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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1971)
I’ • g « 2 '( > r 11 « « d O b s e r v e r T h u rsd ay. A u g u s t 12 1971 Making It” on Black Campuses High Court Limits Job Tost (Ed. Note: The following a rt icle la a reprint from "Com m itm ent", A Report on General Food's Actions in the Field of Social Responsibility. Some young people needed proof of G F’ s sincerity— and got ltd Stato Employment offices must bo with a deliberated go-slow ton, va. At Hampton’ s re Chief Jutice Warren Bur philosophy. Better let the criminated before passage of quest, they’ ve helped to de The Northwest'» Best W eekly ger, to a recent televised In colleges and their students the CtvU Rights Act.) Cooper sign and Introduce a course terview with ABC newsman learn that GF was willing to said, however, that he saw In Industrial engineering and A Block O w ned Publication W illiam Lawrence, singled out help, willing to work with them no Indication tliat the decision plan to foUow up with one to a fair employment case as was limited to employers with rather than to try to barge In Published every Thursday by L xms Publishing Company 2201 N . chemical engineering. Proposed regulations requir veterans, age 2 0 to 29, to the a history of discrimination. with an unwelcome, Insulting KUlingsworth Portland. Oregon 97217. * It’ s Impossible to detail providing a highly significant labor force,” Hodgson said. James M. NabrIt III of the ing Federal agencies a n d Big Brother approach. here all of the projects being but llttle-publlclsed decision Sulm. nption rate»: 40 <ents per month bv e a rn e r. $4. 0 0 per year, by the U.S. Supreme Court " In June 8 percent of them were Out of this thinking came a N AACP Legal Defense and Ed Federal contractors to list Job carried out to these palr-ups. $5.00 per year by mall In Trl-County area; >5.25 per year e ls e w it h o u t Jobs. I t requires ucational Fund suggested Dial, openings with State employment But, quite regularly, faculty to the Just-concluded term . It came as something of a gradual pairing-up of GF un where. Phone 283-2486 The case Is Griggs v. LXike vigorous action on the part o f although the decision to the s e r v i c e s to give their op its and colleges. shock to GF College recru it members from predominantly Power Co., and Burger wrote ALFRED LEE HENDERSON. Publisher and Editor / Duck Power case effects only portunities f o r r e t u r n i n g Government and private In One such "p a lr-u p " devel ers several years ago: Bright Black colleges appear at GF. the unanimous opinion Issued private employers, the court’ s servicemen have been posted by dustry to help these Vietnam era oped between the Post divi young Black college graduates (T his summer a Delaware S e c r e t a r y of Labor J. U by the court on March 8. reasoning might easily be ap veterans reestablish a foothold sion and Talladega College In apparently didn't want to work State professor Is at the Jetl- The court held that the pow plied to public employment Hodgson. In the economy,’’ Talladega, Ala. B began with for us. O plant to Dover, Del., work e r company, at a North Caro Detailed requirements to Im also. Many governmental em The proposed regulations a plan for two undergraduates Recruiters visiting camp ing by turns to each of the lina generating station, lied ployers Impose requirements plement President Nixon’ s Ex provide that: to come to work each summer uses of predominantly Black various accounting areas violated the C ivil Hights Act on Job seekers sim ilar to those ecutive Order were published to m . Each contract made and en at Battle Creek, Mich., to get colleges as part of their reg there.) Students come to GF of 196» by establishing an em the North Carolina low er t h e F e d e r a l Register last tered Into by an executive de a firsthand view of Post op ular college rounds found they too. (Right now, two Tennes ployment standard unrelated company iiad been Imposing, Saturday. The President called partment, In d e p e n d e n t es weren't getting many students erations. From this there see A. A L sophomores are to Job performance. Specifi for the mandatory listing of such Nabrlt said. tablishment, or other agency or lined up - even for Inter developed, on both sides, the In a co-op program with the cally, the company made com Job openings to a public letter to Instrumentality o f the United reallzaton that having stu views. “ We had Jobs to Kool-Aid plant to Chicago, pletion of high school or a the Secretary of Labor Issued States w ill contain a clause un dents get a look at the busi o ffer,’ ’ says B ill Stohldrler D I., working three months, June 11, 1971. passing grade on two tests a der which the contractor agrees Manager of College Relations, ness doesn’t go too far unless studying three months, a lter prerequisite for Initial hiring After the proposal lias been that all employment openings "but the students didn’t seem th eir Instructors get a broad nately untU they earn their In or transfer to certain Jobs Misted 30 days for comment and which exist at the tim e o f the to believe we meant what we e r view of It. So Talladega’ s degrees.) which were form erly tilled «uggesttons for change from toe execution of the contract and Dean of Instruction made a said.’’ The palr-up system has ex only by wIdles. The court public, the Secretary of lab o r two-week tour of Post opera What was wrong ' B ill and tended GF work with predom Across the country, com w ill review the suggestions and those which occur during the found that neither a high school performance o f the contract, other GFers on recruiting tions not only In Battle Creek, inantly Black schools Into mercial schools which trato announce a date when the re diploma nor satisfactory test shall to the maximum extent trips wanted an answer, and but In White Plains, N .Y ., and other areas. For example, people interested to obtain gulations w ill go into effect. scores were demonstrably re feasible be offered for a listing gradually began to get It from Kankakee, 111. the company Is active to a ing a real estate salesman’ s lated to successful per The Executive Order, Issued With more person-to-per faculty members at the pre Cluster program with such license are rated by license by the President on June 16, at an appropriate local office of formance of the Jobs to ques the State employment service son contact, there grew up a dominantly Black schools. schools and In a Consortium law officials as "good" or tion. Nor did It matter, the makes It mandatory that m o s t s y s t e m . T h i s c l a u s e also The problem wasn’t stric t dialogue of "W e could use this for Graduate Study In Busi "bad” . court said, that the company Federal contractors, their first applies to first tie r subcontrac ly GF’ s. B encompassed the at the college," and "W e at ness for Negroes. In Oregon, the rating tor l e v e l subcontractors, a n d did not Intend to discriminate tors. whole business world, or at Post could help you with this.” GFers have even begun to most would have to be " e x Federal executive agencies list In Imposing these require ...T h e contract clause is not re least the Black students’ view As a result, a number of Post extend their work back a step cellent", but there Is no reg suitable Jobs with local employ ments. quired for any contract or sub of It. Many were automati division teams have visited the from the college level-to the ulation to guarantee a contin ment service offices. Prof. George Cooper of contract which Is for an amount cally assuming that careers Talladega campus: personnel high school preparation Black uation of this favorable cli The order Is a major step to Columbia University Lew less than >10,000 or which will In business and Industry were people to conduct a workshop teenagers get. The company mate and, It has been breached School, one of the lawyers tor assist veterans to obtaining em generate less than 400 man days on job Interviewing andplace- closed to them. at times. Is working with schools, par ployment as they leave m ilitary the plaintiffs, told Race Re of employment. Unfortunately, there was m ent, technical people to help ent groups and other asso The state Board of Educa service at the rate of more than lations Reporter that the de ... Federal executive depart historical basis In fact tor develop ways for Talladega ciations to help motivate these tion, which licenses vocation 80,000 a m o n th , Secretary cision "changes the whole ments and agencies ''sliall list th eir belief. For too long, to best use a computer It youngsters to start early to al schools upon payment of a Hodgson said. structure of American em all of their suitable employment business had been all but acquired, more technical peo nominal license fee, lies ac prepare to business careers. It 1 s expected that several ployment decision-making.*’ openings with the appropriate closed to the young Black ple to review the college’ s The Involvement of GFERS complished many miracles m Ulton new Job orders from There are Indications, lie office of the Federal-State Em graduate. In that situation, research faculty, and even with predominantly Black col within the very limited scope public and private employers said, that many employers ployment Service." he quite sensibly prepared a team of management peo leges Is paying dividends. of the law under which it lias w ill be listed as a result of the have dropped tests as a re . .. Nothing to the provisions la to for careers that were open. ple to help the coUege In Its Certainly the colleges and Jurisdiction. action. quirement for many Jobs, but be construed In any way so as to He took the ’ ’teaching or financial planning. students - and future stu In many parts of the na More than 2,200 local em there has been no widespread Im pair bonaflde c o l l e c t i v e - preaching" route. dents - are benefltttog. GF tion brokerage firm s have es ployment service offices across, S im ilarly, the Maxwell change yet to hlgh-school dip bargatolng agreements. But this "log ical” career House division has paired up recruiters now get more of tablished commercial sctiools the Nation, financed by th e loma requirements. He noted ...L istin g of Job openings sliall a welcome at these schools as wholly owned subsidiaries. Labor Department, w ill accept choice was keeping talented, with MUes CoUege at B ir too, that the court had upheld because the students now do th guidelines of the Equal The Instructor, a member of th e Job orders. L a s t year Involve only the normal obliga high-potential young people mingham, Ala. The division believe GF Is sincere to Its a brokerage firm , looks over out of the business world and the coUege co-sponsored 6,376,000 nonagrlcultural jobs tions which attach to the placing Employment Opportunity Job offers. After a ll, they where in our society - like It a two-day symposium on "The the group during the training w e r e listed at employment Commission as expressing the of Job orders and does not re can see friends who gradu o r not - a lot of the action is. Challenge of Participation to period and offers Jobs to those service offices. w ill of Congress. quire toe hiring of any Job appli ated ahead of them now work who appear to be most pro How then to reach such a Mass Society,” with em T h e Employment Service Some lawyers have suggest cant referred by toe employ ing on GF Jobs. And there’ s mising. young Blacks? How