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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1973)
2 Chemawa American E d ito ria l S e c tio n O regon S c h o lastic Press D ra w s C h em aw a C re w During the days of October 11—13, four students and rne advisor from the Chemawa American went to the University of Oregon in Eugene to attend the Oregon Scholastic Press Conference. They were Mr. John Dashney, Advisor, Lynn Miller, Eleanor Carl- tikoff and Bridget James, Report ers and Photographer Roy Aishanna. Lynn, Eleanor and Bridget stayed at Pi Beta Phi, one of the soror ities, and Roy stayed at Theta Chi, one of ten fraternities at Oregon. The students registered for the conference Thursday evening, Oct ober 11. Friday morning and part of the afternoon everyone attended classes.Some of the classes offered were on how to write a lively news column, a new approach to sports articles or columns, how to produce the all-American newspaper and classes in photography and cartoons. Later that evening a banquet was held for the s tudents in the Erb Memorial Union. There were sev eral speakers, including the turf editor and handicapp gr of the Los Angeles Examiner, who spoke on things concerning journalism. H IL L TOP On Saturday morning there was a last conference meeting. After lunch the students went to the Oregon-California football game, to see the Oregon Ducks beat Calif ornia 41—10. After the game Mr. & Mrs. Dash ney took Roy back to Chemawa, and Tira Ande sen, who works at CAEC brought Bridget, Lynn and Eleanor back. The students came back to the Chemawa American with a better understanding of journalism and writing articles about specific subjects. The Chemawa American would like to thank the CAEC and all others who helped make 4he trip p qssible. Hom e L e tte rs -- W hat H appened? There is no real reason as to why there are no home letters this year, according to Mr. Ed Bartlett, Vice- Principal. Mr. Bartlett said, “ I guess every one just forgot about it.” He also mentioned that he didn’t think there was anyone appointed to take charge of home letters, which is probably the reason why the program has not gone into effect. Bartlett feels that the home letters are good for both the students and their parents. The home letters kept the parents informed on the hap penings at Chemawa, and gave the students a chance to write a letter to their parents and not have to worry about paying postage. L ast year each department took turns writing a form letter to th e parents. The problem caused by this was that some of the dep grt- ments took too long in getting this done or just sort of kept putting it off. Mr. Bartlett feels that the home letter program should go into -effect again, and he is going to see about getting it started one more. In a random sampling of ten stu dents, seven said they liked the idea of home letters and would like to see the program go into e ffect again. The other three said that they really didn’t care. C ouncil Notes by Lynn Miller A. S. C. Secretary The Student Council has been working on ideas to improve some of the problems and concerns of both students and staff. One of our biggest concerns this year is forming a Student Bill of Rights, one which will be written by students. The Student Council feels it is important for students to know what legal rights they have as students. Other concerns have been getting more activities on weekends, better communication between the Student Council and the student body and the staff, and student problems. One problem has been students throwing rocks and pop bottles at passing trains and playing chicken with the trains. The Student Council has worked hard on getting the crosswalk open ed. We wouldn’t want to see the crosswalk closed. We would like to see students show that they are responsible so we can continue using the cross walk. President Richard Nixon has proclaimed November 14 as National Student Government Day, to recog nize the importance of student gov ernments in our schools. Governor Tom McCall stated, “ Student councils and similar organ izations provide students with an opportunity to work together for common purposes,” with the effect that students “ learn about governing and government, thereby increasing their social consciousness and their personal worth to their communities. THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN Member of Oregon Scholastic Press Published monthly (except during va cations) during the school year by the joint efforts of the journalism, business education and graphic arts classes. Official publication of Chemawa In dian School, 5495 Chugach St., N.E., Salem, OR 97303. Editor: Eleanor Carltikofl Student Staff: Fred H ill, Bonnie James, Bridget James, David James, Susan James, Velma Manual, Lynn Miller, Bob Tomaskin, Ernie Wheeler Staff Adviser: Mr, John Dashney Printing Adviser: Mr. Ron Berg VariTyping: Business Education students Principal: Mr. J. W. “ Choctaw” Smith Superintendent: H r. Ed Loncfifcht
