Array ismess Iudent businesses * -^-uggle to bounce back er a rough year. onfidcntial urtis Hanson proves Hollywood can make good movies. oca Men's a£I Women's T-bird soccer teams kick ojfanew season. yankin' out the Brit Pop since 1918 www. ubyssey. be. ca ]EE2SB3ZEmm Suharto might skip APEC by Sarah Galashan The president of Indonesia, General Suharto, could stay away from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit at UBC this fall for fear of protest. Indonesia's foreign minister, Ali Alatas told foreign press at a luncheon last week that Suharto might not attend the summit if the Canadian authorities can not guarantee control of Vancouver demonstrations over East Timor. "This was the first public statement that we heard from anyone in the Indonesian Government that this might be a consideration..." said Rene Cremonese, a spokesperson for the Canadian Embassy in Jakarta. But Chris Brown, executive interchange officer for the Department of Foreign Affairs looking in to Asia Pacific issues said the university won't restrict legal demonstrations. 'The university is working with the federal government to ensure that protests or demonstrations are conducted in a reasonable manner," he said. There is an active movement in Vancouver to protest Indonesia's \iolent annexation in 1976 and continued occupation of East Timor. Recent protests over Indonesia's involvement in East Timor have included a mock arrest warrant for Suharto delivered to Vancouver's Indonesian consulate, graphic puppet shows at UBC depicting fictitious meetings between the Canadian and Indonesian leaders and postering of the SUB and other campus buildings. According to Jaggi Singh, a member of both APEC Alert and the East Timor Alert Network (ETAN), two key groups responsible for protests in Vancouver over the upcoming APEC conference, their methods are non-violent. Singh added that a senior official from the Indonesian Embassy in Ottawa attended a public meeting held by APEC Alert in the SUB conversation pit. Singh told the Ubyssey it is not likely that protesters will actually come in contact with President Suharto, but added that both groups are resourceful. "This is the largest security operation that I've seen. There's going to be snipers on the rooftops," said Singh. "But also keep in mind that we're pursuing official channels," he added. "There is a Canadian law, war crimes legislation, that states that people who've corrirnitted war crimes or crimes against humanity outside PROTESTS like this one during Imagine UBC have put Suharto's presence at the APEC summit in question, richard lam photo the country are allowed to be tried for those crimes in Canada." Singh said he is in the process of writing a letter to the Attorney (ftneral of Canada and after presenting evidence to the RCMP, he hopes an arrest will be made. "Certainly unofficial actions are also ready to be used," said Singh. "These include protests, street actions and non-violent disputes."♦ Bank's future may be tied to campus monopoly deal by Chris Nuttall-Smith The AMS thought they had the leverage to ensure their involvement in the campus banking monopoly deal being negotiated by the university. They found out two weeks ago they might not. Until now, the student society thought it held the lease for the 7700 square foot space in SUB now occupied by the Bank of Montreal. But recently the AMS archivist, Sheldon Goldfarb, discovered that the university holds the lease for almost all the space and might not have to return it to the AMS. The Royal Bank and Hong Kong Bank of Canada won a joint bid this summer to do all of UBC's banking and to be the only banking service providers allowed on campus. An official with Royal Bank said the proposal—accepted by UBC Business Relations and to be presented to the Board of Governors for approval this October—included the Royal and Hong Kong Banks taking over the Bank of Montreal's SUB space. At the time, the AMS general manager, Bernie Peets, said he wasn't sure how the university could agree to a proposal that included the Bank of Montreal space. "The Bank of Montreal is there until 2004 at which point in time the space becomes the property of the AMS to renegotiate with the Bank of Montreal, another bank, or whatever," said Peets. But the original lease agreement, as well as a 1966 Board of Governors decision about how the university and the AMS would share the SUB, might allow the university to keep the Bank of Montreal space. According to that decision, when the bank's lease expires, "some 6,000 square feet in the Student Union Building will be added to the area leased to the Alma Mater Society." It does not specify which 6,000 square feet will revert to the AMS. "I think that the intent of that clause was the 6000 square feet of the Bank of Montreal. I think it's a matter of a turn of phrase that perhaps wasn't constructed as perhaps they would have liked but I think overall that they were talking about the 6000 square feet that the Bank of Montreal has," Peets said. He added the AMS hasn't consulted a lawyer for clarification since it isn't worried about the arrangement. But behind the scenes some AMS staff said they are worried that the Board of Governors decision might allow the university to give the AMS space in the SUB other than that now occupied by the Bank of Montreal. UBC holds the massive Pacific Spirit cafeteria and a Food Services kitchen in the SUB. Clint Meyers, an analyst with the UBC Treasury, said the university has not decided what will happen with the space, or whether UBC will renew the Bank of Montreal's lease. "Hard to say at this point in time because ofthe various options available with the new exclusive partnership agreement, so it's hard to say again, that option hasn't really been looked at yet," Meyers said. Peets said he hopes the university will tell tlie AMS what their plans are for the space. ♦ AMS won't sue for money owed By Emily Yearwood The AMS tried to close the book on a $24,000 bad debt and two year's worth of embarrassing questions last week. The student society's budget, which passed last week, included a $12,000 write-off of the money that was left when the AMS shut down a newspaper it was funding. When the council shut down the paper, Pacific Post had received some $24,000 in loans from the AMS, more than half of which were not properly authorised. "We know we're not going to get that money back so we're going to do the responsible thing and write down $12,000 of that debt," Ryan Davies, the AMS president, told council last week. But until now, the council had planned to sue the directors of Asia Pacific Ventures (APV), which published the newspaper. In 1994 the former AMS director of finance, Randy Romero, and the director of administration, Tim Lo, authorised a $ 10,050 loan to APV to get Pacific Post started. But APV was not an AMS sanctioned club or service organisation and the loan was not authorised by AMS council. The following year the director of finance, Tara Ivanochko, discovered Romero had authorised an extra $ 14,000 in loans to APV. APV was supposed to start repaying the debt in 1995 but never started. Then in February 1995 the AMS executive shut down APV, locking its editorial staff out of its office. AMS council voted in July 1995 to sue PaciGc Post editor Chung Wong for $ 10,000 in Small Claims Court. It also passed a motion to examine the possibility of suing Lo, Romero, and the former AMS president, Bill Dobie, for their alleged role in the APV affair. "[The AMS] will file a small claims suit...against Chung Wong and/or Asia Pacific Ventures and/or any other name under which he may have previously or may be currendy trading, to recover $ 10,000 that was loaned to Asia Pacific Ventures and which has yet to be repaid," council decided at the time. But last week Davies said the AMS won't sue anyone for the debt. "It could be held that the AMS was just as responsible for the production of that paper. These people could argue that the AMS can't go after us for money because it was the AMS's project," Davies told council. He added it would cost too much to sue for the money. Almost $12,000, the remaining amount owed, will be taken from surplus funds at year's end. The other half of the loan was written off last year. Davies referred to the write-off as good bookkeeping, commenting that "although it wouldn't be proper accounting, no one would ever call us on the issue. We could just leave it on our books forever." 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Purchase any UBCpro before September 30th and enter to win an Acer Scanner or one of our other great prizes. * Authorized Campus Dealer = !