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CEO joins New Technologies of Oregon
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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
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, „ . 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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country attempt to help govern
ment employees at tederal. state,
and local levels deal with w ork
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