Show Memory of a Utah Lynching U B-- 1 men vnn out women jau U- -l Utahs Independent Voice Since 1871 Volume 255 Number 152 SUNDAYMARCH 15 1998 The Salt Lake Tribune 143 Sooth Mam Street 1998 (801)237-280- Salt Lake City Utah 84111 Guns at the Games How Will Utahs Liberal Laws Play at the Olympics? in competition and then grew angry when five unused rounds were discovered in a wastebasket The guns themselves were kept in a weapons locker and athletes had to undergo a high-tec- h identification scan of their retinas before they could claim their rifles The International Olympic Committee has always left security issues up to the host city according to Mike Moran of the US Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs Ive never heard of the IOC asking for a change in the policy of the host nation Moran added g Olympic history works against Utah's tradition though Policy at recent Games always has favored safety over the Second Amendment All spectators in Nagano and in Barcelona Lillehammer and Atlanta were made to walk through metal detectors before entering an arena Security at an Olympic event is like going into an BY TOM ZOELLNER THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Will Olympic spectators be able to pack handguns into the figure-skatin- g competition in 2002? There is nothing in Utah law to stop it a loophole e which may prefigure a conflict between the states liberal concealed-weapon- s law and the authority of a property owner or public official to keep guns out of certain places More than 15000 Utah gun owners have permits to go nearly anywhere including sports arenas churches grocery stores and schools with a handgun hidden in their clothing This type of pregame political difficulty would have been unimaginable in Japan a nation where handguns are almost unknown Gun restrictions are so tight that the Japanese biathlon team was not allowed to practice with real bullets before the 1898 Winter Games in Nagano Unbending local officials insisted that visiting biathlon teams keep track of each and every bullet used high-profil- Cheers! When it's time to have just one drink nothing beats martini chic A profile of America's most enduring cocktail gun-totin- Ed Hance SEARCHING THE SNOW Rescuers work around a car caught in one of several Little Cottonwood Canyon slides Saturday One man was hurt seriously See B-- See OLYMPICS Page SUNDAY M S X Section J X Z I E M Utahns of Many Backgrounds Gather for St Paddys Parade INSIDE SECTIONS Feel-Goo- d Myth BY REBECCA WALSH WEATHER and CONNIE COYNE Mostly sunny skies across the state with highs in the 50s and 60s Kids Charities Marketing a IN STEP WITH THE IRISH inside the Travel section 1 A-- 9 Page A-1- Maybe everyone is Irish on St Paddys Day in Chicago Boston and New York But in Utah we all are who we are and Irish and alike march in the annual St Patricks Parade Even green dogs are welcome What started 20 years ago as a celebration by the Hibernian Society of Utah has turned into a multicultural salute to the one Scottish bagimmigrant society n pipe and dram unit had an drummer and a number of tiny leprechauns had a decidedly Latino look Much less structured than Utahs July 24th extravaganza the St Patricks assembly is more of a ramble If you register to march fine If you just show up also fine they work you into the fabric of 3 Opinion Utah should protect its residents against infringements on First Amendment rights Pago AA-- 1 non-Iris- Sports The home winning streak goes on for U of U gymnasts 145 straight Page C-- l - BY LISA ANDERSON h CHICAGO TRIBUNE African-America- THE ARTS Ballet Wests professionals will share the Capitol Theatre stage with Page P-- 1 fifth-grade- rs BUSINESS shamrocks Many dont know what their homeowners insurance policy covers do you? Page E-- 1 green hats and people dressed as dancing beer bottles For Saturdays 10 am step-of- f Salt Lake City police estimated the crowd at 2000 parade organizers said they counted 20000 Whatever This is a two-hohappening in which participants may well exceed onlookers And thats wbat makes the parades evolution so interesting in a state where everyone except the American Indians basically immigrated to a desert Everybody can kiss the Blarney Stone at least once a year LDS Irish Irish said Ronald Coleman vice president for diversity and faculty development at the University of Utah This shows the inclusiveness of American life The patron saint would look down and say thats good The Irish immigrant experience in some ways mirrors the experience of all racial and other ethnic groups in America Bigotry was displayed toward them people used racial and religious epithets Coleman said so aU immigrant Travel In the words of a popular song: "If you ever go across the sea to Ireland Page H-- 1 Attitude Italian designers are forgoing creativity for practicality in next winters fashions Page Sponsored Children Get Few Or No Benefits Study Finds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE J-- 8 PARADE non-LD- The world got you down? Take heart: You can live longer bet-te- r and wiser Inside INDEX See PARADE Page S3 Salt Lake's parade In pictures adoptees seek their roots Dubliners tour of his hometown Irish A A-1- In Mali a major childrens charity accepted thousands of dollars from donors to sponsor children who were dead In Africa a charity worker fabricated letters to a donor on behalf of a child who had been dead for nearly four years In Brazil a child sponsorship agency spent more money on dance lessons and computers in one project area than it did on