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Ti \"\n' \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 67 IK-\n---I\n* \"t\nJ I - I r I 11 i -S r\\rV vonmrt? pur;i? ;\n.r .Y.V? .<.--\n'?\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-*/::- OI Friday. October 20.2000\n>...Servieesb^A >v.\nPage Fridav-the Ubvssev Magazine\nCLASSIFIEDS\nAccommodation\nROOM AND BOARD ACCOMMO- i\nDATION AVAILABLE FOR WOMEN ;\nAND MEN IN SINGLE & SHARED\n(DOUBLE) ROOMS IN TOTEM\nPARK & PUCE VANIER RESIDENCES. The UBC Housing Office hm\nvacancies in single and shared (double) '\nrooms in the junior residences for Sep- \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\ntember. Room and board (meal plan) is ;'\navailable in the Totem Park and Place !-'\nVanier student residences for qualified i\nfemale and male applicants in single and;\nshared (double) rooms on a first-come- ;\nfirst-served basis. 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In an effort to enrich andl\ndevelop the social and cultural climate^\nat UBG, The Innovative Projects\nfund, (IPF) provides those with^\nsuch a vision, the financial\nJ>acking to brings\ntheir idea to\nfruition.\nFind out how 30\nseconds of your\ntime can affect\nyour education.\nSo, If you think you have a really good idea,\ndrop by SUB 238 and pick up an application.\nDeadline for submissions: November 10 2000\nSign a\npostcard\nin the\nconcourse\ntoday.\nI am a student at UBC in youi riding and I am\nvery concerned about the future of my\neducation. Students are facing education costs\nthat are rising every year. My university is\nslowly crumbling as administration is forced\nto defer maintenance for lack of funding.\nI ask you to discuss this issue with your\ncolleagues in Parliament Tell them that\nCanada's post-secondary students and\ninstitutions need theii help. 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De iB Squl, tes Nubians, Chru 2Nft,pp UJyaef JeflN,\n;7: ;'^7 >-; \u00E2\u0096\u00A0' Y'\u00C2\u00AB'!. uiwui.l>l\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00ABs.\u00C2\u00AB*mY:Y\nInternational University Fair\n40 Universities from U^\ny Monday, October 23, 6jp.rrV-9 pCmSJ y\n^ Pacific Hotel\n:s7:;'4^/'5fcM^J^&.57- \u00E2\u0080\u00A2-:\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 :'7\n:;::7': 7 -. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 M- ^Richmona^tf'S^\nFREE ADMISSION\nwww.pennybissett.com\nToll Free: 1-866-226-2322\nStocking up for\nfederal election\nUBC program predicts\nelection results more\naccurately than polling\nby Sarah Morrison\nWith a federal election call expected\nthis weekend, election junkies will\nhave a chance to put some money\nbehind their preferred politicians,\nthanks to a Faculty of Commerce\nproject\nThe accuracy of the Election\nStock Market (ESM) at predicting\nelection results has led some to\ncompare it to the electoral polling\nsystem. The ESM began\nissuing stocks for federal\nelections in 1993 and BC\nprovincial elections in\n1996.\nThe ESM has estimated election results that\nhave been close to actual\nelection day results\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nhas at times been more\naccurate than national\npolls.\nIn the 1997 federal\nelection, the ESM estimated that the\nLiberal Party would receive a 51 per\ncent of the seats in the House of\nCommons, while the Reform Party\nwould receive 21.9 per cent of these\nseats. In actuality,\nthe Liberal and\nReform parties\nreceived 51.5 and\n19.1 per cent of the\nseats respectively.\n'Somehow they\ndo better. They use\nthe poll information,\nand they add something to it,' Tom\nRoss, co-director of\nthe program, said of\nthe traders.\nThe ESM, which\nis designed to help\nin research and\nteaching, works\nmuch like a regular\nstock market.\nTraders may invest\nbetween $5 and\n$1500 in the shares\nof various political\nparties, buying and\nselling shares on the ESM website.\nAfter an election, the program\npays traders a fraction of each share\nproportional to the number of seats\nthe party wins.\nIn 1993, the program attracted\n250 traders, who collectively invested $30,000 in shares for that year's\nfederal election.\nRoss said the ESM is more accurate than polls partly because it\ncompels people to predict the outcome of an election more accurately since they have money riding on\nthe result\nROSS\n\"Somehow\n[the Election\nStock\nMarkets] do\nbetter. They\nuse the poll\ninformation,\nand they add\nsomething\nto it.\"\nOn the other hand, people may\nchange their minds after they're\npolled, he said.\nDespite this accuracy in predicting election outcomes, UBC political\nscience professor Richard Johnston\nsaid the ESM should not necessarily\nreplace traditional polling.\nPoIIj, he said, provide information that the ESM does not consider,\nincluding the categories of people\nwho vote for each political party,\nwhich issues are dividing\nvoters, and how voters see\nthe leaders relative to one\nanother.\n'Polls, because they\nare going to reflect the\nimmediate ebb and flow\nof events, may actually be\na less powerful predictor.\nBut what polls can give\nyou is other information,\nif you're willing to go to\nthe trouble and expense,'\nsaid Johnston, adding that the differences between polls and the ESM\nmake comparisons between the two\ndifficult\nUnlike polls, he said, the ESM is\nnot designed to give\npeople an idea of\ncurrent opinion, but\nis a forecasting\nmechanism.\n'It's asking you,\n'What do you think\nit's going to be on\nelection day?\"\nJohnston said.\nThe ESM started\nselling shares on\nOctober 9 for the\nupcoming federal\nelection, which\nPrime Minister Jean\nChretien is expected\nto call on Sunday.\nMark\nThompson, a UBC\nCommerce profes-\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tom Ross,\nESM program sor participating in\nco-director ^sye^ESM,\nsaid. It s an inexpensive way for\nindividuals like ourselves to see\nhow the political process is running.'\nFor the first time this year, the\nprogram is being sponsored by the\nNational Post The daily national\nnewspaper will cover administration expenses involved with the\nESM, excluding professors' salaries.\n'Compared to the cost of doing a\nnational poll, we're cheap,' commented Ross. 'And yet you do that\npoll, and you end up with one snapshot how Canada feels on a specific\nday.' \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\ncprrtf come cprne come cpnrie\ncbiHp cpmp come\ncome tome come come cpme\ncome to UBYSSEY staff meetings^\neverydrt 4 welcome, bring yr lunch,\nWednesdays 12:30pm, SUB 241K. Page Fridav-the Ubyssey Magazine\nNews\nFriday. October 20.20001\nInjustice against women put on trial\n by Julia Christensen\nHundreds of women and a small\nnumber of men gathered Tuesday to\nwitness the Women's Rights\nTribunal, BC's contribution to the\neight-month World March of\nWomen.\nThe tribunal, held at the\nVancouver Aboriginal Friendship\nCentre, put 'oh trial' what women's\ngroups consider 'major culprits' of\npoverty and violence in women's\nlives.\nThe World March of Women is a\ncampaign involving over 5000 groups\nin 57 countries and territories.\nFive high profile feminists sat on\nthe panel while 20 women's groups\nacted as witnesses, testifying their\naccounts Of injustice against\nwomea\nPrime Minister Jean Chretien,\nfederal Finance Minister Paul\nMartin, and Vancouver Chief of\nPolice Perry Blythe were asked to\nappear at the tribunal, but none\naccepted the invitation.\n\"The tribunal was a forum for us\nto raise issues on how governments\nand other organisations contribute\nto women's inequality. The witnesses were there to act as voices for all\nwomen, especially marginalised\nwomen,' said Audrey Johnson, a\nVancouver Status of Women\nspokesperson who also helped\norganise the event\nThe women's groups contend that\ngovernment funding cuts are making\nit difficult for women to find the\nresources necessary to improve situations involving violence or poverty.\nGayle Nye, equity officer for BC\nGovernment and Service\nEmployees' Union, said the tribunal\nemphasised that injustice towards\nwomen happens all over the world.\n\"It was key to show that women's\nexperiences of violence and poverty\noccur both locally and globally,\" she\nsaid.\n. Women's group representatives\nexpressed disappointment regarding the low male attendence at the\nfunction and the lack of mainstream\ncoverage of the tribunal.\n'; \"Without participation by these\ntwo key groups at an event such as\nthis, you are, in a sense, already\npreaching to the converted/ said\nWendy Potter, a counsellor and outreach worker with Women Against\nViole nee Against Wome n.\nJohnson agreed, and added that\nthe absence of media coverage did\nnot come as a surprise. 'It just\nshows the lack of seriousness and\nimportance given to women's\nissues/ she asserted.\nJane Bouey, a regional representative for the National Action\nCommittee on the Status of Women,\nsaid that the organising committee\nhad hoped that the tribunal would\ncompel women to 'take up the\ndemands of the World March and\nhave more energy and strength in\nraising those issues and pushing for\nchahge.\"\nPotter said she felt that the idea\nof organising a tribunal was an original method for presenting women's\nexperience.\n\"By holding a 'trial' like that, it\ndefinitely showed the criminal\nnature behind the violation of\nwomen's rights,\" she said.