Glendon's Bilingual Newspaper Journal bilingue de Glendon .. Lundi Ie 6 fevrier 1995 -nouvelles------News- Enfin une maitrise en • 10 etudes franc;aises Dominique Marcotte

Brief A partir de septembre 1995, I'universite York offrira tairement reparti les cours en la publication, et que Ie GREF une maitrise en Etudes fran~aises. Le programme est en soiree et Ie samedi matin pour est un atout important. Quebeckers fait offert par trois facultes de York: la Faculte des lettres, cette clientele particuliere. Le programme n'en est qu'a Ie College Glendon ainsi que Ie College Atkinson. La Le programme couvriraplusi­ ses premiers pas et Ie groupe de Polled direction du programme sera logee it Glendon, parce que eurs dimensions de la litterature personnes qui gravitent autour Ie secretariat et la direction de la maitrise y seront francophone, en offrant notam­ du nouveau ne planifie deja son In a recent poll ofover 10 000 localises. ment la possibilite de suivre des deve-Ioppement. On songe pas Quebeckers on the sovereignty cours en Iitterature franco­ exemple a la creation d' un question, 43 percent stated that Une maitrise en Etudes exemple de cette francophonie ontarienne. Le programmemettra triangle Toronto, Sudbury, they would answer "no". Only fran~aises a Glendon permettra qui bouge dans Ie sud de l'accent sur la linguistique et la Ottawa, pour l'echange d'infor­ thirty-seven percent of those de generer une activite franco­ 1'0ntario. Iitterature, avec une certaine mations et de professeurs. On a polled said that they would phone importante au College. De Le programme de maitrise ouverture sur d'autres souleve I'idee d'inviter des approve the statementas presently plus, etant donne que c'est un necessitera 6 demi-cours pour Ie programmes. professeurs pour une periode fran~aises, f ~me c~urs worded by the Parti Quebecois programme d'etudes programme sans these, ou de.4 Dans Ie cadre d'un prog < determinee, quioffriraitdes

government. When the question il etait tout naturel que Ie College demi-cours pour Ie programme de maitrise en fran~ais une . .i., tres specifiques qui ne sont pas was altered to read, "Do you want soit a la tete du projet. Glendon avec these. Dne moyenne de B+, comme Toronto a beaucoup a '~gulierementofferts. Quebec to separate from Canada encourage deja nne activite est demandee pour etre admis au offrir. Pour des etudiants en t,es personnes qui seraient and become an independent creatrice·francophone, et Ie projet programme. Ce qui va differen­ etudes fran -~aises, Ie College inreressees par ce programme de country?", over 50 percent de maitrise va agir comIne un cier Ie programmede I'universite Glendon possede des ressources maitrise, sontinvitees aconununiquer indicated that they would vote veritable stimulant pour les York des autres programmes est qui sont tres interessantes, avecJacquesCotnamau Departement ·'no". Polling firms are now francophones des deux campus et que l'acces en est facilite pour considerant Ie fait que certains d'etudes fran~ de Glendon, au predicting that the splitwillbe 60­ pour lacommunaute francophone les etudiants atemps partie!. La professeurs sont tres actifs dans nmnero suivant (416) 487-6719, ou 40 in favour of federalism. de '"[oronto. Glendon reflete un direction du programme a volon- Ie domaine de la recherche et de par FAX (416) 487-6728. Victoire partielle Conference urges empowerment

Cette semaine, Ie Ministre Axworthy a decide de retarder through community and l'application de la reforme des programmes sociaux. Lareaction des etudiantsetdesautres.groupes grassroots efforts de pression, ainsi que la venue du prochain referendum au Queb~c Cynthya Peranandarri ont ete des facteurs determinants dans la decision du ministre. Ce TORONTO (CUP) - African people's participation and Nations Development Fund for alternative views on these derniera remis larefonnedans les grassroots empowerment within their communities will be Women (UNIFEM), will deliver problems. We need to hear all mains de groupes d'etudes. Sa the main focus of an international development conference at the keynote address. people's view, given the current nouvelle preoccupation est Ie York University in early February. Other confirmed speakers problem of globalization, and this probleme du deficit, avant les include Street Kids International's [conference] presents an oppor­ "This is the first conference of ordinator. reformes. Freddy NyitiandWesleyCrichlow tunity for people -to discuss issues its kind where community "And with York having one of ofthe Black Artists Network, who on social change." organizations and development the largest number of students of Student Jobless will speak on homophobia in Andil Gosine, media co­ organizations are coming together African descent among all Canadian Black communities. As ordinator for the conference and a Rates Rise to share their experience," said Canadian universities, it is well, the New York ASE Drum­ studentintheenvironmentalstudies Gabriel Obanda, one of the appropriate and fitting that it is ming Circle will be performing. department said that the environ­ While Ontario's overall organizers of the conference. used as the conference venue." Obanda said, "The social, mental movement has failed to lDlempIoyment rates have begun to Obanda is part of a community Obanda said the. theme of the political and economic collapse of adequately address issues of fall, recently released statistics point organization that is affiliated with conference is grass-roots partici­ Africa is not merely an African importance to people ofcolour. toincreasinglIDemploymentforthose the Africa and Diaspora pation and empowerment, and problem, but a global one. In "Alotofenvironmentalismaetually aged 15 to 24. Graduates are bearing Development Education Interna­ looking athow the community has Canada, USA and other areas, works against racial equality. The the bruntofthe decline, as thejobless tional Organization. approached these topics. "Weare African people struggle to better contributionsthatpeoplefrom African rate for those with a Wliversity degree "I think it's important that a going to face a new century; it's their lot in a historically hostile communities and Black conununities jumped3petrentagepointsfnm1990, serious and progressive event like time to review what has been world." am make are diSCOWlted - but this to9.4%in1994. Itisestimatedthat37 this opens the month," said Dionne happening," he said. George Sefa Dei ofthe Ontario typeofconferenceisneededtointegrate (XX) men andwomen muterthe ageof Stephens, the Canadian University Achola PalaOkeyo, chiefofthe Institute for Studies in Education environment, developmentandequity 25 have stopped looking for work, Press National Race Issues Co- African section of the United said, "I think they need to hear issues," Gosine added. whichgoesfartoexplaintheincreased enrollmentincollegesanduniversities ocross the province. ne~_perspec~ives ---SML/DM -- Quotes from Dan Quayle, for~er Vice-President of the United States -- uWhat a waste it is to lose one's mind. III was recently on a tour of Latin Or not to have a mind is being very America, and the only regret I have was wasteful.' How true that is " that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those ... ::.::', .•. :: :.: :.::: •... :.. :..,:.: .:: •• ::.: :.: ••..... :: :: •.•.. :.. : :.::.::.· ;:::.::·.··.:.:.:.W.·:.· •...:.··· .. ·.·::\.:::.::·:::: ::.:: :.::: •. :,: : : .·:h·::::...... : it :.·: .. .It1SI1~thE!PQ~1'9t:l.eJltl1.e.t;,liJCl:rDl:LIl people." :~~i.~~:n~::~.r ~hat t!:~il:l~t::j" IIRepublicans understand the importance :: .. •••• •••• •• i..... of bondage. between a mother and child." uMurphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next "We're all capable of mistakes, but I ~\~j~9me~~\\j\~~~:\:~·gj\~I!.•~j:P::::~~\: year." do not care to enlighten you on t·he >"9:[:::~~:::\·~9[::\~~\~.::~:\ftgF\\?: mistakes we mayor may not have made." IIPeople that are really very weird can ~111;i~~I;~.·•••••·.·e! •••••• get into sensitive positions and have a UThe future will be better tomorrow." >1)l_.e:i?(:·::::·:::::::::::::::: ~~~~ ...... trem~ndous impact on history." y M_O_nd_aY_Fe_br_Ua_r6_,_199_5 ~--__nouve II~

