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DINOS DOMINATE: UBC couldn't outdribble Calgary on Saturday, losing 2-1. The men won onSunday, 8-1, against Lethbridge. The women rocked both games. See pages 6-7. MC FENSOM PHOTO

THIS ISSUE:

NEWS: In court

• More cover and backgroundinformation for the trial. Page 3.

CULTURE: The TragicallyHip still rocks the henhouse

Concert reviewed. Page 8.

EDITORIAL: Displacingpoverty in Vancouver

Abandoned Woodwards clearedof squatters. Page 10.

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AMS answers in courtAMS defends itself against

allegations of censorship andsupression of freedom of expression

See "Trial" page 3.

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by Anna KingCOPY EDITOR

Presidents of BC's universitiesthrew the switches to turn on a newhigh-speed educational andresearch network last Friday. Thenew network will vastly increase thespeed and capacity for data transferbetween research hubs around theworld.

The network, called the BCORAN (Optical Regional AdvancedNetwork) project, links theprovince's four universities andBCIT to the rest of Canada and theworld at speeds of up to 2.5 gigabitsper second. Resnet, the campus eth-ernet network, operates at between10-100 megabits per second.

ORAN connects Vancouver,Victoria and Prince George toCANARIE's (Canada's AdvancedInternet Organisation) national net-work, which in turn enablesresearchers to access other net-works world-wide.

"We can claim with some justifi-cation that ORAN is the best

See "Internet" page 2.

by Chris ShepherdNEWS EDITOR

The Alma Mater Society (AMS) wasin BC Supreme Court last weekdefending itself against a lawsuitfiled by representatives of Studentsfor Life (SFL) and Lifeline.

The lawsuit is based on allega-tions that the AMS violated therights of the Lifeline club, asdescribed in the academic freedomsoutlined in the UBC Calendar andthe Canadian Charter of Rights andFreedoms.

The AMS denies that such viola-tions have occured.

Stephanie Gray, AthenaMacapagal and Michelle Laroyafiled the suit on behalf of Lifelineand SFL because the groups are not

legal entities and cannot file law-suits.

In his opening statement for theplaintiffs, Craig Jones—who hasbeen heavily involved with the BCCivil Liberties Association since1996 and• who represents the plain-tiffs—told the judge he would beasked to define the relationshipbetween students and student gov-ernment when considering the casebefore him. Also before the judgewas the issue of freedom of speechand expression, said Jones.

He suggested the AMS discrimi-nated against the Lifeline club,because the student council bannedany material related to the GenocideAwareness Project (GAP) fromUBC's SUB—including photographsof the display—while other groups,

COFFEETALKby John McCrank

NEWS WRITER

Oxfam UBC kicked off the newschool year Thursday with a talk byBlanca Rosa Molina—a Nicaraguancoffee farmer who is on a speakingtour in support of OxfamInternational's newly launched'What's That in Your Cup?' -cam-paign.

Blanca Rosa Molina is a diminu-tive, soft-spoken woman, as well asbeing a member of the NationalFederation of Cooperatives board,the president of the NorthernNicaragua Coffee Association,which markets coffee, and a singlemother.

The effort she is involved in ispart of a larger campaign looking atwho benefits from global trade andis focused on trying to make big cor-porations give coffee farmers inCentral America, Asia and Africa,adequate compensation for the cof-fee they produce.

The 'Big Four' companies (Kraft,Procter and Gamble, Nestle, andSara Lee) buy nearly half of theworld's coffee crop, which compris-es one per cent of the entire world'seconomy.

Oxfam is targeting the 'Big Four,'as well as governments, askingthem to aid the poor by destroyingsurplus coffee stocks, trading inonly quality coffee, and to fairlycompensate farmers.

Speaking through a translator,Molina outlined the crisis in herregion.

90 per cent of the economy inMolina's region is created throughcoffee production—but the price ofcoffee has fallen by 70 per cent inthe past four years because of overproduction by large-scale growersand stockpiling of the commodity.

This has left about 70,000 peo-ple out of work, and has meant direconsequences for more than

See "Coffee" page 2.

LOOKING FOR COMPENSATION: Gray (centre) with council Jones(right) and intern Firestone (left). CHRIS SHEPHERD PHOTO

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The plaintiffs are also seekingrelief for damages done during anattack on the first GAP display oncampus. The plaintiffs contend theAMS is vicariously liable for theattack, because Jon Chandler, Erin

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UBC Vice President ResearchIndira Samarasekera said ORAN willmean big changes for UBC.

"What it does is allow us to uniteresearch collaborators with the bestinstitutions in the world instantly,and have a dialogue."

Samarasekera cited UBC proj-ects in astrophysics, climate changeand genomics (the study of largenumbers of genes) will benefit espe-cially, as research in those areas. -requires massive transmissionsof data.

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Dodds said ORAN will enableresearchers at UBC to have virtuallyunlimited bandwidth.

He cited as an example UBCastronomy labs, which will be ableto transmit data from telescopes—like a digital model of a galaxy—tolabs in Europe within a few hours."Before they would have to createtapes and ship them," he said.

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"Coffee" from page 1.

400,000 people, including the families of coffee farmers.Studies conducted by Oxfam International reveal 47

per cent of children of coffee producers are undernour-ished. During July and August of 2002, 120 childrendied because of this debilitating condition.

"In this campaign, what we are saying to people likeyou is that we need to be paid a fair price for our cof-fee—it is a good quality coffee," Molina said to thecrowd.

"We are not asking for more money because we arepoor, but just to pay us what it is worth", she said, addingthat while producers are being paid less, customersaround the world are paying the same price for their cof-fee, with all of the profits going to big corporations.

Molina said she survived by helping found a coffeeco-operative, comprised of 1200 small producers likeherself. They pool their resources, enabling them tomake enough coffee for export.

