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Archives Serial\nINSIDE\narts\npage 4\nJuly 15,1987\nTHE\nSUMMER\nUBYSSEY\nvw> 6 No. 1\nl Aid program neglects recent grads\nBy JENNIFER LYALL\nA lot of students are\ngoing to get hurt as they fall\nbetween the cracks in the\nnew student aid program, says\nthe president of UBC's Alma\nMater Society.\nRebecca\nNevraumont is angry that the\nprogram does nothing for the\nhundreds of students who\nhave accumulated debts of\nover $20,000 in the years since\nthe provincial government dismantled the grant program in\n1984.\nThe program reduces\nloan debts to $ 12,000 for students who successfully complete a degree, but it is not\nretroactive for those who\nhave already graduated.\n\"If the government is\nnow recognising th^ problem\nwith the system why can't\nthey accept the problem of a\nfew years ago?\" asked\nNevraumont. \"There's no recourse for those people (with\nhigh debt loads),\" she said.\n\"What the hell's supposed to\nhappen to them?\"\nThe average debt\nload for 1986 graduates with\nloans was $15,000, up from\n$3,000 in 1984, and the loan\ndefault rate was almost 20 per\ncent.\nMinister of advanced\neducation, Stan Hagen said\nhis ministry couldn't offer past\ngraduates any assistance.\n\" I don't think there\nare enough funds in the program (to cover retroactive re-\nmissioin) and if we were to do\nthat it would have to have an\nimpact on the people in\nschoolow\nschool now ,\" he said.\nUBC director of\nawards and financial aid\nByron Hender said the new\nprogram represents such a\ngreat improvement over recent years that it is unreasonable to complan.\n\"I think it would hve been nice\nif the provincecould have\nmade it retroactive but things\ndon't always work out that\nway,\" he said.\nPERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY\nGraduates will be eligible for loan remissions only if\nthey fulfill a 'personal responsibility' requirement by either\nworking, volunteering or taking full-time classes during the\nsummer.\n\"It's the only province\nSumm..Summ..Summertime... and the living is choice.\nCondom battle heats up\nJ.LYALL\nBy JENNIFER LYALL\n\"A lot of people are\nembarrassed to stand in a\nline-up in front of a cashier\nwith condoms in their hand.\nSo that's why I thought it was\na good idea? says Dave\nVerma, manager of Can-Am\nProtect Ltd.\nHis is one of two con-\ndom delivery services\nlaunched recently to save shy\nVancouver residents from the\nhumiliation of drugstore lineups.\nThe second, Safetel\nDelivery Services, started up\njust last week and offers the\nconvenience of the city's only\n24 hour service.\nSafetel manager\nLaurel Radley said she\nopened the business \"in response to increased sales and\nto people's tendency to buy\nwhat's most convenient these\ndays.\"\n\"Sometimes its inconvenient to leave your house,\"\nshe explained.\nBoth services offer a\nwide variety of condoms, at\ncompetitive prices, delivered\nto your door in a plain brown\npaper bag by an unmarked\nvehicle. Can-Am Protect\ncharges one dollar for immediate delivery, but Safetel delivery charges can run up to\n$ 10 on a rush order.\n\ferma doesn't expect\nhis business to be threatened\nby Safetel: \"They have a very\nhefty delivery charge, so I\ndon't think there's any com\npetition.\"\nBut Radley thinks\nthe convenience of round\nthe clock deliveries will attract customers at any\nprice: \"In order to provide\nthat kind of service its a little\nmore expensive.\"\nCan-Am Protect\ndelivers only until midnight.\nRegistrar will be missed\nKenneth Gordon Young. University of British Columbia\nRegistrar,, died May 2nd.\nBorn tn Edmonton in 1938, Mr. Young earned degrees In Art and Commerce from the University of Alberta.\nHe joined UBC os assistant registrar in 1965 and in\n1980 succeeded Jack Parnell as UBC Registrar.\nMr. Young also served as a member of the Board of\nSt. Paul's Hospital Foundation from 1985 to 1987.\nMr, Young will be remembered warmry by the university com-\nin which to get a loan you\nhave to prove your worth on a\nmoral basis as well as on a fi-\nnancial basis,\" said\nNevraumont.\nAlthough she thinks\nthat volunteer work is a \"great\"\noption for those who cannot\nfind work, Nevraumont said,\n\"I'm not sure it's a judicial call\n(the government) should be\nmaking.\"\nBut Hagen disagreed.\n\"I don't think it's a moral question at all,\" he said.\n\"Education doesn't\nonly benefit the individual\nwho's getting it, it benefits the\nsociety as a whole and is paid\nfor by society as a whole,\"\nsaid Hagen.\nSince taxpayers subsidize students with loans they\nshould expect students to try\nto earn money towards the\ncost, he said.\nFIVE YEAR DEGREE LIMIT\nNevraumont said the five year\ntime limit to complete a degree is \"another big problem\"\nbecause there are no\nno exceptions made for single parents or students who\nget involved in extra-curricular activities like student service organisations and student council.\n\"They've denied you\nthat opportunity to broaden\nyour experience,\" she said,\nadding that such initiatives\nshould be encouraged as an\nimportant and fulfilling part of\nan education.\nStudents who fail to\ncomplete their degrees within\nfive years become ineligible\nfor remission upon graduation.\nHender said the time\nlimit is necessary to prevent\nabuse of the aid system by\nstudents who enjoy the good\nlife at university: \"The tendency is to stick around as long\nas you can, but if the government is picking up the tab\"\"\nHagen said his minsit-\nry is \"not unsympathetic to individual cases\" but he didn't\nsee the value of extending a\ndegree to allow time for extra-curricular activities.\nReport urges AMS to\ntake over intramurals\nBy CORINNE BJORGE\nManagement of\nUBC's athletic facilities is\n\"fragmented\" and must be\nbetter structured to ensure\nequitable funding of facilities\nand groups, according to a\nUniversity Athletics Council\nreport released Wednesday.\nA special review\ncommittee of the UAC drafted the recommendations in\nan effort to streamline athletics management structures\nand address inconsistencies\nin funding.\n\"It is necessary to\nhave a common management system,\" said K. D.\nSrivistava, vice president student and academic services\nand chair of the committee.