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" UBC Archive Sericu\nf:\n'*:\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*'\n#.\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00C2\u00AB*-\jf,~\u00C2\u00BBi,\n^777 ' *\n-\"ii'Y7-*\n\" ^\u00E2\u0096\u00A0* v y *\n7^:7;\nJuMfeiSStiEM\n7- .1 L--Y- \"-%\u00E2\u0080\u00A2:. -\\nViV'^ l\n\ -\n\u00C2\u00A3*4\n$1 %A\u00C2\u00ABIL, -14-1 'W-l i\u00C2\u00BBJ '\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A'l^V4 A-7# a *\u00C2\u00ABt\n'I 5.?\n*,,-?. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2' ' ... ,\nTUESDAY, QCTOBER 31,2p\nTHE CBfl CONTROLS ME SINCE 1918\nU-Trek program in danger\n by Sarah Morrison\nUBC's plan for a mandatory student\nbus pass may die on the table if a\ncontroversial proposed vehicle levy\nis not approved by TransLink's\nboard of directors.\nBoth UBC and Translink, the\nregional transportation authority,\nhave said that they are close to a\ndeal after months of negotiations\nover U-Trek, a major part of which\nis the U-Pass, a mandatory student\ndiscount bus pass.\nBut recent controversy over the\nproposed levy, which would have\nvehicle owners pay an annual fee\nbased on the weight of their automobiles, has threatened the viability of the U-Pass proposal.\nThe levy, designed to penalise\nheavier polluters oh the road, would\nraise as much as $100 million per\nyear to fund improvements to roadways and transit services.\nTransLink has indicated that\nwithout a levy or federal funding,\nsignificant cutbacks would hurt the\nnumber and frequency of existing\ntransit routes and proposed transportation programs.\n'If the vehicle levy is not\napproved, there would likely be no\nU-Pass,' said Bill Lambert,\nTransLink's manager of Programs\nand Planning.\n\"No levy, no U-Trek program,'\nagreed Gord Lovegrove, UBC's\ndirector of Transportation\nPlanning, adding that UBC is\nencouraging TransLink's boaid to\npass the levy.\nUBC has indicated a prefeiente\nfor a vehicle levy over ano'hi'r\nincrease in bus fares, citing cor.n?rn\nfor individual who have no choke\nbut to commute by bus.\n'There are many that just (.an t\nafford the cost of an aufomobuV '\nsaid, Lovegrove. He said that the \*\y\nis a.small additional expense iela-\ntive to the $5000 to $7000 cost of\nowning af car, but that another d:e\nincrease would significantly aifot*.\nstudents who regularly use the Iran\nsit system.\nThe. U-Trek proposal is pari of \u00C2\u00AB\ngreater transportation plan that 13\naimed at reducing traffic to and\nfrom campus.\nSome time in the next two\nmonths, TransLink's board of du ec-\ntors must vote on the levy, befuie it\ncan be considered for final appi o^ al\nfrom the Greater Vancouver\nRegional District council.\nBut Marvin Hunt, a TransLink\nboard member, says that he will not\nsupport the vehicle levy.\nsee \"U-Trek\" on page 3\n<\u00E2\u0080\u00A2!'.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 A. .:** ii Zf.-fo/f?\nSoccer Birds fini:\nseason against UVic\nby Trevor Kew\nIt wasn't the prettiest soccer match played at\n: Thunderbird Stadium this year. In fact at times\nit looked a bit like a battle scene from\n' Braveheart The UBC women's soccer team did\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 emerge victorious from the swamp after two\nmuddy hours, however, with a well-deserved 1-\n0 victory over provincial rivals the University\nof Victoria (UVic) Vikes.\nThe game was played on a rain-soaked\npatch that had experienced a varsity football\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 game less than 24 hours before. The players\nsloshed through the quagmire at a fast, even\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 frantic, pace, and there were several tough\ntackles from both sides as both teams tried to\nset the tone.\n; The T-Birds held much of the early pressure\nj but were, pushed back into their own half by the Vikes\nlater on. The best chances fell to Leanne. Westie,\nI whose shot was deflected inches wide, and Jacqueline\nFerraby, who powered a header off the post.\nThe bog/field continued to play its part in the sec-\n* ond half as the game slowed to a midfield battle.\nf UBC's patience was finally rewarded in the 57th\n? minute, when Vanessa Martino sent across skipping\nacross the muddy goal area towards UBC forward\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 LysaWonet aUVic defender, and the keeper. The\nthree players collided* arid the ball, squirted loose into\nthe Victoria goal, ft'.vya'r announced as an own goal.\nMVdiie later suggested that.she might have got a touch,\n. but added modestly that\"\"where the ball ended up was\nmost important'' ~ \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 - ;\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nEx-UBC student suing\ndebt collection agency\nby Natasha Norbjerg\nOH NO YOU DON'T: I nird-year defender Leanne vVestie\nfights for possession, tara westover photo\n'The girls really fought, for that one,' said Wone,\n\"The goal was a result of our whole team's willpower.'\nUBC's defence looked rock solid, with keeper Sian\nBagghawe covering up some minor mishaps. \"We can\ntake a step up, and we know that Sian's back there\nholding her own,* explained first year fullback Amber\nBrownlee. \"It's wonderful.'\nThe playoffs are set for next weekend in Victoria,\nand UBC head coach Mosher's belief in his team's\nchances seems to be growing by the day.\n\"We played good playoff-type soccer, which is what\nyou need to do this time of year/ said Mosher who\"\npraised the players for their 6-1-3 record, deapite having seven rookies on the squad in what was supposed\nto.be a turnaround year. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 Y Y\nA former UBC student is currently\nentangled in a legal battle with a collection agency over the payment of\nhis federal student loan.\nStephen Toban, who graduated\nfrom UBC in 1991, says that he was\nunemployed for the majority of that\nyear, which made it difficult for him\nto pay the $7000 remaining on the\nloan.\nToban alleges thai the agency\ncharged with collecting his loan.\nTotal Credit Recovery Ltd, used\nunreasonable collection practices\nwhen pursuing his debt\n\"I had every intention of paying\nmy loan back, but [Total Credit] had\nno right to invade my privacy in the\nmanner that they did,' he said.\nDeanna Natali, a lawyer for the\ncollection agency, declined to com-\nfeedback@ubyssey.bc. ca\nment on the case, saying that the\ncompany would rather wait for the\ncourt to decide the outcome of the\ncase.\nToban says that his troubles with\nthe collection agency began when he\nmoved to London, England, to look\nfor work after graduation.\nAccording to BC Supreme Court\ndocuments, while Toban was away\nin London looking for a job in the\nfinance industry, the Royal Bank forwarded his outstanding loan to the\nfederal government\nThe government then paid for\nthe remainder of the loan and made\nTotal Credit responsible for collecting Toban's debt\nToban said that when he\nreturned to BC in May 1993, he discovered that because of interest\nsee \"Lawsuif on page 3\n^SKOUR FAVOURITE\nMfflDAY AND WE'RE\nCS ANPTREAtS.\n:';.;;|-rlliiJ\n;' Y\"'\"::-Y77:! 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Ticket\nprices include GST but are subject to applicable service charges.\nCALL 899-RUSH (7874) THE UBYSSEY\nNEWS\nTUESDAY, OCTOBER 31. 2000\nMinimum wage rises\n by Andrea Milek\nBeginning tomorrow, minimum-wage earners\nin BC will enjoy an additional $0.45 per hour\nas the minimum wage increases to $7.60.\nBut the BC government's decision to\nincrease the minimum wage is receiving\nmixed reviews from economists.\nDavid Green, an associate professor of economics at UBC and co-author of a study that\nexamined the effects of minimum wage in BC,\nAlberta, Ontario and Quebec, said that minimum wage is a useful tool in anti-poverty and\nanti-inequity policies.\nIn his study, released last year, Green and\ncc-author and fellow UBC Commerce profes\nsor Michael Goldberg determined that full-\ntime workers in BC must earn at least $8 an\nhour to clear the poverty line. The NDFs minimum wage legislation will see the minimum\nwage increase to $8 per hour next year.\n\"A basic standard of society seems to be\nthat if you work full-time you ought at least to\nmake the poverty line/ said Green.\nBut Roslyn Kunin, a consulting economist,\nsaid that increases to minimum wage affect\nemployment adversely.\n\"The business community [in BC] is appalled.\nIt is another reason for people to not start small\nbusinesses and to not hire people/ she said.\nWhile Green agreed that an increase in minimum wage can lead to some unemployment,\nhe asserts that the effects are often exaggerated.\n\"What we're really talking about here is not\nactually laying people off. We're talking about\nsome slowdown in employment gains as a\nnegative side of the impacts, but on the positive side there's actually more money being\n, delivered to low income earners/ he said.\nAccording to the BC President of the\nCanadian Union of Public Employees Barry\nO'Neilf, raising the minimum wage helps\nstimulate the BC economy.\n\"All of that money is poured back into the\ncommunities and small businesses at higher\nquantities/ he said.\nBut Suromitra Sanatani, vice-president of\nthe Canadian Federation of Independent\nAMS defeats motion to make\nfee opt-outs less complicated\n by Sarah Morrison\nAfter extensive debate, student councillors defeated a motion at last week's\nAfraa Mater Society (AMS) Council\nmeeting that could have made it easier\nfor students to opt out of optional fees.