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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1976 Rage Two Nations School Officers Solicit Presidents Help A plea for Presidential intervention in the collection of data by the nations schools was one of the outcomes of the conferences held by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). The meetings, held in Salt Lake City November concluded with a letter to President Ford asking him to inter: vene on their behalf to "direct the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to postpone ' the 1976-7- 7 Commissioner of Education, and Dr. Kenneth C. Madden, Delaware's Superintendent of Public1 Instruction, addressed the Council. : Their topic, "What Should Chiefs Both Do About Test Results. indicated the need to explain the reporting requirements of the Of- test results to parents. fice for Civil Rights Report Forms Speaking to the group on Title 101 102. and The Council IX, Joan E. Duval, Director, WomOSCR concluded that the request for ens' Program Staff, U. S. Office of collection of data for elementary Education, said: Educational and secondary schools is "unreasonand women, men means equality able for the following three reaand even though the girls, boys sons: focus at present seems to be on The data burden is excessive, girls. Fear and resistance to requiring hundreds of thousands of change, plus behavior of educationpersons hours to provide informa- al personnel, are the hardest things tion we believe goes far beyond to overcome so we can comply with what is reasonably, necessary to the law on sex equality in the schools. comply with the law. Charles Nix, Associate CommisThe most of advance notice and sioner for Planning, Texas Educathe time schedule make it virtually tion Agency, presented "Impediimpossible to meet OCR require- ments to Effective Federal State ments as schools conduct normal Relations. He indicated that a essential educational activities. closer working relationship beIn many states the information tween federal, state and local requested by OCR is redundant, agencies would help to overcome since similar information has al- the impediments that are caused by ready been collected for 1976-7federal statutes, regulations, guideIn other activity the Council was lines and interpretations. concerned about test results and The Chiefs also adopted policy what to do about them. Dr. Marsh- statements to encourage: establishall S. Smith, associate director. ment of goals; evaluation and acOffice of Planning, Budget and countability for those goals; inProgram Analysis, National In- volvement of publics in decision stitute of Education, talked to the making; efforts to strengthen the Council about "The Real Story on cooperative partnership of all orTest Results. He indicated that ganizations in the education comthe nature of the tests should be munity; access for all to equal communicated to parents and the education opportunity; renewal of public at large. Also the interpreta- emphasis on citizenship; to list a tions given to the tests as well as few. 14-1- 10 Freedoms Erode Without Vigilance (continued from page 1) editorials, closed courts, banned reporting from public records and laid the groundwork for secret pre-trihearings. In fact, the growing trend toward secrecy for secrecy in other has provided a stepping-ston- e areas which are also public business. Why the secrecy? Many courts have decided that the press has abused its freedom in the past and caused unnecessary or irreparable damage to a person's reputation. In other instances, courts have held that a person's right to a fair trial, his right to due process of law or right to privacy should take precedence over freedom of the press. While it is true that the press has, in isolated cases, acted irresponsibly, it generally does not. The press has, in fact, behaved admirably most of the time and heriocally in some instances where it uncovered scandal of huge proportions. What must be realized is that on balance, this freedom protected by the First Amendment has done much more good than harm. It is but a short step from courts darkened by restraints to other corridors of public business which also demand light for scrutiny. A free press is not perfect but it is an indispensable part of the Republic. As Thomas Jefferson pointed al out: The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted, when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary to keep the waters pure. It is the obligation of the courts to uphold the public's right to know by lifting restraints upon the press. The No. 1 concern of newspapers is to make sure that the public is informed. Once doors are closed to the press and precedents are established, they will be extremely difficult to open again. The public might not miss this withdrawal of news because it will be gradual. Yet, a citizens right to alternative interpretations given to the tests should also be given to the parents and other interested parties. Dr. Calvin M. Frazier, Colorado th- eLEASED GRAPEVINE . 