Mr. Robin Mayor Principal

Dear Mr. Mayor:

February 19, 1981

ACADEMIC COUNCIL 209 - 26 Bastion Sq. Victoria, B.C.

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I have just completed reading your 1981/82 calendar which arrived last week. I wanted to write to i i i ‘ : : you immediately to express my congratulat th elegance of the production that has been achieved by your editor, Tom Kowall, and designer, Greg Prygrocki. { Ty" ania ras The use of color, the artistic quality of the photographs, the choice of type-face and layout, are all of them superb, and the total result is a document which speaks loudly and clearly for the institution you and your colleagues have developed. Congratulations for what in my mind is the most elegant and functionally

attractive document of its kind that I have seen. Best regards, I. McTaggart-Cowan Chairman Academic Council

The first recorded recipe for an abortion- inducing drug is recorded in the most ancient medical work in Chinese dating from around 2600 B.C. The most recent abortion is probably being performed right now. In all these centuries in bet- ween women have attempted to control their reproductive lives and abortion has always been

_one of their options.

Mike Harcourt, our Vancouver City Mayor, opened the recent rally for action for a Woman’s Right to Choose and gave his support by recogniz- ing that every woman has the right to choose an abortion if she wants one.

Dr. Sylvia Glenn, a family physician from Sur- rey Memorial Hospital stated that Surrey doctors voted a non-confidence vote towards the hospital board and that the therapeutic abortion commit- tee has now been reinstated.

Patriarchal laws and doctrines have never been able to do more than stop doctors, clinics, and hospitals from performing medically safe, terror free, guilt free abortions.

It’s total hypocrisy to think that so-called anti- abortion (‘‘pro-life’’) groups are concerned with sav- ing lives. We are pro-life. We are for women who need good medical care when they choose abortions. We are for the quality of life when we want children to be born who are wanted and loved.

The right of women to a safe abortion is threaten- ed in B.C. We must act individually and collectively across the country to change laws that restrict our right to choose. In questions of reproduction, sexuali- ty, choice of abortion, unwanted pregnancy, the woman knows better than anyone what she needs.

Now that ex-Health Minister Rafe Mair has run for.

shelter it is vital that we write our new Health Minister Jim Nielson to inform him of our point of view and make sure he recognizes our natural rights to our bodies. Write to The Honourable J.A. Nielson, Minister of Health, Parliament Bldgs., Vic- toria, B.C.

Doris Dalmorris

HELLO:

I think it is time we spoke of our new ECCA calendar; I don’t know about the rest of the student body, but I have serious reservations to the format of this year’s calendar. In writing this letter, I have no intention of demeaning the person responsible for the design; indeed I haven't a clue who it is, but I feel I should voice my opinion.

First off, let me say that I don’t feel the calendar presents a correct or pleasing concept of our college. This design would be perfect for a public relations campaign for Cominco, for instance, but hardly reflects an atmosphere which I see as conducive to creativity. . . . Where are the people, the essential ingredient of a educational institution? Looking at this calendar, I see a complex maze of pipes empty hallways. Also, there are virtually no examples of student work. How can you present an atmosphere of creative endeavor, when there is no evidence of anything be- ing produced? When I look at this calendar, I am presented with a vision of an institution which likens itself to B.C.I.T. or an engineering college for example; but creatively not what I would consider an art college to be like. If this vision of our college ts in keeping with the con- cept which our administration holds for our education, then I think that, indeed it is time for us all to reconsider our motives for being here in the first place.

Chris Bradshaw

Seve Te ey

TAKING ON THE YAHOOS

A firebombing in Delta, threats and vandalism against East Indian families, beatings and graffiti on buses and washroom walls — all testify to the presence of racists among us. East Indians, Chinese, Blacks, and Native Indians are singled out for harassment by a small number of ignorant yahoos, some of whom are working out their fan- tasies of hate and ‘‘white-power’’ by organizing for the Ku Klux Klan in Vancouver.

To fight these activities some ethnic groups are organizing to defend themselves in coalitions such as the B.C. Organization to Fight Racism, holding rallies and marches, and pressuring the government to enforce laws broken by racists.

But it shouldn’t just be up to those attacked because of their race or religion to take on the yahoos. We are all immigrants - we all have a right to live here without harassment or hatred — let’s all fight to keep it that way. Racist attitudes and incidents can appear any place at any time — on the job, buses, in bars and schools — let’s all challenge the yahoos whenever and wherever they speak or appear.

Charles Tuke