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" XftC Archives Serial\nThe Health\nPlan stays\n by Alex Dimson\nIn a near duplication of last\nyear's referendum result, nearly\n4000 students turned out in last\nweek's referendum to re-affirm\nsupport for the student Health\nand Dental Plan.\n3870 students voted in favour\nof continuing the current Alma\nMater Society (AMS) and\nGraduate Student Society (GSS)\nHealth and Dental Plan, a mandatory health plan that covers a portion of students' health costs for\n$168 a year. 1354 students voted\nagainst it\nThe referendum question\nasked students, 'Should the AMS\nwithdraw from the AMS/GSS\nHealth and Dental Plan at the end\nof the current contract (August\n31st, 2001).*\nThe referendum easily\nachieved the ten per cent turnout\n(3300 votes) necessary to reach\nquorum\u00E2\u0080\u0094the number of votes\nrequired to make the referendum\nresult valid\u00E2\u0080\u0094a number that has\ntraditionally been hard for AMS\nreferendums to achieve.\nWhile Kathy Lo\u00E2\u0080\u0094an organiser\nof the Tes' campaign and one of\nthe student petitioners who originally forced the AMS to conduct\nthe referendum\u00E2\u0080\u0094said that she\nwill not appeal, she also indicated\nthat she was displeased with the\nresult\n\"It really shows how apathetic\nstudents at UBC are. I'm really\ndisappointed about the result,\"\nshe said.\nLo expressed concern that\nwhile graduate students are\nenjoying the benefits and support\nthe health plan, undergraduate\nstudents are not aware or do not\nsupport it but did not turn out to\nvote.\nBut Annick Gauthier, the\norganiser of the 'No' campaign\nSee \"Referendum\" on page 5\nEx-prof liable for\nwhipping patient\nCourt rules against former UBC prof\nfor forcing master-slave relationship\nby Alex Dimson\nThe former head of UBC's psychiatry department has been\ninstructed to pay over half a million in damages for forcing a\npatient into a bizarre\nmaster-slave relationship.\nJames Tyhurst was found\nliable by Judge David Vickers of\nthe BC Supreme Court in a civil\nlaw proceeding and was ordered\nto pay one of his former patients\nJill Gorman $556,790.\nGorman, who launched the\ncivil suit claimed that in a 11-\nyear period beginning in 1979,\nTyhurst forced her into a master-slave relationship, gradually\ntaking control of all aspects of her\nlife.\nShe claimed that the situation\nescalated to the point where\nTyhurst regularly forced her to\nstrip from the waist up and stand\nagainst a wall while he whipped\nher back repeatedly.\nGorman testified that Tyhurst\nwhipped her between eight and\n12 times per one-hour session,\nwhich she said were first held in\nTyhurst's UBC office, and later\nmoved to bis house once Tyhurst\nleft the university.\nTyhurst\u00E2\u0080\u0094now 78 and retired\u00E2\u0080\u0094\ncontinues to deny all of the accusations.\nBetween 1959 and 1970,\nTyhurst served as the head of\nUBC's psychology department,\nand he continued as a professor\nuntil the mid-1980s.\nTyhurst had been treating\nGorman for severe depression\nand bulimia while she was a UBC\nstudent\nSee \"Hurst\" on page 4\nBig bonus for Strangway\n$91,000 for ex-UBCprez\nby Stanley Tromp\nA recentiy revealed $91,000 \"retirement allowance\" given to\nformer UBC President David Strangway after he left office in\n1997 has angered some university officials.\nThe lump sum bonus was written into his contract, and is\nin addition to his two-year full salaried administrative leave\nand pension, according to UBC's Vice-President of Legal and\nExternal Affairs Dennis Pavlich.\nPat McGeer, a UBC medical researcher and former BC\nadvanced education minister, called the bonus \"totally outrageous.\"\n\"No ministry in Victoria would allow this for an employee,\" McGeer said.\nThe arrangement is not without precedent in BC.\nWhile former Simon Fraser University (SFU) President\nJack Blaney received no retirement allowance upon leaving\nSFU, his predecessor John Stubbs ended his five-year presidential term one year early by mutual agreement Stubbs\nwas paid a presidential salary for the final year, in addition\nto receiving a one year leave at his professorial salary.\nUniversity of Victoria officials have said that UVic doesn't\ngive retirement bonuses, and current UBC President Martha\nPiper has no such bonus in her contract\nSee \"Bonus\" on page 4\nSTRANGWAY: The former UBC president looks on.\nRICHARD LAM/UBYSSEY FILE PHOTO\n TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2001\nSERVICES\nrK County ftfe; - m^roffi^.r\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0wKi'^Ef\nis*S\nqucsBD\"5'\nt*\u00C2\u00BB*\ndAt**\njM*\"\"**\n**>\u00C2\u00AB*\n\"NOT EXCESSIVE\": AUS President Aleksandra Brzozowski doesn't think postering for Arts County Fair has gone too far, but some candidates running in\npretty important And with campus elections feel it has. tara westover photo\nthe poor election turn outs\nthat we already have; tfte fact that\nwe're competing with Arts County\nFair [seems unfair],* Baldwin said.\nBut AUS President Aleksandra\nBrzozowski defended the AUS' postering tactic, saying that there is still\nroom for other posters on campus.\nShe said that most of the ACF postering is at the bus loop and\nBuchanan, but even in these places,\nthere is room for other advertisements.\n\"There's still lots of places to\nposter, we're not a commercial\nthing and we're not trying to be evil\nor cruel,' she said.\nBrzozowski said that while AUS\nmembers have been instructed to\nmove any posters covering ACF\nposters, miscommunication may\nhave led to some posters being mistakenly torn down.\nAlma Mater Society Vice-\nPresident, Administration Mark\nFraser said that he is looking into\ncomplaints he has received about\nthe AUS.\n'I'm getting a lot of complaints\nfrom constituency people,\" he said.\n\"I've received a couple about ACF\ntearing down constituency elections\nposters.\"\nBaldwin said that she and other\ncandidates are restricted to where\nthey may put up posters, and how\nmany posters they are allowed to put\nup in one space.\nEvery year, the AUS cleans the\nback side of the bus loops\u00E2\u0080\u0094where\ncommercial events are usually\nallowed to advertise\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nBrzozowski said the AUS has an\ninformal agreement with the university that gives them a monopoly over\nthat area.\nBut Baldwin wonders why it is\nnecessary for a massively-popular\nevent like ACF to advertise so extensively. The annual concert will be\nheld on April 5 this year.\n*Whether or not they poster, it's\nnot like nobody's going to go to ACF,'\nshe said. 'Everyone knows it's going\nto happen, everyone goes.*\nBut Brzozowski said that extensive\npromotions help to ensure that the\nevent remains popular in the future.\n\"We may not feel it this year or\nnext year, but if we stopped doing\npromo like that it just wouldn't get\nout to campus. And over four or five\nyears, people wouldn't know about it\nthe same way,' she said.