| Show B6 The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday June Later Soviet Inspectors in Utah Maintain Lower Profile: 3 Years mediate Nuclear Forces Treaty Today a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs speaks 30 inspectors patrolfor the up-te ling a perimeter at Hercules Aerospace to make sure no more Pershing 2 rocket motors are By Dawn House THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE - Vi ': V Soviet inspectors once spoke openly of their curiosity of living in Utah during their rotating two month tours of duty at Magna the only permanent inspection site in I - Vr - 16 1991 o two-mil- the United States under the Inter '''' 4: f :4 I I I 1 r P ' ' ' r iler-'- '- ' - :: - k-- -'- 0 ''' 'k I round-the-cloc- Y 2 '''f44 ' e1 t 11"-i - -- Ir : '''''''-- w - 101"4"!'' i I - - - '‘":" r' a ' IF 4r 4 a - ot' '' I : r- k''':f Iv I: 7 ' '- ' ' ? :' :'fr - ' - ' 4 t' t - ? 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I 1 i - ' ' ' ' : W- 1 ' pr' ""''''' sr f nt ' 1:700ae : 1i: - i 3 c" 1 Ng-- e A 14i ils 00-- 0 o 1 -' 4C:000"oteis ' Aiii 'c' - z ir ' tiii ‘p roe- - - - oroginve'"Ini - '‘ : - a '"Ivt1eo t i i i ' : - - í yrt1 !' 4t :2 - Similarly Americans conduct inspections at a building plant in the Soviet city of Votkinsk 600 miles east of Moscow to verify that out A A islr-oro- - - 7 - N4 fr t ') w 4 141n:'Ji:w4:4:111:' ' 1- -- - pi I t"1ti 71601 4 :t a : 4 ) t 1 7 0 f - t 444L c- It t i IT ' 1fi s : 44 ' i 4-- 7 L ' F t 1 ''' 12 ''"'1 - tr ii Ne op ii 1 - e11 1 1--'' Lake City's social season "The Soviets still get invitations but their presence is commonplace now If it's within the confines of the treaty they're good about accepting" said Mary Wilson of the e Inspection Agency created by Congress to implement the INF k : 1 t $ )P ot 9 - - I- 1 ' 1:14 ow ( 1! treaty '''''4k4g41111' for disarmament talks in the f7 not to produce outlawed weapons Since President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty in December 1987 outlawed missiles launchers and 0 missiles are also no longer assembled The Soviets have permitted only two Western reporting teams to visit the site Inspectors from both nations are forbidden to go beyond a travel Wins for leisure and at all times are accompanied by guards when they leave their respective lawed On-Sit- Lynn R JohnsonThe Salt Lake Tribune i 4 - 4906db 1 s Two years ago outgoing technicians like these two jockeyed to be in photographs I :11 ''w - 1-- -' - 4- 414141111tremmcmCZ 2LA Lynn R JohnsonThe Salt Lake Tribuile - during outings But now inspectors are less visible and photo opportunities are scarce Library Begrms $200100u in Subscription Cuts More to Come Judge Ru1es'1::' U By Katherine Kapos costs will total $2250000 next year 89 percent of the library's acquisitions budget unless some titles are canceled he said Shuilar cuts could occur next year unless the Utah Legislature increases funding The price of journals and periodical magazines has increased more than 10 percent annually over five years but the library's budget to subscribe those journals has remained unchanged Mr Hanson said The cuts likely will not be felt immediately by students or faculty but ultimately will affect the quality of education the university is able to provide he said "The library is not THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE a Two years ago technicians jockeyed to be in pictures during visits to local parades amusement parks and dinners and traded Soviet coins and lapel pins for prints of the pictures Now photographs are permitted of the Soviets' single-storapartment complex in West Jordan walled in by a chain-linfence and guarded by local police But this time inspectors weren't present for interviews or pictures Authorities did allow a photograph of Mr Vinogradov sipping tea during a press interview on the anniversary of the third year the treaty has been in force For their part Americans are hoping the superpowers ill change a policy forbidding inspectors from visiting local people in their homes "We haven't given up" said Rosemary bolt past president of Women Concerned About Nuclear War "There have been changes in personnel in Washington We're hoping that someday Soviet inspectors can get to know Americans on a more personal level" When inspectors first arrived in Utah in July 1988 invitations poured in to speak at local schools service clubs and dinners prompting one newspaper to characterize Soviet visits as the height of Salt k 1 : ' ) ' t 4' ' agreement with our American counterparts" y - - "The treaty is a complicated and important document" said Yuri M Vinogradov an expert from the Soviet information directorate "We are being very careful to do nothing to spoil relations or jeopardize the The University of Utah Marriott Library is cutting subscriptions to 1200 journals and other publications because of inadequate funding and the library's director said more cuts will cause the library to "die slowly" About $203000 or 12 percent of the library's journal expenditul must be cut so the budget stays in the black director of libraries Roger K Hanson said in a recent memo to deans heads of academic