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K r« F ra n c o s Scho.n--Jew ar 9 p e r Poca U n iv e r s it y o f Oregon L ib r a r y ïu - ’ -ri», Or . ron 97403 PORTLAND Volum e 3, No. 3 9 P o rtland, O reg o n THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN OBSERVER AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD THAT REALLY CARES ABOUT T hu rsday, July 5, 1 9 7 3 1 0 ' per copy PEOPLE Teachers discuss merger, minority guarantees Kennedy raps Nixon Ellen Law chosen for reform seminar Mrs. Ellen T. Iaiw, prin cipal of Thomas Jefferson High School, has l>een se lerted to partiripale in a unique national institute on reformin'! secondary educa tion. Four hundred of the nation's leading educators have been invited to the one w»-ek session sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators, Na tional Association of Secon dary School Principals and Charles F. Kettering Foun dation's Institute for I)e velopment of Educational Ac tivities. Working from reports of studies conducted during this year into the nature and need for reform of America's high schools, the educators w ill be re la tin g national trends to their local needs. One of the primary discus sion topics will be educa tional alternatives and full com m unity p a r tic ip a tio n . Educational alternatives are optional means of acquiring learning outside the normal high school. These alter natives have been started to serve those students who have not found the traditional educational forms acceptable. Such programs using com rnunity businesses, institu tions and resources are al ready proving successful in many locales. The participants will hear presentations by members of the National Commission on the Reform of Secondary Education which has con eluded it's investigations and will release it's draft report at the Institute. Some wit nesses who testified before the Commission also will be meeting with the institute participants. Progress re ports w ill be given on the Study of American Youth in the Mid Seventies which is living sponsored by the Na tional Association of Secon dary School Principals and other research on the or ganization of secondary edu cation. The institute is designed to give the educators an up to dale picture of the need for reform in secondary edu ration and how best this ran lie carried out. Participants w ill lie exposed to »ome of the latest information avail able on the revitalization of secondary education to serve the nation's young |ieople. Film company selects Black singers, actors More than 50 Black Port landers will participate in the filming of "IxMt in the Stars" in Cottage (¡rove next week. The film, produced by the American Film Theater, is based on Alan Paton's novel "Cry the Beloved Country". The film relates the story of a young Black in rontempo rary South Africa. The Black people from Portland will |Mirtray a group of Zulus seeing a man off on the train to Johannesburg. The film is direrted by Daniel Mann, whose produc lions include "The Bose Ta too", "B u tte rfie ld E ig h t", "For Love of Ivy", "Come Bark L ittle Sheba", and “ Maurie", the -.lory of Maune Stokes. Producers are Eddie Lewis and Henry Weinstein, and musical d ire c to r is Alex North. The picture stars Brock Peters, Raymond St. Jacques, Pullen Kelly, Clifton Davis and Melba Moore. A number of University of Oregon stu dents and Oregon actors will also have parts. The filming has been done on location in Jamaica and in the Holly w is h ! studio. The train scene will be filmed at the Village Green in Cottage (¡rove. Director Daniel Mann se lected the Black actors and singers at Bethel AME Church on July 1 and filming will begin July 9. S a ve fo r w e a lth ... r id e f o r h e a lt h Nero brings Mayor to Black community David M. Nero, Jr., Presi dent of Nero Industries, Inc. and Nero and /Associates Inc., has invited Mayor Neil Goldschmidt to an open forum to answer questions from the Black Community on his ad ministration. This is to In- held Tuesday. July 10. 1973, at 3525 N.E. Union Avenue, in the Nero Corporate Of fices. Nero suggests that citizens seek to discover the mayor's plans for employees of DEO and Model Cities programs at the time these programs are phased out, his plans for urban renewal and relocation of families affected, his plans for utilizing revenue sharing funds in the Model Neigh borhood and his efforts, if any, to fill the void left due to the reduction of funds for such activities as the Model Cities program. Nero Industries is and has been particularly concerned with programs aimed at up grading employed minorities and finding suitable employ ment for unemployed per sons. This company has over the past few years been engaged in Operation Step Up, a program designed lor underemployed m inorities and JOBS '70 program, a Department of Labor pro gram, designed for uneni ployed disadvantaged per sons. Nero and Associates is a sophisticated minority con sulting firm with the capa bility to perform physical planning, urban develop ment, social area analysis, engineering, business sys terns, systems engineering, environmental systems de sign and implementation and (Please turn to pg. 8, col. 2) Rice heads MEDIA Robert L. Rogers, newly elected president of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Economic De velopment Industrial Alliance (MEDIA) announced the ap pointment of Harvey L. Rice as director. Mr. Rice has held the position of tempor ary co-director since the res ignation of former director Joseph Bostic. Officers elected by the board are Robert L. Rogers, president; Ms. Willie Ransom, vice president; and William Hilliard, Secretary Treasurer. MEDIA provides financial and management counselling to businesses in the Model Cities area. MEDIA is funded through the Model Cities Agency for the current ac tion year. The Bert|. Franklin has great buys on bikes for those who save now! FOLDING BICYCLES With $5,000 deposit - $25 With $2,500 deposit - $35 With $250 deposit - $45 10-SPEED BICYCLES With $5,000 deposit - $45 With $2,500 deposit - $60 With $250 deposit - $75 Uenj.O Franklin * CO.H AIIN Robert H Haran. Pres • 22 Ottices • Phone 248 1234 Home Ottice Frvnklin Bldg Portland, Oregon 97204 City seeks employees The City of Portland holds the key to employment op portunity with a number of new positions now open. Positions that will soon he available with the city in elude: Emergency Planning Coordinator. Planning Direr tor. Director of Planning and Development, City Attorney, Neighborhood Organization Director, Planning and De velopment Administrator, Affirmative Action Officer, City Planners, Commission er's Assistant, Administra tive Assistant, Research As sistants. Police Officer Min ority Recruiter, Police Of ficer Trainees, Information