Degrees for sale at Dalhousie By LOIS CORBETT committee just didn't have a cate­ i::$= ;.~: ::~::=t~==; --~m: ·. ::f.J~ :-~=, C:i~:. r~r ~~tt.:tt: gory for an elderly, socialist A FACULTY REPRESENTA­ woman in the peace movement," tive on the Dalhousie Senate said she said. the university should either clar­ The dispute pushed the vote for ify how it chooses honorary honorary degree recipients over degree recipients or sell them to two Senate meetings. While the highest bidder. Jones refused to say that was The professor, who refused to unusual procedure, he did say the have her name published, said in honorary degree committee did the j:>ast honorary degrees have not "on the first vote, r~c.:ive a been given to people willing to clear signal of what ~enate "cough up money for the univer­ wanted." sity." "Look at the kind of busi­ The student said many senators nessmen's names that come up decided to no-vote each of the every year," she says. committee's suggested candidates The Dalhousie Senate has been because it did not nominate involved in what Senate Chair Duckworth. Bill Jones calls a "minimal dis­ In the closed Senate meeting, pute" over this year's nomina­ one professor, who later refused tions for honorary degrees. to comment on the ret:ord, said Long-time feminist and peace the nominating committee was activist Muriel Duckworth was trying to "rub our faces in the Jamie MacMullin and Sandra Bell both say the photo the Gazette ran of them last week in the election supplement not nominated to receive an dirt." had everything to do with their winning the election for 1986-87 DSU president and vice-president. The Gazette says honorary degree and some Senate "There is clearly room for com­ no comment. Photo by John Chan, Dal Photo members were angry enough to promise but the committee is in vote against every nominee to an uncompromising mood," he protest what they consider a said. MacMullin and Bell elected deliberate oversight. Another faculty representative Duckworth was suggested as a said the Senate received "no IT WAS A DARK AND Executive First ballot candidate for an honorary degree answer, no explanation" as to stormy night. Mellow mus1c Board of Governors Jamie MacMullin/ Sandra Bell 568 last spring, but the nominating why Duckworth's name was not floated through the cigarette Tim Daley/ Barney Savage 334 • Jolene Pattison 893 committee did not take her name on the list. smoke in the Grawood Lounge. Ava O.apalay/ Kamleh Nicola 297 to the Senate for approval. When "I can't start jumping to con­ Suddenly, Maurice Chaisson • David McCarthy 728 Jim Snair/ David Shirley 234 Tom Taylor 674 the same thing happened again clusions that there are political busted through the doors and or­ this year, some Senators questi­ reasons she didn't get nominated. dered another Coke. "It's going to Second Ballot be a long night, b'yes," he said. MacMullin/ Bell 631 oned the committee's procedure It probably didn't even get that Daley/ Savage 418 Senate in nominating candidates. far," she said. When the smoke had risen, Czapalay/ Nicola 352 One student senator, who The professor said the debate Jamie MacMullin exclaimed, "I • Kelly Sharp 1029 asked not to be identified, said over Duckworth has raised "the don't know what to say. It's really Final ballot • Dean Dolan 953 the committee could not explain whole business of why this com­ over." He and his running mate, MacMullin/ Bell 772 e Daisy McDonald 841 • Runjan Seth why Duckworth's name was not mittee is never met with objec­ Sandra Bell, want to pull the cam­ Daley/ Savage 580 788 • Addesh Mago 663 pus together (into what? ed.) Bell on the list of suggestions Senate tion, as if their work is so Arun Mathur 638 was asked to approve by a secret perfect." said she is going to see Rocky I, ballot. The professor wants the Senate II, III, and IV. Total votes cast (on first ballot) 1,4;33 "When someone brought up to start thinking about who that she had 60 signatures on her should get honorary degrees. nomination form, they were told "Someone has to make the dis­ (by the committee) that it was not tinction between good people a popularity contest, but rather a and people who are good for the PEl coal ition contra Litton measure of the good someone did university," she said. for society," said the student. CHARLOTTETOWN (CUP) - tions of the arms race. As well, government has said about 350 "Then it was suggested that the Continued on page three , A loose coalition of Prince Litton is well-known for attack­ direct jobs and as many as 500 Edward Island farmers, peace ing the popular movement in indirect jobs will be created if the activists, women's groups and Central America, and has a long plant is built here. academics is resisting a bid by history of anti-union activities, According to University of Litton Industries, which has an he says. P.E.I. education professor Clau­ operating budget many times "All these things told us there dia Mitchell, who organized a greater than the provincial was a great deal of misinforma­ group of students and academics government, to build an arma­ tion being presented, and that the to debate the issue, a Litton plant ments plant here. people living here should know would destroy the pastoral lifes­ The coalition, dubbed the about it," he says. A Litton plant tyle on the island. Island Way, was formed in Janu­ in produces guidance "It's really difficult to fathom ary after Premier Jim Lee invited systems for the U.S. cruise what it's like having a company Litton to build an air defence missile. that large coming to a province anti-tank systems plant if it won a Johnstone says locating the this small. Litton's budget of federal contract. Other compan­ plant in P.E.I. or another eco­ expenditures is 15 times as great ies competing for the contract say nomically depressed area as P.E.I.'s," she says. they will build in other areas. A amounts to "economic black­ decision is expected in April. mail" it's either these projects Although the government has The Island Way is hoping to and militarism, or high unem­ said the company will not have convince Litton by then that their ployment" he says. much influence in islanr;i politics, presence isn't wanted. According A1though the provincial Mitchell says. "how much say to Roy Johnstone, co-ordinator government won't disclose how they would have in running of the Island Peace Committee, much money it's giving Litton as things is very much in dispute." which is part of the coalition, an incentive to locate on the Johnstone says the protest won't opponents are fighting Litton on island, Johnstone says the money die if Litton wins the contract. several grounds. could be put to better use in tradi­ "This issue has had more debate "Many of us were quite con­ tional industries such as agricul­ on this island than any other in decades." Muriel Duckworth cerned with the social implica- ture or the fishery. The Move Yourself, Volume 118, Number 24 All Your Stuff, Thursday, March 20, 1986 ------And Su-e, Too!------eij' .,.~If:.~~~!~ ..., THE It's as easy Specials! (7 Days a Week) GAZETTE as renting 9" Pizza, 3 items ...... '3.25 a Ryder truck, 12" Pizza, 3 items ...... '4.00 one way. Reg. 