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Preserving life

While the ‘‘conservationist” mentality is  in-
finitely preferable to the pathological and ex-
ploitative way of thinking that has led to the ex-
tinction or near extinction of so many species of
animai, there is still something -cold and un.-
convincing about it.

The conservationist seems to be dealing always
with statistics and relative values. He iswontto
consider one species of animal more valuabie than
another simply because It has fewer numbers.

The wholesale slaughter of wild animals ts still
acceptable:provided there are plenty of animals
left in thegspecies being slaughtered. This is
especially tye If there is big money to be made, as
in the casagat the harp seal hunt off Canada‘s east

Kil ling faliny reason other than pure-necessity
is indiscringmate killing, is It not?
Now, of Gourse, there is a small minority of

people who" protest the slaughter of whales and
seals as well as the hunting of certain species that
are thought to be “endangered.” There is a
smaller more radical minority still which objects to
the-killing of anything, but by and large we, con-
servationists included, still accept the killing of
animals for fun and profit.
&

How oftén have we heard it said: “We must

protect.thé grizzly, otherwise, our..children- may;- .

never knoW what a grizzly is," or “If we don‘t
protect and bolster the fish population in the lake,
there soon won't be any fish left to catch.” -

For lack of a better mative, this one will have to
do, but how much morehonorable it would be to
protect wildlife for its own sake, simply because it
has a right to live.

What man needs is more quiet appreciation for
his fellow creatures and less ‘of an obsession to.

. organize, categorize and dominate them.

When grizzlies, wolves and moose are allowed to
live becayse we recognize thelr divine right to do_
so, then man will have entered a new stage In his
painfully slow evolution toward the understanding
of life and love.

Tough, competent

UBC law professor Andrew Thompson has met
his First major challenge as commissioner of the
Kitimat ol] port inquiry and has deftly proved his
ability to hold the position. ms .

In a single announcement Friday, Thompson
revealed: .

1. that he-has wrangled $380,000 from federal
coffers to assist groups participating In the

inquiry; .

2. thatghe has decided that the companies,
proposing Kitimat site must accept the burden
of proof their proposal and take the lead in
presentin idence; and

3. that IF has set.a timetable for the hearings
which ts n@t bound by the arbitrary end-of year

deadline pyt fourth by the federal government.
While Thompson‘s decisions may not endear him
to any single party participating In the hearings,
they show him to be a falr and practical arbiter.
Those opposing the olf port will not be pleased
that the hearings are set to begin July 18. Yet,
given his. terms of reference from the federal
government, it was not reasonable to expect that,
Thompson could have delayed the hearings any’
later than this date.
The oll companies wil! not be happy that they
must take the lead In presenting evidence .
Yet, In light of the fact they are the ones initially
responsible for the hearings, any other decision
would have failed to recognize their role. ;
Same of the smaller groups opposed to the oll port
and many of those favouring the proposal will be
upset at the distribution of funding. Yet, the lat-
ter’s claims carry little validity when one considers

the wealth that the oll companies have at their .

disposal to present the case In support of the
proposal. And the former must understand that,
given a IIlmited amount of money, the arguments
against the proposal can be best put by the larger,
umbrella organizations, of which many of them are
members.

All in all, Dr. Thompson‘s task thus far has not
been an easy one. Nevertheless, he has correctly
defined the Issues and not bowed to pressure from
any of the participants or from the federal
government.

Asa result, his decisions to date have been just
and workable.

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_Editor, Terrace Herald:

Open Letter to

e Honorable Pat McGeer,
Minister of Education
Government of British
Columbia:

. Last month, I requested
an andience in the name of
the Federation des Franco-

-Colombiens in order to-

discuss questions related to

the teaching of French and-

in French in the province.

You ‘then asked your

Deputy Minister of
Education, Mr. Walter G.
Hardwick, to explain your

government's position in

this matter.

