WOMEN' co N n R. ^^Geti**^ s Serial By MARY McALISTER and CORINNE BJORGE "Counsellors" intimidate women in crisis 5'f THE UBYSSEY Vol. LXIX.No.47 Vancouver, B.C. Friday. March 6,1987 jta greets us with a Scottish accent, a smile, and an offer of tea. But things quickly get less friendly as Rita launches into a two-hour session dealt out in a manner she likes to call "blunt". Rita is a volunteer for Birthright — a Vancouver pregnancy counselling service which publicizes itself as offering "alternatives to abortion". Two Ubyssey reporters posing as a pregnant woman and her supportive friend, meet Rita in the Birthright office to obtain information. Birthright obliges assuring us that raising a child can be simple and cheap. "A baby's needs are quite minimal at the beginning. You can still travel with a baby. A baby doesn't take up any extra space when you travel. You seem to think that a baby will need a lot more than what you need. The baby needs a lot less", says Rita. It soon becomes clear one of the major aims of Birthright is to turn young women off abortion as an option, not by using a moral argument, but by painting abortion in frightening terms. During the session Rita describes the "sharp instruments" and "powerful suction" used in an abortion. "If you take a paper bag and try to suck out the contents of the paper bag, that bag itself is going to get sucked in as well. The walls of the uterus often get torn. The cervix often gets cut by the instruments going through. There's always tearing. These are things that have to happen," says Rita. She goes on to tell us about a woman who had an abortion at Burnaby General Hospital and was told to expect the discharge of some tissue. "She went home and she got these cramps and she felt she had to go to the bathroom. So when she wiped herself she came up with a baby's arm. She did another cramp and she came up with half the baby's head with an eyeball." Rita doesn't mince words. The story was a common one she assured us. But critics claim Birthright's counselling methods are intimidating and damaging. "They say they'll give you baby clothes — big fucking deal. They don't really provide any long term support," says Lee Saxsell, a counsellor for the women's Health Collective. Fatima Correia, a fifth year psychology student, describes the experience of an 18-year-old friend who went to Birthright for help. "She was very distressed and confused about her pregnancy, but none of her concerns regarding having her baby were addressed. They gave her an hour long sermon and said her problems would be taken care of by God. so not to worry," says Correia. "They also threatened to break confidentiality with her by calling someone that she knew. They justify it by saying they're stopping a crime. "She left feeling guilty and awful about having considered an abortion. She felt really fucked over and later on very angry," says Correia. However, Rita says Birthright protects unborn children from potential attacks. "If you saw a mother and her child on the street and the mother for some reason or other decided that she couldn't afford this child and has decided to kill it, what would you say about that mother? That's the same situation as we're looking at here with an abortion," she says. Pamela Fryers, an adminstrator at the Crisis Pregnancy Centre, another Vancouver counselling service, says the centre counsels for choice and believes in a woman's right to self-determination. The message that the Centre sends in its well-polished counselling session is a different one however. Like Birthright, the Crisis Pregnancy Centre says it is fairly easy for a woman to continue her current lifestyle during a pregnancy. "Supposing the baby is due at the end of September. You could pick up ' classes at the beginning of October. Sometimes the deans will make arrangements," says Bev, a Crisis Pregnancy Center volunteer to a Ubyssey reporter posing as a pregnant woman. Crisis Pregnancy starts off their lecture with a 20-minute video which follows a fetus through various stages of growth and stresses the reality of abortion by using images of operating rooms, doctors, and garbage pails. "You can't be a little bit human, just like you can't be a little bit pregnant," comments the film, referring to the fetus from the moment of conception. Bev emphasizes sterility and life-long emotional scars as likely results of. an abortion. "For an abortion, the cervix is dilated. It's forced open and sometimes it doesn't go back to normal again. So when you do get pregnant again it's very easy to miscarry, or pelvic inflamatory infection sometimes makes you sterile, so there's always risks," she says. "To assault someone with visual aids and gross stories is really appalling. A percentage of women are going to leave there and choose to have an abortion. The psychological impact of that would be really devastating," says Saxsell. The Health Collective on Burrard Street offers pregnancy counselling., The atmosphere is open and relaxed with a play area for children with a separate area for women to sit and talk, Lee emphasizes the Health Collective is a resource and counselling centre. Counsellors promote the right of women to choose the way to handle their pregnancies. The Health Collective has a large collection of resource materials to educate a woman in whatever choice she makes. The collective does not make medical referrals but instead has a listing of doctors in Vancouver and surrounding areas. Their files include reports from past patients on the quality of care by these doctors, as well as listings of doctors throughout B.C. who specialize in areas other than those directly related to pregnancies. UBC's Student Health Services is the only place on campus where women can go for pregnancy counselling. The hospital does not handle terminations or full-term pregnancies but will refer pregnant women to another doctor. Dr. Percival Smith, of the Health Serices Centre, stresses that the staff of Student Health Services will not advise women what to do but can act as a sounding board and answer medical information questions. "We make sure that a woman thinks and knows about her options but we don't sell abortion," says Smith. "At the time of ordering the pregnancy test I would tell them they need to do some thinking so they're not hit like a sledge hammer when the test is positive," he says. He adds: "In 90 per cent of the cases the women are fairly definite in what they want to do. Seventy-fiver per cent chose abortion and about 20 per cent are happy about their pregnancy". Smith also says that financial considerations are not a problem with most women who come in because they usually have strong parental support. "I haven't referred anyone to a social agency in 10 years." °*d|^>" 228-2301 Page 2 THE UBYSSEY Friday, March 6,1987 Parents struggle to finance education in B.C. By BRAD NEWCOMBE Anita is a fourth year math student at UBC. She and her husband who is also a student, have had to take out a $9,000 loan to pay for child care for their five-year-old daughter because they are ineligible for a daycare subsidy in B.C. "Our life is difficult making ends meet," she says. "But my only hope for a decent job was to go to school." Anita is one of many parents in B.C. who are struggling to finance their education while supporting a family. For women, particularly single mothers, child-care is one of the most crucial factors affecting their accessibility to an education. And the provincial government is for far from helping them achieve that end. In B.C., parents who apply for a daycare subsidy must report all loans previously taken out as income. Eligibility for a subsidy is calculated according to need, but the Ministry of Social Services and Housing says a single parent can earn no more than $790 per month to receive the maximum subsidy of $316 a month. Byron Hender, UBC Director of Awards and Financial Aid, says that the government's criteria for child care subsidies does not recognize the exceptional costs of tuition and books. "It seems unfair if they (the government) are trying to determine a realistic assessment of students' needs," he says. 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For others, it restricts the possibility of a post- secondary education entirely. Mab Oloman, UBC Daycare Coordinator, says that even the maximum subsidy of $316 does not cover monthly daycare expenses for parents. And a study released by the B.C. Daycare Action Coalition, which was presented to the minister of Social Services and Housing Claude Richmond, found that the maximum allowable earnings for parents eligible for a full subsidy is one-third to one-half below the poverty line. And in Anita's case, where both parents are students, the only option is to go into further debt. The province does not provide for parents who both attend school. Art Scott, Public Information Officer for the Ministry of Social Services and Housing, explains that the ministry has an "expecta tion that when both parents are students they will arrange their schedules in such a way that one of them can always cover child care needs." 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Friday, March 6,1987 THE UBYSSEY Page 3 Grant aids native students By JAMES YOUNG Canadian University Press A $300,000 grant from a Toronto- based foundation will make it easier for native students to attend and benefit from studies at the University of British Columbia. The Donner Canadian Foundation will fund a program known as the First Nations House of Learning over the next three years. UBC has also agreed to raise $150,000 from outside sources in the second and third years, giving total funding of $450,000. "We want to access more Indian people to the university," said Jo- ann Archibald, one of three executive members of the project's advisory committee and supervisor of the Native Indian Teacher Education Program at UBC. "It is important to start communication with other faculties and schools to see how they can better meet the needs of Indian students for post-secondary education," she said, adding that a meeting with faculty deans is scheduled for March 12. At present, there are about 200 native students at UBC, or less than three-quarters of one per cent of a student body of nearly 27,000. In B.C. as a whole, however, native people account for about three per cent ot the total population. At present, the First Nations House of Learning is still in the planning stages, but the advisory committee, chaired by former B.C. supreme court justice Thomas Berger, intends to have a director and support staff working by September. While many native students at UBC are currently enroled in the native education and law programs, Archibald says one goal will be to improve course offerings and enrolment in other faculties as well. "Some native communities are looking at self-determination and self-government, which really needs skills and knowledge to be in control of business, economics, social services and natural resources," Archibald said. But she stressed that skills gained at university would give native graduates the opportunity to work either in native communities or in the general workforce. A second purpose of the First Nations House of Learing is to promote research that will help native people in B.C. with the long-term possibility of benefitting indigenous people around the world. Another long range goal will be to establish a permanent centre, such as the Asian Studies building or International House. The project is currently seeking funding for the building, which could take the form of a longhouse overlooking Georgia Strait. "We should have a First Nations House out here at UBC," said Archibald. "After all, we were the first people here." Peace protestors dragged away — dan andrewB photo photo JACK WEBSTER RANTS and raves his way through the gala celebration commencing UBC's Open House on Thursday evening. By JEFF BARKER Reprinted from the Gleaner His shirt was up around his shoulders and his feet were dragging as peace activist Brian Salmi was removed from International Trade Minister Pat Carney's office last Friday. Salmi and fellow Langara students Sean Hill and Ananda Tan occupied Carney's office at the Pan Pacific hotel in protest of the cruise missile testing. The three offered passive resistance to police upon being requested to leave and refusing. However, at 6:30 p.m., one and a half hours after the office closed, they were removed and charged with "assault by trespass." The three members of the Peace and Disarmament Committee of the Langara Students' Union, in an action independent of the