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Show THK DAILY HKRALl), Provo. I tah. Thursday, March 21. ;,j.t. )8 19 Nebo district hopes to build new school By LAUREL BRADY Special to The Daily Herald I v '!'- - If Nebo School District voters approve a bond issue May 7, the school board hopes to be able to construct a new elementary school in Spanish Fork at a significant savings of both time and money. District official Brent Hawkins told the school board that utilizing a construction management system rather than accepting traditional bids could save more than $200,000 in sales taxes alone, while allowing completion of the school new school for the W-9was as rather than later a year year, originally anticipated. The board adopted a resolution allowing retention of the same architect and plans used for the new Mt. Loafer Elementary School in Salem. The board expects to realize significant sav ' - rl ft f Theodore Ziolkowski -- X Professor ddresses iustice ings using the familiar plans with only minor adjustments. The resolution also permits use of a construction manager to reduce the ultimate cost of the project. The district selected Union Poinie for construction management services. Hawkins told the school board that if the bond is approved, construction could begin as early as This will allow the district to benefit from several additional months of good weather and avoid receiving bids at peak construction time when costs are higher. "We could not have planned this better," he said. Hawkins added the current economic climate will also work in the district's favor. The construction management system coupled with the slowdown at Micron give reason to believe the cost of the school will be the mid-Ma- same or even less than the cost of Mt. Loafer Elementary, w hich has been under construction for some time. Hawkins updated the board on construction projects already under way throughout the district. He said Taylor Elementary School is about 90 percent complete. "You will be amazed in a couple of weeks when you tour the building," he said. If the bond is approved, district officials plan to designate it for construction of the new elementary school in Spanish f ork, fund additions to seven existing schools, and purchase property for future schools. The remainder will be applied to capital projects including roofing, carpeting, ceilings, parking lots, media centers and remodeling at Landmark Hich School. Provo district unveils new technology plan By BRANDY VOGEL The Daily Herald The Provo School District has unveiled a new technology plan. The five-yeplan will incorporate parents, students and teachers in effort to improve effia district-wid- e ciency. It has taken a planning team two years to complete the plan. Under the plan, the district w ill equip every school teacher his or her own computer. "These tools enable (teachers) to increase productivity in comclassroom' managerial pleting tasks, improve classroom instruction, and facilitate student use of technological tools for learning." the technology plan's executive summary reads. Not onlv do teachers have indi- ar v idual computers, but the computers are networked to one another. This is a task that was accomplished through many volunteer hours by those in the community. Each site has a local area network, connected to a district-wid- e network and to the State's UtahLink. These are also netand to the Provo worked Springville Public Libraries. Students w ill be able to develop research skills, be taught ethics in regards to technology applications and be prepared to use the technological tools they will find in the workplace. But parents are not to be left behind. Night classes are available to parents who want to learn the technology as well. By MARK EDDINGTON The Daily Herald lih'Miuh justice today is reput- to k- Mind, literature and the in tl,.ui;gh the ages rellect the .lie allegorical female ;i' i il'. ul kistice has been portrayed t- mi' ,i and unseeing. Ik.i s ihe contention of Princeton Ciiiersity modern languages i - fig-tit- i I l'lolessur Theodore Ziolkowski, vim addressed about 900 faculty and students on the topic Tuesday a! the Brigham Young University M.iiiiott Center. iolkowski explained in the I' ii im assembly that the figure of Justice, or .lustitia, was commonly I'Miijvcd in the art and literature ul antiquity as possessing an nu'innpi omising acuteness of perception, lie said the familiar image of Justitia with sword and .ales, hut sans a blindfold, appeared for the first time in ( lnisiian Europe a thousand years alter pagan antiquity. The earliest I now n example, from 1247, is tumid on the sarcophagus of Pope Clement II in Bamberg. Germany, he added. he image of the blindfolded liistitia appeared suddenly in the 0th century. Ziolkowski said. But he i portrayal as such, he added, was symbolic of justice tricked and even miscarried. To illustrate the point. Ziolkowski noted the 1507 woodcut of the German ii'iminal code depicted five blind-lolde- d judges whose procedures ucie explained by the accompanying erse: "lo pass judgments repugnant in what is right and out of sheer li.id habit, is the whole life and "i enp.iiion of these blind fools." Ziolkowski said the appearance ol blindfolded Justice around 1500 coincided with an increasing dis-ei- k liantment and suspicion of law In the people living in Northern 'mope. "It is this appalling distrust of the law that was reflected by the increasingly widespread blind-'uldm- g of Justice in art and litera-!'iiehe said. Ziolkowski time, (her plained. more positive connota-loii- s were attached to the image of ones that liiullolded Justice enoted judicial impartiality. loin the end of the 16th century unv nd. he said, a state of icono-uphicconfusion existed with espect to justice in Europe. Ziolkowski said this ambiguity a as. in pan, resolved in Germany, le said the reason was a crisis of a resulting from the gradual dissociation of law and morality. Ziolkowski said the pulling apart of law and morality in both I. in ope and the United States led ( )licr Wendell HolTnes to suggest i'ui every word of moral significance should be banished from the law altogether, and other words adopted to "convey legal ideas ancoloivd bv an thins outside the i "Plant pumpkins this year, and you could end up i with more than just a pie I Co?tesbnt. &SSB I 'AW ." Enter The Daily Herald Pumpkin Growing Contest and you could win up to $200.00! "Bigger-Than-Hug- e" al law" l o reflect this new thinking, the piofessor explained, the Prussian minister of public works, along with the ministry of justice, ordered in l07 that all paintings jiul statues of Justice on public buildings be unblindfolded. But in to the con-.ineighboring Austria nation of progressive thinkers and social critics who abhorred the Miiuision of moral conviction into the notion of a unninal law liiullolded justice continued to i.old sway. I have decided ... that even Jus-le. from time to time, sneaks a I k mi beneath her blindfold to I n n. as the rest of us do. what e may have to tell us about ! ,i profound code of our humanity the law," Ziolkowski concluded. Mail the entry form below and start planting those pumpkin seeds ! Any variety pumpkin seeds may be used, or come in to Hie Daily Herald and pick up a free packet of hybrid seeds (wrA per customer). 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