By Gord Day Be aware ! Did you Know (or care) that there is an upcoming referendum to determine if you will be charged $3.75 a semester? In case you didn’t know it, you, as a Douglas College student, now belong to the CFS (Canadian Federation of Students), an organization of students across the country. The CFS has two basic functions: to provide certain services the students at every ‘‘local’’ and to actively lobby for the upgrading of the now decrepit federal/provincial grant and loan program. Douglas belongs to one of 66 locals across Canada, 17 of which are in B.C. The services the C.F.S.provides to this college’s students include : S.W.A.P., ( Students Work Abroad Program ), travel cuts, which gives students discount airfares and the Student saver Program which gives students discounts at various stores and services across __ Canada. As_a lobbying group, the most significant success they have had in B.C. in the last 4 years is to negotiate a nine percent loan remission for students attending a college or How to cure skinny puppy Dear Editor: 1 do not know where you’r (sic) getting your music critics from, ob- viously your (sic) just taking anyone who can write their name, because your critics don’t know what they’re talking about. First of all inn your ‘Jan. 20 1986 issue, the critic named Richard, did a review on the group Skinny Puppy. What he said about the group is irrelevent, but what was noted at the end of his review wasn’t anything but insultive. He said, “Think of Skinny Puppy as the Cure, ‘but two steps forward.’’ Anyone with any notion of who The Cure and Skinny Puppy are, would probably suggest that this person be shown the couch. The only similarity the Cure and Skinny Puppy have is their hair design, (and only some of the mem- bers of the Cure heed to his particular look). Their music is two totally differ- ent styles. The second mistake | came across, was in your Jan. 30 issue, in which someone did a review of the new Kate Bush album, The Hounds of Love. The critics name was not attached. | can only assume that no one wanted credit for it, which is to (sic) bad, because the over all review was pretty good. The mistake | found was again at the end of the review, where the culprit named other works of the goddess Miss Bush and stated that the song Babooshika was on the album The Dreaming, when it is actually recorded on the album Never for Ever, and on the E.P. entitiled Kate Bush. | guess one could write Si, si CF will be discussed. The Other Press cakes upcoming provincial election. That is, how the platforms of the parties at@- hand will affect the students in B.C. New members of the CFS in B.C. § are UVIK and Malaspina college. On the other hand, SFU and Kwantlen§ also have upcoming referendums in§ March in the same vein as Douglas’. Criticism of the CFS sevices seem to be impossible to find, but there is¢ some question as to the effectivenes ot our particular local. When quest- { ioned on the lack of profile of the Douglas local, Terry Hunt, the Chair - man or the Pacific Region of the CFS, § stated that ‘‘The Douglas college local is lacking in organization.’’ Another student implied that the difficulty in reaching the students was due to problems with the student society. This is what the CFS is all about, so § speak your feelings at the referendum § on March XXX, 1986. Ed note: Any interested students § should attend the senate meeting, f Monday March 3rd at 4:00 pm in The§ student Society office, when the issue § this off as a spelling mistake, like the § one in the title of the review which § says ‘‘Hounds of Live’’, instead of § Love, but the words in the other { albums are obviously not as similar as Live and Love are. | can only assume that the critic was not of sound mind and body when he/she wrote this sentence because the rest of the university and graduate. Their next § project is to provide awareness tof student voters on the prestimably § Unrestrained, pretentious, peurile emotion. View the following as such if you will. Here goes [with disgust]. Infinite suffering. ..unconquerable...cycle upon cycle...never end...Allleee! And yet it is all illusion! Wake up you fuckers! Somebody wake me up! | am waking up! Let me bleep in...o god o god help! Arrgh | am sick and tired of...my flesh, when fed to the body of . the church is no longer useful for anything. This is my nightmare, and, in your vision (because it is also mine) also yours. You have been told by a good friend of Carls. All of us are riding in a bus bound for a canyon. Inventing seatbelts, buying them for yourselves or others, all of this is—useless! Useless! You smug and unhappy hordes, look at our brief moment of grey existence. Will you measure your life with coffee spoons, cigarette butts and orgasms? For these are not so many that they are uncountable, but enough to fill the lungs of your life, fill the ears of your life, blind the eyes of your life. And ness, kindness and peaceful qualities. The Indian was industrious but still review shows that he/she knew what ~ had time to dance and sing and think. they where (sic) talking about. In the past the OP’s reviews have not been too bad for a free paper published and distributed in New Westminster, so don’t screw it up by having silly mistakes and critics who don’t know what they’re talking a- bout, populate the pages. Stuart H. Reply: Stuart H, When | commented that Skinny Puppy is 2 steps ahead of the Cure, | meant they are more advanced and sophisticated than the Cure, who have backed away from high-tech computer music. Take note that I’m a great fan of both bands, however one of them is clearly on top. Richard Non-status quote Dear Editor: Life of the British Columbian Indian was a happy one. treated their Indian partners welL ft because they were the ones_ that brought their furs, but because they respected them. Men like Alexander Mackenzie, David Thompson and Si- mon Fraser had nothing but good to say about them. They appreciated their skills, high standards, cleanli- It was after the white man came and settled in the province that the Indians’ life began to decline. Euro- peans were no longer passing through, they were here to stay. They brought their diseases, their alcohol and ques- tionable standards. But perhaps the most important of all changes was when they were placed on_ reser- vations. They were expected to be- come whites in education, religion and customs. They were happy, wealthy people before the white man came here. In those days they were free and able to go as they pleased. They walked or canoed hundreds of miles to trade their furs or to trade with resident of White traders ae by P. Mollusc February 28, 1986 Page 5 we may never have known the sight that watches us emerge from the womb and crawl into the grave. From your Volvo and your hotel in Hawaii beneath your gray hair, feel the souls you have eaten, the flesh you brought into existence (with mind, and pain) committed to knives, and flame, wrapped in styrofoam and made the equivalent of paper and nickel then devoured on every street, images of fanged bleeding priapus clawed and venoumous venus and Jehovah smiling from the burnt! offerings that spectreb feed to cash registers. Long live Pattison! Long live Pattison! He is the most virtuous man | know. His disciples sing loud hosannas. He smokes not, drinks not, and is worth | 152 million dollars. 16 hours a day he worketh for Expo God give us such strength Lord grant East Africa such an Expo God grant us strength Amen eed ““another’’ ‘‘village’’. They are the same patient people, peaceful and kind. They will still go even the hard way for a person they think is their friend. Yours very truly, Bernie La Hay NonStatus Indian Graphic/ The Fulcrum Other Press room (under the door)