Portland Observer, June 12, 1986, Page 3
METROPOLITAN
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Harassment reported
by Lamia Duke
P rii*-w in n in g Lincoln High speech teem members (from left) Bever
ly Anderson, Kim McGuinness. Allyson Aranoff and M elanie Morris.
Students win speech honors
second in poetry and was a finalist in
serious interpretation.
Senior Melanie M orris, a first-
year member, won the state cham
pionship in expository speaking.
Sophomore Kim McGuinness became
the state oratory champion.
Also winning points for the team
were Kate W righlson, Chris Wilson,
Emily Harris, Kegan Roberts and
Tom Anderson. Other Lincoln stu
dents competing at slate were Marion
Voorhies, Joe Akhavein, Erin Hunt,
and Heather Howard.
The Lincoln High School Speech
Team won the first championship
irophy ever awarded at the O.H.S.S.L.
Slate Tournament held a, Portland
Slate University last month. Eighty-
eight schools competed.
Lincoln's top winner was senior
Beverly Anderson, who placed third
in serious interpretation and first in
poetry.
Senior Allyson A ra n o ff, who has
won both the city championship and
the U. o f O. championship in poetry
for three consecutive years, placed
Bring food to Friday game
Many donations o f fix x l and cloth
ing are received during the holiday
season and throughout the Spring
months. However, the need continues
to rise as more families and individ
uals have emergency needs. More
fix x l is needed now!
As the summer months begin, few
er fix x l donations are received. Peo
ple begin planning and taking vaca
tions. But there is no vacation at
FISH — the need continues
Bringing fix x l to the Breaker game
will help I educe that need and provide
help to many. If not attending the
game but would like to make a dona
tion, fix x l items can be taken to the
FISH office at 1335 SE Hawthorne
For more inform ation about services
or needs o f FISH Emergency Service,
call 233-5533.
Breaker fixitb a ll fans have an op
portunity to help Portlanders with
emergency fix x l needs by bringing
fix x l items to the home Breaker game
on Friday, June 14 at Portland Civic
Stadium.
The fix x l is in short supply at E1SH
Emergency Service. FISH is a non
profit volunteer organization serving
emergency food, clothing and shelter
needs o f over 12,500 families annual
ly in the Portland area.
The Breakers are supporting ef
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T R QBBQBI L L
GRASSROOT NEWS, N W —
(X iilining a pattern o f police harass
ment o f two fam ily members o f Tony
Stevenson, the Black United Front de-
cned the non-response from the C ity
Attorney when incidents o f harrass-
ment were reported.
Tony Stevenson, a 31-year-old
Afro-Am erican, died after a Portland
police officer incorrectly administered
a sleeper hold A public inquest found
the police officers guilty o f criminally
negligent homicide. However, three
weeks later, a secret grand jury ex
cused the actions o f the police by
failing 10 return a indictment against
the officers involved.
Officers Gary Barbour, who ap
plied the hold, and Bruce Pantley,
who claimed Stevenson struck him,
returned to duly last week. At a
Monday morning press conference,
Rutuue Herndon, co-chair o f the Black
United Front, said their return to
duly leaves the comm unity “ shixked
and angered."
"T h e manner in which Barbour
applied the sleeper hold violaied the
department's own pnxedures, which
slate that the hold musi never be ap
plied on a person when standing.
Ai no point did Barbour use the iwo
lake-down maneuvers officers are
taught lo use.” Herndon slated
During Ihe public inquest, eye
witnesses testified
that
Barbour
jumped on Tony's back while apply
ing the hold. "T h e police trainer said
this should not he d o n e ." Herndon
added
Also, Pantley testified that he told
an ambulance employee ihai they
had a man who was not breathing.
" A t no point did he or other o ff i
cers use mouth-to-mouth resuscita
tion. On any other jo b , if procedures
are ignored and a life is lost, termina
tion o f employment is immediate,”
Herndon noted.
Tyrone
Harvey.
Stevenson's
younger brother, was slopped by a
police officer and lold. "W e ’ll gel
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you. You got yours co m in g ." Harvey
was not charged with anything. Also,
Stevenson's father reported that he
was being followed
Herndon called for an invesiiga-
txin by ihe Justice Department. “ Our
hope is tempered by the realization
ihai ihe hxal U S. A ttorney’s office
has noi filed a civil rights suit in be
half o f a Black Oregonian in the Iasi
15 years." Herndon added.
"A lthough ihe Reagan Adm inistra
tion's Justice Dejsarimeni has done
its best to dismantle 20 years o f C ivil
Rights gains, we still hope the Justice
Department lives up to the mandate
to protect the civil rights o f all c iti
zens," he concluded
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Learning center
bv Nathaniel S c u l l
The Black Education Learning
Center w ill hold iis 15th year celebra
tion Saturday, June 15 with a lund
raiser benefit at Portland Slate U n i
versity’ s Smith Memorial Center
Ballroom.
The event, scheduled to begin at 7
p m ., w ill feature a number o f events,
including piano selections by Janice
Scroggins; performances by ihe T a lk
ing Drum Dancers and the Jazzmin
Jazz T rio, and a host o f speakers
including former sludeni Nicole
Threadgill. who w ill be entering Spell
man College in Atlanta, Georgia, this
fall.
But beyond the fix x l and enter
tainment, adults $15 and children $5,
this w ill be a celebration o f Black
history and Black culture.
