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Summer job program rife with nepotism by Annetta S o m a r TORONTO (CUP)-Canada’s national student summer job program is rife with nepotism, according to a review by the Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC).

“We recommend that the summer student employment program be totally reexamined, both in terms of basic concepts and legal foundations,”states the report.

The commission, a federal body which examines public staff for ac ts of discrimination, examined both the Career- Oriented Summer Employment Program (COSEP) and the Non- career Oriented Summer Employment Program (non- COSEP), two federal student employment programs.

The audi t of t h e 1992 program year found the program riddled with patronage and nepotism (the hiring of family members over more qualified applicants).

COSEP, which aids post- secondary students in finding summer employment, has been charged primarily with favoritism. According to the commission report, ‘Who you knew made a difference.”

COSEP and non-COSEP were also described as inaccessible.

“Although the basic process for summer student hiring was

simple, i t was repeti t ious, bureaucratic, and easy to bypass,” the report states.

However, Mary Thompson, director of COSEP in Toronto, dismissed the report.

“There is no favoritism. Everyone is screened in the same way and is asked the same questions during a t ight ly structured interview,” she said.

“I wish we had jobs for everyone but that is not possible,” Thompson added.

The report also criticized the program as impractical and inflexible, stating, “the design and structure of the program is not responsive to changing needs and operational realities.”

Thompson also refuted this charge.

“Our departments demonstrate flexibility and creativity,” she said.

Delicia Baldwin, youth specialist with Human Resources and Development at Employment and Immigration Canada, said the report has already led to many changes to the s tudent employment program.

“All government departments have been given guidelines,” she said.

According to Baldwin, steps have been taken to correct what the report found was inequitable access to job opportunities.

‘We’re ensuring that all hiring will be done with specific criteria,”

she stated. “Those criteria include spokesperson Andy Rapoch said The PSC also issued a basing job acceptance on merit there would be no changes made directive to government and equitability.” to COSEP this summer. departments to limit nepotism in

recommended an audit ofsummer the same as before, though the “Everyjob would be treated as student employment programs be PSC will increase monitoring of a new job,” Rapoch said. carried out in 1994. But PSC COSEP,” he said.

In i t s repor t , the PSC “This summer things will go the program.

Wage-free training Dronosed ” “u- ” - by Graham Cook

The federal government has proposed sweeping steps to reduce the number of young people on social assistance-by asking them to relinquish their claim to welfare and UI.

”I think it’s tragic that the first, in a sense, paycheque that so many young people get is a paycheque from the government,” minister of human resources development Lloyd Axworthy said in a CBC radio interview.

Axworthy proposes that young people between the ages of about 18 to 24 be given a “guarantee” to receive job training, apprenticeship, or education, and in return they would give up their right to social assistance benefits. The “guarantee,” however, does not promise any wage.

Debra Brown, an assistant to Axworthy, stated the proposal is only one of several being considered over the summer in the current “revamp” of social services, which will also include

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changes to student loans and a that sector. “youth service corps.” According to the StatsCan

But the proposal will likely study, many young people have not bring hworthy’s promised decided to drop out of the labour “fairness, hope and a Sense of force completely, including about security” to universityandcollege- 100,000 young single mothers. educated young people who cannot As for Axworthy’s promised find work. “guarantee” of t ra in ing o r

The overall trends for those education, so far the proposal has 15 to 24 is bleak. no details about how accessibility

According to last week’s to education will be increased. Statistics Canada study in the Axworthy said he is “looking journalPerspectiueson labourand at a major amendment to the income, the employment rate whole student aid, student loan (employment to population ratio) program so that we would broaden ofyoung people peaked a t 62.3 per ou t t he r ange of financial cent in 1989, but now languishes assistance for people that want to at about 50 per cent. An increasing go back to school.” number of young people are For those who cannot get into turning to post-secondary school, or are trained and cannot education to increase their dismal get jobs, Axworthy pointed to an prospects, with full-time “employer of last resort ... the enrollment up seven per cent since community youth COWS.” 1989. This program would employ

And while the burgeoning “about 15,000 young people to service sector of the economy is work ... in inner ci t ies, doing known as a home for starving environmental, eco-tourism, a students, 14 per cent ofthe drop in whole series of things.” youth employment has been in

Federal budget could spell tuition increase by Slmona CholMt and Michael Malnvllle Ottawa(CUPtStudents in three of the largest provinces-BC, Alberta and Ontari-an expect “substantial” tuition fee increases in the wake of the federal budget,

provincial officials and student going to have to look long and ConservativegovernmenttoBC, Canada’s colleges and leaders warn. hard at tuition hikes.” Alber ta , and Ontar io . The universities,” said Carl Gillis,

“The budget is really the The federal budget continues transfer payments, with the chair ofthe Canadian federation worst potential that could have a five per cent cap on increases in exception offunds for health care, of students (CFS), in a press occurred,” said David Scott, provincial transfer payments will be frozen completely in ’95- release. “For students it means policy advisor with Ontario’s (which pay for schools and 96. higher tuition fees and a further ministry of education. “We’re hospitals) begun by the previous “This does not bode well for dec l ine i n t he qua l i t y of

education.” By freezing funding at 93-94

levels for the next three years, the federal government will remove $2 billion from projected transfers offunds to the provinces for education and welfare programs.

The freeze on payments to the provinces is expected to save the federal government up to $466 million in ’95-96 and a minimumof$1.54 billion the next year.

The budget did not address the future of the Canada student loans program. The maximum weekly allowance of $105 has not increased since 1984, despite the marked rise in cost of living and tuition fees.

Gillis said the government does not seem to have realized s tudents cannot pay higher tuition and current levels of s t u d e n t a s s i s t a n c e a r e inadequate.

MP Chris Axworthy, NDP critic for training and youth, said the federal budget poses grave dangers for the future of post- secondary education.

“I think it’s incredibly short- sighted,” Axworthy said. “It won’t improve the situation.”

Axworthy said problems

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facing post-secondary education cannot be so lved wi thout i nc reased fund ing t o t he provinces. He said barriers such as s tuden t unemploymen t , inadequate loan programs and tu i t ion h ikes are m a k i n g Canada’s colleges and universities less accessible.

by Mostly Graham Cook mc-jobs for the “niXed” generation “My first experience was established companies for their

are Planning careers in fields make the money that everybody “For anyone doing it for the such as law, ~~ business , Or said I would but I made more

Many university sh~dents lousy,” Dwyer said. “I didn’t first contracts.

academia. Others are hoping for less lucrative but more creative endeavours in the future.

But for now, generation X job ghettos like treeplanting, temping and house painting are the best jobs many students can hope for.

Filling in the clearcuts A h , the great outdoors. Fresh

air, hard work and huge amounts of money are the carrots dangled in f ront of prospective treeplanters.

But for many the reality of planting is very different.

Michelle Dwyer is in fourth year political science a t UBC, and her first year planting was hell.

than I would have if I was workinginArby’sinPortHope.”

