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News Tweets “Challenging People to Shape a Better Future Now” B ERNIE F OSTER Founder/Publisher B OBBIE D ORE F OSTER Executive Editor T ED B ANKS Advertising Manager J ERRY F OSTER Account Executive L ISA L OVING News Editor H ELEN S ILVIS Multimedia Editor D AVID K IDD Graphic Designer M ONICA J. F OSTER Seattle Office Coordinator J ULIE K EEFE S USAN F RIED Photographers The Skanner Newspaper, established in October 1975, is a weekly publica- tion, published each Wednesday by IMM Publications Inc., 415 N. Killingsworth St., P.O. Box 5455, Portland, OR 97228. Telephone (503) 285-5555. E-mail: info@theskanner.com World Wide Web site: http://www.theskanner.com The Skanner is a member of the National Newspaper Pub lishers Associ- ation and West Coast Black Pub lishers Association. All photos submitted become the property of The Skanner. We are not re - spon sible for lost or damaged photos either solicited or unsolicited. © 2014 The Skanner. ALL RIGHTS RE SERVED. REPRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT PERMISSION PROHIBITED. To see The Skanner News on your smart phone go to theskannermobile.com or scan this QR code with your app. understand.” More messages were directed at the athletes and referred to them as “bush boogie,” “mon- key,” and “n-word in the bushes.” Racism on Twitter is nothing new, from high school students to politicians (Minnesota House Republican Rep. Pat Garofalo apolo- gized Tuesday for tweeting on Monday: “Let’s be honest, 70% of teams in NBA could fold tomorrow + nobody would notice a difference w/possible exception of increase in street- crime.”) At the same time the racist tweets were fly- ing in Washington State last week, a high school basketball semi-final game in New York erupted in a brawl after students at calls for high schools to acknowledge the phe- nomenon and act to cut it off. Such race-based cyberbullying has been associated with teen suicide, depression and poor academic achievement, according to Uni- versity of Southern California Associate Pro- fessor Brendesha Tynes, PhD. Tynes, armed with a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health grant, is pioneering a new field of educational research on the topic at the USC Rossier School of Education. It is a sub- ject she has studied since 2001. “We know about cyberbullying in general, but we’ve just scratched the surface of under- standing how different types of victimization, including race-related experiences, impact ‘We’ve just scratched the surface of understanding how different types of victimization, including race- related experiences, impact developing adolescents’ Mahopac High School – as well as adult fans of the team – reportedly sent racist tweets dur- ing the game slamming students at Mount Ver- non. Mount Vernon won the match; the district superintendent there is calling for Mahopac to be banned from the sport for a year. An interactive map of hate speech on Twitter, created by students at Humboldt State Univer- sity in California, shows that under the catego- ry of tweets “negatively referring to N-word,” the Seattle area as well as Gray’s Harbor – along with Southern Idaho – appear to be the only red-coded “hotspots” in the Northwest. http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate _map.html# A rise in hate speech among teenagers after the election of President Barack Obama led to developing adolescents,” she said in an inter- view on the Rossier webpage last year. “I’m hoping that, because many Internet safety and antibullying programs don’t really address race, we can develop interventions to help youth protect themselves, and give them coping and antiracist strategies to use,” she said. “We need more programs to help youth counter the negative messages they’re getting about racial groups.” Back in Seattle last Friday night, Garfield was not intimidated. The Bulldogs were neck and neck against the Eagles in a scrappy match that wasn’t over until the final seconds of the game, when Issaquah missed its last shot. The two schools’ sports rivalry – Garfield AP PHOTO/THE NEWS TRIBUNE, DEAN J. KOEPFLER continued from page 1 Garfield coach Ed Haskins thanks fans for their support after his team defeated Richland 68-59 in the boys’ 4A state championship basketball game Saturday, March 8, in Tacoma, Wash. was ranked number one in the league and Issaquah tenth – has slowly grown over the season, inspiring what some students called over-the-top aggressive verbal assaults unlike the usual competitive banter between rivals. The principal of Issaquah High School told reporters last week that the students involved were disciplined, but the school is not identify- ing them. As of this week Twitter had disabled the @issybros account, and a quick search for the word brought up a raft of counter insults against the racist students. Meanwhile last week, @IssaquahRefs, post- ed a tweet distancing themselves from the racist students. “Group of sophomores at our school, had nothing to do with us,” @IssaquahRefs tweet- ed before the big game on March 7. The DICK’S Sporting Goods High School National Tournament, April 3-5 in New York City, will be televised on ESPN. Lockout continued from page 1 findings, which were first reported by The Oregonian. A National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge will hear the matter June 30 in Portland. For now, non-union work- ers continue to operate the export terminal, and the two sides continue to negotiate a new con- tract. “These disputes can linger on for quite a while and often end up being settled when an agreement is reached by the bargaining parties, rather than the completion of a long and liti- gious process,” United Grain spokesman Pat McCormick said Friday. Separately, Hooks said the longshoremen violated labor law by engaging in threats and violence in the early months of the lockout. For example, he said, picketers threw rocks at a security officer and threatened to rape a man- ager's daughter. An administration law judge will hear that matter July 21. The twin cases result from allegations of unfair labor practices swapped by the sides last year. The conflict started after the last labor con- tract expired Sept. 30, 2012. It began to boil three months later, when United Grain and two other Pacific Northwest grain terminals and illegal, and they established a picket line at the Port of Vancouver. Union spokeswoman Jennifer Sargent declined to comment on those allegations, pre- ferring to focus on the lockout itself. ‘These disputes can linger on for quite a while and often end up being settled when an agreement is reached by the bargaining parties, rather than the completion of a long and litigious process’ declared an impasse and enforced a contract that included new, management-friendly work- place rules. United Grain imposed the lockout after determining a worker shoved a metal pipe into a conveyor and poured sand into a gear box. Longshoremen said the response was extreme “Once the lockout is found to be illegal, ILWU workers will resume their jobs in the grain terminal and be awarded back pay,” she said. “We’re obviously looking forward to that outcome.” Copyright 2014 The Associated Press Health continued from page 1 • • • • • • • • Local news Opinions Jobs, Bids Sports Entertainment Music reviews Bulletin board RSS feeds “Customers may enroll by 11:59 p.m. on March 23 for coverage effective April 1, 2014 or by 11:59 p.m. on March 31 for coverage effective May 1, 2014,” the agency said in a statement Tuesday. A federal government report issued this week – with outdated information only covering signups as of Dec. 31, 2013 – found Oregon is tied for last nationally in terms of young peo- ples’ enrollment at 18 percent, a key indicator of whether the new health system will work. Washington has done better, the report shows, with 23 percent of overall signups com- Page 2 The Portland and Seattle Skanner March 12, 2014 The federal government is investigating Cover Oregon’s spending ing from the 18 to 34 age bracket. The national average is 25 percent of enrollees in the youthful age bracket. In a related story, Republicans in Congress have successfully pushed the General Accounting Office to investigate how Oregon spent $304 million in federal grant money to develop its failed online enrollment system; an unknown number of other states might be included in the scrutiny as well. For more information go to www.wahealth- planfinder.org, www.coveroregon.com, or www.healthcare.gov. In Washington State, you can also call the Customer Support Center at 1- 855-923-4633.
