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Controversial “Mayor for Life” Gets Statue in His Honor By: Amiyah King, HU News Service
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arion Barry was different things to different people. For more than 40 years, Barry was the best and worst of Washington, D.C., politics as a member of the school board and the City Council and as the controversial mayor of the nation’s capital for four terms. He was a convicted crack cocaine user, an abrasive womanizer, but he was also a tenacious fighter for the rights and lives of African-Americans as a civil rights activist and the reigning politician in D.C. for a generation. He was an abomination to some Washington residents and a hero to most. Those who cherished their fallen champion gathered outside of City Hall in downtown of the nation’s capital on a cold, windy day this past weekend for another chance to honor the man a local newspaper dubbed “mayor for life,” a phrase that ultimately became his moniker. The city unveiled an 8-foot tall, bronze statue of Barry in front of the place that was his second home for so long. Barry died of heart disease in 2014 at age 77. Hundreds, including residents of Ward 8 that Barry represented on the City Council for 15 years, filled the area at Pennsylvania Avenue and 13½ Street, the site of the statue. Many wore T-shirts and sweatshirts with Barry’s picture on them. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, all 13 City Council members,
former city leaders and other personalities attended and gave speeches during a two-hour presentation. Many praised Barry for his establishment of the Marion Barry Summer Youth Employment Program, which has provided thousands of jobs to high school students for over 35 years. They noted his other employment efforts that gave many Washington residents their first-ever jobs. “He got my nieces and nephews their first jobs, so I would volunteer every time he ran for office,” said FIRST NAME Green, one of those gathered to honor Barry. “Nobody else, just him.” They touted his battles with federal and city officials to make Washington more equitable for African Americans, who made up most of the city’s population during his tenure. Bowser, a life-long resident of D.C.’s Ward 4, was a council member in Barry’s last days on the City Council after having grown up with him as the mayor. She talked about Barry’s influence on the city and her.
In between speeches, the crowd chanted Barry’s name as fierce winds whipped through the celebration. “Barry! Barry! Barry!” Rock Newman, host of the popular radio program, The Rock Newman Show, and for 30 years one of the nation’s biggest boxing promoters, shared his love for the former mayor. “Why do we love him?” Newman asked the crowd rhetorically, “because of his undying and quintessential dedication to service.” Council chairman Phil Mendleson emphasized the symbolic and historical importance of the statue. “There are no statues commemorating African Americans on Pennsylvania Avenue,” he said. “This is the first.”
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“His roots run long and deep across this country,” she said. “Uplifting people doesn’t just happen. You have to make it happen. Marion Barry made that happen for people all over Washington. “In the last days of his life, he passed on all the knowledge he had to me. Now he wants us to grow with the needs of his city.” Photo by Amiyah King, HU News Service
Campus Plagued by Student Body Frustrations Due to Housing Issues By:Jazmin Goodwin, Editor-In-Chief, @TheLyricalJAZ & Nancy Vu, News Reporter, @NancyVu99
Following the celebretarious festivities honoring Howard University’s 151st year, students are disgruntled and in an uproar regarding housing for the 20182019 school year. Students on campus are deeming it as a crisis, taking to Twitter with their concerns with the hashtag:
#HowardHousingCrisis. However, the university has reassured students and the Howard University community otherwise. According to an email sent by Vice President of Student Affairs, Kenneth Holmes, the university is experiencing unforeseen glitches in the new system Starez that is being used for housing reservations. Holmes apologized
and further reassured students that
“Howard University has enough on-campus housing capacity to accommodate students’ needs.” Holmes also stated that “students who have paid their housing deposit through the RSVP process will be accommodated housing on campus for the 2018 academic year. Holmes stated,
“For those who have not yet been notified of their housing assignment, you will hear from ResLife no later than Friday, March 30.” Students on the other hand are not convinced. As students issues with housing continue, the student body is expressing their grievances with the perceived negligence of the university that includes: the lack of transparency, timely announcements and acknowledgement from administration of students’ needs.
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Controversial “Mayor for Life” Gets Statue in His Honor (cont. from pg. 1) By: Amiyah King, HU News Service
Even as speaker after speaker praised Barry, many who were not there, particularly white America, remember him differently. To them he was the D.C. mayor videotaped smoking crack cocaine. He was ultimately arrested by the F.B.I. and convicted and sentenced to prison on drug charges.
