"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-08-27"@en . "2003-09-19"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0126936/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " WE'R^TslpT\nilM \iSVZ:\nNEWS:\nMain Library falls...\nAnd Irving K. Barber rises. Page 3\nCULTURE:\nA bloody love story\nUnderworld proves tasty. Page 12.\nSPORTS:\nHockey Birds sign\nGough to join hockey Birds.\nTeam gets a facelift. Page 2.\nEDITORIAL:\nCanada gives up tobacco\nsponsorship\nDebating the fate of arts and leisure\nevents across the country. Page 10.\nCritical Mass. Ps. 6\nr\n\\n\\n(\ni. '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0>'\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ,\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00AB;\u00E2\u0096\u00A0; i- \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 *'5* \"*.*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 #>*' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ^v-p* \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nV- ^-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-A-^.^.-^i-i ..ft **;.'.*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .\n' Volume 85 K\ue 6 '\n\\nSi\n1 SPORTS\nCLASSIFIEDS\nSWING MOVIE NIGHTS at the Norm\nTheatre in the SUB. September 24th &\n25th. Watch live swing dancers on stage\nbefore two films: Swing Time (1936) @\n7PM and Swingers (1996) at 9:30PM.\nWHO CARES? A forum on education\n& citizenship with SFU president\nMichael Stevenson and UBC president\nMartha Piper. Thurs, Sept 18 7-9:30pm\n<8> Morris Wosk Centre for Dialogue,\n580 W. Hastings. Fri, Sept 19, 9am- .\n4:3.0pm. UBC Robson Square, 800\nRobson. To participate in the forum,\ncontact Brian Smith PHI LA Dialogue on\nCitizenship 604-708-0025. Email\nbscoopg'telus.net.\nMOVING SALE: bed & mattress $100,\nfile cabinet $25, large storage cabinets\n$50 & $40. Email Dennis at\nleaveUBC@hotmail.com\nthe uby$sey magailne\nPAGE FRIDAY\nFriday, September 19,2003\nLiMMniaQl\n.ecommonation\nONE BEDROOM Fully furnished\navailable Oct/Nov to April/May includes\nhigh speed internet connection, cable,\nlight/heat. $1000.00. Call George (604)\n689-9472,(604)813-9208.\nROOM FOR RENT. Oct 1. 1 rm in\n. house. Smokers welcome, semi furnished,\nuse of bath & kitchert, dose to bus, $350\nplus deposit* inclds cbl & utils, reft\nrequired, female prefFered . (604) 253-\n5728 . . .\nSTUDY MEDICINE IN EUROPE\nVisit www.medical-school.ca or email\ncanadian-info@medical-school.ca\ncauemic services\nEXPERIENCED ENGLISH TUTOR\n& PROOFREADER/EDITOR\nPh.D Student with 6 yrs reaching\nexperience. Call Anna @ 604-821-0510\niVtMiHRTlT\nHI\nwvyw. thedoUedeye.com\nTHE BIKE KITCHEN is your campus\nbike shop! (In the SUB loading bay) Call\n82-Speed.\nxtra-cumcuiar\nSALSA CLASSES! Tuesdays at\nInternational House. Beginners 7PM ,. ;\nIntermediate 8PM.\nwww.geocides.com/drsofsalsa.\nUBC SWING KIDS Lindy Hop dance\"\nlessons begin on October 1st for an 8-\nweek series with Lisa Jacobs'. Email\nswinging@interchange.ubc.ca, or come\nto the first day to register in sub rm 214.\nMARXIST-LENINIST STUDY\nGROUP meet this Wed, Sept 24\n4:00pm, Budianon B (room TBA).\nTopic: New colonialism in the era of\nglobalization: the occupation of Iraq.\nEveryone welcome. Contact\njamiesanne<\u00C2\u00A3*?yahoo.ca\nBIRDWALK EVERY TUESDAY at 12\nnoon. Meet at flagpole above rose garden\noutside Chan Centre. Contact: Christina\nat strutk(?interchange.ubc.ca Or 604-\n438-6037\nI\nCLASSIFIEDS\nFOR STUDENTS!\nLooking for a roommate?\nGot something to sell?\nOr just have an\nannouncement to make?\nII vou are a student,\nyou can place classifieds for FREE!\nFor more information, visit\nRoom 23 in the SUB\n[basement] or call 822-1654\nthund\u00C2\u00AB^^x^m\nMDEPENBKW CAMPOS AND C0KWJ8ITI HEKS, ARTS, AKD SPORTS\nKVBSH FRIDA* AT 5pa 0\u00C2\u00BB CiTS 101.J FW\nthis fridaq:\nNEWS: \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \\n- turnitin.com\n- Interview with Oana Chirila, AMS President\n- Clubs Days at UBC\nAflTS:\n- Who is Tomsan Highway?\nIbaComa an airhead.\nCiTR\n101.9 fM\nilrnftSQCic.,,,.,\nUPCOMING FILMS\nAll screenings @ Norm Theatre, SUB\nAdmission: $3 and Membership: $20\nFilm Society Hotline: (604) 822-3697\nhttp://www.ams.ubc.ca/clubs/fllmsoc\nFri. Sept 19 ~ Sun. Sept 21\n7:00PM- Hollywood Homicide\n9:30PM-The Hulk\nWed. Sept 24 ~ Thurs. Sept 25\n7:00PM - Swing Time\n9:30PM - Swingers\nFri. Sept 26 - Sun. Sept 28\n7:00PM - Alex and Emma\n9:30PM - The Matrix Reloaded\nTOFINO SUS\nvisit this West Coast paradise\t\nOnly $35 from Vancouver via BC Ferry\n1-866-986-3466 / WWW.WflN03US.e&M\nfueled by Biodiesel\nInterested in writing sports?\nWriting a sports story is a fun and easy way to\nbuild or add to your writing portfolio. No\nexperience is necessary ,\nMeeting this Tuesdapt noon I\nSUB 24 THEUBYSSEY\nspoits@uMissey.lic.ea \u00E2\u0084\u00A2\u00E2\u0084\u00A2\"SJK\nJust like new\nFormer OHL player Mike Gough adds new experience to the young team\nby Jesse Marchand\nSPORTS EDITOR\nIn his second season as a coach,\nMilan Dragicevic has made some\ndrastic changes to the men's ice-\nhockey team. After losing 21 of their\n26 regular season games last year,\nit was obvious that a new coach\nwasn't enough to bring the team to\nvictoiy\u00E2\u0080\u0094they needed a new outlook,\nnew training strategies and new\nplayers.\n\"We've kind of revamped the\nwhole program and built the program with first and second-year\nplayers,' said Dragicevic. Although\nthere are many returning veterans,\nthere are 11 new players joining the\nThunderbird team. \"We're a very\nyoung hockey team,' added\nDragicevic.\nOne of these new players is 21\nyear old Mike Gough. Gough is a former Ontario Hockey league player,\nplaying four years with the Toronto\nSaint Michael's Majors and one\nwith the Oshawa Generals. He has\nalso participated in two NHL training camps\u00E2\u0080\u0094the San Jose Sharks and\nthe Ottawa Senators. Recently he\nwas cut from the Senators team and\nis now a welcome addition to the\nThunderbirds.\n\"Mike is a power forward,\" said\nDragicevic. \"He's veiy good down\nlow in the corner and in front of the\nnet. His role on the team is to be\ntough on the net*\nAlthough Gough has signed on,\nthere are still three cuts to be made\nto the team before, the regular season begins. Those cuts will be determined in the next few pre-season\ngames.\nThe Birds are slated to play last\nyear's Canada West Champions, the\nAlberta Golden Bears, in a weekend\ndouble-header Friday and Saturday.\nThe Bears are the three-time defend\ning Canada West Champs and have\nslaughtered the Oilers Prospects in\ntheir exhibition game for the past\nthree years\u00E2\u0080\u0094winning 7-2 in 2001, 4-\n0 in 2002 and 2-0 this year.\nBeing slated against the number\none team in the Canada-West division may be hard for the fledgling\nBirds, but they have an even tougher\nchallenge next weekend. On the 26\nand 27 the Birds fly off to Thunder\nBay where they will take on last\nyear's Bell Canada Varsity Cup winner, the Lakehead University\nThunderwolves.\n\"It's a big weekend coming up,'\nsaid Dragicevic.\nAnd the Birds have been preparing. With up to five practices\" a week,\nsometimes twice a day, the Birds\nhave been hoping to gather experience and unity in the team.\nFriday's game against Alberta\nstarts at 7:30 and costs $2.00 for\nstudents. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nPREPARATION: UBC has to practice hard, if they want it to be a come-back year, michelle mayne photo\nEVENTS\nUBYSSEY\ni\ni i\n< \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 !.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00C2\u00BBi' \ ?\nEVENTS\nSPORTS\nFarm Aid, UBC Farm, Fri., Sept. 19,3-7pm\nThe UBC Farm, located at 6182 South Campus Road,\nis hosting a fair this Friday. Come for music, face-\npainting, barbecuing and more. A shuttle van will be\nleaving for the farm from the corner of Wesbrook\nMall and 16th Avenue every 15 minutes. Admission\nis free.\nInternational Talk Like A Pirate Day, Fri., Sept. 19\nAye, mateys, 'tis true. Today is t'internationally\nacclaimed day fer talking like a pirate. Shiver me timbers. For all t'details, see http://www. taHdikeapi-\nrate.com. Arrr.\nCIS football: UBC Thunderbirds vs. Saskatchewan\nHuskies, Thunderbird Stadium, Fri., Sept. 19 at\n7pm\nCome down to Thunderbird Stadium this evening\nand help cheer on the UBC football team. The T-Birds\ntake on the University of Saskatchewan Huskies, currently ranked No. 2 in the countiy. Yes, there's a bzzr\ngarden. Admission is $3 for UBC students.\nTHEATRE\n\"Twelfth Night,\" Presentation House Theatre, Sun.,\nSept. 21 at 8prrt\nBqqr garden, SUB 214/216, Fri., Sept. 19, 7-llpm A Cambridge University theatre troupe is in town this\nweek performing this Shakespeare classic at the\nJoin Pride UBC in its first bqqr garden of the year, Presentation House Theatre. Concession tickets are\nunderway tonight. Cover, is $1. $8. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 PAGE FRIDAY\nFriday, September 19,2003\nthe ubyssey niagaiine\nNEWS\n3\nU-Town controversy\nPublic meetings address concerns about campus development\nby Jonathan Woodward\nNEWS EDITOR\nUniversity Town public meetings erupted in\ncontroversy this week when UBC professors\ndemanded answers to six pages of questions- about the University Boulevard neighbourhood plan and students unfurled a\nbanner protesting commercialisation.\nAt Monday's meeting for the University\nBoulevard neighbourhood plan UBC professors circulated a list of questions about the\ndevelopment that included concerns over\nthe economics of the plan, space for future\nacademic buildings, pedestrian safety, the\nimpact of the proposed plan on Alma Mater\nSociety businesses, and the relocation of\nthe pool.