Array THE UBYSSEY Vol. LXIV, No. 64 Vancouver, B.C. Friday, March 26,1982 228-2301 By MARK LEIREN-YOUNG I walked slowly through the corridor, pushing the swinging door open and wandered over to the nearest available seat. I lowered myself onto the bar stool, cleared some near-empty beer mugs and a couple of ash trays off the table in front of me and let my eyes wander around the dimly-lit room. They didn't take long to focus on an attractive woman wearing a black lace bikini top and a knee-length black skirt with a slit down the side that had a tendency to flip open when she moved. Actually, I had noticed her the moment I passed through the door; after all, she was the main attraction. She was on a raised stage surrounded by mirrors and red and blue lights and moved slowly to the rhythms of some innocuous AM radio pop song. The song finished, she let her skirt fall to reveal a G-string which held only a small, black heart and the audience responded with subdued applause. Closest to the stage were the respectable- looking businessmen in their three-piece suits and dull neckties. Beyond them were the workers, in jeans, flannel or T-shirts, with the occasional baseball cap. Sprinkled about the room (I spotted about three), were the lecherous-looking old men with leering eyes and seedy clothes, who crouched over their beers while their eyes strained to follow the dancer's body — the type of men family and media train you to expect in "those sorts of places." Then there were the women. There were three in the audience, plus one serving tables and two in the kitchen. A second dancer came out. The first one had donned a robe after her act and walked quickly to her dressing room. The second dancer mouthed the lyrics to the songs she was moving to. At times it looked as if she was trying to forget where she was. Eventually she finished and a third dancer took the stage. I had been served a draft, but the waitress had yet to come around for me to place a food order. It had been an hour since I had entered and I had seen the food. The 200 customers weren't there for the food, and the service was horrible unless the customers define good service as an attractive woman in extremely tight shorts and T-shirt who chooses which tables to serve at random. I left to explore the rest of the area. I wandered down the street a few blocks, found an Adult Entertainment Store and walked in. The window displayed a range of drug paraphernalia that went from marijuana stickers all the way to "synthetic hashish." Inside there were more "sex toys" than I could comprehend, never mind remember. There was a glass display case containing plastic and rubber genitals in all shapes and sizes. Well, not in all sizes, they ranged from large to elephantine. There was one dildo about the size of an average person's thigh. I went into one of the pinball arcades and traded the man at the counter 50 cents for a silver dollar sized token. Then I walked as inconspicuously as possible to the darkened back of the arcade. There was a row of what looked like blue and black telephone booths. Most of them had their doors closed. I found one that was open and felt around for a slot to deposit my token. There was no light inside the booth and the door had to be held shut. It was like a large upright coffin that wouldn't stay closed. I found the slot, deposited the coin and heard the sound of a woman moaning. There was a thin light coming from the side of the booth, it was a slot to view the film through. I put my eyes to it, held the door closed and watched about 20 seconds of graphic oral sex before the picture and sound vanished. Some men had been in the booths for quite a few consecutive 20 second shots. I had a hunch I had seen one of the tamer films, but after checking out a dozen "adult entertainment" establish- to come tojyoa _„ WMt „,■ ■ > NCOUVER S. •"ER MAINLAND S DAYS A WEEK Nnavc — Now Servians Burnaby, tohm^.NV°an.VVan. Escort Service Wm " Designed W&A With The fm Executive * A in Mind" MODELS AVAILABLE DAILY UNTIL MIDNITI PORNOGRAPHY: THE PROBLEM IS ECONOMIC NOT SOCIAL ments and being approached by a few prostitutes, I had no desire to find out. I walked into another shop that had even sleazier looking booths at 25 cents a peek. I started looking at some of the titles on the books and magazines. In one store the magazines had cost all the way up to $19.95 for what I assumed were the truly graphic scenes. There were women being tortured, women being raped, women being everything but killed and I'm sure I would have seen magazines abcut that if I could have handled looking long enough. I started writing down the names of these books. There was one book by "Submission and Mastery press" entitled "Victims of Rape," and some more with titles indicating that women enjoy being humiliated, tortured — even mutilated. They celebrated fantasies about men fucking or raping women from all walks of life, from their mother to their nurse to their friend's daughters. I say fucking quite consciously because the covers of these books and magazines had captions which indicated that the only women could be pleased sexually is through humiliation and/or pain. The nervous little shopkeeper saw me taking notes, came up to me and told me to leave. I stared at him. He said, "I'd like you to leave now. If you want to take notes on my books come back with your police identification. Bring your police identification," and he hustled me out of his shop. He had thought I was an undercover officer. Now that I've told you about three hours on Granville street I'd like to welcome you to the body of our regularly scheduled feature. . . Before you're even across the Granville bridge on your trip downtown, you hit the Cecil Hotel. It offers exotic dancers from noon to 1 a.m. Its neighbor, the Yale, just at the foot of the bridge, also offers "Live Entertainment." A few blocks down you hit the first of dozens of "adult entertam- ment" shops and adult oriented pinball arcades. Somewhere among the shops sits The Kitten theatre, the closest Vancouver can get to X-rated features without crossing the border or seeing Caligula. Then there are the lingerie shops and, of course, the prostitutes who work across from the Chateau Granville, servicing their clientele in the lanes. The only real difference between Granville and Davie is that Davie is closer to a zoo. It offers a wide range of creatures of the night, while Granville, in its respect ability, is limited in the direct sales of bodies but is a smorgasbord of forms of titillation. The past and present city council have both taken up the crusade of "cleaning up the street," and while the zeal varies the skill in making political promises, excited vows and assessing blame have remained fairly consistent. Mayor Volrich decided to close down massage parlors and Harcourt has decided to cut down on gawkers in the West End. Oh yes, and they both promised to rid Vancouver of its prostitution problem, and so will all of their successors. Volrich was responsible for a set of regulations preventing people from being rubbed the wrong way. Massage parlor licensing fees were raised from $25 to $3,(XX) and the "neck to knee law" was created. Female attendants who had previously conducted nude body massages were forced to wear garments Queen Victoria would have approved of, non-transparent clothes that would have to cover the attendant from neck to knee. Massage parlors switched to offering "nude encounter sessions," and council killed these immediately. But as any good lawyer will tell you, where there's a law there's a loophole: "take home body rubs" were born. The outcall massage business was also the victim of a summary execution by council. The offensive ads run in local sex-oriented papers offered "nude rub- downs with a beautiful lady in the privacy of your home or hotel room." None of the massage ads featured pictures of husky men or women pounding on customer's backs. Papers like the Vancouver Night Times and the Vancouver Star have ads for escort services featuring pictures of women, some clothed and some not so clothed with captions such as "Relax in the company of a beautiful lady . . . spoil yourself." Another escort service offers pampering by models and claims to be "designed with the executive in mind." "Apple 'N' Spice" offers "Discreet service to your residence or hotel," but the ad neglects mentioning what service they offer. Council and citizens have commented on Vancouver's "sin strip," but no one has ever thought to do anything about it until recently. The sudden interest in cleaning up the sex shops suspiciously coincides with a discovery by Granville Mall merchants that these shops are cutting into their profits. The theory seems to be that the lower class shops attract the street nuisances who in turn frighten away potential customers. The increase in licensing fees of sex shops which was meant to discourage businesses has been ineffective, but in October 1981 the city council committee on traffic and environment recommended that the director of legal services draft changes to the licence bylaw to regulate pornographic film- viewing booths and the sale of drug paraphernalia. According to the Vancouver Province, police Sgt. Ken Doern said there are 60 booths where hard core pornography may be viewed within two blocks on Granville Street. "We have apprehended people committing oral sex acts with juveniles in these booths," he said. The booths are in the arcades which can remain open until midnight while adult entertainment stores must be closed at 6 p.m. So the real problem with the sex shops for council seems to be the economic disturbances they cause within the community rather than the sociological disturbances and their promotion of violence against women. Norm McClelland, spokesperson for city hall's permits and licences department, says sex shops are regulated through zoning and licensing bylaws but adds that the only concrete aspect of these are the definitions and even the definitions can seem a bit nebulous. The bylaws do prevent "graphic sexual material or sex paraphernalia" from being display in the window. 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Broadway at Trafalgar Friday, March 26, 1982 THE UBYSSEY Page 3 Military intervention looms By BRIAN JONES If everything goes according to plan, the stage will soon be set for direct American military intervention in El Salvador. Sunday's elections of a constituent assembly have two basic functions — to lend credibility and legitimacy to the Salvadoran government; and to justify the continuation of U.S. economic and military aid and the sending of American troops to El Salvador, if and when it becomes "necessary." The elections are strongly supported by president Ronald Reagan and his administration simply because they serve American interests, and the interests of the Salvadoran economic and military elite who are their allies. Following a general assembly of the Organization of American States in The Reagan administration is creating options for military intervention in El Salvador' December, 1981, the Democratic Revolutionary Front (FDR), an umbrella organization representing the majority of Salvadorans, declared: "The March, 1982 elections are a deception which won't work. Their only objective is to give supposed legitimacy to American intervention which has been going on since January, 1981, in order to maintain in power a minority which exploits and oppresses the people. In El Salvador there is no solution without the people, much less can there be a solution against the wishes of the people." SALVADORAN SOLDIERS . . . training in Georgia The American government has repeatedly declared the situation in El Salvador is an East-West conflict, a struggle between communism and democracy. With the elections, the Reagan administration hopes this interpretation will gain wider acceptance, which in turn would justify increased American aid to the Salvadoran government. The Reagan administration's past strategy has been to send large amounts of economic and military aid. Estimates have put the amount of such aid at about $185 million. But recently this strategy has been stepped up to include the training of Salvadoran soldiers in the United States. In January a 1000-man Salvadoran infantry battalion began training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and between 500 and 600 junior officers began training at Fort Benning, Georgia. Fifty-five American "military advisers" are already within El Salvador and the Central Intelligence Agency has been instructed to "destabilize' the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. The Reagan administration is clearly creating options for a direct military intervention in El Salvador. Sunday's elections are not and never were intended to bring about a peaceful solution to the coun.ry's problems. The FDR has stated in a position paper on the elections: "But if elections are not a viable political solution, what then remains in U.S. foreign policy towards El Salvador? The answer is simple — economic and military aid. In practice, the (American) state department's policy is reduced to its true essence — the search for the junta's military victory over the Salvadoran seople." Robert White, a former American ambassador to El Salvador, has said "The representatives of the Reagan administration are still against a peaceful solution — they are for a military solution." Secretary of state Alexander Haig has stated the U.S. "will do whatever is necessary" to help the junta in its battle against the FDR/FMLN. Thomas Enders, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, has said "nothing has been ruled out." James Goodsell, Latin America correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, recently wrote "The Reagan administration calculates that (Salvadoran) president (Jose Napoleon) Duarte and his embattled government will need much more assistance, perhaps including U.S. troops." Goodsell points out tha: American economic and military aid alore is not accomplishing what it was intended i.o. "The possibility of some sort of U.S. military intervention to bolster the sagging fortunes of president Duarte and his government seems increasingly likely," wrote Goodsell. "The problem is that if the US doesn't want a political solution, they are going to want a military solution," says Oscar Dada, the FDR's political and diplomatic representative in Canada. "And this means they are going to try :o create mechanisms of demagoguery and an electoral farce which would give legitimacy to this military regime. Through this they can justify an intervention in El Salvador," says Dada. The U.S. wants to stop a popular uprising in FJ Salvador because it threatens American interests' "It is American arms that are killing our people," he says. "And now it is going to be the American army that is going to be killing our people." "With the advances our front is having, to the point that the military Christian Democratic junta is not capable of defeating our forces, and with the intransigence of the Reagan administration for a political solution, the only alternative left for them is direct intervention in our country," Dada says. "We have some information that says the chief of the South commandos of the U.S. in Latin America ii in El Salvador," he says. "This shows there is a complete wish to intervene in El Salvador, which implies prolongation of the fight, a regionalization of the fight, and bigger social costs." Dada, who was in Vancouver recently as part of a cross-Canada speaking tour, rejects the American government's interpretation of the situation in El Salvador. "The Reagan administration has tried to make it look as if our fight is being supported by Cuba, Nicaragua, Russia, and the socialist bloc countries. But our fight is eminently national, and we categorically refuse this artificial niche created by the Reagan administration," ssys Dada. "The U.S. has talked about this connection several times, but they have never come up with any proof," he says. "We do recognize that Cuba and Nicaragua give us moral support in our fight, but we also receive that moral support from countries in Europe, Africa, and Latin America." The international arms market, homemade weapons, and arms captured from government forces are the three sources of arms for the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), says Dada. "They've said our arms come from Nicaragua, but very few people know we do , not have a border with Nicaragua. Our borders are with Honduras, Guatemala, and the ocean," he says. Dada criticizes the American government El Salvador—a country where their multinational corporations have free access to markets and resources," says MacKinnon. "They'll make a lot of profits because the government is willing to suppress the people in order to protect American interests." There is a possibility the Reagan administration will use Sunday's elections to justify an eventual military intervention, says MacKinnon. "What may postpone that from happening is pressure in North America, primarily, and from the Western allies," he says. "There is a lot of internal opposition in the U.S., and from the Western allies, to sending troops to El Salvador." Extensive media coverage has greatly increased the public's awareness of the civil war in El Salvador, says MacKinnon. "Even for taking advantage of the ignorance in North America about El Salvador's history. "There is a very serious lack of knowledge of the story of our country, and this is used by the Reagan administration to create negative images of our fight," he says. The intent of the elections is also criticized by Harvey MacKinnon, B.C. coordinator for Oxfam-Canada. The elections are a farce because the ensuing government will be held up as democratic, he says. "This doesn't take into consideration, of course, that the majority of people's interests won't be represented. But it will justify increased U.S. aid to El Salvador, and possibly the sending of troops, because then they can say the government has said 'we need your help' — and they'll certainly be happy to offer it." MacKinnon condemns the goals of the American government. "In the long-term, what the U.S. would like to see imposed on El Salvador, and Guatemala as well, is the 'Chile model.' From the U.S. interest, the Chile model is perfect, except for the fact they've got a military dictator in power," he says. "But it has everything else the United States wants — completely free access to natural resources, trade unions that are basically powerless, and one of the most favorable investment climates U.S. businesses could possibly have. And because the military is so powerful, there's not likely going to be much opposition. "That's what the U.S. would like to sec in though, in general, the media is often unsympathetic to the popular forces, it is pretty hard to hide the fact that the army, the security forces, and the state police are massacring people daily," he says. "If there wasn't so much press coverage about El Salvador, if people weren't as well informed as they are about what is happening there, or if there wasn't the post-Vietnam syndrome of people not wanting their boys to fight on foreign soil or invade a foreign country, it would be much easier for the Americans to send in troops like they've done so many other times in this century," says MacKinnon. "(In the past) it was very easy to do and they did it continually, but it's much more difficult for them to do that now," he says. "They would like to because they want to stop a popular uprising in El Salvador whatever the costs, because then they would have two countries in Central America that are not necessarily opposing their interests but promoting the interests of their own people. And that the U.S. sees as opposing American interests." Meanwhile, the civil war in El Salvador rages on. The elections on Sunday will only increase the danger and likelihood of direct American military intervention, and the cry is growing that the U.S. is embroiling itself in another Vietnam. About all that is missing is a massive protest movement — but even that may soon come. ,T0P US AID TO St SAW DOTH squads WASHINGTON post-Vietnam syndrome and Reagan doesn't like it Page 4 THE UBYSSEY Friday, March 26,1982 Sex shops threaten profits From page 1 of an adult entertainment store and they also prevent minors from entering the premises legally. These restrictions seem to satisfy council at present. The Canadian government got rid of kiddie porn in 1978 because they felt it was morally reprehensible. McLelland said the civic laws are such that regulations for individual stores and businesses can be made specifically by the director of planning. The National Film Board documentary Not A Love Story woke a great many people up to the problems of pornography. It depicted the real life street scene in Montreal and New York. There are still differences between the types of pornography offered in "the big cities" and the types found here, but the differences are not as pronounced as we might like to believe. The Vancouver Status of Women fears pornography encourages a stereotypical view of women. One of the points of Not A Love Story is that pornography perpetrates and legitimizes violence against women in our society. It is also a big business and a Vancouver Magazine Distribution spokesman has said at least half of the 4,000 magazines they sell are pornographic. But at present there is no real problem with pornography in Vancouver as far as most citizens are concerned. However, the problem of prostitution, whether it be through Escort Services or street- walking is recognized by most everyone. Mike Harcourt has stated that Vancouver is not ready to be turned into a city with a red light district. 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The effect of this type of material is to reinforce male-female stereotypes to the detriment of both sexes. It attempts to make degration, humiliation, victimization, and violence in human relationships appear normal and acceptable. A society which holds that egalitarianism, nonviolence, consensualism, and mutuality are basic to any human interaction, whether sexual or other, is clearly justified in controlling and prohibiting any medium of depiction, description or advocacy which violates these principles. —Mark MacGuigan Vancouver's No. 1 Poster Shop poitcr m© We have the Largest Selection & Lowest Price in Town 942 Granville Mall Opposite Downtown Theatre Saturdays from June 19 Includes: • Return air fare via Pacific Western Airlines direct non stop charter — Vancouver to Anchorage • Fully equipped camper or motor home for 7 or 14 days • Transfers • Medical & Vehicle insurance • Wayfarer representative %/ GOING PLACES Think about it...talk about it. 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Trying out for and sometimes competing against each other to the 1980 Olympics trials in Eugene, Oregon, they develop a real affection for each other; they're all friends, and they're learning to grow up together. They're full of pure energy and warmth; not cute, mind you, but almost innocent. And the love with which Robert Towne has graced the physical and personal development of these Olympic contenders, and particularly two pentathelenes who become lovers and remain friends, is nothing short of great. Personal Best, as it charts the progress of these young women over four years, is an astonishing achievement. Personal Best Starring Mariel Hemingway and Patrice Donnelley Directed by Robert Towne Playing at Capitol Six Personal Best begins at the 1976 OLympic trials, where Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway) loses miserably. But the defeat is only momentary, for she meets Tory Skinner (Patrice Donnelly), a top pentathelene who becomes Chris' friend, then lover, and finally a friend again after a bitter separation. Towne, who worked on Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather (both uncredited), Shampoo, and wrote one of the best film scripts of the '70s, Chinatown, has fashioned a sports movie that surpasses every sports film since This Sporting Life. On his first outing as a writer, producer, and director, Towne has managed to create a film that is disarmingly stimulating, involving and charming. One reason why Personal Best is so good is that Towne refuses to exploit his characters — all his characters. There isn't a single character in Personal Best that one can "hate," or even dislike, including the authoratarian coach (Scott Glenn). Towne shows you the total picture: a narrative not full of dramatic exclamation marks and implausible climaxes and resolutions, but comprehensible developments and achievements. Personal Best must be one few sports films that manages to define athletes in terms of their own desires and aspirations, without making any particular sports the unshakable centrepiece of their lives. When the women in Personal Best run, you can feel the tension which envelopes their stealthy bodies and the HEMINGWAY. DONNELLY . lovers, competitors and best friends commitment with which they grace their running. Personal Be:;t is, above all, a film about growing up, abaut two female athletes developing their individual characteristics and drives. Chris and Tory, who fall in love and live together as lovers for three years accept their sexualities with an innocence that rings natural from the very first love scene. Towne doesn't back away from showing these two women making love because he rightly sees nothing immoral about their behaviour. At the centre of the female athletes is an innocence that makes them comparable to children discovering the pleasures of their own bodies and their own sexualities. When Chris and Tory touch each other and engage in foreplay, they seem like residents of