"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-08-26"@en . "1997-07-29"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0126242/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " Status quo serves\nstudents best at\nPacific Spirit Place\nm\nA hip new recipe\nfor megalicious fun\nThe president of UBC\nfinally talks\nsun burnt since 1918\nStudent paints politics at UBC\nby Sarah Galashan\nWhat do you do when you're angry and politically motivated with five bucks to spare? Buy a\ncan of black spray paint and make your voice\nheard?\nThat was the approach taken by a student\non June 24th. Late that night the student\nscrawled their opinion on several university\nbuildings including the new Koerner Library\nand the clock tower, hoping to create some conversation the following day.\nPeople were indeed talking, but more were\nupset with the medium than the message.\n\"I think it's terrible. I think there is another\nway to express that,\" said Manjit Aitken, a visitor to UBC.\nAitken was referring to a message sprayed\nabove the entrance to Koerner. library, legible,\nfrom as far away as the Main Library courtyard. The graffiti was apparently a reference to\noutgoing president, David Strangway. It read:\n\"Sold to the highest bidder! Sold! DS=Sell out.\"\nThe student responsible, who spoke to the\nUbyssey on condition of anonymity, defended\nthe action, saying it was done to set an agenda\nfor incoming president, Martha Piper.\nThey criticised students at UBC for their\nlack of critical thought and wanted to \"push\nstudents\" and \"raise the stakes.\" They were\nsure a more orthodox means of protest would\nnot have been as effective.\nThe messages painted elsewhere on campus similarly criticised growing commercialisation on campus. However, many people outside Koerner library either didn't understand\nthe graffiti, or weren't impressed by it.\n\"Strangway is retiring. Let it go\" said Robert\nHibberd, a UBC student. He said he approves\nof higher levels of commercialisation if it\nreduces tuition fees.\nA visiting UCLA grad student laughed and\nKOERNER LIBRARY was one.of several campus buildings targeted by a graffiti artist last\nWednesday, richard lam photo\npointed when he noticed the message above\nthe library entrance, but agreed with the sentiment ofthe author. \"[Corporate sponsorship of\n\"I definitely agree with\nthe sentiments... I have\nreservations about spray-\npainting university property.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Jonathan Oppenheim\nMember of Culture Jammers\neducational facilities] seems like it's advertising in a way. It sort of degrades the university\nin a way.\"\nStill the impact of the graffiti on students\nand staff at UBC is questionable.\n\"I didn't even notice [the graffiti]. We don't\neven know what it means,\" said Wesley Wong\nand Jinny Tang, both students at UBC.\nAccording to the student responsible it was\nunimportant that not all students understood\nthe message. They said they felt forced to take\nmatters into their own hands.\nJonathan Oppenheim. a member of\nCulture Jammers, said his group was not\nresponsible for the graffiti. Culture\nJammers also protests against forms of\ncommercialisation. He denounced tlie\naction, but said he approved ofthe message.\n\"I definitely see where it's coming from and\nI definitely agree with the sentiments... I\nhave reservations about spray-painting university property.\"\nPlant Operations had sandblasted most of\nthe messages by late Thursday. The job cost the\nuniversity more than $ 1000.\nThe student responsible said they had no\nregrets, and that the social costs of corporate\ninvolvement at UBC outweighed the cost of\nsandblasting graffiti. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\new budget forces Arts and Sciences to cram for classes\nby Chris Nuttall-Smith\nand Sarah Galashan\nClasses will get bigger, some will\nbe canceled, and hiring will slow\nto a trickle at UBC as the university tries to grapple with a third year\nof frozen funding.\nThe crunch is a result of the\nprovincial freeze on tuition and\nuniversity funding and mandatory\nenrollment increases, said David\nStrangway, outgoing UBC\nPresident.\n\"If it continues, the university\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nnot just this university but post\nsecondary education\u00E2\u0080\u0094is going to\nbe in trouble,\" said Strangway.\nThe Arts and Sciences faculties\nwill likely feel the greatest effects\nof this year's budget because of\ntheir size. Arts, the largest faculty\nat UBC, will see many small class\nes canceled, or offered only every\ntwo years.\nAssociate dean of arts Neil\nGuppy said many instructors will\nteach extra courses that aren't\nrequired of them. And when an\nanticipated 1(3 Arts instructors\nretire this year, none of their positions will be filled.\nIn addition some upper level\ncourses, and courses with low\nenrollment will be cut, negatively\naffecting the faculty's diversity.\nThe English department has\nbeen feeling effects of the budget\nand the enrollment problem since\n1995-96.\nEvery undergrad at UBC has to\ntake six credits of first year\nEnglish. It's always been hard to\nget courses, said Judy Brown, first\nyear English coordinator. But after\ncanceling class sections and\naccommodating more students,\nthe department is near breaking\npoint.\n\"I'm hoping that we'll be able\nto get the maximum number of\nstudents into our sections but I\ncan't guarantee it. Students are\ncoming to me now and asking me\nwhether I can assure I can get\nthem from a waiting list into our\nvarious courses. I can't in all honesty say that I'm sure,\" Brown\nsaid.\nThe faculty of science similarly\nexpects to take an extra two to\nthree percent more students this\nyear than they did last year, all on\nan operating budget that's down\nabout three percent from $43 million.\nScience doesn't plan on laying\noff any instructors, said David\nMeasday, Associate Dean. But like\narts, classes will get bigger and\nsome will be canceled.\nPaul Ramsey, minister of education, said in an interview Friday\nthat classes are being \"affected\nbecause the university is inefficient\u00E2\u0080\u0094not because of provincial\ntuition, funding and enrollment\npolicy.\n\"The question is whether we\nask universities to get efficient and\nmake some changes in how they\ndeliver courses to increase the\nnumber of seats and keep access to\nuniversity courses available to\neveryone, not just those who can\nafford to pay 20, 30 and 40 percent higher tuition,\" said Ramsey.\nRamsey added that the\nprovince has maintained stable\nfunding for universities in the face\nof massive transfer cuts from the\nfederal government. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nAccreditation loss\nleaves Bio-Resource\nstudents stuck\nBy Sarah Galashan\nStudents in the Bio-Resource engineering program are worried\ntheir degrees will be useless\nunless the department is re-\naccredited.\nThe program's accreditation\nwas revoked by the Canadian\nEngineering Accreditation Board\n(CEAB) on June 30 because the\ndepartment has no proper space,\nand poor instructional equipment.\nPaul Watkinson, head of\nChemical and Bio-Resource\nEngineering said that if students\ngraduate from the non-accredited\nprogram they will have to take\nstandardized exams to prove\nthemselves to the CEAB.\n\"It's like driving without\nlicenses' said Coby Wong a Bio-\nResource student starting her\nthird year in September. \"Alot of\nus have great passion for the program and well stay because we\nlove what we do... but this is a big\ndisadvantage for us.*\nThere are 92 students currently in the Bio-Resource engineering program. Over half of them\nare women making the program\nunique among other UBC engineering departments.\n-Watkinson said the CEAB\nwarned the engineering department the program needed to have\nits own facilities and upgraded\nequipment But UBC's response\ncame too late and was insufficient 1 think (the CEAB) just get\nto tbe point that they said, took,\nth\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB on|y way they witt do mmi-\nthing about this is if we terminate\nthe accreditation,** said\nin. . . ,.\n'If students haven't got.the\negojpment to do the experiments\nwith, ft really inhibits their learn-\n&&& ifoMam. yw can't\nsort of tell them this is how it\nwoqki work. They have to have\ni&expsrience of actually doing it\ntiiemselves.\"\nStudents and 9taff \u00C2\u00ABf the Bio-\nResource engineering program\nwill be moving into the space currendy used by those in Chemical\neiigineering. Having their own\nfacilities may improve their chances for re^ccreditation in the fall.