The Castlegar Sun

Wednesday, April 27, 1994

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at your service! Call on them soon!

Censorship at its worst

Preventing others from reading column unfair

fairly c
far, and I don't plan to stop.

Censorship has been a hot
issue at Selkirk College recently
due to a rather controversial edi-
tion of Selkirk College's news-
paper, The Chameleon Two.

‘The article’s content and title
are not important to include in
this column, but the issues and
concepts discussed in the arti-
cle, needless to say, stirred

things up a bit. So, over the
past month or so, there has
been an ongoing debate
amongst faculty and students
alike: each side with fairly sta-
ble arguments and these, in
turn, are backed by personal
bias for the most -

A number of the college's
general population had taken
offense because of the article's
general tone and the statements
it made concerning a man's
relationship with his wife.

SUMMER HOURS

although we are in college and

Many were offended
they saw what lay on the sur-
face of the story, but did ‘not
see it for what it really was: An
intriguing

statement

using sarcasm

and irony to

portray the

relationship

between a

woman and

her wife-beat-

ing husband.

Granted, on the surface, it is
perhaps disgusting and socially
unacceptable, but taken for
what it is, the author has creat-
ed a statement for othérs to
read, chew on, and perhaps
learn from, which is not. com-
pletely unlike what I do in this
column.

After all, I have said some

ever, has decided to pull the

jal things thus
should be susceptible to new
lines of thought, a surprising
number of college-goers are not
open-minded enough to look at

Selkirk Administration, how-

good old
‘veto vote’
trick; censor-
ship become
part of col-
lege life for
those of us

they were indirectly forced to
take the steps they have.

Wednesday, April 27, 1994

The Castlegar Sun

Rotary guest speaks of the horror in Rumania

Humanitarian te

“I saw thé sufferi
Sepheed edit am oe of 220:009 Rumanian
we Burley, registered nurse from Walla Walla,
Th and wife of Rotary Past District Gover-
ah rStalet spoke last week to the Castlegar
pepe lub on her year of volunteer service in aid
perhses loned children in the former Communist dic-
lorship. A deeply devout and dedicated woman,

she was repeated!
ly at the poi:
‘Gace iis of tee ok point of tears as she

Page 58.

Ils of the nightmare and suffering of the children

working but.desperately le in a very smal
technologically dleadvesaged ooniiry. The Doanects
in the beautiful Rumanian countryside have a
lifestyle little changed from their ancestors in
medieval times, working in the fields from dawn to
dark with often only a loaf of bread and a bucket of
water for their dinner. Life in the cities is almost as
hard.

The dictator Ceausescu had enforced a high birth
rate on a people unable to support it so that they
were often emotionally and physically crippled.
When the dictatorship was overthrown in 1989, the

children. Others were left in the streets to fall prey to
every kind of abuse. A few thousand fortunate ones
were adopted by A it and E hildk

for badly needed medical equipment and food,
tow toys und ehethas for too abpeems. Men laiiicend

‘ a, P
‘ sop rss an embarrassed government stopped

‘The stress of poor food and heartrending sights —
autistic, spastic and deformed ‘children—“zom-
bies”—was almost fatal for her so that-she was
forced to return to the States to recover. However, as
she said, “I prayed and had no choice” and in conse-
quence is returning to Rumania next week, once

hugs 80 di needed by some of these emo-
tionally impoverished children from with the volun-
teers, she said. :

Her most vivid memory, however, is still that of.
seeing a small, dirty, ragged, fi ;
abandoned in

“It was none of their business.”
In closing she asked not for censure but under-

who ‘attend

Selkirk,

which I feel

to be both ridiculous and per-

sonally degrading. Not only are

they censoring what goes into

The Chameleon Two, but by

doing so, they are restricting

freedom of speech and casting

aside (if at the very least)
thought-provoking articles.

The part that I suppose both-

ers me the most is the fact that

I am, however, upset that the
ignorance and petty behavior of
others have prevented myself
and others like me from partak-
ing in specific literary offerings
which did not prove to conform
to the ways set in the minds of
the brutally stubborn.

I, for one, do not look for-
ward to becoming a mindless
golem because a ‘special inter-
est group’ decides to nuke a
controversial concept.

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On September 4, 1993, Carole
Margaret Savage, daughter of
Robert and Sherrie Savage of
St. Albert. Alberta and Mark
Christian Dascher, son of John
and Marie Dascher of Castlegar,
B.C. were united in marriage at
the St. Albert United Church.

Maid of Honour was Corinna
Serben of Edmonton, Alberta.
Bridesmaid was Kim Ingrey of St.

DWAYNE D'ANDREA

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Margaret and Mark Dascher

Albert, and the Flower Girl was
Alycia Lakevold of Castlegar.
Best Man was John Walton, Jr.

Stress-busting
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“And taking the gold medal
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dren into organized sports and
hope that it’s enough. Some-
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How much

is <
Wouldn't it be
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never before
recognized, as
part of Olympic
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More possible
events:
° Grocery
shopping with
three children.
* Speed-ironing.
+ “Taxi cab” relay.
+ Teen bedroom obstacle
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You might think that all of
is act in the line of duty’

|__ this activity “in the line ¢
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but think again!

Some exercise time spent
with your kids can help you
relieve stress, teach them the
fun side of fitness and help both
of you toward a healthier daily
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Finger Push-Stoop facing
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Animal Walk-Have your
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* Crawl like a snake.
¢ Plod like an elephant-use
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