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For more information, please contact [email protected]. • • • • • ' • . • al1221a 72, N1111tlaar 23 AIDS rapist gets 8·1-243 _year prison ·term • • Donald Hatch, 40, threatened victims with infected hyperdermic needle • • By Eric Smith Hilltop Staff Reponer AIDS virus and rat poisoning. applauded the sentence in the case c~pus, Dawson responded, ''We're According to a Washington Times but . believes it was too long i~ trying to be sensitive to strangers on Donald Hatch, the ''AIDS rapist'', article, Hatch is a suspect in at least coming. the campus, but we can't be • who terrorized the Howard com· everywhere that a crime might OC· munity in fall ·of 1987 was ten other rapes or attempted rapes at ''It illustrates that the wheels of cur." sentenced. last week to 81 to 243 years the time near the campus in 1981 and justice turh very slowly. It is a tn prison. 1982, but cannot be prosecuted in Since the 1987 rape attacks, Hatch,40, was sentenced by the those cases because the statute of marvelous sentence, but ideally it Howard's security division has in· D.C superior court after being con· would have come swifter," Dawson victed in August of 1988 on a 14 liffiitations ran out two years ago. said. .stituted a crime watch progran:.. aim· count indictment including rape and HatCh is said to have a string of prior . He added that the long waiting ed at preventing similar attacks armed kidnapping. convictions, including armed robbery period was,''par for the course in this on campus. Before his apprehension, Hatch and drug distribution. He was .._city .because of the court system is ''It's designed to get the communi· had raped and orally sodomized a reportedly tested for the AIDS virus jamined up.'' ty involved in a personal level with photo by Keith O. Ltadbelter Howard student after threatening her but the results proved negative. crime prevention. And one of the Derrick Adams with a hyperdermic needle which he Lawrence Dawson, associate direc· When asked if further attacks of elements in crime prevention is rape claimed was conta"\inated with the tor of the Howard security division, this nature could possibly occur on prevention,'' Dawson said. Drew R.A. wounded • • t -~ --- Carver by falling object murderers • By Eric Smith a heavy can or bottle. He was treated Hilltop Staff Reporter witb seven stitches to his scalp at A resident assistant was wounded Howard University Hospital. by a falling object while investiga'.ting Adams, a 22-year·old Baltimore jailed a complaint of students pitching ar­ native, was accompanied to the By Donna Williams hospital by first.year law student . I ticles from the windows of Drew Hilltop Staff Reporter Hall. Fritz Jean, who witnessed the assault. Derrick Adams, a senior, was ''I ran upstairs to look for the per· A woman responsible fOr the 1986 hospitalized for several hours March son, but no one was in tlte hallways,'' contract killing of then-Carver Hall 30 and released after receiving seven Jean said. counselor Robert ~tewart has been stitches to his scalp. Jean. a graduate assistant in Drew, sentenced to 13 years to life in prison, According Adams, he was return­ said the building has had similar pro District Superior Court officials said. ing to the dormitory at approximately blems before the March 30 incident. Gloria Stewart, 31, pleaded guilty 12:30 a.m. from a basketball game ·_ ''We've gotten a lot of complaints , to second degree murder in the stab· • when he was approached by a District about objects being thrown out of the bing death of her husband, the 38 resident who said his car had been window, mostly at cars. I guess some .year-.old counselor. She testified in March against Joseph Harrison, 27, ' dented by a bottle thrown from the people like seeing objects going down dorm window. and out the window,'' Jean said. her lover whom she paid $250 and ''We went around the side of the ''We're trying to make it clear that cab fare to' kill Stewart. building to see what was going on, it is more dangerous than fun, Harrison was convicted of murder and I asked the driver did he see ex· especially if the wrong car is hit. A and sentenced to' 17 years to life in actly what window the bottle had person can pull out a gun and start prison. According to police reports, came from," Adams said. shooting up at the dorm. Or it could ..,... • ''We were looking for the bottle cause a major accident," he said. photo by Keith 0. Leadbetter