Those who have worked two or three seasons can make significant amounts, sometimes $200 to $300 for a 10 or 12 hour day. But rookie planters seldom make that much-and some planters make nothing at all.

Scam artists are legendary i n t h e i n d u s t r y - smal l companies that appear f or one season and disappear around the t ime their planters are expecting their paycheques.

Dwyer said many of the bigger companies chronically underpay planters.

Her advice to first-time p lan ters was to seek ou t

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first time don’t go with-companies offering bonuses,” because that means they are taking away from your regular wage and only giving it back to you under certain conditions, she said. For example, some companies hold back a n amount of pay if you do not finish the season with them.

Treeplanters are paid per tree planted, a form of piecework. If a planter hits a bad patch ofground, or slogs through snow or 40-plus degree temperatures, the pace can slow and so can the pay.

Health also suffers. “My second year I got bursitis

in my heels from planting,” Dwyer said.

“I think everybody gets sick. You’re handling trees dipped in chemicals, bending over 3000 times a day and it’s 40 degrees outside. Everybody physically gets it,” she said.

Temporary insanity Temporary office em-

ployment is another c lass ic twenty-something job-Douglas Coupland’s book Generation X describes the “veal-fattening pens” that temps of ten f ind themselves sandwiched into.

Temp agencies offer a matchmaking service between companies who need short-term office staff and starving students who need short-term food.

F i r s t yea r a r ch - i t ec tu re student Maia Chowdury has been temping for three years, and said that her job “was good at first, since I was gett ing office experience and it fit into my

schedule ... now I can’t wait to get out of it.”

“I had been working in food services for several years and I was feeling that it was a bit of a ghetto, and I felt I should move to get out ofit, because it seemed that whatever future career I took would be offke-based- a rch i tec ture , p lanning , o r teaching for example,” Chowdury said.

But high-pressure temping jobs for low pay has ended up being “more of a drag than anything. I had a month of unemployment last summer while I was waitingfor a temping job. I would have been better telemarketing or in food services for that month.”

“The best temping job I had was working doing fundraising for St. Paul’s hospital with other women from the same temping agency. We just hung out and bitched about temping their coffee cups and schedule getting their cars washed and juggle their mistresses and their wives on the telephone,” she said.

Her temping experience helped her get a job as an office manager for an Asian cultural organization called Rungh, she said. This summer Chowdury is “going to really try not to temp. I’m hoping to get a challenge grant and work with a small cultural organization where I feel comfortable.”

Painting the town Student paintingcompanies

often get a bad r a p a n d it is justified, according to several former employees.

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staffer Ian Gunn worked for& S t u d e n t P a i n t e r s , a n d complained that on the piece rate system many painters end up working for only three or four dollars a n hour.

He pa in ted houses in Burnaby, and said the daily commute by transit was bad enough to convince him to buy a car.

But “having paid for the car and the gas and the insurance, considering how much I was getting I might as well have stayed at home,” Gunn said.

Chris Perry worked for a student firm in Toronto for several summers. He said one of the worst aspects of the job was safety-specifically the lack of it.

”You’re working on a forty- foot ladder on uneven ground, with sticks and rocks stuck under it. A couple of times the ladder slipped out from under me and I fell into the garden in front,” Perry said.

“My first job, and my worst job painting was working at a factory with a tar roof. I t must have been the hottest summer on record in Toronto. You’re painting on metal on a roof that’s so hot that it’s steaming and the paint is drying when you put it on.”

Cheap bosses can also make student painters’ lives hell, he said.

“Once the manager realized that diesel fuel was cheaper than Varsol, so here we are rubbing diesel fuel into our skin for the whole summer.”

Identification card stuff by Tessa Moon

UBC is going electronic. An ID card project, under

discussion since 1990, plans to incorporate a number of new services into the AMs card.

“The ID card system we use is old and cumbersome,” said Leonora Crema, circulation division head ofthe Main Library and a member of the ID card committee. “We want to bring up the level of technology to make it more useful and convenient to students.”

In addition to Crema, the committee consists of two more reps from the library, two reps from the office of the registrar, a rep from computing services, another from networking and

communications, and an A M s rep.

Dean Leung, AMs rep to the committee, said the project may cos t no th ing to the university and the AMs.

”Hopefully, we’ll get sponsorsh ips f rom card companies,” he said. “Another possibility is to see ifwe can get supplies and labor donated by these companies.”

By Sep tember , t he committee hopes to install a magnetic strip on AMs cards, which wi l l work l ike the photocopy cards now sold by the libraries. In the near future, the cards may carry magnetic strips for food service at residences.

“The idea is to reduce the

number of cards a person has to carry around,” Leung said. “Other universities like Western use [ t he magne t i c s t r i p s ] already.”

Crema said the project will improve organization, effic- iency, and accuracy in student services.

“In addition to the bar code we use for libraries, we can store all this information and the person’s photo and signature in a database,” she said. “The card can be issued more quickly and used for more purposes.”

Students will be informed of the new system when more concrete proposals are put forward.

Students screwed yet again SAN- FRANCISCO (NSNS/CUP) - Stones of spiralling tuition fees often overshadow another nagging price to pay for university-the price of textbooks.

Increasingly dissatisfied with the high prices of new books and the low prices paid for used ones, many students are seeking ways to offset their book costs.

The struggle can be a difficult one, especially at the many universities which have their own financial interests in the school’s “official” store. Simply put, bookstores reap enormous profits for their universities, often at the expense of their students.

According to Campus Marketplace, the newsletter ofthe 6,000-member National Assoc- iation of College Bookstores, the prices of 100 widely-used textbooks rose 91.5 per cent between 1983 and 1993.

The newsletter also reported the cost of nearly 87,000 textbook titles jumped 7.8 per cent between February 1992 and February 1993-more than twice the national inflation rate.

At many campuses in the United States , s tudents are making the links between these inordinately high prices and their bookstore’s monopoly. At Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, for example, the editors of the Hullabaloo newspaper estimate that each student pays more than $100 extra per semester due to the monopoly situation on campus.

“The high cost oftextbooks a t Tulane is something all Tulane students have been forced to accept,” a recent editorial reads.

“But while textbooks are always expensive, our bookstore

has a position of monopoly to keep prices, and profits, high.”

In order to protect their monopolies, some universities have helped their bookstores drive competitors out ofbusiness.

The Tulane bookstore, run by the Barnes and Noble chain, is the only bookstore which is allowed to see the university’s list ofbooks ordered by professors. A rival store which attempted to compete with the university store did not know which books to stock and soon after closed.

According to Henry Barker, director of the University of Southern Louisiana bookstore, profit margins are usually 20 to 25 per cent above the publisher’s price. After shipping and overhead costs, Barker estimated that most stores usually clear a net profit of about 12 per cent.

by Chris Uren A rabid crowd, some great

basketball, and even a little sex appeal-the men’s Canada West basketball finals in Edmontonlast weekend had it all.

UBC went to the finals as underdogs. Albertawas the league champion with an 18-2 record, while UBC finished a t 10-10. But, as coach Bruce Enns put it, ”the term ‘underdog‘ has no meaning at this point in the season. Either we win and we’re the better team, or we lose and they’re the better team.” And s o it went in Edmonton.

