Conference will target males in at-risk age group
■ Teen-age males are at risk
for committing violence, but
program coordinators
believe they can be reached
By Maggie Young
Oregon Daily Emerald
Since February of 1996, 16
school shootings have occurred
within the United States. Includ
ed in these are the highly-publi
cized Springfield; Jonesboro,
Ark.; and Littleton, Colo., shoot
ings.
The need for action is clear.
The College of Education’s
Youth Enrichment and Talented
and gifted Programs will host a
conference today, aimed at sup
porting boys as they transition
through a difficult time in their
lives, said Jayne Mickles, confer
ence coordinator and University
youth enrichment program mem
ber.
The majority of violence in the
United States is committed by
males aged 10 to 17, said Jeff
Sprague, co-director of the Insti
tute on Violence and Destructive
Behavior.
“Boys are much more at risk for
being perpetrators of violence
than girls,” he said. “Being a boy
alone doesn’t define much
though. There are other risk fac
tors.”
The program will begin at 8:30
a.m. at Churchill High School
with an opening ceremony host
ed by City Councilor Bobby Lee
and conclude at 2:30 p.m. on the
University campus with a presen
tation by Derrick Deadwiler,
ESPN regional coordinator and
former University football player.
Events throughout the day in
clude tours of various University
departments given by program
mentors and a performance of
“Especially for Boys” by the Eu
gene thespian group Encore The
ater. Mentors from community
schools and male members of the
University Secondary Education
Program will guide the boys
throughout the activities.
The decision to include men
tors in the program was a logical
choice for Work and Family Ser
vices Administrator and confer
ence coordinator Karen Logvin.
“It is a well-known fact in edu
cation that meaningful relation
ships with adults have an impact
on students’ lives,” Logvin said.
Mentoring programs for middle
school boys are an effective way
to reduce violence and dropout
rates, Sprague said. Youth need to
make a decision to do something
different and this conference can
create motivation, he said.
“Having kids go to a conference
is a start, but things aren’t going to
change overnight,” he said.
The hope is that boys will come
away from this conference feeling
better about themselves, Logvin
said.
“We want to give them a sense
of ability to pursue their hopes
and dreams, while supported by
adults,” Logvin said.
Mickles wants the community
to see that boys need to feel sup
ported and celebrated just as
much as girls.
“I hope that the community
will want to do more things to
help our boys and continue pro
grams like this,” she said.
The last registration forms will
be accepted by the College of Edu
cation until 5 p.m. today, or until
the program fills.
University Senate elects professors to IFS and addresses several faculty concerns
■ uoncerns about faculty
and staff health benefits,
workloads and staffing
decisions are discussed
_ By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University Senate elected
three professors to the Interinsti
” tutional Faculty Senate and dis
cussed faculty issues at Wednes
day’s meeting in 123 Pacific.
The approximately 40 adminis
trators, professors and students
present at the meeting unani
mously approved the nomina
tions of math Professor Jim Isen
berg, music Professor Ann
Tedards and anthropology Ad
junct Professor Paul Simonds to
the IFS.
The professors will serve three
year terms on the IFS, which is a
faculty representative group com
posed of 20 senators from univer
sities affiliated
University
Senate
already served
with the Oregon
University Sys
tem. The IFS re
ports to the State
Board of Educa
tion about facul
ty issues such as
salary increases
and health bene
fits, said Si
monds, who has
five years on the
IFS.
After the IFS appointments,
Sen. Greg McLauchlan read the
results of a survey asking senators
what the senate should address
this year.
“I do have an appropriate level
of cynicism of all survey results,”
McLauchlan said.
McLauchlan, however, said he
was especially cynical about this
survey because only nine senators
responded.
Most of the responses ad
dressed faculty morale. Proposed
agenda items included raising
faculty salaries, decreasing facul
ty non-academic workloads, im
proving faculty representation in
staffing decisions, reassessing fac
ulty and staff health benefits, pro
viding reduced tuition to depen
dents of faculty and staff and
increasing diversity among facul
ty, staff and the student body.
According to McLauchlan, one
senator who advocated reduced
workloads wrote, “... since our
salaries are so low, perhaps our
workload should appropriately
reflect [that].”
During the opening discussion,
Sen. Jane Grey passionately
voiced concern about faculty not
having access to legal advice on
campus.
Grey said faculty should have
access to a legal council for “the
day-to-day questions that might
arise in response to our obligation
to our colleagues and our stu
dents.”
Though the University does
employ General Council Melinda
Grier, Grey said Grier only an
swers questions referred to her by
the president’s office.
“In other words,” Grey said,
“I’d have to crawl on my knees to
[Provost John] Mosely to get an
swers to my legal questions.”
“In my mind,” said Grier, who
was present at the meeting, “I
work for the president.”
Grier said the workload doesn’t
allow her time to answer faculty
University Senate
Action: The senate elected math
Professor Jim Isenberg, music
Professor Ann Tedards and an
thropology Adjunct Professor Paul
Simonds to represent the Universi
ty on the Interinstitutional Faculty
Senate.
The IFS is a faculty-representative
group composed of 20 senators
from Oregon universities.
questions.
“If I could clone myself, it
would be great,” Grier said.
Grey said she wasn’t certain
whether or not she would pro
pose a motion addressing the is
sue.
