Volume X X V II, Number 75
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Children swarmed trying
to cool off from this
summer like weather, at
the Rose Quarter
Fountain.
Come see this year's act
Linda Hornhuckle at this
year's I Oth Anniversary!
The Taste of
Beaverton"
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g ro u p w ill in c lu d e f e d e r a l, s ta te
an d c ity law e n f o rc e m e n t o f f i c
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j u v e n i l e s , ta r g e t re p e a t o f f e n d
e rs an d b la n k e t h o tb e d s o f c rim e .
D ance Program
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in s tr u c te d d i s t r i c t s t a f f to h e lp
fin d $ 1 7 5 ,0 0 0 n e e d e d to re s c u e
J e f f e r s o n H ig h S c h o o l ’s d a n c e
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d e c is io n s a f te r a c o n te n tio u s 4 1/
2 h o u r m e e tin g at th e s c h o o l.
C o u n tin g M e th o d
P r e s id e n t C lin to n is p ro p o s in g
a m o re a c c u r a te m e th o d fo r
c o u n t i n g th e p o p u l a t i o n . T h e
P r e s id e n t an d o th e r a u th o r itie s
h a v e d e te r m in e d th a t th e 1990
C e n s u s m isse d w h o le s e g m e n ts o f
th e p o p u la tio n , la rg e ly m e m b e rs
o f m in o rity g ro u p s , th e re b y
th ro w in g o f f d e c is io n s by g o v
e rn m e n t an d b u s in e s s on e v e r y
th in g from h e a lth c a re to a d v e r
tis in g .
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H e a lth C a re C o s ts a re e x p e c te d
to ris e d o u b le - d ig it n e x t y e a r due
to e v e n ts su c h as c o s tly m e rg e rs ,
p ric e y li f e s t y l e d ru g s and an a g
in g p o p u la tio n . It m e a n s m o re r e
s t r i c t i v e h e a lth p la n s th a t o f f e r
fe w e r c h o ic e s . H e a lth c o s ts w ill
r is e th e m o st by 1 2 to 15 p e rc e n t
in tr a d itio n a l p la n s th a t le t th e
p a tie n t c h o o s e th e d o c to r.
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w h a t it c a lls a r e v o lu tio n a r y $2
b illio n u p g ra d e to its p h o n e n e t
w o rk . It w ill be c a lle d th e I n t e
g ra te d on D e m a n d N e tw o rk . By
la te 1 9 9 9 , th e u p g ra d e w ill let
b u s in e s s e s an d c o n s u m e r s c o n
d u c t m u ltip le p h o n e c a lls , re c e iv e
fa x e s , run new a d v a n c e d a p p l i c a
t i o n s a n d u se th e I n t e r n e t at
s p e e d s up to I 00 tim e s f a s te r than
t o d a y ’s c o n v e n tio n a l m o d e m s.
S u ic id e Law
U .S . A tto rn e y J a n e t R eno a n
n o u n c e d th a t fe d e ra l law d o e s not
p r o h ib it p h y s ic ia n - a s s is te d s u i
c id e in O re g o n - e n d in g se v e n
m o n th s o f le g a l lim b o fo r t e r m i
n a lly ill p a tie n ts and th e ir d o c
to rs . R en o a ls o s ta te d th a t the
f e d e r a l C o n t r o l le d S u b s ta n c e s
A ct d o e s n o t fo rb id d o c to rs from
p r e s c r ib in g le th a l d o s e s o f m e d i
c in e .
N e u trin o s
An in te rn a tio n a l team o f p h y s i
c is ts h as fo u n d th e firs t firm e v i
d en c e th at su b a to m ic p a rtic le s call
n e u trin o s h av e m ass. T h is d is c o v
ery co u ld p ro v id e c lu e s to th e o r i
gin and fu tu re o f th e u n iv e rs e .
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a b o u t th e b a s ic n a tu re o f th e c o s
m os an d th e s tr u c tu r e o f m a tte r.