\nBut both Meisen and\nWatkinson both stressed they cannot guarantee re-accreditation.\nThey advised Bio-Resource students talk to course advisors and\ntake some courses outside of the\ndepartments\n. 2 THE SUMMER UBYSSEY, JULY 28, 1997\nciassme\ne\norren\nI\n4 ROOMS FOR RENT, PREFER\nFEMALES, close to UBC, fully furnished, phones in rooms, shared\nkitchen, and bathroom facilites,\nno smoking, no pets, available\neither August 1, or September\n1/97. $300.00-450.00/month +\n1/5 utilities, call: 731-5643.\nvolunteer\nVOLUNTEER WRITERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, PROOREaMDERS,\nTYPESETTERS WaANTED, join\nthe Ubyssey, UBC's official\nstudent newspaper. Come to\nroom 24IK, Student Union\nBuilding, or call 822-2301.\nExpand your resume skills now,\nhave fun while you're at it.\nPLACE a\N AD with the Ubyssey,\nUBC's official student newspaper. Reach the biggest concentration of 18-22 year olds in the\nlower mainland. Phone 822-\n1654 or 822-6681.\nors\nsirs\nSTRaUGHT FROM CUBA,\nauthentic, real good cigars.\nGreat prices, call Bruce at 874-\n0802. Postcards and t-shirts\navailable too.\nnews\nFare hikes to hit some\n by Chris Nuttall-Smith\nTransit fare increases this October\nwill be hit and miss for most stu\ndents at UBC: monthly pass users\nwon't see fares increase, but some\ncash fares will double.\nBC Transit plans to ehminate\nweekday off-peak fares this fall to\nsubsidise better service. The new\nfare policy, called a \"Fare Deal,\" will\nbring an extra five percent in revenue for Transit.\nRiders crossing fare zone boundaries before 6:30pm weekdays will\npay $2.25 for a two zone trip, $3 for\nthree. Students who buy monthly\npasses, however, can buy a \"Fast\nTrack\" sticker: attached to a student\ncard, the $2 sticker will let one zone\npass users travel though all zones.\nNancy Hayashi, a fourth year\nArts student at UBC, said the new\nfares would hurt low-income riders.\nAnd it will encourage people to\ndrive to school, she said.\n\"A lot of people use transit\nbecause they can't afford to drive in\nevery day. Once you pay for parking\nand gas, it's pretty expensive. But\nfor someone who has to pay $6 to\ntake the bus to school and back, it's\nbetter to drive,\" said Hayashi.\nBC Transit's fall 1997 service\nplan calls for extra express bus\nroutes between Richmond and UBC,\nincreased frequency on Broadway\nand Fourth Avenue routes and\nincreased B-Line frequency, from\nevery ten minutes on weekdays to\nevery seven minutes.\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nLooking for relief from increasing bus fares, richard lam photo\nB-Lot parking rates to fall\nby Sarah Galashan\nCheap parking might get cheaper this\nfall if plans to rework Blot fees are given\nthe green light\nStudents could be paying a $2 per\nday parking rate, a figure that's 20 cents\nless than last year's average ticket cost\n\"We're thinking about going down\nto...a daily flat rate, rather than the 40\ncents per hour rate,\" said Danny Ho,\nParking and Key Desk manager.\nThe flat rate will allow Parking and\nKey Desk to replace unionised lot attendants in Blot with automatic machines.\nIt will also speed up entrance and exit\nlines, said Ho.\nAlthough it's being billed as a cheaper price, the proposed fee will only cost\ndrivers less if they park all day.\nBut David Grigg Manager of Urban\nPlanning and Infrastructure, Campus\nPlanning and Development said the\ncheaper day rate will encourage people\nto drive to UBC. \"The lower the cost the\nmore readily does somebody say, Well\n111 take the car in today.'\"\nThat said Grigg, is in opposition to\nuniversity plans to reduce auto traffic to\nUBC by raising parking rates.\nUBC pledged in its proposed Official\nCommunity Plan to use higher parking\nrates to fund better and cheaper transit\nservice to campus. Despite the fee proposal Ho insists that parking and security is rommitted to encouraging com\nmuters to UBC to take transit\n\"I don't really feel comfortable say\ning, \"yeah, we should arbitrarily raise\nthis rate just because we anticipate the\nU-pass,'\" said Ho, referring to a UBC\nproposal to subsidise transit to UBC. \"It\nshould be planned out a little better\nthan that \"Ho said the likelihood of the\nlower Blot fees are approximately 51\npercent certain. He added he hoped the\nrates would be changed by\nSeptember.**\nA Trek Through UBC Student History\nCompiled by Si&- AMS Archivist\nPre-History\n1899-1900: Vancouver College, primarily a high\nschool, begins offering post-secondary\ncourses accredited by Montreal's\nMcGill University. Six students\nenroll in the post-secondary program\n(enrollment reaches 30 in 1905-06).\nFall 1906: McGill University College of British\nColumbia (McGill BC) opens,\nreplacing the post-secondary program\nat Vancouver College and offering\nuniversity-level instruction to 48\nstudents (enrollment in later years\nrises to about 300).\nFall 1907: McGill BC's students organize a\nstudent society known as the Alma\nMater Society. First president: F.J.\nShearer.\nEarly Days, Fairview Campus\nSeptember 1915: Opening of UBC, first true\nuniversity in the province, temporarily\nhoused in McGill BC's old buildings\n(called the \"Fairview Shacks\") at 12th\nand Oak. McGill BC closes; many of\nits professors and students continue at\nUBC (though some go overseas to\nfight in World War I).\nOctober 15. 1915: Birthday ofthe Alma Mater\nSociety (AMS) of UBC; students meet\nand adopt constitution for new student\nsociety; Sherwood Lett elected first\nAMS President later lhat month.\nDecember 1916: First UBC student publication,\na monthly magazine called the\nAnonymous (later renamed Ubicee).\nThe AMS UpDate is published\nweekly by the Alma Mater\nciety, your student union.\nOctober 17, 1918: First issue of new student\nnewspaper called the Ubyssey.\nOctober 28, 1922: The Great Trek. Students\nmarch from the Fairview campus to\nthe site of the still unbuilt campus in\nPoint Grey (the current campus),\ndemanding that the government\nprovide lhe money needed for\nconstruction: (The government\nagrees.)\nPoint Grey: The First 40 Years\nSeptember 1925: First classes at the new Point\nGrey campus.\nApril 27, 1928: The students incorporate their\nAlma Maler Society as an independent\nnon-profit society in order to raise\nmoney for campus building.\nNovember 9, 1929: Official opening of UBC's\nfirst gymnasium, built wilh money\nraised by the AMS: first of many\ncampus building projects initiated by\nstudents through the AMS.\n1936-37: Film Society founded; first year's film\npresentations include Timnder over\nMexico. Fra Diavolo. and Alt Baba.\nSeptember 1937: Distant origin of CiTR. AMS\nbegins weekly half-hour radio\nbroadcasts on local radio station\n(directed by a new club, the Radio\nSociety).\nJanuary 31, 1940: Official opening of Brock\nHall, the first UBC student union\nbuilding, paid for largely by funds\nraised by the AMS.\nJanuary 1949: The Dance Club (constituted the\nprevious year) begins functioning,\nadvertising classes in the tango, the\nrumba, and the fox trot.\nOctober 25, 1954: Fire at Brock Hall; roof falls\nin, students launch fund-raising\ncampaign to pay for restoration.\nDecember 1956: The Second Trek. A student\npetition campaign convinces the\ngovernment to increase funding for\nthe University.\nMarch 1963: The Third Trek (the \"Back Mac-\nCampaign). Students march, boycott\nclasses, and petition in support of\nUBC President John B. Macdonald's\nrequest for increased funding and\ngreater access to higher education.\nPoint Grey: The Last 30 Years\nOctober 18, 1967: Students elected to the\nUniversity Senate for the first time.\nSeptember 26, 1968: Opening of current Student\nUnion Building, paid for largely by\nAMS funds.\nOctober 24, 1968: Urged on by U.S. hippie\nleader Jerry Rubin, thousands of UBC\nstudents occupy the Faculty Club\nThe AMS Student Council condemns\nthe occupation, but helps organize a\nteach-in the following week on\nuniversity reform\nJanuary 1969: Radio Society begins\nbroadcasting as CYVR (becomes\nCITR in 1974; begins broadcasting\noff-campus on cable in 1975 and on\nFM in 1982)\nSeptember 24, 1971: About 2000 students heeo\nan AMS call to block the US border\nto protest nuclear testing on Amchilka\nIsland in Alaska\nDecember 1974: Students elected to the\nUniversity Board of Governors for the\nfirst \"lime (one is Svend Robinson,\nnow an NDP MP)\nNovember 1975: Referendum revamps AMS\nstructure. creating the Student\nAdministrative Commission (SAC),\nthe body responsible for implementing\nAMS policy established by Student\nCouncil.