"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-08-28"@en . "1991-11-01"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0127953/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " the Ubyssey\ni\nN\nFounded in 1918\nVancouver, B.C., Friday, November 1,1991\nVol 74, No 17\nThe Ubyssey Hallowe'en Ghost Story Contest Winner\n\u00C2\u00B0^^ (Dr. Strcmgezvoy:\nor, ttozv I Learned to Stop \"Worrying and Hum La ^amba\nStaggering out of Main Library, I saw it rising from the\ndepths ofthe fountain\u00E2\u0080\u0094a frail, plum-coloured apparition the\nsize of a small Shetland pony. It seemed at first like the ghost\nof an engineer who had been tanked in the fountain once too\noften. But the figure was rotund, intellectual looking, and\nmoreover lacked the requisite red jacket. It beckoned to me\nsternly, with that deadness peculiar to corpses, insurance\nagents and students writing the ECT for the second time. And\nI was drawn to it as fixedly as a moth towards fire.\nI was not entirely sur- failed to see Kurt Preinsperg standing\nprisedby the events which followed, nearby.\n- - - - - \u00C2\u00ABwho, me?\" I asked.\nIt nodded.\nAt this point, all kinds of thoughts were\nracing through my head. The Chosen One?\nChosen for what? And by whom? But instead I asked the most relevant question.\n\"What's in it for me?\"\n^^with it a new model laptop The ghost's digits blurred across the\n^ry.nmnntor i I keyboard. \"Your university\nthis being a dark October night at\nnine pm (the witching hour,\nToronto time). After all, stranger\nthings happened each day in supermarket tabloids. The phantom\n(for phantom it was) proved unable\nto speak, although it carried\n\"kwith it a new model laptop\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 j* computer\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 through which we\ncommunicated,\n0 taking turns with\nthe key-\nby Mark Malby\nboard and mouse. It intro-\nJ duced itself as \"The Ghost\nof Quorums Past\u00E2\u0080\u0094and Par\n'Time Message Boy for the\nHead Honcho Downunder.\"\nSomehow I didn't think it\nmeant Crocodile\nDundee.\n\"You\nis threatened tonight with\ndestruction by a dark force.\nFirst your school, and then\nthe very fabric of your reality. Tonight you must save them both.\"\nA Dark Force? The NDP could not possibly have had time to implement its policies yet. And the Socreds were now extinct.\nWho was left, I wondered? Me save UBC?\nBut how?\n\"What's in it for me?\" I again asked.\nBut the ghost, apparently deaf too, ignored me. \"You must go now to the Pit to\nmeet the Oracle. He will answer all your\nUr*\nare the chosen\none,\"thefigure questions.\" Then it vanished in a magne\ntyped in a sium flash, leaving me only with a smoking ~\nhaunting vi- printout which read \"THE PIT\" in bold\nbrato. letters.\nI looked Some time later, having already wasted\naround 20 minutes in line and $4.00 on a beer, I\nbut began wondering just how one recognizes\nan Oracle inside the Pit. Around me swirled\nthe usual assortment of miscreants, poseurs, and predators. But near the TV\nscreen, palming a crystal ball in a\nshadowed corner, sat a figure i n dirty\nrobes who seemed to warrant\nthe epithet \"Mysterious Oracle.\"\n\"Glad you could make it.\" He extended\na hand as I sat down, introducing himself as\nDr. Strangeway, Oracle Emeritus and part-\ntime bookmaker non pareil. \"But call me\nIshmael,\" he added. \"Doubtless you are\npuzzled by all this secrecy, these special\neffects and words of doom.\"\nFrankly, I was.\n\"And you want to know just who has\norchestrated this whole evil plan, and what\nit is, and why you have been chosen to\ncounter it?'\nI did.\n\"Sorry, but that's classified information, son. You're only an undergraduate\nwhich means squat in the grand scheme of\nthings. But let me tell you tliis much: your\nuniversity is in grave danger from a dark\nforce which is, even as I speak, making the\nfinal preparations to conquer it.\"\n\"I've heard that part already.\"\n\"And have you heard his foul plans?\nRaising the rates at B-Lot to $5.00 an hour.\nTurning Buchanan Tower into a luxury\nhighrise. And having another referendum\nabout RecFac.\"\n\"Oh, God, not another one!\"\n\"Yes. And it gets worse. Tonight, UBC;\ntomorrow, the nation. Which means\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"\n\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094Oh, Lord, no\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"\n\"That's right. A ubiquitous Distinct Society clause. From the smallest tidepool\necosystem to the nuthouse on Parliament\nHill\u00E2\u0080\u0094all will be considered distinct societies and allowed to label washrooms in the\nlanguage of their choice.\"\n'How can I stop such a\nheinous plan?\"\n\"At midnight tonight, before embarking on his campaign, the Dark One will\ndine in the Ponderosa\nCafeteria. The sole way\nto neutralize his evil is\nto replace his bowl of\nporridge with anti-\nporridge.\"\n\"Anti\nporridge?\"\n\"You must\nfind some\nporridge that\nwas blessed by the\nfounders of the\nUniversity.\"\n\"You mean...?\"\n\"Yes...a quest\nfortheHolyGruel.\"\nHe went on to\nexplain the route of\nmy mission: I was\nto enter the Underworld and steal\na phial of Holy\nGruel from some\nnitwit archivist,\nthen return to the\nsurface in time to\nplant it in the Dark\nOne's dish before\nthe clocktower\nstruck midnight\nEasy enough, right?\nBut it was already\n10:00 and midnight\nwas just two hours\noff.\n\"Why couldn't\nthe apparition have\ntold me all this and\nsaved some time?\"\nI asked.\n\"It wasn't in\nhis job description.\nUnions, you\nknow.\" H\nsi ghe\n\"Even in\nr Classifieds 822-3977\nRATES: AMS Card Holders - 3 lines, $3.00, additional lines, 60 cents, commercial - 3 lines, $5.00, additional lines\n75 cents. 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Box 43085 Calgary, Alberta T2J 7A7\n1\n> -\n1\n2/THE UBYSSEY\nNovember 1,1991 N1WS\nPart-time counsellors hired at WSO\nby Sharon Lindores\nThe Women Students' Office\nhired three permanent part-time\ncounsellors last week. The move\nis a change from last year, when\nthere was only one part-time and\nthree full-time positions.\nThe women who were hired\nhad been previously working in\ntemporary positions in the office.\nTheir backgrounds are in women's\nstudies, social work and counselling.\nMarsha Trew, the WSO director, is pleased with the appointments. She said that the part-\ntime positions provide more flexibility to meet the WSO's dual\nmandate of counselling and advocacy. More counsellors would fit\nmore resource needs.\n\"From the office's point of\nview, this works well. They provide\nrich expertise and diversity,\" Trew\nsaid.\n\"It works beautifully. They\nwere already working here and\nthey wanted part-time positions,\nso we tried to accomodate them as\nbest as possible.\n\"Some women want part-time\nwork. If we had advertised for\nonly full-time employees, we\nwould have lost some good people,\"\nTrew said.\nThe WSO currently has funding for 3.6 full-time positions.\nThere are now five part-time (including the three just hired) and\none full-time counsellor.\nNancy Horsman, a recently\nretired counsellor from the WSO\n(she had worked there for 18\nyears), said that the part-time\npositions eliminated all but one\nfull-time staff appointmentin the\nOffice.\n\"The hiring of part-time\nworkers is in line with director\nMarsha Trew's firm belief that\ncontract work serves the best interests ofthe university. This hiring policy, however, ensures that\nthe director has complete authority over workers; that employees\ncan be hired or fired at any time;\nthat the Office can be collapsed at\nthat administration's whim.\n\"More significantly, the policy\nof hiring part-time workers, or\ncontracting out the work of the\nOffice, obviates any responsibility\nof the University administration\nfor pensions and other benefits\naccruing to permanent appointments,\" said Horsman.\nMargaretha Hoek, formerly\na counsellor in the WSO and now\nemployed by the Sexual\nHarrassment Policy Office, feels\ndifferently about the appointments.\n\"Now that the office can predict its staffing for half a year or\nso, the WSO should be given the\nopportunity to set its course and\nto work at the two mandates,\"\nHoek said.\n\"The WSO has an incredibly\nimportant role with campus stifety\nissues and the climate for women.\nThey are uniquely situated to\nprovide the services which are\nactively as important as individual counselling. They are an\ninvestment, and in the long run\nwill reduce some ofthe counselling\nneeds,\" Hoek said.\nHorsman said, \"Once again,\nwomen are undermined; once\nagain women are manipulated\ninto auxiliary, adjunct positions\nwithin the male administration.\"\nManning says structural change necessary\nProtestors question Reform\nleader on party's policies\nOttawa or bust.\nMA CHIA-NEIN PHOTO\nSociety surveys UBC student\nknowledge of the Arab World\nby Tanya Paz\nThe new AMS Arab Student\nSociety has surveyed 50 UBC students, to test their knowledge of\nthe Arab World. The club is concerned about how Arabs are perceived.\nIt was Hanadi Loubani's idea\nto do a survey. \"The purpose was\nto inform Arabs as well as Canadians. We want to help other\nArabs [such as] new students with\nlanguage barriers but mainly our\npurpose is education.\"\nAfter the results of the survey\nhad been tabulated, the club held\ntheir first general meeting on October 17. \"The survey gave us an\nidea as to what is needed. We\nwanted to see what people thought\nin general; there is so much misinformation about the Arab\nWorld,\" Loubani said.\nAsked to list ten ofthe 21 Arab\ncountries, seven per cent answered\ncorrectly and roughly 78 per cent\nlisted Iran incorrectly. 62 per cent\ncorrectly named three pertinent\nArab personalities. The most\npopular answers were Saddam\nHussein, Yassar Arafat, and\nMomar Qadafi. Ofthe 16 per cent\nwho included wrong answers,\nKhoumeni, Rushdie, and Gandhi\nwere mentioned.\nMost ofthe students surveyed\nknew that the majority of Arabs\nare Muslims, but did not know\nthat there are Christian and Jewish Arabs. Lina Nahhas, a Palestinian from the United Arab\nEmirates, defined Arab as: \"A\nperson whose mother tongue is\nArabic and who is born in an area\nof the Arab world. They share a\ncommon history and goals.\"\nVarious images came to students' minds when hearing the\nword Arab. Ninety-five per cent\nhad images of war such as \"burning oil fields, violent, hi-jacking,\nanti-West, extremists, Gulf war,\nand political instability\". An even\nhigher number, 99 per cent, had\nan image \"we like to call Arabian\nNights\", Loubani said. Images\nlisted were camels, desert, harems, sand, and sheiks.\nThe club said that the images\nof Arab women were also misinformed. Seventy-three per cent\nlisted \"oppressed, suppressed, exploited, no political power, no\nchoice, and restricted\". Images of\n\"harems, veils, black clothing,\nbelly-dancer, and jewelery\" were\nlisted by 57 per cent of those surveyed.