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December 15. 2004
Huskies’ Black Coaches Make History
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University o f Washington's new head
football coach, Tyrone Willingham, pauses
for a portrait at Husky Stadium in Seattle.
(AP photo )\
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One leads
football, other
basketball
working the sidelines.
The fact that both men are black
and supervising the school's two
most visible athletic programs is
“a little bit extra,” in the words of
u n iv e rsity p re sid e n t M ark
(AP)— Tyrone Willingham and Emmert.
Lorenzo Romar are recognized as
It’s also historic.
accomplished college coaches,
W illingham was introduced
the biggest reason University of Monday as W ashington’s new
W ashington adm inistrators in football coach, two weeks after
Seattle are glad to have them being fired at Notre Dame. Romar
On His Game
A northeast
Portland man is
charged in the
deaths of a
m other
and
daughter after
their bodies were
discovered by
firefighters re
sponding to a fire |
Saturday at 3323
Mark Litkie
N.E. 63rd Ave.
Anautopsy revealed that Julie Wilson, 47,
died from sharp and blunt force trauma.
Authorities were still trying to determine
what killed her mother. Shirley Wilson, 76.
Mark Allen Litkie, 43 faces two counts of
murder and one count of arson. Investiga
tors said he had a relationship with the
daughter that was marred by domestic vio
lence.
Anyone with information in the case is j
asked to cal I detectives Rich Austria at 503-
823-0449 or Brian Grose at 503-823-0757.
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going on now never went on when
Bill Clinton was in office. Even
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Bush’s dad and Reagan, sure they
just going the wrong direction. were influential in the drug trade
W e’re more concerned about and all, they w eren’t just going
what’s going on oversees, rather around and doing completely stu
than making sure our situation at pid stuff. They were diplomatic in
home is right. Countries like what they did and cautious about
Canada spend a lot of time taking messing around with the world.
care of their citizens rather than When you go into a war and the
championing stupid causes.
United Nations and countries
Portland Observer: Speaking of around the world are saying they
which, what about Bush’s foreign don’t want to be involved, that’s
policy?
saying something. That’s saying
Cool Nutz: Certain things are something ain 't right.
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Iraq had nothing todo with (Sep
tember 11“". Why are we fighting a
war in Iraq? Why are we cleaning
up Iraq? If we never went to Iraq, at
this point right now, in the whole
scheme of the world, Iraq, that small
country, how much would it affect
the whole world? Well, except for
their oil. North Korea is making
nuclear bombs and there are civil
wars going on in Africa where thou
sands of people are dying; but we
have to go pursue Saddam “the
tyrant” Hussein. There’s so much
stupid stuff that goes on and we get
it fed to us like its Gerber baby food.
We take it all in and it makes people
believe.
Portland Observer: Hip-hop art
ists, along with much of the enter
tainment industry, really stepped
up into a political role this election.
What effect do you think that had
on the scheme of things?
Cool Nutz: If you think back in
the history of hip-hop, it was never
cool to vote because you didn’t
want to be part of the system or
working for the man; your vote
wouldn’t count. This year, it was:
vote now, vote early, you better
vote, vote or die. With all the effort
to get people out to vote, if every
one they targeted to register actu
ally voted, I find it impossible that
George Bush could have won. Evi
dently it also got even more repub
lican people out who voted for
Bush.
The entire election was decided
on about 3 million votes. It looks
like a lot of people but it’s real ly not,
considering Outkast sold close to
10 million records. If you put
Outkast, Jay Z and Usher on tour to
tell everyone "we need to make a
change, we need to vote, vote demo
cratic,” that could cause a dramatic
shift in what’s going on.
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is in his third season as coach of
the m en's basketball team.
W ashington is the first major-
conference school to have two
black men overseeing the two
major sports.
W illingham 's hiring is news
worthy for another reason. H e’s
the first black head coach to be
fired by one high-profile football
program and then quickly resur
face at another.
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