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6 Hydro coming like some roz@ beast ... by dana weber B.C. Hydro, with its The lines will be run characteristic disrespect. for underground when they reach environmental quality and public the Saanich’Victoria border and opinion, is planning to run high Alderman Benning feels that tension power lines along there is no good reason why Interurban Rd. Although Hydro shouldn’t go to the added Saanich municipal council expense of doing the same in stands unanimously opposed to Saanich. Under the present stri.nging the lines above proposal the ugly poles will ground, R.A. MacDonald, slash through much of Saanich’s regional director for Hydro projected green belt following says they plan to go ahead in any Colquitz and Swan Lake creeks. case. The irrevocable damage to The purpose of the 230 environmental and property kilovolt line, which will be values in Saanich far outweigh erected on ninety-four foot steel the money Hydro will save by poles, is to link the running the lines above ground. Goward substation on Other areas have been Interurban Rd. with the Horsey ‘undergrounding’ for years, substation on Tapoz Av. behind said Benning, and in fact B.C. the Ingraham Motel. The design Electric, Hydro’s predecessor, calls for three separate lines had set a policy of going stacked vertically on the poles. underground before the crown MacDonald claims that the corporation was created. decision to route the lines above As a public company B.C. ground was made two years ago Hydro ought to be more and that council’s ‘sudden responsive to people’s needs interest’ in the matter is too late than private ones, but Hydro’s to change it. However, history has clearly been one of Adlerman Edith Benning says arrogance and disrespect for that Saanich has been opposed to the people it is intended to the lines from the beginning, but serve. At issue here is whether that its present, renewed effort thosepeople will let it continue to stop .them is “a last ditch to act as a law unto itself. This effort.” case may set a precedent which will have lasting effect not only Help on the Interurban area but other if you can parts of the local environment as well. The Greater Victoria For example, Hydro will Association for the Retarded eventually have to link the need help with an ice-making Goward and Horsey substations “happening” they are having on with the Tripp station on Wednesday, March 8th; Lochside Drive and two other Most of the young skaters are proposed substations; one of from their sheltered workshop these stations will be built on on Kings Road; others are from Gordon Head just behind the Glendale Lodge. Assistance is UVic campus in what is now an needed to keep the children apple orchard. “skating” and not sitting around Saanich planning officials waiting for a turn. have pressed Hydro on its plans Informationon this and other for linking the five stations, but recreational programmes for Hydro claims it hasn’t formed handicapped children is any yet. available from Janet Sullivan, 386-3861. cont. on 11 Edmonton (CUE) - The staff of With the decision by Council. Strong Support to the paper the University of Alberta’s to hire Jackson, paper staffers during their Campaign. student paper, the tiateway, has voted unanimously to go on The question of who chooses won a minor victory in their strike and ceased regular the paper’s editor in another struggle for corltrol of their publication of the paper. They , skirmish in the continuing battle paper with the election of a occupied their office, set up this year between the Gateway council executive slate opposed informational picket lines, and and the council over control of to the recent council hiring of a published three issues of a editorial policy. non-staff elected editor. “strike and election” paper. A council by-law last October Defeated by a considerable The executive election vote demandinga half-pageper issue margin in the student elections indicated fairly widespread of the Gateway for council were David Biltek and mug student support for the paper. publicity handouts was repealed Black, present executive The president and vice- Only aftera Canadian University members of the U of A council president elect are both present Press Investigation and leading protagonists in the members of council who voted Commission and considerable council move to hire an editor against the hiring of Jackson. publicity by the establishment against the recomendation of the The second place Gateway staff. The staff had voted overwhelmingly to support Ron In a brief presented last Monday to the Legislative committeeon tenure, academic vice-president Dr. D.J. MacLaurin defended the existing system used at UVic. The brief stated that “.In his role as teacher and scholar a faculty member must be free to explore and to propound ideas and to pursue research activities without the fear of reDrisals even if these ideas prbve controversial either to his colleagues at the University or to the community at large.” Any change of the tenure system