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can smoke and do other harmful things to their bodies but stilHive long
The students spent parts of two reasonably healthy lives? It seems they are "fast detoxifiers Hus means
days with students from the Umatilla they are simply bom with genes which rapidly destroy cancer causing age
Indian Reservation near Pendleton, while at the other extreme there are “slow detoxifiers” whose bodies are so
meeting both on the Wh itman campus slow that they are prone to get cancer even if they live healthy lives.
and the Umatilla reservation.
Did You Know...that whether or not a person is able to cope success-
A second group ofPortland 1HAD fully in the world is heavily determined by things which happen to them
students, about 30 ninth-graders, ar­ before they are four years old? Research done at the Toronto-based
rived on campus July 18 and also will Canadian Institute for Advanced Research says a child s predisposition
stay for two weeks.
toward society and achieving success is “hugely dependent upon the |
degree of nurturing he or she receives during the first three years o f i .
In the Whitman College Radio
Did You Know.. .that Germany and Colombia have pretty much a
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doned
the
idea
that
it
is
possible
for
government
to
control
what
people
put
Station are (left to right)
into their bodies? Recently, both countries legalized the use of drugs
Whitman councelor Jason
including marijuana, cocaine and hashish. The German court decision was
Smith; and IHAD students
based in part on a 1992 ruling in which a judge held that Germans had
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Matt Purifoy, 13, was one of about
30 eighth-grade students from Port­
land who recently completed a two-
week summer program at Whitman
College. Purifoy dreams o f someday
being a Navy pilot.
But, standing outside a science
laboratory at Whitman, he made it
clear that college would come first.
“Before 1 do anything, my mom wants
me to go to college, so I’ll always
have something to fall back on, he
said.
Purifoy and his summer class­
mates were enrolled in the I Have A
Dream (1HAD) program to encour­
age and inspire pursuit o f higher edu­
cation. The students took classes in
language arts, science, mathematics,
music and fine arts, and participated
in a variety o f field trips, recreational
experiences and local community ser-
vice projects. They lived in campus
residence halls.
Purifoy, a student at Ockley Green
Middle School, said the summer pro­
gram has been fun and that he tried to
take full advantage o f the educational
opportunities. “Most of us were here
to leam. 1 know I was here to leam.”
Classes were taught by Whitman
faculty members, although Melanie
Ramsey, a teacher at Tubman Middle
School in Portland, helped teach the
science classes.
“Most of these students are very
serious about wanting to go on to
some form o f higher education,
Ramsey said. “This is a great experi­
ence for them. It gives them a chance
to experience life on campus, what
it’s like socially and academically.
They’ve been enthusiastic in class,
full o f energy, asking a lot of ques-
parents are not spending enough time at home.)
.
Did You Know..that according to the latest crime figures from
Bureau of Justice Statistics, the group most likely to be a victim o f a handgun
crime is young black males between 16 and 19? These young black males
are nine times more likely to be shot than other segment of the population.
Did You Know...that this week’s favorite quote comes from entertainer
Bill Cosby when he was asked what is the secret to success? Cosby
responded, “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying |
to please everybody.”
Theo Palmore in class with Whitman counselor Vicki Brazell
Most race horses are th o r­
oughbreds—horses whose ances­
try can be traced back to any of
three Arabian stallions that were
taken to England in the 1600s and
1 7 0 0 s : B y e rly T u rk , D a rle y
Arabian and the Godolphin Barb.
timber.”
Because it is a serious fire hazard,
throwing burning material from a ve­
hicle is a criminal offense with a $500
bail. Oregon State Police officers are
actively enforcing the law to help
prevent summer grass fires.
Panuccio stated that other com­
mon sources of grass and brush fires
in Oregon are children playing with
matches and lighters, trash burning,
and vehicle catalytic converters. “ All
of these fires can be prevented with
some care and common sense,
Panuccio added.
Business Camp
Scholarships
Available
The Solom on Fund and the
McDonald’s Corporation are spon­
soring several scholarships for mi­
nority and female students ages 12-
16. The sponsors are providing five
tuition paid scholarships to minority
and female students who will be se­
lected to attend the Youth Entrepre­
neurial Camp. The Camp is organized
and presented by the Small Business
Development Center, Portland Com­
munity College Open Campus.
The "Business Camp” will en­
able students to develop skills in: busi­
ness presentations, personal finance,
computer skills, marketing, manage­
ment skills, and entrepreneurial
skills . Theweek-longbusinesscamp
August 22-26,1994 will be filled each
day with exciting concepts, activities
and lots of opportunities to interact
with 25 other students from through
out the Portland area. “This will be an
excellent opportunity for minority and
female students to develop business
skills, that will help to prepare them to
be the next generation of business
owners and operators", said Gregory
White, of the Solomon Fund
To qualify, students must be be­
tween 12-16 in age and attend a Port­
land area grade or high school. Addi­
tional program requirements and ap­
plication materials can be obtained by
writing and enclosing a self addressed
stamped envelope to P O. Box 11463.
Portland, Oregon 97211; attn: Youth
Camp Application deadline is Fri­
constitutions right to become intoxicated’ if they wanted to
Did You Know...that in America there is one burglary every l
seconds; a car is stolen every 22 seconds: someone is robbed every
seconds: and someone is murdered every 22 minutes- And according to a
Justice Department report released last week the biggest increase in crime
is taking place among young people with guns.
