Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1950-60 The iH lltop Digital Archive 2-12-1954 The iH lltop 2-12-1954 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_195060 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 2-12-1954" (1954). The Hilltop: 1950-60. 26. http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_195060/26 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: 1950-60 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. I - • • • •• • - . ' • . ---- Seniors Start Boom for ADLAI GrG'duation Speec,.. P. 1 · •g 180TllT IS A MAN WHO TAUCI IO MUCH "THE FIRE YOU KINOlE AIOUT MllWllf, nlAf HI r FOi YOUl ENEMY OFTEN 81VU Ml NO nMI TO IURNS YOUlSElF MOltE TA&ll MOur MTllU.,. THAN HIM." ' ,. -CHINESE PlOYEM -r ,., .., I "Th Cap4lfll'• Prfse.Finnbaf Collete Paper'' . VOL S6;~ NO. 5 ll BOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. FEBRUARY 12, 1954 CO:UNCIL MOVES· TO SPEED ·ELECTIONS • .. • • By !\larch 22: .... don Plana Denied: FROSH WOMEN PNs. ""8son PICK . LEADERS Deadline Set · The frahmen women o! Fra· rr t?/ 1 For Early Choice Wll WCri for 1ier Hall held election of ita hoUH pvernment ~tly. The -· · ·~ Of May Queen Anoll1er 20 YrL newly elected oftken take the places of the aeoior mentors, who · ~ In order to avoid last mi.Dute Reporta cireulated by two na­ held the posts during the first se­ l1itches in elections which would tional publications recently that me.ter. Mary Graves of Phila­ cause a late installment of Stu- < Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, presi­ delphia was elected president. A C: ~nt Council officers next year, dent of Howard University, graduate of Philadelphia High the Council has set March 22 would reeip soon were labeled School for girls, she was presi­ ii a ~ the deadline for submittin&' aa "contrary to the f acta" by Otto dene of the student council there. r.ominations for Student Council McClarrin, director of public r~ She is preaen~y a pre-med stu­ officers, Hilltop officers and May lationa here. dent, majoring in chemistry. Queen, according to Robert Commenting bi particular on Barbara Grant of Savannah, (~reenfield, Chairman of the the atatement of one of the pub­ Geor&"ia, was elected vice pr1si­ Council's election committee. licationa that President Johnaon dent. She was president of ner According to the statement, all • wants to "~tep down now because senior class in high school and is r.ominations for the Council and of his health, Con~uional criti­ a physical education major. H:lltop positions would have to cism of his adminiatraticm, and E!Jith Blue, of Belmont, North le accompanied by twenty-five of ~ool probe," Kr. threetl a signatures of students registered )(cClarrin atatid: CaTOlina, it the new aecretai;:. A S.ph•••re Artlau L Barutt la allown reeel•l•1 the Int anaual graduate of Palmer Institute Georp W. Cook Me•orial Sdlolanllip Awanl i.1 Beta Chapter, in the Colle&"e of Liberal Arti. where ahe waa. aecreta!Y of t~ Alpha Plal Alpha. Buaett, 1eea•• fro• the ri1ht, had a 1trairht A President, two junior repre­ Sttldent Counc~l, she 11 now a "A" rd 1- Lt- f La Dr Mordecai w. Johuo"' Preai· st'ntativea and two senior repre­ paychology maJor r~ ua - r••-P 7e.r. • -. Perrilp p_,.ion, of Little d~nt of the Un1Tenit1 ii ahowa laapectlnJ tile troph1. s .. ntativee will be elected to the er 11ncil. The other requirement Ark., wa1 elected parlia- Rock, iR that council members at lar,e mentarian. Sile WU parliamen- Thing• Look Brighter: Georgetown Ousts tartan of-the-- honor society at • possess a 2.6 averag-e. Offices on the Hilltop which will Dunbar High School and preai- $50,000 Being Spent H. u. c. ourt Team n'! voted upon by memben of the dent of the State Student Council. I N t I M She is· • political ..aence major. On Light, Heat Repairs. n a 1ona eet C\.luncil along with a faculty committee will be Editor-in-Chief, T&e new treasurer is Yvonne · Howard's Moot Court team set Bowman, of Chicago, Ill. Other The Univeraity is currentty in Associate Editor and Businesa eetbera of the house government the mt'd • t o f a •50• , ooo program a precedent by reaching the 1.!