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B3H 1]2. tdq;hone (9(l~) 424-2507 Page 2 o The Dalhousie Gazette, Thursday, March 20, 1986 ______NE~S ______Nielsen report weighs 341bs (CUP)- The way the the following conditions on giv­ in that period. feds pay money to the provinces ing its funding dollars, the report On student assistance, the for colleges and universities in says: sLUdy team says its preferred Canada is messy and causes more ' colleges and universities option is to leave student aid fighting than funding, and provide an supply of highly qua­ entirely to the provinces. Ottawa should consider new leg­ provide an adequate supply of Other options include reform islation to gain more control, says highly qualified personnel for in the present style or replacing the a report to the Nielsen Task Force the public, academic and private Canada SLUdent Loans Program on Program Review. sectors," with a refundable tax credit for The current money transfer sys­ • provinces ensure that all students. tam, Established Programmes who can learn and McCurdy criticised the prop­ Financing, does not establish any want to Jearn will not be deprived osal to make student aid a provin­ Getting in on the action, 20 people joined arms and appetites for social national education standards and of higher education because they cial responsibility, saying it justice in a 42 hour fast at the Atlantic School of Theology last weekend. The encourages the feds and the pro­ can't pay, could increase regional fast was one of 50 held worldwide to oppose Reagan's military support to the vinces to "blame each other for • universities promote an inequalities. contras in Nicaragua. any apparent deficiency." authentic Canadian identity, "It is questionable whether the including the two official MUSIC LESSONS arrangment is still appropriate," languages. by Donna Mayer the report reads. Ben Wilson, Chair of the Onta­ • GUITAR • BANJO The report is part of Nielsen's rio Manpower Commission, who • FLUTE • MANDOLIN 21-volume inventory of almost headed the half-private, half­ Men met the Challenge • AUTOHARP • BASS 10000 government programmes, public study team, said in an • RECORDER • ADDLE of $92 billion of public services. interview that the report does not By Lee Parpart clause," but denies employers The box of books, totalling 7,000 imply the government should put OTTAWA (CUP) - More men were discriminating against DAY & EVENING pages just in the English version, conditions on funding for higher than women got private sector female students. weighs 34lbs. The French version education. jobs last summer through the fed­ "We don't think the private NO REGISTRh TION FEES is slightly heavier. Education critics in Parlia­ eral employment subsidy scheme, sector is not doing their bit, we The report says Ottawa has ment and university lobby groups Challenge '85. just think they might not be BALIFAX four options in university financ­ say they only support one option The ministry of Employment doing as much as they could," she ing: leave the system as is; con­ - keeping federal support for and Immigration released a study says. POLKLOIE tinue to fund but on condition post-secondary education but this month showing women Kearns says Challenge '86 the provinces meet specific stand­ making the provinces ac­ represented only 37.2 per cent of ClfiTBB applications are more specific in !1688 BriiiSwle~ St., lfx. ru. ards; pay students directly with countable. Executive officer of private sector job recipients in the the request that employers hire (Ju•t off SpnniJ O~~rd•n AI.! ) vouchers, and let their university the Canadian Federation of Stu­ summer employment experience disadvantaged students. This preference dictate which univer­ dents, John Casola, says "the development program, a section 423-7946 year's affirmative action clause sities survive; or stop funding other three options will in one of Challenge '85, last summer. states employers receiving universities and colleges entirely. way or another help take the bot­ Acco.rding to the study, the pri­ $10,000or more in grants "may be The report seems to lean to the tom out of accessibility." vate sector lagged a full 14.6 per contacted by a programme offi­ second option, and new law for Casola says the "voucher" cent behind the average number cial ... with respect to the hiring post-secondary education financ­ proposal, borrowed from the of women hired through the pro­ of women, disabled people, ftRAVELl ing. Because Canada's constitu­ Macdonald Commission's report gram. Non-profit gourps and natives and visible minorities." tion says education is a provincial released last year, will "raise tui­ municipalities also received I But extra programme officials I CUTS responsibility, this would spark a tion fees, hamper curriculum SEED grants to hire sumemr have not been hired by the minis­ huge political storm, the report planning and probably result in students. try and Kearns says she didn't says. univeristies hiring PR people to Although the application know how often regular pro­ "However, if federal financial sell their programmes to forms contained a clause encou­ gramme officials would be sent to support is considered necessary to students." raging employers to hire women, check on employers. ensure adequate institutional The study team's report says a disabled people, natives and vis­ i.;JI funding, or to ensure that withdrawal of federal support for ible minorities, there was no Janet Simpson, assistant to national standards in the post­ post-secondary education may penalty for ignoring the Liberal employment critic secondary educational system are work, because "the expansive cir­ recommendation. , says the clause maintained, the effort to secure cumstances which brought the Sandra Kearns, a public affairs is still too soft on the private provincial agreement will have to federal government into the officer at employment and immi­ sector. be made." financing of post-secondary edu­ gration, admits the private sector "The legislation needs to have ~ ~~ ~ The report says the federal cation in the Fifties and early Six­ "didn't respond well to the teeth," she says. I GOING I government could argue that it ties has passed." already funds most research in A recent study by the National Canada, and since research and Consortium of Scientific and lvouRWAY!I post-secondary education are Educational Societies shows closely linked, it should have a enrolment in Canadian universi­ I I say in running colleges and ties has increased by 24 per cent Graduation universities. since 1977-78, while per student I I The government could then set expenditures declined 18 per cent Portraits I I I Continued from page one said they were reluctant to get into a debate over individuals I I Miriam Stewart, a nursing pro­ nominated, or not nominated, by fessor who sits on the honorary the committee. I I degree nominating committee, "I don't want people who have said members "felt they were sat­ been nominated by members of ~t~ I I isfied" they had nominated the Senate but not invited to receive Master of right people for this year's honorary degrees to have any Photographic I (~ ()N 'I' IIi l I degrees. Stewart said the commit­ sense of insul~," said Mackay. tee had 45 suggestions for degree Arts I HOUDAYS I rl'cipients, and because they can only refer an few, they "recognize I I soplus that names we didn't put on the _rax I I list may be considered for future Used & Rare Books 6 con vocations." SIX PROOFS TO KEEP I I Denis Stairs, another member BACK of the nominating committee, I PAGES I TRAVEL CUTS said he is glad the "very volatile HALIFAX I issue" is settled, for the time 1520 Queen St. I Student Union Building being. "Some people think the Halifax Dalhousie Unrversity committee displayed bad judge­ Nova Scotia I Halifax. Nova Scotia 83H 4J2 I ment. Maybe they are right," said 423-4750 I 902 424-2054 I Stairs. 982 Barrrngton Street Both Stairs and the committee 423-7089 422·3946 I I chair, President Andrew Mackay, .. ______.. The Dalhousie Gazette. Thursday, March 20, 1986 o Page 3 On the road HE'f gul>DY! to nowhere HAVe- yov cor fr ~VARiEl~? WHEN KEVIN CHRISTMAS, A they are not tackling those member of the Union of Nova problems. Scotia Indians, made his present­ There have been cuts to student ation to the Special Senate Com­ employment centers, cuts in mittee on Youth, he said he didn't youth programs, and cuts in have a written brief because "the funding to universities and col­ chap who was preparing it com­ leges. And to show its apprecia­ mitted suicide three weeks ago." tion for youth during the United There are problems facing Nations' International Youth youth - suicide, unemployment, Year, the government did not est­ drug abuse. alcoholism, and pro­ ablish one lasting program to stitution - and the Senate com­ counter youth crises. The year mittee mentioned some of them was all pomp and ceremony and in the report it tabled last month. no meat. But what is the government do­ ing about the problems facing its The government has offered nation's youth? It says it is cons­ little to the more than 600,000 u~­ ulting, but is it really listening? employed young people in Can­ Maybe government members ada. As time goes by, the youth think the youth are too disorgan­ have less and less hope for the ized or too stupid to notice that future.

