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Show The Public Forum g, 77M, Tribune Readers' Opinions inks for Article unwilling to teach kids to be as quiet and respectful in school as they should be in church Electronic to,s. VCR's. school sports. fancy clothes and parental ambivalence all distract a child from learning A child can benefit from changing schools often, but only if the parents present a supportive, stabilizing force for growth and culture. The parents must teach and the children must be willing to learn. A teacher can do her his job only if the parents have done theirs. Thank you for the kind reference to myself and my family in the article about Mike Burdell. Ann Poore chose some of my dearest thoughts and reflected them well. My love for the granite majesty of Zion. Utah, the pure in heart. did not come through the story entirely. I am -not actually giving up Utah." but rather implanting my family on the mystic ocean because of our newest American terra, rather like the pioneers of old. I will maintain my Utah office and will be here for ski season as I am needed (thanks to airline deregulation and the phone. My phone was rather busy the day the story ran with clients concerned that I might be leaving before July for the bar exam. I will be returning thereafter to await the results. separating from my family briefly. And although my comments suggested rIbliquely that justice here was cruel and harsh, I mean only in comparison to divine love and judgment, not its imperfect political reflection. though I would not deny the perfection of all things. Finally. let me thank photographer Frank Porschatis for his memorable family portrait. fire power aS IS Mr Weinberger and company All we have accomplp,hed is to increase the stature of Khadaly in the Arab world. and the Third World in general Certainly, that was not our intention in mixing it up with Khadaly near the Gulf of Sidra, Hopefully. the United States can refrain from further barbaric tactics. President Reagan should be ashamed of himself! PETER and KATHY LUQUE Kearns RANDY LIVINGSTON Forum Rule.; Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer's full name, signature and address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reason on others. Writers are limited to one letter every 10 days. Preference will be given to short, typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writer's true name. All letters are subject to condensation. Mail to the Public Forum, The Salt Lake Tribune, P.O. Box 867, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110. BOB NIACRI Shame on Parental Failure All." The school system shouldn't be held responsible for a child's inadequate or disrupted education. Why can't Johnny read? Because his parents don't read to him, won't encourage him to study and don't supply him with the quiet and security so he can concentrate. Teachers are plagued by discipline problems because many parents are rui I tions in the White House and remembering what it was like covering Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy, there is the realization that that kind of access to a president is gone forever. When liberties are incrementally taken away, they are rarely noticed and they never come back. It is not to say that we must not protect our presidents. The nation has been through the wrenching experiences of the assassination of John Kennedy and the attempt on Ronald Reagan's life. The reality is that the nation must protect against that kind of terror. To do so requires the denial of access to an elected public official; in a democracy, that is a chipping away of liberty. It is important to know what is being lost, even though little can be done about it. But the latest development in Washington would make Orwell (his protect against the enemy every per- sonal liberty is destroyed. What is left, in OrweIrs book, is not worth protecting. We could be headed in that direction. Around the White House on these beautiful spring days, visitors to the capital can see the concrete barriers. What they do not see are the soldiers atop the rooftop of the White House missiles, and carrying hand-helwhat they do not recognize are the carloads of Secret Service agents in large black Dodge wagons with their automatic Uzis on the seat next to d them. Travel with the president is a fierce contest with security. After reading about the sessions that Theodore Roosevelt had at public recep Call for Civil Rights Leader To Resign Is Long Overdue New America Syndicate e WASHINGTON In a act of conscience, John H. Bunzel of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has called on that group's chairman, Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., to resign. I say "long overdue" because it is amazing that it took this long for a man of Bunzel's record and reputation to realize what Pendleton has done to an agency that once symbol- ized America's commitment to racial and social justice. On March 10, 1985, in a column asking that the commission be abolished swiftly, I wrote that the agency had "become the nation's single most effective perpetrator of racial polarization and its most ridiculous apologist for entrenched racial and sexual injustice." Bunzel had been on the commission 15 months at the time that column appeared. But only now does he deplore Pendleton's "inflammatory rhetoric" and "fulminations." Only after almost years on the commission does Bunzel, a former president of San Jose State University, acknowledge that Pendleton has tended to "undermine the credibility" of the Civil Rights Commis- of working and voting with Pendleton, Bunzel has discovered that the commission