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."
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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
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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
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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
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Looking Glass responds im
mediately to reports of suicidal
symptoms in teen-agers and
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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
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Earlier in the day. Nichols
told reporters schools would
reopen next week, maybe
Wednesday, if the strike doesn’t
end hy then.
She said the district still
needs just under 100 teachers
for the 633 teaching spots
which would need to be filled to
reopen schools. Substitute
teachers account for 00 of the
spots filled, and 450 additional
applications have been paper
screened hy the district as of
Monday. Nichols said the
district continues to receive 15
to 20 applications each day and
feels "confident we’ll have an
adequate replacement staff."
District officials continue to in
terview applicants in prepara
tion for possible reopening dur
ing the strike.
Nichols also speculated
schools might have to remain
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