THE UBYSSEY TeleDhone registration lacks input bv students By Jeff Silverstein

An AAlS council member has criticized the administration for lack of student representation on a committee to introduce a new sys- tem of registration at UBC.

Carolyn Egan, president of the arts undergraduate society and one of two students on a committee reviewing the benefits of TELEREG, a telephone regis- tration system for UBC, said ”I can’t see every student’s view- point.”

“They’re doing it for the students ...y etit’sabigoversightto pass up on one of the easiest sources of information,” Egan said.

Director of administration Tim Bird echoed Egan’s feelings about lack of student representa- tion.

”The registration ofice is set up mainly to serve students and there are very few students on any of (their) committees,” Bird said.

When TELEREG, the new telephone registration system comes into effect this summer, students will have to fork out $100 within ten days of registering to secure their spot in school.

The non-refundable deposit i s

“The basic reason we adopted TELEREG was concern about the amount of work compressed in a four day arena style registration. I t was felt it was not adequate for our current day needs,” hlcMillan said.

“we wanted to look ... at some- thing that will be a better system for the student,” he added.

McMillan said the new sys- tem will save professors from spending valuable class time sort- ing out registration problems.

Every department will be us- ing TELEREG, but departments have the option of identifying courses that require auditions or portfolios which they do not wish to be accessible to TELEREG. In this case, the department would add each studerk to the course through an on line screen once approval had been given.

Only touch-tons telephones can be used to reach the “digital- ised” voice of TELEREG, said McMillan. BC Tel has promised to extend the touch-tone system to almost every community of BC by

the end of the summer. An information booklet de-

tailing the complexities of the sys- tem will be available this March.

Vancouver Art Gallery: perennial protesters pound pavement while nuclear noodleheads test terrible toys

required to prevent abuse-of the system by ensuring students who register about attending by telephone school. are serious Arts students’ fee increase

“The system benefits those who are serious about coming,” said acting registrar Alan McMil- Ian. “There will be no oDtion to to subsidize science labs register in person.”

The deposit will apply to the first winter session fee install- ment, which now must be payedin f d l by August 31.

Students with student loans or on scholarship will be able to defer the first installment of fees.

McMillan said TELEREG will eliminate inefficiencies in registration.

By Deanne Fisher The one per cent devoted to

miscellaneous fees added to next year’s tuition increase is “ridicu- lous” according to arts under- graduate society president Carolyn Egan.

The miscellaneous fees have been paid on an individual course basis in the past and include such things as lab fees.

The extra one per cent is in- cluded in the five and hLf per cent tuition increase approwd by the Board of Governors t h i t ; week.

Egan said most arts courses don’t involve these fees and arts students woul i be “pay- ing an extra one per cent to subsi- dize science students.”

‘We’re getting screwed,” she

said. UBC President Strangway

said most students will benefit by the incorporation of the incidental fees into tuition fees.

“There are some fees in arts like fine arts and home economics: but it’s difficult to have an absolutely equal distribution,” Strangway said.

The one per cent increase does not incorporate photocopying, “which is what the majority of arts students have to pay for,” said Egan.

“Perhaps they should use that: extra one per cent for photocopy- ing so the arts students are paying for things arts students use,”Egan said.

Board of Governors seals the fate of fee hikes By Katherine Monk

The decision to raise fees by five and a half percent is final.

The board of governors voted in favour of a four and a half per cent tuition increase with a one percent hike in incidental fees at

The resulting six motions in- cluded the two-part fee increase, raising late registration fees from forty to fifty dollars, and tying increases in student activity fees to increases in tuition fees.

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link tuition and act:wity fees, which will be reviewed next year.

Sole opposition to the four and a half percent tuition fee increase came from Seshadri.

“A four and a half increase in tuition is not a lot taken on its own,

before classes begin. President Strangway de-

clined comment on the board’s business and approval of the in- creases.

“The board has a pol-

the proposals. I’m not at liberty to discuss the details of the voting procedure,” said Strangway.

Strangway said the “in cam- era” policy of the board was justi- fied by the sensitive nature of some of the issues approached in

last Tuesday’s board meeting. All mOtlOnS were but in a string of increases i t is icy of not talking meetings, such as tenure.

original single motion to increase Student representative Doug about decisions.” “rhe board has an open ses- fees into six separate resolutions bate Stewart, who voted for the tuition - sion and a closed session. Stu- at the request of student board of increase, voiced concerns about “The board has a policy of not dents have ample opportunity to governors’ representative Simon All motions were passed with the proposed deadline fix payment talking about decisions. All I can make input prior to board meet- Seshadri. little debate except the decision to of first term fees, due two weeks say is the board voted in favor of ings,” said Strangway.

The board broke down the passed with little de- substantial,” said Seshadri.

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“Such a review would erode Blom noted that the univer- the relationships between staff sity could make it “easier” for pro- B C a p pea 1 s co u r t ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~h~~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ T t i r e than to continue

favours professors in retirement fight By Jeremy Fraser

Therecent decision of the B.C. Court ofAppeal that age can not be a basis for discrimination could mean the reinstatement of two former UBC employees who were forcibly retired in 1985.

Former UBC professor Robert Harrison and staff member John Connell took the university to court, claiming they were dis-

their age. The B.C. Court of Appeal

overturned the ruling of a lower cour’. by declaring that the Char- ter of Rights did not allow age to be a basis for discrimination.

Previously, the B.C. Human Rights Act had only protected those of ages 45 and 65 from dis- crimination based on age.

Faculty Association president

“was a sign that mandatory retire- ment is on its way out.”

But Blom said that some people might question the effec- tiveness of older faculty and staff.

