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Volume XX, Number 45
'The Eyes and Ears o f The Community"
s a result of their O ctober 27 vie
tory at Tigard High School, the
W hitaker Middle School Rally Squad
has been invited to com pete in the
National Championships at Anaheim,
Calif., on February 15-18, 1991.
But in order to get there, they need
to raise funds for the trip. Those who
wish to contribute may contact Dr.
H arriet Adair, or Grace M cKenzie, at
280-5620.
The competition is judged on ap
pearance and poise, showmanship, pre
cision and executive routine and over
all impression. The group scored a total
o f 311 points o f a possible 400.
When is "At Home"
Not At Home?... A
discussion on the
challenge of
entrepreneurship
page 2
Government Secrecy:
Democracy vs.
Supremacy... An
examination of
secrecy policies
within our
government
Beaumont Middle
School
Dedicated
Tuesday
ewly rem odeled facilities and a
N
decorative m etal fence were the
focus o f dedication cerem onies Tuesday
(Nov. 27) at Beaumont Middle School,
4043 N.E. Fremont S t
Students, parents, staff members,
neighbors and participants in the various
phases o f the construction joined to
gether at the event, which ran from 7-9
p.m.
A new addition which houses a
gymnasium, cafeteria and classroom s is
joined to the main building by a fence
designed by artist John Rogers. Symbols
of the tools o f education--from a pencil
to a computer-embellish the metal fence.
The original work o f art was funded
through the Percent for A rt Project to
which the Pordand School Board has
committed funds amounting to one per
cent o f budgets for all new construction
and remodeling in the school d istric t
“ Beaumont was extrem ely over
crowded before this rem odeling and
addition,” said Principal Lynne Smith.
“ Students and teachers are delighted
now to have adequate space.”
Row 1. Saquoija Green, Lamieka
Lowe, Jenelle Yarbrough, Nicole
Williams, Francesca Walker. Flow
2. Tracy Lusk, Donnissa
MacKintosh, Deonica Johnson,
Sarah Boatman. Row 3. Landra
Glover, Julia Taylor, Lakeesia
Lowery, Saretta Horn, Vonda
Criss and Sherrita Meyers.
Not pictured: Kristine Rebber,
Kristina Pate. Heather Pate.
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November 28,1990
Whitaker Middle School Rally Squad Seeks Donations
For National Competitions
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Portland School District’s Baseline Essays Under Attack! Nationwide Assult
Mounted Against the Precedent-Shattering Multicultural Curriculum
BY PROFESSOR MCKINLEY BURT
even fair or useful. The piece can only
be intended to confuse and misinform a
rom all quarters the past three
readership which the author knows full
weeks, there has come what is
well will never have an opportunity to
obviously a well-orchestrated attempt
read the Baseline essays for themselves.
on the part of “ respected” elem ents of
Comfortable with this gambit, the
the establishment media and academia
writer proceeds. To pick and choose
to reverse the gains made by African
from the Portland material those few
Americans in securing their true and
(very few) pronouncem ents which may
thoroughly-documented place in the
indeed provoke a raised eyebrow, i.e.
history of civilization.
“ The oral-aural tradition o f Africa is
These ill-disguised efforts to thwart
lively and liberating, whereas the de
the possibility that both black and white
pendence o f the W est (and presumable
Americans might become aware of the
o f the East) on the written word can be
deplorable prejudices and manipulations
debilitating.” Now, it is true that there
of so many white scholars far exceed the
was one rather shaky consultant who
travesties so aptly described by Bill Cosby
was imported from somewhere or an
in his early video, “ Black History: Lost,
other, and somehow this nonsense passed
Strayed or Stolen” . It could prove as
muster. But, then, the foolhardiness of
damaging as “ I.Q. and G enetic” non
General Custer is never used as a whole
sense put forth in past generations by the
sale indictm ent o f the U.S. Calvary.
comedy team of Jensen and Shockley.
One clown does not a circus make.
The lead salvo was fired by John
Further, may I say in respect to
Leo, editorial writer for the prestigious
the author’s selection o f that particular
weekly magazine, “ U.S. News and World
tidbit in an effort to make his case, the
Report” .” In the November 11 issue,
principal national consultants who de
beginning on page 25, we find an article,
veloped the Baseline essays made an
“ A Fringe History of the W orld” . The
incontrovertible c a se -v iz a v iz-H ere-
denigration intrinsic in the title tells one
dotus, Plato and others whose creden
right o ff that this is not going to be a
tials are im peccable among the estab-
critical examination of the pro ccss-n o r
lishm ent-that the ancient Africans were
F
Academy award
winner Morgan
Freeman talks about
his changing life
goals
PAGE 4
United Negro College
Fund
Preparing the future
with fundraisers
PAGE 5
M.C. Hammer
Releases Video
PAGE 4
The TrailBlazers,
despite Tuesdays loss,
are still on top
Page 3
the inventors of mathematics, letters,
astronomy and so forth. After all, it is all
still right there among the cosm os-cali
brated pyramids, W RIl TEN IN STONE.
I would make an additional point
in this respect: as one of the “ local con
sultants” who furnished much supple
mental but integral material in the form
o f model curriculum and lesson plans
necessary to support the mission. Par
ticularly, my effort developed further
my own research in this area of African
contribution, work which had culm i
nated in an educational demonstration
that won a National Science Foundation
award. The basis was an electronic/
communication model clearly revealing
that such classic and “ accepted” estab
lishment historians of mathematicians
as Howard Eves and Arthur Gittleman
were absolutely correct in stating that
the ancient Africans invented “ dupla-
tion” , the binary method o f m ultiplica
tion and division USED BY TO D A Y ’S
COMPUTERS!
