Canada helps build Trident By TED DAVIS While a Canadian crown corporation and a local manufacturing firm are helping further the American nuclear arms policy, a Socred MLA in Victoria has proposed a resolution condemning this same policy. Skeena • MLA Cyril Shelford's motion calls for B.C. to express concern to the Canadian government about development of nuclear weapon bases like the Trident submarine base in Bangor, Washington. The Canadian Commercial Corporation, which is entirely funded and staffed by the federal department of supplies and services, has actively solicited at least one industrial contract stemming from the Trident weapon system now being constructed. The CCC, which acts as a contract broker for Canadian firms seeking to compete with American industry, secured a contract for Heede International Ltd. in Port Moody to build two boat and missile loading cranes worth almost $3.2 million. The cranes, which can handle the new Trident 1 missiles, will be Another UEL forum necessary By BILL TIELEMAN A third public forum on the future of the University Endowment Lands will be held within two weeks, a member of the "?r-ovincial government's study Htsam said Thursday. The third forum, tentatively scheduled for Feb. 7, is necessary to clear up problems left after the most recent forum held Wednesday, Hayne Wai said. The third forum will include workshop group discussions that were cancelled Wednesday night after the initial presentations took longer than anticipated. The forum, which was attended by 750 people, did not reach any conclusions. Peter Frew, environment minister Jim Nielson's executive assistant, and Steve Phillips, another Nielson assistant, also attended the forum. The environment department is responsible for all decisions on the UEL. Considerable opposition to some of the study team's tentative conclusions on the UEL was voiced at the meeting. Several questioners said there was a great difference between public opinions expressed at the first forum and the team's proposals presented Wednesday night. Questioners also objected to the proposed $50 million hospital to be built at UBC. They asked why the study team had not made any comment on the hospital's impact on the area. The hospital will employ 700 people and probably be located near Wesbrook Hospital and the Woodward library, team member Byron Olson said Wednesday night. But he said the study team was limited by a lack of information on plans for the new hospital. UBC was also criticized by questioners who said the university doesn't involve the community in its decisions and never considers the impact of decisions on the people living in UEL area. Peter Larkin, head of the university's committee on the UEL, said there were enough faculty, staff and students living in the UEL that the university would consider their opinions before Seepage 2: BCDC THF URYSSFY Vol. LIX, No. 42 VANCOUVER, B.C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1977 <*3gB*>4S 228-2301 installed in the submarine tender U.S.S. Simon Lake, U.S. navy spokesman Lt.-Cmdr. Roger Copeland said Thursday. Copeland said the cranes will load the new missiles, among other things, onto the Polaris-Poseidon submarines which are being back- fitted to enable them to handle the missiles. The Simon Lake will not be used as a tender for the Trident submarines, which will be completely serviced from the shore facilities at the Bangor base, and so will not require a tender-ship, Copeland said. Corporation secretary Thomas Coghlan said Thursday the CCC expects this year to handle about $100 million worth of contracts for the U.S. defence department. He said the corporation solicits and awards contracts for items ranging from wire, cables, and spare aircraft parts to complete aircraft engines. And contracts for missile loading cranes. Ron Johnson of the B.C. Federation of Labor said Wednesday the Pacific Life Community requested a meeting last November with federation secretary-treasurer Len Guy to discuss what could be done to prevent the construction of the cranes at the Heede plant. Johnson said the federation arranged a meeting for December but cancelled it when Guy became ill. Johnson said the PLC, a pacifist group aimed at halting the spread of nuclear weapons through nonviolent protest, made no further effort to organize a joint campaign against construction of the cranes. "They treated his (Guy's) sickness as almost a trumped up excuse to avoid the meeting," he said. The federation and the New Westminster and district labor council have both sent letters to Ottawa protesting the building of the cranes in Canada but received no response. Neither labor group had the jurisdiction to do any more to halt the construction of the cranes, Johnson claimed. Shelford said Wednesday he was not aware of the Canadian participation in construction of the Trident system. He said he did not intend to change the wording of his resolution to condemn Canada's involvement, because such word changes killed his motion in the last session. Shelford and Bob Skelly, NDP member for Alberni, both proposed similar but unsuccessful motions in the last session of the See page 17: TRIDENT MISSILE-LOADING CRANE . . . built behind barbed wire in Port Moody. —geof wheelwright photo $60 fee limits tax form course to rich By STEVE HOWARD UBC is selling expensive advice on how to fill out income tax returns. That's right, step right this way. The executive programs department, for the first time ever, is offering two three-hour evening seminars this February at the special rate of $60. All you wanted to know about the T-l form but were afraid to ask. A T-l form is the four-page taxation form filled out by individuals and unincorporated businesses every year. David Lam, commerce instructor who will give the course, said Wednesday the seminars will teach people to fill out their own tax returns. He said people who take the course will be able to help other people with their tax returns. Those who can afford the $60 fee will be the ones to attend the course, David Elder, director of executive programs and diploma courses, said Thursday. "I don't think it's a great deal of money," Elder said. "You have similar organizations downtown. They charge more." Elder said the tax return preparation course will make a profit. He said money made by some courses balances money lost by others. "We've got to break even and balance the books at the end of the year," he said. "The amount we're charging just covers the amount the lecturers cost." Among other courses executive programs off ersare managerial stress and report writing and analysis, Elder said. "We try to put on any type of program of interest, anything which has to do with a business," he said. But Axel Zitcher, Vancouver manager of H&R Block, said his company gives a 27- session course — 81 hours — about all aspects of individual taxation for only $75. "It's not a money-making operation," Zitcher said. "Werun it for a selfish reason." Zitcher said the course trains H&R Block employees about taxation and also teaches interested people about tax forms. "It's open to the public," Zitcher said. "Three hundred people took the course in Vancouver last year. We've had commerce students from UBC who say they've learned more than they learned at UBC." Elder said only six people have enrolled so far for UBC's course. But he added he expects a lot more to enroll before the course begins. At $10 an hour? Page 2 THE UBYSSEY Friday, January 28, 1977 BCDC proposal criticized From page 1 making any decisions on development. Larkin said UBC's decisions about its land were controlled by the "democratic process at UBC." He said UBC's governing bodies have faculty, staff and student representatives to ensure input is received from all sides before decisions are made. (• A proposal to build a research park, either on UBC land or on the UEL, was criticized by the audience and Larkin. The proposal, by Bob Maclntyre of the B.C. Development Corporation, asks UBC to allocate 32 acres of land on campus for the jresearch park. It also asks that 100 acres of UEL land be set aside for consideration of future expansion if the park is a success. BCDC is a provincial government crown corporation. Maclntyre said the park would be used for scientific research, and would not be an industrial park. He said the research park should be-located near UBC to encourage close cooperation between researchers and the university. Maclntyre said the research park would be acceptable to the UEL community and BCDC would only expand into the UEL if residents approved of the initial park. One member of the audience pointed out that BCDC's plans for the 32 acres include 10 acres of parking lots and 18 acres of buildings. The majority of the audience voiced strong disapproval of the BCDC plan. "UBC is not in favor of a research park either on the campus or the endowment lands," Larkin said. He said it is debatable if research parks are the best way to achieve cooperation between the university, industry and the government. "From the information we've looked at the evidence is that research parks have achieved very mixed success," Larkin said. Maclntyre said eight of 10 UBC department heads that BCDC has talked to favor establishing a research park at UBC, but he refused to name them. BCDC handed out a nine-page report on the proposal to the audience. The study team outlined several proposals for future administration of the UEL and a projection of financial expenditures for the next 10 years, based on implementation of their proposals. The team recommended any decisions regarding administration of the park and the UEL urban areas be reached through negotiations between the UEL residents, the provincial government and UBC. The most promising options for administration of the park are either to make it a provincial park, a Greater Vancouver Regional District park or to classify it as a park under a new or revised UEL act. But there are drawbacks to all three options, the team said. Administration proposals for the urban areas of the UEL included amalgamation with Vancouver, incorporation of the area into an independent municipality or revision of the act which administers the UEL. Study team member Olson said financial considerations for the future of the UEL were too complex to be presented in full. He outlined possible financing of the team's proposal, with six options under the Municipality Act and two under a revised UEL act. Now the study team must refine its conclusions, draft its recommendations, review and refine its proposals and finalize its report, Olson said. The results of a questionnaire distributed to the audience by the team asking for their opinions on UEL land use and administration will be ready next week, team member Hayne Wai said. GRADUATE STUDENTS'PARTY & DANCE Tonight in the ballroom, Grad Centre Full Facilities — Free Coffee 75c sound NOW IN STOCK THE NEW DAVID BOWIE ALBUM "LOW" FROM RCA Q&6sound ONLY $499 PRICE %J «4r* tM%£&om PRESENTS @/££5& < NOW ONLY DREAMS, DREAMS, DREAMS Chilliwack DREAMBOAT ANNIE Heart sound 556 SeyiTIOUr St., 682-61 44 Open Thursday & Friday Until 9 p. PANCAKE BREAKFAST MONDAY, JANUARY 31 7:00-9:00 A.M. ON THE MAIN MALL, SOUTH END OF CAMPUS Pancakes and Beverage for 50* Contribution to CKNW Orphan's Fund SPONSORED BY THE ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE SOCIETY Friday, January 28, 1977 THE UBYSSEY Page 3 New prof evaluation tried out Like to be the marker instead of the markee? If you are in one of 150 arts and science classes included in an Alma Mater Society course and teacher evaluation, you will get your chance next month. The teaching and academic standards committee of the AMS will distribute a course and teacher evaluation questionnaire in February, Pam Willis, arts undergraduate society representative, said Thursday. Willis, recently elected to senate, said TASC will submit its questionnaire to the senate committee on teaching evaluation next'week, and ask senate to endorse it. "We'd like to see senate endorse it and do it on a campus-wide basis next year," Willis said. "We have to co-operate with senate and faculty if it is to be effective." Willis said the sample questionnaire would be handed out in 150 to 200 classes in February. The questionnaire consists of 19 multiple choice questions, accompanied by a computer cardon which answers are registered. "We didn't want something that was too long, or else students wouldn't fill it in," said Willis.' 