\nRebecca\nNevraumont, AMS president\nand member of the UAC is\nconcerned that bringing all\nthe facilities under one management board could result\nin user fees being paid by\nstudents for facilities that\nwere previously freely available.\n\"Not only are students kicking in the first time\n(in the form of athletic fees),\nbut they're also paying high\nparticipation and user fees,\"\nshe said.\nBut Nevraumont said\nprograms such as intramurals\nwill continue to receive little\nfunding and poor facilities\nuntil a more impartial management structure is created\nto establish facility priorities.\nThe Task Force report\nrecommends the AMS take\nover full administrative and financial control of the intramurals program.\nNevraumont said\ntaking control of intramurals\nwould be possible only if all\nthe recommendations in the\ndraft are accepted.\nAlthough she would like to\nsee the AMS take over the intramurals program, she said\nunless the recommendations\nare accepted it would be\ntoo much of a strain on AMS\ntime and resources.\nEarmarking a percentage of the $5.50 athletic\nfee increase for intramurals\nwould be another way to ensure adequate funding, said\nNevraumont.\nBut Srivastava said\nearmarking specific funds\nwould allow other departments to say \"you already\nhave your share\" and would\nlikely be a detriment to intramurals.\nThe report also urges\nequitable funding for the\nMens Athletic Committee\n(MAC) and the Women's\nAthletic Committee (WAC).\nbut it does not address what\nform the funding should take.\nSrivistava said differences in funding between\nmen's and women's teams\nreflects the greater number\nof male students participating. \"If there were^greater\ndemands for women's teams,\nthe UAC would have to consider more funding,\" he said.\nCurrently men's athletics fields 15 teams while\nwomen's athletics fields 12.\nNevraumont agreed\nthat the funding reflected\nthe number of teams, but\nsaid funding for other items in\nathletics was inequitable.\n\"The women's teams weren't\ngetting the same for meal\nvouchers or travel expense\nallowances,\" she said. \u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00AB-\u00C2\u00BB-;\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2.ilOt***.\n-July 15, 1987\nStudent reacts to tuition waiver for faculty kids\nBy KURT PREINSPERG\nTwo students, Carole\nand Ted, are having a chat\nover coffee. \"Without a minor\nmiracle,\" says Carole, \"I wont\nbe back at UBC in the fall.\nThe expense is killing me.\nTuition alone is now $1500,\nand I'm up to my ears in debt.\nI'm thinking that university may\njust not be worth it.\"\nTed smiles\nsympathetically. \"Poor thing!\nI'm glad I don't have your\nworries. My dad teaches at\nUBC, so I don't have to pay\ntuition, although my parents\ncould probably afford it. I'm\ngoing strong, and my folks\nexpect me to get a PhD.\"\nSuch a conversation is\nlikely if the UBC Faculty's\ncurrent bargaining demand is\nmet: \"that tuition fees be\nwaived for members'\ndependent children and\nspouses enrolled in\nundergraduate courses at the\nUniversity.\"\nAnd why not? Airlines\ngive their employees free\nflights and breweries theirs free\nbeer. So why should UBC not\ngive its faculty (and surely its\nsupport staff as well) free\neducation for their offspring?\nWhy not? Because a\nuniversity education isn't like\nbeer or airline flights: it is a\nmajor gateway to self-\ndevelopment, desirable jobs,\nsocial status and self-respect.\nIt's because higher education\nconstitutes a strategic good in\na person's life that access to it\nshould be scrupulously fair.\nWaiving tuition fees for\nchildren of a professional\ngroup like academics (whose\naverage salary is $50,000 a\nyear), while students from\npoor families face serious\nfinancial barriers, is an\nincredibly ugly example of\nunfairness.\nSeveral considerations\nwill be advanced against this\nargument: first, that it's purely\na collective bargaining issue in\nwhat form academics take\ntheir pay increase; second,\nthat giving it to them in the\nform of tuition waivers has the\nadvantage to the university of\nadding only marginal costs;\nthird, that unequal financial\nbarriers in higher education\nare not unfair as long as\nacademic standards are\napplied equally; and fourth,\nthat the root of unequal\naccess to higher education is\nto be found, and must\ntherefore be remedied, at the\nlevel of unequally distributed\nwealth in our society.\nIt can be convincingly\nargued (although only at\nsome length) that these\nconsiderations involve\nconfused-thinking and do not\nstand up as objections to the\nconclusion that tuition waivers\nfor children of academics are\nunjust. It violates the principle\nof equality of educational\nopportunity to discriminate in\nfavor of a group of students,\nnot on grounds of special\nneed or merit, but for no\nbetter reason than that their\nparents have some special\nrelation with UBC. Children of\nacademics, with their\nfortunate background,\nalready attend university in\nvastly disproportionate\nnumbers and are the last\ngroup to require preferential\ntreatment. It other universities\nhave chosen to be unfair, so\nmuch the worse; it certainly\nisn't a good reason for UBC to\ndo*the same.\nIt's a sad truism that a\nperson's life chances in our\nsociety depend greatly on\nfamily background. Higher\neducation is becoming\nunaffordable for many\nchildren of impoverished\ngroups like welfare mothers or\nthe unemployed, and good\njobs tend to go to the well-\nconnected. The fact that\nelected governments preside\nover such injustice doesn't\nmake it any less unjust. No\nwonder young people who\nlose out in this rigged\ndistribution of social goods\nfeel betrayed by society,\nalienated and ready to betray\nin turn: to steal, lie, cheat and\nexploit fellow citizens\nwherever they can. By giving\ntuition waivers to an already\nprivileged group like spouses\nand offspring of academics,\nUBC will only contribute to a\nwidespread feeling that there\nis little justice in our society.\nKurt Preinsperg Is a fair\nminded philosophy grad\nstudent with a fondness for\ndialogue.