\nif passed, the motion would have\nhad the AMS request that UBC allow\nstudents to opt out of all student fees\nover the Internet\nBut some councillors expressed concern that under such a system, students might opt out without fully considering the consequences, and funding for programs such services as\nSafewalk and Speakeasy could be significantly cut\n\"My first concern over the {motionj\nis that students would be just pointing\nand clicking and opting out just whimsically/ said Neil de Haan, a Pharmacy\nrepresentative to Council.\n\"But how can you vote against something that makes it easier for students to\ndo something they want to do?* he added\nLastyear, the AMS promised that an\nadditional $9 fee for AMS Services that\nstudents voted for in a referendum\nwould be optional.\nDe Haan said that the AMS shouldn't throw too many obstacles in thei way\nof students wanting to opt out of these\nprograms.\nHe suggested that students be\nrequired to read a description of the\nprograms Online before they could opt\nout of any fees. An amendment to this\neffect, however, was defeated.\nIn addition to the AMS Services fee,\nstudents may opt out of the AMS\nBursary Fund, the AMS/Graduate\nStudent Society Health Plan, the\nStudent Legal Fund Society, and the\nUbyssey Publications Society.\nDuring the meeting, the motion was\ndivided into multiple parts, one of\nwhich passed.\nThis motion called for constituencies to advertise more clearly that then-\nfees are optional, and on the AMS executive to request that UBC providing a\nlink from its Student Service Centre\nwebsite to the AMS health plan\nprovider's website, where students can\nopt out of the health plan.\n'It's so convoluted and complicated,\nthe motion that went through, I don't\nthink the administration can deal with it*\nsaid Bev Meslo, an Arts representative to\nCouncil, who stressed that the motion was\njust a recommendation to UBC.\nDuring the meeting, there were\nquestions about whether the AMS could\nmake recommendations regarding the\nStudent Legal Fund Society and the\nUbyssey Publications Society, both of\nwhich axe organisations independent\nof the AMS.\nThe motion was amended to\nremove the mention of the two groups\nafter councillors\" repeatedly commented that the AMS was overstepping its :\nboundaries.\n\"[The] AMS has no business advocating on behalf of an independent organisation to the university/ said Rob Nagai,\nan Arts representative. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nBusinesses' BC and Yukon office, said that the\nincrease comes at a bad time, when BC is just\nrecovering from a weak economy.\nSanatani suggested instead that the working\npoor could be helped out by targeted tax credits.\nCraig Riddell, a professor of economics at\nUBC, said that the minimum wage's negative\ninfluence on employment is not immediate\nand that it does reduce the number of people\nliving below the poverty line. However, he said\nthe increase is a 'crude tool.\"\n\"You would like to have an anti-poverty tool\nthat's veiy targeted on the poor and most of its\neffect go to help poor families. In the case of\nthe minimum wage, some of it does, some of\nit doesn't,\" he said. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n\"U-Trek\" from page 1\n'My constituents are all opposed to it,\" said the Surrey city\ncouncillor, explaining that Surrey is a car-dependent community.\n\"The problem is that this levy has been originally spun as\nbeing a levy for transit, and therefore it's got everybody's back\nup,\" he said. He added that he believes that if TransLink had\npublicised the levy more as funding for road maintenance,\nthen more car owners would support the proposal.\nIn spite of the opposition, UBC's student union is lobbying\nfor fee increases for drivers.\nIn a letter to TransLink's CEO Ken\nDobell, the Alma Mater Society's Vice-\nPresident External Affairs Graham Senft\nwrote, 'Given the recent transit fare\nincrease, it was felt that the remaining\nfunds should be raised from vehicle owners.\"\nThis is not the first time that the U-Pass\nproposal has run into problems.\nEarlier this term, UBC and TransLink\nwere unable to reach a deal on who was to\npay the $3 million for the extra buses that SENFT\nwould be needed immediately if the U-Pass proposal was completely implemented next year.\nBut bom parties currently favour a four-year phase-in of the\nprogram to begin in September 2001, which would see only\nfirst-year students required to buy bus passes in the program's\nfirst year. In the second and third years of the program, second-year and third-year students would be added, respectively.\nBy the fourth year, all students would be required to participate in the U-Trek program. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nTHIS BUS IS LEAVIN' THE BUS STATION! But TransLink's proposed vehicle levy may pose serious problems for a student bus pass program at UBC. tara westover photo\nLawsuit from page 1\nfees, he owed $10,000\u00E2\u0080\u0094an amount equivalent to the combined total of his original Canadian and provincial student\nloans.\nIn May 1995, Total Credit filed\nagainst Toban. Toban then coun-\ntersued, alleging that the collection agency had violated Section\n14 of the Debt Collection Act,\nwhich outlines unreasonable\ncollection practices, and for the\nloss of wages.\nThe Act states, \"A person \"~\nmust not exert undue, excessive\nor unreasonable pressure on a debtor, or a member of the\ndebtor's family or household, or the debtor's employer in\ncollecting, negotiating or demanding payment of a debt\"\nToban is claiming that a London employer withdrew a\njob offer after contacting Toban's references, who he claims\nhad all been informed by Total Credit Recovery about his\ncredit problem. He believes this information should have\nremained confidential.\n\"The whole experience has been terrible and very distressing,' Toban said. \"Being in debt does not give a credit\nagency the right to take away your privacy and give details\nof your loan to relatives and employers.'\na $10,000 judgment\n\"Situations like Steven's\nhappen all the time,\nunfortunately.\"\nToban is also alleging that Total Credit Recovery made\nthreatening calls to his girlfriend at the time.\nBut in a letter to BC's Debt Collection Office in April of\n1999, George Keiser, president of Total Credit Recovery,\nwrote, \"Total Credit Recovery denies all allegations of\nwrongdoing and has complied with the Act in all\nissues related to this\naccount'\nPeter Dowsett, who was at\nthat time the compliance offi-\nr \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 cir iv cr t\u00C2\u00BBe cer investisatins \u00C2\u00B1e case'\n'LlSCi oKQMliri, dliTo declined to comment when\ncontacted by the Ubyssey.\nToban's case, which has received assistance from UBC's\nStudent Legal Fund Society (SLFS), goes to a two-day trial in\nsmall-claims court in November.\nAlthough Toban has now spent roughly $ 15,000 on his\nlegal case, he is asking for $10,000 in damages, the maximum amount he can receive in small-claims court\nLisa Skakun, a third-year Law student and member of the\nSLFS' litigation committee, has been helping Toban prepate\nhis case against Total Credit Recovery.\n'Situations like Steven's happen all the time, unfortunately. People do not realise the fact that they do have rights\nin these situations/jSkakun said. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nHow to avoid a credit mess\nwith your student loans\n1. When applying for a student loan, plan ahead. Remember that\nthe money you receive does have to be paid back.\n2. Know your rights. Review the Debt Collection Act before taking\nout A loan. The Act can be viewed at\nhttr>.7/www,qp.gov,bc.ca/bcstate/96092L01.htm.\n3. Lfyour loan is forwarded to a collection agency, do not avoid the -\nagency because this could make the situation worse. Try to work\nout a payment plan with the agency.\n4. If you believe that you are being harrassed by a collection\nagency, you have the right to file a complaint with the BC government's Director of Debt CoEections at (250} 387-1627.\n5. 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Come to an information session.\nTuesday November 7th\nRoom: 206 (SUB Bldg.)\nTwo Talks: 12:30 & 3:00\nFor more information on SWAP contact:\nIITRAVELCUTS\u00C2\u00A35C\nLower bvel SUB_8tt-6890\n659-2840\nRugby women get silver\nby Duncan M. McHugh\nSWAP is a program of the Canadian Federation of Students\nVICTORIA\u00E2\u0080\u0094Call it deja-vu. In a game reminiscent of last\nyear's championship, the UBC Thunderbirds once again\nsuffered a blow-out defeat at the hand3 of the University\nof Alberta Pandas in the gold-medal game of the Canada\nWest Women's Rugby Championship. UBC earned a silver medal in the four-team tournament after a 65-3 loss\nto Alberta in the final game.\n'Our definite goal was to be in this game/ said team\nco-captain Eleanor Alesi. 'And we made our goal.'\nAlberta aside, UBC had a very good tournament,\nstarting off the round robin on Friday afternoon with a\n5-0 win over the hosts, the University of Victoria Vikes.\n'We take it the hard way,* said Jaydeen Williams,\nUBC's other co-captain. \"The score should have been\nmuch higher. If we have the chance to score...we don't\nalways capitalise.'\n\"It was our very first game,* added coach Heather\nMiller. \"We started playing better in the second half, but\nthe first game, we didn't play well. We had a lot of nervous energy, not making the right decisions at the right\ntime. I liked to get that one over with and settle down\nand play the way we're supposed to play.'\nThat play came Saturday morning in a 24-0 win over\nthe University of Lethbridge Pronghorns.\n\"That was a much better game,' said Miller. \"Again,\n[the T-Birds] were a bit tentative the first half Then once\nthey scored the first one, they started thinking a bit\nmore and got into what they had to do.'\nSaturday afternoon was a different story, though, as\na tired UBC team lost its first meeting with Alberta 3 7-0.