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"People who make these (violent) movies make millions from them. Why? Because we are willing to see this crap and think we‘re immune to their devasâ€" tating effects," she said. ‘"Television is a potentially wonderful learning tool but producers (most of them male) have made it an incredibly destructive tool." However, remembering the slain women once a year is not enough and Edward challenged the students to do something on their own, first by sharpâ€" ening their skills at conflictâ€"solving and Noting that the softer emotions such as generosity, wit, intelligence. love and humor are largely missing from the teleâ€" vision programs they watch, Edward said it‘s no wonder children receive overwhelming messages of cruelty and lawlessness that desensitizes them and steers them into callous and vengeful thinking. At the same time that she derided male producers of violent films, Edward praised the numerous nonâ€"violent males in our society who display a deeply ingrained sense of integrity and fairness. Some of them wear white ribbons in their lapels every Dec. 6th when univerâ€" sity campuses across the country comâ€" memmorate the Montreal massacre, she said. Edward zoned in on violence in teleâ€" vision, noting that it isn‘t only the Mare Lepines of this world that are being affected by it. It is all of us. And we should be wary. A poor student, Edward said Lepine rented two violent videos a day to feed his obsession with war and guns which, combined with his hatred of women, created a fuse that ignited into deadly gunfire on Dec. 6th. First, she said, the killer was a young man whose early years were marred by family violence. Marc Lepine‘s father deeply believed women were inferior and destined to be used for the sexual pleasure of their men. His father routineâ€" ly battered his family and Lepine learned to despise his mother and sister, then uftimately all women. Yet it did happen and Edward, with senior students gathered in the Appleby College chapel on Monday evening, explored the reasons why. The names were intoned as each canâ€" dle on the altar was lit by two female students of Appleby College. One of the 14 names belonged to the daughter of the speaker. It was Anneâ€"Marie Edward. Suzanne LaPlante Edward didn‘t dwell at great lengths on the "total disâ€" belief" she felt on Dec. 16, 1989, as she listened to a radio report that 14 female engineering students at the University of Montreal had been gunned down by a "My feeling was less of horror than total disbelief," she said. "I told myself this type of horror story only happens in the United States, not in peaceful Canada." 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