"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-09-18"@en . "1996-09-13"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0128832/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " Shrum\nT-Birds take on Clansmen in\nannual grudge match\nRetro\nThe Ubyssey goes\nback in time\nFringe\nMore plays than you can\nshake a stick at\nCongratulating ourselves since 1918\nTotal eclipse of the Seoul\nThe student protests in South\nKorea have attracted worldwide\nattention, but the government's\ncontinuing efforts to quash the\nreunification movement have\ngone largely unnoticed.\nby Charlie Cho\nYONSEI UNIVERSITY, SOUTH KOREA, AUGUST 20, 1996.\nAt dawn, riot police, firing tear gas, aided by helicopters\nand armoured vehicles, smash through university barricades. In a violent campus siege, 18,000 police\nstorm the campus and arrest 6000 students\nWhile the crackdown ends days of pro-\nunification protests by Hanchongnyon\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthe Korean Federation of Student Unions-\naction by the National Police Agency (NPA)\nwill continue.\nFrom August 28 to 30, 10,000 NPA officers search 62 universities and colleges,\narresting 500 more students. Tons of\nbanned North Korean literature are\nseized along with molotov cocktails, steel\npipes, gasoline bombs and a police radio.\nIn response to the NPA's unprecedented\nshutdown of their computer communications site, Hanchongnyon sets up a temporary online Bulletin Board System the next\nday.\nil\nteams\" throughout South Korea. The NPA offers rewards of\n$3700 and $6100 for information leading to the arrests of\n16 student leaders, including Chong Myung-ki, president of\nHanchongnyon, and Park Pyung-yon, president of Yonsei\nUniversity's student council.\nThe following day, the Kim Chaek University of\nTechnology president openly\ncondemns the government.\n\"This is a murderous gangster-like act unprecedented in\nthe world history of education,\" he says. \"[It] is as good\nas an open declaration\nthat the arrest of\nstudents will\nbe encouraged and\nThings haven't always been like this, explains UBC\nSociology Professor Yunshik Chang. He points to a time\nwhen South Korean students were popular supporters of\ndemocracy.\n\"It began way back in the '60s when Syngman Rhee\ndecided to extend his term of presidency for the second\nThis is a murderous\ngangster-like act\nunprecedented in\nthe world history\nof education.\"\nPresident of Kim Chaek University\nAnyone that \"praises, encourages,\nadvertises or supports the activities\nof an anti-state organisation\"\nmay face up to seven\nyears in jail.\ntime by amending the constitution,\" he explains.\n\"That made a lot of people very angry and students more or less took the lead. Ever since,\nthey've been carrying out democracy movements.\"\nBut Chang points out thatthe recent student\nviolence is a reaction to brutal government backlash.\n\"When people thought that the students were\nright, they simply joined them in the streets. The\nsize of the demonstrations grew and grew each\n\year. It became a threat to the government\nand they quickly reacted. Government reac\nkm tion was so strong that it made them angri\ni\n|% er.A.th^ca^ier.the,\u00E2\u0084\u00A2^\nagainst the government became more\nradicalised and more violent.\"\nWhile most of those arrested are released within two\nweeks, about 450 still face charges of violating the strict,\nanti-communist National Security Law, which stipulates\nthat anyone that \"praises, encourages, advertises or supports the activities of an anti-state organisation\" may face\nup to seven years in jail.\nOn September 2, a North Korean news agency reports\nthat Kim Young-sam's South Korean government has\nformed a \"joint headquarters of investigation into leftist\ncrimes of Hanchongnyon,\" setting up \"joint investigation\nlegalized. The Kim Young-sam group\nmust know that the money set on the\nheads of the innocent patriotic students will turn out to be the rope of\ngallows that strangles their necks. They must suspend the\narrest of students and set free the arrested students at once.\"\nPresident Kim, a former political dissident, outlaws\nHangchongnyon, accusing its members of being infiltrated\nby North Korean 'elements.'\n\"This is an anti-establishment student movement that\nengages in urban guerrilla-style warfare,\" he tells university deans after the Yonsei siege. Government officials cite a\nrecent poll showing that 80 percent of South Koreans support stern measures against radicals.\nAccording to some South Korean student\nleaders, the police provoked the violence\nand the students responded by throwing\nrocks out of fear and self defence. Bang\nNyong-hyun, Yonsei University's student\ncouncilor and demonstration organiser, says\nthat news organisations are misrepresenting the\nstudent activists, spreading resentment toward\nthem.\nBang calls for the withdrawal of the 37,000 US troops\nstationed in South Korea, the abolition of the National\nSecurity Law, and the reunification of Korea on terms\ndemanded by the North.\nChung Dong-yong, spokesman for the main opposition\nNational Congress for New Politics charges: \"President Kim\nused the students for his own benefit. There's no difference\nbetween this government and a military regime.\"\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A6 \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\ncontinued on page 2 2 THE UBYSSEY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1996\nfeatures\nHelp Wanted\nEnergetic 3rd Year Student by import\nbeverage co. for part time on and off\ncampus activities. Hospitality/\nPromotions background required,\nshould be familiar with residences/\nfrats/AMS/student organizations.\nPlease fax cover letter and resume to\n739-9993.\nJustification for higher education\nexpanding your mind but for lucrative\nincome, pay daily US$, free long dis\ntance. Call Gord or Karen 277-7502.\nFree computer fax & phone w/internet\nsubscription. Earn $1000/$3000 weekly\nunlimited. Phone 1-800-515-8844.\nTutoring\nFree Japanese Tutoring\nExchange students (UBC undergradu\nates) from Japan are looking for\nJapanese-English language exchange\npartners. \"We help you with Japanese,\nyou help us with English.\" It's free, fun,\nnon-fattening and even educational!\nWe're friendly and eager to meet you.\nCall Cheri at 822-8190 to be matched\nup. Aimashoo, ne!!\nPS This is not at dating service. We offer\nan international friendship and language exchange. We're all living on\ncampus so meeting somewhere convre-\nnient will be easy.\nGot the essay blues?\nExperienced tutor/editor (MA English)\nwill help organize, proofread & edit\nessays and school applications.\nESt students welcome.\nCall Greg: 736-7992.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Word Processing\nWord Processing\nFast, Accurate, Experienced, Reasonable\n224-0486\n'tween\nUBC Dance Club\nTuesday, Sept. 17\nFree introductory\ndance lesson.\nSUB Ballroom,\n12:30-l:30pm.\ngays, Lesbians and\nBisexuals of ubc\nWednesday, Sept. 18\nGeneral Meeting:\ncome out this year.\nSUB 211, 12:30pm.\n[Women only\n[March\nRally\n7:00pm\nSept. 20th\nMrout Lake,\nI Victoria and East 15 Av.\n(Vancouver\nMore info\ncall 872-8212\nStudent movement struggles\ncontinued from page I\nAmnesty International reports the arrests of\nseveral hundred political prisoners each year\nin South Korea, held under the National\nSecurity Law \"which restricts freedom of\nexpression and association.\"\nTorture and ill-treatment of detainees continue to be reported. Last year, 200 people\nwere arrested, including students, political\nactivists, writers, publishers and academics.\nSeveral people were arrested for making unauthorized visits to North Korea.\nBy way of comparison, Amnesty International reports it has received unconfirmed\ninformation that North Korea had imprisoned hundreds of political prisoners in 1995.\nIts 1996 Report notes amendments to North\nKorea's criminal law have been introduced\n\"to bring legislative provisions into line with\ninternational human rights standards.\"\nWhile few support rising student violence,\nactivists are not alone in seriously considering Korean reunification. South Korean opposition leader Dr. Kim Dae-jung, says most\nKoreans support reunification but not one\ndictated by North Korea. RWE Australian\nBusiness News reports that Kim would support reunification in stages commencing\nwith a peaceful co-operation over perhaps a\n10-year period and eventually a federal system.\nFormer Canadian diplomat Harry Sterling\nshares Kim's cautious approach to reunification, pointing to recent socioeconomic problems experienced by Germany. Sterling identifies how governments in both the North and\nthe South manipulate mistrust to maintain\n1960 PROTEST marks the beginning of the current anti-government movement.\ntheir authoritarian rule. The North points to\nthe US military presence to instill \"a siege mentality that facilitates its control,\" while the\nSouth points to the North \"to justify its own\nauthoritarian policies while in power from\n1960 to 1993.\"\n\"While reunification might be a double-\nedged sword for those controlling the levers of\npower,\" Sterling says, \"compelling factors\ncould push them to a thaw in their own Cold\nWar simply to avoid the North's horrendous\nproblems from deteriorating to the point they\nhave a negative impact on both sides of the\nborder.\" In a Financial Post column, Sterling\nproduces figures that show North Korea's per\ncapita income, GDP and annual trade is vastly\ninferior to South Korea's.\nWhile the financial outlook for Korean\nreunification appears bleak, the cries for reunification and an end of US military presence by\nstudent activists at South Korea's Yonsei\nUniversity are beginning to be heard.\nMeanwhile, Kim Young-sam's \"democratic,\"\ngovernment continues to imprison students\nthat oppose it in order to kill the student movement that led to his presidency.^/\nThe Ubyssey wants\nto let you know...\nWORK\nSTUDY\nStaff Meetings\nWednesdays @ 12:30pm.\nWe talk about everything\nfrom bzzr gardens to\nseminars.\nNews/Features\nMeetings\nTuesdays @ 12:30pm.\nWe discuss story ideas and\nassign them too.\nCulture Meetings\nTuesdays @ 1:30pm.\nWe hash out what arty\nstuff is goin' on around us\nand decide who's gonna\ncover what.\nSports Meetings\nTuesdays @ 2:30pm.\nWe spit tobacco and scratch\nour crotches.\nCaucus Meetings\nLGBQ Caucus\nFriday, Sept. 20 @ 11:30am.\nWomen's Caucus\nFriday, Sept. 20 @ 3:30pm.\nColours Caucus\nFriday, Sept. 20 @ 1:30pm.\nMen's Caucus\nFriday, Sept 20 @ 12:30pm.\nCaucus meetings are designed to\naddress issues some staff members may\nfeel more comfortable discussing outside regular staff meetings.