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A! the time. Bill Drozdiax
was talking about being able
to compete both on the court
as a University basketball
player and in the intellectual
realms of political science
and economics during his
University years
But he could |ust as easily
have been describing his
globetrotting career after
graduation as an international
correspondent in Europe and
the United States expen
enctng the best of those
worlds
After graduating from the
University in 1971 Drozdiak's
adventures ranged from driv
mg down basketball courts in
countries around Europe to
dodging artillery shells in Iraq,
from reporting on the 50th an
niversary of Hitlers rise to
leader of the Third Reich to
covering the U S State De
partment in Washington
And next week, he will
bring his 19 years of interna
tional observations to the Uni
versity Drozdiak foreign desk
editor for The Woshington
Post and soon to be chief of
European coverage, will speak
at this year s graduation com
mencemeni June 10
In a telephone interview
last week (rom Wainscott.
N Y . where he was vacation
mg, Drozdiak. 40, gave a
glimpse of what he will tell
graduates, their families and
friends
"It is important for America
to stay involved in Europe To
retreat into isolationism or
even a Pacific Rim mode of
thinking would be a bad devel
opment and also historically
dangerous, he said
'The striking thing about
developments in Eastern Eu
rope is that even with a U S
budget deficit and financial
leverage being pretty small,
many leaders of Eastern Euro
pean revolutions, like Lech
Walesa in Poland and Vaclav
Havel in Czechoslovakia, of
ten cite the U S Constitution
and the Bill of Rights as inspi
rations for their causes he
said
The United States could
contribute with other coun
tries toward a grandiose Mar
shall Plan for the Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe that
would be a major contribution
toward the future of world
peace.' he said
These opinions and many
of Drozdiak's other insights
into European politics have
developed during his nearly
two decades of reporting for
Time magazine and The Wash
mgton Post in cities through
out Europe and the Middle
East
An academic athlete
But Drozdiak's interests in
politics and international af
fairs predate his European ex
periences. In fact, they began
to take root in Eugene when
Drozdiak was a 20-year-old
University student
A full tuition scholarship to
play as a guard on the Umver
sity's basketball team lured
Drozdiak from his hometown
in San Jose. Calif in 1968 He
received his bachelor's de
gree at the University in politi
cal science and economics in
1971
bteve tseiko. men neaa
basketball coach, remembers
the 6 foot 5 Drozdiak as "a top
student with quite a sense of
humor" and a deadly shot.
Bill was one of the best
outside shooters I've coached
in 26 years of coaching. Belko
said "If we would have had
the three point shot then, he
would have feasted on it.”
Indeed Drozdiaks shot was
good He still stands as the
University's second- best ca
reer free throw shooter, aver
aging 83 5 percent And he
ranks 15th on the University's
list for career points
But Drozdiak s talents were
apparent off the court as well
Political science professor
James Klonoski remembers
him as a Rhodes scholarship
finalist who "wasn’t just a
good basketball player — he
Bill Drozdiak
was a good student
After Drozdiak graduated
from the University, he re
ceived an NCAA fellowship to
study in Europe. While study
ing European politics and eco
nomics at the Institute of Eu
ropean Studies in Brussels.
Belgium, he began to play the
European basketball circuit
Two years later, Drozdiak con
tinued his studies at the Col
lege of Europe in Bruges. Bel
gium.
Drozdiak described his sev
en-year European basketball
career as a paradox He said it
was easier than the American
professional scene, yet espe
cially demanding on American
athletes.
"The game in Europe is
much more wide open, chaot
ic, even anarchic in a way, he
said "It was far less struc
tured. so you had to play all
over the court That's what
made it quite good
"The playing schedule in
Europe is far less demanding
than the pros in the U S — 30
to 35 games a year and only
on weekends But American
players were supposed to be
the dominant force on the
team, and if you don't score
the points, you won't be play
ing for long "
Typical war stories
Drozdiak said he eventually
"drifted" into |ournalism
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