“If mandatory retirement goes, people will say that some- thing will have to be done about non-productive older faculty. This would necessitate some kind of performance review in their eyes,”

Student Libor Vlcek agreed with the decision to abolish man- datory retirement, but noted also that “the individual must be para- mount. Some kind of review proc- ess should be established to evalu- ate performance. Age should not be one of the criterion for good performance. “

UBC stands to lose out finan- cially if manditory retirement were to be abolished. The university’s budget depends on the retirement of the older senior professors and the hiring of younger professors who can be paid less.

Blom said, “the case couldalso affect how our pension and salary arrangements are negotiated with

The issue is complicated by the fact that a similar court in Ontario ruled in favor of the em- ployer and mandatory retirement. The issue is of national signifl- cance and the two conflicting deci- sions may encourage UBC to ap- peal to the Supreme Court, accord- ing to Blom.

The Faculty Association has no official stand for or against mandatory retirement because of the broad variety of opinions within the faculty.

The Faculty Association con- tributed financially to the funding of the legal battle of the two former professors because they “were supporting members in a legal

criminated against because of Joost Blom said that the decision said Blom. the a&ninistration.”- case against employers.”

New trolley lines dash for UBC bus loop

After over ten years of talk, B.C. Transit will finally extend electric trolley lines down Univer- sity Boulevard and into the SUB

The electric trolley lines are being installed in an effort to re- duce the cost of transit and to keep up with increasing student use of the system.

The trolley buses are cheaper to run than diesel buses and pro- duce less noise and pollution, said B.C. Transit planning supervisor Glen Leicester.

Currently the majority of Vancouver buses, which are trol- leys, cannot enter the campus.

“The number ten (UBC) runs ninety per cent of its length under wire, but must run on diesel be-

loop.

the project will cost B.C. Transit over two million dollars.

“B.C. Transit has been work- ing on this for a long time and they finally got all the financial approv- als,” said Bruce Stenning, Univer- sity Endowment Lands manager.

“he installation of lines will not require the trees along the drive to be disturbed said Sten- ning.

“The idea is to preserve the beauty of the drive, and back in 1981, the project did receive sup- port of the local community,” said Stenning.

UBC president David Strang- way said the university has been kept informed on the transit plans and said that “efforts will be made to ensure there are no trees to be

cause of the last ten per cent,”said cut down.” Leicester. A study conducted in 1981

Transit engineer Hansel reported on the effects to the trees Wang hopes the new system will such an undertaking would in- be in operation by September and said bus service will improve with the number four bus (Nanaimo) extending into the university once the trolley lines are in place, and eventually the number nine (Broadway).

Initially approved in 1981,

cum. “I believe the report said they

did not have to (cut down any trees),” said Strangway.

The report will be “dusted off and updated” said Stenning, and an outside consultant will be hired.

Commerce undererads appeal removal of booking privileges

Education Students Association lobbies for wheelchair accessibility

The curriculum laboratory in the Scarfe building will soon be wheelchair accessible if the Edu-

The entrance to the laboratory is blocked by a door in the middle of a steep ramp. ”You have to station yourself on the ramp and pull the doors open ... while you’re opening the

“we have II couple of students in wheelchairs who find it very difflcult.” Curalli is writing aletter to the Education department administration to try to get some action

cation Students Association has anything to do about it.

door you’re falling backwards,” says ombudsperson Nick Curalli.

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January 22,1988 THE UBYSSEY/S

Free trade pact could import American schools Toronto (CUP)-Free trade might encourage more American universities to set up satellite campuses in Canadian cities, ac- cording to Ontario's minister of industry, trade and technology Monte Kwinter.

While Kwinter said the in- creasing number of American in- stitutions offering degree pro- grams in Canada is something to watch, he said he hopes the high tuition of the programs will con- tinue to act as a deterrent.

'Where we do have the control is that our universities are all state-financed," said Kwinter, adding that Ontario's student assistance program also helps to defray the cost of a Canadian uni- versity education, but not a for- pion nnp

Ex='Birds featured in Canada-US volleyball match

Tonight marks the home- coming of three former UBC volleyball greats as Canada's national volleyball team faces the world's number one ranked team in exhibition play a t War Memorial Gym.

Chris Frehlick, Paul Thei- son, and Brad Willock, all members of the 1983 national champion UBC team, will rep- resent Canada against the United States.

Willock, the starting set- ter, and Frehlick, the starting play-set hitter, will have their hands full with the likes of American stand-outs Steve Timmons and Ricci Luytis.

The trio of UBC alumni will be joined by current UBC players, Greg Williscroft and Kelly Bukowski, who will don the Canadian colors and par- ticipate as guest players.

UBC will be the final match of the four game Cana- dian tour by the two teams. Canada holds a two to one game edge in the series - win- NnginVictorialastnight(3-2) and in Calgary on Monday (3- 1). The US team defeated Canada (3-1) in Regina on "uesday.

As of Thursday 1300 tick- ets have been sold and the game is expected to sell-out. Warm-up begins at 7:30 and the game begins at 8:OO.

Kwinter spoke at the Univer- A graduate of Syracuse Uni- sity of Toronto to outline the On- versity and of the Massachusetts tario government's opposition to Institute of Technology, Kwinter therecentlysignedfreetradepact. saidheknowsthehericanwayof

The minister said an eco- life but said "there is a quality of nomic union between Canada and life in Canada that people cher- the U.S. won't work because the ish." cultures are so similar and Can- ada is already dominated by the States.

He pointed out that 42 per cent of all Canadian industry is American-owned, and 95 per cent of all prime television shows, music and films are American.

