Page 4 Portland Observer June 4. 1961
Athletes lead Starlight Parade
day, June 6, in the Starlight Parade,
which starts at 8:30 p.m . The
S tarlight Parade, now in its fifth
year, is the firs t o f three m ajor
parades in the P ortland Rose
Festival.
Both R adford and Blume were
Oregon All-Starters in high school
and attended Grant and Parkrose
High School, respectively.
Oregon State University basket
ball stars M ark R adford, Ray
Blume and B ill McShane were
named Grand Marshals for the 73rd
P ortland Rose Festival S tarlight
Parade, it was announced.
The three Beaver standouts, who
led Oregon State’ s team to two con
secutive Pacific-10 titles the past
two seasons, w ill appear on Satur-
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Students celebrate African culture night
I f one word could be used to
describe last F riday’ s A frican
C u ltu ra l Night at Portland State
U niversity, that word most likely
would be UNITY. A ll the speakers
in their eloquent deliveries stressed
home again and again the im
portance of unity especially in these
trying times o f economic adversity
and burgeoning racism.
It was the kind of evening to give-
one a good feeling all over. The
crowd though smaller than last
year’s was very appreciative. If one
criticism can be made o f this parti
cular night, it is that everything; the
dances, speeches, plays, music,
food, M-Cing was so good that the
poor audience had to keep ap
plauding every ten minutes or so. By
the time we finally left at 1:00 a.m.,
our hands were almost blistered
from all that clapping and cheering!
Program coordinator, John
T rim ble delivered the opening
remarks and the vice president o f
the Association of African Students
Ezc Abuchi the welcoming remarks,
Gambia’ s Jonathan Dupeh Joiner
was the master o f ceremonies and
Dr. Nohad Toulan, the program
chairman and dean of PSU’ s School
o f Urban A ffa irs and the A A S ’ s
faculty advisor, introduced the
program.
The Talking Drum Dance Troupe
opened the festivities with some very
lively and im aginative dances,
priming the audience for what was
to come the next six hours.
The featured speaker, Dr. Abdul-
rahtnan Mohamed Babu from the
University o f C alifornia, Berkely,
spoke on Liberation movements in
A frica and traced the evolution o f
Africa’s fight for freedom from pre
world War II days up to today. The
gist o f his delivery was that what
happened in one part o f A fric a
inevitably influenced struggles in
other parts and affected the whole
range o f struggles that were to
follow. Moral: the struggle is by no
means over until such a time as the
whole A frica n continent is under
majority rule; until our people are in
control o f their destinies.
Jamaica’ s W right H. Brum field
read a selection of poems and Leona
Franklin sang a couple o f songs ac
companied by her g u ita r. In bet
ween there was food and drinks o f
which there was so much that about
h a lf was left over - what a feast!
And so scrum ptious too! The
African Dance Troupe led by Rolia
M anyongai delighted us all w ith
some spirited dancing; modern
dance to A frica n tunes. The steps
were so fancy that when this writer
tried to im itate them, he almost
dislocated a shoulder! Fancy, fancy
footwork, African Dance Troupe!
Tuwaire Malda o f the A ll African
People Revolutionary Party spoke
on Pan A frica n ism rem inding us
once again o f our oneness and the
need fo r a concerted and renewed
e ffort at coordinating our various
struggles. Nigeria showed us how to
dance and Kenya how to sing.
“ The Significance o f A fric a n
Liberation Day” was the topic for
Professor Melaku Lakew’ s speech
and, in spite o f the lateness o f the
hour - 12:15 a .m ., this eloquent
African scholar still did such a good
job that he had half the audience,
half out o f their seat cheering. He
outlined A fr ic a ’ s need to take its
economy in to its own hands and
stem the steady drain o f A fr ic a ’ s
meager resources. He emphasized
the need fo r the continent to re
arrange her p rio ritie s ; corn (fo r
local
consum ption)
before
strawberries (fo r export) and
tractors before Mercedes Bcnzes so
A fric a can become self su fficie n t
and, therefore, truly independent.
