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Portland Observer May 16, 1984 Page 3 METROPOLITAN IRON |H IR TS PSU program aids disadvantaged students by N a th a n * / Scott Portland State University’» (P S U ’s) Director o f Equal O ppor tunity and A ffirm ative Action. M a jo r M orris, said, this year's spring term pilot project. Big Sister/Big Brother, is paving the way for academic year 1984-85. The course, to be offered as a three term sequence next academic year, “ W ill construct a big sister/big brother relationship with an educationally disadvantaged minority group high school student,'* M orris said. The objec tive is to help youngsters understand that they have the "capacity to make positive contributions to society.” Ten PSU students are taking part in the pilot project, which, has been working with students from Jeffer son High School since last fall. In fact, M orris said, the idea sprung from Nathan " N a te " Jones’ con cept o f “ Project Pride.” Tw o years ago when Jones became principal of Jefferson High School, he began to search the bins of his mind for ways “ to get the school involved." And from an earlier concept of “ Image Awareness," the more successful, “ Project Pride” evolved. Helping the “ educationally disadvantaged" is wonderful, but the under-currents of conversations with M orris goes much deeper than that. As equal opportunity and a ffir mative action director at PSU, M orris has a recruitment respon sibility. Throughout most of Oregon and parts of Washington, his office concentrates on minorities to " let them know there are specific programs for minority students at P S U .” And, from that recruitment responsibility, evolve trends that are detrimental to minority growth. T o begin with, M orris said, “ Minorities seem to have the greatest difficulty in getting their financial aid applications in on tim e.” H e believes the lack of knowledge, and the understanding of that knowledge, are the reasons why minorities apply late. Next, he said, "M ino rities lean more towards the liberal arts and social science programs." W hich, in effect, are causing minorities to be passed over when opportunities are there, he said. “ There are a lot of opportunities, in engineering and business, but you need early course w ork” to qualify. "B la cks ." he said, "need to look at where the job markets are and where the demands a re ," adding, “ high tech is going to dominate (the future) and many o f our kids are not aware (o f (hat fa c t)." PSU's minority breakdown, ac cording to M orris, is 11 percent: Blacks 2.2 percent; Native American .9 percent; Asian 6.6 per cent; and, Hispanic 1.3 percent. PGE e le c t r ic it y w o r k s a r o u n d t h e c lo c k . W h e n y o u c o n s id e r a ll i t d o c s f o r y o u , i t ’ s X /Z s till a m ig h ty g o o d b u y . I ' M Major Morria. Director of PSU's Equal Opportunity and Afflr- mativs Action Program, explains to PSU's big brother and big sister. Xavier Browning and Pamela Simpson, the objectives of the Big Sister/Big Brother program, (Photo: Jerry Teylorl i>L\Ck IVCW el? C AC htXI GET THIS $9.00 OIL V MUSK FREE! PERFUME MIST D is c o v e r h o w YO U c a n e a rn $ 7 5 . $ 1 0 0 o r m o re in y o u r s p a re tim e . l i t easy M • Bleir Dealer Spend no money Io get «terted Top quality variety and great value make Blair product« «etl themselve« You deliver and collect the pro fit working when YOU c h o o te 1 PLUS... 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Chris Poole and Michelle M inority and low-income nursing A newly formed nurses’ group says that a proposal by the Oregon hopefuls cannot afford the time or Nurses Association, to require a money, up to $10,000 per year, four-year degree for nursing, will necessary for a four-year degree, she make the profession accessible only said. Even if they enter four-year colleges, she said. Black nursing to a small white elite. would face a Concerned Nurses o f Oregon students picketed the Oregon Nurses predominately white environment. Association convention at the Port I f the proposal were to go into ef land H ilton on A pril 26th, where fect. she said, the percentage of the proposal was being discussed. non-white nurses in the professional The O N A has been working for the category would drop to 1% , accor degree requirement since 1966. They ding to the study. Most m inority nurses work in in say the Baccalaureate o f Nursing Science (B SN ) is necessary to ner-city hospitals and clinics caring prepare future nurses for an in for low-income and minority patients, she said, and less minority nurses creasingly complex profession. But Concerned Nurses o f Oregon would probably mean lower quality co-founders Margie Gaul and care for those patients. Also, said G aul, if the law were Kathan Zerzan, both R N 's at Bess Kaiser Hospital in North Portland, passed, existing four-year degree say the proposal, if successful, programs, already hit hard by would divide the nursing profession budget cuts, would be hard pressed into a well-paid white elite with to meet the demand for nurses in the degrees and a m ajority o f lower- decades ahead. A nursing shortage paid m inority and "technical nur could result, she said. Nurses would be overworked and patients would ses” without degrees. O nly 20V» of nurses have the suffer from lower quality care. Nursing practice and on-the-job four-year degree now, they say, while 80V» graduate from com training is at least as important as a munity college and other less expen college education, said Gaul. Much sive programs. “ W hat they’ re o f today's sophisticated health care seeking to do is promote the in technology can only be learned on terests o f the 20% at the expense of the job, she said, and nurses who learn on the job are often more the 8 0 % ," said Gaul. “ Black nurses are under qualified than nurses fresh from a represented in the profession, and four-year degree program. “ I t ’s not that situation would be extremely only the degree, it’s also what a nurse aggravated by this proposal,” said wants to put into the jo b ," said Gaul. Zerzan. The Nurses Association, say Gaul Citing U .S . Dept. o f Health, Education and W elfare figures from and Zerzan, is a small, elite and 1973, Zerzan said that Black essentially white organization which graduates totaled 6 .3 % o f all nur represents only a minority o f nurses, sing program graduates. Five per including many nurse supervisors cent o f four-year BSN graduates and nurse educators. The degree were Black, she said, while 10.1% proposal is an outgrowth o f the of community college nursing Nursing Association's elitism, they I program graduates were Black. say. Gaul and Zerzan say the O N A has Most Black nursing students graduate from non-BSN programs met with the governor in the first and they would be eliminated from step o f a lobbying effort to make the the professional category the Nurses four-year degree required by state Association wants to set up, said law. Nurses Associations in other Zerzan, together with its better states have attempted the same, they wages and privileges. •By- Cl tv Gerald were among the 400 women who attended the second annual Black Women's Gathering on Saturday. (Photo: Richard J. 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