== Microsoft M Lexmark by David Cochrane "I Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA (CUP) - The Supreme Court of Canada may have written the final chapter in one of Concordia University's most tragic stories by refusing to hear an appeal by multiple-murderer Valery Fabrikant on September 11. Fabrikant is the former engineering professor who shot and killed four of his colleagues in an August 24, 1992 shooting spree at the Montreal university. He also wounded a departmental secretary and took a professor and security guard hostage for more than an hour before being overpowered by his prisoners. Fabrikant is currently sitting in Donnacona Prison, serving a life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years. In 1995 he began his quest to sue Concordia for $900,000 and legal costs from his prison cell. In his application Fabrikant claimed the university had been scheming to threaten his life. He then tried to prove the university was responsible for what happened. He said his murderous rampage was an act of self- defence and his victims were part of a university-wide plot to deny him tenure. "From the university's point of view the lawsuit was ridiculous and frivolous from the outset," said Bram Freedman, Concordia's legal counsel. The Quebec Superior Court dismissed Fabrikant's application on several points in the fall of 1995, saying it was an abuse of process with no reasonable grounds for a lawsuit. Fabrikant tried to have the decision revoked by the Superior Court and appealed to the Quebec Court of Appeal. He was unsuccessful in both attempts. On February 7, Fabrikant asked the Supreme Court of Canada to hear an appeal. The country's top court's refusal may have put an end to any further legal action by Fabrikant. "Unfortunately I don't think it provides a sense of closure," Freedman said. "I don't suspect this is the last we will see of him." Freedman says Concordia has spent almost $20,000 defending itself from Fabrikant's civil suit. The 1992 shootings shocked the Concordia community and forced a harsh examination of the university's structure and its personnel. Fabrikant's exhibited abusive and threatening behavior—going as far as to threaten people's lives—in the years leading up to the slayings. There had been numerous warnings that Fabrikant was dangerous. Secretaries, on the frontline when it came to dealing with the professor, were so afraid of him that several had panic buttons installed. Fabrikant was convinced that people were conspiring to deny him tenure and he often bullied and threatened people to get what he wanted. In the months leading up to the shooting he mounted a vicious e-mail campaign that accused many professors in his department of academic fraud and claiming co- authorship of his papers without contributing. He spoke openly about getting a gun and settling problems "the American way." But the threats were largely ignored and the professor was constantly advanced for promotion by his department because he was considered a brilliant and prolific researcher. Concordia's Board of Governors initiated two independent inquiries after the shootings. One, headed by John Cowan, a former University of Ottawa vice- rector, painted a picture of an ineffective senior administration, riddled with dissension and confusion. Unfortunately I don't think it provides a sense of closure. I don't suspect this is the last we will see of him/' —Bram Freedman Concordia's legal counsel Top administrators had heard of, or had been witness to, many instances of threatening and disturbing behavior by Fabrikant during his 13 years at Concordia. However, administrators proved either unable or unwilling to take action. While preparing his report Cowan found a warning to police about Fabrikant's behavior written only weeks before the murders, but it was left unmailed for a week so it could be translated into French. In the following year the Board of Governors refused to reappoint Rose Sheinin, its vice- rector academic, and it fired Patrick Kenniff as rector, saying the board had no confidence in his ability to lead. The second report, written by a committee chaired by former York University president Harry Arthurs, looked into allegations made by Fabrikant before and after the shooting that the university tolerated widespread academic fraud in the engineering faculty. The Arthurs report reluctantly admitted Fabrikant was right in many of his claims. The report blamed an over-competitive research atmosphere, in which professors are valued by how often they publish, for what amounted to plagiarism on the part of several professors. "We have confirmed the validity of a number of Dr. Fabrikant's more specific allegations," the Arthurs report says. "We take no pleasure in acknowledging that [this report] lends support to so malevolent a purpose and credibility to so unsavoury an individual."♦ University employee target of racism By Matt Green Imagine walking into your office one morning to discover that someone has shoved a threatening message through the locked door. That's what happened to a university employee last Monday. Late Sunday night someone scrawled violent racist slurs across two posters outside an office in Brock Hall. The posters were found the next morning slid under the door of a worker in Brock Hall. This is not the first time posters have been defaced," said the person who found the posters, "but this one really affected me because it was more personal." The employee asked not to be named because of concerns that publicity* would lead to increased harassment and greater targeting of the office. "Such an incident does affect people's safety," the person said. Laurie Minuk, a counselor with the Women Students' Office, agreed that incidents like this affect many people at UBC. "Women and other visible minorities do not feel safe on campus," said Minuk. "Fear for personal safety puts limits on the time [students) can spend in the library, in classes, or in study groups," she added. And these fears are not groundless. There were 85 assaults and 14 sexual assaults reported to the University RCMP detachment in 1995. Most estimates put the reported assaults at about ten percent ofthe actual incidences. ~ Awareness is a big issue," states Victory Hegedus, director of Safewalk. "Many students don't even know we have our own RCMP Detachment on campus." Fortunately, groups like Safewalk, the Safer Campus Peer Educators, and the Women of Colour Mentoring Group are working to raise awareness and increase safety. "Peer educators have the enormous task of educating people on how to keep safe in both personal and public spaces," said Minuk, one of the two Safer Campus facilitators. • Working out of the Women Students' Office, the Peer Educators raise awareness through displays and giving workshops on Campus Safety and Acquaintance Sexual Assault. Safewalk volunteers, meanwhile, conduct foot patrols, escort students, and offer a new drop-by service for students and staff working late. "Upon request we will check on people working late in a lab or office," said Hegedus, "So they are not so isolated." According to Hegedus, people at UBC don't have to be helpless. "People just don't know about their options, about Safewalk and Safer Campus," she said. The Safer Campus Peer Educators will provide personal safety workshops upon request and Safewalk is accepting applications until October 1. Above all, as Hegedus adds, "If it's something criminal, it should be reported to the police."* AMS businesses showing signs of improvement by Casey Sedgman After two years of shrinking profits, the AMS businesses are showing signs of recovery. This year's first quarter profits are over the anticipated $125,000. This is welcome news after a dismal 1996/97 that saw AMS business profits fall 30 percent from their 1994/95 high. The shortfall forced the AMS to transfer money from the Coke exclusivity deal, money that the AMS had earmarked for special projects, into the general operating budget. The AMS uses business profits to support programs for students and to cover past debts. The businesses include the SUB Arcade, the Pit Pub, the Pendulum, the Gallery, and Copyright, as well as others. David Borins, an AMS councilor and former AMS president, said the declining revenue up to now is a serious problem that's cutting into what tlie student union can do. "We've had three austere budgets in a row...year after year we're being forced to do less and less," Borins said. He also objected to using the money from the Coke deal for general operations. At last Wednesday's student council meeting, he suggested that the AMS hire a financial analyst to recommend a business plan to ensure the society's stability and to get it off the Coke money. "At worst [outside consulting] would confirm our current course of action, and at best it would find areas for improvement...$30,000 for a new perspective, is, in my opinion, a good investment," Borins argued. Vivian Hoffmann, the AMS director of finance, however, didn't agree "We hire managers to do just that. It's unnecessary to pay a lot of money to outsiders to come in and tell us how we should be doing things" she said. "We already pay for expertise." Hoffman cited an increase in Workers' Compensation Board payments, competition from businesses in the University Village, and an increase in Innovative Projects Funding payments (money that the AMS pays the university to maintain the Student Union Building) as reasons for the drop in profits. In an effort to maintain a stable source of income from the AMS businesses in the future, the AMS finance commission has been charged with developing financial targets for the business operations. Borins said that although this is a step in the right direction, it may be too much to ask of a volunteer student comrnittee with no real management experience. "We have to recognise that as students we have certain limitations, we don't have the management experience and I think that it would be extremely arrogant to assume that [the commission] will be able to solve all of our financial problems," he said. Bernie Peets, the AMS general manager, is also working on a 5 year strategic plan for student union building operations that will include future business goals. "We've had four focus groups, with one more planned, with input from clubs, service directors, [AMS] executives, and employees to look at our strengths, weaknesses, threats and overall vision of where we want to be." Peets also noted that even now, "the businesses are being run better than they have been in the past...the bottom line is looking very, very positive." Peets hopes to have this plan ready for council by October.*?