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Racial
Profiling
Banned
Directive allows
exceptions
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The Villa St. Rose School and campus in north Portland was recently renovated into Rosemont Court, providing apartments and housing for seniors.
Rose Sisters Homecoming
d e n ts, h a n d le b e h a v io r p ro b le m s
a n d k e ep th e ir m in d s on th e ir
“ T hey really w e re n 't bad girls. stu d ies. S h e e v e n sle p t in a ro o m
T hey w ere high energy, a lot o f a tta c h e d to th e d o rm ito ry .
them , ju st speaking out about w hat
“ I w as w ith them all the tim e,”
w as w rong in their ho m es,” said she said.
S ister Frances L ouise, directress o f
A lthough C atholic nuns ran the
the school.
school, they did not allow the girls
S iste r L o u ise w orked at the to practice C atholicism until after
school tor 11 years betw een 1941 they graduated, so they could m ake
and 1952.
up their ow n m inds.
H er jo b w as to o v e rse e the s tu ­
S ister L ouise said she w ill be
co n tin u e d
f r o m F ront
excited to see the form er students
at the reunion, to find out their
feelings tow ard the school and how
it helped them .
T o L ouise, her fondest m om ents
w ere w atching the stu d e n ts com e
in "p o u ty "a n d "see their little faces
change and see them settle dow n
and w ork.”
A m ong form er student G race
R u b le-B e ll’s m em ories, are the
hours o f sitting in hard w ooden
chairs as punishm ent for her “d e ­ to g e th e r, sle p t to g e th e r, a te to ­
fensive m outh.”
g e th e r, fo u g h t to g e th e r a n d m ad e
B ut th e siste rs had a m a rv e l­ up to g eth e r. W e w e re m o re lik e
o u s se n se o f h u m o r, R u b le-B e ll s is te r s ."
said.
M ore than 50 form ers students
A sm all group o f form er stu­ and sta ff from throughout the c o u n ­
dents calling them selves the "R ose try are attending the reunion, flying
S isters" stay in touch w ith the sis­ in from as far as South C aro lin a and
ters viae-m ail.
A laska.
“ T h ey took in th e lost sh e e p
For m ore inform ation a bout the
and h e rd e d us u p ," B ell said. reunion, call S isters o f the G ood
“ T h is w a s o u r h o m e. W e lived Shepherd at 5 03-283-4931.
(A P )— R outine racial and eth ­
nic p rofiling w ill b e banned at all
70 federal agencies w ith law e n ­
forcem ent pow ers u n d e ra Justice
D epartm ent directive, but critics
say e xceptions to the new policy
could still perm it profiling.
G uidelines issued Tuesday di­
rectly affect about I20.000U .S. law
enforcem ent o fficers including
those at the FBI, the D rug E nforce­
m ent A gency, H om eland Security
D epartm ent, Bureau o f A lcohol,
T obacco, Firearm s and Explosives
and the C oast G uard.
"R elig io u s o r ethnic o r racial
stereotyping is sim ply not good
p o lic in g ," said A ssistant A tto r­
ney G eneral forC ivil R ights Ralph
Boyd. "W e w ant to m ake sure it
d o e sn ’t happen, even o n c e.”
T h e p o lic y m a k e s a c le a r d is ­
tin c tio n b e tw ee n rq u tin e law e n ­
fo rce m en t w o rk and th a t in v o lv ­
ing n a tio n a l se c u rity o r b o rd e r
se c u rity . A lth o u g h re lia n c e on
ra cial a n d e th n ic ste re o ty p e s is
b ro a d ly fo rb id d e n , th e g u id e ­
lin e s sa y th at a u th o ritie s can
su b je c t c e rta in e th n ic o r ra c ia l
g ro u p s to g re a te r s c ru tin y i f
th ere is sp ecific in fo rm a tio n that
su c h p e o p le a re p re p a rin g to
m o u n t a te rro rist a tta c k .
For example. Middle Eastern men
m ight draw greater attention at air­
ports if the governm ent discov­
ered a plot by al-Qaida to bom b U.S.
airliners. In addition, the policy al­
lows consideration o f race if there
were “trustworthy” information that
p e o p le o fa c e rta in ra c e o r ethnicity
engaged in a specific crim e o r are
part o f a crim inal organization.
To critics, these are loopholes
that essen tially allow the g o v e rn ­
m ent to eng ag e in racial p rofiling
w hen it is deem ed necessary.
"It looks to me that it is more
interested in carving out exceptions
to racial proti ling than it is in enforcing
a ban,” said attorney M iriamCiohara.
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