is a lot of work to tive culture, and, if lyou can A Jot of such ugly commepts are being equal because, if you put a hp n d betweell'I' campus and be done and I am confident that lend any from the Americans, rampat in white s9hot>ls. They cowhide on a man and put him commu nity is neces~ary and who you will get it done. share it with them. But remem- are limited at Howard, where in a stockyard, that doesn't feel that they can help the ..1 ber that America is supposed to the studen ts have been made to mean he belongs to the cattle children experience "SOQ'le have n ever ··melted" in the understand life in Afr ica. But breed. Some studen ts from essence of Blackness that is not • • "melting pot" culture. elsewhere, Africa to them is a America feel super ior because taught in a regular classroom. One last word to the .sisters: D isapp o intmen t: Like mo st jungle, and India a mass o f they have been brainwashed to Contact Gerald Powell in You all are fine; you all know foreign st udents, you have been starving population. believe we live in trees and eat room 123, Cook Hall, if you're you're fine, the brothers know greatly disappointed by your A d vantages: You are, raw food. So they fi nd it dif interested. Sincerely, you 're fine, now why don't we first sign o f U.S.A. You have however, lucky to have come to ficult to speak to somebody just beco me one, .to gether in been completely brainwashed H oward U n iversity. T he with " animal istic" upbringing. Gerald Powell Blackness? That could be just by those American movies to ignorance is very limited, On the o ther hand. some feel in- Lynnelle Goins super bad. the extent that all yo ti hoped to because of the existing African (Continued on page 16) Co-chairmen of Project Hip • ,. Page 10 . The HILL TOP Fri., September 17, 1971 - . • • eatures • ' Observations . ' Reflections on East African visit , f rom: an ex-editor • • own. T he bright African design elsewhere. by Bobby Isaac p~eresting were the aborted b y T heola Miller . of Africa Hall, one of the newer During my limited st~y there 1t4nther convention and the ' My visit this summer to East buildings, captured my attention I also managed to d~ive'. out to T he perspective of a student funds mismanagement Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya immediately. the country where the ~cenery situation one gets from matter. and T anzania proved to be a rich However, this gorgeous piece was u nforgetable. : Neatly standing back and casually It seemed ironic to read and exciting experience in of architecture was closely rounded tukuls nestled among viewing goings-o n does not that after the organization education, both culturally and rivaled by the new OAU hugh· mountain . slopes. A always result in any great had been denied the use of (Organization of African Unity) farmer's plough etched deep insights or r e v elations, the campus for what appeared poli tica lly. · J Because of the complexities headquarters. And wouldn't yoy zig-zags across the hilly land and nevertheless the ob~ervation legitimate reasons, th e of Africa, it is hard to give a know, some foreign embassy the whole country appeared to can be an int ~ resting sentiment among some rank balanced account of the must have had the bright idea of have been stitched by a giant experience. and file Panthers was that impression I received in just a modernizing a Tukul (a common Singer sewing machine. Anyhow, it was interesting some kind of raid should be few words. It is also hard to thatched hut, round in Old women bent under heavy for me as I followed the made on Howard to liberate speak of East Africa in general; I structure), complete with glass bundles of sticks, the air snug as activities on Howard 's ca mpus the university from control of found each country unique. windows, air conditioning and stinging blows rained jn a couple from Columbia University's react ionaries who were For example, many things the works, but leaving the basic of donkeo/S who were staging a campus in New York after my administering it. The about the countryside and the structure · intact. Ch urches sit-down and lithe young women graduation from here in ) 970. University was tottering 0n its ancient past of Egypt comes to dominated the city, some with returned from the lake T he Hilltop and conversations pinacle of blackness. me when I think back on my impressive church yards where shouldering heavy earthenwear with students kept m e In the end it seemed that visit. I was~ deeply inspired by the dead of the elite and others water jugs. relatively informed as to the Howard came out the most the sight of thcf Nile River and were burricd and nearly all Nairobi, Kenya turned out to nature of a Jot of the virtuous, or whatever, having tpc rich, green Nile Valley. contained beautiful glass stained be a big disappointment and the controversy here. gone more than halfway to Cattle rested along the side of windows, some of which saying " Nairobi, the Paris of T he controvc~sial matters I cater to the whims of the dirt roads switching flies. f cat u red a be-a froed Christ Africa 'was most accurate. In found to be the ·most (Continued to page 16} Irrigation ditch.es glittered like seated on the lap of the Virgin fact, except for the Language streaks of silver. workers moved who a!so sported an Afro. spoken, that is exactly where I placidly about in the hot sun Ethiopian students had many thought I was. However 250 and greeness was everywhere. questions about 'the plight of miles away fron1 Nairobi I · In the foregrounds loomed Blacks in America and they gave visited £ small town of Kisu1nu Ash~'s poem accounts of their own efforts to and found il almost free of the great pyramids, one of the Freshman, wonders of .lhl.! World, and lhc bring about. change in !'h eir tourists. The ride through thl' you ' are finally here dram 4 • fearful of that which chases yo u. The Junkie's .Prayer Freshman. you are iearn ing • how to deal. " K ing H eroin is my for the effort's sake. Yea, I shall of my family. T hou robbest my deal, Freshman , deal. Shepherd, 1 shaJl always want; wa lk through the valley of head ' of reason. My cu p of 1 Soon you will be dealing he n1aketh me to lie do wn in the poverty and will fear all evil, for sorrow runneth over. Su rely • gutters. He leadeth me besides t ho u , Heroin, art with me. Thy heroin addiction shall stalk me .. professionally with any d isruptions t he troubled w aters. H e n eed le and capsule try to all the days o f my life an d I will destroyeth 1ny soul. He leadet h comfo rt me, Thou strippest the d well in the Ho use of the of your natural self- as can be expected me in the paths of wickedness table of groceries in the presen ce Damned forever." whenever the re is an aggregatio n ?r'"'" •r +"' c"'. .,.."°''-' \- ~ I M ' t o f Blacks. I e rs S' A .A. , I I Fri., September 17, 1971 The HILL TOP Page 11 ••S<)ul to Soul", a ~oulful disapp()intment by Tom Terrell became annoying as fragmented trail · ends of conversations All during the latter part of frequently were overheard. August I was constantly From this point on, the movie bombarded by these became a cinematic mishmash of commercials advertising this new cliches, dull perforinances, weak Oick ("i was talkin da other day cultural and social attempts at to a fella named Rugo ... " I heard significance, and enjoyable this ad so much that I wanted to interludes, of which there were sec it even if the wicked Pickett too few. A movie like this was in it. should have bee n eit·her totally Well, anyway me and my e n t er ta in n1 en t or tot a II y squeez tipped down to the informative but as it came out. it Freshmen dance hot 'n crowded Loews Palace and I blew $5.50 seemed a poor attempt at a and regretted it. Like most cheap stock. ·· • For those who care to see "~w tim e" movies, it failed to capture the excitement of a live this production, the act featuted Roberta Flack, Les McCan and show but as a., movie primarily In defense of Sweet Back concerned with expiating Eddie Harris, Wilson Pickett, the Blacks, it succeeds fairly well. Voices of East Harlem, the Kumasi Dancers and Choir, by Larry D. Colem an very glamorous image, l::>ut let us where A Black man makes love The movie opened with Tina Santana, the Staple Singers and a • look beneath the surface. Had it to a sleezy looking 'fhite woman Turner singing the title song, · brother named Aina. The only It has finally happened. not been for the prostitutes who just for the hell of it. Wh en which turned out to be pretty highlights of the whole fiasco Militant niggers ancl conservative took the sickly and hungry little Sweetback made love to a white good. I settled back for what I were Ike and Tina Turner, crackers ,have· finally agreed on Swcctback in from the stFeets, woman, it was for survival thought would be a tight 1novie Santana and Brother Aino, who something. They both agree that there could have been no n1ovie. purposes only. Since "Shaft" as an unseen questioner and got off on some mean gourd Sweet Swcetback's Bad Ass Song Now why did Van Peebles was rated G, droves of children cameraman recorded di fferen t playing. was a lousy movie . . . j'ust choose to have prostitutes, saw the film, now which flick happenings on the plane trip Unless you have a quota of ask'em. Now I must admit that supposedly the most callous and did the most harm in this sense? over tu Ghana. At first this mov.ies to see, ·do yourself a • they probably dislike the movie wretched women on Earth Sweetback epitomized the technique was nice but then it fav·or and skip this one. • for dtfferent reasons, but the taking the time to care for some lowest form of Black manhood, I . fact that they agree at all is . abandoned child? I think he before his encounter with the worthy of applause. From white wants to show that even in these police. Sweetback, conditioned 1 folks, I would expect, if not miserable Black women love as he was by his environment, '•1 h Pill b.I '', welc.ome, universal gJows . .. strongly. He took the should not have given one damn condemnation of the flick ... . worst Black won1en had to offer about the mutilated MUMU . for obvious reasons. But the fact and shows then1 as humans. for Then why did he put his neck on By T o n y V . Hende-rsoii l'ht1 r • .I ' .. I Page 12 The HILL TOP .