un- fallen Eden, enjoying sexuality as it was meant to be — unapologetically. There isn't a single moment in Personal Best that "explains" or apologizes for Chris and Tory's lesbian relationship. The movie doesn't foreshadow their sleeping together by showing incredulous eye contact and hints before they get together; unlike Making Love, Personal Best doesn't turn its homosexual characters into banal types who self-consciously glare and stare and wonder about their own sexuality as if it were the only thing in their lives. If you didn't know what Personal Best was about, or that it involved a lesbian relationship, the first love scene would probably catch you off guard. (At an afternoon showing of the film, a bunch of high school types groaned at a scene in which Donnely kisses Hemingway and the two start making love. "1 didn't know the move was about this!" shouted an ignorant type, and you could tell some members of the audience were uncomfortable; they couldn't understand a film that refused to make a big thing about its characters homosexuality or bisexuality.) "Winning is like sex. Sometimes you think there's just got to be more," Tory tells Chris, and the two laugh at the quip. We laugh too because of the immensely caring relationship these two women have. It may be that part of their own security about their sexuality comes from the fact that they lead relatively sheltered lives as athletes who look out for HEMINGWAY, GLENN . . . star and coach before track meet each other and whose lives are predominately charted on the track field. Most of the credit for Personal Best belongs to Robert Towne who has bathed his film in a natural, warming glow of Southern California. Even the first love scene is set in a child's nursery room, and filled with comforting golden light. When Towne shows the women's bodies, in the love scene, for example, or in the steam rooms, he doesn't make a big deal about the fact that we're watching naked bodies. His camera becomes part of the steam rooms as if it were one of Ihe athletes. The off-color jokes that the young women make when they're alone don't em- barass us — or even begin to make us feel a sense of exploitation — because they appear comfortable and happy about themselves; there is nothing to be sorry for. All self- conscious awareness is tripped away. The roots of this laudably mature approach to photographing nude bodies, an approach that doesn't undermine the eroticism of the naked human body, goes right back to the origins of cinema with Eadwesrd Muybridge. A photographer, Muybridge experimented with multiple camera to achieve a sense of motion in rapid succession of still photographs. Muybridge too, had no sense of shame about the naked subjects he was photographing; there was nothing exploit ve in his single frame experiments because he captured the genuine eroticism of physically perfect bodies. Towne could easily be considered Muybridge's modern counterpart. He is fascinated by athletes' endurance levels. When he photographs the athletes running in competitions, he does his best to give us a sense of his own intense fellings for his subjects. Some of the running scenes begin at normal speed and then slip into slow motion, without a single cut! For a second, we don't even realize that the film has changed into slow motion because the film's mood and style is so damn lyrical, it's intoxicating. Personal Best has some of the best slow motion sequences in a long time. If the movie appears to be an American version of Chariots of Fire, rest assured that it isn't. Personal Best is as distant from Chariots of Fire as a starting pistol is from a runner at the end of the 400 metre hurdle dash. Towne's film has none of Chariots of Fire's annoying preachiness about believing in God, and neither does it have the unforgivably anachronistic synthesizer music that is currently polluting Ihe airwaves. The two runners in Chariots of Fire were so filled with differing emotions that the dichotomy between the characters became archetypal; one believed in God, the other didn't and was desperately looking for something to believe in — even himself. The strain on the runners faces was exaggerated; one couldn't believe for a minute that these were real runners; you couldn't feel a true sense of athletic effort that went into the track scenes. Personal Best is better precisely because it makes the athlete's strenuous aim for perfection and endurance invigoratingly comprehensible. The slow motion doesn't exaggerate the facial gestures, it compliments them. In one sequence, Chris, who finaJy gets a chance to run with the established athletes, sets up a running block for herself, and then falls. In a split second, we feel her disappointment. But just as quickly, she picks up and starts running, and catches up with the others — she makes good on her promise. When Hemingway and Donnelly run the hurdles, its very easy to feel the sense of immense drive that is central to the women's lives. This time, there is no Vangelis music to add a new dimension to the frame and cover up the flaws; the score, by Jack Nitzsche and Jill Fraser, doesn't overwhelm the athletes; it pushes the tempo of the film frame and catapults the slow motion into something great (Jack Nitzsche also composed the excellent music for Cutter's Way — the best music soundtrack of 1981). Towne further highlights the athletes by focusing the camera on parts of the characters' faces and limbs: on bulging arm muscles during a wrestling match between Donnelly and Hemingway, for example, or on athletes' calves and thighs during the running scenes. In a masterful stroke,Towne has instructed supervising film editor Bud Smith to cut a series of rapid fire montages during the star of running sequences. In split second shots, the limbs of at least seven different athletes are contrast and with a sensitive use of rapid cutting. Personal Best invogorates the viewer with the athletes' energy — it sends a rush down your body. Towne also uses cropped frames to highlight different parts of the body, and a selective use of jump cuts. None of these techniques is new, of course, but Towne makes them into something original, personal. This is an amateur director (in the sense of being a firsttimer who is discovering his love for the cinema, and wants to infect us with the same feeling. In the two central roles of Chris and Tory, Hemingway and Donnelly give the kind of performances frequently underrated by critics and audiences alike, because too much emphasis is placed on the physicality of the roles; it's as if playing character athletes doesn't take a hell of a lot of real guts to carry off. Donnelly is an athlete who was chosen for the role over other film actresses, and this is her first performance; she gives Tory a sense of maturity and understanding and strength that one can only expect from veterans. As for Mariel Hemingway, she fares less well in some of the early scenes, but her progress is like her character Chris' — slow starter, but a brilliant achiever. Like Towne's achievement, it is her own personal best. In the difficult, but not totally thankless role of the coach, Scott Glenn combines a sense of toughness and skillfully masked awareness that makes him more than "the coach as pimp," as one critic has called him. While one may risk overpraising Personal Best, it is equally foolhardy to dismiss this film and not pay it the kind of attention this original film deserves. The year is still relatively young, but with the possible exception of Louis Malle's My Dinner with Andre, Robert Towne's Personal Best is the best film the cinema has offered us this year. It makes going to movies a pleasure. Page 6 THE UBYSSEY Friday, March 26,1982 Boiler room art displays earthless works; sheeps' intestines, pigeon droppings, underwear, phalluses By JOAN B. STUCHNER Those Ubyssey readers who hungrily waded through Alice Thompson's purple prose in the March 12th art critique, must have been left with a feeling thai "surely there must be more." It no doubt whetted the appetite for more "organic earthy works: folds, flagelli, skeletal forms," and, of course "visceral interiors." So it will come as a thrill to most of you to learn that the official UBC art show was not the only one in existence. There was — and is — a kind of beyond-the-fringe art show in the SUB boiler room displaying the works of such derriere-garde artists as Plie Moncrief, Koco La Pont and Sean Patrick Kwai. All the artists in the critically acclaimed showlet are influenced to a great extent by the pioneers of the Right-Now move- KWAI free standing, still life collage, with veg, fruit and running shoe when he sat down much later for cocktails with friends. And Bert Higginbottom wrote in his weekly column, Around Town with Bert, "I may not know anything about art, but I know what other people like." The first work to catch the eye as MONCRIEF Flimsies explained to crituque ment — Christie Cohen-Wong, LaVerne Kamakazi and Ntsake Peabody. The three artists believe that one must start out with the basic under- layer and build on that, organically, until one has achieved a totally integrated whole. Many of the local, elderly critics, who attended the opening of the show with their young girlfriends, were practically speechless at what they saw in the SUB boiler room. "I'm simply, practically speechless," said Errol Burbury one ducks beneath the bubbling pipes of the boiler room, is the ambitious sculptural earthy work of Miss Moncrief. An integrated, webbed cave of both synthetic and natural fibres, such as dried and braided sheeps' intestines over fine chicken wire, the work is meant to draw the viewer in to explore its many facets. These include small piles of dried clay, cat litter and pigeon droppings, a recurring motif in Miss Moncrief's Art. The cave seems to be a humorous attempt to draw attention to humanity's fight for survival in a mechanical, hostile, as it were, nonorganic world. It is a plea for freedom, made especially poignant by the addition of a piece of barbed wire on which is caught a tuft of sheeps' wool: a mute testimony to man's inability to keep sheep from leaping out of their little pens. Plie Moncrief has said about her multi-media projects, "I feel that the artist must be reconciled to the basics before embarking on more ambitious probjects." This is apparent in her work entitled, Flimsies and Jock Strap on Washing Line. "I chose underwear," says the artist, "because it represents to me what the base coat represents to the painter. And when I have exhausted all the possibilities I will progress to outer garments, but not until I feel that I am truly at one with the very basics of this type of work." Miss Moncrief also likes to juxtapose, in her free standing collages, items which she feels have an inherent, though not obvious, organic relationship. And so we might find in her earthy works such seemingly disparate items as a gym shoe, a lump of sod, a few twigs or a light sprinkling of cat litter. "I feel my work is often surrealistic, and yet if you walk past it very quickly with your eyes half closed it becomes almost impressionistic." The work of Koco La Pont, whose untitled blank canvasses drew much praise, has the tranquil yet subtly cerebral quality which marks the artist who has gained enough confidence to march to her own drummer. Although there are some who have called her blank canvasses "the result of a cleft palate," most criticism has been favorable. But Koco has never restricted herself to the two — or rather one — dimensional medium. •* (C& 1<P 1& & &** & says Miss La Pont, were greatly misunderstood by the critics. When asked to comment on her work she added, "my art must speak for itself." It does, Koco, it does. Sean Patrick Kwai specializes in papier mache phalluses. These free standing and highly controversial pieces are a statement he says, almost a protest, against the current 'p and a' syndrome, represented by magazines such as Playgirl. Men must not be seen as simply parts, but the whole made up of those parts. His largest work, which hangs from a meat hook over the boiler room entrance was described by Errol Burbery's girlfriend — who's quite bright really, when you get to know her — as brutally sensuous. Sean and Koco are hoping to join forces some time next year to combine their talents in an ambitious project which is as yet a well- guarded secret. But insiders believe that it might involve a papier mache re-building of the UBC clock tower FLIMSIES artist hangs out her wash She is planning, as her next project, to string 40,000 tampons around a small town somewhere in the state of Nebraska. Her previous works of this nature have mainly consisted of brightly colored lighthouse cosies. But these works, to resemble one of Mr. Sean Kwai's favorite subjects, for which Miss Koco La Pont may crochet her largest cosy yet. The boiler room Right-Now show is on until the end of the day. Don't