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North eastern University Northe astem' s New spaper Designed for People of Col or October, 1992 • • 0 oway says ye; eaves or new os1t1on By Damola Jegede she said, glancing at Holloway. • Onyx Staff 111 enjoyed meeting Sydney everyday," said Lula Pett y, a Sydney Holloway, former co#worker at the Afri can # • assistant director for education American Institut e. "I'll miss and counseling services at the him. We'll remain friends long ~ African#American Institut e after he's left North eastern ," ~ (AA! ), will be movin' on up she said. ~ the road to Dorchester. At the inn school, Hollo• ~ Holloway will now serve as way will work with adolescents ; a surrogate father for adoles# who have emotional and be.. e;: cents, serving.the Boston com• havioral disorders. ~ munity as direct or of youth 11The move for him at this a.. services at the Charles Hayden point is a good one, working "<5- Goodwill Inn School in Dor• with a lot of young boys who c;, chester, have problems," said his wife, ~ Friend s, student s and co .. G\ven Holloway, who is the 8 workers came to African .. director of clinical services at <:) American Institute September Madison Park High School. _jl- 25, to wish him well and pay Still, the move will not be a.. tribute to the man who meant easy, says Mrs. Holloway. , so much to many people. nThis is ,vhere his heart is, Th e impact of Holloway he \vill continue to come back. was especially felt by a misty• The studencs won't feel desert~ eyed senior \vho shared her ed,n she assured. (ee lin gs \Vith the small Holloway co nfirm ed th e UP, UP, AND AWAY: Holloway & ,vife, Gwen, pose one last time at the farewell party at the audience. sentiments of his ,vife. "Tute'! Photo by Al:ellMurphy • "I1ve al\vays wished for a "If you went into my office, 0 He took our fats out of the "Sydney brought an ele, "He was firm, but warm. Dad," said senior Tanya Fran• it looks like I'm not leaving. fire on numerous occasions," ment to the Institute th at it Sane, but able to understand co is, with tissue in hand . The emotional ties chat I have said Kun Harrison , a Ralph needed," said Petly1 who work• insanity. He made ~en'-e ?Ut of 1 ' When I came here in '88, I here makes leaving difficult/' Bunche s_cholar. "We love you. ed with Holloway for seven chaos," she said of Holloway, found what I was looking for," said Hollo1vay. Thank you for everything." yearsat the AA!. ConrinUWon Page 5. Leon St. ,viii folio\\• suit and soon become the John D.O 'Bry• NBSAGets NU remembersO'Bryant ant African#American Institute. BostonTech, MI namedin hishonor When O'Bryant suddenly Students Rolling diedon July 3 this year,personal ByByron P. Hurt uit went kinda smooth but By AzeUMurphy came int o my office to talk friend and well#known Boston OnyxStaff there were not enough girls for Onyx Staff about people," said university politician Mel King, was the fella s here.' ' said juni or President John Curr y at an saddened. King channeled !hat When Northeastern Black Harold 11Ta,p" Peter s. "The y Two days before his death, October 5 memorial service to energy int o preserving the Student Association President should have advertised better." John O'Bryant burst into John honor ,he late John D. O'Bryant memory of a great man who Quan Smith took a (all last But NBSA President Quan Curry's office ranting about the or 110B" as he was sometimes committedhis life to fightingfor monthat ChezYous Roller Skat• Smith was satisfied with the way young man he met while calledby friends. equality and fairness for Boston ing Rink in Dorchester, no one things turned out at Chez Vous vacationing with his wife. What "His legacy is built upon the schools tudents. who wasthere reallytook notice. and explained why such an had started as a pickup values he believed in and the King propo sed the name What they did notice though, event is important for African• basketball game ended up as a principle s he lived by,'' said change before the Boston was a night full o( fun and ex• Americanfreshmen . Fall 1992 enrollment o( a Karen Rigg, dean of students. School Committee, a committee citement at NBSA'ss econd con# 11The purpose is to help the student of color at Northeastern. "Students were John's thing." that 15 years earlier had elected secutive roller skating patty on students get acclimated at the John had persuaded the young A championo f quality educa• O'Bryant the first African .. September23 . universityand to meet other stu~ man to come to Northeastern tion for Boston students, John D. 0 American of the committee and 1enjoy ed myselfimmensely, " dents of African#American and could not have been more O'Bryant's legacy has been im• later rwo~term president. said junior Allison