July 21, 1989

Ploughshares Youth expecting 7000 for summer festival

By PADRAIC BRAKE

Ploughshares Youth is expect­ing approximately 7000 people to attend the fifth annual Peace-A­Chord to be held Saturday and Sunday,July 22 and 23 from noon to 9:00 p.m. in Bannerman Park.

Dana Warren, one of the coor­dinators of the festival said, "We're expecting a larger turn out this year since we are better or­ganized."

In 1985 the f es ti val was an afternoon event with six per­formers and an audience of about seventy. Last year there were thir­ty performers over the two day period attracting approximately 5000 people.

When describing the aim of the festival Warren said, "It's a fun way to educate yourself about what's going on in the world, but we 're not going to be preaching

to people. Just sit down in the park and enjoy yourself."

Peace-A-Chord is combination of music , entertainment, speakers, and workshops in a family orientated festival, said Warren.

"We 're aiming at all ages for the festival, from young to old," said Warren.

"We've had a tremendous response from the community once again, with all the speakers and musicians playing for free," said Warren. "We have over 250 volunteers working in organizing the weekend festival."

Some money is still required since Spirit of the West cost the organizers $1500.

They are the only people were

paying for the weekend, and they gave us a good deal, said Louise Ellis, another volunteer for the weekend.

"Money was raised in various ways," said Ellis. "We had benefits, sold hand-painted t­shirts done by local artists and buttons, and through personal donations."

"Spirit of the West is actually performing free at the Peace-A­Chord since they, and Arlene Mantle will be playing Friday, July 21 at the Curling Club," said Warren. "The $8.00 price for tick­ets should help out on expenses, plus the opening act of The Thomas Trio and .Red Albino should draw people in."

There will be over 50 per­formers for the Peace-A-Chord, highlighted by the appearance of Juno award winning Spirit of the

West from Vancouver and Arlene Mantle from Toronto, plus local artists such as Dennis Parker, Sarabande, Ron Hynes, The Thomas Trio and Red Albino, Louise and Becky Moyes, Dead Reckoning, and many more.

"Spirit of the West is a tradi­tional Irish band, while Arlene is a political folk artist," said Ellis.

"A lot of the credit for the suc­cess of this weeks festival has to go to Tina Thoden and Dana War­ren," said Ellis. "They have worked really hard to ensure everything runs smoothly."

"In case there is rain we have another venue available for the weekend, the St John's Curling Club on May.or Avenue," said Ellis.

These are some of the members Ploughshares Youth, the group organizing the fifth annual Peace-A-Chord being held this Saturday and Sunday in Bannerman Park from noon to 9:00 p.m. each day.

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U of S considers nuclear energy Saskatoon (CUP)- The Univer­

sity of Saskatchewan is consider­ing buying a prototype nuclear reactor to he_lp heat its campus.

Atomic Energy of Canada, through a subsidiary, is trying to interest the university in a reactor, which it says could heat as much as twenty-five per cent of the campus.

The company, Local Energy Systems, would operate the reac­tor, selling heat to the U of S at a price "competitive to the cheapest alternative, be that gas or coal", according to a company spokesperson. L.E.S. has also agreed to pay the $9 million it will take to convert existing steam pipes to hot water pipes.

But the proposal has been savaged by local critics.

"They have been travelling all over Canada with a sales pitch, trying to give these away, so that is the motivation that is driving this," said Anne Coxworth, a member of the Saskatchewan En­vironmental Society.

She said energy efficiency could be as much as seven times as effective for the university as a nucJear reactor.

The reactor U of S is consider­ing would be 500 times larger than other Slowpoke (safe low power critical experiment) nuclear reactors, which are primarily used for research.

The University de Sherbrooke­Quebec and a General Electric plant in Peterborough, Ontario, have already turned down options

to buy the reactor. Atomic Energy of Canada has not sold a reactor since 1977.

Gordon Edwards, a member of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, said while the Slowpoke may appear cost effective, it "would be prohibitively expensive without the massive multi-billion dollar subsidies which the nucJear in­dustry has received".

L.E.S spokesperson Metro Demetria said the price is worth pay mg.

"We have assumed we want a certain standard ofliving. In look-

ing for that standard of living we know there are going to be risks. Society generally makes the judgement whether they want the

risks for the benefits." Coxworth disagreed: "There

may be situations where there aren't any other good alterna­tives, but I don't think we 're in that situation here."

The Atomic Energy Control Board is studying L.E.S. 's plans, and the Saskatchewan govern­ment is conducting an environ­mental assessment. Both studies should be complete by the end of August. The university will then be able to decide whether to go ahead.

Students hope to form Chinese Association

By RICK RENNIE

A group of Memorial students is attempting to raise funds and interest in hopes of establishing a Chinese Students Association on campus.

Last week, in the Thomson Student Centre, they sold tickets on ten dozen beer and raised ap­proximately $300 towards their cause.

C . Yang, a group member, said the association has just set up a committee. They arc not yet ratified, he said, but are now working towards that end.

The purpose of the association, said Yang, would be to help or­ganize and participate in Chine~e

students' organizations across Canada.

Yang said support was very good and some people simply donated without taking a ticket, while others said that if thev won

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in their cause, including those who bought tickets, those who volunteered their time, and the breweries that supplied the prize.

