Show - ' ' '"''') ft!"- - : : 147- ' - rirrn :'--' 4040'44'4 10q e:alt trAt Itibunr il':talit 1 io: -- I - C) - q I V 1 1990 eieneral Session of the tah liegislature proved that politics be just as tough in times of plenty as :n periods of want Maybe tougher Never before has a session so resew-)lea collective bargaining contract neJotiation That certainly created the impression that teacher unions w ere lawmakers but as a practical rnatter the educators had little hoice Though teachers negotiate contracts w ill) local school boards the Leg !4ituie controls funding Unions hae at ned through bitter experience that it they wait for actual contract talks the die already has been cast Besides most legislation is the result If hard bargaining: the process just isn't usually this obvious to the public At least this year everybody's cards were on the table early and there was ample opportunity for communication and debate from all sides in the end teachers won not only the lion's share of available funds but a tax Increase proposal from a Legislature dominated by Republicans That's no 110 trong-armin- feLl Where the Utah Education Association failed was in setting its priorities By focusing too much attention on salareduction ries and too little on class-sizand systematic reforms the union confused its message and weakened its public support What became obvious in the stssion's final days is that teachers themselves were badly divided on goals irid bargaining positions Gov Norm Bangerter and the legislative leadership created a generous wage and benefit package but wlien they got it teachers 'remit sure that's really what they e 1 Waiited Educators really wished to address the results of a decade of funding shortages in a single legislative session and clearly that was politically and economically impossible Nevertheless the governor and Legislature made a good start w lilt salary increases and money for managing enrollment grow lb updating Ii xtboolis and acquiring more class(mill computers ! Higher education did relatively well too Like other public employees university faculty and staff will get 6 percent raises in wages and benefits and enrollment growth will be funded though not to the degree that some had hoped Libraries will get a shot in the arm and tht lawmakers even created two new universities at least in name If education's gains came at the expense of anyone it was V elfare recipients who were denied any increase That s tragic considering these people live on incomes that are about 50 percent below the federal poverty tine On the other hand Medicaid people got a funding for boost and programs to enhance health care in rural areas were enacted In other areas of public policy the Legislature deserves applause for enacting a comprehensive reworking of the liquor laws which brings Utah a big step closer to sensible regulation of alcoholic beverages Lawmakers also decided wisely to stay out of the abortion quagmire Unfortunately they declined an opportunity to provide a sent mcing option of life imprisonment without possibility of parole in capital murder cases and they wandered blissfully into a constitutional minefield when they let stand a call for a constitutional convention to propose a balanced federal budget amendment In measures affecting the states most populous county they fell short of completing work necessary for major renovations of the Salt Palace They favored letting Salt Lake County voters decide whether they want to fund a light rail system through a sales tax increase though by delaying the decision for a year they may have jeopardized federal funding On balance it was an education Legislature and it promises to be just one of many The widely publicized shortcomings of America's public schools ordain that many more battles over reforms and funding lie ahead At least Utah has made a decent beginning e Disney to the Rescue sitting in a movie theater the sweet anticipation of that critically acclaimed film n you've been iiiting to see for weeks Youve gut your Coke and popcorn you're hunkered down everything's set The house lights dim the sound CUBIC'S up the cura car tain parts and you see YOU're hasking in A (&c car commercial The one you love to hate on TV! Bliss dissolves immediately to anger )ou come unhinged What you growl ande your breath cannot be reprinted ou iI this space because 170' r es certain stand a rds about s the hail: goodness Da and like heroes Zorn) ought I (1 y ockett to the small screen arc riding the rescue of the big one Walt Disney it v ill not shmk its films in ads for the like of Toyota 'oke :tint American lxres s are the-her- e predirtions that the are dir(driVr ertising revtnue nail into the cot fin of the theatnitimtrv which idready (lu to competition from video iNd cihle tele Isom Fhat ma e 111 111 i!k'! Hcal though the ads themselves are hurting movie theater business by annoying customers Since most people can readily see films in their own homes on alternative formals the only commodities a movie theater has left to sell are the earliest opportunity to see a film and the