Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1990-2000 The iH lltop Digital Archive 9-14-1990 The iH lltop 9-14-1990 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 9-14-1990" (1990). The Hilltop: 1990-2000. 3. http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000/3 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the The iH lltop Digital Archive at Digital Howard @ Howard University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The iH lltop: 1990-2000 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. I • Volume 74, No. 3 The Nation's Largest Black Collegiate Newspaper • Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059 September 14, 199() • • • ·SLAUGHTER AT GREEtiE STADIUM Philo;sophy Dept. r grilled for hiring white' I ctors • By Brian D. Granville senior philosophy stutl.ent. said that most people didn't agree with how the HWtop Staft Reporter flier was done, but dcfmitely agree with • the content. He said that there is a , The Howard University Philosophy ''serious'' racial problem in the­ ' department is currently 1under flfe as philosophy department. students claim a lack of Afro-centricity ''The past chair, Griswold, ~ the in teaching due to an absence of black one who did the hiring and he daims professors. that h~ could not find any qualified 3 An anonymous flier, cirrulated at the black Ph.D.s in philosophy so, be was start of the semester, strongly suggested forced ro hire whites. ~t, at tlie_same • that the hiring practices of the past time, he tried to deny tc:nW"C . to Dr. I I chairman, Dr. Charles Griswold, also Chemor Jalloh, a black philosophy white, were racially motivated. professor. Seel That's the .' . • The flier rcrommended that students contradiction," Muhammad said. shou1d not sign up for classes taught by Dr. Lance Keita. the now acting· a list of professors specified on the · department chair, who .is black said he document because the department feels students believe the department chooses to ''foc~s on European should have more qualified blacks in philosophy and thooghf' and refuses to teaching positions. He .said there ,_ ~e consider an Afro-centricr perspective. blacks around who could have been - ' Acoordin2 to the handbills, the past hired, but were not. acting chairman, Griswold, "in • ''There lllC black people around who approximately a two-year period of have an interest in coming co Howard. : time, hired five European philosophe~ but. for whatever reasons they were lrlOC .wjtli Ph . D~ and not any philosophers of hired. But clearly, it is oot that there.arc African descent with PhDs because he • none, •• Keira said. was unable co find any ~qualified black "I do know that some blacks tried ro • Bison blank. Wolverines 29-0 on viiay to 2.0 record Saturday. For story see Sports, Page 14. Ph .D.s. ''' Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, a see GRIEVANCE page 6 ' Howard grads e~t mayoral elections with mixed- emovo~s Clarke overlooked· in newspaper • • Dixon pulls published by HU pt,ofessor upset victory, • • By Eric L Smith But in the September 14 edition of the Washington City Paper, Murphy looks to Nov. was quoted as saying. ''Your common sense tells you that you don 't put it [one By Brian D. Granville A Howard University professor who candidate's profile) on the front page of is more accustomed. to writing about the election issue.'' those in the spotlight than bcingj in it Hiiitop Sta1! - . herself has recently been the focus o{ a ,Murphy insisted that the story wae • ll..grcat deal of media attention. , blown out of proponion by David Sharon Pratt Dixon, Howard Oarke. University graduate and democratic Frances Murphy, publisher of Tiic .. "Oarkc should have told people the mayoral nominee,, has the chance to do • Washington Afro·American • truth." Murphy said. ''It was not that we what no other woman has ever done in newspaper, and a journalism professor did not try to get in touch with him. He the history of the District of Columbia, in the School of Communications, has lmade it appear like we slighted him become Washington's first female found ' hdrself under because ~tiny because he was white.'' mayor and "clean house." (Above) Dixon 8U rter celeb1ata1 following 1,1peet. win. her publicatjon ran profiles on all of the Frances Murphy: 'It was an 0 ''It was an editorial decision. We get Addressing a cheering crowd of (Below) Sheron Pratt Dixon: · Vowed to 'clean houle. mayoral candidat~ in the District with ecHtorlal decision.• • in what we can get in," Murphy said. the exception o'f David Oarke, a supporters at · her victory party on influenced the undecided vote while During the past two weeks, Murphy reached foliowing your ?ecree on Tuesday at the Park Hyatt Hotei Dixon attracting voters from the younger ~ard I.aw ScOOoI ~duate, the only has repeatedly defended her position. Tuesday, September 3, that we remove white candidate nmning for Mayor. said, ''It was your faith, the faith of the generation with her strong message, She recently appeared on WJLA's ''In a long planned article on Council pe.ople of the District of Columbia, that acrording to Jones. 