7, - 7. According to Brigham Young University President Dallin Oaks, tuition will go up $30 next fall but adds education at the Provo school will remain a bargain. Pres. from Oaks called the increase for semester to $390 $360 per "minimal when undergraduates compared to increased costs. Oaks said the increase was needed to maintain the quality of education at the school. Graduate students will pay $430 and law students $700 per semester, Oaks added. - . Representative Gunn McKay said the the assignment of management and maintenance of its new F16 combat fighter to Hill Air Force Base will be announced this week by the Air Force. Air Logistics Commander Edmund Rafalko said he has not been notified of the decision and cannot comment until an official announcement is made. This could create up to 1,200 civilian jobs at Hill between 1980 and 1985. Director of Utahs Department of Development Services for the past 12 years, Milton R. Weilenmann,. has resigned effective December 31. Weilenmann said he wrote his resignation and gave it to Gov.elect Scott Mateson the day after the election and the resignation has now been accepted. He said he offered his resignation to give the Gov.elect Matheson a chance to name his own people to major administrative positions. Inca civilization were made at UCLA by Steven The Streets Department began Garrett of the Physics Department and Daniel K. installing signs directing traffic to State of the Museum of Cultural History. The data, parking areas this week in downtown Salt Lake City. The signs, presented in a paper given on November 19 at the part of a plan to reduce 92nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in parking and prompt better downSan Diego, suggests an alternative interpretation of town traffic flow in the downtown area. Downtown businessmen have the bottles as having been specifically produced as complained that the Main Street whistles. It was found that Peruvian whistling bottles beautification project took away places and that, as a result, group acoustically by specific culture. It was also ' parking bustomers are going elsewhere. observed that the tones produced by the whistles fall Many businesses have behind lots their buildings, in the region of the ears greatest sensitivity. The high parking but customers ae unaware that the intensity levels produced by the whistles (typically parking is available through pur96dB) and enhanced by the ears sensitivity to the chase validations. on-stre- et off-stre- et characteristic of the whistling bottles know what his government are frequencies2400 Hz), combine with the ears nonDetective I. Stoner, of the Salt public officials (typically Police Department will spend Lake life of will one insure the long doing is the thing that linearity to create sum and difference tones when two this weekend in a Denver conferthe Republic. or more bottles are played simultaneously. The ence where police will exchange information on fee schemes, land perception of these low frequency difference tones is and stock frauds. Stoner will meet the dominant effect when listening to the sound of with other law enforcement officials several whistling bottles from a given culture. A from throughout the western commissioners approwere bottles Peruvian whistling produced by forthcoming paper by Daniel K. Stat will analyze the states. City $184 in travel expenses. priated civilizations inhabiting the north and bottles in terms of their possible ritualistic significance The Colorado Organized Crime central coasts and highlands of Peru from ca. 500b. C. as suggested by ethnoarchaeological studies and as Strike Force is sponsoring the through A.D. 1550. Although the existence of these suggested by the iconography of the 73 bottles conference. unusual ceramic vessels has been acknowledged by included in the sample. A spokesman for the State Diviin for and interest historians centuries, sion of Public Utilities, said Utahns archaeologists Peruvian Whistling Bottles pre-Colbumbi- an these artifacts has been recently revived because people, who have played the bottles by blowing into their spouts, claim to experience a change in their state of consciousness akin to that produced by meditation. The generally accepted archaeological interpretation of Peruvian whistling bottles is that the vessels are utilitarian liquid containers with the whislte providing an amusing method of venting to facilitate pouring. There is nothing written in the Spanish Chronicles of the New World or in the Peruvian iconograpy itself to directly suggest their original use. Acoustical measurements of the frequency and intensity of the tones generated by 73 whistling bottles representing nine cultures ending with the dial should be allowed to purchase their own telephone equipment from sources other than Mountain Bell if it is certified safe and wont damage the phone system. The spokesman also argued this week that "our position is that Utah Public Service Commission general order 98-allows customers to purchase their equipment and not be locked into Mountain Bell except for lines and transmission facilities.Brinton Burbidge, attorney for Division of A Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! Public Utilities said Citizens should have the right to purchase equipment in a competitive market in this segment of the phone system, he added, "We feel the results will be lower prices to telephone customers. |