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ta te s to m ak e c o m p u te r lite ra c y
r e q u ir e m e n t fo r e n te r in g hig h
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Concordia University prospers, grows with
N.E. Neighborhood
B y L ee P erlman
oncordia University is alive,
well and growing with the
times in northeast Portland, and
it will soon have three new on-campus
residences to prove it.
By mid-August, the Lutheran Church-
affiliated school located at 2811 N.E.
Holman St. will be ready to dedieate the
new facilities. East Hall, at Northeast
29th Avenue and Holman Street, will
have three buildings and offer a variety o f
housing options from single rooms to
triple rooms to independent apartments.
“With decreasing family size, many of
our students are used to having their own
rooms," John Dillin, assistant vice presi
dent for development o f the Concordia
Foundation says. “We have to play to the
market.”
That has been a theme o f the school's
development over the last 20 years. Nearly
half of its 1,000 member student body
now comes from other Pacific Northwest
C
“ II ith decreasing family
size, many of our students
are used to having their
own rooms, ”
states. To accommodate them, East Hall
will boost on-campus housing from a cur
rent 205 to 450 beds.
The school has come a long way in the
last 20 years. In the mid-1970s it was a
two-year junior college offering 50 ma
jors to 300 students and, Dillin admits,
“trying to figure out if we could go on.”
Assuming it could, it had what it was then
considered the ideal place to do it - a tract
o f land in the suburbs donated to the
church and offering three times the ex
pansion opportunities as the school's ex
isting 13-acre campus, without the atten
dant zoning restrictions. Instead, the
school sold the land to finance its mod
ernization.
I.i 1977 it became a four-year univer
sity. Beginning in 1983, with the presi
dency of Charles Schlimpert, it began its
modernization by, ironically, cutting more
than halfits majors-recognizing, as Dillin
says, that it “couldn’t be all things to all
people.” It was reorganized into five semi-
autonomous programs: arts and science,
business, education, health and social
studies, and theological studies. Its edu
cation program is now one o f the stron-
gest in Oregon, and it offers continuing
education programs for working adults. Its
arts and science program offers courses in
Environmental Remediation and Hazard
ous Materials Management.
“Our theme has been listen to the com
munity, find out what its needs are, try to
till them,” Dillin says.Concordia recently
offered a continuing education course for
Ireightliner Corporation that was held at
the com pany's Swan Island facilities. It
has a working partnership with nine other
Concordia Universities in other parts o f
the country that allows transfers of student
credits and national broadcast and elec
tronic interaction for lectures and semi
nars.
Through it all, the school has tried to be
a good neighbor to those closest to it. One
o f its faculty. Dr. Arthur Wählers, was the
first president of the Concordia Neighbor
hood Association when the latter w as orga
nized in the mid-1970s, and at times the
university has provided meeting space to
the group. Its security services help make
the immediate area, as well as the campus,
safer, and neighbors expressed strong
appreciation for this in a recent survey.
Concordia has also consciously tried to
lessen the two most common impacts o f an
institution on its neighbors: traffic and park
ing. It has added parking facilities. More
over, Dillin points out, for those living on
campus, “ Everything they need is within
walking distance - there’s no need to drive
except for weekend excursions.” The new
M cM enam in’s Kennedy School pub/the-
ater three blocks away puts a social rc-
source close at hand, he points out. Par
tially for these reasons, less than half of
resident students own cars, he says.
So far Concordia has expanded within
its existing campus, adding 50,000 square
feet of space to Luther Hall five years ago.
However, its master plan does include
residential properties that it doesn’t own
to the west and north. Dillin says expan
sion here will come through “charitable
giving” and “waiting for properties to
come on the market.” He adds, “Most o f
our neighbors have worked with us and
are aware o f our plans.”
Outgoing Concordia Association presi
dent Pat Messinger says that as a neighbor
he rates the school as “good to excellent.
T hey’ve been very responsive to our con
cerns.”
Is Portland’s Water Supply In Trouble? Conclusion
B y P rof . M ( kinley B urt
ater, water, everywhere, but
not a drop to drink” was of
ten the plaintive cry of con
cerned seamen in the days of sail.
