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cent That figure was reached in 1975 but has steadily declined

Though the success of NUs football team is widely seen as spawning a 20 percent increase in overall applications to the univershysity the figures for African-Amershyican students have not been boosted

Only 42 percent of the freshmen who chose to attend NU this year are African-American-a total of 82- middotcompared with 6 percent a year ago Last year 65 percent of the entire undergraduate student body or 487 students were African-American

Associate Provost Eugene Lowe chairman of the universitys new task force suggests that NU loses black students in two ways Stu-

Imiddot 1 I CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 CIa unease II an~~ti_gay graffiti had appeared I three weeks earlier and Sandersmiddott said the words Kill All the Jews

1 S campuswere scrawled op a dorm as well So far no culprit either on or off

I campus has been caught univershy sity officials said This was shocking to white I students because it was so overt 1but it was no surprise to black

orthwestern University officials h~ve studentsSanderssaidNorthwestshygetting a powerful and disturbing ern is a white supremacist institushy

age from without and within this fall tion and that has a ripple effect ieful bigoted epithets painted on a boul- If racism is thriving who wants in the center of campus came at a time to come here

1m minority enrollment figures were In the late 1960s NU officials meting I_vowed to get and keep African-t it may be the best thing to happen to since a certain coach came to townt decided to stay awhile) e unease on campus surrounding race ions has sparked a top-down and surshyingly frank self-examination on NUs rts to attract minoritjes and on the I climate at the university

officials and students are talking ly non-stop about tolerance these -from an anti-bigotry march and rally sored by the university administration FJontaneous discussions occurring

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ng students who might not have met wise this has coincided with the first meetshy

of a new administration task force to re why African-American enrollment eshmen this fall dropped 30 percent why Hispanic enrollment hovers stubshyly around 3 percent ny students see compelling reasons for ewed commitment to diversity rlier this month The Rock-a huge 1er in the middle of campus that for es has been used asa monument for ns-was painted with Die Negroes the word Black circled with a slash gh it said Jimmie Sanders 21 an NU r and coordinator of For Members

bull the AfricanAte~rican student ~r tshy ~ SEE xu PAG~8

for the prestige and lesser-known universities for the dazzling finan shycial packages they offer

But some of NUs African-Amershyican students say there is another factor

I run into a middotIot of ignorance said NU student Carolyn Strong 19 A lot of people here have had very little if any contact with minorities A girl asked me if I could teach her to speak jive

Within days of the appearance of the racist graffiti the black stushydent alliance sponsored a multirashycial forum where for several hours students grilled administrashytors and demanded that the unishyversity abide by the 10 percent promise of the 1960s

People at NU aren t used to mobilizing said Mike Sweiven 23 a graduate student in history But a lot of things are convergshying at one time

A handful of students showed up to a word-of-mouth meeting on race relations recently

Maybe instead of all these thisshyis-what-racism-is forums we should try attending each others cultural events suggested Hadar Dafny 20

Im Jewish and would love to go to one of your shows she said to Amanu Nwaomah 19 an African-American sophomore

You should come to our welshycoming ritual Nwaomah said Why dont we all give each other an open invitation to our separate events

Then Maryarn Ahranjani 20 explained about the Islam Awareshyness events going on all over camshyPlJ~ The graffiti attacking minorshyjfygroups reminded her of a poemr she said

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bull bull l bull bull bull J ~ bull J j bull bull I

but I wasnt Jewish then it was the gays but I wasn t gay then the blacks but I wasn t black she said her voice trailing off I hope people on campus are starting to realize its about all of us

Optimistic NU officials and stushydents describe university Prestshydent Henry S Bienen who took over as president in January 1995 as a true believer in the idea of creating a more diverse faculty and student body

He appointed the task force of faculty students and administrashytors charged with finding out why students are saying no to NU He personally participates in the recruiting of minority faculty and he has launched an all-campus public relations blitz through speeches open meetings and stateshyments printed in the Daily Northshywestern newspaper I

The true values of Northwestshyern are not the values that someshybody scrawls on a rock of hate and cowardice That doesnt characterize Northwestern Bienen said at a university-sponshysored rally this month

I think the real point is that we want to speak out and tell the community that Northwestern has no tolerance for intolerance or bigotry in any way he said

Sanders who heads the black student alliance said he is still hopeful

I think this university can change he said The people in charge just have to want it to

Free-lancereporter Brian Cox coruribuukt tQ this article

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from 3 pm to 5 pm Thursday at Hardin Hall At 7 pm that night FMO Legislative President

Jimmie Sanders plans to hold a campuswide open forum for all students and is calling for attendance by Barr and University President Henry Bienen both of whom are members of the community council The location has yet to be determined

We plan to present our grievances with the racial climate and basically the apathetic stance that the university has taken said Sanders an Education senior Not only with this situation but with other situations that have happened

If all goes as planned at the forum Barr and

Bicnen would field questions Irom students addressing racial issues and tensions on campus

Basically it comes down to th is Whats the university going to do said FtvlO Legislative Treasurer Nicholas Armstrong a McCormick junior Are they going to cover these things up or confront them and defeat them

In a written statement on behalf of the univershysity Bienen reaffirmed NUs commitment to inclushysion and diversity and characterized the incident as ugly destructive behavior

I was greatly saddened that once again The Rock has become a vehicle lor shocking and malevolent expressions of intolerance towards others Bienen said Such cowardly acts have no

place at Northwestern Barr said the administration has no leads as

to whether the culprit or culprits are NU stushydents Whether the incident qualifies as a hate crime depends on the motivation of the perpeshytrator she said

To me freedom of expression does not mean something of this nature she said We cannot tolerate this

Marsh said the bigotry on campus is merely a reflection of the harsh realities of America

Northwestern is a very American institution in that it has resources and the sports teams - it has velY American things she said And on the down side racism is just as American

HISlORY from page 1

African-Americans appeared Despite the recent use of The Rock for hate

speech the administration anticipates no steps to prevent students lrcm thei r traditi on 01paintshying it with various messages said Peggy Barr vice president lor student affairs

To take away a symbol of the university does no t make sense Just for two slurs Barr said

To stop further such incidents Barr encourshyaged students who might witness a-ny future hateful slurs on The Rock to report them to Universi ty Police

The community must become more vigishylant Barr said They mu st say Thats not acceptable here and when that happens the sense less acts of hatred and bigotry will stop

The Rock was a gift of the class of 1902 according to university archives The class brought it back from Devils Lake Wis a favorite site of geological trips It was originally an ornamental fountain that appeared to have wa fer naturally flowing out of it Plumbing was installed later and it was converted into a drinkshying fountain

It is not known exactly when the tradition 01 painting The Rock started A freshman class in the 1920s covered it with whitewash one night The next day they were made to scrape it off with the sophomore class standing guard

University Architect Gabor Zsolnay said the practice of painting campus monuments exists on other campuses and mad its way to NU sometime in the 1920s The tradition became a major nui sance in the] 960s and 70s he said

There are some of us who think there are

better traditions than painting The Rock Zsolnay said

The Rock was first located directly between Harris and University halls In August 1989 it was moved 20 feet to the easr to its present place during a renovation of the plaza between the halls Th is was done partly because paint from The Rock that spilled onto the sidewalk was being tracked into classrooms and was causing maintenance problems Zsolnay said

For a number of years that area was an eyeshysore said Zsolnay

During the move The Rock was cracked up the left side It was cemented back togethshyer and hefted to its new resting plac e The curshyrent wall and gravel surrounding The Rock were placed th ere [0 try to prevent s tudents [rom walking in paint and tracking it inro buildings

Fo r Members Only Not Anymore For Members Only Northwesterns black student alliance believed it had the

right to exclude the press from covering its events Those waiting to enter Fisk Hall auditorium where Sister Souljah would speak last Friday night were frisked by members 0

FMO to make sure they were not bringing in recording devices or notebooks

Our writer covered the speech by taking notes on flyers that FMO passed out Good thing they didnt take her pen

Jim Wilkinson the reporter from the Daily Northwestern was escorted out by University Police after FMO called in a complaint

It didnt seem to matter to FMO that funding for these speakers was not privately raised but rather provided by the university ostensibly from tuition money Therefore logic would dictate that since students paid for the speakers all students including members of the student media have the right to attend

Logic did eventually prevail and 10 min utes after UP took Mr Wilkinson out of the aud itorium they escorted him right back in But in a sense it was already too late

FMO succeeding in barring a Daily report from Frances Cress Welsings talk last Thursday and attempted to exclude the media from Leonard Jeffries speech last spring Note that both events were student funded

Daily Northwestern Editor in Chief Dennis Brack said it best Enough is enough Open access to events sponsored by student groups isnt a matter for further debate Groups should either abide by this rule or lose their funding Its that simple

The Northwestern Chronicle wholeheartedly agrees

both events were student funded

Daily Northwestern Editor in Chief Dennis Brack said it best Enough is enough Open access to events sponsored by

Column distorted facts about event coverage

Historically The Daily Northwestern has misrepresented For Members Only and its events by printing false informashytion and misquoting its speakers thereby providing the Northwestern community with a distorted view of FMO

Dennis Brack editor in chiefof The Daily once again deceived the NU comshymunity by providing incorrect informashytion in Mondays paper He wrote We worked LOavoid a confrontation on Frishyday night (Nov 1) by meeting Campus Activities officials and by attempting to contact FMO leadership

This is a blatant lie Neither Dennis Brack nor any other representative of The Daily attemp ted to contact FMO Instead reporter jim Wilkinson with knowledge of FMOs policy that its events not be covshyered sneaked into the event Afterbeing confronted both Dennis Brack and jim Wilkinson said they had been given pershymission to cover the event by Campus Activities officialDouglas Troutman That again was a blatant lie Douglas Troutman did not give them permission to cover the tgtHPnf in (ojirt h o- ~ rI l C tgt rI th prn f n u Tn r l1 1t event in fact he advised them to work it out with FMOs leadership

When Dennis Brackand jim Wilkinshyson were confronted by members of FMO they were told several times that they could attend the event as student s but not as representatives of the media However they refused to cooperate and FMO did not hesitate to call the Univershysity Police

The first office r on the scene escorted Dennis Brackj im Wilkinson and photogshyrapher Nilay Shah from the lecture hall Unfortunately three additional officers arshyrived and overruled the decision of the first officer to uphold FMOs request These three officers whom Dennis Brack deemed to be the cooler heads conshycluded without providing documentation or presenting any University policy that The Daily could cover the event

