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Show spend too muih time fighting trivia! issues and not putting their hearts to Students education tnreatens your generation in a world that cant wait to have its problems solved," King told the students. "We must ask what is a real education and ho,w do vou make it happen? "I do not believe our culture has any chance of survival unless we make our institutions adapt to the changing world around us. Now the nations universities are in an awkward transition stage trying to find that way. the things that really count, according to a University of Utah administrator. Speaking as a par of the U. of U. Challenge .Vcek acliu-ties- , Dr. Tom King, provost and piacticing suigeon, said it is time to deal with the fundamental and basic issues concerning 'students, "The dilettante appioach to SNOWMOBILE RALLY The Western Snowmobile Association and the Shrin-er- s will sponsor an annual rally of snowmobile races and other events for 10 days beginning thelastweekofnext January at Deer Valley near Park City. Lee Jorgensen, director of the Utah Travd Council, said Harold Young, Billings, Mont., president of the Snowmobile Association, was to announce the project this afternoon in the Horizon Room at the Salt Lake International Airport. A purse f more than $30,000 will be given to winners of tire various events, making this the largest such rally known, said Jorgensen. It will be known as the First Annual East-WeShriners Snowmobile Charity Races. The event is expected to attract 5,000 to 8,000 persons annually. Proceeds will go to the Shriners Hospital fund for rehabilitating children injured by burns. 7 Inmafes Lose In Escape Try making his early morning noticed rounds, something was wrong and sounded the alarm. The prison was quickly sealed off and the convicts and their hostages isolated in one section. NEV. Seven inmates at the State Maximum Se- curity Prison, armed with pis- tols, a homemade shotgun and firebombs, captured three guards early today in an to u n s uccessful attempt The warden then talked by prison telephone with ring leader Charles Havter, 38, of Las Vogas who wanted the convicts to be allowed to go free in exchange for the safety of the guard. Hocker said he refused and would not negotiate under these circumstances. There were five phone calls between escape. After two hours, Warden Carl Hocker and his staff into an isolated "stormed section of the prison, freeing . the hostages and capturing the convicts. One inmate fired the shotgun, made out of electrical conduit, at the guards. But no one was injured. A prison spokesman said ; the inmates escaped from their cells shortly after midnight by sawing through the locks. Once outside they took the three guards hostages. A veteran prison guard, the two. and matchheads, Given BYU A 1,386-acr- e tract of land valued at $5 million has been given to Brigham Young Uni- versity by Mr. and Mrs. Louis Meitus, Beverly Hills, Calif., BYU President Ernest L. Wilkinson announced today. In addition to the land, located at Malibu, the couple has offered to donate $10,000 toward construction of a chapel for the Pacific Palisades Ward, The Church of Jesus Saints. Christ of Latter-daPresident Wilkinson said the land tract extends from the island side of Pacific Coast Highway at a point about two miles west of Topanga Canyon to the crest of the Santa Monica Mountains. The gift, he said, is "one of the most generous in the universitys history. On behalf of the board of trustees, faculty, y rew generation, a world where Its es in value aie relath islic. He cant appioach class with the attitude be like me, but instead with the attitude 'we've got to find a better n way, King commented. King noted that change has become the older of the day. When children aie born the parents have no possible way to predict where the child wiil live or what he will do as an Parents can't occupation. d experience speaks. Conformity was the highest value and rigidity in administration was necessary. "The teacher, growing out A former SDS national committee member called Thursday for democratization of the influence institutions that American life. Johnson, a 1966 graudate of Harvard, addressed a University of Utah audience as part of campus Challenge Week activities. America needs a cultural revolution. Our society is not a democracy. There is a power structure, and it is essentially evil, Johnson said. "In discussing educational objectives and changes, we must make n analysis within the context of a class structure in American society. Our educational system has a clear class structure, John teach students to be manageable. He cited one thesis stating that education makes people more productive by making them more narrow, by limiting their fields of interests and choking their curiosit- even guess what life styles will be possible for their child as he grows up. The provost said that the new learners want to practice and explore their own someone skills, not watch else display Ins ow n. "In a world so tom with the agony of ambivalence, the only thing we can pass on that we are sure of is teaching students the skill to deal with unanswered problems," King concluded. their military secrecy, security clearances and no public debate. The U.S. military establishment is the greatest threat to the environof the ment, with yscientific manpower and tal"There is a continuum in ent being used that could oththe office, factory or store erwise be used in doing ecolowhere we find our place of gical research. Johnson said, employment, Johnson believes that the "both make the individual challenge today is to take the accept routine, meaningless "empty form of democracy chores for hours and hours that is prevalent today in each day; both dont allow America and fill it with one to participate in the decontent. cisions that concern him ; both He said that we can educate set rules about what you can toward an alternative Ameridiscuss and both are hierarca. "In education, nonauthcri-taria- n chical and theories of relationJohnson also sees the milishould be consciously