Portland Observer, January 18, 1984 Section I Page 7
The Entertainer & Company
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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.
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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,
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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.
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" 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,
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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)
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C itiz e n A c tio n fo r L aatln g S a c u rlty State Board meeting. S at., Jan
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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-
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