@prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isReferencedBy "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "University Publications"@en ; dcterms:issued "2015-08-26"@en, "1997-01-07"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0126319/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ Polls No student input on grad ceremonies' location Holes Men's basketball team must fill gap left by 6'8" forward Roles Analysis of gender in new Star Trek: First Contact Snowed in since 1918 VOLUME 78 ISSUE 23 TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1997 'Jjjpj^J" \""" ""■"i *^m RECORD snows wreaked havoc on the lower mainland. This boathouse at the Vancouver Marina in Richmond collapsed under the weight of the snow, richard lam photo Ramsey new education minister by tan Gunn Monday's provincial cabinet shuffle returned Paul Ramsey to the education Sasister's office he occupied for four months in early i$96. He replaces Moe Sihota -who resigned last month after conflict of interest allegations led to an ongoing investigation by Conflict Commissioner Ted Hughes, Health Minister joy Sfaefbail served as interim education annister over the holiday period. Student leaders said Monday that ^appointment was a "We're really happy with the news' Ana Mater Society (AMS) president jEXgarict Borins said "We met with him {when he was minister} in the spring a6d he seemed knowledgeable and gen- ' interested In education issues. I Borins' sentiments, adding that Ramsey could be expected to stay the coarse on most education policy issues. 'Post-secondary education had a positive direction—certainly in terms of access policy—under Sihota and I believe that will coatinue/ Michael Gardiner told The Ubtyssey. . In the absence of Moe Sihota as the minister, we are happy to have Paul . Sainsey as his replacement* The Premier also removed Labour from the education minister's weighty portfolio, matting the ministry's title simply Education, SMlfe and Training. Labour has beejti added to the ministry of Aboriginal Affairs under John Gardiner called the reorganisation an in the province. The change> he said. (CFS) echoed concentrate on edncation issues. ., secondary education, having worked EMJCftflM* MMtSfEt Paul Ramsey. RICHARD LAM PHOTO for more than ten years as an instructor at the College of New Caledonia in Prince George, and served as the president of the College-Institute Educators Association of BC in the late 1980s * No ballot on tech fee by Chris Nuttall-Smith The university plans to push ahead with a technology fee that could cost students an extra $ 150 a year, despite earlier talk of a binding referendum. "What's absolutely clear is that the administration is not willing to agree to a binding referendum," Vice-President of Student and Academic Services Maria Klawe said Sunday, adding that UBC's Board of Governors must retain the ability to raise student fees as they see necessary. AMS President David Borins said the student government would continue to oppose any new ancillary fees that had not been passed by a binding student referendum. "If the university is not willing to play ball we'll oppose this fee, pure and simple," Borins said. The Ubyssey reported in September that the Student Information Technology Advisory Committee (SITAC), a group of students, faculty and staff, was considering a student technology fee to pay for the expansion of campus computer facilities and improved dial-in access. At the time, Professor Robert Goldstein, vice- chair of SITAC's parent committee on information technology (ACIT), said the university would likely hold a referendum before going ahead with a technology fee. A December letter from then Minister of Education Moe Sihota to Shirley Chan, chair of UBC's Board of Governors, asked the university to limit new ancillary fees. Guidelines attached to the letter also suggested the university hold a referendum before implementing a significant new student fee. But Klawe said Sihota's referendum guideline was only a suggestion, and argued the administration has consulted students throughout the technology fee planning process and will solicit more input at a Your UBC forum on January 15th. Student SITAC representatives said their recommendations should be ready for discussion at the forum. "In terms of having student consultation and having students very heavily involved in the process I think we're on very stable ground there," Klawe said. However Andrew Ferris, an AMS representative on SITAC, said publicity campaigns and a forum should not replace a referendum. "I'm sorry but I can't buy into the Your UBC forums. I like the idea but the attendance at any of them has not really justified labelling them a meaningful consultative process," he said. Klawe deflected suggestions that administrators had already decided on a technology fee, saying input from SITAC, ACIT and the Your UBC forum would be seriously considered. Jessica Escribano, a Graduate Students Society representative on SITAC, disagreed. "If we don't recommend a technology fee ACIT will simply come up with their own recommendation and present that to the Board of Governors...really we're either there to help create a technology fee, or we're not there at all." ♦ Classified Rates $5.25/3 lines (15 wds) $0.80/addtl line (5 wds) The deadline for classifieds is two days p?ior to publication at Noon. All classifieds must be prepaid. We accept cash, cheque, Visa and Mastercard. Tutoring Services Tutoring Serices Want a higher grade on your essay? Experienced tutor/editor (MA English) will help organize & proofread essays and school applications. ESL students welcome. Call Greg: 736-7992. Fraternity Start your own fraternity! Zeta Beta Tau is looking for men to start a new chapter. If you are interested in academic success, a chance to network and an opportunity to make friends in a non-pledging brotherhood, e-mail zbt@zbtnational.org or call Bret 1898. Hrbek (317)334- Ubyssey Classified Department 822-1654 1997 Ubyssey Publications Society Board of Directors Elections Are you interested in the publishing industry? Are you interested in The Ubyssey even though you have not been involved before? Are you interested in getting excellent business experience and meeting new people? Then run for a position on the Ubyssey Publications Society Board of Directors! In February, four new Student-at-Large positions and a new President will be elected to the UPS Board of Directors. To be eligible to run for any of these positions, you only have to be a student and a member in good standing of the Ubyssey Publications Society (ie. you did not opt-out of the Society's fee). The Board of Directors oversees • advertising • marketing • distribution • budgeting student membership fees employees annual general meetings of the society Apply now! The Board of Directors