\nSUS Elections Administrator\nScarlett Yim said that she and\nBrzozowski have recently discussed\ncandidates' concerns, and that most\nof the concerns have been\naddressed.\nYim added, however, that it is difficult for candidates to advertise\ntheir campaigns and still comply\nwith the election's rules, which stipulate that each candidate may only\nplace one campaign poster on each\nboard.\n'It's kind of hard to stand out\nwhen you can only put one poster on\nthe board. When there's Arts County\nFair, they've got ten posters on one\nboard,\" said Yim. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2001\nNEWS\nTHE UBYSSEY\nUBC BOOKSTORE\nwww. bookstore, ubc.ca\nipisT\niiMli!\nCustomer\nAppreciation\nDays\nMarch 16 & 17\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 General Books\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Sale Books\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Textbooks\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Sportswear\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Giftware\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Stationery Items\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Art & Design Items\nMany more in-store specials.\nSee in-store exceptions.\n6200 University Blvd., Vancouver, B.C. 822-2665 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 www.bookstore.ubc.ca\nHours: Weekdays 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Saturday: 11:00AM - 5:00 PM\nSTUDENT (PEER) ADVISORS, ARTS\nIn a continuing effort to increase the level of service provided by\nthe Faculty of Arts Academic Advising Office, the Faculty intends\nto hire three to five students to serve as the first point of contact\nfor students attending the Academic Advising Office.\nSuccessful applicants must be entering third or fourth year in the\nFaculty of Arts and have completed at least thirty credits at UBC.\nThey must possess good communication skills, and be reliable and\nconscientious workers. Their duties will include offering assistance\nto students in finding the correct path to resolution of their\ninquiries, referring students to appropriate Academic Advising\nOffice staff, and scheduling appointments for the Faculty advisors.\nPre-employment training is offered and required.\nEmployment will be 3 to 10 hours per week on regular shifts of\nbetween 3 and 3.5 hours, morning or afternoon. Payment is at the\nrate of $12.79 per hour. Term of employment is September 2001\nto April 2002.\nApplications, including a resume, two letters of reference, and a\nstatement indicating the qualities the candidate would bring to the\nposition, must be submitted to:\nMs. Grace Wolkosky, Academic Advisor\nArts Academic Advising Office\nBuchanan A201\nTHE DEADLINE FOR APPLYING IS MARCH 31ST\nBackpacking in\nwww.travekuts.coni\n'AM four ittm mu\u00C2\u00BBt b* purchwd by Morrti 31/01.\nCtfftoin radnctiora cnoy apply Nat valid in conjunction\nwilli any otnof offar Offar avouoota wtwa luppfiai low\nana may ba OMODntmuoa of any tiiTta or toosntunont\nmod* knuncJy?\n\"That's available eveiytime you bring in your own \\ncup. And then we are going one step further to encourage people [with the new programj,'* he said.\nSRClioserlfaffixamf\nStudents hoping to use the upstairs gymanisum in the\nStudent Recreation Centre during jhe^April exam\nperiod will be out of toclMjf\n^y*The gym has oe^^eheduled to be used 8$ a location for exams from April 9 to April 2?^%^^\n^Wl^r the bo(Mx^(^^^^^~^^J^ti6 and\ngroups mil use the gym for eve^^lCelJIylSimmons,\nthe coordinator of XS^p-ChsssXkminS^^^^, said .\nIthat the benefiteSfutweigh tjb^^sdvanjb^l,^\nf\"% becking the SRC we can teduce the number of\nbriefs\nexam days by two, which is good both for students and\n[administrators]* she said.\nSimmons said that the upstairs gymnasium is one\nof the larger venues on campus, and that maintenance being performed on other buildings made\nbooking it a necessity.\nShe added, however, that Classroom Services\nmight set up a long-term arrangement with the SRC.\nUBC lets $| million\npj health research^,\nResearch projects at UBC are receiving almost $5 million from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research\n(CIHR).\nA federal agency responsible for funding health\nresearch in Canada, CIHR gave $3.7 million to the\nCanadian HIV Trials Network^ a UBC-centered\nresearch project studying how best to treat people\nwith advanced HTV who have not been helped by AIDS\ndrug cocktails.\nf'?-Tlfi8fprojeci*is headed bypkpp^^chechter, Jhe;\nhead ~pJ^U$$Cs departmenip|f|pealth Care and\n^^emiol|6^y^^ \"-^\nMj^atrirMllGfSSen, ah assistant clinical professor in\nthe Faculty^ojf * Medicine's departra6^?\u00C2\u00AB|Sarnily\npOoMog at itatfcjMtotfr suppoftp^^n|^w; expecting\n-mothers. '\u00E2\u0099\u00A6?***\u00C2\u00AB - *\u00C2\u00A3*&$\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 J\"'\n^S^WsWfSwiw^WWi^iKSvtiiS^^!^-\nSsSwSwwfera:\n^^W^^%>^^W&^S^w^\u00C2\u00AB?Sras^^^now^S^i^w^^^^\nTyhurst hurt ex-patient, Court decides\n\"Hurst\" from page 1\nIn his defence, Tyhurst pointed to\na lack of physical evidence or wit-\nnessess, but in a strongly-worded 61-\npage decision, Vickers sided with\nGorman.\nVickers stated that he believed\ntestimony from two of Tyhurst's former patients, who testified that\nTyhurst also had whipped them. The\nnames of these patients could not be\ndisclosed by court order.\n\"The defendant's treatment of the\nplaintiff was deplorable and defies\nall norms of civilised conduct\nbetween individuals. It is aggravated\nby the fact that he was in a position\nof trust and she undoubtedly placed\nher trust in him,\" Vickers wrote.\nTyhurst's lawyer Christopher\nHinkson declined to comment on\nthe judge's ruling, but said that\nTyhurst will appeal the decision.\nGorman also testified that\nTyhurst degraded her psychologically. She claimed that she was forced\nto call him master and enter into\ncontractual agreements with him.\nVickers agreed with Gorman's\n\"The defendant's\ntreatment of the\nplaintiff was\ndeplorable and\ndefies all norms\nof civilised conduct between\nindividuals/'\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Judge David\nVickers,\nBC Supreme Court\ntestimony, noting two slave \"contracts\" entered as exhibits.\n'I am willing to submit as a slave\nobeying all orders [and] accounting\nall that I do gratefully. Submissively\ndoing everything without argument\nto learn to make it work. This\nincludes taking any punishment\nwithout question, carrying on or\nquitting,* the introduction to the\nfirst contract reads.\nWhile Tyhurst argued that\nGorman's testimony could not be\ncredible given her mental stability,\nVickers found Gorman's testimony\nto be fair.\n\"I find the defendant did enter into a\nrelationship of master-slave as\ndescribed by the plaintiff* he stated. 