Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1990-2000 The iH lltop Digital Archive 10-9-1998 The iH lltop 10-9-1998 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 10-9-1998" (1998). The Hilltop: 1990-2000. 222. https://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_902000/222 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the The iH lltop Digital Archive at Digital Howard @ Howard University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The iH lltop: 1990-2000 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ' ILLTOP The Voice of Howard University Since 1924 VOLUME 82, No. 8 FRIDAY, O CTOBER 9, 1998 Arts and University_ Sciences Confirms Elections Farrakhan Nullified Visit By JASON T. SMITH By RAFIAH DAVIS Hilltop Staff Writer Hilltop Staff Writer After a wave of questions flood­ Hilltop Staff/Eric Hall After weeks of speculation, the Uni­ ed the office of student activities versity confirmed this week that Nation concerning improper voting prac­ of Islam leader Min. Louis Farrakhan tices at an election for sophomore NAACP will deliver an address to students Oct. class officers in the College of Arts 16, marking the third anniversary of the and Sciences, student activities nu!• Million Man March and the contro­ Jified the vote and called for a spe­ versial figure's fust campus visit since cial election, slated for Wednesday. Protests Low the 1995 event. Questions were raised about the Farrakhan, who has openly attacked now-overturned Sept.' 18 election Jews, Catholics, gays and other groups, after letters written by concerned Minority will speak at Cramton Auditorium next students charged that the polling Friday at 7 p.m. Admission is free, said station was unmanned for a short Steven Johnson, the auditorium's man­ time and that students could have ager. voted twice. Court Hires Saying he played a major role in coor­ Students voted for the vice-presi­ dinating the Farrakhan visit, Howard dent for the classof2001 at the nul­ SUFIYA ABDUR-RAHMAN University Student Association-Presi­ lified election; the president and By Hilltop Staff Writer dent Neville Welch said he's been the secretary seats ran unopposed. chief liaison between the University "We were appalled by the fact Venting their anguish over the scant number of minority Jaw and the Chicago-based leader. that the voting station was unmon­ clerks hired by the Supreme Court, hundreds of protesters After learning that Farrakhan was itored by an attendant," said sopho• marched in front of the higll court Monday, telling the court's searching for a venue to celebrate the . more Juanita Gonzalez, whose let­ justices that it's time to diversify their staffs. third anniversary of the Million Man ter appeared in the Oct. 2 edition of Led by NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, 19 protesters were March- the event that attracted thou­ The Hilltop. arrested after crossing police barricades in an attempt to deliv­ sands of Black men to Washington in In her Jetter, Gonazlez wrote that er to the court's justices the resumes of minority Jaw students 1995-Welch said he called Khadir after voting, she talked to Arts and whom they considered to be qualified law clerk candidates. Mohammed, Farrakhan's regional rep­ See ELECTIONS, A4 Jamal Bryant, the NAACP's National Youth Director, and C. resentative, and began the process of Delores Tucker, head of the National Political Congress of Black bringing the leader to campus. Women, were among the 19 who were arrested. "In 1995, Howard served as a cradle Since the 1972 appointment of Chief Justice William Rehn­ for the Million Man March," Welch quist, fewer than two percent of the 428 Jaw clerks hired have Hilltop Staff /Eric Hall said. "Why DOI celebrate the third Female See PROTEST, A4 See LEADER, A4 Student FACES OF I-IOWARD jTllE POSTMA!{ Voters Value Diversity Assaulted Mail Service Pleasant for Savoy Efforts, Poll Says The third i,1 a series ofoccasional articles about the lives ofbehind-the­ at Towers scenes workers at Howard University. tion Vice President Alison R. Bernstein. By APRJLL 0 . TURNER ''They support diversity in higher education." Hilltop Staff Writer The survey, conducted by a telephone poll A female Howard University SIU· By ENJOLI FRANCIS of roughly 2,000 registered voters, was dent was brutally assaulted in a Hilltop Staff Writer According to a Ford Foundation report administered by the foundation last summer. brawl Tuesday after a group of men released Tuesday, two-thirds of tbe nation's Fifty-one percent of those surveyed said stormed into the Howard Plaza "Does this copier work?" asked an voters say it's very important that colleges and they described themselves as either "very ~ <, Towers West courtyard and kicked