union, were seeking an audience with Carney, who spoke against the testing of the cruise missile in Canada at her constituency meeting last Tuesday. They were demanding she openly denounce the cruise testing in the House of Commons. "Should Minister Carney not meet that demand, we call for her to resign her seat," read the group's statement. The group was also demanding the five-year agreement with the United States to test the first-strike offensive weapon not be renewed Blatherwick calls for AIDS education By JEFFREY SWARTZ The federal and provincial governments should develop a "marketing strategy" for AIDS education before the virus spreads further, Vancouver's chief medical health officer said Wednesday. Calling AIDS a "social disease with medical implications", Dr. John Blatherwick told 200 people in IRC 6 that while government sponsored medical research continues, the fight against AIDS cannot stop there. "We need to address the social problem, because if we don't start addressing it, it will keep going on," he said. Quoting from a provincial Health Ministry pamphlet which suggests a healthy diet, good exercise, and low alcohol and cigarette consumption will help resist the virus, Blatherwick said such misinformation proved that the job of getting the message out to those who most need it should not be left to government bureaucrats. "They do brochures like this", said Blatherwick, while waving it in the air, "and they think the job is done." Blatherwick said a market research campaign is necessary to ask fundamental questions about how societal behaviour is changed. "Ten years ago the Irish Sweepstakes was illegal, and now lotteries are one of our biggest growth industries," he said. Blatherwick suggested that any media education campaign would need to be as effective in changing behaviour as Lotto 6/49 ads are in promoting the sale of tickets. Blatherwick's most recent figures on the extent of the virus in B.C. show 1,200 people have tested positive for the AIDS anti-body, which would suggest that 15,000 people are actually carrying the virus. Of this number Blatherwick estimates approximately 1,000 people have AIDS Related Complex (ARC), and there have been 213 cases of clinical AIDS, which has proven 100 per cent fatal. In answering questions from the audience Blatherwick emphasized that "there is safer sex, but no such thing as safe sex." Blatherwick was critical of the media for reducing the debate to "condoms versus celibacy." "I wouldn't want to count on them (to prevent AIDS)", said Blatherwick, but he did emphasize that condoms are helpful in preventing other sexually transmittable diseases. by the federal government, and that the current agreement be broken immediately. They stated they would not leave the office until their demands were met. Carney never did arrive or speak to the protestors. "I don't think there was a concerted effort (by the staff) to get a hold of her at all," said Salmi. Carney was in Vancouver that day, her staff said. Salmi, Hill and Tan arrived at Carney's office at 11:30 Friday morning and spent an hour talking with Media Assistant Ray MacAllister about Carney's role in government policy toward cruise testing. At one o'clock office manager Doug Eyford, accompanied by two Vancouver police officers, asked the protestors to leave the office. Eyford said he was worried about his staff's safety, as a phone caller had threatened the protestors with violence. The protestors did not believe Him and refused to leave. The senior police officer then informed the group that a squad car would be stationed near the building in case of incident. At five o'clock when the offices would normally close, media appeared and waited for the arrests. Salmi speculated the office management waited until 6:30 before calling police to avoid the prime-time television news shows' coverage of the story. The protestors were held overnight by the police and released at noon the next day. Salmi said they would "definitely do it again" if need be, but are not planning any similar actions at the moment. "Civil disobedience is a very important form of protest," said Salmi. Carney could not be reached for comment. University net "open" to all A group of students and a black balloon are using the high publicity surrounding UBC's Open House this weekend to show that the university is not "open" to everyone. The Coalition for Accessible Education, today at 12:30 in SUB, is staging a stunt featuring a student dragging around a big black paper mache ball which symbolizes BC's students debt. Vanessa Geary, one of the students, said the ball is like "Atlas holding up a world of student debt." The group is also circulating a petition to reinstate some form of the government grant program for students, axed in 1984. So far, Geary said, "Support has been good with about 2000 names in the past few weeks, but we hope to make a concerted effort this weekend." Geary hopes to "reach out to tbe community" during this weekend's UBC Open House so the government will not see the petition as being " supported by "just whining students." Geary said "University is not open to everybody who wants to come because of._the ■hijji" cost." She wants "the grant system back or a roll back of tuition fees." The petition is supported by AMS Student council President Rebecca Nevraumont who "encourages everyone to sign" because it is "important for Strangway to recognize that there is a need for a student grant program." Nevraumont distributed copies of the petition to student council members on Wednesday. Page 4 THE UBYSSEY Friday, March 6,1987 No comment Below are the top 20 UBC salaries according to the university's financial statements of March 31, 1986. Men Women 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Ruedy, John $110,050 MacLeod, Bernard $105,269 Leighton, Kenneth M. $101,323 Chow, Anthony W. C. $98,711 Grantham, Peter R. $96,152 Yorkston, Neil J. $95,693 Birch, Daniel R. $93,893 Beagrie, George $93,860 Kenny, Douglas T. $93,000 10. Webber, William A. $91,160 11. Will, Robert M. $91,160 12. Bates, David Vincent $90,541 13. Stiver, Grant $90,107 15. Bourne, Charles B. $89,500 16. Finnegan, Cyril V. $88,560 17. Larkin, Peter A. $88,315 18. Foord, Barry Richard $87,838 19. Ferris, James A.J. $87,000 20. Dawson, Keith G. $86,774 14. Yong, »•*•***»****»••»•»•****«■•*■■ .•."^4?.*^'-SISr>'.- -• f. •■VjH'jfcSiiJf*-, 7ir¥i .-/.■U-*. w.:'t^.^JLi= ii Condones" not condoms leads to safe crime As a student who has been in post-secondary school for over six years, I would say that dishonesty and theft is definitely on the increase. I have come to realize that we are living in a new age and have had to adjust my thinking. Cheating and plagiarism are common, and are even considered acceptable by many students, if they can escape detection. In recent months, urban crime, usually associated with Los Angeles and New York has become part of the Canadian way of life. Robberies of grocery and drug stores have resulted in thieves being shot at and either killed or injured. Since in some case theft is becoming life threatening, it is time we teach our children about "safe theft". Courses on "safe theft" should be started in Junior High. and perhaps even in lower grades. Some would suggest that certain aspects of the course could be started as early as grade three. The new course must be available in every school so all students can be taught the following five basic "condones": 1. They should condone dishonesty if it is for the good of themselves or the victim. 2. They should condone theft if it is done with consenting accomplices of the same age. 3. They should condone theft if it is done just for fun or for economic rather than malicious purposes. 4. They should condone thieves who have a need to express themselves by stealing, realizing that thieves have an alternate lifestyle and a different orientation. 5. They should condone persons only if they hold humanistic views and label all others, who think differently, as old-fashioned, narrow- minded, and probably religious fanatics. To ensure that such a course gets into our schools we must make sure the media are on our side. They can help us vilify any politician who suggest that the best course to follow is to abstain from stealing altogether. Next, we must seek the support of Planned Parenthood. No parent who has planned to have children wants to have them shot by some impetuous grocer who is about to lose a few dollars. Lastly, we need to get the feminist movement behind us since they really know how to lobby School Boards, governments, and politicians. Some might suppose that the "condones" will lead our young people to experiment with stealing; however, this is unlikely. The "condones" don't steal; people steal. If all members of society would use the "condones" neither thieves nor merchants need carry or possess lethal weapons. This would certainly reduce the chance of getting shot. We all know that governments cannot legislate honesty. Lying, cheating, and stealing have been around for as long as there have been people. But theft has never been as dangerous as it is today, let's all work together to make this world a safer place to live. Let's work for safe theft. Peter Dyck agriculture 3 UEL Comments Clean air man slams newspaper I was quite astonished and concerned to see a large full colour tobacco advertisement of a major brand of cigarettes sullying the back page of a recent edition of The Ubyssey. Especially since tobacco products kill approximately 32,000 Canadian smokers each and every year, not to mention the estimated 500 non-smokers who die of lung cancer caused by environmental tobacco smoke. I realize that the advertising of tobacco products produces a great deal of revenue for your newspaper, but you are doing your readers a disservice by promoting disease and death among them. It is a well- known fact that most smokers pick up the habit before the age of 20, and are not likely to start smoking after that age. This is obviously the reason for the tobacco industry's preoccupation with the young in its lifestyle advertising and 'kiddy pack' promotion. The industry needs a new generation of addicts in order to ensure its survival. Is your advertising of this deadly product morally or ethically defenceable? I think not. Most papers will come back with the argument that tobacco is a legal product and should be advertised for that reason. The Ubyssey cannot use this argument since it boycotts advertising from various sources (all legal) mostly for moral reasons. THE UBYSSEY March 6, 1987 The Ubyssey is published ~ Tuesday and Friday' throughout the academic year by the Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and are not necessarily those of the administration or the AMS. Member Canadian University Press. The Ubyssey's editorial office is SUB 241k. Editorial 228-2301/2305. 