Only 30 per cent of coffee that her co-op produces issold as 'fair trade' coffee.

This revenue allows farmers' children to go toschool and puts food on their tables. It also allows thelocal government to build roads and provide cleandrinking water, since coffee revenue makes up 90 percent of the tax base for municipal governments.

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Timelineby Chris Shepherd

NEWS EDITOR

t vs. tKey terms in the Gray

et al vs. AMS trialby Chris Shepherd

NEWS EDITOR

There are numerous terms associated with the trial, and under-standing what they describe will be useful in reading the relatedstories. The following are brief descriptions of some of the termsthat appear frequently

Alma Mater Society (AMS)—created in 1915, the AMS is the stu-dent government at UBC. The AMS leases the SUB from UBC buthas jurisdiction of the entire building (with the exception of a fewareas controlled by UBC) and an area 7.5m around the building.The AMS is governed by five executives and a council of studentrepresentatives from the various faculties.

Centre for Bio-ethical Reform (CBR)—a controversial anti-abor-tion organisation from California.

External Commission—This AMS commission is headed by the

vice-president external affairs and deals with other student groupsand national organisations.

Genocide Awareness Project (GAP)—a display created by theCBR. The display traditionally consists of 2x4m posters with graph-ic images making comparisons between abortion and events suchas the holocaust and lynchings of African Americans by the KICK.The GAP display that eventually came to UBC was a much smallerversion of the original, using posters 1x2.5m in size.

Lifeline—an AMS club. Lifeline was created in 1996 and is aanti-abortion group that operates on campus.

Student Administrative Commission (SAC)—a commission thatis responsible for the bookings and functions inside the SUB. TheSAC also deals with the over 200 clubs within the AMS and over-sees the creation and elimination of clubs. The SAC can pass reso-lutions that deal with the SUB and those resolutions have to beaccepted by the AMS council to be made official.

Students for Choice (SFC)—a group of pro-choice students andnon-students. The SFC was created to oppose the coming of GAP tocampus.

Students for Life (SFL)—a group of anti-abortion students andnon-students formed in Oct. 1999. SFL includes members and non-members of Lifeline and was created to deal with UBC in negotia-tions to bring a smaller version of GAP to campus.

STUDENT OPPOSITION: to the GAP display coming on campus.TARA WESTOVEFULIBYSSEY FILE PHOTO

THE UBYSSEY NEWS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2002 3

The complex series of events relating to the trial oflast week started in the summer of 1999, and con-tinues today. The following is a timeline of eventsthat came out of questioning during the trial.

Aug. 1999Lifeline members met to discuss inviting CBR to

UBC to show the GAP display.University officials, RCMP and representatives

from the. AMS met with Greg Cunningham, head ofthe CBR, about the possibility of GAP coming to UBC.From this meeting, UBC detailed certain require-ments to allow GAP on campus, including an agree-ment over the location and provisions to pay foradditional security costs.

Sept 13,-1999The AMS External Commission passed a motion

to allow SFC to use the External Commission photo-copying code and to provide SFC with funds to makea banner.

Wednesday Sept 15, 1999AMS council passed a resolution to not endorse

the GAP display coming to campus.Wednesday Sept 22, 1999AMS council passed a resolution to allow the

executive to use every legal means to keep GAP outthe SUB.

Friday Sept 24, 1999AMS sent a letter to Lifeline cancelling room

bookings that the club had made for Sept 27 andlater dates. The AMS cited concerns about the safetyof the SUB, though GAP was not specifically men-tioned.

Monday Sept 27, 1999GAP was expected to arrive on campus on this day

but did not due to a lack of agreement between theCBR and the university. The CBR threatened UBCwith a lawsuit over the issue.

Oct 1999Members of Lifeline and other anti-abortion

activists met to decide what could be done to bringGAP to campus. SFL is formed around this time toprovide a group for the university to deal with. Anagreement is met between SFL and UBC to allow thedisplay of a smaller GAP display on university land.

Nov. 23, 1999SFL set up the GAP display in front of the Goddess

of Democracy near the SUB. Three hours after thedisplay was erected Jon Chandler, Erin Kaiser andLesley Washington destroyed the display.

Nov. 24, 1999At an AMS council meeting Gray and other mem-

bers of SFL made a presentation to the AMS, callingfor council to repudiate the actions of Chandler,Kaiser and Washington, to remove Chandler andKaiser from their positions and make them ineligibleto hold an AMS office. Although Chandler, Kaiser andWashington were suspended by the university for asummer and fall term, council took no action.

Nov. 25, 1999SAC passed a resolution to ban GAP material or

written mention of GAP from the SUB.Feb. 14, 2000A lawsuit is filed against the AMS by Stephanie

Gray (president of Lifeline at the tine of the attacks)and other students.

Mar. 27, 2000 ,The Nov 25, 1999 SAC resolution was stricken

and replaced by a modified version of the previousresolution, with the addition that Lifeline still hasbooking rights, but that GAP-related material couldnot be brought into the SUB.

Nov. 1, 2000Lifeline is asked to remove memory albums from

a booth in the SUB because they contain photographsof a GAP display.

Aug 29, 2002Lifeline asked the SAC in a letter whether it is pos-

sible for them to show a video about GAP at theLifeline Clubs Days booth, or if another Christiangroup could show the video. The request was denied,citing the March 27, 2000 SAC resolution and theSeptember y 22, 1999 AMS resolution to keep GAPoutside of the AMS.

Sept 26, 2002The trial between the AMS and Lifeline and SFL

representatives began. :•

Student union "faces allegations

of supressionof rights

"Trial" from page 1.

Kaiser and Lesley Washington were all asso-ciated with the AMS.

Chandler and Kaiser were members ofthe AMS External Commission andWashington was a member of the AMScouncil.

