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Show HOOPS FACEOFF | A NEW HUMILITY WIRED WEST U. and Y. playtoday B-1 Cowboys and computers D-6 Christian missionaries’ role evolves C-1 heS t Lake Gri une http://www.sitrib.com Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 259 Numbe GESUNDHEIT! When Co-Workers Are Making You Sick — Literally BY TERESAGUIBBINS THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS DALLAS — It's probably too soon to count your blessings, but perhaps you're oneof the luckypeople who have avoided theflu Maybeyougot a flu shot. Maybe you've been doubling up on vitamin C. Or maybe you'rejust floating on dumb luck and the virus hasn't found you yet. Cross your fin- gers and knockon w 146 South MainStreet, Salt Lake City, Utah #41 Telephone numbers listedo SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 2000 ), The Salt Lake Tribune Justices Take Gay Scout, Abortion Cases Long-anticipated top court rulings expected by July BY LAURIE But the Scouts’ lawyer contends that lawviolated the organization's rights of free speech and free association under the Constitution's First Amendment EO and RICHARD CARELLI “Scouting adheres to a moral belief that homosexual conduct is not moral,” the Scouts’ lawyer, George WASHINGTON Taking on the emotional issues of free speech and homosexuality, the Supreme Court agreed Fridayto decide whether the BoyScouts of America can exclude gays as members and troop leaders. In another majorissue, the courtreclaimed center stage in the legal and moral war over abortion Friday by agreeing to decide whether states may ban surgical proced: ure opponents call “partial-birth abortion.” interfered with. The membersdid not master of a Matawan, N.J., troop when in 1990 he wasidentified in a newspaper article as co-president of a campus les: bian and gaystudent group at Rutgers University. sending messages. The messageis that you shouldbe morallystraight.” But the attorneyfor JamesDale, the Dale was 20 andanassistant scout- leadership role was revoked, said oppo- Hepreviously had attainedthe r of Eagle, which only 2 percent of Scouts achieve, and had beenelected to sition to homosexualityis not oneof the Scouts’ main purposes. See COURT.Page A-6 former assistant scoutmaster whose Oly Board’s That's why it’s so distressing when yourco-worker — you know,the ickygermy one with the moist, disgusting cough that soundslike it's coming from the absolute dregs — insists on coming Access Vote intotheoffice. It's not like you don’t have the utmost sympathy, and the soundof anyonesuffering is a painful thing. But why can’t they suffer in the privacy of their own homes? Musttheyspewtheir germsontherestof MayBreak 9 “I felt like I had to comein to work,” to First Amendment rights are not being first place.” adding, “BoyScoutingis reallyall about NewJersey's highest court ruled last summerthat the Boy Scouts’ denial of membership to gay boys andleadersviolated a state law banning discrimination in public accommodations. Defense and Education Fund. “Their join the BoyScouts for bigotry in the Anopenlygay person would not be a properScout role model, Davidsonsaid, grantedreview Friday oust a young troopleader after learning he was gay. The court is expected to hear arguments in April andissue a de- cision by July. yer Evan Wolfson of the Lambda Legal Davidson, said after the high court On the scouting case, the justices said they will decide whether the orga- nization had a constitutional right to “As gay people we knowhowimpor- tant the First Amendmentis,” said law- julie Dunn, Webservices coordinaClear Channel Communicationsin State Code Dallas. “There was too much stuff that I hadto get done — that if it didn’t happen right then, the whole world wasgoing to comecrashing down.” SLOC’s action was designed to protect sponsorship deals Onarationallevel, she knowsthis is reallynot true. “But I guess when you'resick, you think, ‘Work can’t do without me’ — and BY LINDA FANTIN © 2000, THE SALT La\ TRIBUNE, The same Olympic trustees who came underfire for failure to properly monitor finances have unanimously relinquished really they could.” Dunn’s co-workers urged her to go home. “Wehadto force her out the door — she looked like she'd been hit by a