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Portlend/observer weaj Point cadets turned over $20,000 today to the Howard University Center for Sickle Cell Anemia Research. The money was raised at an Armed Forces Day benefit concert at the UJS. M ilita ry Academy's stadium. Cadet Percy Squire ( ’ 72) presents the check to U r. Roland B, Scott, director of the center. Cadet Squire was assisted by Cadet M ercer Ferguson ('73) (le ft) and Cadet John A. Vaccaro ('72) (rig h t). Fea tured artists donating their services to the benefit Included Stevie Wonder, Tha Sup rente a. S pirit, Jimmy and V ella, Smoke Stack and Ecstasy, Passion and Pain. An Academy spokesman said additional funds would be presented after all benefit accounts were settled. To thank her supporters, Angela Davis la takings three- week nationwide tour, ending with a star-studded "Evening With Angela" In Madison Square Garden on June 29. She w ill speak at the gala, and entertainment w ill be pro vided by Carmen M cC rae, Nina Simone, O89le Davis, Jim m ie Witherspoon, Melba Moore, Chita Rivera and The Persuasions. The gala Is be ing sponsored by the Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund, which raised thousands ofdol- lars for tier legal costs. M iss Davis, who was ac quitted of murder-kidnap and conspiracy charges, w ill then leave for a sLx week vacation in tie Soviet Union or Bulgar ia. When she returns to the United States In mid-Septem ber, a spokesman sakd. M iss Davis w ill begin "building a national defense organization for victim s of repression." H er cross-country tour In cludes stops In San Antonio, Chicago, D etroit and probably Memphis, Tenn., and her home town, Birmingham, Ala. DR. JEFFREY BRADY MODERN L l'K IIK E DENTAL PLATES PARTIAL PLATES AND EXTRACTIONS Immediate Restorations P la ta » in s e r t e d in w w e d te te ty a f t e r t e e t h e re e a tre tte d • Partial Plates • Dental Plates SLEEP DUEINC EXTRACTIONS m m m i e a n e n « i uvm it | M e B T M M « m iM m s T N W R M ir a M n M c n t M T | H M M U n tU I ■ IM P MT HOURS: W e e k d a y * l iJ O te SiOO l ahw day Si JO te I tOO DR. JEFFREY BRADY DENTIST S IM I IB B U Il D IN G $ W 3 rd A M o rm o n j R r ’ I n n d O f» < jo n Phone: 2 2 8 -7 5 4 18,975,939 pupils are trans ported to echool dally, accord ing to HEW statistics. ’th ere has been a steady In crease In pupil transportation, with annual increases In the last decade of from .5 per cent to 2 5 per cent. The decades with the largest peicentage gains were: 11.4 per cent from 1939 - 40 to 1949-50 - 9.9 per cent from 1949- 50 to 1959-60. The bus had made It possible for urban school districts to tel love ovei - crowded co n ll- tlons, to use space wherever It la available In the commu nity, to prevent double ses sions and to reduce class size. Busing has made It possible for school districts to avoid exjwnslve new school con struction and not Just because current available facilities can be used more efficiently. There never has been a na tional source of data on pupil transportation by race. Nor are any statistics available nationally on the rtumherg ol sttalents bused or the numhet of miles school buses travel to further various educational objectives, i . e , m o i* efficient use of facilities, vocational education. summer school, field trips anl special educa tional programs. The current discussion suf fers from a lack of uniform, objective, factual information Dur investigations do nut support the conclusion that large numlwi s of children are being bused long distances to I m p le m e n t desegregation plans. H e re are individual instances of long rides, but we suspect that these are fa r (ew e r than when schools were segregated. It Is the lack of iranspotta- tlon which la often the hard ship. Local and Federal o lfl- c.als who refuse to provide tiim p o rta tio n to jwplls who must travel long distances to school anl archaic state laws which discrim inate against cities in their transportation reimbursements ate respon sible for inconveniences to children. We find no conclusive evi dence that I he aggregate amount of busing has In creased nationally or region ally as a result of court- ordered Integiattun. In tire ab sence ol data on pupil trans portation by race which would reveal how many white and Bieck children a te being bused to what kinds of scliools, it Is impossible to state accurately the number or race ol pupils who are being bused to racially segregated or I n t e g r a t e d schools. 