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Too often we... enjoy the c0111fort of opinion without the disco111fort of thought." - John F. Kennedy lilt was not one of GaqJ's better points: tolerance of the intolerant. Crazy people Inade hi111 crazy. It was as if he personally resented giving in to 111adness - in part, because he so frequently laboured to behave sanely... Tolerance of the intolerant is a difficult task that the tiDles ask of us." -John Irving, The World Accordina to Garp

Eric McConnachie

John Fekete's Moral Panic: Biopolitics Rising is a level of society, at every fulcrum prevalent in academe these days: others. Wendy Kaminer and Katie dead-serious and exasperated, stentorian call·to of interaction among individuals. one suspects he is a consumer of Roiphe for instance, have both attention. And it comes from the very midst of the ranks. Is it even useful to respond to a little too much foggy French contributed much needed, fresh this?, Fekete wonders. When theory. Intheend though, thisbook reproaches to what has become Fekete, a professor of projected onto every kind of intoleranceisthe meansofdealing iswell worththetime spentdigging an increasingly stiff ivory tower of Cultural Studies at ever- relationship in the nation can with intolerance, what is gained? into it. No one who reads it will be un-questioned ideology.) progressive Trent University, fosteronlyfear, self-loathing, and In the course of about 350 pages, unaffected by its argument. But Ultimately what is worthwhile and the author rakes through current neither should an intelligent rea- even inspiring about this book is biopolitical thought, much ofwhich der feel completely pUlled in by that it might help clear away some has in Canada become policy, or what Fekete has to say, though it ofthenoise,especiallyconceming at leastproto-policy. Forexample, may seem that what he says is therhe-toricofabizarre'continuum he analyzes the Canadian Panel long overdue, it seems. (There are of vio-Ience', in order that we can On Violence Against Women's other canaries in this coalmine, perhapsstarttalkingagain,instead report (1993), andfinds itappalling though, some of them louder than of yelling. on three levels: It is atrociously researched and contains both clinical fallacies and evidential errors; itmakesmisleading useof Grande pretress statistics in order to press exaggerated claims about exalte violence against women·and the Johanne Tremblay status of women in Canada; and finally, it makes startlingly totali­ Qu'on attende de moi Ie recit complet de ce qu'il m'a el, tarian proscriptions for national donne de vivre a Harbour/ront Ie 1er /evrier dernier. reform. The CanPan Report, he L'emotion ne se resigne me quitter. II va sans dire qu inds, limns a portrait of Canada a as a completely oppressive and l'incommunicabilite meme de certains evenements, internecine society in need of experiences ou realites peut tres .facilelnent etre la sourc de plaisirs inegalables.-- forced changes on every level. This is a result of thinking within a biopo-liticaliy fundamentalist framework, he maintains. What Fekete wants to do with his book writes in the introduction: "... 1feel panic. is to narrow the widening gyre of panic, engendered at least in part the calling, once again, to Moral Panicisacloselyargued, by such work, without adding to challenge the dominant cultural lively critique of what Fekete calls the melee. discourses in mymilieu, [and] it is the rise of biopolitics. What is In succeeding chapters, Fekete with a sense of both timely biopolitics? It is historically looks at specific case histories of obligation and privilege that I associated with eugenics, forone moral panic at universitiesacross answer it" These 'dominant thing. But one definition would be Canada, couple of them right in cultural discourses' a.re contained that it is the tendency to form self­ a ourown front forty, in the casesof intheportmanteautheorem "race­ dramatizing grouping and Irwin Silverman and Reg class-gender" and everything you politicizing on the basis of Whittaker, both Professors at begin to think about when it is perceived (biological) difference. :s York. Heexplainsthatthe 'slippery called forth. Moral panic, he says, When 'difference' becomes slope' and the 'continuum' is brought on by the terrifying thefundamental basisforidentity, arguments are behind much of impasse of mistrust to which we, this leads to confrontation with the puritanism and confusion II as a society (including the policy­ groupswhich are seen as violently going on. In biopoliticsthe search jl makers among us) have recently aligned against that identity. The Q for tendencies leads to the ... sunk. Q result is a paralyzing truncation of ..c:I perception of similarities - e.g. ~ This situation is clearly coherent discourse. Those who healthy caution in the biopolitical reflected in everything from such hope to remain 'in the right' in Ainsi en va-t-il de ce que je ressenti en voyant Margie Gillis, qui viewpoint is equivalent to fear. popular and alarmingly titled such an environment must be du This continuum argument, he celebrait ses vingt ans de carriere, evo/uer sur la scene Premiere books as Susan Faludi's constantly on guard against the writes, becomes an ideological Dance Theatre, et apres, lorsque son intensite, sa sensibilite, loin de Backlash: The Undeclared War slide into fundamen-talism: "We fixation which is impervious to l'avoir abandonnee au sortir des cOlilisses (comme celle de trop Against American Women(1991 ) haveto know that, lefttotheirown criticism. And any purview which d'artistes), fa suivitjusqu'au dehors, et jusque dans nwn sein propre. and Marilyn French's The War devices, utopian practices can go is impervious to criticism is byde­ Rare. Unique. Rare est Ie privilege de rencontrer si belle ame. Le Against Women (1992) to street over the top and diminish the life finition dangerously close to merveilleux de fa rencontre est lao Elle ouvre des partes sur des literature on homophobia, wherein they hopetoimprove. The impact authoritarianism. Fekete asserts chemins battus et trap soltvent tabous; sur des sentiers dont les everyone, until s/he proves of the utopian will can be as that in such case, freedom of emotions, loin de tarir, VOllS sou[event, VOliS consltm.ent. Vousfaites otherwise, is considered to be negative as its absence." It is the a expres-sion, and even due face fa realite, Ie voile se sou/eve sur les plaisirs et dOlileurs qui homophobic (in otherwords, gUilty duty of intellectuals to be rude to a process, are at risk. peuplent I'existence hum,aine. Un tableau realiste peintpar une artiste until proven innocent). Fekete the movements, he declares. Moral Panic is not the kind of writes: "I believe that women, in It is no surprise that racism and du sublime. book you will read in front of a particular, are not helped by . sexism of every ilk are always, to Elle m'etreint, chaleureuse, reconnaissante. Elle sourit, lUlnineuse. fireplace with a cup of coffee or indiscriminatescarecampaigns . some extent, founded on biopo­ Je sens son energie me transpercer,.ie ne fa retint point. Une !enlnle bring with you on spring vacation. that... paralyze them, ghettoize litical pretenses. But what can be inspirante, un idealjelninin1 unjoyau pour Ie nlonde aritstique, poltr It is a handbook for guerilla them, distort their perspectives, said, Fekete asks, for a syllogism les anles sensibles atant de courage et unflot adnlirable d'intensite renegade intellectuals. Having patronize them, and rob them of such as the all-encompassing one creatrice. said that, beware, it is a real slog theirpotentials in the present and that maintains 'patriarchy' is the Elle elait un ideal aatteindre lorsque je n 'etail qu 'une petite to get through much of what future - in sexuality, sum total of cultural experience ­ ballerine de quatorze ans, subjuguee entierenlenl par sa .force, son Fekete hasto say. Partlybecause relationships, civic life, education, - one that it is run by men and it hlunilite et son inconlparable beaute. .Ie quittilis Ie l1lilieu quelques his logic is so dense and partly work, and play." oppresses women? Some annees apres. Son inlage resta pourtant. L'ideal plutol que de because he uses a lot of the kind Fekete does not deny that intolerable type of violence s'evanollir, subsiste, son oeuvre presente denlellre line inspiration, of terminology so distressingly sexism and racism exist, onlythat against women is, in this celle du tutur un nouvel ideal aatteindre. the way in which they are being paradigm, seen to occur at every ... Lundi Ie 6 fevrier 1995 - section des arts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~il.••••••••-••••••••••••••• : Quoi faire : :• cette• semame0 • :• • • Johanne tremblay • • • Les ECRIVAINS et les MEDIAS Carole Corbeil, Stuart • #Le detective est quelqu'un qui regarde, qui se diplace dans ce bourbier de choses et • Maclean, Eleanor Watchel-animateur: Michael Ondaatje 16h il • d'evenements a I'affUt de la pensee, de I'idee qui leur donnera une unite et un sense En fait, • 18h au Salon des Professeurs Pavilion York, 3e etage College • I'ecrivan (I'artiste) et Ie detective sontinterchangeables. Le lecteur(celui qui obseroe I'oeuvre) • ~~n • voit Ie monde atravers les yeux de I'enqueteur(les yeux de I'artiste), recevant la profusion des Monster Magnetdownstairs Sneaky Dee's (College & details comme s'ils les rencontraient pour la premiere fois. II s'est eveille aux choses qui • Bathurst) listening partyfor new album "Dopes to Infinity" 7:30 • • pm Free, Prizes • I'entourent comme si elles pouvaient lui parler, comme si par I'attention qu'il leur porte • (Ifyou dare... ): Karaoke night in the Pub,9pm • desonnais elles pouvaient se charger d'une signification qui dipasse Ie simple fait de leur • Comedy at the Rivollfeaturing Sweet Potato or...stay home • existence. Detectiveprive. En anglais privateeye, ce quis'entendaitaussi private1(...)D'abord and indulge: watch 'IV! 8pmStar Trek: Voyager ce I signifiant Uje", Ie petitbourgeon de vie dans un corps pourvu de souffle. C'etait aussi l'oeil (eye) de I'ecrivain (de I'artiste), l'oeil de l'holnme quijette son regard sur Ie monde etexige que Ie monde se revele alui." Auster, Paul :• Cheap night at the movies! Check out: :• Trilogie new-yorkaise, Cite de verre, • The Jerky Boys•••TheMoviesoundtrackfeaturing Green • trade de I'amiricain par Pierre Furlan, Aries (France) Day, Collective Soul, Superchunk & House ofPainMurder in • Texte utilise par Sylvie Bilanger pour la presentation tk son oeuvre • theFirst, Legends ofthe Fall, Boys on the • • Side, Colonel Chabert • De Niro Double Bill! Taxi Driver & Raging BullBloor • • Theatre (at Bathurst) 7 pm & 9:20 pm • • 4pm Relay Races CAP • C'est par l'exploration de non seulement notre vision Les idees foisonnent, il nous • 9pmDragKingandQueenPUB • possibilites visuelles dans des du corps mais Ie corps faut, pour enjouir, les saisir au Then? Go out!! You need it...(I do!) territoires de prime abord °humainlui-meme.Sesinstal• passage. Dne visite devient un • IfYOll want to dance...and ifyolt like CFNY Music & Frenzied • familiers, mais dont Ia lations (depuis Ie milieu des engagement; Ie simple coup .crowds...Dance Cave (Bloor at Bathurst) is the place to be -ifnot • comprehension dans toute sa annees80) font etatd'une re­ d'oeil ne suffit plus. Le travail • dance with the DEAD at the o. symboliquetrop souventnous cherche approfondie au de Sylvie Belanger soIlicite, • Sanctuary Vampire Sex Bar(...Queen W) • Subtractor CD release partyat the Horseshoe • echappe, que Sylvie Belanger, niveau des theories et d'abord et avant tout une • Marilyn Manson wI Monster Voodoo Machine une artiste q uebecoise pratiques de l'art actuel. Son disponibilite d'esprit hors du • at the Opera House $10 • accomplie, nousinviteaentrer oeuvre, et l'installation commun. en dialogue avec l'image presentement en place a la • • photographique et a Galerie Glendon, s'inspire L'exposition se pOllrsuit • ~111·111~1~1~1~1~111·:I~11IlIMaI111Ij}.I~I~I~ • l'accompagner d'ans sa avant tout de la convergence jus,!,,'all 16 fevrier. •• ~'~~jll.~~ •• r~flexion sur les paradoxes de de la technologie et une vi­ Heltres d'ollvert"re de la AGO -Slide presentation • RE: The Black Male ideologies (American vs Canadian) 7pln • la vie contemporaine et ceux sion d u mondeen constante Galerie: dll mardi au vendredi de

