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Show Moadajt January 9, 1995 The Daily Utah Chmwirlc - 3 District deeinris censorship acceptable Events BY CHRIS VANCAMPEN Chronicle Staff Writei The question of what is appropriate material for children to study-ischool has perplexed Americans for years. Certain novels, plays and musicals have created controversy around the country, including Utah. One local school district has devised two separate policies to deal with controversial material and situations. Granite School District has set up committees to examine books used in classrooms and a separate policy for approving plays and musicals for high school performances. Linda Mariotti is the chairman of n the Instruction Complimentary Committee, otherwise known as the Novel Selection Materials Committee, which is responsible for screening, reading, discussing and approving each novel, play or anthology that a teacher wants to use in the classroom. "Ours is probably one of the longest lasting policies," said Mariotti "We deal with the issue of censorship as well as what's appropriate for the classroom." Under this system, a teacher prepares an English Teacher's Referral for Form Complimentary Literature. Using this form, the teacher requests a tide, tells the grade in which the book will be used and the rationale behind its use. The teacher is also asked to identify problem areas, whether in writing style, readability or content, and how the teacher proposes to deal with the problems'. Several copies of the book are then ordered and assigned to two members of the committee, which meets monthly and consists of one teacher and a PTA representative from each of the district's 10 high schools. The members then take the books to their respective schools where a comprised of administrators, teachers, students and parents, read and evaluate mini-committe- Today The Lesbian and Gay Student Union will hold a meeting the Language and Communications Building Room 1945. The topics will be AIDS and the twentysomen-thin- g generation and gay films the Sundance Film Festival at The work of Adolf Loos will show at the Bailey Exhibition Hall through Jan. 27. e, Folk The Internationa Dance Club will hold their weekly meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. 0 Instructions are held from followed by dancing. p.m. Admission is free. them. The PTA representative takes the book to other community members. "We feel like this system resembles a 'jury of your peers,' and gives everyone a chance to give their opinion," said Mariotti. This process results in up to a dozen or more evaluations, which are then presented to the main committee for consideration. "We then discuss these evaluations. We talk about content, reading ease, what grade we will approve the book for, and so on," Mariotti said. The novel, if approved, is given a readability code and literary merit see "Granite" on page 7 7:30-8:3- The Utah Museum of Natural History will hold "Wild Expressions,' an exhibition featuring the works of Utah wildlife artists. Admission is $3 for adults, $1.50 for children and senior citizens, and free to U. students, faculty and staff, children under three, and museum members. The program runs through Feb. 26. Salt of the Earth, a folk group, will perform at noon in the Union Deli. Do your New Year's resolutions include getting fit, losing wei ght, or improving athletic performance? 0 x "Flesh and Stone," a collection of works on paper by Alison Marie Perreault will be on exhibit at the Union Gallery. The gallery is open from 11 a.m.- - 4 p.m. The exhibit will be shown through Jan. 20. ' Rod Decker will speak on his new book "An Environment for Murder" at 11 a.m. at the Hinckley Institute of Politics (Orson Spencer Hall Room 255). Peter Jackson from Harvard Medical School will speak at a Hunstman Cancer Institute and CVMB Lecture on "Cyclin control of DNA replication in xenopus extracts." The lecture will be at 4 p.m. in the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium Then check out the healthy food at. . . Sutko from the University of Nevada at Reno School of Medicine will speak in a 'pharmacologytoxicology seminar on "Two ryanodine e receptor intracellular systems" at 4 p.m. in Skaggs Hall Room 316. John r x j calcium-releas- y1 Jan. 10 , QQIQCtMfllB The U. Neuropsychiatric Institute will hold a lecture with Dr. Sidney Zisook, professor of psychiatry from the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, on "Depression and grief in the Elderly." The seminar will be at 12:30 p.m.. For more information call Wendy Zundel at 583-250- 0. : j i mi . r i - i r arpQEK fflDpooifi) 0 Kt JaiL 11 - ikiuu mtlLlivm&niik (tmdk& The department of metallurgical engineering will hold a graduate seminar with J. D. Seader, a U. professor from the i i j cnemicai engineering aepanmcnt, on "Process simulation with ASPEN PLUS." The sem. : inar will begin at 3:20 p.m. in the Browning Building Room 617.: Refreshments will be served at 3:05 p.m. |