\nApril 1, 1977: AMS Student Court orders the\nAMS to pay compensation to the\nVarsity Outdoors Club (VOC) in a\ndispute over ownership of the\nWhistler cabin (built for the AMS and\nthe VOC in 1965). AMS Student\nCouncil refuses to approve the Court\nruling. A compromise is later\nreached.\nFebruary 4, 1986: Bowing to protests, the\nEngineers replace their annual Lady\nGodiva ride with a mock funeral\nprocession, but then stage a strip show\nin the Hebb Theatre. (The rides\nsubsequently resume for a few more\nyears. but eventually are\ndiscontinued.)\nJanuary 1987: Students vote against banning the\nsale of South African products in the\nSUB\nSeptember 1989: Students vote against paying a\nS30 AMS fee to build the Student\nRecreation Centre, reversing a vote\nfrom the year before. (The\nAdministration then introduces its\nown $40 student fee to pay for the\nCentre.)\n1994-95: The Ubvssev does not publish all year,\nfollowing conflicts with the AMS\nexecutive sparked by controversial\narticles in 1993-94 In 1995-96, the\nUbyssey. is reborn as an independent\npublication (no longer published by\nthe AMS).\nFebruary 14, 1996: I lie AMS officially\nannounces ils new Child Care rtursary\nFund, named alter Mrs. Lvclyn Lett, a\nmember of the first AMS Student\nCouncil in 1915-16. Mrs. Lett, aged\n99, attends the ceremony and makes a\nshort speech. TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1997\nnews\nTHE SUMMER UBYSSEY 3\nStudents may take UBC to court over fee hike\nby Stanley L. Tromp\nThe AMS may join a court battle\nto reverse ancilliary fees and the\ntuition increase for international\ngraduate students.\nUBC law student Amir Attaran\nplans to argue that UBC did not\nfollow its policy on consulting students before raising tuition; that\nthe 1.6 percent tuition, increase\nfor domestic students this year is\nprohibited by the act that froze\ntuition; and that ancilliary fees\nare the same as tuition fees and\nare therefore prohibited by the\nsame act.\nUniversity administrators\nhave been sending mixed signals\nabout the case. David Strangway,\nthe out-going president of UBC,\nargued in an interview last week\nthat students were consulted\naccording to university policy\nbefore international graduate\ntuition fees were raised.\n\"What happened was there\nwas a quick move as a result of\ninput from the deans who asked\nus to do this and what immediately followed in the next four months\nyou couldn't have more consultation than we did on that issue,\"\nsaid Strangway.\nUBC Policy 71 (Consultation With Students About\nTuition Fees) states that\nUBC must meet with students on specific dates,\nand publish the results of\nconsultation in UBC\nReports.\nTuition fees for international graduate students\nare set to rise 210 percent\nnext year, an increase of $4,808\nannually.\nBut Dennis Pavlich, vice president of legal affairs admits\nadministrators did not follow\nthe policy on consultation exactly. \"Yes, it's true, they did not follow the requirement to meet at\nthe start of the year. But they\ntried to live up to the spirit ofthe\npolicy,\" said Pavlich.\nPavlich said the wording of\nUBC policies should be regarded\nmore like \"guidelines\" than as\nprecise binding directives.\n\"Yes, it's true, they did not\nfollow the requirement to\nmeet at the start of the year.\nBut they tried to live up to\nthe spirit of the policy,\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Dennis pavlich,\nvice president of legal affairs\nAttaran said the Graduate\nStudent Society voted on July 17\nto grant $ 1,000 in support of the\nlegal challenge.\nEqually, AMS council is set to\ndecide in two weeks whether to\nask for intervenor status when\nthe case goes to court. That status\nwould let AMS lawyers argue in\nsupport of Attaran.\nRyan Davies, AMS president,\ntold council last week that executive councilors were strongly in\nsupport of seeking intervenor status.\nAMS policy analyst\nDesmond \"Rodenbour said\nthe AMS has advanced documents to its lawyer to\nassist Attaran's cause. \"I'm\nthrilled this action is moving ahead\" said Rodenbour.\nIn April, Attaran launched a complaint to the BC\nOmbudsman in Victoria.\nHe also asked her for a\n\"substantitive review\" of the\nNDP's domestic student tuition-\nfreeze law (which runs until mid-\n1998), to see if UBC has been trying to bypass the law by imposing\nthree ancillary student fees.\nBecause of the Ombudsman's\nlong delay, he believes the legal\nroute will work better.\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nTech. U. could\nface boycott\nPacific Spirit Place to stay\nby Todd Silver\nA committee considering the fate of\nPacific Spirit Place Cafeteria has decided that UBC is best served by the status\nquo.\nFrank Easton, acting vice-president\nof administration and finance, announced Monday the food services\nadvisory committee rejected two private bids to take over both Pacific\nSpirit Place and a cafeteria planned for\nthe Forest Sciences Building.\nThe decision means that current\nfood service management and staff will\nstay on the job.\nEaston said the committee chose to\nstay with existing operations since they\nwere profitable last year.\n\"Neither of the short list candidates\ndemonstrated a strong enough economic advantage to the university to warrant a change in operator at this time,\"\nsaid Easton.\nSUB CAFETERIA is still going to look like this... for now. ubyssey file photo\n\"I'm very happy with the decision\nthat they did not give control over\nto a large company. So there's\nno chance of a union battle.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Efrem Swartz\nstudent rep to food services advisory cte\nNo one at CUPE local 116, the union\nwhich represents Food Services workers,\ncould be reached for comment on the\nannouncement. The current contract for\nFood Services workers runs\ninto the spring of 1999.\nThe process to decide the\nfate of campus food services\nhas been long and not without\ncriticism.\nEfrem Swartz, the only student representative on the\nFood Services Advisory Committee, was initially worried.\nthat the guidelines for applicants favoured big buissness.\nBut when interviewed Monday, Schwartz\nsaid \"I'm very happy with the decision that\nthey did not give control over to a large com\npany. So there's no chance of a union battle.\"\nHe added that the status quo was not\ngood enough. \"UBC needs to follow through\non it's pledge to improve services,\" he said.\n\"The profits have to be put back into the system.\"\nEaston confirmed that current management will have to improve services, and\naccept a certain level of risk to continue to\nprofit.\nJudy Vaz, acting director of UBC Food\nServices, said she was happy with the committee's decision. \"We worked hard and now\nthe rewards are beginning to show.\"*?*\nComputer theft closes AMS Women's Centre doors\nby Sarah Galashan\nThe AMS Women's Centre is supposed to be\nan open-door drop in centre where women\ncan feel secure on campus and have free\naccess to the resources available. The door\nhas been closed since July 1 because of a\nstring of recent thefts in the centre.\nManbir Randhawa, Women's Centre coordinator, says the centre won't leave its door\nopen unsupervised until there's a security system in place, but that she will try to be in the\noffice as often as possible.\n\"We just can't afford to have anything else\ntaken,\" said Randhawa.\nA new $3000 computer was stolen from\nthe centre, located on the ground floor of SUB.\nThere have also been some minor thefts\nrecently.\nRandhawa said only five Women's Centre\nmembers had access to the locked room in the\ncentre, where the computer was kept. Four of\nthe five who had access can be eliminated.\n\"She was supposed to paint the room... and\nshe never ended up completing the room; and\nI think before she left she decided to take the\ncomputer,\" said'RCMP Constable J.P. Lee.\n\"It makes it worse when it's a women that\nyou know, when it's someone that you actually\ntrust, when it's someone who actually realises\nthe value of a centre like this and made it seem\nlike she was all for it\" said Randhawa, who\nknew only the suspect's first name.\nLee said there is not much the RCMP can\ndo about the case. \"[The suspect] has never\ngiven anyone more detail than her first name\nand the phone number she gave comes back\nto the Women's centre,\" Lee said.