"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-08-26"@en . "2000-10-27"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0126355/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " \JBC AiclliTWi Sotial I Friday. October 27.2000\nloito^\n9** om\nPage Fridav-the Ubvssey Magazine\nCLASSIFIEDS\niriMmimirmtwM r^w^M\nnTTrriTTiTirTlT\nROOM AND BOARD ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN\nAND MEN IN SINGLE & SHARED\n(DOUBLE) ROOMS IN TOTEM\nPARK & PLACE VANIER RESIDENCES. The UBC Housing Office has\nvacancies in single and shared (double)\nrooms in the junior residences for September. Room and board (meal plan; is\navailable in the Totem Park and Place\nVanier student residences for qualified\nfemale and male applicants in single and\nshared (double) rooms on a first-come-\nfirst-served basis. 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Ticket prices include GST and\nare subject to Ticketmaster service charges.\nCALL 899-RUSH (7874) Page Fridav-the Ubyssey Magazine\nNews\nFriday. October 27.20001\nBC tuition rates remain frozen\nBut timing of Dosanjh announcement criticised\nbyAilin Choo\nThe recent announcement to freeze\nBC tuition fees for a sixth consecutive year has received praise from\neducation and student groups, but\nhas some people raising questions\nabout its timing.\nIn the past few years, the BC\ngovernment had declared an extension of a tuition freeze in the\nspring, but this year, the plan was\nunveiled by Premier Ujjal Dosanjh\nat a forum held at the University of\nVictoria on Tuesday.\n\"The sixth year of the freeze will\nhelp maintain affordable education,* said Dosanjh at the forum.\nThe average cost of tuition at BC\nuniversities is $2280 per year,\ncompared with $3841 in Alberta\nand $3971 in Ontario schools. With\nthe exception of Quebec, BC tuition\nis the lowest in Canada.\nBut the timing of the announcement ha3 drawn criticism from\nJohn Weisbeck, the MLA for\nOkanagan East and the BC Liberal\nParty's critic for advanced education issues.\nWeisbeck said that the Liberals\nsupport a tuition freeze, but suggested that the early announcement is a \"political ploy\" by the\nNDP government to gain support\nfor the upcoming provincial election, which is expected to be called\nby next spring.\nAlma Mater Society (AMS)\nPresident Maryann Adamec said\nthat while she is 'extremely\nhappy' with the decision, she also\nsees the upcoming election as a\npossible motivation for the\nannouncement\n\"It could be a way for the NDP to\nstrenghten support from one of\ntheir core support groups,' she\nsaid.\nThe Premier's Office denies the\naccusations. Shari Graydon, a\nspokesperson in the office, said\nthat the government has student\nbenefits in mind and contends that\nthe early announcement was not of\na political nature.\n'If it was pure politics, it would\nbe smarter to wait until an election\nwas called,' she said.\nGraydon said the early\nannouncement was aimed at helping students and families make\nfinancial plans for next year and\nensuring student accessibility for\npost-secondary education.\nRobert Clift, executive director\nof the Confederation of University\nFaculty Associations of BC, agreed\nthat the government has done a\ngood job of increasing access to students. But he cautioned that with\nany tuition freeze, cost pressures in\nthe education system must also be\nconsidered. ,\n\"You have to create access to a\nsystem that i3 worth having access\nto,\" he said, noting that BC universities do not have as much funding\nper student as comparable schools\nin other provinces.\nThe BC government, however,\nalso announced that, like the past\nyear, BC schools will also to be compensated for the revenue lost by the\nfreeze.\nClift, however, said that this\neffort may not be enough to close\nthe funding gap with other\nprovinces and also deal with such\nconcerns as recruiting and retaining faculty by making salaries more\ncompetitive with those in the US. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n-with files from Cynthia Lee\nand Canadian University Press\nGAP came back\nAnti-abortion display provoked only\nnon-violent protest this time around\n by Alex Dimson choice,\" intended to give students\npnrr\nAs protesters glared, and Campus\nSecurity and UBC officials hovered\nnearby, a pro-life student group,\nonce again displayed highly controversial anti-abortion images on\nWednesday.\nThe display used images from\nthe Genocide Awareness Project\n(GAP), which juxtaposes graphic\nphotos of aborted fetuses with photos of the Holocaust and racist lynch-\nings.\nAccording to Stephanie Gray,\npresident of Lifeline, the\nAlma Mater Society (AMS)\npro-life club that organised the display, the purpose of the display is to\n'educate people about the\nhorror of abortioa\"\n\"We use graphic\nimages, as disgusting as\nthey are, to bring the abortion issue in sight so it\ncomes into people's\nminds,' she said.\nBut Erin Kaiser, a\nGRAY\nprotester\nagainst the display, said she believes\nthe GAP display constitutes 'hate literature.'\n\"I'm. a Jewish woman\nwho had an abortion and 1\ntake serious offence about\nthe comparison between\nthe Holocaust and abortion,\" she said. 'I think\nthat it is suggesting that I\nam a Nazi because of the\npersonal choice I made\nand I don't think that's a\nfair thing to say at all.\"\nAlan Rowan, a BC Civil\nLiberties Association\nROMAN\n(BCCLA) representative who attended the display, said the images have\nthe right to be shown.\n\"I don't necessarily agree with\ntheir ideas...I think the big point\nhere is that they should have access\nto the forum,' said Rowan, who\nadded that the BCCLA was concerned by the actions of three students\u00E2\u0080\u0094including Kaiser\u00E2\u0080\u0094who tore\ndown the GAP display when it first\narrived on campus last November.\nWednesday, protesters stood on\nchairs roughly 50 feet from the display, waving signs bearing such slogans as 'No Hate on Campus' and\n'Keep your rosaries off my ovaries.'\nAttempting to create a barrier to\nblock the line of view to the display,\nsome protesters held up large\norange banners that read, \"It's your\nthe option of approaching the display. The protest was organised by\nthe pro-choice club Students for\nChoice.\nProtesters also passed around\npetitions, asking the deans of students' respective faculties to disc-\npline Lifeline students for the display. According to Kaiser, about 403\nletters were signed.\nGray, meanwhile, said the display was successful, citing that discussion took place and 'people are\nthinking about the issue.'\nUBC's Vice-President,\nStudents Brian Sullivan\nagreed, adding that students and others passing\nby seemed to hear opinions on both sides of the\nissue.\n\"I didn't hear a lot of\nharanguing...Most of what\nI saw was some sort of\nconstructive engagement'\nsaid Sullivan, whose office\ngranted Lifeline permission to go ahead with the display.\nBut Hannah Roman, a representative of Students for Choice, said\nthat Lifeline 'does not intend to create a health debate.'\n\"If a healthy debate is\nfostered then that i3 an\nunintentional consequence of what they do.\nWhat they intend to do is\nshock and disturb people,\nand certainly people have\nbeen shocked and disturbed,' said Roman.\nThe display also provoked various reactions\nfrom students walking by.\nCourtney Friesea a second-year\nApplied Science student who\ndescribed himself as pro-life, said\nthat he was undecided about GAFs\nusefulness, but added that he\nenjoyed speaking with some of the\npro-choice protesters.\n\"They've been very polite and\ngenuine, and wrong, but that's\nanother issue,\" he said.\nAlternatively, John Sheridan, a\nthird-year Art3 student who said he\nis undecided about abortion, said\nthat he was 'completely disgusted'\nby the display.\nGray, meanwhile, indicated that\nLifeline may bring the display back\nagain this year. UBC has given permission for the club to put up two\nimages considerably larger than\nthose displayed on Wednesday. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\ni\\ 4 ;.-n .. 1 ^\n7 s .\"'- 7 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 l-'-7\" ii- !>' V\ v\ \\nI'\nA : \\n* ill *\nt\n* * t *1\nS\nPOINTING FINGERS: Lifeline member Caireen Piper (centre) argues with pro-choice supporters in front\nof the anti-abortion display that came to campus Wednesday, tara westover photo\nMan arrested\nDeath threat against UBC student\nmay he linked to his protesting GAP\ni\nby Alex Pimsort\nA person was arrested on campus\nyesterday and charged with uttering a death threat possibly in connection with the Genocide\nAwareness Project (GAP)'s\nappearance on campus on\nWednesday.