Yang said he hopes this kind of support will continue and grow.

Yie Tak Tse of Vancouver, who was visiting Memorial for the ~ational Ping Po ng C ham­pionships, was the prize winner.

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Roberts will be Chair

New Human Rights Commission appointed By RICK RENNIE

On July 13, 1989, Minister of Justice and Attorney General Paul Dicks announced the ap­pointment of a new Provincial Human Rights Commission.

Eve Roberts, a partner with the local law firm of Halley/Hunt will chair the new commission, while Jane House, a teacher at the New­foundland School for the Deaf, has been appointed Vice-Chair­person.

Roberts has been involved with National Board of Directors for the Women's Legal Action and Education Fund and was a mem­ber of the Minister's Committee appointed in 1987 to review the Human Rights Code. She is also a member of a number of a num­ber of local community organiza­tions.

Jane House, who holds a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology, Guidance and Coun­sel1ing from Memorial, and a Masters of Education in Deaf Education from the University of Moncton , has served as Newfoundland's Regional Direc­tor for the Association of Canadian Educators and is now Co-Chairperson of the National Biennial Conference of the As­sociation of Canadian Educators, scheduled to be held in St. John's in August of this year. She is also Chairperson of the New-

Canadian Paraplegic Associa­tion, and has served on the execu­tive of the Newfoundland and Lab rad or Ph ysica II y Hand­i capped Association and the Newfoundland Wheelchair Sports Association.

The other appointees on the commission are: Linda Coles, a teacher at a local elementary school who has held various posi­tions on the NT A; Lorraine Ed­wards, a Lewisporte resident involved in numerous community associations providing assistance to mentally and physically dis­abled individuals; Robert Mercer of Corner Brook, who is active in a number of community groups, including the West Coast Inter­faith Social Welfare Council; Calvin Patey, who is currently a Program Coordinator with the Labrador East Integrated School Board, a member of the NTA, and ho Ids executive positions on various community organiza-

tions; Bert Riggs, who is employed with the Archives division of the Centre for New­foundland Studies at Memorial and is currently president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Association; and Wendy WiJliams, a nurse who has served as Clinic Director of Planned Parenthood of New­foundland and Labrador, is a member of the St. John's Status of Women Council and the Provin­cial Advisory Council on the Status of Women, is a founding member of the AIDS support group of Newfoundland and Labrador and serves on a number of other community based or­ganizations.

Bert Riggs said that the mem­bers are appointed on a three year basis and selected largely on the grounds of experience i!l the promotion of human rights and involvement in specific com­munity organizations.

The Human Rights Commis­sion, said Riggs, unlike the Human Rights Association, operates under the Human Rights Code and is empowered by legis-1 a ti on. The Association, he pointed out, operates on a volun­teer basis and is a body of "ad­vocacy and education".

Riggs said he has no immediate plans to resign his position as president of the Human Ri~hts

said, is distinct from the Commis­sion and neither he nor the mini­ster see any conflict of interest. He hopes, he said, to serve out his term as Association president, which is up in the fall.

Riggs said the Commission has not met in some time since there has been a delay of several months between the dissolution of the past body and the estab-1 ish ment of the present one. Therefore, Riggs said, there is a backlog of cases and the Commission's first priority will probably be to deal with those.

Riggs said that, based on a con­versation with Chairperson Eve Roberts, it is his hope that the new Commission will meet in August.

The Commission, which also employs a number of full time, permanent staff, will operate out of the old Newfoundland Telephone Building on the south side of Duckworth Street.

(left to right:) Ken Murphy, Janet Edmonds, Lisa Piercey, Maria Dohe~y, and Diana Barr,Y are a few of the performers of this year's Summer Shakespeare production,. Love's Labo.ur s Lost, conducted by MUN Drama from Thursday, July 27 until Sunday, July 30 m the MUN Little Theatre.

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Activists take Carleton to HRC By DAVE DUNKERLEY

Ottawa (CUP)-Two Carleton University gay rights activists have filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commis­sion against the university be­cause of its inaction against anti-gay discrimination.

At a June 24 press conference Kenneth Gallagher and Pierre Beaulne said they have collected 140 examples of discrimination at Carleton over the past two years. Both said they have been sub­jected to verbal harassment and death threats and that the ad­minstration has done little to in­vestigate their complaints.

In April, Beaulne was verbally threatened on an Ottawa bus by a male wearing a Carleton Univer­sity jacket. "I was terrified," he said.

Ontario is one of three provin­ces and one territory that has sexual orientation in its Human Rights Code, thereby ensuring gays and lesbians have a govern­ment institution to turn to in the event of discrimination . This protection is not available in Newfoundland and Labrador 's Human Rights Act.

Gallagher, president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GALA) at Carleton, said most of the 30 club members have been so in­timidated by the discriminatory propaganda at Carleton that they have chosen not to congregate anymore and have practica11y gone into hiding.

"I just want to be able to go to university after the sun sets without getting the shit kicked out of me," he said.

If successful under section 24 of the Human Rights Code, their case means the university's provincial funding could be cut off.

"We've tried to negotiate, we've tried to talk rationally and now we're going to play hardball with the administration," said Beaulne.

