Portland/Observer
Dec. 16, 1971
Urban League
PSU hosts
theater
The American College Re
gional Theater Festival with
eight participating colleges
and universities w ill be hosted
by the Portland State Theater
January 10-15.
Participants w ill he com
peting fo r the chance to go to
Washington D x . in May to
perform at the national Am er
ican College Theater Festival
in the new John F . Kennedy
Center fo r the Performing
A rts . TheNorthwestwas rep
resented lis t year by Whitman
College.
The program fo r the Jan
uary Festival w ill offer a wide
range of plays all w ritten or
translated since World War u
by Russian, French, English,
Greek, German, Swiss and
American playwrights.
Each play w ill be performed
only once. There w ill be an
8:15 performance every even
ing January 10-15 as well as
two matinees at 2:15 p jn .J a n
uary 10-11.
The following student pro
ductions w ill be performed in
Old Main’ s PSU T heater the
U niversity of Puget Sound’ s
"T h e Physicists’ ’ by Duren-
matt; the University of Seat
tle ’ s "H e Who Gets Slapped”
by Andreyev; Washington State
U niversity’ s
"Rosencrantz
and GuildenstemareDead” by-
Stoppard; Eastern Washington
State College’ s " E le c tra " by
Euripedes; Olympic College’ s
"M arat/Sade”
by Weiss;
Western Washington State
College's " A Man fo r A ll Sea
sons" by Bolq and PSU’ s "The
Misanthrope” by M oliere.
The eighth entry, the U n i
versity of PortlanJ’ s "C itize n
Tom Paine" by Foster w ill be
performed in the Buckley
Center Auditorium.
Vernon Jordon, executive
d ire c to r of the National Urban
League, declared that the cen
tra l c iv il rights Issue of the
Seventies Is the restructuring
of Am erica’ s economic and
political power so that black
people w ill have their share
of the rewards, the respons
ib ilitie s
arxl the decision
making m every sector of so
ciety.
Participants in workshop fo r
race relations.
DENTAL
PLATES
PARTIAL PLATES
AND EXTRACTIONS
Immediate
Restorations
R lo s .s m s . r s . s
im m e d ia te ly a l t e r t e e t h
e re e x tra c te d
HEW holds workshop
The
Western Interstate
Commission fo r Higher Edu
cation held a four day seminar
in Portland December 9th to
December 12th. This is a na
tionwide educational program
dealing in corrections, on how
to get involved with m in o rity
groups. The meetings were
held at Highland Community
Center and Albina Youth Op
portunity School.
Representatives from Mac-
Laren's School fo r Boy’ s,
H illc re s t School fo r C ir l’ sand
the OregonCorrectional Insti
tute were involved, along with
ex-inmates of these institu
tions. Interested members of
the community were also pre
sent.
The ex-inmates from O .C .I.
told how hard it was to adjust
and to be accepted after their
release. They also told ofthe
many personal problems they
found themselves up against
Seven additional members
have been elected to the 5Leer-
ing Committee of The National
Urban Coalition, Chairman Sol
M . Linow itz announced today.
The Coalition, which was
founded after the urban riots
of 1967, brings together busi
ness, labor, racial and ethnic
m inorities,
religious
and
other groups fo r jo in t action
on urban concerns. The 86-
member Steering Committee
establishes policy fo r the
organization, which has local
affiliates in 38 citie s .
Those elected, at a regular
meeting of the Executive Com
mittee in New York C ity , were;
Hilda Hidalgo, Chairman, De
partment of U r.» n A ffa irs ,
Rutgers U niversity, New
Brunswick, N J .
D r. John LJS. Holloman, J r ,
Chairman, Health Manpower
A dvisory Board, New York
C ity .
Barbara M ikulski, Member,
C lty Counc 11, Baltimore, Md.
Antonia Pantoja, Executive
D lrecyor, Puerto Rican Re
search andResourceCenter,
New York C ity.
SLEEP
SCMLEN B U ILO IN G
5 .W . 3r<J A M o rris o n
P o r tla n d . O r e g o n
Phone:
SALEM OFFICE
Howard
Stein, Chairman,
Dreyfus Fund, New York
C ity.
