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POLICE BEAT

Melee draws crowd

BY CHARLES NHO

A SHOELESS male in his early 40s weighing about 200 1b:r and dressed in only a tank- top and shorts roamed the SUB halls, threatening to kill people during Wednesday’s chilling n c m hour. He then walked into the An Gallery and sat down on a couch.

After several minutes he suddenly picked up a binder labelled “Artists’ comment book” and ripped out four pages while shrieking.

Thelunchcrowdoutsidethe Student Union Building suddenly swelled from about 60 to 300 as UBC RCMP arrived to subdue the man who was earlier violent and threatening.

He ran outside in the direction of Main Mall where RCMP took up the chase and finally caught him on the busy pavement just below the steps to the SUB.

“A mentally ill person is 10 times as strong as a normal person,” said Cpl. Nancy McKerry.

Though no blows were dealt, students levelled criticism at the RCMP, comparing it to the Rodney King beating. Four officers wrestled the man to the ground.

Police secured the man onto a stretcherto keep him still while h’e was sent to University Hospital.

McKerry said this person was known to the RCMP and had a historv of mental illness.

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THIS AIN’T NO DISCO Yokojima, lkemoto and Ito bring heavy metal from Japan to UBC’s L- I Ritsumeikan House. See back page.

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V ANCOUVER Centre Liberal candidate Dr. Hedy Fry stands atop a hill in West Point Grey surveying

the temtory. She wrinkles her nose, and flatly states that we are in Tory country.

In fact the Vancouver Centre riding has traditionally sent motre Liberals than Conservatives to the House of Commons. But in the past three elections it has gone Conservative.

This does not deter Fry who is canvassing for vott:s on this cool Indian summer evening. Dressed casually in a sweater reflecting the autumn colours and leather pants, F ~ I tackles the tradition of door knocking for support.

As her chief competitor Prime Minister Kim Campbell travels across the nation, Fry is walking door to door in the collstituency. In 2.5 hours she will cover up to 50 houses.

At times Fry appears to be uncomfortable with the

traditional in-your-face tactic: “This whole door-knocking thing is a pain for people who are having dinner.”

With its manicured lawns and stately churches, the West Point Grey neighbourhood is solidly upper-middle class, according to the 1991 census.

The typical resident is married, often with no children, andlivesinahousetheyown.Manyrt:sidentsareuniversity- educatld and the average family income is $49,000.

Vancouver Centre has *a high rate of people moving into the neighbourhd from other parts of the city. Also, many move into the area from other provinces or cities.

After campaign coordinator John Fraser chats up an opera enthusiast, preparing the way for the candidate, an anticlimax arrives when Fry realizes the Australian man is ineligible to vote.

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FIRE TRAIL

Fridges on Ilre

BY CHARLES NHO

FRIDGES were aflame but the motive has left UBC firefighters in the cold.

It all began on Nursery Road last Friday when a suspicious fire justpast midnight levelled the South Campus Annex which had stood there since 1940. The building had stored old refrigerators.

“When wegotthere, the flames werecomingoutthewindows,”said fire chief Steve Nordin.

UBC RCMP found no accelerants but arson has not been ruled out. One suspect was questioned and then released.

“We always start with a question mark. We view it as arson until we determine otherwise,” said Staff S g t . Bern Jansen.

The fire caused an estimated $10,0oO in damages.

The annex, built originally for a classroom, has been mainly used as a storage. In the past it has stored graduation paraphernalia, stages, and banners.

Secret success Dozens of students found their

way to SUB 24 1K after Pow notified the campus on September 2 1,1993, that a copy of theDenver Post editorial regarding prominent Vancouver stock promoter Robert Friedland’s link to an environmental mining disaster would be available for public viewing in the newsroom. Details of the case were banned from publication in Canada until later

J ledy Fry tiptoes into Tory turf. KIM CHENG PHOTO

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UBC’s man of millions BY CHUNG WONG

B OB LEE rarely goes home to eat dinner. Nor does he

stay for breakfast. As soon as the 60-year-old

multi-millionaire rises, he buzzes off for an 8am “breakfast meeting” whether it be for his fm’s $400 million real estate portfolio or for funnelling funds to UBC where he now spends a quarter of his time.

