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Show Thursday, September 20, 2007 OREM TIMES Page 3 NEWS AND NOTES TO KEEP YOU UVSC club rallies to ban Internet porn BrittajruLusk DAILY HERALD It's not typically socially acceptable to saunter into the office wearing little or nothing. noth-ing. Bobby Udall doesn't want images of scantily clad people popping up on his personal computer, either. Udall is the alumnus president presi-dent of the Davy Crockett Society at Utah Valley State College, a group started at the school last year. Thursday, Udall and members of the club rallied to stop Internet pornography. pornog-raphy. Udall said pornography should be regulated for the "mere fact that it is disturbing" disturb-ing" and that images found on accident can stick in people's heads. "There's always the potential there for destruction," Udall said. The group set up a table in the Liberal Arts building, played an interview with Ted Bundy, a serial killer who claims his problems began with pornography, and asked pass-ersby pass-ersby to sign a petition that would limit the availability of pornography on the Internet. The petition, which the group plans to present to Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, advocates advo-cates legislation that would zone pornographic material, so it is only available to those who specifically set their Internet Films Continued from Page I may not have seen the films partially because they're not the easiest ticket in town to get and because people may be concerned about appropriate appropri-ate content of the unrated films, he said. "My wife and I decided the community is a very family oriented group," Whittingham said. " ... There's no true art house south of Point of the Mountain and the quality of .... independent films is so high ... we'll be able to show good quality art that Cinemark will never show." Indie films currently showing at Festival Cinemas (www.festivalcinemasutah. com) are "Waitress," a romantic ro-mantic comedy starring Keri Russell, and "Evening," a drama exploring the romantic roman-tic and emotional pasts of a woman and her daughters with an all-star cast including NorthCounty NEWSPAPERS 399 E. State St. Pleasant Grove Marc Haddock 443 3268 North County Editor mhaddockheraldextra.com Cathy Allred 443 3262 Lehi, Saratoga Springs, PI. Grove callredheraldextra.com Barbara Christiansen 443 -3264 American Fork, Alpine, Cedar Hills bchristiansenheraldextra.com Mike Rigert 443 3265 Orem, Vineyard mrigertheraldextra.com Beky Beaton 443 3267 Sports bbeatonheraldextra.com 11 Josh Walker 443-3260 Advertising Account Executive jwalkerheraldextra.com Volume 134 Orem Times Daily Herald Edition. USPS 411-700. a weeHy newspaper published at 399 E State St . Pleasant Grove. Utah 84063 Periodicals postage paid at Pleasant Grove, Utah 84062 and at additional mailing offices Postmaster: Send address changes to Orem Times, PO Box 65. Orem, Utah 84059-0065 Published Thursdays by Lee Publications, which is a division of Lee Enterprises, Inc. Member: Audit Bureau of Circulations Mm". Copy J r s f MARK JOHNSTONDaily Herald Brett Neilsen left and Bobby Udall of UVSC's Davy Crockett Society speak to and call out to students as they host an anti-internet anti-internet pornography rally at UVSC on Sept. 13. browsers to be able to access it. "If you want pornography, you have to sign up," Udall said. When asked if the legislation infringes on First Amendment rights, Udall said he is just giving giv-ing people choices. "Freedom of speech is not free in all circumstances," Udall said. In 2005, the Utah Legislature Legisla-ture passed a bill that would have created an adult content registry of Internet sites that contained material harmful to minors. It would have required Internet Service Providers to prevent access to Internet materials harmful to minors Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep and Glenn Close, according ac-cording to the International Movie DataBase. "To some degree, you're educating the community as to what kind of films can be viewed from the independent circle," Whittingham said. "Our hope is to get a customer base that appreciates art films, something other than Hollywood." Holly-wood." Festival Cinemas has also began be-gan offering free screenings of ,BYU football away games, and will seek to show highly rated foreign and Mormon culture films from time to time based on requests and demand. The Orem Public Library is also getting into the indieforeign indiefor-eign film act, and last month began holding free screenings of monthly themed genre and foreign films. James Scarbrough, Orem's media librarian, said the