Baby dinosaurs
drill at the Ubyssey |

ONE WOULD like to think
that what is going on at
UBC is only a midsummer
madness inspired by bad
vodka, visions of serpents
and brain-clouds. Buf no.
Wackiness has become a
permanent condition.

The latest example is a call for
the impeachment of Kurt
Preinsperg, a sensible fellow who
somehow became president of the
Alma Mater Society.

Preinsperg’s sin is that he of-
fered 33 tips to The Province's
**Love’’ column on how to get on
with the girls. Next thing you
know, the student newspaper The
Ubyssey (a badly written, rotten
little pro-homo, pro-marxist rag)
immediately yelled for his head,
and at last report some harpy was
boasting she already collected 500
votes for his trial.

No space here to pass on all the
advice tendered by the gallant
Kurt. But it didn’t come within
sniffing distance of Christopher
Marlowe’s **To A Coy Maiden”
with its lines about ‘‘time’s wing-
ed chariot hurrying near.”’

Old Chris, whom The Ubyssey
would never have allowed to enter
its doors, knew that where love
was concerned there was not a
minute to waste, life being so
short. But Kurt is in favor of not
bringing up the subject of sex too
soon. “A woman wants to feel
comfortable in your company.”

Perhaps he should not have
talked about making love to
women at all. Perhaps it would
have been OK if he had delivered
33 tips on how to hold hands with
men. Judging by The Ubyssey it
would have.

Kathy Tait, the Province gal
who runs the love column, was
astounded at the student paper’s
reaction. ‘‘Can you believe this?’*
she asked. Of course I can. I can

Doug
Gollins

ON THE OTHER HAND

believe anything about UBC.

I can believe, for instance, that
it is OK for the aptly-named Miss
Linda Shout of the UBC
Women’s Centre to shout that the
AMS president’s advice was based
on ‘‘deceipt.”’ Professional fems
are like that.

I can believe that UBC is a
place that starts spitting when an
engineers’ newsletter contains a
few facetious remarks about In-
dians. Don’t forget that it fined
the engineers and sentenced them
to attend brainwashing sessions
designed to imipart the proper at-
titudes. Just like in China, you
say? Quite.

I can believe that it is an error
for Preinsperg to stand up for
freedom of speech at UBC, which,
like its offspring The Ubyssey, is
not in favor of such a dangerous
thing.

I can believe that it is all right
for a public party to be held on
campus to which thousands of
condoms are tossed to students,
but that it has become an offence
to hold a Lady Godiva ride.

I can believe that the staff at
The Ubyssey are so dumb they

cannot even read properly. They
crucified Preinsperg for having
referred to UBC as a sexual
“hunting ground,’ when in fact it
was the love columnist who used
those words.

The Ubyssey is a case for en-
vironmental concern. So much so
that if T were a managing editor
out there in the biz world [ would
never hire anyone from it, The
media are polluted enough al-
ready.

Another of its recent little
quirks was to refuse a Rhodes
Scholarship advertisement because
the man gave his name to the
““racist state’’ of Rhodesia! (i'm
not making this up. That's what
the pompous-ass letter marking
the refusal said.)

Rhodes was also a white
“supremist’’ and a founder of
DeBeers, which specializes in
“exploiting black workers." As
for the scholarships they ‘could
very well have been intended to
glorify the white race by putting
on display it’s (sic) best and
brightest.””

One thing is sure. The slack wit-
ted litdle twits who wrote that glo-
rify neither the white race nor the
English language. For one thing,
the Rhodes Scholarships are not
restricted to whites. For another,
there is no such word as
“supremist."’ They don't even
know the difference between *‘its*
and “it’s.”

There's more, like the attempt
by the B.C. Organization to Fight
Racism to have the UBC radio
station pulled off the air for play-
ing ‘‘racist’’ songs. But one tires.

UBC is a tax-supported training
ground for baby dinosaurs who
would make great commissars or
gauleiters — and no doubt will.

The UBC motto is Tuum est.
“It is yours.’” Well, it ain't mine.
You can have it.

Nothing wrong with taxing now

From page 8

vendor) can go back to the pur-
chaser after the fact, but the reali-
ty is that many just won’t pay and
it’s more difficult to get the
money once they’ve got the goods
and services.’”

Macfarlane believes that most
opposition to the GST has
resulted from a combination of
bad timing on the part of the fed-
eral government and lack of in-
formed opinion on the part of
those against it.

“1 do think a lot of opposition
on the part of people opposed to
the tax is often because they don’t
understand it. This is not a tax
that is peculiar to a capitalist
system. It is used in socialist
countries and capitalist coun-
tries,’’ she said.

Added Macfarlane, ‘‘lt’s got a
good track record. It has worked
well. | suppose people just don’t
know what they are paying now
so they see this as a new tax.”’

North Vancouver tax consultant
David Ingram, president of The
Centa Group, argues that there is
nothing wrong with collecting
GST before the tax has actually
become legal.

“The tax office is collecting the
claw back on the old age pension
and the family allowance pay-

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ments. That is not law yet.
There’s nothing wrong with col-
lecting tax or collecting money if
it isn’t in law. We all filed and
anybody who has made over
$50,000 and is collecting old age
pension or family allowance paid
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cancels it, then all that happens is
that it is a simple computer item.
People caught by this would get a
refund or a credit towards next
year’s taxes,’’ Ingram said.

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