After a day of meetings, wheeling, dealing, and sitting on various community boards, he usually doesn’t return home until lOpm, when he reads the paper and watches the evening news concerning the city in which he has lived all his life.

Even a sore back has not kept him from workng out at the YMCA twice a week for up to eight hours.

This has been Lee’s daily ritual sintz his appointment as chancellor of IJBC-a position known to most students as the person who taps you on the head on graduation day.

His role, however, is comparable to that of his good friend, B.C. Lieutenant Governor David Lam, who is expected to retire on federal election day. As chancellor, Lee. will act as an ambassador and a beacon for economic interest for UBC.

The pioneer kingpin of Asian invtxtmentisseenas theuniversity’s revenuemessiahduring a time when campus coffers have been strapped for cash.

As chair of UBC Real Estate Corp, Lee will help the university rake in at least $3 million in profits a year from future highrises to be built at Hampton Place on 16th Avenue and Wesbrook Mall, the site of long forgotten clearcut and slashburning protests in 1989.

As a UBC fundraising campaign chair, he has already convinced his long-time partner Peter Wall to donate $15 million and has helped David Lam ask high profile developers Tom and Caleb Chsm, whoown severalmajorhotel and golf course projects at Whistler and Blackcomb, to donate $10 million.

In the next five years, UBC’s campus terrain, barring environmental protests, will experience development more rapidly than ever before as it gears up for construction totalling $15 million. The upgrades are expected to revive sagging university purses but may also draw the ire of those who want to preserve the campus landscape.

Real Estate iinvestment kingpiin Robert lee ,will step into chancellor’s role of funneling more funds into campus coffers. lee, a 19!i6 UBC commerce graduate, was on the Board of Governors from 1984-11990. He also heads the Prospero Realty group which manages a portfolio worth more than $4100 million. CHUNC WONC PHOTO

the first ones to deal with Southeast Asia.”

Lee, aUBCcommercegraduate in 1956, heads his successful Prosper0 International Realty Inc., founded in 1979. His daughters Leslie and Carol and, sons Derek andGrahamarealsoUBCcommerce graduates. Only Leslie has yet to join the family business.

Tough family expectations gave the Lees a need to succeed.

of the century. Lee Sr. emerged as one to be trusted by Chinese immigrants who would pool their money to help him starta food import business called Foo Hung. Lee Sr.’s success came during World War I1 when he stocked up on food items which were later strictly rationed.

When Bob was born in 1933, Lee Sr. bought 50 acres of land on East Broadway with a railway running through it. Decades later, Bob could not understand why his dad bought the land and even more so why he kept it-that is, until the price kept on doubling. It was sold in 1958 and the real estate agents made a killing.

Lee found his calling, if not his long-term vision.

“I was never agood student, but I was forward looking,” says Lee.

And there was almost no other choice.

Despite his father’s success,Lee was only given a $2 weekly allowance throughout university on top of working for his father for almost nothing.

Before university, while he attended King Edward secondary school and the now defunct Model elementary school where City Square now stands, Lee. who speaks fluent Cantonese, was forced to attend two hours of Chinese classes every day. He was being groomed for his future.

When Lee graduated in 1956 from UBC with nursing student and future wife Lily, he worked for his dad for two years but was frustrated by the slow return on high volume sales. He turned to H.A. Roberts in 1961, propelled by a desperation to succeed. But he would only earn $225 in the first half year.

“I wanted to be the best in my field. I wanted to establish a reputation in the field.”

His first break, however, did not come until 1965 when Lee was travelling in a car with a member of the Tiampo family based in the Philippines and Hong Kong. By chance he drove by the 31-storey Imperial Towers owned by former Vancouver mayor Tom Campbell which appealed to his passenger but was not for sale. After two months of negotiating, the towers were sold for $2.5 million and Lee collected a healthy $48,000commission. He has since handled more than $30 million worth of real estate for the Tiampos. That sale would steer Bob’s career toward Asian investment.