\nJennie Chen, the AMS director of administration, said AMS officials and Women's\nCentre representatives were trying to improve\nsecurity in the centre.\n..- Randhawa said she didn't know when the\nCentre would be able to leave its doors open\nagain. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nby Douglas Quan\nA group of university educators\nhas launched a public attack\nagainst the planned Technical\nUniversity of B.C, threatening an\ninternational boycott ofthe school.\nThe Confederation of University Faculty Associations of BC and\nthe Canadian Association of\nUniversity Teachers are appealing\nto the provincial government to\namend or withdraw legislation\nthat would make Technical University a legal entity.\nThe proposed legislation does\nnot provide for a Senate at the university. According to CUFA's executive director, Robert Clift, that makes\nTech U \"not a real university.*\n\"We have gone to our membership and got approval to launch an\ninternational campaign to warn\nacademics worldwide that they are\nnot going to have the freedom to\npursue their research at this institution, they will be subservient to\nthe Board of Governors, and they\nare not going to have the freedom\nto determine the curriculum\neither,\" said Clift.\nClift worries that without a\nSenate, business\u00E2\u0080\u0094not academic\ninquiry\u00E2\u0080\u0094will dictate curriculum\nand the type of research done at\nTech U. The university's mandate\nis to forge partnerships with BC's\ngrowth industries and give students skills training in advanced\ntechnologies.\n\"The people that are making\nthe decisions about curriculum\nare people in industry directly. It's\nnot industry working with academics/ said Clift. \"There will be no\ncuriosity-based research at this\ninstitution.\"\nPaul Ramsey, education minister, dismissed the criticisms in an\ninterview Friday. He said Technical University has a different\nmandate that requires a different\ndecision making body.\n\"We are trying a different sort\nof university level institution with\nthe Technical University that has a\nmuch more cooperative and integrated relationship with the industry that's providing advanced education for it. Therefore, we've\nchanged the governance structure.\"\nRamsey said the changes don't\nsacrifice academic freedom.\n\"We've explicitly included the sections of the University Act that\ninclude academic freedom/ said\nRamsey.\nCUFA is not the first group that\nhas expressed disapproval of the\nnew university. The College\nInstitute Educators' Association of\nBC has requested an independent\nreview to assess the need for the\nuniversity.\nIn a time of federal transfer\npayment cutbacks, the CIEA worries that funding for the new $ 100\nmillion institution will come out of\nexisting universities' pockets.\nBut Ramsey said it would\n\"absolutely not* be done at the\nexpense of other universities.\nRon Dickson, chajr of Tech U's\nBoard of Governors, said the challenge to the university is motivated by 'fear of change and fear of\ncompetition.\"\nThe legislation passed Mon- 4 JULY 29, 1997\nTHE UBYSSEY 5\nAnother roadside recipe for a \"Hip\" time\nANOTHER ROADSIDE ATTRACTION\nJULY 17 AT THUNDERBIRD STADIUM\nby Penny Cholmondeley\nAnother Roadside Attraction concert has found a\nrecipe for success. There's nothing new about it, and\nthe promoters don't even try to wean the crowd off the\nrock and roll teat. All this concert does is add a healthy\nmix of smaller rock-rooted bands to a few big names,\nproducing colossal record sales and a chance to milk\nthe Canadian penchant for BIG outdoor parties. Pretty\nsimple, and the bands on the bill have nothing to lose.\nTake Los Lobos who, unafraid to jump from polkas\nto blues to Latin in front of a visibly mainstream audience, played the day's most eclectic set. The crowd's\ninitial confusion at the band's earthy blues style\nexposed a large number of CFox junkies still clinging\nto the legacy of \"La Bamba\". Yet once the band charged\nup with two blues jams, the bobbing heads began and\nany hesitant dancers uncoiled. As the crowd around\nthe stage grew, the bands rhythms increased in intensity and Los Lobos proved they were not \"just another\nL.A. band\".\nWilco suffered the same lukewarm welcome, driving\nlead singer Jeff Tweedy to comment wryly\ndon't worry we'll be done\nsoon\" after two\nCORDON DOWNIE, lead singer of The Hip\nRICHARD LAM PHOTO.\nTwelve ways to waste 100 bucks\n by Robin Yeatman\nPENNY WISDOM DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL\nat the Pacific Cinematheque\nThe increasingly extravagent movie industry more often than not requires millions of dollars to budget a film. This causes me to wonder when a supposed\nblockbuster like Lost World bombs, does money make the movie? In that case,\nno. This also seems to be the opinion of the indepedent artists who invested\nUieir hard earned rash in the Penm Wisdom Documentary Festival. Their philosophy relies on the talent ofthe filmmakers and not the finances.\nOne hundred dollars barely buys you a decent haircut these days, let alone\na documentary So what is left over if you fire the lighting director, the costume\ndesigner, Ihe camera operator, and of course those egocentric (and expensive)\nactors? Well, with a few exceptions, not a whole hock of a lot.\nOut of the twelve short documentaries shown at the festival, only three\npassed as 'interesting and entertaining' (to quote the program) Did You Do the\nNapkin Tops?, directed by Lisa Doyle, Revealing Moments, directed by Jessica\nBradford, and Work Today-Paid Today, directed by Traven Ricer. ,\nd Did You\nDotheNapkin 7bps?/was an award-winning little ditty made in 1990, most likely thrown in to add a little spice to the bland menu offered to the audienre.\nIt is not that I expected academy award winning performances from their\nvolunteer rast, or special effects that would shame Steven Spielberg. Jusl a little imagination would have, done nicely. An example of a true lack of imagination can be found in Capital Part 1, the camera zooms in on a chapter from\nMarx's Capital Part 1, and then alternates the camera from produce lo the price\ntags. Capitalism, we get the point. This becomes old, fast. The same could be\nsaid of scenes from Displaced Buskers, directed by Stephen Hansen, where we\nwatch a group of buskers bang pots and pans in an elevator and several abandoned lots for far longer than is necessary or even remotely interesting.\nNow, that is not to say thai the audience did not enjoy lhe presentation.\nHowever, that may be because the bulk of lhe viewers were filmmakers, and\neither took part in making the documentaries, or could appreciate certain\naspects of production in low-budget films.\nAnd while it may be amusing to chuckle at the mistakes of these experimental short documentaries, they serve best as a learning exercise to prospective fflmmakers, rather than presentable films.\"!*\ntry tunes were sluggishly received. However, with three\nmeatier rock numbers (that proved some people need\ndistortion to be happy) Wilcq gave the crowd what it had\ncome to hear - rock and roll. Had time allowed both Los\nLobos and Wilco would have been called back for\nencores, but concert goers were barely given time to\nwipe off the sweat and reach for the sun screen between\nbands. Sad for fans, but wise planning by organisers\nwho recognised the limits ofthe modern attention span\nOne painful mistake on the bill was the placement\nof Sheryl Crow AFTER Ashley Maclsaac. Crow's pop-in-\na-box sound was suspiciously generic in the aftermath\nof Maclsaac's passionate performance. While it may\nnot be fair to compare a mainstream rocker with a\nCape Breton fiddler, it is fair to contrast the energy of\nthe two performers. Maclsaac peeled around the stage,\nhis bow a blur, numbing the crowd with a 15 minute\nsolo of traditional jigs and reels. Crow, on the other\nhand, was a shadow of Anne Murray...you know her\nlips are moving you just can't see it. Mosher and folkie\nfound common ground in Maclsaac's performance,:\nand his appeal to a distinctive Celtic-Canadian heritage\nmade Crow's performance seem like an exercise in\ngrade school rhyming.\nYet in the end, the Roadside formula works. The\ndiversity of acts complimented each other more than\nthey clashed, and if you could stomach the blatant\ncommercialism that has infected the music festival\nscene (complete with skyline advertising and \"Hippies-\nR-Us\" clothing) while fully absorbing 11 hours of sun\nand music, you probably got the most out of Another\nRoadside. If not, nurse your burns, reminisce on all\nthe talent you were able to soak up and try tasting\nsome of these bands again, one at a time.