Page 2, Oct. 15, 1993
Editorial
Jordan Bids Farewell
When Michael Jordan announced his retirement last week,
the basketball world was devastated.
Jordan fans seemed to be upset because they will not get a
chance to see a man who they felt was the best player to ever
grace the courts perform his gravity-defying dunks and his
one-of-a-kind hang-time jump shots.
Even those who weren’t Jordan fans hate to see him leave,
because he added so much excitement to the game. It’s sad
to see someone with so much talent say farewell at the peak
of his career.
But what other challenges can basketball have for him?
He has climbed all the mountains of his sport, and from the
highest summk, it must look to him as if there is now4ieie to
go but down-or, as as he has ^parently decided, out.
Just consider what he has done so far.
At an early age Jordan began t>vercoming the odds in the
atMftrir. worlcL He was cut frwn the varsity team his ninth-
grade year, but wmt or to earn an athletic scholarship to the
Uidversity ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jordan began making a name for himself his fmshman
year when he helped the Tarheels get to the NCAA champi
onship and scored the winning shot
Jordan then went on to become a first-round draft pick for
the Chicago Bulls, where he led the team to three back-to-
back NBA championships.
Bring Back That Eagle Pride
With Homecoming
less than three weeks
away, a goal of all stu
dents should be to exude
school pride.
I am proud to be a
So when students from
North Carolina A&T
State University brag to
you about the Reverend
Jesise Jackson, you brag
Well, guess what? ^
- - . . Life « what you make Chambers, Rep. Daniel
distinguished member of it, and as educated, in- Judge Leon
North Carolina Central telligent and creative gtanback. Judge Clifton
University, and you young African-Ameri- Congress^
should be too. cans, we should always Clayton,
... Each and every one of he able to find some- Maynard Jackson
Besides these adiievemmts, Jordan also has two Olympic you made the choice to thing to do. - -
gold medals. What else is left for this man to do?
Jordan is making more on endorsements than he ever
mad**- playing the game. He will continue to make this
mwiey, so why not take a break, if he has accomplished
everything he has set out to do.
The recent death of his father may have had some effect
on his decision. I think it’s sad that people can’t understand
and sympathize with the man that they idealize. Even though
Jordan may perform like a super-hero rai the coiut, off the
court he is still human. His fans may regret his absence from
the court, but they should let him get on with his life.
Basketball may have lost its thrill for him, but life should
still havbiplenty of challenge, and his fans should rejoice in
that.
*1. and Attorney General
attend this university, so These are the Mike Easley
why not be proud. years of our lives, and g, be an
A lot of students com- goodfnends. culturdex- g ,
plain that“NCCU is bor- penenees and fun should but every
ing” and “there is never be what we carry wuh us
anything to do. when we leave NCCU. ^
Injustice In The Media
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Bu^’ness ManaKcr- Johnnie Riddick
Eiitcrkiinincnt Fdilor* Tracty Marbury
News E«Iitor*Ronda Robinson . ' ^
Photographer-Nancia Odntn
Reporters- Cleraldine Ndifbrehn, Robyn Haeldey, Robert
Hunter, Valw’ie Bracey, Terri Boykin, Vanessa AfeeroaBty*
Truitt O’Ned, Robert Thornton, Bianca Barnes,tJregLewrSt
' bonoa tee and Kioi Hood, A. beoise Chislont. Robin Tucker
As an African-Ameri
can male pursing a career
injoiimalism,many times
I find myself struggling
in America are Black,
while 70 percent are
White. According to
Black Entertainment
Television, broadcast
I news associates blacks
with the ethics of the lation prove that,
media. Being a journalist,
Frequently, when I understand that one of with dmgs 50 per^nt of
turn on the television, or theresponsibUitiesofthe the time, while wWtes^
read the newspaper, I see media is to report the only associated with
anumberof my brothers truth, but telling half of drugs 32 percent of the
being arrested or charged what happens in society time,
for some crime. African- is not telling the truth. Some people m so-
American men are A recent poll in USA ciety base their opmions
commiting crimes, and Today showed that 15 on different issues by
statistics in prison popu- percent of the drug users gee media page 3