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Professor publishes article on writing program for urban, Latina students

Sara Exposito, assistant professor of education:

Exposito published an article in the April 2009 issue of Educational Leadership: Supporting English Learners titled “Top Notch Supports for Language Learners.” The article describes Exposito’s experience with a group of girls from Bell Gardens Intermediate in Los Angeles for the past two years. The school’s high concentration of immigrant students primarily from Mexico and Central America led Exposito to feel that Latina girls needed a place to discuss their lived, urban realities that sometimes lead to a numbing of the spirit. After working with the principal at the school and two counselors, the group set up a writing club called Girls at Promise. In this club, girls meet for two days a month to write and share their stories as well as read literature that is connected to their urban reality. Exposito’s team led the girls on field trips to the Huntington Library, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and to local colleges. Girls at Promise is currently finishing its second year.

23 April 2009

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Law School Dean Klonoff quoted in The New York Times

Lewis & Clark Law School Dean Robert Klonoff is quoted in a recent story in the New York Times regarding Google’s efforts to reach all copyright holders through a series of notices being placed in print publications world wide. The outreach effort is a result of a class-action suit by copyright holders regarding Google’s plan to offer all of literature online. Klonoff, the author of a recent law review article titled “Making Class Actions Work: The Untapped Potential of the Internet,” is an expert in class action litigation. He is the senior author of the first and only casebook on class actions and he serves as an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute class action project, “Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation.”

The New York Times A Google Search of a Distinctly Retro Kind

5 March 2009

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Center for Animal Law Studies addresses need for clear public policy

Pamela Frasch, executive director of the Center for Animal Law Studies, responds to the recent birth of a calf to an elephant named Rose-Tu at the Oregon Zoo. After a flurry of media attention about Rose-Tu’s initial rejection of her calf, many question whether her unusual behavior has anything to do with the abuse she suffered as a calf in 2000, brought on by an Oregon Zoo handler. Although the handler was fired from the zoo, the district attorney initially refused to prosecute him because of an anti-cruelty statute requiring proof of the animal’s pain from the animal. Though the Legislature eventually passed a law (written by Lewis & Clark graduate and ALDF executive director, Stephan Otto) erasing the subjective pain measure to determine animal cruelty, Frasch urges the public to remember Rose-Tu’s complex history  at the zoo: “As we continue to evolve in our willingness to consider the interests of animals when making policy or passing laws, let’s remember Rose-Tu and her calf,” Frasch writes.

The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.) The legal lesson of Rose-Tu and her calf

6 October 2008

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Professor of Economics Eban Goodstein wins e-chievement award

Eban Goodstein, professor of economics:

Goodstein, project director of Focus the Nation, and Chungin Chung, communications director of Focus the Nation, won the e-chievement award from etown.org, an award that highlights individuals who strive to make a difference within their communities and beyond. In July, Goodstein will be honored in July on etown’s live national radio show from the Rothbury Festival, where he will participate in a think tank on global warming solutions.

13 June 2008

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Goodstein’s optimism on Earth Day

Professor of Economics Eban Goodstein feels optimistic that the number of people who recognize the danger of global warming continues to rise. Goodstein hopes this realization will get “half of Congress, the Senate and governors into dialogues.”

The Lake Oswego Review (Lake Oswego, Ore.) Earth Day confronted by a warming earth

17 April 2008

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