Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 17, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 May to the editor spanking kids no solution spanking does not teach love and Lindor Reynolds excellent article on this topic was i applaud her simple proposal for reducing Vio Lence against she states that we need fewer parents believing that spanking is part of their right As As a grandparent and Edu Cator i wish that people would re member that children learn most from children who Are hit Are More Likely to hit Chil Dren who become violent Are More Likely to grow up to be violent spouses and we need to help parents of Young children learn Good ways to teach acceptable be Havior and the goal is to help a child learn self disc most Manitoban cringe when they see children threatened or verbally lets put a Stop to it we can insist that Strong Educa Tion programs promote appropriate some parents need to learn humane and nurturing disc lets Challenge this new government to address child violence through Public mean individuals and Community groups can debate alternatives to swatting and screeching at grandparents can help so much by admitting though they May have spanked or were spanked spanking is not the Best As we head into our next Century we can leave spanking and lashing Olof Hardy Selkirk reassurance needed from pm in several Media it was stated that the Federal Liberal government is closing regional offices of the Canadian human rights com Mission that is not regional offices will not be in its the investigation functions of the Chr will be centralized in regional offices will be staffed by two workers who will perform outreach functions in the Community and work with companies to get their policies in line with the this is a Deci Sion of the not the Chretien the commission had million Cut from its but the government gave no direction As to Max Yalden could have chosen to make the cuts at the Ottawa Headquarters where there Are at least 170 Mem Bers of the commissions More than 220 it would have been More sensible to trim the fat closing the Prairie regional office in Winnipeg simply Means that win nip Eggers filing complaints Are now in the same boat As people in Rural Manitoba and All of their complaints will be received Over the Telephone and an investigator will be flown in from Ottawa if but this creates the perception that the Liberal government has also launched an attack on human it adds to the bitterness Over insensitive immigration policies introduced recently by Sergio and the disbanding of the Canadian Council on the status of there is cause for Chretien must now make it Clear to All federally regulated Compa including his government departments and the that at tacks on the deficit should not mean attacks on human Wade Kojo Williams National Black coalition Ocanada regular reviewer would help i feel i must Clear the air with re Gard to the april 28 concert review of the Manitoba chamber orches tras recent performance featuring Alexander Baillie in which the free press credited the co for its uncanny ability to be the first in line with new in Baillie first came to Winnipeg to perform a major North american premiere with the Winnipeg symphony or Chestra in Baillie developed a professional relationship with Bramwell Tovey in and it was these Strong ties that brought Baillie to perform with the Baillie returned two years later to again appear in the sos main classical both appearances by Baillie were Well received by Winnipeg audiences and the free press albeit a Dif Ferent individual than was responsible for the co would it be too logical to assume the free press could retain one Clas Sical reviewer to avoid such obvious mistakes and to maintain continuity in concert reviews Max Tapper executive director Winnipeg symphony orchestra Winnipeg the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters maybe edited for style Short letters Are Tess Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg letters can be sent to our fax number letters May be submitted through the internet at . Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone Oklahoma bomb signals deeper ills the recent bombing in Oklahoma City has justifiably sparked Contro Versy and discussion on violence in very few people can look at what happened without a pro found sense of indignation and a desire for it is crucial that we As we struggle to come to terms with this that it is not the ran Dom act of a militant but a symptom of a larger social the Oklahoma bombing has been incorrectly publicized by numerous Media representatives As a historical an unprecedented and unpredictable act of Domestic Ter this atrocity is one of the Many tragic consequences of a government which Fos ters an atmosphere of antisocial individualism and Retalia Tive Mili Tancy through its International and National the pictures of the Federal build ing should fill us with grief not Only for those victims and their families but also for the Many a mourned victims of War whose lives Are similarly one could not help being struck by a sense of Dejavu As newscasts from Oklahoma brought images of Baghdad to the people who died under the rubble of the bombed buildings in Baghdad were As innocent and As helpless As those in unlike where an entire nation pours out its resources and compassion in an Effort to Aid the the devastation of Iraq and the suffering of its citizens is coldly considered a justifiable consequence of is the the pain and the agony any less for those individuals whose govern ment is considered an enemy this recent bombing also brings to mind the thousands of people in Laos and Cambodia who Are killed and maimed by land mines the horrific result of the use of these innocent countries As dump ing Sites during the Vietnam the world Community has not been Able to Force the to compensate these countries for the damage it has done or to clean up what is left of the is it any wonder that a nation which adopts Force and violence against its own citizens and con ducts itself with a total Lack of responsibility in the International Community should face a crisis in which its own citizens act out Vio Lence towards one another should we weep when we see the carnage in Oklahoma most we should mourn for the people affected by this tragedy and for a nation that is so Blind in recognizing the seed that it and before we canadians become too self High thous in our condemnation of the we should look carefully at our own attitudes to ensure that we do not share a similar Gerhard Neufeld Christine Neufeld Winnipeg what is truly meaningful like a terminally ill patient Given the grim Winnipeg hockey fans moved yesterday from Shock and grief to begins the front Page Story by John Douglas on May excuse me Dou Glas has never suffered any serious loss in his the horror of receiving the news that your life is being snatched from you can Only be the Prospect of losing the jets May be sad for but it really Means very Little compared to the value of a human i