* "We have to recognise that as students we have certain limitations, we dont have the management experience... it would be extremely arrogant to assume that [the commission] will be able to solve all of our financial problems" -DAVID BORINS AMS COUNCILOR BUSINESS is booming, or so it seems, richard lam photo Gov't internships not for students by Daniel Silverman The federal government announced September 8 it will spend $90 million on a new internship program for young people, but the program won't target students. Ofthe three year, $90 million cornmitment, almost $9 million will go to adminstrative expenses, said Paul Armstrong, a spokesperson for the federal Treasury Board. According to Armstrong the internship program is designed for people aged 15 to 30, and will target the so-called youth at risk.' He denned this as anyone without a post-secondary education, as well as students who have already grad uated from a university program. He added that students currently in school will not be able to participate because the positions will be fuU-tirne. "The purpose of this program is to give skills and knowledge," said Armstrong. He stressed that the interns will not be replacing existing positions, but over three years, they will fill about 3 000 year long, full time, government-created positions. While finances and adinirustrative questions have been answered, according to Armstrong, they have yet to determine exactly what these public service positions will include. People without a university education will be paid the minimum wage in their province, which is annually between $9,880 and $ 14,560. Students with degrees will earn approximately $ 15,000. The program was designed by the Treasury Board in cooperation with the YMCA and Career Edge, a national non-profit organisation that finds internships for the unemployed and the under-employed. It will be run by Career Edge, with funding from the federal government. "They're going to run a pilot phase on October 1, of this year in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton and Vancouver," said Armstrong. "That'll be a test phase with 100 participants and in January the program will commence. "♦ 'XX cM&cfotqnlbiy XT Sept 17, 18 & 19th Mxya club will fill the SB; Remaxber. {hare's mrsre en tire saxzrl flrrr! Chock out the al tin fantastic dto that exist at UBt BUT, you're tntaktag there won! bo anything you ara tatarested h WRONG. You may not bo tho only on who harbours a vast coOectlon of science Action books? ^wi you be the wlyuTO dorwatar hockey? llnraaralBRiif cldisatUBC. and they are Involved h a whole oaniiit of acthrtttos andcausos. ^ are an excslent way to meat people, wMa getttag tavohrod and tboyaroaproatdfDot totarestfnD) adtttan to a rnnno. So tJtt about Joh- ingone.andwBlS8eBVBryoneatmnlMZL [Spcdol NoUtt: AUTOSPORT ClUB b bcUj JciMiUUed, •J-*. SAC i mUicJ by TkkJox Sept 2«k M students and student grows art i vttedtoapialYforBXtfrilJORSiieUiitj^ AMS Art Gallery during tin 1117 88 school yoarihows wl ho obo week ■ lenitt. Monday to Friday IOmMbbl Application forns in avabbk) in SU room 238 and most bo conptetod ani rataT^oy Friday. Toilontoi \%W byUep. UBC stndonts'are ghran priority, bowovor al appfeathn wl no o o "ET Ptt Pub \£7©(5m@SGQ(][]£7 CaQgjDDG e©[j)G asGDQ tsXPOFZ] CGOCkXI ®@G®LI)©[? Q0G The Alma Mater Society is about to embark on one of its largest projects to date. On September 29, 1997, the first ever Asia Pacific Student Summit will officially begin The idea for the summit sprang from the controversy surrounding tne upcoming APEC Leaders Meeting to be held at UBC in late November The AMS prides itself on being able tc facilitate student initiatives and encouraging debates and discussions among our peers. For this reason, a five week student summit has been created tc encourage awareness about the Asia Pacific region ;Jach of the five weeks will be themed after a particu- lar topic and they are: culture; business, human rights; the environment; and international relations. Activities will include panel discussions, lectures, film festivals, food fairs, and displays Keep your eyes open around campus for more information regarding the summit. For more information, please call Shirin Foroutan, AMS Coordinator of External Affairs, at 822-2050. or head up to her office in SUB 235 THANKYOU BUT IT WASNT WAS IT? IT WAS LIKE THIS? DIDN'T YOU THINK YOUR FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL WOULD BE LIKE THIS? The staff and student participants of IMAGINE UBC would LIKE TO THANK ALL THOSE CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHOSE TIME, ENERGY AND SUPPORT MADE THIS INAUGURAL CAMPUS EVENT PO.SSIBLE. WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE MANY GROUPS WHO DONATED PRIZES FOR THE EVENT. THEY ARE: CAMPUS MEMBERS Alma Mater Society Alumni Association Athletics Bookstore Food Services Intramural Sports & Recreation ubc library Museum of Anthropology Marking, TRANSPOPTA'aoN?* Campus Security Thunderbird Shop Thunderbird Winter Sports Center COMMUNITY MEMBERS Axion Internet BC Tel Mobility Benny's Bagels Blockbusteer Videos Canadian Airlines Clearnet Communication Coca-Cola Bottling The Eatery Greyhound Coachlines Co Harbour Cruises Mountain Equipment Co-op Naam Restaurant Over-the-Moon Chocolate .Royal Hudson Steam Train Science World Sophie's Cosmic Cafe Virgin Megastore Wespoint Cycle IMACINE UBC YOUR FIRST DAY h4M '97/98 You are looking at a summary of the AMS Operating Budget. Non-discretionary transfers are mandated by AMS bylaws and past referenda. Some of these funds are transferred out of direct AMS control, while others are earmarked for specific purposes of the AMS. The Administradon Office is the accounting and processing centre servicing all AMS clubs, undergrad and grad societies and businesses. Student Council's budget consists largely of photocopying, legal fees, and computer support. The five executive budgets include the costs of their activities and the committees under their direction. The Tangent, Yardstick and Web Page were funded last year out of the New Initiatives Reserve Fund. If you have any questions, or would like a more thorough explanation of the budget, please come to the Presentation of the Budget at 11:30 on Friday, September 19, or check out the AMS web page. www.ams.ubc.ca BudaMt 96/97 Actual Bua-flart. 97/98 INCOME AMS Student Fees Other Student Fees Business Revenues Investment Income Cold Berverage Agreement Total Income 1,101,038 319,602 557,041 117,000 130,000 1,091,050 375,643 436,862 149,614 130,000 NON DISCRETIONARY TRANSFERS Art Gallery Fund Capital Projects Constituency Aid Fund Lobbying Fund Intramural Sports Undergrad Societies SUB Management Fund WUSC Refugee Student Resource Groups TOTALTRANSFERS 1,500 422,376 7,500 98,280 164,851 319,602 14,376 28,254 42,926 1,500 413,266 6,411 96,429 165,306 375,643 14,250 27,551 41,327 ADMIN. OFFICE 344,160 STUDENT GOVERNMENT Student Council 36,950 President 31,000 Vice President 31,500 Director of Finance 30,500 Director of Administration 35,500 Co. of External Affairs 33,500 Board of Governors 350 Senate 1,000 Elections and Referenda 15,000 Ombudsperson 4,250 Policy Analyst 9,500 Communications 40,000 Archives and Research 40,928 Student Union Dev. Symposiurr 3,500 Web Page (NIRF) - Club Loan Write-off - TOTAL STUDENT GOVT. 313.478 STUDENT PROGRAMS & SERVICES JobLink 31,400 Ombudsoffice 19,100 Orientations - Rentsline - Safewalk 19,000 Speakeasy 20,800 Student Discounts (5,000) Tutoring - Used Bookstore (2,000) Summer Info Desk 5,600 Volunteer Services 20,000 Services Planning Group 2,000 CiTR 70,000 AMS Programs 98,600 Inside UBC (Day Planner) - Art Gallery 200 Student Leadership Conf. 500 Club Benefit Funding 6,750 United Way Committee 100 Halloween Food Drive 200 Drug & Alcohol Awarenes - New Initiatives F'ind (NIRF) 45,000 Tangent Magazine (NIRF) - Yardstick Course Eval. (NIRF) - Yardstick (IPF) PROGRAMS & SERVICES 332,250 DEBT REPAYMENT 85,000 CONTINGENCY (5% of total) 50,128 338,697 41,625 30,170 30,877 30,676 35,207 30,983 393 858 17,160 4,697 8,830 40,374 38,463 3,228 7,460 12,162 333.163 32,077 18,125 4,758 (1,441) 18,941 19,556 7,171 (2,845) 5,050 21,564 2,057 69,970 120,719 9,732 868 604 4,607 300 (186) 354 40,398 27,723 5,215 5,000 357,634 11,992 1,111,417 385,410 493,172 135,000 130,000 2,224,681 2,183,169. 2,254,999. 1,500 424,011 7,500 98,936 169,604 385,410 14,621 28,267 42,401 1,099,665 1,141,683 1,172,250 TOTAL DISC. INCOME 1.125.016 1,041.486 1.082.749 353,520 33,413 27,625 29,500 26,220 32,570 34,115 400 870 18,900 4,835 19,813 42,625 42,336 (250) 312.972 32,835 17,695 5,100 (840) 18,750 23,500 (1,350) (2,000) 15,150 1,800 70,000 100,000 2,330 665 6,750 300 300 30,000 9,000 322,335 30,785 54,137 TOTAL EXPENDITURES THE UBYSSEY University tuition fees up across the board by David Cochrane oo a\ a. 20- 16 Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA (CUP) - Tuition fees are up this year by almost nine per cent nationally, according to a recent report by Statistics Canada. The soaring tuition fees continue a trend that has seen the cost of the l*». ffl 0) c (0 12- Average undergraduate arts tuition 1996/97-1997/98 4 - average postsecondary arts program double in just ten years, while the cost of living has gone up by 3 7 per cent. Newfoundland saw the biggest increase, up 18 per cent from a year earlier. Ontario was next with a 10 per cent hike. Tuition fees in university rich Nova Scotia went up by just 6.8 per cent but that province is still ray uL Q, 4l Is 4 C the most expensive place to study arts with an average tuition cost of $3,737, according to the Statscan report released in August. The cheapest tuition is in Quebec, where the provincial government decided to freeze tuition fees at 1990 levels for Quebec residents. Arts tuition fees average $1,726 but out-of-province students have to pay an extra $40 per credit to compensate for the tuition freeze. Nationally, tuition fees jumped from $2,867 in 1996-97 to $3,117 in 1997-98, an increase of 8.7 percent. "Nothing in society is increasing by nine percent," said Brad Lavigne, chairman of the Canadian Federation of Students. "Wages aren't going up by nine percent, funding to the system isn't going up by nine percent, inflation is not going up by nine percent." The Federation has long advocated a zero-tuition policy and Lavigne is calling for at least a tuition freeze and the re-ins tatement of a national system of educational grants. If that doesn't happen, says Lavigne, fewer middle and working class students will be able to go to school. And for once it seems the country's two main student organizations are singing the same tune. "Less affluent people will be scared out of the system by the sticker shock of tuition," said Hoops Harrison, the executive director of the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations. The Alliance does not support the CFS' zero tuition