Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1960-70 The iH lltop Digital Archive 4-5-1968 The iH lltop 4-5-1968 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_196070 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 4-5-1968" (1968). The Hilltop: 1960-70. 170. http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_196070/170 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: 1960-70 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. • • •• , ' • ·' • •. ' . ' • I i· i • • • ' . vol. ~o No. 2~ ' Howard Unlwerslly, WaahlnctAll , D.C. i\prll 5, 1968 ' ' ' r _·· ' • • ' • • Tha1a ora Iha fllur •-ltera ef The loolll of TNataea Jall•, Nolo, Clo• oatl Pel.. .j ti • few. .ef tlte •-•••• ef tile Staall•t C1•ml11aa af .... Sit-la, 1 ..wa, Manns, Harris, Ayars, Gi.ttans and Jackson who nagotiat.d Iha 1 ..tl.-.ant of tho Sit-la. : (Photos lty Gaines) • 1 ------r-- • NahritConcernedWith Sul let in !! I i D.r. M~rtin Luther K1,ng, • ''Fate of ·University'' · Jr., I 1 lleail. The 39·voor Campua Greekletterorplll&a­ ,..,,_that the Pan Hellenic Council ls tloo1 may be faced with bml1ll­ • by Cindee Morshall eld non-violent advocate' ••not repre-tattve of Greek or- ment this aeme.ter as a reault pnl11at1oo•• In that ••moot of the and1 winner of o M · Ital At 12:15 Thurs<311y afternoon the problem to a solution. of a $2,400 debt to the Liberal Greeks were oppoaed to•• the James M. :Nabrlt, .president of­ Nabrlt praised the faculty, Peace Pri 1a was ltio1 ght Arts student Council, The Pan­ conce~. Mike Hanll, frelhman Howard University, delivered a saying, "One of our best assets to a Me111phi 1 Ho1pl al; Hellenic Council which hu re- . clui" prealdent, said ' that the· speech to an audience of faculty II\ our resPO!lllble faculty,•• Tann., In critical ca 1 iii· preoentattvea from ail campus LASC - must demand the repay­ Greek organtzatlou failed to re­ ment of .the debt bec11111e failure members, Students were not of­ Continuing, Nabrlt told his al!­ tlon la1t night around 4 :20 • ficially Invited to attend the talk, dlence, ••We need · 1eadet'shlp pay the Council a loan fdr a ·to do so, Just as the Gr~eks which was held In Cramton audi- from the faculty, ... We need to PM aftor receiving o · hot Greek Week Concert, Thepay­ failure to pay the debt are a through the neck whil 1 ~ In ment was due on April I. ••serious ottense against , all the torium, . 1 . restructure it so we can have • Stating first that his main con­ a more effective, functioning the balcal)y af the m ttal ' The concert, which was sche­ students In the college of Libe­ cern was the "fate ot the uni­ faculty,.'' where ~· was staying H • duled during the week of the Sit­ ra! Arts.•• The student Council versity," Nabrlt went on to state ''Let us make a reassess­ died a few . moments jftar In protest at ·the Adm~~j';tlon operating fund comes from Stu­ • that the young American Negro ment, re-evaluation, and re­ Building was a financial f ure. dent Actltlty Fee. , was Indeed In ·a. state of revolt. examination of Howard In order getting to hospital. :·wo The Council's representative; "This revolutlotl Is unli­ to make It a better university,'' suspact1 have lean Lou Simpson, tol<t the Student . ' mited,'' Nabrlt admitted, He said Nabrlt suggested. · picked up in connac 'on Council treasurer that they would be able to return ooly $235, Lou that It has spread downward from He closed by adding that the with the shooting, · and • Comm.Holds the colleges, through the high National Planning Commission had signed a statement on Feb- . palica have ·i1ssuad, an s:C hools~ and was now even being had approved Griffith Stadium as ruary 21, ·J968, agreeing to "re­ ; , encountered In the elementary the site of !he new hospital. Also ol art on on a whi ta yo!' th, imburse•' the Council, Clyde 1st Hearing schools. approved were new boundaries . wall-dressed, who 1wa1 Avellhe and Judith Martin were • He stated that the entire so­ for the campus, These bounda- · seen leaving the sigl t of witnesses to the ·signing. ciety has In recent ye;irs become rles run from 4th st. to Florida The· Council· ts faced with the 1haoting in a lato· • On 'Charges' embroiled In various kinds of Ave.' from Florida Ave. to Geor­ having the cancel the campus demonstrations, The civil rights gia Ave. to V St., from V St, modal white CCI!'· .