represents the Society to external bodies (the Alma Mater Society, the University, etc.). Board Members serve 1 year terms (Jan 1997-Jan1998). Applications for nomination are available at The Ubyssey Business Office, SUB 245 (across the hall from the Ubyssey Editorial office). Applications must be returned by Friday, January 10, 1997. TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1997 THE UBYSSEY Snow storm disrupts move of half a million BOOK MOVER Ron Mostat stacks up a storm shelving books in the new Koerner Library, richard LAM PHOTO Grad venue vote fizxles by Chris Nuttall-Smith War Memorial Gym has seen its last graduation. The ceremonies will move to the Chan Centre as planned after only two percent of eligible students voted in a poll to determine where they wanted to graduate. Between November 2 7 and 29, only 148 of 6700 eligible students graduating this spring participated in the phone-in poll. Ofthe respondents, 54 percent voted to keep ceremonies at War Memorial Gym. A vast majority also indicated they would need more than four guest tickets; currently, students graduating in the Chan Centre will only be allotted four tickets for family and friends. Student senators Chris Gorman and Adam Legge pushed for the poll in November after the university announced graduation ceremonies would be held in the new Chan Centre for the Performing Arts as of May 1997. They were upset the new building's seating capacity would limit the number of guests graduates could bring to the ceremonies. Gorman attributed the low turnout to poor timing and publicity, adding that the poll was meaningless, anyway. "Even if students were overwhelmingly in favour of keeping grad at War Memorial it wouldn't have meant anything. This poll was just an appeasement thing, just to make us shut up," Gorman said. Ceremonies and Events are now refining the schedule for May convocation in the new Chan Centre and say it will be circulated to Deans later this week. ♦ by Sarah O'Donnell The team behind the biggest book move in the history of UBC's libraries thought they had anticipated every obstacle— they hadn't counted on last week's snow storm. According to university librarian Dr. Ruth Patrick, last week's unusual weather interupted the move of over half a million books from Main library to their new home in the Koerner facility between December 20 and January 6. "Because ofthe weather there were a couple of days where the book movers couldn't work and so we're a couple of days behind. What we've had to do is close the library Monday and Tuesday," Patrick explained. Suzanne Dodson, facilities and preservation manager, was the library's liason with the moving team. As of Friday, Dodson said, 80 percent of the books had been moved. "The next couple of days will be mainly spent in inter-filing because they have to file the books that were already in Koerner with the books that came over from Main," she said Monday. The complexity of the move meant bringing in library moving experts. National Library Relocations from New York sent Kees Edelman to oversee the move. Edelman was last in Vancouver to move the Vancouver Public Library in 1995. This move, he said, is smaller than the VPL but large for an academic library. "Keeping track of roughly 700,000 volumes being moved to and from various locations—especially while many of the books are [on loan] is no easy task," Edelman said Monday. "You have to have movers who know what they're doing and follow every book every step of the way." Both Patrick and Dodson said that although the stacks will be closed to the public until Wednesday, students or faculty in dire need of assistance can ask library staff to find books for them. Study space, labs and limited services will also be available. When the libraries do reopen, students will have to get used to some changes. Although the Fine Arts library, the Science and Engineering library, the Map library, Special Collections, and the library school remain entirely in Main, the Humanities and Social Science section has been divided between the two libraries and its reference librarians have moved to Koerner. "We tried to take the high use things over to Koerner so that most people will find the things they want in those areas in Koerner and the lesser-used things will be left behind here in Main," Dodson explained. "Keeping track of roughly 700,000 volumes being moved to and from various locations—especially while many of the books are [on loan] is no easy task." Kees Edelman National library relocations Government publications are now also housed in the Koerner library. Patrick said library staff are anticipating some confusion. "When the reference desks are open, we're going to double staff them and have staff available to help people learn to use the new library," she said. "Everyday it will get better, but I think for a month or so there may be some gliches." ♦ WEST 10TH OPTOMETRY CLINIC Dr. Patricia Rupnow, Optometrist General Eye and Vision Care 4520 W. 10th Ave. Vancouver, BC (604) 224-2322 COME IN THROUGHOUT JANUARY AND GET DRAFTED! «fc 4 y Specialsf; tt OIUC 2291 West Broadway 733-2821 4 TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1997 cIiJImPjl 8Lj THE UBYSSEY Birds score knockout in Buchanan Cup by Wolf Depner The first invitational UBC basketball tournament had the feel of a great boxing weekend. It featured the reigning Canada West champ (UBC), the upstart rival (UVic), a wild card contender looking for a city title shot (Simon Fraser) and an underdog (Central Washington). And Saturday night was all right for fightin' as the boys from UBC and SFU squared off in the main event, vying for Vancouver basketball supremacy. In the end, the Birds walked away with the belt (er, Buchanan Cup) for the second time in three years with a narrow 74-73 decision. Eric Butler made seven straight free throws in the game's final five minutes and Gerald Cole drained a twenty foot jump SILVER BALLS-T-Birds John Dumont, Dave Buchanan, Eric Butler and Braddy Ibbetson accept the Buchanan Cup after beating their crosstown rivals from Simon Fraser. richard lam photo shot to put UBC up by three with 47 seconds left. But the bout wasn't over yet. Leading by three, UBC's John Dumont only had to sink two free throws to ice the game for UBC. Dumont, who played an otherwise outstanding game with ten rebounds, missed both shots and the Clansmen had one final chance to send the game into overtime with eight seconds left. But Novell Thomas couldn't set up a three-point shot and instead scored an inconsequential basket from eight feet out for the game final's score. Despite the loss, SFU still leads the all-time Buchanan Cup series 12-10-1. "The game was lost for us on the defensive glass," said SFU head coach Scott Clark. "They did a good job rebounding the offensive glass, and that was the