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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1995)
Education plan receives federal support SAI.KM (AP) — Bai ker* of Ongon'i con troveraiel education reform act brought in U S Education S« rotary Richard Rtley and U S. Sen Mark Hatfield on Monday to drum up support for the plait Proposals are being considered by the Republican-controlled l egislature to alter or repeal the law passed during the 1091 session Riley and Hatfield. R-Ofw . spoke at an education forum at Willamette University sponsored In state education and business coalitions. The two also met with student leaders from across the stale and met with Gov John kitzhaber and several business leaders "Oregon is indeed in the forefront of education in this country." Riley said "We can honestly snv we are starting to turn the corner from a nation at risk to being a nation on the move, and I am swung that here." Ri lev said Oregon’s plan for edu< a I ion reform vs as the first to gain approval for federal financing from his office The slate will get $4 l million to retrain teai hers and upgrade technology Riley said Oregon also was the first of six states t hosen for a pro gram allowing mow flexibility in spending federal education aid. 'I think that Oregon is headed in the right direction." Rilev said "A promise not to leave anybody behind yvitl put Oregon ahead in the 21st century." Republican leaders tn both the House and Senate said they intend to continue effort* to at least modify the law Kitchaber ha* said he would veto any effort to overturn it "You don't throw it out. but you i rrtainly r*»* ogttize that there are time changes or improvements that need to be made," said House Speaker Bev ('.larno, K Bend If this isn't to be repealed on a statewide ballot, I think we ought to work diligently to trv to reform it until it enjoys public support." said Senate President Gordon Smith. R-Pend let on. The House sulx ommittee on education next week w ill Ixigin work on several hills to revise the law The reform act emphasises abilities and • reative thinking over tra ditional grades and credit hours High si hool students must earn a i ertifii ale of initial mastery and a i ertificate of advnnt ed mastery to graduate Hai kers say the plan will prepare students to i omjiete for jobs on a global level Opponents argue the (dan waters down traditional si hool curriculum and will take away lex al control of m hoots Replacements may face ban from Kinqdome OLYMPIA (AP) — Ken Griffey Jr. and fellow Seattle Mariners lay Buhner and Jeff Nelson Irav eled to the state capital Monday to hack two hills aimed at keep ing replacement baseball players out of Seattle's Kingdoms “Who do the fans want to see. do they want to see Ken Griffey Ir.. or old former softball play ers?” Nelson told a news confer ence attended by his two teammates and former Mariners David Henderson of the Kansas City Royals and Krii Hansen of the Cincinnati Reds The event was staged by the Service Employees Union. House Bill lH iH. sponsored bv Rep ken Jacobsen. I) Seattle, would ban replacement players outright at the kingdom** "The American people own the game of baseball and replacement players are a com plate travesty." Jacobsen told reporters The second hill. SBS7B6, would roquire what sponsoring Son Mike Heaves. D-Seattle, t ails "truth in advertising " Under hi* measure, a team could not advertise it is playing major league baseball unless ?.r> percent of the player* were members of a major-league team on Aug t •!. 1904. the unv play ers went on strike I he Seattle Mariners should not be allowed to pass replace ment games as major league baseball." Heavey said Griffey told the gathering that baseball owners art' "trying to break the players union He said the players tie fore him have fought for current players’ rights, and he and others should fight for the rights of future play ers Griffey said the owners are not bargaining in gosxl faith. "I mean the president of the United States could not settle the strike,' he said Flooding causes slides, recedes in Washington SEATTLE (AF) — Hood warnings remained in effect Mondav for five Puget Sound area rivers and the Yakima River, imt the worst of this round of flooding was over. "It looks like the waters are going down," said spokesman Mark Stewart with the state Emergency Management Divi sion. "We got a lot of rainfall, hut it could have been worse," Stew art said Monday. A Mason County shelter for evacuees was closed Monday after two or thrift nights of oper ation. Stewart said. The Skokomish River, which hod threatened homes there, was expected to crest by the end of the day as were other swollen rivers on the west side of the state. the National Weather Sor vice said. In addition, county emer gency operations (.enters were closed in Snohomish and King counties, Stewart said Rivers across the Puget Sound region spilled over their banks Sunday, driven by heavy rain and unseasonably high tempera tures that melted mountain snow pat ks Hast of the mountains, the Yakima River was expected to continue rising until Wednes day, said National Weather Ser vice forecaster Doug McDonnal There was minor flooding Monday on Ahtanurn Creek just south of Yakima and along Top penish Creek in the lower Yaki ina Valley. !he weather service said Some road closure were reported and a few homes wore threatened hv the rising waters On the w est side of the state, “most of the rivers are already falling. We're just kind of wait ing for them to fall lielow flood stage," when flood warnings w ill he lifted M<.Donnal said While rain was expen ted to continue, precipitation was not expected to be significant "ns far as the rivers go." And temperatures were drop ping as a weak cold front entered the state s northwest comer and begun making its way east, he said Freezing lev els in the Casi ade and Qlympii mountains — which rose as high as 10,000 feel over the weekend. swelling area rivers with melt ml snow were coming down and expm ted to nint h 5,(MM) feet b\ ruesduv. Mi I Minimi said Flood w arnings were canceled Monday for the Cedar and Nkookumchuck rivers, for the ( hnhalis River in lewis ( ounlv, and for Hangman Creek in Spokane (bounty In addition to the Skokornish. flood warnings remained in effect but were expm ted to be lifted by the end of the day at The Snohomish River in Snohomish County The Snoqualmie River in Ring County — The Chehahs River in I hurslon and Grays Harbor counties The Klickitat River in Kin kitat County. HEALTH Continued from Page 1 least four i>®op!» who had more than one sax partner last year Knox said many college students follow what he t ails "serial monogamy." "They think they are in a monogamous relation* ship, but the relationship may only last six months. Then they enter another monogamous relationship for another six months, and so on." he said. “In reality, they have a few sex partners each year,” Knox said. "They just tend to forget about the other relationships they have been in." The study showed that men reported more sex partners: 51 percent claimed six or more, com pared with 25 percent of women And 2H percent of men reported at least 11 sex partners, compared to it) percent of woman Yet 25 percent of those surveyed said they did not know their partner's sexu al history, a key factor in determining risk And those who think they know may lx< wrong. The survey found that only 1H percent of women under age 30 believe their part ner has had sex with five other people, while 42 percent of men that age claim they have The survey concluded that 02 percent of men and half of the women polled are at moderate or high risk of catching a sexually transmitted disease But 75 percent said they weren't worried about it. 02 percent said they know very little about such dis eases and 46 percent of those at highest risk said they never use a condom. Knox said the health center's peer education department also tries to emphasize how drugs nod alcohol affect sexual deci sion making, and can con tribute to higher risk ALL DAY TUESDAY s p A G H E T T I ALL YOU CAN EAT EVERY TUES! 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