AUGUST 8, 2018
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CENTS
Portland and Seattle Volume XL No. 45
News ................................... 3,6 A & E ........................................5
Opinion ...................................2 Dr. Jasmine ......................6
Calendars ...............................4 Bids/Classifieds .....................7
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
A protester participates in a rally Saturday, Aug.
4, 2018, in Portland, Ore. Small scuffles broke
out Saturday as police in Portland, deployed
“flash bang” devices and other means to disperse
hundreds of right-wing and self-described anti-
fascist protesters.
Racist
Groups Take
Streets
Portland Police criticized
for protecting White
supremacists
By Lisa Loving
Special To The Skanner
White
supremacist
march
through downtown Portland on
Saturday resulted in four ar-
rests, one journalist injured and
countless images of violence beamed on
news broadcasts across the nation.
At least one thousand counter-pro-
testors in Waterfront Park faced off
late Saturday morning against between
100 and 200 supporters of the far-right
groups Patriot Prayer, based in Vancou-
ver, Washington, and the Proud Boys,
based in New York.
Hundreds of images of the march
show law enforcement in riot gear
A
AP PHOTO/GENE J. PUSKAR
See PROTESTS on page 3
In this April 30 photo, Chip Kohser, the Beaver
county Republican chairman, stands overlooking
the construction of a chemical plant on the banks
of the Ohio River near Beaver, Pa., that will help
convert natural gas into plastic, creating hundreds
of jobs in an area that has seen population dwindle
since the collapse in the 1980s of the steel industry.
The Jobs
Numbers page 6
Kam Previews
New Movies
page 5
Dr. Danny Jacobs
stepped into his
role as OHSU’s
fifth president
last week
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
r. Danny Jacobs went
to work last week.
Jacobs, 63, was se-
lected in May as the
fifth president of Oregon
Health & Sciences Univer-
sity — and its first African
American president — and
started on the first day of
August.
Jacobs replaces Dr. Joe
Robertson, who retired
last fall. Jacobs comes to
OHSU from the University
of Texas, where he served
as dean of medicine, and
has held faculty appoint-
ments at University of
Pennsylvania,
Harvard,
Creighton University and
Duke. He received his M.D.
from Washington Univer-
sity in St. Louis and his
master’s in public health
from Harvard.
On Aug. 2, Jacobs spoke
briefly with The Skanner
about his plans for his new
role. This interview has
been edited for space and
clarity.
D
The Skanner News: Can
you talk a little bit about
your background?
Dr. Danny Jacobs: I was
born in Arkansas, but over
the years my career has
taken me to a number of
areas — Vermont, I went to
college in Boston, medical
school in St. Louis, addi-
tional training in Boston,
I moved to Nebraska for
a couple of years, lived
in North Carolina for 10
years, I lived in Texas for
PHOTO COURTESY OF OHSU
MARK GRAVES /THE OREGONIAN VIA AP
DR. JACOBS IS IN
Dr. Danny Jacobs stepped into his new role as president of Oregon Health & Sciences University last week. The
board of directors hired Jacobs, who most recently served as the dean of medicine at the University of Texas, in
May following the retirement of Dr. Joe Robertson.
six years and then I came
here.
TSN: What attracted you
to the Northwest?
DJ: Here’s the way it
would work at our house.
I would get a letter or an
email that would say, “Dear
Dr. Jacobs, would you like
to look at X?” And then I
would show them to my
wife Nancy. And most of
them, we would just look at
and put in the trash. That
sounds bad — it’s not be-
cause they weren’t great
opportunities — but we
would say, “Well, that’s not
for us.”
This one came about, and
I was about to follow that
same process, and my wife
Nancy said, well hold on
a second. Nancy, my wife,
finished at Oregon State
University in Corvallis.
She spent about four years
here. She actually has rel-
atives in Oregon but all of
her siblings are in North-
ern California. So in terms
of family pull, that was a
big issue in her mind, in
my mind, to say, “Well, we
will look at this opportuni-
ty. It looks great on paper.”
I knew about some of the
accomplishments, some of
the history, but that was a
big pull.
Some folks have said to
me, “Well it’s the promo-
tion, the opportunity to be
president. And of course
that’s significant, highly
significant. It is a promo-
tion. But on my list of 10
things, most of it was about
impact, the opportunity
to do something differ-
ent than my previous job,
about fit, opportunity to
work together to do won-
derful things — and then
to be closer to Nancy’s fam-
See JACOBS on page 3
Don’t Shoot Portland Remembers Michael Brown
Weekend events commemorate Brown’s death at the hands of police
The Skanner News
on’t Shoot Portland, in partner-
ship with more than a dozen
community organizations, has
announced a weekend-long
event commemorating the death of
Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.,
and the days of local and national
protests that followed.
18-year-old Michael Brown was
killed by police in Ferguson, Missou-
ri, and left in the street for four and a
half hours. After the announcement
that a grand jury had declined to in-
D
dict officer Darren Wilson in con-
nection with the killing, community
members in Ferguson and the great-
er St. Louis area took to the streets
to demand justice. Communities
around the country followed suit,
including Portland; Don’t Shoot Port-
land was founded in the aftermath of
Brown’s death.
This weekend the organization will
host a series of community events in
remembrance of Brown’s death. All
events will take place at Don’t Shoot
Portland’s organizing space, the
Woodlawn MIC, 1425 NE Dekum St.
Michael Brown
They are as follows:
6:30 p.m. Aug. 9:
Community vigil to honor those
killed by police violence and
See DON’T SHOOT on page 3