'We have a severe problem and we have to be extra vigilant to be sure that we don't get swept away by it," Kwinter said. "There's very little to differentiate us if we want to maintain that Canadian idpntitv "

Kwinter said the free trade pact does not give Canadians any more of an economic advantage than they already have, while it gives the United States a coveted continental energy policy.

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"CBS News ... keeping America on top of the world.''

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Comedy overshadow in otherwise pleasurable play By Michael Groberman

T he humour is high and skillfully played in U.B.C.’s best production

in years, Sean O’Casey’s Juno and The Paycock. This rendering of the strife- filled life of a poor Dublin family in the middle of the 1922 civil war is a flavourful period piece, though the family troubles feel awfully contemporary.

for his arrogance and need for attention, is the father. Juno is his wife. The Captain is out of work, and Juno increas- ingly frustrated with him, when a lawyer arrives to tell them they have inherited a fortune. The story chronicles the effect of wealth on this unhappy family, set against the backdrop of a civil war in which their son lost an arm fighting. With this family mocrocasm of a war-torn Ireland, Johnny, their son, is the clearest representative of the side we-never see.

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Captain Boyle, known as the Paycock

parents find an angry, emotional meeting place in the bitter arguments which reveal their unhappy marriage. In her contempt for her husband’s constant refusal to find a job because, he claims, his legs hurt, Payne admonishes angrily and brusquely, ’You can’t climb a ladder but you can skip like a goat to the snug (pub)”. Hyland’s performance clearly captures the Paycock’s pathetic attempts to assert power in the only forum which recognizes him: his family.

THEATRE J u n o and The Paycock by Sean O’Casey Freddy Wood Theatre

The show-stealing performance is provided by Dennis Kuss as Captain Boyle’s drinking buddy, Joxer Daly. Kuss’s whiney, sing-song vocal pattern, filled with the music of his Irish accent, establishes the endearing thief, drunk, and disseminator of folk wisdom: “I’d rather be a coward than a corpse.” Also excellent is Neil Ingram’s angry, terrified

Johnny Boyle, the one armed freedom 1 world of dark comedy because director fighter with a big secret. He represents ~ Weese has not incorporated the trauma. , , the only successfully portrayed torment in When Mrs. Trancred arrives to share the

1 this familv t ruedv . ~ story of her son’s violent death, Weese Robert Gardiner’s entrancing set is a

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remarkable, revealing reflection of the family’s attempt at order within this world of poverty and grief. His transfor- mation of the small apartment after the promise of wealth-garish furniture, long green garlands-looks properly inappro- priate in this home.

The real shame here is that this serious family tragedy is relegated to the

Escape Entertainment worth escaping By Justine Brown

T hree tedious individuals hash out a (ho-hum) Uniquely Canadian

Identity for a film being shot in Toronto. This is the uniquely Canadian plot of Carol Bolt’s play, Escape Entertainment, crurrently playing at The Firehall Theatre.

Happy-go-lucky film director Pancho Potter (Don Thompson) is selling out his artistic integrity in a big way, having rewritten his distinctively local screen- play to suit the American moneymen. He’s reduced to importing mami-style palmtrees in order to transform his Toronto location. Pancho is a harried man: the phones are ringing off the hook, his wife is dying of neglect, and his star, pistol-waving Matt Payne Jr. (Gavin

Rhodes) is plastered again. Tension mounts as Pancho and Matt

await the arrival of a Toronto film critic who, it turns out, is (horrors) Matt’s ex- wife Laurel Hayes. In recent years Laurel has made her mark tearing Matt’s career into little bits. He worships her: W e were married for TWO YEARS, Pancho! I love her.”

with everything, shoots the set full of holes, talks like a dumbo, and clomps around in green Frye boots. Needless to say, he has a heart of gold. Areal roman- tic. You know the type.

Enter Laurel, woman with a harsh exterior who’s only covering her own deeply crippling insecurity. Her character is conveyed by her clothes: grey slacks, black crewneck pullover with giant shoul-

Matt’s a wild o n r h e takes scotch

der pads, man-eating makeup, short sculpted hair, mean-looking jewelery.

Jill Daum as Laurel struts around doing the glare-and-warble routine and generally behaving like Joan Collins with a migraine. She hisses on and on about the lousiness of all things Canadian while berating Pancho for selling out: a real homespun reviewer.

THEATRE Escape En te r t a inmen t by Carol Bolt Direc ted by Robert Garfat Firehall Theatre

Surprisingly, Laurel turns out to be a Yank. This is confusing and weakens the

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keeps her, and the other mourners, way up-stage, on the periphery. It is confusing treatment for a scene that should idcally invade and permeate the atmosphere, so that the ending, where the scene is echoed, works. Instead, the tragic ending is merely banal as a sense of impending tragedy has not been introduced. Ulti- mately this production fails because its comedy works too well, at the expense of the real drama.

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Pancho and Laurel engage in a Holly- wood style battle of the wits which unfortunately never really gets off the ground. She insults him; ”I beg your PARdon?” retorts Pancho. He insults her; she replies scathingly: “I BEG your par- don.” Hardly scintillating dialogue.

Bolt’s stereotypical characters get little help from the performers. Daum’s Laurel is far too fluffy and shrill-she loses all audience sympathy. By the time she changes her tune we can’t stand her. Thompson’s Pancho is too mild to impress us as an influential filmmaker; he lacks the charisma to make us care about his art.

