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THE OTHER PRESS FEBRUARY 2ND 1983

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Are you willing to recognize the influence your upbringing had on

your reaction to this picture?

by Nancy Powell

While purchasing my text-

books in the Douglas College
bookstore last weeek, | not-
iced that there was a number
of ‘soft-core’ pornographic
magazines for sale.
Upon questioning L. Ver-
heyen, head of the bookstore
“freedom of choice’ was
his reply. ‘‘I don’t set myself
out as a judge. If a student
wants it, they can buy it.’’
But what of students like
myself who find pornography
offensive? Is not my freedom
being infringed upon bec-
ause | am forced to see it?
| find it appalling that an
institution of alleged ‘higher
learning’ would even con-
sider selling it in their book-
store. Pornography holds
men and women in distorted
and fictional roles. It object-
ifies women into being no-
thing more than a_ sub-
missive toy for men to play
with when they deem it nec-
essary. It promotes the acc-
eptance of these roles and

HAH

by Nancy Powell

Another Freudian slip in
the Other Press. Last issue
we printed a small graphic
for the ‘‘Direct Action’’ story
on filing off the toilet dis-
penser nibs, remember?

Well, that tiny graphic got
us in some trouble. Not that
the story was unacceptable,
not even the graphic itself,
but a little scrap of grafitti,
“Note for Gerry’’, that |

 

the acceptance of violence to-
wards women. Most import-
ant, it trivializes and _ridi-
cules the most precious gift
that one person can give to
another; love.

People learn their values
through the culture that they
are exposed to. By social-
izing the view of women as
sex-objects, pornography in-
creases antagonism and sub-
sequent violence between
men and women. It breaks
down the ability and need to
care for each other, which we
,as social animals, need in
order to survive.

It is a fundamental prin-
ciple of Canadian law that
the
the freedom of an individual
may be limited where it im-
pedes or infringes on the
freedom of another _ indi-
vidual, group or community.

| feel that pornography
violates women‘s freedom to

exist comfortably and with-

out fear as equal individuals
in groups or in the commun-
ity. What is it doing in our
bookstore?

scrawled on the centre stall
door.

Due to this bit of editorial
comment from us to you, the
Student Society by-election
was cancelled.

What a pile of shit! As an
organization free from the
strings of the Student Soci-
ety, we feel it is our right to
support any person or organ-
isation we deem worthy of
our support.

 

by Nancy Powell
’ hey, wow, welcome to yet
another issue of the Other
Press. My name is Nancy,
and I’m the Editorial Co-ord-
inator elect of the new, im-
proved Other Press.
In this wonderful slice of
newsprint, | would like to
introduce you to the staff and
tell you a bit about what we
do and why.

| think that a lot of people
are under the impression
that all we do around here is
swear and drink and some-
times get off our asses and
put out a paper. Wrong-o.
Today is Sunday, and |
have been here for most of
the day. It sounds like a sob-
story, but | just wanted you
to realize that myself and a
lot of other people on staff
also have the altruistic/mas-
ochistic idea that the paper is
an important part of our
lives.
-.We feel this way because
we have a responsibility to
you, the readers, to present
you with a verbal picture of
what happens behind your
back that directly or indirect-
ly affects you. -

We take a lot of shit from
you. Often | hear in the cafe-
teria, ‘Too much swearing”’

Is Tim Shein ignorant of the basic tenets of demo-
cracy? He would have his council pass an amendment
to the Student Society constitution pass an amendment
to the Student Society constitution that would ignore
one of the founding concepts of democracy, fair and
equal representation of all people.

Why was Stewart Woolverton the only dissenting
voice on council? This is an amendment that restricts,
access to the student government by students. Are the
other members so unconcerned? | had always thought
that democracy was supposed to prevent abuses such
as has occured here. When all students pay the same
rate of student fees.is it unreasonable to expect fair

representation?

Is this the first sign of impending fascism at Douglas
College? What exactly are the Student Society Exec-
utives motives? One has to wonder, when this type of
political maneuvering is going on.

Since the student government of this college insists
on putting this amendment up for approval, there can
be only one rational solution. That is to reject the
proposed constitution changes. With rejection by the
general school population the Student Society (read
Tim Shein) will have to bring Douglas College back to

the realm of Democracy.

or, ‘‘Too many spelling mis-
takes’’, and , ‘’Too much
anti-nuke crap.’’ Well if you
don’t like us, join the paper
and change it. Otherwise,
tough bananas.

We try to organize a situ-
ation where students can be-
come aware of what is hap-
pening around them; to
make you aware of how you
are being screwed and by
whom.

As ‘‘agents of social

change’’, we feel it our re-
sponsibility to ‘‘present a
realistic, honest and fair

view of people and the struc-
tures that surround you.’’
We cannot stress enough
the importance of your re-
sponses; we need to know
what you want to know!
Unfortunately we do not
have a letter box. Neverthe-
less, your words would be

most heartily appreciated, —

whether engraved on stone
tablets, written on _toilet
paper (one piece at a time) or

painted on canvas. These can .

be dumped at the Other
Press office, (next to the Stu-
dent Society office, between
the cafeteria washrooms and
the gym doors). Be assured
that your communications

, will never go unnoticed.

Doing Here??

We have a great staff this
semester; a few new faces,
lots of people from last sem-
ester and lan Hunter, who
has been around so long he
thinks in pyramid style.

those back from last semes-
ter include Sean Valentini,
our photo-man, Caroline
Hardon, production co-ordin-
ator, Glen Nazaruk, news co-
ordinator, Brian Pharez, bus-
iness manager, and me.

New fixtures in the office
include Dave Christian (his
fuzzy face bops in every once
in awhile), Sean Balderstone
(indespensible for copy edit-
ing), Vic Cromarty, Editorial
Co-ordinator, and Chris
Woolverton (Stew’s bro).

Apologies to the staff not
mentioned but you weren’t
here.

Others who showed up for
production were Margaret
Park who typeset some stuff
for us, Dan Hilborn who
came in to say goodbye (he’s
moving to Courtney next
week to live with Dad...) and
did lots of helping,pluss ex-
tra extra thanks to Glen San-
ford for knowing exactly
when we need him here
most. Perry (space puppy)
Obidinski also zoomed in for

a bit. HK Chess Page tool!

Liberal Democracy bites
the big plastic yellow donut