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C om m itted to cultural diversity.
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Dangerous Ground
“Air Man” visits
child center
New Line Cinema's new
release, DANGEROUS
GROUND, starring Ice
Cube and elizabeth Hurley,
opens in theatres this week.
Reggie "Air Man ” Dixon
paid a visit to the children
at providence Child Center
on Monday.
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See Arts & Entertainment, page A3.
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Black Panther founder to speak
B
obby Seale, co-founder and
former chairman of the Black
Panthers, will speak at Clark
College in Vancouver on Wednesday,
February 26 at 7 p.m. in the Gaiser Hall
Student Center.
Clinton, GOP agree to agree
They still have some differences, but
President Clinton and Republican con­
gressional leaders emphasized the issues
they agree on. Clinton, House Speaker
Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader
Trent Lott stressed the need for biparti­
sanship after the president paid a rare visit
to Capitol Hill to discuss the budget and
other issues.
Airline mediator hopeful
The head of the National Mediation
Board remains hopeful that American
Airlines and its pilots union will work out
a contract agreement before midnight Fri­
day, when the pilots have threatened to go
on strike Kenneth Hipp says the shuttle
negotiations between the two sides have
been “very businesslike” so far. In his
words, “no one’s taken off their shoe or
pounded on the table or done anything
like that.”
Serb opposition cautious
The political opposition in Serbia is
welcoming its election victory with cau­
tion. The victory came Tuesday when
Serbia’s parliament voted to reinstate the
results of November’s municipal elec­
tions, which were won by the opposition
but voided by the ruling party. One of the
o p p o sitio n ’s key leaders says the
parliament’s action has solved one prob­
lem. But he says many remain, including
the dismal state of the economy, faulty
government policy, and what he calls the
"arrogant attitude” of authorities. He says
they can be fixed only by "fundamental
reforms.”
Hackers Take
the Money and Run
Security experts say hackers are find­
ing it easier to break into computer net­
works and steal money, in part because
companies are reluctant to admit that
they’re vulnerable to cyber-thieves. One
expert told a House panel Tuesday, “If I
want to steal money a computer is a much
better tool than a handgun." Eugene
Spafford of Purdue University testified
that most computer crimes go unreported
and he estimates losses run into the hun­
dreds of millions of dollars.
Plaintiffs Hail
Simpson Verdict
Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the O.J
Simpson civil trial Tuesday defended the
jury verdicts finding the ex-football star
responsible for two killings and ordering
him to pay $33.5 million in damages.
“The jury acted within its discretion. This
man committed a double murder and it
found it was not appropriate for him to
profit from these murders," said attorney
Daniel Petrocelli. Denise Brown, a sister
of Simpson’s slain ex-wife Nicole Brown
Simpson, said the damage award was
entirely appropriate.
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EDUCATION............. .... A5
OBSERVADOR........ ,...A6
FAMILY..................... ,...A 7
METRO.................... ... B I
VANCOUVER........... ... B2
ARTS & ENT............ ... B3
BLACK HISTORY.... ...B 4
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An Evening with Bobby S?ale is part of
the Winter Lecture and Art Series sponsored
by the Associated Students of Clark College.
Admission is $5 for students and $10 for
community members. Tickets are available
now at Clark College Bookstore.
Seale is the last surviving architect of
one o f the most important movements in
American and African-American history.
Taking to the stage with charisma and
eloquence, he sheds light on the story of
the Black Panthers, a movement which
grew out o f student activism , not the
streets. His presentation will transport
the audience back to the turbulence of the
late 1960s and early 1970s. Dubbing him­
self a “revolutionary hum anist” Seale dis­
cusses how times have changed and makes
a call for a new ’90s breed of social and
political activism.
Before coming to national prominence,
Seale worked as a structural mechanic in the
U.S. Air Force and as an engineer in the
Gemini Missile program. As a student at
Merritt College in 1962, he gained his first
exposure to the growing civil rights move­
ment and was influenced by both Marlin
Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela. The
death of Malcolm X moved Seale to action
and in 1966 he formed the Black Panther
Party for Self Defense along with Huey P.
Newton.
Today Seale is the Creator/Director of
R.E.C.H.I., an organization that teaches
young people in America and internation­
ally the methodology of effective commu­
nity organizing The author of several books,
he is currently completing his latest work.
Bobby Seale, Creator/Director of R.E.C.H.I.