\nLoubani said, \"A lot of people\nwould think that we came up with\nour feminist ideas in the West\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthat prior to coming we had no\nidea about equality and pride in\nourselves. We were feminists before we came here; we are third\nworld feminists in touch with our\nbase. Being able to wear shorts\ndoes not mean I'm free. [I'm more\ninterested in] access to political\npower rather than access to fashion.\"\nWhen the topic of Jews came\nup, Loubani and Nahhas sai d that\nthey did not want to turn the interview into a discussion on the\nPalestinian problem. \"We are\nSemites as well,\" Nahhas said.\n\"[The media] make it look like we\nare Jew-haters\u00E2\u0080\u0094descendents of\nHitler's. We were second on his\nlist,\" Loubani added.\nOn Thursday, October 31st, the\nArab Student Society had its first\nworkshop, titled Images of the\nArab World. Loubani said, \"Our\nmain goal is to educate ourselves\nand educating others.\" Nahhas\nsaid, \"this is not exclusive to Arabs, nor is it to non-Arabs. It is\nopen for everyone. It's a learning\nexperience for us, too. Not just a\nsocializing society.\"\nThe society plans to have\nworkshops every other Thursday\nand perhaps an Arab week for\nnext semester.\nby Rick Hiebert\nPreston Manning, the leader\nof the Reform Party of Canada,\ncame to UBC to speak Tuesday to\ninspire students \"to pursue fundamental changes in Canada's\npolitical system\" but some students took objection to what they\nsay Manning's party stands for.\nManning, who is currently on\na cross-country speaking tour\nconcentrating on English Canadian universities, came to UBC to\nexplain the three basic areas on\nwhich his party wants to work:\nconstitutional change, reform of\nParliament and restructuring\ngovernment finances.\nHe opened his speech with\nthe traditional politician's line\nthat he was \"very glad to be at\nUBC.\" However, perhaps he felt\nlike changing his mind after the\nspeech, as members ofthe Coalition Against the Reform Party\n(CAR!?) were there to grill him\nwith tough questions on abortion,\nrace relations, government\nspending and his party's ideas on\nimmigration.\nBefore the speech they held a\ndemonstration, chanting \"Racist,\nsexist, anti-gay, Preston Manning,\ngo away.\"\nDuring the question and answer session, one CARP member,\nciting Reform policy in favour of\n\"preserving the traditions of the\nRCMF1\", argued that the party was\nbeing racist against Orthodox\nSikhs, who wear turbans. One\nMountie, in Quesnel, wears a turban with his uniform.\n\"You hide a great deal of racism behind your support of restoring the traditions of the RCMP,\nincluding the uniform,\" he said.\nManning replied that the\nparty's stance the RCMP uniform\nrested on the idea of \"if you can't\nchange; the uniform to satisfy everyone, it shouldn't be changed at\nall.\u00E2\u0080\u0094If' someone said that evangelical Christians should be allowed to wear belt buckles on their\nuniforms in the form of large\ncrosses, it would cause just as\nmuch concern to us.\"\nAnother CARP member challenged Manning on the abortion\nissue, saying that \"the Reform\nparty is preparing, by allowing\nthe possibility of a referendum on\nit, toreopen the abortion debate...a\ndebate already decided by the Supreme Court's decision to allow\nwomen the right to choose.\"\nManning said the Reformers\ndidn't \"have a party pro-life position on the abortion issue\" and\nthat MPs should intensely poll\ntheir constituents on moral issues\nlike abortion and vote according\nto any consensus there found.\nIn his speech Manning said\nthe malaise in the West about\nfederalism was a wide-spread\nthing.\n\"We're beginning to suspect\nthat this feeling of beingleft out is\nsomething that is starting to unite\nCanadians,\" Manning said.\n\"Canada needs one of those\nreform movements like the ones\nin Eastern Europe, one dedicated\nto systemic changes that are outside the traditional set up. The\nold line parties refuse to listen,\"\nhe said. 'T'he universities and the\nschools are the hotbeds of our reform traditionin Western Canada.\nThat's why I am here. That's why\nthe other leaders aren't.\"\nHe added that a need for\nstructural reform was something\nthat should unite Canadians of all\npolitical ideals.\n\"If your country is divided, if\nyour federal government is literally broke and your parliament\nconsistently doesn't represent\nmajority opinion on the issues of\nthe day, whatever your interests\nin politics, in other areas, the\nfederal government is an ineffective instrument for addressing\nthem. You need to fix the biggest\nproblems first,\" Manning said.\nManning, whose party has\ncalled for significant cuts to\nspending and a balanced federal\nbudget, said Canada's federal debt\nis \"literally eating up the federal\nbudget from the inside.\"\nThe Reform leader also discussed Canada's constitutional\nproblems.\n\"Our house is divided along\nthe most dangerous lines possible,\nthose of race, language and culture,\" Manning said, adding that\ndespite federal government attempts to bridge the gap between\nEnglish and French, \"Quebec, it\nappears, is more alienated from\nthe rest of Canada, than ever.\"\nHe said the Reformers felt\nthat Quebec should decide\nwhether it wants to separate from\nCanada, then everyone in Canada\n(with or without Quebec) should\nrestructure Canada as they wish.\nElections should follow in Quebec\nand Canada as a whole in order to\ngive a mandate to parties to pursue constitutional negotiations.\nAfter a negotiated deal, the deal\nshould be approved by a national\nreferendum.\n\"We should see if a new\nCanada and a new Quebec can\nstay together. That's what we\nwant to see happen, but if that\ncan't be done, we should part\namicably,\" Manning said.\nNovember 1,1991\nTHE UBYSSEY/3 r\u00C2\u00A3*i\nmm\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'AS\nAnimal rights: horse racing inhumane\nby Martin Chester\nVANCOUVER(CUP)\u00E2\u0080\u0094The thousands of viewers who watched the\nQueen's Plate horse race at\nWoodbine Racetrack in Toronto\nthree weeks ago witnessed a tragedy.\nAs the horses came off the\nfinal turn and headed to the finish\nline, Isvestia, the second\nwinningest Canadian horse, pulled\nup lame. The TV cameras watched\nas this four year old horse limped\ninto a carrier to be taken for medical\nattention.\nHours later, Isvestia was humanely put to death. He had shattered his leg.\nAccording to Peter Hamilton\nof the Vancouver based animal\nrights group, LifeForce, Isvestia's\nis far from a rare case.\nJust two weeks earlier a horse\ncalled Top Class was humanely\nkilled after breaking its leg during\na race, Hamilton said. Many horses\nsuffer the same fate throughout\nthe country.\nBut incidents like these illustrate just the surface ofthe problem. Hamilton said other problems\ninclude poor facilities, abusive\ntraining techniques, the use of\ndrugs and running young horses.\nThe Toronto Humane Society\nhas investigated horse racing in\nOntario.\nDenise Mally of the humane\nsociety's education department\nsaid *We have received a lot of\ninformation from American humane societies and have investigated in Canada.\n\"We found the problems were\nnot as severe as in the US, but they\ndid exist,\" Mally said.\nShe said the THS does not\nagree with horse racing at all, but\nhopes to at least change the practices of trainers and breeders.\n\"There are too many cases of\nbreakdowns and pile-ups and\nhorses having to be put down, like\nwhat happened to Isvestia,\" Mally\nsaid. THS' campaign will begin\nwith the distribution of a information sheet which they recently\nput together.\n\"There haven't been a lot of\ncases of animal abuse,\" Mally said.\n\"The majority of Ontario\nhorsetracks have been good in that\nregard.\n\"It's not the conditions ofthe\nrace tracks we are concerned with,\nwe're concerned about the drugs\nand the racing of horses under\ntwo.\"\nMally said horses under two\nhave not fully developed their\nbones or muscles, so injuries are\nmore common.\nA second concern is the use of\ndrugs such as phenylbutazone,\ncommonly known as Bute, which\nis an anti-inflammatory used to\ncontrol local swelling and Lasix\nwhich prevent internal bleeding\nand nose bleeds.\n\"The Toronto Humane Society does not agree with using\ndrugs,\" she said. \"If the horse is\ninjured, or has a problem and it\nneeds drugs to be administered\nthen it shouldn't be raced.\"\nHamilton said the problem is\nthat the horses are not a priority.\n\"In all these entertainment businesses their main concern is\nmaking a lot of money, exploiting\nthe animals. The welfare of the\nanimals comes second,\" he said.\nMargaret Evans, assistant\neditor of BC Thoroughbred, a\nmagazine published by the Cana\ndian Thoroughbred Horse Society,\nsaid trainers and owners take every precaution to keep the horse\nsafe.\n\"You try to do everything to\navoid injury; to do everything to\nkeep the animal fit and sound,\nphysically and mentally,\" Evans\nsaid.\n\"These kinds of injuries can\njustbeafluke.afractionofamissed\nstep. When speed is the central\npart, there is always an element of\ndanger,\" she said.\nEvans said there were some\nproblems with a few trainers and\nsome facilities. \"There is always\nroom for improvement everywhere\nto make things safer.\"\nShe said incidents like the one\nthat caused Isvestia's death were\nnot common. \"It's relatively rare,\ngiven the number of horses. It's a\nvery very small number, I think\nless than one per cent.\"\nHad Isvestia's break been a\nclean one, he would be alive today.\nThe break shattered Isvestia's leg.\nEven if the leg had been able\nto mend, Evans said the horse\nwould still have suffered. \"It would\nhave basically been a three-legged\nhorse, then you have to equate in\nquality of life,\" she said.\nMally also pointed to the use\nof \"milkshakes,\" a combination of\nwater, sugar and baking soda\nwhich is force fed by sticking a *\"\"\ntube down the horse's throat. The > _\nconcoction is meant to help the\nhorse's digestion and to give it an\nenergy boost, but Mally said it also\nincreases urination and helps dilute drugs which may have been\nused. -*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n\"[Milkshaking] is on a trial\nbasis and should not be administered to horses until the effects are\nknown,\" she said.\nOther concerns include over-\nbreeding, selling horses for horse\nmeat, and possible abusive train- \u00E2\u0080\u00A2^\u00C2\u00BB.\ning methods, Mally and Hamilton |\nboth said. But they also said infor- '**\"\nmation on these concerns was very\ndifficult.\n\"I haven't come across any\nproblems of training methods,\"\nMally said. \"I know there are _.\nproblems in the US, but you have ^\nto know a lot about horses and *\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*-\nhorse racing to investigate that.\"\nCanada's importance\ndecreasing in Europe\nbv Tanva Paz\nLast week Canada's ambassador to Germany, William Thomas\nDel worth, spoke at UBC about\nCanada's position in \"The New\nEurope\". He said the recent\nchanges in the world are profound,\nparticularly considering the number of foreign policy institutions\nestablished since World War II,\nsuch as NATO.