\n\"With a federal election fast\napproaching, it's important that we\nwork with one another to rriobilise\nand demand that an end come to\nviolence and poverty in women's\nlives.' \u00E2\u0099\u00A6>\nQuebec legislation threatens street demos, say activists\nby Joslyn Qosenbrug\nThe McGill Daily\nMONTREAL (CUP)-New legislation in Quebec\nhas made it illegal for people to block traffic,\nin order to make streets safer for drivers and\npedestrians. Some people, though, think that\nthe new rule will allow police to break up\npeaceful demonstrations.\nBill 130, an amendment to the Highway\nSafety Code, allows police to fine people who\nare blocking traffic to the tune of $350 to\n$1050 for a first offence, and $3500 to\n$10,500 for subsequent offences.\nOrganisers of events that block traffic are subject to fines of $3000 to $9000 for first offences\nand $9000 to $27,000 for subsequent offences.\nThe legislation also gives police the authority to\nseize equipment used to create the roadblock.\nDee LeComte, a member of the group\nCitizens Opposed to Police Brutality, said that\nthe most marginalised sectors of society will\nbe most affected by the legislation\u00E2\u0080\u0094not only\ndo they have the most reason to demonstrate,\nthey have the least ability to pay the fines.\n\"It puts restraints on protesting so that only\none type of protesting will be allowed\u00E2\u0080\u0094that\nwhich can be controlled by the state/ she said.\nPhil flijevsky, chair of the Quebec Wing of\nthe Canadian Federation of Students, agrees,\nand says that the bill is meant to outlaw street\nprotests. He believes the change i3 not about\nsafety at all, but about attempting to prevent\nlarge demonstrations and giving the local\npolice the authority to end them.\n'If [police] want to, it gives them those powers\nto be able to stop individuals, charge them heavily, and tie them up in the court system,\" he said.\nBut Edith Rochette, press secretary for\nQuebec Minister of Transportation Guy\nChevrette, who introduced the bill, disagrees.\nShe argues that it is not the demonstrations\nthat are being prohibited, but the roadblocks.\n'It is not illegal to protest, it is illegal to\nblock roadways/ she said. Rochette points out\nthat some kinds of protests\u00E2\u0080\u0094such as one last\nOctober in which almost 1800 truckers\nblocked roads in protest against rising gas\nprices-affect the delivery of food, medicine,\nand fuel, which she says is unacceptable.\n\"We cannot condone using roadblocks as a\ncontinuous means of pressure while people\nare being deprived of essential goods/ said\nRochette.\nflijevsky said that this legislation puts students at a significant disadvantage, because\nfor students, demonstrating is the only way to\nbe heard by the government and the public.\n\"We're not on equal footing with the government in terms of resources,\" he said. 'If we\nwere on equal footing we'd be able to get\nthrough to the public. But in terms of\nresources, what we have is people power, people getting into the streets.\" \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nNICE 'N' GREASY: UBC food outiots\nreceive theii weekly supply of grease,\nensuring another seven days of ourcjers\nand fries. This week's shipment was\ndelayed when a groi'p of seayul's\nattacked ttudt *3, Ever resourceful, a\nnew item has appeared on menus a.:i\nover campus.\nTARA WESTOVER PHOTO\nEnjoy a career and a lifestyle you've always dreamed of.\nHelp others achieve their goals while you achieve yours.\nChoose a career as an Edward Jones investment representative.\nEdward Jones investment representatives specialize in helping individual\ninvestors and small-business owners achieve their financial goals. To do this,\nthey run their businesses from branch offices located in the communities where\ntheir clients live and work. It takes a lot of hard work, but the rewards are well\nworth it. The harder you work and more effective you are, the more you earn.\nIt's that simple. 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'Earle Birney, the famous\nCanadian poet, was teaching creative writing at the\ntime and he felt that where the English department\nwas headed and where writing was headed was\ndiverging.*\nMany felt that tha English department's 'quasi-scientific* approach to literary analysis was too stifling for\naspiring writers.\n\"If you establish a limiting screen before you've even gotten into creative thhiking, it's like editing yourself before you ve started,*\nsays Schroeder,. .\nBirney came to teach at UBC, his alma mater, in 1946, on the condition\nthat he could teach creative writing. He was given that chance and his\ncourse became the first of its kind in, Canada, In the Mowing years, he\nspearheaded the movement to gain autonomy for creative writing, a goal\nfinally realised in 1965. In many ways, il was a decision that benefitted\neveryone involved\n\"I think it's been healthy for both sides,* says Schroeder, 'It's allowed\nthe creative writing department to stretch itself into all kinds of other genres that wouldn't have been covered by the English department* These\ninclude two new areas not offered in most creative writing programs.\n'There are two areas that are developing very fast screenwriting is really building fast, and literary non-fiction. Those are the two youngest programs we have, so that makes sense. Both of them haw started within the\nlast decade and it took them awhile to get settled and going. So that's what's\nbooming at the moment.\"\nThis sort of diversity has given students the advantage in what is, traditionally, a very, difficult industry. With a grad book that could 'choke a\nhorse/ the program has provided students with tangible results,\n'The students here, by the time they leave, many of them have complete\nbooks, published, not just written/ says Schroeder. 'My entire non-fiction\nclass last year all had a book published since they've left That was 14 kids.\"\nEvidence of this success can be felt closer to home.\n'People have accused the Sun of making Mix [the Vancouver Sun's\nSaturday supplement} a publication entirely written by UBC creative writing students/ says Schroeder. 'We sell (the stories| ^ crazy, all the time'\nNot that prominence is anything new for the program, now a part of the\ntheatre, film and creative writing department In 1998, Stephanie Bolster\nwon the Governor General's Award for poetry. The department's alumni\nincludes the likes of George Bowering, Robert Bringhurst, Bill Gaston,\nDaphne Martatt, Tom Wayman, Morris Panych, Fred Wah, Lynn Coady, and\nmany more.\nToday, the Ubyssey looks at five current and former UBC Creative\nWriting students. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n-Duncan M McHugh\n7f:ip9H'7\"- 0 g v \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n77i7*:'77B,J' Y \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 : \u00E2\u0096\u00A0,\u00C2\u00A3\nh\n'\T\n:f\n<\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0!\n1\n-i\ni'F.u-li&iifsri '\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\" \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n.'l*ti1r'i!i{! ,7: .\n^ - * *\n-. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 h r/-' 1:'\nftl^tW7^iili07'''o\nt\nPUSH\nFriday. October 20.2QQQI\nfate.\nfa-*-. &$&%?\n*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0* .\u00C2\u00BBas\u00C2\u00BB j**\nK\" ^ ;$\u00C2\u00A7\u00C2\u00A3\u00E2\u0080\u00A2' f \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nKV.'-'T'C*. /\nby Michelle Mossop\nLee Henderson crosses his legs and sips at his espresso, cutting his\nstrawberry-glazed danish into delicate pieces, and announces that he\nwon't call himself a writer because it sounds too effete.\n\"It sounds like you're a pansy, like you're a total loser.*\nStill, all indications are that he's a writer. He's a Master of Fine\nArts student in creative writing at UBC, and has received a lot of\nattention recently\u00E2\u0080\u0094for writing. His short story, \"Sheep Dub,' was\nfirst published in Grain literary magazine in the spring of 1999. The\nstory was then nominated for the fiction prize at the National\nMagazine Awards this summer and Henderson walked away with an\nHonourable Mention.\nSo maybe Lee Henderson is a total loser. That is, if total losers get\nhonourable mentions at the National Magazine Awards, get published in the Journey Prize Anthology, and get called one of the 'ten\nmost vaunted' new writers by the Vancouver Sun. All of this by the\nage of 2 5.\nStill, he insists that he's not a writer. He just happens to write.\n\"That's like some strange North American phenomenon/ he says\nabout the tendency to ask \"So, what do you do?' He puts down his\nknife and fork, and lets out a soft laugh, shaking his head.\n*-\u00C2\u00A3*\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'Nsl\n1 %\n^}\"\":>^i\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0V\n1 .<\n'\V r-N'7 !\n7 V/.V '-*TU \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n- - g.\u00C2\u00AB\..\u00C2\u00BB.y mf .\n\"What a dumb way to start small\ntalk. I mean most people don't have\njobs they enjoy. What if I waxed floors\nfull-time? How does waxing floors say\nanything about me?' He picks up his\nfork again and pokes at the remains of\nhis pastry.