56 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 29, 1997

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DAVE TAYLOR _

" SKEENA ANGLE
ROB BROWN

Pros and bears

rofession, professive, professional,

professor, and professorial are the

leaves on the tree that has

“profess” as a trunk and an old
English word of the same spelling as its root. In
Middle English to be ‘‘professed”’ meant to be
bound by a sacred vow. The idealistic notion of
obligation ta a higher order is stil] at the core of
our modern idea of professionalism, Doctors,
and teachers are examples of two large profes-
sional groups that have colleges whose central
function is to ensure that the standards of their
Tespective professions are maintained. In fact,
every professiaal body has an organization
charged with this duty.

Implicit in the maintenance of professional
standards is the corollary action of striving to
improve them. An onganization achieves this
lofty aim through a dialectic process involving
debate aud thorough self examination at the in-
dividual level, the committee level, and as a col-
lective representative body. The notion of dem-
ocralic governments was probably patterned
after smaller organizations functioning this way.
All learning and growth, group or individual, is
indebted to debate and criticism.

By criticism, I do not mean mean-spirited,

| fault-finding judgments, but the process the
great American statesman Adalaj Stevenson

called ‘the method by which existing ideas and
institutions are submitted to the test of princi-
ples, ideas, and possibilities.’’

Criticism of this type is the life blood of a vi-
tal, healthy o:ganization, its encouragement
recognizes the humanist principle that organiza-
tions are an aggregate of individuals and that

| every individual has the right to be beard. One
: example of the success of this belief is found in
: Japanese manufacturing where the concept of
the qualily circle appeared. The great scientific
. breakthroughs are all indebted to a scientific

method that turns on thesis and antithesis, ques-
tion, argument, criticism and ceaseless debate.

The organization that stifles crilicism is dis-
eased. Puppet dictatorships tolerate none;
oligarchies —- and here I include those federal
and provincial governments who rule by cabinet
~~ also do their utmost to repress dissent.

Several] months ago in this space I reviewed a
provocative, tightly reasoned paper by A.
Dionys de Lecuw entilled “‘Conflicts and inter-
ests in British Columbia Bear Management."’ In
that paper deLceuw, a well respected Habitat
Protection Biologist with a long career with the
Provincial Ministry of Environment, sets out a
half dozen compelling arguments against the
continuance of grizzly bear hunting in British
Columbia, including the facts that the vast ma-
jority of British Columbians are opposed to
grizzly bunting, and that grizzlies — extinct
throughout all but a small part of an enormous
range that once extended from Mexican deserts
to the icy plateaus of Alaska — are listed as a
threatened and declining species in B.C,

It is deLeeuw's contention that there is an in-
stitutionalized pro-hunting bias within the Wild-
life Branch of the Ministry of the Environment
on the part of professional wildlife managers,
the majority of whom are licensed sport hunters.
DeLeeuw suggests this fact puts wildlife man-

agers in a potential conflict of interest situation. .

I'd go farther than that: if deLecuw’s claims are
correct, both the Wildlife Branch and the
Fisheries Branch of the environment ministry
are in a conflict of interest and Minister
McGregor should set in motion some kind of
process to ensue such systemic rot is set right.

Mr, deLeeuw did oct slip bis arguments and
supporting documentation ints a brown en-
velope and leak it to the media, As reported in
this newspaper, deLeeuw sent copies of his
paper to his superiors and his peers for their
comments and informed them that he planned to
release it, just the kind of action one would ex-
pect from a sincere and dedicated professional.
Afler waiting months and receiving no reply,
comment — or objection, dcLeeuw released the
paper to groups wilh such differing opinion as
the B.C. Wildlife Federation and Bearwatch.

“Conflicts and Interests in British Columbia
Bear Management’? did not fail to catch the at-
tention of the media who recognized the import
amd timeliness of deLeeuw’s assertions. But
despite media questions there has been no clear
Tesponse from the Ministry. Even the normally
voluble deLecuw is uncharacteristically quict
which leads me to believe he may be subject to
some kind of official sanction.

The Ministry of Environment is not an army
charged with he prolection of official secrets, It
is an organization of professionals ostensibly
working for all of us, The ministry needs to deal
wilh deLecuw’s concems; they should be sub-
ject to internal and external debate and the pub-
lic should be privy too it, It's the professional
and moral way for theni to act,

“TERRACE STANDARD

Boys score win over

Caledonia hosts zone
play day for volleyball

CALEDONIA'S BOYS vol-
leyball team scored their
first victory of the year over
Kitimat Saturday.

Unfortunately, it was fol-
lowed by two key losses.

The boys were hosting a
zone play day with teams
competing from all over the
northwest.

And Cal showed some big
improvemenis in their first
game against Mount
Elizabeth from Kitimat.

The Kermodes cruised to a
15-9 victory in the first
game against the MESS
squad. But Kitimat came
back in the second game to
win 17-15.

However, Cal showed
some determination in the
deciding match. The boys
were down 11-13 and had
lost their serve.

But they hung on, got the
serve back and ended up
with a 15-13 victory.

Next, Cal faced Charles
Hays from Prince Rupert
and they again managed to
come out on Lop.