· Fri., Septemler 17, 1971 .. ) • • I . . . . ~... Howard,. Md. state c ash in In today's society sports play year. a significant role. They are a part Headed by Coach Lincoln Boston classit· · of America's culture. The Black Phillips, last year's five starters • athlete has made his mark in the will return to their starting positions. K ei th Aqui, world of sports, and has become by Lena Williams a major force ·in the athle.tic Desdmond Alfred, fiUSA Optimistic lly speaking these world. President Sandy Daly, Don In their MEAC debut against two wins mi ht place the Bisons Howard University, ~iming Simmons, and Stan Smith are Maryland (Eastern Shore) at in the right frame of mind for for the ultima t e goal of prepared to face another year's Harvard Stadium tomorrow af tomorrow's game. However. a ternoon, the Bisons will not be coming a Black University , is roundup of tough cornpetitors. lack of tnowledge about , the seat fo1r many of today's At least six freshmen from 'the only open MEAC competition. Maryland, long lith a lack of a ... athletes. The athletic Pan-African world have been b,ut will be playing in the first strong def nsive back-up line d e pa r t 111 e n t a t JI o war d is recruited for this year's squad. annual R oxbury Charit y could plagLc our chances of vic constantly changing and Michael Bain, William Classic. tory. expanding and, over the years, A boko-Cole, Robinson Dilto, Not since late November of "Durin, the 1970 season, has r e cruited some of the Steve Waldrow, Anthony Martin, 1933, at Jacksonville, Fla .. has once ou starter began hob ' nation's top athletes. and· Elrod Ferriers will be joining Howard had the opportunity to bling. we were In grave straits ..... The class of '75 can expect to last year's starters to make up play in a promotional event. Injuries made it easy for us to one of the toughest soccer tea ms That game was the first annual lose two I970 contests. on suc see this core of Black athletes 1 provide a source of in the nation·. Orange Blossom Classic. now in cessive weekends." Sease ex entertainment, recreation, and Several scrimmages have been its 39th year. plained. enjoyment for the Howard lined up for the squad; however, A capacity crowd of 38,600 is His c nstant re(erence to in community. We can also expect the opening game will be played expected to vi ew this historic juries. reflect the coaches' to see these athletes put forth a on October 2 at David and Elkins, event set at the Boston stadium greates fear lies in the safety of concerted effort to place the the only team to tie the Bison tomorrow. his tedm and their ability to university among the top ranked· squad last season. . ... · Howard, whose last year's 7-2 r. ~mai 1 healthy.· in the nation in the area of H eaded by Coach John LENA record topped previous sons, Starting an almost entire sports. Emory, the ' basketball team will face o ne on the biggest and veter n line-up in this opener Looking over last year's finished with a 20-7 record and Golf, tennis, crew, judo, and strongest teams in the MEAC. the te m will be playing routine win-loss record for the Bison capacity crowds for every home cricket are some of the spring " We know very little about footqall. Training camp con squads, one will see a drastic game in the Howard gymnasium. sports attracting many students. Maryland's team; both our of siste mostly of outine plays .change from the previous year's The record was good enough for Last year the golf team fensive and defensive squads and proper execution of these records. This change is by all · the - Bison squad to compete in competed for the CI{\A have to be prepared," Coach play . means an improvement. the CIAA Tournament held in Championship. The judo team Sease said. T e Urban League of Greater Last year our football team North . Carolina. Our winning. held classes during the afternoon The next three weeks, Bo ton is doing the finished with an overall record streak didn't have time to gain for youths in the Washington, Howard's Bisons will be the mo pr motional sales for the game. of 7-2-0 -compa r e d to much s tamina , after Shaw D. . C., community. t activ mmor in th nl connrnc. M ny see this classical event as 69's 3-5-0 . record. However, University defeated the Bison gtvh team faced early testing of a eans for good exposure for this year the move to the new team in the first game of the Baseball seems to be the most its ability in two preseason H ward University and the MEAC (Mid-'Eastern Atlantic match 82-80. popular of the spring