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Gordly Successful In
Submitting Budget Note
Protecting Affirmative
Action Gains
In public testim ony, D ivision o f
State L ands D irector Gary Gustafson
said that this is the first tim e his
agency has been asked to report on its
affirm ative action progress.
“T he legislature has not done a
very good job o f holding state ag en ­
cies ac co u n tab le a n d m o n ito rin g
progress, o r the lack o f progress in
recent years,” said Gordly.
Gordly said budget notes serve as
a additional m onitoring tool and are
generally reviewed each session as
agency budgets are considered
“ W hile we m ust take care to pro­
tect any and all gains in affirm ative
action over the past several years. I ’ve
S ta te R e p . A v e l G ordly
drafted this budget note to target sev­
P ro te c tin g a ffirm a tiv e ac tio n eral ag e n cies-in c lu d in g the P U C -
gains despite layoffs in state agencies that have a woeful record o f hiring
is the goal for a budget note to be m inorities and w om en,” said Rep
added to every m ajor budget passed Gordly.
T he language o f the budget note
out o f the House A ppropriations“Com-
mittee, according to State Rep Avel r e a d s ’’W hen positions are changed
or abolished, the agency shall make
Gordly
Gordly pushed for the budget note every reasonable effort to protect af­
as a m em ber o f the House A ppropria­ firm ative action gains w ith regards to
tions Com m ittee. It was included in fem ales and m inorities.”
G orldy said am ong the agencies
the Pubic U tility Com m ission budget
she is particularly concerned about
that passed the House.
A ccording to reports issues by are O regon’s L and C onservation and
G overnor Roberts’ O ffice o f A ffirm a­ D evelopm ent agency (LCD C) and the
tive Action, m inorities have made D epartm ent o f E nvironm ental Q ual­
slight gains in obtaining state jobs ity.
LCDC, said Gordly, has 45 em ­
over the past three years, rising from
8 .5 % o v e ra llto 8 8 betw een 1991 and ployees, only 7% are m inorities and
less than 40% are women.
1993.
“Particularly w hen agencies are
JThe budget note passed in the
House o f R epresentatives for the first mainly based in the P ortland M etro­
tim e as part o f the budget for the politan area w here the minority work
force is highest in the state, any level
Public U tilities Com m ission.
Gordly proposed the budget for o f m inority hirin g under 10% is ju st
unacceptable.” said Gordly.
the Public U tilities Com m ission.
“T he gains we have made, and
Gordly proposed the budget note
w
ill
continue
to m ake, m ust not be lost
in an attem pt to protect m inority and
w om en w orkers from being laid off in these tim es o f econom ic uncer­
during dow n-sizing o f state agencies tainty,” said Gordly “Yes, reductions
State law requires every agency in staffs will be m ade, but they must
to subm it an affirm ative action review not be targeted at m inority or w om en
w ith its budget request. G ordly said in populations, particularly in those agen­
past sessions legislators have not re­ cies that already have poor affirm ative
quested the inform ation as part o f the action hiring records.”
budget decision-m aking process.
Portland Man Claims
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Powerball Prize
Jam es K idw iler, 50, Portland,
visits Plaid Pantry #126 on SW C edar
H ills Blvd. in Beaverton several tim es
each week w hile driving his Federal
Express route. It’s not unusual for him
to buy a Lottery ticket d uring those
stops, as he did on W ednesday m orn­
ing, May 5. As it turned out, however,
th is w asn’t ju st a routine stop.
All five regular num bers (w hite
balls) on Jam es’ Pow erball ticket
m atched the num bers in the W ednes­
day, M ay 5, draw ing. He visited L ot­
te ry h e a d q u a r te r s to c la im h is
$100,000 prize. A fter 28 percent was
w ithheld for federal taxes, he left w ith
a check for $72,000.
Jam es d id n 't know his $5.00
Q uick Pick ticket was a w inner until
he visited the store the day after the
draw ¡ng and was told by store em ploy­
ees that they sold a big w ining ticket.
He went hom e after work and checked
the num bers on this ticket. "O h, I w ent
nuts,” Jam es laughed “ I couldn’t cat
or sleep for two days.”
Jam es w asn’t able to take tim e off
from work, so he had to w ait to claim
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his prize, his first scheduled day off.
