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Purtland/observei
Thursday Nov. 18, 1971
Tri—Met
District prepares
runs special
Nomination petitions
buses
Vanderbilt adjust
to black studies
When Akbar Muhammad,
son of Black Muslim leader
E lija h Muhammad, was firs t
contacted
about becoming
Mack studies d ire cto r at
Vanderbilt University,
he
d idn't know quite what to think.
He was aware of Vanderbilt’ s
? reputation as a major, white.
Southern U niversity— a school
never know for its hospitality
to blacks, but then again not
totally identified with any sort
of a ll-out resistance to racial
equality.
He was skeptical, to put
it m ild ly, but s till the South
had always intrigued him. He
had never lived there, had beer,
born and raised in Chicago,
but his parents were o rig i­
; nally from Georgia, and he
often wondered what the region
was like.
He told Wendell
Holladay, Vanderbilt’ s dean
of A rts and Sciences, that he
was interested.
Vanderbilt
officials,
of
course, had had a few doubts
of their own. They had not
been sure what to expect from
the son of the Black Muslim
prophet, a young man who still
retained a strong admiration
fo r his father and his father’ s
movement, even if his own
religious views had moved in
the direction of Muslim ortho­
doxy. Nevertheless, the Van­
d e rb ilt leaders, no doubt feel­
ing the pressure of the times,
were pleased that Akbar’ s
t perspective was impeccably
black. They also had learned
very soon that at the Univer­
sity of Edinburgh where he
was studying and teaching,
Muhammad had a very good
scholastic reputation.
And
although some Vanderbilt ad­
m inistrators may have been
troubled by the fact that
Muhammad did not yet have
his P H D ., his recommenda­
tions were good, both abroad
and in the United States, and
the university made its offer.
In July of 1970, after a
rather lengthy exchange of
letters, Vanderbilt paid Mu­
hammad’ s way from Scotland
to Nashville, Tenn., so that
he could see the campus fo r
himself and meet some of the
people he would be working
with. As he remembers it.
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he was not expecially im­
pressed.
"1 was not pleased by the
replies I got to the questions
I asked,’ ’ he says. “ I had
the feeling that people, parti­
cu la rly In some of the univer­
sity’ s departments, were not
ready fo r change.”
And it
became apparent to him very
quickly
that change was
needed.
Vanderbilt, at that time,
dxi have a black studies pro­
gram of sorts. But it con­
sisted mainly of an inter­
departmental m ajor involving
existing courses in the depart­
ments of history, sociology
and political science. Nearly
all of the courses, although
dealing with the black exper­
ience, were taught by whites.
Muhammad questioned, as he
s till does, the ability of whites
to teach such courses effec­
tively, and he informed the
Vanderbilt administration that
as black studies d ire c to r, he
would want authority to work
with professors in structuring
th e ir courses and selecting
the textbooks.
He told Vanderbilt he would
accept the offer, and in
January of this year, he moved
to Nashville.
” 1 came to
Vanderbilt to try out the situa­
tion,’ ’ be says. ” ltw as really
a hunger fo r a new experience.
Black star is a sensation
The new American singing sensation, Love­
lace Watkins, leaves Heathrow airport in
London with his wife, Bene, on a flight
to Australia for a nine-week tour.
F rl-M e t w ill run special
buses all nine days of the
P acific International Live­
stock Exposition, Nov. 12
through 20, it was aiuiounced
by General Manager Tom
King.
Buses w ill leave downtown
Portland hourly, leginning at
12:32 p.m. They w ill depart
from S.W, bth Ave. between
Yamhill and M orrison, pro­
ceeding down bth w e . toN.W.
E verett, across the Steel
Bridge to the S.W. 6tli de­
parture point.
Single cash fares w ill be
50 cents. King said. Pass­
engers with valid transfers
from routes into downtown
w ill |ey an additional 15 cents
fo r the P-1 run. Students
and senior citizens pay their
regular rates of fare plus
15 cents.
Questions about the bus
service to the P-1 w ill 1»
answered by T ri-M e t’ s in­
formation department. 233-
3511.
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may pick up nomination peti­
tions attheS choolD istrictN o.
1 administration budding.
C ertificates of nomination
aixl other petition form s may
1» obtained from the detxitv
school c le rk ’ s office, Rouni
301, 631 NJE. Clackamas St.
Positions 1,2 and 3 — now
held respectively by Jonathan
Newman, Paul Howe and P rank
Case — w ill be subject to vot­
e r decisions during the May
23, 1972 prim ary election. The
tenus begin next July 1 and
end June 30, 1976.
