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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