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* M « < « < < ■« A < M < < * * * * « ♦ ♦ < * « *"<-*-*'* **“* X Page 8...The Portland Observer ...April 1, 1992 Mark Bryant - On The Rebound by Bill Barber phoio by Veronica Green Mark Bryant is one o f those guys who just wanted a shot at the NBA. A quite unassuming fellow who brought a little silent thunder with him from Big East powerhouse Seton Hall. In recent years, Seton Hall has become one of those teams that you just expect to do well in the NCAA tournament. That wasn't always the case. Mark Bryant was attending college there when the winning tradition started. A lotof sports fans would say he is the main reason Seton Hall even has a tradition. He had a chance to watch a lot of Pirate basket ball in his home town of South Orange, NJ, as he was going to Columbia High School in South Orange. A sa6'8" prep center, he was heavily recruited by all the big names in college hoops like Maryland, Ohio State and Louisville. However, Mark chose to stay close to home. In his junior year, he was largely responsible for Seton Hall's invitation to the NIT tournament. “ It was excit ing, very exciting” said Bryant. The next year his alma mater made it to the NCAA tournament for the first time in the school’s history. “We didn'tslay too long, but it was fun while it lasted,” he j ; commented. Reaching the NCAA tour nament level offered the school the kind of exposure a team needs to get the attention of the top recruits graduating out of high school. Now that his former college has made it into the Sweet- Sixteen bracket of March-Madness hoopdom, Mark w ill be most anxious to hear the results of the matchup this weekend. His old school is taking on the number one team in the country, Duke University. Duke is the alma mater of another Portland Trail Blazer, Alaa Ab- delnaby. Has Abdelnaby had anything to say to Bryant about the upcoming game? “Oh, Yeah... Duke is going to win over Seton Hall, he tells me.” says Bryant. Asked if he would like to be back at Seton Hall for another shot at the college championship, Mark re sponded, “No, I'm happy right where I'm at.” After all, he and his team mates are in route to the Championship of the biggest of all brass rings, the NBA. The Seton Hall - Duke match-up back east also has a connection in Port land. When Alaa Abdelnaby was side lined with a strained knee recently, Bryant was given the opportunity to spend a little more time on the floor. Anheuser-Busch Contribution Supports Programs For Black Ski Club < r Wayman F. Smith III (right), vice president of corporate affairs at Anheuser-Busch companies, presents a contribution to Samuel E. Lawler, president of the National Brotherhood of Skiers (NBS), during the ski club's annual conference recently in copper Mountain, Colorado. The corporate contribution will assist NBS programs that train and prepare African-American youths to become members of the U.S. Olympic ski team. The NBS, with headquarters in Chicago, is entering its 20th year of conducting programs to promote skiing in the African-American Community. For more information, contact Martha M. Mitchell or Alonzo Byrd Jr., Fleishman-Hillard Inc. 314/982-1700. . Wholesale to the Public 35% to 50% off 100% Human Hair 16" from $15.95 a bra.ding and weaving •Z A Vjv.î Wigs and Beauty Supplies We will meet or beat anyone’s prices. Ci. •v'z* ♦.« - • Sales and Promotional items excluded. r .k i Mrs. C’s Wigs and Beauty Supply 707 N.E. Fremont Portland, Oregon 97212 (503) 281-6525 Open: 11:30 - 6:00 Tues thru Saturday i w C 1 ..JM : ; - / » ‘ V. .‘J ’ ‘ *• • • ’ «L • ■ •« A » Ardent fans will remember that Mark opened his rookie season (1988-89) by starting 32 of the first 34 games. The club knew they had made a good first round (21 si pick) choice when the Blaz ers picked Bryant. In the history of the franchise, only six rookies had managed to crack the starting line-up on opening night. Mark became number seven and the first since Mychal Thompson had attained that honor a decade earlier. That was before he suffered a season ending injury, fracturing his right thumb in a fall during a fight with Boston Celtic's Joe Klienc on April 7th. The Blazers could have used him when they went down in three straight games to Los Angeles in the 1989 playoffs. In the 1991 NBA Play-offs Bryant led the team in free throw percentage (.875) going 14 for 16. In addition, Bryant played to his strength in re bounding during that playoff scries. Only Buck Williams brought down more re bounds, when you balance it against the time on the floor. During last year’s playoff games Mark gathered in 32 re bounds in 132 minutes. Veteran Mark Bryant fans will tell you that is their favorite part of his game...the way he sets himself for a rebound. Especially when someone else is shooting a foul shot. “Most of the time the other guys will get kind of relaxed; I just fake, like I’m going to go back and play defense, then I just come back in.” That strategy must work. Mark clears a rebound area as wide as anyone in the NBA. In the off-season, Bryant plans to go back to South Orange, NJ and Seton Hall to work on finishing his degree in Communications. Some people might wonder, if he is making big bucks in the NBA, why bother? “You have got to finish thatdegree,” Bryant advises. “Be cause you just never know how long this (NBA career) is going to last. You could break a leg or tear something apart ...That cannot be avoided... You have to have something to fall back on.” Mark also takes the off-season opportunity to work with kids at the P.J. (Carlesimo) Basketball Camp at Seton Hall. If you had the opportunity to ask Bryant's former coach to describe Mark he would tell you the Haggerty Award winner of the top player in the metropolitan New York City area was a hard worker who never gives up. Rick Adelman would probably tell you the same thing. Revenue Department Extends Hours for Tax Help Need help to get your taxes ready? The Oregon Department of Revenue will