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Parents rally for end to teachei By Janet Paulson Of the Kmerald About 250 parents, teachers and students rallied outside the Hilton Hotel In Eugene Monday as negotiating teams reconven ed to discuss contract negotia tions. Bargaining teams representing the school district and the teachers union met for the first time in more than a week. Parents from Edison and Mc Cornack schools organized the rally outside the hotel in an ef fort to encourage community support in bringing a resolution to the stalled contract negotia tions and continuing teachers strike. McC'ornack Elementary School parent Jim Bellomo told the crowd that the rally represented a bipartisan effort to reopen the schools. “We’re gonna stay here until they come out. If they don’t have a decision, we’re gonna send them back,” he said. Many people at the rally wore white armbands, which Bellomo said signified peace and a desire to negotiate. But by the time the negotiating teams assembled, the crowd had dwindled to about 25 people. Steve Goldschmidt, chief negotiator for the school district, said he was optimistic going into Monday’s talks. The school district met for what Superintendent Margaret Nichols called “25 hours of in tensive” talks over the weekend. Goldschmidt said the district had a proposal that would make “a substantial dif ference as far as insurance.” “The school board will try everything it knows... We have a major proposal in the area of insurance. We are mak ing a proposal that we think is responsive to the EEA’s con cerns.” he said. Goldschmidt would not com ment on details of the insurance proposal until the offer was presented to the teachers union. The union's bargaining team met Monday to prepare for the session. Eugene Education Associa tion President Ray Gross said he hoped the school district had come prepared to bargain. "They haven’t done it up to this point." he said. "The school district could come in with some actual pro posals or stall by making final offers and ask us to sell it to our members." Gross said. Bellomo and McCornack parent Ed Reiman gave a three minute presentation to the bargaining teams as the negotiating session began, in forming the teams of "possibilities and p r o - babilities" resulting from con tinuation of the current deadlock. "Things could get really ug ly." Reiman said. "Our pitch is to get a settlement, not to take sides." IFC Continued from Page 1 Because the ASUO gives the Athletic Department its money in one lump sum. and because the money is not under the con trol of ASUO comptrollers, the agreement outlines ticket prices for students, the amount of stu dent seats reserved at Autzen Stadium, and states no student fees can be used for construc tion of a dome at Autzen. If Ballot Measure 9 passes, ex plained Mooney, the 43 percent increase will be negotiated into the contract rather than the 5.5 percent increase. John Thoma, ASUO finance coordinator, recommended a 4 percent increase. The request was for 7 percent. “We (the ASUO Executive) realize the Athletic Department needs money.” he said. “We tried to draw a line between what is fair to the Athletic Department and what is fair to the students.” Baldwin said the increase was not a question of what the com mittee wanted to do but of what it could afford to allocate. The committee did not have the money to give the full 7 percent increase, he said. Howard suggested the com mittee split tile difference bet ween the request and the recomendation by passing 5.5 percent increase, although she would support the 7 percent in crease. she said. "It's important enough to me. 1 would he willing to pay the money,” she said. "But I can’t ask students to do the same.” Howard's motion passed unanimoulsy 5-0. Voelz said it was too early to know how this would affect the Athletic Department, and stressed this year’s committe process was more fair than in past years, although the product was not what tin? Athletic Department wanted. Suicide Continued from Page 1 suicides for this age group were reported in Oregon in 1985. No more than fifteen suicides for people under 24 occurred in Lane County last year, with on ly a couple of those committed by teen-agers, according to Frank Katti, deputy medical examiner. For each completed suicide, experts estimate there are about 100 attempts. The national trend is highest in early spring, although no ex planation of this is widely accepted. Pardes recommended that the media steer away from specifics of suicide cases and instead of fer depersonalized facts. According to Managing Editor Doug Bates, the Register Guard reports all suicides oc curring within its circulation area. However, the editors try to avoid over-emphasizing elements of teen-age suicides, and exclude such as descrip tions as the rigging for a carbon monoxide suicide, he said. Mark Nowicki, a family counselor with Eugene's Look ing Glass counseling clinic for youth and their families, said he TAN 10 visits $25 Fast Convenient Relaxing Aftordable SunShower on campus 4&$ 2323 • 874 E 13th Up«Utf» by Ktnko > hasn't seen evidence that sug gests a suicidal teenager’s values may be egged on by media reports. "I’m not convinced that it spurs more suicide attempts, because I’m not sure too many teen-agers read the newspapers,” Nowicki said. Looking Glass responds im mediately to reports of suicidal symptoms in teen-agers and works with those who have at tempted the act, Nowicki said. ”1 think if (suicide) is reported intelligently and not hysterically, that’s a plus, if it’s reported in a way that doesn’t glorify the act and sort of make media heroes of people around the (victim), that probably helps.” he said. Nowicki suggested that media that regularly print or broadcast information on suicides also should be respon sible for including stories on how and where troubled teen agers can get help. Open 24 Hours kinko's Great copies Great people 860 E. 13th 344-7894 "We get a lot of calls from people who are attempters,’’ he said, adding many of the youth are dealing with depression, hysteria and anxiety. Looking Class counsels about a dozen teens every year who have attempted suicide but are alive due to intervention, he said. 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