1bc exdusion of Clarke's profile Person" to diso1ss the Cpisode. Chairman David Clarke, a candidate for '-Dol-m the )>tlpcr prompted Murphy's city has allowed us to come this_far." Jones said, " I think it's remarkable. ' Murphy said she was planning to mayor, because 'I can have no white editor, Robin-Denise. Yourse, to resign Dixon admits that she has only [Dixon] was the only candidate willing write an editorial demanding that people in my paper. ' '' from the publication in protest. cleared the first ~urdlc, while the next to stand out and say 'I think Marion Qarke apologize for making it appear "Had we at the Washington Afro, . "I resigned because of the principle.' •one will ~ to defeat the republican Barry should resign and this is what we if Afro him received news that blacks were being It angered me that we compromised our as the ignored . because he ·pany nomipee, Maurice T. Turner, Jr., need to do.' I think that's what ' was while. barred from the front pages, or for that fonner chief of the Metropolitan Police separated her froln the other integrity as a newspaper," Yoursc said. matter,· from any page in othei­ As for the resignation' of Yourse, Department. candidates.'' Murphy said the only rcasoo a Carlee newspapers in -this city, we would 00 1 Murphy said she didn't believe the Some people believe Dixon won r After speaking with! classmates, proftle dido 't appear io the oewspapcr hesitate to cry foul," she stated. Oar.kc profile,"wM the primary reason becM1se she received the endorsement Jones found that a lot of people were was because, after repeated attempts to 1 for her leaving. I think it was about other In a telephone interview, - Yourse get Qarke to come into the office for an fro~ the Washington ~ · . HoWev~r, , undecided between Dixon and Jarvis, things." said that the Qarkc proftlc had been Cydncy K. Joocs; A 1untor public bu~ "I thin!c, overall, they knew that interview, ~e showed-up after the scheduled to run in the September 8 relations major,. sai~ it was because paper's deadline for the September 8 Bui in her -resignation letter, Yourse said, ''My decision was .reluctanlly see MURPHY page 12 "Dixoo worked hard." She also see DIXON page 12 edition. I INSIDE ' I • Assault m the A-building • HU Hospital projected ' Shident. seeking finandal aid needs first aid Drnx-Free Zone • • S'tricter penalties to be approached Kevin McDonald, a enforced on campus grounds. to lose $25 million I By Sheldon Smith • temporary employee whose wife is a Sec page 2. By Crystal Whaley of federal aid. HUH, however, is losing · full-time worker m the bursar's office, the most money II the fasted rate. for assistanc:e. Health and F"1tr1a11 EditOr The hospital tried to slow this A Howard University employee has McDonald, who was monitoring dowoward opiral by laying off 300 been accused of assaulting a female Festive Weekend Howard University Hospital has a regjstration, told the student that she • D.C. residents fl<Jck to local employees this summer which saved student last week io the administration good chance of losing an estimated $25 •• would ''just have to wait," according to festival the hospital ao csjimated SIO million. building during registration. million by year's end.i according lO Johnspn. 1De student felt she had been According 10 Taneja, the hospital's Tiic ass11dt allegedly occunod on Fiagh Taneja, the hospital's financial rcfcnod to inappropriately, McDonald financ~ policy will oot charJ&e in the September 7. , Several students were director. This lOSSt whic& oomcs on the said. oear future. "We have ao obligatioo. lb standing outside'. of the student accounts Ala5kan sun1n1er . heels of lasl year's $16 million budget Johnson said the student reacted to 1 help these: people. We will oot change office attempting to pay their bills • Student spe~ summer in shortage, may be the straw that breaks McDonald by saying. "Who arc you our policy in taking these kiods of According to some of the students, the Alaska lhe back of one of the oountry's only calling a (derogative). All I did was , I , ' cases.'' wait was aggravatfug and "people were See page black-0iferated hospitals. asked you a i:1ucstion." r Of the $3.5 million in acttins attitudes." The hospital's troubles an a sigo of Larry · Martin, McDonald 's Ain't Misbehavin' uncompe~d care ,thal Howard Mary Johnson, a Pre,- pharmacy the shrinkina budgets under which immediat~ supervisor, could not • Student's give Fine Arts Soccer '$ Uoivenity~tal dispense<! last yw, major who witnes.<ed the io!:iden~ said ( many hospitals m operating.