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Show , 4B The Salt Lake Tribune Friday, March 23, 1984 r fmf : i Missing Since Tuesday , La r'H Father, 27, Charged In Daughters Death Michelle Ann Best Missing Since Tuesday When last seen, she was wearing a cocoa-brow- down-fille- d n coat, levis, white 6.30 p.m. parka type strap over tennis Holland Calls for Return Of Morality to Schools Continued From Page l more specifically in our case, a true Christian university. He emphasized, however, that BYU is determined not to be secularized, nor to fracture our institutional unity through departmental isolation or increasingly specialized technologies. And because we teach future teachers, as well as future doctors and lawyers and mothers and fathers, we intend to send them out into the world with a sound sense of where they fit into the scheme of things. In line with that, Dr. Holland said BYU also is initiating a massive reorientation of our student life organization. We are moving to have these young student leaders create for themselves the kind of campus milieu which will communicate an expectation of virtue and moral growth to every student who comes on campus ... We have e committed five and two part-tim- e professionals to design and implement this student experiment. Noting that the experiment has been under way for one year and will be evaluated after another year, Dr. Holland said BYU also is laying the groundwork for itself or some other university to host a conference on what he termed the moral foundations of higher educaB-- full-tim- tion. But in the final analysis, Dr. Holland stressed over and over again, the moral quality of the nations schools rests largely on the parents whose children spend much of their formative lives in the classrooms. The parents of this nation need to care about the moral quality of their schools completely through college, said Dr. Holland, because there is preciously little chance that a willing but increasingly unwilling band of underpaid school teachers or beleaguered administrators will have either the will or the way to do it without parental support. We need to put back into those civic texts the teachings that once were so central to our national experience. We've thrown accusations and insults and statistics and have always wanted to throw money at this problem, when what we really need to throw at it is ourselves." r During the session, Dr. Holland successfully sidestepped any questions about BYUs Steve Young, who recently landed a $40 million professional football contract, by quoting a question-and-answe- Texas academic acquaintance: "As near as I can tell, football to education is like bullfighting to ag- riculture" Asked what he thought government leaders can do to reinstate organized prayer in public schools, now that the prayer amendment in the Senate has failed, Dr. Holland ventured no real alternative, except to say that "we ought to pray more everywhere. We should be more modest and mannerly, whatever our faith." With the prayer issue now likely B-- A father, charged Wednesday with killing his daughter March 16, has been scheduled for preliminary hearing Thursday. Eugene Marcus Brooks, 574 East Wilson Ave. (1750 South), is charged with second-degre- e criminal homie cide, a felony. The complaint alleges that the baby was found dead by the mother at 8 a m. March 17, noting the child had been in the care of the father the night before while the mother was first-degre- Suspect Sought in Bank Robbery FBI agents are searching for this man in connection with the Wednesday afternoon robbery of The Citizens Bank in Salt Lake City. The suspect, seen here in photograph taken by bank camera, is believed to be with brown hair. 25 years old, Anyone with information on the suspect is being asked to call agent David Barker. moot for this session of Congress, Dr. Holland said the real symbolism of the 80 percent public support for school prayer was that it a deep translated to a yearning conspicuous need on the part of the American people for a return to the type of religious values hed earlier cited as necessary if morality is to be returned to the classroom. Asked whether he thought so households with many children coming home from school to empty houses or apartments, and children watching so much violence on television with or without parental supervision was contributing to the rise in violence in the classroom, Dr. Holland said that while 50 percent of the nations mothers now work, with 65 percent of them not making child care arrangements for their school children when theyre not home, the unsupervised time of these unattended children is bound to carry over into their behavior in the classroom. However, he said that while a child watching educationally enriching television programs, as opposed to those with violence, is like the difference between their eating vegetables and Twinkies, he so far has seen no statistics showing a definite correlation between children watching violence on television and the growing violence in the classroom. one-pare- nt Asked his opinion of lobbying efforts of the National