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6 - Friday, July 12, 1985 - Nortii Shore News

Who the thief?

T= recent discovery of stolen provincial

exams and the resulting hulladallo over

who is at fault and who should be
crucified brings into question the Ministry of
Education’s insistence on balancing 2 full half
year’s school work on the thin edge of a single
year-end exam.
, Those who stole the exems should of
course be punished as should any thief. The
question remains, however, of whet to do
with those students who made use of the
stolen exams. Should they be docked an en-
tire year of school for their indiscrection or
be made to wear any number of similar
yeliow stars or. scarlet leiters as martyrs to
their own bad judgement?

‘These would be the easy solutions for the
ministry: toss the bad apples to the hogs and
dodder on blindly, convinced of the system’s
innocence and. ultimate. propriety. But it is
the system that must bear some of the fault,
here.

‘The worth of an exam has been upped
from‘a sedentary. 20% of a student’s total
mark to a whopping 50 %. Two hours have
suddenly: been raised to the rank of 100. The
disparity nas bred dishonesty and undermia-
ed incentive, |. -

‘If the exam thefts had not been detected,
the cheaters would kdve been raised high on
proud. education system shoulders as exam-

‘ples: of ‘its efficiency and effectiveness. In-
stead, they ere bumpkins and no-gocds. In
reality, they sre the end products of a
short-sighted and lazy reliance on a two-hour
exam to separate the academic wheat from
‘the underachieving chaff.

Some might even describe the 50% exam
system as ‘‘stealing’’ from students.

Which 't is It?

“Nhe Coca-Cole confusion: exercise con-
‘nues to saowball.: Now, following
“public: outrage, they’re bringing back

the old Coke (the one: thet was IT) under a

new name, Coca-Cola Classic. But they’ll also
continue to sell the cause of all the uproar, the
sweeter ‘‘new and improved’? Coca-Cola.
And now it emerges that the old Coke we
thought we were drinking in Canada was real-
ly the sweet ‘‘new and improved’’ Coke all the

_ time “—- ‘which. means Canadians have never

tasted “aT”, Is. enotigh to drive one to

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Alderman defends official

Dear Editor:

I'm in total agreement
with David Wild who, in a
letter published in the News
June 26, contenced that the
proposed enlargement of the
Park Tilford Gardens and
the construction of a shopp-

ing centre on the former.’

distillery site.is an attractive
proposal in every way.

1t will create an estimated
750 permanent jobs, not to
mention providing much-
needed employment for con-
struction workers. .’

The Gardens will be an
even greater tourist attrac-
tion because of the additions
planned.

1 am in favour of rezoning
the land | from industrial to

commercial to accommodate
the project unless someone
can show me that leaving it
industrially zoned will pro-
vide as many benefits as the
proposed development. I!
don't think that is likely to
happen.

The portion of Mr. Wild’s
letter that. 1 can’t let go
unanswered deals with his
criticism of Frank Morris ,
Director cf: Development
and Licensing. Somehow,
Mr. Wild got the impression
at a council meeting that Mr.
Mcrris might obstruct the
F&T project.

That is a most unfair
observation, which I find
unacceptable. Mr. Morris
and City employees merely
carry out policies set by City

Council. Mr. Morris and his
staff, have been under
tremendous pressure the past
couple of years fast-tracking
the Lonsdale Quay
development while, at the
same time, coping with a re-
cord number of smaller
developments. They have
literally burned the midnight
oil.

Without a person of Mr.
Morris’s personal and men-
tal strength, the City would
have had an impossible situ-
ation. N.V. City recently
was cited by the. Financial
Post Magazine (April 1,
1985) as one of six Canadian
municipalities which give the
best value foreach. dollar
spent. Mr. Morris and the

men and women _ in ‘his
department are one of the
‘major reasons.

Since. 1 agree. with Mr.
Wild that. the P&T project
deserves fast-tracking similar
to that accorded to Lonsdale
Quay, and since Mr. Morris
and staff have so much on
their plates right now, I in-
tend to bring in a notice of
motion at the next Council
meeting which would pro-
vide funds to allow the hir-
ing of extra temporary staff,
This would allow the P&T
rezoning bylaw to get to the
all-important ‘first reading
stage a few months earlier.
Ralph Hall,

Aldermas .-
North Van City

Value for school health dollar

Dear Editor: . .

The’ protest by the West
Vancouver . School - Board
about the high cost of the
North Shore Union Board of
Health to the Board is long
overdue. A few years ago
sixty per cent of the total
subsidy for the Union Board
of Health was paid by the
two North Shore school
boards, although school
children accounted for only

fifteen per cent of the popu-
lation. The high cost to the
school boards at that time
was agreed to by all parties
concerned, as funding from
the municipalities was paid
for by the local taxpayer
whereas the School Board
costs were paid from that
bottomless pit, otherwise
known as provincial gov-
ernment.

’ priorities.

Alas the pit is no longer
there and school boards are
having to chose their
Ed Carlin and
Margo Furk of the West
Vancouver Schoo! Board
have both done their sums
and having discovered they
are receiving thirty eight
cents value for each dollar
contributed, they are looking
for a better bargain,

Instead of complaining
about the West Vancouver |
Schoo! Board and looking
for. government handouts, I
would suggest that the other
authorities involved take a
close look at the value for
money that they are receiv-
ing. There might be a better
way.

Ernie Sarstield
North Vancouver.

Restore royal symbols

Dear Editor:
With the election of a fed-
eral government which has

.an obvious respect for and

understanding of the advan-
tages of the Constitutional
Monarchy for Canadians,
the time has come to undo
the republican moves of the
Trudeau era, and to effect a
‘restoration’ of the Crown in
Canada.

Such a restoration should
include both symbolic and
substantive measures, For

“instance, the Post Office

should proudly make
available a wide number of
Royal stamp issues; ‘God
Save the Queen’ should be
made the Royal Anthem by
law, rather than resting on
custom as is now the case;
The Prince of Wales and the
Duke of Edinburgh should
be accorded their rightful
places within the Canadian
Honours System; the
misnomer ‘Head of State’
should no longer be applied
to the Governor General,
who is of course the repre-

sentative of Canada’s
sovereign, the Queen.

The Monarchist League of
Canada has prepared a
detailed and easy-to-read set
of proposals which we hope
Canadians will consider, and
in turn, urge their Provincial
and Federal Members of
Parliament to advocate. Cit-
izens reading this document
will, we think, be alarmed at
how much of our monar-
chial heritage has slipped
away, and will want to press
Mr. Muironey’s Ministers to

begin the process of backing
up their loyal words with ac-
tions undoubtedly supported
by most Canadians.

The League will be
delighted to send one or
more copies of its position
paper to anyone who writes
— The Monarchist League
of Canada, 2 Wedgewood
Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario
KIB 4BR
John L. Aimers .

Chairman & Founder
Monarchist League of
Canada