Coordinator, H u m a n Re source Director and Assis tant. and Clerks and Typists, Application is to be made at the City Civil Service Office Keynote speaker for the National Education Aasocui lion's 113th Annual held in Portland this week. Senator Edward Kennedy placed much of the blame for lack of confidence in the educational system on the Nixon Ad ministration. "No social pro grams have suffered more deeply from the vetoes of this administration than our educational programs. Eour vetoes of education appro priation bills in four years a grand slam of vetoes of American education is not evidence of leadership." "What a cruel hoax it is," he said, "to claim that an absence of federal responsi bility, an absence of ade quate federal resources, and an absence of federal inilia live are th« answers to the educational needs of Anu-r ica's children. “Can we keep our promise to the youth of American bv spending more on bombing North Vietnam in the last nine months of 1972 that we spend on Title I in the last four and a half years ' “Can we keep our promises to future generations shen the President’s veto two H«vs ago means that wi will continue to spend $10 million a day bombing the people of Cambodia, while tens of mil lions of American children are deprived of a decent education? 'The victims of our warped priorities are not just the children of Indochina. In a very real sense, our own children are victims too." Kennedy described five is sues that must be faced during the next decade if public confidence in public eduration is to be restored. The first test is whether educators can convince par ents and public officials that education does make a dif ferenee. Although education may not be the best guar anlee of a good income, lack of education is detrimental to high income. Also, the value of education cannot be judged on economic grounds alone. A second test is whether we can fulfill the promises we have made to the educa tionally deprived, promises We have yet to keep. “ We know there are 10 million children whose lives are embittered and whose hopes are oppressed by poverty, m a ln u tritio n and «Phase turn to pg. 4. col. 3) < * « Illu n e Wynn. President of th« Official Black Caucus addresses the assembl'd delegates. Mrs W vnn r«-»-»-iv»-«l standing ovation follow mg her remarks calling for a united effort on behalf of leuche-'s rights to provide the best educa tion for children. Mrs Vrfan call«-d for an end to fear of "the community", saying "We'can never reach the minds of those children if we continue to perpetuate the hostikty of tf„ »r parents". Congressman political action Representative James O' hara iD Michigan) called for an assessment of th»- short comings of American educa tion rather than a mere reaction to criticism. "For the past five years, b»-cause the President of the United States has looked at education legislation almost wholly in terms of it's cost and because he has consis tently assumed that it is in the field of education and the related field of health that savings «an be most usefully made because the Presi dent has chosen to seek a reduced Federal role in edu cation, the friends of educa tion in the Congress have had to defend existing pro grams and to act as though given expenditures were true measures of the success and value of t-ducation pro grams." (Please turn to pg. 4, col. 3) Teacher charges schools destroy kids Jonathan Kozol, Boston teacher and author of “ Death at an Early Age", explained p olitical indoctrination of children in the public schools during the Sunday morning session of the NEA confer ence in Portland. Kozol stated that after 12 years of public t'dueation children are molded into cold, efficient, alienated techno crats who believe that all problems can be solved by American technology. "Public education works, in concert, to create for us a sense of calm, of manageable pain and undeserved serenity. School is the ether of our lives by now: the first emaciation along (he surgical road that qualifies the young to be effective citizens, alert to need but tempered as to passion, cognizant of horror but well-inoculated as to the nature of response. "It isn't a mistake when the schools out in the white suburban neighborhoods turn out men like Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon, and William H. Westmoreland. It isn't a mistake when public schools in ghetto neighborhoods turn Jim Harris of Iowa is a candidate for the position of NEA out a powerless labor pool of Vice President (President Elect). Harris advocates a strong, unskilled men and women. independent NEA and opposes union of NEA with the On the contrary, it is the American Federation of Teachers. CIO AF of L. He proposes function of the public school a strong lobby in Congress to raise education to a top in the ghetto neighborhood priority. Harris has been a classroom teacher in Des Moines to do precisely this. To train for 20 years. up an ample and unceasing stream of docile janitors and uncomplaining maids and cocktail party waiters and junkies to keep the cops and tPlease turn to pg. 4. col. 3) Minority Caucuses seek involvement YSOL leaves air YSOL, the radio station »’iterated by the young peo pie of Albina, was closed June 30th. The closure came as a surprise to the young people since they were under the impression that they had been funded for another year. The program received an initial grant of 15,000 from the M etropolitan Steering Committee. Established in January of 1973, YSOL employed a full time program director and several part time employees. Rut most of the labor as well as some of the equipment, was donated by young people. 1 he station offered not only an outlet for talent and a station directed to young Blacks, but also was a train ing ground for those in terested in communications. The National Education As sociation Annual Conference is considering a number of questions which are of great importance to Black teachers and Black children. The two main issues are the possible merger of the National Edu cation Association with the Am erican Federation of Teachers. AFL-CIO. Feelings run high on the question; those who seek greater power in the unity of all teacher organizations are op posed by those who see NEA as a professional organization and do not want labor union involvement. The other crucial question is the adoption of a new con stitution. This constitution carries minority guarantees guaranteeing minority group membership in all com mittees and boards. It also endorses equal opportunity employment and preferences to hiring minority teachers when there is a deficiency of minority teachers due to past documentation. The official Black Caucus, as well as the Chicano Cau cus, the Asian Caucus, the I Please turn to pg. 8, col. 2) 1
