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Call the: KENNY OYE SPORTSWEAR HOTLINE: 270-6348 2/THE UBYSSEY November 29,1991 "■« i'"*>" **• ^ 54-40 or fight! US Navy out of Canadian waters by Dianne Rudolf Nuclear submarine testing done by the US Navy in disputed waters was the subject s of a 200-person protest at Canada Hace on Tuesday. The issue centres on Dixon Entrance, the waterway believed to have beenawarded to Canada in 1903. The US Navy is making claims on at least half of the area for entry into Behm Canal, the site ofthe high-speed _ testing. The US is establishing a facility in Ketchican (near the Canada-Alaska border) for the use of an estimated ten to 15 nuclear-armed submarines per year, including deadly Trident- and Los Angeles-class subs. Miranda Holmes of End the Arms Race said, "The Trident- and Seawolf-class submarines are powered by nuclear reactors, generating 60,000 horsepower. Because the subs are -powered by these generators, they are a constant source of danger. Additional ' concerns include the possibility of the subs being armed with up to 20 cruise missiles at any one time." Development ofthe Seawolf- class attack submarine is top priority for the US Navy and has already cost $2 billion. "The new acoustical testing facility in Ketchican is focussing on Seawolf-class subs, which are a new generation of stealth technology to avoid radar," said John Mate, spokesperson for Greenpeace. " Revising US submarine technology to reduce detectability is creating political problems in Canada-US relations and causing a great deal of apprehension. The testing is interfering with commercial fishing, as well as posing a direct threat to both the environment and the outlying population. "On Oct. 30, the Cabinet, without debate, passed an order in council to avoid public hearings and any kind of assessment of environmental effects. They are sidestepping democracy—the Canadian government pretends to care about Canadian issues, but it's all a sideshow—they are showing contempt for the democratic process. The proper ' course of action would be to seek public opinion and examine the environmental implications," Mate said. Commercial fishers have good cause for concern, especially with the case histories of collisions and snaggings. Once such incident took place at the mouth ofthe Fraser River in August, with the US nuclear sub Omaha snagging the nets of a Steveston fishing vessel and narrowly avoiding a collision with it. Presi dent ofthe Fisherman's Union Jack Nichol said, "We feel isolated with regard to this issue. No notice has been given to fishermen, who have been harassed and arrested for fishing in our own waters. They use intimidation to keep us out. "The Canadian government is showing a shameful lack of defense in not claiming have catastrophic effects," Mate said. "An accident, by definition, is unpredictable." "Should Canada be supporting the development of weapons of mass destruction?" he asked. Despite the Canadian government's claim that a nuclear mistake is unlikely, it is prepared to provide compensation should such ami stake occur. Mate questions whether the US would provide similar compensation for Canadian vessels in US ports. "How can they possibly compensate for the costs oflife and contamination ofthe environment? "The question of Canadian sovereignty in at stake—by giving permission to test here, we are avoiding the fight with the US on the jurisdiction issue,"he said. "Various municipalities have declared themselves nuclear-free zones, and the Canadian government is not respecting these proclamations. They are avoiding the majority of people who would be opposed to this use of our territory. No one has asked the Haida or the rest ofthe Canadian population about this," Mate said. Miles, a spokesperson for tie Haida Nation, voiced his csncerns about the danger and immorality of freely allowing the US into the territory. "People depend on those waters,"he said. "The Canadian government must sit down and review with the Haida the issue of contributing to nuclear escalation." Jack Nichol voices concern on behalf of the Fisherman's Union. PAUL GORDON PHOTO this territory that is clearly and unequivocally our own." Other concerns are for the environment. "The worst case scenario would be a meltdown ofthe reactor core leading to the contamination of marine ecology or the formation of a radioactive cloud which would affect both the coast and population centres," Mate said. According to a 1985 New York publication, a meltdown could result in the spilling of hot radioactive materials to the bottom of the harbour. If this should occur, nothing could be done about it. "Besides collisions and snaggings, other possible and common sources of accidents include groundings, explosions, fires, and the inevitability of human error, all of which End the Arms Race coordinator Peter Coombes said that the Canadian population has not been accurately informed. "Most people are not even aware that subs are coming, or of the potential threat they pose should a mistake occur," he said. Coombes appeals to the media to serve as an accurate source of information for Canadians. "The media should not gloss over the horrifyin*;: nature of war," he said. At present, it is estimated that seven nuclear reactors and up to 50 nuclear warheads occupy the ocean floor. Mate said, "This is a continuation ofthe nuclear arms race. The cold war is over, yet danger is facing BCers and the people ofthe First Nations. Each part reinforces the other when nuclear armaments are still being produced. Frim a global perspective, it's immoral." UBC students accuse police of assault by Lucho van Isschot According to two UBC students, on October 8 they were assaulted in Vancouver's West End. The aggressors, claim Cornelius Muojekwu and Kuda Mutama, were members ofthe Vancouver Police Department. Muojekwu and Mutama say they were taking a leisurely drive on a Tuesday night when their car was surrounded and stopped by three police vehicles. Muojekwu and Mutama say they were ordered out of their car and subjected to physical and verbal attacks—accusations, orders, threats, pushes and kicks. Muojekwu and Mutama were mistaken for criminal suspects, whom officers described simply as "two black guys." As reported in the October 25 issue of The Ubyssey, Muojekwu considered the incident to be racially motivated. "Two black men were suspected to have committe d a crime, and the Vancouver police had to brutalize the next two unfortunate black men they could get," Muojekwu wrote in his thorough account. The Vancouver Police Department, however, has described the incident as a simple case of mistaken identity. "Our members did not act out of prejudice but out of a genuine belief that these people were responsible for a series of armed robberies," said Gord Elias, a Police Depart ment spokesperson. Muojekwu and Mutama, "are totally innocent of any wrongdoing," declared Elias, who said that an internal investigation ofthe incident was currently in process. Though the police are not allowed to discuss the status ofthe investigation, they admit that such an investigation could take a long time to conclude. "You can never put a time frame on it," Elias said "...they are quite lengthy, Fve seen them take a year or more." Meanwhile, said Elias, Muojekwu and Mutama have been sent formal letters of apology by the police department. Muojekwu, however, insists that he has not received such a letter. On October 18, Muojekwu and Mutama sent detailed letters of complaint to the Vancouver Police Department. Seven days later both men received short, identical letters of reply from I.J. Stevens, a representative ofthe police department. The letter contained several items—including a "Citizen's Complaint Form"—hut no note of apology. It did, however, confirm that the police department was conducting an internal investigation of the allegations put forward by Muojekwu and Mutama. The allegations against the police department—which are being investigated by the police themselves—were described in Stevens' letter as "abuse of authority by handcuffing and detaining on the street.* Muojekwa is deeply disturbed by the police "version" ofthe allegations. "We had specific complaints against the police and thist was not what we complained of. Our own complaints should be investigated, not what the police think our complaints should, be," he says. Muojekwu feels that the police have already reached a decision—a decision to dismiss the complaint altogether. "I don't believe they are even conducting an investigation—even if they pretend that is what is going on," he says. "I feel caged in," he says. "If the internal investigation doesn't work out, I won't know what to do." Muojekwu and Mutama have also been frustrated by not being able to find a lawyer to represent their case. In consultation with the BC Civil liberties Association and the Vancouver Bar Association, the two men were informed that lawyers wouldbereluctanttorepresentthem. "The lawyers look at it as a purely financial matter," said Muojekwu, explaining that because their case would be a civil case, "you might spsnd nine months, one or even two years and only get $1,000 compensation." "My dignity as a human being is the real issue," Muojekwu explains. "It has never been a question of dollars." "I am not going to rest until something is done," he insists. The fate of the world is in your hands! So you fancy yourself pretty enlightened, huh? You've got your peace sign earring, your anti-authoritarian 10-hole Docs and your Spirit ofthe West album. Hell, you even went to an anti-war demonstration last year! And you don't even know anyone who owns a fur coat You're doing all that you can to promote peace and harmony among your fellow humans. Wake up and smell the El Salvadorean coffee brewing in your own kitchen. You're a student at a relatively prestigious post-secondary education centre situatedinahighly privileged first-world country. Your parents passed on all of their upper middle-class values to you, so you think that by carrying your Blue Chip non-biodegradable two-colour plastic mug around on the side of your backpack, you're going to save the world. Think again. Here are nine simple things that you can do that will really contribute to peace on earth and goodwill towards all people: 1. Take a look at the policies of companies from which you buy. By supporting the multinationals who create the conditions that force people to resort to violence, you are part ofthe cause of war. The world system is a market economy and our real power is economic. You made $10,000 last year and it's all gone. Where did your economic vote go? 2. Don't beat up your partner. Or anyone else, for that matter. 3. Be aware of political issues and take part in events that will make a difference. World AIDS Day is December 1st (wear a red ribbon) and December 6 is a day to promote awareness of violence against women (wear a white ribbon). 4. Volunteer. You'd be amazed at the sense of accomplishment that you'll receive from doing things for others. Amnesty International, women's crisis centres, End the Arms Race, AIDS Vancouver, the Food Bank and the Red Cross are all great places to start Raise money and collect tools for less industrialized countries. Teach people skills to improve their lives. 5. A deteriorating world environment is a great contributor to war. Some countries are forced to burn their forests and pollute their rivers but you, being so privileged, can easily keep from being part of the problem. Don't buy overpackaging. People got along for millenia without disposable wrapping. Ride your bike to school. Or take the bus. There's lots you can do. 6. Don'tdrink Coca-Cola. Don't drink Coors. Don't buy Shell products or Nestle Quik. All of these companies are evil— find out why in Shopping For A Better World, by the Council on Economic Priorities. For example, they all have millions invested in South Africa. 7. Have respect for the dignity of all human beings, not just those like you. This includes your use of language and choice of jokes. Make a point of respecting women, men; homo-, bi- and heterosexuals; Caucasian, people of colour; the abled and the differently-abled; etc.. Don't impose your cultural values on others. Don't support companies with questionable hiring practices, e.g. Blockbuster Video, the Pantry, White Spot. 8. Buy locally and save your money in a local credit union. They are community based, controlled by depositors and they're not massive corporations. 9. Adopt a vegetarian diet Try it for a week—ifs not that hard to do. Raising livestock is an incredible drain on world resources and a massive cause of pollution. Did you know that a pound of hamburger takes ten tons of water to produce? And ask yourself: is it right to kill animals to sustain your own life? Peace is more than just a circle with lines in it. Peace is a way of life. Tuum est November 29,1991 THE UBYSSEY/3 «SUBUJRY* tMii-i"i-m ^wjnvHtu.nnuf^jfe r i i i i i i i i Get$5.00OffaPartySub or Party Platter. (S24.00 minimum order. 24 hours advance notice and deposit required.) 5736 UNIVERSITY BLVD. (IN THE VILLAGE) 222-0884 tSUBUIBV* 1 i i i i i i i i ' Valid at this location only. 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Dec. 11 th & 18th at 5: 30pm Back Alley Theatre, 751 Thurlow St., INFO: 688-7013 «M C*te*t£1 *am*££tl iTfiwiw. imorr pe f* ^n-u-w■»»»•■» ccg*& TMa*f fie -»w * m^ernn. **mc, ■nawraw-'/W a/emtf. 4s* X* cotfmvtt ' fJMvOL WHO!? * frcnyCf tfttO-n*. sponsored by • /kistt Resisting the by Cheryl Niamath One hour after the vigil we went back, and the court-house steps were covered with burning candles, rows of them in some places, patches in other places, flickering, some melted down to unburning pools of wax. The sidewalk was empty except for drops of wax everywhere, the places our candles dripped while we listened to the women speak and sing and chant, light fourteen candles for the Montreal dead and read the names of so many women killed by men right here in Vancouver. So many it took five minutes just to read out the list. Women are dying. Two women are killed each week in Canada by their husbands or partners. Women are being raped. Every 17 minutes a sexual assault is committed in Canada and 90 per cent of the victims are women. Women are beaten and they are harassedand they are abducted and they are threatened. The federal government's parliamentary sub-committee on the status of women recently issued a report on violence against Canadian women and appropriately titled it "The War Against Women". Women have been the casualties of this war for countless years. But just like in other wars, a resistance movement has begun. A resistance movement made up of groups of women and men across the country, some large, some small; some with money, some without funding; all having the common goal of ending violence against women once and for all. Unlike other resistance movements, this one does not use violence to fight violence. To do so would only perpetuate the beatings and deaths, and the violence would be as widespread—and acceptable—in future generations as it is today. In order for the war against women to come to a peaceful resolution, male violence against women must become completely socially and legally unacceptable. It is towards this goal that the various groups resisting the war against women are striving. Our present society condones- - if not encourages—violence against women. Everywhere there are images of women as victims. In advertising, in films and on television, in popular fiction and pornography, women are portrayed as objects which invite, and often enjoy, abuse. The objectification of women encourages the persistence of the old-fashioned, paternalistic idea that women are pieces of property to be acquired and made use of by men. Violence follows the equally antiquated idea that people can do whatever they want to the things they own. Penalties are not severe enough for men convicted of assaulting or abusing women. "Men attack us partly because they have social and legal permission to do so," said Bonnie Agnew of Vancouver Rape Relief. The federal government's report contains numerous accounts of judges across Canada who gave lenient sentences to men who committed acts of violence against women. Italsoincludes statements concerning judges who made comments which clearly indicated their contempt for and lack of understanding of women and women's lives. Ann Sharp, of the Ottawa- Carl eton Regional Coordination Committee on Wife Assault, told the federal sub-committee on the status of women about a recent judgement in the Ottawa-Carleton region in which a man was fined $200 and sentenced to three years of unsupervised probation for hanging his wife from the beam of a barn and whipping her to unconsciousness. At the same time, the man was fined $500— for the unrelated charge of "possessing illegal venison". Men who abuse women need to hear a clear message from the Canadian legal system that violence against women will not be tolerated. One of the recommendations ofthe government's report is that "the federal government take the lead on gender sensitivity training for judges by requiring [federally- appointed] judges to take training and refresher courses that focus on violence against women and related gender-equality issues." The report also recommends that provincially-appointed judge take these courses. The committee also recommended that a royal commission on violence against women be established, and it is with this point that some groupsin the front lines of the resistance movement take issue. "The Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres, of which Rape Relief is a member, made a presentation to the government's committee and many of our recommendations were adopted in the white paper, so we are supportive of it. But now the government should use the rest of its ten million dollar budget to carry out the ' recommendations," Agnew said. "There was no unified position on the Royal Commission. We're calling for the government to act and activate rather than gather more data," she said. Rape Relief alone handled 1100 calls from Vancouver women reporting incidents of violence against them in 1990. Between January and June of 1991, the Concert will benefit women's centre The Music Students' Association will be holding a benefit concert on Saturday, November 30, to raise money for the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre. The programme will include a variety of music, said Wendy Collins, concert organizer. "A lot of different people will be doing a lot of different things. There will be instrumental music, singing, solos and ensembles. There will be both classical and contemporary mu sic." All of the performers are UBC students. The concert begins at 6pm in the recital hall of the Music Building (across from Yum Yum's). Tickets are by donation. Hollywood hates women by Raul Peschiera Violence in film today is a hot issue. Most of what is currently being said has been sparked by Martin Scorcese's new film Cape Fear, in which a socio-psychopath brutalizes a family. But this scenario is not new. For years now, violence in films has increased. And not surprisingly, most of the violence is against women. Women are beaten, raped, threatened with rape and generally abused by the male villain to enrage or exact revenge on the male hero. Brian Mcllroy, UBC assistant professor in film, stud violence against women in film is common. "Misogyny in mainstream film is quite palatable today. You could quite easily come up with your own lexicon of sexually violent movies," he said. Past and current movies confirm Mcllroy's statements. Most movies work on formulas that usually go something like this: loner guy meets woman, at first dislikes/disrespects/distrusts her, villain is introduced, guy begins to like woman, villain assaults woman, loner guy kills villain. In other plots, the hero loves woman, hero hates villain, villain fails to kill hero, villain finds woman and beats/abducts/strips/rapes/ threatens woman, hero gets angry and kills villain. "The specific genres of film made which are popular deal with violence and sexual exploitation of both sexes," Mcllroy said. The reason movies such as Death Wish, Dirty Harry, or Nightmare on Elm street, to name a few, have many sequels attests to the popularity of such violent films. In many cases, the men carrying out vicious acts seem to sadistically eiyoy themselves as they assault a woman. Filmmakers may to use this technique to manipulate the audience into hating the villain, so in the end, whatever brutal action the hero uses is seen as a sort of justification. Woman are exploited by these filmmakers and consequently de graded. They are usually only portrayed as sympathetic objects for the male hero to love and for the male villain to use. Regardless ofthe responsibility of filmmakers, there has to be a large enough audience before studio will shoot anything. "The studios make these films for a target audience ranging in age from 15-25. They're looking at it like any other product that has a target audience," Mcllroy said. A study done in Ontario in the early '80s found that "in 1983 the proportion of all films entering Ontario which contained sexual violence had increased to 2.4 times the 1982 rate." According to the data, projected increases for the "90s would be nearly six times the 1982 rate, making sexually violent films the predominant genre. In order for these numbers to decrease, people have to recognize and reject the violent images, and not support these movies. This could narrow the target audience enough to make these movies unprofitable for studios. 