• "• ♦ >'•’*** r / i 'ir» /« *t • « o * • *' • '< ♦ < • » 4 • <* ♦ > fc- » f-r^ • 4 ♦ • 4««« ♦ tW t • » ♦ • 4 ♦ * « « « * • “Serving the community through cultural diversity." Volumn XXIII. Number 29 9 r ♦ * * > • <’• * * »» v ♦ » f tW *IA * ‘ •»# ¿ , July 21. 1993 L ife in the P ortland M etropolitan A rea ® íje ^ n rtla n fr (©IrseriiBr I Have A Dream”: Eighth Graders Go To College Twenty-seven “ I Have A Dream eighth grade students from the Class I Project, left for a three week college experience at W hitm an College on July 12th w ith their project coordina­ tor Ada Reed-Tellis. Dreamer participants were repre­ sentatives o fH B. Lee, Ockley Green, Celebrate Diversity Oregon Association Of Minority Entrepreneurs The Oregon Association o fM i- noritv Entrepreneurs (O AM E) w ill hold its m o n th ly “ Coffee and Issues" forum Friday, July 30,1993, 7am to 8am at OAME/Cascade Plaza, 4134 N. Vancouver. The featured speaker w ill be L in a Garcia-Seabold from T ri-M e t, discussing “ M in o rity U tilization on the Westside L ig ht R ail.” The public is welcome. O A M E w ill also unveil its 1993 M inority Business Directory. 249-7744. Open House Saturday, July 24, 1993 12:00 to 3:00 pm Please jo in us as we celebrate our thirteenth year o f serving the number one re­ source in our community , the ch il­ dren. Our Open House w ill prov ide you, our supporters, an opportunity to meet Mariah Tay lor, the woman whose dedication makes our organi­ zation possible It w ill also give us an opportunity to thank you person­ ally for your continued support Your $20 tax-deductible dona­ tion, or any donation you can make, w ill provide desperately needed ser­ vices to the homeless and medically indigent children in the Portland Metropolitan area Thank You For Your Support , V a. s • • 4 W hitaker, Beaumont and Tubman M iddle Schools Classes included Language Arts. W riting, Science and Studio A rt, taught by faculty o f W hitman College and Portland Pub- lie Schools. The project, is fimded bv Meyer IHad Foundation o f Portland antici- Memorial Trust and Whitman Col- pate that the project w ill become an on lege. Both Whitman College and the going partnership and that the Sum- mer program w ill eventually serve as a model for sim ilar effort around the country. oorstin Denounces Hyphenated Americans (Historian Stresses Importance o f Fostering a Sense o f C om m unity Among A ll Americans; Opposes B i­ lingual Education) Denouncing the notion o f a hy­ phenated American as “ un-Am eri­ can,” Pulitzer Prize-winning histo­ rian Daniel J. Boorstin declared, “ I object to the belief that it is more important that we belong to some particular small group than to the human race.” In an interview to be published this Sunday in “ Parade” magazine, Boorstin declared, “ I believe there arc only Americans Polish-Americans, Italian-Americans or African-A m eri­ cans are an emphasis that is not fer­ tile.” “ There has been so much empha­ sis recently on the diversity o f our peoples,” he added “ I think i t ’s time that we reaffirmed the fact that what has built our country' is community and that community is not dependent on government It's dependent on the willingness o f people to build to­ gether.” Stressing the importance o f this sense o f community. Boorstin said. “ The menace to America today is in the emphasis on what separates us rather than on what brings us to- g cthcr-thc separations o f race, o f re­ ligious dogma, o f religious practice, o f origins, o f language ” Asked about attempts to intro­ duce b ilin q u a lis m to A m e rican school,s Boorstin said, “ I am against imposing language uniform ity by law Bilingual teaching tends to restrict opportunities for the very people w ho need the opportunity toenter the main­ stream o f American life.” “ Broken English (is) perhaps ihc only thoroughly American language.” * » * A he added. “ I f we had a native Am eri­ can language, we might have been more chauvinistic about it. But we have an i mported language along with a population o f imported people.” The son o f a Russian immigrant, Boorstin said that imm igration is an important feature o f the American tradition and urged that we should continue to find ways to accommodate and provide opportunities for people from everywhere. Discussing slavery and racism, Boorstin said we must put both into a broader historical perspective. He emphasized that w hile Am erica’ s “ only c iv il war” was fought partly to preserve the Union, it also was fought against slavery. “ I think Americans continue to have a deep sense o f guilt over the inheritance o f the institution o f slavery,” he said. “ But that guilt should not be embodied in our current institutions We must give everybody a fresh start and not try to compensate for past injustices by creating present injustices.” “ For us to try to crawl back into our roots w ould be a great mistake.” he added “ I th ink wc should seize th is o pp ortu nity o f sharing a great tradition That is why I ’d be w ary o f attempts to create ethnic ghettos I t ’s an abomination. We must try to come together and learn to share what wc arc lucky enough to possess ” The author o f 20 books on the h is to ry o f A m e rican and w orld civ ilization. Boorstin is also Librar­ ian E m e ritu s o f the L ib ra ry o f Congress, a title created especially for him through a special Act o f Congress He had served as Librarian o f Congress for 12 years until his retirement in 1987 "The menace to America today is in the emphasis on what separates us rather than on what brings us together—the separations of race, o f religious dogma, of religious practice, o f origins, o f language. "