1\nhave no difficulty in concluding his\nentire course of conduct and the bizarre\n'therapy' in which he was engaged was\nfor his own sexual gratification He was\nin breach of his fiduciary duty to the\nplaintiff in breach of his contract and his\nads were criminal in nature.'\nVickers said that he believed that\nGorman suffered psychological and\ncareer setbacks as a result of\nTyhurst's treatment\nIn 1991, Tyhurst was convicted\nof sexual and indecent assault in a\ncase involving four patients, but the\nresult was overturned, and Tyhurst\nwas acquitted in the retrial.\nTyhurst has 30 days to appeal\nthis ruling \u00E2\u0099\u00A6>\nStrangway receiving big bonus\n\"Bonus\" from page 1\nSFU and UVic give administrators one year of fully paid leave after\na five year administrative term,\nwhile similar officials at UBC\nreceive a year of leave after six years\nof service.\nIn addition to the bonus,\nStrangway also received a $350,000\ninterest-free loan to buy a \"retirement house' in 1991, even though\nStrangway collected rent while he\nlived in the UBC President's man\nsion at the same time.\nThe contract was approved by\nUBC's then-chancellor Ken Bagshaw\nand the Board of Governors' then-\nchairperson Leslie Peterson.\nStrangway, who did not answer\ncalls for this story, is now president\nof the Ottawa-based Canada\nFoundation for Innovation, a nonprofit organisation set up by the federal government to dispense university research grants. He is also working to set up Canada's first private\nuniversity in Squamish a project\nthat has so far been troubled.\nStrangway had tried to keep the\n$91,000 bonus confidential. When a\nfreedom of information request for\nhis contract was filed two years ago,\nit came back with the benefits section whited out In a letter, the university indicated that Strangway\nprotested that such a disclosure\nwould infringe upon his privacy.\nBut the figure was included in\nthe $136,108 UBC paid to\nStrangway in 1999-2000, shown in\nthe UBC financial statements. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n THE UBYSSEY\nNEWS\nTUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2001\nSustainability college proposed\nby Keymo Nedd\nIntegrating and popularising the\ncampus-wide study of environmental issues are the goals of a proposed\nsustainability college at UBC.\nWhile the logistics for the proposal have not yet been worked out,\nthe college would allow professors\nand students from various fields to\nwork together on environmental\nissues, according to UBC Associate\nProfessor of Political Science\nKathryn Harrison.\n\"The college would serve to better integrate programs that already\nexist, while providing new opportu\nnities for students who might not be\npursuing a major in natural\nresources or environmental sciences,' said Harrison, who has been\ninstrumental in the college's planning.\nHarrison said that the college\nwould allow students from any UBC\nfaculty to take courses affiliated with\nthe school, as well as allow them to\npursue a minor in environmental\nsustainability.\nThe idea comes from\nthe Environmental Programs\nCommittee, made up of members\nfrom various faculties across campus, which was convened in the\nsummer of 1999 to think of ways to\nreform environmental education at\nUBC.\nWhile no\ndates have yet\nbeen set for the\ncompletion of\nthe college, and\nthe committees\nare still working\nthrough the\nrelated governing and funding\nMCBRIDE issues, Barry\nMcBride, UBC's vice-president of\nacademic and provost, said that the\ncollege has a good chance of being\ncreated.\n\"We believe that this idea of a college is a very good way of bringing\ntogether interdisciplinary programs\nlike sustainability,' he said.\nMcBride said that UBC has a\nlarge interest in the campus-wide\nteaching and researching of sustainability, but has so far lacked a central facility to coordinate the activities.\n'UBC does not have a single environmental department, but has a\nlarge number of different units\naddressing environmental issues\nand sustainability,\" he said, indicating that the college would allow UBC\nto use it resources more efficiently\nand make the study of environmental issues available to more people.\nThe reaction from students\ninvolved in environmental sustainability about the creation of a sustainability college has been positive.\n\"Some people will be attracted to\nthe idea of this college simply\nbecause environment and sustainability are popular [topics] and can\nbe applied to so many different\nfields of study* said resource conservation student Jeff Werner.\n\"Sustainability is a powerful concept\nthat presents new and innovative\nways of thinking.\" \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nTrent students out on bail\nEight protesters scheduled for court appearances March 21\nby Rose Spencer and Jessica White\nArthur\nPETERBOROUGH, ON (CUP)-Eight female\nstudents who were arrested while occupying a Trent University vice-president's\noffice have been released on bail, and are\nscheduled for a court appearance on\nMarch 21.\nPolice arrested the protesters on\ncharges of mischief. Bail was set at $500\nfor each protester, which Trent faculty and\nsupporters paid.\nThe students took over the office for three\ndays to protest the university's board of governors' approval in November 1999 of an\napplication to Ontario's SuperBuild Growth\nFund that didn't include a clause preventing\nthe 'sale, relocation or closing of any college.\"\nThe fund is designed to provide money\nfor new infrastructure. In May 2000, Trent\nwas awarded more than $26 million under\nSuperBuild. The university's two downtown colleges have since been slated for\nclosure.\nThe students inside the office had been\ndemanding a promise to keep the downtown colleges open, the creation of a committee to look at decision-making at Trent,\na referendum on campus advertising and\nthe creation of a policy on campus privatisation.\nThey also called for the current adrnin-\nistration to grant legal and academic\namnesty to all students involved in the\nprotests.\nThe students' bail conditions include\nnot associating with each other on most\nTrent University property, not attending\nany administrative office except by\napproved appointment, not being on Trent\nproperty between 11pm and 7am except\nfor those living on residence and keeping\nthe peace.\nIn a recent letter to Trent University's\npresident Bonnie Patterson, the Canadian\nAssociation of University Teachers said\nthat it was \"outraged\" with the university's\ndecision to use police to end the recent\noccupation the office.\nThe association's president, Tom Booth,\nsaid that the action not only reflects badly\non Patterson and her administration, it\nalso \"undermines the tradition of academic freedom and open dissent at Trent\nUniversity.\"\nRosario Marchese, Ontario's NDP education critic, compared the decision-making processes of Trent's board of governors\nto those of Ontario's Conservative government in power in the province.