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Show TheSalt LakeTribune | « (UR SLOPES RUNNETH OVER Ski industry / C2 TUESDAY NOvEMBER18, 2003 1nd LAWMAKERSPICK CONVENTION SITE. << www.sitrib.com >> a State politics / C3 ‘ Fer the Record C2+ Obituaries CB _ ort oneal Se os Shamjob detailed —— t : tough on weapons violations c ; rie cover Kim’s tracks all to s rt Salt Lake City’s Olym- Witness says he hired son of IOC . . ; SCANDAL REKINDLED: official, but Welch paid thebill OLYMPICS ON TRIAL picbideffort andall at bid CEO Tom Welch's behest. Simmonsalsotestified that Un Yung Kim, a_ powerful memberofthe International Olympic Committee, knew the bid team was bankrolling his son’sjob. Simmons’testimony is the key to the government’s al- By Linpa FANTIN The Salt Lake Tribune Zero tolerance: Trying to : jects aboard bring lethal obj Es For three years after striking a deal with —— legation = Welch and ” No. 2 at the bid agee David Simmons avoided questions about his role in the Olympic bid scandal like Punxsutawney Phil ducks his Dave Johnson, conspired to commit immigration fra and that they hid [OC-related payments using phony con- will bring thestrictest shadow. tracts. It’s a relatively small part of the 15-count bribery 1 nt — and aenalties By Marr CANHAM But whenthe Salt Lake City media executive showed up in court Monday, he was confident, sometimes combative, and a big help to federal prosecutors in the Olympicbrib- _andfraud case. But after a stormy weekof surprise allegations and scoldings by afederal judge, prosecutors had to be pleasedto havean eager witness like Simmonstake the stand. Simmonswassospirited he had to be warned by U.S. ery case. The Salt Lake Tribune Pau FrauGuton/The Salt Lake Tribune In a show offorce, a gathering of law enforcement agents and prosecutors metat Salt Lake City International Airport early Monday to send a message to holiday travelers. “If you want to get to grandma’s house, leave your gun at home.” A would-be passengerdid the opposite Sunday evening and is now facing the consequences. Airport screeners found a stolen and loaded .357-caliber handgun in the man’s earry-on. He not only missed his flight, he was booked into the Salt Lake CountyJail. ° This incident brings the number Prosecution witness David Simmons leaves federal court Mondayafter testifying. In a nutshell, Simmons admitted to hiring the son ofa South Korean Olympic official, illegally helping him secure a green card, and concocting a web of contracts to District Judge David Sam to stop expounding and just See OLY TRIAL, C2 of firearms seized at security checkpoints to 22 in the past six months, a figure law enforcementofficials consider intolerable. They announced a “zero tolerance policy” promising to levy the most severe charges possible in every case, whetherthat be in thecity, state or federal system. “This is serious business,” said U.S. Attorney for Utah Paul Warner. The 22 people caught with a gun in their carry-ons have been See AIRPORT, C4 Pau Frauauton/The Salt Lake Tribune _Students board buses at Canyon Rim Elementary, 3005 s. 2900 East in Salt Lake County. The commuters have helped the school balance declining enrollments for years. Ho.iy MULLEN Hair-raising dispute still simmering ANDY — Shehasthree anti ters. One is 9, the other two are 7. She and her husbandlive in a home in Herriman — in one of those big, booming suburban dream tracts. She pays a mortgage. She buys milk and cereal, shoes and jeans for the kids,just like the rest of us Except that Pam, whocuts hair for a living, wears a bikini to work. I mether last Saturday at the notorious newsalon Bikini Cuts, where I stopped in for a shampoo, trim and scalp massage. [had to try this place myself, given the uproar that sevenstylists clad in bikini tops have generated in this upright Salt Lake suburb. Even though,let's faceit, as a 46-year-old motherof two I am notexactly the salon’s prime demographic. No,I would say the five guys — average age about 22 — who weresitting with mein the waiting area and wearing backward baseball hats, sagging jeans, scantbits offacial hair and uttering the word “awesome”every other sentence while: thumbing through copies of Maxim See MULLEN, C4 _ SCHOOLS BATTLE BUDGET HIT ~In the Granite District, fewer students meansfewerdollars By RONNIE LYNN The Salt Lake Tribune Granite School District lost far fewer students this year than years past, but that’s little consolation to district officials as they face another million-dollar budgethit. According to preliminary enrollment data, the state’s second-largest district lost 528 students this fall, a 0.76 percent drop worth more than $1.1 million based on the state fundingformula of $2,150 per student. Last year, student numbers plunged by 988, the first time since 1984 that overall enrollment dipped below 70,000. The declines have taken their toll. After losing 10,000 students over 10 years, Granite officials have salvaged existing programs and services by closing schools, boosting class sizes and persuading patrons to pay more property taxes. “Westill have all the fixed costs,” district spokeswoman Michele Bartmess said Monday. “These declines don’t come in nicely wrapped little packagesofa classroom.” Enrollment slides in Granite and 21 other Utah school districts represent the flip side to the tremendous growth in school-age children elsewhere in the state. Statewide, enrollment surgedby 5,800 students, muchofit in southern Salt Lake, Utah and Tooele Growing in Davis @ Clinton Elementary might go year-round. C4 counties. State demographers estimate the school-age population will jump by 145,000 students by 2013. While burgeoning districts are scrambling to provide teachers and classrooms, Granite and other districts with declining enrollments are in self-preservation mode. Like Granite, Tintic School District in west-central Utah has been losing students the past few years, including a 34-student drop last year that was due largely to polygamist TomGreen’s wives andchildren leaving the west desert to be closer to him during his stay at the Utah State Prison. This year, Tintic’s enrollment fell by 25 students, a state-leading 9 percent hit that has district leaders wondering how they will build their 200405 budget. “We’vejust been tightening the belt like everyone else, but now we’re to the point where we've just got to find someoptions,” Tintic Superintendent Ron Barlow said. It won’t be easy. Sofar, the district has avoided cutting staff or services, but losing a chunk ofthe $3.9 million budget could have far-reaching See ENROLLMENT, C4. U.grant seekingto attract Indians to the teaching profession scholarships last summer, the U. will recruit 12 more to begin the program By SHINIKA A. SYKES The Salt Lake Tribune @ BYU performers visit villagers. A9 next summer. A yearafter receiving federal money to train American Indian and Alaskan Indian students to become teachers, the University of Utah has a new $1.3 mil- North to Alaska Applicants must be of American Indian or Alaskan Indian descent, according to U.S. Department of Education guidelines. The department also lion federal grant to continue the stipulates that Title VII money —fed- program. Spurred by the overwhelming response to its American Indian Teacher Training Program and the progress of the 12. students who received eral funds targeted specifically for Indian education is to be usedto prepare undergraduate students and, next year, master’s degree students to become instructors in math, science and reading. “Children in American Indian communities need the most helpin reading, math and science,” said Bryan McKinley Brayboy, an assistant professor in the U. Department of Education and author of both grant applications. “Our program will train teachers in these areas.” Last September, Forrest Cuch, the state’s director of Indian Affairs, told members ofa legislative interim committee that “American Indian students lag behind all other racial groups on standardized tests in reading and math.” Cuch’s concern is backed upby data from the state’s Office of Education, which show that for 2002, only 57 percent of American Indian students passed the elementary reading tests See GRANTS, C4 Wintes’s Coulag!!) |wunved LENNOX HOME COMFORT SYSTEMS SPECIALS Gece om- 1&3 ohne Re Heating, L.C. Plumbing and Heating Fioetatimates OL4671 385 E. 3900 S. 6 months same as cash OAC aF |