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1991-92 Trail Blazer Outlook
1990-91 (63-19), first in Pacific Division
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Cliff Robinson and Alaa Abdelnaby
HEAD COACH: Rick Adelman,
fourth year as head coach, all with
Portland, 136-63 (.683).
NEW FACES: Rookie guard
Lam ont Soothers, free agents Randy
Allen, Stuart Gray, Chris Harris, Shel­
ton Jones, Robert Pack, G erald Paddio.
COACH AD ELM A N ’S C O M ­
MENTS: “ After posting the league’s
best record the last two seasons (122-
42), the 1991-92 Trail Blazers should
look very much like last year’s team.
Many people feel that our starting lineup
is as good as any in the NBA, and with
an ever-im proving C liff Robinson and
Danny Ainge coming o ff the bench,
along with W alter Davis who will have
the advantage o f beginning a full sea­
son with us, I feel our depth is very
solid. O ur starting five features four
NBA All-Stars in Clyde Drexler, Terry
Porter, Kevin Duckworth and Buck
W illiams. Add Jerom e Kersey and you
have a group not only capable o f put­
ting points on the board but also able to
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As a senior communications stu­
dent at the U. o f Pordand, 1 read a story
(Hilltopper Newspaper) published by
Howard University while attending their
annual media conference. It addressed
the Allan Bakke reverse discrimination
case filed against UC- Davis, the po­
tential outcom e, and the conservative
political trends/mindsel brewing in
America.
Like many educational institutions
in the 6 0 ’s and 70’s, the University o f
California-Davis established programs
that either reserved slots for minorities
students or encouraged their participa­
tion, such programs were designed to
help make up for past discrim ination,
racism , and overt exclusionary policies
that suppressed upward mobility/op-
portunities for minorities.
Specifically, UC-Davis reserved 16
slots for minorities in its Medical School,
but a white student by the name of
Allan Bakke sued the university be­
cause he had better test scores than
those accepted into the program. U lti­
m ately, the case reached the Supreme
Court and Allan Bakke won his reverse
discrimination suit. He was then al­
lowed to enter the program at UC-
Davis and a strong message was sent to
black America in the process. The
m essage? That the social, economic,
and political gains of the 60’s and 70’s
were dead on the water. Actually, blacks
and other minorities had a good run
politically during Kennedy and, Johnson,
who introduced term Affirmative Ac­
tion, and Carter administrations, but
conservative A m enta grew ured of these
gains or advancements by minorities,
who were perceived to be the biggest
beneficiary o f such programs.
Contrary to public opinion, the
biggest beneficiary of Affirmative Action
were while females. How can white
females be a minority when they are a
part o f the majority? W hite women,
snapping out of the June Cleaver (Leave
It To Beaver) or Marian Cunningham
(Happy Days) housewife mentality,
realized that their husbands were the
Shopping Spree Means Extra Dollars
For Doernbecher
A former Portland School will be
rededicated as new condominium de­
velopment this Friday (Oct. 11) at 10:30
a.m.
Past Linnton Grade School stu­
dents, parents, teachers and others are
invited to rededication ceremonies and
celebration o f the old school as a new
housing developm ent
Located at 10425 N.W . St. Helens
Road, Linnton School was built as an
elem entary school in 1929 and served
area students until June, 1971.
The school was purchased in O cto­
ber, 1989 by W est W ay Investments,
Glen G ordon, president, and rem od­
eled into townhouse condominiums.
Nordstrom has announced a pre­
view o f the season’s most exquisite
designs for women, men, and children
at a formal fashion show to benefit the
Junior League o f Portland.
Join them W ednesday evening O c­
tober 23, in the Ballroom o f the Lloyd
Center Red Lion Inn. W ine and hors
d ’oeuvres will be served at 6:00 p.m.
followed by the fashion show at 7:00.
Tickets are *35.00 per person for Spon­
sor ticket(s) and *75.00 per person for
Patron ticketfs). All proceeds will bene­
fit the Junior League of Pordand.
For ticket information, you may
call the Junior League o f Portland at
(503) 297-6364.
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A shopping spree heidät W ilshire
Park Sentry in Northeast Portland, on
O ctober 3, netted *1,000 for Do-
em becher C hildren’s Hospital at O re­
gon Health Sciences University.