    A point of interest - Thyssen tion away from their human to reading that I build power cerns of youth, country-wide , to has fired some 1700 "permanent" rights abuses. plants in "women's" back-yards, Ottawa, to give us a voice in Not cotton employees since 1974 in Germany Once again, I must reassert my spray chemicals on their child­ Parliament. Dear editor: and replaced them with mostly position. South Africa must ren's forests, drop bombs, etc. I When the Progressive Conser­ Congratulations to Gillian foreign workers who are formally change. That, at least, is obvious. also do not feel that I "narrow vative Party came into power in McCain on the review of Less employed by subcontractors. How can it change? Not by pour­ things down" or that I "don't like 1984, they almost immediately Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis. It These workers are easy to hire and ing gasoline over tribal rivals. to tackle broad issues". I spend a began to neglect this programme, was witty, fun, and interesting, to fire, are very poorly paid and Not by riots and mob rule. It must disproportionately large amount and last year, with a budget of a but it was less than insightful. receive essentially no benefits. change through constitutional of my time arguing for holistic mere 17 million, under the Hon. Some research into Ellis' back- Sincerely, and legislative processes. It (not wholisitc) approaches to Andre Champagne, it did ground I'm sure would have Karl Dilcher requires a change of attitude, not science and society. The stat­ nothing more than buy lots of revealed to her the true nature of government. I believe the white ments made in the article about balloons and streamers and gen­ Less Than Zero. His literary focus Simply put government will allow black rule the actions of "men" are erally run around doing little is not the cotton candy populist To the editor, when they are sure that the coun­ obviously not true (although they more than chanting "celebrate overview she assumes it to be; this In a recent response to my letter try they built will not go the way may apply to some men and, pos­ the youth". is a superficial summation. Ellis' of February 12, Mr. Stevan Ellis of Rhodesia and others. sibly, a few women). Ms. Champagne justifies her focus is one of disillusionment labelled my arguments against In closing, Mr.Ellis stated that To suggest that the problems flagrant waste by asserting that and despair, shallowness and his biased philosophies 'dis­ Dalhousie was becoming another discussed can be simply viewed as she was "accentuating the posi­ alienation, the death of the drea­ jointed'. Therefore, I will attempt brick in the wall that enslaves women versus men is preposter­ tive". Sadly, due to the ineptitude mer and the individual. There is to make them simple so that he black South Africans. He quoted ous. Ms. Corbett's suggestions of her and her government, there no love lost between him and the may understand them. the former South African Prime trivialize the serious questions is very little positive to accentuate characters the book describes, Mr. Ellis' letter begins with a Minister, John Forster. It is not raised by environmental prob­ now. The Budget brought down more accurately he is distressed long list of his qualifications and surprising that he would use a lems ("acceptable risk" vs. socie­ two weeks ago has cancelled these and ultimately saddened by the positions, as if to justify his new, quotation from the man who tal benefit) and incite sexual celebrations,and consequently status quo in Less Than Zero's unofficial title - Moral Louds­ constructed Apartheid. prejudice without just cause. By quieted the voice of youth on Par­ Los Angeles. peaker of Dalhousie University. I I would advise Mr. Ellis to .identifying environmental issues liament Hill. The Nova Scotia I think an obvious parallel to speak as a mere student -all the update hs literature. The current as "anti-men" issues, Ms. Corbett Young Liberals condemn the his writing is the music of the credentials I feel I need. Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, has risks driving concerned males Progressive Conservatives' blat­ stated that he is equal to a black Velvet Underground. Both deal To begin, I think I need to reit­ away from environmental activist ant disregard for the pressing with urban alienation - the erate my position concerning the man in the eyes of God. An inter­ groups. If someone wrote similar concerns of youth. drugs, the moral bankruptcy, the Dalhousie Board of Governors. esting quote from a man whose things about blacks, jews, Thank you hopelessness. No-one needed a crystal ball to government you labelled 'mor­ women, or any other group, I Leo VanDijk. Ellis must ultimately loathe foresee that they would vote ally reprehensible', wouldn't you doubt whether you would print N.S.Y.L. President the characters in Less Than Zero unanimously for divestment. say, Stevan? such an article. In order to_Jeduce even more than Ms. McCain does. After all, which Governor would Brewster Smith prejudice, it is necesary to exam­ Sincerely want it known that he or she (Ed. Note: This letter has been ine carefully the basis for general­ New women Mark DeWolf voted against divestment - for edited to 300 words) izations about others. By To the editor, Entertainment Editor whatever reason. I suspect they promoting Ms. Corbett's logic, We the Sacred Six regret to The journal were feeling a great deal of pres­ Generalities you implicitly accept its applica­ inform you that this institute of Saint Mary's University sure from Mr. Ellis and his tion to other groups of people. I post-secondary education has cohorts, who happened to be To the editor, view this as a dangerous practice. become a cesspool of sin. This crowding the room. If Mr. Ellis I wish to comment on your arti­ Yours truly, decrepit state of affairs has gone Bloody ties needs an example of how politics cle entitled "Maritime women Michael Paterson on too long to let lie in the cav­ usually overrides his brand of fight for nature in their own way" erns of the LSC and grow into a To the editor: idealism, he need only remember by Lois Corbett (Gazette, March giant, pestering, feminist orb. It Whoever welcomes Thyssen recent history. Forgive my cyni­ 13, 1986). In the fight against sex­ Katimavik is now time to reveal this super­ money to create jobs in Cape cism Mr. Ellis, but I think the ism, racism, or any other form of To the editor: ego movement for what it really Breton (Ken MacAulay's letter of Board of Governors was less con­ prejudice, it is essential not to Regarding the article entitled is, a gathering of mindless louds­ March 13) should look at what cerned with your petition and make unsupportable generaliza­ "Youth Ignored" (March 6, 1986) peakers. These creatures have no this same money supported more concerned with the fiscal tions. Unfortunately, this article Mr. Syms is obviously as con­ soul but can constantly be heard before (see, for example, the well-being of the university. was full of such generalizations cerned as many of us about the throughout the hallways, and a books by Fritz Thyssen; I Paid Mr. Ellis also states in his letter about men. problems facing youth today. little too frequently in our Uni­ Hztler, or ]. and S. Pool, Who that South Africa is at the pinna­ The article seriously confuses However, I find it unusual that versity newspapers, belching out, Fznanced Hitler?) The ensuing cle of 'wrongs' in the world. I two important, but distinct, sets after citing the recent budget cuts "I can open my own •¢&• door." war killed 50 million people in wonder then what his stand of problems -those of the envir­ to youth programmes, such as the This call-to-rally seems to prevail Europe, among them thousands might be on Cambodia, Vietnam, onment and those of sexism. Ms. elimination of Katimavik, he at good ol' Dal-U, butfrankly, we of -canadians. The Thyssen Nicaragua, , Angola, Corbett seems to be arguing that neglected to mention an even the Sacred Six are satiated to the firms, however, miraculously the Soviet Union, Zimbabwe, all men are anti-environ­ greater crime against youth- the gills with this narrow-minded survived and now propose to Chile, etc. It is true that the coun­ mentalists because more anti­ cutting of the Ministry of Youth. ideology. Let the doors of justice further expand their bloody busi­ tries above were those that pushed environmentalists are men. I am a :rhis organization, established by swing forth and engulf these ness to Canada. I am amazed that the hardest for that resolution to male and I am very concerned the federal Liberal government in chauvanistic hobgoblins, while Canadians let them do it. be passed. Why? To draw atten- about the en\'ironment. I object 1978, was set up to bring the con- Continued on page live