chairman is a glaring example of the "reverse discrimination" that the two of them have often deplored. The record is clear that Pendleton has no achievements or qualities that entitle him to the chairmanship other than that he was a black mutterer of the ideology of Afv"4'' 1,011 At sion. Bunzel still puts its mildly. Americans of decency and conscience who are not cursing the commission are laughing at it, because they regard Pendleton as the Reagan administration's designated clown. In a letter to Pendleton, Bunzel expressed concern that Pendleton has charged "those who do not share your views with fostering a new racism." litinzel said that "by dismissing the leaders of civil rights organizations as charlatans, you have clouded a national debate with an inappropriate bitterness." Bunzel finally has accepted a reality that many of us knew years ago: Pendleton is a pygmy compared with the Vernon Jordans, Eleanor Holmes Nortons, Benjamin Ilookses, John Jacobs and Jesse Jacksons, whom he vihfies as the "new racists." I deduce that, after many months 1 ) t e e it s Ronald Reagan, as decreed and interpreted by Edwin Meese Bunzel, in his letter to Pendleton, says, "Although I know nothing of your personal finances, I do know that the cloud that continues to hang over you has not reflected well on the agency." That cloud covers not only Pendleton's Small Business Administration transactions, but his being forced out as president of the San Diego Urban League after he lost that organization close to $200,000 in a "free enterprise" gambit, his leaving with some $10,000 in "vacation pay" to which League officials said he was not entitled, and his having to give back some $6,000. Clarence Pendleton's appointment was one of the most disgraceful ever made by a president of these United States. Ile should never have been confirmed. He would have been fired months ago but for the fact that an unknowing, insensitive president publicly endorsed what Bunzel called "inflammatory rhetoric" and "fulminations." In urging Pendleton to resign, Bunzel has displayed great courage. Because he must know that the odds are high that this White house just might embrace Pendleton and ask Bunzel to resign. In which case a ()nee important Civil Rights Commission will continue to be a exercise in Amos 'n Andy venality. .1 .1... AC Carl T. Rowan FSe - r--- sit-in- real name was Eric Blair) smile. It is the use of bodyguards for government officials. If you don't have one, you are not that important in the nation's capital. However, with these bodyguards, the taxpayer gets the bill. For instance, there is the secretary of agriculture, or at least John Block, who recently stepped down from that office. For this fiscal year, the government spent $229,132 protecting him. In the department's answer to the General Accounting Office on what it was spending, it said, "The only official who receives protective services is the secretary of agriculture. These services are provided on all official duty functions unless the he does not want security personnel present." Block, of course, could walk througi Park Square in Boston at rush hour and no one would recognize - Qtyv, ' rilr.,' artS2S5 ' asked Rep. Byron Dorgan, the GAO to make the bodyguard investigation for him. On making public the results of the study Monday, Dorgan said the report shows that some Cabinet members have spent unauthorized funds, totaling more than $1 million, on bodyguards. In addition to the secretary of agriculture, the report listed the following annual expenditures for bodyguards: U.S. Information Agency, $187,000: Department of Health and Human Services, $124,000: Department of Labor, $120,000, and Department of Education, $103,000. Said Dorgan, "I don't object to Cabinet members being given protection when a specific threat exists, but I don't think they need constant bodyguards or should use bodyguards to run errands, go on shopping trips and generally make the Cabinet member feel as though he or she is important. That's a waste of taxpayers' money." Dorgan did not even look at the Secret Service protection given to special assistants to the president. This cost has grown with each international crisis. And one other number is worth noting: the cost of protecting three former presidents is almost $10 million a year. d Washington has become a town. Its public figures have always felt more important in times of crises, and what better way to show a crisis than to have a show of security in large doses. Besides, this administration likes the Rambo look. But one public person's security may be another taxpayer's denial of freedom, And it may be a lot easier to correct the spending of the taxpayers' money than it will be to recover the loss of the taxpayers' freedom. The fond recollection of gasoline at five gallons for a dollar is seldom sullied by recalling that you couldn't afford a car. Hiding your mistakes isn't nearly as easy as covering up your accomplishments. Computers are more human than you think. They pick the busiest times of the day to quit. major appliance is one that expires either a day before the warranty expires or a week before a replacement goes on sale. A 40,00,40A - 7 -7 ". - 6 '' 4,' atiT:1;':E 1 FALL! , Itt ',t p a Pi: 1 '7Fla '1.41411J10 i 7 1((iti ( t,,t '' initaritill florin. . , -- - - - 1 IT '''',, - ) t j ' ' 41 I. ' -. ,;, , ,, r'1.,)tcia.-- , ' ( .- - ---- -, cp'r 41i . (E . - ,t, r''- -i t11 W YAt,.::;,!''' 