\u00C2\u00AB>\n by Afshin Mehin\nAs the sun came down over U.B.C. 's Thunderbird\nStadium Sheryl Crow and her sweaty fans sure had\nfun. Crow did not disappoint, her fans. Her strong\nvoice and on stage charm had the sunburnt hoards\ngrooving to her trendy beat; amazing considering\nthe audience's anticipation of Canada's own rock\nsuper stars The Tragically Hip.\nCrow opening for The Hip seemed to be a good\ncombination as the two bands are very much alike\nin how the lyrics speak for today's twenty somethings never ending angst and craving for individuality. Crow's live show was a mix of pop tunes and\nstrong harmonies combined with a firm voice\nwhich sparks an emotional dialogue with the\ncrowd. This diva has a charismatic spunk about her\nwhich can make even a venue like Thunderbird\nStadium feel like a small cozy blues bar. Her personal lyrics reached out and shook the audience,\nwhile her mellow body movements lulled everyone\ninto a hypnotic stupor.\nThe headlining act,The Tragically Hip finished\noff the evening like a cigarette after great sex.\nThere was nothing tragic about the Hip's performance as they gave the crowd exactly what they\nwere looking for: the hard edge, and sometimes\noffbeat harmony that has gotten this band exactly\nwhere it is today.\nThe Hip's set consisted almost exclusively of\nsongs from their new live album Live Between Us\n(released just this year) and from Trouble at the\nHen House. They played some crowd pleasers like\n\"Ahead by a Century\", \"Gift Shop\", and \"New\nOrleans is Sinking\", coupled with some more\nobscure tracks like \"3 Pistols\".\nGordon Downie, the lead singer, was the highlight of the concert as he put on an entertaining\none man show, maintaining a dramatic dialogue\nthroughout the gig which overlapped into the\nlyrics.\nWatching this band live revealed The Hip's\ninstinct for translating the human experience into\na musical dialogue, a technique that has made the\nband so likable, not to mention popular. The Hip\nhas an odd ability to connect both emotionally and\nintellectually with their audience, the combined-\ntalents of the band members makes their live\nshows so appealing, and Another Roadside\nAttraction was no exception.^\nAI-computer @ dull characters.com\n-Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 14:51:23 (PST)\nfrom: Charlie Cho \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nTo: The Ubyssey\nSubject: Exegesis by Astro, Teller\nRandom House, unnumbered pages, $14.95.\n-Technicians have a tendency to write\nlifeless fiction and Astro Teller is no\nexception.\nExegesis is the fictional email correspondence between artificial intelligence researcher Alice and Edgar, the\nAI entity she created. The book is formatted in generic Courier font, complete with date, address', and subject\nheadings.\nThis whole email schtick is nothing\nnew, of course. Nick Bantock's Griffin\nand Sabine trilogy was a series of\npostcards and letters and his latest\nbook, The Venetian's Wife, is the fictional email correspondence between a\nmuseum archivist and a 13th-century\nspirit who enlists her aid.\nTeller also owes much to Mary\nShelley's letter-enriched 19th-century classic Frankenstein. Set in the\nyear 2000, Exegesis' five-month dialogue examines the possibility that an\nintelligent, independent, internet-\nsurfing computer program may be the\nFrankenstein monster of the 21st-century.\nFor years, scientists have been trying to teach computers to understand and\nprocess English; this explains the\ntitle, which means \"the critical explanation or interpretation of a text.\"\nRecently, researchers have designed AI\nprograms capable of roaming freely on\nthe internet and retrieving useful data.\nThe Science Fiction descendant of such\nan internet AI, Exegesis' EDGAR (Eager\nDiscovery Gather And Retrieval) seems to\nbe Teller's response to HAL 9000, the AI\nfrom 2001: a Space Odyssey fame.\nUnlike \"HAL, Edgar isn't dangerous\nbecause he is unable to resolve human\ncontradictions; he's dangerous because\nhe doesn't share human values or experiences. \"I am not a human,\" Edgar\nwrites, \"I perceive the world as a set\nof narratives. I approve of all narratives...To learn right from wrong I\nmust learn to hate...I will not hate.\"\nWhich leads to the intentional interpretation of this story as \"an allegory for the second coming of Christ.\"\nExegesis, \"Exit Jesus,\" the year 2000 -\nget it? As in Dostoyevsky's The\nBrothers Karamazov, Edgar's interrogators, the National Security Agency, >\nhave no ears for the heretic.\nOn the other hand, it's hard to care\nmuch about an amoral computer program's\nthreat to, national security when all the\ncharacters are self-absorbed nitwits.\nKey case in point: Edgar's programmer\nAlice Lu is portrayed as a pathetic,'\nweak-willed, socially-inept geek.\nThough Alice is the human here, she has\nno perceivable \"life\" apart from email.\nAlso, for an accomplished computer scientist, Alice is incredibly careless\nwith her product of over three years of\njoint research. She writes incesantly to\nEdgar like a teenager's diary, confessing her deepest fears, doubts and weaknesses without provocation.\nTechnically, Exegesis is a rigorously sound novel. Edgar's diction and\nemail \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 structure become subtly' more\nsophisticated as he mimics Alice's messages.. In fact, their correspondence is\nperhaps exceedingly unusual given their\nperfect spelling' and restrained quoting. (And \"that's a good thing.)\nBut as a story, I cannot recommend\nthis book. It's like .watching the film\n2001 entirely from HAL's point of View.\nClaustrophobically cramped with characters as dull' as a blinking cursor,\nExegesis may be fine reading for IBM's\nchess-playing Deep Blue, but people\ndeserve better .\u00C2\u00AB$\u00C2\u00BB\nDr. Patricia Rupnow, Optometrist\nDr. Stephanie Brooks, Optometrist\nGeneral Eye 4320 w. 10th Ave.\nand Vision Care Vancouver, BC\n(604) 224-2322\nFULL SERVE\nCOLOUR LASER\nCOPIES SALE\n2nd Floor,\n2174 W. Parkway\nVancouver, BC\n(University Village)\n**Zz g-1>>4^\nMon to Fri 8am-9pm\nSat to Sun 10am-6pm\nea.8l'2xll\nsingle sided\nSALE ENDS AUGUST 5th, 1997\nDiscover the Friendly Competition!\nsimple but efficient\nubyssey\n~m\nThe turf behind the zines\nby Alison Cole\nWhen I think of a 'zine, images of a\nhastily put together scrawl of Xeroxed\npages usually comes to mind. However,\nthere is nothing hasty about Turf. I was\nsurprised and impressed by the work\nand thought that went into creating this\n'zine. I am sure many long hours of toil,\ndeep thoughts, conspired creativity\nwent into making the first issue.\nTurf is the ingenuous offspring of co-\ncreators Andrea Gin and Lisa Chen-\nWing, two 23-year old former UBC students who have produced this very\nentertaining and enlightening read.\nDedicated in general to the world of\npop culture, the first issue gives special\nfocus to \"being 22 and not knowing\nwhat to do about it\". Interview questions'\nabout being 22 keep the theme flowing,\nand I found that even I - a mere 21-year\nold - was able to laugh, relate to and\nenjoy the variety of articles, interviews,\nand other tidbits that make this 'zine a\nreal page turner.\nIt is the duo's off-beat humour and\nwit that gives Turf a real sense of style\nand irreverence. One of the best sections in the zine is the \"review\" pages,\nfeaturing reviews that by no means are\nlimited to concerts and CD's. My\nfavorite reviews were of Federico\nBarahona, a \"big orange van\", and the 7-\n11 at West 4th and MacDonald. Despite\nits quirky exterior appearance, Turf is\nan excellent demonstration of quality\njournalism, featuring insightful profiles\non shoe-guru John Fluevog, and CBC\nradio's Leora Kornfeld. There is also a\ndefinite UBC slant to the content\nbetween the 'zine's bright orange cover\npages with interviews of the UBC student band \"Gaze\", and also a cat/human\nfood recipe by CiTR's Nardwuar the\nHuman Serviette.\nThe laser printed DTP layout is easy\nto read and look at with the text professionally spread into magazine-like\ncolumns. Only a few typos and poorly\nscanned photos rob Turf of achieving\nperfection.\nTurf possesses imagination, spontaneity, humour, and professionalism\nall combined together. I'll definitely be\nkeeping this one in my magazine collection and am looking forward to the next\nissue.