\n\"NATO must continue in existence,\" Delworth said, \"The Europe of smaller national units is in\nmany ways less stable than the\nEurope ofthe post-war period.\"\nNationalism in Eastern Europe is increasing, while in the\nWest, nationalism is no longer\nfashionable, Delworth said, \"particularly in a large country like\nGermany\".\n\"It is totally unrealistic to say\nthat there is no threat left. We\n[Canada] cannot live in an unstable\nworld. The Americans can, they're\na big power; we cannot,\" said\nDelworth. \"Canada cannot always\nbe sure that our interests can be\ntaken into account.\"\nThe European perception of\nCanada is changing with Europe.\n\"I think that the vision in Europe\nof Canada todayisprobably smaller\nthan 40 years ago. The role of\nCanada...has become significantly\nless, yet what is at stake with us is\nsignificantly greater,\" said\nDelworth.\nUBC's Canadian foreign policy\nexpert, Professor Donald Munton,\nagreed. \"I think that some have\ntended to exaggerate the role [of\nCanadain the past]. It has [always]\nbeen relatively small.\"\nDelworth said he felt that\nCanada has become less internationalist and more internally concerned. He said the Canadian view\nof internationalism is declining\nbecause increasing amounts of\npower are being delegated to the\nprovinces.\nMunton disagrees, \"Under the\nMulroney government we are preoccupied with the US; Canada took\nthe easy route internationally.\"\nOn the topic of the European\nEconomic Community, Delworth\nand Munton basically agree. \"The\nEEC is here to stay as a factor that\nwill become increasingly important\nto Canada over the next decade,\"\nDelworth said. \"The likelihood that\nCanada could improve its role in\nEurope is less,\" said Munton.\nWhen asked about media\nskepticism of the rising Naziism,\nanti-\"Semitism\", and xenophobia\nin Germany, Delworth said that it\n\"distorts the political process and\ncreates the image abroad that\nGermany is up to its old tricks\nagain\u00E2\u0080\u0094an image that hurts them.\"\nHe did not mention the daily and\nrecent Nazi Youth attacks on Jews.\nMusic that made your bow tie spin by the UBC symphony orchestra\nduring their noon hour concert series.\nPAUL GORDON PHOTO\nAIDS: Winnipeg home-care\ngroup gets federal funding\nWINNIPEG(CUP)\u00E2\u0080\u0094A one-of-a-\nkind AIDS home-care group has\nbeen granted $140,000 by the federal department of health and\nwelfare in an unprecedented show\nof support.\nThe volunteer group Kali-\nShiva\u00E2\u0080\u0094named for the Hindu gods\nof life and death\u00E2\u0080\u0094will use the\nmoney to make a video and document its work since it started in\n1986.\nBudget coordinator Jessica\nWood said the group started when\nthe family of a man with AIDS\ncalled on its family and friends to\nhelp care for him until he died.\n\"After that, the family decided\nthere was a need for this kind of\nservice in Winnipeg, and that is\nhow Kali-Shiva was initiated,\" she\nsaid.\nWood said the group's main\nobjective is to help those living\nwith AIDS to live at home. Volunteers work in shifts preparing\nmeals, helping with housework or\npersonal care. They also cover for\nfamily members who need a break.\nThe group of 60 volunteers\nwork anywhere from two to 20\nhours each week, depending on\nthe amount of care an individual\nneeds. They are currently tending\nto 12 people, she said.\nThe volunteers are trained in\nthe aspects of care for a person\nwith AIDS, she said. Butthey aren't\njust caretakers\u00E2\u0080\u0094they often become\nthe family of someone who has\nbeen abandoned, she added.\n\"Many a time the inflicted\nperson will be gay, and families\nand friends may not be able to cope\nwith that, and will not respond\nwell when that person becomes\nsick,\" Wood said.\nKali-Shiva founding member\nMatthew Lawrence said it is important to allow people to die in a\ncomfortable setting.\n\"The group helps patients\nmaintain their dignity and have\nmore control in their lives than if\nthey were in a sanitized, less personal environment in a hospital\nwhich may make them sicker,\" he\nsaid.\nAlthough the group is being\nfunded by the federal government,\nhe said he hopes it will retain its\ngrassroots, volunteer nature.\nKali-Shiva relies on doctors,\nchurches, public service announcements and word of mouth\nto recruit new members, as well as\nto get the message out to people\nwho may want the service,\nLawrence said.\nWood said these recruits are\ntrained on an on-going basis.\n\"We have a newsletter that\nkeeps them up to date on what is\nhappening in the HIV community.\nWe try and communicate well so\nthat the families will get the most\nout of the group.\"\n4/THE UBYSSEY\nNovember 1,1991 SPORTS\n1\nClan overruns UBC\nBasketbirds\nby Don Pyzant\nSFU Peak\nThe UBC Thunderbirds came\naway empty handed against cross-\ntown rivals Simon Fraser University Clansmen in the 1991 version\nofthe Buchanan basketball classic\nin Burnaby on Wednesday.\nUBC's women were clearly\noutplayed by a very strong SFU\nsquad led by seniors Andrea\nSchnider and Michelle Hendry\ngoing down 82-47.\nAlthough guards Lisa Nickie\nand Roj Johal were standouts for\nthe Thunderbirds, UBC could not\nmatch the Clan bench. With the\nloss UBC is now 0-3 against the\nClan in their annual tilt for the\nBarbara Rae trophy.\nIn the men's game, SFU's tenacious defence gave them a 43-33\nlead at half time. UBC never led\nbut came to within eight points\nmidway through the second half\nbefore SFU pulled away to an 88-\n73 victory.\nJason Leslie figured heavily\nin the Thunderbird offence, scoring\n28 points, while Clan forward Andrew Steinfeld and guard David\nMunro combined for 36 SFU points.\nThe Thunderbirds were without high-scoring forward J.D.\nJackson who is out with an ankle\ninjury suffered during the weekend.\nUBCisnow 7-10-1 against the\nClan in Buchanan Cup play.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The women's team is hosting the\nWest Coast Classic tournament\nthis weekend at War Memorial\nGym.\nThe tournament will include\nthe University of Victoria Vikings,\nthe University of Winnipeg\nWesmen and the McMaster University Marauders.\nUBC will play McMaster on\nSaturday at 5:30 pm and Winnipeg\non Sunday at 4 pm.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 And both the football and men's\nsoccer team will play some pivotal\ncontests this weekend.\nThe men's soccer team hosts\nthe University of Alberta Golden\nBears in a contest to decide first\nplace in Canada West play today\nat OJ Todd Field starting at 3 pm.\nAnd the football team faces\nthe University of Saskatchewan\nHuskies on Saturday at\nThunderbird Stadium starting at\nlpm.\nThe Thunderbirds will have\nto beat the Huskies and the University of Manitoba Bisons will\nhave to beat the University of\nCalgary Dinosaurs to get a berth\nin the playoffs.\nCanada West Scoreboard\nMen's Basketball vs. York University - Thurs.,\nWomens Soccer\nOct. 31 8:30 pm at War Memorial Gym & vs. Seattle\nW\nT,\nT\nF A Pts\nChristian AthleteB - Mon., Nov. 4 8:30pm at War\nCalgary\n3\n0\n3\n9 4 9\nMemorial Gym\nAlberta\n3\n1\n1\n11 4 7\nWomen's Basketball West Coast Classic Tourna\nLethbridge\n1\n1\n&\n10 10 7\nment Fri., Nov. 1 7:30pm McMastervs. Winnipeg;\nBritish Columbia\n0\n2\n4\n7 12 4\nSat, Nov. 2 5:30pm UBC vs. McMaBter 7:30pm\nSaskatchewan\n0\n3\n3\n4 11 3\nUVic vs. Winnipeg; Sun., Nov, 3 4pm UBC vs.\nWinnipeg & 6pm UVic vs. McMaster. All games at\nMens Soccer\nWar Memorial Gym\nW\nL\nT\nF A Pts\nMen's Field Hockey vs. India FHC (B side) - Sat.\nBritish Columbia\n6\n0\n2\n31 3 14\nNov. 2 2:30pm at OJ Todd Fields\nAlberta\nVictoria\n5\n4\n0\n2\n1\n1\n18 3 11\n15 7 9\nRugby vs. Cowichan - Sun., Nov. 3 2:30pm at OJ\nTodd Fields\nCalgary\n2\n4\n1\n8 12 5\nSaskatchewan\n1\n4\n?,\n4 20 4\nMen's Soccer vs. U of Alberta - Fri., Nov. 1 3pm\nLethbridge\n0\n8\n1\n1 32 1\nat OJ Todd Fields & vs. U of Saskachewan - Sat,\nNov. 2 2pm at OJ Todd Fields\nFootball\nWomen's Soccer vs. U of Alberta- Fri., Nov. 1 3pm\nw\nT,\nT\nF\nA Pts\nat OJ Todd Fields & vs. U of Saskatchewan - Sat,\nManitoba\n5\n2\n0\n220\n132 10\nNov. 2 2pm at OJ Todd Fields\nCalgary\n4\n3\n0\n177\n156 8\nWomen's Volleyball vs. Sparta Club Team (USSR)\nSaskatchewan\n4\n3\n0\n151\n188 8\n- Wed., Nov. 6 8 pm at Capilano College\nBritish Columbia\n3\n4\n0\n175\n137 6\nAlberta\n2\n6\n0\n106\n216 4\nAway\nWomen's Field Hockey CIAU ChampionBhipB -\nHalifax, N.S. Oct 31 - Nov. 3\nThis Week in Varsity Sports\nBowing Portland Invitational \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Portland Nov. 2\nHome\nSwimming Husky Relays - Seattle, WA Nov. 1\nFootball vs.UofSaskatchewan\n-Sat,Nov.2 lpm Men's Volleyball Bison Invitational - Winnipeg,\nat Thunderbird Stadium\nMb. Oct.31-Nov.2\nHockey vs. U of Brandon\n. FriTSat, Nov. 1-2 Women'* Volleyball Bison Invitational - Win-\n7:30pm at the Winter Centre\nmpeg, Mb. Nov. 1 -2\nSideline festivities provided most of the action during the annual T-cup\nfootball game staged this year on Halloween.\n*mmm_\u00C2\u00BB\nv\n'W \u00E2\u0096\u00A0i?\"\"\"-'\"l - \u00C2\u00ABi*p\nv*f* \u00C2\u00AB* . -i ~i* i\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*>\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 > \".\" / **\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\">\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00AB%- fir\nIL * 't^tr \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 V' * \" O* J - -\n\u00E2\u0080\u009E *. ,-t - ,Ts~ **C*\" VATrfft\n** \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0-'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0''\u00E2\u0096\u00A0''*' T.\u00C2\u00AB:-.-Kj\u00C2\u00BBtfc..^\"\nRock climber Mike Spagnett tries out the new climbing wall found\nbackstage at the SUB auditorium.\nMA CHIA-NIEN PHOTO\nUp, up and away\nClimbing wall opens in SUB theatre\nby Mark Nielsen\nPeanuts, popcorn\nand.,.took climbing?\nIt may sound like a\nstrange combination, but in\nbehind the silver screen at\nthe SUB Auditorium can now\nbe found a 20-foothighindoor\nclimbing wall.\nAnd while it won't be\nopen when movies are being\nshown, the wall gives rock\nclimbing enthusiasts aplace\nto hone their skills throughout the winter while the\nbigger bluffs at Squamish are\ncovered with snow.\nBacked by the Varsity\nOutdoor Club, it took Mike\nSpagnett approximately 100\nhours to complete theproject.\nFirst, he covered the cement\nwall with a resin-sand composite that simulates the\nfriction of natural rock. Then\nhe drilled over 600 holes into\nthe wall into which any of a\nnumber of modular-holds can\nbe bolted.\n\"It required a hell of a lot\nof drilling,\" Spagnett said. \"I\nthink the people downstairs\nwere wondering if we were trying to tunnel into the bank\nvault or something we were\nmaking so much noise,\"\nThe modular-holds allow\nclimbers to lay out routes\nranging from easy to tough in\nterms of difficulty, and the wall\nitself is big enough to hold up\nto five people at one time.