oth far aid ae} § a . EOF NORT? IO VEST EURO STYLE British Rail hotel reborn Back from Europe, as latest London Crenna reviews city sensation. street trends, baled 56 pages School labor dispute dispatches with NV grades, summer school THE DISTRIBUTION of form letters indicating that a child has passed or failed a prate al school in North Van- couver this year is a cold way fo replace report cards, says Search scene POLICE DIVERS looking for the body of missing North Vancouver resident Lynn Duggan searched the waters near North Vancouver’s Pier $4 at the foot of St. Andrews Avenue on Thursday. No clues to Duggan’s whereabouts were found in the search. gna tatA NG E a, i one local mother. “Pthink its unfair. Kids are so proud to show their report cards, and they look forward to getting them,’’ said Helen Campbell, whose three children attend Lure son elementary school, North Vancouver District 44 School Bourd (NVSB) and the North Vancouver Teachers’ Association (NVTA) are receiving complaints from parents about the lack of report cards, “tin getting a Jot of phone calls from parents expressing disappointment and concerns. Some cahs say the school board is not living up to its responsibiiity,”’ said NVSB superintendent Robin Brayne. Brayne said school principals By Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter are to communicate to parents whether children have passed ar failed grades. But NVTA first vice-president Keith Denley said teachers hive been very responsible since being ina legal strike position in April. “We have not withdrawn from extracurricular activities,’ said Denley. He said if- the school board had agreed to binding arbitration, report, cards would have been issued this year. See Talks page & Principal bans release of W. Van school yearbook GRADUATING STUDENTS of West Vancouver senior secondary school will not be able to sign each other’s yearbooks until September. The principal. of the school has found the content of the books to be offensive and degrading. On June 14, the - school received the 850 annuals from a Burnaby printer. Upon closer inspection of the yearbooks, the principal discovered, ac- cording to a letter sent to parents of graduates, ‘30 arti- cles which are vulgar, degrading, insulting, racist or negative.”” Like most high school year- books, the West Vancouver annual is written and prepared by graduating students. The principal, Arnie Smith, decided the books would not be released, and has directed the printer, Jostens Publishers, to revise the yearbook. The revised editions will be available during the first week of September. In a June 18 letter to parents, Smith wrote that after approval of the final draft by the adult sponsor, ‘‘some devious and dishonest students changed sections of the an- nual.’’ The letter states the cost of revising the annuals is $30,000. *‘They have embarrassed their peers, the school and the staff,’* Smith continued. **We are carrying out a thorough in- vestigation and have informed the West Vancouver Police re- garding charges because of the By A.P. McCredie News Reporter magnitude of the damage.”’ Smith’s letter asks parents for any information regarding the incident. But a parent of a graduating West Vancouver student thinks the principal is showing poor judgment in censoring the stu- dents’ efforts. “The school gave these kids editorial freedom, and now they are breaking that agree- ment,’’ said the parent, who wished to. remain anonymous for fear of reprisal against a second child he has attending school in West Vancouver, The parent also said he had heard that the teachers were threatening to boycott the graduating ceremonies unless the book was pulled, and that some of the students responsi- ble for producing the books were being threatened with ex- pulsion. ‘ Meanwhile, a receptionist at West Vancouver secondary said Smith had no comment to make on the recalled annuals. A spokesman for the West Vancouver Teachers Associa- tion was unavailable for com-_ ment to press time Friday.