would threaten this security, would be hard to administer and would “introduce far greater difficulties than the present system.” MacLaurin rejected the concept of five-year appointments for faculty, saying that, “...roughly twenty percent of the faculty would need to be considred for contract renewal in any one year.” This would lead to “conflict of interest”, he said, as faculty members whose “expert advice is essential to Islate had given press in Edmonton. it’s the sume U II over Yakimchuk, the present lay-out editor, as editor-in-chief for the next school year. But on February 14, Council Winnipeg (CUP) - Yet another out. decided to hire Terri Jackson, a Canadian University paper is After locking up the Uniter graduate student who in three under attack by its student office and suspending Borowski years at the U of A, had never council. on Wednesday, McPherdan worked on the paper. Present This time the paper in crisis circulated a questionnaire on Gateway staffers, she is the Uniter at the University of Thursday asking students commented at the editorial Winnipeg. Giving budgetary whether they thought the paper screening session, would not be Dverspending and irresponsible had been justified in publishing welcomeunder her editorship. She recieved no staff votes. editorial policies as her what was described as a reasons student council “confidential” report. The president Marilou McPhedran student association executive What tenure suspended Uniter editor Tom has said they will study student Borowski and ordered the response to their questionnaire wu r? newspaper office padlocked before making a decision to fire Wednesday (Feb. 16th). Borowski ’. Among the other reasons The student association given for the suspension of the clampdown followed an issue of editor and the padlocking of the the Uniter which contained an office was the overspending of expose of. the discrepancy $2500 by the Uniter on a special between the budgeted salaries of issue of the paper produced in student association personnel conjunction with the University and what they were actually of Winnipeg administration. being paid. A recent budget The Uniter staff claims the report indicated that while only administration and not the $15,450 had been alloted for student association is administrative salaries, responsible for the $25.00 $25,492 was actually being paid defecit. these decisions would The appointment is made themselves be under “upon the recommendation fo consideration within the next the president.” few years.” Later in the brief MacLaurin MacLaurin went on to say that told the committee that the the University, “Human nature advice of faculty members toihe being what it is” would have a President and Board of tendancy to “temporize” in Governors (BOG) is necessary decisions over contract in making tenure decisions. renewals rather than make the He neglected to mention, “difficult decision .not to however,just how important it renew.” was that the president listen to The University believes faculty “advice.” accordirg to the vice-president, Later under questioning that the present system, under MacLaurin told the committee which tenure is not granted that to gain tenure a person must except after a probationary be an “acceptable teacher’’ period of four to,five years, is only, but added that it was adequate in determining a important that he be “a good University member’s worth. scholar. ’ ’ New Dean ‘temporary’ - maybe classification was subject to change. Some members of the faculty are unhappy with uncertainty of the Dean’s classification. “Wedon’t even know if we’re nominating someone to be acting Dean, or someone to be permanent” said one. There is also much dissatisfaction over the delays in choosing the new Dean, and in the control the president is exercfking over the selection committee. Farquhar will appoint two members of the committee, I More members of the Fine Arts faculty may be heading south this summer. In an intervlew Monday Dean Peter Garvie, who heads for a Texas university in June, said there is no truth to the rumour that Theatre Head Ralph Allen is going with him. Allen announced earlier this year that he was accepting a position in Tennessee. Garvie resigned soon after !hat, and last week set designer Robert Cothran said he was going to follow Allen to the southern university. Garvie was uncommital when asked. if he was planliing on taking anyone from the faculty with him. “Some people might well be attracted to it,” he said, but added that “At present noce of my colleagues in the department have, approached me.” Garvie did imply, however, that speculation, surrounding the possibilities of more le\aving for Texas, wasn’t completely unfounded. He said there were people at UVic who would be welcomed at the Texas university, but did not elaborate. . .. ..-
