"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-08-27"@en . "2004-09-28"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0126744/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " www.ubyssey.bc.ca\nTuesday, September 28, 2004\nVolume 86 Issue 7\nFeet stuck to the floor since 1918\nU-Pass price increase possible\nChanges proposed by Translink would take effect May 2005\nPAYING THE PRICE: Students may have to shell out more for U-Pass.\nMARNIE RECKER PHOTO\nfay Sarah Bourdon\nNEWSEDfTOR\nA Translink proposal to increase the price of the student U-Pass by two dollars per month has reinforced\nthe shared resistance of the Alma Mater Society (AMS)\nand the UBC administration.\nIf the increases are implemented, the cost of regular\nfares and monthly FareCards would also increase. Tbe\nextra revenue would go toward helping fund transit\nand road improvements over the next three years, said\nKen Hardie, director of communications for Translink.\n\"We consulted on how we were going to pay for [the\nimprovements] and there were three sources of revenue/ explained Hardie. 'One was an increase in property taxes, another was the introduction of a new parking tax and then the third was a six per cent increase in\nfare revenue.*\nImprovement plans include the replacement of 492\nbuses and custom vehicles, as well as the building of\nnew transit operating and maintenance centres.\n\"We proposed buying a large number of buses over\nthe next three years/ said Hardie. \"Some of them are\nreplacement buses, most notably the trolley bus fleet.\"\nMany of the older buses will be replaced with larger\ncoaches in an effort to improve services along major\ncommuter routes.\nThe UBC students, almost more than any other single group, understand the stress that is on the system\nnow and obviously the need to ramp up service is\nthere/ said Hardie.\nBoth UBC and the AMS are opposing a fare increase\nfor the U-Pass and will be lobbying Translink during the\nfinal decision-making process.\n\"[Translink] has always sort of signaled that they\nthink likely there would be increases down the road\nand we've never accepted that there would be increases down the road,\" said Geoff Atkins, associate VP of\nLand and Building Services. \"This is a money maker for\nthem so our perspective is that we don't accept the\nnotion that there has to be increases/\nWith negotiations pending between Translink, the\nUniversity and the AMS, Atkins questions the company's motives for wanting to increase the price of the student pass.\n\"We would certainly challenge them to say what are\nthe additional expenditures? Where did you go wrong\nSee\"U-Pass\"page2.\nNot just a\nload of trash\nNew system improves\nrecycling on campus\nby Sarah Bourdon\nNEWSEDfTOR\nA new composting system at UBC will greatly\nincrease the amount of waste that can be\nrecycled on campus.\nThe system, which is capable of composting five tonnes of organic waste per day, is\nthe first of its kind for a school of UBC's size.\n\"This is the first larger scale in-vessel, on-\nsite application for a Canadian university/\nsaid John Metras, director of UBC Plant\nOperations.\nCompost is collected in bins located in\nfood outlets around campus, including the\nStudent Union Building, Totem Park and\nPlace Vanier Residence cafeterias. The waste\nis then transported to a facility on South\nCampus where it is broken down in a self-\ncontained composting unit.\nThe new unit accelerates the natural\nbiodegradation process by controlling moisture and air flow. The process takes around\n14 days, producing a soil-like material that\ncan be used as fertilizer.\n\"What comes out of it is basically not\nrecognisable when compared with what went\nin/ said Metras. \"We end up producing basically a nutrient-rich, dark soil amendment\nproduct The idea is that we'll use it in our\nlandscape operations on campus and we can\nprovide stuff to the UBC Farm and the\nBotanical Gardens/\nBefore the system was implemented,\nabout 42 per cent of campus waste strain was\nbeing recycled. The new composting technology has the potential to increase this figure to\n60 per cent\n'The stuff that's left over that goes to landfill now, probably about half of it is actually\npotentially compostable material/ said\nMetras. \"It's going to be a phased-in approach so\nSee \"Compos? page 2.\nTHIS ISSUE:\nCULTURE: Many, many\nVIFF movies\nA closer look at the largest\nVancouver Film Festival ever.\nPages 6-7.\nSPORTS: Football win!\nBirds 2-1 for first time since\n2000. Page 9.\nEDITORIAL: Up-Ass fees\nTranslink trying to stick it to\nstudents. Page 10.\nFEEDBACK@UBYSSEY.BC.CA\nWWW.UBYSSEY.BC.CA\nUBC professor wins $100,000 award\nfor development of WebCT software\nby Dan McRoberts\nNEWS WRITER\nA UBC professor has been named recipient of the prestigious EnCana Prinicipal\nAward by the Ernest C. Manning Awards\nFoundation.\nDr Murray Goldberg, an adjunct professor of computer science, received the\nannual award\u00E2\u0080\u0094and the $100,000 cash\nprize that comes with it\u00E2\u0080\u0094for creating and\ndeveloping WebCT, a set of software tools\nthat facilitate online learning for university students around the world.\n\"I can't imagine how or why they\nchose me but I feel exceedingly honoured,\" said Goldberg. \"I was invited to a\nluncheon of some of the BC nominees\nlong before I found out and I looked\naround and thought 'I don't have a\nchance here' but it was very satisfying to\nbe included in such a group.\"\nGoldberg started work on the project\nthat would eventually become WebCT\nshortly after joining the faculty at UBC in\n1992. Working with grant money provided through UBC's Teaching and Learning\nEnhancement Fund, Goldberg set to work\non establishing a web-based version of\nComputer Science 315, the course he was\nteaching at the time.\nDespite some initial success on a\nsmall scale, Goldberg was frustrated by\nthe fact that that entire grant had been\nspent on making the online option for one\ncourse. Inspiration struck one night in\nNovember 1995.\n\"I was laying in bed one night and\nthinking to myself 'this is such a waste of\nmoney' because it cost us almost 50,000\n[dollars] to build the first course...and so\ninstead what I thought we could do was\nmaybe just build ourselves a little set of\ntools with which we could build subsequent web-based courses/\nWithin months, Goldberg and his team\nhad given away copies of the software to\nhundreds of universities.\nSee \"Award\"page 2. 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'It's going to be a phased-in approach so it will\nprobably take a few years before we reach the maximum\nit can do.*\nBins have been used in residence cafeterias for around\na year and a half, according to Dorothy Yip, the general\nmanager of retail operations and purchasing for UBC\nFood Services.\n\"People have been using them/ said Yip. \"It's worthwhile. At the very beginning we had some growing pains\nbut that's to be expected. We still have some since there\nare always students who are new to the system so there's\na learning curve every year but it's definitely worth it\"\nOne challenge has been getting users to avoid putting\nnon-organic materials, such as plastic, metal and glass,\ninto the compost collection bins, said Yip.\n\"There are pictures and words on posters above the\nbins to let people know what goes into each bin,\" she\nsaid. \"Unfortunately, there are still people who just\ndon't read and they just throw everything in thinking\nit's a garbage bin.\"\nHowever, the hope is that there will be more awareness of composting on campus as the bins are added to\nmore locations, according to Metras.\n\"There's a huge public education component to this,\"\nhe said.\nThough the collection of compost materials is more\ncostly than previous waste management methods, the\nexpenses are off-set by the program's benefits, added\nMetras.\n\"There's a couple of cost savings here,\" he explained.\n\"We won't have to pay for the material to be dumped in\nthe landfill...and if we can produce our own compost\nmaterial then we don't have to buy fertilizer and soil\namendments from off-campus.\"\nAccording to Metras, the program will also reduce the\namount of truck traffic to and from campus\nand may provide research and educational opportunities.\nUltimately, the system will improve the sustainability\nGOING ORGANIC: Waste can be recycled with\nnew program, marnie recker photo\nof the campus as a system.