'Right now there are about 20 faculty and department questionnaires being circulated in arts alone. "Students fill them out but they don't see the results." She said the 20 members of TASC compiled the questionnaire after examining similar questionnaires used at other Canadian universities, then submitted the completed version to UBC faculty members for comment. "We sent copies to all instructors on campus, and we got about 200 replies," said Willis. "Most of them were overwhelmingly positive." The committee incorporated some faculty suggestions into the final draft of the questionnaire, Willis said. The questionnaire will be filled out in class to ensure that all completed questionnaires are collected. The computer cards will then be tabulated by committee members, and eventually published. In addition to the'answer blanks, there will be space on the back of the cards for students to comment on the course or professor, Willis said. "These comments won't be published, though," she said. "We're going to turn in the computer cards to the profs after tabulating the results, so they can analyze the comments." Willis said the questionnaires will be anonymous. The form includes such questions as: • Overall average last year; • How many lectures was your instructor prepared for? and • How available was your instructor for help outside class? Other questions ask students to evaluate instructors' presentation of course material, prerequisites for the course, materials required, quality of seminars and value of exams. Willis said the sample survey will be conducted in classes representing courses from all faculties, including about 30 arts courses and 20 science courses. Daycare funds cut 30% in new budget The Social Credit government is trying to turn back the clock when it cuts back daycare funding, former human resources minister Norm Levi said Tuesday. "They are trying to rewrite history," he said. "Every successful human resources program we (the NDP) implemented they are in the process of ruining." In the 1977-78 budget, announced Monday, the daycare allocation was reduced to $11,114,212 from $15,964,511, a decrease of about 30 per cent. "If we were still in power, our daycare budget might have been $17 or $18 million," Levi said. "Their whole attitude towards social services is one of 'only dire basic need deserves money.' "I would project that by the end of 1977-78, the daycare system will have been cut in half. This government is in the process of destroying a major preventative program." He said the program is preventative because it leads to early identification of problems in children and families, and keeps people off welfare by freeing them to work. Cutbacks will probably be made in the area of daycare subsidies, Levi said. Because of this, standards of eligibility for subsidization will be much higher. "What is going to happen is some people who are now eligible for subsidies will lose this standing. As a result, you are going to see people who can't afford to put their kids in daycare going on welfare because they are not free to work." He said daycare subsidies cost the taxpayers less than welfare. "There's no doubt about it that this is a penny wise, pound foolish sort of thing. If we have a mother with three children who is getting $370 a month on welfare, plus maybe $100 if she is on an incentive program, by getting her kids in subsidized daycare so she can work, we've reduced the cost to the taxpayer to $120," Levi said. He said the Socred government is behaving like the government in George Orwell's novel 1984. "It's like double think." But Marilyn Dahl, co-ordinator of the human resources ministry daycare program said Wednesday the cutback is not really a cutback. "The actual expenditure for this year (1976-77) will not reach the amount budgeted," she said. Dahl said she does not anticipate any changes in the program, but that "most of us are looking at it with a wait and see attitude." —ion Stewart photo STATUE OF LIBERTY play with twist is seen Thursday between Freddy Wood and grad student centre. Now if Fran Tarkenton could get that high up with that kind of protection Minnesota Vikings would have walked all over Oakland Raiders. Senate candidate asks for recount A candidate in the recent senate elections has asked for a recount. Young socialist candidate Elaine Bernard said Thursday she wants a recount because she bst the election by only ,31 votes. In a letter to the registrar, Bernard said a Police warn against purse thieves By TED DAVIS Thieves on campus have stolen at least $3,849 cash this year, and the figure may be much higher. Constable Gary Murray of the university RCMP detachment said Thursday the amount is the total of thefts reported since Sept. 1. He said many thefts were probably not reported, so the actual losses may be far greater. And, Murray said, the figure does not include stolen cheques and money lost because of stolen credit cards. Most thefts were either wallets or purses, he said, which the thieves either rifled when they found or took away. Residences, libraries, gymnasiums and exam rooms were favorite places for thieves to strike, Murray said, because students often leave purses, wallets and briefcases un tended in those places. mmm Murray said he began to work on a comprehensive file of all theft cases on campus in September, because he was aware that thefts were increasing. He said students have reported 94 thefts. Nearly all the thefts were the result of student carelessness, he said, and most could have been avoided if the victims had not left money lying around. Murray said he has not found any pattern to the thefts because they were not committed by just one person. "This is just speculation, but I think a small number of people have been doing it full time," he said. Other thefts are committed by people who see a single chance to rip off some money and make the most of it, he said. It is difficult to catch the thieves, he added, because the RCMP have no real suspects and only a few vague descriptions. Murray said it is important that all thefts are reported as soon as they are discovered. He said apprehension of the thief and recovery of the stolen money or goods is almost impossible if the theft is reported three or four days after it occurred. Students living in UBC residences can protect personal property such as calculators and larger items such as stereos and televisions by labelling them with their social insurance number and by taking advantage of the RCMP's Operation Identification program. Under the program, residence students may borrow engraving tools and get property identification decals from the RCMP office located in the university village. Constable John Francis, Operation Identification co-ordinator, said marked items are much less likely to be stolen, and stolen articles are more easily recovered and returned. recount is justified because "a recount of the ballots for board of governors found a discrepancy of 300 votes." A recheck of the board results last Friday showed candidate Basil Peters actually received 1,127 votes instead of the 811 originally reported. There were also smaller discrepancies in other results. In her letter, Bernard also complained about the election procedure, which she said was undemocratic. "They (the elections) were undemocratic from the outset because they were run by the administration of the university and not by the students themselves," she said. Elections to the board and senate are run by the registrar's office. And, she said, the principle of secret ballots was destroyed because voters had to put their names and student numbers on an envelope containing the ballots. "Any pretense of a secret ballot, which students are entitled to, was a sham," Bernard said. Bernard said the elections were also undemocratic because only full-time students were allowed to vote. Secretary to the registrar Mary Raphael said the office received Bernard's letter, but must wait for senate's approval before a recount can be held. Page 4 THE UBYSSEY Friday, January 28, 1977 Fed should act on Trident The B.C. Federation of Labor - a bastion of the militant left, right? Wrong. Not any more. The fed's reaction to the news that a B.C. manufacturer is building cranes for the Trident nuclear submarine project indicates that short-term financial gain has replaced human welfare as the prime concern of the organization. The fed represents almost all organized workers in B.C. and as such carries quite a big stick. A "hot" declaration by the fed could close Heede International, the crown corporation building the cranes. That would not only seriously hinder completion of the system but would draw much public attention (and bad publicity) to the project. But the fed so far chooses not to take that action. But they should close Heede. The federal government not only doesn't seem too concerned about Trident (the balance of power, and it's for our own protection and all that malarkey); it even welcomes the business Trident brings its corporation. The provincial government might pass the motion condemning the project, but that isn't likely to stop Trident. • Business obviously won't do anything against Trident. Neither will government. That leaves labor. Is the federation going to move against Trident, or is it going to continue to encourage its workers to accept what in effect is blood money for building a machine that will make killing easier and more efficient? Type — please ! Our typists have asked us to pass along a request. When you're writing those letters, please type them. Some poor soul spends about two hours each time we put out a paper, simply typing people's hand-written letters. But don't let the lack of a typewriter hinder you. Use one of ours. And keep those cards and letters coming. Letters Gears: Good or bad? Ch. MCLX After reading Anne Fischer's letter (Letter writer blind and deaf. Letters, Tuesday) I came to an important decision. I may be blacklisted by the powers that be for this, but I'm going to come clean anyway. What would they do to me worse than shortcircuiting my HP-21? Besides, as soon as I perfect my anti-gravity machine I won't need them, anyhow. Anne Fischer is suffering from the apparently quite common delusion that the engineering faculty is se.rist. That's simply ridiculous. We show porno films, rent prostitutes and print up dirty literature, not because we are sexist but because we are desperate. With all the bad publicity we've been getting over the years, what lady in any faculty but applied sciences would be caught dead with an engineer? To make matters worse, the bad publicity has scared off so many prospective ladygearsthatwenowhavea ratio of 800 to one in our faculty. We have to get our kicks somehow. Also, Ms. Fischer has obviously not researched her subject in depth. The engineering department provides an invaluable service to the rest of the campus. We give you guys something to hate. Yes, that's right. Everyone needs somebody to hate. The laws of our country prevent you from slandering the racial minorities at UBC but there's no law against hating engineers. God, I can't imagine what would happen without us. People might get bored and start hating anybody handy — differential fees for natives of Pango Pango, pogroms against Ubyssey staffers — God knows where it would end. Now I'd like to tell you about my decision. The decision was to spill the beans about the real reason behind engineering week. Wouldn't you like to know the real reason behind the Red Rag, the Godiva ride, et cetera? Well, it's this. The engineers and Germaine Greer are acting in concert. You see, it is a well-known fact to every revolutionary since Lenin that the masses are basically reactionary. The only way to arouse their interest in rebelling is to give them something to hate, something to react against. Well, we have volunteered to enrage the women at UBC, forcing them out in Curb curbs What is it in the nature of man that motivates him to undertake tasks that make miserable the lot of his fellow beings? I am referring, of course, to the sharp curbs that the University Endowment Lands grounds committee have installed on the bicycle path on the south side of University Boulevard. Not only are these new curbs unmarked, but they festoon the entire route. Tonight I smashed into one and now my bike looks as though I regularly take it skydiving. There are, believe it or not, still some of us that live off campus. It would be beneficial to us, as well as motorists, if the bike route was returned to its former condition. David Pollard applied sciences the open, forcing them to take an active part in women's liberation. Every year we give the women's group on campus a shot of adrenalin with our engineering week. They must get 200 new members, all foaming at the mouth, every February. This year, as the perfect end to our engineering week plan, we have persuaded Germaine Gear to speak at UBC. Perfect timing, n'est ce pas? I know that this letter will probably blow our macho cover, but what the hell. We're tired of shouldering the burden of recruiting new libbers and being labelled as the bad guys. David Manery engineering 1 15 cents for hot water? a What justifies a 15 cent charge for hot water in SUB cafeteria? This was the question posed to the dietitian in charge on Wednesday. I was informed that the charge was for the service of heating the water and washing the mug and spoon. I can understand a five cent charge, but since when dpes this elegant dining establishment rate the exorbitant prices they charge? Even McDonald's isn't that pretentious. Try giving us a break! Up your nose, food services. The Canadian National Institute for the Blind cafeteria in Scarfe charges only five cents. T. Crickmay education 3 Boycott bank's ads too It seems rather strange that The Ubyssey would refuse to accept a CBC ad on the grounds of discrimination by the CBC but would accept an ad placed by the Bank of Montreal. THE UBYSSEY JANUARY 28, 1977 Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughout the university year by the Alma Mater Society of the University of B.C. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not of the AMS or the university administration. Member, Canadian University Press. The Ubyssey publishes Page Friday, a weekly commentary and review. The Ubyssey's editorial office is in room 241K of the Student Union Building. Editorial departments, 228-2301; Advertising, 228-3977. Co-Editors: Sue Vohanka, Ralph Maurer The journalistic illiteracy poll revealed that most Ubyssey staffers confused Ted Davis with Scoop the Fearless Newshound, Heather Walker with Marcus Gee and Ralph Maurer with A. Eichmann. Will Wheeler was often mistaken for Dave Fraser, Kathy Ford was often mistaken for Verne McDonald, Richard Currie was mistaken for a coat rack and Doug Rushton was often mistaken. Similarly, Bill Tieleman could not tell David Morton from George Baugh, or Ian Morton from Bruce Baugh, or Chris Gainor from all four of them. Larry Green and John Lekich were often taken for Sue Vohanka, Sheila Burns and Gray Kyles; Paul Wilson and Rob Little were often taken for Jon Stewart and Jim Maxwell, and Merrilee Robson was often taken for a ride. Shane McCune was confused with Brendan Behan and W. C. Fields. Doug Field confused Steve Howard's ponytail with Michael's Swaan, while a child of four confused Geof Wheelwright with words of more than two syllables. The Bank of Montreal has willingly collaborated on the Arab boycott, a form of discrimination much more serious than the refusal to carry a public service announcement. The Bank of Montreal is also the bank which is involved in a court case involving more than $1 million in kickbacks for unsecured loans from members of the Greek community. The ad states "your CampusBank Card is free . . . free . . . free." In order to get a CampusBank Card you must have a true chequing account which pays no interest. That can hardly be considered free in these days of inflation. The Ubyssey should not have to be told what to do by CUP. It should act now and refuse to accept Bank of Montreal ads. Greg Wiley science 3 The Ubyssey welcomes letters from all readers. Although an effort is made to publish all letters received, The Ubyssey reserves the right to edit letters for reasons of brevity, legality, grammar or taste. Friday, January 28, 1977 THE UBYSSEY Prejudice threatens Canada Page 5 By DAVE CHESMAN and MARTIN MacLACHLAN Tm a religious man but I'm at the point now where I say let's take our guns and have it out with Quebec. If you [Quebecers] win we'll go back to the countries our parents came from but if you lose, you go back to France and we'll start building a country that speaks only English." — An Albertan, quoted by the Montreal Star. There was a time in Canada when such a comment would have been met with scorn. To our collective shame that is a time which lies behind us. This is prejudice — the sort of prejudice which has the potential of tearing a country apart. Where does this prejudice come from? Can we find a solution to the problems underlying this prejudice — knowing that in this solution may be the only hope for Canada's next decade? Canada at no time in her history could be described as dynamic or influential. Yet ours has been a proud history, filled with traditions of justice, equality, and reason. She was the peace-keeper, the libertarian, mother-country of Pearson and Bethune. She was the nation which prompted Winston Churchill to say, "There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people." Winston, we have made a liar out of you. We are now a sterile, apathetic, narrow- minded, and selfish people. We are victims of that irrational and most destructive collective emotion: prejudice. And yes, Canada, it not only can, but has happened here. Canada has become the tragic victim of historical irony. In the late 1930s and early 1940s Canada and the rest of the world were the unwilling witnesses to the treatment of Jews by Nazi Germany. In the 1950s and 1960s Canadians looked across the border and saw prejudice in segregated schools and race riots. The 1970s gave us Ireland and Lebanon. The country which had survived one hundred years with two cultures, which had welcomed the victims of prejudice with open arms sat back smugly and knew it could not happen here. Then came October, 1970 and the FLQ crisis — some Quebecers were not happy with confederation. In the next six years it became apparent that others weren't happy either. There was great depth of feeling about biculturalism, air traffic control, the Olympic deficit, Bill 22 and bilingual labelling. Then came November, 1976 and the problem could no longer be ignored. The nation which had been revulsed by the Nazi treatment of Jews, which had scorned the American treatment of the blacks, which was still watching the experiences of Northern Ireland and Lebanon in horror allowed itself to be drawn into the depths of prejudice. This prejudice which has eaten and continues to eat away at other nations is on the verge of committing its greatest atrocity: the destruction of a once-sound nation with its promise of greatness unfulfilled. Canada, once the model of equality, is threatened by a prejudice which bears the label "Made in Canada." Prejudice exists everywhere. The lengths to which we go individually and collectively in our attempts to control its influence is a measure of our civilization. Prejudice must be fought whenever and wherever it appears. And with the greatest vigor in the tragic case when it is the irrational response to a misunderstood problem. Such is the case in Northern Ireland where the bombs of the Catholics are thrown at the Protestant establishment of money and power. The individual Catholic does not hate the individual Protestant. And in Lebanon cue mvBow TAKE A VALIUM/ the slaughter of the past year cannot be attributed to hatred of individual Christians but to the feelings the Moslems have of inferiority and impotency. Similarly, Canadians in the West do not hate the individual French-Canadian. Our prejudice is not even rooted in a dislike of the French-Canadian's language, culture, or physical characteristics. It is rooted in the psyche of Western Canada and manifested in our distrust of the eastern establishment, our sense of being a colony whose interests are neglected by the colonial office in Ottawa. We perceive the east as having the sort of power Protestants have had in Ireland and Christians in Lebanon. In looking for a scapegoat for our sense of powerlessness we have found the French- Canadians and Quebec. We perceive Quebec as having been given the individual attention of the federal government to the exclusion of our interests. The Montreal Star gave an example of the whole problem: "Recently the federal government built a new, seven-booth facility at the main border crossing from the US just south of Vancouver. During the heaviest return-home period of the Thanksgiving weekend, only three — and sometimes only two — of those booths were staffed, causing massive lineups. The reason, as it has been on other weekends is that Ottawa has cut back on customs and immigration staff "Maybe the same cuts have been made at crossings into Quebec and Ontario. The B.C. resident does not know and does not care. All he knows is that the federal government — not 'his' government — has forced him to spend several hours in a boiling-over car in order to save a few bucks which will probably be spent on providing free French lessons to some MP's wife who, surely, could afford to pay for them if they are needed." Bilingualism, air-control, the Olympic deficit, Bill 22, the War Measures Act. Because of the association of our distrust of the federal government with their concerns in Quebec we automatically take one side in any argument on these issues — often irrationally. "French should not be forced down our throats;" we have never been forced to learn French and we know no one who honestly finds it a burden to turn a package over to read the English. "English is the only language of the air;" patently untrue — in Switzerland, for example, English, French, German, and sometimes Italian are used for air-traffic control. This is not to say that we are always wrong in our opposition — even that tribute to bureaucracy, the federal government, makes mistakes. For example, Keith Spicer, the commissioner of the Official Languages Act, considers-bilingualism and biculturalism legislation, enlightened as it may be, to have been badly implemented. Bill 22, Quebec's ill-conceived language act, is a response to their fears about cultural sovereignty as irrational as ours about the east. We must recognize, therefore, that we are anti-French-Canadian, anti-Quebec without reason. We have made an irrational response to the "eastern" problem, and this response is prejudice. Trudeau termed the extraordinary undertaking that is Canada "so advanced on the road to liberty, in the way of justice and of prosperity that to abandon it now would be a sin . . .against humanity." Although it is neither fashionable nor popular to agree with Mr. Trudeau today he is undeniably correct. This nation seems bent on turning its back on her own destiny; we have our fingers on the self-destruct button and the waves of prejudice which are washing over this nation are bringing us closer and closer to self-destruction. Chink shows in armor of Yellow Knight "At last a Knight in Yellow armor has arisen from the yellow horde to fight the evil bigotry against Chinks by the resident racist named HGE in the Angus second floor men's washroom. This brave warrior fighting for the rights of the yellow man possesses a barbed wit and a flair for the riposte equal in brilliance to the depths of irrationality possessed by the terrible HGE." All the joking aside, as anyone who has frequently used the second floor men's washroom in Angus knows the above is a tongue-in-cheek synopsis (albeit biased - against HGE) of the events of this school term that have occurred on the walls of the toilet cubicle second from the window. Of course I am referring to the unique racist graffiti on those walls. I for one have not seen any other like it anywhere on campus. Being a humble user of the second floor can from a couple of years back I noticed kthe emergence of HGE, a self-proclaimed spokesman for the silent white majority who seems to experience great pleasure in defaming the members of the yellow race by way of various terms and uncomplimentary diagrams. Until quite recently, HGE was unchallenged in his antics — probably ignored by the more rational members of fhehuman race. However, another graffiti artist calling himself The Chink has taken it upon himself to respond to the anti- yellow platitudes expounded by HGE. Unfortunately where one might have hoped for a rational and well-thought-out attack on HGE's opinions The Chink has resorted to replies that are characterized by a banality and irrationality second only to those of HGE's whose, by the way, are notable in their childishness by scratching out everything said against him and labelling all his critics homosexuals. It seems to me, and this is my own opinion, that this type of mindless response to people of a different race and culture is one of the most serious problems facing this country. Be the fellow white, yellow, or even French, if we can't live in peace with each other then this so-called beautiful country is doomed. This fellow called HGE is a particularly reprehensible example of the narrow- minded fools in this country who think they can make it better by throwing everybody different out. His authority for his actions by representation of the silent majority is consistent with the pattern followed by those who take it upon themselves to guide or lead a minority view be it leftist or rightist, a la Spiro Agnew, and we all know how he ended up. In all cases the silence of the majority is evidence of the fact that these movements of thought do not exist in significant numbers except perhaps in the mind of the pathetic person writing on the walls with his pants around his ankles. If I am to criticize the childish games of HGE I should not conclude without remarking on the immature responses of The Chink to HGE. By labelling the remarks of HGE as the stereotyped response of a "dumb white" places The Chink in the same Neanderthal class of human intelligence to which HGE belongs. The copious slander produced by both parties regarding each other's virility, heterosexuality and penis size is ridiculous if not irrelevant. Suffice to say that both sides are especially asinine in their reactions and the sooner they grow up the sooner the image of UBC students will improve in the eyes of the physical plant janitors and the racial atmosphere of this university and country might improve as well. For some obscure reason, the fellow who wrote the foregoing opinion piece chose to remain anonymous. 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U < fotl&ttfS '-' x.. . ■■'■:.. . _ ' ■ A.*J.>?■ -: *J|&:: *■■ -.'J..fc^T: 'Vv.1 ■S0SgjV V?_' " ■t. *.x »Kfe >»*; K*-:": *^:v^-^.;...-..-. entertainment Steve Miller cancels flight By BRUCE BAUGH Steve Miller flew less like an eagle than like a turkey at his concert Wednesday night at the Coliseum. Poor pacing, a bad sound mix and sloppy playing combined to produce a lacklustre and at times boring performance. When Miller came on stage he was accorded a thunderous ovation, complete with enough lit matches to illuminate the Coliseum in a dull, yellow glow. This reception indicates the popularity Miller has achieved with his latest album, Fly Like An Eagle, from which he has had three hit singles. Although none of those hits are as good as much of Miller's previous work, the constant airplay of those songs has fixed Miller's name in the mind of the public and gained him a following. However, the excitement that greeted Miller was not matched by his performance. Even the hit songs most of the audience had come to hear were delivered without energy or precision. Any time Miller generated tension with a song he dissipated it with the following number. A sound mix that obscured vocals and obliterated some of the guitar solos ensured the ruination of many of the songs Miller performed. Miller used his own surprisingly incompetent sound crew. During one guitar solo, the volume of the rhythm guitar rather than the lead guitar was turned up. The bass lines were never distinct and the keyboards may as well not have been there. The sound mix was not the only problem. A major fault of the set was its pacing. Miller started off with second-rate material from his latest and upcoming albums, with the result that the performance was a long time in getting off the ground. Songs such as Look Through My Window, which were only marginally successful the first time around, lost rather than gained impact in live performance. Miller has a 10-year recording career from which to draw and it is extremely annoying when he insists on playing inferior music simply because it is more current. But the worst aspect of the show was the band itself. The group played sloppily and missed chord changes. The transitions from verse to chorus were awkward and the solos were pointless and not integrated properly into the songs. Going to Mexico was destroyed simply because the band was not tight enough. Going to the Country, which Miller announced would let the band stretch out, was merely an excuse for long-winded and uninteresting solos from the various band members. The band included drums, bass, keyboards, harmonica, two other guitarists and Miller. The band members seemed competent but played carelessly. Miller's guitar playing was atrocious^ His recorded work demonstrates that he