"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-08-26"@en . "2006-02-10"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0126290/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " V *\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 *.\n< fl\nI H 5\n:\ \j, -\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BB-\n^1\nI\ni\n'A\n>>\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n*i\n[.;\nY-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2i\nH\nH\nri\nH 2 Sports\nFriday, 10 February, 2006 THE UBYSSEY\nAttitude and skills take Bonner to the top\nUBCs assistant captain makes his feisty mark on Thunderbirds Volleyball\nby Caroryrme Burkholder\nSPORTS STAFF\nIf the UBC men's volleyball team\nmakes it to the national championships for the first time in 19\nyears, they will have assistant captain Andrew Bonner to thank.\nUBCs highest scoring player,\nBonner is ranked second in Canada\nWest for service aces and points,\nand third for kills. But despite his\nimpressive record, it's his behaviour on the court that has made\nBonner famous\u00E2\u0080\u0094or maybe notorious is a better word.\n\"I'm very eccentric in my play.\nI'm very vocal. I'm very in your\nface,* explained the 21-year-old.\n\"I play with a lot of intensity and\npassion and it annoys a lot of\nother players.*\nBut it's not just the players who\nare annoyed\u00E2\u0080\u0094or perhaps intimidat-\ned\u00E2\u0080\u0094by Bonner's on-court presence.\n\"Whenever I go to another gym it\nseems like a lot of the fans know\nwho I am and show outward dislike\nto me/ he said.\nHe pointed to the tournament\nlast weekend as an example.\n*We were playing at Trinity\nWestern and they're our cross\ntown rivals,* said Bonner. \"They\nhave really crazy fans\u00E2\u0080\u0094just nuts.\nThere were a couple fans that were\ncompletely body painted...One of\nthe crazy fans had my name painted on his back and then below it\nwas the number zero.*\n\"They're trying to get to my\nhead,* he added. \"But I just take it as\na compliment if I can get another\nman to paint my name on his back.*\nBonner is originally from\nV-BALL SPIRIT: Bonner is UBCs top scorer, kellan higgins photo\nCobourg, Ontario, where he played\nclub volleyball in high school. He\nsaid coming to UBC was the best\ndecision he ever made.\nHead coach, Richard Schick is\nalso pleased that Bonner chose to\nattend UBC.\n\"The stats Andrew has put up\ncan speak for themselves. He's a\nreally well rounded athlete from\nserving, to attacking to blocking,*\nsaid Schick, who has coached\nBonner for three years.\nBonner's attitude is also notable:\n\"He's a natural competitor. He goes\nout and he fights and he plays\nhard,* Schick said. \"A lot of teams\ndon't like playing against him\nbecause he's so fiery.\"\nBut Bonner's teammates said\nthey feed off his intensity.\n\"He's definitely energetic, but he\nkeeps his energy on our side of the\ncourt and puts all his energy for us\nto win,\" said Ian Simpson, a first-\nyear teammate of Bonner's.\n\"He's good to have around for\na little fire on the court,* agreed\nKyle Bryce, also a first-year player. 'He's doing a really good job\nof shaking off [the reaction of\nplayers and fans] and putting it in\nthe back of his mind.*\nAs a third-year player, Bonner\nhas two years of eligibility left. After\nthat he is hoping to play professional volleyball in Europe.\n\"That would be the ultimate if I\ncould make money playing volleyball,\" he said.\nBonner dismissed the reputation\nhe has developed for trash talking.\nHe said he's a different person off\nthe court \"I'm not that arrogant and\negotistical,\" he explained.\nHis friends find his antics\namusing. \"They come and watch\nand they just love it,* Bonner said.\nBut Bonner won't be abandoning his fiery on-court attitude any\ntime soon.\n\"When I try to play composed\nand...I don't do too much or say\ntoo much I don't play very well,*\nhe explained. \"I play a lot better\nwhen I get really excited and full\nof adrenaline.\" II\n'TWEENS\nBike Co-op Party\nAMS Bike Co-op (N. side of SUB)\nFebruary 10,7 pm\nCome kick off spring break\nwith the Bike Co-op!\nBach & Beyond Series\nChan Centre $38-51\nFebruary 10-11,8-10 pm\nBarry Douglas leads an orchestral performance of Mozart,\nBeethoven and other classical\ncomposers.\nPride Bqqr Garden\nCurtis Law Building\nFebruary 10,3:30-5:30 pm\nA short but guaranteed to be\nsweet bzzr garden.\nBuck-a-Beaker Beer\nBetween Chem D and B\nFebruary 10,4-8 pm\nWhen looking for something\nto do, get lots of cheap beer.\nSeems like the place and right\nprice.\nUBC Cheerleading Tryouts\nOsborne Gym B\nFebruary 23,8-11pm\nAthletic and interested in\ncheering on theT-Birds? Check\nout http://cheerweb.net/ubc-\ncheer/ for more info.\nCLASSIFIEDS\nccommooauon\nPT. Grey House, 4 Brdm w/d f,s. Short\nterm stay 3-6 months. 604-552-3222 or\nsteph4691880@yahoo.com. SI200 Mar 1.\nI'M SEEKING A ROOMMATE\nTO SHARE A BEAUTIFUL TWO-\nBEDROOM GROUND-LEVEL\n(NOT BASEMENT!) suite Literally 1.5\nblocks from the corner of Broadway and\nMacDonald. Rent is $487.50 + utilities.\nMale or female welcome, but please\nno smokers or pets. If you can move\nin March 1st, please email Graham:\nglavender@gmail.com.\nuy&se\nL SHAPED ALL-IN-ONE BEIGE\nMELAMINE DESK with two bottom\ndrawers/ three top drawers/ bulletin board\n$60.00. Two 4-shelf matching melamine\nbookcases each $30.00. One marching\nmelamine file cabinet with two drawers\nlegal-size $25.00; Can sell as a set or\nindividually. Call Maggie @ 604-324-\n6045\nFOR SALE: FEMALE ICE SKATES-\nSIZE 8-LIKE NEW-COST $25.00.\nDragon Boat Paddle-standard size-used\nfor one season onlv-in excellent condition-\ncost S35.00-call Maggie @604-324-6045\nFOR SALE: 1991 CHEVY TRACKER.\n150,000 km. Manual 5sp. Great\ncondition, little ext. wear. Aircare. Hard/\nsoft top. Bike/ski/board rack, Mp3/CD\nplayer. $5000. Call Laura 604.290.2400\nmpioymen\nINSTRUCTOR POSITIONS. Exam\nprep service - www.prepl01.com - seeks\ninstructors in Biochemistry, Chemistry\n(Physical, Organic) and Economics.\nCandidates should possess graduate\ndegree, excellent spoken English, and\nteaching experience. Positions arc part-\ntime on weekends and. offer excellent\nremuneration. Interested? Email resume\ntoandy@prepl0l.com\nnnouncemenis\n14TH ANNUAL WOMEN'S\nSPIRITUALITY CELEBRATION.\nCreating Sacred Space. Friday March\n3- Saturday March 4 Chalmers Institute,\nVancouver School of Theology, UBC\nCampus. Friday evening reception, art\nshow, and multifaith celebration. Saturday\nmultifaith experiential workshops from\nvarious spiritual traditions. Registration\n$60 - $115. Contact Chalmers Institute\n604-822-9815 orwww.vst.edu.\nCOME PLAY WITH ME: AMS ART\nGALLERY. Feb.13 - 16. Five artists'\ninterpretation of \"come play with me\".\nEngaging, erotic, funny, and poignant.\nOpening Valentine's Day party Feb. .14,\n5pm\nSPARTACUS YOUTH CLUB CLASS-\nFROM BERLIN TO MOSCOW- THE\nICL'S FIGHT AGAINST CAPITALIST\nCOUNTERREVOLUTION- FOR\nNEW OCTOBER REVOLUTIONS!\n5:00 PM Wednesday February 22 Room\n224, Student Union Building'UBC.\nContact Spartacus Youdi Club at 604-\n687-0353, email TLLT@look.ca\nTHE US BLOCKADE ON CUBA. A\nViolation of Cuba's Human Rights Film\nand Discussion featuring: John Waller\nfrom Pastors for Peace at UBC: Tuesday\nFeb 21 12:00 SUB room 209 at the\nUnitarian Church (49th Ave. and Oak\nSt.):Saturday Feb 18 6:30pm for more\ninformation: www.vancubasolidarity.\ncom Come out and learn more about the\nUS economic blockade on Cuba, and\nthe Pastors for Peace caravan that sends\npeople and goods to Cuba in opposition\nto the blockade.