Gallagher does not expect a ruling until after the next academic year.

Due to the legal nature of the complaint, the administration is unable to comment on the .case.

The Carleton Student Union received its share of criticism from Beaulne and Gallagher for its handling of a campus publica-

tion 's satire on AIDS in Novem­ber, 1988. The article in the En­gineering Undergraduate Society's newsletter drew com­plaints from 23 local, provincial and national human rights or­ganizations.

The engineers receive funding from the Carleton student union.

The student union voted against a motion to disband the society, but voted to revoke com­puter privileges unless an apol­ogy was made. Alio, the engineers were ordered to donate money towards AIDS research and help in AIDS awareness week.

Beaulne and Gallagher said the promises were never kept.

"CUSA council has never been able to enforce its own bylaws," said Beaulne who calls the punishment nothing more than "a slap on the wrist."

Beaulne and Gallagher stop short of saying that Carleton is the worst university for anti-gay dis­crimination. "I can't speculate whether other universities are better or worse. But what I'm concerned about is what we' re doing on our own home turf," said Beau]ne.

THE MUSE July 21, 1989 3

Take me to your leader

OK, who's in charge around here? The recent furor over the censoring of the grade twelve text has left

a good portion of the objecting public reeling about in ideas. looking for something to strike out at.

Some (including, on occasion, me) have found it in Phil Warren. Others turn to the individuals, apparently Oakley and Loveless, in the Department who were reportedly largely responsible for carrying out the censoring process. Still others lunge at the incognito individuals on the denominational school boards who initially raised objections to the "offensive language".

Perhaps it's time that cooler heads prevailed and we address the fundamental policy questions this issue has raised. What purpose docs the Department of Education serve? Does the department exercise any power, or is it a convenient front for the dispensing of plums?

When Phil Warren says that when you have a denominational school system, these things happen, he is stating an obvious truth. What is not so obvious is his function as Minister and the role of his department in governing our education system, in matters of setting curriculum. Why the need for curriculum selection committees? Is a good portion of the Department but an effigy of secular government? If so, it surely

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you know, for you to lay aside your principals in hope of scoring some political points. Surely you have not picked such an opportune time to choose maintenance of ideals over establishment of power.

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Error in -story may misinform users of library system

To the editor: Many thanks to you and The

Muse staff for helping the Univer­sity library publicize its new catalogue on CD ROM (Card in­dexes out, ROM disks in. Vol. 39, No. 22).

I would like to point out, how­ever. that the article noted above presented some misleading infor­mation that should be clarified for your readers. ELIOT the MUN­CAT has not replaced the card catalogue and the statement that ....... ELIOT's "two disks contain just about everything necessary to the researcher" is incorrect. Further, the University community should not have the impression that "One need only sit at the terminal and tell you how to do it". Students and faculty with this impression will be very disappointed.

Despite Eliot's many talents, there arc a few things that it can­not do. ELIOT the MUNCA T is not the only catalogue in the library. Materials received and catalogued by the library before December, 1978 are still acces­sible only 'through the card catalogue. ELIOT the MUN CAT cannot locate articles in journals and newspapers and it will not provide access to some library

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microform collections. ELIOT the MUNCAT is a catal<)lT of all :::-

books which have been added to the Memorial Univcrsitv Library System since January I: 1979. it also includes titles of serials in the major libraries in the pro\·incc.

Although the "terminal" can ......

not tell I ibrary patrons how to do their library research. library staff can provide assistance in develop­ing research strategics. In addi-.... tion. an Equipment Training Centre has been set up in the In­formation Services area of the Queen Elizabeth II Library to pro­vide training on ELIOT the MCN-......

CAT. Student assistants arc available seven days a week and during the evening Monda,· ...... ...... . through Thursday to help users become acquainted with ELIOT. Regular library personnel arc available at other library catalogue locations.

Again. thank you for helping us introduce ELIOT the MUNCA T to your readership and please help us ensure that students and faculty have the correct information.

Sincerely. Barbara Parrett Information Services Librarian Queen El izabcth II Library .

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guage used on page 4 of your July issue, ie. referring to the comic.

The Muse has been trying to establish itself as a reputable paper for a long time. However, with language used such as this, degrades the University as a whole as well as the student body. Surely we can express our views

towards controversial topi.cs without having to appear as vul­gar uneducated people rather than educated students.

We would hope that in the fu­ture such language is deleted and ...... ......

not able to pass over the editors desk. Remember this paper is dis­tributed elsewhere. not onlv on MUN campus.

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Oh ye of too much faith

Censorship, just say no By RON KNOWLING

Last week about 250 people attended a public forum on Censorship and Education at the E.B. Foran Room in City Hall. Many of those who at­tended seemed most con­cerned with condemning and blaming the Department of Education for the recent cen­soring of recognised literary classics in a proposed grade twelve text book. The depart-

ment had decided that words such as "Damn" and "Christ" would damage the "innocent" minds of 17 year old New­foundlanders.

In their anger the public seems to have ignored some basic facts and issues in New­foundland society which have direct bearing on the debate.