\n\"The benefits are that we're doing something positive from an environmental perspective,\" said\nMetras. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nUBC, student society to lobby for no price increase\n\"U-Pass\" from page 1.\nlast year when you negotiated the\nprice?\" he said. \"We would want\nthem to show why it is they think\nthey need a two dollar increase.\"\nThe AMS plans to lobby against\nincreases for both the 2005 winter\nsession U-Pass and the potential\nsummer pass that would be introduced in May. Once Translink produces their final decision on fare\nchanges, students will vote in a\nreferendum on whether to reinstate the U-Pass program.\n\"Translink has had a guaranteed increased ridership with the\nU-Pass, and we're pretty sure\nthey've had increased revenue\nwith almost 40,000 people purchasing the U-Pass. We feel that these are\ngrounds that there should not be an\nincrease,\" said Holly Foxcroft, VP\nExternal for the AMS.\nThe recommendations from\nthe Translink staff will be\nreviewed by the company's board\non Wednesday, following which\nthey may move on to a wider public consultation. The board will\nmake a final decision in\nNovember and fare changes could\nbe implemented by January 2005.\nChanges to the U-Pass prices\nwould go into effect in May\n2005. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nWebCT has had a \"tremendous impact on teaching\"\n\"Award\" from page 7.\nhad given away copies of the software\nto hundreds of universities.\n\"There was a huge pent-up\ndemand for people wanting to teach\nvia the web. What was holding them\nback was the cost and the technical\nexpertise required,\" he said. \"The tool\nset solved these problems.\"\nThe WebCT project was selected\nfrom a field of nominees being considered by the Calgary-based\nManning Foundation.\n\"It's a tough competition,* said\nDonald Park, executive director of\nthe foundation. \"Submissions are\nreceived from across Canada and\nthis year we had 76.\"\nNominated innovations are evaluated against five criteria, including\nintellectual achievement uniqueness\nand originality, development of the\nidea to a finished product commer-\ncial success and the social/economic\nbenefits to Canada and society at\nlarge, said Park.\nAccording to the man responsible\nfor nominating Goldberg, the WebCT\nsoftware measures up well.\n\"It's fair to say that WebCT has\nhad just a tremendous impact on university teaching not just at UBC, not\njust in Canada, but throughout the\nworld,\" said Lome Whitehead, UBC\nVP Academic, who feels proud of the\nuniversity as well as Goldberg.\n\"While Murray deserves the cred-\nit.if you think about it, UBC can be\nvery proud that it provided the environment where that innovation could\noccur.\"\nWhitehead, himself a winner of\nthe Prinicpal Award in 1984, was\neffusive in his praise of Goldberg.\n\"You just couldn't imagine a nicer\nperson to win an award like this quite\nfrankly,* he said. \"He's modest\nfriendly and an excellent communicator. He's just a tremendous person\nand I think to see someone of his personality and character win the award\nis particularly rewarding for me.\"\nGoldberg responded with generous praise of his own.\n\"WebCT simply wouldn't exist if it\nwasn't for UBC,\" he said. \"I can't\ntell you the number of people I've\nspoken to at other universities that\nhave said to me 'boy, you know if\nsomebody invented this at our university it never would have seen\nthe light of day' because they don't\nhave a mechanism for getting\nthese things out into the world,\nand UBC does.\"\nAs for the six-figure boost to his\nbank account, Goldberg plans to\nsave the money for supporting\nfuture projects.\n\"It's a personal award...it's quite\nlovely. I hope to use it to support\nsomething else that I would like to do\nin the future,* he said. \"One of the\nhardest things about trying to see an\nidea that you have be meaningful and\ngo beyond the idea stage is that it\ncosts money.\" \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n'TWEENS\nBetween Classes\nSend your event listings to us so we can write\nit in here.\ncoordinating@ubyssey.bc.ca\nI\nf\n!' THEUBYSSEY\nNEWS\nTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2004\nVancouver women gather\nto Take Back the Night\nby Hilary Onas\nNEWS WRITER\nCarrying signs with slogans like, \"A woman is raped every 17 seconds,\" and \"Hey John 111 show you a bad date,\" a diverse group\nof women took to the streets of Vancouver for Take Back the\nNight (TBTN) on Saturday.\nFollowing a rally with several speakers in Jonathan Rogers\nPark, protesters stopped traffic as they made their way up to\nBroadway.\nThe annual event, presented by the Vancouver Rape Relief\nand Women's Shelter, aims to unite women of various backgrounds and life experiences to work towards a common goal\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nan end to violence against women.\nMany of the women in attendance had participated in the\nevent before and were inspired to come back this year.\n\"I just wanted to help out,\" said Asia Melville, a volunteer at\nthe march. \"I just liked the energy of the last march that I was in,\nin Calgary...and wanted to be part of it in Vancouver.\"\nOther participants, such as Linda Sourivanh, had never been\ninvolved with TBTN before.\n\"My manager at work is an activist for rape relief,\" Sourivanh\nsaid, adding that after hearing about the event, she decided she\nwanted to experience it for herself. \"I thought I would come out\nand take back the night\"\nVancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter has been operating since 1973 and was Canada's first rape crisis line. The shel\nter organised TBTN from 1980 to 2001 ?nd decided to participate in the initiative again this year.\n\"[Take Back the Night] is not only to stop rape, but it's also...\nto demand livable welfare,\" said Samantha Kearney, an employee at the shelter. A boost to welfare is imperative so that women\nliving in abusive relationships can leave at any time and know\nthat they will be provided for as they rebuild their fives, Kearne\nexplained.\nVancouver's first TBTN march, organised by the \"Fly-by-\nNight\" Collective in 1978, did not have the mandatory city permit The refusal to ask for city permission has not changed 26\nyears later.\n\"We have the right to walk in the streets,\" said Lynda Gerty,\nanother employee of the rape relief shelter. \"We don't need\nmen's permission\u00E2\u0080\u0094and we're not asking for it*\nOrganisers were quick to point out that although men are\nasked not to participate in the march, they can still help to spread\nthe message.\n\"Men can work to end male violence and support women\nwho work to end it too. They can help fundraise and get involved\nin childcare as they are in Take Back the Night,\" said Gerry. \"After\nall, there is no way to end the violence without the cooperation\nof men.\"\nThe shelter's employees hope the event has sent a message to\nthe government in light of cuts to social programs in BC, which\nthey feel have decreased options for women. Though the event\nlasts only one night, the hope is to end violence against women\nBANDING TOGETHER IN SUPPORT: The Vancouver\nRape Relief and Women's Shelter's Take Back the Night\nrally attracted many supporters, marnie recker photo\ncompletely, said Gerry.\n\"That's a particular experience for women who are going\nto attend [Take Back the Night] that is rare and that we're creating for one night and then demanding that we have it all the\ntime.\" \u00E2\u0099\u00A6>\nThe Vancouver Rape and Relief and Women's Shelter provides a 24-hour crisis line that can be reached at 604-872-8212.\nFor more information on the shelter, check out www.raperelief-\nshelter.bc.ca\nStudent society forces UNBC paper to recall issue\nby Jonathan Woodward\nBC BUREAU CHIEF\nA Prince George, BC student newspaper\nremoved its papers from campus and faced\nthe freezing of its bank accounts in a fight with\nits student council over an editorial that suggested men should be made into \"novelties for\nthe super rich\" last week.\nThe University of Northern British\nColumbia newspaper Over the Edge can pub-\nfish again, but with a disclaimer distancing the\nstudent council from the opinions and an\nagreement to run any controversial content by\na university-appointed harassment officer.