;~ du corps humain dans sa rela­ mutafionainsi que leurs 10lta o 17het Ie dilnanche til? 1311";' tI.• Intro. to Meditation class, Shilnbahala Centre 670 Bloor W. •-•. tion avec la realite consequencesetimplications 16/,. o 588-6465 technologique actuelle.A la sur Ie corps hllmain. • Gutsonic (metal) at Gas»'orks • suite de son BAC en Arts On peut meme s'y evader • Feel like Stomping?! Bad Manners wi special guests from • • Japan Ultra Bide wlArsenaIs at the Phoenix • Visuels a l'Universite par les merveilles des voies • Or, ifR & B, hip hop & regga~ are more your thing, try • Concordia (Mtl) elle termine, de telecommunications. • The Tunnel (230 Adelaide W ofQueen at John) • dans Ie meme domaine, une II n'est plus question de Maitrise a l'Universite York. selection naturelle...tout est Elle enseigne presentement a (re)pr9grammable: Darwin la School of Visual Ats, Uni­ doit s'en retoumer dans sa versity of Windsor. De tombe. On assiste a une • 5 pm Games in the pool PROcrOR 9pm PUB Night (lvnners • : 41'."announced) :tt reputation iD-temationale, son seconde phasedansl'histoire •• Whale Music (music by The Rheostatics) at the Paradise • oeuvre questionne les impli­ de l'humanite:celIedela colo­ Theatre, Bloor & Dovercourt cationsdel'essordesnouvelles nisation technologique du technologies et pratiques corps. Les artistes, il va sans • • medicales par lesquelles on dire, y participent, ou y altere, modifie, reprogram~e, reagissent, chacunasa fa<;on. ~~.P :•• "a reading' Lydia Lynch & exene all ages, seated slww at the :tt. Opera House • Rhubarb Festival: MlVirus RM Vaughan's AIDS revenge • • tragedy at Buddies in Bad Times alternative theatre festival 12 • • Alexander 11:3Opm, $6 • n • still a little restless? Bent nightat Catch 22 • • w/Denise Benson (379 Adelaide at Spadina) •

:• Rotate This«1,11_.-is giving away free tickets! for the Mighty :• Mighty BosstoneslFace to FaceJWaxShow up at 11am (620 • • Queen W at Bathurst) • Country Dancing at the Church ofSt. George the Martyr, 205 • • John St. • • The Watchmen wi guests Ursula • • ue's Palace $12 at the door • ······:·:·:·:::::::i:·i:·I:::::::::I:·I':·!':1::;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:~:;:;:;:;:;:li::!~:!:I·:::I::::::i::·i:I·:!~~·:::::::::·:·:······· . ':'~~~~:~"~::::njjt~:::::::::::::\::::::::\:~::~*i'~ml::~'.'. • • 4II\~j~:!~~!~~~_~~\t:.i~:::$~:· • • OCA Art Show at the Atrium,1()() McCaul St. • • Brunch at Mars Diner (Yonge & Eglinton or College &• • Bathurst) • • Apres tout cette depense d'energie...si Ie coeur vous en • dit...ou si les remords vous rongent les ongles...vous pouvez • • toujours ouvrir vos livres...ou encore vous preparer • • mentallement ii fa prochaine semaine de delire... • Ou encore mieux! • • Childhood's endat the Li:melight wI DJ Ian! • • Decidement...vous etes i~corrigibles... •