\nMatt, \ UBC student who\nrequeued not to be identified by\nhis full name, said (hat he was\nconfronted near the bus loop by a\nmale just after 1:00pm yesterday.\n\"He came up lo me and told\nme Ulan 'You're lucky I don't have\nanjihijog on me or you would be\ndead' and trie next lime he saw\nme he would kill me,\" Matt said,\nadding that the male in question\nalso used homophobic slurs.\nMatt, who ia a member of\nStudents for Choice (SFC)-lhe\npro-choice group that organised a\nprotest against the anti-abortion\nGAP display-said that he had\nencountered tlie person for the\nfirst time when he was waiting lo\nuse a osy phone earlier that day.\n'He turned around and told\nme (o mind my own fucking business/ he said of the incident.\nConstable Danielle Efford of\nthe campus RCMP detachment\nconfirmed last night that a man\nwas ai rested yesterday for uIut-\ning a ihieat. but could not reveal\nany further details.\nMall said that lie feit 'very\nscared* during the incident and\nthat the man was confrontational.\nMalt said that he flagged down a\nPlant Operations worker after the\nencounter. The worker stayed\nwith him while he called Campus\nSecurity using a blue light phone.\nMatt said that Campus Security\narrived shordy and cornered iho\nman in die books-tore. He tried to\nescape, but was detained until he\nwas arrested by the RCMP.\nHe raised the possibility that\ntlie threat could be related to his*\nparticipation in \hc SFC protest,\nalthough he was unsure of this\nsuggestion. At the protest against\nGAP, Malt was carrying a Queers\nfor Choice' sign.\nErin Ka.i-fcr, who has been\nacUve ;n oppor\.;on to GAP, said\nthat ihe group SFC is currer.'Jv\nreviewing photographs of the\ne-ier.t to deU-mur\u00C2\u00BBe whether the\nman arrested was present She\nsaid that she is uncertain whether\nthere is a link, but de?ms it \"a possibility that this is likely the case.*\n\"The IhnLr.g is suspicious,\" she\nsaid.\nS:udenls for Choice has issued\na warning lo its members regarding ihe mi idenl to remain vigilant\nand ba careful.\nMatt intends lo pui sue charges\nagainst the -nan arrested. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 I Friday. October 27.2000\nNews\nPage Fridav-the Ubvssey Magazine\nFAll SPECIAL! i\nMever had incredible nails before? Mow it's time! |\nflCKlUC $55 $45 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nProtesters angry with university\nrestrictions on their demonstration\nCtL\n$55\n$65\n$45\n$55\nby Alex Dimson\n,$5 CMP,\ni\norGet^^P ^jrjCWAiRAWDOmERasnaKl I\nCoupon fixpirss tJov. 15 2000. 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BROADWAY . 133-5b48|\n\"Tvetytfiitig Under\nTneSunl'\nJY M$.$j$f\u00C2\u00A7 \"^MJH (rteStSpBiajM Y\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 p pw^ng craflfjimpiisfijitibiB Oyer JuMdife\n4S0, HSvcyourcMWs p\u00C2\u00AB50\u00C2\u00ABoj sofety riftKrujtients\n: Y7fflWegfil IC8C^|ptf t PHoroJD\"Y;Y;:\n^jEtJinif f^s&|pg Raffle, 50/50 Cash Y\nYcDtwSilaiti&Cifliit^wJibfi, wew & dsed\nC/ptJiing, Belts, wnfcte&'/iw...\n2000\nIIADASSAII\nBAZAAR\t\n\ \^ \"Tfi& \"Biggest Qne> Day Shopping Spreeiit Towrt \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\npkwsote Wed., Nov. 1st \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 9am-9pm [\nOttrtfwZoftiftyn \u00C2\u00AE Tin; Coilsh u IKudixg, VNE |\n2 for 1 Entry With This Coupon!\n1\nI\nL.\n'tntftutce-\nS3\n-Under 12\nSenior*\n$2\nStudent organisers of the protest\nagainst Wednesday's anti-abortion\ndisplay say they are upset about the\nrestrictions placed on their protest\nby the university.\nHannah Roman, a Students for\nChoice executive, said Campus\nSecurity had made an earlier\narrangement with her pro-choice\nstudent group that the protest must\nbe outside a ten-foot radius from\nthe controversial display of\nGenocide Awareness Project (GAP)\nimages.\n'And when\nwe got here this\nmorning they\ntold us we had\nto be 50 feet\naway from the\ndisplay,* she\nsaid Wednesday.\nBut UBC\nVice-President,\nStudents Brian\nSullivan said that Students for\nChoice had not made any arrangements with UBC to hold a protest\nso close to the display.\n'Students for Choice evidently\ndecided that they wanted to have a\ncertain kind of presence there,\nwhich the university administration Was happy to have them have,'\nhe said. \"But it was also important\nthat it not obscure or disrupt the\nalready agreed upon display so\nthey were asked to move back.\"\nStudents for Choice had also\noriginally planned to surround the\nGAP display with sheets to prevent\nstudents from seeing the display\nuntil they were nearby. The display, which compares abortion to\ngenocide using graphic images,\nwas organised by the Alma Mater\nSociety's pro-life club Lifeline.\nRoman alleges that the university was intimidated by a letter sent\nto her, and copied to the VP,\nStudents office, by Lifeline's lawyer\nCraig Jones, who is also the president of the BC Civil Liberties\nAssociation (BCCLA).\nIn the letter, Jones warns\nStudents for Choice that Lifeline\nwould likely seek legal recourse if\nthe students went ahead with the\n\"shrouding' of the display.\nBut Sullivan said that the letter\nplayed no role in UBC's decision.\nIn the past UBC filed a legal injunction against the organisers of the\noriginal GAP\ndisplay, to prevent it from\ncoming to\ncampus.\n'Obviously\nthe university\nis not afraid to\nengage -' in\nsome sort of\nlegal stuff.\nWe've been\ninto that with\nGAP. Nothing\nin the relationship I've had with\nLifeline or the AMS or anyone else\nJONES\nROWAN\nIf you would like to win breakfast with President Martha Piper on\nTuesday, November 7th, 2000 from 7:30-9:00 a.m.\nplease contact The Ceremonies Office by email\n\u00E2\u0080\u009E at kking<3?exchange.ubc.ca with the following information:\n'first and last name\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 faculty\n'program of study\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 current year\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 student number\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 mailing address\n'phone number\nThe first 25 students to respond will win breakfast with the President!\nDeadline for entries is Wednesday, November 1st at 4:30pm.\nOnly those individuals selected will be contacted.\nat UBCJ'l*.\n\\%\nNJOUR, LA,\nNJOUR\n1ICHEL TREMBLAY\nI/QWmlr 8UREK & BILL glassco\n*eM\u00C2\u00A9Jej\u00C2\u00AB<4!fottt\nNOV-1-11\nJMON-SAT 7:30PM 7\nTELUS STUDIO THEATRE\n'CHAN CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS\nJTICKETSj R\u00C2\u00A3<5 $lp ST/SR $10\n[PREVIEW $6 NOVEMBER 1\n.FREDERIC WOOD BOX OFFICE\n822-2678\nKEEPING THEIR DISTANCE: Pro-choice picketers were asked to stay back\nfrom the GAP display, tara westover photo\nhas been influenced by an actual or\nthreatened lawsuit,\" he said.\nRoman said that she thinks\nJones' letter was an 'intimidation\ntactic'\n'What he\nintended to do\nwas scare us so\nmuch that we\nwouldn't actually have our\nprotest'\nBut Jones\nsaid that he\nsent the letter\nonly to ensure\nthat his clients\nhad a right to\nexpress their views.\n\"If it is okay for this majority to\nsimply gather together and cover\nup the expression of the minority,\nthen you simply are not going to\nhave any minority expression at\nall.*\nWhile BCCLA Treasurer Alan\nRowan agreed that it is very\nimportant that Lifeline be permitted to display the images, he said\nhe isn't sure if he's satisified with\nUBC's decision to restrict the protesters.\n\"It's a defacto bubble zone,' he\nsaid, referring to the provincial legislation that makes it illegal to\nprotest within a certain distance to\nabortion clincs. 'I'm not sure we're\nreally happy with this, but in the\ninterests of security perhaps some\ntimes you do need these kinds of\nsegregation zones.'\nRowan also said that\nhe wanted to emphasise\nthat Jones was not acting\nas a representative for\nthe BCCLA in the letter to\nRoman.\nJones said that the\nassociation is aware of\nhis involvement with\nLifeline members and\nthat he has agreed to\nexclude himself from any\nmeetings in which his\nclients are discussed.\n\"I've done all I can to\nseparate myself from\nthat situation. It's always\ndifficult because it's conceivable that a situation\ncould arise where our\nposition is not the same\nas the Civil Liberties'\nposition,\" he said. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nFilling in the GAPs\n\u00C2\u00AB Summer 1999\u00E2\u0080\u0094Lifeline, a campus-based pro-life\nstudent group, invites the Centre for Bio-Ethical\nReform (CBR)\u00E2\u0080\u0094a California-based radical pro-life\ngroup\u00E2\u0080\u0094to come to campus with its Genocide\nAwareness Project (GAP), a display consisting of 13-\nfbot wide graphic images comparing abortion with\nihe Holocaust and racist Iynchings.\n\u00C2\u00AB Sept 1999\u00E2\u0080\u0094With growing protest from the pro-\nchoice student group Students for Choice, UBC\nbegins negotiating.with the CBR\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Sept 22, 1999\u00E2\u0080\u0094As a precautionary measure,\nUBC insists that CBR cover its security costs for up\nto $ 1 \u00C2\u00A7,000 a day and display GAP at Mcmnes Field,\nnear the Student Recreation Centre (SRC). When\nCBR refuses to comply with these restrictions, UBC\nfiles an inunction against the company, preventirtg\nGAP from coming until a full hearing on the matter.\n\u00C2\u00BB Oct 1, 1999-C8R threatens to file a lawsuit\nagainst UBC over its restrictions of the GAP display.\nThe lawsuit has yet to be filed.\n\u00C2\u00AB Nov, 23, 1999-UBC permits members of Lifeline\nto display scaled-down GAP images in front of the\nGoddess of Democracy statue near the Student\nUnion Building. Tie display is torn down by three\nprotesters\u00E2\u0080\u0094Erin Kaiser, Jon Chandler, and Lesley\nWashington\u00E2\u0080\u0094all of whom are representatives of the\nAlma Mater Society (AMS). Gray subsequently files a\ncivil lawsuit against the three students and the AMS,\nfor whom she claims the three were acting as agents.\n\u00C2\u00AB Feb. 23,2QOO\u00E2\u0080\u0094Lifeline mounts its second sealed-\ndowct GAP display. A peaceful protest occurs opposite the display.\n\u00C2\u00AB Mar, 2000\u00E2\u0080\u0094The three students responsible for\ntearing-down ihe display in November are suspended by UBC for the summer and first autumn term.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Oct 25, 200O-Tbe GAP display returns to campus for the third time. Students for Choice members ,\ndemonstrate around ihe display. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 ,,\n-Alex Dimson ] Page Fridav-the Ubvssev Magazine\n$af$ty\nFriday. October 27.20001\nsit*\nM \"\n* \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 **Rr..v/i .'^'- \u00C2\u00ABf m in ift.uaMu.tuii>u*tiiiMM aria ui h-^mr\nt.^,1^-% ];\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .?&*- 4..--.'. ^-:1 S\n.HiftmvtrtiliMilii.\n-*^ . *.* ^ \u00C2\u00BB *-\nTHEFT?\nASSAULT?\nDRUGS?\nIS UBC A SAFE PLACE\nTO GO TO SCHOOL?\nSince January, the faith of UBC students in\ncampus safety has been shaken by reports\nranging from thefts to Rohypnol use.\nA surge in locker thefts and the theft of over\n$40,000 worth of instruments and equipment\nfrom the UBC School of Music during the spring\nterm, stirred up the issue of campus safety early\nin the year, forcing students to keep a close\nwatch over everything from their textbooks to\ntheir laptop computers.\nIn September, the reported use of Rohypnol\non campus drew attention to the risk of sexual\nassault women face. In response to the threat,\ncampus women's groups have displayed posters\nacross campus warning women to take\nprecautions when drinking alcohol at bars or\nparties.\nAnd an attempted child abduction, also in\nSeptember, has caused many to question their\nsecurity on campus.\nBut these examples need not be cause of\nalarm.\nConstable Danielle Efford, of the university's\nRCMP detachment, calls the campus \"pretty\nsafe.\" And it's true that UBC hasn't been particularly plagued by crimes and dangerous incidents.\nBut this doesn't mean that they don't occur.\nFrom the problems-such as sexual assault\nand theft-to solutions-blue light phones and an\nannual safety audit-f/ie Ubyssey takes a look at\ncampus safety. Do you know how safe your\ncampus is? \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nSTUDENTS AFRAID OF DARK, REPORT SAYS\nby Daiiah Merzaban\nThe Main Library Plaza, and the travel route\nfrom Totem Park Residence to the Student\nUnion Building (SUB) are two \"hots'pots\" of\nfear on campus, according to a recently\nreleased UBC study on campus safety.\nThe Personal Security Mapping Project, a\njoint initiative of the Alma Mater Society\n(AMS) and the university, surveyed over 700\nstudents, staff, and faculty earlier this year to\nassess their comfort levels on different areas\nofcampUs.\n\"I think the study will enable us to do some\nprioritising,' said Paul Wong, UBC's personal\nsecurity coordinator, who was in charge of the\nreport\nThe study found that while most respon\ndents are comfortable on campus during the\nday, 47 per cent do not feel safe at UBC after\n4:30pm. The study also found that 38 per cent\nof respondents\u00E2\u0080\u0094the overwhelming majority\nof whom are female\u00E2\u0080\u0094feel vulnerable to victimisation on campus.\nAccording to the report, inadequate lighting and poor security patrols are the most frequent concerns about areas of fear, both \"leading to a sense of isolation.\"\nAnd campus groups concerned with safety\nbelieve the study will be helpful in future safety planning.\nSue Brown, director of Safewalk, a student-\nrun foot patrol safety service, said the report\nis 'very practical' and has helped Safewalk\nidentify areas on campus where students may\nfeel particularly uncomfortable walking on\ntheir own.\n\"One of the outcomes of [Wong's] report is\nthat we are patrolling those areas more,\" said\nBrown.\nThe study, which had respondents place\ndots on a map of UBC, also identified areas of\ncomfort around Koerner Library, the SUB, the\nBookstore, and the Bus Loop.\nDavid Grigg, associate director of Campus\nPlanning, said that the report will play a large\npart in determining improvements to be\nmade in campus lighting in the coining year.\n\"1 feel more comfortable with this more scientific approach,\" said Grigg, who added that\nwhile generally the areas of fear indicated in\nthe report do require improvement, some\nareas are still feared despite increased lighting.\nGrigg pointed to the north side of the SUB,\nwhich he says is \"better lit than some parking\nlots outside supermarkets,* as such an example.\nDue to this discrepancy between fear and\nactual risk, said Wong, the study must be\nreviewed with actual RCMP and university\ncrime statistics and reports.\nAnd although she called the campus \"fairly\nsafe,\" Constable Danielle Efford of the campus\nRCMP recommended that students avoid taking shortcuts or walking in dimly-lit areas of\ncampus\u00E2\u0080\u0094including Wreck Beach and Pacific\nSpirit Park\u00E2\u0080\u0094during the evening.\nThe. study was funded by the AMS\nInnovative Projects Fund and by the\nDepartment of Health, Safety, and\nEnvironment \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nSEXUAL ASSAULTS AT UBC GO UNREPORTED\nby Andrea 1 obo\nThroughout BC last year, 3907 sexual assaults were reported to the\npolice. At UBC, only one was reported.\nBut these statistics could be\ndeceiving, according to Laurie\nMinuk, a councellor at the UBC\nWomen's Students' Office (WSO).\nAccording to Minuk, roughly 90\nper cent of sexual assaults do not get\nreported.\nThe vast majority of victims of\nsexual assault know their assailants,\nexplained Minuk, who said that\nacquaintance sexual assaults tend\nbg among' the least reported of all\npersonal crimes.\n. She said that the reasons for this\nundeVreporting vary from \"shame,\na sense of self blame, to a real fear of\nthe system...knowledge that many\ncases often come down to he said,\nshe said.\"\nUBC's Personal Safety\nCoordinator Paul Wong agreed that\nthe reported numbers are not necessarily the best way to determine\nwhat is really happening on campus.\nThis is particularly true for sexual assaults, he said, because so many\nvictims are reluctant to come forward. Only three sexual assaults\nhave been reported to date for 2000.\nMinuk added that sexual assaults\nare also a problem for men, though\nat a far lesser percentage.\n\"It's extremely difficult to collect\ndata in such cases, as the shame that\ngoes along with the assault can be\ngreat\u00E2\u0080\u0094perhaps even more so than\nfor women,\" she said.\nIn 1995, Associate Professor of\nSociology Dawn Currie conducted a\ncomprehensive survey of student\nsafety on campus and found that 25\nper cent of the women questioned\nhad been sexually assaulted or raped.\nSuch numbers shock many students, including Diana Matthews, a\nfirst-year Arts student\n\"To think that one in four women\non campus have been victims, is\npretty disgusting,\" said Matthews.