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4- Friday, February 15, 1985 - North Shore News

strictly personal

by Bob Hunter
The bare facts

give you Canada in the 1980s. On one coast we
have Richard Hatfield being persecuted by the
media over unproven allegations that he smok-

ed pot and snorted coke in the privacy of his home
and on the other we have the B.C. Teachers Federa-
tion defending the Abbotsford educator who posed
ir! her garter belt for a wanker mag, claiming she
snouldn’t be suspended for public nudity.

Okay, what are we to make
of these utterly contradictory
positions? First, 1 feel sorry
for Hatfield. Whether he did
what he did or he didn’t is
beside the point. He was
cleared in court of a pot-
smuggling rap, and that
should be the end of it. Yet
the press has gone after his
hide, quoting unnamed ‘‘ex-
students’’, whatever the hell

an ex-student is supposed to
be, as saying they got stoned
with him at his home.

First of all, so what? If
you're going to make a deal
out of it, why not arrest the
ex-students? Second, what
bloody business is it of the
press what Hatfield does at
home anyway? When Maggie
Trudeau was making a name
for herself as a flower child,

the papers were careful to
avoid pointing out the ob-
vious, namely that she was
stoned out of her brain half
the time she lived at 24 Sussex
Drive.

Hatfield, for some reason,
has become the target of a
media witch-hunt. At the rate
things are going, by the time
this column sees the light of
print, he may have resigned,
for all I know. | hope he
doesn’t. Innocent until pro-
ven guilty — isn’t that the
way it’s supposed to work?
Just because somebody's a
politician shouldn't
automatically make them a
public whipping boy.

On the other hand, in the
case of the Abbotsford

teacher and her snapshot-
happy husband, we have a
clear-cut case of guilt already
established. If the question
is, did she pose for what is
known in the skin trade as a
beaver shot, the answer is
yes,

The school board in ques-
tion quite properly suspended
her. Then, thinking about it,
the board suspended her hus-
band as well for taking the
picture in the first place. Cor-
rection: not for taking the
picture, but for getting it
published.

Nobody argues for a
minute that the couple didn’t
have a perfect right to do
whatever they wanted to do
in the privacy of their
bedroom. But submitting the
photo to what is politely call-
ed a ‘‘girlie’’ magazine in
New York is a whole other
order of business.

Personally, 1 think any
husband who wants to show
his basically naked wife off
to an audience of anonymous
‘onanists is a weirdo to begin
with. In the old days, the

woman herself would be
referred to a a shut. It's that
simple.

Teachers are constantly
trying to make the point that
they are professionals. Okay,
where does the teachers’
federation get off then trying
to rationalize such unprofes-
sional conduct as baring
one’s ass in a skin mag?

Secondly, Jet’s face it, if
the rules of the private sector
applied, most employees who
undertook to uncover like
that would find themselves
out on the street in minutes. !
mean, if Ms. Beasley’s boobs
are flaunted in pinups stuck
up all over the office, who’s
going to be able to concen-
trate on their dictation? To
pretend that the kids in the
naked teacher’s room aren’t
going to be affected in their
perception of the authority
figure (well, figure anyway)
at the front of the class, is
nonsense. Nudge, nudge.
Wink, wink. I know perfectly
well if any of my teachers had
ever posed nude the picture
would have appeared in every

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A teacher is a teacher is a
teacher. A stripper is a strip-
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go to an exotic dance parlour
to learn geography. You
don’t go to school, at least in
theory, to learn anatomy first
hand. The bra and the
algebra are two separate
functions, if you'll excuse the
expression,

If the teacher had mooned
her class or streaked at
graduation, she’d be out the
door for good. Posing in her
birthday suit is the same
damn thing. As for her hus-
band, he’s obviously slightly
twisted, Who wants a pervert
teaching their kids anyway?

The point is, Richard Hat-
field and the Abbotsford hus-
band/wife educational phato
team both take their pay
from the public purse. rhe
one is being persecuted for
something he may or may not
have done in private, the
others are being defended for
a very public act of indecent
exposure,

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