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...your article about the Utah school board that banned all non-academic clubs in an attempt to prevent a gay-straight student alliance (News Brief, Feb. 22, 1996), a student named Brett Shields is quoted as saying, "Everyone suffers because of the gays." Yet, it seems so clear that students are losing extracurricular activities not because of a group of students who want to start a club which people are free to join as they may, but because of the prejudice of the school board and community...
...situation blatantly mirrors that of an Afrikaner school board in South Africa that recently stated that they would rather close down than allow black students to enroll. In the end this hate gets everyone no where. Homosexual students will still live in Utah and maintain the expression which is guaranteed every communist, socialist, Hari Krishna and Christian Science practitioner. But in this case, everyone is deprived because of intolerance...
...Palestinians. Israel can't afford to fight Hamas alone."SALT LAKE CITY: Congresswoman Enid Greene Waldholtz, a star GOP freshman accused of mishandling her campaign finances, announced Tuesday that she will not seek re-election to Congress this year. Waldholtz said that she would be unable to represent her Utah constituents because she was too busy taking care of her young daughter and trying to clear her name of the wrongdoing of her former husband. The Congresswoman has blamed her estranged husband and former campaign treasurer, Joe Waldholtz, for funneling nearly $2 million in illegal funds into her campaign through...
...school, to raise falling test scores and battle drugs, alcohol and teenage pregnancy, it is indeed a luxury to be able to treat teenagers as pawns in a church and state battle. Most schools are too worried about increasing class sizes and decrepit buildings to do that. But in Utah, they have the time and the power to wage a battle...
...Utah is only following the federal government's lead. If the federal government could shut down for more than a week because politicians were battling over the budget, then likewise all the extracurricular activities in three Utah high schools can easily be abandoned for a few years while this situation is debated. But the school board is playing with people's lives and educations...