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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Two Thursday, November Sorensen to speak at annual NCTE meeting Marilou Sorensen, University of Utah associate professor of educational studies, has been chosen as a major speaker for the National Council of Teachers of Dr. English convention in Atlanta, Ga.t Nov. 16-2Sorensen will make four presentations about language arts in the elementary curriculum. Some 5,000 teachers and supervisors of elementary and secondary school English, 1. college faculty in English and rhetoric, and teacher educators from all parts of the United States and Canada will attend the 80th annual meeting. Sorensen chairs the prestigious NCTE committee on literature-base- d education, which is leading a national move to use germane literature to teach language rather than depending on textbooks. Under Sorensen's four-yeleadership, the committee has been offered a contract to compile and edit a book, Literature in the Classroom. As a speaker, Sorensen will advocate a major change in teaching techniques. She proposes discarding canned Questions and answers found in teaching manuals, and developing ways to present literature that is relevant to the ar learner. "It's not possible for a manual writer in New York or Chicago to know my particular students and the experiences my students bring to class," Sorensen said. "Teachers should trust themselves and develop critical thinking and creativity based on their own ideas." Sorensen will also advocate the use of contemporary literature, because "that's what students will read," she forum from page one "Let's fight the people who are going to ask for us to shed our blood in the sand, while big oil's profits stay nice and high at our expense." One U. student said the U.S. should fight a war for oil. Abdulaziv Sudairu, Saudi the U.S. public said Arabian, should feel intimidated by Hussein's threat to burn Saudi Arabia's oil fields, as oil prices said. She promotes the move from basal readers of the Dick and Jane sequential type to the use of literature. "We're not making enough gains in language in our country," she said. "We need to change our approach." Panelists will discuss B.H. Roberts' legacy Utah Friends of the Libraries program. Speakers will include Everett Cooley, Brigham Madsen, Gary Bergera, and Sterling McMurrin. The discussion will be held at 3 p.m. in the Marriott Library auditorium. The theme of the panel discussion will surround two volumes about B.H. Roberts, Book of Mormon Studies, edited by Brigham Madsen and the soon to be published Autobiography of B.H. Roberts, edited by Gary Bergera. Roberts was born in 1857 in England and arrived in Salt Lake City in October 1866 with the last group of pioneers to make the trip solely by wagon. In 1888 he became a general authority of the LDS Church and was ordained to the First Council of Seventy. t, Roberts, who was largely published many books on LDS doctrine and history. He was know as the "defender of the faith." Since his death in 1933, he is still remembered as one of the most significant figures and intellectuals of the Mormon Church. Everett Cooley, former director of Special Collections at the Marriott Library, was instrumental in procuring the B.H. self-taugh- would rise. He added there is a misconception in America about the amount of power Hussein has. "He is living in a cardboard house that could all fall down." U. student John Wilson agreed that military forces need to be in Saudi Arabia to protect U.S. oil interests, but said Hussein must be eliminated from power. "You cannot appease a madman," he said. "War may be necessary, and it's something that we have to face." But the majority of students at the forum felt war doesn't have to be an and option voiced the with disagreement of the government's handling Persian Gulf crisis. Ann Marie Flint, U. student, said the Middle East question is not whether Iraqis should have invaded Kuwait, but why the U.S. is taking action now, instead of in the past. Flint said, "We have allowed countries to invade other countries before. Why is it this time that we feel it necessary to send 200,000 troops and then ask, 'Do we need to send more for offensive action, rather than to just be in Saudi, but to go into Kuwait?'" Roberts papers in the 1970s. Brigham Madsen, historian and professor emeritus at the U., edited two previously unknown and controversial manuscripts Book of Mormon Difficulties and A Book of Mormon Studies. Gary Bergera, publisher for Signature Press, edited the newest work on Roberts. Sterling McMurrin, U. professor emeritus, wrote a biographical sketch for Book of Mormon Studies. Fund raising run On Sunday, Nov. 18, 1990, the life of historian B.H. Roberts will be the focus of a panel at the University of set Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at the University of Utah will sponsor "The Third Annual Game Ball Run for the Children" benefitting the Ronald McDonald House. The game ball for the BYUUniversity of Utah football game will be run from Cougar Stadium in Provo to Rice Stadium in Salt Lake City. More than 50 students from the U. will run the game ball on Nov. 17 as a fund raiser for the Salt Lake City Ronald McDonald House. "The Third Annual Game Ball Run for the Children, sponsored by Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity looks to be one of it's most successful years yet," Anthony Valdex, event coordinator and Pi Kappa Alpha member said, "we have both KALL 910 and the Salt Lake Tribune as major contributors." In the event's first two years, it has raised over $20,000, in its first year breaking a Utah record for the most money raised by a student organization for charity. The university students will meet in front of Cougar Stadium in Provo at 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16 and commence to run a relay arriving at the Crimson Club's Tailgate Party, 9:30 a.m. in the U.'s south parking lot. The runners will be escorted to the tailgate party by a police caravan. She said U.S. goals, such as attaining inexpensive oil, are best served through negotiation, not invasion. "If our goal is to have a peaceful world, it hardly seems going into war is a way to generate such a peaceful world." However, Jasam Albedaiwi, head of the National Union of Kuwaiti Students (SLC branch), said U.S. involvement in the event of war will be detrimental to Kuwait. "We cannot defend our country. We don't want to see a war. We do want to see. ..Iraq removed unconditionally from Kuwait," he said. If the U.S. provides military power for Kuwait, some students said a gulf war would be comparable to the Vietnam War. Paul Mayot said, "We're talking about a Vietnam type war in the Middle East. You don't put 400,000 troops in a part of the world facing another 400,000 troops with a thousand top of the line tanks and all kinds of armored personnel carriers for a quick strike. You're talking about massive bombardment. ..you're talking about another Vietnam that took 55,000 U.S. GFs lives." J Include tlirssmd Utzas Up iMG1 WW. ywtie Enfo SATURDAY Rice Stadium CHEER FOR THE "IT "Keep BYU Humble" Wed - Nov 21 LDSSA Annual Sports 8:00 am - 5:30 pm Tuesday Until 7:30 pm Saturday 10:00 am -- 1:00 pm M-- F M M UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH CAMPUS 15, 1990 Mall Night 5445 S. Ninth East 11 p.m. - 2 a.m. tennis, swimming, basketball, etc. $3.00 |
