"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-08-26"@en . "1999-09-24"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0126304/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " sleepy since 1918\nGOING THE DISTANCE:\nUBC'S cross-country\nteam in practice before\nSaturday's opening\nNAIA meet in Seattle.\nTARA WESTOVER PHOTO\n>\u00E2\u0096\u00A0>.\u00C2\u00BB. ftt htsm&ss**:\nAfter sticking in the CIAU for a long time, UBC's cross-country\nTEAM IS HEADED FOR GREENER PASTURES. BUT IT MAY BE A LONG, HARD RUN.\nUsually cross-country practice starts at least\na week earlier than September 7th. And usually there is not a 60 per cent roster turnover\nrate. But for the UBC cross-country team, this\nyear is different in almost every way.\nA group of lean athletes, dressed in T-\nshirts, runner's shorts, and running shoes, sit\nin a small area of shade on the sunlit field as\nthey always do before practice, but even on\nthis second official week of training, head\ncoach Marek Jedrzejek is still making introductions. Of the 33 members of the men's\nand women's teams, 20 are rookies.\nThe late start of practice can be explained\nby Jedrzejek's being delayed in Seville as a\ncoach for the Canadian middle-distance running team. The reason for the abundance of\nrookies is a lot more far-reaching. UBC crosscountry, a dominant CIAU team that has been\ncoached by Jedrzejek for 13 years, is looking\nmuch younger this year because for the first\ntime in recent memory, every single runner is\nan undergraduate. And that is because the\nteam is looking southward. Starting in 1999,\nUBC cross-country is no longer a CIAU sport.\nSay hello to UBC cross-country's new\ncompetitive home: the National\nAssociation of Intercollegiate Athletics\n(NAIA).\n\"This year is different because for the first\ntime we are going to NAIA to compete,\" says\nJedrzejek. \"We lost, especially in the\nwomen's, quite a few because of that change.\nOne of the rules is only undergraduates, so\nthere can be no masters or Ph.D students,\nwho we could accommodate before. So right\nthere we lost almost one-third of the team\nfrom the previous year.\"\n\"Our athletic director [Bob Philip] was\n- exploring [the switch from CIAU to NAIA] for\nthe last few years and got to the conclusion\nthat k wGtdd;be very interesting to try some\nthing down south of the border.\"\nIn UBC's new world, they will be competing against universities from Idaho,\nCalifornia, Oregon, and Washington, as well as against local rival Simon Fraser\nUniversity.\nBut the switch means more than just be a change in letters or geography.\nUBC runners will face a transition in terms of competition, for one\u00E2\u0080\u0094the men's\ndistance will move from the ClAU's 10km standard to the NAIA's 8km. Add to\nthat the number of unknowns which will not become completely clear until UBC\ncompetes in their opening meet in Seattle on Saturday, and there has been a\nvaried range of response from within the team about the change. But the most\ncommon response is uncertainty.\n\"I think right off the top, [the NAIA] will be tougher, but we don't know\nyet,\" says Jay Dolmage, a fourth-year veteran of the team who is returning\nafter spending the last year studying and training in England. \"To a certain\nextent; in the CIAUs, it's pretty insular\u00E2\u0080\u0094you know who you're competing\nagainst every time. Once we get down to Seattle, we'll be able to see what\nwe're up against.\"\nCoach Jedrzejek sees this year as a learning experience. \"A lot of those\n[American] teams have much more depth, many more athletes, so we're looking to gain from that to learn something from tougher, stiffer competition.\nThere is always something to learn because nothing is easy, nothing is given.\nEverybody will have to fight to the last metre in the race to win or to get the\nbest spot.\"\nNew to the men's team is Jonathan Luckhurst, a University of Alberta\ntransfer, who despite being injured, is excited about competing against\nteams in the States. And the change is what brought him to BC.\n\"I was [at the University of Alberta] for two years. I just needed change. I\nwasn't improving, I've been plateauing...and training on my own. I know it's a\ngood training group out here, so I think it will help me a lot,\" says Luckhurst.\n\"I'm looking forward to [competing in NAIA]. I think it will be good. I've been to\n[the CIAU nationals] before and it was good competition, but it will be interesting to see what the States is going to be like.\"\nDavid Milne, who was last year's Canadian national junior champion and a\nnational team member, is not quite so eager. Coming off of what Milne calls a\n\"so-so summer,\" during which he competed in nationals and finished fifth in\nthe steeplechase, he was looking forward to improving within the CIAU after\nsuccess last year. Now, after finishing third at the CIAU Championships last\nseason, his hopes of winning the CIAUs in 1999 have had to be abandoned.\n\"I would have liked to stay in the CIAU because I feel I could have won\nCIAUs three years in a row for cross-country because I have three more years\nof eligibility. So I think this would have been the most difficult year to win, but\nhad I won this year, the two years following would have been easier. And actu\nally, that was something that I really wanted to do, but\nnow, obviously I can't. I don't really know much aboLi\n[NAIA]. I'll just go and run my best and see what happens.\"\nLeading the much revamped women's team is Jenn\nWakely, a two-time CIAU championship competitor who\nis in her third year on the team. Wakely and only three\nothers are returning on the women's side, and they will\nbe surrounded by rookies.\n\"The team looks like it will definitely be a building\nyear, and it looks like people have a lot of potential,\"\nsays Wakely. \"You can't really expect anything going in\njust because our team is completely new and we're in a\ntotally new division. But a lot of people look like they\ncan definitely step up for the team and that's relieving\nbecause it's scary knowing that you're one of the only\nones returning [due to many no longer being eligible\nunder NAIA rules].\"\nDespite enthusiasm for her new teammates,\nWakely, like Milne, is not too excited about UBC's new\ndivision.\n\"To be perfectly honest, I'd rather be in CI s. Just\nbecause of other teammates and because of knowing\nthe competition and knowing a lot of people at other\nschools. But I think NAIA s, eventually, in the long\nrun, will probably be better for the school, just\nbecause offinancial means, and there's a lot more\nmeets we're capable of going to, because out here,\nit's so spread out...but this year is going to be kind\nof difficult.\"\nJedrzejek realises that the shift to the NAIA may\nbring difficulties along with it, and only time will tell\nhow things go.