a cl halt ined t , 4 SETI yeas eel = FSSCSSSSS SHH ESOS O HOES EEEE EE EeeEsEEEEEEEEESEEEEEEESE OOS MAUREEN CASSIE The annual hunt for Harp seals will take place between February 25 and March 15 once again this year. Despite the near extinction of the species, and despite moun- ting protest, the government of Canada has failed to make any attempt to end this yearly slaughter. Approximately 130,000 new- born seals will die to please the fashion conscience of the world. One seal will perish every thirty seconds, as-a result of a blow to the head. Some will be skinned alive. Hunting the seals is a dirty business, and no one knows this better than the hunters them- selves. But in the depressed Maritimes, the money to be gained is too attractive to refuse. Eric Nielson has hunted seals. “It’s a miserable tragic bus- iness. No, I don’t like it at all. I think its the most perverted trade that I have ever been in. | need the money, they pay me money, but they cannot make me like what I’m doing. Why don’t I quit? I will. This is my last trip.”’ ~ Sven Hanson has hunted seals. ‘‘We’ve gone sealing for At Northwest College: the past fourteen years. No one really wants to skin live seals. These cases are accidents but sometimes you cannot avoid - them. It is cold, the wind blows, it starts snowing. You try to get seals, the club freezes in your hand, you aim and miss. You aim again — you hit it, but not too well. The thing starts wailing. You hit three, four times. You are sure it’s dead now. So you turn it, open it, and start tearing its skin off. Suddenly it rolls its eyes at you and screams its head off. Yes it happened to me more than once during a trip. I am not proud of it, but it happened.”’ The hunter receives about a * ow Students Win heads VANCOUVER (CUP) — The threat of a walkout by students at Northwest College in Terrace has won the visitation privileges they fought for, and rolled back planned rent increases for their dormitories. Student president Tom Lalonde, who described the walk-out as‘‘well supported and well organized’’, said the college administration agreed to negoti- ate with representatives of the 3,000 resident students at the last minute. “We sent a letter to the administration on Thursday (Jan 22) explaining this was their last WW Sports N Wheel student non-student Gill's World of Sport Hot Wax $1.00 $1.50 SOSHSHSHHSHSHSHSHSHSHSSHSHHSHHHHSHSHSHESH SESE SEHSCHEEHOEHEHEHSSEHEHSSEH ESSER SESE SELES SESENE®S chance to talk to us. They got in touch that afternoon.”’ Although visitation rights were not granted across the board, some domitories will have them. The proposed fee increase was cancelled for all students except for those receiving sub- stantial manpower support. (Those students who get $272 a month from manpower will pay $120 for rent next year compared to the current $105). Rent will remain at $75 for all students paying their own way through college and students supported by less generous government programs (Provin- Blood Donor Clinic Give the gift of life. /\Thurs. February 12, 1976 Surrey 4-room complex 10:00 AM — 2:00 PM February 7, 1976 Ski eileien Displays by Mt. Seymour Ski School Admission $.50 $.75 B.C.Sports Exchange Edge Filing cial Department of Labour, Aid to the Handicapped, etc). Both visitation rights and a freeze on fees had been agreed to by the College Council in September. But the firing by Socred Education Minister Pat McGeer of five of the council’s members left the council in limbo this month, and the administration refused to act in accordance with that decision. “‘We had to do it all over again,’’ said Lalonde. ‘‘Peti- tions, surveys, talks with admin- istrators to get support for a policy that had already been approved.”’ Ce ee ee eee Oe toe ee 7 ik OOS SS S:S DO'S SS 2 9:00:00 00/000, 60-00 0168 010,066 0018/06 0 0:0 aie /0 4 $1.00 $2.00 dollar a skin; the middleman twenty dollars; and the company about 150 dollars. In total, 12 million dollars is made from the hunt. About one million of those dollars remains in Canada while the other 11 million goes to Norway. The hunt in encouraged by the Canadian government directly through subsidies and indirectly through such services as ice breakers and a rescue service. In fact the government spends more money in supporting the hunt then is made by Canadians. The government seems con- fused as to what its position is on the hunt. In November of 1975 federal Fisheries Minister GREENPEACE THE SEALS LaBlanc was ‘aghast’ at the number of seals to be slain in the hunt. In December, after receiv- ing ‘new information’ from the sealing industry about the hunt, the Minister stated that the seals were not an endangered species. If this is the case why did the _ Comission of Seals and Sealing recommend, in 1972, the gradual phasing out of sealing to be followed by a minimum six year ban on sealing? At that time it was also | estimated that is was nesessary to limit the hunt to 90,000 if the species was to be maintained. 1972 saw 135,000 seals taken. Clayton Thomas, advisor to the Canadian Delegation to the International Commission on North Atlantic Fisheries, stated “These seals should be elimin- ated because they eat too damn many fish and what use are they anyhow?”’ In fact the Harp seal, feeds on capelin, a non-com- ercial fish. If the government advisor’s are as misinformed as this then they can not realist- ically make a ee decision on seals. jul mi During the month of February 1976 Greenpeace will send acrew tothe ice floes off the coast of Labrador to shepard the baby Harp seals and protect them from the clubs of Norwegian and Canadian seal killers. Information can be obtained and donations can be sent to: GREENPEACE ‘SAVE THE SEALS’ 412 East Cordova Street Vancouver, B.C. PUB February 7, 1976 Douglas College New West. Admission $.50 advance from New West Student Council or booths in cafeterias of all three campuses. sponsored by the Ski Club | | | | | | | | | | | \ | Pub tickets must be bought in | | | | | | | | | | | | |