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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
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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."
I f the problem o f distrust between
the sexes is ever to be solved in A m
erica, it must come through a simi
lar discovery— that co lla b o ra tio n
and differences arc not mutually ex
clusive.
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