Early, it was all Scott Martel for Alberta, with 11 points in the first ten minutes. As the half wore on, UBC battled back. Inside scoring from Derek Christiansen and Bob Heighton, pull up jumpers from Kenny “the cat” Morris, 3- point bombs from Randy Ellis and Brian Tait, and sterling work off the bench from Mark Tinholt and Eric Butler gave the Thunderbirds a reply to Martel’s mastery of the paint. At half-time, the ‘Birds were up by four.

“Games,aren’t won at the half,” screamed Alberta head coachDon Harwood, tryingtorally his troops. But the Bears didn‘t seem to listen and UBC’s lead held.

minutesko go. UBC fought back with classy vets Christiansen and Tait leading the way. But when ,

Sale and Devries hit four three pointers on four consecutive possessions, the jig was up. UBC fell 95-89.

That night, all of Edmonton seemed to be laughing a t the “Brian Tait incident.” Tait cut his wrist during the game, getting blood on his shorts. CIAU rules prohibit a player from playingwith blood on the uniform. With just 1:32 left, officials ordered Tait to the dressing room to change.

Enns didn‘t want to lose his fifth year floor leader at such a criticalmoment. Instead ofletting Tait change in the privacy of the dressing room, Enns strode onto the floor at center court, grabbed the cuffs of Tait’s drawers, and yanked the offending shorts off. Tait , showing grace under pressure and a nice set of gams, quickly pulled on a new set of shorts.

Playresumed while a capacity crowd screamed at the spectacle. Happily, the episode was captured on video. Accompanied by voice- overs that used the words “cheeky,” “revealing,” and “undressed,” wound up on the local sports highlight reels.

Murray Cunningham of Alberta with ball, sitting on UBC’s Jason Wubs while Morris (32), Tait (24), Christiansen (42) and Tinholt (22) look on.

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They're heavy metal gods from Sweden

Entombee tnnett" Gracing the Dorothy Somerset stage

misses

"With the exception of ABBA," etal Mondays at the Town Pump is a great idea, . affirms Alex. "Not much POP ?USiC,

Chie is from Japan's especially when the ultimate heavy death metal but everything on the heavier side- Ritsumeilfan University, studying band, Entombed, plays, independentrock, hard core, punk" english a UBC.

"Co I!" enthuses Alex. like Slayer or Sepultura, and death metal bands like Vancouver scene? T o I?" giggles Chie. Obituary or Death in the sound. However, they are very "Completely nothing. Don't "Ye ,we wanted to go to unique. Entombed have quite an acceptable sound, know any of the bands here."

Japan. W were supposed to go to because it's well organized and the playing is very sharp, ' YOU guys heard of that Japan last year. But it never Sometimes listenas must catch their breath as the big Canadian jerk? His name is Bryan happene there. We're supposed to melodious twin guitar comes out suddenlyfrom their Adams. have a big following there." violent sound. This melodic playing makes their sound "Yes," sighs Alex. "He's all over "You're r$ally becoming bigger in stand out from other bands and also reminds me their the plate." Japan," says Chie. . home country, Sweden. It's clear their Swedish identity "I love the band Europe from

Swedish. "Exchange student," band. "They're big in Japan," nptes explains Alex to his bandmate. Although it was a Monday night, the Town Pump was Lars*

"We are very big metal thrash full of metal kids. The audience looked quite heqvy. I "Yeah, they're big!" agrees fans," chime Chie and her friend could see a lot of Napalm Death and Sepultura T-shirts Chiem

Hiromi. among the audience:As soon as the members came out "And Yngwie." [Malrnsteen, "Cool! Do you have a band, to the stage, everyone started shouting and yelling out that

too?" asks Alex. the band's name, I climbed up and sat down on the bar ~

"1 am playing bass guitar," says ledge. I couldn't see well because too many people were in Chia. front of me.

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i Entombed is often said to be a band like thrash bands What dd you know about the

"Yeah? We want to go there." makes them unique. I don't know if they are aware of that Sweden," says Chian Lars mutters a question in or not, though. Anyway, they are a pure death metal "Oh yeah? Really?" muses Alex.

from this first song. The sound is really tight and heavy, On bass, Lars Rosenberg, wearing a Cathedral T-shirt, looked cool banging his head of long hair heavily in a low posture. The rhythm of Nicke's drums was very exact, making their sound very tight and heavy. Lars Petrov sings song'after song, Chie: Your new album is Woiverine 5/ues. What does with a short banter between each that keeps the fans' fever high. this title mean?

Lars shouts "Stranger Aeons" and the fans respond by roaring. Alex: Originally, it's an old jan/b/ues song, or This is one of the popular songs from the second album, something. But we got the title out of a book by an Clondesfine. Lars had taken off his T-shirt already. The next song is author,James Elroy. One of the killers in the book was "Demon." Shouting the "Demon" chorus is cool. I shouted that obsessed with the wolverine and stuff and listened to chorus involuntarily. that song alot. There's a description of the wolverine in

The melodious melody at "Sinners Bleed" started flowing with the book. James Elroy describes the animal in a very great twin guitar playing. Alex, wearing a Motorhead T-shirt. Plays cool way. So that's how we got hooked on the name. guitar swinging his head slowly. His guitar playing is Sometimes Very Chic: It's a different one from the comic book? [A '

bluesy. Although I thought Uffe's guitar sound was to0 small at the limited edition Marvel comic featuring the Wolverine beginning, it seemed to be adjusted later. X-Men character is included with the Wolverine Blues

Steve: What can we The sound they created was excellent. CD.1 expect from the Entombed The fans, one after another. climb UP On Alex Yeah, not the comic book. That's somethine that

T he word "urban" usually conjures up images of ideal cities and their accompanying highrises and convenient amenities of a high-tech

. lifestyle. Under closer scrutiny, however, the idealized guise of civilization screens the scourge that rots away the very concrete foundations of our homes and thus, security.

Marisol is a socially-apathetic, Puerto Rican career-woman whose survival in a strife-ridden Bronx tenement to which she fearfully returns every night is made possible entirely by her guardian angel. And despite the professional veneer of invincibility with which she arms herself in repelling subway riff raff, her terror and mistrust of everyone exposes her vulnerability. This vulnerability is especially apparent when her guardian angel deserts her to lead a resistance movement against a "sick God," leaving Marisol to fend for herself in New York's war-zoned neighborhoods. As a result, Marisol is thrust into the position of dealing with the world in all its raw and bloody splendor.

"alienation," and "disintegration." As it progresses, a multitude of social issues crop up repeatedly, the most prominent being homelessness and how a direct measure of the health of society's collective mentality is reflected in the amount of compassion we give to the poorest of the poor. The notion of sickness is also prevalent throughout in the form of mental illness like racism and environmental disease such as pesticide use. The -

resulting tone is ominous, emphasized in Marisol's anxious wonderment of where to and why the moon has disappeared; the moon being a mythological symbol of the vessel that takes souls to heaven. This strange absence of such a changing constant leads one to wonder despairingly whethei the missing moon remarks on the fact that no more souls can enter heaven or that there just are not any souls left on earth to transport.