\nFREE THE CUBAN FIVE HELD\nIN U.S. Jails! Picket Action Monday\nFeb. 13 U.S. Consulate 1075 W. Pender\nfor more information: Free the Cuban\nFive Commitrtee - Vancouver, www.\nvancubasolidarity.com/freeihefivevan.htm\nCome out and call for justice for 5 ami-\nterrorist Cubans held in U.S. jails!\nATTENTION ALL GRAD\nSTUDENTS! Ah, Elections: Fed up by\nFeds? AMS a miss? Put your vote wnere\nit counts! Elect your Graduate Student\nSociety Executives. Polls open til 12noon\nFriday Feb 10. Candidate profiles: gss.\nubc.ca/clections/campaign.html. To\nvote: Student Services website, click on\nWebVote bottom left. We spend your\nmoney, cell us where to stick id\nmployment Opportunities\nADVENTURE! leach English\nWorldwide. Earn Monev. Get TESOL\nCertified in 5 days. Study In-Class,\nOnline, or by Correspondence. No\ndegree or experience needed. Job\nguaranteed. To learn more, come to a\nFREE Info Session Monday @ 6PM,\n#203 1451 West Broadway. 1-888-270-\n2941. globaltesol.com\neruices\nTHE BIKE KITCHEN is your\non-campus, student-owned, non-profit\nbike shop! New & used bikes, parts,\nstorage accessories, bike repairs and bike\nrepair instruction, tool use, bike storage\nand volunteer opportunities. On the\nnorth side of the SUB. 604-827-7333.\nbikekitchen@gmail.com\noiunteer upportunities\nGRAD STUDENTS. = The Vancouver\nSociety for Sexuality, Gender, and Culture,\na non-profit society, seeks members for\nworking committee and board member\nroles. This is an extraordinary volunteer\nexperience for Grad students in the area\nof Health, Counseling, Education, or\nBusiness. Contact: Michael. VSSGC@\ntelus.net or (778)837-1575\nVOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR TWO\nUPCOMING EVENTS @ Science\nWorld for Odyssey of the Mind, a\nprogram designee to encourage problem\nsolving in school children. Must be able\nto attend training sessions in Burnaby.\nEmail odysseybc@gmaiJ.com for more\ninformation.\nEARTHSAVE CANADA IS HIRING\nA PART-TIME VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR. Application deadline\nis February 12th. For more details, visit\nwww.earthsave.bc.ca/about/jobs.htrnl\nTo place an ad or\na classified, call\n604-822-1654 or\nvisit Room 23 in the\nSUB (basement).\nFriday, 10 February, 2006\nVol.LXXXVII N\u00C2\u00B035\nEditorial Board\ncoordinating editor Jesse Marchand\ncoordinatdng@ubyssey.bcca\nnews editors Paul Evans & Eric Szeto\nnews@ubyssey.bcca\nculture editor Simon Underwood\nculture@ubyssey.bcca\nsports editor Megan Smyth\nsports@ubyssey.bcca\nFEATURES/NATIONAL EDITOR\nBryan Zandberg\nfeatures@ubyssey.bc.ca\nphoto editor Yinan Max Wang\nphotos@ubyssey.bcca\nproduction manager Michelle Mayne\nproduction@ubyssey.bcca\nCoordinators\nvolunteers Colleen Tang\nvolunteers@ubyssey.be ca\nresearch/letters Claudia Li\nfeedback@ubyssey.bcca\nThe Ubyssey is the official student newspaper of the University\nof British Columbia. It is published every Tuesday and Friday\nby The Ubyssey Publications Society. 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Hugging also occurred.Someone\nwas eaten and some were licked while others were left in scorn.\nThe following was present during these events: Andrew\nMacRae, Colleen Tang, Boris Korby, Jesse Marchand, Claudia Li,\nMichelle Mayne, Candice Okada, Cheata Nao, Carolynne\nBurkholder, Bryan Zandberg, Megan Smyth, Paul Evans, Eric\nSzeto, Simon Underwood, Catherine Hart, Amanda Stutt,Will\nKeats-Osbome, Kristin Walkentia, Kellan Higgins, Peter Clark,\nGemmi Cheng and Leigh Kamping-Carder. unfortunately, no one\nknows what happened because they awoke in each other arms.\nPerhaps you can tell them what happened because none of us\nknow either.The End.Xoxo Happy Hearts Day!\nWph\nPrinted on recycled paper\ncover design Michelle Mayne\nV\nCanadian\nUniversity Canada Post Sales Agreement\nPress Number 0040878022\ni THE UBYSSEY Friday, 10 February, 2006\nCulture 3\n;\n!\n'\nRope bondage has students tied up in knots\nWorkshop teaches \"safe, sane, and\nconsensual\" practises to beginners\nlooking to improve their skills\nby Carolynne Burkholder\nCULTURE STAFF\nAcademics were not the only thing\ntaught at UBC on February 1.\nStudents acquired skills of a different\nsort at \"Bond with Friends: You've got\nthe hands, we've got the rope,\" an\nevent organized by Kink Vancouver:\nThe Next Generation, and supported\nby Pride UBC and BIO Event\nProductions.\nBondage has many stereotypes,\nbut no leather masks, whips, chains,\nor dungeons made appearances last\nWednesday night. Instead there was a\nbrightly lit classroom, 30 students,\nand lots of rope.\nDefined simply as a \"sexual practice that involves physically restraining one of the partners/ bondage has\ngained notoriety in recent years\nthrough portrayals in films such as\nPulp Fiction and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.\nAround 300 people actively participate in the Vancouver bondage\nscene, attending events and workshops such as this one, and many\nmore enjoy bondage in private.\nLisa has been attending bondage\nand kink events in Vancouver for\nfour years. She went to the workshop\nas a favour to her roommate,\nalthough she already knew everything that was taught.\nLisa has always been interested in\nbondage. 'Being tied up has always\nbeen a fantasy,\" she explained.\nDespite the taboo factor, bondage\nis a common fantasy. According to a\nU.S. study, almost 50 per cent of men\nfind the idea of bondage erotic. The\nnumber is smaller for women; estimates put it around 30 per cent.\n\"Bondage is often used to ensure\nand enhance feelings of helplessness\nor powerlessness or having power\nover someone,\" explained Tillie,\nanother participant in the workshop.\n\"And it looks good.\"\nTristan, the instructor, echoed\nTillie's statement. \"It's about power\nand beauty,\" he explained to the\nclass. \"Beauty in the fanciful designs\nand the sight of the bound human\nbody. And power is either giving it up\nor seeing your partner writhing on\nthe floor. You know which kind you\nare,\" he continued.\nTristan has a background in first\naid and has worked as an instructor.\nAfter a brief, but heavily emphasized\nreiteration of the mantra\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"safe,\nsane, and consensual\" or \"risk aware\nconsensual kink\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094he spent over half\nan hour discussing safety.\nBondage injuries can range from\nthe mildly annoying rope burn to\nnerve damage that can last for\nmonths. Bondage related fatalities\nare rare, but can happen. Most fatalities occur when a person is playing\nalone, the majority by autoerotic\nasphyxiation.\nTristan stressed that keeping both\npartners safe is the most important\npart of bondage. The discomfort\nshould be part of the experience of\nbeing bound and not harmful or\ndamaging, he explained.\nBefore you even begin to tie \"take\nstock of how the person looks and\nfeels,\" he continued^ The colour, tone,\nand temperature of the skin will differ from person to person, but can be\nan indicator of damage to limbs.\n\"Keep the rope away from the\nthroat,\" said Tristan, as the most\nimportant rule when beginning to\ntie someone up. \"Sides not front,\"\nbecame another mantra for the\nevening.\nPositional asphyxia, another\nhazard, happens when being hog-\ntied compressing your lungs with\nno room to expand. This is rare,\nbut potentially fatal.