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May-June 1988 so „. CANADA'S NEWSPAPER FOR UKRAINIAN STUDENTS Summiteers Run Amok The Toronto Economic Summit pages of the international trees and various shrubbery. It also happened. What happened, what newspapers. (One of the privileges contained a waterfall, and a romantic really happened, I could not say, but of media accreditation was access to bridge, which traversed one of the know it happened. Oh, of course most of the world's news wire two small water holes. one read all the beautiful stuff in the services as well as free copies of As one entered the Summit Square, newspapers and magazines, saw and newspapers from all G-7 countries. one stepped into a fairyland. It was heard glorious happenings on the However, Toronto newspapers were no longer Ontario, nor was it nightly national news. But none of easily found while other papers were Toronto, nor was it Canada. It was those things really happened. Well scarce.) The newspaper articles had not like any place on the face of the they happened, but not to the extent very little of substance, and the earth. Everything in the Summit that the reporters and journalists, substance that they had was usually a Square was free. (The only thing that SOMMET-TORONTO-SUMMIT who do that for a living, reported it rehash of pre-summil expectations was really missing were carnival to be. and predictions. In fact, the pre- rides.) One could eat and drink till See, the Toronto Economic Summit summil articles were so accurate in one literally blew up. much food. runaway success at the summit was was one of the biggest media non- predicting the content of the summit The journalists, for it was only BURP! that aside from the main deli tent, events ever to be staged in Canada. that the summit need not nave been members of the esteemed news media Unfortunately no proper statistical there were a few other vending There were roughly 5,000 reporters held. The only interesting articles in allowed onto this hallowed land, information exists for the amount of stands spread around the Summit from all parts of the world hunting the news media dealt with the things proved themselves to be of good beer consumed. (Beer, as was Square. No lines, no fuss. It was Cor some shred of news report. happening as a result of the summit, mettle by- eating all die food that was everything else, was available free simpler to just get a hot dog after a The news was set out months in usually focusing on the happenings budgeted for the length of the four 24 hours a day for the length of the few hours of lolling around the advance of the actual summit. Only at the Summit Square. day summit in one and a half days. summit. This in purilan Ontario.) media center looking important and a few words of the final communique The Summit Square was the Statistics lime (culled from the There was a noticeable lack of any busy, than il was to plan for a meal were altered during the course of the centerpiece of the summit. 5,000 Globe & Mail): 16,000 boxes of real alcohol. I guess that giving at specific times. The "deli-sliks" Summit. Nevertheless, the poor news media types cavorted in this "Shopsy's dcli-stik's" disappeared away alcohol would not be seen as a were so popular because the media journalists and reporters, hard former six acre parking lot. It was in three hours - several thousand hot very positive move by some center was located across the street pressed by their editors, were forced most frequently described as an oasis dogs were eaten every hour - the members of society. As well no from the Summit Square in the to submit pages of material to fill the by the various news sources. It was a operation manager of Shopsy's found statistics existed for the other eating Metro Toronto Convention Centre, daily news. collection of tents, vending carts, that there were four times as many places in the Summit Square, there and since that place had a contracted This point was well illustrated by television towers tables with people eating as he expected, and were two other ones which served full time caterer, food was not free. the types of articles which filled the umbrellas, water holes, fountains, that they were eating eight limes as "real" food. The reason for Shopsy's AMOK CON'T PG.6 MAY - JUNE, 1988 VOL. 20 NO.100 1 INSIDE . • • • EDITORIAL PG.2 LETTERS PG.2 RAMBLING MIND PG.3 KOWALIW PG.4 KGB PG.4 PG.5 HEAT-WAVE PG.7 MUSHROOM PG.8 ARCHAEOMETRY PG.9 OPEN LETTER PG.10 PG.10 ) PG.I1 PG.ll Bashfull, Sneezy, Snow While, Sleepy, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy and Doc STUDENT 620 SPADINA AVE SECOND CLASS MAIL TORONTO. ONTARIO REGISTRATION #7606 M5S 2H4 All signed letters of reasonable length which comply with Canadian libel and slander laws will be printed unedited (save lor purposes ot clarity) in this column. We will not print anonymous