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High Court to rule on book bans
WASHINGTON (UPI)- The Supreme Court
agreed yesterday to consider how far local school of-
ficials can go in banning books-such as those by
black authors and prize winners Kurt Vonnegut and
Bernard Malamud-from school libraries.
The justices will hear an appeal by a New York
school board challenging a court-ordered trial on its
1975 action to ban nine books from school bookshelves
and use in courses.
A GROUP OF parents sued the school district over
the censorship effort, but the case was thrown out.
However, a federal appeals court decided the dispute
should be settled in a trial, prompting the board's ap-
peal to the high court.
The controversy began after three board members
of the Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26,
of Nassau County, attended a conference sponsored
by a conservative group called People of New York
United.
At the conference, the board members obtained
"lists of books considered objectionable by some per-
sons," according to Richard Aherns, board president.
AFTER AN informal meeting several months
later, the board told two high school principals to
remove nine books on the "objectionable" list from
school libraries and courses. Two other books were
later added to the order.
The banned books were "Slaughterhouse Five," by
Vonnegut; "The Fixer," by Malamud; "Black Boy,"
by Richard Wright; "Soul on Ice," by Eldrige
Cleaver; "The Naked Ape," by Desmond Morris;
"Laughing Boy," by Oliver LaFarge; "Best Short
Stories by Negro Writers," edited by Langston
Hughes; "Down These Mean Streets," by Piri
Thomas; "Go Ask Alice," anonymous; "A Hero Ain't
Nothing But A Sandwich," by Alice Childress, and "A
Reader for Writers," edited by Jerome Archer.
After school superintendent Richard Morrow ob-
jected to the informal book-banning, the board set up
a committee to make recommendations on the books.
That panel suggested five books be returned to
library shelves, but the board voted to return only
"The Black Boy" and "Laughing Boy." Several
parents then filed a civil rights class action suit in
1977 on behalf of the district's pupils.
A federal district judge threw out the suit, con-
cluding previous Supreme Court rulings gave school
boards some power to remove library books they find
to be inconsistent with basic values of the local com-
munity.
But the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed
and ordered a trial be held. Tuesday's high court ac-
tion blocks the start of a trial until the justices rule on
the issue.
Thesis writers may find advisor shortage
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Most theses are awarded honors, and
the few that aren't may be resubmitted,
said English Prof. Herbert Barrows,
adding that no theses in the Honors
English program were rejected last
year.
Olds says the art history department
views the honors thesis "as less am-
bitious than it once was." Olds feels as
few as 20 pages, "if well-done," is an
acceptable length,
BUT HISTORY Prof. Robin Jacoby
said her department's length
requirement is held at 100 pages to
make sure the thesis "is a piece of
serious research that takes a year to
create."
Although almost every student un-
dergoes a period of "questioning (as to)
why they are doing it," Jacoby said,
"when it works it can be the most ex-
citing and challenging part of un-
dergrad experience."
Art history graduate student Julia
Nelson agrees on the dual frustrations
and rewards of doing a thesis.
Nelson remembers spending ten
straight days in the library completing
her thesis, taking breaks only for din-
ner.
"It was my spring break," Nelson
said. "All my friends were going to
Florida, while I lived in the Law
Library."
"You look back and you think it was
just a silly paper you wrote, when at the
time you thought it was a greateaccom-
plishment," Nelson said. "But I learned
so much. Almost any writing I'll do in
graduate school or for a profession, I'll
go through the same process, I don't
think I could have gone on to grad
school without it."
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United Press International reports
Vietnam vet asks government
to block war memorial
WASHINGTON- A decorated Vietnam veteran asked the government
yesterday to reject the stark design selected for a memorial to Americans
who died in Vietnam. He called it a "black gash of shame and sorrow" that
would humiliate those who fought in the war.
Thomas Carhart, a West Point graduate who led an infantry platoon in the
101st Airborne in Vietnam, told the Fine Arts Commission the design com-
memorates the war "as some ugly, dirty experience of which we were all
ashamed." He wore his two Purple Hearts-awarded those who are woun-
ded-on the jacket of his suit.
The design was selected by a jury of architects, sculptors, landscape
designers and an architecture writer from among 1,420 entries in the largest
design competition ever staged in this country. It is the work of Maya Ying
Lin, a Yale University architecture student.
U.S. will back Spain NATO bid
WASHINGTON- President Reagan hailed Spain's King Juan Carlos
yesterday as "a champion of democracy" and said the United States stands
solidly behind efforts to make his country the first new member of NATO
since 1955.
In private, the monarch told that Spain would be of "whatever help it
could" in promoting peace in the Middle East, and he volunteered that he
has a good relationship with Jordan's King Hussein and the royal Saudi
family, a senior American official said.
"Any help of that kind would be welcome," said the official, who declined
to be identified. He added that the king's offer would be pursued by
Secretary of State Alexander Haig.
Yale professor wins
Nobel economics prize
STOCKHOLM, Sweden- Yale University Prof. James Tobin won the 1981
Nobel Prize in economics yesterday for a "major breakthrough" on the way
people invest which he explained simply as "not putting all your eggs in one
basket."
Tobin, 63, was the 10th American to win the prize in economic sciences sin-
ce it was founded in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden. This year's award was a
record $180,000.
Tobin became the third American to win a 1981 Nobel prize. On Friday,
Roger Sperry was awarded half the medicine prize, with the other half
shared by American David Hubel and Swede Torsten Wiesel.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced today in Oslo, Norway.
The Royal Academy of Sciences said Tobin won the economics prize for
creating the "portfolio selection theory" to explain how households and fir-
ms invest money.
Solidarity members strike
to protest food shortages
WARSAW, Poland- At least 22,000 Solidarity workers struck yesterday to
protest food shortages despite pleas from union leaders for a strike
moratorium pending talks with Poland's Communist regime.
The Kremlin said the situation was becoming "more acute," and Poland's
Communist Party scheduled a Central Committee meeting Friday to take a
stand on the independent union's congress in Gdansk last week.
"We do not want talks with the government," said Grzegorz Popielczyk,
Solidarity leader in Zyrardow, a linen-producing center west of Warsaw
"We want the decisions that will deliver us food."
Some 12,000 workers in u1 factories in Zyrardow put down their tools at 6
a.m., as-did about 10,000 unionists in Tomaszow Mazowiecki and Niewiadow,
south of Warsaw, union officials said.
Strike alerts also were reported in at least three centrat Polish towns over
the food issue, and thousands of workers said they would strike 18 chemical
plants in different cities today for more vacation time.
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Wednesday, October 14, 1981
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NEW YORK(UPI) - Most of the
nation's banks lowered their prime
rates to 18 percent from the prevailing
19' percent yesterday and while many
analysts expect fuirther drops, one
economist said rates still are toohigh to
help housing.
Citibank, the nation's second largest
commercial bank, took the lead and
was followed by almost all major
banks, including No. 1 Bank of
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third in sike, moved to 18% percent last
week. United Missouri Bancshares a
regional bank holding company, moved
to 173/4 percent from 18 /.
The prime has lagged far behind a
sharp drop indother rates, but there
"will be a tendency now for banks to
undercut one another on thd'-pr1lme rate
and this should take it down to the 16-17
percent level by the end of the year."
said David Jones, economist at Aubrey
G. Lanston & Co.
Roger Anderson, chairman of Con-
tinental Illinois, one of the banks that
lowered its rate, said the prime "has.
trailed the decline in other short terx
money market rates principally
because of the many uncertainties ad-
ssociated with overall economic and
monetary conditions."
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