"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2016-01-18"@en . "1995-09-06"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0126180/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " Publishing almost continuously since 1918\nWhat's Inside\nfor September 6, 1995\nNews\nTEXTBOOK SHOPPING just got\nsimpler, as the AMS Used\nBookstore moves into the UBC\nBookstore ...II\nTHE DREAM IS DEAD and the\nAMS is still evaluating what's left,\nas the ambitious SUB renovation\nplan runs athwart of reality .. ./3\nA NEW OPTION presents itself\nfor struggling students: a new BC\nuniversity that doesn't have any\nacademic entrance requirements\n...IX\nDRASTIC CHANGES to\nprovincial and federal student\nloans will affect you directly. The\ndetails on what's new, what's in,\nand what's out ...15\nPASTA PROMO targets students,\nas HMV gives out students'\nfavourite (?) foodstuff ...15\nWORMHOLE: This date in\nUbyssey history ...II\nThe Summer in Review\nFor those that weren't here or\n(gasp!) didn't read our Summer\nUbyssey issues, we bring you up\nto date on what went on ...16\nStudent Loan Feature\nWhat's new in student aid, and\nthe chronology of how the system\nevolved to the present state\n..710-11\nIS THE AMS GIVING UP TOO MUCH?\nCoke is it at UBC\nCulture\nCD REVIEWS of Urge Overkill,\nPapa Wemba, Raggadeath ..712\nMOVIE NIGHT AT THE UBYSSEY\nmeans reviews of upcoming and\nrecent releases, including To Wong\nFoo, The Prophecy, The Brothers\nMcMullen and more .. 712-14\nFRINGE FEST PREVIEW ..713\nNEW COMPILATION CD benefits\nrape crisis centres ..715\nPLAYS: The Madman and the Nun has\nfun with insanity .../21\nSports\nFOOTBALL KICKS OFF as the\nT-Birds beat the U of Alberta\n..717\nUPCOMING EVENTS IN UBC\nSPORTS highlighted in the\nUbyssey Sports Calendar ...118\nSHRUM BOWL fever is coming,\nas UBC and cross-town rivals\nSFU prepare to face off .. 719\nA special thank you to\neveryone who helped\nout on and voted in last\nJanuary's referendum.\nWe wouldn't be here\nwithout you.\nby Matt Thompson\nFor UBC students, Coke is it\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 or if it isn't, it soon will be.\nThe Alma Mater Society\n(AMS) and UBC administration\nare in the process of finalizing a\ncontract that would give Coca\nCola exclusive control over the\nuniversity's beverage market.\nThe university asked the AMS\nto enter into negotiations last\nApril as a means of raising extra\nrevenue. \"They realized that 30%\nof the volume of pop sales [at\nUBC] are being sold by the\nAMS,\" said student union Presi-\n\"We want to\nprovide better\nservices... This is\nan excellent way\nto do that without\neither raising\nprices or raising\nstudent fees\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Janice Boyle,\nAMS President\ndent Janice Boyle. \"And to have\nan exclusivity deal where you\ncould generate additional income, they would need to include\nus.\"\nEighty per cent of soft drinks\ncurrently sold in the SUB are\nCoca Cola products, and the\nAMS already has a \"preferred\ncustomer\" deal with the corporation that entitles them to a special purchasing rebate.\nUnder an exclusivity arrangement, the size of that rebate\nwould increase. According to\nBoyle, \"it is going to be substantial - over $100,000 per year for\nthe next ten years.\"\nBoyle says the contract will\nraise funds for the cash-strapped\nsociety. \"[The beverage contract]\ngenerates a fair amount of additional income with no real\nchange in what we're already doing.\n\"We want to provide better\nservices... This is an excellent\nway to do that without either increasing prices or raising student\nfees.\"\nNot everyone in the AMS Executive is sure the deal with Coke\nis such a good idea. AMS Coordinator of External Affairs David\nBorins earlier approved of the\ncontracts in principle, but now\nappears to be having second\nthoughts.\n\"I'm not sure that a student\nunion should be entering into\ndeals which centralize the power\nof multi-national corporations,\"\nhe said on Sunday.\n\"By accepting deals like this we\njust send out the wrong message\nin public-that's my biggest concern.\"\nBorins agrees that the AMS\ncould use the extra money, but\nat the same time wondered\n\"whether that large chunk of\nmoney is blinding people in their\ndecision... If you sell yourself for\na buck or a hundred thousand\nbucks, you're still selling yourself.\"\nThere also appears to be confusion among councillors as to\nwhether the contract still requires\nfinal approval by council.\nFollowing a confidential in\ncamera session Aug. 2, Council\nvoted to approve the exclusive\nbeverage contract in principle.\n\"Council has given their consent,\" Boyle said. \"They gave [Director of Finance] Tara\nIvanochko, [AMS General Manager] Bernie Peetes and myself\nthe authority to negotiate the final agreement. And that means\nto negotiate it and sign it.\"\n\"I'm not sure that a\nstudent union\nshould be entering\ninto deals which\ncentralize the power\nof multi-national\ncorporations.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 David Borins,\nAMS Coordinator of\nExternal Affairs\nBorins says that's not his understanding. \"Whatever agreement they've negotiated, it still\nmust come before Council,\" he\nsaid. \"My understanding is that\nthere is still the opportunity to\ncompletely reject this deal.\"\nBoyle, however, was unequivocal on this point. \"Council will see the final agreement for\ninformation, but at that point they\nhave already delegated the authority of negotiating the final\nagreement to Tara, Bernie and I.\nAnd once Tara, Bernie and I\nagree to a final document, the two\nsigning-officers at that point can\nsign it and [they] don't have to\ngo back to council for final approval.\"\nPHOTO BY SIOBHAN ROANTREE\nPEPSI MACHINES could soon be an extinct species on campus.\nAMS expansion dream dies\nby Sarah O'Donnell\nStudents looking forward to\nfresh AMS bagels in the SUB\nthis year will have to look elsewhere for their carbo fix.\nThe bagel shop scheduled to\nappear in the SUB concourse\nisjust one part of the AMS's extensive four year renovation\nplan that has been scrapped after years of consulting expenses.\n\"The grandiose four year\nplan that they [the architects\nand student union] had in place\nshould be considered dead,\"\nsaid Director of Administration\nAm Johal. \"We have to start\nthinking of other opportunities\nfor the long term.\"\nThe original long term renovation plan approved by the\nAMS last April included the addition of commercial space to\nthe concourse, a retail street on\nthe west side of tbe mate floor,\nand increased office space for\nstudent services and duos.\nHowever, since the AMS\nrents the SUB from the university administration for $1.00 a\nyear, renovations were contingent upon successful renegotiation ofthe lease. The main barrier was the Iraiovarive Projects\nFund (IPF), which limited AMS\ncommercial space to its current\nsize. The entire plan was based\non the assumption that lease\nnegotiations with the administration would be concluded in\nthe student union's favour.\nIn retrospect Johal said the\nnegotiations \"proved to be\nfruidess\" and that the Student\n.Union's assumption was premature, considering that \"the\namount of money that went\ninto creating this four year plan\nwas probably close to\n$100,000.\"\nNegotiation delays cost the\nAMS both time and money.\nChanges to the concourse scheduled to begin on May 20 were\npostponed untiljuly 20. As a result, students will have to deal\nwith construction on the main\nfloor of SUB until the end of\nSeptember.\nThe appearance ofthe SUB\nis now the renovation committee's number one priority. Johal\nbelieves the appearance ofthe\nSUB is more important than\never because ofthe new building going up by the village.\n\"That building could potentially do irreparable damage to\nthe student union,\" he said, referring to the retail complex\nthat will house McDonald's. Room-Mates\nRoom mate wanted to share one\nbedroom condo. Beautiful setting,\non bus route. $435/month incl.\n730-0098\nAu Pair\nLarge furnished basement room,\nnear UBC-Spanish banks, in\nexchange for babysitting of\nschool age children, pet care and\nsome light housekeeping. Separate entrance & simple kitchen.\n224-2480\nFor Rent\nLarge Clean 1 bedroom basement\nsuite on Larch at W. 45 Ave.\n$600+ util. Must be quiet, clean,\nnon-smoking & no pets. 263-7939\nFor Sale\nFor Sale: condo at UBC Hampton Place (Westbrook Mall &\n16th) Elegant 2 bedroom, 2\nbathroom, 1020 sq. ft. Exceptional quality facilities. Display\nSuite extras. Beautiful garden\npatio. Asking $279,000. call 224-\n4977\nFurniture\nDouble Futon bed- excellent\ncondition. $200 Call 689-2937\nSeptember Special: Fully\nfinished Futons for $79.00 (incl.\ntax, double). Call M.D. Futons at\n730-1348- Free Delivery!\nTutoring\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Aladdin Tutoring Services*\nCertified B.C. school teachers.\nESL, TOEFL, proofreading all\nsubjects. Competitive rates. Call\n730-9889\nOther Services\nPat's UBC Mobile Bike\nRepair\nParts, service, tuneups, at\nyour door. Free Estimates.\nFour years experience.\n733-6887 Leave message.\nHelp Wanted\n27 students to lose weight. Get\npaid daily for world wide business expansion. Second language\nan asset. Call Ash at 438-0220\nPersonals\nSWF (Short White Female) seeks\nmate. Should be tall, skinny &\nstunned. I'm tired of tile floors\nand Mazda stick shifts. If you\ncan offer me a new locale and\nbetter scenery, meet me in the\nGallery.\nWanted to Buy\nWanted: a used typewriter in good\ncondition. Call 822-6681\nYour Ad Here!\nLonely Heart? Need a roomie?\nNeed to get rid of your futon?\nHave a service you want to\nadvertise? Put it in a classified.\nCall The Ubyssey. 822-6681 or\n822-1654.\nThe Ubyssey\nClassifieds\nDeadline: 2 days\nbefore publication\n(Friday for the Tuesday issue, Wednesday\nfor the Friday issue)\nPrice: $5.25 (+ GST)\nfor first 15 words\n$0.80 (+GST) for each\nfive words over\nPayment\nin advance\nby cash, cheque,\nVISA or\nMasterCard\nCall\n822-1654 or\n822-6681\n'tween Classes\nTell us (and the rest of\ncampus) about your\nupcoming campus\nevent!\nCome in to SUB 24IK\nand fill out a form\ntelling us When,\nWhere, What, Who\nand Why (and any\nother info you're\ncompelled to share)\nand we'll publicize it in\nthis space!\nDeadlines:\nFriday at 3:30 iL:\nTuesday's paper\nWednesday at 3:30 for\nFriday's paper\nSpace in this section\nis limited!\nAnnouncements in\n'tween classes are run\non a space available\nbasis.\nConservation of Wildlife \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 2095: A Mars Odyssey \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Skeletons Plus \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Election Stock Market \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Far Out Pharmaceuticals for Kids!\nUBC IS OPENING ITS DOORS TO BRITISH COLUMBIANS THIS FALL!\nUBC\nOPEN HOUSE\nIt's An Odyssey of over 300 events in three days! Don't miss it!\nCall for Volunteers\nParticipate and receive:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 a distinctive Open House T-shirt\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 refreshments\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 an exclusive invitation to\nthe post-Open House party\nAN 6t>YSSEY\nBe part of the event of the year! Sign up with a friend! Make new ones!\nWe're looking for 420 friendly and outgoing people who are proud and supportive of their association\nwith UBC. A variety of opportunities to work with the public are available. Depending on the position, little\nor no experience is necessary. You'll get the inside scoop on Open House at our orientation and training\nsessions. We need your help for a minimum of four to eight hours.\nInterested? For more information on volunteer opportunities, contact:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 AMS Volunteer Services, Room 100D, Student Union Building (822-9268)\nor visit our booth between 10:30 am and 2:30 pm at these locations\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Sedgewick Library, September 5th to 8th Supported by:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Student Union Building, September 11th to 22nd\nApplications accepted until September 27th.\nVOLUNTEER\nVANCOUVER\nSERVICES'\nEnter the draw to win one of a growing list of prizes for volunteers only! Prizes include:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2computer \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 software \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Vancouver Grizzlies tickets \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 text books \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 movie tickets \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 gift certificates \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 dinners for two \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 UBC sweatshirts\nComputer Mediated Communication \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 From El Dorado to Guernica: A Hispanic Odyssey \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Dunk-the-Dean \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Apple Festival news\nOne stop shopping for used textbooks\nby Charlie Cho\nStudents buying textbooks this\nfall will have the opportunity for\n\"one-stop shopping\" thanks to a\nnew arrangement between the\nUBC Bookstore and the Alma\nMater Society (AMS). For the first\ntime ever, AMS used books will\nappear on the shelves alongside\nUBC Bookstore's texts.\n\"[The UBC Bookstore] took\nthe initiative,\" said AMS Used\nBook Store Director Joe Cheng.\n\"They came by and offered this\nsetup. They said they're willing\nto work in conjunction with us.\"\nIn previous years, the AMS\noperated their used book consignment service for students in the\nSUB; however, the bookstore\nlacked a permanent location.\nCheng says the move to the UBC\nBookstore will solve this problem.\nUBC Bookstore Director\nDebbie Harvie agrees that the\nchange will make book-buying\neasier. \"It seemed to be an awful\nlot of work for students to end up\nbuying books, bringing them\nback, not knowing if used ones\nwere available.\"\nStudents can choose to either\nsell their used books to the UBC\nBookstore for a flat rate or put\nthem on consignment with the\nAMS. If the text is currendy being used, the UBC Bookstore will\npay students half the current\nprice. Otherwise, Harvie says\nthey'll be offered the book's market value, which ranges from\n\"nothing, if nobody in North\nAmerica wants it, to 20 and 30\npercent.\"\nStudents who opt for consignment with the AMS get to choose\nthe price of their texts. The AMS\ntakes a 20 per cent cut. \"That's\njust merely to pay for staffing,\noverhead,\" Cheng said.\n\"The benefit of consignment is\nyou're buying from another student. You're also not paying the\nGST.\"\nAMS texts will be marked with\na bright pink sticker and will be\nsold at the UBC Bookstore just\nlike any other book.\n\"They just take it to the UBC\ncashier. It's rung through [as a]\nregular transaction. We work with\nthe Bookstore afterwards to figure out how much we get,\"\nCheng said.\nThough the AMS and the\nUBC Bookstore will both be sell-\nUBC BOOKSTORE AND AMS JOIN FORCES: Used books can now be purchased all at one place. andy bonfield photo\ning used books, both were keen\nto play down the competitive aspect.