Ad - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 20, 1997 STANDARD 4647 Lazella Ave., Terrace, B.C. V8G 1S8 (604) 629-7285 Fax (604) 638-3432 ESTABLISHED APRIL 27, 1988 A Divislon of Carlboo Press (1969) Ltd. ADDRESS: 3210 Clinton Street Terrace, B.C. * V8G 5R2 TELEPHONE: (250) 638-7283 * FAX: (250) 638-8432 EMAIL: standard@kermode.net Litter legacy ONE OF the more spectacular views awaits the person who climbs to the alpine meadows atop Trapline Mountain. Mountain tops dominant the horizon at every turn. But look down, and a dif- ferent view emerges. Littered among the alpine lakes and delicate purple flowers are old spark plugs, crushed beer cans, rusty metal rods, old socks and gioves and feminine hygiene applicators. The problem seems to be that Trapline Mountain is easily reachable by ATVs and mountain bikes in the summer and by snow- mobilers in the winter. Motorized transport is damaging the alpine. Scars from ripped up por- tions of the delicate growth will still be visible 20 years from now. The obvious conclusion isr that those who want to enjoy the great outdoors ¢ are destroying the qualities that brought them | there in the first place. There’s another beautiful spot near Terrace —- Sleeping Beauty Mountain — and it’s reachable , only by foot. All you’ll see is the view. Or per-: haps ski tracks from some adventurous back- ‘ country skiers in mid June. ; If hikers can carry out their garbage, other out- ° door enthusiasts can do likewise, Granted, not all motorized outdoor types litter but the garbage ieft on Trapline Mountain gives everybody a bad reputation. Organizing summertime clean-ups would help convince the public they are also responsible outdoor recreationalists. ce ee ee ee i A good idea WHILE SKEENA Cellulose ‘is a perfect exitiple’|”. _ of how our large’scale forést industry can:go::so | horribly wrong, the city is proposing something quite different. Councillors have asked the economic develop- ment officer to put together a proposal for a community forest in the Deep Creek watershed north of town. The idea is that a locally-controlled forest tract would appeal to small operators as it would give them a secure source of timber. They wouldn’t be subject to the big money game which domi- nates wood purchases elsewhere. And it would encourage various types of value added enter- prises employing small numbers of people. There’s also another value added aspect that’s been pointed out by the economic development officer. Having wood under local control gives value to the city and its citizens as it would be temoved from large forest industry players. De- cisions would be made for the benefit of local enterprise and local people. There’d also be a new source of revenue for a city under increasing cost pressures. What the city suggests is neither new nor radi- cal. It simply adds another stable leg to the eco- nomic stool of the northwest. And given that big industry and big government seemed to have failed us when it comes to examples such as Skeena Cellulose, that’s not such a bad thing. A | . PUBLISHER/EDITOR: Rod Link ADVERTISING MANAGER: Sam Collier PRODUCTION MANAGER: Edouard Credgeur NEWS Jeff Nagel » NEWS SPORTS: Dave Taylor COMMUNITY: Cris Leykaul STUDENT REPORTER: Salwa Farah OFFICE MANAGER: Kathleen Quigley ADVERTISING CONSULTANTS: Janet Viveiros, Brian Lindenbach TELEMARKETER: Tracey Tomas ADVERTISING ASSISTANT: Kelly Jean TYPESETTING: Sylyana Broman DARKROOM: Susan Credgeur CIRCULATION MANAGER: Karen Brunette SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL: $53.50 per year; Seniors $48.15; Out of Province $60.99 Outside of Canada (6 months) $149.80 (ALL PRICES INCLUDE GST) MEMBER OF B.C. AND YUKON COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION, CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION et AND B.C. PRESS COUNCIL Serving the Tarrace and Thombill aroa, Published an Wednesday of each week by Caribor Press (1989) Ud, 223210 Clinton Streat, Terrace, British Columbia, VEG 5A2, ° Stories, photographs, dustrations, designs and typastyiss in the Terrace Standard are the property of the copyright heldars, Including Cariboo Press (1969) Lid., its illustration repro servicas and advertising Reproduction in whole of In part, without writlen parmisson, is specifically prohibited. Authorized 68 second-clasa mal pending tha Past Cffica Deoartmont, for payment of pastaga in cash. Special thanks to all our contributors and correspondents for their time and talents _va SDTAR THAVN'T BEEN ABLE TO SEE EYE To EYE WITH HIM ON THE ISSUES... Students on the road to ruin VICTORIA = — __ British Columbia has the ‘‘Year 2000°’ educational program. All the states of the US have the ‘“‘America 2000’’ or the “Global 2000" program. These programs, which are to prepare students for the new millennium, constitute a dramatic shift in the focus of education that have many ex- perts alarmed. The most disturbing aspect of the shift in our education program, according to critics, is that curricula are more and more designed to suit the workplace, In other words, the employers of our education system are no longer the parents but industry and com- Merce, -, The US are ‘ahead, of. Us’ in, their revamping. of the Jearui 1g... system, and ‘alarm ‘bells are* going off all over the place. In a recent speech to a conference under the heading ‘‘What Goals 2000 Means to the States,’’ Ron Sunseri, a repre- sentative in the Oregon Legis- lature, described a frightening scenario, the implications of which may ultimately apply to British Columbia as well. Oregon began its education reform in 1991. The new sys- FROM THE CAPITAL HUBERT BEYER tem was called ‘“‘Outcome- based Education.’’ Narrowly- focused education programs were to be a thing of the past No more diplomas in clearly: . defined disciplines. Instead, students would * works toward a Certificate of Initial Mastery, to be followed by an eventual Certificate of Advanced Mastery. Sunseri says the new system is a clear attempt to force an education on children that re- places content with process. “They talk about = self directed leaming and cal- laboration and understanding diversity. Very little is men- tioned about academics. ” Kind of educttion “Tt becomes clear why it is important to change (students’) attitudes. And control the be- havior of the child at an early age. The goal is no longer to give children a broad base of knowledge so they can make their own choices, but to com- pete with third-world nations under GATT and NAFTA. A compliant workforce facilitates this,’ Sunseri says. Collage Grove in Oregon was the first to jump on the Certificate of Initial Mastery bandwagon. Sunseri says it was a catastrophe. Of the 183 students in the class that received the certificates, 116 wrote a letter to the authorities, beasing the school district to stop, subjecting them to chat is aE What's happening’ ie! “She ‘childten with thése Certifiéates of Mastery is a tragedy,”’ says Sunseri. ‘‘Forest Grove school district declined 36 points in verbal skills and 17 points in math,” At the district’s high school level, Sunseri says, they finally agreed to add some academic content by teaching Shakespeare ta Grade 10 stu- dents. “After it was over, we found that they read two comic books and watched the video Roxanne with Steve Martin. So much for Shakespeare.’’ The result of Oregon’s fid- dling with the education sys- tem to suit the needs of the world of business in the new global economy has been that students leave high school with gaping holes in their education. Sunseri says that 30 per cent of all high school graduates going on to college need remedial course. That, he adds, “blew the cap off the capitol building’’ because it involves the spending of millions of - dollars for an education the students were already sup- posed to have had. British Columbia’s ‘Year “tof id that heré, 106, ‘the ¢duca- tion syslem is shaped more and more to suit future employers. And that, I suggest, will leave is wilh future generations more suited to Huxley’s Brave New World than the one we hope our children will inherit. Beyer can be reached at Tet: (250) 920-9300; Fax: (250) 385-6783; E-Mail: hubert@coatcom.com Dang It. Stop that cussing WITH FEW arities, even people who claim to speak only one language actually converse fluently in two. Their second language is more universally understood than Esperanto. Even inter- spersed by a foreign language is readily interpreted, Its vocabulary is smaller than the number of hand signals an in- tersection patrolman needs to signal msh hour traffic during a power blackout. I’m referring to cussing. The fallback language of anyone feeling helpless, frustrated, or intimidated. Can’t get your point across? Yell and switch to cussing. Kids ignoring your orders’ Cuss them out, Drunk? What else. In a belligerent mod? - Repeat the ‘f’ word in all its picture-producing variations. Unlike learning French, Spanish, or German, cussing needs no tutoring; we absorb it from our surroundings, like a ' ALRIGHT! MY SOCKET set?! 1 FOCALS. CLAUDETTE SANDECKI pollen allergy. Kids learn to speak it before they know what they’re saying. I once saw a toddler in her highchair stabbing a fork into her leftover chocolate cake to the marching beat of "F_., f_,f,f_.” Cussing is possibly the only language for which Berlitz has never’ organized a class, printed a textbook, or produced a self-teaching tape or 33 1/3 record. Besides ostracism from polite company, the language’s major drawback is the absence of an originating country a lin- guislic student can Visit to ab- sorb specch nuances from the natives. Despite cussing’s fixation on sexual practices — most im- probable, many illegal or im- moral this peculiar vocabulary isn't systematically taught in medical or chiroprac- tic schools. Profanity pervades modern publications — novels, murder mysteries, magazine articles in Esquire, Prior to the Second World War its appearance in print was a rarity. Writers in possession of flexible vocabularies and well crafted plots need not resort to cusswords to grip their readers the way thriller movies sub- stitute explosions, mayhem and torture. I vividly recall the first time I heard the ‘f word, I was maybe eight; my older brother - would have been 10. We were tossing a ball back and forth . over the garage. Mom was pin- ning up laundry nearby. We had a clear path around three sides of the garage. At the back was stored the horse cutter that had transported Aunt Ingrid and my Mom to many a winter’s dance before Mom married, The —cutter’s curved runners hid under a sea- son’s growth of brome grass and weeds. 2000" “prograil’: may “differ” ” * from ‘that of Oregon’ $, but the gracefully — AS Ron raced around the ga- - rage he collided with some hidden portion of the cutter. That’s when he sputtered the - word, Ina flash, Mom was on him like a headmaster. She left no doubt the odd word topped her list of no-no’s, I’ve kept it there. WHEN WINTER GIVES UP HER TeeAsuRes!!