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.
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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.”
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