\nPlease\nsupport\nUbyssey 0\nadvertisers\nSUMMER SEENE\nVOL. 16 NO. 1\nHello and welcome to Summer Session '87\nSummer Session\nAssociation\nThe Summer Session Association is the student\norganization of Summer Session; if you have any\nproblems, concerns or suggestions, please drop by our\noffice - main floor of SUB, opposite the candy counter.\nWe are there Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Phone\n228 - 4846\nSUMMER SOUNDS\nFREE, noon-hour concerts. Bring your\nlunch and a friend.\nWednesday, July 15:\nGary Keenan Quartet, SUB\nFriday, July 17:\nPhoenix Jazzers, SUB\nMonday, July 20:\nTBA, SUB\nWednesday, July 22:\nHorns R Us SUB\nMUSIC FOR A SUMMER EVENING\nFREE, Music Building Recital Hall,\n8:00 p.m.\nThursday, July 16\nKathleen Rudolph, flute\nRita Costanzi, harp\nThursday, July 23\nMichael Strutt, guitar\nLynne Pining, flute\nSUMMER SCREEN\nAll films are FREE to everyone! 7:30\np.m., IRC, Lecture Hall #2.\nFriday, July 17: The Colour of Money:\nAcademy Award winning performance by\nPaul Newman sparks this dramatic story of\ntwo generations of pool hustlers.\nTuesday, July 21: The Color Purple: This\nmoving story of the growth of a young\nwoman stars Whoopi Goldberg & Oprah\nWinfrey.\nBLOOD DONOR CLINIC\nThe Annual UBC Summer Session Blood\nDonor Clinic will be held Wednesday and\nThursday, July 22 & 23, in the Scarfe\nBuilding Lounge from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.\nPlease give - the Red Cross needs our help.\nJ news\n-July 15, 1987\nComputers rear ugly heads in news office\nBy ROSS MCLAREN\nThe AMS director of\nfinance has purchased new\ncomputer equipment to produce AMS publications.\nDon Isaak said the\n$20,000 investment would\nsave money producing The\nUbyssey, Inside UBC, and\nother in-house AMS publications.\n\"It is difficult to ascertain how much money will be\nsaved, but it will be enough to\nmake it worth while,\" said\nIsaak.\nMost Ubyssey staffers\nconsidered the new equipment an improvement over\npast systems.\n\"We've been working\nwith medieval equipment -\nwe've used the same production system for 70 years,\" said\nUbyssey editor Corinne Bjorge.\n\"Having the Macintosh will bring The Ubyssey into\nthe twentieth century and\nmake us more flexible in terms\nBroken campaign promise\nangers club members\nBy CORINNE BJORGE\nThe AMS Director of\nFinance is breaking a campaign promise he made in\nJanuary by not putting club\ninterest straight back into club\naccounts, according to Filmsoc member Dusan Milatovik.\n\"I stood up and asked\nDon (Isaak) if he would be\nwilling to deposit the interest\nmoney back into the projection booth account, and Don\nsaid yes\", said Milatovik.\nThe AMS business office currently administers all\nclub, constituent and business\noperation funds through a single account. The interest is\nthen directed into a general\naccount which supplements\nseveral AMS funds.\nIsaak said he didn't\nfully understand the issue before he got into office and he\nnow feels the current accounting system is a good\none for the AMS.\n\"I suppose I feel disconcerted (about the campaign promise)\", said Isaak,\nbut said the general fund is\nused as \"an instrument to facilitate growth within the\nAMS.\"\nIsaak said interest\nfrom the clubs is put toward\nthe SUB replacement fund,\nservice organizations such as\nCITR, and the subsidiary loan\nfund.\nSpreading the money\nbetween the clubs, constituencies and business operations is more in keeping with\nthe AMS philosophy, said\nIsaak.\nHowever, Milatovik\nsaid that clubs that earn the\nmoney are entitled to benefit\nfrom the interest gained on\ntheir accounts.\n\"When a film is run,\nthe money goes into the projection booth account. There\nis roughly $24,000 in the account currently, $4,200 of\nwhich FilmSoc paid last year\",\nsaid Milatovik. He said that\nFilmSoc would like the interest\nfrom their account to go towards buying new projectors.\nBut past Director of Finance, James Collins, who\nhas also faced pressure from\nclubs and constitutencies to\nchange the accounting system, said that subsidizing small\nclubs and other organizations\nwas the price that large clubs\nhad to pay in order to be equitable.\nAll Clubs, constituencies and business have benefitted from the system, including FilmSoc, said Collins, referring to the interest-free loans\nFilmSoc has held with the AMS\nin the past.\n\"Although the AMS\ndoes not pay out interest on\naccounts, it also does not\ncharge interest on loans to\nclubs and constituencies\",\nsaid Collins. And clubs dont't\npay administrative charges\nfor processing cheques and\nstatements\", he said.\nof layout and typestyle,\" she\nsaid.\nBut others at The\nUbyssey thought Isaak should\nhave purchased high quality\ntypesetting equipment at a\nhigher price.\n\"You get a higher resolution and better quality with\nreal equipment,\" said photographer Malcolm Pearson.\nThe problem with the\nMacintosh, Pearson said, \"is\nthat there are a lot of things\nyou can't do on the Mac\nscreen, such as turn copy upside down.\"\nIsaak said he was not\nopposed to purchasing the\nnew typesetter, but that it\nwould depend on the cost.\n\"The system Malcolm wants\ncosts around $40,000,\" Isaak\nsaid. \"We would have to test\nthe enterprise we have now\nand see which system would\nsave more money.\"\nAnything that saves\nmoney for Rebeccas students\nis worth it,\" he added.\nBesides typesetting\nThe Ubyssey, Isaak hopes to\nuse the Macintosh on a commercial basis, providing typesetting copy for books and\nacademic publications as\nwell as for advertising purposes.\nThe Student Administrative Commission will also\nbenefit from the new equipment: SAC chair Tim Bird\nsaid that a new constituency\nnewsletter will be printed on\nthe Macintosh.\nThe $20,000 purchase\nincluded five IBM compatible\ncomputers, one Macintosh SE,\none big screen for layout, one\nlaser writer, one dot matrix\nprinter, and software and\ndisks.\nHagen gives $16.4 million\nfor new chemistry building\nby CORINNE BJORGE\nChemistry students\nand faculty at UBC can now\nbreathe easily.\nA new $16.4 million\nchemistry/physics building will\nend years of crowded classrooms and poorly ventilated\nlaboratories.\nLast Thursday minister\nof advanced education and\njob training Stan Hagan announced a funding grant to\nthe university for the construction of the new building.