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Dunwoody accounting\nfirm and UBC Internal Audit,\nexecutive decides to assume emergency powers to order forensic\naudit.\nJune 3:\nForensic audit begins, pub manager Dale Read is suspended with\npay pending. Memo is sent to pub\nstaff advising them not to contact\nRead under threat of termination.\nJune 6:\nSecond memo sent to pub staff\nimploring them to limit contact\nwith Read to personal business\nonly. Staff\" and union meet with\nDwyer.\nGSS holds emergency meeting.\nPub staff present petition to\nCouncil urging them to insist upon\nthe resignation of the GSS executive if investigation tails to reveal\nsignificant wrongdoing by Read.\nGSS goes into closed session to\nhear details ofthe executive's decision to conduct an audit. Council\nratifies the executive's decision.\nHad morion failed, the GSS executive would have been forced to\nresign.\nJune 17:\nGSS councilor David Murphy\nsubmits letter to The Graduate and\nUBC Reports, expressing concerns\nabout the GSS executive and the in\ncamera meeting.\nJune 18:\nGSS receives preliminary results\nofthe forensic audit. To date, it has\nnot been made public.\nJune 20:\nPub worker Csaba Nikale'nyf\nexpresses concern about tjie\nmemos sent to staff and asks\nwhether employees have been\nimplicated.\nCouncil goes in camera to\nreceive the report of the foreijsic\nauditor, decides to terminate Dale\nRead's employment.\nNotice of motion is given to\nunseat David Murphy, alleging that\nletter June 17 letter   broke confi\ndentiality ofthe June 6 meeting.\nJuly 4:\nKoerner's staff are informed that\nDale Read has been terminated.\nJuly 18:\nPub staff return to Council\ncomplaining that GSS exec has still\nnot met with them.\nThe GSS appoints committee to\nhire a new pub manager.\nDavid Murphy is impeached.\nKOERNER'S PUB bartender Peter Santosham draws a pint. He and his fellow workers recently submitted\na petition to GSS Council in June. Find out why on page 3. (SCOTT HAYWARD PHOTO)\nGRADUATE STUDENT SOCIETY:\nGSS impeachment out of order\nGSS council impeached political science representative\nDavid Murphy for revealing\nconfidential details, and later\ndetermines they were three\nvotes short of quorum.\n by Scott Hayward\n\"This looks to me like a witch-hunt, and\nI'm very, very, very upset to see this here.\"\nThat was the description of one Graduate\nStudent Society councillor over the July 18\nimpeachment of one of its directors.\nThe GSS voted to kick Political Science representative David Murphy off council after he\ndisclosed confidential details about the suspension of a society employee.\nUsing emergency constitutional powers,\nthe GSS executive suspended Koerner's pub\nmanager Dale Read pending the outcome of a\nfull forensic audit on the pub's books.\nA preliminary report from the auditor\narrived June 18; the society voted to terminate\nRead June 20.\nMurphy alleged the executive \"usurped its\npower\" and failed to properly account for its\nactions at the council meeting that followed.\n\"We weren't given information,\" Murphy\nsaid ofthe June 6 closed-session. \"We weren't\nmaking an informed decision.\"\nMurphy also complained the executive\nsought council's approval three days after\nRead's suspension.\n\"We were being asked to retroactively okay\nactions that had already been taken,\" Murphy\nsaid, adding the executive would have been\nforced to resign under GSS bylaws if council\nhad voted against the decision, .\nMurphy's trouble began when wrote a letter to the campus media commenting on the\nissue. An edited version appeared in UBC\nReports,   while   the   GSS   newsletter   The\nGraduate refused to print it.\nIn the eyes of many councillors, Murphy's\nletter broke the confidentiality of the June 6\nmeeting. Ten councillors filed notice to have\nMurphy removed for breach of confidentiality\u2014a motion councillors later passed at the\nJuly 18 meeting.\nBut Zoology representative Shaun Foy said\ncouncillors should have discussed Murphy's\nalleged breach of confidentiality in camera.\n\"There is only one point in [Murphy's letters to The Graduate and UBC Reports] that\nshould not have been repeated outside of the\n[June 6] meeting,\" Foy said.\n\"It is that point which I would vote to\nremove David Murphy on. If we can't discuss\nthat point\u2014and I certainly won't\u2014then it all\nbecomes a moot point. I can't voice my opinion.\"\nFoy later resigned over the issue.\n...please see page 2\nAcadia families quash massive rent increase\nby Sarah O'Donnell\nStudents in the Acadia Park\nfamily housing complex got more\nthan they bargained for during a\nrecent fight against hefty rent\nincreases\u2014they won.\nAcadia residents first received\nnotice of rent increases ranging\nfrom 5.2 to 16 percent from UBC's\nHousing Department in April.\nGeneral Coordinator of the\nAcadia Tenants Association (ATA),\nToby Willis-Camp, said it was not\nlong afterwards she started to\nreceive concerned phone calls.\nAfter discussing the ATA's\noptions with NDP candidate Jim\nGreen   and   members   of   the\nTenants Rights Action Coalition,\nWillis-Camp started encouraging\nAcadia residents to \"kill the\nbureaucracy at its own game.\"\nUnder the provincial rent protection act, renters have 30 days\nto challenge any rent increase they\nconsider inappropriate.\nThree Acadia tenants had their\ncases heard by the renter review\nbranch.\n\"We started a campaign of if\nyou can do it, go for the arbitration, because for every tenant that\ngoes down there, housing has to\nsend a representative...It takes\ntime for you to do it, but it takes\ntheir time too,\" Willis-Camp said.\n\"The three people who did it\nwon it for us all.\"\nBut Assistant Director of\nResidence Administration Robert\nFrampton said the ATA's victory\ncomes at Housings' expense.\n\"We're caught between a rock\n\"Kill the bureaucracy at its own\ngame\n\u25a0>\u25a0>\n\u2014Toby Willis-Camp\nand a hard place,\" Frampton told\nThe Ubyssey.\nSince the provincial rent calculation  only  allows  landlords  to\nincrease rent on the basis of the\npast year's expenses, Housing was\n\"found to not have conformed to\nthe formula...because we project\nour rent increases based on what\nour future expenses were,\"\nFrampton explained.\nThe university assessed\nHousings infrastructure charges\nfor the first time to help cover the\ncosts of things like campus roadways and lighting.\n\"I don't think the legislation\nreally benefits UBC as a landlord\nbecause it prevents us from building reserves and revenues to build\nmore student family housing,\"\nFrampton said. \"It really restricts\nour abilities.\" THE UBYSSEY\nAUGUST 1,1996\nGSS impeachment\nPolitical science graduate student Hamish Telford, however, countered that \"it is a principle justice that all trials be\nheld in public.\"\nAdam Jones, also a Political Science graduate student,\ncalled the unseating \"part of a wider agenda, part of which\ntargets the duly chosen representatives of the Political\nScience department to the GSS.\"\nDespite the impeachment, Murphy has no regrets. \"I\nfelt I owed it to my constituents, and graduate students in\ngeneral, to inform them what had been happening in\nregard to Koerner's.\"\nCouncil eventually voted to impeach Murphy by a 2\/3's\nmajority. The vote may be invalid, however, given that the\n21 votes cast in the decision falls short ofthe 24 councillors needed for quorum.\nFormer GSS Director of Student Affairs Steve Wilson\nsaid the mix-up stems from a GSS convention. In the past,\ncouncil has continued with motions even if Councilors\nleave during the debate as long as quorum was present\nwhen the motion was moved.\nThe practice does violate Robert's Rules, Wilson said,\nadding that if a meeting losing quorum, there is nothing\nleft to do but adjourn.\n\"On an issue like this we have to decide whether to go\nwith Robert's Rules to the letter or to let [the unseating]\nstand,\" GSS President Kevin Dwyer said. \"My inclination\nis to re-address this at the next council meeting, and then\nmake it unequivocal whichever way it goes.\"\nDwyer said the Koerner's audit is still considered a\n\"privileged, confidential document\" and will not be made\npublic until Read and his former GSS employers negotiate\na settlement.\nEither way, Murphy may reappear at the council table.\n\"If I'm nominated, then I'll run,\" he vowed. \"If people\nwant me to be there, I'll be there, and if they don't, I\nwon't.