\nCaucus meetings are open to caucus\nmembers only. The office will be closed\nto non-caucus members during the\nmeetings.\nSeminars\nThey're a comin'... we\npromise. Keep your eyes\npeeled!\nAnyone interested in working (for money) at the\nUbyssey should submit a\nresume to SUB 241K (attention Scott Hayward) by\nWednesday, Sept. 18.\nYou must have applied for\na student loan and have\nregistered with the Work\nStudy office.\nJob description\nTwo jobs are available doing\nadministrative work. Some\ncomputer skills would be\nhelpful. Salary is $13.89 per\nhour, 10 hours per week. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1996\nsports\nTHE UBYSSEY 3\nSHRUM BOWL XIX\nT-Birds aim to de-kilt Clansmen again\nby Wolf Depner\nShrum Bowl XIX, the cross-town football\nfeud between the UBC Thunderbirds and\nthe SFU Clansmen, is just an exhibition\ngame. But don't tell that to the players and\ncoaches.\n'We're going into it all guns blazing,'\nsaid UBC Assistant Coach Jerry Mullins.\n\"Yeah, it's going to be fun,' UBC Running\nBack Mark Nohra said. He was named CIAU\nplayer of the week after rushing for 252\nyards in a game against the Alberta Golden\nBears last week.\nAnd amusing doesn't even start to\ndescribe the off-field antics involving rowdy\nUBC and SFU fans.\nIn 1995, the sideshow almost proved to\nbe more interesting than the main event as\nthe Birds unkilted the SFU Clansmen 29-7\nin front of nearly 5000 fans at Thunderbird\nStadium.\nThe win gave the Birds a 9-8-1 series\nlead and was UBC's third consectutive win.\nBut to predict the 1996 outcome on last\nyear's result is to say that Don Cherry is soft-\nspoken.\nWith six offensive starters from last year\ngone, the Birds are still looking for offensive\nconsistency to complement a stalwart\ndefence. Two games into the Canada West\nseason, the 1-1 Birds have been able to\nmove the ball, but have had trouble scoring.\nThe Clansmen played far better in 1995\nthan the final score would seem to indicate\nand will use the game as a tune-up for their\nregular season. Don't expect them hold\nback. 'Anytime, we play UBC we're looking\nto win, to play hard,' said SFU head coach\nChris Beaton.\nQuarterbacks\nVeteran UBC pivot Jason Day has made\nmistakes in the first two games, but has\nproven in the past that he can get the job\ndone. With regular Adrian Rainbow injured,\nDay lead the Birds to a 20-17 victory over\nSFU in Shrum Bowl XVII.\nSFU has a huge question mark at the\npivot position. 1995 back-up Cam Weber\nwill start, backed up by the talented, if completely unproven, Terry Kleinsmith.\nWide-receivers\nSFU's Steve Hammerjackson is a solid\npossession receiver who likes to go up the\nmiddle. He is complemented by Kairns\nGraham and speedster rookie Sean Forrest.\nUBC will count on Simon Beckow, Brad\nCoutts and John Little to stretch SFU's\nporous secondary.\nRunning backs\nThe Birds' running game got off to a slow\nstart, but has hit its stride and more. Veteran\nMark Nohra had a monster game against\nthe Alberta Golden Bears while rookie Akbal\nSingh has played more like a veteran.\nSFU's backfield is very potent too.\nVeterans Shawn Lee and David Mattiazzo\nare not bruising backs, but have the quickness to exploit the smallest openings.\nExpect SFU to rely on the two backs early on\nin the game so as to give pivot Weber a\nchance to settle down.\nOffensive Line\nOnce considered a concern heading into\nthe season, UBC's 0-Line has yet to give up\na sack in two games and has opened up\nholes Rush Limbaugh could penetrate. SFU\nwill start a veteran offensive line that gave\nup two sacks per game last year.\nDefensive Line\nUBC's offensive line will have to contain\nSFU's Doug Brown who collected twelve\nsacks last year. Otherwise, Bird QB Jason\nDay will be under more pressure than\nSaddam Hussein. UBC's Dave McLaughlin,\ncurrently sidelined with an ankle injury,\nshould be available for Friday's contest.\nAnd if he plays the way he has in the past,\nwatch out.\nLinebackers\nUBC's linebacker corps has been nothing\nshort of brilliant in the first two games. If\nSFU doesn't get good yardage on first down,\nlook for Alex Charles and Co. to tee-off on\n0-LINE MEETS D-LINE-the offensive and defensive lines will set the stage for this weeks's\nShrum Bowl. Here they face off against each other at practice, scorr hayward photo\nCam Weber. With Justin Ring playing for\nCFL's Hamilton Ti-Cats, SFU's small but\nspeedy linebacker corps will rely on Robert\nKozikowski and Jason Clemett who finished\nlast season with three sacks and 83 tackles\nin 10 games to slow down the Birds' running game.\nSecondary\nUBC's secondary has been sohd so far.\nWatch for Dan Rootes to continue his\nimpressive play. SFU heads into the Shrum\nBowl looking for consistency in the defensive backfield.\nSpecial Teams\nUBC's kicking game has struggled so far,\ngoing 2-8 in the first two games. That is\nunacceptable. With Jamie Boreham injured,\nRyan McWhinney will step in. He struggled\nagainst Saskatchewan, going 0-3, but has\nlooked good this week in practice. The reliable Bret Anderson (10 for 12 in 1995) will\nhandle kicking duties for the Clansmen.\nIntangibles\nUBC has already played two games while\nthe Shrum Bowl will be SFU's first game of\nthe season. The fact that this year's game\nwill be played under Canadian rules should\nalso benefit UBC, at least offensively, but\ndon't count on it. The past three games, all\nwon by UBC, were played under American\nrules.\nSFU head coach Chris Beaton puts his\nown twist on the rules debate: 'I just hope\nlike hell we know what we're doing.'^\nThe Ubyssey's Pick:\nUBC 30 SFU 16\nThe Peak's Pick:\nSFU 17 UBC 16\nCheerleaders to debut at Friday football classic\nps^H\n*mm- Jt%9\nUBC ALL-STARS jumping to new heights in practice for their debut performance at the Shrum Bowl, richard lam photo\nby Jo-Ann Chiu\nFor the first time in six years, UBC has a cheerleading\nsquad and coach Rochelle Graf hopes it will do more than\nwhip-up fan support at this season's T-Bird games.\nThe new UBC All-Stars, formerly known as the Steveston\nAll-Stars, will be debuting at Friday night's Shrum Bowl.\n'I have three days to put this squad together,' Graf said\nat the team's Tuesday practice.\n\"The team learned a dance routine and six chants on\nMonday night, and they will learn six more cheers [tonight].\nOne more rehearsal on Thursday, and then we have to be\non the field Friday.'\nGraf said she hoped the All-Stars' premiere will attract\nother UBC students so the team can become a university\nprogram.\nCurrently, the squad is a mixed batch of top cheer athletes\nfrom across the Lower Mainland that includes three men and\n14 women from various high schools, colleges and UBC.\nGrafs only stipulation is that potential candidates for the\nAll-Stars have some previous cheerleading experience.\n\"Otherwise at university level, I would have to take an 18\nyear-old back to the grassroots of cheerleading, and at this\ntime, it would be too difficult,' she told The Ubyssey.\nThe coach said all students\u00E2\u0080\u0094regardless of gender\u00E2\u0080\u0094are\nwelcome, especially since male cheer athletes are something of a novelty here in Canada, where the public perception of cheer squads is years out of date.\nSouth ofthe boarder, things are very different Graf said\nher male cheer athletes have been snatched by American\nuniversities waving enticing scholarships at high school\ngraduation.\nAll-Stars stunter Peter Parrotta will soon join that number. A former linebacker/tailback with the Richmond Colts,\nParrotta's football career was cut short by a back injury. But\nthe 5' 10' athlete found he couldn't stay away from the field.\n'I had to be on the field,* explained the 19 year-old\nParrotta. 'So I became a mascot and ended up working\nwith the cheerleaders. Ms. Graf spotted me tossing some of\nthe girls up in the air and she thought I had potential. So I\njoined the squad. I've really developed in my stunting skills\nsince then.'\nAlthough Parrotta's strength and agility was appreciated\nby the girls he worked with, being accepted by as a member\nof the cheerleading squad by other men was another matter.\n'I've always thought of myself as a stunter and not really a cheerleader anyway,' says Parrotta. 'But the guys did\nmake fun of me at first, saying I was gay and calling me\nother names. But I knew that the best-looking girls in\nschool were spending more time with me than their\nboyfriends. It's also so much fun. I loved football. I used\nto get such a rush from running into someone full-out on\nthe field. Now I get the same feeling from throwing the\ngirls around or tossing them up in the air.'\nParrotta is laughing all the way to the bank. The\nUniversity of Hawaii has granted the athlete a cheerleading\nscholarship estimated to be worth about $ 15,000. It will\ncover tuition, books, and room and board. Although student visa complexities mean Parrotta won't be leaving until\nJanuary, he'll be able to help with the UBC All-Stars in the\nmeantime.\nThe move to UBC signals a metamorphosis for the formerly independent cheer squad. The All-Stars formed after\nthe cancellation of Steveston high school's award-winning\ncheer team which Graf coached for 10 years. 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The voters will have spoken.\nThe people of BC will have re-elected the\nmost misbegotten assortment of cranks,\npolitical tricksters and would-be reactionaries ever to be assembled under one legislature roof; they will have expressed their\napproval of a government whose colossal\nsmugness is surpassed only by its incredible\nhypocrisy; they will have endorsed a regime\nof pseudo-religious egomaniacs that \"gets\nthings done\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094but has somehow managed\nto convince the voter that he's not paying\nthrough the nose for it.\nBut that's the way the political ball\nbounces in BC in AD. 1956, and what with\ngalloping prosperity and a senile opposition,\nthere's litde that can be done about it for the\npresent.\nSo welcome back to power for at least\nanother four years fellows; but please: Try to\nremember there's a growing number of us\nwho aren't interested in collecting \"Social\nCredit dividends.\"^/\nLife before Telereg...\nDawn Lineups Gone\nRecord 7,200 Enroll\nFASHION TRENDS for frosh in 1956 included the above, which\nwas the graphic from an ad for Eaton's.\nTuesday, September 18, 1956\nThe \"stupid practice\" of lining up\nfor half the night in order to register early will end this year, according to John A. Parnell, UBC's\nassociate registrar.\n\"Camping\" in front of the\nArmories in the wee small hours of\nthe morning has been the procedure in previous years by freshmen\nto get favoured timetables.