\n\"The benefits definitely outweigh that small bit of competition,\" said Cheng. \"We're trying\nto work together with the university to improve relations. I think\nit's a great example of how we can\nwork together.\"\nHarvie agreed on the issue of\ncompetition. \"The AMS has always been selling used books.\nWe've always been selling used\nbooks. The reality is none of us\ncan get the supply for the demand\nthat's out there... It's not changing who's selling how much. It's\njust making it all in one location.\"\nBoth groups plan to evaluate\nthe joint operation toward the\nend of October. If the arrangement is a success, it may become\npermanent.\nSUB concourse: better than drugs\nby Sarah O'Donnell\nThe Student Union Building\nwill never be 'normal' again, according to AMS Designer\nMichael Kingsmill. For the price\nof $39,000 students walking\nthrough the SUB concourse will\nbe able to enjoy \"improved light\nlevels\" with \"metaphoric mean-\ning.\"\nDwight Atkinson, M.A.I.B.C,\nsaid that the troughs of lights replacing the old lights in the concourse are as much about mental\njourneys as visibility. \"Architects\nsee their roles as social artists,\"\nsaid Atkinson, \"so we've chosen\nto talk about the journey that students encounter while they are\nbeing educated and we've made\nthat analogous to a journey\nthrough space.\"\nAn AMS ad in the Aug. 24,\n1995 issue of The Ubyssey stated\nthat when students travel underneath the troughs of light they will\nexperience \"long arcs in outer\nspace, landing zones on the\nmoon, hiking trails over difficult\nterrain, and sailing courses responding to winds on the ocean.\"\nThe architect Baker McGarva\nHart, Inc. designed the shades\ncovering the lights so that students could transcend normality.\n\"No more drugs on campus \u00E2\u0080\u0094just\nlook at our images and you'll be\ntransformed,\" said Atkinson.\nLighting in the conversation pit\nhas also been designed to \"engage\nthe mind.\" Next time you look\nup, expect to see two incandes\ncent spheres - each eight feet in\ndiameter \u00E2\u0080\u0094 shining down on you.\n\"They're more general surfaces\nthat refer to the details in the concourse,\" Atkinson said. \"On one\nhand you're traveling, on the\nother hand you're contemplating.\nSo it's our attempt to try to make\na connection intellectually between travel and contemplation.\"\nThese huge spherical dishes\nare supposed to represent the\nrealms of celestial and terrestrial.\nAtkinson said students should ask\nthemselves: \"is your head in the\nclouds or are your feet on the\nground?\"\nExpect the \"unearthly optimism\" advertised by the AMS to\nbe available by the end of September.\nWhat's different about the SUB?\nAlthough SUB renovations did not go exactly as the AMS\nplanned Oris summer; students can still expect to see some\nchanges.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The entire concourse has been given a new paint job. AMS\ndesigner Michael iGngsmill said that the painters just have\na few finishing touches left\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Ceiling finishes have been done to eliminate the water stains\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 New tile and carpet will be laid down throughout the upper\nconversation lounge\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Tbe old, stained, browny-beige furniture will be refurbished\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The conversation pit wiJH have hardwood floors\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 There will be a new lighting system in both the conversation pit and the main concourse\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A speaker's podium and public address system will be permanently established in the conversation pit for rallies and\ninformation exchanges\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 SUB's north wall will be covered with a mural created by\nFine Arts students. Expect to see the mural started towards\nthe end of September.\n22\n^^^^^^7\n^^\nALMOST READY FOR TAKEOFF: The refurbished SUB conversation pit is your one-stop shopping spot for space travel, astral journeys, and engaging contemplation.\nCOURTESY OF BAKER MCGARVA HART, INC.\nWednesday, September 6, 1995\nThe Ubyssey news\nThe Ubyssey asked\nstudents the question:\n\"What was\nthe first thing\nyou did when\nyou got to\nUBC?\"\nphotos by Andy Bonfield\nKatie Sinclair\nScience 1\nJames Katz\nReligious Studies/Science 4\nLeslie Zednai\nOceanography/Geophysics\n\"We unpacked and went to \"I hopped the fence at the \"I parked illegally and got\na BBQ.\" (sung in unison pool and went for a schwim a whole slew of parking\nwith friend Chani Campbell), [sic].\" tickets.\"\nJeff Kiyooka\n/*~-\\nY\nBe A Roads Scholar\nTake Transit To\nUBC\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A04 !, 4.-1\nThere are some intelligent reasons to take transit on your road to higher\neducation: affordability and convenient, direct routes. And by taking transit,\nyou will be reducing auto emissions and traffic congestion.\n*n*f\nA Quick Course In Economics\nIf you ride transit to campus, you can pay\ncash, or purchase tickets and passes in\nadvance. FareSaver tickets are sold in\nmoney-saving booklets of 10, and if you\ntake transit every day, you can really save\nwith a monthly FareCard and a Fast Trax\ntransit strip. The Fast Trax strip affixes\nto your student\nI.D. so you can\nupgrade a\nOne Zone\nFareCard to\ntravel through\nall zones. Plus,\nFast Trax will be valid\nfor multi-zone savings on the new West\nCoast Express service, coming this\nNovember. Fast Trax strips, monthly\npasses and tickets are available at your\nstudent union.\nYour Best Route To Campus\nHere is a complete listing of transit service\nto UBC by area:\nFrom West Vancouver\nThe #258 operates from Dundarave and\nPark Royal to UBC during rush hours.\nFrom North Vancouver\nThe #286 operates from the Highlands area\nto UBC during rush hours. Or, catch\nSeaBus to downtown and board the #85 for\nexpress service to UBC during the morning\nrush hour.\nFrom Downtown Vancouver\nThe #4 on Granville Mall and #10 on\nHastings or Granville Mall operate frequently to campus all day. Or from Waterfront\nSkyTrain Station arid Burrard Street, the\n#85 provides express service during the\nmorning rush hour.\nFrom SkyTrain\nFrom Broadway Station, the #9 provides all\nday service and the #31 provides express service during the morning rush hour. From\nJoyce Station, the #41 provides all day service.\nWithin Vancouver\nThe #4, 9, 10, 25, 31, 41, 49 and 85 routes\nall provide direct service to UBC. (The #10,\n31 and 85 operate as express only along portions of their route and boarding locations\nare limited.)\nFrom Richmond\nThe #480 provides direct service during rush\nhours. Or, catch any bus travelling to downtown Vancouver and transfer to the #41 at\nGranville and 41st Ave.\nFrom Ladner & South Delta\nCatch any bus travelling to Vancouver and\ntransfer to the #41 at Granville and 41 st\nAve.\nFrom North Delta, Surrey, White Rock,\nLangley, New Westminster & South\nBurnaby\nCatch any bus travelling to SkyTrain and\ntransfer to the #9 or #31 at Broadway\nStation. Or, from Scottsdale Mall, catch the\n#311 and transfer to the #41 at Granville\nand 41st.\nFrom North Burnaby\nCatch any local bus travelling to Kootenay\nLoop and transfer to the #10. Or, catch the\n#25 from Brentwood Mall.\nFrom Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam,\nPort Moody, Maple Ridge\n& Pitt Meadows\nCatch any bus travelling to downtown\nVancouver and transfer to the #4 or # 10 at\nGranville and Hastings.\nInformation At Your Fingertips\nHere's how to find out when bus service\noperates to and from campus:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Departvre times are listed on the bus\nstops at the University Transit Exchange.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Schedules are available through UBC's\nInternet system. 'View\n~ UBC is on-line 7\ndays a week,\naccessible from\nany campus or\nhome computer\nconnected to the\nnetwork. Pick up\ninformation from\nComputing &\nCommunications (CSci 100), or\ne-mail help@ucs.ubc.ca, or call 822-2008.\nFree timetables are available at the\nstudent union and many other campus\nlocations.\nCall Talking Yellow Pages at 299-9000,\nlocal 2233 for prerecorded transit\ninformation.\nCall BC Transit Customer Information:\n521-0400.\nBC Transit \u00C2\u00A3S\nVancouver Regional\nTransit System\nScience 1\n\"I went down to Wreck\nBeach.\"\nEASY U?\nROYAL ROADS RECYCLED\nby Diana Stein\nAs of September 1995, BC has\ngained a new university \u00E2\u0080\u0094 sort\nof. The former Royal Roads Military College has been reborn as\nRoyal Roads University and will\noffer a variety of courses in conjunction with Camosun College\nand the University of Victoria.\nThe revamped institution is\npresently unable to offer degrees,\nbut is accepting students who\nwould otherwise be denied university entrance. Registration at\nRoyal Roads differs from other\nuniversities because it operates on\na first-come, first-served basis and\naccepts applicants regardless of\neducational background.\nNon-matriculated students -\nthose not enrolling in programs\nleading to a degree - are not required to meet the usual entrance\nrequirements of either Camosun\nCollege or UVic, or even to have\na high school diploma. Nonetheless, a story that appeared in the\nAugust 23, 1995 edition of the\nVictoria Times-Colonist, reported that Royal Roads students\nwill receive full credit for courses\ncompleted under the joint arrangement.\nWhen contacted by The Ubyssey, staff in the registrar's offices\nof Royal Roads and UVic seemed\nuncertain whether non-matriculated students would actually be\ngranted full credit for those\ncourses.\nIn conjunction with Camosun\nCollege, Royal Roads is offering\ncourses in environmental technology and business administration. UVic has a much larger\nmenu which Royal Roads students can choose from that includes anthropology, english, history, math, philosophy, political\nscience, psychology, sociology,\ncomputer science, fine art, art history, music, theatre, and creative\nwriting.\nPrior to student orientation and\nregistration on September 5,\nRoyal Roads had already exceeded its target of 200 students.\nThere is still space for an additional 400 applicants. news\nNo Way Out\nFeds to change student\nloan bankruptcy rules\nPasta to the People!\nby Matt Thompson with files\nfrom CUP\nThe federal government is\nplanning to make it harder for\nanyone with an outstanding student loan to declare bankruptcy.\nA proposal recently sent to the\nfederal cabinet for final approval\nwould amend the Bankruptcy\nand Solvency Act so that debtors unable to repay their student\nloans would be ineligible to declare bankruptcy for a period of\n2-10 years after finishing school.\nThe proposal is similar to legislation that currently exists in the\nUnited States. In the U.S., student loan debt is exempt from\nbankruptcy discharge for five\nyears after a student leaves\nschool.\nAlex Usher of the Canadian\nAlliance of Student Associations\n(CASA) said a two-year restric-\nAMS axes\n'95-'96\nemergency\nstudent loans\nby Sarah O'Donnell\nStudents facing a financial\nemergency in the 1995/96 school\nyear will be unable to look to the\nAMS for direct assistance. A notice taped to the Director of Finance's door states that the Alma\nMater Society's (AMS) Emergency Student Loan program has\nbeen \"temporarily discontinued.\"\nTara Ivanochko, director of finance, said in the notice that in\norder to give out more loans,\n\"outstanding loans must be repaid. This has not been happening and the fund has become\ngreatly overdrawn.\"\nIn previous years emergency\nstudent loans were given to students on an honour system. Anyone in a financial crisis who received a loan was expected to\npay it back as soon as possible.\nThe flaw in the AMS loan program was that it could not ensure\nthat students who borrowed\nmoney fulfilled their part of the\nbargain.\nAMS Vice-President Namiko\nKunimoto said it was important\nto understand that the AMS has\nnot cut emergency student loans\nout of its budget permanently,\nand that the society will still try\nto assist students as much as possible.\nStudents in need of emergency financial assistance can still\nreceive aid through a similar program run by the university.\nKunimoto said the AMS would\nrefer students to the university\nand would be able to co-sign for\nany student receiving an emergency loan from the university.\ntion on student bankruptcies is\nnot unreasonable given recent\nchanges to the Canada Student\nLoan Program.\nUnder the terms of the new\nprogram, students temporarily\nunable to make loan payments\nare eligible for up to 24 months\nof \"interest relief.\"\n\"In the first two years [of the\nrepayment period], there's no\ngood reason, with interest\nrelief...why people should be\nbankrupting themselves. When\nthey do default, that's hurting\nother students, really.\"\nUsher said a five or ten-year\nrestriction, however, would be\nunfair. \"Why should student\nloans be put in a different category than house or car loans?\"\nhe asked.\nMichael Gardiner of the Canadian Federation of Students\nalso says it would be unfair to\nsingle out student loans.\n\"The bankruptcy laws exist for\npeople who are being crippled by\ndebt,\" he said, \"and they should\nbe available to all types of loans.\"\nThe bill is expected to be\nready for reading sometime in\nthe late fall.\nThe amendments to the act\ncould be approved as early as\nJanuary of 1996.\nby Andy Barham\n\"It isn't Live Aid, it isn't Farm\nAid ... it's Makaroni Aid!\"\nThis innovative back-to-\nschool national promotion is designed to give students their own\n\"'survival kit' consisting of their\nfavorite comfort food, makaroni\nand cheese.\"\nAt least, that's how the promo\nblurb from HMV Canada outlines its latest promotional gimmick: \"Free Makaroni\" with purchases of certain specified CDs.\nAccording to Colin Thomson,\nrepresenting the advertising firm\nNextMedia, \"The majority ofthe\ntarget that we were catering to\nwas the university/college crowd.\nEverybody knows that their staple is macaroni and cheese, right?\nSo, we just kind of hit on that and\ndecided to call it makaroni.\"\nBut is macaroni and cheese\nreally the favoured comfort food\nof most university students? Said\nThomson, \"I think that students\nprobably truly despise it. But, it's\nso cheap that it's comforting.\"\nHMV stores do not give free\npromotional packets of Makaroni\nwith just any CD, though. Various major record labels and even\na few indies constitute the 28\nCDs at the heart ofthe campaign,\nbut no particular music style prevails. According to Thomson, the\nonly criterion was that they be\n\"newer releases\".\nIs the promotion a success? \"So\nfar,\" said Thomson, \"there's been a\nlot of positive reaction to it, particularly in Toronto. The response is\npretty good. People think it's a riot\"\nBut in the opinion of some students, the marketing pitch may do\nthe trick. \"It's a bit of a gimmick,\"\nsaid Amy, an Education student, \"but\nit's free macaroni, so it can't go\nwrong. If I wanted macaroni and I\nwanted the CD, I'd buy it\"\nBon appetit!