\"\nmmmkm ..J^^^r^mmmm.\n\u25a0\u2022**\u2022-\nThere's always next season.,\nf^Kt     jHfH&tift     WfSfcSWHiW&fk'y \u2022*\/$$$$&\u25a0 \/jf,,^ r\njoin the ubvssefs sports department \/\nno experience necessary\n%*W'\n'tween classes\nWednesday Aug. 7\nVancouver Public Library\nTim Ward will read from his new book Arousing the\nGoddess, the final volume of the Nirvana Trilogy.\nCentral Library, 350 W. Georgia Street, 7:30pm.\nInternational House\nVolunteers needed for airport reception booth (mid\nAug-mid Sept) and orientation week (Aug. 26-30).\nCall or visit: Wendy Ma, International House, 822-\n5021.\nHELP US FILL THIS SPACE\nCome join The Ubyssey\nStaff meets Monday, August 5\n12:00 noon in SUB 241K\neveryone welcome\nWhat We Did on Our Summer\nVacation\nHighlights from the Summer of 96\nElections 101\nDuring the BC Provincial Elections, we pushed the\nissue of post-secondary education funding to the forefront by coordinating the Elections 101 campaign. Print\nads were placed in local papers, press releases sent, an\nAll Candidates Forum was organized at UBC \u2014 and we\neven struck some controversy with Seaboard Advertising when they refused our bus ads. Needless to say, the\ncampaign drew considerable attention from local media and helped in securing a two-year tuition freeze from\nthe NDP government.\nAMS Affinity Plan\nThe AMS is proud to announce its new long distance calling plan. Due to size of our membership, we\nwere able to work out a unique group plan with ACC\nLong Distance Incorporated. The plan will give each\nplan member $10 of free long distance calling and sub-\nThe AMS UpDate is published\nweekly in The Ubyssey. Should\nyou have any questions\nregarding usage of this space,\nplease contact Faye Samson,\nAMS Communications\nCoordinator at 822-1961, drop\nby SUB 266h, or email at\ncomco@ams.ubc.ca.\nstantial long distance savings. Enrolling in the service\nis, of course, voluntary. Keep on the lookout for more\ninformation regarding this service.\nTuition Fees\nDespite the announcement of a two year tuition\nfreeze in May of this year, the University attempted to\nraise tuition fees. The AMS appealed to the government, asking them to block the decrease that would\nhave circumvented the tuition fee freeze for which students had loudly protested. The government forced the\nUBC Board of Governors to eliminate the offending\nitem from their agenda and tuition fees will remain at\nlast year's levels.\nWe are now working to reach an agreement with\nthe University on ancillary fees increases. Ancillary fees\nare the extra fee you pay in addition to tuition fees, the\nlargest of which is the Student Activity Fee of $125.33.\nStudent council has developed a policy stating that it\nwill oppose the introduction of all new ancillary fees\nand increases to existing ancillary fees unless approved\nby the student body through a referendum. We are presently lobbying the University and government on this\nissue.\nDeficit Repayment\nThe finances of the Society are healthy, despite a\ndeficit of approximately $200,000 on the general operating funds of the Society from a few year ago. Last\nyear, student council decided that debt left over from\noperational overspending should be eliminated over a\nperiod of five years. Student council takes the finances\nof the Society very seriously and wants to honour the\ncommitment to eliminate the internal debt that was cre\nated in 1994. It is important that the AMS make efforts\nto eliminate our debt and avoid overspending. This year,\nstudent council has opted to eliminate $85,000 of the\ndebt by using revenue received from the Cold Beverage\nAgreement. Other revenue received from the CBA is\ngoing towards the creation of a new Magazine and renovation of the AMS website.\nA New Place to Eat - Asian Food\nOutlet\nFor a long time now the AMS Food and Beverage\nDepartment has been planning a new take-out restaurant serving primarily Chinese food. The plan is now\ncoming to fruition and the construction is about to\nbegin. The restaurant is located on the lower level of\nSUB adjacent to the entrance to the Pit Pub and the\nprojected opening date will be in late October, 1996.\nAs with all AMS food outlets, the emphasis will be on\nfresh, healthy food with both vegetarian and non-vegetarian menu selections. The menu will consist primarily of noodles in homemade broth with a choice of\nfreshly prepared toppings. Simplicity, freshness, authentic flavours and good value for the student dollar.\nA New Place to Shop\t\nSUBcetera and the Box Office are moving across\nthe main concourse of the SUB in August 1996. The\nnew store will offer a wide range of new candy as well\nas magazines, newspapers and greeting cards. Also, you\nwill be able to buy that last minute gift of Body Shop\nproducts or Over The Moon Chocolates, all priced\nunder $10.00. SUBcetera will still be the place to find\nbus passes, stamps, chocolate bars, cold drinks, and so\nmuch more.\nFor more information, please contact David\nBorins, AMS President, at 822-3972 or email\nat president@ams.ubc.ca. rHE UBYSSEY\nnews\nAUGUST 1, 1996\nIntent unclear as AMS negotiates telephone deal\nby Federico Barahona\nThe Alma Mater Society is talking exclusive\ndeals with a long distance phone company, but\nstudents worry it may not be able to hang up.\nAlmost one year after the AMS signed an\nexclusive agreement with Coca-Cola Ltd., the\nstudent union is contemplating a deal with\nlong-distance phone company ACC\nTelEnterprises.\nThe two-year agreement, as proposed in a\nletter of intent presented to council July 24,\nwould give the AMS a seven percent commission on all UBC students' ACC bills in\nexchange for \"exclusive rights to\nmarket...telecommunications services to AMS\nmembers.\" That could mean $25,000-30,000\na year for the student society, according to\nAMS President David Borins.\nThe strength of the deal, says Borins, is that\na petition of 1000 students will kill the deal\ninstandy, unlike last year's cold beverage agreement which had no escape clauses.\nBut while the letter of intent does say the\n\"agreement is cancellable upon the AMS\nreceiving... 1000 current members' signatures,\" some Council members worry it does\nnot commit the AMS to cancel the deal.\nJonathan Oppenheim, a temporarily-\nappointed Graduate\nStudents Society representative, pointed out\nthe wording is \"cancellable,\" not \"will be\ncancelled.\" To clarify\nthe intent ofthe clause,\nthe Graduate Students\nSociety tried to have\nthe wording changed\nto \"will be cancelled.\"\nThat motion was\ndefeated.\nIn an interview\nwith The Ubyssey,\nAMS Policy Analyst\nDesmond Rodenbour \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0^^\u25a0i\nexplained   the   clause\nprovides students with the legal means to get\nout ofthe contract.\nAlmost one year\nafter the AMS signed an\nexclusive agreement with\nCoca-Cola Ltd.,\nthe student union is\ncontemplating\na deal with long-distance\nphone company\nACC TelEnterprises.\n\"As it stands, the deal is cancellable if 1000\nstudents sign a petition,\" said Rodenbour,\nadding that ACC originally opposed including\nthe clause.\nBut GSS representatives argued there is a\ndifference   between\nwhat one intends to\n\u2122~\u2014\u25a0\u2014\u2014^\u2014 do   and   what   one\ndoes.\n\"David [Borins]\nsaid that his intention\nwas that if there were\n1000 signatures, the\ndeal would be cancelled,\" Oppenheim\ntold The Ubyssey.\n\"The letter of intent\ndoesn't say that.\"\nRodenbour  conceded the terminology of the document\n^^ammmi^^^^ did  not  reflect the\nintent expressed by\nBorins. Asked whether the AMS would be able\nto guarantee the cancellation ofthe deal if pre\nsented with 1000 signatures, Rodenbour\nresponded: \"With this wording, I don't think\nthat it's clear enough to guarantee anything,\"\nadding that changes to the clause would follow.\nBorins told Tibe Ubyssey that he didn't\nconsider the implications ofthe wording of\nthe clause when he wrote it.\n\"I only became aware of the language\nwhen it was raised at council,\" he said.\nWhen asked if he could give UBC students\na guarantee that the deal would be cancelled if they gathered 1000 signatures,\nBorins deferred to council, adding that he\nhopes council will \"clarify\" their position at\nits next meeting.\n\"I'm hoping that it will be council's position that they'll bind themselves,\" he said.