Brock University Student Newspaper Collection, 1964-2020: Recent submissions
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 19, February 19, 1986The Press, Volume 22, Issue 19 includes: Brock’s Fine Arts Department increased their representation on BUSAC; Apartheid debate between Glenn Babb, ambassador of South Africa, and a University of Toronto professor was peaceful, but attracted about 150 protestors who drowned out parts of the discussion by hammering on doors and chanting “Freedom Yes, Apartheid No.”; Election for Editor for Press is upcoming; Quorum finally met at the past General Union Meeting, but this is not a sign of dwindling student apathy.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 18, February 12, 1986The Press, Volume 22, Issue 18 includes: way Inn; The “Haida Indians” are upset about the Premier of British Columbia’s decision to log the forests on their village-based island of South Moresby, B.C. To protest, they have decided to boycott Expo ’86; By July ’87, Canada will have a Central Registry on Missing Children up and running.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 17, February 5, 1986The Press, Volume 22, Issue 17 includes: Brock University students will finally receive reduced priced bus passes in September 1986; The Ontario Public Interest Research Group has established a chapter at Brock; Ontario’s new Minister of Colleges and Universities, Mr. Gregory Sorbara, has promised young people 61,000 jobs this summer; Five more universities have taken some action to divest from companies which do business with the South African government; Crowded classrooms and entry quotas are causing intense anxiety among students, and when compounded with financial stress, students are experiencing mental breakdowns says counsellor at the University of British Columbia.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 16, January 29, 1986The Press, Volume 22, Issue 16 includes: “Canada should be more or less neutral,” said Angla Browne, an anti-nuclear protestor at the Anti-Cruise Protest held in from of St. Catharine’s M.P. Mr. Joe Reid’s office; Brock students could have a Bus Pass as early as September 1986, but the Transit Commission has to “look at it as a budgetary item” first.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 15, January 22, 1986The Press, Volume 22, Issue 15 includes: Brock prof challenges the mandatory retirement age of 65. The Vice-President of Brock’s Administration anticipates problems if the mandatory retirement policy is abolished. The Brock Science for Peace group discussed Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defence Initiative or “Star Wars” in their first meeting.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 14, January 15, 1986The Press, Volume 22, Issue 14 includes: David Betzner, a member of the Brock University Students’ Administrative Council resigned from his position as Minister of Finance, but a motion allowed Betzner to remain in office until the first week of February. This allows him to continue performing his duties during one of the most hectic school periods; A University of Alberta professor has been fined $2000 and suspended for six months without pay by the university after he sexually harassed six of his students; Students who are disgruntled with the way a course is taught can sue the institution offering it, an Ontario court has ruled; An article written by an outside writer regarding the issue of abortion and how she believes it isn’t right.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 13, November 27, 1985The Press, Volume 22, Issue 13 includes: Professor John Meisel, former chairman of the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunication Commission stated that Canadian culture is seriously threatened by the overabundance of American programming on Canadian television; The abortion debate – article explores the arguments for both pro-life people and pro-choice people; Wesley Johenessen and Hennie DuToit, two representatives of the South African embassy in Ottawa visited the Brock campus to attempt to justify the actions of the South African government.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 12, November 20, 1985The Press, Volume 22, Issue 12 includes: The International Students Association presented their Cultural Night, and it was an enormous success; Larry Grossman won the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in Ontario; A tense presentation by two representatives of the South African embassy took place on the previous Friday, with Hennie DuToit stating that “we cannot blame Canada for the anti-apartheid feelings. This is our difficult position. Rioting is not South African."; In a normal school term, Brock students are paying $1,368,000 to ride the bus.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 11, November 13, 1985The Press, Volume 22, Issue 11 includes: The Ontario Ministry of Skills and Development has presented a new program, called Futures, that aims to reduce the amount of young people facing unemployment; The Ontario Council on University Affairs suggests that 1000 new faculty members should be hired at Ontario universities immediately to decrease the size of classes; Ignorance, hysteria and media misinformation has caused Canadians to be unnecessarily fearful of contracting AIDS; The white minority in South Africa have built up a tremendously powerful military machine that virtually ensures their survival in their own nation. But due to economic sanctions from the West in an attempt to dissuade them from committing violent acts against their Black counter parts, the white minority is in a no-win situation; St. Catharines Standard reported that Brock Administration has over $100,000 invested in corporations operating in South Africa.