4/THE UBYSSEY November 29,1991 war against women centre had already received 590 calls. Agnew said she would prefer to see government money going to battered women's centres and transition houses where it can be used to help women who are surviving or recovering from male violence. "We're very supportive of federal funds going directly into the hands of battered women. The government is by-passing the established organizations in place to help battered women," she said. Coordinator ofthe Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, Sonia Marino, is disappointed by the federal government's response to the situation facing battered women. She is concerned that the government would spend millions on a parliamentary sub-committee to look at violence against women and at the same time cut funding to women's centres, often the only refuge for battered women who have no other support. "We don't get any funding from the federal government and that's what put us in a good position to bitch about them. Most of our money comes from civic grants and bingo. We just got a $10,000 grant for the provincial government, and thaf s the first time they've ever given us money," Marino said. Marino also believes money to be spent on a royal commission would be better going directly to women's centres. "We're a drop-in centre, not a shelter. We try to send battered women to Rape Relief, but because it's so teeny, we end up sending women all over— we send them to recovery centres, out to the municipalities, or sometimes they'll get stuck in places for hard-to-house people, instead of in a women's shelter where they belong." Marino has little faith in a federal royal commission. "As we know, there's this pretense of consultation, but by and large the Conservative government does what it wants, and after consultation it will still do what it wants. What we say doesn't make one iota of difference. The money is better spent going directly into services." The federal government recently announcedthatit will spend $1.5 million to establish "a network of research centres on family violence and violence against women". A government press release states *^hese centres of excellence will help to pave the way towards increased understanding of family violence and violence against women. This understanding will help to eradicate violent acts from Canadian society." How many studies will have to be completed before real action is taken? How much money will have to be spent on commissions and research before the war against women can be officially stopped? The federal government established a $136 million Family Violence Initiative last February which calls for Canadians to work together to eliminate "family violence" from our society. Throwing money into research projects is not going to change society's passive acceptance of violence against women. Money should be going towards an education programme designed to make violence against women as unacceptable as drinking and driving. While the government's official recognition of the pervasiveness of violence against women is commendable and its recommendations are a positive step, it is not enough to stop the war. Which is why such organizations as Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW), Rape Relief and Battered Women's Support exist. And while these organizations exist Rape Relief alone handled 1,100 calls from Vancouver women reporting incidents of violence against them in 1990. primarily to provide support or shelter for battered women, they also play a major role in the resistance movement by keeping the reality—and consequences—of violence against women alive in people's minds. One strategy that women's groups use to fight violence against women is peaceful protest. The annual Take Back the Night march is organized in Vancouver by Rape Relief in conjunction with the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres. This past September marked Vancouver's tenth march—an event in which women walk the downtown streets at night together in protest of male violence against them. "Take Back the Night has had a significant effect on city police and city council. They know now that women can and will do what we have to do to make the city safe," Agnew said. "The effect of the march on people is very big because it is both symbolic action and a direct action. It's very consciousness-raising." Women's groups also organize annual vigils to commemorate the violent deaths of women at the hands of men. While serving as memorials for the casualties ofthe war against women, the vigils ar e at the same time very empowering events for the people who take part. Holding si burning candle among hundreds of other people holding burning candles, singing songs of remembrance for women who suffered and died for no reason ether than their sex, people attending the services can feel the tremendous support and strength among the women ofthe community. It is not just women's advocacy groups which are working to end violence against women. Cther groups at both the community and national level have developed awareness and education programmes as a means to help bring the war against women lo an end. The Canadian Federation of Teachers has developed a cur.icu- lum guide entitled Thumbs D>wn: A Classroom Response to Violence Against Women. Debbie Omand, administrative secretary for the status of women programme ofthe British Columbia Teachers' Federation, said that a copy of the curriculum guide has been sent to every school in BC. The BCTF encourages the use ofthe curriculum guide, but it is up to individual school boards to set their own curriculum. At the Vancouver General Hospital, social worker Julia Higgins is organizing a forum on December 6 for VGH staff. "Tris is our way of commemorating i;he women killed in the Montreal massacre. It's not to remember the killer," Higgins said. The forum will feature three speakers who will present statistics on violence against women, an historical analysis and information on the current legislation and programmes in place to deal with the violence. "The forum is designed to build awareness of the kinds of patient who will come into the hospital, well as our own personal lives. It's meant to raise consciousness," Higgins said. "We got inspiration from an article in the Sun about a private-member's bill going through parliament right now in Ottawa to make December 6 an official day of AMS W'j asking people to wear wh or armiK Monl real. ate the dead. Downtown next, to .Main Lil The Women (ice and the Kn Lihrarv. held at. 7pm on Friday. Decem- ien Student"-. Of- |)t.r H outside the Vancouver Kn^mecrin:.; I'n- Art Gallery.This scar's memo- Society are also rial will take place on the north nemorial service 'Georgia Street) side of the held in SUM Mall- building. Bring a candle. commemoration for violence against women. We wanted to do something here at VGH, which is a very traditional, conservative institution. This forum is pretty progressive, and that article made the difference to senior management." The existence of the war against women has been officially recognized by the government of this country in its report. Now it will be close to impossible for people to continue denying that violence against women is a problem in our society. Itwill be difficult for people to continue blaming survivors for the abuse they are subjected to. "Society has to change," said B.J. Tyner, staff worker at WAVAW. "The way society is set up enables men to be violent towards women. Men simply have to stop doing the beating, the raping, the harassing. It has to be said enough times." Violence against women has to stop. Women and men live on this earth together. What hope can we have of surviving as a species if we cannot achieve peace between ourselves? Society has to change. The war against women must stop. Support and counselling for battered or sexually abused women is available in Vancouver from the following organizations: Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) 87X1:328 Battered Women's Support 87:")-1:328 Vancouver Rape Relief 872-821:3 Downtown Eastside Women's Centre 681-8180 At UBC: Women Students' Office 822-2415 Memorial Services Planned for December 6th i" a memorial so GRAPHIC COURTESY OF WANDA STARFISH November 29,1991 THE UBYSSEY/5 PEACE ISSUES Students fight for abortion access BC choice activists changing by Martin Chester VANCOUVER(CUP)—The pro- choice movement in British Columbia is in a state of flux as the established coalition has almost dropped from the scene and new, student groups take up the slack. Alisa Nemesis who is a member of the well-established BC Coalition of Abortion Clinics (BCCAC) saidthe organization has had a hard time organizing since the successful defeat ofthe federal bill to restrict abortions in Canada last January. "There's been a real lack of momentum after Bill C43 was defeated. It seems that many pro- choice people thought the battle was won when we were just defending our ground," Nemesis said. The BCCAC also has a funding problem. Most of the organization's funding comes from the membership. With membership dropping off so does the funding, Nemesis said. "This makes it difficult because the anti-choice movement is so well-funded by corporations and religious institutions," she said. She said there is still a crisis of access to abortion, especially outside of the Lower Mainland. There are only two abortion clinics in BC, both in Vancouver, and less than 50 per cent ofthe hospitals in the province provide abortions. The BCCAC set up the Every Woman's Health Centre, one ofthe two clinics in Vancouver, but the clinic and the political organization have since made a split. The clinic has tried to stay out of the politics of the issue. Nemesis hopes the BCCAC will re-establish itself as a force in the abortion debate. "I think the majority of British Columbians are pro-choice. When it comes down to the crunch there are people willing to be there." "We're planning on being active on International Women's Day [March 8] and we're interested in getting involved with other groups," Nemesis said. In the meantime student groups at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria have picked up some of the slack. At UVIC the Pro-Choice Action Committee has not been active since a rally at The Bank of Montreal to protest a a new credit card which sent its proceeds to an anti-choice group, but UBC Students for Choice has become very active. UBCSC has recently begun to protest against anti-choice protestors at the Every Woman's Health Centre. On Wednesday, nine members of UBCSC chased away four anti-choice protesters outside the clinic. UBCSC co-president Christine Price said BCCAC is an important figure head of the pro- choice movement in BC. "They are fairly important because they are the originating group in the Lower Mainland and pretty much, the province, who organizedthe pro-choice movement into an organization. They are the ones responsible for opening the clinic up," Price said. Price also said the student clubs will breath new life into the pro-choice movement. "Most of [the BCCAC's] members are the old movement. Right now there is alot of inactivity going on. People are tired of the issues, tired of fighting. "A lot of people are getting involved. It's not just old feminists any more. A lot of young feminists are getting involved, and a lot of men and that is great," Price said. UBCSC believe that they can take up the challenge. "Our club is filled with members who are willing to commit themselves to this cause. They are willing to be arrested if something we do causes that. They are willing to put in the work needed," she said. "Just because we have two abortion clinics and we have an NDP government, there is no reason to stop fighting. I don't think it's enough to have two clinics in the Lower Mainland. What we need to do is take the abortion services into the Interior and to Vancouver Island," Price said. Nemesis said the student pro- choice movements will spur the established movements on. "My own feeling is that we're getting more active, that the students are getting active and pushing us," she said. The only other active pro- choice groups in BC are small, grass-roots organizations who are defending their local hospital boards. by Carla Maftechuk Several students gathered at the Everywoman's Health Centre on Wednesday to counter-demonstrate against anti-choice protestors picketing the centre, where abortions are performed. Although there were fewer than ten pro-choice activists present, they well outnumbered the four anti-choicers. "The protest went positively, because it accomplished its purpose, which was to keep the anti- choice minority away from the clinic," said Joe Reynolds, a participant in the protest. UBC Students for Choice, organizers of the counter-demonstration, had been planning to go to the clinic whether or not there was to be an organized anti-choice protest, since Wednesday is a regular day for them to demonstrate. "We got word through members ofthe International Socialists when they went to a conference in Toronto, that Operation Rescue was planning a big protest against all clinics in North America," Bonnie Roth, co-president of Students for Choice, said. Operation Rescue, an anti- choice group based in the United States, is known for creating confrontations in front of abortion clinics in attempts to close them down. The organization, referred to as "a publicity stunt," has had both successes and failures this year in the US. "I think the threat [of an Operation Rescue action] is always there," Roth said. "I don't know how extreme it will be, but if they are there, we're prepared." Christine Price, co-president ofUB C Students for Choice, agrees. "Abortion is a fundamental right for a woman. I don't think there's any pro-choice person in this city who would allow [the climes to be closed down]," she said. The streets surrounding the Everywoman's Health Centre have been generally quiet lately. Hilda Thomas, president of the EWHC society's board, hopes they will remain that way. "We made a very conscious decision to consider the clinic as a health centre. We don't want any women to be intimidated because it might be the site of some kind of demonstration," she said. When the clinic first opened, many people were seriously harassed. "There's no guarantee that that won't happen again," Thomas said. Tm very grateful for generous encouragement from the (UBC) pro-choice club. I hope it is more symbolic than otherwise." Henry Morgentaler taken to court in Nova Scotia by Dawn Mitchell HALIFAX (CUP)—In an attempt to regain control of its health-care system, the Nova Scotia government is taking Henry Morgentaler to court—again. Since Morgentaler opened the doors of his Halifax abortion clinic in May 1989, the government has argued that the clinic violates the provincial Medical Services Act which lists nine medical procedures that cannot be performed outside a hospital setting, including abortion. But two provincial court judges have ruled the act unconstitutional on the grounds that the regulation of abortion is an area of federal concern. The Public Prosecutions Service has asked the Supreme Court of Canada to decide whether the federal government or the province has the authority to pass laws on the matter, said Peter Spurway, spokesperson for the provincial Attorney General's office. The separation of powers between the two levels of government is set out in sections 91 and 92 of the British North America Act, 1867. Criminal law falls under federal jurisdiction while health care is a provincial matter. However, because this case will define the governments' legislative powers, the final decision ofthe Supreme Court will have an impact on all free-standing abortion clinics. The decision will be binding on all jurisdictions in the country, said Moira MacConnell, an asso ciate professor of law at Dalhousie University. If the Supreme Court upholds the lower courts' ruling, the federal government will control the legislation of abortion clinics. If the decision is overturned, each province may ban clinics