Dennis Bracks column is indicative of The Dailys historical misrepresentation of FMO The tactic here as in earlier cases was to saturate the media with lies and half-truths and continue the campaign to destroy FMOs reputation and force it to apologize for providing the students with progressive Blackspeakers The Daily Northwestern is charged with being a Great Deceiver and Dennis Brack a man of lawlessness

Despite these devilish tactics which reek of white supremacy FMO will conshytinue to provide truthful and progressive programming for the NU community Contrary to Dennis Bracks statements all students are welcomed and encouraged to attend FMO events

- FOR MEMBERS ONLY EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

y Northwestern NOVEMBER 8 1996

FMO from page1

here and there is frustration on their faces because they cant hear Poole said They made their way across campus they got out of class early theyve forgone dinner

Poole added The college is not committed to answering these kinds of problems

Other students questioned Barr and Dumas on the statistics of black enrollment 43 percent for the freshman class - a far cry from the 10 percent rate as of 15 years ago

Barr acknowledged that black and Hispanic students are very under-represented on campus

If we accepted more AfricanshyAmericans we would have to change the standards of admisshysion Dumas said sparking a raising of voices and gasps He explained his response saying By definition if we accepted twice as many students regardless of race gender economic backshyground etc we are changing the standards of admission

Students also expressed outshyrage over NUs failure to renew the contract of adjunct instructor Sheldon Epstein who taught an electrical engineering course and claims NU fired him for talking about the Holocaust in his classes

oy cenruuon II we aLLepleu twice as many students regardless of race gender economic backshyground etc we are changing the standards of admission

last week we fired a teacher for telling the truth about the Holocaust when we continue to harbor an open Nazi in the elecshytrical engineering department yelled history graduate Mike Sweiven referring to Electrical Engineering Assoc Prof Arthur Butz who wrote The Hoax of the 20th Century a revisionist histoshyry of the Holocaust

Dumas said Butz has tenure and the administration did not know of his beliefs when tenure was awarded to him He added that the courses Butz teaches are also taught by other professors for those who do not feel comfortshyable But black electrical engishyneering junior Carlton Retland said he sees no way around endshying up with Butz in his schedule

How do I know hes going to give me a fair shake said Reiland who will be in one of Butzs classes Spring Quarter When it comes down to partial credit on a test is he going to give me the benefit of the doubt like he would Caucasian students)

Barr also denied rumors that the Black House may soon be closed adding that as long as I control this budget and this area (the Black House) will stay

Another key conversational topic of the evenin g was the involvement of students themshy

vv nen Il cernes uown 10 pallial credit on a test is he going to give me the benefit of the doubt like he would Caucasian students

Another key conversational topic of the evening was the involvement of students themshy

selves with several students necessitating that student awareshyness and the ability of campus orgaruzations to work together is crucial in conquering the bigotry that has plagued the campus

For us to sit here and point the finger at (the administration) - thats wrong CAS junior Clarence Brown told the audishyence We have to look in the mirshyror first to see what were doing

Rachel Milton co-president of Hillel Cultural Life a campus Jewish organization was optishymistic that inter-organizational involvement is on the horizon

I m glad to see that there is a desire for groups to work togethshyer she said I just hope that what was said here turns into something more than words

Nicole Patton a CAS sophoshymore agreed that student involvement is beneficial but stressed that we have to know that the administration is behind us and I dont feel that they are

Sanders said that overall the evening was a success

This was a very historic forum he said It was the only time when youll get Muslims black Jews white Jews homosexshyuals Christians and a wide varishyety of African-Americans at one point in time to discuss white supremacy

lI1al llie aurrurusrrauon Jgt oeruuu us and I dont feel that they are

FMOspeaker detracts from human unity

dont have any plans yet for tomorshyrow night but Ican tell you one place I wont be Harris 107 just have no desire to seeNarion of Isshylam represe~~ ihallid Abdul Muha~ t~e ~ pe a ke r whom For)dembers Only invited to kick oIFBlack History Month

Muhammads the guy who referred to the Pope as a cracker and to Jews as blood-suckshyers in a 1993 speech at KeanCollege in New Jersey

This guys venom is so potent it even proshyvoked Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan

~ for a couple of months idnt challenge the truths

bull J Nu J-SJ 1shy ke but criticized his manner

not unique to NU ot~~~~~~~~I~~~~it~ havisand experts on various

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De over MUhammad

bull Kha dMuhammad wiD address NUThuBday night The ofIslam DISCiple has been speaking for more than20

wears - and spartcing debate mong ItIJCh of that time

BY lAURA OPPENHEIMER The Daily No ttnwesie rn

arion of Islam disciple Khallid Abdul Muhammad will address Northwestern for the first time Thursday night in a speech sponsored by Fo r Mem bers Only but the U campus debate that his pending appearance has sparked is similar to conshytroversy already played out at campuses across the country

Along with anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish remarks he has made in previous speeches Muhammad also has denou nced lack leaders and figures such as Spike Lee saying they have

given in to a white agenda r Muhammad has worked with the Nation of Islam since the ]jel-1970s During L11Q e years he served as a minister of

tlefcnse and the supreme captain of the Fruit of Islam a parashymilitary unarm ed bodyguard organization that functions as a subsegmentor the auon 01 Islam

But Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan rebuked uharnrnad in 1994 after Muhammad justified the Nazi

Holocaust and made degrading remarks about Catholics Jews and homosexuals in one speech

To me its highly improper in that you make a mockery over eople Farrakhan tolei Time Magazine in 1994 Why should

wegoad them into a behavior that is so easy for them to do harm r hl -ult n P Anl 7 And I h l f ~C 1h I l2b 1LIu~d h im

in with Farrakhans scheme to r ----u-d - ---l --- - -U -- ~ in with Farrakhans scheme to noverneru and himse1f among rs like former NAACP President

vis (wholl be speaking at NU ih) and JesseJackson

ent j irnmie Sanders said he NU commu nity to feel welshy

g black feminism black student Lions and African-American

lot feel welcome at the Muhamshyntitled DestroyingWhite Minds Students Exposing Falsehood gTIUth It has nothing to do tions to the Nation of Islam Its

Freedom ofspeech CI

applies to Muhamm

t urSdays For Members Only speaker Muhammad re-opens a Chilling debate student control over lecturers With SlUO

tivity fees funding group speakers some sl have said the student government shoul more control over selecting speakers because content of their lectures

Is a potentially offensive speech a co enough Interest for students to dictate w speak on campus)

When we stan defining what speech is a ate on campus a select group of people ~

draw a line Once that line starts it is diml erase let alone stop Is it possible for Associate dent Government to narrowly tailor guideln how we chose the seemingly endless drove of erswho lectureon campus everyday of the WE

We cannot single out one group and chs their actions We cannot threaten withholdin dent acuvuy fee app ropriations We canno awayat a vulnerable First Amendment easilyI and bruised by politicalcorrectness

The beauty of the First Amendment is its ness Congress shall make no law abridgino thi dam of QVgtprh poundr t ho n nlH ro( t ~_ I_ ~ ~ _ ness Congressshall make no law abridgino thi dom of speech or the right of the peoplePeal to assemble

While a private university like Northwesq out of the federalSlate or locallawmakingjlll lion NU remains unique in i15 strong stance 0

speech PlUVldmg an open exchange of ideas essence of the First Amendment and is uniq thiscountry

The Daily Northwestern defends Muhamm we defended a Holocaust denier like Assoc Art hur BUlZ Protecting the marketplace of id lar more crucial than worrying about offen some students j S Mill was concerned wit] greatest good for the greates t number V Muharnrnads speech might not serve Mills ut ian philosophy tomorrow night we all havearu continue to benefit from accepting conrroshywith in our community in the future an that

PAULS BARE FEET The Beatshyles famed Abbey Road album was released in 1969

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resurgence or the Beatles has an impac t on todays college stu shyde nts Whot (Kendall) is teach ing here at North shywestern IS unique

Today chose to feature the class in 0 segmert which will probably air in tvo weeks beca use sto ries on ducu ron arc in constant demand and beshycause the cliss offers viewers J

non-r radu ion al look iu o (ollege lilc sud the show s prod ucer Erc Wishnie

IImDJ It a Difference th ~

Eric Wisllllt producer

The music of the Beatles continues to have

relevance for todays society

~ ch tng kids lire md music cm l III A I IIa Todnvcorresponden t l ts a lso interesting for hb y )o mo s O see how the recent

3b Conference and]effries putFMO on defensive ~ STRIKING AMATCH FMO has ignited controversy w ith its Af rican Holocaust Conference and invitation of speaker Dr LeonardJeffries

ANDREA PASSAlACQUA The Daily Nonhwestem

For Members Only North westerns AfricanshyAmerican stud ent alliance W111 sponsor its first annual African Holocaust Conference this weekshyend with plans to settle the score

People have said that we don t have the right to use the word holocaust said Education JUshynior jimmie Sanders FMOs incoming coordinashytor Ira ns-Atlantic slave trade - thats the Holoshycaust were talking about Our Holocaust has to be recognized

The co nfe re nces key no te spea ker Dr Leonard jeflries a professor of African studies at the City College of New York wi ll talk about the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and North American slavery in his lectu re entitled The ROope o f Africa

(leffries) is a black schola r who present s truth wid historical documentat ion Sanders said

Though the usc of Alncan Holocaust as 0 I1I le for the conference has generated debate African Ho locau st conferenc es have comme nced a t sc hoo ls across the nati on for several years Sanders said

We just need to settle the score Sanders said lt was meant to be provocative We set it up [ike a boxing match

As one of the top scholars on this topic jd shy[nes has traveled to Africa more than 50 times and has spoken most recently at such schools as Howard Un iversity Harvard Universu y and Duke Universitv

So mlny time on campus we learn about everone elses history and we dont learn about things that have happened to African-Amencan people said Step hanie Sely outgoing coordinashytor of FMO This is supposed to be a let rntng environment lrsimportant for us to know where we come from In order lor us to know where were gOing

5lt lt FMO on pugr 10

(leffries) is a black schola r who present s tru th with historical documentation Sanders said

BLACKBOARD NEW STUDENT WEEK I 9S

BLACKTIVITIES CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Learn about For Members Only organizations

V III ~ I shyI-- -TTT

5- Kwanzaa Observance with Dr Maulana Karenga Harris 1077 pm

16- Million Man March Festivities

12- FMO Open Forum

November

19 - A panel discussion of the Black Student Experience at NLJ 6 pm Norris Louis Room North