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The only reasons that tobacco does not come under the Hazardous Products Act or the Food and Drugs Act are political ones. Tobacco dollars seem to cloud many politicians' (and newspaper publishers') sense of social responsibility. Airspace hopes that your newspaper will soon show some social responsibility and refuse to print advertisements that promote what amounts to slow suicide. There are no moral or ethical reasons to continue them, unless you consider the revenues more important than human lives . . . Airspace is also getting complaints of non-compliance by a small, but noticeable group of smokers who are ignoring the UBC policy on smoking in public areas. The majority of smokers are supportive and considerate of the non- smokers' right to clean indoor air. This inconsiderate minority is accomplishing nothing more than making that majority look bad, and furthering a need for stiffer regulations and/or penalties. Airspace hopes that the UBC administration, and the Alma Mater Society, will make an example of those persons and take appropriate corrective measures. Mr. Dale Jackaman Executive Director Airspace I am a graduate student at the University of British Columbia and .1 am looking for comments from the public regarding certain aspects of my research. A recent article in the Ubyssey (February 13, 'Park board want UEL preserved') discussed the possibility of the University Endowment Lands (UEL) and the Camosun Bog being designated parkland, most likely as a regional, park. On the assumption that these lands are given park status, I would like to hear from members of the public as to how you would like to see this urban forest park managed. Areas of concern which you may wish to address include: park management goals; level of forest management to maintain different vegetation types, forest health, and wildlife habitat; kinds of activities to be allowed, facilities to be provided, and degree of park development. I welcome your ideas as well as any special concerns you may have on the future management of a potential UEL forest park. In addition, if anyone has in-, teresting photographs or information on the UEL, particularly of a historical nature, that you would be willing to share with me, please let me know. Send replies to: Carmen Rida De rien Coach Bruce Enns and the UBC Thunderbirds basketball team want to thank the 6,000 UBC students, faculty and staff and supporters for their tremendous support at last weekend's two big basketball games against UVic. Obviously, the weekend proved that basketball games can bring out crazies and everybody can have a lot of fun at Thunderbird basketball. The fans were great and we hope to have you back next year. Bruce Enns 'Birds basketball coach UEL Forest Park Management Research c/o School of Community and Regional Planning University of British Columbia 6333 Memorial Road Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 Carmen R. Rida graduate studies Sport blues After issue upon issue of the Ubyssey's embarrassing and mindless publication, I feel it is my duty to speak on behalf of the irritated majority at UBC. Among numerous past examples of the journalistic numbness that I have read in the Ubyssey comes the editorial of March 3, titled "Winning Isn't Everything" (not surprisingly written anonymously). The whining and complaining that is common to most Ubyssey editorials has hit a new absurd high. This editorial cries over the cost of athletic fees and ponders over the benefits of such a fee to students. These fees are more than justified by the benefits of a winning athletic program. "Big name" universities in the USA didn't become "big name" from academics. Rather, it. was due to the success of their athletic programs and the level of school pride and student backing of the programs. This prestige brought outside money to the university which in turn enabled the university to obtain high quality professors and up- to-date materials, as well as allowing their athletic programs to be self-supporting. The pot is on, so wake up and smell the coffee. It is time the Ubyssey portrayed some pride in our nationally aclaimed athletics. The whine over fees must stop. Further, full front page coverage and competent journalistic reviews are the minimum expected for a national champion UBC team. Chuck Stewart applied science 3 Friday, March 6,1987 THE UBYSSEY Page 5 Student wants accessible education I would like to take exception to recent comments made by a representative of the Coalition for Accessible Education ("Not Mad" Fri., Feb. 27). Some of us are more than "concerned." Some of us have trouble taking a "positive view" of the dismal state of education and its accessibility today. There are many Route to man's heart through the tummy? By LORI EWERT A few months back a study came out that reported college-educated women who are still single at age 35 have only a 5 per cent chance of every getting married. Forty-year olds have a 2.6 per cent chance, making them "more likely to be killed by a terrorist." These women seem to have it all: good looks, advanced degrees and well-paying jobs. But what they will never have is a mate. The study sent shivers up an down the spines of single women, especially those baby-boomers born between 1946 and 1956 who are expected to bear the brunt of the "marriage squeeze". The authors suggested career patterns of these bright, young women were to blame. In other words, pursuing a career meant foregoing marriage. As a career-oriented, single woman who will be celebrating her 35th birthday this year, I have given this some serious thought. Although small in numbers, the ex- istance of "superwomen" who successfully combine career, marriage and family blows the "career over marriage" theory to shreds. Therefore, I've come up with another theory that makes much more sense; the majority of career women, myself included, are single because we can't cook. We hoped by improving our minds, we could make inroads to a man's heart, not by way of his stomach, but instead by providing him with food for thought. But it's not to be. The proof: I come from a lineage of good cooks. My grandmother makes the best chocolate eclairs on the block; my mom cooks a knockout chicken cordon bleu, and they're married. Police once cordonned a block around my cordon bleu and sent in the SWAT team. And I'm single. Perhaps it's a genetic defect. Whoever said "love conquers all" obviously never tried my vichyssoise. It's not like I didn't try. I did. Back in public school I took Home Economics. This is where aspiring young homemakers learn to sew, take care of children, and cook. I excelled at the first two but when it came to food preparation, I was hopeless. My bread gave new meaning to the term "yeast infection". My teacher entered my cheese souffle in the science fair. Half way through, I was asked to switch to Industrial Arts. I've taken numerous cooking classes as an adult to overcome my flaw. In every course, I always volunteered to chop the vegetables. I figured let the others do the marinate, the roux, the glaze. Unfortunately, this defense tactic betrayed me. I can now chop a mean broccoli; I just have no idea what to do with it after. Recently I went so far as to enroll in a gourmet pastry course. "Was there any hope," I asked? The instructor replied, "Betty Crocker..." I wouldn't say my cooking was deadly, but he wanted to start a new course just for me: Cooking and First Aid. One time I made health food muffins. You know the kind. Chock full of nutritional ingredients: whole wheat flour, natural bran, wheatgerm, sunflower seed oil, molasses, raisins, walnuts coconut, wild clover honey, eggs from free range hens, whole milk, baking powder, etc. The recipe even called for authentic sea salt. I thought all salt came from the sea, but, thinking this might be the bake-or-break factor, 1 found some. I had just taken a batch out of the oven one afternoon, when my new boyfriend unexpectedly showed up at my door. He saw the muffins on the counter and, not being the asking type, took one. 1 stood there frozen. He had never sampled my cooking before. As he chewed, a strange pallor came over his face. His smile faded. He wheezed. My heart sank. Oh God, I shuddered. Not the gag reflex. Sure enough. He ran over to the sink and spit it out. He stood there, heaving, for what seemed like an hour. After rinsing his mouth, he calmly put the rest of the muffin back on the counter. Perhaps he didn't want to offend me. Then, turning to face me, he politely asked the contents of my muffins. I told him. He said he couldn't understand how so many good ingredients could come out tasting so bad. We broke up shortly after. So you see I have one heinous, horrible defect that's making a spinster out of me and, as statistics reveal, I'm not alone in my predicament. However, I think those researchers jumped to the wrong conclusion when they blamed it on the pursuit of career over marriage. The question they should be asking us single career women is, "Can you bake a cherry pie?" Lori Ewert is a single woman looking for a husband who can cook. students, myself included, who fully expect to receive their four-year degrees only with the help of a $30,000 debt load. Is that a lot of money to expect the individual student to have to pay for their education? Statistically speaking, yes. The average student debt at UBC is the more modest amount of $23,000, with interest. (To put this in perspective, prior to 1984 this figure was $3,500.) Some of you are probably scoffing at my extravagance and thinking we should abolish the student loan program entirely. Well, here's how it works: each year of school costs the independent student $8,000 (and rising) all costs included. There are some students not blessed with rich parents, who have perhaps a single parent paying off their own student loan, and who can't expect more then $1,000 a year from this source. With unemployment at 25% in our age bracket and an average wage around $5.00 an hour, this student might be hard pressed to save more than a couple thousand dollars from part-time work. Now, since the government has seen it fair to abolish the grant program, and since it is unlikely that the student is receiving dividends from investments, this leaves him or her with a $5,000 a year shortfall. Multiply by four, add interest, and you arrive at the above figure. We hear it nobly argued that government shouldn't have to bear the cost of educating its public. Is it therefore reasonable to require our low-income students pay the equivalent of a down payment on a house just to get a good education? The days are gone when one could put oneself through school working as a dishwasher, with no other assistance. The cost of living has since gone way up and a dishwasher's wages have not. Fifteen hundred dollars tuition is a lot of scrubbing. Mr. Pennant, you say very diplomatically that you are not "crying out against underfunding." If you are a group supposedly representing students' best interests, why the hell not? And why do you carefully avoid mentioning the needs of poor students, who inevitably become most victim to these sorts of restrictions? You seem desperately to be trying to avoid seeming "left" or "radical" and in the process become about as effective as a lame mule. In keeping to what nobody could possibly object to, you fail to present those criticisms that are clearly called for. Surely education, "what it is, and what it can provide," is far more than a rosy economic future. While I understand that this is simply part of your "positive" approach, why is Dr. Strangway to be Read the letter straight This letter is addressed to Mr. Scott Beveridge. I am deeply honored that you have seen fit to respond to my letter regarding the yearly Gay and Lesbian issue of the Ubyssey. However, if 1 may be so bold, please allow me to offer you some helpful advice: When you read a letter, look at the words. I am quite aware of the tendency of newspapers to cover, among other things, the plight of oppressed peoples (alas, this is called news reporting). It is only when an entire issue is devoted to one particular group every year that I begin to wonder. Also, it seems that somewhere in my letter you discovered some traces of fascism. Nay, this is not the case. Nowhere in my letter do I present any opinion regarding homosexuals, or any other group for that matter. Indeed, it was my intent not to do so. Next time, sir, be so kind as to read the actual letter, not some bizarre, paranoia-induced interpretation of such. Bruce Arnold science 3 congratulated for encouraging students to support the university? Isn't this rather his duty? Or is it the job of a president to spend all his time soliciting funds? It is easy to recognize the innate wisdom of the president of our Young Socreds when he says that "we don't believe in handouts." His feelings of generosity and kindness are shared by a good many others. Education for them is a privilege — a privilege based not on merit, but on ability to pay. It is somehow deemed to be taking a free ride to devote oneself to one's studies while requiring further assistance. It is conceivable that the prospective student, presented with the above financial consequence, as well as the less-than-ample employment opportunities available upon graduation, just might feel the teen- siest bit discouraged from going to university. Of course this is just what some people want. I remember distinctly Russ Fraser's comments during the election campaign, to the effect that poor people should consider not going to school if it costs so much. When we see an attitude such as that coming from a man who fancies himself the minister of post- secondary education, we know that the feeling is pervasive. Returning to the financial argument, since that is all that seems to hold any weight any more, just what does our post-secondary system cost us? Pat McGeer pointed out to us in the last election, intending to shock us with how much the government spends, that they shell ed out $250 million last year in post- secondary funding. Ooo, aah. Isn't this the same government that, in the same year (an election year coincidentally), lavished a billion dollars each on the two flashiest advertising vehicles it could find, Skytrain and Expo? And we're going to be sunk by education expenditures. Dr. McGeer then made