Sign of Spring? Don't sign the cheque yet Flashers Council on campus by Gazette Staff Dalhousie's Education Build ing flasher is back. may reject But the man, who shows up every summer, may not be the only one exposing himself to students and staff. Security :: .. fee increase Director Max Keeping believes there are at least two, and possi by Dale A. Rissesco Morrison says because there is amount. Tony Martin, Director of bly three, different men baring !though the majority of no definite proposal for distri Morrison wants the fee to be Athletics and Recreational Ser all to passers-by on campus. those who voted in the buting the money, he wouldn't tied to tuition, and says if the vices, said since the students "My concern over it all is, you A Athletic Fee Referen be surprised if the money ends administration wants it badly passed the referendum, the never know what is going to dum were in favour of the up in places where it shouldn't. enough, it should be willing to council should ratify the trigger them to become violent. twenty-five dollar increase, the Morrison says the main prob extend the tuition increase athletic fee. You stand there and laugh, or referendum is expected to get a lem with the r~ferendum vote is agreement. make a snide comment ....you lot of opposition when it .e;oes that it is not tied to a deal to never know just what in blazes is before the Dalhousie Student renegotiate the tuition-fee agree going to trigger people," Keeping Union (DSU) for ratification this ment, which expires in three Committee formed on says. Sunday. years. The six-year contract Three seperate incidents have Nobody quite knows who between the DSU and the admi been reported to Security in the initiated the quest for this nistration limits tuition hikes to undergrad education past three weeks. increase, says Joe Morrison, DSU the inflation rate. Without this by Heather Hueston quality, higher standards, and On March 18, a man standing vice-president, external. He deal, the university's vice ast month's Symposium stronger student identity at Dal, in room 116 of the Education believes it came from the president of finance, Bryan on Undergraduate Educa to name a few. Building tapped on the window administration. Mason, could increase tuition L tion is moving into the Stairs says some issues can be pane when he saw a woman go President Howard Clark fees when the contract expires. next phase. A Committee on acted on quickly, during the outside. He was naked from the formed the President's Advisory Morrison expects Mason to do Undergraduate Education is summer months, without senate waist down and hid his head in Committee on Athletics to look ·this. being set up and should meet or faculty input, such as student the curtain. into the Athletic Depar.tment's Lara Morris, referendum return "soon", says its chair, political orientation. He points out that A flasher has plagued the problems. This committee did a ing officer, said she did science professor Dennis Stairs. registration has been revamped department on Friday afternoons survey to see if students would not believe the council would "We want to move quickly so but that it was already in the for the past two summers, Keep be in favour of an athletic fee. ratify the fee because it was not we can have out recommenda works. ing says. Morrison says the survey was tied to tuition. Although more tions ready by the end of May," Outgoing Dalhousie student In early April, a man in a 2nd "fudged" because it asked leading than the required eight per cent says Stairs. The Committee Union president Caroline Zayid floor window of the Life Sciences questions and there were discre of the student body voted, and 70 must draft a statement of objec will sit on the com Building by the Psychology pancies in the results. per cent of them approved the tives on undergraduate educa mittee until replaced. Zayid, Department was masturbating Members of the athletic $25 fee, there were not enough tion (to be approved by faculty who was on the Symposium as students walked by. administration attended council voters who said "no" to the and Senate), suggest how under planning committee, says she is And the latest incident, yes meetings, which Morrison says option to tie the fee to the tui graduate areas can be changed to glad the momentum won't be terday morning, involved an 18- is unusual. "It is a rare occasion tion deal. Morris says eight per meet objectives, and suggest lost. She says the committee, or 19-year-old white male riding when the administration shows cent is also required and the steps on how to improve student with its mix of faculty, adminis a bicycle. He drove up the road up at a council meeting. numbers don't add up to that life. tration, and students, "fills a gap" between Shirreff Hall and the Symposium recommenda and is good to have around when Life Sciences Centre, flashed tions called for accessibility, an issue comes up. some students, and zoomed off. Al~rvey No help for the na1veI by Ellen Reynolds this information," says Gill. by Brian Macdonald time council discussed it, stu ling will help the first-year stu he correct answers to an Stuart Watson, acting editor of new peer counselling dents were too busy preparing dent become better acquainted AIDS survey of students the Dal News, says it was a pol program will probably for final exams. with the services being offered at T and staff seems to be for icy decision and that the Dal A not take effect until the Supporters of the idea think it Dalhouse. Dalhousie eyes only. News will still cover the survey fall of 1989, says student council will make the first year of uni Peer counselling is similar to The university administra as a news story. vice-president Ian McCarthy. versity easier for the student. the 'buddy" system practiced at on the grounds that the answers "I know it's sensitive mate "It's too late to organize for "Students in their first year at the medical school, where are too explicit. rial," says Gill, 'but it is difficult next year and we want to make Dalhousie are offered very little second-year students help first Rosemary Gill, chair of the to have a questionnaire about sure we do a good job on it," said personal direction in matters year students get oriented to the Dalhousie University AIDS sex without being explicit." McCarthy. such as registration, housing, or school. The plan at the univer tion's publication, the Dal News, Gill says the Dal News has The idea came out of the just finding someone to talk to," sity is to call for student volun- is refusing to publish the survey problems specifically with the recent symposium on under- says Council president Caroline Continued to page 9 Committee, was told by the Dal "Risky Behaviours" section of graduate education, but by the Zayid, who hopes peer counsel- News staff that the issue was the survey, which describes var "under advisement", but it has ious sexual activities and rates since been decided not to pub the risk of contracting the AIDS c lQ (\ U 1.1 Q e G or .u /!} s fil \ lish the survey. virus. about the new registration process ? "I personally don't find The correct answers will be the answers offensive. I think it's published in a supplement in Take this opportunity to find out more. very important that people get next week's Gazette. 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Dalhousie Student Union fault students1 though1 as I think Unlike most issues the DSU it's the environment that is more