    Page 4 o The Dalhousie Gazette, Thursday, March 20. 1986 r Continued from page four The Gazette apologi1es to ling outside of Canada and the national students. re-examined and abol ished the rains of heaven and hell shall ILinda Richards, DAGS rep to U.S. has to get a new visa to re­ It is evident that differential because they do more harm than unite to strip these chimers of student council, for the factual enter Canada. This imposes fees are going to be erratically good. their impenious fortitude. After error on pg. I of last week's unnecessary costs on many stu­ hiked without any justification 3. The federal government the storm, women with new souls t;azetle. It was reported that she dents who don't have a Canadian other than the fact that foreign should end the harassment of shall appear from the fog who had only attended one touncil Embassy or Consulate in their students are a weak force and an international students by some will now appreci.lte a door held meeting so far this term. In fact. j immediate area. What is so diffi­ unrecogni£ed asset of Canada. immigration officers. in their favour, as would anyone. she had attended two meetings at cult about allowing international Many of these students feel that 4. Multiple entry visas should Mike Brown !he tim_('.Qf_last wcck'~i.is~ students with a valid visa and they are not being given a fair be issued to all international proof of studentship to return to deal, but most of them are unwil­ students. Canada without renewing their ling to sacrifice their studies to Tbe federal and provincial visas? agitate for reforms. Their silence governments and the universities Differential agony Let us not forget that many does not therefore mean they are can't help the situation with Canadian policy-makers and pro­ satisfied. In fact, some even don't flimsy excuses. Canada can sure! y By MAJID ADDO Some cold-blooded and ruth­ fessors had their education out­ want to be seen talking about offer sensible leadership about less cost-benefit analysis has been side of Canada and it is their issues they consider political. international students to the done to justify differential fees. In contributions that have shaped The voice raised from some of world community: we neglect THE ACADEMIC YEAR IS some provinces, this means 20 some of the universities here to them has been largely ignored. them at our own peril. It is ironic drawing to an end. Once again times what Canadians pay. These the levels of the Harvards and the But can Canada really neglect that officials from both levels of international students have been analyses hardly recognize that the Oxfords. One good turn deserves them? government and universities rec­ left out in the cold wondering impact of international students another. In any case, Canada pro­ Universities and ordinary Can­ ognize they are not doing what level their differential fees cannot be fully measured. How fesses to be a true friend and ally adians should help to deal with enough. What we need is the will are going to be next year. This is do you really measure the impact of the Third World. Its exemplary the issues that affect international to begin the process that will ulti­ the unnecessary agony that the of their cultural activities such as international development students. The following points mately lead to the resolution of federal and provincial govern­ International Night? How do you efforts have won respect and need to be seriously considered: most of the problems that affect ments have inflicted on interna­ really measure their contribution admiration of the Third World at I. Foreign students should Canada's unrecognized amabas­ tional students. Il seems that to community-oriented pro­ least. But if the favourable come under the federal govern­ sadors of good-will. Maybe the Canada really doesn't care about grammes that enable Canadians impressions are to last, Canada ment umbrella to ensure equal universities can initiate the pro­ international students. In faCL, must act now to remove some of treatment across Canada. cess through the AUCC. Time is some officials have indicated that Canada must act now to the irritations that bedevil inter- 2. Differential fees should be running out. those who feel Canada does not remove some of the irrit­ treat them well are welcome to go ations that bedevil Inter­ somewhere. 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    The Dalhousie Gazette. Thursday. March 20. 1986 o Page 5 John Graham, the Atlantic reigon staf­ the committee members designed to alle­ fing/ program activities officer. "When the viate youth problems. Conservatives came to power they realized One of the recommendations concerns there was only a contract of $19.7 million. Katimavik. It asks that the program be They were eager to reduce the deficit and in expanded. Katimavik they saw a way to do so." "The message we are trying to get across Graham says the board of directors of is that we are not facing an ordinary situa­ Katimavik decided not to protest the cuts tion," says Hebert. "The situation is openly but to make a more diplomatic in tolerable." effort to convince the new government of Hebert refers to the situation of youth the value of the program. unemployment. He says this unemploy­ "We believed the program was too ment has a price: more suicides, a higher important to dismantle," says Graham. rate of alcohol and drug abuse, prostitu­ "We were idealistic, naive and wrong." tion, etc. On January 29, the Secretary of State Hebert wants more options for young Benoit Bouchard informed Katimavik's people. He wants Katimavik back. executive director Paul Phaneuf and its "I don't think it's cancelled yet. I would board of directors' chair Hal Hooke that not be fighting if I didn't know there were his department would no longer fund Kati­ hundreds of thousands of people con­ mavik and it was to be shut down by June. cerned," says Hebert. All involved in the program were shocked, In fact, the Friends of Katimavik has dismayed and some saddened. been formed. Composed of ex­ Saddened, because another door had participants, group leaders, and concerned been closed to youth. A door to cultural citizens, the organization has circulated awareness, work skills and personal petitions and form letters to Brian Mulro­ development. ney. Their. work, however, did not receive The government, in cutting Katimavik, as much media attention as did Hebert cited the high expense of the program and when he announced his intention to go on job creation as reasons for its demise. a hunger stike for Katimavik. Andre Champagne, the minister of The senator is saying he will continue youth, defended the government action in his hunger strike until government rein­ a CBC Sunday Morning interview. states Katimavik. He sees the existence of "Katimavik is not a job creation pro­ the program as symbolic of the govern­ gram. How can you consider it a job when ment's intention to address the problems of the young people get $1 a day for expenses youth. and $1,000 after nine months? Is that a "They are destroying an organization job?. Is that the type of job you want for the that has been working for ten years and youth of Canada?" won awards as a model of this type of organization from across the world," says "Katimavik is not a job Hebert. Australia, New York, and San Francisco creation program. How can have all begun programs