\nROYAL BANK\n^Registered trade-mark of Royal Bank ol Canada\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Royal Bank ol Canada, licensee ol trade-mark\n^ajil-800 ROYAL,9-9\n(1800 769-8599) summer news\nIN CASE YOU MISSED IT\nThe summer's news;\nby Alison Cole\nTwo months and seven\nissues later, here are the\nhighlights from this summer's\ncampus news, as reported by\nThe Summer Ubyssey:\nThe McEwen Report:\nThe McEwen Report, written by\nhired independent investigator\nJoan McEwen, contains allegations of racism and sexism in the\ngraduate program of the UBC\nPolitical Science Department. The\nreport, released June 21, made\nseven recomendations which\nUBC President David Strangway\nsaid would all be implemented, including the recommendation to\nsuspend admissions to the graduate program in political science.\nStrangway made no promises to\ntake further action beyond the\nrecommendations.\nDean of Arts Patricia Marchak,\nas well as UBC's Department of\nPsychology, both publicly slammed the report for its perceived\n\"methodological flaws.\"\nAt a special meeting to be held\non September 7, the Faculty of\nArts is scheduled to meet to\ndiscuss a resolution calling for the\nre-opening of graduate admissions in the Political Science\ndepartment.\nNew AMS Budget:\nAMS Council approved the\nAMS budget for the 1995/96\nfiscal year, which includes cutbacks totalling $50,000. Due to\nAMS government overspending\nof more than $200,000 last year,\nbudget cuts of $50,000 will be\nmade in each of the next five\nyears to pay off the deficit. The\nmajority of cuts take place in food\nallowances for AMS volunteers,\nUBC ROADMAP TO COMPUTING\ntion to Networked Compul\nFREE Lectures and Hands-On Tutorials\nA FREE lecture and tutorial series has been created to help familiarize\nfaculty, staff and students with the computing facilities at UBC. A\ncompanion document to the lecture series, entitled UBC Roadmap to\nComputing, will be for sale at the UBC Bookstore. All lectures will\ntake place in the Instructional Resource Center (in the same building\nas the Woodward library) in the rooms noted below. For more information about the lecture series, please call 822-5809, or send e-mail to\nroadmap @ cs. ubc. ca.\nElectronic Mail: Sept. 6, 12:30 - 1:30 (Rm. 4), Sept. 14,4:30 - 5:30 (Rm. 6)\nNetinfo/Interchange: Sept. 6, 4:30 - 5:30 (Rm. 6), Sept. 14, 12:30 - 1:30, (Rm. 6)\nIntro to UBCLD3 (UBC Library's on-line catalogue); Sept. 7,12:30-1:30 (Rm. 6)\nIntro to UNIX: Sept. 7,4:30 - 5:30 (Rm. 6), Sept. 11, 12:30 -1:30 (Rm. 4)\nIntro to C: Sept. 8, 12:30 - 1:30 (Rm. 4), Sept. 11, 4:30 - 5:30 (Rm. 6)\nThe Web and News: Sept. 8, 4:30 - 5:30 (Rm. 6), Sept. 13, 12:30-1:30 (Rm. 4)\nUNIX Editors: Sept. 12, 12:30- 1:30 (Rm. 1), Sept. 15,4:30-5:30 (Rm. 6)\nLaTeX (UNIX text formatting language): Sept. 15, 12:30 - 1:30 (Rm. 4)\nX Windows (graphical user interface for UNIX): Sept. 13, 4:30 - 5:30 (Rm. 6)\nNEW this fall, we are offering two FREE hands-on tutorials: Introduction to UNIX, and Introduction to C programming. Each tutorial\nis 2 hours in length, and you will work on an X Windows (graphical)\nterminal running UNIX. As space is limited, please phone 822-0557,\nor send e-mail to roadmap\u00C2\u00AEcs.ubc.ca , in order to reserve a space.\nThis program was made possible through the support of The Teaching and\nLearning Enhancement Fund and The Department of Computer Science.\nLiving the Disillusioned Life\nwith actor Ron Reed and the jazz vocals and\npiano of Christine Duncan and Bob Murphy\nGateOne's Regular Forum on Faith\nSun., Sept. 10 7:30 PM Regent College\n(University Blvd. @ Wesbrook Mall)\nBefore: BBQ, Jazz Fusion Trio After: Cafe\nPASSION & REALITY\nas well as severe cuts in AMS\nPrograms and CiTR.\nAsia Pacific Ventures:\nThe AMS council voted July 12\nto take legal action against former\nPacific Post editor Chung Wong.\nPending approval by their lawyers, the AMS plans to sue Wong\nfor $10,000 to recover money\nloaned to Asia Pacific Ventures\n(under which Wong was employed by the AMS) and has yet to\nbe repaid. Wong denied any\nliability for the overspending of\nthe money, which the AMS says\nis as high as $24,292, and claimed\nthat he never received any payment for his work for the AMS.\nStudent Loan Changes:\nFederal and provincial governments are no longer guaranteeing loans to students. Under a\nnew \"risk sharing agreement\"\neffective this August in British\nColumbia, three participating\nbanking institution, CIBC, the\nBank of Nova Scotia and the\nRoyal Bank, are processing both\nfederal and provincial government loans. Students with loans\nat other financial institutions will\nbe required to transfer their debt\nover to one of these banks before\nnegotiating new loans this year.\nSAC Resignations:\nConflict within the AMS\nStudent Administrative Commission (SAC) caused two SAC\nmembers to resign from their\npositions. The conflict arose\nwhen AMS Director of Administration Am Johal asked council to\noverride a decision SAC had\nalready passed. SAC had decided\nthat The Ubyssey Publications\nSociety (UPS) would be required\nto pay full commercial rates on\nall room bookings in the SUB.\nJohal went against this decision\nand asked Council to give the\nUPS bookings at 50% off the\ncommercial rate during a meeting\non June 21. The resigned\nmembers, Ruta Fluxgold and\nRoger Watts, expressed their dis-\nCHRIS NUTTALL-SMITH PHOTO\nAMS PRESIDENT JANICE BOYLE faces her first media scrum following the\nrelease of the McEwen Report on June 21.\nsatisfaction with Johal's decision\nto ignore SAC and said they were\nno longer able to effectively work\nwith him.\nMajor UBC Benefactor dies:\nWalter Charles Koerner, a\nmajor UBC benefactor, died July\n20 on his 97th birthday. Koerner\nserved on the Board of Governors\nfrom 1968 to 1972, and then\nconvinced the federal government to share in the cost of the\n$4 million UBC Museum of Anthropology. The Leon and Thea\nKoerner Foundation, established\nby his brother Leon and his wife,\nprovides scholarships, bursaries,\nresearch support and grants to\nUBC.\nAMS Referenda:\nThe AMS plans to hold a referendum during the 1995/96\nschool year asking students to\ncreate a bursary fund for child\ncare, and reallocate the $7 Varsity\nAthletics fee paid annually to\nfund AMS services and intramurals.\nTRIUMF Layoffs:\nLayoffs have occured in the\nTRIUMF particle physics laboratory and the National Research\nCouncil Institute for Machinery\nResearch (IMR), at the south end\nof Westbrook Mall. Staff cuts are\nto offset a 15% cut in federal fund-\ncontinued on page 9\nSTEVE WILSON (LEFT) and Anita Braha, lawyer for the CSS, at the CSS's press\nconference after the McEwen report was made public\nCHRIS NUTTALL-SMITH PHOTO mews of yesterday & today\nWorm hole ^g\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00ABji\nworm\u00C2\u00ABhole (wurm'hol') n. l.The hole made by a worm, as in plants, timber, etc. 2. A rift in the space/time continuum resulting in temporary temporal displacement\nThirty years ago in The\nUbyssey...\nSeptember 14, 1965:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The AMS successfully lobbies for students to pay tuition in\ntwo-term installments. Students\nhad traditionally paid one lump\nsum in September.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Engineers stage unsuccessful\ncar-parking prank. Three unruly\n'geers send 464 bogus letters to\nout-of-town students seeking\ncampus parking spaces.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 UBC's library becomes automated. For the first time, UBC\nstudents are able to use a card and\nsign out books on the \"Inhuman\nBlue Monster\" (IBM) rather than\nfilling out coundess call slips.\nTwenty years ago...\nSeptember 2, 1975:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 First-year students were\nTrees cleared\nfor lawn,\nAnSo next\nby Charlie Cho\n12 cedars on the north campus\nwere cut down last Wednesday to\nclear the way for a big grass lawn\nThe university said the trees along\nNW Marine Drive were removed to\nmake way for \"a grand front lawn or\nmeadow linking the upper and lower\nsides of Marine Drive\" and will be\nreplaced with smaller trees.\nAbout half of the small faculty\nparking lot near the Anthropology/\n\"In the long term, the\ncohesion of the\ncampus ... would be\nbetter served if...\nAnthropology and\nSociology were\ndemolished\"\n-UBC's 1992 campus\nplan\nSociology building will also be eliminated.\n\"Now that we've built the Rose\nGarden parkade, it really doesn't\nmatter,\" said Parking and Security\nServices Parking Manager David\nMiller.\nCampus Planning Information\nOfficer Kathleen Laird-Burns said\nthe long term plan for the next 20 to\n25 years includes the removal ofthe\nAnthropology/Sociology building.\n\"In the long term,\" stated UBC's\n1992 campus plan,\"the cohesion of\nthe campus and the interplay between faculties would be better\nserved if the old residences [Isabelle\nMaclnnes Hall, Anne Westbrook\nHall, and Mary Murrin Hall] converted to accomodate Anthropology\nand Sociology, were demolished to\nmake room for an extension of the\npublic lawn.\"\ntreated to a semi-fictional account\nof the perils of life at UBC in The\nUbyssey's Student Guide to the\nUniversity of British Columbia.\nOtherwise known as \"Pauline\ngoes to college,\" the 20-page\nguide follows the misadventures\nof a buxom, blonde, co-ed as she\nadjusts to life at UBC.\nFifteen years ago...\nSeptember 9, 1980:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 AMS boosts its beer prices.\nThe price of a bottle of domestic\nbeer goes up 15 cents to $1.15,\ndespite the fact that Pit revenue\nwas double what the AMS anticipated.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 UBC students face the worst\nhousing crisis in a decade as thousands scramble to find accommodation. Emergency measures find\ntemporary housing for most students, but they have more diffi\nculty finding permanent living\nspace.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A Ubyssey takeover attempt by\ntwo AMS executives fails after\nmore than 40 Ubyssey staffers attend a May council meeting and\npresent council with a petition\nsigned by over 400 students supporting freedom of the press on\ncampus.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Glowing skeletons come tumbling out of UBC's closet, as The\nUbysseyreports on the university's\ndumping of unknown quantities\nof radioactive waste into BC's\ncoastal waters during the 1950s.\nWanna check out\nthe bound volumes\nfor yourself? Visit\nus in SUB 241K.\nNO OEG&MGr f\n'IF SOU RNPTV\nBOOK tDU WAN\nT6K\u00C2\u00A3 IT TO THE\nGoMPureeTOM\nCHKKEP OUT.\ntoo MU5T PEOC\nSOITA0L\u00C2\u00A3 IP-\nSUCH AS r*S6K\nAMP NOTAfOIO\nrejMT5,ETC.\nTD MINIMIZE WE4\nAMP TEAE ANP \u00C2\u00BB\nPLEAse vo Nor\nOPEK BOOKS.\nkV\nPAULINE'S 1975 ADVENTURES take\nover the body of a previous year's fresh.\nher to the main stacks, where she trips\nUBYSSEY FILE GRAPHIC\nScotia Banking Advantage Plan\nIt'll help you afford\nthe necessities in life.\nSave money with the only no-lee student hanking plan.\nIf double cheese is becoming a major expense, perhaps it's time you discovered the advantages\nof banking with Scotiabank.\nScotia Banking Advantage\" is the only plan that gives you a daily interest chequing account, a\nScotiaCard\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 banking card and a Classic VISA* card* all for no fee. 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TRIUMF let 15 staff members\ngo, while another 22 accepted\nearly retirement.\nAMS Bike Lockers:\nThe AMS is planning to provide bicycle storage locker spaces\nfor students starting this month.\nThe lockers will be located at the\nnorth end of War Memorial Gym,\ngiving bicycle commuters easy\naccess to showers at the facility.\nThe lockers will be rented for $ 15-\n$17 per month and are aimed at\nreducing bike thefts and damage\non campus.\nRecFac to open in September:\nThe Student Recreation Centre,\nlocated on the north side of\nMclnnes Field, will open to\nstudents this month. It will include\nthree full size gyms, a weight\nroom/fitness center, martial arts\nstudio, dance studio, daycare\nfacilities and administration offices.\nMost ofthe intramurals department\nwill move to the building, and the\nAthletics Department Varsity\nprogram will use the facility as well.\nLastjanuary the Board of Governors\nvoted to extend the $40 annual fee\ncharged to students (to pay for the\nfacility) since students have not been\ncontributing the refundable fee.\nAMS steamed over hot dogs:\nUBC Food Services unions and\nAMS representatives are not\nhappy with the appearance of Mr.\nTube Steak hot dog vendors on\ncampus. Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) local 116\nrepresentatives said that the contract with Mr. Tube Steak is in violation with the Food Services employees' collective agreement (by\ncontracting out work already performed by their members). Since\nUBC Food Services already sells\nhot dogs on campus, they feared\nMr. Tube Steak would create\ncompetition that would in turn\ntheaten union jobs. Colleen\nGarbe, treasurer of CUPE 116,\nvows that they would get Mr.\nTube Steak off campus.\nDon't pay with cash:\nUBC will no longer accept cash\nin payment for tuition. Due to the\nrisk of armed robbery, UBC\nFinancial Services has decided it\nwill only accept payments in alternative forms. Am Johal, AMS\nD of A has expressed concerns about\nthe move. Starting this month, tuition\ncan be paid via debit card, cheque,\nor cash at any Bank of Montreal\nlocation and by telephone - anything but direct cash.\nAMS joins CASA:\nAt their August 2 meeting,\nAMS Council voted to join the\nnewly formed Canandian Alliance of Student Associations\n(CASA). CASA, formed last\nMR. TUBE STEAK'S move onto campus has both the AMS and CUPE steamed.\nJanuary to lobby for undergraduate student concerns, will\nnow represent a total of 11\nschools and 200,000 students.\nGraduate Students' Society Director of Student Affairs Steve\nWilson stated that the AMS\nwould be doing a disservice to its\ngraduate students by joining the\nalliance since CASA is only interested in undergraduate affairs.\nCASA National Director Alex\nUsher said that membership (in\nEVERY STUDENT'S DREAM - McDonald's Golden Arches will soon grace the campus of UBC.\nJENN KUO PHOTO\nQuality\nValue\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Full & Self Serve Copies\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Full & Self Serve\nColour Laser Copies\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Self Serve Computers\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Fax Service\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Binding\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Plus a lot more...\nUniversity Village\n2nd Floor 2174 W. Parkway\nUBC, Vancouver, B.C.\n224-6225\nfx: 224-4492\nOpen 7 Days a Week\nMon-Fri S'9 I Sat-Sun 10-6\nTHE DENTAL CLINIC\nAT UBC\nis accepting application\nfor patients needing\nEXTRACTIONS\nincluding wisdom teeth\nand minor surgery.\nPlease contact\n822-4216\nfor an appointment\nCASA) would be of real benefit\nto UBC.\nBuilding means less parking:\nConstruction for a new forest\nsciences center to be built on the\nB3 parking lot near Thunderbird residences has sparked\ndebate. The building of this new\nfacility will eliminate approximately. 