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Show UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Shoot em up Page 5 Symposium focuses on the Beat generation Logan, Utah • Campus Voice Since 1902 www.utahstatesman.com Monday, March 6,2006 "A cascade of consequences' No Child Left Behind is well-intentioned, but not without its flaws BY LIZ LAWYER Senior Writer BROOKE NELSON Editor in Chief Utah State University's O.C. Tanner Symposium wrapped up Friday after three days of panels, presentations and poetry readings with a reading of Allen Ginsbergs celebrate poem, "Howl." The symposium, titled "The 1950s: The Beat Generation and the Power of Expression," was focused on a time of both conformity and counter-culture movements. The finale was the reading of "Howl," read by Alex Caldiero, a poet called a "throwback to the Beat poets of Greenwich Village," by the Deseret News. Caldiero performed the poem last year in Salt Lake City on the 50th anniversary of its first reading, drawing the largest crowd at a poetry reading in Utah's history. Among the many guest speakers were notable scholars and poets, but the most prominent were three members of the original Beat movement: David Meltzer, Anne Waldman and Michael McClure. The essence of the Beat generation was summed up by Meltzer when he said after the conclusion of the symposium, "Everyone needs to learn more defiance." Victoria Grieve, an assistant professor in USU's department of history and the chair for this year's symposium, said convincing the writers to come be a part of the conference was not hard. "We asked three poets and all three agreed to come," she said. Those who participated in the symposium said they felt it was a success and were pleased with the outcome. Some said they were pleasantly surprised by the quality of the conference. John Suiter, a writer and photographer who is working on a biography of Gary Snyder, a The No Child Left Behind Act is requiring that 1OO percent of students be able to read, write and numerate at grade level by 2014, and the impact on students and teachers locally has had mixed results, Martell Menlove, superintendent of the Box Elder School District, said Friday. "NCLB has resulted in a cascade of consequences," he said. "The biggest impact of NCLB has been the impact on instruction." Menlove spoke in the Edith Bowen Laboratory School's auditorium to local educators, administrators and Utah State University education students. "We're seeing things from the state we have not been seeing before and some of that is coming at the expense of individuality and creativity," Menlove said, explaining the new law is good conceptually, but has had some negative consequences. "There has been a time and resource allocation," he said. With so much emphasis placed on numeracy and literacy, "teachers are spending less time on other things." "Maybe in six or seven years, we find we don't have any art students or band students," he said. For USU students pursuing careers in education, NCLB has changed the way teachers need to market themselves. "As students, you need to not only sell yourselves as good teachers, but as individuals who can be part of a team and take instruction," he said. One of the primary components of NCLB is the focus on subgroups, Menlove said. Subgroups are based on ethnic, income and ability classifications. In order to meet the 100 percent requirement by 2014, schools are each given an adequate yearly progress goal they must meet. Even if the school, overall, meets its progress goal, if one subgroup within the school does not measure up, the entire school is given a failing grade, he said. Consequences include having funding pulled or even the entire school shut down. Schools are held harmless for lack of progress of subgroups with fewer than 10 students. "It has forced principals to become better instructional leaders and teachers to become better teachers," he said. "We are paying more attention to subgroups." A few years ago, Menlove said, if he had CaHieGmver/callieann@<cusu.edu • BEAT Box ELDER SUPERINTENDENT MARTELL MENLOVE speaks about the impact of No Child Left Behind at local schools Friday at Edith Bowen Laboratory School. • No CHILD see page 4 see page 4 New church will hold 450 more patrons Weather BY MOLLY FARMER Staff Writer MichaelSharp/mkhoehharp^ccusu.edu THE SUN SETS OVER LOGAN SUNDAY. With Spring Break approaching, students may have to head elsewhere for warm weather. Look for some snow and rain this week. M o n d a y ; Afternoon showers with a high of 37 and a low of 31. ! A 60 percent chance of rain and snow. High of 40, iow of 26. Wednesday:Partlycloudywithahighof39andalowof26. T h U fSday: A 60 percent chance of snow. High of 30, low of 13. F r i d a y : A few snow showers with a high of 29 and a low of 12. A $3.4 million Catholic church is under construction in Hyde Park in order to better accommodate the Catholic community, said Father Clarence Sandoval of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church Wednesday. As the only Catholic church in Cache Valley, St. Thomas Aquinas Church located on 800 East in Logan, Utah, serves more than 1,000 families, Sandoval said, yet the chapel can only seat 300 people at most. The new church, which will maintain the name St. Thomas Aquinas, will seat 750 people and will therefore reduce the number of masses held each week. "We'll have the opportunity to do many things that we can't do here," Sandoval said. Sandoval, who has served as pastor of the church for 10 and a half years, said the large congregation as well as parking problems the church and the university run into make the current building inadequate. The church has two small parking lots that hold 30 vehicles at most and he said the new site will have more than 200 parking spaces. "It'll be a beautiful building when it's done," said Rusty Choate, the site superintendent for Kier Construction, the company in charge of the new development. Construction on the $3.4 million building located at approximately 800 E. 3000 North, began June 1, 2005, but the project has been in the planning stage for the past 14 years, Sandoval said. Before any construction could begin, he said 60 percent of the estimated cost had to be in the bank. Donations from the parish and community, along with various fundraising activities to raise money for the new building, have taken place over the past eight years, he said. According to the church's Tyler Lorson/tmlarson@cc.usu.edu A NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH is being built near 800 East and 3000 North. Web site, in addition to the 750-seat chapel, the new building will have a 16,300square-foot community and cultural center, as well as a 15,500-square-foot education center comprised of classrooms, offices and a study area. The building will total 36,000 square feet and is being constructed on 14 acres of land, Choate said. Sandoval said the new building's eight classrooms will more adequately serve the church's religious education program, which educates youth and adults of the Catholic faith, than the three rooms the current church has. The current St. Thomas > No CHILD see page 4 |