European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 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 organization of summer Camps has been on the record for two years with a Resolution opposing 12-Monthschooling, fretting that it would reduce organized camping a vital component in the development and education of the whole  and while the International association of amuse ment Parks and attractions has  take a formal position 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 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 year round schedule said the benefits outweigh any business lost from a Shorter summer vacation. If you re going to run your life around summer amp 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-week 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 Are 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 Ballinger 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 of the University of Georgia s College of education in t so sure. He said the research is too sketchy. And anyway he said the key fac Tor is not whether vacation time is fragmented but How much time students spend in the classroom. The key variable is the number of Days in the school year Buccino said. The japanese school year is 240days compared with 180 Days 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. R in the stars and stripes 10 years ago nov. 30,1.983 service Mem ers and Federal civilians will get a pay raise effective Jan. 14 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 Gorman inter ests had extended peace coolers to Tho allies were denied by . Secretary of state Cor doll Hull at a Washington news conference. World War ii 50 years ago today nov. 30 Tho  scat to ,.li Sov Tel front. I a thl dolt y to sit Mnich d Oslo d to in i d1t� . I i i is Ftp i Tom i v i kit nut it i n o v-i.f-. Or � if of i i .1, i to. N  t i oin  tit  i Ian i " an  a u " l i of n �3 i oif i Al if o  it v it i 1 a a \. Ink h j sexy videos trigger Flap at University Iowa City Iowa 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 Are 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 Zum 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.  Lings 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 to 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 raw Lings said of the policy. It gives us. A certain uniqueness in american higher Educa Tion that t think none of us  the policy is unsound awkward and an to Ybarra sment to the school said Robed o  founding director of the i  Jeff Erson Ynter Tor the Pec searching for the driveway Irma Miller of Greenfield wis., 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. Milf fans found too poor of get dental treatment to. A v. I 11 1 n of i acc impression at the i Misity  in  Etc Vilie. 1 Don t think there and que us a Fiji us ii not a a i .11 i tie e Aat pi.-. Ook to i m non that a Clute 4. 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