D ecember 7, 1994 • T he P ortland O bserver P age A4 Report Card Due On Prison 'Boot Camp' which uses military discipline, com m unity-based labor projects and in tensive treatment programs to reha bilitate offenders. Non-violent per sons between the ages of 18 and 40, plus those under 18 who are con victed after remand from juvenile court, are eligible. The PSU Center for Urban Stud ies and School o f Urban Affairs re ceived a $32,000 contract from the Urban studies researchers at Portland State will do a detailed evaluation of O regon’s new prison boot camp. The camp called Oregon SU M M IT (Success Using M otivation, Morale. Intensity and Treatment) is based at the Shutter Creek Correc tional Institution in North Bend. Male and female inmates volunteer for the highly structured six-month program, D epartment of Corrections to com plete the analysis. The report, due in March, will cover the cam p’s cost effectiveness and impact on the in mates enrolled. “This project is a first for PSU and the Department of Corrections,” said Perlstein. “In the 23 years I’ve been here this is the first time the departm ent has totally opened up its records for us This is significant not only for this project, but also for future corrections research and learn ing.” The research will com pare per form ance goals w ith boot cam p records. Also, the PSU team will evaluate how boot cam p participants fare in the real world after they’re released and check to see that the program has com plied with the law and service delivery goals. The Lessons From Los Angeles: Q uestions a b o u t RECYCLING? Did We Learn Anything? II kv So it is that our enemies can label us "welfare parasites” who have con tributed nothing to wealth o f this nation. The sons and daughters o f slaveholders know better, o f course, but we don’t have to go back that far to answer their drivel, dowe? Since it is perfectly obvious that there could not have been any cogni tive genetic change in the black pop ulation over such a short period o f time, we search for another interven ing factor -- and we find one, equally obvious. Following both these eras o f significant black economic gains there has been an almost simulta neous response from the majority population. It is often referred to as a “backlash", though it usually involves more subtle refinements than cus tomarily associated with the term. We refer to control o f commer cial real estate sales and leases, allo cation o f “name-brand" franchises andothertrade opportunities, includ ing financing o f inventories (reserved for whites, native-born and Europe ans). This response was locked in immediately following that tum-of- the-century surge o f African Ameri can pride and accomplishment. Now, that development o f a sizable black economic infrastructure in the city o f Los Angeles ( 1954-1974) lost its di rection and momentum as soon as the establishment discovered what was happening and quickly moved to cir cumscribe the action. Those who followed my August series, “The Geography ofN owhere : P rof . M c K inley B i rt The Republicans, breathing hot and heavy on our tails since the elec tions (welfare), have resumed the arguments o f Rudyard Kipling, the poet laureate o f imperialism, in the very first stanza o f his most famous apology for white supremacy, “Take up the White m an’s burden... Go, bind your sons to exile to serve the captive's need. ..your new-caught sullen peoples, half devil and half c h ild ! ” , he so u n d s lik e R ush Limbaugh leading the charge o f the Far Right. O r, lik e P re s id e n t T e d d y Roosevelt who conveniently forgot who it was that got him up San Juan Hill in one piece (the black “Buffalo Soldiers” in the Spanish American W ar) He thought Kipling was “a poor poet, but made good sense from the expansion point o f view” (in W eston. 1972, p.35). Now, what has all this to do with that Los Ange les experience o f African Americans, that intense phase o f economic learn ing and accomplishment? Or, for that matter, the incredible gains at the turn o f the century ? For one thing, it is very difficult to defend against the onslaught o f the Right W ing’s vicious rhetoric and polemics (affects legislation) when one cannot even recall or cite one’s own relevant history. Some cannot rem em ber Bill C osby’s powerful tape, “Black History, Lost, Strayed or Stolen” . (And none o f this young est generation has even heard o f it). Locating Minority Business” (or read the book by the same name), thor oughly understand how this system works; From the displacement o f black populations and the seizures o f their properties by virtue of Model Cities and other Urban Renewal pro grams (this includes curtailing the growth o f black business districts), to the various “City Clubs and Focus G roups” where th e ' real’ urban plan ners design and control A m erica’s infrastructure. You may also consid er a number o f exclusive cocktail lounges. Interesting calls and letters fol lowed last w eeks’ article, including a bank. That w asn’t very clever to beg the issue by citing new black-orient ed programs for financing housing - - nationwide