Irene Tovar, Coordinator,San
Fernando Valley State Col
lege, C alifornia.
Francisco T rilla , National
Chairman,
Puerto Rican
Association
for National
A ffa irs , New York C ity.
A t the same meeting,Chair
man Linowitz announced that
WXf. Eberle had resigned as
Co-chairman to devote more
time to his new duties as
Special Representative for
Trade Negotiation fo r the
United States. RemainlngCo
chairmen are Andrew Heis-
kell. Chairman of the Board,
Time, Inc., and Vernon E.
Jordan, J r., President of The
National Urban Leaeue.
I f y o u d o n ’t see y o u r
m e r c h a n t ’s
a d in
The
O b s e r v e r , a s k h im w h y .
I
corrections workers rap about
Jordon said black people In
the Seventies w ill no longer
t*
comforted
by singing
" a in ’ t gonna let nobody turn
us round" as they did in the
Sixties "because when they
see tlie new Supreme Court,
they’ ll know we’ve been turn
ed around."
"T he fact today Is that not
only are hei feet tired, and her
soul is not rested, but tested,
because her s p irit is broken
and low.”
He said the issue of the
Sixties was the right to alt
on the bus, but today the Issue
is where that bus Is going and
what it costs to get there.
Start banking
instead of
just going
to the bank.
The Urban League w ill in
stitute a voter registration
program among blacks in the
North. He urged blacks not to
be satisfied with the few blacks
elected to public office. A l
though black people make up
twelve per cent of the pop
ulation, they hold only three
tenths of one per cent of Am er
ica’ s elected officials.
VERNON IORDAN JR.
"B la c k people w ill no long
e r find the game inspiration in
the words of the black woman
walking in the Montgomery his
boycott who sad, 'M y teets is
tina.1, but m y s ul is restMt •
PCC transports handicapped
DR. JEFFREY
MODERN LIFELIKE
sets goal
are s till going through.
This seminar was funded by
the Department of Health, Ed
ucation and Welfare. M r.P aul
Ries, D ire cto r, Western In
terstate C o m m is s io n fo r
Higher Education and M r. Al
Tate, assistant D ire c to r and
also black psychiatrist fio m
the U niversity of Colorado, led
the seminars. M r. Tate also
gave a talk on Black H isto ry-
Lost, Stolen or Strayed.
ty
A new program at Portland
Community College isopening
the door to new careers fo r
the physically handicapped.
Financed by a grant from
the Oregon Board of Edu
cation, the PCC program pro
vides transportation— a spe
c ia lly equipped bus with a
power lif t and trek fo r wheel
chairs - - career counseling,
and the opportunity fo r anyone
to enter the program of their
choice.
There are 800 people in the
Portland area using wheel
chairs; only 400 are active.
This is due in part to fa c ili
ties which . have not been
planned
to
accommodate
wheelchairs. Portland Com
munity College, Sylvania, has
been designed so that a person
using a wheelchair can move
easily and independently to all
areas of the education center.
The program is not restricted
to people in wheelchairs: any
handicapped ;<ei son is encour
aged to participate.
The purpose of the new
project ia to provide handi
capped persons with the op
portunity to change occupa
tions, to find a career or new
career, or to upgrade skills.
V irg in ia Ruggles, assistant
coordinator, transports han
dicapped persons to PCC’ s
Sylvania center fo r tours and
conferences with counselors
and Instructors.
Over 100
Checking Account
■ Automatic Savings
Statement Savings
■ BankAmericard
Money Minder*
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■ Safety Deposit Boxes
■ Loans
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Service
■ Investment Bonds
■ Trusts
different career programs are
offer ed at PCC, and counse
lors can help a handicapped
person to select a career
suitai to his interests and
capabilities. Career explora
tion, including aptitude and
interest tests, are provided.
F o r more information about
Careers and Transportation
fo r the Physically handl-
capped, contact Virgina Rug
gles, Portland Community
BANK
United States National Bank of Oregon
College, 244-6111.