\n\"I've always thought of this campus as being very safe, but those\nnumbers are pretty scary.\"\nAlthough another similar survey\nhas not yet been planned, WSO\nDirector Marsha Trew said it's time\nto conduct one.\nHannah Roman, the campaigns\ncoordinator for the Alma Mater\nSociety's Women's Centre said that\nwomen are most at risk of sexual\nassault if they are between the ages\nof 18 and 24.\n\"This is the period when women\nfind themselves in the most vulnerable situations...thinking that it\ncould never happen to them. This is\nalso the age when men are most\nconcerned with asserting their masculinity,\" said Roman.\n\"There just isn't enough information out there for men to know what\nis and is not appropriate,\" she\nadded,\nRoman said that for a victim of\nacquaintance sexual assault who\ndoes not come forward to the\nauthorities, the worst scenario is to\nhave to face their attacker on campus every day.\nSusan Gill, a respresentative of\nthe Vancouver Rape Crisis Centre,\nsuggests that laying out possible\ncourses of action for a victim to take\ncould combat post-assault trauma.\n\"Women would feel more\nempowered if their choices were laid\nout more clearly...awareness and\neducation enables them to come forward more readily,\" said Gill.\nAt the Vancouver General\nHospital, a 24-hour rape centre\nallows victims to hand over forensic\nevidence that can be kept for up to a\nyear. At any point during the year,\nvictims may decide to place a formal\ncomplaint to the police.\nTrew, meanwhile, said that public education is the key to combatting sexual assault\nIt is important, said Trew, 'to\nraise awareness of the problem and\nhave people understand that everyone can have a role in making any\ncommunity safe.\" \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nDo you love nowi?\nTHE UBYSSEY Is looking for a clever and\nenthusiastic individual to fill, the position\nof News Editor.\nThe News Editor is responsible for coordinating the\nnews section for every issue of the Ubyssey by assigning stories, editing copy, and recruiting and training\nnews department volunteers, Experience in news reporting and writing is essential for this position. Expected\ntime commitment is at least 50 hours per week.\nYCome to SUB Room 24IK for more information and to see o job\ndescripfion.Ask for Daiiah.\nPosition Paper* are due* November 8 and voting begins November\nf 15. You must be a.Ubyssey staff member to vote but anyone is eligi-\n| ble to apply for.this position; .-:,; Y Yy>Y YyY * \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Y \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Y Y 77\\nCome lo SL Ii Room 245 with\nthe answer lo the question\nbelow, and you may win\n1 of 5 copies of COLD'S CD\n\"13 Ways to Bleed On Stage'\nQuestion: COLD'S CD is released on Fred Durst's\nFlip label. Xante the band that Fred Durst is lead singer for.\n,.; Limp Siskit, Jc-rrv CflNTftat .flNDSouiRv, including'th\u00E2\u0082\u00AC TftiTOO tbc- CraTH Tour, COLD ftftc'DCfiNiTct*. ft band, touurich K>^C.:Y^YY^\nY--YY77 wuiu\u00C2\u00BB.uiuiu\u00C2\u00BBUoWonline.c'\u00C2\u00BB*iV;' V77'Y;'7^y 6\nFriday. OctoDer 27. 2000\nNews Feature\nPage Friday-the Ubyssey Magazine\nFriday. October 57.5000\nAT TENTION\nBIKE THEFT\nPROBLEM\nREPORf SUSPICIOUS\nACTIVITY\nRCMP:?:\nPROBLEMS\nSOLUTIONS\nBSB-KSSMgajaPS^^\nCAMPUS THEFTS ON THE RISE\nby Alex Dimson\nWhile thefts on campus have not traditionally been a major problem at UBC, a\nrecent surge in campus thefts has caused\nRCMP officials to warn that there still may\nbe reason for concern.\nAccording to RCMP crime statistics collected by the campus detachment, 13 car\nthefts, 31 thefts from motor vehicles, 16\nbike thefts and 32 general thefts occured\non campus last month.\nRCMP Staff Sergeant Barry Hickman,\npreviously posted in Burnaby, said that\nwhile thefts do not occur as frequently on\ncampus as they do in the rest of the city,\nhe is concerned by a recent increase in\nthefts.\n\"For thefts we have a problem, but it's\nnot significant 1 would put it as somewhat\naverage,\" said Hickman. Y\nWhile the RCMP statistics show that\nexcluding car thefts, only four thefts\ninvolved a value over $5000, Hickman\nsaid he thinks that the numbers are\nincreasing and will set up a task force to\n'reduce these numbers.\"\n'Any theft is a serious concern,\" said\nHickman, who added that the university\nhas security issues because of the large\nnumber of people who enter and leave\ncampus daily. Hickman emphasised the\nneed for people who live and work on\ncampus to be security-conscious.\nMike Sheard, assistant director of\nCampus Security, agreed with Hickman,\nsaying that while he is not overly concerned by the number of thefts, it is veiy\nimportant that students and staff take precautions to protect their valuables.\nSheard said that |\ncomputers are often\nthe target of thieves on\ncampus and reported\nthat a UBC graduate\nstudent had lost four\nyears of research\nwhen her computer\ndisappeared from her\nlaboratory.\nFortunately for the j\nstudent, the computer\nwas later recovered,\nbut Sheard said that sometimes students\naren't this lucky.\nHickman advises that buildings with\noffices and laboratories should be\nalarmed and windows should be kept\nSHEARD\nshaded to prevent thieves from scoutii\nout the items. He also said that individua\nshould inscribe their names on valuab\nitems.\nTo minimise the risk of car the:\nHickman suggested that audible alarn\nare a \"huge deterrence factor,' adding th\nit is important to keep valuables out\nsight\nTo prevent bicycle thefts, Sheard su\ngested that bicycles be kept secure\nlocked and preferably stored inside\nbuilding.\nAccording to Hickman, the majority\nthefts that occur on campus are at tl\nhands of people\u00E2\u0080\u0094mostly males betwee\nthe ages of 18 and 35\u00E2\u0080\u0094who are neithi\nstudents at nor employed with UBC.\n_ Hickman said the RCMP is current\ntracking three active groups of thievi\nwho are operating on campus. The:\ngroups typically aim at stealing a sm<\nnumber of items each night over a lot\nperiod of time, taking unsecured iten\nfrom easily accessible buildings.\nFor this reasoa Hickman said that it\nimportant to 'take an interest in your coi\nmunity\" and report suspicious individua\nto the RCMP and Campus Security. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nDRIVING UNSAFE AROUND UBC\nby Tim Wood\nHaving just completed the final exam of his last\nsummer course in August 1998, 18-year old\nChris Stuffco raced home along the campus section of Southwest Marine Drive. As he changed\nlanes, his car turned sideways, flipped, and\nrolled off the side of the road. The first-year student suffered massive internal injuries and was\npronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.\nFortunately, tragedies like this are rare on\ncampus. The crash involving Stuffco was Ihe\nonly road-related fatality in the past two years at\nUBC. But it isn't the only case of dangerous driving practised on campus.\nAccording to the RCMFs UBC detachment,\nspeeds in excess of lOOkm/h are commonplace\nin the elementary school zone along Chancellor\nBoulevard. The intersection at Chancellor and\nWesbrook Mall has resulted in more speeding\ntickets issued than any other location on- or\nBIKES FOR THE TAKING? Campus Security suggests that\nbikes be stored indoors to help ensure that they aren't stolen.\nThere were 16 bike thefts on campus last month.\nTARA WESTOVER PHOTO\nLis\nfasiJ!i_\n2aJLL3\u00C2\u00A3& ii. KiL&i. L\n\u00C2\u00A3L<3bi&i<'fcti! .\u00E2\u0096\u00A0iji'L->i.i:f.i-.. -J\nIS SAFETY AUDIT WORTHWHILE?\nby Daiiah Merzaban\nThe scope and utility of the annual Alma Mater Society (AMS) safety audit has\nbeen questioned by groups concerned with safety on campus.\nEvery year, the AMS organises a group of volunteers\u00E2\u0080\u0094including students,\nstaff and administrators\u00E2\u0080\u0094to survey the campus to determine trouble spots\nand make recommendations for improving safety.\nAlthough the AMS Women's Centre has not yet reviewed last year's audit,\ncampaigns coordinator Hannah Roman said the audit has traditionally neglected to focus on peripheral areas\u00E2\u0080\u0094in particular near the Museum of\nAnthropology and University Boulevard\u00E2\u0080\u0094where students travel at night\n\"There's been a consistent concern that the audit focuses primarily on\nhigh-traffic areas/ said Roman.\nSafewalk director Sue Brown agreed, but emphasised the difficulty in conducting a more comprehensive audit due to the lack of volunteers.