Jones summarised his position by statingthere are contracts between students andthe university and students and the AMSwhich guarantee freedom of assembly andexpression and that both those contractshave been violated by the actions of theAMS.

Malcolm MacLean represented the AMS.In his opening statements, MacLean assert-ed that the AMS is not liable for the attackon the GAP display because Chandler,Kaiser and Washington were not employeesof the AMS. MacLean also stated that theAMS had no knowledge of any contract thatcould be breached by the AMS.

Jones argued that the contract betweenstudents and UBC arises from the academicregulation on academic freedom asdescribed in the UBC Calendar.

The regulation describes the primaryfunctions of the university as instructionand the pursuit of knowledge, and that"behaviour which obstructs free and fulldiscussion, not only of ideas which are safeand accepted but those which may beunpopular or even abhorrent, vitally threat-ens the integrity of the university's forum."

Jones said this contract was violated

when the AMS cancelled room bookings inthe SUB because they thought the roomswould house GAP material. Any AMS resolu-tions banning GAP-related material from theSUB also violate that contract, Jones asserted.

The AMS said GAP material is bannedfrom the SUB for the safety of both the peo-ple bringing the GAP display and for thesecurity of the building.

MacLean pointed out that free speech islimited in that it does not include incitinghate against a group of people.

MacLean went on to state that theLifeline club was only restricted regardingGAP, pointing out that the club can showlarge pictures of aborted fetuses in the SUB,just as long as no comparisons are madewith abortion.

The restrictions placed on Lifeline come,

in part, from a SAC resolution stating thatno GAP-related material could be broughtinto the SUB. This resolution was passed ata March 27 SAC meeting that did not havequorum, casting doubt on the legality of thatdecision.

Quorum is a set number of members ofa group that must be present for any deci-sions that are made to be legal.

But the AMS said those SAC decisionswere legal because they were accepted bothat later SAC meetings and AMS councilmeetings.

Just before the trial Gray discussedwhat she hoped would come from theproceeding`.

She would like the AMS and SAC resolu-tions limiting what Lifeline could bring intothe SUB removed, and compensation forthe damages incurred in the attack.

"We want the AMS to not do this again,"Gray said.

"We also want this to be a precedent set-ting case, so that other student societies andeven universities across Canada realise thatthey have to protect their own students'rights to free speech," she added.

AMS General Manager Bernie Peets feltoptimistic about the trial.

'We feel that the AMS acted properly andwithin the law,' said Peets.

Since the initial display on November23, 1999, GAP has been on-campus about12 times and Lifeline says that there areplans for two events sometime this year.The GAP display has not been shown in theSUB.

Final arguments will be heard from thelawyers near the end of October and a finaldecision could take as long as five monthsto be made.

DISCUSSING OR DISGUSTING? Students interact in front of one of many GAPdisplays that came to campus. TARA WESTOVEFt/UBYSSEY FILE PHOTO

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y. Tina ChristopoulosQUEBEC BUREAU

MONTREAL (CUP)-Concordia University took astep toward open communication last week in a-4forum meant to address free speech on campus-4after a divisive protest that halted a speech byformer Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu on September 9.

To bring students together, the universityadministration temporarily broke its moratori-•urn on the: use of university space for eventsrelated to the Middle East, Rector - Frederick -Loy called the gathering a hopeful attempt atreconciliation for a campus rife -with politicaldivisions.

Students, however, were more intent on-pointing fingers:

"You are personally to blame, Rector Lowy,you and nobody else,' yelled one student into the y 4microphone:::

The student union echoed this thought at apress. conference when they called on Lowy; -Dean: of Students Donald Boisvert and Head ofSecurity Jean Brisebois to resign.

"They are responsible for students and theyfailed them," . said Yves Engler, a student unionexecutive member. "If security calls iii "cops that'subsequently gas students they should takeresponsibility for it." - -

To help ease tension on campus, the univer-sity is offering counselling to members of theConcordia community who may be having diffi-culty coping with the events of the past two -weeks - . • '

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by Lisa JohnsonNEWS WRITER

On September 12, the BC government lift-ed a seven-year-old moratorium on theexpansion of the fish farming industry inthe province. The announcement raisedconcerns from conservationists across theprovince.

The government also intends to stop theSalmon Aquaculture Review (SAR).

According to a recent report by theBritish Columbia Salmon FarmingAssociation, salmon production rosefrom 22,259 to 62,000 during themoratorium.

The ban forbade the establishment ofnew sites for salmon aquaculture and saidrequests for increases to production orsize of an existing site would be consid-ered 'under exceptional circumstancesonly.'

Failure by salmon farm operators tocomply with these regulations and theirown management plans is one explana-tion for the near-tripling of BC-farmedsalmon production during the last sevenyears. In 2001, for instance, over half ofBC's salmon farms were cultivating morethan their allowable biomass of fish,either by expanding the area of their oper-ations dr by packing fish more tightly intoexisting pens.

Dr John Volpe, a leading researcher onsalmon aquaculture in BC, was unsatisfiedwith the state of salmon aquaculturewhen the government removed themoratorium.

"Even if you accept the SAR's findings, itonly gave a cautious nod to salmon farming

expansion if tits] 49 recommendationswere implemented,' explains Volpe. "Sofar, only six of them have been."

According to the provincial govern-ment's 2001 Finfish AquacultureCompliance Report, 60 per cent of BC'sfish farms are operating in violation oftheir management plans and governmentregulations.

"If we can't even clean up the messfrom existing fish farms, how can weexpect to control new farms?" said ClementLam of the Forest Action Network (FAN).

The moratorium was imposed in 1995as a temporary prohibition to minimise theexpansion and impact of the industry whilethe government and scientists analysed theindustry and developed new regulations.The last regulation, which increased theamount of waste a farm could dump.withoutobtaining a permit, fell into placeSeptember 12, along with the lifting of themoratorium.

