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AUGUST 9, 2019, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5 Opinion are dark corners of the internet where ugly opinions fester. A person harbor- ing hatred, loaded for bear, can easily fi nd websites that will give credence to their vilest intentions., The dual concerns of supporters of Second Amendment and First Amendment rights cannot be ig- nored. Our social com- pact should ensure that no one’s rights overrule the rights of another. The right to bear arms does not negate anoth- er person’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The U.S. Department of Home- land Security is right to focus on do- mestic terrorism, which is what every one of the mass shootings in Amer- ica over the past few years has been. zaitz writes Investigations show that shooters are not created out of thin air moments before opening fi re. There is a pro- gression that starts small and leads to tragedy. It is diffi cult to prevent a person who is determined to kill and maim without violating their personal rights. However, nobody is without someone in their life: family, friend or acquaintance. There is someone who is aware of a person’s opinions and potential for harm; those people need to feel comfortable in making a report to authorities. How heartwrenching it would be to know you could have stopped a massacre and didn’t. We can never know what dark thoughts cloud the mind of a person. We cannot assume our quaint com- munity is immune from the world’s troubles. We can be vigilant. —LAZ Portland State leadership is costly The ‘one percenters’ in America are those who possess most of the wealth and power. They have the fi nancial means for their daughters and sons to attend a college or university of their choice. Of course other Americans with children who recognize the im- portance of continuing education af- ter high school, can establish a savings plan for this purpose. Far too many, though, do not do that. Otherwise, youth who complete high school and attend a college or uni- versity will face some, often decidedly, consumer-crip- pling debt. Escaping public damna- tion was the brief, turbulent reign of the immediate former pres- ident of Portland State University. In addition to fl ying around the world at public expense to site problematic sat- ellite campuses meet far-fl ung alum- ni and destroy public documents he received a $9,200-a-month housing stipend, a $1,000-a-month transporta- tion allowance and a salary with bo- nuses and perks exceeding $800,000 per year. And he demanded more. When his fi nancial shenanigans, mis- leading statements, and inability to work effectively with almost everyone at PSU fi nally reached critical mass, the trustees fi red him. Threatening a law suit, he departed quietly after guaranteed a severance package cost- ing $875,000. Since June, Stephen Percy serves as PSU’s interim president. Before the trustees appointed Percy to the head job, he was dean of PSU’s Toulan School of Urban Studies and Plan- ning. Conditions at PSU under the former president had been upsettingly diffi cult, so the trustees plucked Percy from his old job because he was perceived to possess healing talents. The kind of nonsense that rubs this writer raw arrives (twice in one year) complements of PSU where Percy, un- tested, inexperienced as a university president will now have his former dean’s (one step below president) sala- ry doubled to an annual $425,000. The price tags for PSU leadership are excessively high—as they are at all Oregon’s public universities—while the work load for these school leaders is without transparency while grasp- ingly explained as needed “to keep good people.” The increased costs in paying excessive salaries, perks, sti- pends and allowances are too often followed by paying-off these “leaders” who make poor judgement calls and ignore ethical standards, among other defi ciencies, while the money comes gene h. mcintyre from higher tuitions, other college fees and taxpayers. The consequence precludes too many Oregon youth from getting training and education requisite to jobs and careers. Mean- while, Oregon’s public institution’s boards of trustees who are treated for meetings and other campus involve- ments like potentates—at student and public expense—appear unmoved and indifferent to stratospherically, ev- er-higher college costs on the backs of students and taxpayers. Since the leadership in these insti- tutions regularly come from out-of- state, they’re often here long enough to make a move up or retire and re- turn to their “homeland” of origin. Oregon students at every public in- stitution of post-secondary educa- tion should be outraged enough to organize into boycotts, strikes, walk- outs, whatever’s legal and not violent (Think Mahatma Gandhi), using their as-yet untapped clout to win reforms from the gross fi nancial abuses now used to make college leaders wealthy at Oregon’s expense while tens of thousands of Oregon youth are de- nied the training and education they need to succeed at life in Oregon or anywhere in America. (Gene H. McIntyre shares his opin- ion regularly in the Keizertimes.) One side is right, one side is wrong By E.J. DIONNE JR. When one side proposes solution after solution to contain gun vio- lence—and offers compromise after compromise to get something done —while the other side blocks action every time, you know which side is right. When one side brush- es aside the dangers of racist and white nation- alist terrorism while the other side says we need to be vigilant against all forms of terrorism, you know which side is right. And when Americans are gunned down in incident after incident, when we are numbed by repeating the same sorrowful words every time, when we move