The BulleTin • Friday, May 7, 2021 A3
TODAY
It’s Friday, May 7, the 127th day
of 2021. There are 238 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1945, Germany signed an un-
conditional surrender at Allied
headquarters in Rheims, France,
ending its role in World War II.
In 1833, composer Johannes
Brahms was born in Hamburg,
Germany.
In 1840, composer Peter Ilyich
Tchaikovsky was born in Vot-
kinsk, Russia.
In 1915, a German U-boat torpe-
doed and sank the British liner
RMS Lusitania off the southern
coast of Ireland, killing 1,198
people, including 128 Ameri-
cans, out of the nearly 2,000 on
board.
In 1928, the minimum voting
age for British women was low-
ered from 30 to 21 — the same
age as men.
In 1939, Germany and Italy
announced a military and
political alliance known as the
Rome-Berlin Axis.
In 1946, Sony Corp. had its be-
ginnings as the Tokyo Telecom-
munications Engineering Corp.
was founded in the Japanese
capital by Akio Morita and Ma-
saru Ibuka.
In 1954, the 55-day Battle of
Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam ended
with Vietnamese insurgents
overrunning French forces.
In 1963, the United States
launched the Telstar 2 commu-
nications satellite.
In 1975, President Gerald R.
Ford formally declared an end
to the “Vietnam era.” In Ho Chi
Minh City — formerly Saigon
— the Viet Cong celebrated its
takeover.
In 1998, the parent company of
Mercedes-Benz agreed to buy
Chrysler Corp. for more than $37
billion. Londoners voted over-
whelmingly to elect their own
mayor for the first time in histo-
ry. In May 2000, Ken Livingstone
was elected.
In 2010, a BP-chartered vessel
lowered a 100-ton concrete-
and-steel vault onto the rup-
tured Deepwater Horizon well
in an unprecedented, and ulti-
mately unsuccessful, attempt to
stop most of the gushing crude
fouling the sea.
In 2019, two gunmen opened
fire inside a charter school in
a Denver suburb not far from
Columbine High School, killing
a student, 18-year-old Kendrick
Castillo, who authorities said
had charged at the shooters
to protect classmates; two
students at the school were
charged in the attack. A 16-year-
old, Alec McKinney, pleaded
guilty to 17 felonies and was
sentenced to life in prison plus
38 years; 19-year-old Devon
Erickson pleaded not guilty to
the same charges; his trial has
been delayed by the coronavirus
pandemic.
Ten years ago: The U.S. re-
leased videos seized from Osa-
ma bin Laden’s hideout showing
the terrorist leader watching
newscasts of himself amid
shabby surroundings. Justin Ver-
lander threw his second career
no-hitter, leading the Detroit
Tigers to a 9-0 victory over the
Toronto Blue Jays.
Five years ago: A Tesla Model
S sedan that was in self-driving
mode crashed into the side of a
tractor-trailer in Williston, Flori-
da, killing its occupant, Joshua D.
Brown. President Barack Obama
told the graduating class at
Howard University in Washing-
ton, D.C. that the country was
“a better place” than when he
left college more than 30 years
earlier, but acknowledged that
gaps persisted, citing racism and
inequality.
One year ago: Georgia author-
ities arrested a white father and
son and charged them with
murder in the February shooting
death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black
man they had pursued in a truck
after spotting him running in
their neighborhood near the
port city of Brunswick. The
Justice Department dropped a
criminal case against Michael
Flynn, President Donald Trump’s
first national security adviser,
who was accused of lying to the
FBI about conversations with the
Russian ambassador.
Today’s Birthdays: R&B singer
Thelma Houston is 78. Actor
Robin Strasser is 76. Singer-song-
writer Bill Danoff is 75. Rock mu-
sician Bill Kreutzmann (Grateful
Dead) is 75. Former Utah Gov.
Gary Herbert is 74. Rock musi-
cian Prairie Prince is 71. Movie
writer-director Amy Heckerling
is 69. Actor Michael E. Knight is
62. Rock musician Phil Campbell
(Motorhead) is 60. Actor Traci
Lords is 53. Actor Breckin Meyer
is 47. Rock musician Matt Hel-
ders (Arctic Monkeys) is 35. Ac-
tor-comedian Aidy Bryant is 34.
— Associated Press
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
PORTLAND
Missing, murdered Indigenous
people are recognized at event
BY JAIMIE DING
The Oregonian
More than 150 people gath-
ered at the downtown Port-
land waterfront Wednesday
evening to honor missing and
murdered Indigenous peo-
ple as part of a national day of
awareness.