difference in the game." The Birds edged the Clansmen 33-27 in rebounds despite being undersized. They also had to double-team seven foot SFU centre Sean Ramjagsingh, who was held to fifteen points and just five rebounds. "It's pretty tough to stop Ramjagsingh when he gets the ball within ten feet of the hoop... the only way you can really do it is by doubling [him]. And I think we did pretty well today," said a flu-ridden Eric Butler, who led the Birds in scoring 18 points. He also pulled down five boards. UBC's 81-69 win over the Central Washington Wildcats Sunday afternoon proved to be equally entertaining. Both teams nearly got into a brawl with seven minutes left after Wildcat Paul Fraker slammed down Butler with a WWF-stvie arm hook. The Wildcats, who had trailed by nineteen early in the second half, fed off the incident and closed to within one point. But consecutive treys by John Dykstra and Brady Ibbetson, who had 17 points and four steals off the bench, tamed the hard-nosed visitors from eastern Washington. Despite the near second-half collapse, Birds head coach Bruce Enns was happy with his team's performance. "I was very, very pleased that we kept our defensive intensity up for literally 80 minutes. We didn't play perfect defence, but we kept our intensity up." Enns can only hope that continues as the Birds head into the remainder of the regular season starting this weekend when they host the 5 1 Alberta Golden Bears. ♦ The "expansion" Super Bowl looms by Wolf Depner A long, long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, far away Sports Illustrated picked the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs to play in Super Bowl XXXI. JoJos' psychic hotline could have come up with a better pick to represent the AFC in New Orleans than these so-called "experts* as the Chiefs didn't even make the playoffs. Grant you, predicting the Super Bowl match-up in early September is no easy task as teams are subject to the outrageous slings and arrows of fortune that make sports entertaining. But nobody would have predicted that the two expansion teams, the AFC's Jacksonville Jaguars and the NFC's Carolina Panthers are one win away from meeting in Super Bowl XXXI. Heck, nobody at the start of the season thought either expansion team would make it to even the conference final. But aye, there is the rub. Neither Jacksonville nor Carolina is a real "expansion" team. Unlike the last two expansion teams to join the NFL, the Seattle Seahawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jacksonville and Carolina have been able to go after high quality free agents. Therefore neither team had to suffer through a 26-game losing streak like Tampa Bay did in 1977. But those who argue that free agency is the reason why the Panthers ajadja|aars are oh the loose in the NFL sorely :isis§ the point Yes, free agency offers the spectrum of instant credibility and improvement, but is not the reason why the NFL stands on the verge of an "Expansion Bowl." Indeed, the free agents signed by the Panthers and Jacksonville were also available to all other teams, including Seattle and Tampa Bay. And there was nothing in the world that would have prevented those two teams from going after the same free agents. Like all teams-in the NFL, Carolina and Jacksonville could only spend a limited amount of cash on free agents and draft picks. And like the Panthers and Jaguars, the Seahawks, Falcons, and Sues had high picks in the annual college draft. So what's the real reason then behind Carolina's and Jacksonville's success? Good old fashioned front office smarts from the owner right down to the receptionist. In Carolina, former Bills' GM Polian runs the show. While in Buffalo, he was instrumental in building a Bills team that went to the Super Bowl four straight times between 1991 and 1994. He hasn't lost his touch and may finally win the big game with Carolina. Jacksonville's front office has also made some bold personnel moves that have paid off immediate- ly. Whether or not both -teams can clear the final hurdle to die Super Bowl remains to be seen. But their current success shows once again that the success of a pro- sports franchise is first and foremost determined by who is in the front office. ♦ KNOW THE SCORE SCOOP THE HOOP GET ON THE BALL WRITE THE STORYJ JOIN THE DEPARTMENT^ HRYSSEY S SUB 241K TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1997 THE UBYSSEY 5 Birdmen lose top centre CURTIS MEPHAM was head and shoulders above the competition at last year's national championships in Halifax, scott hayward photo Bird Droppin Hockey The rrinth annual Father Bauer Invitational Tournament could have been a complete UBC triumph. But the big weather maker in lhe sky thought otherwise. With UBC trailing 2-1 in Ihe second period to Alberta, the holiday snow storm caused a blackout in the Thunderbird Winter Sports Centre. Officals were forced to call the game, denying UBC tlie prestigious trophy. Playing without leading scorer Corey Stock, the Birds opened the tournament with a 5-2 win over the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology Trojans. Trevor Shoaf, Troy Dalton, Ryan Douglas, Aaron Hoggan and Gunnar Henrikson scored a goal each with Douglas scoring the winner on a deflection at 12:19 ofthe second. Goalie Dave Trofimenkoff stopped 11 out of 13 shots before being replaced midway through the second period by Jon Sikkema who stopped all 12 shots he faced. The Birds won an exciting 6-5 shoot out over the Toronto Varsity Blues. Tied 5-5 after three peri- ■ ods, Steve Williams scored the overtime winner. He also scored during regulation time, along with Henrikson Pavel Suchanek, and Dan Nakaoka. Field Hockey Goallender Ann Harada, centre half Jacqollyne Morrisonn and Canada West rookie of the year Jen Dowdeswell were selected to Canada's Junior National Team. Former T-Bird Juhli Morrisonn has also been placed on the roster. The team will take part in the Under-21 World Cup qualifying tournament in Santiago, Chile between January 9-19. Basketball The women's basketball team finished 1996 with three straight losses. The Birds dropped games to Western Washington (76-70), Dalhousie (67-66 in overtime), and Simon Fraser (84-58) in exhibition play. Volleyball The second-ranked women's team defeated the Fridays Volleyball Club of Vancouver 3-2 to win the gold medal of UBC Invitational Tournament The men's team, meanwhile, advanced to the final of the UVic Invitational Tournament only to loose to Japan's national university team. ♦ Free Canucks Tickets The Ubyssey presents the Vancouver Canucks versus the Hartford Whalers on Friday, January 10 at 7:00pm at GM Place. Enter to win by writing your name and phone number on a piece of paper and dropping it by SUB241K. Draw to be held Wednesday at 12:30pm. by Wolf Depner The men's basketball team lost a