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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1972)
BÜLK RAÎC U. S. POSTAGE P A ID ORELAND, OREGON PERMIT NO 1. A6 POR TLA N D AN EOUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER THE ONLY NEWSPAPER HE W H O 1 *- W ID E „ W O R L D TH AT OHSEIWI-, R E A LLY C AR ES ABOUT P E o V lV Portland’s Black Population Represents 7th Largest City in Oregon Portland The tepori of Ihe Office of C iv ll Righi», | ¿epurimene of Health Educatlon and Weltare, oh Ita indiai Conti act Com pilane* Review of PSU w a i presentai in a [ u b ile m ee tin g at Smith Memoi la i Center last Who is this week's lovely "B la ck Beauty"? the piovocatlve answei Page 8 holds ative Action in Faculty ami Staff Employment, and saal that lire r epor t and recommen dations of the Committee on Equality in Employment con stitute a basis fo r an effec tive affirm ative action pro- gi am. The report then state! the deficiencies in employment and advancement of minor i- ttoa arid women it Psi , as determined by the o ffice of C iv il Rights team on the bas is of Its review Jan. 10-U . The deficiencies identified were as follows: Regarding m inority aca demic employees: |>Sf has not developed an aggressive re 'Uitment progr am, and m i norities are under-repre sent»! in hgih adm inistiative positions and in graduate as sistant position. Regarding female academic employees: They are under represented in instructional faculty positions, in high ad- ■ s, ead on all -E n iv e rs ity committees. Additionally, the report said, disparities continue to exist in the salai les of female fac ulty when compared to male counterparts, end there is no establisliel policy regarding maternity leave. Regarding classified em ployees: M inorities are un der - represented in higher « *•1 . females tend to be concentrated in low e r paying positions. Appli cants, with few exceptions. must pass w ritten examina tions which have not been validated to assure that they do not adversely affect op portunities for m inorities or women, the report said. The report calls on PSI to make specific committments in w iltin g to cot rect these deficiencies, ami submit them to the o ffice of C lv ll Rights by March 29, 1972. Deficiencies in the A ffirm ative Action Plan adopted by PSU were also identifier I as follows: 1. Timetables were not provider! for ail goals de scribed in the report, 2. T he plan did not include Orientals, and refer red to “ Mexican A m ericans" ratbei than the broader category of "Spanish surnamed A m eri cans'’ . F urther, the plan did notaddressdiscrim ination «1 the basis of religion or national origin. 3. The role of the Com mittee on A ffirm a tive Action in Faculty and Staff Employ ment has not been clearly de fined. The report concludes that PSI is required to make spe c ific committments on the de ficiencies Identified, and re visions in its affirm ative ac tion plan before the I n lve r- sity’ s plan can be accepted by the o ffic e of C iv il Rights. • black population was an incoi ie seventh largest in the state >ut above have larger populations. CW >1 I . J itnea, 18, a pot tl.ind g irl who bee been at McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary since last s . 6th. At. appeal heating wa • Mere 7t In SenFrancieco.M iss James, a high dent at the time of hei arrest, was accused of stri, agent with a rolltngpin after negrabbedher U-yeai c FBI agents entered the home to arrest Cheryl Charles, who was AWOL. (See picture. Dae. bi Conference the people ol ( l i e gon w ill become more aware ol Ihe present condition of the pooi and w ill tegin to hi mg about the necessary changes in the sox'la I service admini- stialion arxl general public at titudes. This is a statewide con ference, a wide range attempt to develop a cohesive point ol view among Ihe people of Oregon am! by doing so insur ing the welfare and health of a ll. Ihe In s t Poor People's Conference was held in Ser>- Benj. Franklin introduces Phil Berthiaum e Financial Advisor A new service to help individuals plan retirement income is now ottered by the Benj. Franklin, with financial expert Phil Berthiaume heading the new department He is available for consultation a, the Franklin Building on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and at other times by appointment F ID IW A L Robed H Karen. Pres « A V IN O « A . 18 Offices • Home Ollice Franklin BI i I q Portland tember of 1970, in recogni tion of the fact that meeting of professionals and agency people concerning the prob lems of the poor were always without the involvement of the most concerned - The Poorl I Tie State o ffice of Econ omic opportunity andtheore- gon Social Welfare Associa tion had agreed to jo in tly spon sor a meeting of the poor, ",gantaed i \ the peer, for the poor. As interest, suppoit, and hope foi die conference grew, a struggle between the pro fessionals arxl the developing leadership of the poor began. Most ol the people in the role of resource person or advisor. Including the governor's office, increasingly chal lenged the right and ability of the Steering Committee, composed of the poor, to ac complish what il had been formed to do. But we were successful! jh e steering Committee grew from four white women to people from all cultural backgrounds, men anil women, youne anil o ld . thing about it. It has been a hundred