\n\"We're the second largest campus in Canada...we\n. need lots and lots of people and volunteers to help with\nsomething like that\" said Brown, who explained that\nonly 30 volunteers helped out with last year's audit\nAccording to AMS Commissioner Tommy\nGerschman, who is responsible for this year's audit the\naudit serves to increase awareness and identify spots\nthat are potentially hazardous.\n\"The point of the safety audit is to request to the university for improvements and give suggestions,\" said\nGerschman,\nBut both Roman and Brown doubt that the audit's GERSCHMAN\nf\n*xfef\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*W\nf\nX-\nJ.\n%\nr t\n,*\"'\nmaA.\nrecommendations are being fully heeded by UBC.\n\"There's no mechanism to hold the administration accountable for doing\nwhat the audit recommends that they do. Safety on campus doesn't seem to\nbe a huge priority for the administration,' said Roman.\nBut Associate Director of Campus Planning David Grigg said UBC is working to ensure safety on campus. He said the annual audit\u00E2\u0080\u0094in which he participated last year\u00E2\u0080\u0094helps to prioritise areas of improvement for the coming\nyear.\nGrigg said that the people he meets while conducting the audit often point\nout issues that he overlooks. \"People have their own unique take on what's\nsafe and vvhat's not safe, and 1 think that's the value of it\"\nHe added that money spent on improving safety must first go through a\npersonal advisory safety committee, which is composed of students and\nadministrators.\nAccording to Grigg, UBC has received between $400,000 and $450,000\neach year for the past five years from the BC government's Minor Capital\nSafer Campus Fund. The funding has gone toward lighting upgrades, and\nincreasing the number of blue light phones and telephones on campus.\n\"In another five years time, we'll have resolved much of the poor lighting\nissues on campus,\" said Grigg, who added that UBC is about 20 per cent of\nthe way towards reaching its lighting upgrade objectives.\nGerschman, meanwhile, said that before the next audit-likely to be held\nnext Januaiy\u00E2\u0080\u0094the AMS must consult with such groups as Safewalk, the\nWomen's Centre, UBC, and the RCMP.\n\"There's a lot of different factions. 1 don't think they have turf battles or\nanything, but there's just a lack of communication so that maybe they're not\nalways necessarily aware of what each other's doing,\" said Gerschman. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nSHEDDING LIGHT ON\nBLUE LIGHT PHONES\nby Julia Christensen\nlit\n. j**\n\\nr\nJ>\ni ) o\nc\nu\n% >\nit t\nl\u00C2\u00AB\nIII 1\u00C2\u00BB\n;*\nV\nu^ASUAA',. A \u00C2\u00ABc < *.. ~^4\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0i*j&$r- -\n\\nThree years after blue light phones were\nfirst introduced at UBC, campus groups\nare debating the effectiveness of these\nsecurity phones in increasing campus\nsafety. -\nThe blue light phones, designed to\nconnect people in crisis with either UBC\nCampus Security or the RCMP, have\nnever been the subject of a formal evaluation, but are receiving mixed reviews\nfrom various campus groups.\nSue Brown, coordinator of Safewalk,\nsaid she thinks the main challenge faced\nby the program lies in a lack of awareness\nabout the phones.\n\"I think there is a real lack of faith in\nthe blue light system because people feel\nuneducated on how they work,' she said.\n'The number one obstacle that 1 see is\nthat there hasn't been a great educational\nand promotional program.'\nUBC's Personal Security Coordinator\nPaul Wong agrees that UBC needs to provide more information to students about\n\"what the phones are for and how to use\nthem in order to increase confidence in\nthe program.'\nHe said that his department is working with Safewalk and the Alma Mater\nSociety (AMS) to raise awareness about\nthe phones in the campus community.\nEach blue light phone is equipped\nwith aui intercom connected to UBC\nCampus Security and to 911. When someone pushes the intercom button, either\nCampus Security or the RCMP is alerted,\nand the appropriate authority reports to\nthe location of the call.\nCampaigns Coordinator for the AMS\nWomen's Centre Hannah Roman said\nthat the success of the program is hindered by the insufficient number and\npoor location of the phones.\n'[The phones] aren't necessarily in all\nthe places people would like them to be. If\nI'm nowhere near a blue light phone, they\naren't going to help me,\" said Roman,\nwho added that she believes that broader\nsafety concerns on campus cannot be\naddressed by the blue light phones.\n\"My main concern is that the phones,\nto some extent, can be a band-aid solution,\" she said.\n\"A lot of the safety procedures that\nUBC is willing to undertake do not\naddress the greater issues, like education\nsurrounding acquaintance assault\"\nBut Wong said that the installation of\nblue light phones follows a long-range\nplan, which is limited by existing funding.\n\"The priority was to put blue phones\nin the core of campus first and then\nexpand outwards over the next few years.\nSome of this is obviously going to depend\non the kind of feedback we receive from\nstudents,\" he said.\nThe UBC Personal Security Advisory\nCommittee established a plan in 1996 to\nsee 50 phones installed across the UBC\ncampus within ten years. Currently, 2 7\nblue light phones are active.\nRose Keurdien, a fourth-year Arts student, said she believes that the phones\nare effective in raising the general issue\nof campus safety. She added, however,\nthat she was not aware of how the blue\nlight phones operate until she 'accidentally heard about the phones in the\nWomen's Centre one day.\"\nBrown said she often hears similar comments from students through her work at\nSafewalk, but said that an educational campaign would result in an increase in the\nproper usage of the blue light phones,\n\"The phones are there to help people\nwho are afraid. It doesn't have to be\nbecause something has happened, but\nsimply because you are following your\nintuition,' she said.\nWong, meanwhile, said that he\nencourages students to offer feedback on\nthe program.\n'In addition to concern, we've also\nhad some really positive feedback that\nstudents think the blue light phones are a\ngreat idea and would like to see more.\" \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nimmediately off-campus. *\nMarine Drive, which stretches around the\nperimeter of the university, is a' perennial problem for police.\n\"There are a lot of unsafe, aggressive drivers\nout there/ said Constable Ryan Schlecher of the\nRCMP. He cites the routine running of stop signs\nand red lights by university motorists.\n'As a fellow driver/ he advises, \"drive defensively.\"\nStatistics show that since the beginning of\n1999, 196 car accidents have occurred on and\naround campus, of which 72 resulted in injury.\nIn the past year and a half, Schlecher indicated that police have logged 138 complaints of\n\"erratic driving' on campus and on the roadway\nentrances to UBC\u00E2\u0080\u0094 115 of which resulted in suspended licences.\nOf these, police are particularly concerned\nabout the 35 cases in which drivers were found\nto be drunk.\nIn an effort to combat drunk driving, the\nRCMP has stepped up the number of road checks\nat the entrances to campus, according to\nJennifer Dixon, head of the UBC Counterattack\nclub.\nPedestrians and cyclists, meanwhile, also\nhave reasons to be concerned with driving patterns on campus.\nIn the past two years, 82 hit-and-runs have\nbeen recorded, although most have resulted only\nin minor injury.\nSchlecher reported that one pedestrian \"lost\nan ankle' after being hit by a car while crossing\nthe road at the intersection of University'\nBoulevard and East Mall.\nAnd at Western Parkway near the UBC\nVillage, one cyclist was hit last year.\nHowever, Jeff Bingley, operations supervisor\nof Campus Security, noted that no accidents have\noccurred on the bicycle lanes along University\nBoulevard, which were widened last year. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n*r*\nAFTER THE CRASH: Friends gather at a makeshift memorial on Marine Drive\nafter Chris Stuffco died in an accident in August, 1998.There have been no\ntraffic-related fatalities on campus since then.\nPETER KAO/U BYSSEY Fl LE PHOTO ^/Wsfr^^x^wt*\ni/>ii\n**t.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0&:\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nr r ...., .\" \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n'T J\nJrt2**\n\u00C2\u00BB\n'J**\n^\"-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0s^a\nI It'\nif j. i V\u00C2\u00BB* %^\u00C2\u00BBt,v.