\nThe actual idea for a climbing wall on campus is about\nten years old but had been actively pursued for only the last\nfew years according to\nSpagnett. The VOG originally\nwanted to put up a \"traverse\"\nwall along the hallway in behind the arcade\u00E2\u0080\u0094on which\npeople would climb length-wise\nnot up, negating the need for\nropes. But the traffic was found\nto be too heavy.\nThen Micheal Kingsmill,\nthe architect who designed the\nSUB, suggested the backstage\nat the SUB Auditorium, to\nwhich the VOC agreed, and\ngained approval from the\nAMS in the summer.\nDepending on the wall's\npopularity, Spagnett said it\nmay only be the start of\nsomething bigger\u00E2\u0080\u0094it maybe\na stepping stone for a bigger\nwall in the Recreation Facility that the university is\nplanning to build.\n\"I think the wall we have\nnow is sufficient for maybe\npresent needs, but as soon\nas momentum builds up on\ncampus for the interest in\nclimbing walls, it will be\ngrossly inadequate for the\ndemand,\" he said. \"And I\nthink that this wall will show\nthat interest [for a wall in\nJRec Fac] on campus.\"\nThose who want to climb\nthe wall must become members of the VOG first and\nthen pay an additional annual fee to gain access to the\nkeys for the wall. As well, all\nclimbers must show that\nthey are able to belay and\nclimb using a top-rope safely.\nNovember 1,1991\nTHE UBYSSEY/5 The universal slacker\nagainst one-reality life\nby Raul Peschiera\nTHEY'RE everywhere.\nYou sit beside them in\nclassrooms, overhear them in\nclub line-ups or converse with\nthem during lunch. They go to\nuniversity, they hang-out with\ntheir circle of friends and they\nhave no idea what they want.\nThey are your friends, fellow\nstudents and most probably you.\nAnd they are the subject of\nRichard Linklater's debut film\nSlacker.\nPREVIEW\nSlacker\nThe Starlight\nNovember 1-7\nSlacker begins with a man\n(Linklater) at a bus station\nflagging a cab then explaining a\ndream to the driver, who seems\nmore interested in dropping him\noff. He says all our thoughts\ncreate alternate realities that go\non to lead completely separate\nlives but we will never know\nwhat those lives are because\n\"we're kind of trapped in this one\nreality restriction type thing.\"\nThe film loosely works\naround this \"one reality restriction\" by not following one or a set\ngroup of characters.\nFor most ofthe film, the\ncamera is an innocuous viewer\nwalking through Austin, Texas\nfor a day and never lingering too\nlong before moving onto another\nwho may just be passing by.\nSlacker has no \"storyline\"\nnor does it ever return to a\nprevious character, but\nLinklater's motive is not to\npresent one single story. He\npresents a variety and opens up\nthe narrow scope of a single film\nnarrative.\nThrough this technique, he\nshows the prevalent life of\nuniversity students and graduates, struggling to control their\nlives by trying to find purpose\nand meaning through conversation and philosophy. They all feel\ntheir lives are on the verge of\nintellectual enlightenment.\nIt is this struggle that the\nfilm portrays so well. During and\nafter formal education, those\nstudents who have not immersed\nthemselves in the \"real world\" of\nsecure, steady jobs must continue their search for knowledge\nwithout guidance while they just\nkill time.\nAs one character says when\nasked what he does:\n\"You mean work? To hell\nwith the kind of work you have\nto do to earn a living. All that\ndoes is fill the bellies ofthe pigs\nthat exploit us. Hey, look at\nme...rm making it. I may live\nbadly, but at least I don't have to\nwork to do it.\"\nAbove all, this film is about\nthe present and inert youth\ngeneration that tries to retain its\nfreedom while carving out an\noriginal purpose and identity by\nborrowing from the past.\nThough not perfect, Slacker\nis adventurous\u00E2\u0080\u0094innovatively\nshot, combining film and video,\nand offering many memorable,\nhumourous characters. How can\nyou not like a film that can\nincorporate Madonna's pap\nsmear? (\"Gets you a little closer\nto the rock God herself than a\nposter,\" says a character trying\nto sell it.)\nThe ending is superb and\nthough many characters may\nseem lost and out of their minds,\nit remains inspiring.\nSISTERHOOD is a proud\nlink between the different Black women surviving\nand organizing in communities.\nSisters in the Struggle, a\nfilm about the contemporary\nBlack women's movement in\nCanada, highlights some of\nthe Black Canadian women\nwho may claim each other as\nsisters through their political\nwork.\nThe politics of sisterhood\nPREVIEW\nSisters in the Struggle\nRobson Square Cinema\nNovember 5\nCo-directed by Dionne\nBrand, the documentary\nfocuses on Black women in\nthe sexist and racist workplace and contextualizes\nracist events since the 1970s.\nCombining original music by\nFaith Nolan, clips of footage\nand interviews, Sisters in the\nStruggle is a rhythmic collage.\nThe interviews with Black\nCanadian women active in\ngovernment politics, labour\n\mions and feminist organizations show the diverse perspectives and priorities of\nBlack women in the feminist\nmovement. Most ofthe\nwomen filmed are involved\nwith the Toronto Black\ncommunity, though as Brand\n.says, she did not include\nenough Canadian-born Black\nwomen.\nThere are some interesting scenes with seven women\nofthe Toronto Black Women's\nCollective, who talk about\nschoolyard experiences,\npersonal and political influences, and the organizing\nthat must happen across lines\nof race, sexuality, gender and\nclass.\nOne woman ofthe collective, who speaks out about\nbeing a lesbian, exemplifies\nthe complexities of racism\ncompounded by homophobia.\nHer voice as a dyke alludes to\nthe frustration of trying to\nfind her place as a lesbian in\nthe work against racism.\nRosemary Brown (executive director of MATCH\nInternational Centre) speaks\nabout the polite racism ofthe\n1970s and Dionne Falconer, a\nBlack Women's Collective\nmember, makes a poignant\nstatement about working-\nclass Black women. \"When\nthe whole world is asleep,\nBlack women are working,\"\nshe says.\nBrand says Black women\nmust integrate sexism and\nracism within the women's\nmovement or a integral part\nofthe Black movement will\nbe imprisoned by sexism.\n\"Many Black women get\nsidetracked into thinking\n...that for the sake of race, we\nshould compromise ourselves\nas women. But we are the\nrace.\nSisters in the Struggle\nbrings together many sentiments of those affected by\nracism, but 49 minutes is\nnot sufficient time to develop any ofthe issues.\nBrand is a writer and\npoet, who has six books of\npoetry and other works\npublished. She says she\napplies the rhythms and\nsensual images she uses\nin poetry to film as a visual text.\nBrand says she wants\nSisters in the Struggle to\nreach Black women and\nshow them the range of\nperspectives in the Black\nwomen's movement. \"I\nwant them to know they\nare more than Spike Lee's\ndepiction of them, for example, and then some.\"\nThis National Film\nBoard production i-.\nsecond in a Studm D\nseries called Women\nat the Well. (Brand\nwas assistant d i n\ntor of Older Stron\nger Wiser, thefi r-\nin the series >\nBrand will be\npresent at the\nVancouver\npremiere\nscreening of\nSisters in the\nStruggle at\n7:30pm. Free\nadmission.\n.v*.*?jf -V*-.;:.- '-MSB*\nV\n-J- 'V.T\nA lady's scandalous two-whe\u00C2\u00AB(l ofo\nby Sharlene Azam\nSET in England at the turn\nof the century, Bicycle\nLadies is strikingly different\nfrom any other animated film\nI've seen as all the ingredients\nessential to a good story are\npresent.\nFILM\nBicycle Ladies\nOctober 22\nJill Haras magically brings\nher characters to life. The\nfigures are dynamic and graceful. Their one-dimensional, cutout forms are easily transcended\nby their fluidity of movement.\nThe star of Bicycle Ladies,\nMaddy Endicott, combines a\ndelightfully naughty or devilish\ncharm with the effervescence of\na child. Her \"highly unusual\"\ndesire, which puts her in all,\nsorts of embarrassing situations, is to do the unthinkable\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nride a bicycle.\nAlthough Bicycle Ladies is\nfilmed in black and white to\ncapture the oppressive times of\nthe machine age, the mischievous Maddy has brilliant red\ntresses that perfectly match her\nimpish, spritely Puck-like\nnature.\nThe many flower beds in\nthe film, reminiscent of\nSpenser's gardens, are also\nblack and white with the\nexception of a single rose. The\nonly flower touched by colour is\nthe red rose Maddy\"s husband,\nhimself to teaching her how to\nride. Unfortunately, her awkward\nVictorian dress proves disatrous\nfor riding. Determined to make\nhis wife happy, Chester designs a\nside-saddle bicycle that accommodates the profusion of her dress\nat the expense of her balance.\nBicycle Ladies is a consciousness-raising vehicle, which\nappeals to the part of me that\nwants to know more about\nwomen's history and their onging\ncommitment.\nMaddy is the rebellion of one\nwoman against the horrific\nconfinement and oppression of all\nwomen during the 1800s. When\nChester, gives her when he *\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u0094v Maddy finally rides through the\nplayfully tries to seduce her ( jcrowded streets victorious, her\nfrom her scandalous scheme of^Xcumbersome dress, bustle and\nlearning to ride a bicycle. corset fly from her body and the\nChester fearlessly braves look on her face expresses the joy\nsociety's shame and commits of escape.\nThe Women's Club displayed a collection of stills\n(available for sale) from the\nfilm that evening. At first my\neye only saw cut out figures\npasted onto a rather flat\nbackground. However, I drew\ncloser to the pieces and noticed\nintricate detail in each one.\nAnimator Tami Knight reassembled 250 figures that\nwere drawn and cut-out, and\narticulated every moveable\njoint with tiny wire coils. Then\nthe characters were painted\nand arranged on 150 stencilled\nbackgrounds.\nBicycle Ladies was written\nin 1984 for the National Film\nBoard, part of a series on\ntransportation for Expo '86.\nPre-sold to CBC from its\nconception, the film has been\nsession\naired twice.\nIt was a finalist in the\nAmerican Film Festival and is\npresently in competition at the\nLA Animation Toumee, The film\nhas been selected for screenings\nat the Melbourne (Australia)\nChildren's Festival, Chicago\nChildren's Festival, Giffoni\n(Italy) Children's Festival and\nthe Vancouver International\nFilm Festival.\nAfter spending four years\nproducing animated films,\nHaras is changing her focus. The\nexcruciatingly slow process of\nanimation has been replaced by\nher new project\u00E2\u0080\u0094chili en's\nbooks. \"I can tell the story with\none image per page, which is\nvery different from animation.\nIt's more exciting because the\nentire process is faster, the\nresults are faster,\" Haras says.