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PREP BASKETBALL STARTS
FOR P.I.L. BOYS AND GIRLS
by
J ohn P hillips
Football anil V olleyball are over
for the Portland Inlcrseholastie League
for this season and that m eans the
start o f Pre-Season Basketball.
B enson’s B oys And G irls Team s
got o ff to fast starts in non-league
gam es. T he Boys Ran Pass last year
stale tournam ents runner-up, 68 to 50
on T e c h ’s hom e court.
Jason Franklin led Benson with
15 points and Earl d a r k added 13.
W hile Ed Stone scored 12 for the
T echm an.
The next gam e w as not as good to
B enson on the road at W est Linn.
T ech lost 62 to 53. Franklin w as the
only offense for B enson on this night
w ith 11 Points.
B en so n 's G irls are Hying high
after two big w ins, one at hom e and
one on the road.
H illsboro w as no m atch for Tech,
and lost at B enson, 95 to 27. it was a
total team effort, as M onica W alts led
with 23 points. Kim G reen pul in 18,
and M fon U doka added 17. But that
w asn ’t all, R eshaw n Lew is had 13
and N icole Bradford, 12.
On the road at W est Linn, Benson
scored even m ore, this tim e, 102 to 50
over the Lions.
Benson G irls w ere P.I.L. Cham
pions last year, used at full court press
and got easy last break baskets all
night long. U doka scored 2 9 big points
and W atts made 19, as Lew is added
14 m ore. Sara G reen also scored 14
points for Benson.
W ilson’s Boys opened its season
on the road at L.akeridc. And w hat a
gam e it was, 73 to 72 Trojans. Tyron
M anlove had a m oster gam e w ith 35
points,
D avis jack so n h elp ed o u t with 16
points. 1 he T rojans then played host
to Franklin o f Seattle, W ashington
and scored a easy 70-56 win. Again
die tw o big guns for W ilson was
Jackson with 18and M anlovcw ith 15
Points.
W ilso n ’s G irls won one and lost
one in the first tw o gam es. They lost
at G lencoe 63 to 34. C arla Parker led
W ilson with 10. T he T rojans win
cam e over Franklin o f Seattle, 64 to
35. Cory N akata and Parker Both
scored 10 Points each.
Jcffrson s Boys also opened on
the road at lake O sw ego in a low
scoring gam e, the D em ocrats cam e
aw ay w ith a 42-38 win over the L ak
ers. line U doka led Jefferson with 14
points. U doka again w as the big man
for the D em os with 23 points in a 79-
66 win o ver T ualatin.
Jelfcrson G irls lost their opener
on the road at C entennial, 49-46. in
was the first gam e back for star player
Erica M ashia, after tearing ligam ents
an d cartilage in her left knee. She had
a good gam e with 21 points. M ashia
scored alm ost 17 points a gam e last
year before she went down with the
injury.
In other P.I.L. action for the Boys
it w as Franklin over Sandy, 58-48.
G rant loses to C entral C atholic 73-
55. Madison easy over Parkrosc 75-56.
Putnam just got by Cleveland, 64-61,
R oosevelt cam e up short, 65-61
in overtim e to M ilw aukie. In G irls
gam es, it was Reynolds over M adi
son, 33-31. Sandy big over Franklin,
63-34. C leveland easy over Putnam ,
52-28. Jesuit all over M arshall 84-33.
R oosevelt 47, M ilw aukie 30. and
A loha 84, G rant 28. All these gam es
were played Tuesday N ovem ber 30,
A Gathering Of Black Males:
For M e n and Youth Of African American Descent
Black Males.
Featuring Dr. Jaw anza K unjufu.
Dr. K unjufu is a renow ned ed u
cator. Best known as the author ol
num erous books about the state o f
young Black children in A m erica.
His titles includcC ountcring theC on-
spiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Vols.
1,2 & 3, C ritical Issues in Educating
African A m erican Y outh, D evelop
ing Positive Self Im ages and D isci
pline in Black C hildren, M otivating
T opic: “D eveloping Positive A s
pects, S ocialization & G row th in
Y oung Black M en ”
Date: Friday, December 10, 1993
L o cation : M a llo ry A v e n u e
C hristian C h u rch , 126 NF. A lberta,
Portland, O R 97227
Time: 7:(X) - 9:00 pm.
