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Seminars w ere conducted to give students in
form atio n an opportunities and requirem ents of
various careers
Everyone received a "Career D ay” T-shirt.
Career
Day
success
Herb Caw thorne presents a token of appreciation to Vernon C hat
man. w ho arranges the annual Career Day.
The P ortland Urban League’ s
Career Awareness Day was held this
past weekend on November 8, 1980,
and turned out extremely successful.
The Urban League has sponsored
the Career Awareness Day for the
past six years, mainly for minority
high school students. Through the
years, the ideas have been expanded
and improved by holding various
workshops to answer p a rticu la r
questions, any o f the students may
ask.
The Awareness Day is designed to
provide an overview of the world o f
work, ideas of the skills required for
various job catagories, and any ad
d itio n a l in fo rm a tio n in areas o f
specific interest to the student.
There were representatives from
various local business, education,
and government levels to inform
students on expectations, pre
parations, and benefits o f their
companies.
The Urban League is the prime
sponsor o f the Career Awareness
Day along w ith fundings from
private companies; some par
ticip a tin g in the program . The
program is planned yearly, one
month after the previous Career
High school students register for Career D a y .
Day, to improve on the mistakes
from past programs.
Vern C hatm an, one o f the
Executive Directors o f the Urban
League, sees the fu tu re o f the
Career
Awareness
Day
as
promising, but he feels it is critical
fo r the co n tin u a tio n o f the
Justice reports racial incidents increase
The Com m unity Relations Ser
vice (CRS) o f the Department o f
Justice responded to 1,431 alerts to
racial disputes or racial incidents
during Fiscal Year 1980, a 6.6. per
cent increase over Fiscal Year 1979.
CRS Director Gilbert G. Pompa
said today that o f the 1,431 alerts,
the CRS helped to settle 923 cases,
carried over 261 into Fiscal Year
1981, which began October 1, 1980;
and turned away 214 as lacking suf
ficient volatility to warrant remov
ing staff from potentially more ex
plosive problems.
CRS defines a case as flaring con
flict o f the type that occured in such
places as Miami, Florida; Nampa,
Idaho; F lint, Michigan; W ichita,
Kansas; and Wrightsville, Georgia,
or a dispute or disagreement with
real potential for erupting into open
conflict or violence.
M r. Pompa said that cases
showing the fastest growth rate were
those related to minority allegations
of police use o f excessive force, Ku
Kian Kian activities, and the influx
o f Indochinese resettlements.
CRS logged 249 cases alleging
police use of excessive force during
Fiscal Year 1980, a 92.8 percent in
crease over the previous year. Sixty-
three percent of the cases stemmed
from Blacks’ complaints, 32 from
Hispanics, and four percent from
American Indians.
The com plaints were fa irly
distributed nationally, with com-
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for 53 percent and those larger than
100,000 for 47 percent.
There were 68 cases related to
Kian activities and 32 to In
dochinese refugee resettlements, in
creases o f 55 percent and 540 per
cent, respectively.
The Kian activity occured across
the nation, but the cases were
mainlv in the Southeast with cross
burnings, armed rallies countering
m inority protesters, firebombings,
challenges to police, and general
harassment o f Blacks and Hispanics
precipitating the trouble.
The Indochinese refugee resettle
ment were mostly in the Southwest
and over housing, jobs, and shrimp-
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help in disputes by citizens, gover
nors, and other officials o f public
and private agencies and organi
sations indicate a growing interest in
the emerging fie ld o f racial and
ethnic dispute resolution.
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judges increasingly are calling on
CRS to mediate, as an alternative to
litigation, in certain civil rights cases
and to help to peacefully implement
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the attendance of the students, who
sacrificed their Saturday in guidance
o f their future.
The program consisted o f various
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