Education Association, which consistently presses for higher pay, Dr. Holland said that while he knew the unionized teachers shared his concerns over the crisis in the classrooms, they were too busy lobbying for money, instead of getting into the real issues. Theyre talking about the branches, and not the roots. Asked what grade he would give President Reagan on his report card for his widely attacked cuts in various education programs, Dr. Holland said he didnt feel he should answer since BYU doesnt take federal aid, because we want our privacy and to not have to dance to someone elses tune. Beyond that, however, Dr. Holland held that the government throwing more money at education has never succeeded. Im not minimizing the need for federal assistance. But getting a bigger bundle of money and throwing it from the Brinks truck at the school is not the answer. Our forefathers who taught were as badly paid as our contemporaries, but they were a noble profession that succeeded. When schools do a better job with the money they have when they show they can do that Im sure theyll get more In closing, Dr. Holland proudly noted that Utah has historically been prominent in the quality of its education and its commitment to it as a largely Mormon state . . the glory of God is in intelligence. We want to give God his glory and be intelligent . . . Surprisingly Low Price Tag Predicted for CUP Water Continued From Page l work on the Jordanelle Dam, he said Paul Barber, an aide to Salt Lake City Mayor Ted L. Wilson, said the new cost figures, if accurate, could ease the growing controversy over the CUP. Salt Lake City officials have been reconsidering their past commitment to the huge water project. But Mr. Barber noted the favorable cost figures are based on the tenuous assumptions that the Diamond Fork power plant will be built and the remaining portions of the water system will be constructed on schedule. If there are continual delays in the project, these costs will be revised upward just as the original figures were revised upward, he said. ? shoes with lavender trim and carrying a light brown backpack. She is described as tall with dark hair and eyes and a slender build. Miss Best is subject to seizures and takes medicine regularly to thwart these attacks. She did have some medicine with her, her father said. Special to The Tribune WHITE CITY Salt Lake County at M ' i Rescue Crews Search for Student, 20 Sheriffs Search and Rescue units Thursday evening scoured a wide area of White City and Sandy Michelle searching for Ann Best who has been missing since Tuesday afternoon. Miss Best, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Best, 878 Serpentine Way, was last seen Tuesday about 4.45 p.m. walking toward State Street along 9800 South west of 700 East. Her family last saw her about 8:15 a.m. when her parents left for work. Miss Best, a graduate of Jordan High School, is an "A student at Utah Trade Technical College Salt Lake, where she is studying computer repair, her father said. She was to return home at 6 p.m. from school and her parents became concerned when she did not arrive ' Robert Hilbert, general manager of the Salt Lake County Water Con- servancy District, said the $150 an acre-foo- t figure calculated by the bureau is slightly less than his agency was planning to pay for CUP water If the price holds, his districts 450,000 customers would see only moderate rate increases to cover the additional costs MR C SOI D His FURNITURE THE jAME DAY HIS AD RAN IN THE PAPER WANT-AD- S The 380,000 young Utahns who attend public schools must have slipped your minds. Didn't you also forget that Utah spends less per pupil than most of the 49 other states? Didnt you forget that the nations most productive teachers need more incentive to stay with their profession? Didnt you lose sight of the fact that Utahs schools have the nations largest classes? You could have done something about those ills during the recent budget and token session, but any actions you took to help schools were in nature. Because of that, we cannot recommend education as a promising or gratifying profession to any young people who are considering teaching. Your inaction hurt teaching. Learning will suffer, too. Smaller classes give kids more opportunities to do well in school. Sadly, we can look for the problem of Utahs overcrowded classes to grow steadily worse if nothing happens to change the situation. You, our legislators, passed a $150,000 increase for class size reduction. Thats less than the state spends to maintain and beautify the Capitol grounds. Legislators, you may want Utahs children, parents and teachers to shove education reform into a closet and forget it. We absolutely refuse to do that. Were calling on you legislators to do something about Utahs overcrowded, underfunded schools. You can do it next week during the special session. No other matter you consider will be more important. half-hearte- d The Utah Education Association Hurley Hansen, president GET YOU RESULTS 237- - 2000 (Paid by more than 14,000 educators who want better schools for Utahs kids.) aaragrl i i |