•••1•••••••••••••••••••• Monday February 6, 1995

Emily Pohl-Weary

The first time I really thought about the fact that eteria called'The Forum. Eve­ friends and everyone re­ BlackPeople united. It's Glendon's cafeteria is separated according to skin colour ryone ate lunch there, and spected each other's differ­ time to realize that us was last year, when my "white" English Teacher walked up sometimes the Principal and ences. Black People are here to the podium at the front ofthe room and sat down to have other big-wigs would make Christos, a Glendon student for the same reason as a coffee with her friend. speeches from a podium that who doesn't normally sit on everyone else - to getan was situated right in the mid­ the podium: education! Butifthere is If there's one person who ting at a Pro Tern meeting ear­ dle of The Forum. Everyone II First ofall, skin colouris a belief that Black Peo­ could do that entirely naturally, lier this week, and the question called that podium IThe Hill". but a tone, I refuse to use ple lien masse" mean it would have to be her. She came up: What would each The Hill was always occupied different names to describe trouble, let me just say didn't even look out of place. writer be contributing to the byblackpeopleandthe cooler, it." He thinks a lot ofpeople thatitwillonlygetworse. As a result, I started to ques- Black History Month issue? I olderguys. Everyone else sat just do it (separate them- Ifyou have decided ex­ tion myself-now, why won't I realized I had no idea what to in a sortofcircle aroundthem, selves) out of fear of the actlywho I am simplyon do that? That train of thought write about. eating their lunch, and facing unknown orbecause ofper­ the basis ofmyskin col­ quickly made me extremely Soon, it was my turn to tell the podium. " sonal experiences. 1'/ know our, but without ever uncomfortable because Idon't everyone (and the article I had becauseit's happenedin my hearing a word from my like to think I operate with any 'started in praise of gun control Gina Thompson, born in Guy­ own life. But luckily I also mouth - I don't have (nasty) irrationally precon- SUddenly seemed utterly inap­ ana, International Studies: encountered positive situa­ time for you!!" ceived notions. propriate), and the suggestion "When I first came to tions before the negative I didn1t -- and don.. -- want to of writing about the cafeteria Glendon, I too was hesitant to ones. Maybe some people Maria-Elena Vozza, believe that Glendon students, had been brought up -- so I sit up on the podium just as I who grew up in a homoge­ second year English stu­ even despite the multi-cultural readily agreed. was hesitant to join another neous society, for example, dent: make-up of the student popu- The best way, we all figured, table ofpeople on the floor if wouldn't have the positive "l understand that a lation, would still chose (at to get the real story, would be to theyhadanestablishedgroup experiences like I do. An in­ group of people all to­ some fundamental level) to ask people Why they sit where of friends. It's not a colour teresting anecdote couldbe gether can be intimidat­ separate themselves from they do in the caf, and if they issue. Perhaps the whole caf­ this story: last week I was ing, but fear shouldn't those who are IInot ofthe same had ever noticed the aforemen­ eteria should be one level. " talking to someone in my make people feel ani­ kindll.Then, when we were sit- tioned phenomenon. class - she's East Indian mosity towards one an GLENDON STUDENTS OUTLOUD- Sara (not her real name), a ~nd we were just flirting and other. Isitup on the stage Charmayne, Presidentofthe the cafeteria and compare Glendon student who used to she said 'I only marry my anditis the same asany African-Caribbean Club themtothenumbersittingon live in Cuba: own kind.' Wel" I come other group who sits to­ (ACC): the stage, you wouldfind that "I don't know why they do it fromMalta, but I don't have gether. Don't let this is­ lilt all started with the there are less blacks on the (sit on the podium). I don't do thatattitude. It's obvious that sue become one of ra­ smoking (in the cafeteria). stage. In High School, it was it. I sit down here with the she sees herself as differ­ cial superiority. " Like even when we go club- the same thing, there was a humans." ent." bing there isn't a lot of placecalledITheBlackHole', Jacqui, Ace member: smoke. You can talk to al- which was by the gym, and J. Panis, poli-sci student,: Frank, a poli-sci student: HWhen I first came to most90% ofus andwe prob- there were always blackpeo­ l'Oh well, let's beas frankas uJust becauseyourskin is Glendon, the only peo­ ablydon'thave members of pIe hanging around the stair possible. Why is it that when black - doesn't mean shit. ple who made me feel our family who smoke. We well. It tended to be equated Blackpeople gettogetheryou They (people of colour) are comfortable were those would smell of smoke and with 'TROUBLE'andITROU­ (whites) wanna make a big not a large community here from my own culture. our parents would be curi- BLEMAKERS' for no appar­ deal outta it? Why does 'Black at Glendon. They feel com­ The only reason I sit up ous aboutourfriends, so we ent reason." unification' scare you so fortable with each other, and here (on the podium) is sat as far away as possible much? Would you prefer to enjoytheirfriends ,company. because this is where from the smoke and it just Nicole (not her real name), a see us fighting orcussing each It's notoutofprotest, they're my friends are. But my - happened to be up here. student who was sitting on otherout? Letme tell you one notsittingbythemselves be­ question is: why do allof Basically, that's whatstarted the podium: thing, when I came to Glendon cause they don't want to be the white people sit on it- it hadnothing to do with " What, is there a big sign college my intention was to partofthe Glendon commu­ the floor level? It is a beinga white thing ora black somewhere that says Black mix with the French people nity." stupid and ignorant thing." People Only?" here. Mind you, despite my question, isn't it?" efforts the French community Priscilla, a Glendon student Patrick Joly, in charge of hasn'tdone much to make me I~II the French people sit Shawna (not her real Mike (not his real name): "Biz stuff" and advertising at feel welcome here -everytime together. People sit where name): IIlf you're going up there Pro Tem: I try to speak French, much they're understood. I feellike II To be honest with (the podium) makesureyou "I had the same experi- less try to befriend a group of this question is generalizing you it isn't an issue. The bring someone with you." ence at my CEGEP in Mon­ you - no go (with exception and highlighting' colour people that you see on treal-- Andre-Laurendeau." to a few people like Gabby). groupings in the cafeteria. If the caf's podium are a Dwight, a student who sits Anyway, the Indian commu­ you look more closely, you congregation ofstudents on the podium: Patti Williams, Psych student nity hang together in the Sa­ wouldsee that Spanish, Mid­ with common interests I~ seatis a seat. We don't lon, the Chinese community dle Eastern, Africanstudents that's it. When I'm LJp "I sit here because allmy discriminate againstanyone. by themselves, the Spanish andstudents from smalltown there, I can sense that friends are here. It's like, Everyone is welcome to sit community also hangs to­ Ontario also sit together. No there is someone out almost all these people be­ on the stage with us. Ifitwere gether so what's the point?" one everpoints outthe white, therein the Caf who long to the ACC (African­ big enough to fit all of you Northern, small town thinks we're up hereplot­ Caribbean Club) and I sit we'dlove it- butit's not. Hey, Natalie, a Translation student: Ontarians. That really bugs ting their demise. That's here because at anyone sit where you wanna sit but "I mingle with everyone. me." bullshit- plainandsim­ time somebody knows never feel you're not wel­ What I like most about ple." where I am or what I'm up come or you don't belong Glendon is the fact that every­ Flo Burey, French Major, to. There aren't really all 'cuz afterall we're allpaying one is able to be themselves. Poli-sci Minor: that many black people at school fees!" In my High Sqhool, I was part "Regardless of whether Glendon. Yeah we allcome of a group called the multi­ the Black students of from Scarborough, we all Liam O'Neil, Pro Tem pho­ culti-posse, there were peo­ Glendon congregatedon the knoweach other. Ifyou were tography Editor: ple from allbackgrounds (Jew­ podium orat the back ofthe to countthe numberofblack IIln my High School, there ish, Hispanic, white, Acadian, cafeteria, we all know there people sitting in the rest of was a bigauditorium-like caf- Italian etc.) and we were all would still be that fear of .. Lundi Ie 6 fevrier 1995 perspectives