\nCirculation problems are much\nmore common. \"You have to be careful where you place your knots,\" said\nTristan. Apart from the neck,\nbondage enthusiasts must be careful\nnot to compress the femoral artery -\nrunning from your leg through to\nyour groin\u00E2\u0080\u0094which can be fatal.\nAs well, your wrists can suffer\nnerve damage that can last for\nmonths. This is \"the most typical\nbondage related injury\" according to\nTristan. As a general rule \"if you can\nsee light [between skin and the rope]\nblood can get through.\"\nBesides the rope, bondage tools\nare surprisingly utilitarian. Most\nwere bought from fishing or hardware stores - not fetish shops.\nTristan's tool kit includes scissors\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\"never cheap out on your safety scissors,\" he said\u00E2\u0080\u0094a one-sided knife with\na blunt tip, and a Swedish fid, a tool\nused to work out knots.\nAnd, of course, there is the\nrope. Although Tristan is partial to\nhemp rope\u00E2\u0080\u0094it smells good and is\nunlikely to burn your skin\u00E2\u0080\u0094he said\nyou can \"use pretty much anything\nyou want.\" Thread, razor wire., and\nbungy cord are definitely out.\nOver 90 per cent of bondage uses\nthe same two knots, even for the most\nintricate designs.\nThe larks head, also known as the\ncow hitch, works as a hook - tying arm\nto arm, leg to arm, leg to post. The\nreef knot, or the even easier granny\nknot, holds the rope in place.\nThe rest is practice.\nTristan demonstrated a simple\nwrist cuff and a more ornate body\nharness for the class before leaving\nparticipants to practice on each\nother. A few of the more experienced\nparticipants helped the novices with\nthe knots.\nThe workshop was targeted at\nbeginners looking to improve their\nskills in rope bondage.\n\"I got some fun, easy, basic ties and\nconfidence. Now I can't wait to tie my\nfriends up this weekend,\" said Tillie.\nBrigette, who also attended the\nworkshop, agreed. \"I got a few new\ntechniques out of it, and some interesting information about the physiological and biological safety issues\ninvolved in playing with bondage,\"\nshe said. \"And I met some cool new\npeople.\" II\nTERMINOLOGY:\nBSDM: acronym for bondage/discipline, dornjnance/subrotssion,\nsadtsm/masochlsro\nftottomttrte^ecelver^m bondage,\nusually the submissive, but not\nalways\nDominant: person who enjoys controlling a submissive person\nDungeon: any space set aside for\nscene activrfe\nDungeon monitor:someone\ntrained In SDSM safety who\nensures safe and responsible play\nin the dungeon\nHog-ti\u00C2\u00A9: securing each wrist to\nthe corresponding ankle behind\ntfreibacfc^'- ^k \u00E2\u0080\u009Es. >\nl\u00C2\u00AB00ng; tfte act of tylr^ someone\nelse primarily for artistic purposes\nSafeword:a(word or action for the\nbottom to Irtdicate distress and a\nwish to abort ,\nSubmissive: person who enjoys\nsubmitting to the will of another\nTop;the*o;iver*1ri bondage/ usually\nthe dominant but not always\nVinciiagnia: being sexually\naroused by bondage\n'Tate is important because it helps stupid people with no balls get together\"\nIMAGINE ME & YOU amalgam Hector anyway, while , /- --\u00E2\u0080\u0094- ~- \u00E2\u0080\u0094- 'T^SHHHHHP?SBHHHHi charm the pants off you, as will the\nIMAGINE ME & YOU\nOpens today\nby Momoko Price\nCULTURE STAFF\nDo I believe in love at first sight?\nSure\u00E2\u0080\u0094if I had to estimate, I'd\nguess that I fall in love an average\nof, oh, I don't know\u00E2\u0080\u0094five, six times\na bus ride from Granville to campus, generally speaking. It really\ndepends on how many attractive\nstrangers I manage to make eye\ncontact with in the course of a day.\nBut here's the thing: I don't act on\nthese hormonal, love-hungry\nimpulses because a) people would\nthink I was fucking crazy, b) I'd be\nacting fucking crazy, and c) who\nknows? They could be fucking\ncrazy, too.\nIn Imagine You and Me, a film\nI'd heard described (appropriately) as a lesbian lite' romantic comedy, young Brit bride Rachel catches a glance at insanely hot lesbian\nflorist Luce during her wedding\nceremony, and promptly falls head\nover heels for her on the way down\nthe aisle. (In case you're wondering, this happens within the first. 5\nminutes of the movie.) She goes\nahead and marries the adorably\ncharming Hugh Grant/Tom Cruise\namalgam Hector anyway, while\nbest man Cooper spends the duration of the reception trying to\nscore with Luce. Did I mention\nhow hot Luce is? (She really is. It's\njust ridiculous.) You can pretty\nmuch guess where the story goes\nfrom here.\nYou know that the director and\nscreenwriter screwed up making a\nqueer movie when you love\nabsolutely every other character in\nthe story except for the sexually\nconfused protagonist. Actress Piper\nPerabo (as Rachel) has the unfortunate responsibility of conveying\nserious Shakespearean love-at-first-\nsight nonsense to jaded 21 st century movie audiences, and she\nplainly sucks at it. And all the dialogue that screenwriter 01 Parker\ndevoted to making it painstakingly\nclear that Rachel was struck down\nby fate and the alignment of the\nstars or whatever just makes the\nstory all the more contrived.\nThe characters in this story\nthrow away love, true or 'un-true',\nlike freaking parking tickets. After\nRachel confesses her infidelity and\nHector lets her go (without bothering to ask who her lover might be),\nRachel calls Luce who in turn gives\nup completely without hearing her\nout.\n\"It can't work\u00E2\u0080\u0094it's over,* says\nLuce, and then Rachel goes ahead\nand gives up, too! Give me a break!\nLuckily some dude singing the\nsong \"Imagine Me and You\"\n(hence the movie title) rides by on\na bike, making Rachel realize that\nLuce must be nearby because she\nhad overheard the same dude\nsinging during the phone call, so\nthat they find each other, kiss,\nblah, blah, blah, and live happily\never after. But man, think about it:\nif that singing dude didn't come\nby, Rachel would have never have\nhad the smarts to get up off her\nfickle ass and make another phone\ncall, and then where would we be?\nThat's the real lesson here: fate is\nimportant because it helps stupid\npeople with no balls get together,\nand gives the people who get\nscrewed over a reason to feel\nvalidated.\nDon't get me wrong; every\nother aspect of the movie outside\nof the unbelievably unbelievable\nlove story is just delightful.\nMatthew Goode and Darren Boyd,\nas the groom and best man, will\ncharm the pants off you, as will the\nparents of the two female leads.\nAnd the girl who plays the kid sister Henrietta is a spot-on match\nfor Patty from Peanuts, so I have\nan inkling we'll be seeing her in\nsome more lesbian movies in the\nnot-too-distant future. Plus the dialogue in the movie is absolutely\npeppered with hilarious British\none-liners:\n'She's gay?*\n*As a tennis player, darling!*\nor:\n*My husband\u00E2\u0080\u0094about as useful\nas a fart in a jam jar!*\nI can write with confidence that\nthe movie is still worth the ticket\nprice. But it may not be the best\ndate movie, especially if you're\ngoing on a heterosexual date,\nbecause there are absolutely no\nhappy straight couples in this film.\nSeriously, I counted.\nLastly, there's one other reason\nwhy I am utterly unconvinced that\nRachel and Luce are meant to be,\nand it's this: I love Luce. With all\nmy heart. Within the first three seconds our eyes met, I knew that we\nwere meant to be. It's fate, and I\ncan tell that we're going to be\ntogether forever, and\u00E2\u0080\u0094shit, I can't\neven keep this up. It just sounds too\nfucking crazy. 