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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.