\nThe article, entitled \"Men in the Modern\nWorld\" and published under a pseudonym in\nthe opinions section on September 15,\nblamed men for the development of destructive technology, stating that only men would\nneed \"dangerous phallic symbols like guns,\nrockets and submarines.\"\nNow, more than ever, a woman feels \"the\nneed to build a 700 megaton explosive penis\nextension and point it at someone else,\" it said.\nThe article raised the ire of at least one student, who complained to Northern\nUndergraduate Student Society (NUGSS) that it\nhad gone too far.\nNUGSS asked Over the Edge to remove all\nof its papers from off-campus locations on\nFriday, September 18. Over the Edge voluntarily removed the on-campus papers as\nwell.\nNUGSS executive met the following\nTuesday and passed an interim motion to\nfreeze the newspaper's funding, saying the\narticle violated UNBC's harassment and discrimination policy.\n\"Some of the ideas\nexpressed in the article\ncreate a hostile, intimidating and offensive\nenvironment and are\ndirected at individuals\non the grounds of their\nsex,\" said Dr Cindy\nHardy, the UNBC\nHarassment Officer.\nMost of the article\nwas funny, she said, but it crossed the line\nwhen it said that, when genetic technology\nallows, \"men should be forced into nonexistence for the safety of the entire Earth.\nMaybe one or two that could be kept alive as\nnovelties for the super rich.\"\n\"If we make pets out of people, then\nwe're not treating them with respect and\ndignity as humans,\" said Hardy.\nThe author's other phrases were \"so fla-\nBURKHOLDER\ngrantiy ridiculous\" that they couldn't be\nfound offensive. But the article should be\ndealt with before similar articles targeting\nother groups appeared, she said.\nThere is no chance that the article was\nheading down a slippery slope, said managing editor Stephanie Wilson.\n\"It was originally intended to be satire,\nan amusing comment on society,\" she said.\nEditor-in-Chief Carolynne Burkholder\nsaid that threatening the paper with a loss\nof funding was the society's \"way of asserting editorial control over Over the Edge.\"\nThe newspaper will look into options for\nfinancial and editorial autonomy, she added.\nThe editorial board decided the article\nwas fit for print, at least in part because the\nauthor himself was a man, who wrote under\nthe psuedonym Sera N. Noosbig. They\ndecided the article would be better received\nif the author's gender was ambiguous.\nBut some readers harassed the head of\nthe UNBC woman's centre, whose first\nname is Sarah, because they thought she\nmight have written the tract.\nThe resemblance to her name was accidental, Burkholder said, as it was an anagram\nof the original author's name.\nIt was contradictory that a man could pose\nas a woman in writing an anti-male article, and\nthen be accused of discrimination against men,\nsaid Burkholder.\nThe student society acted quickly because\nOver the Edge is a service provided by the student union, said NUGSS President Jeremy\nBelyea. It might have appeared to readers that\nthe anti-male opinion expressed belonged to\nNUGSS, he added.\nFunds were thawed when Over the Edge\nagreed to print a disclaimer on its opinion\npages disavowing any connection to NUGSS.\nThe paper will apologise for the use of the\nname Sera, will publish an article by Belyea,\nand will refer controversial articles to the\nharassment officer.\nWhile this settlement allows the paper\nto publish again, it doesn't satisfy Chris Dion,\nthe president of a national student newspaper organisation, Canadian University\nPress.\n\"I don't think that's their role to make\ndecisions on what's acceptable for publication and what's not/ he said. \"If they're\nworried about being responsible for what\nthey're printing, then it would be better just\nto let [Over the Edge] be autonomous.\"\nOther campus newspapers of similar size\nhave become autonomous from their student unions through per-student fees that\nprovide core funding, he said. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n\"The most important election in the world\"\nUBC political science experts weigh in on the race for the White House\nby Will Keats-Osborn and Colleen Tang\nNEWS WRITERS\nUBC political scientists agree that the upcoming US election is a\nuniquely important event for the world, but some say that a\nchange in American administration would not lead to the policy\nchanges that some Canadians seem to be hoping for.\n\"[This] U.S. presidential election, especially this one, is\nthe most important election in the world. The stakes are\nhuge,\" said Paul Quirk, Phil Lind chair in U.S. Politics and\nRepresentation and a political science professor at UBC.\n\"There is no way you can overemphasise how important\nthis election is,\" added Dr Richard Price, an associate professor of political science at UBC. \"The world is paying more\nattention to this election than any other election around the\nworld. If the world could vote, [President George W.] Bush\nwould be out of office.\"\nIf the American people do vote for Democratic candidate\nJohn Kerry, there will be some significant changes in\nAmerican foreign policy, according to Dr Allen Sens, a senior political science lecturer.\n\"The major change in tenor and tone will be at least a\nrhetorical commitment to multilateralism and to repairing\ndamaged relations, primarily with European allies but with\nother countries as well,\" he said.\n\"The impact of a rhetorical change in the White House\nwould mean a general lowering of tension, distrust, and\nindeed anger between America and most of its key allies,\nand that is a situation that any Canadian government would\nsimply find comforting,* said Sens. \"Right now Canada\ndoesn't have too many inside tracks to the Bush administration. The bridges we had are burned, probably beyond\nrepair.\" -\nWhile the election of Kerry would likely lead to a \"withdrawal in honour* from Iraq, Sens said that there would be\n\"virtually no change\" in the way the US government has\ndealt with terrorism since 9/11.\n\"The same issues come up regardless of who is in power,\nand must be dealt with accordingly,\" said Sens.\nIn terms of economic policy, Kerry's desire to focus on the\nresolution of trade disputes would make the United States a\nmore sympathetic ally of Canada, according to Dr Price.\nOn the other hand, a change in leadership south of the border does not guarantee positive progress on some of the economic disputes that concern many Canadians, said Dr Colin\nCampbell, research chair of the US Studies Program at UBC.\n\"Issues like softwood lumber...aren't going to disappear just\nbecause there is a Democrat in the White House,\" said Campbell.\nWith little more than one month to go before the election is\nheld on November 2, Bush and Kerry are running neck and neck\nin the polls.\nA Gallup poll conducted from September 13 to 15 suggests\nthat Bush holds an eight per cent lead over Kerry among registered voters while a Harris poll of likely voters surveyed between\nSeptember 9 to 13 suggested a onepoint lead in favour of Kerry.\nThe race is very close and US expatriates living in Canada\ncould significantly impact the result by casting a ballot, according to Dr. Richard Johnston, head of the Political Science\nDepartment at UBC.\n\"It could be important,\" said Johnston. \"What really matters is the counting of all votes, including expatriate ones, in\nthe handful of 'battleground states' that are hovering\naround 50 percent [support for either candidate].* \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0^\n4\nTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2004\nNEWS\nTHE UBYSSEY\nSou'e're foiU'iiw ait election on Wedfie<.'da.y and these lucky\nfolks can coU\i/? theelection: ; v\nThese people need toshon'up\nto the all-candidates forum:':\nPaul Carr\nMichelle Mayne\nJesse Marchand\nSarah Bourdon\nAnia Mafi\nAlex Leslie\nDan McRoberts\nCarrie Robinson\nPaul Evans\nNic Fensom\nEric Szeto\nJonathan Woodward\nMatt Simpson\nColleen Tang\nJenn*$amer6n\nTrevor Gilks\nLiz Green\nWestsidI GYlVl\n3> y y \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 uy -pi^ gst ?\nfull membership for 3 months!\n(mustshow\u00E2\u0096\u00A0valids'tudent id.) .\nWant A Gym Without The Crowds?\nWant Unlimited Cardio?\nWant To Work Out. 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Since the\nuprising in early 2003 by the\nDarfurian rebels, the Sudanese government has responded by oppressing the peoples of the region, Huser\nsaid.