\n\"Both teams are very young and we'll see after\nthis weekend how we did. I don't like to put too\nmuch pressure on the young athletes, but I think\nwe should qualify at least one team for [the NAIA\nchampionships in] Kenosha, Wisconsin on\nNovember 20th.\"\nWhether the UBC team is as successful in\nthe NAIA as they were in the CIAU is yet to be\nseen. If they do take to it, all the better, but if\nit turns out to be a change for the good in the\nlong run, who better to than a cross-country\nteam to take that long run?*> 2 friday, September 24, 1999 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 page friday-the ubyssey magazine \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nROOM AND BOARD ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN\nAND MEN IN SINGLE AND SHARED\n(DOUBLE) ROOMS IN TOTEM PARK\n& PLACE VANIER RESIDENCES\nRoom and board (meal plan) is available in\nthe Tocem Park and Place Vanier student\nresidences for women and men in single\nand shared (double) rooms on a first-\ncome-first-served basis. 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Really!\nMovie Posters!\nCLOONEY. WAHLBERG CUBE\nPASSES!\nS\nFMM\n\u00C2\u00AB*WI\u00C2\u00AB\nsunt J*x** -M\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00BB*\nWe have 75 double passes to a\nscreening on Monday, Sept. 27th,\n7pm at the Dunbar Theatre.\nCome to SUB Room 245.\nPASSES!\nJ A Derson may only win one prize per month. The ubyssey reserves the right to\nXoTd prizewinners must be members in good standing of the Ubyssey\nPublications Society\nJust drop by the ubyssey business Office in\nroom 245 to pick up your stuff we\nro6tors \u00C2\u00A7OhtC. ..\nasked you:\nHow do you\nfeel about\nhaving a\nstudent\nhealth and\ndental plan?\nI'd assume the price would be pretty good...Some people might not be\nable to afford to pay the extra\n$170. It might not be that fair.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Brian Kung\nI think you should be able to opt out\nregardless. It's almost a $200 fee. I\ndon't know if they'll be able to pull\nthat off.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Masa Alkire\nIt sounds kind of all right, except\nfor the people who can't afford it.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Daniel Langevin\nor...what's inside today\nfive\n\u00C2\u00ABS A controversial anti-abortion display could\nrlfbe,here next week, despite the university's\nq be$t legal efforts to prevent the Genocide\n- Awareness Project from coming to the UBC\ncamputff\nCD\nH\n<\nCD\nm\n;/ |l, oing\nApgtiisjied\nv \ cfiioices\nbecause it's\n' about the\nchoice some\nwomen are\nforced to\nmake\nregarding\nbreast\nIf\niCancer.\n>>\nl:\u00C2\u00AB\nrfp\nif;. SaraJ\nIKbrsfalf\n1/\nIt's a good idea, basically. It's obviously worth the money for people\nwho use the service.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Patrick Spencer\nwe asked 60 students:\nare you aware that the AMS is holding\n.HO 22a re'erer,dum next week?\nYES 38\nOf these 38 students:\n\"1/1 didn't know any of the three questions\nJ^knew one of the questions\n7 knew two of the questions\n4 knew all three questions\nill\nIHl\n*:!\u00C2\u00A7\nUp\n! J&f$\nGAP okay by me\nJ wouto tike to voice my support for the\niGenocide AwarenesW^Tft^clrutririforma-\ntion exhibit at UBC. It is very important\nfor the horror of abortion to be made\nmore visible as no rational human being\nwould advocate the destruction of human\nlife, yet abortion is tolerated in our soci\nety largely because it is euphemised and\nits true nature kept hidden.\nThe University has a responsibility to\nprovide a venue, free of harassment, for\nthis group as it does for many other\ngroups with diverse opinions. If I can be\nof assistance please contact me.\nChris Gallagher\nAssociate Professor, Film Program 4 friday, -September 24, 1999 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 page friday\u00E2\u0080\u0094the ubyssey magazine \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nwww.ubyssey.bc.ca\nFEATUBINO:\nMORRISSEY IRISH BAR *w Students\nI'SF.n to be \"/t'.s a Secret\" \u00E2\u0080\u00A2* Every Monday! *\"\n0 p e k t i t> \u00C2\u00A9cironrfc!\n1227 G St.. 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They're\nready...we're ready to play.\"\nDespite having a homeless\nteam\u00E2\u0080\u0094UBC's defending CIAU\nchampion women's field hockey\nteam doesn't have their own artificial turf home field yet (the Birds\nplay home games downtown at\nAndy Livingstone Park)\u00E2\u0080\u0094Kanjee,\nwho was named 1998 CIAU coach\nof the year, is coming off of one\ngreat season. Not only that, but\nhe's headed into one that could\neven surpass it.\nLast year's team, which contained three CIAU second team All-\nCanadians, a national team goalkeeper, and a solid defense,\nremains completely intact. While\nmany teams are trying to rebuild,\nKanjee simply has to renovate the\nUBC field hockey powerhouse.\nThere are 10 highly experienced\nand returning fourth- and fifth-year\nplayers back in uniform. In addition,\ntwo returning players have had to\nredshirt in order to make room for\nthree highly talented rookies.\nReturning players include fifth-\nyear goalkeeper and 1997 CIAU\nsecond team All-Canadian Ann\nHarada, whose second year with the\nnational team produced a bronze\nmedal from the Pan American\nGames this past summer; fifth-year\nforward and 1997 Canada West All-\nStar Lesley Magnus, *who had a\ngreat year last year, and fouth-year\nmidfielder and 1998 CIAU second\nteam All-Canadian Jen Dowdeswell.\n\"I'm excited about the team this\nyear,\" said Harada. \"We haven't\nlost anyone to graduation for the\npast three years, we have some\nexcellent rookies coming in, so we\nshould do really well this year.\"\nNew to the team are Weiske van\nZoest, who has played a bit with the\nCanadian Junior team and is coming to UBC after playing in Holland,\nMo O'Connor, \"probably the most\nsought-after kid in the country\"\naccording to Kanjee, and the talented Alisa Carey. Although all are talented, Kanjee prefers to say less\nabout them and \"let the results\n\"It's a good lineup...basically, I have the horses. I\ndo have the team and\nit's just a matter of getting them pointed in the\nright direction.\"\n-Hash Kanjee\nWomen's Field Hockey Coach\nspeak\" instead.\n\"It's a good lineup,\" acknowledges Kanjee. \"Basically, I have the\nhorses. I do have the team and it's\njust a matter of getting them pointed in the right direction.\"\n\"We were strong defensively\nlast year and I think we struggled\nwith our offense. We had a young\noffense. This year with [returning\nand new players, they're]...showing signs of playing some sparkling\nhockey. I think we're going to have\nsome decent attack. We've added\na dimension to our team that we\ndidn't have last year. We've still\ngot the same defense, and mid-\nfield's the same, now we've got an\nattack. So we're strong in all three\nquarters.\"\nBut all that being said, it's not\nalways the best team that wins, but\nthe team that plays the best, of\nwhich Kanjee is completely aware.