Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 23, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section Maureen Houston 6977292 email local Gordon Sinclair blame not the profs i was filing out of get shorty a movie about a bad Guy with a Good heart when i heard a woman voice Beckon ing me to turn Why is the free press so biased against the the stranger huh the woman she turned out to be the wife of a striking University of Manitoba and she referred me to three letters to the editor sat urday All making the profs out to be bad Guys with bad hearts and a front Page Story which opened with these words about 500 angry University of Manitoba students stormed the Headquarters of their strik ing professors demanding both sides in the labor dispute Stop the rhetoric and get Down to serious bar it want wrong about a third of the estimated Stu Dent protesters did storm their Way into the faculty association but i could see How it might be not mentioned in the Story but passed along by several angry callers to the free press newsroom was this the student protesters first occupied the administration what sent part of the crowd off to the faculty head quarters was u of m president Arnold Naimark standing at a microphone assuring the Stu dents that the administration Vyas willing to reopen Neotia that Why the woman in the movie theatre was Public opinion is crucial in Touchy times like and Only reporting that the protesters stormed the faculty Headquarters suggested to her the Stu dents were blaming the profs for a walkout that threatens to end their school if one looked the photo above the frontage Story suggested it showed student protesters wielding saucy Sam ple slogan students for academic Freedom support Ufa University of Manitoba faculty association and students Arent the Only ones without class if one turned the front there was an analysis piece by education reporter Aldo Santin that the professors wife should have been Happy it took the covers off the Filmon govern ments and How it forced the administration and faculty into the Santin reported that while the number of faculty at the u of m has dropped by 40 per cent in the last four the Filmon government wants More everyone knows theres less Money for pos secondary Edu cation and therell be even less in the but its How the government is forcing the Issue that the strategy is similar to How Gary Filmon sold no fault insurance and the reduction in health care deflect first it was get the make them out to be overpaid and no one will ask what happens to the settlement if youre disabled in an then it was get the make them out to he overpaid and Hope no one notices the lineups for heart now theres a new twist on the old tactic multiple get the make them oui to be overpaid and if you wont buy get the University students Are too smart for Fil they know who the real bad Guy never mind fiet Keith free press a member of the Winnipeg police services identification unit takes photos at the scene of the shooting shot in Chest in suspected gang hit a 17yearold boy was in critical condition in Hospi Tal yesterday after he was shot in the Chest in what May have been a Gan related staff Erik Gruter said a police investigation by the major crime and Street gang units suggested the shooting happened about 3 yesterday in the main Stree Burrows Avenue Gruter said the teenager was shot in the apparently More than police first became involved in the incident at the health sciences where the victim had apparently been taken by Gruter area residents interviewed yesterday said they didst hear any shots and had no idea who had been Anthony who lives near Burrows and said his House has been robbed three times in the past what we need Here is a neigh boyhood Richard were All working people who dont have anything to do with gang Evelyn who is in her late 20s and has lived on Magnus Avenue since said the neigh boyhood is basically a quiet the shooting comes less than two weeks after a bar manager at Saxx night club was shot by a suspected youth gang witnesses say youths wearing clothes with Indian posse insignia were refused at the bar just before the an 18 year old turned himself in to police last the shooting of 13yearold Joseph Spence last summer is also believed to be a 15yearold boy is charged with first degree lunar women go extra mile by Cameron Oubeck free press correspondent Vera Vigfusson walked the extra mile when it came to raising Money for breast cancer in fact she walked 97 extra Miles 156 together with neigh Bor Judy walked from her Home town of lunar to Winnipeg along 6 to raise pledges for cancer they were joined on thursday by Vigfusson daughter Janet who flew in from Chetwynd for the the three women then joined Over people in downtown Winnipeg for the Honda run for the cure Vigfusson said their Hope is that their walk will make women More Jeff fret press runners in Winnipeg blast off at the Start of the 4th annual Honda run for the aware of the Steps they can take to detect breast cancer Early the three women raised said they walked about 24 Kilometres a spend ing the nights in lunar and win we seemed to be on a we Felt really said who walks eight to 10 kilo me ters every Day with All three women have been affected by breast Vig fusions