is capable of playing fluid, bluesy guitar, but the solos he took were ragged and thoughtless. The guitar solo in Fly Like An Eagle, during which Miller used an echo effect on his guitar, was the most boring moment of a dull concert. There were some high points in the show. Living in the U.S.A., from Miller's second album, combines urgent rhythms and catchy rhythm and blues phrasing with stunning effect. Miller's guitar solo in that number was his only good one of the night and the band played well. Gangster of Love, Jellyroll and Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash were also good songs well played. They showed that occasionally Miller can turn interesting lyrics and rhythmic guitar work into a song. The good moments of the concert showed that Miller is an artist capable of delivering a much better performance than the one he gave on Wednesday night. Miller's best work is behind him. Maybe next time he'll forget about pushing his new material and concentrate on playing music. THE JOKER "Some people call me lousy" <t *4^^/T| 1/1 }^o^dance Keitaurant ( jkk ft ^t-/C/I W/t^ OPEN FOR LUNCH 11:30 1251 Ho^st. ' C" J DINNER FROM 6:00 6843043 STEVE MILLER . — geoff wheelwright photos . flies like a turkey into rock and roll oblivion Author misses point ByGEORGEBAUGH In Wagner and Nietzsche, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, one of the more feted tenors of our day, attempts to analyze the friendship of these two giants of the last century. Wagner and Nietzsche By Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson $14.95 hardcover In the preface to his book, Fischer-Dieskau states that the friendship the two men shared and then abandoned can only be fully explained by emphasizing that "Wagner's great appeal to, and influence on, Nietzsche are tightly interwoven with the philosopher's ambitions as a composer." While Fischer-Dieskau presents a balanced and complete view of the two mens' attitudes towards each other the emphasis he places on Nietzsche's musical aspirations cannot be justified by the evidence he cites to support that thesis. Music itself was not important to their relationship. What brought them together were their initially shared philosophical ideas, particularly regarding Schopenhauer. Even though Fischer-Dieskau does not bring out this idea explicitly it is implied, so he cannot be faulted for being unaware of it. The error which he makes is that of mistaking music, the vehicle for expressing their similar spiritual values, with the values themselves. In itself this is a minor error but such errors recur throughout the whole of Wagner and Nietzsche and obscure the valid points that Fischer-Dieskau makes. Another bothersome aspect of the book is the surfeit of unnecessary background detail. Fischer-Dieskau relates at length the domestic affairs of the Wagners. Some of this material is useful to gain an understanding of the personalities of Richard and Cosima Wagner but much of it is superfluous. Fischer-Dieskau overcomes his preoccupation with homely details only in the second half of the book where he competently illustrates how the two friends were forced to become enemies. Nietzsche realized that he had little in common with Wagner. The "Master's" nationalism and anti-semitism at first embarrassed Nietzsche. Later, as he became embittered because of the public's misunderstanding of his own work, he became shriller in his criticisms of Wagner. Nietzsche took Parsifal to be the epitome of the decadence of Wagner's work. He was especially dismayed at Wagner's embrace of Christianity, since Wagner had been, like himself, a disciple of Schopenhauer. Even though Nietzsche realized that his philosophy was dramatically opposed to Wagner's he admitted his debt to Wagner. He knew that he couldn't have developed his contrary philosophy without having understood Wagner. However, Wagner never could understand how Nietzsche, who was once the faithful errand boy, could become such a tenacious enemy. Cosima Wagner believed from the beginning of the rupture that Nietzsche had suffered a mental collapse. In spite of the frequent lapses in style and emphasis, Fischer- Dieskau's book would be interesting for anyone with little knowledge about Wagner or Nietzsche. But for someone who knows the two well it is exasperatingly slow to get to the point. WORLD'S GREATEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL FEATURING THE EUROPEAN VERSION OF fc PLUS THE CREAM >3^/*OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM-ART FROM AROUND THE WORLD COMING TO THE ACOUSTICALLY SUPERIOR PNE GARDENS JANUARY 28th, 29th, 30th — 8:00 P.M. Advance Tickets: $3.00 — Day ol Show: $3.50 ADVANCE TICKETS AND FREE FESTIVAL PROGRAMS AVAILABLE AT ALL CONCERT BOX OFFICES OUTLETS m^^mimmuiiiiimjummuui^^^B Friday, January 28, 1977 Page Friday' 2 THE UBYSSEY Skittish sadly skirts satire By SHEILA BURNS If playwright Mary Baldridge intended Canadian Skittish to be a.witty comment on Canada, she was not successful. The play failed to come close to any kind of amusing analysis of the Canadian national scene. A Calgary native, Mary Baldridge is the author of a volume of poetry and three plays. Canadian Skittish is the first of her plays to be staged in Vancouver. It takes the form of 25 short skits with themes ranging from specifically Canadian subjects to universal themes such as women's liberation, suicide and divorce. Canadian Skittish By Mary Baldridge At City Stage Until Feb. 12 The playwright's intention in writing Canadian Skittish was to produce a series of amusing vignettes which, put together, would present a cross-section of Canada and Canadians. It is a theme with considerable potential which, if it had been handled skilfully, could have produced an amusing and meaningful play. Canadian Skittish, however, does little more than half-heartedly mock some already overworked Canadian foibles. It is a theme with considerable potential which, if it had been handled skilfully, could have produced an amusing and meaningful play. Canadian Skittish, however, does little more than half-heartedly mock some already overworked Canadian foibles. It is surprising that a director as respected as Ray Michaels, should choose to produce a play like Canadian Skittish. But if it hadn't been for his talent the play would have failed even more dismally. The cast is comprised of experienced City Stage regulars Diana Belshaw and Leroy Schulz, as well as company debutantes Guy Bannerman and Kathleen Flaherty. All four actors take numerous and varied roles, and overcome some awkward staging to turn in creditable performances. However, the lack of any character development and the superficiality of the majority of the skits leaves little room for exceptional acting performances. The cast must be given credit for performing as well as they did considering a disheartening audience attendance. The City Stage Theatre holds only about 100 seats and yet even on a Friday evening the theatre was little more than a third full. Canadian Skittish is certainly not a hallmark in Canadian theatre. Yet if it is sad as a play, it is even sadder as a national statement. What comes through most clearly throughout the play is the playwright's obvious cynical, deprecating attitude toward her fellow Canadians. The attempt by Mary Baldridge to create a cross-section of Canadiana has failed completely. If satire is to be successful it must be pointed at something specific. However, the vague, disjointed nature of the skits leaves one unclear of just what the playwright wishes to satirize. CANADIAN SKITTISH .. . little more than a half-hearted frolic of overworked Canadian foibles Gravity holds Kate down By LARRY GREEN Katharine Hepburn in A Matter of Gravity came and played eight performances at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre last week and fortunately it didn't stay longer. This is not to say that the star or the material were loathsome or ineffectual. But the performance of this play, with a star placed in the middle, to an audience of 3,000 curious fans seems somehow barbaric. A Matter of Gravity With Katharine Hepburn Directed by Noel Willman At the Queen Elizabeth Theatre It may seem unnecessary to publish a review at this time, but reviews were unnecessary even before the show got here. Tickets were sold out, no one was expecting a good play and everyone was expecting a great performance from its star. Katharine Hepburn wasn't great, but she wasn't bad either. There were people who didn't seem disillusioned at all the effort put into something as basically poor as A Matter of Gravity. People were determined to find A Matter of Gravity a great event because of Hepburn's reputation. If the play didn't make the actress, then the actress didn't make the play either. The curtain rises on Ben Edwards' beautiful set, and it gets applause. In each act Katharine Hepburn's entrance was also applauded, and we all stood up at the end, which seemed fair; after all, she took a lot of trouble to get here. With the Enid Bagnold play itself there is a certain lift — the wittiness and the lines Hepburn gets laughs for. There are lines like "Mrs. Basil, half the kitchen is blown down." "Cook in the other half." One character reveals she is a mulatto by saying, "my father's as black as your hat." After a while the dialogue comes in waves of thought, and the bits of wit become stretched to breaking point. Everything that is worst about English upper-class folklore seems to be there: a good fairy who flies offstage where we can't see, the struggles to retain one's nobility and property and heritage (which win, over the intellectual struggles to get rid of them). The characters are well etched, alright, but after a while the author doesn't know what to do with them except make them exchange witticisms. The actors, an experienced, admirable group, fit into the scheme and become the best part of what they're involved in. Snobbish intellectuals, desperate homosexuality and class struggle pepper the almost inexplicable plot. At the crest of it is the Hepburn character, an old woman who reacts to it all with the winning charm she was brought up to have. The cast featured Richard Kelton, Paul Harding, Charlotte Jones as the whimsical cook, and other fine performers. Noel Willman directs with good movement and pace; Hepburn played the role in a wheelchair, and added fluidity and dimension among the conventional pacing about with her expert acrobatics. Many people consider Katharine Hepburn a great movie actress. Yet the attraction of seeing the play is of seeing a star on stage, not of seeing a stage star. In this context it's rather shameful to see a personality with the intelligence and sense we know she has appearing in a runt of a play in a cavernous hall. It's like going to a circus to see one well-trained animal. Twenty-five years ago she toured in As You Like It. She could be Lady Macbeth — imagine the joy at hearing her say, "A foolish thought to say a sorry sight" — but instead she chooses to inject all her personality, which she often does to a film, into A Matter of Gravity. It's a good performance, in that she's very alert to nuances and gestures, and it does have all the force of Hepburn. But it's depressing to see a star like her in a role that might easily have been played by any lesser known actress of distinction for six weeks at the Arts Club. Neither any actress nor the play deserves much more, certainly not all this hullaballoo and commercialism. All those people who went to see Katharine Hepburn in A Matter of Gravity would probably do so again at a moment's notice. There's no good saying it's a pity, or being smug about it. The performance satisfied the pre^teenager in all of us with its pretty view of life, the refined laughs, the excitement of anticipation, and most of all with the thrill of that shining personality before us — too great to reach out to, too awesome to be touched by. Share the Long Distance feeling with someone you love ©Trans-Canada Telephone System Friday, January 28, 1977 THE UBYSSEY Page Friday, 3 books / Polish culture chronicled By DAVE FRASER The Canadian Government recently began a program of cultural enrichment by commissioning a series of histories on the ethnic groups which comprise the Canadian mosaic. A Member of aDistinguishedFamily is the story of Polish immigration and settlement in Canada. The study encompasses all aspects of the movement of families from Poland to Canada from the 1850's on with particular emphasis on, with particular emphasis on the situation after settlement within Canada. There were five phases of Polish immigration. In the earliest of these phases the immigrants were poor, uneducated, unskilled, but hard working. They were categorized as 'non-preferred' by the Canadian Immigration authorities, which meant they were barely tolerated. Their place was on the lowest rung of the socioeconomic ladder. The early immigrants were often the victims of abuse and discrimination from the host Canadian society. One Anglican bishop in Saskatchewan wrote a letter to his parishioners urging them to protest the arrival of "dirty, stupid, reeking of garlic, undesirable Continental Europeans." From these early beginnings the Poles in Canada have grown in stature and respectability since at the present time they are regarded as an integral part of this country. In part this about-face in Canadian attitude may be due to later phases of Polish immigration (particularly after 1945) which have been characterized by the arrival of well-educated, skilled and professional people. The problems of Polish immigrants in Canada have been manifold but are not unlike those problems experienced by most other ethnic groups who settle in a new cotintry. Because almost all early Poles coming to Canada were illiterate and uneducated, there were problems of communication which sometimes resulted in conflict with native born Canadians. Issues faced by all Poles at one time or another included problems of identity, of loyalty to Canada versus Poland, maintenance of the Polish .language, customs and tradition, and the shock of adjustment to a new country and culture. Probably no problem associated with immigration and resettlement was harder to accept than the changes brought about in the traditional Polish family structure. Within Canada Polish wives and children suddenly found themselves capable of exercising more control and choice in their affairs instead of being the passive recipients of unilateral paternal decisions. Because children had to attend Canadian schools and start ^ff fffffl^^^^n POLISH IMMIGRANT FAMILY . . . "dirty, stupid, reeking of garlic, undesirable . . ."