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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 26, April 4, 1984The Press, Volume 20, Issue 26 includes: Chris Conrad reflects on the year in her final editorial, touching on accusations of suppressing the news, misconceptions on what the Press is supposed to be, and thanking the people who make Press possible; Mike Wilking, Romance Studies representative to BUSAC, is charged for trespassing and unpermitted solicitation; the Brock Student Movement has similarly been decertified for the same reasons; Chris Conrad examines the Brock Student Movement, a “small Marxist-Leninist group,” who “may look foolish to some, just annoying to others, but… are gathering support by using the naivete of students.”; Professor Angus A. Somerville wins the Alumni Award for Teaching Excellence.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 25, March 28, 1984The Press, Volume 20, Issue 25 includes: The Quebec Government’s announces a differential fee for out-of-province students; the AUCC calls it “ill advised and a threat to student mobility.”; Doris Chown unveils the first name sign for the MacKenzie Chown Complex, which makes up two thirds of the recent expansion symbol.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 24, March 21, 1984The Press, Volume 20, Issue 24 includes: Chris Conrad answers the most asked questions by Brock students, including topics on transit, the school’s chilly temperatures, and the “indoor rain” in the hallways.; The Board of Trustees votes to change the Brock logo to enhance the school’s image, but not the name of the university to “Isaac Brock University.”; Swen Shannon features the candidates for BUSAC President, the Board of Trustees, and the Senatorial candidate; Press answers everything Brock students want to know about CFBU, but are too afraid to ask; Bill Matheson is appointed as the new vice-president of Brock University.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 23, March 14, 1984The Press, Volume 20, Issue 23 includes: Chris Conrad discusses the issue of Indigenous self-governance, saying that all cultures in Canada should integrate into every other culture; Wiliam Macadam, president of Norfolk Communications, speaks at Brock about “the ubiquitous yet elusive Canadian Culture.”; Catherine Hurford explores the problem of overcrowding at the Brock Library and some solutions students can assist with while the administration tries to make more space; American vigilante group the Guardian Angels visit St. Catharines to assess the possibility of starting a chapter in the city.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 22, March 7, 1984The Press, Volume 20, Issue 22 includes: Nick Toth has won the Press election for the position of Editor; he will take over Editorial duties from Chris Conrad on May 1, 1984; Bill Jones addresses the university concerning the government’s plan to restructure the Ontario University system in a news release; Lucie Hodgson examines the origins and importance of International Women’s Day; As Ottawa says goodbye to Pierre Trudeau, Chris Conrad takes a look at all he did as Prime Minister, and how he “did work for Canada.”
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 21, February 15, 1984The Press, Volume 20, Issue 21 includes: Dr. Brian Ostrow, National spokesman of the People’s Front spoke at Brock about Prime Minister Trudeau’s “Peace Initiative,” which he called a “peace demagogy of imperialism.”; Udo Lundberg explores the winter reading week, and trends of students travelling less in relation to higher rates of unemployment; Letters to the Editor are mostly responding to recent articles and debates about abortion, but many focus on Betty Blashill’s Marxist-Leninist stories.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 20, February 8, 1984The Press, Volume 20, Issue 20 includes: The Press Issues & Outlooks section features debates regarding the university’s proposed name change to “Isaac Brock University.”; Lisa La Horey examines the debate at the University of Toronto, “Socialism or Capitalism? Which is the moral system?” Dave Mackenzie, Brock University Alumnus and Board of Trustees Member, argues against the university’s proposed name change; Player profile on Bob Yuhasz, a third-year Phys. Ed. student and Badgers basketball player who hates nicknames and never wears the same pair of pants twice.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 19, February 1, 1984The Press, Volume 20, Issue 19 includes: Chris Conrad responds to the back page ad from the Brock Administration and doubles down that adding the “Isaac” to the name of the university will cost funds better used elsewhere in the school; Brock Administration ad on the back page remarks on editorial comments on the university’s proposed name change, “with their incomplete facts, and their quick leaps of logic.”; The former Brock student responsible for more than $100,000 of damage to the Tower’s front door and Dr. Earp’s office has been sentenced to three years of probation, must stay away from Brock, and repay $5,000 in two year’s time; The Brock Press Pink Flamingo has been Flamingo-napped from the Press office; anyone knowing the whereabouts of the flamingo are asked to come forward; Dan D’Angelo, Dawna Bacon, Kel Girce, Peter Ladage and Nick Toth are running for Editor of the Press.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 18, January 25, 1984The Press, Volume 20, Issue 18 includes: Chris Conrad expresses her contempt at the recent plan by the Administration to change the university’s name to “Isaac Brock University,” and urges students to sign the petition opposing the name change; Several letters to the editor criticize Chris Conrad’s editorial, “Why Gay Rights.”; University professors across Ontario are expressing concern over Bette Stephenson’s move to restructure the province’s university system.