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Second Class Mail Registration Number 5540 established 1854 And now the latest from the pretzel logic department ... Female students from across the country attending the weeklong Canadian Federation of Students semiâ€"annual meeting in Ottawa made the headlines Tuesday â€" but for all the wrong reasons. _ But that‘s not why they made the news â€" they vaulted right onto the front pages by banning a CBC reporter â€" who just happened to be male. _The female group was meeting at the downtown Kent Street Holiday Inn to discuss an extremely significant concern â€" the recent closures of campus women‘s centres.. More alarming were the followâ€"up actions taken by the CFS group Monday: a daily newspaper (female) reporter was also shown the exit when she defended the CBC reporter‘s right to remain, and then all media, save those (women) from campus newspapers, were banned from the proceedings. CFS spokesman (oops!) YÂ¥vette Diepenbock then sent conference credibility to its grave with the remark that if the CBC‘s Danny Globerman "wanted in, (he) should have worn a dress." â€" Brilliant. And with the remark, let‘s hope Diepenbock was wearing a bag. Over her head. Or at least a I:;mpst!ade. â€" What all this silliness results in of course is a giant step backwards for the CFS, which seems at times intent on such selfâ€"destruction, and further, a similar black eye for women‘s groups in general. . And that‘s an outright shame. Many, many such groups exist and flourish right here in the Twin Cities, championing the cause of equal rights in all aspects of society. In nearly every case, their methods and means are constructive and display clearâ€"thinking, factors so obviously missing in the CFS group. It merely showed itself to be a collection of chipâ€"onâ€"theâ€"shoulder, grudgeâ€"bearing individualists with no concern for the real issues at hand. A few years ago I swore I‘d never write another column about Remembrance Day . Not only was it hard on me, emotionally, but I felt that if I continued, I‘d start falling into cliches, like throwing the torch to the next generation. Well, we didn‘t throw them the torch to carry high, and Flanders fields are old bones now, but the torch is there â€" a different kind. The torch, not of gallantry and defending certain ideals, and being prepared to die for them, but the torch of terrorism, vicious hatred of other colors, religions and political systems, and new wars and slaughter in the paper every day. With another Remembrance Day comâ€" ing up, I must break my promise. An essay by Canadian Hugh MacLennan, called "Remembrance Day â€" 2010 A.D.," reread after ten years, brought home to me once again the utter folly of mankind, and his apparent obsession with destroying his That Globerman was male was irrelevant. He was there as a journalist, not as an antiâ€"female figure, and most certainly should have been allowed to remain. Thinking here is there are as many females as males out there disgusted with the CFS threeâ€"ring circus. _ Written in the 109505s, the essay is an ironic warning that is just as valid today _ And no wonder. It kinda hurts to find out you‘ve lost a war you weren‘t even waging. â€"â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9. 1983 Swell move published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Record Ltd., owner 225 Fairway Rd.S., Kitchener, Ont. BILL SMILEY mmm.m.ug-n;mqg” Law Office Building (rear entrance. upper floor). Parking at the rear of the building. Open Monday to Friday. 9:00 a m. to 5:00 p.m , he saw the arms address correspondence to Waterioo office: 45 Erb St. E. Waterioo, Ont. N2J 1L7, telephone 886â€"2830 race building until the human race is in the delicate eggâ€"shell it is today: constant escalation of nuclear weapons, paranoid suspicion of the ‘"enemy,‘‘ and teetering on the tightâ€"rope of oblivion. He foresaw a space war, which is just over the horizon, if something worse doesn‘t happen first. We hate to think of it. We go right on, grunging around in our own little world, whining about taxes, beefing about "the government," and stuffing our guts while haif the world or more is literally starvâ€" Most of us are not on hard drugs. But most of us are on the soft kind, symbolized by television, which tells us that we‘d be happy if we drank this beer, or used that shampoo, or used everâ€"thinner sanitary napkins, or ate Krinklyâ€"Krak for breakâ€" fast. All lies, of course. Subtle, but lies. And often symbolized by our "leaders," who lie to us until the truth comes up, then lie some more. And do not lead, but follow â€" the latest poll. A vote is more important than a good citizen: selfâ€"reliant, indepenâ€" Manager: Bill Karges Doesn‘t it turn your guts a bit? It does UlItimate question "Still, it didn‘t hit me until spring school when Tim didn‘t arrive at the rink. All the other pairs were there, I just looked around and said ‘he‘s not showing up, this is it." * = No No , Im NT HeRE P Sera.", â€" ,_ _ | Tn were t Suy Pouwer, To! WHAT HAPPENED TO Auw THosE +2 MEGAwRTTS You WAiTED To DumP ‘ LASBT SPRNC 2 â€" mine. But, like everyone else, I‘m too preoccupied with my busted shoulder, my pension, the constant demands of family, and my own comfort, to face the facts. _ I remember the first few times I marched in the Legion parade on Rememâ€" brance Day. Most of us were in our twenties. We looked with affectionate condescension on the "old guys" vetcrans of W.W.1. They were in their late 40‘s and Now, most of the ‘"old guys" are gone, except for a corporal‘s guard, and we cocky young strutters are the "old guys." It‘s depressing, but the word that constantly forms in my mind is WHY? Why did millions of young men go danse macabre of World War 1? Correcâ€" tion: millions of them did not ‘"go through‘‘ it. They left their bones and pus and blood in little foreign places with funny names. And they left nations of weeping women and children. Of course, they died to save democracy . That‘s what it said. Or, perhaps, because It is written ‘or stupid leaders, who thought little of CANADIAN) + AMERJCAN GorRvere_ career. Champion Waterioo figure skater Mary Jo Fedy commenting on the end of her competitive killing 100,000 men to gain a few hundred yards of mud. Why did millions of young men, only two decades later, do it all over again? Of course, they were fighting for freedom from dictatorship, for ‘our way of life." What was accomplished in two world wars? Tens of millions killed, and the second time around, many of them civilâ€" ians. necked you are. Don‘t laugh at the peace marches. They seem to be the only thing, however incoherent and ineffective, that suggest any sanity in the modern world. I take nothing from the dead of those even love for them. They really believed in what they were dying for. Let them rest in peace. But from their grumbling graves, as they look down, or up, at the insanity of today‘s arms race, the blind violence, cmd\yaudvigms_oflbnddgu wars. In the first one, they were my were ‘"saving," 1 can hear one question, loud and clear. WHY? . I have a lifelong admiration, â€"SEE PAGE 9 Caheil|