200 parking spaces on\ncampus, which could cause\nfurther difficulty for students\ntravelling to UBC by car. However, Tom Berger, community\nrepresentative on the Board of\nGovernors said the new forest\nsciences building far outweighs\nthe loss of student parking\nspaces.\nNew poster policy pending:\nAt the October 15 Board of\nGovernors meeting, UBC will\nbe seeking the approval to regulate postering on campus. Under\nthis new policy, postering of any\nkind on building exteriors, telephone poles, lamp and sign\nposts, trees, and outdoor\nbenches would be prohibited, as\nwell as the placing of flyers and\nleaflets on parked vehicles. Also,\nMONGOLIAN\nKJreatJ\n3\nLUNCH\nSPECIAL.\n$295\n&up\nitems to cihwsi\n733-4888\ncW w Srosilway - Pining at Heap\nCHRIS NUTTALL-SMITH PHOTO\nPlant Operations would remove\nany posters not placed according\nto regulation, and people who\nviolate this policy would be made\nto pay for any costs incurred by\nthe removal. The goal is\napparently to lessen \"visual pollution\" and establish a better system\nof posting on campus.\nBig Mac attack:\nMcDonald's will be coming to\nUBC this year sometime between\nNovember and January. The restaurant will (eventually) be housed\nin the building that is currently\nunder construction in the University Village. The retail complex\nwill also contain a photocopy\ncenter, a grocery store and food\nfair. Students and nearby residents\nare concerned about-potential\nproblems, including the threat to\nbusinesses in the SUB, parking,\nand noise and odor problems.\nCome find out al the\nnews we can't print\nJoin The Ubyssey's\nNews Team.\nVisit us at SUB 24IK.\nI!\nUBC Student Special\nWASH\n8.\n1 your Duds in our Suds\no\no\na\nV\nc\n8.\nExperience the difference!\nGreat music & decor, drinks &\nsnacks. Friendly helpers all the\ntime. Cappucino bar open\nin Sept. - so you can make friends.\n7 Days: 7:30 am -10 pri?\nUBC's nearest Beau Clean Centre\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Professional Dry Cleaning\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 like Mum's Drop Off Laundry\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 60 Coin Op Washers/Dryers\nGold Coin\nCoin Laundry\n11 3496 West Broadway* 739-0598 i\n12 blks. E. of Alma on S. side - rear parking ' feature on student aid\nThe New Student Loan Program:\nWhat You Need to Know\nby Matt Thompson\nThe federal government announced major changes to the Canada\nStudent Loans Program this summer.\nAs of August 1, 1995, the federal\nand provincial governments no\nlonger guarantee student loans.\nInstead, under a new \"risk-sharing\"\nagreement, participating banks will\nassume full responsibility for loan\ncollection and losses in exchange for\na 5 per cent \"risk premium.\"\nThe Ubyssey asked Alex Usher,\nNational Director of the Canadian\nAlliance of Student Associations\n(CASA) and Michael Gardiner, BC\nChairperson of the Canadian\nFederation of Students (CFS), to\ncomment on the most important\nclauses in the new agreement.\nREPAYMENT PERIOD\nOld Program: Borrowers were put on\na nine-and-a-half year schedule to\nrepay their debt.\nNew Program: The repayment\nperiod will depend on the terms\nborrowers negotiate with their\nfinancial institutions.\nUsher said that the banks will\nlikely start students off on the same\nnine-and-half-year repayment\nschedule. The banks may actually\nprove to be more flexible in extending this period than the government\n\"There is incentive for the banks to\nhave a little flexibility, particularly in the\nearly years when there's a lot of money\nstill to be recovered,\" he said.\nBut Gardiner worried that banks\nmay offer this added \"flexibility\"\nonly to those students best able to\npay: those able to provide either a\ncosigner or collateral. \"It may end\nup being another example of a\nchange...that helps those that need\nit the least.\"\nINTEREST RELIEF\nOld Program: Interest relief was\navailable only to unemployed borrowers.\nNew Program: Low-income borrowers are now eligible, and the\ninterest relief period has been\nextended to 24 months.\nInterest relief is intended for\nborrowers temporarily unable to live\nup to the terms of their repayment\nschedule. During periods of interest\nrelief, the government continues to\npay the interest on your loan and\nyou don't have to make payments.\nUsher called the change \"a big\nstep forward. That's your key group:\npeoplewith low or unsteady employment in their first few years after\ngraduation...I think it's going to\nmake a big difference, especially in\ngeneral default rates.\"\nGardiner agreed that the change\nis a positive one. \"It's a step that\nrecognizes the changing job market\nand the transition period that takes\nplace before graduates are getting\ninto reasonable jobs.\"\nIn the past, low-income borrowers were often put on \"outrageous\" repayment schedules where\nThe Ubyssey\nPublications Society\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Notice \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nSociety Membership Fee Opt-Out\nfor Students taking courses in both terms\nor in first term only\nIn the 1995 January AMS elections, the students of UBC voted to\ngive The Ubyssey Publications Society a $5 per student pro-rated\nrefundable fee for the purpose of publishing The Ubyssey, the official\nstudent newspaper at UBC. The Society is a non-profit society\nincorporated in BC, composed of the students at UBC, and is democratically run by the students, through an elected Board of Directors\ncoming from the student body.\nThe Ubyssey Publications Society Fee is a voluntary fee collected\nfrom all students at UBC. For $5 (pro-rated at 290 per credit for part\ntime students), the money is used by the Society to publish The\nUbyssey. This fee is collected as part of your student fees automatically.\nIf you do not want to pay this fee, you are able to opt-out of the fee\nand receive a refund from September 6th to September 22nd\nduring the hours of 10am to 4pm.\nThere will be no cash payments\u00E2\u0080\u0094 a credit will\nbe issued towards your second term fees.\nStudents asking to have their fees returned will be ineligible to\nvote, be a candidate or hold office in the Society, and will not be\nable to become voting staff members of The Ubyssey.\nthey borrowers simply didn't have\nenough money to make loan payments and pay living expenses.\nGardiner said extended interest\nrelief may provide this group with\nan option other than defaulting.\nINTEREST RATES\nOld Program: borrowers paid a fixed\ninterest rate over the entire course\nof repayment. The rate was fixed\neach year based on Government of\nCanada 5-10 year bond yields + 1%.\nNew Program: Full-time students will\nhave the option of choosing between\neither a fixed or floating interest rate.\nThe floating interest rate will be set\nat Prime plus 2.5%. The fixed rate\nwill not exceed Prime plus 5%.\nThe bottom line, according to\nGardiner, is that students will pay\nhigher interest rates than they used\nto. The option to choose a floating\nrate over a fixed rate is, in his view,\nof little benefit. \"It gives students the\nfreedom to gamble, and I don't\nknow how it helps them beyond\nthat.\"\nBC students will be offered\n\"interest shielding\" for their provincial loans. The interest rate on\nprovincial loans was previously set\nat prime plus 1%, but under the new\nrisk-sharing agreement, the banks\nwill increase the rate to Prime plus\n2.5\u00C2\u00B0/o. The BC government will\n\"shield\" students from this increase\nby paying banks the difference.\nTOTAL LIFETIME\nBORROWING:\nOld Program: Students were eligible for up to 520 weeks of student\nloan assistance.\nNew Program: 340 weeks. This\nworks out to ten years at two terms\nper year. The feds say the change is\npart of their plan to ensure students\n\"complete their studies in a timely\nmanner.\"\nGardiner said the new limit may\npenalize some part-time students.\n\"It's geared toward forcing students\nto complete their studies in a full-\ntime course load manner,\" he said.\nFor students taking courses in\naddition to working or parenting,\n340 weeks could be an unreasonable\nlength of time to finish a degree.\nUsher said the change will affect\na relatively small percentage of\nborrowers, but added that the\nreduced cap may pose a problem for\nstudents who decide to change their\ndiscipline midway through their\nstudies.\nELIGIBILITY\nOld Program: Full-time students\nmust take 60% of a full course load.\nPart-time students must take between 20% and 59% of a full course\nload.\nNew Program: Course load limits\nare unchanged, but students must\npass 60% of their classes in order to\nbe eligible for loans the following\nyear.\nOn the surface, the changes are\nminor. Under the new risk-sharing\nagreement, the government\u00E2\u0080\u0094not the\nbanks-will still decide who receives\nstudent loan assistance.\nBut Michael Gardiner worried\nthat may change when the current\nagreement comes up for renegotiation. \"I think what we'll discover going into the next set of\nnegotiations is that if [the banks] are\nlosing money...there maybe calls for\n[banks] having some say in the\nsetting of eligibility requirements.\"\nHe pointed to Nova Scotia as an\nexample, where 800 students were\ntold by banks that they did not\nqualify for student loans despite\nmeeting the Nova Scotia government's eligibility criteria.\nUsher isn't as worried. \"The\n[argument] of people opposed to the\nbank deal is, 'We don't like this bank\ndeal because we're afraid the next\none might be worse.' That's a little\nweak, I think.\"\nDEFAULTS\nOld Program: If you missed three\nloan repayments in a row, you were\nconsidered a defaulter. The government paid the lending institution (ie,\nthe bank you negotiated your loan\nwith) the outstanding principal and\naccumulated interest on your loan.\nThe government then tried to recover the loan through private\ncollection agencies, or, if unsuccessful, the income tax system.\nNew Program: The banks themselves are responsible for collecting\nloans. They can renegotiate the\nterms of your repayment, or they can\nseize your assets.\n\"I think the only people that are\ngoing to feel upset about this, really,\nare people who may be getting a free\nride,\" said Usher, referring to the\nsmall portion of borrowers that can\nafford to make their payments but\nfail to do so. \"We'll have to watch\nout for banks being overly aggressive,\" he said. \"But I don't see any\nintrinsic reason why having the\nbanks after you is going to be worse\nthan having the government after\nyou.\"\nGardiner also pointed out that\nbanks will essentially be using the\nsame private collection agencies\nused by the government.\nStudent Fee Payment Options\nEffective September 1,1995\nPlease note that Financial Services will no\nlonger accept cash as a form of payment\nfor tuition fees effective September 1, 1995.\nThis change is being made for safety reasons, so students and our counter\nstaff will not be handling large amounts of cash and be exposed to the\npossibility of robbery.\nStudents can pay tuition fees via:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Touch Tone Telephone. Contact your bank or\ncredit union for details.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Payments by bank Debit Card - located at the\ntuition fee counter in\"Brock Hall.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Payments by cheque at the tuition fee counter,\nby mail, or at any branch of the Bank of Montreal.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Cash payments will be accepted, even for\nstudents without bank accounts, at any branch of Bank of Montreal. Erosion of the\nProgram\n1963\nWhen campaigning for Prime\nMinister, Lester B. Pearson\npromised a package of non-repayable scholarships, but when\nelected brought in a system of\nrepayable loans.\n1983\nThe Secretary of State promised that a reformed student aid\nplan would include grants. It\ndidn't happen. Instead, a part-\ntime student aid plan was brought in, along with interest relief,\nand an increase in loan limits.\n1985-1995\nThere were no up-dates to the\nParental Contribution Tables for\nten years following changes\nmade in 1984-85. Parents were\ntherefore expected to contribute\na higher portion of their disposable income to their dependent's\neducation, due to erosion on\ntheir income caused by inflation.\n1989\nThe government began to tie\nlifetime borrowing to successful\ncompletion of programs. The\nlifetime limit of 520 weeks was\naltered to a maximum per degree, although exceptions were\nto be considered.\n1991\nThe federal government slapped an administrative fee on\nstudent loans, reducing the benefits to students. The 3% tax was\npaid up-front, reducing the student's loan by the same percentage. After persistent lobbying, it\nwas finally removed in 1993.\n1993\nThe 6 month interest-free period after graduation was eliminated through the passage of Bill\nC-76.\nKnowing the limitations ofthe\nCanada Student Loans Program\nand wanting to secure a piece of\nthe student aid market, the Bank\nof Montreal announced its own\n'version' of student loans. Other\nchartered banks followed suit.\nStudent Aid in Canada and the\nCanada Student Loans Program:\nA Chronology 1963 -1995\n1994\nWhile the government increased the weekly loan limit for\nthe first time since 1984-85, it\nstated that it would only provide\na maximum of 60% of a student's\ntotal federal/provincial aid. Because ofthe way that the BC program was designed, students using the provincial program who\nhad high need and were eligible\nfor grants, received less grant\nthan they would have under the\nold guidelines. A BC government\nmove to increase maximum loan\nlimits recovered some portion of\nthe grant lost through the federal\nchange.\nLegislation was passed enabling the government to enter\ninto risk-sharing agreements with\nthe banks.\n1995\nElimination ofthe federal government guarantee of loans was\nannounced. From now on, students having difficulty paying\nofftheir loans would have to deal\nwith the banks instead of the government.\nTrend Towards\nPrivatisation\n1964\nThe trend towards privatisation occurred when the Canada\nStudent Loans program was first\nbrought in. Instead of establishing its own lending agency to\nprovide student loans, which it\nhad power to do, the government\nelected to provide student loans\nthrough private chartered banks.\n1989\nThe government hired a private consulting agency to perform an internal evaluation of the\nefficiency of the loans program.\nA number of privatisation options were recommended.\n1990\nAt a meeting of the National\nAdvisory Group, the Canadian\nBankers Association suggested\nthat student loan debt information be made available to credit\nbureaus and other creditors.\nMore stringent collection procedures, including taking students\nto court and garnisheeing of\nwages, were also proposed.\n1992\nIn its 1992 Lending for Learning document, the government\noutlined its plan to establish a\nSpecial Operating Agency to administer the program. The idea of\nsharing the risk of defaulted loans\nwas also proposed here.\n1993\nPrivate discussions with the\nbanks occurred about them assuming the risk on new student\nloans.