\n\"These are 100 questions that we think\nshould be answered by the Board of\nGovernors and by the president of the university before this development should be\nallowed to proceed,* said George\nSpiegelman, a professor of Microbiology\nand Immunology.\nIn Wednesday's meeting, the East\nCampus neighbourhood plan proposals\nbrought support from University\nEndowment Land residents, but students\nattending the meeting hung a banner which\nread, 'Commercialization over Education.*\n\"It becomes clearer and clearer that\nthere is no commitment to keep commercialisation out ofthe academic core. This is\nmeant ta be an institution of learning. Keep\ndevelopments on University Town- in the\nperiphery,' said student Quinn Omori while\nthe banner was unveiled.\nUniversity Boulevard and East Campus\nare neighbourhoods in an OT\u00C2\u00A3e.i:all; scheme of\ncampus development that would\" increase\nthe population living on campus by constructing new housing developments and\n\u00C2\u00A7 \"^ iff-.\n&\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .rX\n- ,r$& \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-;; V40I\nANTI-COMMERCIAL WALLPAPER: Students take down their banner protesting a\nplan that would bring more commercialisation while others discuss changes with\nUBC VP External Dennis Pavlich. michelle mayne photo\ncommercial facilities to create a university\ntown. The draft plans are steps towards\ndevelopment prescribed by the Official\nCommunity Plan, a bylaw passed in 1997.\nLinda Moore, associate director external\naffairs for University Town, said that the\nuniversity was responding to residents' and\nstudents' concerns. \"This is the fourth draft\nof University Boulevard. We received 481\nfeedback forms, and you can see that we\nhave addressed or incorporated them into\nthis fourth draft,' she said.\nSince the previous draft the university\nhas eliminated the possibility of extending\nUniversity Boulevard as a through road to\nSW Marine Drive, 18-story residential high-\nrises and market housing.\nHowever; concerns about the tone ofthe\nspace tp be created at the entrance to the\nuniversity have not been addressed, said\nBill Umber, a professor of physics and\nastronomy.\n'SUB Plaza is where people get together.\nThat's where demonstrations are held,\nthat's where storm the wall goes on, that's\nwhere we have the rock bands on the first\nday of classes,' he said. 'As good Canadians\nwe don't demonstrate around people's\nhouses. Building either student or faculty or\ncommercial housing right around that area\n~. will mean that nothing happens any more.\nThat would be a tremendous loss for the\nuniversity.'\nJack Taunton, director of the Allan\nMcGavin Sports Medicine Clinic, and Jane\nHutton, the associate vice president of\nContinuing Education, both spoke in favour\nof the plan as it would see their respective\nservices brought into the core of the\ncampus. -\n\"We've been honoured to be included in\nthe campus development plan, across the\nstreet from dentistry and with a direct link\nto our partners in War Memorial Gym and\nthe new athletics commons. This would be a\ntremendous asset,' Taunton said.\n'Continuing studies is nestled in the\n..Theology building, and is very hard to find/\n, Hutton said. \"This will be better for seniors\ncoming to the bus loop.'\nAnthony Dorcy of the school for regional\nplanning and development agreed that the\nuniversity administration had been responsive, and called for a discussion of the\nthemes of commercialisation and university image for campus as a whole. \"The plan\nof today i$ pf bits and pieces, a cut-and-paste\njob. We want to hear the grind story. A\nsense of vision.'\nDorcy said he had hoped for more\nprogress by now. \"I'm deeply troubled\nwe've spent a year talking about this.' \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nThe AMS is holding a student summit on\nMonday, September 22 from 4-8pm on\nUniversity Town.\nPhase I: Demolition begins\nConstruction ofthe $60\nmillion Irving K. Barber\nLearning Centre will follow\nby Sam Schroeder\nNEWS WRITER\nMain Library is being demolished\u00E2\u0080\u0094but don't expect\ncrowds of jubilant students anytime soon. It's\ncoming back.\nDemolition of Main's north wing is now well underway. The project will make room for the new $60 million\nIrving K. Barber Learning Center and will bring the.\nlibrary up to seismic standards.\nThe north wing's reconstruction is the first phase of\nthe project, scheduled to be completed by next fall. At\nthat point the library\u00E2\u0080\u0094books, shelves and all\u00E2\u0080\u0094will move\nback into the rebuilt north wing so that the south wing\ncan be demolished and replaced. The entire Learning\nCentre is expected to be open in the early months\nof 2006. .\nThe flow of students into the parts of Main Library\nthat remain open has not been affected by the sometimes\nnoisy demolition. \"We're pretty impressed with the students' resilience,' said Catherine Quinlan, managing\ndirector for the Irving K. Barber Centre.\n\"It is hard to get around the noise. It is going to happen at some point,' said Amanda Patterson, a third-year\nCommerce student. \"Maybe if they they did it later at\nnight when there weren't as many students around that\nwould be a little better.'\n\"There is nowhere to buy coffee anymore,' said\nCorine Sinengfleld, a third-year international relations\nstudent, .*'.-.\nFor students bothered by the noise there are ear plugs\navailable free from Main's Chapman Learning\nCommons.\nThe completed Learning Center will measure 23,370\nsquare meters and will leave Main Library's original heritage structure\u00E2\u0080\u0094built in 1925 as one of the first three\nbuildings on campus\u00E2\u0080\u0094intact. The new space will have\n750 new workstations, three computer labs and new\nresearch, lecture and classroom space that will be\nshared by academic programs for both undergraduate\nand graduate students.\nThe Learning Centre will also offer more social space\nto students. \"We don't want to become the next Student\nUnion Building...We plan to have a social element lo it\nbut also have a learning focus,' added Quinlan.\nMaintaining the old library was ari essential element\nof creating the new Learning Centre said Joe Redmond,\nVP of UBC Properties Trust. The historic core will benefit from seismic upgrades as a result of the\nconstruction.\n\"Currently, there is no earthquake stability at all,'\nsaid Redmond. Once the Learning Centre is complete the\nhistoric section will meet 75 per cent of seismic\nrequirements but Redmond says that the support of the\nnewer wings\u00E2\u0080\u0094that meet 100 per cent of earthquake\nrequirements\u00E2\u0080\u0094will hold the entire structure together in\nthe event of an earthquake.\nThe Learning Centre was made possible by Irving K.\nBarber's donation of $20 million. Barber is the founding\nchair, president and CEO of Slocan Forest Products Ltd\nand received his Forestry undergraduate degree from\nUBC in 1950.\nThe remainder ofthe funding will come from the $10\nmillion pitched in by the BC Government and the $30\nmillion UBC is dedicating to the project.\nThe new space is intended to expand the university's\n- research capabilities so that the academic reach of UBC's\nlibraries may be extended.\n\"The idea behind the learning centre is how do; we\ntake the resources that UBC has had to build to support\nits own community and make those availible to a broader community that needs them,* said Quinlan.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094with files from Megan Thomas\n*\nmt v v^ -i41ii \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 !\nTILL THE FIVE O'CLOCK WHISTLE BLOWS: Workers get\nbusy on the demolition of Main Library's north wing.\nMICHELLE MAYNE PHOTO EWS\nthe 71 v 77/ maiaxine\nPAGE FRIDAY\nFriday, September 19,2003\nTHE UBYSSEY\nSHAMELESS\nGIVEAWAY\nExclusive\nof Rock\nfor 300 UBC\nstudents on\nSeptember\n25th at\nCapitol 6.\nGet your\ntickets from\nCiTR or\nThe Ubyssey\nNow Extended until\nSEPTEMBER29\nOur STUDENT SEAT SALE is on till\nthen. Great rates, plus:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Reserve your seat home for Christmas\nNOW for only $20*\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Low season rates for high season dates - the best deal for Christmas.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Only $30 to change dates, compared with up to hundreds of dollars on other\ntickets. Get your Christmas flight now, and change when your exam schedule\nc.omes out if needed.\nFor over 30 years, Travel CUTS has been getting students to school, back\nhome, and to the world beyond. Vtsit WWW.travelcUtS.com.\nWIN TICKETS and AIRFARE to see THE DANDY\nWARHOLS LIVE at WEMBLEY Arena, UK!\nEnter to win at www.travetcuts.com\nDandy Warho!s contest sponsored by Trave! CUTS, EMt Canada and Soto by Sell. Contest opens Aug.\n31/03 & closes Oct. 15/03. Enter to win at www.travekuts.com. No purchase necessary.\nSee the world your way\nSUB Lower Level 604-822-6890\nUBC Market place 604-659-2860\nJ.-\nUBC FOOD SERVICES\nHours of Operation\n'Arts 200 at Buchanan A\nBarn Coffee Shop MacMiiJan\nBread Garden in Fore^ Science\nEdiMeS at Scarf\nEspresso On the Go at sua\nIRC-SUBWAYatigc\nPacifite Spirit Place ats.ua\nSUBWAY at SUB\n99 Chairs at Oavid Lam \"\nPond Cafe at the Ponderosa\nSteamiCS at the Bookstore\nTrek Express at David Lam\nPizza Pizz* Deli Sandwich Bar\nYum Yum'S at the Otd Auditorium\nSage at the Uniyersiiy Centra\nBreakfast M-f 7:15am-9:00am\nLunch M-F 11:30am - 1-OOpmi\nEvening Dininjjh-F 3:30pnt - 9:00pm\nEffective September 2,2003\nM-lh ?:4\u00C2\u00A7am/- 3:30pm _ 6:15pm - S:45pm\nF 7:45am * MOpfrt\nM-F 7:45am -:3:30pm .