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Three Oregon schools shift
to smaller scale institutions
BY JULIA SILVERMAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORTLAND - Three more of
Oregon’s largest high schools —
two in Portland and one in Central
Point — will morph into smaller
“schools-within-a-school,” using
grants partly funded by the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation.
Roosevelt and Madison High
Schools in Portland and Crater High
School in Central Point, none of
which earned a grade over “satisfac
tory” on state report cards last year,
will join 12 Oregon schools and
schools-to-be already receiving grants
from the $25 million initiative, which
is also backed by Portland-based
Meyer Memorial Trust.
The largest of the three schools,
Crater High, will receive $1.1 million
over the next four years to help cover
the costs of converting from a com
prehensive, traditional high school to
the small school model. Roosevelt
and Madison will receive $620,000
and $775,000, respectively.
In the beginning, the money will
mainly be spent on planning and pro
fessional development; the goal is to
end up with smaller learning com
munities in which teachers and stu
dents have more personal relation
ships. Backers of small schools say
they can help raise student achieve
ment and reduce drop-out rates.
The small schools grants target in
stitutions with more than 700 stu
dents and where at least 25 percent
of the students are either minorities
or from a poor family. The three
schools were chosen from among
10 applicants; 50 high schools in Ore
gon met the criteria and could have
applied for the grant money.
A handful of the schools that had
been awarded the grant earlier have
already opened, often with the small
er schools arranged around specific
themes; others are still in the plan
ning stages, shooting for openings in
fall 2006 or 2007.
Eight of the schools previously
awarded the grants are traditional
large high schools that have already
or will be subdividing into smaller
“schools-within-schools,” topping
out at no more than 400 students
each. They include schools in Port
land, Lebanon, Eugene, Woodburn,
Hillsboro, Newberg and both of the
traditional high schools in Medford.
Making the transition to a small
school is uphill work and far from an
instant cure-all, some of the Oregon
grant recipients said, especially with
the knowledge that the grant money
won’t last forever, a concern in Ore
gon’s uncertain budget climate.
At North Eugene High School,
teachers and administrators visited
some large high schools that weren’t
totally pleased with their conversion
into smaller schools.
“Some worked, some didn’t,” prin
cipal Peter Tromba said. “The ones
that didn’t were pretty ugly. Schools
were competing, staffs were fighting,
there was lower student achieve
ment. You can’t bulldozer in, carve a
school into four pieces, and just ex
pect it will work.”
North Eugene’s concerns were
well-publicized and eventually led to
an anonymous vote on whether the
school should continue with the
small schools transformation process.
It could have made the school
among the first in the country to de
cline the Gates small schools money.
Oregon House to consider bill
requiring abortion notification
BY BRAD CAIN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALEM — A bill that would require
doctors to notify parents before per
forming abortions on minors is head
ed for a vote in the Oregon House and
is likely to get a veto even if it wins leg
islative approval.
Backers of the bill say parents
should have the right to know when
their teenage daughters are seeking
an abortion, but opponents say it
would endanger girls who are in
abusive homes.
The measure, which the House
Judiciary Committee approved
Tliesday, is similar to a bill passed
by the 1999 Legislature but vetoed
by then-Gov. John Kitzhaber.
Patterned after notification laws
in 24 other states, the Oregon pro
posal is a top priority of House
Speaker Karen Minnis.
“This issue enjoys wide support
among the public, so I hope all
House and Senate members will
give it due consideration,” the
Wood Village Republican said.
The bill would face a near certain
veto from Democratic Gov. Ted Ku
longoski, a long-time backer of
abortion rights.
“This is a governor who is pro
choice,” Kulongoski spokeswoman
Holly Armstrong said. “He has been
very clear on that.”
Under the bill, doctors would be
required to notify parents before
performing an abortion on a girl
younger than 18.
Also, teens who fear they would
be putting themselves at risk by
having their parents notified about
an abortion would be entitled to
appeal through a formal administra
tive procedure.
Gayle Atteberry of Oregon Right to
Life called it a common-sense ap
proach that protects the rights of the
girl and her parents.
“We’ve had mothers testify about
their daughters having abortions in se
cret, behind their backs,” she said. “It’s
one of the most important decisions a
girl can make, and parents are going to
be left out of the loop?”
But opponents say most teenagers
already talk to their parents about such
important decisions, and the law
would endanger some girls.
“It could result in escalated abuse.
They could get kicked out of their
home,” Planned Parenthood spokes
woman Kellie Shoemaker said.
The 1999 bill won approval at a time
when Republicans controlled both the
House and Senate.
This year, though, Democrats are
firmly in control of the Senate, and a
top Democrat said TUesday the
parental notification bill likely won’t
even be brought up for a vote.
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McCarrel called Sports Illustrated
and landed an internship.
“I said, ‘We want the magazine,’
and sold Oregon to them before 1 was
a student,” McCarrel said.
McCarrel now plans and executes
promotional events for Sports Illus
trated and its advertisers.
One event McCarrel planned was a
promotion for a Dr. Marten movie
called “Veer.” The company selected
15 campuses at which to show the
movie, and the University was one of
them. McCarrel and his team of four
others had to plan the event and,
more importantly, make sure stu
dents were there.
But the showing was slated for the
third day of school, giving his team
only three days to promote the event.
“It’s our job as consultants to get
people to come,” McCarrel said. “We
ended up earning Campus Consul
tants of the Week for that event. ”
McCarrel and his team use
what he calls “guerrilla marketing,”
which includes rave cards, posters,
fliers and tabling. They also
hold giveaways.
Stoolman’s and McCarrel’s promo
tional efforts have elicited a variety of
responses from students.
When junior Jessica Rowan saw
the Axe thongs on a bench last week,
she said she thought they might be
part of an anti-rape campaign — until
she read the message.
“I personally think it’s degrading to
both men and women,” she said.
“On the whole I don’t understand it,
but I think it’s inappropriate.”
Senior Jon Winger said he saw
how the advertising campaign might
be deemed inappropriate, but it need
ed to be taken with “a grain of salt.”
Axe commercials are done comically,
he said, and if people were aware of
the entire campaign, they might un
derstand it better.
“It’s meant to be humorous; just
laugh about it,” he said.
abolsinger@ daily emerald, com
News Editor Ayisha Yahya
Tim Bobgsky | Photographer
Nick Stoolman is a campus representa
tive for Electronic Arts, the maker of
EA Sports video games. Part of his job
includes giving away free games,
organizing tournaments and raising
awareness about the brand on campus.