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March 3, 1980

 

The Other Press

 

Cops too sarcastic?

Dear Editors:

Late last summer during
the mid-afternoon | was
driving my girlfriend home.
She was sitting next to me
with my arm casually
around her in comfort. The
two of use were stopped at
a traffic light on 8th Ave.
opposite a New West-
minster police car. Inside
was a police woman who
was giving us the eye as if
we were a_ couple of

Necrophiliacs. The woman
cop was so ugly that she
had ten foot pole marks all
over her body. My actions
were to ignore her and not
get eye contact. My
girlfriend was just smiling
away as if tatooed on her
face. The light turned
green and 1_ gently
accerlated foward. Without

hesitation the cop did a U
turn after me and put on
her flashing lights. After’
being pulled over and
asked |.D. and registration
number the woman cop
came down on me like a bat

out of hell. All | could do
was smile and nod my
head. she threatened to
charge my girlfried with

obstruction to the driver
because she was so close to
me.

To make a long story story
short she let us. off because
at the time | was a minor

and it is hard to press
charges against a minor.
As she drove away | justly
gave her the finger.

Now the point I’m trying
to make is that the woman

cop or any cop should not

‘ be impolite, sarcastic or

rude. The New West-
minster police force has to
be polite to get public
support. After the incident
| felt that all New
Westminster police were a
bunch of jerks. One bad
experienace with a single
member of the New
Westminster police force is
not a representative of the
whole department.

When confronted with a
situation between a cop
remember not to argue
because the cop has the
power then and there.
Instead take their badge
number and name and
complain to the police
department about them.

A investigation will occur
and justice will prevail.
Dave Smith

Other press incorrect

Dear Sirs,

As Chairman of the
Sessional Action Com-
mittee, | would like to thank
you for your concern
expressed in last week’s

% (Feb. 18) .‘‘Other Press’’

both in the editorial and in
the front page article about
the sessional condition at
Douglas.

Many of the things you
mention are indeed true.
But | would like to express
my concern over certain
other points which have
been misquoted and there-
fore give a completely
inaccurate picture of what
: happening with session-
als.

First of all, you mention
that sesionals have ‘‘in-
adequate holiday pay.’’

This is not necessarily so
since it it the: base amount
allowed for the B.C. It is
true that without benefit
clauses in our contracts we
are therefore taking a loss
in that respect and that a
higher holiday pay might
help cover some of that if
the sessional is teaching a
full load or if. his only
employment is at the
College. Otherwise it is not
applicable since a sessional
teaching only one course
while holding .a job
elsewhere is obviously not
in the same position. |
believe also that the
statements made to you
was not about holiday pay

but about time - in that.

Maureen said that many
sessionals cannot affort to
take holidays since they
have to work year round.

You also state, in another
misquote from Maureen

 

Shaw, Ex-Chairman of the
Committee (not past presi-
dent): ‘‘You don’t have an
office....’’ What Maureen
really said was that ‘‘many
sessionals’’ do not have

offices. Your _general-
ization of that statement
made it incorrect. The

situation with respect to the
offices as per the present
contract is that any faculty
memver, be he a sessional
or otherwise, who teaches
two or more courses on any
given campus has the right
to an office on that campus.
The business of ‘‘meeting
student on the run”’ is true
for both sessionals and
regulars since regular
faculty also work on many
campuses.

Your quote from Dr.
Pridham was also, ob-
viously, misquoted since it
comes over as being totally
meaningless. | understand
that what Dr. Pridham was
in fact saying was that any
person teaching twelve
credits or equivalent is fully
employed for the semester.
He also said that the
sessional/regular _ faculty
ratio is being improved
gradually. There is in fact.a
committee dealing with
that area only.

With respect to your
editorial comment and your
misquotes from Ann Frost
in the headline article
dealing with the same
subjects, | have much more
to say. Many of the
statement you make are
indeed true; but | have to
take exception to one
paragraph in particular:
that in which you say that
full-time faculty at Capilano

College sacrificed wage
increases for the benefit of
sessionals and that: ‘‘This
would be extremely un-
likely at Douglas College.’’
This statement is totally
untrue. In fact, the
Douglas College regular
faculty took a substantial
percentage drop in salary
increase two years ago so
that the sessional salary
situation could be im-
proved. What might
happen in the future is of
course pure conjecture but
it is to be hoped that it
could indeed happen again.

| realise that you wrote
your article - with the
concern of the sessionals in

- mind. Buton the subject of

such sensitive issues as
these, great care must be
taken over your reporting
procedures, and discipline
used in your use of works
and their context.
Otherwise the sense -of
what you say become
distorted and the cause for
which you are apparently
fighting gets lost in a
jumble of erroneous _all-
usions - and illusions.

Keep on fighting, by all
means; and | thank you for
your concerns on_ our
behalf. But, please, for the
sakes of all concerned,
yourselves included, get
your facts straight.

And now, for one more
mistake in your article: my
name.

Yours sincerely
Isabella McAslan

Chairman (not Chair-
person)
Sessional Action Com-
mittee.

 

Heather Rice - No, | don’t
think so.

 

Laurence Everaars - No, |
wouldn’t say that. I get
done what | want to get
done. I’m apathetic
towards reading the Other
Press.

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Cris Ficocelli - No, | don’t}
_ think so. | don’t know.

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Eric Voitic - Holy shit, you
have to pick me. (Shakes
head) Everybody doesn’t
think they are but most
people are. eae

 

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