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Show Teenagers stress need for sex ed ed The Associate Press SALT I AKE CITY A survey of students. apparently conducted in violation of state law, Redford’s Sundance synonymouswith Utah PROVO - What comes to mind when you hear the word, “Sundance?” Oh yeah, that ski resort owned by Robert Redford, you might think, if you are from Utah or a savvy skier Others think of the George Roy Hill film “Butch Cassidy tioned see sex education as critical to preventing teen pregnancy The 13-question survey of 126 students by The Children’s Service Society of Utah also found about 40 percent believe abstinence is the best way to avoid unwanted births Of that 40 percent, many of § the students said their conviction stemmed from family and religious values. The survey was distributed in two unident ified $ alt Lake County high school classrooms and among some private-school Students. The data will be used by the society to fine-tune its “Education for Adulthood” prevention and the Sundance Kid.” Whatever avenue your thoughts take you, Sundance, Taught in the Granite. Murr and Salt Lake City school districts, the program includes classes on decision-making, self-esteem, values. clarification. identifying personal feelings and on close but not sexual relationships, said society director Patricia Cox State Office of Education attorney Carol Lear speculated that the seciety’s and schools’ close association may have inadvertently allowed the survey to slip by parental permission require- the name, has become synonymous with Utah. After all, the pair of outlaws | a one’s lips. changed. did hide out and rob banks in an The Associated Press found nearly half of those ques- program Standard-Examiner area between Green River and Hanksville. But that was just part of their jurisdiction. Equalopportunity thieves, they did their dirt throughout the West and even took their trade to South America. But things have Today. the name Sundanceis everywhere, and it must be Hollywood’s fault. One ofthe first to borrow the popular name was Redford himself. He bought the ski resort and renamed it Sundance. But a search on the Internet provides some idea of just how much the name Sundance has proliferated since the movie made it so popular. If you type in the words “sundance” and “sun dance” you Redford plaved the Sundance Kid in the movie. Paul Newman plays Butch Cassidy, the Utahborn Mormon outlaw But in 1969. when thefilm was released. the Provo Canyon ski resort was called Timphaven. Sundance was hardly on any- find hundreds of references. There is Sundance Ski area or resort. the one in Provo Canyon and a Trendwest Resort Inc. reference at Whistler, British Columbia. Then there is the Sundance Film Festival and Sundance Institute. drink bottled at Franklin Park, Ill.; Sundance Marketing; Sundance Needleworks: and Sundance Flying Club in Palo Alto. Calif. In the Florida Keys. there is Sundance Sportsfishing Adventures, and there’s Sundance Helicopters in Las Vegas: Telephones in Salt Lake City: Sundance Square. a shopping In England, there is Sundance Multiprocessor Technology, Ltd. center in Fort Worth, Texas, and Sundance Books at 106 Main in Geneseo, N.Y. City organization providing the gay and lesbian community with Elsewhere, there is Sundance Trampolines; Sundance, the a variety of outdoor, noncompetitive activities. There is Sundance Business Sundance is also a NewYork REST ON THE BEST! SAVINGS Pi TER ATA S(O. abe ments. The Utah Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act requires educators to have prior written consent from parents before asking students to reveal personal information, whether identifiable or not, on several subjects among them “sexual behavior. orientation or attitudes.” Cox said the survey responses were nonetheless illuminating and could help educators and parents steer teens away from sexual activity The Alan Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research organization in New York and Washington, D.C., reports that national statistics show 56° percent ofgirls and 73 percent of boys have intercourse by age 18. The survey asked the Utah students why teens have sex. “One of the reasons that abso- lutely blew me away was that they have sex because they don't have anything else to do. They're bored,” Cox said More than 25 percent of the students said peer pressure wasa factor; 14 percent said teens ei- ther are looking for someone to love them or have sex to avoid being dumped by a boyfriend. Layton PaMUSTBESOLD:WSETS: From 1B rection. So. a square city DIOCK can have as many as eight tavems “Salt Lake is pretty open about beer. We enjoy the business, it helps the economy. And it isn't a big drain on resources,” Rackley said “However, I've shut downfour of the more notorious, shoot-em-up bars and taverns, and that’s the kes ENT PAYMt REST Nob INTEe NO DOWNBglNOl fe Since the current tavern ordinance in Lé 1yton was implemented about 20 years ago, the prior problems have decreased ee?oe Most of the existing taverns violate the three-quarter-of-amile rule, but they were grandfathered in. The ordinance has kept other taverns from opening a has caught the eye of some entrepreneurs Wayne Conroy. owner of Ber- coni’s Pasta House restaurant in Ogden has asked change the law to the council allow a a an Irish There 1s also talk mict brewery and major hotel! in the same are building they would have frequent said the But they know they w have to make Cnanges for the growing city The co c nstructec taff to put together a detailed questionnair ) ndividuals seeking a beer license. Next month council cide if the changed memt a oad aa eS Ta T fall into the three-quarter mile ra drinking establishments. + aite wy dius, but it would take |.5 miles to drive between it and the clos est tavern because Interstate 15 divides the twe member al to pub north of Laytor lls Mall The pub and restaurant would Counc at saat7 % Oaa PURCHASE OFANY MATTRESS SET. 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