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The Portland Observer--Oregon’s Oldest Multicultural Publication--is a member of the National Newspaper Association--Founded in 1885, and The National Ad- vertising Representative Amalgamated Publishers, Inc, New York, NY, and The West Coast Black Publishers Association P ublisher : e ditor : Mark Washington, Sr. Michael Leighton e xecutive d irector : Rakeem Washington A dvertising M AnAger : Leonard Latin Office Manager/Classifieds: Lucinda c reAtive d irector : Baldwin Paul Neufeldt r ePorter /P hotogrAPher : Olivia Olivia CALL 503-288-0033 FAX 503-288-0015 news@portlandobserver.com • ads@portlandobserver.com subscription@portlandobserver.com Postmaster: Send address changes to Portland Observer , PO Box 3137 , Portland, OR 97208 Subscribe! 503-288-0033 Fill Out & Send To: Attn: Subscriptions, PO Box 3137, Portland OR 97208 $45.00 for 3 months • $80.00 for 6 mo. • $125.00 for 1 year (please include check with this subscription form) Name: Telephone: Address: or email subscriptions@portlandobserver.com November 11, 2015 Racial Incidents Take Toll University president resigns under fire (AP) — The president of the University of Missouri system and head of its flagship campus resigned Monday with the foot- ball team and others on campus in open revolt over what they saw as indifference to racial tensions at the school. Tim Wolfe, a former business executive with no previous experi- ence in academic leadership, took “full responsibility for the frustra- tion” students expressed and said their complaints were “clear” and “real.” For months, black student groups had complained that Wolfe was unresponsive to racial slurs and other slights on the over- whelmingly white main campus of the state’s four-college system. The complaints came to a head two days ago, when at least 30 black football players announced they would not play until the pres- ident left. A graduate student went on a weeklong hunger strike. The Columbia campus is about 120 miles west of Ferguson, Mo., where Michael Brown was killed last year in a shooting that helped Members of the Legion of Black Collegians and the Concerned Student 1950 supporters gather outside the Reynolds Alumni Cen- ter after an emotional protest over the weekend on the University of Missouri campus, in Columbia, Mo. spawn the national “Black Lives Matter” movement rebuking po- lice treatment of minorities. In response to the race com- plaints, Wolfe had taken little public action and made few state- ments. As students leveled more grievances this fall, he was in- creasingly seen as aloof, out of touch and insensitive to their con- cerns. He soon became the pro- Week in Review The Minimum Wage Protest testers’ main target. In a statement issued Sunday, Wolfe acknowledged that “change is needed” and said the university was working to draw up a plan by April to promote diversity and tol- erance. But by the end of that day, a campus sit-in had grown in size, graduate student groups planned walkouts and politicians began to weigh in. think the letters were a hoax be- cause they were distributed over such a large area. Wolves No Longer Endangered The gray wolf was formally re- moved from the Oregon endan- gered species list on Monday by the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Com- mission. Removal from the list will do little to change current wolf management but opens up the pos- sibility for a controlled wolf hunt in the future for the 81 known gray wolves in Oregon, officials said. Portland joined cities across the country Tuesday in protests for a $15 minimum wage. “Without a $15 minimum wage, people ar- en’t going to be able to live in the city anymore,” said Justin Norton Kertzen of “15 Now PDX.” Fast food workers were among those Clustered Bar Robberies participating in the rallies, part of Police were investigating two a national declared day of action. early-morning robberies Tuesday Gang Killers Sentenced of bars just five-minutes apart in Two Portland gang members have northeast and southeast Portland. pleaded guilty to manslaughter and A man walked into the Coasters sentenced in the death of Precious Bar and Grill on Powell around Jackson, 24. Authorities said Corey 1:36 a.m. and demanded mon- Demmar Hill, 23, enlisted the help ey while brandishing a gun. A of Antonio Lorezno Sanders, 22, to half-hour later, a similar suspect kill Jackson, his ex-girlfriend, be- brought a gun into Rounders Bar cause he was enraged that Jackson on Halsey. No one was injured in had a new Lesbian love interest. either robbery. Sanders, 22 was ordered to spend Five Pedestrians Struck 12 years in prison and Sanders was Portland police reported that five sentenced to 18 years. people were struck late Tuesday Klan Letters Investigated morning by a vehicle on Hayden Several Gresham residents report- Island in north Portland. Every- ed finding flyers enticing them to one survived, with two people join the racist Ku Klux Klan over taken to the hospital suffering non the weekend. The invitations in- life-threatening injuries. The acci- cluded small bags of root beer-fla- dent at the Mannheim Auto Auction vored jellybeans and a listed web- parking lot appears to have occurred site for the hate group. Gresham when a driver quickly accelerated Police spokesman John Rasmus- and lost control of the car, striking sen said the department didn’t the victims during an auction.