miss it. Friday, March 26,1982 THE UBYSSEY Page 7 Sex themes interest By LAWRENCE PANYCH American choreographer Margo Sappington has created ballets which are in the repetories of ballet companies around the world. She has worked in opera ballet and on Broadway. She recently spent several weeks in Vancouver mounting her modern ballet, Weewis, for Pacific Ballet Theatre. It will be presented in a program entitled City Nights, April 8 to 10 at UBC Old Auditorium. Your career in dance has been very successful. Where did it begin? I was brought up in Baytown, Texas. I studied classical ballet as a child and when I was about 14. I went to high school in Houston where I discovered that there was more than classical dance. I had a teacher named Camille Hill who believed in dance as movement and not as style. I learned from her how to improvise, how to use drama in movement. As a teenager I struck up a friendship with Robert Joffrey (of New York's Joffrey Ballet). I took class from him when he was in town and he encouraged me. When I was about to graduate from high school he invited me to go to New York and join his company. So I went and was with him for two years. I had an injury and spent a year taking class and getting back into shape. I met (Broadway choreographer) Michael Bennett and did two shows with him as a dancer. I was his assistant, his dance captain, and and understudy to everybody. He was asked to choreograph Oh Calcutta and had me audition for it. I was accepted into the cast but as things worked out he decided not to do it and recommended me as a replacement. You were very young al the time. I was 21. It was exhilarating. You know, when you're 21 you feel like you can do anything. The thing is that it is not exactly what I hoped it would be. One reason I did it was just the excitement of doing it. Unfortunately I was completely blind to the business aspects and what the total product was going to be. In some ways it has turned out to be very good for me and in some a real nemesis. I cringe when I get reviews which refer to me as Margo "Oh Calcutta" Sappington. Fortunately that's beginning to drift away. People know you most for works like Oh Calcutta and Weewis which deal with sexual themes. Is this a preoccupation? I think people are interested in sexual themes and that is why they remember me for those works. For the past three years I have been working with the San Francisco Opera. Opera ballet is opera ballet. It's not about people maiking love and interpersonal relationships. I knew that Oh Calcutta was fading into the past when people began to know me because I did La Giocon- da. They didn't know me because of the other things but because 1 did opera ballet. What do you find interesting and challenging after the success you've had? I like to be presented with a problem. It's interesting to come to a company like Pacific Ballet Theatre, not knowing anything about them, and find out what they can do and then come up with a product in a short time. How would you assess Pacific Ballet after having worked with them? They are very quick. They are very good. The general public thinks that a small company of 10 dancers can't possibly be as good as a large company of 45. That's not true. I think the smaller ones are more interesting. In the large companies there are a few principals and soloists but for the rest it's just a job like any other. In the small companies no one feels like a corps person. No one gets pushed to the back. They all get a chance to do a soloist's work. Would you describe your ballet, Weewis? It was done first in the late '60s and early '70s. It's a ballet about relationships. It's about three couples; friends, lovers and lovers who are past the romantic stage, you could almost say that the three couples are aspects of one relationship. The ballet is structured in such a way that you are introduced to each one of the couples as each resolves itself in some way. I like to do works that touch on something other than what only those who are very knowledgable in dance can relate to. You can express something in dance the same way as with a painting, sculpture or a play. Because there are no words doesn't make it less expressive. It doesn't just have to be a work of beauty or patterns. It can have dramatic content and tell a story too. PACIFIC BALLET ... no one feels like a corps Obsessional love: Truffaut creates a master fraud of silly pretension By SHAFFIN SHARIFF The time has come to seal the door on Truffaut's creative coffin. The once-talented Nouvelle Vague director, whose 400 Blows laid the groundwork for a real "new wave" in the '60's, has been slipping for the past few years. The sad truth is that the auteur, the director-philosopher-teacher, has become pedantic, melodramatic, and surprisingly unexhilirating. His latest film, The Woman Next Door (La Femme d'a Cotte), is an unrelentingly solemn and self-consciously important tract on obsessional love. The Woman Next Door Directed by Francois Truffaut Starring Gerard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant Playing at the Ridge At the heart of Truffaut's unintentionally ridiculous film are two lovers, Bernard Coudray (Gerard Depardieu) and Mathilde Bauchard (Fanny Ardant), who separated about eight years before the narrative begins. They are now neighbours, much to Bernard's obvious discomfort — the poor boy still loves her. What follows, as a new attachment grows into obsession and then insanity, is pure melodrama, made worse by Truffaut's infuriatingly serious treatment of the subject. One need only compare Truffaut with fellow Cahiers du Cinema critic .and filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard to realize Truffaut's sorry state. Not only is The Woman Next Door ridiculous, it rings false at every moment. While Godard's political and philosophical bent has grown nihilistic, and humorously so, his technique has remained consistently invigorating and e.xhilirating. Godard's Every Man for Himself is a near masterpiece; Truffaut's The Woman Next Door is a master fraud. The Woman Next Door may be one of the few films about obsession that isn't compelling. Watching Bernard and Mathilde immersed in their passions — or what Truffaut feels is passion — one can't help but reject these characters. Bernard and Mathilde are middle class characters livir.g in the country; he's a technician, she's a writer of children's books and an illustrator. What Truffaut tries to say is that love can even effect these economically stable characters who though they had "conquered" love and its destructive power. What Truffaut has done to his characters by keeping any secondary conflicts from their lives is unforgivable. Bernard and Mathilde's spouses are so forgiving and understanding you'd think they had just spent the last 10 years studying rationalism. This contrasts the rationalistic outlook of the characters with the passion smoldering under Bernard and Mathilde. But there is no reason to leave the audience out in the cold by refusing to make Bernard and Mathilde's story involving, much less comprehensible. The Woman Next Door looks poetic, with William Lubtchansky's brilliant color photgraphy. Lubtchansky also shot Godard's Every Man for Himself. But little else about Truffaut's film is memorable. Truffaut and longtime collaborators Suzanne Schiffman and Jean Aurel have sabotaged every move the characters make by giving them pretenciously silly dialogue. For example, after Mathilde's affair is known to her spouse, the husband says, "Men never understand love, they're amateurs." Apparently, Truffaut expects viewers to take such sentiments at face value, without bothering to explain the comrrents. When characters keep making blanket statements about their personalities everything they say sounds false because there is nothing to back them up; the style is as banal as the content. In an interview with the New York Times, Truffaut said, "Men know nothing about love. They are always beginners. The heroine is always the stronger . . . Women are professionals at love; men are the amateurs." The director actually believes his own rhetoric. Of The Woman Next Door, Truffaut says, "I had the idea for the film for a long time, the notion to what happens to two unhappy lovers if they meet after a long separation. But there was something too symmetrical about it: two couples, with one obsessed partner and one who is unaware. "It was this fifth character that I needed." Madame Jouve (Veronique Silver) is the handicapped observer who narrates Bernard and Mathilde's story as a flashback. When the film begins, Madame Jouve plays games with the camera-audience, consciously calling attention to the fact that we are watching a film. "You think I'm a tennis player?" she asks, and then instructs the camera to pull oack and reveal her handicap. It's as if she were saying, "I'm going to narrate this story on my terms, as a subjective experience." (How else is one supposed to interpret a film in which the camera responds to a character's direct command?). But Truffaut ignores his own narrative structure. Having Madame Jouve as the narrator at the beginning and then filming the narrative objectively goes contrary to everything Truffaut has led the viewer to anticipate; there is nothing intrinsically wrong with doing that, but if you're going to indicate a subjective narration, why not follow up on it? Why not give us a few shots from Madame Jouve's point of view, or even from on of the lovers' point of view? If Truffaut thought he was avoiding a neat symmety by introducing Madame Jouve as a fifth character, he was wrong. What Madame Jouve represents is an earlier version of Mathilde. Madame Jouve once tried to commit suicide, just as Mathilde has, we're told. The similarities between the two stories, one past, one present, are so close, that Truffaut has set up a pat narrative parallel without fully realizing the consequences of his action. When characters begin to articulate complex emotions formalistically, there is nothing to indicate that Truffaut doesn't want us to accept these comments at face value. Characters in The Woman Next Door speak as if they were leftovers from the play actors were rehearsing in Truffaut's The Last Metro; the Woman Next Door's dialogue belongs on the stage, not on the screen. In The Last Metro, Truffaut showed himself capable of sustaining a narrative, even if he did back away from important questions about the relationship between art and politics during times of political repression. The Woman Next Door doesn't even have a strong narrative. Jean-Luc Godard has said that films should have a beginning, a middle, and aa end, but not necessarily in that order. In The Woman Next Door, Mathilde says to Bernard, "You make me feel miserable. Why must an affair have a beginning, middle and an end?" As if answering to Godard's statement, Truffaut has patterned Bernard and Mathild's affair into a linear narrative. It's not that Truffaut doesn't have any strong points — some of Ardant's close-ups and shots without dialogue are highly effective — but the director is fond of tackling subjects that seem important to him, but to nobody else. And it's not just that Truffaut doesn't have anything new to say; he has no new way of saying it. As Godard said of his former colleague, "(He) was once a good critic ... He is now making films he used to destroy as a critic." Page 8 THE UBYSSEY Friday, Ms Map of the Body: art over accuracy By CORINNA SUNDARARAJAN There was a time when a person could be a poet and mathematician, philosopher and astronomer, chemist, painter, surgeon, dramatist — and still store all her or his knowledge between two dusty book covers. Five centuries and a micro-chip revolution later, the studies of arts and sciences are irreparably severed into two antagonistic impulses: to interpret a vision or document a fact. The UBC fine arts gallery pays tribute to our more compatible past with Maps of the Body, an exhibition Of anatomical illustrations through the last five centuries. Maps of the Body UBC Fine Arts Gallery March 3 to April 2, 1982 Yet the term "illustration" is too coldly factual to evoke the powerful emotion of these early woodcuts, engravings and lithographs. Here the artistic impulse overcomes accuracy; the cadavers are envisioned as victims in gruesomely tortured contortions, as thought the scientist could not ultimately maintain professional objectivity while his textual notes and pointers methodically ripped open the flesh of his own likeness. One method of avoiding this vexing identification was to draw an anatomical figure with only the barest ressemblance to fact, a method which created eerily grinning corpses eeking exotic organs, strangely anticipating the profundity of surrealism. Leonardo de Vinci, here celebrated in his capacity as master draftsman, was the first artist to be guided by scientific observation rather than imaginative