- Friday, May 3, 1985 - North Shore News 34 stoncansh egestas ee Doug Collins........9 Entertainment ..... 53 Bob Hunter.........4 Mailbox...........7 Real Estate........17 Table Hopping.....55 TV 0... eee eee 62 PEOP, LE: 12 What's Going On... .60 From taxi to computer — the volunteer of the year. SHOWTIME: 53 Humor makes cassica! music more palatable. REAL ESTATE: 17 West Vancouver realtors WEATHER: and Saturday, vad with a few showers. - Chance of thunder showers. are high achievers. NEWS photo Tasry Peters REQUIEM F OR THE RHINOCEROS 3 PARTY is observed by West Const representative of the zecently deceased good humor party, Richard “The Troll” Schaller. The Rhinos were laid to rest May 1. THEY DIDN’T want to have to do it, but in the end North Vancouver School Tustees by a narrow margin decided to comply with, the demands of the Minister of education, Jack Heinrich. By BILL BELL With one trustee abstain- ing and ‘two trustees against compliance, Chairman Margaret Jessup and Trustee Rev. Roy Dungey joined Trustee Ross Regan to pass the budget. Like many other school districts in British Columbia, the North Vancouver Schooi District had submitted in March a ‘‘needs budget’’ to Victoria which was rejected by Heinrich, May | was the deadline for the defiant boards to comply. While the majority have now com- plied, including Nerth Van- couver, five districts have refused. including Van- couver. Despite voting in favor of the motion, both Jessup and Dungey still maintained that the school district was underfunded. Dungey even said the budget would ‘‘damage the school system.” The reduced budget will mean a drop of $5 million in this year’s budget and that according to North Van- couver Teachers’ Associa- tion President Andy Krawcyzk will mean that young peopie in the North Vancouver School System will be the one’s who will suffer, “Young people are what matter... do you know what -will happen as a result of this budget? Are you aware of your responsibilities with THE RHINOCEROS PARTY died laughing. By TIMOTH NSHAW It was buried May 1 in La Founes Electric, a small club on Montreal’s St. Catherine’s Street.’ North Vancouver’s own Rhinoceros campaigner, Richard ‘The Troll’ Schaller, - who gave the best years.of his political life to the party and to the constituents of North Vancouver's Capilano riding, mourned the passing of the party and its founder, Dr. Ja- ques Ferron, in typical Rhino fashion. ; “We'll have to sell off our -fleet of paper airplanes and cancel. our traditional paper airplane fly-past at the Ab- botsford Airshow,’’ says Schaller. . He adds that negotiations to buy the fleet have been undertaken by the Liberal party. | The Rhino party was born in 1963, conceived by Ferron and brother Paul in the ex- asperation of Quebec political turmoil. The party's name is taken from Eugene Euneso’s play Rhinoceros, in which the beast, explains Schaller, ‘tis portrayed as a short, | fat, tnick-skinned creature forever wallowing in these cuts now that this deci- sion has been taken?’’ Krawcyzk asked. Trustee Dorothy Lynas led the opposition falling it a budget that “undermined ‘education.”’ “Education is at the bot- tom of the provincial gov- ernment’s priority _ list.. mega projects are eating up millions.,.. I do not accept the claim that there are no funds’ out there,’ Lynas said. The other trustee who voted against the budget, Chief Phillip Joe lashed out at the government's imposi- the mire...the epitome of all politicians.” From jocular beginnnings, the party went national, eventually fielding a regular slate of over 50 candidates. It soon became the country’s fourth biggest party, ‘‘and the world’s second biggest Joke, next to freedom in Rus- sian,’ says Schaller. - Richard the Troll first ran‘ as a Rhinoceros in 1979, after his name was dropped in the .‘ mailbox of Montreal party; headquarters. He garnered 330 votes and went on to three straight defeats. / College c From Page 1 > surplus we had before. The surplus is no longer available. A four per cent . decrease doesn’t sound like much fess, but with the ac- cumulative affect, and the lack of the surplus, it is.’" Stewart said the province's : total aNocation to funding in 1984-85 was $252 million and for 1985-86 $240 mil- lion. NV board gives in to school tion of limitation on the school board and called on the other members to be responsive to the communi- ry. The trustee whe abstain- ed, Verna Smelovsky, spoke agains the budget, but could nat vote against compliance because it broke the law. Even school. siperintend- ent Leo Marshall, who recommended that the board approve the budget in com- pliance with the law, pro- tested the “ineptitude the government has shown in recent years."* Regan, who supported the His political rug suddeniy pulled from under him, Schaller manages. to look to the future, with ‘ optimism, “PIL be considering . offers from the major political par- ties and be travelling the world collecting material for my memoirs.’ The loss of the Rhinoceros party has mgmentarily: torn the funny-bone from the ‘body of Canadian politics, but Schaller advises adopting the positive philosophy of his former party, “tbe happy, don’t worry. There will be lots of good political laughs in the future.’” Stewart. said the demand for’ educaticn at Capilano : College is” increasing. “Enrolment is up,’ * he said. “Participation is up. There are long waiting lists for classes. There is every in- dication that enrolment for the forthcoming year will in- crease. We can’t afford to lose these people. ‘We're not prepared to sacrifice the quality of education, and we're going io fight against the cuts.’” cuts budget blamed the board for giving the public ‘‘false ex- pectations,’’ by going through a ‘‘futile exercise’ of trying to obtain more funds for the school district. Dungey and Smelovsky later moved a motion that was approved, which made clear that the budget was submitted under protest. According to documents handed out by school of- ficials at: the meeting, the North Vancouver residents continue to pay the highest school tax in the province, despite the cuts in the school budget.