Some fish farms grow salmon at 40 to50kg per cubic meter, or ten times the den-sity that they occur in nature, explains DrJohn Heath, owner of Yellow IslandAquaculture.

Overstocked fish farms produce adverseenvironmental and health effects, such aslarge amounts of organic waste which buildsup on the ocean floor in the form of uneatenfood, feces, and dead salmon and cansmother animals and plants.

High stocking densities also resultsin more frequent and intense disease out-breaks that require treatment with pesti-cides and antibiotics, explains Heath,who is also a physician. Prolongedexposure to these chemicals can select

for resistant viruses, diseases andparasites, which may affect wild salmonpopulations.

The BC Ministry of Agriculture, Fish andFood (MAFF) is aware that violations areoccurring. Its 2001 Compliance Reportidentified "the inconsistency betweenapproved site-specific management plansand actual on-site operations" as their pri-mary concern.

Laurie MacBride, who served on theprovincial Salmon AquacultureImplementation Advisory Committeebefore the moratorium ended, blames poormonitoring and enforcement for this lackof compliance.

"There are only six inspectors for theentire coast," explains McBride, who nowworks for a coalition of conservationgroups. "Enforcement is almost nil."

Except for one annual inspection by theMAFF, fish farm operators monitor theirown facility and report their findings totheir region's aquaculture manager, a prac-tice some groups feel don't hold farmsaccountable.

Unfazed by protests from conservationgroups as it lifted the moratorium, the gov-ernment asserted that the MAFF "willensure that finfish farming is managed inan environmentally sustainable mannerwhile enabling the growth of this importantindustry."

"But how can the public be guaranteedthat this is being carried out in an ade-quate manner?" asked Genovali. With gov-ernment reports of industry self-monitor-ing and low compliance with regulations,environmental stakeholders remainunconvinced. 4*

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Football Birds plummeTHE UBYSSEY

Thunderbirds have gone to air in awhile. The running game bottomedout early on with Kenney at the helm.After Julian Radlein's 113 yard gameagainst Manitoba in week two, UBC'srunning game Managed only 34 yardson 17 carries compared with 211yards against the Bisons.

On defense, multi-tasker Javier Glattshone as usual. UBC's two-time all-Canadian led all players with 12 tack-les, broke two passes, and added aforced fumble and a fumble recovery.He also lined up at fullback andreturned kickoffs—one wonders ifthere is anything Glatt can't do.

STREAKING TO SCORE: Julian Radlein breaks through Husky ranks. NIC FENSOM PHOTO

What now for the Thunderbirds?Nothing changes, and that likelyincludes the downward spiralling teamrecord, at least for a week. The teamdoesn't have the option of moving play-ers around—the fact that a back-upquarterback stepped in at wide receiv-er and was the offensive star of thegame attests to a lack of depth.

Although the Birds may be able toexcuse their two season opening loss-es-two tough road gain losses againstnationally ranked Manitoba (#2) andRegina (#4), Friday's loss to a beatableSaskatchewan squad was not so easyto explain away.

skill, and although they won by a land-slide on Sunday, she felt that techni-cally the Birds played a better gamethe day before.

UBC's performance on Sundaywas not completely devoid of techni-cal prowess, though. The game startedout quite aggressive, with the teamslooking matched in skill and intensity.The weather was sunny and hot, andplay seemed intense. But thePronghorns cooled off just over 13minutes in when Lethbridge goalieStacey Gammon went out to trap theball and missed, giving centre mid-fielder Lianne McHardy a chance tosink UBC's first goal into a wide opennet The Birds turned up the heat twominutes later when a pass from AnjaSigloch enabled Kristine Jack to chip itin the top left hand corner of the net,leaving Gammon with no possibilityto stop it.

While Hicks thought Lethbridge'sgoalkeeper was nothing to write home

soccer team,

PASSING GAME: Sarah Regan dribbles past Dinos in Saturday's win. She went on to score the Birds' fifth and final goal. MC FENSOM PHOTO

UBC now atthe bottom

of the leagueBy David Brindle

SPORTS WRITER

In sports, there is no worse place thanthe bottom. That is where theThunderbird football team finds itselfafter a frustrating 22-17 home-open-ing loss to the University ofSaskatchewan Huskies on Fridaynight. UBC is now alone at the bottomof the Canada West standings with a 0-3 record.

Facing each other at the openingkickoff, it was as if UBC andSaskatchewan were looking into amirror, both with 0-2 records. Despitea UBC home field advantage before3000 boisterous fans, including therequisite two inadequate streakers,the Huskies prevailed, and the lossgives the Thunderbirds the distinctionof being the only team hi the leaguethat hasn't won a game this season.Not to take anything away from theHuskies, who played solidly, keepingtheir composure in the first half whenthe Thunderbirds had momentumand the lead, up 14-3 with two and a-

Rowing

The Canadian Men's Eight boat wasgolden at the World Championshipsin Seville, Spain this Sunday. Beatingthe Germans and the Americans asthey sliced up the Gualdaquivir Riverfor first place,' UBC grads KyleHamilton, (3 seat) and Ben Rutlege (4seat) shared in the national victory,winning Canada's first rowing goldin three years.

Field Hockey

Yes, there's championship feversneaking through the lawns onceagain as the Women's Field Hockeyteam held on to their number-onespot in the nation this weekend. The -first tournament of the season sawthe Birds hammer Manitoba 7-0 inEdmonton and down the hostingAlberta Pandas 1-0. There were afew missed notes in the winninganthem however, as the Vikes shutout the Birds 1-0, and UBC couldn'texact a win over Calgary, ending in a1-1 tie. -

Ice Hockey

It's still the pre-season, so theBirds didn't take their twin losses toCalgary over the weekend too badly.UBC is now off to Alberta for theBrick Invitational on Saturday andSunday.

half minutes left, but Saskatchewandidn't win. UBC lost.

