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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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