fancy. Extraordinarily textured muscles ripple across the manuscript, sinews seem to stretch, bones to bend and nerves to tingle — he was the first dissector to correctly document the curve of the human spine, a vision as evocative as the mysterious curve of Mona Lisa's lips. By the seventeenth century, the science of anatomical drawings confined art to the background, literally. The intricately dissected figures of Andrea Vesalius are incongruously posed against a genteel Paduan countryside; one skeletal Hamlet muses pensively over a skull interchangeable with his own. The eighteenth century's Bernard Seigfried Albinus dispenses with even this minimal cultural context, drawing mathematically precise figures against a sterile grid. In a series of drawings which progressively strip down a human figure from flesh to bone, the muscles and organs methodically sliced away, he gives absolutely no suggestion of the earlier vulnerable horror; no recognition of a common humanity penetrates through this minute documentation of physical mechanics. Add colour (blue for the veins and red for the arteries) and paradoxically, the drawings become less artistic interpretations than uniform documentations, illustrations not creations of human structure, not nature. In the midst of the Maps of the Body display sits a human skeleton entombed in glass to remind us what fact is, and comparing this fact with five centuries of attempts to draw it, one realizes that we might have gained in objective accuracy, but we certainly have lost the imaginative power of mystery. Feminist Near blends emotion and politics By MURIEL DRAAISMA Holly Near, a feminist singer and songwriter, delivered a sensitive performance Friday night at the Orpheum in which she displayed an inspiring emotional and political awareness. Near weaves together music and politics without being dogmatic. Her lyrics describe the anger people threatened by nuclear disaster feel, the pain women living in a male- dominated society suffer, and the alienation gay and lesbian people experience. Her songs are both soothing and powerful, drawing an emotive response from the crowd. As she stood on the stage surrounded by plants and flowers, the auburn haired singer appeared casual and relaxed. Near was at home with her audience. A sense of peace pervaded the theatre. The California-born singer began her performance with Fire in the Rain, a moving song about a stormy relationship. Her rich soprano voice pacified the audience. Near's feminist insight expressed itself in a song about war, Foolish Notion. It "talks about what a strange concept it is to kill ourselves when we have such precious lives," says Near. The largely female audience sang along. She stepped up the pace with the energetic Ain't Nowhere We Can Run, dedicated to anti-nuclear activists. This was followed by the popular Fight Back, a song which urges action against violence towards women. Near sang We Are A Gentle, Angry People, inviting all members of the audience to sing the verse We Are Gay and Lesbian People regardless of sexual preference. A feeling of solidarity spread through the crowd as women, men and children sang and cheered. But even though she dealt with serious topics, her performance was not lacking in humor. She told stories about her high school years, and talked amiably between songs. She conveyed charisma, confidence and warmth. She sang the Judy Garland classic, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, and a track from her upcoming album, Different From Me. Her songs injected a reflective mood in the audience. Accompanying Near on piano was songwriter Adrienne Torf, who has been Near's partner for two years and is co-arranging the album due in September. Torf played a powerful solo, adding an instrumental touch to the evening's performance. Carrie Barton, whom Near described as the "funk in the band," joined the two on bass. Susan Masters translated the songs into sign language for the deaf. At the end of the concert Near received a standing ovation. The audience left the theatre feeling inspired and stirred by the feminist RITA JOE . . . play studies harsh life of native women in city Little ecstasy in Rita Joe's sad, tin By GENE LONG There is little ecstasy in the story of Rita Joe. A young native woman has come to the city where the pavement hurt her feet. Her life becomes a street scene from the corner of Main and Hastings, or any such corner in Winnipeg or Edmonton. Rita Joe doesn't stand a chance. Her fate is presided over by a paternalistic court judge who represents White Canada. She is the legacy of the fallen Native — a modern, urban legacy. George Ryga wrote this play in 1967. It has been staged many times across the country but this production is the second time all the native parts are being played by Indians. It is not a wholly successful effort but is worth seeing. The woman who plays Rita Joe, Margo Kane, is by herself an event in Canadian theatre. She is all that Ryga could have imagined Rita Joe to be. Jaimie Paul (Tom Jackson) is almost her stage equal. His good natured macho naivete is first defined and then tragically smashed by an overwhelming alientation from white society. The Ecstasy of Rita Joe By George Ryga Directed by Gordon McCall Playing at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Through this pair Ryga makes a simple point loudly: there is no justice for the dislocated Indian. Beyond that, the play does not have a lot to say. And perhaps, fifteen years later, a little more is needed. Rita Joe and Jaimie Paul are characters in struggle, mostly one of survival. But they do not repre sent any vision of promise and i the end are both swept away i defeat. There is little doubt tha there are many of defeated Nativ people around, but that is not a unfamiliar image to white people In fact that is about all white societ knows. That is not to say the play, pai ticularly this production, is a unimportant reminder. That we ar all in some way responsible for th oppressive periphery in which ou society entraps Native people is point that is well established. As an dience we are all Rita Joe's unsyrr pathetic accusers (this highlited i the second act with the inventiv technique of flashlight carrier throwing challenges from all coi ners of the theatre. A white well-to-do audience ma THE UBYSSEY Page 9 r IN REVIEW Book bites the biggest firm By ERIC EGGERTSON In writing about the Bell system of telephone companies, Sonny Kleinfield wisely steers clear of an all-encompassing profile of the telephone monopoly. Instead he randomly pokes away at The Biggest Company on Earth. The result is a Fantastic Voyage through the bloodstream of a company that employs over a million people, has three million shareholders, and telephone equipment installed in almost every building in the U.S. The proportions of the American Telephone and Telegraph company surpass any other corporate organism one can think of. With assets of $114 billion, annual profits of $6 billion, and the probability of continued future growth, AT and T is clearly unique. The Biggest Company on Earth: a profile of AT and T By Sonny Kleinfield Holt, Rinehart and Winston 280 pages, $19.95 hardcover Kleinfield, faced with an enormous task, decides to pick and choose his way through the maze of corporate jargon, and masses of telephone company employees. He maintains a totally unbiased point of view as our guide through this monolithic inferno, choosing to reveal but not judge his subject. The book provides something for both the satisfied customer wanting to know more about the phone company, and the suspicious activist looking for more reasons to hate the company. AT and T executives and various pro-company employees tell the story of a company that can only offer good service if it is large. The bigger the company the better the service. They explain that despite its immense size, AT and T has more contact with its customers than any other corporation. They point to the high standards of service offered by operators, service personnel and administrators, the low cost and the constant improvements implemented by the designers and manufacturers of telephone equipment. The other side argues that the company, unlike its recent competitors, does not respond to customer needs, unfairly protects its monopoly, and pressures local groups into approving rate increases without justifying them. They further point out that, while At and T treats loyal employees well, it requires absolute subservience in return. Those who can't meet production quotas lose their jobs quickly. This duality of opinion about the Bell system is due partly to the faci that no outsiders realize its size, anc so few people really understanc : what they're talking about. Klein j field answers some questions, anci gives a quick survey. But when all ' the questions are answered it seems that nothing changes. Those who disliked AT and T hate it, and those ; who were satisfied with the com pany love it. Shareholders especial • ; ly love it. ; For a company as large as AT and T, the administration is run on fairly simple lines. Each of the 22 operating companies in the U.S. an: : run independently from head of - : fice. But head office chooses who i runs the operating companies. The l board of directors issues policy di- i rectives, but allows the smallc i companies to work with little interference within those guidelines. Surprisingly, the company's chair is relatively accessible to the public. His home phone number is listed in the book. Even if no heed is taken of people's concerns, the impression nurtured is that the public has input into Bell's decisions. And if Kleinfield is to be believed, Bell workers at all levels are concerned about what the public thinks. From the technicians in AT and T's mammoth Bell Laboratories, to the people who install house phones, the attitude is the same: give the customers what they want. Yet by the end of The Biggest Company on Earth one realizes that the company, not the public, decides what the customer wants. As the benign dictator of telephones, AT and T, while providing good service to many, stifled the very innovations it now proudly boasts. Competition, Kleinfield tells us, brought about a radical shift in Bell's way of doing business. And the story is told of the small companies driven out of the telephone business because Bell can win any price war by subsidizing cheap services or equipment until the rival folds. If that is not enough, Kleinfield relates instances of Bell branch companies influencing local town councils to approve rate hikes by plying them with Bell-paid holidays and feasts. It isn't difficult, after reading about the potential for abuse in phone company monopolies, to realize the value — even necessity — of regulatory boards to keep the company in line. Company supporters return again and again to the point that, while there exists the potential for abuse, AT and T has kept its hands clean. Any indiscretions are caused by overzealous employees, who in their wish to serve tire public, get carried away. "These are reasonable men," we are told. And while the reasonable men manipulate billions of dollars in phone bills, stock options and the like, the employees face the endless monotony of answering the phones. The female-dominated operator area of the company works under strict, unbending rules. Operators are secretly monitored for speed and accuracy by supervisors. An operator is expected to answer the phone politely in three seconds, and to dispense with the average call in a set time, sometimes in less than half a minute. Slow operators are monitored even more closely. Operators are secretly monitored for speed, politeness What Kleinfield could not be expected to discover in his hit-and- miss tour of AT and T is the dispensation of company drugs to employees. Mother Jones magazine found AT and T doctors were dispensing tranquillizers and pep pills indiscriminately. One employee told of a permanent stash of green pills sept by the water fountain for employees' unmonitored use. This practise was meant to improve production. Despite what the company feels is excellent service for a reasonable price, the cry for breaking the monopoly has been heard in Washington. Kleinfield mentions the largest anti-trust suit ever filed — against AT and T. After The Biggest Com pany on Earth was published the U.S. government and AT and T settled out of court, with the phone company agreeing to spin off its operating companies (with assets of $80 billion) and the government allowing Bell to get into the lucrative communications business, long dominated by another giant, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM). The Bell's system's vertical integration has long been its prize. Owning everything from research labs to manufacturing plants to the long distance phone company. Bell has been able to control every aspect of personal communications