8 - Friday, April 11, 1986 - North Shore News

Doug Collins

© get this straight ®

YOUR HUMBLE scribe has made the pages of the
Capilano Courier, a Capilano College training ground for

jernalists.

The occasion of this editorial
honor was my recent foray into
pervert-person land. In which,
you may recall, | took issue with
the way things are going at UBC.

For old and hopeless squares
Jike me, things are not going wei
at UBC and similar institutions of
higher learning. They are not go-
ing well at institutions of lower
learning, either, of which Cap
Coliege is one.

The impression one gets from
student rags like Ubyssey is that
the place is overrun with pansies
and lesbians. The university
bosses. meanwhile, harass healthy
engineering students, obliging
them to cancel events fike the
Lady Godiva ride. But unhealthy
events like a conference sponsored
by Gays and Lesbians of UBC
({GLUBC) receive the university's
blessing.

The Capilano Courier sides
with the pervert-persons, natural-
ly, and anathema is p:onounced
on Doug. Which is as it should be.
If it were the other way round, J
wouldn’t know where to put my
words.

Anyway, you will be pleased to
hear that ‘‘the Courier and the
Ubyssey oppose sexism, racism
and homophobia’, of which
crimes the wretch Collins stands
guilty as charged.

‘Never mind. | am delighted that
the Courier reproduced some of
my immortal lines,.even though
the preainble to them was an exer-
cise in illiteracy that is only to be
“expected in an institution of lower

City officially

IT’S NOW official.

By STEPHEN BARRINGTON
Contributing Writer

North Vancouver City Council
voted: Monday to officially desig-
nate gold and royal blue as the
colors of the city.

In a repezt to council, city clerk
Bruce Hawkshaw explained that
after a review of the city’s heraldry
and coat of arms he determined
that the colors gold and royal blue
were predominant.

learning that encourages
jernalism.

Example: ‘‘But worst of all
rears it’s ugly head in (Collins’s)
last paragraph."’

it may take you a minute to
work that one out. And it is clear
that the writer’s name is unlikely
to be put forward for a Nobel
Prize in Literature. Given enough
time, however, he, she or it may
eventually learn that the
possessive pronoun ifs has no
apostrophe.
2S ECCS ICANN NT NS

“The majority of UBC

Students think tiat native
issues and gay rights are im-
portant...”

2 TT

Apart from the mis-spelling of
Jairies, however (perhaps they
have heard of Spenser’s Faerie
Queene?) the paper quotes me
correctly, Viz:

“The thinking of these darlings
is the wave of the future...what
with faeries being encouraged to
join the RCMP and the army,
etc.””

The Courier considers itself to
be ‘talternative media" and says it
will ‘go on fighting for a better
world’’,

That’s what worries me.

Do you think these darlinzs will,
ever grow up?

x wk

All is not lost on the student

front, though. That mucn is clear
from a letter from a UBC student
whose name I won't use in case he
is victimized for being normal.

“Not all of us are queers and
commies,”’ he states, ‘‘although
you’d never know it by what we
hear from vocal left-wing pro-
fessors, homos, Marxists and
other undesirables that litter the
pages of the Ubyssey.

“The editors of that monstrosi-
ty don’t represent the views of
many students. They’d have you
believe that there is nothing more
important to us than the over-
throw of South Africa and the
betterment of fags...

“The majority of UBC students
don’t think that native issues and
gay rights are of any importance,
either. Most of us are busy getting
an education and are not bothered
with the lunatic ravings of a vocal
minority. So when Ubyssey puts
out “homo” and *‘disarmament”’
— read anti-Amevican — issues it
would be best to ignore them. It is
sad that the only image of UBC
that most people see is one of
homosexuality and socialism.”

wk k *

One da; I may put out a book
of readers’ letters, many of them
being more fun than fun. After
the column on Media Watch and
the Sunshine Girl appeared, for
instance, a Coquitlam lady wrote:

“*Yours ‘are the snortings of a
frightened male. If you were a real
man you'd go out rnd squeal your
tires or punch a few cows, or
maybe shoot some commies. In-
stead, you look at half-naked
women.”

God bless us every one.

names colors

“‘It appears as if it was intended

they be the city’s colors,”’ he said.

Further evidence in support of”

this, he added, is that both of the
flags the city has had, have
featured mainly gold and roval
blue.

‘What about our two red cats,

Ou

Ald. Ralph Hall quipped, referring... ..

to the lions’ faces on the city’s coat
of arms.

“They're just incidental,” Ald.
Stella Jo Dean replied,
laughter from council.

amid 2m

Shaw Cable 10. pickets
interrupt mail delivery

From Page 1

Of the reward posted for infor-
mation by Shaw management,
Morrison said he was surprised to
see it.

He said management allegations
that the IBEW had sabotaged
Shaw property were unfounded:
“If they have accusations, they
should lay charges. We have no
idea who did what.”

Morrison said the reward was
part of the company’s ‘‘scare tac-
tics’, and was a cover-up for
damage done to their cable system
by untrained and inexperienced
non-union replacement workers.

Morris said IBEW members are
now following Shaw trucks and
throwing pickets up wherever

fines,

cablevision installations are being
made.

Service. he said, has been af-
fected in some areas. -

Morris added that anyone doing
installations must undergo a train-
ing process. Length of that train-
ing varied, he said, according to
previous experience.

IBEW pickets interrupted mail
delivery at Woodcroft Wednesday.

Morrison said IBEW frustration
was growing over stalled contract
negotiations, and admitted there
had been verbal harassment on
both sides of the flying . picket
““but there have been no
physical exchanges, as far as }
know.”

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