\n\"It will herald a new\nthrust for science and technology\", said Hagen of the 80,000\nsquare foot facility which will\nbe constructed beside the old\nchemistry building. It will\nalso mean that UBC's chemistry department will no longer\nhave to lose potential re\nsearch contracts.\n\"There's a number of\nprojects that we could not\ncarry out because of inadequate facilities\", said Dr. Larry\nWeiler, chemistry, department\nhead.\nWeiler said that the\nnew facilities will include\nequipment for laser research,\nvery modern facilities for\npreparative chemistry and a\nstate of the art plant tissue culture facility which can produce \"very unusual and very\nvaluable chemicals\".\nIn the old chemistry\nbuilding the lack of a controlled environment in dealing\nwith hazardous chemicals\nmakes work difficult, said Weiler. Some of the equipment is\npoorly and inappropriately\nhoused, he added.\nBut the old chemistry\nbuilding won't be pushed to\nthe side without a fight. There\nare those who have a vision\nfor its continued use.\n\"It should be regarded\nas a heritage bulding,\" said Dr.\nCharles McDowell, university\nprofessor emeritus, who has\nbeen with the Chemistry department since 1955.\nMcDowell suggested\nthat the old chemistry building\nbe used to house a chemistry/physics library, simple social facilities, administrative\nrooms, small seminar rooms,\nand rooms with study carrols\nfor students.\n\"It could stimulate interest in this side of campus\",\nsaid McDowell.\n\u00C2\u00A3\u00E2\u0080\u009E!_*- \"**\u00E2\u0099\u00A6*\"'\n$*t$-V*yry>- Hm\u00C2\u00ABk\nUBC STUDENT RELAXES and makes out last will and testament arts\n: July 15,1987\nCINEPLEX LEAVES WESTSIDE\nBy LAURA BUSHEIKIN\nOn June 18th two movie theatres went dark: the Varsity\non Tenth Avenue, and the\nDunbar on Dunbar and Thirty\nSecond. On June 19th, the 7\nscreen Granville Cineplex\nopened. There is a connection between these two\nevents: the Cineplex Odeon\nCorporation holds the leases\n(until next year) on the Varsity\nand the Dunbar.\nThe closures have\nbeen met with dismay by\nwest side movie goers, whose\nchoice of movies in their\nneighborhoods will now be\nseverely limited.\n\"Now someone who\nwants to walk to a movie has\nto go all the way downtown,\"\nsays Dean Harkema (Arts 3), \"I\ndon't like the centralization,\nthey already have the Royal\nCentre Cineplex downtown.\"\nDavid Mitchell, UBC Filmsoc\nchairman, agrees: \"It's sad\nthat I have to go downtown\nto see a feature film.\"\nHarkema also feels\nthat the closures are \"a loss\nbecause the Varsity used to\nget lots of small independent\nfilms.\" However, according to\na source at the Cineplex\nhead office in Toronto, one of\nthe objectives of the corporation is to be able to show independant, foreign, and 'art'\nfilms which, because they\nonly attract a small audience,\nmay not be commercially viable for many movie houses.\nBecause the Cineplexes contain, within one complex, a\nvariety of theatres of various\nsizes, they can put big\nHollywood blockbusters in\ntheir big theatres, and independent, 'art' films in the small\ntheatres, and still fill most of\ntheir seats. They've had as\nfew as six people in to see a\nmovie, and still not had to\ndrop the movie. Their vast\noverall size gives them the\npower to bid for any movie\nthey want, and they kcan\nkeep movies playing even as\ntheir popularity wanes, by\nmoving them from a big theatre to a smaller one. Ideally,\nthen, they are broadening\nthe choices for movie-goers,\nand supporting alternative\nmovies. The Chairman of\nCineplex Odeaon, Garth Dra-\nbinsky, has won numerous\nawards from film festivals and\nsocieties for his contribution to\nmaintaining high standards in\nthe film industry.\nMitchell, who works at\nthe new Granville Cinemas,\nsays that Cineplex do appear\nto have a committment to\nshowing independent and\n'art' films.\n\"when we opened\nwe had Swimming to Cambodia and Hollywood Shuffle,\"\nhe says, \"Also, The Royal Centre has shown some really\ngood-and unusual- movies.\"\nHowever, Roy Mainland, manager of the Ridge\nTheatre, says that the Cineplex Corporation simply \"pays\nlip service to their philosophy.\nSure, they have brought-nn\nsome foreign and independent films, but they just throw\nthem up on the screen and\nwait for an audience. They\nhave no real committment to\ntheir movies.\" He beleives\nthat a market for several small\nsingle-screen cinemas does\nexist on the west side, if the\ncinemas are willing to \"work\nhard to promote their films-as\nwe do at the ridge, i make\nenough money to feed myself\nand my family. As a matter of\nfact, I've just renewed the\nlease into the 1990's.\"\n\"Cineplex Odeon has\na big monopoly. They're the\nlargest chain in North America. They can force things\nand manipulate the market.\nIt's important that the small independent theatres survive to\nkeep the big guys in check,\"\nsays Mainland.\n\"They've done a hell\nof a disservice to the movie\nindustry. Our enemy is not\neach other~we have a common enemy: Video. There's a\nwhole bunch of movie fans\non the west side. What if they\ndon't want to go downtown?\nThey'll rent a video.\"\nA Cineplex Odeon\nSpokesperson said that the\ncorporation was considerin\nVancouver's west side as a\npossible site for a new Cineplex.\nSummer Stock: student run theatre\nBy ROSS McLAREN\nEver think the inmates\nwould gain control? Well,\nthey did, at UBC Summer\nStock.\nSummer Stock, a theatre department project since\n1964, gives sixteen students\nhands-on experience in all areas of theatre. Students act,\nbuild sets, run lights, and sell\ntickets. They promote their\nown plays and choose their\ndirectors.\nThe workload, however, is intense. SS's four plays in\na ten week schedule leaves\nlittle time for rehearsal. As\nWright says, \"in winter, rehearsal time is four to five\nweeks. In SS we have a\ntwelve day rehearsal period.\"\nShorter rehearsal periods means the company\nmust work hard. Eight to fourteen hours a day they are at\nthe theatre, sometimes ten\ndays in a row, always six days\nout of seven.\nThese time constraints\ndevelop skills not forced in a\nlonger rehearsal period. \"You\nlearn to trust yourself,\" says\nWright, a two year SS veteran.