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• - - — Portland Observar, January 25, 1964 Page 3 D2 METROPOLITAN Chevytown Pl h Forum discusses mass media by Lamia Dube Crassrool News, N . W. — P o rt land's mass media »as charged » ith insensitivity and creating negative images and they responded with an open door policy of "reach out and let us know." This is the dialogue that occurred Saturday, January 21st, at the Ore gon Assembly for Black A ffa irs morning forum entitled, "Press: Both electronic and print coverage o f political activities o f Oregon's Black community." The panelists represented the full circle o f media— print, visual and radio. They were: W illiam A. H il liard, Executive Editor of The Ore gonian-, Jeb Blandine, Editor and Oregon Newspaper Publishing As sociation’s Treasurer; Art Alexan der, Black Channel C oordinator, Rogers Cablesystems; Ray Watson, General Manager, K XL Radio; Car olyn Leonard, O A B A V ice-P re sident; M a rtin B rantly, General M anager, K P T V -1 2 ; Paul Sands, News M anager, K G W -T V 8; and A.R. (Skip) Collier, Western Region M anager, Professional T raining Systems. Although the coverage of political activities in Oregon’s Black commu nity was advertised as a premise for discussion, the overriding concern W ENTW ORTH Hullo, My name is C harles arid I would like to be your car or truck sales repre sentative. If you need a new or used automobile or truck, come on down to Chevytown, and let me put you in the driver's seat. W entw orth C hevytow n 107 S.E. Grand Ava. Portland, OR 97214 232-2000 Forum on tha media Included Lanlta Duke. Qraaaroot News: A.R. (Skip) Collier, Ray Watson, KXL Radio: William Hilliard, The Oregonian; Martin Brantley, KPTV-12; Jeb Bladlne. McMinnville News-Kegister; Carolyn Leonard. OABA: Art Alex ander, Rogers Cabls Systems. (Photo: Richard J. Brown) moved to Salem, one youngster ex pected my daughter to be illiterate, a prostitute, and for us (parents) to be on welfare. These were assumptions they developed because the only contact they had with Black people was what they saw on T .V . and read in the newspapers." Leonard said, "People’s percep tions of what you ought toi be over ride what they see. The kinds of cov erage we get in the media super imposes the value of the superstruc ture onto a given people.” The example Leonard gave was the belief that all Black people are on welfare. “ If you do a story about welfare, you hunt out the first Black woman you see on the streets and ask her, ‘ How w ill this affect you?’ ” Alexander wants a requirement written into a reporter's job descrip tion that they must know the history of Asian-, Afro- and Hispanic Am ericans. o f those present was the lack of knowledgeable reporters and Afro- American reporters, and the insensi tive »ay the media used its image making power. One observer said, “ When I first He also stated, "There appears to be a revolving door among Black re porters. They seem to only rise so far and after a point they move on to another market.” H illia rd said his paper lost two Black reporters who left for finan cial reasons or wanted a bigger mar ket. He also said he believed The Oregonian never would intentional ly project a negative image o f Blacks. " I f you perceive that just let us know.” K X L 's Watson said his station covers all press conferences called by the Black United Front. " K X L was at the forefront of the coverage of the 7-U p company refusing to hire Blacks. The fact that they planned to hire no Blacks was news worthy and we got on and stayed on the story until it was resolved." C o llie r urged the audience to write letters to the editors of various media, they, in turn, promised to re spond. The first pencil with an attached eraser was patented in Philadelphia in 1858. • Ellen Church, a registered nurse, became the first air line stewardess in 1930. • A cold spot: Mount Washington in New Hampshire clocked winds at 231 miles per hour one April day in 1934. The planet Uranus nearly came to be named Her- schel —for its discoverer, Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel. W o do o p t do business w ith S o u th A fric a American State Hank AN INDEPENDENT BANK Hr»d Office 2 7 3 7 N. E. Union Port end. Oregon 9 7 2 1 2 Dr. Adolphua Turkaon, profaaaor of African and Afro-American mualc. and Profaaaor Damarl Wakungu. who teaches Swahili, die cuaa PSU Black Studlea Program. (Photo: Richard J. Brown) PSU Black Studies faces new threats by Nathaniel Scon Portland State U niversity’ s 15- member University committee, re focusing recommendation to Joseph C. Blumel, president, according to Darrell M illn e r, Chairman o f the Black Studies Departm ent, “ very thinly conceals the insinuation that the Departm ent |Black Studies| should be dismantled." The report, made public January 19th, recommends among other things that the Black Studies D e partment be studied for reorganiza tion, "including possible incorpora tion into another adm inistrative area.” What is the fate o f the Black Studies Department? And is there an attempt to rid the state of Black Studies in the higher institutional setting? Professor D am ari W akungu, Black Studies D epartm ent, is re questing "$ 1 ,0 0 0 for Swahili lan guage courses" at PSU. W akungu has been a faculty member since academic year 1978- 79. She said during that time she has taught Swahili, sometimes on a vol untary basis, "w ith hopes the U ni versity would pick up the course.” It didn't. M illn e r said the Foreign L an guage Department never did pay for Swahili courses— Black Studies did. and when the budget crunch hit the Department last academic year, "S w ah ili was one o f a number of programs we had to sacrifice.” Wakungu's frustration borders on anger. Why? In part, because she teaches Swahili at Tubman Middle School, and also, because o f the natural progression o f things. She said, " It (Swahili) should be offered in the University.” Budget cutting problems and the lack of funding by discipline area, coupled with “ reorganization” rec CLOSEOUT! W E INSTALL CONFIDENCE All-season radial tires DAY AND NK.HT 4 fo r*9 9 ommendations, cast dark shadows over the strides being made by the Black Studies Department. Dr. Adolphus Turkson provides an example o f services the Black Studies Department is providing for the academic community. D r. Turkson has been a PSU faculty member since 1981. His main area of teaching is African and Afro-American Music. But of equal im portance, it would seem, is his writing ability: music and academic- papers. Since coming to PSU, Dr. T u rk son has presented in excess o f six scholarly papers. His latest, a paper on the C ultu ral Element in Black Studies— »hat Black Studies stands fo r— will be presented to the Third Annual Conference of the National Council for Black Studies Pacific Northwest Region. February 2nd, 3rd and 4th. at Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington. Dr. Turkson’s musical composi tions are o f the classical variety. “ Some have very strong African ele ments in their rhythm and melody elements," he said. Blacks must not neglect their culture; their music, drama and art. I f Blacks neglect those elements, “ there is nothing to say what Black Studies is all ab o u t.” He added that Black art, drama and music should be the basis o f all Black Studies. "T ho se ele ments one might consider the cul ture of people.” Regarding Black Studies at PSU, the next logical question is, what happens next? Darrell Millner’» ans wer is to take it to the top. He said. " T h is report is to the president (Blum el) and doesn’ t represent University policy. 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