The Other Press I find it interesting that Jody (no last name?) has such difficulty in compre- _ hending the written word. Since poetry is an extension of the language, his qualifi- cations as a ‘poetry review- er’are indeed question- able. Even a quick perusal of my comments indicate they are a personal opinion shared by other students I have spoken with. Surely to go from there to suggesting I’m proposing censorship is a quantum leap with which the ordinary mind can scar- cely cope. I hesitate to comment on the rationale of Jody's arg- ument for retention of this type of material. Since so many functions are perhaps even more to the fore, can I now look forward to poetic analogy on ‘Ecretion and the Thought Processes’ or perhaps. ‘Vomiting and its Place in Society’? Glearly Jody finds it nec- essary to use sarcasm and innuendo to support a weak argument at best. I would suggest the one who is uncomfortable is not my- self. I accept his congrat- ulations and can assure him that I have found the ‘ap- propriate place of sexual expression in my life’. I wish him well in his search which is obviously in its early stages. “Naughty to shock people! Look Ma! I’m all grown up! Good Luck. Jack Crich Jody responds: Realizing that this argu- ment has degraded to the point where it is no longer directed towards whether or not it was suitable to pub- lish ‘‘Platoni¢ Relation- ship’’ in The Other Press your letter leads me to infer that the ‘‘appropriate place for sexual relations’’ in your life is somewhere bet- ween ‘excretion’ and ‘vom- iting’. John K. Gilbert Jody (spectes homo sapiens, Brit- ish Columbia, Canada, North America, Earth, Sys- tem Sol, Milky Way Galaxy since you seem concerned about my identity which is further elucidated on the Otherthan Poetry Review page). I am writing to clarify a misleading statement in the recent article (October 30 edition) regarding possible budget cuts. In your lead-in you refer to an ‘‘end of basic adult education (sic)’’ at Dougals (sic) College. Nothing could be further from the truth! ; With respect to Adult Ba- sic Education (A.B.A.), and the possibility of budget ats for the 82/83, the sition of the college is as ollows: 1. As with other _ pro- grammes in the college, the first level of cuts would be made to those supplement- ary A.B.A. programmes su- pporting the core program- mes - two out of eight programmes. 2. There would be no further A.B.A. reductions until the fourth level of proposed cutbacks. At this level, some cuts, as with other programmes in the college, would be made to part-time A.B.A. program- mes. 3. A core A.B.A program- me would be protected. I wish to emphasize, es- pecially for the sake of the A.B.A. students at Douglas College, that: ‘cuts’ referred to- 1 rhe are not certainties; they are being suggested only in the event that the government provides us with an abso- lute level of funding which would require reductions. 2. That A.B.A. programmes have not been ‘‘singled out’’; every other program- me in the college is subject to the same possibilities. 3. That in the event of budget cuts, a core A.B.A. programme will be protect- ed Because of the many stu- dents and faculty who have expressed concern over the misleading statement, may I suggest that you display this letter in a prominent section of your next edition Al Atkinson Director Student Services and Adult Basic Education Dear People, '- garding: ‘Open Letter to «hael; »K. this is for real. A ‘nd of mine is at this ment -holed up in a housing project in Germany that the police are trying to evict so it can be torn down. Perhaps you’ve seen it on the news. Where the kid was hit by a _ bus? Neaters to some people- bothersome-perhaps this is relevent-I don’t know-what the hell huh? November 12 keep some peace in your head j.h Long ago and far away you used to tell me about a war that was being fought illegally and about racial inequality that had to be evened fast. Well, now the war is over and we're all basically equal in a ‘sense (or at least we all try to be) and still you talk of going to the U.S. consulate to hurl the usual cliches at their walls. Despite the fact that it’s dangerous to do that nowadays (something about Iran I. heard--) Fb deeply question and wonder what you're screaming about. You say that it’s protest. Please, Michael, please tell me what we're protesting about. Please tell me that it’s for something real you want todie for. It’s just that lately it almost seems as though you’re protesting just for the sake of)darei say it?) protest. I hope it isn’t true Michael. I hope you’re dying for something real. Perhaps we’re just getting older, or me at least. Every week I see articles and that in here about El Salvador and all the other important topics of the day that we students are supposed to be into. Forgive me Michael, but I just want to get these essays and book reviews and tests done so I can get out of here . Now I hear you're in Germany trying to stop the low income housing projects from being torn down. Look out for the Gestapo, Michael. They got} a kid yesterday under a bus. I hope that wasn’t for you. Lor says that a man must stand for something or fall. She also says, though, that it’s better to fall for some- thing than to stand for nothing. Just the other day I saw students protesting against the draft registra- tion down in the States. Why do I feel that you’d give anything to be a 20 year old American just so you could fight against the draft too? Why Michael? Is it you or me? Which of us are. real now? Who has really changed? These are tough questions for tough times but someone has to ask them, Michael. What are we supposed to be standing for, or, perhaps even worse - have we already taken the fall?