A6- Sunday, September 4, 1983 - North Shore News

It’s‘ ‘good. to learn that much of the
emotion-charged atmosphere. over the
abortion” issue which has characterized
annual meetings of the North and West
Vancouver Hospital Society in recent years
will likely be absent from this year’s meeting
next Thursday, Sept. 8.

That is the expected result of the decision
to eliminate speeches at the meeting itself by
candidates for seats on the Lions Gate
Hospital Board. Instead, the meeting will be
concerned solely with the actual voting
process, year-end reports and other routine
business.

Meanwhile, the 10 candidates for the five

) seats on the 17-member board have been
given the opportunity to present their
respective arguments on Cable West TV
Channel. 10, where they will appear finally
this Wednesday (Sept. 7) at 8 p.m.

The candidates are equally split between
the board’s Pro Choice nominees and their
Pro Life challengers. We suggest that all
society members intending to vote the
following evening have a duty to watch and
listen to the two sides in this TV debate. The

dedicated opponents of abortion and the
resolute champions of freedom of choice
both have sincere standpoints that deserve
respect and a serious hearing.

Not too many viewers’ minds may be
changed but more than a few may be opened

-wider. ‘That. is the essence of civilized
decision-making.
~ We think it is being better served this year

by the, TV debate’s scrupulous rules of

fairness and equality than by the over-heated
rhetoric from.the floor that has marked some
of the soclety’ s annual meetings in the past.

Shattered hope

The barbaric atrocity apparently com-
mitted’ by the Soviet air force (or whoever
runs it) in shooting down an unarmed civilian
airliner and killing its 269 people shatters any
hope by workers for peace that the present
Russian regime can be trusted to observe the
basic rules of civilization. It provides an
unhappy vindication of those who insist that
the only way to handle Ivan is with a stick
bigger than his own.

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CAPTAIN STUEBING and
his laid-back crew were
apparently taking the day
off. The “cruise” lasted
barely three hours. And they
had to find an understudy for
the featured entertainment
number in the Carousel
Lounge. Otherwise, it was
business as usual aboard the
“Loveboat” last Sunday
noontide.

The gala luncheon on the
Island Princess — identical
twin of the Pacific Princess,
star of the perennially
popular TV series — was
held in nostalgic celebration
of postwar Vancouver's ‘big.
liner era’ of the fifties and
sixties. It focused on the
colorful decade and a half
from 1954 onward when two
renowned British fleets, the
Orient Line and P&O,
combined to link Vancouver
with the ports of four other
continents and establish the
city as a major world ter-
minal for seaborne
passengers.

Those were the great days
of the Oronsay, Orion,
Orcades and Orsova; the
Himalaya, Chusan, Arcadia
and Iberia; the Oriana and
the mighty 45,000-ton
Canberra. At the peak of the
period they were making 33
regularly scheduled calls at
Pier BC, frequently em-
barking over 1,000
passengers. But by the 1970s
the jet and charter air fares
had sounded the death knell
of intercontinental big-ship
travel — happily, however,
replacing it with a growing
market for shorter pleasure
cruises on smaller, more
luxurious floating hotels of
the “Loveboat”

Hosts of the “remember
when” party on the Island
Princess, tied up at
Ballantyne Pier for its short

nine-hour turnaround
between Alaska cruises,
were its master, Captain
John Chester, and
P&O/Princess Cruises sales
director Mark Quayle. The

PART OF / A ‘MULTI
“Loveboat” heads for Alaska.

by Noel Wright

eight days happily cough up
an average of $2,300 a head
for the round trip to Alaska.
And with 10 or more similar
ships plying the same trade
here for 15 weeks each

payoff for Vancouver ... the

100 or more invited guests
included Mayor Mike
Harcourt and Maritime
Museum brass — to whom a
model of the Orsova was to
have been presented. Alas, it
hadn't arrived in time, so
they made do with a model
of the Arcadia which had
been in the City’s possession
for 10 years.

Nobody minded, anyhow.
The glasses clinked. The
band delivered its drum
rolls. The speeches went
ahead as scheduled. The
cameras flashed. And the
magnificent seven-course
lunch that followed in the
Coral dining room’ un-
doubtedly enabled most of
the guests to skip Sunday
evening dinner altogether.

