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UNBC

By Aaron Mahoney

Prince George-Rex Murphy,
host of the CBC series Cross
Country Checkup, brought
the nation to Prince George

Rex Murphy hosts CBC program at

Tracy Sommerville PhD,
member of the political sci-
ence faculty at UNBC, was
asked to sit on the panel and

to discuss the hot topic in this
area, the Ramsey recall
campaign.

Murphy was in Prince
George as part of the
continuing coverage that
CBC was doing on the
recall campaigns in the
region.

The UNBC cafeteria was
the venue and it was
packed with students,
recall and Ramsey sup-
porters. Murphy moderat-
ed a lively debate which
included panel members
Tracy Sommerville PhD,
John Backhouse, David
Mitchell and _ Pertti
Harkonen and

provide unbias comment on

brief appearance.
Ramsey stated that the
recall campaign was just
refighting the election and
that

“This is all just a reverse by-
election” and that the recall
campaign was “relentlessly
negative’.

the
Sommerville asked through-
out the debate: What was
debated was “Is recall good
for democracy” and “Is this

recall process.

recall process in Prince

Debt Protest March

By Chris Last

The Sixties. Bad clothes, good music, and really good drugs.
But the sixties were a time when the world had change and
one of the many ways this could be done was through protest.
Students like you and me would vocally and some times phys-
ically fight for their rights. Rights that to this day give us free-
doms that had before that time kept people under strict politi-
cal and social restriction.

It was just recently that the sixties were re-visited right here
in P.G. A group of C.N.C. and U.N.B.C. students took to the
streets to fight for your right to education. Under the dedicat-
ed leadership of Matt Macrae, the President of the Northern
Undergraduates Student Society, and Laird Lynch, the C.N.C.
Student Association President, approximatly forty students
participated in adding local voice to a nation wide campaign.

Though the turnout was less then expected the diligent few
who braved the cold weather were determined to make a
statement against the governments education cuts. Although
forty people doesn’t seem like alot, they managed to block
traffic and make their voice heard to the people of Prince
George. Mr. Lynch and Mr. Macrae were both very positive
about the protest saying that it was good to come out and be
a part of the national voice for students. The press coverage
was very thorough in spreading the news to everyone in
Canada. Macrae commented: “It is good that we were heard
and that people will see what we fight so hard for!”

The government has cut 10.9 billion dollars from social pro-

Protest March continued on page 3...

George good for democracy
here”.

“Murphy allowed the people
in the audience to debate and
opened up the issue for the
rest of the country,” said
Sommerville.

“Having an university in
an area where there is
high political interest real-
ly helps. | think that it is
the academics” role to
provide information in
public processes.
Participating in Cross
Country Check up is one
way of getting the univer-
sity into the process.
Cross Country Checkup
unites Canada in the
national’s only talk show
from coast to coast.
Murphy invited listeners
to call in with their knowl-
edge and views, creating
an in-depth, two hour
forum for the week’s top
story forum for
week’s top story.
Murphy said that he liked the
new university and humoured
the audience with before the
broadcast.

Cloning Physicist

By Kevin Lavoie

Only in the United States,
and possibly Canada, would
you find a story like this. Dr.
Richard Seed, a Physicist
from Chicago hopes to open
up, coast to coast and even
internationally, cloning clinics
to help couples who are
unable to “reproduce” natu-
rally. He has successfully
been searching for corporate
sponsorship and has said he
plans to open the doors to his
first clinic shortly in Chicago,
already possessing’ the
equipment necessary to “try
the proceedure.” Many ethi-
cists are frantically rallying for
anti-cloning in the United
States, and U.S. President
Bill Clinton is listening,
though no movements have
been made in support of anti-
cloning legislation.

Cloning doesn’t, however,
seem to be a big problem to
those living in the United
Kingdom. The government
there has actually been fund-
ing research into human

cloning and they expect their
first results within the next

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three years. This attitude, if
maintained, would render
any legislation passed in the
United States or elsewhere
useless. What would stop
any company, even Seed’s,
from moving their operations
to the U.K.?

If all of this neither scares
you nor intregues you, then
perhaps Dr. Seed’s opinion
on the subject will that. He
does not deny the fact that he
is doing it strictly for the
money and is over stepping
some of society’s larger
moral values. He has been
described, and unrefuted in
being so, as an opportunist
trying the get his foot in the
door. Seed was even quoted
by Nation Public Radio as
saying, “We are going to
have almost as much power
and almost as much. knowl-
edge as God.” If you don’t
like the idea of genetically
identical offspring, move to
California, the only place in
the world to pass anti-human
cloning, to keep the likes of
Dr. Seed out.

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