\nOppenheim, however, urges Borins to\nput it in the contract, if that's what he initially intended. \"If their intention is to\nhave it cancelled, then they should put it in\nthe deal,\"  he said.\nSmokeless cigarette ignites ethics debate\nby Faith Armitage and Neal Razzed\nResearch on a smokeless cigarette at UBC has anti-smoking activists and faculty fuming about the ethics of industry-sponsored research.\nAt issue is a $300,000 research grant to UBC's faculty of\nmedicine by US-based RJR Nabisco to study the effects of\na smokeless cigarette on smokers' white blood cells and\nbone marrow.\nThe company claims the \"Eclipse\" cigarette reduces\nsmoke by 90 percent.\nDr. Robert Woollard, an associate professor 'of family\npractice, worries that ethical and philosophical questions\nare not being asked.\nEthics boards, Woollard says, are merely technical, concerned with protocol details, such as the treatment of\nhuman subjects and full disclosure of findings.\nThe cumulative effect of not asking whether this\nresearch should be done risks \"creating a whole professional class of academics committed to the corporate\nresearch agenda: well-intentioned bright people never\ntaught to ask the right questions,\" according to Wollard.\nBut the two researchers charged with the study feel\nthey're doing nothing wrong. \"There's nothing sinister\nabout it,\" said Dr. Stephen Vaneeden, a UBC researcher\nwhose tobacco-funded research spans 25 years.\nBoth Vaneeden and his partner, Dr. James Hogg, said\nthey mean well. \"Tobacco smoking is bad for you,\" Hogg\nsaid, \"I wish people didn't smoke. But they do and I suspect that they're going to continue. We're hoping that we\nmight make things better.\n\"Our job as physicians is not to make judgements\nabout people's lifestyles,\" Hogg said.\nAnti-smoking   activist  Deborah  Wotherspoon   disagreed. \"The work that Dr. Hogg is doing isn't going to\nhelp smokers. The best way to research lung disease is to\nlook into the way the tobacco industry works and what you\ncan do to put roadblocks in their way.\"\nBob Broughton, president of a Vancouver anti-smoking\ngroup, argued that public institutions like UBC and St.\n:|;JS,       'MkXMt\nSvt;\nEthical questions arise over RJR Nabisco's funding of UBC research on the \"smokeless\" ciqarette\n(SHELLEY GORNALL PHOTO ILLUSTRATION) cigarette.\nPaul's Hospital, where the study is being conducted,\nshould not host research projects funded by tobacco companies.\n\"If they've bought into UBC, they've bought access to\nthat facility,\" said Broughton, of AIRSPACE Action on\nSmoking and Health.\nHogg, however, defends the ethics ofthe study. \"We're\nnot beholden to anybody and we publish our findings in\nopen literature and it's reviewed by our peers.\"\nRJR Nabisco did not return The Ubyssey's calls.\nKoerner's Pub suffers from loss of manager, staff say\nby Scott Hayward\nStaff at Koerner's Pub want the\nGSS to know they're not going to\nbe pawns in a political game.\nAt issue is the forensic audit\nand threatening letter that met\nKoerner's staff when they showed\nup to work on June 3.\nThe letter, from Graduate\nStudents Society (GSS) President\nKevin Dwyer, informed staff of\npub manager Dale Read's suspension with pay, pending the results\nof an audit.\nIt also advised employees to\nrefuse contact with Read, explaining this was a necessary part of a\nforensic audit intended to protect\nall employees.\n\"If any employee fails to abide\nby these instructions,\" Dwyer\nwrote, \"discipline, up to, and\nincluding dismissal, may result.\"\nA subsequent letter asked\nthem to \"restrict their contact\nwith Mr. Read to personal business only.\"\nReaction among the close knit\nstaff was of shock and disbelief.\n\"We all felt for Dale, and there\nwas not ever a second when anybody thought that he had done\nanything wrong,\" Assistant Pub\nManager Catherine Graham said.\nSeven workers went as far as\nwriting a letter to council, charging the methods used were\n\"designed to impose the maximum degree of distress and indignity not only upon Mr. Read, but\nupon the entire Food and\nBeverage staff.\"\nDwyer, however, defended his\nactions as standard procedure.\n\"It's a legal audit and there are\ncertain protocols that need to be\nmet,\" he said. \"Among those are\nnotification of various parties that\nyou are not to get involved.\"\nBut Koerner's staff say the situation is not that simple; they\nbelieve they are also under suspicion. \"So long as we expressed\nour emotional attachment to\nDale, they want to show that we\nwere in cahoots with Dale,\" bar\nstaff Csaba Nikole'nyi told The\nUbyssey.\nCouncil instructed Dwyer to\nmeet with staff once a settlement\nis reached with Read. \"When the\nnegotiations are complete can we\nstart to release information,\" he\nexplains. \"We don't want to prejudice our legal position.\"\nMeanwhile,  workers   rely  on\nleaks from GSS councilors to\nobtain information.\nIn retrospect, Dwyer conceded\nhe should have called a staff meeting to explain the process. \"For\nthe delays, the executive committee apologises to the staff,\" Dwyer\nsaid. \"We should have established\na date early on and stuck to it.\"\nAccording to Graham, who is\nnow the Acting Manager, the pub\nis holding together. \"Staff is going\nabout their business,\" she said.\n\"But as for their feelings as a\nwhole, obviously they're not\ngoing to feel the same.\" THE UBYSSEY\nAUGUST 1,1996\nArts festival brings peace in the Valley\nby Peter T. Chattaway\n1996 Fraser Valley arts and\nPeace festival\nat the University College of\nFraser Valley until Aug 11\nCanada considers itself an international peacekeeper, but it is also\none of the largest suppliers of\narms and weapons in the world.\nNowhere is that paradox more\npronounced than in the Fraser\nValley, home to both B.C.'s pacifist Mennonite community and\nthe Abbotsford Air Show, a jamboree with military overtones.\nEnter the 1996 Fraser Valley\nArts and Peace Festival, which\nwill feature an art gallery, a film\nfestival, workshops, a reading by\ntwo-time Governor General\naward-winner Rudy Wiebe, and\nPoints of Arrival: a Jean Donovan\nJourney, a play based on the hie oi\na woman killed in El Salvador in\n1980.\nOrganizer Henry Krause says\nthe Festival is meant to make\nlocals more aware of the Air\nShow's more sinister implications.\n\"Sure, you believe in non-violence,\" he says. \"Well, violence is\nat our back door step.\"\nKrause says the festival takes a\n\"two-pronged\" approach.\nFirst, it presents peace as a\ndesirable alternative to war.\nHowever Krause notes that\n\"peace is much more than anti-\nmilitarism\" and the festival goes\nbeyond mere combat to analyse\nthe larger issues of social justice.\nBut Krause emphasises that the\nFestival is meant tf) have a \"joyous\" feel. \"Peace and justice folks\nCD PICKS\nDaytona - Sustain\n[Zulu]\nDaytona finally released their\nmuch anticipated follow-up\nto Chicane in grand style at\nthe Starfish Room earlier this\nsummer, winning over a new\nhorde of zealous converts in\nwhat may have been the best\nbash ofthe year. When ya get\nright down to it, there is no band in Vancouver who can wow an\naudience like Daytona. They got double encores and doubtless\nwould have garnered more had not Colin informed the audience\nthat he wished to get a beer before the barkeep called those words\nall us merry boozers dread to hear.\nIf only Daytona could deliver as well on CD. Musically, the new\nalbum, Sustain, is harder than Chicane with far less ofthe experimentation which could alternately enthrall or annoy, and which\noriginally attracted me to the band. Don't get me wrong.\nMusically, Sustain is a fine effort and still very recognizably\nDaytona. Once again, the problems with the CD are in its vocals\n\u2014 neither Colin nor Jenny individually has a strong enough voice\nto carry the band's music \u2014 and its production. Although it is\nmarkedly better, it is still a bit rough around the edges, lacking the\npolish which might otherwise have put Daytona in a category with\nU2, say. So far as the vocals are concerned, harmony between the\nband's two singers is the only answer since, when Colin and Jenny\nsing together, the resultant mix is a delightful blending of voices\nreminiscent of early Ramones.\nIf the Commodore Ballroom was still around, I would have\nsaid, \"Expect to see Daytona play there within a year's time.