15 - New student Week Begins

October

19- FMO Game and Card Night time and place tba

27- FMO Afrikan Mind Liberation Conference (through Nov 2)

November

December

20- General Colin Powell Cahn Auditorium

27- FMO House Party at the Blackhouse 9 pm

24 - Satellite Fairu

Voter Registration Drive-- 6 pm The Ritual-vBlack talent showcase Norris Louis Room 6 pm

5- FMO Cookout at the Blackhouse noon

September

25- First day of classes

8- FMO Open Forum Blackhouse 7 pm

26- FMO Open Forum-- Come discuss current events Blackhouse 7 pm

irthwestern Friday November 10 1995

FM0 conference to tackle racism By Rebecca Winters Daily Staff Writer

Northwesterns black student alliance For Members Only hopes to make an annual tradition of its upcoming African Mind Liberation Conference

The conference which will take place at 730 pm Sunday and 7 pm Monday in Harris 107 is entitled Survival of the Black Race in the 21st Century It will address how racist images affect the way African-Americans view themselves

Were seeking to deconstruct the images of things weve learned in a racist white-supremicist culture FMO coordinator and Education senior Stephanie Seay said Were preparing ourselves to face the changes of the 21st century

Learning to recognize these images is part of overcoming them said Jimmie Sanders FMO administrat ive vice coordinator

African-Americans have internalized the dynamics of our own perceived infeshyriority said Sanders an Education junior By examining these rac ist images we begin to undo the psychologishycal deterioration

FMO hopes to promote nation-buildshy

ing in th is years conference Nationshybuilding or the creation of a unified African-American community at NU is a theme this years executive board adoptshyed for its programming Sanders said

It s been said that (African shyAmericans) have chains on our minds said FMO Legislative Treasurer Nicholas Armstrong a McCormick sophomore Raising consciousness is the first step toward breaking those chains toward building a community

The conference will feature two speakshyers

Muhammed Akil of Lost Link Enterprises in Chicago will speak on the topic Decoding White Supremacy Reading Destructive Images

Scholar activist and educator Jawanza Kunjufu will address the Survival of the Black race in the 21st century A SocialPoliticalHistorical Analysis of the Future of the African Race in the 21st Century

Kunjufu authored a series of books titled Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys the first of which was published in 1982 He spoke at the Million Man March in Washington DC and has appeared on Oprah

The conference is free and open to all

Learning to recognize these images is Black race in the 21st century A part of overcoming them said Jimmie SocialPoliticalHistorical Analysis of Sanders FMO administrative vice coor- the Future of the African Race in the 21st

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a reflection of who you are In addition she encouraged black women to not let themselves be treated as sex objects but stand up and be the strong women we were created as Later Souljah stated that there cann ot be black power with black immorality

Education was touted by Souljah as the key to a su ccess fu l future Although stating that the current system of education is designed to maintain the current arrangement of white power she empowered Afr ic anshyAmerican students by defining their responsibilities as to develop their minds to think and analyze independently to es t a bl i s h a community to depend on later in the business

JA (JItiq J2D 118 As one of few audience members willing to speak

with the press after Souljahs init ial decrying of the media and herself an African-American Bates did n o t agree with everything Souljah said Sh e continues 1 also think contrary to her [Soujahs] opinion that association with o t her cultures is important to our struggle for instance ~s h e was

We cant have a movement without

knowing what were fighting for

Sister Souljah in her

Reactions of the audience were extremely positive with members seeking guidance and advice in the roughly hour-long question and answer period CAS freshman Rosalyn Bates comments I thought it was very good the way she gave us applicable advice things that we can apply to organize ou rselves and better combat some of the racial issues an d discriminations on this campus

opposed to the fact that black and white alli ances were beneficial to the struggle if they were not part of the stru ggle then she didn t see a point in the association I am not of that opinion however I believe that is very pertinent and crucial to our struggle because I know some white people who would st and up for justice if they saw examples of injustice

world and generally to get a going on speech to NU studentsplan an accomplish it Bates concern illustrates the fact that even though Souljah

delivered a message based in common sense the beliefs underlying Souljah s instruction were somewhat radical Capitalism was presented as a way to prevent groups (such as African-Americans) from working for the collective good rather than th e individual good and the current ed ucation system as already mentioned was portrayed as a tool designed to preserve white domination of blacks

Big 8 Conference on Black Student Government

Conference Materials

February 20-23 1997

tJEW STUDENT WEEK I 996

OARDI 1

Chicago is your kind of town

y Aarienne Samuels ditor-rn-Chret This year 84 new African-American treshrner rossed the ultimate thresho id They havi ntered the qlor ious world of wild purple

I assion As of this week they may truthful laim to be Northwestern Wildcats

But these freshmen must learn that thl orthwestern campus and Evanston are not thl eginning and end of college l ife on this side 0

he-lake Dont forget that Chicago is right dow I he street I For those few freshmen who can overcome the I ~ ~~~

I For those few freshmen who can overcome the I rossly negative exaggerations of ife in Chi-town Bteckboetd has compiled a list 0

tot spots Navy Pier--Located on 600 E Grand Avenue ir owntown Chicago the pier is the place to be a

ong as its warm Theres a permanent lake sidt erris wheel arcades shops novelty stores anc most interestinq McDonalds Concerts are h ek eekly and in the winter there is outdoor iCE

kating (791-PIER) North Pier Mall-- located on 435 E Illinois Nortt ier Mall is the place to go when its too cold tlt tay outside Not only is there a martial art tore where you can buy switchblades

Apathetic students at NU page 2 Blacktivities page 3 NU cats are back da back page

BLACK On Your Mark Get Set Go

WHATS INSIDE

VOLUME 28 ISSUE I

By oanr eue Robinson Congratulations and welcome to Northwestern

Youve made it to one of the top universities in the nation Now can you make it to your first class next Wednesday morning

As freshmen its a good idea to be completely confident of yourself and your surroundings That way your bottom-of-the-totem-pole status wont glare like a neon sign

The coordi nators of New Student Week have armed each of you with maps Use them wisely and you will soon le8rn to navigate your way

bull through NUs campus Keep in mind the two most important cardinal directions north and south (east will always be referred Ito as the lake and west is non-existent in NU lingo)

Which building is which you might ask they alii have the same name

Those students who spend late evenings in the chemistry lab probably belong to the Robert R McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Qicrnfoc R(hhl fY)11ct hl110 haon ~n ~Jirl

McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Bobby must have been an avid moviegoer because in front of the box office in Norns is the McCormick auditorium Searle Hall is located on Emerson Street across

from the sorority quads Go there if youre sick Frances Searle BUilding hides in a corner between SPAC and Tech on the north side of campus Go there if youre studying communicative disorders cont onpage 5

DE NNiS BRACK

Groups repeated attempts to ban press shouldnt stand Journalists are supposed to tell the

whole story - the wh o the what an d the V hy down to the last detail Pubshylish ing any th ing less is tantamount to professi onal failure and public neg lect

Why) Because the public has a righ t to know Thi s isnt a ho llow phrase Spe nd some time in the Burmas and Chi nas o f the wo rld - places whe re regimes sque lch free speech to op press their people - and you ll reali ze why free expressi on is vita l to preservin g the o the r freed oms we take for granted

But in rodays p 3 story ab out Sister Souljahs speech on Friday night The Daily did not tell the whole story

Nowher e in the sto ry d id its write r mention that member s o f For Membe rs O nly the stu dent group that spo nso red the event ca lled Un iversity Police to have hi m unlawfully removed from the speech

Ou r rati on ale We cam e to Fisk Hall Friday night to covera news story not to become the news story While practishytio ne rs of shock jou rna lism thrive on having the bad gu ys thrust their hands in front of cameras and throw reporters on to the sid ewalk Th e Daily doesnt seek suc h att ention vVe JUSt wa nt to do our jobs We just want to info rm ou r reade rs

Thats why it s Importa nt that you and our 10000 other readers kn ow what hap pen ed Friday n ight

FMO co nte nde d as it has in the pas t th at its events are close d to the press And The Daily he ld fi rm to its stance Student groups even ts are fun de d by stude nt activities fees and are open to all students including membe rs o f th e cam pus media

This isn t a new de ba te Last spring FMO att emp ted to exclude me mber s of the ca mpus medi a fro m Prof Leon ard Jeffr ies speech and Thursd ay th e group bar red a Daily repo rte r from Dr Frances C ress Welsi ngs o n-campus talk

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tione rs of shock journa lism thrive on having the bad gu ys th rust thei r hands in fron t of cameras and th row

We worked to avoid a con frontation on Friday nigh t by meet ing with Camshypu s Activities o fficials and by attemptshying to contact the FMO leade rsh ip Our

sta ffers at the eve nt co nd ucte d themshyselves profe ssion ally sittin g quietly in the audience waiting for Souljah to arshyrive

After a Uni ver sity Police officer esshyco rted rep ort er Jim Wilkinso n out of Fisk 217 coo ler heads prevailed Offishycers allowed Wilkinson to go back upshysta irs and do h is jo b The po lice conshycluded that FMO could not excl ude stud en ts from the speech

This sh ouldn t come as a surprise to FMO or any othe r student group The Camp us Activities Office which coorshydinates stude nt-s po nso red p rogram shyming has to ld gro ups that events funded by ac tivities fees must be open to all st udents

Enou gh is eno ugh Ope n access to events sponsored by student gro ups isn t a matter for fu rther de bate Groups should either abid e by this rul e or lose their fun di ng Its tha t sim ple

Th ose who wish to spe nd ou r ac tivishyties money to hold closed events sh ould embrace NUs comm on -sense open access po licy or they sho uld go elsew he re The last thing we need is more div ision on this campus

-DENNIS BRACK is a Medillsenior He is editor in chiefof The Daily Northwestern

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Bienen would field questions from students addressing racial issuesand tensions on campus

Basically it comes down to this Whats the university going to do said FMO Legislative Treasurer Nicholas Armstrong a McConnick junior Are they going to cover these things up or confront them and defeat them

In a written statement on behalfof the univershysity Bienen reaffirmed NUs commitment LO inclushysion and diversity and characterized the incident as ugly destructive behavior

I was greatly saddened that once again The Rock has become a vehicle for shocking and malevolent expressions of intolerance towards others Bienen said Such cowardly acts have no

to whether the culprit or culprits are NU stushydents Wh ether the incident qualifies as a hate crime depend s on the motivation of the perpeshytrator she said

Northwestern is a very American inst itution in that it has resources and the sports teams - it has very American things she said And on the down side racism is just as American

