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Show n 2003 - i'aj'.e 2 Utah - Thursday, February Grove ReviewLindon Edition New New Utah Pleasant Opinion .11 6 :fe- s9P v Welcome to my reality show ! Sherilyn Fr 1 Support the Guard American flags have stood sentry sen-try on neighbors' lawns, signaling someone at this home is leaving to go to what appears to be certain cer-tain war. In church, families and friends have said their farewells. Soldiers have loaded up their military equipment to be shipped out to Fort Lewis in Washington State and to Fort Carson in Colorado. Col-orado. They are packing up, getting anthrax shots, getting eyeglasses made, arranging last minute details and setting their legal affairs in order. They are preparing prepar-ing their families for the worst. Teachers, accountants, doctors, attorneys, people in almost all walks of life have been touched by their country's stand in the war on terrorism. Everywhere in north Utah County, residents are feeling the tug of potential war and seeing their neighbors, friends, peers and family members accept the President's call to arms. Many other people who serve in our community are a moment's notice from leaving. Some of these soldiers have been deployed before, during the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 or for Desert Storm. For others this is their first activation. The implications of the deployments deploy-ments are immense. Families with the temporary loss of their mother or father, husband or wife, may have also lost a major source of income and may have to live on tight budgets. Some will have their incomes cut by 50 percent per-cent or more. Homemakers with young children chil-dren will become dependent on help from neighbors. Businesses will be losing employees. There will be gaps where these men and women, some of the very best of our communities' citizens, have been. We urge your support during this trying time for those left behind as their loved ones sacrifice sacri-fice their very lives, if necessary, to help preserve our freedoms, our security, and our homes. There has been no better time for us to be aware of our neighbors neigh-bors and their needs. We can alleviate alle-viate physical and emotional burdens bur-dens by our own small forfeitures to help the families of those who are making even greater commitments. commit-ments. It is a wonderful opportunity to create a stronger sense of unity among us. As patriotic citizens citi-zens and loyal friends, it's the very least we can do. I can't turn on any morning television tel-evision news programs lately without being bombarded by the words, "reality television, usually in relationship to some kind ol promotion for the latest cheesy show. "Reality television, hah," I have been known to scoff to no one in particular. These shows have absolutely nothing to do with the reality with which I or anybody else I know is familiar. I fantasize about a show in which television producers are dropped into my life and forced to endure- two weeks (because, let s face it, one is not enough) of the combination of challenges I encounter on a daily basis as a mother of five boys and one daughter. This blend of physical and mental men-tal challenges would involve a series of tasks common to stay-at-home-mom. For starters, contestants would be exposed to the latest flu virus, which can't be stopped by even the latest immunization. After all, motherhood is always at its most fun when one is sick to the point of being nearly incapacitated, but is forced to keep going because everyone knows mothers don't get a day off. Then, when the virus has taken effect, the games may begin. Competitors, while suffering from flu symptoms, would be required to wake up six children, make sure they have clean matching match-ing socks, clean clothes, combed hair, breakfast, brushed teeth and homework all accounted for before going off to school. Of course, only half of them leave, so the next level of challenges may be applied. Next, contestants would be required to clean up the effects of the preschooler who has now contracted con-tracted the flu virus, while answering a phone call and changing the baby, all at basically the same time. The whole time, a toddler would be on a search-and-destroy mission around the house, pulling books off shelves and basically dismantling anything within reach, including ripping up a checkbook. The next round of competition would involve going to the grocery store with all three to find something some-thing the flu-ridden child can keep down. Contestants would be required, while shopping, to hear, "CAN I HAVE THIS CAN I HAVE THIS CAN I HAVE THIS CAN I HAVE THIS," repeated by the preschooler preschool-er while the toddler stands up and falls out of the cart after reaching out and pulling six boxes of cereal ools Presidf "1 8h.lt "' ami, I Elementary al Public, ' 'ation not av .,N eh!. IJI(;U! With lants i. maqe tiem Last d: Cards" can be studer be del They c schoo recess from i Valent Natior Progn dents Bicycl p.m.; bicycl unabl call whert new n'w not y. ''' minutt8 $ unif"rms, :; tten dried;;' that start C' when ;:; arnv hm. completing r; 1 lafnage, ) aftfer which j": science pr,;.,' this after 1 Practice want nothi The monv ' be to see h-,j ; testant ccwK atly after children yJl course-. .. r. walls or dob-' NeW: CC tuteforthe-ance ofllte I Would 2-' -ellerS room. Let's t'lM- Tne wl" one reality f .blankets ai find enterning comfc course. This isn't r- eld Eleme much easier 3-1 4 Teacl even bring 3 PTA Title IX debates continue Science fairs bring back fond mer. crest Elem Secc Sixtr 0 Debate over the provisions and effectiveness of Title LX, the landmark land-mark legislation passed in 1972 which exponentially increased athletic opportunities for women at all competitive levels, has been in the forefront again the past few weeks as President Bush's Commission Com-mission on Opportunity in Athletics Athlet-ics finished its work and forwarded forward-ed recommendations to the president. presi-dent. There was little new in the debates that took place during the commission's deliberations. On the one hand, women's rights leaders were afraid the panel would gut the law and thus negate some of the gains which have been made; on the other hand, there were those clamoring for change because of what they see as reverse