the government is on your case ’like w hite-on-rice’, forc ing you to ‘ unass ’ some o f those tens o f billions o f African American de posits youv’e used for decades to make interest and loan to white folks (I read those bulletins from T rea sury, the Comptrol ler o f the currency and other banking regulators). The real issue, o f course, was and is to what extent the financial institutions o f any given American city work with (connive?) The business and real estate communities to control the economic developm ent o f mi norities. Is there a relation to crime, unemployment and welfare? g ram , a c c o rd in g to C h u ck Brinkerhoof, research analyst for the corrections department. In the sec ond six-month "platoon” group, of the original 75 enrolled, 27 com pleted the program. A third platoon group is now under way, with 76 enrolled. Hall said he expects this to be the nation’s most com prehensive evaluation of a state boot camp. The camp was modeled after a similar program in New York state At least 18 states were employing these hardline discipline rehabilita tion programs as of 1990. But the camps have had a mixed record of success so far, according to Perlstein. In Oregon, 66 persons were en rolled in the first six-months o f the camp, which concluded in Septem ber. Thirty-one completed the pro \x . y W e have ANSWERS. (and free refrigerator magnets!) Metro Recycling Information M ETRO 234-3000 Concluded nextweek: “The Fault Is Not In The Stars, Charley Brown ” Bank Of America Introduces Secured Credit Card In Oregon Bank o f America today intro duced a secured credit card for con sumers with little or no credit history, such as young people and those re cently divorced or widowed. The new BankAmericard Se cured Card is available through the b ank’s 84 branches in Oregon. The card is secured - or backed -- by a BofA savings account in an amount equal to the credit line, which can range from $500 to $5,000. The principal balance can’t be withdrawn while the customer has the card. If a card m ember fails to repay the debt, the bank collects from the savings account. “The new BankAmericard Se cured Card enables us to meet the credit needs o f our customers who may not otherwise qualify for our credit card,” said Jim Barri, BofA Oregon vice chairman o f Retai 1 Bank ing. “Once customers build a good credit history or re-establish credit after economic hardship, we hope to graduate them to our classic card.” According to Barri, the card is competitively priced and enables the bank to strengthen customer rela tionships. The rate on the new secured card, currently set at 18.15%, is a variable rate, which is adjusted quar Stein, Katz Honored As Leaders M u ltn o m a h C o u n ty c n a i r Beverly Stein and Portland Mayor V era Katz have been named "1994 Public Officials o f the Y ear" by G ov erning magazine. A formal presenta tion will be made during a dinner in Jan. 19 in W ashington, D C. The trade magazine for state and local governments is published by Congressional Quarterly. It praises the Oregon pair for success in government cooperation and their support for community benchmarks to drive public policy. The transfer of23 Multnomah Coun ty S h e riffs deputies to the city police force is mentioned as an examples of cooperation. “ Beverly and I quickly recog nized that we would be far more effective if we worked with each other instead o f against each other,” said Katz. “This kind o f cooperation makes us more responsible to our community needs and more account able to the people we serve.” Stein said the award notes "the importance o f collaboration for ef fectiveness in government. * terly and is based on the prime rate as published in the Wall Street Journal plus 10.9%. The annual fee o f $18 is waived if the customer has a BofA checking account. Accounts have a 25-day grace period on purchases before interest is charged. To apply for the secured card, c u sto m e rs m ust be at least 18 y e a rs o ld , have a U .S. a d d re ss, n e v e r have file d for b a n k ru p tc y , and all c re d it a c c o u n ts m ust be c u rre n t. 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L. Howell/?681/Lotto/Mlll Creek Dano Lewis/?681/Lotto/lssaquah The W a sh in g to n S tate L o tte r j. Do jo u fe e l In c h ? Musi lie 18 years or oilier io purchase. B a n k in g o n A m e r ic a * 66 Finally some solid ground amidst the chaos of rising interest rates.” — w ell-sp o ken B o f A cu sto m er F ro m n o w until J a n u a ry 3 1 , 1995, a p p ly fo r B o f A ’s h o m e e q u ity line o f c re d it a n d . u p o n a p p ro v a l, y o u c a n lo ck in a lo w ra te o f 8 .5 % A P R th ro u g h J u n e 3 0 , 1995. T h e line o f c re d it c o m e s w ith q u ic k lo a n d e c is io n s , n o p o in ts o r fees to N o P o in t s o r F e e s o p e n th e a c c o u n t, g u a ra n te e d 3 0 d a y fu n d in g , a n d p o ssib le ta x -d e d u c tib ility o f in terest (se e y o u r tax a d v is o r fo r d etails). Im p r o v e y o u r In m k in y w ith a B an k o f A m e ric a h o m e e q u ity line o f c re d it. 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