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ovember 30, 1994

     

December 6 remembered

Memories of December 6 massacre motivate womens' hunt for freedom from fear

by Holly Keyes

       
  
   
 
 
    
    
   
 
    
    
    
  
   

Walking to the college alone, intl
dark, I experienced only some of
that abused women must f
their attacker gets closer

December 6th, 198
|} day that Marc Lep
Polytechnique inM and shot four-
teen women, be he blamed all
women for his failures. Just because they
were women.

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rs, December 6th
ent a day to re-
member these wt Now, the focus
has changed, and larenéss is placed
on women who are being:al and
murdered every day by théir.husbands,
lovers, friends and anonymous attac!

Current statistics show that
million women are physically ab}
each year by their partners. Thes:
bers may seem high, but rememb
these are only the reported
How many more

    
  
  
   
    
   
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
    
   
 
 
 
 
  
  

   
  
   

are reported for fear of no’
lieved, more violence or eve
Three quarters of wom

their husbands were attempti:
or getting a divorce. The gu
barrassment of being in an a
tionship may also keep a
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the police, she won’t make the call until
after she has been hit by her husband

imes. Why are women
hated-still? We must
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practiced. :
TV commercials, m
newspaper ads depict women in all sorts

ucts.

Is it necessary for
woman to be draped
that vehicle? The u:
cessories to s
ample of

omen as ac-
a classic ex-
men that is ac-

ans believe our country is
d it shock you to know that
ery 17 minutes a woman is sexually
ssaulted? Or that almost half of all
‘omen with disabilities are or have been
abusive situations?

.emory of the fourteen women
December 6th 1989 and
red, beaten and killed,
llege Women’s Centre,
ct #40 and the Student So-

ciety is holding a candle-light vigil on

Tuesday, December 6th in the concourse.

Please come out and show your sup-
port in commemorating the lives of the
fourteen women brutally murdered while
in their college. Come out and show your
support for the end of violence towards
women.

| Impeachment blues hit DCSS
Student Society gags selves until AGM

| by Ken Spittel

Douglas college student society is
impeaching it’s treasurer Julian Smit.
An internal gag order has been in
effect. Troy Townsend, DCSS President,
emphasized that, “I would like to give
Julian Smit a fair chance”.
The gag order was put out so ru-
mours against Smit would not jepordize

      
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
   
  
  

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his future.

Smit was unavailable for comment.

More information on this impeach-
ment and voting will be at the AGM.

Other important events on the
agenda are: Apointment of a chairperson,
appointment of auditors and open floor
questions.

The Annual General Meeting will
be held November 30th, 4-6 pm in room
1614.

DCSS President, as per
a Society-imposed gag
order, wasn't talking
when asked about the
whole impeachment
thing last week.
Hopefully, we'll be able
to report something
tangible when our
presses fire up again in
January.

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