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Jefferson dancer
excels
She's college bound for the
arts with a presidential
merit scholarship.
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Hiring
outburst
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McVeigh defense
continues case
Lawyers for convicted Oklahoma City
bomber Timothy McVeigh Tuesday re
sume their effort to save him from execu
tion S o far, McVeigh’s lawyers have called
21 witnesses in the penalty phase of his
trial. With testimony from a succession of
witnesses Monday. McVeigh was por
trayed as a cheerful teenager, a good stu
dent and a model soldier. The defense is
trying to convince the jury to send McVeigh
to prison for life.
Uproar doesn't shake
new president, peers
call imaginative and
innovative
W isconsin law school dean
who brings a reputation as an
advocate for diversity and an
easygoing management style has been
named the new president of Portland
State University.
A
Fourth Kevorkian trial set
Jury selection began Tuesday in the
fourth trial against Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
The crusader for assisted suicide is going
to trial in the small town of Ionia, Mich.
He’s accused of four felonies for his role in
the death o f a woman who suffered from
multiple sclerosis. The retired pathologist
also faces a charge of practicing medicine
without a license.
Penalty phase
in Megan case
The penalty phase of the trial against
the killer of 7-year-oM Megan Kanka
continues Tuesday. Prosecutors in Tren
ton, N .J., said M onday that Jesse
Timmendequas should die for the rape-
murder of Kanka, a killing that led to the
so-called Megan’s Law for convicted sex
offenders.
Ex-Black Panther
due In court
Former Black Panther leader Elmer
"Geronimo” Pratt is due in a Santa Ana,
Calif., court Tuesday in his effort to win
his freedom after 25 years in prison. The
Los Angeles County district attorney says
it will appeal a judge's ruling granting a
new trial for Pratt. Pratt was imprisoned
after being convicted of the 1968 murder
of a woman in Santa Monica. Pratt has
campaigned for years for a new trial,
arguing that he was 400 miles away in
Oakland when the murder took place and
that the FBI knew it because he was under
surveillance.
Tobacco settlement
talks proceed
Tobacco settlement negotiators are mak
ing a last-ditch effort to reach a deal this’
week, but several sources close to the talks
warn their efforts could unravel in the
next few days. A large meeting of attor
neys general that had been scheduled for
Tuesday in Dallas has been canceled.
Instead, core negotiators arc now in Wash
ington. They are still struggling to solve
several critical civil liability problems that
may prove to be unsurmountable. At issue
is whether the parties can devise a plan
that would give cigarette companies some
certainty about damages they would have
to pay without depriving individuals of
ih e ii l i g h t to sue the industry.
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Sweet smell of success
‘I'm just it little ruse hud. But / will grow into a beautiful ruse,' is just one ofth e themes at Humboldt Elementary in north
Portland as kindergarten children dun cup and gowns and receive congratulations from principal l.averne Davis on their
promotion to the first grade.
(Photos by Mark Washington)
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Betty Campbell building dedicated
Housing ready for new tenants in historic Mississippi District
by
L ef . P erlm an
o n g tim e
B o is e -E lio t
School
p rin c ip a l
B e tty
Campbell received a living me
morial last week, as Housing Our Fami
lies dedicated its newest
building in her name.
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The Betty Campbell Apart
ments, 3987 N. Mississippi
Ave., contains one one-bed-
room handicapped-accessible
apartment, four two-bedroom
and four three-bedroom units,
with the larger units having bed
rooms on both the second and
third floors of the building. The
one and three-bedrooms, tar
geted to those earning 50 per
cent or less of median income,
rent for $335 and $495 a month
respectively, while the two-bed
rooms, slated for tenants earn
ing up to 60 percent o f median,
are $525 a month. Two o f the
two-bedroom units are still
available, HOF executive di
rector Gretchen Dursch says.
The ground floor contains the non-profit
agency’s own offices and those of Total
Staffing Solutions, an employment and train
ing agency. As part of its rental agreement,
TSS will provide training for HOF tenants,
Dursch says. The arrangement represents
HOF’s first experiment in retail space rental.
