Other Press April 9, 1990 ~_ Other News UBC Considers Disciplining Engineers VANCOUVER (CUP) -- The administration has stopped collect- ——“inig-fees for its engineering students’ council, after President David Strangway said a council newsletter violated the University of British Columbia’s anti-dis- crimination policy. Strangway also asked the UBC discipline board to consider suspending the students who produced a recent edition of the "nEUSletter." The newsletter featured an "In- dian Application for Employ- ment." The *humour’ item opened by saying it was "not necessary to attach a photo since you all look alike." The "application" went on to ask applicants to choose which statement reflects their "ap- proximate estimate of income." They could choose from "welfare", "theft", "unemployment" and "beer bottles." "At first I felt profound shock and then hurt. I couldn’t believe this could happen in the 1990s," said Bev Scow, president of the Native Indian Student Union." And then anger set in." "[Degradation] is a tactic used to illegitimize the role of the first nations’ people," said Scow. "It’s political and cultural genocide." The Native students union is asking a student discipline board to fine the association $16,000 and to put the council under trusteeship of the UBC student council for a year. The student court’ case heard Death Threats Continued from page 4...Later the station got a threatening letter, along with a picture of a military weapon, added Gelineau. Another campus group also received damning, but not threatening messages. “Once in a while we get messages from people quoting the Bible, but never a threat," said Fred Swanevelt of Gays and Lesbians of McGill (GALOM). GALOM co-ordinator Kristopher Kinch concurred. "GALOM has had problems with vandalism this year -- our door and our poster- board have been defaced -- but we haven’t had any threats," he said. Kinch added that the threats against Head and Cooper were "out- rageous, and if this kind of thing is coming from within the university, the student body should not tolerate it." _ LAGEM is an advocacy and support group organized in February to address the lack of support for gay lesbian, and bisexual rights at McGill. © Ironically, they received the calls one day after a demonstration took place downtown deploring both homophobia that results in violence and AIDS-phobia that results in government neglect of the disease. arguments against the newsletter Monday. The prosecutors are as- king that the money from the fine be used for anti-discrimination programs, and that the people responsible for the news letter be suspended from school for 8 months. Sanders said the council ex- ecutive has decided to issue a letter of apology. Formal Complaint to be Made Against Administrator After weeks of deliberation over the alleged comments made by the senior administrator at Douglas Colleges’ site in Maple Ridge, the Lesbian\Gay\Bisexual Collective has asked the Maple Ridge member at large for the Douglas College Students’ Society to lodge a formal complaint with the College. Rick Carruthers and his secretary were involved in a num- ber of ongoing incidents regarding Food Continued from page 4.. But Kenniff was meeting with science and education researchers to look into increasing funding for science programs. . Protesters. circled around. the lounge tables chanting "So-so-so- solidarity", to the surprise of Kenniff’s guests. Other Letters A Quotable Quote "George Orwell in 1984, had it all wrong. He was too optimistic. He said that Big Brother would watch us through screens on our walls. That was no problem;. you could always hide from the cameras. The current horror is that we stick our amoeboid faces in front of the tube for six hours a day and suck in information that Big Brother is putting there." Timothy Leary Admin., Not Students, Homophobic Dear Other Press, Your headline "Homophobia Present at Maple Ridge Campus" (OP March 19) is quite offensive. At first glance, it implies that STU- DENTS here FEAR homosexuality (or that there is a problem). If the administration of this campus wants to demonstrate total ignorance with tasteless remarks, lethim do so on his own behalf. The narrowmindedness of one in- dividual does not speak for the stu- dents at Maple Ridge. Please get your headlines straight (no pun in- tended)! Children Need New ideas, Role Models I'd like to suggest to parents that they think about the literature they subject their children to in our elementary and junior high schools. They teach us that each story has an underlying conflict. The protagonist has a goal and the antagonist prevents them from at- taining it. The end result of this is always conflict. common themes in literature, they tell us are: man against man, man against nature and man against himself. then they give us some bullshit stories to il- lustrate these themes of conflict and rivalry. These themes are indeed very present in our everyday reality. In fact, our economic and political policies are based on these im- perialistic and dominating ideologies. I believe this aggressive and rivalistic