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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.