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Hey kids why don’t we all get together and have

some real fun. You know, like putting the match to a big
pile of really offensive books. We could start with the
Bible and finish off our little bonfire with Fahrenheit
451. Now wouldn’t that be really educational and
open-minded?

Somehow we fail to understand how censorship of
novels will lead our younger population away from the
plague that is sweeping the nation, reality. For isn’t
that what the outraged members of Renaissance
Canada, our local morality squad, are actually afraid of.

Literature serves only to mirror events that are taking
place, yes actually happening, in the everyday world of
the reader. Granted it may be seen to be offensive to
some minds but to others it provides a way to gain some
perspective of what is, a perspective that.can be both
helpful and sorely needed.

Take for instance Go Ask Alice, a novel struck from
the shelves of Richmond school libraries several years
ago, a subjective little piece on the horrors of drug use.
Subjective, maybe, but at least it offered some insight,
for junior, into the pro’s and con’s of what he’s smoking
behind the schoolhouse.

But no, we, in. our moralistic self-indulgent manner,
have to protect little Johnny from the bitterness and
uncleanliness of the big world. Let me tell you that
Johnny would probably rather have known what he was
in for.

Are we that afraid of having the world exposed to us
in print or are we just that afraid of ourselves?

Where is Lenny when you need him? ;

Now is the time for all good students to come to the
aid’of their. . .

Student newspaper? Campus rag? Whatever you
wish to call it The Other Press needs your support at the
AGM this Thursday.

What, you may ask, is at stake? For one thing, the

_ continuation of the official student newspaper at
Douglas College, The Other Press.

What The Other Press is asking is an increase of the
alloted budget which will keep the paper afloat. Prices
go up and costs go up. To continue publishing a paper
has to raise funds—it’s as simple as that.

Our costs have risen dramatically in the last two
years since the paper’s incorporation as a non-profit
society. If the paper is to continue publishing it needs
more money. ,

The Other Press, along with the Douglas College
Student Society (DCSS) are the two most visible student
associations at.Douglas College. Each acts to serve the
interests of the students and each monitors the student
movement in Canada. If the students do not have a
paper that is prepared to be a watch dog for students, it
is students who will suffer in the long run.

When you think about it, what other way is there of
learning about education in B.C., and in Canada? The
Other Press, although autonomous, reflects the goals
and progress of the Student Society which is here to
represent you. That’s you with a capital Y.

When you attend the AGM on Thursday, remember
what you are going to vote for and why you are there.

 

 

Vote for yourself, and vote for a voice.
8 For yourself, anyway. . a

 

feualiiees manager: Dave S. Hayer; Ad manager: adion)
Lloyd, Co-editors: Rob Guzyk, Dan Hilborn: Reporters:
Rob Campbell, Brenda Gough. Other Staff: Dave King,
Roy Tornay, Robert Gardiner, Tammie Méitchell.
Typesetter: Colleen Glynn :

The Other Press is a member of Canadian University
Press and a subscriber of Pacific News Service.

The ‘Other Press is a democratically-run, student
mewspaper published under the auspices of The Other
Publications Society every Monday. The news office if
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ee campus. Phone: 525-3830 or 525-3542.

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