Escape Entertainment is made some- what exciting by some reasonably good effects and a clever set. The play’s rowdiness makes for a few fun parts, but its theme is over-familiar, and too v

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P Furniture designed for the future By Clara Young

I t’s time that North America moved beyond the Lazy

Boy- those upholstered things whose footrests are raised and lowered like the bucket of some tractor.

chesterfield has begun, and is being led by furniture design group Protozoan. To these six recent graduates of the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, uphol- stery is simply a bad word. They have taken common household furnishings and stripped away the facade, leaving exposed bolts, hinges and ball-joints in all their glory. A coffeetable stands like a metal trampoline; a nightlight takes the shape of a gravestone; a lamp made out of black tubing resembles a corrugated worm.

The West Coast revolution against the

... upholstery is sim- ply a bad word.

They share a common philosophy which has two central tenets; the first of which can be called their manifesto against upholstery. They insist on

nothing hidden. The second is a belief in utilizing indigenous West Coast products in their work.

S o , why the name Protozoan? Keith Spivak, one of the members of the group, vaguely replied that he thought protozo- ans were a family unit of single-cell organisms which can be found in their natural environment. I leave that definition to the biologists but note that three of their members are also involved in an offshoot graphic design group called Amoeba. Apparently they simply have an affinity for catchy biological terms.

The six are individually known as Les Barth, James Koester, Keith Spivak, Todd Inouye, Mike Lee and Jeremy Bee, Proto- zoan does not design as one collective body, so each piece reflects the personality of its designer.

For example, James Koester largely designs lamps which border on extra-ter- restrial and Keith Spivak is drawn to the medium of screens and room dividers. As Spivak puts it, “Everybody just kind of worked separately, experimenting and doing what they wanted and when the show came together, we realized that a lot of things worked together.”

The show Keith Spivak is referring to was Protozoan’s public debut a t Sinclair Centre during the Christmas consump- tion season. In fact, Protozoan only began serious work in September last year, consequently missing Artopolis, Urbanar- ium and the Commonwealth Conference.

W h y furniture?” I asked Keith

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Spivak. “It all started innocuously enough as a class semester project but then it snowballed into a kind of furniture show,”

1 he explained. The snowball grew when the desibrllers

~ realized that their work could fill a gap in ~ the furniture market. According to 1 Spivak, they began to ask themselves,

‘Why can’t we do something in Vancouver I or Canada for that matter, which can be 1 like an import replacement? Why pay the ~ big money for imports when something of

quality can be found right here?” The ~ dominant attitude nowadays seems to be

that sophisticated furniture only comes out of Italy. Protozoan is attempting to

~ combat that idea by producing furniture 1 that can compete both in innovative

1 ’We had the idea of having this I furniture group situated in Vancou-

design and price.

keeping with this decision is the product which Protozoan highlights: Parallam, short fc’r Parallel Strand Lumber. Paral- lam is an extremely strong structural wood being pioneered by MacMillan Bloe- del, composed of scrap Douglas fir plywood. \Not surprisingly, Protozoan’s use of this material puts them one step ahead of the general public: Parallam hasn’t been released on the market yet.

But most likely Macmillan Bloedel will begin engaging in major research in order ~

to develop it for consumers. Spivak says that Parallam consists of ~

long plywood strands or sheets which are pressed together and bonded by a pheno- lic adhesive. It is then ”cured” using microwave energy to produce beams of , variable size and complete uniformity. ~

The major source of its strength lies in the , fact that Parallam has no knots, a structural deficiency of natural wood. ~

The multiple strands of plywood give Par- i allam beams a myriad grain effect. Color I dyes can be added to aspen plywood, re- ’

sulting in varying shades of blue or any ~

other color, in one beam. Aside from Parallam, Protozoan

mainly uses metal, glass, laminate and marble. Most of the furniture has a raw, almost industrial appearance infused nonetheless with a sense of whimsy. Some pieces look like stage props from Alice in Wonderland - throne-like chairs painted in primary colors; a looking glass , with brushed aluminum as the reflecting ~

surface inside a plywood frame with me- i andering edges. i

Koester constructed a night-light that I looks like a miniature grain elevator. It’s perched up on four wheels with four tiny I blinking neon lights on top, and a squig- ~

gly cord attached. It’s made for the rich ~

toddler to drag around his custom-built ~

nursery room. With prices a t $800 upwards, that toddler had better have pretty well-endowed parents. Spivak says ~

they don’t like to charge that much but it’s difficult to avoid since the pieces are one-of-a-kind, hand-made prototypes. , They hope to lower the prices once Protozoan comes out with a limited run of designs.

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Some pieces look like stage props from Al- ice in Wonderland.. .

The range in design is tremendous. For instance, a chair by Les Barth has such sinuous contours that it looks like a well sculpted marshmallow. The shiny finish and rainbow hues impart an ethereal quality. Imagine that beside “Departure”, a mean coffee table designed by Keith Spivak; a sharply triangular shape with one side left somewhat jagged. Running into this would incur flesh wounds.

Wheels are an unabashed part of much of the furniture-a reflection of Protozoan’s design integrity. In conven- tional furniture, wheels are equivalent to everybody’s dirty laundry. Laundry goes underneath the bed and wheels are hidden underneath the ruffles. Not with Protozoan. They put wheels on every- thing: end-tables, coffee tables, planters, ’ nightlights ... Have them interior decorate; and your entire livingroom would roll. Clearly the furniture is designed to be mobile.

Ironically, while they gave first dibs to British Columbians, and deliberately showcased provincial products, many say they might have to find appreciative buyers elsewhere. Spivak thinks there’s ’ hope here but “we’re not forming this group to sell exclusively to Vancouver , either.” Already word is spreading and Spivak revealed that they now have connections in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and New York.

This extremely eclectic collection of furniture prompted me to ask what sort of influence they were working under - Japanese minimalism? Bauhaus?

primitivist design philosophy may have been inspired by the Flintstones but the result looks more like vintage Jetsons.