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For more information, visit\nvvrvvw.bcit.ca/admission/transfer/advanced\nApply now for Fall 2006\nA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION\nGlass at the Chan\nFact:Tennessee Williams was\na writer-in-residence at UBC\nTHE GLASS MENAGERIE\nTelus Studio Theatre at\nThe Chan Centre\nuntil February 11\nby Gemini Cheng\nCULTURE WRITER\nTennessee Williams' The Glass\nMenagerie is a daunting play to produce, and the efforts taken by UBC\nTheatre to bring the work to life are\ndefinitely worth rewarding with your\nattendance. Besides, the play comes\nto UBC almost full circle: its creator,\nthe renowned Tennessee Williams,\nbriefly held the position of writer-in-\nresidence in UBCs Creative Writing\nProgram during the 1980s.\nNatasha Nadir, MFA candidate,\nchose to stage the memory play using\nWilliams' original theatrical script \"1\nchose this original theatrical script\nfor this production because it presented many exciting possibilities for\nthe whole creative team/ she writes\nin the director's notes, and it was a\ngood choice: The Glass Menagerie is\na successful, well-rounded staging of\na classic play.\nPresented in the TELUS Studio\nTheatre, the theatre itself gives the\nproduction a unique, ageless quality.\nColourful glass dangles from the high\nceiling and gives the stage the feel of\nan illusion\u00E2\u0080\u0094which is just what protagonist Tom Wingfield claims is the\ndisguise of his story. This illusion\nseems to light the stage alongside\ndark blues and greys as if we are in\nLaura Wingfield's glass collection\nitself, thanks to lighting designer\nTohn Webber.\nThis show features only four\nactors, but each claim the stage with\nsolid performances. As Tom, Daniel\nDeorksen is the narrator, a suffocated\nson with big dreams who is is unable\nto abandon his crippled sister Laura.\nJessica Harvey portrays Laura as the\nshy, embarrassed daughter who only\nneeds a small push to get over her\nphysical handicap. Tom's frustration\nis well-conveyed by Deorksen, and\nHarvey gives her character the perfect withdrawn demeanour, but\nJennifer Braund steals the show as\nAmanda Wingfield, the doting, often\noverbearing mother. Her commanding performance is a convincing\ndepiction of that Southern hospitality\nwhich her character appropriates so\nwell. Kevin Kraussler, who only features in the second half of the play,\nstill manages to draw quite a few\nlaughs from the audience as the\nsomewhat goofy gentleman caller,\nJim O'Connor.\nMichelle Nelson's set design\nworks well in the TELUS Studio\nTheatre. The intimate stage setting\nprovides the surrounding ground-\nlevel audience with an up close and\npersonal view. The . space is used\nevenly enough so that the audience\nfeels involved as well. Nelson's\n1930s set is nicely balanced with\nAlexia Chen's costume design. The\nperiod clothing and props provide an\nold-fashioned atmosphere to the production.\nThe pacing of the scenes was\nsomewhat slow at times, but maybe it\nwasn't so bad\u00E2\u0080\u0094it helped emphasise\nTom's exasperation with his life at\nhome. Laura and Jim's final scene\ntogether was, although long, easier to\nwatch than some of the other longer,\nmore repetitive scenes. However,\nthat shouldn't be cause for complaint; the play is well produced and\ncan be forgiven for any personal criticisms. It's worth checking out.\nBesides, it's a great chance to experience a classic play by a world famous,\nand very memorable, playwright who\nhas left his artistic mark on UBC.H THE UBYSSEY Friday, 10 February, 2006\nNews 9\nExposing\nFirst Nation\nstereotypes\nby Amanda Stutt\nNEWS STAFF\nRenowned First Nations filmmaker\nLoretta Todd recently partnered up\nwith the First Nations Studies department at UBC to confront the way\nAboriginal history has been represented in mainstream media.\nTodd is working in tandem with\nstudents in the department conducting an Aboriginal Media Lab\nthat examines and interrogates the\nmedia's representation, and often\nmisrepresentation, of Aboriginal\nculture.\n\"The media has tried to portray\nus through a lens of social justice,\nbut it makes us into victims...like\nfragile children who can't have our\nown conversations with the world,*\nexplained Todd.\nTodd said that the Media Lab\nwill be carried out through a series\nof think tanks. A main goal of the\nproject will be focused on influencing media. 'How you are portrayed in the media is how you will\nbe treated...If you don't control\nyour image then others will control it for you.*\n\"It will try to find new ways of presenting knowledge,* she stated.\nFor example, one UBC student,\nCarmen Cray, is looking at the use of\nsatire in media.\n\"She's looking at it critically,* said\nTodd, \"like when is it a subversive\ndevice? And when is it a cliche? When\ndoes it open up dialogue?\" - \t\nTodd brought up the example of\nthe historical vignettes that appear\nduring commercial breaks on television. Some of these vignettes depict\nrelations between Aboriginals and\nWhites during pivotal moments in\nhistory. According to Todd, \"they\nare corny and silly...they are parodies of themselves.\"\nTodd said that, \"we have to be\nFIRSTLY: Filmmaker Loretta Todd teams up with UBCs First\nNations Department, michelle mayne photo\nSatellite plots beetle infestation\nUBC researcher says new technology gives consistent results\ncareful as First Nations filmmakers\nnot to internalise the colonisers gaze\nand replicate ourselves as arti-\nfacts...but how do you resist the worst\nof Hollywood?*\nAccording to Todd, in contrast,\nAboriginal media asks the audience\nto participate and reflect on what the\nart means to the individual. Todd\nsaid she is interested in a more active\nand less passive audience.\n\"Ultimately, I would like the audience\nto be more thoughtful and less reliant\non old stereotypes.*\nProfessor Line Kesler, head of the\nFirst Nation's Studies Department, is\nworking closely with Todd.\nKesler discussed some problems\nwith the various ways in which\nAboriginal history has been represented in the media. He believes the\nMedia Lab will, \"challenge the notion\nof what is made visible and what is\nleft out..we are confronting how we\nthink about the past*\nHe said the Lab will work towards\na \"visibility for Aboriginal culture,\nunderstood in a more complex and\nsophisticated way.\"\nThe Media Lab is interested in the\nquestion of how things enter public\nconsciousness and strategising about\nways of presenting things like\nAboriginal history or contemporary\nissues in a way that's more effective,\nhe said.\nAccording to Kesler, a huge\nweight of media representations\ni 95>0 West; Broadway\n^4-731-7868 : V\nw ww. co pi e s pi us -Cci\nea.\nSALE SELF-SERVE COPIES 3*5\nCanon Digital Copiers\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Fast & Easy to use \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Auto Sort, feed, staple, doubieside \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 resize 25% \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 400%\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 201b Xerox brand paper \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Black & white \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 8.5x11 ea. side\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Xtra cost for legal & tabloid \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Plus P.S.T. & G.S.T. 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He explained how the\ntrailers for the film depict 'Indians\ndancing around campfires...the\nwhole standard...exoticising of\nnative culture.