\n\"(The Pandas] are a very well-drilled team/ said\nWilliams. \"They've been playing together for a very long\ntime. We're just a developing team. We're just beginning to work together, wherea3 these girls have worked\ntogether in [Under-19] programs all summer.\"\n\"It's just inexperience [on the part of UBC]/ points\nout Miller. \"It's just a matter of the girls learning. The\nsecond half was much better than the first half in the\ngame yesterday. We held them to 12 points the second\nhalf. Unfortunately, the damage was done in the first\nhalf. But to hold them to 12 points, they learned and we\ncorrected things and the girls did what I asked them to\nin the second half.\"\nHowever, the problems that plagued UBC persisted\ninto the gold medal game on Sunday afternoon. The\nPandas started the scoring after only a minute and a half\nwhen Alberta fullback Stacy Crozier fought off T-Bird\nCherlyn McKay to score the game's first try. UBC continued to struggle with Alberta's potent offence throughout the first half. After 40 minutes of play, the score was\n2 9-3, with the T-Birds' only points coming from a penalty goal.\nAlberta continued to dominate in the second half, on\nits way to racking up a total of nine tries. The Pandas\nwere in fine form, scoring on several long runs and winning the majority of scrums and stealing on line-outs.\nUBC came close to scoring several times, but couldn't\nmake it through a much larger Panda defence.\nSome of the T-Birds' difficulties can be attributed to\ninjuries, having lost all-star prop Paula Brouwer and\ncentre Sabrina Celms. Intensity was also a problem for\nthe team.\n\"Despite the scoreboard, we played really great\ndefence/ said Williams. \"Technically it was there, but\nthen there were gaps and breakdowns and that's where\npoints were scored.'\n\"There were some moments of brilliance,\" said\nMiller. \"And then we just turned off our brains a couple\nof times. We relaxed and we can't relax, we have to keep\nthe pressure on all the time. And they relaxed in key\nareas, where they shouldn't have.\n\"We were very close to scoring a few times and they'd\nhave a scrum and they'd relax and the other team just\nblew us off. So we^ deserved to lose the scrum, we\ndeserved to lose the possession we had because we\nweren't with it, and we weren't prepared to fight for the\nground we'd just won... We eased up on some key areas,\nwhen we should have been working twice as hard.\n\"The better team won today. I can't take anything\naway from the U of A team. They deserved to win,\nthey're a very good, well-rounded team,\" she said.\nBut despite its mistakes, UBC remained positive. As\nAlesi pointed out, UBC was the only team to score on the\nPandas all weekend\n\"We came out really positive.' said Williams. \"We're\ndefinitely not ashamed of the way we played. We played\nreally hard.'\nUBC can also be proud of four players who made the\nCanada West All-Star team: Sabrina Celms, Paula\nBrouwer, Leslie Mckenzie, and Cherlyn McKay.\nAnd UBC can be proud of its second-place finish. The\nBirds have a young team, one that's only losing two\nstarters to graduation at the end of the year (they lost ten\nthis year).\n\"We're happy, we're happy with the way it went\" said\nWilliams. \"We came out of the game with our heads up.\" \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 THE UBYSSEY\nSPORTS\nTUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2000\nBirds lose, but it's not over yet\nUBC squeaks through to playoffs despite losing the last home game to Alberta in a blowout\n by Tom Peacock\nYou had a feeling that Friday night was going to\nbe rough for the UBC Thunderbirds when they\ntook the field against the Calgary Dinos, who are\nsecond place in the Canada West And it was.\nAs the rain poured down in earnest, the\nDinos trampled all over the UBC's defence.\nCalgary shot ahead 20-0 by the half, and went\non to win the game 33-13.\nThis meant that UBC had lost its final regular-season game, and had to wait until the end\nof Saturday's game between Regina and Alberta\nto see if it had clinched a playoff spot Luckily\nfor the Birds, third-place Regina pulled off the\nwin, and the Birds are still in. They'll fly to\nWinnipeg next weekend to face the first-place\nUniversity of Manitoba Bisons in the Canada\nWest semi-final.\n\"The one thing about this year is that we had\ninconsistency,\" UBC cornerback Simon Quinto\nsaid after the game. 'We would be hot one quarter and not another.\" Generally speaking, this\nmight have been true, but on Friday night UBC\nhad very few things hot in any of the quarters.\nThe game started off relatively well for the\nBirds with receiver Scott Rintoul catching a few\nslippery balls for some first downs, and defensive back Sandy Beveridge getting an interception. Nevertheless, the Birds couldn't drive\ndeep enough to score.\nFinally the Dinos, led by quarterback Lincoln\nBlumell, put something together and drove to\nwithin striking distance. A pass into the end-\nzone was called back after a holding penalty,\nand the Dinos had to settle for a field goal. But\nthe Calgary scoring rush had begun,\" and it\nwouldn't stop until the final whistle.\nDuring the second quarter, a rumble by UBC\nquarterback Shawn Olson left Calgary with\nanother good field position, and they knocked\nanother field goal through the uprights.\nOlson, who was playing with a broken pinky\nand a badly damaged elbow, decided that he\nmight not be helping the team by staying in,\nand hit the bench. He was replaced by second-\nyear pivot Rob Kenney.\n\"I was frustrated when I thought I was hurting the team by playing,\" Olson said later. \"I\nthink you've gotta try winning the football game\nand if Rob Kenney gives us a better chance of\nwinning the football game, then he's gotta be in\nthere.\"\nKenney completed his first two passes, but\nthe Birds still could not put anything together.\nThe same couldn't be said for Blumell and his\nhenchmen as they charged down the field for\nthe game's first major. Then, just three minutes\nlater, the Dinos roared at the UBC defence for\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 another touchdown.\nAt the beginning of the second half, a huge\nkick return by Beveridge put the Birds in a position to score. Olson was back in the game, after\nreceiving multiple shots of cortisone in his\nhand and elbow, and a few passes later and the\nBirds had their first touchdown.\nThe fans and\nthe reporters in\nthe press box\nstarted to pay a little more attention\nonce UBC scored,\nbut all Calgary\nhad to do to win\nwas hang on, and\nhang on they did.\nWhile the UBC\ndefence- gave up\n223 yards on the\nground and\nnumerous huge\npass receptions\ninto the back\nfield, the Calgary\ndefence only\nallowed 64 yards\non the ground,\nand managed to\nget eight\nturnovers.\n'The conditions were unbelievable,\" said\nJavier Glatt, UBC's\nleading tackier. \"The footing was bad, the ball\nwas wet..We were expecting a lot of run, a lot of\nrun, and they did run, but they were beating us\ndeep. We gave up too many big plays. That's\nwhat it comes down to.\"\nOlson was a little choked up after the game,\nthough he said that he hadn't really had enough\ntime to absorb the fact that this was the last\ntime he would play for the Birds at Thunderbird\nStadium.\n\"It's weird. It hasn't really hit me yet but I\nthink it's starting to. People come up to you, saying this and saying that and you start crying a\nbit It's gonna be weird...\"\nEven though his teammates say that the battered and bruised quarterback should have\ngone to the hospital four games ago, and his\ngirlfriend says that he's an idiot there was no\ndoubt in Olson's mind that he had to see the\nseason out.\n\"Should I have played? For Shawn Olson, yes\nI should have played because I don't know if I'd\nhave been able to live with myself if I didn't For\na normal person, probably not If I maybe had\nenough brain cells I probably wouldn't have\nplayed,\" he said.\nOlson's leadership role for the Birds has\nbeen a story in itself this year. While many of\nhis fellow veterans have been sidelined by serious injury, Olson refused to sit out a game in\nspite of barely being able to get up off the couch,\nand having a hand that looks like a bad\nHalloween prop.\n\"Shawn Olson is the toughest player I have\nplayed with in my life,\" Glatt said. 'He is probably the best player I have ever played with. I\nhave never respected someone more...He basically singlehandedly kept us in this season.\" \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nMen's Soccer\nHie UBC men's socee* team lost Its final\ngame of the regula* season this past weekend against the University of Vietotfa Vikes,\nM, UBCImished tho season 7-2-1. In second\nplace in the Canada West behind Victoria.\nTho nien head to lethbridge next weekend\n' for tho Canada West Championships,\nWomen's Volteyball\nHie UBC women's volleyball team was on\nthe road this past weekend to meet the\nUniversity of Winnipeg Wesmen. The Birds\nSwept tho Wesjnen 3-0 in both Friday and\nSaturday's games, UBC stays home next\n-weekend to play the University of Calgaiy\nDinos on Friday and Saturday night at\n6:15pm in War Memorial Gym.\niiHeirs Volleyball\nHie ta^n also travelled to Winnipeg this\npast weekend where they beat the Wesmen\n34) on Friday and 3-2 on Saturday. The\nBirds faoe the University of Calgary Dinos\nin War Memorial Gym this Friday and\nFEELIN' NO PAIN: UBC quarterback Shawn\nOlson played in spite of a broken pinky on his\nthrowing hand, tara westover photo\nWomen's Ice Hockey\nHie UBCwoaien'sice hockey team will play\na^donbMieader at home ist laundeifc&d\nWinter Sports Centre next weekend against\nthe University of Albetta Pandas* the\ndefending national champions, Game &ne\nis 7pm on Friday asnd Saturday night\nRowing\nUBC men's and women's crews competed ;\nthis past weekend in two head races in i\nVictoria. '\nIn Saturday's Head of the Gorge race, \\nUBC finished tfiM in the men's open/var- \\nsity eight second in the women's open/var-*\nsity eight hi ihe junior varsity eights category, UBC placed third in both the men's\nand women's events. UBC picked up first'\nplace in the men's novice eight race and\nthird in the women's novice eight race. In.'