\n>\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*-, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 '>SfM-\n(\n6/THE UBYSSEY\nNovember 1,1991\nNovember 1,1991\nTHE UBYSSEY/7 /Mvlv\nFocus on Leibovitz\nby Sylvia Grttce Borda\nI\n_T is said to photograph is\nmore than to reproduce; it is to transform. One contemporary American\nphotographer who wields the power to\nbecome an agent of image metamorphosis is Annie Leibovitz.\nIconographer Leibovitz is known\nfor her photographs in the Rolling\nStones magazine and, most recently,\nfor her controversial Vanity Fair cover\nof Demi Moore.\nLeibovitz appeared at the\nVancouver Public Library October 23 to\npromote her new book\u00E2\u0080\u0094Annie\nLeibovitz: Photographs, 1970-1990\u00E2\u0080\u0094to\na capacity crowd. The library was\nbrimmed with eager listeners, who\nfilled the main floor, the staircase and\nmezzanine.\nShe said did not expect so many\npeople, but the celebrity photographer\nhas become a celebrity herself.\nThe presentation was a glimpse\ninto the public and personal side of\nLeibovitz. She showed slides of photographs which are in her book\u00E2\u0080\u0094images\nranged from intimate black and white\nfamily portraits to a pompous colour\nphotograph of Ivana and Donald\nTrump.\nDespite a powerful range of work,\nthe essence of her art has not altered\nover the years. Perhaps this is the\ntrademark of a woman who\nnot only understands\npopular culture, but\nthe medium that\nrepresents it.\n\"I no longer\nbelieve that there\nis such a thing as\nobjectivity. Everyone\nhas a point of view.\nSome call it style, but what\nwe're really talking about is the\nguts of a photograph,\"she writes.\n- sM\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 x\\y^x-\n***\nRose garden\ntoo perfect\nby Bill Denham\nHOLLYWOOD films draw\ncharacters that are too\nperfect. They aren't people living\nin a world to which we can\nrelate. Though Rambling Rose\ncan be recommended, this\nHollywood-itis renders it medio\nFILM\nRambling Rose\nnow playing\nThe story revolves around\nthe misadventures of a young\nwoman named Rose, who is hired\nby a loving, straight-laced\nSouthern family.\nShe causes lots of trouble for\nDaddy and Mommy (played by\nRobert Duvall and Kane Ladd).\nAnd one ofthe kids she takes\ncare of, Buddy (Lukas Haas),\nfalls in love with her.\nLaura Dern as Rose gives a\nperformance with few highlights,\nwhich is disappointing as the\ncharacter she portrays might\nhave been three-dimensional\nwith a little imagination. The\nperformance of Haas as Buddy is\nthe only one really worth\nmention.\nRobert Duvalrds a wonderful\nactor, and does the best he can\nwith this role. Unfortunately,\nthere is not a lot of rang*. His\ncharacter is about 98 percent\nperfect, and the remaining two\nper cent is corrected by Momi\nwho is entirely pure.\nThe film is entertaining,\nwith some genuinely funny\nmoments, but I wouldn't go so fai\nas to call it a \"comic masterpiece\"\nas one reviewer supposedly did.\nThe cinematography is\nmuted, fuzzy and sentimental\u00E2\u0080\u0094\ndoes this kind of light really exist\nin the American South? Rambling Rose has a feminist\nmessage, but it's about as fuzzy\nas the light and is conveyed in a\nsledgehammer-style. Daddy and\nthe evil male doctor conspire\n(with horrible glints in their eyes\nand drool dripping from their\nfangs) to deprive Rose of her\n\"womanhood\", until GOD in the\nform of Mommy tells them it will\nhappen \"over her dead body.\"\nDaddy then admits, \"Ah wuz\nrawng, sweedhod, ah wuz\nrawng.\"\nIf you're in a schmaltzy,\nsentimental mood, this is the\nfilm for you.\nWomen dream of\nstars and light\nby Yo8sarian King\nSTEELY-EYED, granite-\njawed heroes with phasers\non stun, boldly piloting giant\nphalluses of glistening steel and\nchrome toplgcejs^o man h;\ngorjeJseforeTDog-eared second\nriand paperbacks with gaudy,\nunlikely covers, devoured\nvoraciously by pimply adolescent\nyouths with home computers,\ncoke-bottle glasses, and limited\nsocial skills.\nThese are the common\nmisconceptions of science fiction.\n ii i'l i\nWRITER'S FESTIVAL\nScience Fiction through\nWomen's Eyes\nArts Club\nOctober 25\t\nAs author and White Rock\nresident Leona Gom points out,\nmuch of science fiction \"combines\ntechnology with a macho attitude.\" But there is far more to\nthe genre than male-oriented\nstereotypes, as a packed house of\nseveral hundred people learned\nat the Arts Club last Friday.\nThe early days of science\nfiction were dominated by tales\nof rockets, weapons, and explosions, but the '60s saw an influx\nof female writers, like Ursula Le\nGuin, who introduced the social\nsciences to science fiction. This\nnew emphasis on people and\nrelationships greatly broadened\nthe scope ofthe genre, increasing\nits potential and appeal.\n\"Science fiction allows you\nto propose social or personal\nalternatives and options,\" said\nLe Guin, two-time winner ofthe\nHugo and Nebula awards.\nAn obvious topic to explore is\nthe tangled morass of male-\nfemale relationships, andLe\nGuin, Spears, and Gom have all\ndone so.\nThe Left Hand of Darkness,\npublished in 1969, is perhaps Le\nGuin's best-known work. It tells\nof Gethen, a planet of people who\nare neither male nor female, but\n.sexual potentials who may\ntineither direction for the \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\ndurationof-a^natingcycle. \"One\nis respected adjudged only as a\nhuman being. You cl&mot cast a\nGethenian in the role ofMan or\nWoman...Itis an appalling^\nexperience for a Terran [Earlb\nlingl.\"\nMoonfall, Spears first\nattempt at science fiction, is\nabout a \"normal\" person in an\nabnormal society of body-\nsharing, mental twins. In the\nfolklore of this society, there was\nonce a town in which only\nwomen were born, until there\nwere no more males and so no\nmore children. Men finally\narrived at the town, but the last\nsurviving women died laughing\nat the men's hairy features and\n\"burnt voices,\"\nIn Gom's Y Chromosome,\nalso her first work of science\nfiction, no males are being born,\nwhile women keep reproducing\nthrough a process of \"ovofusion\".\nThe Men's Defence League\nclaims it is a feminist conspiracy,\nand incites the surviving men to\nstrike back, attacking and\nburning women's centres (not to\nmention other centres of culture\nthat remind them ofthe past,\nsuch as libraries, museums and\ngalleries) until the TV news is\nfilled with \"a sea of men shouting\ntheir impotent rage at the skies.\"\n\"Science fiction takes you to\na strange place where the light is\ndifferent,\" Le Guin said.\nThe forum showed that\nfemale science fiction authors are\nusing this strange light for\nthought-provoking illumination\nof the very real struggles of our/\nsociety.\nVoiced\nbyLu\nS:\ners in exile\nfey Lucho van Isschot\no\no\n8/THE UBYSSEY\n. EVERAL Latin American\nauthors presented a broad\nrange of genres and styles last\nFriday at the Vancouver International Writers Festival Literary\nCabaret.\nThe evening began with a\ngroup of poetry readings by\nCarmen Rodriguez, a Chilean-\nborn author now based in\nVancouver.\nWRITERS FESTIVAL\nBreaking Through the\nBarriers\nOctober 25\nHer latest work, entitled\nGuerra Prolongada (Protracted\nWar) explores the lives of Latin\nAmericans living in exile (like\nRodriguez herself).\nMany Latin Americans have\nbeen forced to leave their\nhomelands for political reasons\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nfor self-preservation. As such,\nthey live in a state of limbo,\nconstantly monitoring the events\nunfolding in their homelands,\nconstantly wondering when they\nmight be allowed to return.\nRodriguez spoke about a\nprotracted war, a personal and\npolitical revolution, and the\ntensions which tear at the exiled.\nWhile Rodriguez also\ncovered a broad range of issues,\nher words were most powerful\nwhen they spoke of her own\nexperience.\nThe poems of Nelson\nRodriguez (Carmen's younger\nbrother) pursued a similar vein.\nNelson's most moving piece\nfocussed upon his experience as\nan exiled Chilean writer. He\nvividly fleshed out many ofthe\nissues brought up by his sister.\nNelson acknowledged it may\nbe safe for him to return to Chile\nnow, but he can no longer afford\nto do so. He has built a life for\nhimself in Vancouver\u00E2\u0080\u0094a family,\na job, friends and colleagues\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwhich he cannot leave.\nBut what of dying in exile\nand never resolving the tensions\nwithin his conscience that forced\nhim to leave Chile? These were\nsoihe ofthe most important\nquestions brought up during the\nprogramme.\nSalvador Ferreras, a local,\nPuerto-Rican born musician, was\nthe cabaret's master of ceremonies. Ferreras and his band\nplayed their own interpretations\nof traditional folk and modern\nLatin American songs in-\nbetween (and during) readings.\nThe music began in quiet\ntones but, as the evening\nprogressed, it became more\ndistracting. One Argentinean\nessayist who, by her own\nadmission, had difficulty communicating in English, was almost\ndrowned out.\nA Chilean poet Carmen\nBerenguer's words competed\nwith bongo, flute and saxophone\nsolos, however her poems were\ninnovative in style and progressive in content.\nAt times the literary cabaret\nwas genuinely thought-provoking. An unfortunate lack of\nforethought was evident in the\noverall presentation.\nNovember 1,1991 Crime does not\npay\nRegarding the implication you\nmade in your letter \"Pay Up\"\n(Ubyssey, October 16, 1991): Tm\nintrigued. You state that the richest 10 per cent of Canadians own\n50 per cent of Canada's private\nwealth, and that this wealth is\nmore than enough to\npay off the National Debt. Are you\ntrying toimply that we should force\nthese people to pay off the Debt?\nThat we should perhaps \"nationalize\" their wealth? \"Nationalization\" or \"expropriation\" or any of a\nmultitude of similar words is simply another way of saying theft.\nTheft is the application of force by\none person onto another in order to\nmake that person give up the\nproducts of their labour without\njust compensation. Is this what\nyou are implying we should do?\nThat we should steal to pay our\ndebts?\nEven stipulating that this could\nbe done, confiscating these private\nassets will not address the long-\nterm problem of our National Debt.\nThe Debt did not \"just happen'. It\ngrew over a period of years as a\nresult of the application of the\n\"something for nothing\" fallacy\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwe can't have what we want but we\ndon't have to pay for it. What would\noccur in another ten years once the\nDebt had ballooned again? Who\nwould you sacrifice then? (And\ndon't answer the rich\u00E2\u0080\u0094you may be\nable to skin them once, but not\ntwice. Afterrobbing them once, Fm\nsure they would not stick around\nto be robbed again.)\nSince theft cannot solve the\nproblem of our National Debt, what\ncan? The answer is relatively\nsimple. The Government of\nCanada itself owns a huge amount\nof property. Not just land and corporations, but liquid and non-liquid\nassets such as foreign currency,\ngold, buildings, vehicles, andsoon.