OCR Text |
Show PENIIS eeOR et ee ¢ DAILY Saturday, February 11, 2006 HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD Albert J. Manzi, President & Publisher right, Executive Editor 3 Donald W. Meyers, Editorial page editor Nancy Hale, Public adviser IN OUR VIEW Schoolfears unfounded hen the Alpine SchoolDistrict announced last yearthat it was moving twoalternative schools to Orem's Springwater neighborhood, some thought it was the beginningoftheend of the world. SomeSpringwaterresidents said locating the Alpine Life and Learning Center and Summit High nol . The sun still rises in the east andsets behind Lake Mountain. Part of the reason everything has worked out well is that the schools andthe residents opened lines of communication. The schools had an open house so peoplecouldlearn what goes on there; andresidents will make a phonecall if students appear to be ditching school and wandering the Schoolin their neigh- neighborhood. borhood would make the community un- But this is also another example of safe for people and drive down property Part of the reason . ills jittery neighbors predicted wereju- worked out well values. Amongthe everything has venile delinquents is that the schools traipsing through their yards and tomemeet - how fears of the-unknown can be worse thanreality. n residents heard that an alter- ative school was i and the residents comingin, and that ae of ishoe communication. uray ee assumptions. pened ines of Sadeuleder,, eepreying on jocal children. There was talk of The schools had an e stop the district's residents will make faking egalaction reality is that many -OPeNHouSe... and FascreansStudents plans. * It’s beensix goto ateudive Schools a phone call if for many reasons. Some may nommsaneeth, students appearto favesth Springwater, and nothing happened. Nobodyfiled a lawsuit. So far as we be ditching school, = know, nobodyhas lar school or want to work their way back toa diploma after dropping out. The kids in these sold a home because of the schools. The neighborhood has not been overrun by rampag- ing hooligans. Schoolofficials say the worst schools are the ones whoaretrying to puttheir lives backin order, and becomeproductive membersof society. Most important,the students are from our problems havebeentypical of any high school. Asfortraffic, a new community. out of the neighborhood. standthese thingsbetter. We salute them for makingthe effort. Residents of the Springwater parkinglot has moved studentcars neighborhood now seem to underIn other words, life has gone on Beehives & Buffalo Chips @» Beehive to the Utah Legisla- ture for keeping a promise to Utah Valley State College. Last year, the school sought fundingforits Digital Learning Center,butit lost out to the University of Utah. At the time, lawmakers promised the center would be at the top of the pile for the 2006 session. On Monday, the Capital Facilities and Administrative Services Appropriations Subcom- mittee designated the $48 million libraryasits No. 2 priority for funding, just behindthe restoration of the Utah State Capitol. We hope the production of the controversial stage play “Vagina Monologues” at UVSC(again) won't throw a monkeywrenchinto the works. Those darnedstudents have no sense of timing, and the Legis- lature is moralizing an awfullot these days. Buffalo Chip to Dr. Theodore Tarbyfor finding yet another waytooverstate the painfully obvious, Tarby, whohastreated manychildren fromthe polygamist enclaves of Hilldale, Utah, and ColoradoCity, Ariz., announced this week that inbreeding has caused an outbreak of fumarase deficiency, a genetic disease. Tarby said the disease is prevalent because intermarriage amongrelatives in the former Short Creek enclaves means it is morelikelythat children will receive two of the recessive genes neededto cause the disorder. Gee, doyou think that's why most states outlaw marriages between cousins? With this grasp of genetics, Tarby should seriously consider becominga legislator. @»_ Beehive to Shannon Hale Fw (orreaching one ofthe summitsof children’sliterature.Hale,of Salt Lake City, won the Newbery Honorfor her book “Princess Academy.” The Newbery Honoris second only to the Newbery Medalin the world ofchildren’s literature.It's like a filmmaker winning the Academy Award. She is the first Utahn to win this honorsince 1957. “We condemn the cartoons but this does notjustify violence, Theserioters are defaming the name ofIslam." — Senior cleric Mohammed Usman, memberof Afghanistan's top Islamic organization, the Ulama Council, on the violent reaction to cartoonsdepicting Muhammad,Islam's founder. Buffalo Chip to the Utah & Senate for formally asking James “Flaming Eagle” Mooneytooffer the daily prayer, and then abruptly yankingthe invitation on short notice. Mooneytestified earlier this week against HouseBill 60, which directly affects his Native American church, which sanctions the use of peyote, so Senate President John Valentine of Orem was probably rightto block the prayer. It's not that Mooney would say anything inappropriate but simply that he has a dog in the controversialfight. Still, the Senate might have asked Mooneyto find a substitute. Afterall, virtually anybody who prays will have something to gain orlose from onepieceoflegislation or another.If the Legislature sticks with the Mooneyrule, we strongly recommendthatit forever steer clear of any prayers by biologists, astrophysicists, Internet providers, advocates of open government, obstetricians, smokers or nonsmokers, le who pay sales tax on food, real estate brokers, anybody with a seat belt in his car,or ... well, you get the idea. DOONESBURY° Garry Trudeau 50 THIS 19 17, SIR. PERMIGSION TO GIVE "YOU A PRREWELL PECK ON THE CHEEK ISLAMIC EXTREMISM ‘ |