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 10, November 6, 1985The Press, Volume 22, Issue 10 includes: Amid increasing American efforts at destabilization, the Consul-General of Nicaragua, Pastor Valle-Garay, paid a visit to Brock University. This comes six years after the 17-year-old totalitarian dictatorship of the Somoza family ended in Nicaragua; Beverly Hadland, an anti-abortion supporter, spoke at Brock on the previous Thursday; An experiment at Concordia University showed that cocaine was deadlier than heroin; Nicaraguan leaders accused of imposing a new totalitarian regime on its people through the imposition of a State of Emergency and suspension of civil liberties. Regan and his White House have been using these claims to back their destabilization efforts. Left and right fight over the need for these repressions.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 9, October 30, 1985The Press, Volume 22, Issue 9 includes: The federal government and the provinces used National Universities Week to blame one another for the country’s impoverished institutes of higher education; Municipal elections are coming up on November 12th, 1985.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 8, October 23, 1985The Press, Volume 22, Issue 8 includes: Brock referendum regarding the increase in student fees fell short at just 3%; Despite the concern about he aids crisis, 211 Brock students donated blood to the Red Cross; Highly enriched nuclear fuel from reactors on five university campuses in Canada was sent to a military plant in the USA where it will be used to make bombs for the American weapons program; The growth of the international free market has made cultures living in areas with an abundance of native resources extremely vulnerable to exploitation from white Europeans.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 7, October 16, 1985The Press, Volume 22, Issue 7 includes: Dr. Vladimir Brodsky was arrested on April 15th, the same day as a planned protest in Moscow intended to raise public awareness in the USSR about the medical consequences of the use of nuclear weapons; A bomb threat, objections from the school, and phone calls from angry parents put an end to an apartheid simulation day at St. Champlain College in Montreal.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 6, October 9, 1985The Press, Volume 22, Issue 6 includes: The Ontario Waste Management Corporation has decided on a site near Bismarck on the Niagara Peninsula for its toxic waste disposal unit; Students asked to vote on the increase of student fees from $5 to $6.25. Students are not happy about it; Slums and poverty overtake Mexico City; BUSU is slowly recovering from the $58,000 debt left from the previous administration.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 5, October 2, 1985The Press, Volume 22, Issue 5 includes: Bomb threat received by Paul Dwyer, the manager of Alphie’s Trough; Brock students complain about bad bus service, improvement possible; Solutions offered for bad parking situation on campus; Robert White, Canadian Director and Vice-President of the United Auto Workers, stated that “No free trade will work” while giving a talk at Brock; Reprint of how to write a resume and cover letter.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 4, September 25, 1985The Press, Volume 22, Issue 4 includes: A referendum results in the increase of student fees; Housing for Brock students is still incredibly difficult to find; East vs West Europe dialogue has made important advances following Western Europe’s disarmament movement; How much longer can Apartheid in South Africa go on?
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 3, September 18, 1985The Press, Volume 22, Issue 3 includes: CAPE (Campus Alcohol Polices and Education Program) has come to Brock; Brock Radio (or CFBU) shuts down; Mulroney government decided to reject government involvement in the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, or “Star Wars” program; Why students need the Women’s Resource Centre at Brock.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 2, September 11, 1985The Press, Volume 22, Issue 2 includes: Two professors of the Fine Arts Department acted against sexist bathroom signs (female bathroom sign showcased a feminine figure adorned with breasts); Donald MacDonald wants to give students a voucher in the mail worth, on average, $1850 to put towards the cost of getting a degree; Earp elected the chair of Council.
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The Press, Volume 22, Issue 1, September 4, 1985The Press, Volume 22, Issue 1 includes: Letter from BUSU President Paul O’Rourke to welcome students back to Brock; Ombudsman is available to students.
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The Press, Volume 21, Issue 23, April 3, 1985The Press, Volume 21, Issue 23 includes: Press receives another letter from the author credited as “Hobo Extraordinaire,” in which they reveal that their letter detailing how they lived at Brock for three months was a fabrication, and the community at Brock, including Chief Roberts, has been fooled; Paul O’Rourke wins the election for BUSU president with a significant majority; Ann Ivory urges students to sign the petition asking City Council to meet with the Transit Union and to inform them that Brock students are demanding an end to the strike.