sports. Due scr immage games. Agility at letic department here. Conference) will put our teams This year expect to see the to the lack of adequate facilities coupled with team effort lead "No doubt the media will be # u p a ga inst c h a m pion sh i p - loyal Howard fans continue to at Hoy.'ard's stadium, most of the Bisons to a I 2-0 win over a tracted 10 this event. It means oriented teams almost every fill the gymnasium to support the baseball games are l'}eld at Va. Union and a 13-0 win over !most nation-wide publicity for Saturday. their tea1n in defeating the tough the Ellipse on Const1itution Norfolk State during the month any of o ur key players," Sease According to football coach members of tne MEAC. Avenue in Washington. of September. aid. · ~ Tillman Sease, "We will need Many of the lesser known every asset the writers claim we sports on ca mp us not only In order for you, the Howard have," realizing that no Bison battled in their r-espcctive fields student, to know what is 'force since ·1927 has faced the for cha mpion'ships but also happening in .our world of sport, -· quality o f opposition that six·' battled for recogni~ion from the the llilltop staff must attempt to r cha m pio nship-orientcd MEAC rest of the Howard con1munity. keep you informed of the daily riva Is will represent. Unlike many. believe that and/or weekly activities in the • Coach Sease believes that Howard is producing athletic department. with a solid backup line , as well champlonship 1naterial. Our This year, with a hardworking as a strong starting line, the wrestling tea1n finished with a and sports-oriented staff, we will 1971 squad will be able to fa ce I 0-3 record and brought home try to o Entertain and inform any opponent put before thcrn. the CIAA Championship. the avid sports enthusiasts by The dozen freshman recruits . Du~ to lhc dominance of the way of in-depth reporting. of 1970 will be returning this . more popular sports. the ,. year, wiser and bigger. Such wrestling team went almost o \Ve will provide Howard's 't names as Willie Harrell. \Varrcn c.: o. m p I e l e I y u n n o ti c c d b y Black athletes with a medium i Cra ddoc.: k. Bobby Ki ng, Joe Ilowarditcs to take this for expression of their views and t Scott. Clifton Bethea , Bruce champio nship. ideas. Williams and other solid greenies will be sources for nc~s again this year. Blended with the returning freshman sensations of STARTING LINE-UP FOR SATURDAY'S OPENER • a year ago will be such Bison • sep1ors as Lawrence (Deacon) • Jones, the 320-pound Shirrel Offrnsc , Pos. Ht. Wt. Ogden , Wilf reel Willia ins, Festus -Cameron , Charles Millhouse, Mosley, D. SE 5-7 150 . Wilbur Brown, Johnnie Fairfax Jones, L. LT 6-3 235 (one of four celebrated pass Dial , G. LG 5.10 180. \ thieves) and Barry Gray. •· Banks c MEA.C g Saturday The lea m's opening game will McGhee, R. RC 6-2 210 be held on Se"ptem ber 18 in Lan1bert, R. RT 6-2 212 To help in attracting State in back to back line ups. Boston against Maryland, Jones, J. TE 6-2 185 fans to the stadium, the As a member of the newly Eastern Shore. Harrell, J . • RB 5-6 165 sity offered a package organized Mid-Eastern Atlantic Soccer, an almost dormant 1 Ridley, F. FB 5-8 172 its students. Plane nd bus Conference ( MEAC), the first sport on Howard's campus, Butler, fl. FL 5-10 170 transportation, hotel accom maJor Black intercollegiate excelled last year to become one Bryant, J. QB 6-0 170 modations, and 50 ard-line development si'nce 1932, the of the leading sports o n campus. tickets could be obt ·ned for Howard Athletic Department The soccer team's outstanding Defense Pos. Ht . w,. $35. According to St dent Life knew competition would be record of 12 wins and one defeat Director Mr. Vine nt Johns stiff. However, the rise in rank, gained them nationwi9e Brown, W. LE 5-10 17 3 these arrangements w re a sell the tougher tests, and the recognition as well as increased Millhouse, C. LT 6-5 225 out. Many are p eased at ultimate goal of obtaining support from the Howard fans. Scott, F. MG 6-5 300 student response an view it as university (NCAA) status geared Defeat <:ame at the hands of Cameron, F. RT 6-2 205 an asset to victory. the department to accept the UCLA in the NCAA semifinals Burke, G. RE 6-4 175 Regardless of the challenge. championships in St. Louis. The Stevens, J. LB 5-1 1 203 Saturday's season pener, the Tomo rrow's o pener will only Q Bison squad lost its 2-0 lead and Becks, A. LB 5-8 190 team must immedia e ly begin to be a prelude to many y·ears of fell to the Bruins. Mabra, R. CR 5-8 156 prepare for succ sive week hard work and dedication on The defeat by UCLA in the Bell, M. CB 6-3 175 ends of tough co ference ac the part of a group of Black championship game has sparked Fairfax, J. s 5-6 150 tivity. Following he game at brothers to conglomerate their the team to. take a ."we try Williams, _B. Harvard, Coach illman Sease efforts 1n upgrading football, harder" attitude