\nIt is estimated that over 1.7 million people have fled from their\nhomes, most of them settling in\ncamps in Darfur.\n\"In [Darfur] the rebels claimed\nthat they are fighting against what\nthey describe as the marginalisa-\ntion and the exploitation of the\nDarfur region by the Sudanese government/ Huser said. \"In response\nto that there was a very, very-\naggressive, oppressive response\nback by the government.\"\nThe burning and looting of villages and violence against civilians\nby militias are just some of the atrocities that have caused a mass move\nment of the population, said Huser.\n\"Most families I spoke to were\ngoing...where there were big numbers of people.\" Huser added that\nmost of these families moved to populated areas because they felt that if\nthey were attacked the international\ncommuniiy would act more quickly.\nKalma camp, one of the refugee\nsettlements in Darfur contained\nabout 50,000 people in July. That\nnumber has now climbed to more\nthan 80,000.\nStill, moving to these camps does\nnot necessarily mean people are better off since access to potable water is\ndifficult and in some camps sanitation facilities are non-existant, compounding the already grim situation,\naccording to Huser.\nAbdel Azim Zumra, a member of\nthe forestry faculty at UBC, felt the\ntalk was informative but commented\nthat the political situation was misrepresented.\n\"I think she gave an excellent\npresentation of the humanitarian situation,\" said Zumra. \"I think however she misrepresented the political\nframework that she gave for what's\nhappening there.\" Zumra said that\nHuser focused too exclusively on the\ninternal confict in Sudan and did not\nprovide enough international context\n\"The talk was good. It was very\neffective and I think everyone felt a\nbit of what Cathy was feeling,\" added\nChristina Chan, a second-year science student \"What we see today is\nnot even close to what is happening\nso I'm sitting here trying to digest\neverything that I see on the screen\nwhich is a fraction of what goes on.\"\n\"These are real people,\" said\nHuser. \"This is something that is happening in a far off land but it is happening to human beings/\n\"\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nLeaving Afghanistan\nCanadian Red Cross raises refugee awareness\nAfter a lengthy process, her credentials were eventually recognised.\n\"I'm going step by step toward my\ngoal,\" she said.\nJooya on the other hand, never\nworked in Afghanistan because\nshe left at a young age. She spoke\nof her memories of being smuggled out of the country with her\nparents. Jooya has spent more\nthan half of her life in Canada and\nnow holds degrees in sociology\nand criminology, and is a social\nworker while also pursuing graduate studies in sociology.\nAdapting to life in Canada has\nbeen a challenge and Faiz acknowledged the various friends and organisations that have supported her in\nher efforts to improve her English\nand gain work experience.\nNow Faiz is helping others to\nmake the same transition,, working\nwith children who grew up in war-\ntorn surroundings.\n\"Nobody has the time to talk to\nthese children and help them deal\nwith their unique problems,\" she\nsaid. \"Their parents don't know\nabout the children's difficulty.*\nThe event was part of a series\ncalled A Story to Tell and a Place for\nthe Telling, coordinated by the\nCanadian Red Cross. Organiser Jenny\nMoss said that she hoped the talk was\nable to increase awareness about\nrefugees in Canada.\n\"There's too much stereotyping\nof refugees,\" she said. \"We want\npeople to have more compassion\nof them.\" \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nby Kenneth Chan\nNEWS WRITER\nFrom recounting their dramatic tales\nof escape from Afghanistan, to the\ndifficulties they faced as refugees in\nCanada, the three Afghani women\nspeaking at the Public library on\nSeptember 21 had much to say.\nFahima Ahmad Nessar, Ramzia\nDenshad Faiz and Froozan Jooya, all\nmembers of the Afghan Canadian\nWomen's Network, told the large\naudience their individual stories.\nNessar, who was a biology professor at Kabul University, spoke of her\ntime working as a field nurse with\nthe Red Cross in northern\nAfghanistan. Late one night, members of the local militia stormed her\nhouse and physically assaulted her\ndaughter. To this day, loud doorbells\nand phone rings still haunt Nessar.\nDetermined to flee, Nessar was\nforced to pose as a domestic worker\nbecause professionals were not\nallowed to leave the country. She\narrived in Canada in 1992.\nFaiz also held a professorship\nat Kabul University, teaching psychology.\nWhen the mujaheddein took control of the Afghan capital in 1992,\nFaiz took advantage of an opportunity to teach in Moscow. In 2001, after\nthe Russian government approved\nher visa, she left her native land and\ncame to Canada.\nDespite being a trained scientist,\nFaiz had to work at a bakery and for a\ntailor in order to make ends meet\ni \u00C2\u00BB\n>\nTHE UBYSSEY\nN E WS\nTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2004\ni-\ni\ni\nThe political side of sex\nNICE PANTIES: Jay Friedman talks sex at\nVanier. Jonathan woodward photo\nby Jonathan Woodward\nBC BUREAU CHIEF\nStudents expecting to learn about their sexuality\nfrom sex educators touring Canadian campuses\nmay find some politics mixed into the\nmessage due to the upcoming American\nelection.\nSex educators, counsellors and therapists who\nlecture students across North America this time\nof year are becoming more polittically active, said\nsex educator Jay Friedman.\n'Under the Bush administration, rights to sex\neducation are being taken away,' said Friedman,\nwho is best known for his lecture series,\n'TheJ-Spot'\n'I'm very worried about the outcome of\nthis election.*\nIn a speech last week to several hundred students at Place Vanier and Totem Park Residences,\nFriedman talked frankly about male ('microwave\noven*) and female ('crock pot*) arousal, decried\nlocker room talk* when it pressures men to\nscore, and dispelled the myth of 'blue balls.*\nBut he saved his criticism for a school system that he said may as well teach children\nthat a vulva is 'what mom and dad drive* and\na vagina is 'a state outside of Washington,\nD.C.*\n'We are crippled by sexual ignorance,* he\nsaid. 'The clitoris is the only part of the body\nthat is designed for pleasure. I think it's political that we are not taught this pleasure.*\nFriedman said his lecture has become\nmore outspoken over the past three years,\nespecially after initiatives by George W. Bush\nto introduce a constitutional amendment to\nban same-sex marriages.\nOther sex educators have similar political\nconcerns.\n*We see our field under attack by the current\nadministration,* said California sex therapist\nStephen L. Braveman.\nThe US has the highest teen pregnancy statistics in the developed world: more than three\ntimes Canada and six times most European\nnations, he said.\nAt the same time, schools in Braveman's nearby Salinas Valley only teach abstinence, refusing\nto acknowledge that teenagers are sexual beings,\nno matter what their parents think, he said.\nThis alienates children from parents' messages and endangers them, he said.\n\"We need comprehensive sex education in\nthis country.\"\nWith the change in political climate, the\nAmerican Association of Sex Educators,\nCounsellors and Therapists has been pushed to\nmake political statements more often, said Dr\nPeter Kanaris, a sex therapist in Long Island,\nNew York.\n'The right is more in control and more influential,\" he said. 'It's a result of this that sex educators are broadcasting their messages louder.*\nThe controversy stretches farther back and\ncrosses party lines, said UBC history professor\nPaul Krause.\nDr David Satcher, the American Surgeon\nGeneral between 1998 and 2002, was replaced\nafter he said that it was important to teach children about sex, said Krause.\nIn 1995, Surgeon General Jocelyn Elder talked\nabout the need to educate children about masturbation in schools. She came under huge pressure\nto resign, forcing then-President Bill Clinton, a\nDemocrat, to cut her loose, he said.\n'In general, sex in US society has been a heated and volatile debate since colonial days\nonward,* he said. 'There has always been a fudging of the public and the private realms.*\n'The big contradiction of the Republican Party\nis that they are against big government, but want\ngovernment to be involved in sex and in choosing\na sexual partner,* Krause explained.