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Students at Northeastern University have taken over the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute after the school announced plans to tear down the building and replace it with residential and academic facilities...
...statement, Northeastern University President Richard M. Freeland said that "whatever the final decision, the following is clear. The John D. O'Bryant African-American Institute will be a core entity within the Northeastern family of programs. All voices will be heard on the matter of the Institute's location and all decisions will be communicated openly and clearly...
...thing for KOBE BRYANT and Shaquille O'Neal to have an ongoing personality conflict. But now Bryant isn't doing his homework, and that's the kind of behavior his coach just won't tolerate. In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson said his 22-year-old superstar was bored with the team's offense and a potentially divisive force in the locker room, but perhaps more ominously, a slack reader. Jackson assigned the Italian-raised Bryant Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres because "Kobe's a real Mediterranean kid," said Jackson...
Accounts from witnesses painted the BC players as instigators of the altercation. Initial reports alleged that freshman Andrew Bryant precipitated the fight by slapping a lady when she told him he was sitting in her boyfriend's seat. Later accounts alleged that senior Kenny Harley started the incident by using his index finger to push the lady out of a seat that he claimed was his. Though some of the accounts contradict each other, none seem to paint a sympathetic picture of Bryant and Harley, who were both arrested...
...this a case of poetic justice? Surprisingly, BC and its coach Al Skinner decided not to punish Harley or Bryant after the January incident "until all the facts were known." One must wonder whether that decision was based upon the merits of an innocent-until-proven-guilty philosophy or the importance of maintaining team chemistry on a then-undefeated basketball team. In any event, it was immensely ironic that Harley was kept on the team only to make the costliest error of the season...