Measure 9 may put schools in bind
PORTLAND (AP) - Teacher
Vicky narrows rnmontburs the
death of a 15-year-old lx>y who was
a neighbor, her son's friend, and a
homosexual.
"Me hanged himself He was be
ing teased at school because he was different, sail!
Barrows, now president of the Portland Assixdation of
Teachers.
Barrows said the death led her to promote training
for teachers and counselors to help gay and lesbian
teen-agers adjust in school. She worries that Ballot
Measure 9 would shut down the program.
Sharon Cabe. the mother of three children at a Tigard
elementary school, worries teachers will tell her chil
dren that homosexuality Is an acceptable lifestyle
Cabo knows the elementary school currently doesn't
address homosexuality. Yet efforts by educators like
Barrows have led her to believe gay and lesbian activ
ists slowly will l>egin to push their views in the ( lass
room
That's why she supports Measure 9
"Measure 9 will prevent it from getting any further
than it has," Cabo says. "I do not want to see homosex
uality promoted in any way."
Schools remain front-ond-center In the debate over
Measure 9.
The Nov. 3 ballot initiative would amend the Oregon
Constitution to require government, especially schools,
to discourage homosexuality and label it wrong and
perverse.
Most cduc.ition lenders in the state oppose the mens
urn They sav it would threaten the jobs of gay and les
lean teachers, censor teacher's dtsi usstons of literature
in the classroom, and trigger the banning of hooks
which discuss homosexuality but fail to condemn it
The exact impact of the measure's broad wording is
unclear Some of the measure's crtlu s have said "tptes
lionable" Ixioks would tx> left on library shelves under
the guarantee of the First Amendment right to free
speech
Oregon Citizens Alliance Chairman Lon Mahon has
said Measure 0 would require schools to deny < hildren
access to books that clearly "promote" homosexuality
as a normal and acceptable lifestyle
The OCA has said educators are overreacting to the
initiative
Cav and lesbian teachers would not lose their |ol>s
as long as they stayed in the closet. Mahon said l each
ers could still talk about homosexual artists and their
works provided that they reminded students homo
sexuality is wrong
However, Mahon said helping students adjust to their
homosexuality would he no different than helping
them adjust to drug addiction because it is wrong
"If one of my children did come to me and said '! am
gay,' I would still love him," Mahon said "I would
definitely sav, 'I am against the behavior, but if it is
your choice, it is your choice, and I will always he here
for you.' "
Ballot measure
brings out fears
MKDPORO (AIM Ballot Measure >» Is polariz
ing this coninumily. whom somit residents say
they four their neighbors
"It s kind of scary." said Dace Drown, who said
poop In have lieen shouting at him Irom pickups
and ripping "No on 9" signs off his lawn
“We're now leaving the lights on all the time.”
Drown is one of many homosexuals who say
Measure 9, which would declare homosexuality a
perversion, has created a climate of fear among
them
Dut the anger extends in both direction*, some
residents sav
Cartoon Morgan, a former member of the jack
son County AIDS Task Force, got art anonymous
phone (all Friday at work
"Ho railed and screamed at me, swore at me."
Morgan said Saturdav
Morgan resigned Irom the task fon t! Oct 14
when it took a stand against Measure ll She Ire
lieves the task force should not take a politu.il
stand because it could jeopardize community
support
“I've never heard such fpul language in my
life," Morgan saitl. "He said. 'It’s people like you
who are trying to run every guv out of the slate of
Oregon.’