\nThe chief aim has\nbeen to avoid Saturday\nclasses, necessitated by\nthe size of the enrollment.\nNow class sections will be filled\nup in order; students who register\nlate in the week will have the same\nopportunity of getting Monday,\nWednesday, Friday lectures, as\nthose who arrive early the first day.\nFirst day arrivals should also be\nprepared to be assigned to\nTuesday, Thursday, Saturday lectures.\nRegistration this year is expected to break a nine year record. The\npeak enrollment was 9374 in\n1947, at the height ofthe veterans'\nreturn to college.\nOfficials predict that over 2000\nnew students will be registering\nthis week. 1600 of this number\nwill be freshmen, the rest will be\nentering UBC at different levels.\nTotal registration is expected to\nexceed 7200.\nThe new registration policy is\naimed at reducing the advantage of\ncoming early and will assure equal\nopportunity to students.\nIn addition to the bumper crop\nof freshmen, the largest since the\nwar, the ranks will be swelled by\nstudents registering in the new\nSchool of Education.\nThe peak enrollment was\n9374 in 1947, at the\nheight of the veterans'\nreturn to college.\nPriority numbers will still be\nissued according to Mr. Parnell but\nonly in the event of large numbers\nwaiting to get into the Armories.\nThis will allow those with low priority to return later on and not\nlose a time advantage.\nStudents who are confronted\nwith the necessity of taking\nSaturday classes may apply for a\nchange if classes would interfere\nwith a Saturday job taken to aid\nfinancing of education.\nAccording to a spokesman from\nthe office of the registrar changes\nin timetable to accommodate students with a Saturday job will be\nmade if class-work hours actually\nconflict and upon written or verbal\napplication, j,/\nRemember Vietnam?\nUBC draft dodger detained by US\nThursday, September 16, 1976\nby Heather Walker\nA UBC student is being held in New Jersey on\ncharges of evading the United States Vietnam\ndraft.\nSam Israel, a first year creative writing student, was arrested in New York City on\nt tm tjftjtjttKBhM.\nintriott LSI eirauitry. I****\nyamiiml uvftH dint mtmorY tttt omkum for eamtMajt*\no,eol\u00C2\u00ABion\u00C2\u00BB. ten you \u00C2\u00ABotv\u00C2\u00AB ct\u00C2\u00ABnpi>c\u00C2\u00ABnnj \u00E2\u0096\u00A0qumont in\nlam tun^ A uniqut .tidtateoOT,\nfw\u00C2\u00ABuiw for 1*71,\natUnwtUatt pro-\ntaction aM eon-\nAMAZING TECHNOLOGY was available in 1976,\nas seen in this ad from Kelly's Stereo Marts.\nAugust 15 while returning to Canada from\nEurope.\nIsrael left New Jersey in 1969 after he was\ndenied conscientious objector status. He\nbecame a Canadian citizen last May.\nHe is being held in the US on $20,000 bail,\nbut has been released on his own recognizance\nto his parents' home in Atlantic City, New\nJersey.\nIsrael cannot return to BC to await his trial\nunless the bail is paid. He is planning to appeal\nfor a reduction in his bail.\nIsrael could not be reached for comment\nWednesday because he was consulting with his\nlawyer in New York.\nAn appeal was originally scheduled for\nWednesday, but was postponed until Friday,\nIsrael's wife Brenda Webster said Wednesday.\n\"The standard bail in these cases is $5000,\"\nWebster said.\n\"It's absurd for them to ask so much.\"\nWebster said Israel's lawyer told her the bail\nwas high because Israel had come to Canada\nbefore, \"and they expect him to run off again.\"\nBut, she said, other people in Israel's position have only paid $5,000.\nI don't see why we should be charged such a\nhigh bail,\" Webster said. Israel and Webster earlier turned down an offer from a Vancouver\nschool board electrician to pay the full $20,000\nbail.\nHugh Burton heard of the case through a\nstory in the Vancouver Sun and phoned the\npaper with his offer.\nWebster said she was \"overwhelmed\"\nby the offer.\n\"I was over on the island (Vancouver\nIsland) at the time, and I wasn't aware\nthat the arrest was even in the papers,\" she\nsaid.\nShe said she and Israel both felt they\ncould not accept the offer. \"If the bail was\nreduced to $5,000, I don't know if we would\naccept or not, but I don't think so.\n\"The issue is the morality of the whole\nthing,\" she said. \"Sam's family was prepared to\nmake arrangements to pay the bail, but we didn't agree with that, either.\"\nNo date has been set for Israel's trial, but\nWebster said it would probably take place just\nbefore the US presidential election.\nIf Israel is convicted of draft evasion, she\nsaid, his penalty would depend on the judge.\n\"There is a small possibility of imprisonment, but we don't want to think about that,\"\nshe said.\n\"Otherwise, he could be told to pay a fine,\nor might be put on probation for two years.\n\"As far as I can see, that would only mean if\nhe doesn't resist any more drafts for two years,\nhe'll be all right.\" Webster said the arrest took\nplace when the couple had to change planes in\nNew York.\nShe said they had to pass through US customs\nin order to change planes, and the officer looked\nup information on people with non-American\npassports. 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One Free Wash\n(one machine) per customer\nGold Coin\nLaundry Cafe\n3496 West Broadway\n2 blocks E.of Alma St. on S. side\nUBC's Nearest Launderette 6 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1996\nfeatures\nTHE UBYSSEY\nTop guns, iron eagles, and firefoxes\nThe Abbotsford International\nAirshow's miltaristic sidekick,\nAirshow Canada, remains one of\nthe most under-reported news\nstories in the country\nby David Thiessen\nEvery August the Fraser Valley landscape undergoes a\nbrief but fundamental change when the City of Abbotsford\nhosts its internationally acclaimed International Air Show;\nevery second year it is accompanied by an aerospace\ntradeshow, Airshow Canada.\nSo for one weekend Abbotsford becomes a mecca for\nvarious pilgrimages, many of them military in nature.\nThe summer of 1995 was no exception.\nHundreds of thousands flocked to the airport gates,\neagerly anticipating the display of some of our most modern technologies of cultural homogenization and death.\nDespite some difficulty, organisers\u00E2\u0080\u0094particularly those\nin charge of the tradeshow\u00E2\u0080\u0094have managed to sanitise all\nthis.\nTHE TRADESHOW HAS GROWN RAPIDLY IN ITS SEVEN SHORT\nyears of existance. Two hundred firms exhibited at the first\nshow in 1989, 37 of which represented military firms. Two\nshows later, 15,000 delegates from 70 different countries\ndiscussed trade at 509 exhibtions\u00E2\u0080\u0094at least 104 of which\nrepresented an arms producer.\nInternational military firms such as Britain's leading\narms exporter British Airspace, American weapons manufacturer Hughes Aircraft, France's largest military firm\nAerospatiale and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries were just\namong the 104 arms producers represented.\n*\n*\n*\nALTHOUGH AIRSHOW CANADA LIKES TO PRESENT THE IMAGE OF\na commercial function, its own publication Aerogram\nsaid 'it was impossible to avoid the echoes of the Persian\nGulf in 1991... the F-117 was a star of the flightline and,\ninside, Hughes Aircraft Co's largest exhibit was dominated\nby an enormous screen that projected videos of smart\nbombs devastating Iraqi targets.'\nEven so, Airshow Canada has always managed to completely avoid the land of sustained publicity that eventually\nclosed the ARMX tradeshow in Ottawa.\nIn April 19 1996, Project Censored Canada ranked the\nmilitary activities surrounding Airshow Canada 1995's\neighth most under-reported news story.\nIndeed, few residents of British Columbia, let alone the\nrest of Canada, realise Airshow Canada is North America's\npremier aerospace showcase for both military and civil\ntechnology, serving all customers\u00E2\u0080\u0094democratic or dictatorial, benign or utterly evil.\nTHE PUSH TO PARTICIPATE IN AIRSHOW CANADA REFLECTS\nthe nature of the post-Cold War arms trade. Canada is helping move away from the 'hard-core' arms bazaars and\ntoward venues that better promote the dual interests of\naerospace corporations, where civil and military hardware\nhave always comfortably co-existed.\nAs Airshow Canada concluded in a brief to the BC government, 'the world market for civil and military aircraft,\nincluding parts, engines, and supports, is well in excess of\n100 billion US, not including missiles, and has led to large\nincreases in exhibitor space requirements as industry and\ngovernment vie for a share of this multi-billion dollar pie.'\nBut as governments scramble for a larger\npiece of the pie, they are increasingly willing\nto embrace the general duplicity surrounding the exporting of military goods.\nPresident of the Canadian Aerospace\nAssociation Peter Smith commented, that 'it\nis not for those who manufacture or assemble weapons to grapple with the moral issue\nof who the arms should or should not be\nsold to.'\nThe rightfulness is determined, Smith\ncontinued 'by the rules of the game in government policy.\"\n*- * *\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nAN F-14 TOMCAT gets ready to fly home after a weekend at this year's\nAbbotsford International Airshow. You could buy one next year.\nRICHARD LAM PHOTO.\nIn 1995 military giants Sikorsky, Rockwell International,\nand Loral Aeroneutronic joined the show; government\ninvolvement also rose dramatically.\n*\" #\n*.\n*r\nr\ni\ni\ni\ni\nUBC's Favorite Party Place!\nsi\ni\ni\ni\n2291 W.Broadway\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Best BZZR Deals\nin Town!\n733-2821\nLast October The Ottawa Letter reported\nthat Trade Minister Roy MacLaren and\nIndustry Minister John Manley were concerned that an altruistic stand on arms\nexport regulations would hurt Canada economically.\nMacLaren questioned 'whether we've actually lost a lot\nof business because ofthe rules on defense exports.'\nManley and MacLaren have little to fear, however.\nThe 1995 tradeshow, for example, attracted 51 of the\nsame military firms that attended ARMX '89 in Ottawa\u00E2\u0080\u0094a\ntradeshow member of parliament Andre Ouellet called 'a\nprofitable and scandalous effort to sell weapons to Third\nWorld countries.'\nBut Prime Minister Jean Chretien disagrees.\nIn his Airshow Canada '95 address Chretien said, 'from\nAirshow Canada's beginnings in 1989, the government of\nCanada has supported this event.\"\nMany feel Chretien's comments reflect a willingness to\ndistort the principles inherent in Canada's military export\nregulations, which disallow the sale of arms to areas in conflict or with a history of serious human rights abuses.