the point that this figure was about equal to the provincial deficit. Was he slyly suggesting that, if only we were to close down all the universities and colleges and technical institutes we could then pay off our deficit? Maybe it's a good idea. Then anyone interested in education could be shipped off to Ontario and this province could get down to business. If you feel, as I do, that education is the most important means we have of solving many of the problems of this world; that we should be encouraging people to educate themselves rather than making it more difficult; that the value of knowledge cannot be measured in some kind of monetary ratio; that society has the responsibility to support higher learning and the opportunity to learn, then you will be disturbed by this growing assault upon students and institutions alike. Let us not be fooled by the politicians: we can afford accessible, quality education. And to make this known in strong', unequivocal terms is not to "embarass the university," but to prove ourselves thinking, responsible students. A. Stevenson arts Premier offers fantasy science for Fantasy Garden When Premier Vander Zalm was minister of education in 1982 he boasted to a reporter from the Netherlands: "I do not have much education, but with common sense you can get far here". But he is supposed to know about plants. Even his mother-in-law, an N.D.P. supporter, acknowledges that Lillian's husband knows his plants. So what do we make of the Art Knapp pamphlet that proposes a research programme to be conducted by Art Knapp customers? The pamphlet states: "I, Bill Vander Zalm, intend to establish a research programme in British Columbia" to test "electroculture": "The simplest explanation for phenomenal results reported by those having tested electroculture is that the electromagnetic field established around the plant electrically changes the oxygen in the air turning it into almost pure nitrogen" "There have been varying reports as to its success ranging from 30% increase in yield to a 75% increase as well as dramatic claims of tomatoes that measure 1 foot around and peas growing taller than a house and blooming three times". Does the plant man premier not know or understand that atmospheric air already consists of 79 volume percent of "pure nitrogen", and 21 volume percent of oxygen? Does he not know that plants cannot use "pure nitrogen" and that to be of use to plants nitrogen gas must be changed to the ammonium form or nitrate form of nitrogen? Does the premier not know that only certain microorganisms are capable of making this change, or that it is carried out in fertilizer factories? Does he not know that it is impossible to change by non-nuclear means one element, oxygen, into another one, nitrogen? Does the premier know he is into alchemy? I think the premier should put his wonderful and fantastic alchemy to work in the North East of the province, changing coal to gold. This would give the economy of B.C. a much-needed boost and prevent Quintette Coal from going broke. In the Art Knapp pamphlet the premier also promotes "Cosmoelectric Culture": "Attach metalic Christmas tree decoration balls to tomato plants". "The bright metalic (sic) Christmas tree balls will attract electricity to the plants' stems, leaves and cells, leading to much earlier ripening of tomatoes". The premier's "electroculture" and "cosmoelectric culture" are examples of fantasy science. I suppose the fantasy gardening that goes on at Fantasy Garden to grow fantasy plants is based on the premier's fantasy science. Rather than being proud of his ignorance, the premier should go back to school, as so many adult British Columbians have done. High school chemistry, physics and biology would teach him the fundamentals that he needs to be a plant man who is capable of giving competent advice on how to grow plants. Not to mention the education in history, language, literature, philosophy, and political economy that he needs to be a competent premier . . . John de Vries associate professor dept. of soil science Page 6 THE UBYSSEY Friday, March 6,1987 Handicap proves not an obstacle By JANICE SPRINGFORD I graduate this year. Like every other student who has spent four years or more here at UBC, I've gone the route: I attended lectures, did research at Sedge, danced and drank at the Pit, crammed for exams and goofed off the day before a midterm. And I never heard a single word my professors said. The noise in the "study silently" area never bothered me. I danced to music I could only feel. I studied without the aid of a stereo. Either I am dead and not aware of it, or I am deaf and enjoying a noisy world anyway. Being deaf isn't easy, but it is not as bad as some people seem to think it is. I calculate I've saved about $6,000 over the years because I don't indulge in record-buying and stereo-equipment accumulation. Let's not forget those concerts where you shell out forty bucks to sit in the back row of the Coliseum. But let's get serious. It must be pretty boring not being able to hear things like someone's sexy voice, a good song, or the next door neighbor and his woman friend going at it in the wee small hours of the morning, or . . . There's an alternative to hearing. Seeing. I can't listen to the radio, but I can watch MTV. So maybe I don't get the benefit of the words and music, but I don't get the visual effects, and if the video is any good, I get the feeling. It doesn't matter what someone's voice sounds like if he's standing five feet away from you with his arms crossed and his eyes narrowed — his body language says "stay away." The next door neighbor is making the walls shake; I don't need sound effects too, especially not hers! Imagination is just as good as sight. I had normal hearing until I went deaf when I was eight. I remember a lot and I know what I am missing. Not a single sound creeps in now, but through my eyes and with my memory I can tell you STUDY JAPANESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE in Japan this summer (July 18 to Aug. 31) Showa University, Fujiyoshida (at the base of Mt. Fuji) Includes: Airfare from Vancouver, room & board, tuition & 4 nights in Hong Kong. $3400 Cdn. For brochure Er application write: Mrs. Margaret Crawford, Showa University 107 Browning Ave. Toronto. Ontario M4K1W2 (416) 465-7375 THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA FREDERIC WOOD THEATRE presents THE WINTER'S TALE by William Shakespeare MARCH 4-14 Matinees: March 10 & 12 at 12:30 p.m. Curtain: 8 p.m. Box Office • Frederic Wood Theatre * Root 207 Support Your Campus Theatre what your voice sounds like, how deep and how low it is. It takes practise and much time watching your lips move and shape the words you say. The way you look and move when you say something often tells me more than your actual words or voice could. I see sound in moving cars, leaves rustling in the wind, and the motion of footsteps. But I have to concentrate on these things to "hear" them, otherwise I am only partially aware of them. My awareness of my environment comes from my sight, smell and sense of feeling. I'm not cut off from the world because my ears don't hear. People are generally scared of deafness. They don't understand it. They ask, "How do you communicate? How do you watch TV? How do you go to class? How do you wake up in the moring?" These sound like questions of interest such as, "How do you make a tuna casserole?" But people ask these questions because it is sometimes beyond their comprehension how I, a deaf person, function without the benefit of sound. Think about that. It is disturbing, enjoyable, loud, quiet, constantly present. So what [perspectives! the hell do you do when it is not there anymore? You go on. You adapt. You ad lib. You answer questions about your "handicap" seriously or flippantly. Hey, want to know how I communicate? I move my mouth and put the old vocal cords to work. Or I send telegrams. I watch TV with the sound turned off, and sometimes try to read the actor's lips. It wasn't easy trying to lipread the Muppets. I go to class by putting one foot in front of the other. Actually, I copy notes from the per son sitting on my left, and occasionally watch the professors mumble and gesticulate. But hey — who understands that bunch? I wake up in the morning by opening my eyes. Seriously, I have a light that flashes — it wakes me up unless I have the covers over my head. See page 14: HANDICAP • An opportunity to specialize I ta JWWjMitMr m Management Funding available through teacjiing assistantships and scholarships • Suitably prepared students from refitted fields such as economics, science and may be admitted as #fs#tytmj students • -. ,m> *'*;a m^Xltttmmm. EVEN BEFORE GRADUATION, YOU COULD BEGIN USING THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CARD If you're graduating this year and you've ■ accepted career-oriented employment at an annual salary of $10,000 or more and have a clean credit record, you can get the American Express Card. That's it. No strings. No gimmicks. (And even if you don't have a job right now, don't worry. This offer is still /._ good up to 12 months after you graduate.) Why is American Express making it easier for you to get the Card right now? Well, simply stated, we recognize your achievement and we believe in your future. And as you go up the ladder, we can help-in a lot of ways. The Card can help you begin to establish a credit reference. And, for business, the Card is invaluable for travel and restaurants. As well as shopping for yourself. Of course, the American Express Card is recognized around the world. So you are too. So call 1-800-387-9666 and ask to have a Special Student Application sent to you. Or look for one on campus. The American Express Card. Don't leave school without it™ American Express Canada. Inc. is a registered user of tha trad* marks owned by American Express Company CCopyright American Express Canada. Inc. 1966. AU Rights Reserved. Friday, March 6,1987 UBYSSEY Go Four 3^^goes two UBC Bising local band produces compelling pop HEICHERT By CHRIS WONG Past the sign that reads "lingerie sale," up three flights of stairs and behind a big, black door, four smiling youths are living out a rock 'n' roll fantasy. Inside the downtown Vancouver photography studio, the band members are each receiving a final dab of make-up before yet another take of the video shoot. As swirls of artificially-produced smoke accumulate behind the band, silence is called for and the filming begins. They adopt their favourite poses and music envelopes the studio. Outside, as if in a dream, snowflakes are gently drifting down on this March morning. The members of Go Four 3 don't seem to mind that they've rehearsed the short sequence of the video countless times and will continue to go through the paces under the bright lights until it's perfect. It's all in a day's work for the band determined to shed the anonymity of being just another promising local BADANIC pop group. Go Four 3's guitarist, Steve Quinn, says the mission to expose the masses — or at least those tuning into the radio airwaves — with the band's brand of bright, compelling pop is anything but impossible. "The music on the radio is the same rubbish that was on there when I was in high school. It would be just great if we could knock some of those old fogeys off." interview with Go Four 3 performing in SUB Ballroom with guests Stubborn Blood and The Rainwalkers tonight As one writer put it, "In an ideal world, Go Four 3 would be on the radio all the time." For now, the band is receiving airplay mainly on college stations such as CITR but Go Four 3's artistic growth and dedication to its craft is slowly opening more doors. The band's first lp, Six Friends is selling well for an independent release and a video of Save Me has received the most airplay of any independent video on Much Music. The album released in January on Zulu Records is a solid effort that more than constitutes a bold musical statement by the group that formed in 1984 by the remnants of a girl group cover band, The Debutantes. The music is upbeat, alive, immediate. It's highlighted by Quinn's biting guitar and vocalist Roxanne Heichert's pleasingly piercing wails. The able rhythmic anchoring of bassist Gord Badanic and drummer Ian Noble complete Go Four 3's musical package, one that offers a smooth, not slick, and alternative yet accessible sound. Surrounding it all are lyrics which seem morose and funereal on first listen. But says Quinn, who along with 24-year-old Heichert writes the Collins offers a fiery, charismatic blues lesson By JENNIFER JORGENSSON "I'm a tired man