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— - *►- ***** - P agi A5 CEO joins New Technologies of Oregon • New Technologies has announced that Timothy C Barry has joined the startup software company’s man agement team as its new Chief Ex ecutive Officer. Barry joins NTI from MicroSpeed, Inc., ot Fremont, California which he co-tounded in 1985 and where he was formerly President and CEO. MicroSpeed is a w orld leading manufacturer o f computer input devices; Mr. Barry w ill rem ain a m em ber o f the MicroSpeed board o f directors. "W e feel fortunate to have at tracted a CEO with T im ’ s experi ence,” said Michael Anderson, President and co-founder o f N TI. "O ur market area is highly technical and it takes an executive with a combination o f technical background and business experience to meet our needs. In his 24 years in ‘ Silicon V alley’ T im ’ s been both in and around technology j .!_ . : j , „ . k .k that startups ... and the rapid growth they go through We’ re counting on him to help keep N TI on track as we take o f f ” N TI was formed in late 1996 by a team o f the w orld's leading experts in computer forensic science and security issues to produce software, training materials and procedures for use in computer forensic science. Members o f the team are known and recognized for their expertise Education and Culture go Hand-In-Hand by P rof . M c K inley B ik i A columnist for our local daily has some facetious (and ugly) com ments on Oregon’ s approach to edu cation: "Schools” : Who needs 'em? Jails: N ow that makes sense! Oregon’ s fat and happy...and stu pidly on a ro ll” . 1 believe that I was somewhat kinder back on March 26 when o f fering opinions on the "Educational Ranch.” M y objective, o f course, was not so much to raise the ire and unbridled passions o f the readers as it was to focus opinion on such c riti cal areas as funding, diversity and preparation for the high-technology future. There w o u ld seem to be a hardcore, rock bottom segment o f the populace that says it has no more taith and credulity in the informa tion - disinformation issuing forth daily from either the education sys tem or its detractors. They say that the myriad statistics emanating from these gurus and their disciples are as self-serving as the "ly in g maps drawn up by the competing Euro pean Colonialists in earlier centu ries. The disenchantment ranged from dissatisfaction with the scope o f con tent o f the famed "Baseline Essays” and supporting publications de signed to answer serious African American concerns with a public schools curriculum seen to be "Euro centric to a fault” - to a general discontent with the speed o f resolu tions obtained through such admin- istration/public interfaces as the "Desegregation M onitoring A d v i sory Committee.” I am not surprised at all that a number o f people desperately seek a major systemic change at both the level o f the public schools and in higher education. And realistically or not they feel that a better level o f education in the state is surely at tainable since voters approved Bal lot Measure 5 in 1990 and Ballot Measure 47 last November-those two measures have made education the central budget item for state gov ernment. Reader’ s are reminding me o f some o f the major ‘ new’ education systems that have been described here. O f course there is the perennial reprise o f my hometown school dis trict in the first h alf o f this century - St. Louis, Mo. (far superior in depth o f curriculum and graduation re quirements to 95% o f today’ s urban schools, including Portland). One parent group says they fre quently reviewed my 5/3/95 article about a local A frican American teacher at the Black Education Cen ter who made a trip to the People s Republic o f China. Dan Bundy was selected by the C itizen’s Ambassa- dor Program to be a member o f its M inority Education Delegation for a month-long study o f the Chinese education and cultural structures for assimilating the vast and diverse ethnic minorities o f that huge land. This article was used in conjunction with such excellent supplemental material as the definitive Scientific A m e ric a n m agazine a rtic le , "Indochinese Refuge Families and Academic Achievement” , February 1992. I love those test scores. Values and traditions were seen to permeate the lives o f these Asians in Indochina and were transferred by these low-income, big-fam iky boat people to their new American ghetto, “ Knowledge o f one’ s culture does not occur in a vacuum: it is transmit ted through the fam ily. Children often acquire a sense o f their heri tage as a result o f deliberate and concentrated parental effort in the context o f fam ily life.” I am re minded o f my childhood. Many African Americans easily recognize that this inoculation o f values from one generation to an other is a universal feature o f the ‘ conservation o f culture Can blacks survive any further cultural assaults, after the suppression o f Black His tory, so poignantly described by B ill Cosby or the social traumas o f a hundred major Urban Renewal Pro grams. BIG calls for independent Army sex investigation Blacks In Government (B IG ) called for an independent investi gation o f the Arm y Sex scandals as the only way to satisfy critical ques tion raised by the current investiga tion. In a letter to Secretary o f the Army Togo West, Oscar Eason, Jr., national president, stated that rac ism has overtaken the current in vestigation "The testimony o f white female victims that they were co erced to charge their Black superior officers with rape is a damning indictment o f the A rm y’ s ability to conduct a fair and impartial inves tigation o f the charges. It appears that, even with the A rm y ’s outstand ing record o f workforce integration, the old taboo regarding "black man w hite woman" can trigger deep- seated attitudes o f racial animus among whites We urgently request you to arrange an independent in vestigation o f the Arm y sexual ha rassment charges at Fort Aberdeen, Maryland, and other facilities.” “ Sexual harassment is a serious charge, but it does not follow that it reflects the same causes and should be subject to the same remedies, as rape. I f we are to arrive at solutions that w ill alleviate the problem, we must be assured ot fact-finding ve hicles that w ill permit us to accu rately define the problem. The tes tim ony o f the victim s has irrepara bly damaged the credibility ot the present in v e s tig a tio n ,” Eason stated. BIG is an organization o f A fr i can American government w ork ers dedicated to equity, excellence, and opportunity in public service. 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