1 lie cry of "massive busing" for "forced integra tion" Is completely irrespon sible. fliW has estimated a 3 per cent Inc tease in busing as a result of Integration. T h lsflg - ure r epresents t he inc rea se in tire Southeastern states in ov- erall pupil transportation Ire- tween 1967 - 70 from 525 per cent to 555 per cent, d u r in vestigation leads us io the con clusion that this Is no more than normal growth. The cost argument against pupil transportation rest on the assumption that busing costs are so great that they seriously deplete funds for tie regular educational program. But tie facts do not support this assumption. The latest national figures available show that 3.7 per cent of all educational expenditures in tie I nited States were spent on pupil transportation of all kinds. This percentage has declined slightly since the 1953-54 school year. The chan on pupil transportation costs for individual school districts reveals that even with increased costs, pupil transportation remains a small percentage ofalleduca- tional expenditures. l i e broad allegations of the cost burden must also be re viewed against the (act that each state reimburses local school d istricts for both capi tal and operatingcosts. There are wale variations In among states in their patterns of re- im lui sement. and there is no national average of stale re imbursement of pupil trans portation costs. The president promises to "cu rb busing while expanding e d u c a t i o n a l opportunity" which Is unrealistic aryl ac tually means mote separate hut unequal schools, hence less educational unpoi tunny for Blacks. School officials see txjsing and expanding educational op- poi tunnies as complementary aixl not contradictory objec tives. T h e ir vie w s are d irect- SELF-CORRECTING TYPEWRITER RIBBON! I Most exciting I half of m ifj-ie ribbon is like a magic wand that makes errors disappear I before your eyes To make corrections, just back space shift ribbon |*e le c to r an^ '« ’ TP« error Presto1 White ink makes error completely I invisible Order extra I you fori No CODs "Jambo, bwana," the A fro- American said in kisw ahlll, extending his hand for a shake. ' Beg your pardon?" the Ghanaian asked, surprise-1. "What dkl you say?" "Jambo, bwana," the A fro - American repeated ami rattled on In excellent Kiswablll. "S o rry , m i s t e r , " the Ghanaian Intel lupted aftei a few seconds. " I don’ t under stand what you're saying.” "D o n 't you speak Swahili?" the Afro-A m erican asked. "Sw ahili?" the Ghanaian asked helplessly. "W hat Is Swahili?" "But . . . but." the A fro - A m e r ic a n s ta m m e re d , scratching his bushy be» cd, "a re n 't you from Africa?" "O f course, I a m ," the Ghanaian said, ami added humorously, "Ghana Is not In the South Sea Islands!" " Then, how come you don't speak Swahili? Isn’ t that the national language of Africa?” The man from Ghana only laughed. By this time, a n o t h e r African, a Gambian who ob viously had teen in the United States for some time, had Joined them. He explained to the Ghanaian: "M o st Afro- Americana helleve K law shill Is the only language all A fri cans apeak. I only wish (hey knew Kiswahlll la nol even an authentic African tongue but an adopted language — Kiswahlll, often shortened to ''S w ah ili" in the United States, fa r from being the language ol A frica, Is spoken by only about 30 m ill ton of the continent's approximately 350 million people. Also, recently I met a young g irl from a Los Angeles high school who wore a carefully colffeured Afro hairstyle. She asked me, ns a Nigerian, whether there was anything she could do to make her Afro even more African. She burst Into tears when I shrugged and told her that the Afro is not African at all but strictly an American hair-style. "A form of black protest . . . black Identity . . a quest to create something that Is one's own . . . setting new beauty standards that are anything but Am erican." How much else of Black Am erica's current love at- fa lr with African culture Is baseil on a wish for new myths - - or a desire tocreate new growths on ancient roots? Make no mistake about it, an Increasing number of black Americans - especially the young — consider themselves African-Am ericans. The es tablishment of communes designed after