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AVC SADISTIC TOOLS

Mr. Editor,

I have never found real reason to comment on the contents of the GEM, up until now...

I would like to make ref- erence to the Open Letter to: ...Dean of AVC by a fel- low “student” (and I use that term lightly) regarding the “primitive Vet. impliments” displayed through “ open door in AVC”.

AS a fellow HISTORY student, I would like to think that Miss., (or Ms.) . Man- derson would have realized

the only

‘UNFRIENDLY BOYFRIENDS ©

Editor:

Friday night, a friend

and I recognized, these two ;

girls we had_ seen _ previ- ously and went over to ask them to dance. _ Their re- ply was: “Well I don’t think our boyfriends would like it”. “O.K. nice evening, and talk to you

So we said: so have a

later”.

Later that evening I go “back to my vehicle with the guys to give. them a ride home. What do I see on the windshield but a little note that said: “You should find out whether a girl has a boyfriend before you ask *, Well I found that remark a

what I say to “Your boyfriends

them to dance’ bit bizarre. So this is you girls: are very possessive, if they wouldn’t like you to dance casually with two guys who just asked you politely, and I don’t think it very intelligent that when someone wants to dance with someone else he must first say: ““ Excuse me do you have a boyfriend? -no? Would you like to dance?

So grow up girls this is the eighties!

(signed) LATER

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REPLIES TO “BEST LEGS”

Editor,

Oh come on, only peo- ple with a warped mind like you would think of the ar- ticle (Mary Brown’s Fried Chicken, best legs in town) as having a sexual conno- tation. How would you feel, Miss Heckbert, if the advertisement read: Mary

Brown’s Fried Chicken, best So what,

breasts in town?

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the signifigance of this ex- hibit. ‘Educating the Igno- rant’ is what I would call it. Most people are unaware of the wonders of Vet. medicine that have evolved since the days of the use of the tools on display. I most definitely agree that the tools are crude but I thank technology and science that they have been improved.

In regard to Ms Mander- son’s blatant attack on the in- tegrity of the Security Guard, this is what I find “very

chicken legs are called chicken legs,and chicken breasts -are called. chicken breasts.

Furthermore, I’m sure

“that if other people would

have been offended -by. this form’ of advertisement, .they “would -have made their feel- ings ,known. © Would: guys have thought of this adver- tisement as sexist if it read: Bob Brown’s Fried Chicken,

chest legs in town? Why set

a double standard?

Finally, I think you should have your head examined, as there may bea few screws loose.

Sincerely,

A reader

Dear Editor:

In the previous issue of the Gem, there was a let- ter complaining about sexism in an advertisement. I don’t think there is any sexism in this advertisement. Com- plaints of sexism are the re- sult of an incorrect attitude towards life.

Humans are merely noth- ing but a special kind of com- modity. Females and males trade in each other for the mutual benefit of propagating

their genes. If we were to look upon ourselves as _ pre- cious commodities, we would not. do things that would reduce our exchange value, such as smoking, drinking,

and dating people of ques-,

tionable value. If we were

to view ourselves in this way,.

we would try to maximize our perceived value, until we

found the highest qualified ,

bidder through market ex- change mechanisms.

In this — com- plaints of verbal sexism in a mere advertisement is of little consequence to the advance- ment of our lives. This com- plaint seems petty and trivial.

context,

What is her

disquieting”! recommendation to cure his

boredom? I cannot under-

stand why she finds it so hard to see someone doing the job they have been hired to do.

I would encourage any- one to find further fault with Jill Manderson’s letter and make the public aware!

Signed,

Carla, with a °K’!

Surely there are more press- ing prablems to be dealt with in life.

(signed) A Mere,.Commodity

Dear Editor,

This letter is written in response to the “Sexism in the Gem” article ‘in © last week’s Gem by . Lorxi-Anne Heckbert. I support the ar- gument of Ms, Heckbert and urge The Gem to. pull the ad from future publications.

It does not take an in depth study or a lot of imagi- nation to determine that this ad is sexist. There is no reference made to chicken in the graphic (a rather eager looking’ man) or in the slo- gan. The word chicken only appears in the name of the restaurant. If one was to delete the name and rely on the ad copy for information it is clear that the business was selling sex— the best legs in town-—etc, and not chicken.

As a full time student I pay for this student newspa- per and do not find it un- resonable to expect fair stan- dards for promotions in the issues. The advertisement in question should be pulled and only allowed re-entry when it is cleaned up.

Sincerely, Lisa Murphy

WARNING FROM. SE- CURITY Dear Sir:

Recently,” some ‘of our

students decided ‘to pull what — . they

considered. to be a ‘prank’. This so-called. prank consisted of tearing a signal light bar from the roof of a motor vehicle belonging to the RCMP. There was con-

siderable damage to the roof of the vehicle and resulted

in two of our students being charged under the Criminal

Cont. on page 10

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