The Brussels Post, 1975-05-21, Page 2WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1975
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Responsibility of the press
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Public meetings often turn out to be affairs at
which people stand up and sound off about things
that irritate them. It is in the role of reporter of such.
gripes — and the responses to them — that we
attend meetings and write about what is said and
done. If it were not for us and other members of the
"media" many complaints would ,not be heard
beyond meeting room doors.
At a recent meeting of County Council it was
suggested that newspapers have a responsibility not
only to report with literal accuracy the words which
pass in public meetings but to Inalyze the words for
underlying truth. Unless truth can be established, it
was implied; we should refuse to publish what is
said.
To pursue such a course, however, would
automatically foreclose much indispensable news
reporting. In the case of the County Council meeting
to which we refer,n'ot only would we have been
. compelled to withhold publication of criticisms
addressed to the County Emergency Medical Service
but rebuttals to them as well until the veracity of the
speakers could be determined. Neither point of view,
we a're inclined to suspect, would have ever made the
news under'that condition.
The 'historical function of the free press has been
to assign its reporters to dig not for the truth, but for
facts. When the reader has as many facts as we are
able to supply him, he will be able, we hope, to make
judgments of his own.
That does not mean that we don't make editorial
judgments. We do, both in our news columns and on
our editorial page. But in -our news columns such
judgments are confined to problems of space and
significance, balance, accuracy, and so forth. It is
only on our editorial page that we weigh the facts for
truth, turning them over systematically and looking
at them analytically, deriving opinions as to what
they mean and setting forth those opinions in our
editorial columns. Readers, we might add, are free to
take those conclusions or leave them as they choose.
There is no substitute in a fred society for a press
which reports the facts. On the other hand, one must
beware, in a free society, of those — including the .
press — who claim to be purveyors of the 'truth'.
Any reader is entitled to ask The News and Courier
to deliver the facts. Diogenes with his lantern is still
looking for the truth. When he finds it, we'll report
• the facts.
(The Charleston, S. Carolina, news and Chronicle)
To the editor
Asks for old photos
by Karl Schuessler
I've been doing a fair amount of teaching.
And school isn't what it used to be. In my day
the kids brought home the report cards. And I
had to stammer around and explain to my
parents those grades of mine -- grades which I
must admit hardly ever made rolls of honour.
But that's all changed now. I . mean abdut
those report cards. I'm the teacher and I bring
home the report card.
At the end of my seminars I pass out sheets
of papers. Not just one, mind you. But three
whole pages of questions. Questions that
probe my teaching. That makes sure I meet
the students' needs. That I covered the
subject matter. It's, ,*e.all,edl "Course
Evalu'ation". But call it by any name, it's still
my report card.
And every time I come home, my wife and
girls stand at the door and ask, "Let's see
your report card Daddy." And let me assure
you, that's harder on me than "Let's see your
marks, son."
Oh, there are a few things in my favour. I
don't have to stand up to those strict letter
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Dear Editor:
It is now almost a year since the Council
of Huron County delegated the
management of the Huron Historic Jail to a
Board of interested citizens. We consider
the year to have been successful in that
more than 7000 people, not counting school
tours, took time to visit the building.
The Board is now beginning, a project
which will take several years, that of
furnishing the governor's house in the
fashion of 1900 when it was built. This is
being done under the supervision of Mrs.
Dorothy Duncan, museums adviser, from
the Ministry of Culture and Recreation. In
an attempt to provide furnishings and all
details which will be authentic we are
seeking guidance from pictures of interiors
of that period. If any of your readers have
such pictures we would be most grateful if
they would loan them to us for a time for
our study.. Anyone who is willing to do so
may send them to the following address
Mrs. J.W.Wallace,
35 4 Wellington St. South, Godcrich
Chairman of the Refurbishing
Committee
Huron Historic Jail Board.
I would also be most interested in
hearing from anyone who has furniture of
that period which is in prime condition
either for sale or on loan for exhibition in
the house.
Sincerely,
Dorothy Wallace
grades. The A's, the B's, C's and D's. My
report card is couched in gentler language
The students have boxes to check: adequate,
fair, inadequate. Or they tick of
"completely", "to a limited extent", "to a
great extent", "Not at all".
But I'm no dummy. I, see letter grades;
behind it all. I can feel number scores between
those check marks. And to cinch the matt*
another question conies right to the point:
How do you rate your teacher? Excellentl
Good? Fair? Poor? And that's not all. I've got
five categories to pass., Do I know my mat
erial? Do I make use of questions in class? Do
I have control of the class? Can I motivate the
class to learn? Do I follow the course outline?
Then comes the final crunch. The final
stretch of the rack. I'm measured and laid out
on a scale of 0 to 8, from zero's '1110 I
satisfactory" to eight's "very satisfactory'
,
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That's my last testing ground. A number
one is no fun. Three is a bore. With four I need
more. At five I'm barely alive. And of course,
simply great .
heaven. But to be number eight is
I don't mind those number games. But what
I really like is the one word description the
cstouudrsee.nts have to come up with to describe MY
,,sItimsourtlaotifngs7 when I see "enlightening '
But as I used to tell my parents. And as
Odd on sgurcehatilni e'd 'icicre:fiads "`enthusiastic''. I
"good", "worthwhile" and "satisfying:
Arid I take my plunges now and then. 'I A
bombed out when some one wrote "Ugh'i lt
waste of time and `'uninforniative". I really
used to my friends. And as I now must tell nil,
Humber College. And Management: And 0
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department:
my students' t.
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