Bob Gold These are the words ofthe Reform Party Defense spite of the fact that in the insight into the workings of critic, Jack Frazer, the honourable representative for Somali video, the word was his own mind. the Sannich-Gulf-Islands and an expert on African being used by white Cana­ Is Mr. Frazer a throw back American culture in his own right. dian soldiers to refer to the to the pre-civil rights days of civilians they were supposed North American petty apart­ Anex-military man and He considered the videos to to be protecting. But in the heid? Maybe he believes that now a fine representative be both degrading and sicken­ words ofMr. Frazer, African as long as a Black man is of the people, Mr. Frazer ing and even went so far as to Americans address them­ grinning while saying "yes took exception to the con­ call the hazing video "juve­ selves with the phrase: "Hey sir", "no sir" like the train tent of the two videos nile". But even after careful nigger, how's it going?" porters and bellhops of the showing the Canadian scrutiny, the astute Mr. Frazer NeitherwasMr. Frazerable old Hollywood movies, itis a Airborne Regiment in ac­ was unable to detect any dis­ to find anything racist in the sure sign of enjoyment in a tion. one, a hazing video play of racist behaviour. hazing video. The Black sol­ world where everyone knows of a Black soldier being Why is this so? Isitbecause dier may have been perform­ his place. Could the honou led around like a dog with he does not consider the word ing degrading acts, buthe was rable member be this naive? "Ilovethe Ku Klux Klan" "nigger"tohaveanyracistcon­ a "willing...par-ticipant" and And even more frightening, painted on his back, and notations. According to Mr. furthermore, "he was grin­ what phrases does he use to the other, shot in Soma­ Frazer, the word is perfectly ning and drinking beer." If refer to people when he's out­ lia, showing Canadian acceptable since he seems to this is sufficient enough evi­ side the public spotlight, sit­ peacekeepers speaking regard itas an acceptable form dence for Mr. Frazer to deny ting around, grinning and openly of their hidden of communication among any racist overtones, perhaps drinking beer? agenda to kill "niggers". Blacks themselves. This, in it can also provide helpful

II Y a 50 ana • • • Auschwitz Geraldine Senecal

Lesamedi27janvierderniera etecelebreIe cinquantieme erematoires... lieu de l'outrage du temps pour anniversaire de la liberation d'Auschwitz. II y a encore des Les nazis n'ont pas attendu qu'il remoigne; pour d'autres, personnes qui ne savent pas, ou devrais..je dire, iI y a deja des d'avoirtrouve lameilleure maniere au contraire, il faudrait "laisser personnesquinesaventpascequesymbolise unecroixgammee d'arrivera leurfin pourcommencer sedegradercestraces materielles, 00 bien ce qui se cache derriere Ie mot "Nazi". Pour plus de 5 a deporter de toute I'Europe les dontIe sortdoit etre lie a celui de millions de juifs, c'est la mort qui etait promise! populations considerees comme la generation qui a connu les indesirables versdescampsouverts victimes". Ladifficulteatrouver Le mot "nazi" est orientale, les non-aryens (definis en Europe de l'Est(principalement une reponse aces interrogations r abreviation de National comme composant les "races en Pologne) : Treblinka, Chelmno, montre bien combien, Sozialismus (National inferieures") serviraient la "race Sobibor... Auschwitz etait Ie camp aujonrd'hui encore, cette terri­ Socialisme), Ie parti fonde superieure" dominatrice et Ie plus grandetIe plusmeutrier, ala blepagedeI'histoireestbrfilante. par Hitleren 1921. En 1925, civilisatrice (composee des fois un camp de concentration, un Ce debat montre aussi combien dans son livre "MeinKampf' Allemands, des Hollandais et des camp de travail et un camp la communaute intemationale (Mon Combat), Hitler Scandinaves). Les luifs quantaeux d'extermination. Lorsque les doit etre impliquee, il est facile explique rideologie du parti etaient comsideres comme impurs soldats de l'Annee Rouge y ont de situerce lieu tres precisement nazi. Elle repose sur trois et dangereux, il n'etait donc ffieme penetre, Ie 27 janvier 1945, ils maissaporteehistorique depasse grands principes : I'ordre pas question de les asservir, pasplus n'ont trouve que 7000 personnes, toutes les frontieres. nouveau, I'espace vital et que les Tziganes, les "degeneres" pour la plupart mourantes ou Juste au sortirde laguerre, les l'avenernent de la race (comprendre les homosexuels) et malades. Environ 1 million de survivants qui temoignaient aryenne. les communistes. C'est ainsi personnesy furentassassinees, dont disaient : "Plus jamais ~a!". L"'ordre nouveau" qu'apres d'innombrables pres de 90% de luifs. A saperiode Qu'a-t-onretenuaujourd'huides consistaiten fait en ladomi­ persecutions contrecespopulations, laplusactive, c'est-a-direaI'arrivee le~ons de l'histoire quand on voit nation de l'Allemagne de l'idee de la solution finale (die des luifs de Hongrie en 1944, 24 cequisepasseenex-Yougoslavie l'Europe continentale, Endlosung) a ete developpee afin 000 personnes etaientexecutees et ou ce qui s'estpasse auRwanda? I" envahissementdu territoire d'accelerer Ie processus incinereeschaquejouraAuschwitz.

russe et la destruction des d'extermination. Cette "solution 70% desJuifseuropeens (90% H •••J'ecrlS dans ce pays all deux ennemisjun5s: les Juifs finale" n'etalt rien d'autre qu'une des juifs polonais) ont peri dans ['on parque fes hOlnmes et les Bolcheviks. "extermination industrieIle", pour la Shoah (mot hebreu, significant Dans rordure et fa soif Ie L' "espace vital" laquelle les ingenieurs nazis ont fait "catastrophe", designant plus Silence et fa falnl O_cbensraurn) representait la preuve de l'imagination la plus particulierement l'entreprise au fa lnere se voit arracher Hterre promise"qu'ilfaudraIt vlcieuse qUi soit puisque Ie but de d'extennination du peuple juifpar son fils comme conquerir mihtairemenl et leurs recherches emit: comment les nazis.) Sl Herode regnall quand pohtiquement, soit direc­ eliminer Ie plus de personnes possi­ Aujourd'hui a lieu un debat in­ lilval est dauphin... " tement soit par Ie biai~ de ble, Ie plus rapidement possible? ternational sur l'avenir ".. .Ausch\;vltz' 6 syllables gouvemelnents fantochcs, ])e leur imagination morblde sont d'Auschwitz, devenu un musee et sang/antes'... " pour l'epanouissement de 1a nees les chalnbres a gaz (pour dont la preservation demande un ""race superleurc aryenne". lesquellcs il fallait aussi creer Ie gaz soutien financIer considerable. Extr~its du poeme l:n l~urope occidentale et Ie plus efflcace possible), les fours Pour certaIns, it faut proteger ce d'Aragon, ''LeMusee Grevin" Monday February 6, 1995 .. DerS Dectives

A FINE EXAMPLE OF RACISM L'evaluation academique: IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM c'est relatif! Emily POhl-Weary