outright. Although hospitals in the province perform abortions, the head nurse at the Halifax Morgentaler clinic said women are guaranteed an understanding and caring approach at the clinic. "We provide a supportive environment to the women who come here," she said. Women under 19 do not need parental consent for the procedure, and a doctor's referral is not required by the clinic. "This is a vital service for the whole Atlantic region," the nurse said. Clinic staff perform about 50 abortions each month. MacConnell says the pro- choice movement could well be caught in a difficult position, depending on the court's decision. "In the short-term, if the Supreme Court finds that abortion is a federal matter, then [the provinces] get to keep the clinic," she said. "But, to use that argument you have to assume [abortion] is an inherently criminal area to be regulated under criminal law if it is to be regulated at all." There is no federal law criminalizing abortion in Canada. In 1988, the Supreme Court struck down Section 215 of the Canadian Criminal Code—which regulated abortion—on the grounds that it violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Nova Scotia courts declined to rule on whether the Medical Services Act al so violate d the Charter. This matter may also be determined by the Supreme Court. The federal government attempted to replace the old law in 1989, but it satisfied neither pro- choice advocates nor anti-abortionists, and was eventually defeated in the Senate. The Supreme Court's decision to hear the Public Prosecution Services appeal ofthe lower courts' rulings was announced on November 14, but the case is not expected to be heard until April or May. 6/THE UBYSSEY November 29,1991 PEACE ISSUES Making our place in the '90s by Nadene Rehnby SOYOlPREinlove.Andyou're doing all of the usual nauseating things that make your friends roll their eyes and your parents shake their heads. All of a sudden walks on the beach at sunset, which you always thought were boring and kind of cheezy, are tender and exquisite. You and your new love spend four out of five nights together and spend the other on the phone. Until five in the morning. The night before your mid-term. You start skipping classes and the ones that you do attend are spent staringblankly into space with that -pathetic look on your face. Only this time, ifs different. Because you may not be sure if you're a lesbian, but your new girlfriend definitely is. Orhe'sgay. And all of a sudden those wonderful pangs of joy are being referred to by your friends as sick and perverted. You stop goingfor walks on the beach at sunset because you hear that a gay couple got bashed there by three guys with a baseball bat. And you start getting jolted out of your hormone induced reverie by the number of anti -queer comments that you start noticing in your classes or find in your course readings. Only it gets worse. Because in the middle of your mother explaining that your new love is not welcome over for Christmas Eve drinks with the rest of your friends, you get an eviction notice. Seems the own- ersofyour$800amonthrat-infested basement suite have "small children who need to be protected from that sort of thing"; or your lover loses his job because "it doesn't reflect well on the company"; or she was discharged from the Armed Services, which she had been counting on to pay for her education. And you know that twelve y ear- ol d monster you've been volunteering for as a Big Brother? Well the trust andrespect that you've busted your ass for over a year to get is shot when the organization reminds you of their no-homosexual policy. Despite the fact that the boy's mother knows and has no problem with it. Seattle's Q Patrol So when you and your lover decide you need to get out of town for awhile and then discover that the reservation you made over the phone has been mysteriously cancelled, you've about had it. You decide it's time to take action. Canada's constitution has a Charter of Rights and Freedoms that protects against discrimination, and you know you've been discriminatedagainst. People may not like the fact that you're a lesbian, but they certainly don't have a right to remove your place of residence, your job, or your access to education or health care. Or do they? Section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the Canadian constitution reads as follows: "Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law, without discrimination. And, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability." You read that part again: "race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability." Notice anything missing? But wait, there is still the Canadian Human Rights Act, which covers discrimination in the federal jurisdiction—like government employees or people who work for national corporations. That would at least cover the job he lost working for the tax department. Another dead end—it also does not include discrimination based on sexual orientation in its list. Finally, there is the provincial Human Rights Act. But come on now, you didn't really expect the Socreds to have you in there, did you? Since Quebec included sexual orientation in their human rights legislation in 1977, only Manitoba, the Yukon and Ontario have followed suit, with Nova Scotia extending protection to gays and lesbians under the category "sex." You have no human rights protection as a lesbian or gay man in British Columbia. You feel wiped out. You feel non-existent, despite the fact that, according to the widely accepted stats of Alfred Kinsey, almost three million Canadians are lesbian or gay. When your best friend ;|ives you her spiel about why gay couples shouldn't be allowed to have children, you suggest that she have them all forcibly sterilized. Whoops? There goes your best friend. But dontbe sad. I mean, really— don't be sad. Be outraged. Be fuckingFURI- OUS. Who they hell are they to decide whose hand you chocse to hold? It's not natural, they say, but you know that's shit because there are hundreds ofmillions oflesbians and gay men in the world, in every country, in every city, in every family's history. Who are we trying to fool? What farce are we allowing our society to be when in 1991 the mayor of a major Canadian city can proclaim German Shepherd week and not Lesbian and Gay Pride day, despite the fact that he has two gay sons? We don't want you to threaten "the family," they say. What family? Raise your hand if you i;hink your family is "normal." Withhold ing housing doesn't prevent people from being gay, and it won't make us start "normal families"—it just means that gays won't have housing. The good news is that lesbians and gay men are becoming a very large thorn in the side of the straight, white, christian males who control our society. Two decades of moving out ofthe closets and into the streets has caused a crack in that picture perfect nostalgia for the time that never existed. Men and women who are openly gay are now educators and cops, army officers, bartenders and hospital administrators. And we're seeping through cracks into those bastions of homophobia. Take the Toronto City Police for instance, well known for open hostility to gay men. The appointment of a lesbian to police commissioner last year is probably going to make it a little more difficult for them to discriminate against gays. Gordon Fairweather, previous chief commissioner ofthe Canadian Human Rights Commission, has said on numerous occasions that sexual orientation is a glaring omission in the CHRA, and should be included. Hell, even Amnesty International has addressed its long standing homophobia and included people imprisoned for being homosexual as prisoners of conscience. The victories are still small, buttheyarethere.UBCspresident is still the same guy who displayed world-class intolerance by trying to refuse the Gay Games access to UPC facilities ("Why would one not participate in the normal men's athletics or the normal women's athletics?") but even he was con- vincedlast summer to write a statement supporting lesbian and gay spousal health care benefits. And while ifs still a dangerous career move to talk about your same-sex lover at the department head's wine and cheese, many UBC faculty are out, indeed outspoken, members of the gay community. We are also talking with our dollars—ifs becoming more difficult for openly homophobic businesses to keep the same bottom line. We are going public with their homophobia, refusing to give them our business and asking everyone else to do likewise. Remember that next time you're on the Drive and looking for a coffee bar. Joe's Cafe will get back his lesbian dollars when he apologizes to his lesbian customers. Finally, we're talking with our votes. The lesbian and gay community put the question of sexual orientation to candidates in the last provincial election and got the issue on the platform. Among other promises that addressed the gay and lesbian community, Promise 44 stated that the NDP government would change the Human Rights Act to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. And we fully intend to hold our newly-elected government to their promise, as we will apply pressure to the newly-elected NDP in Saskatchewan. That leaves only Alberta, Newfoundland, PEI, New Brunswick and the North West Territories without protection from discrimination based on sexual orientation. Surely this would pressure Ottawa into finally acting on five years of promises to amend the constitution to include sexual orientation? But it may be easier than that. A ruling passed down in federal court this September challenges the Canadian Human Rights Act, claiming it violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the constitution, the supreme law of the land. The case addresses the release of air force captain Joshua Birch, who was told he would no longer qualify for promotions, postings or further military career training because he is gay. Judge Joseph McDonald ruled in favour of Birch, but stayed the decision for six months. This gives the federal government until March 23, 1992 to amend the human rights act to include sexual orientation, or to file ... see RIGHTS, next page Out in the streets defending queer visibility SEATTLE—Think of this: You're on the street coming back from a night at the bar with friends, or a movie with a date. Suddenly, a group of six youths wielding bats approach you out ofthe night. "Hey, queer. We're going to kill you." by Paul Dayson Everyday, this or similar incidents are being reported with increasing frequency in North America. Anti-gay violence and queer bashing regularly result in hospitalization and death, as well as fear. But now another outcome is becoming imaginable. Asthey run towards you another group of a dozen people turn the corner. Dressed in uniforms and walking information they put themselves between you and the attackers. The attackers, seeing your new-found friends, turn and leave. In at least nine cities across the United States, including New York, Boston, San Francisco, Houston and Seattle, lesbian and gay street patrols are working to combat violence in lesbian and gay neighbourhoods. The Q Patrol, Seattle's lesbian and gay street patrol, began training in October 1990 and have now been safeguarding the streets for ten months. The patrol is usually composed of six to nine members each night with about 30 active members in the organization, according to Alex Cleghorn, Q Patrol coordinator. Like some patrol members, Cleghorn is a student. Others are warehouse workers, machinists or computers operators. But all are united by a desire to end the violence directed at lesbians and gays. "I can't stand by and watch another queer get bashed," she said. Patrol members tend to be in theirmid-20s. "Eighteen or 17year olds show some interest but they don't seem to stick around," said Q Patrol member Dave Kreft, a food bank worker who has been with the patrol since March. The commitment of both Friday and Saturday, prime bar time, for patrolling and a third night for training might be one of the reasons for this, he added. "We have a fluctuating membership, about 80 people in total have been involved. There is high turnover due to high stress," Cleghorn said. PATROLLING THE STREETS Patrols start 10pm on Friday and Saturday nights. For the next four hours the QPatrol crisscrosses Seattle's Capitol Hill gay and lesbian district, first concentrating on the Broadway shopping area, then later around the bars near Pike Street. Their patrols follow the flow of people in the area. They see themselves as a visual deterrent to queer bashing. Decked out in black berets sporting queer liberation badges, and grey jackets with "Q Patrol" printed on the back, they walk in pairs about six feet apart. "Most people who come here [to attack or harass gays and lesbians] don't expect to see people prepared," Cleghorn said. The Q Patrol was originally trained by the Guardian Angels who taught them basic self-de- fense, how to perform shakedowns, how to work together as a f jroup and how to take verbal abuse. Yet, Cleghorn said, "We don't know how much of a difference we make." RISE OF ANTI-GAY VIOLENCE Reported incidents of queer bashing have increased by approximately 70 per cent in Seattle this year. Cleghorn saidthiscouldeither be an increase in the level of violence, or it may be a result of people being less afraid to report attacks. Seattle's increase of reported queer bashings are part of a larger trend. Incidents reported to lesbian and gay victim services increased by 11 per cent in Chicago, 29 per cent in San Francisco, 65 per cent in New York City and 133 per cent in Minneapolis-St.Paul last year. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force estimates 1,000 incidents of queer bashing or verbal assaults occur each day in the US and 70 per cent of these attacks are not reported. The reality of unreported attacks prompt patrollers like Pam Foss, who has been with Q Patrol for three months, to say, "Something has to be done." "We've only had one serious injury from something happening on patrol," said Cleghorn, omitting she was the one attacked. • Two gay men returning from a club were in a parking lot when people began leaving a dance at the Knights of Columbus Hall. "They were calling them Taggof in Spanish. We arrived and talked them down," explained Mark Scheiele, a computer science student. "Then this car pulled up. The driver and another man got out and went straight for [Cleghorn] and started kicking her," he said. Another time the patrol was jumped by two station wagon-loads of teenagers wielding guns. Kreft said the patrol spends most of their time following people. Foss said, "The other night there were these two guys carrying sticks on the corner. We just followed them and we followed them right out ofthe Capitol district." "They kept looking back. It was obvious something was up," Kreft said. "People in the community feel safer," Cleghorn said. SUPPORT OF THE QUEER COMMUNITY Indeed, it is the lesbian and gay community the Q Patrol relies upon for its existence. Cleghorn acknowledges volunteers and funding come from the community. Businesses also fund the group for uniforms and walkie talkies. Last weekend, a fund-raiser Thanksgiving dinner was held for them by the Wild Rose, a local tavern. RELATIONSHIP WITH THE POLICE The patrol also has a good working relationship with the Seattle Police Department, mostly interacting with the East Precinct. ... see PATROL next page November 29,1991 THE UBYSSEY/7 12TRAVELCUTS ~V^H Canadian Universities Travel Service Limited PRESENTS THE ULTIMATE DEAL $ VANCOUVEIVCAUiUIY/EOMrjinDII WHEN YOU BOOK THE ULTIMATE HOLIDAY + Plenty ol Ires time to explore, relax, meet Ihe locals! *>■ Come on your own or with a Mend! EUROPEAN 31 Days From l/X-ini inavq HOLIDAYS for 18-35s •*■ Everyone is 18-35! EUROPEAN Stay in unique accommodations, like our French Chateau! EUROPEAN 52 Days From 14 Countries $62 per day HUMAN RIGHTS ... from previous page an appeal. If neither happens, section 3 of the Canadian Human Rights Act will become invalid Other cases heard in Canadian courts have ruled in favour of lesbians and gays who have been discriminated against. Cases like the Gay Alliance Toward Equality vs. The Vancouver Sun, which challenged advertising censorship, and the fight for bereavement leave for a gay partner fought in Mossop vs. the Treasury Boardof Canada, have been won in Canadian courts. One of the most recent victories was Knodel vs. the Medical Services Act, where a BC man was granted provincial health care coverage for his spouse. There have also been losses, and even the victories have sometimes meant masquerading as heterosexual couples (See? We're just like you!) in order to get rights, but the fact that some courts are addressing the rights of lesbians and gays is a sign of hope. The injustices challenged in the courts, the legislatures and in the streets have radically changed the lives of lesbians and gays entering the 90s. It is even possible, although most would say unlikely, that all three levels of human rights legislation could be amended to include sexual orientation, perhaps even within the next year, and could mark the beginning of the end of discrimination for Canadian lesbians and gays. But attitudes still have to change. You've still got that small problem of what to do with your mother and lover on Chri stmas Eve. You've still got to find a way to keep jobs and housing and get medical care, because the discrimination you receive as an openly gay man will often be disguised as something else—if s hard to convince someone that the prof who consistently gives you lousy marks is doing it because he doesn't like queers. And you've still got to learn to survive in a society that forces heterosexuality on you every day, but expects you to keep your life with your partner in the bedroom. You know that you can't sue your parents for not allowing you to see your little sister any more, but changing the laws are part of changing attitudes—making it not okay to fire your lesbian secretary or refuse to give medical care to your gay patient. Because when our courts, our government and our institutions stop punishing us for being who we are, we can gain a little more freedom to be out and a part of this world. And those cheezy little walks at sunset won't be just for heterosexuals anymore. S from Montreal, TorontoASI departures before May 12,1992. Some restrictions may appr. 