+. .. ea· literary magazine, the Prome­ • marches, the Vietnam War pro­ west back to Georgia Ave,, north pan was also recova ad. Preliminary hearings for the 1 thean, cut the Project Awareness tests, and the teachers' strikes on Georgia Ave. to Columbia (See Editorial. Pas• 4) budget, or cancel Its banquet 39 students charged with dlsrupt­ were among the examples he Road, and then east back to because the Pan Hellenic debt ·1ng the nor - processes of the cited, 4th st. : . left ooly $3,500 In Its treasury. University are now being 'held. ''The recent Howard dem­ 1 Prlntlog ·· the Promethean will ' onstration mirrors the demon­ Although a ••true dlsclpllnary cost $1,600, Project Awareness Board has been selected and ap­ strations In the larger society," Bo·wie St~ Trustees plan' approach $1,000 and fun~ Nabrlt declared, proved by the Student Assemply'' are needed tor the Grapevine to hear tl\e cases there has been He continued to explain that and class activities according to . colleges usually use one of three ·some doubt as to the validity ' the budget submitted by Council of the charg~s brought to _the· methods of dealing with dem­ Meet· With Student treasurer, James Mo8by, · onstrators on their campuses, by Robert J it ff a rs Administration. Student Assem­ The council motloo was to bly President Ewart Brown has • First, they could, and have, call­ Many of the Members of the Roland B, Smith, the r tudent ' ed' In the police, who often use send letters to each Greek or­ appointed a commission with two Board of Trustees of Maryland Government President was ganlzatlori ;ind to the Pan-Helle­ faculty members c- Professors violence,. State Colleges have announced prompted to say that a ••m anlng­ Secondly, they could try to have nic Council advtslngthemthatthe Frank Reeves and James Wash­ their agreement to back a crash flll dialogue'' had been lopened debt Is overdue and that the ington of the Law School -- a dialogue with the st\idents as · program to Improve conditions with the trustees. The sludents • long as there was a llope of a 1 · Council expects to be repaid , an<Ltbree students -- law· stu­ at Bowle State College1 In a were backed In their d~mands $1,600 of the ·money by May I dent""Althea · Lester and Alvin solution. T.he third Is the use of meeting with student protl!st,Jea­ by Bowl!! President, MY , rs, .He outside Influences, , · and the rest by May 17. If the Chambliss and Brown himself ders and the President ofthe Col­ has also called for a ''r asstve thems are not complied with by who Is also the chairman to de­ The main consequence of t))e lege, Samuel L. Myers the trus­ lnfllslon of funds'' lri or, er that first method ls that where the May 1, the Council will take the termine the validity of the . tees said they were unable to Bowie might · become a model matter to ·the University Wide charges, U It Is found that the p0llce have been called In there commit any 'funds . at the Imme­ school. ' '· has been a wholesale 1exodus of Committee on Student Organlza­ charges 11-re Invalid then there diate time to correc\ deficien­ Maryland's Governor, tloos , and Activities wlllch has will be no hearing witli .the fllll ' faculty members from the col­ cies although they plan to great­ .Agnew has refused l o .m " -• with lege Involved, This has, of the authority to banish I the board and the charges will be • ly Increase funds for the College the protesters, althd gh he Greeks. The motloo was paslied drC41Ped. course; put those colleges In se­ for the next five years. directed the T nistees tc Inves­ • rious trouble. 7 yes, 1 · no, and I abstention, The Bowie students who Jlad tigate coodltlons at the school. At least 5· of the 9 Council mem­ In a three hour session Tues­ "We have used every method ' been protesting conditions at the The State Attorney 'peneral day, ·charles H. Bush, the Super­ to avoid bringing armed forces bers present are members of school for over a week and In­ Francis B. Burch and aJdelega­ Greek organlzUloos. The UCSOA visor of Off-Campus' Housing re­ Into Howard,'' Nabrlt stated, cluded among their demands $25 tl<Jll of state ,legislator. toured presented the Admlnlstratloo In "And we have been severely Is a joint student-fac_ulty million over the next "two or · thelcampus and met wit~ student committee with. equal represen- • the evidence tor the charges crltlclze'd for It,'' he added, three y~rs•• to Improve the !~rs Tuesday, '. · ' brought against the 39 students He wept on to say that this tat Ion. ' school were told by Samuel Hop­ ~e legislators "ron1tsed to the commission recessed until does not mean that the university kins, chairman of the trustt.ee•s sp$k with Gov.