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Selkirk College board in s nine to four vote at an
evening open meeting Jan, 17 agreed to ask the
provincial government to reseind its announced intention
to close DTUC on May 1.

“The letter clearly shows the lack of foresight in the
government decision,” Shaw said. “It demonstrates the
long term employment prospects for graduates from the
Centre are quite prot J

Copies of the boa: . 20 letter were released
Friday. The eight-page letter from board chairman Dr
Jack Colbert said the recent developments of pay
networks, video discs, and advertising and public
relations fields are examples of “creative endeavors that

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closure decision and. provide no value to the taxpayer,”
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The letter reminded the government of its “legal and
moral obligations” to the Centre under the NDU Act.

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VICTORIA (CP) — A small group protesting the Social
Credit government's decision to close the David Thompson
University Centre Nelson gathered in front of the
provincial legislative building Sunday and staged a mock
crucifixion.

Beneath signs that read “Stop the crucifixion of edu
cation in the West Kootenays,” the chairman of the Notre
Dame University board, Dr. Marion Muth, stood ona slim
platfogm, her arms tied to the crossbars of a tall white cross.

Muth said she didn't know how long she would stand
there. But, she added bitterly, “Maybe until my fingers drop
off.”

Muth and Tom Gougeon, another board member from
DTUC, are in Victoria to protest the closure of the centre.

Edueation Minister Jack Heinrich sent a letter to Muth
Jan. 4 saying that because of the government's restraint
program the centre would close at the end of this year.

The centre was incorporated in 1977 by an act of the
legislature after the government bought Notre Dame
University from the Roman Catholic Church. Renamed the
David Thompson University Centre, it has operated
extension programs for both Selkirk College and the
University of Victoria.

The centre has a permanent staff of about 100 and the
approximately 500 students can complete degrees or
diplomas at the centre without having to transfer.

Gougeon said one of the centre's major problems is that
its fuhds all come from either Selkirk College or University
of Victoria, although the money is specially designated for
David Thompson.

But, he said, “There is not one representative for us (in
budget discussions). Selkirk and UVic are in it for them-
selves. It is not their first priority and its closure won't
affect them. There is not one advocate for the centre.”

Gougeon said both the college and university are facing
cutbacks of their own. But he said there is no indication that
the closure of the centre would mean the $3.4 million it used
for operation this year would be allowed to stay in the
university or college budgets next year.

Gougeon said the board of community representatives
which administers the centre's act has been unable to meet
with anyone from the government. He said Sunday’s protest
was the result of the frustrated efforts to get some answers.

Gougeon said although the government has said that
there will be some assistance offered to students transfer-
ring from the fine arts college in Nelson to, either the
University of Victoria, Selkirk College or another school, the
board has no details.

Muth said she decided that her symbolic protest was
necessary because “I felt what the government is doing is so
very wrong.

“It'll get them (the government) to realize we're people
that they can talk to. After all, it is a democracy and the
government is supposed to be responsible to the people.”

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"Edward Rowny, chief U.S. negotiator to the stalled
U.S-Soviet strategic weapons talks, said Monday in
Washington, “We have some concrete proposals on
trade-offs™ involving strategic, long-range weapons.

He said a settlement in the strategic arms talks might
materialize by trimming the U.S. lead in cruise missiles and
bombers if Moscow gave ground on land-based intercon-
tinental missiles.

Rowny also said if the Kremlin proposed medium-range
missiles in the strategic talks, “we're going to listen to any
proposal they have.”

Burt, however, cautioned: “It’s far too premature to
talk about trade-offs between the two negotiations or a
merger of the two.”

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Western European governments, many under pressure
from local péace movements, have been pressing Washing-
ton to lower East-West.tensions and seek to revive the
disarmament talks.

Burt stressed that the United States would make no
concessions “just for the honor” of resuming the talks
because it would encourage the Soviets to continue a boycott
in hopes of further concessions.

He said Moscow must understand that “in the absense
of talks we will deploy every one of our . . . (cruise and
Pershing 2) missiles" in western Europe as planned.

Burt said the recent meeting between U.S. State
Secretary George Schultz and Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko in Stockholm showed that the “Soviets are
studying their negotiating position,” but have not come back
with specific proposals.

Amnesty describes
prison conditions

LONDON (AP) — Prisoners at a special labor camp in
the Soviet Union live in cramped, dirty cells and receive
inadequate food, water and medical care, says a document
published today by Amnesty International.

The London-based human rights group published what
it said is a first-hand description of living conditions at a
camp for political prisoners “singled out by the Soviet
authorities for particularly severe treatment.”

The document is from an unidentified “prisoner of
conscience” held at the special corrective labor colony VS
389-36-1 near Perm in the Ural Mountains, about 1,207
kilometres east of Moscow, Amnesty International said.

In the document, which the organization said was
written in April 1982 and reached London through unofficial
channels jn October 1983, the prisoner tells of small cells
with flickering lights, poor rations and brackish water.

Amnesty International said it is unable to corroborate
details of the document, but said “they are consistent with
others received by the organization” and the document was
published “in the belief that it is authentic.”

Among prisoners Amnesty said are known to be
confined at the camp are religious poet Semyon Skalich,
historian Balys Gayauskas, Ukranian poet Vasyl Stus and
writer Leonid Borodin.

The camps are intended for dangerous criminals, but
Amnesty International said at least 15 of the 31 prisoners at
the camp near Perm “are known to be there after having
been prosecuted repeatedly for non-violent attempts to
express their beliefs.”

The ‘prisoner's account says up to five men share a
single cell and “each is allowed two square metres of space in
the cell, which is crammed with . . . bunks and a table.”

The toilet is not screened off from the rest of the cell,
the prisoner wrote. “There is no Y er and so it stinks.”

‘The prisoner said for two @Mnps situated near each
other, “there is one doctor, w! joes not visit every day.”

“The dentist and other s; ts come very rarely. The
medical treatment is merely first aid. There are not enough
medicines.”

The account says prison officials often confiscate letters
from relatives and “greetings on religious holidays are
forbidden.”

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vice-president Ryan
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Schultze also says.that
the organization is heping
to make the first-time
event an annual one.

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