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Stand up and
be counted!

It is so easy to criticize and place blame for our problems on
others, often the government is the brunt of much of that criti-
cism.

Tt doesn’t really matter whether it is the municipal, provin-
cial or federal government, they all receive a good deal of criti-
sm from all of us.

Often that criticism is warranted, in recent months it has
also been necessary.

But one thing we should all keep in mind is that our system
of govemment is based on active participation by the people.

‘That means that each and every one of us must do our part,
even if it is in a small, seemingly insignificant manner.

When an election rolls around, we must make that extra
effort to get to the polling station.

Right now, that effort comes by way of participating in Cen-
sus Day. Stand up and be counted, it really is more important
than you might think.

By dutifully filling out, and retuming, the questionnaires
brought to your home you can take an active part in running
our government. It is vital that each and every one of us be
counted by Statistics Canada, failing to do so costs the provin-
cial ge and ulti the taxp alot of money.

Estimates are that for every person not counted, the provin-
cial government loses $600 per person, per year, in money that
would normally go towards education, community health,

iP ion and public services.

In a day and age where we all feel that taxes are too high,
here is a chance for each of us to do our part to keep provincial
taxes down, =

Please ber that all inf i ided to Stati:

The use and abuse of music ‘

William Congreve, the 17th-cent laywright,
said it first: “Music has charms to a eee
age breast.” By the way, it’s breast, not the often-
misquoted beast. But I shouldn't be so prissy. The
new use — and abuse — of music seems to make no
distinction between the two, and here's my evi-
dence.

Ron
Jeffels

Syndicated
Columnist

The police in New Westminster have just dis-
covered that the playing of bland, serene, soporific
music at SkyTrain stations has markedly reduced
the illicit traffic in drugs. Seems the pushers find
that it's easier to flog acid, angel dust and bobo
bush when the ing sax sets off explosions in
the blood and the beat of the bass poaches the
brain.

But when it’s Strauss and Stravinsky at the sta-
tion, users take a different train to Nirvana, Sud-
denly they're calm, placid, serene, They wave
imaginary batons at spectral orchestras, castigate
the string section for acts of assassination and wipe
anxiety away with Pavarottian handkerchiefs, They
just won't buy — with or without the GST. A tri-
umph for Congreve and his contribution to the psy-

chiatric art? I think not,

There ought to be an Act of Pasliament and a
special branch of CSIS to Protect me against the
brutal assaults on my Person‘by intrusive, all-per-
vading music, I can never escape it, never: in malls,
stores, elevators, aircraft, offices, even in the last,
the only asylum for the male in a non-sexist uni-
verse ~ the restroom,

And why can't radio and television flog the
curative and cmancipating powers of their bran
flakes by using straight, spoken, monosyllabic
Prose? Something that even I can understand. After
all, I’ve been speaking prose for years,

But no, it has to be jingled and jangled, set to
Heavy Metal, and then screamed at me by drop-
outs from the Julliard School of Music. I consider
the singing commercial the worst visitation upon
mankind since the potato famine in Ireland or the
bubonic plague in Europe, You remember the
bubonic plague. That, too, was engendered, bome
and transmitted by small furry rodents that
squeaked and squealed,

Or try making a telephone call these days. You
know: the electronic device meant to conduct vow-
els and consonants that have some sense down a
wire to some other sentient creature, You still can’t
escape the oboes, the flutes and the trombones.

When the Lily Tomlin voice announces with
infinite regret and measured chagrin that Mr. Perfi-
do is on another time, it’s up musict By the way he
isn’t on another line, Mr, Perfido is having a quick
nip at the office bottle. It’s been a rough day, what
with the downtum in the price of pork bellies, a

new transmission for the BMW and the threatened
divorce. You'd nip too. 1a

And it's always music you don't like. It's anath-’
ema to you, That's a law of nature, It's soothing,’

Wednesday, May 29, 1991

The Castlegar Sun

Page 7A

_ Letters to the Editor
EET students discouraged by cuts

i
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To the Editor:
t, By now, the news of the pro-
gtam cancellations from Selkirk
College has been made public. We,

a transfer a possibility. Also,
i so as to be

also to try and save the Electronics
i program at Selkirk but

completed by now. All our sugges-
tions were discarded and we were
d that diess of what

the former el
h I are di

the already on

lulling, cajoli syrupy, sacchari
Music that runs its fingers through troubled hair:
and pats a feverish brow. a

Music that says: ‘There, there! Mummy knows.!
You're mad as hell about the surcharge on last’
months’ bill and the one before that. Do not’
despair, little one. Mummy will ease the pain. Trust?
Mummy. Trust Mr, Perfido, too. By the way, he'd‘
be better off with a divorce. I ought to know. I'm!
the corespondent.” E td

I know of only one incident of telephone music’
actually fitting the mood and the moment. A guy!
calls Revenue Canada. He's put on hold and then.':!
« music up: a big-band recording of It’s a Sin to
Tell a Lie, I read that somewhere but I still think’
it’s apocryphal.