\n1994\nOn May 9th, Bill C-28 was\npassed, enabling privatisation of\nstudent loans.\n1995\nOn August 1, the Liberal government announced elimination\nof the government guarantee of\nloans and the privatisation of\nloan collection in exchange for a\nrisk premium.\nSource:\nCanadian Federation of Students\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0TDBC AWARDS-\nImportant Notice for Students Interested in\nWork Study\nWork Study Applications are being accepted from\nstudents from all provinces, provided they have:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2applied for student loans and\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 received their Notification of Award\nEffective 1995/96, international students\nmay also apply for the Work Study Program.\nStudents may pick up a Work Study application\nat the front counter of the\nAwards & Financial Aid Office\nMain Concourse, Brock Hall.\nApplication Deadline: October 1\nWork Study Drop-in Sessions\nwill begin on Tuesday, September 19,1995.\nSessions will be held on Tuesday afternoons at 1:30 and\nWednesday mornings at 9:30\nNetNation\nInternet\nBack to School\nCYBERDEAL\nfor UBC Students\nUnlimited Time Telnet accounts: $14.95\nWITH FREE PERSONAL HOMEPAGE\nUnlimited Time Dial-In accounts: $19.95\nWITH FREE PERSONAL HOMEPAGE\n1 WEEK FREE for UBC Students only\nVoice: 291-7780\nDial-Up: 291-7190\nFax: 299-5912\n(Or Dial-in or telnet to peace.netnation.com and log in as guest:)\nLimited Time Offer\nGEAR FOR MEN\nUmtBEmtWEM*\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Calvin Klein\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ManSilk\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Convprse\nGregg\n2*ist\nTOfl ^\nJ III A\ndian\notorcycle\nck Reflex\nou\nEWJEHST\n\IMCCS\ntames\nMoritz\nfetches\nIts\newelry, etc.\n15% off\neverything\nWITH THISAD'TIL SEPT 3035 Musicolumn\nUrge Overkill - Exit the Dragon [Geffenl\nUrge Overkill have always been slavish adherents to style.\nTheir lifestyle is as important to them as their songs. The thing\nis that they've always managed to keep that delicate balance.\nTheir songwrrting hasn't suffered due to time spent on their\nwardrobe.\nExlt\sUrge's follow-up to 1993's Saturation, their first major-label release. Saturation was a wonderful mot of tense and\nedgy tunes contrasted with positive anthems. For every Turn\nyour back on me* there was a 'Positive Bleeding' to even things\nout Perhaps Saturation was the expression of Urge's Joy at ff-\nnaUy being able to live a true rock star lifestyle.\nExit strikes me as the product of the darker side of rock\nstardom. Notes of optimism are few and far between. 'Need\nSome Air* and The Mistake', in particular, take a perverse pleasure in chronicling lives ruined by rock'n'roll.\nI'm not saying that Exit is chockabtack with stinkers. Far\nfrom it, all of the songs are wen crafted, as once again Urge use\nthe Butcher Brothers (better known for working with hip-hop\nacts) as producers. But listening to more than three of Exit the\nDragon's songs is to immerse oneself in concentrated despair\nand dissatisfaction. I'm hoping they put some prozac In their\nmartinis for the next album. -Andy Ferris\nPapa Wemba - Emotion [Virgin]\nZaire native Papa Wemba says in his liner notes that he\nwanted to gain international exposure with Emotion. So like\nonce-traditional African artist Hugh Masekela did in the late\n'80s and early '90s. Wemba hired a pop producer and injected\nsome of the Top 40 sound into his work. But producer Steven\nHague (of Pet Shop Boys, New Order, and Erasure fame) leaves\nEmotion -r albeit rigidly produced and chock full of keyboard\nsounds - soulful, and on a few tracks, downright beautiful.\nEmotion is packed with myriad musical styles and voices\nfrom samba to near-tachno to traditional, even hymnal And while\nWemba's talent is so much more obvious in his live and\nunproduced performances, the sad reality is that the packaged\nsound sells. Perhaps Emotion will bring him the international\nnotoriety that he so deserves. - Chris Nuttall-Smith\nRaggadeath - Why Ask Why [Virgin]\nIt seems many rap artists become has-beens the instant\nthey have achieved any kind of commercial success. Remember vanilla Ice and Hammer? Most of us would like not to. Sounding like a combination of Salt N* Pepa, NWA, the Beastie Boys,\nand Metallica, Raggadeath is likely to avoid this fate with their\nalburn, Why Ask Why. ;\nRaggadeath is a real band, and not merely a group of rappers with a DJ. Michie Mee,the band's best vocalist, provides\nthe lead vocals for the tMe track and *One Life', catchy tunes\nwhich are likely to have mass appeal. Rapper Koze leads 'Live\nand Direct* and 1 Am What I Ami' through their obscene lyrics\ninto that fast, rough rap tradition exemplified by NWA and Ice-T.\nThis sounds like party music for 16-year-old gang members.\nRaggadeath's mixture of heavy metal and rap may represent\nthe last stand for musical boundaries left over from the 1980s.\n-Janet Winters\n1995 - 96 SEASON\nTo Have\nby Julius Hay\nHungary, 1929:\nforty women are charged\nwith murdering their husbands\nSeptember 27 - October 7\nTiger *s Heart\nbyKitBrennan\na story of a woman who lived as a man\nJanuary 10-20\nThe Importance of\nBeing Earnest\nbyOscarWilde\nthe funniest, most subversive comedy\never written for the theatre\nNovember 15-25\nSophocles'\nAntigone\na tale of the Bosnian wars\nMarch 13-23\nTii\u00C2\u00A9 University of British Columbia\nBOX OFFICE 822-2678\nAUDITIONS\nFOR THE FREDERIC WOOD SEASON AND\nTHE DOROTHY SOMERSET SEASON\n10am to 5pm Sat. Sept. 9th at Sun. Sept.10th\nInfo available in Room #207 Office of the Dept. of Theatre\nin tit* world of ^ a dra$\nThanfcTfotBvw\nt^^ieNewmai.\nTo Wong Foo, Thanks for\nEverything, Julie Newmar\nopens September 8 at Cineplex\ntheatres\nby Peter T. Chattaway\nFrom the morbid gloom of The Crying\nGame to the outrageous camp of Priscilla,\nQueen of the Desert, films about drag queens\nin recent years have been riding the crest\nof art-house popularity to the shores of\nmainstream audiences.\nIt was inevitable that some awestruck\nmaven of mainstream culture would gather\nthese snazzy seashells and cobble them together to produce his own, considerably\ntamer, version. In this ca\"se, it's Steven\nSpielberg. (One might argue thaf he anticipated the drag craze back mE.T. when Drew\nBarrymore played dress-up with the-\nwrinkled alien.)\nTo Wong Foo begins with a flamboyant\ndrag queen beauty pageant, hosted by none\nother than RuPaul, in which the unlikely\nwinners are Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze)\nand Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes). Before embarking on their road trip to the follow-up pageant in Hollywood, Vida and\nNoxeema encounter Chi Chi Rodriguez (John\nLeguizamo, who for my money is the most\nconvincing dragster of the three):Chi Chi, a\n\"Latin boy in a dress,\" has yet to be, in\nNoxeema's words, \"someone with too much\nfashion sense for one genaer\" \u00E2\u0080\u0094 i.e., a bona\nfide queen.\nVida takes pity on Chi Chi and invites her\nto join their journey \u00E2\u0080\u0094 much to Noxeema's\nchagrin; but, before long their car breaks\ndown in Snydersville, a midwestern town\nso drab and musty that a typically WASPish\nNorman Rockwell painting might cause a stir.\nNaturally, they take it on themselves to liven\nthings Up and paint the town a wild shade\nof red (literally, more or less).\nFor the most part, the trio's adventures\nare presented as nothing more than good,\nclean fun. Chi Chi flirts innocently with_a\nlovestruck farmboy, while Noxeema doles\nout flashy '70s threads to the fashion zombies who populate this town (the cinematography gets noticeably sunnier once the\nfolk start dressing up).\nDouglas Carter Beane's script is full of\nbeautiful zingers, but he displays a slippery\ngrasp on dramatic tension whenever things\nget serious. He either cuts away from powerful scenes before they get realistically\nnasty, or he resolves-his dilemmas with a\nwell-timed rescue. Vida & ca. strive to keep\ntheir sexual identity a secret from the\ntownsfolk, but we never do see how the\n' hicks actually react when they make the inevitable discovery. Instead, after several reels\nof ignorance, everyone suddenly seems to\nknow who these women really are, but hey,\nno one cares, right? It's like dipping a lit fuse\nin Palmolive when no one's looking.\nNot that To Wong Foo is meant to be particularly true-to-life. Indeed, from the magical redecoration of their hotel room to the\nCinderella-like missing shoe that taunts the\nbigoted sheriff (Chris Perm), To Wong Foo\nhas the markings of a classic fairy tale. But\nlike most fairy tales, the entertaining facade\nmasks a more serious moral within. Rather\nthan accentuate the idiosyncfacies that set\nthis subculture apart. To Wong Foo bridges\nthe gap by presenting a world in which anyone \u00E2\u0080\u0094 even a straight woman \u00E2\u0080\u0094 can be a\ndrag queen.\nIf that helps the cause of tolerance and\nacceptance, then To Wong Foo is all the more\nenjoyable. But if drag becomes as commonplace as bubble gum and apple pie, will it\nbe as much fun?\nThe Underneath\nat the Ridge September 8-14\nby Andy Barham\nFilm noir ...\nNothing is what it appears to be on the\nsurface; as reality is dissected through the\nunfolding of the plot, good guys blend into\nbad guys, and women represent the ultimate\nbetrayal; ya just can't trust 'em! But then, in\nclassic film noir, ya just can't trust anybody,\nespecially not the curvy femme fatales one\nusually finds parading sinuously through the\ngenre.\nIn this respect, Steve Soderbergh's The\nUnderneath, is true to its noir antecedent\nCrissCross. There just ain't nobody ya can\ntrust, and not even the local policeman\n(Adam Trese), brother of the main character,\nMichael Chambers (Peter Gallagher, who\nworked win Soderbergh before in sex Res &\nvideotape), is a good guy. The only serious\nbreak with tradition is the more realistic and\nmarkedly lessimisbgynistic development of\nthe film's main female characters (Alison\nElliot, as the film's heartthrob Rachel, and\nElizabeth Shue, as the unwitting dupe), The\nmother role (Anjanette Comer) is a typical\nfilm noir mum: not too bright, and unreservedly doting on her wayward son. She is\nmodernized, however, through her addiction to television.\nMichael Chambers is an ex-gambler who\ncomes back to his hometown of Austin,\nTexas, ostensibly to attend his mother's, wedding. His new stepfather (Paul Dooley) gets\nhim a job working for an armoured car company as a driver. During his absence, his\nformer wife Rachel, whomhe'drunouton\nwhen his gambling debts\ngot outta hand, had taken\nup with Tommy Dundee\n(William Fichrner), a lpcal\nnightclub owner alnd\nsmall time hoodlum.\nAs the denouement of\nthe film - the robbery of\nthe big jackpot\narmoured car \u00E2\u0080\u0094 unfolds, the complexities\nof the story and its\nvarious motivations\nare seen through an\nartful series of flashbacks. Time is further distorted when\nflashbacks occur\nwithin flashbacks,\nso that at odd moments we seem\nto flash forwards\nback into the\nmain action,\nrather in the\nstrange and -.\"vs/asa,* fn ;-?\" \"Win ^'mm\nsometimes unsettling ^Uigin Cfcr \u00E2\u0096\u00A0/Qr\nway one sometimes flashes back into a V3\u00C2\u00B0fl-\nheightened awareness of one's surroundings during a cannabis-induced rush.\nPerhaps the most striking quality of the\nfilm is Elliot Davis's cinematography (he also\nworked on Soderbergh's King of the M%\nwhich swerves from the humdrum, sometimes gritty realism of modern filmmaking\nto an altered state of dreamy foreboding\nthrougn a gnasuy nienamg oi oaa gameia\n:^\u00C2\u00A7K\nangles and strange distorted lighting effects\n(again/in keeping with the film noir tradition).\nIf the producers of Criss Cross had had\naccess to the technology available to modem filmmakers like Soderbergh, perhaps this\nis the film they would have made.\nSoderbergh has indeed done them proud!\nLiving in Oblivion\nnow playing at the Varsity\nby Peter T. Chattaway\nEver since the Lurriiere brothers caught\ntheir employees checking out of the film lab\nback in the 19th century, directors have\nloved to make films about the world of filmmaking. Some have even gone beyond the\nwanking that is characteristic of the genre\nto entertain their audiences, perhaps even\ndevelop a theme or two.\nWriter/director Tom DiCillo appears to\nthink that Living in Oblivion belongs in this\nlatter category. More directly, his film purports to lampoon the world of independent\nfilmmaking that has recently become so\npopular (and a cast that boasts such indie\nstalwarts as Steve Buscemi, Dermot\nMulroney, and James Le Gros certainly\ndoesn't hint the film's credibility). But the\nfilm's focus is far too narrow \u00E2\u0080\u0094 imagine\nspending 91 minutes watching a director try\nto get that perfect shot \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and there is little\nhere to distinguish the off-screen dramatics\nof Oblivion's movie-within-a-movie from the\nhidden hijinks of any mainstream movie set.\nIndeed, living in Oblivion relies on the\nsame sort of gimmicks that fuelled more opulent introspectives such as Francois Truffaut's\nDay for Night. Booms dip into the camera's\nframe, actors forget their lines (especially\nwhen they are supposed to say something\nalong the lines of \"I don't remember\"), and\nthe discreet, postcoital tension between\ngrandstanding lady-killer Chad Pdomino (Le\nGros, in a role reportedly inspired by DiCillo's\nbouts with Brad Pitt) and high-strung actress Nicole (Catherine Keener) threatens to\nruin their big scene together.\nBeyond their spat, a hormonal charge\nseems to course through ,the rest of the film\nset. Nicole also happens to have a thing for\nNick (an unusually diffident Buscemi),. her\ndirector. Meanwhile, Wanda (Danielle von\nZemeck), the assistant director, dumps the\npunkish, black-bereted cinematographer\nWolf (Mulroney) unceremoniously between takes. (Nick\nand Nicole?\nWanda and\nWolf? Gotta love\nthat alliteration!)\nDiCillo mixes\nthings up a bit by\ndividing his film\ninto three half-\nhour sequences.\nThe first two start\nout normally\nenough, but after a\nstring of tell-tale eccentricities, they turn\nout to be the dreams\nof a sleep-deprived\nfilm crew the night be-.\nfore they are to shoot a\ndream sequence (ah! the\nirony of it!). The final\nhalf-hour is thus the\nblandest of the three \u00E2\u0080\u0094\neven the dream-se-\nquence-within-the-movie\nrelies on little more than the\nhaggard resources of a heat-\nup smoke machine and a droopy dwarf -\nand it ends the film on a regretfully anticli-\nFringe Festival gets td stretch out in\nnew and more comfortable venues\nThe Fringe Festival\nAlive on the Drive September 7-17\nby Peter T. Chattaway\n\"We've moved!\"\nFringe Festival Producer Joanna Maratta is justifiably ecstatic about the Fringe's new site. After\nten years spent in venues scattered along Main\nStreet, the Fringe Festival will begin its second\ndecade in a tighter strip along Commercial Drive,\nbetween Hastings and Broadway.\nAccording to Maratta, the change was long in\ncoming. \"Over the last few years, we've identified\nthe growing problems of the festival being in the\nMain Street/Mount Pleasant area that needed to\nbe addressed, and the biggest problems were the\nfact that we had the traffic on Main Street and\nKingsway \u00E2\u0080\u0094 we had a six-lane highway moving\nthrough the site \u00E2\u0080\u0094 [and] na green space.