1; Tr -- ,l'-- -,', t: . , f i b.11Al ", v ,:ZC'ETT:TJ 51'7TER altfq asahat 0 At allsav ;'' ttt ttialtxmatat ii. IL 3971, . i , L. , ty,,,,, '' c RAISE PRICES itso, ,k I 1 -- Mb I:, 11,,, - 111 Siit:. - 4 w"," Will y e-- l) ',, Itittfart- 11- N i AGAN ,A00 -- re A 1, 411 I ... ', My Words Are Not for Textbooks Chicago Tribune Service ..,--- All I remember about the textbooks I had in school is that most of them u rent very good. We learned more from the teachers than from the books and the teachers who relied most on textbooks were the weakest. I have a letter written by Barbara Everett, "editor, Language Arts De- partment, Elementary-Hig- to make it simpler for a child to understand so the best course to follow is to say it or write it as well as you are able. Don't give them seventh grade baby talk. The trouble with most textbooks Ls, they've turned into characterless pap. So many groups are applying so much pressure to teachers. boards of education and textbook publishers that by the time everything anyone objects to has been deleted there's nothing of any substance left. - Itl,A Divi- h sion" of the Merrill Publishing Company, one of the biggest in the textbook business. You can bet that when anyone announces herself as editor of the Language Arts Department of anything, you're in for trouble. It turns out that Barbara wants my permission to use an essay I wrote for inclusion in one of their seventh grade textbooks but she wants to make some changes in it. "I have marked the changes we would like to make," the letter says. "I have made slight editions to paragraphs one and two so that the readability will be closer to seventh grade. In paragraph five I deleted references to cookies, which are junk food and therefore may not be mentioned in textbooks." Well, Barbara, in answer to your question of whether Merrill may use my essay in its textbook, no. Andy Rooney I think seventh graders would probably understand the essay the way I wrote it but even if they could not, I have no inclination to try to make it any easier for them. No writer, except maybe Bill Buckley. likes to exclude anyone from understanding what he's written but it is almost always wrong for a writer, or for that matter a parent or a teacher, to talk down or write down to anyone. If you write simply and directly, children will understand. Even if they are a little confused at first, they'll get the general idea. Then they'll associate the general idea with the words you've used and get to understand them. This is the learning process. By the time children reach the seventh grade, teachers should be talking to them the way they talk to adults. For one thing, it is almost impossible for an adult to judge what changes should be made in a sentence Now, Barbara, while I have your attention, let me talk to you about cookies. I don't know how to start but let me just say that the cookies Aunt Anna made were not junk food. There are a lot of commercial cookies that aren't junk food, either. Have you tried Pepperidge Farms crisp molasses cookies recently or their oatmeal raisin? On behalf of the cookie-maker- s and cookie-eater- s of the world. amateur and professional. I resent your slurring reference to our product. Does Merrill really think that by never mentioning the word cookie in one of its textbooks, it will improve the health of the nation? No, Barbara, I don't want anything I've written used in a junk textbook. 1 OA LE MMUA , 50z44 As4e44t41z1 THE NORTH FACEik Friday, April 11 thru Sunday, April 20 0. 0 0.44 49. , i SAVE UP 10 65(Yo :01 As :0. - 5 .26 AL - -P- ATAGONIA' BAGGIE SHORT!! Polypropylene Jacket with Shell SLEEPING BAGS- -1 toll DOWN HARRISON OUTFITTERS SPECIAL! OR $4995 ROYAL ROBBINS NOW 1 1 Icfp Chrysalis 25" 21b. toz. NOW The North Face Polo Shirt sseNOW $695ealil 30 OFF Selected Styles 31b. 3oz. 5 $13495 V;" Superlight NOW daii,,P4o-c-o Shirt $l 900o SYNTHETIC FILL Windy Pass Kids Clipper 25' Hollotill II NOW a4,gvecia $5995 Windy Pass China Clipper 25' tt IsSHORTS PAS NOWS14 95 Sholts crisis-oriente- Senator Soaper ' t. ............f- M117 .,.,::''),'J:s t11--' IN secretary determines him. Al7 ; 19 I, - .... The Tribune interviewed no teachers. And The Tribune apparently was not around when Bonneville counselors attempted to discuss protest and Libya with the students and were promptly met with a barrage of obscenities. Nor did The Tribune choose to find out that in many of our classes, teachers spent an entire week in Janprouary discussing the test methods of Mohandas Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. My world geography classes had been planning all week to discuss the crisis in Libya on the day following the protest. But it seems The Tribune would have preferred that on the day of the , we teachers leave our classes of 35 or more remaining students and hold "rap sessions" with the crowd outside. 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's ), !Am -- In an editorial in the March 30 issue of The Tribune, Bonneville teachers were criticized for failing to "sit down with apparently interested " to discuss unthreatening the history of protest and the situation in Libya. The Tribune visited no classes. Hobert The Boston Globe In George WASHINGTON stunning nOVol, "1984," there is the clearly defined enemy, and to 11,7, ribune non-viole- The U.S. actions against Libya are sickening and reprehensible. Why is it necessary to have an Old West-styl- e shoot-ou- t in the Mediterranean so close to Libyan territory? What have we proved? That we have superior weapons? Big deal! We already knew that. In the eyes of many countries of the world, they see the provocation and retaliation of the United States upon Libya as nothing more than the actions of Goliath stomping on David. They are not as impressed with U.S. Bravo for the editorial "Can't Do It Protests St Lake Tribune, 1 he THE1 '4 NOPTHIN FACEDu t -- |
