Page 3 Portland Observer SEPTEMBER 21,1989
NEWS FROM
NEIL
by Gov. Neil Goldschmidt
Over the past ten years, this slate
dropped its guard-andour law-abid
ing citizens look it on the chin. But
now the largest prison construction
program in Oregon’s history is under
way.
In March, we opened 792 new
medium security beds at the Eastern
Oregon Correctional Institution
(EOCI) in Pendleton. Just this month,
we broke ground on a new 400-bed
prison on the Columbia River in
Portland.
On September 1st, the legislative
Emergency Board gave the go-ahead
on the new 200-bed maximum secu
rity unit at the Oregon State Peniten
tiary, further expansion of the East
ern Oregon Penitentiary, further
expansion of the Eastern Oregon Cor
rectional Institution (EOCI) by an
additional 176 medium security beds,
and building the new 200-bed me
dium security intake center onto the
Clackamas County jail.
Siting is also underway for a new
medium security prison, that may
eventually hold 3000 inmates. Bv
this November, 150 mew minimum
security beds will open at the new
Powder River facility in Baker.
In total, over 1800 new prison
beds are in the pipeline; and w e’ve
brought 850 new beds on line since
1987. these beds aren’t meant for a
good night’s sleep-they are meant to
restore our power to punish.
This year, Oregon’s Legislature
also gave law enforcement officials
new punch in their fight against crime
passing sweeping new laws to help
catch and convict crooks in Oregon.
Laws are now in place that will
improve our ability to combat gangs
and punish serious juvenile offend
ers, allow police officers to carry
Ur xping devices and use wiretaps in
c 7 cases, and provide for joint trials
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of drug paraphernalia, to increasing
fines for marijuana use, to a state
wide drug house law that will allow
law enforcement officials to shut down
such houses as nuisances.
Also, every Oregon middle school,
high school, public college and uni
versity must now develop and imple
ment policies to combat drug and
alcohol use, and provide education
programs for all students.
Finally, Oregon is getting back in
the ring again in the fight against
crime.
Together, these new cells and new
laws will give Oregon back its one-
two punch in its fight against crime.
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McKinley Burt
Right on folks! I can well under
stand the interest expressed in last
weeks article on the difficulties in
the implementation of Lesson Plans.
One response has been that several
parent groups have requested some
weekend workshops to inable them
to do some “ home-leaching” in a
structured manner. Also, I may once
again be doing evening graduate
classes for teachers in the C ontinu
ing Education mode (Winter term).
Letmeclarify a term I used, “ con
sultant continuity” . In a recent reply
to an R.F.P. from a southern school
district (Request For Proposal), I
emphasized the need for an interac
tive process with continuous feed
back to the consultant who designed
The Lesson Plan Model (Is it work
ing? If not, why not? What modifica
tions arc needed?) Can you imagine
a manufacturing company placing a
new product on the market without a
similar loop back to the design engi
neer? Of course not.
Further, we assume the same
experience-based background in the
consultant who designed the lesson
plan model as to be found in the ac
knowledged experts who created the
Base Line essays. “ Given these facts” ,
I went on to say, “ A firm commit
ment to the success of the project
dictates a full utilization of the de
signer to assure a successful implem
entation of the initial classroom models
where everything and everybody is
on stage, this would include pupils,
teachers,parents, the District and the
public” .
I put it that these tru th s are self-
evident, especially given an educa
tional situation of te rra incognito (a
strange land) that deals with a most
controversial subject matter. One
thrust of my argument here is that it
takes more than a couple of after
noon workshops with unwieldy groups
for multiple crimes committed by a
single offender.
In June, voters approved an amend
ment to the Oregon constitution al
lowing the State Police to seize the
assets of drug pushers and kingpins
and use them to fund further drug
enforcement activity.
In addition, the Legislature in
creased penalties for parole viola
tors, and adopted sentencing guide
CALENDAR
lines that will ensure that the time a
Members of the Northwest Afri
crim inal is sentenced to by a judge is
the time actually served-and there can American Writers will be fea
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will be no early release.
Oregon also has new laws on the ogy, Voices of Kuumba, on talking
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of teachers, 100 a ta time, to structure
a feasible delivery system for the
classroom. Another reason.Jdr main
taining the continuity of the consult
ant designer is that of the human
factors presented by the teacher corp.
I mentioned last week that the idea of
major contributions to the culture
and technology of the world by Blacks
is simply “ mind boggling” to many
of them, whether white or Black.
It is to be remembered that most
teachers themselves came through
an educational system which taught
that all civilization began with the
Greeks, and never mentioned the docu
mented fact that before they estab
lished their own universities, they
attended the Egyptian Temple Schools
in Africa (Eudid, Archimedes, Hero,
Erastofhenes, Pythagoras, etal) and
boasted of it: “ Something new is
always coming out of Africa” . Nor
did those school systems cite the
Black inventors, engineers, famed
novelists and composers, statesmen,
generals and so forth; Dr. Carver and
Frederick Douglass were the limit.
