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Show yyv 4A Emery County Progress Wednesday, November 2, 1983 063 Beach Morning pay"" jxirnal perspective Lets welcome Reds to 84 Olympics 9 an American boycott of the in Moscow as one form of protest Games Summer Olympic of over the Soviet invasion Afghanistan. The boycott, subsequently joined by many Free World nations, did not get the Soviet army out of Afghanistan but it did anger and embarrass the Soviet government. The question today is whether Soviet athletes should be barred from the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles to protest the destruction In 1980, we supported of Korean Airlines flight 007. We think not, and for several reasons. American athletes had no obligation to show up in Moscow four years ago. The U.S. Olympic Committee, the private organization that sponsors all American participation in the Games, was similarly not obligated to lend Itself to what everyone knew would be a Soviet effort to use the Games as a showcase for propaganda. So Americans stayed home and so did many hundreds of other athletes from more than a dozen nations. But next year, America is the host. More specifically, the U.S. Olympic Committee is the host. And the committee is obligated, legally and morally, to welcome the representatives of every nation that participates in the Olympic movement. Like it or not, that includes the Russians, the East Germans, the Cubans, and athletes from lots of other countries not on good terms these days with Washington. Let them come. And let them leave their politics at home. The U.S. Olympic Committee and the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee are trying mightily to prevent anyone from using the 1984 Games as a forum for political propaganda. That being the case, there is room to believe that the true spirit of the Olympic movement might actually prevail in Los Angeles. .For that to happen, Congress and the Reagan administration will have to resist appeals from the Californians now circulating petitions asking that Russian athletes be denied entry to the United States. Those passing the petitions and- those signing them are understandably angry over a monstrous crime. So are we. But the best answers to the Soviet Union's armed belligerence are higher defense budgets and an end to financial credits and preferential trade deals with the East bloc. Compared to these, the matter of who does or does not show up next summer in Los Angeles is a trifle. But Russian athletes have a right to come and Americans who value what is left of the Olympic spirit should recognize - that right. If I When the cats away. by Larry . . W. Davis Editor's note: Mr. Davis is vacationing in Palm Springs this week, playing golf with Jerry Ford and canasta with Betty. Filling in for the editor as the Progress' special guest columnist is Mr. Davis' alter ego, Holden Caulfield. Things are getting pretty scary around here, mean, it's like we're on the edge with no one there to catch us. I may just be a teenager, but ain't no moron. That's my point. Here's all this horribly wonderful news from Grenada and Beirut, and of course there's the usual depressing crap from Russia and Washington, and then here's our lovely little paper, right here in this county, and where's the news? You give us "This of the Week" and "That of the Week" and 27 pages of smelly sports, but my gawd, why not cover fencing; some people really think that's more important than junior high volleyball. I just can't understand. Don't you ever worry about the little children of the world? It's your duty to save them, to stop them from going over the edge. Why not run a "Guerrilla of the Week" and box scores from the world's battlefields? Why not explain alcoholism among teachers as well as among students? If you're going to speak of hunting, speak of saving the whales too. Prostitution would be a good place to start and also beating people up. I'm a teenager, but I consider myself an adult, at least most of the time. I would never let this happen, and now that you're away, I can get it off my chest. I used to tell it to the man in the white coat at the hospital, but he only nodded and took notes. So bring it to you and ask, "Aren't you ashamed?" It's difficult enough coping with the mayhem without being able to read about it in the paper. Is a photograph of kids at Halloween more deserving of front page coverage than Marines dying in the Middle East? Where's the justice? Why send soldiers there if we can't see pictures of their bodies in our paper? Do you seriously believe that people want to read about the library and the elementary school and the road department and councils, commissions and boards? Most of that just makes people feel good or unmoved at best. That ain't right. Where's your sensitivity? Well, keep It up. People might feel OK, but it won't solve any worldly problems. You'll make them feel like kids again. Adults need to be In charge and on top of these messy situations. Like1 said, you have