Council commonly deals with1 to blame. the issue of the Athletic Fee Ref- I'm not using this issue as just erendum is one that will directly an example. That the DSU Coun- affect every student at Dal- cil, moreover the Executive of housie. It's hard to imagine the this Council, of which I am a President of the university, part, did not make a satisfactory Howard Clark, standing by the effort to inform students of all September registration lines the aspects of this issue is a sad pick-pocketing $25 out of stu- testimony. Fortunately, it is not tion cannot increase tuition fees tunately, his signals weren't cerned, there is a 50 per cent dents' pockets while his too late for all Dal's students to to compensate for poor govern camouflaged enough, as he chance the Board of Governors Australian-tanned face (Dr. take action. Here is some impor- ment funding1 low alumni sup appeared to be directly interfer might accept it. Clark spent the entire month of tant information: port, etc. Considering that Dal ing with a student forum. As Unfortunately, this issue has February '88 on vacation) asked 1} Students already con students contribute more to the well, he showed up at a council led to cleavages on campus that them to excuse his actions on tribute JDoney towards operating cost of their univer meeting to -argue for the fee. (I pit students against students, the grounds that Dal Athletics the Dalplex. sity than do most other Cana guess he thought a student the DSU against Dalplex suppor really needs the money. Of Every year, for the past 10 dian university students, it only representative couldn't get the ters. The real issue is that the course, he could apologize for years, students have paid seems fair that students should job done.) And while on the topic Dalhousie administration wants having to take to the money in $35,000 towards the cost of the not have to pay extra for items of visitations to council meet students to pay for something such a blunt fashion by alluding Dalplex. The money has been which are "standard" features at ings, did anyone notice the pres they shouldn't necessarily have to the fact that he couldn't just taken indirectly from students other universities. Of course, ence of the V.P. Finance at a to. As well, the administration tack on $25 to tuition fees (making it less noticeable) there are some universities that recent meeting? How about the would prefer to give students because of · an agreement through their student union do charge athletic fees, but then, letter he sent to every councillor next to nothing in return, not between the DSU and the Dal fees. what are their students paying in stating he favoured the fee but even the ability to direct these administration. And he could 1} It is not surprisins tuition fees, and are their thought students should have funds in ways which would most add that when the tuition fee that fees are going up, athletic programs comparable to only an advisory role in direct benefit students. As it stands agreement expires (in three since this was not a "stu- Dal's? ing where the funds should be now, the administration is sup years) he would no longer have dent" idea in the first Here are some examples of the allocated? Indeed, although he porting, lobbying, and campaign to pick-pocket you directly and place. Administration's unusual inter wants students to contribute all ing for the collection of a "user could do so by just quietly rais- Beacuse of a tuition fee agree- est in this issue: the money, he felt students fee" for athletics while it is ing tuition fees. It is sad to say, ment between the university The Director of Athletics should have only a partial, rejecting a reasonable request but I think some students, administration and the Dal- could be seen on the sidelines at minority say in where it is to be that it extend an agreement to including myself at some times, housie Student Union, the the public forums looking like a directed. limit increases in tuition at a would merely smile and con- administration cannot increase third base coach giving signals 3}We can't extend the reasonable rate of inflation. tinue in the registration line, tuition by more than an annual to batters who in this case were tuition fee agreeJDent if No wonder alumni support at more concerned with getting inflationary amount for the next phys. ed. students or friends sup we don't have anythins to Dal isn't as strong as it is at other into history 1050 so as to get an three years. So the administra- porting the proposed fee. Unfor- bargain with. universities. If this situation Earlier this year (long before typifies how the Administration the idea of an athletic fee was wishes to treat students now and proposed), Bryan Mason, V.P. in the future with regard to Finance of the university, said in financial matters, I think it is a fair prediction to say alumni applaud health care, electricity, meetings with the DSU execu support will never reach its full transportation, and communica tive he had no intention of potential. Perhaps if the admin Hail men tions. extending the tuition fee agree istration would start respecting But men do not deserve all of It didn't ment. For this reason, some stu To the Editors: the rights to the fair treatment these laurels any more than they dents think it's Mason who I am responding to R. Mat students deserve, financial sup deserve all the blame. The fal controls this. Actually, it's the thews' letter to the Gazette last take long port for such items as athletics, lacy of Matthews' argument is Board of Governors. If students week denouncing the person he which are traditionally funded just that; one can't blame men To the Editor: were to propose to help support calls the seething letter writer. through major support from for all the wrongs of the world I read the Gazette now and athletics in return for an exten He says he fails tC' understand alumni, would increase, and this because that would be just like then. I think it's a good project sion on the tuition fee agree why blaming men for the prob cause-and-effect relationship saying that one must glorify and that it's important to see ment, a reasonable and fair lems of the world - rape vio might be reversed for the better them, and accord them responsi what students are writing about proposition for all parties con- lence, pollution, the poor and of all Dalhousieans. the homeless included -is sex bility, for all the good things. It and whds going on that is rele ist. Unfortunately, his letter just ain't so. Women, from Joan vant for us. But lately I've been became one of those "seething of Arc to Winnie Mandela, surprised to discover that there's a common belief among my fel Love never fails little tirades" that he says deserve to be included. by David Deaton chapters in Western Europe. nobody wants to read. Truth is, only one group can low students that the Gazette The facts about Kang Jong My response is that it is not be held responsible in Matthews' has become a newspaper about All Christians know them selves to be "prisoners of con Hon are not unique. After taking only sexism Matthews does not global scale: Mankind. All of us gay and lesbian issues, and now science". One's house of faith part in a peaceful student dem understand, it is also the stupid and our ancestors can be blamed and then about women in gen stands upon the rock of onstration, he was arrested, ity of most of the arguments for every seculat creation in this eral. Most agree that these are conviction. charged with "espionage", and about it. Here's why: world. Mankind includes both interesting and important top It seemed only appropriate thrown into jail. At his trial, If it is right to blame men for men and women. Hitler and ics, but even more are disap March 18th when the Dalhousie Kang declared his confession all the tragedies of society Mother Teresa, Einstein and Ear pointed to see that they've chapter of Inter Varsity Chris had been obtained under torture. because they are in control of hart, Oppenheimer and Curie, overshadowed others, like aca tian Fellowship (IVCF) heard a He was sentenced to death. society, then it must also be Marconi and Nightingale, and demic and scholastic issues, representative from the Halifax Although successive amnes right to applaud them for all the the whole gang including you human interest stories and chapter of Amnesty Internation ties have reduced Kang's sent blessings of society. and me. impartial coverage about impor al. ence to twenty years, the fact If indeed "men in general have To blame only one group of tant events. Readers are being people for all our problems is lost as this view spreads. He in tum spoke of a South remains there is no cause for him so much power that all the really Korean medical student who has to be in prison at all. He has done big problems can be traced to stupid. Blame Mankind: not I've also noted that the staff of women, and not men. the Gazette has on numerous been imprisoned these last nothing wrong. He has done only them," then we must also hail twelve years for no more than what Martin Luther did, lo these men for all the "really big" tri What the anti-Gazette writer occasions appealed to students is seething about are the scores to contribute articles and/or let expressing his convictions. many years ago: protest. umphs in this world. To blame Kang Jong-Hon is his name. Kang Jong-Hon now wastes men for rape one must thank of articles on sexism that ters to fill out the paper's con tent. If anyone has a complaint His situation is so dire and so away in an inhumanly crowded them for our institutions of explain nothing and contain about the present content, I chal manifestly unjust, he was prison cell, reported the authority, justice, and demo stupid arguments, like lenge them to do something adopted by Amnesty Interna Amnesty speaker. He .. suffers cracy; for the destruction of the Matthews'. about it. It didn't take long to tional as a prisoner of con worse brutality than that meted environment praise them for By the way, "God" is spelled write this letter. science. He is the special out to hardened criminals. agriculture and irrigation; for with a capital G. Gillian Saunders concern of an Amnesty chapter the poor and the homeless Hugh Paton in Halifax and of two Amnesty Continued on page 9
