6 — Wednesday, September 16, 1996 — North Shore News north shore news VIEWPOINT Party fine ESSON one for the new school ear: community responsibility. ot cool, perhaps. But without _ it we would have one low-rent neigh- borhood from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove, Candidates to spend time in the first class: the mob of siobs who made up the Labor Day evening grad party in the wooded area immediately south ” of the Capilano watershed. As chronicled in the Sept. 9 News, : the partygoers were high school stu- denits entering their last year of school. Tradition calls for the new batch of Grade 12s to spend the last night of their summer vacation camped out on _ school playing fields. But over the years the camp site has moved to areas other than school grounds. _, Other traditions have mutated into y: » For, example, ‘the Seiitinel celebra- mailbox ~ sleep, Med ainoe, evident! construction m rules which are quite different from the. ‘skating’ tink. When my. chil- ted that we ha eaneemeimnmnemecseeinaimenemtaned I = Ee gone © through my ninth night of a restless tion included an cstimated 100 rev- ellers. The noise from their party dis- turbed area residents until the early morning hours. The camp site/party site was left in an appalling state. All manner of trash, including 1,500 empties of beer and other alcoholic beverages, littered the site. Aside from the alcoholic aspects of the whole affair, the state of the site underlines the disturbing lack of civic responsibility shown by the students. They apparently are waiting for moth- er to clean up after them. Hey kids, tune in. After graduation, mother is not always going to be there to clean up. You'll have to clean up after yourselves. It’s called responsibility for your actions. The school of hard knocks is big on that. LAST Friday's bloodbath of Bill’s and Monica’s detailed sex _ games, endlessly analyzed and “ egunter-analyzed, leaves us sim- ple, dull, non-presi- dential types gasp- ing for breath. And gasping with relicf, top, thar at least we're merely spectators. ~ It's our cousins below ‘ the border who now have the sticky job of deciding their president’s *, fate: accept his plea for * forgiveness and fet him close; .. off with a slap on the erseeecesosees pecsansese i swim, I just have ka : of politics svhich seems ta-be ’ ipal to federal, It basically says :doing; and you taxpayers and Don Bell has visited the 3 ‘Himes’ (although ‘nothing positive as ‘Of yer), 1 was hot pleased by (Coun.) Lisa that-“che broies las to be finished on time, ‘ .” May Task why? ¢ of industry (such and one of the still comes down to the ‘principal doesn’t it? in a democracy and J thought nsierable to us; instead we tate of helpless apathy. 0 Worry, I wil bably. have many more sleepless its:thanks to the boys across the street in order ta pon- on a the pr problems of the world! Werth $20re terws, founded in 1969 2s an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Paragraph 111 of the 985-2131 (127) ~ 1582 (aca craston, Weta, Feiday & Sunday) _ end the matter. If it votes © wrist to complete the remaining two years © of his second (and last) term? Or finally rise up in moral outrage aid demand an _ impeachment hearing. All this assuming, of course, that Clinton doesn’t pull a Nixon on them by resigning. in. Friday it became up to the House of Representatives to ultimately vote for . Ot against an impeachment hearing before the Senate. If the House votes “no,” that would “ves,” then the Senate impeachment trial — presided over by the chief judge of the US Supreme Court — would go ahead. One other not entirely irrelevant point is thatthe impeachment option could take up quite a lor of time: possibly much, if not all, of Clinton’s remaining two years in office. e spectacle of the free world being led i into, the next millennium by a lame- Complolet 905-2131 (33) Photography 985-2131 (160) Sorte Shore News Is published by North Shore Free Press itd., Publishe e . a . sere he as ges vets 7 Ne wr eewr Pan mee ee SO RP Pa Ee woe nent + Nein ab brit hae TR SOIL R A ae UD a 8, ~ Welcome the president’ S$ husba duck U.S. president under an impeach- ment cloud — only to be finally ousted about the time his term ended anyhow — is not a very appetizing spectacle. This seems 40 far te be a consideration with average American citizens, many of whom have never had ir better than under the Clinton administration with a booming economy, low bnempioyment and a top dollar. Until last week, despite hither all that. was already clear about the presi- and yon majority in the opinion polis did not want Clinton impeached. And even after the damning 445-page Starr report was released on the Internet, the first polls still showed a reduced majority of the nation calling for him to carry on. Members of the House o! Representatives — who now hold . © % Clinton’s immediate fate in their hands — obviously keep their ears closely attuned to the opinion polls. But there’s also a quite different factor that shouldn’t be discounted: the instinct of the Democratic caucus for self-preser- vation. In a classic example of the rats-and- sinking-ship story a growing number of Democrats are now distancing themselves from Clinton, fearing the latest develop- ments could badly hurt the party in chis.. ‘ fall's mid-term elections, not to-mention © * the presidential-clection two years later. Suddenly, Al Gore — minus the | . “Viee-” in his tithe - — ~ begins to dent’s dalliances, a solid cantor Maybe, .in the: ‘short t " erazy to worry whether th Democrat to the White:-Héu s survival chus I watched that answer in on TV last.Friday ata mecting: group of American-Iri At the podium a superb -er, better than Bill Clint highly attractive human ing t ate and listen to. And clearly, | benca the: clegant surface, a brain wo ing, like a stcel machine on glass. App enough, the President Was among ‘tho loudly applauding:---: What better; more dramatic: Hillary Rodham Chen as their first Madam President and the firs female: leader of the fr orld? ~— and just imagine; what. rou women around the ‘globe. " If Hillary can handle Bill the vay has for the past six’y dito can handle anything throw at her. no And what a fitting’ retirement role for Bill, still able to artend all the. gr . “the president's husband was, that is! . ing for.a big ap; ; youve. got a Big Pro LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Lettars must includa your name, full address & telephone number. VIA e-mail: trenshaw @ direst.ca SES 2131 116) "Wiad Ageia Promotions Manager” 905-2131, (218) | Entive contents © 1997 North Shore cer Press Lid, At San reserved. 985-2131 (114), ~— Anieews McCredie - Sports/Community | edits. : SBE-2131 (147)