Did You Know...that according to the latest Roper Starch surv y,
among sexually active teenagers 41% said they generally had sex wi their
parents home, 31% said in the home of their partner’s parents and 9 »/. said
they usually had sex in a car? (Those figures suggest that a whole lot of
Grass Fires
As temperatures remain high and
local fire officials report increasing
«umbers of grass and brush fires across
the state, State Fire Marshal Robert T.
Panuccio cautions Oregonians to be
extremely careful with cigarettes,
matches, and other outdoor fire igni­
tion sources.
Burning cigarettes tossed from
vehicles have started a number of the
state’s grass fires as well as a 13,000
acre blaze last weekend near Reno,
Nevada. “All fires start small, said
Panuccio. “ It takes just an ember to
start a fire that ends up destroying
people’s homes, vacation cabins and
Mannie Taylor, Andre
Soloman, Kirk Green and
Sufyan Dawan
Last week the Oregon Cable TV Gospel Mission and the Portland Art
Association (OCTA) presented Para­ Museum, as well as for participating
gon Cable with three awards recog­ in the Festival o f Trees to benefit
nizing its outstanding community ser­ Providence Medical Center, and for
vice - Cable Community Participa­ producing a local program focusing
tion Award, Parson's Award for Com­ on Hispanic and Latino issues.
OCTA also honored Paragon
munity Excellence, and a Cable in the
Cable with a Parson’s Award for Com­
Classroom Award.
Paragon received a Cable Com­ munity Excellence, which is given to
munity Participation Award for its cable companies excelling in com­
support of local organizations during munity outreach, media/communica-
1993-1994. Paragon was recognized tions, Cable in the classroom and po­
for its involvement with the Interstate litical relations.
Paragon received a Cable in the
Firehouse Cultural Center, Union
Portland’s Minority Marketing
Gets Rave Review
If the rest of the country was not
familiar with Portland, they are start­
ing to become aware of it now. Thanks
to the efforts of Roy Jay’s Oregon
Convention and Visitor Services Net­
work. Jay and Portland have recently
received prominentatteniion inBlack
Convention Magazine, a nationally
known publication, which is one of
the main avenues for minority con­
vention organizations and profession­
als across the country.
METRO Regional Government,
in conjunction with MERC, unani­
mously voted last November to award
a multi-year convention marketing
contract to Jay’s organization in an
effort to increase Portland’s visibil­
ity, locally and across the country
with potential future convention cus­
tomers “of color”. From early returns,
the investment by taxpayers is paying
off even better than anticipated.
I .ess than eieht months into the
first year, Jay’s efforts has acceler­
ated Portland from a mere partici­
pants at trade shows and conventions
to now being recognized as one of the
convention and tourism experts in the
rapidly rising ranks of the African
American Travel and Tourism Asso­
ciation.
The Portland native was a key
speaker last May, in Memphis at the
African American Travel and Tour­
ism Conference. In August, Jay has
been asked to participate in a distin­
guished panel of convention and hos­
pitality professionals during the B lack
Convention Forum ‘94 to be held in
Los Angeles. Jay says that his mission
is not only to promote Portland as a
destination site for future minority
conventions, but also to bring eco­
nomic em powerm ent from those
events to the minority business and
professional communitiesof Portland
including African American, His-
panic, Asian and Native Americans.
Plans for the multi-cultural video
are already on the drawing board with
production scheduled to start in Au­
gust. In addition, the first ever, Mi­
nority Convention and Visitors re­
source guide will be coming off the
press within the next several weeks.
Black Convention m agazine
writer, Liz Flournoy’s story ranks
Portland as one of the top four cities
across the country that has recog­
nized the need for a separately funded
minority convention and tourism en­
tity and responded to the community
need. “These types of responsible
decisions helps demonstrate true eth­
nic minority empowerment and is
certainly a positive factor for Port­
land when we start developing future
marketing strategies with other local
hospitality groups, hotels and organi­
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The Portland Police Bureau is
Classroom award for providing free
donating
the use of a van to the Start
cable service with extended copyright
Making
A
Reader Today (SMART)
clearances and educational program­
program.
Smart
is a book and reading
ming guides to local schools. There
program
involving
2,600 volunteers
are 150 local schools in this program.
and
students
in
48
elementary
schools
“Every business has a civic duty
throughout
Oregon.
Approximately
to give back to the community that
supports it,” said Kevin G. Kidd, Ex­ twenty five Police Bureau employees
ecutive Vice President and General are involved in Smart.
The Story program runs from
Manager of Paragon Cable. "Paragor
July 19th through August 23, 1994,
goes beyond that and takes an active
Monday through Friday from 11:00
role in assisting local organizations.
a.m. to 3:00 p.m. a schedule of stops
We are proud to be involved in our
is included.
community and our schools.
More information can be obtained
from Rachael Whitaker of the Oregon
I'll. Hood
Children’s Foundation at 221-2012,
Fcslivtil
or Officer Dorothey Elmore at 823-
Ofliizz
AiKjusl (¡III-'/III
0333.
cg n e i y i f V Q u z s
If this is supposed to
be a light bulb...
zations” said Jay.
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Young
Readers
Paragon Cable Awarded For Its
Outstanding Community Service
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