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Notices? We don’t need no stinking notices.

Surprise! It’s the Annual General Meeting of the Douglas College Students’ Society!

If you didn’t know that, don’t worry. Nobody else did either.

Well that’s not completely true. Your fun, freewheeling representatives knew. Why don’t they wantanyoneelse to know? Why? Coulditbe that they wish to only serve their own interests?

No. Not the righteous and pure people we let get elected by not caring or giving a shit. Why would a group of people who. have created a lovely little power clique seek to bypass their last form of accountabilty? The answer escapes all but the most moronic mind.

Now, let’s be clear about what is legally required notice for one of these meetings. Three notices are

ired. And it is supposed to be two weeks' notice.What little notice we have been given was only a week tops, by our count, and we had to dig to find out when the meeting was before we realised we'd

April 22, 1992

Students Annual Meeting

been fucked over. Oh well. They say they love us. 3! Two, count em two, notices of the AGM have been a posted. One has some information about the meeting See no 4

but little details: like, for instance, time, date and place seem to be absent. Then there is the second notice, an agen da 3

informative masterpiece which simply says, ‘Student General Meeting' — and that’s it. Yup, not even an agenda.

Well, that's OK. Every government has a hidden agenda, don’t they?

The big questions here are where the fuck is the

agenda? What the fuck is the agenda? Don’t worry though

— bet on it.

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April 16, 1992

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Staff This Issue

Yeehaw ! the last day of classes and the Opressed are still in action till the end. Wemadesome positive changes. For thebetter? Well this year hasn’t been so bad. An if you don’t like us, that’s your problem. While Matt Martin decides that screaming across the room is the daffodils grow where they hide, Katherine Montagu flows in and out like the tide. Dawn Agno was here beating Haroon Khan severe. Jud was a stud smoking a hookah with moths Tim Crumley played Fugazi and started to mosh. Angus Adair grew facial hair and shot hockey balls at the sky.Earl looked on and just asked “why?” Imtiaz Popat showed up during a “murder in the trailer park” and Trevor Macneil was lost in the

dark.M Maenling thought she heard “Schwing! and in the face of all this Brad Mosure lost hiscom . Phil Dobrikin drove his little pile of tinand went to get Steve So who was almosta noshow. Tasker-Hilary,

arrived at an hour wee and when all was said and done all agreed it was

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Other Letters

= yurhilaetherods thaeailbeavenin We're a trashy,

pathetic, biased rag

To the persons at the OP who say they represent the voice of the student body. 1am writing this letter to inform you that you do not, I repeat, do not represent me. Your words of profanity, your ignorant,

ak Sood ieatbeneare not mine.

I as a student of this college resent any personal affiliation or association with your outrageous, pathetic, biased YES BIASED toilet ee trashy rag. lama woman who

eves in the right of individual opinion and the freedom to express that opinion, but it must be made perfectly clear : = audiences who owns that o

I have Dosti porentied by the vulgarity you use and your anti- heterosexual, rantings and ravings. In your last edition, you suggested that it was ok for a lesbian to call herself a dyke, but it wasn’t ok for “a straight” to use the term. Well, person-editor / writer havenews for you. If you as a person want respect from others you'd better start, by respecting yourself.

The issue here isn’t your sexual preference, its the fact that you are sending out mixed messages. The point is, practice what you preach and set good examples asany proud, independent, well adjusted individual would regardless of race, religion, or sex.

Derogatory terms are initiated from within, and must be abolished inside our hearts and minds, and not spoken from our lips. Tolerance for all the homosexual, the heterosexual, the bisexual, the lesbian, and all others,- of all creeds and denominations. The biggest obstacle we as humans have, is to overcome our fears whichstem fromignorance, lack of information, and pre- conceived ideas of other ways of life.

ladvocate thatwedonotrun the”

world in fear and oppression as our grandparents did and our parents are. Only we right now can make a difference, only wecan havea say in what is to come, only we as individuals can make our choices, all we have to do is care...and care enough...to speak up. Karyn Wilde Douglas College Student

Violent outbreak on

campus caused by americans

A (sic) incidenthappened the otherday that has me concerned. As a matter of fact, the incident should have everyone concerned, not only at the College, but also in the City, and in the whole Coun

The particular incident happened in class when a student pulledaknifeand uttered threatening remarks to another student. The eventsleading up totheincident,and the people involved, need not be discussed. But, in the bigger picture the fact thata weapon was produced forsuchatrivialevent,inmy opinion, is rather scary. We are turning to violent methods to solve our problemssimilarto the United States.

Being rightacross the border we have no choice and must see and hear cultural barrage a from the United States. ve the choice to dis: d ie

We sit in front of the television and view a wide representation: of Americanculture.Soda pop,scandal, politics, and gossip talk shows are just a few examples.

Whatismostdisturbing though,

is the way in which American televisionand movies depicts violent

crime. Try and name an: American - show where people are not shot gun-toting good or bad guys. An

many times shooting is seen as the only way to solve the problems; whatever the situation. Takealookat the murder and violence statistics in American cities and you can deduce the powerful effect television and movie violence has on American culture. ;

Our option is to avoid sucked i into | the vortex of iat American culture by avoiding it. True, violence is inall cultures, and it has been around a long time. But, how often do you see foreign films or televisionshows, eminent vehicles of foreign cultural ideals, full of

violence?

The result seems to be that cities in most of the World, including Canada, are much safer that cities in The United States. I have been to many of the larger cities in Canada and Europe and not once have been anxious walking or adh public transportation atany time of the day. Nor have I been worried dealing with people in these cities.

owever,I would noteventhink of angen American city letalone utilizing ublic transportation. And I rT Soaid think twice before dealing with anybody in The United States.

Althought the knife incident is only one event, and not directly related to The United States’ city problem, it is disturbing none the less. If we in Canadian society keep accepting thecultureof America, our barriers will soon break down and the negative influence will permeate deeper.

Soon we will be using violence and threats to solve even the most trivial lems. The result will be cities that are war zones. Hence, Canada must avoid the hooks of American culture before the trend becomes irreversible.

Jeffery Beglaw UT - Arts