Later, Barry's combatted unemployment by creating government jobs. The city government's payrolls swelled so greatly that by1986, nobody in the administration knew exactly how many employees it had.
To them, he was the city councilman who pleaded guilty to drug crimes and tax evasion and sentenced to probation after a mandatory drug test during an IRS investigation found cocaine and marijuana in Barry’s.
By his third term, speculations of drug use and domestic abuse swarmed Barry’s administration. Ultimately, they proved his downfall, and he was sentenced to six months in prison. Undeterred, Barry ran for City Council after he was released and won in 1992. His slogan read “"He may not be perfect, but he's perfect for D.C.”
He was a scofflaw, who was being constantly arrested or hauled into court for a plethora of issues, thousands of dollars in parking tickets, driving while intoxicated, tax evasion.
Barry was re-elected mayor two years later, and served from 1995 to 1999. After his final term, Barry was elected repeatedly by Ward 8 residents to the City Council until his death.
He was the corrupt politician with so many shady dealings that in is waning years his fellow City Council members unanimously voted to strip Barry of all committee assignments, in essence making him politically powerless.
Ronnell Barnes, who works in hospitality at a D.C. hotel said what a lot of people in the crowd felt and many in the city still feel about Barry.
To most of the city’s African-American residents, however, he was the man who brought his years of civil rights activism with the NAACP and as first chairman of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee into their city and later the mayor’s office.
“Regardless of if he did crack, he was the best mayor the city ever had for black people,” Barnes said. “He was our mayor when whites didn’t care…You’d have to be a Washingtonian to understand what I’m saying.”
While mayor, they say, he unabashedly spent years uplifting black residents up by cutting them in on their share of the economic pie and righting the wrongs they had endured for years. The city’s black residents had known Barry long before he became mayor. In 1967, he co-founded Pride, Inc., a Department of Labor-funded program to provide job training to unemployed black men, and provided jobs to hundreds of teenagers to clean littered streets and alleys in the district. After the riots following the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, Barry created a program with Giant Food supermarket to distribute free food to poor black residents whose homes and neighborhoods had been destroyed in the rioting. He also became a board member of the city's Economic Development Committee, helping to route federal funds and venture capital to black-owned businesses that were struggling to recover from the riots. In the 1970s, he was elected to the Board of Education later to the City Council, where he was immediately voted by other members as chairman. Barry began his term as DC mayor in 1978. His first four Barry's first four years in office were characterized by increased efficiency in city administration and government services. He instituted his signature summer jobs program. Barry insisting that any firm wishing to do business with the city have minority partners, created legislation requiring 35 percent of all city contracts to go to minority-owned firms.
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Business School Celebrates Alumnus’ $250k Donation, Unveils Bloomberg Finance Lab, 4 New Scholarships By: Jazmin Goodwin, HU News Service
Nestled on the fourth floor of Howard University’s School of Business (HUSB), members of the Howard University community gathered for the first time in the new Bloomberg Finance Lab. Wendell E. Mackey, CFA, a 1985 alumnus, contributed $250,000 for the creation of the new lab.
the importance of stepping it up in the technology field. “Howard University’s brand is powerful and we have to keep reinvesting in that brand. We are all shareholders here at Howard University. This brand is our currency. 151 years we have it all,” said Mackey.
The official opening was marked by a special ribbon-cutting ceremony following Howard University’s Charter Day 2018 Convocation Ceremony. Remarks were made by School of Business Dean Barron Harvey, President Wayne A.I. Frederick and Provost Anthony Wutoh expressing appreciation for the donation and reinvestment in the university.
A former classmate of Mackey’s was also in attendance at the commemorative ceremony. Karen Hayes, an electrical engineering major had much to say on Mackey’s reinvestment.
“It is very important that Howard University and the School of Business be recognized worldwide as an outstanding place of learning, providing education for future leaders, and having a real impact on Wall Street,” said Dean Barron Harvey. HUSB is contracted with Bloomberg Professional Service to purchase licenses for the lab. The lab will aid in providing students the preparation they need for success in finance-oriented fields.