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from 3 pm to 5 pm Thursday at Hardin Hall At 7 pm that night FMO LegislativePresident

We plan to present our grievances with the racial climate and basically the apathetic stance iha the university has taken said Sanders an Education senior Not only with this situation but with other situations that have happened

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speech the ad ministration anticipates J10 steps to prevent students from their tradition of paintshying it with various messages said Peggy Barr vice president for student affairs

To take away a symbol of the university does not make sense Just for two slurs Barr said

To SLOp further such incidents Barr encourshyaged students who might witness any futu re hateful slurs on The Rock to report them to University Police

The community must become more vigishylant Barr said They must say Thats not acceptable here and when that happens the senseless acts of hatred and bigotry will stop

The Rock was a gift of the class of 1902 accord ing LO un iversity archives The class brought it back from Devils Lake Wis a favorite site of geological trips It was originally an ornam ental fountain that appeared LO have water naturally Oowing out of it Plumbing was installed later and it was convened into a drin kshying fountain

It is not known exactly when the tradition of painting The Rock started A freshman class in the 1920s covered it with whitewash one night The next day they were made to scrape it off with the soph omo re class standin g guard

University Architect Gabor Zsolnay said the practice of painting campus monuments exists on other campuses and made its way to NU sometime in the 1920s The tradition became a major nuisance in the 1960s and 70s he said

better traditi ons than painting The Rock Zsolnay said

The Rock was first located directly between Harris and University halls In August 1989 it was moved 20 feel to the east to its present place during a renovation of the plaza between the halls This was done pan ly because paint from The Rock that spilled onto the sidewalk was being tracked into classrooms and was causing maint enance problems Zsolnay said

Durin g the move The Rock was cracked up the left side It was cemented back togethshyer and hefted to its new restin g place The curshyrent wall and gravel surround ing The Rock were placed there to try to prevent stude nts from walking in paint and trackin g it into buildings

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Akils speech NUs horrible but necessary diatrib We didnt like it In fact we hated it When Muhammed Akil spoke on camshy

pus Sunday night during For Members Onlys African Mind Liberation Confershyence he targeted whites gays and Chrisshytians with his slurs He denigrated speshycific members of the Northwestern comshymunity and took on some peoples vershysion of God

And to put it mildly many took his comments personally

AkiIs statements were ignorant offenshysive insensitive cruel and blatantly disshycriminatory They included everything we didnt want to hear and more

Yet we live in a country where the First Amendment protects the right of racists like Muhammed Akil to speak freely So we just have to tolerate it

But should students who are offended by an NU event have to pay for it with their Student Activities Fees Absolutely

The Student Activities Funding Board

cant discriminate against one group beshycause another one opposes them Can the College Democrats restrict the funding of the College Republicans Should the Bishysexual Gay and Lesbian Alliances speakshyers be vetoed because NU Catholics dont necessarily agree with the gay lifestyle

Conflicts like these would only result in losses for the entire campus The reshysulting homogeneous events would be apshyproved based on their bland politically correct topics

Last spring during SAFB hearings the funding of two speakers were contested - the Conservative Councils Dan Quayle and FMOs Dr Leonard Jeffries who was accused of voicing anti-Semitic slurs in 1991 After heated debates the Associated Student Government provided funding to bring them both to campus

And that is how it should be Stifling unpopularideas would make us as blashytantly discriminatory as the views wed be

trying to suppress Perhaps allowing speakers like AIlt

come to NU will open students eye the sickening ideology that still exist the world Only then can the issues dealt with head-on

However the student groups th selves should consider the costs and I efits of bringing such a speaker to c pus Even though AkiIs ideas were of sive FMO apparently decided that message outweighed the feelings of 01 groups on campus Thats their calI

Yet given that decision FMO she fully expect to see a day when D~ Duke holds a rally at The Rock us their activities fees to pay for it

If an organization like FMO cant sensitive to the feelings of others on c pus they shouldnt expect others to them the same courtesy

When that happens FMO wont lik But they will have to tolerate it

Inept FM-O article had bad news angle

I am writing in regard to the article FMO speaker decries whites which was printed on Nov 14 This article was absoshylutely terrible in all aspects from reporting to structure toan incorrect picture caption

Although I am only a first-year Medii student I do have a sense of journalism ethics in the context of objective reportshying I found the article to be very biased in that it only focused on the negative points of the lecture by Muhammed AlGI rather than the entire context in which the lecture was delivered This is the same type of prejudiced commentary that was delivered in the national media covshyerage of Louis Farrakhan when the meshydia only focused on his views on Jews

I was present at the other lecture delivshyered by Jawanza Kunjufu and I feel that an equal amount of review should have been given to his lecture which I personally found to be very informative and uplifting ~ train The Daily Northwesterns

Extreme views n01 held by entire rae

By now The Daily Northwestern probably received a few letters abou African Mind Liberation Conference tA effect that African-Americans are jlst3l

unpopular eas wou make us as b ashytantly discriminatory as the views wed be

staff to be more effective in their report

Hypocritical Akil took Hitlers path

The Northwestern student body and adshyministration should be outraged that a blashytantly racist and offensive speaker such as

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catch-up d uring Reading Week But they wont have that same luxury Winter Quarter

Winter Quarter Reading Week will last four days from Thursday March 8 to Sunday March 11

Legislation passed by administrashytors in 1969 requires a minimum of nine weeks of class every quarter Beshycause this Winter Quarters classes are scheduled to start Jan 3 - a

Wednesday - classes have to cut into The Monday and Tuesday of Reading Week

And because classes are canceled from 11 am to 2 pm on Jan 15 in obshyservance of Martin Luther King Jr Day Weinberg Assoc Dean Robert Coen said the only way for a MondayshyWednesday-Friday class to get the minimum 27 lectures is to take another day from Reading Week

Its unfair for students to not get their moneys worth by having less than a full quarter of classes Coen said

University rules state that Winter Quarter must start Jan 3 unless that day is a Thursday or Friday

Although reading weeks rarely are shorter than seven days they have been before Coen said He pointed to Winter Quarter 1996 as the most recent example when Reading Week was five days long

Associated Student Government Academic Vice President Sameer Gafoor said he is reviewing guideshylines about Reading Week

Its an important issue to all stushydents so it deserves a lot of attention from us Gafoor said If theres any way ASG feels Reading Week can be

extended we will push for this Gafoor a Weinberg junior also

said students should not be penalized for having time off on Martin Luther King Jr Day

Its interesting that we only get three hours off for Martin Luther King Day but we are penalized one full day because of Reading Week he said I dont think the students thought when they asked for Martin

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Keyrwte speakerJamieWashington of the University ofMarylandathe University ofMarylandat Baltimore Cauntyspoke in theLouis Roomtoattendees ofSaturdays Diversity Conference sity Conference

Diversity ConfereLonference tackles issues from variety variety ofangles From diversity in the media to differences in religion speakers urge understanding

By WAlLIN WONG The Daily Northwestern

At Saturdays second-annual Diversity Conference opening speaker Judith Katz began the day of dialogue with a simple commushy

nication tactic She had the nearcation tactic She had the nearly 40 people in the room introdud people in the room introduce themselves to as many other peemselves to as many other peoshyple as possible e as possible

Our belief is that we cant cr Our belief is that we cant creshyate a community if we dont sre a community if we dont say hello said Katz executive viello said Katz executive vice president of New York-bascesident of New York-based Kaleel Jamison Consulting Croualeel Jamison Consulting Group She said she uses the same ieee said she uses the same iceshybreaker with Fortune 500 compeaker with Fortune 500 compashynies es

The morning introductions started a day of workshops and speakers all part of the Diversity Conference which was titled Real Understanding How Far Have We Come

About 100 people attended the seven-hour conference at Norris University Center This was about half the number of people who

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From v-redmondnwuedu Tue 5ep 24 130108 1996 Date Tue 24 Sep 1996 102938 -0500 From Vadal Redroond ltV-redrrondnwu edugt To j-sanders4nwuedu Subject Things

Hi Jinmie

You dont know me but I work in the office of Vice President Barr therefore I tend to keep up with some of the goings on with student organizations

I I m about to put my neck in a noose but hopefully for the good of FMO I send out from time to time letters requesting a representative from the FMO organization to meet with university administrators Most recently Ive sent out such a request for the Northwestern Community Council I understand at times FMOs refusal to attend such meetings but there are times when I feel your presence is warranted The NCC gives you a chance to voice your opinions on the race issues here at Northwestern to have a say in policies that affect not only your stay here but that of African Americans that attend Northwestern in the future That said I would suggest that you attend one meeting as an observer if you do not feel your presence is welcomed dont show up for any of the other meetings but if you feel you can contribute please make an effort to attend as many of the meetings as possible

Being with the university for fourteen years I am familiar with the history of FMOs not meeting with the administration but there is an old saying Know Thy Enemy and if you view the administration as your enemy there is no better way to find out about them than to see at least some of the cards they have on the table I believe that the NCC needs the views of the FMO Executive Board as only the Board can given them At this point I believe they (the administration and NeC) are only guessing at your objectives and their guessing can only do you harm

Feel free to email me whenever you need Just remember as an errployee of Northwestern although my loyalty is not split I do have to be selective in what we discuss

Vadal Redmond ) Office of Student Affairs 633 Clark 2-219 Crown Evanston Illinois 60208-1107 (847) 491-5360 (847) 491-8406 (fax)

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From nsa701luluacnsnwuedu Wed Feb 5 174453 1997 Date Wed 5 Feb 1997 13 3852 -0600 (CST) From Nicholas Armstrong ltnsa701lulu acnsnwuedugt To Jimmie Sanders ltj-sanders4nwuedugt Cc Jelani Semmes ltj ks 159l ul u acns nwu edugt Subject Re Concern Regarding Speaker on Campus (fwd)

----- - - --- Forwarded message ---------- Date Wed 05 Feb 1997 23 42 36 -0600 From Michael Balinsky ltbalinskynwuedugt To nccli stservacnsnWUedu Subject Re Concern Regarding Speaker on Campus

I was forworded this message and I hope it is appropiate for me to respond t o the listserv

As someone involved in the protest I would like to point out there are 2 issues here The first is the speaker himself the second the group that invited him in this case FMO I am less concerned about the first much more about the second I should add that this is a similar issue to that of a few years ago when 2 res colleges invited Butz to speak it is more precarious here because of the racial tension in the bac kgr ound

