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News brief
EMU funds dance team
competition
The Student Senate approved a
#3,956 grant to EMU Club Sports’
dance team at the senate’s Wednesday
night meeting out of its surplus budget.
The funds will help support the team’s
trip to national competition in Day
tona, Fla., in conjunction with team
fundraising efforts and other money
from Club Sports. It also foigave #408
of the #500loan it granted the Asian Pa
cific American Law Students Associa
tion fall term in recognition of the ex
tensive fundraising efforts it made.
The dance team received the fund
ing they requested only after senate
members vigorously debated whether
to give the group any competition
money at all. The members that op
posed the grant said they were con
cemed whether it was appropriate to
fund an event that was not clearly edu
cationally or culturally valuable to the
university. Some senators also ques
tioned whether it was appropriate to
fund an EMU group with senate mon
ey, even though others argued that
past precedent allowed the senate to
fund competitions, which currently
are not a legitimate budget item for
EMU or ASUO groups.
Opponents of the dance team grant
added that EMU groups should seek
EMU surplus funds before bringing re
quests to the senate.
Senators in favor argued the Univer
sity is about more than academics and
that the senate’s job is to make sure
that many types of groups are funded in
order to maintain a diverse University.
Supporters added that an event like the
competition in Florida would do good
things for the University’s out-of-state
recruitment. Ultimately, the grant
passed with a 12-5 vote, and then dis
cussion shifted to the status of a loan
granted to APALSA
The APALSA received a #500 loan
from the senate last term, which cov
ered half of the amount requested to at
tend a conference. The senate gave the
money to the group under the condi
tion it requested funding from Career
Center surplus funds or elsewhere. Al
though APALSA had only paid back
#92 of the loan, the senate voted 16-1
to forgive the remainder.
In other senate business, half a
dozen representatives from the Black
Student Union and Alpha Kappa Alpha
sorority presented a proposal to the
senate to transfer money left over from
an earlier BSU event to an AKA fashion
show that will celebrate Black Histo
ry Month. The fashion show takes
place at 3 p.m. Feb. 23 at Mac Court
and is free.
— Kira Park
Lincoln
continued from page 1
brothers, Edward and Darren, and his
parents, Eddie and Sharon — have
kept a similar focus. Eddie majored in
marketing at the University of Port-,
land and Sharon majored in account
ing at Portland State University. Dar
ren graduated from Willamette
University and Edward is taking class
es at Portland Community College.
“The way my parents raised me,
they honesdy figured I could handle
my business myself,” Lincoln said.
“They really raised me well.”
So it isn’t surprising that the
youngest Lincoln stayed in Oregon,
nor is it astonishing that he is debating
a business administration or sports
marketing major.
Nineteen-year-old Brandon Lincoln
chose to remain in-state rather than
play ball at the University of Missouri.
For four years Lincoln made his way
up the ranks at Jefferson High School,
and last year it was his playground.
“High school was fun,” he said. “I
had a lot of friends. We all just pretty
much ran around, played basketball. ”
Lincoln can quickly ratde off the
names of his higji school friends and
where they ended up going to college.
Lincoln also played along side Jeffer
son graduates Brandon Brooks of USC
and the University of Kansas’ Aaron
Miles and Michael Lee. It’s a basketball
mecca, but it’s far from the most presti
gious school in Portland. Unfortunate
ly, Lincoln said, some people look at
the bad without taking in the good.
“It’s only what you make of it,” he
said. “There’s some people that go there
that, you know, don’t go to class and do
things like that. But (some people) real
ly don’t take time to see the positive
things. We have people that get schol
arships to Stanford and are getting
scholarships to go everywhere. Those
people don’t ever get highlighted. ”
School wasn’t the most fun, Lincoln
admitted, but it’s gotten him to where
he is today.
“Glass was class,” he said. “I was just
going in, trying to get my work done.”
That work consisted of getting good
grades and scoring well on the SAT —
the requirements that would land him
a Division I scholarship. Doing what
needed to be done was an easy task for
Lincoln, but his parents made sure it
was that way.
“My parents gave a little bit at a time,”
he said. “They didn’t just let (me and my
brothers) run free. They pretty much
made sure we had our heads on straight.
As we got older, they let us do more as we
displayed our responsibility.”
Nowadays, most of Lincoln’s closest
friends are the guys on his team. He
rooms with freshman Adam Zahn in
H.P. Barnhart, and Lincoln likes his
surroundings.
“We’ve got a nice little set-up,” he
said. “We just chill out and listen to
music most of the time. We’re really
like music junkies, so we always sit
back and find a new CD — find a CD
we haven’t heard in a while.”
For those who watch Lincoln on the
court, most know he’s multifaceted. He
describes his personality the same way.
“Half-goofy, half-calm,” he said
of himself.
Sometimes, he’s laying back, tak
ing things in. Other times, he’s up
dancing, making people laugh. And
on occasion, he’s laying back, giv
ing interviews — and still making
others chuckle.
“Brandon Lincoln, you’ve gpt to get
(your hair) cut, ‘cause it’s terrible,”
teammate James Davis joked.
But, apparendy, the transition from
high school girls to college women has
been easier than his on-the-court
move. It seems Lincoln doesn’t need a
trim to help out his love life.
“You got a Valentine, Brandon?” an
other teammate asked.
“Yeah,” Lincoln said with a smile.
“What’s her name?”
Well?
“I’ll tell you in a minute.”
Contact the news editor
at bradschmidt@dailyemerald.com.
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