Cost: Free Healthy buffet food
will be available.
T his is another in a continuing
scriesofcvenLs about Black m ales lor
were quoted in The B altim ore Sun.
Increasing youth m em bership has
been one o f the goals o f Dr. C havis,
who at 45 is the N A A C P ’s youngest
E x e c u tiv e
D ir e c to r
in
th e
o r g a n iz a ti o n ’s 8 4 - y e a r h is to ry .
C havis, w ho joined the N A A C P at the
age of 12, has m ade youth a priority in
his ad m in istratio n . He has talked
openly, for exam ple, o f his co n n ec
tions with controversial political hip-
hop artists, Sister Souljah and Public
Enem y - not the typical contacts o f
an N A A C P leader.
C havis told T he Sun that the
“overall grow th is in direct response
to an aggressive recruitm ent c a m
p aig n .” He had announced dial the
revitalization o f the N A A C P 's 1.5
m illion inactive m em bers is the next
step to increasing N A A C P m em ber-
The N ational A ssociation for the
A dvancem ent of C olored People an
nounced today that its m em bership
has increased about 20 percent since
N A A CPExecutiv e D irector, Dr. B en
jam in F C h a v is, Jr. took his post this
1993.
past April.
O ther Pre-Season gam es played
The m em bership o f the N A A C P
on Friday D ecem ber 3, 1993. Boys,
has grow n from 5(X),(XX) to 615,000,
G lencoe o ver M arshall 71-51. G re
with h alf o f the new m em bership
sham in overtim e 57-55 over Franklin.
being 25 years o f age or younger, said
R oosevelt o ver Sandy, 66-55. G rant
N A ACP officials.
gets by T igard,61-49. Sunset by C leve
The N A A C P has more than 2,(XX)
land 66-53.
units ^
“
ap p ro x i
In girls play in was C leveland
m ately 6 0 0 youth and c o lle g e c h a p
over M ilw aukie, 53-31. C lackam as
ter.
Big over M arshall 53-19. T ualatin
“O ur children are com ing back
ran pass F ranklin, 55-28. Sandy had
hom e,” N A A C P D eputy E xecutive
their w ay w ith G rant, 74-43. And
Director, Lew is M yers told a crow d
Jefferson got 31 big points from all-
recently at a B altim ore C ity N A A C P
around g u ard , E rica M ashia, in a 74-
Branch annual breakfast. His rem arks
60 win o ver Putnam .
C O A L
Violence In America: “More American Than Apple Pie"
each year.
Since 1900 an estim ated 850,000
civilians have been killed by bullets.
Betw een 1938-88, m ore A m ericans
d ie d
fro m
gunshot
w ounds
(1,209,199) than from all our country’s
w ars (1,177,956). C orporate violence
from cigarettes, alcohol and drugs
kills m ore than 500,000 people a n n u
ally. T here are 20 m illion jail adm is
sions and rcleasesannually. O ne-third
o f all pregnant w om en arc battered,
and 2.5 m illion children arc abused
annually. A w om an is nine tim es
m ore at risk in her hom e than on the
streets. T here are upw ards o f 100
m illion private firearm s, with 2.5
m illion new hand guns produced each
year. If the present pattern o f incar
ceration continues, by the year 2000
40% o f all A frican-A m erican men
ages 18-25 will be in prison or jail.