\n\"You can put it on paper and say,\n'yeah, this looks great' but it's got\nto be done on the pitch. I don't think\nwe were the best team last year in\nterms of manpower, but on the day,\neveryone put in extra, everybody\nplayed at a slightly better level, so\nwe were able to get some good performances out of that as well.\"\nAs one of the veteran teams,\nplaying experience will be an asset\nfor the Thunderbirds as they head\ninto the new season. But with new\nplayers and slightly different team\nchemistry, the team is working to\nsmooth things out in time for the\nCanada West Games.\nAnd part of the team building\nwas a training trip at the end of\nAugust in New Zealand. Although it\nwas a \"fabulous\" and \"tough\" trip,\nKanjee said that \"we learned a lot\nabout ourselves. We were a little bit\ntired but we worked hard.\"\nAs for the regular season\ngames, they are quite unlike other\nsports. Rather than games on consecutive weekends, field hockey\nteams will only meet on three weekends during the regular season and\nwill play all four other teams in the\nCanada West division each time.\nThe first tournament will take place\nthis weekend in Edmonton\n\"Our conference is probably the\ntoughest of the three conferences\nin the country, and every game is\ngoing to be very very important. At\nthe end of the day you got to do the\njob. [We've] got to be on top of our\ngame.\"\nAnd for competition, Kanjee\nforsees the University of Victoria as\nUBC's toughest competition\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nVikings lost 1-0 to UBC in the\nnational finals, and have key\nnational team players returning\nafter being absent last year. But\nKanjee is confident in UBC's\nupcoming season and looks forward to this weekend as a way of\nseeing where the Birds stand in\nrelation to the other teams.\n\"The thing for this year is to say,\n'this is early days...what do we need\nto do to give ourselves the opportunity?' So we'll go this weekend,\nhave a look at some of the other\nteams, see what they are doing,\nfind out what some of our things are\nthat we need to work on as a team\nand hopefully have everybody willing\nto say 'yes,' get some agreement\non what we need to fix and fix it.\nAnd stay healthy, and work hard,\nand just take one game at a\ntime.\"** -page friday\u00E2\u0080\u0094the ubyssey magazine*friday, septembel\nNew academic plan\nunder attack\nMany faculty members strongly opposed a draft\ndocument proposing UBC's academic future at\na forum held Tuesday. Although the plan\nincludes strategies to deal with retaining faculty and proposals to create a more interdisciplinary and community-based learning environment, some professors are worried that the\nplan is nothing more than a wish list.\nDennis Oanielson, a professor in the English\ndepartment, said the plan contradicts itself by\nsetting goats of making UBC both accessible\nand competitive at the same time. \"It's just\nwishful thinking,\" he said.\nDanielson added that the plan has\nincreased tensions between university administration and faculty. \"It's a nasty document\nbecause of the division and discouragement\nthat it's created.\"\nBut Michael Goldberg, chair of the Academic\nPlan Advisory Committee, said the meeting was\nthe appropriate venue to provide input and\nstimulate discussion.\nThe committee plans to solicit more discussion over the next two months and revise the\ndraft for a Senate meeting in mid-November,\nCASA plans national\ncampaign\nThe Alma Mater Society (AMS) wilt join 16 student societies across the country, in the\nupcoming \"Education Builds a Nation\" campaign, which will be launched in November by\nthe Canadian Alliance of Student Associations\n(CASA), of which the AMS is a member.\nThe campaign is aimed in part at improving\nthe low public opinion of post-secondary education and students, and also raises concerns\nabout funding cuts. *Our universities are worse\noff than our hospitals by a long shot,\" said\nJason Aebig, national director of CASA.\nAs part of the campaign, CASA is proposing\n$4 billion in new funding for universities and colleges over the next two federal budgets.\n\"It's fairly aggressive and we're not sure\n[we'll] get a lot of support for that. But the reality is that $4 billion is what's missing in post-\nsecondary education since 1994...[It] translates into almost exactly the tuition increases\nwhich have happened across the country.\"\nAebig said at an AMS forum Tuesday.\nIn addition, CASA is calling for the elimination of the GST on textbooks.\nIn related news, the AMS failed to reach a\ndecision whether or not to support thc\nCanadian Federation of Students (CFS), the\nother national student lobby organisation, in its\nDay of Action, held in February across the country each year to draw attention to post-secondary education issues.\nWaterloo joins CUTS\nlawsuit\nThe University of Waterloo Federation ot\nStudents has joined the lawsuit against the\nCanadian Federation of Students (CFS) for control of Travel CUTS, the travel agency run by the\nservices arm of the CFS. Waterloo joins student\nsocieties from the University of Western\nOntario, the University of Alberta, Queen's, and\nUBC in the lawsuit.\nThe lawsuit is based on the transfer of ownership of Travel CUTS to the CFSS in 1987. The\ntravel company was previously owned by a now-\ndormant student services organisation, the\nAssociation of Student Councils (AOSC). and\nthe five student councils allege the transfer of\nownership lo the CFS-S was not valid, and\nwould like shares ot the travel company.*\nUBC tries stop-GAP measures\n(**.,.:.W(!'*'j\ngMPiliN\nby Nicholas Bradley\nA legal battle between UBC and the UStoased\nCenter for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) seems\nunavoidable after the university filed an injunction\nearlier this week against the militant anti-abortion\ngroup.\nCBR has been planning to bring its Genocide\nAwareness Project (GAP) to campus next week.\nAnd despite the legal challenge, the university\nand student groups are continuing to prepare for\nGAP, the CBR's controversial display which\nequates abortion with genocide using large and\ngraphic pictures.\nOn Wednesday, UBC's lawyers applied for an\ninterim injunction against CBR and its executive\ndirector, Gregg Cunningham, to prevent GAP from\ncoming to campus pending a full hearing on the\nmatter.\nThe application requests that CBR restrain\nfrom attending UBC's private property, displaying\nany presentation, impeding traffic, and interfering\nwith the business of UBC students and employees. UBC also requested that these conditions be\napplied permanently to \"the Defendants, the\nDefendants' agents, and those who support the Defendants.\"\nByron Hender, executive coordinator for the vice-president students,\nhopes that the injunction will be successful.\n\"We don't think they will show up on campus with displays because\nthat would be likely to jeopardise their case in court.