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Show Fairy tales put TV violence to shame had no place to go but back to the parents who tried to get rid of them ( or live in the woods alone) . After that heartwarming story, we went on to Red Riding Hood. This one is about a tiny little girl pursued by a vicious wolf who the damage we can do our children by letting them watch too much violence on TV. So, we decided in order to raise well-adjusted, well-adjusted, mild mannered children we would turn off the more violent programs and read stories especially recommended for young people-such as Grimm's Fairy Tales and other old favorites. We began our reading with Hansel and Gretal. Now this was a gentle story about two very small children whose parents deliverately lost them in the cold, dark woods in a cold-blooded attempt to murder them by starvation. Then, the two were captured by a wicked old witch who put them in cages and was planning on killing and eating them. The story ends with the witch dying a horrible death in a red hot oven. And, the poor kids chews up her grandmother and dresses in her clothes, then is hacked up by a woodsman with a huge ax. The Three Little Pigs features two pigs eaten by a marauding wolf who is later boiled alive in a huge kettle of water over a roaring fire. Then we went on to dragons eating hapless maidens and princes getting their heads chopped off for not guessing a riddle or making a princess laugh. And, of course, there's Snow White whose evil stepmother sent her out into the forest with a woodcutter wood-cutter who had orders to murder her and cut out her heart to bring back in a box. After a few nights of these sweet and gentle stories we all began to have nightmares. So, we decided to go back to Matt Dillon on TV. We feel much safer with him. By Mary Gac Evans PAROWAN - I've been reading quite a bit lately about education at SUSC and retired at the end of the last school year as an Associate Professor. She has seen many changes including the name change having been associated with the institution as Branch Agricultural College, College of Southern Utah and finally Southern Utah State College. Through her leadership the dance program at SUSC has been developed and she was instrumental in-strumental in the forming of the Dance Club at SUSC and served as the club's advisor until her retirement. She also organized and directed the Thunderette Marching Mar-ching group that has performed extensively, not only in Cedar City, but throughout the area. Mrs. Whetten was instrumental in-strumental in the planning and development of the present Physical Education building complex on the campus. Outside of the school she has also been involved and probably most notably has been her contribution to the annual Miss Iron County Contest sponsored by the Cedar City Jaycees. For many years she has assisted the civic organization in the contest by providing special training for contestants and the production of speciality numbers by the candidates at the Pageant activities. Not forgotten by many were her many hours in past years of directing and assisting dance numbers for the popular Lions Club Minstrel Show that was produced on an annual basis for so many years. We tip our hat to Mrs. Whetten along with the Thunderettes. |