\nExcluding the property used in\nadvancing the valid purposes of\ngovernment (that is, protecting its\ncitizens from force, either from foreign or domestic sources), this\nproperty could be sold off to pay\nthe Debt. The total value of this\nproperty should easily exceed the\ntotal Debt.\nAs to the long-term solution of\nthe Debt. The only solution is to\nadmit that you must pay for what\nyou get, ala TANSTAAFL (There\nAin't No Such Thing As A Free\nLunch). The Government must be\nprohibited from forcing its citi zens\nto support projects that do not benefit them. Almost every program\nsupported by the Government began as a way to buy votes; of and by\nthemselves, they do nothing but\ndestroy what they espouse to preserve. These pork-barrelling programs have contributed greatly to\nthe size ofthe Debt; they must go.\nThe only justifiable function of\ngovernment is to protect its citizens from the use of force, be it\nactual or threatened, domestic or\nforeign. Any other \"benefits\" that a\ngovernment provides are actually\nimmoral intrusions in the lives of\nits citizens. These intrusions eventually lead to the problems we are\nfacing today and, taken to their\nextreme, the agonies that the\nCommunist Bloc countries are\ncurrently going through. By for-\nbiddingthe Govemmentto support\nsuch stupidities, it would never\nagain be able to accumulate such a\nmassive Debt.\nIn short, the idea you imply is\nindeed mind-boggling, as you say.\nIt is mind-boggling stupid. By implying that stealing is a justifiable\nway of paying our Debt and that\nthere is nothing wrong in the fact\nthat the Debt was accumulated in\nthe first place, you are counselling\na continuation ofthe problem and,\nultimately, our own destruction. By\nfailing to mention that the Government has the means to pay the\nDebt without resorting to theft,\nyou are being deliberately misleading.\nGary Probek\nComputer Science\nKeynes rules!!\nPoor Martin Chester. In a pathetic attempt to shore up his\ncrumbling pro-Debt/anti-reality\nposition on the federal economic\ncrisis, he has written yet another\nletter to this esteemed publication, arguing that I need to \"get\nsome humanity.\" My balanced-\nbudget/responsible-fiscal-management proposals, he cries, ignore\nthe REAL problem in Canada today\u00E2\u0080\u0094societal inequalities. Martin,\nI am delighted to have the opportunity to respond to your comments, obtuse though they might\nbe.\n1) How do I think farmers/\nVancouver parents would react to\nmy arguments? I have no doubt\nthat many people would consider\nmy insistence that one should not\nspend more than one has as being\nnothing short of draconian. However, practical necessities and the\ndictates of economic reality are not\nswayed by the demands of special-\ninterest groups, however appealing or justified those demands\nmight appear. The individuals you\nmentioned would no doubt appreciate further government handouts, but (and this may come as a\nshock to your ignore-the-problem\nOstrich tactics, Martin) the money\nJust Isn't There.\n2) Do I think it's fair for PSAC to\nbe held to a zero percent wage\nincrease in the face of inflation and\nrising interest rates? I have two\nresponses, Mr. Chester. First, what\ndo you think has fueled the rise in\ninterest rates? Let me give you a\nhint: the debt and the deficit. Clear\nenough for you? And second, do\nYOU think it's fair for a\ngovernment to spend money its\ncitizens haven't even earned yet\n(ie. the D words again, Mart),\nthereby collapsing our economy?\n3) Why don't we just tax corporations to pay the debt? Here we have\nan easy (if illogical) rallying cry for\nthe perpetually misinformed, one\nwhich appears to solve the problem\nwithout straining the higher faculties at all\u00E2\u0080\u0094sort of a John\nLipscomb School of Finance approach. Allow me to disabuse you\nof this notion, Martin. If you tax\ncorporations to pay for the overspending of government, the effects will be clearly and immediately disastrous. The companies\nwill leave the country (witness\nNDP Ontario, Mr. Non-Myopic),\ntaking with them jobs, investment,\nand tax revenue. The first two,\npresumably, mean little to you,\nMr. Chester, but I would have\nthought that you'd fight to the\ndeath to keep your hold on the last\nofthe three.\nMr. Chester stated that he\nwould \"simplify [his] argument and\ntry to get down to real situations.\"\nWhatever his failure in that regard, he has clearly made one thing\nhighly evident\u00E2\u0080\u0094he is less concerned with reality than he is with\nhis own absurd notions of wealth\nredistribution and societal restructuring. Take abreakfrom Das\nKapital for a second, Martin, and\ntry to understand this: without a\nstrong economy, without an atmosphere conducive to business and\nhence to jobs, there will be no\nwealth at all for you to hand out.\nAnd without that wealth, your\nplans for a Marxist utopia are not\nonly insane, they are impossible.\nJason Ford\nScience 3\n t&ttefS '.:.\nScreaming\nimperfections\nThe incredibly skewed Perspective of October 22, with its\nfiery talk about r aci st white rati sts\nexploiting everyone else in a racist\nsystem, positively screamed out\nfor a reply. Here's mine and I hope\nthat there will be others.\nThe passions of the author\nappear to have been inflamed by a\nvery thoughtful letter by Mr. Chan\nwho expressed his view that it's\noften wise to look at yourself before\nhurling the label of \"racist\" at a\nperson who you feel has offended\nyou in some way. It's a nasty thing\nto say about someone, so you'd\nbetter be very, very sure that what\nthey said or did was based on your\nethnic background. It all sounds\nlogical enough and hardly implies\nthat native Indians, for example,\nwere responsible for the atrocities\ncommitted against them. Yet, this\nis exactly the message the authors\nchose to read and then denounce in\ntheir vitriolic letter. They then\nwent on to blast Mr. Chan's suggestion that Canada was a relatively tolerant place with several\nadmittedly valid examples of racism in this country. Well, so what?\nRacism is everywhere; you won't\nfind a country free of it, but you'll\nfind a great many with a much\nmore severe case of this affliction\nthan Canada.\nApart from the usual garbage\nabout the exploitation of the proletariat by the evil capitalist pig-\ndogs (showing alarmingly fewhard\nfacts, I thought, for an essay co-\nwritten by a graduate), the letter\ncontained a disturbing streak of\nhatred, as opposed to anger, which\nmade me wonder exactly how the\nauthors intended to deal with the\nproblem of racism. What sort of\nconstructive solution could this\nattitude possibly lead to?\nFinally, I would like to take a\nswipe at the increasing number of\npeople who are criticizing The\nUbyssey for publishing \"racist\"\nletters. While I have read truck-\nloads of abuse in this esteemed\nperiodical directed against white\nheterosexual males, I don't recall\nany article or letter in which a\nvisible minority was (and rightly\nso). However, the few who have\nsuggested merely that white heterosexual males might not have\nexclusive rights to all known character defects have been figuratively\nburned at the stake. Such an attitude is a form of discrimination in\nitself as it denies other groups the\nright to be imperfect; aren't we all\nentitled to that?\nJan Palaty\nLipscomb school\nof finance\nThe rich are responsible for\nCanada's debt because the rich\nessentially control government (see\nmy letter Jan. 8, 1991, p.15).\nFederal governing parties are\nmainly controlled by their corporate and private donors. Our tax\ndollars are spent to ensure that\nthe rich stay rich. This may seem\ncounter-intuitive in that most\nmoney goes toward social programs, however, these social programs are there to placate and\nprevent Canadians from electing\nparties tliat will actually equalize\npower. Face it, wealth is concentrated among privileged, white\nmen. This is grossly unfair and\nwould not be the case if we had\ndemocratic government. Government by and for the rich should be\npaid for by the rich.\nRewriting Keith Lockitch, Oct.\n16, p.15: What we really need is to\nradically reduce luxury consumption by taxing it to the hilt. This is\nonly one ofthe many ways we can\ntruly achieve prosperity FOR ALL.\nJohn Lipscomb\nMBA\nPublic Information Session\nMeeting about the Expo\nSite soil dumping.\nTuesday, November 5th\n7pm-9pm\nat\nScience World\n1455 Quebec St.\n(next to the Main Street\nSky Train station)\nSpeakers include Duane\nBrothers, Head of Permit\nIssuing Office for Environment Canada\nDavid Gillis, Head of\nOcean Dumping Control\nFederal Programmes\nand others.\nLesbians and Gender\nBias Committee\nMeeting: Nov. 7, 7:30pm\n876 Commercial\nRegarding submissions to\nthe Law Society's Gender\nBias Committee\nFor more info, call Barbara\nFindlay\nat 251-4356\nMake Canada\nYour Business\nA management career with the federal\nPublic Service is your chance to move\nforward in the country's most diverse\nprofessional environment.\nInvitation to\nMaster's\nStudents\nThe Government of Canada will\nsoon be recruiting 1992 master's\ngraduates for its Management\nTrainee Program, and is looking\nfor talented people who are keenly\ninterested in becoming managers\nwith the Public Service of Canada.\nTo find out more on how you can\nmake Canada your business, join us\nfor an information session followed by\na reception in the\nHenry Angus Building\nRoom 109\nThursday, November 7,1991\n1:00 p.m.\nAs an employer, the Government of Canada offers\nall qualified persons an equal opportunity to\ncompete for available positions in the Public\nService of Canada.\nVous pouvez obtenir ces renseignements en\nfranqais.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0+l\nGovernment\nof Canada\nGouvernement\ndu Canada\nCanadS\nNovember 1,1991\nTHE UBYSSEY/9 MGe^TOOOQ'^^fi'ft'S'ftoO'SC\nThis is an apology\nOn Tuesday, October 29, The\nUbyssey ran an ad for the Roxy which\nfeatured a blood-spattered Marilyn\nMonroe look-alike smiling in careless\nglee at getting into the club.\nWe have no excuse for running the\nad, which many people found to be\noffensive.\nAt best, the image plumbs the\ndepths of bad taste; at worst it is a\ndisquieting indication ofthe extent of\nsexual exploitation and casual violence in advertising. This becomes\nparticularly worrying when we remember that advertising aims to appeal to its market, and thus reflects\nthe values of society.\nThe Ubyssey will send a letter to\nthe advertiser stating that such sexist, derogatory ads, and ads that feature such violent images, will not be\naccepted for publication. The combination of sexism and violence in the\nRoxy ad is doubly disturbing.\nThese images desensitize the\nreading public to the horror of violence against women, and reinforce\nthe stereotype of woman as victim.