\"\nBut the petition for an injunction has CBR preparing to take its own\naction.\n\"The university.. .has very hypocritically declared that the university is\nopen to the display of these disturbing pictures, but only pursuant to conditions that are impossible for the Lifeline student organisation, or our\norganisation, to comply with,\" said Cunningham.\nIn response to the injunction, CBR plans to fight the matter in court.\n\"We're\"prepared to make a very long court battle out of this. We are\narranging to fund the cost of very protracted litigation.\"\nIhe university's application for injunction is based on CBR's refusal\nto comply with the conditions UBC set out in order for CBR to come to\ncampus. In addition, according to the application, CBR has refused to\nacknowledge UBC's authority to control its own property.\nUBC requested that CBR pay for its own security\u00E2\u0080\u0094at a maximum\ncost of $15,000 per day\u00E2\u0080\u0094and insisted that CBR set up its display at\nMaclnnes Reid, situated beside the Student Recreation Centre,\nBrian Sullivan, UBC's vice-president students, said that these conditions were \"rather painstakingly arrived at.\" UBC based its requests\npartly on information from American universities that had already hosted GAP.\nBut CBR refrised UBC's demands, calling them unfair.\n\"We are being relegated to the obscurity of Mclnnes field,\" said\nCunningham.\n\"Our point is that social reform always involves a message that the\ndominant culture doesn't wish to receive.\"\nUBC maintains that its decision is not intended to interfere with the\nexercise of free speech.\n\"We're not asking them to change their display, or change the\nimages that they're showing, or change any parts of their freedom of\nexpression.. .our concern is for the safety of the campus, we don't want\nthe operation of the university to be disrupted,\" said Debora Sweeney,\na UBC official.\nCunningham, however, said that although CBR will not act outside\nthe law, GAP will definitely be coming to campus, injunction or not. He\nsaid that if CBR representatives are banned from campus, members of\nLifeline, the pro-life AMS club that invited GAP to UBC, will organise the\nexhibit, carrying signs around campus if necessary.\n\"These images will be displayed at UBC. They will be displayed by\n\"~ *\u00E2\u0080\u00A2!\n:.vS^MiM^i-..'.vAJ\n-\u00C2\u00BBring from\nrking on a\n) clean all j\nit off his !\nhat would\n:ing. It was I\nf.\" I\nabout the I\noses, and |\n; the same 1\nleekbones, J\nful eyes\u00E2\u0080\u0094 j\n>k like run- 1\n- is quick to 1\nt beauty is\nskin deep,\"\nir defense.\"\ning to buy a\nmeone you\nn why would\ni/e have pretrial ideas of\n>ones. I want\nDr me, that's\nI to make a\n\u00C2\u00A71\nlilftll\nI\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*4\njlHlli' ''\n^^^^\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0v\":.\n^^fcf:\n^I^BiBlilil\n^^^^^pllil|\n^^^\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Hl\ns\nb envelope of\nlost challeng-\ne out at you\ning, 'are you\niflect her own\nsen medium.\nJbject matter,\nrength of her\nresponse her\n' than waiting\nlunity, Sarah\n3 time to wait\n. all have real\nfigured, why\nem and from\nnd error, she\ndn't ask me\nI wanted my\nwithout hav-\nmore tradi-\nhe schools,\n>, trends\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nof it.\nof Art and\nd you know\non how to\n3S it's only\nlg money,'1\nre disease\nIr-S^eXi\nis? iiifflimfm '\nVjjgpf\n0\nshe caught while visiting the bank machine.\nWhen she talked to an art student at Emily Carr about success, their ideas were completely at odds. \"For her, success was\npeer artist groups; they're the ones that count. For me, it's if\nyou're successful, you're making it; making money. Is that bad?\"\nYes, it's bad. Because she's an artist, and artists aren't supposed to care about money. It decreases their credibility, or\nsomething like that. But then again, if she wants to make money\nwith her paintings so that maybe she can finally quit her job at the\nstrip club checking coats, then maybe an exception could be\nmade.\nIt's a job that she hates; that she calls: \"the sacrifice I make\nfor my art.\" The other night a charming patron called her a \"fucking bitch\" to her face, and Sarah's still visibly reeling from the\ninsult. She could have a teaching job back in her native England\nwhere, she says, \"I would just be ridiculed for wanting to become\nan artist anyways.\" Instead, she's out here on the frontiers of the\nart world, where she is encouraged by her friends, and where\nthere is actually a chance to make it as an artist and gain some\nrespect from a community relatively open to new members.\nThis year her teaching certificate runs out, so it's all or nothing. \"Everything I make goes back into my art, and I work in the\nservice industry for the sake of my art.\" Sarah is surefooted in\nher commitment, but whether or not she will achieve success is\nless certain.\n\"I feel very lucky that I've got into the galleries that I've chosen,\" says Sarah, as the sun sets behind the picnic table we're\nsitting on at Kits beach. \"I've heard that it takes artists years and\nyears to get into the galleries.\"\nFor Sarah, it took only three years. Still, however much she\ndeserves the flood of attention she's received\u00E2\u0080\u0094however much\nshe's worked to get where she is now\u00E2\u0080\u0094she's reluctant to explain\nhow her uniquely pragmatic approach has paid off. Looking out to\nthe water, she pauses in her diatribe. She chuckles a little to herself, as if to soften the seriousness of our discussion. And then,\nadds, with self-mocking, excessively poetic overtones:\n\"Yeah, sure-. My boat's coming in, but I'm also swimming out\nto it.\"*\n(Above) CARNAL KNOWLEDGE: \"I called it that because\neverybody knows the Vancouver\nPublic Library is just a big pick up\njoint!\"\n(Middle) CLONES: \"weii who\nwouldn't want to done her. 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Subscribe to Newsbits, the free,\nmonthly e-mail newsletter from UBC's\nITServices department.\n\u00C2\u00BBlts\u00C2\u00ABrvices.ube.ea/ii\u00C2\u00A9ws\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00ABiitr\u00C2\u00AB/\nITServices\npomng Hours\nreferendum\nsept 29 - oct 8\nPoll stations operating every day of the referendum:\nSUB 9am-9pm\nKoerner Library 9am-9pm\nWoodward 9am-9pm\nBuchanan A 9am-5pm\nForestry Centre 9am-5pm\nPoll stations operating Sep 29-Oct 1\nBookstore\nScarfe\nTotem\n9am-5pm\n9am-5pm\n5pm-9pm\nPoll stations operating Oct 4-5:\nAngus 9am-5pm\nCivil/Mechanical Eng. 9am-5pm\nGage 5pm-9pm\nPoll stations operating Oct 6-8:\nGraduate Student Cntr. 9am-9pm\nChemistry 9am-5pm\nVanier 5pm-9pm\nNOTE: All polls will close at 5pm on Fri, Oct 8 (there will be no night polls)\nMice sets\nthe standard\nOF MICE AND MEN\nat the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre\nruns until Oct. 16\nby Lisa Denton\nThe Vancouver Playhouse has opened its season\nwith a return to the classics\u00E2\u0080\u0094a classic tale penned\nby John Steinbeck, that is. Of Mice And Men is an\noutstanding story on paper, so it is almost impossible to go wrong when staging this play, due in no\nsmall part to the intensity of Steinbeck's brooding\ntheme of displacement during the United States'\nDepression years.