And so cried Captain Ahab’s becalmed
and thirsty crew, thwarted in their search
for “Moby Dick.”
It appears that those busy with proactive
activities to ensure a safe, quality water
supply for our region may also have found
themselves becalmed - in a sea of contro
versy as their announced options excite
fearand apprehension in many minds. Sug
gesting the Willamette River as a primary
source of drinking water is as about a
frightening circumstance as that pictured
for Captain Ahab and his crew, “like a
painted ship upon a painted sea “(Moby
Dick; Henry Melville).
My comment on the telemarketing of
numerous devices for washing trash, oil,
paints, etc. into storm drains elicited nu
merous accounts ofequally dangerous pol
lution by governmental agencies. A reader
protests, “how in the world can we even
begin to design a comprehensive enough
organization to properly police every com-
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ponent of the system.”
The caller said. “ I though about it. but all
I came up with was another giant bureau
cracy - and we already have the E P.A. (En
vironmental Protection Agency). Then,
there's the Clean Rivers Act.” This chemist
was concerned with the Port of Portland's
“attitude” toward runoff of the chemical used
to deice planes and. again, was concerned
about an “offhand dismissal” of a complaint
to city officials.
His complaint was about the chemical,
metam sodium, a very potent herbicide used
to kill roots in the city’s sewers. This 'soil
disinfectant’ is also used to kill potato fungi
and is approved by both the U.S. Environ
mental Protection Agency and the Oregon
Department of Agriculture. “Tree root con
trol prevents the opening up of sewer joints
and raw sewage entering homes.”
A number of citizens are really upset over
the lack o f supervision exercised by
W illamette Basin governmental agencies over
the recreational vehicle waste dumped into
rest-stop holding tanks. Readers report line
ups of scores of recreational vehicles waiting
to dump their toilet tanks, the final destina
tion of this mess being the Willamette River
- treated or no,.
The problem is that RV toile, tanks are
treated with a chemical solution containing
formaldehyde to keep down the smell. When
the roadside holding tanks are dumped into
the sewer treatment plants o f the smaller
municipalities, the formaldehyde kills the
digesters in the treatment plant. It doesn’t
take a rocket scientist to determine that
dangerous amounts o f contaminated water
Hows in to the W’illamette from all over the
basin. Do you swim in this bacteria pot
pourri?
Now, if you aren’t aware of this organiza
tion, let me introduce “CIIBRI” (Citizens In
Bull Run, Inc.). It was during my member
ship on Portland’s “Water Quality Advisory
Committee that I first became aware of this
group’s long-term advocacy for a relatively
pure source of our drinking water eg . “Bull
Run.” Beginning with my very first meeting
in full, 1990. I was thoroughly impressed
with the time, dedication and the research
contributed by this unpaid group o f commit
ted citizens.
I, is a very, very small organization but
it gets big things done — important and
successful interactions with government,
industry and public which, more often
than not, received little or no media at
tention. But, believe me, the level o f
purity of our drinking water supply may
in large part be attributed to the vigilance
and intercessions o f this citizens group.
So often officials and politicians take
credit.
They have taken on the Water Bureau
itself, the U.S. Forest Service, the E.P.A.,
the farmers and ranchers, the loggers, etc.
Surprising to many, “C11 BRI” has included
the electronic chip industry in its listings of
heavy, clean water users (their clean rooms'
require millions o f gallons o f extra clean
water, which, then, is not available for drink
ing).
C orvallis and A dair V illage are the
only towns, in Oregon that currently
d ra w th e ir d rin k in g w a te r from
W illa m e tte . O b v io u s ly , “ C IIB R I”
would keep it that way. Why not get on
the m ailing list for their new sletter. P
O. Box 3426, G resham , OR 97030.
Also, rem em ber those “ W ater Q uality
A dvisory C om m ittee m eetings the firs,
Tuesday, each month (a) 5:30 Portland
Bldg.