\n\"We need to democratise these institutions,\" said Marchese.\nIn a statement last week, Trent president Bonnie Patterson said the administration refuses to submit to any activity that is\nillegal or threatens a safe learning and\nworking environment.\n\"University administration had offered\nto discuss matters with these students, but\nwould not negotiate the demands set by\nthem...However, we will continue to consult and discuss issues of concern to the\nuniversity community through legitimate\nmeans.\nStudents vote 'No'\n\"Referendum\" from page 1\nand the incoming-GSS president, felt that the\nresult is an accurate reflection of student sentiment about the health plan.\n\"I'm really pleased with the result This\nreally shows that students are in support of\nthe plan,\" she said.\nThe result comes just over a year after the\nhealth plan was implemented following an\nOctober 1999 referendum in which 4548 students voted for the plan and 1911 voted\nagainst it\nThe result means business as usual in the\noffices of the health plan service provider\nStudentCare Networks (SCN), according to\nSCN's UBC Service Manager Damian\nGeisinger, who said that the referendum\nresult was reassuring.\nNegotiations for the renewal of the contract\u00E2\u0080\u0094due to expire at the end of August\u00E2\u0080\u0094are\nalready underway between SCN and the AMS.\nWhile the details are still being worked on,\nGauthier, who will be involved in the negotiations, said that she hopes to incorporate some\nof Lo's criticisms and ideas into the renewed\ncontract \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nPARKING VIOLATION\nTHL UNIVERSITY OF\nBRITISH COLUMBIA\nTRAFFIC NOTICE\nD0A/T GET HOOKED\nBY OUTSTANDING\nPARKING TICKETS\nPAY YOUR FINES AT OUR\nSECURE ON-LINE SERVER\nwww.parking.ubc.ca\nUBC PARKING & ACCESS CONTROL SERVICES\n-with files from Alyssa Evetts\nUBC\nCommerce\nBuild Your Career As An Accounting Professional.\nBuild Your Credentials With UBC Commerce.\nUBC Diploma in Accounting\nIf you are a university graduate seeking a professional accounting designation, you\ncan fast-track your training through the UBC Commerce Diploma in Accounting\nProgram (DAP). 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V6B 1L8\nPpSeC\nACCKDrreo\nDuelling dudes\nLunging, poking, prodding\nthrusting, stabbing, etc...\nby Tom Peacock\nPeople have been cutting, goring, slashing, and\nultimately killing each other with swords for\nover 3000 years. Egyptians, Greeks, Romans,\nand medieval crusaders all wielded blades in\nbattle. As guns rendered armour obsolete, and\nheavy cutting swords were replaced by lighter,\nmore showy weapons more suitable for poking,\nswords gradually became more than just a\nmeans to a bloody end.\nSwordplay evolved into a dangerous but\nless-than-fatal athletic discipline with specific\nrules and techniques, and duelling emerged as\na popular means of settling disputes between\ngentiemen. Sometimes, but not always, somebody was killed, but usually they just got cut a\nlittle and went limping home for a bandage, the\nmatter settled.\nThe rapier, developed in Italy during the\n15th century, was the first poking sword. It was\neventually replaced by the shorter French court\nsword, and the one-handed techniques of modern fencing emerged.\nThe foil, a lighter version of the court sword,\ndesigned for practising, is one of three swords\nused in modern fencing. The second, the epee,\nwas originally designed specifically for duelling,\nand the third, the sabre, is a cutting sword modeled after the Turkish scimitar.\nTechniques and equipment evolved to make\nswordplay safe, and by the time of the first modern Olympic Gaines in 1896, fencing was an\naccepted sport And over 100 years later, it still\nis. All three swords\u00E2\u0080\u0094the foil, the epee, and the\nsabre\u00E2\u0080\u0094remain Olympic disciplines.\nThe only problem with fencing is that it doesn't really work that well as a spectator sport It's\ncomplicated. Unless you're the judge, it's often\nhard to see why a participant is awarded points.\n\"That's why the only people who watch fencing are other fencers,\" Jeff Bowman, vice-president of the UBC fencing club, quipped after a\nfencing practice last Thursday night in Osborne\nGym. Luckily, Bowman is not so concerned with\nfinding people to watch fencing as he is with\nfinding people who might want to have a stab at\nit themselves.\nBowman and his friend Jeff Szi are trying to\nrevive the UBC fencing club, historically one of\nthe most popular clubs at UBC. In recent years,\nas key members of the executive left to start\ntheir own clubs, the UBC club dwindled to only a\nfew members.\nSzi and Bowman said that the club failed to\nattract new members, because it had become\ntoo elite. It had moved away from the traditional\nstructure of a school club with a mind towards\nattracting student membership.\nCOM ME QA: (Above) Fencing coach Brett La Peyre (left) instructs a student. (Top) Jeff Szi\n(left) and Jeff Bowman battle it out. tom peacock photos\nSzi says he and Bowman have different plans\nfor the club. \"Before, it became too competitive.\nThey weren't recruiting new people. Eventually\nit was just a few very experienced people. We\nwould like it to be a club mostly for UBC students/ he said.\n\"Of course we would encourage competitive\nfencing, because it's fun,* Bowman hastened to add.\nBowman is a fourth-year Science student,\nwho only started fencing during his second year\nat UBC. But he has already competed in several\ntournaments in Washington State and the Lower\nMainland.\nSzi has been fencing for seven years. During\na demonstration match with Bowman, his superior skills, his quickness and dexterity, are evident even to the untrained eye. The electronic\nscoring light on his side keeps going off as he\nstabs into Bowman's steel-woven breastplate.\nBowman retaliates but his jabs are deflected. Szi\ncounter-attacks and is awarded the point\nAfter the quick match, Bowman and Szi are\nsweating and breathing heavily. Although fencing might appear rather staid and physically\nundemanding, it's obviously quite a workout\nIn their first year as the fencing club's executive, Szi, Bowman and club secretary Maggie Woo\nhaven't wasted much time getting to know the\nropes: they have already attained respectable\nmembership numbers, acquired a certified coach\nfor the club, hosted a small tournament for club\nmembers and some fencers from SFU, and\nrevived the annual UBC Stephen Lazar\nTournament a key event on the fencing calendar.\nThe Lazar Tournament was cancelled last\nyear because there was no one to organise it But\nthis year, the event which took place February\n24-25, went off without a hitch. Over 80 local\nfencers participated in the different disciplines,\nand 21 medals were awarded.\n\"I think the tournament went really well,' Szi\nsaid. \"Members of the Seattle fencing club, Salle\nAuriel, came up and said they were very happy\nwith how it was run.