Humberside Collegiate has made front page news lately ­ a feat it never once accomplished during the five years I had the (mis)fortune of attending the west-end High School. A Julie Gauvin non-white Teacher was pushed down a flight of stairs from behind in a deliberate, racially motivated attack. Toutestrelatifcertes, mais lorsqueque cette relativite pose par contre la question detient un pouvoir aussi determinant que celui puisque les etudiants qui font I'effort de rediger dans leur To follow-up the incident, a let­ peared" (abducted), tortured, d'accorder Ie droit it un etudiant d'acceder au niveau de ter was anonymously circulated to beaten or killed. Amnesty was fold la maitrise, cela devient plus inquietant. langue seconde sont the staff on behalf of certain stu­ to take them down because they necessairement penalises. II dents, asking for the resignation of were "racist against white people". II est quelque peu soient influencer dans leurs existe des centres d'aide me all non-white Teachers. If the stu­ This conclusion was apparently deplorable de constater que choix par la maniere dont direz-vous, mais I'obstacle dents' demands weren't met, the reached on the basis that none of certains professeurs d'uni­ Professeur X. evalue ses demeure. II subsiste une letter indicated, such occurrences the people on the posters were versite puissent se fixer un etudiants plutot que par la difference entre corriger les would increase. white. plafond d'evaluation qualite de son enseignement. fautes de grammaire et editer HCI's Principal, Mr. R. Lawson, When I heard this, from one of academique de 75% Demandons-nous done pour un texte. is an older man who was around the Amnesty group members, Itook proclammant que la perfec­ quelle raison avons-nous De plus, res enseignants during my time at the school. He it upon myself to examine the of­ tion n'existe pas en ce monde, choisi de nous rendre au du college ne sont made a public announcement to fending posters. I walked around apparemment pas tous the media that the incident was the main floor of the school, reading alors que d'autres niveau universitaire (pendant unprecedented,he maintained that them. To my utter surprise, I dis­ enseignants semblent que nous y avons encore 'bilingues... D'apres les the racial tensions had sprung up covered' that someone had gone considerer que tous les acces)? Certainement pas politiques de Glendon, les out of nowhere. around scribbling swastikas on a etudiants· universitaires sont parce que c'etait la voie de la professeurs devraient etre Well, I know that school, and I'll number of them posters. des petits genies du meme facilite! dans I'obligation d'accepter be the first to admit that racial ten­ During the Gulf War, while I felt calibre et meritent done tous Par ailleurs, iI apparait in­ un travail remis dans I'autre sion did not spring up in its midstout that it was entirely wrong and was la meme note! En fait, supportable qu'un professeur langue que celie utilisee pour of nowhere. openly against it, I would get angry j'atteste sans hesitation qu'il remette un travail sur lequel I'enseignement de leur cours. HCI is located in the middle of comments (sometimes even openly y a toujours place a I'etudiant a passe-des heures Comment reagir lorsqu'un the white, upper-middle class High in class) reflecting on the race of I'amelioration. Cependant, de recherche et de redaction professeur vous refuse ce the people who were being killed so Park area. The student population c'est Ie manque de coherence avec une note au bout de la privilege? Dans Ie cas is probably more than 900/0 white freely by the US Army. contraire, j'ose imaginer que and most people I knew there The French Immersion Depart­ ou I'ecart qui existe entre la ligne sans appreciation fa~on seemed to have no interest in see­ ment, which I don't remember ever dontchaque professeur quelconque. On devrait I'evaluation est essentiel­ ing that change. even putting up the facade of multi­ evalue une dissertation qui s'attendre de la part de ceux ement basee sur Ie contenu A number of times during my culturalism, either among the stu­ agace. II n'existe pas de qui detiennent entre leurs et s'attarde, par Ie fait meme, hight school carees~ I had ."white" dent population or the Teaching bareme de correction au mains Ie pouvoir de juger de peu au style. Parcontre, niveau universitaire. Les cours :notre capacite intellectuelle, sachant que les mots sont Ie guys actually make comments to staff, was asked to bring in visible de sciences appliquees , tels qu'ils Ie fassent de maniere vehicule de I'articulation de me if I was seen in the company of minorities to pose for the cover of a "non-white" guys. Idated a guy who pamphlet that would be distributed que I'economie ou les sci­ juste, explicite et repre­ nos idees, ne devraient-ils pas was Greek and three orfourboys in to possible new students. ences pures, ne souffrent pas sentative. Premierement , etres consideres au meme my French immersion class (Which A boy in my grade, a neo-nazi de cette partialite puiqu'ils parce que les etudiants titre que Ie contenu qui was particularly notorious for elitist skinhead, who openly made ex­ ne sont pas sujets a la per­ investissent dans leur represente sans contre dit opinions) would daily ask me ques­ tremely racist and sexistcomments, ception ou aux ideologies du education une somme I'essentiel? tions like: 'Why are you dating that was one day attacked with baseball correcteur. Mais lorsqu'il est d'argent et de temps Bref, il ne faut pas se faire Big Greek?" bats by a truckload of people of question de departements a considerable et deuxie­ d'illusion, la correction variera When I went out a couple of colour. Apparently they had found tendance plus liberale, tels mement, parce qu'ils toujours d'un professeur a times with someone who was Ko­ out where hewenttoschool and sat que la politique, la sociologie manifestent, pour la plupart, I'autre. Toutefois, lorsque rean, and then a few months later outside waiting for him to appear. ou la philosophie, c'est a ce Ie desir d'apprendre. votre seule preoccupation et with someone who was Philipino, What must he have done to pro­ niveau que la correction peut D'un autre cote, la direc­ priorite dans la vie est de one boy who was on the football voke such a reaction from a whole team came up and asked me when group of people? parfois etre biaisee. tion devrait peut-etre se de­ reussirvos etudes au sens du I was going to give white guys a Alii can say to Mr. R. Lawson is II n'est pas question de mander si, en tant que college mot accomplissement chance again. that he certainly didn't know either mettre en doute la capacite bilingue, la correction devrait personnelle, estime de One time I remember, during his staff orthe student population if de jugement de nos etre, oui ou non, plus soi,...vous connaissez? Je my last year at the school, an Am­ he honestlythinksthat Humberside professeurs mais il est tolerante a I'egard des pense que tout etudiant nesty International group was Collegiate has been free of racial deplorable de constater, lars etudiants qui ecrive~t dans merite que I'on s'attarde formed (old HCI had never before tension . I, for one, am not at all des periodes de choix de leur langue seconde. Sur ce serieusement sur la fa~on seen the likes) and they put up surprised. cours, que les etudiants pointje n'ai pas d'opinion. Je dont il est evalue. posters ofpeople whowere "Disap- RESC>LUTION .1

Dawn Palin and Helen Svyrinkas

Recognising that seven Glendon studentsfrom the Glendon towards this college that he introduced himsolf as "Glendon". 7. Enforces Resolution 2.1 condemning all College United Nations Club represented our college at the Orph-debating on the general topic of Prozac. McGill Model United Nations conference last weekend. 2. Condemns Harvard University for referring to Canada as the "51 st state". 8. Reminds the delegates that even though the Cana­ ApplaUding that they all performed excellently in their repre­ dian dollar is low, the Parking Valets do not accept the sentation of China and Saudi Arabia against the likes of 3. Urges students of Glendon College to ·make use of our Saudi Arabian Riyal as tip. Harvard, Princeton, Rutgers and the U.S. Naval Academy ( delegates' expertise in the field of plutonium smuggling. among others). 9. Urges the GCSU to consider increased funding to our 4. Discoyrages the use of violence during voting procedure Third world club to facilitate the financing of an equally AcknOWledging that these students researched and dis­ (please refer to Security Council Resolution 000102 'When important opportunity for students to represent Glendon cussed such important topics as the Territorial Crisis in the one representative of the Chinese delegation pounced on the internationally; namely the National Model United Na­ Middle East, the situation in Rwanda, Overpopulation, Ge­ other while she was trying to raise her p'acard.") tions Conference in the U.S. in April. netic Engineering, the Illicit narcotics trade and many oth­ ers. 5. AcknowledgEt,§ the normalization of diplomatic ties between 10. Regrets the unfortunate spread of the "Saudi Ara­ Rwanda and Saudi Arabia as a direct result of this conference. bian flu" amongst the delegates from this club, but Mourning the fact that because of severe bUdget con­ commends them anyways for attending session. straints, the delegates cannot afford to attend other prestig­ 6. Thanks the Saudi Arabian delegate from the Special ious conferences. Political Committee for sharing his expertise as "a Columbian 11. Invites any and all students of the Glendon College narcotics specialist" to the Science and Technology Commu­ Community to become involved with the Club and learn The Glendon College United Nations Club: nity. about what the Model United Nations experience has to offer. 1. Finds it admirable that one of its delegates felt such pride .. Lundi Ie 6 fevrier 1995 -feature