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“Flintstones,” Spivak laughed. Their

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By Rolf Boon

T he oversized full-moon lies suspended over the cityscape. A rare Dresence that

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is seen and felt. Serene, yet so powerful i t posseses a mystical force that makes people change their ideals and dreams. It becomes the guiding light for the unanswered question. Moon- struck: this is the underlying symbol for the film of the same name.

MOVIE Moonstruck Vancouver Centre

Canadian Norman Jewison’s film Moonstruck is a sophisticated romantic comedy about love, jealousy, and personal entanglements of an eccentric Italian-American family in Brooklyn.

Cher (Mask and The Witches of Eastwick) plays Lorretta Castorini, a thirty-seven year old widow who hopes to mend the bad blood between her fiance Johnny Cammareri, played by Danny Aiello (Man on Fire), and his brother Ronnie, played by Nicolas Cage (Rumble Fish, Peggy Sue Got Married, Raising Arizona).

Loretta is transformed when she envisions a different life with Ronnie. She is Moonstruck with glimpses of what it would be like to live out a dream. She falls in love with difference itself. Ronnie is a wolf compared to the nice guy wimp whom she plans to marry for companionship and not love.

Loretta’s predicament mirrors her parents’

faltering relationship. All of them are reaching for solace from the unanswered question. Their perplexing problems eventually collide in a climax over the Cantorini breakfast table.

The characters are well developed and convincing. They act and say things expected of people in unpredictable situations. But this is, ironically, where the film fails: the characters’ realism works against the mood of the movie. Gritty realism and Romantic Comedy mix like oil and water. The comedy is not hlarious but rather silly and the romance lacks the intensity of true passion.

Jewison tries too hard to meld the dramatic with the off-beat. The film ends up as a linger- ing soap opera which leaves you walking away uninspired, unprovoked and no’t even emotion- ally affected.

sets and musical selections (La Boheme, That’s Amore) enhance the romantic comic flavour of the film. The unpredictability of the characters keep interest sustained. Each character is acted with panache with the exception of Cher’s Loretta. Cher just doesn’t make a convincing Italian.

The film’s success lies in its craft. The scenes,

Moonstruck is Jewison’s twenty-second film and is nominated for five Golden Globe awards including best picture. He remains consistent and dedicated to quality. It’s a good film but not a great one, enjoyable as mental floss, but it doesn’t offer enrichment or answer any unanswered questions.

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R osanne Cash hit the money last Monday night Playing to a

packed Commodore Ballborn. Wearing black leotards and tails she opened with “She’s Got It,” and proved to everyone there, nearly two and a half hours later, that she really did have what it takes to wake up a sleepy eyed Vancouver audience.

MUSIC Roseanne Cash Commodore Ballroom J a n u a r y 18,1987

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From a heart-felt bluesy rendition of a new Steve Goodman song “LOvers Forever,” to a driving beat in “My Baby Thinks he’s a Train,” Cash proved that country music isn’t just yelping lamenta- tions of love gone bad, Harley riders, cowboy boots and cheating hearts. It may be all those things, but on top of that, it’s a musical form all to its own. And a form which Cash has mastered to perfection.

Supported by her tight band made up of the crowd-wowing technical skills of guitarist Stewart Smith, the steady suport and charisma of bassist Micheal Rhodes, ”keyboard wizardry” of Vince Melman, and the cymbal slapping percusssion of Vince Santone, the per- formance was clean, straight, and honest good music.

Not two, but three stand- ing ovations.

When a concert is so well-done that the reviewer can’t think of anything bad to say about i t even if she tried, either she loved the band so much that she would have loved the concert even if i t sounded like nails on a chalkboard, or else it really was that good. Obviously, I’ll plead the latter, since I have a couple of hundred supporting witnesses: Rosanne Cash received not one, not two, but three standing ovations. Also, with the excep-

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tion of “Seven Year Ache,” I didn’t know any Rosanne Cash material before I went to the concert, and I’ve never considered myself a country music fan.

So why was the concert such a . .

success? It could have been the level of professionalism exhibited by every member o f the production, from musician to techie. Or else maybe i t was the kind of music; you can’t argue with a four-four

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art reveals new Katherine Monk 46 et the Acid Queen Rain: The L White Goop Devours All,” is just

one of the “blanket statements” made by Metis artist Bob Boyer a t the Museum of Anthropology’s latest exhibit.

The show consists of nineteen actual blankets which Boyer has painted with thick acrylics. k o m a distance, the blankets look, strangely enough, like ordinary blankets. But what appear a t first to be traditional designs are actu-

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nce again the UBC Mu- sicians’ Network crawled out from hiding to

openly display their talents. But the musicians proved easy to forget, and B interchangable with each other. It was as if a host of studio musicians got together without any “stars” among them. I remember better perform- ances from my high school.

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At least the Gear Jammers must be commended for sticking to solid blues rock and not attempting to do bad covers of U2. “he singer also showed some promise in displaying personality and stage presence.

The first act up was Freudian Slip, with a spiffy line up of back-up singers. They set the tone for the evening with songs such as Jail House Rock, Twist and Shout, and Pink Floyd’s Money.

Generix dished out reheated ver- sions of Top 40 rock without daring to stray from the originals. Their Genesis cover was perfect except the singer still had all his hair.

ing covers, they could improvise a little and play the songs as if they were their own material. But alas, today’s students like their music McDonald‘s style: tasteless and easy

Even if these bands insist on play-

ally a total break from anything orthodox. Boyer has rediscovered the geometric

patterns characteristic of native blanket design and transformed their inherent meanings to fit a modern context. In effect, Boyer has examined his roots, ackowledgrd them, ;3nd emerged from this cocoon, wi.th new and brilliant forms.

