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MHRC hits City's minority hiring performance
The M etropolitan Human Rela
tions Commission, in a report soon
lo be presented to the City Council,
has lound that minorities are not
lound in city employment in per
centage relative to their members in
the work force (8.4 percent). The
C ity ’ s utilization o f m inority em
ployees is 6.3 per cent, of which 3.7
per cent are Black. O f 3,935 em
ployees, 111 were Black men and 36
were Black women.
Further, m in o ritie s are un
derutilized in every city department
except Finance and Administration.
Finance and A d m in istra tio n and
Public Safety have reduced their
underutilization in major areas, but
Public Affairs has not. The analysis
states, "P ublic Utiltities and Public
Works pose a major problem with
regard to improving protected class
utilization."
Biased Hiring
An even more devastating finding
is that in spite o f the C ity’s a ffir
mative action guidelines, minorities
were hired at approxim ately one-
half the rate at which they applied -
indicating that there are still barriers
to fu ll employment opportunity in
six of the C ity’ s eight job catagories.
In the " O ffic ia ls and A d
ministrators” category 6.4 percent
ot the applicants were minority but
no m inorities were hired. In the
"Technician" category 15.4 o f the
applicants were minorities, with 8.3
o f those hired being m in o ritie s.
Other categories were as follows:
"Protective Services" - 19.4 percent
o f applicants, 5.6 percent o f hires;
"O t lice/Clerical” - 18.7 percent o f
applicants, 7.5 percent o f hires;
"S kille d C rafts” - 7.0 percent o f
applicants, 2.6 percent o f hires;
"Service/Maintenance” - 11.0 per
cent ot applicants, 5.6 percent o f
hires.
The high rate o f white males does
approxim ate th e ir rate o f ap
plication, but those o f women and
especially o f minorities does not.
The study is based on Fiscal Year
1977-78, pointing to the fact that
staff shortage in the A ffirm a tive
Action Office makes reporting slow
and analysis a year behind.
Public Safety
The Department of Public Safety
is handled by Commissioner Charles
Jordan. The department was below
parity (8.4 percent m inority) with
5.3 percent, an improvement from
4.5 percent in the previous year.
The department was highest in
"O fficals and Administrators” with
28.6 percent. A ll other categories
were below p a rity. The lowest
categories were "P ro te c tiv e Ser
vices" and "T e c h n ic ia n s .” The
department was below p a rity in
hiring, but 40 percent o f the new
hires in "T e c h n ic ia n ”
were
minority.
O f the 942 employees, 16 were
Black men and 14 were Black
women, or 3.2 percent. The greatest
deficit was in the Police Bureau,
w ith 13 Blacks out o f 906 em
ployees.
Finance and Administration
The Department o f Finance and
A d m in is tra tio n was directed by
M ayor N eil G oldschm dt. There
were 13 Black men and 16 Black
women out of 508 employees or 5.7
percent. Fourteen o f the Black em
ployees were in the Bureau o f
Human Resources.
Though above parity with 11.8
percent minorities, this department
underutilized m inorities in the
“ Technicians” category.
The departm ent increased its
m inority percentage from 8.9 per
cent the previous year.
Public Affairs
The Department o f Public Affairs
is headed by Commissioner Mildred
Schwab. This departm ent un
derutilized m inorities in "S kille d
C ratt” positions and there were no
m inorities in " O ffic ia ls and A d
m in istra to rs.” Not only was the
department below parity in hiring
minorities, but none were hired in
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PORTLAND OBSERVER
Volume 10 Number 7
February 21, 1980
10c per copy
Rights attorney heads law school
Derrick A. Bell, Jr., prominent
civil rights attorney and professor o f
law at H arvard Law School has
been chosen to head the University
of Oregon’ s School o f Law. Bell will
assume his duties as Dean on
January I, 1981.
