Montreal [CUP] - Concordia University offered Canada’s first ever course on lesbian sexuality over the summer. However, the course title was so ‘‘discreet’’ that no one knew what it was about. The course at Concordia’s Simone de Beauvoir Institute was given several tentative titles before it finally appear- ed as ‘‘Female Sexuality’. ‘“] offered to teach a course on the lesbian experience in literature,’’ said Yvonne Klein;*the course instructor. “l was told it was called Feminine Sexuality: The Les- bian Experience. | didn’t find out it was merely called Fe- male Sexuality virtually until | walked in to teach it. “‘No one knew what they were getting into,’’ said Klein. ‘It wasn’t what most of them expected. My chief regret is that a lot of les- bians didn’t take the course who might have had they known about it. Others drop- ped it after seeing so many of the students enrolled had no background in the area, or ba- sis for understanding the material.’’ Concordia offered the course after pressure from the Concordia Women’s studies student organization. According to Klein the course name was changed because the Concordia Curric- lum Committee did not want “the dreaded word lesbian to ‘...such a course is still viewed as bizzare...” appear on_ students’ tran- scripts. Of course’, she ad- ded, ‘‘No one has any _ pro- blem with Fascism and Tyran- ny appearing on their re- cord.’’ “It is significant that it took ‘til 1985 for any place to try and give such a _ course,’’ Klein said. “‘The problems that it faced in coming out, you might say, shows how such a course is still viewed as bizarre, pec- uliar and irrelevant,’’ she said. Tl It will cost an estimated 1000 dollars and take over six months for the Douglas Col- lege Student Society to fully recover funds frozen in the Northland Bank. 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The course covered lesbian authors from the turn of the century to the present and studied the pecularity of the lesbian autobiography, said Klein. ‘‘Historically, Lesbian Lesbian Course in the closet writers would disguise them- selves heavily. Then when it became possible to be open, it sparked an explosion of lang- uage - a new way of speak- ing,’’ said Klein. is Money guaranteed the return of all money including the unin- sured balance of accounts. The C.D.I.C. insures all ac- counts to a maximum of $60,000. The D.C.S.S. has already received approximately $26,000 but a recent letter from the C.D.1.C. stated that 60 per cent of the balance (approximately $30,000) would be payed out sometime in the next two weeks: The remaining $20,000 plus any interest accrued before Sept. 1, 1985 won’t be arriving till after April 1, 1986. The loss of interest on the frozen funds has been esti- mated at over $1000. Day to speak Douglas College will be host to a conference entitled “Redefining work/ Redefin- ing employment’ on Nov. 23 and 24. The conference, presented by the Centre for Non-Trad- itional Unemployed, will in- clude college president Bill Day as a guest speaker’on the topic of ‘’The relationship between education and jobs.”’ As well a number of profes- sionals including a psychia- trist, labour lawyer, econo- mist and several consultants will speak. The C.N.T.U. has been described as a non-profit self- help organization whose members consist of profes- sional, technical, and white- collar workers seeking new employment. Conference fees are $20.00 for the unemployed and $40.00 for anyone with a job. Advance registration is re- quired and can be done by phoning 683-6405 or writing to C.N.T.U./Conference 85 609 Terminal Ave., Van- couver B.C. V6A 2M4. Political Party Provincial politicians threw a party at Douglas on Oct. 21 but the Socreds couldn’t make it. The political forum in the lecture theatre, held by the Defend Education Services Coalition and sponsored by the Douglas/Kwantlen Facul- ty Association, saw spokes- persons from three of the provincial political parties give speeches. The Socreds were noted by their absence. Mark Rose, provincial N.D.P. education critic and official opposistion member, was said to have generally decried the Socreds in his presentation. He did claim that a ‘‘broad general arts base is essential to any higher education.’’ Stan Shapiro, a provincial Liberal party member on faculty at S.F.U. called for more accessability in educat- ion, and more funding for English as a Second Lang- uage. As well, restoration of the Bursary program and a tuition freeze were stated as Liberal goals. Shapiro, a former Dean at McGill uni- versity would like to see a split in the provincial health/ education funding package to clarify where the money is going. : Peter Pollen, President of the B.C. Conservatives, said the liberal arts are ‘‘funde- mental to the core of any civilized society.’’ He claims “the crisis in the province is a crisis in management’’ and “it is manifested throughout the whole province.’’ Pollen said the provincial P.C. con- sider education a number one priority and that ‘’we either educate the young or there won't be a future.’’ He also called for ‘’decen- tralization of education’’ in the province with degree granting privileges given to some colleges. There was very little stu- dent turnout to the forum, with a mixture of faculty, administration, D.C.S.S. senate members and press making up most of the aud- ience.