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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1975)
I il » V PORTLAND M A IK M A L Val. 5 N a.’ l i - P ortland, Oregon T hursday, Septem ber I I , 1975 Dorsey named Post Master Jarrett Dorsey has been appointed Poet Master of the Oregon City Poet Office, which serves a population of 20,000, with forty employees. Dorsey first joined the Postal Service in 1962 as a mail clerk. While In that position he received several rash awards for suggestions tor improvements of postal service, and two Superior Performance Awards He than performed as a parcel post machine distributor, and then was a trainer for that skill. He was selected as a counselor for the Summer Aid program for students. During the years 1969 to 1970. Dorsey took a leave of absence to become Managing Director of the Albina A rt Center, a non profit program providing classes and oppor tunities in music, drama and the visual arts He had served for two years as a board member In 1970, he returned to the Postal Service as a Management Trainee, one of seventy seven individuals elected nationally, and the only one in Oregon While in thia program he performed nearly every duty in the Poet Office and had an overview of every operation. In 1970 Dorsey was selected Postal Employee of the Year and fed eral Employee of the Year. He was project officer for the Summer Aid program, coordinating and directing the entire program. Dorsey was promoted to Mailing Requirements Office in 1972, where he issued opinions, rulings and interpretations of the postal manual to 12,000 Post Offices in five states he also attended Post Master Con venlions and private organizations to provide mailing requirements infor mation and conducted seminars for J A R R E T T DO RSEY the public. In 1975 he became Manager of Mailing Requirements and on August 30th, 1975, was named Post Master of Oregon City. Dorsey is a native of Baltimore and came to Oregon when discharged from the A ir Force. Throughout his career with the Postal Service he has attended college classes and special management courses A bachelor, his hobbies include boating, swimming, golf, hiking, and he plans to take up hang gliding and skiing. As one of his duties he has edited the Postal Window and the District Newsletter 10c per copy Jordan names manpower director Commissioner Charles Jordan an nounced Wednesday that he is di.xatisfied with the progress of the C E T A program and will personally become more involved In the pro gram. “I am sure the program can work. I designed the system and I believe I can make it work.” Jordan has set a ninety day target date in which to see a proper delivery of service. The CETA I program is designed to provide job training for the "hard core" unemployed. It is subcon trad ed out of to four different com ponents A t the present time, although there are minor problems in all of the components, the main problems are in POIC, which offers job training Individuals who go through orientation at Portland Com munity College and are referred to POIC for training, do not get training quickly enough for them to procede to the next component, the Oregon State Employment Service, for job placement. Jordan said the PO IC program will close for a three day period to allow his staff to audit the program and det<A-mine what changes can be made, "POIC has a competent staff and I believe they ran do the job. We need to find out where the bottle-neck is and help POIC solve the problem." Jordan said that although the suggestions have been made that the I Please turn to p. 2 col. 2) Chicano students protest violence W hat began as a nonviolent protest against the use of grapes and lettuce not harvested by United Farm Workers Union members and Gallo Wine by Portland State University,_ has become a struggle for student's rights, according to Francisco Ybarra. Ybarra began a ninety day hunger strike on May 14th. which resulted in harassment by campus police, arrests, brutalization by police, solitary con finement and refusal of medical care by police authorities. Ybarra and his colleague, Kath erine (o ilie r, were arrested eight times each for criminal trespass although both are students at Portland State University. The usual method of protest was to sit on the lawn in front of the Portland State University library with a tent depicting the poverty of farmworkers and United Farm Workers flags Ybarra emphases that his protest was peaceful and constitutional. Arrests were made and the lent and flags conficated, but additional ar rests were made when the couple were merely sitting on the grass like other students are allowed to do. The arrests were made by Portland City police at the request of University President Joseph Blumel. The student publication Vanguard pointed out editorially that the arrests were contrary to student rights as stated in the Student Conduct Code formulated in 1968. The Student Conduct Code specified that "only under the greatest duress shall the institution call upon civil authorities for support." On August 4th, Ybarra was presented a "Permanent Trespass Warning" that states that he can be arrested for merely being within campus boundaries. The Student Conduct Code specifies hearings procedures for expelling students and slates that pending action "the status of a student shall not be altered, on his right to