.\nsmall-boat racing, UBC's Fraser Pearce won '\nthe men's open/varsity singles race and\nUBC was second and tenth hi the women's\nvarsity double event.\nOn Sunday in the Head of the Elk race,\nUBC'sJV eights were third again, while UBCs ^\nnovice crews placed second in the men's ,\neight race, second and third in the women's.\neight and first in Ihe men's quad, though\nUBC was the only entry in that event In the \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nmen's and women's open/varsify doubles, |\nUBC placed first and third respectively'. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 ;\n: .r- \" M\nWWM'\n.^7(77 !7\u00C2\u00A3\n1 - ^Jr-'k 5. \"> VI - \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-': *\u00C2\u00A3\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\ns,,'., v. Jw\u00C2\u00BB-\nHollywood\nMusic\nFashion\nAdventure\nwww. myfw. com\n^Qjfir-^'ipe ^^^^^, fordfocus TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2000\nSPORTS\nTHE ubyssey\n, if you're happy and you know it\nif you're angry and you knovy it\nfeedback@ubyssey.bc.ca\nLibrary |tfi\u00C2\u00BBM\u00C2\u00ABm\.(| Bibliotheque\nOf Parliament fflMMffllft du Parlement\nSummer Job Opportunity on\nParliament Hill!\nBecome a Parliamentary Guide!\nJoin our team of bilingual university students\nfor an unforgettable job on Parliament Hill in\nsummer 2001!\nPlease see our Internet site for application form\nand more details:\nwww.oarl.QC.ca\nLook under \"What's Newl\"\nThe application deadline is November 20.\nTHE UBYSSEY\nINVITES YOU TO ENTER OUR\nEnter our Lucky Draw to win\n1 PAIR OF TICKETS to see\nGANUCKS US, AVAIANCHE\nTOMORROW @GM. Place\n(Wednesday, Nov. 1st, 7pmJ\nCome to SUB Room 245 to enter.\nMUBYSSEY\nGiveaway\nMen's hoops split series\nby Dustin Cook\nOn/Friday night the UBC men's bas- -\nketball team kicked off its season\nwith the first of two games against\nthe University of Winnipeg\nWesmen.\nEarly on, the Birds came out\nstrong and appeared to be in control\nof the game as they dropped three\nconsecutive shots from downtown,\nsoaring to a quick 10-point lead. The\nWesmen seemed to have little\ndesire to get back in the game;\nshooting four for 13 from the. free\nthrow line, they were colder than a\nWinnipeg winter.\nUBC finished the first half ahead\nby seven and in the second looked\nwell on their way to an easy victory\nas they climbed to a 13-point lead.\nBut with 14:2 7 left in the game, the\nBirds went south. Their defence\ncompletely collapsed and their\noffence disappeared. The Birds\nrefused to work the ball down low,\nand repeatedly took low-percentage\nshots from the perimeter. Winnipeg\ncapitalised on UBC's inability to\nscore and took an 8-point lead.\nThe Birds had trouble containing\nWinnipeg's speedy guard, Sukhvir\nSingh, who scored 22 points and\nwas the key to the Wesmen's\noffence. However, UBC team captain Courtney Kolla sparked a late\nrally for the\" Birds as they clawed\nback to tie the game with 1:55 left\nUnfortunately this was as close as\nthey would come\u00E2\u0080\u0094Winnipeg scored\non their next possession and held\non for a 65-60 win.\nWith both teams shooting poorly\nfrom the field and with very bad officiating, the game wasn't pretty to\nwatch. The Birds shot a miserable 4-\nfor-2 6 from three-point land and finished the game with a terrible 38\nper cent field goal average.\nWinnipeg's 43 per cent was only\nslightly better, but in the end it\nallowed them to squeak out a win.\nWith 16 points and 5 steals, point\nguard Kolla was the lone standout\nfor the Birds, and was named player Y\nof the game.\nThe game was clearly there for\nthe Bird's taking but they gave it\naway and spoiled new head coach\nKevin Hanson's home debut 'We\nstarted to fall back on our bad habits\nand play like individuals,' Hanson\nsaid. He added that his players\nlacked discipline, taking 'way too\nmany* shots from the perimeter.\nSaturday night was a different\nstory. This time it was the Wesmen\nwho started strong as their standout guard Singh scored 14 points in\nthe first half and roasted the Bird's\nstruggling defence. In the first half,\nthe only life that the Birds showed\nwas on the bench\u00E2\u0080\u0094an animated\nHanson was warned that his criticism of the referees was not appreciated. Trailing 38-32, at the buzzer\nit appeared that UBC was destined\nto relive Friday night\nHowever, in the second half the\nBirds found their thunder. Scoring\nfive straight points, the Birds cut\nWinnipeg's lead to one. Both teams\ntraded baskets until a huge steal by\nPat McKay allowed the Birds to\nregain the ball. McKay's steal was\nthe turning point of the game\nbecause it triggered a 10-point run\nby UBC. The Bird's charged-up\noffence shocked the Wesmen and\nwithin six minutes, the Birds had\noutscored Winnipeg 18 to 6. Kolla\nfollowed in McKay's steps with the\nnext ten points for UBC, and Pete\nHodson threw two free throws for a\n10-point lead with 9:28 remaining.\nFinally, at 2:39, the game\nappeared to be over when McKay\ndrove to the basket and hammered\ndown a two handed slam-dunk. But\nthe Wesmen battled back with a 6-\npoint run that sliced the lead to\nthree. With 2:07 left, Winnipeg\ncalled timeout and Hanson gathered his players in a huddle. His\nmessage was simple: \"Play to win.'\nFollowing Hanson's game plan,\nthe Bird's defence held the lead. The\nBirds then made some clutch free\nthrows, going seven for ten in the\nfinal two minutes, that finished\nWinnipeg off and cemented a 84-77\nvictory.\nThe Birds showed a lot of character, battling back to win on\nSaturday-they played a solid team\ngame and almost every player elevated his performance for the\nrematch. Their 62.5 per cent field\ngoal average was a big improvement from Friday's embarrassing\n38.9. The Bird's leaders also elevated their game and stepped up when\nneeded. McKay logged 38:04 minutes of playing time to earn Player\nof the Game honours with 27 points\nand nine rebounds. Team captain\nKolla played 39:32, scored 20 points\nin the second half alone to finish\nwith 28, and added nine assists.\nAfter the game, Kolla described\nthe win as *a huge confidence\nbuilder.' If the Birds are lucky,\nthey'll be able to build on this confidence when they take on the Dinos\nnext Friday in Calgary. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n>\u00C2\u00BB\nLUCKY THIRTEEN; Third-year guaid Jufie Smulders rolls with the hot hand on Saturday night\nThe Thunderbirds lost their first game on Friday against the University of Winnipeg Wesmen 79-\n73, On Saturday, the Birds fared a little better, beating the Wesmen 69-60. Fifth-year guard Stacy\nReykdai led the team in scoring with 17 points on both nights, tara westover photo THE UBYSSEY\nSPORTS\nTUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2000\nNursing team breaks Rehab streak in T-Cup\n'$*V &\nr.\n by Jo-Ann Chiu\nThe losing streak is over. The Nursing team\nwalked away with its first T-Cup victory in\nthree years Friday afternoon, as Inhee Cho\ncarried in the pigskin for the only score of\nthe 7-0 game.\nThe graduation of key players on the\nRehab Sciences team, including star quarterback Angie Wensink, and the injury of\nreceiver Christia Mqlriar-Marteris, has\nmeant a building year for head coach Jay\nLeGuilloux, who has returned for his third\nyear coaching T-Cup. 77\nStrong defence by both teams kept the\nannual all-women tackle football match\n, between Nursing and Rehab in a deadlock\nduring the first half. The huge crowd of\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 spectators witnessed a smashing assort-.\nment of tackles.\n'I know you felt that, 71, I know you'\ndid,' snarled UBC varsity running back and\nNursing assistant coach Julian Radlein as\nthe Nurses' Leslie McRae knocked Rehab\nquarterback Megan Patterson (number 71)\nto the ground.\nIt was in the second half that the\nNurses' option quarterback Christina Estey\nsparked a four-play scoring drive. After\nconnecting on passes to Nicole Lefebure\nand Cho, Estey then scrambled for a gain of\n15 yards before Cho was able to find a hole\nin the Rehab defence and hustle her way\ninto the endzone.\nDespite the drizzling rain, the fan turnout\nwas high, and the fans oohed and aahed\nwith the blood-curdling crunch of every tackle. But suffice it to say that when the football\nteams are made up of nursing and rehabilitation science majors, and the cheerleaders\nin drag are occupational therapists, injuries\ncan't be too much of a threat \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nNURSING WINS! The Nurses end a long drought in Friday's T-Cup. tara westover photo\nBears rule rink\nAlberta takes two from UBC men's hockey team\nby Sara Newham\nThe last time the UBC men's hockey\nteam defeated the University of\nAlberta Golden Bears at the\nThunderbird Winter Sports Centre,\nRonald Reagan was President.\nThirteen years later, the Birds were\nlooking forward to erasing that statistic, but faced a daunting task.\nNot only were the Golden Bears\nthe two-time defending CIAU champions, they were also undefeated\nheading into this past weekend.\nUnfortunately, Alberta's streak\nwas destined to continue as the\nBirds dropped two points Friday in a\n5-3 loss, and the other two Saturday\nin a 5-2 loss.\n'We didn't take anything for\ngranted. We weren't intimidated by\nthem,\" said Rob Teleske. 'We were\ntrying to come out and surprise-'\nthem, and we really thought they\nwere beatable.*\nAlberta dominated much of the\nplay Friday night but its domination\nwas due in part to the number of\npowerplays it was given\u00E2\u0080\u0094UBC couldn't stay out of the penalty box.