When the game swung inSaskatchewan's favor with 1:06 left inthe first half, the Birds began losing.UBC's Sandy Beveridge fumbled theball on his own seven-yard line on amissed field goal return. One play.later, the Huskies' fullback, GraemeBell, scored the first of his two touch-downs, and the visitors had momen-tum at the half, trailing theThunderbirds 14-12.

In the second half, theThunderbirds tightened up, but triedtoo hard, which resulted in UBC penal-ties. Big penalties. Not the nickel anddime stuff, but the ones caused bymental lapses that players pay for atpractice by 'running the stairs atThunderbird Stadium. And althoughthe Huskies racked up , more yards inflag infractions, 16 for 156 yards, UBCcouldn't turn them into points.

"We struggled with not being ableto sustain drives,' says UBC headcoach Lou DesLauriers, 'and toomany mistakes. (There were] late hitsand unnecessary roughness calls.'

On the positive side, Rob Kenney,back in the pocket at starting quarter-back after missing the first two gameswith a back injury, gave theThunderbird offense a new dimen-sion: a passing game.

"Robert Kenney did a good job ofthrowing the football," said

by Jesse MarchandSTAFF WRITER

The Calgary Dinos women's soccerteam will now have to share the podi-um in the Canada West Conference asthe Thunderbirds have leapt into firstplace after winning two shut-outs thispast weekend.

Saturday's game was a nail-biteragainst Calgary, whose standings arecurrently 4-2-1 while UBC hasn't yetlost a game this season. After 50scoreless minutes of play, a penaltykick by team captain and midfielderKristine Jack put in the only goal of thegame, making it a 1-0 win forthe Birds.

Coach Dick Mosher was quitehappy with the way things went onSaturday. "It was pretty well a

DesLauriers. 'He spread the ballaround, and gave better coverage."

Kenney's favorite target of thenight was his back-up, his way-backback-up: the T-birds' number fourpivot, Troy Therrien.

'Yeah, four minutes into the game,Coach said, 'Troy, you're on,—Thierrien said of his early start onthe field.

He went at wide receiver—the firsttime he'd played the position since hewas eight years old—and proceeded tocatch UBC's second and last touch-down at 5:18 of the second quarterwhen he took a seven-yard strike inthe end zone. Listed as one of theThunderbirds' promising players,Therrien finished the game with sixcatches for a team-high 88 yards andeven got a chance to throw the ball ona desperate reverse late in the game."I get one play to be quarterback,'Therrien said, 'and I end up at the bot-tom of a sack. It's the first time I'vebeen hit out there in a while."

It's also the first time the

fifty/fifty game,' he said of bothteams' intensity. He also pointed outthat the penalty kick gave UBC some-thing to "capitalise" on. thought itwas one of our better games,' headded, 'maybe not our best, but cer-tainly one of the better games we havehad so far.'

The game on Sunday against theLethbridge Pronghorns, however, wasdifferent in terms of the intensity theBirds put out onto the field. A far infe-rior team, the Pronghorns let fivegoals in, without scoring a goal of'their own.

'It's definitely always a differentgame when you re playing Calgarythan when you're playing Lethbridge,'said striker Rosalyn Hicks when com-paring the two games. She concludedthat the difference was in technical

De: uriers asserted thatSaskat .wan was better than theirearly ord suggested. As for theupcon g battle against Calgary,ranker h in the nation, he concededthat tl Birds have a rough roadahead. :algary will be tough. So farthis SE in, we've played two of thetop to s. I don t know—we're notlookin t making the playoffs rightnow, v e looking at playing Calgary.The p ers and the coaching staffremaii upbeat There's no troubleMOtiVE g the team despite being 0-3." Sot is like the Birds expect to beon the ttom for a while. +

about, it was shots like that one thatmade her confident in the ability ofher team. "I didn't think she was a fac-tor," said Hicks of the opposing keep-er. 'Anytime you re playing against ateam, a good shot's gonna go inregardless of the keeper." And theshots kept going in. Five minutes aftergoal two, midfielder Heather Smithkicked it in with an assist from strikerSarah Regan. The rest of the first halfshowed the Birds to be the obviousaggressor and the Pronghorns asa technically inferior team.Lethbridge's goalie continually fum-bled balls, and with less than two min-utes left in the first half a kick fromLianne McHardy sent Gammon fum-bling on a trap again, leaving an easyshot for Rosalyn Hicks.

The second half was lacklustre forthe Birds who, according to Hicks, hadalready achieved their goal in the firsthalf. Not that Lethbridge had stoppedtrying, as Hicks had mentioned it was"a physical game" and the second halfsaw many penalties, including twomissed penalty kicks on the part ofUBC. The Birds, however, were not tobe undersold. Just to add more to thebird feeder, Sarah Regan kicked thefifth goal in with an assist from mid-fielder Keiko Read.

Overall, UBC coach Dick Mosherthought it was a good weekend for theBirds but indicated that the team stillhas areas to work on after the closegame against Calgary. "We have toshow a little more imagination goinginto the attacking third," said coachMosher. "We are giving up a numberof opportunities which are resulting ina number of corner kicks against us,"he added, "but the girls know, and weare working on improving thoseaspects of the game.'

Next weekend the women will beon the road facing a triple-threat: theteams of Regina, Saskatchewanand Alberta. +

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by Aman SharmaCULTURE WRITER

It's become very fashionable to dislike the Tragically Hip thesedays. Some might say the old men just aren't cool any more,and their'music stopped being interesting a few albums ago, ifit ever was. Luckily for their fans, the Tragically Hip have nevergiven a shit about fashion.