W ork related deaths from corporate w ar on d ru g s -fu rth c r underm ine our
violence are six tim es greater than national ability to address the social
hom icides. Every year occupational and econom ic cause o f violence, and
diseases cause 350,000 new illnesses further escalate racial and econom ic
inequalities.
and up to 2(X),000 w orker die from
M oreover as violence escalated
such diseases annually .
aboard
because o f the grow ing inter
T he U .S . has been the only co u n
national
chaos o f unequal wealth.,
try to use an atom ic bom b, not once
but tw ice, against the civilian pop u la scarcity and environm ental destine
tion, the new w orld disorder w ill in
tions of H iroshim a and Nagasaki.
tensify the conditions o f poverty, ra
Since W .W . Il, the U.S. has been
cial disparity and governm ent inac
involved in 25 overt or covert military
tion at hom e. Even though we worked
interventions. T he C ensus Bureau
estim ates that o ver 158,000 m en, hard for the Brady Bill, the reign of
violence will not go aw ay w ith its
w om en and children died in Iraq Irom
die G u lf W ar. The U.S. accounts for passage nor by putting m ore cops on
57% o f all arm s sales in the w orld. the streets, building m ore jails or
V iolence infects our m ost basic insti enhanced death penalties. T his co n
tutions and relationships. C orporate dition is n ot ju st acrim in al ju stice and
crim e and violence from the suites a public health issue. O nly a co o rd i
killshu n d red so ftim esas many Ameri nated, m ultifaceted com prehensive
cans as gunfire in the streets, yet there strategy that serves all individuals,
arc m ore anim al shelters in the U.S. fam ilies, com m unities, cities, co u n
than shelter for bettered w om en, more ties, slates and the nation can turn the
legal gun dealers than gas stations. tid e o fv io le n c c .O n ly w h en w e dra
m a tic a lly re d u c e th e p o v e rty and
The current orgy for m ore cops, jails
th e r a c ia l d is p a r ity in A m e ric a
and p u n ish m e n t from the W h ite
ca
n w e h o p e to s e c u re s a le n eig h
H ouse, the C ongress and M ayors;
b
o
r h o o d s . V io le n c e c a n b e r e
w aging a war against v iolcnce at home
d
u
c
e d a n d p re v e n te d if th is n a
w ith the sam e m eans as the G u lf W ar;
tio
n
d e d ic a te s its e lf to p ro d u c in g
holding 13-ycar-old children legally
p
r
o
d
u c t i v e p e o p l e , f u n c ti o n a l
responsible as adults, will have the
f
a
m
ilie
s a n d a c tiv e c itiz e n s .
sam e counlerproducti vc results as the
Scientology Federal Appeals Court
Win: A Precedent-Setting
First am endm ent attorney Lee
Boothby called the federal appeals
court decision in a Scientology case
“the best that’s ever com e dow n in
this area o f religious freedom .'
The 11th U.S. C ircuit C ourt o f
A ppeals in A tlanta ruled T hursday
that a C learw ater, Florida, charitable
solicitation ordinance,w hich required
disclosure o f the use ol church do n a
tions, was unconstitutional as an ex
cessive entanglem ent o f governm ent
in religion. T he three-judge panel
said the City o f Clearw ater m ust prove
the ordinance w as w ritten w ithout
the political intent o f dam aging the
Church o f S cientology, w hich has
challenged the ordinance since it was
enacted in 1984.
“This w as never really a c ase about
disclosure laws,” said Boothby, who
is genera! counsel for the Council on
R eligious Freedom , a W ashington,
D C.-based coalition dedicated to
protecting religions from excessive
governm ent intrusion. “T he ordi
nance w as really a tool to investigate
churches about m atters governm ent
has no business getting into.”
B oothby called the decision “ very
com prehensive, very detailed and
wcll-analyzcd...an important precedent
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The appeals court also ruled that the
Church o f Scientology is entitled to
attorney’s fees and court costs for its suc
cessful challenge of an earlk r version of
the ordinance.
“This is a tremendous victory for the
Church of Scientology and all chinches
ami religions,” said Richard Haworth,
spokesmen for the Church o f Scientology
in Clearwater. “The Court has reminded
the City that it has no business meddling
in the financial affairs of our church or any
church. Them is to he no specter of Big
Brother looking over the shoulder ol
churches.”
Haworth called for the City to join with
•he Church in looking to the future by
putting aside the 9-ycaf-old ordinance
and pouring City resources used to
defend it into community development
projects.
A com panion case challenging the
ordinance, filed by a coalition of na
tional religiousgroups including Ameri
cans United for Separation of Church
and Stale, the American Jewish C on
gress, the N alionalC ouncilofl hurches
o f C hrist and local churches remains
pending before a federal district court
judge.