public response to its Iranian Film Festival in August was so Phone: 756-7669 Fax: 756-5274 DAILY HERALD PUBLISHING CO. t'"ii"iilX, Jennette Esplin 756-7669 Office Manager Julia Fullmer 344-2570 Project Coordinator, DesignerCopy Editor Megan Carleton 344-2570 DesignerCopy Editor Ashley Franscell 344-2585 Photographer Issue 88 us a call at 756-7669 INFORMED AND and sites on the adult content registry if requested by consumers with filters to be checked at least annually by the state Division of Consumer Protection. Later that year, the American Ameri-can Civil Liberties Union of Utah, and others, filed a federal fed-eral lawsuit against that law. In 2006 a judge ruled in favor of a preliminary injunction preventing the enforcement of parts of the law, according to the ACLU of Utah's Web site. This year, the state Legislature approved amendments to the law, which removed the adult content registry portion and the requirement for ISPs at the request of a customer to great that for one screening the library ran short on seating. "I was surprised and pleased," he said. Using self-sustaining funds from its expansive DVDvideo collection ($1 per check out), the library has purchased year-long blanket licenses from several studios to screen entire films at the library for free. The only drawback is that the library can't advertise adver-tise the movies' titles to bfe shown in the media, Scarbrough Scar-brough said. This month's theme features fea-tures the '40s-'50s genre that came to be known as film noir gritty, dark crime dramas stylistically shot in black and white typically featuring a detective as an anti-hero and a femme fatale, said Orem assistant librarian Richard Downey, a film major and former for-mer BYU instructor. Classic examples include "The Postman Post-man Always Rings Twice" and "The Maltese Falcon." The Law of Compounding Errors The call came in last Wednesday from our daughter who lives in Eagle Mountain. She was driving to Lehi and had just passed "about 20 police po-lice cars" headed the other way. "Do you know what's going on?" she asked. It was a reasonable question. Enough bizarre things have happened hap-pened in the six years since she moved to Eagle Mountain. Since my wife and I both work for newspapers, we are the family's first source of news. In this case we didn't know, but we soon found out. Not long afterward, I was standing stand-ing on an American Fork street watching police examine the wreckage wreck-age of a power parachute. The story my daughter had tipped us off on had ended a few blocks from our American Fork home, and I was looking for witnesses to interview for a Daily Herald story. It wasn't until the next day we learned that the man who died in this incident from a self-inflicted self-inflicted gun shot wound was a former Eagle Mountain City Council member, throwing the city again into the state spotlight. On Friday we learned that a sitting city council member was being charged with failing fail-ing to report a $10,000 loan she had accepted from a prominent developer. In Eagle Mountain, it seems, the excitement never ends. There is a phenomenon I've noticed in our business. About every two years we make a major mistake with a wedding or missionary announcement, the notice of someone celebrating cel-ebrating an 80th birthday or any of a similar story. Then when we try to correct the mistake, another error is made the following week, and still another the week after. Somehow, this one simple story gets caught in a vortex, and every effort to correct it results re-sults in an even greater error. It happens in other businesses too. Let's call it the Law of Compounding Errors. It's a great day when the error is finally resolved re-solved and we can move forward. This is what has happened in Eagle Mountain. Moun-tain. From the outset, the city was designed to INVOLVED block access to sites that would have been on that list. Damian MacNeill, a senior studying political science, who helped found the UVSC group, said the legislation the group supports would create a similar restriction to those placed on adult clubs by cities. "It doesn't limit anyone's rights. It just makes it so you're less able to run across it," MacNeill said. BRIEFS I Primary Municipal Election Elec-tion results certified After performing its duties as the Board of Canvassers, the Orem City Council voted Tuesday to certify the results of the 2007 primary municipal election. City recorder Donna Weaver Weav-er told the council that their responsibility was to "look over the processes and make sure everything is 'kosher'." A pre-canvassing was done by six city staff members, who checked to