\n\"We had done some initial research throughout\ndifferent sites in Vancouver, but Commercial Drive\nseemed to be the one that was in real keeping\nwith the festival atmosphere.\"\nThe new location has enabled the festival to-\nmove in a number of new directions. Most significant is the \"festival centre hub\" in Grandview Park\nand its outdoor site. \"We're doing street closure on\nWilliam and Napier streets, which are two streets\nadjoining the park, and we've got the box office\nin the park, and the info tents, merchandise, and\na full slate of street performers on both weekends.\"\nThree locales - the Pirehall, Station Street and\nMain Dance venues\u00E2\u0080\u0094remain trapped in the Main\nStreet orbit, but Maratta cites the \"really comfortable venues\" along Commercial Drive, such as the\nClutch and the WISE Hall, as a definite bonus.\nIn addition, Maratta mentioned that \"all the\nshops on the Drive are great. It certainly has the\ntypes of amenities that people going to festivals\nlike to do before and after shows, y'know, bookstores, record stores, browsing.\"\nA number of shows win feature the talents of\nUBC alumni. Prominent among these are: The\nMuse's Hemisphere, performed at last January's\nBrave New Acts; the Shavian Cream Company's\nadaptation of G.B. Shaw's In the Beginning; Delia\nAnn Kehward's For the Love of Lucflfa; the clown\npiece The Pookie Flukesters in Who Pooped the\nFluke?; two black comedies produced by Michael\nGazetas, LA. and American Hero.\nThe Fringe Festival kicks off Thursday, Sept. 7\nat 5:30 p.m. with a parade down Commercial\nDrive, officiated by master ribbon-cutter (and local MLA) Premier Mike Harcourt. The fun will continue in earnest 'til the 17th.\nWarped Wednesday\nXM.E\u00C2\u00BBX3ti<5 Xl.oti&.\nOne is strongly tempted to say that the\nfilm would have been a better, more acute\nwork if they had chopped off the final 55\nminutes and peddled the remainingpericope\nj\u00C2\u00BB*1l tli\u00C2\u00A9 sttk*\rk\u00E2\u0080\u0094filxn ^iwi\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nThe Warped Tour\n7 days ago at the Coliseum\nby Ron Eichler\nThe day began at 2:00 with a\ntotally loud, unintelligible performance by some shmoes from\nDeutchland named WIZO.\nThe rainbow-coloured 12-year-\nolds then went to the main stage\nwhere Orange 9mm were putting\non a kickass show. The kiddies\nmoshed for a song, but then looked\nat their watches and realized that\nnobody moshes this early in the\nday.\nA few minutes later I smelled my\nfirst marijuana vapours, but for the\nlife of me could not find the source.\nThis seemed to be the unfortunate\ntrend for the day. And unlike\nLollapalooza, there was no herbal\necstasy for me to sample. Damn.\nThere was a large section cordoned off for skaters to play where\nthere was also a monster half pipe.\nNone of the skaters were doing anything that impressive.\nI then checked out a band called\nFluf. The lead singer was so old that\nhis songs actually had a tune. I\ncould have cried. I kind of even\nliked them. I think I actually did cry\nwhen they started singing about\nFender guitars and Ford cars.\nAt this point I went to see the\nmonster half pipe again, where it\nbecame clear that the rollerbladers\nwere way better than the skateboarders. Of these, the best was the\nsole female, Laura Connery. I don't\nknow anything about this kind of\nstuff, so I let her write in my note\npad. (From Vancouver, age 29, three\nyears of vert, first female in Canada\nto do vert, favorite tricks include\ninvert to fakie, back flip, fakie\nMcTwist, and front side grind. If\nanybody can explain the above to\nme, they get an autographed copy\nFrom there we went to see No\nDoubt. I liked them cuz they had\nhorns (a trumpet and a trombone).\nGwen, the lead singer, did this thing\ntArbars eke urauU etarf a oiita arirl\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nish giggle, then lash out\nall of a sudden. Backstage,\nwe argued over how to\npeg her. She yelled at me\nfor first thinking she was\na Madonna wannabe, and\nlet out a huge \"Noopooo!\"\nto any Courtney Love\ncomparisons, even though\nshe swears she respects\nCourtney. She finally admitted to a very strong\nBetty Boop influence.\nAfter much discussion,\nwe'agreed that there was\nno audience response for\njust about anybody because (a) the median age\nwas 14, (b) everybody\nwas trying too hard to\nlook cool, and (c) house\nlights kill the anonymity\nthat crowds need. Gwen thought\nthe show would have been better\noff outdoors, but the promoters said\nthat the crowds at Lollapalooza the\nlast two years were equally laid\nback.\nFast forward to Quicksand. Excellent band. Check them out.\nNever mind why.\nL7 was the band most of the\ncrowd, including 80% of the females, was here to see. The audience was there for them, but unfortunately, they were not there for\nthe audience. They were there for\ntheir own fucking ego. I thought\nPAT McGUIRE PHOTO\nOne o/tne Warped guitarists.\nthey put on a mediocre performance. An unplugged mic meant\nno harmony on 'Pretend We're\nDead'. When a guitar player tried\nto do the old play-into-the-amp-\nfor-feedback trick, a roadie\nbumped into her. On the second\nlast song, a roadie brought out\nmeasuring tape to see if the mics\nwere set at the right height.\nThe strangest thing, though,\nwas that no one noticed that they\nsucked. Everyone was into them.\nAnd all the 14-year-olds on the\nbus ride home thought they were \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\ngreat. Go figure^\ni\nUBC Symphony Orchestra &\n- Symphonic Band\nDo you play violin, cello, bass, clarinet,\neuphonium or tuba?\np^pfApm uuitK tha UBC Ornhoetra or Band-\nCredit or Non-Credit\n822-8246 or 822-3113 Brothers and angels duke it out\nThe Brothers\nMcMullen\nat Cineplex theatres\nbyJennKuo\nHow do you know when you\nhave found your one true love?\nWritten and directed by Edward\nBums, The Brothers McMullen .\nis a movie which tries to answer this question. The word\n\"try\" is definitely the key word\nhere, as the movie doesn't\nseem to be able to come up\nwith a credible answer.\nThe three brothers McMullen\nare all struggling with romantic relationships and their commitment, or lack thereof, to Irish\nCatholicism. Barry (Bums), the\nmiddle brother, is scared off instantly when there is any mention of love or marriage. Patrick\n(Mike McGlone), the youngest\nbrother, is a hopeless romantic but\nhe is confused about love nonetheless. Jack (Jack Mulcahy), the\neldest brother, is torn between the\n\"deep\" love he has for his wife and\nthe alluring possibility of an extramarital affair.\nThis movie is supposed to show\nhow these three brothers interact.\nI, however, was not fully convinced that these three men were\nreally brothers. Maybe it was the\nacting, I don't know, but they\nseemed like three friends rather\nthan three brothers. The only time\nI was convinced that they were\nbrothers was when Jack walked\ninto the bathroom and asked\nPatrick for advice while he was\nsitting on the toilet.\nThis scene also exemplifies the\nunconvincing nature of the acting.\nThe actors seemed like they were\njust reciting their lines to whoever\nwas present in the room. The\ncharacters also didn't seem to interact properly. Although there\nwas emotion in their voices, they\ndidn't sound real. But then again,\nwhen a movie has a budget so low\nthat the director has\nSomehow, this comic relief\ndoesn't really fit into the scene.\nThen, in the next couple of\nscenes, Barry cracks a joke with\nevery other line. And then there's\nthe banana joke/metaphor/we're-\ngetting-desperate-\nfe\u00C2\u00BBsssssa=\nBahnsonhislapjand\nto cast himself as a character, I\nguess one should be grateful the\nacting worked at all.\nThe Brothers McMullen tries too\nhard to fit its \"warm hearted romantic comedy\" billing. Right from\nthe start, it seemed like a joke was\nbeing cracked every second just\nso the movie wouldn't be too serious. The movie starts out with a\nrather solemn scene in a graveyard; the newly widowed Mrs\nMcMullen is telling her son Barry\nthat she is finally leaving for Ireland to be with the man she really loves, after waiting for 35\nyears. Next thing you know, someone cracks a joke (someone,\nplease break out a barf bag!).\nfor-something-unconven-\ntional to make this movie even\nmore \"comedic\". As a result of their\nefforts, most of the movie has this\nstrange feeling of superficiality.\nDespite these problems, I still\nthink there are things which make\nit enjoyable entertainment. If\nyou're franticly looking for something to do on a slow, boring Friday night, this would be a movie\n' to see. I wouldn't tell everyone to\nbe sure to see it on the big screen,\nbut it's a definite renter.\nThe Prophecy\nat Cineplex theatres\nby Peter T. Chattaway\nIt's always fun to imagine what\nBUCKS FOR BOORS\nWin $300 CASH\nEnter to win $300\ntowards your book purchase\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0imeyoucomen until he\nTOGA PARTY\nSeptember 20\nDraw: September 20, at 11pm\nPrizes lor those in sheets\nv_\n2291 W. Broadway\n733-2821\nmight happen if supernatural beings were to interact with we\nmere mortals. Few of the modem\nspeculations can reach Homer's\nepic heights, but there's something about rjiixing the transcendent and the everyday that is\nquite appealing. Borderline sacrilegious, maybe, but then, that's\npart of the fun.\nOf all the filmmakers out there,\nthe ones most willing to skirt that\nimpious line are those who work\nin honor. Not only do the angels\nin their films - such as Gregory\nWiden's The Prophecy \u00E2\u0080\u0094. wear\nreally cool sunglasses and use\nfour-letter words, these astral\nhit-men dye their hair a deathly\nbluish-black arid eviscerate\neach other with psychotic panache.\nAs with most bibhcally-in-\nspired gorefests, the book of\nRevelation provides the impetus for the action in The\nProphecy, but the relevant\npassage comes from a hitherto unknown 23rd chapter\nfound in an 1800-year-old manuscript left in the trenchcoat of an\nangel killed in a car accident.\n(Makes you wonder what happened to the \"add notiiing, subtract nothing\" clause in chapter\n22, doesn't it?)\nThis passage predicts a second\nwar in heaven (the first saw the\nexpulsion of Lucifer and his cronies) that will circle, for some inexplicable reason, around a cannibalistic U.S. Army officer. It\nseems that Gabriel (the ever-\nspooky Christopher Walken) envies God's favoritism towards \"the\ntalking monkeys\" \u00E2\u0080\u0094 i.e., humans\n- but, ironically, for him to win\nhis war against the unseen angels who support the humans, he\nneeds a dose of mankind's wanton brutality to give him that win\nning edge. And apparently, in all\nthe millennia of man's inhumanity to man, Gabriel has had to wait\nfor this particular Arizona colonel's\nburial to get his elixir of death.\nOn hand to thwart his scheme\nis Simon (Eric Stoltz), an angel\nwho must be good because he's\ngot these flowing golden tresses,\nand a doubting Thomas Daggett\n[Exotica's Elias Koteas), an ex-\npriest turned cop. They get some\nunexpected help from a smooth\nLucifer (Viggo Mortensen), who's\nrather upset, that Gabriel is encroaching on his territory.\nThe premise is both hokey and\nbrimming with intriguing possibilities - but then, writer/director Widen is the same scribe who\ngave us the original Highlander.\nHe knows how to milk an audience's fascination with the absurd\npossibility that grand, cosmic conflicts just might find their resolution in the commonplace settings\nof back alleys and parking lots.\nUnfortunately, somewhere\nalong the way he loses sight of\nthe very milieu that gave his angels flight. Instead of sticking to\nhis angelology, he mixes his pantheons and tosses in some Native\nAmerican \"hand tremblers\" to fix\nthings up.\nMore to the point, where the\nhell is Michael; the grand poobah\nof celestial cherubs? One can appreciate that Widen didn't want\nto invoke God or Christ directly\n(though they appear in icons and\nthe prayers of some characters),\nbut if he's going to splash angelic\nrivalry on the screen, why isn't the\nchief archangel himself getting on\nGabriel's ass?\nThe Prophecy isn't the ideal\nstatement in bringing apocalyptic horror down to earth - it sure\nain't Charles Williams - but it'll\ndo for now.\nmicroserfs\na book by Douglas Coupland [HarperCollins]\nWhy is Douglas Coupland, popular chronicler of today's\nunderemployed youths, examining the lives of Microsoft\ncomputer programmers? Is he cashing in on a lucrative\ntrend or just trying to understand a modern social phenomenon?\nmicroserfs {that's peasants, not dudes) makes for light\nreading, written as it is like a narrative diary. Coupland\nhas successfully adopted the language of 31.2 year old\ngeeks (not nerds) who share the media history of Star\nWars, Narnia, and Talking Heads.\nThe emptiness of the characters' relationships makes\nit difficult for the reader to care much about them, detached as they are from community, family, and religion.\nThe crew of coders are only slightly cynical about buying\ntheir food from Costco and their clothes from the Gap.\nWhen offered a chance to create a series of Lego based\ncomputer programs in the Silicon valley, they make an\neasy transition from The Simpsons in Seattle to Melrose\nPlace in California.\nThough novel, the use of text in a graphic manner is\namateurish and unimaginative. Media flotsam is juxtaposed without comment: \"Welcome to Macintosh/Carl's\nJryGore-Tex/gray metallic Saabs/Barry DiHer/KISS\". Witty\ncynicism, usually Coupland's strength, is few and far between.\nAvoiding dramatic cyberspace, Coupland addresses\nthe realistic aspects of opening yourself up through e-\nmail to distant friends or total strangers.\nLike CNN Headline News, ideas have catchy names\nand are superficially gleaned. Chyx is a group of women\nprogrammers; TrekPolitiks is the Utopian political structure described in Star Trek episodes.\nmicroserfs may be a shift in subject matter for\nCoupland, but he has yet to write anything more interesting than his much-reprinted Generation K - Charlie Cho ultur\nCompilation CD benefits rape crisis centres\nVarious Artists - Lit from Within\n[Nettwerk]\nby Jenn Kuo\nNettwerk Records held a CD release party at the Arts\nClub Lounge last Thursday for their new benefit compilation. Lit from Within.\nThe brainchild of former Nettwerk marketing director\nToni Maruyama, Lit from Within is a compilation of works\nby female Canadian musicians and poets. Net profits from\nthe CD will go to rape crisis centres across Canada to help\nthem continue the services they provide for the women\nwho need them.\nPart way through the project, Maruyama left for Toronto\nto work for Sony Music. At last Thursday's party, Jennifer\nDe Tracy, who carried on the project after Maruyama's\ndeparture, read a letter from her. In the letter, she told the\nstory of how she was inspired to start this benefit CD.\nDriving one night in North Van, Maruyama came across a\nwoman holding her clothes in her arms who then asked\nher for a ride because she had just been raped. Maruyama\ngave her a ride, and when she came aross the police on\nher way, she left the woman with them. She never did\nfind out about the woman or what happened to her after\nthat night.