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Mike Mountain The Other Press No heavy metal in schools November 30, 1994 School tragedy in East may mean metal detectors in West by Paul Andrew The issue of school safety came to the forefront once again when a disgruntled adult student, who was attending Brockton Vocational High School in Toronto, walked into the school counselor’s office and started shooting. The man did not have a simple handgun; he was carrying a rifle. Two teachers were shot and seriously wounded in the incident. Now, the Ministry of Education and the Federal Government are discussing the possibility of installing metal detectors at every level of public education. Imagine yourself having to pass through a monitored metal detector every time you come into college. The thought of being able to use only one or two centralized locations in the college, in order to accommodate the use of a metal detector, may soon be a reality. The question is, will the installation of metal detectors prevent such a catastrophe from happening? Laurent Lemair, the Head of Security at Montreal’s L’ecole Polytechnique, where Marc Lepine shot and killed 14 women on Dec. 6, 1989, said this to Mcleans magazine at the time, “It’s very difficult to secure ... against something like that, with so many people coming and going.” It is almost six years to the day that the massacre in Montreal happened ,and the Head of Security here at Douglas College, Sail Ram, was very candid about metal detectors. “There are many inconveniences in using a metal detector,” she said. “For one thing, it is very difficult to calibrate a metal detector to be sensitive enough to distinguish the difference between say, a key-chain and a handgun, or possibly a knife,” said she. “Also, we would have to employ even more security on campus than we already have, so | think it is a matter of inconvenience rather than safety,” Ram continued. There are nine security guards for approximately 8,000 students at Douglas College Troy Townsend, Douglas College Student Society President, echoed Sail Ram’s comments. “Tt hasn’t reached the point yet where we need to install metal detectors,” said Townsend, “But extreme students, the ones that have... a propensity for violence, should be screened at the time of registration.” “I have had a few teachers and students mention to me, in passing, that they have been harrassed by other students, but I don’t think it warrants the [installation] of a metal detector.” It has taken the action of one disgruntled adult student in Toronto, to finally catch the attention of the officials in charge of security in schools. Pro-death: Is violence the answer? by Tammy Coombes Abortion: This word invokes strong reactions and emotions from almost everyone. Some people believe that abortion should continue to be available to women who are faced with this difficult choice and others believe that this choice is not necessary and shouldn’t be allowed. A Vancouver obstetrician and gynecologist who performs abortions, Dr. G. Romalis, was shot on Tues. November 8th. He survived. This is not the first time that violence has been used against abortion clinics, pro-choice activists and doctors who perform the abortions. Remember Dr. Morgantaler and the fire bombings, or the two doctors and a bodyguard who were shot and killed in Florida this year? Is it not ironic that members of anti-abortion, pro-life, groups are perfectly willing to kill firsthand? Killing to Prevent “killing”, any way it is looked at, just we've been getting doesn’t make any sense in our modern, © intelligent world. Wow. thanks guys!!! We really appreciate all the response ately. It makes it all worthwile... (Private to LETTERS (continued from page 2) An unqualified apology. From me to you... [cont'd from page 2] in the pregnancy, pickling it in formaldehyde, shipping her aborted child off to be carved up in the name of science, and then raping her again as soon as she is capable of having another child seem acceptable? Maybe is you’re desensitized enough it is. Not for me though For animal liberation. V.Gann A cowardly act Dear Other Press: Everyday, everyone of us consciously makes a “for your own good” decision. The parent for the child, the policeman for the traffic violator, the doctor for the patient. However, in Robert Robitaille’s case, we dodge the supreme “for your own good” decision, euthanasia. By condemning and incarcerating Mr. Robitaille, we illustrate our cowardness to face this supreme test. Mr. Robitaille, in good conscience and in good faith did what we wish we could have done. He deserves our support and understanding. Norman Carriere D.C. Student Ssssshhhhhhhh.... Other Press: I recently went to the library to attempt to study for a very important midterm. However, I was rudely interupted by a group of people that seemed think the last episode of Melrose Place was far too important to refrain from discussing. Fuck you and fuck off. You know who you are - and you are probably preventing people who deserve the title “student” from getting classes here. Do you know what a library is used for? QUIET STUDY. concerned and pissed off ‘student’ Um, sure... Dear Other Press: 10101010 01000001 11001010 10010010 10101010 10100101 10101101 10101001 10001111 10101001 101101001 10011101 01001101 0100110 010100110 10101 00101 0101001 00101010. Binarily Yours, Mr. PC. Macintosh LO Neti ura eeu hence OL ee tel MMi th wem Cron cere iD) Sir: You do know how to hurt a guy!! Criticism of performance, motive, ethics or style, I can handle with equanimity, but spelling!! I am cut to the quick. If you don’t trust me, trust my source references - the current Webster’s and the Concise Oxford - “enrolment” is okay. As one of your (doubtless numerous) eleemosynary activities over the next month, I trust that you will print a full apology. fopiy Coe eine os “To invest or aha with a robe. (3 Regards, en-roll’, en-rol’_ (én-rdl’), ? ‘ : ee Cro; pic ete (lou i Fe F. enrdler). ‘ To insert in a roll, list, ft Bill Day ei te rears Bie nehexively to enlist. 2. To engross (a docu- caer ; ment). 3. To roll, coil, or wrap up. — en-roll’er, n.— en-ro toa plac | ent, en-rol’ment, n. 3 4} ; —— encroot? (én-rd0t’), v.t. To fix by the root; implant deep. ee eee en route (an root’; F. in). (F.J] Onor along the way. 2 toe] ES ; lens (&nz), n.; pl. ENTIA (n’shY-a). [ML. ens, entis, & thing-} Wa coniex Dear Sir: Philos. Being, in the most abstract ser“* “s having existence without | 5 cause Well, don't I feel like quite the dolt. I would like to extend a thousand apologies to you, if only I could find where I put those things (I use them so rarely, I always misplace them). The fact is, neither our computer spellchecks nor our dictionaries (all two of ‘em) contain the single ‘I’ version of ‘enrollment.’ I jumped the gun, and admit being totally in the wrong. Here goes... Mr. Day, I am very sorry for accusing you of spelling a scholastically-related word wrong. (Whew, that was tough! I need to work on this whole ego thing...) I would like to take this opportunity to bring up a couple of things, tongue firmly in cheek... First, why is it that the students of the college have access to lesser English dictionaries than the administration? I can’t imagine why something as basic as a first-class dictionary should be anything but compulsory for the school to include as part of the enrollment fees (and I don’t mean up the fees, either...) Second, do you mind if I ask why the two rather impressive words used in the above correspondence both begin with the same letter as the word you looked up to prove an ‘enrollment’ correct spelling? Did you already know ‘eleemosynary’ meant ‘charitable?’ C’mon... I mean, it’s not exactly a household word. Or, did you just happen to peruse the E’s for a couple of neato words to include? It’s not a bad thing to admit, you know. We do it all the time...especially to help enucleate the central theme of a given enthymematical principal. Anyway, the whole purpose of this was to apologize, and to that I will even put my signature... Sorry, Mr. President...Sincerely, Jason Kurylo