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I don’t want to be awakened.” Drexler, who earned the nick name “Clyde the Glide" for his own swooping m oves, was inducted F riday along w ith co ach Bill Sharman, already in the Hall of Fame as a player; the late Maurice Stokes, the 1956 NBA rookie of the year; Lynette Woodard, an Olympic gold medalist and the First woman to play for the Harlem Globetrotters; Jerry Colangelo, chairman o f the The 2004 inductees into the Basketball Hall o f are Phoenix Suns owner Jerry Colangelo (from left); international player Drazen Dalipagic; former Portland Trail Blazer and Houston Rockets player Clyde Drexler; former player and coach Bill Sharman; Jack Twyman, who accepted the award for the late Maurice Stokes; and the first woman ever to play for the Harlem Globetrotters, Lynette Woodard. (AP photo) P h o e n ix S u n s; an d D ra ze n Dalipagic, an international star. “He seemed to fly. I wanted to be like him," Drexler said o f Erving. W hat set Drexler apart, Erving said, was his ability and imagina tion to take the game above the rim “and make things happen.” Selected as one o f the 50 greatest players in the NBA in 1997, the 6- foot-7 guard excelled at all levels of It certainly was. A fter high the game - but only after an embar school, he attended the University rassing moment in high school. o f Houston and was part o f the Before he was “Clyde the Glide,” high-flying Phi Slama Jama teams he was the 6-5 lO th-graderwhowas that played in two Final Fours. cut from his high school team. In his 15-yearNBAcareer, Drexler “The truth was I was terrible,” led the Portland Trail Blazers to the Drexler said. “But it was one o f the NBA Finals in 1990 and ’92, and best things that happened to me. It won a championship with Houston was a wake up call.” in 1995. Shaq Raps to Even Scores Old Timers Get Due Credit (AP) — The way NBA star Shaquille O ’Neal sees it, h e’s still the big cat, Kobe Bryant’s not where it’s at, and he’s got the rap to back up the fact. And the Miami Heat center isn’t crazy about the Detroit Pistons’ Ben W allace or rapper Skillz ei ther. O ’ Neal has dabbled in hip-hop over the years. His latest effort is a collaboration with DJ Vlad on the CD “Hot in Here Part Five.” Shaquille O'Neal On “You Not The Fightin’ Type,” O ’Neal sets out to even scores with sev eral people: Bryant, who he believes got him traded from the Los Angeles Lakers; Wallace, whose Pistons defeated the Lakers for this year's NB A championship; and Skillz, whose rap “The Champs is Here” celebrated the Detroit victory. “ I heard your little interview and what Ben W allace said. I ain’t got no response for spider-web head,” O ’Neal raps. (AP) — T w o of the N FL’s oldest old- timers will be on the final ballot for the Pro Football Hall o f Fame next year. Benny Friedman and Fritz Pol lard, who played in the 1920s and 1930s, were cho sen by a panel o f Hall o f Fame voters as the senior candidates to join 13 modem-era finalists for selection to the H all’s lard c ' a s s ° f 2005. Pollard is best known for being the league's first black head coach; he was made co-coach while play ing for the Akron Pros in 1921. There w asn’t another black coach in the league until Art Shell took over the Raiders in 1989. At 5-foot-9, 165 pounds, Pollard led Brown University to die Rose Bowl in 1915 and turned pro in 1919, with the Akron team. 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The building is designed as a one-stop center for students to conduct college business. Also, the Science andTechnology Build ing added 34,000 square feet of science laboratories. The addition means the Microelectronics Tech nology program, housed tem po rarily at the Northwest Walker Road Capital Center, will be able to move to the campus and double in size. Sylvania Cam pus’ $8 million, 46,000 square-foot Technology Classroom Building will house the Distance Education program, in cluding recording studios and me dia production facilities; computer labs for the com puter applications systems, com puter software engi neering and computer information systems technology programs; 11 general-purpose classrooms; and faculty offices. The grand opening for this facility will be from noon to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 10. The board o f directors recently voted Dana Anderson as chair and Harold W illiams as vice chair for the 2004-05 school year. Anderson represents Zone 4, which includes inner north, northeast and south east Portland, while Williams repre sents Zone 2, which includes parts of Multnomah and Columbia coun ties. Anderson is a partner with Conservation Services (a hearing health care consulting firm). W ill iams, an African American leader from northeast Portland, is presi dent o f CH2A Associates, a local contract policy, consulting and management services firm. Also new this year, P C C 's Dislo cated W orker Program is the recipi ent o f a $4.3 million U.S. Dept. of Labor grant to provide innovative services to em ployees and busi ness during layoffs and closures. In addition, the U.S. Department of Education has also awarded the college a $745,513, five-year grant to provide education and training to professionals in Portland public schools who work with English lan guage learners. PCC has a new two-year associ ate of applied science degree pro gram called "Paraeducator" at Cas cade. Students in the program will be able to focus on either special education or English for second- language learners. Students can also earn a one-year certificate in this course o f study. Also, the college has a new as sociate o f arts Oregon Transfer degree in business. Portland Community College op erates three comprehensive cam puses along with five workforce train ing and education centers, a small business development center and education outlets in hundreds of community and business locations in a five-county, 1,500-square-mile district in northwest Oregon.