policy because CASA says it believes students should invest in their own future, Harrison said. But even so, says Harrison, an average student debt of $25,000 is getting out of hand. "Not only do we need a radically restructured student aid program but we also need national standards for quality and accessibility so that costs and cutbacks do not erode our system any more," he said. ♦ Last minute lawyer switch delays CASA fraud trial by David Cochrane Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA (CUP) — The fraud trial of a former student politician accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from a national student organization has been delayed until early next year. Patrick FitzPatrick was supposed to appear in a New Brunswick court on Sept. 8 to stand trial for fraud. But three days before tlie trial was set to begin, FitzPatrick switched lawyers and asked for a delay until his new counsel could study the case. The crown objected, but Judge Hazen Strange granted a continuance until January. "The trial should go ahead today," said Kevin Connelly, the New Brunswick crown prosecutor handling the case, at the time the continuance was granted. "People were inconvenienced. We had witnesses coming in from out of province." FitzPatrick is officially charged with defrauding the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations of more than $5,000. Some reports have placed the actual amount clos er to $40,000. If convicted, FitzPatrick faces up to ten years in jail. The charges stem from a two-month period in the fall of 1995 when FitzPatrick was serving as CASA's interim direc tor. CASA alleged that FitzPatrick used his position as coordinator of a national conference on higher education to access and misuse the funds. The conference ran up nearly $30,000 in unaccounted expenses and when suspicious bills began to appear, like one for $10,000 worth of letterhead, the organization began an internal investigation. FitzPatrick also had access to a CASA-funded credit card while serving as director. Charges to the credit card during that period include bills for pizza, a stay at the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa, and a $ 169 shopping spree at The Gap. In January of last year CASA met with police to launch a formal investigation but formal charges were not laid until earlier this year. The missing money forced CASA to cancel the conference and gave a black eye to the two-year old alliance. Hoops Harrison, the Alliance's executive director, says CASA is trying to forget about the trial and start fresh. But he says the Alliance is considering a civil suit against FitzPatrick. "It certainly is a very large priority for our members that we recover the money," he said. "But the criminal trial is our first priority." CASA was just a few months old and had a total annual budget of $128,000 when the money went missing. Harrison says it was easy for someone deceive the inexperienced Alliance. "We were a veryyoung organisation when this happened and it was easy to take advantage of the new organisational structure," he said. CASA currendy represents 13 student unions and more than 200,000 students. FitzPatrick could not be reached for comment. He recently worked as a photographer for a student newspaper in New Brunswick where his brother Joseph FitzPatrick is now the editor in chief. ♦ Use This Prepaid Phone Card When You Call Home For Money. Don't own a phone? No problem. The CONNECTOR™ Student Phone Card let's you call anybody, anytime. It's painless. It's convenient. It's the freedom to call people who have more money than you do. The 1997 CONNECTOR™ Student Phone Card. Get it on campus. BCTEL 6 TrfE UBYSSEY ♦TUESDAY. St*PTEMBER 16, 1997 CEis REALLY um Book your flight home for the holidays NOW...or you'll feel the5QJJEEZEcome Christmas! 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Today, however, the police video cameras that are installed at every major stadium in the UK have caused a shift of the battlefields. A pub or a street corner is now the most likely fight venue, with only those on the inside knowing where to find the opposing team's followers. Hooliganism, to the average Brit, is no longer visible. King, brutally points out King, in his first book, has bigger ideas on his mind than paying attention to plot- he wants to make an issue of something the British Parliament would much rather ignore. in The Football Factory that it hasn't gone away The Football Factory follows the life of Tom, a warehouse worker in London who in his spare time, his slow time, and during sex, fantasizes of volleying the winner for Chelsea in the FA Cup Final. Travelling around the country every other week to follow The Blues, Tom and his mates manage, unlike the video cameras, to find trouble everywhere, even next to an East Anglia cow patch. But the book isn't funny. The Football Factory is so lacking in dramatic buildup that if King had left the vernacular out, the book could have been issued as a sociology text. From pub scenes to street fights, from restaurant running to ladding about, the book doesn't attempt to build tension. The only exception is a briefly foreshadowed showdown with hated cross-town rivals Millwall, but even then the outcome is predictable. No, King, in his first book, has bigger ideas on his mind than paying attention to plot—he wants to make an issue of something the British Parliament would much rather ignore. A bit of history is required here. After 95 people suffocated to death on the overcrowded stands of Hills- oudawed. The Football Association, the governing body of the English game, insisted that teams in the upper divisions remodel their stadiums into all seaters. At the time, those teams were becoming increasingly commercially viable due to TV contracts, and with the higher ticket prices of the all seater stadiums and increased security in the form of police cameras, to most onlookers it appeared as though the image of the sport was being tailored more to the tastes of the middle class. Hooligans, it was hoped, would be priced out. King shatters that hope. His hooligans have jobs, albeit of the dead end variety, and can afford to pay the bus fare to Newcasde for an away game. And they're smart—they know how to avoid the police, and in the one case where they don't, they manage to get a few kicks in on a sergeant before getting away. Angry about a hopeless future, the condescension of the upper class, and what they see as a self serving government, their greatest source of pride comes not from the women they occasionally seduce, but from the damage they inflict on the opposition's fans. What makes the book work is King's phenomenal power as a writer. His characters are fighters, physically and psychologically, and are determined to demonstrate that despite everything they've ever been told, their lives have significance. That significance comes from being part of an underworld that contributes to a soccer club's mystique. Sure, they take pride in I u v IQ r y JOHN KING 'Tk< k«tt kttk I'm e.if tut ItXlt .••tklll Mi «trkt>(-c.Mt tiltari « Iritau in tkt »»»«ti«s. Bay. steal ar borr»« a copt m»' ttfttf «U» borough stadium during a match in 1989, the Thatcher government ordered an inquiry that eventually yielded the Taylor Report, a searing indictment of the state of Britain's soccer stadiums. Up until the late eighties, fans would pay about $10 general admission to stand on the equivalent of an enormous staircase, or terraces. Popular not only for their cheap price, terraces also housed a noisier and more devoted atmosphere than the higher priced seating areas towards the centre of the stadium. A traditionally working class sport, soccer in Britain was, at the time, accessible to all. Upon the release of the report, terraces were staying a step ahead of the authorities, and in making a mockery of a government that wants to marginalise them. More than that, though, they see themselves as the most passionate supporters of the club, the fans who set the standards of devotion and for whom the players are willing to go the distance. For Tom and the boys, soccer club executives are nothing more than business executives; the real drive behind the team is its support. After reading The Football Factory, you won't be able to say that you can't relate to soccer hooligans. With extensive dialogue and a vocabulary resembling that of Clockwork Orange, The Football Factory is worth picking up just for a sense of working class life in London. Following the direction of straight-from-the-housing-estate writers like Irvine Welsh, King will undoubtedly become enormously popular for The Football Factory. Expect to see it on screen within a couple of years. ♦ Jamie Woods THE UBYSSEY • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1937 7 Australian actors Guy Pearce (best known for his role in Priscilla) and Russell Crowe {Virtuosity, The Quick and The Dead) both deliver performances equal to Kevin Spacey's {Usual Suspects, Seven). Jack Vincennes (Spacey), Ed Exley (Pearce), and Bud White (Crowe), are the trio of protagonists who are forced to work with one .mother in order to solve the multifarious mystery that surrounds them. Seasoned actor Danny Devito as the inventor of :abloid journalism Sid Hudgens, James Cromwel, as the ill knowing police captain, Kirn Basinger as the cut hook- Just when you thought corporations had taken a lethal stranglehold on Hollywood film making, choking every last ounce of creative and original thought from it, a pulse has been found! LA Confidential, opening next week, brings to the silver screen a movie that has not been coldly calculated to bring in "%" amount of dollars. This is a movie which has characters. Not only that, but throughout the course of the movie the characters evolve, adapt and change due to their surrounding circumstances. I know it sounds wild and innovative, like out of some kind of foreign film, but I checked. From the title to the director to the production company, this film is 100 percent Hollywood made. Which is surprising, due to the film's sparkling