HOWARD'S CONTINUED ANTI-CIVIL RIGHTS COURT FILINGS AND REFUSAL TO
ADDRESS STALKING, SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND SAFETY ON CAMPUS
Howard University has been litigated Martin v. Howard University, Martin v. Howard University,
1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19516 (D.C. 1999); 81 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 964; 15 BNA IER
CAS 1587, for ten years, under the authority of former University President, H. Patrick Swygert,
but now, under the present President, Sidney Ribeau. See overview and media coverage at
MartinvHowardU.
Instead of protecting one of its own law professors from a serial campus stalker roaming freely
through the law school building --her workplace -- and fairly processing her application for
renewal and/or tenure track placement, Howard failed to implement its own campus banning
procedures to keep this known stalker out of the law school. Howard's administration then
rejected Prof. Martin's applications for renewal. Instead of doing anything to "right" these
wrongs over the past 11 years, Howard has enlisted a battalion of outside attorneys, paying high
priced, wealthy, national employment discrimination defense firms, with an arsenal of unlimited
resources, to destroy her career and reputation. Ms. Martin had twenty years of experience as a
civil rights lawyer, in this nation's highest civil rights agencies and had outstanding academic
credentials, since she graduated from an Ivy League college and a top ten law school. See
DawnMartinbio.
In 1998, Ms. Martin began her career again, from scratch, at age 41. In 2000, she established
her own law firm to represent plaintiffs and provide consulting advise for employers who
genuinely want to establish employment policies that comply with the law.
Howard's own Faculty Senate called for Swygert's resignation, accusing him of financial and
academic mismanagement rising to "an intolerable condition of incompetence and dysfunction at
the highest level." See Washington Post April 28, 2007 article, "Howard's President to Retire
Next Year; Faculty had Called for his Removal." See also Wikipedia on Howard University. This
case is a prime example of President Swygert's financial and academic mismanagement, as well
as a betrayal of Howard's civil rights legacy. Under President Swygert, Howard further enriched
at least four wealthy law firms that defend employers in employment discrimination cases and set
precedent that harms civil rights plaintiffs -- particularly African-Americans, other minorities and
women. Howard has, no doubt, paid millions of dollars to these outside law firms to litigate this
case alone, rather than restore to the faculty a professor who was much loved by her students
and whom Howard acknowledges was a very good professor.
Despite this gross mismanagement, Patrick Swygert is now teaching at the law, beginning with
the 1009-2010 academic year! Perhaps more amazingly, Alice Gresham Bullock is now the
Chairperson of the Appointments Committee! It is one thing to say that Howard's former
administrators made some terrible mistakes eleven years ago, but quite another to reward the
perpetrators of these mistakes and place them, once again, in positions to do harm. It is further a
betrayal of Charles Hamilton Houston's vision of Howard to exemplify and produce "social
engineers for justice," rather than being a "parasite on humanity." Howard is providing million of
dollars to firms that by Charles Hamilton Houston's definition, would be worse than "parasites"
that do nothing to further social change. Howard has hired the firms that fight social change and
equality, making their living opposing civil rights plaintiffs filing employment discrimination; and
Howard is paying these huge, anti-civil rights firms with money provided by Howard alumni,
taxpayers funds, and private donations intended to prove educational opportunities and standards
of excellence for Howard students. The US Government contributes approximately $235 million
to Howard annually. See Wikipedia on Howard University. Howard alumni, contributors, the
public and Congress should be demand to know how much Howard paid these outside law firms
and how these expenditures, and the anti-civil rights arguments made by these firms in their
filings can be justified, in Howard's name.
For information of Howard's continued lack of security on campus while campus crime,
including sexual assault, increases, see http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/ContentDetail?
contentId=7525274. For Howard's own report of crime on its campus, see
http://www.howard.edu/services/campuspolice/Statistics/default.htm and http://www.howard.
edu/services/campuspolice/documents/ANNUALREPORT20062Bedit..pdf.
