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Newspaper Page TextPortland Observer, January 18, 1984 Section I Page 7 The Entertainer & Company Sport Talk Company led by Rodney Wilder, better known as the W ’lder Funk by Hon Sykes. Sports Editor O h! How about them Ducks! Oregon 62, U C L A 51— the score- board told the story while the fans rejoiced. It was pure bedlam in Eu gene as Coach Don Monson was vic torious in his first try against the weighty Bruins. I'm sure most new coaches entering the P A C -IO con ference are aware o f the U C L A tra dition and are eager to get a chance at the legend Most dream of put ting together a program that will achieve this goal some two to three years down the road. Dick Harter made no bones about it. " I ’m here to see if we can’t build a program to challenge U C L A .” Harter pro claimed on his 'arrival in Eugene. Dick brought in mostly East Coast players and a few from the Midwest. It wasn't until Ronnie Lee was a sophomore and Greg Ballard a freshman that Oregon was able to upset the Bruins. Harter was by then into his third year. Don Monson is doing in Eugene what he's done everywhere he’s been. . . and that's to win. I f you don't believe that a coach can make much difference to a pro gram just ask the people in Seattle, and then look at Eugene. Don M o n son is doing for Oregon what Chuck Knox did for the Seahawks. Both coaches inherited players from their predecessors that were perceived losers and made winners o f them. Some will argue that it’s too early to project the Oregon Ducks as win ners when they're only four games (3-1) into the P A C -I; schedule. M y answer is that Monson has instilled the winning attitude into his team already I f not this team would not have beaten U C L A last Saturday. After going seven points down (20- 13) in the first half they (Ducks) could have folded. O nly Monson would not allow it. He showed them that he would not allow malingering by replacing the starting five en masse. Not only has Monson in stilled the winning attitude, he also has shown the basketball world that he knows how to coach. His second half pressure defense made the Bruins look like a high school team. You could see the frustration on the U C L A n 's faces. Coach Monson, unlike O S U ’s Ralph M iller, will employ many changes during the course o f a game. Monson's bread and butter defense is a match up zone with man-to-man tendencies. But he will switch occasionally and will not hes itate to do so. Oregon's record stands at 8-6 which doesn't exactly qualify them as a good team on pap er. But remember the Ducks opted for a tough pre-season schedule. They had (ought road losses to M in nesota! o f the Big 10 and BYU . Missing on the pre-season schedule o f a year ago was U C - San Diego, U C - Irvine, Richmond. Rutgers. St. O la f and San Diego State. It is easily conceivable that the Ducks could have gone into the Fred Meyer Ear West Classic with a 6-0 record had they chose the easy way out. By playing (he Minnesota's B YU 's and W iduta State's, Coach Monson has gained respect, something his pro gram badly needed. He sacrificed some early non-conference wins that will surely enable him to pick up some valuable conference wins down the stretch. A program that can defeat USC by 31 points, then beat the 6th-ranked Bruins by 11 on successive outings, is certainly no fluke. In Eugene a new day is com ing. The Game: The media has propelled the N F L Super Bowl into another orbit. This Sunday in Tam pa Bay the Washing ton Redskins will meet the Los A n geles Raiders in Super Bowl X V I II . But the show does not begin there, something called Super Week began last Saturday and pure chaos is the order o f the day. Over 1800 media people converged on this sleepy little Florida bay town and N F L Com missioner Pete Rozelle threw a white tie bash for them that will be hard to top. Only the elite o f the U S A . were invited to break bread with such stars as Burt Reynolds, Frank Sinatra and the like. You think the N F L isn't big business? W ell, the Raiders flew in from the West Coast in a D C -10. The N F L is footing the bill for 80 first class round-trip seats. The N F L pays for 80 cham pionship rings at $2,500 each, also pays for 80 awards for the runners- up at $1,200 each. The winning team gets a cool $1,248,000 bucka- roos, and, baby, those are some staggering figures. And, then, the losing team will split $924,000. Yes, this Super Bowl is quite an affair. The events surrounding the game are so big that they almost dwarf the game itself. W ho cares about the outcome on Sunday, for there will certainly be no losers. No matter what the final score is on Sunday, both (he Redskins and the Raiders will leave as winners. The Silk Hat The Silk Hat Mon b T ues nite Rodney Wilder W ed Sun Hank the Man The Saddest In The West Funk (your D J I for the nite H«r»a 5144 N.E. Union PSU BLACK C U L T lIR A l A F F A IR S p re s e n ts 3 rd Annual Gospel Festival S atu rd ay , Ja n u a ry 28. 