\" Alas,\nsince the venue is no more, I don't know where they'll pop up\nnext. If the Coliseum doesn't likewise shut down in the meantime,\nperhaps we'll see them playing there in a couple of years. Watch\nfor it. - Andy Barham\nPluto - Pluto [Virgin]\nIf you've already heard\nPluto's latest release, 'Paste,'\nchances are you can't help\nbeing captivated by its undeniable appeal. What could\nturn out to be another case\nof Veruca Salt's 'Seether' or\nThe Breeders' 'Cannonball'\n\u2014 in which the rest of the\nalbum does not measure up\nto the single \u2014 has not\ncursed Pluto's self-titled\nalbum. 'Paste' unquestionably stands out, but the rest of the CD\ndoes have some potential.\nThis Vancouver band could be looking forward to a promising\nmusical career. 'Paste' is a rare gem. Once you're hooked by its\nmelody, the genius of its lyrics becomes quite clear. \"I can taste the\nglue holding the smile upon my face\" is a sample ofthe band's creative ease with words.\nThe 'My Sharona'-like 'When She Was Happy' is also worth\nnoting. So is the psychedelic 'Blaupunk,' though the drummer\nneeds to wake up; the song could be sharply improved with a more\ndaring use of percussion.\nPluto is recommended to those who thrive on the current wave\nof retro-grunge bands dominating the music scene.\n- Janet Winters\ntend to be too serious,\" he says,\nso the idea behind the Festivai is\n\"to come away having fun, not\njust being bombarded with information.\"\nHence the second prong: a celebration of artistic creativity to\ncounter the technological \"creativity\" ofthe military.\n\"Part of what the Air Show\nespouses is that it's a celebration\nof what the human mind can\ninvent,\" he says, \"and our\nresponse has been that all that\nstuff has been created to bring\ndeath and destruction.\n\"We want to provide alternative ways of celebrating creativity\nand human ingenuity through the\nvisual arts, through drama, and\nthrough writing, so the creativity\nthat humans have is life-affirming\nrather than death-affirming.\"\nThe Festival has its roots in an\n\"Evening of Peace\" protest started by Krause and his Mennonite\nchurch in 1986. The mandate\nbroadened in 1993 with the\nlaunching of the first Arts and\nPeace Festival to include other\ngroups, both inside and outside\nthe Valley's Bible Belt.\nTwo-time Governor General\naward-winner Rudy Wiebe\nwill read a new work at the\nArts and Peace festival.\nKrause savs things haven't\nimproved in the past decade.\n\"There's still a tremendous sup\nport for the military,\" he says.\n\"There was an editorial last year in\nour local paper that just shot\ndown the 'hippie consciousness of\nthese peaceniks.' He said we're in\na different world, the Cold War is\nover, militarism is on the wane,\nand there's no problem any\nmore.\"\nKrause laughs. \"That's just blatantly wrong. If anything, we've\nincreased our technology militarily and I don't think we're necessarily in a better place than we\nwere in the '80s, it's just refo-\ncused from the big powers to the\nsmall powers, and we're selling all\nour stuff to them.\"\nThe Festival will come into\ndirect contact with that military\nhardware when Krause will lead\ntwo tours at the Air Show.\n\"It's not a confrontational\nthing,\" he says. \"There's no placards. We're giving the same information in our tours that they\nwould give, but rather than glorifying it, we're asking people to\nthink about it.\"\nMore Powell to ya!\nby Tanya Dubick\nPOWELL STREET FESTIVAL\nAug 3-4 at Oppenheimer Park\nWhere can you see a sumo tournament, hear taiko\ndrumming, eat salmon teriyaki, and experience live\ntheatre, music and cabaret performances all on a\nsummer's weekend?\nWhy, at the annual Powell Street Festival of\ncourse. This year marks their 20th anniversary celebrating Japanese Canadian art, culture and history.\nAll events will be held this weekend at Oppenheimer\nPark (400 Powell Street).\nHealing arts, martial arts, a tea ceremony demo,\ntraditional music, dance and special events for children are all part ofthe festival. Children's activities\ninclude Kiai (a yelling competition), tug of war, and\nthe Watermelon game in which free watermelon is\nserved after the event.\nIn addition to these regular events are performances by the Los Angeles group Sounds of the\nMoving Rainbow, music by Ron Yamauchi, slides\nand origami by Seattle's Munio Makuuchi, a perfor\nmance piece by Kokoro Dance, theatre by Za-\nDaikon, and music by Hiro Kanagawa and Maiko\nYamamoto.\nThis year's theme is a celebration of Asian\nCanadian Women, acknowledging the roles women\nhave played in organizing, coordinating and volunteering for the festival. Women artists and performers from different Asian and South Asian Canadian\nCommunities have collaborated to bring us a number of projects.\nA cabaret night will top off the exciting events\nSaturday at 8:30pm, featuring a performance by Dim\nSum Dykes, poetry by Michele Wong, a multilingual\nperformance and play readings incorporating women\nfrom Chinese history and mythology.\nScheduled for these two days is a spoken word\nperformance by Jen Lam; three visual artists; and\nreadings by Hiromi Goto, Tamai Kobayashi, Lydia\nKwa, Larissa Lai and Kyo Maclear set for this Sunday\nafternoon.\nDon't miss this event if you are interested in sampling a taste of Japanese Canadian culture and experiencing this annual celebration of food, music,\ndance and art.\nSumo wrestlers entertain the masses at last year's Powell Street Festival; if either of them\nsurvived, ya might get to see them this weekend too ... THE UBYSSEY\nculture\nAUGUST 1,1996\nSex, drugs and ... um ... film noir\n\u25a0 \u25a0 \u25a0\nby Peter T. Chattaway\nMaybe ... Maybe not\nopens Aug 2 at the 5th Avenue theatre\nThe ads say this German export will \"make\nyou blush,\" but don't believe them. Thanks\nto a pleasant cast, a bouncy script and the\nubiquitous drag queens, Maybe ... Maybe\nNot will probably make you laugh, but\nodds are your cheeks won't flush an embarrassing shade of red.\nInstead, leave the flummoxed head-\nhanging to the film's \"hetero-psycho men's\nclub,\" whose member meet to commiserate\nover their common crime: finding women\nsexy. (One participant berates himself for\nthinking that a woman he met had \"great\ntits,\" not a \"bosom\"; another stuffily\ndefends his visit to a porno theatre as\n\"research\" for an essay on the degradation\nof women.)\nWhen Axel (Til Schweiger), one of the\ngroup's more promiscuous members, gets\nthe boot from his girlfriend Doro (Katja\nRiemann), he turns to a transsexual named\nWaltraud (Rufus Beck), a recent guest\nspeaker at the group, for a place to stay.\nAfter a night in Waltraud's favorite watering hole, Axel soon finds himself the object\nof intense desire among Waltraud's friends.\nIf Maybe ... Maybe Not were a typical\nfarce, we might expect Axel to flee his\namorous acquaintances in homophobic terror. Alternatively, this could have been a\nstory in which Axel undergoes a sexual conversion of sorts. But writer\/director Sonke\nWortmann, working from the underground\ncomics of gay author Ralf Konig, avoids\nboth cliches by respecting these people for\nwho they are, allowing them a reasonably\nRenton (Ewan McGregor) lays it on the line in Trainspotting, arguably the most exciting film so far this year.\ncontoured share of romantic hopes and\nfrustrations, and then spreading that sensitivity between the characters themselves.\nThe one character who escapes this sympathetic realism is the pert-faced Doro,\nwho wants Axel back once it turns out she's\npregnant with his child. Perhaps we can forgive her jealous outbursts \u2014 she does, after\nall, have a habit of bumping into Axel when\nhe's at his most compromised \u2014 but it's\nhard to escape the impression that\nWortmann isn't being all that fair to the\nonly woman who gets any screen time.\nTRAINSPOTTING\nat the Capitol and 5th Avenue theatres\nForget Shallow Grave. That slick but hollow\nScottish exercise in style was but a warm-up\nto this frenzied tour of an Edinburgh\nunderworld seething with smack, underage\nUBC Theatre shakes off the cobwebs\nsex, and toilet scuba-diving.\nThe most fascinating thing about\nTrainspotting is its refusal to moralize.