28 - Friday, January 31, 1992 - North Shore News This week’s question: PEOPLE KEEP dying in Lynn Canyon Park. So a task force has recommended that the police do checks for alcohol and regular patrois of the area. Will this stop the risk-takers? What do you recommend? 980-KIDS NDP tuition freeze promise proving empty WELL, THE NDP are finally showing their true colors, aren’t they? Let’s give ’em a chance, we said, it’s time for a change, they said. Alas, every day I succumb further to believing the P.T. Barnum effect: ‘‘there’s a sucker born every minute.”’ When Mike Harcourt and his cronies were shaking hands and kissing babies before election day, they said tuition for post-secon- dary education would freeze. Surprise, surprise, this promise has proved empty, or it at least is in serious doubt. The simple fact of the matter is that the NDP needed the student vote, not to win, burt every little vote helps no matter who it comes from, and no matter what you say to get it. Well, every rightly disgusted (or should we say leftly-disgusting?) student over 19 still wet behind the ears cried: ‘‘Hey, let’s get rid of these damn Socreds, they can’t be trusted. Let’s give Mike a chance, at least he’s not as annoy- ing as nagging Rita Johnston.’” Sadly, maybe we should have echoed old mother Rita when she cried: ‘‘Give us the numbers, Mike!”” As usual, hindsight is 20/20. Now the NDP finance minister BY ROD SOLAR Glen Clark has stated that the on- ly thing freezing will be govern- ment funding. He must not realize The mirror game Theatre exercises by Dramaworks BEING AWARE and sen- sitive to other people is an important part of our preparation for drama. Try the mirror game with someone. Form a pair. One is a ‘‘per- son;’? the other is his or her reflection in the mirror. Starting very, very slowly, _ Imaintaining eye contact, make the person and the reflection move as one. You do not try and trick your partner. Go slowly and pay particular attention to detail. Change roies with your partner so the one who was the reflection is now the per- son, but do so without breaking the flow of the movement that you have established. Just for fun, you may like to try this same kind of exercise with two or more people standing behind one another. Form a line and move as one, sensing what the other person in front of you is going to do. Work very slowly. You may find that gentle music will help you concentrate for both exercises. Stay tuned for more Dramaworks exercises. For more information on pramaworks programs call 922- 3. that the average student’s heating bill will get last attention behind tuition and books. Yes, tuition will go up, and up and up, and the weather is only getting colder. So as the recession creeps its icy claws into the B.C. backyard, it will be students who are hardest hit. Work, if you can get it, can only be part-time and low-paying. The more you work, the less you can study. Student loans are get- ting harder and harder to get these days with the new 3% surcharge Watch for our special saie section in your Friday February 14 North Shore News on applications. There’s the GST on books. The sky is falling. Let’s face it, unless you are recognizably destitute, living out of a cardboard box and eating out of soup kitchens, the government expects your parents to put up the fortune (and then some) that it costs to gO to university, and we all know that this isn’t necessarily the case. Politicians — they’re ail cut from the same cloth. Somebody prove me wrong. It’s just the names and faces that change over RETAILERS: Advertise your sale in our. ‘RED TAG section — there’s special savings for you too! DEADLINE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 DISPLAY 980-0511 ‘THE VOICE CF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER north.shore: SUNDAY + WEDNESDAY * FRIDAY the years. - The slogan, however, never changes: promises are made to be broken. Work your tails off, boys and girls, gather those nuts like good little chipmunks, because it’s go- ing to be a long, cold winter, and it’s about four years until the next election. Just wait, four years down the toad there will be some other glossy-eyed perma-smile joker on the campaign trail chanting: **Read my lips, no new taxes.”’