6 7 I fl A Talk with Anthropologist I Charles Brant The industries in the north materials. curriculum by running the One of the things about the schizophrenic cultural are largely capital-intensive In the towns like Inuvik and school in both languages American approach in Alaska is environment. They don’t know and therefore do not employ Frobisher Bay, there are some (Eskimoand Danish). They try that the government is what they are and don’t know many of the native people. And Eskimos working in service to develop a program whereby apparently willing to entertain what they want to be; they have the people that they do employ industries and government (in kids will come out with a claims about land rights and no respect for traditional are at such a high the Department of Transport knowledgeof western skills but make a settlement with the Eskimo values; they technologically skilled level andon the Dew Line) but again, witha healthy respect for their Eskimos. As far as I can see, uncritically .admire everything largely in menial jobs. In many own traditions and some kind of there’s been no willingness on that is white. And the white areas unemployment is as high option with these two ways of the part of the Canadian models that live in the Arctic as 80 per cent. There are even life. government to entertain these are not the best models to families who have been on There is no illiteracy in claims. There is an emulate, it seems to me. welfare for two generations. Greenland. The people can read organization called COPE The other thing is the As far as the government and and write one of the two (Committee on Original complete or tremendous apathy the industries talk about languages. The Danes have a northein development, it seems different approach. Denmark that they are only interested hasa mixed half-socialist, halfprimarily in extractive capitalist society, so they pour a industries for which, of course, lot of money into cultural and there is an export market but educational programs. For none of this does much good for example, they have a the people up there. broadcasting system in the local The Eskimos, it seems me, to language, they have a bilingual that most of them are imported are in what I call a cultural no newspaper and there is active from the south. man’s land. They have been to encouragement of writers and The other danger is that the school but most of what they artists. industries endanger the fish and have learned is appropriate to All prices are subsidized so game which in some areas the society outside the Arctic. So that goods in Greenland cost Eskimos and Indians still the kid comes out of school roughly what they do in depend on. For example, on facing slim chances of doing Denmark. The retail and Banks Island, where despite anything with what he has wholesale is largely in the hands assurances given the hunters learned. The choice is to go of a crown corporation (The there, the industries have gone back to the land to do what his Royal Greenland Trading ahead with the result that there parents have done. But this Department) unlike the has been a decline in certain presents a conflict for him Hudson’s Bay Company private amountsof game. In this case, because the school has, in a way, enterprise system. Only lately blasting operations have brainwashed him: he loses any have the Danes allowed a little changed the route of certain skills he ever had or any respect private enterprise to develop “Welfare destroys the Eskimo’s self-respect” types of migratory game. he had for traditional ways. but even here, they are very Peoples’ Entitlement) which is about the people of the IN. Lh on When mineral exploration campsare set up, whether they experimental careful about issuing licences. pressing for some the part of the great majority of As a result incomes and consideration of land claims. the Canadian population. This develop into towns of real Now, the education prices are more in line then they The American government again is in contrast to Greenland production or not, they lure authorities are experimenting are in Canada. seems to have much a more open where the people of Denmark native people who hope that they and are introducting some This is not to say there aren’t attitude toward this than Canada are very aware of what’s going wilrachieve some kind of better native things in the curriculum problems there; one major has shown so far. I remember on. There is not a week that living. The jobs turn out to be with the idea that this gives the concern is a burgeoning birth when the Alberta Indian passes where there isn’t both few and the only ones available Eskimos some choice in what r ate. There are now roughly Association, early in the news from Greenland and also a are unskilled ones - they may they’re going to do - teaching 35,000 Eskimos out of a total Trudeau administration, good deal of editorial comment sweep floors in the mess hall traditional household skills and 40,000 in Greenland as opposed brought up this whole question of and rowing about the latest and do other kinds of menial food preparation and trapping to about 13,000 Eskimos in the aboriginal rights and Trudeau development of Greenland work. saidquite flatly that the idea of policy. And when production really aboriginal rights was something