REMARK CONNO1ING

AGGRESSION.

REPLY

EXPRESSING | ACQUIESCENCE AND. MASKING RESENTMENT.

LEADING QUESTION INDICATING

DESIRED RESPONSE.

AMBIGUOUS ANSWER IGNORING INTENT OF QUESTION.

SARCASTIC JOKE REITERATING PREFERRED BEHAVIOR.

Personal Opinion

International women’s Looking back, looking

International Women’s Week came and went with

little fanfare at UPEI. International what?

For many of you, this may be the first time you have heard anything about his past week’s activities. Many did different types of events took place during the week of March 6-13.

talks on

Some of these included: “New Reproductive Technol- ogy’’, “*“Women and Develop- ment’’, and “‘What the Free Trade

Deal Means workshops on myths about

for Women”;

women as employees and women as welfare recipients;

films de-

velopment, women in peace,

about women in

women’s labor, and women’s culture; and, finally, celebra- tions of women’s culture in evenings of song and dance, highlighted by a special ap- pearance by Heather Bishop, Manitoban singer and song- writer,

On Tuesday, March 8 (Interna- tional Women’s day), Beth Percival of the UPEI Psy- chology. Department was cel- ebrated as PETI’s “Feminist of the Year.”

March 8 was designated back in 1910 as International Women’s Day, to commem-

orate the actions of mili-

ANGRY REFUSAL

» men:

TO PROCEED WITH DIALOGUE.

tant working women strug- gling -for living wages, im- proved working conditions, and the right to vote. Al- though women today have the right to vote, we con- tinue to fight a centuries- old battle for living wages and improved working con- ditions. A pamphlet pub- lished recently by the PEI Advisory Council on the Sta- tus of Women titled “The Pay Gap Between Women and Men” points out a stag- gering difference between the earning levels of women and for example, in health care, women earn 29 cents the work, a field dominated by

on dollar; in clerical women, women earn 67 cents on the dollar. This is the harsh reality of discrimina- tion. There are two impor- tant ways in which we can combat this discrimination: these are pay equity legisla- tion can reduce the pay gap to the point where, accord- ing to the Council on the Status of women’s pamphlet, women would earn 75-80 per- cent of what men earn. How- ever, if the pay gap is to be completely closed, women must step up their entry into non-traditional occupations. It is clear that, in Canadian society, the onus is on women to prove they are capable of

INSINCERE APOLOGY AND PROTESTATION OF INNOCENCE.

ODA Wirney 79

--Lori Anne Heckbert

week — ahead

performing any job and to in- sist that they be fully remu- nerated for their efforts.

I can remember clearly the day when IT realized that, tal- ented or intelligent I may be, bright other young women may be, I and they will well

no matter how

and how talented and

never by as compen- sated for our talent and in- telligence as our male coun- terparts will be. UNLESS... the realization was accompa- nied by hope: this need not be the case, if we are will- ing to make some changes and insist upon recognition of our rights. This realiza-

tion prompted me to find out more about the women’s movement and subsequently to join. In the process, T have met many wonderful women of all ages and circumstances, all of whom have the same hope that I have, and all of whom have found great hap- piness in adding their light to the sum of light. now is the time in our lives to make the connections with each other and with older and younger women, for later on our time will be swallowed up by many other obligations which may well crowd out our recogni-

WEEK Cont. on page 13

UPEI wins animal

by Kaberi Dasgupta

“Be it resolved that med- ical research on animals be abolished”’ the resolu- tion debated by teams from UPEI and Holland College on March 8, 1988. On the team from Holland college

was

were Trina Burho and Isabel Scott while UPEI was repre- sented by Colin Piercy and Lisa Murphy.

The debate took place appropriately (or inappropri- ately!) at the Vet College. The UPEI team defended the resolution, citing the inhu- manity of product tests such as the Praize test which is used to assess the of human eye irritation po-

degree

tentially caused by a prod- uct,,using the eyes of bar- rits. They also outlived al- ternatives available to animal researchers, though these al- ternatives were more appro- priate for students studying well-researched areas.

The

phasized the benefits already

negative side em-

debate on

rights

obtained from research using animals such as the discoy. ery of insulin and the devel. opment of transplant proce. dures. They also described the regulations governing an- imal research in Canada.

Judging the debate were Valerie Moore, a local lawyer, Mike Scoturan of Holland College, and Jerry Perry, a_ profes. sor at UPEI. The moderator was Jan Petrie, a reporter on “Compass”, UPEI was judged to be the winner hy all three judges though the results were close in all three cases.

Presenting the trophy Father Pendergast of the class of 1954 from St. Dunstan’s. The class of 1954 donated the trophy in 1980 for the animal UPEI- Holland College debate in memory of the victory of Alan MacDonald and Wally Reid of St. Dunstan’s who won the Dominion finals in 1952. n

was

Deja Voo who?

Record Review

by Dawnne Chappelle

YES FOLKS! THEY are back, and with gusto. Deja Voodoo have returned with their latest album (what do you MEAN jyou’ve never heard of their FIRST al- bum?!?!) and it’s destined to become a hit. How can you miss with titles like ‘“*Mon- sters in My Garage”’, ‘‘More

Songs About Monsters and °

Food”, and “I Want to Come Back From the World of LSD”. My personal favorite is “Van Gogh’s Ear”, but I only like it for the title.

The. group runs along the same lines as Weird Al Yanckovich, parodying such

groups as The Monkees, Jan and Dean, and the late great man himself, Elvis Presley: The music sounds exactly like the name of the group weird! The music is noth- ing special, unless, of coursé; you happen to like a_ mix ture of country, blues, and psychedelic punk... all in oné song.

The album itself is enti tled, appropriately, I might add, “The Worst of Dejé Voodoo”’. Of course, the only reason they did that is because “no one else has done it”. This is good, be cause I really don’t think the world could handle any more! 3 SB

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