By 1967, he met Peter Wall and “Financially, I’ve done better solid.” Bob’s fatherRon BickLee, still

than I have ever dreamt Of*” glYS He adds, “I was very fortunate alive and well at 101 years old, with his tr&mark boyish in business. I was probably one of arrived in Vancouver from Canton SEE PAGE 6

I The largest and arguably the Sunday at John Oliver Secondary $5 0,000 wealthiest organization in Taiw’an School during the Tzu Chi group’s

i handed UBC president David fxstanniversary inCanada by group Strangway a cheque for $50.000. leader Gary Ho. offshore Themoneywillbecorneabursary The 3.2 million members ofthe for students who are unable to attend Buddhist Compassion :Relief Tzu donation university for financial reasons. ChiFoundationrecentlycxlipsedthe

The cheque was delivered on Kuomingtang government which

has 2.5 million members tobecome nominated for the Nobel Peace the largest organization in Taiwan. prize.

Jokingly its members have said With only 30 followers and five that Cheng Yen could easily

disciples, the group was founded in become Taiwan’s president. 1966 by DharmaMaster Cheng Yen The Canadian group based in who has been called Taiwan’s Richmond has already attracted Mother Teresa. She is currently 600 members in one year.

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News expos& Project Censor BY BIANCA ZEE

A reporter considered to be thecity ’ s 1 e a d i n g

investigative journalist on urban development is engaging in a national project to unearth the 25 most censored stories in Canada by the media.

SFU instructor and free lance journalist Donald Gutstein, known for exposing Mayor Gordon Campbell’s business links to MarathonRealty,acompany whose development applications the city reviews, is spearheading Project Censor in Vancouver.

The project is funded by the Canadian Association of Journalists which was founded in 1978 to “advance understanding of the concealed, obscure or complex aspects of matters that significantly affect the public.”

The project aims “to make the public more aware that the media is not giving it the quality of coverage it deserves and through that, to put more pressure on the media to clean up its act,” Gutstein says.

An American project counterpart was started 17 years ago in Sonoma State University in California to annual.

Under the guise of a contest, the public is invited to submit buried news stories, 25 of which will be nominated and ranked this spring.

Gutstein believes news in CanadaandtheU.S. hasdeteriorated in recent years.

He says that advertisers are

up among a few privileged families. Canada’s medi.a superpowers consists of the Thomson Corp. of Toronto which owns 40 daily newspapers includlig The Globe and Mail, Conrad Black of Hollinger Inc. hoarding a phenomenal 207 newspapers and Sl~utham Inc. with its fifteen city newspapers accounting for 38 percent of total daily circulation in Canada.

More often than not, Gutstein claims, the publishers who own the newspapers or TV stations hire wmle who they feel reflect their

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reporter same values and they, as managing editors, just promote and hire people who are dependable and are a good

placing a chokehold on thpe media, fit for company vailues. pressuring i t to be more promotional “That :means you are going to and less critical. have to get good : s t o r i e s , get good

The media “does not want to recommendations and in order to do rock any boats and have stuff that is that you are going to have to make too controversial because it will sure you write storic:~ that your paper upset the advertisers,” Ire says. is going to run,” says Gutstein. “Have happy journalism because Censorshipisnotonlyexclusive that will make the readers fe!lbetter to the written word. Television and morelikely togoout antlsupport embraces a sense: of reality that the adventisers.” transcends print in its visual impact.

Gutstein also points out that “Because you see something newspapers are trying to align their on television, the image creates a readership with the target market of reality and that is an incredibly its advertisers. powerful device bu t what we look at

When there is reason to please, is completely recantextualized. Its there is censorship. he seems to say. impossible to film reality because

“Even with reporters, there is reality is ongoing and there are so self-censorship, because they want many aspects. You always have to to make reporting their cxwr.” select from the ongoing stream and

Primary to the economic link, it’s the wa:y the selection is done, Gutstein explains that there is a why it’s done, who’s there to do it, recent concentration of ownerslhip. and how it’s all packaged together.”

In Canada, the newspaper “It is tremendously powerful empire is a virtual monopo1:ycarved and dangerous,” says Gutstein.