using Katimavik consider it a job when young as the model. As well, Katimavik was awarded the United Nationals Environ­ people get $1 a day for ment Program Medal in recognition of efforts devoted to the protection and and $1000 after nine months?" improvement of the environment. no mora Hebert can find little reason why the While Katimav1k Is not a JOb creation program should be cut. Independent stu­ program, Brian Arsenault, regional direc­ dies have established many positive points tor for Katimavik in the Atlantic provin­ about the Katimavik program. A Touche ces, is quick to point out that of the Ross study reported that the organization meeting DIBCB was well-managed. Econsulte, a Montreal­ ex-participants polled independently, By DWIGHT SYMS only 9% were unemployed as opposed to based firm, showed that each dollar spent 22% offical youth unemployment figure of by Katimavik generates $2.43 in produc­ the entire population. tion value for the economy as a whole. Government officials, such as Benoit Katimavik: Inuit meaning "meeting "Every person changes. Sometimes you "There are nearly 600,000 - 700,000 Bouchard, secretary of state, have even place". have a rough group - but even they youth unemployed, a problem which the stated that they thought Katimavik was a This year marks the tenth anniversary of improve," says Allan. "How better to government has to address. The solution is good program. the federally-funded program under the spend $20 million. A lot of participants not a simplistic one. Not one program, not What puzzles Hebert is that the govern­ name Katimavik. admit after the program they know where the private sector, not just job training ... ment acted three weeks before his senate It was started in 1976 by Barney Danson, they want to go (in life)." an array of options is needed and Kati­ report was tabled and three months before a former Liberal cabinet minister, and Since its inception, Katimavik has seen mavik is an important option," says a $280,000 report commissioned by the Senator Jacques Hebert. Ten years ago, over 17,000 participants working on nearly Arsenault. government was due to be released. Hebert said he wanted to "get young peo­ 1500 projects in 1283 host communities. "We guarantee three job experiences. "They stopped (the program) without ple involved in their own educational and The value of labor is estimated at close to Our contribution to first employment has knowing what it gives to young people," personal development while ... providing $50 million. been overlooked." says Hebert. needed and worthwhile service to Cana­ Greg MacKim is the director of educa­ Dr. Tony Richards of Dalhousie Univer­ dian communities." tion and vocational services at King's sity is part of the youth Leadership Coun­ It was a noble undertaking. Young peo­ Regional Rehabilitation Centre in Water­ cil formed in 1982. The council works "Politicans in general are ple from across Canada between the ages of ville, N.S. During the past six years, predominantly as advocates for youth, not worried about youth. The 17 and 21 would be placed in groups of MacKim has seen over 150 Katimavik helping youth groups organize and pro­ nine'to twelve. These groups travel to three volunteers at the centre. viding youth leadership programs. idea that Mr. Wilson would different projects in three different parts of "They have assisted us in the develop­ "Katimavik provides a balance to work have a budget without men­ the country and work at a variety of com­ mental phase of our mentally retarded pro­ skills. Young people may have job skills munity projects under the supervision of a gram and programs around adult life but not life skills. (These skills) make them tioning youth is incredible. Katimavik sponsor and group leaders. skills. They've helped with vocational more employable," sa)'S Richards. "Kati­ The only mention of youth is In the Atlantic region, young people rehabitiliation in the centre and in the mavik was never designed to be a job crea­ participated in a wide range of work, from community," says MacKim., "They've tion program but it made people more the cancellation of adult education tutoring to renovating old been a tremendous help." employable." Katimavik." train cars to improving tourist and sports At the time of Brian Mulroney's victory It also provided what Richards and Arse­ facilities. sweep in September of 1984, Katimavik nault call service learning. With commun­ For their work, participants received was experiencing their second boom year. ity organizations having less and less "Politicians in general are not worried $1.00 a day and $1,000 at the end of the The nonprofit organization had a $19.7 resources to rely upon, Katimavik supplied about youth. The idea that Mr. Wilson program. million contract with the government, young people with energy to service the would have a budget without mentioning Sonia Howte is from Scarboro, Ontario. however, the Liberals had decided to community and from this learn. It was a youth is incredible. The only mention of She is a Katimavik participant working increase funding for a second year in a row. unique opportunity for youth to get youth is the cancellation of Katimavik." with a physically and mentally handi­ hands-on experience with social problems. Bouchard has announced that plans for capped girl in Annapolis Royal. She left In February, the spN :a' Senate Commit­ youth employment are in the works but he university for a year of Katimavik. "We believed the program as tee on Youth released its report. The bipar­ has not been specific. He has stated that "It was at first hard living with ten peo­ too impo an to dismantle. tisan committee was chaired by Senator some of these programs may reflect the ple," said Howte. "But I'm learning to live Hebert, the same senator who is now in the Katimavik idea while in the same breath with other people and ways." e ere idea istic, naive and tenth day of a hunger strike to protest the dismissing the idea of it being in any way For most of the time in Katimavik, the wrong." cancellation of Katimavik. connected to the senator's hunger strike. group stays together and must organize The report outlines the problems of As for Hebert, he sits, fasts and waits household duties and living arrangements. young people in Canada today and their while occasionally receiving old friends Kathy Allan, Howte's gorup leader, says "They wan ted to see how we haudled the prospects for the future. Titled Youth: A like former prime minister the participants learn to have patience. expansion and they made it clear that the Plan of Action, the report lists 26 recom­ and new ones, the hundreds of young peo­ They learn to live together. extra funds were not guaranteed," says mendations unanimously supported ~y ple who come to visit him earh day.

    Page 6 o The Dalhousie Gazette, Thursday, Ma;ch 20, 1986 sity of Alberta as the writer-in-residence. I Her Muse called met her in the spring of 1983 when she In her crowded ear. came to do a reading at Memorial Univer­ She heard but had sity. She attracted a small crowd of follow­ her dirty house of clear. ers at the reading, all familiar with her work. but there were others, encountering "Women have been subtly squashed. her work for the first time, who saw Smart Men use putdowns like military manouev- -as a women's writer, her voice that of all ers," Smart said ruefully. "The more they women crying in their joy and in their say it, the more you believe it's true. George pain. (her former lover) used to say his wives "To be in a very unfeminine, very unlov- were monstrous ego maniacs. Well, that's ing state is the desperate need of anyone not true, he is." trying to write," Smart said in one of her Smart was emphatic when she said poems. And she understood too well the "Women hav ~ to turn to men who do that problems of writing and trying to find time and say 'No, you're awful!' or else they will to write. Her first novel was published in be lost." 1945, but her second, The Assumptions of Smart's writings are woman-centred and Rogues & Rascals, didn't appear until 30 she was quite proud of that fact. "It's got to years later. In between, Smart had four be," she said. "Only women can write children, the result of a long-running, tern- about how women feel." pestuous affair with the British poet, "Some people have accused me of writ- George Barker. ing on trivial little subjects in my poems," "Grand Central Station took me three she said. "Writing about twin sets, now years to write," she said in an interview in a that's really trivial." Smart worked as an noisy cafeteria. 