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C The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday. April 7, 1988 Dead on Arrival lives
by Norm Barnett Dexter Cornell, an English pro nell wakes up in the morning to fessor. One of his students kills find he's slept in the women's ennis Quaid is quickly himself after handing in a novel dorm, it doesn't really matter becoming a film super to be graded, and from there Cor because he's going to die any D star, and his latest film, · nell finds out he has been fatally way. Unfortunately, this is D.O.A., is certainly not going to poisoned. At this point the where Meg Ryan enters the hurt his aspirations. Unlike his movie really takes off as he tries story. Her character is a little film Innerspace but like The Big to find out who his murderer is irritating and doesn't interact Easy, D.O.A. is enjoying critical before he dies. with Quaid's character as well as as well as box-office success. he does with the others. As a The directors are the same young student whom he sus people who brought us the "Max pects, she never fits in with the This effort is a remake of a TV show, and they Headroom" pace of the rest of the movie. 1940s movie with the same successfully use many of the plastic name which was relegated to a same effects to make the most of This is an excellent movie for quick B-movie fate. Quaid goes Dennis Quaid's condition. The details, and none of the plot by Andrew M. Duke/NP while the brothers went tor the a long way in giving this movie camera often follows a hand twists are contrived, which leads Clash and Sex Pistols. Much a presence which otherwise held style, and as a very interest the viewer quite smoothly to the enthusiasm and lyrics about fish Front Line Assembly - Corro would have been missing. He is ing effect, the quality of the film .conclusion. This whole movie ("King Carp": "I am the baddest sion (Wax Trax!) in virtually every scene and adds deteriorates along with the has an excellent dark, grainy old Bill Leeb has paid his dues; he dude/and you know what my a number of deft comic touches. health of Quaid's character. movie feel to it, which is has performed with Skinny fins can do", "Under the Christ But the other star of this movie enhanced by the fact that it Puppy (as Wilhelm Schroder on mas Fish": "This fish is gonna is the atmosphere and the detail The directors also don't pass starts and ends in black and keys and voice) and flogged ride you/Praise God the Christ which lend themselves to the up the opportunity to inject white. One wonders whether the records in Vancouver. Front Line mas Fish!") and guns and bottles '40s film noir genre from which it some humour into what is a very whole movie would have been Assembly, with help from and iguanas and going crazy came. serious situation. Someone who better this way, but Hollywood's Michael Balch, is his newest echo labelmates Killdozer and has a very limited time to live is lack of success with that style in form of self-expression. The make for an album that is good, obviously going to be very impa the 1980s must have quickly band first appeared on the Eng good, good. The plot itself is interesting tient, and there are a number of coloured that idea. DOA is still lish compilation For Your Ears enough, with Quaid playing jokes played off this. When Cor- an excellent film as it is. Only (Third Mind Records) and The Godfathers -Birth, School, the Corrosion album is now Work, Death (Epic/CBS) licensed to Wax Trax! in If Billy Bragg got together with some friends and actually Chicago. Surf MCs - Surf or Die (Profile) rocked, his band would be called "Lurid Sensation" and "Right Take the poise of Cameo's The Godfathers. This five-piece Hand of Heaven" are starting "Word Up" hit, throw in some YOU CAN HELP from London gives a damn about points featuring incessant Ennio Morricone, along with the working class. "Cause I Said tightly knit rhythms that weave James Bond theme music, "Peter So" has a sharp edge to it: "All throughout the mix, almost Gunn Theme" (Henry Mancini you need is money and a little bit overshadowing the keyboard /Duane Eddy), "Tequila" (The Dalhousie Libraries are intoducing a new of luck/1 ain't greedy, baby, all I hazes and delicate found arias Champs), and add some seagulls, Circulation system. During the changeover period want is what you've got." Living and chants ("Concussion") that and you've got the title track to we are asking for your help. life according to the punch-in thrive and swell beneath and this LP. Nothing radical here at clock and quests for true friends culminate in "On the Cross". all except a lot of talk about Please return all material promptly so that it may and real love (no sappy senti Legendary Pink Dots and The skateboards, surfboards, tan mentality or explicitness for the be cleared from the present computer and stored Tear Garden could be cited as ning, beaches, and tennis from sake of it are found here) are on the new Novanet system. references. four young men with enough common themes paired wtth big The rest is more aggressive, business sense to realize the sounding 70s rock, Beatles psy with hard percussion and metal potential in riding on the wave chedelia, and even a bit of dominating, most notably in the Beastie Boys created. A must post-cor;e grinding. Tracks such "Controversy". Samples seem to only if you're a big fan of the as "Love is Dead" are realistic, ~L------'~ be randomly thrown in, except aforementioned or even the not merely song titles to laugh "Dark Dreams", which uses Mar hardcore/rap of Suicidal at. The epitome of this LP is the tin Luther King's "In the name of ·Tendencies. title track: 'Tve been abused and Jesus . . ." as its foundation. Cl II 11111111111111111 I've been confused/And I've "Thewrack Part III - Wisdom" concludes Corrosion in a rather kissed Margaret Thatcher's shoes". controversial/ambiguous tone. In the rhetoric of a lynching/ The Church - Starfish Attention 1988 riot-inducing speech against (Arista/BMG) "anybody who isn't a white The Church began in Sydney, Anglo-Saxon Protestant in Australia, in 1980 and debuted Graduating Students America", a qualification is with the album Of Skin and made: 'Jesus wasn't a Jew, Jesus Heart in 198l.AflurryofEPsand Christ was a white man ..."The singles were later released, many The 1988 Graduating Week Committee is now in the process of Disorder EP is soon to follow. compiled as LPs in North Amer Didjits - Hey Judester (Touch ica. One wants to take their selecting valedictorians for the following May convocations: &Go) warm, soothing new Starfish The Didjits perfected their album and pour it into a tub and tunes playing local chicken bathe in it, experience it, not just Administrative Studies coops in Mattoon, lllinois, the listen to it. Vocalist Steve Kilbey Health Professions "bagel capital of the world". The doesn't force himself to do any combination of the Simms thing special; he simply sings Arts and Science brothers, Rick on vocals/guitar, and leaves it at that. The tracks Brad on drums, and bassist Doug are slick only in that they are Evans, know how to rock, rock, simple and to the point, lacking the usual overproduction. The If you are interested in the position or you rock. Deja Voodoo and the Grue current single and video is somes come to mind as they do "Under the Milky Way", though know of someone else whom you wish to nominate, you must the surf/grunge/grind guitar this is not the album's only stan contact yopr student representatives prior to April 8, 1988. thing and Rick S. wails away (he dout. Starfish will probably be a can't sing, but he sounds great real sleeper until people hear when he tries). Evans used to be enough cuts to realize it is all into Led Zep, AC/DC, and Kiss, quality material. Consider This Carefully -This Is Your Graduation