begins in these camps, the the government couldn’t pay any whose skilled workers are imported attention to because, in his view, obligation? from the south and the Eskimos there cannot be treaties between There is a strong feeling of ’ who may have worked at one sector of society and humane obligation among the prospecting and finding some of another. His feeling was that Danes to do the right thing where the ,minerals, are told ‘well, we’re all Canadians and we don’t Greenland is concerned. I don’t thank you very much, now you have treaties with each other. know why this is - maybe it’s a can go back to whatever you We don’t seem to be able to feeling of guilt for having once were doing before’. look at this as the way it was been a colonial power. This disrupts the Eskimo’s when the Indians tribes But here, I have the feeling way of life. Because if he leaves regarded themselves as that what the average Canadian the land and the natural economy sovereign nations who have had feels about the occasional thing to work in these kinds of their lands occupied and taken that Boyce Richardson writes developments for very long, it’s away by the emerging Canadian (in the Montreal Star) is a sense very difficult for him to get back and American nations. of ‘what the hell - it’s got to make to it. So the way the Canadian Up until the early ’SO’S, money or we’re not interested’. government (and industry) sees Greenland was a colony of This seems very northern development is not Denmark, run by a colonial shortsighted. If all the money likely to do the native population administration which then currently being used for welfare any social or economic good and changed to becoming an actual was used in providing will probably do them a lot of county of Denmark. This meamingful work that would harm. means, there is a much greater restore the Eskimos’ selfdifficult degree of self-government in respect, it would be much better Greenland then there is in to answer spent. Arctic Canada. The Greenland At the same time, it’s not easy The Danes get a big deficit out Council is 100 per cent elected - of Greenland and they are to provide the answer to what as opposed to the Territorial concerned about this in official good development should be. Council in- Canada which has a circles and they are taking some Some suggest that however it’s majority of elected members measures to develop fishing done, it is going to cost a lot of but also appointed officials. The with the hope that these exports money. Now it costs a lot of Greenlanders elect, their own money to keep Eskimos on might reduce the deficit people to the council and do not welfare. And this destroys their somewhat. But they never elect (as the appointed officials self-respect and keeps them in a dream of breaking even, let in Canada) prestigious white kind of idleness; it develops a alone make a profit. traders. They elect their own welfare mentality. So, some Governor; they’re generally In 1965, I had an interview with suggest that the government set speaking much more politically the then Governor ,of Greenland up light industries that would advanced. and he told me “Now, I know serve the local economy and be Even the minister for you’re from Canada and I know meaningfulanduseful work even Greenland Affairs in the Danish what your outlook is but I want to if the industries ran at a deficit. and hunting instruction. Some of Canadian Arctic. Cabinet in Copenhagen is an make something clear right There are very few areas left the Eskimos now don’t know Greenland has the advantage Eskimo. It would be as if away: that any measures where the native population anything about this anymore. in that a good part of the west (Northern Affairs minister) concerning breaking even or lives off hunting and fishing. In But all this has barely begun and coast has open ports and they Jean Chretien was an Eskimo. making money are s_imply not in the settlements, it’s a mixture is still experimental. It’s too don’t have the iced-in ports and But in Greenland, there are our whole philosophy. Our of subsistence hunting and early to say what things will turn transportation difficulties that people of that . calibre and concern is first social fishing plus cash income from out to be. we have in the Canadian Arctic political ability, because they development; if we can in the trapping and selling furs. But The contrast to all this is to be where there may only be a six are much more expressive in process reduce the cost, we’ll the fur market has declined ‘seen in Greenland where the week shipping season in many political affairs. be happy but that isn’t our aim terribly in the last 20 or 30 emphasis has been on the places. So the logistics of the Whatdistrubs me most about here.” years because of the continuity of the old way of life. whole thing are easier over the Canadian north is that the It comes down to two very introduction of artificial Thev reflect this in the there kids are growing UD in a kind of different philosophies.
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