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Okay, here we are, another issue of the Other Press
and some profound social issue has to be given due
attention.

Do we write about the tens of thousands ofl
Salvadorians being massacred in the name of a puppet
regime protecting American imperialist agression? Or,
how about the annual hue and cry over the slaughter of
seal pups in Newfie Land? Perhaps our current labour
troubles warrent some exposition with garbage up to our
assholes and telephone lines lying useless behing
milling picket lines? What about the mid-term blues?

No, that should have been written about in the last
| paper.

So what the fuck should I talk about then? Should I
rehash these old subjects and relate them to today’s
alert, caring student body? Bullshil! Today’s student
body doesn’t really give a fuck about today’s issues and
only picked up this paper as an escape out of boredom
during a break from basket weaving in the lower
renaissance 301.

Frankly,-I don’t even know why I am writing this
stupid piece of prose, is it because I care of what is
actually being said here? Is it because I just have some
col umn space to fill after guzzling a few beer? That’s
it! That’s why I’m writing this stupid ‘‘Other Speak’’!

Wefi shit, I mean the punk nihilistic point of view is so
prevelant today, why can’t I take that point of view too?

So give,me several cases of generic beer, plant me in
a comfy chair, stack the room full of penthouses, and put
Charlie’s Angles on the tube. T and A all the way

Ian Hunter

 

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March 12, 1981

 

Retirement unjust

Dear Editor:

When I came into the
Community Social Service
Worker Program in Sep-
tember 1981, I thought I
knew how to write letters,
memos, reports and other
items of business communi-
cations. This assumption
was based on the “North
American concept of suc-
cess--I had been paid a
substantial salary for my
ability to do so. I got my
first assignment back from
Helen, my Communications
Instructor (COM 110) and
had to face a shocking truth
- I knew very little about
communications. To accept
this was the first step in
learning for me.

I am now learning what I
call ‘‘The Helen Grodeland
Method”’ - simple, stream-
lized and effective. I did
not have the opportunity to
learn ‘‘The Helen Grode-
land Method’’ before
it was not available to me.

- am

  

Now Helen’s method is
being made unavailable to
future students because she
is being forced into ‘man-
datory age 65’ retirement. I
concerned for the
C.S.S.W. students that will
follow this class. Commu-
nications for a Community
Social Service Worker is a
vital part of employment. I
have had the experience in
my field work placement of
doing an intake assessment
and having the supervisor,
who was present at the
interview, comment ‘Good -
it tells anyone exactly what
the situation is’. The
C.S.S.W. program needs
Helen to help other students
in future classes to reach
this understanding and abi-
lity to communicate in their
reports, ‘exactly ane the
situation is’

Why is the College allo-
wing this to happen?
Toretire an instructor of
Helen’s calibre without any
provision for continuance of

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her special method is to
deprive the C.S.S.W. pro-
gram of a needed part of the
learning that is imperative
to graduates of the program
in obtaining and keeping a
job in their field. I have
always considered Douglas
College to be in touch with
the student’s needs. At
Douglas College I feel I am
considered. As a student
my needs and wants are of
prime concern. At Douglas
College, I feel I can choose
the courses that best fill ny
needs and wants for learn-
ing. For me to explain
“The Helen Grodeland
Method’’ to someone not in
the course, is very difficult.
I will have the advantage of
completing one more se-
mester (COM 290) with
Helen and then, perhaps I
can ‘explain.

My classroom experien-

ces include getting back
assignments, shot full of
holes. Peep holes, that

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