The Dalhousie Gaz&tte Thursday, April 7, 1988 5 by Heather Hueston To Mike Gisser, assimilation Surviving in a white-bread culture means mixing with other races and losing your cultural iden tity. For Jewish people, says Keeping the faith and the people Gisser, assimilation is the big gest problem facing them, espe cially in the Maritimes. A 1981 census listed 2010 squarely on the individual for doesn't convert. However, this is Slv sees Jews here as "bicultu Gisser, head of the Atlantic Jews in Nova Scotia, 845 in New keeping Judaism alive and well offset by the number of Jews who ral" ~ very well integrated into Provinces Jewish Students' Fed Brunswick, 220 in Newfound in the region. work hard to keep their identity. the larger community but also eration, says the scattered land and 80 in Prince Edward "There are people who aren't "Jewish people in the region knowing what it means to be a regional Jewish population Island. A glance at the Jewish proud of being a Jew. You have to have a strong attachment to Jew. Although they don't have means less local Jewish content Atlantic phone directory shows work at it. You can't get anything what's here and participate in the Jewish daycare, or a Hebrew and less reason for young Jewish 15 listings for the whole of Yar quick from Judaism. It takes at what's available," whether that school five days a week, or as people to stay there. mouth County. least twenty years of studying means maintaining the syn many services or as "insulating"' "Of about 20 high school grad Even though Halifax has and learning," says Gisser. agogue, supporting Israel, or par a community as Jews in Mont uates last year, only three approximately 700 households Gisser's personal concern is ticipating in the summer camps real so they're able to shut out stayed. The rest went to places (about half the Jewish popula with cults, which draw 40 per and programs run by the Atlan the barrage of Christian expe like McGill or Western, which tion of Atlantic Canada), the cent of their members in North tic Jewish Council (AJC). rience like the two-month has the second largest Jewish Halifax Jews still have to work at America from the Jewish Gisser says intermarriage Christmas blitz, Jews in smaller student population in Canada," 'maintaining their identity. population. weakens the Jews' brit, or coven communities have a richer says Gisser, who calls the situa "It's easier and it's harder," says Less sinister than cults and ant with God, by sapping tradi experience. tion a tragedy. "Dal even had its Rabbi Pritzker. Supermarkets much more common is the issue tional values. Rabbi Pritzker says the pro own Jewish fraternity," he says. now provide kosher products so of assimilation by mtermarriage. ''I've seen people trying to keep cess of education goes on Marvin Pritzker, rabbi of Beth Jews can observe food rituals and Rabbi Pritzker says it stems from Christmas and Chanukah, or through the AJCs affiliation Israel Orthodox synagogue, no longer have to import ritually a small marriage market Easter and Passover - you can't with Zionist organizations, and agrees that it seems like fewer slaughtered meat, as one man ("obviously you can't marry your do it," he says. Gisser calls assim having sabbatin (a get-together young Jews are staying in the sister") and results in Jews leav ilation "the first battle Jews have for children with talk and servi region. ing the area. Some return, but had within their religion. Jews ceuv .ti;t£,synagogue). I do not believe "I get my computer print-outs there is some "bleeding out". can handle anything outside 'We're fighting the good fight bv Robert Matthews from Dal, and while they're According to Dr. Sheva Med their religion, but we might've (to maintain our identity)," says I am not a Christian, although juck, author of Jews in Atlantic taken too much of a beating from only true church, and. these two never completely accurate, what Pritzker, "and the struggle is the I have been one. For a time I was propositions conflicted. There numbers there are are getting Canada, "Intermarriage is proble the Holocaust to deal with this. I message itself." very devout, going to church matic," especially in second and don't know." fore, I concluded, all must be less over the past dozen years," and, I thought, really believing. false. It may not have been says Pritzker. A renewed interest third generations of the spouse He says he often thinks Jews had to, from St. John's to his But in the end, I could not rigourously logical, but since the in studying in a Jewish social should make aliyah, move to believe in God, any more than I home in Digby. By the time the Israel, where the population is religions I knew had no answer environment may be a factor, as could believe in Santa Claus. I to my dilemma, it gave me the meat arrived, it was usually also struggling to maintain though I give it no name -has now know that to be untrue. I well as the low regional birth have tried to be a Christian, and I impetus to wonder if perhaps spoiled, and the "crazy Jew", as itself. helped me immeasurably more have discovered I can love and rate. have failed. Or perhaps it is there might be no god at all. his neighbours called him, ended Medjuck remains more optim than any religion ever did or serve and trust without a god The Jewish Students' Federa Christianity that has failed me. I had been devout, and merely by throwing most of it out. To istic of the community's ability could. who may or may not exist to tion has 250 students on its Some religions - a great considering the possibility that outsiders, food customs seem to survive assimilation. "With: If I were to believe in a god, it offer these things up to. mailing list, 95 of whom are in many, in fact - have told me no god existed frightened me: It minor, says Pritzker, but keeping out mitigating the problem, I would be unlike any god any reli It is not that Christianity has Halifax. Gisser says 70 per cent there is no place for me in god's took me about three years to kosher is an important part of think our parents and grandpar gion has ever offered me. It asked me to have faith in some of these are out-of-province stu works, that I am doomed to go to reach the point where I could say the faith. ents were saying the same thing would ask of its followers not thing not provably true, such as dents, many of them grad hell. This is what drove me from I believed in no god and not feel I Gisser puts the responsibility (in their day)." fear, but love. (How I hated the the existence of a god. Like Lewis students. religion in the first place. It would be struck by lightning. I adjective 'god-fearing'! For me, Carroll's white king, I can became impossible to believe in am still not sure I believe it; a fear and love were always anti believe six impossible things Much of religion today seems split along political lines. The resurgence hell, because every religion I had religious upbringing can beater of fundamentalism, which may be shqwing cracks, at least with Chris thetical.) It would not dangle sal before breakfast. It is that Chris encountered believed only its rible thing, can inflict astonish vation over the heads of its tians - focusses on personal holines~ and righteousness. People and tianity asked me to believe members were going to heaven; ing fears on a child's malleable followers as some do, to be society will be healed when everyone follows God's law - but which the Baptists told me the Cathol mind. things - that most of my friends snatched away if rules are not must go to hell because they God? Then there are the social justice movements and ecumenica ics were going to hell, and so on. I do not doubt that religion followed, 'sins' are committed. It were not Christians, that I must lism which try to work their faith while respecting those who are differ Clearly if only one religion had can be good. To some, religion would require service, not the go to hell because I am