Their latest visit to Vancouver was in support of theirnewest (and in my mind, most thoughtful) album, In VioletLight The Hip sauntered in and took over the Queen Elizabeth

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Theatre for a soirée last Thursday night, riding under the tourbanner of "The Tragically Hip—in the flesh."

The opening act was MuchMusic's current CanCon horse,Sam Roberts. The group sounded good, and judging by the headbobs in the crowd, many people enjoyed them. For me, SamRoberts was similar to a piece of Double Bubble gum. After aboutfive minutes, the flavour was gone and it was too tough to chew.There was a lot of 'rah rah Canada' in his set, and for the most

part it seemed that the band was trying too hard. From the drum-mer's Team Canada T-shirt to the band's failed attempts to getpeople dancing, the whole thing reeked of misplaced priorities.

It seems this cult of Canadiana overshadows the fact thatthe evening is about a musically tight, lyrically outstandingrock'n'roll band, which deserves to be evaluated outside of theworship of nationalism. In my mind, the art of the TragicallyHip lies in a shared experience they've created, not in an acci-dent of geography.

Johnny, Paul, Gord, Gord and Bobby (collectively known asThe Tragically Hip) were tight from the very start. They wereuntouchable, giving the crowd a top notch set. Johnny Fay wasengrossed in his work, hammering out the beats while Downieand the Gordanaires ran the gauntlet.

On this night, the entire band seemed thoroughly motivatedfor the entire two-hour set. Paul Langois, in particular, didn'ttake a moment's rest, ripping out great rhythm guitar soundsthe entire night. In support of his teammate, Gord Downie deliv-ered an outstanding performance. I didn't notice one instanceof the frontman giving up on a note; instead he gave the prole-tariat verse the breath and fervor it deserves. The band ranthrough songs like 'My Music @ Work," "It's A Good Life If YouDon't Weaken" and 'Ahead By A Century." The understated,hardworking passions and poetic viscosity of songs like theseare what made this performance one to remember.

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CULTURE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2002 9

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them awayVlNCE MAI & MAI-BANDat the Vancouver East Cultural CentreSept 18

by Vampyra DraculeaCULTURE WRITER

Last Wednesday, critically acclaimed localjazz trumpeter Vince Mai brought his uniqueblend of jazz traditions to the VancouverEast Cultural Centre for two hour-long sets ofwonderful musicianship. The ads promisedthat Mai would be playing smooth Latin jazz,and he definitely delivered. The band playedseamlessly, sliding from solo to solo fluidly,letting the audience soak up the terrificmusic from their new CD Subte.

Every member of the band performedseveral solos, each of them displaying justhow talented and skillful these musiciansare. Mai, of course, probably had the great-est number, but it is his band, after all, andhis music. Locally prolific keyboardist BradTurner also had some great toccata-likesolos, as did percussionist_Pepe Danza, who _threw his whole body into his solos andeven seemed to be chanting during one par-ticularly intense passage. Bassist MarcRogers, who flew out from Toronto to playthe gig, did an amazing solo which demon-strated just what sort of range, flexibility,

agility and speed the bass is capable of. Forthe most part everyone always seemedeager to hear more solos from all of theband, and the applause was thunderousafter just about every solo.

As the bandleader- simply waited foreach solo to flow naturally and find its ownconclusion before bringing the rest Of theband back in to return to the full swing ofthe music. He did seem a bit shy about talk-ing to the audience, but maybe he just feltthe music spoke for itself.

The show was not without a few snags,however. Mai, who alternated playing trum-pet with flugethorn and additional percus-sion, seemed to be having some issues withhis flugelhorn, frequently shaking it asthough trying_ to dislodge some sort ofobstruction. Vocalist Rebecca Shoichet wasoften nearly inaudible, but I suspect thiswas a problem with the PA mixing levels.(When I could hear her, she had a delight-fully sweet soprano voice that blended wellwith the whole ensemble.) On the last num-ber, guest percussionist Raphael Geronimotemporarily disappeared, and then joinedthe piece in progress. He went on to do anincredible percussion solo towards the endof the piece, titled `Nova Bossa".

Perhaps the most annoying snag though,was the member of the audience who gotbored during Rogers's stunning bass solo, pre-maturely and rather sarcastically yelling yeahbaby" after only a few minutes of the intricatesolo. Rogers seemed uncertain of what to do,and ended the solo a few beats later.

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GUS GUSat SonarSept. 15

by Erin Hope-GoldsmithCULTURE WRITER

I had just gotten back into town after a week-end of camping in the forest and was feeling abit too grubby for a concert, but the Icelandicband Gus Gus put me right at ease. Not thatthey're grubby; they aren't, but they do have agreat don't-care-ishness about their image, andtheir music has a spacious and open feeling.

The female singer danced wearing 80scrimped hair, cargo pants, sneakers, and afrilly prom dress; the male singer wore a tanoutfit which resembled a ranger's uniform.The other members of the band hung out in thebackground and worked with video and mixingwith electronic equipment. Gus Gus's upbeatmusic is a mixture of electronic sounds, DJspinning live vocals and keyboard. The tran-cy beat keeps your feet, hips and shouldersmoving (or, if you're a stiff person, at least itkeeps your head bobbing).

The singing seemed to be partly in Icelandicand partly in English, and the female singer'smysterious vocals were enhanced by her cateyes and gypsy-like dancing.

The show included random digital videos

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projected on the backdrop— white cars disap-pearing into red circles and reappearing asblack cars, Icelandic mountain scenery, a girlsquatting in ont of said scenery—the imagerywas entertaining and tastefully used. Perhapsif I understood the lyrics they would have hadsome connection with the videos, but I suspectnot. They were fun to watch for their ownmerit.