? ■Blinking in Canadian terms they very quickly moved away from the traditional interdependence of the Polish family unit and tended to seek their independence much sooner. Polish elders suddenly found themselves parcelled off to old people's homes because there was no longer room for them "sOCTHUf S . . .gradually replaced as immigrants move into mainstream within the new family set-up. In all of this there were, of course, changes in the authority and role of husband, wife, and children. To cope with the diverse problems of Poles in Canada numerous organizations were established. These included church groups, lay societies, and even political organizations. The verdict is not in yet but the success of these organizations has been mixed. The Polish group in Canada today consists of four or five 'types.' First, there are the 'Poles in Canada' whose frame of reference remains Poland and Polish culture. These people cannot accept Canadian norms and they dream only of returning home to their native country. Then there are 'Polish Canadians' who see themselves as New Canadians. They are thoroughly imbued with Polish values but at the same time they strive to become members of their adopted society. The 'Canadian Polish' have adjusted fully to their new environment and have successfully resolved their two frames of reference. Although this group retains symbolic and emotional ties with Polish culture and tradition it also recognizes Canada as a permanent home and a nation worthy of its first allegiance. Finally there are the 'Canadians of Polish Background' who were either born in Canada or who arrived here as young children. These people have only vague notions of Polish culture and tradition and identify first and foremost with Canada. The authors of this study see the Polish group in Canada today at a crossroads. The real issue is whether the group will become totally assimilated into the larger and more dominant Canadian society or make increased efforts to retain some of its distinct cultural heritage? Although much 'Polishness' is being lost through inter-marriage, acceptance of new values, etc. the authors feel the one brightspot in this area is the recent interest shown by Polish young people in their origins and culture. In a word, they are optimistic that 'Anglicization' will not destroy this unique group in our society. Marchand runs off at the mouth By KATHY F ROD Just Looking, Thank You is an irritating book. Not irritating because it makes the reader squirm with self-recognition or guilt, but because of the author's writing style and his attitudes towards his subjects. Just Looking, Thank You By Philip Marchand Published by Macmillan 208 pages, $10.95 hardcover Philip Marchand's book is subtitled An Amused Observer's View of Canadian Lifestyles. It consists of 16 non-fictional pieces covering topics ranging from glitter bars in Toronto to spiritual communes in Vancouver. It has great potential which unfortunately js not realized. One of the main reasons for its failure is Marchand has little sympathy for the people about whom he writes. Because of his patronizing attitude, after three or four of his vignettes it is difficult to read the book objectively. Although few specific items can be pinpointed which illustrate Marchand's attitude, it is an overall impression the reader gets. The author's annoying habit of putting down anything he doesn't agree with, is illustrated by gems such as "Richard, Leonard, all you people chanting the Koran, you spiritual communards getting high in rooms with incense ashes smouldering in delicate brass Creative Arts This is yous chance to shine. Page Friday will be publishing its annual Creative Arts issue an M;n- t Uc M'-r looking fur >huri .-tono.-.. pm-m- lyaphic- .ind phutOiir.ipha h\ I IfCMudenlh Eiitnw- should U1 -.ubmilled »o I'uri1 Fridav The n>vsM'\. K«w>m 241K, MB. by l'rb 25 A book prize will lie awarded to the submission considered by the staff to bo the best. So include your nil me and a phone number or an .nHrrt»i when-> nu i-iin !«■ ri\u'lit"i PtfUi- l-'riil.i\ will ncil he ri'sjmiisihlo lor rctitrniiii; »uh missions so kivp a «ip> Howe-wr. we will try lu return all submissions accompanied by a self jddrnssed stamped envelope incense holders —if you could hear yourself talk you'd certainly wonder about yourselves, too, so devoid of feeling is your language." It's unfortunate that Marchand doesn't take his own advice. While some people do take themselves too seriously, that does not give people like Marchand the right to go around making condescending statements. A truly objective writer, unlike this author, does not sneer at his subjects. This book is unquestionably a case of "I am a reporter, and I shall tell you what's wrong with your lifestyle, and why you are so stupid." Marchand's "reporting" is biased. He has difficulty deciding whether he is reporting or editorializing. And his writing is technically poor, particularly his sentence structure. There appears to be some confusion in Marchand's mind about the difference between a sentence and a paragraph. A long sentence is one thing, but it's quite another when the reader has to return to the beginning because he has forgotten the subject of the sentence . For example, in Mating Dances Beneath the Basketball Hoop, Marchand writes "Six years ago at this same high school, around the time everyone had found out from reading the* weekend supplements that the folkways and mores of the young were changing radically, that there was a sexual revolution underway in perhaps the very high school your son or daughter attended, and the new teen rebels were not James Dean and Natalie Wood — no, not those reckless, tormented teenagers from the past, with their Wildroot and their charm bracelets, pony tails and the blue jeans with tough cuffs on them, sweet in the memory now that they have disappeared forever — this new bunch were far worse, their very brain cells were being stewed and mutated by exotic weeds and chemicals — at that moment in history, as I say, one could be more precise about what was going on at places like Malvern Collegiate Institute." How Marchand can call himself a reporter after such severe attacks of verbal diarrhea is beyond comprehension. Any copy editor, when presented with such wordiness, would be more than likely to take out a pencil and start cutting. But despite sneers and put- downs, there are some redeeming qualities in Marchand's work. His reporter's eye still functions MARCHAND. . . reporter's eye functions precisely, pinning down familiar sights and details. A discussion of Toronto from the point of view of a young woman from a small Northern Ontario town (Learning To Love the Big City) is accurate and interesting. His descriptions of teenage women would fit many of the young women who attend Vancouver high schools. But Marchand's unsympathetic sniping and self-conscious writing turn what could have been brilliant commentaries on Canadian lifestyles into nothing more than tedious ramblings. Page Friday, 4 THE UBYSSEY Friday, January 28, 1977 / & greenpcace Greenpeace saves seals By DAVID MORTON The seal hunt is not a pleasant thing to watch. The method of killing alone is enough to inspire protest against the hunt let alone the Harp seal's threatened extinction. Every year during February and March, the ice floes of Labrador run red with the blood of baby seals, slain in their second week of life. The air is filled with a chorus of death wails and screams. The seal mothers stand by helplessly and watch their offspring being brutally clubbed and skinned. Often the sealer's club is not quite accurate, and though the seal pup is quiet, it may be alive while its skin is being torn off. Sometimes a pup continues its struggle after the skin is taken. It eventually dies of loss of blood or shock. But the sealing industry provides a livelihood for out-of-work Newfoundland fishermen. They are either hired by the commercial fleets, or they can form their own private groups and work as landsmen. Either way the seal hunt makes ends meet for many Newfoundlanders. Extinction It is the commercial seal hunters that may be blamed for the species' threatened extinction. In 1900 the federal fisheries estimated the Harp seal population as 20 million. In 1964, there were only three million. And last year there was less than one million. If sealing continues at its present rate, the Harp seal will be extinct in five to 10 years. In November of 1975, the federal minister of fisheries, Romeo Leblanc, said the seal hunt for the 1976 season would either be banned or the quota severely decreased. He made this statement in response to scientific evidence indicating that the Harp seal was an endangered species. The industry held its breath until a few months before the opening of the season when, out of the blue, Leblanc set the seal quota at 127,000. The quota was divided into two parts. The commercial sealers were allowed to kill 97,000 seals, while the private sealers, the landsmen, were allowed 30,000. But the quotas were ignored. Instead there were 169,000 seals taken — 71,000 by the landsmen. An overkill of 41,000. Despite further figures indicating the danger the species is in, the minister of fisheries raised this year's seal quota to 170,000. In 1975, Vancouver's Greenpeace Foundation launched its first anti-sealing seal campaign. Known then for its anti-nuclear and save the whale crusades, this new endeavor was the result of an expanding platform. The seal protest was to involve going to the Labrador ice floes and physically interfering with the seal hunt. Non-vio lence Being a non-violent organization, their tactics included spraying the seals with a harmless green dye, rendering the seal fur commercially worthless. The seals would shed their furs shortly after the hunt was over. Other plans were to physically block the icebrakers from landing kayaks on the ice, and placing their own bodies between the seals and the sealer's club. The Greenpeace plans were met with a mixture of strong encouragement and vicious indignation. Many groups gave enthusiastic support, some even requesting they take part in the actual protest. But the strongest response came from the irate Newfoundland communities. The protests ranged from fiery attacks in newspaper editorials (one article calling the Greenpeace protestors "noxious twits.") to threats on the lives of Greenpeace mem-' bers. A letter to organizers Bob Hunter and Paul Watson warned that if they interfered with the seal hunt, they would be shot. In the face of these massive objections and warnings from the Department of Fisheries, a contingent of Greenpeace protestors set off for Newfoundland. During the two weeks it took the 16 member crew to reach the ice floes, the government was up to no good. Fisheries minister Leblanc drew up an act of legislation outlawing many of the tactics Greenpeace protestors were planning to use. By an Order of Council, the act was Sealers and government impede efforts ■■■. i,n%i$t +H+ ±*.„ &<* m<~ LANDSMAN . . . responsible for 41,000 seal overkill passed and the laws were instituted before the group arrived in Newfoundland. The act was ironically titled The Seal Protection Act. Major parts of it were designed specifically for the Greenpeace protest. Some of the tactics outlined were: • no dye may be sprayed on seal fur; e no unauthorized aircraft may land closer than a quarter-mile from the seal herds; • no seal may be protected by physically placing a body between the seal and a sealer's club; • a seal may not be moved from one place to another. Organizers Hunter and Watson were determined to continue despite the Seal Protection Act. When the group arrived in the town of St. Anthony, Nfld., their base for the campaign, they were met by 200 angry citizens. Hunter later described their appearance as "a hostile lynch mob." Some carried signs saying, "Go back to B.C." or "Protect B.C. drug addicts, not the seals." The Greenpeace crew found no cooperation in the town. Hotel reservations had been cancelled, and gas stations refused to refuel their vans. However at a meeting with the citizens of St. Anthony, the mood of the town changed. In return for cooperation with the landsmen of the town, the Greenpeace crew agreed to drop all plans to mark baby seals with green dye, and promised to not interfere with the Newfoundlander's hunt. Hunter said, "we made a peace pact with the Newfoundland landsmen because we nowunderstand their economic plight which has been brought on by federal government mismanagement of the sea resources. "The Norwegian fleet has been allowed by the government to exploit the seal resource. While the Newfoundland hunt is small by comparison, it is necessary to the survival of the citizens." All hostility in the town disappeared from both sides when they all went drinking at the local pub. These statements which made headlines across the continent, indicated a sudden change in the priorities of Greenpeace. At theoutsetof the campaign, they were to put a stop to all seal slaughter — landsmen or commercial seals. Suddenly, they were patronizing the landsmen. According to Mike Bailey, a co-ordinator for this year's seal campaign, the change in priorities was to accommodate their only concern — getting to the seal hunt which was then in progress. Bailey said the Greenpeace organization used the landsmen for their own purposes, but the landsmen, in turn, used them because of the mutual disagreement with the Norwegian commercial