The new building brings the agency’s
inventory of rental housing units for low-
income women and families in north and
northeast Portland to 161. It began in 1993
with the renovation of a four-plex, now the
Vesia Loving Complex, at 4529 N. Missis
sippi Ave. It is now planning to build a 74-
unit structure with ground floor retail on
Northeast Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard
at Dekum St.
Scott Burns, co-chair of the Boise Neigh
borhood Association, feels the new structure
is “an exciting turning point in the revitaliza
tion of the Mississippi Corridor. It’s an im
portant cornerstone." HOF and the Boise
Association have co-sponsored
projects such as neighborhood
cleanups and "paint-a-thons”
for low-income owner-occu
pants, and Burns says he hopes
this continues in the future
HOF board member Brenda
Jackson first proposed naming
the building for Betty Campbell,
but the idea was strongly sup
ported by people throughout the
community, Dursch says. She
retires this year after 30 years
with the Portland School Dis
trict.
At the dedication, Campbell
said that twoof her students have
told her. “We’re moving into
your house, Betty!” Characteris
tically, she urged those present
to lobby the state legislature for
better school funding.
The apartment site, once a pool hall had
been vacant for eight years, and seized by
Multnomah County for non-payment of taxes,
before it was donated to HOF as part of its
affordable housing program. The project was
financed in part by three loans.
Clinic
founder
honored
ariah Taylor, founder of the
north Portland clinic known
as "The Clinic of Last Re
sort," for its help to largely uninsured
and poor patients, will be honored Sun
day in Portland duirng the convention
of the National League for Nursing.
M
Taylor has lived in Portland for 50 years
She is a former welfare recipient and single
mother of three who worked her way though
college, earning a Masters degree in Nursing
in 1979. It serves about 2,000 patients per
year, providing vaccinations, screening, re
ferrals, prescriptions, emergency care, pan
try services and, when possible, house calls.
Rose festival fun
Lead marcher for the flag and drill team at northeast Portland's Sabin Elementary
keeps balance as one of many school entries in Portland’s Junior Rose Festival
Parade.
(Photo by Yvonne Lerch)
Daniel O. Bernstine, currently dean and
professor of law at the University of Wiscon
sin Law School in Madison, Wisconsin be
comes PSU’s seventh president.
“Daniel Bernstine brings to Portland State
University a sense of acceptance and toler
ance,” said Oregon Board of Education Chan
cellor Joseph Cox.
“He is entrepreneurial, imaginative and
innovative, and has a record and reputation
as an excellent fundraiser, Cox said “He
recognized the fact that higher education
must be responsive to the social and eco
nomic needs of the local community and
society as a whole and he is a staunch advo
cate for achieving excellence through diver
sity.”
A 4 9 -y ear-o ld A frican A m erican,
Bernstine will become the first minority to
head an Oregon university when he comes to
Daniel Bernstine
brings to Portland
State University a
sense o f acceptance
and tolerance,' -
Oregon Board o f
Education
Chancellor Joseph
Cox.
PSU later th's summer.
His appointment was a surprise to many
on the PSU campus. He wasn’tthetopchoice
of a panel of faculty and student leaders who
had endorsed another candidate
When the selection was announced before
a expectant crowd Thursday there was a
moment of stunned silence and then protests.
Some people walked out of the room
Later, faculty and student leaders said
they would work with the new president.
Before working at the University of Wis
consin, Bernstine served as general counsel
for Howard University and Howard Univer
sity Hospital in Washington, D C.
He has served as a visiting professor at the
University of South Carolina School of Law
and the University of Bridgeport School of
Law; a faculty participant at the Intcr-Ameri-
can Comparative Giessen in the Federal Re
public of Germany; and a lecturer at the Inter
national Customs Academy in Taipei, Taiwan
He holds a bachelor’s degree in political
science and sociology from the University of
California, Berkeley in 1969 and earned his
law degree from Northwestern University
School of Law in 1972.
Bernstine and three other finalists for the
position, Michael A. Baer of Northeastern
University; Lindsay Ann Desrochers of the
University System of Georgia; and Peggy
Gordon Elliott ofthe American Association of
State Colleges and Universities visited the
campus and met with faculty, administrators,
students and community and alumni members
before the board met with each candidate
The selection of a new president capped a
four-month search process which drew 76
applicants.