Sarah Shaughnessy

In Canada, we are Inundated as early as preschool with the of the tree products that can be Importanceof rainforests - our parents sent ustotrendyToronto used for consumption are then camps like ROM where we painted parrots and exotic animals. removed and taken to be proc­ Later we moved Into our activism stage where we bought "save essed. The remainder ofthe tree the forest" t-shirts sponsored by Roots and adopted acres ofthe is left behind. rainforest. The days of the green campaign were a heady mix of commercialism and fashionable politics, and like most of the According to Greenpeace, vocabulary In ourfickleethos, "green" wassortofan issueofthe "Clear cutting eliminates nearly week. all of that structural complexity and drastically alters the habitat "Green" also became a word or have disappeared entirely. for organisms that live there. that wasfirst associated with stop­ Clearcutting eliminatesthe trees, ping the depletion of rainforests In Ontario, many species that it eliminates much of the in Brazil. Most people are famil­ are part of a forest region that is understored vegetation and the w' iar with the crisis in Brazil : the actually the northern tip of a de­ ground covering vegetation, it loss of one acre of land to clear ciduous forest that extends south­ eliminates the standing dead cutting and burning every nine ward to North Carolina and Ten­ trees." seconds. This translated into a nessee, have become threat­ loss of animals, plant species that ened; the Carolinian and the Red Forests designated for log­ may never be seen again, soil and White Pines of the Great ging are considered crown lands that may neveragain supportsub­ Lakes-St. Lawrence, the Hem­ and are leased by the provincial stantial plant or animal life, dam­ lock and the Yellow Birch are governmenttotimbercompanies. age to forests beyond the area some examples. There is only one purpose for that has been clear-cut, and ulti­ clear cutting and that is that it is mately global warming. In the Boreal, extensive cut- inexpensive, thereby maximizing ting has removed large extracts profits. This short term gain how­ Brazil is facing irre­ of the forestand ecosystems have ever, is not balanced out by the versible ecological dam­ been lost with this logging. long term losses to the environ- age. Ultimately, this ment. Clayoquot Sound is agood damage will see her peo­ Since the 18th century, for- example of old growth forest that, ple into increased pov­ ests in Ontario have suffered from once logged, will most likelynever erty and unemployment clear cutting for the purposes of be able to support the same type while the rest of the agriCUltural and urban develop- of ecosystems that it has since world' suffers environ­ ment. This use has resulted in the ancient times. 000 hectares of the remaining directly linked with for­ mentally. Brazil's for­ the loss of forest area, soil and-~: Clayoquot Sound is one of 11 0 000 hectares of the ancient estry and consequently, ests, however, are not wild life and aquatic habitat as . the last parts of a North Pacific forest. Despite claims by the the protection and main­ the only ones dying. well as reduced forest productiv- ancient forest remaining in our government that one third of the ity, and changes in forest compo- world. As a temperate rainforest forest will be protected, most of tenance of these re­ sition and age structure. Two on Vancouver Island, this area the remaining forest if bog, scrub, sources make sense for How much better is ecologi­ centuries of logging have left upports a vast and intricate eco­ marginal forest, orpreviouslypro­ cal protection in Canada? reasons ofeconomicsas many of Ontario's original forests system of animals, plants and tected areas which would not be Canada is quickly acquiring the well as environment. It crippled. trees, some of which are as tall appropriate for logging. same reputation: an acre of for­ as 95 meters, have diameters of is also clear, however, est is clear-cut in Canada every According to PAC, the 10 meters, and are over 1 000 Clayoquot is the home for the threat of clear cut­ 12 seconds. biodiversity of Ontario's forests years old. thousands of species of plants ting the need to protect must be maintained at the cur­ and animals. According to Canada's most unique for­ oldgrowthforests byleg­ rent level to prOVide the essential Clayoquot also includes 3 out Greenpeace, "many are highly ests, old growth forests, will lose elements of a healthyforest. This of 5 remaining primary water­ dependent on old growth forest islation. Out of these the most by logging. Old growth means that if disturbances con­ sheds, (out of 92), and 2 out of habitat for their continued sur­ needs emerges a man­ forests and the ecosystem that tinue to alter Ontario's old growth the 4 secondary watersheds (out vival". Included in these species they support are especially deli­ dateforalternative meth­ forests at the current rate, our of 78). Sixty-fourpercent of Van­ are the ancient Western Red Ce­ cate due to their age and the ods of logging. forests will no longer be consid­ couver Island have been cut and dar, Yellow Cedar, Sitka Spruce species that can only exist and ered healthy. 31 % more is planned to be and Western Hemlock, aswell as evolve in a mature forest. In British Columbia, the log­ logged. bald eagles, panthers, bears, and ging industry loses 2 000 jobs a Further, PAC maintains, ''that Roosevelt Elk. There are also According to The Policy Advi­ yearwhereas tourism generates a diversity of ages classes and Although Clayoquot repre­ endangered species likethe Mar­ sory Committee on Old Growth 4500jobsannually. Greenpeace species is necessaryfora healthy sents less than 50/0 of the original bled Murrelet in addition to the Forests (PAC) -a research group maintains that thousands of jobs forest". Beyond these consid­ ancient rainforest, it now occu­ grey whales and sharks of the with the Ministry of Natural Re­ will belostto logging isClayoquot erations, however, is the ques­ pies 15% ofthe remaining region coastal waters of the Sound. sources, "these forests are char­ is cut - a unique ecosystem will tion of preserving a forest not just due to logging. be lost which means no tourism acterized by old trees and their at the minimum standard of Logging in BC has increased and no more logging. They also associated plants, animals and health, but rather at an optimum This area is not only an area 300% since the 1960s. Ninety to have proposed somealternatives ecological processes. These for­ level. ofconsiderable environmental in­ ninety-five percent of BC forests t01clearcutting which include low­ ests typically show little or ·no terest, it is also home to five First are ancient and 950/0 of this land impact harvesting techniques evidence of human disturbance". Nationsbands. Thecultural pres­ is logged by clear cutting. It is in such as well-planned selective Both Clayoquot Sound and the In Ontario, it is a real­ ervation of lifetothese communi­ this ecology tl':lat with the pres­ logging and ecosystem planning Boreal Forest Region, which oc­ ity that many ecosys­ ties relies on the practices offish­ ence of logging, we will see the processes in order to maximize cupies much of Northern Ontario tems will not be able to ing, hunting, and trapping - a live­ disappearance of so many spe­ biological diversity. are examples of old growth for­ lihood that would be destroyed cies, the disregard forthe biologi­ ests. be restored due to the These two proposals for the killing of forests for the by extensive logging. In effect, calor commercial value of these logging Clayoquot is leaving a lands, soil degradation, the dis­ future of Canadian forest repre­ Forest ecosystems are dy­ sake of profit and con­ people who's ancestral home is placement of indigenous people, sent the agenda which both gov­ namic, interacting with plants, ernment and pUblic might pursue venience. supported bytheforest, without a and climate changes. animals and micro-organisms to stop the misuse of this rapidly means of financial support, a and are part of a broader forest disappearing resource. Canada Clearcutting isin fact themost home, ora way of retaining their In Canada, our is now considered the "Brazil of landscape which includes lakes, thorough and destructive method rivers, streams, and wetlands. identities. economy is implicitly the North", and at 12 seconds per of harvesting a forest. Clear cut­ acre, it is abundantly clear that Many old growth forest ecosys­ ting is a logging practice that cuts In April of 1993, the British linked to natural re­ tems h~ve been diminished or trees are falling on both sides of all of the trees in a given area Columbia provincial government sources. Many jobs are im paired to the extent where spe­ the equator. within a short period of time. All declared their decision to log 81 cies have become endangered