and I don't want to play," he sang, but he did play, and The Commodore rocked. Strutting around the stage and rolling his eyes dramatically Albert Collins gave Vancouver a fiery lesson in blues Sunday night. The charismatic Texan showman has fun when he performs and nobody could help picking up on his mood. music Albert Collins The Commodore Ballroom March 1 The enthusiastic crowd couldn't keep their feet still, and neither could Collins. Thirsty, he strolled across the dance floor, executing the night's longest solo as he made his way to the bar where he ordered a glass of water. The crowd lapped it up. Collins creates tension and power in his guitar solos through his keenly developed sense of rhythm and phrasing, too often neglected by today's players. He keeps the listener's attention with his trick of starting a solo with short phrases, and then gradually giving more length and intensity, building to an electrifying climax. A more varied program might have improved the performance, although the music provided was ideal for dancing and so met with great mass approval. The Icebreakers were just as good. Collins was framed by a tight rhythm section, and the three horn players added neat riffs and colorful solos. Vancouver's Jim Byrnes Band started the show off right with a varied menu of R&B rock which had people out of their seats and dancing madly early in the evening. Like Collins, Byrnes looked to be having as much fun on the stage as anyone on the floor, and injected a good dose of humor into his performance. He even taught us the meaning of true love, but we're not telling. Page 7 words, the songs usually have a positive resolution. And he doesn't think the dark lyrics clash with the band's pop sound. "Who wants to listen to depressing lyrics on top of depressing music. There's already been one Joy Division." Quinn, 26, explains that the lyrics often end up on the dreary side because the current state of their emotions has made writing "about things that upset you" easier than being more upbeat. But the moody lyricism belies the band's actual state of being. Go Four 3 is pleased with the band's progress to date and their pleasure has much to do with their grasp on that increasingly rare commodity, artistic freedom. "Musically we're playing what we like," says Badanic who does not forsee the band giving in to an approach based on conforming to conventional musical confines. He shakes his head at bands such as the Bangles who seems to have compromised their ideals and admires others such as the Talking Heads who have made forays into' the mainstream without compromising their style. Bandanic, 23, should know a little about the evolution of rock bands, having played in bands since high school and being a musicologist of sorts himself. His specialty is the Buzzcocks, a British band who emerged in the late 70s that had a significant influence on him and high-school chum Quinn. Badanic, if called upon, can pull off the awe-inspiring feat of producing from his collection six versions of some Buzzcocks songs and play them in chronological order. The link between the power pop fused with punk sensibilities espoused by bands such as the Buzzcocks is not a distant one to Go Four 3. The band has retained the do-it-yourself motivation and energetic moxie that propelled their influences. Now, Quinn and Badanic don't even listen to those old discs anymore — no doubt a great relief to their folks. Quinn, Badanic and former Modernettes and Actionauts drummer Noble, 23, all reside in their parental abodes. Hardly the cool thing to do but there's the problem of monetary support. "Every penny we make goes right back into the band which means we live at home and starve," says Quinn. Money, lots of it, is needed for the videos, recording and constant touring the band is committing itself to. Go Four 3 will soon be making its first trip to California, where it will likely start attracting the attention of major label scouts. And a third Canadian tour is planned. Aside from some haggling over what music to listen to in the van (Quinn's favourite driving music is early AC/DC while Heichert prefers Hall and Oates), the Go Fours seem a contented bunch at home and on the road. Says Quinn: "We all share the same common goal. This sounds really soppy, but we're all on the same wavelength." They also share a common bond in age. "We all look like we're going on 17," says Badanic. Experience already gained from playing in bands points to the importance of their shared vision, he adds. "As a band grows and people become aware of what they've got, it becomes obvious some people are happy and some want more." In Go Four 3's case, happy is clearly the operative word. * * • After false starts caused by singing the wrong chorus, Heichert sings and playfully saunters towards the camera moving along on the dolly. The filming ends and is deemed a success but one more rehearsal is needed. One of the men bustling about the video shoot calls out to the band, hamming it up between takes, "More angst!" NOBLE Page 8 THE UBYSSEY Friday, Mai WOMEN'co n Il REAL Women claim equality from kitchen By NANCY REMPEL The first thing that hits one on entering the warm home of Agatha Ratzlaff is the aroma of freshly baked buns. Ratzlaff who appears younger than her 54 years, is a university graduate, teacher, and a devoted Christian mother and wife. "I feel very strongly about family life," says Ratzlaff, vice president of REAL Women in B.C. In fact "family" and "family life" are the words most often referred to by this Clearbrook housewife, as the sanctity of the family is the cornerstone to her ideology. Ratzlaff's second family REAL Women, with a growing membership of 43,000 across Canada, has been gaining notoriety as a conservative force. The group claims to be open to anyone and its acronym stands for Realistic, Equal and Active for Life. It advocates women's place as in the home and strongly opposes abortion. REAL Women has recently been entangled in controversy involving federal grants. When REAL Women first applied for an application for a federal grant to promote their group, they were ignored. When they applied the second time under the bogus name The National Association of Lesbian Mothers, they received an application with a hand-written note signed by the National Project Coordinator, Tamara Levine, offering personal assistance. Since 1984 REAL Women has received one $8,000 provincial grant. "Ratzlaff said that the group does not believe in federal grants but has applied because feminist groups that oppose them have received funds. "They (feminists) are using our tax money to destroy us." Ratzlaff says, "Feminists civil servants in Ottawa are working against our group...however, many Progressive Conservative members are upset by this discrimination and are putting pressure on other members of the house," to see REAL Women receive equal recognition. According to Ratzlaff "Women have achieved equality in education, business, and employment, except for perhaps a minority groups and disadvantaged women (such as battered women). "But Ratzlaff's concern for these women is tempered by her own circumstances." "Women aren't really barred from opportunities today. Women in today's- society are well off compared to when I was a child. "Women who are now living under the poverty line need some one to instruct them on how to budget their money and make each dollar stretch further," she says. Her evidence of women's equality in the business world is explained by her quest for employment 35 years ago when she was hired from a group of men and women based on a skills test. "I was hired and it had nothing to do with whether I was female." Donna Stewart, a mother of five children and education coordinator of the Women Skills Development Society calling herself a 'feminist-Christian', disagrees with Ratzlaff's perception of women's equality saying, "We know the statistics and Agatha is out of touch with reality." "The fact is that women working full time jobs earn 64 cents to every dollar earned by a man, and often aren't hired because employers use the excuse that they'll want to take time out to have children," she says. In order to keep mothers in the home REAL Women would like the government to distribute a homemaker and child tax credit, "Because mothers work out of pressure," said Ratzlaff. Present statistics show that half the paid workforce is made up of women with children under three years of age "Who are killing themselves because they must," said Stewart. "There are, however, women who enjoy work because they get feelings of self respect, enjoy their associations with adults, and get a sense of accomplishment out of their work." June Lythgoe, director of the Office for Women Students at UBC, agrees there should be some kind of spousal allowance, "but it (the group's tax proposal) is really socialist, profoundly so, because they (REAL Women) expect By MELINDA WITTSTOCK Canadian University Press Susan Horley was forceably committed to a psychiatric hospital by her husband when she pleaded with him to stop beating her. Years after she was released, Horley got a chance to look at her files: "There was no reference to the violence my husband used against me. They tried to tell me I had chosen to be abused; that if I didn't remember that, I must really be ill." Horley was told she was suffering from 'maladaptiveness? "The way I dressed, the fact I wore pants instead of skirts, that I didn't wear makeup, that I was a vegetarian — all of it was seen as evidence I was mentally disturbed," she recalled. "I got out because I knew I had to play their game; to be considered sane, I had to adapt to a very sexist conception of what women are supposed to be like in society." Irit Shimrat's father took her to a psychiatrist after she told him she Psychiatry's misogy could make the traffic lights change just by thinking about it. "The doctor asked me to sign myself in, and not knowing any better, I did?' she says. Shimrat was incarcerated and heavily drugged for over a year and a half at different times during the next two years. She finally escaped. Carol Stubbs had four children by the time she was 21. She was also a full-time university student. When she had a miscarriage, a nervous breakdown soon followed. "I landed in a psychiatric ward where I was given about 86 shock treatments within three months," she says, adding that she was also put on 'regressive therapy' which "put me back to the level of a five or six year old." When Stubbs went home to visit her family, she didn't recognize any of her children. Whole periods of her life are now permanently missing from her memory. Susan Arbridge (not her real name) says she was 12 when "they started imposing psychiatry on me." A student saw her writing a will in class and told the teacher. Alarmed, the teacher sent Arbridge to the school psychiatrist. At first her 'treatment' consisted of antipsychotic or neuroleptic drugs and tranquillizers. Then she was committed to a children's psychiatric research hospital in London, Ontario where she stayed until she managed to get out when she was 16. Her dependency on prescribed drugs continued "until I managed to stop them on my own." Jeanne Jenns became very depressed after the birth of her sixth child. She had no one to turn to — her husband was never home, and she had little time for friends considering the heavy burden of childraising and housekeeping she bore. When she didn't come out of depression, her doctor sent her to a psychiatrist who then committed her to a psychiatric hospital so she could be 'treated' with elec- troshock. "My weight dropped 50 or 60 pounds and I lost part of my memory." The electroshock treatment soon stopped, but the drugs continued and Jenns, who is now 57 and living in Toronto, has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals and clinics ever since. "Psychiatric treatment just made me more ill. Who goes to the doctor to get sick?" she asks. "They never tell you what's wrong with you, or help you sort out your problems. They drug you silent instead of saying 'go home and get rid of that bastard'." These women all have three things in common: They are victims of psychiatry, and what they say is its inherent misogyny; they are willing to speak out about it; and unlike many women who have been through similar 'cures', they are well enough to talk about their experiences. They all agree that the mental health system and psychiatric practice are institutionally sexist — that, if anything, the function of both is to 'cure' women by reinforcing the t 6,1987 THE UBYSSEY Page 9 ISTED 'ORTS ociety to be