Bill Morrison of Portland wore
his running shoes for the two-minuile
sprint around the store. He put a hefty
dent in the meat case, then drove into
the coffee aisle and finished up with at
15-sccond foray in the canned goods
section. The check register receipt for
the three full cart loads o f food totalled
*640.90. Morrison immediately made
out a check to D oernbecher for *360,
bringing the total to *1,000.
Morrison won the shopping spree
during the Sentry Supcrmarkets/Al C.
Guisti M emorial G olf Tournam ent in
April. Instead of keeping the prize for
him self, he opted to donate the dollar
value o f the shopping spree to Do-
cm bechcr.
Proceeds from the Sentry/Giusti
tournament go to Doernbecher and
the Oregon Cancer Research Founda­
tion. Morrison’s shopping spree brings
the total am ount raised by the Sentry/
Giusti for D oernbecher to *31,000 this
year.
Morrison was the am ateur part­
ner o f the team that won the Blue Bell
ProAm portion of the tournament. He
played with pro Todd Young of the
Corvallis Country Club. The shop­
ping spree was awarded as the prize
for closest to the pin (KF) contest.
The Sentry/Giusti tournam ent is
part o f Sentry Superm arkets’ annual
effort to raise money for Oregon chil­
dren’s hospitals. In 1990 and 1991,
Sentry stores in Oregon, southwest
W ashington and northern California
raised *128,000 for pediatric programs-
part o f the *455,(XX) raised by United
Grocers and its members stores, in­
cluding Thriftw ay, Sentry, Food C on­
nection, Food W arehouse, and many
other independently owned stores.
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oppressors and took to the streets.
Burning bras, dem anding equal rights/
pay, and respect not given to them
under the name o f w om en's liberation.
In the process, white men basi­
cally “ chilled’’ their movement by
annointing them ’ ‘ minority ’ ’ status and
this fact alone decreased opportunities
for the real minorities in America Worst,
it paved the way for white female headed
companies/firms to benefit granted from
governm ent contracts and other SBA
programs. W orst because it allowed
the white economic system to keep the
“ money in the fam ily” or within the
race. Again, real minorities lost ground
and the “ great pie” of opportunity was
further decreased. Still, public opinion
or the Jesse Helms of the world believe
that minorities are taking jobs and
benefits from white people without being
qualified.
It’s not that type o f party. Unquali­
fied minorities are not, repeating - are
not -- reaping benefits without qualifi­
cations. As o f the Reagan-Bush years,
to be honest, black folks and other m i­
norities (real ones that is) have been
fighting for their lives. To make m at­
ters worse, the enlightened President of
the United States o f America vetoed a
Civil Rights Bill that was most progres­
sive. He called it the quota bill. When
are some whites going to realize that
black people are not the reason for all
their problems! Really, a quota bill?
All the “ Q ” word does is wake up all
the red-necks - low self-esteem folks
looking to blam e someone else for their
shortcomings.
Yeah, the Bakke case scared me so
bad that I enrolled in Graduate School
to duck Ronald Reagan and the Amer­
ica that was about to unfold. All Re­
agan did was pick up at where Richard
Nixon got caught and had it not been
for W atergate, Jimmy Carter would
have not had a chance.
He was elected not because of his
great political insight, brother Billy, or
peanut farm -- Carter was elected be­
cause people were mad at Republicans.
The Iranian situation killed what chance
Carter had to be successful because it
hurt American self esteem, but Ronald
Reagan, who acted like an actor and
then acted like a President came to save
the day. For who? The conservatives
who w anted America back...Some
progressives individuals campaigned
against Reagan because he had a chance
to appoint two Supreme Court Justices
and if you toss in the two appointed by
Nixon and the soon to be three by Bush,
you have a total Republican/conserva
live Supreme Court. Remember, those
jobs are for life and the moral tone has
been set for America. It is no wonder
that civil rights, affirm ative action, and
other issues like abortion rights are
being threatened or challenged. Ameri­
cans, by their own definition, want
America back because they are losing
it fast. In 1980, the USA was first in
wages paid and by 2000, this nation is
projected to rank 25th in the world.
Furthermore, the workforce as we know
it will be dominated by minorities (real
ones) in the year 2000 (8 years and two
months away) and that bothers some
people (not me). Could this be a prob­
lem to those not in favor of affirmative
action?