The show that Gus Gus put on at Sonar waslively, humorous, and full of beautiful sounds.The perfect thing to welcome a tired camperback to the electronic age. +

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2002VOLUME 84 ISSUE 7

EDITORIAL BOARDACTING

COORDINATING EDITORKathleen Deering

NEWS EDITORSKathleen DeeringChris Shepherd

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'We are VRIr shouted Michael Schwenk 'Our goal is to savethe luscious LisaJohnson. Ewe are lucky, we can EiiMillate thesinister Gargonauts Amen Sharma, Johnny Hua and VampyraDraculea by using John MeCrank as a lever to aid us in turningthings.' S0011 Erin Hope-Goldsmith, Rat Single-Dais, KarenCheung and Nic l'enson burst upon the scene, to aid their VRTrooper comrades Hywel Tuicano and Anna lung in the fightagainst darkness. 'Gondola' they cried, 'we must avengeGondola After a quick drink at Nic Fensom's filthy tavern, thegroup went on to face.. neroesis. Leading the throng ofGargonauts were the disgustingly evil Chris shepherd, KathleenDeering and Daniel Silverman. The battle was long and ord.ous, and after- the tragic _losses of Dave Brindle and JesseMarchand, the Troopers desperately searched for their two

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Commitmentto housing

must be keptConsidering it's been empty for more than tenyears, the Woodward's building downtown hascertainly been garnering plenty of attention.Mind you, this is not just any building.Formerly the flagship store for Woodward's, thenow-defunct department store chain, the656,000 sq.ft. structure at the corner ofHastings and Abbott is—for better or worse—aVancouver landmark.

The building, built in 1903, was Vancouver'sfirst department store and—for many—symbol-ised the young city's growing wealth and sophis-tication. Most people who lived in Vancouverprior to 1992 (when the store was vacated) willremember the elaborate Christmas window dis-plays. Or accompanying grandma to $1.49 Day.Or a time when Hastings Street wasn't synony-mous with drug use and poverty.

The past decade has been tough on theWoodward's building, though. While its giant'W' still towers above Gastown, the buildingitself has lost any trace of its formergrandeur. As the building suffered, so too hasits neighbourhood, as more and more build-ings become vacant and show more andmore signs of neglect.

In March 2001, it looked as thoughWoodward's luck may have turned around. Thebuilding was sold for $21.9 million to theprovincial government, that unveiled an ambi-tious $90 million plan to turn the building into300 co-op housing units.

It was a moment of almost unbelievable gen-erosity for Downtown Eastside lobbyists whohad been begging for more affordable housing.However, with the landslide victory of GordonCampbell's Liberals that fall, the plan wasquickly quashed. George Abbott, Minister for

-Community, Aboriginal and Women's Services,dismissed the plan, saying that renovating thebuilding would be a waste of money.

For the residents of the Downtown Eastside,this was a tremendous blow. The hope that hadbeen invested in the plan evaporated and—com-bined with the realties of BC's current politicalclimate—desperation set in.

Not surprisingly then, a week ago Friday, atent city sprung up around the boarded up wallsof the building. A ladder led to the second floor,which had become a haven for over 50 squat-ters. Any hopes of continuing to protest from theupper floors of the decrepit building were sooncrushed, however, as Vancouver police moved -in this past Saturday, following an enforcementorder handed down by the BC Supreme Courtthe previous Monday. The cops proceeded toclear the area with a battering ram, riot gear andpepper spray, arresting 54 people.

It's a far cry from the promise of peacefuleviction that floated through the news last week.After telling the SFU Peak that the VancouverCity Police -were fully understanding of the

housing issue° in the Downtown Eastside,Vancouver Police Inspector Ken Frail wasamong those who evicted squatters from theproperty Saturday.

But, of course, expecting the police to do asthey say is foolish. One could argue that theywere merely acting on the orders of a govern-ment who has broken much bigger promiseswith much less sensitivity.

It is also a government that has a highlydeveloped sense of irony. The week beforeAffordable Housing Week, Abbott announcedthat 37 social housing projects were underreview, and in March 2002, he announcedthat of those 1,700 units, only 700 wereapproved for construction. The rest, includingthe Woodward's redevelopment plan, wereaxed. Instead, the government put the buildingon the selling block, looking to recoup its $22milllion. Abbott's reasoning: that the projectwas in danger of becoming the -fast-ferries ofaffordable housing.'

While most don't feel the loss of the threecatamarans that are now rusting away unused,the housing issue hits much closer to home.

The squeezing has begun, and instead of pro-viding a way out for most of those who now findshelter in Woodwards' doorways and on parkbenches, the government is simply herdingthem elsewhere to make room for the 'clean-up'of the Hastings Corridor.

This is not a solution. Gentrifying the areaaround Hastings and Abbott isn't going toaddress the issue of poverty and homelessnesson the Downtown Eastside, which should be ofthe utmost priority for any plan that looks torenovate the Woodward's building. The situa-tion downtown is far more critical than PremierCampbell can fathom, certainly more importantthan Vancouver's bid to host the Olympics.

Campbell told reporters on Friday that hewill not 'meet with people that are breaking thelaw.' This is absurd, considering that by killingthe Woodward's housing project, he is effective-ly forcing Vancouver's estimated 1000 home-less people to break the law every night, as theyloiter in public spaces in an effort to find aplace to sleep. Campbell was also concerned thatthe building was not a 'safe place to be' for theprotesters. How much safer are the streets?

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by John McCrankCULTURE WRITER

This year's Master's of Fine Arts graduate exhi-bition, Dogwood, featuring the works of GavinHipkins, Ann Shelton, Tim Lee, NatashaMcHardy and Sean Alward, wrapped up onSunday at the Morris and Helen Belkin ArtGallery. Much of the show consisted of photo-based work, following in the footsteps of theVancouver photo-conceptualist tradition madefamous worldwide by artists such as Jeff Wall,Ian Wallace and Ken Lum.