an d go all the· must tangle wit S.C. State, the athletic prc:>g ram, and the way to the championship this Virginia State, d Delaware status of this ~niversity. - ; I Fri., September 17, 1971 The HILL TOP Page 13 (Continued from page 12) •• Bisons topple Ya. union ,.. Soccer tea~ · prepares Using sports as our vehicle, with in-depth articles and • • effective news coverage, the and Norfolk state for 1am1 groundwork for effective communications will be laid . • I, along with the rest of my b y J ohnnie Fairfax staff, would like to welcome the class of '7 5 to Howard. Hoping that this year will be the " Year of the Black Athlete." Thon1pson started things off with a 70 yard TD pass from Jim \ ..... Bryant and freshman Fred Simmons returned all interception 90 yards for ~ 12-Q score. A week later, the Bison journeyed to Norfolk State to tangle with the Spartans for their final tuneup. An aro used FAIRFAX defense held the Spartans to fewer than 30 yards total • offense in the first half and This season marks a new era watched the offense do their I of football for the Bison in the thing. With Bryant at the ~elm , newly formed Mid-East Atlantic the team moved well, and , Conference. The MEAC includes quickly put seven points on the such teams as Morgan State, scoreboard as Bryan t topped a Un~\1ersity of Mary land Eastern beautifully executed 80 yard Shore, North Carolina Centra.l, scoring drive with a 10-yard TD North Carolina A&T, Virginia pass to tight end Joe Jones. Stale, Delaware State atld South All-American defensive ba<.:k R on Late in the second half, Mike Mabra will start in the Boston Carolina State. Copeland scored from the o ne Classic. after a interception by team Head Coach Tillman R. Sease and his staff have put forth a captain Ja1nes " Jimbo" Stevens. All in all, it was a good vigorous training program to prepare the Bison for their scrimmage but, still, our team season opener against Maryland hasn't really been tested. The Name one Eastern Shore tomorrow 1n defense has come up with seven Can1bridge , Mass. interception in these two scrimmages and seems t o be on Ro land Batiste How wrong they were' The;e thing that its record pace of last season. • In recent scrim1n~ges against were two games. The first ended h '- Virginia Union and Norfolk The start of the season Eve n aft er Maryland had in a memorable fistic fracas in asnt '1nOe up • State, the Bison showed much against Mary land Eastern Shore fallen twice before them, many which Howard's supporters had · e" poise while blanking their to morrow will present yet maintained that they oould not a decided edge. The next week e 1950 opponents. Against ·union, the another test but our players are have repeated the fe~t against however, Howard r et ~rned for smce team seemed to be slo wed down confident of victory. Last year, Navy. But they did - Aqui and the replay and on this second • somewhat due to the constant with the aid of f our Simo nds saw to it with a goal occasion crushed the mighty shuffling of personnel. HOwever interceptions and three fumble each. After this the very same Phi 11 i es I -0. our offense looked sharper than recoveries, we h eld on to def cat people then announced that And so the following it di positions. He is Ian Bian, a The Sw1ingline "Tot 50" teammate of Alvin Henderson. 98¢ in 1950. 98¢ in 1971. The two are reputed to possess a If you can name something else d eadly understanding of each that hasn't gone up in price D. E. F. other. · since 1950, let us know. We'll Several other promising new send you a free Tot Stapler with ' players have also turned o ut. 1000 staples and a vinyl pouch. , The most o utstanding so far is a Enclose 25¢ to cover postage left -winger fro m Guinea called and handling. by his teammates Maury. He h_as speed and two slinging guns. Fo r practice the team visited Gallaudet and left nine o r mo re 'goals there (all counting ceased .· !after nine) . To wso n State visited and returned six goals r icher. Aqui with 3 goals and Maury with 3 G .. I. s par~ed the day. H. Yet the team has not yet delled. Tliere is talent all around .. 10% Di5count for Howard Students. A. 99.50 • and that re mar kable coach Lin -···-·-- Convenient Budget Terms _...,._ B. 12.5.00 coln Phlllips has pro mised to t. 150.00 put ihe package together and D. 175.00 deliver a tough team. So far JEWELERS . most of the players are in top E. 200.00 shape but a few, the lateco mers, 938 F ST. N..W. 225.00 F. are still behind . But all will be ( > -A. ® G. 226.00 ready fo r next month's o pener. --~>~P1<9e#U ~VE8-6525 , H. 150.0U Look o ut world, Howard is Dept.F Jewelers Since 1932 I. 300.00 '1go ing to play somm baadasss 32.00 Skill mo" Ave., lo"II h loftd City, N. Y. 11101 .______.__....,...., ______-.