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Show ThE DAily UtaN mo ON CLE MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1987 UNIVERSITY EXCUSES Parking Services get them all See page 1 0 VOL 97, NO. 56 OF UTAH Aryan Nations resisted Students rally to protest presence of white supremacist group in Utah By Lori Bona Chronicle campus editor We hold these truths to be self evident, all men are created equal. . . that U.S. Constitution A white supremacist group has come to Utah to replace the Constitution established by American forefathers with one of their d, own calling for racially inherent Anglo-Saxo- n, Germanic Common Law order. group is the Aryan' Nations. Saturday afternoon, more than 300 "God-ordaine- e people, including University of Utah President Chase Peterson and his wife Grethe, attended a rally in the West Jordan City Park to protest the presence of the Aryan Nations in Utah. "It is very important to exercise free speech, but the notion of racism is an ugly and distasteful thing," Peterson said. Grethe Peterson said she was attending the protest to show the Aryan Nations they are not welcome in Utah because of the things they stand for. "I am very sensitive to racism," she said. Carrying signs with slogans such as "Keep the Klan off the air" and "Jesus was a Jew," students from the U., Brigham Young University and members of several Utah organizations chanted and cheered during the hour-lon- g protest. The protest was spurred by the debut of the Aryan Nations Hour on station KZZI, located a short distance from the park. Although host Dwight McCarthy has been paying KZZI $100 an hour since July to air Counter-Marxi- st Hour, Saturday was the first time the group's doctrines were defended over live radio. "The problem with the Aryan Nations is that violence follows them around," Jo Roach, a member of the U.'s Students Against Apartheid, said. SAA helped organize the protest along with Utahns Against the Aryan Nations. Roach read aloud portions of the Aryan Nations Constitution, which calls for a "ruthless war" against blacks and Jews and gives only Aryans the right to vote. "We are here to tell the Aryan Nations NO! There is no room for racism in Utah," Roach said. He refrained from burning the group's Constitution, saying the Aryan Nations had already "burned themselves." Todd Gabler, ASUU Parlimentarian, told the crowd the most frightening thing about the Aryan Nations was its "soft sell." Gabler, who interviewed McCarthy several days earlier, said McCarthy believes blacks and Jews are devils. "He could look me in the eye, and repeat his appeal his appeal to people's conscience that makes them believe him. Rev. Robert Harris, who was the first elected black official in Utah, said he has received six threatening telephone calls since he began speaking out against the Aryan Nations. "But I am no more afraid of them than a huge bear would be if a flea crossed his path. The Aryan Nations may frighten some of the black people some of the time, but they can't frighten all of the black people all of the time," Harris said. "Call me a black man or a black Jew, but I'll let the Aryan Nations know.Utah is not Idaho they aren't wanted here," he said. Other speakers included representatives of several Utah organizations, including the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, the AFL-CIthe Socialist Workers Party, Joanne Milner, Rep. Lake, and a Sarah named young Navajo girl Ranger. Ranger told the crowd a story about a Native American boy and a balloon man. The boy asked the man which balloon would sail higher, a brown or a white one. "The balloon man looked at the little boy and said 'It doesn't matter what color it a balloon is, it's what's inside that makes it go high and beautiful," she said. I I I . O, D-S- alt (Chronicle photo by Erin Calmes 'Utes' lose first road game Utah went on the road for this first time of this young season and didn't find unfriendly territory particulary to its liking. Utah State defeated the U. in in double Logan on Saturday 76-7- 0 overtime despite the efforts of Watkins Singletary and Gale Gondrezick. Singletary turned in his best performance of the year by scoring 22 points and pulling down 18 rebounds. Gondrezick had a tough night shooting but still kept the U. in the game with his long range bombing. For all the game details turn to page 12. Writing skills vital in many areas, speaker says ' -- vf""T Visiting prof, calls U. students 'pretty good writers' By Todd Curtis Chronicle staff writer In an p X " s information-base- d society, business and government are dramatically redefining their notions of what constitutes good writing, Dixie Goswami, professor of English at Clemson University, said. "It used to be English professors taught writing and that was it. But today professors in architecture, engineering, business and science are finding out it's necessary for their students to be able to write clearly and concisely," Goswami said. Goswami was at the University of Utah Friday, looking at the U.'s writing program and speaking on "Writing in an - Information-base- d Chronicle photo by Guy Elder r.,.n f ..6.... at Ct m cnn uixie uoswami, pruitssui University, said the best academic writers are thosed ... i who are eoo nnn ..m. o wuu wuii wriic nnotiv thr t-- - T7rt1JcV -- storytellers, the ones that can be flexible. Society: New Problems, New Opportunities." Goswami noted that the U. has a nationally recognized writing program ana said the program isn't just dependent on humanities professors, but the engineering, science and architecture professors are giving their students the opportunity to become good writers. From what I ve seen here, 1 ve learned U. students are pretty good writers with a lot of potential. They re very hichlv motivated," Goswami said. j Goswami also heads an innovative writing program called the Bread Loaf School of English. Located near Vermont's Middlebury College, grade school and high school teachers spend six weeks each summer brainstorming, studying and trading experiences as they try to devise new methods of getting their students to write. "We have nothing against 'skill and drill' writing curricula, except they don't work," Goswami said. "The problem is students don't learn to punctuate, spell and write paragraphs very well, even with a lot of that kind of practice," Goswami said. Goswami believes students will learn to write better when given the chance to be creative and experience genuine communication. Bread Loaf has devised a program where students from one part of the country can communicate their ideas with students from other parts of the country through word processors. The new national hookup has provided evidence for one of Bread Loafs theories: Children will write freshly when given a new audience. Students in a small ranching community in Montana began writing to children in Pittsburgh about farm life in winter. see "Goswami" on page five Non-prof- it Org. U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, UT |