Now, it is true that there is an
oversight group involved in the proc
ess, the Desegregation M onitoring
Advisory C om m ittee. But these are
volunteers who meet monthly to lis
ten to progress reports from district
personnel, review and assess per
formance by the district as indicated
by statistical information furnished
by the district, and issue analytical
evaluations of the Desegregation
Process! Again, these are volunteer
monitors-not funded-and in no way
represent the continuous structured
intervention at the classroom level
such as I have detailed earlier. There
is, o f course, no doubt of their com
mitment or responsiveness.
I have had both parents and stu
dents ask why more hasn’t been done
in Portland-or earlier? My answer
has been that earlier on there were
attempts at change. Some were by
dedicated teachers who risked their
job^in the sixties and seventies, and
some by community activists. In 1971
1 attended a workshop put on by Dr.
Julius Hobson in Washington, D.C.
He had just won a precedent-shatter
ing lawsuit against that school
district(Hobson vs Board of Educa
tion).
An outraged parent, and a master
organizer, this black economist en
listed the aid of disgruntled parents,
disaffected teachers, sociologists,
anthropologists, lawyers, potential
employers, and taxpayers in general
in a successful effort to compel the
school district to deliver the product
they were paid for. Hobson even had
the Black janitors to photograph the
out of date science equipment in the
95% Black schools for comparison
with the upscale technology in the
white schools. The same comparison
mode was instituted in respect to the
years-behind texts and curriculum.
In 1974, as head of the Minority
Teachers Association, I attempted to
launch a similar attack here, Lets put
it this way. When I was elected there
were almost a hundred members on
the rolls. After I came forth with this
proposition for a Hobson-type law
suit, there remained about six active
members plus the poverty attorneys
who were going to file the suit. As an
example of how ready Portland
minorities were for drastic remedy
for an intolerable education system,
let me cite this. My sergeant-at-arms
intercepted one Black teacher at the
door, carrying a complete list of all
teachers present for delivery to to
massa school superintendent. What
it is!
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COMMUNITIES CAN STOP DRUGS
by John E. Jacob
Stopping the drug plague is going to take action on a wide variety of
fronts.Govemment has to get serious about ending the flow o f drugs into the
country. That will take more than rhetoric. It will mean committing military
resources to close our borders to drug importers, along with diplomatic
negotiations and economic inducements to exporting countries.
And government will have to fully fund drug treatment centers. It is
shameful that drug abusers who want to kick their habit must wait many
months before a slot opens up for them at a treatment center.
Expanding those centers’ capacities has to be at the to[p of any serious
anti-drug campaign.
But the war on drugs also has to be waged on the streets and in our
neighborhoods. This is a national problem affecting rich and poor, suburbs
and inner cities. But it is African American communities who bear the
greatest burden of drugs, and we’ll have to take the initiative in making our
neighborhoods drug-free zones.
For too long, people have been making excuses for drug abusers, reciting
a litany of social pressures and racism that drives some people to take drugs.
That won’t wash any more. If we wait for society’s ills to be cured to end
drug abuse and other anti-social behavior, w e’ll lose the battle for our
communities and become subjects of the drug dealers and drug lords.
The brutal fact is that drugs are taking over many o f our communities.
Drug gang wars have turned many of our neighborhoods into combat zones.
Little kids are out hustling for drug pushers and people are terrorized into
silence.
Our future as a people is endangered by the drug plague that saps
ambition, pulls young people away from school and jobs, and sends our
infant mortality and AIDS statistics sky-high.
The drug dealers represent the biggest threat to African American
communities today. They’re killing more African Americans than the Kian
ever did, and our communities must mobilize to drive them out.
Citizens have to join together to work closely with law enforcement
officials to identify dealers, gather evidence to convict them, and ensure
they are incarcerated.
Too often the drug lords intimidate and overwhelm neighborhood
protesters but they won’t be able to do that if people band together and join
forces.
That’s the way you win wars, and we are definitely at war for control of
our lives and our communities today.
People will have to get tough on users, too. African American commu
nities, which have been subjected to the intolerance of others for so long,
tend to be too tolerant
But wc have to stand up for the values that enabled us to survive, and that
means making it very clear to drug abusers that they and their drugs are not
wanted in the community and they should either kick the habit or get o u t
Local community institutions need to be in the forefront of the fight
against the drug dealers. Urban Leagues, churches, social and fraternal
organizations, and the press, need to come together to mobilize citizens and
publicize ant-drug activities.
If we don’t win the war against drugs, we can forget about winning our
war for equality.
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