food and health care for children In Haiti a charity denied malaria medicine to a sponsored child explaining that it does not provide free care or medicine lest it promote dependency Americans are most familiar with child sponsorship through nightly TV g appeals that promise miraculous results for a donation of less than a dollar a day Potential donors are told they can transform the life of a desperately poor child from one ravaged by disease and despair to one fiUed with health and hope merely by becoming sponsors But a yearlong Chicago Tribune inquiry into four of the leading child sponsorSave the Children ship organizations Federation Inc Childreach Children International and the Christian Childrens Fund found this promise of an affordable miracle to be achingly hollow Sponsored youngsters often received few or no benefits and in the worst cases children had been dead for years while unwitting donors continued to sponsor them The Tribune found that the notion of individual child sponsorship exists primarily as a marketing myth Costly and hampered by the logistical difficulties posed by some of the poorest and most remote places on Earth child sponsorship succeeds far g better as a engine than it does as a vehicle for providing benefits to the children whose faces sustain it agencies vigorously fund-raisin- S 0 fund-raisin- 0 A-- 1 Rick Eg&nTb 1 A Sail Lake Tribune leprechaun Lyle Arner 8 hurls a snowball into the crowd from Alta's float in Sait Lake City's annual St Patrick's Parade H-- 1 pipe-chewin- g See CHARITIES Page Alls Fair Now in Love and Politics Getting to the Roots of Gender Discrimination BY PATTY HENETZ Lewinsky Legacy Sends a Message To National Candidates: You Can Run But You Cant Hide Anything THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE BY CHUCK RAASCH GANNETT NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON After Monica Lewinsky? Hang on for the constraints on privacy and taste may have been totally stripped from coverage of national political campaigns Basically anything goes said Tom Rosenstiel a former journalist who now runs a media-studie- s organization I dont think any question is said Keith Appell a GOP media strategist Said Ray Strother a Democratic consultant who advised Gaiy Hart during the Donna Rice scandal that derailed Harts presidential campaign in 1987: We have a moral sieve out there that the candidates have to go through and I dont think there will be many who will fit the mesh Many deplore the trend and worry it further will erode public confidence in politics Some throw the and listeners Mame back on off-limi- ts riders A-- 4 bonanzas to media peddling presidential sex Some blame the unrestrained echo chambers of the Internet and talk TV Others see prying as purification This generation of public officials needs to be very focused on public and private morality and ethics and integrity said Oklahoma Republican Gov Frank Keating who may run for president in 2000 But what is wrong with that? That is the way everyone should be The anything-goe- s media mentality night rightly give people pause he conceded But the reality is that this is a scalding profes- - See CAMPAIGNERS Page A-- 3 In the spring of 1975 a group of activists in Ithaca NY formed Working Women United and held a gathering where for the first time sexual harassment was formally defined as the treatment of women as sex objects At the time it was a revolutionary idea a clear if radical way to interpret an otherwise fuzzy concept of gender equity first advanced in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and feminists seized on it Understanding sexual harassment was a necessary evolutionary step for women looking to the courts to ensure full access to the masculine world of paid work In 1886 the US Supreme Court ruled that sexual harassment amounts to discrimination if it creates a hostile environment in the workplace Judges and juries since have increasingly been willing to rule in favor of women who sued employers or for sexual transgressions But now says Yale University law professor Vicki Schultz it is time for a more mature understanding of gender equity Because sexual harassment is merely a symptom Sexuality is not the problem discrimination is If juries fail to make the distinction and focus instead on protecting women from sexual violrtion -- - i ft they will miss the point that workplaces are fundamentally hostile because the world of work is systematically gender-biase- d If you could wave a magic wand and give all the women of the world access to work that paid as well and gave them the same kind of social standing and success as men have you would make significant progress says Schultz We wouldnt have to be so worried about policing sexual conduct It is not all about rape It is about being excluded from something as meaningful as making a living doing what you want to do Schultz who next month will publish an article in the Yale Law Journal that proposes an evolutionary leap in our cultural understanding of gender equity believes the drive to hunt down and punish individual sexual harassers is unproductive Far better and far more difficult to reshape the culture that breeds harassment in the first place on the problem always It is putting a Band-Ai- d just to fire the harassers without changing the structure says Schultz Most people are concerned with protecting others from gross sexual harassment she continues But most people dont think the law is meant to fire someone who tells an joke Lets look at off-col- See DISCRIMINATION Ppge A-- 6 |