to prove phasis on what businessmen which already has a special ed that the decision left open ment service system. the dividend for General In one state this recruit that business - GF In partic can do. On a continuing ba veterans employment service the question of the court’ s at . . . Contractors are to file peri Foods. The company is get ment plan lias been so suc u lar - would welcome them? sis, MH Is providing curricu w ill assist ex-servicemen and titude toward job require odic reports with the appro ting promising young employ cessful tliat the brokerage woman through a system of in Again, GF recruiters turned to lum assistance and contribut ments Imposed by an employ priate office of the State em ees from these campuses. firm Is buying out brokers to terviewing, testing, counseling, the collge faculties tor an ing talent and resources to e r who had no history of prior ployment service system which other cities to order to ex swers - and faced up to some specific classes at MUes, to and referral to Jobs or job train discrimination. (Duke Power shall indicate toe number of em ing. pend Into those areas. tough facts. While, Increas addition to hiring students tor was found to have openly dis ployment openings and hires. ingly, faculty members were summer ’ ’T h e r e a re 3.7 million employment and convinced business meant graduates for regular, fu ll what It said about recruiting tim e Jobs. th e ir students, many predom The Birds Eye, Jell-O and inantly Black colleges were, Kool-Aid divisions are build- again because of the histor tog close relationships, sim ical situation, not geared to ila rly , with Virginia state preparing students for busi CoUege at Petersburg, Dela T h r m J years away, drop hen o3 tor repairs. ness. ware State CoUege at Dover, The other day while visiting some of my senior «* i h Changes In attitudes and North Carolina A. A T . State friends and watching the Apollo 15 astronauts operate a flying curricula were obviously nec University at Greensboro, ana physics labratory in moon orbit, mapping a large area of essary. But such changes Tennessee A. i I. state Uni the lunar surface, one of the senior citizens remarked, " I cannot be achieved overnight, versity at Nashville. Just believe they are on the moon.' ’ and they certainly cannot be Technical Center people Well, bare Is something else that may sound Impossible, forced. have taken a special Interest In the future, a man with a bad heart w ill be able to drop It GF approached the situation to Hampton Institute at Hamp off at the clinic of his choice for repairs while be goes on given job openings What was the intent of Vice President Spiro Agnew when he compared leaders of African Governments to the Black leaders in America? It is most confusing to comprehend the basis of his glib statements. He had toured Africa. He had met heads of governments. He did not speak with any of the opposition leaders in any country. Are we to assume that all is well and beautiful in all of the African countries he visited. Is there not any dissatisfaction among any of the citizens? Every man he met and had discussions with were powerful men — heads of state and/or aides, Is any visitor at high level honestly told or shown the problems of a country? Or was he say ing that the Africans are more capable than American leaders and as a result have no problems. In any event, it is utter stupidiry to assume there is any comparison between a dedicated leader of Black Americans, who is not paid for his efforts in behalf of his brothers and sis te rs, and an elect ed African leader, who is in a position to act to improve conditions for his people. American leaders, of any Black group, are trying in their way to find freedom,’ justice, and equality for all people. With out those leaders of the voicing needs - and without the voices of today and the future, Mr. Agnew might have been P re si dent! R.E. school regulation? Artificial Heart his way with an artificial substitute. The rich w ill he able to sit and get a heart repaired while they watt. This Is only three years away and w ill he In clinics in five years says D r. Horst Klinkmann, East Germany's leading organ- transplant specialist. D r. Klinkmann Is confident that for moral as well as practical reasons the artificia l heart win win out over the human organ for both temporary or permanent transplant«, He Is confident that the ho art Is a relatively simple organ, and In using polyurethane as the construction m aterial there Is no problem with rejection at all. The 36 year old specialist, Is the firs t East German ever to get an American professorship. He is best known for an artific ia l kidney he developed in cooperation with D r. Hans-Juergeo Wilke. The membrane which they produce on sausage-skin making machine«. is regarded as the best and is now being bought by United States firm s. Most patients, according to medical records have died because th eir bodies have rejected the foreign organ. D r. Klinkmann believes medical science has reached the threshold of It’ s most dramatic era. He says, "Medicine is now developing the way physics and chemistry did at the beginning of the century.” The heart is based partly on the fact that it is a muscle and not a complicated organ such as the Uver or the kidneys. An artificial pump can be built, and the problem of regulating It has already been solved with the pacemaker. The great advantage with the artificia l heart is that It will allow doctors to remove the natural heart, freeze It and make the necessary repairs. ’ "Tw o thirds of the cases, the original heart could be returned afte r It was repaired," he said. In the other one third the people could survive with artificia l hearts i i i » l r