\n'['Sheep Dub'] only got recognition\nbecause it's a story about the relationship\nbetween a brother and a sister\u00E2\u0080\u0094people in publishing in this countiy\nlike that Canadiana, family stuff/ Henderson shrugs, struggling to fit\nhis fingers in the small handle of the espresso cup.\nIn 1994, Henderson moved to Vancouver from Saskatchewan. In\n1996, he enrolled in the creative writing department at UBC, and in\n1998, received his degree. Henderson then worked at various jobs,\nincluding clerical work at UBC Press. Although he says that this experience was great for learning about publishing, Henderson then\nrealised that he wanted to write. \"I thought 'Do I really want to do thi3\nforever, or do I really, really Want to make something out of writing?\"\nToday, Henderson is now back at school, in the first year of his\nmaster's degree.\n\"The thing that confuses me is the romantic idea that all writers\nhave to learn by going and living in a hovel, or somewhere in Paris,\"\nhe says. 'I think school is a great place to learn how to write.'\nHenderson remembers thinking that his first degree in creative\nwriting would be narcissistic, that it would just develop his own self-\nabsorption. But now he says that the program's structure allows students to 'learn and share\" your ideas and writing styles with each\nother.' Y\nHe jumps up from his seat as if he is just remembering something. 'Oh! Call me a student Iwill just forever tell people I am a student from now on.*\nHenderson grins, and finishes the last drops of hi3 coffee. Behind\nhim, outside the cafe's window, the Saturday afternoon bustle at the\nintersection of Broadway and Granville causes Henderson to spin\naround.\nHe squints as the sun glares through his thick-framed glasses,\nand swivels back to watch a someone come through the door. He\nleans forwards, as if he is about to tell a secret\n\"You know, we can't sit still for more than a couple of minutes.\"\nThis is why fewer people read today, believes Henderson. \"The\nwriting doesn't relate to the way people think these days,\" he\nexplains. \"There's this real cultural tendency towards channel surfing.'-\nBut Henderson has a way to cope: hypertext\n'Don't worry/ he assures. \"We are already using it People just\ndon't recognise the language.\" He tries to think of an example.\n\"The Internet is hypertext,\" he says. \"When you click on something and then it sends you somewhere, that's called a hyperlink.\nThe general structure of the Internet is based on this notion of a\nhypertext novel.\"\nHenderson wants to mix text, video, and audio to play with the\nlinear tradition of storytelling./I think that linearity has a place in\ncertain circumstances, but it is a very limiting structure/ he says.\n\"There are a lot of possibilities with hypertext'\nHenderson's interest in different ways of communicating stems\nfrom his varied artistic background. He's performed with musician\nJohn Cage, where he played video games in sequences orchestrated\nby Cage. He also drew the animation for a Sonic Youth music video.\nBut writing is something, as a kid, Henderson never thought he'd be\ndoing.\n'Other than writing really bad poetry about suffering in high\nschool, I never thought I'd be doing this,\" he says as he shifts\nuncomfortably in his seat, clearly bored about talking about himself.\nHe steers the conversation towards his experiences working at\nMcDonald's as a teenager.\n\"You know, they don't actually cook their burgers there. You just\ndrop down this plate and you fiy them, then you put them in a\nsteamer/ he says, \"It's not so much disgusting as it is just weird.\"\nHe pauses, smirks, and asks for permission to tell something\nreally disgusting.\n'Okay, so it was really late. I was standing at the grill then and all\nof a sudden, I heard this sizzling noise...I was drooling, like right\nonto the grill.' He makes a loud 'shhhl' noise, attracting the attention from other customers in,the cafe. He looks around, laughing.\nHe becomes quiet, though, when asked what he's working on\nnext Henderson is reluctant to say anything other than that something is in negotiations with a publisher. It's taking a lot of research\nand looks like its going to be 'really, really, really long.'\nHe smiles apologetically, not wanting to give me an answer. He\ndoesn't want to jinx himself.\n'It's kind of the same reason as being called a writer.\"\nHenderson laughs. 'It's even Worse when you try to prove it But\npeople don't care. They wax floors.' \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nby James Hvezda\nImagine your mother. Put her in a\ngreen cotton shirt Tint her hair to a fine\nshade of gray. Add a stroke of rich charcoal, and make\nit short befitting a woman in her late fifties, a Canadian woman,\na feminist, an author. Now give her a name. Daphne. Daphne Marlatt\nThis is the story of a woman born in Australia to refugee parents, the\nstory of a woman who lived in Malaysia but grew up in North Van, trying to forget the embarrassing fact that she was not from around here,\nthe story of a woman who discovered her identity through feminism\nand literature. A history.\n.We begin with a place. Daphne lives in one of a set of brightly painted townhouse in the middle of a block in Strathcona, across from a park.\nThe courtyard is thick with vegetation When she opens the door to her\nhome, she's got a cup of hot green tea in her hand.\n\"Would you like some?'\n'Sure/\nSoon we are inside Daphne's home, sheltered from the Vancouver\ndrizzle. A large white dog sniffs at my crotch and growls ominously as\nDaphne gestures to a woman pouring tea in the kitchen. \"This is my\npartner,\" she says.\nAfter saying hello, her partner picks up her tea and explains she will\nbe upstairs, out of our way. I watch her move quietly up the wooden\nsteps to my right There is nothing visible beyond the upper reaches of\nthe stairs.\nWe settle in the small living room, where Daphne sits cross-legged\noh a gray couch facing me. Both of us are sipping tea and testing the\nwaters of conversation. The wooden floor under our feet is covered by a\nthrow rug, and in the corner rests a silent wood-burning stove, unlit\nGray light drifts in from the window behind Daphne and settles on the\nblue trim of the walls.\nShe re-crosses her legs and looks intently into my eyes, as if studying\nme, reading me like a book, writing me down in the pages of her history, writing me into her narrative.\nFirst Daphne talks of her youth, of her days at UBC.\n'I did a double major in English literature and creative writing. Earle\nBirney was just setting up tlie creative writing pro6ri:n when I was\nthere'.\n'Ihe highlight of her lime at UBC was the 1963 wntirg conference.\n'It was like a summer waling school We were steeped m writing. It was\na marvelous experience for ajoung wiiler but it ga\e me writer's block\nf -t it. j:.!hs afterwards.'\nShe also remembers Warren\nTallman. \"I took an English 200 and a\nmodern poetry class where Warren made\nme listen to the music of the language.\nThat was so important, to learn that poetry\nexisted in sound, not just as something on\nthe page.'\nThe soft hum of her voice mingles with the\nsound of rain. She does not fight to be heard.\nPerhaps she is speaking to the tape recorder, the machine. To compensate, I lean into the conversation, stretch to catch the words as they float\npast She wants me to listen. It is the art of language she wants me to\nhear, the musical and the political. And she knows how important form\nis.\n'Language itself has all kinds of conventions. It forces you to start\nthinking about the assumptions that are embedded in them.' In her\nown writing, she challenges these conventions. Ana Historic, for example, mixes history and fictioa and maintains a self-awareness throughout\nIn her work, Daphne often focuses on history as something that\nneeds to be reclaimed by women. \"For me there's the textual place, and\nthen there's the physical place. History is a long progression from past\nto present The problem with narrative is that it doesn't always end the\nway people want it to end. Narrative is a fascinating thing. Most of people's everyday conversation is narrative. I like to swim against the narrative current'\nPerhaps this desire to go against convention is part of being a feminist, part of growing up a female writer among men, part of the ongoing\nfight to prove that she isn't 'just a groupie romanticised out of [her]\nmind from hanging out with male poets/\nIn fact, it was after discovering feminist literature that Daphne published \"Salvage,\" a collection of poems that she had re-written in light of\nwhat she had learned. These poems focus on women and how they are\ndefined in a male dominated society. As she states in the poem \"River\nRun,\" 'what's at issue here is whether women can enter the culture AS\nwomen.'\nDaphne's partner is shuffling around upstairs. They live together in\na home that clearly belongs to women. I am not an intruder, simply\nextraneous. Non-essential. Perhaps this is what it means for women to\nlive AS women.\nMarlatt has published a number of poems that deal with women and\ntheir relationship to men. She says that she is unhappy with the low\nvalue that poetry carries in modern society.