~ New rebirth in Latin America

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP)
— Latin America, once a
virtual monopoly of the
Roman Catholic Church,
now is a fertile breeding
‘ground for the Protestant
evangelical movement,

An ‘Associated Press
survey indicates that
millions—many originally
baptized as Catholics—have
embraced evangelism.

The evangelical
movement, less structured
than the Roman Catholic
Church, can give only rough
estimates’ of its total
membership. But it is
estimated that as many as
4) million persons in Latin
America—-where the total

ulation is more than 280
million—have ties to
evengelical congregations,

“We all worship the same
God,” says Javier Vasquez,
pastor of the Evangelical
Methodist Pentacostal
Church in Santiago and a
former Roman Catholic.
“Tt’s just that our way
seems so much more
fulfilling. I never had this
feeling when I was a Roman
Catholic. The Church
seemed too distant.”

His congregation is the
biggest in the evangelical
movement in Chile. His
church is in the slightly
seedy central railroad
station neighborhaod of
Santiago.

The church, constructed
in 1974, was about one-
quarter full for a recent
Sunday morning Bible clags.
But doorkeeper Aladino
‘Landaeta said the regular
Sunday night worship
service usually filled almost
all of the 15,000 seats in the
cavernous chureh.

For centuries, the Roman
Catholic Church in Latin
America, and other areas of
the world, clung to ancient
rituals and traditions. But
many of these changed after
the Vatican councils of the

1960s.
But while the Vatican was
still wrangling about

breathing new life into the,

“Why don’t you leave the job

I am forced to
acknowledge that according
to the reply given, the

- positions taken have not

truly changed and therefore
we want to renew our

‘request to be heard.

Last year, you received 9
delegation -, from the
“Association canadienne
d’education de langue
francaise” who then sub--
mitted to you a report by
Roger Rioux. No follow up
has been taken regarding
this report, and, since this
time, no delegation from the.
Federation has been able to’
obtain permission to discuss
in’ more depth with

authorised representatives
from the Department of
Education the problems
related to teaching French.
It. seems. to. me_that-
French education in British.
Columbia, in spite of the
efforts made by. many.
teachers, merits more than
a perfuncory inspection
from the Department of
Educition. In his reply, Mr..
‘Hardwick emphasized that
all resources and time.
available are being utilised
for the administration of
Federal-Provincial
programs. It is indeed this
that the Federation deplores

of stimulating the economy to Mr. Macdonald?”

Russian taught here befo

-The future of French
education depends largely
on Federal policies.

The government does not
appear to be assuming its
responsabilities on an
educational level.

The constant reticence
regarding French education
shown by the Department of

Education has been directly.

influential to the at-
mosphere -felt by the
‘teaching body and schools
boards. Here, we would like
to mention the delayin
measures taken by schoo
boards, in particular in West
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EVANGELISTS THRIVE

Church, the evangelical
movement had become
firmly entrenched in Latin
America.

“The evangelical faith in-
valves everyone in
propagation of the faith,”
says Reverend John Huegel,
president of the Protestant
Union Theological Seminary
of Mexico City. ‘“Everyene
shares the faith, not just the
priests. The group spreads
the faith. The Catholic
religion hasn’t latched on to
this like it should have.”

Theological differences
aside, the evangelical
movement has had its
biggest growth among the

poor. ;
“Within the Christian .

forces, evangelism can be
considered as one that
works most intensely in the
poor areas,” says Reverend
Gustavo Espinosa, rector of
the Roman Catholic Santa
Rosa de Lima Seminary in
Caracas, Venezuela. “Poor
people often consider their
conversion to evanglism to
be a way of life, not just the
mentality, but of attitude.”
. Evangelical churches,
some little more than
wooden hovels, are in the
fetid slums, or “ranchos,”
which dot the hills around
the Venezuelan capital.