originality—contrasting with Hollywood's most recent instantly forgettable summer line-up. Based on James Ellroy's novel ofthe same name, LA Confidential takes a look at Los Angeles in the early fifties. Atime when all the glitz and glamour of Hollywood was still fresh,tabloid journalism was new and freeways had yet to be built. The new LAPD, restruc- "Our number one directive was to create the period, but then to put the period in the background. The movie is not about cars or set dress, but it's about the characters and the emotion. Our hope was that the audience on a scene by scene basis could almost forget they were watching a period movie, and to think it was contemporary." Hanson said. The film is successful in this endeavour. Even though it was entirely shot on real locations in LA with the vintage cars, houses, fashion and music, the focus remains on the characters and their pursuit for the truth. Hanson kept the cinematography fresh and inventive, no grandiose sweeping shots of a recreated LA or dead-still talking head scenes. Ironically, many of the problems that existed in the movie's time frame still exist today: Corruption in the LAPD, scandal running amok in Hollywood, the thick glossy allure of California which still smother the inner- city problems. These modern incongruous parallels combined with author James Elroy's own hard-boiled LA. style puts LA. Confidential immediately into the film noir genre. "When you don't eliminate the negative, what do you do? You repress it and pretend it's not there. That to me is what noir really is. It's looking at the darkness underneath the light," Hanson explained, "When you think of film noir, you naturally think of darkness. I wanted our world to be colourful, like the magazines of the period. I wanted humour in the movie to capture the tone." Movies like Trainspotting and Shallow Grave were successful in using humour to accentuate the seriousness of the situation. Likewise, Hanson was able to use humour effectively without undercutting any dramatic tension. CURTIS HANSON (left) takes time to speak to his actors during the making of LA Confidential. Confidentially yours tured on a military ideal, was a respected force which had a zero tolerance for organised crime. Nothing is ever without a dark side, and it is underneath all the pomp that the story takes place. Warning! This not a movie for linear minded people. If you found yourself lost in the Lost World, you may want to skip this one entirely. The plot is amazingly complex but whole. Curtis Hanson, screenplay writer/director/producer, with the help of Brian Helgeland, took the better part of a year adapting Ellroy's book into screenplay format. When asked what attracted him to this monumental task in the first place Hanson answered, "I got hooked on these characters, and the more I thought about them, the more compelled I became to try and make a movie out of them." In turn, Hanson compels us to watch his film by enlisting the aid of an outstanding and remarkably even cast. in his new film LA Confidential, Curtis Hanson proves that Hollywood is capable of producing good movies er Lynn Bracken, and David Strathairn as die enigmatic Pierce Patchett, more than fill out the remaining characters. The end result is a film where the characters and their development drive the plot forward in contrast to the normal Hollywood convention. The most important character in this movie is not listed in the credits, and that is the 1950's setting. Unlike most period movies, where the focus turns from the plot to the fabulous recreation of the era, Hanson strived to keep his story from being overshadowed. Having Danny Devito's character narrate the beginning was just one of the many humourous interludes in the picture. Enough with this serious analysis of production, let me get to the straight goods. Is this film worth eight dollars of your.hard earned money? 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'Registered ttademark of Interac In Vancouver Point Grey Place 4597 West 10th Avenue at Tolmie (beside Safeway) (604) 224-6388 Monday to Friday 8 to 8 Saturday 9 to 3 Canada Trust by Charlie Cho RICHARD LAM PHOTO [Meter met muscle Friday when j UBC English TA, Mark Cochrane, [read his new poems about athlet- ■ics and gender at the BirdCoop weight room in the SRC. Jocks stared at the artsy outsiders and [they stared back. Due to a short-notice hi scheduling, ten minutes into his first English class, Cochrane had to invite his discussion group to "sit among a bunch of sweating jocks in the gym and... read some poems." Despite a few acoustic and technical difficulties, the audience basked in the novelty of being bombarded by the rhythmic lyrics of "Dancing on the Machine" at the feet of the row of puffing patrons on the StairMasters. ".After two years of thralldom to the StairMaster, the Master of Stairs, the rack with a name straight out of S/M or D&D / two years to climb program by program, each with its twelve stations of hardship (twelve being the perfect rational number for self improvement)." Nearby stationary cycler Dave Mitchell found the reading "interesting." "I was wondering if he was directing it at the people sitting down or directing it at everyone else working out. I heard some of it, but it's pretty hard to concentrate on what he was saying when you're working out." Cochrane expected "a less-than- perfectly-hospitable environment." "It felt almost necessary to me to take the work back into the space in which I tend to generate it," Cochrane says. The poems, inspired by Walt Whitman and Calgarian Richard Harrison's (Hero ofthe Play), are to be a part of a project in progress that will either be titled Soft Men or Hard. Cochrane says he is curious about hockey as "a vocabulary for working out sexual identity...how men express personal philosophy, work ethic and how they construct the masculine through talking about hockey players." "The poems written about the fitness club experiences tend to be more overtly sexual," said Cochrane, "There's a kind of onanistic relationship with the machine. I think there are a lot of queer ambivalences in the ways that tough men relate to one another in [the weightroom]. It's complicated and that complication is something I'm trying to unpack» ; HOOVERPHONIC / A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular . Take tlie ambient soundsctipes of Orbital, throw in a dash of the easy listening electronic of Sneaker Pimps, and mix it,all together with llie sampling and lilting vocalp cf Portishead and you've got Hooverphonic. j OK that's a little harsh. But Hooverphonic would seem lo be the musiclexe.c's reaction to the electronic music phenomenon, combining Jready successful ingredients in a "brand new" package. I wouldn't go j as far as to say Hooverphonic, like . aforementioned Sneaker Pimps, were merely tlie rhutant creation of a record company. I'm sure tlie band is really quite sincere. It just doesn't sound that way. All tlie hallmarks of vbur usual electronic music album are in place, from the well-known sample (here it's from Isaac Hayes' "Walk On") to "found" vocals, ranging from tlie beyond-cliched monotonous fifties Voice-of-Authoritv to trucker's CB chatter. And it's all done passably well. But il doesn't work, for the simple fart that it's all instantly forgettable. The unappealing blandness of Hooverphonic's vocalist doesn't help, nor does the fact that tlie songs blend together into a muddled mess of repeated guitar riffs and irregular drum beats. That uniqueness that makes bands like Orbital and Portishead isn't present in any form on A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular, and it's a true shame. And what with tlie new Portishead album two weeks away, it's not even worth a lis- John Zaozirny' Hi - t -*M rV "!'UJP a*. v i+? rtfrjim Slacking behind the zines Brit pop wankers sound like surfer; -e Ocean Colour Scene Marchin Already They're British, but they sound like Yanks. Ocean Colour Scene just might be the American invasion ofthe UK's pop scene. With their new CD, Marchin'Already, you can imagine them stepping out of Heathrow Airport, past the palace and onto Picadilly Circus. Except that they already live there. This album might confuse some listeners. The band sounds a lot like UK pop, but with a twist of the states. It seems as though the album is the result ofthe band trying to come to terms with their musical tastes and their origins. To do it they've had to somehow create a mesh between surfer styles and Brit beats. They've succeeded. Ocean Colour Scene's sound is a unique combination and one that requires the mix of two very different musical moods. Perhaps best described as the end result of a Stone Roses single with a splash of The Mamas and the Papas. With their latest album the group has managed to throw in a borderline Simon I and Garfunkel ditty called Foxy's FolkX Faced. This is followed by what I swear is I the background instrumental from| Charlie Brown's Christmas. The slow rhythms and soft vocals hard-l ly make this album a party starter—but l| doubt that was Ocean Colour Scene's I intention. It seems more likely this cre-l ation was meant for all those vacationing! Brit pop fans in Los Angeles to listen tol while sitting around after a long day's | surf.»