fail to see the quite it insults any family who has Ever lost a loved one and de Means their in today there Are so Many More important issues where we could spend our valuable time and amidst All this Media sensationalism surrounding the let us not lose sight of what is truly meaningful in our Nicki Brown Winnipeg old age offers stability by David Koulack special to the free press a few years there was a retirement banquet for a colleague of a full pro Fessor in the psychology depart ment at the University of Manito there was probably nothing unusual about this except that Fred Marcuse was nearing 75 years of age at the As i listened to the testimonials from students and faculty i help thinking an event such As this could not take place in British Columbia or a Rul ing by the courts in upheld by the supreme court of found that mandatory retirement at the age of 65 was not Union Stith while agreeing that such a proscription was an infringement on the rights of the the courts nonetheless ruled that for the greater Good it is important that Laws instituting mandatory retire ment be allowed to remain in greater Good for whom the rationale behind the majority opinion involved a Beautiful piece of two pronged the first prong suggested by pushing old people out of More employment opportunities would be created for younger faculty aspiring academics would at last have a Chance to ply their unfortunately this is not what disappear we have ample evidence that most of the in As when people retire their jobs simply University administrators often try to put together hand some monetary packages to in Duce older professors to retire As Early As Are these inducements based on the desire to replace tired old minds with a Young ones of course they Are designed to save it seems any time there is a need to save people must Usu ally older retirement packages Are simply ways of getting rid of higher Sala of making the University a More cos effective there Are rarely replacements for Early the Slack created by the disappearance of positions once held by older faculty members has to be taken up by those who re in those too Young to re tire have to teach an Ever increase ing number of but even if the old were being moved put to make room for the is that necessarily a Good thing the second prong of the supreme court decision suggests that it the majority decision suggests universities need the in fusion of new at the expense of older in order to make Academia a More vital enter in my nothing could be further from quite the con older people often Are the embodiment of the loftiest of uni i value of University retirement seen in reducing not in bringing in Young varsity ideals the search for truth and knowledge and the open Exchange of ideas in spite of supreme court they Are not devoid of new take Marcuse Case As an sex a Quick look at his Vita pre sents a picture of an extremely productive he has published Well Over 100 articles and several and his productivity Hast diminished since his offi Cial but the Vita Doest Tell half of the nor does it cover the sub but not easily document contributions older such As make to the universe for one their presence serves to contradict the prevalent belief like that held by some of the members of the supreme court that older by the very fact of their Are some How less capable than younger but perhaps the most important asset older people have to Confer on the University results from a perspective born of it is the even they Are Able to provide in the often unsettled Waters of the development of the creature called professor is fraught with difficulty and arbitrary there is always some pressure to but at no time is it As great As in the Early stages of a there Are continuous initially to determine if a Candi Date is worthy of and later to assess whether an individual should be exchanged in the midst of the struggle for it is All too easy to lose sight of the role of the University As a Centre of scholar ship is often exchanged for Efrica what research should i do so i can get published a question often what sorts of research Are Likely to receive Money from fed eral or provincial granting Agen cies is and so it is Here that the established professors have the most important role to they Are not involved in a fight for they have More time to devote to they have More time to share ideas and information accumulated during Many years of they can fearlessly ask questions and give answers that might be they can be models of they can and often the focal Points around which True learning takes in their rather than their clearly Best serves the greater David Koulack is a professor of psychology at the University of retirement not the answer by Errol Black and Robert Chernomas special to the free press Lee Stuesser Contention that serious fiscal problems exist at the University of Manitoba and other Manitoba universities free May 5 is Val his argument in favor of mandatory retirement of University faculty members is ill con As the idea implicit in the articles headline that mandatory retirement would resolve the fiscal and other problems con fronting the u of according to 65 professors at the u of m Over the age of 65 earn a cumulative salary of he suggests that forced retirement of the 65 would response a column open to release these which could then be used for faculty renewal for Stuesser is synonymous with reducing the average age of faculty enhanced employment equity and improved salaries for Junior and mid level Stuesser adduces no evidence to support his Contention that the absence of compulsory retirement is a Burden on the nor does he address the question of what happens now to funds which become available As a result of voluntary in any the onetime Impact of a redistribution of Mil lion in faculty salaries even Given the unlikely possibility that it was All used for the purpose Stuesser which is less than two per cent of total University expend would be extremely mod after the redistribution was the problems confronting the u of m would re would we then seek other ways to cannibalize faculty Sala Ries to alleviate the immediate manifestations of fiscal crisis Stuesser proposal would initiate a mugs game that would be i demoralizing and counter a Superior alternative is for us to continue to through collective changes to collective agreements that increase and improve the career options Avail Able to faculty As we must continue to pressure the Federal and Provin Cial governments to adopt policies and measures that will protect and strengthen the capacity of universities to provide Quality University education for the people of Manito these measures include a pos secondary education Cabinet portfolio a pos secondary Educa Tion act that ensures stability and and the tying of pos secondary education funding to real economic Errol Black and Robert Cherno Mas Are president and Vic Epresi Dent of the Manitoba organization of faculty doonesbury by Garry 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