mentality can be held ac- countable for all of the environ- mental disasters, mindless wars, and needless starvation that plague our world and threaten our very existence as a people on this planet. I would like to take this time now to urge you to STOP TEACH- ING IT TO YOUR CHILDREN! Now the terms protagonist and antagonist can be related to, respec- tively, "Good Guy" and "Bad Guy", which is a popular theme on television. If you think about it, I expect you will find this to be a strange judgement for anybody to make on someone else. After all, who really has the ability to judge another person? And didn’t STAR WARS teach us that deep down - inside, as with Darth Vader, everybody is good? A friend of mine’s Indian grandmother told her never to say “pad boy" to her kids. It’s always " a good boy doing bad things." This is a lesson that in my opinion, schools and television writers would do well to learn. Any book or television show that expresses these views, in my opinion, is un- suitable for a child who wants to grow up with values such as co- operation, love, sharing, caring, and fulfilment of potential. Since most all network television shows (except PBS, you know Sesame Street?) express these Good Guy/Bad Guy themes and are usually violent lessons in conflict, it may be desirable to disconnect these channels, as is possible on many home video systems. Give away your books with "bad guys” in them. Name withheld by request. Straight at Maple Ridge , posters for the Collective being torn down. Also, Angus Adiar, DCSS Maple Ridge Member at Large, has made allegations of a verbal altercation with both of them. "We want to deal with this in- cident in a fair, open way, and the only way to do that, is to go through the formal harrassment procedure that the college has in place," said Norman Gludovatz, DCSS Speaker and spokeperson for the Collective. Fight Brown said some of the stu- dents may have passed around "ceremonial bread," to all the guests. "The rector’s guests tried hard to keep their composure. Some looked studiously disinterested if somewhat pained," Brown said. Concordia security guards ap- peared minutes after the protesters occupied the lounge. They threatened to call the police, ac- cording to Brown. Concordia public relations of- ficer Diane McPeak said she told the students Kenniff wanted to meet with them when it became obvious they would not leave. "When they started throwing bread, I thought that something had to be done," McPeak said. "So I basically negotiated with them." Brown said students asked questions dealing with acces- sibility to post-secondary educa- tion and university underfunding. But according to group member Rebecca Kneen, Kenniff’s position did not change. : "He gave us his line about how tuition fees will be good for the university," Kneen said. "He hasn’t budged." About 15 Concordia students also staged an all-night "study-in" Mar. 25 in the university’s main library. "The idea was to stage an oc- cupation and get some work done at the same time," Brown said. "We’re prepared to boycott classes but we’re not going to chuck educa- tion out the window." The protesters arrived at 9 p.m. and refused to leave at closing time "They gave us permission to stay, which made things much easier. It would have been demoralizing, finishing our essays in a jail cell." The provincial government announced Dec. 19 it would be rais- ing fees to an average of $ 1240 per year by 1992. Hints for Meet- ing Les- -bians Ottawa(CUP) Hints for the Heterosexual Woman When Meet- ing A Lesbian 1. Do not run screaming from the room. This is rude. 2. If you must back away, do so slowly and with discretion. Atall costs, do not grimace. 3. Do not assume that she is attracted to you. 4. Do not assume that she is not attracted to you. 5. Do not assume that you are not attracted to her. 6. Do not expect her to be as excited about meeting a heterosexual as you may be about meeting a lesbian. She was probab- ly raised with them. 7. Do not immediately start talking about your boyfriend or husband in order to make it clear that you are straight. She probably already knows. 8. Do not tell her that it is sexist to love only women, that people are people, and that she should love everyone. Do not tell her that men are as oppressed by sexism as women, and that women should help men fight their oppression. 9. Do not invite her someplace where there will be men unless you tell her in advance. She may want to choose if she wants to be in a group with men. 10. Do not ask her how she got this way. Instead ask yourself how you got that way. 11. Do not assume that she is dying to talk about being a lesbian 12. Do not expect her to refrain from talking about being a lesbian. 13. Do not trivialize her ex- perience by assuming that it is a bedroom issue only. She is a les- bian 24 hours a day. 14. Do not assume that be- cause she is a lesbian she wants to be treated like a man. 15. If you are tempted to tell her that she is taking the easy way out, think about how easy it is. 16. Do not stop breathing. Les- bianism is not contagious, nor is it caused by a virus.