Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 3, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 28 parcs 122 no 294 publications mail registration no 0286 Winnipeg free press get Post os1 Post outside qty to 11 30 13 09 21 Psi City 1994 schools Battle harassment of from stalking to rape by Lindor Reynolds five press columnist sexual harassment of preteen and teenage girls is such a serious problem in win Nipges elementary and Junior High schools that teachers Are conduct ing seminars and classes to define unacceptable behaviour and its con one school Vic principal said sex Ual harassment by other students sexual prejudices common b1 May be the most serious Issue facing school administrators there is no question we Are All coming to grips with said Coralie an administrator at Cecil Rhodes which is actively teaching children that harassment is Ive never gone through a Day without being said 14 year old Yula a Grade 9 student at Cecil in some theres a Point where if it goes too far you can stand up for but its hard to say added classmate Sher Magden said she remembers the first time she was physically a i was in Grade was touched on the breast by this Guy at but she said her experiences with harassment started even i remember in Grade Guys giving you looks and saying led icel said she projects a Strong image and manages to avoid most it Doest happen to me much be cause i always come off she she they can make you feel last Cecil Rhodes staff held a symposium on sexual during the a group of Stu stabbed for his jacket attacked behind legislature by Kim Guttormson and Glen Mackenzie free press reporter Darrell Monforton was in a Hospi Tal bed yesterday recovering from a punctured lung and half a dozen Stab wounds to his face and in wondering Why these things sort of Hap he Over a the 22yearold Man was attacked Early yesterday and was stabbed three times in the once in the and had his face slashed and both hands he was also kicked in the face and a piece of his Finger was Cut All because his assailant wanted the Mon Detta jacket he was wearing when he went to buy his mistake was refusing to give it to Larry said his adopted who was born with fetal alcohol should never have gone alone when he left a friends apartment on Vaughan Street at about Darrell speaking quietly from his Hospital said a Man jumped out of the Bushes behind the legislature and demanded his Black and red threatening to Stab him if he didst hand it the attacker then pulled out a knife and began slashing Monforton said he was wearing a Bandanna and speculated his attacker May have thought he belonged to a Winnipeg police duty Don Macdiarmid said the assailant probably planned to Rob any one who came Monforton said he managed to return to his friends apartment and Call an ambulance after the attacker fled with his in not feeling too great right he said last the area along the Assiniboine River where the attack occurred has become notorious for but Macdiarmid said that didst Marc free press Hsc nurse Lennie Sapach looks on As Monforton describes attack appear to be a motive for the Glen Murray said Monforton Stab Bing is the third attack in As Many Days in the he said two men were badly beaten by groups of men in the Osborne Village and South Osborne areas Over the they see a Man walking alone in that neigh boyhood and they assume Hes Murray fort Rouge that sufficient evidence for them to badly beat them or kill Murray said while the Broadway Assiniboine area is not it is he suggested the City move a Community police of fice into the while some Assiniboine Avenue residents said yesterday they still feel Safe in the area de spite the recent a woman who asked not to be named said after living in the area for eight years she has watched it get i dont think in particularly she in aware theres More Larry Monforton said he expects his son will be out of Hospital in four or five Days unless he experiences Canadian go says klan Exman Toban makes Waves at private youth prism in Maryland police reporter my it was about the time the Kun flux klan showed up that David Morrison realized running a youth prison Down Here was going to be a Little different than in there were All these Guys standing around the Gate with their hoods and Robes and signs saying canadians go Morrison Morrison explained the klansmen were upset with his role in helping to open a youth prison in their Community two years a prison filled mainly with Young Black shots were death threats were Twenty Fourour Security was the scene outside the Gates of the Victor Cullen Academy in 1992 was building Hope their 92 the not the indication of How far Morrison had come from his former Job As head of the Agassiz youth Centre in Portage la in leaving Agassiz two years ago to take Over the Cullen privately run youth prison just North of bait Imore Morri Flo bad entered a new it is the world of private where the state is the the kids Are the product and the Bottom line reigns its a business Down Here As a that taken some getting used he its a different Job than the one in a Job he says had him hogtied in bureaucratic red political interference and budget instead of helping to Reform Young native men from Northern reserves with sniffing Morrison is now working with Young Black men from inner cities with crack the circumstances have the klan has entered the but Morrison has Putni Decd impute Menf we the he always wanted at in the Way he always for the first time in a life spent trying to turn around wayward Morrison has the Freedom and Money to do things As he sees because when youre in private Enterprise and turning around wayward kids is your the product had better be pretty or the Bottom line won t so Morrison approach the Manitoba government seems to be abandoning in its move to Boot to be people Are talking in Maryland about this Canadian and his innovative ideas like putting Black intercity kids on horses and giving them jobs and the Only problem is some of those Are wearing White dents then in Grade 9 described their experiences with they included forced to have being threaten ing obscene phone fondling you in places you dont want to be Bryant said a common problem is boys who justify the use of Force by Shes my Girlfriend and its of this one happens a Bryant harassment consultant Naomi Levine said people Are wrong to Dis miss assaults As Youthful its a big Deal because snapping a Bra strap May be an assault under the criminal its an intrusion into my personal its my Why should a child be any Dif Ferent what its saying to that Little girl whose Bra strap is being pulled is i have no respect for your bound welfare funding axe in air Cut among proposals in grit safety net Reform package by Larry Welsh Canadian press Ottawa cutting Bil lion in Federal welfare fund ing and establishing a lion Trust fund for College and University will be among key govern ment proposals for reforming social sources on human re sources minister Lloyd Axworthy is scheduled to release a Long delayed discussion paper on revamping can Adas social safety sources familiar with the paper said key measures will also include turning unemployment insurance into a two tier a smaller insurance program for most canadians and Job training for those who frequently draw to ease the sting of deep cuts in welfare and the Federal govern ment will put special emphasis on reducing child the discussion paper has two main options on children targeting the Federal child tax credit to Lowin come or integrating fed eral and provincial child benefits into a guaranteed annual income for Federal officials begin briefing provincial governments today on the which says High Unzem a changing Economy and government debt underline the need for reforming Job train education and child the already upset with efforts to limit the growth in Federal Transfer will look for two important numbers this week How much Ottawa plans to pay for welfare and pos secondary Educa quote of the Day the balance Between the rights of the accused person and the rights of the Community to be protected from crime is shifting very much in the wrong Craft attorney wham Gaianey is diluted has women warned on a8 the last Federal budget left those two numbers Blank for but said the government plans to save sources say this weeks discussion paper proposes making the entire saving at the expense of welfare providing about billion in 199697 under the Canada Assis Tance plan instead of the paper also proposes scrap Ping formulas for sharing welfare costs Between Ottawa and the prov provinces would receive about As much As they expect for pos Sec Mondary but sources say the Federal government will propose replacing the Cash portion of that Transfer with a Trust fund for College and University no one will be Cut off immediately from i or welfare As a result of this weeks discussion but its proposals would radically alter social other measures include establishing tax sheltered sayings for Job Simi Lar to registered retirement Federal vouchers to help pay for College and instead of transferring Money to a guaranteed annual income for All Low income sources says this would be costly and is not Likely to be keeping Liberal government promises to create new childcare spaces Over three inside diversions far stat Art Ann doctor in sports ;