\nAlberta's first goal came on a power-\nplay at 9:18 of the first after Bird\nright-winger Dustin Paul was evicted\nfor hitting from behind.\nThree minutes later, Alberta made\nf it 2-0 when the Bears' Ryan Wade beat\nPeter Brady from the slot Fortunately,\nUBC managed to cut the lead in half\nwhen it received a gift from Alberta.\n, Thunderbird rookie Graham Walker\nsnapped a long shot from the neutral\nzone that fooled the unsuspecting\nAlberta goalie Clayton Pool\nDown 2-1 to start the second,\nUBC ran into some penalty trouble\nagain. With Trevor Shoaf off for\nelbowing, Wade managed to'restore\nAlberta's two-goal lead when he\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 scored his second of the night after\nhis shot went over Brady's glove and\ninto the net But, after some great\npressure in the visitor's territory,\ndefenceman Markjerant scored his\nfirst goal as a Thunderbird, from\njust inside the blueline, making it 3-\n2 at the 5:28 mark.\nTension between the two teams\nwas high throughout the game as\nplayers on each side attempted to\naccost their opponents in one way or\nanother. UBC head, coach Mike\nCoflin condemned the officiating,\nsaying UBC was getting called on\npenalties more often than Alberta.\n\"The call on Dustin Paul early in\nthe game was a huge factor when\nreally [it was] a situation where their\nplayer fell and then our player came'\nand finished the check as he was\nalready falling,' said Coflin. \"Nils\nAntons was run at in the third period and [the referee) chooses not to\nmake the same call.'\nThe Thunderbirds received a lift\nfrom Jerant's goal and carried the\nmomentum into the third period.\nUnfortunately, Alberta added its\nfourth of the; night at 3:35 of the\nfinal frame.\nAfter some: hard work in the\nAlberta zone and a few unlucky\nbounces, T-bird right winger Rob\nTeleseke, the UBC player of the game,\nslipped the Birds' third goal past Pool\nat 7:27. But UBC's excitement was\nshort-lived as Alberta's Ryan Marsh\npotted his team's fifth goal, putting\nthe final nail in the T-Birds' coffin.\n\"I think the difference was when\nthey got that powerplay goal in the\nthird. It really kind of put us down.\nIt's one of those things that gets you\nin the back of the mind as we were\nreally starting to work hard to come\nback and letting them get a goal like\nthat really hurts,' explained Jerant of\nthe game's turning point\nOn Saturday night both teams\nchanged goalies. UBC elected for\nRobert File while\nAlberta picked Dustin\nSchwartz to start the\ngame. Once again, the\nBirds couldn't stay out\nof the penalty box. While\nThunderbird forward\nIan Lampshire and\nJerant were both sitting\nin the sin bin. Alberta\nsecured a 1-0 lead when\nKnoblauch started his\ngoal-fest on a shot from\nthe slot However, UBC\nevened it up after Jeraint\nshot the puck through a\ncrowd of players, allowing Josh Cinnamon to\ntip it home.\n\"There were times\nwhere we had positives,\nwe played well and guy3\nhard, but. there were some\nmoments where\nGEEKS AHOY! The Applied Science boat races ahead, tara westover photo\nworked\nkey\nwe had break-\nddwns and they capitalised. We've\ngot to. make sure we move forward\nfrom this and take the positives out\nof it and make sure we recognise\nwhere Nye [fell] short' said Josh\nCinnamon,' who was named\nSaturday's player of the game.\nAlberta started the second period\non a powerplay. The Bears controlled the zone and Knoblauch put\nit past File for Alberta's second powerplay goal of the night Once again,\nUBC tied it up, but Alberta would get\ntwo more power play goals to make\nit 4-2 by 14:27 in the middle stanza.\nThe Bears' Knoblauch would\ncomplete his hat trick three minutes\nlater, on a 2-on-l rush. The bleeding\nstopped there and iieither team\nwould score in the third. By the end\nof the game, Alberta had out-shot\nUBC by a combined total of 80-4 4 for\nthe weekend. The game's final score\nwas 5-2 for* Alberta.\n\"The story of the game was four\npowerplay goals for them, three in\nthe second period, they out-scored\nus 4-1 in the second period. Their\npowerplay put on a clinic, arid we\ndidn't defend veiy well.\" concluded\nCoflin. \"There's probably one or two\ngoals'we need the goalie to stop\nbecause of who we're playing; we\nneed a perfect game.'\nAfter the game, File, whose goals\nagainst average was a mere 2.46\nbefore the weekend, tried to explain\nwhat happened. \"I don't like the five\ngoals either. I would like one or two at\nthe end of the game. It's not always\neasy [to make the saves], and Alberta\nis probably the best team in Canada\nright now. They have awesome goal\nscoring. When they shoot the guys\nare pretty accurate. I should have let\nin two goals [instead of] five goals.'\nThe Birds _fly to Calgary next\nweek before returning home again\nNovember 10 and 11 to host the\nSaskatchewan Huskies, another top\nteam. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nABOUT TO START: UBC's cross-country team raced at the\n8C Championships or* Saturday at Jericho Park. Despite\nthe muddy conditions, UBC ran weif. in the junior women's\nrace, Amy Higginbotham finished 7th. Higginbotham, Alice\nMiro, and Kim Hall placed first in the team category, fn the\njunior men's race {shown at left), Chris Durkin placed 4th,\nand Oavid Roulston 6th. Other top UBC performances\ncame In the senior women's race {which was won by\nOlympian Carol Montgomery, Just bade from Sydney! by\nMelissa Hungerford and Lisa Stelnke, and by Byron Wood\nin the senior men's event Ths cross-country leaves on\nThursday for the NAtA regional championships In\n-tewlston, Idaho.\nNJCJ101A5 BRADlEy PHOTO 8\nHALLOWE'EN 2000\nDESIGN FEATURE\nHALLOWE'EN 2000 9\nand all %b U^me\n\"For the ancient Celts\n[^uttomeett] was Old\nYear's Night, and the\nnight of all the witches.\"\n\"I will drain him dry as hay:\nShaHsleep neither night nor day\nHang'upon his pe\u00C2\u00ABt-houStlid;\nHe shall fivcamg^Affic ^ nine\nShall he dwindle, peak and pine...\"\nShakespeare (MactjSlh 1-3)\n)))\nr.\n$ f i\nf\nG&t*\ntury, Pope Boaiface IV introduced\nAll Saints' Day to replace the\npagan festival of the dead.\"\n<**\u00C2\u00BBC Saturday night to honour the living and\nwake the dead at the 9th annual Parade of tho Lost Souls. The torch-\nfit procession began atGrandview Pa\u00C2\u00ABk, continued through the\nstreets and alleys of the Grandview area, and ended at Britannia\nSecondary School. Lots of people got dressed up. like this guy,\nMICH6U.6 MOSSOP PHOTO\nNew Blair Witch movie disappoints\nstupid or bored you silly, but there's no\ndisputing its* success\u00E2\u0080\u0094costing \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 only\n$30,000 to make, it brought in $246 million at the box office. The marketing for\nthe film was brilliant\u00E2\u0080\u0094extensive prerelease coverage, Internet hype (the website\ndrew hundreds of thousands of hits), and\nits jerky video style was the ultimate\nmanipulation of the reality-TV concept.\nThe combination worked so well that\nmany people were convinced that the\nevents onscreen actually transpired. Much\nto its'detriment, Book of Shadows (a reference to the journal that witches keep) dissociates itself from the very conventions\nthat made the original movie so fresh.\nI'm suspicious of any horror movie that\npeppers its press release with phrases like\n/amorphous villains,\" \"general conflation,\" and 'devolving psychological state.'\nShadows demonstrates a classic maxim\u00E2\u0080\u0094a\nbigger budget does not necessarily mean a\nbetter film. Although this movie boasts a\nheavy-hitting soundtrack, and is helmed\nby a talented director (ironically renowned\nfor his skill as a documentary filmmaker),\nit, falls prey to the curse of the sequel. And\nhow,\"\nPlagued by stilted dialogue, a disjointed\nplot that jumps around needlessly, characters that are pale representations of people,\nand horribly amateurish special effects (the\nanimatronic owl would not have fooled a\nchild), there is little to recommend about\nthis movie. More frustrating is, the violence\u00E2\u0080\u0094 intended to be shocking, the\nsequences are poorly filmed, and the blood\nso obviously fake, that the scenes lose any\nimpact they might have had. But the ultimate death blow for Shadows, however, is\nthat it's a horror film that isn't frightening.\nThe only terror you will experience watching\nthis film, is the time you've lost, and sadly,\nyou will know exactly what hagp.ened.4> THE UBYSSEY\nCULTURE\nTUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2000 11\nnot your\naverage\nwitch\nby Kate Stanley\nSPELLBINDING: Madeline Sonik links witchcraft and fiction\nwriting, michelle mossop photo\nWhile many of Vancouver's young\npeople are swathing themselves iri\nblack, stealing their mother's\nbrooms and practicing their cackles today,\nMadeline Sonik will be sitting in a Buchanan\nclassroom, just like another student\nThat is if you define \"just another student*\nas a practicing witch who manages to balance\na creative writing masters program with a rapidly emerging literary career, editing several\ncollections of Canadian short stories, and\nmothering two kids. However, the slightly har-\nried-looking Sonik walking towards me, struggling with a Walkman, coffee mug, and backpack, looks every inch like your typical UBC\nstudent\nWith her deimt collection of darkly evocative short stories, Drying the Bones, Sonik has\nbeen called many things, including one of\nCanada's finest new writers and a innovator in\nthe New Gothic genre. She is also a Black Cord\nPriestess of the 13th Mysteiy House and a follower of Wiccan beliefs.\n\"Right,\" Sonik says dryly, as we seat ourselves on the damp bench in the Rose Garden,\nlooking at the mountains beyond. \"The witch\nangle.