1984 Portland S ta le Untv. S m ith M e m o ria l C e n te r »JSS 7 :3 0 pM (ertlu r |ng l U l t r l s a v a i la b l e < | u s u a l n u l la Is I <m . , r . t Ì SO P S I I si Id plus: JoAnn Collins, The Greater M t. Calvary Church of God In Christ Choir, and The Albina Church of God Choir DCM by Congressman Ron Hyden made up o f ed u ca tio n a l leaders from around the country as well as three o ther Congressm en, agreed that m erit pay and teacher pay in general were local issues, it did come up w ith some modest actions the federal government can take to a t tract the best and brightest into the teaching profession and to provide them with the kind o f recognition ne cessary to keep them there. T o that end, I and the other three Congressional members o f the task force, Paul Simon ( d - III) , W illia m Goodling (R -Pa) and Thomas Cole man (R -M o ) have joined in introdu cing the Talented Teachers Scholar ship Program o f 1983, ke»v the Maa» tv Pa* «eye t*»a NsxtKwee« Washington Hot Line In the last six m o n ths, o ur n a tion’s public school system has been assailed by report after report. The reports have served to focus the a t tention o f the public arid legislators at the local, state and national levels on the question o f "h o w do we im prove our schools." In Congress, we have concen trated on defining the federal gov ernm en t’ s role, if any, in ensuring educational excellence. I served on a House task force which investigated the idea o f merit pay and other ideas th at have been fo rw a rd e d to im prove our educational system. W h ile th at g ro u p , w hich was tKa M a n The idea is really rather simple: If you w ant to im p ro ve the q u a lity o f teachers in the school system, you offer incentives for the best students to go into the teaching profession. O u r le g is la tio n w ould p ro vid e 10,000 scholarships o f $5,000 a year to high school students graduating in the top 10 percent o f their class. In return, the students would make a com m itm ent to teach in a secon dary or elem entary school fo r five years. The second part o f the equation, keeping talented teachers in (he sys tem , w ou ld be addressed by p ro viding annual fellowship awards to two teachers in each congressional district. The awards would allow the teachers to take a sabb atical and pursue opportunities for profession al growth. The Talented Teachers' Act is just a small piece o f the puzzle; a modest e ffo rt the federal government can m ake to w a rd re v ita liz in g our schools. But I believe it is a good firs t step and one that w ill allow parents, teachers, P T A s and local school b o a rd o ffic ia ls to move ahead with the rest of the agenda of reforming our educational system. Portland Cleaning Works 3954 N. W illiam s 282 8361 W ITH TOP QUALITY CLEANING Fin h t • 1 & PRESSING BY EXPERTS 8 1 *■ Sample price list below for both men's and wom en's clothing Hidh ** LIGHT SWEATERS Cleaned and Blocked.............................. .82 26 Prices Community Calendar 2 Piece........................................................84 00 3 Piece (Veeted)...................................... »6 60 3 Piece Ledlee......................................... 86 60 SLACKS.................................................. 82 00 TOPCOATS............................................. 86 26 DRESS, PLAIN....................................... 84 60 (Silk Extra) RAINCOATS........................................... 86 26 KEEP W H ITE S W HITE 25C Extra • Silk Extra Effective Jan. 23, 1964 " H o w to p u b llc h In e x p a n a lv e ly ." w orkshop o ffere d by the Black W o m e n ’ s N e tw o rk , Saturday, Jan. 28th, fro m 9 a.m . to I p .m ., at the P .O .I.C . office, 5329 N .E . Union Avenue. To register, call 287-1271: class size w ill be limited. Labor: T h e B lack W o rk Experience. Films: Miles o f Smiles— Years o f Struggle and Where D id You Get That W oman, 8 p .m ., W ed., Jan. 25th, N W Film Study Center. 