8 - Friday, Febriary 24, 1986 - North Shore News Doug Collins ® get this straight e A COUPLE of weeks ago the protesting forces of reaction, lesbianism and ‘‘feminism’’ out at UBC managed to pre- vent healthy engineering students from taking Lady Godiva for a ride on her horse. As the Dean of Applied Sciences put it in responding to those forces, he didn’t want students to be associated with such low activities. Nor did the UBC administration. So the Godiva-lovers were bullied into f toeing.the line. Then, when they put on a tame little strip show in- stead, the students lost booking rights, which meant that premises for courses were restricted. So UBC has become a morality centre? Not exactly. It all depends. Lady Godiva and strip shows may be bad, but the Third Annual | B.C. Gay and Lesbian Conference is good. It must be, because it was held out at UBC on the weekend. There is nothing wrong, either, with GLUBC having on-campus offices or being one of the Alma | Mater Society service organiza- tions. (GLUBC sounds like a brand-name for rotten treacle, but 4 is short for Gays and Lesbians of UBC.) It is also OK, it seems, when the student newspaper Ubyssey is f plastered from cover to cover with homo and lesbian muck. Read some of that stuff and you’ ll agree s with me that our universities are still overfunded and that Bill Ben- nett should cut out some of the new dough he’s promised them. One of the less objectionable | pages is headlined ‘‘Watch for Dykes’’, and is a guide to Lesbian movies. Written by ‘‘Faith Jones'’, who may or may not be real, the English in: the piece is well up to university standards, containing sentences like ‘‘It is not just white people who opposes her...” | Under the headline ‘‘Blue Jeans Show ~ Pride’, ,GLUBC-person Ken Anderlini urged all queers of both. sexés and no. sexes to wear blue jeans on Feburary 14 “as a sign of pride in their sexual orien- tation’’. “(What -have they ‘got J against jeans, I wonder?) Someone called Damaris Sargent, described as ‘‘co-chair of i the lesbian and gay conference”’, told readers that ‘‘Lesbians are captivating the academic community”’. i No doubt about it. Mr. Anderlini, or whatever he is, pops up again to tell us about the joys of a video called ‘*Revenge of the Teenaged Perverts’’. The whole of the back page is taken up with ‘“‘Lesbians and Gays Fluster Campus With Activities.”’ A quarter-page photo taken by the ubiquitous Anderlini shows a couple of guys holding hands (I think they’re guys, anyway). And GLUBC official Joe Kennedy is quoted as saying, ‘‘We see ourselves as trying to educate and provide support.”’ I'm glad he told us. The piece de resistance -- as academics are wont to say -- is on Page Three. It’s Anderlini again. This time he’s educating us about } the’curse of censorship, especially where it relates to magazines that thrill those who have strange life- styles. The Ubyssey runs an edited \ ver- sion of the kind of stuff that makes pervert-persons happy. It would be enough to put any nor- mal man off sex for life, and the thought occurs that if they’re put- ting out more flags for this sort of thing in our bastions of higher learning, it’s small wonder that the schools are packed with funny teachers. Svend Robinson, the gays’ MP, is quoted at length, on the evils of censoring homo publications. But I’ve never heard him complain about other forms of censorship, and you can safely bet that he ap- proves of sending people like Ern- st Zundel to clink for their political opinions. As a free speech merchant myself, I cannet say that this stuff shouldn’t be printed. No one is forced to read it. But I can ask whether public funds should be. used for such muck. And I can also ask why UBC would want to stop a Lady Godiva ride and at the same time give the go-ahead to the likes of the rotten treacle | artists. . ; A footnote: old Mr. Ed,. the horse on which Lady Godiva used to ride, has given up the ghost. The poor moke must have known what was coming. $4, 600. approved | for youth worker NORTH VANCOUVER City Council approved a request from the Norch Vancouver ’ Recreation Commission for an additional $4,588 to assist in the funding of a new youth programmer and part- time leadership staff. By STEPHEN BARRINGTON Contributing Writer Commission director Gary Young originally appeared before council Feb. 10 to ask for the ad- ditional funds, but the matter was referred to the city’s financial committee, which recommended the request be granted. At the Feb. 10 meeting, Young told council the request for a new worker was an additional expen- diture to the organization’s 198° budget from the city of $590,414. Without the added funds, he ‘said, ‘‘something would have to be cut.’ - He stressed that under normal ‘circumstances a request for the ‘added funds would usually come during discussions of the 1986 provisional budget. “The only reason we’re here early is because of the request from the community,’ Young said. Young explained that members of the community had voiced con- cerns that the December termina- tion of workers from the expired Canada Works job-creation pro- gram had left a gap in services. The funds for the new worker, who Young hopes will be on the job Mar. 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