Portland Obeerver Thursday, August 24, 1978 Page 3
Behind the wall
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O .S.P. Correspondent
Julius D. Snowden H380I3
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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. A fte r tw o years it was
established that the Spiderwort can
be used to monitor radiation from
nuclear plants.
Since then, anti-nuclear groups
have planted Spiderw orts near
nuclear plants throughout Japan and
have raised significant questions
about the safety o f the power plants
and the credibility o f government
and utility sources.
Ich ika w a ’ s trip to P ortland is
sponsored by the Trojan Decom
missioning Alliance. His lecture w ill
be free, but donations to pay ex
penses w ill be gratefully accepted.
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