Onyx Informer, October 1994

lbe*npx ]nformer i\"onheastern Cniversity l\"onheasrern's l\"e,vspaper Designed for Pe ople of Color October 1994 Northeastern's Warnings What Up! Community By Kathia Desronvil Onyx Staff By Dilan Mahendron housing they would have Onyx Staff to move where the state All freshmen; I know offered them housing , not ya'll are " trippin " be Since t he nineteen six where the tenant chooses. cause ya 'II are in college ties. Boston city lines and The community east or and you know your the neighborhoods have been behind the \".U. Librarv man or miss thong. For constantlv redrawn . is of particular concern t~ many of you this is the These cl;anges were the \"ortheastern Univer fir st time you ' ve been made po ssible through sity student .. This area is away from home . Moms HCD ·s urban renewal Roxbury and South End and pops ain't here and plan. Th e alterations which merge at Massa tive iss ue of nomen 4. Remodeled Roxbury you are in cha rg e. You were in population move chussetts Avenue. :\"orth clature an even mor e dire Community College brothers out here got ments and simple demo eas tern Un ivers itv is issue is the inevitabl e 5. Madison Park High your gear all rea dy and grap hics caused by state geograp hically locat~d in gentrification of Roxbury School your lines in full gear for action and planning . Roxbury but for so me and South End. Over the 6. Duclley Post Office the fly "honeys", ready to When there is an or reaso n \. U. do es not past few years thi s area 7. Luxury Apartment profile on the campus ganized attempt by any include Roxbury in its has undergone significant complexes (Parme lee scene and at the parties. g iv en power stru ct ure address. · changes in its landscape , Court Home s and You sistas got yo ur outfits such as stare an d lo cal It is the sam e raci st m eaning new deve lop Douglas Park ) and your hair all done up government to di splace a ideology that Videosmith m ents. Th ese develop 8. ExpansionofN.U. readv to catch the broth specific communit y it is clisplays when t hey nam ments have been pas sed The se new buildings ers.:. but I'm her e to known as genn·ification. ed it s recently opened off as a positive change hardly serve the majority make sure that va·ll don·t Gentrification most bran ch on Huntington for the communitv . This of th e minority com sleep! · co mmonh • occurs in Avenu e, ca lled th e wou ld be true if your munities in Boston , yet College is a jungl e and minority ~nd low socio "·Huntin gto n Avenu e looking through the eyes they are being placed survival of the fittest will economic communities. Videosmith. " Thi s Vid of naivete and ignorance. unrecognized area of depend on how each of Beca use so me of the eos mi th branch like The corners of this area Roxburv. One ca nnot you approach this jun gle. hou sing i s public or \"ortheastern is in Rox that have be en under help but to notice these You can have a blast but regulated by the city or bury and unlike all the development include changes and question if only if you learn from the state , it is verv simple for other Video Smiths which from Symphony Hall. they are for the better start w ha t it takes to these institutions to shut are named after th e \"orthea stern Univer sitv ment of the Roxbur y survive. There are manv down and remove popu districts that they are and both ends of Duclley commu nit y. To many in pitfalls which can b~ lations. For example. the located in. The re~sons Str ee t is a list of new the community the easily avoided with some s sta te ca n claim that a why th ese in st itution buildings that were gentrification is ~vident minor precautions. parti cul ar project is and bu sines ses do not constructed over the past but little pu bli c protest First of all. each of you strn ctur ally un safe and include Roxbury in there decade: has occ ur red. The only need to realize that v~ur the tenants would be address is bec~u se Rox 1. Registri • of Motor recent protests were education should be your provided public housing bur y connotates violent Vehicles about the la ck of first priority. Before· you in anoth er part of the neg1:oes, gangs, and over 2. Dudlev Station Bus minority construction go out profiling , make cit ,•; th erefore. if tho se sexual bucks. Termin'al workers ·and the lack of sure vour work is don e. te~ants needed public the rela- Setting aside 3. Ruggles Train Station Continutd on Page 2. you studied for t hat quiz and vo u fini shed that pope;. You can have the Got ''Trouble'' hip life but you must Drug Users learn to balance vour By Shanan X a chemical placed in a an Iv in the ~1iss ion Hill AIDS and a whole bun ch education and vour ;ocial Onyx Staff unknown percentage of a·reas , and it ca n kill of other stuff, but I life. · the city's contraband is vou " haven't heard of this stuff There are several The Boston Depart letha l. · · When a sked about the (Trouble). and I'm scar places to go if you need ment of Hea lth and The new form of hero chemi ca l, so me com ed . but you know J"m to concentrate or escape Hospita ls ha s iss ued a in, known as "Trouble ," munity h eroin users ex hooked ," exp lained Al your friends ' influences warning recently to hero ha s caused 12 cases of pr esse d fear about the Douglass. in order to do your work, in users, telling them that overdo se in the South department 's report , be The Boston Police De such as the NC librarv , End and Ylission Hill li eving that th e new partment area B-2 Drug the study halls in Dodge INSIDETHE ONYX INFORMER communiti es within th e chemical i s alleged ly a Cnit raided a Mission hall on the second and REPRESSING HAITI last month . Hea lth De plan to kill them off. Hill apartment; however, third floors , the John D. Whal'sgo ingon .. ....................P.2 partment officials say, "I have been in the se thev have declined to o·Bryant In stit ut e Li • MusicREVIEW th at of th e twe lve vic street s for over fifteen co~ment on if the raid brary , or the Copley Biggie Smalls & Craig..P. Mack 4 tim s, no cases of dea th something years and ain't was in connectio n to the Library which you can • SPORTS have been report ed. never been no shit lik e narcotic "Trouble. " get to by taking the 39 Pearlof NU & Dav e Lettao.... P . 6 Th e report i ssued by this going around: s ome Dr . Mover was not bus on Huntington Ave . Don ·1 be intimadated to • SPORTS Dr. P ete r Mov er stated body's trying to get rid of availab le f~r questioning DaveLe itao........................ P. 7 ··ther e's some· bad stuff us,- said Cedric Williams. at Onyx Inform er pre ss ask questions or for help . going around. particular- ··J have lost fri ends to time. Continued on Pa~ 2. Pagel The Onyx Informer October 1994 international economic and social devel no longer can bear thi s sys Repressing Haiti opment. Pre sident Ari stide tem of oppression , repres is a man of principle and sion , and depression thats By John-Marra Youte Duvalier s pre sidency ca n peop le st ill maintained a justice. He detests the vio been imposed upon them be defined as a mas sive high level of poverty and lation of human right s of even after they made a Haiti is a country of cor rupton ; as a form of discontentment . the people by the military choice at the poll s that they revolution where the peo instit utionali zed state ter Thi s discontentment regime and the Tonton wanted demo cracy as their ple hope that the process of rori sm. Francois las ted for a period of 29 Macoutes . His attempt to sys tem of government. evo lution will so meday Duvalier 's c orrupt govern years under the dictatior dismantle the military and Democracy has come and take place. The Republic ment was re spon sible for ship of the Duv alie rs. In the Tonton Macoutes led to gone and as a result, thou of Hai ti , s ince gaining the existence of over 60 1986, the people of Haiti hi s removal by the mili sands have headed for U.S. aquision of independence percent of the people of led a revo lt aga in st tary. He was forced to flee boarders only to die at sea in 1804 by defeating the Haiti who lived in condi Du va lier' s regim e. the country he proudly or be stored into in consen powerfu l Napolean army; tion s of pov e rty an d However, Re agan's admin loves. With exile of presi tration camps and are treat has adapted a demora ctic despair.

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