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jCemgorehip of twdent programs,
books on the rise in N.C. schools
By Anna Burdeshaw
1 A dramatic increase in censorship
fcfforts throughout the nation was re
ported last week by the People for the
American Way, a left-wing civil lib
erties organization.""1'
I Lastyear,229attemptstobanques
,tionabIe material from schools were
Reported. This year, that number rose
;to376.
N.C. statistics paralleled national
figures Hcensorshipreqtiestswere
made during the past school year,
compared to only three during the
J1990-91 school year.
According to PFAW, the materials
jdrawing complaints are changing as
well.
! "(Censorship) is expanding. More
Jand more people are challenging li
brary books, not just required read
ling," said Cathy Stuart, executive di
Jrector of People for the American
;Way in North Carolina,
j Stuart said the censorship requests
were not limited to books. Games,
classroom curricula and specific
AIDS, sex and drug education pro
(grams are also targets for censorship.
Several N.C. school districts have
been forced to deal with parental con
fcerns about the material being pre
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When you prep for the LSAT, do
you want to master questions that
are on the LSAT? Or questions
that u.h-c) to he on the LSAT? In 1991, an
entire question format disappeared from
the LSAT. This question format used to be
found in every section of the test.
At Kaplan, we caught the change. Not by
accident, but because we have a team
of professionals dedicated to studying
the LSAT.
And we changed our course materials
accordingly. There otujhla be a law: When
you are paying to prepare for the LSAT,
you should study question formats that are
on the LSAT.
We re sure that our competitors agree.
So why does LSAT Intensive Review contin
ue to prep students for an obsolete question
format? Does Princeton Review think the
LSAT is a history exam? Are they too busy
trying to hype their course to notice the
change in the test?
sented to their children.
In the Wake County school system,
one parent complained that a book was
causing his child to have nightmares.
The issue was taken to the Wake
County school board, which recom
mended that the book only be available
to students who were in at least the
fourth grade.
Jean Johnson, director of media ser
vices for Wake County Schools, said
this particular case was unusual since
previous complaints were resolved be
fore they reached the school board.
"There are other requests by parents,
but ... they have always accepted the
decision of the (media advisory) com
mittee," Johnson said.
In Macon County, some parents
voiced complaints about the contents of
a sex education program and the age
groups it targeted.
The parents also argued that they had
little control over the materials and in
formation their children received in
school.
"The parents wanted more of an abstinence-based
program. The program
was reviewed, and ... we cleared up the
way the parents could review the infor
mation," said Gene Young, associate
superintendent of Macon County
Schools.
School officials aLsochanged the age
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level of students in the program to ac
commodate parents' wishes, Young
said.
"We had gone down to the fifth
(grade),' Young said. "It was taken out
of the fifth."
SomeN.C. school districts are imple
menting specific policies concerning
censorship requests, and they also are
establishing committees to handle com
plaints, Stuart said.
However, a recent PFAW survey
showed many parents were unaware of
these new developments.
"Alotofpeoplearen'tinforrnedabout
(school district) policies," Stuart said.
While the challenged programs are
changing to suit demands, so are the
people who are making the demands.
Historically, right-wing groups have
been the instigators of censorship cam
paigns. But Stuart said parents now
have a strongerrole in pressuring schools
to ban certain materials.
; Mary Renck Jalongo, professor of
educaoonat Indiana University ofPenn
sylvania, agreed."Most people think
it's strictly the moral majority (advo
cating censorship), but it's also from
the liberal side," she said.
Paul Hetrick, vice president of Focus
on the Family, said that the PFAW was ;
a"left-wing,progressivewatchdog"and :
claimed that past reports by the organi
Pope wants stricter
sex crime penalties
The Associated Press
RALEIGH Art Pope, the Repub
lican candidate for lieutenant governor,
says he will push for tougher penalties
for marital rape, required AIDS testing
for rapists and televised testimony by
children in child-abuse trials.
Pope, at a series of news conferences
around the state Wednesday, said the
state should repeal a law that blocks a
woman from charging her husband with
rape if they are living together.
"Rape is rape regardless of who com
mits it," said Pope, who faces Democrat
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zation have contained incorrect and
misleading information.
Although he has not seen this year's
report, Hetrick said it was possible
that the PFAW again misconstrued
the facts.
Focus on the Family is one of the
conservative groups that the PFAW
lists as constantly advocating censor
ship of specific material.
Bat Hetrick said Focus on the Fam
ily advocates censure, the monitoring
of material already implemented in
schools, iastead of censorship.
Hetrick also said the organization
never challenged any curricula until it
received parental complaints.
; "We are a sounding board for con
cerned parents who feel they have no
one else to go to." he said. "We're
getting about 10,000 letters a day from
concerned parents."
Focus on the Family also claims
that past PFAW reports incorrectly
have portrayed them as an anti-classics,
anti-sex education organization,
Hetrick said. The organization does
not oppose classic literature unless it
has been altered.
And Hetrick claims that we are
not against sex education as long as it
is sex education ... (but) what bills
itself as sex education is actually sex
propaganda."
Dennis Wicker in November. "The cur
rent law should be repealed, no ifs, ands
or buts."
The fears of rape have been com
pounded by the spread of acquired im
mune deficiency syndrome, he said.
"Rape victims should at least be given
the peace of mind of having the accused
rapist tested for AIDS," Pope said. "If
the accused has indeed been arrested for
a sex offense, then there is sufficient
probable cause to require the accused to
submit to an AIDS test without violat
ing his constitutional rights."
