"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-08-26"@en . "1997-02-28"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0126302/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " Coquitlam schools send Igbq\ncommunity mixed message\niil.'i.sL\nquirky 20s fun from\nthe deep South\nStraiise\nafter fast start T-Bird\nhockey season turns sour\nworked up since 1918\nLadies; Noel Baker went on to adapt Michael Turner's poetic\nobservations about a Vancouver punk band into a screenplay\ncalled Hard Core Logo; Dave McDonagh now runs international marketing for Mercury Polydor's jazz label from New\nYork; and Chris Dafoe went from- programme manager at\nCiTR to Western Canada Arts Correspondent at The Globe\nand Mail. Recent CiTR alumni include Bill Baker and Randy\nIwata, co-owners of Vancouver's up-and-coming Mint\nRecords, members of Pluto and grrrrl rockers cub.\nThe station has won its share of acclaim, too. Discorder,\nCiTR's in-house magazine, made Rocket magazine's 1985 list\nTop 20 Publications in the World. A year later Hare picked\nCiTR-FM as What's Hot in Canada for 1987. Discorder was a\n1988 finalist for Magazine of the Year (circulation under\n20,000) and Cover of the Year in the Western Canadian\nMagazine Awards. And in 1991 Details named CiTR one of\nthe cool radio stations in \"these United States.\"\nLinda Scholten, CiTR's station manager, has made the station her full-tune obsession since she joined in 1983. She\nboasts that CiTR is a repository for some of the most creative\nand intelligent people around the UBC community. But extroverted types don't often make it past the station door.\nYou don t get the cheerleaders and the football heroes\nand the really popular people from high school coining into\nby Chris Nuttall-Smith\nThere is a saying around CiTR's offices that would mean suicide for most radio stations.\nIt's late Thursday in the station's entranceway and the\nmembers of Juniper Daily are nursing beers after their live\nbroadcast gig when someone blurts it out. Paul Snepts, front-\nman for the young Vancouver band and a philosophy undergrad finishing his degree at UBC, is saying how important\ncampus radio is to local bands.\n\"If they've sold over 2000 records, then we don't want\n'em,\" a sound technician cuts in, facetiously at first..\nSnepts nods his beer in slow agreement and the statement\u00E2\u0080\u0094hyperbole, of course\u00E2\u0080\u0094makes its way around the smiling group. For most commercial stations, ignoring the heavy-\nrotation acts in favour of independent or unknown bands\nwould drive away listeners and devastate advertising revenue. So most stations don't play Juniper Daily, or Saddle\nSores, or carry merengue shows.\n\"There are so many things in the mainstream media that\nget overlooked or dominated or manipulated and I think that\ncampus media and alternative media are just trying to compensate for that,\" explains Namiko Kunimoto, CiTR programme director, a few weeks later.\nIt's a principle that, draws a devout staff and a tiny, but\ncommitted audience to CiTR; frustrates the student council\nthat pays many of the station's bills; and forms the ideological backbone of Canada's college radio stations.\n\"It doesn't mean that there's no basketball games on the\nair or that there are no 'normal' people here\u00E2\u0080\u0094it's just that\nwe're trying to do somettiing different then the mainstream\nmedia usually does,\" Kunimoto adds.\nnirst there was the referendum January of last year. UBC\nstudents were asked to pay an extra five dollars per year\nin student fees to fund the station. Not even 10 percent voted.\nOf those who did vote, a majority was against the proposal.\nThen in September the Alma Mater Society cut its grant to\nCiTR from $80,000 to $70,000.\nToday you'd be hard-pressed to find five people in a room\na Gaxn^mm^emm^m\noutside the CiTR stu- ~\" \" \"\"\"'\ndios who could name the station's call number Things haven't gone too well for CiTR this past\nyear.\nUBC's Student Radio Society started out as the publicity\nbrainchild of a few AMS councillors. Early shows like Varsity\nTime\u00E2\u0080\u0094first broadcast in 193 7on CJOR\u00E2\u0080\u0094were intended to bring\ncommunity interest and funding to the fledgling campus.\nBy 1953 UBC Digest was broadcast by 11 radio stations in\nBC, the Yukon, Whitehorse and Alaska, one of several succesful\nRadio Society shows. They were mainstream by necessity, compelled to produce mass-market programs in order to be heard.\nGrant McDonagh, a long-time CiTR observer and owner of\nZulu Records, remembers CiTR in the mid-'70s\u00E2\u0080\u0094by then only\navailable on cable\u00E2\u0080\u0094as a \"third-rate commercial radio station.\"\nBut by the time Leora Kornfeld joined in 1980 the station\nhad been steeped in seventies psychedelia, punk's second\nwave was cresting towards new wave music and the CiTR\noffices in SUB 233 were hardly reminiscent of the Varsity\nTime days.\nKornfeld, now host of RealTime, CBC Stereo's popular\nSaturday night music and interview program, says CiTR in\nthe early '80s was a rebellious affiliation of outcasts and academic overachievers looking for kicks.\n\"At that time, because mainstream and the alternative\nwere separated by a real gulf, CiTR was the only place to hear\nElvis Costello and The Clash and stuff, it was a whole different world and it was a very unmtirnidating place because it\nreally was a group of misfits,\" says Kornfeld, leaning from a\nchair in her tiny CBC office.\nA list of Kornfeld's misfit contemporaries at CiTR reads\nlike a roster of Canadian Culture powerplayers.\nTerry McBride graduated from UBC and CiTR to start a\nsmall local record label called Nettwerk\u00E2\u0080\u0094now home to Sarah\nMcLachlan, Rose Chronicles and Wild Strawberries; Nigel\nBest went from CiTR to managing Canpop icons Barenaked\nCiTR\" she says \"You\nget the people who are on the out\nskirts, people who socially weren't very active,\nso-called nerds.\"\nIt's probably the 'anything goes' ambiance virtually oozing\nfrom behind the concert bills and posters that swathe CiTR's\noffice walls and ceilings that attracts them all. With no formula, a tiny volunteer station bureaucracy and few rules\naside from CRTC regulations, it's hard to know exactly what\nyou'll hear, or who you'll hear, on 101.9.\nProgramme Director Kunimoto is in charge of deciding\nwhat gets on the air. \"Getting a show on the air isn't a matter\nof seniority or waiting lists but of good ideas: original, creative ideas,\" she says.\nThe programme schedule, if anything, is unrivaled in its\ndiversity. CiTR airs shows dedicated to jazz, punk, classical,\nreggae, Hindustani, dance, trance, Canadian independent,\nnoize, African, britpop, cocktail, ska, Celtic and Latin music\nand culture\u00E2\u0080\u0094a lot of it the best (and worst) stuff from bands\nthat haven't sold more than 2000 records.\nThere are shows about Islam, feminism, people with disabilities, campus news and sports, queer issues, film and politics. There are regular five broadcasts of UBC Thunderbird\ninter-collegiate games. And when nobody's in the studios\nCiTR is the only station west of Manitoba that broadcasts the\nBBC World Service\u00E2\u0080\u0094every night from sign off until 8 am.\nHeather Kitching and Craig Maynard host Queer FM every\nSunday\u00E2\u0080\u0094interrupting their smooth banter, music, interviews\nand news only to answer calls from listeners. Kitching's\ncontinued on page 2 2 THE UBYSSEY, FEBRUARY 28, 1997\nClassifieds\nFor Sale\nCasio fx-3000 graphics calculator: 2 months old: manual incl.\n$70. Contact Mia at 221-8195 or\ne-mail mfredrik@unixg.ubc.ca\nBasic reliable AT&T WP5.1 Good\nstudent machine. $300 OBO.Oave\n(Voice Messages). 450-0536\nIBM Aptiva computer for sale!\n486. 50 MHz. 16MB and Huge MS\nsoftware. Upgrades. Multimedia!\n$1850 Call 737-9895\nExcellent Printer- GSX HO with\n286 computer/monitor. $125 obo.\nIBM Selectric II. Full size, good\ncondition. $100 obo. 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March 9,1997 at 7 pm in\nthe SUB Ballroom. Tix $8 advance, $10\nat door. Call 822-0407.\nA free service of\nThe Ubyssey\nPolitics, Ethics &\nThe Canadian Media.\nMarch 1, UBC's PSSA presents\na public conference on Politics,\nEthics & The Canadian Media. Guest\nPanelists include Michael Harcourt,\nPatricia Graham and Stan Persky.\nCome speak your mind, and hear\nwhat others have to say about how\nthe media affects our society.\nAdmission is FREE, and all are welcome! Saturday March 1st, 9 am -\n1pm. UBC Law School, Room 101/2.\nThe 16th Annual Art History Graduate\nSymposium\nCritical Chaos: The positioning of\nVisual Culture within Art History\n11 am - 5pm. Laserre Rm. 104-.\n7 great speakers & free admission!