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December 18. 2002
S ports /
metro
Beavers for Sale
League asks city to
buy troubled team
(AP) — The Pacific Coast
League has asked Portland to
buy out its private partners and
take public ownership o f the
troubled Triple-A Beavers base
ball team.
The league is considering tak
ing over the team if the city
doesn’t step in and pay down
debt held by Portland Family En
tertainment, the Beavers’ current
owner.
Public ownership would in
volve issuing revenue bonds to
pay parts o f PFE’s debts.
Either way, the city would lose
money on the baseball venture.
Thecity estimates it would lose
$6 million to$16million with pub
lic ownership over the next 17
years. If the league took owner
ship o f the franchise, the city said
it would stand to lose up to $ 1.7
million a year in stadium costs.
The league has said it intends
for the Beavers to continue play
ing in Portland, its biggest mar
ket.
Triple Win for MHCC
Coach Lena Chan is Coach of the Year
The M HCC V olleyball team
has gone dow n in history as
the third team o f the N orth
w est A thletic A ssociation o f
C o m m u n ity
C o lle g e s
(N W A A C C ) to win three con
secutive volleyball cham pion
ships.
First-year coach Lena Chan
and her team defeated the team
from S h oreline C om m unity
C ollege to win the cham pion
ship Saturday, N ov. 23 in Spo
kane.
A d d itio n a lly , C h a n w as
nam ed N W A A CC Coach o fthe
Year. Ali Salsgiver w as given
the aw ard for the M ost V alu
able Player for the tournam ent
and her sister, Lauren Salsgiver,
and A shley Bour w ere nam ed
as Second T eam A ll-T oum a-
m e n t s e le c tio n s . K r is tin
Purscelley and A lyssa Perry
w ere nam ed as First Team All-
T ournam ent selections.
This m arks the sixth cham
pionship for M HCC in the 25-
year history o f N W A A CC V ol
leyball.
Franklin’s Kiante Griffin hudles with her coach Tom McCarthy at a girls' freshman basketball game
last Wednesday at Lincoln High School. The Cardinals won the game 33 to 22.
N o N ew s is B ad N ew s
African Americans arc dying
at higher rates than whites from
smoking related diseases.
Networks provide few stories about Hispanics
(A P)— The booming U.S. His
panic population has yet to be re
flected in the news reports o f the
major broadcast networks and CNN,
a new study shows.
Out o f about 16,000 stories on
the evening newscasts o f ABC,
CBS, NBC and CNN last year, only
99 - 0.62 percent - were about His
panics, according to the National
Association o f Hispanic Journal
ists.
The number was a slight increase
over 2000, when there were 84 such
stories, or 0.53 percent, according
to the highly critical “Network
Brownout Report” released Mon
day.
“The networks’ dismal record o f
covering the nation ’ s fastest-grow-
ing minority group undermines the
information needs o f all U.S. resi
dents and distorts the public dis
course so necessary for any demo-
c ra tic
s o c ie ty ,” sa id
the
a s s o c ia tio n ’s p re sid e n t, Juan
Gonzalez.
Hispanics now represent 12.5
percent o f the U.S. population, and
theirnumbers have increased nearly
I
60 percent since 1990 to 35.3 mil
lion.
What news stories the networks
did carry on Hispanics often tended
to be stereotypical and unflatter
ing, the study said.
“ S tories ab o u t L atinos fre-
U Stories about
Latinos frequently
used the image o f the
border to suggest a
divide between
the Latino and non-
Latino populations.
-N a tio n a l Association of
quently used the image o f the bor
der to suggest a divide between the
Latino and non-Latino populations
and to define Latinos as illegal im
migrants,” the association said.
ABC had the most stories about
Hispanics, 31, followed by NBC
with 24. CBS and CNN had 22 each.
the study found.
A lack o f newsroom diversity is
a major reason for the scant number
o f Hispanic-related stones, the as
sociation said.
Two o f the networks responded
that they are taking steps to im
prove their coverage, includinghir-
ing more Hispanics.
For the second consecutive
year, the study found protests
over U.S. m ilitary exercises on
th e P u e rto R ic a n is la n d o f
V ieques was the dom inant story
about H ispanics, with 25 reports.
The other leading story topics
were governm ent (15), m igration
(11) and sports (five).
One area o f improvement was
cited: The number o f Hispanic-re
lated stories in which Hispanics
were interviewed was 67.6 percent,
compared with 24.4 percent in the
2000 study.
The report forthe 1,700-member
association was prepared by Serafin
Mendez-Mendez o f Central Con
necticut State University in New
Britain, Conn., and Diane Alverio, a
past association president.
Everv vear about
45,000
African
Americans
die from
smoking related
diseases.
don’t have to
Prevention works, it's never too
quit.
Ratings Slip for Fox on Anniversary
late to
Mexico President’s popularity falls as his wife’s rise
related diseases today.
President Vicente Fox’s second
anniversary in office was marred by
the news that his popularity has
fallen to its lowest level ever.
H eady expectations that the
first non-PRI governm ent in 72
years w ould bring about change,
and do so quickly, have given
w ay to disillusionm ent as living
standards fail to im prove. This is
not all F o x ’s fault: his prom ise o f
7% econom ic grow th was always
going to be tied to the US, and the
econom y has slow ed dow n as the
econom ic engines in the US have
spluttered.
A poll by Grupo de Economistas
A so c ia d o s
(G E A )
and
Investigaciones Sociales Aplicadas
shows Fox’s approval rating falling
from 73% last March to 49% in
November. Over half o f respon
dents said his administration has
been no different to those o f his
predecessors. Worryingly, most are
pessimistic about the economy in
2003.
A bigger surprise is the surging
popularity o f the first lady, Marta
Sahagún de Fox.
Though not included in the GEA
poll, a survey by the newspaper
Reforma suggests that she is the
most popular politician in the coun
try. She head s the ch aritab le
Fundación Vamos México, and in
recent weeks has been in the public
eye, doing good works such as
handing out computers to second
ary schools. ,
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Fox did his bit to push her into
the spotlight by stating that he
hopes the r.ext President will be a
woman, arousing suspicions that
he would endorse her candidacy
for the Partido Accion Nacional
ticket in 2006.
Consensus building is key if
Fox’s remaining four years in office
are to be constructive.
Ask your doctor about smoking
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Portland, Oregon 97227
Phone: 503-413-1850
www.aahc-portland.org
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