Boom cars coddle my brains at intersections.
Ghetto blasters turn sand into cement on my!
favorite beach. Boeing 747's play The Dead March’
from Saul on take-off for Toronto these days, and’
you can mi a three-inch with the’
emanations from those disco dives along Yonge,
Street. ©

T had a mystical experience the other day: I’
heard. .. I heard. . . the sound of silence! My wife’
told me it was just another of my senile musings ~'
yet again.

RR. Jeffels is a Richmond freelance writer and
former principal of The Open Learning Institute. .,

Siings
and
arrows

The only form of racism which is
really out of style today is white
racism, that is, any kind of preferen-
tial treatment for or opinion of, the
white race.

Other no less overt expressions of
racism can be safely uttered.

That racism which was expressed
by native leader Bill Wilson a few
weeks ago, for instance, when he
opined that the Indians would have
been wise to slaughter the first white
settlers that arrived in North America
has attracted hardly a murmur of
Protest from those quarters which nor-

mally watch out for racist comments.

Equally, the concept of affirmative
action, wherein quotas of jobs are set
aside for racial minorities without
regard to qualification, is a form of
discrimination against white people
that is heartily endorsed by our own
federal government.

Nigel

q Hannaford
Syndicated
Columnist

Tt was thus no surprise to hear that
Mr Mulroney addressed a meeting of

At first blush, that may not sound
like a racist statement. However, pic-
ture Mr Mulroney speaking to a
WASP-ish gathering and declaring
that be was enthusiastically trying to
encourage more immigration from
northem Europe and then imagine the
barrage of criticism that would follow
his ‘racist’ comments,

Elsewhere in the world, one sees
the devastating suffering caused by
unbridled racism, as Jew and Arab,
Mashona and Matabele, Tamil and
Sinhalese, Serb and Croat, Moslem
and Hindu take each other by the
throat while a dozen other less publi-
cized resentments smolder on, await-
ing their moment to blaze forth as

i ide. It is th
entirely laudable that the Canadian

's this
week and declared his warm support
for increased immigration from Hong
Kong.

“Canada is a Pacific Rim country,”
be told his audience. :

having once taken it

On the other hand, if its efforts to
do so become unfair to that portion of
the population which is still the major-
ity, namely those who are of European
descent, it will ultimately fail. 4

Mr Mulroney is eloquent in court:
ing the ethnic vote, but would be wise
to affirm the tolerant but increasingly
restive white voter for which the
Reform Party is starting to have 4
growing appeal. We also hope some
day to hear a statement from the
prime minister that Canada is anxioud
to accept immigrants not merely from
the Pacific Rim, but from its tradition!
al sources, which seem to be much
under-appreciated these days. 1

If we are a Pacific Rim country!
we are also an Atlantic Rim country.

seo iT

Not being a smoker, the added tax

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upon itself in the sixties to sub
ly alter the country’s racial texture -
the matter was never voted upon -
* should take some steps to promote
harmonious relations between groups.

on by Victoria is
a matter of indifference. I cannot belp
but suspect, however, that those who

: will be the last to abandon tobacco will

be those who can least afford it.» — *

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GAM CHRIS

By Don Addis

THE CONSERVAT!

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Now THA WHAT I CALL
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Bad news overshadows good news

Tt was a good news/bad news kind
of week with, as usual, the bad news
ing positive d

on this battered planet.

People ask why the media have
paid so much attention to the bad
news — the assassination of Rajiv
Gandhi, After all he was just another
Third World politician, and an opposi-
tion politician at that.

Contrast that coverage with the
space afforded Statistic Canada’s
report that the worst of the i

people lynched him.

(He'll undoubtedly feel right at
home in Zimbabwe, formerly Rhode-
sia, with Robert Mugabe, that Com-
monwealth leader who is such a great
defender of democracy. Of course
who are we to talk, we've got “Fast”
Mo al-Mashat, on our visitors’ list.)

Surely the good news from Ger-
many, the arrest of the communist
thug, former East German Prime Min-
ister Willi Stoph is as important as
Gandhi's murder/

(Willi was “just following orders”
when he told border guards shoot-to-
kill people uying to scale the Berlin
wall).

The answer is yes, it is all good
and important news, but there is a crit-
ical subtext to the Gandhi murder that
explains why it got so much space in
the papers. :

Politicians here are to

seems to be behind us and the UN’s
conclusion that after Japan, Canada is
the best place in the world in which to
live, '

Or in international news, the long
overdue overthrow: of Col. Marxist
dictator of Ethiopia ‘who packed his
Guccis and fled before his starving

speak about it, but they and the media
have been transfixed by Gandhi's
murder, because deep down they fear
it could happen here.