Mack truck,” says Jessica McMillen, whois director ofpromotions. “It was obvious to everybody. She was white as a sheet, walking aroundin circles. Wesaid, ‘Get out of here." The pressure to comein to workis intense forpeopleinthe retail and service industries — people such as Liza Mears, whoused to work at Taco Bell. “When I was a managerfor Taco Bell,I once had theflu with a 103.5-degree fever, and still had to go in and work myshift because there wasnooneto coverit for me,” she says. “The bosses make you feel guilty if you stay home.Butif I hada sick employee,I'd send them home.If they had theflu, I didn't need them there.” Denial is perhaps even more powerful thanguilt, suggests Rashmi Malhotra, who worksin the communications departmentatNortel. “You say,‘No,I'm notsick’ — you don’t wantto be sick,” she says.“Youdecideit’s temporary, it'll be over and you endup going to theoffice. You drag yourself into the office and ‘share your wealth’ with everyone even though if you stay at home, youget overit quicker and if you go into the office, youprolongit.” Rob Spray, a buyerat Tower Records, pointsoutthat the virus can be spread by people without thosetelltale symptoms. their right to view sponsorcontracts for the 2002 Winter Games. With 53 trustees, the Salt Lake OrganizRyan Galbraith/TheSalt Lake Tribune The vacant seats of UTA bus 442 Friday bearwitnessto riders’ changing preferences as a passenger-laden light-rail train zips past on Main Streetin Salt Lake City. Businesses say the near-empty busesare a nuisance. TRAX Empties Downtown Buses City Council might reconsider MainStreetshuttlesif they’re not needed BYBRANDON LOOMIS i Light-rail ridership still strong D-1 2000, Tk Morethan $4 million in new buses are running up and down Salt Lake City’s Main Street in the shadow of packedlight-rail trains. Troubleis, they're all but empty. The Utah Transit Authority spent $4.3 million on 17 busesfor three new routes originating at the Meadowbrook light-rail station on 3900 South. Those routes merge into the free shuttle at 500 South, where UTA counts show they have averaged fewer than oneriderpertrip. The op- and the Delta Center, and shoppers can besure oneorthe otherwill come every five minutes. Now, some merchants say the empty buses are hurting business, blocking traffic on the onelane that remainsopento cars. “Aren't those stupid?” said Lynnette Fisk, owner of Lynnette's Birkenstock Plus at 270 S. Main. Her shoe store has enjoyed a boom since light rail started delivering people downtownDec.4, and now she wishes needs.” UTAhad nochoice but to provide the shuttles to augmentlightrail. ‘Three years ago, whenthe Salt Lake City Council agreed to allow TRAX to run down MainStreet, council members insisted that shuttles assist in case long waits at train stations hurt mobility onthestreet. But the city could be persuaded to reconsider. “If they can demonstrate [shuttle] ridership is dismal and thereisn’t a need, andlight rail is effectively serving Main Street, we can look at But that doesn’t makeit any less appealing to stand next to someonewholets rip a huge sneeze and doesn't bother to cover his or her mouth. Yuck. ‘There's also the “macho”factor. “There's a lot of people who considerit ‘ho to work, even whenthey'resick,” month,it appeared Main Street merchants were awash in convenient ys. “That whole‘I've never missed a day of work’ thing.’” Sharon Foppen, who managescus- cash registers ringing. The trains and the buses are free between 500 South joythe prospect of working with a germ reposito ry and doesn’t mind saying so. Water Safety Concerns Spurred Cleanup Plan tomerservice for Mission Foods in Las Colinas, Texas, wondersif men are more culpable than women. But whether the suffereris male or female, she doesn’t en- erating costs for the three routes cometo $525,000 per year. When both systems opened last masstransit that would keep their the buses would get out of the way so train riders can see her shop. “They don’t need to crowd Main Street with empty buses. I'd rather see a full car,” Fisk said. “The only timeI’ve seen any human being other than the driver [on the shuttles] has been the FlexTrans buses for special that again,” said CouncilmanKeith Christensen. Whenthecity signed the