“It’s amazing to see Mackey give back to Howard in such a major way. To see him circle back and give in a way that will not just impact students here now, but students in the future really puts the owness on the rest of us to give back in a bigger way,” said Hayes. Mackey is the founder, co-chief executive officer, and chief investment officer for Channing Capital Management, LLC. He received his bachelor of business administration from Howard University in 1985.
“This contribution is very significant. In my finance management class, we’re actually using the Bloomberg terminal next week,” Howard University senior Kristin Jordan said. A portion of the donation was also used to establish the Wendell E. Mackey/Channing Capital Management, LLC Scholarship to fund four School of Business students from the metropolitan Chicago area for the next two years. Scholarship recipients included junior, finance major Chris Austin and freshman, marketing major Taylor Stevens. “One of the things that is extremely important to me is that we as a community take the stewardship of our university very seriously and this is driven by our giving and coming back,” said President Wayne A.I. Frederick. Mackey then spoke on the importance of reinvesting in Howard’s brand and
(L-R Dean Barron Harvey, President Wayne A.I. Frederick, Wendell Mackey, Trustee Norm Jenkins, and Bloomberg representative Paras Doshi. Photo by Howard University
Campus Plagued by Student Body Frustrations Due to Housing Issues (cont. from pg. 1) By:Jazmin Goodwin, Editor-In-Chief, @TheLyricalJAZ & Nancy Vu, News Reporter, @NancyVu99
In an email sent to President Wayne A.I. Frederick by sophomore, computer science major, Kendal Hall concerning the matter,
President Frederick responded with “Your tone and tenor is inappropriate. The appropriate offices to handle this matter are copied and will respond.” The conversation between Hal and Frederick was shared via Twitter, circulating with over 8,000 retweets and 17,000 likes. Her experiences shared amongst other Howard students, continues to cause an uproar among the student body, and poses a challenge to create a sense of unity to bring about reform with Howard’s management of student affairs. Students met in In the auditorium room of Locke Hall on March 7 discussing their plans to stage a protest in front of the Administration building. This precedes the 50th Howard University A-Building takeover that took place in March of 1968. Students are showing through their efforts that they will continue to be relentless until their voices have been heard and their needs have been met. Photo via Twitter (@kendalalise5)
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Oratix Giddings Shares Contradictions Embedded in Howard’s History for 151st Convocation Speech Maya McCollum | Political/Campus Reporter | @Maya_BlakeM
“We talk about Howard as if it is a person, it is so personal to us,” Dr. Paula J. Giddings said as she began her speech. The theme of this 151st convocation was clearly Contradictions, as speakers spoke on the previous greatness of Howard while juxtaposed to the struggles that the university faces today. Starting promptly at 11 AM, after the academic procession and the presentation of the colors by Howard’s Army ROTC program, Rev. Bernard Richardson led the chapel in the Invocation, where he prayed for the survival of Howard and a sustainment of her legacy. President Wayne A.I. Frederick then gave his first remarks. He spoke proudly of Howard’s history and ended his welcome remarks with a poem by his 11-year-old daughter, also present in the crowd. She wrote on having great determination and President Frederick hoped that determination would inspire the audience. “Do you not hope for an A, Work for an A” The poem said. “Do not wish for World Peace but be World Peace.” Then because the Howard Charter speaks only of the Board of Trustees and their powers, Board of Trustees Chairman Stacey J. Mobley, spoke. He proceeded to congratulate Howard on all the achievements made by current students, like several of this year’s Rhodes Scholar semi-finalists and finalists. He spoke as well on achievements by past students, being sure to bring up the fact that Chadwick Boseman, the star of Black Panther, attended the university. It is interesting to note that in 1997, the Hilltop reported that Boseman protested Charter Day, as the Fine Arts program was not receiving adequate funding, a decision made by that Board of Trustees. Currently, the Fine Arts building faces mold and broken pipes as the university still recovers from the weather damage in January. The presentation of the Alumni Achievement Awards recognized several alumni for their exemplary work in a number of fields. One of those awardees was the Charter Day Convocation speaker, Dr. Paula J . Giddings. In his introduction of her, Frederick spoke of her writings, her being a professor at Smith College and, of course, that she graduated from the university.
is today, from getting her first afro that her mother hated, to writing for the Hilltop. She spoke of a Howard that sounded like a paradise, like the Yard on a sunny day without construction happening in the background.