\"\nBowman is graduating in the spring, but Szi\nand Woo are returning to UBC next year and\nhave big plans to increase the fencing club's on-\ncampus presence and attract more, students to\nthe fine art of slashing and stabbing each other\nwith swords.\n\"We want to have more social events\u00E2\u0080\u0094movie\nnights in the Norm Theatre and that sort of thing,\"\nSzi said. \"We want to sell T-shirts, sweatpants and\ndo more advertising. We also want to build the\ncompetitive part of the club, so we can send more\npeople to tournaments.' This year, he added, the\nclub has managed to accumulate a small surplus\nthat they will use to purchase more equipment\nAlthough he is graduating. Bowman plans to\nstay involved with the UBC club next year. Ever\nsince joining the club, he has been hooked on\nswordplay. And after watching him and Szi go at\neach other with foils, it's pretty easy to see why.\nFighting with swords looks like a lot of fun. More\nimportantly, with the blunt tips of the modern\nfoils and all the safety equipment the only thing\nyou really stand to lose while having at your partner in the age-old art of fencing, is your pride. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nFor anyone with the urge to poke someone in the\nbelly with a blunt sword, membership fees for\nthe UBC fencing club are $125 for the year.\nFencing requires a lot of expensive equipment\nand coaching is pricey so, according to\nBowman, the price is a deal. As well, during the\nsummer, the club is open to members of the\ncommumty, and offers introductory lessons for\nyoung people at a discounted price.\nTWO DOWN... 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They bounce back and forth\nbetween smatterings of situational\nscenes, addressing the audience\nwith vulgar observations about the\nworld around them. These monologues paint 1960s and '70s Britain\nas a bleak world\u00E2\u0080\u0094full of rot and\nwaste existing in small town pubs,\nand suburban homes.\nOf course, the name of the play is\nCreek. Playwright Steven Berkoff\nuses the story of Oedipus to call\nattention to what he feels is Britain's\nirrecoverable state\u00E2\u0080\u0094or 'fate,\" in\nSophoclean terms\u00E2\u0080\u0094and suggests the\nendurance and immutability of classical ideas. This adaptation of Greek,\nhowever, successfully uses the function of anonymity to represent classical ideas as well as to depict\nBritish society.\nThe use of the black and white\ncostuming is wonderfully effective\nat preventing the audience from\never becoming completely comfortable with the characters. This makes\nthe transitions between personae\neasily'palatable and representative\nof the strata of British society. The\nsparse set design is also accommodating, creating the generalised\natmosphere that provides a neutral\ncanvas for the raw emotional tone of\nthe actors' dialogues.\nby Lisa Denton\nSONIC BOOM\nPerformance Works\nMar. 10\nThis critic would like to make a confession. I'm a classical music geek.\nWhile all the other kids were out at\nthe mall on Saturday, I'd be at home\nlistening to the opera on CBC Radio\nTwo. Why go to the Gap when you\ncan hear a four hour German operatic extravaganza, live from the Met\nno less? Instead of rushing to the\nTop 40 rack at the record store, I'd\nslink to the classical section eyeing\nthat Glenn Gould boje-set or picking\nup dirt-cheap re-releases of recordings from the '60s. -\nWhile we're on the subject of past\nsins, I'd like to make another confession. Try as I might, I have never\nbeen able to enjoy contemporary\nmusic. Classical music for me just\nkind of ends around 1950. I went\nfrom Bach to Beethoven to Bartok\nand finally\u00E2\u0080\u0094to nothing.\nI'm happy to say that my ignorance has been dispelled after\nattending a concert of Vancouver\nPro-Musica Society's annual festival\nSonic Boom. Pro-Musica is a cooperative of local composers,\nwhose participants range in age\nfrom 16 to 71 or so. The music they\ncompose also greatly varies, as I\nWhat is perhaps most notable\nabout the play is the actors' ability to\nwrestle with the confrontational\nspeeches of social decay, portraying\na culture with a corruptive underbelly. But the dialogue is sprinkled\nwith comic observations, such as\nwhen Eddy (Gregory Thomas) wonders how much the Queen \"gets it\noa\" The comedy often springs from\nsexualised language; the act of sexual intercourse is symbolically depicted through a speech by Ivone\nFonseca, which remains hilarious\nthrough its never-ending twisting of\nmetaphors, culminating in her portrayal of an orgasm.\nDirector Zaib Shaikh was motivated by the unconventionality of Greek,\nin that it challenges the notion of\nstandardised theatre production.\nGreek is not an easy play to understand or portray. It requires innovative and imaginative devices in order\nfor it to succeed\" as social examination. For the most part, Shaikh\naccommodates these thematic difficulties by his use of the non-specific\ncostuming and set design, allowing a\nmultitude of scenarios to take place.\nThese scenarios are therefore left to\nthe strength of the actors rather than\nprops and costuming.\nThe cursing, angry characters\nmay be offensive to some, even terrifying to those who choose not to\nface social decay, but Greek'dpe\u00C2\u00A7j\npush the boundaries of the'craft: of*\ntheatre. It diversifies and tests the\nstrength of the artistic output of\nUBC's cast and crew as a whole.\nShaikh wanted to take a risk in his\nadaptation and the end result is a\nchallenging and refreshing performance. And if you're like me, you'll\nrealise that there is more to British\nculture than just tea and crumpets\nin the sitting room. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nA BOOM!\nby Ron Nurwisah\nsoon found out\nFrom the first moments of Sonic\nBoom, I figured I would be in for\nsomething different I, for one, have\nnever seen any conductor drop their\npants to reveal leopard print boxers,\nlike master of ceremonies John\nCrawford did on Saturday night It\ngot my attention.\nLooking at my program, my\ncuriosity was also piqued. Just how\nwere an erhu and zheng, two traditional Chinese instruments, going to\nsound with a marimba? Pretty\ndarned good actually. The resulting\npiece, \"Lantern Riddles* evokes the\nChinese Autumn Moon Festival and\nis a mesmerising and beautiful\npiece. Equally evocative was the\nmini song-cycle \"Mamalilaculla.\"\nScenes of an abandoned Native village and other West Coast scenes\ninspired composer Euphrosyne\nKeefer. The result is something that\nwas haunting and reminded me of\nElgar's Sea Pictures.\nSome pieces just seemed confusing. 'Sinewave' was apparently\ninspired by a study of the geometry of melody. From what I could\nunderstand from the program\nnotes, the piece seeks to fuse the.