Bell, 49, is a graduate o f
Duquesne College in Pittsburgh and
the Pittsburgh Law School. While a
law student he was associate editor
of the Pittsburgh Law Review.
He is a member o f the bar in
California, the District o f Colum
bia, New York and Pennsylvania
and has been admitted to practice
before the U.S. Supreme Court, five
Circuits o f the U.S. Court o f Ap
peals and several U.S. D istrict
Courts.
A member o f the A tto rn e y
General’ s honor graduate recruit
ment program, Bell’s first appoint
ment was in the O ffice o f Legal
Counsel in the Civil Rights Division
ot the U.S. Department o f Justice,
in 1957. In 1959 he became
Executive Secretary o f the P itts
burgh Branch, NAACP.
From 1960 to 1966, Bell was staff
attorney and then First Assistant
Counsel fo r the N A A C P Legal
Defense Fund, handling civil rights
litigation in virtually every southern
state. Among the cases were
M e rrid ith vs Fair (M ississippi
schools) and Bailey vs Patterson
(transportation).
He was chief attorney on several
m ajor school desegregation cases
including Oklahoma City, Jackson,
Mobile and Savannah and super
vised more than 150 school desegre
gation cases.
In 1966 he was named Deputy
D irector o f The O ffic e o f C iv il
Rights ot the U.S. Department o f
Health, Education and W elfare,
where he was responsible fo r ad
ministration of Title VI o f the 1964
C ivil Rights Act and helped draft
the 1968 school desegregation guide
lines.
He was responsible fo r co o r
dination ot compliance and enforce
ment in Education, Public Health,
Welfare, Vocational Rehabilitation,
Aging and Social Security.
Bell directed the Western Center
on Law and Poverty at the Univer
sity o f Southern C a lifo rn ia Law
School from 1968 to 1969, and since
1971 has been a member o f the Har
vard Law School faculty.
Bell has written extensively in the
field o f civil rights and education,
one ot his belter known books
being,
"R ace,
Racism
and
American Law ."
Oregon student joins panel
C am ille H a m ilto n , a Stanford
University pre-law student activist
and 1978 West Linn High School
PORTLAND, OREGON! 1980
(Photo: Richard J. Brown)
graduate, w ill represent college
students o f the 13 western states
here, February 24-26, as a guest
panelist on the subject o f " a f f ir
mative action” at the College Board
Western Regional Conference.
The Black U nited F ront has
The Black U nited F ront ad
decision, it was assumed that in a
Other
members o f the panel are:
presented its education plan to the
vocates the establishment o f high
school system hostile to Blacks, it
Robert L. Bailey, Director o f Ad
com m unity, asking to r academic
q u a lity elem entary and m iddle
was necessary in order to ensure that
mission and Records o f University
remedies rather than num erical
schools in the Black com m unity,
Black children receive what white
o
f California, Berkeley; Phillips W.
desegregation. “ After fifteen years
which w ould be open to non
children receive to require that
Miner, Associate Director o f A d
ot transferring Black children out o f
residents on a space available basis.
Black children be assigned to
missions, Pacific Lutheran Univer
their neighborhoods, we can find no
The Front referred to the writing
schools where white children were in
sity;
and, Jesse L. Welch, Assistant
academic or psychological reason
ot Derrick A. Bell, Jr. o f Harvard
attendance.” It was a goal simple to
Director
o f Admission, Washington
for continuing the process,” Ronnie
School o f Law and recently named
state and extremely difficult to ac
State University.
