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Show Womijd & The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Two Czech president approves of German reunification cy Europe!" At a joint news conference with the dissident playwright who became Czechoslovakia's president, Weizsaecker said the visit to Munich proved "we have come clean with our past" Weizsaecker promised "every support" from West Germany for Czechoslovakia, particularly to clean up the environment. In an address to his nation on Monday, Havel described his nation's ecological condition as the worst in Europe. Corrections question ACLU involvement in disturbance SALT LAKE OTY (AP) The Department of Corrections will ask officials of the Utah chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union to investigate whether the local director may have triggered a disturbance at Utah State Prison. Last Thursday, two inmates destroyed a television set, smashed glass from windows in a day room and threatened to kill any officer who tried to subdue them before a prison SWAT team used a "sting ball" grenade that sprayed rubber pellets into the room and ftopped the incident. Corrections Executive Director Gary DeLand said at a news conference Tuesday that videotapes taken at the time recorded inmate David Jolivet telling a social worker that the ACLU had told him that prison officials were going to murder him. "Do you know I had a meeting with the ACLU today? They told me you guys were going to try to murder me. You are. You're gonna come in here and murder me," Jolivet told the social Deland said Michelle Parish-Pixle- r, executive director of the Utah ACLU, had met with Jolivet for about 45 minutes Thursday morning. He emphasized that he recognized that inmates often lie and U. of having made such an that he was not accusing Parish-Pixle- r inflammatory statement to Jolivet n., But Deland said he is concerned and wants to know what, He said he may have said to Jolivet. d anything, Parish-Pixle- r probably would have a letter requesting the review to the ACLU's board of directors on Wednesday. Parish-Pixlsaid later Tuesday that she was flabbergasted by the matter. "I am very concerned with what they (CorrectionsJ have been doing with David Jolivet They have refused to allow the ACLU to speak with him since the incident," she said. "These totally unfounded allegations are alarming. I know Corrections has been upset with the ACLU, and me personally, for this is going too far, questioning their programs and policies, but xl pr ssld Petri sh-Parish-Pixlsaid neither she nor the ACLU knew what course of action they might take against Corrections. "I need to listen to that tape and talk to David Jolivet. This is serious stuff, and I need to get to the bottom of this," she said. hand-delivere- EAST BERLIN (AP) President Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia, who visited both Germanys on Tuesday, said their reunification appears inevitable and can be a benefit to Europe rather than a threat "It is more important that Germany maintains a democratic consciousness . . . than whether it has 60 million or 70 million people," he said. "As long as it remains peaceful and democratic, it can be as large as it wants." After short meetings with heads of state, government leaders and opposition groups, Havel pledged solidarity with the movement in East Germany. His cautious comments on reunification reflected European fears of once more having such a powerhouse in the heart of the continent, while acknowledging unity is a positive consequence of political reform. After five hours in East Germany, including a ceremonial crossing through the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate, Havel flew to Munich, West Germany, for talks with President Richard von Weizsaecker and Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Thousands of Bavarians cheered as Havel was driven through the city. They shouted "Vaclov! Vaclov!" and "Freedom for Eastern worker. er Pi er Gov't says 60 Ceausescu allies, relatives imprisoned 3 1990 "He has lost a lot of blood," said Estrada, a Roman Catholic priest in Bluefields. "He is out of danger." Also wounded was a nun identified only as Francesca, said . Estrada. The Nicaraguan government blamed Contra rebels, but the church said it had no information about the attackers. had two sisters killed down there. All those sisters down there are ours," said an official of the Sisters of St Agnes in Fond du Lae Northeastern Nicaragua is an isolated area with few roads. A stronghold of the Miskito Indians, it formed an autonomous part of the Contra resistance. Bluefields, Nicaragua's main Caribbean port is about 100 miles south of Puerto Cabezas. "We S.L democrat files bill to help renters fix residences A Salt Lake Democrat has profiled a tenants to bypass reluctant landlords, Utah allow would bill that their homes and apartments and deduct make needed repairs on the cost from the rent Lake, said the bill, aimed at Rep. Paula Julander, landlords who won't make repairs, would permit tenants to hire a contractor for up to the value of one month's rent "The primary intent of the act is to require that rental property be maintained in a sage and sanitary condition,-fi- t for human habitation," Julander said at a news conference Tuesday. Utah is one of only eight states without laws providing a "warranty of habitability" guaranteeing that a home or apartment meets minimum livability standards, Julander said. The bill, which has no sponsors at present, would require landlords to comply with local housing requirements and building codes before a property is rented. Once the property is rented, the bill would permit the tenant to make repairs in specific areas such as mamtaining the property's structural integrity, acquiring smoke detectors, and providing running water and other necessities. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) . D-S- alt The interim government said Tuesday it had imprisoned about 60 of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's closest associates and would punish "all evildoers from the old regime. " Foreign Ministry spokesman Constanin Girbea said judgment also would follow foi1 "all members of the Ceausescu family," and BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) the Defense Ministry would announce further details of punishments. Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were convicted of genocide and other "grave crimes" against Romania and executed Dec. 25. Whether or where they were buried has not been disclosed, but the official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug quoted Girbea as saying they were probably buried on the spot." Girbea said at a news conference that all executive members of the Communist Party Politburo were in prison. "I estimate there are about 60 . . . all close colleagues of Ceausescu," he said. "All evildoers from the old regime will be brought to justice." About 40 Ceausescu relatives are thought to have occupied ranking government posts before the popular revolt that ended rule. Ceausescu's Weber county lawmaker plans Utah education bills SOUTH OGDEN, Utah (AP) A Weber County legislator plans to introduce several bills aimed at restmcturing public education in Utah and preventing functional illiterates from graduating. Rep. Douglas Holmes, Ogden, said public education in Utah and the United States lags behind the standards of other industrialized nations, and that threatens to turn the nation into a second-rat- e economic power. Holmes said the bills will link increases in funding to better student performance, pay better teachers more, require a third year of math and science in high schools and mandate testing that would prevent schools from passing failing students. "The most frustrating thing is that there is no agreement on why kids we are graduating can't read, and I've never had a satisfactory -, . answer." Holmes said the only comparison Utah schools have with those in other states are students' college entrance test scores, which rank about average. "But average in the United States today is not very good," he said. 24-ye- ar Nicaraguan ambush kills two nuns, wounds bishop Gunmen ambushed a car MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) carrying church workers in northeastern Nicaragua and killed two nuns, one an American, church officials said Tuesday. They said an American bishop and a third nun were wounded. The Rev. Marcelino Estrada said the attack took place Monday night on a highway near Puerto Cabezas in the remote Caribbean coastal region, about 200 miles northeast of Managua. year-to-ye- ? Church officials and family identified the slain nuns as Maureen Courtney, 45 of Milwaukee, and Teresa Rosales, a Nicaraguan. Bishop Pablo Schmitz, 46, of Fond du Lae, auxiliary bishop of Bluefields, was shot in the arm. as well as specialists from other universities. Coleman and Ball developed the class as an addition to the U.'s week-lon- g celebration of Martin in-dep- th University of Utah students, like their peers nationwide, do not understand the issues which gave rise to the American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s two U. professors said. To educate students about this important era in history and the evils of social injustice and racism, the U. will offer a class winter quarter called American Race Dilemma: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. "The majority of students don't know the roots or the basis for the hate and mistrust" on both sides of the racial issue, U. history professor Ronald Coleman said. Generally, freshman students come to the U. without an understanding of the civil rights movement beyond the brief synopsis they received in their 11th grade American History class, he explained. In a growing number of cases, however, students are leaving the U with the same social-issue- s ignorance they arrived with, he said. To complete the sketchy picture of the civil rights movement most students have, the U. will offer Liberal Education 270-- 1 and 270-winter quarter to focus on Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights 2, movement. ht Wednesday, Tanuarv ; -- ar .. class covers history of civil rights movement By Jennifer Gully Chronicle Administration Reporter Co-taug- Nation by Coleman and Howard Ball, former U. dean of the college of social and behavioral science, the class will also utilize the expertise of other U. professors Luther King Jr. Coleman said. In addition to examining the. political, social and economic factors affecting the conception and development of the civil rights class movement, the will also outline how the movement and its values affect society today. "The class deals not only with the past, but with where the students are today and where they may be two-year-o- ld tomorrow," Coleman said. While ignorance of the civil rights movement and its sustaining values of freedom, social justice and equality does not exist only in Utah, most U. students are apathetic towards racial issues because they have never interacted with blacks and other minorities. Students at the U. are "much more uninformed because we don't live in a pluralistic society," Coleman explained. "Students y simply don't have the day-to-da- interaction . personally and intellectually" with minorities. As. a result of the state's demographics, students "don't know anything" about racial issues and the problems the issues pose in larger cities, Coleman said. "Students have a fundamental lack of knowledge about the events that led to significant changes" in the country, Ball said. Given students' ignorance of the movement and the racial issues still in play today, the class attempts to "fill the void" most students have in their education, Coleman said. While U. students can function in Utah with their ignorance of racial issues and tensions, the state is only a small part of a larger nation and an even larger globe, imm i "Students need to know how to operate in a multiracial and multicultural environment," Ball said. However, unlike many students on college campuses across the country, the majority of U. students are not "mean-spirited- " in their iti ignorance, Coleman said. Rather, Utah's biggest problem is most of the students have been socialized to ignore racial problems or to simply think it is bad, said Chris McMahan, one of the teaching assistants for the class. "They don't question their tmi K values," he said. "A lot of students never think about it." By exposing them to the different ideas and perspectives surrounding rail ! ititf mm r.wrsjufu 11 ..'1i' rfJKihil tltfklsfe t 4 i fSlif. sliSSS&f $4rfCT'n'"!1'ts!'? &il!w&?... the movement, the class teaches students to think outside of their religion or their experiences, he said. With the interdisciplinary course, students a better intellectually and gain understanding emotionally of racism, Ball said. Ball added that Thomas Jefferson's statement that the only way to combat a problem is to be eternally vigilant applies to racism. "The only way to be eternally vigilant is to understand," he said. , To foster a broader understanding, the class includes an hour of lecturing followed by an hour of group discussion in small groups. ' "It's gone beyond learning," Ball said. "It's become emotional." U. students are poorly educated about the evils of racism and one reason why is that they live in a society, said U. professor Ron non-pluralist- Coleman. ic |