\nmelody of a Scottish folk song with\nChinese instruments. While it\nsounds confusing, the results were\nmusically very rich and rewarding. I simply ignored what was\nwritten in the program and just listened to the piece, letting the\nmusic wash over me.\nHumour, it seems, was also in\nlarge supply at this concert Well-\nknown local composer Rodney\nSharman pitched in with two-\ntongue-in-cheek songs. The first,\n\"The Anglo-Tango\" has Mezzo-\nSoprano Barbara Ebbeson lamenting the plight of the Canadian dollar. It would seem that blame can\nbe placed squarely on the shoulders of Quebec. The second song,\n\"Be Prepared!\" was a hilarious\nhomage to Boy Scouts. Our performers went.all out, with pianist\nLeslie Dala donning merit badges,\nhat and all to get into the mood of\nthe piece.\nI can't say that I enjoyed every\npiece at Sonic Boom\u00E2\u0080\u0094a. few just\nseemed trite or perhaps beyond my\nmusical understanding. But ultimately. Some Boom and Pro-Musica\nhave captured my interest in contemporary music. After having\nheard some of the pieces at this concert this writer for one might be\nwilling to give contemporary music\na try. Maybe it's time for me to trade\nin those old classical music CDs for\nsome John Cage. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n THE UBYSSEY\nCULTURE\nTUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2001\nReTI-IIIMHIN6 HIP-HOP\nby Michelle Bastian\nfliiA'^\nSHE'S GOT TWO TURNTABLES: DJs were just part of the entertainment at Sistah'hood. nic fensom photo\nSISTAH'HOOD\nat Sonar\nMar. 8\nIt was International Women's\nDay and I was going to a hip-hop\n, night to celebrate. There was\nsomething incongruous about it\nand the little I did know of hip-\nhop did not cast it in a very emancipatory light. The men, the\nvideos, the lyrics, the butt-wiggling, its uninventive gender\nroles\u00E2\u0080\u0094it all seems more oppressive than something I would want\nto celebrate for International\nWomen's Day. By the end of the\nnight however, I had reworked\nmy opinions on the subject\nSistah'hood included a documentary, spoken-word performances, live bands, live free-style\nrapping, break-dancing, and\ngraffiti art While each piece had\nits own unique message, they all\nchallenged stereotypes of femininity. Taken together, they\nproved that being a woman was\nnot something that could be confined to the trinity of \"virgin,\"\n\"bitch,\" or \"whore.\" Instead, we\nwere met with ordinary women\nand goddesses, women who\nwere broken and strong, butch\nand femme, funny and serious,\nand many in-between.\nThe evening started with a\ndocumentary by Racheal\nRaimist called Nobody Knows\nMy Name. Exploring the lives of\nwomen in the hip-hop industry,\nthe film revealed the pressures\nthat women face in trying to\ncreate a reputation for themselves based on skill rather\nthan looks. While some, like\nMedusa, seemed to thrive on\nthe pressure, others were\nalmost broken by the lack of\nrecognition and respect that\nthey experienced.\nThe spoken word performances that followed dealt with a\ndiverse range of topics, including\noppression, violence, envy, love,\nchildhood, and poverty. I particularly enjoyed T.L. Cowan's piece\nabout her entrepreneurial lawn-\nmowing business and Ivan\nCoyote's trials with facial\ncleansers.\nZenobia started off the music\nfor the evening. With their\nbizarre but fascinating improv\nthey took a while to get used to,\nbut it was definitely worth the\neffort Next were Ndidi Cascade,\nMatriarch QB and Kia Kidiri who\neach performed separately but\njoined forces toward the end of\nthe evening. This was when I\nreceived my first experience of\nlive hip-hop. What impressed\nme most was the technical virtuosity these women displayed. QB\nthe Matriarch, in particular\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwith her mixtures of jazz, rap,\nand blues\u00E2\u0080\u0094was brilliant.\nUnfortunately, it is difficult to\nunderstand rap when you have\nnever listened to it before.\nThis section was the highlight of the evening for me. The\nspontaneity of the performances\u00E2\u0080\u0094many of which were improvised-enhanced the feeling that\nthis night was about the creation of art by women for\nwomen. It reinforced the importance of women's experiences\nand the validity of expressing\nthem in public. I found the experience inspiring, partly because\nof its rarity. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nadvertisement\nWhen my best wasn't enough ;.. fr^fl*\nAll my life, I've struggled to\nearn approval. My mother placed\nhigh expectations for herself and\nshe indirectly expected the same\nof me. I strove to meet her\nexpectations, but I couldn't. I\nbecame bitter and depressed\nabout myself. As I matured, I\nrealised that my family was just\nas imperfect. I had looked to the\nCosby Show as an example of the\nideal family. When I didn't see\nthis mirrored in my own family, I\nwas frustrated; they had failed\nmy expectations. So, I began to\nwithdraw from them.\nLooking back, I can see a\ndefinite pattern in the way I\nresponded to my inability to be\nperfect. This feeling of\nhelplessness stirred within me a\ndeep anxiety and self-hatred. I\ndidn't deserve love because I\ndidn't meet my standards. At\ntimes, I felt guilty because I\ncouldn't justify my existence by\nmy actions or my efforts to win\napproval. The yardstick by which\nI measured my value as a person\noften seemed like a tyrant that\ncondemned and accused me.\nSoon, I realised that my\nfamily wasn't meeting my\nexpectations for something\nspecific, love. I started searching\nfor love and acceptance\nelsewhere. What I found left me\neven more empty and dissatisfied\nbecause they were each in themselves unrealistic and deceptive.\nFinally, I reached a point where I\nharboured so much self-hatred\nthat I constantly entertained the\nidea of suicide. I was angry with\nmyself for failing to meet my\nmoral standards.\nI didn't deserve\nlove because I\ndidn't meet my\nstandards.\nDuring my inner struggles, I\nhad lost sight of God. Because of\nmy failures to live up to my\nexpectations, 1 arrived at the\nconclusion that even if He did\nexist, God would never love or\ncare for someone like me.\nIn my third year at UBC, my\nperception of how I related to\nGod changed radically. I met a\nfriend named Barry who shared\nabout Jesus with me in a manner\nthat was sincere and thoughtful.\nAt first, my reaction was, \"Come\non, I've heard all this before.\nWhy are you telling me some\nthing I already know?\" Yet, as he\ntalked more about Jesus, I\ngradually realised that God loved\nme in spite of my many failures\nto live up to my standards. In\nfact, Jesus rebuked those who\ntried to lead a perfect life by their\nown efforts. What He wanted me\nto dp was to admit, that I was\nunable to live that kind of life\nand to trust Him because He had\nmet not only my standards, but\nalso God's standards. For that\nreason, I could turn from self-\njustification to accept the work\nthat Jesus had done for me.