A concluding tour of the
Princess's superb recreation
and entertainment facilities
quickly explained why some
600 holidaymakers’ every

summer, all of them pro-
visioning in Vancouver, the
Alaska cruise season spells
big, big business for the City,
totalling hundreds of
millions of dollars. That late
winter day in 1954 when the
Oronsay, inward bound from
Australia, first sailed under
the Lions Gate Bridge has
had a handsome payoff. . .

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FOLKTALES: Hard at work
getting their acts together
for West Van’s Coho
Festival next Sunday are
Woodward's Peter Robinson
(food organizer), Drew
Christle of Cannibal Tubs
(entertainment), Sunshine
Cabs’ Jim Diana (beer
garden), Ron Wood (Coho
Trailmaster), Clare Fitz-
patrick (fun run) and Brenda
Nicell (ticket sales) ...
Incidentally, Hollyburn
Salling Club holds its Laser

Cup Race the same day — a
spectator sport bonus for
Festival-gocr in the park

. Greg Lyle of North Van
was elected president of the
B.C. Progressive Con-
servative Youth at‘ its late
August convention which
also chose North Shore
young Tories Bryce Pollock
and Steve Sorko as post-
secondaries director. and
policy director for B.C.
respectively. Convention
organizer was West Van's
Stewart Braddick, former
national youth organization
director ... Also elected
(this time by mail-ballot) as
directors of the Registered
Nurses Association of B.C.
are North Van’s Audrey
Stegen and West Van's
Elizabeth Kirkwood, both
LGH staffers .. North
Van Red Cross president
Bob Pooley will be appealing
for more volunteer workers
at a branch meeting 8 p.m.
Tuesday (Sept. 6) in
Delbrook Community
Centre — drop by if you’d
like to help . . . Landscape.
architect James Jarvis
moved last week into 252
East Ist to share
Moodyville’s former Har-
bour Manor Hotel with
interior designer Jack Watts
who restored the venerable
73-year-old building a few
years ago ... And bon
voyage to North Van's
Esther Eriks who's won a
Mexican cruise for two
aboard the luxury ship
Tropicale in a McDonald's-
CKLG contest.

WRIGHT OR WRONG:
According to the authors of

Jogging, W.J. Bowerman
and Dr. W.E. Harris, the
most common exercises

indulged in by the average
middle-aged North
American male are “running
down their friends, jumping
to conclusions, side-stepping
responsibility and pushing
their luck.” A very happy
Labor Day to you, just the
same!

Academic tenure costs less

YOU MAY BE SURPRISED to read that I, as a
tenured academic, agree with the general public
view aired in recent weeks. Tenure lowers work
incentives and therefore represents a cost to

society.

But the general public
should also be prepared to
accept the professors’
arguments that tenure
encourages speculative
research and teaching. Such
work benefits society.

Everyone who argues for
or against tenure for
academics makes an implicit
judgment about the relative
size (of «these «costs and
benefits. And there is, of
course. no scientific method
available for making a
ngorous analysis. We all rely
on gut feelings and they are
determined largely by our
recent dict

A steady dict) of news
about lay-offs makes the
public envious of the
privileged position — of

academics. A constant need
to choose between ordinary
and speculative research and
teaching makes acedemics
aware of the risks involved in
challenging the — political,
scientific, business and
cultural establishment

As Lam wrung this a litte
votce in the back of my mind

By HERBERT GRUBEL

Professor of Economics
Simon Fraser University

keeps whispering: “Why are
you doing this? You risk
offending your colleagues
and superiors and all the
members of Solidarity that
some day may be in positions
of influence to cut your pay
or have you fired. All this for
the short-lived satisfaction of
having spoken up? Why
don't you just argue it out

with a tree in a deep forest?”

Trying to be objective on
the broad issuc is not casy.
But in my most sombre and
detached moods I have to
conclude that the social costs
and benefits of tenure
probably balance pretty
well. There is not much to be
gained one way or the other.

However, this conclusion
holds only for the question of
tenure in gencral and
throughout’ the world. If
climination) of tenure is
restncted to B.C. or any
other small jurisdiction
atonc, the costs clearly must
outweight the benefits. Job
security for  whaterver
reason is valued by prac
tically everyone. To induce
Ingh) quality academics to
give itup fo come to BC or
not seck at clsewhere
requires that they be paid
more. So to maintain the
existing quality of B.C
universities would be costly.
probably very costly, uf
tenure for academics would
be chminated.

This conclusion ts
unassailable by rhetor ot
sophisticated reasoning = 1l
also makes the proposed
policy ironic. Introduced as
an cconomy measure. ut
leads to higher expenditures