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Powell Promotes Common Sense
by H ugh B. P rice
N ational U rban L eague
P resident
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
IN APPRENTICESHIP
Are you interested in a FUTURE in the Piping Trades?
U.A. Local 290 will be accepting applications for
Metal Trade Pipefitters Apprentices (MA #1043)
This is a notice to establish a pool o f eligibles.
WHEN:
MONDAY, April 1 through FRIDAY, April 12, 2002,
9:30am - 5pm weekdays
WHERE:
Apply in person: U.A. Local 290 Training Center, 20220
SW Teton Avenue, Tualatin, Oregon 97062; 691-1997.
Contact: Robert Kimes
AGE:
Must be at least 18 years old (proof required - non-
returnable copy of birth certificate, or current driver’s
license)
REQUIREMENTS: High school graduate with C average or better OR
GED; AND C or better in one year high school algebra.
Official transcripts are required and must be mailed
directly from the institution to Local 290 Training
Center before April 26, 2002.
N O TIC E OF N O N -D IS C R IM IN A T O R Y P O L IC Y A S TO S TU D E N TS
The United Association Local 290 Apprenticeship and Journeymen Training
Trust Fund admits students of any gender, race, color, national and ethnic
origin to all rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or
made available to apprentices at the school. It does not discriminate on the
basis of gender, race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of
its apprenticeship policies, admission policies and other Trust-administered
programs.
Matt Walters, Business Manager
“ In m y ow n ju d g m e n t,
condoms are a way to prevent
infection. Therefore, I not only
support their use, I encourage
their use among people who are
sexually active and need to pro
tect themselves.”
With those words, articulated
on MTV last week before a world
wide audience of primarily young
people. Secretary of State Colin L.
Powell made a ringing declaration
— of common sense.
As the AIDS epidemic contin
ues to grow in the United States
and in the Caribbean. As it rages
through sub-Saharan Africa, in
some cases decimating entire re
gions of countries. As it reaches
epidemic status in Russia and
some of the former soviet socialist
republics, and in China, India, In
do n esia, V ietnam , T h ailand,
Myanmar and Cam bodia...
Urging young people, and oth
ers, who are sexually active, espe
cially among multiple partners, to
use condoms is what one has to
say. It’s the first step on the road
to beating back the great scourge
of our time and one of the most
devastating scourges in the his
tory o f civilization.
One wouldn’t think so, how
ever, by the comments o f some
conservatives who declare that
advising young people, and pre
sumably others, to abstain from
sex outside of marriage altogether
is the only effective way to pre
vent the spread of AIDS and other
sexually transmitted diseases.
Ken Connor, president o f the
Family Research Council, a con
servative research and lobbying
group, told the W ashington Post
that Powell ’ s remarks were “reck
less and irresponsible” and “a slap
in the face” to President Bush’s
core constituency.
But o f course, Powell did not
ignore the reality that abstinence
is one way to prevent the spread
of AIDS.
Instead, he refused to take the
head-in-the-sand approach and
ignore the reality that many youths
are not going to choose to be
celibate. He understood that the
responsible thing to do is to urge
them to face reality, too, and use
condoms in order to protect them
selves and others.
School Board Wrong on Zone Voting
Lolenzo Poe stands alone with Rainbow Coalition proposal
J amie P artridge
R ainbow C oalition
by
A crowd of parents and com
m unity activists w ere disap
pointed when the Portland School
Board voted 6-1 to shift election
boundaries, but refused to take
up the Rainbow Coalition’s zone
vote proposal.
Board member Lolenzo Poe cast
the sole dissenting vote, saying
that he agreed with the coalition
that zone voting would allow low
and moderate income candidates
an equal opportunity to be elected
and represented on the school
board.
Board member Derry Jackson
stated that he agreed with zone
voting, but instead voted with the
majority, suggesting that the zone
vote question could be raised at a
latertime.
I doubt that this board, elected
citywide, will ever support zone
voting, thereby increasing com
petition for their seats.
The campaign by the Rainbow
Coalition for “vote by zone” be
gan with a letter to the board signed
by 40 community leaders and
elected officials last December. A
public hearing attended by 40
activists in January heard over
whelming support for zone vot
ing. These actions, and extensive
coverage in the local print and
broadcast m edia, pushed the
board to seriously consider the
coalition proposal.
Speaking in favor of zone vot
ing were students from inner
Northeast middle schools Chirice
Jones and Hannah Brown, plus
parent activists Patti Hayes, Jack
Herbert and Jerry Watson.
Without school board support,
community activists must take the
issue to the voters by ballot initia
tive. However, current Oregon law
must be changed to allow such an
initiative. Oregon law also prohib
its increasing the number of board
seats.
The Rainbow Coalition favors
a zone voting system where every
high school cluster has a board
representative. Currently Portland
has nine neighborhood school
clusters and only seven board
seats.
Zone voting and cluster repre
sentation would put activists on
the board who would fight for
their neighborhoods, to defend
their schools against closure and
cuts to staff and programs. Board
members from low and moderate
incom e neighborhoods would
know about the achievement gap,
school drop-outs, and discipline
problems from personal experi
ence. A school board made up of
mostly moderate and low-income
people, reflective o f the voting
public, would more likely make,
major changes necessary to turn
around low-performing schools.
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