willing to give financial support to keep the family together." Lythgoe says "REAL Women's solution (for women going back into the lome) will lock women right back into traditional roles and that the bottom ine of their philosophy is based on the differences between genders and on a raditional model of femal subordination." Ratzlaff said, "Men and women are of equal value but physically and liologically women are different than men and that's all ther is to it." Stewart said the members of REAL Women, "By and large must be rich or inancially comfortable women who help comprise the 16 per cent of women lot in the workforce." If Canadian feminists see REAL Women as a backwards force the homosex- al community has even more reason to be alarmed. Of concern to the homosexual community is a pamphlet distributed by 1EAL Women dealing with laws protecting the homosexual's rights. The pamphlet titled Laws Protecting Homosexuals or "Sexual Orientation .egislation" states, "that including 'sexual orientation' as a prohibited round of discrimination would mean that, in addition to the rights shared by veryone, homosexuals would have special rights recognizing in law lifestyle nd behavior. That is, amending the Human Rights legislation would mean ociety's 'condoning' homosexual activity." Carol Nielsen of the Vancouver Lesbian Connection calls the pamphlet, 'Hate literature, really offensive and hurtful." Nielsen says, "This literature affects all of society, it is a blow to all people who are interested in human rights. Ten per cent of the population are not given the choice to be who we are. We do not have equal employment opportunities and can be fired from our jobs because of who we love." "Homosexuality is not about morals, it's about two people of the same sex having the choice to love each other." But Ratzlaff sees homosexuals asking for too much. "It is not just discrimination they want protection against, they also want special privileges." And the current paranoia surrounding AIDS is being fully utilized by REAL Women in their argument against homosexuality. The REAL Women pamphlet says, "that homosexuals are a medical threat to their own sex, to those who require blood transfusions, to the promiscuous and their unknowing spouses because of the threat of AIDS. But Nielsen says, "The transmission of the disease is absolutely irrelevant because AIDS is transferred through blood and semen and that everyone in society is at risk. Some groups, such as homosexual men are at more risk because of the means of transmission. Lesbians are in fact the group with the least risk of getting AIDS." The same pamphlet states homosexuality is reversible if the person is willing to change. The idea that homosexuals cannot change is a myth like the popular view at the turn of the century that alcoholics could never change. Nielsen says, "This is so ridiculous and so off the wall that I don't even want to comment. The idea that homosexuality is a disorder went out with Freud." WOMEN' co n ly institutionalized rigid sex stereotyping that is oppressive them even when they are •weir. The mistaken premise of psychiatry, they say, is that society as it is presently organized is seen to be inherently good and that the individual who doesn't fit in, or refuses to, is inherently sick. Following that logic, all women who refuse to be passive and dependent — all women who challenge sexist behavior and stereotyping, and thus challenge what they see to be a sick society, are deemed sick by psychiatrists for not seeing, as they do, that society is really healthy. Thus, to cure these women is to make them fit into a system that hurts them and probably caused their nervous breakdowns, depression, and 'hysteria' to begin with. "I was told I was a 'schizophrenic' because I had a 'delusion' that my father molested me," wrote an anonymous woman using the pseudonym "Julian" in the winter, 1985 issue of Phoenix Rising, a Toronto-based magazine produced by ex-psychiatric patients. "I was also told not to talk about it because 'it only increased my anxiety.' The fantasy that it was a delusion was based on an interview with my father, a breech of confidentiality, and an example of how psychiatry upholds patriarchy." Louise Bowie, a counsellor for women at Ottawa's Centretown Community Health Centre and formerly a psychiatric nurse, says this sort of blame-the-victim ideology is a regular feature of psychiatry, which dates back to Freud and his theories of penis envy. "One in three women is sexually abused in her lifetime and I've worked with enough victims of sexual abuse to the actual damage done is bad enough," says Bowie, but "what I find shocking, are psychiatrists who tell an incest victim she's imagined the entire thing. Imagine what she must feel. And when her family breaks up as a result, the girl thinks it's her fault. Often the guilt is enough to drive someone crazy." Jillian goes on to write in Phoenix Rising that most psychiatrists "show horror and start writing very busily, if one expresses any desire to change society, much less her own immediate situation. It is considered, at best, a phenomenon of misguided youth, and at worst, a delusion of grandeur." The assumption, she writes, is that the patient doesn't know society's 'rules' well enough and must be taught, by whatever means, to change her behaviour. "That the rules are wrong is never considered." To make women 'stick by the rules' and resign themselves to their social situation, psychiatric treatment often relies on the forceable administration of so many drugs that women become numb — unable to change their situation; unable to even care — or so much voltage that their memories are permanently lost or damaged, not to mention their intellectual or creative abilities. Jessica Mayberly (not her real name), who has been psychiatrically hospitalized 15 times in the last seven years after being diagnosed as "psychotically depressed" when her daughter was born, thinks psychiatry is a form of "social control." "The hospital system is set up to give you the message that you should fit into your proper role; that the family must be upheld at all costs, regardless of whether it may be that family situation that is causing a women to be depressed," says Mayberly, who is now a counsellor for homeless women, many of them ex-patients, at Martha's supervised boarding home in Ottawa. "It's normal for a woman being battered by her husband to be depressed — the solution is not to drug her so she doesn't notice or care about the beatings; the idea See page 11: MENTAL Page 10 THE UBYSSEY Friday, March 6,1987 Arts Club wrestles with Wilde In earnest By PETER BURNS The Importance of Being Earnest is a concept (and a play) that is forever being tested in relations between human beings. "Honesty is the best policy" is a simpleton's creed if there ever was one, and perhaps more than any other English-language play, Oscar Wilde's Earnest shatters the myth of truth and virtue through the depiction of sickeningly sweet, conniving individuals at play in decadent, tea-dripped surroundings. Wrestling with Wilde's stinging social commentary, the play depicts two young gentlemen, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff who are after the affections of prissies Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew, who both are under the impression that their fiances are named Ernest. For these young ladies "there is stage The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar WUde Directed by Mario Crudo The Arts Club Granville Island something in that name that seems to inspire confidence" ... in those days there were no Lacoste shirts. The men make hasty plans to be baptized "Ernest" and the great comedic, dichotimy of the play takes off from there . . . As Algernon, Morris Panych, brings the greatly affected, young fop to life and gives him the Liberace- meets-Graham Kerr fruitiness that the role requires. Contrasting the poseur Algernon is staid, earnest, boring Jack, played by Norman Browning. As Jack, Browning provides the straight man for Algernon's hedonistic commentaries, and represents the quaint dullness of British high society, a group as closed to innovation in art as they are to innovation in life. Through this vehicle, Wilde's shrewd observations bite through the skin of the women's pasty, English ankles so that the play runs red with the casualties of Wilde's caustic wit. Gillian Barber (who starred in the film Rainbow War) plays Gwen- dolin, while Miriam Smith portrays Cecily . . . both mockingbird, immature women whose lofty ambitions include porcelain toilet seats and men (rich) named Ernest . . . Mario Crudo, who Tast directed Jacques Brel, has staged a tight, funny production which captures Wilde's nasty streak, at the same time fuelling new fires to attack the type of role-players in today's society who are just not very earnest . . . or nice. Nightmares plague Elm St. audience By MICHAEL GLENISTER Freddie's Back! What? You haven't heard about Freddie? Well Freddie Kreuger is, or rather was, a sex-murderer who wore a glove possessing knives for fingernails. When he was released on a technicality, all the parents on Elm Street burned him to death in the refinery in which he committed the murders. So, no more Freddie, right? film Nightmare on Elm Street 3 — Dream Warriors Downtown; East Ridge, Guildford Wrong. Freddie's ghost wasn't too pleased about being burned to death and so he decided to seek revenge by entering the dreams of the children of the parents who killed him. It seems Freddie has this nasty ability to take control of your dreams then attack you in them — the catch is that whatever wounds he inflicts on you in the dream are really inflicted on you. That just about covers the basic plot of Nightmare on Elm Street 1, 2 and 3. With such an original character, capable of inspiring two sequels, why can't we have an original plot for part 3? In part 1, Freddie entered the dreams of a group of friends and made their dreams what Jason made of summer camp. He was eventually defeated by the last surviving member of that group. In part 3, he finds another group of Elm Street children and starts over again. The only real difference between parts 1 and 3 is in 3 the action is centered around the mental institution in which all the kids are kept, (which is also, coincidentally, t the place of Freddie's conception as "the bastard son of a hundred maniacs" — try keeping a straight face when you hear that). STORM THE WALL! ] •J/j'jrrjurgd by: £F^ k Date: March 16-19 Register: March 5-13 Fee: $30.00 per team CAP'S ALUMNI (? Mt S-\ J-. j>tim> ' U LJ *0 IH I i4^t?|| ((pit pubV (fuC InAamuuiu... /ot gi**/ SPinCi' (v*Ctij^' Dream Warriors promised to be a worthy sequel to the original movie. I had visions of a group of friends, all under attack by Freddie, learning to use their dreams and take him on in the fantasy world of dreams. Yes, they did learn to use a couple of minor abilities (one gets very strong, one becomes an acrobat, and a mute boy gets speech), but nothing to match Freddie. 