The event was put together
by young Indigenous people
from tribes throughout Or-
egon and Washington, said
Teewahnee Sahme, a Warm
Springs member who helped
organize the vigil.
Speakers brought atten-
tion to the disproportionate
amount of violence Indigenous
people face, as well as tribes’
continued struggles over land
rights and treaty agreements.
“I’m a Native woman, and
I’ve just been surrounded my
whole life by women who have
been battered and abused by
men,” Toma Deavers, a citizen
of the Cherokee Nation, told
The Oregonian.
Deavers called the violence
against Indigenous women
an “ongoing form of geno-
cide, a genocide that has never
ended.”
American Indians and
Alaska Natives are 2.5 times
more likely to experience vio-
lent crimes compared to peo-
ple of other races, and more
than 80% of American Indian
and Alaska Native women have
experienced violence in their
lifetime, according to the As-
sociation on American Indian
Affairs.
Sahme said that on his Cen-
tral Oregon reservation, he
knows of at least five missing
person or homicide cases that
have not been solved.
Karry Kelley, 56, said un-
solved crimes against Indige-
nous people have been a part
of her life as long as she can re-
member.
“Ever since I was a young
kid, there have been people in
our family who have ended up
missing and never found,” said
Kelley, who’s part of the Klam-
ath tribes of Paiute and Modoc.
She said there are several
open homicide and missing
Jaimie Ding/The Oregonian
More than 150 people gathered at the downtown Portland waterfront Wednesday to honor missing and murdered Indigenous people as part of a
national day of awareness.
Katie Hunsberger, 28, and
Davineekhat White Elk, 24, who
are Indigenous women, attend
the gathering.
person cases involving mem-
bers of her tribe.
Lilajane, a speaker from the
“The knowledge that our
families are under constant
attack generationally is some-
thing we’re born with. We have
generational trauma that goes
back hundreds of years.”
Attendees of Wednesday’s
event dressed in red and encir-
cled the Salmon Street Springs
fountain with bouquets of red
flowers as drummers and sing-
ers performed Indigenous so-
cial and honor songs.
They cut out and wrote mes-
sages on red paper dresses,
dotting the waterfront fence
with prayers for relatives and
Indigenous people who remain
Warm Springs and Yakama
tribes, echoed Kelley’s senti-
ment.
Strike ends at Oregon Tech
as contract deal reached
The Associated Press
KLAMATH FALLS — The
faculty at the Oregon Institute
of Technology has come to an
agreement on a five-year con-
tract with the university, end-
ing a strike that had stretched
into a second week.
Tentative agreements were
reached on salary, merit in-
creases and health insurance
that includes Oregon Tech pay-
ing 95 to 97% of health care
costs, the Herald and News re-
ported this week.
Both parties agreed to new
workload expectations that will
allow faculty to spend more
time with students and in the
classroom, according to the ad-
ministration.
The administration upped
its salary offer from 9.5%
guaranteed salary increases to
11.5% over the next five years,
with the opportunity for an-
other 3.5% in merit increases.
Although the union was op-
posed to merit increases, Ken
Fincher, vice president of in-
stitutional advancement, said
that was one area in which the
union compromised.
On Tuesday the university
worked to bring back faculty
members.
“We’re just really glad that
our faculty who, throughout
this process we’ve always held
in high regard and in high es-
teem, that they’re going to be
back in the classroom,” Fincher
said.
missing.
The event commemorated
Missing and Murdered In-
digenous Persons Awareness
Day and came a little over two
months after the U.S. Attor-
ney’s Office in Oregon released
its first missing and murdered
Indigenous persons report as
part of a nationwide initiative
to improve law enforcement
responses in such cases.
“The first step in seeking jus-
tice for missing and murdered
Tribal victims is acknowledg-
ing the historical indifference
to and neglect of these tragic
cases,” Acting U.S. Attorney
Scott Erik Asphaug said in a
statement Wednesday. “A lack
of data and jurisdictional gaps
have caused many solvable
cases to go unsolved.”
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Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls.
Both sides called it a good
contract and said each side
compromised.
Union spokesperson Kari
Lundgren said the deal con-
firmed the strike had been a
success.
She credited the solidarity
from students and other
community members with
pushing both sides toward a
deal.
Both Lundgren and Fincher
expressed optimism for the
future of the university and
union relationship. Both said
the next contract need not be
so contentious.
The nine-day strike was the
first facultywide labor walkout
at a public Oregon university.
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