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6-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, February 6, 1985 Cut ribbon.for Village Bil School News1 Parents are welcome. Angie deLaat Patti Moreland ORONO CAMIPUS NEWS Winter Safety Winter Safety is very imi- Portant. it could cost you your life. At lot of people have hit trees or stumnps while sliding. You might even get hit by a car .. An easy way to die in the winter is by falling through ice and ending up somewhere else. In the winter you, should be careful. Don't bit cars with snowballs, don't mnake forts by the side of the road and don't go skidooing on ice that doesn't look nice. Those are a couple of wîniter safety tips! by Shane Gylytiuk Grade 5 LOCKHART CAMPUS The students at Lockhart School are busily getting ready for the volleyball tour- nament held in Bowmanville help of Mr. Famnes amd Mr. help of Mr. Eames and mir. Witheridge the students are learning how, to play the game. The people who don't make the team stili learn the basic rules. However only 9 mrembers of Lockhart school will be able to attend. Good' Luck. See you at the tourna- ment. People in Lockhart are also busy trying to learn their speeches. The grade 4,5, and 6 classes must have their speeches 3-5 minutes long. On Thursday Feb. 7th the best speceches will be said and judged in the gym. Friday mnorninig the ribbon Diane Hamre, representing was the fift store to open in surely be held uèp as a fine cx- cutting ceremonies were held the Town of Newcastle, con- Orono ver the past year and a ample of free enterprise and for the grand opening of The gratulated Ina Hughes and haîf. by those having faith in their Village Bin (S&H Bulk Barb Swan on their ncw yen- hamre said Orono could community. Foods) in Downtown Orono. -ture in Orono stating that it SOL WAY- 1 am nflt a fan of either ex- cessiyve violence or sexual ex- ploitation. I ar nflt attracted to ither of them. Howevcr, 1 ami also flot threatened by them. 1 can watch. I can en- dure. 1 can even sometimtes enjoy them. Enjoy? You must be kid- ding say the dyed-in-the-wool oppontents of sex and voilence. How can a true liberal like Solway possibly enjoy human degradation or suffering or any other kind of physical deviation or exccss? Shame. Shame. Akriglt. I arn caught. My son-i-law to be brought home a VCR. The plague of the eighties. The most impor- tant and al-consuming fad since Mah Jong has finally made its way te my life. The devil that is consuming more andI more of our leisure time, turning us into stay-at- homes; the device that is creating havoc in the enter- tainiment and hospitality business. Wait. Hold it. This is flt supposed to be a tirade against VCR addiction. Aftcr a couple of wccks of exposure tIhe novelty is wearing off, just as I predict it will with millions more who will sud- denly realize their social life has been shot to pieces. The real issue here is the availability of sex and violence to ail, a sort of Sodom and Gomorrah for every home. "A chicken in every pot and in every home". The other night I watched two typical films. The first was the box office bit "Sud- den Impact" and the second was the soggy sex bomb "Tit- tillation". 1 saw the Clint Eastwood shoot-cmn-up right to the end. The other, I wat- by Larry Solway ched a feW ends and a succes- sion of fronts and a repetition of coitus imaginatus often enough that 1 saw only about thirty minutes of it then gave up emotionally drained. -But 1 watched. That is the point. Real violence is abhor- rent Ito me. The public ap- petite for filmcd violence makes me sad and worried. For me, that Clint Eastwood violence became meaninglcss because there was too much of it. After you overdose on it (what bchaviorists cal 'floodin',") it stops matter- ing. I remember watching a Brenda Vaccaro film (Cana- dian made and highly box of- f ice succcssful) called "Blood Wcekcnd". After the fifth or sixth grisly killîng it no longer mattered. Dirty Harry and' his slogans about law and bad guys have propelled him to the top. How many bad guys does he have to "waste" before the audience gets thre idea. Apparently there is no end to the appetite for vengeance. Same thing with thre grunts and groans and shrieks of ecstasy over make-believe copulation and the display of breasts and bums. How much is enough? At what point does a rcasonably grown-up person sec or experience enough? Aftcr a whilc it becomes more funn y than stimulating. Finally you just watch because you are too tired to turn it off. Watchmng Dirty Eastwood was not s0 much an en- durance test in tolerating violence as it was my own fascination witb bis special version of justice and the ap- parent dignity we aregiving to the "New" approacb to Law and Order and Motherhood. (I could even say "New Order-," but that would hcarken back to something even worse. But it is a dlue.). In Sudden Impact (in case you missed it or don't want to bother) a woman and her younger sister were brutally raped by a gang of no-goods led by a cackling lesbian. The younger sister, lapses into catatonia after the experience and is a silent, staring inmate in a mental home. TEN YEARS LATER (I neyer understood why it took her ten years to gct angry enouIgh) thre older sister goes on 'a killing rampage, shooting cach of the rapists the same way, first in thre genitals then between thre eyes. She is steeîy-eycd, im- pacable, almost psychotic in her determination. Mean- while Dirty Harry (as usual on thre verge of being tossed off The Force because of his Frontier approach to Justice) is hunting for thre killer. He finds ber after she has finish- cd her trail of carnage. Now look here, if you kcep reading I arn goin4, to spoil the story by telling ýou how it ends, so stop now; You are warned. Just before Eastwood and the avenging sister walk off into the s \nset he arranges things so tI-at he is the only one who knows she is the killer, but Ire misleads thre forces of Law and Order into deception so that thcy cannot trace the killing to her. Moral of the story. lt's alright to take the Iaw into your own Irands because criminals arc after ail a blight on society and iftIre police and the courts woni't hang them al we have no other choice. That's why I watched to the end. To sec if what I feared would happen. It did. Frontier Justice prevailed. Dirty Harry, impatient with crime (who isn't) and even more impatient wîth the democratic system, makes his own law. That he is right and the crîminal is wrong does not excuse his Death Squad approach to putting things "Iright". No wonder so niany peo- ple. Amerîcans on the scene and Canadians watching from a distance, are cheering for that vigilante on the sub- way who shot up four men who demanded five dollars from him. Let me give the benefit of the dloubt to the cheering sec- tion for that unfortunate young man and say that Law and Order is what it is al about; that we cannot con- tinue to tolerate anti-social behavior and a system that appears to protect the wrong- doer. Except that "Law" if it is to survive must apply to aIl. The Law is a precious thing. It must reflect Due Process and Human Rights. It must recognize the fundamnental that in a demnocracy we assign the trust of keeping order to specially trained and qualified, "agents." They act for us with our consent and subi ect to our approval. The samne Law and Order that the criminal violates also says that no one is permitted to rcspond to a threat with a defence greater than the danger or threat perceived. Unless the subway vigilante can prove he was threatened with death or injury by sbooting, his use of a gun cannot be toleratcd. Event if a forgiving jury lets him. off, those four Young men, however sinister they may be, shouid proceed through civil action to recover compensa- tion for their pain and suf fer- ing. 1 dislike holligans. 1 detest violence. So 1 cannot con- donc it as an instrument of justice from sane, law- abiding people. But 1 arn afraid Dirty Harry is more than just a figure on the screen. He is a new kind of savior. "Th ank You" Ina and Barb would like to thank each and everyone who in marïy ways ,made their Grand Opening Iast week such a success. Special thanks to husband and famni- ly for being so supportive. GIad to' be numbers 69 and'70 in. Downtown Orono. 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