The educational center was found
ed in 1970 because there was a need;
one ihai still exists, to teach Black
children about their cultural heritage,
the center's director, Joyce Harris
said. "T h e purpose behind slarting
ihe center was that Black children
were noi receiving (in ihe Portland
public schixils) the kind o f education
that reflected their culture.”
Faced with that dilemma, 15 years
ago, Harris, Ron Herndon and Frank
Wilson, an attorney who now works
in ihe attorney general's office in
Hawaii, founded the private school.
The school began as a summer
school program in 1970 and in 1974 it
became a full-tim e private elementary
school. This year, the kindergarten
through the fourth grade school
served 23 full-tim e students. And
recently, according to the "M e tro p o l
itan Achtedvement Test,” the Black
Educational Learning Center's stu
dents “ tested way above the children
in the Portland public schools,"
Harris said.
Harris maintain that the school's
academic program is “ very rigor
ous" while emphasizing that “ the
purpose of Ihe program is to make
certain our (Black) children are aca
demically proficient.”
Furthermore, Harris said, we teach
the basics: reading, w riting and
arithmetic along with an emphasis on
Black cultural life. And this year, she
said, all o f our students studied Span
ish in addition to learning basic, key
concepts
(counting,
salutations,
etc.) in Swahili.
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Scientologists™ Are Helping to
Solve the Problems of Education
Am erica is today laced w ith the harsh
(act that tens o l m illion s ot its citizens
sim ply cannot read or w rite
A cco rding to U S Departm ent of Edu
cation statistics, more than 23 m illion
adults
approxim ately one out of seven
are fu nctio na l illiterates they cannot
read
w rite or (u n c tio n a d e q u a te ly
enough to do such sim ple things as b a l
ance a checkbook or understand a bus
schedule
Each year according to Departm ent ot
Education estimates, another 2 3 m illion
enter the ranks ol the nation s illiterates
When one looks for an explanation ol
these alarm ing figures. Ihe use of p o w e r
ful psychiatric drugs in the schools loom s
as a m ajor factor
As lar back as 1970. the C hurch o l
S cientology pointed out how c h ild re n as
young as six were being dosed w ith large
am ounts o l Ritalin D exedrine and other
destructive psychiatric drugs
A report published that year in FREE
DOM the C h u rc h s independent news
journal disclosed that some 300.000
Am erican sch oolchildren between six
and twelve years of age were being given
heavy doses ol am phetam ines to m o d
ify their overactive classroom behav
ior Up to 30 per cent of the s c h o o l
children in some areas were m aintained
on the m in d-crip p lin g drugs
In case alter case over the years the
C hurch of Scientology has shown that
psychiatric drugs have dam aging and
d eb ilita ting effects They have no place in
the schools
Schoolchildren whose lives have been
wrecked by drugs can however he sa l
vaged Tens of thousands of people have
come oft drugs th rough the work of the
C hurch of S cientology and have gone on
to lead happy successful and p roductive
lives
Psychiatrists and psychologists have
taught that a p e rso n s IQ does not
change S cientology has shown that this
is not true, a person s IQ and a bility can
be increased S cientology does this
routinely
The C hurch has seen that children
classified by psychiatrists or p s y c h o lo
gists as hyperactive' are in fact expe
rie ncin g study d ifficu ltie s w hich can be
resolved in a relatively short perio d ot
tim e
H yp e ra ctivity” and "learning d is
a b ilitie s " in c h ild re n are ro u tin e ly
handled in S cientology
w itho ut drugs
U s in g th e te c h n o lo g y o t s tu d y
researched and developed by S c ie n to l
ogy Founder L Ron Hubbard, children
can advance three grade levels in their
reading and m athem atical skills in 20 to
40 hours Many success stories' trom
children, their parents, and their teachers
attest to this
Thousands of teachers the w orld over
more than 5 000 in Africa alone
have
been trained in tfie use ot this valuable
technology
In c re a s in g ly e d u c a tio n a l g ro u p s
schools and businesses are using this
technology having seen that the door to
success in tile opens when one can effec
lively study
From the prestigious D elphian School
in Sheridan Oregon to the black town
ships o l Soweto in Johannesburg South
Atnca and from the executives o l major
co rp oratio ns to the individual seeking to
better him self hundreds ot thousands ot
people are using this te chn olo gy
and
doing better in hte as a result
Psychiatric front groups object to our
work and to our stand against drugs Arid
ot course the vested interests they
represent howl in protest when the de
Structive results o, psychiatric drugging
are exposed by the C hurch
As more and more people are treed by
S cientology from the harm ful eftects ol
drugs the psychiatrists find tewer and
fewer custom ers tor their m ind-num bing
wares As children find the world of learn
ing open to them through the study tech
n olog y ot S cientology the idea ot taking
drugs becomes unacceptable and even
abhorrent Psychiatrists cannot tolerate
this, as their livelihoods depend upon a
drugged population
Despite psychiatry s attem pts to p ro
tect its drug m onopoly however Ihe
dem and lor S cientology s study te c h n o l
ogy continues to grow
The education ot our child re n is our
n a tio n s future S cientology has the
answer to successful education
For turther information call Toll Free 7-800-367 8788
Church of Scientology* Office of Special Attairs
1413 N Berendo St Los Angeles CA 90027
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