Roseburg High School

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Location
Roseburg High School
Roseburg, Oregon
Information
School district	Roseburg School District
Principal	Karen Goirigolzarri
Enrollment	2,098
Motto	Where Excellence is Tradition
Mascot	Indian
Color(s)	Black and Orange
Established	1899
Homepage	Roseburg High School

Roseburg High School is the only high school in Roseburg, Oregon. It's cirriculum consists of 185 different classes, which are tought by 122 teachers and other staff. The administration is made of Karen Goirigolzarri, the principle, and four Assistant Principals: Justin Huntley, Larry Rich, Amy-Jo Rodriguez, and Bill Bartlett. The Athletic Director is Russ Bolin. It's located at 400 West Harvard Avenue and is right off of I-5.

1 Campus
2 Shooting incident
3 Marine recruiter claims he was assaulted
4 Black R Blog
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Campus

The campus is roughly 18 acres and contains 7 main buildings as well as a track and an artifical turf football field. The administration as well as the math, science, and some social studies classes are located in the Main building. Construction on the Main was finished in 2002, and was under construction during the school year before that, causing congestion of foot traffic around campus. North of the Main is the Old Main or Heritage, where English and some social studies are taught. The Heritage is the oldest building on campus, built in 1951. Connected to the north side of the Heritage is the Stu Robertson Gymnasium. West of the Main is the Arts Building, built at the same time as the Main. It contains the cafeteria as well as the art, music, and theater classes. The southwest corner of the building is the Rose Theater, the fly tower of which is one of the most visible structures in Roseburg. At the northwest corner of the campus is the Vocational/Technical building. It holds several shops for metalworking and automotive classes, as well as computer labs for accounting, drafting, and 3D animation classes. It's also where ROTC meets. In the center of the campus is the Commons, a three story building constructed shortly after the Heritage. The first floor is the library. The Web Design class is conducted in a backroom behind the library. The second and third floors are where foreign language classes are taught.

Beginning in 2005, school administration made the decision to close campus, requiring parental permission for a student to leave campus during school hours. According to the administration, this was partially in response to complaints from local restaruants about student behavior during lunch hours. There are several chain restaraunts within walking distance of Roseburg High School, and were popular hang-outs during lunch.

[edit] Shooting incident

At 7:45 a.m. on February 23, 2006, 14-year-old freshman Vincent Wayne Leodoro shot and wounded a fellow student, 16-year-old sophomore Joseph Monti, using a 10mm pistol. The incident occurred in a courtyard on the Roseburg High School campus. Monti was hit by three shots in his back, and a fourth grazed his elbow. After the shooting, two students followed Leodoro and flagged down a police car as he walked away from school. Police confronted him at a nearby restaurant parking lot, where Leodoro put a gun to his head before surrendering.^[1]

According to witnesses, the faculty at Roseburg High School reacted just as they had been trained, effectively initiating a lockdown on the campus until police secured the scene.

[edit] Marine recruiter claims he was assaulted

In May 2006 a Marine recruiter made national news by claiming "a Roseburg High School student had spit on him. The school then told the recruiter the student was just expressing his First Amendment rights". The story was later admitted to be a fabrication by the recruiter.^[2]

[edit] Black R Blog

Started during the 2007-08 school year, a blog was made for students to express themselves, called the Black R (see link below). Some members of the faculty, Leadership, and the Orange R have expressed ideas against this, but the Black R has become a place for the students at Roseburg High School to communicate with each other and administrators, teachers, and Leadership students in search of discussion, debate, and improvement.