The Portland Observer's Fungai
Kumbula representing the Republic
o f Zim babwe, presented a ten
m inute one man one act play en
title d “ King M onom otapa I ”
showing the ancient A frican King
teaching his sons the importance o f
unity, collective work and respon
s ib ility
and
the
value
of
cooperation.
A ll too soon it was time to bring
the evening to a close. For this the
most interesting, enlightening and
educational evening, we have to
thank everyone involved: the plan
ners, participators, supporters and
the audience. Apparently, we have
more friends out there than we
realize. See you again May 29, 1981!
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Students win national ACT-SO trip
By Pam Smith
Three students w ill represent
Portland in the national ACT-SO
competitions being held this year in
Denver, Colorado from June 26 -
28. The students are Silver Medalists
Julia Black from the Visual Arts
category, Lisa McConnell from the
Humanities category, and Cindy
Phillips from the Performing Arts
category.
The decision to send three
students to the national competition
reversed a previous decision not to
send any student to nationals. The
decision was a result o f a reception
held May 27 at Bethel A .M .E .
Church. The purpose o f the recep
tion was to award students in three
m ajor categories who were over
looked the night of the Performing
Arts com petition held at the
Willamette Center Auditorium.
The reception, M C ’d by A rt
Alexander started o ff quiet, but
pleasant. Refreshments were served
and the awards were presented. Not
all students awarded were in attend
ance.
A fte r the form al part o f the
program for that evening, a parent
stood up to voice her opinion of the
ACT-SO program . She was
followed by another parent who was
followed by the reading o f a student
protest p e titio n . Soon the event
became heated. Commissioner
Gladys McCoy, Chairperson o f the
ACT-SO com m ittee, announced
that everyone would be given an op
p o rtu n ity to speak and she en
couraged them to do so.
When the Observer initially spoke
with the Chairperson o f the ACT-
SO committee, she explained that
we, as humans, all make mistakes.
The im portant thing is that we
realize them and re ctify them as
soon as possible. At the reception
Mrs. M cCoy expressed her hopes
that more parents and other in
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Portland has participated in the
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Hanging on the Mall
By Nathaniel Scott
Downtown Portland isn’ t all that
much, and if not for the main tran
sit thoroughfare and a few other
odds and ends, you probably could
care less what happens there.
Not to say that things o f note
don’ t happen there occasionally, (as
with the possum police demonstra
tion, prisons are not what’ s needed,
direction is what’s happening, etc.),
but, the migration o f young teenage
Blacks, (mostly males), focuses on
one particular sector.
What? Why? And how come the
sudden flocking o f sparrows from
the nest, emanating in out-cries of
shock and horrors that has stirred a
distant rumble that w ill surely get
louder ’ w ith the approaching o f
summer?
James, an 18 year old NE Port
lander, sums up his whats, whys and
how comes this way. “ I come down
here to see w hat’ s up. I ’ ve been
trying but I can’ t get a jo b . I was
suppose to get in this CETA school
program, and after taking the test,
waiting their required 20 weeks,
they told me they wasn’t going to let
any more people in the program —
and I had to go through all the
paper work again.” He went on to
say that while being out o f a job and
not enrolled in a program where he
could be earning and learning, that
he was going to do like everyone
else, "G et m ine."
M ichael, a I7 year-old high
school student, transfers in the area
daily, and like many is aware o f the
drug tra ffic , m olestation, police
taking pictures, etc., said “ I think
i t ’ s good that the police are wat
ching this area, so they won’t get the
wrong people involved in the drug
thing.”
James, 19, another NE Portland
Black youth, said, “ There is
nothing in the Black community for
us to do. There is no recreation for
the teenagers, and during the sum
mer we only get maybe two bands in
the parks. Why? Some other parks
(p a rticu la rly in the white sector)
have things happening all the time.”
The general consensus seems to be
“ lack” o f educational oppor
tunities, lack o f jobs, lack o f
recreational facilities, and the very
real lack o f not being integrated in
to society. And the overwhelming
impression o f the atmosphere seems
to be: identity.
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