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Show END OF WINNING STREAK THE NEED FOR SPEED San Antonio beats Jazz 107-85 C-1 Hot rodders look abroad for additional power S-1 Che Salt LakeCribuie www.sltrib.com SUNDAY * DECEMBER1, 2002 Utah’s Independent Voice Since 1871 Feds Want Database About You Privacy advocates’ concerns only one of manyhurdlesanti-terror tool faces BYBOB KEEFE COX NEWS founded by conservative Republican Rep. Dick Armey. SERVICE Giovanetti calls the govern. SAN DIEGO — Deepwithin the Defense Department, gov- ment’s planned database sys- ernmentscientists are hard at work trying to build an enormous database ofpersonal in- But while privacy concerns have become a rallying point for opponents to ihe TIA sys- tem “atoolfor future tyrants.” tem, the biggest hurdle to the database, which the govern- formation about everyone in the United States — including details on everything ment wants to complete by 2007, may be technologyitself. Even though similar types from credit card transactions to medical records and travelreservations of databases already exist in in an attempt to weed outterrorists. private industry such as the cross-referencing computers usedby everythingfrom credit bureaus to frequent flier programs some experts say cre- Not surprisingly, the gov- ernment’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) program is attracting a growing chorus of Mike Kautz/The Salt Lake Tribune objection from groups worried Eire cee: Yavoran Conn gs Woe! satan dred ne woe ener canon cots bw and Ne meter wade “f've been all over, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Wyoming, Florida. . ,” Dee said of his dance competitions. His mother, brother, sister and cousins also compete. ties. Those concerns grew even Catching Up No Child Left Behind reform law brings new urgencyto connect Utahtribes with public schools withoutlosing culture BY SHINIKA A. SYKES and RONNIE LYNN © 2002, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE. lliott and Leona Eyetoo’s 14BK year-old daughter was written up so manytimes forinfractions at Blanding’s Albert R. Lyman Middle School, they feared she would drop out. So the Ute Indian couple pulled her from the school and sent herto one run by the BureauofIndian Affairs in Riverside,Calif. In doing so, the Eyetoos wanted to avoid a repeatof their own experience: Both dropped outof high school because of whatthey said were similar pressures, discriminationorjust ating onefrom the hundreds or about privacy andcivil liber- even thousands of disparate systems residing inside differ- ent federal agencies will be a louder last week after authorities broke upa ringof identity thieves from New York and Georgia who allegedly tapped monumental, if not impossible, task. Computer hardware issues aside, building the biggest and most complex database system into people’s bank accounts by stealing personal information private ever created will require soft: databases. “Thefact is, we cannottrust ware technology that more closely resembles what todayis about plain neglect ofIndian students. “Indian children are often written upand labeled ‘bad kids’ or ‘troublemakers,’ ”said Elliott, who lives in the White Mesa area of San them from the government to protect the privacy of our data,” any more than private companies, said more science fiction than science. The Pentagon wants the Tom Giovanetti, president of the Institute for Policy Innovation, a Texas-based think tank controversial system to not just See DATABASE,Page A-7 Juan County. “MostIndian kids just dropoutandget the GED [test mea- suring educational level].” The Eyetoos’personal history and their decision to send their daughter to an out-of-state school encapsulate an issue Utah educators now must maketheir priority because ofanew federal law: American Indian students do much worse in Utah schools with large Indian populations than do See TIME, Page A-12 NATIVE LIFE Many young people feel the urge to leave the reservations,but they havestrongties to the land A12 Desay La/TheSalt Lake Tribune lala Song unloads Civisbnes tee tucked in from Blontene on Tribalofficials say having more American Indian teachers would give as Competition and Costs Rise Salt Lake Tribune Fly ‘THESALTLAKE TRIBUNE The semitrailer truck laden relevant Nicole Vestal, lo, and Pontan dopey sag tg tt Panes Tod MomestarySeheclis Roosnveh Tree Sellers Pine for Brisk Sales BY BROOKE ADAMS students role models andculturally instruction Saturday. The Robinson Tree Farm sells them in Salt Lake City. —A-13 Ute leaders take ‘matters into their. own hands with charter school experiment —A-13 it’s exactly the kindof magic Christmas tree sellers arehoping for this season, but a soft economy, limited avail. with Christmas trees pulled able stock, competition and intoCliff Robinson's lot at Nib- popularity of artificial trees have dampened some expec tations. ley Golf Course shortly before noon Saturday. “Isaiah, let's make ‘emfly,” Robinsoncalled out to a strapping young man, who clam- bered atop the pile and began tossing trees butt-endfirst to protect their tips ground below. to the Several sellers visited Saturday said they have boughtfewertrees.All thesell ers said they are holding prices at last year’s level even though See SELLERS, Page A-7 For a Parolee, Temptations Abound and Progress Is Slow “Peter Pan” opens Wednesday at Anather Skance As much as any ‘ski resort in Utah, Alta Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre in Salt Lake City THE ARTS, D-1 BY ASHLEY BROUGHTON ‘THESALTLAKETRIBUNE Bill Stephenson pounds on Arta Burnside’s door, then steps back. In his 29 ears as a parole officer, he learned not to stand close to anything a bullet might travel through. “Arta,” he calls in a sing: song, then pounds again. It’s 4 get-your-attention knock, a drop-what-you're-doing-andanswer-the-door knock. There is no reply. Arta Burnside is not home. Stephenson is worried.It is Nov, 7, nearly five months since Burnside left the Utah State Prison on her fourth Sache. Tho will el you atie ls P OOR COPY | i doing fine, working hard, getting along better with her father after her motherlost a battle with cancer in August. But there has been a subtle shift in her behavior, “She's been real quiet,” Stephenson says. “Normally, she'll call.” She is hard to reach bytelephone, slow to return calls. Although she has said she is working part time at a Kmart, a visit turns a,no one who knows her, is taking steps to attract more skiers. BUSINESS,E-1 Astrology Classifieds Karthweek Editorials Landers AA$3 Chanceof vailey fain and mountain snow over muchof the stato; highs upper and managers say she isn't 308 to upper 408 north, upper 306 to near 50 south, BB ono eS‘8 one of ser ‘ies that have come to light see one gi F Leab-Hogaten/The Sali Lake Tribune See PAROLEE, Page A-9 ‘ Lottery Movies Obituaries Puzzle Books Crossword For more than 10 years, Arta Burnside has known the effects of living on the wrong side of the law. Burnside, 33, Is trying to move on with her life. B2 D4 Sports = | wu |