\nHaving seen a decent high school production of\nthe play by the usual prima donnas that annoy the\nhell out of everyone (did I mention that it is hard to\nscrew up Steinbeck?), I was familiar with the subject matter and was eagerly anticipating a return to\nthe wilderness of 1930s rural California.\nSo there I was, staring at Lennie and George in\nthe centre of the stage and on either side is... backstage! I don't mean to confuse anyone reading this,\nbut the lights, microphones, sound effects, costumes and awaiting cast members are exposed to\nthe audience. I really don't know what the purpose\nof this nakedness is. It didn't bother me too much;\nI just thought it was really strange to expose all of\nthese technical aspects at a professional theatre\nvenue. However, I soon managed to overcome this\ntechnical invasion into the rural California setting. I\nwas once again able to wrap myself up in the story\nof Lennie and George's quest for the American\ndream\u00E2\u0080\u0094in this case, owning a plot of land to call\ntheir own.\nLennie is George's companion and, paradoxically, his burden. He is a simpleton and forever getting\ninto trouble. Grant Linneburg's Lennie is very convincing. This is all the more noteworthy because it\nis a role that, if overacted, will come across as silly.\nLinneburg nails his wide-eyed, innocent character\nand the audience can feel sympathy and compassion for his unknowing ways. Similarly, Tom\nMcBeath's George is a sight to behold. He exhibits\na tremendous range of emotions, most notably his\nannoyance at Lennie's slip-ups and his agony in the\nfinal scene.\nThe rest of the cast is commendable as well,\nespecially Joel Wirkkunen as the macho Curley. The\ncast members double as sound technicians, providing the sound effects of nature throughout the\nperformance. They also close the end of each\nscene with a song of some sort, which really has no\nsignificance to the play. But there are some neat\nstage effects, such as two trapdoors. One opens to\nreveal a pool of water to simulate the river, creating\na beautiful reflection on the ceiling. The other pit\nhouses a mock firepit which is actually lit, providing\nan authentic ambiance, except for the lights, microphones, and people on the sides of the stage.\nThis production of Of Mice And Men is gripping\nand heartwrenching, providing a glimpse into the\nemotions and difficulties faced in the past, while\nalso examining the American subculture of yesteryear. It is a sad play, but immensely enjoyable. The\nPlayhouse has set a high standard for the coming\ntheatre season.\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nNOBUYOSHIARAKI\nat the Contemporary Art Gallery\nruns until Oct. 16\nby Julian Dowling\nFor those unfamiliar with the work of Nobuyoshi\nAraki, the photographer who shot Bjork for her new\nalbum, this one-room exhibition will seem a bit like\na walk through the X-rated section of a video store.\nThe four walls each display a different collection\nof photographs taken at different times in Araki's\ncareer.\nOn the first wall you see as you walk into the\nroom is a series of brightly coloured flowers,\nenlarged photocopies of Araki's originals, that are\nalmost overwhelming in their intensity. Araki mounted the photos ten years after his wife's death and\nthey are meant to signify the triumph of life over\ndeath. Nevertheless, the photographic medium\nitself, according to Araki, is concerned with death\nmore than life. Photography, he muses, sentimentalises reality, turning it into a \"deathscape\" of\nmemory and regret. It is ironic, then, that Araki's\nambition with this exhibit should be to show \"the joy\nof life\" and his \"philosophy of happiness.\" He tries,\nwith these photographs, to bridge the gap between\nlife and death, between the dead photograph and\nthe live subject.\nAraki was raised in shitamachi which is the\n\"downtown\" or working-class neighbourhood of\nTokyo. In the series entitled Tokyo Nostalgy, Araki\ntakes us through the back alleys and bedrooms of\nshitamachi to see \"real\" people going shopping and\nhaving sex.\nAmidst casual sexual encounters and dilapidated buildings emerges an impression of Tokyo as a\ncity of ruins. Not just physical ruin, but emotional\nruin as well. The women strip off their kimonos\nwhile the men grin stupidly at the camera. In other\npictures, real life seems to go on around them as if\nnothing were happening. Cats clean themselves,\npeople drive to work and children play.\nThe third series, Erotic Women in Colour, features a geisha bound with rope and other nude\nwomen sprawled suggestively. Araki has painted\nswaths of colour directly on top of the enlarged photographs giving a visual expression of his reactions\nto the subjects. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0<\nThe fourth series entitled Life by Leica, named\nafter the camera Araki used to shoot these pictures, is his most recent work. In these pictures,\nAraki shoots his subjects, wise old men and nude\nwomen, with equal detachment. There is no \"I\" in\nthese pictures, only the subject and us, the voyeurs.\nAraki has said of himself, \"I want to be on the\nedge. Sometimes entering the realm of the divine,\nsometimes the vulgar world.\" To Araki, a picture of\na naked woman bound with rope is neither divine\nnor vulgar, she simply is.\nWhether or not Araki's photography works for\nyou depends on how willing you are to accept his\nidea of realism in art. Beauty is real, but reality isn't\nnecessarily beautiful. Is a picture of a naked\nwoman using a vibrator art or just plain pornography? Decide for yourself, but first ask yourself the\nquestion, where does beauty reside? In the subject,\nthe object, or in that brief moment between perception and understanding\u00E2\u0080\u0094like the clicking of a\ncamera shutter?*:*\nGO WEST: George and Lennie are California dreuning. -page friday\u00E2\u0080\u0094the ubyssey magazine*friday, septer\na c\nh i\nt o\nasses\nThe Ubyssey chats with the lead singer of Welsh band, The Manic Street\nPreachers, all the time resisting the urge to ask about that mysterious\nmissing band member...\nby Duncan M. McHugh\nJames Dean Bradfield is a long way from home. His birthplace, a small\ntown in Wales, is a far cry from the sleek Vancouver hotel in which he sits\ndrinking a cup of coffee.\nThe relative obscurity he is enjoying reminds him that he is indeed a\nlong way from Britain and the rest of Europe, where the band in which he\nsings and plays guitar, have reached the pinnacle of rock stardom. Here in\nCanada\u00E2\u0080\u0094a whole ocean away\u00E2\u0080\u0094he and his bandmates, bassist Nicky Wire\nand drummer Sean Moore, are only minor players; just another cool British\nband.