\nTo obtain your own personal copy of\nthis 'zine, send $2 + $1 postage to:\nTurf, 3167 West 3rd Ave., Vancouver,\nB.C., V6K 1N2..4-\nAni DiFranco takes charge\nby Jessica Wooliams\nAni DiFranco is a lot more glam than she used to be. Who\ndoes she think she is, Madonna? What's with the Calvin\nKleinesque thumb pulling the pants down? Hmmm. And she's\nnot giving interviews, or maybe that's just what they\ntold the student reporters. What, too\nhot to even talk to?\nMaybe I am genuinely disturbed that yet another intelligent, talented woman has found\nthat the only image that sells is\nsex appeal. But what do I want?\nAm I one of those neo-Victorian\nfeminists who want women\ndevoid of sexuality? No.\nPolaroid ofthe Folk Fest crowd\u00E2\u0080\u0094\na mix of Birkenstock-clad, monied\nenvironmentalists; womyn with\nshaved heads and hair legs; pierced,\n:, too\nM\nAni DiFranco takes her\nself-image, career, and\nartistry into her own\nhands , but stays true to\nher world. A snap shot\nfrom the Folk Festival.\ntattooed women in \"Girls Kick Ass\" t-shirts;\nand smiling men with flowing hair\u00E2\u0080\u0094who all\ncame to watch Ani and cheered happily\nwhen asked, by Kinnie Star, \"Who, on this\nfull moon, is bleeding.\" I suppose that should have satisfied my\nyearning for feminist content.\nYes, I am being too hard. In terms of selling out, it doesn't\nget much more pure than Ani DiFranco. At 26, she's been running her own label, Righteous Babe Records, for six years. For\nat least four years now, Ani has been rejecting regular offers by\nmajor labels.\nOn National Public Radio in 1990, Am explained herself,\n\"The Music Industry, come on. It's just another big business.\nThey could be selling microchips or oil. I just don't want to participate in, let alone perpetuate, a system with the motive of\nmaking money and amassing power\u00E2\u0080\u0094priorities which I think\nare fundamentally contradictory to art, to people.\" And, unlike\nso many other artists that complain about the music industry,\nshe has managed to pull it off: independence and popularity.\n_ Ani has indeed, as she quips\n[ in her song \"built [her] own\n1 empire out of tires and\nchicken wire.\"\nAs 1 watched her performance, she won me over.\nI forgave her for the\nCalvin Kleinesque shot.\nIn fact, I decided I liked\nit. I decided a nineties\nwoman can own her\nown sexuality. That's\nthe sort of performer\nAni is: she takes concepts like feminism\nand redefines them,\ntakes expectations\nand puts them on\ntheir heads. This is\nwhat art is supposed\nto do. In addition,\nshe really is, as her\nliner-note on her\nnew album states,\nmost comfortable\nand most realised\ni as an artist on\n[the stage. Her\n1 albums are\ni excellent but\nthey're nothing\ncompared to her performances. Ani's jokes and comments\nbetween songs reveal a mind faster than a Tokyo speed\ntrain and her vulnerable giggles reveal a spirit that has refused\nthe inflated ego that so often accompanies fame and kills talent.\nShe has fun. It seems for a second that the 5-3\", neon green-\nhaired, baseball cap and platform shoe-clad Ani really lives up\nto her boast that \"gravity is nothing to me.\" In terms of politics,\nshe's not going to single-handedly stop the world's inequalities,\nbut she does deserve applause for the spunk, determination,\nand humour with which she attacks issues like sexual exploitation of women, abortion rights, and corporatism in her songs.\nShe has at once the bravado of a bull fighter and the delicate vulnerability of the china shop it destroys. This expansive personality seems to suggest that women can be anything they want to\nbe. At the end of the day, I tip my hat to her.\nShe deserves the hype.<-\njoin us, sub 241k\nFREE JOB FINDING CLUB\nfor Motivated Job Seekers\nFunded by Human Resources Development Canada.\nDEXTER, WALLACE & ASSOCIATES LTD.\n948 W 7 th Ave-731-3116\n# 306 -1682 W 7th Ave \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 731-8811 6 TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1997\nEditorial Board\nCoordinating Editor\nJoe Clark\nNews\nSarah Galashan and Chris Nuttall-Smith\nCulture\nRichelle Rae\nSports\nWolf Depner\nNational/Features\nJamie Woods\nPhoto\nRichard Lam\nProduction\nFederico Barahona\nThe Summer Ubyssey is the official student\nnewspaper of the University of British\nColumbia. It is published every Tuesday by\nThe Ubyssey Publications Society.\nWe are an autonomous, democratically run\nstudent organisation, and all students are\nencouraged to participate.\nEditorials are chosen and written by the\nUbyssey staff. 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Sarah Galashan looked up to llie sky for\nan answer. Suddenly Ian Gunn and Todd Silver emerged\nfrom the bush with an oak cabinet It had washed ashore\nfrom the pirate ship of Captain Joe Clark, under command\nofthe tyrant King Federico Barahona, having been thrown\noverboard along with the mutinous i\fshin Mehta. So ya\n. don t wanna go back to the real world, eh? said Gunn\nwith a sly grin. Richelle Rae .and Alison Cole caught up and\nasked what they were talking about Ten bucks 11 take ya\noutta this world. Itwasanoifetheycouldn t refuse. The\ndoor ofthe cabinet was opened, and the adventurers were\ntold they had to step inside. Not knowing any better, they\ntook the plunge. A new world opened up before them.\nThey found themselves at a bus stop, standing beside\nRichard Lam and Wolf Depner. What the hell? Where are\nwe? said Rae You on crack? asked Uim. You re out\nside the Dell Hotel. It was getting dark. Douglas Quan and\nJessica Williams, cruising by in their 78 Camaro, hurling\nabuse and beer bottles at them. We gotta get outta here!\nsaid Galashan. Checking their pockets for bus fare, they\nrealised they were short Spare change? Cole askedjohn\nZaozirny and Jamie Woods. Get ajob, hippie scum, said\nWoods. The bus soon arrived. Bus driver Chris Nuttall-\nSmith informed Rae that fares had just gone up and shut\nthe doors in her face. Passengers Robin Yeatman and\nCraig Reynolds laughed at them as the bus blurred into the\ntwilight Bruce Arthur, cigar salesman, appeared on the\nscene. Havelgotanoflerforyoa Cholmondeley vowed\nnever to wish for anything again.\nSt\nCanadian\nTJhweisrty\nBess\nCanada Post Publications Sales Agreement Number 0732141\no^yfed\nTHE SUMMER UBYSSEY\n, >ffiBafcv UPIC THE ODD OWE OUT*\nj | NOnct\nJPWtf/NWOiSAKJ\nlpflftK.N4l V\u00C2\u00AB^|jf\u00C2\u00BBa/Jr7 r u m -e.\n\u00C2\u00A3*TE$\u00C2\u00BBo\nUBC, Transit miss the bus\nTHE OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN (OCP) PROPOSED by UBC clearly states that there is\ntoo much automobile traffic to and from\ncampus. It also clearly states that higher\nparking fees should make transit to UBC\nbetter and cheaper.\nBut it's not clear enough, it would seem,\nfor either BC Transit or the university\nparking authorily-bus fares are set to go\nup, and the cost of parking is set to go\ndown.\nIt's as if higher bus fares and lower\nparking costs are supposed to encourage\npeople to leave their cars at home.\nUBC, significantly, has finally commit-\nted-on paper-to subsidising a cheap bus\npass for students. The U-Pass,lf it gets off\nthe ground, would see better transit service\nat cheaper rates, all subsidised by higher\nparking rates. UBC has pledged $250,000\ntowards the system.\nHow generous.\nCompare that to the $85 million the\nuniversity made developing Hampton\nPlace. And the hundreds of millions they\nstand to make developing the 260\nhectares of campus laid out in the OCP.\nAbout 30,000 people make their way to\nand from UBC most days, a lot of them\nduring two rush hours. The development\nof south campus will bring thousands of\nnew residents to campus, only adding to\nthat congestion.\nBC Transit's plans to increase transit\nfares this fall make affordable bus service\nseem even further away. The six dollars it\nwill cost some students to get to and from\nUBC every day make driving seem the better deal.\nIf UBC really is committed to improving transit to and from campus-and not\njust in dressing windows to get the OCP\napproved-they'U add more to the U-Pass\nthan what amounts to less than a dollar\nper student per month.\nWhy not give students and staff at UBC\na good reason to take transit? Going green\nhasn't worked so far.\n$250,000 a year isn't enough. Higher\nbus fares are counter-productive. And\nlower parking fees?