This is something a medium bright
high school student could have deduced
from an examination of the famed “ Rhind
Papyrus” . O f course the author of this
magazine article never mentions the sup
porting work of the local consultants,
essential to the entire structure-obvi-
ously too devastatingly contradictory to
the precarioushouseofcards heattem pts
to build. Nor, for that matter, is there
allusion to the universally-acclaimed
stature of the principal Baseline essay
ists, men whom I know personally: John
Clarke, Ivan Van Sertima and Asa Hil
liard.
W e should note that Mr. Leo, who
wrote this racist polem ic, has summoned
forth several very active “ guardians of
the tem ple” to put down these uppite
you-know-whats and to counter the con
tributions of these em inent black schol
ars. In particular, he assigns a key role in
the * ‘cleansing of the altar” to one Diane
Ravitch, professor of history at Teacher’s
College, Columbia University. If the
name sounds familiar, it is because sev
eral months ago I spoke as disparagingly
as these pages would perm it in a critique
of an article by black (?) journalist, William
Razberry. (In his own piece, Razberry
also praises Ms. Ravitch in her crusade
to exorcise we impudent devils from the
temples o f education): Specifically, Leo
credits her for “ the best analysis of this
new and revised ethnic separatism ” .
As I stated earlier, the “ w ell-or
chestrated ’’ assault has com e from many
Harold Williams Elected to PCC Board of Directors
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T
he Portland Community College
Board o f Directors announced
the election of Harold W illiams
Board as Director for Zone 2; the scat
was previously held by Monica Little.
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W illiams began duties
Nov. 15 and will serve
the remainder o f the
term, through June 30,
1991. The seat will
com e up for election
March 26, 1991.
PCC Zone 2 in
cludes portions of north
and northeast Portland
and Columbia County.
W illiams is Presi
dent o f CH2A Associ
ates, a Portland consult
ing and management
firm which provides
contract policy services
to area clients. CH2A
clients include Portland
Public Schools, City o f Portland and
Portland State University.
to the Previously, W illiam s was Labor
Relations M anager for the Suite of O re
gon. He acted as the spokesman for the
Executive Department and negotiated
labor contracts and formulated and de
veloped labor relations policies.
From 1975 to 1979 W illiam s was
the A ffirm ative Action Director in the
Office o f the Governor and was respon
sible for the management of 51 state
agency affirm ative action programs.
Earlier in his career W illiam s o r
ganized and directed a “ storefront”
cam pus for Portland State University.
Long active in northeast Portland
com m unity affairs, W illiams is the chair
of the Coalition of Black Men and is a
m ember o f the Urban League o f G reater
Portland. He is also active in the
N.A.A.C.P. and the American A ssocia
tion o f Affirmative Action Officers.
W illiam s holds a B.S. in political
science and a m aster’s degree in general
studies from Portland Slate University.
He has also received certificates in inter
national relations and race relations from,
respectively, the University o f Zagreb
and the University of California.
W illiams and his wife Cal live in
northeast Portland and have three chil
dren; Natasha, age 19, Harold, age 13
and Anthony, age 11.
W illiams said, “ I feel that the
Cascade Campus is a vital clem ent of
P C C ’s program and an asset through
which to address the need for racial
understanding. The campus provides
hope for those who have lost a dream
for the future and it gives them an
opportunity to put that dream into an
active program for success.”
W illiams also said he would con
tinue to strongly support the com m u
nity outreach efforts of President Daniel
Moriarty and Cascade Campus Execu
tive Dean Don McInnis.
“ Their examples depict the kind
o f efforts I want to be part o f and their
efforts enhance the racial understand
ing and harmony that emanates through
PCC into the entire tri-county area.”
in the ranks o f those who are becoming
very frightened at the grow ing, often
belligerent evidence that the so-called
minorities o f the world have become
aw are that they are no such thing at all.
Also seeking to hold the line against a
true and factual revelation o f their docu
m ented role in the developm ent o f civi
lization, we have the follow ing scholars.
They, too, take their best shots at the
Baseline essays” :
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., a profes
sor of humanities at the City University
o f New York; Burton Beers, history
professor at North Carolina State U ni
versity in Raleigh; and A rther Ferrill, a
professor o f ancient history at the U ni
versity of W ashington: an im posing fed
eration, or is it conspiracy?
Are you like me? D o you get a
sense that all o f this is probably happen
ing in planned concert? M ore than likely
connected to the contem porary and sim i
lar assaults upon “ minority quotas and
set-asides” - th a t we are dealing with a
nationwide convulsion borne o f age-old
ethnic fears and today’s concerns about
an increasingly bleak econom ic picture.
More next week in this continuing ‘ * Saga
of the Baseline E ssays”
Chief Potter
Sworn In
C
aptain Tom Potter was officially
swom in as Chief o f Police by
City Auditor Barbara Clark on Monday,
November 19. Mayor Clark made the
following remarks at the swearing-in cere
monies:
“ Officers and citizens are working
together as partners more than ever be
fore. And this has resulted in greater
support for the [Police] Bureau and its
mission by our com m unity.”
“ Much o f the credit for this im
proved relationship belongs to the indi
vidual who will be swom in as C hief
today. But much o f it also belongs to
every man and woman in the Police
Bureau, because it’s through their dedi
cated service to the people o f Portland
that Community Policing is a reality. I
want to take the opportunity o f today’s
ceremony to acknowledge them and their
fine work, as w ell.”
Chief Potter’s new badge was pinned
on by his mother, Mrs. Frances Peters.
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