*\nHe elaborated, saying the film\npresents itself as big romance,\n\"where whatever meaning Native\npeople might have for themselves or\nin their own society becomes\neclipsed by the moment of contact\nwhere their meaning is completely\nrewritten in terms of the narrative of\nEuropean arrival, and that becomes\nthe real focus of the film.*\nHe believes the plot gives\n\"white, patriarchal agency...a heroic stamp of validity.\"\n\"It's not the stories that native\npeople might want to tell about\nthemselves.\"\nLoretta Todd agrees with\nKesler's analysis, and explained\nhow this kind of imagery \"conflates\nus with the land...the female represents the land and is being subjugated. You conquer her\u00E2\u0080\u0094you conquer the land,\" she said. HI\nby Will Keats-Osborn\nNEWS WRITER\nSatellite imagery may be the most\nefficient way to map the spread of\nthe mountain pine beetle infestation that is plaguing BC's pine\nforests.\nResearch being headed up by\nNicholas Coops in the Faculty of\nForestry at UBC is seeking to\naccomplish just that.\n\"We can use satellite imagery to\ndetect where the beetle is and how\nmuch forest it's infecting,\" he said.\n\"Vegetation reflects a lot of near-\ninfrared radiation, so a tree that's a\nlittle bit stressed, or it's having the\nmoisture reduced from the foliage,\nwill give a much duller near-\ninfrared response.\"\nThe department purchases satellite images collected by the Landsat\nand Quickbird satellites and then\ndigitally enhances them to show\nwhich areas are reflecting unusually high amounts of near-infrared\nradiation.\n\"Using remote sensing, you can\nwork out how many hectares have\nbeen lost,\" Coops said. \"Using those\nstats you can then estimate what\nyour volume loss is.\"\nThe privately owned Quickbird\nsatellite, which also provides\nimages for the popular Google\nEarth program, has a resolution of\napproximately sixty by sixty centimeters. This focused resolution\nallows researchers to pick out individual infested trees from a given\nplot of forest.\nAt three dollars per hectare,\nQuickbird imagery is too expensive\nfor any large-scale mapping, but it\nis indispensable for evaluating specific areas of interest like national\nparks or pheromone-baited test\nplots designed to attract the beetle.\nLandsat, which is owned by the\nAmerican government, has a resolu\ntion of thirty by thirty meters and is\nthe most cost-effective and thorough\nmethod for mapping the infestation\nover the entire province. Compared\nto the previous method of sending\nan airplane out to take photos of specific areas, this new technology is\nextremely effective.\n\"The satellite can see everything\nall the time,\" said Coops. \"Digital\nsatellite imagery gives you a very\nconsistent result.\"\nThe remote imaging technology\nhas other applications for the\nforestry sector as well, such as\nmeasuring carbon accumulation in\nforests.\nMountain pine beetles infest\ntrees by boring through the bark\nand inoculating the trees with a\nfungus that slows the tree's natural\ndefensive response. The beetles\nthen reproduce just under the bark\nand the growing insects feed on the\nsoftened wood, thereby robbing the\ntrees of the nutrients they need to\ngrow and respirate.\nAccording to Professor John\nMcLean, the leading mountain pine\nbeetle entomologist at UBC, the\ninfestation began in 1992 in\nTweedsmuir Park, and has been\nexpanding to the east and the south\never since.\nAlmost nine million hectares\nare now infected in BC.\n\"The time to do something about\nit was when it was a very young\ninfestation,\" McLean said.\nAside from baited stands of trees\nthat are used to trap the beetle, the\nmost effective solution is to salvage\nthe lumber before it is too late, and\nsince logging has been increased to\nsalvage the infected lumber, the rate\nof harvest will have to be decreased\nin the coming years to maintain ecological balance.\n\"Everybody in the province is\ngoing to be affected by this,\" he\nsaia. on\nmmtm&Hmummmmmmtnmimimrfmim\nUniversity of Ottawa\nran\nu Ottawa\nL'Unive.rsif\u00E2\u0082\u00AC cgtnadienne\nCanada's university\nCommitted to graduate\nstudies arid research!\nThe University of Ottawa is becoming one of Canada's top\nresearch universities, in this perspective, it is investing\nheavily in graduate studies.\nAs of IVIay 2006 \t will offer one of the most competitive\ngraduate award and financial support programs in\nthe country;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Nearly 80 per cent of our PhD students (Canadians and\npermanent residents) will receive at least $70,000 in\nfunding over four years.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 More than 50 per cent of our master's students\n(Canadians and permanent residents) will receive\nat least $14,000.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Both groups will benefit from additional initiatives\nsuch as our popular travel grants, which allow them\nto participate \t\ conferences and present their\nresearch findings.\nSeveral academic programs will guarantee even more\nthan the amounts mentioned.\nFor more information, please consult the following\nsite frequently:\nwww.grad.uQttawaxa\n\",j**\u00E2\u0084\u00A2j*s,~'I sSL. t* 5\u00C2\u00ABv?^^?v;^A',i'C^\"\.':ff*^ss^f '^^^\"jL.'y\n-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0S.\n*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*' pppi\nIO Opinion/Editorial\nFriday, 10 February, 2006 THE UBYSSEY\nJSZ*-\n,\u00C2\u00A3ku~\nWhy the controversial cartoons\nwill not be reprinted in Ubyssey\nThe Ubyssey has received several\nemails and phone calls over the last\ncouple days regarding certain cartoons depicting Mohammed and\nIslam. Terms like \"freedom of the\npress\" and \"freedom of speech\"\nfrom people encouraging us to run\nthe graphics clashed with other\nterms like \"libel* and the \"criminal\ncode\" from people cautioning us\nagainst it.\nA lawyer for Canadian University\nPress, an organisation of which our\npaper is a founding member, has\nadvised national student papers not\nto publish said cartoons due to section 319 of the criminal code pertaining to hate crimes: \"where there\nis a risk of publishing something\nagainst an identifiable group where\nincitement is likely to lead to a\nbreach of the peace, sometimes a\ncourt will say you are guilty of contravening that section.\"\nWe haven't run the cartoons but\nlet us assure you it is most certainly not out of fear of the repercussions. To lawyers, protestors and\nextremists we would say bring it\non...if we believed in what the cartoons were saying.\nTo be perfectly honest, some of\nus were considering running the\nless offensive comics at one point.\nThe reasoning at the time was that\nprinting the cartoons would be an\nimportant gesture in support of\nfreedom of the press, a right that\nwe wholeheartedly support. Those\nconsiderations aside, running the\ncartoons for that reason alone is\nnot a very strong argument.\nThe University of PEI's student\nnewspaper, The Cadre, decided to\nprint the cartoons, only to have the\n2,000 printed copies retracted\nafter the University and the\nStudents' Union put a campus-\nwide ban on publishing them. It's\nso sad that the moment a university paper raises controversy they\nmust face debilitating censorship.