NOBODY ELSE seems to have done it, so it’s up to me to deliver 2 few critical words on the rabbity and fuzz-headed reaciion to the engineers’ affair at UBC. There was this ‘‘newsletter,”” you see, that took a few funny swipes at the Indians. The result is that a witch-hunt worthy of Salem has been taking place, and a uni- versity president has peed his panis. David Strangway has shut down the newsletter and other punitive measures have been taken. Like fines. Any moment now, I suspect, someone may be shot. Or sent to Siberia. There’s lots of space there, after all, and most of Uncle Joe’s prison camps are now empty. Did the uewsletter threaten mayhem and murder? No. It sim- ply contained a facetious ‘indian Application for Employment’’ form that asked, among other things, how the applicant’s income was earned. Multiple-choice an- swers were provided, like **welfare,”’ “‘theft,’* ‘‘unemploy- ment,”’ and ‘*beer bottles.” I chortled when I read the stuff. And chortles don’t come easy these days. Shows what a foul fellow i am, I guess. But laughing or crying is not the point. The point is that if the ma- terial concerned is so bad as to warrant so much braying and bawling, then so are a lot of other things at UBC. So why the double standard? Consider the filthy and illiterate little students’ rag called The Ubyssey, filied as it is with Marx- ist, lesbian, radical-fem and sodomite propaganda, not to men- tion the howling of lunatics and twaddle of every sort. Why are the powers at UBC not worried about that? Not only is no ose worried. [1 is stated right on the editorial page that the paper is published ‘twith the proud support”’ of the Alumni Association. Proud support for headlines like “Cinder-f******-;ella goes to Hollywood’? Proud support for whole issues devoted to the obscene doings of sex perverts? Proud support for editorial hand-wringing over the commics in Nicaragua having lost the election? Right on the masthead we see, too, that through our taxes we are giving suck to a generation of cen- sors. Shamelessly, it is declared that ‘‘content which is ... libellous, slanderous, racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise unfit for publication will not be published.”’ (The editors appear not to know HOLIDAY THAT HEALS 4 Far away is close to home. Spectacular island setting 150 kilometres north of Vancouver. C Retreats and worksnops from May to October. Morning yoga and ¢ » meditation, natural history tours, gourmet vegetarian and seafood @ cuisine. Arts, music, family week and much more. $75/day, double occupancy. $575/five day workshop. : Write for our free 24-page brochure: / Hollyhock, Box 127, Manson's Landing, Cortes Island, B.C, VOP 1KO. @ or phone 1-935-6465 ‘ That First Spring Car Wash Won't Scrub Away Winter's Damage! 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Small wonder that Canadian newsrooms are filling with what GOOD FRIDAY 9am-llpm SATURDAY 9am-lipm EASTER SUNDAY llam-ilpm 9 - Wednesday, April 11, 1990 - North Shore News freedom, for that matter — than a dead cat. Witness the battalions of aca- demics who wanted to decapitate Professor Philippe Rushton when he stepped out of line last year in daring to claim that the mental abilities of the races are different. UBC itself sets the example for its junior nincompoops. It, too.outlaws **homophobism,” sexism, racial criticism and any- thing else that might upset the trendies. Are its sociologists free to examine the AIDS issue honestly? Probably not. That would be “*homophohic.”” The university is nothing if not blinkered. It gives the homo-ies- bian mob the use of its premises for conferences, and grants spouses’ benefits to fairies. Yes, if two men are living together, they can be considered to be married and we pay for the said benefits. Welcome to the 1990s and the joys cf advanced education. Meanwhile, those high thinkers never cease squealing for more public money. They should be told to go off and do something uplifting, like driving trucks and buses. But UBC and The Ubyssey are microcosms of the New Canada. And things will get worse before they get better. 33 ADASSISISSIITSTSIISSSIIsssIISSIaSSAS SSS EASTER MONDAY 235 WEST IST NORTH VANCOUVER 984-7669 x33333533333 3 33333335