I believe we do a massive diservice to students and education in general when we do not hold students accountable and responsible for the speakers they bring to campus Free speech is thrown around as an excuse for just about anything I remember the students from PARC who invited Butz there was no recognition of the implications of offering him a forum The university is about the exchange of ideas but it is also about creating a viable community of responsible young adults We are simply not doing our job unless they are challenged in that area as well

Are departments and centers on campus willing to look carefully and decide with whom they should sponsor programs Are we going to tell students that they have a moral responsibility to speak out even if it violates group unity These are questions we must all ask first of ourselves and to others I emphasize they are questions not conclusions But it is time for the discussion to begin

Rabbi Michael Balinsky Director Hillel gt raquogtDr Khallid Muhammad will be speaking on campus this Thursday evening at raquo gtthe invitation of FMO His topic for the evening will be Exploding the raquo gtWhite Mind in Black Students and the program is one event among many raquo gtbeing sponsored on campus during February in observance of Black History raquo gtMonth raquogt raquogtDr Muhammad has a reputation for passionate and fiery rhetoric and there raquo gtar e some who believe strongly that his speech goes beyond that to hateful raquo gtand ant-Semitic A number of individuals and campus groups who share this raquo gtbelief are concerned about Dr Muhammeds presence on campus and the raquogtmessage they feel he will convey These persons are planning to protest raquogtoutside the program raquogt raquogtIm unaware of anyone who is planning prorgramming on campus designed at raquogteducating around the tensions this event will surface This may be raquogtsomething the NCC will want to consider fostering or sponsoring I suggest raquo gtthat any member of the group with thoughts along those lines or other ideas raquo gtshould feel free to share them using this listserv (see address above) raquogtPlease keep in mind we have identified the importance of a rapid response raquo gtin effectively addressing such situations raquogt raquogtAlso each of us should be prepared to work with and through our own raquogtconstituencies to help make sure the discussion on campus is focused on the raquogtfacts and feelings instead of on the rumor and reactive behavior raquogt

From t-dalynwuedu Mon Feb 10 171645 1997 Date Fri 7 Feb 1997 170447 -0600 From Timothy M Daly ltt-dalynwuedugt To j-sanders4nwuedu Subject speech

Mr Sanders I am just another of the students that went to see Khallid Muhammed

speak at Harris on thursday night I am sure you have head from enough people about the issues raised by his lecture so I will try not to start any arguments I am mostly curious as to what your perspective is on his teachings I am a white middle class midwestern kid I am probably exactly the kind of person that Dr Muhammed would cite as the enemy white man But as I sat there through the speach I was enthralled and saddened greatly I had never a speaker who so directly announced his views knowing they would be received with some hostility Obviouslu I give him credit for that But I was saddened because I saw only anger and no hope What were Dr Muhammeds real solutions He does not want any contact with white folks But I dont think this planet is large enough for two such large groups not to depend on one another I eat and wear items every day made by both white and black hands I use services provided by people of all types How after all these centuries can we possibly extract the races from one another and be expected to co-exist separately The bottom line of my question is this Jimmie Northwestern University was founded i n 1851 by some white Methodists and it was an Old Boys Network type of school until after world war II It has been built up by an endowment of old rich white people and it run by entire commities of them now The professors are usually white and they teach a history that is undoubtedly viewed from a white perspective Just as Dr Muhammed said in the lecture the books in our libraries are white books You are graded by white professors which means they have control over your future In an environment dominated and controlled by the white establishment what benefit is there for a black student who follows Dr Muhammed in this university We are unable to overcome out nature which disposes us to acts of obscene crueltyshyso who would want to go to our school (pardon the suggestion that this school belongs to someone) I ask this with the best intentions- I dont want you to leave I want to see some kind of harmony But surely no African Americans will gain a true sense of themselves in an elitist white institution that teaches only lies right I knew there were race relations problems and tensions I have often wondered why I felt alienated by most African Americans that I encounter on campus I am naive But I never thought that any of my fellow students would think that I am a devil and evil because of my ancestory I am no more responsible for their deeds than I am for another mans today What I am asking is that you send some sort of reply to my question I have taken for granted that you agree with Dr Muhammed teachings because you are the president of the group that sponsored him Let me know if I am wrong But what I heard was a man attacking other races tearing people down and raising only his own people up If all people thought that way would there be any end to war It sounds stupid but doesnt An eye for an eye make the whole world blind I am not in your postition and I dont pretend to tell you how you ought to act towards someone like me But we are all part of a common American environment even though we were raised in a different tradition We have certainly shared experiences and we go to the same school Why would we want to dispise one another I am sorry I rambled so long I know you are busy and you might not have time to reply but I would appreciate it Thanks

Timothy M Daly

r institution that teaches only lies there were race relations problems and tensions I wondered why I felt

From rem887nwu edu Mon Feb 10 171953 1997 Date Sun 9 Feb 1997 14 0001 -0600 From Robert E McGuire ltrem887nwuedugt To j-sanders4nwuedu silentwarriornwu edu illmaticnwuedu Subject Thursday night and aftermath

Gentlemen

Dr Mohammeds speech was not meant for me I mow that - he wasnt talking to me he is not concerned with me at all But I learned from it I understand how a number of black students on this campus feel and the bitterness with which they feel it I cant blame them Even those members of the audience - of whatever color - who did not agree with the militancy of Dr Mohammeds message can understand how black students on this campus feel about this place

I wanted you to mow honestly that I thought a lot of what Dr Mohammed said was extreme - I mow you expected that But the tone of his message the deeper understanding I recieved is that there is much work to do There is much work to do to liberate blacks on this campus and in this nation I mow that I am not a great part of this work But my mind has been challenged at least

After the speech a friend and I prayed that God heal this campus and this country of all its division - because there is no way I can But if there is anything I can do please let me mow

Rob McGuire

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bull In an optimistic State ofthe Union address last night President Clinton highlig1rted education welfare the budget and finance refonn as key issues

BY JONATHAN PETERSON LosAngeles Times

WASHI NGTO N - Pres ide n t C lin to n warning that inact ion is th e ene my appealed last night for a nation al crusa de to elevate ed shyu cati onal s tan dards and as ked Co ngress to hel p him co mp lete the un finishe d business o f wel fare rest ru cturing budget balanc ing an d campaign-finance reform

In a generally op timistic Sta te o f the Union ad dress Clinto n spoke emph aticall y about the importa nce of ed uc ation and proposed na t ionwide testin g o f fo urth -g raders a n d e igh th-grade rs to e nsu re th ey ge t th e skills t he~~ e e d to ~ros p~~ ~ th e S~ltba l econo my

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Th e line will be protectin g a trio of quartershybacks bro ught in by Barne tt this yea r Two of the three had im me nse ly prolif ic sen ior seasons _ Minn eapolis nati ve Gavin Ho ffma n (6-6 215) th rew for 2704 yards and 25 tou chd owns to garshy

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Year hon ors and Nick Krein brink (6-3 205) of Leipsic O h io wh o threw for 565 lards and six t ouchdo~lls in one con test this season

NU als o be ne fited in the wake of the Big Ten co aching tu rmoil that pl agu ed th e o ffshyseason Lineba ckerlDeshylens ive En d Tom OBrien (6-4 23 5) reshyn eged on hi s ver ba l com mu me nt to Illinois after coach Lou Tepper wa s fir ed OBr ie n ran ked in th e SupershyPre p Top 50 run s a

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- THE DAIlYS JOB OOOM CONTRIBUTID ro THIS STORY

bring th e music grou p KRS- l to campus When KRS- l canc eled FMO as ked t o transfer th e funds to us e for ano ther event which is not an uncomshym on pra ct ice ASGs Vice President o f Fin an cial Affairs Rod eri c Williams approved th e transfer

Eiferman said he w ill brin g th e issue to Wednesday nights ASG meeting He said th ere was unanimous support for this id ea at Sundays meetshying

My goal is to pu t th e decision in th e hands o f th e Sen ate which wa s elected Eiferrnan sa id We are not trying to sil ence anyo ne The s peech will most likel y tak e place regardless o f what happ en s We just want to inform th e com m u n ity and let th em know what Muham mad is all ab out

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Ethiopi c But oppo ne nts o f Muhammad s speech said s tushy

d en t activities fees sh ould not fund someone who th ey d escribe as a hate sp eak er

We dont want student m oney 1O go toward big otry Prywes said I doubt an yone with a sound mind would in vite a militiaman or Klansman and Khallid Muhammad is no better

Hillel Foundation Rabbi Mich ael Balinsky said an other co ncern expressed by th ose at the pla n ning mee ting was that FM O got funding th ro ugh th e bac k do or to bring Muhammad to cam pus

Th is has abso lu tely nothing to do with race o r freedom of sp eech Education so pho more Danny Eiler man sa id It has every thing to d o with ASG sup po rt ing th e speech

Last spring FMO was allotted $407150 to

Education top priority in State of the Union address

leave a mark on the White Hou se We face no immin ent threat but we do have an en shyemy The en emy of ou r time is inaction

Nea r th e end o f his speec h he added We dont have a moment to waste

In deed the absence o f th e Soviet th rea t and th e end o f th e Co ld War was an imp licit an d ex plicit th eme of Clinton s rem ark s and his attempt to sketc h a visio n o f Am e ricas new role on the global s tage

To prep are America for the 21st century we mu st master the forces of change in th e wo rld and kee p American leadersh ip stro ng an d sure for an uncha rted time

C l in ton hi g h light ed th e e x pa ns io n of NATO relatio ns with a de mocratic Russia and a de eper dialogu e with China as amon g his foreign po licy goa ls ca lling for a renewed commitment to Ame rican diplomacy overshyseas The president s bud get wh ich will be reshyleased Thursday is ex pected to call for an exshytra $bill ion fo ~ range of State Depart ~ent

The Daily Northwestern

SPEAKER f rom page 1

is that FMO continues to bring bigot ed spea kers to ca m pus and were not go ing to roll ove r and p lay dead any mo re said Weissk opf a Medill se nior

Sanders st atement criticized Hillel Hillels hosshytilit y tow ards FMO seeme d to he tr iggered by Black peopl es effo r ts at indepe nde nce of thought and ac tion Hill el co nt inues to express th eir trad emark intolerance for legitimate difference o f opin ion

Sanders an Educati on senior also said in the st atement that there is not any th ing ant i-Semitic abo u t FMO or its speak ers Semites are peopl e of co lo r Th e stat ement not ed that the word Sem ite refers to part of the Afro-Asiatic language family that includes Hebrews Aramaic Arab ic and