1219 S .W . Park A ve., 221-1156. $3 /$2 children. M iles o f Smiles traces the 100-year history o f the Black Pullman Porters. Where D id You Get That Woman? is a portrait of an aging Chicago wash room attendant; a highlight o f the film is a p articu larly strong Chicago blues soundtrack. E y a w ltn a a a to G ran a d a : Just returned after living two years in G ren ada, Don Foster, a Black American radio-journalist, will give an eyewitness account on Thursday, January 26, 7:30 p.m. at the King Neighborhood Fa cility, N .E . 7th and Alberta. M u s ic a l P an cakaa, second annual pancake breakfast, 9 til noon, Satur day, Jan. 21st, 3588 S.E. Division. (P A C T Sr. Center). Benefit for the Na tional Lawyers G uild; music provided by local, talented friends. 234-8138 for more inform ation. L a u b a c h tu to r -tr a in in g w o r k a h o p , Jan. 21st, 9 a m. • 3 p .m . Spon sored by Oregon Literacy, Inc., for persons interested in learning to be a volunteer tutor to teach Am erican non-reading adults to read and write using the Laubach method. Call 232-9116 for more inform ation. "P u b lic C o n tra c tin g fo r S m all Bualneeeea’’ PC C class held at Cleve land H igh School. For more in fo rm ation , call Lucinda Eshleman at 244- 6111. P r a /p ..a t-n a tal a a ro b lc a x a rc la a class at P C C , led by Melanie Perko. Tuition $11. Call Lucinda Eshleman, 244-6111 for more inform ation. G u m b o D ln n a r, Saturday, Feb. 4th, 2-8 p.m . $5 a d u lts /$ l .50 children 11 and under, Immaculate Herat School, 2926 N. W illiams. 12th In te rn a tio n a l C h ild ren's Film Festival, Saturday, Jan. 21st, 2.00 p .m ., N W Film Studies Center. 1219 S.W . Park. This program o f A m er ican-made film s includes Angus Lost, the adventures o f a clever Scottish Terrier, and The Electric Grandmother, based on the Ray Bradbury story of a young father who hires a robot to care for his three motherless children. J a z z w o m e n /B lu e e C o u n try 8 p.m . and 10 p m .. Saturday. Jan. 21st, EXTRA CHARGE FOR ALTERATIONS A N D REPAIRS Chevytown Hello, Alan Payton. M H R C i first dlractor; Dr. Francis Storrs, raclplant of a spaclal award; Dr. Laa Brown, kaynota speaker; and Frad Rosanbaum. raclplant of the 1983 Payton Award, following the Metropolitan Human Relations Commission s award banquet. (Photo: Richard J. Brown) IMAGES OF LABOR BUILDING A NEW WORLD: BLACK LABOR PHOTOGRAPHS h My name is C ileries and I would like to be your car or truck sales repre sentative. If you need a new or used automobile or truck, come on down to Chevytown, and let me put you in the driver's seat. W entw orth Chevytown 107 S.E. Grand Ave. Portland, OR 97214 232-2000 N .W . Film Studies Center. C itiz e n A c tio n fo r L aatln g S a c u rlty State Board meeting. S at., Jan 21st, 10:30 a.m . -4 :0 0 p.m. 243-C ALS for more inform ation. N o rth w a a t D iatrict Aaaoc. p resentation on study o f neigh b orho od parking problems by Sumner Sharpe and PSU Urban Studies class. January 23m 7:30, Northwest Service Center, 1819 N .W . Everett. Sabin Community Aaaociation, Phil Colum bo, T ri-M e t, guest speaker, and others. Sabin School, 7:30 p.m . January 23rd. King Improvamant Aaaociation, King Neighborhood Facility, January 24th, 7:3 0p .m . Burnside Community Council. Plans for annual meeting. Baloney Joe's, 313 E. Burnside, January 25th, 8:00 p.m. Piadmont Neighborhood Aaaociation. Speaker from Salvation A rm y. Jan. 25th, 7:30 p .m .. Holy Redeemer School, 127 N . Portland Blvd. Roaa C ity Park C itizen s A aao ciatio n. Neighborhood livability, bicycle route, pedestrian study. Rose City Park School, 2334 N .E . 57th, Jan. 25th, 7:3 0p .m . C o m m u n ity E n erg y P ro je c t. Free workshop on low-cost home energy conservation for low-income southeast residents. January 24th. C all 234- 8132. FREE PASS Bring ihi- jd for one tree udnussion' Ih r*« o h ib .t amo and w»f protratti» etv »upports J bs p i x n n i ' * . HtiribsMHWt» f furti ihr O h p W Art» < I k i p f i M l ( If I an.l Hl as k &CAR TELEPHONES ( lUkif» < ••'»»••»•fU's In* P O R T L A M ) ARI M l S U M I2 I9 S VA. PARK AA t 226-2811 JA M A R A 1.1 -E E HRI ARA 12.1*84 THE BEEPER PEOPLE 713 S.W. 12th Street Call 224-BEEP for a free demonstration.