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We tell them what's happening and they sometimes tell us people to look out for," Cleghorn said. "They must like us—they give us things," joked Kreft, motioning to a badge on his beret. CRITICISM OF GUARDIAN ANGELS LINK Some community members have criticized the patrol for its connection to the Guardian Angels, who are seen by many as being homophobic. But Cleghorn said her experience with the Guardian Angels has been -positive. "They trained us in techniques but when I thanked them, they thanked us for teaching them things about our community," she said. The same sentiment has been echoed by Christopher Ford, a straight Guardian Angel who helped train San Francisco's street patrol. "Ifs been a learning experience for me," he said. "We were training them, but they were training us in terms of sensitivity." Cleghorn states the Q Patrol are not vigilantes and members do not see themselves as judge and jury. 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Help with The Ubyssey. Room 241K, SUB. 8/THE UBYSSEY November 29,1991 ^ PEACE ISSUES Classified violence Instead of reading the usual "for sale" and "help wanted" notices in a student paper classifieds section, a woman discovers a rape threat personally addressed to her. by Effie Pow It was like being raped again, says Kim Anda Jarzebiak, a first- year arts student at Langara, who has decided to leave school at the end of this year because of the harassment that she is receiving. "I'm tired of dealing with it. If other women want to organize that's fine," she says. "I need some rest. I want to disappear for a few months and get away from politics." The rape threat, published on October 3 in The Gleaner (Langara's student newspaper), was written by two male students who worked with Jarzebiak at the paper and knew she had been previously raped. The week before its publication, Jarzebiak had spoken against another ad that referred to Sheila Copps as a "slut". "If someone is sick enough to write about it, they're sick enough to do it," Jarzebiak says. "It's not a joke. People say •you don't think it'll happen, do you'—well, how do I know?" Since the ad incident gained widespread media attention, some of Langara's male students have harassed Jarzebiak in the hallways—they ask her if she wants to be raped, or call her "slut" and "bitch." She has also received threatening phone calls. Many received the ad as a joke, including a male television reporter who told her he thought the ad would just be a joke, except that the men on the collective knew she had been raped before. Some blame Jarzebiak for the hallway harassment because she chose to speak to the media. "I'm constantly having to defend myself. Defend why the ad was wrong, why I'm angry, why I want [the writers of the ad] ex- "Women are complaining because a lack of action sets a precedent which makes the campus unsafe for women." pelled," she says. So far, Langara principal David Cane has written to Jarzebiak to tell her the rape threat authors will attend a sexism seminar and a temporary record ofthe case will be added to school files. Cane is reportedly setting up a grievance committee to examine the case, even though in a letter dated November 18 to Jarzebiak, Cane wrote that the college considered the measures for the two male students appropriate and the matter resolved. Linda Holmes, dean of administration and student services, says the college sexual harassment policy was not in place when Jarzebiak filed her complaint. "What is being followed is a student grievance procedure," she said. Currently, an official Vancouver Community College committee is working on finalizing a policy to deal with sexual harassment andis hiring a sexual harassment advisor. A volunteer committee started working on the policy four years ago. Martin Gerson, one of the original committee members, says the policy is much needed and should be in place in the new year, after the sexual harassment advisor is hired. "It would be clear who to go to with the complaint, and there would be a clear set of guidelines. At the moment there is a definition of harassment and a statement that says it is not condoned," Gerson says. "The student grievance policy deals with administration. For example, students who don't like the content of a course have used it. It's more limited to instruction and services provided by the college." John Shapiro, the co-advisor of UBC's Sexual Harassment Of- Tm constantly having to defend myself. Defend why the ad was wrong, why I'm angry, why I want them expelled." fice, says if a similar situation occurred at UBC, it would be up to the woman to decide what action she wanted to take. "We would accept the complaint, but she has to be able to identify the persons involved. We could attempt some mediation, some form of education or rules [the offenders] would have to adhere by," he says. If a woman wanted to go the disciplinary route, there wouldbe an investigation and a hearing. Three people are appointed to hear the case—two UBC representatives and a lawyer—who would find facts and recommend discipline. "There is a whole range of discipline. There is usually a notice put on their transcript," Shapiro says. "This is fairly significant. It may seem like a slap on the wrist, but it could affect the person's application to graduate studies or other schools." Last fall, some male students living in UBC's Cariboo Residence sent sexually violent "invitations" to female residents. "In the case of the Cariboo incident, the Sexual Harassment Office was consulted but we did not handle it because groups of students were involved, but the president has the right to investigate and discipline," he says. Shapiro acknowledges the blame and emotional costs a woman faces because of sexual harassment. "Considering the effects on a woman, I'm not sure anything could be done that would be equitable," he says. "UBC has been involved for years now [with a policy] and [other schools] are at different stages. They need to take more progressive steps and make environments safe for women." Jessie Suth erland, a second-year Langara arts student, is one of the many women concerned about Jarzebiak's case and is lobbying for more action. "Seven women went to Eiavid Cane's office last week and complained," she says. "It was also a warning that women on campus are going to take action thai; will involve the city." "Women are complaining because alack of action sets a precedent which makes the campus unsafe for women." She contacted the provincial ombudsperson and says a ktter- writing campaign has been started across Canada. The men who wrote the threatening ad no longer work on The Gleaner and personal ads are not accepited. However, in the same office (after the ad appeared), Jarzebiak found a neatly hand-written note asking if she wanted to be raped. She says after talking more than an hour with the collective, most ofthe men were still defensive. "They thought they were trying to support me, but they clidn't ask me what I needed," she says. On top of school work and the consequences ofthe ad, Jarzebiak ran as a Green Party candidate. The first of seven all-candidates meetings took place at Langara soon after Jarzebiak found the ad. "Speaking in front of so many people knowing someone threat- enedyouis scary—knowing there are people who want to hurt you." The accumulation of events continues to be emotionally and physically draining. Jarzebiak has ulcers and is on medication. Even though other wome n are rallying to support her, Jarzebiak still expects personal harassment. 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Montin and Jon O'Brien "Can we possibly keep silent as a thousand Iraqi children die each day?" asked Gabrielle Gemma, who spent three weeks in Iraq in April. Gemma is a member of the Commission of Inquiry of the International War Crimes Tribunal, which met in Montreal last weekend. The tribunal is charging U.S. president George Bush with crimes against humanity. Bush, Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf and other U.S. officials are charged with 19 war "What I saw in Iraq was a massacre, carried out by a technical juggernaut. These people had no chance of protecting themselves or of defending themselves." crimes, including crimes against humanity, crimes against peace and violation ofthe Charter of the United Nations. In addition, tribunal members charge the war contravened the Geneva Protocol on Human Rights. Article 52 of Section I of the protocol guarantees general protection of civilian objects. The tribunal has heard evidence in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, Turkey and Belgium. By the end of next month it will have visited more than 50 cities on five continents. The findings of the hearings will be presented to the United Nations and the International Court of Justice in early spring. The U.S.-led war against Iraq started January 16 and lasted 42 days. U.S. forces flew over 110,000 air sorties during the war, indiscriminately bombarding homes, factories, food depots and hospitals—all structures that support day to day civilian existence. WAR ON CIVILIANS Ren6 Dumont spent a month in Iraq in September as part of a United Nations team of observers. "It was not a war, it was a massacre," said Dumont, an eyewitness to the war and the first to speak at the tribunal. "The war served two purposes," he testified. "To kill Iraqis and to destroy the infrastructure ofthe country." Among the many civilian structures reduced to rubble, Dumont visited the infamous baby milk plant in Baghdad. The U.S. claimed it manufactured chemi cals for weapons. Dumont was allowed to wander through the rubble without any restrictions, and saw no evidence that the plant was used for chemical weapons. He also visited a centre for the nation-wide distribution of agricultural goods 18 km northwest of Baghdad, which was completely destroyed. Iraq imports most of its food, producing only 30 per cent of its total requirements. Paul Roberts, an award-win- "The disorienting effect of the bombing is a form of psychological warfare. "When you've been kept up ten nights in a row, you begin to lose your sense of reality." ning BBC documentary maker and Oxford professor, was the only Western writer to travel in Iraq during the conflict. "The carpet bombing in Iraq was worse than in Cambodia," Roberts, who covered that U.S. war in the early 1970s, told the tribunal. Robert spent several weeks travelling with Bedouins and Kurds, assessing the on-going damage. He recently wrote a report about the damage in Iraq for Saturday Night magazine. "The bomb blasts hit me in the chest and knocked the wind out of me. The bombing of Cambo- the Perfect Gift ® SAFEWAY Canada Safeway Limited ♦ 0y/Xid,y< '/<■«/<■ r.ANAOA 5AKWA' ■ "Tell someone that you care" Safeway Gift Certificates, (in any denomination you desire), are the perfect gift for everyone - friends, relatives, employees, clients, the babysitter, the garbage collector, etc... Also a nice idea for sales incentives or promotions! There is not a nicer way to say "thanks" or tell someone you care. Safeway Certificates are also an excellent idea for those on your out-of-town Christmas list because they can be redeemed at any Safeway Store in Canada or the United States... and it's easy! Certificates available at all Safeway stores along with FREE decorative envelopes, or Call (604) 643-6969 or 687-4833. dia, by comparison, was a war on a human scale," he said. "What I saw in Iraq was a massacre, carried out by a technical juggernaut. These people had no chance of protecting themselves or of defending themselves." He said that he had witnessed widespread destruction of civilian facilities—warehouses, schools, and entire industrial suburbs flattened by B-52 carpet bombing. Non-military facilities were consistently destroyed, in- cludingpassenger and cargo lanes, aqueducts, markets and telephone exchanges. During his stay in Iraq, Roberts survived three waves of night bombing in the area of Baghdad. "The disorienting effect of the bombing is a form of psychological warfare," he said. "When you've been kept up ten nights in a row, you begin to lose your sense of reality." The bombings nearly always started in the early evening and continued until morning. The schedule was so regular that infants began wailing every evening at that time, anticipating the air raids. Every morning the wounded were carried outside where they awaited ambulances, Roberts said. But the ambulances never came. "There were no doctors," said Roberts. "Saddam had sent them to the front." Roberts emphasized the targeting of civilians and infrastructure as a fundamental goal ofthe war. As almost all facilities in Iraq were constructed by foreign companies that were part of the U.S.-led coalition, the Pentagon had access to information about the exact locations of various buildings. There was no excuse for hitting so many buildings that were not used for military purposes, he said. Roberts described a child he had seen "with his stomach ripped open," and another who had lost a leg from the bombing. A week before the bombing ended, the Red Crescent Society of Jordan estimated 113,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed. Sixty per cent were children. Roberts came forward because he is upset with the contradiction between the official myth of "bloodless surgical strikes" and what he saw on the ground. "When I reached Istanbul and watched CNN, I saw that what was being presented was not what was going on at all," he said. SUBSERVIENCE TO THE U.S. Another tribunal witness, Charlotte Paquet, accompanied Dumont on the UN trip to Iraq to study post-war conditions. Paquet said the far-reaching effects ofthe bombing had "destroyed a nation and ensured its subservience to the U.S." Local Iraqis told her conditions on the front were better than those in Baghdad. "War is not supposed to be an attack on the population of a country," she said. Paquet condemned the ongoing embargo of Iraq. The coalition of countries arrayed against Iraq cannot support the 18 million war victims in Iraq with foreign aid, nor is the coalition likely to do so in the future, she said. Today, 90 per cent ofthe Iraqi population is unemployed and food and resources of all kinds are scarce, Paquet said. Turkey has refused to deliver 32,000 tons of milk that had been purchased prior to the war, or to pay for 100 million barrels of oil. "The country needs to rebuild itself, to stop the dying, and we won't allow them to stop their own suffering with the current embargo," Paquet said. CANADA'S COMPLICITY Canada is not guiltless, either. Illegal weapons were usedin the conflict, including napalm and fuel air explosives (FAEs), which engineering professors at McGill University conducted research on in the mid-1980s. U.S. and Canadian bombers attacked Iraqi military personnel and civilians fleeing Kuwait on Feb. 25 using napalm and FAEs. Roberts said one flatbed truck was found containing nine bodies. The occupants' hair and clothes were burned off, and their skin was incinerated by heat so intense it melted the windshield onto the dashboard. Zuhair Kashmeri, senior editor at Toronto's Now weekly, also criticized Canada at the tribunal for its comportment during the war. He recently wrote The Gulf Within, a book on how Canadian "The Arab population of Canada was pinpointed as being terroristic and evil, creating a wave of resentment against them.This kind of government-sponsored racism mobilized popular support of the war." police services targeted Arabs during the war for security investigations. "The Arab population of Canada was pinpointed as being terroristic and evil, creating a wave of resentment against them," he said. "This kind of government- sponsored racism mobilized popular support ofthe war." Kashmeri also said the government and media collaborated on a propaganda campaign to convince the Canadian public that the war was a good thing. Voices of dissent and the Arab community were marginalized, he said. Prior to the propaganda campaign, 57 per cent of Canadians opposed the war. But soon after it started, he said, polls found that a majority of Canadians supported it. Correction November 26 Ubyssey: Stuart Parker was incorrectly named the leader ofthe Green Party. 10/THE UBYSSEY November 29,1991 Given a chance, they'll dance by Helen Willoughby-Price If they couldn't dance, would they still want to be part of the revolution? Mayor Gordon Campbell made an official proclamation regarding November 10, 1991—in the city of Vancouver, this day is now "Give Peace A Dance Day." Give Peace a Dance Commodore Ballroom November 10 The fourth Give Peace a Dance event took place at the Commodore Ballroom. With its bouncy dance floor, the Commodore was an ideal place to hold the dance, which had previously been held outdoors at the Plaza of Nations. As soon as the first band started, the dance floor filled. Energetic youngsters in tie-dyed shirts contorted their bodies in all sorts of marvelous ways. Only at an event such as this could you see six and seven-year-olds running around and playing games with each other at the Commodore. The line-up of bands included Chris Houston and Evil Twang, Oliver and the Elements, Roots Round-up, Ngoma, and Spirit of the West. Each group gave a terrific performance. The amount of energy cre- *.