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Show Howard University! The Long Hot Fall Is Coming By RICHARD ANTHONY Collegiate Press Service WASHINGTON (CPS) Georgia Avenue is the main route from official of-ficial Washington to Howard University. Uni-versity. It is a 'broad, straight road, well-paved well-paved and well-maintained, but it is bordered by the dingy, interminable intermin-able rows of two-bit business establishments estab-lishments that readily identify the area as a 'black ghetto pod halls, barber shops with their striped 'barber 'bar-ber polls askew, second-hand clothing cloth-ing stores, bars with neon window signs flickering half-lighted, a food market overflowing the ground floor of a turn-of-the-century brick warehouse. The sights to be seen along Georgia Geor-gia Avenue help to explain why Howard may be in for a "long, hot fall." The message of the ghetto, forcibly brought home to the country coun-try at large this summer, is also getting through to Howard. Unfortunately, Un-fortunately, Howard is ill-prepared to receive it. Among Negro colleges, Howard has always held a special place. Although suffering from the paternalism pater-nalism and conservatism that is characteristic of Negro colleges generally, Howard has had a good reputation academically and has 'been known as well as the place where Negro leaders "the black bourgoisie" get their start. In the broadest sense, it is the Question of what kind of leaders head of the Student Rights Organization. Organ-ization. "We're more unified than ever." Myles expects strong support from the freshmen. "This year's freshmen are more aware, more militant," he explains. "They're the Birmingham babies;' they've grown up with the movement." According to Brown, Howard President James Nabrit has indicated indi-cated that concessions will be made to the students. Greater student control over disciplinary matters is probably in the offering. But the concessions may not be enough to keep Howard from having hav-ing a long, hot fall. The legacy of bitterness from last spring's conflicts con-flicts between students and the administration ad-ministration will make a peaceful resolution of present conflicts hard to come by. Throughout last year, protests over matters affecting student rights escalated on the campus. Matters first came to a head, however, when draft director Gen. Lewis Hershey arrived on campus to give a speech. A group protesting the sending of Negroes to Viet Nam greeted him with signs and chants. He left without delivering his talk. Though the group protesting Her-shey's Her-shey's visit was small, its numbers grew when the university scheduled hearings for four students charged with leading the Hershey demonstration. with the Howard administration, his gaze is intense and his tone bitter. T want to return to Howard," he says. "The students need a boost. They have been intimidated. Hare's ACLU lawyer asked him to forego applying any extra-legal pressure to the univerity while the faculty case is in court, but Hare demurred. "I could tear the place down." he says. "I have contacts there, and I have support from the community." commun-ity." Hare would like to see Howard become a center for black thinkers, think-ers, with a curriculum that emphasized em-phasized African culture. He sees it now as an institution that "apes white academic trivia," and rewards re-wards those faculty members who exhibit the appropriate docility. If the Howard administration does not meet student demands respecting re-specting student government in the near future, the moderate student leaders may wind up in open alliance al-liance with Hare. A long, hot fall at Howard would then be assured. "Students here are oppressed," says student leader Myles, "and opression breeds violence. When the normal processes of adjusting greivances break down, it opens the door for violence." That is the familiar lesson from the ghetto. It may be a lesson that Howard officialdom is about to learn the hard way. Howard should be producing that lies behind the present unrest at the school. Lynda Blumenthal, a white instructor in-structor at the school for the past two years, says Howard has traditionally tradi-tionally tried to implant white values val-ues in its students. She explains that Howard has tended to reinforce the "negative identification" by students toward their being black. "Now the students stu-dents are learning to, be proud of being black," she says. "They have confidence in themselves. That's why they're more critical of paternalism pater-nalism at Howard." The issues of student power and black power are not really separate issues, according to Miss Blumenthal. Blumen-thal. Talks with student leaders confirm this judgment. Ewart Brown, president of the Student Assembly, and the leader of the group of more than 150 students and faculty who walked out during Howard President James ; Nabrit's opening address last week, wants Howard to create a black leadership that does not accept white values. "Black leadership must be developed de-veloped in the black universities," Brown said. "We need leaders who can infiltrate the system and not be Uncle Toms." Brown and other student leaders are devoting most of their efforts now to winning student control over "non-academic affairs," particularly par-ticularly over disciplinary matters. They are confident. "The student body this year has the determina-- determina-- tion to do things," says Tom Myles, A group of students broke up the hearing. They charged that the administration ad-ministration had named one of the four students, Robin Gregory, because be-cause she had become a symbol of black power on campus. Miss Gregory, who was elected homecoming queen last fall, was at the time part of a women's group associated with the Black Power Committee and the Student Non-Violent Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC). Finally, in May, a one-day boycott boy-cott was organized by a coalition of student groups to dramatize six student demands. One of these was the demand that no one be disciplined disci-plined for political activities on campus. As a result of the boycott President Pres-ident Nabrit agreed to meet with the leaders of the coalition. They say he committed himself at the time to foregoing any disciplinary measures against political activists Nabrit and an assistant dean who attended the meeting, Carl Anderson, Ander-son, deny it. In any case, this past summer 14 students were expelled and five faculty members notified that they would not be rehired. The university univer-sity took the action in mid-June, without prior notice and without hearings. The faculty members and four of the students took the case to court. In the course of proceedings it was revealed that Dean Anderson Ander-son had prepared memoranda for the dean of students listing students stu-dents who were most actively involved in-volved in protests. One of the lists, dated April 20, listed one group of students under the heading "Black Power" faction, fac-tion, and another under Student Rights Organization. It also contained the suggestion that SNCC and the Communist Party were 'behind the "demonstrations "demonstra-tions and other disruptive activi ties." On appeal, the court ruled that the students be reinstated pending a hearing (two of the four have returned to Howard). It recommended recom-mended hearings for the faculty members, but did not order them. The faculty case is still in litigation. litiga-tion. Two of the faculty members are teaching at other colleges this fall. Two are awaiting the results of the litigation. Nathan Hare, a boxer who had 2 amateur and two professional pro-fessional victories before he gave up the sport in 1963, is in training for another fight. Hare, who took his Ph.D. in sociology so-ciology at the University of Chicago, Chi-cago, is a short, compact man, with a voice that is unexpectedly high-pitched and nasal. When he speaks of his long-standing fued |