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0* * . . * - * * \u00C2\u00A3**\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 *\n%\n>:*\u00C2\u00BB-*\nJ!**,\nv\n,-/\n*V>\u00C2\u00BB\n1 i\n-v :\u00C2\u00BB;\n' -i*\n//.>\n/\n1\\n1\nW\nr r\ns.#\nTHiC^\n\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00ABm|\u00C2\u00BBV|\nY7:iY^\ni7^fPP\nt\nfetT'CWt^\n*?\ni^i\n* #\nTO;\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 -jWlfr^A.\n>\ni\"\u00C2\u00BB\nv :;i\nI\n1/\nr?\n\u00C2\u00BB *\n\"Wl\n^** L**t, S\\nsiWJ\n\u00C2\u00A5\nrjgfs\n'\u00C2\u00A3.\n?7W\nd * \'\n&)>*\n:\ <*\n,v >\u00E2\u0080\u009E\nr-j.'*. *>\n':- &\n5^\nat* *_\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \fc * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2** \"Ji\n\"'-??!\n*V&2\nSL*.\ntft^-ffii\n-.\u00C2\u00AB%;\nlilliia*!\nV^\n4T\n+Vj^\n\nY-^t;^yeiv:<^Qi^\nUf>6ri ^pprov^!, you;i\n; Of w vehicle and ttlere'^ ho ahhtia, fee: As a bonus, you'll receive a free ;Th$ Best of Frosfi 1, 2| 3 ahd;tr1| 80^ Cp*||lg:\ngrbcer||forinstan\n1,2,3 and Iha 80 s CO al no cTia.gs, Applicants appfy.ng *a the Internet WIK receive a copy of The SSstof Frosn 1, 2, 3 and the 80's CO upon approval, at no charge/Limit one copy per applicant, -Appfes to fuff-toe stuaents only - Subjeu to The GM Card Pr^rlm Sutes Page Fridav-the Ubvssev Magazine\nSports\nFriday. October 27,20001\nAnnual women's football game today\nUnderdog Nursing team vows to beat Rehab in this year's T-Cup\nby Jo-Ann Chiu\nOnce again, the time has come for the riotously popular T-\nCup, the annual womens' tackle football game between students in Nursing and Rehabilitation Sciences. Though the\npurpose of the event is to raise money for charity, winning\nis equally important for the participants. And this is the\nyear that the Nurses will win, so their players insist.\n'Off the field, the Nurses and Rehab are one team, working together to raise money for BC Children's Hospital,'\nsaid fullback Crystal Heywood. \"But on the field during the\ngame, it's 'stay away.\"\nDespite the pouring rain, last year's game netted over\n$700 for the hospital. This year's T-Cup organisers hope to\nraise over $1000 through a series of activities, including a\nraffle draw, a barbeque, and a bake sale featuring niceties\nbaked by the football players themselves.\nThe Nursing team has lost the last three T-Cups, in spite\nof coaching by members of the UBC football team, access to\nfancy varsily practise equipment, and the privacy of practises at Thunderbird Stadium.\nThe reasons are simple. The discipline of Rehabilitation\nSciences attracts individuals with strong athletic backgrounds. 'People who aren't into sports often don't even\nknow what rehab is,\" said one nurse. The nurses are also\nnot naive to the fact that the Rehab team regularly features\nvarsity athletes, including members of the track, hockey,\nand rowing teams.\n\"It's all about football,\nthe love of football.'\nn\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Gina Min,\nNursing pivot\nIn addition to the disparity in brawn and aggression, the\nNurses are constantly outnumbered by their .sport-crazy\nopponents in roster numbers. In 1998, the Nurses had only\ntwo substitutes for rest breaks, whereas Rehab had two full\nplaying units to switch.\nHowever, varsity defensive back Simon Quinto, the new\nhead coach of the Nursing team, wants to end the losing\nstreak. It is Quinto's fifth and final year on campus, so he is\ndetermined to leave with a bang this year, perhaps with a\nmuch-coveted T-Cup victory.\nAn aggressive recruiting drive has increased the team\nroster, and the Nurses have been practicing three nights a\nweek this year instead of two. Practices start at 7:30pm and\ngo on until 'whenever, until we get things done,\" Quinto\nsaid.\nWith the graduation of Nursing quarterback Lynette\nKeulen, one change Quinto made on the Nursing roster was\nthe installment of a new pivot in Gina Min, a former Powder\nPuff running back with the Palmer' High Griffins.\n'She has leadership and a positive attitude,' Quinto said\n, of the Richmond girl tackle league veteran.\n'It's all about football, the love of football,' said Min,\nwho happens to be a big Thunderbird football fan and is no\nstranger to the game.\nMin prefers watching varsity football over CFL games\nbecause she feels a greater connection to a school team and\nknows several of the UBC players. 'UBC is way better than\nthe BC Lions. No doubt,\" she said.\nBut not all women participate in T-Cup for the love of the\ngame alone. Some can't resist the chance to dress up like a\ngridiron gladiator, said safety Zana Ng, \"The pads make me\nfeel rough and tough.\"\n^Whether you're rooting for the Nurses or Rehab\nSciences, cheer for your favourite team at Mclnnes Field\ntoday at 12:30pm, and bring your money. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nFootball\nThe Thunder-birds playho'-lfci '.he\nUniversity of C.i%ary Dinos sn their final\nregular soanoa game tuntfeht at 7pm at\nThuncKbird Stadium The 3 -! Birds are in\nfouilh pLus* in the Canada W'esl, and n fourth ,ind final playoff spot, UBC lum'l\nmissed Uw playoffs since 1095.\nWomen's Soccer\nThe women's soccer (cam will ho&t the llrst-\npla< e Vikes Saturday at 2pm in Thunderbird\nStadium for their final regu fir-sea son gamp.\nTlie 5-1-3 Birds aie Silting m third place,\nand a win this weekend would me-in they\nmove up a t--pot heading into next weekend's\nplayoilV, happening in Vic toi la.\nWomen's and Men's\nVolleyball\n1i:e two volleyball .eirr.a L-a-i tj 'A.rr..:v\u00C2\u00A3\nf\u00C2\u00BBr .hs.-:r i:rst redder scaurs tl^tVe horfjrs\naga:?.*-: llw LYii-ersi.ty of A.nri,:--^ Weame:i\nMen's Soccer\nThe first-phit-d men'a socwr tesm will trawl\nto Vic.tuna this weekend for its final re^ulAr\nst'Aoori game against the second-plate Vikes.\nWith a win or lie, the Birds will secure first\nphre he*im3 into the playoffs in. Leliibridsiv\nUBC goalie Julien Philips hasn't allowed a\ng^al in ihe giiT.ca, b.it Ihe UVic o1 fence :s\none of the \"tronee&t in the loagsia.\nCross Country\nThe UBC cmss-coi.nt.iy team will run in the\nBC Open <.\"hhnij;!on'!hi{)s .il Jericho Beach\nPioHn, Idaho.\nWomen's\nBasketball\nand\nMen's\nRoOttejrr^s jj1.<\nIiy ni\< to .he l'i.I\*r\u00C2\u00AB?lty of\nW.r.nip^g 'Ao-smci: fji i::e Ih\"-*. t\"jsi'. \u00C2\u00ABr\naCi'-^Oi double huA.i< r J::a w \"b-n.l Th-1*\n\vi>mt*n'it ^:tr\ei arf> at 6. i 3p:n ar.-i the\n:r.^n'a are at opmon Vr.Ai-.y an-I Sal,irday\nevening in War iMeni'viai Cym.\nRowing\nThe VR\u00E2\u0082\u00AC rrtwit'.g teim Iraieb lo Victor:j \"ills\nweekend lo compete i:\u00C2\u00AB She UVic ,*pons\u00C2\u00AB \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0red\nlls&d of J:e Orge race on Saturday, and ihfc\nI leid of Ihe il'k rate \"ft S:ind iv\nWomen's Rugby\nThe UBC woman's rugby tua.in is in Victoria\nthis ncekcnU for iho Canada West playoff\ntorn nanient The top team from, the tournament head** fa^r for the CIAU chanipi-\non^-hipa in Quebec on Nov. .1 Tho Alborla\npjri-Ji\u00C2\u00AB 3re 'J..' df-'j-id;;i^ r.n'.-u:: i:\u00C2\u00AB-ur.v.v\nMen's Hockey\nIii\u00C2\u00B0 B.rds Y'-Kr * d-'-ibi-.jh.'.i-jVr agaioal 1h<-\nL'anrr^.y .->f Alborla this Fridjy irA\nSaturday r:gh: a*. /\u00E2\u0080\u00A230:u,i ,n Jh.e <\nIhur.feibirJ 'Alr^sr Sports {Vnlru. The |\nGoldor* rVjrs a:e ft\CK.i:w u.> Ending \u00C2\u00AB3d'>n-\nal charnrl'.na an J boil 'J*.' Birds bu'h limea '\nIhe U-a::.s -net Ktn UBC it?* :a->l ^e'sson. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 *\nWomen's\nm\nTODAY 12:30 pm\nat the Ubyssey\n(SUB 24.1K)\nAH women welcome\nTHE UBYSSEY NEWS SEMINAR\nSaturday, Nov. 4 @ 11:00am SUB 241K\nCome an learn about news reporting from\nthe CBC's Ian Gunn.\nFor more information call Alex or Cynthia 822-2301\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0:.IH:fiU'/miiHTggg WBROADWAY 733 ZZZO Friday. October 27.2000\nid\nTHE UBYSSEY\nFRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2000\nVOLUME 82 ISSUE 14\nOpM\nPage Fridav-the Ubvssev Magazine\nEDITORIAL BOARD\nCOORDINATING EDITOR\nDaiiah Merzaban\nNEWS EDITORS\nAlex Dimson\nCynthia Lee\nCULTURE EDITOR\nMichelle Mossop\nSPORTS EDITOR\nTom Peacock\nFEATURES EDITOR\nNicholas Bradley\nCOPY/VOLUNTEERS EDITOR\nTristan Winch\n7 PHOTO EDITOR\nTara Westover\nPRODUCTION MANAGER\n7f- Holland Gidney\nCOORDINATORS\nRESEARCH COORDINATOR\n- Graeme Worthy ,\nLETTERS COORDINATOR\n.A Laura Blue\nWEB COORDINATOR\nErnie Beaudin\nThe Ubyssey Is the official student newspaper of the\nUniversity of British Columbia, It is published every\nTuesday arid Friday by The Ubyssey Publications Society.