\nSure, it shows the tragic consequences of\naddiction, but it earns the right to do so by\ntaking us on a delirious, glitzy ride through\nthe minds, souls, and bodily functions of its\ndropout denizens. With seemingly boundless energy, mixing a killer Britpop soundtrack with a psychedelic array of cinematic\ntricks, director Danny Boyle captures the\nallure of heroin the way GoodFellas razzle-\ndazzled us with the Mafia (Trainspotting\neven has its Joe Pesci figure in Begbie, the\nbar-brawling psychopath played by Priesfs\nRobert Carlyle).\nNear the end, Boyle shifts gears and sacrifices the carefree ambience for a plotty\nfinal act that feels overly familiar; we've\nseen these routine  betrayals  before, in\nShallow Grave. But perhaps it's better this way:\nafter 94 minutes on a celluloid high, going back\nby James Rowley\nUBC SUMMERSTOCK\nAug 1-14 at the Freddy Wood\nSummerstock Theatre has clawed\nits way back into being again at\nthe Freddy Wood, casting aside its\ntraditional format in the process.\nNot one, but nine, separate performances will hit the stage over\nthe next two weeks for this year's\n\"Festival of New Plays and\nWorkshops.\"\nThe UBC Theatre Department\nhas invited smaller local companies \u2014 such as Musical Theatre\nWorks, Western Gold, Grinning\nDragon, Pink Ink and Axis\nTheatre \u2014 to try out their new\nworks alongside UBC's own acting, dancing, directing and play-\nwriting talents. The result is a program of cheap and exciting shows\nthat could mark a fresh new direction for the performing arts at\nUBC.\nNeil Cadger, festival producer\nand director of The Plastic\nProject, describes the concept:\n\"The whole idea of this is to try\nand provide a workshop atmosphere so that people can workshop new plays without having to\ninvest a whole lot of money in\nrehearsal space and venue.\"\nBut, Cadger adds, the new\nSummerstock format will not only\nbenefit the performers. \"We're\ntrying to bring the small companies out to UBC so that we can\nget to develop an audience out\nhere, to reintegrate the Freddy\nWood as a venue for new plays,\nfor young performers and theatre-\nmakers.\"\nAccording to Cadger, there\nwas a long period during the '70s\nand '80s when \"any new play in\nLondon would have its Canadian\nPremiere at the Freddy Wood. It\nwas very prestigious, but very\nmuch a British, upper-middle\nclass type of audience.\" The\nVancouver scene was disdained as\nunimportant and this led to the\npresent need to \"make amends\nwith the theatre community.\"\nIt seems to be working. The\ntheatre was packed for the first\nperformance, a July 21 reading of\nthe new musical Bears with lyrics\nby A.A. Milne.\n\"It was a great success,\" confirms Cadger.\nUBC's contributions to the\nfestival are: 100% Fat Free opera:\nthe brothel of Miss Adventures;\nShattered Tongue, put on by MFA\ndirecting graduate Alison\nAylward, BFA acting graduate\nCheryl McNamara and dancer\nTonja Livingstone; Interbastation,\nwritten and performed by MFA\ncreative writing student Colleen\nSubasic; and The Plastic Project,\ncreated by the Summerstock\nCompany itself with help from\nBFA graduates Sophie Yendole\n(Dr. Barry in last year's Tiger's\nHeart) and Peter Grier (Horatio\nin last summer's Horatio's\nNotebook) under the direction of\nCadger, himself an MFA directing\nstudent.\nOf course, UBC alumni will\nappear in other shows as well. Don\nJuan in Hell will be a staged reading of George Bernard Shaw's\nclassic directed by Joy Coghill\n(who probably has more Jessie\nawards than I have years);\nPhaedra's Closet includes UBC\ngrad Peter Eliot Weiss in its cast;\nGrinning Dragon's The Compleat\nWorks of Love is  a remount of\nDavid Bloom and Linda Quibell's\nsuccessful adaptation of\nShakespeare; and Disposing of the\nDead, presented by Pink Ink and\nAxis, digs up an unsolved murder\nthat took place in Vancouver during the Roaring Twenties.\nThis is obviously not the kind\nof festival where one can expect to\nmake an informed choice. My\nadvice is: take a chance! If it helps,\nNeil Cadger says The Plastic\nProject is based on the lives of a\nfew particularly interesting\ndescendants of Leo Henrik\nBaekeland, inventor of the first\ncommercially viable plastic:\nBakelite. After his invention made\nhim rich, his family inherited\nthree things: buckets of money,\nincredible intelligence and ... plastic.\nBetter than a slap in the belly\nwith a wet noodle, right?\nSo why do they commit suicide, sleep with their sons, and kill\ntheir mothers? And how does\ntheir plastic past presage their\npassing?\nThese are just some of the\nquestions that may or may not be\nanswered in this collaborative performance. Cadger describes the\nscript as \"a collage of culled materials\" made up of \"letters, interviews and official documents.\"\nKnow what to expect? Me neither!\nOne thing is certain, however:\nif this festival is a success, we\ncould see it used as a model for\ncreating a more integrated\napproach to the performing arts\nat UBC \u2014 uniting the departments of theatre, music and creative writing and developing closer ties with the \"real world\"\nbeyond the gates.\ninto the real world without a little down time\nwould be too great a shock to the system.\nFilm noir series\nat the Pacific Cinematheque until Aug 31\nThe days are hot, the sun is bright, the\nworld is relentlessly cheery ... what better\ntime to indulge in the cool, dark, desperate\nworld of film, noir) The Cinematheque's\nlatest noir retrospective begins with\ntonight's double-bill of Out ofthe Past and\nDouble Indemnity, future installments will\ninclude the original D.O.A. [Aug 7] and\nthe Bogart-Bacall classic The Big Sleep [Aug\n23-24], whose plot was so contorted even\nits author didn't know who committed one\nof the murders. Whether you like watching\nOrson Welles' bloated carcass eclipse the\nMexican sky in the deliciously perverse\nTouch of Evil [Aug 25-26] or basking in a\nrain of shattered mirrors in The Lady from\nShanghai [Aug 30-31], there's something\nhere for every femme fatale and hardboiled\nprivate dick to enjoy.\nEscape with thcubyssey \u2022\u2022\u2022\nj^ti&Ot    SMIL, jtttt       dSHL       JHt J&XP   SIEMUttf\nHKS. ^fl^ff   Jvwl    jBjf   surer\nKURTRUSSE1\nCome by SUB 241K and you could get a free double\npass to the Thursday, August 8 preview of Escape\nfrom L.A. if you correctly answer the following:\nHow many films have Kurt Russell and\nJohn Carpenter made together?\nOPENS AUGUST 9 AT THEATRES EVERYWHERE THE UBYSSEY\nTHE GSS CHANNEL\nIS SORRY TO\nANNOUNCE THAT\n\"DUE PROCESS\"\nHAS BEEN\nPRE-EMPTED.\n\"ARBITRARY\nPROCEDURES\"\nWILL BE SEEN IN\nITS PLACE.\nop\/fed\nAUGUST 1,1996\nGSS justice swift, but not measured\nThe once quiet, cooperative council meetings of the GSS\nhave turned into combat central, and all graduate students\nshould be taking notice.\nAt a time when the GSS should be pulling together to\ndeal with its growing debt, structural flaws, and money-losing pub, its councillors are behaving like children.\nIn a representative government, there are times\u2014\nthough rare\u2014when the greater good is best served by decisions being made behind closed doors. Constituents trust\ntheir councillors to protect their interests; with a sensitive\nissue like the termination of an employee, confidentiality\nand discretion are critical.\nThe GSS started to make some progress by isolating its\nstructural flaws. Until Read's suspension, it seemed to deal\nwith events in a careful, considered manner.\nBut the heavy-handed way with which the GSS handled\nits councillors and Koerner's Pub staff taints any sense of\nlegitimacy the proceedings originally had.\nMost disturbing is the way the GSS went about\nimpeaching councillor David Murphy. While there is no\ndoubt he breached confidentiality by informing students\nTimer 1\nubyssey\nAugust 1,19%\nvolume 13 issue 1\nThe Ubyssey is a founding member of Canadian University Press.\nThe Summer Ubyssey is published Thursdays by The Ubyssey\nPublications Society at the University of British Columbia. Editorial\nopinions expressed are those of the newspaper and not necessarily\nthose of the university administration or the Alma Mater Society.