* ated by the audience was amazing—especially for an all ages event with only nicotine and adrenaline to serve as stimulants. It isn't surprising the bands performed so well. I've never seen a more appreciative group of dancers. Towards the end of the evening, Svend Robinson gave a speech, but only a short one as the crowd was anxious to see Spirit of the West. The End The Arms Race Coalition and the Pacific Peace Umbrella Society presented the event. The ETARC represents a wide spectrum of local and political organizations concerned with peace issues, and for the past ten years has successfully organized Vancouver's Annual Walk for Peace and Planetary Survival. The goal of Give Peace a Dance is to bring together people of all ages and all types to support and celebrate peace and environmental aware ness. The funds raised will support a peace and environmental educational programme for schools throughout the region, as well as the peace projects of the End the Arms Race Coalition. Give Peace a Dance is only one part of the Coalition's Student Outreach Program, which informs students about militaiism and the environment through classroom presentations, videos, and discussions. Overall, the event (though long) was heartwarming and enjoyable. I'm sure most ofthe people there would support peace even if they couldn't dance. a o u O JC s Author speaks of Soviet identity crisis I Chris Houston and The Evil Twang Roots Round-up A cynic bets on rosy future by Andrew Csinger Gwynne Dyer has always been a busy man. He's been a lecturer in military history, an officer in three navies, he has authored several books and produced documentaries with the National Film Board. He keeps busy these days with a syndicated column on international affairs and with documentary contributions to CBC's The Journal. Gwynne Dyer Richmond Gateway Theatre November 21 Dyer entered stage left ofthe Richmond Gateway Theatre wearing his trademark leather jacket, and began his talk with a cryptic, playful: "Something funny is going on." He said he was struck by the realization that history is not conforming to its traditional rules, on a bridge in Prague two years ago. Human history often "lurches," he said, but the recent global transformations are unprecedented for two central reasons: rapid change usually goes with massive violence and change is not usually for the better, but it is, in the current global developments. Setting aside his customary journalistic cynicism, Gwynne said he is "delighted" Russia is becoming a democratic country. Today two-thirds live under conditions that more or less deserve the title, he said. Anticipating attacks from the audience, he tackles the apparent anomaly of the Tiananmen massacre head on. The People's Republic of China continues to lag behind the rest ofthe world in its path to democracy because ofthe first-generation old men who run that country and their belief in their right to rule and to kill. Dyer predicts peaceful democratic change will arrive soon in China, to make 90 per cent ofthe world's population democratic. Assuming democratic countries don't go to war with each other, Gwynne concluded "the United Nations is back." Due to recent changes in its constituents, the UN will no longer be paralyzed by veto and will be able to do the job for which it was conceived. He explained the role of UN with two rules: no one can change borders any more by force and "thou shalt not have any intervention in domestic affairs without invitation." Happily, he added, the latter is "getting bent." Leftover proxy wars of the Cold War are being shut down by UN initiatives. UN intervention may take place in Yugoslavia soon, he predicts. He said we can forget about nuclear war for now, the real threat is the challenge to the environment, "damn-the-conse- quences industrialization is happening now in the Third World even faster thanit didin the Went," with disaster imminent. He speculates we are in the midst of "the final collapse ofthe patriarchal system." "This is the end of the god- king, rule-by-decree, mass:ve militarization, oppression of women package." The world is ready once agirin for its "natural" political style— rule by consensus. The operative rule he proposes is that mass scci- ety without mass communication cannot be democratic. The breakdown of the patriarchal rule began, Dyer said, not with CNN, but with the printing press. Concluding that our dilemmas and our solutions are technology-driven, he warned it is going to be a race down to the wi re. His language colourful and his sharp acid wit intact right to the end of the question period, when he complained he needed a drink more than he needed to answer another question, Gwynne Dyer's opinions are always entertaining. by Szilard Fricaka For Polish author Ryszard Kapuscinski, advertising merely by word of mouth will fill a lecture theatre. By age 23 he received the Golden Cross of Merit for his critical examination ofthe appalling working conditions in the Nowa Huta steel factory, then considered a showpiece of communist industrial achievement. Shortly thereafter, he began his career as a foreign correspondent for the Polish wire service, PAP. While covering an improbable 27 revolutions, Kapuscinski often found himself at the mercy of a jungle environment scarcely friendlier than the firing squads he faced. The stories are endless, like the time he contracted tuberculosis and cerebral malaria in Uganda, or at a Nigerian roadblock, where he was doused in benzene because it guarantees complete incineration. Kapuscinski is, however, dedicated to literature and influential in the development of creative non-fiction. A genre that incorporates immediate experience with poetic artistry to create a final product that speaks to the soul of humanism. Therefore, while works such as The Emperor or Shah of Shahs describe life under two of the world's longest reigning dictators, they also explore a more universal theme: the nature of totalitarian leadership. Something with which many Poles and eastern Europeans were intimately acquainted. On Wednesday, Kapuscinski spoke at UBC about the revolution ofthe Soviet Union, the 28th one he has witnessed. Between 1989 and 1991 he travelled the sprawling nation and visited even the remotest corners in order to understand what was happening at the grass-roots level. His "bottom-up" approach was based on a belief that the West created its impression ofthe Soviet Union from the reports of journalists who have contacts among Russian intellectuals, dissidents and writers. This was not, however, an accurate description. "This is a very limited group of people and very cut off from the rest of society," he said. "Unless you get to those people, the common people ofthe street, your vision of the country is formed by those intellectuals which have very little knowledge of what is going on in the country." Kapuscinski devoted most of his lecture to this subject. He did not address specific topics like the August coup, but laid the groundwork for a full understanding of communism's impact on the people of the Soviet Union—a situation in which "it was better not to know and if you know, it was better to keep silent." Russians, however, were permitted, even encouraged, to exercise a perverse kind of curiosity. A female journalist, he knew, who was sent to Italy for the first time, bought two pairs of shoes in the same colour to pretend she bought only one pair of shoes. "This was very important because otherwise she would be questioned, *how did you get this money, how were you able to buy two pairs of shoes'." Thus a society based on mutual mistrust rather than mutual trust was created. Kapuscinski also described the extent of the identity crisis presently faced by the Soviet Union. He said three forces of disintergration are taking place: on the level ofthe empire, inside of Russia itself and within individual republics. "Yeltsin is not the president of Russia because there is no Russia. Yeltsin is the President of Federal Russian Socialist Republic Federation, in which there are 34 autonomous republics and re- gions,"he said."Andmany of those republics want to secede from Russia. So Yeltsin will face, very soon probably, the same trouble that Gorbachev faced, the forces of independence will destroy his state." This identity crisis, Kapuscinski said, extends to the individual level. While many Georgians, Latvians and Uzbekistanis may have written "Soviet" in the citizenship section of their identity cards, many did to avoid the repression exercised on ethnic nationals. Today these people are stepping forward to renounce their Soviet identity and to declare their nationalism. Yet Kapuscinski expressed his misgivings regarding some of the purported secessionists in Soviet Asia. The neo-Stalinist cliques that feared developing democratic forces declared independence in the republics, according to Kapuscinski. "They seek to hold on to power by declaring independence, by declaring secession. So not all declarations of independence are not necessarily positive developments, because there are forces of who are using the nationalistic feelings just to maintain themselves in power," he said. Self-preservation pervades the entire revolution and because the communist legacy removedall voices of opposition, the only people equipped to create a new state are the same ones responsible for the old system, he said. "The whole revolution is being led by the very people who are the defenders of the system. We now say nice things about Gorbachev and Yeltsin, but they are very party apparatus people. There is no other people to replace them." Another irony of the Russian revolution is that while Gorbachev spoke of his desire to integrate the Soviet Union into Europe, through his notion of the Common European Home, the splintering ofthe Soviet Union has resulted in what Kapuscinski calls, the "Asiatization ofthe former Soviet Union," and a geographic redistribution of communism that leaves China as the last massive concentration of totalitarian communism. During the 1960s Ryszard Kapuscinski came to be regarded as the standard-bearer of revolution, wherever he went, revolution seemed sure to follow. Based on his two years in the former Soviet Union, he seems to be continuing this tradition. As he was leaving the building after the lecture, I thought I saw someone slip a plane ticket into his pocket—destination, China. November 29,1991 THE UBYSSEY/11 Kv^iywWT'M£F'v'W'v'*v"T<"y'?w'' '■gjAryj 'j »ff**" yvw ij»iii**,vv"»w*ww»^*v'»''wiijMv.Wi "MiViW yinvmingy ......V.. IfAOl • 5 « f v The war against by Paula Wellings Canada is a nation at war. This war is not acknowledged by the media, the government or the common person. Occasionally an incident will spring forth, but it is only fringe organizations that speak of the war's implications or its pervasiveness. Generally the war is denied, negated and rendered irrelevant. In the face of this denial, millions of Canadians suffer from the war's brutality, torture, exploitation and death. Justified by the ideology of love, it is children of every class, race, and sex that are the casualties of the war called child abuse. Child abuse is the fulfillment of the needs of of a person in a position of trust or authority over a child at the expense of the dependent child's needs and development. The needs expressed by the abuser are based on the desire for power over a child. From this base, children are used to provide sexual gratification, emotional fulfillment, social approval, a sense of absolute control, revenge or justification for abuse experienced as a child. The fulfillment of these needs results in neglect, abuse, betrayal, exploitation, incest, rape, assault, torture, and homicide. Children born to grow, to develop, to live, to love and to articulate their needs and their feel ings for their self-protection are silenced and betrayed. Their most beloved protectors have chosennot to respect or protect them, to love them or lead them towards a healthy existence. The trusted care-taker ofthe child has chosen instead to steal the child's boundaries of physical and sexual well- being. Suddenly love and encouragement become forced sexuality and violence, leaving the child feeling a Child sexual abuse involves the violation of a trust relationship between an adult and a child. helpless outrage that cannot be vented for fear of abandonment. Instead the outrage turns inward, beginning a process of destruction of the self and others which will continue for many years to come. Those of us who were abused may now recognize how the line and boundaries between boy and offender have been moved, stretched or erased. We were children whose rights and needs were denied. We were required to meet someone else's definition of us and of him. We were unable to escape the dream that was not our making or our &___£____ healing re-natcee* Books Victims No Longer: Men recovering from incest and other child sexual abuse by Mike Lew The Silent Children by Linda Tschirhard Sanford No More Secrets by Caren Adams and Jennifer Fay The Courage To Heal: A Guide For Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis The Courage To Heal Workbook: For Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Laura Davis Broken Boys/Mending Men: Recovery Form Childhood Sexual Abuse by Stephen D. Grubman-Black choice. Whatever we sought,, for whatever we needed, we were met with one fixated response. I needed to be held and hugged, not fondled or aroused. We needed companionship and guidance, not sexual initiation. For many of us, there was emptiness in our lives. Thr. offender chose to fill his own emptiness, his own needs, leaving lis to feel even more barren. -Stephen D. Grubman-Black, Broken Boyafflending Men; Recovery form Childhood Sexual Abuse Child sexual abuse involves the violation of a trust relationship between an adult and a child. The adult or teenager uses his or her authority over a child to involve the child in sexual activity. Tricks, bribes, or physical force are used to persuade the child to participate in sexual acta. Child sexual abuse can take many forms, from exhibitionism and fondling to rape and incest. The sexual abuse Emotional violence, like physical violence, is a powerful force in destroying a child's self-esteem and truist. of children, with the exception of juvenile prostitution, is generally cloaked in secrecy. NonetheIe£S,it is believed that one in three {-iris and one in six boys will be sexually abused before the age of 20. Of these children, 90 per cent will know their offenders; the majority of offenders being famflymemiers. Whatthismeansin practical terms is that there are parents, stepparents, siblings, step-siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents, teachers, campcounselors.pritists, neighbours, and babysitters who sexually abuse children. While about 90 per cent of offenders are male and about 10 per cent of offenders are female, 100 per cent of offenders will betray and harm at least one innocent child. Child sexual abuse involves activities that the offender knows are not acceptable. Therefore a/he must ensure that the child does not tell anyone. The offender may phrase this request in many ways, such as: "Our little secret is so special that we must not let any one know," "Mommy wouldbe very mad at you if she found out," "No one will believe you anyway," or "I will kill you if you tell anyone." It doesn't matter what is said, the meaning is the same: "Do not tell anyone that I am abusing you if you want to survive." The child generally complies out of love, fear of abandonment, fear of death, and fear that s/he will not be believed if a/he did tell. In compliance with the abuser, the child must constantly exist in two worlds: the world of cliildhood innocence and the world of adult sexuality. The pain of being sexually violated by a loved one in private and then being expected tofunctionasanormal child in public is overwhelming. Toad- vert this pain children adopt different coping mechanisms to distance themselves from the abuse and the betra val of trust. Coping mechanisms are developed in response to child sexual abuse.but continue to function and develop even when the abuse has ended. This occurs because the pain from the secret ofthe abuse, the loss of personal boundaries, the loss of innocence, and the betrayal of trust remains. Children who experience physical and emotional abuse share many losses and coping mechanisms with sexually abused children. Avery wide range of coping mechanisms The pain of being* sexually violated by a loved one in private and then being expected to function as a n ormal child in public is overwhelming. exist, but there are two mechanisms in particular which help to perpetuate the abuse of children. The first mechanism is the denial or forgetting of child abuse. ;When-pec^e.;arevn«rt^a*^^:&Mt» Miller, fo-ft*-* Vfg TViwn the Walla of Silence While sexual, emotional, and physical violence towardschfldren are in no way mutually exclusive, emotional and physical violence are not taboo when labeled as "discipline." Emotional violence, like physical violence, is a powerful force in destroying a child's self-esteem and trust, butit is much more difficulttoprevent. The same Cramming for exams. sm&tm Ca i-i iii s # 1 Candy Bar. 12/THE UBYSSEY November 29,1991 piAmmvm childhood "caregiv<=r-need" gratification occurs at vhe expense of the child, quit^ often the adult or teenager exercising forms of degrading mental cruelty towards the dependent and confused child. Emotional violence can destroy a child's sense of self-worth, self- confidence, and self-esteem. Emotional violence while not physical in itself can have very physical implications such as suicide, self- mutilation, ulcers, and addictions. Children who are the victims of physical abuse—whether one beat.ng or repeated beatings, one violent push or several—whose wounds are inflicted by a loved one, experience an extreme sense of dislocation. The world one has most intimately known, in which one felt relatively safe and secure has "ollapsed. Another world has come into being, one filled with terrors, where it is difficult to distinguish between a safe situation and a dangerous one, a gesture of love and a violent, uncaring gesture., There is a feeling of vulner ability, exposure, that never goes away, that lurks beneath the surface. I know. I was one of those children. -bell hooks, Talking back: "thinking feminist »thinking black Historically, it was believed that corporal punishment of children was necessary. "Spare the rod and spoil the child" has been a common enough phrase that even in our "enlightened" society the ideology is still recognized and practiced. A common theme to the practice of child beating is that it is for the child's own well-being. In reality physical violence shares many of the same power dynamics expressed in child sexual abuse. Adults or older children will use younger children as outlets for their feelings of powerless- ness and anger. The child's need for a secure and stable environment is denied. / heard him walk down the hall towards my room. My body tightened. In the few seconds it took for him to reach my door my mind raced quickly over the day. I tried to remember if there was any thing I had done to make him mad. Had I forgotten anything? Were there any toys left in the living room? Was my scooter put away in the garage? I couldn't think of anything, but that didn't mean I was safe. I never seemed to know everything that could make Daddy mad. -Barbara Oliver recalling age 4, . _ . . ^ An rftHEnwhwfigBJa ~"" T healus* resources Organizations Vancouver Incest and Sexual Abuse Centre (VISAC) 874-2938 Counselling and group work, information and resources. WAWAW/Rape Crisis Centre 875-6011 Vancouver Rape Relief 872-8212 Both can give referrals to individual therapists Helpline For Children dial 0 and ask for zenith 1234 24 hour phone line for children and people who want to report child abuse Canadian Children's Foundation Helpline 1-40O-668-6868 Counselling, information and referrals for children and teens. »*»*-*-*...».i^«-M^M.-.«......J..» »."