During the forum people denounced the Department of Education for using censor-

ship to try and control the minds of High School stu­dents. Some people denounced the Denomination­al school system. Some people denounced Censorship. Some people denounced Phil War­ren. It seemed that everyone agreed that what the Depart­ment of Education had done was a "very bad thing".

Maybe rm old fashioned but all the act of censorship

Man says abortion is murder To the editor:

In reading the article "Let the woman decide" in the sum­mer Muse (Vol. 39, No. 24) I found a great deal with which I was disturbed. The writer ob­vious I y is insensitive to anyone who doesn't share his/her opinion. It is typical of a pro-aborntionist to exhibit such a lack of consideration for the feelings and rights of others. How can the writer be pro-choice when he/she doesn't want to allow the child the choice of 1 ife, a choice to live or die. How would the writer feel if Brian Mulroney

decided he/she was to die, but at least the writer would have a fighting chance, an unborn child doesn't. Abortion is mur­der. I applaud the American Supreme Court for its courage to strike a blow against these monsters.

I would also like to add that pro-choice activist are hypocrites. They show this when they decide to keep the child and want cild support. First of all they say a man has no say in whether or not an abortion is carried out. Then why must he be subjected to paying child support, after all he has no more right to decide

whether the child lives or dies. Pro-choice activist are both murderers and hypocrites.

Bernard Noftall 8812414 P.S. Whydidn'tthewriterof

the article inc 1 ude his/her name. Why didn't they display courage.

Editor's Note: The Muse's policy regarding signing editorials is as follows: the writer of said editorial will sign with their initials only. For the information of our readers, the author of "Let the Woman Decide" was Padraic Brake.

Belbin says thanks to volunteers To the editor: I would appreciate the space

to thank those who helped make Summerfest 89 a suc­cess.

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of them, things would probab­ly not work as well as they do around here.

Secondly, thanks to all those volunteers who pitched in to help, often on the spur of the moment. From the dunk tank to the volleyball you all helped to make it work.

Thirdly, I would thank the university staff who went out of their wav to make sure ., things worked for us . .....

And of course. to Garv ., Clark. the backbone of opera-tions like this, without him our entertainment on campus would definitely lose its ef­ficiencv. Thanks Gar!

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It was COLD to understate it a bit. but thanks for coming out. I hope you enjoyed Friday afternoon. because I know you enjoyed Hatcher Dining Hall and the Beach party in the Brcezewav . .,

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• , implies is the presence of standards and power in a society. That is what any society is founded on: stand­ards which say that you shouldn't do some things and you can do others. This is how a society ensures that it will remain a society. So you could say censorship is a society using power to survive. For­tunately, in our society, cen­sorship is not a monopoly of the government.

Much of the control over the flow of information in our country is exercised by the news media, publishers and special interest groups who publicize their concerns. Cen­sorship is not some all encom­passing evil which flows from government control. It is a much more subtle process of decision making going on at many different levels of society and it does not always work to our detriment.

Unfortunately, people who do not approve of censorship do not seem to realize this. They seem to respond to sets of impulses which see the world in terms of on giant free market of ideas. The imp I ica­tion being that in th is market the best will float to the top and the worst will sink to obscuritv ., at the bottom. This paradigm assumes that the majority of people are rational. intelligent people who know what is hest for them and their society. an assumption that is tenuous at best. This is whv our socictv

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forum which aroused my inter­est was the mini-debate which arose over the nature of the censorship that had taken place. Many people who spoke referred to the churches and blamed them for the censor­ship while others maintained that it was a secular issue which had little to do with religion. By attacking the churches, speakers at the forum were condemning the Denominational School Sys­tem.

It should be remembered that when the current manifes­tation of this system was created in the 196Crs one of the main obstacles to a fully in­tegrated system was the Roman Catholic Church. Anyone who has been awake for the past eighteen months will have noticed that these are not good times for the Roman Catholics. The church is at a low ebb in its power. At the same time people suddenly begin condemning the Denominational School Svs­tem as if they only discovered the blinking beast vesterdav. The coincid"cncc is tJoo blatant to ignore . ....

This is not the place to dis-cuss the various merits and demerits of the denomination­al school svstcm or the minds it produced. Suffice to say that the Forum on Censorship and Education served little pur­pose beyond giving citizens a place to vent their collective anger at government and the ..... .....

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By BETH RYAN Not much has been happening in front of the brick duplex on Harbord Street

in downtown Toronto since early May and for the occupants of the building that's a noteworthy event in itself. One side houses the Morgentaler abortio~ clinic and until recently, the right-hand half was home to the Way Inn an anti-abortion counselling centre run by Choose Life Canada. '

for many Canadians, the strip of sidewalk that runs in front of the building is the symbolic focus of the abortion debate in the country. Although Dr. Henry Morgentaler has clinics in Winnipeg and Montreal, it's his Toronto site that attracts the most protest from the anti-abortion movement and attention from the media.

Since the Supreme Court of Canada decision in January 1988 which struck down the federal abortion law, the protests at the Morgentaler clinic have taken on an increasingly aggressive and often desperate tone. The court is no longer a consistent ally in their war on accessible abortion so some facets of the anti-abortion movement have decided to take the law into their own hands. They say they are not bound by state laws because they answer to a higher lawmaker -- God.