\n\"You learn to be confident\nmaking decisions.\"\nSS also enlarges an\nactor's appreciation of the\ntheatre's technical operations.\nEach actor and actress\nspends one or two shows\nworking at the box office or as\na technician.\nSS actor Jason Smith,\nfor example, is a stage lighting\nhand in Bonjour, la.Bonjour, He\nsays the technical experience, \"opened up a whole\nside of theatre I didn't know.\"\nFor others, the technical experience was career\nchanging. Bruce Dow, profes\nsional director and SS graduate says, \"SS was great. I\nlearned so much doing it, and\nI wouldn't have gone into directing without that experience.\"\nOther professional\nactors who passed through SS\ninclude some of the great\nnames in Canadian theatre.\nJohn Grey, Brent Carver, Eric\nPeterson, Morris Panych and\nLarry Lillo studied at SS during\nthe 1960's.\nThen, as Professor\nNorman Young remembers,\n\"the students organized everything, including meals. The\nstar would be doing dishes\nright before the show. As students did it for nothing, they\nwould divide box office profits\nbetween the cast and crew.\nIt was really a communal approach to theatre.\"\nIn some ways that\ncommunal approach has\nchanged. In the 1970's, youth\nand student grants were introduced. This year the company receives Challenge '87\ngrants. However, the closeness that can only come from\nworking together day and\nnight remains.\n\"It's like having a family of sixteen,\" Wright says. \"We\nfight like mad, then have fun.\nRelating on stage, though, is\nsomething the SS company\nhas been doing well this year.\nLarge audiences or\nsmall, however, are not proper\ntools to judge Summer Stock's\nsuccess. Summer Stock is a\nlearning experience. And as\nactor Jason Smith says, \"every\nshow I progress one step towards being a better actor.\nSummer Stock will help later in\nthe professional world.\"\nTHE NEW AND\nBy ROSS McLAREN _\nV\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nAlternative galleries\nare places to see the new\nand the weird. Galleries like\nPitt International, Contempor\nrary Art, and Grunt show\"\nyoung artists, artists unknown\nand commercially unmar*-\"\nketable.\n\"We want galleries to\nget off a high pedestal\", says\nGrunt's publicist Jennifer Sinclair. \" We want to feature*\nyoung artists, artists on the\nfringe\".\nThe Pitt, one of Vancouver's better known galleries, also promotes the\navant-garde. \"We want to fa-\ncilitate young emerging\nartists\", says the Pitt's Daav\nMacNab. \"We give them c*--\nspace to exhibit works, works\nmade to express something\".\nThese works are often\nstrange: Ron Huebner's installation show, Who's afraid of\nthe Big Bad Wolf, at Contemporary, scattered realistic?*\nbones across the gallery.\nWolves, surrounded by forests*\nstared from the walls. I felt as\nif I had stumbled into another\nworld. Images of Auswitchz\nand Birkenau entered my\nmind. The effect was strong. -^\nAnother off-the-wall\nshow was Ken Gerberick's,.\nBrakelight. Gerberick pieced\ntogether car tail lens, and\nchrome and plastic pieces\ninto odd, sculptered shapes.\nAfter placing lights behind hi^\ncreations, Gerberick showed\nthem off in a dark room in the __\nPitt's downstairs gallery. The\"\neffect again was stunning.\nSummer Stock perform arts\n.July 15,1987\nTHE WEIRD\n- -effect again was stunning.\nThese shows,\nhowever, would almost never\nfind their way into Vancouver's\nmainstream art galleries. In-\ni itollation shows are one shot\naffairs; they cannot be sold.\nLjijpunq artists are not big\nnames, not marketable.\nHence they rarely find their\nway into galleries.\n\"Big galleries have to\n^make money\", Sinclair says.\n\"They can't afford to have\nweird shows or take risks on\n\" artists. We can do anything,\nlike installations, but you don't\nmake money off it\".\nLack of money is a\ncommon problem for the Pitt,\n\"\"Contemporary and Grunt. All\nare non-profit societies. The\n\"Tt-tt receives most of their\nmoney from Canada Council\ngrants, and Vancouver civic\nfund grants, while the Contemporary gallery receives\nCanada Council grants, B.C.\nCultural Fund grants, and Vancouver civic fund grants.\n\"We have a good relationship with Canada Council and B.C. Cultural\", says\nSuzanne Klassen, publicist for\nthe Contemporary. :We usually apply for money for every\n-TSttow, and we have received\na lot of support from these\n\u00E2\u0096\u00BA-agencies\".\nThe Grunt, however, is\nin a financially abysmal state.\nGrunt receives no money\nfrom Canada Council or B.C.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00BACultural but gets a $ l ,000\ngrant every year from Van-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2couver's civic fund.\nGrunt's financial instability, however is not an indi-\n\"*r / '-\n* : **\n'^f. !> *\ncation of the galleries vitality. \"Once you are involved,\nyou realize how lively thing\nare\", says Sinclair. \"There are\na large number of people involved with the gallery\".\nWhile financial instability ts a drawback to running an alternative gallery,\nthe benefit is freedom of\nartistic vision. Would anyone\nbut an alternative gallery, as\nthe Pitt now is, show Chilean\nArpillera's, or burlap wall\nhangings that depict political or social scenes peculiar\nto the poor of Santiago,\nChile. Probably not.\nBecause they reject\nthe marketplace, alternative\ngalleries remain poor and\nunderfunded.-But they are\nalso lively places where you\ncan only find the new and\nweird.\nChrissy and Big All Royce hang out\nBoom Boom come up to my room\nBy LAURA BUSHEIKIN\nThe Vancouver Conservatory of Theatrical Arts'\nproduction of David Rabe's In\nThe Boom Boom Room, playing at the Firehall Theatre, is a\nshowcase for a group of remarkably talented actors. Unfortunately they are battling\nwith a difficult play which, in\nspite of the actors' spirited efforts, bogs down dismally, especially in the second act.\nRabe's play, about a group of\nSixties' lowlife characters, inspires little sympathy for its\ncharacters, and sympathy is\nexactly what is needed to\nmake this play work.