\nThe situation is different in Canada, where\nPierre Trudeau's adage that 'the state has no\nplace in the bedrooms of the nation* is still a powerful political idea, he said.\nAt the end of his speech, Friedman abandoned\nhis political message and offered a 'gift* to his\naudience to improve their sex lives: Kegels. By\ncontracting the muscles that stop the flow of mine\nin three sets of ten per day, anyone can build\nmuscles that can aid sexual prowess.\n'It's something that can be done anytime,\neven at breakfast,* he said. 'Kegels with your\nbagels.\n'But the best thing about Kegels is that no one\ncan tell that you're doing them,* he said, standing\nin front of several hundred Vanier residents. 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And with over 50 countries\ncontributing, and more than 150,000\npeople attending, be sure to check out...\nLTsota (The Island)\nPlaying Oct 5\nby Erin Hope-Goldsmith\nCULTURE WRITER\nLast Saturday I had the choice between going to see\nShrek 2 at the SUB, or going to see VIsola at the VIFF.\nNot to diss Shrek, who's a charming guy, but the\nchoice wasn't too difficult VIsola is filled with the rich\nimagery of life in an Italian fishing village, in all its\nharsh and primal beauiy. In a naturalistic, completely\ngimmick-free style, it documents a season in the lives\nof a sister and brother growing up.\nThe documentary-like quality of the film is played up\nby a camera technique that occasionally views like a\nhome video, with a close-up image drifting here, there,\nsliding down to focus on somebody's hand then up to\ntheir nose. Though it did enhance the hypnotic effect of\nimmersing you in the scene, the camera work also did\nsomething to your stomach.\nThat aside, it is captivating to watch as Teresa and her\nolder brother Tuii mature, and learn how to negotiate the\ndemands and limits of family and society while somehow\nstaying integral to themselves in the strict world. Both\nactors are excellent but the young Veronica Guarasi's natural poise and vibrance really illuminate her performance as Teresa. Think of the last Hollywood child actors\nyou saw: Macaulay Culkin anyone? Next to him, Guarasi\nstands out like your grandma's Sunday dinners in comparison to an Arby's sandwich. Speaking of grandmas,\nTeresa's nonna is a delightful character, providing the\nnecessary nurturing and love in a world dominated by\nhard work and harsh actions.\nThe Island* is what the Italian fishermen call the\nhuge circle of nets they set out to catch tuna. The image\nthat sticks in the mind most is that of Turi, learning this\nnecessary yet brutal art, as he swims alone to inspect the\nnets of the island while his terse father and the other men\nwait above in the boat; just as they will wait when the tuna\narrive to be caught and slaughtered. Though we are pleasantly unaware of the presence of a director's guiding\nhand, the film's metaphors and meanings unfold in retrospect just like remembrances ofa salient dream.\nThis is a picture of a way of life that is inseparable\nfrom the land and the sea. After this intensely real yet\ndream-like tale, rich with wild windswept coast, death\nand birth of animals and the struggle for survival of the\nhuman soul, I walked out of the theatre onto Granville St\nand had trouble adjusting my mind and legs; I felt I was\nstill bobbing on the waves of an Italian boat \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nx luinc &\u00C2\u00AB/ *w\u00C2\u00ABn\nSept. 26\nby Simon Underwood\nCULTURE STAFF\nEvery August weary parents prepare to shed their children\nfor another school year. Before they lapse into a critical\nstate of atrophy, a spate of articles will no doubt litter the\n'Life' section warning against the \"bully problem' and offering defences for middling children to mount against grade\nschool thugs. What Francesca Comencini's I Like to Work\n(Mi Place Lavorare) quietly illustrates is that the politics of\nthe schoolyard differ little from those of the workplace.\nForget camaraderie: it's every administrative assistant for\nthemselves. And that new intern wants your desk.\nBased on a true story that led to the rewrite of Italian\nlabour laws, Comencini's subject is Anna (Nicoletta\nBraschi), an invoice checker and single mother who arbitrarily becomes a company target when a merger refits her\nlong-time employer witih a cruel new manager of Human\nResources. A fait accompli sends her packing at the hands\nof a co-worker ordered to annex her desk. Her computer is\nsabotaged. She is forced to sit by the photocopier and interrogate users as to their intentions with the Xerox. Her\nstone-faced boss assigns her next-to-impossible tasks, pitting her against co-workers willing to ignore, avoid, and\nabuse her for their own survival. Forget the union representatives who inspire the same confidence as your high\nschool guidance counsellor, Anna's only ally is her self-sufficient latchkey daughter. But even she confesses to her\nexhausted mother, *I don't want to be like you/\nI Like to Work is simply told\u00E2\u0080\u0094Comencini resorts to the\ntime-old device of the important recital that will inevitably\nbe missed\u00E2\u0080\u0094but the straightforward structure allows the\ndirector to linger on the stark, washed out imagery of a\nworkday morning. At one point the camera draws back as\nAnna bleakly meets her own beleaguered expression in the\nmirror, and pulls in at another to chase her subterranean\nmission through a labyrinth of impenetrable file cabinets.\nBraschi, recognisable from her role in Life is Beautiful,\ncommands the screen with a weathered grace at each\ninstance, fiercely refusing to kowtow even when her own\nmental health is at stake.\nI Like to Work is a intense indictment of a corporate culture that forces workers to be flexible until they break. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nHari 0m\nPlaying Oct. 3\nby Ajay Puri\nCULTURE WRITER\nGrowing up, I watched my fair share of Bollywood films.\nYou know the typical plot boy meets girl, girl rejects boy's\naffection, dakus (bad guys) take away girl, boy rescues girl\nby killing hundreds of dakus and they happily get married\u00E2\u0080\u0094of course I've omitted an hour of musical numbers.\nWell, going in to watch Hari Om, I was expecting another\ntypical Bollywood style movie; however, to my delight it\nturned out to be atypical and indeed quite comical.\nBharatbala's Hari Om is what could be labeled as one of\nthose 'off beat' Indian films such as the ever popular\nSouth Asian hits as Monsoon Wedding, East is East or\nBend it Like Beckham.\nBeing of South Asian decent I appreciated the humour\nand sub-dialogues which reminded me of the fun and\ncharming side of Indian culture. Most enjoyable were the\nvarious Indo-pop numbers remade by Nitin Soni and the\nwitty Indian slang. This film can be enjoyed by all South\nAsians, and is also entertaining for those not accustomed\nto the Indian humour as the characters and plot cater to\nall audiences.\nIn a coconut shell, the movie is about an auto-rickshaw\ndriver (or 'four-wheeler' as they say in India) named Hari\nOm, played by Vija Raaz from Monsoon Wedding, who\ngets himself involved with a crook and ends up owing him\na fair chunk of change. To avoid selling his four-wheeler,\nnamed Madhuri, he escapes serendipitously with\nMadhuri and a charismatic and lovely woman from\nFrance named Isa, who is played by Camille Natta.\nEscaping the boredom of her boyfriend Benoit played by\nJean Marie Lamour of Swimming Pool, Isa joins Om on\nthis spontaneous voyage. The two travel across the beautiful landscape of Rajasthan\u00E2\u0080\u0094the land of love stories-\nfinding out who they really are.\nWhat made the night most memorable was having the\ndirector, executive producer, main editor and even the\nmother of Ms Natta present at the screening. After speaking with director, Bharatbala, I got an inside listen to the\nmany interesting tidbits that the audience probably didn't\nknow. Like how the film amazingly finished only ten days\nprior to the Toronto International Film Festival, with the\nwhole film taking only 45 days to shoot\nArriving home I realised two things from the movie,\nthat there is always a human connection between any one\nof us despite our differences and secondly, as the director\nput it, \"everybody has a love story*\nThe Machinist\nSept. 