Mother died of the and her 32 year old daughter Janet had cancer herself and underwent a Breckman said she has lost three friends to according to statistics breast cancer is the leading cause of death for women Ages 35 to and women will die of it in one in nine Canadian women will develop the disease in her life Challenge issued Breckman said they plan to make the walk to Winnipeg an annual addition to the Honda and she challenged residents along 7 and 8 to join last year the Honda run raised in and Drew out 1000 the five Kilometre run and one Kilometre walk were held in 10 cities this run director Lisa Shore said she is impressed by the number of Par the amount raised this year will be announced after the november 15 said co director mar Garet organizers Are optimistic that More Money will be raised this year than because of the prizes available to Partick the National grand prize draw for All participants is for a 1996 Honda civic sex Worth the feature prize is one of 10 free oneyear leases on a Honda Accord Sedan and 10 trips for two aboard Canadian Many smaller prizes were also Given to those who raised new group wants action strike splits u of m students by Cameron Dueck free press correspondent a group of University of Manitoba students has split from the existing students Union to take action to end the faculty Michael a faculty of Edu cation student involved in the said the new Union of Stu dents of the University of Manitoba usum is completely separate from the University of Manitoba students Union Umsu or any other some students Felt that Umsu was not handling things if things we would definitely consider going Back together with he the upstart group is planning a Public demonstration for 9 this morning at the Corner of Markham Road and University Toews said the group has about 20 but he could not pre dict How Many would be at the Toews said usum would be handing out information packages telling what we Are attempting to do and who we he said the package contains let ters from the University of Cal Gary faculty Union and Canadian association of University teach the who really has the had 10 months to make their and they did its time to quit Riding the Fence and try to get this thing Toews today is the sixth Day of the petition the Pauls College students association will present a petition calling for an impartial arbitrator to help Settle the Dis Pute Between the u of m faculty association and University administration to education minister Linda Mclntosh and labor minis Ter Vic Toews we thought maybe a impartial party could said petition author Jennifer a fourth year economics Page approached the Pauls student association because the University students Union was Tak ing too much of an apathetic Page said the students association will not disclose the number of signatures on the petition until it is the faculty association and the administration is meeting with the labor minister Umsu communications director Sakeena Naqvi said students Are hopeful that the ministers pres ence will help get talks going faculty negotiator Robert Chernomas said that there will be a lot More people on the picket line today than there were Over the he would not elaborate on the associations because he said he has been poorly represented by the ill give you facts and that in tired of How were being represented in the Chernomas lets just say theres still new Wolseley Elm a splendid idea by Glen Mackenzie Start reporter Winifred keeps tree hugging Effort 38 years ago finally paid off yesterday with the official planting of a new Elm tree in front of the Robert Steen Community it want just any the one on Wolseley it was a special really and it slowed Down says a Craig Street resident since when slit4 arrived Here from great Britain As a War keep aijp1 11 friends stood guard around a tree in the Middle of Wolseley Avenue at Basswood place in 1957 when they Learned City officials planned to remove their efforts saw Success when then mayor Steve elected for the first time a year intervened to save the but the Victory proved Short lived us i series of fires and a halloween per haps caused by killed the Elm and forced its removal in the new Elm rests on the Plaza in front of the Community the Plaza blocks Palmerston causing traffic to reroute a cd thus making the site of the new tree even More effective than the one on int this a splendid idea said who is believed to be sole surviving Mem Ber of the group that became known As the wild women of the Story of the tree began in when Mary Ann Good planted the Wolseley com munits first Elm to Mark her the site eventually became the intersection of Wolseley Ami Good and her neighbors later battled City efforts to fell the the Saga came to an end yesterday after when about so residents turned out for the Tyce playing ceremony and unveil ing of a Gilles Community club presi said having the tree at a spot genuinely blocking traffic is a Case where the convenience of traffic flow has been set aside for the betterment of the commune Huizinga said the tree is a Symbol for the hundreds of children who go through the club every the tree is something people can rally around just like they did in he this is we know what we the City provides the we provide the Energy 4 ;