\nThe trend that Ouellet lamented \u00E2\u0080\u0094that is to see 'third\" or\nlesser industrialized world as the primary 'aerospace' market of the future\u00E2\u0080\u0094has been the most central impulse behind\nAirshow Canada's mushrooming prominence.\n\"We have been\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Proud Sponsor o\u00E2\u0082\u00AC\nUBC Athletics\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 T-Bird Tuesdays -\nYour Night to Boogie!\npushing the Pacific\nRim connection\nvery hard,' said\nAirshow Canada\nPresident Ron\nPrice, 'and we have\nbeen very pleased\nwith the response\nwe have received.'\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Free Pool 7-9 PM\nFundraisers -\nBook yours now!\n\"The region of South\nEast Asia is one of the\nlast in the world where\ndefense budgets\ncontinue to expand in\nthe post-Cold War era,\"\nsaid Derek da Cunha of\nSingapore's Institute of\nSouth East Asian Studies\nI\nI\nI\nBring in this ad for\nFREE COVE\nbefore 11PM Fri./Sat.\n(Offer Expires Sept.30/96)\nR\n'THE REGION OF\nSouth East Asia is\none of the last in\nthe world where\ndefense budgets continue to expand in the post-Cold War\nera,' said Derek da Cunha of Singapore's Institute of South\nEast Asian Studies to a group of defense officials at the\nDefense Asia '95 exhibition.\n'As report after report have indicated for many years\nnow, the traditional arms markets of North America and\nEurope are in decline; the Middle East, Latin America, and\nin particular the Asia-Pacific region have since come to be\nseen as the most important arms markets ofthe future,' da\nCunha said.\nDa Cunha is not far off the mark. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1996\nfeatures\nTHE ubyssey 7\nIn. Aerospace After the Cold War: A Blueprint for\nSuccess, the US Aerospace Association revealed that 'major\nincreases in foreign sales' were primarily responsible for\nits 26 billion dollar trade\nsurplus last year.\nAirshow Canada '95\nwas a good example.\nBecause of new initiatives like the presence of\nSICCOFFA (the military\nwing of the Organisation of\nAmerican States), Airshow\nCanada personnel said our\n'five-day conference will\nbe attained by Senior Air Force Officials from all North,\nCentral, and South American nations, many with procurement responsibilities.\n'The interdependent nature of the defense and civil\naspects of the aerospace industry make this [addition] to\nAirshow Canada relevant.'\nNot only did the Canadian Ministry of Defense Export\nServices and the Canadian Defense Production Office\nComDef\u00E2\u0080\u0094a Washington DC based arms\nsymposium/bazaar\u00E2\u0080\u0094to permanently relocate to Vancouver\n'in order to tap into the natural synergy between partici-\nbeen involved in genocidal activities for decades; hence, the\nreports carefully worded, if not also ambiguious, conclu\nsion:\nDespite all this, the city of Abbotsford , as well as local and\nnational media, continue to promote and defend the\ntradeshow on the basis that it is a civil tradeshow with\nlittle military activity involved.\n'Although considerable time, effort, and\ncommil/ment are\nrequired to finalize any\nsale in [these regions]...\na more focused effort is\nrequired to promote\nCanadian technology\nand expertise in defense\nproducts.*\nThe dedsioii to boy new @r used pst got m$wr.\nV-W wei'i-ig i- t\u00C2\u00BBef A>rfort-K >jorfj &,& .stmt fesuss sfedyMKi && tjiimfia. sf\ntt^iSiiaiitKi es m aii&re&xt & itw t&XKitvi^taim. %a$o\ ten if* tmn tftvitm\nfcniwet. ian jjarftji miiMti toygw fgHfer saSset .i\u00C2\u00AB8& >i& t\u00C2\u00BB^fost%if!#\nft ibf F-jfighMriutJ ear, jmWsyou w&j %: r#n\u00C2\u00BBs\u00C2\u00ABj \u00C2\u00BB>^rtHr<\u00C2\u00AB-^Cbni.i%A >^^( totalis*** iuMltot\nTHE DECISION TO BUY JUST GOT EASIER! Forget about Pepsi points, this is the real thing,\nbaby. Airshow Canada '95 real picture. DAVID THIESSEN PHOTO.\nattend the show\u00E2\u0080\u0094as did the Defense Export Service of the\nUnited Kingdom, the Italian Department of Defense, the\nAustrian Military Group, the Netherlands Defense\nMission, among many others\u00E2\u0080\u0094but Canada's Department of\nDefense also joined hands with Bristol Aerospace (one of\nCanada's leading defense firms) in a concentrated effort to\nsell the modernized C-F5's it recently tried selling to\nTurkey.\nPerhaps more revealing, a few months before the 1995\nshow, Airshow Canada proudly announced the decision by\npants at both events.'\nFor the past five years, ComDef sought ways to revitalize\nthe industry.\n'Since 1991,' said ComDef s CEO David Whiteree, 'we\nhave held discussions with members of various delegations, including Egypt and Turkey, about the possibility of\nfinding a new home for ComDef.\n'ComDef,\" announced Airshow Canada, 'will now be\nable to visit the tradeshow as\nguests of Airshow Canada'\nwhich 'will allow it to explore\nopportunities between North\nAmerican nations and Asian\nand Pacific nations in the\nareas of defense, defense\ntechnology, and logistics.'\n'We are building,' says Price,\n'an important bridge\nbetween the aerospace markets of North America,\nEurope, and Asia.'\nWhile a large proportion of\nthe show's exhibitions are\ncivil, and many of those with\ndual interests highlight their\ncivilian projects as well as\ntheir military, the claim is\ngrowing increasingly impossible to substantiate.\nOttawa's release last spring of its Export Strategy\nReport 96/97 not only reflects the same attitude expressed\nby Maclaren and Manley, but also lists Airshow Canada as\na venue through which the government will 'assist industry... in establishing key contacts in the foreign country\ndefense community.'\nNations tagged as particularly important military export\nregions include Korea, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia,\nIndonesia, Turkey, and China.\"\nThe governments of China, Turkey, and Indonesia have\n. w-tc^sAvs^we- .\u00C2\u00BB*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-*- .frf****^\"*-****^\"?'1^**^^\nJoin the Ubyssey,\nno experience\nnecessary\nThe Faculty of Science Presents\nH Lecture Series\nfor ALL Science\nUndergraduates\nIt's new and it's for you!\n$ee science\nfrom the inside\nFeel scientists'\nenthusiasm,\nand uncouer\nyour own.\nflls.CQjij\u00C2\u00BBr the\nthrill of the\nunknown\nLearn, about\nstudy programs\nin tlip i .icultu\nCome\t\njust because!\n\"Where's the Science\nin\nScience Education?\"\nThe first Science First! 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You know it has to be the '90s when Mary is bowing down to a giant phallic sculpture, praying to conceive.\nThis play explores the fears, doubts and desires of Mary\nas she waits for Joseph to bring her what may grow into her\nvery own baby. The script lightly touches on the inadequacy Mary feels because she is childless. Although they support her, Mary's friends question whether these feelings\nmay be the reason for Mary's sudden maternal instincts.\nThey also question what will happen when the baby is born.\nWill Mary and Joseph live together, will they remain\nfriends, or will they go their separate ways? Or, worse still,\nwill Mary's dead mother intervene from heaven and stop\nthe conception altogether? The possibilities are endless.\nThe cast (Nancy Robertson, Michael P. Northey, Sera\nRhyane and Diana Swayze), as directed by Pam Johnson,\nwork well on the whole, with some especially convincing\nmoments. Written by UBC's very own Theresa O'Leary, The\nTurkey Basting Method provides another charming, comical evening of entertainment at the Fringe.\nA wild, skinny night\nat the Fringe\nby Richelle Rae\nAdventures in the Skin Trade\nat the W.I.S.E. Hall\nAdventures in the Skin Trade is a story about Samuel\nBennet, a young man leaving home for the first time. His\ndestination is London and he has the phone number of a\nwoman named Lucel in his pocket. Thus begins the adventure for Sam, a fledgling poet keen to see and experience all\nthat life has to offer in the 1930s. In one wild night Sam\ngoes from the train station to a pub, to a house with furniture literally stacked to the ceiling, to a sketchy establishment owned by Susan Dacey where he is poisoned with perfume by Polly Dacey. And all of this is amazingly accomplished with his finger stuck in a beer bottle.\nIf the story sounds ridiculous, you're half right. But what\nis more important is that the script isn't. Adapted from the\nworks of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, Trevor Found's script\nis not only clever, but also well thought out and carefully\nplanned. Unfortunately, the press package says nothing\nabout Found's background in theatre, so I can not say\nwhether this is his first production or even which of\nThomas' poems he adapted the script from.\nWhat I can tell you is that Found has taken a tremendous\nrisk in taking on a huge literary giant like Thomas. Found is\na brave man, though admittedly the risk was a calculated\none, considering that the very nature of poetry is theatrical\nand the textured language is a natural candidate for the\nstage, as Vancouver's own Studio 58 proved in 1991 with\nUnder Milkwood.\nONE OFTHE BASTE PLAYS SHOWING: UBC grads conceived\nThe Turkey Basting Method.\nIt isn't just the script that makes this show one of this\nFringe's best bets, but the talented cast that adds life to the\nwords. The entire crew gives an energetic and committed\nperformance from start to finish. The characterization of all\nthe actors is excellent, especially that of Nicole Le Vasseur\nas the mentally unstable tragedian Polly Dacey. Summed\nup in a word: hilarious. Enjoy!\nThe Jones Boy sees\nproblem from inside\n by Andy Barham\nTHE JONES Boy\nSa Sep 14 12:15pm\nat the Vancouver Performing Arts Centre\nTom Walmsey was a heroin addict during the '70s, pub-\nhshing several volumes of poetry about his experiences,\nincluding Lexington Hero. The Jones Boy also concerns\nitself with heroin addiction, taking place in a crummy\nGranville Street hotel room.\n\"Jones\" was '70s vernacular for junk sick, likely deriving\nfrom \"yen\", a term common in 19th century opium dens,\nand Lee (Ryan Taylor) has a serious \"jones on his bones.\" As\nthe play opens, we see him lying in bed with a blanket\naround him in a filthy hotel room littered with junk food\ndebris.\nAlthough the play was well acted for the most part, I personally thought the \"junk sick morning\" routine was a tad\noverdone. The script describes a runny-nosed Lee shivering\nwhile reading a comic book. Taylor portrays Lee in a more\nadvanced state of withdrawal; it's the sort of overblown\ndepiction one would expect from some Hollywood bozo\nhaniming it up, rather than that of someone who's actually\nbeen there.