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Reform Intolerance significant critical analysis by the press.

Reform economic policies greased by Manning’s confidence appear like miraculous great leap forwards to win the populist vote.

But can British Columbians overlook scrutiny of the side effects. A party which rides on the gripes of the nation may not be a balanced one into which Canadians can place their trust.

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Reform Party has been dominating British Columbia without

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by Preston Mmning’s overzealous deficit reduction plan. It is, however, the party’s social attitudes that turn the stomachs of a big chunk of Canada.

The Reform Party portends to have a “commitment to the concept of equality.” It embraces democracy yet levels the largest degree of intolerance toward immigration and multiculturalism among allexistingparties.Perhaps Manning believes some are more equal than others.

True multiculturalism has burdened the nation-but no more so than the democratic process from which it is derived. Does that mean a party should do away with democracy just as Reformers want to rid multiculturalism?

Multiculturalism has disillusioned the nation- has democracy-but one cannot overlook its fundamental meaning: To accept and respect other cultures.

The Reform Party’s intended reduction of yearly immigration from 250,000 to 150,000 is almost as ridiculous as their swift three-year deficit reduction plan. In fact, such apolic y has been unprecedented in Canadian history with the exception of discriminatory laws barring Chinese immigrants.

If Reformers truly believe in equality then let them demonstrate it in their policies without contradictions.

After a one-run miss last year, the POW co-ed softball team swept the intramurals fall softball tournament on Sept. 26, beating the Law Faculty’s Cases Loaded 12-10 in a five inning playoff final. In the three round-robin games Pow blasted their way to 11-0, 8-3 and 4-2 victories. The team won free admission to B.C. Place Stadium all-nighter softball tournament on Nov. 15 or 17 starting at 11:30 p.m. This year’s Pow sluggers featured Harold Park, Marita Luk, Charles Nho, Bianca Zee, Don Mah, Deanna Ho, Chung Wong, Carrie Wilson, Kim Rieb and Gold Clover Dale.

Ubyssey reaches 75 years BY KAREN GO AND MICHELLE WONG government to deal with, people phoning to complain about

the DaDer.”

T OM Hawthorn claims he met the best inquiring minds of campus during his six years at The Ubyssey,

Joe Schlesinger still has friends from his good ‘01 days, and Charles Campbell, current Georgia Straight manager, blames the paper for everything that has happened in his life.

A place of initiation for many CanaaianJoumaIists, ‘lhe Ubyssey hasn’t changed much in 75 years.

Hawthorn, a Province reporter. was at the student paper from 1977 to 1983. New to Vancouver in 1977, he walked up to the office and volunteered his services. There, in the heyday of media technology, he leamed to use a typewriter with blank keys.

“The best thing about The Ubyssey was all you had to do was show up and you’d get involved,” Hawthorn said. “There wasn’t anything more fun than that.

“I learned all the basics of newspaper reporting at The Ubyssey,” he said. “The best questioning mindson the campus were working at the paperor I met them during the interviews.”

Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer said the practical experience was great.

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Budding bureaucrats are still theatening to shut The Ubyssey down. The only difference is during Palmer’s stint at TheUbyssey(1971-74),itwastheUBCadministrationagainst The Ubyssey, not the AMs.

“Now the students are after the paper,” said Palmer. “God knows we’ve made enough mistakes but we were free.”

Schlesinger, CBC internabonal news corespondent, said his year as editor-in-chief in 1952 was one of the happiest times of his life.

“The AMs. is so bloody self-righteous,” he said. Schlesinger ironically took a leave of absence to run for

A M s presidency and finished a close second. This was a time when The Ubyssey was published three times a week and the editor was also a member ot student council.

Reportedly he also stuffed The Ubyssey ballot box to get Allan Fotheringham elected as editor-in-chief in 1953.

CharlesCampbell,areporterintheearly 1980sandcment managing editor of the Georgia Straight, said his position at The Ubyssey was the “general dog’s body.”

“I hope that the Ubyssey remains the vilest rag west of Blanca Street for another 75 years,” he said.