“T was excited,’’ says
coach Mark Neld. ‘‘The
first two matches were
good,”

But Cal couldn’t keep
their winning ways going,
and they ended up losing the

next two games,

In the semi-finals, they
lost out to Bulkley Valley
Christian. That sent them to
the consolation finals, where
Mount Elizabeth was wail-
ing for a rematch.

And this time they got

their revenge — leaving Cal
to settle for fourth.

Overall tournament win-
ner went to Prince Rupert
Secondary who played
Bulkicy Valley Christian to
an exciting three-game
finals.

Neid says his group
played really well at times,
but they still lack con-
sistency.

**When they’re up, they’re
up,’’ he says. ‘“‘If they wanl
it bad enough, it will come.
But they spend a lot of time
coasling.’’

Neid says the play of
Dave Gardner and Ricki
Chan was & highlight of the
tournament. And he thinks
the team will continue to
improve.

**They've come a long
way in the last few weeks,”’
he says. “They keep im-
proving.”

The next zone tournament
will be at Charles Hays this
coming weekend,

Coach ofthe year __.

Coaches deserve more recognition

ONE?

One? C’mon you can do better than that, Ter-

Tace.

We've only had one nominee for this year’s

Coach of the Year award,

Needless to say, we're disappointed.
The one nomination we have received is for

THE CAL BOYS’ volleyball squad hosted a zone playday over the weekend, with
five teams competing. Caledonia had to settle for fourth.

soccer coach Nick Kollias. He certainly
deserves it, but other coaches out there must
deserve some recognition too!

This is it folks, your big chance to give those
hard-working, self-sacrificing coaches a big pat
on the back.

And hey, the winner gets a cool jackel from
the Terrace Standard and our sponsors Cinaway
Impressions and Keenleyside Insurance.

So what are you waiting for? These people
aren't going to nominate themselves. Right
now, there are coaches out there who un-
doubtedly know about this award and probably
cry themselves to sleep at night thinking they

aren’t loved because nobody has bothered to
nominate them.

It’s really not hard to do. Just fill out the
nomination form found on page B15 and send it
lo us at 3210 Clinton St. Terrace B.C. V8G
SR2. Or you can fax it to us at 638-8432, You

ce Ria ey

ear

can also e-mail us at slandard@kermode.nct.

And why not photocopy the form and spread
itaround? Tell all your friends about the con-
test. Spread the news.

And hey, coaches out there — obviously
many people aren’t too quick om the draw. So
why not start dropping little hints? These could
be as subtle as opening the newspaper to the
nomination form and leaving it lying around the
office.

Or try casually mentioning to your team that
you haven’t had a date in months because
you’ve been so busy helping the team. (Whether
or not this is actually true is completely ir-
relevant)

And if that doesn’t work, try pasting nomina-
tion forms all over your body, show up to prac-
tice and ask if everybody likes your ‘‘new
suit?’

We'll keep the fax machine warmed up [or all
the nominations that are sure 10 Mood in.

Cal squad scores at tourney

ia a Ber eee :
CALEDONIA HOSTED four other zone teams this past weekand at the Zone
Finals, Cal was fresh from a strang second-place finish at the Calumneetza Invita-
tional held in Williams Lake two weekends ago. There, they won four in a row and

only tet in one goal before losing the final match to Kamloops.

CALEDONIA'S Boys soc-
cer squad kicked some
serious butt at a recent
tournament in = Williams
Lake.

The boys were at the pond
for the annual Columnectza
Invitational, and they faced
some tough competition
from around the province.

But in spite of that tough
competition, Cal managed
to blast through the Round
Robin — giving up only one
goal and potting 18 them-
selves,

The boys started their
goalathon with a 4-0 shutout
victory over Kamloops
Senior High.

Next, they moved north to
prey on the loose defence of
DP Todd from Prince
George. Again, the opposi-
tion failed to score a single
goal and Cal won 3-0.

The boys’ third match was
more of a practice against
Williams Lake. They
schooled them 7-0.

With three shutouts under
their belis, Cal took on
Prince George’s other team
at the tournty, PGSS, Cal
finally gave up a goal in this
game, but still cruised to a
4-1 victory.

The win pul Terrace in the
finils, against the other
tournament powerhouse,

Westside, out of Kamloops.

Unfortunately, that's
where Cal’s winning streak
ended, and Westside came
up with a 3-1 win.

Still, the second-place fin-
ish certainly pleased coach
Blaine Kluss.

“We pulled — together
down there,’’ he says, ‘Aas
the toumament went on,
they just improved and im-
proved,”’

One of the team’s key
players was Cory Trogi,
who won top forward at the
tournament.

The team itself was very
impressed with the play of
Travis Lamuming, and voted
him best tournament player
overall.

But Kluss says it was a
rock solid team effort that
really clinched their vic-
tories,

‘Tl was really proud of the
way they played,’’ he says.
“T really can’t say enough
about it,”

This pasi weekend, the
boys took on four other area
teams in the Zone Finals,
with the winner to head
down to the provincials in
Nanaimo Nov, 13-15,

Unfortunately, final scores
were not available at press
time, so look for results in
an upcoming Standard