viewing experience One of the nice things about movie theaters aside from the fact that they're not ill our home is that they don't bombard you with commercials at least they didn't m the pitst Promotional material has started ap pearmg on videocassette niok les too which also is annoying but at least till ‘iewer can through them When they appear on live televisioIi you can leak e the MOM Besides must people are accustomed to advertising on broadcast TV and the realia that sponsors pay for the service In a movie theater though the audience is captive which is just the way ad agencies like it 'Fhe situation is most aggravating becallSe everyone in the house has paid S5 to S7 to see the film plus whatever they may have dropped at the snack bar ‘vhere discount prices aren't exaOly the order of the day Rut don't despair MOViegocrs kVith Mickey 'Alouse in your corner there's at More likely Ica-- 10 11111 t hop ttch '1J 1' rarrt A 41 r'r rtror rrr t)! i1 ):!: (If tod t! rrt rir- t11 'i111 t ill tif 4 : iit 11 t Hi 1101 And 'ilk' rising cost T3I dt)I ti ! !lo pcal of tilt Rt ctio: to (It Lnt tr1110 ti - 'it 'I 11t !Lis tHr - 011 tHiit o Hi ot )k a tr 01 erioti-- f ' LiTh r plcrtili1t111 :1 six 11 - : 11 :1 C 110 1L r a Kr)r'-)C- ' I nt t'l iko ' :l7 ‘ '' 0- ' w IIP A I s - - I jt lit pt k11 01 Ill Py Tony Kornheiser Washington Post Service Under the category of What II They Think of Next" comes our government's latest live ammo in the War on Cocaine ' caterpillars Were dropping the bug one Entomologists haven't been so besieged since the glory days of the Cahforma medfly The Queen of Hearts of the Bush Administration Bill Off With Their Heads- Bennett is entranced by the idea of breeding and then caterpilairlifting godzillions of lars called malumbias into Peru and Bolivia (Let's sing a chorus of 'White Rabbit for tell 'em a hookah-smokinauld tang sync caterpillar has given you the call Its the previously unnoted Ilth plague on Pharaoh COITIpUISive munching The plan is for these caterpillars to eat so many coca leaves there won't be enough left to make cocaine and Bingo End of drug problem know what you're thinking It so ple why didn't I think of that Wellvho did Yahoo Serious' coca-eatin- ' h one-inc- Munch-O-Ram- Really him stoned do you think tht Agri culture guys were viten they landed on this tnany bags ot Itoritos had they space' gone through "Hey dudes I've got an excellent idea Instead of sending our army down to Peru bug why don't we like drop a million-billiohatch and scarf down all the eggs They'll dope manWow That bitchin— But before we get carried a" a' there-- at least one problem to consider Who makes a parachute that small" Not to mention other pitfalls Like where do we come off dropping our petri dishes on someone else's countr'' Since when does NI r Wizard decide foreign policy' Ctrue fact Tuesday presidential Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater pledged Neither troops nor catergo in itliout prior request and pillars vonsultation ni not suggesting this can't work the inalumbia nd:genous to that area iind does gobble coca leavez- winch is i why we re hot to trot on this Vincent 34f: - A '': i - oil -- -- A'' t' Al k - P'44 -- - - 41' Alc- - :40-5- ' - Pvice strategy But have we constdered what an influx of multimillions of these things could do" How v111 they behave after eating al) these coca leaves? Is there enough sushi and Evian to keep them happy? Enough Talking Heads tapes? Enough shrinks to soothe their paranoia' Are we prepared for when these caterpil tars become moths? Where will they fly? What if next year they're in Iowa eating corn? What happens to the sequel to Field of Dreams'? This particular moth hasn't been studied in 55 years Much can happen in that time Zsa Zsa Gabor got 30 years older in 55 years (Another true fact: Tuesday Bob Norton press information director for the Agricultural Research Service where these babies might be bred said "If the insect would migrate and destroy other plants there's no way -i it would be used- Let's suppose the problems could be worked out How would the Drug Czar equip our courageous caterpillars for -the task at hand' In his book Intoxication- which examines how animals respond to drugs (it's the academic outgrowth of the 'Os when you'd bloi some hash with your dog and listen to hiendrixt Ronald K describes the effects of cocaine On monkeys rats and llamas Believe me it not pretty Our troops would be easy to spot Just look for crazed einaciat ed caterpillars wearing gold chains tiny- spoons and razor blades and carrying Jay Mc Inei aey books Perhaps were airlifting the wrong stuff Perhaps we should send them our cocaine users instead Cut out the middle man Let the users deal direct at the factory outlets Conto a few bad sider who we'd wave young novelists and investment bankers and the usual suspects on "City Under Siege 'rhis is so bad' If we go forward with Operation Big Lunch the question becomes: What to do when the caterpillais hectime moths' How would Bolivia and Peru get rid of them' 'hat do care' Thank you Mr Benbye-by- I nett Giant