~ .soccer , this fal l. • ' • • • l Fri., September 17, 1971 Page 14 The HILL TOP Campus Speakout ~ . .. c Question: Why d id you d ecid e to come to H o w ard ? • What d o y o u plan to accom plish d uring your m at riculatio n ? •• by Tom "(errell Marguerite Farmer : Detroit. Mich. Because my 'big sister was ~ere and daddy felt every Bl ack child shl)uld go 10 a Black school for a period o f time. My gual i!l to enjoy life. l • • ' Mary Ann Harris: Philadelphia, Pa. Because it filled all t he requirements I looked for in a college: it · was co-ed, predominately Black and not too close and not 100 far to my home. Robert Dawkins: Newark, NJ . My goal in life 1s to become an elementary It was a last min ute thing really. Howard school teacher. it's wonderful just to be with Bia • • • My goal is undetermined; but if I can st ick it o ut I think I'll go into law. ' • Charleen Walton: Indianapo lis, Ind. They gave me the most cash. • My goal: I want to try to help Black people ex press themselves a li1tle better . • ' ' • Wa11y Leon : I wanted to have a closer association with my brothers and sisters. .. My goal: to attain a directio.n --to be my peoples' direction. I . . ) • Denis Holmes: Memphis, Tenn. , I thought the people were together o n this cam pus--! "Yanted to get involved in the Black • movement --- but on this campus it's .a shame . • Philip Miller : San Francisco, Calif. Nursing is my goal. &t!cause I wanted to come to a Black institution. My goal is to set up a Black business firm in regards th~t I may help Black ~ople --s preading o ut; but all of thi~ can't be possible unite and ' trust each other. . . • • ' ' Fri., September 17, 1971 The HILL TOP ' Page 15 Chri!> Donald son LA "They got me going around circles." ' Tuleda Poole FA " The people are nice, but I did n't dig the Organizational proceedures you h.avc to •• fo llow. They are completely uno rganized." ' Quest.•ion: Victor C LA "We go t your money, sucker, no w go to hell!" w Sheila Hackney LA " Well the campus is nice but it h is unorganized." a t a r e • r y j 0 u r f I• r • • s ' I - • •I m p • r i e s Constance Williarns LA ''I don't like it, it's too s • big." •I l~arry Dunlap LA " Black, but could be blacker." 0 n s .. 0 f H - 0 - I •II w a r d ,, • • ; By Ron Knox --- Raphael Effron EA " I didn't think there woul d be so many fo re ign brothers and sisters here.'' .• • • • - Angela Brown FA " Disorganized and the ad ministration has a poor attitude about what upposed to be do ing." , • Fri., September 17, 1971 Page 16 The HILL TOP Foreign • • Black bid • Bull et1ns view (Continued on page 2) East Africa and would sub contract to Yearbook (Con{inued on page 9) Basketball Blacks in areas that his company • (Continued from page 10) feriQr because they think the; was not sufficient in. " All our ATTENTION Freshman basketball tryouts a r e land less peo ple . Both major sub contractors are Black ALL UNDERGRADUATE are on Octo ber 4 at 6 pm in the · around . this area resid ed people SOPHOMORE , AND JUNIOR ide©l ogics are wrong and except one," Gambel stated. 1nain gym of the : Physical of the Kikuy u tribe and of the sh9wld not be reacted upon. The reason for this, he STUDENTS Education Building for Men. Maasai tribe. The Maasai, a tall ALL UNDER C LAS S and slender people, caught my • reiterated, was to "keep control of the job" and keep money . GRADUA T E AND • attention immediately. I was lo some cases, yo,u meet within the Black community. PROFESSIONAL SCH OOL told that these people own many people call ing your name STUDENTS When presse9 about what will LASC cattle and that they drank a ' wrongly o r call " Mr. OF Miss be his next course of action now TAKE YOUR special beverage made from milk • difficult to pronounce name." that the contract has been YEARBOOK PICT URE and blood. Another striking Some do this intentionally and a warded and reportedly was SEPTEMBER 22, 23 and 24 schedule characteristic was their jewelry some just cannot pronounce begun, Brother Gambel said, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 24 Cram ton Auditorium laden earlobes which stretched your name. Try and give cor-rec " Our first step is to go to the MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM The Dells and Mar - Treids in to their shoulders. Most notable, tions where necessary. public. The community must be CRAMTQN AUDITORIUM concert, 8 p.m. and 11 :30 p.m. was told t hat the Maasai were , out there first" to support us. As YOUR ONLY CHANCE the major tribe who resisted far as the timing of his TO BE INCLUDED Sept. 2 7 Rankin Chapel western influence and refused, rort'unat~ly enough. you still company's next action, Gambel Renowned C.L.R . Janes in "Pan even until this day to have their have the summertime. The hot- said he is waiting on advice from Africanism" seminar children educated by Europeans. Mosque Of all the countries I visited, test pants can be seen. the back- the Washington Urban League, All students are invited to the Oct. 5 Project Awareness I found Tanzania to be the most free <1nd no-bra dresses are ' ' w h o s u P P o r t s us Community Mosque, l 0 I S