gay - ent from them . the true god and all the others brings great peace of mind, helps We seem to have the same split in out issue this week, general issues smug complacency of the many that go against everything a were false and were dooming them endure what otherwise are on the centre spread and campus groups' submissions follow(a/1 right-wing religions of today. In compassionate person must their members to hell, I had no would crush them. campus groups were contacted). short, it would be an all surely feel. chance of finding the correct But the only thing that has embracing god of love, and per one, because there would never brought me true peace of mind is haps I could love it too. So, I realized I could not be the certainty that the one I the realization that some That god, that religion may believe in a god. I do not feel I Reverend woman had chosen was it. If there were abstract god was not going to exist, but I no longer need a god. I have lost anything, but rather not one true church, then either help me, that I had to help myself was told as a child that anyone have gained much. Perhaps I The following artJcle ~ answered yes. Forty per cent of all religions were true or all were because in the end, I was all I unfortunate enough not to excerpt from a more detailed dis ordained, thirty per cent of lay have failed Christianity. Perhaps false. All could not be true, since truly had to count on. This belief believe in god had a gap, an empt cussion of women m mimstry it has failed me. But It is a failure supply/staff associate and some taught that they werP ~h,. - perhaps it is "humanism", iness that only god could fill. I for the better. entitled "Your Daughters Shall twenty-five per cent of diaconal Prophesy". women reported that they had There are many issues facmg been sexually harassed while in women in ministry. After fight ministry or theological training. ing traditional stereotypes and Sexual harassment always womens 'self-affumation and seriously as proof that there is seem to realize that family women in all other areas of attitudes to become ordained, occurs in a setting where there is self-determination as moral and something more divine about responsibilities are to be shared society. This is indeed a depress one might think that the strug a power differential. The social agents". the masculine than about the equally by men and women. Sim ing thought, when most people gles would be left behind. Too harasser is in a position to have SeXJsm in the Church can be feminine. ilarly, these boards have the ten look to the Church for guidance often, however, this is not the some control over the employ seen in the assumption that The predommant use of male dency to conduct more personal and leadership toward a new and case, Female ministers continue ment or success of his victim women will perform the same imagery and exclusive language interviews with women than better world in which everyone to face difficult daily challenges and the implication IS that her types of tasks in the Church that for God are examples of sexism men, asking questions about can live equally. which prompt questions about failure to accept the harassment they do in the home: the.care and that have become so widely such things as pre-menstrual The Church, at various times, personal identity, self-worth, gracefully may result in her dis education of children and the accepted that women who chal syndrome, menopause, or possi has provided this leadership and and power or effectiveness in the missal, rejection, or lack of suc organizing and service of church lenge the language are thought ble pregnancy. Another valid guidance toward equality. One pulpit. Two such challenges are cess in her field of endeavour. social affairs. Furthermore, to be challenging the truth of the example of sexism in the church can look to the life and teachings presented through sexual Sexual harassment is one women must wrestle daily with word of God. is the assumption that, upon cal of Jesus Chriust to recognize harassment and the pervasive expression of an attitude of sex Scripture, which presents a Similar examples include the ling an ordained man to a charge, that women occupy an impor ness of sexism. ism, which may be defined as totally patriarchal world view reluctance and apprehension of he will have a wife with him who tant and valuable role in the The Canadian Human Rights "the unequal distribution of per and an image of God which is local congregations to call an will provide for his needs at Christian community. The story Commission defines sexual sonal and institutional power largely masculine. We speak of ordained woman to be their min home and can, therefore, dedi of the friendship of Jesus with harassment as "unwelcome ver between men and women, where God the Father, Son and Holy ister; not taking a woman cate more time to his pastoral Martha and Mary of Bethany bal or physical behaviour related men are in control". Sexism is Ghost; Our Father who Art in seriously and not trusting her to responsibilities. Women, how (John 11 :5-27) is just one of many to sexuality". In response to the any belief, behaviour, or institu Heaven; the King of Kings; and fulfull the requirements of a job; ever, as in most paid jobs, do not examples which illustrate the question, "Have you ever been tion which discriminates the Lord. We begin to think of questioning a woman's author have this assumed support and a strength and confidence which the victim of sexual harassment against a person or persons on God as literally masculine - a ity on church matters; and the a result usually work a "double Jesus felt With women. Indeed, as a theological student or in any the basis of gender. Unfortu powerful, dominating force who undue emphasis by interview day". It would appear, then, that Jesus, in his relatiOnships with job as a woman in profe~ nately, the Church is just as could not possibly be repres boards on the effects of family women in the Church are sub women, exemplified a loving, ministry?" thirty-five per cent of guilty of sexism as the rest of ented by a woman! The incarna life by career choices made by ject to the same sexual exploita warm, compassionate accep the 238 women who responded society in ignoring and denying tion of God as male is taken women. These boards do not tion and as are tance of women as equals. 8 The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday. April 7, 1988 The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday, April 7, 1988 Religion Supplement Religion Supplement Religion Supplement Religion Blind obedience to clergy excluded by Islam by Dr. Jamal Badawi otherwise. Such attributes as cious, Most Merciful ...." The came before him as well. Mus directly and verbatim revealed It should be emphasized first "The Perfectly-Knowing," "The Qur'an tells us when Allah lims are warned not to make fan to the Prophet Muhammad, that the term "Allah" has no con Eternal," "The Omnipotent/' created the first human 'He atical or parochial distinctions peace be upon him. Many con notation at all of a tribal god, an "The Omnipresent/' "The Just," breathed into him something of between prophets (al-Baqarah; fuse the Qur'an with the Arabian or even a Muslim god. and "The Sovereign" also His spirit," (al-Sadjah; 32:9) and 2:285). But the Qur'an ;1lso says "Hadith", or sasyings, of the The term "allah" in Arabic emphasize transcendence. But that "Allah is closer to the Allah has favored some prophets Prophet. The Hadith is quite simply means the One and Only this does not mean in any way human than his jugular vein." In with more significant gifts or separate from the Qur'an. The True, Universal God of all. that for the Muslim Allah is a , another beautiful and moving roles than others (al-Isra'; 17:55). latter was dictated to Muham The Qur'an repeatedly mere philosophical concept or a passage were are told, "When my All are brothers, although the mad word for word through the makes it clear that Allah is deity far removed. Indeed, along servants ask you (0 Muham only prophet with the universal Angel Gabriel and immediately beyond our limited perception. side this emphasis on the trans mad) concerning me, then surely mission to all hmankind is memorized and put down in "There is nothing whatever com cendence of Allah, the Qur'an I am near to them. I listen to Muhammad, peace be upon him