| Show jbgfe a ms" sl!- - 3 McDormand honored rn B1 Utes stay unbeaten CSU falls i I 0-- 1 69-6- 8 C-- 1 i North America rules I NHL All-St- game C:1 ar wwwsltribcom http: Human Rights Day Martin Luther King Day Utahs Independent Voice Since 1871 MONDAYJANUARY 19 MIXED-U- 143 South Mam Street 1998 Martin Luther King Losing Relevance To Black Youths sv rn it J ' -- Nikki Thomas - - M - thinks hard trying to sum up what Martin Luther King Jr means to her She remembers being taught years earlier that King made a great speech and had a dream But for the most part Thomas hasnt a clear idea of what the movement was about and why it is relevant to her It all seems so long ago and from vague to the black llth-gradPrince Georges County Md All I can think of is he helped black He made said Thomas 16 people things better We arent slaves anymore Christopher Smith 15 a ninth-gradat the District of Columbias Central High School appreciates the King holiday and its significance He has studied King in depth read his lifes story and can rattle off facts about Kings accomplishments But Smith acknowledges there was a time when he was completely bored by it all I remember I just quit reading about it said Smith who is black It was the constant badgering every year Teachers have you do the same report And they dont try to give different assignments How many reports can you do on Martin Luther King? civil-righ- v w ' LOS ANGELES TIMES Ryan GalbraithThe Salt Lake Tribune THE POWER OF POWDER in Provo Canyon on Sunday ExploCraig Haskell of UDOT inspects the extent of an avalanche off an avalanche that covered a set of the snow-ladeareas canyon sives used for clearing 1 5 feet of snow No one was trapped See story on 1 lengthy stretch of US Highway 89 with n D-- 1 Bills Seek More Public Input on Games BY MIKE GORRELL ts civil-righ- ts Confusion and Apathy: Many students across the Washington area seem to movement confuse the of the 1950s and 1960s with the abolitionist movement to end slavery 100 years earlier Even some of the brightest college students are unmoved by the tumultuous civil-righera Russell Adams chairman of the department of Studies at Howard University said when he describes his life before the civil-righmovement they are curious but not energized Charlotte Stokes supervisor of social ts Afro-Americ- ts studies in Prince Georges County schools said it is important for teachers to find ways to make the lessons about the movement relevant to stucivil-righdents and present them in interesting dynamic ways Imagine if you are this kid and if the video presentation is one way for kids to learn about King But you see that same video every year in January How do you feel when you are a junior? I can understand when kids say Im tired Because we havent created enough different ways for them to learn about King" Stokes said ts INDEX 34045 h N Details: - 234 at the UniUsing cows eggs as incubators scientists have cloned five differversity of Wisconsin-Madiso- n ent species including primates in an experiment that ethics experts expect will intensify an international furor over human cloning The new findings which are to be presented today at a research meeting in Boston offer evidence that the unfertilized eggs of one species can be combined with adult cells taken from a wide variety of animals includto creing sheep pigs rats cattle and rhesus monkeys ate viable embryos So far all the pregnancies to date have resulted in Wismiscarriages the researchers acknowledge The consin scientists do not yet know whether they need to simply refine their techniques or whether as a matter of fundamental biology nature is rejecting their creations Nonetheless several experts said it is the first inderependent confirmation of the technique used by searchers at the Roslin Institute outside Edinburgh the worlds first mammal Scotland to clone Dolly made from an adult cell Other researchers who cloned animals in an effort to duplicate that feat have used embryonic or fetal tissue not fully developed adult cells But the Wisconsin experiment also takes the cloning of mammals into a new dimension by using the technology to combine different species several experts in reproductive biology said Moreover it suggests the molecular machinery responsible for programming genes within the cytoplasm of an egg may be similar in all mammals the Wisconsin researchers said That offers the possibility that eggs of one species can be used as a universal incubator for theoreticloning any adult mammal cell including those of human beings cally at least If perfected the new technique one day could have broad applications from the development of custom- - ts ts " 01 - BY ROBERT LEE HOTZ Martin Who? Almost 30 years after movethe leader of the US civil-righment was assassinated and 12 years after Congress made his birthday a federal holiday much of the relevance of his life and times is lost on todays black youth Schools churches parents and community groups try mightily to instill in young people the historic importance of King a powerful orator who has been called one leaders of all of the greatest civil-rightime But many who are the beneficiaries of his legacy are indifferent to that fact and know little about him On the night before he was shot to death on April 4 1968 King said in a final sermon: If any of you are around when I have to meet my day I dont want a long funeral Tell them not to mention that that I have a Nobel Peace Prize Id like somebody to isnt important mention that Martin Luther King tried to give his life serving others members and Teachers school-boar- d parents say they are saddened that those words and the accomplishments and sacrifices of those who led the movement dont move many young people today But they are not surprised Someone who is 18 today was born in 1980 which is 26 years after Brown vs the Board of Education It is 16 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed It is 15 years after the Voting Rights Act was passed Martin Luther King was dead 12 years before they were born said David Bositis a senior political analyst for the Joint Center for Political and Economic When something recedes far Studies enough into the past it becomes really distant I suspect that after 40 years it is as far distant as the Revolutionary War WEATHER: Rain snow r' ' ' THE WASHINGTON POST Duplicate Five Species c f' f BY DeNEEN L BROWN WASHINGTON 0 US doners KIDS P (801)237-280- Salt Lake City Utah 84111 C-- 8 LEGISLATURE OPENS TODAY THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Talk about the Olympics should abound during the 2002 Winter Legislature which begins today But the Games probably wont take center stage That should suit Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC) officials just fine They will be in Japan for much of the