Security officials here shuddered
when Prime minister Brian Mulroney
reminded Canadians that he and Rajiv
Gandhi had become close friends.

Pre 9 | a Oe ce

At a time when leaders of black
Commonwealth nations were frustrat-

they all face. He represented the

ed by British Prime

‘West's best hope for keeping India on
e di

Thatcher’s refusal to impose sanctions
on South Africa, Gandhi and Mul-
Toney had worked as a team to pres-
sure Thatcher and keep the rest of the
commonwealth united.

No-one wants to go on the record,
but privately they point to the Air
India bombing; the shooting of a visit-

th ic road and out of the
hands of i

To the leaders of the industrial
democracies — Bush, Major, Mul-
roney — Gandhi was a “western
man.” A man who understood what
democracy and free enterprise could
do for his people, and how little is to
be gained by the kind of religious fun-

ing Indian and

unrest among the extremist elements
in the Indian community; as reasons
why they don’t take Mulroney's safe-
ty for granted.

Gandhi often wore a bullet-proof
vest when he campaigned. So.did
Ronald Regan. Mulroney doesn't do
that here, but his routine security.

which has swept so
id.

con-

sumers of Canadian wheat. With

Canadian assistance, India has

become, self sufficient in grain, and
vibrant.

are more

for any of his predecessors.
Only the handful of national Iead-
ers can understand the anxiety which

His death leaves India drifting, on
the one hand tugged by the old ways,

must be present when a p
faced with a crowed, plunges in'shak-
ing hands — as US President Lyndon
Johnson used to say, “pressing the
flesh." J

But Gandhi's death did more than
remind other politicians of the dangers

on the other beckoned i
dream of b leg i aes
military super-power,

The future of 850 million Indians
— the world’s largest democracy,
hangs in the balance. ‘ :

Mike Duffy is host of Si i=
dononCIv. . id wy ioe

aged by the decision to terminate
our program effective immediately,
This means that these students (sec-
ond year) who have two full years
remaining and the third year stu-
dents with only four months

i) mpmaining must find another place

} te finish the program. Now this ‘all
| doesn’t sound so bad what with the
, college offering to help relocate
these students. The problem lies in
the fact that no other course in BC

stream would be allowed to com-
plete the program. It comes as
somewhat of a surprise to this stu-

to no avail. I personally have spo- decision.
ken to former graduates who are

appalled at the treatment of Selkirk
students, This college bas run this

to accept without negotiation and
we will fight this unreasonable

Yours truly,

Rich Aitzetmueller,
Spokesman for third year EET
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‘We feel that waiting until the mid-
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dent that out of all the
affected by this cut in funding, the
electronics students are the only
ones not being allowed to finish
their program. I offer some possi-
ble explanations... Is it possible that
because of the minimal number of
electronic. students that it is more
cost effective to replace us and fill
our cl: with students from

f course. Have we wasted two and

overfilled program? Is it possible

that Selkirk Colloge is just simply

saying, when the tough gets going
soe Quit?

T submit that we were given a

i the i Leo

one-half years and many
of dollars?
« Let's step back for a moment. In
September 1990, the same possibil-
ity of cancellation existed. At this
;; time,t he students propesed a solu-

tion, actually many solutions, rang-
; ing from matching our program to
“ that of other schools so as to make

y pf
Perra, the principal Mal Stelek and
the program chairman Wayne
Chernoff that we would have the
opportunity for an education.
Throughout this past school year,
Wayne Chemoff has acted com-

mendably on our behalf to not only
let us complete our education, but

“cancel the p: lye
is simply unfair and we will not
take this lying down!!! y

We propose solutions...We will
ueed two teachers, one classroom,
five complete sets of instruments
and through responsible organiza-
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or write Leo Perma t the college and
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This is something that we refuse

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Who do we trust?

~) To the Editor:

n. Deciding which college to attend is one of life’s major decisions. Many
factors need to be addressed... What courses are offered, what are the
teachers like, is it in my hometown. When I made my decision I believed it
to be a good one. So, I moved from Ontario to BC to attend Selkirk Col-
(-Jege here in Castlegar. The program was challenging, the teachers were
excellent and I found myself making Castlegar my hometown. Then a cou-
pile days ago because of reasons no one really knows about, all this was
gone, The Chairman of the Board, Elizabeth Fleet and her aides put many
good programs on the chopping block and one of them was mine. Now I

have no education and no reason to stay in Castlegar. : .
n If you have been considering Selkirk College for this coming Septem-
r, it is in my opinion that you seriously ask yourself these questions. Can

d they'd com-

plete mine. Can Selkisk drop my program with no waming or considera-
tion for me as a student? Selkirk has left me with no options at all.
From one student to another, I hope your decision tums out better than

Sincerely,
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