\ MOA fbr a bee WEDNESDA 75 Cents oe Underdog Otters do OK Moose hunting |restricted ~~ - AS 1 Top students reap rewards ..B3 Stlepa: a ews Adventures in reading . .. BS NEWS BRIEF IRC rules strike vote invalid A strike vote taken June 19 by union employees at Celgar Pulp Co. was ruled invalid Saturday by the Indus- trial Relations Council, a union spokesman said earlier today. “it’s because (the IRC) says we haven't officially pre- sented Celgar with the (negotiating) agenda and so Cel- gar hasn't had an opportunity to review it,” said Cal Him, spokesman for the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada, Local 1. “But Celgar has admitted they do have a copy of the agenda,” he added. P Celgar officials could not be reached for comment, Him said the IRC ruling is unofficial until the union is notified in writing, but nonetheless “it means that we can- not take any strike action:‘now whatsoever.” The union's contract expired June 30. “It's a very technical point...Celgar is definitely taking a hard line on this,” he said. “They haven't moved on the local issues, which we are still continuing to try to negoti- ate. The last proposal was May 31 but they said that was as far as they could go.” The union's lawyer is considering appealing the IRC tuling. QUOTE OF THE WEEK “There's been a lot of discussion about style and charisma versus substance ... now is the time for substance.” — Socred Caucus chairman Nick Loenen_on leadership hopeful Norm Jacobsen Tonight: Clear with lows near.14C. Thursday: Sunshine and very warm. Highs near 32C. The out- look is for clear, skies with ~ Student housing nearer College gets approval to borrow $1.95 million By CasNews Staff Construction of student resi- dences at Selkirk College could begin as early as January after the college got the word last week;that the B.C government has approved its loan applica- tion. | The announcement that the college had received approval to . borrow $1.95 million to con- struct the 100-unit,2,055- square-metre facility was made June 28 by Advanced Education, Training and Technology Minis- ter Peter Dueck. College President Leo Perra said the amount was exactly what the college requested. Considering the recent pro- gram cuts at the college Perra said the money for the residence is “from capital funds and even if we had the option, we're serv- ing more students” by building the residence. Also “the loan has to be repaid and we can’t do that with more programs. The rent from the residence will help repay the loan” which is to be paid over a 20 to 25 year period, Perra said. Perra said the student resi- dence would make the college more attractive to out-of-town enrolment and it would be “a plus for the college in the long term.” The full-time student more than 1,000 in 1990 and is expected to continue to grow during the 1990s.. “This building will alleviate the shortage of student accom- modation that has developed due to the strong of the Castlegar community,” Dueck said. “Over 80 per cent of the stu- dents at Selkirk College are from outside the area and there are about 100 students from abroad, so additional on-campus edation ts crucial,” said tion on the Castlegar campus has ‘risen from 717 in 1985 to ~Nelson-Creston MEA Howard Dirks... s there Tuesday afternoon. COOLING OFF AT THE PARK With the temperature pushing 32C over the past couple of days Syringa Creek Provincia! Park was the place. Pah ned some rays and just generally have a good time as friends Darla Leiding (left) and Judy Closkey, and a handtul of reg a Science maverick live By BARBARA TANDORY Special to the Castlegar News Harry Jukes still keeps the notes from a “lecture he attended as a young instructor at Selkirk College in 1974 — when the visiting professor was Immanuel Velikovsky, the great scientist whose genius continues to haunt modern science even after his death. Easily the most illustrious visitor in the college’s 25 year history, Velikovsky, a giant a follower of Velikovsky, except to give him : ae an . credit for op up tradi with innovative thinking. As Jukes noted: “I don’t think it matters whether he was right or wrong. It was sim- Simil ply that he tried to answer some that most scientists tried to side-step.” CASNEWS FEATURE of science who worked with Freud and Ein- stein and was a great scholar in Biblical and other classical studies. At that time, modern astronomy had already vindicated some of Velikovsky’s dar- ing theories — he had said that the temper- ature of Venus was boiling hot while other scientists maintained it was lower than Earth’s temperature, until Mariner IT mea- sured it at 315C. But Velikovsky’s treat- ment by the scientific community left him an embittered man. Jukes said he found the Russian Jewish born scientist, then an old man living and working in the United States, showing the strain of 20 years of enforced seclusion after his book, Worlds in Collision, came out in 1950. “He struck me as a very cynical person of his tr by the scientifi community,” Jukes recalled. Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan, for exam- ple, has made it part of his career to defend modern science against Velikovsky's theo- ries of Earth’s history, only grudgingly knowledging his contributi As an instructor, Jukes digresses in the some . Highs near 300. The Of precipitation is zero tonight and 10 per cent on Thursday. ©. * b e to talk about Velikovsky, whose theories of cataclysmic events in the plane- tary system in biblical times were found to be heretical, unscientific and certainly unorthodox. Velikovsky’s theories are still open to con- ay, as Jukes points out. And he is mot Jukes stresses this point in his lectures. “These (theories) are all open to question still, but they’re all worthy of consideration.” Velikovsky was laughed at for saying there was a magnetic field on the Moon, he notes “until astronauts landed on the Moon.” Velikovsky remains a nemesis for many in the scientifi ity, although others consider him one of the system-builders of contemporary science. And Jukes feels this is how science works — slowly. “Most people will not agree with Velikovsky even now but they will submit that there were periods of catastrophic changes,” Jukes says. The atom was actually.at the heart of the debate b likovsky and blish ment scientists. Physicists accepted the idea that the atom is built like a solar system but stuck firm in their belief that planets are not like the jumping electrons. As one critic of Velikovsky put it, “We don't read in the morning newspapers that Mars leaped to the orbit of Saturn.” Velikovsky — who in fact believed that Mars jumped out of its orbit, in 747 B.C. — argued that it could and did h: % “The solar-system is actually built like an atom,” he wrote. “Only in keeping with smallness : with sientific backgrounds, ‘Jukes, are open to the idea that human consciousness might be subject to the same processes; that the human race might make a sudden great leap iti consciousness, that some are calling the coming of the New Age. A man 6f quiet convictions, Jukes paints out that already there exists a vast under. ground of people who meditate and live their lives in accordance with spiritual ideals Laboratory research has proved that the human mind is capable of dream telepathy and other modes of extrasensory perception that were for ages at the core of native peo ple’s belief system, says Jukes who lived among the Chilcotin Indians of B.C. and was impressed with their abilities of extrasenso- ry communication. When a close relative died, they knew it without the telephone. In science, they call it crisis telepathy “There's been a lot of ESP experiments and it hasn’t changed anything,” Jukes not ed. “Because to accept new ideas, people have to throw out their basis of belief, and people are scared. “This happens with just plain science. If something, or someone, upsets the apple cart it usually takes a generation for (the idea) to find acceptance.” As Jukes knows, this happened with Velikovsky and his Visionary ideas. The great thinker’s experience led him to the pessimistic idea that the human race had place many times a second, whereas in accord with the vastness of the solar system, a similar phenomenon occurs there once in pe about its real catastrophic history. Unlike him, Jukes believes the race capable of a sudden leap to . “I base my life on it,”