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and preparing Black Y outh for S u c
cess and others.
In th is inactive sessio n , Dr.
K unjufu will explore the dynam ics
o f A m erican culture w hich have c re
ated a clim ate o f failure and d issatis
faction am o n g o u r young Black men.
He will also share his insights on
how to counteract these dynam ics.
C ontact Bruce W alls 286-2188
or M accco Pettis 280-6693 for m ore
inform ation.
NAACP Increases Membership By 20
Percent, With More Youth Joining
Children’s Cultural
Center To Open In
Portland
W D C -D r. D avid S atcher, D irec
tor, C enter for D isease C ontrol and
Prevention: “ V iolence is the leading
cause o f lost life in A m erica.” For
A frican A m ericans, the various a f
fects o f institutional and interper
sonal violence poses the m ost serious
threat to survival since slavery. II all
A m ericans were killed by guns at the
sam e rate as young Black m ales,
260,000 people would be m urdered
08, 1993 • T he P o r t l a n d O bserver
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ship.
In addition, C havis told T he Sun
that two o f his goals - the creation o f
“ M otown S ound” - type song, “com e
Back H ome to the N A A C P,” and the
beginning o f com puter netw ork lin k
ing the o rg an izatio n ’s 2,108 units -
are being met.
C h a v is sa id to d a y he w as g la d
th e m e d ia w as ta k in g n o tic e o f
th e g ro w th o f th e N A A C P . “ T h e
N A A C P is o n th e m o v e , a n d
p e o p le a re fin a lly b e g in n in g to
r e a liz e it ” h e sa id .
“W c arc y o unger, larger and
stronger. W e are m ulti-racial and
progressive. W e are becom ing inter
national. A nd we will take on the
position o f leadership in the civil and
hum an rights arena in the 2 1 st c e n
tury,” said Dr. Chavis.
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Celebrate Diversity
\ \ h at’s it like to live in an A fri
can v illage.com m unicate with drum s
and wear a king s robes? Portland
youngsters w ill be able to expenencc
all llial, anil m ore, w hen the new
C h ild re n ’s C u ltu ral C en ter o p en s
January 17, 1994 in S. W . Portland.
The A nnex B uilding at the C h il
dren s M useum is being transform ed
into the im aginary N igerian village
of O niokunle, thanks to a geneious
grant form the Junior League ot P o rt
land.
1 he interactive exhibits w ill give
visitors a glim pse o f contem porary
life am ong the Y orubapcoplcof south
w est N igeria. C hildren will be able to
barter in the m arketplace, exam ine
books and com m on household goods,
try on traditional Y oruban dress, and
experience the sights and sounds o f a
w orld that s thousands o f m iles aw ay.
“ I’m really excited about the p o
tential for educating children and their
fam ilies on another way to view the
w orld," said Junior League President
K ris Kern.
M u se u m
D ir e c to r
B ob
B ridgcford added, “O ur partnership
with the Junior League enables us to
p ro v id ca rich m ulti-cultural learning
experience lor thousands o f Metro-
area youngsters.”
O niokunle Village w aspurchascd
by die Junior League o f Portland from
the C h ild ren ’s M useum o f Houston.
A local advisory board of educators,
artists, and com m unity activists has
r e v is e d th e e x h ib it to f it o u r
c o m m u n ity ’s needs. M em b ers o f
P o rtlan d ’s ow n Y oruban com m unity
have also been involved in the project.
T he C h ild re n ’s C ultural C enter
will be open to d ro p -in visitors. G roup
tours anil special presentations can be
scheduled through the M useum at
(503) 823-2227
T he C h ild re n ’s M useum is lo
cated at 3037 S. W . Second A ve., o ff
B arburB lvd. It’s open every day from
9ain-5pm . A dm ission is $3.50 for
everyone over the age o f one.
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investigational wound-healing drug.
If you are eligible to be in the study, you will
receive study-related treatment at no charge.
You must have diabetes and an_ulcer on the
bottom of your foot.
For more information, call
(503) 274-4818
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