Some more modern
Catholic Church groups
have copied some of the
evangelical techniques. to
bring the faithful back to
mass. In the upper-class Ca-
racas suburb of Prados del
Esie, for example, priests at
the local church feature
handelapping and a chorus
of guitarplaying youths
during Sunday mass. The
services, designed to attract
young people, have become
so popular that parents also
attend.

In Bogota, Colombia, an
estimated 100,000 Roman
Catholics belong to the
charismatic~ movemeht
within the church, which
advocates spontaneity to
build religious fervor. More
conservative church circles

frown on what they call
“hysteria” in religion,

Reverend Diego
Jaramillo, a leader of
Colombia’s charismatic
movement, disagrees with
the critics.

“Wwe welcome _ this
evangelical growth as
another action of the holy
spirit, and itis better to bea
good Evangelist than
nothing at all.”

The charismatic mass
features hymns, spon-
taneous prayers, .the
thrusting of arms into the
air and mass communion.

The Evangelists, for their
part, have moved into newer
techniques to spread the
Gospel.

Ecuador is the home of
Radio HOJB, ‘The Voice of
the Andes.” It is the largest

evangelical radio station

ap:

parents hoping to obtain
French immersion classes.

Moreover, the absence of
legislation recognizing the
Francophone parents ab-
solute right to the
educational language of his
choice and the Anglophone
parents right to register his
children in immersion
classes, often. prevents
many parents from calling
for French classes.

The lack of an
academically structured
‘program, outlining the
teaching of this country’s
second official language,
has created a. definite
desorder amongst the
various school boards in the
methods and ‘time con-
secrated to this form of
education. The Department
of Education could,. while
still respecting the
autonomy of each school
board: provide the ap-
propriate educational in-
formation concerning
‘methodology; teacher’s
rights; the recommended
time to allot and, in short,

all measures that would.

help obtain better results,

The following situation,
told to us by the mother of a
French family, is perhaps
_the result of the present poor
planning. A ‘teacher was
giving Russian lessons
during French class, in the
only year that French is
mandatory in high school,
thinking that since the
‘students has never studied
French in Elementary
school, they would never
know the difference. On one
occasion, I overheard a
family speaking Spanish.
Some adolescents who were
listening remarked ...‘‘they
are speaking French”.

re French

Similar stories can be
related which show, perhaps
even more than statistics

(which evaluate the
measures taken more than
results achieved) the

deplorable level in British
Columbia of a knowledge of -
French.

Finally, the refusal to
include French in the
recently defined curriculum
means that there will be no
foreseeable improvement to
this alarming situation. An
this, while proframs already
in existance under federal
funds maintain a very
fragile position, often barely
tolerated.

I would now like to ex-
press my recognition of the
efforts made by many
French coordinators who
are not content to merely
administer budgets but who
are attmepting to improve
programs and methods and
also the praiseworthy ef-
forts of many teachers to
interest students who are .
poorly prepared. in
Elementary school adn
often discouraged by their
milied. The Francophones
in British Columbia are
anxoius to see the Depart-
ment of Education openly
show its support of these
people rather than con-
tribute, by its silence and
derelection of duties, to
maintaining a defeatist
atmosphere. We also feel
that the Department should.
closely consult all interested
parties before making any
concrete gesture.

Itis for there reagons that
the Federation would like to
renew its request to be
received and heard.

Nester Therrien

_ Interpreting the news

‘Koreans fear
renewal. of war...

SEOUL (AP) — Twenty-.
four years after the end of
the Korean War, the United

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outside the United States
and beams its message
around the world in 16
languages.

It even transmits in
Quechua, one of the major
Indian languages in South
America.

“Thousands of Indians
tune in frequently,” says
missionary Garreth Joiner.

FROM GRADE SCHOOL

Education emerging
in social sciences —

“TORONTO (CP) — The
school social studies
ewriculum jis undergoing a
revolution, teachers say.

The memorization of
names and dates of ex-

lorers and other historical
Figures no longer is em-
phasized. .