\nThe level of desensitization that\noccurs is evident in The Ubyssey's\nown negligence. That a newspaper\nwhich tries to fight sexism could overlook the implications of printing the\nRoxy ad is an indication of the pervasiveness of the problem of sexism\nin advertising.\nIt was a mistake to dismiss the\nimage of a battered woman in a low-\ncut dress as Hallowe'en gore and we\napologize to all of our readers.\nthe Ubyssey\nNovember 1,1991\nThe Ubyssey is published Tuesdays and Fridays by the\nAlma Mater Society ofthe University of British Columbia.\nEditorial opinions are those ofthe staff and not necessarily those of the university administration, or of the\nsponsor. The editorial office is Rm. 241Kof the Student\nUnion Building. Editorial Department, phone 822-2301;\nadvertising, 822-3977; FAX# 822-9279\nThe Ubyssey is a founding member of\nCanadian University Press\nAs the clock struck midnight, Sharon Lindores looked\ninto her crystal hall and spied Paul (Ted) Dayson impersonating the anti-Paul. With her third eye, she saw Effie Pow\nmaking up lame excuses for her lack of proper attire. Yggy\nKing carved satanic jack-o-lanterns which Yukie Kurahashi\nlit with Rick Hiebert's trick matches. While Cheryl Niamath\nbuzzed from flower to flower, Steve ChanandDonMahbattle\nto the death with Raul Peschiera's plastic sword and Elai3ne\nGriffith tried on his plastic eye patch to see if she could see\nbetter with it. Carla Maftechuk wore black an enjoyed her\ncigarette. Sam Green dressed up like an elf and Tanya Paz\ngave candy to Paula Wellingspock and Bill Denham who\ncametrick-or-treatingwithMartinChesterandMarkNielsen.\nLucho von Isschot flew offthe balcony on Victor Chew Wong's\nlast broomstick and Paul Gordon lit firecrackers in the AMS\ncouncil chambers. Lisa Tench carried the knowledge of all\nthe muscle groups while Greg Davis ranted and raved about\nthe nature of evil and order in chaos. Hao Li could kick above\nhis head; finally, his hair was finally combed. Pia L'Obry was\nmystified until Ellen Pond turned her into a frog. Sylvia\nGrace Borda woke up with a fright in the morning and\nSharlene told her it was all a very bad dream. A nightmare\nactually.\nEditor*\nPaul Dayson \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Sharon Undoraa \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Carta Maftechuk\nRaul PtMchlara \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Efflo Pow\nPhoto editor \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Paul Gordon \t\n-w\nyoo\n\u00C2\u00A9 BMci cASsefcoies re* Fvwer weAtS?\n light Fitse cEAocees it> v^^e op &eq*ie eisejN\nE0S BeCAOSeTHeYSHOOU>NTBeAOCV\u00C2\u00ABT>TDSLgEP\nWHCN YoQ HAVE TC> STUT>Y! frrte. ^J-fgig^\n>-\nLetters\nTruth and\nhumour\nSeriousness is on the\nrampage. Some (Steven\nCavers and Eric Hudson)\nhave gravely faulted Colin\nMills' \"point-by-point\ncriticism\" of Bill Denham's\nmock review of the\nGideons' New Testament\n(enough name-dropping\nyet?) for being too serious.\nPerhaps they are right.\nBut it seems to me that\nColin Mills had a good\npoint (especially as it\nturned out to be so similar\nto mine!)\nHumour is a wonderful, spirit-lifting human\nactivity\u00E2\u0080\u0094an evaluation\nwith which the Bible quite\nagrees: \"A merry heart\ndoeth good like a medicine\" (Proverbs 17:22). But\neven humour has its serious side. Aside from being\na source of fun and entertainment, humour is also\na powerful rhetorical tool\nfor getting others to agree\nwith our own point of view.\nAnd its power derives from\nits very pleasurability (if\nthere is such a word): we\nnaturally want to accept\nthose things that bring us\npleasure.\nAs with any tool, the\nuse of humour should be\ncarefully controlled.\nLaughing at other people's\nhelplessness and hurt as\none goes around slaughtering them is as unacceptable and counterproductive as ridiculing the\nidea that the earth is\nround. Humour, just like\nall modes of human action\nand communication, must\nbe limited by the dual constraints of morality and\ntruth. For it is from these\ntwo realities that humour\ndraws most of its strength\nand effectiveness. It is\nbecause Charlie Brown so\naccurately characterizes\nour selves and our society,\nfor example, that we find\nhis frequently painful\npredicaments so humorous.\nThus, I applaud bill\nDenham's attempt to\nlighten up the so-often\nsombre pages of the\nUbyssey. (I won't append\nany more adjectives for\nfear of offending its judicious editors who are so\nrepresentative of the\nopinions of our so apa-\nThe Ubyssey welcomes letters on any Issue. Letters must be typed and are not to exceed 300 words In length. Content\nwhich Is Judged to be libelous, homophobic, sexist, racist or factually Incorrect will not be published. Please be concise.\nLetters may be edited tor brevity, but It Is standard Ubyssey policy not to edit letters for spelling or grammatical mistakes.\nPlease bring them, with Wentmcatlon, to SUB 241K. Letters must Include name, faculty, and signature.\nthetic student body.) But I\nalso applaud Colin Mills'\nattempt (and, in an underhanded sort of way, my own)\nto more accurately portray\nthe truth ofthe matter: that\nBill Denham's mock review\nof the New Testament,\nthough funny, is also wildly\ninaccurate in places. Lefs\nhave more truth AND more\nhumour in the pages of our\nstudent newspapers and,\nmore importantly, in the\nleaves of our student lives.\nEd Hewlett\nEducation 1\nMoron wreaks\nhavoc\nI wish to thank the moron\nwho dented the side of my\ncar with his/her door in B-lot\nlast week. Anyone with even\nthe slightest trace of consideration knows not to fling\nopen one's car door in a\nparking lot. you must have\nwhacked it fairly hard to\ncreate the size dent that you\ndid.\nIt might be interesting to\nstudy if the amount of\ndamage one does to another's\ncar is inversely proportional\nto brain size. But I am not\none to hold a grudge. Ill just\nsay my piece and quietly\nwish you engine failure on\nthe freeway.\nLaura Foster\nScience 3\nBig talk from\nanti-Choicer\nThe article on the front\npage ofthe Oct. 22 issue of\nthe Ubyssey raises some\nimportant issues. I will start\nout by stating that I believe\nthat abortion is wrong. My\nopposition is due to the belief that human life is created\nby God and sacred and that\nthere is right and wrong. I\nalso believe that the fetus is\na human being.\nOne issue that is raised\ncomes from the fact that the\npro-choice movementmakes\na claim to a right to abortion.\nHowever, I have never heard\nany of them mention where\nthis right comes from,\nwhether the fetus is human,\nand if it isn't, why it isn't,\nand why it is wrong for one\nto oppose abortion.\nThe problem that I find\nwith the abortion debate is\nthat the fundamental reasons are not discussed. What\nnever comes out is the basic\nreasoning behind the pro-\nchoice view. I fail to see how\na person can believe that one\ncan claim a right to abortion\nand not allow others to claim\na right to oppose such actions.\nI also fail to understand\nwhat reasoning there is that\nsays that there is nothing\nwrong with abortion and allows advocates to ignore opposing views by making\ncomments that do not respond to the issues raised,\nsuch as those listed above.\nThis disregard for opposing\nvie ws is demonstrated in the\narticle by Frances Foran on\nOct. 22 where she simply\nreiterates the statements of\nvarious pro-choice supporters.\nI would say that the pro-\nchoice had better come up\nwith some kind of reasoning\nfor their view and make it\nclear to others, instead of\nsimply making their view\nlook right by degrading opposing views.\nDavid Voth\nEngineering\nMore like the\npolka\nThe rich are responsible\nfor Canada's debt because\nthe rich essentially control\ngovernment (see my letter\nJan. 8,1991, p.15). Federal\ngoverning parties are mainly\ncontrolledby their corporate\nand private donors. Our tax\ndollars are spent to ensure\nthat the rich stay rich. This\nmay seem counter-intuitive\nin that most money goes toward social programmes.\nHowever, these social\nprogrammes are there to\nplacate and prevent Canadians from electing parties\nthat will actually equalize\npower. Face it, wealth is\nconcentrated among privileged, white men. This is\ngrossly unfair and would not\nbe the case if we had democratic government. Government by and for the rich\nshouldbe paidfor by the rich.\nRewriting Keith Lock-\nitch, Oct. 16, p.15: What we\nreally need is to radically\nreduce luxury consumption\nby taxing it to the hilt. This\nis only one ofthe many ways\nwe can truly achieve prosperity FOR ALL.\nJohn Lipscomb\nMBA\nVictim blamer\nand spouter of\nself-righteous\nrhetoric?\nSpare me please. If I\nweren't concerned about\nwomen helping themselves\nwould I have bothered? If\nyou re-read my letter you\nmay then (hopefully) notice\nthat my infamous comment\n\"assaults can't happen if you\ndon't put yourself in a position to be assaulted\" refers\nspecifically to women who\ncontinue to walk alone unprotected on campus after\ndark when they know that\nthey are at risk and in jeopardy by doing so.\nThey are not forced to\nwalk alone after dark. My\nletter does not refer to those\nmultitudes of other threatening\nsituations a woman can find\nherself in (through no fault\nof her own I agree). Those\nissues also need addressing\nand I can't think of two more\nreadily available eager beavers to tackle them than\nLaura J. May and Anne\nWhittman. Meanwhile, did\nI say I was tackling the whole\nfeministissue in one breath?\nAnd also, do I have to espouse\na feminist perspective to\nmake a cogent point?\nSecond, I maintain, albeit a limited view and scope\nof womens' collective problems but not so limited in\npractical value, that as long\nas the walk home program,\nthe bus shuttle service and/\nor karate techniques exist I\nfind it difficult to define as\nvictims who were unable to\nhelp themselves those\nwomen who have been assaulted while walking alone\non campus after dark.\nDebra Gordon\nArts 3\nATTENTION\nALL STAFFERS\nThe women's and\nmen's cauci will be\nmeeting on Monday\nNovember 4, 12:30 in\nSub 241. These meetings are absolutley\nvital to the future of\nthe paper and the\nplanet we know as\nBeetlegeuse 2.\nAll staffers should\nattend or have an airtight excuse as to why\nthey did not.\n10/THE UBYSSEY\nNovember 1,1991 -->\nScreaming\nimperfections\nThe incredibly skewed Perspective of October 22, with its\nfiery talk about racist white racists exploiting everyone else in a\nracist system, positively screamed\nout for a reply. Here's mine and I\nhope that there will be others.\nThe passions of the author\nappear to have been inflamed by a\nvery thoughtful letter by Mr. Chan\nwho expressed his view that it's\noften wise tolook atyourselfbefore\nhurling the label of \"racist\" at a\nperson who you feel has offended\nyou in some way. It's a nasty thing\nto say about someone, so you'd\nbetter be very, very sure that what\nthey said or did was based on your\nethnic background. It all sounds\nlogical enough and hardly implies\nthat native Indians, for example,\nwere responsible for the atrocities\ncommitted against them. Yet, this\nis exactly the message the authors\nchose to read and then denounce in\ntheir vitriolic letter. They then\nwent on to blast Mr. Chan's suggestion that Canada was a relatively tolerant place with several\nadmittedly valid examples of racism in this country. Well, so what?