\nBut do we really want to make\nthese images the champions of\nfree speech? While some of them\nare less offensive than others,\nsome are downright racist. All of\nthem are disrespectful. The real\nquestion after all the reprints that\nhave occurred over the last two\nweeks in Europe and North\nAmerica is the following: what purpose would running those cartoons serve at this point in time?\nWhen the cartoons originally\ncame out in Danish newspapers\nthey pointed to the deplorable violence coming from Muslim extremists. There are longstanding tensions across Europe between secularists and religious extremists as\nthe riots in France demonstrated\nin 2005.\nBut what the cartoons failed to do\nwas separate those extremists from\nthe peaceful Muslim majority. The\ncartoons have successfully perpetuated those negative stereotypes and the\nviolence that has resulted is a direct\nconsequence of the gross underestimation of its global implications.\nThe images may have been\noffensive, but their decision to run\nthe graphics is their editorial\nprerogative.\nBut it's not ours. Freedom of the\npress does not give us license to\nrun offensive and disrespectful content for that sole reason alone.\nWhile we do not condemn any publication that has or is planning to\npublish the images\u00E2\u0080\u0094everyone is\nentitled to their beliefs of what is\nand isn't offensive\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Ubyssey\nhas decided not run the graphics in\nour editorial section because our\neditorial staff does not support the\nmessage of the cartoons.\nPrinting salacious content for\nthe purpose of dialogue or social\nchange is important in a democratic society. But printing something\nfor the sole purpose of being offensive and disrespectful, as would be\nthe case if we decided to run the\ngraphics, is not. H\nEmerson vs Stronach\nAre they really so different?\nIs David Emerson a \"whore?\"\nHas he \"prostituted\" himself to\nthe Conservative party? Has his \"\nsalt n' pepper-haired ambition\"\ndriven a knife into the heart of\nour fragile Canadian democracy?\nYes, you might be thinking,\nreflecting upon the turncoat\npolitician's defection from the\nLiberal opposition bench to the\nHarper cabal. But that's not how\nthe Emerson case has been\nframed in the mainstream\nmedia; nor has any disgruntled\ncolleague or campaign worker\nbeen quoted saying anything of\nthe sort. Instead, the Vancouver-\nKingsway representative gets\naway with name-dropping his\nBuddhist credentials and waxing\npoetically about a \"global movement, economically, socially,\nenvironmentally\" that blurs\nparty lines.\nIt's a far cry from the treatment that one-time Conservative\nleadership candidate Belinda\nStronach received when she\ncrossed the floor to join the\nLiberals in April 2005. Then, former colleague Bob Runciman\ndismissed her as an \"attractive\ndipstick.\" Conservative Maurice\nVellacott backhandedly dissed\nher by noting \"different people\nprostitute themselves for different costs or different prices.\"\nAnd Tony Abbott described\nStronach as having \"whored*\nherself to the Paul Martin camp,\nlater retracting his remarks.\nOf course, this sort of treatment\nis nothing new for Stronach. Ever\nsince her entrance into politics,\nshe has been repeatedly subject to\nscrutiny of her outfits, her hairstyle, and the fact that her father is\na filthy rich man. The Toronto Sun\nheadlined stories about her with\n\"Blond Ambition \" ran stories on\nwho should date her, what clothes\nshe wears, and how high her\npumps were. Even though both\nshe and Emerson were.wealthy\nindividuals who opted to take a significant pay cut to enter public\nservice, Stronach is repeatedly\nwritten into gendered political narratives that cast her as some kind\nof slutty Paris Hilton doppelganger\nready to fuck her way to the top of\nthe political pyramid.\nAnd while Emerson has taken\nsome flack for his political\nmove, and will likely rank as\n2006's number one turncoat on\nmany year-end national review\nlists, it's unlikely than any disgruntled Liberal will publicly\ninsinuate that the newly appointed Minister of International\nTrade exchanged blowjobs with\nthe leader of the Conservative\nParty in order to curry rank.\nThat's the advantage of being a\nwhite male corporate demigod\nwith tufty eyebrows dabbling in\nCanadian politics.\nFurthermore, when Stronach\njumped ship last year, Tory MP\nJames Moore referred to her as\n\"the poster child for hypocrisy.\"\nAlmost a year later, Moore hasn't\nchanged his tune on Stronach\n(declaring her the opposite of\n\"people with principle*) but quickly found a way to excuse the\nactions of Emerson, declaring that\nthe situations were entirely different; Emerson was approached by\nthe Conservatives (read: virgin),\nwhile Stronach allegedly went\nahead and approached the\nLiberals all on her own (read:\nwhore). WTF?\nIn a perfect world, both\nStronach AND Emerson would\nbe \"whores.\" Or maybe we could\ndrop this sexist language entirely and concentrate on determining which is the greater evil:\nabandoning a party during a sitting parliament, or changing\npolitical allegiance barely two\nweeks after an election? Can anyone say by-election? II\nLetters\n' '.\"St*-\nPontificate elsewhere\nI found Paul Sutton's most recent\npontification (\"Harper, Campbell,\nSullivan, Keystone...\" [Feb. 3]) as yet\nanother reason why this person\nshould be neither a politician, a\nspokesperson, or a person representing the University and its\npopulation.\nThis blustery editorial comes\nfrom a man who did not take his\ndefeat in last year's election gracefully, wrongfully presuming that the\nmajority of UBC students (or at least\na marginal 2,000 of them) would\nsupport him as their leader for one\nof Canada's largest student societies. He is wrong in assujning that\nthe issue of queerness is what has\nprevented him from being heard in\nCouncil and in various protests\nacross campus.\nWhat has prevented him from\nbeing elevated in any status on campus is his attitude\u00E2\u0080\u0094any conversation that he generates has always\nstarted and ended with him being\ndefensive about one thing or another. He is neither conciliatory or a\ndiplomat, two things needed by a\nleader, regardless of sexual orientation, gender, race, etc.\nFor those who know Paul or have\nwitnessed him in Council meetings,\nyou will no doubt have seen him\nexhibit this kind of behavior. Paul,\nisn't it time you get off campus to\nsee who can hire you? Maybe then,\nyou'll understand why your anger,\nattitude, and blatant overuse of the\nword \"activist\" is what's preventing\nyou from being heard\u00E2\u0080\u0094although I'm\nsure CUPE would love to have you.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Lisa More\nArts 4\nFollowing through\nI am writing to confirm and further\nillustrate a point I made in my article in Friday's Pride Issue\n(\"Harper, Campbell, Sullivan,\nKeystone, or wouldn't it be great if\nwe could afford to eat?*). In a conversation following Friday's publication with current AMS VP\nFinance and President-elect Kevin\nKeystone, he relayed to me how\nsome people mis-read my article as\ndeclaring a contest to see who is\ngayer: me, Karen Ward, or Mr\nKeystone. Instead, my argument is\nthat out, queer candidates who take\nwhat is commonly called an \"out\nleft stance* often have their politics\nand sexual identities read together.\nThis isn't that strange, considering\nthat the North American queer liberation movement is something\nthat erupted out of the feminist\nmovement which, at its base, is\ncounter-cultural, advocating a redefinition of gender (and later sexual) values that threatens dominant thinking that puts whiteness,\nstraightness and maleness at the\ntop of the hierarchy. Thus, opponents to left queer candidates in\nattacking their leftness also attack\ntheir queerness, as in this case; our\npolitics and our bodies are\ncombined.