W hites are rapidly becoming the
minority in this nation and many are
afraid, real afraid and angry. Some say
it’s not about abortion rights, it’s about
the right to reproduce more white people
since they are not reproducing like other
groups.
Allan Bakke set a serious tone for
this country and for my life. It taught
me to not sit on my accomplishments
and to keep chasing my dreams. Some
o f us got caught up emotionally, eco­
nomically dependent on old band-aid
programs of the 6 0 ’s - 70’s, and still
believe that this country owes them
something. America does not owe
anybody anything because it’s about
net profit, not human needs. Bakke put
me on the path to what the real deal is
in this country; it’s about getting paid.
Peninsula Wrestling is selling
K IB N O W « C O U P O N
Bill Morrison made fast work of the meat section at Wilshire Park Sentry
during a two-minute shopping spree to raise money for Doernbecher
Children’s Hospital. In two minutes Morrison filled three shopping carts-
one full of meat, one of coffee and the third of canned fish-adding up to
$640 for the children 's hospital. That quickly turned into $1,000 when
Morrison added his own $360 on top of his shopping spree donation.
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We Need Your HELP!!
Nordstrom And The
Junior League Of
Portland Present
Holiday
Showcase 1991
Linnton School
Rededicated as
Condominium
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Affirmative Action Died With Allan Bakke
The Blazers ranked third in the league
in scoring (114.7) and had eight play­
ers finish with scoring averages in
double digits, the largest contingent of
any team in the league. Opponents
shot ju st .456 from the field. The Blaz­
ers opened the season with a 19-1
record (second best start with one loss
in league history) and ran off 16 straight
victories late in the season to fashion
the club’s longest-ever success string.
Buck W illiam s led the league in field
goal percentage (.602) and was named
to the NBA All-Defensive Team. Clyde
Drexler was named second team All-
NBA and finished sixth in balloting
for the M VP Award. Terry Porter was
ninth in the voting for that award.
Portland swept the season series from
13 opponents. The Blazers went the
entire season without having to utilize
the injured lis t
1991-92 PREVIEW : The quest
for an NBA Cham pionship picks up
where it left off last June in the confer­
ence finals. Portland plans to have
much the same look as last year’s club
with the starting lineup of Buck wil­
liams, Jerome Kersey, Kevin Duck­
worth, C lyde Drexler and Terry Porter
opening its third year together. Danny
Ainge returns for his second season,
Photo by Veronica Green
while W alter Davis will have the ad­
vantage o f beginning a full season in a
defensively shut down the opposition.
Portland uniform. Third-year forward
Like D etroit and Chicago before us, we
C liff Robinson is rapidly becoming
have not been able to reach our ulti­
one of the leagues’s most formidable
mate goal of an NBA Cham pionship in
frontcourt players, able to come off
ju st one or tw o runs at it. Everyone
the bench at any of the three frontcourt
from the coaches through each player
positions. Mark Bryant, W ayne Coo­
on our team must take a look at what
per and A laa Abdelnaby lend muscle
each one can do to make us belter this
off the bench in the frontcourt, while
year. W e m ust look at w hat made us
Danny Young returns in a supporting
successful last season, and what kept us
role at guard. Lamont Strothers, ob­
from reaching our goal of a cham pion­
tained in a draft day made with Golden
ship. We m ust continue to look for
State, enters cam p battling for a spot
ways to improve if w e’re to get over the
on the deep roster. Radio announcer
hump. The W estern Conference race
Bill Schonely is expected to announce
looks wide open this year, and our team
his 2,000th Blazer gam eon January 24
is eager to get back to work!
against
the Atlanta Hawks, the sec­
1990-91 RECAP: In addition to
ond-highest
active total for an announcer
posting the N B A ’s best record, the
in
the
NBA.
The Blazers enter the
Blazers finished the season with the
season
having
sold out 631 consecu­
best overall record, 63-19, best road
tive
home
games
at M emorial Coli­
mark, 27-14 and best home mark (tied),
seum. Follow ing the season, Portland
36-5 in franchise history. Portland
will be the site o f the 1992 NBA Draft,
becam e the eighth franchise in league
and the Basketball Tournam ent of the
history to reach the 60-win plateau en
Americas.
route to advancing to the conference
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