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Ian Oliver Publisher Robert Glasbey Advertising Director Norman Alexander Editor Geoff Hill Circulation Director Teri Casas Office Manager Tim Coles Production Manager Our society tends to pander to the needs and desires of the criminal element in our midst, while ignoring the needs of victims and their families. Legislation to prohibit criminals from profiting from their crimes is long overâ€" due. Any profit should be directed to the support of victims. It is important to learn why society‘s deviates choose to follow this specific and horrendous path in life in order to deflect others from this destructive path. A victimizer who truly regrets his or her acts, would accept this legislation as right and proper. Those whose only regret being apprehended deserve no rewards. Do your believe the federal government should enact legislation to preâ€" vent convicted criminals from profiting from their stories? We say it‘s more a case of the solution being worse than the problem and it illustrates again that more attention must be paid to safety on our waterways. There has been a rash of boating accidents this year including the horrible death of a 15 year old Toronto girl who was killed when her boat was struck by another craft. Hopefully the sailing school officials will look carefully at the accident and help ensure the "one in a million" incident will not be repeated. In fact some of the questions were more voyeuristic than anything else and had absolutely nothing to do with electrical servicing requirements. The poll asked respondents to comment on such statements as: "I can usually establish a close personal relationship with someone I find attractive;" "It is important for me to be in love and to have a love relationship that lasts;" and "Often people get ahead just by being lucky." A spokesman for Hydro was quoted as saying the personal questions in the survey were valid because they helped determine the values and needs of cusâ€" tomers. Huh? It looks like Hydro chairman Maurice Strong has a long way to go in his promised cleanâ€"up of things in the mirrored tower on University Avenue. live in the real world. How else to explain the decision of the nation‘s argest utility, to spend $1.3â€"million on a survey of potential commercial customers that asked personal questions. l t is a contlnumg source of amazement that Ontario Hydro just can‘t seem to The response from Hydro says much about why the utility is out of touch with current economic realities and why it will lose a projected $1.6â€"billion this And here‘s the kicker to the story. Hydro offered all those who answered the survey a chance to enter a draw for prizes that included a largeâ€"screen televiâ€" sion and trip for two to Hawaii. Officials of the sailing school said the power boat was responding to a problem with another of the sail boats when it struck another boat. A spokesman called the power boat operator‘s response to the situation "textâ€" book" case of how to respond to a boat in trouble. - en most people go boating, they do so knowing that they have to V‘/ look out for poor weather. But even more important for sailors is to be aware of other boats on the water and to operate their craft safely. A tragedy was narrowly averted at Bronte Harbour Wednesday, when a power boat, itself monitoring a group of small sailboats filled with youngsters learning to sail, itself ran into one of these sail boats. Six girls from 12â€"14 years of age were thrown into the water and suffered various injuries from scratches to a broken nose and lost teeth that will require costly dental work. EDITORIAL ___ Water safety 467 Speers Road, Oakville, Ont. L6K 3S4 845â€"3824 Fax: 5 Classified Advertising: 845â€"2809 Circulation: 845â€"9742 or 845â€"9743 The Oalwille Beaver, ished Sunday, Wednesday and Fi , at 467 Ao, n o ho Merviga Acion Free Press, KlnostonTNtWedt. EeononmnndSun swuvawum'r Canadian h Musmga n Nomal %Banw,mmvukllnm w-u: All material published in the Oakvile Beavi Any lnbnhvmoloorhpmdflsmaw" -mm consent of the publisher. \QUESTION OF THE WEEK A sampling of the best answers will be published in the next Weekend ediâ€" tion of the Oakville Beaver. Should newspapers name men charged by police for committing sex acts at the Shell Park washrooms recently? Give us your opinion on this topic by calling 845â€"5585, box 5012. _ All callers are allowed 45 seconds to respond and must provide their name, address and phone number for verificaâ€" tion. Jean Murray Bernard Levin I‘m not sure office buildings ‘ARE even architecture. They‘re really a mathematical calculaâ€" tion, just threeâ€"dimensional investments. Colors are coming on strong, too. The drab look of raw cement that was such a rage just a few years back is suddenly as dead as the Edsel. Some of the new buildings are forest green and cobalt blue and iridescent pink. The one I‘m in sports Oh, sure there are still too many boring old boxes littering the land, but they are slowly but surely being upstaged by a dazâ€" zling constellation of turrets and spires, and arches of glass and steel. Gordon Bunshaft It may be rank heresy to say so, but I think Levin and Bunshaft are out of touch. Oh, modern architecture has been fairly horrific for the past half century or so â€" all those monoâ€" lithic sixtyâ€"storey refrigerator cartons marching off to the horizon â€" but I think I detect a decided change for the better. My firm just moved into new digs in deepest darkest downâ€" town Toronto, and you know what? hat has happened to architecture...that the only passersâ€"by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? The city skyscape is spectacâ€" ular. Architects finally having fun â€" with creating new spaces I note, for instance, a nineteenth century townhouse in London‘s Hammersmith Grove. The twoâ€"storey brick structure was the subject of a feature artiâ€" cle in Vogue magazine recently â€" though it‘s hard to understand why ‘when you see the phoâ€" Let‘s hope it lasts. Public fashion is a fickle old fop. This year‘s toast of the town can turn into next year‘s usedâ€"toâ€"be quicker than you can say deely boppers and disco boots. And the next major architecâ€" tural left turn might not be nearâ€" ly as appealing. And I love it. All of it. It looks to ‘me like architects are finally having some fun. Wacky and wondrous ediâ€" fices speckle the Hogtown landâ€" scape. Viewed from a distance, the famous SkyDome resembles some colossal Galapagos torâ€" toise lumbering through the downtown core. There‘s a life insurance building near Mount Pleasant and Bloor graced with flying buttresses and vaulting walkways and glittering domes. It looks like some crenellated fantasy castle straight out of Tinkerbell‘s Magic Kingdom. saucy red stripes up and down its flanks. Reminds me of a Swiss Army Knife. Nothing unusual about that â€" just another verminâ€"ridden inner city flop house, right? Wrong. This is the home of a very rich and quite famous American designer by the name of Liza Bruce. Liza and her husâ€" band Nicholas Vega not only live in this hole, they decorated it this way deliberately. "When we first got the house," says Nicholas, "we poured coffee and Guinness over the floors to darken them. It smelled wonderâ€" ful, like a pub after hours." Sounds swell, Nick. Oscar Wilde defined fashion as: "a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." I‘m beginning to understand what Oscar was talking about. It doesn‘t improve noticeably when you get inside. Several layers of peeling wallpaper fesâ€" toon most of the walls. There‘s a blackened fireplace in the parâ€" lor that looks like it was used to render whale blubber for a cenâ€" tury or two. The armchairs have stuffing leaking out of them. A photograph veiled by a cracked glass frame dangles crookedly from a nail in one wall. There‘s dust and grime and rust and slime on just about every surâ€" face in sight. The joint, to be charitable, is a dump. The front yard is choked with weeds. Plaster is falling off the lintel over the front door. The bricks in the facade are chipped and cracked. tographs.