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September 27, 1985 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337 72 pages 25¢

Sculptor {
explores .
the sea

resident instigates

pornography cover-up

A NORTH Vancouver woman is responsible for
instigating a pornography cover-up.

Olive Wyatt, who has
been fighting a one-woman
battle against pornography,
asked North Vancouver City
Council in April to pass a
bylaw that would require
merchants to
pornographic literature
behind opaque plastic cover-
ings 47 inches above the
ground.

City council unanimously
agreed to that bylaw Mon-
day, giving it first, second
and third readings.

Wyatt says the bylaw;
similar to the one passed in
West Vancouver, has been
established ‘‘after a great
deal of groundwork.”

“I feel very elated and
delighted at council’s -at-
titude,”’ she.said.

Wyatt said the bylaw pro-
hibiting shopkeepers to
openly display magazines,
such as Playboy, Penthouse
and Playgirl, is a ‘band-aid

to: display any __

By BARRETT FISHER

procedure, but it’s all we can
do until there is censorship.”

Wyatt added, ° however,
that she doesn’t see censor-
ship as being possible at this
time.

“Pm not telling people
what they should read,’’
Wyatt continued, ‘‘but the
magazines should not be
flaunted in public places,.so
they are offensive to people
— that’s my objection.” ;

PROTECT CHILDREN

Wyatt, a registered nurse,

“says her first and foremost

concern for Sighting ‘‘adult
publications ‘of a question-
able nature’’ is for the pro-
tection of childreii. °

Wyatt contacted local
merchants selling Playboy
publications to. try to
discourage them from offer-

ing the magazines — one be-
ing the auxiliary-run_ gift
shop at Lions Gate Hospital.

Ald. Rod Clark confirmed
that the bylaw would apply
to the LGH auxiliary gift
shop, along with other retail
outlets.

Speaking Thursday on the
bylaw, LGH auxiliary presi-
dent Vi Sharp said: ‘‘I don’t
really agree with it, because
we're selling the magazines
to the public. It’s not fea-
sible to cover them. But: we
have our magazines up high :
on the shelf so children can t
reach them.”’ :

Ald. Dana Taylor said the
bylaw would’ provide
‘tuniformity, consistency
and a minimal level of
discretion."”

Ald. Stella Jo Dean said
that distributors of the liter-
aiure have shown a _ will-
ingness to comply with the
bylaw by sharing the costs of
the concealing shelves be-
tween themselves and the,
retailers.

School satisfaction
survey ‘misleading’

THE VALIDITY of North Vancouver District
44’s 1985 school satisfaction and teacher response
surveys was lambasted by trustees at Tuesday
night’s school board meeting.

Trustee Ross Regan said
the method used in
calculating the surveys’ per-
centages was inaccurate and
the manner in which .they

: TOTALLY. oblivious to
the beautiful Vancouver
: skyline . -behind them,
‘students from’ the
“Pacific Marine Training
Institute practise
lifeboat lowering.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

were subsequently displayed
was misleading. .
He pointed to large per-
centages of undecided
responses in both surveys,
which he said rendered the
remaining yes-no_ percent-
ages misleading at best and
totally inaccurate at worst.
Regan maintained that in-
stead of calculating the yes-
no responses separately from
the undecided responses as
the district's survey had

done, all three should have
been calculated together.

A question put to 1,950
secondary parents asking
them how satisfied they were
with the voice they had in
school decisions that af-
fected their children —
which the district’s- satisfac-
tion survey showed as 66 per
cent satisfied, 34 per cent
not satisfied, and 33 per cent
undecided — would be
drastically altered to 44 per
cent satisfied, 23 per cent
not satisfied, and 33 per cent
undecided if those undecided
responses were figured back
into the total, Regan said.

Using Regan’s formula,
even more dramatic changes

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