\nEditorial Office: Room 241K, Student Union Building,\n6138 Student Union Boulevard, Vancouver, BC. V6T1Z1\ntel: (604) 822-2301 fax:822-9279\nBusiness Office: Room 245, Student Union Building\nadvertising: (604) 822-1654 business office: (604) 822-6681\nBusiness Manager: Fernie Pereira\nAdvertising Manager: James Rowan\nCanada Post Publications Sales Agreement Number 0732141\nIt was the night Prince Ted died. AH the sweet maidens stood in rhe Royal Hall and were\nfilled with immense grief, but could not mourn for long when Wolf Dcpnet, a Satanic creature from Central Europe, stepped front behind the satin curtain. He had just feasted on\ntbe fair Peter T. Chattaway who slept on his study's couch. Court pages Alison Cole,\nFederico Barahona, Janet Winters, Matt Thompson, Michael Bucking and lames Rowley\nhad all suffered the same dreaded fate too. Even the Jester Charlie Cho was not spared.\nFaith Armitagc, Tanya Dubkk and Shelly Gornall screamed and ran straight into Iamie\nWoods and Pat Hutchinson, two* Princes, valiant and pure, from a Kingdom far away.\nThey had stain rhe mighty Black Knight Andy Barham and had come to seek an audience\nwith the King Scott Hayward The First. \"Where art tbou going,\" they asked. \"To flee\nfrom tbe dreaded beast,\" rhcy replied. Chamberlain James Bowan approached with subtle grace and urged haste. \"Get thee all to the mighty tower where the Scree Neat Razzetl\nand Jamie Woods stand watch and I shall summon Sarah O'Donnell and .Catherine Monk,\nthe Kingdom's finest warriors.\" And so it was done and before sunrise the feared creature\nlaid slain in his own blood.\nEditors:\nCoordinating Editor: Scott Hayward\n* NewsEditors; tan Gunn and Sarah O'Donnell\nCulture Editor: Peter T. Chattaway\nSports. Editor: Wolf Depner\nNational \/ Features Editor Federico Barahona\nProduction Coordinator: Joe Clark\nPhoto Coordinator: Richard Lam\nabout the council's closed door meeting, there was something fishy about the way the impeachment was executed.\nWhile it is true that Murphy deserved to be impeached,\nhad he waited another three days until the next council\nmeeting, he could have read the forensic auditor's report\nand made an informed decision. He had no way to judge\nwhether the allegations against Dale Read were grounded\nin fact before venturing out on a limb.\nAt the same time, however, Murphy also deserved due\nprocess.\nIt is on this point the GSS falls short.\nOne member ofthe GSS executive spoke of an effort to\nsabotage, while another complained that Murphy \"has\ncome unprepared many times\"\u2014he was fully prepared this\ntime, just the third regular meeting after taking office in\nApril.\nMore disconcerting, however, is the council's impatience for swift justice. At 8:50 pm, several councillors\nannounced they intented to leave at 9:00 pm. Because\nthere were still people who wanted to speak to the motion,\nthe chair encouraged councillors to keep their comments\nletters\t\n\"Be fruitful\nand multiply\"\nno longer applies\nAs a Christian I have been\nconcerned that some environmentalists think religious believers can't avoid\ndestroying nature because\nthey believe God gave\nthem dominion over it.\nRecently I read David\nSuzuki criticizing some\nscientists for claiming that\nclear-cut forests, ecosystems that have developed\nof millions of years, can be\nduplicated by merely\nreplanting a few trees that\nare useful to man. Suzuki\nis thus implying that most\nscientists understand the\nneed to avoid large clear-\ncuts.\nThis suggests to me\nthat I can remedy my concern by pointing out the\nfolly of conservative\nChristians, thus freeing\nother religionists from\nbeing tainted.  This  folly\nbrief.\nAs people began to pack up their bags moments later,\none councillor noted that \"if we're going to vote on\nthis...somebody's going to have to call the question.\"\nMurphy was summarily impeached, and everyone made\nit downstairs to Koerner's Pub in time to watch Seinfeld at\nnine.\nWhile justice was swift, it wasn't measured. The meeting\nwas three members short of quorum.\nThe GSS Constitution and Bylaws are quite specific on\nthe procedure required to impeach a councillor. Since not\nall of the conditions have been met, David Murphy is\nunquestionably still a sitting member of GSS Council.\nGraduate students have a right to question what's going\non, and many ofthe questions await the result ofthe forensic auditor. GSS President Kevin Dwyer says the report has\nbeen commissioned on students' behalf and that \"they\nhave a right to see it.\"\nAs soon as the GSS has settled with Dale Read, graduate students should take their councillors up on Dwyer's\noffer.\nbegins with the rejection\nof the vast amount of evidence, particularly in the\nNew Testament, of healing without surgery or\nmedicine. The argument is\nmade that God has\nworked through the medical profession to give us\nmodern methods of treatment which the religious\nare entitled to use.\nAnother idea is that\nGod told Adam and after\nthe flood Noah, to be\nfruitful ad multiply. The\nBible tells us at those\ntimes the earth's population was less than twenty.\nSince today the population is 5.7 billion it would\nseem that humanity has\nobeyed this instruction.\nSince population explosion is destroying other\nspecies, for humanity to\ngo on multiplying is to\nthwart God's will when he\ntold all other life forms on\nthe planet to 'be fruitful\nand multiply.'\nThus religious teachings that flow from 'be\nfruitful and multiply'\nshould be discarded.\nThese include: sex should\nonly be indulged in if it\nincludes the possibility of\nprocreating, that contraceptives, sterilization, sex\neducation or masturbation\nare evil, that couples\naren't really married\nunless they intend to have\nchildren, that large families are God's will. I realize this change from\nteaching that has led to\nthe success of religions in\nthe past is very difficult.\nPreservation of the planet's environment and\ntherefore avoidance of\nenvironmentalists' condemnation of religion,\nmake these changes necessary. The whole story of\nNoah's Ark is about\npreservation of all of\nGod's creatures.\nTo  argue   that  God's\nwill that we must be fruit\nful and multiply, is\nunchangeable but that it is\nokay to use modern medicine is the height of inconsistency. Since the evidence that Jesus healed\nspiritually is enormous it is\n'straining out gnats and\nswallowing camels.'\nReligious objection to\nabortion should also be\nquestioned. There are 55\nmillion abortions per year\non the earth. To attempt\nto ban them is to accelerate population explosion\nand doom women to sickness and death because of\nunsafe abortions. To\ndemonize contraception is\nto guarantee unwanted\npregnancies, which leads\nto abortion. This is particularly unacceptable if\ninstead of just preaching it\nto one's followers, one\ntries to inflict it on society\nas a whole.\nKen McLean\nLower Mainland Sustainable\nPopulation Society\nLETTERS POLICY: Letters to the editor must be under 300 words. \"Perspectives\" are opinion pieces over 300 words but under 750 words and are run according to space.\n\"Freestyles\" are opinion pieces written by Ubyssey staff members. Priority will be given to letters and perspectives over freestyles unless the latter is time sensitive. Opinion\npieces will not be run unless the identity of the writer has been verified. Please include your phone number, student number and signature (not for publication) as well as your\nyear and faculty with all submissions. ID will be checked when submissions are dropped off at the editorial office of The Ubyssey, otherwise verification will be done by phone. THE UBYSSEY\nHCWS\nAUGUST 1,1996\nBY INVITATION ONLY\u2014members of the Student Environment Centre hand out pamphlets to guests arriving at a private dinner party held \"to honour Coca-\nCola\" at UBC President David Strangway's private residence. Campus police were called to keep students off the grounds. (PAT HUTCHINSON PHOTO)\nCoke to pay off AMS debt\nby Alison Cole\nStudent groups hoping to come into \"new\"\nmoney this year are out of luck.\nAfter weeks of discussion, the AMS decided to\nuse a chunk ofthe Coke money earmarked for \"New\nInitiatives\" to pay off its deficit.\n\"We felt it would be better to sustain existing programs and services than to be launching off on a\nwhole new raft of new initiatives,\" said AMS\nDirector of Finance Ryan Davies.\nMusic representative Scott Walker was the only\ncouncillor to vote against the motion.\n\"It's unfortunate when we don't have to get rid\nof this deficit right away\u2014when it is just a debt to\nourselves,\" Walker said, refering to the AMS' history of covering financial shortfalls by borrowing from\nits own cash reserves.