major piece of the championship puzzle over the break. Saying that he was "really stressed out by school," leading scorer Curtis Mepham quit UBC just after Christmas; leaving the Birds with a 6'8" hole at centre. "I was just not enjoying classes," said the third- year human kinetics student. "It shocked a lot of people, it hurt a lot of people....but I had to do what was the best for me in the situation," adding that marks were not a factor in his decision. "[Curtis] just needs some time off to get himself settled to who he is," said head coach Bruce Enns who has known about Mepham's struggles since early November. "We knew that Curtis was really stressed about school," said teammate John Dykstra. "I think it was just a really good decision for him. "Obviously we don't want him not to be here, but we are going to support him 100 percent whatever he does. Curtis is going to do fine and hopefully our "teamwTUTaTsodo fine." But Dykstra knows that no single player can replace Mepham who averaged a team-high 17.9 points and 6.9 rebounds per game. "We've got to fill his spot with two, three guys," said Dykstra, who must step up his play if the team wants to do just fine. Extra pressure will also fall on 6'7" Jeremy Adrian arid seldom-used 6'7" Joel Nickel who, in his second year, has not yet lived up to his potential. Veteran forward Eric Butler thinks the team learned to play without Mepham who'd missed a few games already. "We won't be the same team without him," said Butler. "There are some areas where we'll be a lot weaker...but I think there are some places where we'll be stronger. "If you know that you are undersized, you know are small, you'll get that extra little fire inside and that's what we had the last two years with Mark Tinholt and myself." Whether or not that little fire is enough to torch the opposition remains to be seen. ♦ Student Rush Nights: ...Exclusive savings of 50% off forl/ancouver Canucks & Grizzlies games BRING IT ON. Vancouver Canucks vs. Hartford Whalers Fri., Jan. 10 • 7:00 pm Vancouver Canucks vs. San Jose Sharks on., Jan. 27 • 7:00 pm Vancouver Canucks vs. IMY Islanders ., Jan 30 • 7:00 pm vARCOUVt|l Come on in. 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As space is limited, please send e-mail to roadmap®cs.ubc.ca, or phone 822-9289 in order to reserve a space. There are also two interactive courses available on the World Wide Web. A document designed to be a reference guide for the lectures, tutorials, and on-line courses is available for a nominal fee from the UBC Bookstore. For more information, send e-mail to roadmap®cs.ubc.ca, or consult the roadmap homepage at http://www.roadmap.ubc.ca/ This program was made possible through the support of The Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund. The Provincial Government Innovation Fund, and The Department of Computer Science. CASH BACK for your used Textbook Buybacks January Buyback Hours Front Lobby ofthe UBC Bookstore January 7, 8 & 9 Friday, January 10 Saturday, January 11 Monday, January 13 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Visit our Website for a complete listing of Term 2 texts and course materials. www.bookstore.ubc.ca UBC BOOKSTORE UBC Bookstore, 6200 University Blvd., Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 Information: 822-2665 I J Projects grizzle but they don't fall down! by John Bolton Project Grizzly Jan 10-13 at the Pacific Cinematheque Peter Lynch's inspired documentary Project Grizzly unfolds like a grim and fantastic dream. This is fitting since the film concerns dreams as well, specifically the reveries of conservationalist Troy Hurtubise. A dozen years back Troy encountered a grizzly who, for reasons he's still working out, swatted him to the ground before unexpectedly leaving him alive. These days Troy dreams of "close-quarter bear research" and designing the suit that will facilitate his obsession. This is the Ursus Mark VI, a monstrous rubber and titanium creation inspired by Robocop and weighing over 150 pounds. Project Grizzly charts the first ever field test of Troy's design. The film's exposition concentrates on the suit itself. See Troy stand in the way of swinging logs and boulders. See Troy jump into the path of a speeding truck. See Troy's friends shove him off a cliff, off of which he bounces like a huge Star Wars figure. Shot in slow-motion, it's a strangely beautiful moment. It's also just plain strange. The rest of the film properly concentrates on the fascinating character of Troy himself. He is, first of all, immensely likable; a born storyteller with a bizarre sense of humour, disarming friendliness and genuine affection for his family and friends (admittedly a strange assortment, one of whom elaborates on the "fun and adventure" of Vietnam and that wacky game "Outrun the Hand Grenade"). Yet Lynch easily establishes that Troy is totally, irrationally obsessed; the Ursus Mark VI is over seven years in the making and costs $150,000. Indeed, what makes Project Grizzly so unsetding is the question of Troy's sanity. He has been described as a modern-day Canadian Don Quixote, and the comparison is apt: not just in his idealism and his dreaming the impossible dream, but more in his unpredictable and potentially violent behaviour. This man packs two huge hunting knives, and when the suit's field tests don't go as planned, these blades come out as Troy rants about the crazy people one finds up in the mountains. This sense of danger underlies even the funniest moments of the film. Most unsettling of all is the sheer ridiculousness of Troy's goals; his dream to witness a grizzly birth within the den, but the suit is so cumbersome that anyone within it can't move except on perfecdy level ground. Moreover, when the Ursus Mark VI topples over, Troy can't even pick himself up. In the suit, he is at once protected and utterly powerless, isolated from the real world and at the mercy of his own creation. Lynch has found the ideal form for this true story. Project Grizzly is at once an exploration of Troy's own construction of reality and, necessarily, a construction in itself. Traditionally, documentarians are entrusted with objectivity Mothers and sons take on Thatcher in the Troubles by James Bainbridge TO INFINITY AND BEYOND! Grizz Lightyear bulks up and gets ready to face ... duh bears!... in Peter Lynch's painfully funny documentary Project Grizzly. in their filmmaking. Lynch explodes these expectations by assembling his authentic documentary footage as though the film were fictional; the structure builds toward its climax like a classic Western, and the voiceovers, montages and music only further confuse the line between objectivity and subjectivity. Lynch doesn't desconstruct but rather reconstructs the idea of representing reality on celluloid. The result is a hazy yet focussed film imbued with a dreamlike quality; I felt at once as excited and lunatic and cheerful and confused and menacing as Troy Hurtubise seems to be. Most coverage of this film has focussed on its hilarity and high spirits, and there are a lot of laughs in Project Grizzly, but the laughter hurts. In many ways it's more tragic than comedic. It's certainly a remarkable documentary. One can't help wishing the best for Troy. Looking over the Ursus Mark VI, pne also can't help wondering what Troy is really trying to protect himself from. ♦ Some Mother's Son at Fifth Avenue Cinemas Some Mother's Son, the latest film about "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland, comes from the makers of In the Name of the Father. Don't laugh, uicy re uig un iaiiiiiies ill j.1 cianu. Indeed, while In the Name of the Father concentrates on young Irish men in the struggle, this film gives the older generation a voice. Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect) stars as Kathleen Quigley, whose son Gerard (Aidan Gillen) is imprisoned for killing a British soldier. Led by contemporary martyr Bobby Sands (John Lynch), the captives refuse to wear the prison uniform of criminals, demanding the right to wear their own cloths as prisoners of war. Instead, they are given blankets to wear and banned from leaving their cells to visit the bathroom. With Thatcher's government as obstinate as the passionate prisoners, Sands decides a hunger strike will break the deadlock. As usual, this is biased towards the Irish, government ministers' English snobbery and cold calculation contrasting with the fiery Celts' determination. However, it is more critically detached than In the Name of the Father and the more recent Michael Collins. The strike seems almost futile and the lives it takes simply wasted, which are still problematic issues today, 15 years later. Mirren keeps her English accent as Kathleen, who is cynical about the IRA and concentrates on her own life as teacher and mother until Gerard's imprisonment. It is easier for audiences to empathise with this realistic individual than with extreme characters like Sands, deeply involved in complex, entangled issues of politics, religion and soccer (see Glasgow's Rangers vs. Celtic). When, due to the hunger strike, Gerard falls into a coma, Kathleen LETS GET POLITICAL. Helen Mirren hands out tracts in Some Mother's Son. and saving his life. Influenced by an argument she witnesses between Danny Boyle (Ciaran Hinds) from Sinn Fein, the IRA's political party, and Father Daly (Gerard McSorley), Kathleen makes her choice. The futility of bickering like children while lives are at stake forces her to act through motherly love. The film ends on this note of hope, which was also glimpsed in 1994's peace talks and will hopefully be seen again. This contrasts with Annie Higgins (Fionnula Flanagan), whose son Frank (David O'Hara) does die. Extreme circumstances thrust the mothers together in mutual support. Annie is involved in the war, with one son already killed by the British soldiers. Her tragic last line to Kathleen, "At least you had the choice," indicates the destructive weight of history on these people and this conflict. This film is perhaps as objective as it could possibly be about one of the greatest tragedies of this century. ♦ has the next of kin's power to put him on a life support machine. Her tragic dilemma lies between letting her son die for his convictions Not so sunny boulevard by Robin Yeatman Life begins in a deep blue republic Darden Smith - Deep Fantastic Blue [True North] It's the sorl of music I wouldn't normalk listen lo stilt and mi'lauclioh, filled with a kind of ijuainl regret, a regret Untied with d.irkrif'.-ta and despair. Ami when gravity lets go uf me/And I il> aivay./'Will I find the pence ofniiiul/l m longing for today-,1" Iiiil il suit.i the mood Tin in almost as well as Cabaret Voltaire s Rod Mecca. C.Ol'l. prnliabh does n'l know yet just how much lhey'\\i> lusl; it wann'l nnl\\ lol.il (lel'enl in a single election The\\ Ye lost their power base over here in the HasLnide of town. ■\\l this point lis doubtful they'll ever gel il hark. So Darden Smith's mooch melancholy music just seems to suit the mood I'm in, vanquished hopes about a future rendered ever gloomier inspiring only pessimism and despair "Tunighl I wont walking b\\ the oceanside/N'ow I'm waist deep in the rising lide/I Foul tlie pull ofthe underlow/I want to take a deep breath and go, go, go" —AndyBarham The Bocmen - Life begins at 40 million [Arista] The first time I spun this CD, I could have sworn the Bngnien had resurrected Feargill Sharkey, fattening him up on vitamins and nutrients to enhance the /._*/,".' T. /* power of his \\on:e. " ■ "*"/ "■'."?'"T.1^r- \\'o mutter how main - "':?- \\ ,-' limes 1 listen lo Lite . ''•, -*-J bourns at It) million -. "• .,.'? : liibout '10 million, by ■ > ■■■■ ; -" ■., * < last ruuntll. 1 still ' '" ,-. ,» t think .singer Hill . '■" ■• '.- '"•':. ■■'■ : :. 1 Campion sounds like ',!"'' 'j'. ■ I a lustier, more potent j \\ersion of the Former ■ '■ ' front man for llie lindertonen. There is sunielhinu vagueh I'nderlones like in thi1 ovei.ill sound ofthe Uognn'ii. hut then Ihere i-. also something leniini.scenl of I ate-'fills acid rock with ,i lol of'SOs influences thrown into the mix. It's a great CD and sounds even belter through head phones with the volume cranked despite a couple of dud trucks siit.h as the execrable girl leaves boy 'Suddenly.' Reminiscent of a laii/./cocks like bitter ness, die song lacks Pele Shelley's slinging edge. Fortunately, llie Bogmen make up for the orca sional turkey with superb efforts like 'The Third Kail.' Me.lodic. musical, and resonant, this extremely well produced CD is worth adding lo any self respect ing collodion. —AndyBarham Repubuka [RCA] Republika opens acoustically, betraying for a few moments its obvious rave connection with a lilting liilkroik sweetness. Therealter. the baud cranks up Ihe liizzgintar beat into some superior driving pop jii-~l made for jamming a Few hits of Krsta.T, into one s vastly overloaded suiapses. Singer Sal'fion sounds so much like1 \\ Kay Spec's I'oih Siyiene on this miii» I felt obliged to cheek and see if in I'.iil it might be she. Cnlike llu- usual lech nni-rap Fe.'itured bv mo.