\nNonetheless, the play was otherwise very well performed \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the needle marks on Lee's sister Sally (Kathleen\nCorbett) were extremely convincing, for example \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and the\nacting was first rate. It's a disturbing play about an even\nmore disturbing subject \u00E2\u0080\u0094 there is some graphic violence \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nand erstwhile theatre goers should bear this in mind. Don't\nbe put off by the play's gritty subject matter, however, since\ndrug addiction is very much a part of our urban reality.\nWhile our understanding of it is rninirnal, limited by ill-\nfounded prejudices which view drug addiction as a criminal problem, it is a medical and social issue.\nIn this context, it should be emphasized that The Jones\nBoy takes place in the '70s, a time when the quality of street\nheroin was particularly low and its price particularly high.\nSince then, thanks to cheap imports from the Golden\nTriangle and Pakistan, the price has dropped considerably,\nwhile the quality, though fluctuating, has improved dramatically. It should also be noted that cocaine currently represents a far more serious problem than heroin on the\nstreets of Vancouver; hence, Walmsey's play may seem a bit\ndated. Nonetheless, The Jones Boy gives us an insider's\nview of a social problem most of us would prefer to ignore,\nand should be seen as much for this reason as for the entertainment value ofthe play itself. I cannot recommend it too\nhighly.\nTwo, two, two plays\nfor the price of one!\nby James Rowley\nOVERTONES AND THURMAN WENT\nSa Sep 14 1:30pm\nSu Sep 15 8:00pm\nat the W.I.S.E Hall\nIt's two, two, two plays in one.\nRock, Paper Scissors is a new company made up mostly\nof Studio 5 8 grads. In its Fringe debut, the young cast shows\noff the strength of their alma mater's physical training.\nThurman Went is a one-man, multi-character story of a\nman's struggle to return to the flesh and blood world after\na period of withdrawal (characterized by an uncanny likeness to a pair of glasses and a jacket on a wheeled mike\nstand).\nDavid C.Jones' infinitely creative use of mime and puppetry is a treat in itself, but there is something missing-\nsomething like...fun? As is the case with much ofthe piece,\nThurman's exploration ofthe healing arts (the practitioners\nof which are represented by their eye-glasses alone) could\nbe hilarious, but Jones seems to be trying a bit too hard.\nOvertones, written by Alice Gerstenburg and directed by\nJones, works up to a feverish and side-splitting pace after a\nslow start. Two reserved Victorian(?) women's subtle conversational sparring is echoed and contradicted by their\nuninhibited selves, represented by portraits come to life.\nThe women (Kirsten Williamson of Mom, Dad, I'm Living\nWith a White Girl and Rachelle Erie) fight to conceal their\ntrue feelings and manipulate each other to achieve their\ndesperate goals. Ironically, they both want the same thing,\nbut we only know that through the \"overtones\" of unspoken\ndialogue between their alter egos (Cyndi Mason and Diana\nClent). When the verbal dogfighting starts, the choreography will floor you, and Clent's hungry subliminal maniac,\nin particular, will crack you up.\nOvertones makes this dual Fringe show well worth seeing, but Thurman WentwiH be enjoyed by some more than\nothers.\nDAYCARE OPENINGS\nUniversity Kindercare Daycare\nAges: 2-34 to 5 years\nPleasant, clean, spacious surroundings; small group;\nhealthy snacks and tender loving care by\nECE qualified staff\nBonus: we will help toilet train your child.\nWe will transport your kindergartener\nto and from Queen Mary School\nRecommended by Parents\nHours: 7:45 am to 5:45pm \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 One block from UBC gates\nAsk for Deborah or Doug (staff) \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 4595 West 8th Ave.\nPhone 228-5885\nThe Fringe Festival is almost over.\nNext week, we'll need staffers to cover the Vancouver Int'l\nFilm Festival; after that, there's the Writers & Readers Festival.\nSo, if you want to interview famous people, or if you just\nwant free tickets to events, come by SUB 241K and ask Peter\nfor details. 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J *\n1- ^a^ c,-^ -,t\n. * > \u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00BB*\"* jTttjL^sfitf.-C * v. ? *>\nFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1996\nTHE UBYSSEY 11\nTexan tunesmith wants otheir\npeople's interpretations\nby Peter T. Chattaway\nCraig Ross - Dead Spy Report [MCA]\nThere are those songwriters who compose a verse, achb-t^\nrus, a verse, a chorus, a bridge, arid'then another chorus or .\ntwo. And then there are those tunesiniths who don't work\nin such a linear fashion, those who paint with words arid'\ninstruments in the hope of touching on some elusive qu'ali-.\nty of the soul, those who write arid perform just to see what\nwill happen. ; \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ' \"\"'.'''\nIn 31-year-old Craig Ross's case, that approach got him a\nrecord deal. \"I was just making a bunch of recordings at\nhome; and somebody started passing tapes around without\nmy knowledge,\" he says between drags on his cigarette:\n\"And that basically is how I got signed..I didn't get out and\nshop or anything, it was sort of accidental.\". -V.\"\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'-\nSome garage-based bards may bristle at the thought of\nletting their works proliferate in a musical underworld\nwithout copyright protection;\"but Ross says he wasn^t wor-;\"\n' ried about people stealing his works-in-progress. \"I'd be flat- '\ntered, I guess,\" he says. Tm.riot that territorial. I've never\nheard of anybody stealing a song, honestly.. I've heard -pf.\npeople taking ideas. But all the time I've been doing this,\nI've never seen it happen to'anybody I knbw,.e~ver.\" ;-;'*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 -^/v'\nNot that it would be easy \"to pinch ari idea from Ross's ,\ncatalogue. The songs on Dead'Spy Report, his first solo \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nalbum, have ho obvious\" hooks,\" nor do .they have the sort of\nlyrics that wow you with their wit and \"cleverness! Instead,.\nRoss writes\" for a primarily, atmospheric effect, .with the.\nclockwork percussion of 'Kill the Mornirig;, the plaintive-\nsteel guitars of 'World and Wonder' and the high-ghding ;\nbackground vocals of 'Cry' complementing his moody,\nevocative lyrics.'. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 , \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 . ' ., \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ^ \" ' .--\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"\nRoss says the music comes to him fairly quickly \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a-\nbasic melody will take 15 \"minutes to write down \u00E2\u0080\u0094.but the \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nreal work comes in trying to find lyrics that will fit the'-\nmoods he's captured on tape. \"I kind .of gofor lyrics with a \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nrhythmic approach, but it's-not even the rhythm \u00E2\u0080\u0094 it's the-\nsound of the vowels. The song is already written,, but what .\nare these words? What's it supposed to be? .It's hot a-rari-\ndom approach, but I feel like the song's already written, .so.\nrmjust.trying to extract it.\" \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\" . ^ . ' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .r'\nThe process doesn't.stop: with Ross,- though. Ross^iriay\nbuild the room, but he leaves the furrrishings to the listener. \"I believe in people's-imaginations and their ability to\ncreate images for themselves,\" he says, .\"arid that's all I\nwant anybody to do. What are the images? What's the vibe?\nWhat do you feel like doing afterwards? Does it make you\nhappy? Does it make you wanna go get stoned? Does it\n-make you warina sit; around and cry? Does it make you\nwanna go out and punch somebody in the face? It\ncould mean anything to anybody, and in that respect,\nI'd kind'of like to leave it there.\"\n- \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\" The realities ofthe modern music scene, however,\nmay force him to invest in a more blatant kind of\nimagery by producing \u00E2\u0080\u0094 egad! \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a music video. (The\n, first to come from Dead Spy Report will probably be\n'Rill the Morning.') Ross hasn't given the issue much\nthought yet, though he hopes even the visual media\nmight leave room for \"interpretation. \"It'll be a chaU\nlerige to try to pull that off,\" he says. \"It's going to have\nto be something very non-narrative. Something\nslightly random.\"\nFor how, Ross is collaborating with a whole different kind of interpreter: the band members that tour\nwith him as the opening act for the Throwing Muses.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'- ^ Ross has worked with bands before \u00E2\u0080\u0094 first with the\nStick People, then with Texas blues-rockers Storyville\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 but he left them behind when he felt his control\nover his material slipping. \"I'm kind of a control\nfreak when it comes to writing! In a sense, Ihave to\nbe able to do things my way, andi can'be a little difficult in aband situation. T'm_ riot an^asshole, but I\nam, like/pushy. When I hear a song,it has to sound a\ncertain way, cuz that's.the way I hear it: ^\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\" \"But this situation [on tile road], is \"different, cuz\n:these guys who are playing with me,' I:haven't sat\ndown and actually said play this or play that. I try to\nencourage them to bringmore things into the music,\nbut it's still my thing. It's my deal. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"Arid they're happy doing it, too. I wouldn't want to\nhave anybody who wasn't enjoying it, cuz it's a lot of\nwork. I rrieari, outside ofthe 45 minutes you get to- -\n:play, you're driving, driving, driving and moving equipment, and it's a lot to ask for people to corrie out and play\nin support of a record that isn't really theirs. So you've got\nto be gracious to people \"when they're; working with you.\nThey're definitely giving something to it; and you have to be\nwilling to listen to ideas.\" ..\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 . Touring as a solo artist has also forced Ross to come to\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0terms with another of his insecurities: his voice: In past\nbands, he\" left the singing to others/and the lead vocals on\n-several cuts from Dead Spy Report are obscured.by an\neclectic array of effects in the finalsoundmix. But singing\nin front of live audiences at small venues like the Starfish\nRoom has forced him to rely on the basics.