26\nby Eric Szeto\nCULTURE STAFF\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nDig!\nSept 24 & 25\nby Chris Little\nCULTURE WRITER\nWinner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance\nFilm Festival, this feature-length documentary by director\nOndi Timoner is a fascinating and devastatingly candid\nupdate of the often tiresome rock biopic formula Shot\nover a period of seven years and culled from more than\n1500 hours of footage, the film chronicles the career trajectories of two (former) darlings of the indie scene, The\nDandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, as\nwell as the friendship of the bands' respective leaders,\nCourtney Taylor and Anton Newcombe.\nDig} begins by focusing on the common desire of\nboth groups to stage a revolution in the extremely conservative music industry, which was then dominated by boy\nbands and disposable pop fluff. However, the Dandy's\nshort-lived status as the \"next big thing* and their corresponding decision to sign with a major label soon establishes an irreconcilable rift between Taylor and\nNewcombe. Eventually the pair's differing approaches to\nbalancing creativity with success place them fundamentally at odds. This story is played out amidst revealing\nshots of the bands' triumphs and catastrophes, both onstage and behind the curtain.\nWithout a doubt the central figure of the film is\nMassacre front-man Newcombe, whose delusions of\ngrandeur and maniacal egotism are only magnified when\ncontrasted with the 'well-adjusted* presence of his rival\nand former friend, Taylor. Both men endure their fan-\nshare of difficult moments, yet Newcombe emerges as\neasily the more volatile, nearly self-destructing at every\navailable opportunity.\nAlthough Newcombe may well be a musical genius,\nDig! demonstrates that unmitigated talent when combined with an unbroken string of selfish actions and poor\ndecisions can easily lead to nowhere, or at least relative\nobscurity. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nAfter not having one night of sleep for more than a\nyear, Trevor Reznik's mind begins to break down.\nTie Machinist is a psychological drama starring\nChristian Bale as Trevor Reznik. He holds down a 9\nto 5 job, but as his insomnia begins to compound\nhe starts to distance himself from the rest of the\nworld. Unable to account for the bizarre string of\nevents that surround him, Reznik cannot understand who or what is responsible for all this.\nThe separation between reality and Reznik's\ndementia begins to obscure as the movie unfolds.\nHis behaviour becomes unstable and erratic as this\nwhirlwind of confusion blows into his life. His only\nexplanation is that the people around him are\ndevising a plot to ruin him.\nIvan, played by John Sharian, is the mysterious\ncharacter Reznik formulates some suspicion for as he\ngoes to great lengths trying to prove Ivan's existence is\nnot just a figment of his own imagination. It is this\nobsessive determination that reinforces to the audience that Reznik's sanity is indeed questionable.\nLeading a lonely life that is compensated by his\nfrequent visits with Stevie, a prostitute played by\nJennifer Jason Leigh, Reznik looks to her as his\nonly source of salvation. The two develop a genuine relationship, but as his mind begins to psychologically unravel and break, so does his relationship with Stevie.\nBale, from American Psycho, once again shows\nhis viewers how good he is at playing bizarre and\ntwisted characters, giving a memorable performance in this film. He also provided us an inside\nglimpse at how losing 60 pounds for a role can\ncreate a buzz of repugnance throughout the entire\ntheatre.\nThe downfall to this film is that as the story\nunfolded, it became predictable. At times Ivan, who\nwas obviously his alter ego, started to resemble\nBrad Pitt's character in Fight Club. 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V6T 121\ntel: (604) 822-2301\nfax: (604) 822-9279\nweb: www.ubyssey.bc.ca\nemail: feedbadc@ubyssey.bcca\nBUSINESS OFFICE\nRoom 23, Student Union Building\nadvertising: (604) 822-1654\nbusiness office: (604) 822-6681\nfax: (604) 822-1658\nemail: advertising@ubyssey.bc.ca\nBUSINESS MANAGER\nFernie Pereira\nAD SALES\nDave Gaertner\nAD DESIGN\nShalene Takara\nJesse Marchand is sitting around and Michelle\nMayne is staring at her ass. Sarah Bourdon laughed\nso hard that Alex Leslie had to cover her ears. Dan\nMcRoberts was confused by the different lengths of\nhis legs. Ania Mafi slid the soap over the soft, supple\ncurves of the countertop. In terms of socio-ecomon-\nics, Paul Evans was extraordinarily stimulated into\nconversation with Carrie Robinson. Eric Szeto sat on\nhis hands because Jon Woodward has scissors and he\nis flailing them at Liz Green. Nic Fensom contemplated a sex change. 'Shawna Hall!' screeched the\nparrot perched in the corner. All of a sudden remembering the time Darryl Hoi jumped three times.\nLooking up in disgust Mamie Recker realized that\nthat odour was emulating from her feet. As Dan\nSilverman threw the football at Kenneth Chan it accidentia hit Hilary Onas and Charlie Hatt started to\nscream. Kelsey Blair and Colleen Tang teamed up to\npaint the campus ketchup. \"Ditto,* said Wil Keats-\nOsborn, Ancilla Chui returned triumphantly with two\nerasers and a green pen. Simon Underwood thought\nhe would and so he could and he was good. It turns\nout that Ajay Puri really, really loves doing geography\ntrivia while waxing Chris Little's toe hair. Alexander\nWright flew his toy plane right into Erin Hop-\nGoldsmith. And Trevor Gilks said hello.\nV\nCanadian\nUniversity\nPress\nCanada Poet Sates Agraamont Numbar 40878022\nShove\nyour\nincrease\nWhen Translink officials present their fare\nincrease recommendations this week, it's not\nlikely that their first thoughts will he of the needs\nof students. Not that this should be expected.\nStudents, of course, only make up a large percentage of the transit-using public and are\namong the demographics least likely to own\ncars. Or, that is, cars that don't bear the appearance of having just been assaulted by a convict\nwith a screwdriver.\nTranslink's new proposal includes adding\ntwo dollars a month onto the price of our U-\nPass, which will contribute to the $41 million\nin extra revenue the company hopes to rake in\nby 2007.\nNow, at first glance, this proposal seems justifiable. After all, bus service to and from UBC is\nin definite need of improvement. The U-Pass has\nincreased transit ridership to a level that has\nplaced major strain on the system. Every morning, students in all degrees of dampness watch\nwith mounting frustration as buses whisk past\nlike awkward, smoke-spewing steeds.\nAs a remedy, Translink proposes to replace\nentire fleets of buses, including the archaic trolley\nfleet A spokesperson from Translink explained\nthat small buses will be replaced by bigger buses\non main arteries such as Broadway to deal with\nswollen ridership.\nOkay. So the proposal sounds like it will benefit students in the long run. But there's something wrong with this plan.\nWith the introduction of the U-Pass in\n2003, it became mandatory for all UBC students to fork over $20 per month to\nTranslink. This guaranteed Translink a lot of\nmoney\u00E2\u0080\u0094much more than they likely would\nhave made without the pass. With 40,000 stu\ndents paying $ 160 for eight months of transit,\nthey were guaranteeing themselves $6.4 million. The proposed extra $2 per month will\nadd another $640,000 to that per year.\nNow, with the AMS adamant that students at\nUBC should not pay more than $20 a month and\nUBC refusing to pay any extra increases that\nTranslink might insist on, it looks like students\nwill be the ones screwed in the end.\nAfter only one full year of ridership and no\nsummer U-Pass in sight, Translink is already trying to change the contract and the onus looks\nlike it will be on us to pay for it.\nWhy, after only two years, are we being asked\nto pay more money for a program that has\nalready fattened Translink's purse? For such a\nsmall slice of the population pie, students are\ncontributing a fairly large chunk of money\ntowards Translink's wish list.\nFrom so-called increased bus service to the\ncontroversial RAV line, Translink is grasping at\nLETTERS\nfunding straws everywhere to fund their $ 1 billion expansion project. This will include $59\nmillion worth of bus and HandyDART fleets and\n$84 million for for 34 new sly train cars. And\n$ 15 million for an \"expanded cycling network.