European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago g the stars and stripes . \ tuesday november 30, 1993 year round school idea draws howls Atlanta a proposals to chop summer Vaca Tion and keep kids in school year round please Many educators and parents but have amusement Parks and campgrounds sweating. The american camping association a National or  of summer Camps has been on the record for two years with a Resolution opposing 12-month schooling fretting that it would reduce organized camping a vital component in the development and education of he whole  and while the International association of amuse ment Parks and attractions has yet to take a form Alpo sit Ion it recently hired a North Carolina Public relations company to gather research and offer results to other groups that oppose year round schools. John Graff executive director of the Alexandria  lobbying organization for 3,700 amusement Parks worldwide said his organization has found that a year round schedule did not help students and could affect jobs and profits at fun Parks. It is More expensive and does t improve Educa Tion Graff said. But Gary Field principal of College Park Elemen tary in suburban Atlanta the Only Georgia school on a year round schedule said the benefits outweigh an business lost from a. Shorter summer vacation. If you re going to run your life around summer Camp or amusement Parks then there s something wrong he said. Year round schools keep roughly the same number of school Days and vacation Days As traditional schools but re configure the vacations. Instead of one 12-Wcck break in summer for instance a typical year round school has a six week summer vacation and three Breaks of three weeks each scattered Over the rest of the year. With the holidays approaching for example year round students arc anticipating a three week vacation while most schools break for Only the week of Christmas to new year s Day. About 1.5 million students nation wide from 3.5 percent to 3.7 percent of All students Are in year round programs said Charles Ballnger executive director of the National Council on year round education based in san Diego. Field and other educators said squeezing summer vacation helps students better retain what they Learned in the preceding months. Alphonse Buccino Dean 9f the University of Georgia s College of education in t so sure. He said the research is too sketchy. And anyway he said,.thc key fac Tor is not whether vacation time is fragmented but How much time students spend in the classroom. Tic key variable is the number of Days in the school year Buccino said. The japanese school year is 240 Days compared with  in the United states. Graff asserted that some school systems had dropped year round schedules because they were too expensive and caused too Many problems. He cited los Angeles where the school Board in May scrapped a year round schedule for 540 schools ending a two year Experiment that Cost $8.4 million. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago nov. 30,1983 service Momb ers and Federal civilians will get a pay raise effective Jan. 1 4 per cent for military members and 3.5 percent for civilians sources said. 20 years ago nov. 30,1973 israeli and egyptian cease fire negotiators broke off talks with the egyptian representative calling the situation very very  a . Spokesman said no further meetings were planned. 30 years ago nov. 30,1963 Jacqueline Ken Nedy suggested that president Johnson rename Cape canaveral and its space Center in memory of president John f. Kennedy. Both changes were subsequently announced in Johnson s thanksgiving message. 40 years ago nov. 30,1953 the foreign ministry indicated that Italy is pre pared to agree promptly to a joint withdrawal of italian and yugoslav troops from the Borders of the disputed Trieste free territory. 50 years ago nov. 30,1943 rumours flooding Neutral capitals that German inter ests had extended peace feelers to the allies were denied by . Secretary of state Cordell Hull at a i Washington news conference. _ world War ii 50 years ago today nov. 30 the germans score another Victory on the Contra soviet front forcing the Rod army to abandon Korostek 18 Dij a after nazi troops retook the important Zhitomi railway Junction to the sooth. In Italy the British offensive on to Eastern end of the front cleans German forces from the first Ridge line North of the Sangro River. Ouica Elj to a i i / Vur. W h  a.  books corp and 1 a sexy videos trigger Flap at University Iowa City dwt a students complained about sexually graphic mate rial shown in University of Iowa class rooms. Now faculty members Are complaining that an order to warn students about steamy subjects is censorship. The Iowa Board of regents which oversees the University of Iowa imposed a policy last month requiring teachers to Tell students when they arc about to see explicit representations of human sexual  the policy stems from complaints Over a film shown in a German class in sep tember 1991. The movie taxi turn Klo or taxi to the bathroom was billed As an erotic comedy and a landmark in Gay filmmaking. Complaints from students parents alumni and legislators flooded the school forcing University president Hunter r. Rawlings Iii to Issue a Public apology. Administrators told faculty members in the College of Liberal arts to be aware of students sensibilities and Tell them ahead of time about any material that might be objectionable. Then last february Art teaching assistant Megan o Connell showed an eight minute video made by local artists r 160 students at her weekly colloquium. The video contained three scenes total ing about 15 seconds of men engaging in Oral sex. That s when the regents ordered the University of Iowa Iowa state University and the University of Northern Iowa to establish policies to warn students. We Don t like it Rawlings said of the policy. It gives us. A certain uniqueness in american higher Educa  i think none of us  the policy is unsound awkward and an embarrassment to the school said Rob Ert o Neil founding director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of free expression at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. I Don t think there s any question that it reflects a kind of Outlook a climate which is not As sympathetic to academic Freedom and free inquiry As Iowa s traditions would suggest o Neil said. Regents president Marvin Berenstein said the policy is really nothing More than a Courtesy to students. The warnings Are Given at the discretion of teachers. Some critics accuse the regents of being homophobic and restricting Aca Demic Freedom. Searching for the driveway Irma Miller of Greenfield \vis., tackles the Job of reclaiming her driveway which Dis appeared under a deep Blanket sunday. A weekend storm dumped up to 11 inches of Snow on Broad areas of Southeastern Wisconsin. Millions found too poor to get dental treatment Washington a millions of americans with rotting Teeth and other Oral diseases Aren t seeing dentists Pri Marily because they can t afford it according to a study . Americans Overall Oral health has improved dramatically in recent years with the Advent of fluoride and better dental education said the report by the Public health service. But the report said minorities the poor and the elderly still have too Many cavities untreated and decaying Teeth and diseases from gingivitis an inflammation of the Gums to Oral cancer. Millions of americans have been left behind resulting in needless pain in creased Cost decreased health and loss of self esteem the report said. More than half of children Ages 5 to 17 have cavities the report said. A fourth of All children the poor those whose parents did t finish High school but mostly minorities get 75 percent of the cavities. Ninety one percent of Indian and Eskimo children have at least one cavity by age 15 making them the most affected group. About 12 percent of White children have decayed Teeth compared with 27.2 percent of minorities less than 1 percent of White children lose Teeth by age 17, compared with 3.2 percent of minorities and Only 69.6 percent of minority Chil Dren get cavities filled compared with 87.5 percent of White children. Adults fare no better. About 7 percent of White americans have decayed Teeth compared with 22 percent of Black Arkjer icons. Ninety thre e percent of Whites had their cavities filled compared with 78 percent of Blacks. In 1989, about 7.2 million americans Ages is to 64 had lost All of their Teeth. And last year doctors diagnosed 30,000 new cases of Oral cancer which killed 8,000 people. The main problem is Cost the report concluded. Some 150 million americans have no dental insurance