> Sarah Galashanl I Super Lemon "Super Lemon. A zine about nothing in particular." How I can any self-respecting slacker resist? Admittedly it's hard to do. A zine that aspires to nothing leaves no room for disappointment. Perfect for your average underachiever. Page one: a comic strip with two I slackers waxing philosophical, titled "Stay as You Are." The graphics are good, but the dialogue could I have used some work. Page two: a welcome speech | from John Lucas, editor and creator of the zine. In his opening Lucas berates his readers, "Well dear readers, you disappointed me. The response was pretty pathetic; two people sent in stuff." Feel like reading more? After this initial rant Lucas I moves on to give a motivational pep talk, "If all goes well, I can quit my lousy, less-man-minimum- wage job pumping propane and stop sleeping on my mother's couch. The slacker life was fun for a while, but I look forward to getting a real job, a real place to live and, at long last, a real life." I thought this was funny, someone actually willing to admit that he lives up to and fulfills a stereotype. I decided to read on. What follows are a collection of letters, comics, sto- I ries, and articles that revolve around one theme: UFO's and supernatural phenomena. This is a little odd, given the fact that the zine claims to be about nothing in par- | ticular. Hmnimrn, more irony. For the most part Super Lemon is mildly interesting, $2 Super Lemon A zine about nothing in particular I and at times genuinely funny. The "Weird World" news section excels beyond banality and dry wit. A true news story titled "Good News For People with Mcjobs", reveals a startling scientific discovery: depressed employees are better workers. The only thing missing was the caveat stating that the study had been funded by federal grants. The major problem with the zine is it never really progresses beyond the initial "ha-ha" stage. This problem is particularly evident in the comics that are interspersed throughout the zine. The comics that have been chosen for this issue, save the first one, do not correspond with the overall theme of UFO's and supernatural phenomena. The illustrations themselves are good, but the text that accompanies them is obscure, and at times nonsensical. The stories are neither insightful nor humourous. Super Lemon is so busy proving that it's "a zine about nothing" that it never really gets off the couch. This hastily put together zine is a testimony to slack. It is a safe bet that all of the stories included in the zine have been downloaded off the internet. Super Lemon has the quick fix feel of fast food. Perhaps I was expecting too much. In a world where what is advertised rarely is what the product is all about, Super Lemon, truly lives up to the claims on the front cover. ♦ Richelle Rae £"**** The Conspiracy is revealed! Ne1 2nd Floor, = 2174 W. 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But as far as UBC head coach Dick Mosher is concerned, the results are less than what he had expected. "We certainly would have liked to get a draw out of that Calgary game," said Mosher who saw his team trail 2-0 at half time as the Dinos converted two set plays for goals. The Dinos added a third goal in the second half before Kim Spencer scored UBC's goal with ten minutes left in the game. Lianne McHardy had an excellent chance to pull the Birds within one just two minutes later, but couldn't put the ball into the old onion bag. "Saturday's game was not really a game of missed opportunities," explained Mosher. "We struggled a bit against a little bigger, little bit older team." But he conceded Saturday's game showed the team is still struggling to score goals against the veteran teams. "Our players know that we have to improve on that and that's what we're going to work on," Mosher said. All things considered though, he was encouraged by the Birds' play against the Pronghorns. "Our speed showed up," he explained. "I think we're starting to know what we have to do on attack and our speed certainly is a part of that. We have to use it up front and on the flanks to get behind people and we got four or five great chances in the Lethbridge game just from that," he added. For once, UBC took full advantage. Captain Robyn Dunn scored a first half goal while Tanya Genovese and Lyndsey Clerkson added second half goals to give the Birds' their first win in what could be an interesting season. The Birds will now face archrival Victoria this weekend. "That'll be a dandy game," said Mosher. "They're one of the most improved teams in the country and a win against them will put us right back in the fight [for the playoffs]." Making the playoffs, meanwhile, is assumed for the men's team which opened its season with a hard-earned 2-1 victory over the Calgary Dinosaurs. Trailing 1-0 after forty-five minutes, UBC got solid goal tending from back-up Jeff Taylor and goals from Nick Hopewell (62nd minute) and Mark Rogers (64th minute) to win the game. The Birds, however, may have lost two valuable points as they managed only a 0-0 draw against the much improved Lethbridge Pronghorns. "It's disappointing to have lost two points in that game, especially after the game the previous day, but [Lethbridge] will take some points off teams on their field," said Birds' head coach Mike Mosher. One factor in the Birds' somewhat disappointing result had to be the absence of several key players- Chris and Mike Franks, Jeff Skinner, and Aaron Kaey are currently with the Vancouver 86ers. Another factor may have been UBC looking past Lethbridge and towards Friday's much anticipated game against the Victoria Vikes. Mosher, however, said that was not the case at all. "We're sharp," said Mosher. "We played fairly well I thought; it is just that we didn't create as many scoring opportunities as we would have liked to and when we did, we didn't capitalise." While Mosher admitted Sunday's result against Lethbridge has the potential to hurt the team down the road, Mosher put a positive spin on it. "We got everything in front of us," said Mosher. "Even though it is a short season, we control our destiny. If we go into Victoria this Friday and win, then we are in first place." And Mosher and the Birds have been looking forward to Friday's game ever since UVIC defeated UBC 3-0 in last season's Canada West final en route to wirining the national title. "It means a lot," said Mosher about the match. "It's an opportunity to tell UVIC,' Hey, you got away with one last year and we're not going to let it happen again.' But it's also important for down the road because our goal is to host the Canada West final again. A tie won't hurt us but we're going to trying to win the game." But the Birds will have to get the job done without Chris Franks and Skinner who will be the Vancouver 86ers as they take on Milwaukee in A- League semi-final action. Mosher hopes to have Mike Franks and Kaey back for Friday's game.»> Bird Droppings Football Defensive half back Paul Girodo (above) was the man of the hour as the UBC Football Thunderbirds defeated the winless Alberta Golden Bears 14-10 Saturday afternoon to even their record at one and one. With UBC trailing 10-6 late in the third quarter, Girodo picked off Golden Bear quarterback Sean Zaychowsky and returned the ball 45 yards for a touchdown. Although a win is a win, Saturday's game is still nowhere near where the Birds could be. Yes, the defence played exceptionally well and special teams were much improved, but UBC's offence continued to struggle Saturday as the Birds only gained 239 yards in total offence. "There is a lot of work left to be done," said UBC head coach Casey Smith about his team's offensive unit, which has scored only one touchdown in two games. ♦ DRUG MART STUDENT DISCOUNT SAVE 15%* *Off our regular retails Present your valid UBC student card at any of the Shoppers Drug Mart locations listed below and receive 15% off all merchandise purchased. Excludes advertised flyer items, prescriptions, tobacco, baby milk and diapers, lottery tickets, HELLO! Phone Pass and soda. Further restrictions may apply in Home Health Care and Prescription Centres and Food Departments. Kerrisdale 2225 W. 41st Avenue Phone: 266-5344 Broadway & Balaclava 2979 W. Broadway Phone: 733-9128 OPEN TO 10 P.M. Monday - Saturday 4th & Vine 3202 W. 4th Avenue Phone: 738-3138 OPEN 24-HOURS 4326 Dunbar Phone: 732-8855 OPEN 8 A.M. TO MIDNIGHT 7 DAYS A WEEK * Everything you want in a drugstore® ®0 htt nx not f0 Wxtt ? Whether 'tis nobler in the car to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous drivers, Or to relax and take BC Transit's new fast and frequent service Between Lougheed Mall and UBC? The Best Line On Broadway! BC Transit jSS f Vancouver RegJonsJ Itanait System **\ V ^ \ + IN B.C. WE BELIEVE HIGHER EDUCATION SHOULDN'T BE *?*. *•.• *VJ-NlfcH„ y^g-5 K*f^ ■ .^& *> rE'RE CREATING OPPORTUNITIES for more young people in B.C. by making education affordable and by adding new student spaces. We're guaranteeing a post-secondary education for every qualified student in B.C. WE'RE PROVIDING BETTER STUDENT FINANCIAL AID. Find out how student financial assistance has changed by visiting the Premier's Voice For Youth web site at www.youth.gov.bc.ca. For additional information, call 1-800-784-0055. SO WE'VE FROZEN TUITION FEES AT ALL PUBLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. Investing in our FUTURE a guarantee for youth ^British Columbia THE UBYSSEY • TUESDAY,1. EPTEMBERm 1397 ly Ottawa fails, say feminists by Rachel Furey TORONTO (CUP) — Two years after Canada signed a 183-country pact to make womens' rights a priority, the federal government has done nothing to help women, Canada's leading; women's organisation charges. The National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) released its first report card Wednesday on the federal government's implementation ofthe Beijing Platform for Action. The federal government promised to "advance the goals of equality, development and peace for all women everywhere," when it signed the agreement at the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing two years ago. Since signing the Beijing agreement the government has cut $7- billion from payments to the provinces for education, health and social programs. NAC says these cuts are more detrimental for women than men because women are, on average, poorer than men "We are looking to the federal government to provide leadership, instead of this ongoing erosion of women's ri{*hts," said Eileen Morrow of the Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses. "Government leaders need to examine the conditions for women in Canada." In Beijing, the Canadian government recognised the increasing poverty of women and children and made a commitment to grant women greater control over their economic rights, bul; since the Beijing conference poverty is on the rise in