| Show High Remembering baby Nicole ( Green bum Tree festival helps Weber couple grieve December 1 2000 43 Low 26 Partly suhny UJ Weather 9D - ffr — -- Section a - " Point guardvf f leads Wolvesf J y D — -- Fremont tops Ogden 49-2- 8 ID ' - INSIDE: Davis reaction6A By BETH DOVE Standard-Examine- staff r - The call went out Thursday for Utah’s 22000 public school teachers to y walkout join a SALT LAKE CITY one-da- MATT r speaks to members of the to walkout a about teacher Murray plans stage STRIKE PLANS: media in HOUSTONStandard-Examine- UEA President Phyllis Sorenson t mSmr Weber Ogden Davis schools will be closed for one day Tuesday Dec 5 “Today we are asking members of the Utah Education Association to stand tall” said President Phyllis Sorensen “To once again stand up for their students and for the future of public edu X) ''iv J( r a'''tjy V V’ itnmmmm SERVING THE TOP OF UTAH SINCE 1888 wwwstandardnet v A Clooney Christmas Singer takes stage with Utah Symphony Inside mur— rmr imww Sw mt nn muiniiw wiw Winlfn mwanff m w not develop any clear plan into the future” Sorensen said cation” The action by the UEA is in response to a legislative task force report deemed lacking a The UEA board of directors and members met for more than “visionary plan” for public education funding Utah ranks last in the nation on dollars spent per pupil The Funding of Public Education Task Force held nine meetreveings to search for long-ter- 10 before hours Wednesday reaching the decision to call for a job action The walkout will be next Tuesday Dec 5 The associ- ation had threatened a similar walkout in March Giving parents plenty of m nue options and Thursday presented its final report At a no- tice to keep children home Tuesday was a priority Sorensen said She asked that parents join with teachers to pressure state lawmakers into keeping the same focus on education many declared in their election platforms news conference later in the day the UEA gave lawmakers their grade: incomplete Although the task force took some steps forward “they did Ballots go from hfghway to highest court Both sides brace for historic arguments before Supreme Court today INSIDE: More mil in in 'Mi 50 cents “This is not just about teachers this is about students” Sorensen said The question is still unclear how many of the state’s 41 districts will participate in the walkout although the association ex- pects widespread support Union leaders in the Davis Ogden and Weber districts have said their local members will back the walkout Preliminary reports have suggested the Alpine Granite and Duchesne districts might not participate Teachers will not be paid for the day and are expected to' ” See WALKOUT6A ACLU sues state over Standard-Examine- -- v including Ogden Councilman Jesse Garcia Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson and a number of organizations including the disputed ballots to hasten the vice president's legal challenge A committee of the GOP-ru- n state Legislature voted along party lines to recommend a special session to award the state’s 25 electors to George W Bush regardless of whether Gore prevails in court The session could start as early as Monday Joseph I Lieberman the last-minu- te Gore’s attorneys questioned whether lawmakers have the IRE SPOTUGHT: Members of the media surround the garage entrance of the Leon County Courthouse Thursday after a rental truck containing more than 460000 ballots from Palm Beach County arrived in Tallahassee Fla IN power to unilaterally seat the state’s electors Bush’s attorneys argued they do Bush continued to move forward with plans for his prospective administration meeting with retired Army Gen Colin Powell at Bush’s Crawford Texas ranch while Gore stayed largely out of sight The high court's session is without precedent and anticipation was running high A line for the 50 seats reserved for e the general public te first-com- first-serve- d - started forming outside the Supreme Court fore dawn Thursday be- Legal papers the two sides filed Thursday foreshadowed the The Associated Press WILLI AMSTOWN Mass -Edgar Allan Poc master of the mysterious and the macabre may have uttered his last words from beyond the grave A coded message published by Poe in 1 84 1 in a magazine where he worked as editor has been deciphered with the help of modem computing and the intuition of a young puzzle solver 1 5 1 years after Poe's death As it turns out the translated passage wasn’t Poe's message for readers yet unborn or a key to comprehending his enigmatic stories In fact the passage is so inept and sentimental he probably didn't write it all But the mystery of whether he selected and encoded the passage continue past the state's usual arguments Gore's attorney accused Bush of trying to “turn back the clock” by disqualifying votes in Florida that put Gore closer to winning Florida hand-count- ed and with it the presidency Bush’s attorneys argued that the Florida Supreme Court erred by allowing the hand counts to deadline for certifying its results seven days after the election creating “turmoil” and “post-electio- n chaos” In Tallahassee the state Legislature waded into the thick of the mess by moving toward a special session aimed at the legal fight short-circuiti- State’s students among nation’s best prepared for higher education re- mains e Just 29 percent of e college students in first-tim- full-tim- Utah finish their bachelor’s degree within five years compared d to 66 percent in states But education officials say they are not too concerned Weber State University President Paul Thompson said the high number of students serving LDS Church missions make the five-yewindow used in the report misleading A Weber State study that used a six or seven-yea- r window indicated the rate was much higher at 45 percent and above “I’m not overly concerned top-ranke- By LUCY BOONE It was one of two encoded texts that Poe presented as the work of a "Mr WB Tyler” challenging readers to break their codes No one did - maybe no one cared to - until scholars in recent years began embracing the theory that Poe himself came up with the messages and devised the codes The theory holds that Poe obsessed with death and premature burial in “The Tell-tal- e Heart” and other Stories would have encrypted his own words in nearly impenetrable code meant to be pried open only long after his death See POE4A is vague and overbroad and therefore unconstitutional or that it is merely symbolic and government agencies are not bound by it Until the case is resolved they want Nehring to indefinitely delay the initiative from becoming law "I'm not surprised at all" said Official Lnglish initiative spokesman Joe Hunter a former congressional staffer "Even before the vote the ACLU threatened See ACLU10A Report: Utah colleges a good deal Edgar Allan Poe’s puzzle decoded after 150 years Complete translation4A Utah Hispanic Chamber of Commerce The suit filed Thursday claims the initiative which voters approved by a 1 margin Nov 7 not only is unconstitutional and bad public policy but it "interferes with a limitless number of relationships” between government officials and private citizens The plaintiffs are asking Nehring to either find the new statute 2-- Democratic hopeful denounced the move in some of the harshest language either side has used since the election impasse began warning that “it threatens to put us in a constitutional crisis” Lawyers for the two sides clashed in briefs filed with the US Supreme Court Capitol Bureau r SALT LAKE CITY - Third District Judge Ronald Nehring will hear arguments today on whether he should at least temporarily prevent the Official English initiative from becoming a Utah statute Should the initiative become law Sunday Stephen Clark of the American Civil Liberties Union Utah affiliate said "tens of thousands of Utahns will become second-clas- s citizens" because they either cannot speak English or they do not have a good understanding of English The ACLU is representing a number of Utah elected officials From Washington to Tallahassee the battle for the White House became a duel of legal papers and legislative tactics Thursday as the two sides prepared for Friday’s historic hearing before the US Supreme Court But perhaps the most enduring image was that of a yellow rental truck rolling 4S0 miles from West Palm Beach to Tallahassee containing the first batch of ballots to be ferried to the state capital as evidence in the most closely fought and closely Watched presidential election in well over a century As events unfolded across Florida and elsewhere: ' Attorneys for A1 Gore asked the Florida Supreme Court to force a rapid recount of Florida’s INSIDE: m By RALPH WAKLEY Los Angeles Times Fla n ‘English only’ coveragelOA TALLAHASSEE m Standard-Examine- r staff Utah students are better prepared and pay less for college than most elsewhere in the nation according to a new national report But they take longer to get their degrees - perhaps because many take time out for mission work The state gets top marks for preparation for and affordability of higher education according Printed on recycled paper to the Measuring Up 2000 report card released Thursday by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education ' But the report gives Utah a “D” for college completion about the graduation rates" Thompson said Commissioner of Higher Education Cecelia Foxley agrees saying that about 40 percent of male students at Utah's public universities leave school for two years to go on a mission At Brigham Young University a school Mormon church-owne- d the rate is even higher “This phenomenon has a direct and dramatic impact on statistics” Foxley said "It adds on' average a half year or so onto the time it takes male students to graduate" ! oxley said besides male missionaries female students go on missions as well and tend to marry younger than the national average whish often means they take long breaks from school until their children grow up But for those students who aren't returning to college after their first year Utah State Uniprovost Craig Pe- versity interim " m See DEAU4A 1 w i |