\nM-Th 7:45a\u00C2\u00AB \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 4:30pm f 7:45aft - 4:00pm\nMrTh 7:45am- 6:00pm F 7:45am- 3:00pm\nM-F 7:00am- 4:00pm\nM-F ?Pam-5;0Opm\nM-F 7:30aHJ-2-OOprr>\nM-F 8K)0am-7.;00pjii Sat ll-OOam-fcOOpm\nM-lb 8:(f|ra:fcOOpfrt F 8:00am - 4:00pm\nM-Th 7:30am - 1.30pn F 700<|.!i - 2-30?m\nM-F 9:30am\"- 4.45pm .' /\nM-F 7:30am - 3.00pn ,-\nM-p^OOam - 230pm . -\nFor Reservation: 60 f-S22-0963\ni or www.sage.ubc.ca \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ,'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nPublic schools dissected\nPanel and audience express\nconcerns about secondary\nschooling\nby Robson Fletcher\nNEWS WRITER\nStudents in British Columbia's public schools are succeeding like never before, but the education system is\nin danger of a major Collapse according to a panel\nassembled by the UBC Faculty of Eduaction.\nThe system, cannot sustain this level of performance much longer, said panel member and former\nDeputy Minister of Education Charles Ungerleider.\n\"I think we will begin to see a tailing-off in terms of\nstudent success. I hope that's not the case, but conditions are not advantageous. I hope Canadians act with\ngreat dispatch,* he said in an interview before the\ndiscussion.\nThe forum, held Monday at UBC's Robson Square\ncampus, was packed with more than 100 concerned\neducators, parents; and citizens who came to hear the\nopinions of the panel and express their own views.\nA key issue for both the panel and audience was\nthat teachers and parents are having to pick up the\nslack because of diminishing resources and expanding curricula.\n'We work in a system that is grossly underfunded,*\nsaid audience member Neil Worboys, president ofthe\nBritish Columbia Teachers' Federation.\nConcern was also expressed over the increasing\nnecessity for school boards and parents to fill budget\ngaps. Money raised by parents for noii-essential\n'extras* such as televisions and VCRs is increasingly\nbeing used to purchase course texts and library\nbooks\u00E2\u0080\u0094basic needs once supplied by the government,'\npanelists said.\nReggi Balabanov, former president of the BC\nConfederation of Parent Advisory Councils, said many\nparents embrace the opportunity to get involved in\ntheir children's schools but she personally had begun\nto call fundraising the 'F-word.'\nCarolyn Shields, panel member and head of the\nDepartment of Educational Studies at UBC, said this\nentrepreneurial approach to school funding results in\ninequities because schools in affluent areas are able\nto raise thousands of dollars from neighbourhood\nsales while downtown schools are not.\nDiscussion also focused on the topic of teachers'\nworking conditions. Ungerleider suggested that an\nindicator of healthy public schools is a working climate that is free of conflict and conducive to productive activity. The panel said this is not the case in\nmany schools because teachers often feel that the climate is unproductive, even hostile.\nJudy Acres, a high-school teacher and counselor in\nBC since 1968, expressed a similar impression ofthe\ncurrent working climate. \"In all the 35 years I've\ntaught, I've never been in this difficult of a political\nscene/ she said in a telephone interview.\nUngerleider warned that if the problems are not\naddressed Canadian unity could suffer.\n\"The responsibility of communicating to\nCanadians what it means to be a Canadian...falls to\nthe public schools,' he said just before the forum.\n\"We are a fragile nation, deeply divided in so many\ndifferent ways, that if our public schools which communicate what it means to be Canadian fail and\nthemselves become fragmented Canada will\ndisintegrate.' \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nOPINION\nS t r\u00C2\u00A9 \u00C2\u00A9t \u00C2\u00A9 rs# Do you think tha^^\n# marriages should be\nnationally recognised?\nPhotos by Michelle Mayne\nAbsolutely. I think\nit's fairly arbitrary\nthat just simply\nthe union of a\nman and a\nwoman should be\nrecognised. I\nthink that despite\nyour sexual orientation you should\nbe allowed to have\nthe same, rights as\nany one else.\nDamian\nMurray\nScience 1\nI definitely think\nthey should be recognised because\ngay people should\nhave the same\nrights as straight\npeople. There's no\ndifference.\nAllison Moller\n. Linguistics 4\nNo. I think that it's\nchanging the defini-\ny tion of marriage.\nVashti Garcia\nArts 4\nYou should have\nequal status regardless of whether you\nchoose to marry or\nnot and regardless\nof whether you're\nconsidered an abomination by another religion. You\nshould have equal\nstanding.\nMathew Good\nArts.\nAH units open Monday to Friday except Residence Dining Rooms.\nPlace Vanier & Totem Park are open 7:15am - 7:30pm M-Th & 7:i5am - 7:00pm f\nWeekends <& Holidays 8:00am - 7:00pm (Hours of Operation subject to change.) :*.-...\nthe ubyssey niagaiine\nf\nRAGE FRIDAY\nFriday, September 19,2003\nStudent gets\nMaster's degree\nin poker\nby Cosanna Preston\nTHE GATEWAY\nEDMONTON (CUP)-faJdng a gamble on a\nMaster's degree in poker has proved to be a\nwindfall for Darse Billings as he puts the finishing touches on the world's best poker-playing\ncomputer program.\nThe PhD student first came up with the idea\nfor the program when he came to the University\nof Alberta to complete his Master's in poker\nin 1991.\nCompleting a Master's in poker may seem\nodd to most, but because of Billings' background\nin computing science, it made perfect sense\nto him.\n\"Poker is fun, which is not to be underestimated, and it has a lot of interesting fundamental issues,' said Billings.\n\"There were not a lot of people doing it, which\nmeant that I could be at the frontier of the\nresearch in a week,\" he added. \"It's one of the\nadvantages of being in computing science.'\nBillings mapped out some of the basic framework and tactics to build a competitive poker\nprogram during his Master's, but he left the U of\nA after the completion of his degree. Unsure of\nwhat he wanted to do next, Billings became a professional poker player for a fe\y years to fine-tune\nhis understanding of the skills and strategies of\nthe game.\nIt was hot until 1999 and after a lot of convincing from the computing science department\nthat Billings agreed to return to the university as\na full-time PhD student,, ready to create the best\npoker-playing program in the world.\nThe poker program has been in development\nsince-1991,. and it$- creators hope that it will\nfinally be ready to challenge the world's best\nplayers in less than a year.\nBillings says that being the best is not the pri-\nm^yg\u00C2\u00ABjal|p p t ^j f-j ;\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 <\"fj* ; .; ^v .- .;7' r ;\n'Jie says Ms\" maiii goal is to complete scientific research and to learn special techniques from\nthe* program that can be applied to the wider\nfield of artificial intelligence.\n\"We use games to explore research in artificial intelligence,' explained Jonathan Schaeffer,\nBillings' PhD supervisor.\n'A lot of the research had completed perfect\ninformation domains. So, for example, if you and\nI play a game of chess, that's called a perfect\ninformation game because there is nothing hidden. You look at the board and you know where\nall the pieces are. There are no secrets. If you\nplay a game like [poker], it's not a game of perfect information. You can't see my cards. You can\nonly guess what my cards are.*\nSchaeffer went on to note that computers are\nnow very good at solving problems in a perfect\ninformation scenario but \"the real world,* as\nSchaeffer put it, does not operate under such\nterms. Schaeffer likened poker to a negotiation,\nbecause one never, knows what the other side is\nwilling to do. He said that creating a pokerJplay-\ning program capable of beating the best in the\nworld is one small step in the right direction of\nprogramming computers to negotiate and reason. '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0_...\nThanks to Billings, the program has already\naccomplished a lot. ......\nAside from receiving media attention from\nCBC,'; the Globe and Mail, and the New York\nTimes, to name a few, the research has been\nspotlighted at numerous worldrrenowned computer science conferences and also won the\nInternational Joint (Conference on Artificial\nIntelligence/American Association for* Artificial\nIntelligence 2003 Distinguished Paper Award.\nBillings has become the crucial link in the\ndevelopment of the program. Schaeffer clairps\nthat without Billings, the project's progress;\nwould be seriously endangered. /\u00E2\u0080\u00A2,\u00E2\u0080\u009E.''\".\n\"The reality is that we couldn't be doing this\nwithout him because he's the poker expert,*\nnoted Schaeffer.\n\"If we build a strong program he's the only\none who can tell us. So we use him in so many\nways, one of which is assessing the program.\nOnly when it passes his very tough criteria of\nexcellence do we try and test it against other\nhumans. He's the key to the whole project' \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nBCNDPI\nrace heating up\nCandidates blow more\nsmoke than substance\nat first debate\nStephen Hui\nBRITISH COLUMBIA BUREAU\nVANCOUVER (CUP)-Seven candidates hoping to lead the New Democratic Party into\nthe next provincial election took turns taking\nshots at British Columbia's Liberal government, but avoided attacking each other at\ntheir first debate September 9.\nAlthough the candidates were upbeat\nabout the party's chances of victoiy in 2005,\nthey shared few details of their plans to govern the province, preferring to stick to broad\nstatements about their platforms.