\n'Poetry is undervalued a3 a genre in our culture, Foibfching has\nbecome such a large industry in Canada that every book is marketed in\nterms of 'is this marketable,' or how large of an audience can it reach,\nbut you can't gauge the value of poetry.' Although Daphne has been relatively successful with her poetry, she laments the fact that it is still\n'always hard to make it as a writer.'\nShe wanted to be a writer, but the belief in herself was long in coming. Her role models were all male. Before coming to UBC, she hadn't\neven heard of Virginia Woolf. Now Woolf is a role model. Things have\nchanged. 'Your generation is so lucky, because you have access to older\nwomen writers like Margaret Atwood/\n- She talks of typewriters and her creative space. I can almost picture\nher leaning over her typewriter to cross out a word. But here on the\ncouch she barely moves. She pauses before she speaks. It is as if she is\nturning bits of conversation over in her head before speaking.\nSuddenly there's movement in her eyes.\n\"I just returned from Banff. I was working there oneon-one with\nfemale writers...They can't come for the regular five-week program\nbecause they have kids, and you can't leave a small child alone for that\nlong.\" She is proud of these women.\nIn a couple of days, Daphne is leaving to speak at a girl's college in\nJapan.\n'I've never been there before, so I'm looking forward to it' By\nspring, her latest collection of poetry, This Tremor Love Is, will be\nreleased. For now, she poses proudly beside a photograph taken by Ray\nKiyooka before following me to the door. She lingers on the porch, her\nsmall frame shivering in the archway. 'Goodbye/ she says, and then\nslips effortlessly away. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 Friday. October 20.2000\n8\n#\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Dh\nby Kim The\nMeet Fred Wah. As a teen, he used to\nplay the trumpet in a jazz band called\nThe Kampus Kings, and now at the\nage of 61, he still grooves to jazz\ntunes by his favourites, such as\nKeith Jarrett and Miles Davis.\nHe's now a vegetarian, cooks a\nlot of tofu and veggie stirfry,\nloves a good bowl of jook\n(Chinese rice soup), but also\nadmits to missing lop cheong\n(Chinese sausage). He hikes\nmountains, rides his new mountain bike in the city, and builds\nhouses in his spare time. At least\nthat's how his personal ad might read.\nHe sounds like a typical, down-to-earth.\nWest Coast Canadian. But he's also a prolific poet who has penned 16 volumes of\npoetry and has garnered three awards.\nHell, he doesn't even live anywhere near\nthe coast\n. Wah's book of prose-poetry, Waiting for\nCulture\nPage Fridav-the Ubyssey Magazine\nSaskatchewan, received the\nGovernor General's Award\ni .in 1986, and So Far was\nawarded the Stephanson\nAward for poetry in 1992.\nDiamond Grill, a bio-fiction about\nhybridised identity and working in a cafe\nin Nelson, BC, was published in 1996 and\nwon the Howard O'Hagan Award for Short\nFiction.\nIt's 10:15am, Calgary time. Wah, who\nteaches creative writing and poetry courses\nat the University of Calgary, is sitting at\nhome in his messy study which is covered\nby \"six to eight inches of paper, and books\non every possible surface.\" There is a\nplethora of papers that need to be marked,\na Feng Shui book (\"I keep hoping for harmony,\" says Wah), art catalogues, a literary\nmagazine called Chain, a book on hybridi-\nty, MacWorld magazines, and a Keith\nJarrett album.\nBorn in Swift Current, SK in 1939, Wah\nlater moved to the West Kootenays where\nhe went to school, worked in his father's\ncafe,' Diamond Grill, and played hockey\nand trumpet in his spare time. In the\n1960s, at UBC, he studied music and\nEnglish. Never the most disciplined student, Wah almost failed first-year English\nbecause he has always hated writing essays\nand 'was more interested in discovering\nthings.' 'And what I discovered/ says\nWah, 'was poetry.\nWah didn't always know that he\nwanted to be a poet. His first\npoem\u00E2\u0080\u0094in grade 8 or 9\u00E2\u0080\u0094was about\nhis dog. Soon after taking a survey\ncourse in poetry taught by Warren\nTallman and a creative writing\ncourse with American poet Robert\nCreeley, he became excited about the\nfreedom of the language of poetry.\nHe spent most of his time writing\npoetry, and founded and edited a\nnewsletter called TISH. Instead of\ncontinuing with jazz, he 'welcomed\npoetry as a way of composing as\nopposed to music because it seemed\nmore open to difference.'\n\"I'd grown up in a Chinese-Canadian\nfamily where my father hadn't mastered English, and I'd never been that\ngreat at it in school. I guess I used poetry as a way to resist the hegemony of\ngrammar and traditional English literature,\" says Wah.\nAfter four years at UBC, he continued\nhis education at the University of New\nMexico, where he did gr^duatl york in literature and linguistics. He completed his\nmaster's degree in 1967^at the State\nUniversity of New York. In the late 60s, he\nreturned to the Kootenays to teach at\nSelkirk College. He was the founding coordinator of the writing program at the David\nThompson University Centre in Nelson,\nand has also edited several Canadian magazines, such as Open Letter.\nMost people know of Wah as being a\n'racialised' writer who began writing about\nhis hyphenated, Chinese-Swedish-\nCanadian, identity back in the late 70s.\nBefore that, Wah was what he calls a\n'white writer\" who spoke of other things\nthan being part Asian. Wah recalls that\nabout ten years after his father's death in\n1966, he began to explore his mixed-\nblood heritage, particularly his Chinese-\nCanadian identity. Since he felt the need\nto contribute to the creation of a discourse for mixed-blood people, he looked\nto the East for some kind of sustenance.\nSuch exploration was possible because of\nevents like the Japanese Redress movement and the publications of acclaimed\nnovels, like Kogawa's Obasan. His writing became a dialogue with his father in\nthe form of a biotext\u00E2\u0080\u0094a montage of biography, prose and prose-fiction\u00E2\u0080\u0094which\nevolved into a way for Wah to avoid writing a traditional novel.\nAlthough Wah is primarily interested in exploring his Asian-ness, he\nadmits that he doesn't speak or write\nCantonese or Mandarin. While he was\nyounger, his father tried to get him and\nhis sister to go to Chinese school, but\nunfortunately all he learned was how\nbeautiful the teacher was. While working\nin the kitchen of Diamond Grill, he\nlearned mostly swear words from the\nChinese cooks. Since then, Wah has tried\nto learn Cantonese, but found learning\nthe nine tones very difficult. During his\ntravels in Asia he had the opportunity to\nlearn a little bit of Mandarin. Someday\nWah would like to learn, but at the\nmoment he can only envy his Chinese-\nCanadian students who do speak\nCantonese or Mandarin.\nWah's writing plays around with alliteration, dissonance and form. His ability to,\nas he says, 'stand at the edge of a word and\nhold back a little bit before jumping to the\nnext word' involves focus and caution as a\nwriter. Wah's musical sensibility, his penchant for improvising and subverting the\npredictable, has permeated his poetry: \"I'm\ninterested in the gaps between words more\nthan the words themselves. I guess what I\nmean is that I'm interested in the moment\nby moment movement in language,\" he\nsays. His writing is much like an improvi-\nsational experiment. In Wah's humble\nopinion, it isn't \"logical, shapely, predictable writing that you can count on. It's\nlikely to just fall fiat on its ass or just move\ntoo quickly out of sight\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 / 17' \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 /&* * *'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 -1 '\u00C2\u00A3'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0--/ 3 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2?\n7 y ' ,'MF- M* \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 m /' * '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0>\u00E2\u0096\u00A0''\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0n-lFlrr''-\"- Tfllftwm irtfi H uuiir'*\"'\" \"*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 '\nMost recently, Wah has published\nFaking It, which is 'supposedly a collection\nof critical essays, but it's infected with a lot\nof poetry.' He has also written a poetic text\nto accompany Vancouver artist Marion\nPenner Bancroft's photographic exhibit in\nan art catalogue. Presently, he is working\nwith Roy Miki at Simon Fraser University\nto compile an anthology of Asian-Canadian\nwriting. ~? Y7> '\nAnd perhaps during the Christmas\nbreak, if he finds time between teaching,\nhiking, cooking a lot of tofu and veggie stir-\nfry, and building houses, Fred Wah may be\nable to assemble a volume of poetry that's\nbeen collecting dust in his office, just waiting to be anthologised. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\ntfcadey\nine\nthien\nby Diana Stech\nMadeleine Thien has a knack for what she calls 'finding a\nstoiy.'\n\"When I get really wrapped up in a story, I discover that\nstory and find words for it and dig around in it to see where\nit goes,\" says Thien, a soft-spoken MFA student in her final\nyear at UBC, who at age 26 already has a contract with\nMcClelland Stewart for a book of short stories, to be published in the spring of 2001, and a novel to follow a few\nyears later.