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Volume 11 Number 4

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VANCOUVER (CUP)- The
novement for unilateral nu-
‘lear disarmament in the
West its ultra radical and
threatens democracy, Brit-
‘sh author Conner Cruise

O’Brien said October 20.
The former United Nations

delegate told an audience at
the University of British
Columbia that unilateral
disarmament threatens ‘‘to
scrap the West - democracy
free press, rule of law, the
lot."

Cruise O’Brien insisted
the disarmament movement
seeks to replace American
influence in Europe with
Soviet influence.

‘‘They believe that Western
democracy is a sham,’’ he
said.

He said the forces tugging
parts of Europe toward the
left and America toward the
right had something in co-
mmon: ‘‘a weariness with
secular humanism and the
whole intelléctual tradition
derived from the Enlighten-
ment,’’

This weariness arises from
the ‘‘unemployment of the
heart,’’ the absence in the
Western societies of imag-

 

Anti-nukes, anti-god

Day defends autonomy

by lan Hunter
College principal Bill Day
‘ammed the provincial gov-
‘nment for reducing local
‘lege autonomy at the
vember graduation cer-
vonies. ‘‘There is a strong
ift in the direction of
itralization these days,’’
uv said. ‘Statements are
‘ng made and will be
inade more strongly in the
‘uture that what is really
«eded is central direction
‘ed control with provincial
iorities being upper-
HISt. 7 ;
We now have the situation
here the Douglas College
Loard is taking instructions
trom three provincial coun-
-ils, fourdivisions of the
Ministry of Education, a
provincial steering commit-
we, the apprenticeship
card and the universities
‘ouncil, he said
Day said the bureaucracy
1stricts the effectiveness of
ihe college in working and

changing with the com-
munity.
He said recent central-

photo by Ian Hunter

  
  
  
   
    
 

by Ian Hunter
Surrey mayor Don Ross, ‘‘it
is not council’s prerogative
to question the prerogatives
of the provincial govern-
ment,’’

Gidora disputes Ross’s as-
ertion. In stead, he would
be a voice in dealing with
the provincial government,
he said.

Gidora’s groups favours:

inative and spiritual links to
the forum of politics, he
said.

The effective separation of
religion and politics, ‘‘lea-
ves an unsatisfied need,”’
he ‘said. ‘The. need: ‘in
question is the need for
oneness, for meaning, for
the sacred, the God.”’
Cruise O’Brien said pre-

Ed McKitka he’s not, but
-- Douglas College music stu-
-dent Steve Gidora is run-
_ ning for mayor in Surrey.
Gidora is running under
the banner of the Surrey
Alternative Movement, a
‘labour supportive group”’
The groups has about 60
members.

vious to the 13th century Gidora claims the present ® Establising a ward syst-
Western civilization did not Council has ben ‘‘rubber em. ‘‘Many areas in Surrey
think in this compartment- Stamping’’ everything the are not being fully repre-

ministry of municipalities sented now...council

_ sends them.

alized way. oe

‘‘The notion that religion, |
literature and politics are
completely distinct fields of _
activity is a comparatively |
novel one, he said.

Greek, Roman and Biblical
societies believed strongly
that a ‘‘sense of the sacr-
ed’’ was essential to a:
healthy political life.

The adulation of Pope Paul |
II, the overthrow of the
Shah of Iran, and _ the
apathy of youth toward the
political process, are ex
pressions of a sense of loss
and of ‘‘the removal of God
form human politics,’’ he
said.

The Irish writer and politi-
cal thinker said the dissoc-
continued on page 6.

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ization results from a shift
in funding from the college
being 50 percent locally
supported in 1969 to the
present near-total provincial
funding of the college. ‘‘We
figured it would cost us
$1,200 a year in 1969 to
educate a full-time student

..it now costs us about
$5,000.’’ he said.

Though the cost of educa-
tion has gone up five-fold
since the college started in
1969, student fees have
gone up only 30 per cent,
The work of. the college
boards and the student
society is responsible for
“keeping cost down for
students,’’ Day said.

Day said local control of
the colleges is necessary for
their continued existence,
and that the current prov-
cial government’s direction
to specialized colleges will
not work. ‘‘The notion of
travelling long distances to
take provincial specialized
programs simply does not
hold up under examina-
tion.’’ he concluded.

America has an actor.....Surrey will have a musician.

going on in different parts
of Surrey,’’ he said.
¢ Rapid transit. ‘‘Surrey
needs rapid transit too...
why should the train stop in
New West?”’
e Housing at cost. ‘‘We
want to establish a housing
co-opertive,’’ said Gidora,
“‘the lack of affordable ac-
commodation contributes to
a lot social problems.”’
Gidora, married with one
child, has been involved in
local politics and music ‘for
several years.

 
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
   
 
  

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