Page 2 Portland Observer, October 22, 1981
Oregon State welcomes EOP students
Grassroot News. N. IP .— The era
o f providing educational opportun
ities to all is just about over with the
guns and butter politics o f this ad
m in is tra tio n . Yet among the last
holdouts are programs like the Edu
c a tio n a l O p p o rtu n ity Progam at
O reg o n State U n ive rs ity in C o r
vallis. M iriam Orzech, its director,
gave G rassroot News some back
ground:
“ EO P was established in 1969 by
the Faculty Senate in which they
told the University that they wanted
a program to assist the minority and
disadvantaged students. Students
who had traditionally been excluded
from the educational process. W e
started out w ith 40 students and
we’re up to 200.”
HIGH SCHOOL SE N IO R S -
PARENTS-COUNSELORS
W ANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT
W HAT BLACK COLLEGES OFFER?
“ As a program we are not a f
fected by the Reagan p o litics be
cause we are not a federally run pro
gram. W e are funded mainly by the
State and to the extent that the State
economy is in tro u b le , the w hole
system o f higher education is in
trouble.”
Ze’ev Orzech, an economist, pro
vided a look at the economic situa
tion facing the low-income and mi
nority student. “ Because o f what's
going on in the nation and in O re
gon, students find themselves in a
very d iffic u lt situ ation . Financial
aid is being cut back and in Oregon
the reaction was to limit enrollment.
The w o rk-stud y program was cut
along w ith grants, and these stu
dents fin d that th e y ’ re burdened
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The Second Annual Black Colleges Conference:
BLACK COLLEGES:
AN ALTERNATIVE
Students check in a t O regon S ta te U niversity Ed u catio n al O p p o r
tu n ity w e e k e n d .
S tu d en ts have an o p p o rtu n ity to m e e t in stru cto rs and educators.
Mrs. Orzech feels that because o f
the economic crisis the low-income
student has a dual shadow reflecting
on their educational success. “ The
individual shadow is in financial aid
and the various grants are going to
get tougher to obtain. Our job is to
alert the student to changes in the fi
nancial aid packet as it relates to
them because it’s based on the indi
vidual’s family need.
w ith loans to get through college.
The chance to w o rk is no longer
there because work-study had dried
out.”
W ith the worsening economic cli
mate comes the in d irect effects.
“ H eart attack rises, infant m o rtal
ity, mental illness and c rim in ality.
The students that w e’ re ta lk in g
about come from that kind o f popu
lation and are lik e ly to be hit by
these problems. Non-white employ
ment is twice as high as white but,
when things get bad, this ratio in
creases.”
Last m o n th , the s ta ff and stu
dents o f E O P , 1981-82, came to
gether for a retreat in the mountains
before the school year started to
break the ice for new students and
for the returning students to relax
before burning their m idnight o il.
The president o f the U n iv e rs ity ,
Robert M acVicar, came up for the
evening and directly gave his com
mitment to the program. "This pro
gram gives us an element o f d iver
sity that we need to be a truly com
prehensive University. From my o f
fice and the state, it helps us carry
out our educational mission.”
“ In the larger society, people
have a misconception o f what EO P
is. Some feel that the students are
not living up to the same criteria as
other students, which is not true.
Many people feel that we should not
have programs that develop skills
because that gives them an easy way
in. This is because people feel
threatened by a drop in real income
and they want to protect th e ir
ow n,” says sociologist Eileen Bau
mann.
The students o f E O P comprise a
tiny United N ations. T h eir biggest
worry is money, difference in curri
culum and the social environment o f
OSU. “ Too many people,” one stu
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dent exclaim ed, and said he w ill
cope by "being more social.”
Carm en M itc h e ll, a fou rth -year
education major, wouldn’t have en
tered the educational process i f it
hadn’t been for EO P. “ When 1 first
entered school I flunked out my first
year. E O P enabled me to retake
classes and I w orked on my skill
level. When I came to OSU 1 really
wanted to go to school. The way
Reagan and his adm inistration are
cutting things, they a re n ’ t taking
in to consideration that people
Saturday. October 24
For further information call
June Key
Portland 287 9669
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A n o th e r student said she was
scared because she didn’t know how
it would affect her education and
future.
