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Ashland, Oregon HOME Valley & State Sports Opinion/Editorial Classifieds Business Columnists Obituaries Weather Archive Revels Etcetera Backpage O-Zone Real Estate Guide Menu Guide Shakespeare Subscribe Contact Us Rate Card Place an Ad Getting Personal With Eighth-Graders: Students at Ashland Middle School take a survey on personal habits Thursday. Of the 249 students who were asked to take the survey, which includes questions about sexual activities, drug use and suicide, 34 opted out of the study. April 15-16, 2006 *updated by 5 p.m. daily Parents take umbrage with the school district's approach to Touchy subjects A total of 34 out of 249 Ashland Middle School eighth-grade students opted out of this spring’s Oregon Healthy Teens Survey — up from the usual four or five — after some parents objected to questions about sex, drug use and suicide. *You're invited to respond* (form at end of article) Click here for the front page of the printed version of today's Tidings WEEKEND AHS grad’s slaying still confounds Investigators seek clues into Di Stefano’s death Assistant city attorney slot filled by Lori Reeder’s replacement ready to jump into land use regulations Local firm offers new health tech Friday SOU walks out in protest Emotions flared Thursday midday at Southern Oregon University’s Stevenson Union courtyard as students and faculty turned out to protest immigration reforms and house bill H.R. 4437. Ashland alum found dead Among the Ashland High School Class of 2003, Evian Di Stefano was known for his political ambitions, his maturity and his goals for the future. That promising future was cut short Thursday night. Police officers found Di Stefano dead in Hillsboro, according to a KATU News report. For some, payday loans are only way Cliff Voss strolled down to the Advance America payday loan center in Ashland to find the office mysteriously closed and a drive to Medford in front of him. Short on cash and coming up on truck payments, Voss needed money. Border Patrol vehicle causes stir on Plaza A white suburban sporting Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol decals drew the attention of several people Thursday night. The Ashland Daily Tidings received several tips that the suburban was parked in front of Kat Work on the Plaza for more than half an hour. An employee at the Kat Wok said the rumor around town was that green cards were being checked. With high court ruling, recruiters return to SOU Military recruiters returned to Southern Oregon University nearly a year after a student group voted in favor of banning them from the student union. Recruiters from several military branches participated in Thursday’s Career Fair, an annual job-seeking event held in the Stevenson Union. Photo editor Orville Hector welcomes you to the O-Zone. Check it out each week and see what "O" is up to when he isn't shooting news and sports. Last update 4/17 Different sexes, different diets Paul Buck has a lot to say about nutrition. A tall man with sage blue eyes, 83-year-old Buck is a biochemist by training. He earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry and physiology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1954 and taught first at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and then at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Mon: Essentially Ashland Begging the question Mon: Tales From The Crib Chocolate: good – and good for you Mon: From Denmark Cartoons shatter Danes’ feeling of safety Tues: Off The Vine Reds from Italy can be outstanding Weds: Food & History Did Jesus settle down in Japan? Thurs: Sustainability Every Oregon home can support clean electricity Fri: I'll Shut Up — Right After This Why ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny Fri: Healthy Pets Make sure to restrain pets in cars Fri: For Your Health Good joint pain? There’s no such thing Sat: Marketing Today Your EBIDTA and you Strong armed SOU Local Roundup SOU settles for split with Corban Raider freshman Rowley goes 5-for-5 to tie program record SOU Men’s Basketball Raiders load up with new recruits Local stars Nunnemaker and Thompson to join SOU, Hayter may be next Prep Track & Field Ashland’s Air Jordan As 15-year-old Ashland High sophomore “princess” Jordan Kling trains for the long jump in practice, the smile on her face is almost as big as the distance from her takeoff point to the sand pit where she lands. Opinion & Editorial * NEW * Immediately respond to letters and editorials. See your comments posted within minutes! — LETTERS TO THE EDITOR : at length — WEB LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THIS WEEK'S EDITORIALS — EDITORIAL AIFF has arrived, but what now? Congratulations to all of the many people who helped the festival emerge from the shadows to perform on the main stage. The amazing level of volunteer and sponsor support for this event makes it truly a locally grown success. Now, the true search for identity begins. — EDITORIAL President’s loss is not Dems gain The latest polling numbers for President George W. Bush reflect a new low point for his administration. Public confidence and approval in our president has sunk to 36 percent. Astonishing, but true: The Democrats still haven’t made up any ground. — OPINION PAGE POLICY Updated Tuesdays: From the Right Side Mike Green Immigration ... the final frontier The problem with the immigration issue is that while it is easy to determine the motivating factors driving more than one million poor people to our land each year, it isn't an easy issue to determine how to deal with the inevitable impact of such mass migration. But we should start with learning the lessons inherent in history. 150 years ago, Mexico had the same problem ... with illegal immigration from the United States. CASE IN POINT (OPED) Updated Mondays: — Case In Point : Moral imperative is heavily qualified Over the course of the last three years, we have heard the administration frame America’s mission in Iraq and throughout the world as one in which we will nurture and support the tenets of freedom and democracy. President Bush has stated unequivocally that “Freedom is not America’s gift to the world, it is the Almighty God’s gift to every man and woman in the world.” This was international policy presented as a moral imperative. But as it turns out, this lofty categorical statement is heavily qualified. And we need only look at what is taking in place in Darfur for proof. ... — There are no obituaries today — No reports at press deadline click here to see print version Ashland groups hope to make it big on generosity ‘Grease’ comes to Ashland Children’s Musical Theater performs for two weekends In Review | Why We Fight An analysis of war that avoids grandstanding In the opening moments of “Why We Fight,” we see Dwight Eisenhower, in his farewell address before leaving office, warn Congress and the American people about the presence of a triangle that should be watched and guarded against. He called this triangle the military-industrial complex, with the third corner being provided by Congress. As director Eugene Jarecki demonstrates in his 99-minute film, it was a prescient admonition. Film festival celebrates independence Film Festival At SOU Was Mike Bianca the right Police Chief for Ashland? Once you vote you will be taken to the results page. Only 1 vote per person will be counted Movies | T.V. | Calendar Stories updated by 6 p.m. Thursday ( Back issues available ) Festival in the Desert One World presents Festival in the Desert with Tinariwen and Markus James on Thursday April 20 at the Historic Ashland Armory in downtown Ashland at 8 p.m. to close this season’s 2005-2006 series. Joy Light illuminates silk Joy Light has been designing and creating silk scarves since she moved to Ashland 17 years ago where she now has her home studio. LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT Movies: Now playing Duncan has plenty of gems to share at program Wednesday “I’d heard at church that the kingdom of heaven is within us and thought, Yeah, sure. But the first time I walked up a trout stream, fly in hand, I didn’t feel I was ‘outside’ at all: I was traveling further and further in.” So says David James Duncan, author of the novel “The River Why.” Perhaps you’re reading it right now, having accepted the invitation of our county to be part of our “Jackson County Reads” program. I hope so. Duncan’s prose is worth the effort. “I was struck by the suspicion that rivers and mountains are myself turned inside out,” he wrote. Bingo. Church Listings --> Copyright © 2006 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers. All Rights Reserved.