\n'Bruises', by Vancouver writer Evelyn Lau, is a typical\nLauian work: up front, first person, full of descriptive metaphors. One can feel the pain and sadness of the person\nbeing oppressed in the poem. With lines like\nhis hands pressed hard flat marks down my neck\nthey left the rawness of rope burns\nbruises like blackberries...\nwe swam in a sea of bloody sheets\nwe are forced to face the reality of what rape feels like to\nits victim.\nLynn Crosbie's 'For Jayne Mansfield' is another spoken\nword piece on the album. It is a wonderfully delicious poem\nchock full of blunt sensuous metaphors. Accompanied by\na sole guitar, the song has an overall haunting and solemn effect.\nWith 'Let Her Feel the Rain', newcomer Tara MacLean\nmakes her debut on this album. Singing simply with a\nguitar, piano, and occasional backup vocals, she exudes a\ndown-to-earth, soulful sound. Undoubtedly, this is only a\ntaste of the talent to come on her upcoming full length\nalbum (she is due to be in studios in October).\nWith 'Clinic', Crash Vegas even makes an appearance\non this album to make this a truly Canadian effort.\nNo pleasure from your tiny thumb ...\nFree\nI will fly\nFree\nI can fly.\nKristy Thirsk of The Rose Chronicles sings an enchanting song called 'Songbirds'. With a solo piano version of\n'Good Enough', Sarah McLachlan also contributes to this\nNettwerk family album. With her comforting, familiar voice,\nthis cover is undoubtedly better than the album version.\nFrom the lesser-known Taste of Joy to the well-known\nSarah McLachlan, this CD has a wide range of talent. Lit\nfrom Within is one of those few compilations where the\nsongs and the spoken word work together well. It has\nimpassioned, provoking lyrics that show the strength of\nwomen to overcome abuse and oppression. 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SALE\n$32.90 $24.95\n$5.59 $3.95ea\nSPORTSWEAR\nSPECIALS\nSee our many in-store specials.\nEnter our draw for a free Eastpack backpack!\nGIFTS & SOUVENIRS\nSOUVENIRS\nSALE\nPens over $10.00\n25% off\n(Mont Blanc, Waterman, Elysee, Cross)\nCrested items\n20% off\nTimeposter Planners\n10% off\nPRICES IN EFFECT UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30, 1995\nOR WHILE QUANTITIES LAST\nUBC BOOKSTORE\n6200 UNIVERSITY BLVD, VANCOUVER, B.C., V6T \7A\nTEL (604) 822-2665 FAX (604) 822-8592 ntir\nStrong second half wins T-Bird season opener\nby Wolf Depner\nThe UBC T-Bird football team\nmatched last year's win total in\ntheir season opener Friday night.\nIn Casey Smith's debut as head\ncoach, the Birds beat the University of Alberta Golden Bears by\na convincing 35-18\nmargin in\nfront of\n874 enthu-\ns i a s t i c\nfans.\nThe win\nsparked\nhope that\nthis year's\nteam will\nimprove\non its 1994\nseason,\nwhen it\nfinished\nwith a dismal 1-6-1 record in\nCanada West Conference play.\n\"[The guys] were serious about\nplaying football tonight and they\nreally took it to Alberta. It was a\nUBC\nAlta.\nRushing:\nCaixies\n28\n26\nYards\n145\n144\nPassing:\nAttempts\n21\n34\nCompl.\n15\n12\nYards\n292\n258\nDefence:\nSacks\n-;\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0- 2\n0\nInterceptions\n1\n0\nFumbles Rec.\n0\n0\nphysical game and our guys were\nhitting,\" said Smith, who was\ngiven a Gatorade victory shower\nby his players at the end of the\ngame.\nHowever T-Bird fans had little\nto smile about in the first half as\nUBC only\nmanaged\n109 net\nyards on offence. The\nAlberta de-\nfence\nstuffed the\nUBC running game\nand har-\na s s e d\nquarterback\nAdrian\nRainbow.\nStrong defence, special teams, and a timely interception deep in Alberta territory kept\nthe Birds in the game during the\nfirst half.\nThe offence came out more\nQUARTERBACK Adrian Rainbow calls the plays as T-Bird O-line faces the Bears' D-line.\n\u00C2\u00BB \u00C2\u00AB,je*%\nSIOBHAN ROANTREE PHOTO\n_li_BHAN Ft ANTPrr FMOT_\nTRANSFER student Simon Beckow evades one Golden Bear and is\npursued by Sean Newton (45).\nfocused in the second half. The\nBirds scored 28 points on touchdowns by Rainbow, Brad\nYamaoka and Andrew English,\nwho also kicked two field goals.\nRainbow completed 15 of 21\npasses for an impressive 292\nyards and three touchdowns,\nearning him\nplayer ofthe game\nhonours. But he\nwas quick to share\nthe laurels with his\nteammates. \"It\nwas a total team\neffort. You can't\npick out one guy,\"\nhe said.\nThe Bears took a 7-0 lead on a\n15 yard rush by second year running back Simon Baffoe in the\nfirst quarter. Later, Alberta\nquarterback Sean Zaychkowsky\nwas sacked by Hartley Strachan\nforcing the Bears to attempt a 27\nyard field goal. Rookie kicker\nTroy Peters missed the mark and\nthe Bears had to settle for a single point.\nLate in the second quarter\nZaychkowsky was picked off by\nlinebacker Stuart Doyle whose 19\nyard return gave UBC possesion\non Alberta's 10 yard line. Rainbow hit Grayson Shillingford\nwith a 10 yard TD pass on the\nvery next play. The score was 8-7\nin favour of the Bears at the end\nof the first half.\n1 2\n3 4\nTot\nUBC 0 7\n15 13\n35\nAlta, 7 1\n9 1\n18\nOn UBC's first possesion of\nthe second half, Rainbow blitzed\nthe Alberta defence with a 3 play,\n69 yard touch down drive. It included a 50 yard reception by\nspeedster Shillingford, who finished the evening with 7 receptions for 174 yards and one TD.\nRainbow finished the drive\nhimself by scoring his first TD in\ntwo years on a 19 yard right-end\nsweep. A two point convert gave\nUBC a 15-8 lead and the Birds\nnever looked back.\nA 29 yard Alberta field goal\nmade the score 15-11, but UBC\nquickly responded as Rainbow\ncompleted a 5 yard toss to\nAndrew English for another 6\npoints. Simon Baffoe scored his\nsecond TD on a 4 yard rush to\nbring the Bears within 4 at the end\nof the third quarter.\nHowever, consecutive 42 and 11 yard\nfield goals by\nAndrew English\nput the game out of\nreach.\nA late Alberta\nrally was stymied\nby a UBC defence that gained\nconfidence as the game went on.\nIt was led by third year linebacker\nStuart Doyle, a transfer student\nfrom Shasta College in California. He had 10 tackles to go along\nwith his key interception.\nThe Bears simply ran out of\ntime in the fourth quarter as\nUBC's offence controlled the ball\nand the clock. A 6 yard TD reception by veteran running back\nBrad Yamaoka late in the game\nrounded out the scoring.\nFree times for student use of SRC and Pool\nStudents can use the indoor\npool, whirlpool, weight room and\nsauna for free during university\nswims. When the new SRC building opens September 18, drop-in\ntimes will also be available.\nHere's a schedule of the free\ntimes. Don't forget to bring your\nvalid UBC Library card!\nUniversity Swims\nWeekdays 7:30 am - 9:00 am\nWeekdays 11:30 am - 2:25 pm\nWeekdays 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm\nDrop-In Badminton\nMonday 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm\nTuesday 9:45 pm - 11:30 pm\nThursday 9:30 pm - 11:30 pm\nDrop-In Basketball\nTuesday 6:45 pm - 8:15 pm\nWednesday 9:45 pm - 11:30 pm\nThursday 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm\nDrop-In Table Tennis\nMonday 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm\nTuesday 9:45 pm - 11:30 pm\nThursday 9:30 pm - 11:30 pm\nDrop-In Volleyball\nMonday 9:30 pm - 11:30 pm\nTuesday 8:15 pm - 9:45 pm\nThursday 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm\nDrop-In Wheelchair Bball\nWednesday 8:15 pm - 9:45 pm\nJapanese on your PC!\nWindows 3.x applications and\nthe Internet\nStudent rates.\nContact\nJapan Cultural Exchange:\n739-1826\nor\nCenki@jce.com\nFUTONS\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The affordable choice \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n8-1483 West 15th Ave., Van., V6H 1S4\nDO IT... laying down OR sitting\nonVy\n$19.0\u00C2\u00B0\nWith MD aiTONS, you\ncan DO both... 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Soccer vs Sask 12:00\nVball vs Alumni 730 pm\n(both men and women)\n17\nMen's Soccer vs Alta 2 pm\nWorn. Soccer vs Alta 12:00\n18\n19\nThe Ubyssey pubttshes\nWom Vballvs West\nWash. 7 JO pm\n20\n21\n22\nThe Ubyssey pubttshes\nHockey @ Edmonton\n(Golden Bear Invitational)\nMen's Vball vs UVic\n(in Prince George)\n23\nField Hockey @ Calgary\nFootball vs Manitoba 7 pm\nHockey @ Edmonton (GBI)\nRugby vs Old Boys 230 pm\nMens Soccer vs UVic 2 pm\nWorn. Soccer vs UVic 12:00\n24\nField Hockey @ Calgary\nHockey \u00C2\u00A9Edmonton (GBI)\nMen's Vball vs UVic\n(at 100 Mile House)\n25\nMen's Soccer vs SFU 7 pm\n(at Swangard Stadium)\n26\nThe Ubyssey pubttshes\n27\n28\n29\nThe Ubyssey publishes\nHockey @ Sask\n(Husky Fall Classic)\nWomen s Volleyball\n(Simon Fraser Invitational)\n30\nEarly Bird Tourney\n(Field Hockey)\nFootball @ Sask\nHockey @ Sask (HFC)\nM/W Soccer @ Calgary\nWomen's Vball (SFf)\nAll home games have times shown. Games are played in the following locations:\nField Hockey: Warren/MacGregor Fields Men's Soccer: Wolfson II Field\nFootball: Thunderbird Stadium Women's Soccer: Wolfson II Field\nHockey: UBC Winter Sports Centre Men's Volleyball: War Memorial Gym\nRugby: Wolfson East Field Women's Volleyball: War Memorial Gym\nThe summer in sports at UBC: A review\nby Scott Hayward\nThe Summer Ubyssey published\nseven issues in July and August.\nHere's a brief review of some of\nthe sports stories covered.\nCoaching Changes\nUBC Athletics appointed Deb\nHuband as Women's Basketball\nCoach replacing Misty Thomas.\nHuband was a three-time CIAU\nAll Canadian All-Star, a bronze\nmedalist at the 1979 and 1986\nWorld Championships, and was\nrecendy inducted into the Canadian Basketball Sports Hall of\nFame.\nCasey Smith replaced his father Frank as the T-Bird Football\ncoach this year. The former T-\nBird player was assistant head\ncoach from 1987-92 and has been\na guest coach at Toronto\nArgonaut and Ottawa Rough\nRider training camps.\nThe T-Bird football team's defence will also have guidance\nfrom former CFL players\nLaurent (Lou) Des Lauriers and\nJames \"Quick\" Parker. Des\nLauriers played with Edmonton\nand Toronto, while Parker played\nin Edmonton and coached with\nthe BC Lions and Saskatchewan\nRoughriders.\nMen's Soccer\nUBC sent coach Dick Mosher\nand 12 current and former players tojapan to represent Canada\nat the World University Games.\nSeveral of the these players will\nbe back with the team this fall.\nThey will be joined by midfielder\nPaul Dailly and centreback Nico\nBerg who are playing the Vancouver 86'ers this summer.\nSwimming\nFour UBC students won gold\nin the 4x 100-metre freestyle relay at the Canadian Summer\nNational Championships in Winnipeg at the end of July. Two of\nthose athletes went on to represent Canada at the Pan Pacific\nChampionship in Atlanta in\nAugust.\nSarah Evanetz, Anita Lee,\nAlexandra Ruiz, and Glencora\nMaughan combined for gold in\nthe relay event competing for the\nPacific Dolphin Svvdmming Association, a Vancouver club team\nwhich shares its coaching staff\nwith the UBC Varsity team.\nEvanetz swam individually for\nCanada in Atlanta where she\nplace 7th in the 100-metre butterfly and 13th in the 200-metre\nbutterfly events. She posted a\npersonal best 2:15.44 in Winnipeg in the 200-metre race and is\nhoping to make the Olympic\nteam next year.\nLee finished a disappointing\n21st in the 50-metre freestyle in\nAUanta, but finished 10th with a\nlifetime best time of 56.93 sec-\nBACK TO SCHOOL SALE\nWide selection of day packs, clothing and jackets\n(also prototypes & end-of-line specials)\nJACK WOLFSKIN\nTRAVEL PACK detachable day\npack and separate sleeping\nbag compartment $ 1 79.95\nLAFUMA DAY PACK\ntear-drop design with\npadded back (free hat\nincluded) $34.95 .\nTRAVEL PACKS & ACCESSORIES\nAlso an extensive selection of backpacking equipment\nAALTUS\nMLWa\. MOUNTAIN GEAR\nLocally Manufactured at Factory-Direct Prices!\n137 West Broadway \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 876-5255\n(Across from Mountain Equipment Co-op)\nALTUS EXPLORER\nJACKET, Ultrex\nwaterproof and\nbreathable,\nfour pockets,\ndetachable hood\n$149.95\nonds in the 100-metre freestyle\nevent. She also swam in the\n4x 100-metre freestyle relay on a\nCanadian team which finished\n4th with a time of 3:46.82.\nT-Bird teams on Tour\nThe women's field hockey\nteam and the men's volleyball\nteam will both have a head start\non the competition this year.\nCoach Hash Kanjee and the\nwomen's field hockey team left\nin early August for an 11 game\ntour of Australia. Players raised\nsome of the money for the trip\nthemselves, and put up about\n$700 of their own money to help\ncover costs.\nCoach Dale Ohman and 15\nmen's volleyball players went on\na 13 day tour of Korea. The trip\nis part of a formal exchange\nagreement between UBC and\nSung-Kyun Kwan University\nwhich has resulted in four such\ntrips to date.\nGoing to Korea does not necessarily guarantee players a spot\non the roster. Tryouts for the varsity team will take place during\nthe second week of classes.\nRec Centre opening delayed\nAs recendy as early August,\nthe Student Recreation Center\nwas expected to be ready in the\nfirst week of September. However delays have pushed the\nopening back to September 18.\nThe new facility is located on\nMaclnnes field by the north-east\ncorner of SUB. It contains three\nfull-size gymnasiums, a weight\nroom/fitness centre, a martial\narts studio, dance studio,\nplaycare facilities, and offices for\nadministration. Annual Shrum Bowl football game returns to UBC\nby Darren Campbell\nThe crosstown grudge match\nbetween the SFU Clansmen and\nthe UBC T-Birds returns this\nweekend in Shrum Bowl XVIII.\nAfter a one year hiatus the stage\nhas been set in the batde for football bragging rights in BC.\nThe game will take place at\nThunderbird Stadium Saturday,\nSeptember 9 at 7:00 pm. Expect\nthe rivalry to be fierce as the series is tied at 8-8-1.\nSFU head coach since 1983\nChris Beaton compared the\nShrum Bowl to the Notre Dame-\nMiami rivalry. He added that this\ngame has the same feel for him\nas the Rose Bowl.\nUBC coaches \"feel confident in-\nour guys' attitude and the way\nhings are coming together,\" said\nHead Coach Casey Smith at a\npress conference Tuesday afternoon. \"Simon Fraser has got a\ngood football team. I think it will\nbe a great game,\" he said.\nBeaton played in the inaugural Shrum Bowl back in 1967. \"It\nwas very exciting, a huge deal\nwas made of it, and it was on the\nfront page ofthe newspaper with\nlots of coverage,\" he said.\nHe also spoke of the anticipation that players feel heading into\nthe game. \"Well, I was so nerv-\nSIOBHAN ROANTREE PHOTO\nANDREW ENGLISH kicked a field goal on the last play of the game to\nwin the last Shrum Bowl in 1993. \"I kept my head down and kicked it. I\ndidn't realize it had gone through until my teammates jumped on me.\"\nThe Ubyssey Newspaper is looking\nfor writers and production people.\nIt you know how to write or do\ndesktop publishing (or would like\nto learn how) come on out. We\nneed people for\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0**\u00E2\u0080\u00A2.