\nIn case that sounds too abstract,\nhere is an example of how this\nerupts in the everyday. I just came\ninside from the Outweek pride flag\nraising ceremony, and noticed that\none AMS executive, Mr Keystone,\nand one UBC senior administrator,\nMr Brian Sullivan, Vice-President\nStudents, were in attendance. It\nwas only these two who witnessed\nthe speeches lauding UBC for being\na safer place for queer and trans\npeople since 1971 (when Pride\nstarted), but also criticising the\nAMS and the University for the\nshortfalls they've made in representing queer communities effectively. I am dismayed by our representatives' lack of attendance:\nthere are four sitting AMS executives, and four more executives-\nelect who could've attended, but\nelected not to, communicating to\nme and the ceremony's other attendees how seriously we, as a queer\nand trans community, are taken on\nthis campus. Granted, Stephen\nLewis was also lecturing this morning, and maybe they were there witnessing his extremely important\nmessage. However, it would've\nbeen great if more executive personnel in the student union and\nUniversity alike could've left their\noffices on this bright, overcast day,\nto celebrate our successes and take\nnote of the deficits we're counting\non them to help us correct.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Paul Sutton\nArts 4\nDavid Emerson betrayed the\nvoters\nDear David,\nYou really are a piece of work.\nMost MPs at least wait for the ink\nto dry on the ballots before they\nbetray their electorate for their\nown personal advancement. You\ncan argue all you want that it was\nyour name on the ballot, and not\nyour party's, but do you really\nthink those 20,000-odd people\nwould have voted for you had you\nshown your true colours from the\nstart? A lot of those people voted\nfor you specifically to avoid winding up with a Conservative MP,\nbut it turns out that they got one\nanyway.\nIt's not everyone who is able to\nmake a whole country just a little\nmore cynical about politics. You saw\nyour opportunity and you sure went,\nfor it. I want you to do me a favour:\nImagine that eighteen year-old who\nvoted for the first time ever, and put\ntheir mark next to your name.\nImagine what you are contributing\nto their education. Think about that,\nand then think about calling that by-\nelection you owe us.\nMost sincerely,\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ben Coli\nfifth-year unclassified\nStreeters\nDo you think Emerson\nSHOULD HAVE TO PAY BACK\nHIS CAMPAIGN MONEY TO\nTHE LIBERALS?\n\"No. Stronach didn't have to pay\nanything back, why should he?\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Erik Lauder\nResource Economics 4\n'I'm not really up on politics.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Amanda Brooks\nArts 2\n\"I think politics should really stop\ninterfering with midterm week. I m\na little busy. Come back later.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Robert Cross\nGeological Engineering 5\nS3 < .\n\"Yes because he saprickThat s\ntaxpayer money. I want it back.*\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Brendan Denault\nCITR Volunteer\n\"I don't think he should pay back\nthe money, but I think he should\nresign or run in a by-election.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Duncan McHugh\nMultimedia Developer, LaFS\n1\n'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0''$\ni\nI\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Streeters coordinated by\nCarolynne Burkholder\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0M THE UBYSSEY Friday. 10 February. 2006\nNews'U\nHuman rights tribunal trial dismissed\n0-\#, ^,\nby Bryan Zandberg\nNEWS STAFF\nA recent BC Human Rights Tribunal\n(BCHRT) decision cleared UBC, the\nUBC Faculty Association and four of\nits professors from a student's\nclaim that they discriminated\nagainst her because of her Anglican\nChristian faith.\nCynthia Maughan, a 47-year-old\nstudent who completed a Master's in\nEnglish last semester, filed simultaneous claims\u00E2\u0080\u0094a human rights complaint and a civil lawuit\u00E2\u0080\u0094over a series\nof events between 2001 and 2004\nwhich she claimed were a continuous\nbreach of her human rights.\nMaughan alleged the pattern\nbegan with an internal e-mail, wherein a graduate student wrote that then-\nReform party leader Stockwell Day\nmade him \"recall fondly a time-period when Christians were stoned.\"\nBCHRT member Judy Parrack dismissed Maughan's human rights\ncomplaint in its entirety, stating that\nmany of Maughan's claims had been\nfiled too late and that even if they had\nnot been there were no grounds for\nher claim.\n\"I think all of us who were\ninvolved were very happy indeed\nwith the decision,\" said Professor\nLoraine Weir. Weir was named in\nboth the lawsuit and the human\nrights complaint\nMaughan claimed Weir engaged\nin a \"sustained, hostile approach\ntowards her* after Maughan refused\nto take part in a Sunday graduate\nstudent colloquium for a seminar\nshe was taking with Weir in the\nspring of 2001. Maughan said she\nwas reluctant to attend/oa-aceouat-\nof her religious belief that the\nSabbath is a holy day and because\nthe colloquium was at the home of\nthe student that had written the\nemail about stoning Christians.\nWhen Maughan was given a\ngrade of 73 per cent in the seminar, she appealed it based on the\nargument that it was a further\ninstance of discrimination.\nUBC faculty Anne Scott, Susanna\nEgan and Judy Segal all wrote letters\nin support of Weir as a part of an\ninternal appeal.\nIn October 2002, Maughan\nbrought an $18 million lawsuit against Weir, UBC, and Scott,\nCLEARED: But UBC English Prof Lorraine Weir's court woes aren't over yet. yinan maxwang photo\nEgan and Segal.\nIn 2003 and 2004 both the\nCanandian Association of University\nTeachers (CAUT) and the UBC Faculty\nAssociation published articles about\nthe lawsuit UBC and CAUT held a\nforum on academic freedom and\ncensorship in 2004 wherein the\nMaughan case was on the agenda.\nIn March of 2005 Maughan\nincluded all three parties in her\nhuman rights complaint, alleging\nthese acts displayed ongoing contempt of her religious beliefs.\nTribunal member Parrack disagreed on the grounds that discussing\nan allegation of discrimination in a\npublic document did not constitute a\nfurther act of discrimination.\n\"If Ms Maughan were correct, it\nwould mean that no respondent\ncould defend or speak about allegations made against him or her in a\npublic document,\" said Parrack in\nher decision.\nParrack also ruled that Maughan\nfiled her complaint later than the\nallotted six months after many of the\nincidents occured. She added, however, that even if Maughan had\nfiled complaint on time it would\nhave been dismissed on the same\ngrounds.\nWeir said Parrack's written decision \"expresses an eloquent defense\nof expressive freedoms in the academic context\" She added that the\nexperience has not altered her\napproach to teaching.\n\"It's probably made me even\nmore conscious than I was before the\nlawsuit of what a privileged location\nthe classroom is and how very important [it] is for all of us who participate\nin academic life,\" said Weir.\nThe $18 million civil suit still\nstands before the BC Supreme Court\nand a move by UBC to have the claim\ndismissed was turned down.