Stewart, a nittive of Liberia, was kill­ that hit his car ·and ·he found As a result of the episode, visita· ed when Harrison, posing as a detec· Engineering relationships tive, went to Carver Hall. Harrison something. As we were coming back tion was cancelled for all Drew Hall • to the dorm, that's when I got hit," fQ! 1~0 .days following the accisf~nt. _,1ng;neering.atu4ent1 tried their hand• ot ''The Dating Gome,'' lost Fridoy, sponsored by the Society of then lured Stewart into his bedroom he added. Adams says that Metro Police ar· Women Engineers. Adams is not sure exactly what he see Sentence, page 12 was struck with, but said it was eitlier see Drew, page 10 • Alumnus Joe Perkins joins Morris . ' Brown VP Dan Quayle's ~taff By Christol L. Powell himself. Hilltop Staff Repor1er Perkin·s, a 198.4 journalism students­ graduate of Howard University, ac· • When George Bush was elected the 4lst President of the United States, quired the position after several years there was a strong belief in minority of editorial w~iting, starting from his wage protest . communities that he would not str8:y managing editor position with The -. much from the precedents set by his Hilltop in 1981-82, to The Wall Street By Gale Mitchell predecessor, Ronald Reagan, con­ Journal, where he has worked since and Rebecca Little . sidered by many to be insensitive and graduation . Hilltop Staff Reporters careless about the needs and concerns ''I had assurances that the vice president would bring to power and After a two·day sttident takeover of African·Americans. But Joe Perkins, the new deputy raise issues of importance to African· of the administration building at American~,•• said Perkins. Morrris Brown College in Atlanta, ad· assistant to Vice President Dan Quayle on aomestic policy, said that African· Although considered a censer· ministrators promised to meet the vative, Perkins has vowed to in· protesters' requests. "' • Americans will probably see a dif· ferent Bush administration from ~he fluence policy.makin~ that will best According to the Atlanta Journal· help the moSt neglected and im· Constitution, a group of 15 studerlts Reagan Era, as Bush has already locked themselves inside the school's , made efforts to appoint Afric~­ administration building at 2 a.m. Americans in key positions like see Perkins, pa'ge 12 Tuesday morning, . demailding im· ' provements in housing, cafeteria food and a new African.American Police .increase patrol Studies program. photo by Keith O. Leadbetter... - One·hundred and fifty students later g<fthered in front of the ad· from left: Bethune residents Kathryn Boxill, Sandra Mabry ond Nocola Thompson work on decorations to be around Carver, Slowe ministration building on Wednesday, hung during ResKlence Hall Week. ' in the community, due to drugs.'' singing and holding hands. The col· By Sheldon Smith Smith said. ''Twenty.four hours a Jege has an enrollment of 1750 Hilltop Staff Reporter day, people are deployed around the undergraduate students. Howard UnivCrsity stu.1 ... ,1 ,s can city.'' · The protest was triggered by an HU dormitories kick off 11th annual ( now breathe easily whe11 walking Sgt. Joe Gentile of the public af· ~lectrical fire in a men's dormitory, through the once trouble·plagued fairs office said, of the 130 murders tn which the fire alarm failed to area near Carver Hall. Groups of this. year in Washington, D.C., 60 sound. No students were injured in Residence Hall Week celebration Metropolitan police officers now percent of those, have been drug- " the incident. related. ''We have'):>ut high·visibility Protesters were also upset over the By George Daniels community. Patrol the streets as pa•·t. ..:..fa month· , from nine of the university's old redevelopment i:.irogram initiated patrols in areas .where they are need- . college's plans to expel students who Hilltop Staff Reporter This year's festivities, centered dormitories. by Police Chij f Maurice T. Turner ed," he said. , were delinquent on their deferred around the theme ''Building The university's residence halls Gentile said patrols are· formed by payment plan. Howard University residence Bridges to Keep Hope Alive,'' will will open their doors for ''Open Jr. I halls have begun preparation for ln an effort to increase police taking officers from less crucial I ''They had\ the administration open with a chapel service this House'' on Monday, April 10, areas rather than by hiring 1 new the 11th Annual Residence Week Sunday at 11 a.m.