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VANCOUVER [CUP] - Uni- versity of B.C. nursing stu- dents have launched a pro- test against Playboy mag- azine’s cover story on the nursing profession.

The nurses say posing in

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aerobic exercise suits and lying coyly in a bed of grass won't help the profession gain respéct despite the articles content.

The nurses sent a protest letter signed by 150, to Playboy’s advertisers, local newspapers and_ various nursing associations.

““As University students, we are trying to better state the image of nursing as a profession,’’ said Sue Rob- erts, fourth year class pres- ident. ‘‘Playboy’s article is a perfect example of stereo-

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typing and it may contribute to general ignorance of what nurses really do.’’

The article says nurses are vocal in their demand for more respect and _ less stereotyping but the UBC group objects to Playboy’s methods.

“I have mixed feelings about the article. It did bring out a lot of good points. If we took away the pictures, would we disagree with it as

much as we do?’’ said Jacquelynn McGuiness, nursing 4,

Playboy also briefly deals with the ‘‘stressful and demanding’’ nature of the profession. They cite deal- ing with death, being attack- ed by a patient and the exist- ing sexual tensions between doctors and nurses as the

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main examples of stress.

But the UBC nursing stu- dents say those elements are not the most important causes of stress.

The letter states, ‘‘Many times the stress experienced by a nurse is a result of lack of control...that is why we as nurses are striving to achieve unity as a group.”’

The nursing students also objected to Playboy’s con- centration on the physical beauty of nurses and the overt sexist message con- tained in the article.

Playboy says: — ‘‘that (nurses are) beautiful is almost secondary once you get to know them. But the fact is that they are. And they don’t mind you know- ing it.’”’

War Monging 101 at UBC?

VANCOUVER [CUP]- Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and the former Ugandan prime minister Idi Amin could be hired to teach at the University of B.C. if they were academically qualified, a UBC professor says.

Phil Resnick, a UBC politi cal science protessor, charg- ed that a number of UBC professors were guilty of “immoral if not amoral be- havior’ by collaborating in the hiring last summer of Polish intellectual and head of the government-control- led Marxist-Leninist Insti- tute, Jerry Waitr.

Waitr’s appointment to teach two political science courses prompted protests led by the UBC Solidarity study group. A picket line was conducted outside his first class, and an informa- tion evening on academic repression in Poland was

held.

‘Personal friendship per- haps allowed (the depart-

ment) to ignore the moral and political implications (of hiring Waitr),’’ Resnick charged.

But professor Jean La- Ponce defended Waitr’s ap- pointment to UBC.

“Waitr is an outstanding scholar, and a very good friend of 15 years,’’ he said.

LaPonce outlined Waitr’s controversial political his- tory noting that Waitr sup- ported the 1968 student movement and opposed the Gierek regime in Poland.

““Waitr was always op- posed to Solidarity because he believed liberalization was possible in Poland from above, not from below,’’ he said.

“The Hungarian model was the only possibility for change according to Waitr,”’ added LaPonce.

Political science graduate student Bill Tieleman sup- ported Resnick’s claim that Waitr was a ‘“‘high profile defender of academic re- .

pression.”’

“Our objection was that Wiatr left the academic community to join the gov- ernment as head of the Marxist-Leninist institute which falls under direct control of the Polish central committee,’’ said Tieleman, who is also a member of the UBC Solidarity group.

“Wiatr can’t claim aca- demic impartiality as an excuse for his political ac- tions. Wiatr has to take re- sponsibilty for his govern- ment’s actions,’’ he said.

Resnick added: ‘‘We should think twice before inviting scoundrels like Wi- atr to UBC. There are thou- sands of other Polish intell- ectuals more deserving of our lavish hospitality.’’

““We should make explicit our present implicit criteria of political acceptability and use that in deciding on invitations of politically re- vulsive academics,’’ conc- luded Resnick.

CFS Makes Noise

While students at Douglas College were wrestling with aGeneral Strike, Social Ser- |

by Sandra McMillan

vices Representative Paula Gledhill and Student Society Vice President Gord Bryan spent an interesting week in Ottawaat the Canadian Fed- eration of Students 5th Semi Annual General Meeting.

From November 7 to 14 the 2 DCSS members atten- ded meetings and discussed student issues; funding, stu- dent loans,quality of educa- tion.

Said Gledhill, we are‘ ‘for- tunate to be members of the federation.(I have seen) what can be accomplished by brainstorming...getting together. Everything can be improved...quality of educa-

tion, services to students.”’

Gledhill went on to des- cribe the results of a visit to Parliament during which the 111 delegates were able to speak to MPs regarding important issues like the deterioration of government funding tor post secondary institutions.

Local NDP MPs Pauline Jewett and Svend Robinson were helpful saying that they supported the CFS directives. However, Gled- hill said that talking to the Conservative MPs was ‘‘like talking to a brick wall.’’ They were unsympathetic to student problems, she said.

The Conservative MPs were more inclined to listen though when they realized that the students repres- ented by the delegates add- ed up to an awful lot of

votes.

Crooks and Loans

ANTIGONISH- Mike (not his real name) recieves both a Nova Scotia bursary and a Canada Student Loan.

by Kevin McGilly reprinted from X-Weekly Canadian University Press

He admits he need the money.

Mike’s father own’s his own company and so he plows all his profits ‘‘back into the company’’ and de- clares no personal income. This means when the gov- ernment asks Mike what his parents make, and whether they can make a ‘‘parental contribution’ to his educa- tion costs, he says his father doesn’t have an income.

Mike’s family is definitely middle class.

When Mike fills out the application forms for loans and bursaries, he does what the government suggests and claims he only saved 40 per cent of his summer earnings. In fact he saves a lot more.

doesn’t

Finally, when the govern- ment asks Mike what kind of savings he has, Mike only tells them how much money he has in three bank ac- counts.

Mike has four bank ac- counts, and not surprisingly, the one he neglects to men- tion has the largest balance.

What does Mike do with his bursary money? Over the last two years, he has bought himself an impres- sive stereo system.

And what does he do with the loans? That’s what the fourth bank account is for.

What about the others who can’t go to university because they didn’t get a loan? ‘‘If someone else were doing it,’’ Mike says, “‘I would say it’s unfair. But I don’t give a shit until I get out of here.’’

Mike isn’t doing anything most people wouldn’t do. In the case of student aid, what one person gets and doesn’t need, can deprive someone who really needs it.