-l r.iu: artists, sampling is u-ed ^p.inngly, ii .il all to < ounterpoint or .ireornp.i n\\ the standard rock; pop line up of guitars drums, b.iss and r-vnlliesi/ers In I'.u t the rlntlun section and synthesizers dom male this f'|) |o good ellei 1 Nnl since Rocksteady Crew has Dial syncopated Hip Hop sound sounded so food Modern hip hoppers arid gangsta rappers would do well to tune in In some ofthe strange but melodic variants Ihej've spawned across The Big Ditch in the mot ha l^r-VSgT?" I'oiinlrv. Who knows, ™i- mu\\hp their CDs would cease collecting dust in our office because no one wants to listen to them long enough to form opinions based on Ihe.ir actual content. —Andy Barham Sunset Boulevard at the Ford Centre for the Performing Arts Well, there's not much one can say about Sunset Boulevard that hasn't already been said. This particular Andrew Lloyd Webber musical has received gallons of hype from the press. Spellbounding! Dazzling! Exotic! Flawless and Intense! Spectacular! Opulent and Breathtaking! With all these rave reviews it's no wonder the show is a smash hit. Not to mention the fact that the lead roles are played by none other than the lovely Diahann Carroll (Dynasty, Lonesome Dove) and teen hearthrob Rex Smith (The Pirates of Penzance, As The World Turns). As if that weren't enough, the fifteen sets are some of the most elaborate and impressive on stage. As it turns out, the emphasis on the production's aesthetic aspects actually highlights its weakness as a whole. Sunset relies too much on technology and a couple of well- picked stars to run the show. As you might expect, the production is a relative success, a combination of the impassioned performances, detailed staging and playful musical score. However, as a student I am not convinced that Sunset is worth the pricey ticket stub that I am left with after the show. Although the music is enjoyable, it is not nearly as memorable as other Webber musicals like Phantom of the Opera or Jesus Christ Superstar. Without Smith's charming, debonaire presence on stage, and without DiahannCarroll's sultry performance as Hollywood has-been Norma Desmond, the show would lack the appropriate oomph characteristic of Webber's previous triumphs. And even with the two stars, the show fails to live up to its dramatically exaggerated reviews. A more accurate headline would read: Ordinary! Mediocre! Everyday and Average! ♦ A Career in Orthoptics In July 1997 two student will begin an intensive 24 consecutive month's training programme at"the VHHSC/UBCEye Care Centre. Students who successfully complete the course and pass the qualifying examinations are eligible for certification by the Canadian Orthoptic Council. They can expect to find employment in hospitals, private opthal- mologists' offices and in public health. Orthoptists carrry out a wide range of tests and procedures which assist the Opthalmologist in the diagnostic and therapeutic assessment of patients of all ages with strabismus, ocular motility problems and related discorders of the eye. Applications are now being accepted from individuals with a minimum of two years of university studies, and prefereably a Baccalaureate degree, with courses in any of the following areas - natural sciences, mathematics and social sciences. Candidates should be able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing and be emotionally mature. They should be able to relate well to patients of all ages from infants to the elderly. For information and application forms please write to the Orthoptic Clinic, VH&HSC/UBC Eye Care Centre, 2550 Willow Street, Vancouver BC, V5Z 3N9. Fax (604) 875-5731. PLEASE DO NOT TELEPHONE THE EYE CARE CENTRE OR THE ORTHOPTIC CLINIC. £*>«&< BRITISH COLUMBIA LEGISLATIVE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM Purpose To provide recent university graduates with an interest in public affairs an opportunity to supplement their academic insights of the legislative process with practical legislative and administrative experience. Who is Eligible Students who have received a degree from a British Columbia University by tlie program commencement date. How Many Seven interns will be selected for die 1998 program. Location Parliament Buildings, Victoria, British Colubmia When January through June, 1998 Stipend $10,500 for 6 months (under review) Application Deadline 4 PM, Friday, January 31,1997 How to Apply Program applications are available from the Political Science Departments and the Student Employment Centres on Campus at the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University, and the University of British Columbia. They are also available form the Assembly Services Office located at 431 Menzies Street, .Victoria, British Columbia, V8V1X4. «J_« r C_£ifcv UBC BOOKSTORE ,«., , <3lL, ■V*» 0 et UBC BOOKSTORE I*ti0t0 iliiMliif SPECIAL ► DOUBLE OUR HO LI DA MEMORIES JANUAny & t& flr 1££7 Bring in your colour Print Film for developing and printing and GET A SECOND SET OF PRINTS FREE at tjme of devElopiNq (c-4 Film Only - Black/White film not included) UBC BOOKSTORE 6200 University Blvd., Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 Phone: 822-2665 Fax: 822-8592 * H.f«-*K.«*«m«Oitw» UBC BOOKSTORE -*»«ij~n«i»»C3tk, ■ :,fc..c£„ .,^ouL- i^.y.. fyobxj. studeiit,-!u.riiofri. EXECUTIVE DECISION: 1997 AMS ELECTIONS WANTED: POLL CLERKS! \\ ^ The AMS is looking for poll clerks to manage the polling stations during Voting Week (January 20th to 24th, 1997) of the AMS Elections. Those interested are advised to bring a copy of their class schedule to SUB Room 224 at 1:00 pm on Monday, January 13th, 1997. Honouraria will be paid. No experience necessary - just some enthusiasm and creativity. As a poll clerk, you can choose your own hours and locations! For more information, please contact Zoe Stronge, Elections Administrator c/o SUB Room 238 or drop by SUB 224. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL CLUBS - VOTE "YES" IN REFERENDUM 97! - P tions. lease support your AMS clubs by voting "yes" in the following referendum question to be held during the regularly scheduled AMS Elec- I support a- $1.50 fee increase to be allocated to student initiated projects and activities in the following manner: a) $0.50 towards the Walter Gage Memorial Fund b) $1.00 towards the AMS Clubs Benefit Fund The Walter Gage Memorial Fund and the AMS Clubs Benefit Fund are disbursed at regular times throughout the year for the purpose of supporting students and student groups. YES NO They Run! t^sm,^. —j**n ALL CANDIDATES FORUM Friday, January 17th, 1997 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm SUB Conversation Pit Imagine if your education was FREE... It is now. CDPP TIIITIO DRAW! Pick up your entry form at any poll station between January 20th and 24th, 1997 and enter to win FREE TUITION for one year! Details available at the poll stations as well as via Internet at http://www.ams.ubc.ca. PLEASE NOTE: Nominations for ali potential candidates will be officially closed on Friday, January 10th, 1997 at 4:30 pm. Nomination Forms and information are available in SUB Room 238. Potential Candidates are encouraged to attend the All Candidates Meeting on Friday, January 10th, 1997 at 5:30 pm in SUB Room 206 (Council Chambers). Also be sure to check out The Elections Supplement in next week's Page Friday (January 17th) of The Ubyssey! JL iJlJL t' Gender vortex THE