The current lull in anti-abortion activities at Morgentaler' s clinic in Toronto can be attributed to the injunction granted to the clir)ic on May 5 by the Supreme Court of Ontario. The injunction - posted on the clinic door as a silent warning to stay away-- prohibits picketing and any action that interferes with clinic operations and the movements of staff and patients.

For the most part, abortion dissenters have kept away but only to move across town where they've found a new home across the street from the Scott Clinic, ·another of Toronto's free-standing abortion clinics. At their new headquarters, Denise Wiehe spends a sunny afternoon carrying a sign that says "Abortion stops a beating heart" and pacing back and forth in front of the Scott Clinic. She stops her picketing to talk about her cause, keeping a watchful eye on the clinic activities from a park bench across the street.

For Wiehe, a born-again direct action in its attempts.to Christian who's had three stop abortion and uses lan­abortions, telling the truth guage and activities reminis­about the evils of abortion and cent of the civil rights pointing people to the alterna- movement. tives has become a full-time In October 1988, Toronto job. One of the alternatives abortion protestors enlisted Wiehe offers is celibacy- "I've the help of their visiting been practicing chastity for the American counterparts to pull 'Past two and a half years and off what would be the first of -p-ra-y\n'b \o-r a 'husband.." several Canadian rescues.

She has quit her seven-year Hundreds of people bar­career in life insurance to ricaded the doors of the Mor­devote herself to counselling gen taler clinic with their pregnant women and those bodies and blocked access to who have had abortions, ap- the clinic for workers and pearing on television patients, in what organizers programs like 100 Huntley say was an attempt to rescue Street and speaking in schools babies by preventing and churches. scheduled abortion proce-

Wiche, one of five people dures from taking place. named in the Morgentaler in- In the irtjunction, Wiehe junction, is part of an aggres- says Morgentaler has accused sive sector of the anti-abortion her of trespassing, harass­movemen t that's best ex-emplified by Operation Res- ment, intimidation, blocking

access to the clinic and "lots of cue, an American right-to-life stuff that isn't true". She group. Formed in 1987 by fun-damentalist preacher Randall denies all the allegations. Terry, Operation Rescue uses "It wouldn't be in my best

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interests to give the women a hard time. For me to be offen­sive to them would do more harm than good," Wiehe says.

But there are some op­ponents to abortion who are guilty of aggressive and in­timidating behaviour that's discrediting the aims of the en­tire movement, says one anti­a bo rti on activist who is growing disillusioned with their tactics.

For Mark Tyrrell, a personal opposition to abortion does not extend to involvement in the activities that have been grabbing headlines lately. Tyrrell first got involved in the movement in 1981 and has quietly picketed at the Mor­gen taler clinic and attended rallies and marches. But by 1985, when Morgentaler reopened his clinic after being shut down by the police, Tyr­rell says he noticed "alarming, negative developments" in the movement.

Tyrrell says he has wit­nessed and heard about anti­abortion picketers verbally abusing women going into the clinic, physically blocking their way and going as far as throwing garbage on them.

"F or me, a women who con-templates an abortion does it because a man and her com­munity have let her down," says Tyrrell. "She has a prob­lem and abortion seems to be the only rational way out of the dilemma. The behaviour of these protestors only rein­forces her decision. All they accomplish is bad feelings. I can shout slogans as good as the next person but I prefer non-confrontational dialogue. 'But that's definitely not what's.-bappening outside tbe clinic these days."

The biggest weakness that Tyrrell sees in the anti-abor­tion movement is its unwill­ingness to consider the needs of the women involved and its single-minded interest in the fetus.

"They offer this analogy for Operation Rescue-If a child was drowning in the pool next door, wouldn't you break down the fence and trespass

on your neighbour's property to save the child? A women is not a fence, she is a human being. You cannot just force your views on her.

"A lot is said about the un­born baby who is part of our human community. But so is the mother. If the Christian

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community cannot help the woman and offer her practical and spiritual assistance, then she might as well go to Morgen taler's clinic," says Tyrrell.

Andrea Knight, manager of the Morgentaler clinic, says it's difficult to separate Opera­tion Rescue from the activities that have been going on regularly for the past five years because it involves many of the same people. The Operation Rescue organizers and the management of the

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Way Inn are affiliated with two separate groups-Cam­paign Life and Choose Life Canada-but Knight says they cooperated regularly and used the Way Inn as headquarters for their activities.

Anti-abortion protestors have shifted their daily em­phasis to the Scott Clinic which has been the target for several Operation Rescues, the most recent on May 12.

Free-standing clinics have continued to provide abor­tions despite picketing and demonstrations by using a cooperative community net­work that includes safe houses and clinic escorts for women seeking abortions, says Cherie MacDonald of the Ontario Coalition of Abortio:1 Clinics (OCAC).

MacDonald maintains that Operation Rescue gets little public support in Canada despite their efforts to portray themselves as martyrs willing to risk anything for the cause. The rhetoric of Operation Res­cue organizers includes many cdtnparisons to the American ci vii rights leaders of the 1960s, despite a public state­ment condemning Operation Rescue that was issued by a dozen prominent activists, in­cluding Jesse Jackson.