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 17, January 18, 1984The Press, Volume 20, Issue 17 includes: Lucie Hodgson and Betty Blashill examine Prime Minister Trudeau’s “peace initiative” with critical lenses; Mike Crawly has been arrested at his home in Welland in connection with the murder of Dr. Edith Wightman of McMaster University. Karen T. Willcock examines the role of the Ombudsman, concluding that if their services are used only when necessary, and used wisely, the Ombudsman will remain a part of a working system; Several letters to the editor criticize Chris Conrad’s editorial, “Why Gay Rights?”; Brock will hold a five-day Winter Carnival for the first time in recent history.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 16, January 11, 1984The Press, Volume 20, Issue 16 includes: Why Gay Rights?: Chris Conrad expresses her opinion on gay and lesbian rights, ultimately concluding that LGBTQ+ people should not express their sexualities to anybody but their friends and families and should not expect any “sympathy or special rights”; this article will receive much backlash in later editions via letters to the editor; Dr. Edith Wightman of the McMaster University History Department was murdered in her office; police have established offices at McMaster ad Brock, and there have been sightings of the suspect in St. Catharines; The new provincial funding plan will unfairly penalize universities that have expanded in recent years, like Brock.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 15, December 8, 1983The Press, Volume 20, Issue 15 includes: Satirical article about Brock’s newest grant, being $12.2 million to construct a domed stadium, the Badgerdome; Satirical article about the high-stress diet plan (H.S.D.P.), to help Brock students lose weight without changing their eating habits.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 14, November 30, 1983The Press, Volume 20, Issue 14 includes: Richard Allen, provincial NDP member from Hamilton-West came to Brock to discuss the full ramifications of the “crisis of underfunding.”; Alan Earp and J.R. Fleming express their apologies for their miscommunication with students over the noise problem in residence as construction continues; Binod K. Singh is comforted by this apology, and that “Administration still respects the views of the students.”; Cathryne Hurford explains some of the recent crimes on campus, including theft and the malicious pulling of a fire alarm, whom the subjects of both have been apprehended and penalized.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 13, November 23, 1983The Press, Volume 20, Issue 13 includes: Practical Love; Government Underfunding of Universities; Waiting for the Parade Preview; The Brock Peanut Butter!; The Real Bond is Back.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 12, November 16, 1983The Press, Volume 20, Issue 12 includes: BUFA has voted against unionization 66-62 with 2 abstentions and 3 late votes, putting the issue of unionized Brock faculty to rest for “six months or 10 years, depending on the faculty.”; Brock campus police tried to prevent Betty Blashill, the spokesperson of the Brock Student Movement, the campus wing of CYUC (M-L), from selling People’s Canada Daily News, the national newspaper of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist); the confrontation did not escalate, but Brock police issued a notice forbidding “active solicitation of purchases,” signed by Dr. Earp; An anti-imperialist war demonstration organized by the Brock Committee Against Imperialist War Preparations and the Niagara Council of the People’s Front Against Racist and Fascist Violence marched through St. Catharines on the occasion of Remembrance Day; In Ottawa, there is increasing outcry over the situation in post-secondary institutions, with calls for renewed commitment to education funding becoming more audible.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 11, November 9, 1983The Press, Volume 20, Issue 11 includes: Chris Conrad expresses her trouble with Remembrance Day, and why she won’t be wearing a poppy to celebrate “cruel and futile” wars; Spotlight on the Local University Women’s Club in St. Catharines; Feature on the World University Service of Canada and its connections at Brock; Dr. Edith Fawke spoke at Senate about English-Canadian folksongs, and how they are quickly fading as generations pass on.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 10, November 2, 1983The Press, Volume 20, Issue 10 includes: Two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling spoke at the Welland Centennial High School on behalf of the United Nations Association; Geology students have cleared the Pond of all vegetation so it may be used as a skating rink in the winter; Spotlight on Nancy Peacock, a woman playing on the men’s intermural hockey team, the first woman ever to do so, as far as Mike Laurence knows
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 9, October 26, 1983The Press, Volume 20, Issue 9 includes: A 23-year-old, third-year Business Administration student at Brock has been arrested and admitted to the psychiatric ward at the St. Catharines General Hospital after driving his Buick Le Sabre through the entrance of the Schmon Tower Lobby and ransacking University President Dr. Earp’s office; total damage is estimated to be between $25,000 to $45,000; President of the Liberal Party of Canada Iona Campagnola gave four speeches and two press conferences in St. Catharines, including a speech at Brock; Caravan is returning to Brock with handicrafts from around the world.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 8, October 19, 1983The Press, Volume 20, Issue 8 includes: Brock University now has a formal policy regarding sexual harassment, a sexual harassment committee to mediate complaints confidently, and a formal complaint procedure; Betty Blashill discusses the recent Brock event in which an unnamed member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) spoke about the ideology and its place in the political sphere; The eleventh Annual Meeting of the Ontario New Liberals was held at the Sheriton Triumph Hotel in Toronto.
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The Press, Volume 20, Issue 7, October 12, 1983The Press, Volume 20, Issue 7 includes: Kel Grice examines the “remarkable rate” of technological advancement in the 80s; Kel Grice examines provincial funding for Brock University, which is lowest funding per student unit in Ontario, but is rapidly increasing as more students enroll at the school.