Despite a melodramatic lead performance (she spends .the majority of the'play in heightened states of anxiety and fear) and the fact that she spends the latter half of the play sitting on what must be really cold floor in a skirt and apparently really durable hosiery (not a single run!), the play's heavy subject matter does prod at our usually numb social consciences' into feeling concern and ends'on the hopeful note that improvement is possible.

Mudsol can be summed up with the words 'degradation,"

Not the archetypal shitty Hollywood movie '

T he Chose is not the type of movie I would expect to like. Starring Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson, it would seem to be the archetypal shitty Hollywood movie with lots of fast cars, smart-ass punchlines and cheezy romance. This movie was all this and worse, but I still laughed my ass off and that's all that

matters, right? The scenario (sit back and think about this, it's pretty deep): Charlie Sheen plays Jack Hammond, an

escaped convict who steals a car to get away. He stops in a Quiki-Mart to get some gas and some smokes and runs into two police officers. He takes Natalie Voss (Kristy Swanson) hostage and Tie Chosegoes from there.

Coincidentally, Natalie is the daughter of billionaire Dalton Voss. " The Dalton Voss?" Apparently so. Considering this, thirty police cars, one police helicopter, and umpteen vans filled with investigative journalists take off after Natalie's red BMW down the California freeway. Jack is trying to avoid half the California police force and make it to Mexico to freedom.

Sounds pretty bad, doesn't it? It is until good old Hank steps into the picture. Henry Rollins plays an aggro-cop chasing Hammond while being filmed by a Copsshow rip-off, ~FuP." His role as Officer Dobbs is strictly satirical, as anyone who has listened to his spoken-word can attest, but he plays it perfectly.

"I would love to blow your head off," says Rollins as he handcuffs Sheen. "Just make one move," Rollins is hilarious, hamming it up by wrenching the wheel and yelling, "This guy is really starting to piss me off!"

And. because The Chase is a Hollywood movie starring two reasonably good-looking people, they have to fall in love, and the more unlikely, the better. Well, after Jack holds a gun to Natalie's head, steals her car and makes her so afraid she pukes, Natalie falls in love .with Jack. And of course, even after Natalie sits and pouts like the spoiled brat she is, and puts a hot cigarette lighter out on Jack's neck, Jack seems to fall for her. I auess stranaer thinas have harmened in Hollywood.

live show? stage to sing With Lars, then dive- Everyone came into the picture a little bit later. That's the record Alex lust going to do our seems to be satisfied with their sound. company's idea. thing. going to be cool. Entombed is a real live band. Lars: It was just an idea from Colqtbia [gtherwise Hell: one word I was SO excited. I hoped to go to the known in the music business as a MARKETING explanation. front of the stage and do some heavy head- GIMMICK.] Steve: So what do your banging. However, I had to Stay at the back Alex i t s just a way of promoting the album. And if it mothers think of all this? to watch what happened. This was my first works. alot of Deoole eet intPrPstd in t b alhlm. t b n . n he tried to hide them. She Dlaved to the drummer. turned her back to the

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totally like this movie. Make sure you sit up Close.

underst'and. , ' very happy, but also slightly apprehensive. Chic: D~ they sometimes Death Metal . . . immoral and dark words . . . Entombed come to your shows? must be strange persons, I thought. However, when I met Lars: N ~ . ~k~ still think it's .them, my anxiety was dispelled. They are really normal and a hobby. But they will nice men who love metal and Nintendo, I soon took to them. realize soon. They were totally cool! This show has made their popularity

bigger in Vancouver. They must come back here with bigger status next time.

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crowd, sunk her head so that the mess of hair fell.in front ofher face. Still, they just glared out at you. They shone, they gleamed, they soothed-

they were the type of eyes that grabbed you-and then they made you listen. From the first chords of "Vampire Song," I knew this evening would be a

special treat. The angry feedback guitar melded with the passion of Johnette Nepolitano's voice to make.a sound that was at first surreal, then chillingly supernatural. It was like we were all descending into some dark subterranean pit, dancing all the way down.

The crowd was completely enthralled. Some sang, some danced. One woman next to me, clasped her hands piously in front of her, hanging off of Johnette's every word. The crowd stumbled and swayed around her as she stood motionless. She looked more like she was in front of an altar than at any rock 'n roll show,

Concrete Blonde's music does have an undeniably religious tone to it. It is a search for a spiritual experience. "Some call it allah, some call'it god, some call it buddha, I call it Love." They don't sing the absolute message of any book, instead using their music to work out a religion from many confusing messages.

Their search has been touched by the pitfalls of idolatry. As their album liner says, "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheeps clothing-but inwardly they are ferocious wolves" (Mathew 7:15), Distrust those who claim to fulfill your immediate needs.

But the profession of rock 'n roll star often puts you in the role of idol. Johnette denies that role knowing that popularity is a fleeting thing. She sang about Jenny, whose "picture was on every magazine. Then one day it was over and where are you now? I wonder." One day the spotlight will only be a memory.

They grudgingly moved into their biggest hit, "Joey," only because it wps expected, Johnette sang uninspiredly, shaking her head, strictly going through the motions. Halfway through they turned it into a thrash jam and began to have fun again. Afterwards she apologized, saying it was something she just had to do.

The most memorable moment of the concert came during "Tommorow Wendy." As the crowd swayed and sang the refrain, "Hey-Hey Good-bye, Tomorrow Wendy's going to die," Johnette told the story behind the song. A friend of hers had found out that she had AIDS and looking in the mirror, wrote the song. Emotion dripped from her as she related the story. She looked out at the crowd and in one raised hand saw a red ribbon. She reached out and grabbed it, pinning it to her chest, It was a snapshot of poetry.

They rounded out the evening with vintage covers. Jimi Hendrix's "Castles in the Sand," Tears for Fears's "Shout," and Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows," all done with Concrete Blonde's haunting quality.

The rapport between the stage and audience was powerfulto say the least. Johnette came across completely unaffected, down to earth and genuine. She reminded me of a really cool sister that you want to introduce to everyone you know.

The entire gig exuded energy and emotion, leaving the band and audience completely drained.

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rs. Nabokov N uclear,cities. Republican conventions. Isaac Asimovi New

Orleans. Topless sunbathing. Star Trek. Martin Amis' Wsihng Mrs. Nabokovis a study in diversity-a

collection of essays punctuated with innumerable cigarettes and liberally laced with various liquors. Swinging between aggressive sarcasm and fuzzy nonspecific vivacity, Martin Amis is at his electric best. An elegantly alienated voice is his trademark, whether discussing RoboCop ("a wasp-waisted three-ton Swiss Armyknife with all its blades outturned") or rap rhythm ( "fashybashy cushy doshy/asbymahy poshy7. Always baldly cynical, wearing a perpetual air of unflappable complacency, Amis is a delightful combination of Nostradamus and Miss Manners.