Gavin Hipkins showed photos from the seriesThe Next Cabin. These works explore the lesssavory sides of 'Supernatural British Columbia'and the North American west coast.

In her photos from the seriesBrewton (Nowhere), Ann Shelton juxta-poses images side by side, each imageinforming the other, to form an overallnarrative. In one coupling of photos,"Woodland s/ Rive rview, Vancouver,Canada" and "Pink booth, Madonna Inn,San Lois Obispo, USA° we are shown acell inside Riverside psychiatric institu-tion with whitewashed walls and bars onthe doors and windows, next to a close-upphoto of pink padded upholstery in adiner booth. Put together, these imagesconform to our concept of a mental insti-tution, with soft colours and padded walls, while simultaneously showing usthe bleak reality. As a whole, the photos tell a disturbing story of mental ill-ness, crime and incarceration.

Tim Lee (with Stephan Udell) contributed a two-channel video installa-tion called "Funny Face, George and Ira Gershwin, 192 7" to the show, thathumorously examines aspects of fame and identity through optical illusion.

Providing one of the most creative uses of a medium at the show,Natasha McHardy displayed a series of portraits in photographic style thatwere entirely composed of discarded chewing gum. The images, collectively

entitled Bubble Gum Portraits, with the vari-ous shades of gum making up the tone of thepictures, all show romantic scenes of couplespassionately embracing and kissing. The useof bubble gum was interesting, in that while

we see strangers' saliva coming togeth-er, both on the image and in it, to createscenes of beauty and romance, we can-not separate the fact that there is some-thing inherently dirty about it.

Sean Alward was the lone painter inthe show, with several oilpaintings on wood panel,many depicting facelessbusiness people engagedin dialogue. One paint-ing, a diptych entitledHead, shows a man sit-ting on a couch with hisrelaxed arm stretchingout onto one panel, whileon the Other panel we areshown his head andtorso. The man's head isalmost surreal, merginginto itself in a style remi-niscent of Francis Bacon.

The relaxed posture of theman, painted in thick loosestrokes, offsets the disturbing-ly distorted face, leaving theviewer 'uneasy and unsure ofdie psychological intent.

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NAOMI KLEINat the VogueSept. 19

by Lisa JohnsonCULTURE WRITER

The Coalition of ProgressiveElectors (COPE) executed a skillfulbranding exercise Thursday nightat the Vogue, using anti-corporateauthor and journalist NaomiKlein as a spokesperson for their'pro-democracy' platform.

And I'm okay with that.Some activists complain that

Klein has branded herself. (In hersecond book, Fences andWindows, she has delivered herlatest offering on the "globalisa-don debate' with a visual and

The author ofNo Logo talksabout how to

COPE withtoday's politics.organisational format that willstrike No Logo readers as com-fortingly familiar, with craftedsynergy between the books andtheir associated web-sites,www.nologo.org and www.fences-

fund.org.)Yet, I think they're paying her a

compliment.What is so refreshing about

Klein and, to some extent, theCOPE civic platform, is that theircritique of the mainstream has avision for the future, and theyaren't afraid to use strategy–evenbranding strategy–to pull it off.

No Logo and Fences analysethe recent past of the anti-corpo-rate, pro-democracy movement(which everyone else shorthandsas "anti-globalisation"), but hersold-out talk on Thursday focusedon what she sees as the move-ment's hopeful future: direct localdemocracy.

In countries like South Africaand Argentina, with struggling or

collapsed economic and socialsystems, she explained, peopleare already moving towards directaction and local democracy to winback services and jobs lost duringgovernment privatisation andderegulation.

'Forty thousand people a weeklose access to electricity in SouthAfrica. When electricity was priva-tised, another forty thousand lost

their jobs,' she said. 'So there is adirect action group there, theSoweto Electricity CrisisCommittee, that figured 'we havea lot of out-of-work electriciansand a lot of people without elec-tricity,' and began reconnectingpeople.'

In Argentina, where Klein andher husband, Avi Lewis, are mak-ing a documentary, similar directaction movements are happening.During that country's economiccollapse last December, foreigninvestors rapidly pulled out fromtheir Argentinean holdings, leav-ing factories that had producedfood and clothes empty. Sincethen, she reported, Argentineanpeople have gained the means tore-enter the factories and startproducing goods, with some oper-ations officially turned into work-ers' co-operatives. "They didn'tquite 'seize the means of produc-tion,– she explained, chuckling.'They just went there and pickedup the keys.'

Filled with pithy phrases likethis, Klein's glib delivery came offstrangely at times. She did man-age to make her serious topicssurprisingly entertaining by pep-pering them with very real, cut-to-the-chase observations. This tac-tic's downside, as in theArgentina case above, was itsmaking hard-fought victoriessound like easy and obvious solu-tions. Easy or not, Klein stressedthat Canada should take lessonsin local democracy from countrieslike Argentina and South Africa.'We are told that the problems inthese countries are the result oftheir corrupt leaders and there isnothing generalisable about them,but that's not true,' said Klein, cit-ing parallel problems with dereg-ulation and privatisation inCanada.

Klein's concerns echoed thoseof COPE mayoral candidate LarryCampbell, who spoke before herabout the government's handlingof BC Hydro privatisation anddrug abuse prevention forDowntown Eastside residents.'These are issues that the publicis clear about what they want andare being ignored by their provin-cial and municipal governments,'he said.

Klein encouraged people to usetools like money, politics and'surround sound activism' to getthe public back into the decision-making processes of governmentand industry, beginning at thelocal level.

With this focus on strategy, thestar author gave her fans a directdemocracy mission statement:'We need to change the mecha-nisms of government,' she said,'to make ourselves less easy tocontrol.' +

THOSE AREN'T NIKES ARE THEY? Naomi Klein signs her book.LISA JOHNSON PHOTO