GREAT NEWS! Staff and . students at Simon Fraser University can win a $5,000 prize for controversy. I thought of applying for a pro- fessorship. | could do with five thousand bucks. Think of all the beer it would buy. On second thoughts: however, | think my time would be better spent contemplating the infinite. Who wants a riot? Not SFU. There are limits to free speech, as the Left keeps on saying. ' The prize is called The Sterling Prize For Controversy because it was set up by a couple called Sterling. But is it really of sterling value? In the academic sense, that is. ~ [ would say not. One guy got the prize after putting out a report claiming that the Newfoundland fisheries had become a massive | make-work project with subsidized mismanagement. Another got it for discovering that 34 people with AIDS had died from assisted sui- cides. Kid stuff, that. Worthy. per- haps, but still pap. Let me assure:you that | do not believe in controversy for contro- versy's sake. Logic must prevail, otherwise controversy is like a badly laid rail track. ‘It might be controversial to bring out a scientific paper proving that wasps don’t sting. Or to claim that the RCMP were the first to fire shots at Gustafsen Lake, as that funny lawyer Bruce Clark has stat- _ ed. But it wouldn't be logical. *-. To continue: It was not surprising to find there is a Catch 22 in the conditions for winning the Sterling Prize.:(t can go only to the authors of “ethi- cal™.work, There we detect a whole sack of worms. Ethics change as often a3: : women’s fashions. It was once "unethical to advocate abortion. Now THE FOLLOWING people ‘recently, appeared in North Shore courts in connection . with drinking and driving relat “ed offences: . - =. John Manuel Yepez, 32. of North -Vancouver, was fined $800 and had his driver's licence suspended for Six months after he pleaded guilty to P= unless it has been Ty" decided that we don’t, as in the CG on the other hand it is unethical to advocate the oppo- site, especially at universities. + The Sterling Prize’s Cutch 22 is like the one in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which states that we have freedom of speech and press “democratical- case of the NDP's democratically decides Pl 33. And here we see another no-no. ~ There must, also be “morality” in any work that has any prospect of winning the prize. Left-wing morality. 1 think, for both Sterhngs have been involved on that side, he with Vietnam's communist government on defo- liants used by the U.S. military. and _ she having grown up in “a far-left Jewish athetst home. ‘There's another sack of worms. Such morality maybe no morality af all: It was certainly that way in the U.S.S.R. and in Uncle Ho's Vietnam. ; ~ The donors of the prize refer to ; the late Senator Joseph MeCarthy fascism” was ° ‘kindergarten suit compared with the politically correct persecutions now sweeping the universities in British Columbia and elsewhere. They also say that Hitler was a en Wn Gee edieis maleleves chek ers ersten AENEAN EE OURAN me Aci pte et having a blood alcohol level greater than .08. Clayton David John Powers. 21, of Squamish, was fined $500 and had his driver's ‘licence suspended for 12 months after he pleaded guilty to having a blood: alcohol ‘fevel greater. than .08. Compiled by Anna Marie D’Angeto ~ Louis XPV, France's fascist, but they are wrong again. He was a National Socialist who had no intention of copying Mussolini's corporate state, Like Sun King. he wanted to BE the state. And was, These days. anyone is a fuscist —- or even a Nazi — who opposes radical feminism, doesn’t like “employment equity,” thinks queers are queer, wants to keep Canada traditional, or believes that tens of thousands of welfare recipients are taking us for a ride. The list of such crimes is endless and [| would say _ that 75% of Canadians would quati- fy as “fascists.” Anyway, here are some ideas for any SFU types looking to be losers. in the Sterling Prize for Controversy. The forces behind the‘NDP's restrictive press legislation. How the left-wing got to domi- nate Canadian universities. The similarities between China's cultural revolution and the aims of graduate student lunatics at UBC. Sociology, criminology, and political science departments in the universities, Are they really neces- sary? ’ Indian violence and the absurdi- ty of Indian land claims. The political activities of the Canadian Jewish Congress: Liberal politicians ‘and their hid- den agendas. 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