I was actually afraid last night that there was a
chance lie would do me harm on my property "
Student gets jail term
in SAT cheating case
NATIONAL
k(x;kvilli;. Md. (ai») a i*»
old man who admitted paying a friend
S200 to take his college entrant e exami
nation was sentenced Friday to six
months in jail
Lawrence H Adler, of Potomac, wept
and begged for mercy from Montgomery County Circuit Court
Judge Paul Weinstein, saying he was truly sorry
Weinstein rejected the plea
"Quite frankly. Mr. Adler, you've lieen conning people all
your life. The con ends here, today," Weinstein said
Outside the courtroom. Adler lushed out at reporters
"You guys created this whole mess," he said
The Educational Testing Service, which conducts the
Scholastic Aptitude Test, said it's the first time someone has
been criminally prosecuted for cheating on an exam
Weinstein sentenced Adler to 18 months on two perjury-re
lated charges hut suspended all but six months of the jail
term
Weinstein also ordered the college student to perform 1(H)
hours of community service, undergo psychotherapy and he
placed on three years probation. Adler does not have to re
port to jail until after the fall college semester ends in Decem
ber.
Testimony also revealed that Adler had been sexually mo
lested twice as a child
The perjury-related charges stemmed from a civil suit Ad
ler brought against ETS after it refused to validate his scores.
Adler and a friend. David Srulovich, x.ud at a March hearing
that Adler took the test lust November But Adler's friend lat
er told the testing company that he had been paid to take the
test.
Srulovich is scheduled for sentencing next Wednesday.
Black colleges may soon face closure
WASHINGTON (AP)
iil.uk. educators debated Iridav
how they i ouIt 1 fond oil mass
dosings ot hiiii k public col
legos if ii lederal judge allows
Mississippi to close or consoli
dale some of its black schools
under a desegregation plan
The slate Is trying to respond
to the Supreme Court's ruling
in a 17-year old lawsuit that its
university system is separate
and unequal As a remedy, the
state's College Hoard has pro
posed closing one blue k school
and merging staffs and pro
grams ol three others into near
by institutions
Mississippi's response is be
ing watched by at least 1H other
states with black public col
leges Some slates, such as
Georgia and South Carolina,
have been pumping extra dol
lars into their historically black
colleges
Hut if U S District Judge Neal
diggers approves closing Mis
sissippi Valley Slate Universi
ty , other states may see that .is a
green light for eliminating some
of their schools, said Howard
University President ITanklyn
Jenifer
"Some of us say we have too
much clout to lot anything like
ihat happen," Jenifer said "We
The challenge is to
make certain the
other states
understand that
this is a march
backwards
Elias Blake,
/ toward University
cannot speak as individuals
,tnv longer We must somehow
arrive at a consensus
•'The wav things sire going
now, if we are not very sophls*
Heated about how we deal with
these troubles, we sh.ill see the
demise of the historically
hlack colleges m the very near
future."
Alvin (Chambliss, attorney lor
the plaintiffs in the Mississippi
i ase. urged a grass-roots mobile
/ation of blacks on the issue of
preserving blai k colleges
"They would close every last
one of these hlai k schools il we
let them," he said Somehow,
the strike force is going to have
to be massaged and brought
Into this tiling If we don't, then
we fail as a rar e "
In a Thursday hearing, dig
gers asked the stale of Missis
sippt and liliii k plaintiffs to de
Irrmini!, over the next 10 days,
what issues nrrii to for ad
dressed to settle thr suit flt.it k
college officials plan to use tfi.it
lime to stir national intrrrst in
lilt- Mississippi ( asr, said t'.iius
Hlaki', an education policy ex
port at Howard University
" Tin! i hullengu is to make
curtain the other stales under
stand thill this is a march
backwards," III.ike said "We
have to mohili/e and go hack to
Mississippi with more detailed
documentation that what hap
pened in other stales is the cor
rect way to do desegregation
There are at least 117 hlack
U S colleges. 75 of which are
slate run si hoots Thirty-eight
are historically black they
were built during times of seg
regation to educate hlack stu
dents
'These colleges award Hit per
cent of the bachelor's degrees
earned bv blacks, and graduate
t:t percent of Mat ks who go on
to earn dtx lornles, according to
the United Negro College Fund.
Since the Supreme Court's
ruling in the Mississippi case
last June, hlack college officials
have lieen trying to determine
what the fulloul may tie
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