\nBut Davies argues that council is only using common sense. \"I think that's responsible: to try to take\ncare of your internal obligations as quickly as possible.\"\nLast year, council allocated the $130,000 of its\nrevenue from the cold beverage agreement with\nCoca-Cola to a fund designed for student groups\nwith new projects.\nThe July 3 decision means $85,000 of that revenue will now go towards paying off its internal debt.\nOf the remaining $45,000, little more than $300\nremains for new initiatives; council committed $35,904\nto a new AMS magazine last spring and $8755 to\nupgrading the AMS web site at its last meeting.\nDuncan Cavens, Student Environment Centre\npresident, told The Ubyssey the re-allocation violates\nthe original spirit of the cold beverage agreement.\nThe deal, Cavens said, was sold to councillors and\nstudents on the promise its revenues would support\nnew initiatives.\n\"[The SEC] certainly didn't agree with...the\nCoke deal principle, but [the New Initiatives fund]\nat least mitigated some of the worst parts of the\ndeal,\" he said.\nPrior to the fund's reallocation, Cavens noted the\nSEC itself hoped to tap into the New Initiatives fund\nfor some of its projects.\nAccording to Davies the AMS didn't have much\nchoice after its financial mix-ups last year. The\n$85,000 diverted from the cold beverage agreement\nmoney, Davies said, will cover both this year's allocation and make up the $35,000 not repaid last year.\nAMS Vice-President Lica Chui backs Davies'\nposition. \"If we didn't reallocate $85,000, we would\nbe left in the situation of having to cut at least 75\npercent of our student services... I don't think that\nbudget committee, nor council, was ready to sacrifice that important area to the students,\" she told\nThe Ubyssey.\nBut Cavens still thinks council missed the point.\n\"They seem to be obsessed with their business interests and with serving themselves... without really\nhaving a vision of what they're supposed to be doing\nfor students, and I think this is a pretty good example of that.\"\nStudent leaders wary of\nuniversity expansion plans\nby Jamie Woods\nUBC is preparing for some\nmassive campus development.\nAfter years of public hearings\nand negotiations, both the GRVD\nand the UBC Board of Governors\nhave approved the university's\nsweeping expansion blueprint, the\nOfficial Community Plan (OCP).\nThe plan, which is expected to\nbecome a reality after one final\nround of public input, will generate an estimated one billion dollars in revenue for the university\nover the next 30 to 50 years, says\nthe Board of Governors.\n\"The Board of Governors feels\nthat it can no longer rely on government funding or public sympathy for tuition hikes, and that it\ntherefore has to look elsewhere\nfor funding,\" Student BoG representative Tara Ivanochko told\nThe Ubyssey.\nSome student leaders, however, worry that in generating those\nalternate sources of funding, the\nOCP could short-change students.\nThe plan identifies large areas\nof forest and agricultural land near\nthe TRIUMF facility as being\nsuitable for new housing development and allows the university to\nsell as much as 50 percent of that\nnew housing to the public. That\nsale\u2014which would generate a significant proportion ofthe OCP's\nprojected revenue\u2014has been\nhighly controversial and now has\nstudent leaders concerned.\n\"No commitments have been\nmade on student housing provisions, on making major improvements to existing classrooms, or\nto increase student grants despite\nwhat would be a large influx of\nrevenue,\" says AMS President\nDavid Borins. And, he adds,\n\"UBC has made no progress in\naddressing these concerns.\"\nThe President of the UBC\nStudent Environment Centre is\nsimilarly wary. \"That the only\nmandate ofthe UBC Real Estate\nCorporation is to make money\nwill also be a stumbling block,\"\nDuncan Cavens says.\n\"Community   groups   like   the\nDunbar Residents' Association,\nsupported the spirit of the OCP,\nbut didn't trust its bureaucratic\nlanguage or, for that matter, the\nUBC administration.\"\nAnd while Cavens concedes\nthat \"the OCP is a progressively\nenvisioned document\" for stressing such concepts as ecology and\ncommunity, he warns that it lacks\n\"the provisions and the clarity\nnecessary to determine how these\ntenets will be met.\"\nStudents have some time to\nconsider the plan. Because of the\ncontroversy surrounding the market housing plans, the OCP has\nbeen sent to undergo a two-year\nArea Planning Process, overseen\nby the provincial Ministry of\nMunicipal Affairs. UBC has\nagreed to a moratorium on market housing development until\nthat process is complete.\nAn open forum on the OCP\nwill be held on a yet-to-be-con-\nfirmed date in September and\nshould give both the students and\nthe public an opportunity to voice\nconcerns.\nNot white enough to teach\nby Jay Van De VWnt\nThe Varsity\nTORONTO (CUP) \u2014 A University of Toronto graduate was\nfired from his job teaching English in South Korea because he did\nnot look white enough.\nDill Boudsmad was hired by the Top Language School, but said\nhe was told upon his arrival in South Korea that he could not keep\nthe job because he wasn't a \"white Canadian.\"\n\"I was shocked,\" said Boudsmad. \"I did not sleep for two\nnights.\"\nJennifer You, a foreign personnel manager with Top Language\nSchool said the school does not have racist policies and was acting on\npractical considerations.\nYou said students at the school learn little from teachers who look\nAsian because they expect them to speak their own language.\n\"It does not matter what his background is,\" she added, \"they\ndon't expect that he will speak English, so they don't speak English\nto him. In Asian countries people prefer to learn English from people who look western.\"\nAlthough Boudsmad said he faxed the school a copy of his passport photo with his application, You said his application was not\nimmediately turned down because the faxed photo was too fuzzy to\ntell Boudsmad was not Caucasian. Such hiring practices are common\nin South Korean language schools, said Dawn Michael of the\nCanadian Cooperative for Language and Cultural Studies.\n\"There are very few schools in Korea that would be willing to hire\nnon-white teachers for full-time contracts,\" Michael said.\nIn addition to racial discrimination, Michael said teachers applying for work in Korea have been refused work on the basis of their\nage and hair length.\nBoudsmad said he was offered him $600 for expenses and a plane\nticket from the school to Seoul after he was fired, but not, however,\nuntil he provided the school with two free days of teaching.\nThis compensation, he added, did not even cover his travel\nexpenses, which he estimates are over $1600.\nForeign students9 fees okay\n              by Janine Dusoewoir\nThe Peak\nBURNABY (CUP) \u2014 Universities that charge higher tuition fees\nor set tougher entrance requirements for international students are\nnot guilty of discrimination, according to a recent ruling by BC\nCouncil of Human Rights.\nProtais Haje, an international student at Simon Fraser University,\nfirst brought the issue to the council's attention in 1992, riling two\ndiscrimination complaints against the university, Haje argued the\nuniversity was discriminating against him by charging him higher\nfees. Council member Barbara Humphreys, however* disagreed anet\nruled that the university's tuition and entrance regulations did not\ncontravene the Human Rights Act.\nIn her report, Humphreys supported the university's argument\nthat its policies distinguished between students on the basis of resi^\ndency or legal status within Canada, and not on the basis of race.\n\"Foreign nationals who have obtained a student authorization to\nattend the university come from over fifty different countries*\" her\nreport says. \"They cannot be characterized by race or place of origin.\"\nSimon Fraser first charged international students higher fees in\n1984. They currently pay three times as much for tuition as domestic students\u2014a fee Humphreys said still only covers 60 percent ofthe\ncosts associated with the education of an international student.\nHaje also argued that SFU's quotas on international students\nentering certain departments constituted discrimination.