\n\"People want, change, the public wants\nchange, and our party members want\nchange,\" said Nils Jensen; a prosecutor and\nOak Bay municipal councillor, in his opening statement.\nJensen and the other candidates admitted\nthat the party needed to regain the trust of\nthe public in order to become. a serious\nthreat to the Liberals.\n\"There's a perception in this society that\nwe can't govern well,' said Craig. Keating, a\nNorth Vancouver city councillor.\nWhile most praised the achievements of\nthe previous NDP governments, two candidates\u00E2\u0080\u0094Mehdi Najari arid Steve Orcherton\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwere outspoken in their criticism of the\nparty's direction during and after its time in\noffice.\nNajari, the most unpolished of the candidates, said he was frustrated by what he\ncalled a lack of resistance to the Liberal government. Orcherton, who is a former member of the legislative assembly, called for an\nend to 'middle ofthe road' politics.\nOne of the few. questions to divide the\nleadership hopefuls was whether to avoid\nvote-splitting within the political left by fielding a joint slate of candidates with the Green\nParty in the next election.\nFor Najari, the answer was yes. Jensen,\nBC NDP LEADERSHIP CANDIDATE NILS JENSEN SHARES HIS VIEWS: while Craig\nKeating looks on. Stephen hui/canadian university press photo\nKeating, and Orcherton, along with Peter\nDimitrov, a proponent of decentralisation\nwho repeatedly plugged his website during\n. the debate, clearly disagreed, while former\nGreater Victoria school trustee Carole James\ndid not make a firm commitment on the\nissue,\nLeonard Rrog gave a pragmatic response\n\"People want change,\nthe public wants\nchange, and our party\nmembers want\nchange.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Nils jlerisen\nNDP leadership hopeful\nto the question.' The former provincial legislator and self-proclaimed feminist said that\nsuch an accord was impossible because the\nparty would never agree to run Green candidates over their own.\nLater in the debate, Krog's closing\nremarks revealed his views oh public-private partnerships and the sex trade.\n\"Private-public partnerships remind me\nof prostitution, frankly,' Krog said. \"It's generally regarded as immoral, it should be illegal if it isn't, and the one thing you can guarantee about it is one of the parties is being\nexploited to the greatest degree possible.'\nAll of the candidates said they supported\nincreasing access to, or the affordabilify of,\npost-secondary education, and would reinstate the Ministry of Women's Equality.\nNajari and Orcherton even said that tuition\nfees should be eliminated.\nThe debate in Vancouver was the first of\n12 to be held around the province. The party\nwill select its next leader at its convention in\nNovember. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nI'M MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN YOU: Peter Dimitrov tackles an issue at the first BC NDP leadership debate ih Vancouver.\nSTEPHEN HUI/CANADIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS PHOTO T\n6\nF_fm'-:Jk:-m_fkm\" %W\W^4\nEfoTxlRW\n:tl;e ulyss^y Wii\u00C2\u00BBin^*\nSEP24^0CT4\nMQN-SAT 7:30PM\nFREDERIC WOOD THEATRE\nTICKETS: REG $18, ST/SR $10, PREVIEW SEP 24 $6\nTHEATRE AT UBC BOX OFFICE\n604-822-2678\nwww.theatre.ubc.ca\n IN PHOTO: ROBIN MOONEY. JOEtBEOMONfl. SARAH BROWN\n'AGE FRIDAY]\nI Friday, September 19,2003!\nr> i;;>\nti# uliys$\u00C2\u00ABy;iflafaiiii0:\nFEATURE\n/\ \J /\ 7 7\u00C2\u00AB\nedaiming the roads for cyclists\nCyclists turned activists flood the streets of Vancouver\nby Viveca Ellis\nFEATURES WRITER\n50 MILLION IN STOCK!\nHONDA GM DODGE JEEP TOYOTA FORD\nDOWN\nCREDIT IS NEVER A PROBLEM!\nINTERNATIONAL\nSTUDENTS WELCOME\nWE CAN HELP!\n604-762-5488 / 1-866-658-2488\nwww.easyautoloans.ca\nj\nt was a lucky thing the engine dropped right out of\nmy car. My beater made it to the far north, puttered\naround Alaska and the Yukon without breaking\ndown once, and then, in the wilds of Kitsilano,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 dropped its guts out onto the street.\nNewly car-less and tired of rushing around in the relentless traffic clogging Vancouver everyday, I found my bike\nshackled to a rail in a lonely corner of my parents' garage\nand dusted it off. After my .first spin around the city I took a\ndecided turn from the irksome responsibilities of car ownership back to the beautiful freedom of cycling.\nWithin a day or two of using my new mode of transportation to get around the city, I remembered why I'd abandoned cycling for driving. It's not easy being a cyclist in\nVancouver (or anywhere in North America for that matter).\nAs beautiful as the city looks from a bike, you get the feeling\nit doesn't want you there, pedaling along. You're not legitimate. You're not wanted on the road. If you're not an automobile, you're in the way.\nFrustrated and fed-up by what I felt was unnecessary.\nabuse from drivers, I wanted to do my bit for cycling\nadvocacy.\nAt the end of July I went on my first Critical Mass ride.\nCritical Mass is a grassroots bicycle event where hundreds\nof cyclists occupy city streets in a fun, celebratory reclamation of public space. I wanted to check out the bike people of\nVancouver. Where had they been hiding? You see a cyclist\nhere and there when you ride around Vancouver, but\ncyclists don't make much of a show in this city. They are relegated to the meandering, inconvenient \"leisure\" bike ways\nthat snake around the city, or lost in the honking din of auto-,\nmobile traffic.\nThe Vancouver Critical Mass meets on the last Friday of\nevery month behind the Vancouver Art Gallery. At the end of\nJuly, I found hundreds of cyclists gathered calmly on the\nsun-baked grass.\n' It was an incredible ride. We rode down the middle of the\nBurrard Street Bridge, the Granville Bridge, and the Georgia\nViaduct, looping through downtown again and again.\nCertain cyclists lined up at intersections wheel to wheel,\ncalled 'corking'; forming a temporary fence against the oncoming traffic so that the ride could pass through the centre.\nA couple of people pulled their children behind their bikes\nin trailers. People waved and smiled from their cars or\ntalked on their cell phones. Some goofballs raced around\ndressed like green dinosaurs, yelling about the \"autosaurus-\nes.' It felt more like a parade or a carnival than a protest or\na demonstration.\nTraffic stopped and then flowed again when we'd passed.\n\"Either someone doesn't look\nand opens their car door, or I\nget cut off and I almost have to\nbail... this isn't & bij^friendly\na | //\ncity.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Naomi Moyer\nCritical Mass participant\nThere wasn't a cop in sight. In the middle of the Granville\nbridge everyone triumphantly lifted their bikes.above their\nheads and yelled. Most cyclists hollered the definitive chant\nofthe event \"We're not blocking traffic, we are traffic.\"\nOften described as an \"organised coincidence,\" the\ncycling Critical Mass started in San Francisco in 1992, and\nsince then it has spread, to over 300 cities. It could be said\nthat the movement began when Chris Carlsson approached\nthe San Francisco Bike Coalition\u00E2\u0080\u0094an alliance of thousands\nof cyclists who promote a more cyclist-friendly city\u00E2\u0080\u0094with the\nidea. The concept wasn't his alone, however, as it evolved\nover time in conversation with many bicycle enthusiasts.\nI did some research and found that the emergence of\nCritical Mass in Vancouver was not the \"mind child\" of any\nparticular group or person. In the early 90s there was a\nloose group of people who started to have rides in downtown\nVancouver as a combination of political protest and a \"celebration\" of cycling. The rides tended to stay downtown-\nfocusing on the Robson area. If 100 people showed up for a\nride it was considered a massive turn out. There was some\nhelp from a Vancouver cycling group called the \"Bicycle\nPeople,\" who have since disbanded.\nNow there are supposedly 22 rides in Asia, 18 in\nAustralia, 122 in Europe, 178 in North America and eight in\nSouth America, as well as rides in New Zealand, Israel, India\nand Africa. It is not an organisation, and there is no central\nplanning, official vyebsite or corporate sponsorship\u00E2\u0080\u0094simply\nthe collective effort of many cyclists that make it happen in\na particular place.\nNumerous participants I spoke with consider Critical\n. Miss, a. truly ^nafchist eyept. Somebody just photocopies\nsome info ancPthen lets tlie word spread. The riders at the\nfront determine the route of the ride, shouting out suggestions to the other riders.\nThe Critical Mass is a concentration of bicycles that displaces automobiles for a brief period of time. The World\nWide Critical Mass Hub website states that the Critical Mass\naddresses the invisibility of cyclists and the critical condition of urban transportation. The tone and orientation of\n;::%t^J0QtH^\nf OQ:m 24 irv thd SU B. klsenrierit\nTHE UBYSSEY\nSHAMELESS\nGIVEAWAY\nCome visit\nSUB Room 23\nto pick up a\ndouble pass\n/'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0/\"**-] to a preview\n.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u0094UNDER\"-*\n' SUN\nscreening of\n_ UNDER?*\nTuscan-\nSun\nWednesday,\nSeptember\n24th, 7:00pm\nat Sifvercity\nMetropolis.\n-\u00C2\u00AB :\t\n:.-\"* iri\u00E2\u0080\u00A2_-'\u00C2\u00AB...\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nV :* --.iV- \u00E2\u0096\u00A0.-\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2.\n....la.'i'* .'i' *\",*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00AB\n. I. %' V * \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 V~ \" * 'i \u00E2\u0096\u00A0' f \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\" t\n.J\" \"\"\u00C2\u00BB-.'; '- . \u00E2\u0080\u00A2' '\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ti\n^'j'rfCl o C \u00C2\u00BBS'a.