in the U.S. Now, with each of the operating companies a separate entity, the Bell chain is broken. Kleinfield's book tells the story of a monolith that will cease to exist in 18 months. The new AT and T story will be fascinating, well worth a new book to chronicle the clash of the super- companies in the computer field. Bell's immense research facilities (which invented the transistor) will be unleashed upon a new area. But IBM, which designed the first computers, has a big lead over any of its competitors — even AT and T. One shudders to think that a company as large as AT and T ever evolved. AT and T's annual revenue rivals the gross national products of all but a score of countries. Yet with all this power come limitations. The Biggest Company on Earth describes a company with enormous wealth and power reduced to asking its customers, through regulatory bodies, for even the most miniscule rate increases. Whether or not you like the phone company, its story makes fascinating reading. Intensity was astonishing By KERRY REGIER Norman Krieger, in his Sunday piano recital, astonished the audience with the intensity of his interpretations. Playing in the Arts Club Theater in a Vancouver Recital Society concert, Krieger played Beethoven's op. 31 no. 2 Sonata and Prokofiev's Sonata op. 82 no. 6 with metronomic relentlessness. And yet, Krieger's control of dynamic nuances was exciting for most of the two works. The Prokofiev sonata in particular is a craggy, violent work, which Krieger played with some of the relentless, terrifying inevitability of a military march, somewhat in the mood of Mars from Hoist's Planets. Such interpretations are boring because of the exact repetition of the beat, but Krieger maintained interest by subtly shading dynamic accents, ,a little louder here, a little softer there, to capitalize on his mechanically perfect rhythm. In some of the more cantabile sections this came off less well, especially in the Beethoven, but Krieger's playing was never less than interesting. The second half of the program was utterly different: Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky played with the wise tempo changes and rubatos of the great romantics of the past. Again Krieger displayed a deeply felt and carefully thought sense of just how much to delay a resolution or rush a phrase to wring the greatest intensity from it. But most evident of all was Krieger's enormous bravura strength. In the Liszt Dante Sonata, an incredibly banal piece of music, Krieger managed to keep the audience's attention by grabbing Liszt's absurdly monstrous chords by their throats and blasting them out over an amazed audience, spell bound by the sheer force of Krieger's assault. Tremendously exciting, though perhaps not as profound as an older pianist (Krieger is a mere 25 years old), Krieger staged a memorable performance through the intensity of his individuality. NORMAN KRIEGER . . . relentless pianist Page 10 THE UBYSSEY Who is subverting whc American governments have a habit of blaming the world's problems on the evil designs of "communists." But the Reagan administration has reached new heights of irrationality and brutality. In their self-appointed role as protector of the free world against the communist conspiracy, Reagan and his henchmen have continuously pointed the finger at the Soviets while ignoring their own guilt. This is especially true in respect to Central America. American interference in and domination of the affairs of the people of Central and Latin America dates back to the early 1800s. The simple fact that the Americans have refused to relinquish their hold over the region accounts for the dramatic rise in revolutionary movements there. American multinational corporations have built profits on the backs of an abused and repressed people. When Latin Americans rebelled against their Washington- sponsored governments, the CIA or the marines were sent to put a stop to it. Then as now, the turmoil was blamed on "communist elements." It is ironic that a nation claiming to uphold all the virtues of democracy and freedom is the same nation that is responsible for the repression and murder of millions of people. And the only way they can away with it is to continue the myth that the problems are all caused by communist attempts to "infiltrate our sphere of influence." This line of thinking lies at the root of the problem. Who are the Americans to think they have a divine right to "control" Latin America? Just because the Soviet Union represses people in Eastern Europe does not give the U.S. the right to repress people in Latin America. Yet Reagan and Haig continue with their lie that the Soviets are behind the conflict in El Salvador, ant Lei are me this ed. ribl wh affl in I dei wc am tur po< pos sin wh me Sa mi eci It vis pei rec $5! of ind Life-threatening sport a scr By CHARLOTTE OLSEN It is because of this Modern Age, with its ample leisure time and its emphasis on fitness, that the really Modern Person is anxious to find a pursuit which provides complete fitness in an enjoyable way. r *s I freestyle j ll is (his desire for a comple(e activity which leads sane people to embrace life-threatening sports. Suddenly, people are running through the fumes of rush hour traffic, believing that i( is good for the heart. Suddenly, otherwise down-to- earth people are jumping off cliffs and oui of planes, supported only by flimsy nylon. Others are beating their soft flesh against solid bricks in an effort to prove lhat the mind can conquer matter. There is no need to endanger life in order to fill this need for a total experience. There is, happily, an activity which provides relaxation and fitness with absolutely no danger. It is quite inexpensive, and as it requires no experience or athletic ability, it is within the reach of the most inept, lt is called Beginners Yodelling or 'Sno Fun. There are no particular rules except that the beginner, or rookie, should desire lo learn the art of yodelling and that the lessons take place on a snow-covered mountain. The procedure contains several phases, all of which develop the rookies' lungs and vocal cords and prepare them for the actual yodelling lesson. The lesson itself is the last of five enjoyable phases. All necessary equipment will be cheerfully supplied by more seasoned performers at the base of the mountain. They, of course, know just what the rookies need. First, the rookies' feet are encased in heavy, stiff boots and then the boots are securely fastened onto long, thin metal slats. Finally, two metal sticks are hung from the rookies' wrists. The actual yodelling lesson, or phase five, takes place at the top of the mountain, lt is on their way to the top that the rookies participate in the preliminary activities which are designed to create the sort of mental attitude necessary for good yodelling. The first is Musical Chairs. The chairs are supplied by the sports area as a convenient method of getting up to the mountain top. The goal of this game is to manoeuvre your slats and sticks through a line of other players who will obligingly position their slats and sticks so as to hinder your progress. Then you must gain a seat on one of the quickly moving chairs without being knocked over. If you are knocked down the other players are entitled to laugh, point and address you with humorous comments. To make the game more amusing you can try to steal someone else's chair or to stab another player with your sticks. These extra diversions help develop lung power and voice strength, which are essential for good yodelling. The second activity or game takes place in conjunction with musical chairs. It is called Dominoes. One player in the line suddenly falls over and, if the fall is planned well, the entire line will topple like dominoes. Great fun and more vocal exercises result as players try to untangle their slats and bodies from the heap. More experienced players, of course, will be able to topple the line without falling themselves. Once completing the first two activities, the rookies can plan their strategy for the next game: Demolition Derby. This game takes place when you get off the moving chair. You must stand up on your slats and move down a ramp, similar to a washboard. Usually there will be several other players stationed at various points down the ramp, sti either sitting or lying down. The thi derby champion is the player who can destroy the most slats and sticks ro< belonging to other players. ab The last activity before the yodel- co ling lesson is Snow Bowling. At ou least two players must take part, to one being the bowling ball, or klutz, ov and the others the pins. The klutz "v waits until the pins are not looking bh and then slides and rolls into them, str knocking over as many as possible, pa Once all the preliminaries are finished, the rookies will no doubt thi have extremely powerful lungs and Mi vocal cords, and will be in the Right co Frame of Mind. Now they are ready inj for phase five, the yodelling lesson. gi\ The rookies are positioned at the — top of a steep incline, preferably one covered with enormous bumps stc and ice patches. They are then told of that the only way to get down the op mountain is to manoeuvre their so. 3% '" ' mnmm* I**st*t!».;iii^s 'God save us from THE UBYSSEY March 26, 1962 Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughout tha university year by the Alma Mater Society of the University of B.C. Editorial opinions ara those of tha staff and not of tha AMS or the university administration. Member, Canadian University Press. The Ubyssey's editorial office is in room 241k of tha Student Union Building. Editorial departments, 228-2301; Advertising, 228-3977. "Boy, are Joan B. Stuchner and Arnold Hedstrom going to gat shit today when a certain person reede thia rag," Glen Sanford told Shaffin Shariff and Corinna Sundararajan. "Yaa, but our parody quotient waa getting low," Craig Brooks bellowed to Eric Eggertson. Muriel Draaisma and Brian Jones. "I just don't want to be in the office when you-know-who turns up," said Laurence Panych, Mark Attisha and Kerry Regier. Nancy Campbell thought the parson concerned would take in all good, clean, honest fun, but Mark Hyphen Leiren Hyphen Young Maybe wasn't so sure. What tha hell, only two more issues to go, anyway. Live, eat and be drunk, for tomorrow we will surely die. Open letter to the Trotskyist League: It has always puzzled me why your organization does not realize its ideological kinship with one of its purported enemies, the KKK. Although there are some minor discrepancies between your respective choices of oppressed groups and scapegoats, the similarities in methods, tactics, and goals between you both are truly astounding. To begin with, you both love to turn living, breathing, complex human beings into simple stereotypes. People are reduced to "niggers" and "chinks," or "imperialists" and "oppressors." Of course, doing this makes encouraging your members to ridicule, hate, and eventually murder people who oppose you a lot easier. Stereotyping eliminates the need for inconvenient and time-consuming thought. Both of you have also eliminated that confusing fine line between fact and opinion. No longer is it necessary for your members to search for the truth; you just assume that your version of it is correct. Understanding world events then becomes a much simpler task. You need only fit the facts to your opinion. A case in point is the sum total of Trotskyist propaganda. In your letter to The Ubyssey March 23, (Military, not political end to El Salvador war), you stated that ten years ago the "New Left" chanted "Two, three, many Viet- nams!" I, on the contrary, recall peace marches, anti-war demonstrations and Joan Baez leading us in song to end the destruction. Your flagrant disregard of the facts are likely an asset much coveted by the KKK. Both of you also have only dandy case of paranoia. Each seems to be looking over its shoulder in search of a supposedly ever-present enemy plotting its demise. Nurturing a constant fear of those who oppose you no doubt makes it easier to justify a need for military readiness. To be fair, creating a "shoot or be shot" mentality is not your invention, but you must accept credit for refining it into an extreme art form. Who else would be crazy enough to pn co lex fie Sa pr yo pr co dil op dii po po ge: pe PI do Sa co no on las vo G( yo Friday, March 26,1982 THE UBYSSEY Page 11 •aaa Protest for Salvador The so-called elections in El Salvador are happening this Sun- ,day. On Saturday people all over the world will be protesting what is essentially a propaganda fraud initiated by the United States. In Vancouver we will be calling attention to the complicity of Canadian foreign policy in its "ac- quiesence" to the designs of Al Haig and the Pentagon. The line indeed must be drawn in Central America. It is the emergence of an unabashed and ill- disguised fascism which the world community must here address. As young people we have a stake in the struggles of the Salvadoran people. The only domino theory that applies is the fact of military viciousness being allowed to run wild across South and Central America. The threat to our future comes not from popular insurrections in the third world but from the paranoid mentality of American political leaders who would defend genocide in the name of protecting the free world. In El Salvador the opposition forces are calling for peace negotiations as they continue holding their military strength in a civil war situation. The first step in any peace process must be the recognition of the FDR/FMLN as a legitimate representative group of the Salvadoran people. On Saturday this is the demand that will be put forward in demonstrations around the world. We are hoping for a large student presence at the rally in Vancouver. We have an important contribution to make in rebuilding people's movements against militarism and U.S. imperalism. Welcome to the eighties. The rally begins at 12 noon at Victory Square (Cambie and Hastings) and will march to Robson Square. UBC Latin American Support Committee For some silly reason The Ubyssey publishes letters from members of the university community and occasionally from drug- crazed hippies reliving their student radical days. We make an effort to print everything, but racist and sexist slurs or mindless rambles will be subject to severe editing or will not be printed. 