by Tamara Gorin

The Douglas College
Students’ Society finally
presented a united front in its
unanimous decision to
"condemn the publication and
distribution of the "hate
literature" posted on bulletin
boards throughout the New
Westminster campus of Douglas
College late Wednesday ,
November 28th.

For the second time in as
many weeks, posters damning
DCSS President Jaimie McEvoy
appeared on campus.

The typed pamphlets,
which allege McEvoy is
controlling the Society along
with "personal friends," and
“special interest groups” such as
"gays" and “feminists,” and
contain many errors in spelling
and grammar, are signed by
“concerned elected members of
the DCSS Representative
Committee."

There are no suspects as yet,
but McEvoy lodged an
individual complaint with the
New Westminster Police
Department. The DCSS filed its
own separate complaint, and the
Representative Committee
urged individuals named to do
so as well.

“As one of the victims of this
hate literature, I’m not going to
let the Students’ Society
Tepresent my own interests. I
‘don’t trust the members of the

 

 

Society to pursue the complaint
in the manner that I would," said
McEvoy. |

Douglas College
Administration discussed
ee action," according
to College President Bill Day.

Several Representative
Committee members were
named as being members of
McEvoy’s "small clique of
friends," and were attacked for
being members of ethnic
groups, women, homosexual or
politically aligned with the
NDP. -

"Calling me black and a
feminist isn’t the slightest insult
to me, so if they were trying to
insult me because of who I am, it
didnt’ work, because I am very
proud of who I am," said Donna
Rainford-Moore, a University
Transfer representative.

The notices allege McEvoy
has been "illegally" using DCSS
money to further the interests of
those named. DCSS staff were
also attacked, for “illegally
maintaining paid postions."

A first poster, directed only
at McEvoy, was distributed in
every classroom on campus two
weeks ago. In it, eee ae
record as President of the DCSS
was called into question.

"The same group of people
are behind both posters,” said
UN Club member, Imtiaz Popat.
“Language, spelling, people
attacked are all similar. It’s plain

hate literature."

There has beena severe split
in the DCSS since October, when
election results over the
postition of Treasurer were
appealled by Jennifer Peel. The
polarization in the Society has
resulted in two Representative
Committees being formed, with
the break off committee passing
a motion for an impeachment
referendum on December 10th.
The posters urge students
"impeach President Jamie [sic]
McEvoi [sic] December 10th."

The polling for the
impeachment never took place.
A second petion, decrying the
first, was circulated in early
December as well.

"Once you begin rumour
campaigns, and start making
allegations and personal attacks
as part of stategy, you have to
take personal responsibilty for
all of the repercussions of that
strategy when its used by
others," said McEvoy.

Ralph Jahn, newly elected
University Transfer
Representative, said the poster
was an attept to discredit
Representative Committee
members not mentioned. ~

"It’s obvious that some
people are being set up, like
myself, Marleen Lehti, Michael
Cook, Andrew Burton, and
Julian Smit," said Jahn, a
member of the break off
committee.

Library Removes Propaganda from Books

   

 

by Tim Crumley

An American-based

neo-Nazi group attempted to
organize support at Douglas
College last month.
Copies of a pamphlet from
the New Order, a fringe racist
hate group from Wisconsin,
were distributed in the College
library. The New Order is
connected with Aryan Nations,
whose underground action
group, the Order, assassinated
Denver radio broadcaster Alan
Berg in 1984.

The material was dicovered
when Jacquline Gresko, Arts &
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College, discovered the
materials placed in books in the
library.

Librarian Helene Rowan
removed the hate literature
immediately.

"We checked the books in
the History and Political Science
area involved on the shelves,"

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Rowan said. "We-have alerted + Nature .

staff to look for similar
materials."

The hate literature is also
being distributed in the New
Westminster area.

"There was distribution of a
four or five page document,
which was anti-Asian
immigration," said Randi-Lee
Taylor-Landry, representative
of the BC Organization to Fight
Racism. "A fear-mongering,
hate-mongering document
directed at Asian immigrants."

“That pamphlet has been
distributed to at least 100 cars in
the New Westminster area."

The pamphlet distributed at
Douglas says society is "a
degenerate system of rat-race
materialism, self-fixation,
drugs, pollution, race-mixing,
AIDS, filth, chaos, and
corruption.", and calls on people
to go to their organization "for a
rebirth of racial idealism and a
reverence for the eternal laws of

   

Jaimie McEvoy: disturbed, hoping for better this semester

"If you look at the last page,
it’ll say ‘concerned elected
members of the DCSS
Representative committee.’
Since they’re not named, people
are supposed to figure it out for

themselves. We're the obvious. ao

choices," Jahn said.

"It’s obvious that the poster
is from the inside, no one except
the DCSS_ Representative
Committee members would
know these things," said
Rainford-Moore.

"The people that did this
know who they are, and they
better believe that I won’t rest
until I find out who they are,"

said Rainford-Moore.
University Transfer
representative, Norman

Gludovatz, who was mentioned
several times in both posters for
being a "gay NDP member," said
he is "assigning blame to the
Society and to society as a

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The handouts were found in "If you eliminate ignorance
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Reich, Nazi Germany and
propaganda, white supremacy,
and Nazi voters.

Ina memo dated November
29, 1990, Vice-President Internal
Marleen Lehti said she was "
totally and utterly disgusted
with this type of attempt to
encourage hate."

"Iwould (sic) also like to
advise you that full criminal
charges will be laid when you
are found out," she wrote.

"If the parties responsible
are discovered to be members of
the students society; we promise
that the Douglas College
Student Society will take
disciplinary action against you.”

Sunera Hobani,
representative for Women of
Colour at SFU, said that
although this particular
situation is new, it doesn’t
surprise her.

   

happen," Gludovatz said.

Marlene Lehti, DCSS Vice
President internal, agrees with
Gludovatz.

photo by Alexandra Cordiero

"I don’t think there’s any

place in society for hate," she
said. "I agree with Norman - the
only way to stop these things
from happening is through
education."
Day is "horrified that
documents of such a repellant
nature" would appear on
campus.

"A crime has clearly been
committed which contravenes
public norms of good taste and
the criminal code," he said.

Though "reluctant to get
involved," Day said there is a
"possibility of bringing in the
authorities."

"The College got directly
involved when they locked the
[DCSS] President and the
executive out of their offices
when it was really none of their
business. The College has to
accept some responsibility
[becauseof this]," McEvoy said. .

McEvoy gained access to his»

office in the last week of
December, after negotiations
with Al Atikinson.

About 120 of the posters
were found and destroyed.

 

"The Ku Klux Klan were
recruiting at the barricades in
Chatiguay [during the Oka
crisis]," she said.

"There has been a growing
tide of racism in this country,
and especially after the
summer... we were all expecting
a backlash of some kind. They
are obviously trying to cash in
on this."

"Groups like the Aryan
Nations and New Order are
similar to the Ku Klux Klan in

what they try and do," said
Taylor-Landry.

"It doesn’t take a great many
recruits to have a great impact
on the community as far as
spreading fear is concerned,"
she said.

"It’s fear and intimidation
that these groups work by...
making people feel unsafe
walking down the streets, in
their own homes, with their
attacks and the other kinds of
things they do."

 

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