Canada. Over five million people in Canada are poor and 70 per cent of them are women and children. "We have not seen any action from the provincial or federal governments to deal with women's poverty, in fact, what we have seen is regressive policies," said Joan Grant-Curnmings, president of NAC. While NAC is corning down hard on the federal government's policies, government officials are questioning the organisation's motives. "There seems to be an effort to score political points [with the public] on NAC's behalf," said Jennifer Lang, a spokesperson for the Prime Minister's office. "[If implemented, NAC's] agenda would lead to negative ramifications for this country," Lang added. NAC also criticised the federal government for failing to provide adequate access to post-secondary education for all women. "Young women's access to post-secondary education has been drastically eroded," said Grant-Cummings. "This affects their economic and political rights and their ability to participate [in decision making] is sidelined." A Statistics Canada report released last year reveals that increasing tuition fees cost women more than men because they take longer to pay off their student loans. Current proposals being considered by the federal and provincial governments for income-contingent loan repayment schemes will also be detrimental for women because they could be making payments on their loans while still seeing their loans increasing in size, according to Jennifer Story, national deputy chair of the Canadian Federation of Students. Story says this means the trend of more women moving into Canadian universities could start to reverse. "It may not be overnight, but it seems inevitable that if this continues women will be reluctant to go to university because they won't be able to afford the increased debts and increased fees," said Story. NAC says it will continue to pressure the federal government to act on its Beijing commitments, which also include addressing problems in the areas of health care and domestic violence!, when its holds its annual general meeting later this month in Ottawa. ♦ PARA 110 ID CAP^. We don't fool around! V ^ 3 blocks south of the village in the heart of Fairview Residence %■ Mon. - Fri. 7:30 am -11 pm Sat. - Sun. 9 am -11 pm Phone: 224-2326 1997 Speech-Essay Contest "Respecting Diversity" Science and Stallone cross paths at Ryerson TORONTO (CUP) - Popcorn may soon be the snack of choice for students at Ryerson University. The university has struck a tentative deal with AMC Canada, a US-based theatre company, to put a 30-screen, 6,000- seat theatre complex on campus. While the complex will be used nightly by regular movie-goers, 12 of the theatres wul become lecture halls from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day. ' ';. Although the details of which classes will take place in the movie theatres have yet to be worked out, the university said arrangements will be made to provide a studious atmosphere. "It won't be a typical theatre atmosphere, there won't be typical Ughting. [There will be] some form of a desk," said Bruce Piercey, a spokesperson for Ryerson. But going to class in movie theatres is a bad idea according to Gord Tanner, a by Rachel Furey vice president of Ryerson's student union. "It doesn't help the learning environment It's harder to approach prois and harder to participate in class discussion which is such an integral part of the learning <-xperience." Tanner said Ryerson is known for its small class size and its hands-on approach to education. The move -to larger venues like these theatres owned by big corporations is a move in the wrong direction/ he added. , The complex will be btiflt on top of Ryerson's two-story parking garage and is part of a massive renewal project for Toronto's downtown core. AMC Canada, whose parent company is one of the biggest theatre companies in the world, will pay Ryerson $ 1 million for the space to build its complex. The company will also guarantee additional parking revenue that Ryerson will use to improve campus aesthetics. : '^It's great for us," HercJey'saii. "We are; having trouble accTiiamodating stu dents on our downtown campus whets space is limited." But Tanner said the private sector * should stay out of university classrooms. "This goes hand in hand with cuts to education and the real push for private sector involvement. I don't believe this is the direction we should be moving in.* The deal comes on the heels of a development at Dalhousie University in Halifax where plans to hold a first year psychology lecture in a movie theatre, were recently halted. Concerns about the academic i-eplltation of the larriversity^ contributed to the cancellation. AMC officials were reluctant to comment on the Ryerson deal and said they want to wait until it becomes official. Although the city stall has to approve the plan, Grayson said the project will proceed. "I'm confident it will happen and will be wonderful for the city, improve the neighbourhood and make it safer and niofe pleasant for students who Jive on carapus."^ I ■ | One of the United Nations principles states: ■ "Young people shall be brought up In the knowledge of the dignity and equality of all people, without distinction as to race, color, | ethnic origins or beliefs and In respect for fundamental human rights..." Writing Topic: Write about personal experiences that illustrate respect or (disrespect (or diversity. Relate how these experiences have affected you ■and what insights you have gained. RULES: | Must be Canadian Citizen, or Landed Immigrant Must be between the ages of 18 and 25 as of January 1st. 1997 (Senior Division) Must be submitted in typewritten, single-sided and double-spaced format Must write an essay roughly 800 words In length (no more lhan 5 minutes when presented verbally) Finalists not attending the speech portion (in Vancouver. November 22. 1997) will be disqualified Grand Prize - Trip to Los Angeles 2nd Place - $500.00 4th Place - $200.00 3rd Place - $300.00 5th Place-$100.00 Entry deadline is November 5.1997 Need more info., or a registration form? Call/Write us: RCC International Canadian Office 8833 Selkirk Street Vancouver. B.C. V6P 4L6 tel: 263-6551 fax: 263-0933 E-mail: retyucnd@globalserve.net Internet: hto://www.ams.urx:.ca/ClurjS/Cultural/ONE/contestJitrn Vancouver Burrard UonsCltth Internet: http:/www.ams.urx:.ca/,Jiuras/ouiiurauur<tjconie5ijiim__ E o o s. tz -5 CO E CD tz .o, -S5 o s eg ry UBC Student Special Your next coin wash So you get to know our... • cozy cafe atmosphere • choice of 60 washers/dryers • service with a smile • capuccino & bagels • Open 7 days 7am-10 pm • Easy rear parWng Professional Dry Cleaning Drop Off* Coin Wash* Cafe Gold Coin Yc 8-1 ^ r <3 Laundry Cafe 2496 West Broadway 2 blocks E. of Alma St. on S. side UBC's nearest Launderette ou should Run JMmrts ^Undergraduate *J ndergraduate Society elections P osiitions Gvailable: Vice President (external) Academics Coordinator Sports Coordinator AMS Representatives (2) First Year Rep Second Year Rep Third Year Rep Fourth Year Rep General Officers (6) • Pick up your elections packages today at the AUS Office (Buch A207) > Nominations are in Buch A 207 by 12:30, Wednesday, Sept. 17th • Voting takes place in Koerner Library, the SUB, and Buchanan A fromTuesday, Sept. 23rd to Friday, Sept. 26th. »Any questions, contact Jamie Withers, Vice-President (Internal) at 822-4403 or drop by Buch A 207. • All Arts students (including first year students) encouraged to run. ['*' J. •.■**<, a. II -A •' \ -;" *,- eakfast THE PRESIDENT ■ ■ ^--1!-<<>■> I 25 students to call 822 2484 by 4:30 pm on Wednesday, Sept. 17th will win a chance to meet UBC's new president, Dr. Martha Piper for breakfast on Thursday Sept. 25th from 7:30 - 9:00 am \ * t" "1 >TH6i®YSJEY •*»M^rJ%'a*rrEMBER 16, 1997 miwyra September 16, 1997 • volume 79 issue 4 Editorial Board Coordinating Editor Joe Clark News Sarah Galashan and Chris Nuttall-Smith Culture Richelle Rae Sports Wolf Depner National/Features Jamie Woods Photo Richard Lam Production Federico Barahona The Ubyssey is the official student newspaper of the University of British Columbia. It is published every Tuesday and Friday by The Ubyssey Publications Society. We are an autonomous, democratically run student organisation, and all students are encouraged to participate. Editorials are chosen and written by the Ubyssey staff. They are the expressed opinion of the staff, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Ubyssey Publications Society or the University of British Columbia. The Ubyssey is a founding member of Canadian University Press (CUP) and firmly adheres to CUP's guiding principles. All editorial content appearing in The Ubyssey is the property of The Ubyssey Publications Society. Stories, opinions, photographs and artwork contained herein cannot be reproduced without the expressed, written permission of The Ubyssey Publications Society. Letters to the editor must be under 300 words. Please include your phone number, student number and signature (not for publication) as well as your year and faculty with all submissions. ID will be checked when submissions are dropped off at the editorial office of The Ubyssey, otherwise verification will be done by phone. "Perspectives" are opinion pieces over 300 words but under 750 words and are run according to space. "Freestyles" are opinion pieces written by Ubyssey staff members. Priority will be given to letters and perspectives over freestyles unless the latter is time senstitive. Opinion pieces will not be run until the identity of the writer has been verified. Editorial Office Room 241K, Student Union Building, 6138 Student Union Boulevard, Vancouver, BC V6T 121 tel: (604) 822-2301 fax:822-9279 Business Office Room 245, Student Union Building advertising: (604) 822-1654 business office: (604) 822-6681 fax: (604) 822-1658 Business Manager Fernie Pereira Advertising Scott Perry Dawn broke. Emily Yearwood cooked eggs for all as Daniel Silverman ate icecream. Matt Green turned green when he sampled some of the left over steamed rice. Casey Sedgman cleaned up the mess left by Sarah Galashan, who still thought that the room was spinning. Chris Nuttall-Smith was brushing his teeth, again, with Wolf Depner's toothbrush. Charlie Cho, whose toothbrush had disapeared long ago, decided to cut off Jamie Woods' ponytail. Alec Mcneil-Richardson committed the eighth deadly sin when he dyed Richelle Rae's hair back to its original colour. Emily Mak would have danced her way to the Olympics if Craig Reynolds hadn't smacked her in the knee with a billy club. Douglas Quan died, Joe Clark buried him and Federico Barahona said a few words. Richard Lam licked his chops as he came across the photo opportunity of a lifetime. Todd Silver's shattered corpse, killed in some sort of explosion with a bicycle pump clutched in his arms, thus reinforcing John Zaozirny's belief in a just world. Ideas to put AMS businesses over the top For the past year AMS businesses have lost money at record pace, Although some within the AMS are now optimistic about the student union's business future, (after all, profits are starting to rise), former AMS President David Borins said the council ought to hire a financial consultant to clean up the mess. But hiring a consultant would be a waste of student dollars. If AMS General Manager Bernie Peets' five year plan included some of our suggestions the fiscal future of the AMS could be quite bright indeed. 