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Bush, Clinton race
stalls most federal
judge confirmations
By Eric Lusk
Senior Writer
Banking on a Bill Clinton presiden
tial victory in November, Democrats in
the Senate have put a hold on confirma
tion hearings for many of President
Bush's judicial nominees.
While the Senate confirmed Edward
Carnes, the controversial Alabama as
sistant attorney general, to the bench
Wednesday, his acceptance will likely
be one of the last until the presidential
duel ends in November.
Cames, who will take a seat on the
1 1th Circuit Court of Appeals in At
lanta, was confirmed by a vote of 62-36,
despite charges that he was biased
against blacks in death penalty cases.
, While Clinton's firm lead in the polls
has brought more attention to the future
of the federal court system, most ob
servers suggest that typical election
year politics dictates a slowdown in
confirmation hearings.
"It's not at all unusual for the Senate
to want to slow things down as a presi
dential election approaches," said Wil
liam Grimes, a professor at Southwest
ern University School of Law in Los
Angeles. "If we look back to the 1988
election, some of this probably went on
even though Michael Dukakis was trail
ing. Politics is not new in this area."
Presently, 50 of Bush's nominees to
federal courts await hearings with the
Senate Judicial Committee, the last step
before the entire Senate decides whether
to approve an appointee to the bench.
Almost half of the nominees have
been waiting for more than seven months
to be scheduled for hearings, said Frank
Shults, acting public affairs director with
the U.S. Department of Justice.
"That's a long time to go without a
hearing," Shults said. "These positions
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Corrections
In the Sept. 8 article "Egyptian
medical experts tour UNC," Tereza
Faragalla's quote should have read
"We are working toward that in
Egypt."
The delegation is a group of nurs
ing professionals from Egypt touring
U.S. nursing educational centers. The
UNC tour was hosted by UNC School
of Nursing.
Another Sept. 8 article, "Student
Congress leaders consider new redis
ricting," incorrectly stated why Rep.
Ruffin Poole, Dist. 24, withdrew his
plan for congressional redistricting.
The bills were withdrawn because
Poole thought he could not get the
necessary 10-percent voter turnout.
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Cames' nomination had been pend-,
ing in the Senate since January.
U.S. District Court Judge Terrence
Boil of Elizabeth City is the only pend-.
ing N.C. nominee. Boil has been ap-.
pointed to fill a vacancy on the 4th .
Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond.
He could not be reached for comment.
Although the Senate has slowed the ,
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U.S. Sen. Joe Biden, chairman of the
Judicial Committee from Delaware, has .
saidhewouldcontinueprocessingnomi- ;
nations to fill imnortant vacancies.
"Senator Biden has made it clear he .
will hold nomination hearings as late
into the vear as oossible." said a Biden
press representative, who requested that ;
his name remain anonvmous. "So far
thic war uA haiy, hplH f( hparinoc -
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which is a record in an election year.It's ,.
very inaccurate to say Biden is holding
up nominations."
David Sellers, a public information
officer with the Administrative Office
of the Courts in Washington, said 108
empty seats needed to be filled within .
the federal court system.
Bruce Ledewitz, a law professor at
Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pa.,
said Republicans also were to blame for .
the slowdown in filling vacancies.
"We've had an inability to fill our
district court in western Pennsylvania . ;
for years now," Ledewitz said. "The
White House under Bush and Reagan
has been slow to nominate. The nomi
nations here in Pennsylvania have just,
been sitting there for years."
Although the president plays a pow
erful role in determining the future of .
the federal judicial system by appoint
ing judges for life terms, a Clinton vie- -tory
would not revolutionize the courts,
Grimes said.
"It' s a gradual process to name people
to the judiciary," hesaid. "If Clinton .
were president, he would give more .
interest to women and minorities. Dur
ing a four-year term, he'll be lucky to
appoint two or three justices to the Su
preme Court, and that's not a majority." '.
Campus Calendar
THURSDAY , yi,
NOON: CAA Chut with the Coch: Mack Brown
will answer questions in the Pit.
3:30 p.m. University Career Services will offer'
basic information on how to use the UCS office for
seniors and graduate students in 2 1 0 Hanes.
Study Abroad will have an information session on
a spring program in Maastricht, Netherlands, of inter- '
est to business students in T5 New Carroll.
4 p.m. BCC Communlverjlly Volunteer Train-,
Ing Workshop will welcome Safisia Madhubuti,
professor of education at Northwestern University
and founder of the Institute of Positive Education.
5 p.m. American Advertising Federation will
have an organizational meeting in 203 Howell.
TAr Heel Recycling Program will meet at Co-'
lumbia Street Coffeehouse.
UNC Sailing Club will have its fall organizational
meeting in 226 Union. $12 cash for dues is required.
5:30 p.m. Black Interdenominational Student -Association
will hold a Bible study upstairs in Chase..
Lutheran Campus Ministry will have a commun
ion service with a fellowship meal at 6:15 p.m.
6 p.m. Lutheran Campus Ministry will have
graduate student discussion of Bonhoeffer's "Life
Together." ;
"Brothers," a discussion group for and about African-American
male students, will meet in the first- '
floor loungeofHintonlames. Information: 962-2175.
Presbyterian Student Center will have a student
fellowship dinner and program on Habitat for Hu
manity. Information: 967-23 1 1 .
7 p.m. Leadership Development will have an
orientation session in 101 Greenlaw.
Women's Club Tennis will have a meeting and
pizza party in 2 1 0 Union.
Delta Sigma Theta will hold a discussion on
campus safety tips in the Sonja Hanes Stone Black.
Cultural Center office.
Carolina Fever will have a meeting in 100
Hamilton.
UNC Outing Club will meet in 205-206 Union.
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