Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 31, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section Maureen Houston 6977292 email Lindor Reynolds they ran for Many women lives m y desk is covered with sheets of Pink each of them says in run Ning with a name completing the tante in memory of my mom and my Peggy and my aunty Sharon and my Sis Ter a Louise and in memory of there Are photos and there Are obituary there Are strands of Pink rib Bon with the names of women printed on this is the Wall of disc mantled and reduced to the individual wishes and memories of Ordinary people who have loved a woman with breast the Wall of Hope was erected at last weekends run for the a fundraising event for the Canadian breast cancer the event Drew an impressive Many of them pinned some thing to the some Small Token that explained How breast cancer had touched their in running for a cure so daughters wont lose their mothers to this like i i still miss reads in running for my myself and All the women in my reads the Pink sheets of paper have a awful honesty to they speak of despair and Hope of love and in volunteering for the women who have gone my Mother and the future of my for my we miss my my my there Are photos of smiling women on my desk Young women who should have had decades ahead of their family and friends wrote messages of love on those pictures and tacked them on the breast cancer will strike Between 700 and 750 Manitoba women this on third will its that simple and that at the a family of five wore shirts that read were running for our the Mother of those children is fourteen thousand Manitoba women have breast this is an illness that Doest older women Are More Likely to develop breast cancer younger women Are not Twenty three per cent of All breast cancers occur in women younger than its the leading cause of death for women Between 35 and one in nine Canadian women can expect to develop breast one in 23 will die of the but the statistics dont Tell the Story in the same hear wrench ing Way the victims and their families they Tell of the need for a More compassionate healthcare one that will understand and Honor the fears and concerns of they Tell of the need for better patient Given Early and with they Tell of women anger and their Sor Mickey and Chris and Char Chris and mom aunt a grandmother i never got to know my Mother a survivor my breast cancer awareness month officially ends for Many the awareness never Winnipeg free press local october 1995 fewer u of m profs staying out on line by Catherine Mitchell staff reporter More professors have Gorte Back to class since the strike at the University of Manitoba began almost two weeks administration and some faculty members there Are now 260 professors crossing the picket versus 232 when the strike began per cent said traction spokesman in about 27per cent of the 992 members of the u of m faculty association Are crossing the the numbers do not include the 129 professors currently on paid professors who chose not to Cross picket lines from Day 1 say More colleagues Are joining own feeling is at least 100 have come Back since the strike anthropology professor Hymie Rubenstein adding that was a guess based on the peo ple he sees at work each in part of the arts two of 15 professors Are teaching and two More will be returning he tube Stein said there is growing feeling among professors dissatisfied with the strike that the Ufa should be there Are several of us who will stand up when the time said who Tore up his Ufa membership card the Day before the strike management faculty professor Cathy Goodwin said she too would like to see Ufa citing a philosophical difference with unions As her chief motivation for scrapping the group and for remaining at Goodwin also Felt the reasons for the strike were not Good enough to disrupt classes for the Stu Layoff provisions Rubenstein said while Ufa warns the University is jeopardizing academic Freedom that which allows professors to take unpopular positions without fear of jeopardizing their jobs with the proposed Layoff that is far from the he says if academic Freedom truly were at he would be the first to walk the under article the University administration set out a plan to reduce the faculty allowing it to individually select professors for Early Transfer or including those with late the Union partially responded to the administrations latest revision to article Given to Ufa on but the two sides Are no closer because Umnas reply basically reworked the administrations Revi said Terry administration Falconer said Ufa still refuses to give the University administration the ability to Lay off individual As Ufa is try ing to take away the legislative Powers of the Board and describe the Powers of the University sen he Ufa president Grant Woods said the unions response moved toward the administrations Posi Tion on article the two sides Are expected to be Back at the table negotiating Joe free press shoring up the fort Grant Schmidt left takes a break while a coworker a Pic program and the rest by the festival do works on restoring fort Gibraltar in Whittier Park yes the which is to be completed by involves the Crews Are being paid half their wages under building a new Frame and tories cleared of election Hanky Panky by Alice Krueger legislature reporter elections Manitoba has cleared the tories of alleged wrongdoing in