'The other, I can safely say, advertising copy writer, creating the little took me 30 years to write, with a few bits of information which surrounded interruptions." fashion layouts. She also wrote little boa- The interruptions to which Smart klets on how pantyhose were made. referr~ were many and varied. She began Smart recalled those years with some her writing career by working for the regret. "lt took up a horrific amount of my Ottawa journal in the 1930s at a salary of time. By the time the day is over, you can't $2.50 a week. Not ~tisfien.in . . "I think it is lovely to be rediscovered," just waiting for the bees to come and Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, is a Canada. ··: ·s-he: ~d with some glee. It's a sign she was fuck them. cult classic. None mentioned her life was a Smart's writing is char~c~ed~ed b-yadry~ :.. : pleased to note, o£ women's increasing Elizabeth Smart was a contradiction. constant struggle to survive, nor that her ascerbic wit, accompanied J>Y:a ri:m.deosed :.,.: prominente 'in. the writing world and in She looked like my grandmother, a sweet writing was a mirror for her experiences. and tightly structured style. ''l ' mur~o!o( . ·: theptib-lk"re<:og:nilion of women's culture. motherly type, ready to take it easy in her Elizabeth Smart was born in Ottawa, but people telling me my novel~ . have u6 ¥ID~; "Women have been sneered at a lot in writ- old age. But her appearance belied her spent most of her 72 years outside of Can­ no background. They keep as:J4ri..g me!<>~ ing-abmn ch~rnselves," she said. "But peo- tough, indomitable spirit, her unconven- ada. In 1982, she spent a year at the U niver- three volume geneologiesY ~¢ ""siii.d, ~·r pkdanYs~erat things now because they don't want to write like tha.!.d want(() .~ were written about women by women. I write a nugget of a thing." \ · · ...:. tb~ l:he.ie are-:marvelous things happen- Chapter nine of Rogues andR,~f;atswa$ : :-: ing '.in woro¢n's culture. More things are written with family tree houn&jn mind/ being dist<>veted." she said. ·· · Women must also write for other Chapter One: they were bor#; ..· ...... W.Oth.ell..:Smart said. Her exposure to Cana­ Position Open Chapter Two: they were bewftde."re4/:· :,;_ 'djan wonu:n writers led her to see the rela­ Chapter Three: they loved. · ·· ··· ·.:· · ·· i.ioWiliips . among all women writers. Chapter Four: they suffered. .· ::::, ·:: :, ·. · :,.: "Whrn l read Margaret Laurence, I felt a Aduartlstna/ Chapter Five: they were pacifie·¢ :: :: ""':: ::::_:~::; ~¢f~, a kinship with her," she Chapter Six: they died. .:.: .... ) .. ~plained. It was important for Smart to In some ways, the verse could serve M.a;··~. :. :::)~itl~~asize the universality of women wri­ Business manaaar suitable epitaph for this remarkable pcre(::" ·.· :,=: w~>and how they affect women individu­ Her life was composed of bits and pieces;;: :.,:;:'·:· ~·row : and collectively. The Dalhousie Gazette is currently looking and her writing reflected this haphaza~d ,:;':): ,Smart agreed with Virginia Woolf's for an advertising/business manager for structure. "Critics always refer to my slim: ·.:., ·:: ¢fument that for a woman to write, she the 1986-87 academic year. The position volumes and small output, but I don't :-:::· needed a room of her own. "You need starts August 11 and ends the last week of want to write more for the sake of it. Per- place, even a book cupboard will do," April, 1987. haps if I had written Grand Central Statzon Smart said with the familiarity of a mother as a very long poem, people wouldn't say who had no privacy. She would get up very that." early to read, then write in bed. "I can only The person generally would be Smart attributed her preciseness and write when I am alone. I've never really responsible for: neatness of style to her being a woman. lived with anyone except the children (but) o advertising sales and invoicing "It's very hard to write the truth. It's very you end up giving all your energy to o bookkeeping easy to get away with nothing," she said. them." Yet in spite of the frustrations o design and layout of advertising Women have to be even more truthful than Smart said she didn't regret taking the time copy men, she believes. "Lies are boring, among off from writing for motherhood. In the o composition of monthly financial other things." last couple of years of her life, she took care In her work, Smart considered the of her daughter Rose's children after Rose statements and a!lnual budget. themes of power and domination between died. men and women lot only did she look at Smart was matter-of-fact about her life Ideal applicants should have experience in her subject in temr~ of personal relation- experiences. "Suffering helps people. advertising sales, the student press, and ships but also in terms of the way men and We're so lazy, suffering is the only way we some bookkeeping background. However, women write. Her "feminist" poem, as she can learn. The whole secret of life is to keep nothing is etched in stone. described it, just popped out in one piece. yourself from being bored. You haYe to "It must have been something I was brood- keep learning, laughing." Deadline for applications is April 30, 1986. ing about, unbeknownst to me," she said When Smart died, she left a collection of of "The Muse - His and Hers." works from which literary critics will They may be dropped off at the Gazette glean facts and pe1ceptions. In reading offices, located on the third floor of the Dal When hzs Muse cried Smart's poetry and prose, the reader gets a S.U.B. or at the SUB Enquiry Desk. He replzed sense of an exciting life. masked by an ordi­ Loud and Clear nary existence. As she said in one of the Yes. Yes. I'm waiting here. poems:"Don't telephone anyone: write it all down. Maybe someone will understand ( ... ) vou better after you're 15one."

    The Oalhous1e Gazette. Thursday, March 20. 1986 o Page r in baseball

    Overtime MARK ALBERSTAT

    IT'S BASEBALL SEASON AND to spend money, but to spend it along with the peanuts and pop­ wisely. Yankees owner George wrn comes the talk of yet a not her Steinbrenner got Goose Gossage lengthy season, Cy Young awards and Dave Winfirld through free and, of course, the fall classic. agency. Not all free agents are Before the school year is over instant gold, however - Stein­ and the last Overtime is written, I brenner also got Steve Kemp and would like to make a few points Bob Shirley. about a recent trend in baseball. Free agency should be loved by Not since the New York Yan­ all baseball fans and hated and kees defeated the Los Angeles despised by all baseball execu­ Dodgers in both the 1977 and '78 tives. It has showed the fans that World Series' has any team almost any team can win it all, or repeated as world champion. To at least go a long way. Any team further stress the point, no team can now have big names swing­ has won back-to-back pennants ing big bats or throwing good since then. The last seven years stuff. have produced seven different However, free agency has made World Series champs and World players' contracts so large that Series games have been played in one can calculate just how many ten different cities. thousands a given player will It is interesting to note that this make with a swing of the bat, a trend appeared about the same catch of a pop fly, or a stolen base. time that free agency reared its Free agency has brought about all-too-powerful head. the fabled, and often much­ Pitcher Andy Messersmith is sought-after, life-time contract, the player credited with starting it the Kansas City Royals being all. After he