\nWed. Mar. 5, UBC Music presents\nWednesday Noon Hours\nGordon Cherry, trombone\nJohn Rudolph, percussion\n12:30 Recital Hall\nfeatures\nCiTR cont from p. 1\nsmooth voice and perfect radio diction betray her past experience as a\nDJ in commercial radio. But she\nhad to come to CiTR to get a queer\nshow on the air.\n\"There's a remarkable hesi-\ntance on the part of the mainstream media to report queer\nissues or commit to gay shows,\"\nshe says. Even gay media like Xtra\nWest typically give only superficial\ntreatment to otherwise important\nqueer issues and news, says\nKitching. The reason, she adds, is\nthat informative radio isn't always\nmarketable radio.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ne of the quickest ways to put\n\" someone from CiTR on the\ndefensive is to ask how many people actually listen to the station.\n101.9 is at the very bottom of\nwhat the CRTC calls 'high power'\nFM: 1800 watts crystal clear in\nBellingham on a good day and\nMorse code in Point Grey the next.\nAdd the cable subscribers in the\nLower Mainland, Whistier and\nNanaimo who can pick up CiTR\nthrough Shaw or Rogers and 'Radio\nFree Point Grey' has millions of\npotential listeners.\nBut nobody thinks that many\npeople listen.\nOrin Del Vecchio, an AMS councilor and member of the council's\nbudget committee, recounts hearing CiTR as a first year student in\nTotem Residence. \"One of the guys\non my floor really liked CiTR and\nwe'd always go in there and shut it\noff\" he says.\nStudent residences were never\nhotbeds of dedicated CiTR listeners. Kornfeld was never sure who\nwas listening before the station got\nan FM position. \"Believe me, people in Gage and Totem Park didn't\nwant to hear CiTR,\" she admits.\n\"People in Gage and Totem Park\nwanted to hear Bob Seger, so it was\npretty much ignored.\"\nIt was the city where CiTR had a\nfollowing. Kornfeld recalls how\nobscure new wave groups would\ncome to Vancouver in the 1980s to\nsold-out shows, and CiTR was the\nonly station playing their music.\nAnd she remembers how people\nused to get traffic tickets for driving\nback and forth over the Burrard\nstreet bridge when CiTR first began\nbroadcasting on low power FM in\n1982. It was just about the only\nplace you could pick up the 49 watt\nsignal most days.\nScholten bristles when asked\nwhether anybody's listening. Since\nCiTR isn't rated\u00E2\u0080\u0094ratings services\nare expensive\u00E2\u0080\u0094nobody really knows\nwho's tuned in, she explains.\nKunimoto says people call in\nfrantically when CiTR leaves dead\nair or a DJ doesn't show up for a\nshow. But CiTR isn't after every listener in Point Grey and Vancouver,\nshe adds.\nIt's a point that comes up whenever the station looks to the AMS\nwith its annual budget\nThe obvious question from\nmany on student council is why the\nAMS should dedicate a huge chunk\nof its budget to an organisation\nmost students don't seem to care\nabout Del Vecchio asks why the station couldn't find 3000 students to\napprove its referendum last year.\n\"I think their image is suffering\nlately...they're too alternative and\nthey're not reaching their common\ndenominators\u00E2\u0080\u0094they have their own\nthing and that's what they're doing\nand they don't care,\" says Del Vecchio.\nBut he adds nobody wants to see\nthe station die.\nThe $ 10,000 funding drop originally meant CiTR wouldn't be able\nto broadcast Thunderbird away\ngames. UBC Athletics stepped in\nand picked up the tab. Other\nexpenses weren't as easily saved.\nThere were 13 work-study positions at the station two years ago,\nfive last year. This year there are\nnone. And without the money that\nwould have gone towards upgrading equipment, Scholten says, listeners may be in for dead air.\n\"Unless we can start plaiming to\nstart replacing that equipment\nwe're not going to be able to broadcast down the road,\" she says.\nThe station's main console is 15\nyears old and close to becoming a\ndoorstop. Its manufacturer has been\nout of business for nine years. A new\nboard will cost more than $ 10,000.\nAs director of finance, incoming\nAMS President Ryan Davies was in\ncharge of drawing up last year's\nAMS budget He points out that CiTR\nlost a smaller percentage of its budget than most other AMS services.\n\"I've been accused of trying to take\nthe knife to CiTR and really hurt\nthem but I ttiink that's a little unfair\nconsidering that CiTR actually received less of a cut on a percent basis\nthan a lot of other organisations in\nthe AMS. The services got huge cuts\nin comparison,\" he argues.\nBut the numbers are no consolation to Scholten. \"One of the things\nI think council doesn't realise is this\nisn't some weird little organisation\noff to the side\u00E2\u0080\u0094this is their equipment, this is their investment,\" she\ncomplains. \"At the same time\nthey're starting new projects, hiring\nnew staff, starting a new magazine\u00E2\u0080\u0094we're not a priority.\"\nIP t's a sorry paradox CiTR is\n* faced with lately. Their noncommercial mandate has made\nthem a defiantly original and creative station, and brought well-\nsourced acclaim.\nBut the golden days of CiTR-if\nthey ever existed\u00E2\u0080\u0094came long\nbefore UBC's Radio Society ever\nhad an FM signal. And the eclectic\noriginality that defines CiTR seems\nthe last thing most people around\nUBC in the '90s want to hear. At a\ntime when most students are\nabsorbed in the terror they won't\nfind work when they get out, the\nmainstream can provide a tired\nand comforting panacea.\nThis is a fact not easily lost on\nthe AMS. There was no raucous,\nideological debate on council over\ncutting the station's funding. In\ncombating the station's obscurity,\nCiTR staff speak at residences, go\nto orientations fairs, poster around\ncampus and do live broadcasts\nfrom outside the SUB. But the best\nway to get people listening is probably to play Madonna and Rick\nDees' Weekly Top 40. That's something CiTR won't do.\nLinda Scholten sounds tired-\nexhausted after chronicling the\nslide her station's taken in the past\nyear. \"We're always going to survive on some level, I think. We may\nend up only having one studio,\nthere may be only one staff, there\nmay only be a few members, we\nmay go back 20 or 30 years and\nlose all the advantages and things\nthat we've worked for, but the need\nfor a campus radio station and the\npeople who are interested in doing\nit are always going to be there.\"\nNow if only someone would lis-\nten.<\u00C2\u00BB FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1997\nTHE UBYSSEY 3\nAttempt to save Child Study Centre fails\nby Theresa Chaboyer\nSupporters of UBC's Child Study Centre pulled out\nall the stops this week in an attempt to convince\nthe university community of the programme's\nvalue.\nAlthough the university decided to convert the\ncentre into a full-fledged daycare facility instead of\ncompletely closing it as originally reported last\nNovember, parents and faculty are still upset with\nwhat they call \"a lack of due process.\"\nAt a meeting of the Faculty of Education last\nTuesday, some upset faculty tried to get Dean of\nEducation Nancy Sheehan's unilateral decision to\nclose the centre revisited.\nHillel Goelman, the coordinator of Early\nChildhood Education, put forward a motion to\nhave the matter discussed at the meeting; the\nmotion, however, failed.\nAfter the meeting a disappointed Christianne\nHayward, a PhD student in the Early Childhood\nEducation program, said she felt as though she\nwas not respected as a student and a faculty member.\n\"Whether it is mediation or conflict management these are household words now,\" she said.\n\"We know we have to work toward getting consensus and it's not always easy, but if the parents,\nstaff and researchers had a chance to go through\na hearing and then were told no way\u00E2\u0080\u0094because\nSheehan has the power to do that\u00E2\u0080\u0094at least people\nwould feel they were listened to.\"\nBut Jeff Meyers, student representative to the\nBoard of Governors (BoG), said that after seeing\nSheehan's presentation to the BoG last month, he\nfelt the decision to convert the centre exclusively\ninto a daycare facility was a good one.\nSince 1961, the Child Study Centre has operated as a daycare, a preschool and a centre for interdisciplinary research in child development and\nearly childhood education.\n\"I don't believe as things stand, [the Centre) is\na tool for early childhood education,\" Meyers said,\nalthough he did admit there was some concern\nthat the opinion of the Dean did not reflect all the\nfaculty in the department.\n\"But based on the presentation [by the Dean],\nwhich in my opinion was thorough, it doesn't\nseem to be contributing to the research going on\nin the department,\" he said.\nAs part of the effort to save UBC's early childhood research facility, the centre also put on an\nopen house last Monday and Tuesday to showcase\nresearch projects and instructional videos that\nhave come out of the centre.