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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Four Monday, January 13, 1992 Opinions amines mess Editorials PGQPIB Ttf START Anti-tru- st Education will be sacrificed to fund law suit of Utah officials must be University President Bush in how taking to say one thing and do another. For the last year they have been strumming up interest in the undergraduate experience and how to enhance it with better programs and increased funding. Support for Marriott Library and a solution to bottleneck courses have captured the attention of students and administrators alike. Nevertheless, when faced with the problem of how to pay for the legal costs of the state's antitrust probe being conducted to determine the d University relationship between the Medical Children's and Center, Hospital Primary owned by Intermountain Health Care, the first place the U. administration looks to cut money is student services and undergraduate education. To date, the U.'s anti-trulegal costs total state-owne- OKWfc mens- - mm Granting educators a raise is only prescribing a sugar pill for teachers Dad made an unexpected over the Christmas he didn't want to this year: holidays go back to work. Some may scoff at this phenomenon who really wants to go back to work, or school for that My matter, after the grueling days of Christmas frolic and laziness? $683,720.36 with $541,147.66 of the total 'rff2 yLft - Rebecca Walsh Chronicle Editor In Chief budget, as already-scimp- y well as funding for computers and entry courses for entering freshman, to siphon money to pay its legal expenses. It would be inappropriate for the U. to expect the state to pay its legal costs, especially if its laws. negligent behavior broke the anti-truBut undergraduate students shouldn't be forced to pay for its alleged mistakes. U. administrators should look at waste and mismanagement within their own ranks, as well st as practices at the U. hospital, and then take money from those areas instead of assuming that crucial student concerns can be readily sacrificed to pay the school's legal costs. MLK Jr. Week and capture the extraordinary To celebrate of Martin Luther King Jr., the The Deseret News and Dan Jones also missed the point when they asked Utah's taxpayers if they would accept a dreaded tax increase to pay teachers their requested 6 percent raise. (Teachers' organizations also seem to be advocating the wrong placebo.) More than half of Utahns accept their 3 percent increase and be content holding their bulging wallets. Teachers' unions, Bangerter and the media continue to advocate a superficial solution which, in application, is only a sugar pill. Perhaps a raise would improve teachers' morale, which would subsequently improve students' performances on standardized tests. Oftentimes, however, teacher raises never trickle down to the man and woman in the so-call- ed st Marriott Library's public education, has missed polled said teachers should just st accruing in the fourth quarter of 1991. While the U. has some surplus funds established to cover such expenses, the steeply climbing costs will soon drain available resources. Thus, the U. is casting a roving eye over the university's budget to see where funds can be cut to fill the soon-to-b- e gaping hole of financial resources needed to pay for the U.'s anti-trulegal work. Specifically, the U. is looking to Utah's the point. But, my Dad's a special creature. He's a middle school science teacher who has actually enjoyed teaching pubescent adolescents the concepts of motion, basic genetics and chemical reactions. So we were left with our mouths hanging when he announced at dinner one night that he was dreading the next day of work My Dad is burned out. He's tired of disciplining 33 to 39 different students during six .separate periods each day. He's tired of being told he's boring. He's tired of parents blaming him for their students' grades. A larger salary will not revitalize my Dad. Governor Bangerter proposes allocating enough money to provide 3 percent raise. his in Bangerter, magnanimous, but misguided attempts to improve teachers with a classroom. Bangerter's modest 3 percent raise must first move through numerous levels of administrative offices. Even the term "raise" is incorrect when describing the way the increased funds will reach teachers. The raise would be calculated according to an increase in the Weighted Pupil Unit, the state's standard for education funding decisions. Individual districts may apply the money the state grants based on this Unit in different ways, so not every teacher's salary will increase by 3 percent and some may even have a greater raise. But the highest paid teacher can only combat increasing student numbers and public contempt so long. Teachers will burn out whether their wallets are padded or not. Expressing individuality not necessarily part of freedom Will Save Them?" Editor: I know that the first word to my mind upon seeing Travis' picture on the Chronicle's front page Friday was "Freedom." Travis is While centered around remembrance for King, the celebration will not linger in the past. Its events address current social problems in an attempt to stimulate thought and solutions. As citizens of a society that is challenged by pressing social problems such as health care, education and inadequate living conditions, U. students have a responsibility to educate themselves by attending the week's events. former Soviet Union launched Sputnik and the U.S. government and society recognized they were, gasp,-fallin- g behind. We are now reaching another crisis point with Japanese, German, French and most other students worldwide U.S. students on standardized tests of general surpassing the validity of standardized tests is beside the point.) Parents are scared and the most obvious scapegoat is the knowledge. (Questioning teacher. Perhaps more fingers should be pointed back at the parents. Teachers in public schools are viewed largely in either of two roles: highly paid e entertainers. babysitters or American students go to school understanding their teachers are to make learning an equivalent experience to their last viewing of the latest "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" full-tim- sequel. Education at the elementary, levels and not valued in American society. is The condescension of Bangerter and the Utah public, willing to squeeze a 3 percent raise for money-grubbin- g teachers, is patronizing at best. The real solution to Utah's, and the U.S., education problem is hiring more teachers and thus decreasing the individual teacher's student load. More crucial is a change in American attitudes toward education at the most elementary level. More money will not make teachers love their jobs any more than they can make their students love sitting in a classroom while education is viewed only as a means to rise on society's ladder. middle-scho- high-scho- ol ol Letters University of Utah is sponsoring "Implementing the Dream: Our Children, Our Future." Art exhibits in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts will run Jan. 12 to Feb. 2 and Admiral Audrey F. Manley, U.S. deputy assistant secretary for health, will give the celebration's keynote address Wednesday, Jan. 15, at noon in the Union Ballroom on "Children in Crises: Who The American public is reacting in much the same way it did when the free to clean up the Merrill Engineering Building. Travis is free to eat at McDonald's with the amazing salary the U. pays him for the said service. Travis is free to drive the car (the aforementioned salary buys him) to get his Big Mac value meal. Travis is also free to be bought and sold like the "sac'o individuality" he is. In this world, (the one where the sky is blue), there is the way things should be and the way they are. Your sad, simple devotion to the former greatly limits your ability to influence the latter. The fact is that I am not unique in my reaction to someone their screaming individuality (or anything else for that matter) in my face. Does a truly free person feel compelled to proclaim said freedom? Or are such shows put on only by those unwilling to earn that privilege? Kevin Stay Junior physics Letter Policy The Daily Utah Chronicle Business hours: Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 581-704- 1 The Chronicle welcomes reader response. 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