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Volume 15 Number17

 

    

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May 21, 1992

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College Chair Gets Prestigious Award

The Association of Community
College Trustees (ACCT ) has
awarded the coveted Regional Trus-
tee Leadership Award to Douglas
College Board Chairman Myrna
Popove. She will officially receive
the award in Portland, Oregon next
month. This award officially recog-
nizes Popove’s exceptional ability,
and confirms her status as one of the
best in her field in North America.

“I’m really pleased and some-
what overwhelmed. I had no idea I
had been nominated.”

With characteristic humility
Popovegivescredit tohercolleagues.

“It shouldn't be looked upon as
a single honor. The award isa reflec-
tion on the entire college”.

The Douglas College Board
nominated Popove to receive this
award from the ACCT, whichis based
in Washington DC and rewards ex-
cellence and quality in the contribu-
tions made by trustees, chief
executives, and faculty members to
the students of their respective col-
leges.

Popove, a Coquitlam resident
who has her own small business, has
devoted much ofher valuable time to
directing the administration of Doug-
las College. Gerry Della Mattia, Dean
of Human Resources and College
Development, who submitted the
nomination, said,

“It’s simply a reflection of the
quality of work she’s done. She has
made a significant contribution, and
she’s held in such high regard.”

Popove’s achievements include
her appointment as the Board Vice
Chairperson and Chairpersonin1989
and 1990 respectively. She served on
the BC Government's Task Force for
Child Care (1990), and in June 1991
she was elected to the position of
Director of the Advanced Education
Council of BC.

 

 

 

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by Angus Adair

 

A few yearsagoa young Ameri-
can woman , about 17 years old,
was raped by her father. She exer-
cised her right to choose and chose
abortion. Only one facility in the
state where she lived would agree
to perform the procedure. They
would not waive their fee however
and the young woman who was on
social assistance could not afford it.
Her mother valiantly searched fora
clinic somewhere in America that
would. She found one in Portland
that would perform the abortion
and would waive all but $200 of

 

 

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Throw Water Bombs Not Fire Bombs

their fee. The woman purchased her
Greyhound ticket and prepared to
leave. Two days before she boarded
that bus, her boyfriend -who was pro
life- shot her to death with an assault
rifle.

What is clearly illustrated by the
above example, by the bombing of
occupied abortionclinics,and thedaily
brutalization and terroriziation of
women who wish control of their
bodies,is simple. Pro life is not pro
anything. It is anti-choice and anti
woman. Theyalsolack even the integ-
rity to openly admit who they are and
what they stand for,which is the
oppresion of women.

 

Their signs and official press re-
leases are full of deceit. It is only
when they get right in the face of
women protecting a clinic that you
can hear the truth. ” Ill bash your
head in” ,“dyke”, “whore” are what
they say.Their white hood has been
peeled away to reveal a bigot.

If the Klan were burning a cross
on your lawn waving pro life ban-
ners what would you do?

Throw water.Which is exactly
what some women choose to do toa
bigot who showed up at the pro
choice rally on Wednesday, after all
the speeches had been made.Whata
baptism.