make sure the election elec-tion judges did the paperwork and handled the ballots correctly. cor-rectly. Votes from 94 provisional and seven absentee ballots were added to those from the initial 6,000 ballots cast in the city, making a total of 6,101 ballots cast. The additional votes did not change the results of the election. elec-tion. The six top vote-getting Downey said several studios, stu-dios, including Fox, have recently released several film noir titles and box sets on DVD for the very first time. The series wraps up Tuesday at 7 p.m. with a free screening of one of the genre's 1947 classics starring Richard Widmark and Victor Mature about a small-time crook who gets caught during a jewel heist. In the spirit of Halloween, the library will be showing a series of 1950s space invasion films in October. Downey said though the rest of the library in concentrating concen-trating on The Big Read of Willa Cather's "My Antonia" in September and October, this series "is a little bit different differ-ent kind of migration." A self-proclaimed horror film buff, Downey remembers being enthralled with space invasion in-vasion flicks like "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," and "It Came From Outer Space." Marc Haddock THE EDITOR'S COLUMN h TV Mi City Council candidates who will be on the ballot for the general municipal election Nov. 6 are Margaret Black, 3.762; Mark Seastrand, 2,951; Carl Hernandez III, 2,590; Brent R. Sumner, 2'W.'; Michael J. Whimpey, 1.622; and Tom Fi-fitaSitaki, Fi-fitaSitaki, Weaver said the margin of difference of votes between Sitake and the next candidate, Gary A. Wise, 1,004, was not sufficient to allow for a recount. re-count. Vote totals for the other candidates were: Ron McDonald McDon-ald 778; Derek J. Whetten.UGO; Dan L. Wright, 290; Steve Hemingway, 226; and Kdward Lalone,100. I View Migrating Raptors on Sept. 22 A chance to view and learn more about migrating migrat-ing birds of prey will be available avail-able near Orem on Saturday, during Utah's annual Raptor Watch Day. Viewing will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Orem Overlook along Squaw Peak Road, east of Orem. Squaw Peak Road is accessed via the Provo Canyon Road. To reach the lYovo Canyon Road, exit 1-15 at Exit 275 and (ravel east-bound east-bound on 800 N. in Orem. Raptor Watch Day is hosted annually by the Division of Wildlife Resources. For more information, call Walters at 801-5384771. Each Tuesday in October will feature the screening of a different 50s space invasion classic. Librarians are also working on a Chinese cinema series for November. Though Downey isn't sure whether a theater dedicated to foreign and independent films would make it in Utah County, he said there is definitely interest in-terest in seeing movies than what's offered up at the local multi-plex. "Maybe everybody is bored students who cari't afford to" pay for full-fare Hollywood offerings, he said. Though plans for a new 16-screen 16-screen Cinemark multiplex at University Mall may impact the future operations of Festival Fes-tival Cinemas, Whittingham said his business partnership is keeping options open including in-cluding possibilities of making mak-ing it a full-time art -house theater, relocating or building a new movie house in the future. break the rules. When we first heard about plans just over 10 years ago to build a major city in the middle of Cedar Valley with a city-owned telephone company, gas company, electric company, built-in Internet access and a golf course, we thought the developer was one putt short of a par. Who would want to live out there with the voles, we wondered, no matter how well planned the community com-munity was? Then our kids bought a home there. So did a lot of people's grown kids. It was affordable and offered the promise o a new kind of community. com-munity. Soon it was a town full of young families who had invested in the idea of a city that was planned from the ground up. What the town lacked was a base of residents resi-dents who had matured with the community. Most of our city councils are made up of a mix of newer residents and old-timers. It's a good combination, but it takes time to develop this, and Eagle Mountain has had no time. There were some quirks early on, such as a city council member who was challenged because he practiced polygamy, but things didn't get real strange until a few years ago. It started with some unusually acerbic city elections. And it spiraled down from there. City council coun-cil members accused each other of improper behavior. The then-mayor faked his own kidnaping. kid-naping. One of his successors allegedly