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For starters, an excellent film about El Salvador will be shown tonight at the Carnegie Centre, Main and Hastings streets, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $2. The film is called El Salvador: The People Will Win and it traces the history of the FDR-FMLN up to the current struggle. If Latin America doesn't suit your fancy, Pixote and Jean-Luc Godard's Every Man For Himself are playing till Sunday at the Vancouver East Cinema. Curtain call is 7:30 p.m. and price is $3.50. Our film critic says they're both i good Ubyssey staff people only speak the truth. At the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, a Dlav about native Indians, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, is being KEN HIPPERT HAIR CO. LTD MALE: FEMALE: Wash, cut, dry, Wash, cut, dry, $14. l-tegr-m $18. -f-teg^$£L with presentation of this ad. Expires April 20, ,982 By TERRY, KARIN or DEBBIE 5736 UNIVERSITY BLVD. 228-1471 (in the Village next to the Lucky Dollar Store) staged Saturday night — quick, not much room left — check out a benefit dance at the West End community centre, 870 Denman. Tickets are $5 for unemployed and $7 for employed. Band is Reconstruction. Money raised will go to the Salvadoran Women's Association. Advance tickets can be obtained at Octopus East & West, Women's Bookstore and Ariel Books. Dance for democracy and the death of all juntas! Or if you're poor like me, just stay in bed all weekend. BLACK & LEE TUX SHOP 1110 Seymour St 6882481 Lakehead 09 University GRADUATE STUDIES IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION The School of Business Administration welcomes applications for its one year Graduate Diploma Programme, from persons holding any Non-Business, Bachelor's Degree. This Diploma is a recognized management qualification by itself, or leads to advanced standing in many M.B.A. programmes. Lakehead University offers small class sizes, varied instructional methods, and high academic standards. A limited number of $2,000 and $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to exceptional applicants. For further information contact: School of Business Administration Lakehead University Thunder Bay, Ontario Why are a valuable Canada is rich in resources. But our most precious resource is our skilled workers. Right now, there are jobs in Canada which can't be filled because we're short of people with the right skills in the trades and new technologies. More and more, finding the right person for a job means finding the man or woman with the right training. At Employment and Immigration we're creating a new National Training Program to assist in on-the-job and classroom training in the skills Canadian industry needs now, and in these women such Canadian resource? the future. Part of our program provides training for women in non-traditional jobs. The rewards are great because training in priority skills is a key to job security in the I98()'s. And more women are entering the trades each year. Last year over 22,000 women took part in on-the-job training. Thousands more benefitted from training in the technologies and other career areas. That's an investment in Canada's skilled work force. It's an investment in Canadian industry. And it's an investment that helps Canada work. For a copy of the booklet "Are we ready to change?" write: "CHANGE" Ottawa, Ontario KIA 0J9 NAM I:: ADDRliSS: Helping Canada Work. I* Employment and Immigration Canada Lloyd Axworthy, Minister Emploi et Immigration Canada Lloyd Axworthy, Ministre Canada Friday, March 26,1982 THE UBYSSEY Page 13 Bus fares jump 25 per cent By CRAIG BROOKS Monthly bus passes for lower mainland post secondary students will jump in price to $30 from the current $22 starting in May. The Greater Vancouver Regional District board of directors voted Wednesday to increase all fares by an average of 25 per cent April 1. Adults fares will jump to 75 cents from the current 60 cents. University and college students come out worse, as the current $2 monthly reduction for post secondary bus passes will be stopped. "Under the present structure (the discount) won't exist anymore," GVRD marketing administrator William Ellwyn said Thursday. "Maybe come September there will be a change in the farecard (bus pass) system that might accomodate some such reduction," he added. Ellwyn said April bus passes will remain at the old price of $22 due to the timing of the GVRD board's decision. "There were time constraints to deal with," he said. This makes the April pass a very good deal, according to SUB ticket centre supervisor Su Langlois. "It's a good deal, you better believe it," she said. Students should consider whether the April pass would still be worth it Ellwyn said. People may not take enough rides during April to make the pass a savings, despite the higher fare, he said. People who never have had z, fare card before would have to get a $2 photographic identity card as well, he added. One student interviewed Wednesday said he would resort to hitchhiking, rather than pay the new fares. "I live at Tenth and Alma, it's not worth it," said the student, who declined to be identified. Fares for secondary students will rise to 35 cents from 30, while senior citizen and children will pay 30 cents, up from 20 cents. The transit system last increased the fares two years ago, when the price rose to 60 cents from 50. Six years ago the fare was 25 cents. The current fare system, which enables anyone to ride in the greater Vancouver area for one price, has been attacked recently by several civic groups, including Vancouver city council. Vancouver riders are subsidizing suburban commuters, the groups say. Muslims can't Israeli «• • cope By MARK ATTISHA Muslim countries cannot with the modern world, a representative of the Israeli government said Thursday. David Ariel, Consul General of Israel, told 60 people in Buchanan 223 that the Islamic concept of justice and power are incompatible with western ideology. "We should not use the word moderate when we talk of Saudi Arabia," he said. "These terms are worthless when we reach an understanding of the role of Islam." Ariel said Wahabism, the type of Sunni Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia, emphasizes the omnipotence of God and gives nothing to man's efforts and creativity. "Where Islam is practiced this way, we are faced with an ideology that cannot contend with the modern world. The problem the Saudis face in the modern world is matched with the problem we have when dealing with the Arab world," he said. The final vision of Salafiyanism, the most revolutionary type of Shi'ite Islam, is a God-fearing totalitarian state that controls all human affairs, Ariel said. Libya is the last bastion of Salafiyanism, he said. "Khadafi believes in a totalitarian concept of Islam where there is no room for non-Muslims." According to Ariel, the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat started out as a fascist but eventually became a profound statesman totally opposed to religious intervention in the running of state. With Islam, government and religion are fused, he said. Ariel referred to Britain's apology to Saudi Arabia in 1983 for the movie Death of a Princess: "Coming to terms with this ideology (Islam) means we should all follow the ways of a country that sends apologies to Saudi Arabia, a country that is basically inherently weak and must pay political ransom with its neighbors." The major problem with the Muslims is their inability to relate to others, he said. There is no word for compromise in Arabic." - craig brooks photo THINK NO EVIL, speak no evil, hear no evil, do no evil, AMS general manager Charles Redden (left), and executive members (right to extreme right) James Hollis, Cynthia Southard and Cliff Stewart promise council members. Student politicos and bureaucrat were repenting for oast sins inflicted on society between council meetings. "Everything goes tickity boo," while council isn't around Hollis said. "These meetings bore me," said Southard. Stewart, in position of no power, sat back waiting for president Dave Frank to die, so he could take power. Redden said nothing to Ubyssey reporter. Event guideline committee slammed, praised By CRAIG BROOKS A student council committee to set guidelines for SUB events came under attack at Wednesday night's meeting. Jay McKeown, Liberal club past president, criticized committee chair Charles Menzies for not allowing discussion on whether or not any guidelines should be established at all. Instead, Menzies was "high handed, and quite insulting," McKeown said. Discussion was terminated when topics didn't please Menzies, he said. Council struck the committee after the engineering undergraduate society held a whipped cream wrestling contest in SUB. EUS president Rich Day said Menzies was controlling what was discussed. "Half the people got railroaded away (from discussing CITR makes waves -\ Vancouver got some new waves Monday. CITR, UBC's long forgotten radio station, started testing its first full FM transmitter Monday morning. The station will be broadcasting on FM 102 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the next few days to try out the new equipment, CITR engineer Rick Anderson said Monday. The test period is designed to find problems in the equipment, check for signal strengths and find any interferences with other stations. A problem occurred Wednesday, when the power supply failed, Anderson said. "The coverage (of the signal) is better than expected," Anderson said. "We are very happy." Anderson said the station is "well on the way" to its predicted April 1 official start. CITR is currently trying to determine how well its signal is being received in various Vancouver locations, Anderson said. Some listeners are complaining about a Victoria French station and New Westminster's CFMI affecting their reception Anderson said. People can phone CITR at 228-3017 to report on their reception. CITR was granted the last available low power FM license in Vancouver by the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission in May. / anything)," he said. Arts representative Jon Gates said the complainers were not willing to work within the committee's mandate, as established by council. He said council had already established that such guidelines should exist. Home economics spokesperson Laurelle Nelson said people were not allowed to express opinions in a "open and free manner" at the committee meetings. Not enough input from the campus community had been solicited she said. Council passed a motion requiring the committee to properly choose a chair, after Menzies, an arts representative on council, admitted to "just assuming" the chair. Council will debate the proposed guidelines at its April 7 meeting. • * * Canada should be a nuclear free country, student council decided Wednesday. "The (peace) movement has reached a critical mass," Gary Marchant, spokesperson for the UBC students for peace and mutual disarmament told council. "Vancouver is the hot spot of Canada's peace movement." AMS vice president Cliff Stewart told council his Comox home is "only 1,000 yards from the bunker where they hold them (nuclear weapons). I sure hope they get rid of them." Finance director James Hollis abstained on the motion, calling it "naive." * * • Council condemned the layoff of 45 women and one man in physical plant as "discriminatory." Grad