\nThe novella which concludes her collection recounts the\nstory of a failed Indonesian businessman who dreams of\nfinding the \"good life' in Canada. *,\nAs Thien describes this narrative, herdistinctive voice\nbecomes a part of the story itself. In her mouth, the sound\nof dreams breaking and slipping away, becomes a near-\nphysical reality. Her tones and inflections unwind a world\nwhere people need to live in dreams, and to enact their\nmemories in the present day: With her soft-spoken manner, Thien seems to live in the realm of the poetic and the\nworld of the imagination.\nHer voice grows soft and soothing as she finishes the\nstory of this businessman, whose arrival in Vancouver does\nnot realise his dreams. This story best exemplifies her\nexamination of family issues, according to Thien.\n'I'm most concerned with families, I guess,\" she says of\nthe subject matter she deals with, explaining that her book\nof short stories will examine this concern, and contend\nwith problems of finding a place within society.\nFor Thien, Vancouver is an ideal context in which to set\nher stories, and to examine these question, since it is a city\nstrongly affected by immigration.\n\"Vancouver, especially East Vancouver, is a fascinating\ncity because of the pockets of different neighbourhoods,\nthe ethnic enclaves\u00E2\u0080\u0094one can almost feel like having\nentered a different country.\"\nShe calls Vancouver both a transient city and a city of\nstasis. In Thien's stories, the families move around a lot,\nallowing her to explore how one creates a home in a new\nplace.\nIn contrast, Thien seems to be having no problem finding a home for herself on the literary scene. After finishing\nher undergraduate degree in English literature and creative writing at UBC, Thien received a University Graduate\nFellowship to pursue further work in creative writing. She\nhas since been courted by McClelland and Stewart Before\nshe began to write in her adolescence, though, Thien was\nardent reader. She cites Dumbo and Harriet the Spy as two\nof her childhood favourites.\nAmid pressing deadlines and a workload that has taken\nover her life, Thien still finds time to continue thinking and\ndreaming. Her future novel remains \"in her head\" since\nshe won't have time to write it until after publishing her\nbook of short stories. Although the details are still unclear,\nthe narrative will weave together the lives of four characters and explore the entangling of the present and the past\nThe novel will be set in the present, with flashbacks to the\nJapanese occupation of Malaysia during World War Two.\n\"It is a part of history that has been forgotten by the\npeople who experienced it,\" says Thien in a thoughtful,\nwispy voice. Thien doesn't believe that people can move on\nfrom the past by attempting to forget; memories define the\nconsciousness of people. This is why she wants to give\nvoice to these memories, and investigate the ways in which\nhistoiy continues to pervade the present\nHerself, Thien looks to the future. She graduates from\nUBC in August, and will begin work on her novel then. She\nforesees a life of writing and of discovering stories\u00E2\u0080\u0094'if all\ngoes well, financially,\" she adds with a little laugh. With her\nknack for finding stories, that shouldn't be much of a problem. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 Page Fridav-the Ubvssev Magazine\nCulture\nFriday. October 2Q. 20001\nhiitfibeX tjroft\nby Regina Yung\nAnnabel Lyon sits pensively on a bench outside UBC's\nNitobe Gardens, trying to answer a question. The discomfiture in her green eyes is fading as she considers\nher options to lie, refuse to answer, or...\n\"No, you know what, what the hell,\" she says\nand confesses the motivation behind one of her\nshort stories.\n\"The prize was $2000. I really needed the\nmoney,\" she says. So Annabel sat down and pounded out a 500-word vodka advertisement Although she\ndid win the prize, she shakes her head ruefully at the\nmemory, a wry half-smile on her face, \"Absolut prostitution.*\nDespite its pedigree, the story still made it into her\nfirst book, Oxygen, a collection of short stories recently\npublished by Porcupine's Quill Press.\nAccording to Annabel, most\nof her stories start out from\nthe sound of words, their\narrangement and allusions\nsuggesting other things\nsuch as characters and a\nplot\nEach story is told in\nclean-honed fragments, the\nwords moving clean and\nspare across the page. The\ntitle of the collection itself\ncomes from the idea of\nspace, the air that surrounds us, and breathing\nroom. But this UBC's creative writing MFA can claim\na few bragging rights-\nOxygen is obviously not literary fluff.\nAnnabel has curly brown\nhair and solemn eyes\nbehind a pair of intellectual\nglasses. She uses the introvert's soft voice and\ninward gaze, taking the\nthoughtful pauses of a\nscholar. Her diction is\nexcellent\nShe is a local product\u00E2\u0080\u0094carrying a lifetime of\nexperience with Vancouver rain, a degree in\nPhilosophy from SFU, and a BFA in creative writing from UBC. She is also teaching at UBC this\nyear. But above all, Annabel Lyon is a writer.\n\"It's one of the few things I think I'm really\ngood at,\" she explains. Her other passion, music,\nflows through her writing like a leitmotif.\nChopin and pianos figure large in our conversation, which carries on despite noisy car\nmotors and an inexplicable bombardment of\ninsects. As Annabel talks, she flicks at aphids\nand the occasional inquiring bee hovering\nnear her head and bumping into the side of\nher face.\nShe respects good poetry, but feels most\nat home with prose. Her influences include\nLinda Svenson, Keith Maillard, and the\ninimitable George McWhirter, about whom\nshe cannot say enough.\n\"He has this amazing ability to just flip\na word around and... you go, 'Yeah, yeah,\nthat's what I meant to say.\" For a moment,\nshe becomes a student again, gesticulating, reminiscing.\n\"There was this one time, in class...[George] just\nstarted speaking in poetry... and we all went like\u00E2\u0080\u0094\" she\nsays, making a flabbergasted face.\n\"And [we] started writing it down,\" she says. As she\ntalks, the cold is nipping at our earlobes and the tip's of\nour noses. Her words are hanging frosted, condensed.\nThe air tastes of leaves.\nAnnabel is not too sure just now of what the future\nholds. She doesn't really know what's going to happen\nafter her teaching job at UBC this year.\n\"I'd like to travel,\" she says. She has been working\nfor two years on a novel that, she says, can't make up\nits mind whether to be a short story or not She has\nbeen tempted to throw it out entirely, burn the pages\nand start over, but she hasn't\u00E2\u0080\u0094yet At some point after\nabandoning it in disgust, she takes it off the shelf,\nblows the dust away and dares to hope. It all sounds a\nbit like gestating an elephant\u00E2\u0080\u0094the long haul, the\nunremitting labour. Yet she continues to write.\nSo why does she write? An answer using many four-\nsyllable words would not have come as a surprise, but\nAnnabel's answer is remarkably simple.\n\"Because it's run,\" she shrugs. \"I tiy not to be too\nsuperstitious about [writing]...We should all have those\nNike shirts,\" she says, laughing. \"Just do it Just do it\" \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\n%m*l\ 2 ilUUU 238 W BROADWAY 733 222(j\ [Friday. 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After seeing Duncan's car roar by, Tom Peacock knew that tha diner was\ngonna bt buzzin' tonite. He called up Nicholas Bradley and Tristan\nWinch, they greased their hair and tuned up their motorcycles cul\nTara Westover and Holland Gidney were gonna be there, as well as\nthat rat lace Graeme Worthy, he was gonna get a beating tonight)\nThat would definitely impress Laura Blue and the rest of the albja-\nmentioned girls. And mtybe, just maybe it would make them cool\nenough to rids with Ernie Beaudin and Daniel Silverman.\nV\nCanadian\nUniversity\nPress\nCanada Port SoUe AoTMRMnl Numb* 0732141\nDearMr.McWhinney,\nim:\n, \u00E2\u0099\u00A6imr\" and 1 was kinda getting\nI am a student: at UBC \u00C2\u00AB* ^ pretl\na little worried about ^^ ate poor Well\nlf y\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E don't mma, i *j;SS\u00C2\u00BB,\u00C2\u00AB\ncould think **.\u00C2\u00B0n* J'\"IVr, lftignawre\"\nName (printed)\nI Mr. Ted McWhinney\nMember o\u00C2\u00A3 Parliament\n(Vancouver - Quadra)\nHouse of Commons\n1 Ottawa, ON\n| Kl A 0A6\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u0094~ \"TTTvuow more about\nUh, if you TfS^Kata (also know*\nthe guys w,A *\u00C2\u00AB ^S'^jd call or e-mail\nASA of cards\nOn May 3, 1968, some 300 students gathered at\nParis' Sorbonne University to protest the closure\nof France's Nanterre University, which was shut\ndown following a week of clashes between right-\nwing groups and students campaigning against\nthe Vietnam War. In the ensuing street battle\nthat night, police tear-gassed student protesters,\n600 of whom were arrested. Barricades soon\nwent up, the Sorbonne was occupied, and the\nunrest eventually turned into a national strike\ninvolving some ten million workers. The strike\nparalysed the country, and the Sorbonne students made their mark in the history books.