Portland schools turn
down draft deal
Portland-area high schools, targeted by
the Selective Service System for a major draft
registration cam paign am ong 18-year-old
men. have given the effort the cold shoulder.
In a letter from the Selective Service re
gional office in San Francisco school officials
were asked to allow in-school registration,
provide the Selective Service with student
lists, announce registration opportunities
over the public address systems, allow dis
plays about m ilitary service, schedule time
for Selective Service representatives to
speak, and use a guide designed to make
young m en aware o f the purpose of
registration.
The Portland School Board is on record as
opposing reinstatement o f the draft. Since
June 1980, a Portland School Board resolu
tion allows Northwest Draft Counseling rep
resentatives equal access to students to ex
plain alternatives to m ilitary service and any
school that chooses to allow Selective
Service activities would be bound by that
resolution.
Portland area schools have been targeted
by the Selective Service cam paign because
registration is lower here than statewide.
Registration in Portland is about 10 %, c o m
pared to about 90 % statewide.
The student lists, according to Michael
Stoops, director of the Northwest Draft
C ounseling Center, is an attem pt by the
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Selective Service System “ to identify
non-registrants for further intim idation and
possible prosecution by the (J.S. Department
o f Justice."
A lthough none of the Portland high
schools have given the go-ahead to the
cam paign several schools in outlying
districts have agreed to in-school
registration. A m ong those schools allowing
the registration are Reynolds, Milwaukie,
Clackamas, Lake Oswego and Gresham.
Lesbian Forum
awarded grant
The MacKenzie River Gathering, a granting
body funding groups involved with social
change, recently awarded Portland’s Lesbian
F o rum $ 1000 to use as seed money to pre
sent to Portland audiences nationally or re
gionally known lesbians who are currently
recording lesbian culture via music,
literature, fine arts, history, politics, or theatre.
The Lesbian Forum feels that like any
m inority group, there is a need to celebrate
and identify our own "queeroes" and that a
large event would generate high energy and
pride in ou r group identity.
The Lesbian Forum com m ittee wili meet
this m onth to decide on what the event will
be. Input is needed and encouraged as to
w ho the com m ittee should bring to Portland.
If you w ould like to be involved, contact W il
low at 232-2251.
The Lesbian Forum meets the third Tues
day each m onth and involves lesbians and
gay-positive women and strives to provide
positive role models and presents ideals and
issues with which lesbians can identify.
Radical women
closes Portland
office
After seven years of fighting scores of
struggles alongside feminists, radicals,
people o f color, lesbians and gays,
anti-imperialists, labor groups, and afflicted
individuals, the Portland branch of Radical
W om en and the Freedom Socialist Party has
announced the closure of their Portland of
fice and headquarters. It was decided to close
this branch so that they could expand
branches in other areas.
Radical W omen founded the city’s first les
bian and gay pride celebration, fought dis
crim ination battles helping Clara Fraser win
against City Power and Light in Seattle, and
also helped with the recent victory of Merle
W oo against the University of California,
Berkeley.
Marguarite Elia, local head of Radical
W om en and the Freedom Socialist Party will
be m oving to Los Angeles to join the office
there. Adrienne Weller will be the local con
tact and can be reached at 249-1710.
Lesbian and Gay
Pride update
An upbeat crowd gathered at the N orth
west Service Center last Thursday for a brain
storm ing session to put together Lesbian and
Gay Pride ’84.
The big question of the evening was,
“W hat do we want this year?” Music, dancing
and sunshine were, of course, the first sug
gestions. Creating a positive image and m ak
ing sure that any speakers adhere to prom ot
ing a positive image prom pted lengthy dis
cussion on the merits of whether or not to
have speakers at all during the rally. In some
peoples’ opinions speakers equal politics;
Elizabeth Waters countered these arguments
with the com m ent, “The fact that we are there
is political," which seemed to be the opinion
of the m ajority of the people attending the
meeting.
Lesbian and Gay Pride Week ’84 will kick
off with a prom on June 15 and continue
through June 24. If the enthusiasm dem on
strated last week continues the ten days will
be loaded with activities and events. There
will be skating parties, dances, workshops, an
art show, sports events (including the tradi
tional Stonewall Run), a talent night, bake
sales, an auction, a carnival, a yard sale, and
to top it all, a festival at Waterfront Park.
Anyone out there wanting to help make all
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Saturday Market
sponsors art
competition
Portland’s Saturday Market, the ten-year-
old institution nestled under the Burnside
Bridge, is sponsoring a com petition through
April 30 to find new outstanding artists for the
open-air market.
The m arket will grant guaranteed stall
space through 1984 and reduce space fees
to w inning artists. A m in im u m $10 daily
space fee for stall space will be waived and
w inning crafts vendors will pay a flat 10 per
cent fee on sales to a m axim um of $25.
The m arket requires that the artcraft must
be m ade by the person selling it and that
crafts m ust meet existing guidelines.
W inners will be chosen on the basis of pre
senting a craft o f high quality not already
being sold at the market.
Entries will be considered by a jury and
winners will be notified in late May. To qualify
for the space guarantee, w inning vendors
m ust sell on at least four days each month.
Portland Saturday Market will open for the
co m in g season on April 7 and continue
throug h Decem ber on Saturdays from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays fro m 11 a.m. to 5
p.m.
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