v4 i United Way: Campaign Contines The United Way committee would like ‘to extend a big thank you to all those who rallied to the cause with baking, time, cheques, pledge cards, and energy at last week's United Way Bake Sale. Volunteers and provisions were organized by Donna Savage in Health Services. To date the United Way drive has raised approximately $3600, which is roughly half of what they raised last year, so they are asking all those who have not yet donated to put pen to pledge card, and forward it to Accounting. The names of all those who donate (via direct donation or payroll deduction) will be entered in a draw. The mystery prize and winner will be announced at the end of the campaign. Don't forget that those donations are tax deductible. Bloody Halloween looms Blood, if not gore, will abound at Cap College on Halloween this year. By an interesting coincidence, the 31st is also the day of the Red Cross blood donor clinic. This is your chance to get into a suitably vampirish frame of mind—don't forget to give. Student Union news The Student Union is continuing its free movie nights this fall on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in the east wing of the North Cafeteria at 7 pm. Next week's films are "birdy birdy BIRDY'', and ''Purple Rose of Cairo.'' On Thursday the 17th the Men's basketball team is sponsoring a social in the North Cafe, and on Thursday the 24th, the Volleyball club will have a social. UNCLASSIFIED WANTED: Small stereo unit or ''ghetto- blaster'' suitable for teenager. Call Carol at 980-1653. WANTED: A stationary exercise bike. Call Mike Reveley, Music Dept, local 452. WANTED: Home for an 18 month old Lab/ Shepard cross - good with children and house trained. Mike, local 452. Forum Africa this Friday Don't forget to tune in your TV to the Forum Africa broadcast on channel 10 at 8 pm Friday, October 18. The show will be about Canada's role in the recent African famine, and after the show, at 10 amon Saturday the 19th, all of you are invited to come to Capilano College for an informal discussion group on the subject. This is a nation-wide forum on the role of Canada in assisting African nations towards recovery, and community participation is sought. For more information contact John Bannister at 258/259. FAMINE IN AFRICA: What Happens if it Rains this Year? If the rains do return, we could anticipate some gradual diminishing of the full impact of the present drought. But even a return to what has been close to a normal rainfall would not immediately overcome the massive disruption to normal patterns of life. In drought areas, people have been forced to abandon their villages and are not even in a situation to plant. They are in refugee camps or are too weakened to be productive. Farmers who remain have no seeds. Their cattle have died. The depth of the problem is illustrated by the fact that at least 32,000 metric tonnes (1 tonne = 0.984 tons) of seed will be required in Ethiopia alone this year and it will be important that it arrives in time for the planting season. Then the seed will have to be distributed in remote areas, where starvation has often reached such proportions that, instead of planting the seed, people will eat it to survive. Governments find it very costly to try to reconstitute disrupted communities. Hence, the tendency is to eat seeds because the basic tools required to plant and work the land have been lost or sold. Even traditional fishing practices on international rivers such as the Niger are no longer productive because the reduction in river size has changed the ecological condi- - tions so that the fish cannot reproduce. The decline in water levels has also reduced the production of water-recession crops, such as rice. What Happens if it Doesn’t Rain It is almost too terrible to contemplate the impact of another drought similar to the last two or three years. Starvation would certainly increase even with the massive human efforts now underway. Without rain, development efforts would have to give way to further relief. ‘‘In many African countries people are having to do without any public services [education and health, for example], as governments concentrate their resources and energies on sheer economic and political survival.’” — The World Bank 1984 report, Toward Sustained Development in Sub- Saharan Africa.