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Mrs Fronces Sehosn-’.'ewepoper Paca U n iv e r s ity o f Oretron L ib r a r y m i “ ta » , C rafen 97403 Economic reco proposed M .L. King celebration Page 2 LU Page 7 PORTLAND OBSERVER January 19, 1983 Volume XIII, Number 15 25C Per Copy USPS 959-680-855 State proposes higher college entry standards The Stale Board o f Higher Edu cation it seeking to establish new college admission requirements that will bar many high school graduates from the state's institutions of high er education. D u rin g the decade o f the '70s O reg o n 's D e p a rtm e n t o f H ig h e r Education's share o f the state gener al fu nd fe ll fro m 22 .2 percent to 12.7 percent. A p p ro p ria tio n s per student have fallen to considerably below the national average. Between 1980 and 1982 $4 2.6 m illio n were cut from the budget and Oregon was one o f only two states in which ap p ro priatio n s fo r higher education fell and the decline for Oregon was much greater. Even w ith the prom ise o f in creases in support this b ie n n iu m , changes in the programs offered by the eight four-year colleges and uni versities w ill be necessary to m ain tain or improve educational quality. The s ta ff o f the State Board o f E d ucation has propared a plan to address these problem s, which are being discussed in a series o f public hearings. O ne o f the m ore co n tro versial sections o f this plan deals with new entrance requirements. A t one time any high school graduate could be admitted to the state colleges or uni versities; later grade point and en trance test score requirements were added. New proposed requirements are: 4 years o f H ig h School English; three years o f math which would in clude alg eb ra and g eo m etry; tw o years o f science to include tw o o f the fo llo w in g , b iology, chem istry, physics; three years o f social science including history, global studies and government; two additional college prep classes. These icquticuicins would appiy to student* antertng as f r a a O S » in 1985, or current high school sopho mores, and would be in addition to current grade point and test score requirements. A Grade Point Average o f 2.75 is required by Oregon State University and the University o f Oregon; 2.5 by P o rtla n d State U n iv e rs ity , S o uth ern O reg o n State C o lle g e , Western Oregon State College; 2.00 by Eastern Oregon State College for students in their region and 2.5 for others; 2.25 by O regon Technical Institute. A lth o u g h sligh tly m ore high school students are co m p leting recommended m athem atic and so cial science courses than five years ago, few er students are takin g recommended Engligh, science and foreign language courses. The State Board seeks to elim inate the neces sity to com plete deficiencies afte r en terin g co llege, to im p ro ve the q u a lity o f students' college w o rk , (Please turn lo page 4 column 4) G rattan Karana, Speaker of the House of Representatives. la am ong the guests for the O b s erver'» Legislativa Forum, January 29. 10:00 p .m ., at the Coliseum H oliday Inn. C om a, m eat your representatives, make your opinions known. City Commissioner Charles Jordan joins atudenta of M artin Lu thar King. J r., Elementary School in celebrating Dr. King's birth date (Photo Richard Brown) Police Auditing Com m ittee ready fo r action The Police Internal Investigations Auditing Comm ittee, authorized by passage o f B allot M easure 51 last November, has begun to accept ap peals from citizens an d /o r police o f ficers fo r th eir F eb ru ary 3, 1983 meeting according to Annette Jolin, Chairperson o f the Citizens A u d it ing C o m m itte e and C ity C o m m is sioner Charles Jordan, the original sponsor o f the measure creating the committee. Citizens and officers dissatisfied with the results o f a Portland Police Bureau Internal Investigation D ivi sion ( I I I ) ) investigation o f a com plaint may obtain an appeals form in the C ity A u d ito r’s office. Room 202, City Hall. Appeals will only be heard o f those cases w hich have gone through the Internal Investiga tions process and w hich were re solved by I I D on or after August 3, 1982. T h e enab lin g o rd in an ce re quires the filing o f an appeal within 120 days o f the co m p letion o f the Internal Investigations process. Even then, not all appeals may be h eard, according to J o lin . “ As a practical m atter, this committee of citizen volunteers may not be able to hear every appeal We will be look ing at each case and will base our de cision to accept the appeal on the se riousness o f the complaint, the like lihood that Internal Investigations results were in error, the number of sim ilar appeals and the to tal tim e available to hear appeals.” I f any appeals filed with the A udi tor meet the C o m m ittee's crite ria, the First appeals may be heard