I . - . > „ v - • ■ - . -*-►» Page 8 Section II Portland Observer, December 8, 1982 Bits and Pieces by Ruth Spencer The N a tio n a l In s titu te on D rug Abuse repo rts th at some o f the known chronic effects o f long-term m a riju a n a use are im p a ire d lung fu n c tio n , decreased sperm count and possible adverse effects on heart function. • The Arkansas C lu b held its First A n n ual A l l M a le Fashion Show at the Royal Esquire Club Sunday. D e cem ber 4. L a v e rn e D a vis was f a shion coordinator. Music by L lo y d Allen • The N ational Association for the A d van cem en t o f C o lo re d People and W alt Disney Productions jo in t ly announced that (hey have signed a statem en t o f u nd erstan d in g de signed to enhance opportunities for blacks and other minority groups in the motion picture industry. • The R everen d W ayne M R e y nolds, pastor at Hughes M em o ria l United Methodist Church, is return ing with his fam ily from a visit with his relatives in Kansas C it y , M is souri. • Francis W orthington, Superinten dent o f Schools for the city o f Ingle wood, C a lifo rn ia , has announced her resignation e ffe ctive June 30. 1983. The Inglewood Teachers Associa tion and a C o a litio n o f Inglew ood C itizen s fo r E d u c a tio n a l R efo rm called fo r W o rth in g to n 's resigna tion. They charged her adm inistra tion w ith m ism anagem ent o f D is trict funds, lack o f respect for teach- ers and comm unity concerns, and a general decline over the last several years in student performance. • The Black U n ite d F ro n t invites you to a dance at the Esquire Club, December 17, 9:00 p .m .-2:00 a .m . Live entertainment and food. D o n a tions, $5.00. This month in Black History: De cember 1969, Fred H am pton, 21, Il linois Party Chairm an of the Black Panthers, was killed in a pre dawn raid on his apartm ent in Chicago. Also, M ark C la rk , 22, leader o f the Panthers in P e o ria , was k ille d . H am p ton and C la rk were the 27th and 28th Panthers to be killed d u r ing the year. • The Chancel Choir of Mount Oli vet Baptist Church will hold its Christmas Cantata, December 12. at 5 p.m. • The Tenth A n v -J Conference o f the Black F a m ily in A m e ric a has been set for M arch 10-12 at Louis ville In n in L o u is v ille , K en tu cky. The conference w ill bring together teachers, scholars, students and lay persons from across the country to discuss issues pertinent to the black fam ily. Theme o f the conference is " V a lu e s In T h e Black C o m m u n ity ." For registration inform ation, contact: Dr. Jospeh H M c M illio n , University o f Louisville. Louisville, K Y 40292 fS p on so red by A m e ric a n S tate Bank, V.F. Booker, President.) D Amato s pink, blue or lilac oxford shirt is sized just for you but is so roomy it feels like you re wearing your Dad's shirt, 29.00 slim stone washed jeans by Sasson, 5 to 13, 36.00. Addlib. Portland area stores THE OVERSIZED SHIRT Furs up front at the Arkansas Club all-male fashion show (Photo: Richard Brown) Man vs Woman by Muriel Maufroy Pacific News Service a presumed ro le, his or her social function. And as roles were, espe c ia lly in that p e rio d , p re tty fixed H E N I F IR S T arrived in the and p re d ic ta b le , there was little U n ite d S ta le s — it was in room left for innovation or surprise. W ashington. D .C ., in (he mid-'60s Indeed, I soon noticed that most — one o f my strongest impressions Americans, male and female, didn't was o f having suddenly become want to be surprised. Alm ost any transparent, invisible. thing could happen i f the w orld W h ile w a lk in g in the streets o f were suddenly proved d iffe re n t Paris, or anywhere in France, one is fro m o n e’ s expectations. The im exposed incessently to looks of curi portant thing was to keep safe, to osity. appreciation or criticism The stay on fam iliar ground. eye contact game is especially active A few years later, things started between men and women: Il is a way to change, or so people th o u gh t. that men reassess their “ maleness” V irtu a lly everyone ad m itte d (hat there, and w om en th eir " f e m a le something was not right. And virtu n ess ." Som etim es it leaves one a lly everyone concluded that the feeling o verexposed, w an tin g to problem lay in those roles which had hide. But it is exciting, too, this per been protected w ith such enthusi m anent exchange w hich creates a asm. greater awareness o f the sexual pol So down with the roles! It was a arity o f human beings. reaction cxpccially true o f women. I I found none o f that in America. saw them growing angrier and an O n the c o n tra ry , it was as though grier. They had been cheated, and both sexes ignored each other and they accused men o f cheating them. applied the slogan " I mind my busi “ D ow n w ith the housewife ro le !" ness, you mind yours," to all inter they declared. "D o w n with mother action. It meant more freedom, cer hood and its symbols!" tainly, but also more loneliness and The real problem , perhaps, was more dullness. T h e w orld seemed not the roles after a ll, but the fact harder, in d iffe re n t— and somehow that here in A m erica roles o f any asexual. kin d are taken so se rio u s ly— that A t the c o ck tail parties the East they become straitjackets. In this Coast is so fond of, another pheno more liberated age, and even in ul menon appeared. After the usual in tra-liberated California where I now tro d uctio n s and sm all ta lk , men live, I hear people say that they have d rifte d to one side o f the ro o m , found the solution to (heir dilemmas women to the other. I felt in a no by dropping a role, when in reality m an's lan d , unable to relate to they have just assumed a d ifferen t either side. one. Men and women alike are more During one o f these parties, as I than ever stuck in sexual ghettoes. talked to a young w om an , a man In other words, nothing has ac came over and a fte r a few p o lite tu a lly changed; the d u ll co ck tail questions u nd ertoo k to explain in party o f 20 years ago has just be tedious detail the business o f the tire come bigger. company he worked for. I retreated; W but I realize now that this man was at least trying to make contact, and that he really didn't know how to do it. Each tim e such meetings oc curred I sensed that a terrific effort was put fo rw ard . But there was no ex citem en t. R a th e r, there was a sense o f duty to the approach. O f course this happens in France, as w ell. Sometimes tw o people are simply not on the same wavelength. Yet in America it seemed to me that men and women were almost never on the same wavelength. People met w ithout real curiosity or desire for p o te n tia l d isco very. As a resu lt, each individual limited the other to Some lime ago, Francois G iroud. a French journalist who served as a minister in the government o f Presi dent Valery Giscard D'Estaing, sur mised after a vist to the States that men and wom en here d id n ’ t like each other. " I n France,” she said, " w e figh t and q u a rre l, but we do like each other; there is complicity between the two sexes." 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