\nOPENS IM\nTHEATRES:\nFRIDAY\nSEPTEMBER 26\nevery Critical Mass depends* on the participants in that\nparticular ride.\nGraham Olds is a long-time cyclist, cycling advocate, and\nspoken word \"bike-poet\" He also works as a special needs\nassistant in the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program at the\nSunny Hill Health Centre for Children. He was active in\nestablishing the Critical Mass in Vancouver in the early 90s.\nI asked Olds what he feels Critical Mass is about.\n\"It's about joy. It's about discovering the incredible, ultimate joy of cycling without traffic with all the space you\nwant, without the fear of being killed by a speeding automobile. It's about, for a brief time, riding without fear.\"\nFor many, Critical Mass is also about environmental and\npolitical issues. Critical Mass is a way to reclaim public\nspace and promote a means of transportation that doesn't\nburn fossil fuels and create carbon monoxide pollution. As\nthe popular sticker says, a bicycle is 'one less car.\"\nWhen Critical Mass first started in Vancouver only about\n45-50 cyclists participated. \"It was kind of scary,\" Olds said.\n\"We had confrontations\u00E2\u0080\u0094drivers getting mad. That defeated\nour purpose. Now it is very different. People understand the\nbest way to do it, the safest way where everyone has the\nmost fun.\"\nThe Critical Mass that took place at the end of August\n2003 was supposedly the biggest one the city has ever seen,\nwith over a 1000 participating cyclists.\nNaomi Moyer, a Critical Mass participant, uses her bike\nas her main form of transportation in the city. She feels it is\nimportant, as a cyclist in Vancouver, to attend the Critical\nMass rides every month. Every time she gets on her bike,\nMoyer claims,.a dangerous incident takes place. ; _\n\"Either someone doesn't look and opens their car door,\nor I get cutoff and I almost have to bail. There's no space.\nThere's always, something. This isn't a bike friendly city.\"\nMoyer attends the Critical Mass because she feels the\nride addresses the invisibility of cyclists in the city.\n\"The bike-paths are inconvenient for really getting\naround the city; and just keep us off the road so the cars can\nhave it all. The Critical Mass means we're seen. I go because\nI'm frustrated. Everyday you're being pushed aside. Drivers\nhave no patience and show no respect. You're invisible on\nthe road. Without a loud engine or a horn\nyou have no voice. I've kicked cars, fingered people,' pissed people, off. It's\nterrible.\" <\nThe Critical Mass, Moyer claims,\nallows her to calm down and think of\nthings she can do instead of just getting\nangry. Road rage, it seems, is something\ncyclists and drivers have in common. -\nPrudence Christensen lives on Ontario\nSt where cyclists stream past her house on\nthe' officially designated bike path that follows Ontario to downtown. She drives her\ncar almost everywhere, and does not ride\na bike.\nI asked her what her experience of\ncyclists has been like recently in\n.Vancouver, wherever she drives.\n\"Just the other day,\" she said, \"I was\ndriving on Ontario. I passed a cyclist and he went nuts. I\nknew I had space but I guess he felt I came too close or\nsomething. I wanted him to see me. I wanted him to know\nthat I saw him. After I passed him he yelled a string of\nobscenities when all I did was pass him.\"\nCyclists, in Christensen's opinion, are coming from a\nposition of fear. She described cyclists as \"the httle guy\"\noverpowered by the powerful automobiles that already have\ncontrol of the road.\n\"The anger is already there,\" she added, 'Cyclists are\nvolatile\u00E2\u0080\u0094they're always yelling because they're always in\njeopardy.\"\nChristensen feels that the same logic that applies to the\nbuilding of sidewalks should apply to the creation of bike\nlanes. \"There has to be some designation for them. Ten feet\nof a lane?\"\n?.<\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Vs ., \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 <7_ .ju \u00E2\u0080\u00A2' \~ . \ X \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0si\n\"It's about joy. It's about discovering the incredible, ultimate joy of cycling without\ntraffic with all the space you\nwant...\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Graham Olds\ncycling advocator\nI asked Christenson about the cycling Critical Mass and\nhow she would feel if she were stopped in her car by a\ncycling demonstration.\n'Stopping traffic? I don't like that. When I get in my car it\nisn't just to drive around. I have to get somewhere, be somewhere. It would be a pain in the ass.\"\nCritical Mass rides, in the past, have been much more\nthan a pain in the ass. They've exposed ass with their statement about the Molson Indy\u00E2\u0080\u0094a ride entitled the Wholesome\nUndy\u00E2\u0080\u0094when participants rode in nothing but their knickers.\nAdditionally, they have twice made the international news\ndue to mass arrests and altercations with police\u00E2\u0080\u0094in San\nFrancisco in 1997 and Los Angeles in 2000.\nOn July 25, 1997, approximately 115 cyclists were arrested in San Francisco while\" participating\nin a cycling Critical Mass. The trouble\nbegan when the police, who agreed to\naccompany the bike rally, did not show\nup. Of the arrested, all but eight were\nreferred to traffic court or had the\ncharges dropped.\nIn LA on August 16, 2000, approximately 35 of the 250 participating\ncyclists were arrested for failing to stop\nat red lights and for cycling on the\nwrong side of the street.\nMost participants I spoke with at the\nVancouver ride preferred to keep the\nride celebratory\u00E2\u0080\u0094a peaceful demonstration where conflict with police or drivers\nshould be avoided.\nAt the Critical Mass in July the\n.response of people in their cars seemed\nstrangely positive. Blocking a road for ten or fifteen minutes\nand then letting the traffic flow is one thing; causing an\nextended grid-lock in a downtown core is another.\nCompared to other rides, the Vancouver Critical Mass seems\ngentle. I like it that way. It allows me, for a brief time, to\nexperience some solidarity with other cyclists in the long,\nbitter battle against the domination of our lives by automobiles. Critical Mass was my first taste of riding in a city without the oppressive force of traffic edging me off the road.\nExcept for the chatter and laughter of the other cyclists, the\nstreets were quiet and calm, the smoggy air crisp and clear.\nFor the first time since my bike renaissance began, I was\ncycling without fear. We were something better than angry,\nsomething much more effective: a celebratory spectacle\u00E2\u0080\u0094a\nspontaneous eruption of colour and playfulness in the dull,\ngrey atmosphere of downtown. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 8\nCULTURE\nthe ubyssey mafaiin\u00C2\u00AE\n\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"'National 1 fallen\"'(:ana(la . ;' ..\nThe Four Seasons\nI The Firebird\nA MASTERPIECE OF OUR TIME\nf t\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0a.\n\ I'-lliL-l UN\", '-ll *. l-l Jill- l-J\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 l-ii\" \u00C2\u00AB.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0.\11vt.1 |'it \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 I i-i! \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ii\nSEPTEMBER 25, 26, 27 AT 8 PM QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE\nvisit ticketmaster call 604.280.3311 or www.ticketmaster.ca\nTOUR PARTNER\nMEDIA SPONSORS\nRBC\nFoundation\"\nENGAGEMENT SPONSOR\nThe Phyliss & Irving\nSnider Foundation\nThe Vancouver Sun #tJyiFM\nr1 4\n/OS.?\nEveryone should write culture because, like,\nculture is so important, you know?\nculture meetings: Wednesdays at 2 pm\nculture\u00C2\u00AE ubyssey.be.ca\nmmm\nmm\nNORTH CAMPUS NEIGHBOURHOOD CONSULTATION\nThe University is about to prepare a Neighbourhood Plan for the North Campus and is providing an\nopportunity to obtain the community's views on planning issues before we draft a Plan.\nThe North Campus area is located north of Northwest Marine Drive and the Pacific Spirit Park and\nincludes lands from Green College to Norman MacKenzie House (the residence of the UBC President).\nPLEASE JOIN US\nPlease join us for an Open House in the Green College Coach House (6201 Cecil Green Park Road)\nand give us your feedback on the future challenges for the North Campus:\nWednesday, September 24, 2003 from 4 pm and 9 pm .\nThe Advisory Planning Committee for the North Campus neighbourhood welcomes your comments\nand suggestions. This Open House consultation is prior to preparing a North Campus Draft\nNeighbourhood Plan, which will, be the subject of further consultations in the Fall.\nDIRECTIONS\nFor a map showing the location of Green College Coach House go to:\nwww.planning.ubc.ea/wayfinding/Finding/dbase.html and enter \"Green College\"\nor call (604) 822-6400 for more information.\nFOR FURTHER INFORMATION\nLinda Moore, Associate Director\nExternal Affairs, University Town\nTel: 604.822.6400, Fax: 604.822.8102\nEmail: info.universitytown@ubc.ca\nwww.universitytown.ubc.ca\nPAGE FRIDAY\nFriday, September 19,2003\nBueno!\nMexican group amalgamates several\nstyles of music to deliver tight unit\nPLASTIUNA M0SH\nHola Chicuelos\nEMI\nby Marc Miquel Helsen\nCULTURE WRITER\nFrom the moment that Hola\nChicuelos begins, you can tell that\nthe eighteen tracks on the Mexican\nduo's third outing are going to function as a tight unit\u00E2\u0080\u0094much like the\nchapters in a novel, or better yet,\nlike the songs on an album.