■ i ■rfn j*r.ri^-fr.riiiyyiimBThmii*»...y. T MA be fc a^k) We A©es^ Say wea^ ke £orit eMer Hit m < Graphic adapted from Scream Louden Through Hell and Healing With An Incest Survivor and Her Theranirt by Martha Utain and Barbara Oliver Coping mechanisms which allow children and adult survivors to survive child sexual abuse 'Minimizing, rationalizing, and denying the abuse. The survivor decides that the abuse that is being experienced is not that bad, that it is somehow deserved, or that it is all in his/ her mind. •Forgetting The survivor is able to forget about the abuse, even as it is happening to him/her. •Splitting The survivor creates two perso- nae or more for the two worlds in which s/he is expected to exist. •Spacing out The survivor is able to mentally leave his/her physical body in times of distress. •Control The survivor strictly organizes areas of his/her life in order to gain a sense of power over his/her environment. •Addiction—(Drugs, alcohol, food, sex, work) The survivor uses addiction to avoid the pain involved in the betrayal that has occurred. • Compulsively seeking or avoiding sex The survivor has had his/her sexual barriers stolen by the offender. The abuser has redefined love and caring as sexual assault so often survivors will seek other sexually abusive situations. The survivor may also feel a lack of trust in any sexual situation and therefore avoid sex altogether. •Eating disorders Survivor may be anorexic, bulemic, or a compulsive overeater in an effort to deal with the abuse that has occurred. All three conditions express a desire by the survivor to have control over his or her body. Anorexia may also be an expression of the fear: "If this abuse occurred when I was in a child's body, what dangers are promised in the body of a woman?" Bulemia may also be the desire to have a secret of which one is in control, in that both sexual abuse and binging and purging occur in the private sphere while being denied in the public sphere. Many child and adult survivors also have the desire to vomit as an expression of anger from having had fingers, penises, and objects shoved into their body openings. Compulsive overeating may also be an expression ofthe belief that being large will keep a survivor from having to deal with sexual advances. • Self mutilation The survivor hurts him/herself physically in an effort to feel pain and thus release some ofthe pain s/he has experienced from the sexual abuse. •Prostitution The child chooses to leave the abusive situation in which s/he lives. Often children who run away from abusive homes end up on the street. In order to support themselves, the children will start to turn tricks, selling their sexuality instead of having it stolen. Over 90 per cent of prostitutes have been sexually abused as children and 80 per cent of adult prostitutes started prostitution as children. • Suicide attempts The survivor is overwhelmed by the abusive situation and feels suicide is the only option left in a life that feels out of control. • Sexual abuse The survivor identifies the power that the abuser has had over him or her. In order to regain this power the survivor believes that s/he must become stronger and over-power others. This dynamic is exemplified in the fact that 30 per cent of sexual offenders are under the age of 20. Scream Louder: Through Hell and Healing With An Incest Survivor and Her Therapist As Barbara Oliver's story continues, her father does become enraged and beat her. Her father would have found any excuse to beat her. Under the social construction of "child rearing," Barbara's father had access to absolute domination and usage of another human being. Barbara's father was not alone in his violence. Most likely he learned that children are bad and need to be abused by his family. He may be presently teaching Barbara that she can use those weaker than her within her family to vent her outrage at being beaten. Violence within the home may be introduced by one family member, but rarely does it stay isolated to that one abuser. Under the social construction of "child rearing," Barbara's father had access to absolute domination and usage of another human being. More commonly, abuse follows the hierarchical power structure within the family: husbands abusing their wives and children, mothers abusing their children, children abusing their mothers, and ol der chil dren abusingyounger children. This violence will continue both within the family and within the lives of the children as longasitgoesunchallenged. Words such as "spanked," "paddled," and "disciplined" are used to hide the torture and torment which children experience. These words hide the anguish children feel, both from their abuser and from themselves. Chil dren would gladly believe that they have done something wrong before they wouldbelieve that their "caregiver" is wrong. When violence is accepted within the home, this acceptance flourishes, and will spring forth into the public sphere. The monster Adolf Hitler, murderer of millions, master of destruction and organized insanity, was not in fact born a monster. Neither was he sent by the devil, as most people think. He did not fall from the sky to bring "order" to Germany, build its autobahns, and lead it out of economic depression, as some people still believe today. He was not born with "destructive drives", because there is no such things;our biological purpose is to maintain life, no destroy it. Aperson is never born destructive and we are by nature neither good nor bad. How we deploy our abilities depends on our character. This is formed in the course of our lives and determined by our individual experiences, above all those in childhood and youth, and by the decisions we make as adults. Hitler, like every other child, wasborninnocent Like many other children at that time, he was destructively raised by his parents. Later, he would become a monster. He was a survivor of that engine of destruction known in turn-of-the- century Germany as childrearing. It was what I call the hidden concentration camp of childhood, the one that may never be brought to light -Alice Miller. Breaking Down Denial is the ability to avoid reality and one's role in reality. When we deny that child abuse happens, that we may have been abused, that we may have abused, we also deny thatour children could be abused. Jewish people throughout the world work for continued awareness and documentation of the Holocaust. Japanese people work for a maintained awareness ofthe nuclear devastation caused in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On November 11, people across Canada remember the deaths caused by war. People remember in the hope that a knowledge of the past will prevent pain in the future. People must begin to remember their childhoods if peace is to come to the Canadian family. We must be willing to once again become the abused child, but this time feel and express the anger, the anguish, the hurt. We need to know these feelings and empathize with our children, instead of denying our feelings and thus denying the feelings of our children. Lest we forget? Yes, we have forgotten. Let us remember and a truce be called. November 29,1991 THE UBYSSEY/13 (f ^ Feeling alone in this universe? Trade your solipsism for hyper-realism at SUB 24IK, where a night with The Ubyssey will make you feel like a brain in a vat. V ^ A TIME TO REMEMBER The Women Students' Office and The Engineering Undergraduate Society invite the U.B.C. community to attend a Memorial for the fourteen women killed at Ecole Polytechnique A gathering will be held Friday, Dec 6th at 12:30 pm in the SUB Auditorium Please wear a white armband or ribbon in loving memory of these women Ribbons will be available in the WSO RHODES JEWELLERS LTD. 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"We wanted to stay out of it and let the university speak for itself." The ten minute video, filmed in October, the brainchild of UBC's School and College Liaison Office, will be shown to students picking a college or university. It may be sent to high schools. The video, which is set to finish production in late December, will show 'a day in the life' of six 'average' UBC students. The producers, The Eyes Multimedia Productions of Vancouver, submitted their scripts throughout production for the approval of UBC faculties and the Liaison office. Thirty students were selected for the video by various administrative offices and faculties, then auditioned by the video producers. "We basically used the auditions to pick those bright and articulate and doing interesting things," Feingold said. "The school office wanted us to show both the academic and non-academic side of university life." Geoff Curzant of the liaison office, who has been involved with the project, said faculties like Arts, Sciences and Engineering helped shape the film. "We didn't want anybody to be unpleasantly surprised by what appeared in the video," Curzant said. "We wanted people to be happy with the video, seeing as though it represents UBC. Thaf s why it hasn't been a truly independent project and why we wanted control over it." "Our intent is to show all of the diversity that UBC offers to a prospective student," he said. "I don't think that the process of script approval was necessarily a bad thing," he said. "We aren't trying to say anything that is necessarily wrong." AMS president Jason Brett applied to be in the video but didn't make the auditions. "They didn't come to the AMS for help in finding students or to ask us what we felt was important to say in the video," Brett said. "I can tell you that there are a lot of things that probably will not make it into the video that perhaps someone asking about UBC would want to know," he said. "Ifs going to be propaganda." Toronto writer Linda Frum said videos like UBCs are one reason why she helped with a recently released video guide to ten Canadian universities, including ours. "Most Canadian universities and private schools have been doing this for years. Any video commissioned and censored by a university is going to be a puff piece," Frum said. "In our video, we had no axes to grind and no agreements with universities. We talked to everyone who wanted to talk to us and spoke to faculty and administrative leaders as well." "When considering a school, students should try to talk to as many people as possible and read and see all they can, especially material not coming from the administration." MA CHIA-NIEN PHOTO A bureaucratic error forced 91-year-old Joseph Kanla to watt 65 years before receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree. He, along with 865 others, were given their degrees at yesterday's graduation ceremonies. Kanla already holds a PhD In economic geology. UBC Entrepreneurial Association PRESENTS MICHAEL GERBER Tuesday December 3 4:00 PM SUB Theatre So. You think that you won't have to know how to run a business when you graduate. If you want to be an engineer, a doctor, dentist, musician, geographer, oceanographer, lawyer, accountant, actor, artist, consultant, a farmer, or anything think again ! Michael Gerber will tell you why 80% of small businesses fail, and what you can do about it. You will learn about the "Entrepreneurial Myth", and how it will affect you when you pursue your career. If you don't go then we wish you the best of luck. For those of you who go, it will be the cheapest consulting advice you will ever receive. Funny thing is, it will also be the best. Bring a friend and come early. We've got free coffee, tea, and cookies for you. Tickets: AVAILAI5LL N'OVLMULK 18 - 29 S5.00 AT SUB HOX OITICU Hours: MONDAY TO FRIDAY 9:30 AM TO 4:30 I'M UBC SKI CLUB FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Last Day of Classes UBC SKI CLUB PRESENTS JUAN TRAK SUB BALLR $7:00 / Ticket • t Tickets available at the door November 29,1991 THE UBYSSEY/15 Jtfr- CAPfe* - ~$.vp+**Grt** ^ ■v » im™ AMS will fight Aquatic Centre takeover by Sharon Lindores The university has proposed a takeover of the Aquatic Centre, starting April 1,1992. They want to integrate it into the overall management of all athletic facilities on campus. Presently, the Aquatic Centre is under a joint AMS-UBC management committee, as outlined in the Aquatic Agreement. Martin Ertl, director of administration, and AMS president Jason Brett approached the Board of Governors last week with the AMS's concerns regarding the issue. They sought legal advice and are prepared to follow up a breach of trust if the university does not respect the agreement. "The Aquatic Centre has operated well for 13 years. The university has not shown to our satisfaction that the changes proposed are necessary. However, we are willing to consider changes with the understanding that the uni versity intends to honour the Aquatic Agreement," Ertl said. The AMS and UBC entered into the agreement in September of 1975. The university administration and students each paid $925,000 (passed by a referendum) and the Fund Raising Committee, which was equally represented by AMS and the university, raised the difference to pay the actual cost, which was around five million dollars. The agreement protects the joint management (AMS and UBC) and reserves time for free recreational use by students, among other things. The university has been proposing a change in management since 1987. Derek Miller, student senator, said, "Essentially it has come down to the crunch now, action is being taken now, rather than simply talking. If at any time on this issue students should be concerned, this is it." Ertl said, "The fact that we have such a strong legal opinion gives us confidence that we can resolve the situation in the best interest ofthe students. "What [the university] is trying to do with the Aquatic Centre is the same thing they are doing with the AMS pizza place, and likely when the Pit expands and SUB expands, instead of co-operating with the AMS, they are bullying us." Vice president K.D. Srivastava was not available for comment. He sent Brett and Ertl a memo that said he had appointed two people (Michael Kelly and James Forbes) "to discuss ways of integrating and incorporating the Aquatic Centre management into the overall coordination/manage- ♦ ment of all athletic facilities on campus." Srivastava wrote he would like to see changes before December 31. "Before we talk of changes we ^ need something from the university saying it intends to honour the * agreement," Ertl said. NDP backtracks on election promise of tuition freeze BURNABY(CUP>-The NDP government is reviewing its finances before deciding whether to keep its election promise to freeze tuition fees. "Because it was such a late election call, we don't even have a budget set for this year, and if there is a freeze it will have to be incorporated into next year's budget," said advanced education minister Tom Perry. Brad Lavigne, chair ofthe B.C. wing of the Canadian Federation of Students, said he is still confident the NDP will keep its promise. "The caution is nothing we WALL TO WALL PRE-CHRISTMAS SALE! 93hq ROI1AOUR I8T3UOOAFI I I REG Price RUCANOR RACQUETSI rdwm DUTCH AUCTION Sat. 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Perry said that if fees are frozen, the government will be forced to increase funding to post-secondary institutions to make up for the lost * revenue. NDP finance minister Glen Clark estimated during the " election that the cost of a freeze would be $8 to $10 million. During the October provincial election campaign, the CFS-BC called for a 15 per cent increase in , order to bring funding levels back to the levels of 1982-83, while * several NDP candidates, including Barry Jones, former spokesperson on advanced education, vowed that an NDP government would freeze fees immediately. "(The tuition freeze decision) will Lave to be made by cabinet 4 after reviewing the government's fiscal capacity," Perry said. Fall term start considered for August 92 by Sharon Lindores The university is considering starting the 1992 fall session a week earlier, in order to avoid a 13 * day exam period schedule (which includes Saturdays). The proposal will be on the Senate agenda for the December 11 meeting. Orvin Lau, student senator, has already sent a memo to Richard Spencer, the registrar stating ,4 his concerns. "It became obvious talking to afe w students that moving the start date would cause a lot of problems." Lau said, "Starting classes before Labour Day could put UBC students at a disadvantage, in the t summer job market." Lau is concerned that four problems could arise for students: housing, babysitting arrangements, job contracts and the possibility ofloan remission. Jason Brett, AMS president, said, "The current exam period is "" too short otherwise. I want anyone with concerns or comments about this to bring them to my attention prior to December 9." Brett would like all responses in writing, so that copies can be sent to the registrar's office. ■* According to student senator Carole Forsythe, the issue could be brought up in student council on December 11 before Senate meets. 16/THE UBYSSEY November 29,1991 [X- ■ ^x~ 1 **&*** "•"' !