Science mixes with sport
Olympic Congress called
'United Nations of sport'
Eugene is hosting a national gathering next |uly
that will not only be a lot of tun but will be big
business, said Dan Tripps, executive director ot the
event.
The event is the Olympic Scientific Congress, a
week-long series ot seminars, workshops and
presentations that traditionally take place the same
time as the Olympic s.
Sponsored in part by the University human
development and performance department, this will
be the first Congress officially included as part of the
Olympics. It also will be the first open to the public,
Tripps said at Thursday's meeting ot the Eugene
Southtowne Rotary Club.
The Congress, called the United Nations of
sport,'' will host about 6,000 delegates from more
than 100 countries as they gather at "literally every
major hotel and the University campus" to discuss
sports science, Tripps said.
He said the Congress will attract a lot of attention
— and money — to the I ugene-Sprmgtield area.
The deluge of tourists and sports officials could
bring $5 million to the area, Tripps said. That is about
SO percent of Lane County's tourism revenue for
1982, he said.
Tentative speakers scheduled for the official
prelude to the 1984 Olympics include Wilt
Chamberlain, Mohammed Ali, Howard Cosell and
Bruce lenner, Tripps said.
So far, about 400 speakers are scheduled to par
ticipate in the Congress, including 53 Soviets and 22
speakers from China, a country which has never
been involved in the* Olympics before, Tripps said.
The speakers will address 24 issues, such as ag
gression and violence in snort, competitive sport tor
Dan Tripps
children and youth, sport and politics, sport and
aesthetics, and sport and gender, he said
As part of a push to include the public, the Con
gress will feature "social'' events, such as a fun-run
called "Running for Congress."
Tripps said the week's economic effect will last
long after the Congress is over because the SI
organizations participating in the Congress might
hold later conferences here.
"What we re going to do here in Eugene is going
to set trends and set implementation strategy for the
rest of the world."
Tougher truancy standards
pave way to lower absences
By David Sokolowski
Of the Emerald
students and teachers are work
ing together in cutting vandalism,
truancy and promoting higher
academic standards in a program
called "Academic Expectations
and the Fourth R —
Responsibility."
The program was started eight
years ago in Modesto, Cali!., by
lames Enochs, a s s i s t a n t
superintendent of public sc hools.
Enochs will speak at a one-day
workshop for Oregon high school
administrators on Oct. 14 at the
I ugene Hilton.
The workshop, titled Improv
ing Instruction in High Schools,"
and sponsored by the Center for
Educational Policy and Manage
ment, is led by education Prof.
Doug Carnine.
"We were a typical California
high school district", fcnochs
says."We were doing all the tren
dy things that other schools
around the country were doing at
that time (1975-76).”
Faced with rising truancy, the
Modesto school district adopted
Active Control Truancy. Between
the opening of school and first
lunch period, any student on the
street or in the malls is picked up
by the police. Students are taken
to a drop-off center and their
parents are called to pic k up their
children and return them to
school. Six truancies and students
are expelled for one full semester.
"The best kept secret in educa
tion is that kids want adults to act
like adults," Enoch says. "The last
thing they need is peers. Kids
have a low tolorence tor ambigui
ty. They want to know who's in
charge. They need to know the
rewards and consequences and
there can be no gap in accoun
tability," he says.
And the tough standards have
paid oil.
Enochs says the high school has
an attendance rate of 98 percent
and the elementry schools are at
99.5 percent. "The elementry at
tendance is probably the highest
in the state," he says.
And vandalism has been i ut
from more than $80,000 a year to
below $50,000.
The workshop has a $20 registra
tion lee which includes lunch.
Registration deadline is today. Par
ticipants may earn one credit that
tan be used as an elective credit
in the University's administrative
certification program.
For registration materials and
more information, contact
Charlene Phipps at 080-517}.
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