\n\"It's a trip!\" he confesses. \"It's weird, because I'm probably going to go through the same stage of growth with\nsinging that I went with guitar playing. When I first started\nplaying it started off very simple, then I started getting into\na bunch of effects, and I started covering everything I did\nNO RICHARD LEWIS / AL PACINO / MARTY FELDMAN COMPARISONS,\nPLEASE. Craig Ross is a tad neurotic, but he translates his\nneuroses into atmospheric, evocative pop songs. J\nwith effects, and then I got it back into being simple again.\"\nThis laissez-faire, take-it-as-it-comes approach has served\nRoss quite well so far, and it enables himto keep;some sort\nof historical perspective.even as he. lives in the moment.\n\"I'm successful right now; I'm doing exactly what I want\nto do,\" he says: \"I'm playing with musicians that I really\nlike, I've got a record out that I really like. Whit more could\nI ask for? That's as successful as I-could have hopedto have-\never been. What happens after this? If it's good, then great.\nIf it's bad,\" then' .\nnobody can take'anything away from me,\ncuz it's already been\ndone, it's already out.\nYou can't . turn . the\nhands back and - say\nthat record was never\ndone.\" jf\nExperiments in pop music leave the listener sullied\n(Vs Only a Flesh Wound\nLombdmp) [Virgin]\nSam Phillips is onr1 ol pop\nmusic's bust kept secret.?. With\nthroe albums uf increasingly\ntextured art pop under her\nhull, she's built up u small but\nloyal following, but low outside\nthat circle ha\e hoard of her\nAmi those within the circle1\naren't Mire they want Ui share\nher with th\u00C2\u00AB world - they'd hke\nto see her music recognised, surely, but they're also afraid she']] go\nmainstream (The fact that she's a \"mlica\" favorite dnean'lhelp. since\nit means she'd a hit with people who don't pav for their music amway.\nA fat lot of guild that's done her carcer.l\nIndeed, one of Uie endlessly fahcinatim; things about Sam s music\nhas always been Uie way it teeters between aimmerr.ial viability and\ndon tKiveji-riamn ejqierinum.ation But with Otnrupop (H'n Only ,i\nflesh Wuund Lamhchop), her fourth album for Virgin, Sam may have\ncrossed the line and abandoned polished pop fori-ver mis is an album\nthat like an adolescent's first p.iti h of pubic hair feels a litlJe odd and\nat first isn't all tli.it comfortable, hut after a while il may begin to grow\non the listraer hke some proud symbol of maturity or .lomethinp.\nThe genital rnetaphnr lk deliberate, as Sam is by far nuire provoca\nlive sexually on Omrnpup tlian she'-> ever been before. There's nnth\nmg sejrv about Ihi.s rilbnnx, per se but il dries revel in matters nf tlie\nflesh, usually txi hijdihght Uie potentially degrading, consumptive\nnature of personal relationship.-, Cunauie: 'Help Yourself 'I laid\ndinAii cm Uie table,' You pulled up a chair / You're going to help \ our\nself/ To me \" PeeJ free lo make up your own \"eating\" pun\nAl tunes .Sam gets a lillle too carried away with her own cleverness.\n'(\"(.nipiiJhhe liambler' lasts a mere 4S semiulf., but she sin,^ Uie\npunchline \u00E2\u0080\u0094 \"he would rather Jay a but' \u00E2\u0080\u0094 three tunes wiUi increasing\nabrasivencss, as if we did a'I get it Uie first time. Neither this sung, nor\nUie endlessly droning \"Where Aw; You Taking Me/ stand up tu repeat\nliKtamng, and they could be enough to turn first-time listeners off for\never.\nThere are diamonds in Uie rough, though, anil most of Uie. sougfc on\nIhmupop are as good as anyUung else she's ever dune. 'Knfcrtain\nmen' and Power World' (an upbeat sounding piece that could he this\ndisc's 'Shim Happy People') are exceptionally melodic even radio\nfriendly; 'Slapstick Heart' de.lUy fits Sam's simile-twisting-wordplay tu\na musical frame built by R.E.M.; and ' Zero Zero Zerol' sends a bubbly\nbiass section to Hawaii for some gooly, lighten-up, feelgood irivohty.\nIt's Sam's party, and everyone who wants to is free to join\n- Peter T.Qia&miQr\nSully - Solly [Random MedSa Cora]\nTins rawer unprepossessing looking CD (it's about as \"garage* zs they\ncume \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the co\er look's very rnuiJi hke a xeroxed sheet uf Folded\npaper) delivers far more than many a slicker product, from the opening Ltack fifteen' to Uie penultimate 'anothe.nl' Uie listener is treated\nlo a curunih blend oi psj-clu'delu' launch and reflectively lyrical, etlie-\nreal tune poems reminiscent of Sinead O'Connor's finest work.\n'Hint O'Connor is a sifiiuficafit influen(,e on Sully's scnuid is mani-\nlefsdr evident lioUi in Sully's vocals and in the variety and type ol\nniii'ric featured on Uie CI) [mapine a luirder, rauncluer, moie psy-\ni Iiedelic Smeari an experimental punk rock Sinead backed by Uie\nsingular guitar of U^'h Edge, if jou will \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and >\"0ii might begin to\napproach Uie sound of Sully\nMy only complaint with the CD is the fir ml \u00C2\u00BBong 'blues drone' It io\ntoo long ami far too munteresUng musically, to long hold Uie listener's attention in this age ul'vast>-' sliurtcued attention spans. Twas\nindeed a wise decision to pul it at tht: end of tlie CD. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 AotyBvium\nA LIE OF\nTHE MIND\na play by\nSam Shepard\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0.\u00E2\u0099\u00A6.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0:;\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n\"3s\u00C2\u00BB,\n, !jsi- r. -\nA Family NightmHra--\ny'lolent, Hllarloua, Pb\u00C2\u00ABU<\nSEPTEMBER 19 - 28\n8pm\nTwo for One Preview\nWednesday, September 18th\nFREDERIC WOOD\nTHEATRE\nBox Office :\n822 1678 w;>\nf +~\ P \u00E2\u0096\u00A0? f r\nr f f t , f s\n*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 . i: \u00C2\u00BB' *r J. v.\n-***m9l>'\ \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 <'.'f1-..''-ri.j-!-.Jb V * \"t\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00C2\u00AB b t q a o ^\n-'-$ & a ? '<\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n-3, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2T^t^.T. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1996\nculture\nTHE UBYSSEY 13\nWell-drawn Gon is the anti-Barney\n by Charlie Cho\nCon - by Masashi Tanaka\n[Paradox Press]\nCute and cuddly critters aren't going\nto take it any more. They're fighting\nback, and Gon, a distinctly un-\nBarney dinosaur, is going to help\nthem do it.\nEach issue contains three\nvignettes prominently featuring the\nvicious little runt.\nWith drool occasionally spilling\nthrough his serrated teeth, Gon is a\nCRASS monster. Generally unrecognised as a comic-book genre, Cute\n(Reluctantly), Aggressive, Short, Stout\nanimals include America's cat\nGarfield and Canada's aardvark\nCerebus, who made his first appear\nance in 1977, outfighting and outwitting mere human barbarians.\nAlmost fifteen years later Gon,\nJapan's CRASS prehistoric beast,\nbecame \"an instant sensation\" in\nWeekly Morning magazine. Gon is as\nruthless and deadly as Cerebus, and\nhe shares his large eyes and rounded\nsnout. However, he has something\nthe earth pig lacks: a compassion for\nthe aforementioned cute, cuddly critters.\nGon has simple priorities: eat,\nsleep and protect his animal buddies\nfrom bears, bobcats and dingos.\nDon't expect any thought bubbles\nfrom Gon; there's absolutely no text to\nget in the way of the action. Tanaka's\nfine, dynamic brushstrokes vividly\ncapture the textures of fur, feathers,\nscales and water splashes. It is as if\nMichael Zulli's (The Sandman) animal kingdom had been reduced to fit\nTanaka's manga-sized pages.\nPlaced in their indigenous habitats, the creatures generally behave in\na convincingly natural, albeit violent,\nmanner. The \"action-packed\" conflict\nwill easily appeal to you if you like\nthose wildlife shows in which wolves\nor lions duke it out.\nGon is simply about a tough little\ndinosaur fearlessly exerting his\nsupremacy over his enemies, who\nfoolishly think that they are the predators. The formulaic plot and inconsequential series leaves only the stunning artwork to fend for itself. Goji is\nlike a roller coaster ride: it's an exhilarating rush while you're on it, but\nthen the ride slows down and you end\nup right back where you started.^\nCall Answer.\nFOR MESSAGES THAT\n\u00C2\u00B0FLAKEY\nNo more trying to decode messages\nscribbled on the back of Cheese Puff\nbags. Because Call Answer from BC TEL\ntakes clear, concise messages when\nyou're away from home. Or on the line.\nAnd when you sign up for new telephone\nservice, you get two months free. Which\n60 Days Free\n1-800-422-9966\nwill alleviate the frustration of roommates\ntaking your messages. Call Answer does\nnot, however, alleviate the frustration\nof trying to get\nroommates to\nscrub their own\ntile mildew.\nBCTEL\nOffer applies lo new telephone service subscribers only. Some restrictions apply. 14 THE UBYSSEY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1996\nubyssey\nSeptember 13,1996 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 volume 13 issue 3\nEditorial Board\nCoordinating Editor\nScott Hayward\nNews\nIan Gunn and Sarah O'Donnell\nCulture\nPeter T. Chattaway\nSports\nWolf Depner\nNational/Features\nFederico Araya Barahona\nPhoto\nRichard Lam\nProduction\nJoe Clark\nThe Ubyssey is the official student newspaper of the University of British Columbia. It\nis published every Tuesday and Friday by\nthe Ubyssey Publications Society.\nWe are an autonomous, democratically run\nstudent organisation, and all students are\nencouraged to participate.\nEditorials are chosen and written by the\nUbyssey staff. They are the expressed opinion of the staff, and do not necessarily\nreflect the views of The Ubyssey\nPublications Society or the University of\nBritish Columbia.\nThe Ubyssey is a founding member of\nCanadian University Press (CUP) and firmly\nadheres to CUP'S guiding principles.\nLetters to the editor must be under\n300 words. Please include your phone\nnumber, student number and signature\n(not for publication) as well as your year\nand faculty with all submissions. ID will be\nchecked when submissions are dropped off\nat the editorial office of The Ubyssey, otherwise verification will be done by phone.\n\"Perspectives\" are opinion pieces over 300\nwords but under 750 words and are run\naccording to space.