\nTeresa Jones, a parent with a child in the centre who was at the open house, said although she\nwas concerned that Early Childhood Education\nwas no longer a priority for the university, she\nsaid she was more upset about the process that\nled to the decision.\n\"[There is] a complete lack of a fair process\nwith no consultation,\" she said.\nAdrian Tse, a fourth-year science student who\nworks at the centre and who applied to the Faculty\nof Education, also questioned the moral integrity\nof the university: \"Where's the accountability in\nthe university?\"\nAnd advocates say the UBC community will not\nbe the only ones affected by the decision to close\nthe centre; it is also the preferred practicum site\nfor many colleges including Kwantlen, Langara\nand Capilano who offer an Early Childhood\nEducation diploma. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n*f Hi\n<\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2J*\nt\nHEATHER WRIGHT teaches structures and building to a kindergarten class at the\nUBC Child Study Centre, richard lam photo\nFatal fall rattles residents of Gage Towers\nby Sarah Galashan\nThe tragic death of a non-resident who fell\nto his death from a quad in Gage Towers\nearly Tuesday morning is flooding the residence with rumours of suicide.\nThe 24-year-old male was discovered at\n1:15 am after residents heard a loud crash\nin the Gage courtyard; some students initially thought the noise came from a computer or television that had been tossed out\na window.\n\"We heard a big noise, but at first\nthought nothing of it,\" said Jason Marcus, a\nGage resident who was one of the first to\narrive at the scene.\nAfter realising it was a person that had\nfallen, Marcus, along with three other men,\nraced from their third floor quad to the\ncourtyard where they immediately began\nadministering CPR. \"Everything had pretty\nmuch collapsed, like his bones and stuff,\"\nsaid Marcus.\nThe ambulance arrived five minutes\nlater, and took over for the three men.\nCorporal Doug Gambicourt, who could\nnot confirm whether the death was a suicide or an accident, said the man was\ndeclared dead upon arrival at the hospital.\nSo far, Gambicourt said, the police have\nfew leads as to the details surrounding the\ndeath, although speculation from Gage resi\ndents is creating an upsetting situation for\nthose directly involved.\nAccording to Marcus and other residents,\nthe man had previously lived in Gage, and\nhad returned, upset over a personal matter.\nAnd while the police have yet to receive an\nautopsy report, Marcus said he could smell\nalcohol and believed the man was intoxicated at the time of the accident.\nBob Frampton, assistant director of residence administration, refused to confirm\nor deny the rumours pending a police investigation, but he did say the fall was an unfortunate accident. \"We're all very saddened by\nit,\" he said.\n\"There was a successful attempt at sui\ncide six years ago from Gage Residence\nthat's still very clear in the minds of the\nstaff and people who live there. It was also a\nnon-resident,\" Frampton told The Ubyssey.\nDale Coffin, residence life manager for\nGage Towers, said most residents were not\ntoo upset by the incident because the man\nwas not a student living in the buuding. \"I\nthink there certainly is a feeling amongst all\nthe people in Gage that it's much more personal when it happens in your own backyard,\" he said.\nCounselling has been made available to\nstudents living in Gage Towers and the\nRCMP are continuing with their investigation. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nANOTHER REWARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION\nGet $750 towards the purchase or lease of any new GM vehicle.\nTHE $750 GM GRAD PROGRAM. FOR DETAILS CALL 1-800-G M-DRI VE\nNominations wanted for The\nIf yo^ thi^k she's -. JL J\n- unique -Irreplaceable\ney's Wt\nresourceful - an\nTell\nof th\njsset to the cam\nly in 50 wor\nSdbmit all entries fo SUE 241K by 4 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1997\nnews\nTHE UBYSSEY\nSchool board rejects gay, lesbian student committee\n by Wah Kee Ting\nThe Coquitlam school board voted unanimously this week against creating a committee to study discrimination against gay\nand lesbian students in their district.\nThe motion, presented by school teacher\nMurray Warren, was rejected, trustees said,\nbecause a newly passed harassment policy\nwill take care of gay and lesbian issues.\nTrustee Gerri Walhs told the meeting that\nthe board's existing personal, discriminatory and sexual harassment policy will look\nafter gays and lesbians. \"It applies to the\noffender and to the offended,\" Wallis said.\nThe policy adheres to the BC human\nrights act, which does include protection for\nsexual orientation.\nWarren said he was not surprised the\nboard used the sexual harassment policy to\ncover issues of safety and inclusion for gay\nand lesbian students.\nThe trouble, he said, is that \"this is a one-\nsize-fits-all [policy]. Gay and lesbian student\nhave specific circumstances that they face,\nand this board is not prepared to address\nthose circumstances.\"\nCoral Wagner, a lesbian graduate of Port\nMoody Senior Secondary school who supported the new committee, was outraged at\nthe trustees' vote. She said that developing\nresource programs would support gay and\nlesbian students.\n\"These children need our support. And\nwithin the school system they do have input\nand feedback, but it all happens in\nVancouver. We need the resources [in\nCoquitlam],' she said. \"There are gay and lesbian people here that succeed in life and\n[could be] positive role models. We need to be\nincluded and these kids need to be included.\"\nWarren agreed that such support is critical. \"These students are invisible in our\nschools because there are not safe [places]\nfor these students to come out, and that's\nappalling.\"\nThe school board also voted to set up a\ncommittee to implement their new sexual\nharassment policy. That committee will seek\nbroad community input, said school board\nchairperson Maxine Wilson. \"Everyone will\nhave a voice in the committee, and we will\nput pressure on others,\" she said.\nWarren wants to keep the pressure on, too.\n\"I'm going to request that every student,\nevery teacher, every administrator, every\ncounsellor, every parent and anybody else\nin this district who hears of harassment taking place, either verbal or physical, who\nhears about [homosexual] students having\nto drop out of school, ending up on the\nstreets, or eventually committing suicide, to\ncall me,\" he said.\n\"I will keep count of how many of these\nincidents take place. And I then will ask the\nboard how high they need this count to go\nbefore they will do something positive to\nprotect and include and to educate gay and\nlesbian students in the schools.\n\"Why do we do something after something has happened?\" he asked. \"We need to\nbe pro-active. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nYouth send premier message at forum\n By Andy Barham\nYoung people had something to say to\nthe premier both inside and outside\nthe Premier's Youth Forum held in\nVancouver last weekend.\nThe premier and other senior\nmembers of the NDP government\nmet with youth from around the\nprovince at the Emily Carr College for\nArt and Design on Granville Island.\nAnd those attending the meeting\nhad some powerful messages for the\ngovernment.\nOne speaker from northern BC\nbroke down when she tried to\ndescribe the hardships faced by children from abusive family backgrounds in remote northern regions\nof the province, where services for\nsuch children are few and difficult to\naccess. Such children, she said, often\nrun away from home and are forced\nto sleep in underground parking\ngarages or under stairways in apartment buildings in order to escape an\nabusive parent. The lack of support\nturns many northern youth into second class citizens, she said.\nLater the same day, a delegate\nfrom the Native Youth Movement\npulled out a card, called \"The Indian\nand Northern Affairs Certificate of\nIndian Status\" which he read out to\nthe rest of the forum.\n\"It says David Dennis on it and it\ngoes with my Indian Number here\nand it says on the bottom 'is an\nI Young people's\nkey concerns\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 BC has a very diverse population\nwhich requires a wide variety of\nprograms to insure equal access for\nait.\n* Government should be accountable\nand accessible.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 there needs to be better communication with the government at ali\nlevels and using all available media.\n* Youth should be better represented\nin the community at all levels.\nCorrespondingly, there should be\nolder representatives in youth\norganisations to act as mentors.\nStudents should be involved in\ndesigning and evaluating academic\ncurricula.