traditional Af rican societies, the geneial clamor for African studies on American college cam puses, the popularity of A fri can garments, the mounting interest In African affairs and the "back io A fr ic a " crusade. Just to mention a few, are all reflections of this wave of "relating to" or "Identifying w it h the old country." Bui w riting In the New York 1 imes In 1970, the form er Sierra Leone ambassador to the I nited States, D r. John Akar, stunned black America by contending that although the black American "m ay wear five dashikis, one atop the other, shake hands In 22 different ways, speak Kiswa hlll and even lose his accent, he Is still n oclosertoA frlca than the Chinese or the Ja panese." D r. A kar, In fact, merely echoed the words of the late Kenyan m inister foreconomlc planning and development, Tom Mboya, a noted pan- Africanist, who In 1969 told black Americans they weren’t any more welcome in Kenya than whites. He sakl: "T he American Negro who comes here has only one thing In common with Kenyans: Ills color. Beyond that, he will 1« In a totally foreign ami s tra n g e community — a strange c u l t u r e , strange habits ami strange attitudes of mind. "1 might here add that I find sometimes there Is a complete misunderstanding of what African culture really means. F o r example, some people think that to identify with Africa one has to wear some cheap J apanese or Hong Kong-made textiles, wear a shaggy heard o r a piece of cloth or skin on the head, or have to wear one’ s hair natural. These arecondltlons Imposed on the African today by the circumstances of This is one gift they II love Please send me the quantity of ribbons checked below If not satisfied. I will return ribbons within 10 days for full refund □ 1 ribbon $3 50 □ 2 ribbonl jg qq M rs . Gladys Knauls, wlth her son Paul Knauls, vlslts Porti and from San Jose, California. Brane N a m , ot Typavaritav—Chech Modal a«<o— C standard □ Clactr« Q Portable ly contrary to those of the Fresklent who sees busing as a "symbol of social engineering on the basts of abstractions." School districts throughout the country use their transpor tation systems to promote a variety of educational and social goals including school consol slatlon. improved voca tional education programs, broadened horizons for their children through field trips, and expanded summer pro grams and preschool educa tion. No one, to our knowledge, has ever held out these objec tives as’ ’ social engineering." Educators have supported school busing to promote edu cational opportunity. 'I ransportatlon Is still a re latively modest percentage of all educational expenditures. Rama . Masons hold Annual Communication The M . W. Prince Hall Grand Lodge will open its 12th Annual Communication on June .’4, 1972. The Grand Promenade w ill be he Id June 24, 1972 at the Holiday Inn, 10 N. W eldler Street from 10:00 pun. until 2:00 a.m . The An nual Mem orial Service w ill be held at the New Hope Baptist Church, 3927 N. Gantenhein Avenue. The Annual Banquet will be held Monday evening, commencing with a No Host cocktail hour from 6:30 until poverty, limitations of tech nical and educational and other resources. T hese must not be confused with culture.” Recently, I talked to a class in comparative African lit erature at Peppeidlne Uni versity in Los Angeles and the students were surprised when I said there was slavery in Africa before the coming of the white man. Before I could finish my statement, a very light-skinned g irl, who spoke good Kiswahlll and Yoruba and knew more about the black revolution in Tan zania than the one In Wans, Jumped up and challenged me. An argument ensued until the lecturer, an African, In tervened and explained that slavery existed in A frica long before the arrival of the whites. The winners of A fri can Intertribal c o n f l i c t s regularly enslave the losers as long ago as such conflicts took place. L ater, the Arabs made a business of slavery. When I was talking privately with the g irl later, she con fessed that the only reason she challenged me was that I had made "such a stupid disclosure" with so many whites listening. And this experience Is by no means unusual. Mboya once was pelted with rotten eggs in Harlem for telling his own s id e of the t r u t h . Actually, several of my A fri can friends In the United States are afraid to express opinions about Africa because, they say, " i t ’ s safer to tell Americans what they want to hear.” , But must we continue to seek after lies? . . . - in "A remedy for the historic evil of racial discrimination has often created a new evil of disrupting communities and imposing hardships on child ren . . .’’ The Legal Defense Fund asks: “ Who has disrupted com munities, imposed hardships, and torn us apart as a people? " I t is not the Federal judges who have exercised Judicial restraint. It is not black c iti zens who are still trying to secure equal educational op portunities for th eir children. It is not the school bus. " I t is the present Admini stration which has used the power and majesty and au thority of the ( ’ resident's of fice to stir dissension, confu sion, and uncertainty among us by politicizing the busing is sue." 7:30 pun. at the Holiday Inn with dinner to follow imme diately alter the cocktail hour at 8:00 pun. Monday morning June 26, 1972 at 9:00 a.m. the txisiness session w ill get un derway and w ill terminate Tuesday afternoon. The Pro menade and also the Banquet is open to the general public. Promenade tickets are $2.50 and Banquet tickets are$6.50. Guest speaker for the Banquet w ill be Russell Dawson, D i rector of HUD. TED AND PATS RESTAURANT 5 2 4 6 N.E. Union Ave. (Ph. 2 8 2 -3 8 4 3 ) 3 9 4 0 N. W illiam s Ave. (Ph. 2 8 4 -0 5 5 5 ) Breakfast all hours 8 kinds of pancakes T u rk e y , Shrim p, Soul Food 6 am til M id n ig h t M o n d a y Thru Thursday Friday and S aturday - 24 hours WANT TO BECOME PART OF THE BUSINESS? Theodius (Ted) Sanders, experienced chef, invites you to become part of the restaurant - profit sharing, fran chise (additional locations planned), experienced help wanted. Make an appointment to talk it over. Everyone W elcom e TV- ..J » w ;« if 4 V w WHO'S GOING TO PAY? ™ based on a combination of cotaupt Arable and Bantu - - spoken largely only In Tan zania, Kenya and Uganda." ribbons for friends M A IL O R D E R M A R T Deor 14 2 701 Sterlington R o .d , Suita 132 M o c 'o t. Louisiana 71201 Blacks cherish African myths Two black men — a Ghana ian student anil an A fro- American - - were introduced recently at a party welcoming the Ghanaian to (he United States. needed advance since the typewriter was invented1 As I of this moment every messy smudgy, smeary typewriter eraser m the I world hits the scrap heap for good No m ore erasing—ever’ Bottom " I Ke/ DAPO IlkO zi sw.i'ne.rs by UDEBIYI Page Greatest Advance Since the Typewriter was Invented! No More Smeary Erasing- Covers Mistakes Instantly, Permanently! Busing report charges Nixon playing politics The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, In c , Its a published a report on the busing controversy. The LJMiF state» ita Intro duction: "T h e politicizing of the fusing issue during an election year Is not a mark of leader ship. It haa pola rlzed our peo ple. It has dlvened attention from the urgent need to eradi cate racism . " , . . It is not the school bus which Is in trouble. What Is at stake Is our sanity as a people, the Ualepeialence ami Integrity of uurcourts, the fulfillment of out commitment to equal jus tice.'' The following ate excerpts fnxn the committee report. 43.4 per cent of the total public school eniullment of Thursday, June 22, 1972 I College la Expensive: But so are all the worthwhile things: I l you're curently facing the problem: Who's going to pay? f Here’s the answer— Army ROTC I r ♦ We've got scholarships for 4 years 3 years 2 years of college which will: —Pay you $100 tax free, per month (during the school year) — Buy all vour textbooks —Pay all your college tuition and fees The Cost 4 years active service as an Army Officer < Li you don’t need a scholarship, Arm y ROTC has thia to offer. — D raft deferment while you're in collage —1100 tax free, per month during your Junior and Senior college years —Optional flight training while in college (which can give vou a civilian pilot's license) — Leadership training and expenance while you re still in college —Commission as an Army Officer < The Cost 2 years active service as an Army Officer upon completion of your academic studies ARMY R.O.T.C. R.O.T.C. DEPT. R.O.T.C. DEPT. Oregon State U niversity C o rv a llis, Oregon Phone: 503-754-3511/3512 ( S t Army ROTC U niversity of Oregon E ugene,O regon Phone: 503-686-3102 — .--------------------------i ^ a - i 4-