played out his option prime examples. year (1975) with the Los Angeles The following are a few major Dodgers and was granted free league salaries that will give you agency by both an arbitrator and the scope of what free agency has a federal court, the face of base­ done: George Foster, New York ball, as we knew it, was changed Mets, $2,040,000; Dave Winfield, forever. $2,020,837 (subject to cost of liv­ Free Agency is not an evil, just ing adjustment); Gary Carter, a bad-tempered child that has its Mets, $1,871,428; Bruce Sutter, problems. With free agency we Atlanta Braves, $1,666,667; and saw some of the weaker teams George Brett, Kansas City, strengthen and some of the dynas­ $1,602,500. ties crumble. We also saw owners They say that nothing can attempt and almost succeed in grow to reach the sky but every buying World Series champion­ year baseball salaries just keep ships. getting closer and closer to doing Free agency has taught owners just that. Merit Awards and Lloyd Scrubb of Victoria goes up for two points in the championship game against the Waterloo Warriors. The Vikings won the game 70-61 to capture their seventh consecutive national title. Waterloo's Peter Savich and Paul Boyce get ready All-Canadians to rebound. Photo by Todd K. Miller. Dal Photo. By MARK ALBERSTAT Award and the Sackville Citizen X· •• - of the Year award. Sears also Vikings win-CIAU crown IN CONJUNCTION WITH established the first A UAA Statis- the CIAU Final Four, the Merit • tics Information office in 1964. By MARK ALBERSTAT their berth in the championship margin until there was a one­ Award winners and the CIAU Don Grant has devoted 35 years game by their 69-67 squeaker over point lead with 4:57 left which All-Canadian winners were as an official to the sport of bas­ FOR THE SEVE TH the Western l niversity forced a Victoria time out. The announced. ketball. He has officiated at 13 straight year the Victoria Vikings Mustangs. Vikings then proceeded to The National Association of national championships and is have won the premier basketball In the consolation game Satur­ tighten their defence and charge Basketball Coaches of Canada the top working official in the event in the country, taking the day, Western beat Saskatchewan tht>ir offence enough for the !!­ selected Cord Hamlin, Wally Moncton area. He is president of CIAU title Saturday afternoon at 78-71. point win over the frustrated Sears, and Don Grant as this the provincial Officials' Associa­ the Metro Centre by downing the The only surprise in the cham­ \\'arriors. year's Merit Award winners. tion and presently sits as a Gover­ Waterloo Warriors 70-61. pionship game was the closeness Besides Clements, veteran nor for the New Brunswick of the score. Before even arriving Lloyd Scrubb scored in rlouble Cord Hamlin has been Vikings' centre Cord Clemens Sports Hall of Fame. in Halifax, there was talk about digits with 13, while Vito Pas­ involved with basketball since claimed this year's title was one of The CIAU All-Canadians were the Vikings' virtual stranglehold quale scored 12. 1957 as an organizer and adminis­ the hardest. announced at a banquet on in the CIAU title. The small Paul Boyce led the ·warriors' trator. He helped organize the "This season we had a lot of Thursday night. crowd that attended the cham­ attack with 18 points, while Halifax Amateur Basketball pressure on us because we were The first team consisted of pionship game were rooting for second team All-Canadian Pete! League, was president of Basket­ carrying six other seasons with John Carson of Brandon, Byron us. It gets harder each year. This the underdog Warriors. Savich chipped in 14 points. ball ova Scotia, Director of the Tokarchuk of Saskatchewan, Joe By the half-time break the Vik­ Canadian Amateur Basketball year's championship was proba­ In the consolation game, tho Ogoms of Manitoba, Cord bly the most exciting because of ings had created a 14-point Association, and president of Tucker of Winnipeg, and Ken cushion with a ·12-28 score. This Huskies. as in rheir game the Sport Nova Scotia in 1974-75 and the score, if nothing else," said night before, cleaned the boards McMurray of Lethbridge. Clemens. was largely due to the abilities of 1977-79. Hamlin is a native of The second team featured Cord seven-foot Clemens, who poured well but couldn't find the basket Halifax. Clemens of Victoria, Rob Latter The Vikings reached the cham­ in 16 points, scoring a game total when shooting. Leading the Wally Sears, a free-lance jour­ of Concordia, Peter Savich of pionship game by virtue of their of 26. Mustangs on offence was Jamie nalist, has been writing about Waterloo, Ken Klassen of British 78-70 win over the Saskatchewan The second half saw the crowd Ziegel with 15 points. Greg Jock­ ims led Saskatchewan with 14 athletics for the past 27 years. In Columbia, and Tim Rider of Huskies in the first semi-final on get excited as the Warriors points. 1980 he received the CIAU Media York. Friday night. The Warriors got whittled away at the Vikings'

    Page 8 o The Dalhousie Gazette. Thursday. March 20. 1986 Dal runners do well Tigers at ClAUs place DALHOUSIE'S NORMAN 2:51.00. DeGooyer was also a Tinkham and An nick de Gooyer, member of the Tigers' women's 4 seventh both of whom are from Yar­ x 800 metre relay team that placed THE DALHOUSIE MEN'S mouth, Nova Scotia, placed well sixth. Other team members were AND WOMEN'S volleyball Tig­ at the CIAU Track and Field 1 Kara Munro, Susan Spargo and :.ers both defeated their counter- ~ Championship held at the Laval Loretta Dobbelsteyn. parts from the Universite de University over the weekend. Tinkham finished fifth in the !Moncton to claim seventh place DeGooyer set a new AUAA 5000-metre race. He was ranked lat the CIAU Volleyball Cham­ record in placing fourth in the third in the CIAU in the event pionships held over the weekend 1000 metre race with a time of entering the championships. lin Moncton. The women Tigers dropped matches to Sherbrooke (1-15, 7- 15, 1-15) and Victoria (8-15, 5-15, Tigers lose to York 12-15) before topping Moncton THE DALHOUSIE TIGERS Bears are the four teams thayt still 11-15, 15-2, 17-15, 15-4. men's hockey team had its season have a chance to be crowned the In the bronze medal women's come to a disappointing close last best in the country. match Sherbroooke defeated Laval Sunday as they lost 7-2 to the The Tigers had won the open­ ·n three games, while Winnipeg Yeomen in the ing game of the series on Friday, laimed the gold, beating Manit­ third and deciding game in one of March 14, 5-3 , but lost the second ba in five games. A meeting place where the three CIAU Regionals that deter­ game 4-3 in double overtime. In the men's division, the Tig­ . mined what schools will send The Tigers conclude their sea­ rs needed only three games to untraditional IS teams to next weekend's national son with a 24-14 overall record topple Moncton 15-2, 15-13, 15- a tradition championships in Edmonton. after finishing in first place in the 11, avenging their loss to the Blue The Yeomen, the Moncton AUAA's Kelly Division at 18-7. agles two weeks ago in the Blue Eagles, the Trois Riverieres The young Tigers will only UAA finals and taking seventh Beside Cleves on Argyle Street Patriotes and the host Alberta lose four players next year. place. 1665 Argyle Street, Halifax, N S

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    You are cordially invited Tuesday to Dalhousie Black and Gold Club 16:00 Backtrax A series looking at artists who have demonstrated a lasting influence A WARDS EVENING in contemporary music. Wednesday, March 26th, 1986 MciNNES ROOM Wednesday Dalhousie Student Union Building 12:00 A Soulful Earful With Robin Shier. A look at 60 years of innovative and influential jazz.

    6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Reception - Cash Bar Thursday 7:00- 8:30p.m. Dinner - Buffet 8:00 Upwardly Mobile 8:30 - 10:00 p.m. Presentation of A wards BBC Radio Newsreel at 08:00. Today: The International Social Connection, and Dr. Johnson's Travelling Medicine Show, 10:00 - Midnight with hosts Jennifer Garvey and Mike Hymers.