\nWe are an autonomous demoaaticaJly run student organisation, and al students are encouraged to participate.\nEditorials are chosen and written by the Ubyssey atari\nThey are the expressed opinion of the staff, and do not\nnecessarily reflect the views at The Ubyssey Pubfications\nSociety or the University ot British Columbia.\nThe Ubyssey is a founding member q( Canadian University\nFVess (CQf^ and adheres to CUP'S guiding principles.\nAl editorial content appearing in The Ubyssey is the property of The Ubyssey Pubfications Society* Stories, opinions, photographs and artwork contained herein cannot\nbe reproduced without the expressed, written permission\nof The Ubyssey Publications Society.\nLetters to the editor must be under 300 words. 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October 27.20001\n11\nDAN KO JONES\nwith Tricky Woo and Hissyfit\nat the Starfish Room\nOct 25\nI ran into Mick Jagger last night Or at least I\nran into a guy who did a really good job of\ndressing, looking and acting like him, except\nthat he boasted that he hadn't washed his hair\nsince 1996, a claim I'm sure Mick himself\ncouldn't make. This was the scene Wednesday\nnight at the Starfish Room as I prepared to witness the triple bill of Hissyfit, the venerable\nTricky Woo, and the ever-confident Danko\nJones.\nAt the Starfish Room, a lot of people seem\nnot to care who's playing, trying instead to\npiss off as many people as possible in the\nmosh pit, to get laid (ideally with a band member) or both. Nonetheless, those who were\nserious about what was happening onstage\nwere privy to a show of polar extremes, from\nHissyfit's untalented, predictable riffs, to\nTricky Woo's Hendrix-lovin', highly underrated talent, to the downright sexual evangelicalism and no-frills rock 'n' roll of Danko Jones.\nHissyfit, the opening band, seems to\ndepend on loud, distorted guitars, and obnoxious attitude to make up for a definite lack of\ntalent They swore a lot, and must have hoped\nby Andrew Bowyer\nthat the crowd was too drunk to notice that\nthey sucked. The singer sounded a lot like Axl\nRose, in a bad way. To make matters worse,\ntheir equipment failed and the band had to\nstop halfway through a song. When this happens to a band with talent, you usually feel\nunderstanding about this glitch. However, in\nHissyfit's case, it was hard to feel bad.\nMontreal's Tricky Woo jumped into an\nelectrifying set which more than lived up to\ntheir legendary status. Here is a band with talent, charisma and a tight:knit sound. Tricky\nWoo is a band that can go out on stage and\ntear it up for as long as necessary and when\nyou think you've seen it all, they come back\nwith one last taste of their Hendrix/ Floydian\nsound. Tricky Woo came awfully close to overshadowing the band it was supposed to be\nsupporting, Danko Jones.\nThe key to Danko Jones' success is simplicity. Danko Jones is not about hype, image\nor MuchMusic interviews, he's about coming\nhome from work, cracking open a beer, and\nputting the rock on the hi-fi. Danko Jones\ncame out full of the exuberance, energy, and\narrogance that crowds across the country\nhave grown so accustomed to.\n- The solid set included the autobiographi\ncal, \"Samuel Sin,\" the radio-friendly \"Bounce\"\n(which got the heaviest crowd response), and\nthe quasi-romantic ballad, \"Heartbreak is My\nBest Friend.\" Danko was able to cover a variety of societal issues\u00E2\u0080\u0094sex, multiculturalism,\nracism, sex and, well, more sex. The highlight\nof the evening was \"My Love is Bold,\" when\nDanko told the female contingent that he wasn't just a one night-stand type of guy (\"you can\nhave me for a day, but you can take me for the\nweekend,\") accelerating the crowd into a hypnotic trance.\nDanko, it seems, has two primary loves in\nhis life\u00E2\u0080\u0094preaching to the unenlightened and\nmusic. It was obvious that the trio is able to\nincorporate these loves through their musical\nmix. The result is refreshing. 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I\nFri Oct 27 & Sat Oct 28 at Midnight\nTues Oct 31 at 8:00 pm\nj3 THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nW Cecil & Ida Green Visiting Professorships of Green College\nTODD GITLIN\nCulture and Communication, Journalism and Sociology\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 New York University\nTuesday, October 31 at 12:30pm\nBuchanan A-104\nThe Culture Wars and American Identity Since the Cold War\nThursday, November 2 at 12:30pm\nAnthropology/Sociology 207-209\nThe Unification of the World Under the Sign of\nMickey Mouse and Bruce Willis: Why American\nPopular Culture Sweeps the World\nSaturday, November 4 at 8:15pm\nWoodv/ard Instr. Resources Centre, Hall 2\nThe Overloaded Self in a Jump-Cut Culture\nVancouver Institute Lecture\nfff?(ise Clip and Sa^fi\nYou only have one life,\nso choose your career wisely.\nWhen you become a Doctor of\nChiropractic, you get lifestyle\nrewards plus the satisfaction\nfrom helping others to good\nhealth. You do it the\nnatural way, with your\nown hands, not drugs\nor surgery. And, when it comes\nto your chiropractic education,\none name stands out. Palmer.\npalmer chiropractic.\nOn the Palmer Chiropractic Web site you'll find out what it's\nlike to be a chiropractor and how Palmer Chiropractic is leading\n\"the good health revolution\" in a surprising number of ways.\nCheck it out today.\nwww.palmer.edu -1\n4 QIFridav. October 27. 2000\nCulture\nPage Fridav-the Ubvssev Magazine\nHouse husband seeks pot-bellied poker player\nTHE ODD COUPLE\nat the Capilano College\nPerformance Arts Theatre\nOct UandOct 18\nAn effeminate neat freak and a\nmacho slob share an apartment\nFelix, a skinny, apron-wearing house-\nhusband shacks up with his pot-bellied poker buddy, Oscar, after being\nthrown out by his wife. Hilarity, or\nrather, something closer to gaiety,\nensues when the two cronies begin\nto clash\u00E2\u0080\u0094the odd couple of bachelors\nstart to bicker like husband and wife.\nOne of Neil Simon's most famous\ntheatre productions, The Odd\nCouple, originally premiered in\n1965. Its success eventually lead to\ntelevision and big screen adaptations years later. While the Arts Club\nheralds the play as a 'timeless comedy,\" it probably should have stayed\nin the seventies.\nJudging by the perfomance's sizable turnout, it would seem that\nNorm Grohmann (Felix) has a large\nfollowing of groupies between the\nages of 40 and 5 5. The fact that I was\nthe youngest audience member by at\nleast 20 years is proof.\nWere you unaware of the former\nBCTV weatherman's 'fame,' you'd\nhave to wonder why Grohmann was\ncasted. Weathermen may lie, but\nthey certainly don't act Or as this\nplay makes certain, at least they\nshouldn't While he did arouse some\ngiggles, it was hard to tell if they were\nout of courtesy or out of respect for\nMr. Simon's classic. Though other\ncharacters were similarly wooden,\nGrohmann's lines were flagrantly\nstiff.\nNext to Grohman, Oscar (Stephen\nDimopoulos) was a star. By any other\nstandards, however, he certainly\nwasn't stellar. For a 'man's man*\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthe beer guzzling, cigar-smoking,\npoker-playing, sports fan kind of\nguy\u00E2\u0080\u0094he was oddly sappy, consoling\nand nurturing his fragile roommate\nin his time of need. Not having seen\nthe original, I can't say whether\nDimopoulos remained true to character. Either way, it would have been\nfunnier to play up the macho side of\nOscar's character, embellishing the\nstark contrast between the roommates. Oscar and Felix would have\nbeen a better couple.\nWith the exception of Ted Cole,\nwho gave an endearing performance\nas the geek Vinnie, Oscar's poker\nbuddies were unmemorable at best\nThe timing of their poker-night banter was completely off. With each\nnew line, they seemed to wait for one\nanother to finish, diminishing any\nimpression of spontaneity. A group\nof boyish guys ripping into one\nanother on their weekly night out\nhas serious humour potential.\nDespite some hilarious wisecracks,\nhowever, they didn't seem to find\none another funny. The audience\nmembers were the only ones expected to laugh, which they often didn't\nTheir poker nights would have been\nmore authentic (and funnier) if they\nhad just talked trash and had some\nfun with it\nThe highlight of the performance\nwere the Pigeon sisters\u00E2\u0080\u0094Felix and\nOscar's bubbly British neighbours\n(Annabel Kershaw and Johnna\nWright). Decked out in neon pop art\nensembles, the Pigeons were about\nas giddy as pigs in a pea And unlike\nthe poker boys, their humour fed off\nitself and created a contagious comic\nenergy, Unbelievably ditzy, the two\ngiggled in such a stupid fashion that\nyou couldn't help laughing yourself.