LEI TERS

Inept FMO article had bad news angle

I am writing in regard to the article FMO speaker decries whites which was printed on Nov 14 This article was absoshylutely terrible in all aspects from reporting to structure to an incorrect picture caption

Although I am only a first-year MediII student I do have a sense of journalism ethics in the context of objective reportshying I found the article to be verymiddotbiased in that it only focused on the negative points of the lecture by Muhammed Akil rather than the entire context in which the lecture was delivered This is the same type of prejudiced commentary that

was delivered in the national media covshyerage of Louis Farrakhan when the meshydia only focused on his views on Jews

staff to be more effective in their report on events by getting the whole story arid not selective scenarios I think the author owes a huge apology to the black and entire NU community for what apshypeared to be an insensitive and sloppy (to say the least) article

Contribute to the solution not the problem

- Nikole Killion MediI freshman

Akil speech clashed with conference goals

It was interesting to read Tuesdays acshycount of Muhanuned Akils speech given at For Members Onlys African Mind liberashytion Conference on SundayAkils speech in which he repeatedly labeled gays as fagshygots called the pope the arch-devil and announced that all white people have a little Hitler in them will certainly help to ease racial tensions on this campus and liberate African minds Prejudices and labels always help us escape our preconceived notions about others after all the best way to fight hate speech is to use hate speech

Im just glad everyone got to read the words of this inspiring speaker since they were so prominently placed on page five Of course the real racists are Manchester Developers - those evil housing builders written about in the cover story on page three I hope they never renovate another building again

- Jason Briggeman O S (reshman

MBACHmiddotnt

The Northwestern student body and adshyministration should be outraged that a blashytantly racist and offensive speaker such as Muhammed Akil brought his hatred-tinged rhetoric to campus It is true that historically oppressed groups have a right and need to hear messages from insightful individuals about power structures and becoming unishyfied but such messages can certainly be conveyed without decrying other groups

When Akil uses words like faggot intershyspersed throughout his speech it proves his hypocrisy he denies the legitimacy of anshyother minority while claiming that overcomshying dominant and oppressive power differshyentials is paramount In addition saying faggot repeatedly isnt just a denunciation_ of another minoritybut its also a value judgshyment that Akil makes about sexual orientashytion that is unrelated to race I hardly think he has the moral authority to tell anyone that their lifestyle is so reprehensible Furshythermore it is people like Akil that place black gays lesbians and bisexuals in a doushyble-bind If they are not welcome as legitishymate members of the black community where can they find acceptance

It is admittedly disgusting to me that Akil uses racist epithets to denounce racism His over generalizations were apshypalling and unheeded To tell all white people that they all have a little Hitler in them is a terrible and hateful thing to say This type of racism and generalization cannot be tolerated

When Akil calls homosexuals faggots and whites little Hitlers it is indicative of his own mind set Such comments clearly indicate that he himself is sowing the seeds of his own racism

And that is how Hitler started

-- Brian Fletcher OS senior

Extreme views n01 held by entire race

By now The Daily Northwestern probably received a few letters about African Mind liberation Conference to effect that African-Americans arejust as oted as whites and therefore dont dese

any special sympathy But I would lik point out that according to the article C

about 25 students were at the hateful led on Sunday night Therefore extrapola the views held there into views held by a NUs African-American students is not f have faith that the high majority of African-American community realizes such divisionis no way tobring about ill

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FMO speaker decries whites By Daniel Rubin Doily Stoff Writer

For Members Only Northwesterns black student alshyliance wrapped up its first annual African Mind Liberation Conference last night on a note of quiet reflection in conshytrast to an emotional1y charged opening Sunday night

The conference started on Sunday with Muhammed Akil of Lost Link Enterprises in Chicago speaking on the topic Decoding White Supremacy Reading Destructive Images

Akil stated that the purpose of his speech was to throw off the mind control employed by Europeans to keep African culture down At the beginning of his speech Akil told the audience of about 25 people in Harris Halls audishytorium that he was going to be tough

Mind control is the name of the game he said Power is the ability to define other peoples reality Its time to bust up psychological slavery

In his speech Akil covered a wide variety of subjects ranging from the color of Jesus skin to the proliferation of guns in American society

Describing the different representations of Jesus Akil said the African-American culture should reject the porshytrayal of Jesus as a white man He presented textual evishydence in Proverbs and showed slides of a dark-skinned Jeshysus in various cultures as he spoke shy

At one point Akil referred to one representation as the faggot Jesus

Akils presentation which spanned most from the an - All white cient world to modern society peopleincluded talks about the genoshycide of African slaves aboard have a little slave ships and at the hand of Hitler in them American mobs

He repeatedly referred to Muhammed Akil gay people as faggots

Lost Link Enterprisesthroughout the speech He called the pope anti-Christ and the arch-devil He cal1ed Abraham Lincoln a wolf in sheeps clothing citing a letshyter by Lincoln saying that the white race was superior to others -

Akil interspersed pictures of black people being lynched while white mobs looked on approvingly with imshyages of the Rodney King beating which he called an unshyfinished lynching

By Rick SongDaily Scaff Photographer

Tough speech Muhammed Akil delivers a charged message about American racism Sunday in Harris Hall

Allwhite people have a little Hitler in them he said He also said European culture promotes bestiality and

homosexuality Udana Torian a CASjunior said the speech was good

for recognizing the hurdles that face African-American culture _

It allows us to think analytically about history We will advance in society only if we know the variables that are facing us she said

Nicholas Armstrong a McCormick sophomore and legislative treasurer for FMO agreed with that assessshyment

You really cant judge the present conditions without understanding the historical context he said _

Concluding the conference last night novelist Iawanza Kunjufu whose lecture was entitled Survival of the black race in the 21st century A SocialPoliticalHistorical Analysis of the Future of the African Race in the 21st censhytury spoke to about 35 people in Harris Hall

In his lecture Kunjufu spoke about what can be done to save the African-American community Weas brothers and sisters must put aside our differences and work toshygether he said

Kunjufu said the white community has established a machine to keep African-Americans down

He told the crowd that in order to defeat the mashychine African-Americans must first admit the machine exists study it take what they can from it and then give back to their community

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NORTHWESTERN

UN I V E R SIT Y

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

March 8 1999

Statement of President Bienen and Provost Dumas Regarding a Martin Luther King Jr Holiday

The discussions over the past several months about having a Martin Luther King Jr holiday at Northwestern reflect what we see as a growing recognition by the University community of the significance of this influential figure in American history We are pleased to see this awareness and welcome the thoughtful discussion that has resulted

Formal statements have come from the Associated Student Government the General Faculty Committee the Northwestern University Staff Advisory Council and from the Universitys Calendar Committee the body charged with considering matters relating to the academic calendar and making recommendations to us The ASG proposal calls for a University holiday as a symbol of the University s commitment to the memory of Dr King The Calendar Committee recommends additional programming in honor of Dr King but not canceling any classes or creating a University holiday The General Faculty Committee supports this position All recommendations reflect a common theme that underlies them the noble life of [Dr Kings] devotion to love justice and truth and his historic accomplishments and contributions to American society and human rights deserve expanded coordinated observances so as to enhance the communitys awareness of the central points of his life and thought (Quotations taken from formal statements from ASG GFC NUSAC and the Calendar Committee)

The recommendations of both the Calendar Committee and the representatives of various undergraduate student groups clearly are the result of much careful thought and consideration and we appreciate their work After reviewing those recommendations we concur that Northwestern should offer additional programs on the third Monday of January related to the themes of Dr Kings life and work We also agree that some method of marking that day as different from our regular academic schedule is important

f Therefore effective in January 2000 all classes between 11 am and 2 pm will be canceled and replaced with alternative programming focused on the meaning of this day On both the Evanston and Chicago campuses we hope to see a centerpiece event for all members of the campus community that would take place at some point during those hours All offices on both campuses would either close for ninety minutes to enable staff to attend that event or operate with minimal staffing for that period of time Recognizing the demands made by the quarter system special arrangements may need to be made for labs and other academic activities that occur only during those hours on that Monday We will ask the deans to work closely with the faculty to determine those exceptions

Graduate and professional schools several of which already make adjustments on King Day to accommodate special programming and academic requirements would continue to

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do so Other programming activities preceding and following the formal University observance are encouraged on both campuses

As is presently the case staff may ask supervisors for the day off as a personal floating holiday

We will appoint a University-wide Martin Luther King Jr Day Coordinating Committee with representation from students faculty and staff from both campuses to begin planning 1P this celebration Such a committee has been recommended by the Northwestern ~~I Community Council The coordinating committee will be appointed in the spring quarter 1999 We alS will provide additional financial support in addition to the funds set aside Ve) ( by the Associated Student Government for King Day activities for programming efforts on bull(y both caDyenJllSeS fY ----k~ d J _

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The success of the decision to hold alternative programming in lieu of most regular classes on King Day between 11 am and 2 pm is dependent on participation Therefore we will assess the outcomes each year If support for this approach wanes then the University will explore different methods of honoring Martin Luther King Jr and return to holding regular classes during that time

Finally we ask that the Associated Student Government each year provide an evaluation of the activities focusing both on the quality and the level of participation by students staff andfaculty Such anevaluation 111oces will hel~ all of us Iocu our atteution each yea( Q(

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BY JIM WILKINSON Souljah called for greater sexual reshyTheDaily Nonhwestem sponsibilityamong the young while argushy

ing an anti-abortion viewpoint and a need Speaking before a crowd of a few for the belief in a higher powerhun dred artist author and entertain

In African society sex is integrallyconshyrnent executive Sister Souljah preached a nected to the creation or life and everyone message of empowerment anel responsishyis aware or the consequences or having bility while emphasizing the importance sex she said You cant have black power of African gender roles and values in with black immo rality strengtheningblack communities

Affirming the values of experience I challenge you as students to mainshywork ethic and balance Souljah said she tain control of your own thoughts culshywas mischaracterized by the media as a ture and beliefs Souljah said on Friday loud-mouthed rapper after then-candishynight in Fisk Hall There is a need for us date Bill Clinton attacked her in the 1992 to evolve and develop into our original presidential campaign [or comments she powerful selves to take control of our made after the Los Angelesriots own lives and communities

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ems African-Ame rican student alliance Stressing that gender is not Simplyan

automatic status Souljah criticized both sexes ror falling short or the expectations or African culshyture in which she said gender is earned by actshying as a good role model

Weare searching fora woman to be different from a man but still equal she said Both are intellectually strong and pursue dreams but their roles should be balanced out When 1 was giving birth to my son it was the fi rst time 1realshyized how powerful 1was 1said to my husband that it dawn ed on me that women are the most powerful force in the universe