Blanket Sta tement Works by Bob Boyer UBC Museum of Anthropology. ___”___~___

Much jn the same way that Judy Chicago riade the art world look twice at any dinner setting, and in so doing, re- evaluate the place of women in a socio- historical context, Boyer makes us re- evaluate the place of the native in society by using a.n immediately identifiable piece of Metis culture: the blanket.

received at the University of Sas- katchewa:q, shows through in his con- scious use of colour and form. The colours are layered one on top of the other, each one contributing to what could pompously be called 11 palimpset rainbow. The

Boyer>s formal art training, which he

Men Without Work kept the luke- warm stream of 0 covers flowing with more Police and Van om Halen. Their saving grace was I Saw Her Standing There, which actually contained some raw energy, yet this band was just as faceless and generic as Generix.

Finally, a band called Sleepy Boy Floyd came to the rescue. They were anything but sleepy. The horn section blew off some hot soul steam as they ran through a mystical version of B l ~ k M a g i c Woman, and an explosive rendition of James Brown’s Sex Machine. Sleepy Boy had texture and feeling to their songs, and their version of Low Rider was the best tune all night. Sleepy Boy Floyd and the Gear Jammers were the only ones who had enough identity to warrant the title of “band”.

The bands took a backseat to the party event. For the most part they were one step up from taped music and the beer was cheap. The musicians played

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well, but lacked the theatrical presence and originality which h makes a great stage show.

It ie a pity the Musicians’ Network does not showcase any original bands. They could get together with CITR and really create a new music scene on campus. All that is needed is idealism and imagination. Remember- Music is art, not business.

beat and three chord progressions-it ! works. Then again it could have been 1 Cash’s rapport with the audience. She 1 didn’t play to the Commodore Ballroom, ~

she played to the people inside it. Who else would take fifteen minutes after the , show to talk to the audience, sign auto- 1

graphs and then praise the fans with Y o u make it fun to come to Canada“ ? What- ~

ever the magic ingredient was, i t was i potent, and left me in a daze. ~

“Country music is real 1 music.” !

Greg Sherrett, the music director of i J.R Country radio, which co-promoted the ~

show with Timbre productions thought the concert was “scintillating,” but said ~

the success is larger than just Rosanne Cash, it is in the whole country music tradition.

“Country music is real music, made i by real people. So the audience is in right from the beginning because it says !

something to them,” said Sherrett. In the ~

last ten years country has become more accessible to a larger market, mostly people in their thirties who find today’s i rock and roll has nothing to say, Sherrett ~

added. “Lyrics like ‘I’m bad, I’m bad,’ mean

nothing. Country deals with real life and , i that’s what the lyrics get across,” said - Sherrett.

“In the mid-seventies Nashville didn’i want to break new artists, in the last few that’s changed. As a result country is well-produced, and moving away from a twangy and “gutbucket” sound,” said Sherrett.

Rosanne Cash embodies this new spirit in country music: a confident and well-rounded voice, good production, and a feeling of complete sincerity which seems lacking in the greater part of commercial releases. So a big Yahoo, twirl your lasso, you may not like it, but I sure do.

:areful use of complimentary colours nakes the subdued tee-pee-like light of i h e exhibition space seem almost glaring. I 3ut the constrained and repetitious forms ~

ceeps the chaos at bay. The show effectively creates order out ~

:haos, giving the viewer a false sense of security where we should be pushed into self-examination. The resulting compla- :ency was reflected in the way the other liewers reacted to the opening: people were huddled in the centre of the re- Teated native space, talking about ncome tax instead of the artwork around ;hem.

This is where Boyer’s titles take affect, and slap us in the face with political commentary. Each of the pieces ~

makes a social statement, such as i ‘Smallpox Issue,” which refers to the historical event in which the government released smallpox-infected blankets to the natives. Other works comment on the European slaughter of natives with the newly discovered machine-gun, the loss of cultural identity to European standards, ~

and environmental destruction. Hence, “Let the Acid Queen Rain: The White Goop Devours All.”

Boyer’s exhibit is part of the Museum I of Anthropology‘s ongoing series: “Indian Modern,” which has featured the works of i Bill Reid, Jack Shadbolt, and others. The 1 series is a heartening example of new and I more positive attitude to indiginous Canadian art, which is just beginning to i break away from the dime-store souvenir ~

stereotype, and take its well-deserved place alongside the Emily Carrs and Riopels. Yet, 8s Boyer said, ”there’s no ~

point in creating art if no one comes.” I

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Competition's copy unfair

Just when you get to thinking that an entir election can slip by and escape the clutches c controversy, a scandal emerges and crushe those expectations.

In the most recent issue of The Competitior the campus' fledgeling sports newspaper, a: article was run with a headline that rea' "Beynon Runs For Board". The 150 word stor goes on to give a precis of board of governors car didate Robert Beynon's campaign.

The article is a disturbing one, not because i strays from the paper's primary mandate - sports coverage; not even because the articl pulls the paper into the political arena. It is disturbing article because the paper chose t run such blatently opinion charged copy in th body of the paper and not on a separate editoriz page.

I t is also disturbing because what the articl amounts to is little more than cheerleading for candidate who is associated with the paper. Th first sentence reads: "Intramurals staffmembe and Competition assistant editor Robe1 Beynon is running to become one of UBC's ne1 student Board of Governor's members."

The Ubyssey does not object to a paper ha1 ing a specific political view; every publicatio does whether conscious of it or not. What i objectionable, however, is the journalisticall unethical practice of unfair election coveragt that is, deliberately supporting one candidate i an election while ignoring the others.