David Nero
If you are Black this a rti
motive fo r the inability of
cle w ill hardly be informative.
m inorities to share the ad
You've heard it before and
vantages of employment and
you may even agree by giving
ail that brings to a fam ily
the w rite r a "R ig h t On!” If
unit. That there is truth to
you are white and liberal you
the prejudice is manifest less
may agree and sentamenta-
openly today but I believe it
lize . If you are white, a pro
is as firm 11 y entenched as
fessional man with influence
ever before. Proof exists in
then notice now I am d ire c t
the exercise of quotas fo r
ing this to you. You too have
government contracts, re
heard it all before — Equal
porting of m inorities both as
Employment Opportunity. You
required by contract and in
may in fact sincerely believe
cases where it isn’ t required.
that great progress has been
These are the most obvious
made in gaining employment
indications.
fo r m inorities. 1 could agree
with you, but if I did would
Who has the answer to the
either of us hope to make
problem
emerging
from
that which is great better?
racism should step forward.
1 believe that the policy
We would hall him o r her
makers have indeed done much
with
as much tribute as the
to alleviate discrim ination.
firs t man on the moon or would
But I know from experience
we?
that policies especially rela
tive to race problems are slow
1 don’ t claim to have the
to become practiced. I ask
answer to discrim ination, nor
simply M r. President or Vice
do 1 mean to w rite of it here.
President check your person
1 w rite with the remotest hope
nel managers to see if pro
that someone who has it within
gress is being made and the
his power to change personnel
extent of it. Is your policy
hiring policies w ill question
being implemented?
the need fo r change. Does
It comes as no surprise
there exist a public official in
to m inorities in the Model
the state or city who seriously
Neighborhood that their rate
would
meet to discuss Equal
of unemployment conslstantly
Opportunity? Is there in up
rates twice as high as for
per managment a man who
whites. This holds true in
would
discuss with members
tim es such as the present
of Portland’ s m inorities their
when the economy is soft as
experiences, their hopes arxi
well as when there is so
may even listen to a solution?
called b ill employment.
The problem remains that
Government
can
pump
even with Equal Opportunity
money forever into social pro
Employment laws few if any
grams but the best solution
eaders in business ask why
remains in the hands of p ri
m lnorites are last hired and
vate
enterprise. Should p ri
f ir s t fire d . Usually the rea
vate enterprise deckle to con
sons given are based upon
tinue to pay-off unemployment
“ lack of qualifications.” But
with poverty doles in all form s
obviously
the qualification
then the future lo r m inorities
factors while they exist need
w ill remain as it is — rather
to be recognized as symptoms.
bleak.
The question should be why
are there not an equal number
On the contrary should p ri
of qualified Blacks, Chicanos,
vate enterprise seek a solu
Native Americans or other
tion to the problems of m inori
m in o ritie s to the white popu
ties in seeking to fu llfill one
lation? It seems to me that
of th e A m e ric a n d re a m -b e n e -
the answer lies partly in the
fits according to potential to
Inequality of experience op
produce
then there can be
portunities fo r m inorities—
social progress and equality.
— social
and educational.
Since environment influences
It would seem feasible that
behavior to a great extent the
private
enterprise
could
conditions
of
substandard
work (with Ferlerai dollars
housing, diets and general liv
if needed) to make Equal Op
ing conditions is again ob
portunity a reality. We are
viously based upon earning
too often with government
power.
funded
agencies
training
The viscous c irc le of poor
people where there are no
means is self oerpetuating—
jobs. Couldn’ t industry use
— no income, poor educational
the money more efficiently
performance with resultant
and guarantee a job after
low achievement level, the
training?
end result is that the dis
Who would loose? Not in
advantaged are not able to
dustry. T heir stock holders
compete with those who had
would see no change In pro
the good fortune of being re a r
fits . Not the politician whose
ed in a fa m ily with financial
constituency becomes em
sta b ility.
ployed. Not the people trained
But again, why? In speak
who could become "m o re and
ing to those who decide upon
better qualified” by exper
personnel hiring policies, it
ience. Certainly not the coun
is quite evident that racial
try which teaches liber ty and
prejudice is s till a p rim a ry
Justice fo r a ll.
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