Souljah whose last visit to NU in 1994 exshyposed campuswide racial tensions used the principles ofAfrican cultureshe learned from her world travels and education at Rutgers Univershysity to rebuke racism capitalism American soci-

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Souljah also drew examples from her early lire growingup in the Bronx to illustrate the posishytive role of social programs such as welfare busshyingand aflirmative action

Affirmative action wasnot created out of pity

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You (black men) should understand how to love yourself and how to love a woman who is a reflecuon oryourself

Souljah said that because the deck is stacked against racial minorities they should mobilize in opposition to the current unbalanced power structure

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NORTHWESTERN

U N V E R S T Y

OFFICE OF TilE PRESIDENT

November S 1996

To Members of the University Community

I was greatly saddened that once agrin The Hock bas become a vehicle for shocking and malevolent expressions of intolerarce toward others

Northwestern University is committed to an inclusive campus environment free of discrimination against any individual or group and to a climate that values the richness that diversity brings to all of us

We do not know whether in fact those who defaced Tie Rock last night are members of this community But the sentiments displayed at The Rock have no place at Northwestern They constitute ugly destructive behavior Those who seek to impose their point of view through random and cowardly acts of hatred or threats of violence do equal violence to the princ iples of civility and mutual respect that govern a university community Such cowardly acts have no place at Northwestern

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NU football team wins dry tailgates lose NUMB members receive homecoming kingand queen honorsduring halftimeshowoffootball game

By ERIN MURPHY The Daily Northuesterraquo

Although the Northwestern Marching Band plays at all home football games members sometimes have little to cheer ft about ~ ESTIVITIES That was not the case this

weekend On top of a last-minute win Saturday against the Iowa

l hwkel1es the band saw two of its members Kellie MacDonshy- - _ A u middotproming Queen and

NU fraternities allskippre-football gametailgates members cite apathy general protest as reasons

By RAsMI SIMHAN The Daily Northwestern

Students looking for a good time before the Homecoming game Oct 16 didnt find it in the fraternity section of Ryan Fields parking lot

TAILGATESIt was empty We were all extremely shocked

when we came out from behind the tree and saw this big huge open spot which last year was just teeming with people said Dan Sedehi who couldnt find any tailgates in the stadium parkshy_~ lt hlf an hourbefore the game Saturday morning

AND SARATOTH The DailyNorthwestern

A 17-year-old man was listed in good condition Sunshyday night after being shot in the shoulder by an Evanston Police officer early Sunday morning just one block from Northwesterns campus police said

The shooting occurred abcut 3 am in the parking lot of White Hen Pantry 817 Emerson St said Cmdr Dennis Nilsson of the Evanston Police Department It was close enough to NU that students at Willard Residential Colshylege said they heard the shot from their rooms

White Hen employees said the shooting may have been related to an attempted robbery but police would not confirm that assumption

The shooting victim and another man were in custody after being arrested in connection with the incident that led to the officers gunshots Nilsson said No charges had been filed Sunday night but Nilsson said he expected p0shy

lice to file charges today EPD is investigating the incident with the help of the

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Nine people were arrested and charged with drug ootballdealing and other related offenses while warrants were isshysued for four more last week as part of an undercover opshy 1prote eration police said

One of the suspects Limous McGaster wasalready in custody charged with murdering his friend Davidson Blissetton Sept 22 over a marijuana plant

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~ r ASG addresses Rock racism CTEC student forum ~ STUDENT SOwnONS Yesterdays ASG meeting adshydressed the recent painting of racial epithetson The Rock Changes in CTECs will be discusse(1 in a meeting tonight

BY ANDREA PASSALACQUA The Daily Northwestern

Whoever is resp onsible for painting racial epithets on The Rock Monday affected more than just the African-Americans at Northwestern by lowering the moral e of the entire campus Asshysociated Stude nt Govern ment members said at last night s Senate meeting

ion to tl It hurts everyone when we have these sentiments painted homo s said Nicole Dickerson a senator from For Members Only NUs an open African-Am erican student alliance We need to be educated to ian Road do something to combat these problem s ussion a Several members of the executive board also had strong views to add abo ut the painting of the words Die Negroes which came less ickerson than three week s after Die Fag was painted on the campus nt to see monument like this Im ex tre mely di sturbed said ASG President Leontine ion to d Chuang a CAS senior I really condemn whatever coward has 1courage been do ing such things

In reaction to the outbreak of animosity toard African shyAmericans homosexuals and Jewish people at NU FMO is sponsoring an open forum 7 pm tonight at the Black House 1914 Sheridan Road

The discussion about race relations will give all students the opportunity to address Vice President for Student Affairs Peggy Barr said Dickerson a Speech senior

We want to see what plans the administrati on has to deal with issues like this Dickerson said

In addition to denouncing the painting on The Rock ASG members encouraged students to attend the Course and Teacher

Evaluat ion Council meeting toni ght to give their input on the changes that are being proposed for the student surveys

Although non e of the possible modifications will be un veiled until the 6 pm meeting in Harris Hall W7 there is a strong posshysibility that the comments section will no longer be distrib uted to students said Rob McGuire ASG academic vice president

Many students have voiced concern about losing access to the comments and this meeting is the on ly op po rtunity they will have to make their views heard said McGuire a CASJunior

Im optimistic about the turnout McGuire said I think the students know what they have to do and I think theyll do it

Although su pplemental funding petitions dominated most of the meeting a motion was passed to introduce a bill about the use of t inder blocks in university hou sing at next weeks meetshying

The Office of Undergraduate Residential Life prohibits stushydents from having lofts in their dorms and according to the polshyicy that the board is enforcing this year stude nts who use cinder blocks to elevate their beds are violating this policy

Since cinder blocks are not specifically cited in the policy Alshylison Hall Senator Jeff Friedman is writing legislation that if passed would allow students to keep cinde r blo cks in th eir rooms

I feel obligated to bring it up because thats what the people in Allison think said Friedman a CAS sophomore Its my duty to bring it to ASGs attention

N u 8 A A Northwestern University Black AI umni Association

September 19 1996

Joeffrey Trimmingham President NUBAA 7325-1 North Paulina Street Chicago Illinois 60626 (312) 761-0426

Karla Spurlock Evans African American Student Affairs Department 1914 Sheridan Road Evanston Illinois 60208

Via fax (847) 467-1675

Dean Evans

As the president of the Northwestern University Black Alumni Association (NUBAA) I have the distinct pleasure of serving a community of closely knit individuals who share the common experience of being Black and coming of age while studying at Northwestern

Recently though several alumni have approached me regarding the Universitys intentions with respect to hiring an individual to continue the work of the late Dr Ulysses Duke Jenkins whose recent passing many of us still mourn

In order to effectively answer their questions I would like to know when the University intends to undertake its search for his replacement and the role that black alumni students and faculty will carry-out in that process

In light of many recent incidents on campus and the startling decrease in Northwesterns Black Student population we feel it is imperative that his position be filled quickly However all diligence must be paid to finding an appropriately-skilled person to carryon his work in support of those Black students who choose to attend Northwestern and to whom Northwestern owes a commitment of meaningful support Thus it is imperative that Black alumni students and faculty play leading roles in that selection ensuring that the selected candidate is capable of fulfilling the needs of the Black student body

Please inform me in writing by Monday September 23rd of the Universitys intentions in this matter I look forward to your response and thank you for your time

Sincerely

Joeffrey Trimmingham President NUBAA

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The Rock Students and NU officials are at a loss to explain the incident

BY BEN ElKIN The Daily Northwestern

Less than three weeks after Die Fag was painted on The Rock Northwestern students passed by the campus monument early yesterday morning to be met with another slap in the face Die Negroes and the word black circled and slashed were crudely painted in black over a messhysage encouraging voting

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istraters a Physical Plant worker hosed off the fresh paint about 930 arn The phrase Uberty and Justice for allappeared shortly afterward

A student who requested that her name be withheld said that she saw no such slur on The Rockat about 5 a m

I expect more of people and of this universishyty said Peggy Barr vice president for student affairs It alwaysshocks me

Many students across campus on the other hand expressed less astonishment and voiced opinions that prejudice and bigotryare very much a part of the campus environment

Its no surprise shy nobody is really shocked about it because we have to encounter hostility on a daily basis being black at Northwestern said Catisha Marsh a Medill senior and member of For MembersOnly NUs African-Americanstushydent alliance I think that black people are suffershying from battle fatigue Its like were at war every day with stereotypes and perceptions

FMO members said they believe the graffiti was a reaction to last weeks African Mind Liberation Conference which featured keynote speakers Dr Frances Cress Welsing and Sister Souljah

This incident shows how white peop le respond when black people assert themselves said FMO Legislative Coordinator Jelani Semmes an Education junior

The NU Community Council created by the university with help from FM O to foster campus multiculturalism will meet to discuss the matter

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AFRESH COAT A new message replaces a racial epithet painted on The Rockyesterday (Left) An employee of the Physical Plant cleans off Die Negroesfrom the university monument

Epithets create a sad chapter in Rocks histor ~ ASECOND SWR NU officials do not foresee preventing students f rom paint ing The Rock - a tradition dating back to the 1920s - because of two slurs recently plastered on it

chapter in the history of The Rock Univer BY CRISSA SHOEMAKER Archivist Patrick Quinn said The Daily Northwestem A slur calling for the death of hornosexi

Twice this quarter hateful epithets were appeared on The Rock on OCl 17 shortly a painted on The Rock in the middle of the night the monument featured a rainbow-colored IT

- occurrences that the Northwestern archivist sage celebrating National Coming Out I said is unp recedented in the 94-year history of Yesterday morning a similar slur agai The Rock

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Jimmie Sanders You probably dont know who I am but I send this letter out to you

in as matter of great urgency I am a sophmore (African american male) in tech bio-medical engineering The ethnic community groups are delivering a direct attack on the black students on this campus as a result of the speaker that will be here on thursday

They are confronting and questioning the actions and the manners in which this man will be addressing the student body FMO is being targetted as a hate group on campus I must know what is to be expected to gain from this man Why are we as black students being made to suffer as a result of his actions We are in a very uncomfortable position We need to know which way to fold on this issue A community divided cannot stand We as a black community are divided and are fighting amongst ourselves

I urge you to please send an answer so that I can help to clear this violent air of unnecessary hostility

Thanks so much Elhajamin Young (Haj)