fleet. The official Greenpeace position on the seal hunt for this year is in opposition with the landsmen hunt. The landsmen were to blame for last year's 41,000-seal overkill. Thus, acting as guides for the protestors, the landsmen led them to the ice floes and the seal hunt. Seal hunt Except for the dropping of the dye from their plans, the Greenpeace protest went ahead against the Norwegian sealing fleets. They carried out tactics specifically outlined against them by the Seal Protection Act, at times endangering their own lives. Present at all hunt sites were uniformed fisheries officers, enforcing quotas and the Seal Protection Act. On one occasion, Paul Watson, was arrested by one of these officers for moving a seal out of the way of an icebreaker. Later that day, the Greenpeace helicopters were seized by the RCMP as a result of Watson's arrest. The helicopters were later released after the payment of a $10,000 bond on each one. But on Oct. 28 of this year, the Supreme Court of Newfoundland threw out a case against the protestors on the grounds that the Canadian government had acted against them despite the fact that they were outside Canada's jurisdiction. The fisheries patrol zone at that time was still 12 miles. Despite the drawbacks of last year's campaign, the Greenpeace organization feels it was successful. Much of their trouble was due to one basic flaw, the open publicizing of their tactics. It enabled the federal government to take specific action against their campaign. This explains their silence on tactics for this year's campaign. With the new 200-mile fisheries limit, the Greenpeace may be in greater danger of being arrested this year. They say they have planned new tactics not covered by the Seal Protection Act. New tactics They still plan to ignore all government laws pertaining to the seal hunt in order to put a stop to the slaughter. They are also asking for a six-year moratorium on the seal ■hunt. "Weare a non-violent organization," says Bailey, "we are not anti-government, we are not a^ti-landsmen — all we want to do is stop the seal hunt." Greenpeace is giving a special presentation in the SUB Theatre next Wednesday at 7:30p.m. and Thursday at 12:30 p.m. on this year's seal campaign. They will be showing a half-hour excerpt on last year's seal hunt. On the Thursday presentation, Dr. Patrick Moore, vice-president of the Greenpeace Foundation, will give a talk on the seal hunt. There is a 75 cent contribution. Greenpeace is also looking for volunteers to help with the campaign during February and March. Their offices will be empty of regular volunteers, and people will be needed to handle campaign business. Spare time is the only qualification needed. Anyone with or without special abilities will be used in a variety of jobs ranging from typing to speaking to large groups on the seal hunt. If you are interested, phone Mike Bailey or Jacqueline Young at the Greenpeace offices. Their numbers are 738-7134 or 738- 9821. Try also the seal campaign headquarters at 736-7708. Friday, January 28, 1977 THE UBYSSEY Page Friday. 5 movies Solution not elementary ByJOHNLEKICH Dedicated Sherlock Holmes addicts realize that the screen has never been an adequate showcase for their hero's complicated personality. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution With Alan Arkin and Nicol Williamson Directed by Herbert Ross At the Park theatre For instance, the series of films popular in the thirties would have us believe that Holmes was the thinking man's peacock. I still cringe when I think of Basil Rath- bone's various performances as the famous sleuth, which can only be described as a form of beady- eyed banality. Dr. Watson does not come across with a great deal of credibility either. It does not take a brilliant detective to deduce that Nigel Bruce's version of the good doctor could never have made it through medical school, if only because he seemed incapable of uttering an intelligible sentence. Recent attempts to immortalize the pair on film have, for the most part, proved less than successful. I will give all my back copies of Rona Barrett's Hollywood to anyone who can remember George C. Scott in They Might Be Giants. How about Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes? Another Wilder, Gene, made a film called Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother. You probably remember that one. However, the film's popularity was largely based on a patented brand of insanity that is light years away from A. Conan Doyle. Does Sherlock Holmes have a future on Hollywood and Vine? Or should he grab Watson and retrace his steps to Baker Street? Until a few days ago, my answer to this last question would have been a resounding yes. Today I am a changed man. This revolution in thought was sparked by a movie entitled The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. It is the best blend of comedy, drama and suspense that I've seen in a long time. More importantly, it is the kind of film that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would have been proud of. The movie is based on a best- selling novel by Nicholas Meyer, who also wrote the screenplay. Meyer has obviously done his homework. He concocts a story which, with reference to the original works, is perfectly plausible. This is a neat trick, since Meyer chooses to work Sigmund Freud into the plot. Alan Arkin's performance as Freud probably best explains why The Seven-Per-Cent Solution is so outstanding. Freud is misunderstood by a lot of people, including actors and directors. He has become the prototype for your typical loony variety hour shrink. You know the type. He has a thick beard, an even thicker accent and at least three dif ferent kinds of nervous twitches. Arkin could have come on like a life-size New Yorker cartoon. Instead, he brings an almost awesome dignity to the role. It is his best performance in years. Dignity is the key to this enjoyable movie. It is a quality which Nicol Williamson and Robert Duvall, as Holmes and Watson, share with Arkin's interpretation of Freud. It is this basic dignity which transforms potential cardboard characters into people with whom the audience can identify. When Holmes is attempting to overcome his cocaine addiction or Freud is playing tennis with the evil baron, the onlooker really cares about what will happen next. I'm not suggesting that The Seven-Per-Cent Solution is a stuffy movie. There are enough laughs to keep everyone happy. However, even the comedy takes on a rich substance. Through the laughter, as well as the suspense, we can see the development of the bonds of friendship that unite the three men. Yet, director Herbert Ross wisely avoids the maudlin. In this film he is in control. The movie's pace is excellent and he gets the most out of all his actors. There are some impressive cameos by Laurence Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave and Joel Grey. These talented performers turn their small parts into miniature gems. Ross should be given credit for allowing them to gleam. Throughout The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Holmes is continually pointing out the elementary. I'm happy to say that he need not be concerned about this movie. French film fails ByGRAYKYLES Every few years a foreign language film made by an unknown director opens in New York and suddenly becomes a smash hit. It happened to Truffaut with The 400 Blows, Bergman with Smiles of a Summer Night and Lelouch with A Man and a Woman. Cousin Cousine Directed by Jean-Charles Tachella At the Varsity theatre The latest picture to follow in this manner is Cousin Cousine by Jean- Charles Tachella. When it opened in New York last summer it was expected to run for only a few weeks. But the reaction from both the press and public has been so positive that the producers expect it to show for a year. The film's American distributors are releasing it in only a few cities at a time, in order to give it maximum attention. Vancouver is one of the first to receive it. With all the attention and praise being lavished on the picture, something special would be expected. But Cousin Cousine doesn't deliver. It is mediocre at best. Tachella's film is perfect viewing for people who don't like foreign movies. It isn't "heavy" like all those other European films and you can almost get away without reading the subtitles. The story concerns a man and a woman who are cousins (in a typically convoluted French way). Though both are married to other people they realize that they are in love with each other. Unlike their hypocritical relations who all hide their affairs, they profess their love openly and practise it freely. Tachella has touched upon an interesting subject but regrettably he just glosses over it. Rather than seriously exploring the emotions of many people touched by the couple's affair the director simply tells a trite story. By the middle of the picture you no longer really care about anybody. The hero and heroine become obnoxiously self-righteous and the entire film is reduced to dealing in superficialities. Tachella uses children to tip us off to how we are supposed to react throughout. Every time the couple does something outrageous and "improper" there is a cut to a closeup of a child smiling approvingly. Ah, the innocence of youth, the charm of honesty, the deception of film. Cousin Cousine has been hailed as a charming, sensitive, honest film. Such comments tell you more about the reviewers than the film. They have been fooled by a glossy, slick picture. It is French and deals with a subject not found in many American movies, therefore it must be art. Nonsense. Cousin Cousine is a pretentious, vacuous little picture which succeeds because it pretends to be something it's not. In a few years everyone will look back upon it and wonder what they saw in the film. In the meantime people are rushing to the Varsity to prove that they're hip. They know that this is the must-see foreign picture of the year. Good luck to them! The OLE THEOLD ROLLER RINK Theatre Restaurant 135 West 1st St., North Van. 986-1331 Until Jan. 24th Richie Havens and Josh White Junior COMING Jan. 31st to Feb. 5th Bobby Blue Bland HOLMES . . ."Ellafitzgerald, my dear walnut" >*-— ( GENE WILDER JILL CLAYBURGH RICHARD PRYOR IH l Sl £ M SILVER STRERW Shows at 12:40, 2:45, 5:05, 7:20, 9:40 MATURE—Occasion coarse language. — R. W. McDonald voquE 918 GRANVILLE 685-5434 f Takes You Where Taxi Driver Didn't Dare! - ROGER MOORE - STACY KEACH "THE STREET PEOPLE" Requent Violence —R. W. McDonald, OQEON »—„-„,—. — .. B.C. 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BROADWAY V£T.L>,,„ JLTSS,. , —R. W. McDonald, B.C. Director 874-1927 bROAdwAY 2 f dfl^jfy, Acwoii Uju^ojuJC ^ English Sub-Titles SHOWS AT 7:30, 9:30 dtNbAR DUNBAR at 30th 224-7252 (f A DELIGHTFUL CLASSY AND UNBELIEVABLY HONEST I PIECE OF FUN «l ^ COUSIN, COUSINE MATURE — English Sub-Titles SHOWS AT: 7:30, 9:30 II VARSITY 224-3730 4375 W. 10th Page Friday, 6 THE UBYSSEY Friday, January 28, 1977 if. •. / books. Madness changes theatre By WILL WHEELER The life and work of Antonin Artaud, French writer, actor and madman, are now brought to light in a comprehensive translation of his selected writings. Artaud, until recently an obscure artistic figure in modern France, has nonetheless had a profound influence upon the theatre of the 20th century. As Susan Sontag states in her introduction: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings Edited by Susan Sontag Translated by Helen Weaver Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 661 pages, $22.95 hard cover "No one who works in the theatre today is untouched by the impact of Artaud's specific ideas about the actor's body and voice, the use of music, the role of the written text, the interplay between the space occupied by the spectacle and the audience's space." He set out to rethink the theatre as an art form. Although he was a failure as a playwright (in terms of the quality of his work) he influenced many others such as Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett. His importance is said to rival that of Bertold SELF-PORTRAIT . . . the face of an opium addict Brecht — but due to his ideas and not his practical work. Antonin considered that Western theatre, having placed such a heavy emphasis on the spoken word and on the importance of the text as literature, had forgotten a great deal of the true nature of theatre — the nonverbal aspects, the sense of emotion and spectacle. The Oriental and Greek tragic theatre, with their sense of ritual and mystery, inspired his vision — the theatre of cruelty. People would come to the theatre to be cleansed, to have their emotions washed away in a grand catharsis. To give one extreme example, he envisaged that one would go to the theatre as one would go to the dentist — not a pleasant experience but a necessary and powerful one. Artaud was reacting to the French theatre of the 1920s and 1930s, which functioned as a pleasant way to spend a few hours. He sought to bring back to the theatre the spiritual qualities and sense of ritual which were the foundations of ancient theatre. The book itself is composed of writings selected from his mountainous output (which will eventually comprise 15 volumes in the Gallimard French edition), much of which has never been translated into English. We see him struggling to form his ideas, present them and have them accepted, while at the same time struggling with his madness. As Susan Sontag indicates: "(Marquis de) Sade, Artaud and Wilhelm Reich belong in this company, authors who were jailed or locked up in insane asylums because they were screaming, because they were out of control; immoderate, obsessed, strident authors who repeat themselves endlessly, who are rewarding to quote and read bits of, but who overpower and exhaust if read in large quantities." That Artaud can be almost unreadable should be no surprise — he spent a great deal of time in an asylum and took opium to relieve the after effects of meningitis. But some of his more imaginative writings — explorations in prose such as "The Umbilicus of Limbo," "Eighteen Seconds," "Art and Death," "The Peyote Dance" — are deeply fascinating pieces showing his connection with surrealism (he broke away from this group in the 1920s. He sought to go beyond the two-dimensional mode of literature — his words shock and confound. ARTAUD AS MARAT . . . bringing spirituality and a sense of ritual back to the theatre There are pictures, too. They show an intense man with thin cheeks and burning eyes — the face of a religious fanatic or an opium addict. Born in 1896, Antonin Artaud had a long and varied career until his death in 1948. He was by turns a cinema and stage actor, a playwright and screenplay writer, a director of the Surrealist Research Bureau, a director of the Alfred Jarry Theatre and a metaphysician of the theatre. He wrote "verse, verse poems, essays on cinema, art and literature, diatribes and polemics on the theatre, six film scenarios, an historical novel, several plays and a large number of letters." He spent 10 years in an asylum (some of it during the Second World War). He took part in the peyote ceremonies of the Tahamura Indians of Mexico. As an artist, Artaud was a failure. He never achieved critical acclaim in his lifetime, perhaps never deserving it. His last major work, a radio-play was banned from French radio. But still he deserves attention, because he had the courage to develop and express a vision of a more involving and meaningful theatre. The best Canadian magazines in these fields for HALF PRICE PHOTO CANADA Canadian amateur photographers have needed their own national magazine for years. Now here it is! 