HUMAN RIGHTS —

Alberta effort dismal —

EDMONTON (CP) — Al-
berta's efforts to help In-

dans amd ethnic minotritles -

have been a dismal failure,
says Max Wyman, who will
soon retire atter five years
as head of the Alberta

Human Rights Commiasion.

Wyman said in a recent
interview he will make one
Last bid before stepping down
Oct, 29 for the province.to

‘strengthen the Individual's

Rights Protection Act, which

Suntan but inside

TORONTO (CP) — Sun

worshippers won't get sand |

in thelr eyes, but must be
willing to stand naked 2
times for $50 in Canada's
first indoor tanning centre,

The trend toward indoor
tanning salons started a year
ago in Searcy, Ark, The idea
ja that people can stand in
showersized booths and
expose themselves to

* ultraviolet light.

It moved to Memphis,
Tenn., now known as the
indoor suntan capital of
North America.

At nt more than 600
franchises have been bought
from Florida to Alaska.

Stan Seckenski, president
of the Glant Cookie Co.,
which has 300 retail outlets
across Metropolitan
Toronto, got the idea of
opening an indoor tanning
centre in Toronto when he
visited Memphis six months

ago.

“] noticed half a dozen
indoor tanning salons ad-
vertising In the Sunday
paper,” he said. “1 check

it out and found’ that
Memphis had 20 of them, all
doing well,

“T figured such a salon
would go over big Ln Toronto
because it's certainly a lot
cheaper and more ¢on-
venient than stalking a
temperamental aun."

Seckenski plans to open
three more salons in Toronto
within the next three months
and 150 across Canada in a
year on a franchise basis.

The tanning procedure
takes several steps, Firet, a
computer skin analysis is
taken to collate such per-
sonal vatlablea as skin type
(dry or oily}, tolerance,
outdoor activity and com-
plexion type ¢light or dark).

A personal timetable is
determined, setting cut how
long a person should stay in
the tanning booth on each
subsequent visit. One minute
equals one hour in the sun.

A person might get one-
and-ahalf minutes of light on
the first vialt, four-and-a-half
by the 19th and 14 minutes by
the 20th.

en "

Mr. Lawrench W. Clay
| and

Mrs. Carolyn A. Svensrud
are happy fo announce that they were
married on Monday, September 17th at
Knox .United Church, Terrace, B.C.

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the commission upholds,

The act should be
broadened and the boarda of
ingulry it calls should have
power to: make binding
decisions, he said.

The commission was
formed in 1972 to investigate
violations of the act, passed
that year a8 a companion to
the new Alberta Bill of
Rights.

Wyman sald the com-
mission has made the
Greatest gains in settling
complaints dealing with sex
discrimination. These com-
plainta represent’ the
majority of those received.

“There's a difference in
Albertans’ attitudes toward
women's capabilities now
and I think we have been in-

strumental in breaking the .

employment patterns that
impeded their progress
before.”

But Wyman would like the
act to go further. He wants
the commission to set up
“positive discrimination”
programa that would give

ndicapped or ethnic ap-

; Ph eon preference in some

competitions.

This is necesgary at least
temporarily to “give these
people a chance to prove
themselves.”

Ed Webking, president of
the human rights council in
Lethbridge, said the amount
of raciam in Alberta ia huge,
buthe did not blame Wyman.

“The limitations imposed
on him and the area within
which the commission has
been. given to work have
greatly -impeded any

progress that could have.

en made,”

Bob Harris of the Leablan
and Gay Rights Association
said he is solidly behind
Wyman's effort to add
sexual preference { the Llst
of categorles protected from
discrimination under the act,
but he is not optimistic.

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“The human rights

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FROM THE CHURCH

vammission has shown itself
to be far more progressive
than the government that
created it."

Wyman Ia adamant about
the need to add other
vategories such as marital
status, physleal charac-
teristics, political beliefa and
source of income to the act.

“My fundamental belief Is
that people should not be dis-
criminated against for
characterlatics they cannot
change."

The act already outlaws
discrimination based on
religicn, color, 88x, age,
ancestry and place of origin
— but only with respect to

employment, housing and
‘services. *

- Wyman believes one
measure of the act’s success
is that 95 per cent of com-
plaints brought to the
commission have beer
setiled by negotiation with
the parties invelved.

Negotiation and education
are belter routes to ending
discrimination than the
courts, he aald, -

Casea the commission is
unable to settle are heard by
a board of inquiry — a step
Wyman belleves isa waate of
time and money asitice the
board's decisions are not
binding,

He prefers to talk in terms
of freedoms as opposed to
Individuals’ rights. -

“People should have all
the freedoms they can until
those freedoms interfere
with those of others.”

He believea there are no
inalienable righte. Rights
vary with time and place.

“The freedoms we give
Individuals in times of war
are different than those of.
times of peace. And people

~ living in the country miles

from thelr neighbors enjoy
different freedoms from
those of city people.”

