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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1978)
Portland Obeerver Thursday, August 24, 1978 Page 3 Behind the wall « y L arry Baker »3502! O .S.P. Correspondent Julius D. Snowden H380I3 Poetry Edito r •z Members of the Inmate's law class compose notes during class session. It has been a most unusual sum mer. One might have mistaken the crowded visitor’s desk at O.S.P. on Wednesday evenings for the capital rotunda. Or one might wonder if the legislature had chosen this spot to reconvene. Or was it the summer convention o f the Oregon Bar Association? But it was the guests o f the Class of Legal Processes coming to meet with thirty inmates and to explain their part in making and enforcing the law. M any months o f planning, corresponding and telephone conver sations developed this summer course that any college or university would have been privileged to spon sor. The coordinator o f the prison law class called upon Oregons’ communities for assistance and was thrilled to obtain the services o f such distinguished people as: Southern Oregon Coordinator, Dixie Hannon, Ashland (wife o f Senator Lenn Han non); N orthern Oregon C oor dinator, Judge Robert E. Jones, Port land (C irc u it C o u rt, M ultnom ah C ounty); Eastern Oregon C oor dinator, Judge Walt Edmond, Red mond (C irc u it C o u rt, Deschutes County). The thirty inmate-students were treated to all different types of laws in their discussion groups. Ranging from c iv il, state, federal and domestic relations, (i.e. divorce, child custody, and support). Over a twenty-week period the Oregon State Penitentiary had as their guests the follow ing people: Senator Lenn Hannon, Ashland; Diana Roth and Tom Ervin, M ult nomah Public Defender’ s O ffice; Judge Donald L. Kalberer, Circuit Court, Columbia County; Wendy Keller, Sue Goe, Directors, Multno mah County Parole and Probation Volunteers; D r. Bruce Combs, Howard U niversity, W ashington, D.C.; M ajor Reggie Madson, and other officers, Oregon State Police; Mark Sussman, Hearing O fficer, Oregon State Parole Board; Dave Adam , Salem, C om m unity Base Corrections; Nick Barnett, City of Portland, Human Relations Com mission. D r. Gary Pearlstein, Ad m in istration o f Justice, Portland State U niversity; Steve Goldberg, Attorney for Salem Legal Project; Senator C liffo rd Trow , Corvallis; Representative W illiam Rutherford, McMinnville; Charles Jordan, Port land C ity Commissioner; Malirida A u s tin . A tto rn e y , Y a m h ill; Sid Lezak and assistants, P ortland, Federal U.S. Attorney General O f fice; Representative Ben (Kip) Lom bard, Klamath Falls; Arlene Collin, Lisa Lopiparo, Multnomah County D is tric t A tto rn e y ’ s O ffic e ; Vera Duncan, State Superintendent o f Public Instruction. Senator Keith A . Burbidge, Eugene; Robert Lucas, Attorney, St. Helens; Joseph Pcnna, Attorney, D allas; Representative H ardy Myeres, Portland; Judge W illiam S nouffe r, P o rtla n d , M ultnom ah County District Court; Tom Crab tree, Patty Burnett, W illiam Rhem, State Public Defender; Senator Ed ward Fadeley, Eugene; Rob Perie and attorneys from the Veteran A d m in is tra tio n ; Benjam in H ooks, Director o f the National Association fo r the Advancement o f Colored People, W ashington, D .C .; and Judy Snyder, Attorney, Portland. It w ill be very hard to match this summer’ s course come fall term, but at this very moment the Oregon State Penitentiary Class o f Legal Processes coordinators are hard at work. So the interest in learning about the laws may spread throughout the entire prison population. The prison ad ministrators and staff are amazed at “ waiting list” increases. The prison legal library has been expanded and more than $20,000 in new legal law books have been obtained. Six W illam ette U niversity law students are volunteering their evenings to teach a number of the prisoners how to do research or write briefs. Even many o f the prisons’ correctional officers (guards) have volunteered their off-duty hours to assist the inmate-students. It’ s not every day one can find so many working to make a summer educational program a success behind the walls of a state peniten tiary — but they did and it was . . . successful. Japanese sdentisi explains . . . UNION OR COMPANY genetic effects of radiation Japanese scientist Sadao Ichikawa, an expert in the study o f the genetic effects o f ionizing radiation, w ill speak at Reed College on Friday, August 25th at 7:30 p.m. in the college chapel. Ichikawa is one o f the founders o f the “ Spiderwort Strategy,” a system o f m onitoring low-level radiation from nuclear power plants that is now being widely used in Japan. The tiny Spiderwort (Tradescantia) plant, a flowering plant native to North America, has been discovered to be highly sensitive to radiation. “ The lovely flow ers o f the Spiderwort, which are honest enough to show the radiation effects within only one or two weeks, are con tinuously sending stop signals to nuclear power by changing their color from safe blue to dangerous pink, in place o f human beings in which the effects o f low -level radiations should be observed several decades later,” says Ichikawa. The mutation is a change in color o f the plant’ s stamen hairs, which is easily visible through a fifteen-pow e r microscope. The Spiderwort test system was originally developed by a scientific team headed by the late Dr. Arnold H. Sparrow in the late 1960’ s at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, New York and at the Laboratory o f Genetics at Kyoto U niversity in Kyoto, Japan. The research was funded by the U.S. A tom ic Energy Com m ission, the N ational Aeronautics and Space A d m in is tra tio n , and the Japan Ministry o f Education. About four years ago a school teacher in Japan had the idea that it m ight be possible to m o n ito r radiation from nuclear reactors and bomb test sites w ith the help o f strategic plantings o f the Spiderwort. W ith the help o f Professor Ichikawa, who was a member o f the original work team at Brookhaven and Kyoto, an experiment was set up and carefully monitored at a nuclear plant. 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