ships tary industrial complex as struggled for. We need to reone of the conditions of socistudy our own history through ety that makes democracy imthe eyes of our victims. undepossible. "Armies are mocratic in their structure son commented. Johnson, who is currently enrolled in a technical school learning to be an auto mechasaid that most schools nic, hammers. The seven were then placed in solitary confinement. Hayter, the ringleader has had five prior felony convictions and is serving a year term on two counts of burglary. He started his sentence in February 1967 and under Nevada law is not eligible for parole. Hocker said there were r.o shots fired by prison officials during the incident. Since he took over as warden in February 1967, there have been no successful escapes from the maximum security section that houses some 400 inmates. with two-third- s School Failures, DESERET NEWS. s D3 'Fun Night' To Aid Bolivia Fund Bennett Plan: To Vote Aye - Deseret Friday, April 3, 7970 - A special building an elementary school in Bolivia, will be held Friday at 6 p.m. at the schools playground area. Family Night,the latest in a series of proj- ects by Windsor Elemental y school lo raise funds for Bureau Washington WASHINGTON Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, said today lip would ote in favor of the nomination of G. Carswell to the Supreme Court if lie were in Washington next week. Har-rol- d ARMY FIELD JACKET Bennett said be probably would miss the vote Decause-hhas been designated as a Congressional adviser to the U.S. delegation to the Board of Governors, Asian Development Bank. The group meets next In Seoul, South Korea. He said that Sen. Clay borne who planned to Pell. ote against Carswells nomination. would also be on the trip. Bennett and Pell nad an agreement to "pair" since their votes would cancel each other. If either he or Pelf was for some reason unable to make the trip, the other would certainly stay in Washington for tile Carswell vote. The group plans to leave Saturday and would remain out of the country for all of next week. JUST RECEIVES work VFW To Meet RICHFIELD -- State a ns of Foreign Veter-Wa- rs r;om-Gree- inander of Darren rnonf.. If Mi Cedar Ciy will iiv. local veterans and their wives Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Employment Security Office. All veterans are invited. 35 XiSS: Author Charges Schools become factories of failure, one of the nations most caustic critics of educa- Thursday. John Holt, author of "How Children Fail, and other volumes critical of current edusaid schools more cation, often hinder than hinder than young people BUY A experience, he said. We say to them, your hopes, fears and desires are of no value whatsoever. What counts Is what we want you to know and be. We have decided what is good for you.' tion told Universoity of Utah Week audiences Challenge help The warden, his staff and sheriffs deputies then decided to rush the inmates. They found the three prison guards being held in a toilet area by one armed convict. The prisoner was quickly taken into custody. Then the authorities moved to another tier in the prison and took the rest into custody. Officers found three .32 automatics, one homemade shotgun, fire bombs made out of $5 Million Land Tract of the Steve ' CARSON CITY, King observed that the generation living befoi e World War I grew up in a world of absolute truth. In this woild there was a dogmatic r.uthon-tariaapproach to education. He smd that this War I woild was one wheie "knowledge equals truth and Former SDS Official Calls For A Cultural Revolution SHR1NERS SPONSOR (UPD Nevada Sty dents Told U. Ignore Trivia, ON CARSWELL VOLKSWAGEN develop SERVICE and jailcomposite baby-sitte- r er to keep children off the streets, and to labei and judge people, deciding who INSURE Holt advocates abolition of compulsory attendance, grades, required curriculum and certification of teachers. "In the conventional school, our ways of dealing with young kids as they grow up are an invalidation of their your Volkswagen your Volkswagen FINANCE goes where and gets what. The latter two functions are contrary to the first, he said. You cannot contribute to human development if you are in the business of jailing people or stamping them with labels. Schools in this way become factories of failure, he said. yourself. SERVICE Deliveries Here & Abroad LEASE your Volkswagen to Holt, the According school traditionally has three f u n cs 1 1 o n s to educate for human growth, to act as a any strong sense of who they are. Let the learner direct his own learning, he said. "We must learn that to be educated is to be educating SALES AUTHORIZED your Volkswagen ALL AT ONI LOCATION 3711 South State Ph. 262-640- 1 VOLKSWAGEN AUTMORtlll INTERMOUNTAIN IAIU Drug Abuse Meet At Granger High GRANGER An attempt to get closer to youth and get better acquainted with drug abuse problems will be part of a program tonight at 7:30 in the Granger High School, 3600 S. 3600 West. The program, open to the is sponsored by the Granger Lions ClJb. Second District Juvenile Court Judge Regnal Garff will be featured speaker. public, and students, I express appreciation to Mr. and ,Mrs. Meitus for this great st contribution. He said the couple decided to, make the gift after visiting ',.1 he-campus universitys .uliqre, Meitus said, "The was uplifting, electrifying. .Inspiring, -..."Brigham Young University Mormon institution and I faith," ,ni, of the Jewish univer-s Meitus said, "but the world-wid- e 1 y has a program of exceptional academic merit, and my interests are with every faith and espein young helping cially people. Meitus, president of King Midas Match Co., began his business career as a lumber dealer in Chicago. As his business interests prospered, he moved his base of operations to the West Coast. Through the years, he and his wife have been extensively in Involved philanthropy. Their philanthropy woik started in Chicago in 1938 when Meitus went to buy a Shetland pony for his two children and eqded up buying a wfiole circus. 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