be open weekdays until 7:00 p.m. from April 6 through April 15, except for Friday, April 10. “That’s obviously our busiest time,” says Margaret Loftis, manager of the Tax Help office. “W e’re staying open into the evening to give taxpayers eery possible chance to get the help they need.” Regular office hours start at 8 a.m., except Wednes days at 9 a.m. The toll-free numbers to call the department are; From Portland 243-2833 From Salem 378-4988 Elsewhere in Oregon 1-800-356- 4222 In addition, the department has an automatic phone system that has re corded information on topics such as how to determine residency and filing an extension. This system can be used 24 hours a day by people with touch- tone phones. Walk-in help during the extended hours will be available at 955 Center St., N.E., Salem. Tax returns are due on April 15. Radical Women Civilian Police Review Board; Holding Police Accountable for Bru tality. Nathan Thomas and his kidnapper, both killed by police, and the homeless protesters beaten up in front of City Hall are not the first victims of extreme use of force by the police. Are citizens defenseless against those who are sup posed to serve and protect? Come hear a report on a proposal for a civilian police review board--and elected panel which could discipline, award civil damages and conduct independent in vestigations on police behavior. John in a discussion of the need for less funding and m ore control of the police. Everyone’s welcome. Racial Women will meet on Thurs day, April 16,1992,6:30 p.m. at Stan dard Plaza, 1100 S.W. 6th Avenue, Third Floor, Conference Room A. A delicious supper is available for $4.00. For more information call 289-7082. NMAC Releases Historic Report on AIDS in Communities of Color tional technical assistance for organi zations dedicated to serving people of color. According to Paul Kawata, execu tive director of NMAC, “To assume that the second decade of AIDS is an appropriate marker for shifting focus from prevention to treatment amounts to abandonment of those communities that now make up the highest rate of new infection. We wholeheartedly sup port the Congressional Black Caucus’ request to reinstate the $ 14 million cut in prevention programs. We reject the notion of pitting care of people with AIDS against prevention of disease. We need our prevention money and full funding for the Ryan White CARE Act." Congressman Louis Stokes (D- OH), Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus’ Health Brain Trust, said at the 3/25/92 press conference: “In my opinion Blueprint fo r the Nineties rep resents a landmark in our nation’s ad dressing HIV infection and AIDS. To date, no one initiative has been effec tive in preventing the spread of HIV and AIDS disease, especially among minorities.” “Every public policy and legisla tive office concerned with the future of health care in this country should read .4 Blueprint fo r the Nine ties,” said Con gresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), one of the speakers at the March 25th press conference. Congresswoman The National Minority AIDS Council released The Impact o f HIV on Communities o f Color: A Blueprintfor the Nineties. For the first time in the history of this epidemic, one document reveals how communities of color are coping with issues related to HIV in fection. Blueprint documents people ofcolor’scollective strategies for policy makers aimed at curbing the spread of AIDS. Of the 209,693 people identified by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as being diagnosed with AIDS through January 1992,46% are people of color. The second 100,000 AIDS cases of the total reported appealed four times as quickly as the first. Thirty- one percent of the second 100,000 cases were African-American, compared with 27 percent earlier. Seventeen per cent of the cases were Lalina/o com pared with 15 percent earlier. Asians now make up the largest percentage increase in newly diagnosed cases. More than 250 representatives of community-based organizations gath ered over a two year period to develop what is now A Blueprintfor the Nine ties. Among the issues identified as reasons for the failure to curb the spread of HIV are: 1) a lack of demonstrated commiunent to secure access to health care, 2) continued neglect of minority community based organizations, 3) the compromised approach to surveillance and research, and 4) the need for addi Waters has been one of the most active members of the Congressional Black Caucus on issues related to HIV infec tion in the African-American commu nity. “ How is it possible,” questioned Mayor Hector Luis Acevedo of San Juan, Puerto Rico, “that at this time, the only solution available is preven tion, and the U.S. cuts education fund ing? This is strategically the worst conceivable mistake.” “The Blueprint," said Acevedo, “has opened eyes. I hope it opens the hearts and minds of our people because this is the real chal lenge of our times.” “ I am enormously grateful to NMAC for its report,” according to C ongressw om an Eleanor Holmes Norton, “its careful documentation and its critical review of the federal re sponse provides a baseline for urgently needed action.” The National M inority AIDS Council is the only national non-gov ernmental organization dedicated ex clusively to developing leadership within communities of color to address issues of HIV infection. NMAC was created in 1987 and provides technical assistance, resources and information to minority CBOs. Copies of The Impact o f HIV on Communities ofColor: A Blueprint for the Nineties, can be obtained by con tacting the NMAC office at (202) 544- 1076. Clinton & Brown vs. Pork Chops & Gravy disgusted with each performance. We can only speculate as to whether this debacle will have a greater impact upon the fortunes-to-be of Oregonians than the struggle (and equally questionable attacks) between Rep. Les AuCoin and Harry Lonsdale. But exactly what are the critical and substantive issues that are being