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The Other Press

 

It’s nice to see the dictators and unwanted finally seeing
the light and moving on.

‘Baby Doc’ Duvallier has freed the people of Haiti and
vacated his position as tin pot ruler of that small Caribbean
country. ;

Marcos and wife .lmelda have made a wise choice and
left the Philippines to the people and ‘Cory’ Aquino.

Both Duvallier and Marcos ignored repeated demands
that they resign. In time, the will of the people to free
themselves overcame the tyranny and abuse of the two

‘Two down
— One to go

 

despots, and they were forced to leave the country that
they dared to call their own.

Here at home we have a similar situation.

After repeated demands that he vacate his position, the
secretary of the Douglas College Student Society refuses to
resign.

“Last month, students from Maple Ridge were asking for

Mr. Wayne Schmuland’s resignation because he had not
lived up to campaign promises to visit their campus. His
excuse at that time was that he was too busy to go to Maple
Ridge.

Well, we now know what Mr. Schmuland was busy with.
It seems Mr. Schmuland, who billed himself as the
‘business choice’’ for secretary, is running a little business
of his own. He has shown a blatant abuse of his position as
secretary of the D.C.S.S., and attempted to put away a few
dollars for himself.

Mr. Schmuland says he carries out his duties to the best
of his abilities, after time allotted for class and everything
else.

Baby Doc and Ferdinand also carried out the duties of
= offices to the best of their abilities after everything
else.

Mr. Schmuland has plainly shown the students of
Douglas his priorities. He has refused to acknowledge his

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

critics, and he refuses to resign.

A piece of advice for Mr. Schmuland—we all know what
happened to Mr. Duvallier and Mr. Marcos.

Wayne, Resign!

Hitt act

 

Of course they won‘t remember
this in six months...1 hope

 

wonder what people are doing in your —

’

This is in reference to a CBC News
Hour report of a few weeks ago. The
News Hour was questioning randomly
selected people on the sidewalk, and
asking if they would re-elect
present Premier in the event of an
election. To my utmost dismay. and
surprise over 70 percent of the people
questioned ‘said that, ‘“Yes, they
would.’’ A certain percentage of these
people were also of our generation.
You know, the generation that is pres-
ently being deprived of useful em-
ployment and education by that same
plastic smiling premier.

Well, needless to say | was flabber-
gasted by the wit and wisdom of these
obviously well educated and employed
people. | am currently writing Tony
Parsons in hopes that the broadcast |
Saw was just a joke, sort of like Orson
Welles ‘‘Martian Invasion’’.

Yours sincerely,

The Duck

Garbage in, Garbage

To the Editor,

It struck me as | was walking
through the library the other day,
what a mess it was. Certain items
caught my eye, cigarettes and a
lighter in one aisle and vaseline in
another. | can understand someone

< putting something down and forget-
ting to pick it up, but it makes you

 

library when you find cigarettes and.

vaseline laying around?

There were also certain items of [8

food scattered around. There is noth-
ing more welcoming than to sit down
at a cubicle and find a banana peel
laying there or an apple. core, not to
mention the coffee cups or Coke cans
that one may come across.

For a starter, the library does not
even allow food or beverages in it. So
for those of you who are violating the
rules the least you can do is to throw
your garbage into the bins provided.

As | ventured further into the
darker corners of the library some-
thing even more distressing caught
my eye—little bits of torn up paper
scattered on several tables. Now don’t
get me wrong | am sympathetic to
those students who cannot write the
first. paragraph of that essay that is
always due the next day, but let’s get
serious, tearing paper up into hun-
dreds of little pieces is pretty ignorant.

As far as | know, the students at
this college all over four years old, so
clean up your act! And that goes, not
just for the library, but for the whole
college.

Thank you
A concerned student

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