-'= -' •" .1 Liars and the two-faced ^~"Ifa witness is lying, it is to their benefit to keep the number of ^details manageable. — John Yuille, UBC forensic psychologist by Jonathan Wong W HEN a sinister spinner weaves a web of lies, the indicators are usually more subtle than a growing nose. But in the end, a large web will likely double-cross, says a UBC forensic psychologist. "The bigger the lie is...the bigger the conspiracy and the ^weaker the links will be," says John Yuille, an expert on suspect, "witness and victim interviews. After examining several interviews, Yuille assiduously threads consistencies and weeds out inconsistencies when crapshooting for the truth. "If there's something that ...doesn't hang together, you have to be able to pick that out," he says. Sometimes how people dress and look can be deceptive. Clothing and appearance will often buttress a coded veneer of inno- ■" tence, but it should be completely ignored, he says, though inevitably it will sway perception. "Appearance has a big effect on people, but you have to learn that these things are irrelevant. What they wear is innocence, but what - jthey are may not be." The most widely-practised (though flawed) methods of lie detection include: polygraph tests for physiological reactions, facial and vocal lie detection, and content analysis, the method most - «ommonly used by judges, lawyers, journalists and investigators. "A real smile will involve the whole ofthe face, a fake smile just involves the mouth," says Yuille to illustrate the second. "When people are being deceptive, they may reveal that in micro-expressions. If you're trying £o hide a particular feeling, that feeling will leak and flash across the face but for only about a third of a second." "Someone may pretend to be attracted to something but really is disgusted—that micro-expres- _ sion of disgust will flash." Yuille says specialists are ■* trained at tracking down micro- expressions by repeatedly watching a video. more on content analysis. Physical lie detection methods will only determine if an individual is hiding an emotion, he says. In his work, Yuille often deals with denials, one ofthe most common forms of lying. A lie detection can occur only after cross-examining several witness statements, he says. Large quantities of details add credibility while vague statements veil the truth. Yuille's most difficult case dealt with an American Green Beret physician suspected of the 1972 murder of his wife and two children in North Carolina—he was later convicted. Dr. Jeffery McDonald had claimed he and his family were attacked in their home by two drug-addicted men and a woman. Police arrived to find McDonald beaten and stabbed, and later charged that he had self-inflicted his wounds after he killed his family. a H ^Someone may pretend to be attracted to something but really is disgusted—that *■ -micro-expression of ■»■ disgust will flash." "When you slow down a videotape, the emotions are •tiisplayed. Repeatedly going ^ through this, you can detect them in real time." Trie facial detection method, pioneered by University of California's Paul Ekman, author of Telling Lies, theorizes that an -^attempt at deception will ultimately reveal itself in a micro- expression. But Yuille says, "There's no emotion unique to lying." "People can be hiding something not because they are ► xlishonest." "Othello" errors—coined after the Shakespearean character who misinterprets his wife's insecurity as a sign of guilt—occur when a lie detector spots an honest individual's natural fear. Yuille says he tends to rely E claimed several strangers entered his house—among them was a woman—demanded drugs and went berserk and attacked his family," Yuille says. "A woman (Helen Stoeckly) later confessed she was the woman and saw the whole thing. She had an astounding knowledge ofthe furniture in the house. "She could've gotten some of the information from newspapers and magazines but she had no motive to come forward." The witness would later die of liver failure months after recording her confession in four interviews and a videotape in 1980. Yuille's job was to assess the credibility of her statements. To do so, he tested her longest account which included 131 details. The others—which asked for a repetition of details in her first account—had 49, 69 and 55 details. She would respectively repeat 48, 60 and 49 details. In total, she gave 149 details to the case. The large number of facts within this complex event supported her credibility, wrote Yuille in his report. "If a witness is lying, it is to their benefit to keep the number of details manageable," he said. He referred to her account as either a "real experience" or "an enormous effort to memorize and rehearse." Her "spontaneity in accessing knowledge" also lent support to her credibility, he reported. As confirmation, Yuille saw a large repetition of detail between witness accounts. Her consistency failed to be perfect, but perfection would indicate a potential rehearsal. "A rehearsed memory will be told in the same form with the same content from one telling to another," he wrote. The type of detail she conveyed also weighed in favour her credibility. Almost a quarter of her account included untwistable facts such as the layout of the furniture and location of the bodies. As a result, Yuille gave her a favourable report. Journalists often use overlap to confirm the reliability of sources. During the Watergate investigation, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein would interview several high-ranking sources and look for either overlap or conflicting accounts to unearth facts or leads. Repetition and quantity of detail created credibility while vague statements, delays or dodging diversions sent the two reporters on leads. "This business (lie detecting) is very tricky," says Yuille. "The more time you have to prepare for a lie the better it is. It also depends what's at stake. If it's something big, you're going to put more effort into a lie." "Some people actually enjoy lying—other people will be burdened by a lie. "It all depends on the cost of revealing the truth." "Most lies succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them. But when the stakes are high—when the victim would be severely harmed...there is reason to do the work." —Paul Ekman Possible clues of deceit: • slips of the tongue • emotional tirades • indirect speech (vagueness) • pauses and speech errors • raised or lowered voice pitch • faster and louder speech • slower and softer speech • squelched expressions Deception guilt will be greatest when: • the target is unwilling (to be misled) • the deceit is totally selfish and the target derives no benefit from being misled and loses as much as or more than the liar gains • the deceit is unauthorized, and the situation is one in which honesty is authorized • the liar has not been practicing the deceit for a long time • the liar ahd target share social values • the liar is personally acquainted with the target • the target can't be easily be faulted as mean or gullible • there is reason for the target to expect to be misled; (meanwhile) the liar has acted to win confidence in the target's trustworthiness —Paul Ekman TELLING LIES ES 60 and up SUES * COPI 3701 West Broadway - at Alma (Next to Mac's Convenience Store) Tel: 222 -4142 Fax: 222 - 9855 RESUMES TYPESET - (Upto 2 pages) $ 15.oo FAX (loca - receive or transmit) - $ 1 .00 per page COLOUR COPIES - (8 1/2 x 11) $ 1 .50 each X" Re-discover "Higher" Education... 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HOW TO APPLY Program literature and application forms are available from the Political Science Departments and the Student Employment Centres on Campus at the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia, or from the Office of the Speaker, Suite 207, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. V8V 1X4. November 29,1991 THE UBYSSEY/17 SBfSllSf NOODLE HOUSE Kitsilano's ONLY Authentic Chinese Restaurant • Friendly Service • Great Prices • NO MSG • NO GST 10 % Student Discount with valid AMS card. • FREE DELIVERY AFTER 5:00 P.M. 2805 W. Broadway 737-1278 OPEN 12:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M. 7 DAYS A WEEK PEACE ISSUES The Fireside Lounge The Graduate Student Centre Fireside Lounge will close for the holidays December 14 - January 5 GSS Executive and Staff would like to thank you for your patronage and wish you a happy New Year. We look forward to seeing you January 6 NOW OPEN! GREAT PIZZA! GREAT PIZZA! Monday 11:30 am Friday 1:30 pm 5.0 iwd <£ opera photo assignment *. * HELEN WILLOUGHBY-PRICE PHOTO Tranquility TABE JOHNSON PHOTO and conflict MIKE COURY PHOTO 18/THE UBYSSEY November 29,1991 "*> * < There's always room for . Jello ^ by Paul Dayson THE number one enemy of progress is questioning." And Jello Biafra is on the ten most wanted list. SPOKEN WORD Jello Biafra SUB Auditorium November 26 If anyone starts you asking questions, it's Biafra. He steps on to the stage and delivers a barrage of information that lasts four and a half hours—more exhausting and enrapturing than any professor ever has been. Much ofthe information he presents is anecdotal as he directs the audience attention from one incident to another while making connections. In this way he paints a frightening picture of America as "a one party state masquerading as a one party state" where "the coup has already happened here at home." As he puts it, "Meet the New World Order." The president is the former head of the secret police. His chosen heir, the secretary of state, is a member ofthe religious right who believes in Armageddon. And the secretary's wife thinks rock music is the reason for suicide, drug use and crime and organizes the banning of - •* records as obscene. Civil liberties continue to be eroded, hard labour "boot camps" for drug offenders are opening, and search and seizure without a warrant (suspending the constitution) is in the works. A surreal nightmare or the reality hidden behind USA Today? Jello Biafra wants you to decide. He wants you to ask » questions. Chick Corea PAUL GORDON PHOTO "Wolf documents Blackfoot culture # by Greg Davis ON a homestead in Skookumchuck, 30 miles "'north of Kimberley, BC, Adolph Hungry Wolf and his family live an active life close to the Earth, free of modern amenities such as electricity and running water. INTERVIEW - Adolf Hungry Wolf There they are committed to the maintenance ofthe Blackfoot culture and the record ofthe , people's history. Adolf started his own 11 publishing company, Good Medicine Books, in 1969. Since then he and his family have Adolf Hungry written scores of books on Native culture and sprirituality, including Shadows ofthe Buffalo, co-written by his wife Beverly. Born of Swiss-Hungarian parentage, Adolph left university in the mid-60s to live among the Blackfoot. In 1969 he produced his first booklet, Life in Harmony with Nature, and things grew from there. "I started Good Medicine Books with $1,000 in 1969," Adolph said. "Now it seems like there's lots of books out on every obscure subject, but back then it filled a void." Controversy and bitterness is generated amongst Natives when their ceremonies and lifestyles are documented or even imitated by outsiders. Although Adolph has been a part ofthe Black People ofthe Blackfoot Nation, he has experienced his share of controversy. "Some aspects of Native spirituality are better left unwritten. Native people feel communication is a way to pass on knowledge and understanding ofthe culture, of the history. Though in the end, the real understanding can only come from experience, not from books. "If someone can learn something and can use it in their own PAUL GORDON PHOTO lives, there's nothing wrong with that." Adolph has found the main complaint of Natives is people who superficially copy a ceremony, not because it really means something to them, but because they are attracted to the exotic. The Hungry Wolf family revived the Brave Dog Society (Blackfoot Warrior Society) in 1976. The society is working on establishing a museum on the North Peigan Reserve by the Old Man River, and Adolph said many Albertan musuems have indicated they will return many sacred objects from their collections. Adolph sees the new role of museums as forming a partnership with Native people in preserving history and dealing with cultural property. He is also an avid railway enthusiast, and has published many books and photo collections depicting the history of Canadian trains. His most recent release in this category is entitled Canadian Railway Scenes No. 4, a photo journey along the rails of Canada. "My grandfathers worked on the railroad back in Switzerland and Hungary. I worked on the Union Pacific as a fireman while going to university in California, where I majored in history, focussing on Native studies and railroad subjects." Adolph is currently working on an extensive history ofthe Blackfoot Nation, having compiled more than 20,000 photographs and archival images dating back to the late 1800s. \4orkJhj! ForLemiMji SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 57 (PRINCE GEORGE) invites you to join in WORKING FOR LEARNING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NORTHERN CAPITAL Prince George School District is one of British Columbia's largest and most progressive school district. We are anticipating vacancies ^ for teachers at all levels for the 1992-93 school year. Representatives of the district will be interviewing on campus in | February. Interested applicants are asked to obtain an application form from the Student Employment Centre in Brock Hall. Deadlines for application January 10,1992. SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 57 (Prince George) 11894 Ninth Avenue. Prince George, B.C. V2M 1L7 Telephone: 564-1511 Fax:564-4439 :^ CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS PARTY Featuring the antics of FOOLS THEATRE, and with a special appearance by Santa Claus December 7,11 am- 2 pm in The Fireside Lounge. (Lunch provided.) For more information or to sign up call the Graduate Students' Centre office at 822-3203 as Cake Cherry Pound Cake Miiueineai Tans Traditional Seottisli Shortbread Get Your Christmas Shopping Lists Ready! UBC's famous homestyle Christmas Bakeshop opens December 9th to December 19th, 1991. at the Ponderosa Cafeteria or Lickety Split Muffin Shop (at the entrance to SubWay Cafeteria) Shop in person 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. or Order by phone 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 822-5717 VISA AND MASTERCARD ACCEPTED nd short Hrcad Christmas Fruit liars Pecan .Nut Har** November 29,1991 THE UBYSSEY/19 S%H $THEATRE In the Privacy of Strangers •* Vancouver Little Theatre November 29,30 Catherine, played by Niki Schouela, is a sphinx incarnate. v Schouela brilliantly metamorphoses into a. demonic, sensual and emotion- * ally repressed Catherine. Catherine's sexual aggressiveness is also skillfully expressed through Schouela's lascivious body language. Schoeula's characterization of Catherine is strong and realistic. As the action develops the tigress facade is exposed and we see a pathetic, alienated individual haunted by secrets and fears. Ercinee, Catherine's sister, is portrayed by Melody Escalier. She is like a sylph. Her voice is eerie and unnerving. When she speaks to Catherine her words are filled with pain and vengeance, lyrically disguised by her breathy poetry. Escalier's performance is riveting. She captures the fragile, dreamy qualities of Ercinee through her low, echoing voice and also through her eyes which have a far-away look as though they are focused on some secret hiding place. The privacy of strangers is exactly what Riley Lacaoste (Ron Chartier) oncounters when he inadvertently trespasses into the dysfunctional relationship between the sisters. Riley's positive energy is literally devoured by the sisters who use him as a pawn in their destructive games of guilt and revenge. The character is necessary for the audience as comic relief from the bitter tension between the sisters. Chartier gives a wonderful performance as the curious, easily seduced young man. Riley, like the audience, is a voyeur. He is timid and uncertain as he stumbles toward Catherine. But caught in stare, Riley is aroused and intrigued by this "cat in a tree transfixed." In the Privacy of Strangers, the power of fear is paramount. Catherine, Riley and Ercinee are trapped, controlled and manipulated by fear's claws extended and glinting. by Effie Pow AS well as buying me clothes I never wore, my mother would often scold me for being too daring, disrespectful and talking too much. "Dead girl, you have so many mouths," she shouted. Many-Mouthed Birds, a recent anthology of contemporaiy writing by Chinese Canadians, is parallel to the "talk" I have kept inside myself. PRINT Many-Mouthed Birds edited by Bennett Lee & Jim Wong-Chu Douglas & Mclntyre Writers ofthe anthology include Evelyn Lau, Sky Lee, Fred Wah, Paul Yee, as well as, many UBC graduates and Vancouver writers. With a few exceptions, including Lucy Ng*s series from The Sullen Shapes of Poems and Jim Wong-Chu's work, the poetry featured is not aa strong as the prose. However, there is some poetry that challenges the conventional form. Some highlights ofthe book include Paul Yee's Prairie Night 1939 and Denise Cheng's The Concubine's Children. Yee's story is about the life of prairie town cafes. It is a cafe owner's contemplation about not belonging in Canada and the difficulties of returning to China. ("Canada denied him sons and China withheld his pride. But he would go back, he would sell his restaurant, sell his stake in this new country.") Chong, who is working on her first book with the same title, writes about complex family ties that connect after many years of separation. Everyone Talked Loudly In Chinatown by Anne Jew is about a young girl's experiences stretched between two cultures. The theme of Chinese-Canadian identity in this story is placed in a contemporary context Editors Bennett Lee and Jim Wong-Chu started the Many- Mouthed Birds project in 1988. "The process took longer because we both have full time jobs," Lee says. Lee is a lawyer and Wong-Chu is a letter carrier, both live in Vancouver. Wong is a founding member of Pender Guy, the Chinese-Canadian radio programme that aired on Co-Op radio, and the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. He also published a book of poems called Chinatown Ghosts. They sent out a call for submissions to various creative writing departments and also found younger writers by reading literary journals. Although more Asian writers are published, Lee says finding the writers was difficult. Persistence paid off and the result is a collection of 28 short stories and poems. Lee says the variety is evident, the contributors in the anthology do not all focus on cultural identity. "There was more diversity than we expected, not all writers were agonizing over cultural identities." Lee notes there seem to be more readers interested in writing by Asian Canadians. "It's just a speculation that there's a more receptive audience. In libraries and bookstores I see more works being published by ethnic writers. When I did my English degree 20 years ago, there wasn't that much around," Lee says. ■«. AN INTERVIEW BY THE FINANCIAL POST WITH COLLEGE PRO PAINTERS By Sonita Horvitch Financial Post student franchise managers for Toronto-based College Pro Painters Ltd. are primed for the summer painting season, having spent the winter brushing up their managerial and painting skills. "We train and develop young people and at the same time focus on doing a quality painting job," says Steven Rogers, 34, chief executive since 1989 of the company, which has profited for 20 years from Canadians' annual need to spiff up their houses with a fresh coat of paint. Rogers, whose grandfather and great grandfather were painters and decorators in London, Ont, started as a College Pro franchise manager in Making money by the bucket Small SIMM TO 1978 while at the University of West- em Ontario. The franchisees hire painters, whom the company trains, and supervise employees. They also learn to manage cash flow, production and marketing, using the company's operating and management procedures. College Pro charges royalties of 15% to 20% of sales, depending on the number of years served as franchise manager. Running a franchise is not easy, Rogers says. Managers sometimes have to collect from difficult customers. They must also register their business with the province, deal with the goods and services tax "and generally learn at a young age what government red tape is about" The company, which is 55% owned by FirstService Corp.. a Canadian service management company, is active across Canada except Newfoundland. College Pro is expanding aggressively into the U.S., where it is concentrating on the larger tities. This year, College Pro has signed up 640 franchise managers in North America, 280 in Canada. Each manager employs about 10 people. College Pro itself has 100 full-time staff, including general managers in the field to back up the student franchisees. Of this year's franchise managers, 74% are repeats or were painters with the company. • Jack Roberts, a student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, is in his second term as franchise manager with College Pro. His territory is Halifax North. Last year he spent $4,000 establishing his business — rrfairily buying a' truck and