Elhajamin Young Northwestern University Evanston IL USA HajiYnwuedu

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DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS EVANSTON ILLINOIS 60208-4010

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September 30 1996

Mr Joeffrey Trimmingham President Northwestern University Black Alumni Association 7325-1 N Paulina Street Chicago IL 60626

Dear Joeffrey

Thank you for your recent letter Dr Ulysses Jenkins was a cultural and historical anchor for African-American Student Affairs beyond that he reached out in an intensely personal way to generations of Black students at Northwestern Our staff shares the sense ofloss you and so many others have expressed

As you may be aware African-American Student Affairs along with other offices within the Division of Student Affairs has just completed the process of program review One of the recommendations made by reviewers was that coverage be provided and support be given to students during the evening hours We are moving forward with that recommendation and have been authorized to hire a graduate student part-time to help with programming outreach and coverage during evening hours We will actively work to assess the needs of the African-American student community throughout the fall quarter and will use that information to make future plans for permanent staffing in Afiican-American Student Affairs And as is the policy in all searches for full-time positions within our division any search committee formed to fill a full-time slot would include student and faculty representation

Joeffrey please feel free to contact me if you have further questions

Sincerely

KCvL sd-amp~ Karla Spurlock-Evans Director

the Division of Student Affairs has just completed the process of program review One of the recommendations made by reviewers was that coverage be provided and support 1 ~ _ J L _ -I __ ~ i L ~ L ~ _ T _ _ __ bull _ _ t_ J _ ~ 1 1 _ _ 1

N u 8 A A Northwestern University Black Al umni Association

September 19 1996

Karla Spurlock Evans African American Student Affairs Department 1914 Sheridan Road Ev anston Illinois 60208

Via fax (847) 467-1675

Dean Evans

In light of many recent incidents on campus and the startling decrease in Northwesterns Black Student population we feel it is imperative that his position be filled quickly However all diligence must be paid to finding an appropriately-skilled person to carry on his work in support of those Black students who choose to attend Northwestern and to whom Northwestern owes a commitment of meaningful support Thus it is imperative that Black alumni students and faculty pla y leading roles in that selection ensuring that the selected candidate is capable of fulfilling the needs of the Black student bod y

Please inform me in writing by Monday September 23rd of the University s intentions in this matter I look forward to your response and thank you for your time

Sincerely

from page 1Souljah a reflection of who you are In addition she As one of few audience members willing to speak encouraged black women to not let themselves be with the press after Souljahs initial decrying of the treated as sex objects but stand up and be the strong media and herself an African-American Bates did women we were created as Later Souljah stated not agree with everything Souljah said She that there cannot be black power with black continues 1 also think contrary to her [Souljah s] immorality opinion that association with other cultures is

Education was touted by Souljah as the key to a important to our struggle for instance she was successful future Although opposed to the fact that black stating that the cur rent system and white alli ances were of education is designed to beneficial to the struggle if maintain the current they were not part of the arrangement of white power We cant have a struggle then she didnt see a sh e empowered Africanshy point in the assoc iation I am movement without American students by defining not of that opinion however I their responsibilities as to knowing what were believe that is very pertinent and develop their minds to think and crucial to our struggle because I fighting for analyze independently to know some white people who establish a community to would stand up for justice if depend on later in the business Sister Souljah in her they saw examples of injustice world and generally to get a going on speech to NU studentsplan an accomplish it Bates concern illustrates the

Reac tions of the audience fact that even though Souljah were extremely positive with members seeking guidance and advice in the roughly hour-long question and answer period CAS freshman Rosalyn Bates comments I thought it was very good the way she gave us applicable advice things that we can apply to organize ourselves and better combat some of the racial issues and discriminations on this campus

delivered a message based in common sense the beliefs underlying Souljahs instruction were somewhat radical Capitalism was presented as a way to prevent groups (such as African -Americans) from working for the collective good rather than the individual good and the current education system as already mentioned was portrayed as a tool design ed to preserve white domination of blacks

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BY HEmlER MACDONAlD The Dairy North~estem

Nonhwestem administrators plan to fmlte aspecial task force to increase lfrican-Arneriian-enrolfrnent at the unishyversity becausl o(the unusually low black population in thisyearS freshman class

~ QIyeny 43 perrent of the NU class of 2000 are African- Americans down m 63 percentoneyear ago Associate Provat Rebecca Dixonsaid And as hundreds of prospective stushydents visit the NU campus as part of their college ~Qfficials acknowlshyedge thathaving ~minority students gmerally makes recruitment difIiculL

We intend on recruiting African-Americans more heavily and

added that drastic changes werent Iected at a higher admission level than needed ever before Dixon said The higher the

Ne arehoping for a level youseleet from the larger representation of smaller the applicant African~Americai1s in pool you are working next years classSaid from While we have a Carollunklnheimt dishysmaller number of rector of tmdergrad~te African-American stushyadmissions BUt itshard dents they arebetter ad-to predict who is going mission candidates than to accept our offers of those from years before admission as we had a better pool

There areseveral facshy overall tors that explain NUs A more financial reashy

Some families not just African-Amerishycan families but white families too dont have the extended family to fall back on if they need help All of that debt is-scary and it encourages students toenroll in their state university

Another problem thatNU has in atshytracting African-American students is that the university does not offer meritshybased scholarships said Ambassadors Treasurer Danielle Robinson Arnbasshysadors is aFor Members Onlysatellite group devoted to attracting AfricanshyAmerican students toNU

Academically gifted African-Amenshycanstudents arebeing pulled to schools where theyare offered full rides said

son lies in the unwilling- RobIpson a Medill sophomore Whenlow numberof AfricanshyAmerican students ness ofmiddle class Iami-Dixon said lies to undertake the large

burden of debt that an Because NU was NU or Ivy League educashymore selective in its adshy

mission decisions for the class of2000 the higher-caliber African ~ American students it admitted were faced withoffers from other topuniversishy

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some son of financial aid-some families are unwilling to assume the loans they -will have to pay back Dixon said

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African-American students will go where theywill get the best education andthebest financial aidpackage Dixon said

The cost of Nonhwestern is inshy hibitive for some people shesaid

THE NATION

bull SeaIIIe listed best city

JlWlUlK - Seattle where a relaxshying life is possible despite all that cofshyfee topped Fortune magazines list of the 15 best US cities for mixing work with family life

Fortune for the first time went beshyyond evaluatingcitieson business Crishyteria With help from the Arthur Anshydersen consulting firm it examined quality of life issues criineschool quality availability of culture the comforts of the suburbs and their acshycessibility

Among things checked were the number of doctors state and local taxes arid the cost of a martini real estate and movie tickets

The list in the Nov 1tissue puts Denver second to Seattle followed by Philadelphia Minneapolis and Raleigh-Durham NC

DriverconvideditlatusdeaIh CORPUS caasn Teas - A drunken

driver got 16 years in prison yesterday for manslaughter in the death of a baby who was delivered prematurely afteran auto accident

Frank Flores Cuellar 50 had faced up to 20 years in prison in the

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According ro rhe thlllgs Ive seen and read he is nOI an anti-Semite said Sea) an Educaiion seshyruor lrn hoping that (Hillel) will come 1L hear him speak 0 that they can sec for themselves

Sanders said FMO will sponsor a discussion with Jeffries at 4 pm Saturday at the Black House for faculty and students who have exshypressed concern over the speakers views

Hillel leaders said they plan to attend neither the lecture nor the discussion

We are absolutely uncommitted to dialogue said Rabbi Michael Balinsky We are not intershyested in talking to Leonard jtffries Thais a waste of time

Sanders said those who choose not to attend the discussion should not cnuc ize jeflries polishytics

Theyre a bunch of hypocrites Sanders said We invited student leaders to come and they turned down the invitation What this tells me is that theyre afraid of the truth Also at the conference behavioral psycholoshy

gist Dr Patricia Newton will deliver the lecture The Holocaust Continues Survival for the Next Millenniumat 7 pm today in Hams 107

She talks about the psychological view of tryshying to win back the minds and souls of the black people Sanders said

A historical view of the African Holocaust will De presented by author historian and activist Lasana Cazembe in a lecture entitled Exposing the Mystery of Hidden History on Saturday at 1 pm in the University Library Video Forum Room

He speaks about exposing white supremacy and showing that we had a history prior w comshying to this continent Sanders said

In another response to the conference the students organizing Awareness and Healing Week wi] hold a coffeehouse on Sunday that will serve as a forum for students to discuss their reactions to jeflries lecture

We want people to com e sit down face-toshyface and discuss it instead of hashing it out in rude letters in The Daily said CAS junior Becky Levin a coordina tor of Awareness and Healing Week The group also organized faculty speakers and multicultural advocates who gave lectures ~ I throughout the week

But Sanders said that the timeliness of the event shows that it was spurred by jcffrics Iceshyi ure

Its not sincere Sanders said Its in reaction to Leonard jeffries something thai they dont want 10 hear

In rcsponse to the cont rovcrsy surrounding the lecture lt111 of FMOs publicity for the event lIleluding teasers and posters have been torn clown

There is absolutely no publicity now besides at the Black House and on the FMO iisiscrv Sanders said

Despite thiS Sanders 51id he expects lt1 packed house of 250 at jeffnes lecture in Harris Hall Satshyurduy cVCIllllg

PEmlONS I felt that theSAFB bull recommendations

punished success Kagan said From page 1

Aso in the new guidelines IS a paragraph staling that gr)ups with strong records of successful pmgralllshyming do not have 10 submit specific names o f

S 181 500 i otai It~l ing almost S200 00 0 Ior othcr grour md events

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po ssi b lc Black Historv s p ea k c rs Although(the recommittal Month and or ente rshy Asian-Amenshyproposal) may hurt our smaller tainers in can Heritage their perishy events we wiJI get funding Month fall tions iruothiscareshyfor bigger events

I felt gargt Kagan Am i Desaithat the said

Indian Student Association president SAFB rec- Revised o m m c n shyspring fundshyd a t i o n s punished success said Kagan a CAS junior I felt we should reward sucshycess

One controversial aspect of the inshystructions states that events or series of events that drew more than 400 students in attendance during the 1995-96 school year would aurornaushycally receive at least as much funding for 1996-97 Kagan said that events falling under this category would probably cost no more than

ing recomshymendations must be posted by SAFB no later than May 13 according to the instructions

Groups supporting Kagans rnoshylion hoped for more funding in SAFBs second attempt

Personally we support the recommittal proposal Indian Stushydent Association President and CAS sophomore Ami Desai said I think it will help us get more money than the old recommendations Although it

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