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that prospect at all.
“I would really like it (playing in Europe). It
would be a great opportunity before I work in the real
world. I don't want to give up basketball in six
weeks,” Glidden said.
Although her future looks bright, the past hasn't
exactly been a bed of roses for Glidden.
To start with, high school was in some respects
difficult for her.
“1 grew a lot in high school. When I was a
freshman I was five-foot-nine and by the time I
graduated 1 was six-foot-three. I didn't like it at first
and 1 felt awkward, and I was real skinny. Now 1 don't
pay too much attention to it." Glidden said
College basketball offered her a differant sort of
physical challenge, however. Besides picking up a
nickname her freshman year. Glidden also acquired
something she could have done without — a knee
injury.
"I injured my knee the first day of practice and it
required surgery. Because of that 1 really didn't have a
normal year," Glidden said.
Back problems have plagued Glidden throughout
her college career, and early this year a shoulder in
jury sidelined her for two games. Because of the nagg
ing shoulder and the flu. Glidden started the season
rather slowly.
She only averaged 6.6 points a contest before the
Kris Glidden
I)«c. 30 game against Cheney. But then her shooting
percentage exploded.
Glidden scored a career-high 23 points against
the I.ady Wolves and proceeded to score 19 or more
points in four different games. The Ducks also started
working the ball into her more because of the double
and triple-teaming on center Stefanie kasperski.
“Every year she has performed well the latter part
of the season. This year she is starting a little early and
she should have a strong finish.” Heiny said. "Our of
fense is geared toward her lately."
That offensive scheme should continue if the
Ducks hope to escape from the middle of the Pac-10
and avoid a .500 season for the first time since
1975-76.
After starting the year 7-5, Oregon is now 10-8.
"This is the most difficult time since I’ve been
here. It used to be that we would walk on the court
and then; would be no question that we would win.
Now 1 hope to God that vve can win," Glidden said.
"It's tough on all of us. The oldor people are used
to winning and the younger players all come from
successful high school teams. It 's a hard time for all of
us.”
Glidden added that those hard times may end this
weekend when the Ducks host UCLA Friday night and
Hlth-ranked USC Sunday afternoon. She also said
Oregon needs to prove it is a hotter team than the one
that was blown out 82-56 by USC earlier this year.
"We need to start the second half strong and it
would be nice to beat these two teams. We need to
show USC we aren't the team they beat down there."
she said.
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The Elusive Quest for Racial Reform
DERRICK BELL
In his book, Stride Toward Freedom. The Montgomery
Story. Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. describes the events
launched by the arrest of Mrs Rosa Parks: The year
long Black boycott of Montgomery's buses, cutting bus
revenue by over 65 percent; the formation of a transpor
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Black community allowing Blacks to get around without
buses; and the Supreme Court decision that ruled
segregation on buses illegal, allowing Blacks to sit in
buses on a first-come, first-served basis. This courageous
act by Mrs. Parks sparked the great Civil Rights Move
ment on December 1, 1956. One of the movement's
more strident participant/observers was Derrick Bell.
Even before his involvement in the movement in the ear
ly 1960s. Bell, as an attorney, had already established a
track record of commitment to the battle for racial
justice. Now a Professor of Law at the Harvard Law
School and former Dean of the University of Oregon's
School of Law, it was befitting that he voice the realities
of the post-1960s civil rights struggle.
In his latest book. And We Arc Not Saved. Professor
Bell discusses the harsh realities of the Afro-American s
attempt to bring about real changes in the fabric of
American society — woven with racial prejudice and
bigotry. He has chosen two fictional narrators. Geneva
Crenshaw, a civil rights attorney, who is a gifted and
courageous woman, and the other. Crenshaw's unnamed
male friend and colleague who appears to be omniscient.
For all who know him. this character is Professor Bell!
And We Are Not Saved is presented in ten stories in
what the author calls "Chronicles." which are related by
Geneva, with the exception of one told by her narrator
friend. Most of these stories are very intense and painful
as they attempt to recall the major strategies Black people
have used in their centuries-long quest for justice in this
nation. "The Chronicle of the Constitutional Contradic
tion" for instance takes on an aura of science-fiction in
the debate between Geneva and members of the Constitu
tional Convention of 1787. Some of the delegates attempt
to "eject the Negro woman at once!" Dr Vincent Har
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the University of Denver, views these chronicles and
discussions between Geneva and her narrator-friend as
descriptions of the multitudinous ways in which many
white Americans, especially the keepers of judicial,
political, and police systems seem to find modes to
subvert, defeat or minimize the Black thrust for change
At times, the discussions arc as elaborately developed as
law school lectures, but any concerned lay person can
understand them.
"The Chronicle of the Sacrificed Black
Schoolchildren" discusses the issue of school desegrega
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years as Solicitor before the Supreme Court, where he
delivered critical briefs and litigations in this field. Pro
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Action" as he asserts: "There is a widely held view that
Affirmative Action programs, almost by definition, aid
Blacks and disadvantage whites In fact, almost the op
posite is true. Those who are the beneficiaries of the civil
rights movement have become doctors, lawyers, and
other professionals and seem to have abandoned their
brothers and sisters who are left behind in a mass of
poverty, exploitation, and self-destruction.
And We Arc Not Saved will become a benchmark in
the annals of post-civil rights discussions in the future.
He has provided us with contemporary critical issues
presented by characters who are compassionate, intellec
tual and radical in their approach to historical and social
justice. His book is a reminder for compassionate people
in this country to come together as Reverend Marlin
Luther King. Jr. dreamed. We cannot and must not for a
moment think that we are even close to the reality of that
dream, because we arc not saved!
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Hie Elusive
Quest for
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