studies representative Bill Tieleman said the layoffs were based on classification, rather than seniority. "The jobs terminated were a category which is 87 per cent women," he said. Council made appointments to university presidential advisory committees. Student representatives, to the president's committees on concerns of the disabled, food services, men's athletics, United Way and youth employment program were chosen. Council chose mostly non- council members for the positions. * * * Grant "tiny" Sutton, science undergraduate society president, was formally congratulated by council on the occasion of his 23rd birthday. Council sang happy birthday to the 340 pound Sutton, but failed to carry out a motion to thank him in the library pond. Instructors demand probe Canadian University Press Instructors at the B.C. Institute of Technology are demanding an inquiry into the management of finances by the institutes administrators and board of governors. And while the resolution of the staff society's Mar. 24 closed door meeting was "clearly one step beyond a non-confidence motion," according to staff society president Kent Yakel, it was a step back from a proposed call to place the institute in trusteeship. A 1978 motion of non-confidence in BCIT president Gordon Thom still stands, but the call to place the institute in trusteeship, launched last week by the staff society executive, could have replaced Thom and the board of governors with one or two people who would report directly to the provincial education minister. The instructors' protest began after BCIT vice president Doug Svetic announced plans to cut $4 million from next years budget to conform to the provincial government's recent 12 per cent public sector spending ceiling. Svetic's proposal included cutting 23 instructors from the english and business departments, and 17 more staff in areas such as the library, counselling and maintenance. Instructors were asked to forego their three per cent cost of living increases and a portion of the 12 per cent wage increase included in their January agreement with the administration. According to Yakel, the administration also asked for an extension of the contract without increase, three months past its December 1982 expiry, and for a reduction in the number of staff grievances to reduce costs. Autonomy vote continues today, results by midnight The current Ubyssey autonomy referendum is slowly on its way to reaching the necessary quorum level. As of Thursday, 2,585 had voted in the week long referendum, elections commissioner Scott Ando said Thursday night. The Ubyssey is currently seeking editorial and financial autonomy from student council. A separate society comprising all UBC students would be incorporated to publish the paper if the referendum passes. Voting continues today until 4 p.m. in most major buildings. Results should be known by 11 p.m. tonight. •**T Page 14 THE UBYSSEY Friday, March 26,1982 Tween Classes TODAY CITR UBC Mini Concert, noon, this week Reziltos; Dateline International, 3 p.m., world affairs with a campus perspective; Mini Concert, 8 p.m., The Clash; Final Vinyl, 11 p.m., Mink Deville and Coup de Grace; cable 100 fm. STUDENTS FOR PEACE AND MUTUAL DISARMAMENT, LATIN AMERICAN SUPPORT COMMITTEE. ENVIRONMENTAL INTEREST GROUP, WORLD UNIVERSITIES SERVICE COMMITTEE Bzzr garden for a better world, 8 p.m to midnight, SUB parry room Get bombed for peace. LE CLUB FRANCAIS Meeting to plan final dance and elections, noon, International House, main lounge. UBC CYCLING CLUB Bzzr garden and film, 3:30 to 8:30 p.m., SUB 207. The film is on the 1978 Commonwealth Games There will be music afterward. STUDENT LIBERALS Sign-up, for those interested in going to the B.C. Liberal convention, noon, SUB 226. The convention is from May 28 to 30. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL UBC Pat Carney, Vancouver Centre MP, noon, SUB 212 BSA Prof. Gordon Tener lectures on Transfer RNA, noon, IRC G41. TROTSKYIST LEAGUE CLUB Year end dance, 7:30 p.m.. International House. Members SI.25 and non-members $2. LUTHERAN STUDENT MOVEMENT Happy hour, 4 p.m., Lutheran Campus Centre. Worship, noon, Lutheran Campus Centre. With Rev. Roy Schultz. SATURDAY CITR UBC Mini Concert, noon. Gang of Four; Stage and Screen, 4:30 p.m., film and theatre review; The Import Show, 6 to 9:30 p.m.; Final Vinyl, 11 p.m.. Magazine and Second Hand Daylight; cable 100 fm; soon to be 101.9 fm. ALPHA DELTA PHI Frontier Daze dance, 8 p.m., 2270 Wesbrook Mall. For advanced tickets call 224-9866. SPORTS CAR CLUB Driving school, 9 a.m., Westwood racing circuit. Instructions on high performance driving and course safety SAILING CLUB Spring Regatta, 10 a.m., Jericho Sailing Centre. There will be a follow to the broken Centre Board Regatta too. CHINESE STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION Sports night, 7:30 p.m., Osborne gym B. CHESS CLUB Post St. Pat's Day tournament, 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., Angus 421. SUNDAY CORRECTION TO HISPANIC CULTURAL WORKSHOP TWEEN The event advertised for today in Thursday's 'Tweens was in error. The event is April 4, at 7:30 p.m. at International House. CHESS CLUB Continuation of the Post St. Pat's tourney, 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., Angus 421. THUNDERBIRD WOMEN'S SOCCER Versus Jericho Old Girls, 10 a.m., Wolfson field. Round two of the tournament. UNDERWATER HOCKEY Practice, 10 p.m.. Aquatic centre. See a certain C.B. do his imitation of a grey whale. UBC CYCLING CLUB Touring ride, 9 a.m., meet south side of SUB. Shelly , a jazz album | Hot Flashes | Thank Sod it'* happy hour It's happy hour. God knows we need a happy hour on a Friday. That's why they came up with the saying, "thank god it's Friday. They even made a movie about it. Remember the Village People. Oh well, they are an easy musical group to forget. That's the way 'dis go and that go.' But don't forget happy hour at the Lutheran Campus centre today at 4 p.m. The happy hour also features a happy frisbee match for a really, really happy time. See you there Gord. Greek beef race Aristotle, Homer, Sophocles, and a number of other Greeks, most notably those from Sigma Chi fraternity are sponsoring a bed race Saturday at 11 a.m. The beds will be rolling from the Bus Stop cafeteria and the race covers (or blankets) the campus. But that's not all. At 1 p.m. over at the house on Agronomy Road, there will be a barbecue and dance. Live music. BYOB. Bring your own bed. Just joking. CITR UBC Music of Our Time, 8 a.m. to 12 noon; The Folk Show, 12 noon to 2:30 p m , Mostly Canadian, mostly traditional; Rabble Without a Pause, 2:30 Io 6 p.m., a lunatic musical view of the world; Laughing Matters, 3 p.m., a look at the history and content of recorded comedy; Final Vinyl, 11 p.m., Teardrop Explodes and Wilder; cable 100 fm. GAYS AND LESBIANS OF UBC Dim sum followed by our patented Bellingham trip, 10:30 a m , phone 228-4638 for location. MONDAY CITR UBC Mini Concert, noon. Squeeze; The Melting Pot, 3 p.m., a feature on research at UBC; Everything Stops for Tea, 4:30 p.m.; Off Beet, 7 p.m., unusual news; Mini Concert. 8 p.m., The Cramps; The Jazz Show, 9:30 p.m. to 1 Freema host; Final Vinyl, 11 p.m., feature; cable 100 fm. TUESDAY GAYS AND LESBIANS OF UBC Planning meeting, noon, SUB 237b. CITR UBC Mini Concert, noon, The Modernettes; Thunderbird Report, 5 p.m., campus sports; In Sight, after 6 p.m. news, a focus on campus issues; Mini Concert, 8 p.m., Chris Spedding; Final Vinyl, 11 p.m., a new album feature; cable 100 fm. UBC CYCLING CLUB Meeting, noon, Biology 2449. AMS CONCERTS Punchlines, noon, SUB auditorium. COMMITTEE AGAINST RACIST AND FASCIST VIOLENCE Literature table, noon, SUB foyer. WEDNESDAY STUDENT LIBERALS Doug Franklin, new executive director of B.C. Liberal party, noon, SUB 224. CITR UBC Mini Concert, noon, B-52s; Weekly Editorial, after 6 p.m. news; Mini Concert, Otis Redding, 8 p.m.; Final Vinyl, 11 p.m., another new album feature; cable 100 fm. STUDENTS FOR PEACE AND MUTUAL DISARMAMENT Canada as a nuclear weapon free zone day, all day, SUB foyer. A display of official ballot and posters. CHINESE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP The Future, noon, SUB 111. COMMITTEE TO FIGHT THE HIKE Weekly meeting, noon, SUB 117. THURSDAY SOLIDARITY FOR POLAND Video presentation on Solidarity Day, 1 to 3 p.m.. International House. CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST Reflections, noon, Hebb 12. Student Storage Neighbourhood Mini-Storage 872-2822 Hi Summer Storage Problems ?????????? Cheer up — we will store everything from a suitcase to a house full of furniture. At a low monthly cost, easy 7 day a week access, rent your own private locker for as low as $15.75 monthly. Two Convenient Locations To Serve You Downtown! RESERVE YOUR LOCKER NOW! (Palletized Storage Also Available.) Downtown U-Lok Storage ltd. 1080 Homer St. (REAR) 864 Cambie St. (REAR) 688-5333 (24 hours) Peruvian midgets. Yes, these fidgety little rascals are terrified when they see the size of our monstrous burgers. 15 classic burgers. And other great stuff. 2966 \V. 4th Ave. by Bayswater. Open daily from 11:30a.m. Opening soon in Lima, tl 'na mennra mux CRAXDlii. iHyHnlriNr^ HAIRSTYLING FOR MEN AND WOMEN We're ready to listen to your ideas. Drop by for a complimentary consultation with one of our professional hairstylists. mM ftr\/ OFF our regular prices for students T II /C\ on Monday through Wednesday only. ■ ^*r (Student I.D. required) Cuts — Men 115.00 Women 1.22.00 Perms — Men 135.00 Women 140.00 and up Streaks, color, hennas and conditioners also competitively priced. 2529 Alma St. at Broadway ^Telephone: 224-2332 Mon.-Fri. — 9:00-7:30 Sat. — 9:00-5:00 FREE With each Eurail Pass or Eurail Youthpass purchased! For prices and information contact: -T^ TRAVEL CUTS ** Going Your Way! UBC, Student Union Building Vancouver, 604 224-2344 THE CLASSMF1EDS RATES: Campua - 1 HnM. 1 day tt.00; additional Nnaa. Wk. Commercial - 3 Nnaa, 1 day «Mfc addWonal Hnaa OBe. Additional day* «3.30 and Me. Oetemed mds am not eccepted by telephone **d ere payable in advance. DeedKnek- 10:30 a.m. tt* day tofon publication. Pubhcatkms Office, Room 241, S.U.B., UBC, Van., B.C. V6T2A6 5 — Coming Events 65 — Scandals THE VANCOUVER INSTITUTE Free Public Lecture PROF. GORDON SKILLING Political Economy University of Toronto POLAND AND THE FUTURE OF EASTERN EUROPE Prof. Skilling is one of Canada's most eminent experts on the politics of Eastern Europe. LECTURE HALL 2, WOODWARD BUILDING, SATURDAY. MARCH 27 AT 8:15 P.M. GET YER YA YAS OUT at Alpha Delta's annual Frontier Daze Party! Cowpokes and Natives will listen to R. Merd March 27. 2270 Wesbrook. FOUR STUDENTS chartering sailboat in Greece May 4-18 want 1-2 crewpersons to join us. S300/wk. or less. Phone Rob, 738-3092. 70 — Services 80 — Tutoring 85 — Typing 10 — For Sale — Commercial COMMUNITY SPORTS: A store full of ski wear, hockey equipment, sleeping bags, jogging shoes, soccer boots, racquets of all kinds, and dozens of other items at very attractive prices. 3615 W. Broadway. 11 — For Sale — Private MALE (2m) and female (2'/*m) boas. $750 with cage. 734-5362 eves. only. 20 — Housing WOULD YOU LIKE TO spend your summer overlooking mountains and sea? Would you like a hot tub? A family of four wants to exchange living accommodation for summer session 1982. Our house is on Nanoose Bay, 15 miles north of Nanaimo, near beaches, parks, marinas, etc. If interested, please phone us at 468-9840 after 5 p.m. TO SUBLET - 2 BR in 4 BR house May 1- Aug. 31. Dunbar area. 224-0165. SHARED summer accommodation, furnished, 4-bedroom, Kitsilano home. 733-7850. 25 Instruction FREE MANTRA MEDITATION class is held every Wed., 8:00 p.m. 3510 W. 4th Ave., 872-3871. EXPERT TYPING: essays, term papers factums, letters manuscripts, resumes, theses. IBM Selectric II. Reasonable rates. Rose 731-9857. TYPING: SI per page. Legible copy. Fast, accurate, experienced typist with IBM Selectric. Gordon, 873-8032 (after 10 a.m.) TYPING SERVICE for theses, correspondence, etc. Any field. French also available. IBM Selectric. Call 736-4042. FAST. EFFICIENT TYPING. Near campus - 266-5053 WORD PROCESSING. We prepare research papers, term papers, theses, etc. Other languages available. $1.50 per page. Call Ellen at 734-7313 or 271-6924. WORD PROCESSING services. Resumes, essays, theses. Student discounts. 434-3700. TYPING ON CAMPUS. Fast and precise, $8.50 per hr. Phone 224-6604. MICOM WORD PROCESSING-$10.00/hr. Equation typing available. Pickup and delivery. Phone Jeeva, 826-5169 (Mission). TYPING - Special Student Rates. Fitness & Cameron Public Stenographers, 5670 Yew Street, Phone 226-6814. RESUMES, ESSAYS. THESES. Fast, professional typing. 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Publisher | Vancouver : Alma Mater Society of the University of B.C. |
Date Issued | 1982-03-26 |
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