His subjects are as varied as his moods. A vaguely off-center account of the political death of George Bush and Dan Quayle supplements a running commentary bordering on politician-bashing. Observations of a wide selection of sports-chess, tennis, darts, snooker-describe their cutthroat competitions with unfailing irony. There are self-reflections as well, backward glances at his expulsion from a school where "boys robbed banks in the lunch hour and didn't get expelled-it wasn't easy." . '

as the title figure calls it) and two packs of cigarettes lit, but never smoked.

Read Wifing Mrs Nubokovwith a glass of J & B (or "chay & pee,"

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awaited Commission on per , t imber Resources and the Environment (CORE) because of the

Report gets to CORE of problem h a r v e s t e d

has finally released its report on Vancouver Island called the “Vancouver Island Land Use Plan.”

The ’ impor t an t recommendations of the plan a r e t h a t 13 per cent of Vancouver Island should be preserved forever as provincial park space, that another eight per cent be afforded some protection -as “regionally significant” lands, and that the rest of the Island be designated as ”Multi-Resource Use Areas” (73 per cent of the Island).

The plan, as put forward by commissioner Stephen Owen, balances the need for sustainable forestry and mining industr ies on Vancouver Island, and the desire for an ecologically sustainable environment.

If the plan is accepted and implemented as proposed, it would mean such well-known areas as the Lower Tsitika, the Upper Carmanah (the Lower Carmanah is already a park) and the Walbran Valleys would be made into new provincial parks or incorporated into existingprovincialparks. Many other less well-known, but equally important areas are also slatedto be fully protected.

Under the “Regionally Significant Lands,” industrial

activity and resource extraction for afi-actionofprevious job losses, would be permitted only if it is and some of these would occur determined that such activities regardless of CORE due to the would not harm the reductionintheannualallowable ”environmental, recreational or cut (AAC) as recommended by the cultural” qualities minis t ry of of the area. These forests.

animal species.

Resource Use Areas” would be open to harvesting by the forest industry under the new forest practices code to be passed into law later this year. CORE also recommends that the new code should also apply to private forest land. The remaining land on the island is either currently under cultivation (farms) or settled. Jobs lost to profit

An important aspect emphasized by the CORE report that The Vancouver Sun, BCTV and the other major media outlets have tried to hide is that job losses in the forest industry have come

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harvested -our forests is not

sustainable. While this fact has been apparent to many for some time, the CORE report gives the government the evidence it needs to act upon this reality. The local, provincial and federal governments mus t t ake the needed s teps to ensure the continued viability of Vancouver Island fo’rest-dependent communities. The time to act is now-waiting will only make the si tuation comparable to Newfoundland’s, with the total collapse ofthe forest industry and the related economic collapse that would accompany it.

The strategies employed by the forest companies not only result in immediate job losses and environmental degradation, but also cheat BC youth out of future employment in the forest industry. Young people are left with only one option in the forests today-tree planting. Tree plantingis paid as piecework, the worst kind of employment.

Stories of young people who tree plant for weeks and finish with only a few hundred dollars to show for it are rampant. The youth of BC will not accept this kind of future from the forest industry, or the government of BC. Changing focus

The Vancouver Island plan also outlines a strategy for the economic transit ion for Vancouver Island. The current cut levels. are not, sustainable, especially at current harvesting levels , and job losses are inevitable.

The CORE report also recognizes that future AACs will

new ~ Forest Practices Code which~will ban the archaic large-scale plearcut: CORE recommends !hat the provincial government show leadership throughindustryre- tooling, retraining and hew local investments to cushion the effects of the forest iidustry’s decline.

Another I key recommendation of tqe CORE report is that the economic burden caused by the rpduction of the forest industjr should not be solely barne by those who are dependent on it, but that all British Columbians need to take financial responsibility for the job losses. The forest companies must be held accountable for the state of BC’s forests.

It is long past the time that the people of British Columbia demanded that the forest companies put something back into the province that has made them so rich. The adoption of the CORE report is the first step in that process.

almost exclusively from forest companies’ move The straw man used these words to express his displeasure at havini been born mechanization and enormously without. If only he knew how many had been born with a skull full of q e y mattcr, 1 ”“ -1 L- - and let its contents go unused. Or, more commonly, used its contents:to fall into

Religion and politics in contemporary society

South’Afriea: Time of decision

Dr. IrvingHewman Department of Religious Studies = University of Calgary

Monday, March I4 o I2:30 p.m. Buchanan 0330

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This event is possible through a grantfrom the Murrin Fund

by Taivo Evard ‘and this short is an homage to her. Hats off to Taimi.

The job losses that would occur from the full had a implementation ofthe Vancouver Island Plan would only account

traditional modes of moriginality without even venturing into the seldom‘ trodden plane of thought outside of the bounds of the conventiona1. So much easier it is to walk down a well-beaten path than explore indepcndently. From a young age, rewards are bestowed for following in the footsteps of parents, and the sins of the parent are revisited upon the child. D-Day used his entire editorial to bra jn vent his frustrations for being what he is-an automaton. This is the;descriptor used by a fabulous free-thinker living out on the North Island of Nep Zealand,

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Phoenix, Dean, Cobain: GenX “heroes” and death The X generation actively

defies labelling. Through irony and self-effacement, we twentynothings simultaneously avoid pigeonholing and encourage it.

This was illustrated recently with the death of River Phoenix, the young star ofMy Own Priuate Idaho, Gus Van Sant’s seminal mixed-up tortured film that “spoke for a generat ion.” Analogies were drawn between

Phoenix’s drug-related death and James Dean’s early Porsche- related demise, and the impact of both on “their” generations.

But that didn’t seem to sit right. While an excellent actor, Phoenix did not make enough films to fully explore his talent. More to the point, his overdose death in a trendy Johnny Depp- owned nightclub seems too much like the tired cliche of t he “shooting star” death-he lived

fast, loved hard, died young. So what?

During the 50s and 60s, an era just after thousands ofyoung people were killed in WW2, and while more were being sent off to die in Korea and Vietnam, the quick, romantic death ofthe male hero seemed an apt metaphor. But today murder is more carefully disguised.

The dea th of gays and lesbians in “bashing” incidents is

W o wheels god, four wheels bad The automobile is a

convenience nobody feels they can live without, but we should stop being so dependent on it and using it every time we need to go somewhere. The automobile is one of the worst air pollutors in BC, but with a little effort from everyone, these pollutors can be minimized.

The automobile releases a variety of pollutants into the atmosphere that can affect people and the environment. A survey completed at the end of the 80s suggested a huge amount of pollutants in BC are released by automobiles. The study stated that cars procude 77 per cent of all nitrogen oxides, 7.2 percent of all sulphur oxides, 40.3 percent of all hydrocarbons and 53.1 percent of all carbon monoxide in the atmosphere.

Exper t s say tha t these percentages are rising as we progress through the 90s. The increase is a result of the number

of vehicles being produced and the increase in drivers.

