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October 09. 2002 Page A 4 O pinion Opinion articles do not necessarily reflect or represent the views o f The Portland Observer E D irO D -lN -C H ItF .P uB L ISH tA Charles H. Washington The Portland Observer USPS 959-680 Established 1970 4747 NE Martin Luther King. Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR 97211 B BI E O IT O I Michael Leighton D is t k ib u t io n M anager C o ri E o iT o k Joy Ramos C i i i t i i i D ir ic r n i Paul Neufeldt W r it e r , P h o t o g r a p h e r Mark Washington David Plechl PosnuxsTca: Send address changes to Portland Observer PO Box 3 1 3 7 , Portland, OR 9 7208 P eriod ical P ostage paid In Portland, OR < S u b scrip tio n s are $ 6 0 .0 0 per year 5 0 3 -2 8 8 -0 0 3 3 • FAX5 0 3 -2 8 8 -0 0 1 5 • EMAIL: news@Dortlandobserver.com subscripts The Portland Observer welcomes freelance submissions. Manuscripts and photographs should be clearly labeled and will be returned if accompanied by a self addressed envelope. 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Register hv Oct. 15th and Vote I I I I ★ Jobs anil The Economy (AP) — College enrollment in creased 48 percent for minorities in the 1990s, but their educational opportunities continue to trail those of white students, a new report from the American Council on Education found. The gap points out the need for increased financial aid and im proved preparation for young people entering colleges from ur ban school districts, W illiam B. Harvey, director of the council’s Office o f Minorities in Education, said Monday as the report was released. The Washington-based coun cil’s annual study o f minorities in higher education said that while minorities made up 28 percent of the undergraduate population in 2000, they earned only 21.8 per cent o f the bachelor's degrees awarded that year. Harvey attributed part of the gap to students from low income households being unable to bal ance studies with part-time and sometimes nearly full-time employ ment. Kai Mumpfield, administrative vice president for the Black Stu dent Union at Auburn University, agreed. BALANCINGACr “A lot o f our students c a n ’t stay in school. If they had a choice, they would. But fin an cially they c a n ’t afford to stay here,” she said. “ It com es dow n to a choice betw een going to w ork or going to school.” A complicating factor, Harvey said, is the lack of qualified faculty, advanced placement courses and educational infrastructures in many of the school systems dispatching minorities to colleges and univer sities. Harvey called the report “an opportunity to improve the rela tionship between the elementary, secondary and post-secondary community. There is a big disjunc tion between those three and it is certainly in the interest of colleges and universities to pay more atten tion to the students as they move through the process.” The report was compiled using federal Department of Education statistics. 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Depending on the scope of definition, an esti mated 25,000 to 132,000 Oregon women are sub Mel Kohn, M.D is state epidemiologist with the Oregon Department o f Human Services. Discover Great Values At Safeway! Valu Pack. Sold in a 4-lb. frozen bag for $7.08 ea. Individually Quick Frozen. SAVE up to 70< lb. Fresh Silver Salmon Fillets Koi M o i e h tlo in t t ilin n Coll f û t S72 OBI2 Valu Pack. Smaller size package, $3.29 lb SAVE up to $2.52 lb. A va ila b le at Safeway While the report found increas ing minority enrollment at inde pendent colleges and universities, nearly 80 percent o f minority stu dents attended a public university in 1999, the report said. That com pares with 76 percent of white stu dents. College enrollment of Hispan ics grew 68 percent during the 1990s, the report said. Antonio R. Flores, the president of the His panic Association of Colleges and Universities in San Antonio, Tex., credited the increase to “sheer demographic growth.” Looking at the Hispanic stu dent population, Flores agreed with Harvey that there is a need for better college preparation in high school and elementary school. “We are serving the neediest population in the country with the least amount of federal support, and that has to change,” Flores said. jected to intimate partner violence each year. Yet, fewer than one in four Oregon women who are victims report that they discussed the abuse with their health care providers. Public health officials are urging health care provid ers to screen patients for domestic violence. As clinicians and public health providers, we must increase our efforts to identify and respond to patients at risk for intimate partner violence. Intimate partner violence is a significant public health problem that affects a large proportion of the population. 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