\nThe youth ministry should have\nregional advisory councils at the\ngrassroots level to advise local government representatives (MLAs). *\nIndian within the meaning of the\nIndian Act' Now I don't know of any\nother people that have to carry this\naround to prove who they are. It's\npretty degrading.\" Dennis is travelling round the province to recruit\nNative youth to the Movement.\nOutside the forum a handful of\nmembers of UBC's Graduate Students'\nSociety (GSS) sent a message to the\ngovernment about university fees.\n\"We are concerned about fee\nincreases for students,\" said Kevin\nDwyer, president of the GSS.\nHe said the protest was aimed both\nat the 310 percent increase in foreign\ngraduate student fees at UBC this year,\nand at the proposed increases in ancillary fees for all UBC students.\nThe protest drew the attention of\nEducation Minister Paul Ramsey. \"We\nmet with him and he said he would\nlook at the ancillary fee issue and\nmost likely come up with tougher language [in the guidelines for ancillary\nfee increases],\" Dwyer said. \"We consider that to be a positive sign.\"\nUnfortunately, he said, the minister was less helpful on the international fee issue. \"He simply reiterated\nthat UBC has the authority to set those\nfees. We're not happy with that\nresponse.\"\nThis year's forum grew out of a\nsimilar event held last year before the\nprovincial election which, according\nto David Borins, student representative to UBC's Board of Governors, was\nan attempt to sway youth to\nthe NDP cause.\n\"It was clearly political and\nthe purpose of the conference\nwas to impress some of the\nmore influential youth in the\nprovince right heLre the elec\ntion,\" he said.\nBorins declined to participate in this year's forum,\nalthough he did say the follow\nup to last year's forum might\nsignal a genuine attempt on\nthe part of the Clark government to give youth a voice.\nCritics of last year's forum\nsaid one of its weaknesses was\nthat it only served youth from\nthe lower mainland. This\nyear's event saw representatives of groups from all over\nthe province, including a\nvideo-conferenced hook-up\nwith a similar forum being\nheld in Nelson.\nAccording to the Nelson\nforum's participants, the\nvideo conference was a great\nKwan defeats ageism\nby Andy Barham\nJenny Kwan says she understands the frustration young people feel when dealing with their elders.\nThree years ago, Kwan became the youngest person ever\nelected to Vancouver's city council. Now at 31, Kwan has\nbecome BC's youngest MLA. Throughout her political\ncareer, however, Kwan says she has been the victim of\nGLEN clark listens to delegates' concerns at the Premier's youth conference, chris relke photo\nsuccess as they were able to interact\ndirectly via satellite with their peers\nin Vancouver.\nAlthough critics say there were\nproportionally fewer delegates from\ndisadvantaged backgrounds compared to last year, Clark said the actual number of such youths was about\nthe same.\n\"I think, as a percentage, there's\nless street youth than there were last\nyear, but overall, there probably\naren't any less. We wanted a mixture\nwith more people from around the\nprovince\u00E2\u0080\u0094last year it was almost\ntotally Lower Mainland\u00E2\u0080\u0094so we went\nout to the entire province and tried\nto make the focus ofthe conference a\nvoice for youth,\" he told The Ubyssey.\nParticipants generally expressed\nsatisfaction with the forum and were\nglad of an opportunity to discuss the\nconcerns of young people with members of government. Chris Wilson, the\nself-styled 'lukewarm NDP' moderator said he thought the weekend\nworthwhile.\n\"They don't necessarily have to\nhave a forum like this. I think it's\ngreat that they want to show the\nyoung people that they want to know\nwhat's going on and I think a lot of\npositive things will come out. I can't\ntell you what, but I think there'll be a\nlot more youth involvement in the\ndecisions about these programs.\"\nIn addition to -holding a yearly\nyouth forum, the premier also\nannounced the creation of a special\nYouth Web Site through which young\npeople anywhere in the province will\nbe able to communicate directly with\nhis office. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n\"The mayor [Phillip Owes], when I was appointed to the\nTransit Commission, made the comment that he didn't feel\nthat I was good enough, really, for the Transit Commission\nbecause of my age. His comment was, 'Jenny is veiy hard\nworking, but she's, you know, too young,\" she said at this\nweek's youth forum.\nKwan pointed out young people are among the biggest\nusers of public transit if for no other reason than poverty. Tm\nnot sure what age has to do with the Transit Commission,' she\nsaid. The fact is, more young people take the bus and depend\non the transit system than do older people.\"\nDiscriminating against youth, it seems, is a fair game.\n\"That's what it's all about/ she added. \"Can you imagine\nthe kind of thing where people say to you, 'Uh, you wouldn't\nbe any good on this board because of your ethnicity.' People\nwould be definitely out there screaming racism. Yet, for\nyouth, it's almost like it's okay to trivialise young people in\nterms of their contribution. It's almost like it's okay to discriminate against young people. And mat constitutes discrimination no matter what form.'\nFortunately, Kwan pointed out, the premier is young\nenough to understand the sort of discrimination she faces.\n\"Glen Clark is probably the youngest premier in the history of British Columbia, maybe even in the country, and I\nthink that really says something,\" she said. \"I'm sure he\nknows what it's like not to have your voice\nlegitimised....Whenyour voice is not heard, or when you've\nbeen trivialised in terms of your contribution, if s a very\nfrastrating thing. .And I think he understands that* \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1997\nZippin' it up\n by Peter T. Chattaway\nThe Squirrel Nut Zippers\nFeb 15 at the Gate\nForget lounge. The next retro\ncraze may reach even further back\nin our shared musical memory, if\nthe early swing and hot jazz of the\nSquirrel Nut Zippers are any indication.\nThe band got started in Chapel\nniu, i\orui Lai uiiiici wnen ivusblS-\nsippi native Jim Mathus gave his\nwife Katherine Whalen, banjo lessons.\nThey discovered her voice, a\ncurious blend of Betty Boop and\nBillie Holliday, suited the tunes of\nthe flapper era, and before long\nthey had assembled another five\nmusicians.\nBut even though the Zippers\nnamed themselves after a \"comical and antiquated\" peanut confection, and even though they kicked\noff their first Vancouver gig with\nthe peppy, Charleston-inducing\n'Good Enough for Granddad,' Mathus insists their music is no mere\nflashback.\n\"That's our edge, is that we play\noriginal music,\" says Mathus.\n\"You name it, it's all true. It's not a\nfacade or a gimmick or something\nlike that. It's our experiences, it's\nour music, so it's real to us. It's\nwhat we believe in, so we really\nhave our ass on the line.\"\nExcept for two covers on their\ndebut album The Inevitable, all\nmaterial is written by band members. Sometimes it's unnerving,\nand more than a little unexpected from a band that\ncounts grandpa as a sort of\nmascot.\n'Bad Businessman,' for\nexample, is about a heroin\ndealer, though Mathus is\nquick to interject, \"Nobody in\nmy band does heroin!\" The\nambisexual 'Plenty More' advises abandoned lovers to\nseek solace where \"all the\ngiris are monsters, an tne\nboys are whores.\" And 'Danny\nDiamond' tells tlie tale of a\ntransvestite one of the Zippers knew in highschool.\nBut however personal\nsuch songs might be, Mathus\nnotes these topics were hardly unfamiliar to the genre's\npioneers.\n\"They sang about a lot\nmore things besides thatback\nthen! There's nothing new\nunder the sun, you know. If\nyou want decadence, you can go\nback as far as you want and you'll\nfind it! It's just part of life, so we\nreflect that. But so did Duke\nEllington and Cab Calloway and\nFats Waller. They were real men\nthat were living in fast times.\n\"That's an illusion people have\nabout older music; they feel like\nit's outdated or it doesn't speak to\nthem any more, but to me it does,\nbecause they're singing about the\nsame things Jin singing about,\nand a lot more, sometimes!\"\nOne such topic is 'Hell', their\ncurrent radio single and a theme\nthat simmers through several\nTHE UBYSSEY 5\nilM MATHUS kneels down before his band, the almighty Squirrel Nut Zippers.\nsongs on Hot, their second album.\nMathus is hard put to explain this\nsudden interest in the diabolic.\n\"I don't know what it is. I really\ndon't know what it is. It's not any\nreal message. It's more of an antique outlook on life, where it's\nsketched in real sharp contours\nbetween, maybe, good and evil.