agreement with UTA,it looked asif 20- and 30-minute intervals between trains would be common, Christensensaid. To move people during those See LIGHT-RAIL,Page A-7 ing Committee board is just too large to guarantee the confidentiality of such docu. ments, board Chairman Robert Garff argued before Thursday’s unanimousvote. But in their zeal to protect private agreements, board members may havevio- lated state law. Utah Codesection 16-6-41, which governs inspectionof books andrecordsof nonprofit corporations, guarantees that: “All books and records of a nonprofit corporation may be inspected by any member,orhis agent or attorney, for any proper purpose at any° reasonable time.” And section 16-6-44 pre: vents the governing board or membersfrom adopting resolutions or bylaw amendments that are “inconsistent with law, the articles ofincorporation.” Still, Assistant Atty. Gen. Jerrold Jensen was reluctant to declare that the SLOC board did anythingillegal by restricting its ownaccessto records. “Onits face, it seems so, butI'd have to research that one,” Jensensaid. Even if trustees violated state law Jensen said, there is no penalty. “The state is not goingto go after themto See SLOC,Page A-7 @ Skiad responds to (Olylawsuitthreat D-1 Kremlin Doctrine Accuses U.S.of Weakening Russia “A co-worker came andstood in my doorin my cubicle,” she says, “I looked at him andsaid, “Youlooksick, your eyes arered-rimmed and weepylooking.’ He tells me, ‘I have walking pneumonia.’ Well, don’t walk in here. Hesays,‘I think I might be getting a fever again. I think I needto go home.’ said, “Yes, yes, yes, do us a favor, do go home.Let mecall your wife.’ This not the Pentagon.It's not a hospital. We can do without somebody for a dayorso." INDEX Ann Landers Asimov/Bridge C5 Movies Obituaries Astrology Births Business Classifieds Comics D4 0-6 E41 trying to weaken Russia and become the world’s dominant power. The doctrine replaces one adopted in 1997, a time when political and military partnerships with the West were still buzzwords and many Russians remained optimistic about the country’s economic involved that the U.S. Department of Energy waswilling to act. OnFriday, DOESecretary Bill Richardson madehis plan for moving the tailings pile official, addressing future, But Russia's attitude toward the West the fears of Los Angeles water officials that the water supply for mil- has hardenedafter the eastward expansion lions of Southern Californians would be threatened if the 10.5 million tons of radioactive dirt were left on the of NATOandthealliance's intervention in flood plain of the Colorado River. Californians won't be the only ones to benefit from Richardson's plan. “The idea of partnership b a saidSergei Sorkut, a military affa! at the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper, The Northern Ute tribe in Utah will receive 84,000 acres in a land ex- changeto pay for movingthe tailings. Richardson said it would be the larg- 0123: weaponsandaccusing the United § District of Southern California got TV Programs __ os 34945 MOSCOW MOAB — Utahofficials have haggled for years over what to do about the Atlas uranium mill tailings, But it wasn't until the Metropolitan Water WEATHER;Rainlikely north; snow at higher elevations; near 60 far south, Details: B-1 Il It, D PRESS — RussiaPate unveiled its 2 new national secu: ing the Kremlin's BY JIM WOOLF ‘THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE, est voluntary return of land to American Indiansin the lower 48states in more than a century. See TAILINGS,Page A-10 i Yugoslavia, and the nation’s economic re formefforts have sufferedser which published the entire doctrine in its Mickey Krakowski/The Associated Press U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson points to an old Atlas uranium mill tailings pile (flat area) near Moabthat will be cleaned up under a plan unveiled Friday. The dealincludes returning 84,000 acresto the Northern Ute tribe, one of the biggest givebacks of American Indian land in U.S,history. ” y weekly military supplement. Acting Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the “Concept of National Security” into law Monday, but the full document was not published in Russian newspapers See KREMLIN, Page A-4 |