session attending the Nagano Games But out of does not mean out of even 16 time zones away sight mind Well only be a phone call away said Shelley Thomas SLOC vice president of communications Well be set too Jim Jardine an attorney on contract up on with SLOCs board will remain here and well discuss with him issues for his participation and comment Those discussions could revolve around a number of issues raised in bills and resolutions already filed or being drafted by legislative research analysts is preparing bills that would Rep David Ure SLOCs of budget to the Legislature expand oversight and would reconfigure the Organizing Committee board to include more public-secto- r representation Ure wants legislators since they control the states the 2002 purse strings to have more say in ensuring Winter Olympics do not lose money An indemnification official host of the Games contract with Salt Lake City guarantees the state and not the city is responsible for a shortfall SLOC officials and Gov Mike Leavitt feel the executive branch already is empowered to protect the states position The governor has approval powers over the budget and now has a state Olympic coordinator John Fowler with access to all SLOC dealings The last thing Olympic organizers need now they maintain is another layer of buof reaucracy to slow down the steadily accelerating task 2002 for preparing Said SLOCs Thomas: While we welcome oversight we would caution against any cumbersome new system of huge monitoring which would limit our ability to get this task done There are oversight and monitoring mechanisms in place Some key legislative leaders support that position as well particularly since Frank Joklik has taken SLOC s s organization helm and is molding a Wbats more SLOCs rapport with lawmakers apparently has improved since Joklik met with legislative meetings in Utah and Weber groups in counties He was striving to eliminate perceptions that the only time legislators were brought into the loop was ' when SLOC was in trouble or needed something budget-consciou- lawmakers begin work toUtahs 104 part-tim- e odyssey -- - otherwise known as day on their y the Legislature With low unemployment a strong economy roads being built and the 2002 Olympic Games looming it would seem stat(e lawmakers have little to debate in this years session Dont be fooled The pot of proposed legislation is brimming with 895 bills so far and another 150 or so expected And legislators will have a difficult time wrangling out a budget The biggest financial hassle: schools vs highways Its a debate that will pit Republicans against Democrats and fellow Republicans Other hot topics: regulating cigarette sales proof beer and considering g hibiting child-car- e regulations And as in previous years lawmakers probably will take their budget debates to the bitter end of the session by law the first week in March But some legislators express hope that the 52nd session can finish a bit early Hopes House Speaker Mel Brown: Were goa slow ing to try to get off to a fast start and finish Shia Kapos See RESEARCHERS 45-da- BY JUDY FAHYS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE A snapshot in the governors office shows Utahs First Couple s posed on the common-folkside of the White House fence Gov Mike Leavitt insists the photo is a tour- ists from world leaders signing the historic The outreach program seems to be making points CommitRight now there is respect for the Olympic tee and some confidence that we are better off today than we have been in the past said Sen Lane Beattie Bountiful the Senate majority leader The Legislature is not running the Olympics The state is not running the Olympics Were doing what we can to protect the state There will be some minor things weU look at but no major issues will come to the forest front West sees things simiRep Martin Stephens House the in larly I dont really see the Olympics affecting the state much this session Were a couple of years out he said conapplauding Jokliks efforts to address lawmakers out cerns They are making a concerted effort to reach and this is a welcome change Because of that effort Stephens predicted that if rr A-- 2 Creeps Toward Utah BY KURT REPANSHEK SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE Introduced to the Great Lakes in 1986 from the ballast tanks of a Russian freighter the zebra mussel has spread through the Mississippi drainage system and is a potential slowly progressing westward disaster that has officials taking steps to keep the freshwater mollusk from colonizing Utah waters Native to the Caspian Sea north of Iran the zebra mussel resembles a small clam that rarely grows larger than a dime But its prolific colonies can clog industrial agricultural and municipal waterways and intake pipes with mats which can be up to 6 inches deep and contain several hundred thousand of the pests per square yard ' See ZEBRA MUSSEL Page At A-- 5 memento that marks the day a guy from 700 West in Cedar City sat a few feet Zebra Mus$elsinNortfr America Marauding Mollusk A-- 4 President Leavitt? Some Like the Sound home-brewin- See OLYMPICS Page Page & Mideast peace treaty But even Governor Gump realizes the photo could be seen another way as if he fancies himself and the missis as occupants of the grand house home to the chief executive of the United States The White House is not the significant part of that picture Leavitt offers eager to brush aside speculation that he wants to become president It was just a remarkable day Its not a new notion that Leavitt has his eye on a political path leading beyond Utahs dusty TheSaituiTnbun borders Pundits some- times mention him as an attractive GOP candidate for the White House or perhaps the Naval Observatory where US vice presidents reside ranked One presidential speechwriter-turned-pund- it Leavitt third behind Texas Gov George W Bush and Oklahoma Gov Frank Keating on his list of promising 2000 candidates A National Journal columnist placed the Utah governor in his top 12 worth keeping an eye on for the same distinction Theres certainly talk everybodys heard it says Jim Bradley the Democratic challenger in Leavitts 1996 Bradley remembers the governor swooping in to entoujoint campaign events always with a tittering rage and an air of great presence Bradley captured 23 percent of the vote to Leavitts 75 percent All the trappings were there recalls Bradley He Source' U S Geological Survey gg Confirmed Zebra Mussel Sighting Impacted Area Rhonda Hailes Maylett The Salt Lake Trib"ne certainly took himself seriously Leavitts friends seem to think the governor should consider campaigning for higher office although they insist he has not talked about the prospect I hope he does run for something beyond the govsays former US Sen Jake Gam who ernorship Set LEAVITT A-- 4 Pjige ' |