EMU Board to up budget by 5 percent to cover increases in salaries, utility rates
■ The $136,416 in part will
fund a full-time marketing
coordinator and three
quarter time grant writer
By Simone Ripke
Oregon Daily Emerald
The EMU Board approved the
EMU budget benchmark proposal
Wednesday after the budget com
mittee concluded that a 5.3 per
w cent increase in incidental fees is
necessary for the 2000-2001 fiscal
year.
The budget increase will cover
such mandated increases as a 2
percent staff salary increase,
pending reclassifications, in
creased medical contributions for
all staff and utility rate increases
in the building.
A 5.3 percent increase in inci
dental fees is equivalent to an in
crease of $136,416, based on cur
rent enrollment.
Campbell Kidd, finance chair
of the EMU Board, said commit
tee members met with EMU pro
grams to find out exactly what
funding is needed, how much is
used and what can be done with
out it. The benchmark amount of
5.3 percent was the result of the
committee’s research and repre
sents the maximum amount the
EMU Board will be able to use for
the 2000-2001 fiscal year, if the
proposal is approved by the Stu
dent Senate.
“Our benchmark sets up a para
meter that we can work within,”
Kidd said. “I do realize that this
number sounds
and looks huge.”
But he empha
sized that the
amount will be
necessary to
maintain and ex
pand existing
services and
help draw students into the EMU.
Certain specific expenses for
Child Care and Development,
Club Sports, Facilities Services
and the Cultural Forum will re
main at the same level and
amount to a total of $15,842. But
Child Care and Development will
receive an additional $4,000 to
subsidize 1 percent of the rate in
crease.
Administrative expenses will
increase by $21,005 to cover the
cost of making the marketing co
ordinator a full-time position and
the grant writer a three-quarter
time position. Furthermore, mar
keting funds for various programs
and funding for outreach will be
covered by the increase.
Bryan Myss, house chair of the
board, said his committee has
been working on looking at the
room distribution in the EMU.
Myss said the committee feels
that some rooms might not be
used to their full potential and
might be reassigned to new appli
cants.
Dennis Reynolds, EMU child
care coordinator, asked the board
to support a budget proposal for
new child care facilities that
would include eight classrooms
and allow the addition of infant
care and after school programs.
Reynolds said two of the three
current facilities are old and were
built for residential use and not
made with child care in mind.
“We feel it is long past due time
to really reflect the commitment
students on this campus have
made to child care,” Reynolds
said. The board voted unani
mously to support the project.
Jackson drops demand for immediate reinstatement of students
By Christopher Wills
The Associated Press
DECATUR, 111. —The Rev. Jesse
Jackson on Wednesday dropped
his demand that six students ex
pelled for a fight at a football game
be allowed back in school, saying
he would support moving them
into alternative education classes.
Earlier, Jackson had rejected a
school board offer to cut the stu
dents’ two-year expulsions to one
year and put them in alternative
school for the year. He said he
wanted them re-enrolled immedi
ately.
“If alternative school is part of a
grander scheme in getting the kids
back into the school system, that’s
acceptable,” Jackson said
Wednesday. He said he wanted
those eligible to graduate this year
to still be able to do so.
Six students were expelled for
allegedly taking part in a brawl in
the stands at a football game at
Eisenhower High School on Sept.
17. A seventh student was threat
ened with expulsion but with
drew from school first.
The three high schools in this
blue-collar city were closed for se
curity reasons Monday and Tues
day as Jackson led protests on be
half of the expelled students. The
schools reopened Wednesday,
with police checking students’ ID.
No incidents were reported, but 41
percent of students stayed home.
The expelled students are all
black, but Jackson has said fair
ness is more at issue than race.
Jackson said he met with state
school Superintendent Glenn
“Max” McGee at a hotel Wednes
day night, and the two talked by
phone with Gov. George Ryan.
Jackson and McGee said they all
agreed on a plan that could put in
dividual students back in regular
schools in less than a year if they
did well at the alternative schools.
Jackson said the plan included
the creation of an outside review
board to determine the students’
ultimate punishment.
Jackson lashed out at the school
board for refusing to schedule a
meeting on the proposal Wednes
day night.
“It has rebuffed the governor
and the state superintendent,”
Jackson said.
Schools Superintendent Ken
neth Arndt said the board spent
hours discussing the issue and
was too exhausted to meet on the
new proposal.
“I’ve learned never to say nev
er, but I do not see this board get
ting together in the immediate fu
ture when they have spent
unbelievable hours on this issue,”
Arndt said.
On Tuesday, four people ac
cused in the brawl were charged
with mob action, a felony, which
Jackson said “will only make mat
ters worse.” The four included
two of those who were expelled
and the student who withdrew.
The fourth was not a student at the
time of the fight.
Five others were also charged as
juveniles. It was unclear whether
any of them were among those ex
pelled.
Prosecutor Lawrence Fichter
said Wednesday he would be
open to a plea bargain. “What we
start out with may not be what we
end up with,” he said.
Lewis Myers Jr., an attorney for
one of the students, said there will
be no deal. “These charges are vin
dictive and brought solely to in
timidate these young men and
their families,” he said.
A videotape of the fight made by
a spectator at Eisenhower’s game
against MacArthur High shows a
boy punching and kicking some
one while someone else climbs
into the stands from the track to
join the melee.
Fans in the stands scatter, and
some cover small children. Things
calm down after less than a
minute, but police said the tape
catches only the last third of the
fight.
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