writing. It is important to parable unto Him." (al-Shura; also talks about Allah as a "per every suppliant who called on (al-Furqaan; 25:11). The Muslim emphasize that the Qur'an was 42: 11) "No vision can grasp Him, sonal" God who is close, easily Me. Let them respond to My call believes not only that Muham neither written nor composed by but His grasp is over all vision." approachable, Loving, Forgiving and obey My command that they mad is a brother to Jesus, Moses, Muhammad, peace be upon him. (al-An'am; 6:103) A Muslim and Merciful. The very first pas may be led aright." Abraham and other prophets, never thinks of God as having sage in the Qur'an, which is but the Qur'an states in clear For the Muslim, monotheism The fact that there are similari any particular image, whether repeated dozens of times, is "In terms that the advent of does not mean simply the unity ties between the Qur'an and pre - physical, human, material or the name of Allah, most Gra- Muhammad was foretold by pre vious scriptures is simply of God, because there can be dif vious prophets, including Moses explained by the fact that He ferent persons in unity. Monoth and Jesus, peace be upon them Who spoke through those earlier Baha'i Faith eism in Islam is the absolute (al-Araf; 7:157, al-Saff; 61:6). Even. prophets is He Who revealed' the Oneness and Uniqueness of the Bible in its present form Qur'an to Muhammad, the one Allah, which precludes the clearly foretells the advent of and only true God, Allah. How Appeals to all notion of persons sharing in the Prophet Muhammad (e.g. ever, the Qur'an is the last Godhead. The opposite of Genesis 21:13, 18, Deuteronomy revealed Holy Book, which extremes of poverty at?-d wealth, by Said Yazd.anm.ehr monotheism in Islam is called in 18:18 and 33:1-3, Isaiah 11:1-4, supersedes previous scriptures exalts work performed in the The Baha'i faith stands iden Arabic "shirk", association of 21:13-17,42:1-13 and others). and is the only still available in tified with, and revolves around, spirit of service to the rank of others with Allah. This includes For the Muslim, the Qur' an the exact words and language the principle of the organic worship, recommends the adop contains the words of Allah uttered by Prophet Muhammad. unity of mankind as represent tion of a universal auxiliary not only polytheism, but also ing the consummation of the international language, and dualism (believing in one God whole process of human evolu adumbrates the necessary agen for good or light and another for tion. It recognizes the unity of cies for the establishment and evil or darkness). The concept of WHO REALLY ANSWERS God and of his Prophets, upholds safeguarding of a permanent and "shirk" also includes pantheism, the principle of an unfettered universal peace. the idea that God is in every WHEN YOU CALL DIAL search for truth, condemns all The purpose of the Associa thing. All forms of God- forms of superstition and preju tion for Baha'i Studies is to study A- dice, teaches that the fundamen the teachings, history and philo incarnate philosophies are tal purpose of religion is to sophy of the Baha'i Faith, and to excluded by Islam's monothe promote concord and harmony, explore their application to the ism, as is blind obedience to dic that it must go hand in hand present world by sponsoring tators, to clergy, or to one's own with science, and that it consti such activities as lectures, con whims and desires. tutes the sole and ultimate basis ferences, and formal gatherings. of a peaceful, an ordered and a Membership of the Association Indeed, the special role progressive society. It inculcates is open to all students, faculty, played by Muhammad as the the principle of equal opportun staff, alumni, and members of seal and last of all the prophets ity, rights and privileges for both their families, irrespective of puts the Muslims in the position sexes, advocates compulsory race, colour, class, nationality, or whereby honoring Muhammad ' education and the elimination of religion. implies honoring those who / The Newman Society
Christian community tT'S Foa< YOU . - by Dale A. Rissesco 1 ne uatHuu~t.: J'<~.,;wtnan society has four student com The first Newman society was society is above all else a Eucha mittees: a Liturgy committee founded in 1893 at the Univer ristic community united in Holy that meets to plan the Sunday sity of Pennsylvania by Timothy Communion around its risen liturgy, the Social Justice com L. Harrington. While at another Lord. We also bear witness to (1) mittee which supports the Yahweh, lAm university, Harrington had been the presence of the risen Christ Indian Family Helper program involved in a Roman Catholic among his people, (2) the work of and this year is helping to sup by Jerel Sute materialism and humanism. students' club. In Philadelphia, the Holy Spirit in and among all port the sponsorship of Thu However, the Lord says, "Thou he saw the need to continue to human beings of good will, (3) Nguyen as a refugee to Canada, Which God should men worship? shalt have no other gods before integrate his Christian beliefs the possibility of integrating in a the Radio Program committee Me" (Exodus W:3). So when God with his academic pursuits, so human life a true relationship which puts together a IS-minute When God called Moses to revealed himself as Yahweh, under the direction of a cha with God as revealed through radio program once a month, and deliver Israel from Egypt, Moses he was actually stating that plain, the first Newman society his Son, the Lord Jesus, and the the Right to Life committee sought a fuller revelation of every other existence is depend was formed. truths discovered in the work of which supports the struggle to Who his God is. In answer, God ent upon himself- I Am, the modern science and art, and (4) a respect and nurture all human (One is essence yet existing in only uncaused cause, the only spirit of cooperation among all life in our society. This commit three persons: God the Father, provider of salvation. Essentially Typewriter Repairs people of faith and especially tee also promotes liaison with Jesus Christ the Son, and the there is none other! Case closed! at among Christian communities others involved in such a Holy Spirit) distinguished him As the Scriptures unfold, we Student Budget Prices and churches. project. self as Lord. Lord or Yahweh find Jesus Christ in John 8:58 The Dalhousie Newman For more information, contact is from the Hebrew verb 'to be", stating that He too is I Am. 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They may 477-7401 Nova Scotia needs you selves the only God worthy of 423-4750 look to unnamed false gods of our trust. · 8 The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday, April 7, 1988 ent Religion Supplement R hope, will encourage the student to speak up if they are having Love Peer any problems," says Zayid. Counselling The program will be on a Thickness of faith never fails strictly voluntary basis. The by Marcus Garnet, Inter without ignoring them. It can do Continued from page 3 Continued from page 1 DSU is considering putting a let Varsity Christian Fellow this because reason points to a The speaker finally made his teers who will then go through a ter in registration kits asking ship Mind infinitely greater than our appeal: Help us free Kang Jong training period which will students if they want a counsel This common idea of faith own. Hon. The response: 25 letters to acquaint them with all the servi lor. It would then be up to them sees it as a fight against the mind I have come to appreciate that President Roh Tae-Woo, calling ces offered at Dalhousie. "One to reply to student council. to overcome circumstances. saying "yes" to reality eventually for Kang's immediate and uncon idea being discussed is having Council discussed the idea of Faith becomes a feeling that requires saying "yes" to God: ditional release. IVCF then representatives from all the ser providing a half-day workshop relies upon nothing but itself. "yes" to the proposition that I am offered to pay for the postage! vices come and give talks to the on counselling. Judy Hiyashi, Yet if I rely on such "faith" to a hopeless rebel without God, This action spoke more elo volunteers," says Zayid. director of counselling services, ~nture out on a frozen lake "yes" to the reconciliation quently than anything said dur During the year the peer coun says the DSU has not contacted when the ice is melting, the cold offered to me by Christ, and "yes" ing "Christian Awareness sellor will make contact with her yet, but she supports the idea water will remind me that I to God's trustworthiness. This is Week". first-year students; if the frosh of peer counselling. 