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Show Page A2 THE DAILY HERALD, (wwwJiaitTheHcrekLcom), Prove, Utah, Tbunday, August 17, 2000 '? 0 ,:,v N a i ill N l n . KEVIN LEEThe Daily Herald Next generation: Education Week students, from left, Sarah Eldredge, 16; Rashelle Lines, 17; McKenna Lethbridge, 16; and Annie Eldredge, 15, make their way to a seminar on BYU's campus Wednesday. Youth find snot By AMY K. STEWART The Daily Herald A deluge of PROVO bell bottoms and tie dye hit BYLTs Education Week. : it isn't the Class of No, It's their kids. '. : Youth-oriente- d classes at Education Week are drawing more and more teens each year. The youth, ages 14 and up, love hanging out on campus, making new friends and getting a hefty dose of positive values in the form of enthusiastic, speakers. And their parents are more than willing to fork over the $41 fee to get them out of the house for a week. Education Week organizers wisely schedule the youth classes mostly in the Smith Reldhouse. Banished to the lower end of west campus, the teens form a little niche on the grass at the bottom of the long concrete staircase. There they can blast their music, trade stickers, beads and candy, and skateboard down the sloping sidewalk. They put fake names on their passes such as "Adam Sandler" and "Austin Powers." What Porter, 17, of Alpine. "I've been here for the last four years. I've met tons," he claims. Porter and his two sidekicks also like to hand out dried spaghetti as a sort of lesson. "They don't want some peer-pressur- '69 reunion. to drew them Education Week? "Girls," says at Education Week "She's waiting for me on my mission," Elton says. "Or that's what she says." Out on the lawn, a group of girls trade photos and addresses and debate over which classes are the best. "John Bytheway was e until their friends get . pretty rad," says Annie A HIT AND RUN Springville woman was hit by a truck while crossing 400 South in Springville on Wednesday around 9 p.m. ' "She flew at least 7 or 8 feet in the air across the intersection," said Granville Cross, an Orem man whose vehicle was directly behind the truck that hit the woman. Springville police said the woman, whose name and age were unavailable Wednesday, was thrown 37 feet across the street after being hit while in the mid-- . die of the crosswalk. Officer Foster from the Springville Police said the woman was conscious when the ambulance transported her to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center shortly after the accident Foster said he didn't know the extent of the woman's injuries. " Battalion Chief Chuck The accident Tandy. happened at 11:15 a.m. Monday. The injuries are severe enough that firefighters feared Curtis could lose the leg, Tandy said. However, Curtis' doctors have made no such determinations as of Wednesday, said Anton Garrity, UVRMC spokesperson. ; BEAR LAKE SEARCH The search continued in Bear Lake on Wednesday for Brandon Monte Larsen, Salem man a who is missing and preld sumed drowned in the Northern Utah lake. 'V At about 1 p.m. Sunday, Larsen was swimming from a boat on the east side of Bear Lake near Second Point in approximately 60 feet of water when he disappeared below the surface INDUSTRIAL INJURY UPDATE John Steven Curtis, 56, of Springville, was still in serious condition in the Intensive Care Unit at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center on Wednesday following an industrial accident Monday. Utah man will stay in prison, court rules Lemings, 15, of Provo. "Nuh-uh- . Brad Wilcox was way better," says Bobbie Robinson, 16, of A court' LOGAN (AP) ruling that released a convicted rapist because he was poorly represented by Dougway. now a 1st his attorney Dan and Jacob Reed, 15 and 17, of Ely, Nev., croon District Court judge in has been overwith their guitar. They take Logan turned a by federal court. donations for decision The by the 10th efforts. their in Court Denver last Circuit we're para"Basically, week means Anastacio sites," Jake says. ed a couple of the seminars, But they love the classes Fernandez, 48, of Cache including John L. Stewart's wouldn't and miss County, will remain in "I Choose Not to Use!" Education Week for the prison despite a January Most of the teens sit in world. ruling by U.S. District Court the back and slump in their "This is the best week of Judge Bruce Jenkins. chairs with their feet up. ordered Jenkins life," Dan says. Stewart asks what they myTheir mom, Madeline Fernandez released after think a gateway drug is. Reed, says her sons need this serving 14 years in the Utah "Skateboarding!" laughs annual dose of spirituality; State Prison for raping a 14-- . Dirk Digglar, 18, of "It helps them battle the year-olgirl nearly 100 Highland. outside world when they go times.'" He1 said Judge Clint At least they're paying back home," she says. Judkins, who in 1986 was a attention. Week runs criminal defense attorney, Education But others take the classthrough Friday. For informabungled Fernandez' defense. es a little more seriously. 