ADDRESS STALKING, SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND SAFETY ON CAMPUS
Howard University has been litigated Martin v. Howard University, Martin v. Howard University,
1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19516 (D.C. 1999); 81 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 964; 15 BNA IER
CAS 1587, for ten years, under the authority of former University President, H. Patrick Swygert,
but now, under the present President, Sidney Ribeau. See overview and media coverage at
MartinvHowardU.
Instead of protecting one of its own law professors from a serial campus stalker roaming freely
through the law school building --her workplace -- and fairly processing her application for
renewal and/or tenure track placement, Howard failed to implement its own campus banning
procedures to keep this known stalker out of the law school. Howard's administration then
rejected Prof. Martin's applications for renewal. Instead of doing anything to "right" these
wrongs over the past 11 years, Howard has enlisted a battalion of outside attorneys, paying high
priced, wealthy, national employment discrimination defense firms, with an arsenal of unlimited
resources, to destroy her career and reputation. Ms. Martin had twenty years of experience as a
civil rights lawyer, in this nation's highest civil rights agencies and had outstanding academic
credentials, since she graduated from an Ivy League college and a top ten law school. See
DawnMartinbio.
In 1998, Ms. Martin began her career again, from scratch, at age 41. In 2000, she established
her own law firm to represent plaintiffs and provide consulting advise for employers who
genuinely want to establish employment policies that comply with the law.
Howard's own Faculty Senate called for Swygert's resignation, accusing him of financial and
academic mismanagement rising to "an intolerable condition of incompetence and dysfunction at
the highest level." See Washington Post April 28, 2007 article, "Howard's President to Retire
Next Year; Faculty had Called for his Removal." See also Wikipedia on Howard University. This
case is a prime example of President Swygert's financial and academic mismanagement, as well
as a betrayal of Howard's civil rights legacy. Under President Swygert, Howard further enriched
at least four wealthy law firms that defend employers in employment discrimination cases and set
precedent that harms civil rights plaintiffs -- particularly African-Americans, other minorities and
women. Howard has, no doubt, paid millions of dollars to these outside law firms to litigate this
case alone, rather than restore to the faculty a professor who was much loved by her students
and whom Howard acknowledges was a very good professor.
Despite this gross mismanagement, Patrick Swygert is now teaching at the law, beginning with
the 1009-2010 academic year! Perhaps more amazingly, Alice Gresham Bullock is now the
Chairperson of the Appointments Committee! It is one thing to say that Howard's former
administrators made some terrible mistakes eleven years ago, but quite another to reward the
perpetrators of these mistakes and place them, once again, in positions to do harm. It is further a
betrayal of Charles Hamilton Houston's vision of Howard to exemplify and produce "social
engineers for justice," rather than being a "parasite on humanity." Howard is providing million of
dollars to firms that by Charles Hamilton Houston's definition, would be worse than "parasites"
that do nothing to further social change. Howard has hired the firms that fight social change and
equality, making their living opposing civil rights plaintiffs filing employment discrimination; and
Howard is paying these huge, anti-civil rights firms with money provided by Howard alumni,
taxpayers funds, and private donations intended to prove educational opportunities and standards
of excellence for Howard students. The US Government contributes approximately $235 million
to Howard annually. See Wikipedia on Howard University. Howard alumni, contributors, the
public and Congress should be demand to know how much Howard paid these outside law firms
and how these expenditures, and the anti-civil rights arguments made by these firms in their
filings can be justified, in Howard's name.
For information of Howard's continued lack of security on campus while campus crime,
including sexual assault, increases, see http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/ContentDetail?
contentId=7525274. For Howard's own report of crime on its campus, see
http://www.howard.edu/services/campuspolice/Statistics/default.htm and http://www.howard.
edu/services/campuspolice/documents/ANNUALREPORT20062Bedit..pdf.
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Martin v. Howard University,
Howard University's Anti-Civil Rights Court Filings and Refusal to
Address Stalking, Sexual Harassment and Safety on Campus
Martin v. Howard University,
Howard University's Anti-Civil Rights Court Filings and Refusal to
Address Stalking, Sexual Harassment and Safety on Campus