falsified falsi-fied travel expenses. For a while it seemed the new mayor had a handle on the situation, but the city has spiraled spi-raled out of control again, and the town has become a the poster child of sorts for municipal munici-pal dysfunction throughout the state. It's particularly painful for the thousands who have invested their fortunes, large and small, in the community and its original vision. vi-sion. They observe the madness, like the rest of us, and wonder how long they must endure it. For our part, we just keep waiting for the cycle to end and for the town to calm down. Unfortunately, we are also waiting to see what crazy thing will come next out of Eagle Mountain. -i-i.j.i-j.j -i.i .i f .j Timpanogos Continued from Page 1 by the water tank. Barth said students working on the trail will be meeting in the main parking lot at Timpanogos or at the site on Saturday. The Orem City Council recently approved a new ordinance allowing the temporary tem-porary display of the high sch(K)l letters, and outlining an application process and other requirements. Orem's other high schools are also allowed al-lowed to display their letters if they make application. Under Un-der the law, each application must receive the approval of the city manager. Barth said the letter is made of nylon pack cloth, a canvas-like material, and is white. The letter display is KM) feet long and 80 feet wide. " There's a lot of excitement excite-ment here at the school that finally, this is legal," said Barth. "It's a chance to show school pride and to get t he community involved with our activities." "It's actually a pretty big deal," said Browning. "It started last year at this time getting permission from the city... The students have gone about the right process working with the city and the police to make this happen. I'm really proud of them." Barth said that after the trail is built on .Saturday, paperwork will be completed Monday, and "if all goes as scheduled", the letter will go up on Tuesday. "It's been a long and tedious te-dious process," Barth said, "but the end result is what we wanted, so that's all that matters." Big Read Continued from Page 1 online to www.orembigread. org. Another headline event during dur-ing The Big Head is the Orem I lomesteader 1 leritage Fair to be held Saturday, Sept. 2!), at 1 1 a.m. at Nielsen's drove park and museum, 1!).'51 S. Sandhill Road (please use 2000 South to access the park due to construction on Sandhill Road). Replicating the same time period depicted in "My Antonia," the park and fair will feature folk music, square dancing, storytelling, and period pe-riod demonstrations. Several sch(X)Ls in the area are also getting into the act, including juniors at Mountain Moun-tain View 1 ligh School who received 480 copies of "My Antonia," classes at Orem and Timpanogos high schools, Utah County Academy of Sciences, Sci-ences, and some Orem junior high schools, Stevens said. "We have over 1,000 high sch(xl students reading it and we gave away 2,000 copies cop-ies of the book (to schools) in less than four days," she said. " The Big Read is for everyone, every-one, 3 to !).'." Janet I xw, an Orem library li-brary administrator, said The Big Read is intended to bring people together to discuss the book and literary concepts, exchange ideas, and help create a closer sense of community. com-munity. Presch(X)ls, members of Utah Valley State College's Elder Quest and the women's shelter have also gotten onboard on-board with the excitement created cre-ated by reading Willa Cather as a community, she said. "1 consider 'My Antonia' a reality Cinderella story," I)w said. "She was able to make life bright and beautiful beauti-ful with much of the drudgery drudg-ery of the times. She was a newbie on the block, an immigrant, im-migrant, settling in the Midwest. Mid-west. She showed how you can approach life and make it good, even when there's a lot of hard work around you." With Utah's rich pioneer heritage and history of overcoming difficulties, Low thought a story about how Nebraska immigrants and settlers picked themselves up by their lxxt straps would apx;al to Orem readers. "Utah seems to have a connection to the land and that comes across in 'My Antonia'," she said. "There's really something here for everybody." ev-erybody." The Orem I'ublic Library applied for and received an $8,000 grant for The Big Read from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the program Ls also supported sup-ported by Orem city, Arts Midwest, the Institute of Museum Mu-seum and Library Services, the Utah Humanities Council, and UVSC. !1 ff p tf 1f af $s flf.. r if -iif,ni m i |