\nIn The Boom Boom\nRoom tells the story of Chrissy,\na young, naive girl who gets a\njob as a go-go dancer and\ndreams of being the greatest\ndancer in the world. But Chrissy, played by Mickey Brazeau,\nis maladjusted and misbegotten, and she has neither the\nemotional nor the intellectual\nwherewithal to cope with her\nown growing confusion, which\nis only exacerbated by the\nconfusions of her environment.\nThe play is set in the\nsixties, but its not filled with\nlove-ins and flower-power.\nRather, the play exposes the\ndarker side of the sixties. The\nword 'sordid' might have been\ninvented to describe Chrissy's\nworld. The play is populated\nby the sort of characters who\nyou wouldn't want to sit next\nto on a bus. Chrissy's lover Al,\nplayed by William Croft, is an\nin-and-out-of jail truck driver.\nHis companion Ralphie (Gerry\nRousseau) is a scruffy, menacing psycho who uses drugs to\nenhance his natural mania.\nChrissy's neighbor, Guy (Larry\nBettiol), is a flamboyant homosexual who likes to visit her to\nshare his 'screamers'-his word\nfor a REALLY bad day. Her other companions are Eric (Gregory Kramer), a maladjusted\nloser going through therapy,\nand the other go-go dancers\nfrom the club.\nPoor Chrissy never\nhad much going for her. Her\nmother wanted her to be an\nabortion, and her father beat\nand sexually molested her.\nThe breakdown of norms and\nvalues that marked the sixties\nbewilders her. She doesn't\nknow who she is or what she\nwants-so she turns blindly,\nand pathetically, to astrology\nto guide her. Also, she is confused about her sexuality-she\nis unable to have a successful\nrelationship with a man, so she\nconsiders lesbianism,but eventually degenerates into a state\nof confusion so deep that she\nwonders whether she is a man\nor a woman.\nThe play records Chris\nsy's disintegration, through a\nseries of scenes with the other\ncharacters, and long, intense\nmonologues. These monologues, though, are TOO long,\nTOO intense, and too repete-\ntive. Again and again we\nwatch Chrissy break down\ncompletely and scream and\nshout and wail. The intensity\neventually undermines itself\nand becomes numbing, f\nfound myself, half way\nthrough the second act, wondering when Chrissy would\nreach her ultimate downfall\nand stop screaming-in other\nwords, when this play was going to end,\nAnother problem with\nthe play is that Chrissy is simply\ntoo stupid and insensitive to\ncommand our sympathy. If\nwe are going to care about\nthe degeneration of a human\nbeing, we must have some\nsense of the potential value of\nthat human life.\nThe problems with the\nplay are equalled by the sweltering heat in the theatre. It's\na shame to see actors working\nso hard when, because of the\nsauna-like atmosphere, you\ncan't give them the attention\nthey deserve.\nDespite the problems\nthe play is well worth seeing.\nJust remember to wear shorts.\nrs in What the Butler Saw editorial\n-July 15,1987\ndream on\nUBC administrators have developed a plan to make\nmore money: they propose to build faculty and market housing\non approximately 115 hectares of the 680 hectare University\nEndowment Lands' forest. Property sales are expected to net\nthe university a bundle.\nThe big problem is that the UEL is not university land to\ndevelop; it is crown land, administered by the Greater\nVancouver Regional District.\nPresident Strangway claims a \"moral\" right to the UEL,\nbased on the public perception equating the Lands with the\nuniversity. But in 1987. as our city continues to expand, the importance of that perceived right pales when measured against\nthe priceless value of an unspoiled park and teaching area for\nthe future.\nThe money gained from the project would be quickly\nspent: the facilities at Physical Plant, for instance, need upgrading to the tune of $100 million, the estimated revenue from the\nproposed land sales. Would we then proceed to destroy the\nrest of the natural parklands for similar schemes?\nBetter to stick to more traditional fundraisers like pressuring the provincial government to start funding post-secondary education adequately.\nBAMK Of CAfvAPA- BANQOt DU CM\nt\n5___J? 0N\u00C2\u00A3^ UN\nDouf-*?\nC-ANAPA\nTf\u00C2\u00BBw\u00C2\u00AB Ti MoL-rttt* <_i6AL T*tNDC<.\n<^\u00C2\u00A5\n3***JW4\u00C2\u00AB\n_&_-\nvtcro* yona- utyssty '*T7\nFreewheeling promiscuity is a chilling prospect\nBy KURT PREINSPERG\nI'm still in a daze after\na talk with my doctor. Within\na decade, he said, half the\nworld's population may well\ncarry the sexually transmitted\nAIDS virus - a prospect to chill\nany rational person's promiscuous ardor.\nperspective\nIt was hard enough\nbefore the AIDS scare to persuade many women of the\ndelights of casual sex. Now\nevents have taken such a\nbizarre turn that a man had\nbetter think twice about the\nfavors of easily persuaded\nwomen. The dilemma that\nsafe sex is no longer easy and\neasy sex is no longer safe\ntakes the fun out of frequenting pickup places and has a\ngeneral estranging effect on\ndealings between the sexes.\nSexual frustrations are destined to reach new and perhaps explosive heights. It's a\ngrim situation and grist for the\nmill of both secular and religious prudes.\nWhat is the\nmost responsible attitude for a\nsex-loving hedonist in the face\nof the AIDS epidemic?\nCelibacy or prolonged\nmonogamy are obviously\ncounsels of despair rather\nthan palatable alternatives.\nFiddling around with condoms, always a lust-damper,\nmay be a necessary nuisance\nsometimes, but condoms\naren't failsafe and of dubious\nuse in case of oral sex.\nWhat I've decided is\nthis. When I'm ready to sleep\nwith someone new, I make it a\nhabit to have an AIDS test and\nask the other person to do the\nsame. The fact that current\ntests will detect anti-bodies\nwhich only develop six to ten\nweeks after infection isn't a\ncrucial problem in practice\nbecause few people change\nsex partners within less than 10\nweeks. If neither my potential\npartner nor I have slept with\nanyone new for at least 10\nweeks and both of us test\nnegative, chances are overwhelming that we are virus-\nfree. Of course, we need to\ntrust each other's information.\nWe also need to agree to\nsleep only with each other for\na period or else with a small\ncircle of trustworthy friends\nwho observe similar precautions.\nTry saying something\nlike this: \"If we were to become sexually involved, let's\nclear up one fear im sure both\nof us have. Let's head over to\nStudent Health together and\nget an AIDS test, what do you\nthink?