Mrs Fronces Sehosn-’.'ewepoper Paca
U n iv e r s ity o f Oretron L ib r a r y
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Economic reco
proposed
M .L. King
celebration
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PORTLAND OBSERVER
January 19, 1983
Volume XIII, Number 15
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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.
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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.
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“ 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.