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New York (JTA) — America's edly received sever.al anonymous
foremost black university is fight- phone calls from people who said
ing perceptions that it is a hotbed they would pressure their con-
of anti-Semitism, following the gressmen to withdraw federal aid
second appearance there in two to the school.
Jewish leaders in Washington
months of controversial Nation
of Islam member Khalid Abdul have criticized Howard officials
for not moving quickly enough to
Muhammad.
While some news reports have distance the university from Uni-
cast Howard University's student ty Nation and the Nation of Is-
body as largely sympathetic to lam following Muhammad's Feb.
the racist and anti- Semitic views 23 appearance on campus.
Attempting to reverse the neg-
espoused by the militant black
Muslim group, many students, ative publicity, a group of Howard
faculty and administrators claim faculty and administrators held
that the school is under siege by a news conference prior to the
April rally, in which they claimed
a hostile media.
They claim news reports have that only a small fraction of
exaggerated the prevalence of the Howard students were sympa-
views held by Unity Nation, the thetic to the Nation of Islam's
Howard student group which views.
Of the estimated 2,000 people
sponsored the Feb. 23 and April
17 rallies at which Mr. Muham- who later attended the event in
mad appeared.
And on a campus that had
been known more for its students'
ardent preprofessionalism than
for radical political involvement,
many — including outgoing Pres-
ident Franklyn Jenifer — alleged
that the media has honed in on
Howard because most of its
12,000 students are black.
Mr. Muhammad's appear-
ances have not been the only
cause of controversy at the cam-
pus in recent months. In early
April, a scheduled lecture by Yale
University historian David Brion Howard's Cramton auditorium,
Davis was postponed by a facul- only a smattering were Howard
ty member because of concerns students. Most in the audience
that Davis, a specialist in the his- were working-class blacks from
tory of slavery, would be heckled the Washington area.
Nevertheless, university offi-
because he is Jewish.
cials
have taken steps to prevent
And President Jenifer — who
holds two degrees from Howard further appearances of the Na-
— resigned three days after Mr. tion of Islam on campus. Officials
Muhammad's April rally, amid had insisted they were obligated
speculation that the school's under the First Amendment to
board of directors had begun allow Unity Nation to rent the
school's facilities.
talks on whether to oust him.
But in a statement accompa-
And recent conversations with
nying
the announcement of
Howard students revealed that
while most categorically reject Jenifer's resignation, Wayman
the Nation of Islam, many Smith, the school's chairman,
seemed willing to accept — or at pledged the university will be
least entertain — some of the "more assertive and aggressive
in speaking out against those
group's radical views.
Howard, a 127-year-old insti- who promote racial and religious
tution that counts the late U.S. bigotry and ignorance."
The board had established an
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood
Marshall, former Atlanta Mayor ad hoc committee to review guide-
Andrew Young and Nobel laure- lines for the use of university fa-
ate Toni Morrison among its cilities.
On a reporter's visit to the
alumni, may have more than its
formidable reputation at stake. campus on the day of Mr.
Mr. Jenifer said he has re- Muhammad's most recent ap-
ceived hundreds of letters from pearance, most students did not
Jews who say they are angry over reject the Nation of Islam out-
perceived anti-Semitism at the right.
Many students said they were
school, some threatening to with-
draw corporate or personal fi- offended by the notion that they
were unable to discriminate be-
nancial support.
Howard's noted African Amer- tween bigoted and reasonable
ican studies department report- statements.
Many students felt
that they were more
than able to
distinguish between
bigoted and
reasonable
statements.