"An Operation Rescue is where a group on a particular day will peacefully and prayerfully have a sit-in in front of an abortuary," says Wiehe, who says she's never actually participated in a res­cue but doesn't rule it out. "We are coming between an abor­tionist and a woman with child. As a result, babies get saved."

Judy Johnson, a Toronto coordinator of Operation Res­cue, likens anti-abortion ac­tivities to war and describes the membership's role in the struggle accordingly. "There are the generals who plan the strategy, the foot soldiers who put their bodies on the line and the women who sit at home and knit the socks."

But Maria Corsillo, manager of the Scott clinic, says Operation Rescue has lit­tle in common with civil rights groups. "What they resemble most of all is terrorist or­ganizers-their literature says their aim is to do actions that create social tension and put pressure on the state to get laws changed."

Sara Diamond, a San Fran­cisco based sociologist and _ author of the new book Spiritual Warfare, which ex­amines right-wing Christian movements including anti­abortion activism, also dis­counts comparisons with civil rights.

"In no way does Operation Rescue resemble liberal, democratic civil disobedience movements," Diamond says. "They are not spontaneous or democratic. The participants don't make--decisions on how they'll act. They are basically bodies who are ordered around. That's not my idea of a grassroots lZlovement."

Diamond attributes Opera­tion Rescue' s appeal within the anti-abortion movement to its relatively non-violent na­ture. She says that several years ago in the United States, the most militant groups were bombing clinics, extreme acts of violence that alienated the mainstream support.

"But Operation Rescue is a brilliant manoeuvre by the Christian right to channel the energy of militant people without getting bad press," says Diamond. The act of get­ting arrested is a radicalizing experience for the average person who obeys the law and that makes them very com­mitted to the anti-abortion cause and willing to do what the leaders ask, she says.

Johnson says the ultimate goal is to get large numbers of people out to the rescues so that police would be unable to arrest them all. Right now, Johnson says, they have repre­sentatives of a "broad cross section of the community" in their membership, including the elderly, young people, women with grown children and people with families. Not all of them can risk arrest, she says.

"The thing that appeals to pro-life people is seeing the results right then and there. we see women change heir minds and we know that babies get saved," says Johnson.

The police have been reluc­tant to make arrests at the Operation Rescues in Toronto, even though they willingly ar­rested people at demonstra­tions at last year's economic summit and at similar events, the clinics' mangers complain.

"The police have no trouble breaking up legitimate civil disobedience so why do they balk at arresting these people?" says Corsillo.

"Why is there a double­standard ?" asks Andrea Knight. "Why are the Opera­tion Rescue people allowed to conduct themselves in a way that others haven't been able to without being arrested? Would it have taken he police five years to stop someone from harassing Litton in­dustries or a bank or some­thing like that?"

Police say lack of personnel is their biggest problem in dealing with the protesters and see the injunction as an efficient way to limit their numbers and frequency.

"Before Morgentaler was granted the injunction, we were over at the clinic every second Saturday dealing with protestors," says inspector Stanley Warmington of 14 division. "Something finally had to be done because we were using so many officers at the protests. It was an ad­ministrative nightmare to process all these people. Since the judge's order has been in place, only three or four people have disobeyed it.

"The pro-life people are basically good people and they are trying to exert their influence but the courts have ruled that Morgentaler is of­fering a legal service so he deserves the same protection as anyone else," says War­mington.

Staff inspector Aiden Maher of 51 division says that since the injunction has been in place, the Scott clinic has be­come the next obvious target for protests. When protesters hit, Maher says the police at-

tempted to remove them from the site and get the patients and staff into the clinic. But he adds, "It is quite a drain on the police department's human resources" to clear the area.

In the midst of the con­troversy started by Operation Rescue and the Morgentaler injunction, the mainstream pro-life movement remains carefully non-critical about the activities staged by Opera­tion Rescue.

"Pro-life is an umbrella term that covers a lot of different groups who do different things," says Laura McArthur, president of the Toronto Right to Life Association. "But we all have the same aim-to protect the unborn child. We are all together in that aim, it's just how we do it that differs.

"Civil disobedience is not something I would counsel people to do but that's up to them if they want to. The par­ticipants in Operation Rescue are dedicated people and I wouldn't be one to talk them out of it. I'm not prepared to get involved in Operation Res­cue right now but maybe in a year I will, McArthur says.

And despite the lack of sup­port they are getting from the police and the courts, mem­bers of the anti-abortion movement remain convinced that they represent a majority of Canadians.

"We are merely a small number out there who are rep­resenting a very large num­ber," says Judy Johnson of Operation Rescue. "In general, I think the pro-life movement is in support of what Opera­tion Rescue is doing."

Denise Wiehe believes that she represents average Canadians and insists that the pro-choice movement is a small group made up of "skin­heads, lesbians, hippies and people from the universities" who don't share her concern for future life.

"Between AIDS, the decline in the birth rate, abortion, homosexuality and les­bianism, we are killing future generations," says Wiehe.

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Members of the local Right to Life Association limit their protests to silent marches in front of the Health Scien­ces Centre in St John's.

