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Show LAKESIDE Ecitiifday Sefemt6f?0 1907 State wont join program : i ,' Inefetgottoeftvc 1 SALT LAKE CITY -- The date Office of Education is . recommending Utah not par- ; ttcipate - at least initially in President Clinton's national testing program. The president ha called for , ; standardized reading tests for , all fourth-grade- r in the coun ; try and a math exam for - eighth-grader- Utahs But Jerry Peterson, ; associate superintendent for instructional services, and Barbara Lawrence, state coordma- tor of evaluation and assess- - I ment, said additional testing could cut into teaming time and cost too much. -- . I Given the comprehensive- ness of our state assessment .:: -- r. - - - .... 1 a: - ., " -- - . - .... - '::,'J4 .1- .. program and our concerns w uh the national tests, H is our recommendation that the state of Utah not participate in the w. pilot," Peterson and Lawrence wrote in a letter to Scott Bean, state superintendent for public instruction. A copy of the letter also was forwarded to Gov. Mike Leavitt. Bean agrees with his staff. lie is making the same rccom- mendation to members of the state Board of Education. The board is expected to discuss the issue Friday during a meeting at its Salt Lake City offices. ' - - CAUlCONHAO'jWXWTXjjmnor iniRNOO K PUT: (From left) Christy Youngborg of KaysviWo watches as Layton resident Jeffrey Loyola, 4, and Farmington resident Carson Busier, uesday. i Panel to consider changes in jury system hear with each other or anyone else. At some point, you will be tradition needs some updating, committee says Centuries-ol- d ushered into a smaller room, Ine AmochkxJ Pres Your mission, whether you choose to accept it or not. is to give up your job and control over your own life for a week or two, a few months at the most. You and seven or 1 1 similarly recruited individuals will be cor railed in a comer of a large room and be required to listen to contentious strangers talk, interrogate and debate, sometimes in Latin, ad nauseam. You will not be told everything you need to know or want to know; you may not ask ques- tions, even if youre totally clueless; you may not take notes; and you may not discuss what you where, based upon mostly irreconcilable information, you will make a decision that could cost someone millions or life. youve never met of dollars, their liberty And afterward, youll be sent on your way, stressed out and possibly emotionally scarred for life, but with your governments thanks for a job Not to mention SI7 for each day of your troubles. Mission impossible? No, welcome to jury duty as it currently exists in most Utah courtrooms. However, all that could change over the next couple of years as a new statewide Committee on Improving Jury Service well-don- e. lakes a fresh look at the centuriebeen reined in in modem times institution. The commitwith statutory restrictions and letee is scheduled to discuss some gal precedent. of the proposals during the annuJuries arc trusted less and al judicial conference this week at less," he said. Snowbird. And some of the "arbitrary reg for Im not sure an thing is strictions" -- jury wrong with it (jury service), but example - may not have served thats not to say it cannot be im- the ends of justice, according to proved, said Gordon L. Rob- Thomas. erts. a Salt Lake attorney and I think the jury should be encommember of the couraged and enabled to recall mittee of judges, lawyers, scholimportant aspects of a trial and ars and former jurors. invoke those at the end, he said. The way we deal with juries Some judges in Utah already is encrusted in tradition, he said. do allow g and have 1 believe it's a helpful exercise adopted other unorthodox proceto do what this committee is dodures as well through the power those tradiof judicial discretion. ing to tions. Linda Andersen, a WestminBut David A. Thomas, a ster College student who served murBrigham Young University law as a juror in a der trial last year, said jury serprofessor and expert on the history of juries, said juries have also vice in Utah could use some im s-old note-takin- note-takin- high-profi- Seminar highlights employees - KAYSVILLE Your Employees Golden Investments is the topic of a Sept. 30 seminar sponsored by the Department of Workforce Services Employer Advisory Panel and the Davis Applied Technology Center Foundation. This how-t- o seminar designed for human resource managers and business owners will help create a positive work environment for employees. 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Hill Saturdays .YOU CAN COUNT Conditioning Self Defense Coordination Strength Development Expires 101097. from 10:30 to 11:30 2441 North Main 6 Instructor: Myong Oh Sunset, Utah 776-552- 6 ALL YOU NEED IS A WILLING ATTITUDE : . ; . be- ilNILAYTONB Served I education officials are not closing the door completely. He said the state will revisit The committee is also expected to give some thought to the issue of juror stress. Residents may drop off magazine donations at the hospital information desk or in the volunteer office during the day or evening. It is advisable to remove address labels or other personal identifying information. ; Adoption of the national Attorney Roberts said he hopes the committee gives careful consideration to a proposal to allow attorneys to question jurors to provide more information upon which to base juror selection. Dont throw away those wonderful magazines youve read only once. The Volunteer Auxiliary at Davis Hospital and Medical Center is seeking good reading materials to share with visitors and patients. . test also would make it necessary for the state to abandon one of the tests it currently gives so students are not overburdened. However, Bean and other CLASSES ALSO i OPY A member on Improving dersen would consider some tation. Insist ill Students graduate from Clearfied Job Corps - CLEARFIELD The following students graduated from Clearfield Job Corps in Septem- The pilot would cost . tween SIO and $12 per student, or as much as $850,000 a year, to test the 35.000 Utah students in fourth and eighth grades. "This is nearly as much as the entire current budget for evaluation and assessment for the state, Bean said. Sometimes, we walked into the jury room with a question on our minds, but we werent allowed to talk about it. It was just left hanging there, Andersen said. Used magazine donations sought department at Weber State University. She specializes in teaching organizational and gender communication skills. Edwards received her doctorate from the University of Utah in 1991 in organizational communication. She received her bachelor of arts and masters of arts from the University of Oklahoma. She has been at Weber State as associate professor since 1989 and has worked in banking and retail store management. The luncheon seminar will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the DATC, 550 E. 300 South in Kaysville. Cost is $25 per person, which includes lunch and seminar materials. For reservations call Kristie Nielsen, DATC Foundation secretary at 593-245- le provement. . . -- ' |