Booker. "I descent becau se attending a excited. That's just the type of mortalized as the former Boston The city council immediately skated once around and I didn't predominantlywhite institution, vice president the late John D. Technical High School has brought the idea to Boston want to fall so I stopped," she it's important to know your O'Bryanr was. adopted a new name: The John 0 Technical High School head• said. 1didn't come last year but peers. Students .serve as support uMany univer sity leaders D. O'Bryant School of Mathe• masterGu stave Anglin. I came this year to support systems too and in order to come into my office to talk matics and Science. The Afr• uThe parent council and I (NBSA)." successfully matriculate it is about financial situ_ ation___c_;_s; J ohn________ ican ..American Institute on _40 thought it ,vasa great idea,"s aid The event alsogave freshmen important for us to help each Anglin, who ha, been head, student s a chance to unwind other," said Smith. masterof the high school (or two from the event-filled freshmen years. orientation week, and the anxi• IN51DE THE ONYX INFORMER "John was one o( those people eties of beingaway from home, • INSIDEAFRICA who always thought about "I had a good liime," said Panford:OAU.. ...................?. 6 educati on for all kids. TangelaCobb , 18, a Communi• Chunn:Media In N igeria .P. 10 Specificall y, he was always cation Studies/ Theater major •WHERETOGO IN BOSTON ... ? . 10 thinking of black students/' said from Baltimore, MD. "l had A guidefor freshmen Anglin. gotten a little homesick but Anglin said ,he staff at The tonight helped me get loose,', • REVIEWIN'THANG$ .... ..........?. 7 John D. O'Bryant School o( Cobbs aid. Music & moviereviews Math and Science, where 98 Some, however, were disap# NEXTMo ll!H'SFliATURES percent o( the student pointed in the turnout and • CollegeDads population is African#American, thought the event should have • A lookat Haiti ,School renamed to honor O'Bryant. Photo by Atell Murphy • Continl«'d on Poge3 , been better publicized. • Page 2 The Onyx Informer October 1992 • • 1t Al Black people have a peculiar gene or spreading within black communities, For starters I)d like to welcome all generations1 thereby thwarting our eco• an extra chromosomeunique to Africans although it is not a problem unique to students of color back to Northeastern nomic progress. that predisposesus to acts of violence. So inner cities. But ,vhat is important to Universityfor anothet of what I hope is a Letus not forget that the plightof the the leadersof chiscountry believe. realize is that it has been only since prosperousand challenging school year. African~Americancommunity today is a PresidentBush has allocateda budget African-Americanshave been schooled For freshmen and transfer students of direct result of the legal and historic.al for a study to prove that violent in inadequate institutions, squeezed color attending the universityfor the first discrimination against the African­ personalities are genetically transferred. together in substandard housing and cime. I'd like to extend my best wishesto American men and women who walked you both as fello,v students and fellow on this soil far before we \Vereallowed to John Goodwin, the government's top exploited as a race that these violent psychologistand the muscle behind rhe tendenciesemerged . peopleof Africandescent . attend predominantly white universities As you thumb through the pages of and colleges. study,has been quocedas saying... "inner The danger of it all is that some The Onyx Informeryou might wonder to Let us not forget the countlesssilent city blackmales are like monkeysin the people do not even conceptualize· how yourself,why is there a need for a news# movies written and produced by whites ,viltl." covertly racist our government is. paper for people of color at this univer# that depictedblacks in so negativea light Governmentofficial s believethe · srudy Here, the government has oppressed a sity? It is a question asked a thousand that we bought into those stereotypesbe# 1,1,•illlead to early cure of violent people to the point of reaction and times over by whites and African•Arneri• causethat wasall we were exposedto. personalitiesth.rough early detection . then blame the victim. cans who don't see a need for such a dis# And let us not forget the damaging There may be a race in the world chat As African-American college tinction. Proponentsfor multi#culturaldi- way in which our communitiesare being is predisposedto acts of violencebut it is students in a society dominated by versity say racial separation is a thing of portrayed by the media which is owned not people of African descent.

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