\n\"People ask all the time,\" says James, '\"What's it like going from playing for 10,000 every night to, say, anywhere between 500 and 1,000. A lot\nof people thought it would be a big deal to us, but to be honest, it's quite\nliberating. For starters, a lot of that pressure is gone off.\"\nThis freedom can go too far however. James woefully recounts a recent\ngig in Minneapolis where the band played for only 300 people in a half full\nclub.\n\"We've always been really ambitious people. I don't think we've ever\nbeen shy about being ambitious. And suddenly, being on stage, 30 years\nold, five albums on the line and: 300 people, Minneapolis, it hit.\"\n\"The psychology of a musician, when you have our egos, is that, if you\nsee a club, [so long] as it looks full, you're happy. If you're in a small club\nand there's only 300 people, you're confronted by your own sense of mortality. Suddenly, I was schizophrenic. It's been alright up until then.\"\nThe story of the Manic's rise to fame is a fabled one. Be it their penchant for sensational quotes or self-destructive behavior (founding member\nRitchey Edwards carved the words \"4 REAL\" into his forearm in an effort\nto prove to journalists his band's intensity), the band gained notoriety early\non. Then there was their debut album, Generation Terrorists, an audacious\ndouble LP that proved both their strong political views and prickly musical\nsensibilities.\nOver the next five years, the Manics would increase their notoriety. This\nis mostly due to Ritchey Edwards. His anorexia, excessive drug use and\nconstant lyrical meditation of suicide threatened to eclipse any of his or the\nband's musical achievements. Then the bomb dropped. On February 1st,\n1995, Ritchey vanished without a trace. He had left his passport and his\nProzac in his apartment, and his Vauxhall was found at the Severn Bridge\nin Newport, Wales, an infamous suicide spot. No note, no clues and no\nbody were ever found\nThe disappearance of Ritchey became, understandably, a sensation in\nBritain. Ritchey \"sightings\" increased in frequency and have been reported\nin places as far away as a Tibetan monastery. But that was four years ago.\nSince then the story has been covered to the point of extreme overkill.\nRitchey is still gone and the band has had to move on. Though the other\nManics have achieved their greatest successes since then, the pall of\nRitchey still lingers somewhat.\nAs James explains: \"In Europe, our production gets quite grandiose, but\nthat's just a part of there only being three of us. We need a fourth member, cause obviously there used to be four of us. We need that artificial\nfourth member.\"\nThe absence of Ritchey has also put more of a burden on the shoulders\nof Nick Wire in a different way too. Whereas he used to share Jyric writing\nduties with Ritchey, Nick was left to write them all himself. This has rendered the Manics' message more intimate, out simultaneously more\nambiguous. \"The last album was so personal, in terms of the lyrics. They\nderived from Nick's world, in a very definite sense. And we've come into a\nlot more criticism, press-wise, in Britain because of the sentiments, the\nlyrics and the framing of certain things on the album. Nick would remain\nconvinced more than ever that 'Hell is other people'\" [their Sartrean slogan from their 1997 tour].\nWhen questioned as to why Nick is the lyricist, James answers straightforwardly: \"It's just the natural rules that you have, the roles you slip into.\nIn school, he was imminently much more cool than I was. And I had one\navenue out of that which was to play guitar and music.\"\n\"Even when you're young, if you can't articulate yourself person to person, it gets much harder to write it down. [In essence,] we did for each\nother what we couldn't do for ourselves. It's a simple way of getting on in\nlife.\"\nSo what lies in the Manics' future? First off, they have the rest of the\nNorth American tour and then an epic New Millennium's Eve gig on home\nturf in Cardiff. Then, after a year and a half of solid touring and promoting,\nthey're taking a long break to think about it all.\n\"[After the Cardiff gig,] we're not going to play a concert for a very long\ntime. I think we're just much more interested in coming up with another version of the Manic Street Preachers...I'd like to go to another stage. We've\nsort of done three stages. I'd like to hit a fourth stage, though I don't know\nhow long it will take us.\"\nWhatever it is, it would seem clear that the Manics are intent on remaining true to their roots, true to their politics, and true to their desire to stay\non top, despite ignorant Minneapolis music fans.*\nTHE MANIC STREET PREACHERS\nat the Rage\nSept. 22\nBy Todd Silver\nUsually, the cavernous confines of the Rage manage to suck the life out\nof a concert. The acoustics are horrible, there's a big pole in front of the\nstage, and there's all of those evil concert goers who trek in from the\nsuburbs whenever a CFOX band hits the stage. However, this time things\ndidn't turn out quite that badly. In fact. Manic Street Preachers managed\nto put on quite a show at the Rage. No, really.\nTouring in support of their latest release, This is My Truth Tell Me\nYours, the Manics managed to put on a good performance owing, in\nlarge part, to their energy and the desire of the audience to enjoy themselves, regardless of their environs.\nOpening up with \"You Stole the Sun From My Heart,\" the Manics\nworked their way through a short set with a minimum of pretentious\nBono-like chit-chat. This was probably a good thing as most of the audience was not likely to be too interested in any sort of political bantering.\nThat's what Bruce Allen's phone-in show is for.\nMoving seamlessly from song to song, the band focused on their\nTruth material while still throwing in some of their earlier stuff, not to\nmention stirring renditions of \"Train In Vain\" and, strangely, \"Raindrops\nKeep Falling on My Head.\" The political acumen of the crowd was shown\nto be less than stellar when they chose, \"If You Tolerate This, Your\nChildren Will be Next\" to do the most body-surfing and to throw their\nclothing at the band members.\nNone the less, a good time was had by all. The music crashed into\nthe audience like a wave while the lyrics hit the back wall with a thud.\nAnd hey, when the band performed a song with lots of radio-play everyone had enough room to jump up and down. What more can you ask\nfor?\u00C2\u00AB>\nK\nMANIC! Singer James Dean Bradfield preaches to the converted at The\nRage Wednesday night, jenn gardy photo I O friday, September 24, 1999*page friday\u00E2\u0080\u0094the ubyssey magazine-\nGAP: a word of advice, and a word of caution\nThis is an ugly topic, very ugly, and you have the right to stop\nreading right now. Go ahead. It's your right.