The Miracle: Find theatre, see show BY SIMON MATUASEVIC Helen how to use a spoon and eat off her plate. The result is a

huge brawl between the two, including kicking, punching, biting, dragging, clawing, scratching, spitting, screaming.

Worker, starts off slowly, but give it a chance and you’ll be All the performances are fairly good, but the two leads are standing by the end. outstanding. Aloka McLean as Helen does a fantastic job (she

It is about Helen Keller’s teacher, Annie Sullivan, who also plays Zoe in the The Lotus Eaters at the Vancouver Film comes from the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston to Festival). This kid has a lot of talent and tons of potential. help Helen, if she can. Her biggest obstacle is the young Jennifer Clement as Annie Sullivan deliverd another woman herself who has been spoiled by her family’s pity. notable performance. Dauntless and unrelenting, her spirit is They indulge herevery whim and as aresult, Helen is a selfish, contagious, catching the whole audience in the struggle to help disagreeable brat. Helen out of her world of awesome isolation.

The highlight of the play comes in act two. Annie teaches The plays ends October 9 at Richmond Gateway Theatre.

Well, well, well. William Gibson’s play The Miracle Finally, amidst the wreckage, Helen learns.

LEE FROM PAGE 3 Peter Redekop who formed Wall and Redekop Realty Ltd.

where Lee would eventually work with David Lam. Lee became a partner buying nine per cent of the company.

“I was mare into real estate and they were mare into brokerage and investment. It was a very good fit,” he says.

For the first five months at Wall & Redekop, Lee’s sales figures appeared like enlarged donuts, but the Star Ferry riots in Hong Kong would strike fear into the British colony’s residents triggering a wave of offshore investment for which Lee was well-positioned to receive. Canadian investments brought mediocre retums but offeted security as an irresistible benefit-d for the local economy, they created jobs. Lee would become a local pioneer for Asian investment.

His future partners would include the powerful likes of Nelson Skalbania, Jack Poole, Geoffrey Lau and former UBC Board of Governors chair Peter Brown.

His next career launch came timely-when the real estate market was about to boom. In 1979, Lee left Wall & Redekop to form the Prosper0 group whose portfolio has now surpassed $400 million. Unlike fast buck flippers like Skalbania and Poole, Lee passed through the real estate slump of the 80s relatively untouched by avoiding high profile buildings and focusing on low key developments like Metrotown.

His next area of concern will be at the tip of Point Grey where Lee says he can apply his private sector finesse.

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But Fry’s attention switches quickly at another house where she pumps ex-Montrealer Serge’s hand enthusiastically as a distraction from his lawn mowing in the growing darkness.

Most folks politely take pamphlets from volunteers or Fry. But there are times they aren’t welcoming: “I’ll put him down as U- negative (undecided and most likely not),” says Fraser, as he bounds away from a Reform ,supporter’s house.

Ruth Chemin is on her way inside when :Hedy Fry detains her for a few moments to chat. Dressed in agreen jacket Chemin looks stern, like she is lecturing Fry about requiring :MPs to be 55 before they collect their pension plan. But her last words are encouraging, as she smiles benignly from behind her hom- rimmed glasses: “We’ll expect good things from you.”

As the evening progresses, Fry shows her sociable side. When people want to chat with her,sheiswelcomedintotheirhomesheartily. They even want her to stay for coffee.

But Fry invites them along to her coffee parties she organizes periodically in theriding so policy can be discussed at length with the

TORY LAND FROM PAGE 1 community.

An enthusiastic, middle-aged Mr. R.ichardson, with a. touch of a British accent, eagerly wants more Liberal pamphlets. And he wants to discussdefilnite ideas about policy directions at a coffee party. However, he is misinformed on how to register as a voter, blelieving it is don’e by door-to-cloor enumeration. This year, enumeration is by mail, by phone or by dropping into Elections Canada. Voters were enumerated door-to- docx before last year’s referendum made it too ctatly for a second run. Fraser informs him that only the city election has door-twioor enumeration.

And some houses are totally unapproachable: a (dark, brown comer house has two blue Kim! signs posted high on a fence-blooming out of a backyard full of flowers. Fry and her entourage walk by, not wasting time or energy on a lost cause.

