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In this issue/Dans ce numéro Scrap Scrip p.3 L'Apartheid p.7 GCSU toujours p. 4 Cowboy Junkies p. 8 Brzustowski p.5 CATS p. 10 Homophobia p. 6 Le Carnaval p. 12 Le premier journal étudiant de l'Université York Glendon's Student Weekly Collège • Glendon • College February 7, 1989 Volume 28, No.16 Carnival Pics!! Pouvez-vous tous voir comment Jenn a gagné comme drag 80, okay. The secret's out. You know who my ancestors are. now. queen?(pour-ce quinepatinepas vite) autant en haut qu'en bas! Drunk Driving: The Effects by Matthew Harrison momentarily lost control ofhis However the injuries and scars sleeping." When she awoke in Later she began to believe that A Glendon College student vehicle falling into a fishtail. that she received physically the hospital, the doctors, her she had been kidnapped to will appear as a witness in an Seconds after recovering con barely match the psychological family and friends evaded her another planet. It was just her upcoming trial to testify against trol, his vehicle collided head injuries and emotional scars questions and said that he was mind playing tricks on her the drunk driver who killed her onwith the Honda. The witness left behind. fine. But she knew the truth. At because she just could not fiancé and caused her the 105s reported that at no time did the What she went through after first she thought that it was all believe what had happened. of a yeai from school because accused driver apply his brakes. the accident was "an emotional a dream that she would wake Finally she was home after of physical and psychological The police report filed at the death". While trapped in the up out of. Then she believed six weeks of being in the injuries. scene ofthe accident states that wreckage someone called to that "it was aH a play, and 1was hospital. "When 1 got home, 1 The driver has stalled and the accused driver was more her asking how her fiancé was an actress". She was convinced wanted to phone Mike, but he postponed court dates for than twice over the legal limit doing. Although now she can't that she was fine and that her wasn't there to answer." Still in months in a vain attempt to of alcohol consumption. recall it, a witness says that she casts and the machines attached • See Two Seconds P4 save himself from the charges The fiancé of the Glendon answered "Mike (her fiancé) is to her were only stage props. of impaired operation causing student W:.lS killed on impact, death and impaired operation his chest being crushed by the causing bodily harm. On steering wheel and dashboard. January 24th of this year, the The girl remained conscious, accused was further charged screaming for help. It took an with criminal negligence so as hour to pullher from the wreck. to increase the penalty for this That night she was in surgery second time offender of drunk for eleven hours while a heli driving. The expected sentence copter waitèd to take her to is 10 - 14 years in prison. Sunnybrook Hospital in case The accident took place on of brain damage. For three the l ']th of October, 1987, one days she remained in intensive month before the planned care and repeatedly entered engagement party of the Glen surgery. As a result of the don student and her fiancé. collision, she sustained an open The two were on their way to a fracture on her head, fractures short errand when the accused of both bones in her left driver in a 1978 Lincoln vio forearm, other severe fractures, lently struck head on their lacerations and bruises. She Honda Civic. A witness re has been permanently injured. counted during the trials that ln her left arm are five plates the accused driver, after at with six screws each which tempting to pass the car on the should be removed by next fall. right side ofthe four lane main The steel rod in her leg was street, crossed the yellow line removed in October. The pins What was lejt ofthe victim's Honda into the wrong lanes. He in her wrist are permanent. ~p,o~Tem2~~~~Edl-to r'l-al le 7février 1989 • ~ Pro Tem Glendon's Top Voice Glendon College Student politics are now emerging from hibernation. In March, we will 2275 Bayview Ave. Toronto, Ont.