\"\nWicca is an old religion which stems from\npagan folk customs and ancient Celtic and\nEgyptian beliefs, explains Sonik. \"As well as\nnotions of the unconscious, intuition, and feminine empowerment,\" she adds.\nFor Sonik, writing and witchcraft are inextricably linked. \"The 13 th House, or my\n'coven,' though we don't like to use that\nword...is committed to creative expression of\nall kinds,\" she says. '[People] are encouraged\nin their talent or creative outlet*\nAnd if her first book is any indication,\nSonik's talent is writing. After completing her\nmasters in journalism at the University of\nWestern Ontario, Sonik worked as both a\njournalist and an editor of collections such as\nFresh Blood: New Canadian Gothic Fiction\nand Entering the Landscape: Re-visioning\nNature in Canadian Fiction. But Sonik quickly gravitated towards fiction, a move that she\nsays was integral with 'coming out of the\nbroom closet'\n\"I think a lot of the negative 'witch' connotations stem from a fear of feminine\npower,' Sonik explains; \"I 'came out' to state\nthat unconscious feminine power is something I value and need to use. Writing is a\nparticular way of shaping that unconscious\nenergy. I saw the stories as a bringing forward of feminine shadow energy that needed\nto be addressed.'\nShe takes a sip of her coffee out of her\nplastic UBC mug and explains that her next\nnovel, scheduled to be published by Harbour\nBooks, is intimately involved with Wicca.\n\"The novel was actually a dissertation for\nmy Black Cord,\" Sonik explains. She clarifies\nthat in the 13th House, earning a Black Cord\ninvolves the exploration of personal energies and unconsciousness, culminating in a\nfinal creative project. \"The whole novel is a\nspell of healing,\" she says. 'It actually has a\nritual right in it,\" she says, giving an ambiguous smile, not wanting to elaborate.\nBut the path to publishing her first book\nhas been long and winding. The 24 stories\nwere written over a 12-year period, revealing a lifetime of diverse experience, particularly memories of growing up in Windsor,\nOntario.\n\"The desire to write came about when I\nwas around 13 or 14. It was a motivation out\nof tragedy\u00E2\u0080\u0094my father had just died. Maybe it\ncame from a realisation of mortality, the\nthought that people die and their stories just\ngo. There's just nothing left... But I keep\ngoing back to that time and place in my stories because I'm interested in what happened there.\"\nSonik's introspective examination of\nmortality, oppression and female empowerment is reflected in the unsettling collection\nof short stories that are brimming with\nhauntingly disturbing visions of human\nnature. \"I use a lot of images to address the\nreader at an unconscious place,\" she says.\nSonik explains that the appeal of working\nwith the somewhat unusual genre 'New\nGothic' is comparing the traditional Gothic\nfiction\nto 'the dark feminine consciousness [that] becomes more\ninternalised with the New Gothic,\"\n- Her work's seemingly gloomy outlook\nand the book's numerous fatalities weren't\nmeant to be dark. \"If the stories seem dark\nand depressing\u00E2\u0080\u0094I didn't see it that way\nwhen I was writing them- I think people's\nreaction to them comes from the fact that\nthe psychic reality has occurred to all of us.\n\"In our [Wiccan] world view, death is not\nsomething we avoid or fear as anything\nother than natural.* Gesturing vaguely\ntowards the fallen leaves beneath our feet\nshe continues, 'Like for us, Hallowe'en\u00E2\u0080\u0094we\ncall it Samhain which is an old Celtic word\nfor 'end of summer'\u00E2\u0080\u0094is a death time.\nWithout death nothing new comes.'\nWhen asked what she plans to do on\nHallowe'en, Sonik smiles broadly. \"I might\nactually be on VTV. I don't know exactly what\nthey expect...I hope they don't want me to fly\nin on a broomstick or anything...But, we\n' actually celebrate Hallowe'en on the 28th...\"\nHer voice trails off enigmatically. Then\nshe adds wryly, \"But not in the woods\u00E2\u0080\u0094it's\ntoo cold.' Giving that indecipherable grin\nshe adds, \"That whole thing of naked dancing in the woods\u00E2\u0080\u0094we don't do that any more\nthan the average Canadian.\" \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nthis witch writes fiction\nDRYING THE BONES\nby Madeline Sonik\nNightwood/Harbour\nThe world of Madeline Sonik's Drying\nthe Bones is one of extremes. In her\ndebut Collection of short stories, Sonik\ntells 24 distinct tales, each a shadowy\nthread in her dark narrative fabric.\nFluctuating between elusive, dream-like\nvisions and startling realism, Sonik's\nstyle defies easy labelling.\nPreviously recognised for her contribution to a genre loosely termed 'New\nGothic' as editor of the anthology Fresh\nBlood: New Canadian Gothic Fiction,\nSonik cites both the Gothic and magic\nrealism as shaping forces in her work.\nThese genres blur the line between fantasy and reality. New Gothic, in particular, is marked by a concern with the suppressed unconscious, psychological dis\nturbances, and internal terrors.\nIn Drying the Bones, horrifyingly real\nsituations collide with fantastical departures into the depths of disturbed psyches. The result is a compelling landscape of shifting realities where the only\nstable image is a dark vision of human\nnature: abuse, violence, insanity,\nrepressed sexuality, death, and decay\nthat suck the light out of the human experience. Young \vomen are forced into\nprostitution, desolate men lose themselves in alcoholism, and children are\ndrugged into oblivion by mental institutions. The characters and settings are\nunified by an overwhelming sense of\ncrushing oppression.\nAt times it seems that Drying the\nBones will sink under the burden of its\nsubject matter, However, Sonik's vivid\nimagery, from hyper-realistic views of\nOntario cornfields to surreal visions of\nflying horses, transcends the weighty\nstorylines. Drying the Bones also succeeds in portraying the resilience of\nthe human spirit. In the end, hope\ncounters despair, and rebirth conquers death.\nSonik manipulates words and\nlanguage into powerful imagery\nwith electrifying ease. Although\nDrying the Bones sometimes runs\nthe risk of sinking beneath an\noverload of overwhelmingly\npotent pictures, Sonik has an\nuncanny knack of finding healing\npotential in the most horrendous of circumstances. Sonik's\nprovocative first book succeeds\nin challenging our conceptions\nof life and death, fantasy and\nreality. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n- Kafe Stanley\nHome Openers this Fri & Sat\n. \> 12 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2000\nCULTURE\nTHE UBYSSEY\nii\nl i\nTHE UBYSSEY\nPHOTO SEMINAR\nl^iesda^ October 31. 3pm. SUB 24 IK.\nBasic camera use, f-stops, sKutt^r speeds, caniera\ncare, film speeds, basic: composition. t; 7\nY* Bring a camera if you Have one,' '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0.;\nFilm provided.\na good target\nn\ni,;'\n.'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n>---v.\nX.\n$-s^r:\nr\nn l\n: *:\ni\nft\nlit\nIr\nr*i\nf *\n*UfeKt?iStx:?inife\n1\nfor\nby Nicholas Bradley\nTHE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS\nMass Romantic\nMint\nIt was a safe bet that the Yankees were\ngoing to win it all again. It makes sense:\nthey rounded up all the stars that the other teams didn't\nwant and put together a team that's more talented and\nharder working than all the others. But even the\nYankees might have a tough time beating the New\nPornographers, who have all the stars and they play like\nthey're not even trying. No Jose Canseco, either.\nIf you were a band in a dark alley late at night, you\nwouldn't want to run into the New Pornographers.\nThey've taken all of this city's cred and put it into one\nband, making it the perfect target for terrorists who hate\npop, or maybe just disgruntled metalheads. If you did\nblow up the band, then there'd be a whole bunch of sad\ncountiy fans across the countiy\u00E2\u0080\u0094Neko Case, who's paying the bills for Mint these days, sings lead and backup\non a few of these songs, backed up by the all-star band\nof Dan Bejar (Destroyer), Carl Newman (Zumpano),John\nCollins (the Evaporators), Kurt Dahle (Limblifter), and\nBlaine Thurier, the filmmaker who made a movie, Low\nSelf Esteem Girl starring Newman as a very creepy\nChristian and Bejar as, well, not himself, but some other\nshaggy guitar player.\nMint band assembles\nthe heavyweights of\nVancouver's pop scene\nThe Yankees\nmight beat them\nin the end, though,\n'cause the New Pornographers are definitely a summer team. They're not playing softball, exactly, but\ntheir music is very, very pop. The two best Neko tracks,\n\"Mass Romantic\" and \"Letter From an Occupant'\n(which was one of the hits from Mint's Vancouver\nSpecial compilation earlier this year) are catchy, but\nstill sound like the work of a garage band, if an especially good one. \"The Body Says No,\" however, is closer to synthy new wave than anything else. The whole\nalbum is saturated with a variety of organs and synths,\nand the songs are unashamedly sugary. Mass\nRomantic 13 glam rock\u00E2\u0080\u0094it's over-the-top, you can sing\nalong, and it all demands to be played on the radio.\nThis all works, mostly. There are moments on the\nalbum that simply sound too dated to take seriously,\nand the production is polished to the point of seeming\ncommercial. But still, it's catchy, and you'll sing along\nwhether or not you feel good about it As an example of\nlocal talent, it's a good one. And it's one that people\noutside of Vancouver\u00E2\u0080\u0094even in New York\u00E2\u0080\u0094would do\nwell to take notice of. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nsnow is\nby Tom Peacock HaS\n(D\n^*i<\nSNOW\nMind on the Moon\nEMI/Virgin\nSnow is white.