\"\nIn fact, I went to\nStudent Health myself the other day. They're a terrific team\nof medical wizards, but - two\nminor criticisms for good measure. First.they could do more\nto encourage worried stu\ndents to get tested for AIDS.\nSecond, they could speed up\nthe turnaround time for these\ntests. When people feel a\nsense of sexual urgency, a 2\n1 /2 week wait is too long.\nAIDS has clearly put the\nideal of freewheeling promiscuity in limbo. But given intelligent precautions, it's not at all\nclear to me that a responsible\nperson needs to kiss sexual variety goodbye.\nKurt Preinsperg is a perennial\nphilosophy graduate student\nwho changes sexual partners\nfrequently and likes to read\nbooks on social eauity while\nlying in a hamok\nProtest US militarism\nletters\nThirteen warships are scheduled to arrive in Vancouver\nduring the annual Sea Festival\nthis weekend. The people of\nVancouver who ore opposed\nto these instruments of aggression on a world scale will stage\nprotest actions against them\non July 17 and 18.\nThe two superpowers are\nstepping up their arms race\nand widely dispersing their\nnavies in contention for world\ndomination. By using\nVancouver Harbour as a base\nfrom which to launch its aggressions, the U.S. has been\nstationing nuclear capable\nwarships here on a regular basis. The Canadian government\ncollaborates completely in\nthese militarist schemes owing\nto the astronomical profits it\nshares with the US monopolies\nin all war-related industries.\nJust recently, the\nCanadian government released its \"White Paper\" on defence in which it flatly states\nthat it will spend $180 billion\nfor a new military-industrial\ncomplex in order to \"share the\nburden of defence' with the\nUS. Clearly, the government is\nmilitarising the economy (and\nall aspects of life) in full participation in the aggressive militarist policies of the U.S., thereby draining the public purse of\nsocial services and education\nfunding, increasing the tax\nburden on the people, and\ncontributing to a volatile\nworld situation.\nThe militarisation of\nCanada by the U.S. with the\nconsent and aid of the\nCanadian government takes\nplace in the social and cultural spheres as well. By holding\nsuch activities as the U.S.\nNavy's \"Dial-a-Sailor\" program,\nand by giving the U.S. Navy a\nhigh profile at the Sea Festival,\nthe U.S. imperialists are attempting to subvert Canadian\nculture and traditions in order\nto de-sensitize the people in\nregards to the U.S. military\npresence and render them\npassive to the war preparations.\nBut, just as the world's\ntions.\nBut, just as the world's\npeoples are struggling against\nthe war preparations of both\nsuperpowers and for their national liberation, the people of\nB.C. have also been making a\ngreater practical contribution\nto peace. They have been\nstaging spirited demonstrations against the U.S. warships,\nas well as against the Cruise\nmissile tests and the Nanoose\nBay testing range.\nIt is absolutely necessary for all peace-loving\nCanadians to take up this\nstruggle against the two superpowers. Come and join\nthe actions against the 13 U.S.\nwarships on July 18 at 12:30 at\nRobson Square, then at 2:00\nat Ballantyne Pier the same\nday. Flotilla and dockside actions the day the ships arrive\nwill be announced when further information is available.\nBarb Waldern\npeople's front\nFOOD AND BREVERAGE SERVICES\nThe Alma Mater Society of B.C.\nStudent\nLargest Selection of Draft in B.C.\nBeer & Burger Specials M onday thru Saturday\nShooter Specials - Wed., Fri. & Saturday\nMusic and Dancing - Wednesday thru Saturday\nUnion\nBuilding\nmm.\nft\nLocc\nDc\nNachos, Pizzc\nTi LSET\nZJ\nal Artists on Display\nlily Drink Specials\n3 & Submarine Sandwiches\nlumauNiS\nT000 TOR IHWW\nBreakfast, Lunch & Dinner\nDaily Specials including Lasagne,\nStroganoff, Chili, Fresh Pasta,\nHomemade Soups, Desserts and full Salad Bar\nSNACK\nATTACK\nFeaturing Gourmet Hot Dogs,\nHomemade Muffins and Cinnamon Buns,\nServed with our Special Orange Drink or a\ncool refreshing Ice Cream Cone -July 15,1987-\nDeath penalty debate was just a show\nBy MICHAEL GROBERMAN\nBrian Mulroney's spectacular, flawlessly choreographed \"capital punishment\" show was a triumph of\ntheatre, rivalling even the\nThen came trouble:\nthe same polls that had told\nBrian more Canadians will\nvote Conservative if you\npromise a free death penalty\nvote now told him Canadians\nPerspective\nstunning Cats.\nThe recently defeated\nmotion on the death penalty\npretended to be substantive.\nThe big \"as promised in 1984\"\nfree vote. In reality, it was a\nmotion carefully designed for\nfailure, and its introduction\nprovides a clear look into Brian\nMulroney's amazing political\nsavvy.\nBack in 1984, when\nBrian would have promised\njust about anything if it would\nget a couple more votes, he\nnoticed a poll that indicated\na majority of Canadians enjoyed the idea of capital punishment. So, although he opposed the death penalty, he\nmade a free vote an election\npromise, thereby astutely\nplacing his principles in a blind\ntrust. He got elected and\ncarefully forgot the promise.\nthought he stunk as prime minister. And so Brian got an\nidea. He dragged that old\npromise out of its inter-election\nmothballs, and staged a big,\nglitzy, eye-catching melodrama to capture, or rather redirect, the Canadian imagination.\nHis dilemma: how to\nappear to hold a free vote\nwithout actually risking a return to capital punishment.\nFirst, the bill could not\nbe a justice ministry bill to return the death penalty for specific crimes as detailed in the\nbill. That would be too clear a\nproposal to debate: keep it\nvague and philosophical was\nrule one.\nSo he introduced a\nvague, philosophical motion.\nActually, he got Don\nMazankowski to get Doug\nCouncil Briefs\nNOTES ON MAY 27TH\nA telegram has been sent to the Provincial Government by students council to protest proposed changes to the Elections Act.\nSuggested changes include the removal of Section 80, used\nby students as last minute voting registration. The telegram\nurged the government not to take any action which would result in the disenfranchisement of students.