As concentrations rise, these pollutants have increasingly harmful effects on people and the environment. Some are poisonous to plant and animal life, some cause acid rain and some cause diseases like cancer. These effects

are not a large concern right now, but will be if the pollution levels continue to rise.

We do have some options to help keep these concentrations low. One is to take the bus or Skytrain. If we assume that the average bus carries 25 passengers at any one time during the day, then pollution is already being decreased by over two thousand percent per bus at any time during the day. For those who insist on

driving, remember that a bus is a lot cheaper and less stressful, especially during rush hour.

For those people who do not like taking the bus, there is still another option: carpooling. Carpooling allows people to be in the company of friends while at the same time cutting back on traffic volume and exhaust emissions. Also, carpooling is cheaper than driving alone because the cost of driving gets split between however many people are in the pool.

Obviously, it is impractical to think about stopping everone from driving, but there is room to cut back on the amount we drive. Aside fromcommutingcut-backs, there are also things that can be done a t home. Try cycling or walking for short trips to run errands. Not only does this cut back on emissions, but it also allows for some exercise. We can all do our part to keep the environment relatively clean.

One of the most important issues for Greater Vancouver is getting little attention. The Lions Gate Bridge will have to be replaced soon, affecting all of Vancouver and the north shore, but there has been little public consultation on what to do.

Ted White, the reform MP for North Vancouver sent out a questionnaire asking multiple choice questions about it. It was a politically influenced survey, with the quest ions being what a reformer would consider impor tan t and the answers available beingverylimited. Still, I haven’t seen any other example ofcitizens beingaskedtheirviews on the various proposals.

One option put forward is a five-lane bridge. This would mean widening the Stanley Park causeway, and consequently increasing traffic downtown. However, no one has asked whether we want an odd number of lanes. An even four lanes is better, since less damage would be done to Stanley Park, we wouldn’t have to pay for people to switch anything, and the traffic flow would be more equal for both sides.

A six-lane double-decked bridge has been proposed, but no one knows how ugly such a thing might be, or whether it will stand up to an earthquake, or where the top ramp will be brought to ground level.

Ideas about a tunnel seem to be getting a lot of attention, but a lot of thought must go into where

Another thought on Lions Gate they intend to inject the traffic into downtown Vancouver and North Vancouver. Some of their choices lead one to believe that whoever thought it up has never actually been to North Vancouver, but only looked at i t on a map. A well-known tunnel idea involves building an artificial island in Coal Harbour, attached toStanley Park, and would be financed by sell ing apartments on it. However, it is unclear if the island’s residents will have to drive through Stanley Park, or if an island in Burrard inlet is even desirable.

A tunnel would have to take into account its effect on shipping, and also be earthquake proof. A skytrain tunnel, an idea which has yet to be put forward, to North Van would promote mass transit and bring more people across Burrard inlet then the Seabus. Tunnel!ing through Stanley park has been mentioned. This would prevent a lot of damage to the park, but like all tunnels, it would be expensive.

How to pay for it all is a big concern. There seems to be a real push for a toll charge at any new bridge or tunnel. I disagree with tolls because we already pay a huge tax on gas, and if we had to stop to pay a toll, the lineups would make having a larger crossing pointless. Putting tolls

on one bridge and not all the others in Greater Vancouver which need upkeep would be unfair. Federal infrastructure money should fund it-ifa bridge isn’t infrastructure, then what is?

One way to build a new bridge is beside the old one, cutting a new path into Stanley Park. Another is to demolish the old bridge, and quickly build the new one on the same site, using every available worker.

As it is now, not a lot of questions are being asked, and not a lot of options have been considered. Building the new crossing is probably the biggest project that Vancouver will see in a long time. Its impact will dwarf that of the VLC lands and the Expo lands. The decision is currently being made by a small group of politicians, bureaucrats, developers, and engineers. Instead, the people of the North Shore and Vancouver should be given a referendum to decide which of all the options they want.

One final idea: Build a six- lane, single-deck bridge to Stanley Park, splitting off into a four lane tunnel for downtown traffic, with the other two lanes heading up onto the existing causeway for buses, carpools, bicycles, and Stanley Park traffic. Extend the Skytrainfrom Waterfront station to Lonsdale Quay. Blow the old bridge, and work round-the-clock building a new one. I’m not an engineer, so I don’t know if this would be possible. I would welcome any input on this idea.

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dismissed as an “aberration” from the norm. The death ofwomen a t the hands oftheir spouses or male relatives is still regarded as the acts of individual “crazies.” Workers dying in polluted maquilladoras or Phillipine chip assembly plants are conveniently ignored.

There is no openly declared war today. But the gnawed heart of society is embodied by at least one “star” who more accurately reflects the trouble with our

and the rest of the band. Nirvana’s latest album In

Utero was also a victim of huge hype-yet stands as one of the best punk rock recordings ever. The reason is its connection to the underlying themes that motivate many of o u r age: irony, detachment, alienation, self- hatred.

And through it all, our hero Kurt was not burning out in a delicious spasm of violence. Instead, the song “Pennyroyal

Nirvana’s lead singer has been through several heroin addictions and recently wound up in a coma in Rome after mixing champagne with sedatives. Perhaps it is too fine a distinction, but Cobain’s addictions seem to me much more driven by an inner self-loathing than the “bright spark” of a James Dean or River Phoenix.

I’m so s tupid and contagiouslHere we are now, entertain us.

Writing those words for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Cobain was not trying to be a rock god or compose a “radio-friendly unit shifter.” He was trying to make sense of the numbing mindlessness of life in Seattle (and bya not verylarge extension, Vancouver). The fact that the song became an anthemic product of the Geffen alternative-hype machine was bemusing to him

his insides.

I wan t warm mi lk and 1axa t iuesICherry - f lavoured antacids.

And instead of a car crash or tragic O.D., Cobain slipped into a coma. He didn’t even have the decency to die and leave us with a martyr.

Last Monday Cobain awoke, and asked for a strawberry milkshake. Doctors in Rome say he won’t suffer from any long- term effects of the coma, and that he will be released from the hospital soon.

Record company hype machines will rejoice. But so, in our own ironic way, should we. There is no easy martyrdom for us. The inner, ulcerous gnawing ofcapitalism will remain with us, as will the coma-inducing banality of TV society.

But like Kurt, we can fight it. And survive, at lcast for awhile.

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by Ted Young-Ing

I was trying to think of the appropriate word for it It’s more than angst. It’s not quite indifference. It’r definately not apathy. A prof told me that it was callec senior burnout, but it extends far further than that.

I will graduate in six weeks. Or rather, in six weeks 1 will have completed my course of study at UBC. I didn’l apply for graduation.

For the past 21 years, I have been groomed for thal moment when they announce my name and I wall across the stage to be wacked on the head with a cheal cardboard hat: Ted Young-Ing, B.A.

Six weeks away from that goal, that piece of papel couldn’t mean less to me.

