EDITOR,
Jim Harvey's letter in the Chief last week, "Congratulations Quest," has captured the key elements that describe the disconnect between the university and the community.
A university is a social, economic and intellectual asset to any community that has one. Squamish has two of them! The universities have enabled Squamish to leap into a future that most other communities will never experience. We have lost much of our early industrial energy but it has been replaced with the most sophisticated toolkit any community could wish for. The universities are the keys to the intellectual and knowledge-based industries that we often read about or wish we understood better. However, they are here in Squamish and actively going about their wonderful role of teaching and learning and energizing young and old alike. Yet, sadly, there are few initiatives to engage the energy which can exist between a university and a community. Squamish is quickly turning into a learning destination with recreation, museums, environmental learning centres and new junior schools coming on stream.
There is much work to be done.Larry Murray Squamish
