The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 32, Milford, Kosciusko County, 29 August 1979 — Page 17

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Prestigious Saturday Review focuses on explosive Warsaw school situation

The July 21 issue of the nationally-circulated Saturday Review has become a prized issue around Warsaw. The few copies that periodically arrive at the downtown Warsaw bookstore were quickly gobbled up. and at this time Xeroxed copies of an article in that issue entitled "The Privacy Snatchers - Are Information Gatherers Violating Your Rights?" are being passed around surreptitiously. Writing under the heading “Book Burning in the Heartland," Stephen Arons, an attorney and professor of legal studies, zeroes in on the school crisis of 1977 and 1978 in the Warsaw Community schools, that caused a period of disquiet among anxious parents, students, teachers and school administrators. He wrote, “Warsaw suffered a massive seizure of antiintellectualism that nearly the good will and common sense of its residents and left the town shaking.” As early as July 19, 1977, he wrote, the school board banned the textbook Values Clarification which had been in use in an elective high school course for two years. Principal Clayton Smith then forbade teacher Teresa Burnau. an English teacher who had been assigned a Women in Literature course, from using "The Stepford Wives' and “Growing Up Female in America" “because someone in the community might be offended by their criticism of traditional roles for women " Go Ask Alice The book "Go Ask Alice" w&s ordered taken from the school's bookshelves and seems to have caused the most fuss. Principal Smith struck again and ordered LEGALS NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS OF ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS Notice is hereby given the taxpayers of the City ot Warsaw. Kosciusko County, Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said municipal corporation at their regular meeting place at ZOO p.m. on the 17th day of September, 1979, will consider the following additional appropriations which said officers consider necessary to meet the ex traordinary emergency at this time. LOCAL ROAD AMT AMT. AND STREET FUND REQ. APP 24 26Contractual Project »79J_ $17,141.65 $17,14165 Taxpayers appearing at such meeting shall have a right to be heard thereon. The additional appropriations as finally made will be automatically referred to the State Board of Tax Commissioners, which Board will hold a further hearing within fifteen days at the County Auditor's Office of said county, or at such other place as may be designated At such hearing taxpayers objecting to any of such additional ap propriations may be heaHL Interested taxpayers may inquire of the County Auditor when and where such hearing will be held HELEN JOAN KINDLE, Clerk Treasurer City of Warsaw, Indiana A 29 S 5

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Ms. Burnau to discontinue its use Smith banned the book because it contained obscenties. When all teachers were asked to bring in any objectionable books, another English teacher. Arleen Miner, brought in Student Critic, which has been in use for three years. It contained the words “hell” and “damn.” Arons writes — “On December 15, the Senior Citizens Club made good on its promise and burned 40 copies of Values Clarification in a parkinglot ceremony. The president of the 200-member group defended himself against charges of evoking images of nazism by claiming that he was only carrying out his obligation to the club. Perhaps it was this action that encouraged one board member to quip, in defense of a ban on ‘objectionable materials.’ that teachers will ‘have no problem knowing the will of this community.’ “Having removed the offensive books, the board moved on to the teachers. On April 17, 1978, three teachers, including Ms. Burnau and Joann Dupont, secretary of the Warsaw Teachers' Union and outspoken critic of the board's policies, were notifed that their contracts would not be renewed. No substantial criticism of teaching performance was made for the fired teachers. “After the teachers came the students. In late May, a student editorial criticizing the firing of Ms. Burnau and Ms. Dupont was published after the principal reversed an earlier refusal to allow it to be printed. The student newspaper was subsequently shut down, but students were allowed to submit articles to the Times-Union for publication. The owner of the Times-Union. Reub Williams, is a powerful figure in town, and he had strongly influenced the appointment of the four hew school board members most vigorously pursuing censorship. “Just when it seemed the door had been shut on smut. Carl Davis, a concerned member of the community? read at a board meeting selections from “Go Ask Alice” even though the book was no longer is use. The excerpts, consisting of profanity and other street language, were printed verbatim by the Times-Union. For the next two weeks, editorials and letters condemning filthy language in school texts appeared regularly. One June 21. the paper ran a front-page story announcing the formation of People Who Care, an organization dedicated to removing “filthy, vulgar material from the classroom.” The next day an ad paid for by an anonymous donor and soliciting

support for People Who Care, Inc. appeared claiming that Warsaw teachers favored vulgar material in class. “Some residents of Warsaw claim that the conflict ova- the control of students’ minds lay dormant this past winter, like the fertile fields of wheat and soybeans that surround the town. But in early spring, four suits were filed in federal district court in Indiana challenging the censorship. One of the suits, Zykan v. Warsaw Community School Corporation, was brought by a 17-vear-old-school student on behalf of herself and other like-minded students. Ms. Brooke Zykan challenged the school board's actions in ‘prohibiting teachers from using certain books and ordering the removal of certain courses.’ The class-action suit asks a restoration of books and courses and the requirement that a fair and reasonable process be used by the board in any future censorship decisions. The basis of the suit is the First Amendment right of free inquiry and the right of academic freedom and open expression. According to the Civil Liberties Union lawyer representing the students. Jospeh Bauer, professor of law at nearby Notre Dame, the central question in the suit is ‘whether a school board has a right to remove books and courses and fire teachers because they are inconsistent with the board’s social and political values.’ “The claim that the U S. Constitution applies in Warsaw has generated the early signs of the same hysteria that built up over the presence of dirty words in books and the appearance of labor arbitrators in Warsaw in 1978. At least one family involved in the suit received two anonymous and obscene letters addressed ‘Dear smut peddlers' and inviting them to get out of town and take your smutty family and your rotten concepts along with you.' “Conversations with numerous Warsaw residents indicate that authority is a central issue in these people's lives — authority of men over women, of fundamentalism over secular humanism, of the school board over the teachers, of the family over the school board, and of the parents over the children. At bottom, these people sense that their value system is seriously threatened, and some Warsaw

