mong West Van council’s unfinished 1984 business still awaiting a decision is how..to proceed towards a com- munity arts centre, the’ subject of a compre- hensive task force report submitted to council last year. a) 3 The. report ‘reviewed the varied needs of such a centre, including: a .Jarge or mid-size theatre, a visual arts: gallery and .accom- ” medation: for. -Tehearsals, workshops and _ storage---each:in-: fis “own. appropriate ‘ builiing. For eliearsal, workshop and Storage spzcz, «: possibly: ‘combined with a smail. performing theatre or gallery, the task force’s:-firm recommendation was to lease |. the former Pauline Johnson Scheol from the 4. school board. for an-initlal five-year period. Every: major: : project” must begin some- where and, ‘as: a. ucleus- for the eventual . fuil-scale arts complex, Pauline Johnson “. would seem. ai. ideal hoice. It’s a well-loved West. Vaw’ landmar! 9 ‘structurally ~ sound, “centrally located near ‘the Rec Centre and “with: ample parking: Precedents for. leasing from: the ‘school: board: at 2 ‘nominal: : dollar eat Mssuwille, if the school beard should splay Advertising, 680-0514 ‘Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom. : .! Noet Wright Dis, tay Advertsing Manager Production Director ike Goodsell Chris Johnson Classified Manager Photography Manager ' v, + Val Stephenson Terry Peters er arene i om _ >. North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban ‘3 Rewspaper and qualified under Schedule tll, Part Ill, Paragraph til of the -*" Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday. Friday and Sunday by *. «North Shore Free Press Lid. and distributed to every door on the North v “Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Entire contents © 1984 North Shore. Free Press Ltd. 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Mailing rates Consider, for instance, a 100” course’ Included in the topics are . principles of ‘learning and behaviorism,| theory and ° -:-Fesearch of life-span develop- - ment, and similar mysterizs. -And under “Guidelines for .the Assignments’' we. see the _ following: “Essay papers. must © be “cwritten in non-sexists -(sic) language, e.g. ‘‘he or she”’ or ‘ts/he’? or. using the. words ° “humans”? or ‘men and women” “‘people”’ That small exercise in -il- ““fiteracy: ‘shows us that the maniacs are determined to put the kids through a lib-left wringer and wash them clean of sexist sin, thus producing good lithe wimps for a nation that is now leads the world in wimpishness. i : Anyone seen to greenbelt iingualism. eh ete -, Bender imasculine takes ‘precedence., ’So' you write; or. sayz: “If~ _anyone disagrees, with me he " :should go‘jump in the lake.”’ “It is ludicrous to state ‘‘he'or ° '¥ she should jump in the lake,’’ and insane to write. ‘‘s/he “should jump in the lake’’: There are good reasons for | the masculine’ precedence, ‘not the least being that it: is: who has an” elementary. education in ‘English. knows that. where LETTER OF THE DAY | No threat =: ; oe istrict ‘The pathway, - shortcut -but a designed ac- ‘.cess to the school, ig “deed “not clumsy. And’ why: use “three words: when one will “do? A pox,on such. nonsense. -Imagine:. a” student “losing “marks because he had written “the”? instead of ‘ty, would even a Cap College “teacher refer to God as He or She, or S/He?. The ‘possibility that s/he ‘ would,:draws ver. nearer. In Ontario, a committec headed by Attorney General Roy McMurtry and. pompously called a ‘‘taskforce’? has ‘published something called “Guidelines for the Ap- proprite Portrayal of Racial Diversity in Ontario Govtrn- .ment Advertising end Communications,” . This abortion outlaws ail ‘kinds of words with ‘‘black”’ in them: “blackmail’’, for in- Dear Editor: Ms.. Angela Moore is.. ‘understandably concerned ‘about the. wilderness adjoin- ing her property when she ex- horts. us to. write “to the Council to advise “there is no real need io fur- ther destroy this greenbelt.”” no casual has been of such. concern ‘to the families whose children use it that of the approximaiely 120 ' families canvassed in the peti- tion, only one abstained from “i the c /he’’, or | 2“mankind?? | instead of the “atrocity ‘‘humankind”’. And : signing. Doug. Collins C f 4 stance,’ lest the immigrants” from, the West Indies take offence. But ‘“‘whitewash”’ is OK, . possibly. because “blackmail”? may soon. be. changed to’ ‘‘whitemail*’.. (Which reminds me thet“ a Vancouver Sun man recently asked an editor whether use of the word ‘‘niggardly’’ would be offensive. | don’t believe the story but it’s true.) There is no limit.to such ‘The request in the petition was. for ‘ brush’” to be permanently cleared.on each side of the path. There was no request to remove the graceful timber of the area. ’ Ms. Moore is mistaken in her identification of the lady who initiated the petition-as a “newcomer to thre area. The ‘lady has in fact fived in the arca since 1970 (and is recent- ly returned after a short absence). So perhaps she is more familiar than Ms. i lop: headedness.: ~Amiele of. Macléeet’ s .,.Magazine has reported onthe © - . North York. Board of Educe.. a aa ? tyle oi . see a cont ‘the heavy under- :. ‘Barbara Ontario is a'pace-setter in: “this. stuff, \even though’ Cap. - - College. is, doing“its best to: catch up. Amiel also reports,‘ * for instance that the govern- ment TV. channel ‘has been . ‘told to use different racial ac- “cents from. time to time. ‘She ‘says:she,, can’t wait J amaican ‘means HL ing here?” ‘and: ‘His World” — would : probably have to. be’ ‘called “Person ‘and S/He world.’ " Already, we: “no longer See “man-hours” in department -” of labor :reports. “‘person-houts.?2 0... 1f ever {’m in-a shipwreck, the persons can person: the bloody lifeboats. ! never did like rowing. And s/he who doesn’ t t like it tan go jump in the lake. It?s as Moore with bears in garbage cans -and cougar’ alerts. ‘By “identifying the exact location . of the: “greenbelt”. , Ms. Moore’ telegraphs. thei impor-- tance of clearing the ‘tinder: brush jungle to avoid pro- blems-with both the illiterate ‘four legged and the literate two legged. If any child now suffers injury as a result of her ‘letter, she.“ mist, share some of the responsibitity: if not liability. : . B. Ainsworth North Vancouver |. .