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High court will rule on Pledge
i ne supreme court agrees
to decide if reciting the
Pledge of Allegiance in
public schools is unlawful
By Matt Krupnick
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — The U S.
Supreme Court wall consider whether
public schools can include the Pledge
of Allegiance in their daily routine
Justices agreed Tuesday to consider
a California lawsuit that brought wide
attention last year after the 9th U S.
Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that
recitation of the phrase "under God”
in schools was unconstitutional.
Ihe appeals court ordered a stay on
the decision earlier this year until the
Supreme Court could decide whether
to hear the case.
Michael Newdow, the Sacramento
man who sued a school district to pre
vent his daughter from being exposed
to the pledge, said Tliesday he was opti
mistic about the Supreme Court review.
At issue is whether the mention of
God violates the First Amendment.
The appeals court ruled the pledge —
when recited in public schools —
amounts to government endorsement
of a monotheistic religion.
Pledge supporters say the God ref
erence, introduced to the pledge in
1954 to distinguish the United States
from communist nations, is more tra
ditional than religious.
"There's a history here and I think the
public overwhelmingly believes the
phrase 'under God' should be kept in
the pledge," said attorney Richard
Thompson, head of the Thomas More
Law Center, which plans to tile a bnef
in support of the school district.
Two factors could complicate the
Supreme Court review, which is ex
pected next year.
First, Justice Antonin Scalia, who
criticized the appeals court's decision,
recused himself from the case. Mis ab
sence establishes the possibility of a 4
4 tie, which would leave the 9th Cir
cuit ruling in place.
Further entangling the issue, the
court must decide whether Newdow
had the right to sue on behalf of his
daughter, over whom he did not have
custody. If he improperly filed the suit,
the court is unlikely to address the mer
its of the case, legal experts said.
(c) 2003, Contra Costa Times (Walnut
Creek, Calif.). Distributed by Knight
Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
MASTURBATOR
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Once they realized it was not a
joke, they screamed and ran into
Shannon's room.
"We started yelling and banging on
the wall to wake up our third room
mate," Shannon said.
After waking the third roommate
and her boyfriend, the four went
back into the kitchen to see if the
man was still there. 1 le was gone and
had left the back door wide open.
"Me just vaporized," Kraus said.
"Like a ghost."
There have been several indecent
exposure reports in the past month,
five or six of which are related, said
Eugene Police Department spokes
woman Kerry Delf. In each incident
the offender disappeared before po
lice could catch him.
Rumors of the campus masturbator
originally began in 2002 when three
incidents of a man masturbating in
front of female students' residence hall
windows were thought to have been
perpetrated by the same male suspect.
Victims of the 2002 incidents de
scribed the campus masturbator as a
Caucasian male in his 20s. Kraus de
scribed the man in her kitchen in a
similar light, adding that he was
dressed "like any average ... guy
who'd gone out to a nice dinner."
Delf advised female students to be
very aware of their surroundings, es
pecially if they are walking at night by
themselves. If confronted by a threat
ening individual, distract him or her
if possible, she said, adding that dis
tractions might keep the offender
from running away so that police can
apprehend the suspect.
Delf said victims should also get as
accurate of a suspect description as pos
sible and call the police immediately.
Kraus said she was worried that the
man might come back to the house
another night, or that his fascination
with scaring females might manifest
into something more dangerous.
"It's really scary," she said. "Our
doors aren't ever going to be un
locked again."
Contact the crime/health/
safety reporter
at alishaughnessy@dailyemerald.com.
GTF
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department, said many of the histo
ry GTFs don't have teaching experi
ence, but they do have strong aca
demic careers.
'The decisions we're making are re
ally about academic merit and aca
demic promise," he said.
Ostler said history GTFs are not re
quired to attend workshops, but
many do on their own. They also get
much of their training from working
closely with professors.
History GTF Tyler Fall said he feels
comfortable with his ability to lead
discussion sections because he was a
substitute teacher at a middle school,
and he gets tips from other GTFs as
well as professors.
"The professor who teaches the
class has always given me ample ad
vice," he said. "It's not a matter of just
being thrown into a situation."
Fall has taken workshops to learn
more about managing a classroom
and how to relate to students, which
he said is important for getting stu
dents to participate.
Students have different opinions
on GTFs' effectiveness as teachers.
Freshman Jenny McMahon said
her psychology GTF creates a wel
come environment by urging stu
dents to discuss material together.
"He really cares about what your
opinion is," she said, adding that he
presents himself professionally but
isn't as intimidating as a professor.
Freshman Natasha Yeoman said
she wasn't so lucky. She said she
dropped a class at the beginning of
the term because she felt her math
GTF didn't have enough experience
or grasp on the material to lead a
lab section.
"She didn't explain everything,"
Yeoman said, adding that at one
point the students had to show the
GTF how to do a math problem.
Cooper said that even if GTFs do
know the material well, it isn't always
enough to make them good teachers.
"It's much, much more complex
than just delivering information," she
said. "That may or may not have any
thing to do with whether (students)
are learning."
TEP also offers a one-day training
class for faculty and staff in September
that Cooper describes as "a very intense
day" of training. It was originally five
days long, but not enough people
could fit it into their schedules. She
said that although this leaves little time
for training, more people are able to
participate, adding that last September
about 200 GTFs attended.
Lohan said she would probably at
tend more workshops if she had the
time, or if they counted toward the
hours CPFs are required to work.
"With the graduate schedules, of
ten our days are full," she said.
For more information on TEP, visit
http://tep.uoregon.edu.
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