\nThat's when my knowledge of\nJesus and His life began to\nchange the way I saw my family\nand myself. I now know 1 am\nloved completely by God,\nThough I sometimes still\nwrestle to earn the approval of\nothers, I know Jesus has\naccepted me. In fact, 1 know 1 can\nnever win God's love on my own\nterms or through my own efforts\nbecause He's given it to me\nalready. For He delights in me.\nWe welcome your comments or\nquestions. 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Stanley Tromp decided\nthat he wanted to be anywhere he might be considered hip. and kicked\nTom Peacock and Michelle Mossop out of the way Ron Nurwisah and\nLisa Denton immediately started making a list of things they might\nfeed the dragon for breakfast Ghita Loebenstein hit Nick Fensom on\nthe heed after he decided that he d keep the dragon in his doeet Sara\nYoung offered to bethe the dragon, but Tara Westover laughed st her\nsuggestion as she obviously didn't have a big enough bath tub. Tristan\nWinch flexed his mi 1 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0rise sod demanded that the argument come to\nan end. causing Daliah Meriabsn to cry out in fear and hide behind\nNicholas Bradley. Meanwhile, Laura Blue and Duncan M. McHugh\nJumped around for joy after realising that they could take the dragon\nroUerulading. Scott Bardslsy reflected on how the dragon might appreciate his political science das*, while Holland Gidney and Gregory\nUrsic clapped their hands at the thought of a new bosom friend.\nDoretta Lau and Bruce Arthur cried thinking that the dragon ought\nmiss his other dragon friends Ailin Choo wee in Grade) 10 and wrote\nabout it lor a provincial standardised test but apparently, she failed\nV\nCanadian\nUniversity\nPress\nCopyright still matters\nNapster users had a busy weekend. With a\nlegal boom about to be lowered on the free\nmusic Internet service, many of them spent\nhours frantically downloading songs from the\nInternet before it was too late.\nSome, such as *Web entrepreneur* Matt\nGoyer of Waterloo, Ontario, plotted to get\naround the coming end of Napster by setting\nup an offshore clone of the system. Others\ntried to organise a boycott of the recording\ncompanies that have fought Napster in court.\n'Napster may fall in the battle, but the war will\ncontinue,\" wrote someone who calls himself\nMerlin Thee [sic] Wizard on Napster's discussion page. 'Fair Warning to recording companies...face it, you are history!!!\"\nIt's always ugly when a free lunch comes to\nan end. For many months now, music lovers\nhave been able to get recordings for free by visiting the Napster site, typing in the name of\ntheir favourite songs and having the music\nappear, as if by magic, in their computers.\nNow that US court rulings are about to cut off\ntheir supply, they are acting as if they have\nbeen robbed of a God-given right.\nBut, of course, it is they who have been\ndoing the robbing. We at The Globe and Mail\nbelieve that downloading music from Napster\nwithout the creators' permission is no different than walking into a music store and slipping a CD into your pocket without paying for\nit. Musical recordings, like books, are protected by copyright. That means they belong to the\nmusicians and the recording companies that\ncreated them. When someone downloads a\nsong without paying, he is stealing from the\ncomposer who wrote it, the singer who performed it, and the company that produced and\ndistributed it.\nYet many Napster users have managed to\nconvince themselves that what they are doing\nis perfectly harmless. Some even claim they\nare doing the world a favour by battling the\ngreedy music industry, promoting free expression and pioneering the frontier of the\nInternet.\nIt's not harmless. Copyright is a vital safeguard for musicians, as it is for writers and\nartists, and, indeed, newspapers. Without it,\nthe works they produce can be reproduced and\ntraded at will, undermining their livelihood.\nThat recording companies are big and some\nmusicians are rich does not make stealing\ntheir music any more excusable. For all their\nposing, those who use Napster to download\nunauthorised music are not rebels or pioneers\nor crusaders against censorship. They are\nthieves, not unlike those who reprint newspaper articles without permission.\nThey may not be the sort of people who will\nsteal your car or break into your house, but\nthey are the sort who file fake welfare claims\nor refuse to repay their student loans. This sort\nof thievery is every bit as destructive as the\nsmash-and-grab kind, perhaps more so, especially when we at Canada's National\nNewspaper are the ones being robbed. Our\nsociety works better than most because most\npeople respect and obey the law. Once one\nkind of cheating becomes socially permissible,\nas downloading music has become, other\nkinds are sure to follow. It's a slippery ethical\nslope. As long as 'everyone's doing it,\" it\nbecomes easier to cheat on your taxes or pad\nyour expenses or bilk the credit-card company.\nWe at The Globe and Mzil find Internet\nmusic theft worrisome enough because of the\ndamage it does to the music industry and the\nthreat it poses to honest commerce on the Net.\nBut what's really disturbing is what it says\nabout the ethics of the Internet generation,\nthose awful little children. And if we ever catch\nthem stealing from us, then we will know that\nthis generation is truly immoral. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nLETTERS\nAbortion breaks\nLifeliners' hearts\nJason Rothery was perfectly correct\nwhen he concluded his letter to the\nUbyssey (\"Exposing the horror of\norigami,\" Letters [Mar. 6]) by saying\n'Lifeline members'jaws...won't stop\nwagging.* As long as children keep\ndying, because they are denied the\nlegal status of personhood, we will\nkeep talking about this issue. We do\nnot stand in front of the Genocide\nAwareness Project (GAP) because we\nare dissenters who like to make a\nscene or because we are pawns of\nsome American organisation Every\ntime we turn around to face the\nimages we are advocating and see\nthe picture of an 1 ljweek-old decapitated baby our hearts break\u00E2\u0080\u0094our\nhearts break because every day one\nperson's life becomes less important than another person's choice.\nWe are shocked when we hear\nthe Journal of Medical Ethics\n(Jonathan Berkowitz, 1995) report\nthat girls in the tenth week of development are killed in utero and their\novaries are stripped clean so that the\neggs can be planted in women who\nare unable to conceive. It is absurd\nthat a woman can be carrying some\nsort of \"non-human tissue clump\"\nwhich is carrying something very\nhumanly unique to women which\nwill become human itself when combined with sperm and given a new\nwoman to carry it\nWe are horrified when we hear\nthat even though abortion advocates\nsaid that babies could not feel pain (a\nstatement later recalled), the Journal\nof the American Medical Association\n(L Sprang and M. Neerhof, 1998)\nreports that \"The pain management\npracticed for an intact D&X on a\nhuman foetus would not meet the\nfederal standards for the humane\ncare of animals used in medical\nresearch.