\nOn October 4, 2000, the handful of students\nmaking up the leadership of the Canadian\nAlliance of Student Associations (CASA) kick-\nstarted CASA's annual lobby campaign, stirringly called 'Education: Canada's Renewable\nResource.' The campaign proved to be paralys-\ningly dull, and the CASA hacks made their mark,\num, somewhere. We're not sure where. The history books look clean, though.\nIn 19 6 8, the whole world was watching as the\nstudent protests turned into revolution, and\nrocked the city of Paris.\nLast Wednesday, the CASA campaign came to\nUBC. No one was watching. A bunch of frat boys\nrocked the Pit\nIn 1968, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the brains\nbehind the student movement, was denied reentry into France after leaving the country on a\ntrip.\nWhen CASA came to UBC, they brought a\nbrain in a jar with them.\nIn 1968, French President Charles de Gaulle\nhad little choice but to appear on national television to address the country during its time of\nunrest and violence.\nThis month, CASA tries to force Vancouver\nMember of Parliament Ted McWhinney to take\nnotice with a series of strongly-worded postcards.\nIn 1968, 20,000 students gathered on the\nParis streets and marched, chanting such slogans as 'No to Repression,* and 'Free our\nComrades.\"\nThe CASA campaign will bring the government to its knees with slogans such as\n'Education; it's time to reinvest'\nIn 1968, de Gaulle considered bringing in\nextra French troops from their West German\nbases for reinforcements.\nSo far, there has been no indication that MP\nMcWhinney has even noticed the CASA campaign. Canadian troops sleep well at night\nIn 1968, crowds of protesters choked on tear\ngas, and their eyes stung because of the gas lin\ngering heavily in the air.\nAlma Mater Society Vice-President External\nGraham Senft wears cologne that will bring tears\nto your eyes.\nIn 1968, the world witnessed what can happen when an apolitical student body mobilises\nfor political change.\nThis October, students are witnessing what a\nbrain in a jar looks like\u00E2\u0080\u0094A REAL HUMAN\nBRAIN!\nIn 1968, Nanterre University was plagued\nwith transit issues, among other problems.\nThe AMS is negotiating for a student bus\npass. Vigorously. So we're told.\nIn 1968, French students were enraged over\nthe university system's inadequacies. They\nforcefully demanded the release of all the students arrested during protests, and demanded\nthat the university be reopened.\nCASA is concerned about the future of education, too. And they are politely asking MP\nMcWhinney 'to discuss this issue with your colleagues in Parliament\" They also have a brain in\najar.\nIn 1968, the student movement failed to\nachieve true success because of a lack of unified\nleadership.\nSome things never change. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nletters\nAlesse ad exploits\nstudents, say docs\nIn its response to the recent letter\nto the editor by Barbara Mintzes\ncriticising the Alesse drug advertisement (\"A lesson in advertising\nethics' [Letters, Oct 11]), the\nUbyssey shows regrettably little\nappreciation of the corporate\nadvertising strategy which now has\nstudents as its target Their vulnerability is being exploited by the\ndrug industry through the Ubyssey\nand 40 other college and university\nnewspapers.\nIf a seemingly reputable advertising agency places advertisements like this one, cash-hungry\nstudent journals may be forgiven\nfor not questioning their propriety,\nlet alone their legality. But business\nmanagers are misinformed if they\nbelieve the Alesse advertisement is\npermissible or proper. It is neither.\nIn fact, Advertising Standards\nCanada could not 'approve' the\npromotion because it does not\napprove prescription drug advertisements. This body is an advertis\ning industry association and has\nbeen delegated authority to review\nads for over-the-counter medicines\nonly. Equally, the Pharmaceutical\nAdvertising Advisory Board could\nnot give 'approval/ as it only\nreviews advertisements aimed at\nhealth professionals, and in any\nevent being composed mainly of\ndrug and advertising industry representatives, is not a neutral voice.\nThe ' sole authority rests with\nHealth Canada, which we understand has not approved the advertisement, and it is said to be\nreviewing the current campaign.\nHowever, the first advertisement\nappeared in May, and to date\nHealth Canada appears to have\ntaken no action against Wyeth-\nAyerst Should this company in\neffect be allowed to ignore\nCanadian law, and gain free-market access to inexperienced students in order to promote a prescription-only drug outside a balanced clinical context?\nFor, strict legalities aside, the\nreal affront to the campus is ethical. The current promotion is especially unscrupulous; its unspoken\nclaim of virtue ('prevention of\nunwanted pregnancy in the undergraduate') is belied by its blatant\ndisdain for even the most elementary information on effectiveness\nor risk. It is aimed at maximising\nsales.\nIn their drive for dollars, drug\ncompanies are on the offensive in a\ndeliberate challenge to Canadian\nlaw. The Ubyssey should refuse to\nrun this unethical and illegal\nadvertising.\n-Kenneth Bassett MD PhD\nAssistant Professor\nDepartment of Family Practice\nDepartment of Pharmacology\nand Therapeutics\nArmin6e Kazanjian DrSoc\nAssociate Director\nCentre for Health Services and\nPolicy Research\nToo many abductions\nIs it just me, or has there been an\nunusually large increase in the\nnumber of attempted abductions of\ngirls these days in Greater\nVancouver? Or have the attempted\nabductions always been there in\nsuch great number but went unnoticed by the mainstream media?\nI'd sooner hope that it's the latter rather than the former.\nHowever, I'd also hope that the\npolice and media are taking the necessary precautions to ensure that\nthe claims of attempted abduction\nare legitimate (and the authorities\nshould, of course, do so without sliding to the other extreme as a result\nof such precaution and thus allow a\npedophile to go free).\nWhat any just-minded person\nwould not want is for innocent men\nto be falsely accused, tried, convicted and punished for a crime they\nhave not committed.\nIndeed, it's a delicate balance\nthat society must take to maintain\nsome sense of fairness between the\naccused and his accuser; but we\nmust never ^dismiss the wrongly\nblamed-Le. give 'em all to God, and\nlet Him sort them out later.\n-Frank G. Sterle\nWhite Rock Page Fridav-the Ubvssev Magazine\nLetters\n11\nResponse to Lifeline's\nlast GAP letter\nLifeline's Gillian Long (\"Lifeline\nhopes GAP will bring debate'\n[Letters, Oct. 17]) overlooks the\nmain problem with the Genocide\nAwareness Project (GAP). Lifeline is\nperfectly free to. display tasteless\nphotos of aborted fetuses. What really bothers most people is the association of these pictures with those of\nactual genocide victims, such as\nJews in Nazi death camps. It is highly insensitive to exploit and trivi-\nalise the tragic history of these\ngroups for an unrelated political\nagenda.\nThe GAP display is also hate propaganda against women. The reason is\nsimple. If abortion is genocide, then\nwomen are genocidal \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 murderers,\njust like Nazis. Lifeline members\nmay deny that they are viciously\ndefaming half the women on this\nplanet, but that can only be because-\nthey don't hold women responsible\nfor their actions. In this view, women\nwho have abortions must be helpless\nvictims under coercion, or unthinking twits who don't understand what\nthey're doing. But if Lifeline also\ndenies they hold this patronising and\nmisogynist view, it means they're\nhypocrites who don't seriously\nbelieve abortion is genocide.\nBoth UBC Students for Choice and\nthe Pro-Choice Action Network are\nfirmly committed to peaceful protest\nIf s understandable that some vulnerable students may find it hard to\ncontrol their emotions when hate\npropaganda is shoved in their faces.\nBut violence or vandalism, even\nagainst hate-mongers, is never the\nanswer\u00E2\u0080\u0094we strongly disavow it\nGAP's creator, the Center for\nBioethical Reform (CBR) in\nCalifornia, routinely threatens lawsuits and tries to press criminal\ncharges in response to violence, vandalism, or obstructionism. To quote\nGregg Cunningham, CBR's executive\ndirector: \"We will make an example\nout of lawbreakers' and 'any university which attempts to interfere with\nthe exercise of CBR's First\nAmendment rights will be sued.'\nSo please don't let the GAP display tempt you into any act of aggression, because that is exactly what its\nbully sponsors are waiting for.\n-Hannah Roman, UBC\nStudents for Choice\nJoyce Arthur,\nPro-Choice Action Network\nTrudeau did so\nhelp out UBC!\nI read the recent Ubyssey with some\namusement I saw comments relating to my suggestion that the Rose\nGarden be named in Pierre\nTrudeau's honour ('Students debate\nrenaming of Rose Garden' (Oct.\n17]). The comments clearly showed\nhow people have rushed to pass\njudgment on this suggestion, having\nnot done their homework.\nIn 1986, UBC gave an honoiirary\ndegree to Trudeau. Had anyone\ntaken the time to see why? It was not\nmerely because he had been Prime\nMinister of Canada for 16 years. It\nwas a special thanks from UBC to an\nindividual who believed enough in\nour university to put UBC on the\nmap.