\nNow there's a concept.\nIn a mainstream music industiy\nwhere musicians are placed under\nan enormous amount\nof pressure to churn\nout hook-laden,\npotential singles,\nPlastilina Mosh's\nHola Chicuelos is a\nrefreshing experience. While it is the\nwork of two well-\nversed DJs\u00E2\u0080\u0094a mix of\ninfectious beats and\nelectronic loops\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nsongs on this CD pos-\nAmerican\npop\nThe contextual\nmisplacement of\npolitical clips\nand commercial\nexcerpts makes\nfor a kitsch or\n\"cutre\" collage of\nsess a certain candid S0UndS colours,\ncharm. Sung in\nSpanish and English and tones.,,., \u00E2\u0080\u009E .',\nthe record is a ' \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ( . .j .\u00C2\u00BB . a-..-..'\ndelightful work\nreplete with cross-cultural references.\nFrom the surprisingly catchy\nBrit-pop-style \"Peligroso Pop*\u00E2\u0080\u0094a\nplay on the Fabulosos Cadillacs'\nClash cover 'Revolution Rock\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094to\nthe heavy electronic Underworld\nsounding \"Decation,\" Hola\nChicuelos is full of surprises. Just\nwhen you think you've honed in on\nthe central theme or essence of the\nCD, another song comes along to\nthrow you off. You find yourself asking, \"What is this?\"\nWho cares? It's good.\nSongs like 'Garret Club,\" whose\nschmaltzy disco string arrangement\nends in a symphonic, pastoral landscape full of sampled natural\nsounds, or the funky \"Pekin Jazz,\"\nwhose back beat is armed with an\nupright bass, keep you guessing and\nlonging for more. The cheesy synthesisers of 'Magic Finger' and\nLatin flutes have a 70s sound to\nthem, while \"Te lo Juro por\nMadonna (Si 'Ombe 'ta gueno)*\nmixes things up with a fast paced\nrock n' roll beat and edgy guitars.\n'Alo\" and 'Grooveman' are cheerful, self-mocking songs that highlight the album's healthy sense of\nhumour.\nA personal favourite is\n\"Naranjada\" due in part to its work-\nin-progress free-style vibe, as well\nas its up-beat optimistic lyrics. Sung\nin both English and Spanish,\n\"Naranjada\"s\nlyrics evoke an\nurgent need to\nsing and dance.\nFeature singer\nAndrea Suarez's\nlighthearted chorus adds to an\ninnocent though\npleasant song\nthat is inclined\nto \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 make one\nsmile.\nScattered\nthroughout the\nentire record are\nsamples of\nMexican and\nculture^ Anyone\nfamiliar with either of the two will\ndefinitely enjoy the references. The\ncontextual misplacement of political clips and commercial excerpts\nmakes for a kitsch or \"cutre* collage\nof sounds, colours and tones, where\nwhat was once official suddenly\nsounds silly and grotesque. The\nMonterrey duo doesn't even\nexempt themselves from this game\nof ridicule as is evident in songs\nlike 'Grooveman\" or \"Alo* where\nthey poke fun at the idea that musician equals sexual icon.\nReminiscent of Manu Chao and\nMano Negra\u00E2\u0080\u0094and everything else,\nfor that matter\u00E2\u0080\u0094Plastilina Mosh's\nlatest potpourri is postmodern subversion at its best with (thankfully) a\nsense of humour. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 PAGE FRIDAY\nFriday, September 19,2001!\nth\u00C2\u00AE ubyssey magaiinni *\nCULTURE\n9\nYou can sing too, you dummy\nA beginners' guide.for\ntone deaf hopefuls\nSINGING FOR DUMMIES\nby Pamelia S. Phillips, DMA\n[Wiley Publishing, Inc.]\nby Vampyra Draculea\nCULTURE WRITER\nAre you interested in learning to sing? Even if\njust to play around with your friends? Or if you\nalready (think you) know how to sing, are you\ninterested in brushing up on your technique\nor learning more about vocal health? If so,\nyou'll find the following book interesting and\nuseful. Just don't be put off by the tide: Singing\nfor Dummies, by Pamelia S. Phillips.\nOne of the latest in the For Dummies\nseries, this book is pretty much what we've\ncome to expect from the series\u00E2\u0080\u0094tons pf great\ninformation covering almost every level from\nrookie to accomplished singer. Just about anyone can learn a lot from this book, including\nthose who think they already know it all. Even\nmy voice teacher has expressed an interest\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nfor his students' sake, of course.\nPhillips, herself a vocal instructor at New\nYork.University, gives tips and exercises on a\nwide range of relevant issues, from body alignment and posture through breathing exercises\nto resonance, articulation, different styles, how\nto make a great practise routine, projection,\naudition tips, tips on learning songs, tips for\npicking a voice teacher, information on vocal\nhealth and much more. The book also comes\nwith lots of exercises for all different voice\ntypes and a CD to sing along with. The only\nthing it lacks, that I wish it had, is a bibliography\u00E2\u0080\u0094for example, some of the exercises in the\nchapter on alignment come from the\nAlexander Technique, and I think it would be\nuseful to have farther references on this, as\nwell as in some other areas.\nSinging For Dummies is organised in such\na way that a complete neophyte can* start with\nthis book and work through progressively, or\nsomeone more advanced can just flip through\nand pick out the bits most useful to them. I'm\ndoing a bit of both and I've already found a lot\nof new ideas that are helping tremendously.\nFor those of us with voice coaches, a different source can present information from\nanother perspective and help to foster better\nunderstanding. Phillips has a great talent for\nphrasing the same advice most singers\nalready know in new ways that make a lot\nmore sense, with some explanations that I had\nnever heard of before. She is able to clearly\narticulate technical information in a very\naccessible way, and combines this information with a fresh, informal, humorous writing\nstyle that makes Singing For Dummies an\namusing as well as informative read.\nSo, if you love to sing, check this book out.\nI'm willing to bet you'll find it well worth your\nwhile regardless of your' ability.\nPsst; I'd also recommend it as an (anony\nmous) gift to persons you may know who only\nthink they can carry a time\u00E2\u0080\u0094it just might work\nsome miracles. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nThe lady in the hideous white swan-shaped dress\nt v\u00C2\u00BB* .v tvnt/fin ffy t\nMARK PYTUK\nBJORK: WOW AND FLUTTER\nby Mark Pytlik\n[ECW Press]\nby Vampyra Draculea\nCULTURE WRITER\nI am going to preface my comments\non this book by saying that while I\nlike the music by Bjork that I've\nheard, I'm by no means a hardcore\nfan. I really know veiy Uttle about\nher other\" than that site's from\nIceland and used to be in .the\nSugarcubes. This information may\nprove relevant to my comments.\nIn his book Bjork: Wow and\nFlutter, author Mark Pytlik attempts\nto present a respectful and balanced portrait of Bjork without\nresorting to either the dumb \"she's\nso elf-like\" cliches that everyone\nuses, or to invading her privacy to\nfind new information. The result is\na well-written book that outlines the\nhistory of her career in detail from\nthe earliest days before she was\neven in the Sugarcubes up until the\nfall of 2002. I liked Pytlik's mix of\nflowing poetic language with the\npublicly known facts about Bjork\nThis' seemed particularly approprt\nate since his focus was on Bjork's\ntheme of experimentation with\nblending natural and synthetic elements of sound in her work. She is\na character of overlapping worlds\nand mixed extremes, and so Pytlik's\n. style of writing and. even the graphic design fit perfectly.\nI also appreciated the Icelandic\npronunciation guide and the extensive songbook appendix listing\ndetails and comments about every\nsorig Bjork hgs ever recorded or participated in recording or writing.\nI can't be certain whether oi not\nPytlik'^ work really contributes any\nthing new for devout Bjork fans. For\nmyself every tidbit of information\nwas brand-new\u00E2\u0080\u0094and so I found this\nbook very informative\u00E2\u0080\u0094but it also\nseemed to me that many of Pytlik's\nsources were previously published\ninterviews, so I'm not sure how new\nthe content of this book would be to\nmore informed fans of Bjork's work.\nNevertheless, I was impressed,\neven if only for myself, and I\nlearned a lot about Bjork's artistic\nvision and ideas. As a result of this,\nmy interest in her work has been\npiqued, and I think I'll be paying\nmore attention from now on. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 '\niAMPUS DEVELOPMENT\nThe university is planning significant changes to\nthe university campus, as part of the \"University\nTown\" planning and consultation process.\nThe University Boulevard neighbourhood is\none of the eight neighbourhoods on campus,\nwhich will be introduced in association with\nthe new University Town. The fourth draft plan\nfor University Boulevard Neighbourhood was\nrecently released this June, by the University\n(www.universitytown.ubc.ca).\nIf you are interested in having a say about these\nplans attend the upcoming Student Summit on\ncampus development (September 22, 2003 *\n4-8 pm) in SUB Room 214/215. The AMS and\nGSS have created an opportunity for student\nparticipation through this Student Summit\nand dedicated focus groups. The event will\nbe student-organized, student-focused and\ninformative. The summit will include a panel\ndiscussion on campus development and focus\ngroups on the following topics:\nNew housing on campus;\nTransit and the underground bus\n. loop;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The participation/consultation\nprocess; ,\nNew athletic facilities on campus;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Shops and services.