&nager. Heretofore a 2.0 aver­ . d quarterfinals in the National are: Irma WriCPht, East Orange, ~ i mprove t h e h eat in&' an age and standing in the UpJ>er N. Norma Walker,• Baltimore, Jigh ting· syatem, accord' tn&' to a Moot Court competition in New cl-.sses were the requirements J. ·, ... Jrfd.; Vivian Johnson, Chicago, t.pok esman f rom the B us1ness· \·oTk recently. It was the first for the offices of Editor and . Ill.; Retha McGarrah, Buffalo, Manaeer's Office. Of that total, time that a Howard team had Ai:sociate Editor. N. Y.; Constance Pindle, Mont.- '40,000 will go to the improve- f.!Otten pass local competition. 'I'he release said that the May ' gomery, Ala.;.Dorothy Gray, Chi- n.ent in the power house proper lt(\nically, the teatn that won Qut"en Election will be conducted caco, Ill.; Barbara Brown, Wil- v1l!ile another $10,000 will be ft om Howard in the quarterfinals just aa it was .. last year. Thia n~.-.,. f · k th \\' 81' Georgetown U. a school that mington, Del.; Betty .L~..,r•, caed or corrective wor on e n~eans that instead of organiza­ Chicago, Ill.; Melba Coaby, Balti- sc.-hool'a long neglected network He.ward had beaten previously to tions campaignin&', the Student more, Md. ; Adnanne · W e bb, of tunne1 s. I t. was a 1so 1eame d r P.present this region. Council will take complet. charge Pazzl' • J1tz • . Cleveland, Ohio; Mildred Thomp- thr.t the program will be com- The members of the Howard of promotion. This is a policy J ka vill Fl d th · · f tc:>am are, Albert Matthews, Paul .. ~0 .. Presi'dent of Howard Uni- son, ac on e, a. an e pleted before t he opening c '-• v:h1ch was initiated last spring, " "" to W. Sweeney, Charl~s P. noward, Ve-ity baa not . presented hi• men n. school next september, and as vd1en the 'council decided.to take • reaicm•tion... to the Board of Trua- At the ft rat meet' ID&' of the col'ly as possible b ef· ore t h at. Jr. and Professor James A. •·- 1 f ed e nm nt, which E l' M F d · k St \Vashington, coach. (Continued on Pa•e 2) tees, and has no present inten- new Y orm pv r e ar ier, r. re er1c an- 8 • i tion of aubmitting his resignation was held shortly before the semes- t"n, Business Manager for the 2 000 M p rt• •pat • to that Board for any reason ter break, a Judicial Committee univenity, told a student usem- I ay a ICI e 1n whataoeTer." waa formed, which will handle all blv that most of the trouble wu M 5 h I h• E • problems discipline in the dor- caused by defeets that had been +• "Today, President Johmon ia · otTh ittee -,, ass C 0 ars Ip xam1na IOn all · d' m1tory. e co~ was without the benefit ot auftlctent • · ' · in ---A health t and f rom ID l· f d b tw El s 2 noo h ' h h l . d d d ".,.,.. be vi 1 orme Y o men ra-- ayne i·E.paira for years. These defect• . ome. ,.., 1g sc oo .seniors an gra uates are expecte to cationa, he plans to gorows Y Butler and Barbara Bryant; have mounted and now with the v1e for mo~ than $25,000 m scholarships in the annual Howard :i~;:;k for another 20, years or president of the house, Mary added load of new buildinp, the 'l!~iversity National Competltiv~ Scholanhlp Examination which Graves and two other freshmen- power s••atem cannot poasiblJ- it 1n ita second full month. 3 Concemlns the publication's Barbara Btown a n d Bettye • claim of Conazeuional crlticiam Rod , aupply all wanta of the university ·The examlnatloJf, ~hJch is open to all hlgh school aenion and of UnlTenity administration, Kr. ,era. vr:thout 19me 1ort of limitations. qualified recent gTaduat.ea, i1 one of the features of an extenalve McClarrin Nid, "The Conrreu I"!; b Cl b . It ia betauae of these limita- guidance aad • rteruttmat proaaam now belnc conducted by the of tbe United State. haa the right \,;,,anter ury U an ti~na that li&"hta are cut off, on Univenity: Teata wfJl be held at approximately 70 centen in 82 bJ Jaw to ina~ the wor~ of Book CamllUign .,.,.. mrat occasions, in efforts to ntate1 and the Dl.trW of CoJmnM• ."' • ': .. ' Howard University at any time. r• balance the load. An indicator Last year, the examination was ier:onal awaraa of '500 each per It JI a e111tom t.o carry throuch Followinr tbe suggestion of the in th~ powerhouse ·teUa when the admini1tere<I to 1,936 students year for four ye&TS, &Jld at leaat thlt inapection at least once per Rev. Dr. James Robinaon made mM'h1nery it taking too heavy a 1·epresentiog · 226 high schools 20 award• ran&"in&' from t60() to year throup the a~ncy of the in hit addrea to Howard atu- load.