\"\nMathus suggests the locale of\ntheir second recording\u00E2\u0080\u0094New Orleans\u00E2\u0080\u0094may have influenced the\nband.\n\"The South is real religious,\nreal fervent. Snake handling,\ndrinking poison, gospel music.\"\nHe holds his thumb and forefinger\na few millimeters apart. \"Everybody down South knows that God\nand the Devil are this close right\nup to each other, fight? The South\nhas got a culture that's kind of\nunique, I think. It's the only culture I've ever known, so I don't\nhave much of a perspective on it.\"\nMathus's fascination with the\ndark side goes beyond local boundaries. In particular, he seems to\nhave a thing for Russian literature\nand its obsession with things unholy.\nSpooky marionettes, constructed by Mathus himself for a puppet\nproduction of Igor Stravinsky's A\nSoldiers Tale, populate a video\nclip of 'The Invisible Hand' on\nHot's CD-ROM track. \"It was powerful to me, I don't know why. No\nreal reason or anything, I just\nsought it out.\"\nMathus also speaks with enthusiasm of Mikhail Bulgakov's The\nMaster and Margarita. \"It's just\nthe most excellent portrayal of Satan I've ever seen. He comes to\nRussia in the late 1800s, and he's\na magician, and he can cause\nmoney to rain on the audience\nand make people go insane.\"\nMathus laughs again. \"He knows\ntheir basic instincts and he's able\nto hypnotise audiences.\"\nThe Squirrel Nut Zippers appear to be striking a chord with\naudiences themselves lately, garnering attention on late-night talk\nshows, a gig at the 21st Century\nInaugural Ball for Bill Clinton, and\na song\u00E2\u0080\u0094the catchy, romance-\nweary 'Anything But Love'\u00E2\u0080\u0094on the\nFlirting with Disaster soundtrack\n(though, due to what Mathus calls\n- \"music industry politics\", the album version was recorded by Dr.\nJohn).\nMathus says he doesn't know\nwhy the band is such a hit. It's not,\nhe insists, that the Zippers are\ndoing anything unique.\n\"There are a lot of bands that\nare doing more roots-oriented\nmusic,\" he says.\n\"I think we're more popular\nthan a lot of bands that are doing\nthat, we're getting a lot of exposure, but I have no idea why.\nApparently, we have something\nspecial. I don't know what it is, if\nit's the music or our personalities,\nbut if people like it, that's all I care\nabout.\" \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nFacility or\nGrounds\nTrouble?\nFacilty or Grounds\nph: 822-2173\nfax: 822-6969\ne-mail: tc@plantops.ubc.ca\nContact Plant Operations\nby phone, fax, or e-mail to\nreport any campus building\nor grounds problem and\nrequest service.\nExterior Lights Only\nph: 822-2173\nfax: 822-6969\ne-mail: lightsout@plantops.ubc.ca\nYou are invited to attend the\niBC\nllAjLt IMAM'\nMarch 5th & 6th, 1997\n1 OtOO am - 4:00 pm\nStudent Union Building, UBC\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 View the latest in scientific^ & laboratory ^\nequipment and supplies^ 4\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Meet representatives from (p leading companies\nin the industry ib .Jf\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Win Door Prizes! * \"^m&B^\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Attend Innovative & Informative Seminars\n\jl /*( I oday's job market is\ndlBc like a jungle. 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You'll add\npractical, hands-on learning to\nOut There.\nyour university studies with\nprograms in Natural Resources\nsuch as Terrain & Water\nResources, Ecotourism,\nCartography and Integrated\nResources Management.\nGet outfitted for a\nsuccessful career expedition.\nFor more information, contact\nBeth Harrington today at\n(705) 878-9301, or e-mail\nbeharrin@flemingc.on.ca.\nStudy at Fleming, Ontario's\nCommunity College in the Kawarthas.\nFLEMING '3ft\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ^ SIR SANDFORD FLEMING COLLEGE ^> ^^^ 6 THE UBYSSEY, FEBRUARY 28, 1997\nRacism\nTHE UBYSSEY, FEBRUARY 28, 1997 7\nracy\nissUes...\nwhose issue\nis IT?\nBowie returns while Silverchair clones\nWtU\nAnswer\nthe question.\nWhy does\nracism\nexist?\nin 500 words or less.\nSelected answers will\nbe published.\nubyssey's\nracy\nissue\nduE oUt\nlllarch 21\nSummer Camp Jobs\nin the ILS-A.\nVisas Arranged\nLakeside Residential Girls\nCamp in Maine\nService workers. Office,\nmaintenance, kitchen (including\nassistant chef), driving. Visas\nfor service jobs restricted to\nstudents enrolled in university\nfor fall of '97.\nCounselors. Combined child\ncare/teaching. Swim, sail, canoe,\nequestrian, field sports, tennis,\narchery, gymnastics, dance, arts,\nmusic, theater, wilderness trips.\nVisas for counselor jobs available\nto all qualified applicants.\nNon-smokers. June 21 to Aug\n26. Send resume (C.V.):\nKippewa, Box 307, Westwood,\nMassachusetts 02090-0307 USA;\nkippewa@tiac.net; voice (617)\n762-8291; fax (617) 255-7167.\nDuos not for faint of hearing\nDavid Bowie - Earthling [EMI]\nDavid Bowie has spent the last decade and then some in a quagmire of stale\ncommercialism, producing embarassing albums, appearing in horribly forgettable films and basically making the kind offopl of himself that most old\nicons do.\nSomething must have changed in the last four years, though. Suddenly\nBowie has been blasting forth with a fresher energy than most half his age,\nfirst with the industrially influenced Outside and then a tour with industrial masters Nine Inch Nails. With Earthling, he's kept the industrial savvy\nbut also taken up the drums and bass gauntlet of the newly-popular electronic music scene.\nSilverchair - Freak Show [Epic]\nAfter one listen to Silverchair's Freak Show, it's understandable that these teen rockers may be\ncompared to Nirvana now and then. But\none listen to Nirvana's In Utero politely\nreminds us any similarities may not be\nso striking after all. Kurt Cobain's songwriting genius was Nirvana's nucleus,\nbut Silverchair has no dynamic songs\nlike 'All Apologies' or 'Lithium'. It may\nbe fair to say Silverchair at its best\nsounds somewhat like Nirvana at it's\nworst.\nThis is not as bad as it sounds. Freak Show's first single 'Abuse Me' follows the Nirvana musical formula quite\nwell. Silverchair comes alive when the band lets loose and\ndelivers a raw energy found in 'No Association' and the\nno-nonsense 'Lie To Me.' Still, their reputation as try-hard\nposers is justified elsewhere on the album, as on the\nMetallic-lite 'Slave.'\nThe boys from down under do deserve some credit for\nsuccessfully experimenting with various instruments,\nincluding the violin and the sitar. 'Petrol & Chlorine'\nsounds like Silverchair's take on a Nirvana-esque Ravi\nShankar. Lyrically, the band needs to evolve, and hopefully success hasn't gotten to their heads too much and too\nearly for this to happen. Sure, they can be almost as dark\nand depressed as Nirvana, but the desperation and depth\njust aren't there.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Janet Winters\nSongs like 'Dead Man\nWalking' and the first single,\n'Little Wonder,' demonstrate\nthe album's central concept:\na harsh and thrusting new\nsound, with nonsenical lyrics\nbehind it. Raging guitars are\nplaced alongside booming drum machines and\nseemingly out-of-control keyboards. There's\neven fake CD-skips built in.\nSo combine the genius behind Hunky Dory\nand Ziggy Stardust with the jungle movement\nand you have some euphonic results. Sadly,\nthere's still the unfortunate Bowie trademark of\noverwrought songs that just don't work ('Telling\nLies'), but with great and innovative new songs\nlike 'Looking for Satellites' and the somehow\nAndy Warhol-ish I'm Afraid of Americans,'\nEarthling is the next phase in a comeback that\nputs John Travolta to shame.\nNever before has so much great music come\nfrom somehow who once produced so much\ncrap. It's nice to have David Bowie back on\nEarth again.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094John Zaozirny\nJohn Bayless-The Movie Album: Classical Pictures\nClassical piano improvisors are virtually non-existent but John Bayless has made a career out of performing the Beatles in the style of Mozart. Also, he has recorded a CD of variations on Bernstein's West\nSide Story and improvisations of his favourite Puccini arias. Now comes a collection of movie\nthemes, each combined with a tastefully chosen classical piece.\nUnfortunately this new CD is somewhat uneven. It was expected that Bayless, as previously,\nwould utilize the infinite sonorities of the solo piano reintegrate great classical pieces with memorable film themes. Too often, though, to the detriment ofthe prevailing atmosphere, he employs\n\"extra-piano\" effects. During a free rendering of Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez, Bayless abruptly \"turns on\" a rhythm section. Other tracks are hindered by overdubs of synthesized orchestras\nand choirs. These intrusions detract from some of the tracks.