"Dear Howard,” Giddings continued, “I regret to inform you that there were promises too that were not kept.” She then spoke of a Howard that refused to change; there were bad things in her time here--colorism, sexism, a curriculum that was anti-black, “inadequate housing, inadequate facilities.” Problems that the university still faces today. Howard was “immune to change” in a time she attended from 1966 to ‘69, that was all about change. Universities around the country were changing their curriculum and whom they accepted; this country was changing, and she said Howard, when she arrived, was dreadfully behind. Howard students are known for being active in the Civil Rights Movement of that time, Stokely Carmichael is one of them, but the university did not help Carmichael become the figure that he is. In fact, the University gave the FBI information on Carmichael while he was still a student, according to the FBI. Giddings said that she and over 2,000 other students protested in the Administration Building in 1968, the “infamous A Building takeover,” and they watched as the federal government retaliated. “Over 60% of Howard funding was government funding, our president had to make a hard decision.” Currently about 40% of Howard’s funding is from the government. The 50th anniversary of the A Building takeover was in February. “We became of a tradition of resistance, 1925, 1934, Ruth Powell in 1943.” Howard students reacting and protesting the world around them and their university.
In her speech, she specifically spoke of what that Howard Experience did to her, made her. She said, “Your president said he was interested in my work on protest, well, he probably didn’t know what he was asking for.”
Currently, HU Resist is one of the voices of the current student movement. They were outside of Convocation doing outreach, passing out flyers proclaiming “The Truth of Howard” as well as their bi-weekly pamphlet. “We wanted to educate the student body as well as the community members and alumni about the current state of our campus as well as showcasing the work that we have been doing,” Batenga Kiboneka, one HU Resist member said when asked why they were doing that.
“Dear Howard,,” she said, in an open letter to the university. “You made me a writer.” She talked about how living in dorms named after women she looked up to, such as Phillis Wheatley and Lucy Slowe, inspired her. Those are dorms, Slowe Hall, Wheatley in the Harriet Tubman Quadrangle, that are either closed now or being closed for renovations this summer, which may lead to a housing crisis for some students. She talked of how being here made her the person she
Giddings concluded by saying that, even though she knows that the University continues to struggle with thing that it struggled with in her time, she knows that when she sees the current student voices, change will come to Howard. “Dear Howard, You gave me my calling, to write about protest, about resistance, about those too often forgotten.” She continues to dedicate her life to uplifting those who continue to fight injustice.
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Florida A&M Shatters Howard’s Women’s Title Hopes HU Bison Athletics
Howard University Women's Basketball team saw its title hopes shattered when the No. 12 Florida A&M Rattlers downed HU, 69-64, at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) First Round inside the Norfolk Scope Arena. "I pretty disappointed how the game ended," said Howard Women's Basketball head coach Ty Grace. "We had some opportunities to pull away, but we didn't. Florida A&M did a good job pushing the tempo and making crucial shots." Sophomore Sarah Edmond had a game-high 24 points on 8-of-17, including 4-of-6 from long range.
after a steal and fast break layup from sophomore Imani Bryant, 43-43. "We played more man-to-man [after halftime]," said Grace on rallying from a 10-point halftime deficit. "[Ecencur] Yurdakul made some big threes and we had to make an adjust. We did a better job in the second half. In transition, we missed her a couple times. But it was the defensive adjustments we made on a couple of their players." Moments later, second-year guard Ayonna Williams made a fast break jumper and gave Howard the lead, 47-45, but it was short-lived as FAMU's Florence Outtara drilled a trey ball with more than two minutes left in the third, 48-47. Florida A&M held a three-point advantage after three, 53-50. HU opened the fourth on an 8-2 spurt, capped off by a long ball from Edmond, and took the lead with 6:01 remaining, 58-55. Both squads went back-and-fourth with time dwindling, but a fast break three-pointer from King with under three minutes left would put the Rattlers ahead for good. Howard dominated the glass, outrebounding FAMU, 50-39. Bryant led the way, finishing with 11 points and a team-high eight boards. "We knew [Florence] Ouattara and [Shakeyrra] Morrison were the biggest rebounders on their team," Bryant stated. "We tried to find them and box out. We noticed that most of the rebounds were long so we talked about following the long rebounds and going after loose balls." Bryant made a pair of freebies and put the Bison ahead early, 9-8, until FAMU closed out the period on a 7-2 run and took a four-point lead after one, 15-11. With more than two minutes remaining before intermission, King made a trey ball and put the Rattlers ahead, 31-20. Howard sliced the margin down to single digits, but another late jumper from King gave FAMU a 37-27 halftime lead. With the victory, Florida A&M (7-23) advanced to the MEAC Quarterfinals where they will square off against No. 13 Savannah State. Four Rattlers reached double-figures, led by Shakeyrra Morrison with 19 points and 11 boards.
