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Leaders continue to grow ■TheContinllO leadership institute gathers this June to help people in charge strengthen their skills By Serena Markstrom Oregon Daily Emerald This summer, the College of Ed ucation will hold the second an nual ContinUO, a leadership in stitute geared at helping representatives from the private and public sectors make strides at their respective institutions to im prove performance. About 150 leaders from as far away as Canada will gather June 26 to 30 and tackle problems such as low school attendance, teen vi olence and student drop-out rates. The program also aims to reinvigorate leaders and encour age them to think differently. Nancy Golden, director of Con tinUO, said the institute, which will meet at the Eugene Hilton, has three main goals, which, if achieved, can help leaders in busi ness as well as education. The institute’s goals are to ignite passion for work, get participants to think creatively and teach lead ership skills, Golden said. Though most of the attendants will be educators, Golden said businesses with a youth emphasis will also benefit from training be cause many of the issues overlap. The five-day event mixes small group discussions, led by coaches, with keynote presenta tions. The most distinctive as pect of the event is that it will in corporate the arts and artists’ leadership processes into leader ship skills. Pete Helzer, an Oregon-based sculptor, will relate the process of creating a sculpture to the process of achieving long-term goals in education and business. The artistic aspect, Golden said, is what touches people and causes them to think differently [ContinUO] teaches to think in terms of pos sibilities instead of resig nation. Dan Jamison principal of West Albany High School // about leadership problems. “It causes you to get inspired and set high goals,” Golden said. “I think the artists really hit the spot.” Dan Jamison, principal of West Albany High School, participat ed last year and will go through training to coach new partici pants this year. He said the pro gram helped him change how he thinks about problems. Since Jamison set goals at the institute, the high school has un dergone dramatic changes. His goal was to change the culture and atmosphere at the school, and he and other administrators began to achieve this by chang ing the school physically. The inside and outside of the building were painted, and in a school assembly, he stressed the importance of keeping the school free of litter. They also converted three classrooms into a student center and began to focus on character and sportsmanship. Jamison said the institute helped him sharpen his focus on the possibilities for his school and the efforts have gained the school recognition. ContinUO “teaches to think in terms of possibilities instead of resignation,” Jamison said. Result: parents feel more sup ported, according to a survey, and editorials that were once negative have become positive in newspa pers such as The Oregonian. Jamison called the institute “a transformational experience in rethinking leadership.” The institute also includes fol low-up work so groups that worked together during the sum mer meeting can reunite and dis cuss the progress they have made on their goals, Golden said. For Jamison, the institute was also a part of his superintendent licensure process. Philip McCullum, who is asso ciate director of administrative licensure at the College of Educa tion, said the conference helps individuals figure out who they are as leaders and carry out the required step in licensure for su perintendent. “They begin to look at stretch ing leadership to looking at what are the possibilities for the school,” McCullum said. UO Summer Session Glasses Begin June 19. Register Now! It's Not Too Late. ‘look Your Summer in Oregon Pick up your free summer bulletin today in the Summer Session office, 333 Oregon Hall, or at the UO Bookstore. You can speed your way toward graduation by taking required courses during summer. University of Oregon Summer Session littn://nosnmmer.noregon.edn/ M ixed matters met in senate meeting ■While this year’s final Student Senate meeting featured a few frivolous issues such as T-shirt funding, the group also took into account allocation of the remaining surplus money By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald Student Senate meetings this year have featured yelling, crying, heated debate, multiple resigna tions and four nonfulfillment-of duty charges. The last senate meeting of the year on Wednesday night lacked that seriousness as a majority of the senators ended their terms in office. The main business of the night revolved around what to do with the remaining surplus money that they didn’t allocate to ASUO pro grams through out the year. A plan was draft ed in previous meetings to pur chase T-shirts • for each senator, and on Wednes • day they voted. • While the T-shirts cost $304, j Sen. Scott Kolwitz couldn’t exact • ly say how much production ; costs would be. To cover those • costs, the senate allocated a total : of $420, a number Sen. Dave • Sanchez called “symbolic of the ; Eugene community.” • Before the vote was taken, however, senators decided who — would vote for and against the motion to intentionally tie on the issue, allowing ASUO Vice Pres ident Mitra Anoushiravani to cast the tie-breaking vote, something she has not been able to do all year. She voted in favor, and the senate got its shirts. Senators got more serious when deciding how to allocate the rest of surplus. A senate com mittee worked for the past weeks to decide what should be done with the money but had no an swers for the senate Wednesday night. Members suggested letting the money roll over for next year’s senate to allocate or placing Student Senate it in subsidies for student groups holding events at McArthur Court and the EMU Ballroom. Sen. Bob Bohannon suggested the money be removed from each student’s incidental fee because students originally paid for the money in surplus through the fee anyway. But ASUO Accounting Coordi nator Jennifer Creighton pointed out that the fee is approved through the University to the Chancellor of the Oregon Univer sity System and couldn’t be changed by the senate. Senators agreed to use $7,500 of the surplus to buy and place five lampposts on campus and let the rest roll over. Kolwitz said the money would simultaneously be going to improve campus light ing, a major problem on campus. Even though her term as vice president ended Wednesday also, the senate approved Anoushira vani as an at-large member to next year’s EMU Board. Appoint ed to the EMU position by new ASUO President Jay Breslow, Anoushiravani will also serve in an unofficial vice president role during the summer when new vice president Holly Magner is off campus. Finally, before adjourning, Sens. Sanchez and Helen Stock lin-Enright presented many of the senators with awards that includ ed “most likely to be impeached,” going to Senate President Jessica Timpany and Sens. Spencer Hamlin, C.J. Gabbe and Jereme Grzybowski, all of whom were convicted of nonfulfillment-of duty charges last term by the ASUO Constitution Court. A smaller body of the senate, still yet to be formed, will handle business during the summer. When the full senate reconvenes in the fall, members will vote on the president and vice president for the year. Public not told about killer EUGENE — The brother of a murder victim is angry the public was not notified when the killer skipped out on his parole more than 3 1/2 years ago. “My reaction, quite honestly, is fear,” said Gary Ford. “I just cannot believe that he skipped parole three years ago, or whatever it is now, and nobody bothered to tell us.” Ford’s older brother, Greg, was stabbed to death at age 25 after be ing confronted by Tony Charles and two friends at a downtown mall in 1979. Charles was convicted of mur der and sentenced to life in prison with a 25-year minimum term, al though the state attorney general’s office later ruled the minimum term was invalid because Charles was 17 at the time of the killing. Charles disappeared from the Portland area less than 11/2 years after his April 1995 release from prison. Just months after dropping out of sight, police also believe he played a role in a bizarre gunpoint kidnapping of two women from a Eugene shopping center in No vember 1996. Federal and local law enforce ment officials have been on the lookout for Charles since he fled, but until state corrections officials listed him on the “most wanted” list two weeks ago, no public no tification of his status was given. Lane County Assistant District Attorney Bob Gorham, who pros ecuted Charles for Greg Ford’s murder, said giving Charles pa role was a mistake. “It was an unbelievably bad re lease decision,” Gorham said. “Essentially, [the Parole Board] just turned him loose to do what ever he wanted, and he almost immediately went on escape sta tus.” In a 1987 interview with The Register-Guard, Charles men tioned an interest in leaving the United States. “I would like to get out and dis appear and never be heard from again,” he said at the time. “That’s what I would like to do. Go to an other city, go to another country. Start over again where nobody’s ever heard of Tony Charles.” The Associated Press P8 m Re< le n Recycle • Rec;