Congressman Wi Uian1 Clay rewarding politically. I was around, get yourself together wholeheartedly." Street, N.W., on Sunday at 2:30 Senator Fred Harris, Presidential particularly thrilled by a visit to and get yourself a partner for · The Bl ack contractor p.m. for a lecture titled, " What candicate 8 p.n1. a Ujamaa village, where I the ever swinging parties· and reasoned that the GSA may have is Orthodox Islam?" cf'tbarcts, approaching wi nter granted the contract to the encountered, in my opinion, and maybe for life. ~or guys, Bason Company, even though true socialism at work. The you are lucky to have ' come to two bids were lower, because village seemed to be an , Ho ward where the gals are they usually look for contractors HUSA .welcome independent economic unit • mone than the guys. Above all, who have handled large within itself. some Howard gals take interest contracts before, a policy that Most interesting were some We must stress the in foreign culture an;d ideas. generally means that large at Howard trom the fact that it of the reasons why former importance of an education is a predominantly This might be your ch~nce. Fo r · con tracts to well-established Afro-Americans chosed to reside oriented along the technical Black-populated institution. and work in Tanzania. Some gals, a lot of guys like variety . • white companies. fields and the natural sciences. The educational process at even had very interesting and making international dealing. But Gamble has promised to These -are specialized fields, Howa rd should provide us with. important reasons for coming to Whatever is the case. seize the take his case to the community training in which would, eriable the necessary attitude, skills, go 1u en opportunity and "keep on bidding." Africa in the fi rst place. An us to work toward the values and techniques, and interesting example was of an that Howard consist of hand- ownership and inevitable control professional knowledge to serve elderly woman, who held on to · son1e men and beautiful women. of land that is necessary for our relentlessly, the community in life and refused to die until she survival. which we may find ourselves. had seen the soil of Africa. She individualistic gain have taken Should the University fail to died less than one month afler • Jackson precedence over the spirit o f prepare us for this, then it reaching Tanzania and she was sharing, giving and coflectiyism, should leave the student no laid to rest in the African characteristics that are recourse but to change that tradition. Ex-Editor. (Continued on page 3) inherently, the Black 1nan's. which serves as the oppressor. To reiterate in closing, J Some of us at Howard harbor found Africa so diversed, that real causes of racism and a feeling of pessimistn about the (Continued f rorn page 1 (,, exploitation in the final analysis . many details of my trip will have • school. This feeling must be I t is only through to be dealt with in later articles. • P a nthcrs who undoubtedly was the cause of his eli mination . changed with the help of the Said Brother George, "There collectivi~ing your talents, skills, Even though I did not travel were too disorganized to be so students. Assun1ing that we and stre11gths that you build the extensively over Africa, the areas i s n o t u r n i n g b a ck f ro m attend. Howard for the purpose demanding power base necessary to effect I covered convinced me that On the other hand the awareness. If I were to alter my of equipping ourselves with a step now, I would always hate creative and positive change, only if Africa becomes unified whole school came out true education that may be used, can there be a future fornot myself. I would grow old feeling along with our com1nitmcnt, to especially here at Howard. looking bad when the stonn only BJack people, but the entire that I had failed in the better the. lot of the Black man, broke over the apparent World. 1nismanagement of the funds obligatory duty that is ours once then we find it impossible to for Homecoming. When we become aware. I would die as separate the educational process discrepancies were discovered most of us Dlac.ks have died over • the shadow of suspicion was the last few centuries, without Last year cast on a . student whose having lived." responsibility the money was. And so, through his resistance UJAMAA (Continued fro n1 page I) Brother George Jackson died as Auditorium, and, both tin1 es, he Many on the ca mpus decided (Co':ltinued frotn page 9) Also on the home front, a man rather than accept the life drew overflow crowds. the matter through a variation I 970 did see Ho'rard agree to During an aborted student of guilt by association-the of a slave and, as an example to can ill afford. You must decide come down from its ebony cafeteria strike at the end o f the new car that the student had us, George Jackson exhibited the whether you should function as tower and participate directly in bought at the tin1e when i ~eal of r es is ta nee against year,' the Muslims were invited one united power bloc or will solving the problems of the local to sell their foods 1n the much of the money could not oppression to ti death. Black commu nity. 