T he ticket was alway s on his mind,
however. “ I w rapped the ticket in foil
and put it in a box o f pizza in the
freezer so it would be safe in case o f a
fire,” James said. “I must have checked
on it 50 tim es.”
Jam es plans to invest most o f the
money, in addition to pay ing offbills.
an avid fisherm an and hunter, he also
plans to “buy a few new toys” to
pursue those hobbies.
James said hiscow orkcrsare call­
ing him “ lucky”, and they may be
right. A ccording to Jam es, his past
O regon Lottery w innings include a
$ 1,500 prize in Daily 4 and several 5
o f 6 prizes in M cgabucks
Since April 1985, more than $885
m illion prizes has been aw arded to
O regon Lottery play ers.
O ver the past eight years more
than $450 m illion has been earned by
the Lottery for econom ic develop­
ment in Oregon. Fund recipients es­
tim ate that more than 38,000 jobs
could be created or saved throughout
the state.
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Coed Says:
“I Want People To Experience
What I Have Experienced”
W hen T am isha G reen left Port­
land, O regon, for Tuskegee, AL, three
years ago, she was traveling on a
hunch. She really d id n ’t know h o w -
or if—the transition would work.
“I cam e down here kind o f b lin d ­
folded,” the ju n io r Tuskegee U niver­
sity student said o f her first year here
A visit to A rkansas w ith her father
was the furthest south she had been.
“ I knew Tuskegee w as sm all, but
I expected it to be m ore of a city.”
Instead, “I found it to be more o f a
tow n.” She also expected the adjust­
m e n t—from P o rtlan d , O reg o n , to
Tuskegee, AL, w ith all the racial and
cultural d iffc rc n c e s-”to b c hard, very
hard.
“ I thought people w ould party all
the tim e; and if you were not able to
keep up w ith the crowd, you w ould get
lost.”
T he blindfold has long been re­
moved now, and T am isha likes w hat
she had been se e in g -a n d experienc­
ing.
T he friendly people she expected
are indeed friendly, she says. T here is
no need to be paranoid about aca­
dem ic success as she w as upon arrival,
the cam pus is m uch larger th an ex ­
pected, and she feels m uch m ore con­
fident an d stronger about m eeting the
challenges she knows career an d life
have in store for her
T u sk eg ee U n iv ersity w as not
T am ish a’s first choice. Indeed, she
applied for adm ission to only one east­
ern University. A fam ily friend rec­
om m ended Tuskegee, an d she ex ­
plored the U niversity’s background
T he school for her first choice
required participation in a sum m er
program before adm ission to the regu­
lar program . T hat m eant additional
airfare T am isha
said she co u ld n ’t
afford.
She w as re­
lu c ta n t to try
T u sk e g e e U n i­
versity, but rea­
so n ed : “Y o u ’ll
never know until
you go down there and try it.
“ W hen you show interest in learn­
ing. they (Tuskegee professors) get
excited about that and w ant to help
you even m ore,” T am isha explains
about her academ ic experience here.
“You d o n 't get that kind o f rapport at
a lot o f colleges," she says, in refer­
ence to the one-on-one relationship
she has established w ith some profes­
sors at Tuskegee
H aving ju st com pleted her third
T a m ish a G ree n
year at Tuskegee Univ ersity, she ob­
serves: “I ca n ’t picture my self being
anyw here else. I have found Tuskegee
offering a lot o f w hat I was looking
AL. an d her hometown of Portland,
Oregon, that is alike, Tam isha agrees.
A nd it is the difference that she seems
to like.
“To me it is
relaxing here. If
you want to take a
walk, you can get
away from the traf­
fic or the m usic,”
not denying that
there is some traf­
fic and plenty mu-
for, even the things that I may not sic. She finds it kind o f interesting to
sit outside to do my study ing and just
have know n I was looking for
“ I feel like I now belong to observe the w ildlife.”
Tuskegee.” She is im pressed w ith—
T am isha says she prefers to study
and influenced b y - th e U niversity's alone “unless someone needs help or
history, the range o f its strengths, and I need help I d o n 't get into the group
she m entions the weekly University study.” Her approach to academic work
Chapel services, thechoirperform ance here has been outstanding.
She has been an honor roll stu­
during Chapel and her work with the
elite University Escort program as dent every semester, a four-point stu­
dent three o f four semesters, an d “I'm
part o f her belonging here.