\nRacism is everywhere; you won't\nfind a country free of it, but you'll\nfind a great many with a much\nmore severe case of this affliction\nthan Canada.\nApart from the usual garbage\nabout the exploitation of the proletariat by the evil capitalist pig-\ndogs (showing alarmingly few hard\nfacts, I thought, for an essay co-\nwritten by a graduate), the letter\ncontained a disturbing streak of\nUSIURS\nhatred, as opposed to anger, which\nmade me wonder exactly how the\nauthors intended to deal with the\nproblem of racism. What sort of\nconstructive solution could this\nattitude possibly lead to?\nFinally, I would like to take a\nswipe at the increasing number of\npeople who are criticizing The\nUbyssey for publishing \"racist\"\nletters. While I have read truck-\nloads of abuse in this esteemed\nperiodical directed against white\nheterosexual males, I don't recall\nany article or letter which denounced a visible minority (and\nrightly so). However, the few who\nhave suggested merely that white\nheterosexual males might not have\nexclusive rights to all known character defects have been figuratively\nburned at the stake. Such an attitude is a form of discrimination in\nitself as it denies other groups the\nright to be imperfect; aren't we all\nentitled to that?\nJan Palaty\nGraduate Studies\nWhat is good for\nthe gander...\nIn the lead story of your October 22 issue on the \"Students for\nChoice\" rally:\nJackie Larkin discusses how\nsome women are without access to\nabortion because in some cases\n\"...the hospital board has been hijacked by single-issue anti-choice\nforces\".\nBut just two paragraphs later,\nin describing the provincial election, she states, \"And if any of you\nwere thinking of voting Liberal,\n9\u00E2\u0082\u00AC'\nremember Gordon Wilson believes\nabortion should be allowed only in\ncases of rape or incest\".\nThose single-issue advocates\nsure are a horrible lot, aren't they\nJackie. What's good for the goose...\nAs I understand, those hospital\nboards Jackie dislikes were\nelected demiocratically; presumably this is the same repressive\npolitical method by which the\nprovincial government was just, to\nparrot Jackie's diction, \"hijacked\nby single-issue anti-life forces\".\nRob Swiniarski\nGrad Studies\n(MMAT)\nA little ego boost\nYou helped make my neophyte\npolitical experience more pleasurable. As the Green Party of B.C.,\nProvincial Election Candidate for\nVancouver-Point Grey, I would like\nto express my appreciation for the\npositive, well-composed articles\nthat were published in the Ubyssey\nduring the 1991 Campaign.\nIt is so very frustrating to\nknow in my mind, heart and soul\nthat immediate change has to be\nmade in order for the planet to\nsurvive, and still continue to witness the destructive patterns of\nthe human species. The little bit of\ninformation and the few ideas we\nshare once in a while will not be\nenough, but at the very least they\ndeserve an A for effort. 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His\nanswer struck horror into my soul\nand chilled my blood to liquid nitrogen. \"No, anything but that,\" I\ngasped.\nBut the Oracle nodded implacably. \"There is no other way. You\nmust bungie jump into the Pit of\nHell.\"\nHell wasn't such a bad place,\nand certainly no worse than Physics 115. Or so I kept reassuring\nmyself as I wrestled with \t\na manhole cover behind\nMain Library. Butit was\nglued solid, perhaps by\nsome supernatural\nforce. Fortunately, I\nspotted a few Totem\nresidents on their way\nhome to a party. \"Hey\nthere! Can you give me\na hand with this manhole?\" I asked, desperation making me bold.\n\"That's no manhole. It's a Personal Access Chamber,\" one ofthe\nwise-asses quipped. \"We avoid\ngender-exclusive language around\nthis campus.\"\n\"Okay, fine. Can you just help\nme lift the damned lid. Fm in a bit\nof a hurry.\" I told them a lie about\nbeing from Prince George, which\nseemed to explain my erratic\nbehaviour and instantly endeared\nme to the lot. In a few moments the\nlid was lying loose on the roadway\nbeside a black, evil-smelling orifice.\n\"Thanks for the help,\" I said\nas the Totem crowd ambled on\ntheir way. I assembled the bungie\ngear which the Oracle had given\nme some ten minutes earlier. The\ndark hole looked about as inviting\nas an exam in the Armouries. A\nquick flashlight inside verified it\nto be a bottomless chasm. \"Well,\nhere goes nothing,\" I philosophized,\nkeeping the phrase \"9.8 metres per\nsecond squared\" firmly out of my\nthoughts.\nI jumped.\nAside from the strong parallel\nto a certain Victorian girl falling\ndown a much popularized rabbit\nhole, my descent was a unique experience. The bungie cord stopped\nme several microns from the bottom and, after a few nauseating\nbounces, I untied myself and\nsnapped on my light. I stood in a\ndamp, musty-smelling passage.\nThe ground was littered with\nsomething which proved, on closer\nexamination, to be the shattered\nremnants of Rita Johnston's cabinet. Evidently they had not been\nas happily equipped with elasti-\ncized ropes on their recent trip\ndown.\nI checke d my watch\u00E2\u0080\u0094one hour\nand 50 minutes until midnight\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nand hurried off down the passage.\nI had been in some strange situations before, and this one\u00E2\u0080\u0094spelunking in the tunnels under UBC\non a quest for the Holy Gruel\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nmight well be another of them.\nBefore long I heard the sound of\nrunning water and came to a dark,\nrancid stream whose sole inhabitants were a race of pale pickled\nherring.\nOn the shore of this river I\nencountered ChuckDi, the hermaphroditic ferry person\u00E2\u0080\u0094a gaunt,\nMy nemesis. Why he was called\nthe Dark One is one of those\ngreat mysteries which takes its\nrightful place among Elvis\nsightings and the Caramilk bar.\nsexless creature who offered to take\nme across the water for a double\nsawbuck. His/her conversational\nrepertoire was apparently limited\nto, \"The Fox Rocks\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094which she/he\nmuttered over and over again\n(quite professionally, too, I\nthought). When we reached the\nother side, I realized with dismay\nthat Fd spent my last dollar at the\nPit. Fortunately, I substituted a\ncontentious article from The\nUbyssey which so enraged the\nferryperson that he/she forgot to\ncollect my fare.\nNext I was faced with\nCerebrus, the three-headed hog\nwith near-genius IQ who guarded\nthe entrance to Hell. He oinked at\nme menacingly, until I thought of\nposing him that age-old riddle,\n\"What have I got in my pockets?\" I\npromptly pulled out a scrap of paper which read, \"The square root of\nminus one\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094and handed it to him.\nFor all I know, he's still working\nout an answer.\nThe Pit of Hell was not unlike\nthe Main Library stacks, though it\nsmelled slightly worse. It was\nstaffed with ex-members of Physical Plant and the Bay City Rollers,\nwho seemed to spend all their time\npulling books from shelves, making study notes, and then dropping\ntheir notes into the incinerator.\nConsequently they groaned a lot.\nI asked directions to the Cereals Division and before long stood\nbeneath my final hurdle\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nKeeper of the Gruel. He was a\nbalding, shrivelled old bear who\nslumped all day on a Lifeguard\nChair, holding the phial of Gruel\nin one hand and a copy of Winnie-\nthe-Pooh in the other. He never\nmoved once, and never got past\npage 5. What fortitude, I thought\nadmiringly! What hellish perseverance! I was stumped for strategies to defeat such a formidable\nopponent. Meanwhile my watch\nchimed 11 pm.\nSuddenly, in my deep despair,\nI heard the whispered voice of Dr.\nStrange way, the Oracle: \"Use the\nchorus, Luke,\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094and my mind was\ninstantly suffused with the lyrics\nof La Bamba. Of course! My worries peeled away like the skin of a\nvery large and bloated anaconda. I\nhad my answer. \"La la la la la\nBamba...!\"\nAs the first words left my lips,\nthe Keeper shrieked, threw his\n hands in the air, and\nleapt out of sight, muttering something about\nthe evils of popular music. Just before it hit the\nground, I snatched the\nphial of Gruel from the\nair and turned. Even as\nWinnie-the-Pooh flut-\n tered softly to rest, I was\nheading for home. Back\nto the surface World.\nI reached the Ponderosa Cafeteria with some two minutes to\nspare. In fact, I would have been\nlate had someone not, as usual,\ntampered with the clock tower.\nThere was just enough time to\nswitch the porridge and duck behind the counter before, right on\nschedule, the Dark One walked in.\nMy nemesis. Why he was\ncalled the Dark One is one of those\ngreat mysteries which takes its\nrightful place among Elvis\nsightings and the Caramilk bar.\nPresumably it had something to do\nwith his thoughts around teenaged\ngirls, because in the well-lit cafeteria he looked anything but dark.\nHe was lawn coloured and vaguely\nreptilian, like a bad B-movie monster coated in lumpy green paint.\nHe didn't even notice me hiding\nthere, just strolled up with all the\ntact of a Campus Cowboy, grabbed\nhis porridge, and chowed down.\nIt must have been potent stuff\nbecause the whole room immediately began to pulsate, like a 60s\njello orgy or the Enterprise on Warp\n12. Accompanying this motion\ncame a noise so loud it must have\nawakened even the sleepers in the\nLegislative Assembly. And that\nterrible creature, the Dark One,\nwith all his lumps and evil plans,\nexploded.\nIt was over. I had done it.\nSaved the university and saved\nthe universe. I wiped slime and the\nremains of a kidney from my left\ncheek. Admittedly, I smelled alittle\nlike over-ripe cheese\u00E2\u0080\u0094but that was\nokay. I could always shower in the\nmorning.\nSecond prize winner: Hallowe'en ghost Story by MichaelQCenister. 'Both QCenister and MarkjMarby\nsfwtddclaim their prizes at \"Ihe Ubyssey, SWB 241% Ihe collective wishes to thanl^all those who made * *\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\ntfu effort to enter the contest.\nFREE INFORMATIONAL SEMINARS\n#\nMonday, November 4\n7:00pm UBC campus\nRm 223, Angus Building\nGMAT\nTuesday, November 12\n7:00pm UBC campus\nRm 223, Angus Building\nSTANLEY H. KAPLAN EDUCATIONAL CENTER LTD \u00E2\u0080\u00A2# 944-7717\n12/THE UBYSSEY\nNovember 1,1991"@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "LH3.B7 U4"@en . "LH3_B7_U4_1991_11_01"@en . "10.14288/1.0127953"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver : Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia"@en . 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