\nFor more information contact\nvpacademic@ams.ubc.ca.4 . -\nAMS MINISCHOOL\nAMS MiniSchool o?& s a variety of life skills at J\naffordab'e prices. Try something new with our ;\nhuge variety of M.mSchool courses: j\nAfrican Drumm ng\nBartending\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Bel'y Dancing\nOecorating on a Budget\nBeginners Sign Language for Parents & ?\nTodd'ers !\nBeginners Sign Language\nBeginrers Web Des'gn\nMicrosoft Office Applicdfons\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Wine Tasting and Education\nBeer Tasting and Education\nEmergency Roadside Mechanics\nJewelry Design\nSafer Today\nSpeed. Strength & Conditioning for\ncoaches, aretes & teams\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Massage Therapy\nPhotography\nFor more information on MiniSchool courses and\ninformation on hew to register visit them online\nat www.ams.ubc.ca/setvices/minl school or\ncontact minischoQl@aivs ubc ca.\nAMS/GSS HEALTHPL AN\nChanges to the AMS/GSS Health and Dental Plan - beginning September, 2003:\nThe maximum annual dental coverage has been reduced to $500 from $750.\nChange-of-Coverage Period:\nStudents can opt out or enroll their family during the following periods only:\nFor students starting in September; Sept. 2 - 23,2003\nFor students starting in January: Jan. 5 - 26,2004 (New Term 2 students only)\nBlackout Period\nClaims processing is delayed during the first two months of Term 1 while studentcare.net/works\nwaits for complete enrolment fists, after opt outs and enrolments have been processed. During this\ntime, you may submit claims, but reimbursement cheques will only be mailed once the Blackout\nPeriod ends. Practitioners and pharmacists can't accept Pay Direct or assignment of benefits\nduring the Blackout Period.\nAMS VOLUNTEER FAIR\nWhen . September 23\" - September 25 * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 10 am - 3 pm\nWhere.. Student Union Building Main Concourse\nWhy? Because you want to get invoked, gain experience\nrelated to your degree, or simply get work experience\nFor a description of this year's fair check www.ams.ubc.ca.\n_W Volunteer\n^Connections\nAMS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM\nNew to AMS Volunteer Connections: The AMS is YOUR student society, so get in there and\nget involved! The AMS Internship Program offers project and office based positions which are\ndesigned to get you working within the AMS while gaining valuable and interesting experience.\nAs of September 1* 2003, the AMS Internship Program is officially up and running. Check out\nwww.am9.ubc.ca/ams jobs/ for the latest listings of internships available. II\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 IEDITORIAL\nTHE UBYSSEY\nFRIDAY, SEPTREMBER19, 2003\nVOLUME 85 ISSUE 6\nthe ubyssey magazine\nPAGE FRIDAY\nFriday, September 19,2003\nEDITORIAL BOARD\nCOORDINATING EDITOR\nHywel Tuscano *\nNEWS EDITORS\nMegan Thomas\nJonathan Woodward\nCULTURE EDITOR\nJohn Hua\nSPORTS EDITOR\nJesse Marchand\nFEATURES/NATIONAL EDITOR\nHeather Pauls\nPHOTO EDITOR\nMichelle Mayne\nPRODUCTION MANAGER\nvacant\nCOORDINATORS\nVOLUNTEERS\nSarah Bourdon\nRESEARCH/LETTERS\nBryan Zandberg\nThe Ubyssey is the official student newspaper ot the University of\nBritish Columbia. 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But it is in Jonathan Woodward where our faiths are shaken, where Laura Blue shudders upon tha blue. Do not name\nSarah Bourdon. Sarah Fung. It disappears or reappears as Paul\nCarr swerves within this Biyan Zandberg diaspora. Vampyra\nDraculea's angelic hopes conquer Marc Miquel Helsen doubts.\nMichelle Mayne watches ia silence. \" - '\"'\nV\nCanadian\nUniversity\n. Press\nCanada Post Sale! Agreement Number 073214t\n(CkmWAs)\n(VjiAjAfesf)\nA loss can be a win\nSince the first restrictions were placed on cigarette advertising five years ago, the air we\nbreathe\u00E2\u0080\u0094and space we live in\u00E2\u0080\u0094has become less\nclouded by the presence of tobacco companies.\nWith millions of dollars invested in countless\nevents, their support was seen as integral to not\nonly sport funding but subsidising the arts and\ndonating to charities. Du Maurier alone has\ngiven more than $80 million to arts groups in\nthe past 33 years and Imperial Tobacco gave\nalmost $ 10 million per year to various charities.\nAmong other things, Vancouver benefitted for\nmany years from Benson & Hedges' sponsorship of the Symphony of Fire.\nAfter years of deceitful and misleading advertising it is completely clear now that cigarettes\nare extremely addictive, increasingly costly and\ndeadly. Why has it taken Canada this long to\ndecide to stop the advertising of a deadly and\naddictive product?\nThe numbers show that smoking rates go\ndown without the constant advertising assault\nWhen the first wave of advertising restrictions m\nCanada came down on October of 2000 billboards and retail displays were extinguished,\nand the rate of smoking in Canadian youth\ndropped 3 per cent. That is about 60,000 fewer\nteenagers smoking. . l\nEven studies done by tobacco companies\nshow that indirect advertising through event\nsponsorship is extremely effective in hooking\nmore people on the nic. Tobacco advertising\ndoes more than change a cigarette company's\nmarket share, it increases smoking.\nBill C-42 is an amendment to the Canadian\nTobacco Act that placed restrictions on advertising and sponsorship for tobacco companies was\na giant step towards public health. The amend-;\nment was phased in gradually over five years to\ngive time for tobacco-sponsored events to adjust\nand the final restrictions will be\" put in effect on\nOctober 1. On this day tobacco companies will\nno longer be able to use their name or display\ntheir logo should they choose to sponsor\nan event\nAnd it's about time.\nStill, The Alliance for Sponsorship Freedom\npublished an ad in the Globe and Mail claiming\nthat events that have relied on tobacco sponsorship in the past will not be able to survive: 'Our\nspirit will suffer. Our culture will suffer/ they\nsaid. With over 250 major events in Canada\nsponsored by cigarettes, it seems cigarettes have\na chokehold on advertising spending. This may\nbe an example of tobacco companies using the\nveiy same tactics it focuses on their primary\nconsumers: making them reliant on cigarettes.\nWithdrawal will be painful.\nBut it will be doable. Here in Vancouver we\ngave up cigarette advertising for one of the\nbiggest tourist events of the year, the Symphony\nof Fire. Contrary to what cigarette advertisers\nwould have you believe the removal of their\nsponsorship did not paralyse the event In fact,\nthe sponsorship was picked up by HSBC, BC\nHydro and local business. Last summer the\nevent was enjoyed by an estimated half a million\nparticipants on any given night\nAnother reason to kick the habit of tobacco\nsponsorship in Canada is that it is usually not all\nit is cracked up to be.\nIt was found that in the same year Imperial\nTobacco spent $1.1 million promoting its own\nsponsorship of photography, it only gave\n$39,000 to photographic arts. This is demonstrative of the self-promoting insincere philanthropy that was tobacco sponsorship in Canada.\n. Montreal's Players Grand Prix.might be the\nfirst major casualty of Bill C-42. The Formula\nOne race may be dropped from the 2004 roster\nbecause of Canada's new laws. Players might not\nbe so interested in generously sponsoring the\nevent if cars cannot display the logo and their\nname can't appear in relation to the event\nFormula One boss Bernie Ecclestone is looking\nat new venues that have more lax laws on cigarette advertising like Moscow, Russia and San\nAntonio, Texas.\nPerhaps the Americans might be more receptive. In 1996 companies like Phillip Morris\nbowed to pressure and lost $368 billion.\nAmerican tobacco advertising limits are restricted to banning outdoor signs and humanlike figures. No comprehensive tobacco legislation\nsuch as the ones we are now seeing in Canada is\ncoming down the pipes, with only the faint possibility of banning nicotine from cigarettes\nin 2009. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2:\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nAmericans have similarly been evasive in\njoining the World Heath Organization's\nFramework for Tobacco Control, signed on\nAugust 12 of this year. This international treaty\nwould protect both the western world, where\ntobacco restrictions are coming in force, but also\nAsian and African markets, to whom the tobacco\ncompanies have been marketing aggressively.\nThe European Union is considering similar legislation to us by 2006. Perhaps Americans will\neventually bow to this peer pressure.\n* And as for Montreal's loss: Vancouver's Indy\n500 is supported by the beer company Molson.\nThe newly christened HSBC Celebration of Light\ndrew enormous crowds. Surely, the next legal\nvice will step in and take up the slack. And\nmaybe if things get even more liberal in Canada\nthe Medicinal Marijuana Indy might make a\ndebut \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nYour mother doesn't love you as much as we do.\nShe just gives you money.\nWrite a letter to us instead.\nfeedback@ubyssey.bc.ca\nLetters to the editor must be under 300 words.\n\"Perspectives\" are opinion pieces over 300 words\nbut under 750 words and are run according to\nspace. Please include your phone number, student.\nnumber.and signature (not for publication) as welt\nas your year and faculty with all submissions. ID will\nbe checked when submissions are dropped off at\nthe editorial office of The Ubyssey, otherwise verification will be done by phone.