\nThe council, however, did not agree. \"Because ofthe demand on\nthese programs from both domestic and international students, the\nuniversity has had to raise the actual [grades] required for admission\nin order to control enrolment. The actual [grades] vary from year to\nyear, depending on the number and qualification ofthe applicants,\"\nsays the council's report. 8\nTHE UBYSSEY\nsports\nAUGUST 1,1996\nUBC magic man on a roll for Voodoos\nby Jeff Gaulin\nT-BIRD DOUG AST checks an Oakland player\nduring the Voodoo's Sunday shootout loss against\nthe Skates. (Photo by Scott Hayward)\nDoug Ast has one goal in mind\u2014a\npro-hockey career.\nAnd to get some professional\nexperience, the UBC hockey star is\nplaying pro-roller hockey on the\nVancouver Voodoos for the second\nconsecutive summer.\nAlthough Ast still has two more\nyears of a geography degree to complete, he is pursuing a pro-career\nnow. \"School is important to me, but\nat my age if I get an opportunity\nsomewhere, I'm going to jump at it\nfor sure.\n\"[Playing for the Voodoos] has\nopened some doors for me and given\nme some options,\" said Ast, who\nleads Roller Hockey International\nwith 38 goals. \"I'm pretty excited\nabout that.\"\nWhile Ast would not comment on\ncontacts he has made with\nProfessional hockey teams, he's certainly not invisible to Canucks\nGeneral Manager Pat Quinn; the\nVoodoos, like the NHL's Canucks,\nare owned by Orca Bay. Ast, however, is content to \"wait and see what\nhappens.\"\nSince joining the Voodoo in 1995,\nAst has been the team's top sniper.\nVoodoo player and UBC Coach\nKevin Hoffman, suggested the team\ngive Ast a shot in the RHI after\nwatching him play an outstanding\nfirst season at UBC.\nLeading the Voodoos with 34\ngoals last year, Ast did not disappoint. With his skills honed and mind\ntoughened, Ast went on to score 23\ngoals and 29 assists in his second season with the Birds, tying the school's\nsingle-season scoring record established by Bob McAneely 25 years\nago.\n\"Knowing that I could play at a\nhigher level of competition just made\nme that much more confident when I\nhit the ice,\" explained Ast.\nThis season, he is fourth in RHI\nscoring, acquiring points in all but\none of Vancouver's first 20 games.\nWith six hat-tricks to his credit and\neight games remaining in the season,\nAst hopes to break the 50-goal barrier and contribute to a championship\ndrive.\nPlaying for the first-placed\nVoodoos has got Ast excited about\nUBC's chances for 96\/97 and\nexpects newly re-signed Head Coach\nMike Coflin to recruit the players\nnecessary for a strong playoff drive.\nBut Winter and Thunderbird\nStadium are still far from Ast's mind\nin this seething July heat and he revels in playing at GM Place in front of\nhometown fans, friends and family.\n\"The big crowd builds you up and\ngives you an adrenalin boost compared to playing university hockey in\nfront of few hundred fans. Here,\nthere are a few thousand. It's more\nexciting to be out there,\" said Ast\nafter a loss to Oakland.\nBeing around older, more mature\nplayers from every level of pro-hockey imaginable, Ast said, has helped\nthe soft-spoken player to assume a\nlarger leadership role.\n\"There are a lot of winners in the\nlocker room, a lot of guys who have\nwon championships, so it is great to\nbe around them. This is better than\nany other job I could be doing, no\nquestion about that,\" he laughed.\n\"Playing hockey and getting paid\nfor it, playing in GM Place ... it is like\nthe real deal, like you are playing in\nthe NHL.\"\nThat's one goal Doug Ast will\ncontinue to shoot for.\nEx'Bird migrates South en route to NFL\n by Wolf Depner\nGrayson Shillingford has been\ngiven something most Canadian\nuniversity players can only dream\nof: the chance to make the\nNational Football League, courtesy ofthe Seattle Seahawks.\nShould the former Bird stick,\nhe would be the first UBC player\nto make the NFL since Bob\nCrawford played for the New York\nGiants in 1960 and 1961.\nBut as Shillingford, a wide-\nout\/return    specialist    quickly\n\"The NFL is starting\nto be more aware of\nthe talent pool that\nis available up here.\"\n\u2014Casey Smith,\nT*Bmo football head coach\nfound out, the route to the NFL\nis littered with obstacles.\nShillingford missed the first\ntwo days of a three-day rookie\ncamp due to immigration problems. Matters went from bad to\nworse the first day of main training, when he suffered a shoulder\ninjury that forced him to miss\nthree full practices.\n\"It was just a nightmare,\" said\nthe 6'0\", 195 lb Toronto native\nfrom the Seahawks' training facility in Kirkland, Washington.\nShillingford, however, is not\ndiscouraged by the early set-backs\nand is sure that he made the right\nchoice by leaving UBC a year\nearly to give the pros a shot.\nNor has he been intimitated by\nthe NFL stars.\n\"[They] are pretty easy going,\"\nhe said. \"They show up to practice, run through the drills, and\nthen go play golf.\"\nSo far, though, he has been\nmore impressed by their play on\nthe gridiron than on the fairway.\n\"You can not really put a finger on\nwhat makes them so good.\n[Football] just comes naturally to\nthem,\" he explained.\nBut the 1993 Canada West\nRookie of the Year and 1995\nSecond Team All Canadian is no\nslouch either.\nIn his three years with the T-\nBirds, he averaged 31 receptions,\n1044 all-purpose yards, and seven\ntouchdowns.\nIn 1994, he set a new UBC\nrecord for most return yards in a\nsingle season (454 yards) and tied\nthe school record for most touchdowns scored in a single game (4)\nlast season.\nBlessed with world class speed\n(4.35 seconds over 40 yards) and\nexcellent hands, Shillingford is a\nscoring threat whenever he touch\nes the ball.\n\"He is probably the purest athlete to have played at UBC and we\ndid everything we could do to\ngive him the ball,\" said T-Bird\nHead Coach Casey Smith.\nThe speed demon would be a\nperfect fit for Seattle, a team that\nwas mediocre returning the ball\nand covering downfield. And his\nonly chance to stick would be on\nspecial teams as Seattle is very\ndeep at the wide-receiver spots.\n\"They would be an excellent\nSega Football team,\" Shillingford\nquipped.\n\"I do not think they are looking at me for this year. I'm just\nplugging away here, trying to\nlearn American ball.\"\nThere are only a handful of\nCIAU products playing in the\nNFL currently, mostly on special\nteams, because of a lack of experience in the American game.\nBut their numbers may grow in\nthe near future.\n\"The NFL is starting to be\nmore aware ofthe talent pool that\nis available up here,\" said Smith,\nwho credits the open-style football played at Canadian universities for giving Shillingford and\nother top CIAU players exposure\nsouth ofthe border.\nOdds may be against\nShillingford making the NFL this\nyear, but he appreciates the train-\nIF GRAYSON SHILLINGFORD makes the Seattle Seahawks\nteam, he would be the first T-Bird to enter the NFL in over 35\nyears. (File Photo)\ning camp experience nonetheless.\n\"My dream is to be good at\nthis level. Never have I learned so\nmuch before than in the little time\nthat I have been here. I will be\nmore prepared for the future,\" he\nconcluded.\nAnd that is something Grayson\nShillingford can look forward to.\nUBC students\ntake the heat\nin Atlanta\nAthletics: T-Bird Jeff Schiebler\nfinished 21st in his 10 km Heat\nand did not advance.\nDiving: International Relations\nstudent Paige Gordon was eliminated from preliminaries in the\n10 m platform competition.\nKayaking:   Phys   Ed   student\nMargaret    Langford    finished\nby Wolf Depner    eighth in the 1 km sprint final.\nRowing: Former T-Bird\nKathleen Heddle won Canada's\nfirst gold medal in double sculls\nand a bronze in quad sculls.\nArchitecture student Laryssa\nBiesenthal was also member of\nthe bronze-winning quad scull.\nSwimming: International relations student Sarah Evanetz finished 13th overall in the women's\n100 m Butterfly. The T-Bird was\nalso part of the fifth-placed\nwomen's 4 X 100 medley relay\nteam.\nVolleyball: Former UBC star\nErminia Russo played for\nCanada's Women's Volleyball\nthat finished 1-4 in Round-Robin\nplay and did not advance into the\nmedal round.\nYachting: Physiotherapy student Penny Davis currently sits in\neight place overall in the\nWomen's 470 competition. Med\nstudent Paul Hannam is 24th\noverall in the Men's 470 as of\npress time Wednesday.\n(Sources: CBC. 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