Instead, social studies
now deals with complex
issues of the environment,
economics, multi-
culturalism, principles of
democracy and human
rights, native people,
bilingualism and developing
Third World countries, says
Bruce Gleeson, a Grade 6
teacher.

Lessons might be taken as
easily from the front page of
a newspaper as from a
textbook.
School children are being
asked to examine and ex-
plain their values,
prejudices and beliefs, to

ink through political and
social problems and to draw
comparisons between life in
a foreign culture and life in
the pupil's home town.

Teachers and school
board officlals say they hope
the new approaches will pay
dividends in the form of.a
more tolerant, humane and
democratic society.

“You have to believe in

the improvability of the
human condition to be a
social studies teacher,”
says Helen Wobliffe, an
instructor of social studies
curriculum at the Ontario
Institute for Studies in.
Education.
_ Civic lessons once were
‘simple mechanistic
presentations of how
government works.
Children today are dealin
with more fundamenta
questions.

‘Twenty years ago there
were civic books in which
civil rights were barely.
mentioned,” says Geoffrey

‘Milburn, a professor of

social studies curriculum
theory at University of
Western Ontario in London.
__ “Civics lessons focused on
the mechanics of govern-
ment-—who could vote, haw
a bill became law—rather
than dealing with first
principles, such. as why
there is government and
ww,"
But teaching abstract
concepts such as law,
government, justice,
majority rule and de-
mocracy without the sophis-
tleated vocabulary of a
political scientist or

historian is difficult, To
develop. an awareness of
government, for example, a
teacher might begin a dis-
cussion about how decisions
are made, says Prof,
Woodliffe.

“Youngsters can see the
fairness of taking turns. The
discussion might lead into
who at home should decide
what TV programs to watch
or whether the boys should
always have the prime
areas toplay on in theschool
yard, The accent should be
on how you come to those

' decisions.”

States has. told itg: South
orean ally it is pulling ow
the last of ita ground troops.
Neither President Park
Chung-hee nor the political
oppos tion likes it.

‘ark was advised of the
withdrawal plans Wed-
nesday during a three-hour
meeting with President
Carter's special represen-
tatives, State Un-
dersecretary Phillp Habib
and Gen. George Brown,
chairman of the U.S, Joint
Chiefs of Staff.

Park said he did not
welcome the withdrawal,
but would accept what he
said was an “established”
U.S. policy. ‘

Former South Korean

esident Yun Po-sun, one of

e few political opposition
leaders not in jail, said he
agreed with U.S. Maj.-Gen.
John K. Singlaub that the
pullout will Jead to an in-
vasion by Communist North
Korea.

Singlaub, former chief of
staff of U.S. forces in Korea,
was relieved of duty by.
Carter after he ‘told a
reporter the withdrawal
would lead to war.

Seoul newspapers quoted
Washington reports that the
withdrawal of the U.S. 2nd
Division and its 33,000 men
would not begin for atleast a
year while Washington and
Seoul study North Korean
reaction,

Then, if all goes well, the
tropps would Teave in units
over the following four
years, the reports said.

The Koreans are worried’
that North Korea’s tough:
talking resident, fim Il-
sung, nterpret the t
departure as a si the
United States is abandoning
South Korea.

LIFE BY THE SEA.
IS SOON THE NORM?

NEW YORK (AP) — By
the year 2000, it is estimated
that 80 per cent of the
world's population will live
in “coastal zones’’—areas
within 50 miles of where
land and ocean meet—
according to The Compass,
a publication of MOAC, a
commercial marine insurer,

One way to relieve the
crowded seashore is to move
the cities, suggests the

oceanographer, inventor
and futurologist. Dr
Athelstan Spilhaus. ‘We
could design full-scale
floating cities on hollow con-
crete cylinders for
flotation,” he explains in the
minstead of |
nstead of going up into

the sky, large bullaings
would extend beneath the
surface of the sea—“‘hottom .
scratcherg,”’ as Dr. Spilhaus
calls them,