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« January 02,2002____________________________________ ^ o r t l a n i , ( 0 b 8 e r t J e r ____________________________________________________ Pag<A3 Art Students Evoke Emotions From 9-11 Transit Riders Set New Bar for Tri-Met traffic-signal priority devices w ere added to these 14 lines to have the greatest im pact on the greatest num ber o f riders. “T h e trem endous grow th on these lines tells us that when w e fo cu s o u r re so u rc e s to provide m ore service and im prove am enities, w e attract new rid ers to transit,” said Fred H ansen, Tri-M et general m anager. T h e b u s lin e s a r e : 4 - Fessenden, 5-Interstate A v enue, 6-M artin L uther King Jr. Blvd., 8-N .E. 15th A venue, 8 -Jack so n P ark ,9 -P o w ell, 12- B arburB lvd., 12-SandyB lvd., 14- H aw th o m e, 15-B elm ont, 15- N .W . 2 3rd A venue, 33- M cL oughlin, 54-B eaverton- H ills d a le H w y ., a n d 7 2 - K illings w orth/82nd A venue. A d d itio n a lly , T r i- M e t’s M A X B lue Line and A irport M A X R ed Line offer at least 15 m inute service every day. M A X carries 28 percent o f T ri-M et’s overall ridership. F or m ore inform ation o r trip p la n n in g a s s is ta n c e , see w w w .tri-m et.org o r call 503- 238-R JD E w eekdays betw een 7:30 a.ra. and 5:30 p.m. For the first tim e in its his tory, T ri-M et’s w eekday rid e r s h ip h a s s u rp a s s e d th e 300,000 mark. T he transit use record was reached in O ctober through the increased use o f 14 p ri m ary bus routes, m any in north and northeast Portland, along w ith grow ing M A X light rail ridership. O v erall, T ri-M e t’s M A X and bu ses a v erag ed 3 0 4 ,0 0 0 rid es each w eek d ay , a 7.1 p e rc e n t ju m p fro m last O c tober. B uses c a rrie d 2 1 9 ,8 0 0 rid e rs, w hile lig h t rail rid es sk y ro ck eted 18.4 p ercen t to 8 4 ,2 0 0 w eekday rides. D u r in g th e p a s t th r e e years, T ri-M e t h a s b o o sted the n u m b er o f prim ary lin es from 4 to 14 th at o ffe r 15- m in u te serv ice, sev en d a y s a w eek, w hich h a s led to sig n ific a n t g ro w th in w eekday an d w e e k e n d rid e rs h ip . T h e se lin e s n ow ca rry 43 p ercen t o f all w eek d ay and 53 p ercen t o f w eek en d bus rides. M ost new am enities such as shelters, custom er infor m ation, low -floor buses and Sym bols o f the Am erican flag w oven onto im ages o f delicate butterflies. Im ages o f hands dancing rather than pointing at others. C hristian and ancient Egyptian symbols combined with the protection o f a sw ord and shield. T hese are som e o f the pow erful < (esigns created by stu dents from T he A rt Institute o f Portland w ho w ere asked to design a post-Sept. 11 postage stam p for a class. W hen S here C olem an p re sented the final project g u id e lines to her Principles o f V isual C o m m u n icatio n s class at T he A rt Institute o f P ortland, she had little idea o f the depth w ith w hich the students w ould tackle the assignm ent. A nd she is absolutely d elighted w ith the results. Students in three sections o f the class w ere in structed to desig n a postage stam p around the idea o f co m m unity, unity, With emotions from the Sept. 11 attacks, students at the Art Institute o f Portland design postage stamps around the idea of community, unity, strength and protection. strength, and p rotection, given the n a tio n ’s cu rren t political situation. T h e stu dents had to d esign th e ir p ro jects so they w ere ap p ealin g for large-scale presen tatio n , and h a d the c a pacity to be red u ced to the size o f a p o stag e stam p. They also w ere asked to re search the rich cultural mix o f A m erica, and to follow cultural traditions found in this country that w ere form ed well before the country’s actual inception. T h e p ro je c ts p ro v e d d ra m atically d ifferen t from one another. O ne postage stam p resem b led a q u ilt w ith m any sym bols from various cultures, such as im ages o f log h o uses th at are co m m o n in A frican A m erican quilts :tnd flow ers that are co m m on in H aw aiian quilts. A n o th er stu d en t m ixed Ja p an ese sym bols o f the u n i verse w ith the N ative A m e ri can brow n bear sym bol o f p ro tection. W h en brain sto rm in g sym bols o f unity and strength, the first im ages stu d en t S olom on W oras th o ught o f w ere the sun and the m oon. H is postage stam p d esig n in clu d es a dark night sky w ith the m oon illum i nating large trees an d b u ild ings. “T he buildings sym bolize the co m fort and the stren g th they provide us,” W oras says. “T he tree sym bolizes the life it pro vides, the roots b ein g the un d erw orld, the m id d le o f the tru n k b e in g e a rth , a n d th e branches being the upper w orld and h e a v e n ...it en c o m p a sse s o u r w hole e x iste n c e .” Ockley Green Places Third at Tournament Workers Qualify for Extended Benefits its last recession. The extended credits allow laid- off workers who still have not found a job after 26 weeks to re ceive an addition 13 weeks of ben efits. Payments will equal the weekly benefit am ount of an individual’s regular claim. It’s been eight years since W ashington qualified for the ex tended benefits. The state Employment Secu rity Department mailed out appli cations Dec. 19 to those who are eligible. People could begin receiving the extended benefits in both states as soon as Jan. 7. A bout 15,000 O regonians and 41,000 people in W ashing ton are eligible for up to 13 w eeks o f additional unem ploy m ent benefits. Both states qualified for the Labor D epartment money be cause the jobless rate for Septem ber, October and November hov ered over 6.5 percent. O regon’s November jobless figure was 7.4 percent, the worst in the country. The last time laid-off workers in O regon collected extended U nem ploym ent b en efits was February 1994, about the same time the state was emerging from The robotics team from north Portland’s Ockley Green Middle School gathers behind the team banner at the state robotics tournament at Wilson High School. N orth P o rtla n d ’s O ckley G reen M iddle School placed third among 63 team s from around the state in the Oregon R obotics Tournam ent held at W ilson High School on Dec. 1. The team, Robots o f O ckley Green or ROOG, is made up of 12 students and seven advi- sors, five of whom are from com munity businesses. The students participate in the M ESA program , which en courages and supports under represented students in pursu ing careers in m athem atics, en gineering and science. The ROOG students spent A robot built by students at Ockley Green moves across the floor in competition with other schools. every Saturday since Septem ber at Portland State U niversity learning how to build a robot, how to program it and then ap plying that know ledge to real- life situations. They also researched related topics, presenting their findings and their robot to a panel o f 20 judges. T he p ro je c t a lso helped them learn other key ski Ils such as team w ork, planning and preparation. Last year, ROOG won a state wide balsawood glider com pe tition, traveling to a national com petition in M esa, Ariz. 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