\n\"t PAGE FRIDAY\nFriday, September 19,20031\nthe ubyssey magazine\nHHI!I3111\nOnce upon a has-been\nONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO\nNow playing\nby John Hua\nCULTURE EDITOR\nOnce Upon a Time in Mexico is the third chapter in the El\nMariachi saga which began in 1992, with the first installment by the same name. The premise of the films follows\nan ex-mariachi, whose life is ripped away from a path of\npeace and music, and is thrown onto the dark and dim path\nof bloodshed and revenge. , -\nIn this third installment, El Mariachi emerges from hiding to fulfill two missions. The first, to once again seek\nrevenge, but this time to bring peace to the*murdered souls\nof his wife and daughter. And the second, to come to the aid\nof Mexico, whose president is to be assassinated during a\ncoup d'etat organized by a rogue Mexicari general and\ndrug cartel leader.\nReturning to tlie role of the mysterious guitar-playing\ngun-slinger is once Spanish heartthrob Antonio Banderas\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwho once again dons the spurs.,\"eightyears after premiering\nin the role in the second installment titled Desperado. Co-\nstarring as his unlikely counterpart is actor Johnny Depp,\nwho takes on the role of CIA Agent Sands, a maniacal psychotic ordained by the US to bring order to Mexico.\nAlthough the film was indeed able to match the mass-destruc-\n.tive and bloody precedent set by Desperddo, every other aspect\nwas painfully lacking.\nLet's begin with the dull and shallow performance of Antonio\nBanderas. The forty-year old actor has unfortunately fallen away\nfrom his prime, much like his Spy-Kids co-star Sylvester Stallone.\nThe one-time sex-symbol literally portrays the role of the hero\nwith fatigue and indifference, despite the fact that the main\ncharacter's family and one chance at peace are ripped from his\narms. Banderas loses all sight of a driving force, and becomes an\ninsignificant character who just so happens to be in almost every\nshot The once mysterious character, which was nicely played by\nBanderas in the past, has now become nothing but the not-so-tall,\ndark, not-as-handsome, boring type.\nContrasting Banderas, and perhaps the only saving grace of\nthe film, is sudden blockbuster actor Johnny Depp (no, not\nEnrique Iglesias). Following up on his highly-entertaining performance in Pirates ofthe Caribbean, Depp draws on the same\nenergy and portrays the devious and cold-blooded Sands with\nmenacing accuracy. Depp, who flourishes in the roles of the\nmentally-unbalanced, becomes the only interesting character\nin the entire film and completely overpowers any hint of acting\nby Banderas.\nThe film does have potential, but unfortunately fails to\nbecome anything outside of an exaggerated clip of a gunfight set\non repeat The use of special effects are done to full capacity, and\nif you're interested in mindlessly seeing bodies decapitated in\nevery which way, then 1 say skip a meal and check out the film.\nOther brainless calls to the box office offered by the film include\nEnrique Iglesias (pre-mole removal), and a very, very short\nappearance by Selma Hayek Think about it, the last documented performance of Enrique's mole.\nThere's not much more to say about this film, because just\nwatching it lowered my intellect I do apologize for this harsh\nreview, especially if you're a Banderas fan. However, I do suggest\nthat you see him at his best in Spy-Kids, Spy-Kids 2, Spy-Kids 3-D\nor whatever other Spy-Kids film he has in the works. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n*7|M\nSame old poets, great new friends\nA BLASER/CREELEY READING\nSeptll\nby Bryan Zandberg\nCULTURE STAFF\nOn the way out to the Van East Cultural\nCentre, I wondered about the wisdom of my\ndecision lo opt out of a midweek potluck in\nfavour of checking out the Blaser/Creeley\nreading. I mean, why was I choosing to listen\nto the intonations of two old gappers at some\nbeatnik shindig over sampling Greek fare\nwith friends\u00E2\u0080\u0094in the comfort of my own apart\nment, no less? Three hours, reams of verse,\nand one rekindled friendship later I was well\nand glad I'd come.\nTurns out there was equal warmth to be\nfound at the reading, an endeavour celebrating the 40 year correspondence between venerated American poet Robert Creeley and\nVancouver's own Robin Blaser, a professor at\nSFU. I've got to say it was pretty cool to mingle with the folks who turned out:\nVancouver's young and cutting-edge vanguard four decades later. Almost every poem\nappended some account or anecdote related\nto the vital and sometimes-zany West Coast\nscene in the 60s; you could tell by the laughter, sighs and energetic exchanges that many\nin. the audience had had a stake in these\nevents. \"\nI ran into Ken Belford there, an old friend\nand a successful BC poet in his own right We\nhad a coffee at Joe's on Commercial afterward, and he related the impact Creeley had\non both his own poetry and that of many\nWest Coast writers. We compared the wealth\nof the community of his generation\u00E2\u0080\u0094which\nmet in the streets and at cafes\u00E2\u0080\u0094and mine,\nwhich seems to have retreated into the universities. We contrasted the profundity of\nCreeley's verse with the heavy and almost\nlumbering way he communicates his generous sadness; then juxtaposed that with Blaser\nthe snowy-haired statesman, so at ease with\nhis- audience, so fluid and musical in his\nmeditations.\nThings crystallise in age, poetry being one\nof those things that tends to get better as the\npoet gets older. I think it's the same with\nfriendships, perhaps even more so when\nthey revolve around a shared sense of the\npleasure of language. And this is an ongoing\ndialogue, one I count myself lucky to have\nbeen privy to. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nFeeling productive?\nTHE UBYSSEY needs a Production Manager for the\n2003-2004 publishing year.\nQualifications include:\n-mastery of QuarkXPress\n-knowledge of pre-press and computer graphics\n-some knowledge of newspaper production workflow\n-the clout to wrestle with a very moody very heavy printer\nAttend our next staff meeting on Wednesday, September 24th for more\ninformation. 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Michael Sheen acquits himself well as Lucius the shaggy leader of the\nLycans,*an apparent ne'er-do-well whose motivations remain hidden until late in the film.\nScott Speedman is appropriately scrumptious\nand tragic as the unwary hero of the piece.\nBut what would a vampire/werewolf piece\nbe without special effects?\nUnderworld takes advantage of all that\nHollywood has to offer: one part Matrix, one\npart American Werewolf in London, with a dash\nby Greg Ursic\nCULTURE WRITER\nDoomed love is surely one of the few shared\nexperiences of civilisation\u00E2\u0080\u0094you would be hard\npressed to find any culture that did not have a\nrepresentative Romeo and Juliet Regardless of\nthe reasons that these unions are frowned\nupon\u00E2\u0080\u0094religion, culture or creed\u00E2\u0080\u0094the arguments for love will fall on deaf ears, for when\nhas logic ever triumphed over love? But when ward affairs: undead monster preys on humans of morphing thrown in for good measure. The\nyour tribes are age-old sworn enemies, and you (usually a virgin for good measure) and is sub- vampires' transformation is minimal. They get\nbelong to different species, you just know that sequently staked by obsessive vampire hunters, a bit of overbite and ocular enhancement that\nthings can't end well. Underworld flouts the genre from the outset distinguishes them from humans. The were-\nSelene (Kate Beckinsale) is a death dealer: Humans are, at most peripheral characters in wolves meanwhile get the ribcage-expanding,\nan elite undead warrior in the centuries-old war the film, neither mentioned nor preyed upon, jaw-lengthening, claw-growing transformations\nbetween the vampires and werewolves (aka Indeed, it would more accurately be categorised that we have come to expect, and the final prod-\nLycans). Committed to the cause, she finds her- as an action/thriller rather than a horror film, uct looks quite impressive. Thankfully the spe-\nself distracted from her task when she falls for Conventions be damned. cial effects are an integral part of the story and\nMichael (Scott Speedman), a human who, unbe- Selene is decidedly darker than Kate are not mere window dressing.\nknownst to them, has a date with destiny. Torn Beckinsale's earlier roles, both literally and fig- The action sequences are fluid and well cho-\nbetweenher feelings and a secret that threatens uratively. Her shorn hair is jet black, as is her reographed, the sound editing is superb, the drew guffaws from the audience, Underworlds\nto tear her world asunder, she must give the skintight leather outfit. Selena is cold, calculat- editing is tight and the cinematography is an engaging and entertaining piece of cinema\nreins to fate. But just in case, never rule out ing and pragmatic\u00E2\u0080\u0094the qualities one needs in a appropriately dark without obscuring every- that is perfect for a Tuesday brain rest And in\nhigh tech armaments. genocidal zealot\u00E2\u0080\u0094which makes her change of thing. Most importantly, the pacing is even and the event that it is well received at the box\nVampire movies are generally straightfor- heart all the more shocking. Beckinsale creates the film boasts a solid story with enough twists office, they've also left it open for a sequel \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nand turns to captivate the viewer.\nAside from a few dramatic moments that\nj. 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