*\nAdditionally, nine overpasses or roads will be\nimproved or widened. Why are students the\nones being asked (again and again and again) to\nfoot the bill?\nWe at the Ubyssey adore, as much as any\nother commuting soul, the smell of a\nstranger's moist gortex poncho pressing into\nour freshly-washed (nay, freshly-scrubbed)\nmorning faces. But, to quote the venerable Jay-\nZ, 'money ain't a thang*\u00E2\u0080\u0094indeed not, unless\nyou don't have any. Coughing up unagreed-\nupon cash to Translink, which is already profiting from our spending, will amount to moving money from thousands of meagre wallets\ninto a snugly-stuffed coffer.\nJay-Z would surely not approve.\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nAMS VP Admin double-talks\nby Mike Mjanes\nIn his recent commentary\n\"Corporate support an evil necessity,* AMS VP Administration Lyle\nMcMahon attempts the very delicate art of talking out of both\nsides of his mouth.\nIn response to a recent complaint about corporate advertising on campus, Mr McMahon, to\nwhom this responsibility falls,\nadmits that he is against this\nadvertising on principle. He\nimplies that if he could do something about it, he would. Alas, his\nhands are tied. He is simply stuck\nwith the legacy left to him by previous administrations. But he\nadmonishes us, the student body,\nto elect \"a progressive executive*\nto make decisions differently in\nthe future.\nWhile I applaud Mr McMahon's\npolitical acumen, I have to take\nexception to this blatant opportunism. What exactly would this\n\"progressive executive* accomplish for us, the students? Cut out\na much-needed source or revenue\nfrom the AMS coffers? Increase\nstudent fees? Cut services? While\nthe advertising revenue does represent a small percentage of the\nAMS' total budget it is money\nnonetheless and, as any student\nknows, every little bit helps.\nBut after urging us to vote for\nchange, Mr. McMahon proceeds\nto detail the steps already taken\nby the AMS on this issue. I\napplaud the pragmatic approach\ntaken by the AMS with regard to\ncorporate sponsorship, and\nwould hope that it continues.\nTaking a strong policy stand against\ncompanies with unacceptable\nlabour practices is a terrific example\nof the way that the AMS can use its\nclout to affect positive change.\nLikewise by setting firm guidelines\nregarding the content of advertise-\nPERSPECTIVE\nments. There should be no place on\nthis campus for sexism or any other\ntype of discrimination, irrespective\nof the source.\nMr McMahon characterises\nthe corporate advertising on campus as an \"encroachment on public space.* This is the common cry\nof the anti-corporate groupthink\nso pervasive on campus. Of\ncourse, this objection is always\nlimited to the corporations that\nhave actually paid to be there. No\none seems to mention the dozens\nof flyers, ads and handbills that\nare posted on every free pole\naround (and occasionally in) the\nSUB. I don't mean the student\nselling used textbooks, or the\nlocal clubs shilling for members\neither. Take a peek at the bus loop\nsometime. Surely framed and\nprofessionally prepared advertising, with restricted placement, is\nless of an encroachment on our\npublic space than this unregulated posterama, from which no revenue is derived. And what is the\nenvironmental impact and cost to\nthe school once these ads become\ndislodged and litter our campus?\nThe fact is, you can't pretend\nwe don't live in a free market\nsociety, or that advertising is not\na part of our world. Academia is\ninsular enough without burying\nour heads further in the sand.\nThe presence of advertising on\ncampus seems to only bother\nthose who have for some reason\nnever learned how to filter it out.\nAnd let's be honest, it's not exactly Times Square here. The last ads\nI saw 'plastered' in the SUB bathroom were for anti-smoking. But\ntruth be told, most of the lime I'm\nin the can, I'm a little more\nfocused on the reason for my visit\nthan whether or I not I should buy\na car.\nI agree with Mr. McMahon\nthat we need to vote and hold\naccountable our AMS representatives. But we could also use a lot\nfewer ideologues and a lot more\npractical policy.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Mike Mjanes is a\nfirst-year Law student\nHere^fa\nfe:edbaGk@ubyssey;:b,c.'Ga\nLetters to the editor must be under 300Vvvortls. Pliiase Iiic lude vour phone number\nstudent number arid ^\nw}th oil submissions. ID will be' c hecki'd when submissions are dropped offnt the editorial office otThe Ixfcyssey, othenvise venficati^\n''l^rspectryfes^\nactording to space. _ -.'.... -' -x'.-\n\\ni I\n1\nw\n1\n1\nI\nTHE UBYSSEY\nLETTERS\nTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2004\n11\ni\ni\na\nChoice of \"barrier\" term is misleading, says resident\nI read with interest your story\nregarding the South Campus Plan\n(South campus plans get tentative\nnod) in The Friday edition (Sept\n24th) of the Ubyssey. Allow me to\nfirst state that in addition to being a\nfaculty member in the Department\nof Anthropology and Sociology I am\nalso a resident of the campus community living in that area of campus\nformerly known as B Lot (Hawthorn\nPlace). I was also the UBC Faculty\nappointee to the South Campus\nWorking Group, to which you refer in\nyour article. My letter today reflects\nmy personal opinion and response\nto the quoted statements attributed\nto Mr Jim Moodie, the private consultant contracted by UBC to facilitated the development of the South\nCampus Neighbourhood Plan, and\nshould in no way be read as an official statement of either the\nUniversity or the Faculty Association.\nIn your article, Mr Moodie is\nquoted as saying that \"one point of\ncontention was the potential for the\ndevelopment to become a 'gated\ncommunity with a natural buffer'\ndue to the treed barrier zone designated to run along the southern side\nof West 16th Avenue.* I understand\nthat Mr Moodie very likely said a lot\nmore then could be incorporated\nwithin the context of a newspaper\narticle, nonetheless, it strikes me as\nunfortunate that of whatever he said,\nthis is what was repeated, especially\nas it does not reflect the reality of\neither the plan or the nature of the\nextensive community involvement\nin generating these plans. Perhaps it\ndoes reflect the fact that there has\nbeen a strong push by some mem-\ncildrcvll\u00C2\u00A5l:\nbers of the residential and development community here at UBC to\nremove as many of the mature second growth forest as they can get\naway with and replace them with private market condos.\nAfter learning through their experience of the University Boulevard\nPlan about what doesn't work, UBC\nset up the innovative and creative\nSouth Campus Working Group to\nensure full and adequate consultation at all stages of the planning\nprocess\u00E2\u0080\u0094that is, to bring in potential\ncritics (and supporters) before the\nproject hit the big time stage. The\nworking group included not only\nUBC staff and consultants, but a representative body of community\nstakeholders such as graduate and\nundergraduate students, faculty,\nstaff, University area residents, and\nother interested community groups\ndesignated by the University. Last\nspring the working group met weekly for several months. We listened to\nexperts, community members, outside interests, developers, and all\nmanner of people. As opposed to the\nmore tightly controlled and restrictive UBC/GVRD appointed Advisory\nPlanning Committees, the working\ngroup was truly able to draw upon\nthe expertise, knowledge, and experience of a wide cross section of people who comprise our university\ncommunity.\nThe plan that left the hands of the\nworking group was a truly amazing\ndocument While still a 'conservative' document in many senses, it\ndid present some rather daring and\necologically friendly characteristics.\nIt had broad based support from\nworking group members and it contained a number (rf very creative features. One of these was the forest\nbuffer that Mr Moodie appears to\nhave implied will create a gated community (for interest sake, a. gated\ncommunity is already under construction at UBC at the intersection\nof Larkin Drive ami West Mall where\nfor the minimum price of 1.25 million dollars anyone who wants can\nbuy a piece of seclusion backed by a\npatch of forest). I would strongly urge\nthe Ubyssey and any of its readers to\ntake a walk up to the Fishery\nBuilding, just south of 16th, off of\nWesbrook Mall, and consider the\nfine stand of second growth forest\nthat is there. This is the 'barrier' that\nsome seem concerned about In feet\nlet's consider our words. This is hot\na barrier, nor shoald we even call it a\nbuffer\u00E2\u0080\u0094it is a forest a grove of trees,\na woods. To call it a buffer or a barrier is to make it- one step closer to\nbecoming firewood and timber.