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W e hope that these students,
along with the program, aren't pul
on the endangered species list, be
cause each student could represent
another d o cto r, law yer and role
model for their community.
The support structure that M rs.
Orzech built for her staff to help the
student achieve their piece o f paper
is flex ib le and students indicated
that it helped. They live the phrase
that a m ind is a te rrib le thing to
waste.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
T ri-C o u n ty M e tro p o lita n Transportation D istrict of Oregon
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Notice is hereby given that four public hearings will be held by the Tri-
County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (Tri-Met) to receive
comment on proposed changes to improve the fare structure, reduce the
district boundaries and implementing of a tax on self employed persons to
provide equity in the tax structure Dates, times and locations of the hear
ings are as follows:
Role playing helps students face n e w situ ation s o f college life.
November 17, Tuesday
Oregon City, 7:30p.m .
Senior Citizens Center
615 Fifth Street
November 18, Wednesday
Beaverton, 7:30 p.m.
PGE Western Division Center
14655 Old Scholls Ferry Roed
November 23, Monday
Municipal b Educational Services
C enter/1333 N .W . Eastman
November 24, Tuesday
PGE Willame„ e Center AuditOfjum
Portland, 7 : » p.m.
121 S .W . Salmon
G am es help b reak the ice.
Included in the proposed fare structure changes is the addition of two
Dick Bogle
I new fare zones. In place of the current 3 zone structure, Tri Met is propos
I ing an enlarged central zone, surrounded by four concentric zones. Fareless
I Square will remain unchanged but travel will free 24-hours daily.
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Studies and p o lls. In recent
weeks, there seem to have been
numbers o f them aimed at finding
out how Blacks feel about ra cia l
progress, how whites feel about ra
cial progress, Black concern or fear
o f crime, how Americans feel about
Japanese redress and a proposal to
study why Blacks are arrested in
Portland in numbers disproportion
ate to their population numbers.
In a report released by the U .S .
Justice Department’s National Insti
tute o f Justice, it’ s stated that fear
o f crime among the elderly has in
creased in the A lbina area. The re
port also stated that burglary in bus
inesses along a one-m ile stretch o f
U n io n A venue dropped by m ore
than half after improved street light
ing and a security survey was under
taken o f local businesses.
The report says the monthly bur
g la ry rate dropped fro m 13.5 in
1973 to six a month in 1977 and con
tinued at that rate through 1979.
But the rep ort ad m itted o th er
crime decreases were not significant
and no im provem ent was made in
lowering the concern about crime.
W h at the report does not make
clear is a distinction between fear o f
crime and concern about crime. The
line between the two is not even ex-
Blacks and whites generally agree
that things have improved tremen
dously fo r Blacks but Blacks felt
that the progress is not nearly
enough.
For example, when asked if police
treat Blacks as fa ir ly as they do
whites, 60 per cent o f Blacks say no
while 56 per cent o f whites say yes.
The survey also found that 61 per
cent o f the Blacks questioned felt
Blacks in their area generally were
d iscrim in ated against in getting
skilled labor jobs. Only 21 per cent
o f whites agreed. On wages, 57 per
cent o f Blacks and 13 per cent o f
whites thought Blacks were discrim
inated against in their area.
Last week, Channel Two news re
porter C athy K iyom ura did a five-
part series on the question o f repar
ations for Japanese-Americans in
carcerated by the U n ite d States
Government during World War II.
The series o u tlin ed just what it
meant to be suddenly uprooted
from home, school and business and
hauled o ff to a prison camp only be
cause o f Japanese ancestry. Remem
ber these were A m erican citizens,
most o f them born in this country.
Channel Two conducted tele-vote, a
survey where people could vote in
any o f three ways by calling one o f
tremely fine. I t ’s hazy and blurred.
One person may express his or her
feelings as fear while another may
express the same feeling as concern.
It ’s a given fact that with awareness
there comes concern and perhaps
out and out fear.