Herndon, co-chairman said. "W e
Dean o f the University o f Oregon
com plish. From an educational
The program to be held at Jan-
reject the c o n tin u a tio n o f the
Law School.
standpoint, it has proven, to put it
tzen
Beach Red Lion Motor Inn, has
process whether through bussing,
“ In the lengthy struggle to gain
mildly, far from effective. In fact,
a
variety
o f workshops and panels
boundary changes or clustering.”
com pliance w ith the Brown
on a nationwide basis, the overall
o f interest to delegates form the 13
achievement record o f Black
western states. The Affirm ative Ac
children in desegregated schools has
tion panel w ill focus prim arily on
not improved. After an analysis o f
strategies for achieving and main
hundreds ot school desegregation
taining a heterogeneous student
studies, Nancy St. John, in her 1975
body since the U.S. Supreme
book School Desegregation O u t
Court’s decision in the Bakke case.
comes for Children, concludes that
The specific topic is " w ill the real
‘ During the past twenty years con
minority please stand up?”
siderable racial mixing has taken
Miss Hamilton says she is not cer
place in schools, but research has
tain why or how she was selected to
produced little evidence o f dramatic
represent all the students o f d if
gains to r children and some evi
ferent ethnic groups and economic
dence o f genuine stress for them.’
stations in the 13 western states.
M ore im p o rta n tly , the disparity
" A t any rate” she said, “ I am glad
between Black and white students in
fo r the opportunity to participate
expulsion, suspension and other
and to make an unscheduled visit
disciplinary actions has dramatically
with my family in West Linn.”
increased. Black students are being
Miss H am ilton is the sister o f
tracked into dead-end special cours
Konrad Hamilton and the daughter
es where performance expectations
o f Judge H.J. Belton Hamilton and
are pathetically low and drop-out
M id o ri M inam oto H a m ilto n o f
rates are predictably high.”
West L in n , Oregon. She is well
In light o f this, the BUF recom
known to West Linn residents for
mends that the seven neighborhood
the humorous roles she played in the
schools be given educationally -
high school dramatic productions.
oriented remedies including good
a d m inistrators,
teachers and
curriculas. The district's policy o f
"counseling” Black students to at
tend schools out o f the community
Rose Gangle has file d fo r the
should stop, but parents who wish
Democratic Party nom ination to
to participate in the administrative
Legislative District 14, the seat now
transfer program should be
held by Dr. Howard Cherry.
provided transportation.
Ms. Gangle is best known for her
The Front recommends middle
involvement with the issue o f bat
schools at Eliot and Kennedy. Eliot,
tered women. A legal secretary and
which is currently a K-4 program
paralegal, she is active w ith the
has few resident children, so its con
Oregon
C o a litio n
Against
version would not cause a m ajor
Domestic end Sexual Violence,
Harold William« la a candidata for tha Damocratlc Party nomination d islocation . The ECE - fo llo w
which was instrum ental in the
to Legislative District No. 14. Williams, a labor nagotiator for tha through program housed at Eliot
passage o f Oregon's 1977 Abuse
Stata s Executive Department, Is formar Director of Affirmatlve Ac should be moved intact to nearby
Prevention Act.
tion for thè Stata and was Executive Director of tha PSU Educational Boise.
She is cu rre n tly w orking w ith
Cantar.
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rural organizing projects and serves
Front asks academic remedies
CAMILLE HAMILTON
the articles she wrote for the school
paper and her successful campaign
fo r student body president, thus
breaking a string o f male student
body presidents for the school’ s 53
year history. She is known throught
the state fo r her achievements in
speech and poetry competition.
In college, she has continued to be
active in politics and drama but
severely reduced her other extra
curricular activities. Keeping up the
accelerated academic pace necessary
to graduate in three years while
trying to m aintain a grade point
average acceptable to the law
school, she says, is enough to keep
her busy.
Gangle seeks House seat
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as the metropolitan area’s represen
tative to the state board.
Ms. Gangle has worked as a
paralegal for Bradley Angle House,
a shelter for battered women, and
cu rre n tly volunteers fo r the
program.
A former employee o f Legal Aid,
she helped form the C om m unity
Law Project and is involved in
several organization working to in
sure c iv il rights to women,
monorites and the poor.
Ms. Gangle is the former District
14 Leader for the Democratic Party
ROSE GANOLE