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Daughters of Isis elect
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NEAL
The Mina Court #142. Daughters of k is
held its annual election of their 1977
officers. Newly elected officers are aa
follows: liable B Neal. Illustrious Com
mandreaa; L a b Alexander, First Lieu
tenant Commandress; Naomi Cbyter,
8econd Lieutenant: Frances Fair. High
Priestess; Anette Roes, Oriental Guide;
Dorothy M. Vickers, Treasurer; Ruby E.
Weldon, First Ceremonial Daughter;
Treasie M. Dixon, Second Ceremonial
Daughter; Lillie B. Coney, Inside Spy;
Frances Johns, Outside Spy.
Imperial Deputy of Desert of Oregon
Charles supervised the Election.
Imperial officers for 1*77 arc Clareese
8helby Imperial Deputy of Isiarettes
Nurse Department and Charles M. Per
son Imperial Deputy of Desert of Oregon.
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Cab« insure p arty safety
Again thia year through a combined
effort of the Portland Police Traffic
Division and two of Portland’s cab com
panies, a program allowing party goers to
get home safely has been agreed upon.
Broadway Cab Company and Radio
Cab Company have agreed to the follow
ing rate schedule:
1. 17.80 maximum fare for up to 6
people going to the same destination
anyplace in the City limits.
2. $10.00 maximum for up to 8 people
going to the same destination within 6
miles of the City limits.
3. $15.00 maximum fare for up to 5
people going to the same destination
within Portland City limits, includes
driving the fare’s own vehicle to destina
tion.
4. $20.00 maximum for up to 8 people,
going to the same destination within 6
miles of Portland city limits, which
includes driving which includes driving
the fare’s own vehicle to the destination.
The Portland Police Bureau would
point out those prices are minimal when
compared to a charge of drunk driving or
being involved in a traffic accident. For
further details, contact Captain Bill
Taylor. 248 5688.
Affirmation Action officer
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affirmative action of visiting the Deep
South to recruit Black graduate students
to OSU.
Visiting students, faculty, and place
ment officers at campuses in Ohio, Mis
sissippi. Georgia. Louisiana and Texas,
she described to them what OSU has to
offer in the way of graduate programs.
“1 made contacts with Black fraterni
ties and sororities and saw students
referred to me by placement officers,"
she said. “It was a way of reaching
students who would never have consider
ed OSU an option otherwise. The first
question some of them had was ’Where is
OregonT "
OSU does not attract many Black
students because of its isolation, its small
Black population and the fact that it has
never made any yoocerted effort to
attract Black graduate students. And.
she added, impressions of OSU as an
inhospitable environment for Black stu
dents persist.
she beuevet ner recruiting enorx may
bring at least a few Black graduate
students to OSU next fall, and that
eventually the word will spread.
The most massive task facing Ms.
Spears-Gray when she assumed her
duties as affirmative action officer was to
compile a self-evaluation report deter
mining whether OSU is in compliance
with Title IX of the Education Amend
menu Act of 1972.
Title IX requires equal opportunity for
both sexes in academic programs, admis
sions, hiring, salaries, and all other areas
of operation at educational institutions
which receive federal funds.
The report, nine months in the making,
waa released in December. OSU was
found to be in compliance or near-compli
ance in every area except intercollegiate
athletics, where discrepancies were
found between the men’s and women’s
programs, she pointed out. OSU and all
other colleges and universities have until
July. 1978, to be in full compliance with
Title IX .
Another of Ms. Spears-Gray’s accom
plishments has been to compile a very
specific guideline for recognising sexist
language and terminology in OSU publi
cations and finding non-sexist ways to say
the same things. “The response to the
language guideline was very good,” she
said. “I get calls all the time from people
who are sending things out and want to
know if they’re being unwittingly sexist."
Ms. Spears-Gray is also compiling an
affirmative action job directory, putting
together a once a term campus newslet
ter. and making up recruiting packages to
attract minority students to OSU. In
addition, she is enrolled in a doctoral
program in educational administration,
with emphasis on anthropology and cur
riculum development She plans to »»rite
her doctoral dissertation on Black women
educators in U.S. history.
She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, and has been instrumental in
beginning a new chapter of the organi
zation at OSU. She also serves on the
executive board of the Corvallis branch of
the NAA CP.
Black educators
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Black elected officials in this country.
Blacks are 14 of one percent of the
elected officials. These are not repre
tentative of the Black population in
government where b sqnttahli usee of
services exist. This problem is the direct
result of oppressive political decisions. In
the Twentieth Century we saw changes
and challenges in the policies. The role of
the government has been expanded in the
first half of this century. Blacks are going
to have to make changes in terms of
balance, beak and busk U we are going to
have equality in d ty government.
Policy alone dictates where our nation
al priorities are. Lobbiest may have an
influence on the elected officials who
make the decisions. We need to ask
ourselves the question, ’Why do the
elected officisls listen to the lobbiesU
who represent the majority and not the
minority?’
“Higher education is not accessible to
many Black and poor students They are
being oriented toward vocational and
trade schools. This is wrong because it’s
primarily the Blacks being counseled into
these areas. Black folks need to be aware
of what is happening to Black children.
Too many of us are guilty of:
Getting all we can
Canning all we get
ti Sitting on our can."
Mayor Jackson suggested that the d a b
shows that Blacks comprise less than 2
per cent of the bwyers and dentisU and
that if Bbcks make $3,000. or less, the
chances of being robbed are five times
higher than those above that income. The
chances of a Black woman begin raped
are four times greater than that of a
w hiU woman.
National priorities are tilted toward
the priviledged and away from the un
derpriviledged. Candidates must be el
ected to effect policies. Most persons
know what they want but don’t know how
to get it. Politics is a means for achieving.
Blacks must continue to sUnd up and be
The Honorable
know ledged that
group took their <
hands by proving
drew Young ac
members of the
destiny in their
«ugh their eontri-
bution that Black people have to be in
charge of their destiny.
Young emphasised that the issue is one
of developing policy that »rill change
public education in this society. The
educational issue not only involves this
nation, but people all over the world.
Educators can not isolate themselves
from other issues. Young said, “W e must
focus on world powers, the world of
hunger, and the world of industry.”
Education cannot survive without em
phasising and dealing with these other
issues.
“In Europe, fifty thousand people were
unemployed after finishing all levels of
higher education. The European system
has not worked for Europeans and it isn’t
working for us. The skills we learned are
almost inept. The real skills are learned
in the street environment"
In conclusion, Young indicated that the
American educational system was not
functional for too many of its people. He
reiterated that Booker T. Washington's
concept of trade schools is functional and
should be a part of the academic and
intellectual system as long as other areas
of growth for all people are provided.
Title IX came into existence and forced
educators to look at what they are doing
to men and women. The focus of educa- |
lion has to be expanded to include all .
people, representing all groups in a,
functional way. The system must be 1
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We hope the holiday season brings you joy and happiness and
prosperity for the coming year. We would like to thank you for
your patronage and hope that we can continue to serve you in 1976
functional and must be multicultural,
Young concluded.
“Two Hundred Years - Now What?”
Black leaders are saying Black educators
must not only take a front seat in fighting
for quality of education, but they must
broaden their proapectives and focus on
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all those entailments that effect the
quality of life.
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“Involvement seems to be the action
word and knowledge the basis for all
involvement. We, the people, must band
together and be represented at all forms
of government if ‘true equality’ is to
procede. NOW WHAT?”
(Editor'a Note: Also attending the
conference from Oregon were D. Ernest
Hartaog, Portland Public Schools and
Mrs. Brinda Green, Salem Public
Schools.!
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