\n\"Freestyles\" are opinion pieces written by Ubyssey staff members. Priority\nwill be given to letters and perspectives over freestyles unless the latter is\ntime senstitive. Opinion pieces will not\nbe run until the identity of the writer has\nbeen verified.\nEditorial Office\nRoom 241K, Student Union Building,\n6138 Student Union Boulevard,\nVancouver, BC. V6T 1Z1\ntel: (604) 822-2301 fax:822-9279\nBusiness Office\nRoom 245, Student Union Building\nadvertising: (604) 822-1654\nbusiness office: (604) 822-6681\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nBusiness Manager\nFernie Pereira\nAdvertising Manager\nJames Rowan\nThere was tension in the air\u00E2\u0080\u0094so much\ntension that Charlie Cho and Kaj Paget tried to\ncut it with a knife. Jo-Ann Chiu and Atshin\nMehin had to get the package to David\nThiessen's print shop. Chris Nuttall-Smith was\nchuckling that they'd never make it But Sarah\nGalashan and Ben Sarab were determined.\nThey started typing up a storm as Wolf Depner\ncleaned the wax out of Andy Barham's ears;\nNick (who had been to the placement meeting)\nhad told him to. Joe Clark kept glancing nervously at the seven clocks in the office. 'Don't\nworry,' said Nick Bouton, 'we've still got eight\nhours until we have to deliver the package.' At\nthat, Mimi Yiu nearly burst a vessel. 'You\nfool' cried Ben Koh, 'don't you realise you're\nlooking at the clock that says Santiago time.\"\nSuddenly, a yell came from the production\nroom. Federico Barahona had managed to get\nhis finger stuck in the imagesetter. 'It's better\nthan whenl got caught in the print dryer,' said\nRichard Lam. All Sarah O'Donnell and Ian\nGunn were concerned about was if this was\ngoing to affect the news copy in any way. At\nthis point, Scott Hayward started in on his mil-\nitaiy routine, making Peter Chattaway cry in\nthe process. Christine Price and Mauran Kim\ngave him kleenex and helped him fix his mascara. Then, all of a sudden, they were done.\nRobin Yeatman and P. Santos Javier grabbed\nthe 16 page package and handed it to James\nRowley who whizzed off into the night with\nRichelle Rae and Marilee Breitkreutz. And\nthey all lived happily ever after.\nop/fed\nCanadian\nUiTaveisily\nCanada Post Publications Sales Agreement Number 1\u00C2\u00BBJLTO1\nMass perceptions, political wrongs\nBeware of words.\nThe dictionary is filled with words like\n'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'counter-revolutionary,' 'dictatorship,' 'communist,' and\n'fascist'\u00E2\u0080\u0094all of them rendered meaningless\nby rhetoric and propaganda.\nGeorge Orwell, Malcolm X, Noam\nChomsky and John Ralston Saul have made\nsimilar arguments.\nModern news organisations sacrifice content for image to maintain the short attention-spans of their mass audiences.\n'Information bites' are cliches based on\ncommonly-held beliefs.\nInternational conflicts are thus simplified\nto 'us against them.' Once a country is\nlabelled as the enemy, spin doctors construct the image to match the policy.\nCountries that foreign policy makers have\ndeemed to be 'enemies of the state' are\ndescribed as 'terrorist,' 'repressive,' 'dictatorships,' 'drug kingpins,' 'Hitler' and\n'butchers.'\nFriendly countries are 'democracies,'\n'trading partners,' \"western,' 'modern,'\n'civilised,' and 'industrialised.'\nOur choice of 'friends' and 'unfriends'\nclearly has nothing to do with human rights.\nIf Iraq may be subjected to what Saul called\n'the most extensive equipment trial since\nWorld War II* for invading Kuwait, why has\nIndochina's invasion and occupation of East\nTimor been ignored? Because for the West,\nhuman rights is not the issue\u00E2\u0080\u0094economics is.\nSo strong is the economic motive, that\neven when both countries involved in a\nbloody war are ruled by equally harsh military governments, the West chooses sides.\nSouth Korea and Croatia got the thumbs up;\nNorth Korea and Serbia thumbs down.\nNone of which is really news. In this cynical age we all know that the TV news lies to\nus, that the State Department always has\nanother agenda, and that no one cares.\nBut still it goes on.\nFor all the changes in the world in\nthe past 30-odd years, the polarized\nview of Korea is as entrenched in the west\nern mindset as it was the day the war\nended.\nSouth Korea is democratic, friendly\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nthe highest accolade of all\u00E2\u0080\u0094a burgeoning\neconomy. The North continues to languish in\nits own Communist backwater, offering us little but grainy TV pictures of tens of thousands of weeping citizens whipping themselves into a frenzy over the death of what we\nall know to have been a maniacal dictator. We\nshake our collective heads and invite the analysts to give us odds on the likelihood of war.\nBut when the televison picture cuts to\nfootage of South Korean security forces tear-\ngassing students, our response is considerably more muted. Growing pains in a\npromising economy, say the analysts.\nThe reality, is\u00E2\u0080\u0094of course\u00E2\u0080\u0094somewhat different Which somewhere in the backs of our\nminds we all suspect It is easier to accept\nthe sound-bites and rhetoric.\nThe Cold War may be over, but very little\nhas changed. Our century of mechanised\nwar grinds on.\nConcerns about Coke deal are unfounded\nOver the past year there has been\nsome debate, and a number of\nissues raised on a number of levels concerning the UBC-AMS-Coke\ndeal in particular and the commercialization of Universities in\ngeneral.\nThe first is the loss of consumer choice. Although this agreement does not ban the consumption of other brands on campus it\nwill mean that they will be unavailable at AMS and university food\noutlets.\nIt is not the mission, neither of\nthe University nor of the AMS, to\nensure the availability on campus\nof a wide assortment of cold beverages from different manufacturers. In the case of the former it is\nteaching and research, and in the\ncase ofthe latter it is student advocacy and student services. It is\ntrue that the AMS and the\nUniversity should provide good\nfood and beverage operations on\ncampus, and variety is a component of quality. However, there\nwill remain a wide selection of\njuice and pop at AMS and\nUniversity outlets. It is just that\nthey will all be from one supplier.\nThe AMS does not provide\nbrand variety in its food items, (I\nhave never been asked what brand\nof wiener I'd like in my hot-dog) so\nI fail to see why it should reasonably be expected to do so for soft\ndrinks).\nIt is reasonable, however, to\nexpect the AMS, as well as the\nUniversity to streamline all its\noperations, including its business\noperations and to seek alternate\nlegitimate sources of funding as\nlong as the obtaining of these\nfunds do not compromise its\ngoals, objectives and overall mission.\nTraditionally, universities were\nseen to be one of the few institutions that were relatively free from\ncommercial corporate influence.\nThe third main concern is\nwhether this agreement O\nwill weaken and/or appear\nto weaken this state of independence.\nThis agreement restricts\nadvertising to current levels and\nstandards. Fears of Coke logos\non our diplomas and massive\nbillboards are unfounded.\nThe University will not look\nmore commercialized.\nThere is probably a growing threat to the indepen- ,v*\ndence of Universities in the ^-\ncurrent economic and political climate. However, the independence of universities is threatened\nwhen earmarked contributions\nare accepted from private firms to\nestablish centres and programs\nfor research and teaching in fields,\nsub-fields, and topics of the firms\ndesignations. It is threatened\nwhen faculty, graduate, and undergraduate research projects begin\nto rely heavily on industrial\nresearch contracts. It is also\nthreatened when public granting\nagencies emphasize marketability\nin their grant selection criteria.\nIt is not threatened by a contract about soda pop.\nThe University does not operate in a vacuum. It must deal with\ncorporations, public and private if\nonly to buy soda pop, electricity,\nand toilet paper. It is precisely by\nhaving long term contractual\nagreements, enforceable by rule of\nlaw that it can assure that next\nyear's quote on macaroni doesn't\ndepend on this year's medical study on the benefits of a high carbohydrate diet.\nIt was possible\nfor the University\nand the AMS to obtain\nacceptable terms for\nthis agreement\nbecause they were not\ncritically dependent\non the revenues\nderived therefrom\nand thus had the economic power to walk\naway. If we depend\nincreasingly on such revenues\nfor core functions we may undermine this position and be unable\nin the future to walk away from\nunacceptable propositions.\nThere are ways to avoid this,\nfor example, by only spending the\nrevenues on non-recurring projects.\nThis Coke agreement was\nabout buying soda pop. It was not\nabout teaching and research. It is\nnot about giving Coke a say in the\nacademic curriculum. It was not\nabout giving Coke a say, directly or\nindirectly, in what research does\nor does not get done at this\nUniversity.\nI suspect that what many who\noppose the Coke deal are most\nconcerned about is not this deal\nbut what the next deal might be,\nsay an exclusive supplier agreement for textbooks for all courses\nat UBC. That, of course would be a\nfundamentally different proposition because it would interfere\nwith the mission ofthe University.\nHowever, approving one kind of\nagreement should not and does\nnot imply, make inevitable or even\nmore probable acceptance of a different, objectionable agreement\nThere is no doubt that a certain\namount of unease was created\nwthin the University community\nby the fact that the actual legal text\nof the Coke agreement remained\nconfidential. To some, confidentiality may simply be incompatible\nwith a public institution with a\nmission to seek and disseminate\nnew knowledge, while others perhaps suspect secret clauses that\nexplicitly and directly undermine\njust this mission.\nThese latter concerns, especially, as well as others mentioned\nabove could be allayed by the\nadoption and promulgation by the\nUniversity of a policy outluiing\nprinciples to be followed and general conditions to be met by any\nsuch future agreements in order\nto ensure that they do not compromise the integrity ofthe University\nor hinder it in the fulfilment of its\nmission as an institution of higher\nlearning.^\nVighen Pacradouni FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1996\nop/fed\nTHE UBYSSEY 15\nA new spin on summer employment\nHELLO, SPIN! Marilee Breitkreutz spent her summer on the phone at SPIN, gaylord fields photo\nby Marilee Breitkreutz\nTwo summers ago, I worked as a receptionist for a trucking company in Langley. This\nyear, I found myself living in the center of\nManhattan and interning for the editorial\ndepartment of SPIN Magazine. What led me\nto give up an enviable position inside the\ntrucking industry?