A6 - Wednesday, April 25, 1984 - North Shore News

NEWS VIEWPOINT

Student self-help

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Students — significantly more than last year

— warn of another tough summer for young
people seeking work.

With 25% unemployment among the 15-25
age group, a good many will be disap-
pointed again, despite the majority of
over-17s this year who are apparently
ready to settle for the minimum $3.65 hourly
wage in return for a steady pay cheque. Even
that is unlikely to produce enough full-time
jobs.

Preoccupation with ‘‘a steady pay
cheque’’ provided by someone else is, of
course, part of the problem. Meanwhile,
there are reportedly few takers so far for the
new Student Venture Loan Program which
provides financing up to $2,000 for students
who create their own summer job
enterprises.

Aside from that, our own Classified Ads
department has found in past years that
there are plenty of short-term jobs --
painting, landscaping, yard work, simple
household repairs and the like -- awaiting
students willing to branch out on their own
as individual entrepreneurs. In numerous
cases an inexpensive ‘‘handyman’’ ad has
brought regular employment throughout the
summer, often at more than the minimum
hourly rate.

Self-help gives students an independent
solution to their summer income needs and a
valuable taste of running their own
**business’’. For those with energy and ini-
tiative it can be a much more satisfying

answer than the overcrowded employment
centre.

Brain--or heart?

ove over, Michael Walker and the

Fraser Institute — the solution to all

our problems should surely come at
this week’s Vancouver convention of the Men-
sa Society, which will discuss ‘‘where B.C.
ought to be in 10 years and how to get there."’
Mensa members, after all, have to score in the
top 2% of the 1Q scale and there are only
55,000 worldwide. But then, what if the final
answer lies not in the brain but in the heart”?

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NDP problem not who, but whither

NLY 22 DAYS REMAIN before some
1,000 NDP convention delegates gather to
choose a successor to Dave Barrett. Mean-
while, the party is sull as far as ever from solving its
biggest problem -- which is mot who the new leader

will be.

It's where the new leader
should lead it

Both philosophically and

‘strategically the BC party is

presently spinning its wheels
in the sand It’s going to
take more than a new leader
to give the NDP any realist
hope of cegaining power in
RoC by the later 19XOs

The opronty ts oa conn
pletely mew party image
Whether either of the two
leadership frontrunners can
effect such a transformation

or even grasps the urpensy
ofa is far trom o lear at
Chis stage

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teeth KRovape oo 8 foecanred Vat

suister chuctiy M4 Basrete s
brict three years of whory ors
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plus a rather vagauc theme of
decentralizing the party tie
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represcnbationts Ttotie wees

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the poliucal | O.U>s he col-
lected as author of the [Labor
Code and the Human Rights
Code, founder of the | abor
Relations Board and
champron of women in posts
of responsibility

David Vickers. four years
younger and former deputy
attorney general, iw long on
social issues but considerably
shorter on economir
pohaies ble blames the “old
people’ in Che party for its
farlure to attract the young
and identified himself closely
with Solidarity ducing its
WSK demonstrations On the
sainice (ack he now preaches
the need to CC take the debate
(out oot the Legislature) tte
the Coogee uth ub hb dey
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views sidewalk prokets ay an
acceptable substitute for the

parllamcntary process

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Vickers tase roughly equal
mautmbers of Comenitted del
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ahead of thre vothvet ferns

LETTER OF 1HE WEEK

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Social Credit, ranging all the
way from Solidarity hell-
raisers and union militants
to middle-of-the-road free
enterprisers with a= social
conscience. Yet despite its
current misfortunes, the
NDP continues to have a
better chance of filling that
vacuum than the stall mon
bund Liberals

Fiest and foremost,
however, i must rid itself
for ever of the “‘soctalist
hordes’” tag and win over
the significant chunk of the
pohtical centre that tem.
porarily shares the Bennett
bed as the lesser of two evils
but has difficulty resting
comfortably in it

To round up labor, small
business, enlightened in
dustrialists and
preofessronals rights
crusaders and the  lunaty
Marxist: fringe all inte the
same Corfal as mo small task
for Ball Rong oof David
Vickers after May 20) But te
work towards the broad
small ‘lV liberal image of the
tS) Democrats is ther only
practical option

Por the sake of a health.
pashamentary democracy in
H ¢ during the remainder
of the century one hopes
they get the message

federal  clection

Lae
that he should aor ou. 4
comtetbublroas trom ooo
Panics which have tecctee.s
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breaks subsidies au
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polttihcal Gonatrons

Jach Woodward

Vancouver