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September 27, 1985 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337 72 pages 25¢

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pornography cover-up

A NORTH Vancouver woman is responsible for instigating a pornography cover-up.

Olive Wyatt, who has been fighting a one-woman battle against pornography, asked North Vancouver City Council in April to pass a bylaw that would require merchants to pornographic literature behind opaque plastic cover- ings 47 inches above the ground.

City council unanimously agreed to that bylaw Mon- day, giving it first, second and third readings.

Wyatt says the bylaw; similar to the one passed in West Vancouver, has been established ‘‘after a great deal of groundwork.”

“I feel very elated and delighted at council’s -at- titude,”’ she.said.

Wyatt said the bylaw pro- hibiting shopkeepers to openly display magazines, such as Playboy, Penthouse and Playgirl, is a ‘band-aid

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procedure, but it’s all we can do until there is censorship.”

Wyatt added, ° however, that she doesn’t see censor- ship as being possible at this time.

“Pm not telling people what they should read,’’ Wyatt continued, ‘‘but the magazines should not be flaunted in public places,.so they are offensive to people — that’s my objection.” ;

PROTECT CHILDREN

Wyatt, a registered nurse,

“says her first and foremost

concern for Sighting ‘‘adult publications ‘of a question- able nature’’ is for the pro- tection of childreii. °

Wyatt contacted local merchants selling Playboy publications to. try to discourage them from offer-

ing the magazines — one be- ing the auxiliary-run_ gift shop at Lions Gate Hospital.

Ald. Rod Clark confirmed that the bylaw would apply to the LGH auxiliary gift shop, along with other retail outlets.

Speaking Thursday on the bylaw, LGH auxiliary presi- dent Vi Sharp said: ‘‘I don’t really agree with it, because we're selling the magazines to the public. It’s not fea- sible to cover them. But: we have our magazines up high : on the shelf so children can t reach them.”’ :

Ald. Dana Taylor said the bylaw would’ provide ‘tuniformity, consistency and a minimal level of discretion."”

Ald. Stella Jo Dean said that distributors of the liter- aiure have shown a _ will- ingness to comply with the bylaw by sharing the costs of the concealing shelves be- tween themselves and the, retailers.

School satisfaction survey ‘misleading’

THE VALIDITY of North Vancouver District 44’s 1985 school satisfaction and teacher response surveys was lambasted by trustees at Tuesday night’s school board meeting.

Trustee Ross Regan said the method used in calculating the surveys’ per- centages was inaccurate and the manner in which .they

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By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

were subsequently displayed was misleading. . He pointed to large per- centages of undecided responses in both surveys, which he said rendered the remaining yes-no_ percent- ages misleading at best and totally inaccurate at worst. Regan maintained that in- stead of calculating the yes- no responses separately from the undecided responses as the district's survey had

done, all three should have been calculated together.

A question put to 1,950 secondary parents asking them how satisfied they were with the voice they had in school decisions that af- fected their children — which the district’s- satisfac- tion survey showed as 66 per cent satisfied, 34 per cent not satisfied, and 33 per cent undecided — would be drastically altered to 44 per cent satisfied, 23 per cent not satisfied, and 33 per cent undecided if those undecided responses were figured back into the total, Regan said.

Using Regan’s formula, even more dramatic changes

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