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Sports r:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Culture\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Features\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Typesetting\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Photography\nThe Ubyssey has staff meetings\nevery Wednesday\n12:30 pm in SUB 241K\nous all through the weekend, the\ngame was on a Monday and I\ncouldn't sleep on Sunday it Was\nso big,\" he said.\nScheduling conflicts forced the\ncancellation of last year's game.\nBut UBC Athletic Director Bob\nPhilip and his SFU counterpart\nMike Dinning (SFU) have put\ntogether a multi-year commitment to stage the contest annually. This was very difficult task\nconsidering the teams are in different leagues.\nUBC plays in the Canada\nWest Conference of the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic\nUnion (CIAU) league using CFL\nrules (3 downs). SFU plays in the\nNational Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) league,\nDivision II using American rules\n(4 downs).\nThis year the Shrum Bowl will\nbe played using American rules.\n\"We have to change our system\naround in a short period of time,\"\nsaid Smith. Nevertheless he is\nconfident. \"We'll overcome it\nand be ready Saturday night.\"\nClansmen players were reluctant to speak on the record, but\ntheir talk seemed to suggest that\nthey will be very motivated.\n\"Bash the Birds\" was one rallying cry heard, and they have\nbeen counting the days down to\nthis game, which will be their first\nof the year.\nSFU won the first Shrum Bowl\ngame in 1967, and last won in\n1991. The last contest was held\nin 1993, and saw placekicker\nAndrew English kick a field goal\non the last play of the game to\nhand the Clan a 20-17 loss.\nThen Assistant Head Coach\nCasey Smith told the nervous\nEnglish to \"focus for 5 seconds\nand do your job,\" English recalled. \"I kept my head down\nand kicked it. I didn't realize that\nit had gone through until my\nteammates all jumped on me.\"\nKeys to SFU success this year\nare the kicking game of Junior\nBrett Anderson, who like English, is also a wide receiver.\nLinebacker Justin Ring also has\nto play well.\nThe game has played in front\nof crowds of up to 14,000 and the\norganizers hope for a huge turnout this year. This gridiron\ngrudge match should make for an\nexciting game.\nBecome a T-Bird athlete\nEver wanted to be a varsity\nathlete? September tryout times\nprovided by the Department of\nAthletics are listed below.\nMen's Basketball\nBruce Enns has tryouts scheduled for September 5 from 6:00\nto 8:30 pm and September 6 beginning at 4:15 pm in War Memorial Gym.\nHockey\nMike Coflin will hold a meeting at Thunderbird Winter\nSports Centre on September 5 at\n5:30 pm. On-ice tryouts will take\nplace September 6 and 7, also at\n5:30 pm.\nMen's Volleyball\nDale Ohman will be holding\ntryouts for both the varsity and\njunior teams together. They will\ntake place in the Student Recreation Centre on September 11 at\n6:30 pm, and September 12 and\n13 at 4:45 pm.\nWomen's Basketball\nDeb Huband will begin tryouts in War Memorial Gym on\nSeptember 5 from 4:30 to 6:30\npm.\nWomen's Volleyball\nDoug Reimer will start tryouts\non September 11. Sign up on his\noffice door in WMG 280.\nSwimming\nTom Johnson and Randy\nBennett will begin tryouts with a\nmeeting on September 7 at 5:30\npm in the Aquatic Centre Classroom. For more information, call\n822-9623 or 822-4522.\nWomen's Ice Hockey\nThere will a meeting on September 8 at 4:00 pm at the\nThunderbird Winter Sports Centre and on-ice tryouts will start\nat 5:15 pm.\nRowing\nThere will be meetings on September 12 and 13 at 5:30 pm in\nOsborne Gym A.\nU B\nTHUNDERBIRDS\n10\n20\n30\n40\n50\nSHRUM BOWL XVIII\"\n20\n50\n40\n$10 Grandstand - $6 Grass Seating in ADVANCE\n30 T^iikets^vaHabl\u00C2\u00A9^at4he\u00C2\u00ABAMS*\u00C2\u00A9\u00C2\u00A9^\u00C2\u00A9lfi\u00E2\u0082\u00ACefSy^\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094 30\nor at War Memorial Gym Dispensary 8:30 am-9:30 pm\n24 hour Ticket and Game Information\n10 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 y*KL-n_ #t#frr-i>OTrw* \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 -\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 -\"10\n20\nCall: 222=BTRD\nWednesday, September 6, 1995\nThe Ubyssey AMS Update\nWelcome back!\nThere's been a lot of changes since school let out! There's been changes to UBC's tuition policy, renovations to the SUB\nConcourse, drastic modifications to federal and provincial funding of post-secondary education (PSE), and many accountability changes within the Alma Mater Society. We look forward to seeing you at the AMS Welcome Back BBQ this Friday\nat Maclnnes Field. Feel free to drop by our offices in the northwest corner of the top floor in SUB to catch up on what we've\nbeen up to for the last four months. Our door is always open!\nJanice Boyle (Pres), Namiko Kunimoto (VP) David Borins (External) Am Johal (Admin) Tara Ivanochko (Finance)\nCONGRATULATIONS TO THE UBYSSEY ON ITS WELL DESERVED AUTONOMY. CHEERS!\nA call for volunteers\nLooking to gain new skills? The AMS Services are looking for\nvolunteers to assist them in everything from general office\nduties to counseling and conflict resolution. Drop by and\nlend us a hand \u00E2\u0080\u0094 you'll gain great work experience and meet\nnew people! No experience necessary and time commitments\nvary.\nJOBLINK STUDENT EMPLOYMENT CENTER is looking for\npeople available from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm during the week and\nwho would like to gain experience performing a wide variety of\noffice and computing duties, marketing and media relations.\nApplications available from JobLink in SUB 100A.\nSAFEWALK needs everyone interested in campus safety to\nbecome a volunteer! For just 2 hours a week, Safewalk volunteers will escort other UBC students and staff to go to any campus destination after dark. Applications available from the\nSafewalk desk beside the Gallery Lounge.\nSPEAKEASY PEER COUNSELING AND INFORMATION is looking for 50-75 students who are friendly and want experience in\ncounseling and information services. Applications available at\nSpeakeasy and must be returned by Sept 13th.\nAMS VOLUNTEER SERVICES has positions available that will\nallow you to gain valuable experience or just explore your\ncareer options. Positions available include Assistant Director,\nSecretary/Treasurer, Special Events Coordinator as well as people to help with seminars, placements and administration.\nApplications available at Volunteer Services, SUB 100D.\nTHE OMBUDSOFFICE is looking for 10 new caseworkers to\nhelp seek resolutions to student complaints regarding both academic and other university-related matters for 3-5 hours per\nweek. Training in conflict resolution and mediation provided.\nApplications available at the Ombudsoffice, SUB 1008 and\nmust be returned by Sept. 15th.\nJobLink\nAMS \\nVOLUNTEER\nSERVICES^\nSafeWalk\nprogram\nPEER COUNSELLING\nAND INFORMATION\nIn addition to alt the vacancies within AMS Services, there\nare also many positions within the student government\navailable. Learn great leadership and communication skills\nwhile making a contribution that all students can benefit\nfrom.\nELECTIONS ADMINISTRATOR oversees the General\nElections held each January. Supervisory and organizational\nexperience and ability to work well under pressure an asset,\ninvolves a commitment of 3 hours a week except for an average of 30 hours per week during January. Term expires March\n15, 1996. The successful candidate may not hold any elected or appointed positions within the AMS or constituencies.\nELECTIONS COMMITTEE MEMBERS assist the Elections\nAdministrator in their duties in running the AMS Elections are\nassigned specific responsibilities by the Committee. Positions\ninclude Chief Returning Officer, Deputy Returning Officer,\nand 2 at-large Members and involve a heavy time commitment during January. Terms expire March 15, 1996.\nSTUDENT ADMINISTRATIVE COMMISSION MEMBERS are\nresponsible for establishing and enforcing the security, building and bookings policy for the SUB, acting as the AMS's liaison with constituencies, administering the AMS Art Gallery,\nregulating and constituting the 180 AMS clubs, providing\nfunction security for SUB events and organizing related\nevents such as Clubs Days. Involves a commitment of 10\nhours a week, including weekly (Monday evening) SAC meetings. Members appointed for terms expiring March 15th or\nSeptember 30. Commissioner's portfolios include Vice-Chair,\nBuilding, Clubs , Art Gallery, Constituency, and At-large with\nportfolios decided by the Commission. Please submit resumes\nfor all above positions to Craig Bavis, c /o Nominating\nCommittee at the address below\nSENATOR-AT-LARGE, FORESTRY SENATOR, EDUCATION\nSENATOR serve on the UBC Senate, the body within the\nUniversity that administrates all academic matters. Each faculty has its own senator, in addition to five senators-at-large.\nThe Senator-at-large position is open to all students, while\ncandidates for the other two positions must be from the\nrespective faculties. Duties include attending Senate and\nStudent Senate Caucus meetings. Applicants must be registered in a minimum of 24 credits to be eligible. Please\nresumes for the above positions to Lica Chui, Chair, Student\nSenate Caucus at the address below.\nRm 238, Student Union Building 6138 Student Union\nBoulevard, UBC\nAll nominations close Mon, Sept 25th, 1995 at 4:30 pm.\nALMA MATER SOCIETY\nSTUDENT SOCIETY OF UBC\nPrepared by your student society ultur\nInsanity is a lot of fun\nThe Madman and the Nun\nat the Alexander Centre until\nSeptember 17\nby Diana Stein\nAccording to Madman's mad artist\nWalpurg, \"In this world, art can only be a\ngrotesque imitation.\"\nWell, maybe, but sometimes it can also\nbe a lot of fun, as the Square Planet Performance Group proves in their production of\nStanislaw Witkiewicz's bizarre one-act trip\nthrough \"a busy night at the asylum.\"\nThe plot centers around the dual protagonists of artist-tumed-inmate Walpurg (Hiro\nKanagawa) and Sister Olivia (Melanie\nDoerr), a psychiatric nun sent to help him\nas part of a series of hit-and-miss cures\nthrown at the various patients. As it turns\nout. Sister Olivia, along with every other\ncharacter, has problems of her own.\nBy the end of the play, one is left wondering not only about the sanity of the characters, but also about one's own state of\nmind. Happily though, as one leaves the\ntheatre, one feels that the whole question\nof sanity versus insanity does not much\nmatter as long as one is having a good time\n- and everyone in this production seems to\nbe having plenty of that.\nFrom start to finish, the production is an\nunconventional, energetic mix of words\n\ X\nMelanie Doerr and Hiro Kanagawa star m The Madman and the Nun.\nSheridan a likable autobiographer\nand movement, humour and pathos. Director Marc Diamond's adaptation ofthe original text (Witkiewicz committed suicide in\n1939 rather than be captured by the Nazis) uses updated references that allow the\npiece to be timely and relevant with regards to social and political issues, as well\nas the mental illness and social malaise\nthat still afflict us in the '90s. The text is\nwitty, irreverent, and often moving, and\nthe choreography by Lee Su-Feh (who, in\na truly strange piece of casting, plays the\nauthoritarian Dr. Waldorf) provides some\nof the show's\nmost memorable moments,\nsuch as the romantic dance\nnumber with a\nhospital gur-\nney.\nThe cast is\nwithout a weak\nlink, and Kanagawa is especially mesmerizing to watch.\nHe is one of\nthose rare performers who\nsimply seems\nincapable of\nbeing uninteresting on\nstage. Overall,\nthe actors' comic sensibilities almost ne\nver fail, and they all seem to improve as\nthe play becomes more and more absurd.\nThe cast and director have clearly recognized that the only way to deal with the\nplay's absurdity successfully is to refuse to\nrecognize it as such.\nIn short, this is a well-crafted production of a play that careens wildly without\nlosing its audience. After seeing this show,\nyou may wonder if a little insanity is such\na bad thing after all.\nAs the good doctor says, \"learn to love\nyour cage.\"\nThe Waltonsteins\nclosed September 2 at the\nGastown Studio Theatre\nby Diana Stein\nOK, a Catholic and a Jew walk\nonto a stage and ... Hey, wait a\nminute \u00E2\u0080\u0094 they're the same person!\nThe unusual and autobiographical premise of Frannie\nSheridan's one-woman show revolves around her as a child of\nHolocaust survivors who tried to\nconceal their family's Jewish origins by masquerading as Catholics, even after their emigration to\nCanada.\nSheridan is an adept physical\nperformer who skilfully delineates\nher characters with distinctive\ngestures and facial expressions\nthroughout the 50-minute show.\nSheridan has an appealing\nstage presence, and, perhaps because she appeared a little nervous at times, she never comes off\nas being too slick. Indeed, one of\nthe show's best aspects is the\nemotional honesty that comes\nthrough Sheridan's work: there\nFlavors\nON COMMERCIAL DRIVE\nWe Have African, Caribbean\nand Latin Spices and Breads\nw Patties $1.50, Samosa\nAloo Pie (potatoe & chick peas)\nChicken Roti $6.00\nFELAFEL $2.50\nShrimp Roti $6.50\nVegetable Roti $5.50\nGoat Stew $5.00\nLentil Stew $4.00\nInjers (Ethiopian Bread) 500\nDhalPuri Roti $1.50\n2054 Commercial Dr. Tel: 258-0016\nOpen Daily 10:00 am Eat In & Takeout\nare touches of humour throughout, but she is never tastelessly\nglib or flippant. Even her often\nunflattering portrayal of her father\ncontains a consistent undercurrent\nof sympathy for the unbelievable\nhardships he had to endure.\nWhen Sheridan really does\nmake fun of something, it is usually at her own expense, as when\nshe bluffs her way through Hebrew while exploring her Jewish\nheritage. In moments like that,\nSheridan's stage persona is simply so likable that the audience\nnot only laughes with her, but is\nalso persuaded to sing and clap\nalong with her to her father's favorite old Yiddish song.\nSheridan does leave the audi\nence wanting more, and that, perhaps, is the show's major flaw, as\nsome characters (like Sheridan's\nmother) are introduced but never\nreally explored, and one is left to\nwonder about them. The problem\ncould be solved by making the\nshow longer, which may be impractical for a single performer, or\nby narrowing its focus so that peripheral issues do not take up time\nthat could be put to better use\nelsewhere.\nOverall, however, Sheridan is\njust so damn likable as a performer\nthat one is willing to forgive a lot,\nand if it comes around again, it\nwill be a show worth seeing, even\nif you're not Jewish, Catholic, or\njust plain guilt-ridden.\nIVCF\nOh Cw*pkf\nMedical Science Complex\nGcptcMa\n14\n21\n28\nON LINE WITH IVCF\nSpecial Invitation to New Students!\nMASTER THE UBC EXPERIENCE\nPanel of Campus Experts\nTHE CRITICAL INTEGRATION\nFACTOR\nDr. Dennis Danielson\nDept. of English, UBC\nCYBERSPACE, THE CONSUMER\nSOCIETY, and the LOSS OF SELF\nDr. David Lyon\nDept. of Sociology, Queen's University\nSMALL GROUPS: Karen 222-1968 -3\nWITHOUT\n^ift\nWvt U\njet a frit woMtk of Uy TKt felpp^^Mverter m "Newspapers"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "LH3.B7 U4"@en . 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