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"You are given a consistent message as a patient: that you can't manage; that you aren't managing; and that you have to be managed," she says. Susan Horley, who now works at the Margaret Fraser House, a supervised boarding home in Toronto for ex-psychiatric patients, told women at a workshop on psychiatrized women during a feminist conference called Women and the State held in Toronto in early February, about the degradation female psychiatric patients suffer at the hands of those who claim to be helping them: "It was considered a privilege to be able to get kleenex. Even if you had this 'privilege'," she said, "you had to give back two used ones to get two more. It's so degrading — to be locked in a room; to have to beg to be allowed to go to the bathroom. Male orderlies and doctors sexually harassed women all the time; if you compained, it was seen as your problem — just more evidence you are sick," said Horley, also a member of Phoenix Rising's editorial collective. But it's not just the way women psychiatric patients are treated that taints the profession with misogyny. Two to three times as many women as men are given elec- troshock; more women are prescribed drugs to control their behavior; and finally, women make up most of the psychiatrically hospitalized population while men comprise a larger proportion of the prison population. Psychiatrized women agree it is easier for a woman to be committed to a psychiatric institution at some point during her life than a man. A position paper from the 1982 International Conference on Human Rights and Psychiatric Oppression held in Toronto, states that any woman who admits she has been raped or battered, says she needs help or support, or says she has been hurt by her sexist victimization "is likely to come into contact with the mental health system. "A battered woman who knocks on neighbors' doors, screams for help, or repeatedly calls the police runs a serious risk of being committed to a mental institution," the position paper points out. Meanwhile, statistics show that most women suffer from some form of sexual harassment or abuse during their lives. The position paper also indicates that clinicians, both male and female, use masculine definitions of mentally healthy behaviour: "It is not altogether surprising that those characteristics associated with being a mental patient — passive, dependent, manipulative, and indecisive — also fit the socially prescribed role for women in this culture." While the psychiatric system is in stitutionally sexist, it's important to remember it is both a microcosm of a sexist society and a practice that does its part to ensure society remains as it is. But, some question how conscious psychiatrists are of their role in preserving the status quo. Crowd opposes uranium mining VICTORIA (CUP) — About 400 people braved chilly weather Feb. 27 to protest the B.C. government's decision to let a seven year moratorium on uranium mining expire the next day. The crowd, including representatives from the Green Party, B.C. Voice of Women, and the University of Victoria Stop the Warships Club, gathered for an hour and a half to show opposition to any new uranium mining. NDP environmental critic Joan Smallwood (Surrey-Guildford) told the crowd her party is "committed to a permanent ban on uranium mining." She noted Canada is the world's top uranium producer and urged the provincial government not to be part of that "terrible legacy." Smallwood also accused environment minister Stephen Rogers of conflict of interest, saying he had shares in Cominco and Norcen mines and called for his resignation. On March 3, Rogers did, in fact, resign as environment minister, because of the perception of conflict of interest, but was immediately appointed minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. Premier Bill Vander Zalm made a brief appearance at the beginning of the rally to talk to organizers, but one protestor said the premier was simply trying to defuse the issue. During the demonstration, a representative of the Kelowna branch of Responsibility for Nuclear Awareness, Sarama, raised questions about uranium mining's environmental impact. Sarama said water in the Okanagan, where mining is scheduled to take place, already has a high radioactive content, and mine tailings could increase the hazard. A Green party pamphlet, "Dancing with the Radon," states that up to 250,000 tons of ore tailings would be a by-product of every 1000 tons of uranium produced. Speakers were also concerned about the potential danger to You are invited to the OPEN HOUSE* *0pen Daily firm 11:30 cum. 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The Gondoliers, the operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, presented by the Vancouver Operatic Society, at the Richmond Gateway Theatre (6600 Gilbert Road, Richmond, 270-1812), tonight, tomorrow night, and Tuesday until March 14, at 8 p.m. Rattle In the Daeh. a fine new play by a local playwright about two men travelling from Detroit to Vancouver by car, at Tha Arts Club Seymour Stage (1181 Seymour, 887-1644), Monday to Friday at 8:30 p.m., Saturdays at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m., Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. Tha Importance of Being Earnest, by a new young Vancouver playwright, perhaps an indication of a new progressive edge in the Arts Club's season, at Tha Arts Club Gran- vHle Island (687-1644), same times as Rattle, above. Angry Houeewfvee, a musical about four women who form a punk band, at the place where Ain't Misbehavin' used to live. The Arts Chib Revue Theatre (Granville Island, 887-1644), same times as Rattle, above the above. Foxfire, a love story set in the Blue Range Mountains of Virginia, by that banal theatre company that just got a new artistic director, and might just become interesting in time for its twenty-fifth anniversary season, at The Vancouver Playhouaa (Hamilton and Dunsmuir, 873-3311), Monday to Saturday at 8p.m., Saturday at 2:30 p.m., until March 21. The Comedy of Errors, a bright, fast- paced, "punk" version of Shakespeare's greatest play, at Studio BB (Langara College, 100 West 49th, 324-5227), Tuesday to Sunday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m., until March 15. Strings, a woman leaves her husband of 15 years, for another woman, by the innovative Vancouver Little Theatre (3102 Main Street), opens March 5, Thursday to Saturday at 8 p.m., until March 21. Theatresports. competitive, improvisa- tional comedy by some awfully good performers, including Lori Dungie, at The Back AMey Theatre (751 Thurlow, 888-7013), Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Scared Scrlpttaes, more improvised comedy stuff, at The Arts Club Revue Theatre (Granville Island), Fridays at 11:30 p.m. A Night in the Allay. Theatresports goes innovative and prime time simultaneously, wfth a competition of improv, an interview with a lucky audience member, and an installment of the fifties-style sit-com. Leave it to Weasel, at The Back Alley Theatre (751 Thurlow, 688-7013), Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 p.m. The Winter's Tale, Moliere's version of Shakespeare's play, in translation, at The Frederic Wood Theatre (here, on campus, . 228-2678), until March 14, at 8 p.m. music Go Four 3, a local group about to hit the big time, carefully profiled in stunning, adjective-filled prose, by former Ubyssey entertainment great, Chris Wong, in this issue, in SUB Ballroom tonight at 8 p.m. Wang Chung, at 88 Street Music Hall (where Expo used to live), Sunday at 8 p.m. Heather Bishop with Kris Purdy and Robert Davidson Haida Prints Dorothy Davidson Original Haida Blankets Thru March 28 4460 We-J lutn Ave 222-0877 ^iTuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiniiminiiiTnniniiiiiinnnnniiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniM | Dr. PAT MARCHAK 1 = Sociologist and author of Green Gold I | WILL DISCUSS | 1 "Future Economic Trends 1 I -Where Will Women Fit?" 1 | —women in the economy of the future I 1 TUES., MARCH 10th, 1987 1 I 12:30-1:30 p.m. 1 | BUCHANAN PENTHOUSE | = Sponsored by the Office for Women Students = = with the support of = S The Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation = miiiiiiiiiiiinniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiininiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiJR The Chameleons, am eighties English pop group from Manchester, with The Mighty Lemon Drops, A Merry Cow, and the Vancouver debut of Seattle band Pure Joy, at The Town Pump (66 Water Street, 683-6695), Friday, March 13, at 9 p.m. Sherry Shute, at Vancouver East Cultural Centre (1895 Venables, 254-9678), Sunday at 8 p.m. galleries For complete gallery listings look for Art 87, a small glossy guide published by Vanguard Magazine. 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Gibson, who has been involved with the women's movement since 1977, said the backlash against woman came because the movement was effective in winning new rights that threatened conservative elements in society. "We've come a long way on some issues. The visibility of women's issues and the seriousness by which they are treated prove that," she said. The last federal election, where politicians debated women's issues, is a good example of how far women have come, she said. Gibson is quick to admit that women are still struggling for some of the same rights they were chasing 15 years ago, adding that universal child care is still being sought in Canada. She said that the concept of equal pay for work of equal value has not become a reality. But as more people become aware of women's problems, the better chance there is for progress, she said. "It's not enough for just some women to work for change. It's a call for united solidarity." International Women's Day was first organized at the 1910 International Socialist Convention in Copenhagen. The event, which will be held on March 8, has been celebrated in Vancouver for 12 years. WOMEN* co frn n Sexism saturates film industry By RICK HIEBERT "The motion picture business is the last bastion of male chauvinism?' said Canadian film director Sandy Wilson during a speech at UBC last week. Wilson, speaking to about 150 people in Buchanan A102 on the role of women in the North American film industry said, "The men who hold the power and control the money in the motion picture business are only comfortable dealing with women as images." But Wilson, a Genie award winner for director of My American Cousin, believes the perception of women as powerless individuals is changing as more women become involved in the film industry. She said women are making a mark on the industry because of the feeling and passion they bring to work. Women, tend to make films differently than men due to the way they were raised, she said. "They (men) play a lot of soccer and team sports and they get the idea that everything is like a challenge, that there are two teams opposing, smashing one another. It Engineering's cool By ROSS McLAREN Mary DesBrisay is an engineer. She is one of eight women in third year Mechanical Engineering at UBC — the other 84 students are men. But that doesn't bother Mary. "I don't notice the fact that guys outnumber girls, I'm not treated differently by the guys," she says. In the past when professors have made (sexist) comments in class, both the "girls and the guys have hissed at the profs," she says. In fact, Mary says she doesn't think discrimination against women exists in engineering. "I've never been discriminated against." And the engineering annual Godiva ride doesn't bother her in the slightest. But on the other hand, the Committee Against Sexism on Campus "annoys me beyond belief," she says. A guy sticking up for women's rights seems a double standard." Like other male engineers, Mary is involved in the Engineers Undergraduate Society activities. She co-manages the Cheese Factory Cafe, a traditional engineering haunt. She is also public relations officer for her class. The PRO informs the class of summer job opportunities, something Mary's energies are concentrated upon. "It's important to get experience now," she says. "But most of the summer jobs will be in pulp mills. I'm at a disadvantage because these jobs are in small towns and I think companies would take a guy over a girl." Whatever happens this summer, Mary is dedicated to becoming an engineer. "When I came to university, I wanted to study commerce or engineering. People in Arts," she says, "sell themselves short. They get a degree and that's all they do. What kind of job can you get with an Arts degree?" she asks. "I want to come out of here as a professional." Mary has some criticisms of the engineering program, though. "I like the five year program rather than the four year program currently in place. It is a big step from high school and people are struggling with it (the current program). Five years means a lighter credit load," she said. And what about Mary's plans for the future? She says, "I'd like to ski every weekend." has something to do with the fact that girls are encouraged to play a lot of house. "You ask someone over for tea, share your feelings, and all of this stuff," she said. Wilson said while men tend to make films with characters either getting into a conflict or reacting to a crisis, women "go more for a nuance, a mood or a feeling and they're not so interested in a progressive (plot) or setting up a fight." Wilson said she likes to hire women, but not at the expense of artistic quality. "For me, if it's a tossup between a man and a women, I'd go for a woman, but I wouldn't choose a women simply because she was a woman. If there was a better man, I would select him." Wilson added that she was confident that women are beginning to get their views across on film. "It's the women that are making the really significant films now. They're the ones who simply will not be stopped. Things are changing for (women in the film industry) a little — but certainly not a lot." THINKING ABOUT AN INTERNATIONAL CAREER? Graduates of 1987 in Arts, Sciences, Applied or Professional programs have the opportunity to apply for the one year INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CO-OPERATIVE PROGRAM at Capilano College. 