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Adieu, M. Trudeau

By Lorenzo Sia

| was talking to a friend of mine a few days ago when he posed me a question which startled me. He asked “Why are the flags flying half mast?” | stared at him with a puzzled look, thinking he was joking. | asked him if he truly didn’t know what was going on, and he replied, “No, not really. Has some- one passed away recent- ly?” | informed him “Former Prime Minister Trudeau has passed away recently.” ‘ Pierre Elliott Trudeau.A {| man of talent and inspira- tion. A man of courage and of kindness. A man with determination and farsight. For most people, the very name creates awe and wonder. Our par- ents would talk of Trudeau, about his gov- ernment and his foreign policies. As students, we study his methods, his actions, and the out- comes of those actions. We try to understand who he was and what benefits he gave to this country while his party was at the helm of gov- ernment for nearly two decades.

Trudeau’s passing has evoked emotions from all who were touched by him. From east to west, a country was bound in mourning for a man so many have loved but never completely knew. His state funeral was watched by millions across the country. Many figures from the past

and present political stage were present. Past prime ministers Joe Clark, John Turner, and Brian Mulroney;

‘past US president: Jimmy

Carter, and Cuban president Fidel Castro; UK Prince Andrew, and a whole entourage of dignitaries including former cabinet min- isters, senators, and the peo- ple of Montréal.

Right honorablePierre Elliot Trudeau, former prime minister of Canada (1968- 1984)

The funeral, held at Notre Dame de Montréal Basilica, was celebrated with more than 40 clergy, priests, the Archbishop of Montréal, including Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte. Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, a cabinet minister during Trudeau’s tenure, read an epistle, followed by Sasha Trudeau, and Senator Jacques Hébert, a long time friend of Trudeau. But the most touching aspect of the

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Congratulations to all those students, staff, and faculty who use the composting sys- tem here at UNBC and have helped make the program a success. This year’s Sustainable Campuses Conference, held September 21-24th at the University of Victoria gave us an opportu- nity to compare notes with other universities and col- leges about environmental

initiatives taking place on campus. After meeting with student environmental repre- sentatives from UBC, Mt. Allison, U of Calgary, Royal Roads, McGill, Dalhousie, and other Canadian universi- ties it became clear that UNBC maintains its position as a leader in this area of waste reduction. Although most of these universities are (continued on page 10)

mass was the eulogy that Trudeau’s eldest son, Justin Trudeau, wrote and recited for his father.

In it, Justin spoke of the things that made the elder Trudeau who he was. “Statesman, outdoorsman, author, prime minister.” Of these qualities, he spoke of his father more somberly as “dad.” As the younger Trudeau spoke of his father, not a single eye who listened and watched was dry.

a light that. wasn’t tainted and known to the public. The younger Trudeau spoke of his father, a man of principles, a man who taught by example, and a man “who's funda- mental belief never came from a textbook.” Toward the end of the eulogy, he made a refer- ence to a poem com- posed by Robert Frost, changed slightly for per- sonal use. The finals words of his eulogy came as a personal reflec- tion of a man more supernat- ural both in private and in public life.

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. He has kept his promises and earned his sleep. Je taime, papa.”

Pierre Trudeau’s body has been interred at a family plot in a town just outside the city of Montréal.

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Oct 9, 2000

E.A.R.S. Comes To UNBC

Submittied by: Simon Goring It was a proud day when the multitude raised their voices and clamoured for radio and from the hill on the edge of the bowl, EARS heard the cry and proclaimed “Something must be done!”

The EARS board now has a following, and we, the lucky few, are beginning the voyage towards transmitting. As it stands now, we at EARS are awaiting CRTC approval for a 8.5 Watt transmitter so that YOU can broadcast to the city of Prince George from the comfort of the EARS broad- cast booth, soon to be locat- ed in the Over The Edge office.

It's been a long hard slog, but things are taking shape. Since the inception of EARS, work has been progressing slowly but surely; Dave Schindler has been flashing his smile and a book of cheques and letting us know “We are a fiscal entity now!”; committees have been formed for Public Relations and for Content; and mem- bership has climbed steadily since our inception.

The EARS meetings (Mondays at 5:30) have gen- erally been well attended, and we would like to acknowl- edge everyone who has come out. If you want to par- ticipate, but haven’t been able to attend the meetings, you can join the EARS mailing list, simply send an email to: majordomo@unbc.ca and

-write in the message text

NUGSS 101

This article is a similar to the classes that we take. The first day of class your profes- sor hands you the course outline (aka the syllabus). (S)He then provides you with a definition of the course. Then you find out that you are in cheese making 101. Oops wrong class. The next class is the first lecture and you start getting into the specifics of the course. This

article is similar to our class- es. You were given a defini- tion of NUGSS in the last arti- cle. This article will be brief. It is in essence an article about what NUGSS has been doing over the last while.

Well, | suppose you can say that we have had a slight cabinet shuffle. Kelsey Dryden and Mike Reid squared off in the battle for

“subscribe ears”. By sub- scribing you can listen in and participate in our exciting email conversations. Just last week we were ... well, you'll have to subscribe to find out. More information is also avail- able on our WEB site (it’s e- xcellent!) = at http://ears.unbce.ca, there’s lots of neat stuff there too.

What are we working on now? As | said before we have some focus groups up and running, if you are inter- ested in coming out for the Content group, just contact Simon Goring at gorings@unbc.ca. Susan Dolinski, our PR contact, can be reached by emailing dolisOO00@unbe.ca. For all you in the know (and the now) of computer technology, just send a message to David Russell at russell@otaku.unbc.ca and he will set you up with the technical committee. All of us would be pleased as a peach in July to talk to you and let you know what is going on

So what now? Now we wait. On October tenth, construc- tion should start on our space, and then we will start asking for your submissions. If you want to DJ this is your chance! EARS will be looking to the student body as well as to the community to provide quality broadcasting. If you want to play music, talk about social issues, give advice or want to live up to the legend of Dr. Johnny Fever (or Les Nessman) this is your oppor (Continued on page 10)

the Director of Internal Affairs position. It was a close battle between Mike and Kelsey; the final vote count was 83 - 63 in favour of Kelsey. NUGSS would like to thank Kelsey and Mike for their efforts during their respective

campaigns. In other news _ David Schindler resigned as

Director at Large. The board - (continued on page 16)

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