Times Advocate, 1989-07-12, Page 8Page 4 Times -Advocate, July 12, 1989
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Nitpicking welcome here
W hose paper is it anyway?
The president might own it.
The publisher might run it.
The editor might control it. The report-
ers might fill it. The advertisers might
pay for it.
But when it comes down) to the nitty-
gritty, the person who pays the subscrip-
tion or who plunks down the 750 on the
counter is the final owner of this paper.
And that is the bottom line.
Someone who wrote a letter of com-
plaint to another local paper was severe-
ly rebuked in an editorial for
"nitpicking" and for not being -grateful
for having a community newspaper in
the first place.
We, at the Times Advocate, do not feel
that is proper treatment of a paying cus-
tomer or reader. Your opinions will al-
ways get respect in our pages. We'd
rather see them in print than griped
about at the coffee shop or on the front
porch.
Oh sure, no one likes to be criticized,
unfairly or otherwise. We might grum-
ble when a nasty letter is directed at us,
but we print it all the same, as long as it's
signed, and let the public decide whether
the complaints are valid.
'Sometimes they are. Sometimes we can
be accused of taking the easy way out on
a story by not covering all the angles, not
getting the best photo, or not spending
enough time on a particular assisgnment.
Sometimes we go too far the other way.
But we don't mind hearing from people
who know the difference and care
enough to tell us. How else would we
know in what direction to take.the paper
in the future?
Journalism is a high -stress, high-
pressure job no matter how you play it.
Complaints are part of the game. That's
what freedom of the press is all about
So keep those letters coming. We're
big enough. We can take it.
By Adrian Harte
New challenges ahead
T of
the delight of the thousands
of elementary and secondary
-
school students in Huron coun-
ty, the 1988-89 school year is over and
noW'they can get on with enjoying a va=
riety of summer activities.
Many of the senior students are already
out in the employment field earning
money to help pay their tuition with
great hopes of starting on the highway to
post -secondary education in a couple of
months.
Offers of conditional acceptance to On-
tario universities and colleges have al-
ready been received by many gradua-
tiong students. •
Those secondary school graduates who
have big dreams of continuing their edu-
cation at university in the hopes of get-
ting well paying jobs and financial secur-
ity may have some tough (acts to face up
to.
They will -have to work. harder than
ever to gain better academic standing
with lesser chances of getting the same
job opportunities at graduation lime than
•
this year. That is an all-time high, up by
2,000 students for a 3.4 percent increase.
This rise combined with government
cutbacks in funding will mean more
graduates will be refused by the univer-
isty of their choice as admission require-
ments are also going up.
The Ontario Council of Universities
says that many students wanting to con-
tinue at a local university and do not have
high marks may have to consider other
schools and in some instances alternate
programs.
The requirements for exceptional pro-
grams in some schools, like Queens Uni-
versity for commerce or the University
of Waterloo for computer engineering
are much higher. In some cases, appli-
cants with averages of close to 90 percent
are getting rejection slips.
The University of Windsor is one
school which has traditionally held a few
spots open for students with averages less
than 70 percent at high school.
Generally, the rush to pass the fast clos-
ing -jront (j(1orc-
�4J(. sities is putting a lot of pressure on high
Gone are the days of the 1970's when school students to get high marks,
young students continued their education This brings up the fact it may be more
. r7, ,with backpacks and aiming at a path of logical for high school _graduates to get
travel ex pet -
Ynting people of this cta til 1/4., WWI: ijE- then pursue their university goals by way
terested in financial gain and this way
takes them throu,g.b.the_chapters of -books
of higher education and this tact is show-
ing with ever-increasing enrolment fig-
ures.
Enrolments Ott --f inariti univers1tiug
have hit a new high, forcing acceptance
levels to rise and this is starting to put a
squeeze on many categories, nf.. the inh
market.
• Applications from secondary school
graduates has reached the 57,000 mark
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It's no bull
In recent weeks, the govern-
ment of the province of Ontario
has announced a number of sales
of dairy and beef cattle to the Ori-
ent and to Spain.
The latest release reveals that
the Spanish province of Canta-
bria will purchase nearly $25 mil-
lion worth of Ontario dairy cattle,
bulls, semen and embryos over
the next five years.
The president of the Regional
Council of Cantabria and his ag-
riculturefminister were in Glan-
worth recently to sign an agree-
ment with Ontario's minister of
agriculture Jack Riddell.