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Aerosol Hair Spray 300 ml. ^-^ Jmmg Mousse 150g + 33% Bonus M • "¥ m PHARMASAVE j^ PRICE -^-* Each PHARMASAVE 1 HOUR PHOTOLAB SUPER SPECIAL 5x7 ENLARGEMENT/20 MINUTES 135 mm —matte finish Mounted I * or Unmounted »TT UBC Students, ask about our 10% Student Discount on all our Photo Finishing Products 4346 W. 10th Ph.:222-DRUG OPEN MON.-SAT. 8a.m.-10p.m. SUNDA Y 10a.m.-10p.m. % WOT IQtt AVE BACKLANE' FREE CUSTOMER UNDERGROUND PARKING Page 14 THE UBYSSEY Friday, March 6,1987 Handicap From page 6 And then they ask./'Why can't you hear? How do you lipread? Do you know si£n; language?" Sometimes I tell ttfem the truth: I went deaf because I had an infection in my inner ear. Or I tell them I had my Walkman turned up too loud. I can't tell you how I lipread. It is something that takes practise and determination. But when I'm feeling particularly bitchy I say I took lipreading courses by correspondence. Yes, I know sign language, a little bit. I'm just learning now, though, so I don't use it fluently, nor do I attempt communication with it. I always thought learning sign language and using it was to admit that I had a handicap. That thought always hurt too much. But I realize now that my deafness isn't a handicap because I didn't let it become one. I've worked my way around that. I'm graduating this year. I worked hard and tried my best and now I am moving on. UBC challenged me. But I couldn't have met that challenge without those people who "heard" for me in class and took careful notes so I wouldn't miss anything important. I couldn't have met that challenge without the people who tried to understand what it was like for me to sit for hours without even a boring lecture to listen to. And those people who supported me when I got frustrated by that lack of sound I thought made the difference between pass and failure. I can only thank those people. They've made my life a little easier, and enriched it as well. I've learned from them as much as I've learned from my text books, maybe more. I hope they have learned from tween dosses TODAY GAYS AND LESBIANS OF UBC Bzzr garden and party, 4:00-7:00 p.m., SUB 205. JEWISH STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION Opportunities in Israel, 10:30-3:30 p.m., SUB main concourse. CITR RADIO Open house. See our studios, watch us broadcast, and enjoy UBC's largest collection of rock posters and Bloom County comic strips, SUB 233. PRE-MEDICAL SOCIETY Gym night will be postponed to next Friday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., due to Open House. COAUTION FOR ACCESSIBLE EDUCATION Concerned about the high costs of being a student? Petition blitz starts today for Open House, runs all weekend. Be there! noon, SUB. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE International food fair, entertainment and dancing, 5:00 p.m.. International House. UBC SCHOOL OF MUSIC UBC Open House — Peking Opera — co- sponsored by the department of Asian Studies, free admission, UBC School of Music Recital Hall, also on Sunday. NEWMAN CLUB Clean up party: Outside work, weather permitting, noon Mass, 1:30p.m., cleanup. St. Mark's College. 80TH POINT GREY SEA SCOUTS Apple Day, buy an apple and support the Sea Scouts, all day on campus. hot flash The faculty womens' club members will be selling their cookbook "Vancouver Entertains," during Open House at UBC on Saturday, March 7 and Sunday, March 8. All profits go towards a UBC scholarship. This cookbook is compiled from delicious ethnic menus used by the FWC gourmet group over the years. There is a complete menu from appetizer to dessert for each country featured. Coalition for Accessible Education All those concerned about the high costs of being a student sign a petition which starts today for Open House. Runs all weekend. Be there! noon, SUB. m CALL FOR m APPLICATIONS A.M.S. Summer Project Coordinators The Alma Mater Society is now receiving applications from students interested in employment as summer project coordinators. These positions involve working for the A.M.S. on specific projects as determined by the A.M.S. Hiring Committee. In the past, projects have included the A.M.S. Used Bookstore, High School Orientation activities and the A.M.S. Tuition Fee Lottery. The complete list of projects will be presented to candidates during interviews. The successful candidates will: -be returning full-time U.B.C. students -have had previous responsibility for staff or budgets -will be self motivated -have the ability to work independently -be able to work well with others and communicate effectively Experience in marketing or public relations; knowledge of the A.M.S., its operations and services; and supervisory or managerial experience would be assets. Period of employment will be a minimum of 12 weeks. Applications can be obtained from and returned with current resume to the A.M.S. Administrative Assistant in S.U.B. 238. DEADLINE for Applications: 4:00 p.m. March 20, 1987 SUNDAY LUTHERAN STUDENT MOVEMENT Lutheran Student Movement, communion service, 10:00 a.m., Lutheran Campus Centre. DEMOCRATIC WOMEN'S UNION International Women's Day march and meeting — noon, meeting 2:00 p.m., March-Assemble Clark Park 05th and Commercial) Meeting- Britannia Community Centre (1661 Napier). MONDAY INTERNATIONAL HOUSE International Film Night — South African slapstick comedy, "The Gods Must Be Crazy." Gate 4, International House, free admission. All welcome. LANGUAGE INSTITUTE Meet Japanese students, have lunch with students from Ritsumeikan University of Kyoto, noon. Yum Yums. INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH Free noon hour films: Kyung Ju, Mount Sorak, Cheju Island, noon. Seminar room 604, Asian Centre. COAUTION FOR ACCESSIBLE EDUCATION Until Friday, Petition signing campaign, lunches, all over campus. SUBFILMS "A Clockwork Orange," starring Malcolm McDowell, 9:30 p.m., SUB auditorium. SUBFILMS "Harold Maude," the cul classic, 7:00 p.m., SUB auditorium. DISABLED STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION General meeting, noon, SUB 212. UNITED CHURCH CAMPUS MINISTRY Speaker — Elizabeth Rafaical, student from the Philippines. UBC PERSONAL COMPUTER CLUB 4IBM meeting. Everyone welcome, noon, SUB 212. TUESDAY UBC SPORTS CAR CLUB Regular meeting, 7:00 p.m., SUB 213. PRE-MEDICAL SOCIETY Lecture on "Forensic Psychiatry," guest speaker Dr. Marcus, noon-1:20 p.m. STUDENTS FOR CHOICE Meeting, new members welcome, noon-1:30 p.m., SUB 212. SUBFILMS "A Clockwork Orange," starring Malcolm McDowell, 9:30 p.m., SUB auditorium. "Harold and Maude," 7:00 p.m. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION Prayer meeting, call Philip, 222-0894 for time and place. UNITED CHURCH CAMPUS MINISTRY Informal worship, all welcome, noon, Lutheran Campus Centre. UBC PERSONAL COMPUTER CLUB Amiga meeting, everyone welcome, noon, SUB 111. IBC meeting, noon, SUB 205. THE CLASSIFIEDS RATES: AMS Card Holders — 3 lines, 1 day $2.75; Additional lines, 6i0c. Commercial — 3 lines 1 day $4.75; Additional lines, 70c. Additional davs, $4.25 and 65c. Classified ads are payable in advance. Deadline is 10:30 a.m. the day before publication. ■^^^ Publications, Room 266, S.U.B., UBC, Van,, B.C. V6T2A5 (^^ Charge Phone Orders Over $10.00 - Call 228-3977 VISA 5 - COMING EVENTS THE VANCOUVER INSTITUTE Free Pmbttc Let-tare Satarday, Marek 7 THE MAHLER PHENOMENON (Cecil and Ida Green Lecture) Prof. Donald Mitchell, Music Critic, London Lectai-e Hhtfl 2, UBC Woodward B-ddtet 8:15 p.m. 11 - FOR SALE - Private 1f77 FORD Maverick, Metallic brown, 4 dr. 6 cyl, auto, PS, PB, radio, new brakes, muffler & radiator, 86,700 mi. $1000 firm, phone 222-1880. RUN AWAYI Thailand -1 month adventure Extensions avail. Open 1 yr. Call now 266-2743. 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Unfortunately, in this case the "vehicle" is a rather rickety old cart carried along by some able acting. Oh, it's harmlessly traditional stuff (I have trouble calling it a play) - more like stock characters, stock situations, and stock jokes stitched together by the clumsy hands of Cronin himself and Susan Cooper from bits of Appalachian folklore. The piece is set on a mountaintop in Southern Appalachia, where Aunt Annie lives on a farm known as Stony Lonesome. The plot, such as it is, concerns this widow whose stage Foxfire By Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn Directed by Scott Swan The Vancouver Playhouse until March 21 country-and-western-singer son wants her to move from her Stony Lonesomeness to Florida with him. She tries to resist, in the name of staying with the land and the good old values . . . and with her all-too- solid ghost of her dead husband, Hector, who clumps around in his boots now and again to trouble her more with his nostalgia and his tersely-humourous Bible-quoting. Dramaturgically, the presence of a dead husband — whom only his wife and son can see — is what distinguishes this otherwise uninspiring text. The dialogue, studded with such words and expressions as "What's chewin' on ya?", "young 'uns" and "You just keep plowin' and plant in' and the Lord'11 take care of Housewives suffer dilute emotion By MICHAEL GROBERMAN Angry Housewives is the Arts Club's latest installment of television, sit-com theatre. stage Angry Housewives By A.M. Collins and Chad Henry Directed by Michael McLaughlin Arts Club Revue Theatre This time, four women, friends, frustrated with their stifled lives, decide to enter (of all zany things) a punk band contest at an underage punk club. In spite of derision from the men in their lives, they persevere, perform in the contest, and . . . but that would be giving too much away. The real shame here is that this play might really have said something. The women in this play have a lot to be angry about. Their lives are monotonous, hopeless roles into which society has forced them: Bev, a working widowed mother with money problems; Carol, recently divorced, insecure, and unemployed, with money problems; Jetta, an unhappy new mother with a tryrant husband; and Wendi, a lonely working woman afraid she'll lose her business edge by entering a relationship. Providing these women the outlet of punk, the voice of angry, frustrated, society-rejecting youth, is imaginative and provocotive. But the premise becomes too dilute. The punk club is an "underage" punk club, for the 14-year-old set. No drinking. And the women aren't really very angry. They are annoyed that their husbands, boyfriends, and children think their idea is ludicrous, and are spurred on with Mary Richards- style tenacity. The conclusion, the big contest, offers no real conclusions at all. In true t.v. style, the men learn a grudging respect for these women, reducing the issue of women stifled by society to this happy ending. This play, a Seattle hit from ST. ANSELM'S CHURCH The Anglican Parish at UBC (on University Blvd. —Across from Golf Course Clubhouse) SUNDAY SERVICES 8 a.m. Holy Eucharist: Book of Common Prayer 11 a.m. Holy Eucharist: Book of Alternative Services (2nd Sunday: Morning Prayers) 7:30 p.m. Evensong (alternate weeks) with program to follow: Mar. 15 Very Reverend James Cruickshank, 'The Future of the Church" Mar. 29 Morna Russell & The Evensong Choir "African Freedom Songs" April 12 A Celebration of the Passion with music provided by the Evensong Choir and James MacLaren Hill, alto sax. For further information Ph. 224-1410 (weekday mornings) or 224-5846 (Sundays 4:30-6:30p.m.) 1983, gets no boost from director Michael McLaughlin's energy-less staging. Arguments never reach heights of ugliness. Lives do not seem as awful as the line's suggest. Ross Douglas, musical director, keeps the energy of the music down too. This is t.v. punk, after all. Christine Willes, who created the sophisticated and experienced Helen in Sex Tips, is very funny as divorced, insecure Helen. As the four practice Kum-bay-ya, one suggest that to be punk, they must be meaner, to which Willes, confused and serious, whines, "It would be hard to do a mean Kum-bay-ya." Nonie McDonald displays fine comedic timing in finally standing up to her horrible businessman husband. And Ross Douglas is a fine horrible husband. The duet, "Betsy Moberly", in which Rick Scott and Jon Bryden wonder what ever happened to a woman they both "knew" in the sixties contains Bryden's excellent Dylan impression. And the final song, the contest performance of Eat Your Fucking Cornflakes, is funny, if dramatically weak. DARLENE MARZARI M.L.A. 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