\nUnlike the human rights complaint, the civil suit has to do with a\nrare tort law under the Civil Rights\nProtection Act This means Maughan\nwill have to prove that the defendants consciously intended to\nbreach her civil rights.\nHubert Lai, legal counsel for\nUBC, said the case rides on \"a little-\nknown and virtually unused piece\nof legislation.*\nHe called the situation \"unusual\"\nbecause it has to do with intent\nWhereas under the BC Human Rights\nCode someone may be found guilty\neven if they have discriminated\nagainst someone by accident, the\nCivil Rights Protection Act is\ndesigned to address the intent of\nsomebody promoting hatred or the\nsuperiority or inferiority of an individual or a group.\nThe BC Civil Liberties Association\nopposes the Civil Rights Protection\nAct as an unreasonable interference\nwith freedom of expression.\nJames Turk, executive director of\nCAUT, said she's happy with\nParrack's decision and that anything\nelse \"would effectively silence a good\ndeal of discussion in this country.\"\nMaughan could not be reached\nfor comment At an earlier date,\nhowever, she noted that her reason\nfor launching the lawsuit was to\n\"make students who want to honour their faith know that, if they\nfeel they have been denied that\nright in the university context, they\ncan pursue university appeal\nprocesses without being subject to\ncontempt or hatred.\"\nThe court date for the civil suit has\nyet to be set II\nFinding a home for the $30 million of fill\nArtificial Wreck Beach\nisland proposal groundless,\nsay transit officials\nby Kristen Kewarken\nNEWS WRITER\nRumours that excess fill from the\nRAV line construction will be used to\nbuild an island off of Wreck Beach\ncan be put to rest, according to\nWayne Pledger, manager of the Rapid\nTransit Office.\n\"In any of the discussions I have\nhad with the RAV Contractors, I\nhaven't heard any interest in using\nthe excavated fill for a Wreck Beach\nIsland,* said Pledger.\nWhen the new island, along with\nanother proposal that involved building a highway from UBC to\nVancouver International Airport,\nmade news in November, it created a\nwave of opposition.\nIn a letter to the Province, Judy\nWilliams of the Wreck Beach\nPreservation Society wrote, \"The\nISLAND? RAV excavation fill not going here, yinan max wang photo\nanchoring infrastructure needed for\nsuch an island would not only obliterate fragile wildlife habitat, but\nwould also uglify Vancouver.\"\nWhile Pledger was quick to dismiss the idea, Richard Balfour, a\nmember of the Vancouver City\nPlanning Commission, and the\nman behind the idea, continues to\ndefend his creation: \"not only does\nthis [proposal] give us a terminal\nwithin ten minutes of downtown,\nbridge and small tunnel to 16th\nAvenue, it gives UBC south Fraser\nstudents a faster route into UBC,\nnew park islands to stop UBC cliff\nerosion.*\nBalfour insists he had good reason to behind his proposal saying\nthat \"it was admitted [the fill] was\ngoing to be dumped at sea. This is not\ngood for the fish but worse still the fill\nis sand and sandstone and as a building material alone is worth $20 to\n$30 million.*\nIn TransitBC, the company contracted to build the RAV line, is not\nplanning on letting the $20 million\nworth \"of material go to the fish,\nhowever.\n\"Our goal would be to find someone who's interested in it and sell it\nto them and hopefully recover our\ncosts,\" said Steve Crombie, VP of\nPublic Affairs for In TransitBC.\nCrombie stated that several\ngroups have approached In Transit\nBC for use of the fill, including YVR\nand the City of Richmond, who plan\nto use it for pre-loading purposes.\nHe also said he has been\napproached by, \"at least one First\nNations Band.\"\nUltimately, it will be In TransitBC\nwho decides what to do with the fill\nthat according to Crombie, will probably not even be available for another\nfew months.\u00C2\u00AB\n-%\u00E2\u0096\u00A0* - ^ V\nwr^r\nrr?asse-maU senttc> the class that\n~ Stockwell day m^kes him ^recall\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ;:f<^^>t^^|3lejr^^^ .* . ,\n* ;&po8&l as a jsfc&eritiirft&etrs\n- '^tiatffcj&s ?& y^ry^hepry*.\n' rseit&an \ - V-*' *x / f \ \\,\ntoake\u00C2\u00ABd^e^^^tjolloquium,\"\nhouse ofthe student who wrote\nan email about stoning Christians.\nMaughan also objects to the date/,\nas Sunday is a Sabbath for\nChristians. ; ; ;v>^ O ' , - *\nMarch 2&T^^iigr\u00C2\u00BBrtalleges ^::\n^rteyi^fe^to^nt\u00C2\u00BBed} -\;-\\ndiscrimination i&thfejseraina*; from\nWeir. Maughan refuses any further\nl^'jtu^aiibfiM^<^,o1s^$sion$, ,\nMay 28,2001\u00E2\u0080\u0094Maughan liles an\njftt^\u00C2\u00A3&ril^ *\n79 per cent saying the grade was a\nScfctfc wr%lSpe^1r\u00C2\u00BB suD^rt'of;\nWeirv Segal de^hbes Maughan as\nbwtt^mf^i^tsar>ct f\ni^s 12 News\nFriday, 10 February, 2006 THE UBYSSEY\nfJS^j Protesters demand resignation\nVancouver-Kingsway residents feel \"betrayed\" and \"cheated\" by Emerson defection\nby Eric Szeto\nNEWS EDITOR\nA handful of disheveled protesters holding placards painted with messages calling him a liar and saying \"Recall\nEmerson,\" staged a sit-in at the office of\nnewly declared Conservate MP David\nEmerson Wednesday.\n\"This is hypocrisy,\" said Pablo Coffey, a\nprotester in front of the media scrum. \"Its\nbrazen hypocrisy and it's very dangerous.\"\n\"We're seeing people from all parties\nand all parts of Canada that are sick and\ntired of this kind of politics,\" he added.\nThe former Liberal MP shocked\nCanadians Monday after he announced\nthat he would be crossing the floor to the\njoin the Conservatives just ten days after\nbeing reelected as a Liberal in the\nVancouver-Kingsway riding.\nAs part of his agreement to defect to\nthe Conservative party, Emerson will now\nbecome the Minister of International\nTrade and also be responsible for han\ndling the Pacific Gateway project and the\nVancouver 2010 Olympics.\nWhile his actions will do little to\nchange the political landscape in the\nHouse of Commons, it did refresh people's memories of MP Belinda\nStronach's Conservative to Liberal\ncrossover in April 2005\u00E2\u0080\u0094a move that\ncreated a similar uproar.\nVoting Conservative in the recent election, Bobby Wong, a concerned resident in\nthe riding, questioned Emerson's integrity.\n\"He is an ideal opportunist and the reason why he'd rather serve any government of the day rather than represent the\npeople of his riding,\" he said.\nDominic Godbout, who had a same-sex\nmarriage last June, feels that this move\nputs him and his husband in a \"precarious\" situation.\n\"Mr Harper, as quickly as he can, he\nwill act on this and he will repeal any law\nthat allows gays to be married and then\nmy marriage certificate,\" he said.\n\"What will it mean then?\" he asked\nwhile displaying his marriage certificate.\n\"Do I have to divorce?\"\nGodbout, who strategically voted\nLiberal in the last campaign, has also\nmade calls to Emerson's office demanding his campaign contributions back but\nhas yet to receive any response.\n\"It is astounding that after contributing\nto the Liberal campaign in this riding,\nbeing a gay man married in this riding\nnow suddenly he's joined a party which is\nunwavering [to same-sex marriage].\"\n\"This sort of trickery is scandalous,\"\nGodbout said. \"It demoralises you and you\nlose your faith in the democratic system.\"\nThe Vancouver-Kingsway riding is historically a Liberal and NDP stronghold. 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