departments and library representatives Journal subscription and binding going to die suddenly of a heart attack It will die slowly And when people finally realize what is happening it will be too late" Joanne Yaffe assistant professor of social work exemplifies the U faculty which depends on journals to remain at the cutting edge in their fields As a specialist in developmental disabilities and behavioral intervention Ms Yaffe relies on nursing special education psychology and family and consumer studies journals "I need these journals to teach and to conduct research" she says "It would cost about $2500 a year for me to subscribe to them I need the absolute latest information if I hope to effectively apply for grants and the grants have the potential of bringing hundreds of thousands of dollars to the state" Professors met with librarians during the past two years to rank journals in their order of importance to respective academic de- partments Publications were basis with ranked on a one representing journals of the highest priority Journals with a four rating are being eliminated this year Next year the library may be forced to one-to-fo- Legislators Question Tax Commission's Power Leaders of the Utah Legislature apparently fearing their policy making domain is being invaded by the state Tax Commission has requested a study of whether the state constitutional requirement for the commission should be scrapped "It appears as though they are starting to make tax policy without statute" Utah Constitutional Revision Commission director Robin Riggs said Friday "That has caused some consternation among The Constitutional Revision Commission's only action on the issue was to invite Senate President Arnold Christensen and House Speaker Craig Moody to air their concerns before the panel Removing the constitutional requirement for a politically balanced Tax Commission would not eliminate the commission but would give lawmakers greater power to control its duties and makeup Some members during Friday's four-memb- er Business Lawyer Voted Bar Head meeting suggested the constitutional provision should be retained because it helps isolate Tax Conunis- d tax policy at By Michael Phillips The Associated Press Matt Flinner is among the best of a generation of "postmodern pluckg baners" who regard the jo as far more than a folksy backup for cloggers Clampetts or good ole' boy car chases In their hands this uniquely American instrument leaves the mythic realms of riverboats minstrel shows and moonshine to reclaim its identity in the roots of modern jazz That's not to say Flinner doesn't know his bluegrass At 22 he headlines with Powder Ridge a "New Grass" group whose acoustic blend of country rock soul jazz and blues captured the blue ribbon of 4 a five-strin- ck e —1 - - r A I - --- - 1 tee ctk - i a f I 1 it - 1 r t 1' -x '' L4 41 "1 0' i I - t 1 14 ' 2 t 11 I' i iie gpisivolor 5" t ' bluegrass at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival two years ago Last year Flintier won the National Banjo Championship at Winfield Kan — "the Wimbledon for pickers" says Steve Block who writes a column on jazz banjo for the trade magazine Banjo Newslet- ter I - ' The Associated Pmss Utahn Matt Flinner isn't just a virtuoso bluegrass picker he's also a top US player trying to return banjo to its jazz roots "But musically Matt's on his way home" Block said "He's steeped in Earl Scruggs but his fingers are shot through with jazz" Miner who moved here with his family as a child is studying jazz guitar at the University of Utah but only because the school does not consider the banjo worthy of academic pursuit The banjo is his "primary instrument" and he insinu I - k employment law Ms Leith serves on the Utah "We're seeing more and more the Tax Commission pushing that envelope out" Mr Riggs said Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence and as an adviser to the Utah Law Review She also served as a member of the Executive Committee of Women Lawyers of Utah and volunteers as legal counsel to the Young Women's Christian Association The association has a membership of more than 1600 Utahn Among Best of Postmodern Pickers Discovering Sound of Jazz Inside Banjo 4(90 tir Patricia M Leith former editor of the Utah Law Review has been elected president of the Salt Lake County Bar Association Ms Leith is a 1979 graduate of the University of Utah College of Law and a member of the law firm Van Cott Bagley Cornwall and McCarthy She specializes in general business litigation and sion provisions from political pressure But others echoed concerns of some lawmakers that the commission has begun to overstep its bounds and intrude on the Legislature's authority to make governor-appointe- discontinue those in the third category and even some in the second Mr Hanson said Eighteen newspapers are among the publications being axed this year Other publications include National Geographic International Geology Review Biomedical Engineering Marketing News Journal of the American Academy of Religion Journal of Geometry American Birds Cellular and Molecular Biology American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal Englisli Journal National Public Accountant and Theory and Research in Behavioral Pediatrics - ates it into compositions by such jazz greats as Charlie Parker and Thelonius Monk "Matt's as hot as they come He's one of the nation's great pickers and he hasn't even started" says Dirt Band banjoist John McEuen whose renditions of Bach etudes and "Mr Bojangles" have become banjo standards The banjo like jazz grew out of black folk music In 1781 Thomas Jefferson wrote of the slaves that "the instrument proper to them is the banjar which they brought " hither from Africa Southern minstrels in blackface — one of whom added a short twangy fifth string — strummed the banjo for both sides in the Civil War Later former slaves and soldiers toted it home to the farm and factory and to the sod cabins and mining camps of the American West But blacks soon spurned the five string as a musical reminder and parody of their past in favor of jazz also d2rived from their musical roots Dixieland and dance steps like the Charleston relegated the banjo shorn of its fifth string to the rhythm section and the forsaken g took to the Ozarks and Appalachia Flinner credits folk singer Pete Seeger with bringing the banjo down from the mountain But Seeger himself credited Earl Scruggs a North Carolinian who almost five-strin- single-h- andedly "invented" banjo technique and revived popular terest in the instrument in- Scruggs' fast fluent picking style reached millions on television's "The BeverIn 1967 three-finge- r Hillbillies" "Postmodern pickers — that is — are a different breed" said Block "They developed a melodic style to pick out the melody like a violin does If you can do that on the banjo you can theoretically do anything" But the banjo's contribution to ly post-Ea- rl note-for-no- picking While jazz is three-fingjazz guitarists mostly play single notes with a flatpick jazz banjo iner corporates bluegrass technique: rolls and that idiomatic fifth string "This is an exciting time" PIMner says "I like the comparison to the time when the guitar came into its own when tuning was standardized and when people like Segovia came along and started to write and render works of art for the guitar" Something like that is going on with the banjo he said "It's gone beyond the province of parking lot pickers" Jazz forces banjo players to take technique seriously and sets a new standard of performance "Improvisation is the heart of jazz but improvisation takes discipline You take this attitude about the banjo and it just doesn't translate" Flirmer said "You can't take that attitude with jazz You really have to understand what you're doing You have to be able to say to yourself OK I have to play this scale over this chord change" happy-go-luck- y Salt Laker lnot Defamed -- ' - By Dawn House THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE : :- A Salt Lake woman was not de: famed when supervisors let it be known she was fired for taking' her own personnel file but a jury will have to decide if discrimination fig: ured into her termination a federal judge has ruled Dorothy Yu was not defamed when her former supervisors told Utah Job Services she should not receive unemployment because she was fired for violating the confidentiality of company records said US District Judge David K Wind: - fired at Northwest Pipeline Co in May 1988 after she admitted her personnel file was in her possession because "it contained an inaccuracy concerning her educational background that she wanted corrected" according to court documents An employee in the company's records department also was terminated for giving the file to Ms174 Ms Yu claimed that a few year's before her termination a yotmger white native-bormale also had viMs Yu was n olated company confidentiality poi:- icies and was not terminated Ms Yu 51 who is Chinese-bor- n claims in her 1989 lawsuit that 'before she was fired she had applied for five other positions and was not hired for any of them Instead Northwest hired two feyounger white American-bor- n males and three younger white American-bor- n males for the positions who were less qualified the lawsuit alleges In a ruling released Friday Judge Winder said a fact finder will have to determine if discrimination figured into Ms Yu's failure in advance in the company and her termination Last month US District Judge David Sam dismissed a lawsuit by Ms Yu's husband Jason C Yu a former University cf Utah engineering professor who was fired on allegations of plagiarism Mr Yu's attorney Craig Cook said the case will be appealed' Judge Sam said Mr Yu failed to prove the university dismissed him unfairly in 1988 for plagiarism involving two scientific papers and falsely representing his credentials to a superior The court found that Mr Yu allegedly published "substantiallylhe same paper" in an engineering journal that two undergraduate students submitted as a term paper in 16-pa- 1973 Judge Sam also said Mr Yu bad included material from a joint project and presented it at a 1986 conference as Mr Yu's own work Mr-Y-u contended that information be used was taken only from portions of the project that he alone had con- tributed |