\nHe's from Ontario but he sounds\nlike he's from somewhere hotter. He's\nnot He's from Ontario. But that's not\nto say that Snow isn't skilled in copying the reggae stylings of say Junior\nReid or Eek A Mouse. His 1993 hit,\n\"Informer/ even though most people\nloved to hate it, was pretty darn\ncatchy. And let's face it Snow brought\nsomething new, white, and a little bit hyper, to a tired\nform of black music. But that was 1993.\nSnow, perhaps sensing that his place on the reggae\ndancehall landscape is no longer such a novelty, has\nbranched out in different directions on his new album\nMind on the Moon. The album is really soft, and consists mostly of jingles about girls. There's plenty of jan-\ngly acoustic guitars and barely a hint of the steamy\nworld of dancehall. Basically, the album sucks.\nSure the beats thump, and the sound is clean, but\nthere's only so much overproducing can do to save a ter-\nS\OI/V\nrible song. On Mind on the Moon, Snow clearly reveals\nhis limited song-writing abilities, and leaves you wondering whether he was actually on the moon when he\nwrote this crap. He's certainly far from the rough\nToronto suburbs where he first honed his vocal abilities.\nIn 'Crazy Feeling,\" Snow sings, \"You know I never\nstopped believing/You turned all my loneliness to\ntruth/Baby don't you break this feeling/Whether or not\nmy heart starts beating/Did I mean a thing to you?\"\nSomeone should tell Snow to stop whining and start\nrhyming, 'cause what else is a white man gonna do? \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 THE UBYSSEY\nCULTURE\nTUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2000\n13\nSpiralling patterns of\nSPEEDING TOWARDS GOD: Well, Godspeed You Black Emperorl was actually meandering\nand twirling, but whatever, duncan m. mchugh and tara westover photo illustration\nby Duncan\nGODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR!\nwith Jean Smith and Mecca Normal\nat the Vogue Theatre\nOct 26\nA\n%\nUpon entering the Vogue last Thursday, I had only heard a couple of\nGodspeed, You Black Emperorl songs before, but I was intrigued. The y 4%\namount of critical praise that follows this unconventional Montreal non- ^J A\ntet is astonishing, and it was evident why. v i\nGodspeed You Black Emperorl is one of the tightest bands around, the\nmarriage of Sonic Youth at their most avant garde and Hemyk Gorecki. The\nconcert, in support of their new double album, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like\nAntennas to Heaven, was much more akin to a classical music performance\nthan to the punk rawk show you'd expect from a motley crew of scraggly\nFrench Canadians or the indie boys and girls who showed up to listen.\nDespite what seems like an improvisational style, Godspeed are, in reality,\nquite faithful to their recordings. The band builds their songs on patterns, which\nthey then spiral and invert It can sometimes take 20 minutes for these songs to\npeak, which was draining for the audience, but once the songs did climax, the\nresults were euphoric. It was those moments when Godspeed showed how hard they\nreally could play and, though I would be on the verge of dozing off, it was a worthwhile pay-off.\nVisually, the band is something of a non-entity and stage presence is not one of\nGodspeed's strong points. They spent most of the concert diligently crouched over\ntheir instruments though they compensated for this somewhat with Super 8 loops\nand slides, which were projected onto a screen behind them. The visuals did a great\njob setting the mood for the show and, the loops in particular, emphasised the shifting patterns of the music. For one song they looped a pan of a building over and\nover, eventually doubling and tripling the image, until, at the song's breaking point,\nwhole cityscapes, shot in a frantic hand held style, took over the screen.\nAt an hour and a half, the show was just long enough. Godspeed You Black\nEmperor! gave a stellar performance that left a very full Vogue Theatre very satisfied and proved them worthy of the praise that's been heaped upon them.\nI was late and missed the openers, but my friend caught them the previous\nevening in Victoria and was quite unintentionally amused. Jean Smith replaced the\noriginally scheduled Beans, which would be fine if she weren't one of the two members of Mecca Normal, the other openers.\nAs it turned out Smith performed a bunch of songs and then invited guitarist\nDavid Lester on to the stage, at which point they became Mecca Normal, Awesome!\nApparently, I missed some very earnest, very hard-to-listen-to singing about growing\nup on a farm and Lester's rock-star-god-channelled-through-the-body-of-a-suburban-\ndad schtick. Maybe it's best I was late. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nh *ee\"thfough look at Yatxcottve!\ny Nicholas Bradley\nCITY OF GLASS\nby Douglas Coupland\nDouglas & Mclntyre\nDouglas Coupland's entire literary output\ncan be boiled down to the simple story of a\ndisaffected but rather idealistic young man\nin a charmingly crappy car trying to make\nhis way back to the fictionalised North\nVancouver where he grew up and thought\nup all of those cute pop culture references.\nCoupland's half-dozen novels are all, to\nvarying degrees, concerned with Doug\nhimself, and his hometown has never been\nwell disguised. He's never been a great\nnovelist\u00E2\u0080\u0094he tends toward the maudlin\n(Microserfs), his plots have a habit of spiralling out of his control {Girlfriend in a\nComa) or fizzling out altogether (Life After\nGod), and he gets caught up in endless\ndigressions (Generation X). Having said\nthat, by ripping\" off the name of Billy Idol's\nold punk band and slapping it On his book,\nhe became perceived as a cultural critic\npar excellence. Generation X came out in\n1991, the time, as the band Mudhoney had\nit, of \"all things flannel and thermal,\" and it\nstruck some kind of a chord\u00E2\u0080\u0094Coupland\nhad the final say in what was important for\nthe post-Boomer crowd. But he was still\nobsessed with writing his way home.\nSo now, with City of Glass, Coupland has\nabandoned the trappings of fiction and\nwritten what is essentially a guidebook to\nVancouver, which he calls the best city in\nthe world. Coupland is a better essayist\nthan a novelist\u00E2\u0080\u0094Postcards From the Dead\nmade that quite clear. One of the essays in\nthat book, \"This Bridge is Ours,\" is his best\nwork: a thoughtful reminiscence about\nwhat the Lions Gate Bridge means to\nVancouverites, and its symbolic effect as\n'one last grand gesture of beauty* before\nthe city ends.\n\"This Bridge is Ours' is reprinted as\n\"Lions Gate* in City of Glass, but it overshadows the rest of the book, which fails to\nbecome anything beyond an alphabetical\nseries of brief essays about aspects of\nVancouver. This could have been much\nbetter than it is: Coupland's choices are\nfairly obvious\u00E2\u0080\u0094Fleece, the Grouse Grind,\nKits, Stanley Park\u00E2\u0080\u0094and he has little new to\nsay about Hemp, Main and Hastings, or\nSushi.\nThis is not to say that it's all bad. Much\nof the book is clever and interesting, and\nhe gleefully anticipates the Big One, when\n\"Ikea and the big-box stores nearby...will\nbecome glorious rubble within ten seconds some future rainy afternoon.\" And\nthe photos are good, too: colourful, full-\npage scenes from Vancouver life: the jocks\non Grouse Mountain, the wrinkly old guys\ntanning in the park, the grow-op bust, the\nsulphur piles on the North Shore. There's\neven a useful map showing which\nVancouver neighbourhoods correspond\nwith other parts of the world, or at least\nwhat they'll look like in a movie shoot\n(UBC north of University Boulevard doubles as Monterey, CA; the rest stands in for\nMicrosoft)\nBut overall. City of Glass is too superficial, too predictable to say anything new\nabout this city. It might appeal to tourists,\nor expatriate Vancouverites, but anyone\nwho lives here would learn more about,\nsay, the West End by actually spending an\nafternoon there. Coupland's new book is\npretty, funny, and full of in-jokes. Like his\nnovels. But also like his novels, City of\nGlass feels tossed-off, as if it were written\nin one go and then forgotten about,\nCoupland has finally done what he's hinted at all along and written a whole book\nabout Vancouver and its mythology, but he\nstill hasn't really found his way home. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n0\n1 y o f (\u00E2\u0096\u00A0',\n\u00C2\u00A3> C-C'\nr,\nr t\nt \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00C2\u00BB\n' f ,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * r\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00AB !l\n*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * n\nM. .'\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2r\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A21\n-1 h.\nI ( r r\n\u00C2\u00A3\n>t!\ntALJU\n^.7\"\n** \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 m ?:i! i. . i \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 t-srn\nf\nsr\u00C2\u00BB s a i\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"- j i\n\u00C2\u00BB3I\nsis w a bpjs! Jr. 1% l \u00E2\u0080\u0094 - 14\nTUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2000\nOP/ED\nTHE UBYSSEY\nCULTURE EDITOR\nMichelle Mossop\nSPORTS EDITOR\nTom Peacock\nFEATURES EDITOR\nNicholas Bradley\nCOPY/VOLUNTEERS EDITOR\nTristan Winch\nPHOTO EDITOR\nTara Westover\nPRODUCTION MANAGER\nHolland Gidney\nCOORDINATORS\nRESEARCH COORDINATOR\nGraeme Worthy\nLETTERS COORDINATOR\nLaura Blue\nWEB COORDINATOR\nErnie Beaudin\nTha Ubyssey is the official student newspaper of the\nUniversity of British Columbia, tt is published every\nTuesday and Friday by The Ubyssey Publications Society.\nWe are an autonofrsoua, democratically run student organisation, and al students are encouraged to participate.\nEditorials are chosen and written by (fte Ubyssey staff.