\" As abortion doctor Dr.\nWarren Hern says, \"the sensations of\ndismemberment flow through the\nforceps like an electric current,\"\n(What About Us? Staff Reactions to\nD&E, 1978). Vincent Collins et al in\nStudies in Law and Medicine conclude that \"neurological structures\nnecessary for pain sensation are in\nplace as early as eight weeks [and]\nthe first detectable brain activity\noccurs in the thalamus between the\neighth and tenth weeks.\"\nAs for abortion qualifying as\ngenocide (\"Lifeline's reasoning\nflawed,\" Letters [Mar. 6]), \"genocide\"\nis defined in Webster's New World\nEncyclopaedia (1992) as \"the deliberate and systematic destruction of a\nnational, racial, religious, political,\ncultural, ethnic, or other group\ndefined by the exterminators as\nundesirable.\" The undesirable\ngroup in this case is the unwanted\nchildren. Nearly one in every three\npregnancies are ending this way.\nAbortion has become the most common surgical procedures, a procedure which in itself breaks a heart\nAnd it appears that other people's hearts aren't broken until they\nhave to see what abortion actually\ndoes. After standing at a GAP display, I have seen people stop and\nstare. Then they begin to talk. And\nwhen I hear someone tell me that\nthey could never have an abortion, I\nknow that they share my broken\nheart and that because of the shock\nand sadness we both feel when we\nsee the images, another baby will be\nborn.\n-Jaclyn VanderHorst\nHuman Kinetics 2\nLifeline member\n THE UBYSSEY\nCULTURE\nTUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2001\n11\nTHE DEATH OF FILM\nat the Sugar Refinery\nMar. 7\nThis month's coiffing title for Cineworks'\nCinematic Salon was the ludicrously overdra-\nmatic The Death of Film. Schlock Horror, you\nmay ask? Well, not quite. You have to say it\nwith your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.\nWednesday's chat was led by experimental\nfilmmaker Ken Anderlini, who was full of\nenough pungent sarcasm to spark the Sugar\nRefinery's walls with the yabbering of audience opinion. An interesting speaker regardless of the topic of conversation, Anderlini\nsure is passionate. Through passioa by his\nown proclamation, he has gone so far as to\nmake film his fetish. So why does he want to\ntalk about the death of his great passion? As he\nclimbed onto his stool to talk to an electric\ncrowd of filmmakers, teachers, industry types,\nand film buffs, Anderlini explained that it was\nnot the killing of 'film' per se that he was there\nto talk about, but the foreboding extinction of\nthe 16mm format and of experimental film.\nSince his stint in film school in 1988,\nAnderlini has been involved in various experimental film projects including his Tangled\nGarden trilogy (1992-94), has worked in various film festivals including the Vancouver\nInternational Film Festival, and currently\nteaches in art and cultural studies at Simon\nFraser University. During his time in the\nindustry, he has noticed a trend of disinterest\nin experimental film.\nAccording to Anderlini, the 'death of film*\nwill come about because of the expense of\npost-production processes and the problem of\ndistributing independent film in Canada. For\nthose not versed in the particular nuances of\nfilm-speak, much of the discussion seemed to\ngrab at the traditional 'lack of funding for\nexperimental arts\" maxim. With digital technology steaming its way through the industry,\nit has become less economically viable\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nless popular\u00E2\u0080\u0094to fund projects using obsolete\nmediaslike 16 mm.\nThose that are in with the lingo would have\nappreciated comments like, the 'aesthetic\nrationale of convergence* is an 'excuse by\nCanada Council to cut funding.* For the rest of\nus, flamboyant statements, like \"It's insane\nhow much money this government gives away\nto the arts\u00E2\u0080\u0094nobody cares about artistry...' were\namusing flags signaling that this was the part\nof the discussion where those two great foes,\nart and money, met up for a little workout\n'Why have I wasted so much money on\nfilm?* Anderlini cried, his tongue nearly\nshooting straight through his cheek this time.\nWell, because clearly he is passionate about\nthe medium.\n'What's exciting about 16mm is grain,' he\nsaid. For Anderlini, \"It's about colour, aesthetic, grain, scratching....' He is in love with the\naesthetic of 16mm. Well, aren't most great\nloves based on physical attraction?\nRandom images\u00E2\u0080\u0094Granville Street buses,\nkitchen sinks stacked with plates, naked bodies, paint, window frames, and home movies\nflickered on the screen behind Anderilini.\nSome were collaged through double exposure,\nothers affected by time-lapse. They were the\nstuff that he talked about\u00E2\u0080\u0094raw, grainy images\nflushed with colour and texture.\nThe fact that 16mm is a fetish for Anderlini\nis easily understandable. Its appeal is both\nvisual and tactile\u00E2\u0080\u0094just watching it makes you\nby Ghita Loebenstein\nwant to grab a couple of frames and start splicing. \"You become obsessed with the material\nof film\u00E2\u0080\u0094of going over frame after frame,' he\nexplained.\n'I look forward to the digital effect of 'dust'\non film,' he said. \"I've seen the digital effect of\n'scratches.\" But that's just the thing\u00E2\u0080\u0094and a\npoint that came across from the now excitable\naudience members: digital can achieve all the\naesthetic effects that 16mm can\u00E2\u0080\u0094it can mimic\nthe scratches, the dust, the 'grain.' It's just that\nit's not as satisfying to achieve by clicking a\nmouse button.\nWhile digital technology makes sense in\nterms of accessibility, cost and time, for\nAnderlini 'digital hasn't made my life any\nmore exciting\u00E2\u0080\u0094they're just different tools.'\nAnd the answers? Well, there weren't any\nreally. For now, Anderlini sees the extinction of\n16mm as \"a call to fetishise it and make it as\nsexy as Super 8.* Does that mean that only the\nreally hip (and really rich) will be using 16mm\nin years to come? His advice to 16mm followers is to keep doing what you're doing. \"Keep\nsupporting the marginalised things you do and\nfind new ways to produce and distribute.\" \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nTHEuBYSSEY\nPopulation; 20\nYour Bridge\nTowards A\nNatural\nHealing\nreer\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB\nSjuthern California University of\nHealth Sciences (SCU) is your\nbridge to a natural healing career.\nA career that offers security,\nsuccess and the satisfaction of\nhaving a positive impact on the\nquality of human life. 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