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The Arts & Culture Center was rocked by a jazz band last Mon­day night. On July 10th (third long weekend in a row!) I went to see the one and only St.John's show in Manteca's cross-Canada tour (a Tuesday matinee was cancelled due to poor advance ticket sales).

place of origin was never ad­mitted during the show. Main spokesperson Matt Zimbel intro­duced two drummers as being from Los Angeles and from Halifax, and someone else from Montreal, but never mentioned that the core of the band formed in the clubs of T.0. I don't know whether he always does that or if it was a Newfoundland thing. Manteca call themselves

various things, something like a , folky salsa jazz funk band. They're basically a rhythm in­strumenta1 jazz band propelled by three percussionists and a horn section.

The whole aim of the evening was to show the audience how much fun jazz can be, by getting the audience to join in. This only worked in the encore, where most of the audience was stan9ing up, clapping and dancing. I. found

myself thinking how great the band would be outside where people feel more relaxed. Where there wouldn't be that light show. I grew to really dislike the light­ing. It was too majestic, like it had been borrowed from Triumph - it flattened out the subtleties of this nine-piece band, only serving to highlight major changes that we could notice anyway. I don't mind theatricality in music, un­like the man beside me who dis­approved of their coming on in the dark, but that lighting was too heavy handed, and sometimes just plain off.

the stage effects. "This is our salute to St.John's", said Zimbel and cued the dry ice machine. The machine had a nice hissing sound that was being used in time

to the music. I think it was being controlled by drummer Charlie Cooley.

They are ten years old now, and hail from Toronto, though their

Peace-A-Chord attracting over 50 performers This coming weekend, July 22 and 23, Ploughshares

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machine, I enjoyed the other music, like John Johnson's solo on the c:;lectric woodwind and the continually changing barrage of rhythym from the percussion sec­tion. Two different kinds of drum solo were highlighted-I enjoyed Matt Zimbel 's bongos et al. be­cause it was more unfamiliar and varied -and a piece called Fungus Amungus which was short and originally intended to be a radio hit.

When intermission came I grabbed a better seat (near some­one wearing that smelled like a combination of Obsession for Men· and Women). It was in the second half that the audience was supposed to be ready to join in. They tried to encourage clapping in time, and the audience was happy to oblige, hut the clapping patterns were hard to keep up, and dwindled awav. Then we were supposed to join in the only song of sorts, Bah Co May (spelled phonetically). Wel1, I saw that the audience weren't doing a great ..... .....

job of singing along, so when the time came for us to give our final yel1, I came out with the first two syllables. The third sort of died in mv throat, I was the onlv one in

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my section of the theatre yelling out. Embarrasment followed by pride.

With that kind of audience par­ticipation, the long cry for en­cores at the end must have surprised the band. And when Zi~bel went around gesturing for us to get up and dance, we were all happy to oblige. The theatre was full of dancing merry-makers turned into standing ovationers . .....

Thanks, Manteca. Come back and play the Peace-A-Chord, we'd love that.

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Friday, July 21

A Piece of Heaven (A Show from Trepassey) plays till Satur­day, July 22 at the LSPU --Hall. This show is presented by the RCA Theatre Company and the Southern Avalon Development Association. Admission is $4.00, and for reservations call 753-4531.

Kathy Best is playing tonight at the Grad House on Military Road. Doors open at 5pm, with happy hour 'ti] 9pm. Music starts at 10pm. Admission is $2.00. ID's for 19 required. For more infor­mation call 753-4851.

Across a Wide Spectrum is the title of an exhibition of works by young Newfoundland artists. The show opened in the RCA Gallery at the LSPU Hall, 3 Victoria Street on July 2, and continues until July 29, 1989.

Carole Sabiston is showing her work in the Memorial University Art Gallery. Her show started yesterday and will run ti11 Sep­tember 3. Sabiston uses sails as backgrounds for her lyrical fabric collages, then stretches them from ceiling to floor, anchored with beach rocks. "The effect that the sails produce .. .is one of con­stant movement and change. As the viewer moves about the sails, new configurations and images appear," said Greg Bellerby. Sabiston is a winner of the Bronf man award for craft, and lives in Victoria.

Jean Burke's show entitled Trans-Canada Clothesline also opened yesterday in the Memorial University Art Gallery. Organized by the Art Gallery of Algoma, Trans-Canada Clothes-1 in e presents colourful and humourous textile assemblages. "The exhibition compares a back-

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yard clothes line to the Trans Canada Highway. It is a ligh­thearted glimpse of the provinces and territories as one travels from coast to coast," says Sault Ste. Marie artist Burke.

Up The Shore is the title of the latest installation in the Per­manent Collection Gallery. It will focus on works by artists who I ive or have lived and worked on the Southern Shore of the Avalon peninsula, such as Frank Lapointe, Don Wright, Heidi Oberheide, Gerald Squires, Stewart Montgomerie as well as others who printed at St Michael's Printshop when it was located in St Michael's. The show opened in mid-June.

Ted Rettig will be displaying his sculptures and drawings in the Memorial University Art Gallery until July 23. Rettig is a sculpture instructor at the new School of Fine Arts, Grenfe]] Co11ege, Corner Brook and a long-time ex­hibitor at Wynik-Tuck Gallery, Toronto.