discrimination. It is a fact that about 400 male sports teams at the collegiate level have been eliminated around the country since Title LX was passed. The biggest hits have been in gymnastics and wrestling, and the association representing college col-lege wrestling coaches has even filed suit over the matter. Education Secretary Rod Paige, a former college football coach, appointed the panel and said he was "very pleased" that one of the unanimous recommendations included wording to "encourage schools to understand that cutting male teams in order to comply with Title LX is not a favored practice." prac-tice." Well, of course it isn't. However, by any one of the proportionality standards currently in use or being proposed, that's what the net result has had to be, and the reason rea-son isn't because Title LX is flawed. I've read thousands of words written about this latest round of debates, not to mention many more in years past, and I still marvel that no one has publicly dared to declare that the real culprit cul-prit in the loss of male teams is that most American of sacred cows - football. Think about it. Football is unique in the number of athletes - - nffie: - at tx--V- i required to carry forward a successful suc-cessful program, and there is no women's sport so manpower-intensive manpower-intensive (so to speak). Two or three women's teams have needed to be added at Division 1 schools to balance out the numbers, any which way you figure them. A few schools who did not have a significant football tradition have chosen to eliminate that program pro-gram and keep other male teams, which makes it much easier for those institutions to keep opportunities oppor-tunities in balance, as defined by the present law. UVSC has chosen to take this route as it seeks Division Divi-sion 1 status. None of the big football schools would ever seriously consider such a move however, and there are only so many women's sports where a sufficient interest level and pool of talent exist to make them competitively feasible at the college level. Given the expense and support necessary to launch and maintain any collegiate sports team, most schools have chosen instead to eliminate men's teams to level out the measures of participation. This result is both unfortunate and unintended, but it's hard to see how this situation could be rectified without altering both the letter and spirit of the original law in a way that would be detrimental detri-mental to women's opportunities. The panel did not find any constituency con-stituency disagreeing with Title IX's basic premise, that equal opportunity should be the law of tne land. Even those who felt dis- February is filled with school science fairs. I've enjoyed visiting a few of them. Some of the students stu-dents come up with some truly creative and innovative projects, and it's fun to see their displays and listen to their enthusiasm as they share their scientific knowledge. knowl-edge. I always enjoyed science in school. Intrigued by the world around me, I always wanted to know why things were so and how they worked. I liked knowing about the different varieties of pine trees that grew in the mountains, moun-tains, and how to tell a spruce from a pine from a fir. I enjoyed identifying birds, plants, and rocks. For some reason, the names of rocks fascinated me: igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary They gave a touch of exotic to the commonplace. com-monplace. I loved the way the Latin names of plants and animals ani-mals rolled off my tongue: Pinus aristata (Bristlecone pine), Lappu- la velutina (Forget-me-not), Con-us corax Raven . But identification and laleling is just one face t of science. The most fascinating part of science is discovery. Finding out why something some-thing works and why another thing does not. The systematic approach to problem solving, or "figuring things out" is known as the scientific method. This process of observation, making a hypothesis, testing it, and seeking to understand the results is an excellent and exciting way to learn. One of my most important discoveries lay within the method itself that a "wrong-answer "wrong-answer might be just as valuable as a "right" answer; that mistakes were just a part of the process. In fact "mistakes can some times be fb.: scientists wen rubber subsrr. One man c-.- stance that br; It had no world, but iri-became iri-became a still enjov txr It will be - the student :' they becc-e ; tomorrow. I;'; hear the-, explain their s: what they lei-The lei-The stuk contagious. I; : roll up my sL work on a pr:;'r: all, expennt:-freely expennt:-freely be learning aud : And since I: a familv to It- combining k. science. I tli-cano tli-cano that er::'- pres 1 Scht at 1 s New: Ou ; and first ( j Taylor ai j books o .h voluntee re interes ' call Nata 'it 785-1 9 : 9:30 a.m :This is a mall child your child irt. n Elemen 3-14 Wri ;3 SEF s New: 0 :ed in schi : ct Anita : at 796-7 a differen On the last day of the Sund Film Festival, my husband and I finally had gotten a chance to see a film together. We were wandering down Main Street in Park City after the movie, attempting to spota star who wasn't at the awards ceremonies cere-monies or watching the Super Bowl. We saw lots of pseudo-cool people who wanted us to think we should recognize them. We didn't. We walked by The Morning Ray Restaurant Restau-rant at 268 Main Street and there found a true example of cool. The sign on the dcxr read: "We will be closing at 3:00 p.m. sharp today!!! Though its been a pleasure serving you this week, we are out of food, out of patience, we're tired, all of our black clothes are dirty, and most of us are at the doctor getting our heads checked for cell phone-related phone-related tumors..." Just inside the front door hung a i , j , Jf "iin-ii ji-iiu. in case you were advantaged by the current way of wondering, we've been through 15 figuring the standards did not go film festivals so far, and as you cm Dining cool at the festival Hey so far as to say the law's aim was wrong. If that's the case, then we ought to lay the burden for the loss of men's teams at the feet of the football foot-ball programs, learn to live with it, and move on. lmnmno i j .1 . ,,,, vc leiuneu a ining or three about how things work best around here. 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