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D-2 Saturday, Sept. 4, 1993 Sentinel IMamedropping Cultural indicators 'It's almost as if we have been conducting an unwitting social experiment, saying "Let's have children. Let's not raise them. Let's not teach them right values. Let's support them entirely on government, and let's see how they turn out." William J.

Bennett in Continued from Page Dl The compilation was issued by a political study group Bennett co-directs, Empower America, and another conservative group in Washington, the Heritage Foundation. Several Christian ethicists have voiced similar distress at many cultural trends, but say Bennett's analysis is sometimes superficial. Sociologist Larry Lynn of Baylor University says he generally agrees with Bennett's assessment and applauds his attempt to measure social ills by objective statistics, but adds that "he simplifies and sometimes misinterprets some of the indicators to make things look worse than they are." Citing survey findings, Bennett says society now places less value on moral obligations to others, on sacrifice as a moral good, on social respectability, on observing rules, on restraint in pleasure and sexuality. "Higher value is now placed on things like self-expression, individualism, self-realization and personal choice," he adds. "It is our beliefs, our behavior and our philosophy that in many instances have changed for the worse." Expressing similar views in Light, a Southern Baptist publication, Bennett contends that beliefs and values are the basis of a self-governing nation and its preservation requires passing them along to each generation.

But schools have quit doing it, he says. "It's almost as if we have been conducting an unwitting social experiment, saying 'Let's have children. Let's not raise them. Let's not teach them right values. Let's support them entirely on government, and let's see how they turn Now the results are in." The analysis says various government reforms would help and says political leaders can influence social attitudes both by public discourse and legisla- Eagle Scout Jason Rossi, right, with fellow scout Josh Porter tion, such as by the civil rights laws that expressed moral beliefs.

That was "statecraft as soulcraft," Bennett says. But he emphasizes the limits to what the state can do in "imparting values and forming character "Never before has the reach of government been greater or its purse larger and never before have our social pathologies been worse." Nevertheless, he says that when traditional civilizing institutions families, churches, schools, neighborhoods fail to instill love, discipline, compassion, respect for legitimate authority, fidelity and honesty, "others may need to step in." But he says the crucial need is for America's weakened, failing civic institutions to resume exercising their main responsibility the moral education, of the young. Vernon Brandt and the mural he painted for his grandmother, Arlene Sutton. Continued from Page Dl experience are Leonard Damra, Thomas McMillan, Donna Mer-lotti, Stephen Buffon, Donald Maxwell, Tex Ronning, Alberta Turner, Dennis Burns, Rae To-bey, and Keith Murray. With 26 years or more working as school staff are Lois Rossini, Donald Rutter, Alice Dellacqua, Nancy Yessa, and Doug Miller.

IT ALL STARTED when 27-year-old Vernon Brandt broke both his wrists and could no longer work. So while he was recovering, he stopped by his grandparents' Alta Avenue home and with a little encouragement from his grandma, Arlene Sutton, he began to paint a mural on her fence. Since Vernon would like to be a cartoonist some day, he painted a cartoon rabbit he calls "Thump." Arlene was so delighted, she asked him to do more. Soon, Snow White and Sneezy were gracing the fence. Then came the Little Mermaid, Sebastian the shellfish and Flounder the fish.

"It's so nice, you can't believe it," said Arlene, who is playing the piano for the production of the "Perils of Sweet Peaches." By the way, Arlene and her husband, Albert Sutton, are celebrating their 54th wedding anniversary Sunday. MOVING ON TO bigger and better things is former Sentinel art columnist Steve Wiltse. Steve, an artist in his own right and former director of the Art League in Santa Cruz, was just hired as director of the Mendocino Arts Center an educational and gallery program that takes up a whole city block and has a $500,000 budget. Steve beat out a host of candidates to get the job, which is pretty prestigious. "It's exciting," said Steve.

"These kinds of jobs don't come up every day." So Steve will be pulling up stakes with his wife, weaver Ann Hovey, and moving to Mendocino. They'll be living in an apartment in the art center until they find their own place. A POLICE OFFICER with a sense of humor: Seen on the license plate cover of a Santa Cruz motorcycle officer: "Two more tickets and I get the A PROUD MOM, Muriel Brooks Irwin of Santa Cruz, is happy to 55 j1 4 -'If St: '--X'S- ft CM? 721 Laurel, Santa Cruz Phone: 426-8363 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship 6:00 p.m.

