------------------------------------------- Asst. Scoutmaster Cubmaster | email: jaetling@neont.com Troop 11 Pack 11 | http://neonet.net/jaetling/index.htm Greater Western Reserve Council | http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2463 Warren, Ohio ----------------------------------------- --- timEd/486 1.10 * Origin: The Panda Cave *NO BBS* Warren, OH | (330) 394-7444 | (1:237/10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: E4100004 Date: 03/16/97 From: ODETTE GENEREUX Time: 08:22pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Help! Space Hello, I am a Cub Leader. Our theme is Space fo our Cuboree in May. I would appreciate suggestion of thing to do with a Space theme. Thanks in advance. Odette --- WtrGate 0.91.p1 beta Unreg * Origin: 8 Wing BBS Astra Ont - (965-2191) (965-2108) (1:249/316) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: E4200000 Date: 04/01/97 From: PATRICK CONLIN Time: 11:46am \/To: JAMES HASLAM (Read 0 times) Subj: HELLO GREAT BRITAIN FROM CANADA... Hello James Just to let you know that your Brothers in the BSA aren't the only ones in the echo. You've got Scouts Canada here as well...nice to see the echo traffic is improving! Cheers! Yours in Scouting Patrick Conlin SysOp of Jamboree BBS, Edmonton, Ab B-PNet/CampNet 13:1313/1 Email: pat.conlin@jbbs.lcrnet.org --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: "New Horizon BBS" [Edmonton, AB] (403) 473-2205 (1:342/11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: E4200001 Date: 04/01/97 From: PATRICK CONLIN Time: 11:51am \/To: ODETTE GENEREUX (Read 0 times) Subj: SPACE THEME ACTIVITIES Meteorite Mania --------------- Take a large bag of walnuts and paint them in different floresent colours. Make up two teams and have the youth stand behind a line marked off at one end of the field. At the other end of the field have two large baskets made up to look like planets. One scouter spreads the walnuts over the field. One scouter stands to his (her) back away from the participants. On a signal, the two teams run to pick up the meteorites and place them in the baskets. The scouter on the other end of the field will occasionally turn around, and any cubs caught moving will have to drop all their meteorites and return to the starting line. The team with the most meteorites striking the planet (in the basket) wins. Care must be take so that cubs don't wipe out on a walnut or charge into each other. The game can also be timed. Yours in Scouting Patrick Conlin --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: "New Horizon BBS" [Edmonton, AB] (403) 473-2205 (1:342/11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 237 SCOUTING #2 Ref: E4200002 Date: 03/30/97 From: JAMES HASLAM Time: 01:23am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: PR: Equal Opportunities * CROSS-POSTED FROM EMAIL BY JAMES HASLAM * Heres the latest from ScoutBase UK, http:/www.scoutbase.co.uk : ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Chris Wilkinson To: everyone@scoutbase.org.uk Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:24:09 +0000 Subject: Equal Opportunities From Public Relations Department. Baden-Powell House. In view of the recent press coverage, you might find it helpful to see the text of the following letter from the Chief Scout. It appears as the introduction to the extensive resource material currently being circulated. The Scout Association: Equal Opportunities Policy 'Equal Opportunities' is often thought of as a recent phenomenon, but the principle of equality of opportunity is a fundamental part of Scouting. The World Scout Movement, which unites people in 218 countries, is a testament to Baden-Powell's vision that Scouting could enable "friendship ... with one another irrespective of class or creed or country". Society in the United Kingdom has changed considerably since 1907, as has the way we perceive and describe our world. The Scout Association has had to recognise these changes in how we describe what we stand for. We need to use words in their contemporary sense and we need to state explicitly what was previously assumed to have been implicit in our Promise and Law. In restating the Association's long standing position on our fundamental principles, we can take the opportunity to set out guidelines for Group Scout Leaders and Commissioners faced with difficult situations which can arise from issues which are now conventionally grouped together under 'equal opportunities'. The Scout Association is not open to an adult, or indeed to a young person, without question. There are legitimate grounds for exclusion (such as an adult who positively proclaims atheism as a way of life), and there are some grounds on which it is always illegitimate to provide less favourable treatment (such as a person's gender or ethnic origin). Scouting exists for young people and to promote their development through the Scout Method. Our aim is to make Scouting genuinely accessible to them. Leaders and other Volunteers are in the Movement primarily to serve young people, not for the benefits that Scouting brings to themselves. Therefore, we have produced separate policies, one for young people and another for Leaders and other Volunteers. Commissioners and Group Scout Leaders have to manage complex relationships between adults. Inevitably some of these difficult relationships have their origin in what we call equal opportunities issues, and unfortunately we must expect to be confronted with accusations of discrimination in Scouting. Commissioners and Group Scout Leaders also need to ensure that Scouting offers young people models of adult behaviour that enable them to develop positive values for their own adulthood. The Equal Opportunities Policies, with the accompanying Guidelines and Case Studies, aim to provide Commissioners and Group Scout Leaders with the resources they need to positively tackle the issues head-on. Human behaviour is not simply black or white, but a highly variegated set of greys, and so the Equal Opportunities Policies do not suggest that the answers to difficult, and sometimes controversial, questions are invariably clear-cut or easy. What they do provide are principles which should be applied to discover fair solutions which accord with the values of Scouting - the same Scouting Baden-Powell founded nearly 100 years ago. Chief Scout. The following update may also be helpful UPDATE - EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES The POR amendments were circulated last month, supported by references in 'SCOUTING' Magazine and in 'Talking Points'. However, last Friday reporters began to express an interest when they became aware of the policy through a local source. Over the weekend and subsequently features have been carried in most national newspapers, on the BBC, and on Sky News. The Chief Executive has been interviewed on BBC Television News, the Jimmy Young Show, 'Today' and a number of other representatives have been explaining the situation to the media. Most of the reporting has initially been limited to the issue of sexual status, rather than gender, ethnicity, faith or marital status. Perhaps this is not surprising given the potential for eye-catching headlines, although most reporters have changed their story when they realised that we are not dropping our established and rigorous vetting and appointment procedures. You should also know that we have also received significant support from within and outwith Scouting. If you are in discussion about the issues surrounding the Equal Opportunity Policy, you might like to bear in mind the following points:- - the policies cover race, gender, faith and class as well as sexual status - the policies were developed over a three-year period which included full discussions at Committee of the Council and with several County Commissioners - there is no place for prejudice or unfounded discrimination in Scouting - there is no evidence that homosexuality is related to child abuse - parents can be reassured that our vetting and appointment procedures and our child protection procedures will help us to continue keeping young people safe from harm - our Founder himself established the principle of equality in his fundamentals for Scouting - the new policy does not mean automatic acceptance to a position as a Leader Public Relations Dept, The Scout Association, Baden-Powell House. London. Email: ukbphscout@aol.com -- Chris Wilkinson - ScoutBase UK - chris@scoutbase.org.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /-----------------------/------------------------------------------/ / ______ / / / / / / / Internet: jhaslam@ooh.dircon.co.uk / / / /---/ / / / \_/ames / /aslam / FidoNet: 2:254/233 BBSNet: 405:100/1 /