\nIt all started in May 1995, when I took a\ntwo-week trip to New York City. While I was\nthere, I called SPIN, told them I was a\nCanadian student interested in the publishing and music industries, and asked if I\ncould have a tour of their offices. It turned\nout that Darren Tuozzoli, the editorial assis\ntant I spoke with, was also the intern coordinator. He gave me a tour of the office a\ncouple of days later, and we discussed the\npossibility of me returning the next summer as an intern. I kept in touch with him\nover the next nine months, and in March he\ninformed me that the job was mine if I still\nwanted it\nIt is fitting that my association with SPIN\nbegan with a telephone call; as an editorial\nintern, my purpose was to assist the editors\nwith a variety of tasks, and somehow, it\nalmost always involved calling someone. I\nspent hours on the phone asking record\nlabels why our editors hadn't received the\nlatest release schedule or Beck CD, request\ning books from publishing houses,\nchecking with TV networks regarding their fall programming,\nrequesting press kits from clothing\ncompanies or fact-checking for the\nresearch department However, I\ncan proudly say that I never called\nto order coffee, lunch or even in-\nhouse massage or aroma therapy\nfor any ofthe editors I Okay, I did go\nand get coffee, but my superiors\nwere always very gracious about\nasking me to do those more menial\ntasks.\nAll internships may not be so\npieasant My place of habitation for\nthe summer, a New York University\nresidence hall, was populated with\nother lads who interned at NBC,\nRolling Stone, Sotheby's and some\nbig, boring-sounding financial\nsomething-or-other where they actually pay their interns! My acquaintance at Rolling Stone didn't seem to\nbe enjoying his work as much as I\ndid\u00E2\u0080\u0094he claimed his boss was demanding\nand required too much photocopying of\nhim, and he left the company after a couple\nof weeks. He then got an internship at MTV,\nwhere he was quite satisfied.\nThe first question most people ask about\nmy internship is, \"How many famous people did you meet at SPIN?\" I wonder where\nthey think I was working, exactly. I worked\nin an office with no windows. I spent a lot of\ntime screening letters written to the editor\nby prison inmates. Sure, I worked with people who had interviewed famous people-\nmaybe even hung out with them. And there\nwere near-brushes with fame: the other editorial intern in our office got a call from\nMTV VJ Kennedy accidentally transferred to\nhim, I was once givenjoan Osborne's hotel\nphone number during a research project\n(she was no longer there when I called), and\nI once walked past Smashing Pumpkins\nlead singer Billy Corgan on the street one\nday, but no, I didn't meet any famous people while at SPIN.\nHowever, despite the humble job\ndescription, I had a fantastic time. Living\nand working in New York City was extremely exciting, I was in an office with many\ninteresting people, and yes, some freebies\ndid make it down the ladder to me in the\nform of free CDs and concert passes.\nIn fact, if you are interested in a certain\ncareer or field, an internship is one of the\nbest ways to try it out, get work experience,\nand make those ever-important \"connections.\" If New York City seems too scary,\ndon't let that stop you. One of my most\nheartening discoveries this summer was\nthat people who live in that city are not animals\u00E2\u0080\u0094not all of them, anyway.\nMy advice to anyone who is interested in\nsomething like this but doesn't have the\nopportunity to go to New York and ask for\nthe job in person like I did is this: decide on\nthe area you are interested in, muster all of\nyour confidence, write a provocative or\ninteresting cover letter, and follow up on it\nThe other intern in my department was chosen out of over 150 applicants on the basis\nof his ingenious cover letter and a telephone interview.\nYou also may need to be prepared to get\ncoffee, make photocopies and place phone\ncalls all day, but it's worth it There are\nmany opportunities\u00E2\u0080\u0094especially in a place\nlike New York City. All you need to do is ask\nsomeone to give you a chance, j\nCorporate sponsorship: the Choice of a New Generation\nWhen I was a kid I studied for the\nPepsi Challenge\u00E2\u0080\u0094probably harder\nthan I did for my first year calculus\nexam. I got my mom to buy a bottle of\nCoke, and a botde of Pepsi, and I\npoured them into two rows of paper\nDixie Cups, and practiced telling the\ntwo types of carbonated beverages\napart\nBoth brands of colored sugar-\nwater tasted the same to me, but it\nwasimportant to like Pepsi better-\nalmost as important as preferring\nBurger King to McDonald's. It wasn't\njust that Pepsi lovers got a free 1 took\nthePepsi Challenge' button. The ugly\nfact was that your entire social status\ndepended on you choosing Pepsi. At\nmy elementary school, you were\neither part ofthe New Generation, or\nyou were a geek. I had an inkling that\nmy fake Adidas bag guaranteed geek\nstatus, but I could still dream.\nLife is now more surreal for students at my old elementary school.\nTheToronto board of education has\nsigned a deal with Pepsi giving the\ncompany exclusive vending rights to\nsell nutritious pop to the student\nbody. As an added bonus, Pepsi has\ngenerously donated an award to\nencourage academic excellence in\nstudents strung out on caffeine and\nsugar called the Pepsi Student of the\nWeek.\nOther companies are also targeting students. The makers of Prego\nhave distributed lesson plans on the\nscientific method to schools.\nStudents perform an experiment\nusing the famous Slotted Spoon Test\nto determine which spaghetti sauce\nis thicker, Prego or Ragu. They have\nnot done the experiment correctly\nunless they find Prego thicker.\nIn Hunt-Wesson's lesson plan on\nhistory, students learn that Gregor\nMendel, Louis Pasteur, and Orville\nRedenbacker where scientists 'who\nmade a difference.\"\nOverworked teachers and underfunded school boards are easy targets for these companies whose motivation is simple: get a customer\nyoung, andyou have them for life. It is\nthe same reasoning behind the targeting of university students, who are\nprobably leaving home for the first\ntime, and who, upon graduation, will\nbe storting their lucrative careers\n(entry level positions at Starbucks).\nYour university and student council\nhelp these companies gain access to\nyou. You will find credit card applications in the book store, and can\nexpect your addresses to be sold to\nphone companies. You will also\ndrink nothing but Coke products\nwhile on campus, unless you are prepared to risk drinking the water.\nThe university has signed a ninety\npage, secret exclusivity contract with\nthe company, which, given the size of\nUBC is equivalent to banning Pepsi\nand Pepsi signs from a region larger\nthan West Vancouver. Your\nUniversity is willing to sell its name\nto the highest bidder, and to sell you\nas a consumer.\nThe product is you. Coke and\nPepsi also wage their battles in space. Pepsi, in an ^\nattempt to be the choice of\nThe Next Generation,\nrecentiy had Russian cosmonauts space-walk with a\nhuge Pepsi can.\nAs a publicity stunt, Coke\nbought valuable research time\naboard the space shuttle to\nstudy \"bubble nucleation\nand resulting foam formation\" in zero gravity, and to\ntest the affect of space\ntravel on beverage choice.\nMeanwhile, legitimate\nresearch waits for years on the\nground.\nCorporations are becoming more\nand more influential in public\nresearch institutions. The recent\nCanadian study which found that salt\nisn't linked to high blood pressure\nwas funded by Campbell's soup, who\nhave been criticised for being too liberal with the salt shaker. Even if the\nstudy is accurate, its credibility is tarnished by the association.\nAt MIT, researchers had their\nfunding terminated by Gatoraid\nafter they discovered that the best\nbeverage to drink while exercising is\nwater.\nThe mechanisms of influence can\nalso be subtle. Given the low level of\ngovernment funding, departments\nare under pressure to shift research\ngoals to attract corporate money.\nResearch areas such as history, theoretical physics, or art whose benefits\nare not immediate or profitable, are\nbeing pushed aside in favour of\nresearch which should be done by\nthe companies who will profit from\nit Our dependence on corporate\nmoney also creates pressure on\nresearchers to find results\nwhich will keep the donors\nhappy. Our faculty of\nforestry is funded so heavily by logging companies,\nthat anyone who criticises\ncurrent forestry practices may\nfind it hard to renew their\ngrant\nThe current shift to\nprivate sector funding is\none which should be\nresisted at every turn. Each\ntime we sell off a piece of our\nuniversity to private interests,\nwe release government from their\nfunding obligation, and increase the\npressure on us to secure even more\nprivate money. Universities have\nalways reflected the interests of\nthose who fund them, whether they\nbe rich alumni the government or\ncorporations. If Coke is paying to\nmake our libraries wheelchair\naccessible, Cadbury's is bringing us\nup to fire code, and our washrooms\nare being built by McDonald's, then\nit is impossible to imagine that all\nthis corporate money would not buy\ninfluence.\nIf universities are to avoid focusing their research on Coke bubbles,\nand increasing the shelf-life of\nTwinkies, we must distance ourselves from corporations.\nUniversities should be probing and\nchallenging the power structures in\nour society.\nThey should not be corporate\nappendages.\nby Jonathan Oppenheim\nDISCOVER THE BEST COPY CENTRE\nat UBC Village (2nd floor above UBC Pizza)\nIIc only nsi tin- /x\n> Xerox*Quality Paper\n' Best Quality\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Outstanding Service\n1 Knowledgeable Staff\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Competitive Prices\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Open 7 Days\n,.s - XIKOX anil KOI).\K\n< Superb Quality Copies\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Colour Laser Output\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Self Serve Computers\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Fax Service\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Digital Colour Copies\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Lamination\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ...and more!\nServing UBC Since 1987 -\nUBC. 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