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A children s dance troupe from Uganda provides healing through music to children orphaned by HIV and AIDS.
‘UGANDA’ ENSEMBLE Moves Audiences
A udiences are calling “C hildren o f parents to AIDS, and benefits Portland’s the positive healing pow er o f the arts.
Congo, T anzania and Kenya.
U ganda” an energetic and moving show. Black United Fund, Cascade AIDS Project,
The T our o f Light, as the Children o f
The show begins at 7:30 p.m. at the
Tickets are still available for the March For Us N orthw est, Haram bee Centre and U ganda tour is called, soothes and heals as
Arlene SchnitzerConcert Hall. Tickets range
31 benefit show o f “Children o f U ganda,” the Urban League o f Portland.
the cast o f children, aged six to 18, play a from $ 18 to $40. Tickets can be purchased
presented by N ike and W hite Bird.
In connection with the perform ance, variety o f handm ade drum s, harps, xylo at the Portland Center for the Performing
The W ednesday, March 31 performance Portland public schools is teaching stu phones and perform dances from a num ber
Arts box office and at all Ticketmaster
features 20 children who have lost their dents about the African AIDS crisis and o f countries, including U ganda, Rwanda,
outlets, or by calling 503-224-4400.
L aw & J J ustice
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Man Arrested in Woman’s Death
20-year-old man
man w w as as arrested
arrested
A A 20-year-old
an d fa c e d a g g ra v a te d m u rd er
charges in the Portland death o f a
20-year-old w om an from Clark
County, Wash.
T w e n ty - y e a r - o ld
S ie r r a
M ald o n ad o w as m issing for se v
eral d ay s after leav in g a d o w n
tow n P ortland u n d erag e n ig h t
club. H er body w as found on
M arch 15 beneath the B roadw ay
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B ody Left Dead on Local Street
A m an’s body was found lying
dead in a north Portland street Tues-
day morning.
The victim's name was not imme-
diately available. He apparently died
o f gunshot w ounds before 3 a.m.
near N orth W ebster Street and
A lbina Avenue.
Police responded after a caller
reported hearing a gunshot and
Portland State U niversity President
Daniel O. B em stineandF ariborz Maseeh,
founder and president o f The M assiah
Foundation, have announced the largest
gift in the uni versity’s history— $8 million
from the M assiah Foundation to the C ol
lege o f Engineering and C om puter Sci
ence.
W ith this gift, the college will becom e
the Fariborz M aseeh C ollege o f E ngineer
ing and C om puter Science.
M aseeh, a first-generation im m igrant
bom in Iran, received his bachelor o f sci
ence degrees in structural engineering
and masters o f science in m athem atics
from PSU before earning a doctorate o f
science from the M assachusetts Institute
o fT echnology in 1990.
T he $8 m illion gift w ill be used for the
co n stru ctio n o f the N o rth w est C e n ter
fo r E n g in eerin g , S cien ce and T ec h n o l
o gy, as w ell as to estab lish tw o p ro fe s
so rsh ip s, five stu d en t fello w sh ip s and
an en d o w m en t fo r the dean o f the C o l
lege. In ad d itio n to the nam ing o f the
C o lleg e, the au d ito riu m in N o rth w est
C e n te r w ill be nam ed the M aseeh A u d i
torium .
seeing a bloody man. T he man
was dead when officers and para
medics arrived. A lbina was tem-
____ closed betw een Sum ner
porarily
and Alberta streets.
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co m b ed the P o rtlan d area lo o k
ing fo r her, p assin g o ut leaflets
w ith h er picture.
Portland police spokesm an Greg
Pashley said C hristopherC ook was
arrested after being interview ed by
detectives on M onday. He was ar
raigned Tuesday, and was being
held at the M ultnom ah C ounty D e
tention Center.
Sierra Maldonado
Institutional Racism Levied Against Public School System
(AP) — Policies in a public school
system south o f Seattle are “insti
tutionalized racism at its finest,”
the head o f the Seattle N A ACP
declared last week as claims against
the Kent School District rose to $30
million.
Familiesofsix black children filed
$20 m illion in claim s, saying secu
rity guards m anhandled, han d
cuffed and roughed up the children
in incidents a, five schools.
The legal action came two weeks
after three black female students
and their fam ilies filed claim s total
ing $10 m illion, alleging that their
civil rights had been violated when
M an Dies
A fter Bar
Stabbing
No suspect has been identi
fied after a man was fatally
stabbed at a northeast Port
land bar over the weekend.
Aaron C rew s, 34, was
stabbed at Helena’s Place Bar
on Northeast Columbia Bou
levard.
He later died at Oregon
Health and Sciences Univer
sity.
No witnesses have come
forward, and police have no
suspects.
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guards handcuffed them and used charged with assault for resisting
excessive force.
the guards’ rough handling.
"T hese stories are ju st so hor
Superintendent Barbara G rohe
rific,” Seattle NAACP President Carl said the district is w orking with the
Mack told reporters at a news con state O ffice o f Superintendent o f
ference.
Public Instruction to appoint an
“Not only are our children being independent investigator to look
discrim inated against because o f into the allegations outlined in the
race, they are victim s o f excessive claims.
force and in som e cases they are
“W e take claim s from our par
being crim inalized,” M ack said, ents very, very seriously,” G rohe
noting that som e students were said. “ We intend to investigate
these. W e also, how ever, take re
sponsibility for providing a safe
and supportive learning environ
ment for our children.”
G rohe rejected the notion that
the district is fostering institution
alized racism. “ I believe the district
has show n a long-standing com
m itm ent to a very diverse com m u
nity," she said, noting that a d iver
sity task force has been in place for
10 years.
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said.
“In m ost o f these cases, there’s
an issue o f not responding to re
peated com m ands,” he said, but he
believes no child should be m an
handled and physically injured.
Pof t landGeneral ( o p i/Divcy sit ySutnmit
An Evening to Benefit Black United Fund, Cascade AIDS Project,
For Us Northwest, Haram bee Centre, Urban League of Portland
fcr
Mack said the Kent School D is
trict has not properly prepared for
an influx o f children o f color. Black
students make up 10 percent o f the
district, while accounting for 24
percent o f disciplinary actions, he
Mark Williams, author of the highly
acclaimed book 10 h m m : Your Guide to
Lining and Working in a Multicultural World
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