years since the blacks of Amei ica were emancipated. But what has this meant in terms of change from th e bonds of slavery as servitude to 1972? To what extent have the bonds been broken and to what extentdo they exist?C er- tainly it is not necessary to discuss in much detail to the black, he has heard it all arxl has read it before. Perchance somewhere there e x i s t s someone interested with some a bility to change o r to realize the inequities that are still prevelant, even as they were p rio r to the Emancipation Act one hundred years ago. In our country the value of a man .» -Msed upon his earn ing power. Certainly the dig n ity and the self respect that is necessary to live In our so ciety is based upon a man's salary and the amount of mon ey he can earn and is earning determines the quality of life . . . fo r him. L e t's take a look at Portland as an e x a m p le . About twenty thousand black people, live in the city of Ponland. What could one ex pect to be the degree of exis tence of private enterprise in a city of twenty thousand peo ple elsewhere in Oregon? The camparison is so ridiculous In terms of equality that it hardly even n e e d s to be carried out any further. But take a look at the city of Springfield which could be used as a community s im ila r in size as the black Poor People’s conference scheduled I he Council of the I ’ ooi is now organizing the Second An nual Poor People's Confer ence, to Ie lield in Eugene, Oregon, March 18-19. 11„. Conference is an e lfo rt to develop a working unity among the poor and oppressed in the stale of Oregon. Among the problems to Ie dealt with w ill Ie welfare rights, racial dis ci imination, prison arxl jus tice system reform , tie prob lems of the aging, health and food, anil community a lte r natives to Institutional care. It is hoped that thiuugh this rrd Ron Stratten- PSU names head football coach C o a s t Janitorial Service, Vann's Mortuary, E J . Basket Construction C o , Nero Indus t r i e s, Washington S ig n s , Freedom Bank of F manee, Cox Funeral, Geneva's, M itch e ll’ s Plumtmg, Portland Cleaning Works, B utler Body S h o p , Clarion Liefender, Portland Observer, and Nate H anley O il, Scarborough O il. Ne.ghborhood Company. B ill Sausage A fte r a hundred years of e- cipation is the black anymore independent and free than ne was when the cook, servant, slave artl who is responsible, the black who is stereotyped as being lazy, not desiring ambi tion, not wanting to develop what mate abilities he has?The white community believe that there is something inu lnsi- cally in fe rio r about the blacks and from this concept has come the problems that exist today. No way can It change un til John Doe, M r. Average Amet ica, M .T o p D ollar, the above avetage American, the executive, the high ranking politician examine th e ir con sciences and realize t h e i r view of the black man is not based upon anything concrete, fait s tric tly prejudice and then make the democratic system responsive to the conditions that have existed m every city, village and hamlet in America fo r these past one hundred year. not an empty promise. Those officials who are in position to appoint to boards and commis sions and to positions of re sponsibility must seek out camixJates from among the m inority population. And all consumers must do some of their business with m inority owned businesses. Most of the large corporations and companies receive govern ment subsidies in some form . A portion of these subsidies, which come from the taxes pax! by all citizens, must be spent in the black commun ity fo r goods and services that can be prov ided by black owned business. Adams choir tours Oregon Fifty seniors atAdamsHlgh School launch a five-day sing ing tour of Oregon on Monday, March 13. fhe students, all members of the school choir, w ill navel some 1,000 miles to perform before high school audiences in nine citie s. Ihe choir boards a rented l»is aixl a school van in front of John Adams High School. 5700 N.E. 39th s t , at 7 a.m. Motxlay. I he tour gioup includes the John Adams singers and a 16-member ensemble called the Western union. Ih ie e adult chapeiones w ill accnin- pany the group, keeping a fast-paced Itin e ra ry, the students w ill travel to Hood River, The Dalles, Maupin, Cjscade I ocks, ra ft. Newport, Reedsport, Yoncalla and Rockaway between M uch 13-17. T h e ir five nights on ttie road w ill be spent in homes of students in host cities. Each choir member has conn ibuted $5 toward the trip . I lie remaining expenses w ill Ie paid foi by conti lbutlons from parents ami Portlaixl businessmen ami profits from past musicals ami sales of decoi ative bulletin boaids sponsored by Adams students. Dressed in pastel shirts ami dresses, the choir w ill present 45-minute concerts of classical, spiritual and pop- ulai music. |n some host cities, they w ill sing numbers jo in tly with localchoirgroups. Ihe [ xii pose of the tom , according to vocal music d i rector Norman D. Carothei s, is to "m otivate students to strive for excellence.” Carothei s thinks the trip w ill Ie helpful in preparing tlie students fo r a series of performances slated for A pril (Please see page 7 col.5) This tiu c k missed the tu in from killtngsw orth to Vancouver Avenue , broke through a cement block wall, and spilled packages ovei the street. (Please see picture page 8)