7 tion or to register, call The Denver court ruled Jesse Elton, 18, of or contact the Web site: that defense irrelevant Castaic, Calif., says he took http:ce.byu.eduededweek "Any lack of evidence in a whole page of notes on K. Stewart the state court's record is be can from and stuff" Amy "marriage 2 or one of the presentations to reached at entirely (Fernandez') fault," show his girlfriend. Judge Wayne Alley wrote in Parker says. "Then everyone is doing it and everyone wants some." And when that gets old, they'll dress up the statues on campus with hats, shirts, ties and wigs. Then they'll stand by and receive all the attention and admiration for their "artistic talent." Oh, and they have attendsome," Curtis sustained severe injuries to his lower right leg in an accident at a concrete block company. Curtis was working on a motor on an elevated platform at Amcor, 1372 S. State St, when a coupling on the motor fracturea and hit his ' leg, said Provo Fire . his decision. Fernandez was convicted of two counts of rape in May, 1986. He is serving a sentence and is eligible for parole in 2001. Fernandez claimed his victim made up the story. A Logan doctor who examined the girl questioned her story, yet Judkins failed to introduce the doctor's report as evidence. He also failed to interview witnesses before e the trial key witnesses during proceedings or present favorable evidence, according to court documents. Judkins declined to com- y cross-examin- ment on the case citing rules of judicial ' conduct that bar him from making public comment as a sitting d 378-208- judge. Before Judkins' appoint; Survey: LSU reigns supreme BYU gets nod as No. By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press Writer BATON ROUGE, La. It's a list LSU officials were desperately trying to avoid, but instead, they came out on top. Break out the drinks and throw out the school books: LSU has been crowned the No. 1 party col- lege in America. The designation by The Princeton Review was disheartening news to university officials still shaken by the August 1997 death of an LSU student who celebrated his acceptance into a fra. 1 American university." The No. 1 ranking comes despite seminars on alcohol abuse and new policies for fraternities and" sororities regarding alcohol use. LSU edged out the University of Alabama for the top spot. The University of Texas grabbed third, and last year's No. 1, Florida State University, fell to fourth. Tulane University ternity with a night of in New Orleans, a school crowned No. 1 in 1992, excessive drinking. The "I think the whole survey, ranked eighth. from my point of view, University of Florida, would be very laughable if ranked second in 1999, it didn't misinform people came in 18th. " about the university's envi Young Brigham Spanish Fork Canyon traffic jwill be slowed by construction The Daily Herald : UTAH COUNTY Utah of .Department Transportation crews will be doing a chip and seal 'project on State Road 6 in Spanish Fork Canyon at the mouth of the canyon and five miles east on that road through Saturday. : The crews will reduce : traffic to one lane in sections of the project. . one-;mi- le as party school 'Stone Cold Sober School' by Review ronment," Mark Emmert, chancellor of the school, said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press. "LSU is no more of a party school than any other University was dubbed the top "Stone Cold Sober School" in the book. Wheaton College in Illinois came in second. schools Louisiana appeared on several lists in the book. LSU was selected fourth in beer drinking and sixth in hard liquor usage. Tulane ranked third in hard liquor usage; Loyola University in New Orleans ranked 20th. Tulane was 19th in beer alcohol-- related drinking. "A lot of students' first impression (of the list) will be bragging rights for the next year," said Sterling Foster, former student body president at LSU and a senior at the university. "But motorists to expect 20-- , minute delays and that work schedules are subject to change due to inclement .weather, equipment problems or emergency THE DAIIJV HERALD 1. Brigham Young University 2. Wheaton College 3. California Institute of Technology 4. U.S. Naval Academy 5. U.S. Coast Guard Academy 6. Samford University 7. Cooper Union 8. Wellesley College ' 9. Mount Holyoke College 10. Calvin College 11. Haverford College 12. Golden Gate University 13. U.S. Air Force Academy 14. College of the Ozarks 15. Grove City College 16. Wells College 17. Simmons College 18. Illinois Institute of Technology 19. Colorado School of Mines n 20. Institute of , Rose-Hulma- Technology J. Louisiana State University University of Alabama University of Texas Florida State University University of Colorado University of Tennessee University of California - Santa Cruz 8. Tulane University 9. University of Wisconsin 10. Ohio University - Athens 11. University of New Hampshire ; , 12. University of Michigan 13. University of Vermont r. 14. Ohio State University 15. New York University 16. Lehigh University 17. Southern Methodist University , -- . 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