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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
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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
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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."