\nBayless is at his best without a rhythm track. With perfect success, he fuses the simplicity of\nPostino with the tender passion of 'Visi d'Arte' (from Puccini's Tosca), creating a meditative fantasy of exquisite beauty. Used sparingly, sampled wind effects and live orchestra evoke the reflectiveness of Rachmaninov's 'Prelude' combined with the Schindler's List anthem 'Hatikva.'\nBayless maintains this gentle atmosphere on every track, but the interjection of a show-time\nrhythm section spoils four of the nine otherwise beautifully romantic works.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Tom Eccleston\nby Tanya Dubick\nBruce Cockburn - The Charity of the Night [True North]\n\"There's a wealth of amputation waiting in the ground,\nbut no one can remember where they put it down.\"\n'The Mines of Mozambique' is just one dish in the lyrical feast on Bruce Cockburn's latest album. Cockburn continues his three-decade roll as one of folk music's most profound lyricists, expressing his social conscience with passion and anger. He is far too forceful and poetic to fall into\nthe trap of sap.\nThe Charity of Night passionately displays a wide range\nof emotions. While often noted for his rage, Cockburn beautifully shows his softer, more delicate side in 'Pacing in the\nCage' and the romantic The Coming Rains.' 'Night Train' is\na sophisticated combination of percussion, bass and guitars, proving Cockburn's musical talent, at times, can reach\nthe level of his lyrics.\nThe Charity of Night even gets down and dirty in the\nlusty and very seductive title track. (Bruce Cockburn, sexy?\nWell, yes.)\nA gifted artist in every sense, Cockburn seems to string\nwords together so effortlessly. He may not have the best\nvoice in the world, but he carries it well. As long as trees\nkeep falling and bombs keep dropping, Bruce Cockburn\nwill be a relevant voice in the world of pop music.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Janet Winters\nHoly Mo spews twinkies\nby Noelle Gallagher\nHoly Mo and Spew Boy\nat Pacific Theatre until Mar 8\n\"A grand tragic, dramatic, operatic, champion and faerie\nexploitic extravaganza\" proclaims the scroll-like program for\nPotluck Productions' Holy Mo and Spew Boy. Oddly, this adjective-laden description is not that far off the mark: Holy Mo doesn't seem to know quite what it is.\nPart folk musical, part Sunday school skit, Holy Mo and Spew\nBoy is Lucia Frangione's retelling, revamping, and reduction of\nthe Biblical stories of Moses and King David. The farcical antics\nof Bufoona (Pacific Theatre regular Erla Faye Forsyth), Follie\n(Frangione) and Guff (Anita Wittenberg) relate the details of\nMoses' birth, abandonment, and fight against the Egyptian\npharoah. The second half of the play deals with King David\u00E2\u0080\u0094or,\nas he is affectionately titled here, Spew Boy\u00E2\u0080\u0094in his victory over\nGoliath and rise to power as leader ofthe Hebrews.\nWhile Frangione's script does its best to give Old Testament\nstories new appeal, it relies largely on unsuccessful comic techniques and postmodern asides. More often than not, Frangione\nthrows in contemporary references and farcical humour just for\nthe sake of getting a laugh, instead of working towards a coherent theme. Unfortunately, this also means that some ofthe play's\npunchlines are so incredibly overt that they are no longer funny.\nMoreover, Marie Russell's musical score, which ranges from\n'10 Plagues Sent to Pharoah' (oh-so-amusingly like that\nChristmas carol with all the verses) to the disco classic 'Stayin'\nAlive,' is much like Frangione's script: amusing, but confusing.\nIn music and speech, style has eclipsed meaning entirely;\nthe result is a production that is always trying to keep its\naudience involved by introducing quirky tangents, instead of\nrelying on a coherent and intelligent script. When an opportunity does arrive to further examine a Biblical story,\nFrangione makes a joke out of refusing to deal with any heavier theological issues. \"What are we,\" quips Bufoona, \"Oliver\nStone?\" Evidenfly not.\nOf the \"three harlequins of droll virtue\" who perform the\npostmodernist stories, Forsyth is perhaps the most amusing,\nthough the overacted absurdity of all the characters makes it\ndifficult to judge any of the actors fairly.\nFrangione herself gives a decent performance, as does\nthe soft-spoken Wittenberg. Each of the actors has their\nmoment in the spotlight; Forsyth does an hilarious airy-fairy\nprincess, Wittenberg is the star of a brief but flashy disco\nrevival scene, and Frangione, like so many other 20th century playwrights, gets to play God.\nThe audience is also encouraged to participate, both in\nthe singing (bad Sunday school flashbacks, anyone?) and in\nthe spoken dialogue. Given the role of the \"Heebies\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nHebrew slaves\u00E2\u0080\u0094at the beginning of the play, zealous audience members are encouraged to chant such phrases as \"Mo\nis a twinkie, this is really stinky.\"\nBut despite the outright silliness ofthe dialogue, and even\ndespite the ridiculous appeal of shouting the word \"stinky\" in a\ntheatre, Holy Mo and Spew Boy remains very much like the\ntwinkie title bestowed on Moses: sweet and fluffy, but when it's\nfinished, all you're left with is a sticky wrapper and a whole lot\nof empty calories.\nby John Zaozirny\nSuburbia\nat Famous Players theatres\nThe set opened raw, with Derome\nscreeching on his alto sax\nThen Tanguay and Derome\nplayed elastic bands\npiece\nincorporating vocal sounds\nRichard Linklater has made a career out\nof mining the rwentysomething audience that watches his films, and so far\nhe's been quite succesful at it. Whether it was the rambling sketchiness of\nSlacker, the bittersweet nostalgia of Dazed and Confused, or the somehow\npoignant romance of Before Sunrise, Linklater always managed to strike a\nvein. The characters always had one aspect in common, they still hadn't\nfound what they were looking for.\nLinklater has captured high school, university and romance, so now he\nturns his lens on that stall period when no one's really going anywhere and\nthey're not sure if they want to. Suburbia introduces us to Jeff and his circle\nof acquaintances, most of whom resemble airplanes stuck in a terminal pattern above the airport, not sure whether they want to land or take off for\nsome greener pasture.\nFirst, you've got Jeff, the moral slacker/writer who lives in a tent in his\nparents' garage, then there's Sooze, his girlfriend and wanna-be performance artist, and her fragile friend Bee-Bee. There's Tim, the disgruntled\nair force dropout, former football star, and bitter but true philosopher, and\ncrazy, inane and annoying Buff, who works in a pizza joint.\nNow this fun family of characters is spending their Friday night at their\nusual hangout, outside the local convience store, doing their usual thing,\nbitidiing about life and the future, drinking beer, and pissing off the\nPakistani couple who run the store. But tonight has a special significance,\nfor tonight Pony, the local boy made good, is going to drop by to check up\non the other half.\nSo that's the premise and suffice it to say the rest of the movie doesn't\nget any better. Once the characters are all assembled, much time is spent\ngriping, much time is spent analysing and much time is spent playing the\nalterna-rock soundtrack in the background. Incidents happen without consequences and nothing really fits together. Whereas Slacker didn't presume\nto be about anything\u00E2\u0080\u0094for the simple fact that it wasn't \u00E2\u0080\u0094Suburbia suffers\nfrom the curse of supposedly being about something, but not really.\nThis might have something to do with the fact that the film is adapted,\nless than fruitfully, from the play by Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio), but\nLinklater's direction doesn't add any coherency or flow either.\nSo you could really save yourself the boredom of watxhing Suburbia, and\neight dollars, by actually hanging out at a 7-11 on a Friday night. It would be\na hell of a lot more interesting, without a Gen-X slacker stereotype in sight.\nDuos Plus\nPierre Tanguay\nFeb 22 at the Western Front\nWhat excitement! What sensations for the ear to take in!\nDuos Plus left me delighted, tickled and in awe ofthe freedom and\nexpressiveness of its four Toronto-\nbased jazz artists: Rene Lussier,\nJean Derome, Lee Pui Ming, and\nPierre Tanguay.\nEach spoke musically in their\nchosen instrument, dashing,\nscreeching, whining, yawning,\ncrashing, gliding and tumbling\ntogether. My ears were called upon\nto take in high pitches and startling\nsounds that made me jump. My\neyes saw an array of instruments,\ntoys, and tools that included wind\ninstruments, battery-operated hand\nfans, a bottle of water, tin- cans, a\nSlinky toy, a beautiful grand piano\nand an exquisite sounding guitar.