supplies. He produced $67,000 in sales against the $45,000 target set by the company. "The key to success with the franchise is sales - cold-calling door-to- door with offers of free estimates for the job," says Roberts, who this year began marketing in January. This year the company has set a target of $68,000 but he's hoping to TTjtkt $75,000. He pays a 20% royalty to College Pro, "but there is a bonus and rebates for exceeding the target and maintaining quality," he says. • Across the country. Starie Chappell. a student at the University of British Columbia, reached $96,000 in sales in 1990 against a College Pro target of $75,000. This year she hopes to produce $120,000 versus the company's target of $80,000 in Point Grey, near {he university. CALL COLLEGE PRO PAINTERS FOR AN INTERVIEW 879-4105 November 29,1991 THE UBYSSEY/21 The Wrap-Up Well, another Christmas/Hannukah/Billy Holliday Season is nearly upon us. Never one to pass up the joyous holiday tradition of giving gifts, the Ubyssey has made up its shopping list... • To the UBC Board of Governors, we give 5000 Pizza Hut deepdish pizzas. • To Rita J, we give a job. • To Mike Harcourt, we give a spine. And a copy of the NDP platform from last year Just as a reminder. • To the engineers, we give Jason Ford. Have fun! • To the Independent, we give a bird cage to line. • To arts students, we give humility. Use it well. • To the Physical Plant, we give a series of lessons at Young Drivers of Canada. • To Madonna, we give TASTE. And a date with Jodie Foster. • To Jason Brett, we give a collective mood ring for the student body so he knows what we're thinking. And a coupon redeemable for one free quorum. • To Davie Strangway, we give a flaming red bicycle. Go figure. • To Nicole Parton, we give an apron and pink fuzzy bunny slippers. And a box of bonbons. • To Orvin Lau, we give a plastic pocket protector. Settle in, Orvin. It's all downhill from here. • To Peter Hamilton, we give several really cute pets with really short lifespans. Send us a postcard from the Bahamas—not! • To Jello Biafra, we give a subscription to the Independent for him to censor. There's always room for Jello! • To Gus Van Sant, we give Martin Scorcese. In a towel. • To Ted Ausseum, we give a bottle of Eau de SUB Loading Dock. Well miss you. • To Robert Bateman, we give a photocopier. The Batemeister. • To all those students who live in dark, dingy, damp basement suites, we give cardboard fireplaces. And cut-out dogs for companionship without the mess. • To the 432, we give some discretion. And we also give them their old sense of humour back. And last but least, we give to the Ubyssey a token conservative heterosexual Caucasian male. Merry (insert your December holiday here) from the Ubyssey!!! theUbyssey November 29,1991 The Ubyssey is published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Alma Mater Society ofthe University of British Columbia. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not necessarily those of the university administration, or of the sponsor. The editorial office is room 241K ofthe Student Union Building. Editorial Department, phone 822-2301; advertising, 822-3977; FAX 822-9279. The Ubyssey is a founding member of Canadian University Press Ted Aussem threw a party. He called his party "The Ubyssey." These are the people who went to it: Ellen Antoine, Sharlene Azam, Rebecca Bishop, Chris Batchelor, Laurel Bishop, Sandy Bucifal, Graham Cameron, Steffani Cameron, Steve Chan, Tenie Chan, Jennifer Charbonneau, Mark Chester, Adrienne Copithome, Franka Cordua-von Specht, Mike Coury, Andrew Csinger, Sage Davies, Greg Davis, Paul Dayson, Bill Deham, Jana Dionne, Cindy Dowsie, Hiroshi Earle, Doug Ferris, Abby Fitch, Frances Foran, Jan Forcier, Yuri Fulmer, Michael Gazetas, Charlie Gillis, Johanna Gislason, Paul Gordon, Anjula Gorgia, Harald Gravelsins, Sam Green, Anthony Grieco, Ela3ine Gri5th, Ken Hegan, Rick Hiebert, Ted Ing, Lucho van Isschot, Gay Jatsby, Gerry Johnson, Matthew Johnson, Suzanne Johnson, Lynne Jorgenson, Yggy King, Kariyn Koh, Yukie Kurahashi, Wayne Kwan, Chris Lasko, Melissa Lemieux, Hao Li, Sharon Lindores, Yau Soon Lo, Morgan Maenling, Carla Maftechuk, Bernice Mah, Don Mah, Nikola Marin, Andrew Mattel, Matthew Martin, Stuart MacFarlane, Patrick McLaughlin, Joanne Nelson, Cheryl Niamath, Mark Nielsen, Charles Nho, Diya Nijhouse, Joanne Nelson, Sara Patton, Raul Peschiera, Phil, Ellen Pond, Effie Pow, Tanya Paz, Rose Anne Prokopetz, Nigel Porter, Nadene Rehnby, Jason Robertson, Chris Romanzin, Dianne Rudolf, Nicole Sadmsky, Martina Scarff, Raj Sihota, Lisa Tench, Paula Wellings, Johanna Wiclde, Helen Willoughby-Price, Hamish Wilson, Chung Wong, Karen Young, Phil Zirkwitz. 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Having our cake in BC You dont have to live out here in B.C. for very long before that entrepreneurial spirit affects you. For example, ifs my idea to open up a string of Personal Redemption Centre's (PRC's). They would kind of be styled on a cross between the Catholic Confession booth and a matchmaking service. The business wouldn't be sex or love or even the Pope. No, instead it would be the business of forgiveness. But what are B.C.-ites or, most especially, Vancouverites, in need of forgiveness for? After all, life is good out here for many. Like that elusive majority we call the middle class, for example. If you're a family woman or man by now you might be enjoying your house, your partner, your kid and maybe even aluxury car or truck. God knows you can't swing a cat in the West Side ofVancouver these days without hitting a BMW or Jeep Cherokee. Yup, you're still learning how to work your cellular phone and god knows you needitinthe busy worldof B.C. business today. Thafs because this is the West and the Pacific Rim and U.S. markets are still expanding here and our eyes are giving the map of North America the once over—but that's up and down, not side to side. (Market driven "nationalism" works for B.C.—no use messing with the heavy emotionalism of Quebec's brand). Hosting Pacific Rim conferences is all the rage and the tourism industry is falling over itself to organize in order to get a piece of the global travel- market action. Yes, thanks, the family's just fine and the future of business just couldn'tbebrighter. So what needs forgiving? Nothing much except now and then some B .C.-ites, get these creeping doubts. It's part of this schizophrenia (NOTthe "not-what-you- think" kind) we have in this Province about our life loves. We love our environment too. We love Vancouver's mountains and Manning Park's cool green forests. We value our recreation and spend serious money on our toys. This is the land of the laid back, let them work themselves into an early grave elsewhere. And politics? What, go into that unforgiving excuse for a lamb-basting and thankless exposure to the temptations of corruption among other perils of public office? Not on your life! Anyway, we're too busy enjoying the good life . Let the keeners in politics screw up as long as they've got their hearts in the right pocket. Just as long as we can all complain long and loud afterward when they've cut funds to education and slipped agricultural land reserve lots under the table. No sir, that's not for us. But somehow, in spite of it all, I feel the discomfort of some of my fellow B.C. inhabitants. I hear their doubts. Could we be getting a little materialistic? Havel checked my values lately?— should I? What were those ideals I usedtohave? Thisis where the Personal Redemption Centre comes in. Who knows? Like Canada Post these days, they could turn a profit and this is how they'd work. Inside the centre, among the plush carpeting and quiet walls, there are a number of small two-seater booths. In the booths we would be matched with an also anonymous, fellow doubt-sufferer. We are seperated by twilight and grillwork. When we are settled, finally we'd get our chance to vent our doubts and perfect our rationaliza- Perspective tions. "Is it my fault that money gives power and power corrupts? No way! The company is making a killing anyway, so I might as well take while the takings good. It's the politicians who've lead us from bad to worse, you might as well make sure #1 comes out doing OK." Filtering through the grill, on the other side of this would be the murmurings of one's partner. They would get to use all the words like "ought" and "should", and elude to the rusty notions of strength of character, ethics and my god, even virtue. So both par- tici - pants would gain from the exchange. The black turtlenecks of the sixties existentialists would be sold at the reception desk with the PRC logo in proper view across the collar. Of course, as with any product, the PRC's would never deliver just what we yearned for. Suppose for a minute they did. What would this look like? The PRC's would really have been effective when we'd walk out of there with this idea that people are responsible for their behaviour. We'd come out carrying ourselves enough to strive to be complete again. Yes, rather than feeling victimized by the "orgy of materialism" seemingly dominating our lives, we might want to begin to tend to other parts of ourselves other than to our stomachs. We would work on ourselves for a change: through a reintegration of our economic, spiritual, and emotional selves. Meanwhile, B.C. continues to want its cake and to eat it too. We want to enjoy our natural amenities, exploit our natural re sources and god forbid any of us should get our fingers sticky in the process. Fve got a hanky and its called Personal Redemption— selling forgiveness for a price, you understand. But there is another option; to start with our strengths many of which we've been known for in B .C. in no way are we too far gone. There is our firm rooted conviction that life is that life is to be lived through many forms of activity as well as our work. We do sincerely care for the environment, which here in Vancouver hugged as we are by the mountains, embraces us on all sides. We in B.C. have been good at challenged assumptions and instititutions in order to make our values heard. This is the spirit on which we must build. Especially in these anxiously ambitious times. So don't hold your breath for a PRC. Alison McNeil pecial Environment Friday, January 10th Misrepresentation Tuesday, January 14th Come sign up for stories now!! (It'll be fun, really!) 22/THE UBYSSEY November 29,1991 I.— „.. Gender peace? fc by Frances Foran --*** Today, November 30, one year and 51 weeks since the Montreal Massacre, Gervase Bushe wears a white ribbon. In Ottawa, Ken Fisher, a r founding member of the Men's Network for Change will have pinned a wnite ribbon to tils lapel hours ago, and if the Network succeeds in its campaign, they will be wearing white ribbons on Parliament Hill until December 6, now a . national day of rememberance and action on violence against women. ' Fisher says the white ribbon symbolizes armistice on femicide. "It's a vehicle for men to declare that they are laying down arms against women." r These men and many more across the country are activists engaged in a search for a new definition of what it is to be a man in society. Some call it a men's movement, others call it "postmodern reconstruction" of the JP masculine. W^ But all involved agree that ^fctfjfcthe present social construct of ^^^Xnasculinity is incompatible with W gregarious, healthy living. To W Bushe, being a man as defined by popular culture is to be a "success ' object," invite heart attack from overwork and is tantamount to suicide. The "men's movement" has received a lot of media attention since Robert Bly's Iron John pitched a tent on the best-seller list last year. Even Mr. Pinkley of Cathy Guise white's comic strip has enlisted. Mr. Pinkley and his cohorts put feathers in their hair and set off for the woods on a pilgrimmage to true Manhood. They found themselves at a Rarnada Inn drinking beer and watching sports on television. This is a parody of only one strain of what is going on among men's groups. UBC student Wingsiu Wong initiated a men's support group out of a desire to « become involved as a man in pro- feminist social change. Adopting the feminist credo that the personal is the political, Wong and four other men gather bim onthly in what he like ns to the consciosness-raising sessions of the sixties. The issues they discuss range from their feelings about pornography to dealing with abuse. In the group, men can expose their pain and confront the ways in which ideas of masculinity hinder emotional connections with others, and grieve. The mythopoetic groups, says Wong, have caught on with the media and many men because thei r approach does not offend the masculine power structure. This is primarily because it does not address it. The power structures the mythopoetics are concerned with are interior—castles and kingdoms and Jungian archetypes of men. Bushe, one ofthe founders of the Men's Evolvement Network said that the "dark" and destructive elements of masculinity, like competitiveness and destructive- ness, predominate in our culture _ k because men lack positive role models and father figures. Men in post-modern, post-industrial, post-god society have lost community rites which lead to their deep male selves. According to mythopoetics, present culture is not a patriarchy, but the rule of boys whose essential male energy is supressed, misdirected and unguided. The aim of M.E.N., publisher of the journal Thunder Stick, is to reaquaint men with "the practices that our ancestors used to make men." Rituals of initiation are often those of indigenous peoples of North America, such as using a talking stick, drumming and sweatlodges. Bodywork, like group grunts, teaches men vulnerability through the release of the psychosomatic "armour" accumulated from a lifetime of denying emotions. Bushe said he laid down his armour and released his male energy at a Bly lecture years ago. He felt a tremendous surge in the pelvic region as energy was uncorked. Another men's group, the Men's Network for Change, is a national organization with 1,200 members. An explicitly political group, its priorities are ending violence, securing choice for abortion, working on child custody legislation and fighting homophobia. Men's groups attract men with a variety of perspectives, from pro-feminist to anti-feminist to politically neutral spiritualist which indicates the crisis of masculinity, said Ken Fisher. He thinks the only route to constructing a new masculinity is a pragmatic approach that encompasses a pro-feminist critique of gender relations. In addition to his work in the Men's Network, Fisher is a member of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, and consultant to businesses and organisations to help men identify their obstacles to acting against sexism. Fisher is critical of the mythopoetic groups' social introversion, and thinks it is due to men being shipwrecked by the transformation femini sm has had on women around them. If a common myth or language is needed for men to collectively talk of their isolation, he said, it ought to address the war on women. Moreover the mythopoetics indicate a masculine essence with archetypes, with emphasis on the warrior aspect, which Fisher finds implicitly homophobic and alienating to gay men. He recognizes the necessity of belief systems, but he says, "We have to have a language or belief system that is political that deals with questions like what is the adequate distribution of power." Fisher says that the men's movement must grow to include more and more diverse people because the changing status of women demands a social and economic reorganisation. The movement will reach its zenith when more women and people of colour gain positions of social power and displace white men in the workplace. And what about the men who skirt social issues as they reinvent themselves? They will likely be in the woods, looking for Mr. Pinkley and wondering the way to the nearest Ramada Inn. 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November 29,1991 THE UBYSSEY/23 mmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmiimmmmmmmmmmmmm SHOP AT UBC THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY (NOV. 28,29,30) THE THUNDERBIRD SHOP WILL BE A GST FREE ZONE * * OR EQUIVALENT DISCOUNT HELP THE EMPTY STOCKING FUND AMS pizza place now open in SUB by Ted Ing The AMS has gone ahead with their plans to open Pie R Squared in the former Travel Cuts space of the SUB and Wednesday was the gourmet pizza outlet's first day of operation. Martin Ertl, AMS director of administration, said the opening is temporary and none of the renovations have been done yet. "We need [the UBC Board of Governors'] approval to do the renovations," Ertl said. "Physical Plant won't do the work without their approval." BoG will not give permission to open the pizza outlet because it would compete with the SUB cafeteria. Last week, the AMS delivered more than 5,000 student signatures in support ofthe pizza outlet to the BoG. UBC vice-president K.D. Srivastava told the AMS a Downstairs in the Student Union Buildin; 224-1911 M-F: SAT: SUN: 8-6 10-5 12-5 % Ubyssey Staffer* • | % rnark'iibur Social calendar, t %+ December? '• tw-t^ @ © * ro ** <5 *>V.O *,t <5 >V- ©^ e 3 », 9. Meny Oristmas cmd a Wapfy New year from tfie staff end ma/iageme/it of tfie lAiiversitt^ Golf Clwb 5ee you Ik tfie letter would be sent in response to the petition, which would state the university's refusal to allow the AMS to open the outlet, but no reasons would be given. To date, the AMS has not received this letter. AMS lawyers are currently preparing a case and will decide whether or not to bring it to arbitration by mid-December. Until then, the pizza outlet will remain open. "We think we have a winning case, [BoG] doesn't have a leg to stand on and if they do, well cut it out from under them," Ertl said. Student reaction to the opening was positive. More than 300 slices at $2.50 each have been sold since Pie R Squared opened. Nancy Toogood, AMS food services manager, said she was pleased with the outlet. Editor of the week, Carla Maftechuk wants to take this opportunity to wish all UBC students a most delightful winter solstice. She has been very pleased with the dedication and hard work performed by all staff members. As always though, she encourages new members to join and bring their various skills and talents to the Ubyssey. With the coming season of flaming plum puddings, Carla would just like to remind students that when one catches fire, it is best to stop, drop, and roll! 1 hTt^/H* xi! . :*:*:*:*:*>>>>>>>>>^^.^'ft=ft:ft.frH^.-..-... A*.-.-.-:-.-. !-.-:-*&x.ft*fr^w:^ WE'RE STOCKED FOR CHRISTMAS!! with TIGER BRAND SWEATSHIRTS AND KANGAROOS 80% COTTON, 100% COMFORTABLE! 25% OFF BOXED CHRISTMAS CARDS, CHRISTMAS GIFT WRAP AND BAGS GOOD LUCK ON EXAMS!! 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