by Tod K. Maffin NORTH VANCOUVER (CUP) -- Fundamentalist Christian leaders in have banded together to try to keep the international gay games from taking place. Rev. Robert Birch says he has formed a group of clergy to pray that the Celebration °90 games is stopped. "We are concerned for the whole quality of life, but labelling the Gay Games as something to celebrate is a misrepresentation." Birch’s group, calling them- selves the "Watchmen for the Na- tion", have opened an office in downtown Vancouver. "We are in place to do what Jesus Christ says. He endorsed the whole biblical position of faithful- by Padraic Brake HALIFAX (CUP) -- Eighty women’s centres across the country will be victims of the Federal government’s deficit-cutting mis- sion. The centres, in British Colum- bia, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador, will lose their funding from the Secretary of State’s Women’s Pro- gram as part of the federal budget. "It’s unfair of (the govern- ment) to balance the budget on the Dalhousie by Alistair Croll HALIFAX (CUP) -- Dal- housie University dropped two message areas from its electronic mail network last week after a professor said they were distribut- ing pornography and hate litera- ture. A series of messages in two public message areas which com- monly deal with sex presented graphic portrayals of rape involv- ing sadism and excrement. Dalhousie professor Susan Shaw said the system was "not an excuse to allow propagation of violence and hatred." It was Shaw’s complaint that led to the cancelling of these mes- sages. She said she was "not trying to get rid of stuff because of sexual content." ’ "It’s because of hatred against women" which these messages portray Shaw said. The University of Toronto also removed several message sections Jan. 22 after complaints about por- nography. Dalhousie and U of T’s com- puter networks are connected by permanent phone lines to most universities in North America. Users of university computers can communicate via a program called NEWS, which allows dis- ness in marriage, which is totally against homosexuality." The group recently placed full- page ads in both of Vancouver’s daily newspapers warning that the £0 “19 < es Z GOD TOLH ME HE HATES GAY BIRDS. gee a EARTHOUMKES, CRABSRASS, presence of the gay games could ORMICE LURES, SWNSPOTS, INERDWN TOENAILS,” URBAN BLIGHT... ? Other Press AIDS. Birch said if the games goes ahead, "the country will begin to degenerate." Celebration ’90 director Mark FT)2 Rie Aeon swe COLLAR 2 O3 HURRICANES, DAIBRUEE, CREEPING SOCIALISM, FLAT “TRES Cook MILK, TRAFFIC SANS, TOOTH DECAY, DUTCH Be DISEASE, TENNIS ELBOU, HANG OVERS. oF 4 Mees said Birch is misinformed. A have shown that AIDS js a very difficult disease to transmit. I can’t possibly believe that this would risk the general population of Van- couver." FALLEN ARCHES, ANTS AT PICNICS, FLIES IN THE BUTTERMILK, POST-NASAL DRIP, RECEDING HAIRLINES SOGGY FRENCH FRIES, SPLIT ENDS we 2079 leprosy ha He added that participants will prokoke a widespread epidemic of "All reasonable medical experts be receiving a comprehensive in- Federal Budget Update... Funding Cut For 80 Women’s Centres Across Canada backs of Canadian women," Liberal MP Mary Clancy said. She said the government is making a "concerted effort to diminish women and children" by cutting funding to women’s programs. The budget also cut funding for four national women’s or- ganizations -- including the Canadian. Congress for Learning Opportunities (CCLO) and the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women University Removes Hate Literature From BBS cussion on a variety of topics. The director of the computer system at Dalhousie Peter Jones said, "In my view, this was hate literature." Jones said he does not normal- ly have the authority to remove message bases, only the senate does, but "this was a dilemma for which I took extraordinary action." Users of the NEWS system called the stories "inhuman" and "indicative of condoning rape and torture." Dalhousie’s NEWS system still contains stories about be- stiality and incest, but no com- plaints have yet been made about these. (CRIAW) -- by 20 per cent. "Two years ago we had our funding frozen, last year we were ‘cut by 15 per cent,” said Linda Roberts, an official with CCLO. "Now we face a further 20 per cent." "The government is deliberately trying to silence women," she said. Stella Lord, an official with the CRIAW said her organization may not be able to continue its research efforts. "The net effect of the budget is to cut off and dismantle institutions that women have built up with a lot of work,” she said. The federal government will save $1.6 million at the expense of the centres. Nova Scotia NDP leader Alexa MacDonough said the federal government has just signed a $1.6 million lease on a Halifax office building for the occasional visit from a cabinet minister. "I’m sure that women in Nova Scotia would not mind putting up the occasional visiting cabinet min- ister so that they could have their funding back," she said. The federal government will release the list of women’s centres affected by the cuts Mar. 13. But the government has warned some centres. Clancy said the government was playing "divide and conquer." "We know about some of the centres because we have been well organized, but we don’t know about the prairies yet," she said. The Antigonish, N.S Women’s Resource Centre wil lose its $43,000 grant from the { Secretary of State after May 31. The centre’s coordinato Lucille Harper said the federa government is running the country with a "branch plant mentality." "This is not some business (Brian Mulroney) is running, this is a country," she said. Harper called the centre’s grant an "absolute pittance." "If the government paid us at government rates, they’d be paying us hundreds of thousands of dol- | lars," she said. "The savings the government makes in terms of mental and physical health because we are here is large." The Centre has one full and one part-time employee. It offers employment counselling, referrals for survivors of sexual buse, and information on issues women might not get elsewhere. "The funding cuts show that the government is completely in- sensitive to the issues of women," she said. "They have no idea what it is like for anyone who isn’t a white, middle-class businessman." Harper does not know if the centre will survive to next year. "We have to do some serious scrambling to see if we can stay afloat," she said. "We’re going to start fundraising to at least pay the rent and utilities, and we’re going to ask the provincial and municipal governments to help us." sere We. mW e, _ Christians Protest Gay Games formation package on safe sex practices. Geoff Still, the president of the Canadian chapter of Focus on the Family says God is "grieving" be- cause of the games, but his or-~ ganization won’t take action them. Not all of Vancouver’s religious leaders hold the same views. Rev. Bob Smith, formerly the head of the United Church of Canada, says Celebration ’90 op- ponents are using the bible out of context. "What they’re doing is decid- ing they are against the games, then picking out scriptures and twisting the interpretations until it suits their agenda.” Dean At U of T Attempts To Hamper Female Professor’s Carreer, Resigns Amid Controversy TORONTO (CUP) -- The Dean of Divinty at the University of Toronto’s Trinity College resigned after a report said he was hostile to a female professor’s ap- pointment to a tenure stream posi- tion. Peter Slater helped produce a "poisonous political climate," which led to professor Marsha Hewitt filing a complaint of gender disrimination, according to the report. U of T’s grievance review panel ruled in favour of Hewitt. The ruling stated Slater had "ex- pressed such determined hostility to Professor Hewitt’s candidacy before the search began that he ought not to have been a member of the search committee ... "Some of the Dean’s com- ments to Professor Hewitt border on gender harassment. It is abun- dantly clear, however, that the Dean contributed to the poisonous political climate that enveloped the search process," it said. Trinity provost Robert Painter recently released a statement stat- ing Slater’s resignation would best serve the interests of the college. "I think the dean simply felt that given the judgement of the (grievance) review panel it would be appropriate for him to step aside," said Painter. Slater would not comment on his resignation or the ruling of the grievance panel. "I believe there are people trying to work out a statement that would be acceptable all around, and I don’t want to queer that."