T here is so little about Tuskegee, w orking on a four point this semes-
now, and Tamisha likes what she had
been seeing—and experiencing.
lack Is Brilliant!
T he N ational A ssociation for the is experienced by A frican-A m erican
Advancement o f Colored People, Port­ sports figures
P artic ip atin g b ran c h es o f the
land C hapter, is sponsoring it’s 15th
A n n u al A fro-A cadcniic, C u ltu ral, N A A C P hold local com petitions
Technological, and Scientific O lym ­ and then send the w inners on to com ­
pete in the finals.
pics (ACT-SO).
T his year the finals will be held
T he purpose of A CT-SO is to
provide an atm osphere in w hich stu­ in Indianapolis, Indiana, July 10-12.
dents o f A frican descent that are in Last y ear’s national com petition at­
grades 9-12, are allow ed to develop, tracted more than 1300 high school
nurture and show case their talent. students from over 740 com m unities
These students will com pete in sev­ and was televised on national televi-
eral different catcgoncsincluding: the sion
T h isy e ars’ local com petition will
sciences, visual arts, perform ing arts,
be
held
on June 5, 1993 at W hitaker
and the hum anities
T he goal o f A CT-SO is to give the M iddle School For more inform a-
sam e notoriety to A frican-A m erican tion. plcasc call A C T-SO C oordina-
scholastic and cultural achievers that tor, Janet W arren at 331-1378
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Serious about her studies,
T am isha says, “I have worked
out a plan for myself. I really
d o n ’t feel like I am under any
pressure,” although her prefer­
ence is to com plete assignm ents
as soon as she receives them. She
feels w ell-prepared by the col­
lege preparatory school she at­
tended in Portland.
T am isha is a year away from
com pleting undergraduate stud­
ies at Tuskegee, but she contin­
ues to focus on plans to follow
graduation.
“No m atter w hat I do in life,
I w ant to be happy,” T am isha
says, a philosophy influenced by
her m other who not uncommonly
com plained on Sunday nights
about having to go to work on
M onday. “I w ant to do a little
teaching ” And w hile she is u n ­
sure o f the c o n cen tratio n -in ter­
national or co rp o rate-T am ish a
says she also w ants to practice
law before she returns to Oregon
to run for governor.
W ould a female, black can­
didate have a realistic chance o f
w inning a bid for governor in
O regon? T am isha thinks so. She
believes her candidacy for gov­
ernor, even if she looses, will
still be a “role model.” “T hat
(her candidacy) m ight still give
someone else the m otivation to
run,” she reasons.
M eanwhile, school is a p ri­
ority for Tam isha. “I could survive if
1 had to,” she says about moving into
the workplace now But because she
has the choice, she will study as long
as she can.
1 like school. W hen you are in
school, someone is always looking out
for you.'' And school at Tuskegee for
Tam isha is both outside as well as
inside the classroom She is an officer
o f the Pre-Law Society, an active mem­
ber o f the Political Science Associa­
tion, a member o f the Political Science
Com mittee o f the T uskegee chapter of
the NAACP, and a m em ber o f Alpha
Kappa M u Honor Society and the
Golden Key Honor Society.
And despite the distance from
Portland, she stays in touch w ith home
through telephone calls to her family
that can last an hour or more. She also
stays in touch w ith prospective col­
lege students because, she explains,”
1 w ant people from my hom e to expe-
rience w hat I have experienced "
Les Femmes
Debs And Cavs...
C o n tin u e d fr o m fr o n t p a g e
on the journey I am dedicated and my se lf w ith p o sitiv e people an d
have been educated to blossom like a w ith those w ho really care about
flower To stand on my own two feet society Now 1 am taking it upon
and show the talents God has given to m yself to obtain those essential quali­
me To thank the people who have ties, so I can then be a positive influ­
pushed me all the way. So I can be
natural in w hatever I do and say.
A long w ith all the toning I can be
effective on the challenges life pro­
vides you. So this is w hat a Debutante
is from me to y ou.
“Weathcroy—I ’ m the tv pc of per­
son w ho has alway s tried to surround
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In developing and m aintaining
relatio n sh ip s w ith m any different
types o f people, in many situations, it
is always effective to keep a positive
attitude T his attitude will keep m e in
the right fram e o f m ind to achieve the
many goals I have set for m yself
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