ignored by these protagonists and comedians? At every point it would seem we are given the Washington, D.C. version of the Comedy Store, when what we really want to know are what construc tive steps are being taken (or at least planned) to improve the economy. In stead, we have it that the National Re publican Congressional Committee will start airing a television commercial in ten cities and on Cable News Network that accuses Democratic leadership of trying to cover up problems at the House Bank, and then trying to brush them aside. And,of course, HouseSpeakerTom Foley (and the other politicians— Sen ate included) have shown us nothing at all in respect to an ability to deal with the budget deficit, the devastating for eign trade imbalance, unemployment and those still-stalled, positive eco nomic indicators. What they would do is fix our attention upon their stupid little inaccurate personal checkbooks and the drug peddlers in the House Post Office. Why don ’ t they just close up the joint and go over and stand in line at the regular post office like the rest o f us peons? And our concern over the trade BY PROF. MCKINLEY BURT This media-sponsored vaudeville act on the Democratic political circuit reminds me o f nothing so much as the touring black comedy team of “Pork Chops and Gravy” during the post-war years (1945-1950). These two superb masters of comi cal dance, innuendo, and pantomime, would keep you in stitches as they rhythmically slandered each other’s intelligence, appearance and national origin. At the time of their heyday I was the bookkeeper for the restaurant part of a nightclub where they frequently appeared. Two nights a week I was supposed to be in evening law school but am afraid that my attendance some times suffered in preference to the an tics of these funny clowns. Today, what is not funny is the daily diatribe of questionable and asi nine characters that Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown use in their campaign for nomination as the Democratic candi date for the presidency. It may well be that the Republicans will only have to wait for them to self-dcstruct-as vitri olic as are those right wing emanations from Pat Buchanan, there is little chance of his becoming an obstacle to a second term for President Bush. It is the case that while Rome burns, the Democrat hopefuls book their act from caucus to caucus and primary to primary, ever seeking to bring the house down with a new crescendo of insults, half-truths, and innuendos. The body politic and the contemplated constitu ency grows more appalled, confused or deficit with Japan could be better di rected internally than following along with the misquotes and other failures of our national press. Let us examine that mistranslation of a widely quoted re mark of Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi M iyozawa-and the quite deliberate 1 failure to place it in the appropriate | context of origination; “In this area I have long thought that something like a ; work ethic may be lacking.” He was ! speaking of a limited, but disastrous, > sector of the American economy where ! there has been a decades-long shift ; from producing goods (and jobs) to ! money manipulations like leveraged • buyouts and JUNK BONDS. How true, how true, how true! And many of us think that our national me dia has served us miserably by not rallying us with cries and editorials > directing us to clean up our own act. ; This would have been far more practi- ! cal than giving all that space to the J RACIST JINGOISM of Senator Ernest I Hollings and his ugly, stinking crack > about the work ethic involved in an J atomic bomb to be dropped on human' '■ beings. That war is over except for j racists and chauvinists who continually search for someone to blame for th e ir- own failures. And, oh, how Congress r has failed us. It is to be hoped that the working people of this nation-as well as the unemployed, the elderly and those with out means for adequate support for children or health care-w ill indeed rise up and throw the rascals out. It’s show time. Independent Study Programs tcring this program does not necessar ily need to reside in California, and all study may be completed outside the state of California. However, there are two times when the prospective candi date must appear in California. Upon completion of the first year of study, Independent study programs of fer an alternative to traditional school ing. In the case of acquiring a law degree and admittance into the Bar, these institutions may facilitate access to the bar. There are several law schools that offer four-year law programs al lowing individuals to earn a Juris Doc tor degree in law through distant learn ing and independent study. The degrees from these low schools will qualify one to take the California State Bar examination, as California requires a student to study for four calendar years. A student en- the student must take the First Year Law Studentexaminalion. Then again, at the end of the fourth year of law sturdy the student must take the Bar Exam. The major advantage for taking the California Slate Bar Program is that it prepares one for admission and practice as a California attorney. It also entitles one to practice before the California courts, the Federal courts as a California attorney, before the United States Tax Courts, and all of the Fed eral Administrative law courts. After three years of practice, one becomes eligible, without any addi tional examinations, to seek admis sion to practice in Washington, D.C. as a California attorney. Furthermore, one can also apply for admission to other jurisdictions on the basisof mem bership in the California bar. íi THE FOR BEAUTY Sf BARBERING Make Your Choice. The Ebony Choice ; v Hairctire that keeps you coming back / MEN — WOMEN — CHILDREN M tu S ' Cw HWWj »k • Hair C utting— Weaving & Relaxing . * Permanent Waves — Braiding — Coloring * M an'cur’nS — Walk-Ins Welcome -cZVX. 6 7 2 0 ME. MLK, Jr. Blvd 2 8 9 -8 3 2 2