bug zapper A wired a the Iran vould be from all that cocaine each tap v kali() release enough energy to run ieery appliance in Lima for a week Drink to Dangerous Living Just Pass That Perilous Penier Nyw York Tirnes Set Icy ere going to tough no! thy Nye Perrier crisis ‘Ve figured thy odds ( r prio U found in only fkv tood tic snyho‘v we need more danger in our Ve e gone soft We ve lives said Aranus had It to() safe Since we bought tit' A cars iivith air bags Remember the thrilling old days when cars didn t even have seat belts' Living dangerously made us live life to I remember Wittn t the mit said Porthos all drove each that didn't even have Sate! ()lass windshields remember when v t didn I even cars said Athos All c had ‘ ere horses I remember Aurses vitnoui sea( belts Aranns said v 1tri the bald Porthos remember horses dido t even have indsidelds What real adventures we had (in horses like that Anybody remember the name of that foxy itth scalp lady ivtio nuirdered d'Artagnan fint At ' I stress' the guys ik let s knock Off the run mseing thing and shov we still have 11i right stirlf Popping the cap off a big Perrier held )() Athos Purthus and I ramis could also Odd for all and all it When tile bottle enipt: and nii(1 nifitoini of benzehe ternunosis t d tti1 molt: a:lvt' tliiI !t't tl tt)011ict It)rn11()k afttl It 11IN(' (1) ii !top mai kJ:I: tcd pia ii el it r 'hat ‘ke 1 li lent' Ilait things nc onre people said there than they faso suspei k ' OH It- Ittrell liaker 1 - i'l: ' A ok10ii it ' : t1 We parted feeling sal: and sad dri‘e home in otir cars k ith air fiag ate tend meals accompanied ) incs With no sullow-chol- fitcz restaurants in safe sex and Slept in III participated earthquake-resistan- i ileAl day wir all felt our liv(s were so safe they were hardh: worth living Not that we were ready to resume playing Perrier !UUItt I woke up - in the night thinking of Cardinal Richelieu- said ArairMi the one who hild C1i01110 he's going to hell because Of the abortton nsue'l' asked Athos knwor liht Aratur didn liad gft'ot 61‘tour ftingyi ithout air I)ag huge nie:ds lesterol washed 1oi Alto 1ouThiet ihe of mei NU! H-- ild - iiii H 11- Jill cho- f!N J closet Build huge screen doors high in the Andes Hang an enormous tight bulb above the doors The moths will be attracted to the light smack up against the screens and peasants can climb like it up the sides squashing the moths That way we show the governments our v ill ingness to compensate the peasants for the economic loss of the coca crop Thank you Mr Bennett to cover the country Send in some vith poisoned wool overcoats And then bug out School Coals Still Face Crucial Test Boston Globe "Asking more expecting more- — that is vvhat President Bush said last month WOUld lead to "real improvement in our schools Now the nation's governors are headed fop Washington to find out just what and how much they are willing to ask of themselves and how much they will expect from Bush Broad goals developed since the governors met with Bush at the "education summitin Va last September and t'harlottesville enunciated by the president in January are generally agreed upon But several wide gaps remain including — At least general plans for implement a Bon without vvinch the goals are meaningles — Targeting of some of the most difficult problem areas in the public schools — Putting a sense of personal values into the educational mix With the National Governors Association midwinter meeting this starting its four-daweekend — at which agreement on an education policy is supposed to be the centerpiece — an enormous amount is still in contention "Usually at NUA meetings the policies are completed before no Nancy Richardson education adviser to Massachusetts Gol Michael Dukakis said this week The central problem is that the rhetorical statements of purpose emanating rum Charlottesville turn out to require a lot of effort difficult choices and in some eases serious money if they are to amount to anything at all What emerged from charlottesville sounded more than anything like a battle alarm in the trade war 1Vith ow' eye firmly fixed on Japan the govel imrs stressed the need to improve education in order to restore America's industrial strength and internal ion al competitiveness No one objected to that as a partial 11k the problem Indeed the six goal: mentioned by litt11 in mathematJanuary include ics and science achievement bv the year 201)1) -along with skills becessary to compete in a global economy But the goals overlooked some of the prac twat challenges facing schools cervwhere According to Richardson the initial goals lead as if intended to produce "College Biesk while in many eases they quiz winnersdon't reflect the very real problems that f occur In thOttSand clas-rott- strongest forcr attiolltt Jhii mi iit4r trJIh to 1j(in prtp Coe' Bill Clinton of Arkansas ‘vhose state has gone through radical changes in edmItHn rwItt wide) 111 guidance IM 111 At: 11(i ti ' - Alt flic A 151) At' ii H I' l't 11Ct rid IUItI i had 1)iitin ilk I I ' in! 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