Saturday, July 22

Today and tomorrow Plough­shares Youth will be holding their 5th Annual Peace-a-Chord fes­tival featuring over fifty bands and performers, workshops, a children's corner, handpainted t­shirts, face-painting, and food. It's all FREE! Featuring from Vancouver, Spirit of the West, and from Toronto, Arlene Mantle. Starts both days at noon and continues until 9pm at Ban­nerman Park. In case of bad weather it will move to the St John's Curling Club on Mavor Avenue.

\\'edncsday. July 26

This week's division of Exten­sion Services lunch-time movie is Super Companies (56:48 min) in

the Extension Building (sorry, no room number provided) at 1 :OOpm. The multi-nationals now treat the world as one market seeking out the cheapest materials, the lowest taxes, the best deals. Our world is being shaped by these economic powers whose aim is not to improve the standard of life but rather to make the highest profits possible. There is no charge, and bring your lunch. Free coffee and popcorn.

Thursday, July 27

Love's Labour's Lost is MUN Drama's sixth Summer Shakespeare production. Four young men agree to withdraw from the world to study, but their resolve is tested when four young women appear on the scene. Set design is by Martin Johnson, period costumes by Carol Lock­wood and direction by Gordon Jones. Love's Labour's Lost starts today and runs until Sun­day, July 30 at 8pm in the MUN Little Theatre. Admission $7.00 and $5 .00 (students). Tickets available at the Arts and Culture Centre box office and at the door on the night of performance. Reservations: 576-3901.

Wednesday. August 2

Eyes See, Ears Hear (27:43 min) is the title of this weeks Ex­tension Services lunch-time film in the Extension Building at 1 :OOpm. Memorial University has been a world leader in using video as participatory com­munication. Don Snowden and Paul Macleod show how vil­lagers in Taprana, India, use video to effectively change their lives and the future of their com­munit). Also playing today is The· Last Chinese /,aundry (2X:48

min). This storv of the Chinese people in Newfoundland since I X95 focuses on William Ping

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who arrived in St John's from Canton in the early twenties to work in his uncle's laundry. "I washed the laundry with my tears." The film, directed by Fred Hollingshurst and produced by Charlie Callanan, won the Amtec Award of Excellence and the At­lantic Festival Award of Merit. Admission is free, but bring your lunch. Don't forget, there's free popcorn and coffee.

CLASSIFIED:

A MUN journal of student writing is requesting submissions of student poems and short stories. Please send your original unpublished work plus a short biographical note to: MUN Literary Journal, 26 Golf Avenue, St John's, Newfoundland. A 1 C 5C7. The deadline for submis­sions is July 28, 1989.

There will be free fitness clas­ses conducted in the Phys Ed building gym during the summer session. They began in June and run until Friday, August 18. High. medium, and non-impact classes arc available. There are national­ly certified instructors supervis­ing each workout. Students, faculty, and staff are welcome. Classes are' held on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from noon until I pm and Tuesday and Thursday from 1 :00 to 2:00pm.

Are you a single Mother? The Women's Resource Centre at­tempts to deal with some of the problems of single parenting. By providing information and acting as liaison between available ser­vices the centre supports single parent students. Single parents at­tending post-secondary institu­tions can have their tuition and books reimbursed through the Department of Social Services. Assistance is provided through the Dav Care Subsidv Program to . . .....

single parents for day care ser­vices. Only the student grant and child support payments are con­sidered in the Income Test.

For Rent: Large, unfurnished .....

downtown house (7 rooms plus basement). Cc ntral I y located, with character -- four fireplaces, large back yard and off-street parking (one place). 5650 per month plus utilities. Phone and ask for Evie: 737-8863. or 754-1240, or leave a number at the Anthropology Department.

The Single Parents Association is attempting to establish a Co-op of services among single parents. Services available at present in­clude support groups. handy-per­son and painting services. The Association is located at 50 Parade Street. Phone 739-0709.

Where arc people helping people? At Citizen Advocacy. Citi?en Advocacy is a volunteer organization which matches ordi-..... nan citi7ens with individuals who arc developmentally delayed. on a one to one basis. CA seeks to strengthen our com­munities by encouraging in­dividuals to take responsibi I ity for one another. If you, re a he Ip­ing person. then call us at 754-0716 or drop by our office at I 02 Lcmarchant Road.

Leo and Geraldine Loder are cordially invited to the \\edding of Derrick Avlward and Brenda Lawlor on Friday. July 28. 1989. As this may well prove to be the social and cultural event of the vear. vou arc asked to dress and . . behave accordingly.

The Pippy Park Conservation Society is a non-profit. volunteer organi1ation working to preserve C A Pipp) Park as a recreational park land and ecological reserve. Membership is SS.00 yearly. To join, contact Harold Hammond (579-424~) or Kathryn Lono (739-~~09).

For Sak: One airline ticket: St. John's - London - Cork. Date: Julv 31 Price: 5350 Phone 739-9078.

Room for rent ~t the Grad House. 112 Military Road. S200/month. heat and light in­cluded. Call 753-4851 for more information.

The Grad House would like to announce that an\ clubs and socictic" recogni1ed by the Coun­ci I of the Students' Union (CSU). as well as any graduate student department arc entitled to one free rent~1: per year. Contact the Gr·!(

1 Huu...,c at 753-4851 for more • n !'t)rmat ion.

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