to keep us from going over the edge. Won't you help? Catch us before we I I The Elementary Story, a response prepared by the Utah Association of Elementary School Principals (UAESP) to the National Commission on Excellence in Educations report A Nation at Risk recommends reform measures be taken in areas of funding, curriculum, and inservice programs. Dr. Colleen Colton, president- elect of UAESP and chair of the task force committee which developed the report, said that although many missions, committees, groups, task forces, etc. are studying aspects of the A Nation at Risk report, the elementary principals of Utah, as advocates for some 212,000 children, felt they were disturbed by the report and by President Reagans comments of mediocrity in our schools. Utahs achievement scores, statewide, are consistently well above national norms and measures of student attitudes reflect steady and improvement, said Dr. Colton. Furthermore, these levels have been attained under extremely austere conditions. Expenditures per pupil in our state are the lowest in the country. Classloads are the highest, Dr. Colton remarked. The national report primarily addressed secondary and We, as higher education. of principals elementary schools, where basic education is taught and where youngsters form their educational foundations, need to voice our concerns to assure that response to the Commission on Excellence report will focus on elementary schools as well as secondary and higher education areas, Dr. Colton added. m UAESP might be resolved. The UAESP Task Force has described those segments in the national report which pertain to how they elementary education, the current status of elementary education in Utah, and then suggested the following: FUNDING Adequate funding needs to be provided on a per pupil basis to raise Utah to at least the national average of surrounding states. Increased salaries and merit pay plans should be linked with role differentiation and levels of to develope responsibility career ladders. Develop and test models wherein teachers and principals can work more of the year at their profession in education and do it at a respectable wage. "Reduce the class load so that no class is larger than 25 students. (This would still leave ever, Holden sonnel, i.e. psychologists, . nselors, media specialists, etc. to provide support services for teachers and students. CURRICULUM "Include elementary principal representatives on all policy and curriculum committees pertaining to elementary education at the naticnal, state, and local level. This is not, and has not been the case. "Appoint a study committee to investigate the feasibility of imforeign language in Utah plementation elementary schools. Aspects of funding needs, materials, personnel training, time, etc. should be addressed. "Place and promote students with consideration of factors other than just age and achievement. "Strive for the attainment of appropriate levels of computer literacy for all students before leaving the elementary schools. "Promote the concept of curriculum clarification in which the most vital elements of the curriculum are clearly identified and teachers are assisted to focus their instruction more precisely. "Develop strategies to reduce the amount of intrusions on teaching and learning time in the classroom. and develop programs for principals to help them become better instructional leaders. "Support "Continue strong for programs teachers. Elementary educators need to become familiar wth more effective and diverse strategies for dealing with curriculum, evaluation, and effective use of time-on-tas- k. recognizes that deficiencies exist in our said elementary schools, Garvin E. Carlile, association and our report president, The Elementary Story, shows what these problems are and makes recommendation as to -- W ?!! WHAT,, , AN 0 Give UP Slicw ?!!' 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Utah 845)3 569, USPS 174 960 Editorial & Classified 381-243- 1 381-243- 1 Display Advertising Dan Stockburger General Manager Larry Davis, Editor Advertising Mary Bentley In I Emery and Carbon Counties 2 Year-$- 10 Years-i- U 50 In Utah outside area-- $lt Out ol 5tate-J- (Includes APO, PPO) 13 Postal Regulations require that all subscrip lions by paid in advance Entered as socond class matter at the post office in Castle Dale Utah -- r Menb anrl 1 As be a definite improvement. ) "Provide additional funding for specialized resource per- Utah well above national average in class size, but would TH EttA)tU6 sou, 1983 Copier New Service I falll like more. back schools together Putting self-estee- Has it come to this? s movies Glenn against Reagan, Ill vote for whoever its . jyyyj:, m l A L.-- J 'if Utah f'te'.s njr'Ai New pwpw v Awk l istmii ntinn The Emery County Progress bulk board section will carry notices o( ai activities, events and other bappenln Information must be received either mall or hand delivered the Friday pr to publication. 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