letters, but il lor personal reasons contributors wish to withhold their names or use a pseudonym, this can be arranged. In all cases, however, we require both a genuine signature and a return address. "Of'Millenia, Moroz, "that Russians were an inferior race," Ukrainian students' response, in the 100 issues, eh!? There are 100 issues of STUDENT in Pospielovsky and 'Ivan'" with having been cited for spreading form of an article cryptically signed existence. Actually there are only 99 separate issues, "national enmity," for violence "Ivan M.", frankly leaves much to be numbers 35 and 36 were combined into a double issue. While perusing the last issue of against Ukrainian political prisoners desired. Accusing Pospielovsky of a But there is a special issue, STUDENT (March-April), I was while he was in Soviet prison camps, "condescending and biased attitude" the SUSK 25th anniversary issue, which is not included interested to see two letters by with being "on record for praising and of "chauvinistic distortion of in the numbering scheme. Therefore the number is Professor Pospielovsky, reprinted Khomeini and the Somoza regime," Ukrainian history," Ivan nevertheless from the University lOO.Even though STUDENT'S volume and issue of Western and with having been expelled from fails to produce specific examples in numbers have frequently been mixed up, outside forces Ontario's Western News and the a position with the Harvard support of his charges. Instead, the (divine and material) have managed the numbers so that Gazette. The author of the two- Ukrainian Research Institute "for article rambls on with vague volume Volume 20 coincides with the twentieth anniversary of work The Russian Church academic incompetence and allusions to "discrimination" and under the Soviet STUDENT and issue 100 coincides with the one Regime raised two extremism." In light of all this, "attitudes exhibited in history hundredth issue. What makes this even harder to objections to the way UWO Pospielovsky blasted Moroz's courses taught by Pospielovsky." believe is that STUDENT has occasionally ben Ukrainian students went about their opinions as "pseudo-historical Here again, instead of specific published up millenium to ten times a year (1977-1978, Nestor celebrations. ravings" and his "arguments" as criticism there was only wallowing ed.). Makuch Sometimes, when you least expect it, First, their exhibition title, "One "worthy of Goebbels and in generalities. fate/destiny pats you on the head. thousand years of Christianity in Rosenberg." Pospielovsky is accused of quoting Those of us majoring in Math will be to able calculate Ukraine" was "historically Above and beyond challenging STUDENT articles out of context, that STUDENT has appeared on the average of five inapplicable" to the event of 988. Moroz's scholarly credibility, but there is no indication of either times per year. Wc, the present editorial staff, publish The Kievan Commonwealth in the Pospielovsky also pointed out a the correct passage(s) or of how six times a year. As well we have improved what is a 10th century was not limited to the contradiction between Moroz's much Pospielovsky allegedly strayed historical STUDENT problem - the distribution - by borders of what today is the critical view on Christianity and his from the truth. Ivan asks the reader: obtaining Second Class Mail registration. Things are Ukrainian SSR, but comprised a having been invited to speak on the "If you had no prior knowledge of happening here at STUDENT. We have initiated the confederation of three eastern Slavic millenium. Moroz apparently is not what the Millenium was, or who process to rejoin CUP (Canadian University Press); we areas. Vladimir "baptized the a great fan of Christianity - blaming Valentyn Moroz was, what arc coming out with a twentieth anniversary issue; we population not of Kiev alone... but it for denationalizing Ukrainians (i.e. impression would you have of the are being read in Australia. United Stales, United also of Novgorod and other major Latinizing through Polish Roman UWO Ukrainian club if you read Kingdom, France, as well as in Canada; I mean, things cities of most of what today Catholicism Russifying and through these letters?" My short answer is: Is happening! constitutes the European part of the Russian Orthodoxy), and suggests Pospielovsky, whom I do not know, Since STUDENT is now well-distributed, and USSR." The UWO Ukrainian that the Ukrainian national identity has succinctly raised a number of therefore widely read, it has become what it was meant students ' club, Pospielovsky can be restored by return to substantive issues to which the UWO to - be a newspaper reflecting the concerns of objected, had "narrowly localized worshipping pre-Christian heathen Ukrainian club seems to have wanted Ukrainian Canadian students.
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