\nTed Roberts put together a set\nthat convincingly resembled a dirty,\nby Rob Peters\nstuffy, old apartment of the sixties.\nThere were countless doors to accomodate the numerous chase scenes.\nFelix transformed the apartment\ninto a vision of loveliness that does\njustice to his anal retentiveness. All\nin all, the set worked well and the sixties tunes between acts were a nice\ntouch.\nWhile The Odd Couple is undoubtedly a classic, a lot of the jokes don't\nfly in the nineties\u00E2\u0080\u0094or at least they\ndidn't in this performance. Actors\nplayed down many of the un-PC\nparts, probably in light of the demographics of the audience. Ironically, a\nless watered-down version would\nhave been more effective. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nFURTHER\nplayed at the SUB Norm Theatre\nOct 23\nRIDE\nplaying at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre\nNov. 9, 10, 11 and\nplaying at the SUB Norm Theatre\nOct 30\n'Tis the season to go to Ski Swaps and Ski Club beer gardens.\n'Tis the season to throw down your hard-earned student loan money for some new gear, a new tuque and a\ncheap pass at the local hills.\n'Tis the season to shit-talk about last year's tree lines,\ncliff drops, and powder days.\n:''>\"' 'Tis the season to start mentally preparing yourself for\nthe long waits on the Sea to Sky highway in the rain with\nyour board under your arm and your thumb out\n'Tis the season to watch endless hours of ski and snowboard movies.\nLuckily everybody in the business knows this, and\nthere's plenty of new movies out there designed specifically for nurturing pre-season stoke. On Monday, Teton\nGravity Research brought their latest offering, Further, to\nthe Norm Theatre in the SUB. This ski flick is very top-\nheavy in the sickness department, but drags on a bit near\nthe end, when every sequence seems to be another Erst\ndescent somewhere in Alaska.\nHighlights include Jeremy Nobis' straight-line\napproach to shortening his life span, some guy who sets\nup a railslide to 30-foot cornice drop, a big gap jump with\nhuge crossed out spins and flip getting done, and raw\nfootage of a pelvis-shattering wipeout in Jackson Hole.\nNext Monday, UBC's FilmSoc will show Warren\nMiller's Ride at the Norm Theatre. As much fun as it would\nbe to trash this movie like I trashed Warren Miller's Free\nRiders two years ago, I can't It's pretty good. Despite\nRide the couch\nby Tom Peacock\nbeing formulaic, it's not predictable. It's not an hour and\na half of mind-numbing powder lines overlaid with\nWarren's lame comments on the state of skiing compared\nto 20 years ago.\nOld Warren has finally surrendered most of his narrating duties, to younger, hipper members of his crew, and\nthe athletes themselves even get a word in edgewise here\nand there\u00E2\u0080\u0094although most of the time they might have\nbeen better off letting their riding speak for them.\nOne of the most important sequences of any Miller\nmovie is the one showcasing dumb people skiing off a big\njump into a slush puddle wearing stupid costumes. The\nsegment in Ride, filmed in Australia, reaches new heights\nof sheer stupidity. One unfortunate woman rides her\nkayak off the ten-foot-high jump and misses the pond\nentirely, landing with a herniating thud on the hard pack.\nAnd of course there are the customary trips to exotic\nplaces: Russia, Austria, Greenland and Wisconsin to name\na few. During the Russian sequence, the skiers ride the\noldest, rustiest train in the World to the foot of Mt Elbrus,\nthe highest mountain in Europe. Thousands of feet\nbeneath them lies an old tram that fell off the line years\nago, before Perestroika. The scenery surrounding the tram\nride is incredible\u00E2\u0080\u0094desolate, windswept peaks. A nice place\nto die.\nThe sequence documenting the Schrab brothers of\nWisconsin as they build a huge jump on scaffolding in\ntheir backyard is pretty hilarious. They actually make their\nown snow by pumping water from a nearby pond.\nSure, watching Ride means watching a whole lot of skiing in one sitting, but what else are you going to do until\nthe snow begins to fall? \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nYour friendly neighbourhood porn star\nTHE GIRL NEXT DOOR\nplaying at Vancouver East Cinemas\nPornography is big business. While\nAmazon.com continues to hemorrhage red ink\nafter four years, the average Internet porn site\nis profitable within six months, and the industry as a whole raked in over a billion dollars\nlast year alone. No longer the domain of the\ndirty old man in a trench coat adult movies are\navailable at most video outlets, and rented by\nmen, women and couples of every'social status. Strangely, a lot of people are still quick to\njudge the performers\u00E2\u0080\u0094they must be drugged\nout losers and ex-hookers whose past is rife\nwith sexual abuse. But life is never mat simple.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Adopted at birth, Stacey Baker had a normal upbringing. She is pretty, amiable but\nsoihewhat lacking in self-esteem. Her goal in\nlife was to get married and be a good wife, but\nher husband's Madonna/whore fascination\nwould soon change all that After pressuring\nher to get breast implants and pose for nude\nphotos, he submitted the pictures to a men's\nmagazine.\nTo both their amazement, Stacey was chosen as \"The Girl Next Door' and Hustler magazine swept her off to do a shoot with a male\nmodel on the Mexican Riviera. Loving the\nattention and surprised at her disappearing\ninhibitions, she had an epiphany\u00E2\u0080\u0094the woman\nwho previously felt she had no talents, realised\nthat she did have one undeniable skill\u00E2\u0080\u0094she\ncould 'fuck great' She had discovered her\nniche.\nStacey gives herself two years to become the\nbest in the business and quickly becomes the\n'it' girl of the porn set A consummate professional, Stacey is there to get into the scene, and\nnothing\u00E2\u0080\u0094not stinging ants or fake smoke that\nalmost causes her to cough up a lung\u00E2\u0080\u0094is going\nto get in the way.\nAlthough there is ample nudity and several\nsex scenes (carefully filmed to avoid being\nexplicit), it is the unflinching look at Stace/s\nlife that makes you feel like a voyeur. In her\nworld, a relationship is threatened not by sex\nwith strangers but by something as innocuous\nas holding hands with another person. We\nwatch as Stacey, driven by ambition, sabotages\nher relationship with Julian, a fellow 'actor'\nand nice guy who sincerely cares about her.\nMidway through the film her chirpy optimism\nhas been replaced by a sad cynicism, echoed\nby her new tattoo\u00E2\u0080\u0094'trust no one.\" Stacey\ncomes to realise that engaging in sex on command has stripped her of the one thing she\nneeds\u00E2\u0080\u0094intimacy.\nIn order to maintain the illusion of being a\nliving Barbie doll, Stacey undergoes numerous\nby Greg Ursic\nplastic surgeries, brought to you in living\ncolour. No horror movie can hold a candle to\nthe violence of a silicone implant the size of a..\nthrow-pillow being yarded through a gaping\nhole in a women's breast, then replaced with\nanother smaller implant\nSome of the best scenes in the movie come\nin the exchanges between Stacey and her mother, an amazingly nonjudgmental, supportive\nwoman who lavishes her daughter with unconditional love. Her only worry is that when she\nis gone, Stacey will spend the rest of her life\nalone. It is obvious that Stacey had not, until\nthat very moment contemplated this thought,\nand both women burst into tears. It is a touching moment\nThe most remarkable thing about Stacey is\nthat there is nothing remarkable about her\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nshe truly could be anyone's daughter, sister, or\nnext door neighbour. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6"@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "LH3.B7 U4"@en . "LH3_B7_U4_2000_10_27"@en . "10.14288/1.0126355"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver : The Ubyssey Publications Society"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from The Ubyssey: http://ubyssey.ca/"@en . "Original Format: University of British Columbia. Archives"@en . "University of British Columbia"@en . "The Ubyssey"@en . "Text"@en . ""@en .