\nBut in addition to being ugly, this subject is also a damned\nimportant one. So we recommend that you keep going.\nAn organisation called the Genocide Awareness Project\n(GAP) wants to come to UBC next week. GAP is a radical anti-\nabortion group that uses shock tactics, intimidation, and some\nvery graphic and controversial images in order to make its\npoint\u00E2\u0080\u0094that abortion is genocide. They're not here to open up a\nrational dialogue; they're not here to sit down and engage in a\nfree and open exchange of ideas. They are here in order to provoke a reaction.\nTheir tactics are ugly, too. You have every right not to see\nv/hat they're doing, and you have every right to object, and to\nprotest. But they don't want you to ignore them, and they don't\nv/ant you to protest peacefully.\nGAP's tactics work along these lines: the display starts with\nbillboard-sized posters juxtaposing images of aborted fetuses,\nthe Holocaust, and racial violence. Surrounding these posters\nare up to twenty-five of what the RCMP calls \"professional agitators,\" shouting anti-abortion messages through bullhorns at\nanyone within hearing distance. It is a graphic, in-your-face,\nintimidating display. It is ugly.\nAnd they want you to react in just as ugly a way.\nGAP has left a trail of lawsuits at several university campuses that it has visited. At the University of Kansas, one student\nwas so incensed by the display that that student drove his car\ninto one of the posters, and was charged. At the same display,\na student tried to punch a poster and hit a GAP staffer. The student was charged.\nGAP has already hired local lawyers and launched a counter-\nsuit against UBC over the injunction. Don't think that they aren't\nready to sue you, too.\nOf course, this may all be a moot point. UBC has filed an\ninjunction to stop GAP from coming to campus at all after GAP\nrefused to put down a maximum $15,000 per day deposit to\ncover security costs, and refused to accept Maclnnes Field\n(between the SUB, War Memorial Gym, Maclnnes parking lot,\nand the Student Recreation Centre) as a venue.\nBut whether or not the injunction is granted or not, GAP\nwill, in all likelihood, still hit UBC, and it may have an impact\non your life. GAP can still try to attach their posters to vehicles and drive them around campus. They can get Lifeline,\nthe AMS anti-abortion group, to display the posters for them.\nThey can do a lot of things.\nWhen GAP comes to campus, by all means, voice your displeasure. Call their displays offensive and disgusting, and fight\nfor what you believe. But if you overreact and cross the line\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nand it will be very tempting for a lot of people\u00E2\u0080\u0094the risks will not\nbe worth it.\n\"We will make an example out of lawbreakers,\" Gregg\nCunningham, executive director of the Center for Bio-Ethical\nReform, the group that organises GAP.\nUBC should in no way tolerate any individual or group that\npromotes hatred. It should not tolerate any individual or group\nthat puts the safety of UBC students at risk. Speak out against\nthis. We don't see how you can't. But don't play into their hands.\nEvery time they can nail some protester, it lets them call the\npro-choice movement violent and intolerant. Every time someone tries to tear down the display, they can launch a lawsuit that\nwill drain the resources of whatever group opposes them.\nGAP will be here\u00E2\u0080\u0094at the longest\u00E2\u0080\u0094for one week. If you're not\ncareful, you'll be stuck here in court long after they're gone.\nDon't let them do this. Go. Protest. Shout louder than they\ncan. But don't get arrested. Don't let them have their way.*>\nPAGE FRIDAY\nCOORDINATING\nCOPY\nBruce Arthur\nvacant\nDESIGN\nSPORTS\nTodd Silver\nNaomi Kim\nFEATURES PHOTOS\nTom Peacock Tara Westover\nCULTURE NEWS\nDuncan M. McHugh Nicholas Bradley\nJaime Tong\nDaliah Merzaban\nCOORDINATORS\nClip Nyranne Martin\nWeb Flora Graham\nresearch vacant\nletters vacant\nThe Ubyssey is the official student\nnewspaper of the University of British\nColumbia. It is published every\nTuesday and Friday by The Ubyssey\nPublications Society.\nWe are an autonomous, democratically run student organisation, and all\nstudents are encouraged to participate.\nEditorials are chosen and written by\nthe Ubyssey staff. 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Lisa\nDenton and Jeremy Beaulne found the dirty underwear\nand Laura Blue, the bra. No one asked questions and all\njumped out of the dumpster.\nPAGE FRIDAY u \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 page friday\u00E2\u0080\u0094the ubyssey magazine*friday September1\nReasons behind abortion\n1999 11\nby Keely Bright\nIn recent weeks there has been much concern\nregarding the coming of GAP (the Genocide\nAwareness Project) to UBC. This article seeks to\nlook at some of the underlying issues surrounding abortion without all the emotional and rhetorical comments that have become characteristic\nof this debate on both sides.\nTo understand the issue, we must first\nask ourselves the questions, \"Why do\nwomen choose to have abortions? Before\nabortions were legalized, why would women\nrisk their lives in back-alley abortions?\"\nThere are many reasons, but the following\nare common:\n1.Poverty or financial need: Many\nwomen cannot afford to support a child. Very\noften, the father of the child accepts none of the\nresponsibility of caring for the child. The woman,\nif she chooses to have the child, will be forced to\nget a job, pay for daycare for the child, etc. on her\nown\u00E2\u0080\u0094an enormous responsibility, especially for\nteenage women. In third world countries, often\nwomen can barely support themselves, let alone\na child as well.\nI.Rape or abuse: Women can become pregnant as a result of rape and sexual abuse. To\nthese women, a child may be a constant\nreminder of the suffering they faced.\n3.Discrimination: In society today, an\nunplanned pregnancy can result in discrimination, especially for young, unwed mothers.\nParents and friends may disown the unwed mother, or refuse to support her. The father of the\nchild may refuse support. And employers may\nalso discriminate against an unwed mother. Once\nthe child is born, the unwed mother will face a\ndifferent set of responsibilities than her peers,\nleaving her feeling alone.\n4. Education and employment issues: For\nteenage mothers, it can be very challenging to\ncare for their child and still complete high school.\nCollege and university students face similar challenges. This may lead many women to discontinue their education and be forced to take jobs that\nare below their ability. Once in a career, many\nwomen feel that having a child, taking time off\nPERSPECTIVE\nOPINION\nBut what are we to do? It\nseems that abortion only\nsolves the immediate problem\nof an unplanned pregnancy,\nbut doesn't address the\nunderlying reasons why these\npregnancies occur. Both sides\nof the debate must realize\nthis and work together to\nachieve change, rather than\nworking at odds.