I’ve come to the realization that a degree serves thc function ofa receipt. You give the administration $20,00( and four or five years of your life, and they give YOU 2

proof of purchase: a bachelor degree. It’s a different world out there than the one containec

within the sheltering walls of university. A bachelo: degree means nothing.

1 remember in first year, I went into one of thc bathroom stalls in the Buchanan building. On the wall someone had written, “Arts degrees-take two, they’rc small” with an arrow pointing to the toilet pape dispenser.

I’ve learned a lot a t university. I have read some o the greatest works of literature in the western world. have studied the conundrums that have plagued thc minds of sages and intellectuals across the ages. But thc true knowledge I take away from this university has no been acquired in classes. You see, these lessons havc only offered me answers. One of the first things I learnec here was that the value of a question lies not in it! solution but rather in the further questions which i, illicits. Answers are dangerous because once you coma up with the answer, the question is solved and can be p u ~ aside.

I have learned what to value in my life. I discoverec in first year that perhaps taking that roadtrip war indeed more important than handing in that essay or time. The value of a letter grade fades quickly. Lifi experiences are carried with you forever.

Most importantly, I have learned that not one singlt thing which we are taught here has any relevance 01 reality to our existance. Academia, theoretica: approaches, analytical study are all bullshit. Viewing the world in abstract terms is plain silly. When we overanalyse our world, we cease to live in the present- we surrender the freedom of the instant and thc possibility of the unknown near future.

I woke up early this morning and watched the sun rise. It filled the sky; purple gave way to pink, then orange, then azure blue. Of what relevance are the Pyrrhonian principles and classic conditioning? It’s the same sunrise that Chaucer, Sophocles and Fraggonard saw. This daily event elicits more excitement in me than even the best page of post-modern fiction.

I guess that this is supposed to be a valedictory speech. A speech for those of us who didn’t go to the ceremony. Those of us who didn’t graduate. Those who chose other paths along the way becasue we found something more important than academia.

University has been an incredibly important force in my life. The freedom to question the society around me has meant that I have questioned much about myself as well. I came here frightened and unsure ofmyself. I come away from UBC knowing who I am and what I want out of life. I have grown so much here at university.

But I have also learned that the journey is more important than the destination.

So whether I eventually apply for graduation, or whether I stop going to classes tomorrow, I know that I come away from these hallowed halls a full human being. That to me is worth far more than any two letters could ever be.

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who ever said we were well- researched?

let’s call the column: leah says ... You would think that a campus paper which is so heavily subsidized by the students of UBC would feel some sort of professional obligation to provide them with ”well-researched, thought-provoking” articles.

At t he l a t e s t AMS council meeting, members were invited to speak to me regarding the proposed National Forum on Student Loan Reform, as well as about the external affairs committee. Since that time, I have had a number of people approach me for more information. No one from the Ubyssey, mind you. For a paper which is constantly complaining about the AMs’ apparent lack of action on any significant issues, you would think that if there was being action taken, it would be reported. What a disservice to the students who pay for the paper!

Leah Costello

wake up strangway

It’s a sad day when the potentially greatest university in Canada more resembles a technical college than the liberal arts college for which the top

The Scream by Edvard Munch, as interpreted by generation X artist Ted Young-lng.

(When you think about it, The Scream is the perfect image for our generation: apart form the disaffected angst thing, it took almost a hundred years to get any kind of widespread recognition. Then at the height of its fame, it gets placed near an open window in a gallery and is stolen by some bumbling art thieves.)

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11 March 1994 known. A striking feature The Ubyssey is a founding member of Canadian University Press The Ubyssey is published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not necessarily those of the university administration, or of the publisher. The editorial office is Room 241K of the Student Union Building. Editorial Department, phone

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ofmany schools sokh of the border is that their liberal arts values and traditions have not been lost amidst the growing number of corporate ties.

Then there’s UBC. As a fourth year student of arts, I’d argue that departmental cuts have dispropor- t ionately fallen on the shoulders of arts without regard to the tradition of education. I think it’s time Mr. Strangway forgot his ideas of making UBC elitist overnight and took a hard look at what type of

~. university he is creating. As we look around our campus we see construction site after construction site.

Our professors are being le t go due t o departmental cuts that have

come about because Strangway would rather build another building than provide the increased enrolment of students with a fair professor-to-student ratio. A university does not become eli t ist through corporate ties! However important , a university cannot survive on JUST its scientific and technological accomplishments.

Central to any university are the liberal arts. And as one compares the glorious science and business buildings to one of the busiest hubs on campus, the Buchanan Buildings, one notices a significant inequality. Yet take a walk through these buildings and at any time of day there might be empty classrooms. T h e n t h e r e a r e t h e Buchanan Buildings. As depar tments shr ink , enrolment r ises as Strangway a l lows the liberal arts of UBC to fall by the wayside.

Wake up and take a hard look at what you are doing to OUR university, Mr. Strangway!

Kimberley Montgomery

Political Science 4

more international

students, please I amwriting in response

to the recent article “UBC welcomes rich international students” and the pertinent zditorial. I ag ree t ha t ‘education should not be something that the rich can buy into.” In a perfect world, ‘education should be 3vailable to those with mterest, curiosity and the 3ase understanding nec- >ssary for further study in ;heir fields of interest.” However, in reality, chronic anderfunding means that miversities must get money Yrom somewhere else. [nstead of increasing tuition hamat ica l ly for a l l rtudents, UBC admin- rtration hope to get the leeded funds from nternational students by .e t t ing more in and subsequently, raise their ;uition as well.

It seems inevitable that ;he student body will ncrease by 10 per cent in

the near future, whether this increase consists of Canadian or international students. Then, you need more facilities to meet the increase. Since many Canadian students can’t afford large tuit ion increases, why not let in more international students to pay for the extra facilities because most of t hem wouldn’t blink a n eye at paying at least $6,000 for an education? Tuition then remains relatively af- fordable for Canadians - if you think UBC is expensive, look at California where their universities charge as high as $12,000 - and we get new and, probably, improved facilities without paying for them, thanks to the extra $20,000 from abroad. Critics say that more international students would take away spaces from Candaian students, A simple solution would be to have higher admission requirements for foreign students.

Victor Wong

Arts 4

ubyssey one- sided, man The article printed on

the front page of the March 04 edition of The Ubyssey entitled “EUS fee hike pays for old penalty” is a n excellent example of one- sided reporting. Instead of researching the topic and report ing the facts the reporter merely took the word of one person, who obviously is themselves misinformed.

The article speaks of two loans granted to the EUS by the AMS. On was not actually a loan, but a consolidation of debts that had accumulated in various accounts before t h e infamous 1989 nEUSlettre. This loan is being repaid by a $2 levy in Engineering student fees. The other loan is earmarked for renovating the Cheez, which will be done that summer. The EUS held a referendum and obtained quorum to raise student fees temporarily over a tw year period. This intitative was approved by the board of gobernors, and the AMS forwarded the money to EUS in the form of

a secured loan, which will be paid off with the funds raised in the next two years.