Recently, A lb in a residents have
been bombarded with crime preven
tion inform ation by neighborhood
associations and the crime preven
tion unit o f the police department.
Recall that just a few weeks ago
several petitions concerning street
prostitution were circulated in the
Albina area and sent on to the police
department. The largest had 600 sig
natures. N ow that expressed con
cern and in many cases anger but
that doesn’ t mean fe a r. H ow ever
heads o f the various neighborhood
associations plan to use the current
interest and anger o f citizens about
street prostitution to mobilize these
same people in a Tight against other
types o f crime.
Perhaps Sharon M c C o rm a c k ,
leader o f N eighborhoods against
crime put it best when she said, “ As
you raise awareness that there’ s a
need to do something, you raise ap
prehension. It ’s a trade off.**
This past spring, A B C news did a
poll on race relations in America.
three toll numbers.
I ’m sure very few Blacks were sur
prised with the results. On the ques
tion o f redress, 22 per cent said the
Japanese-Americans should be paid
fo r their im prisonm ent. Nineteen
per cent said the government shoud
issue an o ffic ia l apology and a
whopping 59 per cent said no action
at all should be taken . T h at first
sampling was taken the first day the
series ran and over 7,000 calls were
taken in an hour and a half.
A fter the five parts ran, a second
tele-vote was taken. Thirty-one per
cent fewer calls were taken and the
results were basically the same.
Tw enty seven per cent felt money
and an apology should be issued.
Twenty-one per cent felt an official
government apology would suffice
w hile 52 per cent felt no action
should be taken.
1 feel one o f the key revelations is
in the fact that even though people
had one option costing the taxpayer
money and another, the apology,
which although costing v irtu a lly
nothing could to some extent right a
long-standing wront, most voted for
do nothing.
W ho says this isn’t basically a ra
cist society?
New proposed Cash fares are as follows: seventy-five cents (75C) for tre-
I vel within 1 to 2 zones; one dollar («1.00) for travel within 3 zones one dol
I lor and twenty-five cents (•1.25) for travel in 4 + zones; fifty cents' (50CI for
I students throughout the system; twenty-five cents (25C) for senior citizens
I off-peak hours, evenings and weekends & holidays; one dollar (41 00) for
I Vancouver Service.
New proposed Ticket prices are as follows: five dollars (»5.00» for a 10-
I ride ticket for travel within 1 zone; six dollars and fifty cents (46 50) for a 10-
I ride ticket for travel within 2 zones; nine dollars (49.00) for a 10 ride ticket
I for travel within 3 zones; eleven dollars and fifty cents (411.50) for a 10-ride
I ticket for travel within 4 + zones; two dollars and fifty cents (12.50) for an
I All Day Ticket valid in all zones.
I , . - ^ P<OPOS* d M ° ntWy Pa“ pric#t -re • • fo,,ow’ : twenty-three dollars
I (»2300)
for monthly 1-2 zone trips; forty dollars (440.00) for monthly 4 +
I zone trips; fifteen dollars (415.00) for students; six dollars (46 00) for off-
I peak monthly travel for seniors.
Effective date of the fare ordinance is June 20, 1962, except changes in
the off-peak senior fare effective January 31,1982.
The proposed boundary changes would reduce Tri-M et's district boun
dary to the territory within the Metropolitan Service District and any terri
tory outside the Metropolitan Service District within 2 H miles of an existing
Tri-Met route or facility. The actual boundary line would follow describeble
roads and landmarks,
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The proposed self-employment tax would be assessed at a rate of 0 .6% I
on the taxable earnings of self omployed persons doing business within the I
reduced district boundaries. The effective date of the ordinance would be
January 1,1962.
A copy of the draft ordinances enacting these changes will be available
during regular business hours of Tri-M et at the Department of Public A f-
fairs, 4012 S .E . 17th A venue, Portland, Oregon 97202. W ritte n or oral
comments may be submitted in advance of the hearings to the Board of DI-
rectors at the same address.
Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District
of Oregon
Philip J. Mason
Assistant Secretary
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