What this amounts to for Beynon is free ac vertising unavailable to others not in his pos tion. Beynon did not coerce The Competitio into running the story, but then again he didn refuse the support. Both parties erred. Both a r in jeopardy of spoiling an otherwise untal nished campaign.

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The unfairness, injus- tice,andblatantdiscrimina- tion we in the West some- times glimpse in South Af- rica compels us to protest. What is not seen or under- stood is that it began hun- dreds of years ago and the narrow perspectives of big- otry brought by those first imperialists have simply been passed on through generations, as familiar to the Whites (AND Blacks) as their own hands. Observing from the outside like we do, we see only part of the pic- ture and are shocked by the apartheid there.

But as Glenn Babb, recent S.A. ambassador in Canada said, similar ugli- ness is present within our ownborders, but because we have grown up with i t we don't see i t as so terrible.

Our Canadian ancestry may go back as far as five or six generations but the na- tives of this land have been

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here for centuries. Their magnified issues than our should be cancelled. rights, cultures, lifestyles, own. The U S . military dic- health and dignity have Toshiko Hyodo tate over Canada exempli- been historically trun- Commerce 3 fied by the Cruise Missile cheoned. Our ancestors Testing k e e m e n t i s not took their land by force and Protest Cruise only an aff;;ont to Canadian gave nothine in return. un- sovereimtv.it threatens the " ress disease and pollution should be counted. And even after a long history of exploiting these people nothing has been learned, nothing has changed. If the White man wants some- thing he simply takes it, refusing to acknowledge another culture's values.

Consider the Stein Val- ley. There are some things which simply need to be left alone. Surely this valley is one of them. And this is in our own backyard.

If we cannot change ourselves, who are we to expect South Africans to change themselves? And if we cannot bring harmony and genuine mutual repect into our own backyard, how arrogant of us to believe we know what is going to help South Africa, a nation with far more complicated and

On January 19th, the US. Air Force once again tested the Cruise missile over Canadian territory, despite the people's opposi- tion. A second test is sched- uled for this Friday, Janu- ary 22nd. A protest rally will take place a t noon Fri- day a t Robson Square, and again on Saturday, January 23.

The movement in oppo- sition to the Cruise, like the opposition to superpower warships in Vancouver har- bour, focusses attention on the waysin which Canadais being used to further the war preparations ofthe Pen- tagon.

The Canadian govern- ment has signed a Cruise Missile Testing Agreement permitting the testing of these weapons of mass de- struction in Canada. It

peoples of other countries against which such weapons could be used.

It is a matter of prin- ciple that we should ensure that no harm shoud ever come to others from Cana- dian territory. For these reasons and others, stu- dents should actively par- ticipate in the struggle to force the government to cancel the Cruise Missile Testing Agreement.

A tradition has been established in Vancouver that protest rallies should take place at Robson Square at noon hour the day of any Cruise tests, and the follow- ing Saturday. Join in the protests this Friday and Saturday, January 23 and 24, at noon, at Robson Square.

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Since the Second World War the major challenge to Canadian foreign pol- icy has been to contribute to the stability of the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, hopefully reducing the threat of nuclear war. Through Canadian contributions to NATO and NORAD this goal has been pursued, on the assumption that such alliance structures even out the military balance between the superpowers, and by giving smaller countries a voice, help restrain potentially dangerous super- power policies.

It is a truism of recent years, espe- ciallyin British Columbia, that the world is moving away from its traditional Euro- centric perspective to one which is much more aware of the Pacific Rim. Unfortu- nately, this shift has not been restricted to commercial or cultural relationships; the militaryforces of the superpowers are now utilising the Pacific basin as an important theatre for their Cold War con- frontations. For many Canadians, the first inklings of such ominous develop- ments came on January 5, when the Journal aired a BBC report detailing the build up of Soviet and American forces in the North Pacific.

Geography alone dictates that all this is of interest to Canada. The North Pacific is British Columbia's backyard; a large proportion fo Canadian sea borne trade moves across it, and the Pacific Rim economies ofJapan, Korea, andchinaare progressively becoming more important to Canada. All this pales, however, beside the fact that the military confrontation in the North Pacific is of unprecedented significance for the area, and is pro- foundly destabilizing to the superpower relationship. This is a direct threat to Canada's security.

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ICanadian subs would back words with clout 1 American defence analyst gleefully ex- plained tha t , unlike Western Europe where the United States had to listen to the opin- ions of Britain or West Germany, the North Pacific was open to direct United States- Soviet Union interaction, free from the in- terference of allies. While Japan's pride might be hurt by such a cavalier dismissal, in military terms it is largely warranted. And while Japan is currently increasing its defence spending, andis in the process ofbe- coming a factor with which both superpow- ers must reckon, Canada has yet to even come to grips with the situation.

The essential point is that unless Can- ada takes steps to play an active role in the North Pacific i t will remain merely a pas- s ive bystander , --"-"-

ada there could be no vast armadas de- ployed, :t, would be possible to obtain an effective voice by creating a naval and air force on the West Coast, and in the western Arctic, of significant capability. There would be three necessary components to such a force. First would be the actual hard- ware to 'be deployed. Central to any initia- tive designed to play an active role in the North Pacific would be the deployment of a force of nuclear powered submarines (SSN's). Beyond this i t would be necessary to station ha1foftE.e frigate force, now under construction, on the West Coast. Comple- menting these naval forces would be CF 18 and CP 140 aircraft in considerably larger number:; than are currently present. In-

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over either super- i power. In order to gain a voice of its own, and hopefully act as a stabilizing factor, i t will be necessary for Canada to take a role which necessitates attention from both superpowers. It is true that Canada could gain short term notoriety by declaring its neutrality, and closing ts waters to either side, but the real effect of this would simply be to irritate the United States and amuse the Soviet Union. There will be no easy or inexpensive options, no multilateral alli- ances to create, if Canada wishes to play an effective role in the North Pacific.