\nThe set opened raw, with\nDerome screeching on his alto sax to the sound of thundering piano\ncrashes and tickled guitars. Then Tanguay and Derome played elastic\nbands held in their mouths for a folk-influenced piece incorporating\nvocal sounds. Each had an individual charisma as they worked to\nbring their sound to the audience.\nMing's playing drew on her whole physical body. She leapt about\nthe piano, striking its encasement, plucking and tapping its strings,\nhovering over the keys, pounding and pausing with intensity. Her\nunique approach comes from a beginning in classical music\u00E2\u0080\u0094a phase\nin which the Hong Kong native \"didn't want to have anything to do\nwith\" Chinese music. Later she moved towards integrating every\naspect of who she is to create an experimental mix of contemporary\nclassical music, free form jazz and Chinese folk.\nLussier didn't just play guitar. He incorporated tools that created\nunique sounds, such as a hand fan that sounded like a bumblebee\nhumming on the strings. He hit, spiked, sawed, strummed, tickled\nand dragged on his guitar. Near the end of one piece he pulled out a\nfull-on, wailing, thunderous, screeching, turbulent electro-acoustic\nsound that lasted for eons, and with a final sigh he was through.\nDerome let it rip out of his alto sax, raising the hair on the back of\nmy neck with his scraping sounds. Later he blew into numerous\ndevices, creating a variety of sound 'scapes' based on his research\ninto the use of sound and space. (Derome and Lussier are among the\nleading exponents of musique actualle; together they have created a\nportfolio of progressive rock, contemporary jazz, free improv,\nQuebecois folk and wild vocals.)\nTanguay appeared comfortable in his roll as percussionist. Near\nthe end of one of the last pieces, Tanguay stood twisting his drum\nsticks in apparent turmoil, yelping out between the sounds of Ming's\npiano and Jean Derome's tiny whistle.\nThis 90-minute performance was a treat and not for the faint of\nhearing. It is definitely a challenge for the listener to appreciate the\nvarious 'noises.' In a world where we sever our senses from the ever\npresent sounds around us, it was good to stretch the aural networks\nwith some good, wholesome audio experiences.\nby Martin Gordon Schobel\nOnly Drunks and Children Tell the Truth\nat the Firehall until Mar 2\nI go to the theatre to see the truth. I look for the beauty in chaos\nand the strength in weakness. Like life, I search out the lesson that\nsupports the playwright's artifice. And in Only Drunks and\nChildren Tell the Truth, director Donna Spencer brings a limited\nversion of life to the stage.\nOnly Drunks and Children Tell the Truth, written by Drew\nHayden Taylor, is the second play about the Wabung family. In the\nfirst play, Someday, Janice/Grace (Carmen Moore), who was taken\nfrom her mother as a baby and given up for adoption, returns to\nher family on the reserve for the first time in 35 years. It is\nChristmas Eve and, before the end of the evening, she runs out of\nthe house crying.\nThe second play picks up five months later when Janice/Grace's birth sister Barb\n(Columpa C. Bobb) comes bearing news that their mother has died. Accompanying\nBarb is her boyfriend Rodney (Glen Gould) and his brother Tonto (Lome Cardinal). No\none is home when they arrive, so they proceed to break in and check for signs of life.\nA\nThey conclude that no one has been there for some time and decide to leave. At this\nmoment Janice/Grace returns from what is later discovered to have been a stress holiday.\nThe situation of the play, on the surface, is very thin and serves as a fragile film\nobscuring the characters' writhing emotions. Barb, Rodney and Janice/Grace are all\ndeeply interdependent, their lives crossing each others on many levels. This multidimensional texture is what impels us to watch the play.\nThese layers are present in the characters, but they lack dynamic motion; the actors\nare limited by the script. Janice/Grace appears to have made many of her character\nchoices based on Barb's description of her: \"You've always got those walls around you.\"\nShe was so cold I didn't trust in her character's humanity and had a hard time suspending my disbelief. This was the case with all the characters except Tonto, who\nshone as the most human of them all.\nThe acting has its moments. The drunk scene, which often strikes fear into my heart\nas an audience member, was the best I have seen, full of compassion and dynamic\nemotion. Taylor builds those qualities beneath his thin layer of dialogue, knowing that\nthe gravity ofthe character's situation will move the audience.\nIn a note from the playwright, Taylor writes, \"I am a firm believer that sometimes\na story is not quite finished being told.\" Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth feels\nlike the second step in a healing process: uncertain, afraid and brave. I applaud all\nthose involved in this piece and look forward to the next chapter in the Wabung saga 8\nFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1997\nTHE UBYSSEY\nPlavoffs elude puck Birds\nM m\nAfter another disappointing VGl 3CE3IH\nseason, T-Bird players and \"\"\" # O 4\ncoaches face off against the\nteam's consistent on-ice woes.\nby Wolf Depner\nMike Coflin had nothing left to say. Dejected beyond measure, the T-Bird hockey coach just stared at the locker room\nfloor in Winnipeg's Max Bell arena, pondering what had\nhappened that night. Or more precisely, what hadn't happened.\nNeeding only one point to make the playoffs, the Birds\nsuccumbed to the pressure and lost 3-1 to the Manitoba\nBisons, who managed only 19 shots that night. And as the\nfinal horn blared, playoff hopes crumbled under the weight\nof another losing season.\nUBC has finished below .500 six of the last seven seasons and has not made the post-season since 1989/90,\ntheir second-last season under Terry O'Malley who managed a 48-48-6 record over five years.\nHis successor Mike Coflin has compiled a 51-98-19\nmark since taking over in 1991 and on the surface, it's easy\nto blame the former team captain for the T-Birds' current\nwoes.\nCoflin, who was named Canada West coach in 1994/95,\nis the first to admit the last two seasons were not exactly satisfactory.\n\"If this is a junior hockey situation, they wouldn't care if\nI'm the greatest guy in the world, I would be fired,\" he said.\n\"So I'm very realistic about what it is all about.\"\nIt's all about winning, but to axe Coflin would be unjust.\nLet's face it. For his first three years or so, he tried to make\nchicken salad out of feathers and bones.\nSeason after season, he can't get top recruits into the\nprogram because they don't have the marks; and season\nand after season he loses his most talented players to major\njunior hockey, the national team, or the pros.\nThat's not to say the current team doesn't have any talent or experience. Far from it. But at the moment there is\njust not enough to go around when injuries strike or players leave for whatever reason.\n\"Mike has tried everything on his part\nto push those buttons on those certain\nguys, to get them to play...\nThat reality is not lost on UBC Athletic Director Bob\nPhilip who reaffirmed his commitment to Coflin by signing\nhim to a brand new three year contract over the summer.\nPhilip told The Ubyssey that there won't be any changes in\nthe near future.\n\"To say it's the coach's fault is really hard,\" said Philip.\n\"We have brought in some pretty good players over the last\nfew years, but we just haven't been able to do it [win]. I\nl\u00C2\u00B1iink at some point this team is going to make the playoffs\nand turn that corner.\"\nSometime, however, is too late\nfor retiring team captain Brad\nEdgington, who nonetheless appreciates Coffin's position and the\npressures he faces day in and day\nout.\n\"Sometimes I felt like going into\nBob Philip's office to apologise for\nall the losses and say \" Don't blame\nMike, it's our fault.'\"\nBut coaches and players are\nworn out by constant losing and\neven the most loyal fans have\ngrown tired. During a brutal 10-0\nhome loss to Alberta in late\nJanuary, a rabid group of fans\nknown as the Tailgaters started to\nchant 'Let's play hockey' midway\nthrough the second period.\nThe target behind the acidic\ndemand was obvious to anybody\nwho witnessed the Birds' worst\nhome defeat in modern team history-\n\"It was a horrible experience,\" said Edgington. \"As soon\nas we got three or four goals scored on us, we just gave up.\nThere's no excuse for that.\"\nDown the stretch 'inexcusable' is the only word to\ndescribe the Birds' play. Seven losses in the last eight\ngames says it all.