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The Open Door is a cooperative type of organization for musicians and music lovers. For more information phone 255-0532. The Night Watch coffeehouse is open every Sunday night from 7 to 10 p.m. The coffeehouse is held in the basement of the United Church at Larch and West 2nd. Bring along your goodies, games and instruments. Echo and the West End Community Centre hold weekly poetry readings every Sunday afternoon at the community centre. Open readings are from 2 to 3 p.m. and scheduled poets read from 3 to 4:30 p.m. This week's poets are John Crosse, Roo Borson and Mona Fertig. The silversmithing of Heikke Seppa is still on display at the Burnaby Art Gallery alongside prints, photographs and drawings by Bob Steele and paintings by Joy Long. This Sunday at 2:30 p.m. the Axis Mime Theatre will be giving a free program of explorations of mime styles. The Vancouver Art Gallery is currently showing works by Graham Coughtry of Toronto. The display consists of 34 paintings and drawings produced over a period of 20 years. Ernest Gendron exhibits a collection of renditions of public figures. He paints with toothpicks, not brushes. In other parts of the gallery is Contemporary American Art, Canadian Paintings, and Photographs and Photograms from the 1920s through the 40s. Vancouver Revued, Renued by Acme Theatre is now at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. They could have called the show Acme Theatre! Acme Theatre!, Field Mice Ate My Wife, Unchain My Heart or I Am Curious Acme but they didn't. Shows are at 8:30 p.m. Jan. 28-29, Feb. 1-5. Tickets are $2 except on Friday and Saturday when they are $2.50 for students. Peter Bryant from the Department of Theatre will have his feature film. The Supreme Kid, shown on Feb. 4 at the New Odeon Twins 707 West Broadway. Showtimes will be 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Although the film has been shown by invitation at a number of international film festivals, this will bethe first time it has been run in a commercial theatre. PANGO-PANGO (UNS) - This tiny island kingdom was rocked early today by rumors that radical simple serpents were attempting to overthrow the government. Fiberal reader Jumpier Foyer told the island's puce blorgs that the simple serpents had already contaminated the island's water supply with a particularly lethal strain of porphyry sauternes bacillus. The germ produces a number of fatal diseases, including grey piles, cirrhosis of the budget and minority government. To back up his charges. Foyer produced an "enemas list" of blorgs hostile to the Fiberals, including the serpents, known dif- t'idents and all domestic pets with fur or feathers. There were 1,456 names in all. 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The Sony PS-1350 comes complete with Sony VM-26G induced magnet cartridge, wooden cabinet and dust cover, and features automatic or manual tone arm operation. Stanford Sound 2665 WEST BROADWAY 733-3822 Page Friday, 8 THE UBYSSEY Friday, January 28, 1977 Friday, January 28, 1977 THE UBYSSEY Page 15 Pentacare — unique daycare By KATHY FORD Despite lack of support, financial or otherwise, UBC's new Pentacare program offers unique daycare services. The program is unique because all 25 children in it are five-year-olds, and it offers kindergarten to these children in addition to regular daycare. Pentacare daycare supervisor Sue Hall says the program is run on a co-operative basis by the children's parents. The centre, which caters to children of UBC students, staff and faculty, is staffed by Hall, a kindergarten teacher and a part- time daycare aide. Parents help out with field trips such as skating. "There are many advantages to having just five-year-olds," says Hall. "Most centres have three to five-year-olds, and this can cause problems. "For example, five-year-olds get into a lot more detailed activities than three year- olds. A five-year-old will spend a lot of time building something, and when three-year- olds are around, things get wrecked very easily. "This is pretty frustrating to the child who has spent a long time making something. Five-year-olds understand this, and don't knock things down." She says the uniformity of age makes it possible to include such activities as reading readiness in the daycare program. DAYCARE SUPERVISOR HALL . . . reads to children in Pentacare program. —doug field photo The program began last September when parents decided they were getting tired of collecting their children and driving long distances to kindergarten. Unless a child lives on the university endowment lands, he or she is not eligible to attend the kindergarten at University Hill elementary school, Hall says. Under the Pentacare program, a child attends kindergarten for part of the day, and is in daycare for the rest of the time. "The important thing about this type of program is that it's very convenient for parents," says Hall. "They know what's going on, and are encouraged to participate. They are welcomed to the kindergarten as well as the daycare centre. "Another important thing is the kids get some continuity. The buildings are connected, so there's a lot of communication between daycare and kindergarten." The program, which is under the jurisdiction of the UBC daycare council, is funded in part by grants from the Vancouver Institute and the UBC graduating class fund. The rest of the money comes from subsidies and fees paid by the parents. Hall says the parents applied to the Vancouver school board for financial support, but were turned down because "the school board said they didn't want to start a precedent." Bob Dowding, assistant school board supervisor for the west area, said Thursday the application was turned down because "the school board doesn't fund any programs it doesn't run itself." He said funding is not available to programs that are not run in school board buildings. "Also, we won't be funding any new alternate schools, even if this did qualify as one, which I doubt," he said. He said the decision not to fund Pentacare was made by his predecessor, Art Wright, early in 1976. "I'm sure he gave it serious thought," Dowding said. "There's a kindergarten at UBC anyway." Only children who live on the UEL are eligible to attend the kindergarten, but if any space remains after the needs of the community are served, children from the Lower Mainland may enrol, he said. "We don't like kindergartens to have more than 20 children in them," said Dowding. "U Hill has 18 kids, with a half- time teacher. I don't think any outsiders were turned down. "It's quite expensive for Vancouver taxpayers paying the $1,100 to $1,200 it costs per child. Outsiders don't contribute, but we let their kids in anyway, except if it means overcrowding." Pentacare is located at 2727 Acadia Road, in hut 93-D. The facilities were loaned to the parents by UBC. Page 16 THE UBYSSEY Friday, January 28, 1977 As excuse to dump OFS, NUS York U referendum planned TORONTO (CUP) — The York University student council apparently wants to end its membership in the Ontario Federation of Students and the National Union of Students — and is using a campus radio station as an excuse. The council is considering a referendum which would ask students if they favor establishment of an FM radio station and if so, if they prefer to finance it by increasing student activity fees $2.50 or by using OFS and NUS membership fees to finance it. Student president Barry Edson said the referendum will be held if the university administration provides some financial support and if "Radio York's chances for FM look good." OFS and NUS representatives have questioned the student council's motives in tying the fate of NUS and OFS membership for York to the radio station. They have also expressed concern that York students may vote to transfer the membership fees and jeopardize their membership status with the student lobbying organizations. OFS chairman Murray Miskin said: "The referendum is unfair because it implies that students, if they don't want to pay more money, have to get out of OFS. They want to raise the question of OFS and NUS membership by asking them if they want a radio station." He added if a university decides to withdraw its membership fees from OFS by holding a referendum, then the question of membership must be asked directly of students. NUS general secretary Dan O'Connor said NUS is concerned that York students may forfeit their relationship with other universities because they want a radio station. O'Connor added the possibility of a referendum raises questions about the student council. "Why has the OFS-NUS option been put in the referendum? Has there been an assessment of all the SFU admin ponders on-campus housing Canadian University Press Simon Fraser University's administration is considering cluster apartments or trailers as new housing for students, SFU administration vice-president Stan Roberts said Monday. Roberts told SFU student council each cluster apartment would house five people. Each person would have a private bedroom, but all five would share a common bathroom, dining room and kitchen, he said. Roberts said the apartments would rent for about $140 a month per person. Rent for trailers would be lower, Roberts said. There would be about 150 trailer units, he said. Current plans include providing space for a drug store and confectionery, Roberts said. The money to finance the new student housing will come from a $10 million Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation loan, he said. He said the loan is the first of its kind to be negotiated by any university in three years. The loan has an interest rate of about 9.5 per cent, about 1.5 per cent less than the current rate, Roberts said. Council president Ross Powell said Roberts made a special trip to Ottawa to convince the federal cabinet to grant SFU the loan under CMHC regulations. Roberts said rent was the "single most important factor" determining the final design of the new housing." "We're trying to get it at a price students can afford," he said. Roberts called for council's support for the plan before a final decision is made for the development. He also asked for council support in obtaining a provincial government grant to help cover construction costs. Roberts said a grant could have a significant impact on rents. A $1 million grant on top of the $10 million CMHC loan could reduce monthly rents by $15 per person, he said. BLACK & LEE TUX SHOP NOW AT 1110 Seymour St. 688-2481 MUSSOC presents.... an original revue February 2-5 & 9-12 8:30 p.m. Old Auditorium Tickets V.T.C. & Outlets Student Matinee Feb. 10th 12:30 P.M. $2.00 Tickets A.M.S. Business Office PROF. JIM KENNEDY Director, UBC Computing Centre Dr. Kennedy was a Canadian student at Princeton 25 years ago when the first modern computers began operation there. At UBC, he's in charge of one of Canada's top computing centres. Topic: Computers And How They Got That Way Saturday, Jan. 29, 8:15 p.m. Lecture Hall 2, Woodward IRC Vancouver institute lectures take place on Saturdays at 8:15 p.m. on the ubc campus in lecture hall no. 2 instructional resources centre idmission to the genera public i$ free things the student council spends money on?" he asked. 