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STOPPERS
More Colleges Drop Affirmative Action
Building blocks of
opportunity lost
C olleges and universities, long considered
major building blocks o f social opportunity,
have significantly decreased race-based affir
m ative action in the past dozen years, accord
ing to a U niversity o f C alifornia at D avis
study.
On average, U.S. public and private institu
tions o f higher education show ed only a slight
increase in affirm ative action through the end
o f the 1980s and a m ore substantial decline
since, say Eric G rodsky, an assistant profes-
sor o f sociology, and graduate student D em etra
K alogrides.
A ffirm ative action policies give preference
to a historically disadvantaged class o f stu
dents o ver otherw ise m ore advantaged stu
dents based on attributes other than d em o n
strated merit.
In 1996, C alifornia voters led the nation to
reject affirm ative action by barring race- and
gender-based preference in all state program s,
including public university adm issions.
B ut the tw o sociologists found that m ost
prestigious universities are still m ore likely to
claim preferences for m inority students than
are higher education institutions w ith low er
test scores and fees.
Grodsky and K alogrides speculate that one
reason the nation’s prem ier universities spon
sor students from disadvantaged backgrounds
is a strong com m itm ent to noblesse oblige —
the obligation o f responsible behavior by
those with high rank in a society.
“How far alternative policies have gone in
preserving the access o f m inority students to
higher education rem ains an open question,”
G rodsky and K alogrides conclude, suggest
ing that the question is increasingly urgent.
“ If schools are acting in w ays that conform
to their stated preferences, there is reason to
believe that the progress we have m ade in
im p r o v in g
access
to
c o m p e titiv e
postsecondary institutions in eroding.”
Airport Named for Civil Rights Leader
(A P) - M ary land’s governor has
signed a bill renam ing B altim ore-
W ashington International A irport
for T hurgood M arshall, the first
black justice on the U.S. Suprem e
Court.
Beginning Oct. 1. the airport will
be know n as B altim ore-W ashing
to n I n te r n a tio n a l T h u rg o o d
M arshall Airport.
Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich
signed the bill as civil rights leaders
and law m akers looked on.
"O ur purpose is to honor a great
m ind w ho did the m ost to end legal
segregation in A m erica,” said state
D elegate Em m ett Bum s, a Baptist
m inister w ho introduced the bill.
Before rising to the nation’ s high
est court in 1967, Marshall, a native
o f Baltimore, worked asaciv il rights
attorney and successfully argued
Brown v. Board o f Education, the
1954 Suprem e Court decision that
Tighter Cold Pill Control
New rules combat meth ingredients
N ew state regulations now re
quire O regonians to show identifi
cation w hen they buy cold m edi
cine that contain a chem ical used to
make meth.
Pharm acies will be required to
record to custom er’s nam es and
driver’s license num ber and keep
the records for at least tw o years.
The perm anent new rules make it
m ore inconvenient to buy cold
m edicines, such as Sudafed, that
contain pseudoephedrine, w hich
can easily be turned into the illegal
drug “ m eth” m etham phetam ine.
“T he inform ation we got from a
presentation by police,” said Gary
M iner, the state pharm acy b oard’s
com pliance director, “w as that they
(“ m eth” cooks) d o n ’t w ant to give
out that inform ation, and they tend
to be paranoid.”
The regulations affect only m edi
cations in solid form , not liquids or
liquid-filled gel caps, w hich are far J
Killer Begins
Prison Term
Showed no remorse
at murder sentence
Eric L e e P re s le y Jr.
m ore difficult to process into the
A man convicted o f m anslaugh
illegal drug.
ter
in a plea bargain agreem ent has
In O ctober, under the direction
begun
serving a 16-year prison
o f G ov. T ed K ulongoski, the p har
m acy board passed a tem porary t sentence.
Eric Lee Presley Jr. was unrepen
rule that required the cold pills to
tant
before the v ictim ’s friends and
be put behind pharm acy counters
fa
m
ily
d u rin g se n te n c in g la st
and for buyers to present photo
month.
identification.
W hen asked for com m ent by
T he rules restrict purchasers to
C
ircuit
Judge M ichael M cShane,
nine gram s o f active p seudoephe
Presley
said,
“It ain ’t no th in ’,” and
drine a m onth — about the am ount
in three 24-pill boxes o f Sudafed. j m entioned doing the drug Ecstasy
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struck dow n school segregation.
He also was a federal judge and U.S.
solicitor general. He died in 1993.
M arshall w as denied adm ission
to the U niversity o f M aryland b e
cause he was black and w ent to
H ow ard U niversity in W ashing
ton instead.
w hen he gets out in 16 years.
Presley, 23, w as charged in the
m urder o f Em anuel C hristopher
M osley, 28, another African Am eri
can man on Oct. 12,2003.
Authorities said Presley was a
m em ber o f the W oodlaw n Park
Bloods gang and shot Mosley in the
back o f the head while he sat in a
parked car with a friend outside an
after-hours house andclub by North
east 55th Avenue and Jessup Street.
Meth Cook Wanted
an d n o k n o w n v e
The Portland Police
hicles and m ost likely
in c o o p e ratio n w ith
he is “couch surfing
C rim e Stoppers is ask
w ith friends and ac
ing for the p u b lic ’s
q u ain tan c es.
help in locating and ap-
C lo o te n is d e
p r e h e n d in g a s u s
scribed asaw hite male
p ected m e th am p h et
5 foot 9 inches tall
am ine cook. 42-year-
w eighing about 180
o ld M o n te C lo o te n M o n te C lo o ten
has been know n to live and hang pounds. He has long brow n hair
around in southeast Portland. Po- and brow n eyes. He has a tattoo on
lice say he has no know n address his right hand.
Bookkeeper Wanted for Theft
T he Portland Police in coo p era
tion w ith C rim e Stoppers w ould
like your help in locating and ap
prehending a bookkeeper know n
as Jane E lizabeth M aynard, al
though that may not be her true
name.
M aynard is accused o f d iv ert
ing $40,(XX) from a small southeast
Portland com pany into her per
sonal account.
T he w arrant dates back to 2000,
but police have been unable to
find her. Investigators believe that
it is possible she is using a differ
ent nam e and w orking som ew here
Jane
E lizabeth
M aynard
as a b o o kkeeper again.
M aynard may be in her mid 50s
and has used a date o f birth o f June
21,1949 on an Oregon DM V identi
fication card. She is about 5 feet 5
inches tall and w eighs about 200
pounds. She has used addresses
throughout the Portland metro area.
Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward o f up to $1,000 fo r
information, reported to Crime Stoppers, that leads to an arrest in
this case, or any unsolved felony, and you may remain anonymous.
Call Crime Stoppers at 503-823-HELP (4357).
Officers Fired in Racial Beating
(AP) - Eight more police officers
have been fired in connection with
a racially charged beating in M il
waukee, Wise, at ahouse where off-
duty officers were having a party.
Frank Jude Jr., 26, has said he
w as beaten by men w ho identified
them selves as off-duty officers and
accused him o f stealing a police
badge and wallet. He said the men
Ingredients for life.
punched, kicked and choked him
w hile using a racial slur.
Jude is biracial, and all eight o f
ficers fired are white. N o badge was
found on Jude, and he w as never
charged w ith theft. T he eight o ffic
ers w ere accused by the d ep art
m ent o f either jo in in g in the beating
o r w itnessing it and not trying to
stop it.