= 5 ~ the ~ Nov. 10, 1986 Page 4 The Chee Pied U.S. government indicted VANCOUVER (CUP) - Two national peace groups are developing a legal case to charge the federal government in American nuclear war fighting strategy. At a recent conference in Victoria, both lawyers for Social. Responsibility and the World. Federalists of Canada agreed to be lead plantiffs in the case and plan to gather evid- ence for it over the next six months. “We think we have a ‘good chance at winning,” said Fred Knelman, a former Concordia Univer- sity professor who presented research on Canada’s role in US. nuclear strategy. “We could have = as Student Services News you (D.C. Have Services)- ever asked _ yourself “What am I doing here in school?” Have you ever felt like you knew too much for an exam and just couldn’t put all that in- formation down during exam period? Or maybe your sense of self- worth has been put through the wringer by the trials and tribulations of college? The Counselling Department is aware of the many demands, time pressures, and questions about their future _ that students face in the academic setting. To help students cope, the Counselling Department offers a wide range of free workshops to all Douglas College students, both male and female, from all programs of study. “Taking time to partici- “pate in the workshops _ could help _ alleviate the _. pressure,” says Barb Mowat of the Counselling “workshops many as two or_ three million people represen- ted - all the _ nuclear weapons free zones in Canada, some of the major unions, the major churches, and native people’s organizations are flocking to be co-plantiffs on the issue,” said Knel- man. While previous cases challenging the legality of nuclear weapons themselves have failed, Knelman said the new case could be based on “intent” law, and examine American - nuclear war fighting policies. Similar cases currently underway in Britain and the Netherlands are using intent laws to challenge acceptance of cruise mis- “None of the require prepara- Department. workshops homework tion.“ - Mowat or says ll the are in environment with students _ learning from each other. Also presenters from the Counselling Department give useful information as well as facilitating students’ actions to deal with his or her problems. The workshops _— deal with problems as diverse as time managment, career planning, test preparations, personality factors and behavior, self- worth, and constructive criticism The career session is for the student asking his or herself, “Where do I go from here with my life?” Mowat, who presents this supportive workshop, tries to provide students with a systematic . method of assessing their _ skills, values, special sles and participation _in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), on the basis that American policy has moved beyond the nuclear stand off known as deterrence, to plans to fight and win a nuclear war. “In numerous ways, Canada is now in compli- city with the American nuclear war fighting strategies,” said Knel- man, citing the 245 classi- fied Canada - U.S. mili- tary agreements and the 84 Canadian military -in- Stallations integrated with American nuclear policy. “The opportunity — exists for us to become one of the major obstacles to the fulfillment of a_ global strategy which will inevit- knowledges and _ interests. The workshop also provi- des students with practi- cal to further help them decide on careers in which a_ they will be happy. Everett Robinson is the presenter on the self- worth workshop and dis- cusses the concept and components of self-worth as well as ways to improve it. Exam time is one the most stressful periods for students and the _ test preparation hints work- shop will give students practical, common sense hints on how to deal with that. stress, how to write different types of exams, and how to make efficient use of valuable — study time. These. and other work- shops are conducted periodically throughout the semester. Students are askeds to pre-register by dropping into Room 2700 or calling local 2760. All workshops are free. Quote of the week: “No matter who you vote for, the government al- ways gets in.” _ably lead to. a nuclear armageddon,” he said. Knelman said some of the ways which Canada _parti- cipates in American strategy are cruise missle testing, uranium exports, the manufacture of MX missile components, and anti-submarine warfare testing. “The cruise missile has a clear first use function - it means you commit a nuclear lobotomy on the body politic by knocking out command, — control, communication and_ intel- ligence centres,” he said, arguing there is no defensive or deterrent use for the weapons. With regard to uranium mining, Knelman said Canada violates its own treaties of 1955 and 1980, which state no Canadian uraninum will ever be diverted to U.S. weapons. “It turns out that there isn’t a nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal that doesn’t have Canadian. uranium in it,” he said. ~ “And there is a probability that the bulk of weapons in the British. and French arsenal now have Canadian uranium in. them.” Local protest VANCOUVER (CUP)” - Students from the Langara campus of Vancouver Community College and the Univer- sity of British Columbia were among the 16 boats and 70 protestors demon- strating on Oct. 12 against the arrival of a U.S. air- craft carrier and three es- cort ships they believed to be carrying nuclear weapons. About 15 students from Langara’s Peace and Dis- armament Committee chartered a 12-meter sail- boat with the financial aid of the student council, and met the 326 meter U.S.S. Ranger shortly after dawn. - Carrying banners from. Langara and_ the . Univer- sity of Victoria’s “Ban the Warships” *.__ club, students greeted the war- ships with shouts of “USS Ranger go home”. then they called, “Remember New Zealand”, referring to that country’s policy of refusing nuclear warships into its harbours. © After the Ranger had dropped anchor, the protestors prevented U-S. sailors from leaving the aircraft carrier for more than an hour. After the protest, organized by the Peace Flottila Coalition, Langara student Brian Salmi said, “We have to clean up our own. backyard of nuclear the weapons, and serve as an inspiration to the peace - movement around _ the world to do the same.” Salmi said the Ranger has 85 attack aircraft equi- pped with nuclear mis- ~ siles and depth charges. The escort ships — carry Tomahawk cruise — mis- - siles,“each with 10 to 15 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb, he said. More than 70 warships have visited Vancouver since the beginning of the year, a increase over re- cent years, which Salmi attributes to. U.S. Navy — policy of forward deploy- ment announced in 1983. “It is as if the U.S. is es- tablishing a forward base and they are hoping that Canadians are not going to say anything,” he said. “The human race is standing on the brink of oblivion and we are going to take some very serious steps back from the edge if “we are going to make it,” he said. Noting that the banning of nuclear weapons. Carry-- ing warships was the culmination of a 10-year — campaign in New Zea- - land, Salmi said, “It is going to be a long process, ~ but there is no doubt in my mind that the people of Vancouver will take up this case and will demand that we become nuclear weapons free.”