by the Citizens Com m ittee at its February 3, 1983 meeting at 5 p.m . in Room 106 o f C ity H a ll. 1 he meeting w ill be open to the public unless either the officer or the com plaining c iti zen requests that it be held closed pursuant to the pro vision s o f the Oregon Open Meetings law Get your Portland Observer Martin Luther King Memorial Issue Next week Police inaction scored Murder/kidnap of local woman still not solved by Harris Levon M cRae T h e seem ingly b iza rre death o f Trina Hunter may not be as strange as it seems. Ms. Hunter, 17, a college student and an em ployee o f the P o rtla n d W ater Bureau, was found dead in a marsh a mile west of Battle Ground, Washington, on December 29th. A cco rd in g to D etective D a vid Simpson, public information officer fo r the P o rtla n d P olice Bureau, “ D ro w n in g is a ttrib u te d as the cause o f death.'* N o one knows what happened or why— or do they? " W e grieve not only fo r T rin a , but for a community whose cries for help all too o ften go unheard and unheeded,*' Ms. Hunter's aunt eu logized at the funeral. Portland police reports show sev eral people were concerned that there were individuals, including an alleged b o y frien d , tryin g to force Trina Hunter into prostitution. Pim ping is a w ell-planned strat egy. It usually involve* recruiting women and girls into prostitution by any means possible— ly in g , cu n ning. and sometimes physical force. \ public not alerted to this w ill be easy prey. On October 29th o f last year Alice Hunter, T rin a ’s mother, reported to the Portland police that Trina went to class at King Facility on October 26th. After class she left with an ac quaintance and had not been seen since. The case was cleared that day be cause according to police records the subject and her location were known. Ms. Hunter had been beaten bad ly enough to require hospital treat ment for internal injuries during this time period. O n N o vem b er 3rd , a counselor who had been w orking w ith T rin a Hunter under the "B ig Sister” pro gram reported to the police that she received a call from Ms. Hunter and that Ms. Hunter stated that she was being held against her will by a boy friend who was forcing her to be a prostitute. O n November 17th a witness saw Ms. Hunter being slapped and beat en to force her into prostitution. On December 9th Ms. Hunter was reportedly seen working as a prosti tute in Beaverton, Oregon. . ;• • i M M . »V . ' y. “ Several people have said there were in d ivid u als try in g to force T rin a into p ro s titu tio n . There are accounts o f tw o people beating T rina and forcibly taking her from Cascade Campus on December 6th On December 12th, a friend went to a house where Trina was reportedly being held. He found her in a dark basement surrounded by fo u r or five other people. Trina looked ter rified. The people with Trina threat ened him , even asking someone to get a gun. W hen 9 1 1 was called, it took police almost h alf an hour to respond By this lim e , T rin a had been forcibly taken from the area," according to Ron Herndon, co-chair o f Portland's Black United Front. “ W e are not satisfied w ith how the police have handled the investi g atio n b efo re or a fte r T rin a 's d e a t h ," said L illy W a lk e r, Ms. Hunter’s aunt. D id T rin a H u n ter die needlessly because police personnel were slow, poorly trained, or inefficient? As the Portland Police report re constructed some o f the incidents involvin g M s. H u n te r's investiga tion, the situation was explained to Alice H unter that the police would need both her cooperation and the co operation o f T rin a in m aking a case against her alleged kidnapper. O n Decem ber 9th on the night M s. H u n te r was re p o rte d ly seen w orking as a prostitute in Beaver to n , the P o rtla n d Po lice D e p a rt ment contacted (he B eaverton P olice D ep a rtm e n t and in fo rm ed them that Ms. Hunter was allegedly working as a prostitute in the area. Beaverton Police w ere also in fo rm ed that there was a ru n aw ay filed on Ms. H unter and if she was picked up the Po rtlan d Police D e partment was to be notified im m e d ia te ly . The P o rtla n d Po lice felt that as they could determine at that point in the investigation nothing concrete had been established to place Ms. Hunter as a captive. T here were reports o f a person harboring runaways on N .E . M a l lory, and that this person was also associated with the possible holding of Ms. Hunter against her will. "Besides several runaways, there are reports o f adults living in this house who were aware o f what was happening to Trina. This is the last house in which T rin a was seen (Please turn lo page 5 column J) Why hypodermic needles. heroin, clothing end other possible evi dence wee not removed by police from house where Trine Hunter wes silegedly held prisoner Is still e mystery.