\nwork, etc. would be detrimental to the possibilities of advancement in their careers.\nAll of the issues discussed above make it\nclear that it is often extremely difficult for women\nto go through with unplanned pregnancies.\nAbortion seems to be the only way out. That is\nwhy no woman who chooses to have an abortion\nshould be condemned.\nBut what are we to do? It seems that abortion\nonly solves the immediate problem of an\nunplanned pregnancy, but doesn't address the\nunderlying reasons of why these pregnancies\noccur. Both sides of the debate must realize this\nand work together to achieve change,\nrather than working at odds. Pro-life groups\nmust provide concrete programs to support\nalternatives to abortion. Pro-choice groups\nmust stop advocating abortion and start\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\" addressing the real concerns of poverty,\nabuse, discrimination, etc. Then, these\ngroups must work together to encourage\nthe government and other organisations to provide solutions to these underlying problems.\nThese solutions could include: financial support\nfor unwed mothers; easier and less expensive\naccess to daycare services; making fathers of\nchildren financially responsible for their actions;\nappropriate punishment for rapists and abusers;\nmore free counselling services for women in\nunplanned pregnancies, rape victims, and abusive situations; and instilling and promoting a\nsense of respect and support for all women,\nrather than condemnation. If these goals are\nrealised, then we will have addressed the real\nproblems, not just the issues on the surface.\nHopefully, when GAP comes next week, the\ndisplay will provoke intelligent discussion of\nthese issues and a cooperation to achieve real\nsolutions, rather than just a display of emotions,\naccusations, and rhetoric.\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Keely Bright\n4th year Geological Engineering\nthe ubyssey:\nusing fonts called\n\"cracfrhouse\" since 1918\n(well, probably not since 1918)\nmetropolitan]\nI ditendlno School\nFinally... Take a class that\nwill get you a job.\nWeekend, day, evening (losses available.\nLocated in Nevermind Restaurant. 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SALE\nIhuhubk **\u00C2\u00BB S*08\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 nniEFMCE *W\u00C2\u00BB VW*\nI MWIMimHCMLgiU SfiW\nI nanHmMniNnHOn S*\u00C2\u00BB\nA\n\u00C2\u00ABJMiH|\nHCKVMauWrilNiatH\n$889\nra^iVMiimuNiwttain S*W\u00C2\u00BB $1299\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 3771 West 10th (at Alma) 224-3536\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 6069 West Boulevard (at 45th) 263-7587\nAlthough a comprehensive three-\nquestion referendum is scheduled\nto be held next week, truly extensive advertising of the issues has\nnot yet begun.\nNonetheless, organisers of the\nreferendum, which is scheduled to\nbe conducted from September 29 to\nOctober 8, are confident students\nwill be adequately informed\nbefore they head to the ballots.\nIn order for referendum results\nto be valid, a simple majority\nnumbering ten per cent of the\nstudent body\u00E2\u0080\u0094roughly 3300 students\u00E2\u0080\u0094must vote yes.\nStudents will be asked if\nthey're willing to pay $168 per\nyear for a mandatory health and\ndental plan that could be implemented as early as January\n2000.\nAlso, students will be asked\nto approve a proposal for a $9\nincrease in student fees which\nwill go towards increasing funding for student services, including establishing a frosh week,\npaying late-night volunteers\nSafewalk, expanding swimming\nhours at the Aquatic Centre, and\nincreasing funding for CiTR, the campus radio station.\nIn an effort to increase participation in the referendum, the AMS is\nalso asking students to take a\nstance on legalising marijuana.\nGiven the complexity of the referendum questions, representatives\nfrom the AMS and the Graduate\nStudents Society (GSS), agree that\nextensive advertising is essential,\nbut is most important after the referendum has begun.\n\"Usually the strategy is you wait\nuntil the referendum is going on and\nthen you go to the classes and tell\npeople,\" said Candace Hofmann, a\ngraduate student in psychology who\nhas been working actively in establishing the health plan and informing\ngraduate students.\nAccording to Hofmann, the GSS\nhas already informed graduate students of the health plan by distributing information in a mail-out to every\ngraduate student, placing an ad in\nGiven the complexity of the\nreferendum questions, representatives from AMS and\nthe Graduate Students\nSociety (GSS), agree that\nextensive advertising is\nessential, but most importantly after the referendum\nhas begun.\nat\nthe monthly graduate magazine, and\nposting information on the Internet.\nShe doubts, however, that enough is\nbeing done.\n\"I haven't really been involved\nwith previous referendums, and personally I think we could be doing a little bit more,\" she said, adding that\ngraduate students will likely be more\ninformed by next week as the GSS\nwill be handing out more information\nto councillors.\nAs for informing undergraduates,\nRyan Marshall, AMS president,\nbelieves that the AMS's active distribution of pamphlets and flyers, hanging up of posters, and classroom\nannouncements which will begin next\nweek, will do the job.\n\"We're doing everything we can.\nOnce the classroom announcements\nstart then everyone will know.\"\nThe AMS also held an information\nsession on the health plan for the\nPolitical Science Student\nAssociation, but attendance was\nminimal.\nAnd the AMS's efforts have CiTR\nconfident that funding for student\nservices will be increased,\ndespite the fact that CiTR lost\nan opportunity to increase its\nfunding last January because a\nreferendum failed to reach quorum.\n\"We're quite confident that\nthis will be a successful referendum question,\" said Aaron\nNakama, CiTR's interim station\nmanager.\nMeanwhile, the Commerce\nUndergraduate Society [CUS]\nwill be asking commerce students to vote against the proposed legalisation of marijuana.\nIrfhan Rawji, CUS councillor,\nbelieves taking an affirmative\nstance on the issue would be\ndamaging to the university's image.\n\"If students at UBC were to pass\nthe legalisation of marijuana we feel\nthe image of the university would be\naffected in a negative way,\" said\nRawji.\nRawji added that commerce councillors will not be aggressively campaigning their stance because this\ncould detract from the importance of\nthe other two questions.\nFor those in favour of legalising\nmarijuana, Nathan Allen, AMS coordinator of external affairs, spoke of\nplans for a marijuana smoke-in atthe\nGoddess of democracy next Friday\nfor anyone who decides to \"bring a\nbag of magic herbs.\" \u00E2\u0099\u00A6"@en . 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