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OSU honors form er Boise-Eliot kids
Breamers
Two former Boise-Eliot schoolmates
are graduates w ith special distinction at
Oregon State University kiniberty Hsu
and Deanna Milner, who pledged their
detenu mat ion to succeed w hen they w ere
titlh-graders at the north Portland school,
are die first four-year college graduates
whose education was funded by die
school's Jeanette Crawley Scholarship
Fund
Both graduates have majored in sci
ence
Urban kids begin summer study
Whitman College
welcomes 70
from Portland
The ‘I Have a Dream" summer
program at Whitman College be
gan its sixth summer session on
Sunday, with the arrival o f a class
o f pre- 12th grade students from
Portland.
The summer residential program
is an innovative, collaborative ef
fort involving Whitman, the Port
land Public Schools and the Or
egon I HAD foundation.
The program , which includes
A group o f pre- 11 th grade stu
dents will visit from July 6-12,
followed by a pre- 9th grade class
from July 13-19 and pre- 7th grade
group from July 2 1 -27.
While at Whitman, students will
live in campus residence halls and
participate in classes taught by
Whitman faculty, Walla Walla area
teachers and National Forest Ser
vice scientists from Vancouver,
Wash.
Whitman students and recent
graduates serve as residence hall
counselors and c lassroom mentors.
Each session will include classes
in college preparation, art, film,
math and science.
a variety o f academ ic classes and
activities, is designed to give stu
dents a taste o f college life, en
courage and inspire their dream s
o f pursuing higher education, and
reinforce and strengthen basic aca
dem ic skills.
This sum m er's theme, "Surface
and Substance," challenges students
to reach past unrealistic or unimpor
tant goals and learn critical thinking
as a basis for making firmly grounded
decisions.
A total o f 70 Portland students
representing four class levels will
participate in W hitm an's program
this sunimer. Each class o f students
will stay on campus for one week.
What's the matter
with kids today?
To help students behave, schools
are adding a fourth 'R' respect
By K aren Kelly
A c c o rd in g to a stu d y by the
N atio n al S chool B oards A sso
c ia tio n , th e se days, about h a lf o f
the 4 00 school d istric ts surveyed
by the a sso c ia tio n have c h a ra c
ter ed u c a tio n p ro g ram s, and five
s ta te s o f f i c i a l l y re c o m m e n d
them .
Even the president has gotten in
volved.
In his State o f the Union address
this year, President Clinton said char
acter education was needed "to teach
students to be good citizens" and to
promote “ order and discipline.”
While morality in the schools has
long been a battle cry of the religious
right, the new movement for charac
ter education is coming from educa
tors themselves.
Many o f them agree with the
president that schools need to pro
mote values such as honesty and
respect. Still, there is much debate
over how to do it.
Edward Wynne, a University o f
I llinois sociologist, believes that stu
dents need to be indoctrinated -
with a strong message about moral
value and behavior.
"W hether they buy it or not, they
have to do it,” says Wynne. He ad
vises teach ers to tell stu d en ts,
"Y ou're going to be courteous here.
You may think courtesy is hypocriti
cal that’s your business. Do it.”
Steven, a 17-year-old tenth-grader
at Devereux Glenholme, says he’s
begun to realize that his choice of
values will determine his future
“There will be things that the
society you live in is going to ac
cept, and there w ill be things that
th e y ’re not going to accept,” said
Steven, whose principal asked that
his last name not be used because
h e’s at a school for children with
em otional and behavioral prob
lems.
"And if you do the things they
w on’t accept, there will be less op
portunity in life for you,” Steven
said.
Maybe
you should
call us.
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s part of this year's Pacific Power Rose Festival
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Kids Program, 500 students from 17 area
elementary schools pitched in to make our
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cleaning up the environment
planting native trees and shrubs
raising food, supplies and money for the needy
volunteering at the Special Olympics
working with seniors and lots more.
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lugh our Community
P articip atin g Schools: Abernethy Elementary, Capitol H ill Elementary, Chapman
ding Centers to help you
Elementary, D.A. Grout Elementary, Eastside Education Center, Edwards
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