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Howard ends its 2017-18 campaign 12-18 overall and 8-8 in league play.
“I started driving and once they played the drive, I found my teammates," Edmond stated. "My shots started falling from three.” FAMU's Dawn King connected on a jumper and gave the Rattlers a 10-point cushion, 39-29, but the Bison fought back with a 14-4 run and tied the contest
"I think experience will help this squad," Grace added. "These two [Imani Bryant and Sarah Edmond] will be juniors and two years of experience will definitely be a separating factor for them. Next year, the turnovers and mistakes I don't expect to happen with the offseason, watching film, and developing their games individually." "You can't win championships without rebounding and defending," Grace ended. "Those will be points of emphasis going into the offseason."
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HU Men’s Basketball Comeback Falls Short in First Round of MEAC HU Bison Athletics
Howard University Men's Basketball team erased an 18-point deficit, but were unable to complete the comeback as they fell to Florida A&M (FAMU), 88-78, at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) First Round in Norfolk, Va. HU shot a respectable 44-percent (28-of-63) from the floor while outscoring the Rattlers inside, 32-20. Howard also outrebounded FAMU, 38-30, and scored 20 second chance points. "They got on us quick," said Howard Men's Basketball head coach Kevin Nickelberry. "But we fought back and were resilient. We made the plays to get back into the game. In the second half, we built a lead, but we got into foul trouble, which we're not a deep team, especially when RJ [Cole] got into foul trouble." Before the game, freshman RJ Cole and sophomore Charles Williams were recognized for their outstanding seasons with postseason awards. Cole received MEAC Rookie of the Year while Williams took home an All-MEAC First Team plaque. For the game, both Bison combined for 43 points. Cole finished his rookie campaign with 25 points, six dimes, six boards and three steals in 35 minutes of action. The Virginia native ended with 18 points in a losing effort.
Florida A&M held a double-digit advantage, 18-6, until a trey ball from Williams sliced the margin down to single digits at the 12:58 mark, 18-9. FAMU kept the pressure on with a 12-3 run and held its largest lead of the game, 30-12, but the Bison refused to go away. Gradually, HU chipped away at the deficit. Cole made a pair of freebies and trimmed the margin back to single digits with less than two minutes before intermission, 38-29. With time dwindling, Cole drilled a running three-pointer as time expired and closed the gap to four at halftime, 40-36. Florida A&M (9-24) advanced to the MEAC Quarterfinals where top seeded Hampton awaits. Four Rattlers reached double digits, led by Elijah Mayes with a game-high 27 points. Howard wrapped up its 2017-18 campaign 10-23 overall and 7-9 in conference play.
"With CJ [Williams] and RJ [Cole], you always got a chance," Nickelberry stated. "We felt pretty good. We took the lead, but RJ got into foul trouble." Redshirt junior Jalen Jones delivered a two-hand dunk and gave the Bison its first lead with more than 16 minutes remaining, 47-46. Moments later, the Bison held its largest lead at the 15:03 mark, 51-46, but FAMU fought back and tied the contest with less than nine minutes left, 64-64. From that point, the Rattlers went on a 14-3 run and took a double-digit advantage with 4:30 remaining, 78-67, and never relinquished the lead. Senior Dalique Mingo played his final game for the Bison where he scored 12 points, including a perfect 6-of-6 from the charity stripe.
"Dalique Mingo has been an unbelievable Bison for us in his four years," Nickelberry stated. "He's been a big part of our identity. His toughness and resilience and the way he has mentor these young guys. I want to thank him for being a Bison and being part of this family."
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