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parents are willing to tolerate censorship, obstruction of legal process, and destruction of teaching careers. The excesses to which apparently well-meaning people in Warsaw have been led — scripted by the local media and played out in school board shouting matches and circus-like hearings, and through oldfashioned intimidation — have created a climate of fear that has chilled the exercise of freedoms of speech, press, and inquiry and effectively suspended the First Amendment in Warsaw . “There are, in fact, many parents in Warsaw who oppose the actions of the school board and look to the federal district court to overturn them But these dissenting parents feel they cannot afford to speak out One woman said she would like to support the high-school students' suit but that if she did, her husbands business would be ruined. The religious faction,.she said, seems to have great power over what is done and said ' A professional who hoped for some sort of compromise pointed out that obviously there's a lot of power being wielded here and your career can be ruined if you talk about it.' What most people were afraid to talk about was that much of this power was being wielded by the owner of the newspaper. “If fear has neutralized community support for the plaintiffs and for freedom of speech, it has cast a pal} on the high school faculty and converted academic freedom into bureaucratic order As a result of the campaign of censorship, one English teacher has seen a grow th 6f self-imposed censorship and paranoia among teachers. The view is seconded by students who say that the high school has some very gifted teachers but ‘it is too bad they 're so scared they can t let their talents out ' One teacher remarked in her class in late spring that she could not comment on a student question because she 'might get fired' if she did Within hours her remark had been reported to the superintendent, who thought it was inappropriate to say such things in the classroom. Not only is there fear: there is fear of discussing fear “High-school students in Warsaw are the people Who suffer most from the restrictions placed on teachers, school books, and

curriculum. The dozen students 1 * spoke with described the change in their high school over the past two years as an experience of being ‘dragged down' intellectually and being personally bullied and intimidated when taking any action to change things Although they freely acknowledge that some students support the school board, they claim ‘there are many more on our side than anybody really thinks. * Intercoms were described as two-way listening devices for administrative surveillance of teachers and students, continuing censorship of yearbok production and of reading materials was alleged, and personal and locker searches by police dogs were related. All the students in one lively discussion of the school agreed that it is as bad as “The Scarlett Lettef?”' None }iad ever discussed the First Amendment, the function of civil liberty in .America, or historical threats to liberty such as McCarthyism. or the red scares of the 1920's in any history class. “For all their spirited resentment of having their education become the pawn of a local social struggle, these students went out of their way to show that they did not disrespect their parents though they differed strongly with some of their fundamentalist views. Many had read at least one of the banned books and did not see what all the fuss was about But they felt they could not be any more public or energetic about their own interests. "My parents. “ said one 17-year-old girl, “tell me not to get involved] They say we have.* to live in this community!' An 18-year-old seemed to see how she too might become a fearful parent and support intimidation and condone hysteria. If you don't go to college, and you stay here for a year. Warsaw will get its claws in you and you'll never leave ' “The school Superintendent, Dr. Charles Bragg, also has been . swept along by the fear of publicaccusation and by the polarizing irrationality of conflict over orthodoxy. As he focuses on the competing values of those who struggle to have themselves declared the majority that rules the schools, he becomes un comfortable and confused: ‘lam a traditional person. I am a progressive. 1 just want the education that is best for the kids.' The hysteria in town has removed the possibility of diversity or compromise, and Bragg knows that his own survival depends on knowing who speaks for the mean in Warsaw “The hysteria over smut in Warsaw's schools has become a cover beneath which personal and politcial agendas can be carried out, political bases can be created or destroyed, and insecurities about modern life vented. Warsaw is an anti-union town in which the teachers' union is new and disliked by management. The obscenity-in-schools struggle has been used to weaken the teachers' union*. split it, and cover up the arbitrary firing of teachers. One local politician who campaigned to create an elective school board pinpointed this aspect of the power struggle in an ad that read. ‘The current thinly disguised union-busting activities promoted by the local media monopoly have ruined the careers of several very capable teachers while forcing others out of the community.' “Beneath all this, it is politics as usual in Warsaw. The town has “been run for years, according to several insistently anonymous residents, by one man. the owner of the local radio station and newspaper. By orchestrating a combination of school-board appointments, media blitz, and citizens groups unaware of whose interests they serve, his center of power has been preserved and increased to include the schools, while People Who Care is given the feeling that they have won some influence over children's education. ■ “Whether unwittingly used or not, the sincerity of the beliefs of People Who Care is no less than those of their opponents. But in the flush of what apears to be a successful bid to take over the schools, they have lost touch with the fact that their beliefs are no more worthy than those of other parents. Asked what a school board should do when confronted with two groups of parents whose values and beliefs are diametrically opposed, one member or People Who Care answered in a single breath, ‘Let the majority rule. No problem School decisions should be based on the absolutes of Chrsitian behavior.’ He could not see himself in the minority, as fundamentalists in most parts of America are. This assumption that schooling decisions are the province of the majority has made possible, perhaps even, made inevitable, the hysteria in Warsaw and in the increasing number of other places wracked by censorship struggles.

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