By RE.MARTIN GRAEBNER

Nothing would seem more out of step with our
scientific age than astrology. Yet that age-old art of
judging the influence of the stars inhuman affairs is a
booming big business today. Why? Do peuple have
emotional needs that rational modern living cannot
satisfy? =.

‘Daily living has too often lost a senee of purpose, and
astrology is the instrument that many have chosen to
use for regalning meaning in their lives. To them the
stars in their courses write the history of life, and the
person who knows their language-can read there the
riddle of his existence.

The logic of its mechanism is not very obvious to
those of us who do not believe in astrology. But with
belief, the role of the stars is decisive in the complex
decision making of our time.

What is the Christian view of all this?

Can belief in astrology and the Chritian faith exist
together in the same person? Or is there a damaging
interaction between the two? Must all our emotional
security derive from Christ, or can we enjoy the ad-
ditional satisfaction of the revelation of the stars?

We can of course laugh astrology off as a trivial |

matter, regarding it as one of those harmless if
illogical processes of human culture that has peraisted
for thousands of years-a kind of game people play to
release the tension of facing an uncertain future.
But that very minor role it plays in many people's

AND FLOURISHING

lives scarcely covers the exotic growth of astrology in
our time. All too often we see it filling the gap that is
left when faith in the Christian destiny of man has
been eroded or last.

The vague religiosity of the horoscope can all too
easely become a substitute for faith In God. Its subtle
influence can very definitely shape a personality in
which love, commitment and action are secondary to
a selfish concern with tomorrow. Astrology haa
become one of those pseudoreligions characteristic of
asociety that is in the midst of great change and that
is undergoing the breakdown of older standards. Ita
arguments that the deepeat secrets of life are revealed
only by the stara do not bring solutions to the real
spiritual problems facing man. Man's hunger for the
truth about himself and about God's plan for him
cannot be satisfied by. stargazing.

That is why astrology remains a challenge to our
Christian witness. The pathetic faith in the gospel of
the stars proves how men strive for a revelation to

- guide them in life’s perplexities. We can offer a far

better Gespel. The positlon of the stars at a crucial
moment in anyone's life is not important. The place
that God should have our lives is important. God has
revealed Himself, His love and concern for us, through
His Son, Jesus Christ.

Jesus lived, died, and rose again toforgive us and to
give us new direction, a direction thatis sure and filled
with His love. And the love of God is more relevant to

our future than the lore of the stars.

Finishing schools still here

NEW YORK (AP) — The
finishing school, that bastion
of correct taste and
propriety, no longer stands
as the exclusive institution it
once waa. :

But it seema, for the most
part, to have withstood the
drive begun in the late 1940s
taward co-education.

“There's been a
resurgence of interest in
single-sex education,” says
Robert Bussey, headmaster
of The Hall School in Pitt-
Bfield, Mass. “Parents are

essarily getting a chance to
practise social strengths in a
ys’ school,’

Adds a spokesman for The
Madeira School in Green-
way, Va.: ‘Without the
distractions of boys in the
classroom,, they have a
chance to grow up more
naturally. They’re making
good friends who are other
girls, and have a chance to
excel academically and
extracurricularly,"'

The Shipley School in Bryn
Mawr, Pa., is among the for-
mer girls’ schools that admit

boys, a practice begun 10
Years ago.

“Shipley believes in being
realistic,” says Holly
Fowler, the school’s director
of development. “It just
seemed the more realistic
way,

“Men and women have ta
learn how to work together,
and they might as well start
right away.

“But our philosophy and
purpose haven't changed
since 1894. We still care
about intellectual curiosity
and thinking for students.’’

In the late 1960s and early
. '708, many boys’ prep
schools, following the
example of former single-
sex colleges and univer-
sities, began to admit giris.

Some girls’ schools say
they are losing students to
the co-ed prep schcols, but
most maintain they are
operating at capacity
enrolment and still have
waiting lists.

Madeira has 330 students
enrolled. Two-thirds board
and the others are day
students. Boarders pay

seeing that girls aren’t nec-

$6,130 and day students

$3,725, ‘Tuition at Hall, for-
merly known as Miss Hall's,
is $5,900, Ten years aga, it
was about $4,200.

Finishing-school studcuts
in the past came fran well ‘3-
do families, and scholar:: «rs
were unthinkable.

Today, however, an ‘s-
creasing amount of financial
aidis available. Thirteen er
cent of the Shipley student ‘
body, for example, is on ‘
scholarship,

“There's very little in-
terest in snobbism and social
status,”’ Hall's Bussey says.
“The school does a great
deal to mix nationalities and
races,"

And ther have been
-thanges in curriculum, too.

In the 1900s, girls were
taught to curtsy, should they
ever be presented at court.
Today, students at Madeira
have special work programs
on Wednesdays — an outdoor
discovery caurse for [resh-
men, work in focal hospitals
for sophomores, internshiss
with senators or repre-
sentatives in nearty
Washington for juniors and
any job that can give them
career experience for
seniors,

Students at Shipley, to use
another example, can study
urban affairs and probability
and statistics.

Representatives of the
finishing schools say about

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