The three incumbents have
not yet declared th e ir inten­
tions to seek reelection. 1 he
four remaining board mem­
bers — s till having two of their
four-year terms tebeserved-
are Norman Lmdstedt (P osl-
tion 4), M rs . W illiam McCoy
(5), R,W. DeWeese(6) and Ro­
bert L . Rldgley (7).
To qualify fo r a ballot posi­
tion, candidates must be reg­
istered voters of the school
d is tric t. Then petitions must
include signatures of 300 reg­
istered d is tric t voters plus a
$10 filin g fee. To avoid the
filin g fee, some 1,908 signa­
tures of registered d is tric t
voters must be obtained.
C ertificates of nomination
arxl acceptance of nomination
must be filed before 5 pun.
March 14, 1972 with John Wel­
don, Multnomah County direc­
to r of records ami elections,
1040 S.E. M orrison St.
Poi fu rth e r information call:
James M. Voigt, Public In fo i-
matlon Specialist, 234-3392,
Ext. 36.
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1 wanted to see what it would
be like to coordinate a pro­
gram fo r a very, very small
m inority of black students on
a predominantly white South­
ern campus.”
Vanderbilt adm inistrators
seem to appreciate Muham­
mad’ s position. “ Professor
Muhammad is just a tremen­
dous asset to this u niversity,”
says Hobbs. “ He is a fir s t
rate scholar and an exception­
al person in every way.” And
while
Muhammad is less
lavish in his praise of the
adm inistrators, he also says
that he has been able to work
with them so fa r. But he
makes It clear that, in his
mind, there is s till a long
way to go. “ And my bags,”
he says, “ are always there
to be packed.”
Telephone
numbers
Change
Telephone
numbers are
changing as of November 21
fo r some 1,000 telephones in
Multnomah County depart­
ments and offices.
The change, according to
P acific Northwest Bell P ort­
land D ivision Manager E .L.
P fe ife r, taking place over the
November 20-21 weekend w ill
involve placing a new elec­
tronic phone system in ser­
vice to serve County phones
at the Juvenile Detention
Home,
the Public Works
department, the County Health
department and all offices at
the County Courthouse.
The new numbers, to be
listed in PN’B Portland area
phone directories that w ill be
delivered starting November
30, w ill start with the prefix
” 248.”
The electronix phone sys­
tem w ill perm it d ire ct dial­
ing to phones in the system
without the call being handled
by a switchboard operator.
Switchboard positions now in
use at various county locations
w ill be replaced by two table-
top consoles located at the
Courthouse.
Powerful electricity
a plug for
a trash-free
environment
Look at the land around you
There s a lot of trash lying around from
big car bodies to small cans and bottles..
all cluttering up our countryside
We are in the midst of the re-cycle era —
to re-use bottles and cans to pulverize
non-biodegradeable trash and garbage:
to dry it for high temperature burning under
controlled conditions: and to melt and re-cycle
salvageable materials to use again.
For example, did you know that, during the
last year, more than 2.000 cars were abandoned
on Portland streets alone9
Cleaning up that kind of a mess takes a lot
of energy and only one kind of energy
is powerful enough and clean enough to do
the job efficiently
Electricity.
To keep ahead of your ever-grow ing electrical
demands. PGE is building new generating plants
which are essential for reliable electric service
Energy from the atom, which is clean to make and
clean to use. w ill provide adequate supplies of
electricity while preserving O regon s matchless
environm ent. If you d like a free booklet on
Why Oregon needs more power,
write or phone PGE.
P o r t la n d G e n e r a l E le c t r ic C o m p a n y
P roviding d e a n energy tor a b e tte r life
Console
attendants w ill
handle calls to the County’ s
new general information num­
ber — 248-3511 - to provide
inform ation on county listings
not included in the dire cto ry.
Among the many County
phone numbers to be changed
include those for the S h e riffs
offices at the Courthouse. The
new number to call fo r emer­
gency purposes w ill be 248-
3911, and the number fo r nor­
mal txisiness calls w ill be 248-
3265.
Other new numbers that are
expected to receive heavy
calling as in the past from
Multnomah County residents
Include:
D is tric t Attorney’ s office-
-248-3162.
Juvenile Court and Home-
-248-3460.
R egistrar of Elections---- -
-248-3720.
Medical Services—248-3710,
Board of County Commis­
sioners— 248-3304 .
Tax Information — 248-3326.
Suits
287-3244
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Don’ t escape into die “ Neuro­
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m eaning-less and lis t- le s s .
We as a people must develop
a much better C hristian ex­
pertise in national and inter­
national matters of econo-
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