be present on the campus suspended." W ith the conflict over union, non union products being resolved by state directed union elections in California, Ybarra and his supporters have turned their attention to the blatant denial of the student's rights to peaceful protest, and their right to redress. The Chicanos Student Union and the newly organized Portland State University Support Committee on Student's Rights and Freedom have presented the university with five His decisions worth thousands by Bruce H u bert Ever wonder what it's like to make a decision upon which thousands of dollars are involved? Warren Robinson, associate judge at the Multnomah Kennel Club, is fared with that predicament every time the greyhounds run. Robinson's duties at the track include posting the rare results, controlling the review of the grey hounds, and m tking derisions where legality is concerned. Robinson has seen quite a frw improbable things at the track. "In one rare all the dogs finished according to the numbers they were carrying, it was unbelieveable." Numerical oddities aside, the judge has had his share of difficult derisions, once having to decide the winner of a heat, with no significant difference between the top three finishers. W arren ia involved with other aspects of raring also, he has served as the assistant to the Veterinarian for the Oregon Racing Commission since 1950, administering tests to the animals to insure that they haven't been tampered with. Born in Iouisiana, Robinson had medical aspirations in his earlier years. He was enrolled in pre medical studies in college, graduating from Texas Southern University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1946. However, during World W ar II, he picked up invaluable training at W alter Reed Army Hospital where he became a certified medical technician training that shaped his career. Although involved in sports, Rob inson has just as keen an interest in science. Coming to Portland in ¡947, Warren has' served as head labors lory technician in the Department of Histopathology at Emanuel Hospital, St. Vincent Hospital, and at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center. .He has also taught and been an active pa.ticipant in medical research. W arren Robinson has not two but three sides, he has also owned and operated a small grocery store in the midst of his raring and scientific careers. . Married, with two sons, diversity best describes W arren Robinson. demands and plan to resume their protests if these demands are not met. 1. The Constitution of the United States, and the Portland State University Statement on Student Rights and Freedom will never again be denied to any students, faculty or members of the community when conducting a peaceful, non violent and constitutional protest in our U niver sity. 2. The student Senate and the Faculty Senate should vote on issues of crucial and fundamental impor tance to the University before any members of the CSSO, PPD or M ilitary Agencies (Kent State) are brought in to interfere with the rights of the Academic Community when conducting a legal. Peaceful and constitutional protest at our Univer sity. 3. The creation of a special Student Faculty Committee to super vise CSSO activities at Portland State University against students, faculty and members of the Com munity. 4. All charges of Criminal Trespass against students that participated on the Hunger Strike be dropped by (Please turn to p. 2 col. 1) •- Mt. Raker in northern Washington appears peaceful on a sunny fall day, but a closer look reveals that the mountain is emiting clouds of steam and sulpheric gases. a sign of renewed volcanic activity that could bring some danger to area residents. Mt. Baker comes to life ___ Early this spring the residents around Washington's M t. Baker, discovered that the mountain, which had lain dormant for over one hundred years, was actively spouting plums of dirty gray steam. "The mountain has been active about once each century." Dr. Charles Rosenfelt, Assistant Professor of Geography at Oregon State University who is on a temporary research grant to work with the Oregon A ir National Guard explained. "But one hundred years ago there were few people living around the mountain so it was not a m atter of concern. Now there are people living in the valleys and there are many recreation facilities." Dr. Rosenfelt, who is a geographer, is mainly concerned with the possible effects of volcanic activity on the population. The Oregon A ir National Guard, which observes the mountain from the air every ten days, and participates with other agencies in monitoring it, has a dual purpose: that of aiding in predicting any activity on Mt. Baker that could endanger working residents; and that of studying volcanic activity in general. Other than Hawaii and Alaska. Oregon and Washington are the most likely states in the nation to experience volcanic activity. Scien tists have long considered Mt. St. Helen to be the most likely volcano to erupt, but other active volcanos in the region include M t. Adams, Mt. Head and the Sisters. Because these mountains have not been considered a hazard, little research has been done and there is no basis on which to predict their movements. Scientists are not concerned about a possible eruption of the mountain, although instruments have iieen placed to determine earth tremors