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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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