1. Snack Attack. Now this little snack bar is well on its way to creating the disco atmosphere necessary to draw in the huge crowds. The current stream of mind-numbing, eardrum-assailing techno music is merely the first step, though. Much more needs be done to create our very own Electric Circus. A disco ball is of course a must for the new 'Snack Shack,' along with some scantily clad caged go-go dancers. Customers will flock to groove to the funkadelic music. And, hey, it wouldn't cost too much to have the B-52's come in for some promotional work. Shake your booty! 2. The Pit Pub, quite honestly, is in need of some drastic changes. Students (or, as we like to call them, consumers) need entertainment. An occupied student is a happy student, and a happy student drinks more beer. More beer means more money. This...is....good. And of course when you think entertainment, you think cockfighting. UBC has already established its reputation as a world-class cockfighting centre, and the Pit would merely serve to focus the massive interest already present Fowl would be provided, although customers would be encouraged to bring their own. As the event gains popularity, a weekly mudwrestling championship might pull in the intellectuals. And with the good wholesome fun of midget-tossing bringing in the family values crowd, the Pit would soon be a place for both the alcoholic and the too- young-to-be-an-alcoholic. The campus night would fill with the sounds of glee as those of smaller stature are propelled through the air like so many medicine balls. And, if all else fails, the messy fun of Bear Baiting could bring back that old-fashioned feel to the Pit. Animal rights, schmanimal rights. 3. Now the Sub Arcade already makes money but profits can always be increased. Change machines could, and should, be altered to accept fifty dollar bills, thus saving all those annoying return trips. And haven't you ever wished that the Mortal Kombat Fifteen machine accepted direct payment? Come on and 'swipe the stripe' to get to that next level. And following the Albertan trend video gambling terminals are on their way! At least with these video machines you have a chance to win back that lost rent check. If Ralph Klein says it's ok, who are we to argue? 4. Copy Right creates its own deficit by ignoring how much of its business is supported by the large number of students who enjoy photocopying their asses. Haven't you ever felt that primal need to give world-wide distribution to this lily white body part? Windex and paper towels would be provided, after all the AMS will be rolling in the money, and the following motto posted in large clear letters to avoid a messy copy catastrophe: If Nature Harks, Wipe Up Your Own Skid Marks! We sincerely hope the AMS takes this free advice to heart. With careful financial planning and some innovative thinking even the Pendulum could make money. SI Canadian Uhweisity Ress let there be parking space After a summer of long, hard, and laborious work, I have returned to UBC only to find that the dictators of UEL bylaws and parking regulations have yet again added to their conquest of controlling students. It is blatantly obvious that in their shortsighted blunder of eliminating parking on 16th and NW Marine Dr., that they intent to make the pursuit of higher education a painful, inconvenient, and frustrating affair for domestic students as well. These new parking restrictions are akin to jacking up tuition for international grad. students. It seems that the agenda of improving the campus and levels of education has an alterior motife of making UBC exclusive for wealthy students. Let's face it, UBC wants money so that they can make people "ooh and ahh" about just how special this campus is. However, by restricting parking without increasing or improving public transit services, and forcing students who have no option but to drive to UBC because of a long time-distance relationship from campus to work and/or home, the university has made use of the campus exclusive to those who can afford monies for parking "technology fee" tuition hikes,and monopolized food services. Why should those who attend UBC unfairly achieve any direct or indirect benefits resulting from the possesion of a degree from a "presti gious" university ? Canadians like to think of their country a free, somewhat classless, equal, unsegregated, unfailingly indiscriminatory society. Why should the student who attends a college or institution in a less prestigious institutional area have to because of financial constraints ? Why do the administrators and councils of UBC not address the issues of making UBC more accessible by all, in new "policy and not-so-new policy"? Clearly, the present administrations of UBC and the UEL are incompetent at formulation and application of a neutral, innocuous policy which will benefit UBC as a whole in the name of the widely held Canadian values of equality and not exclusivity! Andrew Szabo, Political Sciece 4 ubyssey staff meeting wed, sep. 17 12:30 pm agenda • comic • elections • club daze work study • post mortem all welcome Canada Post Publications Sales Agreement Number 0732141 Dear Mr. Clark... I recently stumbled across an idea which I wanted to share with you. Obviously, I wouldn't write to you if I didn't think that this idea was inspired, practical, and relevant to your NDP government. When I say relevant to your government, I mean that the idea fits into your attempts to make corporations responsible members of society. While business and free markets play useful roles in making people's lives better, these are essentially mindless beasts that rarely look past next quarter's profits. Long term concerns, like the environment and employment, do not concern the average stockholder or successful CEO. Businesses must be cajoled or even forced into helping people. The dOemma, of course, is to create a low tax, "business friendly" environment to encourage economic growth while also raising funds which are necessary to fix the problems which the capitalist system ignores or even creates. My idea could be used to partially redress this conflict. The idea is simple: the Government of British Columbia should set up a small foundation, minimally staffed, to record charitable donations made by successful, profitable corporations. The crux of the idea is this: corporations which donate a modest percentage of their annual profit, say 2-3 percent to charities and present evidence of this to the foundation will be allowed to display a small crest on their supermarket products, on business cards, in the phone book, etc. Essentially, the corporations are allowed to advertise to the consumer their pro-people, pro-community outlook. I believe most people would like to use their consumer votes wisely, however, who really has time to research cor porate morality? You could give people an opportunity to reward charitable corporations. This type of positive advertising has been proven to work—almost all tuna in all supermarkets nowadays is "Dolphin Friendly", despite the fact that being "Dolphin Friendly" costs money. Businesses do it because it is more profitable to be "Dolphin Friendly". Similarly, companies, by virtue of competition, will be for forced to become more charitable. There are a number of reasons why I think this idea should be implemented and tested immediately. First, it gives the ordinary consumer more information. Second, it can not be seen as an obtrusive government act as the donation of money is strictly voluntary. The government acts only as a disinterested third party as companies can donate to whichever charitable institution they deem fit. Cultural groups, scholarship funds, and homeless shelters will all benefit. Third, it costs the BC government almost nothing, as a few bureaucrats and computers could easily keep track of the donation receipts and which corporations have earned the right to sport the crest. Fourth, many CEO's and executives will appreciate the plan as it allows them to be charitable without angering their shareholders. At the very least, my idea gives busy people an easy way to shop with a conscience. If the idea is as successful as I expect it could be, then you will have essentially harnessed the common good to the energies of capitalism. Thank you, Mr. Clark for your time. Please carefully con sider this idea, while realizing I have presented only a general framework. The framework is, however, based on a legitimate problem: why aren't businesses recognized and rewarded by consumers when they contribute to our communities? —Pauljorgensen Really want to stand out in your next interview ? 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