The only way to play a role in the politi- cal decision making process is to become a factor in the military equation of the region. For too long the Pacific has been neglected by the Canadian government and Armed Forces. While given the budgetary limita- tions of a relatively small country like Can-

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deploy at least one full squadron of CF l&'s, and an additional six to eight CP 140's.

SuctL force levels would give Canada a minima' ability to project its political inter- ests and. opinions in the North Pacific, and the decision making processes of the super- powers. However mere possession of the forces would not be sufficient to assure re- sults. Given past experience, i t would be all too easy for any Canadian forces in the North F'acific to be simply made subordi- nate elements of the larger American pres- ence. In order to avoid this, and to achieve desirable political objectives, i t would be necessary for Canada to acquire intelli- gence gathering and decision making capa- bilities autonomous of their American counterparts. There already exists, in the early st.ages, a project to build an observa- tional satellite in Canada. If this were

carried through, and supplemented by a small force of AWACS aircraft (already beingflownandoperatedby Canadiansin Europe) then Canada would be able to collect sufficient information to deploy its forces in order to achieve Canadian objec- tives. Always assuming, of course, that the third component of any policy initia- tive exists. The political will in Ottawa to make policies that, from time to time, might be in opposition to American poli- cies.

This should not be interpreted as ad- vocacy for a withdrawal from Canada's al- liances with the United States, or any one else for that matter. Canada is, and should remain an ally of the United States, and a member of NATO. On the other have, i t might be necessary to rede- ploy Canadian financial resources away from the central front in Europe in order to obtain a more effective force in the North Atlantic, the North Pacific, and the Arctic. The superpower relationship, its long term stability, and the prevention of nuclear war must remain Canadian pri- orities. As the century draws to a close, i t may well be that more effective ways of accomplishing these goals will be found than basing a handful of people and tanks in Germany. Finally, lest anyone accuse Canada of disloyalty to its allies, a lesson should be taken from ancient history and the Delian League set up by Athens in the 5th centuryB.C. After a time, the smaller allies grew tired of fielding their own forces, or making their own decisions. Athens was happy to relieve them of the burden; by that time the League had be- come an empire, and the result was a long and bloody war, ultimately disasterous for all of Greece. Canada could help pre- vent the world falling prey to a similar fate.

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And Music. Their current performance proves that modern art, even in a medium as esoteric as dance, can successfully be both coherent and meaningful. Their show features premieres of three new works by the company's artistic directors, as well as two older works chosen from the company's repertoire of over fifty original creations.

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The opening work - Brain Drain (1980), by Lola MacLaughlin - was both the most unusual and the most coherent work on the program. Dancers hop up and down in unison throughout the work, pogoing about mind- lessly on a simple checkerboard created with masking tape, shouting out numbers and gradually becoming more and more exhausted. Surely this is what it must be like inside the twisted brain of the modern paper-shumer.

Sexual Outlaw, a new work by Peter Bingham, is a n audacious and humourous satire on conventional North American sex-be- haviour. The dancer-actors strut about in tacky, racy evening wear to composer-per- former Jeff Corness' sleazy electronic jazz. "Did you see it?", they moan, clutching their precious genitals protectively, then coupling or tripling. Bingham never offends; rather, he makes us laugh at our typical bedtime drama- by-prescription.

The first half ended with another pre- miere: a frightening, intense examination of leadership by Peter Ryan called Ceremony of Innocence. Here the dancers improvise within a given structure: they are to find a leader and follow him or her wherever he or she leads them. Through confrontation a leader emerges; Corness' music becomes more insistent, then nightmarish as excerpts from Hitler's speeches are mixed in and the dancers begin following the leader in horrid, captured fascination, like groveling dogs. Here the

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bare. If Ryan's purpose was to disturb, he certainly succeeded - and he also made us think: what is mob behaviour? And why does the mob love and embrace the loss of i ts freedom?

Red Animal, a new work by Bingham and Ryan, is a demonstration of the power of a Ghandi over the ultimately futile and exhausting juvenile attempts at physical power that so many of us believe in.

The dancers stand around somberly, dressed as street people. Two of them be- come aggressive, attacking the others, who simply drop lifeless at their feet. Puzzled, they prop them back up with much heaving and stramng, and then a t tack each other - then, exhausted, they must face the silent ones on their knees ...

The evening ended tour-de-force style with a big work by Peter Bingham about television - big because i t calls for dancers, actors, music, and video effects. In fact, Teller of Visions is so big that one hardly knows what to look at.

enly couple watching TV, and a sexy "Ilr Tart" inside a TV box delivering a funny super-seductive monologue: "Television is meditation", "It's imagination's toilet" ... "Lubricate my brain enough and it may just shift down to my feet" ...

The dancers storm "the wall" - a large TV screen - or engage in exciting contact- dancing, spinning off each other and forming circus-like pile-ups. Meanwhile, video artists flood the walls with projected images: the couch potatos, the dancers' shadows, and slow-motion shots of the dancers.

raphy was at times too much for the danc- ers. Several stunts failed completely, while others indicated inadequate background training: one must practise one's scales before attempting a concerto.

On a stage in the background is a slov-

All this was confusing, and the choreog-

Despite these imperfections, the evening was provocative and stirred thought. I would have expected more improvisational work from a group calling itself "experimental", but novelty was 1

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