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July io, 2002____________________________ (Eíje JJortlanb Öi)hseruer________________________________Pa«e A5 C h a r les J ordan S peaks continued Armored Vehicle Collides with Bus On Saturday morning at approximately 10a.m., an Oregon Armored transport vehicle collided with a Tri-Met bus at the corner of N. E. Broadway and Williams St. Witnesses say the #4 Fessenden was traveling north down Williams Avenue when the armored vehicle ran a west bound red light and smashed into the front corner o f the bus. The driver of the armored vehicle and one passenger from the bus were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, phot «» by D avid P i e « hi . Survey Finds Teens Troubled (A P) — M ore teenagers are using cocaine and regularly sm ok ing and drinking, but an increas ing num ber are also w earing seat belts and refusing to ride w ith a driver w ho’s been drinking, ac cording to a survey released last T hursday. T he annual survey, conducted by the C enters for D isease C on trol and Prevention in schools across the country, exam ined the behavior o f 13,600 high school stu d en ts. The survey found injury and violence-related behaviors have fallen, but kids still regularly smoke and drink— nearly half said they’d consumed more than one alcoholic- beverage more than once in the month before the survey. The num ber o f teenagers w ho said they had tried cocaine within the past 30 days rose to 9.4 per cent, up from 5.9 percent in 1991. A bout 4.2 percent o f students said they had used cocaine in the past 30 days, a 59 percent increase from 1991. A bout 46 percent o f teenagers said they’d had sex, dow n from 54 percent in the 1991 survey. The percentage o f sexually active teen agers who had used a condom increased from 46 percent to 58 percent from 1991 to 1999, but then rem ained there through 2001. That points to a failure o f “ab sti nence-only” sex-education p ro g ram s fav o red by th e W h ite H ouse, said Jam es W ag o n er, president o f A dvocates for Youth, from A4 W e’ve got to concentrate on the m a jority. Then they could help us deal with the rest o f them. This is what I would do. We know the kids who are out here try ing to make it, so I'm going to help those w ho want help, those who say ‘“Look, I'm at risk and with a little help, 1 can make it”. Y ugen: Okay. Jordan: But w e’re takingourmoney and building m ore prisons and jails w hen you can give these kids a little help! T h at’s w hat I w ould do. Yugen: There is a correlation b e tw een the options you spoke about earlier, and crim inality and im prison ment. Right? Jordan: The cycle w e’re in right now, we can 't win, and are doomed to lose. And that’s because nobody is prepared to make the tough decisions. Look at the increase in the num ber of federal prison beds. The thousands o f dollars over a lifetime we spend for a prison bed, and what we could do with that money for 10 kids. There is a lack o f courage in this country and those who have the courage lack good will. There is not a problem in this world we can’t solve. God didn't make an incom plete world. We know Head Start works. So why do n 't we fund it adequately? Fix our education system. W e’ve walked on the moon, gone higher then any one, gone deeper then any fish, have the technology to do things that our great grandparents would say is voodoo. Y ugen: It sounds like the problem is rooted in a system o f governm ent policy, econom ics and politics. Jordan: We w ent to Afghanistan and spent billions o f dollars on bombs and then got hypocritical, and started dropping food from planes. Perhaps if we started dropping the food 10 years ago we w ouldn't have needed to spend billions o f dollars on bombs. Y ou’re going to tell me we can do all these things but can't fix the educational system; fixxl on the table for every hungry family, we can’t provide. Yet we pay farmers not to farm, and people are dying from starvation. B ut... what can 1 do as a person'.’ 1 don’t know, 1 do n 't have the answer. H«»nestly, 1 wish I had the answer. But 1 do know my G«»d does. Y u g en : I actually believed the an th e m th a t s ta te s ‘G o d B le s s e d A m erica’. This is a special place, and we are a special people, right? Jordan: America is a special place. You and 1 are tw o o f the richest people in the world. There are people in Africa living on one dollar a day. You and I have food, clothes, and w e're free to go anywhere in this city and have a strong sense of place because we have rights. W e have calendars, places to go and we believe that G od... 1 don't believe people stop to think what God has done for them. It’s harder for younger people then older people to think about what God has done for them . I look at how far God has brought me and the things I've come through. B ut w hy do we h av e to get old befo re beco m in g w ise? W is dom is w ith o ld p eo p le b ecau se w e have lived lo n g er and G od has d one m ore for us. I’ve been here lo n g er so I have m ore experience with G od, His g o o d n ess, H is love. A nd th is is w hy I h o ld on to H im b ecau se I know th ere is n o th in g else o ut there. Now, a Credit Union for You a W ashington nonprofit that sup ports both abstinence and birth- control education for teenagers. O ther findings from the CD C survey: — The num ber o f teenagers who said they never or rarely w ore a seat belt fell from 25.9 percent to 14.1 percent. — T he num ber o f teenagers who said they rode with a driver who had been drinking fell from 39.9 percent to 30.7 percent. — The percentage o f teenagers in daily physical education class fell from 4 1.6 percent in 1991 to 32.2 percent a decade later. — The percentage o f students who carried a w eapon decreased from 26.1 percent in 1991 to 17.4 per cent in 2001. 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