\nThey are the expressed opinion of the staff, and do not\nnecessarily reflect the views of The Ubyssey Publications\nSociety or the University of British Columbia\n77>e Ubyssey is a founding member of Canadian University\nPress (CUP) and adheres to CUP'S guiding principles.\nAl editorial content appearing in The Ubyssey is the property of The Ubyssey Rjbficafions Society. 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She called Andrea\nMHek and Natasha Norbjerg over to help, but they could not nor\ncould Todd Silver or Dustin Cook, Sara Newham said that it was\nsomewhere near Luxembourg, but Tom Peacock and Alex Dimson\nknew better, it waa in tha north, near Archangel in Russia maybe.\nCynthia Lea just clucked at them and called Tara Westovei over so\nthat she could show her the secret location that Jo-Ann Chiu had gotten from Duncan McHugh just tha day before, it waa in South\nAmerica just off tha coast of Brazil Regina Yung overheard them\nwhispering what they knew, and laughed, when sha told thia to\nLaura Blua they shared a giggla cux they'd once peered at Tristan\nWtnch'a atlaa and they knew that tha page with Canada had been\nripped out by Nicholas Bradley. Nick had made a gift out of that\npage to Holland Gidney back in grade school but sha couldn't\nremember much of it cux Michelle Mossop had stolen it when she\nheard that Trevor Kew and Kate Stanley were paying $ 100 a square\ninch for any cartography. Kim The made her milliona when sha\nbund a map cache in Diana Slech's attic She sold most of them to\nParm Johal who'a dad knew Greg Ursic. tha map baron of\nVancouver. Daiiah Merzaban told them all that Canada waa a type\nof data, but Graeme, Graeme Worthy, he knew. They were IN\nCanada.\nCanadian\nUniversity\nPress\nCansds Port 54\u00C2\u00ABs Agrtwnvnt NumUr 0732141\nGhosts and ghouls\nHallowe'en provides a rare chance to hide\nbehind a mask\u00E2\u0080\u0094the chance to discard our day-\nto-day appearances and all the baggage that\njust being ourselves entails.\nSince it takes a lot of time to come up with\na costume, we've taken it upon ourselves to\ncome up with some costume suggestions for\nsome of the people on and off campus who\nhave graced our pages or otherwise come to\nour attention so far this year. Please remember\nthat these are just suggestions.\nMartha Piper, UBC president: a ghost,\nbecause she disappears after Imagine UBC and\nonly comes out for breakfast\nGord Lovegrove, director of Transportation\nPlanning: a flat tire, because the U-Pass ain't\ngoin' nowhere.\nGarth Mullins, campus shit disturber a\nfluffy bunny, because he's oh-so-quiet when he\ntalks.\nDanny Ho, assistant director of Parking: an\nelectromagnet, because he seems to pick up all\nthings metal\u00E2\u0080\u0094cars and change for parking\nfees\u00E2\u0080\u0094from students on campus.\nDavid Strangway, former UBC president\nFlash Gordon, because he was a \"superhero*\nhere at UBC. Besides\u00E2\u0080\u0094Strangway in tights,\nwhoo hool\nMaiyann Adamec, AMS president a chipmunk, because she's chattering ceaselessly.\nGraham Senft, AMS VP external affairs: a\nmad scientist, because he was once seen on\ncampus with a brain in ajar.\nBernie Peets, AMS general manager\nScrooge McDuck, because profits in the SUB\nare soaring.\nByron Hender, executive coordinator in the\nVP, Students office: A greaser, because we have\nthese old pictures of him on file from his days\nas AMS president where he's wearing sunglasses and this crazy hat And we swear we'll\nprint them as soon as get the chance.\nStockwell Day, Alliance leader a clown.\nBecause he's a clown.\nJean Chretien, prime minister a clown.\nBecause he's a clown.\nMark Fraser, AMS vice-president administration: a mime, because he never talks during\nAMS Council meetings\u00E2\u0080\u0094you know, the meetings where he's supposed to be working.\nBrian Sullivan, VP, Students: Charlie\nChaplin, because he already, wears bow ties-\nall the time.\nLloyd Axworthy, UBC-bound former federal\nTHE UBYSSEY\nminister of foreign affairs: a lumberjack. Ax,\nget it... we use that joke too much.\nThe CASA Brain: a beautiful Spanish villa,\nbecause CASA means house in Spanish and it\ndoesn't mean much else to most students at\nUBC.\nNeil Guppy, assistant vice-president of academic programs: a cat, because cats eat gup-\npies, and Hallowe'en is for dressing scary, and\nguppies aren't scary.\nNardwuar, the Human Serviette: a fork,\nbecause forks are scarier than napkins.\nTieg Martin, AMS representative on the\nBoard of Governors: A seahorse because he\nwas last seen dissolving in the SUB courtyard\nfountain.\nDavid Suzuki' Jesus, because he has a lot of\ndisciples. They're called the David Suzuki\nFoundation.\nSo tonight is the night when ghouls and goblins will haunt the dark corners of campus. If you\ndare to venture out, remember you were warned.\nAnd if someone walks past you, and you try to\ntake their mask off to see who it is, and realise\nthat it isn't a mask at all, but actually grotesque\nrotting human flesh, don't scream, because he or\nshe might be your teacher next semester. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nI\nfind us online at www.ubyssey.bc.ca THE UBYSSEY\nCULTURE\nTUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2000\n15\nNo instant\ni/ a\nconverts here\nQJ\nBEYOND THESE WALLS\nat the Vancouver Asiari Film Festival '\"'\nat Tinseltown Theatre\nNov, 4\nFor those of us accustomed tq Hollywood blockbusters,\nGordon Wong's Beyond The$a! Walls will certainly not\ninspire instant conversion to independent films. This\nseyen-minute short beirig'shown at the Vancouver Asian\n. Film Festival, traces the psychological after-effects of a\nhomosexual relationship gone bad. Awful lines such as\n\"Does he think' of me?\" litter the film,\nand are accorded the weight of\nShakespearean soliloquy.\nBut this movie sure ain't the stuff\nShakespeare's made of. In fact, film\nschool drop-out springs more readily to\nmind. The camera follows a sole actor\nthrough his daily routine of .waking up,\nshaving, making food, and eating. Odd,\ncamera angles, slightly distort reality\nvyithout adding \"any sort of aesthetic\n. appeal, and a disproportionately long shot of a running\nfaucet is quite disconcerting.\nAt the same time, however, the faucet provides a\nmuch-needed escape from the words of the narrator.\nThe internal voice of the protagonist is yoicedover so\nthat we hear his thoughts as_he walks through,the\nmotions of his day. Maybe somebody should walk Wong\nthrough scriptwriting, with the protagonist spurting\nby Diana Stech\nsuch pseudo-philosophical lines as \"I neglected my\nfriends, avoided my family, became a prisoner and life\nceased to exist beyond these walls.\"\nSo the ultimate conclusion that can be made from\nWong's film is not to neglect our friends, not to avoid\nour family, and not to become a prisoner in a relationship. This advice sounds vaguely reminiscent of the\nrelationship counsel within the pages of magazines like\nCosmopoHtan, YM, Seventeen, and women self-guidance books. Yet, at least these magazines have other\nuseful articles such as \"How to know if he's right for\nyou,\" and don't subject you to odd\ncamera shots of running faucets\nand strange men.\nBut maybe this wasn't the sole\nphilosophy propounded by the\nfilm. In an attempt to capture the\npsychological fallout of this relationship, the narrator darkly says\n'the torn flesh was nothing compared to what he did to my mind.\"\nPerhaps, in a vain attempt to be\ndark and elliptical, Wong tries to evoke psycbological\ntrauma. However, the words are quickly dropped and\nthe idea goes absolutely nowhere.\nBut at least it goes there quickly. The one redeeming\ncharacteristic of Beyond These Walls is that it is short\nOnly seven minutes of your life will be wasted if you\ndecide to watch it And at least you'll have had time to\nreflect on the image of that running faucet \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nfilm festival\n4-\u00C2\u00BB\n\u00C2\u00A32\nO\nKARMA LOCAL\nplaying at the Vancouver Asian\nFilm Festival\nat Tinseltown Theatre\nNov. 5\nTaking place in the heart of\nManhattan, Karma Local is a look into\nthe life of an Indo-American male living in New York City. Bali, played by\ndirector Darshan Bhagat, is a South\nAsian slacker working at his uncle's\nsubway station newspaper stand. Bali\ngets caught up in a mess with some\nsmall-time criminals and finds his\nway out through the experience of\nkarma, . 7\u00C2\u00BB*\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 - In the film, a tag of stolen money\nis handed to Bali by the low life thug\nCharlie. When this money is, stolen\nand the criminals' boss finds put. Bali\nand Charlie have to come up with the\nmoney\u00E2\u0080\u0094fast Bali discovers that it is\nkarma-the Buddhist belief that your\nactions affect you in the future\u00E2\u0080\u0094which\nhelps him' overcome his obstacle.\nBhagat does a good job of portraying Bali as a quirky character, but overall this film is diy and lacks adventure.\nThere is very little dialogue in the film,\nwhich minimises the on-screen chemistry between the characters. But the\nmurder scene at the end of the film is\nintriguing,^ demonstrating karma at\nwork\u00E2\u0080\u0094you get what you deserve.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2, The film shots, are pretty good, capturing the multiculturalism of New\nYork through timelapse photography.\nHuge New York crowds as well as the\ninfamous New York subway are\nshown.\nFar from being a religious and con-\nnotative film, Bhagat displays karma\nby using an everyday setting and\nexploring the values and stereotypes\nof South Asians in a foreign land.\nWhile it should be considered that\nthis low budget film took five years to\nproduce, it is the film shots, not the\nplot, that are engaging. 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