\nMaybe that $250,000 would be better\ndonated to gas masks and the respiratory\nresearchers at UBC Hospital. TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1997\nsports\nTHE SUMMER UBYSSEY 7\nby Wolf Depner\nTHE QUESTION WAS A SIMPLE ONE: WOULD JONATHAN\nWooldridge show up for the opening game ofthe world club ultimate frisbee championships? In the end, Wooldridge did not\nmake it to UBC to see his men s touring team, Furious George,\nbeat a third-rate Swedish team 19-5.\nThe reason: A friend's wedding had kept him up until four\no' clock in the morning, and with the game scheduled to start\nfour and a half hours later, Wooldridge couldn't see it happening.\n\"I knew I was not going to play,\" he says, following a win over\na Japanese team. \"So much effort was put into that wedding\nand I was not going to miss out on the fun.\"\nJust the kind of thing you might expect from a slack frisbee\nplayer. Well, not Wooldridge. He is everything but slack when it\ncomes to ultimate, the high-paced sport that combines soccer,\nfootball, and basketball. Whenever he goes up to pull the plastic\ndisc out ofthe sky, his frame seems to soar three, even four feet\noff the ground. And as he makes a strong cut towards the disc\ndoing a lot of recreation. I have not gone skiing in a few years\nbecause all the money I have been saving has been going\ntowards tournaments. I don't go rock climbing as much as I\nused to and I don ' t go camping anymore, maybe just once or\ntwice a year now.\nSo the question still stands. \"Because it's fun/' Wooldridge\nsays straight out, but it s not that simple. \"There are a lot of reasons. There is the social side to it and there really is no better\ngame, at least for me.\"\nA BASKETBALL AND SOCCER PLAYER IN HIGH SCHOOL, WOOLDRIDGE\nnever felt satisfied\nas an athlete until\nhe was introduced\nto ultimate by\nFurious George\nteammate Adam\n'Elvis' Berson.\nWooldridge was\nWooldridge says he earned that nickname when an older Victoria player\nreferred to him as a young, cocker spaniel. \"It\nwas Spaniel for a long time and then just\nSpan,\" explains Wooldridge. Wingspan, a reference\nto his unusual long arms, came later he says. Around\nultimate people, Wooldridge goes by Span and many players know him only by that name, a situation just ripe for comedy.\nHis mother Nancy Wooldridge still remembers the time\nwhen a female teammate called and simply asked for Span. Ms\nWooldridge, who addresses her son by his full name only, pre-\nAir style\nJONATHAN WOOLDRIDGE, UBC ultimate star, dreams about the perfect disk, and winning the worlds\nwhile he's at it richard lam photo\nhis face radiates fierce determination. Simply put, he is consumed.\nWith the world championships just a ten-minute ride from\nhis home, Wooldridge's devotion shows no sign of diminishing.\nTo his credit, he admits it\nalso attracted to ultimate by the 'Spirit of\nthe Game,' an unwritten code of conduct that\nprecludes referees and\ninstead encourages\nopposing teams to\nrespect each other on\nand off the field without\noutside help.\nAnd as ultimate has\nbecome more competitive over the years, insiders charge that\nthat 'spirit' has almost disappeared from the game's highest\nlevel. But as far as Wooldridge is concerned, the 'spirit' is still an\nimportant part ofthe game. He says that nothing compares to a\n\"Right now, I would say for\nsure that ultimate, especially\nthis summer, is my number\none priority.\"\nHis season started way\nback in January with the UBC\nmen's team which played in\nfour big tournaments, including the college regionals\nwhere it placed third. He then coached the women's team at\nthe college nationals where UBC finished second. Then the\ntouring season really started in early summer with two-hour\nlong practices three times a week with Canada's top team.\nThree more tournaments, including Canadian nationals,\nwith six, seven, up to ten games each tournament.\nAnd there is all the other stuff that comes with playing\ncompetitive ultimate up and down the coast Endless hours\nspent on the road and in shifty airport lobbies; crammed and\noverpriced motel rooms; stale tournament bagels for breakfast,\nlunch, and dinner. Now the worlds: seven days and little\nchance to relax as Furious George makes a serious run for the\nworld's best club team title.\nAnd for what? Money? Forget it, ultimate is growing\nvery fast these days, but for now there is no big time\nsponsorship-like in beach volleyball-to shell out\nhuge prize monies. If anything, playing competitive ultimate has come at a high price for\nWooldridge, both in real financial terms-he\nsays he has spent somewhere between\n$1,500 and $2,000 on ultimate this year\nalone-and in missing out on other interests.\n\"I'm a guy who really loves sports\nand loves just getting outside and\ntended not to know who the\nwoman asked for. Not knowing\nSpan's real name, the women\nstarted to panic first and then started\nguessing names, Ms Wooldridge recalls\nwith a chuckle.\n\"She then said, oh, I admit it I don't even\nknow his real name.\"\nONCE THE WORLDS CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE OVER, WOOLDRIDGE WILL\ntake time off from competitive ultimate. But for now, everything\nrevolves around the sport. Should Furious George win it all,\nwhich some say is very possible, it would be the highlight on\nWooldridge's resume which includes a college mvp nomination\nand three straight national titles. Considering he has had so\nmuch success so early in his career, some call Span a wun-\nderkind but critics have been less flattering. Over the years,\nWooldridge has been labelled a project that needs constant\nsupervision and coaching from more seasonsed players.\nWooldridge has done everything to shatter his image as a\ndeep threat with good speed and height but limited disc skills.\nSo far, so good. This season has been a break through for him.\n\"He has come a long way,\" says Berson. Co-team\ncaptain and mentor Al Bob Nichols agrees, adding\nthat playing with UBC has really helped his game\nbecause there he was toudiing the disc more often\nthan with [George].\nWooldridge has his own theory on his success.\nThe biggest thing\n\"Ultimate is all about confidence. You\ngotta be confident If the game is tied\nand you don't have the confidence that you\nare going to make the big play then you\nprobably should not be out there.\"\nvery competitive game in which players respect each other and\ndo not make cheap calls to win games.\nOn the other hand, he does think that if the sport wants to\ngrow and sell itself to the public, the time may have come for\nultimate to introduce on-field officials on the competitive level.\n\"People will never see ultimate as a legitimate sport unless it\nhas refe,\" he says. \"I flunk it' s sad, but it is true.\" He admits that\nis something of a contradiction but quips. \"I' ma very double-\nstandarded person\"\nAll things considered though, Wooldridge is a well-grounded,\nunassuming 22-year old who still lives with his parents in a\nfashionable Kitsilano heritage home. Sporting sneakers, brown\ncotton pants, a blue t-shirt that reads, 1996 Canadian Ultimate\nFrisbee National Team and round reading glasses, he looks like\na young, stern teacher; an image that flies in the face of his nickname: Span.\nthat has been working for me this year,\nis that I'm not worrying too much\nabout how I'm playing.\"\nBack in the old\ndays he thought too\nmuch, now he just\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Jonathan Wooldridge rs \u00C2\u00B0ut ****- d\u00C2\u00B0es\n^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ his job and wants\n^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0^^^^^^^\u00E2\u0096\u00A0^-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 the disc when the\nWhen I'm playing well, I can really help\ngame gets tight\nFurious George win. V m believing that a lot more now,\" he says.\n\"Ultimate is all about confidence. You gotta be confident If the\ngame is tied 13-13 and you don't have the confidence that you\nare going to make the big play, then you probably should not be\nout there.\"\nNow Wooldridge is out there with the best of them enjoying\nthe thrill of winning. But he is not obsessed about it he is just\ngetting used to it all. Some day Wooldridge may just walk away\nfrom Furious George and play for a less experienced, less competitive team where his role would expand to coaching. But\nbefore that happens, Span has a lot of playing to do.\n\"There is a lot left. I'll always play. The question is whether\nor not I' 11 always play at this competitive level.\" Pausing for a\nsecond, he then adds with an understated smile, \"I would really like to win worlds.