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    Page 10 o The Dalhousie Gazette, Thursday, March 20. 1986 ______CALENDAR ______THURSDAY e GAZETTE STAFF MEETING -at3:30 p.m in the Gazelle office, 3rd floor, SUB How it all fits together: e LECTURE - The School of Library Service, Dalhousie University, presents a 2. lecture entitled: "Technical Services: Future Prospects" ~n Thursday, March 13th, at 7.30 p.m. Mr. Michael Gorman, Director, General Services Department, 1. Whitewashing University of Illinois at Urbana­ Champaign. Location: MacMechan Aud­ 2. Double-talk itorium, Killam Library, Dalhousie 3. Evasion 4. University. Thrs lecture is open to the public. 4. The Truth e POLITICAL SCIENCE SEMINAR - at the Political Science Lounge, A&A Build­ ing. 3:30 p.m. - Film on the Contras in Nicaragua (28 min.). 4 p.m. - Speaker­ Ashley Hewitt (Deputy Director, Office of Planning, U.S. Department of State "U.S. Policy in Central America." e PEARSON LECTURE SERIES Speaker: Gloria Nikoi, Senior Fellow, Pearson Institute and Ex-Foreign Minister of Ghana. Topic: "Women in Develop­ ment in Africa: After Nairobi" MacMe­ chan Auditorium, Killam Library, the Library Technician and Library Assist­ seeking new ways of being spiritually a! ive Centre, Saint Mary's University. The talk Dalhousie l'niversity. Time: 4:30p.m. ant Programs at KingsTec and the Univer­ in today's world. Open to all students, is part of a Spring Lecture Series honour­ sity of New Brunswick." Speakers: Ms. faculty and staff. Room 314, SUB. 7:00 e BIO DEPT. SEMINAR - Alan Fraser, ing the new D'Arcy McGee Chair of Irish Laura Draper, Director and Teacher, p.m. Department of Chemistry and Biochemis­ Studies established at Saint Mary's Univer­ Library Technician Program, KI~G­ try, Universite de Moncton. ''l'nusually sity. Admission is free and the public is STEC, Kentville, N.S.; Ms. Francesca Large Mitochondrial DNA from the welcome to attend. Holyoke, Pro&ram Coordinator, Uni\er­ Native Scallop, Placopecten Magellani­ MONDAY sity of New Brunswick Library Assistant cus. Room 2830, L.S.C., 11:30 a.m. Program, Fredericton. To take place at e CHESS CLUB - 7:00 p.m , Dal Chess THURSDAY e AIESEC MEETING - will be held at 11:45 a.m. at the MacMechan Auditorium Club, Room 316. II :00 a.m. in Room 100 of the SUB. AlE­ in the Killam Library, Dalhousie Univer­ GAZETTE STAFF MEETING -at 4:00 e PUBLIC LECTURE - Robert Carty, e SEC is the International Association for sity. This lecture is open to the public. p.m in the Ga::.el/e office, 3rd floor, StTB. co-author of 'Perpetuating Poverty will Students of Economics and Commerce. All speak on -"Canadian Foreign Aid Policy MAJOR BLACK CONCERT- interested students are welcome. For more e to take and Human Rights". Co-sponsored by place at 7:30 p.m. in the Rebecca C,ohn information please call us at 429-8717 or Amnesty International and Education contact us at 6094 l'niversity Avenue. Auditorium. For more information call SATURDAY Centre, Saint Mary's University. For infor­ the Black Cultural Centre at 434-6223. mation call Audrey at 827-3439. To take CANADIAN MISSIONARY TO e place at 7:30p.m. in the Burke Education SPEAK- Dr. Mike Traher, S.F.M. of the Centre, Saint Mary's University. Scarboro Foreign Mission Society, will e LUNCHTIME SEMINAR - Albert F. speak to Dalhousie Fniversity students Hart will speak on: "Reflections on Cana­ during the weekend liturgies at the univer­ e EXTEND-A-FAMILY of Halifax would dian and Other Codes of Conduct for Com­ sity chapel, M;:.rch 22-23. Traher, a Roman TUESDAY like to hear from families or indi\ iduals panies in South Africa. 12:00- 1:30 p.m., Catholic missionary priest, is currently e DAL SIMULATIONS AND GAMES interested in becoming friends with a dis­ Seminar Room, Centre for African Studies. touring eastern Canada to promote voca­ ASSOCIATION - Interested in fantasy, abled child. Coffee and muffins served. tions in society and speak on "mission" science fiction, and historical gaming? "There's a need in your neighbour­ e PUBLIC RALLY -OXFAMissponsor­ and its relation to Canadians today. Find opponents and try new games at the hood" - so please get in touch with the. ing a Rally with guest speaker Elliot e PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCE­ Dalhousie Simulations and Games Associ­ Extend-a-Familv coordinators at 423-9464. Mduni (African ational Congress Youth MENT- Francis Stewart will give a pub­ ation. Meetings are held every Tuesday e GOT THE MEASLES? - Became of Secretariat, Lusaka, Zambia). 8 p.m .. Stu­ lic reading of his works on Saturday, night in Room 316 of the Student Union the current measles epidemic in the general dent l nion Building Cafeteria, St. Man's March 15 at 7:30p.m. in the Art Gallery, Building, starting at about 7:30p.m. Eve­ population the Universit} Health Sen ice l'niversity. Everyone is welcome to attend! Saint Mary's University. The reading is rybody is welcome. recommends that all persons exposed to part of a Spring Lecutre,Series honouring • FILM -The Dalhousie German Club the disease, who have ne\er had measles or e "FREE NELSON MANDELA" RALLY the new D'Arq McGee Chair of Irish Stu­ will be showing the following film today who were immunized prior to 1975, should -cosponsored by Coalition Against Apar­ dies established at Saint Mary's University. at 8:00 p.m. in the MacMechan Audito­ be immunized within 72 hours of theid and OXFAM, to take place at the Admission is free and the public is wel­ Micmac Native Friendship Centre, Gottin­ rium of the Killam Library: Der Schzm­ exposure. come to attend. gen Street. For more information please melreiter. (Color, 96 minutes in Gennan • CUSO -jobs in developing countries­ call Karanja at 424-7077 or the OXFAM e RUSSIAN NIGHT The Dalhousie with English sub-titles. Directors: John Do you have the skills and experience office, 422-8338. Societv of Russian Students will be hold­ Phillipp Law. Anita Ekstroem and Gert being sought for the positions currently ing it~ annual Russian Night tonight at Frobe. Theodor Storm's famous no\el of open in many developing muntries? For e PSYCHOLOGY DEPT. COLLO­ 7:30 p.m. in the Haliburton Room, in the the fight of a progressive dike master more information contact Connie l\'unn, QUIUM Dr. Ralph Mistleberger, A&A Building on the King's campus. against the conservative people, who stub­ Room 124. A&A Building. ·124-2404 or 425- Department of Psychology. Dalhousie S(enes from Gogol's play "The Inspector bornly remain in a milieu in which one 6747. l'niwrsity, will speak on the topic of General" will be performed in the original believes in the established future.) e VOLUNTEER CHAUFFER - Veith "Sleep Deprivation and Subsequent Sleep Russian. Also, poetry will be read in both House requrres the sen ices of a volunteer in the Rat: Implications for Sleep Mtcha­ Russian <:~nd English translations, and with a valid chaufeur's licencse. Help is nism and Function". at 3:30p.m. in Room Russian songs will be sung. Russian food WEDNESDAY needed Tuesdays and Thursday~ to tran­ 4258 63 of the L.S.C. will be served. port seniors and pre-schoolchildren to and Tickets are $3.00 and are avaii

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