'When a stu ignore reality at my peril. a faith of quality rather than Christians are called upon to are having any problems coun dent hears another student tell Far from denying reality, true quantity: Christ compared it to a care. The members of IVCF acted cillors will either be able to help them about university services faith is dedicated to it. Real faith small mustard seed. It stands or as true Christians. They demon them or refer them to someone it carries a lot of weight. They is open to the truth and willing falls not on its own strength but strated why their movement who can. "The one-to-one rela are more likely to go seek help if to submit to it, whatever it on the strength ofthe object. My still deserves to be called the tionship between the peer they hear about it from another might be. It involves the mind faith might be small, but the ice first "conspiracy of hope". counsellor and the student, we student." and the will more than the emo on the lake is a mile thick. tions, and searches for the truth even when that truth threatens to be inconvenient. It requires an open-mindedness to the pos sibility that ultimate truth might be more relevant and spe cific than anticipated. It is open to God. Because it is dedicated to the reality beyond itself, true faith is marked by humility. 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10 The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday, April 7, 1988 THU 7 • WED 13 LECTURE CONCERT Central America Taj Mahal His Worship John Savage, Mayor of The Cohn and CKDU-FM present Dartmouth, will discuss Health Care Taj Mahal at 8:00p.m. The music is in Central America at the sixth lec CALENDAR ...~· usually referred to as blues but he ture in Dalhousie University's series draws equally from early jazz, Carib on international health. Mr. Savage bean styles and African roots, dem wtll speak at the Dartmouth onstrating a wide and universal Regional Library, 100 Wyse Rd., at • definition of blues. For more info, 7:00p.m. The lecture is free and open call 424-2646. to the public. • • tonight at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. and Zemel on guitar, Gerry Carruthers Sunday at 8:00 p.m. Admission is $5. on piano, Bruce Dixon on bass, and FRI 8 SYMPOSIUM For more info, call 420-1118. Steve Gaetz on drums. Tickets are $6 Women in Development at the door. For more info, call Mor The W.I.D. Committee, Pearson ton Rubinger at 429-8300 lac. 2154. SEMINARS Institute, announces a Women in SUN 10 Development Symposium, integrat Phobias ing theory and practice of W.I.D. in MON 11 The Frightful Complexity of the education. Keynote speaker is Ila FORUM Origins of Fears will be examined by Patel, Stanford University, Califor No Nukes Dr. Susan Mineka, Dept. of Psychol nia. Registration fee is $10, includ Dr. Jan Stalk, the Canadian represen ONGOING ogy, Northwestern University, at ing a lunch. It takes place from 8:30 tative for International Physicians LECTURE 3:30 p.m. in rm. 4258/ 63 of the Life a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Arts and for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Women in Media Science Centre. EXHIBIT Administration building, Dalhousie. will be holding a publicforum at 7:00 Dr. Sheela Shukla, distinguished Political Science p.m. at the Public Archives on Uni Indian scholar, discusses Women in Eastern Culture Professor Dale Poe! (Dept. of Politi versity Avenue. The theme will be Media and Democratic Development Beautiful vestments and sacred cal Science/School of Public Admin FILM War and Peace and Doctors and will in India in rm. 109, Burke Education objects from Eastern Christian cul istration) will speak on Issue address the role health care workers Bldg., SMU, at 12:15 p.m. tures are part of Seasons of Celebra positions and affective orientation Tibet The Karma Dzong Buddhist Church play in the peace movement. tion in Eastern Culture, a travelling towards the women's movement: exhibition of the provincial Patterns in gender, class and ethnic of Halifax is sponsoring three scree ings of the highly acclaimed docu Museum of Albert, on display at the ity in Canadian politics at 3:30 p.m. CONCERT TUE 12 mentary film Lord of the Dance, Nova Scotia Museum until June 12. at the Political Science Lounge, Destroyer of Illusion. The film Jazzeast A&.A Building. depicts sacred lama dances of Tibet, presents its sixth concert of live jazz AUDIO ancient and sacred will of empower with the Joel Zemel Quartet at 8:00 VIDEO SAT 9 ment. It is being shown at the p.m. at the TUNS School of Architec The Titanic Swamp National Film Board, 1571 Argyle St., ture Auditorium. It features Joel The video Secrets of the Titanic will Kevin Norcross has an audio instal lation at the Centre for Art Tapes ------~.-:!··-~- be shown at the Maritime Museum OPEN HOUSE ...... \ of the Atlantic, 1675 Lower Water until April27. The installation is the Art Stuff 9 St., at 7:30 p.m. Reserve a seat by aural essence of 1 swamp recreated The Centre for Art Tapes invites the S.PRINC; BIKF: calling the museum at 329-8210. in the gallery. Photosensitive tiiilers general public to an open house from will activate cassette players at dusk, at the same time as frogs and 1:00 to 9:00 p.m. There have been TUNE-lJP :;:::;:;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: insects are stimulated to begin extensive renovations to the video breeding phase vocalization. production, editing and S-track facil Bring your bicycle to the Trail Shop and our ities. Throughout the day free ses professional repair staff will ... HEADUNES THEATRE~ GITKSAN-WET'SUWET'EN TRIBAL COUNCIL sions will be given in multi-track PRESENT THE NATIONAL TOUR OF audio recording, operation of video -Adjust front and rear hubs equipment, and the Amiga compu -Adjust derailleurs, Inspect and grease shift cables ter. Come see the changes at the Cen -Adjust l:rakes, Inspect pads, grease brake cablt!s tre for Art Tapes! -Lubricate chain and freewheel -Adjust ht!adset -Adjust bottom bracket and tightt!n cranks DeClassifieds
For Sale - Ladies' ski boots, .· $19.95 Lange X-L Flex, size 7¥2. Price negoti '(parts not included) able. Phone 424-2562 (work), 453- 6593 (evenings). Babysitter needed for sum mer months on Rockingham Ridge. 6210 Qulnpool Rd. Please phone 443-0168 after 6:00 Halifax, N.S. p.m. phone 423-8736 Wanted to sublet- one unfur nished apartment room, May 7-Sept. "Metro's Leading Outdoor Store" 2. !-bedroom or bru:helor's preferred. Must be near campus; wanted for male student working in Halifax area. Phone Ken after 6:00 p.m. at (506) 454-3806. For sale - Dalhousie leather WANTED jacket, brand new, never worn. Size'-'· Well below cost. Call any time, Ul-8551. To rent-House, unfur-nished, STUDENTS WHO Tower Road area. 2-4 bedrooms, close to universities, hospital, and Point Pleasant Park. $750 per month ARE MOVING! plus utilities. Available imme NO'XYA diately. 429-2256. Please call (OUR FOOTPRINTS) For sale - Kalimar Hi-Tech A PLAY ABOUT SELF-GOVERNMENT camera bag. Excellent condition. Shoulder strap. Lots of pockets. $60 Gregory C. Rendall or best offer. Call Trent at 424-6532. Missing-from the main floor, SlJB - A plastic welcome mat, 469-1001 brown and beige, with Welcome' written in Swedish ('Valkommen') a pink and white striped plastic Special student discounts available on mat or runner (3m.xlm.) Taken on FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 11AM-1:30PM Thursday, March 24. I would appre- iate any information regarding these missing items, as they are of Ic~:-[fit,TjRJtfJ great personal value to me. If you have any information please call in confidence, 438-4778. '------VAN & STORAGE LTD. ____ The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday. April 7. 1988 11 .. Five Ways To Prevent Abortion (And One Way That Won't):
