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Blue Mountain Eagle
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Grant Union holds bully-free week
50 students
recognized for
acceptance
Contributed photos
Grant Union art
student Dana Norland
received recognition
for her artwork “Mosaic
Elephant” at Gallery 15
in Burns.
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant Union art student
Meisha Meyerholz
received an honorable
mention award for
her drawing called
“Hope” at Eastern
Oregon University’s
regional high school
art exhibition which
included 300 works
from 13 high schools.
GU students
receive art
awards
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
BURNS — Two students
in JJ Collier’s Grant Union art
class were recognized for their
work in recent weeks.
Senior Dana Norland re-
ceived one of three awards last
Friday for her artwork titled
“Mosaic Elephant” at Gallery
15 in Burns.
The gallery is hosting a re-
gional show through April 16,
displaying student artwork from
Burns, Crane and Grant Union.
Senior Meisha Meyerholz
won honorable mention for
her 12x18-inch drawing titled
“Hope” at the Eastern Ore-
gon Regional High School Art
Exhibition at Eastern Oregon
University.
The Feb. 19-March 15
show included 300 works from
students at 13 high schools.
Grant Union had 28 stu-
dents participating, some sub-
mitting two pieces of artwork.
Nightingale Gallery direc-
tor Corey Peeke said he was
pleased with the students’
work and the art teachers who
guide them.
“On behalf of EOU and the
Nightingale Gallery I would like
to congratulate the winners and
all the student participants,” he
said. “I would also like to con-
gratulate the art teachers who on
a daily basis go out of their way
to help students create work of
such a high caliber.”
JOHN DAY — “No teas-
ing,” “No torments,” “No
name-calling,” “No put-
downs,” “No rumors.”
These were just a few
sayings on T-shirts worn by
50 Grant Union Junior-Se-
nior High School students
as they work to make their
school a bully-free zone.
The students were se-
lected by their teachers for
showing
characteristics
of inclusion and accep-
tance among their peers
for the March 10-16 No
Name-Calling Week.
Several student body
leaders helped plan activi-
ties for the weeklong cam-
paign, with anti-bullying
messages and statistics post-
ed all month on the school
office door and on hallway
bulletin boards.
A school assembly in-
cluded a game, testing stu-
dents’ knowledge on bul-
lying, and leadership class
advisor Elizabeth Shelley
shared a school pride les-
son on bullying prevention,
which included a motiva-
tional video.
“Our hope was to bring
awareness to the struggles
that some students face with
harassment and bullying,”
she said. “We try to teach
and model inclusive behav-
iors here at school and don’t
want to ignore the situations
that can arise. The more that
we bring awareness to the
issue of harassment or bul-
lying, hopefully students
and staff will be more com-
fortable and confident in ad-
dressing the issue.”
The video in Shelley’s
lesson shows kids who had
been bullied in school, but
went on to become success-
ful. The video can be found
at:
https://youtu.be/mB-
wf-VPZqDs.
Grant County health de-
partment manager Jessica
Winegar worked with Grant
Union students and staff,
helping kick off No-Name-
Calling Week with a core
grant received through the
Grant County School-Based
Contributed photo/Elizabeth Shelley
Grant Union student body leaders show their support of No Name-Calling week at the school, March 10-
16, including, from left: Natalie Stearns (grade 11 president), Kenzie Wilson (ASB president), Tyler Blood
(grade 8 president), Keila Qual (grade 12 president), Tanner Elliott (grade 9 president) and Trejan Speth
(ASB activities director/vice president).
What is bullying?
Bullying is unwanted, aggressive
behavior among school aged children
that involves a real or perceived power
imbalance. The behavior is repeated,
or has the potential to be repeated, over
time. Both kids who are bullied and who
bully others may have serious, lasting
problems.
In order to be considered bullying,
the behavior must be aggressive and in-
clude:
• An Imbalance of Power: Kids who
bully use their power—such as phys-
ical strength, access to embarrassing
Health Center.
Grant Union eighth-
grade class president Ty-
ler Blood addressed the
Grant School District No. 3
school board at their March
16 meeting about the cam-
paign.
“We feel that this was a
good project for us, even
though most of our student
body does not see bully-
ing as a huge issue in our
system,” she said. “Some
students do experience bul-
lying, so we want to make
sure we address it and how
to stop bullying at our
school.”
At the close of the cam-
paign, Blood said she was
happy the event went well.
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• Verbal bullying is saying or writing
mean things.
• Social bullying, sometimes referred
to as relational bullying, involves hurting
someone’s reputation or relationships.
• Physical bullying involves hurting a
person’s body or possessions.
Experts say youth can show support
to friends and peers who are being bul-
lied by talking to them, telling them that
what happened to them isn’t OK or in-
viting them to join in an activity.
Information from StopBullying.gov
and pacer.org/bullying.
information, or popularity—to control
or harm others. Power imbalances can
change over time and in different situ-
ations, even if they involve the same
people.
• Repetition: Bullying behaviors hap-
pen more than once or have the potential
to happen more than once.
Bullying includes actions such as
making threats, spreading rumors, at-
tacking someone physically or verbally,
and excluding someone from a group on
purpose.
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