UBYSSEY, JANUARY 7, 1997 9 $-*~2!" UBC FilmSoc ^^ jflMlbfc Wwl-&THurs..January8-9,HoniiTheatre,SUB Bonnie & Clyde 9:30 PM line, 24 hrs,lh2-3697 Alphaville Critics of 1950s scifi thought it was sexist. But the new Star Trek movie shows they ain't seen nothing yet. by Peter T. Chattaway In one scene early on in Star Trek: First Contact, Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) strokes a nuclear missile from the past. Data (Brent Spiner), the android, follows suit but says he cannot feel anything, so he tries again. Counselor Troi (Deanna Sirtis) walks in, sees them fondle the long, hard, erect explosive device, and then asks, "Would you three like to be left alone?" It's an interesting scene and, while I'm no Freudian, I can't help wondering what Sigmund would make of it. First Contact is replete with masculine imagery and, in its approach to sex roles, it is arguably more sexist than the science fiction and horror films of the 1950s; First Contact takes the Enterprise crew back in time in more ways than one. For decades, scholars and academics have argued over what role sexuality did or did not play in the sci-fi/horror genre. Some have argued the giant queen ant in Them! (1954) and the womb-like alien pods in Invasion ofthe Body Snatchers (1956) were symbols of female sexuality, and that the fear associated with them was evidence of a latent misogyny. But others, such as Mark Jancovich, author of Rational Fears: ) American horror in the 1950s, have argued these alien lifeforms were not feared for their femininity bul, rather, their apparent asex- uality. In the conformist culture of the 1950s—a period marked by McCarthyism, modernist architecture and the rise of TV with its reliance on mass market advertising—science fiction was obsessed with the growing sameness of everyday life and the loss of individual personality. It's an aspect of the genre spoofed quite nicely in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!, in which the highly-advanced, genderless Martians don their uniforms in a hydraulic press on an assembly line. And it's a persuasive argument once you look at the films of the '50s themselves. The body- snatching pods attack male and female alike, leaving one victim to laud the superior virtues of a cold, emotionless society. The queen ant in Them! is feared not for its femininity but for its apparent ability to breed on its own: while the humans come together as individuals to procreate, the ant duplicates itself without tlie relationship essential to human reproduction. And the male heroes in these films, rather than battling femininity, frequently gain the upper hand only after they heed the suggestions of their female colleagues. Yet still the debate continues: were the aliens feared for their supposedly female qualities, or for their conformist tendencies? When Star Trek: The Next Generation first introduced the Borg, it would seem they fell neatly onto one side of the debate. They represented conformity—or, if you will, assimilation—at its most extreme, and there was nothing feminine about them. Moreover, there was no hierarchy within the Borg. In the old Star Trek, Kirk could always find a central computer or an android called Norman to knock out and save the day. But in the more sophisticated 1990s, the Borg represented a more pervasive threat. That all changed with Star Trek: First Contact, and it's fascinating to see just how big a leap backwards that film made. The Borg collective, now called a "hive", is led by a highly eroticized Queen (Alice Krige) who flaunts her sexuality and, in ' a curious subplot, spends most of her time trying to seduce the android Data. Her body, a purely mechanical device created separately from her partly organic head, becomes an object and a tool with which to entrap him. Meanwhile, tlie Borg assimilates a good chunk of the Enterprise's crew, and it's interesting to note that the first two victims are a man, whose demise is apparently silent, and a woman, who screams loudly into the camera. Despite her capture, and that of a few other women onscreen, not one of the Borg drones we see later on appears to be female. The Borg Queen, unlike the queen ant in Them!, is not a symbol of impersonal self-replication, because she uses personality—note how she turns Data's emotion chip on—to exert control over (male) beings that already exist. In this film, it is impossible to separate the threat of female sexuality from the loss of male identity. This is a surprising development for a supposedly progressive series like Star Trek. Picard, who used to "boldly go where no one has gone before," now orders Worf, "Tell your men to stand their ground," as though there were no women defending the ship. The regular female characters—already typecast in nurturing roles—are kept to the sidelines, while Troi gets drunk. The passivity is relieved somewhat by Lily (Alfre Woodard), a guest character who has some strong scenes with Picard, but she too does not figure prominently in the story— in fact, when she first meets the Enterprise crew, she faints. The real irony is that Star Trek was once valued for its subversive critiques of modern society, just as some value the films that came before it. But Star Trek has been playing it safe for years now, and the success of a film as uncritically mainstream as First Contact suggests that Star Trek has, in its own way, a 1 r e a d y been assi- m i 1 a t - ed. ♦ DISCOVER THE BEST COPY CENTRE at UBC Village (2nd floor above UBC Pizza) We only use the best machines in the business - XEROX and KODAK < Superb Quality Copies ■ Colour Laser Output ■ Self Serve Computers ■ Fax Service ■ Digital Colour Copies ■ Lamination < ...and more! - Serving UBC Since 1987 - Discover the Friendly Competition! Mon to Fri 8am-9pm • Sat to Sun 10am-6pm Xerox*Quality Paper Best Quality Outstanding Service Knowledgeable Staff Competitive Prices Open 7 Days Writing Centre The UBC Writing Centre offers non-credit courses emphasizing English writing for academic, technical and research purposes. Registrants must he at least 18 years of age. All classes are held on the UBC campus. Writing 097: Intermediate Composition Focuses on the basics of grammar and composition to strengthen the writing skills of students with English as an additional language who intend to study at a Canadian university. Wednesdays, January 22-April 16*. 7-10pm. $245. Writing 098: Preparation for University Writing and the LPI Assists participants in developing the language and composition skills required by credit courses. The course also prepares students to write the Language Proficiency Index (LPI) examination. Wednesdays, January 22-April 16*. 7-10pm, or Saturdays, January 1H-April 12*. 