Dhc way lo prcvcnl abortion is no/to make it illegal. Thnl which help men rccognr7.c their equal responsibility in all won't work. It never has. Whenever governments have made aspects of sexuality: decision-making. ohlaming and using aoortions Illegal. they have not stopped them. Throughout the contraception. and the handlin)\ of anv crisis which occurs. centuries. wlwn wpmcn have felt abortion to be their only Mcu: lo share the joy. share the rcsponsibrlily 100. <•rtion.llwv have hmlthcm. Whl'lhcr they were legal or nol. In ('annda. nhorlmn was ill<'!(nl hcfore 1969. 1\pproximntclv 4t).(Ml0 C.rnndian women went " undcr!(mund" each year for ilk~al nrwmlions. ~lan .1· died for lnck of medical car~. Thou· snnds '''''"' marmcd ,II/ were forced I<> hchaw as if thcv were it . nrminals m ordt•r lo do whntthe~· felt 11·as right for lht•mselvcs. ~r Create new btrth control Th('lo,;c dn~·s nn.· Ronc..· fon·vcr. methods. Still most of us would lrkc to sec the need for abortion reduced. This will only come as the natural result of reducing tire Bv far the most common method of binh control for numhrr nfumn/('lrtlrd f''''qtttmcir.-. . l>lnnnctl Pnrcnthood has m~rri.XJ couples is slerilizatron hccausc rl offers the best worked for decades loword lhnt goo!. We ndvocote the following prolt'<'lion a~ainst uninlcnd<-d prc!(nancy. But slerrli1.a1ions arc ways lo prcvcnc nhort1on. permanent. 1\mon)\ the "'tempomry" methods - draphragm. condom. IUD. the pill- none is perfccl. Thediaphra!(mand condom may be considered inconvenient. The IUD and pill may cause complications. People want temporary mel hods which arc safe. dfcdivc 1l Make contraception more and c~sy lo usc. wilhoul side effects. We must contmuc the smrTh. Scientists JX>inl ro several research leads which could easily available. rroduc<' some new mel hods of bu1h control hv the year 2000. The quickest way to reduce the number of abort ions in Almost all parents though, rl'gardlcss of how rom fort able possibly including a male contraceptive Hut none of this will be Canada is to increase the availability of contraception. The they arc discussing sensitive matters with their children. possible without a dramatic increase in government support. shocking fact is that 46 percent of Canadians believe that they support the idea that sexuality education prOj(rams should be do not have access to contraception and family planning offered in schools and other community settings. services. For many others they are prohibitively expensive. These programs provide young people with a comprehcn· Two·thirds of Canadian women arc currently of sive understanding of the facts. And a basic clement of sexuality rcprodudivca!(C. Many of them do not have contact with family education programs is to help teens understand that wailing planning providers. Half of the prcgancics they experience are until they're ready to have sex - and not succumbing to peer Make Canada friendlier to pressure- is a legitimate option. !5 unintended Scxunlitv. as well as fer· Sexuality education docs not increase sexual activity. it children. lilily issues. ·arc of central increases knowlcd!(c and responsibility. The net result : fewer imrortancc to the health and unintended pregnancies and fewer abortions. Tcena!(c prcgancy rates in Canada have decreased wcll· being of Canadians. somcwhnt. 1\nd yet. over 36,000 teena!(ers became prCj(nant in Vcrv few health issues affect 1985. Many of those who drdn't gel prl'j(nant. were simply the fam.ilics and individuals as lucky ones. In 1985 22.9 percent of abortions in Canada were intimately as those involv ha<.l by teenagers. More and more tccna~crs arc sexually active ing sexual attitudes and at younger ages. some as young as age 12. One in every four decision-making. llowcvcr. the involvement leenaj(Crs is sexually active hy the age orIs. Two out or every ~Increase three teena!(crs arc sc·.,mlly active by a!(c 19. Canadians lack the most i\ study hy the (;uttma<·hcr Institute found that the hasic informal ion and sup of men. 1\l~n port which would enable countrrcs with the loweslll'cnage prC!(nancy rates wcrc found to No woman ever made herself prl'j(nant. Yet for centuries, them to take contrdl of their he those with a morc realistic and acceptin!( attitude toward men have ignored their responsibility in preventing unintended sexuality. and open access to family planning services. Other /lwdlaf'lmu.:m . Ji lf>.tlwtr,,d,,,, reproductive health. AI · prC!(nancics. ''I've !(OI no kids - that I know of" is an all·loo· factors cited were economic opportunity for young people and lht· (lllf f.II\WI fltt t'\\ Utttl/d /"1' I hough 1\:J percent of Can a· familiar male expression. the cncoura~cmcnt of self-esteem. n-m IIUIIthnl\ of '"'''"'"'"' of dian adults believe that scxu· Fortunately. change is in the air. That chan!(C must be Canadians need to face the fact that the cnviromcnl in """''~'"'lui I"''C""'" ~~''and ahm· ali tv education should be 11 encouraged. Many family planning agencies now run programs whrch our children arc raised - the quality of housing. child ~::~:~~~~:,';\,;';;~~:',:.~; '' "''" '''" tau~ht in schools. only one education. undcrstandin!( and acceptance - arc factors half of schools in Canada r~re, which affect how they feel ahout themselves. and their ability to provided any sexuality education in 191!4. Most of the cope with the pressures or life. curnculums were optional! For many young people today. sexual expression is often One in five leena~tc girls hccomcs prc~tnanl before she is 20. THE WAY THAT the only way to feel loved. Becoming pregnant. or causing ·nlcSl' prcgnancics often result in serious medical. economic pregnancy. is a tragic outcome of thai quest for intimacy. and social consequences for mother and child. Research has Planned Parenthood's studrcs support the premise that shown that access to education and clinical services reduces the WON'T WORK. youn!( people with high levels of self-esteem arc the least likely rate of unintended prc!(nancics. ~ .. to compromise their futures by laking I he rrsk of unrntendt' ~- \ Pl.nutl'fl l',lrt·uthtMMI nr '"\II St·uti.t ~------·------P------•lo J~f 1'.0. nu, llCW..Il\l.llalif"''· nH• !'14:utia ll't~ ~II.S The JI()O(lurahlc Ramon lfnetysh) n, .. 1'1021 ~~~-'I~H Jnr I lonourahle J•ltr Epp. lo Minutlrr of Juslice M1ni~trr or N•tionaJ ftcalth & Wclrarr I cnci()S(' th<- coupc.m ... I would hkc more anformahon on P1annrd I hc:-lic-vc that 11 iA vital to cncourt' th:-.t 111/ Canadians havr 1 h<-ltl'\'<' thill 11 1!11 v1111l to cn!'urc that u/1 C;mndian~ haYt' atlrquate and uniVt"rs;ll ocC<'ss to all rcpmductiY<." ht'alth informal ~nand Parcnthond ~rlrt.~unl<' and untvtT'fOo·d nc('C"Sroloul/ rcrroductivc h<"fllth tnformation and llrrt' is my tax drductihlr <'Ontnbuhon of S2~ -· scrvic~ an this countrv. I tx-ltcvc that nlucation and clmical scn1t(""'{'$l1rt' f,('r\.IC<'f; tn thi~> country. I hdK-v<' that education nnd chnicalliC'tV•cc1; arc S~O S I!Xl S l.t~lO rn •up pori of lhe key to rcducin~ · unantcndcd p~nancics :md thereby reducinp. thr kt-v to rt'ducan~ unmtcndOO Jlrt"JtOanc:irN and thc.-rehy rcducin~ Planned ParcnthOC'd and all lis acllvttacs. ahorllons. ahc-rt1on~~; Nam<': 12------The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday, April 7, 1988 ome nf prevent unintended pregnancies by the thousands. oppose sexuality education programs for lccna~tcrs. They tlle.o.;e ptol'lc Irati(! hce, acro~tmq 1/w.~c· u•lw tiller ulmrtrcm apparently thrnk that by saying nothing at all. teen sexuality duur~ '/111.'> u•r/1 not .'iucrtcd m J11'ttV'ulmq aiJortwu.'i If the_v Youcanalsohclp. Uscthccouponsaoove. Post thrsad ina will go away. wcrr really coucerntd about prcr~tnltng ubortron. tlrl"_V u'Ould be oul there pullmq lhttr monty. thetr tmrt and et~rrqv rntn From our work with hundreds of thousands of teenagers. public place. 1\nd. if you can, support our work with a prell{!n/wn !;o thatunrttltnded p"qnoncit!i do trot occur in the contribution and by contacting Planned Parenthood in your we can tell you that a shocking number of them know nothing at frrsl !'lace Wlrenetl('r womtn frrl almrtron i'> Q/,~olutelv all aoout how reproduction works. how their own bodies work. area. Thank you. utxc.'l..'>ary. feJr u•lwltl'C'f 11cn>onul rrasott!i. tlrrv llm'C tlrcm. C'l'l'fl and how lo prevent prc~tnancy . Their teacher is trial and error. r/ thev art tllcqal. CfiCII m crrcmm;tances llwt are tlwrtffnJII.'i, Plus television. movies and misinformation from peers. ~tf)Ctl.'ilt'C and lrrumlwturq 011r :mcrtly u•rll ,cr~r rct11nr to Planned Parenthood 1\nti-ahortion leaders argue that informal ion aooul sex· tlro.r.;e durk