\nWhile it may not have the majesty of\nCathedral Grove on Vancouver\nIsland or Lighthouse Park in West\nVancouver, it is a forest worthy of\nkeeping. It is a. piece of second\ngrowth forest that if maintained,\ncould contribute important ecological values to our already overcut and\ndamaged environment\nThe plan proposed by the South\nCampus Working Group doubled\nthe width of the buffer mandated\nin the Official Community Plan. It\ndid so, not to create a 'gated community' but to respect the ecology\nand the potential to maintain and\nenhance local biodiversity that preserving the forest would lead to.\nYet, there are strong pressures to\nremove all of the forest except\nwhat they are forced to keep. Some\nvested interests will point to the\nclauses about 'tree retention' and\npromise that for every tree cut\ndown a new tree will be planted.\nBut, in the same sense that a\nreplanted clear-cut does not make\na forest, neither will a one for one\non-campus tree replacement model\npreserve that wonderful stand of second growth trees that have survived\nfor over 80 years on South Campus.\nAt the end of the day the forest will\nbe cut down again and for what?\nI suppose that there is a rhetorical purpose to talk about barriers\nand gated communities. Most of us\nwho live, work, and study in the university community are very concerned about creating false barriers\nand enclaves of privilege. It is, however, sad to see language turned\nupside down so that an act designed\nto keep as much as South Campus\nForest open and living as possible\nfor all of us has now become an\nattempt to create an exclusive gated\ncommunity. While it is easy these\ndays to be pessimistic about human\ndefacement of the environment, one\ndoes hope that a will and a way to\nkeep this forest can be found.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Charles Menzies\nFaculty and UBC resident\nDowntown Eastside Visit\nwas a Dog and Pony Show\nGovernor General Adrienne Clarkson\ndidn't achieve anything by strolling the\nDowntown Eastside. The san itized version of Vancouver's skid row didn't\ntruly show the brokenness that\nClarkson needed to see.\nInstead, she opted for the scenic\ntour with Mayor Larry Campbell and\nCouncilor Jim Green as guides and a\nmini-phalanx of security. The stops she\nmade had no homeless people or had\nbeen 'cleaned out' before her arrival.\nProtestors were jeering at Clarkson and\ncompany, but their screaming fell on\ndeaf ears. She and her entourage\n*walk[ed] all over us* said anti-poverty\nactivist Bill Cunningham, and didn't\nreally care about what they had to say.\nThe demonstrators had every right\nto voice their concerns, but their criticisms toward Clarkson wouldn't do\nmuch because she doesn't hold political\npower. Instead, it's more effective for\nthem to vent their anger at the mayor,\nwho said, *I do whatever I want and if\n[the protestors] don't like it they can\nvote me out* You all heard his challenge, folks.\nIf Clarkson really wants to see first\nhand what the poverty is like on the\nDowntown Eastside, she should go\nthere alone without Mayor Campbell or\nother politicians tagging along. She can\neven take a tour with a street worker.\nBetter yet, she can volunteer at a soup\nkitchen to get a sense of the desperation\nand actually serve the people of\nCanada. After all, she always talked\nabout wanting to connect with\nCanadians from all walks of life.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Kenneth Chan\nUbyssey Writer\nDiscover the cultures of Africa and the Caribbean at\nColour Bash, a three-day diversity fair from\nSeptember 29 to October 1 at the SUB\nConversation Pit.\nDrop by for display booths, dance, and music\nbetween 12 noon to 2 pm. The Diversity Fair,\ncoordinated by the Student Administrative\nCommission - Culture, was designed to provide\nlearning and appreciation of various cultures\namong students.\nThere are four other Diversity Fairs planned for the\nrest of the year, with themes including Asia, South\nPacific, Europe, Middle East, and Latin America.\nU-Pass Awareness Days\nSeptember 28 - 29\n12 pm-1:30 pm\nSUB South Alcove\nLast week Translink proposed an increase in\nridership fees for 2005. Find out how this wiM\naffect the U-Pass program and voice your\nconcerns and feedback on student transit\nissues.\nReminder: The deadline for U-Pass subsidies is\nOctober 8. For subsidy criteria, please refer to\nhttp://www.ams.ubc.ca and click \"U-Pass\" on\nthe left-hand menu bar:\nclub funds here x\nIs your club looking to tap into additional funding\nresources?\nTry the AMS Club Benefit Fund which is available for\nactivities such as travel conferences, special projects,\nfundraising events and academic programs that\nreflect UBC student life. The AMS will fund up to half\nthe cost of the project, to a maximum of $450.\nCriteria requirements and applications are available\nat the Student Administrative Commission office at\nSUB Rm 238F. Applications must be submitted 4-6\nweeks prior to the event date. Contact the Financial\nAid Commissioner for more details at\nfinaid@am\u00C2\u00BBs.ubc.ca.\nr\nI\nfinances^\ntutoring\nFinancial Awareness Days\nSeptember 27 - 29\n12 pm to 1:30 pm\nSUB South Alcove\nSeptember 27,6:30 pm to 8 pm\nTotem Park Residence\nSeptember 28,6:30 pm to 8 pm\nPlace Vanier Residence\n[I\nNot sure where to find information\nabout student loans? Trying to find\ncost-effective ways to live on campus?\nDrop by the SUB during Financial\nAwareness Days for informative\npresentations from student financial\nadvisors, UBC Career Services, and UBC\nFinancial Assistance and Awards and\nother professionals.\nSnacks and refreshments provided.\nPresented by the Finance Commission.\nI\nDon't wait for your mid-term exams to find out about AMS Tutoring Services. Get on\nthe fast-track by checking out what they offer, including:\nFree Drop-in Tutoring: Help offered for 100-Ievel courses in Math, Chemistry and\nPhysics, ail levels of English and writing for all courses. Available Monday to\nThursdays, 4-10 pm in the SUB South Study alcove.\nAppointment Tutoring: Available for a range of first and second year level courses.\nCost is $17/hour - can be used for individual sessions or group sessions.\nTutor Registry: Look for an on-line tutor, based on your academic needs and rates,\nby visiting http://www.ams.ubc.ca/tutors.\nInterested in becoming a tutor? Register on-line at htfp:///www.ams.ubc.ca (under\nTutoring) or through the AMS Tutoring office, located at SUB Rm 2490.\nmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmommmmmBKmmmmr%mmmmm^ mi\nThe Province of British Columbia is adding 25,000 new post-secondary spaces by 2010.These new spaces will increase access\nto university, college, and trades training for British Columbians of all ages.This will give students more options closer to home,\nsaving them thousands of dollars each year. From one corner to the other, every region of the Province will benefit. Our post-\nsecondary schools have always been a source of pride. And now they're even better.\nFraser Vafley: 8000 New Spaces\nSFU Surrey: 1850 New Spaces\nSFU Burnaby: 1150 New Spaces\nDouglas College: 1500 New Spaces\nKwantlen Univ. College: 1800 New Spaces\nUniv. College of the\nFraser Valley: 1700 New Spaces\nLower Mainland: more than 4500 New Spaces\nUBC: 2200 New Spaces\nEmily Carr institute: 150 New Spaces\nCapiiano College: 350 New Spaces\nLangara College: 500 New Spaces\nVancouver Community College: 600 New Spaces\nBCIT: 1145 New Spaces\nCentral & Southern Interior: 6300 New Spaces\nUniversity College of the Cariboo: 800 New Spaces\nUBC Okanagan: 4500 New Spaces\nOkanagan College: 1000 New Spaces\nKootenays: 700 New Spaces\nSelkirk College: 250 New Spaces\nCollege of the Rockies: 450 New Spaces\nVancouver Island: 4000 New Spaces\nUVic: 1900 New Spaces\nCamosun College: 550 New Spaces\nNorth Island College: 250 New Spaces\nMalaspina Univ. 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