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ONLY *289°° PAIR TOTAL PACKAGE PRICE $49900 PERSONALIZED SOUND 578 Seymour - 684-2107 & The Tsawwassen Town Centre — 943-3811 Friday, January 28, 1977 THE UBYSSEY Page 17 SFU political illiteracy revealed Canadian University Press What does the word detente refer to? If you answer that it's a foreign country where former United States state secretary Henry Kissinger spent his vacations, you're closer than 82 per cent of first-year Simon Fraser University sociology students surveyed — who had no understanding of the term. The survey was conducted last year by Herbert Adam, a professor in SFU's anthropology and sociology department. He discussed results of the survey with 60 students and SFU graduates at a meeting Wednesday sponsored by the SFU Alumni Association. "There is a growing public concern over functional illiteracy," he said, "but hardly any discussion of the equally disturbing problem of political illiteracy. "It is not my intention to blame anyone. The individuals involved are, after all, products of a political culture," Adam said. He warned, however, that a society which does not ensure a minimum level of political literacy among its citizens cannot function democratically. The survey involved about 200 students enrolled in a first-year anthropology-sociology course in late 1975 and a second group of 200 students in the same course a year later. Results were then compared. Adam said the sample was not representative because sociology students were likely to be better informed and more interested in political matters than the average student. About 40 per cent of students surveyed could not define the concepts "right" and "left" with reference to the political spectrum. In 1975, 35 per cent failed to identify "right" and last year the number increased to 42 per cent. About 37 per cent of students surveyed in 1975 didn't understand the term "left," and the number increased to 44 per cent the following year. Entertainers such as Elton John and Barbra Streisand were recognized by considerably more students than were political figures. Former SFU administration president Ken Strand was recognized by 28 per cent of students surveyed in 1975, and by only 15 per cent last year. Jean Jacques Rousseau, one of the leading political philosophers during the French enlightenment, Curbed cyclisf threatens suit, blames UEL manager for spill A Vancouver cyclist is considering suing University Endowment Lands manager Bob Murdoch for damages to his bike sustained on the University Boulevard cycle path. Jacob Heilbron, a bicycle racer and repairman, said Thursday he dented his wheel rims when he hit a newly-constructed curb Wednesday night at the west end of the path. Heilbron said the curbs, built to replace asphalt ramps and to encourage cyclists to follow a back-street path to campus, are impossible to see in the dark. Another cyclist, Hugh Tayler, complained to The Ubyssey Wednesday that he sustained similar damage to his bike Tuesday. Heilbron claimed that because the new signs directing cyclists to the alternative cycle path are impossible to see in the dark, Murdoch is responsible for the damage. Most cyclists riding toward campus have traditionally ridden off the end of the cycle path at Toronto Road and continued along the sidewalk for one block before crossing to the north side of University and continuing to campus. But Murdoch has said he Trident opposed From page 1 legislature, and Skelly helped Shelford write his motion. The two motions last year were never voted on because the legislature could not agree about the correct wording. Shelford's previous motion made no mention of the Trident base or weapon system, which Skelly's motion specifically opposed. Shelf ordsaid Wednesday he does not expect his resolution to be debated in the legislature for at least a month, but said he expects it will pass this year because both sides of the House agree on its wording. The resolution also expresses concern about any Russian equivalent to the Trident system and about the number of smaller nations entering the arms race. But Skelly said Tuesday he doubts the resolution will have any effect if it is passed. "The Canadian government doesn't seem to be concerned at all," he said. Former Canadian defence minister James Richardson said last March he saw no reason to protest the construction of the Trident base just 60 miles south of the Canada-U.S. border. "People in B.C. should appreciate the Trident base," he said. "The Trident system is an effective deterrent and will prevent nuclear war — it maintains the balance of military force and thus helps guarantee international stability." The Trident weapon system will consist of 10 to 20 submarines, each 550 feet long, about four storeys tall and powered by two nuclear reactors. The Heede-built cranes will handle Trident 1, or C-4 Missiles. These multiple independently- targeted re-entry vehicles (MIRVs) have a range of 4,500 miles and are known as "area assault weapons." The Trident submarines themselves will carry maneuverable re-entry vehicles (MARVs) which have a range of 6,000 miles and can evade anti- ballistic missiles and return to their original courses. The MARVs have the accuracy to home in on enemy missile siloes. As each warhead is 10 times as powerful as the bomb which destroyed Hiroshima, and each Trident submarine carries 408 individually guides warheads, the Trident system will be the most powerful weapon in the world and wilt have first-strike capacity. The PLC has campaigned against the construction of both the submarine base at Bangor and the cranes at the Heede plant. Jim Douglass and John William, PLC members from New Westminster and Seattle, are serving 90-day jail sentences in Seattle for cutting holes in the fence surrounding the Bangor base and for trespassing on the base. wants cyclists to turn left at Toronto and follow back-roads to campus. Heilbron said Murdoch refused to reimburse him for the $25 damage to his bike. He said Murdoch told him the only way he could try to get compensation is to take legal action. Murdoch was unavailable for comment Thursday. "He (Murdoch) said the signs that are up are all that is needed to show that the curbs are there and you are supposed to take the other path. But my bike is properly lighted and I didn't see the signs." And Heilbron said the back- streets route to campus is inadequate anyway. "All it is is a road with potholes and everything. That whole section from Toronto Road onward has always been a mess." He said the UEL management must either improve the new route or make the old route along University more safe. The path is only good up to the intersection of Toronto and University he said. "That cycle path is good, but it isn't finished." Another cyclist, Pierre Carriere, science 3, said he was nabbed by the RCMP Thursday when he tried to follow University to campus after leaving the path at Toronto. Carriere said the RCMP told him he could get a traffic ticket if he took the University route. He said they told him all cyclists must now take the Toronto Road route. The RCMP officer in charge was not available for comment Thursday to clarify police policy. The YOUNG ALUMNI CLUB has an immediate opening for part-time employment. Duties are varied and will consist of setting up the bar, dispersing drinks, working on the door and clean-up. Must be available to work Fridays: 4 to 6 (for Happy Hour) and 8 to 2 a.m. at Cecil Green Park. For further information on salary (per hour) and an interview (Feb. 1) call 228-3313. was identified by 30 per cent in 1975 and 32 per cent in 1976 — but was characterized as everything from a Quebec politician to a scuba diver. Many students surveyed said social and political issues were relatively unimportant in comparison to financial problems, interpersonal relationships and questions of career success. About 25 per cent listed "human problems and interpersonal relationships" as the most important problem for contemporary society as a whole. Another 20 per cent cited the economy and the remainder of students indicated various political issues. In a section of the survey dealing with attitudes, a majority of students agreed that Quebec has the right to separate if the majority of its citizens decide to do so. Students also considered the official federal policy of bilingualism to be reasonable. About 70 per cent of students said "most trade unions got completely out of hand in recent years," and 80 per cent that "the physical difference between male and female has often been exaggerated and the inequality in opportunities provided overlooked. Some figures changed from the beginning of the sociology course to the end. For example, at the beginning of the course, 54 per cent of students surveyed last year disagreed with the statement: "Major social problems would be closer to a solution if there were less immigrants coming in." The percentage of dissenters increased to 64 per cent at the end of the course. And 53 per cent of students agreed that "applying capital punishment for murder will not deter criminals and is an irrational reaction to the real causes of crime" at the start of the course. By the end of the course, 59 per cent of students agreed. Seventy per cent of students described themselves as moderately interested in politics. 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But there's goodies in store on Tuesday, when the museum reopens with Beginnings, an exhibit of prints and carvings by Tsimshian artist Roy Vickers. Myth series Next week, students, faculty and staff have the opportunity to sit in on a series of five noon-hour lectures on the dimesions of myth. Lectures will be given by Theodor Gaster, professor emeritus of religion at Columbia University. First lecture in the series is the nature and function of myth, to be given at noon in Buchanan 104. fnsfifoot Tween classes TODAY ASIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE Seminar comparing agriculture and society in North Vietnam and India, noon, Bu. penthouse. ALLIANCE FRANCAISE Jeanette Baillaut sur I'Ecole de Montreal, noon, International House. PHYSICAL EDUCATION Seminar on UBC phys ed grad school, 12:45 p.m., War Memorial Gym room 25. CSA AND CVC Cantonese class, noon, Bu. 316. CSA Folk song group, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., SUB 213. CHINESE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Bible study, noon, SUB 212A. CVC General meeting, noon, SUB 216A. SCI-FI CLUB General meeting, noon, SUB 216E. CONTEMPORARY DANCE CLUB Feldenkrals movement class, 7 to 9 P.m., Armories 208. THE CENTRE COFFEEHOUSE Folk blues and fiddle with Danny Laughlin and Bruce Sexhour, 8:30 P.m., Lutheran Campus Centre. SKYDIVING CLUB General meeting, noon, SUB 215. INTRAMURALS Registration deadline for men's badminton tournament, Men's intramural office. Also registration deadline for men's curling bonspiel. GCTA Meeting, noon, Graduate Student Centre committee room. SATURDAY CSA Sports night, 7:30 to 11:30 p.m., winter sports centre gym A. VANCOUVER INSTITUTE Jim Kennedy speaks on computers and how they got that way, 8:15 p.m., IRC 2. CSA Film Everlasting Love, 2:30 p.m., SUB auditorium. Admission 50 cents. CHILEAN SUPPORT GROUP A benefit for the Chilean resistance with Latin American food, dance and a film, 8 p.m., Ukrainian Hall, 805 East Pender. 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A good finish by Ennos could give the 'Birds second place. Kamloops native Ron Lefebvre must continue to provide steady goaltending as well. The 'Birds play an aggressive forechecking game highlighted by an explosive offense. To beat the Dinos UBC will have to stay out of the penalty box. Calgary has scored six power-play goals against the 'Birds. Tom Blaney. "'ith 80 penalty minutes, must St^ oh the ice. He leads the 'Birds' scoring with eight points. Dan Lucas has recently provided the 'Birds with excellent play- making. A noted goal scorer in junior, he has adjusted well to collegiate hockey. Either the 'Birds or the Dinos will represent Canada West at the Canadian University hockey finals in Edmonton this spring. Edmonton will automatically qualify as host. This leaves only one berth to either the 'Birds or the Dinos. Saskatchewan is out of playoff contention. Thegamesare8p.m. Friday and Saturday in the winter sports centre. Thunderbirds 4-2 in California wrestle The UBC Thunderbird wrestling team completed a tour of California Monday with a 4-2 record. San Jose State defeated the 'Birds in their first match 30-20. San Jose is one of the top U.S. wrestling teams. Friday, the 'Birds took part in a quadrangular meet which they won. The 'Birds defeated University of California at Davis 33-18. Then California State at Northridge fell to the 'Birds 38-8. Finally the University of California at Hayward were forced to forfeit their match to the UBC team. On the final day of competition the 'Birds fell to the University of Oregon (Eugene) Ducks 45-6. At the last ranking of U.S. wrestling teams the Ducks were fifth and are sure to be higher in the next ranking. Saturday night the 'Birds came back to defeat San Francisco State University 28-16. San Francisco State is ranked in the top 10 in the U.S. The outstanding wrestler for UBC on the tour was Craig Delahunt (177 lbs.). He lost only one match during the six competitions. BuckDavis, a top ranked National Collegiate Athletic Association wrestler from University of Oregon beat Delahunt Saturday afternoon. This weekend the 'Birds take on two top U.S. colleges here at UBC. Friday, they wrestle Western Washington State College at 4 p.m. in P. E. Gym "A" in the South Campus complex. Match box FRIDAY ' B/VDMINTON Vancouver and district junior women's tournament, all day, Vancouver Lawn and Tennis club. WRESTLING Western Washington State at UBC (men's, 4 p.m., P.E. Gym "A". BASKETBALL Ruby's Raiders at UBC (jv.), 7:30 p.m., War Memorial Gym. HOCKEY University of Calgary at UBC, 8 p.m., winter sports centre. SATURDAY BADMINTON Vancouver and district junior women's tournament, all day, Vancouver Lawn and Tennis Club. SOCCER Eldorado Gienavons at UBC, 2 p.m., Thunderbird Stadium. WRESTLING Green River College at UBC (men's), 7:30 p.m., P.E. Gym "A". 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Saskatchewan has not beaten UBC in over two years of league play. Victoria plays first-place University of Alberta Golden Bears who have a 10-2 record. The Vikings would be hard pressed for a win in either game. Although the Huskies have won only two games this year they will by no means be a pushover for the 'Birds. Roger Ganes, the top Huskie point getter is second in the Canada West. oring race with 269 points for an average of 22.4 points per game. In field goal accuracy Ganes is also second in the league hitting for 53 per cent of his shots. Another potent Huskie is Bob Thompson who is seventh in the scoring race with a 15-point average. UBC's big scorer is forward Jan Bohn. He is fourth in the league scoring with 210 points and an average of 18 points per game. Bohn is first in shooting from the field with 55 per cent. But the place where the game is likely to be decided is on the boards. 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