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January 31, 1995 where". to • get. Stuff • cheap (II) Ms. Julie Drexler · . Head Librarian Frost Library ---$ HAIR CUTS $----- Glendon College ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • Ms. Drexler, • • I would like to inform you ofthe concerns that were voiced during the last ••- located on the south side of Bloor st., just west of Bathurst, this is wheree• Library Sub-Committee meeting. One of the major concerns that students : aspiring hairdressers get their 'hands on' experience. If you're the kind: have with the services offered by the library are the hours ofoperation. We of person who consistently goes running to the hills screaming after most. feel that the hours as they standare inadequate especiallyduring examperiods, hair appointments, forget this option. However, if you just need a trim ore the months ofDecember and April. The Frost Library is the only library that o~ caters to francophones in the area therefore we feel it should be more a basic cut (and you are reasonably flexible), it will cost you only $7. accessible to the francophone students at Glendon. This could be achieved course, you may leave the establishment sporting the unique product ofe someone's virgin experience with scissors, but it is a supervised environment- with extended hours. Wewould like to know iflongerhours are economically - & most screw-ups can be remedied by the onsight instructor. For those lesse. possibleorifthereare students on work study programs who could workat the library after the existing hours ofoperation. adventurous, but equally titillated by bargains, you can have your coif dye~ The students who use the education journals at the library would like to for a laughably low $6(or $4.50, if you bring your own box of fun with you).: have these hours extended. They are willing to volunteertheirservices so that This is a nice treat for those resourceful types who usually colour theire this can be made possible. own hair, since even an amateur can usually catch those annoyingly difficult- The students on this committee are also concerned with the quality of • to reach spots at the back of your head. In exchange for the unusual savings,.• service offered by the library. Some students voiced the opinion that some employees could be very rude and not helpful when this is supposed to be a ·be prepared to sit there for up to an hour. These people are keen, thorough­ service and they are employed to help us in the library. We would also like : and visibly stressed, because they're being graded on whatever service yoU: know why the library does not allow books to checked our 15 minutes prior • opt for. Bring a book and try to be charitable. Walk-ins are not often a. to closing. We would like to see the service extend~d until the library is : problem, but making an appointment might be wise... 535-5333 : actually closed to allow students more time at the library. • • Furthermore, the G.C.S.U. would like to request that the library accept • • copies ofexams from previous years to be put on reserve so that students can • • havebetteraccess to them. TheG.C.S.U.is willing to updatethese exams. We ••- upstairs on the west side of Yonge St., slightly south of st.Clair Ave. Thise• are simply asking for space in the library so that they can be a bigger help to :is one of those snooty upscale salons frequented largely by the ladies of lower: students. The committeedoes realizethatthereisa suggestion boxinthelibraryand .Porresthill. If the closet hedonist in you wants to indulge a little, make. we would like to request access to it. We are simply a liaison between the :an appointment with a junior stylist on a Monday (when the salon is dead, due: students and the library. We are not asking to take overthe suggestion boxbut .to the lack of charity functions held early in the week)for $25 - Michaele we would like to know what concerns the students have with the library ·himself charges a minimum of $100. Any other day, you might find yourselte services offered at Glendon. :subjected to Al Waxman's wife whining about her cleaning lady or some paralle~ We would like for you to respond to these concerns ofthe students and .inanity. The not-so-spendthrift price tag is justifiable, if only for thea offer any solutions you may have to these problems. •inspired scalp massage the shampoo person will give you. Plus, gourmet coffee.• .in hand, you can peruse the latest fashion rags and tabloids from the u.s.• Sincerely, Sara Ritchie :and Burope, while being catered to by a skilled individual. Whoever is: .assigned to you will inevitably be trained in both the art of coiffure ana. Chair, Library Services Committee ·advanced ego-stroking. As transparent as this person may be, they're always· cc: D. Adams, Principal-Glendon College •happy to stuff your pockets with free samples of products you might never.• J. Bergbusch, President-G.C.S.U. ·otherwise enjoy (or bother to buy). The make-up and skin care'specialist'. J.-C. Bouhenic, Dean-Student Affairs :will likely be bored out of her mind, since you may be one of only three clientS: A. Hopkins, Chair-Faculty Council J.-C, Jaubert, Associate PrinciPal .there, so don't be shy about squeezing a complimentary make-over, eyebrowe F. Mougeon, Chair-Acadenlic Resources and Services :plucking or facial out of the circumstance. It can be a laugh, if you neea: Comlnittee (Faculty Council) .a boost, even if normally you'd frown upon such elitest excess. 925-6306 • •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••~F • I Lundi Ie 6 fevrier 1995

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Here's what happened (in noparticularor erof events Point: Kids' emotions are considered resilient, at best, invalid, usually nonexistent, at worst; that is, when they're even considered at all I.. : "2""... " Q "l8,) Which is why nobody even '_ Ii" (b \).. -to offered us a day off school \ or any counseling to help erase (;;.. b~ ~ the awful image of Sandra. "'u. Point: kids can be cruel r, Which is Why about a dozen of us who were actually there got surrounded in the schoolyard the next day, and squeezed dry for information, recollections, reflections, and Graphic Detail. ~

~ Here's what happened; We were waiting at the stoplight .(D on the way home from school twelve or so of us, and it was a long light, and we were impatient BUTwe had all been taught (at school & home) to ~ never (ever) cross against the light. It changed and ) -l; (looking both ways) She ~ ~ ~ skipped out into the bg\P {' intersection, calling us lard asses ':l: for children know words like He practiced llis art like he was half dead ~t.p himself. A slow-moving cadaver caring for the that. As she was looking back sick and leakiI1g life from himselfat everyturn. beckoning, cajoling, teasing, He could walk down that dark corridor of the car hit her, blindside. disease and pain and silently place the stetho­ Later they would say she never scope on an ailing heart just because it had to even knew what hit her be done and he knew how to do it and it made as if that was supposed to him feel good. make us feel any better; WE knew it was a carload full of teens ~ slightly drunk and high on life v:> and death Who picked her up without slowing down, gave her ~~~):"h~~' a ride about a hundred feet up the road, and dropped her off, then ran over her. Try NOT to picture, despite yourself the dark purple, wet streak that started at the crosswalk and ended about a hundred feet later, in a very small pile of broken bones and mangled flesh and children's clothing that had once ~ had the capacity to skip, sing songs, name-call, beckon, cajole, tease. Point: kids may be resilient, but they, too ~ can feel horrified. cA tJ.'--' ~ None of us six and seven ~ year old boys and girls, who were ;B later surrounded by police and squeezed dry for information recollections, reflections, and Inherit the Wind yes, Graphic Detail, was even old enough to consider asking Why. But we were perversely thankful it wasn't Us, and so were our Parents, though the day after, ,. \ Mom told me to be especially .A /1 \ "'"' I 1. careful on my way to school. hl.~\~ I