Memoirs (Of an African-American Revolu
tionary Humanist), and working w ith Warner
Brothers Pictures to bring the Black Pan
thers story to the big. > recn
Seale will also be speaking at PSU on
Friday, February 28, at 8 30 p in in the
Smith Center Ballroom as part of PSU's
Black History Month celebration
Additional activities scheduled in rec­
ognition of Black History Month at Clark
College include: A display on Black his­
tory and culture titled, A Celebration in
Blackness. The two-part exhibit, located
in Central Gaiser Hall, presents l essons
in History from the pyramids through the
slave trade from February 10-20 Part two
will highlight 2,000 years of extraordi­
nary achievement among Blacks from
February 20-28
A musical review, which will raise funds
for the Constance Baker Motley Grant for
Ethnic Minority Students, was presented
Saturday, February 8 at 7 p.m. and Sun­
day, February 9 at 6 p.m. in the Gaiser
Hall Student Center
The 1997 Variety Show: A Celebration of
the Human Spirit features vocalists and danc­
ers from the campus and Southwest Wash­
ington community performing a variety of
musical favorites for all ages. A selection of
Disney and fantasy tunes from movies like
Aladdin. Beauty the Beast and The Jungle
Book begin the program . Broadw ay
Showstoppers includes music from Evita,
Grease, My Fair Lady and South Pacific-
Nostalgia pop songs and country tunes, plus
two original works by Clark College stu­
dents fill out the show, which received three
awards at last summer's Southwest Wash­
ington Community Theater Recognition
program.
For additional information about Black
History Month events at Clark College con­
tact the Multicultural Student Affairs office
at 992-2806.
Parents and teachers lobby against budget cuts
by N eil
H eilpern
ictoria Davis and Ann Johnson
joined more than 12 0 people
who played hookie from the
middle of a three day Oregon Head Start
Association conference in Beaverton
last Thursday - but they had a good
excuse.
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The parents and teachers from 36 coun­
ties were busy scouring the halls of the
legislature, hoping to persuade elected state
officials not to cut their programs in the
wake o f tax cutting Measure 47.
After touching bases with Head Stan
lobbyist Mark Nolan and State Schools Su­
perintendent Norma Paulus, the citizen lob­
byists broke up into teams of 2-4 people and
went in different directions.
Davis and Johnson headed to the house
offices first, concerned that the $35 million
slated for expanded Head Start programs in
Gov. John Kitzhaber’s proposed budget
might be drastically cut.
The funding would provide services to an
additional 5,400 children over the next two
years, in an effort to break the cycle of
poverty for children and their families by
wrapping the youngsters’ educational, so­
cial, health and nutritional needs in one
program.
“We don’t want them to cut anything,”
said Davis, whose son Teontra (5) attends
Albina Head Start “And, if they do, we want
them to at least keep the programs that are
already in action.”
Rep. Margaret
Carter (right)
greets citizen
lobbyists from
Albina Head Start.
From left, they are
Victoria Davis, Ann
Johnson and
Rachelle Mustafa.
Photo by
Neil Hellpem
“Don’t cut what we already have!”
“ We want to make the legislature aware
of our presence,” noted Johnson, who has
been a teacher with the Albina Head Start
program for the past seven years.
“As a teacher and former Head Start
parent I truly believe that Head Start gave
my son a very good foundation,” she said
“He is now a senior at Oregon State Univer­
sity.”
Johnson said her son’s growth in self
esteem while involved in the Head Start
program was typical of the reasons funding
should continue.
“This growth in self esteem is not only for
the children, but for the parents as well,” she
added
The two women paused just outside the
office of Rep Margaret Carter (D-Portland),
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UO conference to look at inmates, drugs, gangs
will speak on "Inmates. Drugs and Gangs a
ational, state and local per­
National Perspective.” An adviser to the
spectives on the problems of
Arkansas attorney general's Youth Gang
inmates, drugs and gangs will
Task Force and a consultant to the U S.
be the focus of a Feb. 14-15 conference
Attorney’s office for the Eastern District ol
sponsored by the University of Oregon
Arkansas on gang-related cases, Nawojczyk
Substance Abuse Prevention Program
has spoken at the U.S. Army War College for
at the Lane County Fairgrounds, 796 W.
the nation's adjutant generals and he has
13th Ave.
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“Inmates, Drugs and Gangs” is set from 8
a m. to 4:40 on Friday and Saturday in the
auditorium.
Steve Nawojczyk of Little Rock, Ark ,
been featured on PBS. HBO. CBS News and
“Larry King Live."
Kurt Lewis, executive director of InTime
Interventions and consultant to the Powder
River Correctional Institution in BakerCity,
will discuss" Gangs. Criminal Behavior and
thinking Errors: The Parallels Within the
Institution" and "inside the Walls: Interven­
tion and Treatment for Juveniles and Adult
Offenders.”
Sgt Lisa Wampole, and investigator with
the Coos County Sheriff’s Department in
Coquille, will speak about “DestructiveCults
and Occult Affiliates: Profiles and Investi­
gative Techniques for Emerging Offend­
ers ”
Elaine Premo, watch commander at the
Columbia River Correctional Facility in
Portland, will discuss "Inmates. Drugs and
Gangs And Oregon Perspective" and “Up­
date: Emerging Trends in Inmate Profiles.”
The conference offers two units of college
credit for graduate and undergraduate stu­
dents Community professionals and others
are also welcome.
For information, call Miki Mace, UO
Substance Abuse Prevention Program Coor­
dinator, (541) 346-3397.
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