\nTRIUMF, Canada's national particle accelerator facility is located\nhere at UBC. It is the fourth largest\nscientific project funded by Canada\nin the 133 year history of our country, and it would not have been\napproved were it not for the personal intervention of the Prime\nMinister. Let me share with you a little of the History of Canada, of our\nprovince and of our university.\nIn the 1960s, a small and dedicated group of scientists and engineers at UBC led by George Volkoff,\nReg Richardson, John Warren, Eric\nVogt and Karl Erdman (to name a\nfew Canadians of distinction)\ndreamed a dream to build the\nworld's largest cyclotron. They wanted to build it here in BC. They were\nan eminent group. For instance,\nVolkoff headed Canada's development of the CANDU reactor.\nRichardson helped E.O. Lawrence to\nbuild the first cyclotron (Lawrence\nwon the Nobel Prize for this achievement). Warren worked with Tizard\nand Watson-Watt to develop radar\nduring the Second World War.\nAn amusing story is that of\nWarren being asked to #10 Downing\nStreet in 1943 by Winston Churchill\nto explain a new technological development in Identification Friend or\nFoe (IFF). Warren brought the prototype and Churchill proceeded to\npoke it with his walking stick to the\npoint that the prototype nearly fell\nfrom the table and onto the floor.\nChurchill was having fun with\nWarren knowing that if he caught it\nPERSPECTIVE\nopinion\nbefore it hit the ground it was worth\nsaving and putting it to practical use\naboard Allied aircraft. Every aircraft\nin the air today has a transponder\nwhich is a direct spin-off of the IFF\ntechnology that Warren developed.\nIn the late 1960s this group went\nto Ottawa with their request and\nwere given the run around by the\npolitical mandarins in the National\nResearch Council and the Defence\nResearch Board who were from\nOntario and Quebec. Surely, they\nthought, you are 'putting us on\nthinking this machine should be\nand could be built in BC The mandarins believed that Canada was\nOntario and Quebec, and that nothing else mattered. They thought it\nwas a boondoggle to spend this\nmoney in BC.\nFinally, in desperation, the group\nasked to make a presentation to die\nPrime Minister. They got their 15\nminutes at the Prime Minister's\nOffice in the Langevin Block across\nfrom Parliament. Trudeau was\nimpressed. He took their request,\nmarked it 'Approved Proceed, PET\"\nand sent it off to the Treasury Board\nwho allocated the $36 million (in\n1968 dollars) to build TRIUMF.\nTrudeau's belief in regional equality\noverruled the political mandarins\nfrom Ontario and Quebec.\nIn present day dollars it would\ncost upwards of $500 million to\nbuild TRIUMF. In the past 30 years,\nTRIUMF contribution to BC has\nexceeded $3 billion in direct dollars\nand $20 billion in indirect net economic multipliers. At $40 million\nper annum, TRIUMF represents the\nlargest single ongoing federal contribution to UBC.\nThis decision by Trudeau in\nessence transformed UBC from a\nbackwater institution to a world\nclass university. It represents the\nrock solid foundation upon which\nthis university and its burgeoning\nresearch programs have been built\nAs well, one of the reasons that\nBC has a vibrant high technology\nsector is because of Trudeau's fund\ning of TRIUMF. The technological\nbase of people and technology that\ngrew from TRIUMF has transformed our provincial economy to\nthe point that high technology will\nsoon be the number one generator\nof wealth in our province.\nIf the university is too busy to\nhonour Trudeau by naming the\nRose Garden in his honour, I will\nask the Lieutenant Governor and the\nPremier to so honour Trudeau. I will\nsend my request to Gordon Wilson,\nminister of Investment and\nEmployment I have known Gordon\nfor over 12 years. Along with our\nPremier, Wilson represented BC at\nthe state funeral of Trudeau. Gordon\nknew Trudeau as a friend and political mentor. Gordon and I had the\nhonour of working with Trudeau,\n[ex-Premier of Newfoundland] Clyde\nWells, and many other Canadians of\ndistinction to defeat the Meech Lake\nAccord.\nI am sorry to hear of the loss of\nNobel Laureate Michael Smith. Why\nnot name his lab in his honour,\nwhich is customary. Nobel laureates\nare special people but some people\nare more special than others. I have\nmet numerous Nobel laureates over\nthe years and even worked with LI.\nRabi and Glenn T. Seaborg to knock\nthe wheels off Edward Teller's\nwagon and end the development of\nthe nuclear pumped X-ray laser in\nthe mid-1980s.\nRabi and Seaborg had been science advisors to five presidents\nstarting with Roosevelt and ending\nwith Johnson. Our efforts to end the\ndevelopment of Teller's Starwars\nended up on the desk of the\nPresident of the United States and\neven convinced the old warhorse\nRonald Reagan that \"it was time to\nchange ponies.\"\nYou might want to take a moment\nto go to the lobby of the Main Library\nand look at the pictures of Trudeau's\nvisits to UBC. I think before anyone\nsays no to the Rose Garden request it\nwould be smart to do your homework. Otherwise I shall leave it to the\nPremier and the Lieutenant\nGovernor to make the decision for\nUBC.\n-Patrick Bruskiewich\nGraduate Student-Physics\nThe Ubyssey .77-i4 *y^ *V\"'7:u.y.7-\nLGBQ-1010 (\u00C2\u00A3ub24W\"W 7\nCOLOURS^11<30 (subMfk) y Y 7;\nWOMEN-12:30 (sub ^\nM\u00C2\u00A3N-2:30 MegsJfety^ 2 7 % -5\nthe office vvill be closed to hon-caucus members\nduring these times, the gallery will remain open.\n#\nFILMSOC\nAll films $3.00\nin the NORM (SUB theatre)\nFilm Hotline: 822-M97 OR check out\nwww.ams.ubc.ca/clubs/SOCIAL/FiImsoc\nFm flrr 20 - Siin Oct 21\n7:00 Loser\n9:30 Me, Myself & Irene\nWfp Oct 25 - Thurs Oct 26\n7:00 New Waterford Girl\n9:30 The Emperor & the Assassin\nTHE UBYSSEY\nEnter our Lucky Draw to win\n1 PAIR OF TICKETS to see\nCANUCKS VS. PHOENIX 60YQ1ES\non Saturday, October 21st\nat RM. Place\nCome to SUB Bosnt 245 to enter.\nHUBYSSEY\nGIVEAWAY\nBe a part of our\nmill ion member\nfamily and keep\nthe light on human\nrights. Join the\n[\u00E2\u0080\u00A2nil\nBllHKKli\nhuman rights\norganization today.\nFEEDBACK@UBYSSEY.BC.CA\nAmnesty International\nCall 1-800-AMNESTY \u00E2\u0096\u00A0j2pMa*\n. October 20.2000\nSports\nPage Fridav-the Ubvssev Magazine\nBest laid plans\nThe coaches of the UBC rowing team have changed their\napproach to competition, but will it make a difference?\nby Holland Gidney\nIt's 5:45am Wednesday morning and pitch black out Down at\nFalse Creek, the UBC men's varsity eight i3 putting their boat\ninto the water for its last practice before heading to Boston for\nthe prestigious Head of the Charles regatta. As the rowers\nwade into the water, a few of them make exaggerated gasping\nnoises because of how cold it is.\n\"The water's warm,' one rower snidely says in response to\nthose who are complaining. /\n'That's because you're wearing boots!\" exclaims one of the\nrowers wearing sandals.\nOn shore? their coach Mike Pearce just shakes his head.\n\"They're a bunch of comedians this year.'\n- While they may be a group of guys with a sense of humour,\nthe rowers making up the men's varsity eight are also what\nmay be the fastest men's crew UBC has put together in a long\ntime. All of the members of the boat except one are returning\nathletes; four novices who started rowing last year, three more\nexperienced rowers, and one guy who rowed in high school.\nOver the past three years, Pearce has been trying to build\nup a strong men's rowing program, focusing his recruiting\nefforts on attracting students who have already. chosen to\nattend UBC, rather than going after the country's top high\nschool rowers who generally choose the University of Victoria\n(UVic) or Ontario schools over UBC.\nUBC women's coach Craig Pond has been fighting the same\nbattle as Pearce for the year and a bit he's been coaching for\nthe university. He'll readily admit that, when it comes down to\nit, there's not much to convince anyone to row for UBC. The\nteam still doesn't have a boathouse, so it has to store its shells\nin a parking lot, which isn't that secure\u00E2\u0080\u0094two years ago UBC's\none women's single was stolen, a boat there isn't money to\nreplace; False Creek, where the team practices was recently\nlabelled a \"cesspool\" by the Province. Besides these obvious\ndisadvantages, the UBC rowing program receives little money\nfrom the university. For many expenses\u00E2\u0080\u0094like this trip to\nBoston\u00E2\u0080\u0094rowers are asked to shell out the money themselves.\n\"Sometimes I really don't know why athletes row for UBC,'\nPond says, even though, before becoming a coach, he himself\nrowed for UBC.\nBoth he a;id Pearce also say it's demoralising for UBC\ncrews to always come second to their cross-strait rivals from\nUVjc, who have a boathouse, a clean lake to row on, and considerably more funding from the university for buying boats\nand going on trips. Victoria is also home to one of only two\nnational team training centres, where rowers have to be based\nif they want to make the national team.