February 14, 1977

the other press

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A constitutional forum re-
commended Friday that four
“officers at large’’ replace the
present executive of six elected
reps: chair and vice-chair (elec
-ted at large), and the chairper-
son of each Campus Council.

_ The proposed constitution is
subject to the ratification of a
general meeting of students,
| scheduled to take place Feb. 25
in the 300 building on New
Westminster campus.

The important changes in the
state of the constitution concern
the expansion of the college--re-
-cognizing the addition of more
campuses; and gives each cam-
pus two votes on council replac-
ing the present system provid-
ing a single vote ner campus.

-VANCOUVER (CUP)--Wide-
spread use of contraceptive
devices such as the pill and the
intrauterine device is unhealthy
and dehumanizing to women,
feminist Germaine Greer said
last Wednesday.

She advocated Coitus Inter-

| ruptus and ‘‘relative abstinen-

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ce’’ as alternative means of

roan ‘birth control. (Coitus Interup-
[| ruptus is withdrawal of the

penis from the vagina prior to
ejaculation.) :

“We still believe that Coitus
-Interruptus is a bad thing,”’
Greer told the 900 persons--
most of them women--gathered
in the Student Union Building

‘CALGARY (CUP)--There’s no
teason why Canadian students
can't be a real source for change

ing to consumer advocate Ralph
Nader.

But the reason they should
strive for change now is because
“once you get out (of school)
your ability to reflect and pion-
eer goes,’’ he told an audience
of 400 at the University of
Calgary Jan. 23.

Nader said the current trend
in education is to run it ‘‘into a
trade school practice rather than
an intellectually broadening ex-
perience.

SAN FRANCISCO (ENS CUP)--
Legalized abortion in the U.S.
has greatly reduced the number
of deaths resulting from the
operation.

According to a survey con-

 

 

_ | ducted by the Federal Center for

while they’re studying, accord- —

Student Council chairman Ray
Harris proposed that positions
on Campus Councils--bodies
that determine the vote of their
campus on student council mat-
ters--be determined by populat-
ion.

But the students attending
the forum, most of whom were
from Coquitlam Campus, re-
commended only that the max-
imum number of reps elected to
Campus not exceed six.

Satellite campuses, like the
Maple Ridge campus that will
begin operation in the Fall,
would be represented by the
closest campus.

A major question raised at the -

forum was the definition of a
“‘subsidiary organization of stu-

ballroom. ‘‘All the things we
used to say about masturbation
we now say about Coitus Inter-
ruptus.””

Entitled ‘‘Feminism and Fer-
tility,’’ Greer’s witty and
anecdotal speech was greeted
warmly by the partisan audien-
Ce;

In addition to pointing out the

_ physical and social dangers of .

contraceptive devices Greer at-
tacked the ‘‘inverse puritan-
ism’’ of Western Society’s ad-
herence to intromission as the
acceptable form of sexual inter-
course. Intromission is penetra-
tion of the vagina by the penis.

‘*Why are we saying that

Students source

‘‘All schools teach students is
to become good corporate law-
yers.””

Nader emphasized the need
for consumer awareness of ban-
king, taxation, business, and
industry, through education.
Students may know a great deal
about English poetry or physics
he said, ‘*but how many of you
can write a 1,000 word essay
about the tax system?”’

The long-time consumer cru-
sader said because of the lack of
a civic backbone in Canada, the
public has trouble getting con-
sumer information. Americans
“‘can lord it over’’ Canadians for

Disease Control, before abort-
ions were made legal, they
accounted for 20 per cent of all

. deaths among pregnant women.

In contrast only 3.9 per 100,000
women died from having a
legalized abortion between 1972

Constitutional forum
recommends changes

dent government.” The provis-
ion arbitrarily named the Stu-
dent Council president as an
‘‘ex-officio member”’ of all sub-
committees, clubs, and the stu-
dent press. ©

The Other press objected to
the newspaper being defined as
a ‘‘subsidiary’’ of the Student
Council, and a separate clause
was added outlining the relat-
ionship between the Council and
the newspaper.

100 members of the Douglas
College Student Society are
required to attend the Feb. 25
meeting in order for the assem-
bly to make decisions affecting
the constitution.

Greer urges pullout.

imitating impregnation is the
only correct way to convey erotic
affection?’’ she said. ‘‘Especi-
ally when we don’t do that with
groups who are gay?”’

The conventional sex act--in-
tromission--has sado-masochis-
tic overtones, she said.

Greer said the pill has de-
tracted from the quality of
sexual intercourse instead of
enhancing it.

“It very often seems to me
that in our society, intromission
has become a substitute for
conversation,’’ she said. ‘‘How
many times have you really
wanted this? How many times
have you exchanged it for a
good night’s sleep?”’

-Nader

having a Freedom of Informat-
ion Act which allows them to
readily obtain a wide variety of
government and industrial in-
formation.

Nader also discussed pollut-
ion, calling it ‘‘a form of
violence.”’

He said industry has perpet-
rated the myths that pollution is
not harmful, that there is no
technology capable of dealing
with it and that it is far too
expensive to clean it up.

Companies are murdering the
public with pollution he said and
suggested that corporate profits
should be channeled into clean-
ing up the mess.

Legalized abortion reduces death

and 1974.

The survey also found that
having an abortion is safer

surgically than having a tonsil-
lectomy, having an appendix
removed, or having a baby.

 

 

  

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Former Student Council
Chairman Grant Dahling was
presented with a letter of grati-
tude and a commemorative pla-
que for his contribution to the
college after last Wednesday’s
Student Council meeting.

Dahling was also presented
with a life-time membership in
the Douglas College Student
Society. ‘‘I am honoured,’’ he
snivelled. ‘‘But here I thought I
was getting away...now I’ve
devoted my entire life to the
organization.”’ ;

Dahling served as chairman
from April 1975 until his resign-
ation in September last year,
and claimed he was, until
recently, the longest-standing
student government leader in
Canada.

In an interview last Thursday,
Dahling, who describes himself
as a ‘‘part-time socialist com-
merce student (somebody’s got
to look after things)’’, said his
greatest contribution to the
Student Society was ‘‘a more
centralized approach to the

 

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_ a need for the student govern-

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management of student gov-
ernment.”’

When asked to comment on
the present direction of the
Student Council, Dahling pro-
ceeded to expound on the
reactionary leadership in the
post-revolutionary Soviet Union
under Stalin.

‘*But seriously folks...there is

ment to work out an organizat-
ional plan on how staff relates to
council and how council should
relate to the executive.”’

When asked whether stu-
dents have changed much over
the years, Grant said the real
change has been minimal.
“Youth,..they’re still process-
ed, registered, punched, cut,
chopped, and end up coming out
in nicely uniform packages.’’ —

Dahling is also the founding
chairperson of the Douglas Col-
lege Association for Public Out-
rage and Moral Indignation,

some members of which are still
rumoured to still be on campus.

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