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VANCOUVER [CUP] - Some University of B.C. engineer- ing students attacked a peace- ful group of protestors, most- ly women, demonstrating against the students’ annual Lady Godiva ride recently.

The engineering students shoved the 50 protestors, pelted them with snowballs, eggs and oranges and ripped up their placards. The signs said the annual event, a parade of engineers lead by a nude weman on a horse, is degrading to women.

One protestor, arts student Richelle Van Snellenberg, said the demonstrators tried to remain calm despite the hostile reception.

“We didn’t want a confron- tation. We just wanted to open people’s eyes,’’ she said. ‘‘We were prepared to stay calm because we wanted this to be a passive protest.’’

One woman in the group was struck in the face by a hard snowball and later taken to the campus health sciences

Spy service recruiting graduates

MONTREAL [CUP] -

Canada’s top-secret spy service wants to recruit uni- versity graduates, preferably arts majors, into its ranks.

The Canadian Security In- telligence Service is looking for graduates with political science and sociology back- grounds, a receptionist at CSIS’s Ottawa office said. ‘‘Languages are also good,’’ she said.

Most of the new spy ser- vice’s positions have been filled with people transferred from the RCMP security ser- vice. But ‘‘a lot of people stayed with the RCMP, so there are openings in every category,’’ she said.

The receptionist, who could not give her name, said the service wants recent univer- sity graduates to fill these slots, even though they won’t be recruiting ‘‘the way big companies used to do on campus and talk to students.”’

The former Liberal govern- ment invoked closure last spring to cut off debate and pass Bill C-9, creating the new spy service. CSIS is a civilian operation charged with ‘‘investigating threats to the security of Canada’’ and has no law enforcement pow- er.

Speaking. to the House of Commons justice and legal affairs committee last May, Ted Finn, who has since become CSIS director, said those who want to be spies must be 21 years or older, interested in a public sector

centre to have her bruised nose examined.

Engineering students, how- ever, denied they provoked the violence and that the Lady Godiva ride is degrading to women.

“One protestor pushed a trombone in one of the engi- neers’ faces, perhaps accident- ally, but I felt the engineer was justified in shoving the pro- testor back,’ said Rob Lazenby, an active member of the engineering undergrad- uate society.

Lazenby said the UBC engi- neers should not be criticized for holding the event because the ride is popular among students.

‘Personally | see no malice in it. The campus would be a lot quieter and the women protestors would not have anything to protest against if the event did not take place,’’ he said.

“We're not degrading wo- men. A healthy young lady riding a horse is not degrad-

ing.’

career, and have a university degree or equivalent.

“The individual ought to have an ability to communi- cate well verbally and in writing...and have a continu- ing interest in national and international affairs,’’ Finn told the committee.

Finn said applicants also needed ‘a great sensitivity to the whole issue of political advocacy and dissent, and the ability to function effectively as a member of a group,’’ in order to be able to effectively infiltrate organizations.

Gays need not apply. The RCMP does not hire gays, its commissioner Roger Sim- monds told the committee last year, because ‘‘there are few members of any police organization that are comfort-

UBC’s student council ex- ecutive, which has not yet made a statement on the incident, reacted angrily when they found out a council employee sat in the limousine which picked up the woman on the horse at the ride’s end. The employee is programs director Bruce Paisely.

“| think it was an extreme- ly gross action,’’ said out- going _—_ council president Margaret Copping. ‘‘His be- ing there makes it look like he was there in his capacity as a (council) employee.’’

Paisely, who arranged for the limousine pick-up through a friend, told a reporter to “f——— off’ when asked about his involvement.

“If you want to fight me, I'll fight you and I'll do it physically,’’ Paisely added.

Applied science —_ dean Martin Wedepohl, whose fac- ulty includes engineering, and administration president

, George Pederson were not

available for comment.

able at this moment in our history with people of that persuasion in their midst.’’ Finn said the CSIS would not refuse to hire gays, per se, but he told the committee “‘I suspect that sexual orien- tation, in the same way as debt loads or other kinds of behavioral factors, would be one factor in determining the overall suitability for employ- ment of an individual...’’ Graduates with unorthodox views also won’t get jobs. The House of Commons committee voted down an amendment to the bill which would have eliminated dis- crimination in hiring spies based on sexual or political preference. At that time, Con- servative MP John Fraser (Vancouver South) asked:

“How can you ask us not to discriminate on the basis of political belief when the pur- pose of these employees is to defend the constitution of Canada?’

Finn told the Globe and Mail recently that CSIS was organizing a campus recruit- ing network. A Montreal CSIS employee said she had not heard of the recruitment cam- paign, but said, ‘‘If you want to get a head-start on it I'll give you the address.’’

Norm Bright, who works for NDP MP _ Svend_ Robinson (Burnaby) said ‘‘the ambition of CSIS is to get rid of the police mentality. They want people with more liberal atti- tudes who can_ understand nuances.’’

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cruiting campus informants, Bright said.

The MacDonald Commis- sion on RCMP law-breaking, which eventually led to the creation of the CSIS, docu- mented a major network of campus informants set up by the RCMP in the 1960s, against the will of the govern- ment at that time. Testimony at the House committee im- plied CSIS plans a similar network.

A source who once worked as a civilian spy in Canada said the RCMP wants univer- sity graduates. ’’They have to start by using mounted po- licemen for continuity, but this force is not going to be dominated by the RCMP.

“They will be recruiting through the universities and business world,’’ the source said.

The source said John Starns, formerly RCMP com- missioner, told him CSIS al- ready has 4,000 applications on file.

The receptionist said the number of employees at CSIS is classified information, but ‘“‘there’s certainly less people than there were before be- cause of the change-over.’’