\nStudent Council is having difficulty giving away awards again\nThe Great Trekker Award had its nomination dates extended last\nyear when students failed to respond to requests for nominations. The Award is annually given to a UBC Alumni who has\ncontributed to the advancement of the University community.\nNominations were to be open from June 4th to June 30th but\nhave been extended pending student input on nominations.\nNOTES FOR JUNE 3RD\nThe AMS has decided to formulate its own policy statement\nbased on \"the newest and most up-to-date facts on AIDS\", according to Todd Ablett, science rep., and has offered to gather\nthe information and make it available to students.\nQUORUM WAS NOT REACXHED ON JUNE 17TH\nNOTES ON JULY 8TH\nDisabled Students Association may be given 'service organiza-\nfion' status on July 22nd. Although no formal outline of a service organization is written in the AMS constitution, AMS Vice\nPresident Jody Woodland said that 'it allows funding above\nwhat you can get in grants\".\nThe Faculty Association's request for tuition waivers for\nchildren of academics prompted Students Council to send a\nletter of protest to the Association and to President Strangway .\n\"It's fine if tuition is waived for need or merit,\" said Kurt\nPreinspurger, grad. students rep.,\"but not for being somebody s\noffspring.\"'\nQUOTE OF THE WEEK\n\"Last year it was $35 and this year we're throwing in a pair of\noveralls.\"\n- director of administration, Tim Bird on the $5 fee in\ncrease for the leadership Conference.\nhair and suntanning co.\n5784 University Boulevard Phone 224 - 1922\n224-9116\nLewis, a mere backbencher,\nto introduce the motion. Brian\nwasn't even in the house\nwhen it came up.\nAs planned, the bill\nwas too vague for anyone to\nbe certain what was being\ndebated. The motion would\napprove a very violent governmental act but would not\neven mention the specific\ncrimes to which it might be\napplied.\nA committee would\nthen be struck and given the\nmacabre task of travelling the\ncountry all summer, asking\nCanadians who the state\nshould kill, and how it should\nkill them.\nThe press coverage\nthis committee would receive,\nas Brian rightly noted, would\nbe sensational and revolting.\nAfter a summer of such coverage, a new bill would be introduced, full of specifics like\n\"death by suffocation for\narmed robbery\". Then the voting would start again: four free\nvotes (three readings and a\nreport stage) would follow,\ntaking easily longer than the\none year left before the next\nelection. And even if the bill\nsurvived all this, Brian could\ncertainly count on the\nTrudeau-Liberal dominated\nSenate never to allow its passage.\nBrian could well have\nfought the next election self-\nrighteously attacking the\nSenate. He may even have\nbeen hoping, secretly, for\nsuch and outcome.\nSo with five free votes\nand at least one travelling\ndeath squad between Brian\nand capital punishment, the\nshow began. Tory Backbench\nlunatic Bill Domm, on the first\nday of debate, wailed about\nchain-saw murderers in\nMontreal. The Globe and Mail\nkept a running tally of which\nMP supported which side.\nMacleans gave it two covers.\nPolice chiefs, Eddie\nGreenspan, victims' families all\nentered the stage. This was\nhigh drama indeed.\nBrian cleverly saved\nhimself for the grand finale,\nspeaking in the last week of\ndebate, condemning the barbaric practice of capital punishment in his best parliamentary speech to date.\nThe result: a 21 vote\nmajority defeated the motion.\nThe deciding factor all along\nwas the Quebec Tory caucus,\na caucus to which the prime\nminister belongs and to which\nhe is particularly sensitive. He\nknew he had the bill defeated\nwhen he allowed closure to\nend debate.\nAnd so Mulroney kept\nhis promise to the people of\nCanada and had the big free\nvote. For political reasons he\ngambled with human lives (albeit with humanely loaded\ndice) and won. He kept a\npromise, and successfully redirected public attention from\nan unpopular government for\nthree months.\nMichael Groberman is a neurotic English student and ex-\nUbyssey editor.\nWORDPOWER\n3709 W. 10th Ave.\nWord Processing\nDesktop Publishing\nDicta-typing\nEditing\nSpecialists in term papers,\ntheses and resumes\nMon-Fri: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.\nSat: 9 am. to 5 p.m.\nTelephone: 222-2661\nSP**\n30C\n_*oc\nSOC\nTHE CLASSIFIEDS Phone 228 -2301\nProfessional typist, 30 years\nexperience. Word processing, IBM typewriter. Student\nrates. Dorothy Martinson,\n228-8346.\nlong distance and overseas\nmoves. 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The committee\nwould appoint sexual\nharassment officers, organize\npanels to help resolve disputes\nand recommend disciplinary\naction, and oversee university\nsexual harassment policy.\nMegan Ellis, a UBC law\nstudent who worked last year\nin the sexual harasssment\nclinic at the Women's Center,\nsaid the proposed sexual\nharassment advisory\ncommittee does not\nguarantee that all UBC\nconstituencies will be\nrepresented.\nEllis is also concerned\nthat the committee members\nmight have insufficient\nknowledge of the subject.\n\"Everybody thinks they know\nsomething about sexual\nharassment or rape, when\nactually they don't,\" she said.\n\"There should be some kind of\n\"IMPROVE YOUR MARKS!\"\nOlAC ^ord Services\nEDITING - WORD PROCESSING - CONSULTATION\n306 - 17D1 WW,BROADWAY 737-8111\nTake in canoeing, fishing, golfing, hiking,\nwindsurfing, and much more without\n\"dropping a bundle\" on your accommodation\nLow Rates for Everyone\nFEATURES\nLarge Main Lounge with Fireplace\nSauna Jacuzzi\nDorm Style Sleeping Areas\nNewly Renovated Washrooms and Showers\nGroup Bookings & Reservations:(604) 228 - 5851\nor 228-6540\nPrincess Cruises\nAlaska 7 Day Cruises\nfrom Vancouver\nSun Princess\nInside Cabin\nOutside Cabin\n$899oo c_n\n$109900 cdn\n(plus port taxes)\nAugust 12th,19,h& 26th\nSeptember 9th\nIsland Princess\nInside Cabin $999*30 cdn\nOutside Cabin $119900 cdn\n(plus port taxes)\nJuly 18th & 25th, August 29th\nSeptember 5th & 12th\nFor further information & bookings\ncall: Therese Seguna\nat the Village UBC 224 - 4391\nP. 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