The extremely irri- tating part of this article is the accusation that the EUS is making a profit from the nEUSlettre affair. The EUS has paid $5,000 a year for the past two years out of our own budget. This money was placed in an AMS account out of EUS control. These funds were then to be spent by the EUS unity and Goodwill committee, which was c rea ted and ad- ministered by AMs council. The committee has been fairly inactive due to many reasons , bu t is now distributing the funds. Of course, the EUS will be contributinganother $5,000 this upcoming year to complete its commitment of $15,000.

Pat Ebert,

EUS president.

c’mon janice, what were ya

thinking? I am wr i t i ng i n

response to a ‘letter to the editor’ that was recently published in your paper. The letter was regarding Janice Boyle’s campaign promise to increase safety in campus by attempting to make free parking available after 5 pm. The author’s concern was tha t f ree parking would encourage driving to campus, adding to our increasinf pollution problem.

Although I a m sympathe t ic to these concerns, being a bicycle commuter myself, I disagree tha t sa fe ty should be compromised in order to force people into using al ternat ive forms of transportation. Safety is a growing concern on campis, as well as in society as a whole, and I applaud any efforts that are made to increase my, and your, and everybody’s safety!

The au thor l i s ted alternatives to driving; walking, biking, taking the bus, o r car-pooling; unfortunately, not everyone is able to excercise these options. For example, biking and walking at night creates more of a safety concern

than biking and walking during the day, and walking home from the bus stop at night can be a scary, as well as dangerous, experience. I do agree that car- pooling is a better idea, both safety- wise and environmentally, than solo driving.

I would suggest that instead of penalizing people who are trying to protect themselves we should do what we can to improve safety, while offering plausible, environmentally friendly, alternatives. More could be done to facilitate car pooling, improve bicycling routes, educate drivers, and, most importantly, end violence within our society. If we did not live with the fear(and penalty) of violence, safety would not be an issue. If safety was not an issue, we could all protect “our beautiful campus” by walking, biking, or taking the bus.

Letitia LiPP

thanks for the pointers, buddy I read your issue of 25

February. The front page was fine, containingthree stories ofinterest to the university comunity. All were well done. The pieces on Noam Chomsky and on the demise of KAON were informative. The poetry and prose in the Black History Month centrespread were well-chosen and thoughtful. Your edi tor ia l regarding the administration’s plane to admit wealthy international students convincingly made the point that education is more t han a commodity. Even the photo/ cartoon of Mike Harcourt’s office was well-placed, on the editorial page. Now to the point ofmy letter.

When you receive letters from readers, it would be most effective (and fair to the correspondent) if you refrained from introducing the letters with such “witty” captions. I am refering to “get a job with college pro and you get to go to barbecues!”; “very intense grammar marty-does company look terrific in a good light?” and “he’s baaack-the annoying prof part XII”. In introducing letters, you should remember that you are prefacing the thoughts of others, and should do so in a way that reflects the content of the le t ters ; that content a lone. Although they have been written by satisfied, and it seems rather zealous employees of college pro, the letters from Mr. Guy and Mr. Natterer sutreest this on their own, and do not require inane references to Mr. Guy’s enthusiasm for barbecues or Mr. Natterer’s troubledwriting skills. You’ve dismissed their messages before the reader gets a chnace to read the letters. Why not put both letters under the heading “college pro employees respond to ‘scammer’s’charge” or something that doesn’t intimate that summer job perks or your perception of borderline i l l i teracy are the issues?

Your treatment of James Steiger i s far more distressing. You may think and I might agree, that Steiger’s rants are annoying. But put simply, (300words).

Len Kuffert graduate studies

you gotta have faith On friday last self-exiled ANX

member Alice Maphati served up an adequately stirring rendition of Black african styled human rights to a feverish gathering longing to gorge itself on humanitarian solid food. The boiled-down cures prescribed a system ofnon-racist education and freedom of the press for blacks(yawn!).

The sombre silence as civil rights atrocities were illucidated

[sic] and the grotesque images of defiled human dignity; the coronary bypass of a nation’s failing heart outlined incision-by- incision. The effect was nauseating as everyone jumped on board this global coming-of-age bandwagon for some once-removed sophisticated protest.

Let me just state here that I am vehemently opposed to apartheid and what it symbolizes: the hierarchy of races; the subjugation ofless technologically advanced people; the continuation of the myth of white supremacy. But let’s face it folks. What can we little band of UBC students do to stop aprtheid besides standing on the sidelines and applauding battles as they are won.

We love to detest “foreign” injustices viewed from the safe distance of our black and white armchairs of non-participation. We feel satisfied loving people too distant to care -while we forbid to stop judging and treating persons in the street as anything more than subhuman. So much easier to love people we cannot touch across an ocean and to loathe those who remind us so deeply of our own inescapable human weaknesses. That is why we set about rather sanctimoniously to establish hierarchies within our own workplaces, neighborhoods, homes, families, schools, and national communities.

The process of reversing apartheid begins within each individual soul in humaneness for others -but it cannot stop there. Let us first learn to tolerate and accept (perhaps maybe even like or love) those in our social backyards first. Then we may know how to reach out less hypocritically to those in Africa that desperately need ou r unders tanding - not our judgment so keenly sharpened on the razor’s edge of our own personal lives.

Robin Benwick

faculty of arts

touche, monsieur schaper

Yet again, unpucker those ass kissing, licks boot lips Marc I feel compelled to respond to Marc G. Schaper’s letter (“Unpucker those ass kissing, licks boot lips marc”) in which he defends Janice

students, the “vast majority at

Ted Young-Ing transportation too. Steve Chow environmentally-friendlymodes of Sara Martin advocating for more Taivo Evard “majority” you would be Chaham Cook you really wanted the best for the Douglas Ferris should be or is-right or wrong. If elections this month: drive, that does not meant that it and are eligible to vote in the because the majority of students contributed to at least three issues 1arge”whom YOU imply drive. Just Staff list: The following have

confuse the issue (presumably) of Liz van Assum leadership and the environment. Niva Chow I do not understand your line of Christine Price argument, and would suggest that Gregg McNally

Finally, you tell me not to Siobhan Roantree

you follow your own advice, Marc. If you have something useful to say-intelligent, rational, coherent and constructive-please say it and refrain from making comments tha t a re “ inane , redundant and that drag others by the wayside.”

Carmen F. Chan HistoryLiterature 4

Accidents happen, you know

I would like to express my concern about some of the editing performed on my article in the Mar 8th issue of the Ubyssey (”What is the chilly climate and who feels it”?). Upon submitting the article, I was well aware it would be edited to some degree, and a l though I found some changes to be improvements, others altered the tone and focus of what I intended to say. The worst example is the change made to the first sentence, which, in your version, seems to state that only gay white men feel the chilly climate. This is certainly NOT what I meant to say.

I t was with very mixed feelings I read something with my name on it that, in part, I did not write or intend to write. Isn’t the chilly climate about being forced to think and speak in certain ”acceptable“ ways? I would hope that future editing could be done with more concern about what constitutes editing vs. rewriting - and potentially misrepresenting.

Sandre Hoenle faculty of education

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