irritated male student, holding a bun­ universities prepare their students to function conservative" politic.ally or "more conserva­ and beat her with glass bottles, wit­ dle of papers in one hand, and jan• in a diverse society. tive than liberal." nesses said. gling coins in bis other. , Fifty-five percent ofthose surveyed said that The survey also found that 97 percent of Police and Administration offi. Before he could repeat the question, colleges and universities should set manda­ respond_ents agree that in the next generation, cials released scant details about the Antonio Savoy emerged from the tory policies requiring students to study dif­ people will need to interact with people who incident and its investigation. But mail room to help. ferent cultures before Ibey graduate. are not like them, while 78 percent say that witnesses said the female student, "You plll your money in the copi­ Fifty-eight percent of those surveyed said the nation is not doing a good job of prepar­ a West Towers resident, was phys­ er?" Savoy asked the student. After the nation is growing apart along racial lines, ing itself to meet the challenges that lay ically assaulted by a group of men minutes spent checking the machine while 71 percent said that efforts by colleges ahead. who arc not Howard University stu­ for malfunctions, Savoy photocopied and universities to diversify their campuses William H. Gray ITT, president and chief dents. the papers for the student, then - greatly unites factions of society. executive officer of the United Negro College It remained unclear yesterday smiled and went back to the mail "This poll shows that, despite the heated Fund, is a strong advocate of the initiative for what relationship the female stu­ room. public debate over diversity, Americans are cultural diversity. dent held, if any, with the men who Nine hours a day, six days a week, very clear in their views," said Ford Founda- See POLL,A4 assaulted her. you can find Savoy, a 28-year-old Witnesses said that when the Md. resident, working as a postal. group began assaulting the female clerk in the "A" Building. student, several male Towers resi­ His day begi1Js at 8 a.m., when be Bill Would Return Shakur to U.S. dents- including members of the prepares his work station. By the her life sentence. ., University's football team­ time the postal office opens at 9 a.m., By APRILL O. TU RNER Shakur was incarcerated for four years before attempted to end the scuffle, but he's ready to begin selling money Hilltop Staff Writer her conviction and, in 1977. was sentenced to were injured, one seriously. orders and stamps. life imprisonment as an accomplice to murder. Both the female student and at Savoy said he coosiders working Hilltop Staff/Eric Hall As dozens of students joined the throngs of 1\vo years later, Sbakur escaped and was given least one injured athlete were taken with students to be an overall As part of his dally routine, Antonio Savoy sorts the people protesting what they say is a scant political asylum in Cuba. by ambulance to Howard Universi­ "pleasant" experience, but com- mall. record of hiring minority law clerks by Roughly fifty protesters marched through the ty Hospital for treatment, witness­ plains that "some students expect more laugh after they come in with an atti­ Supreme Court justices, a band of demonstra­ streets with signs that read "Leave Cuba es said. than what you can give them," he said, tude," he said. tors rallied Monday in support of Assata Alone," and "Hands Off Assata," while police According to Vernicka Irving, referring to situations in which he has He considers himself to be like the stu­ Shakur, the former Black Panther who, in 1979, officers with paddy wagons waited patiently police records analyst for the Uni­ had to explain to students why their dents he helps daily. "I'm a pleasant per­ escaped from her prison cell and fled to Cuba. across the street. versity's Police Department, "the packages are late. But, he says, "seldom son to get along with ... I'm like one of At the time of her escape, Sbakur, who was The protesters called members of the Con­ only person who can receive a copy do I have a hostile student." them-still young," be said. · born to Jo Anne Chesimard, was serving a life gressional Black Caucus"traitors to the black of the report arc the individuals "I try to make everything go quickly for But, he added, students should know prison sentence for shooting a white New Jer- nation," saying they "betrayed Assata." involved or official people." [students]," Savoy said, adding that he's that he has a job to do. sey state trooper. All members of the CBC either voted in favor aware that students are often faced with And be tries to do this job well, be said.