'A you allow yourselves to become cafeteria. l)c accounted for. ' considerable amount of credit fragmented and fractionaiized so And while exact figures are for this can be given to HUSA 's that you are left vulnerable to be scarce, not only did the Nation The situation seemed a bit ·New D.C. Project. gain a new degree of respect but isolated and then exterminated? However; despite the desperate, not to mention all also some co1nents. efforts toward Blackness and • ridiculous, when the student On the other hand, the man The decisions you freshman relevance, the first HILLTOP of government rushed to the hospital who, for the past five or six arrivals and transfer students I 97 l carried a front page banner administration to request that years, has been the hero of the saying, '"70 Was A Bitch." something be done and the ~'onri11ued on page :J) n1 ust make · should have a stu.dent body , Stokely administration backed away Georgia Avenue on the present pronounced impact on how this Second s e 11J ester started beautifully. Howard was given Carmichael (a former Howardite not wanting to becom~ site of Griffith Stad iun1 and is University will allocate its what it had been trying to get himself), suffered a mild setback involved. It was amusing. For expected to be the first of a, resources towards elin1inating in prestige last year after years the students had been series of projects planned for the for the past five years - a radio the scourges of war, racism, station. The Dean of the Law returning from Africa and moving quite successfully to Shaw area and the Seventh poverty, dis6ase and ignorance delivering a speech to a get the University not to St reel corridor. School announced that tfe, along frm our midst. It is imperative with student assistants, would standing-room-only crown in the meddle in their affairs. And Mayor Washington spoke to Men's gymnasium. Many people the crowd, composed largely of that this student body heighten aid in the legal defense of Angela .... now it was being invited to considered his speech a letdown • doctors, nurses and University the political, social, economic, Davis. intervene. and moral aspects of these Then hassles broke out iri the and a repeat. The resultant investigation employees, observing that "this And then came April, which , problems because they affect all School. of Fine Arts over the by a panel of administrators is o nly the first of many projects at Howard University, means peoples of color in a selection of a new dean. Old and st ud e nt s was to come." The Mayor added, " I election time. worked over 10 years to get to disproportionate magnitude. guard teachers and professors d isappointing and did . not sided with o ne another against a Last year saw eight students really thro w very much light this point. Little did I think that enter the race for the president after all these years 1 would have . Together we must relate and move by the older members of the staff to institute too of the Howard student body. a part to. p I a y in it s d eal effectively with these Among these were the winner, a construction." He had reference much . "Blackness" within the on the Situation. About the critital problems. Together we then rather obscure political to the permission that came school. most definitive result of the must be determined to forge HUSA, for a variety· of figure, Sandy Daly; the man who fro m his office f o r the , came in second, long-time who le matter 1was ·the lesson ahead with ~o urage and integrity reasons, refused to support its . completion of sewers for the student activist Roy Allen, and 1earned against giving any and to rise above the barriers President in an anti-war stand. project. the man most mentioned in the single student such full reign Then came the Muslims and In his remarks, Secretary that have interrupted the Hom eco ming · rip-off on the purse strings of a Stokely. Richardso n recalled that , 15 9 smooth flow o f our progress. controversy, Joel Mungo. Homecoming budget. Elijah Muhammad's Nation years ago as an employee at Together we shall win. The year ended mostly with o f Islam probably enjoyed its HEW, " we were talking about reflections on the past. The what could be done to replace r most influential year at Howard The curtain is set to rise o n Yours for Unity HILLTOP carried a series of Freedman's H ospital and during 1970-71. Charismatic a new school year here and articles o n the changes brought establish a modern facility in its Muslim Minister Louis Farakhan I ' m anxious to see how Arthur F . Jones about at How~ rd by the class of place." was invited twice during the year 1971. revealing a closer look v.n11 hA Vice-Chairman UJAMAA t o s pe) k in CramtoH •