last Springs provincial closing the Book on a five month the investigation was sparked when the new democratic party complained the tories tried to manipulate the outcome in three close Ridings by assisting Independent native candidates in Swan River and the nip held on to All three the inquiry followed an admission by Interlake tory Campaign chairman Allan Aitken that he gave advice to help launch the electoral bids of Independent native Candi dates Daryl Sutherland in inter Nelson Contois in Swan River and Carey Contois in in a confidential letter to nip provincial Secretary Pat Manitoba chief electoral officer Richard Balasko said an extensive review and investigation was but that no charges would be Laid under the elections As you will i cannot provide to you any information concerning the the letter you May be assured that your com plaint was dealt with most Thor but new democrats unhappy with the outcome now Are wonder ing just How extensive the investigation was by retired ramp officer Del to find there considering asking elections Manitoba for a list of the peo ple contacted in the elections Manitoba officials refused to release any information about the matter to the free and confirm a decision had been made to close the seniors fear for their safety teenage thugs break into terrify disabled woman by Bud Robertson staff reporter residents of an inner City seniors Complex say they fear for their safety after teens broke into a pair of suites Over the Annie slowly Shook her head As she recalled waking Early sunday to the sight of a Young Man in a leather jacket standing a few metres from her in still said Zait who has no legs and relies on a wheelchair to get around in her threadbare apartment in Andrews place on Elgin Zaitsoff said the Man whose jacket sported the same colors As a group of teens she had seen cruising the hallways in past weeks simply looked at her from the living room of her apart ment As she hollered at him to get police officers later discovered that the screen of her third floor apartment window had been torn and Zaitsoff suspects the Man May have walked along a narrow Balcony to get into her while she has an alarm by her Zaitsoff said she was afraid he and another person she heard near the door of the apartment would harm her if she tried to use she later discovered the Man had taken meat from her re Frig tobacco and More than in her nextdoor neighbor had his microwave oven stolen the same Zaitsoff said while there is a guard on duty at Security in the building is Winnipeg police duty Jack Tinsley said the building is in a bad area of the youre not going to find a tougher he Tinsley added two suspects were arrested sunday in connection with the Zaitsoff Susan said she is very concerned for her who moved into the suite last i was pretty upset when i heard about said adding other tenants have said they live in fear of being attacked All the something should be she building maintenance manager John Seiko said yesterday action is being a tenant who recently moved into the and brought the undesirable youths with is being said the Low income housing unit is managed by Sam management which maintains office space on the main floor along with a pharmacy and other while two front entrances Are open 24 hours a Seiko insisted that Security cameras and guards at the Entrance to the ele Vator at night help keep out unde Szathmary president a of elects female Leader by Manfred Jager staff reporter the University of shaken in the past year by charges of sexual harass ment and hostility toward will have a woman As its next the u of m Board of governors has appointed anthropologist Emoke Szathmary of Mcmaster University in Hamilton to succeed Arnold Naimark As president next july this is the Best news Ive had in a Long said Barbara past chairwoman of the presi dents advisory committee on this is not just a Token appointment of a its a very meaning Ful and deeply significant step the Board has this appointment will be very important to women at this and if its important to then it will also be important to the University As a who has been president for the past 15 will retire at the end of the current academic is vice president academic and Provost of Mcmaster University whose name and cultural background Are came to Canada with her parents As a Young she said universities have never been More important to the life and future of this she is married to retired geologist George the Cou plus one dog and two will move to Winnipeg next Szathmary expects to be in the City frequently Between now and then to meet u of m staff and faculty and familiarize herself with issues and con asked about declining University Szathmary said one Way of influencing the trend would be for Stu dents to become quite Politi and their parents lets face it weve been spending an awful lot of Money every year and there just int an inexhaustible amount of Money to go All universities in Canada suffer from the same Belt tightening the president elect our expectations have been firmly rooted in the past and times have she said three major fac tors will continue to make universities indispensable we Are the repositories of we also generate new knowledge through research and scholarship to understand the world better in All its were also required to disseminate universities must watch very carefully to preserve the three Swath Mary ;