And sometimes there are unexpected sightings. Fraserruns past theominous barking dog guarding a declrepit house. He returns to report the residents support the Christian Heritage party. The: group falls silent in awe Hedy Fry (1) with Sophia Leung (r) trailed by Pow reporter Brenda Wong at the rare occurrence.’ and Vancouver Sun reporter Robert Mason Lee KIM CHENG PHOTO

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Smashing metal barriers: Ito (I), STEVE CHAN PHOTO Yokojima (c), and lkemoto (r).

Heavy metal from Ritsumeikan

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BY EFFIE POW “It’s a little dark and moody.”

“Kaori Ikemoto HEY’RE famous already 1 and don’t even know it.- On the way to the photo shoot,

along West Mall, a guy on a bike, wearing his raincoat inside out, stops the trio with guitars slung on their backs.

“Hey, I’ve heard about you,” he says, stopping on his bike.

“You’re famous aren’t you?” he asks.

Well, not quite. Bon Jovi-mania brought

together three women metal lovers, currently at UBC’s Ritsumeikan House on the exchange program.

They aren’t some girl band like Japan’s Princess Princess or S honen Knife.

Kaon Ikemoto, 20, looks like an ordinary Japanese exchange student, if not a tourist, with her

shoulder length permed hair and her sensible shoes. But when she pulls out her shiny white Charvel, the stereotype is suddenly thrashed.

“Sometimes I feel sad that I don’t look like I play heavy metal,” says Ikemoto, a Guns ’n Roses fan.

Political science student and bassist Chie Ito, 19, jokingly interjects: “You don’t look like a heavy metal fan. You look like you play the flute.”

She and Ikemoto have jammed together for a year at Ritsumeikan University. She may look like a bookworm, but don’t be fooled. Her long-necked Fender is almost a big as she is.

“Many boys told me heavy metal is not girlish enough-it’s not girl

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music,” she says. Ito rebuts, “Many boys like pop

music. It’saproblem. I feel there are walls between us.”

Katsura Yokojima, 21, a beginner guitarist and 13-year classical pianist, who loves Van Halen and Bon Jovi, says young people are more willing to accept them.

“Adults look down on it. They think only bad girls like it,” says the sociology student. “They call it he61 meru to mean it is bad music.’’

Ikemoto, Ito and Yokojima are three of 100 Ritsumeikan students at UBC for this year’s exchange program. The teenage metal fans becamt friends at the university . It wasn’t hard, they say, because few young Japanese women like hard rock or heavy metal.

The three friends play classical heavy metal, which is a hybrid of heavy metal arrangements for classical music.

Yokojima says: “Japanese people tend to like that kind of melody in minor chord.”

Says Ikemoto: “It’s a little dark and moody.”

When Ikemoto was 15 years old, she heard Bon Jovi on the radio and her musical tastes were changed forever.

“I got the shivers and goosebumps,” says the American and English literature student.

Yokojima says that one has to know English in order to sing heavy metal.

“Japanese words do not fit heavy metal toowell,”saysYokojima, who tops her plaid shirt and soccer shoes withaBonJovicapwombackwards.

Ito, who likes European bands like Rage and Europe, says her parents initially worried about her new musical passion.

“I was so moved. I realized heavy metal was my kind of favourite music,” says Ito, who wears a black “no fuckin’ frills” Skid Row t-shirt.

She made her parents watch hard rock videos to help them understand her favourite music. Now, they still don’t appreciate it, but they leave her alone.

Ito and Ikemoto became friends after finding out they listened to the samemidnight radio program called Pure Rock 802. The show was on Saturday nights until 5am when most people were asleep.

Ikemoto and It0 joined the New Music Club at Ritsumeikan, which turned into a hard rock club when its new members took over. Bands there play once a month for the school. Only five of the 30members are women.

“Because womenareaminority, weareconspicuous, buttheguysare easy to get along with,” Ikemoto says.

In just a year Ikemoto and It0 have backed male singers in bands called Hellion, Blue Marshall, Joousama Band (Queen’s Band). . . . . ... . . ... .

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