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2#vf\nHAULED DOWN-T-Bird captain Brad Edgington is frustrated by Jason Disiewich. In five years at UBC, Edgy never had a\nchance to play beyond the regular season, richard lam photo\nUBC COACH Mike Coflin's high hopes early\nthis season crashed in November.\nUBC ATHLETICS FILE PHOTO\nAnd it wasn't just the fact that they lost. It was more how\nthey did it. If team defence didn't break down, on-ice discipline did. If it wasn't that, then a soft goal late in the game\nwould bury them. Some nights half the team wouldn't show\nup.\nStill, they were only one point behind the Lethbridge\nPronghorns for the final playoff spot with two games left.\nIt was crunch time and the Birds had a\ngood chance to clinch it. Or so it seemed.\nLethbridge faced the first-placed\nCalgary Dinosaurs in the final weekend\nand as expected Lethbridge lost both\nnights. That left the door wide open for the\nBirds to swoop into the playoffs.\nAll the T-Birds had to do was tie or beat the Manitoba\nBisons. They only needed one point\u00E2\u0080\u0094no more. And they\nhad two games to do it.\nBut they couldn't get it done.\nThe Birds got off to a good start in the first game with an\nearly goal in the opening period, but went on to loose 5-3 to\na team deep on talent, but softer than cotton.\nThe Birds had one final shot at the playoffs 24 hours\nlater, but folded when the stakes got\ntoo high.\nEdgington says that\neven some veteran\nplayers didn't put in\nthe effort that you'd\nexpect with the season\non the line. Nor does\nhe think they appreciated the situation at the end.\n\"It was sort of disheartening to see\nthat,\" says Edgington. \"Mike has tried\neverything on his part to push those\nbuttons on those certain guys, to get\nthem to play...and it hurts for me to\nsee when the coach takes it harder\nthan half the players.\"\nCoflin concedes that the Birds\nwere not good enough to be a playoff\nteam this season. \"Our performance\nin Winnipeg, especially on Friday\nnight, made it clear,\" he says.\nBut seven games into the season,\nthere was a sense that this year might\nbe different. Talk was that this team\ncould make the playoffs\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Birds jumped off to a solid 4-\n2-1 start.\nWhile last year's top guns Doug Ast and Matt Sharrers\nhad gone off to bigger and better things\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ast made the\nVancouver Canucks' farm team and Sharrers joined the\nnational team\u00E2\u0080\u0094there was a real sense of enthusiasm.\nThe team had played well in pre-season and carried that\nmomentum into the first quarter of the regular season.\nFormer WHL player Cal Benazic and NCAA transfer student Chris Kerr made an immediate impact on the blueline\nwhile Gunnar Henrikson, another NCAA transfer, sparked\nthe team with his scoring touch.\nBut the season took a radical turn. A rare road win in\nAlberta was followed by a six game losing streak which saw\nthe Birds lose four times by one goal.\n\"Looking back, that was as key a factor in what happened\nin the end,\" explains Coflin.\nThings got worse when Benazic suffered a season-ending\nwrist injury in early December. He had 20 points in 17 games\nand was without question the Birds' best blueliner. Injuries to\nHenrikson (eight games) and Kerr (five games) also hurt\n\"You always hope as a coach that your team develops\nand gets better in January and February, and we didn't do\nthat,\" Coflin admits. \"That's my responsibility and that's\nwhy I feel as disappointed as I do because that's the first\nexperience I've ever had with a team that didn't get better.\n\"I have had worst teams, but the pattern was always that\nwe were improving right through the end of the year.\"\nSo when is this team going to get better?\n...and it hurts for me to see when the\ncoach takes it harder than half the\nplayers.\"\nT-bird Captain Brad edgington\nOnly next season will tell. But Coflin suggests that the\nprogram needs to be reexamined by everybody involved if\nit wants to win.\n\"I think our league is clearly becoming one where the\nAlbertas, Calgarys, and Manitobas are using means to be\nsuccessful that the rest of the schools don't have at their disposal.\n\"We better make a pretty quick decision and commitment to either play with the big boys in our conference or\nbe left behind,\" he says. \"It's a matter of getting the right\nplayers in who get us over the top.\"\nPhilip acknowledges that there is an definite need to\nraise more scholarship money. \"I think players are being\nattracted to Calgary and Alberta because of money and we\ndon't have the money to compete.\"\nEdgington says that there is potential here and he only\nhopes that it starts winning soon. \"There is a really good\ncore here, add a couple of good first year guys and wouldn't\nyou know it, they're going to win in my first year not playing,\" he said with a weary smile.\nYou can bet the Tailgaters would appreciate that very\nmuch. Let's just hope it happens sooner rather than later. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1997\nsports\nTHE UBYSSEY 9\nUBC VBall women down, but not out\n by Wolf Depner\nThe women's volleyball team slipped over\nthe weekend\u00E2\u0080\u0094and it couldn't have come at\na worse time, in the lead up to national\nchampionship tournament next week.\nThe Alberta Pandas disposed ofthe Birds\nin two straight games to claim the Canada\nWest crown for the fourth time in five years,\nand barred UBC from direct entry into the\nnational tournament.\nWhile the Birds are expected to travel to\nEdmonton with a wild card berth, head\ncoach Doug Reimer was very disappointed\nwith his team at Canada West.\n\"We did not play well as individuals or\ncumulatively as a team,\" he said during\nTuesday's practice which began with a\ntwenty minute meeting to discuss the\nteam's poor play over the weekend.\n\"I think everybody had a bad game on\nthe same day. And it happened two days in\na row,\" said veteran Jenny Rauh. \"I felt like\nwe were fighting and we were in there, but\nthey were still one step ahead of us and we\nnever caught up.\"\nThe added pressure of winning a Canada\nWest championship also got to the team.\n\"We wanted to bring home the [Canada\nWest] banner,\" Rauh said. \"You go to the\nAlberta gym and they've got all these banners from the past four years and we have\nnot won one in over twenty years.\n\"A lot is going through your head about\nthat You want to play your best and maybe\nyou want to play your best so bad it's not\ngoing to happen for you.\" It obviously didn't\nDespite the poor weekend, national title\naspirations remain high and if the ball sets\nthe way observers expect it to, the Birds\ncould tangle with the Pandas once again\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthis time with a national championship on\nthe line.\nBut here's the snag: the Birds have not\nplayed well against Alberta this season, with\nfour losses to one win. On\nthe surface that mediocre\nrecord is not encouraging\nheading into the final\nshowdown.\nReimer, who will leave\nUBC to coach Canada's\nsenior women national\nteam after this season, is\nnot concerned about that.\n\"I don't think we have\nstruggled against them.\nWe struggled against them\nthis weekend,\" he said, adding that the\nteam's focus is no longer on Alberta.\n\"They will be on the other side of the\ndraw and we've got a lot of work to do to get\nto play them again,\" he said. \"If we're going\nto see Alberta, we are going to earn our spot\nand we'll probably be in pretty good shape\nagainst them.\"\nUBC is the only team that has beaten\nAlberta during the regular season, no small\nfeat considering that the Pandas have\nchewed up opponents like cheap bubble\ngum.\nThe question does remain though, why\nhave the Birds been so ordinary against the\nPandas? Bad bounces? Mental mistakes?\nNot enough confidence?\n\"Maybe they have like a mental step up\non us knowing that they have beaten us a\nfew more times,\" said Rauh.\n\"If we knew these things, it would be easier, but that's part of the challenge,\" said\nReimer.\n\"What is disappointing is that we missed\na good chance to win a Canada West championship, we missed a good chance to make\nit a little bit easier for CIAUs and so now we\nhave more work ahead of us.\" \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nUBC SCRUM HALFf Sam Cook is just about to pass off the ball in women's rugby action Wednesday night.\nThe Birds lost 23-0. richard lam photo\nBirdwatch\nWomen's Baake&all\nCanada West semi-finals UBC @ Victoria\n6:00pm Friday, Saturday ^-\\n12:00pm Sunday (if necessary) \"~^\nMen's Basketball\nCanada West semi finals UBC @ Victoria\n8:00pm Friday, Saturday\n2:00pm Sunday (if necessary)\n'All games broadcasted on CiTR 101.9FM\nTRUE LOVE CAN BE SUCH\nTHE ANGER IN\n>-*\nERNFS1TNF\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0m\nJ^=S!fs. 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