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Ruffner, Minister Nursery Jr. Church Youth Group metaphysical bookstore "Devoted to Jesus, the Christ" 6:00 PM Nondenominalionai; Christ-centered, Bible-teaching Practical, Relevant Consistent Teaching Dynamic Music Loving Nursery Care Children's Programs. Awana Club ExcitingYouth Groups CollegeCareer Group Adult Training Classes Support Groups Missions Outreach Women's Activities -Senior Adults men to attend San Lorenzo Valley High sophomore Jeremiah Brister and his friend Christopher Hernandez. HERE'S MORE ON new Eagle Scout Jason Edward Rossi, who was mentioned in last week's column. A surfer and snowboarder, Jason is an avid Scout member whose Eagle Scout project was posting signs at Loch Lomond.

He has been with the scouts for seven years as den chief, patrol leader, senior patrol leader and junior assistant scout master and follows in the footsteps of his uncle, the late Edward Louis Hass, who also was an Eagle scout. A senior at Harbor High School, Jason started working at age 13 in video rentals and went on to sales and marketing. At Harbor, he works with the sales and bookkeeping of a small on-campus business and attends classes at Cabrillo College. He is the son of Donald and Claire Rossi. Got a story to tell, an event, a celebration? Write to Name-dropping co Santa Cruz Sentinel, 207 Church Santa Cruz CA 95060 or send your information by fax to 429-9620.

Readers also may call Peggy Townsend at 423-4242. at the Peninsula Swimming Association finals at Stanford, 8-year-old Hillary captured fourth place in the championship heat for the backstroke. Six-year-old Will had been planning to swim the breaststroke and backstroke, but a week before the event was rescheduled by his coach to swim the butterfly instead. The change was fortunate, since Will touched out the pre-race favorite to win the fly, then proceeded to win the backstroke by a body length. Hillary and Will's mother, April Whitney, is from Santa Cruz.

Her husband of 14 years, Bill Whitney, who used to surf in Santa Cruz, attributes the children's swimming success to lots of time in the water with their friends. By the way, Eleanor got some recognition of her own. She was privileged to dance on the stage of the Curran Theatre in San Francisco with none other than the famous Tommy Tune. WHEN FORMER Marine Harvey Edwards of Monterey died, the Monterey Bay Detachment of the Marine Corps League donated $100 to the Devil Pup summer encampment at Camp Pendleton. The donation allowed two young 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 AM "How To Know God's Plan For Your Everyday Life" Chip Ingram, Senior Pastor that her son, Gregg Brooks, is directing "The Music Man" at Mount Diabl6 Valley Col-lege.

The show runs for five weeks -and will end Sept. 19. Greg is a drama teacher at the college and has done many theatrical productions including "For Me and My 'Gal," "Man of La Mancha" and the Woods." 1 Gregg is a 1968 graduate of Santa Cruz High and has a master's gree from San Francisco State University HER GRANDKIDS ARE all wet, but Eleanor Prather doesn't care in fact, she is pretty proud of Eleanor, who lives in Santa Cruz, reports that her grandchildren, Hillary and Will Whitney of Los Altos, have had a fine season swimming for the Foothill Dolphins Swim Club of Palo Alto. Swimming against five other clubs with a total of 500 swimmers 1st PRESBYTERIAN 350 Mission Street at Highland 423-8770 "The Holy Spirit The Church" 9:00 a.m. Adult Ed.

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Six to 8-year-olds journey through "Wordville." Science: Space Adventure (Knowledge Adventure, DOS-DOS CD-ROM; The story of the space race from the invention of rockets by the Chinese to space stations yet to exist. For kids ages 5 and up. Simulators: SimCity (Maxis, DOS-Mac; This puts kids ages 10 and up in charge of a major metropolitan city. Sports: Michael Jordan in Flight (Electronic Arts, DOS-Mac; Kids can lace on the master's sneakers and go head to head against the computer. While the computer keeps track of a tournament's worth of statistics, kids get to play coach and call their own plays.

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Animals: Dinosaur Adventure (Knowledge Adventure, DOS-Mac DOS CD-ROM; Kids click a time line to jump back 250 million years to find a location on Earth to see the species that lived there. Arcade Games: Tetris Classic (Spectrum HoloByte, DOS; For ages 6 and up, shapes fall from the sky and the player has to fit them together. Art-Print Kits: The Print Shop Deluxe (Broderbund, DOS; Kids ages 10 and up can design posters, banners, calendars, stationery and cards. Desktop Publishing-Storybook Makers: The Writing Center (The Learning DOS-Mac; This is a research and writing guide for ages 7 and up that eases the tasks of gathering and organizing information. The program takes over to help turn out illustrated reports.

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