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filed citizen com plaints on a case-
b y-case basis since 2001. id e n ti­
fying patterns and p ractices and
com piling annual reports. D ispar­
ate o r unequal treatm ent is one o f
six com p lain t categ o ries w ithin
the Police Bureau, denoting inap-
propriate treatm en t becau se o f
various factors in clu d in g race.
A ccording to a 2(X)4 rep o rt by
the review panel, racial p ro filin g
and d isc rim in a tio n c o m p lain ts
d id n ’t even m ake the list o f the
most com m on allegations in 2(X)4,
a list topped w ith 249 co m p lain ts
for rude behavior.
II’R d ire c to r L eslie S tevens
said they h a v e n ’t done any an a ly ­
sis o f that topic o r racial d isc rim i­
nation.
"W h ile it is a big issue in the
co m m u n ity , in term s o f overall
co m p lain ts o f p o lice m isconduct
it d o e s n ’t rise to the to p ,” she
said.
Trojan Cooling Towner Demolished
(AP) — Demolition crews on
Sunday destroyed the 499-foot
cooling tow er at a defunct com m er­
cial nuclear power plant near Rainer.
W ith a rumble, the tow er leaned
to the side and collapsed upon it­
self - leaving a cloud o f dust and
m ulti-ton pile o f rubble. It took less
than 10 seconds and roughly 2,8(X)
pounds o f explosives to com plete.
Portland General Electric ordered
the implosion at Trojan Nuclear
Power Plant, about 40 miles north of
Portland, as part o f its decom m is­
sioning.
Trojan closed in 1993 for finan­
cial and safety reasons, and the
facility has been decom m issioned
in stages since then. PGE estim ates
the plant will no, be fully decom ­
m issioned until 2024. The spent
radioactive fuel rods, which sit
The cooling tower from the decommissioned Trojan nuclear
above ground, must be moved to a
powerplant collapses in on itself Sunday in a cloud of dust and
federal repository that hasn’t been
flying debris as it is imploded northwest o f Portland near Rainier.
developed yet.
(AP photo)
O ver the years, Trojan faced a
num ber o f opponents concerned tiatives to voters and petitions to lition throughout the weekend, in­
about the safety o f nuclear power. regulators to shut the plant down. cluding throw ing a party with cool­
Activists brought numerous ini­ Many acti vists ce lebrated the demo- ing tow er-shaped pinatas.
May 24. 2006
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It’s his passion as a form er re­
porter, where he nurtured his natu­
ral curiosity for Portland that may
propel him to win the race.
*'I’ve been talking to people for
years, no, waiting for them tocom e
to me with issues. This is an ex ­ Frederick, once again, refuses to be
am ple o f how I’d work as a county daunted by this possibility.
com m issioner.”
"I once had a news director who
Even with enthusiasm and the thought the best way to get rid o f
best o f intentions, getting people to me was to send me to Bum s, where
work together toward acommon goal I’d be ou, o f my element am ong the
can be difficult, a reality publicly cow boys, and I ended up falling in
evident on the current county board. love with the place,” he said. " It’s
just a m atterof talking with people.”
Pioneering Dancer Remembered
Katherine D unham, a pioneer­
ing dancer and choreographer, au ­
thor and civil rights activist who
left Broadway to teach culture in
one o f A m erica's poorest cities,
has died. She was 96.
D unham died Sunday at the
M anhattan assisted living facility
w here she lived, said Charlotte
Ottley, executive liaison for the
organization that preserves her
artistic estate. The cause o f death
was not im m ediately known.
D unham w as p erh ap s best
known for bringing African and
Caribbean influences to the Euro­
pean-dom inated dance world. In
the late 1930s, she established the
nation’s first self-supporting all­
black modern dance group.
“W e w eren’t pushing ‘Black is
Beautiful,' w ejust showed it,” she
later wrote.
During hercareer, Dunham cho­
reographed "A ida" for the M etro­
politan O pera and musicals such
as “C abin in the Sky” for Broad­
way. She also appeared in several
films, including "Stormy W eather”
and “Carnival o f Rhythm .”
Her dance com pany toured in­
ternationally from the
E ast St. L ouis, III.,
1940s to the '60s, vis­
where she struggled to
iting 57 nations on six
bring the arts to a M is­
continents. Her suc­
sissippi River city of
cess was won in the
burned-out buildings
face o f w idespread dis­
and high crime.
crim ination, a struggle
She set up an eclec­
tic com pound o f art-1
Dunham cham pioned
by refusing to perform
ists from around the
at segregated theaters.
globe, including H arry
For her endeavors. Katherine Dunham
Belafonte. Among the
D unham received 10
free classe s o ffe re d
honorary doctorates, the Presiden­ were dance, African hair-braiding
tial Medal o f the Arts, the Albert and woodcarving, conversational
Schw eitzer Prize at the Kennedy Creole, Spanish, French and Swahili
C enter Honors, and m em bership in and more traditional subjects such
the French Legion o f Honor, as well as aesthetics and social science.
as m ajor honors from Brazil and
Dunham also offered martial arts
Haiti.
training in hopes o f getting young,
"She is one o f the very small angry males o ff the street. Her pur-,
handful o f the m ost im portant pose, she said, was to steer thd
people in the dance world o f the residents o f East St. Louis “in td
20,h century,” said Bonnie Brooks, som ething more constructive thaif
chairm an o f the dance departm ent genocide.”
G overnm ent cuts and a lack o f
at C olum bia College in Chicago.
“And th at's not even mentioning private funding forced her to scald!
her work in civil rights, anthropo­ back her program s in the 1980sJ
logical research and for humanity Despite a constant battle to pays
bills, D unham continued to o p erate
in general."
A fter 1967, Dunham lived most a children’s dance w orkshop and a'
o f each year in predomi nantly black museum.
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