• M4N 3MB see cordial democratic jostling to fill the positions in the 1989-1990 Glendon College Student Union. Next year's student government, whether Glendon's or a fellow college on York Campus, will face the consequences of student autonomy with the enactment of President Harry Arthurs' White Paper. Glendon College is also a faculty and will be less affected. Wider repercussions can only be surmised over at the Keele campus. The recently negotiated associate status with the Council of York Student Federation now means we can no longer shy away from links with other student organizations. In some ways, improved communication will be welcome. Last October's Excalibur referendum showed that our geopolitical alienation poses more cons than pros. We were uninformed, unrespected, and outnumbered at the ballot box. Only by asking back our democratic rights, and going beyond that to implement guidelines for future referenda Volume 28, No.16 did the GCSU president improve upon the previously unfair status quo. Such is the future; policies should originate from Bayview and Lawrence, le 7 février 1989 rather than arriving one-way via intercampus mail. Aiso next month, an influential policy-making seat will be vacated. The Editor-in-Chief Board of Governors is the ultimate decision-making body of York University. George D. Browne Directeur de l'information Each year, several undergraduate candidates have participated in a hollow Bruno Larose contest with unilingual posters promising political inertia. Can there be a News Editor real alternative for the electorate7 John Sullivan Consider that our campus has worthy issues that need to emerge for Assistant News Editor discussion. Bilingual program funding, our hopes of new classrooms and Emma Bordessa Rédactrice des divertissements residences, and the encroachment upon our greenbelt environment come to Nathalie Tousignant mind. ·Shouldn't these concerns be articulated by more than the Entertainment Editor administration alone? Is there not already a bilingual, personable diplomatic Sara-jane Milne voice among us with the stature to speak for ail of York7 Sports Editor Running for BOG requires campaigning at both campuses. Past political Charles Donskoy Photography Editor experience backed by voter support is a must. A demonstrated agenda will Chris Black resonate long after others' empty rhetoric. Has Glendon nurtured someone Administrateur-adjoint who can share our vision with ail of the York community? A vision peeking vacant into the next millenium that deserves to be said, heard and fulfilled? Production Manager C'mon, Jennifer Barratt. Go for if. Run, Jenn, run. Caroline Kjellberg Ch~ng Office Manager Raymond Raymond Cheng Agent à la publicité The Editor wishes to point out that Anar Kassam is no relation, Matt Harrison of any sort to Shamile Shams Kassam Il, author of What goes ~ditorial Staff on. Ms Kassam would like to point out that her blue Chevrolet Mike DenTandt C.E. Loewen Cavalier with Alberta plates "Kassam 1" is not owned, leased, Lars Tilander borrowed, loaned or has anything to do with Shamile Shams Typesetters Kassam Il. Shirley Bryant Patrick Banville Darkroom Supervisor Letters Andrea Addario don whose fÏrst language Réviseur Labels is neither English or twenty-two thousand Catherine Lapointe French. Why not invite Japanese-Canadians dur Marie-France Berthiaume Racism Dear Editor; them also? Better yet why ing the forties, astate l'équipe du montage 1am writing concerning notjust make the informa Dear Editor: which allowed the Ku Kim Mistysyn the very large white sign tion available to everyone ln response to the letter Klux-Klan to build a base Naomi Lee-Fook posted in the cafeteria near and not include the lan by C. A. Williams in the ofthirtythousand (includ Collaborateur(trice)s the ice cream éooler. This guage distinctions atall? January 23rd , 1989 issue ing a young John Diefen Naomi Lee-Fook sign boldly reads Attention This may be a trivial case of Pro Tem baker) during the thirties, Skip Shand Angophones. 1 do not but it struck me at being C. A. Williams displays and whichsaw Jim Crow Esther Ehrensaft appreciate being singled faced with such a sign an outstanding ignorance style laws in effect in sorne Simon Bergeron out because ofmy mother that perhaps it is this of the reality of racism in cities until the nineteen Jean-Luc Prost tongue to read a message singling out and labelling Canadian society - an fifties. And, of course, a C. A. Williams that has to do with food! 1 ofpeople because oftheir ignorance ofthe reality of state which is currently Jayne Caldwell am a person. 1 require language that is the cause Richard Vassallo racism in Canadian society waging an inti-immigrant food to survive. This has . Gervais Oniane of many of the tensions - an ignorance which leads campaign and is cracking la demande. Les lettres sont suceptibles d'êtres condensées. P,o nothing to do with whàt and struggles in our him/her to apologize for down on the rights of aIl Tem est distribué sur le campus York, à la librairie Champlain, au language or languages 1 country and even our racism instead ofopposing refugees. To this list, we Centre francophone (C.O.F.T.M.) et au Collège Glendon. La date have command of.