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UNCF Celebrates its 54th Anniversary
With Pop Singer Janet Jackson
The United Negro College Fund
will celebrate its 54th Anniversaiy
Gala Dinner on Thursday, March 12,
1998. Close to 2,000 members o f the
business, philanthropic, entertainment
and educational communities will be
on hand for this celebrated event. Over
the past 54 years, UNCF has success
fully increased and improved access
to education for financially dis advan
taged young men and women. This
year's dinner will pay tribute to those
individuals who have demonstrated
their commitment to the important
educational mission o f UNCF. The
dinner, which begins at 7:00 pm, will
be preceded by a reception at 6:00 pm
at The Sheraton New York Hotel and
Towers (Seventh Avenue at 53rd St.).
Herbert M. Allison, Jr., President and
ChiefOperatingOfficer, Merrill Lynch
& Co., Inc., will serve as dinner chair
man.
Singer/songwriter/producer/ ac
tress Janet Jackson’s phenomenal
professional career has been shaped
by strength, compassion, courage,
and confidence. Janet is one o f the
most popular entertainers in hr field.
She has sold over 40 million albums
w orldw ide, her 16 gold-certified
singles are among the most o f any
female recording artist in history,
and her 1990 debut world tour be
came the most successful premiere
tour by any artist, with over two
million fans in attendance.
ants. Speakers will discuss methods
o f bridging the cultural gaps that
often lie at the root o f discrimination
in housing. Proactive conflict reso
lution strategies for housing provid
ers and tenants will also be addressed.
FDC
PORTLAND
DEVELOPMENT
COMMISSION
COMMISSION MEETING
Date: March 18,1998
Place: PDC
1900 SW Fourth, Suite 100
Portland, OR
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Humbolt students get a bang
out of traveling science show
Janet Jackson
Born May 16,1966, Janet Damita
Jo Jackson’s entertainment career
began at age seven. Following her
sitcom work in "Good Times,” “A
New Kind o f Family,” and “Fame,”
Janet put her acting career on hold to
concentrate on music. She signed
w ith A& M records and recorded two
albums by the time she was 17. But
by 1985, Jane, still a teenager, found
In 1968, Congress passed the Fair
Housing Act, making it illegal to
discriminate on the basis of race,
color, national, origin, gender and
religion when selling, renting, or fi
nancing housing. 1
In 1988, C ongress passed the
Fair H ousing A m endm ent which
extended the law to protect fam i
lies with children and persons with
disabilities, m aking 1998 not only
the 30th anniversary o f the Act,
but also the tenth anniversary o f
the Am endm ent.
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herself at a crossroads. At 19, she
moved to Minneapolis and recorded
the groundbreaking album. Control,
which yielded five smash hits, in
cluding “What Have You Done For
Me Lately?” In 1989, Janet released
Rhythm Nation 1814. The album
was a watershed, yielding seven hits
including “Miss You Much” and
“Escapade.”
Humboldt fourth-grade student Chanel Mitchell watches as balloons dipped into liquid nitrogen
deflate, demonstrating the chemical changes o f gas, s explained by OMSI Outreach Program Director
Gary Myers. More than 300 Humboldt Elementary students learned how solids, liquids and gases
change from one state to state to another through OMSI's "Altered States " science outreach program
at the school, which was sponsored by US West.
Manning Marable Coming To Reed
A pril Conference
Celebrates 30 Years o f
Fair Housing
To mark the 30th anniversary o f
the Federal Fair Housing Act, the
Fair HousingCouncil ofO regon pre
sents O regon’s Annual Fair Housing
C o n fe re n c e A pril 27-28 at the
Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel.
The conference will host an infor
mative array o f speakers, workshops,
and presentations highlighting the
changes effected duringthe first thirty
years o f fair housing and the chal
lenges o f fair housing through the
next century.
The largest fair housing forum in
the northwest, the 14th Annual O r
egon Fair Housing Conference will
emphasize the legal aspects of fair
housing as well as stress the im por
tance o f effective communication be
tween housing providers and ten
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N oted social critic M anning
Marable, professor of history and
director o f the Institute for Research
in African American Studies at Co
lumbia University, will lecture on
Saturday, April 4, at 4:30pm in the
Kaul Auditorium on the Reed cam
pus. A reception and book signing
for Marable’s new book, Black Lib
eration in Conservative America
(South End Press, 1997), will follow.
Admission to the lecture, which is
sponsored by Reed’s career services
office, multicultural resource center,
and student activities office, is $3 at
the door. Sign language interpreta
tion will be provided. For more
information, call the Reed career ser-
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vices office at 503-777-7550.
As a political activist, social critic,
ed u cato r, author and h isto rian .
column “Along the C'oior Line” ap
pears in over 275 newspapers and 80
radio stations and reaches an esti
M arab le is c o n sid e re d one o f
America’s preeminent commentators
on the black American experience.
His nationally published newspaper
mated 20 million people each week.
W orking political forums as an ad
viser to the Congressional Black
Caucus and as the national co-chair
o f the Committees o f Correspon
dence, Marable actively engages in
issues of national educational reform
and cultural pluralism.
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