or swelling that could precede an eruption. O f greater potential danger is the possibility of mud slides. The increased steam activity is melting ice and snow within the crater of the mountain, just below the 10.778 summit, with huge blocks of ice dropping off into a newly formed lake. A sheer walled cliff of unstable rock has been exposed, which scientists fear could break loose. Up to forty million cubic yards of rock could rush down the mountain at speeds of thirty to 200 miles per hour. If it fell into Baker Lake, a ten mile long artifical lake formed behind Concret Dam. an estimated twenty- six foot wave could be formed. Based on this information, recrea tion areas in the vicinity of the lake as well as on the mountain, have been closed and the water level in the lake has been lowered. Engineers have assured Puget Sound Power and Light Company that the dam can withstand the pressure of the tidal wave. ' As winter comes, the surveillance of the Oregon A ir National Guard will become crucial as ordinary ground and air will be impossible due to cloud cover. A t that time the only method of detection of changes in volcanic activity will be infrared photography. Indians alert public to education needs The Oregon Community Panel on Indian Higher Education, supported by Chicano students, told the people of Oregon that they are dikatisfied with minority programs at the University of Oregon and will seek redress. The group, made up of Indian educators and community leaders representing Indian groups across the state, maintain that the University of Oregon has discarded the views of minority students in planning their programs. Spokesman for the group ex plained, "The issue is simple: the institutions are implementing pro grams (with funds that are low marked for minority education) that are more helpful to them than they are to the populations who are the objects of such programming. Indians have insisted and will continue to insist that such behavior is no longer acceptable in the part of the universities. The institutions will simply have to engkge Indians in the kind of meaningful planning dialogue that will result in the most practical and functional implementation of special minority program funding The alternative to such cooperative mesures inevitably result in just what we have now...university admimstra tors, acting arbitrarily (from their ivory towers) in behalf of all us "unfortunates", with the result that we have a lot of non functional programs around that do nothing but salve the troubled consciences of w ell in te n tio n e d but "non under standing" academicians. The university, they claim, has not had to define its program objectives or provide evaluations to the state and federal funding sources. The Indian group has sought legal counsel, and plans to gather and evaluate information that will prove their contention that the university is not using the money to benefit the students but to support its admini stration and, in a limited way, to meet affirm ative action requirements. The Native American Program at the University of Oregon began in 1969 as an informal group of students and community people, dedicated to supporting Indians in higher educa tion. Federal funds and. later, state funds were obtained through the efforts of the students. During the years that followed the Indian program, as well as those for Chicanos, Blacks and poor whites were through numerous charges, but direction came from the university administration rather than from the affected communities. During the spring of 1974 protests reached the hall of the State Board of Higher Education and the Oregon Legislature. When D r William Boyd, the new university president, took office in July of this year he sought to solve the minority problem. On August 15th, the announcement was made that the ethnic programs and the cultural center that provided assistance and support to the respec live minority students, would be illiminated and the programs lumped together under the "Educational Opportunities Service" program. The Indian and Chicano students object to the process that was used to make this derision, a process in which they were not included, and maintain that Dr. Boyd told them that no charges would be made in minority programs. They maintain that Boyd's plan was formulated by these administrators in a single weekend without seeking minority input. "Indians cannot accept Boyd's cess; we must go back to fundamental issue, the issue we I been contending over since 1971 the University of Oregon is goin spend money on Indians, and if i insist on telling the media, and s and federal governments that I are doing that, then we are sir saying that they have to talk i Indians about the best ways to that job. That is the only way the University can be reasonably ! that what it is doing makes se The name of that tune is PL, NING . The Indian Community of Oregon has elected to fight this one all the way. They will utilize every political, public relations and legal device available, to discredit the untenable and discriminatory position taken by the University of Oregon. The moc casin telegram" will carry this message- into Indian Country, and Indian parents will know about this place. Every appropriate federal and state agency will also know about this place...they will hear it loud and clear in the months to come."