Riddell said, " I welcome the
Spanish delegation to our beauti-
ful province and am happy to be
participating in this historical
event. I am confident that the
purchase of Ontario livestock will
greatly benefit Cantabria's efforts
to improve its entire dairy -
breeding program".
The actual purchase of the cattle
will be carried out by the private
sector. Ontario's role in the trans-
action is that of facilitator, paving
the way for livestock exports.
of part-time or correspondence studies.
A lot of universities in Ontario are of-
IerlTlb g'uoarciikriiati a programs. Thic
way full-time enrolment may be easier to
achieve once a foot is in the door.
This method has a number of pluses. It
would be more economical, put less
pressure on academics and give the stu-
I
Hays Farms International of
Oakville, Shore Holsteins Inter-
national of Glanworth and Sem-
ex Canada of Guelph will be
providing HolFtcin heifers, pure-
bred bulls and other genetic ma -
From the
',editor's disk
by
Ross Haugh
terial to Cantabria over the next
five years.
Ontario exported nearly $2.2
billion of food and agricultural
products in 1988. Included in
this amount was $368 million to
120 countries worldwide of ge-
netic material and genetically su-
perior animals.
Here are a few facts about Can-
tabria just in case anyone is inter-
ested.
It is a province in Spain with a
population of nearly 600,000
people and the agriculture sector
employs about one-quarter of the
residents.
Farmland in Cantabria occupies
about 20,000 hectares, most of
which is developed to pasture
crops like forage and corn for
livestock. Milk is the livestock
sector's biggest product and rep-
resents nearly 50 percent of the
region's final farm product.
The United States is our big-
gest agricultural export customer
with Western Europe and•the Pa-
cific Rim close behind. In 1989,
the Ontario Ministry of Agricul-
ture and Food will sponsor over
100 export trade missions and
seminars.
OMAF has offices in London,
Tokyo, Ncw York, Chicago, Los
Angeles and Dallas. Ministry em-
ployees market a variety of agri-
culture and food commoditics,
including livestock and livestock
products.
Pun of the Week - Many people
allow their tempers to come to a
boil before they know what's
cooking.
Bringing China home
In my first year of university I
enrolled in one of the more eso-
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course zeroed in on one 300 -year
era and was taught by one of the
better professors. He liked to be
_O little longwinded and didn't
mind discussing anything Prom
the Roman Empire to World War
11.
One day he chastised the uni-
versity's plans to bring Chinese
students to study at the Wcstcm,
de!xt5 more, Etta -to- find tlgeir-Err3'---" rr>, li sTupidr lTe said.
niche in life. With more time, the chane- "When the next revolution comes ,
es of getting into the wrong occupation in China they'll be the first ones
or profession are lessened. to lose their heads."
I, for one, was sure he was
By Ross Haugh wrong. Glasnost was not yet
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fashionable in 1983, but I wanted
to think that the opening up of
communist countries to thc west
consider ourselves fortunate to
live in a democracy where stu-
protesting govemment policy.
Unless we count the four shot
in 1970 at Kent State University.
Hold that
thought...
Adrian Harte
What's worse is it appears the
- Chinese government is going to
get away with it all. With their
control of the media they have
the ability to "rewrite” history at
will - denying the massacre took
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cally inevitable. • a victory for thc "people
Of course, he was right after Our governments have to resort
411. i wonder how many former to different means. The usual re -
Western students lost their lives sponse to a political scandal -
in Tiananmen Square, or how like thc Patti Starr affair - is to
many will disappear from their ' establish an investigation or
homes -in the months to come. commission. This' shuts up the
Wc, in thc westilin world, must opposition parties right away and
when the findings emerge
months or years later the. goverp-,_
nient gets the credit for getting to
the bottom of it all.
That's as good as a rewrite any
day.
Without a free press they'd
probably get away with a lot
more: 1n .i:arnaua neriine gc13 -
away with shooting, kidnapping
or throwing the mcdia,in jail just
because of had press.
lcaked budget over the air, of
course.
So what do we do with China
now? No one douhts for a min-
ute that for a communist regime
they hivcn't made some impres-
sive strides towards joining the
rest of the world. We can't just
give up on them, especially when
}long Kong becomes theirs in
Now we've got U.S. President
Bush tclling.Poland that democ-
racy cannot be achieved•without
sacrifices along the way:
Sacrifices. i suppose 5(X) stu-
dents is a'gtart.
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