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
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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.