within a news cycle from “something must be done” to “the Senate will block action” or “the pol- itics are too complicated,” you know America’s democracy is failing and its moral compass is broken. Our rancid political culture is, quite literally, killing our nation. And the problem is not caused by some abstraction called “polarization” or by “the failure of both sides to under- stand each other.” Those are the alibis of timid souls so intent on sounding “balanced” that they turn their eyes from the truth. What is that truth? When it comes to gun violence and the need to confront white national- ism, one side is right and one side is wrong. Until we face this, even two mass shootings within 24 hours will do nothing to galvanize action. In El Paso, 22 people were killed at a shopping center on Saturday and 26 were wounded by a gunman who, according to police, appears to have posted an anti-immigrant screed on- line before the shooting. Then on Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, another mass shooter left nine dead and 27 other voices Keizertimes Wheatland Publishing Corp. • 142 Chemawa Road N. • Keizer, Oregon 97303 phone: 503.390.1051 • web: www.keizertimes.com • email: kt@keizertimes.com SUBSCRIPTIONS One year: $35 in Marion County, $43 outside Marion County, $55 outside Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Publication No: USPS 679-430 POSTMASTER Send address changes to: EDITOR & PUBLISHER Lyndon Zaitz publisher@keizertimes.com 2019-2020 President Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Keizertimes Circulation 142 Chemawa Road N. Keizer, OR 97303 Periodical postage paid at Salem, Oregon MONDAY, JULY 29 9:23 a.m. - Arrest on warrant for unlawful possession of metham- phetamine in the 5000 block of River Road N. 1:59 p.m. - Arrest on warrant in the 900 block of Chemawa Road NE. 3 p.m. - Menacing use or display of weapons in the 3000 block of May- fi eld Place N. 4:34 p.m. - Suspicious scam by in- ternet or telephone, theft by decep- tion in the 5000 block Todd Court N. 10:04 p.m. - Arrest for criminal mischief in the form of crime dam- age in the 1000 block of McGee Court NE. TUESDAY, JULY 30 There is no single solution After a mass shooting there are the inevitable calls for stricter gun control laws or the banning of assault weap- ons. Some say that such demands are made for political gain. Still others say that the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting is no time to talk politics, but to mourn, pray and memorialize the victims. There is no single solu- tion that will soothe every- one. The public (according to polls) is overwhelmingly in favor of stricter back- ground checks. Some also want a ban on assault-style guns but leaders say there is no po- litical appetite to pass such legislation. The El Paso shooter as well as oth- ers have cited anti-immigrant, white supremecist and nationalistic writings as inspiration for their actions. There traffi c court injured in area known for its lively nightlife that is heavily patrolled by police. The shooter was killed in less than a minute. “Think about that minute,” said Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley. “The shooter was able to kill nine people and injure 26 in less than a minute.” The gun-permissiveness crowd wants us not to think about that minute. It puts the lie to the gun lobby’s claim that having armed people nearby when a mass killer strikes is all we need to keep us safe. The wrong side in this debate does not want us to come together. On the contrary, its goal after every mass shooting is to defl ect and divide. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said, when asked by reporters what we should do about gun violence. “Listen, there are bodies that have not yet been re- covered,” Abbott replied. “I think we need to focus more on memorials be- fore we start the politics.” Nothing disrespects those who are slaughtered more than the political paralysis Abbott and those like him are encouraging. The faint-hearted will counsel against calling out the moral culpa- bility of those who divide, defl ect and evade. Meanwhile, the rationalizers of violence will continue to claim that only troubled individuals, not our genuinely insane gun policies, are responsible for waves of domestic terrorism that bring shame on our country before the world. But sane gun laws are the middle ground, and most gun owners sup- port them. Opposing the political ex- ploitation of racism is a moral imper- ative. And refusing to acknowledge that only one side in this debate seeks intentionally to paralyze us is the path of cowardice. (Washington Post Writers Group) 12:01 a.m. - Burglary and theft in the 4000 block of 12th Avenue NE. 12:15 a.m. - Unauthorized use of motor vehicle in the 300 block of Sandy Drive N. 12:15 a.m. - Criminal trespassing in the 5000 block of River Road N. 10:40 a.m. - Arrest for criminal trespassing in the 5000 block of Keizer Station Boulevard NE. 5:48 p.m. - Arrest for driving un- der the infl uence of intoxicants and driving while suspended in the 500 block of River Road N. 7:10 p.m. - Criminal trespass in the 500 block of Bever Drive NE. 10:20 p.m. - Criminal trespassing in 4000 block of River Road N. 11:09 p.m. - Arrest for criminal trespassing in the 5000 block of River Road N. 11:24 p.m. - Reckless endanger- ing at the intersection of Chemawa Road N and River Road N. WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 12 a.m. - theft in the 5000 block of Windsor Island Road N. 4:05 a.m. - Arrest on warrant in the 900 block of Plymouth Drive NE. 5:35 a.m. - Criminal trespassing in the 5000 block of River Road N. 8 a.m. - Forgery in the 1000 block of Leo Street NE. 11:57 a.m. - Arrest on warrant in the 900 block of Chemawa Road NE. 4:30 p.m. - Criminal mischief in the 400 block of Chemawa Road N. 2:56 p.m. - Criminal mischief in the form of crime damage, simple assault and strangulation in the 700 block of Plymouth Drive NE. 6:55 p.m. - Failure to perform du- ties of a drive when property is damaged in the 5000 block of Riv- er Road N. 11:02 p.m. - Arrest on warrant in the 100 block of Sunset Avenue N. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 12 a.m. - Theft from motor vehicle in the 4000 block of Verda Lane NE. 2:06 a.m. - Fleeing or attempting to elude a police offi cer and reckless driving at the intersection of River Road N and Chemawa Road N. 4:30 p.m. - Simple assault in the 4000 block of Lowell Avenue NE. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 8 a.m. - Failure to perform duties of a driver when property is damaged in the 700 block of Apple Blossom Avenue NE. 3:16 p.m. - Arrest for physical ha- rassment in the 600 block of Rose Park Lane NE. 4:50 p.m. - Theft in the 1000 block of Sieburg Street NE. 7:39 p.m. - Arrest for criminal tres- passing in the 4000 block of River Road N. 8:36 p.m. - Physical harassment in the 800 block of Plymouth Drive NE. 8:36 p.m. - Arrest on warrant in the 800 block of Plymouth Drive NE. 9:27 p.m. - Theft in the 6000 block of Keizer Station Boulevard NE. SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 2:30 a.m. - Arrest on warrant for drugs and unlawful possession of methamphetamine at the inter- section of Cherry Avenue NE and Ring Street NE. 4:39 a.m. - Arrest for criminal mis- chief and crime damage in the 1000 block Country Glen Avenue NE. 5:36 a.m. - Arrest for disorderly conduct at the intersection of River Road NE and Hidden Creek Drive NE. 3:16 p.m. - Criminal mischief in the form of vandalism in the 900 block of Sagrada Loop N. 7 p.m. - Failure to preform duties of a driver when property is damaged in the 6000 block of Ulali Drive NE. 8 p.m. - Criminal trespassing in the 4000 block of River Road N. SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 1:29 a.m. Criminal trespassing in the 5000 block of River Road N. 2:21 a.m. - Physical harassment in the 4000 block of River Road N. 4:06 p.m. - Shoplifting and proba- tion violation in the 6000 block of Keizer Station Boulevard NE. 8:20 p.m. - Arrest for criminal tres- passing in the 4000 block of River Road N. 9:58 p.m. - Arrest for shoplifting in the 6000 block of Keizer Station Boulevard NE. SKEF board appoints new exec. director The Salem Keizer Education Foundation Board of Directors re- cently announced the appointment of Kelly Carlisle as the new execu- tive director. “We were impressed with the caliber of the candidates, but it was very clear from the fi rst meeting that Kelly has the leadership skills and vision to take SKEF to the next level,” Jeff Aeschliman SKEF Board President said. “His deep knowledge of the Salem-Keizer School District is also a huge asset.” Carlisle served as a district ad- ministrator in Salem-Keizer for 10 years until his retirement in 2018. As the assistant superintendent, he supervised K-12 education and stu- dent services, taking part in sever- al efforts to promote educational equity, increase career and college readiness and maintain positive school and community relations. In his earlier post as director of high schools, he worked with prin- cipals to improve equitable student participation in advanced placement and international baccalaureate courses, access to college credit for high schoolers and to increase the graduation rate and re-engagement of students who had dropped out. During the past year since his re- tirement from the district, Carlisle has been the director of administra- tive licensure programs at George Fox University in the College of Education. Carlisle graduated from South Salem High School in 1978. He re- calls the performing arts programs at South Salem, which ultimately shaped his own professional path. He taught high school choral mu- sic for 17 years before becoming a principal. As a teacher and as an administrator, Carlisle has worked to create environments in which people fi nd their voice, their con- tribution and their leadership. Car- lisle and his wife, Nancy, have three grown kids, one daughter-in-law and one grandson. Carlisle will begin on Monday, Aug. 19. Visit Englewood neighborhood for Forest Festival Aug. 10 The third annual Englewood Forest Festival will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, August 10 at Engle- wood Park, 1260 19th Street N.E., in Salem. Festival attendees can enjoy a day of family-friendly activities, includ- ing art and environmental work- shops, dance, live music, art displays and many more activities. The festi- val’s goal is to celebrate the talents of local artists and business owners and provide a way for people to connect to one another. The festival is free to attend, and all are invited. For more informa- tion about the festival, visit engle- woodforestfestival.org. Open college savings acct., get $25 The Oregon College Savings Plan has created a program to support par- ents of kindergarten students who do not already have an account. Simply open an Oregon College Savings Plan account and a $25 conrtribution will be deposited automatically. Saving for a child’s education early is a smart choice. A study done by the Center for Social Development showed children with even a small col- lege savings account were 2.5 times more likely to enroll in and graduate from college than children with nothing set aside for college. In addition, low- to moderate-income children with under $500 saved for college are three times more likely to go to college and 4.5 times more likely to grad- uate than those with nothing set aside for college. For more information, visit www.oregoncollegesavings.com.