bodies. Hard to believe? Well, It we are around in five years It w ill oe a common thing to see artific ia l heart clinics In full operation Education Satellite Actor or Authority? By W ilbur W. Burkhart A fad of recent months has become popular among the persons who have gained national recognition asentertatoers by utilizing tbe radio, television and other means to influence their followers. The fad?? — It Is that of becoming a pseudo —expert on almost any public question and using the fame of their name to Justify the position they take. N o t only do they take advantage of their prominence to Influence the many followers but they Inject per sonal opinion Into the question and make public statements repre sented to be the truth, and often "las t word” concerning a question on environment or ecology. The latter two subjects are certain to command immediate attention today. Like all of us these persons point to printed m aterial as the source of their Information. They spice the report given from printed m aterial In such a manner that the 11 sterner or viewer Is led to believe that be is getting the truth when some of the state ments are pure hogwash. The original printed m aterial select ed If often the product of an Imaginative mind that happens to agree with the thoughts«! the reporter b e lt totally lacking to fact o r taken out of context for the sole purpose of supporting an erroneous opinion. A well known television entertainer has recently become an ’ ’ instant ecologist," entomologist, scientist and agriculturist. It would appear that this person has assumed his position of ex pertise rather than by study or experience. A recent communica tion with him concerning bis manner of television portrayal of a profession brought the reply that he really didn’t know anything about the profession In question. He further replied that he was m erely an actor and entertainer who carried out the Instructions of his w riters and program producers. Today this man has made public appearnaaes and made bold, unfounded statements about the perils ahead from the upsetting of nature’ s balance because chemicals have been used as pesticides. H 1 s reasoning appears sound to the person Inexperienced in carrying out the actual work of using a chemical to control an in- sect known to cause epidemic outbreaks of human disease. H is assumptions are bold tut his statemtns fall short of reaching sight of the truth. A n o t h e r entertainer of radio has recently become an "ecologist.” He has probably been concerned longer than anyone in the entertainment field as the welfare of man b u t his powerful influence over the listening public hangs without foundation because he merely headlines the latest report of a scientist and makes no explanation as to the true nature of the re port and its true meaning to the practice or material In question. He forther is fameus for avoiding to allow informed scientific ex perts to discuss the facts of the question with him. When I was a boy, not long ago, the day of Jack Armstrong, Stella Dallas, Flasn Gordon, and Buck Rogers, science flctto i seemed so impossible and now Apollo 15 has Just returned making the almost imjiosslble, the possible. I now predict that the classroom of the future w ill be linked to a communicate.) satellite, thousands of miles away to space. This prospect Is now ra ls e i by experts of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, watch has been considering how to educate an exploding world population that could total almost seven billion by the year 2000. Only education telecommunication satellites can provide the solution. Satellites could be a swift and efficient way to help meet growing educational needs, particularly to developing countries India already has broad plans to reach it’ s far-flung villages' by satellite communication. UNESOO experts have reported that, "Ten feet of wire netting could sarve as the gound antenna with an electronic converter to pick up satellite signals. UNESCO experts also believe that by 1875 instructional programs w ill be broadcast directly from satellite to school- ronm or community center without having to pass through earth-bound relay stations, Even before then villages to India w ill participate to a test transmission project conducted to cooperation with the USA. A space satellite equipped with one picture channel and two BY Joyce H lfler sound etian iels w ill broadcast Indian produced educational programs four hours a day. India’s Satellite Instructional Television Experiment is One of the greatest medicines of all time Is to foreet designed to be the forerunner of a national satellite Remembering every least detail of unhappiness does*no' Involving both direct reception and redifuaaton. f .7 ii^ r w U we h,n< onto ‘» J u ic e s and ID UNESCO now is involved to a study for a regional Latin feelings It w ill show to minds and bodies. American system of education by satellite The majority of lltoessea, the greater number of accl- Traditional television, radio and other audio-visual methods ^ nd eV* ) th* ,niMU «^«»m fo rts of living are brought could provide education tor the 70 per cent of the world’ s about by our Inability to forget what has gone. Nothing gl/es population living to areas where there are more than 40 us the right to Impose bitterness on ourselves. is like Inhabitants to the square kUometere (0.39) sq. m ile). But pressing on a sore spot. We keep doing It to see If it stilt wnere there are 40 or less (and that Is true tor a fifth of o u r tM nn to remember out of Latin America), then It Is education lor none at all our thinking, we can be rid of r0U‘ it to ‘ he our need lives. on these Things B I Wh’n V Shouldrit you be reading THE every week?