\" 8 TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1997\nfeatures\nTHE SUMMER UBYSSEY\nIn twelve years\nat UBC he's built\na $500 million\nendowment fund\nby Chris Nuttall-Smith\nThe gray bags under Strangway's eyes tell of\nthe weeks he's spent working on next year's\nuniversity budget. They tell of the last-minute\ntime spent on a final Official Community Plan\ndraft that will usher a league of controversial\nmarket-housing onto a 162 hectare triangle of\nendowment land. They tell ofthe queue of anxious faculty in his waiting room talking in\nhushed tones about research grants and\ntenure committees.\nEven in his last week here, Strangway is\nworking long hours to leave his signature a\nversity community, and when he did, it was only\nshallow. Style,not substance. Many will point to his\nhandling of APEC as an example: he announced the\nconference was coming to UBC before giving the\nBoard of Governors a chance to approve it.\nIn person, Strangway is quick to acknowledge\nthe criticism, and to point out that consultation is\ndifferent from consensus.\n\"If there is a polarised set of views about an\nissue, you can't get consensus on many issues and\nthose who don't have their views necessarily upheld\nbasically say that's lack of consultation,\" he says.\nBut as he told UBC Alumni Chronicle last month,\nStrangway decides to undertake a project, then con-\nIt's a solution Strangway refused to entertain.\nSince land is a growing asset, he says, profits from its\nsale should be invested in other growing assets, like\nbuildings and endowments. Operating funds are not\nan investment, once they've been used, they're gone.\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nStrangway hasn't had an easy time of government\nrelations. His arrival at UBC was classic bad timing.\nDavid Pederson had just resigned the UBC presidency over Socred restraint, the university's grant\ncut 2 5 percent over two years. He spent much of his\nfirst few years convincing government to support\npost-secondary education.\nne but not forgotten\nlittle more firmly planted on the University\nof British Columbia.\nand orchestrated\nan unparalleled\nconstruction boom\non campus.\nIt is hard to miss\nDavid Strangway's\nmark on UBC.\nsimple but effective\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nUBC students first noticed the new president\nduring his tour ofthe campus in 1985, when\nhe stopped in the Pit to down a beer. He was\na high-profile NASA geophysicist and vice-\npresident of the University of Toronto, a\nrespected administrator with a vision for\nBC's financially beleaguered and demoralised university.\nBy many accounts, the stop in the Pit was\none of the last times Strangway was seen\namong students. Even Strangway admits that\naside from AMS functions and ceremonies,\nhe didn't spend much time with students\nhere.\nWhile his signature on UBC is high profile,\nDavid Strangway was almost invisible.\n\"I think you can find the same issue with\nfaculty, and I think you can find the same issue\nperhaps with the staff as well, so I take the\npoint, I understand it, I sympathise with it\u00E2\u0080\u0094I\njust wish I had more hours in the day,\" he says.\nOf all the criticisms of Strangway, this is\nthe loudest: he never consulted with the uni-\nsults. Whether the project will happen is\nnever up for debate. The controversial\nHampton Place real estate development on\nsouth campus is a case in point.\nAs he says of that project \"We were happy\nto seek some level of consensus on the nature of that development, and in fact included much of that advice in the final plan. But\nwe weren't willing to debate the fact of it.\n\"The same thing applies to exclusive con-\nIj tracts with UBC suppliers. We will enter into\n| them, but we will also seek campus feedback on safeguards and the programs we\ndevelop with the funds.\"\nStrangway did make two notable exceptions last year. He approved two non-binding\nstudent referenda: one on the venue for graduation\nceremonies, the other on a $90 technology fee.\nBut the latest complaint that too much is happening, with too little public involvement, may end\nup in court. A group of graduate students plans to\nchallenge last year's 210 percent tuition increase\nfor international graduate students. Their argument: UBC did not follow its own policy on consulting students before raising tuition.\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A6 \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nWalking around UBC it's hard to tell the university\nis short of cash.\nNew buildings like the Chan Centre, the C.K. Choi\nBuilding for the Institute of Asian Studies, the\nKoerner Library and the First Nations Longhouse\nspeak of the $750 million spent on campus capital\nprojects since 1985. For many, it's a building boom\nthat helped transform the tip of Point Grey into a\nworld-class campus.\nBut it's not hard to see the university as the rich\nheir splurging on big tickets, and chintzy where the\nmoney is needed most. As a Vancouver city councilor asked when Strangway was ready to charge\nstudents a fee for sewage processing, 'why couldn't\nhe take a million from the $85 million profit from\nthe Hampton Place development?'\nThe present NDP-imposed tuition and funding\nfreeze and mandatory enrollment increases have\nfrustrated Strangway's past few years.\n\"You can't keep putting in more students and not\nput any money in to go with it and expect to retain\na quality product,\" he says.\nBut Strangway's attempts to solve the funding\nproblem have ruffled a few feathers. He thinks students should pay a greater portion of education's\ntrue cost. Currendy, tuition forms less than one\nfifth of the university budget.\nLast year, barred by the province's tuition freeze\nand instructed\u00E2\u0080\u0094also by the province\u00E2\u0080\u0094not to levy extra\nfees, including a sewage fee of $30 to $50, Strangway\ntold then Education Minister Moe Sihota he'd lay off\nup to 40 faculty and staff to cover the shortfall. There\nwere never any layoffs, and there's still no sewage fee.\n\"The complete picture is that right now low tuition\nis a subsidy to the privileged. If you really want to help\nthe less privileged attend, what you have to do is raise\ntuition and put some of that money aside to help the\nless-privileged. And people don't understand that\"\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nHe's banking that someone will understand it.\nAfter a stint as the Canadian negotiator trying to\nfind a solution to the Pacific salmon dispute,\nStrangway plans to start a private university, funded mosuy from tuition fees.\nIt's perfect, really. Here's a distinguished academic and administrator, arguably one of the best\nfund-raisers in Canadian university history, someone fed up with government under-funding and\nfinancial meddling. Government shouldn't be a\nproblem at the new university.\nIt's ironic, too. After so many years of building\nthe University of British Columbia, Strangway is\nleaving, only to start from scratch somewhere else.\nBut the big question is whether Strangway's\nvision of growing endowments, campus development, international enrollment and a university\n'free' from public funding will survive at UBC under\nnew management. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nubyssey\njoin us, SUB241K\nv^A^A^\nExplore North America\nAlaska Pass\n8 days $499 us / 22 days $769 us\nGreyhound Canada Pass\n7days $199 cad / 30 days $349 cad\nGreyhound BC Student Pass\nAny 4 one way trips just $119 cad\nVia Rail Can rail Pass\n1 2 days travel in 30 days from $486 cad\nPlus a great selecion of camping tours!\ntasemsm\nTwo office on campus:\n2nd floor, UBC Village & Lower Level, SUB\nNotice of Change to\nParking at UBC\nAs of July 2,1997, parking is no longer permitted on\nthe divided highway sections of SW Marine Drive,\nsouth of Totem Park Residences or, on\nW. 16th Ave., west of the Pacific Spirit\nPark boundary, adjacent to Hampton\nPlace.\nHampt\nPlace\nEnforcement of the Highways Act will\nbe conducted by the RCMP.\nThis is the first phase of a program to\neliminate free parking on roads adjacent\nto UBC in suppport of the university's\nTransportation Demand Management\nprogram, a key component of the\nOfficial Community Plan process.\nIf you have any\nquestions, or for\nfurther information,\nplease call Campus\nPlanning and Development at 822-8228.\nPark Boundary\nI\nI\nI\n60\nc\n5\nQ.\n0)\nc\nO\n4)\n3\nc\n+3\nc\nI\nEnd of\ndivided\nhighway"@en . 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