December 7, 1998

Dear Editor:

_ Two English as a
Second Language (ESL)
tutors have begun work
with the International
Centre featuring one-on-
one tutoring. You are wel-
come to begin booking
appointments for writing;

reading, grammar, con-
versation, or any other
skill you wish to enhance.
Appointments are gener-
ally one half hour in
length. When you book
the appointment, you
should indicate what skill
you would like to work
on. A weekly discussion

LETTERS
Exams are coming! Need help?

group is also being orga-
nized. This will be open
to all interested students
and will last one hour.
The purpose of the dis-
cussion group is to pro-
vide an opportunity to
work on verbal skills in a
group environment. The
names of the tutors are

Melissa Fegarido and
Norman Skelton. Melissa
is a fourth year English
major and Norman is a
third year Anthropology
major minoring in
Political Science.

Norm Skelton

EXILE IN ANARCHY defuses NUGSS issue

Dear Editor:

An article written in the
November 1998 issue
of “EXILE IN ANAR-
CHY” was submitted to
the attention of the
UNBC Ombudsman last
week. As the editor of
this magazine | regret-
fully allowed this specif-
ic statement within the
article, “she (April
Williams, NUGSS Office

manager) is __ totally
unqualified and
unskilled for the job she
is doing.” As an individ-
ual with feelings too, |
feel this judgement
statement was not nec-
essary within the article.
Individuals are allowed
their freedom of opin-
ion; as our university
motto says “En cha
huna”. However this
statement (in my opin-

ion) was a bit personal.
It is important that it be
known that | do not
apologize for the state-
ments made by the
author of this article, but
rather for my oversight
as editor, in allowing
this specific personal
judgement that was not
required to support the
premise of the article. |
am sorry April, that you
felt hurt by this afore-

mentioned statement
that was contained with-
in this article. Any fur-
ther questions should
be put_forth to the
author of the article, so
that they may defend or
refute statements that
they wrote within the
article.

Sincerely,
Robert Brydon

GUEST COLUMN

Hey you smokers out there!

When | wrote the article, “l
have to smoke where?” (editor’s
note: Issue 5, November 9,
1998) | tried to be as objective
as possible. Ensuring | did my
best to cover both sides of the
issue, | kept saying to myself,
“smokers have rights too.” |
found this to be very difficult to
do, not only because | am a non-
smoker, but because | find it
very offensive when someone
smokes in my presence. It is not
necessarily because of the
smoke itself, and what it can do
to an individual, but because
many smokers (not all) have lit-
tle compassion for the impact

they are having on me.

| have had heated discussions
with smokers who argue that the
pulp mills in Prince George are
just as bad, if not worse, so why
be concerned about the smok-
ers. | agree, but there is little |
can do with that situation. | do
have control, however, over
whether | want to be exposed to
cigarette smoke or not, and |
choose not to be.

| have noticed that the signs
put up all over campus, as part
of the recommendations handed
down by the President's Council,
have gone completely unrecog-
nized. It is as if they did not

Are you listening?

exist. | see both students and
faculty continuing to use all the
major entrances as their littering
ground. Is this a silent protest, or
do you just not care?

| ask, “when will you listen, and
have some consideration for
your fellow non-smokers?” | fear
it will only come once the
University has changed the rec-
ommendation into a_ policy,
where both the students and
faculty may face the possibility
of fines.

Too bad it has come to this!

Jay Brunn
UNBC Student

There was no shortage
of life’s comforts for this
crew, as they enjoyed
Tim Horton’s donuts,
coffee and a little bit of
T.V. while waiting for
Tragically Hip tickets to
go on sale!

photo by- Jay Brunn

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