\nAs the only two universities in BC with well-established\nrowing teams, UVic and UBC end up racing each other at\nalmost every regatta in the province. And more often than not,\nespecially if it's an eights race, UBC crews come out on the losing end of the stick. Every year at Brown Cup\u00E2\u0080\u0094the annual\nidi- ' s\nvic ;j.' \u00E2\u0080\u00A2. % :^'M \\\ndie J* ., ' m\" i\u00C2\u00BB/i*-'s!!\n\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E * , .*'\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00BB Sk r. i.t\nUVic-UBC grudge match race\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nUVic beats UBC.\nThis summer at the Royal\nHenley Regatta, in the first race\nfor women's eights at the traditionally men-only event, UVic\nplaced a strong second, while\nUBC didn't even make it out\nthe qualifying round. It's been so\nlong since UBC has been the\nmore dominant BC university in\nrowing that UVic women's head\ncoach Rick Crawley jokes that\nhe'll retire when the UBC\nwomen's crew finally beats his\neight\nEven when UBC does place\nsecond to UVic, as the women's\neight has done three years in a\nrow at the Canadian University\nRowing Championships (CURC),\nit never seems to be good\nenough.\n'Even if you finish second to\nUVic, it still feels like you're finishing last,\" says Pearce.\nPond found that last year after\nrowing against UVic and not winning, his crews tended to fall\napart, and they'd have 'two to three weeks of shitty practices.'\nSo in order to address the UVic issue, the two coaches have\ncome up with a new plan, a plan to forget about UVic.\n\"We're putting the priority on our crews first putting the\npriority on UBC rowing,' says Pearce. 'We're focused on having a really successful program from novice to varsity. We\nneed to generate interest in our program, and, unless you\nhave success, it's hard to generate interest'\nThis new plan means only racing UVic a few times a year,\nand only once or twice in the eight, the boat in which UVic is\ntraditionally most dominant Both Pearce and Pond are talking about racing American crews instead, and talking about\nfinding competition that's at the same level as their crews.\n'I don't think we're in the same league as UVic, so it's not\na realistic goal to be always trying to beat them,' says Pond.\n'Five to six years ago UBC's focus was to beat UVic, but now\nour biggest focus is to make the season exciting, to give our\nathletes the chance to row against as many crews as possible.'\nLast weekend, rather than attending the Deep Cove Classic\nin North Vancouver, a regatta where UBC would have faced\nUVic, both coaches took their crews down to Seattle to compete in a club regatta. This weekend the two UBC varsity crews\nwill race in the Head of the Charles (HOC) in Boston, a regatta\nUVic has attended in the past but isn't competing in this year.\nERG-ERIFFIC: The road to Boston goes through the rowers' gym. tara westover photo\nHOC is probably the most important rowing race of the fall\nrowing season. It's an event that attracts the top teams from\naround the world and is so popular that it has to limit its\nentries every year so that the race can take place on a single\nday. Both Pearce and Pond want their crews to finish in the top\nten in their respective.events, though they acknowledge they'll\nbe up against some tough competition. If the men's and\nwomen's crews could pull off a strong performance in Boston,\nit would be a good morale-booster heading into the most-\nimportant event in UBC's fall season, the university championships (CURC) in Victoria on November 4 and 5. UBC will\nalso compete in the two UVic-sponsored head races (Head of\nthe Gorge and Head of the Elk) the weekend prior, but not necessarily in eights as they will at the CURC.\nAround 6:45am, tiny harbour ferries start criss-crossing\nFalse Creek, signalling that practice is almost over for UBC\ncrews. Through his megaphone, Mike Pearce instructs the\nmen's varsity eight to spin the boat around and do three more\nshort hard pieces on the way in. Up at the other end of False\nCreek, near Science World, Craig Pond is coaching the\nwomen's varsity eight through a few last race simulation\npieces against the junior varsity boat\nBoth crews have only these last few strokes to get ready for\nHead of the Charles where UBC hopes to set the tone for the\nrest of the season, a season that could be a turning point for\nUBC rowing, if all goes according to the coaches' plan. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nHockey women seek redemption after disappointment\n by Tom Peacock\nFor the UBC women's hockey team, last season was murder by numbers: not having the\nnecessary number of players, not putting the\nnumbers on the board, having large numbers\nof goals scored against the team by Alberta\nand Calgary* and having to wait a number of\nmonths before their first wins of the season in\nthe last regular season homestand against\nLethbridge.\nBut this season could be different The\nteam has a lot of new faces, and returning\nplayers, are e,ager to redeem themselves. An\nair of optimism prevailed after practice yesterday as the players listened to coach Dave\nNewson's comments and then huddled together for a quick cheer before heading to the\ndressing room.\n\"If s so hard to compare to last year,' second-year goaltender Tanya Foley said. \"Last\nyear we didn't have a full team, this year we\nactually have people that are pushing each\nother, and the level is definitely a step up.'\nThe Thunderbirds' roster has 12 returning players and nine rookies. Although the\nteam is young\u00E2\u0080\u0094a lot of the veterans are only\nin their second year\u00E2\u0080\u0094coach Dave Newson\nshares his players' optimism.\n\"We have a good mix of returning players\n[who] are bitterly disappointed from last year,\nand want to improve on that season that we\nhad, and are excited and energised by the\nnumber of rookies that we have competing\nthis year to make the team,' he said.\nAlthough it's hard to know what to expect\nfrom the UBC team's Canada West rivals, rule\nchanges that will now disallow players to fill\nspots for more than one team look to work in\nUBC's favour.\nFoley said that the changes will especially ,\naffect Calgary.\n\"They can't use a lot of the players they\nhave used in the past because they are carded\non the Extreme team...This year, they have to\neither play for one or the other,' Foley said.\nThe game schedule will also give the young\nBirds a chance to End their feet early in the\nseason, something that last year's first eight\ngames against the University of Alberta\nPandas and the University of Calgary Dinos\ndidn't allow.\nMen's Volleyball\nThe UBC squad will host Trinity Western\nUniversity, York University, and the University\nof California Santa\nBarbara this weekend for the 15th\nannual Thunderball\nTournament in War\nMemorial\nGymnasium, The\nBirds face TWU\ntoday at 12pm and\nUCSB tonight at 7:30pm. The gold medal\nmatch is on Saturday night at 7:30pin.\n\"It's good because we've had a chance to\nplay against the Vancouver Griffin3 which\nwill get us ready for Calgary...and Alberta\nwill be a step up from Calgary, so it's easing\ninto the season as opposed to slamming us\nstraight into number one [Alberta]/ Foley\nexplained.\nIn spite of whatever happens during the\nBird's two games this weekend against the\nDinos, the rookies on the UBC team are\neager to get on the ice.\n\"It's a huge step up for me,' first-year\ndefender Julie Hamilton said enthusiastically. \"The team's really great The coaches and\nthe players, they're all really supportive. It's a\ngreat team...I'm excited about the possibilities\nfor improvement'\nWomen's Field Hockey\nThe UBC women's field hockey team hosts\nCanada West Tournament #3 this weekend at\nLivingstone Park, Downtown. The Birds' first\ngame is at 3pm on Friday against the\nUniversity of Manitoba. They play .again on\nSaturday against Calgary at 9 am and against\nAlberta at 3pm. UBC's final game of the weekend is on Sunday at 3 pm versus their closest\nrivals, UVic.\nFootball\nThe Thunderbirds travel to Regina to play the\nUniversity of Regina Rams on Saturday afternoon. The Rams are last place in Canada,West\nThe 3-3 Birds are third place behind Calgary\nand Manitoba.\nCOACH: Newson shares a laugh with second-\nyear centre Nicole Mulligan.\nTOM PEACOCK PHOTO\nThe Birds face off against Calgary at\nThunderbird Winter Sports Centre this Friday\nand Saturday night at 7pm. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nWomen's and Men's Soccer\nBoth teams travel to Lethbridge to face the\nPronghorns on Saturday and then on to the\nCalgary to face the Dinos on Sunday. The men\nare 5-1-1 and sit in second place behind\nVictoria in the Canada West The women are\nthird place with 4-1-2 , behind Calgary and\nWic, / :\nMens'Hockey\nThe stick handling Birds head to Lethbridge\nfor a doubjeheader this weekend 7\nSwimming\nThe UBC swim team: vyill compete in the\nHusky Relays in Seattle at the University of\nWashington, its first event of the season. \u00E2\u0099\u00A6"@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "LH3.B7 U4"@en . "LH3_B7_U4_2000_10_20"@en . "10.14288/1.0128601"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver : The Ubyssey Publications Society"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from The Ubyssey: http://ubyssey.ca/"@en . "Original Format: University of British Columbia. Archives"@en . "University of British Columbia"@en . "The Ubyssey"@en . "Text"@en . ""@en .