9:30 am-l2:30pm. $245/section. * No classes February 17-22 Information: 822-9564 Writing 099: Advanced Composition Enables students who have achieved a high level 4 or a level 5 on the LPI to sharpen their skills in rhetorical analysis and composition before entering university- level English courses. Wednesdays, January 22-April 16*, 7-10pm. $245. Effective Written Communication Enables students to undertake a variety of writing tasks, such as memos, journals, editorials and newspaper articles. Wednesdays. January 22-April 16*. 7-10pm. $245. Report and Business Writing Assists participants in developing effec tive business writing practices while brushing up on the basics of grammar and composition. Wednesdays, January 22-April 16*. 7-10pm. $245. GateOne campus christian forum Atheism or Belief in God: Which is True? A debate between philosophy profs Paul Chamberlain & Dale Beyerstein Plus Special Classical Music, the Cafe Sunday, Jan. 12, 7:30 PM Regent College (University Blvd/Wesbrook Mall) 10 THE UBYSSEY, JANUARY 7, 1997 ubyssey JANUARY 7, 1997 • volume 78 issue 23 Editorial Board Coordinating Editor Scott Hayward News Ian Gunn and Sarah O'Donnell Culture Peter T. Chattaway Sports Wolf Depner National/Features Federico Araya Barahona Photo Richard tam Production Joe Clark The Ubyssey is the official student newspaper of the University of British Columbia. It is published every Tuesday and Friday by the Ubyssey Publications Society. We are an autonomous, democratically run student organisation, and all students are encouraged to participate. Editorials are chosen and written by the Ubyssey staff. They are the expressed opinion of the staff, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Ubyssey Publications Society or the University of British Columbia. The Ubyssey is a founding member of Canadian University Press (CUP) and firmly adheres to CUP'S guiding principles. Letters to the editor must be under 300 words. Please include your phone number, student number and signature (not for publication) as well as your year and faculty with all submissions. ID will be checked when submissions are dropped off at the editorial office of The Ubyssey, otherwise verification will be done by phone. "Perspectives" are opinion pieces over 300 words but under 750 words and are run according to space. "Freestyles" are opinion pieces written by Ubyssey staff members. Priority will be given to letters and perspectives over freestyles unless the latter is time senstitive. Opinion pieces will not be run until the identity of the writer has been verified. Editorial Office Room 241K, Student Union Building, 6138 Student Union Boulevard, Vancouver, BC. V6T 1Z1 tel: (604) 822-2301 fax:822-9279 Business Office Room 245, Student Union Building advertising: (604) 822-1654 business office: (604) 822-6681 • Business Manager Fernie Pereira Advertising Manager James Rowan op/fed Sarah O'Donnell joined the mili-" tia over the break. Wolf Depner was trapped in chilly Vernon for New Year's. Richard Lam four-by- foured. Federico Barahona has problems dealing with freaks. Ian Gunn is malshaven. Peter T.Chattaway cleaned his room. Richelle Rae amputated the arms of Sleepy Bear. Joe Clark got sick on a horse-raddish and cheddar bagel and threw up in the Guggenheim musuem. Chris Nuttall-Smith got cyber-kinky. Scott Hayward got a lecture by his mother. Robin Yeatman was on the run. John Bolton sang with the Three Tenors. Penny Cholmondeley, well, didn't do a whole lot Andy Barham has an affair with his cat's gap-toothed vet. Orly Givton looked rotten. Canadian Unweisity Ross The appearance of consultation With each new week of so-called consultation about a student technology fee, two things are becoming increasingly apparent: 1. UBC students are about to see an extra $ 150 a year in ancillary fees, and; 2. The university administration doesn't really care what students t±iink about it. Word of a student technology fee started circulating last summer, shortly before administrators struck SITAC, an advisory committee on information technology. They were quick to point out that 50 percent of the committee's members would be students and their input would be of utmost importance. They also agreed—this was for sure—that the university wouldn't ask students to shell out $4.5 million without well...asking them first The university administration promised us a referendum on the fee. What a difference a few months can make. The stakes are too high for a referendum now. Maria Klawe, VP of Student and Academic Services, says student participation on SITAC, meetings with student council executives and a Your UBC forum this Monday are adequate and meaningful student consultation. Never mind that many students on SITAC say administrators don't want to hear their recommendation—unless it includes a sizable fee without any sticky conditions. Or that student council execs have been screaming they won't support extra fees without a referendum. Or that Your UBC forums aren't exactly barn burners. Even with an offer of free tuition for students who attend the forums, 30 attendees is par; more than 50 is a dream. Perhaps if an angry mob of students showed up to Monday's Your UBC forum in the SUB Conversation Pit to protest the way the university is trying to ram this one up—well, maybe through is a more polite word—the university might listen. This is an important time for students to tell UBC that an upward spiral of ancillary fees shouldn't be part of the program, especially without meaningful consultation. We letters don't mean to alarm, but if the student technology fee goes through unchallenged and without a binding referendum, it won't be the last. Last September, UBC President David Strangway told then Minister of Education Moe Sihota he'd fire 40 faculty and staff if he couldn't levy about $300 of new fees on students. The student technology fee was on his list. So was a $50 sewage fee. Sihota responded: he stood against new fees without meaningful consultation with students. He also set new guidelines to define which fees were acceptable, and which were not Monday afternoon, a new education minister was appointed—Paul Ramsey. He would be wise to follow Sihota's fee policy. When the Clark government froze post-secondary tuition fees they were trying to keep education accessible for all students. Sihota followed the spirit of that promise, it remains to be seen whether or not Mr. Ramsey will follow suit. ♦ Canada Post Publications Sales Agreement Number 0732141 Experiments are just psycho The UBC Psych Department is using its undergrads like dispensi- ble rats in cages. Last week, I marched into the Kenny as a volunteer subject in a psych experiment I felt like your basic Psych 100 student: a little nervous, a little self-righteous, and mostly eager to please. I emerged from the building feeling emotionally exhausted, and psychologically manipulated. I quickly searched out fellow psych students to see if mine had been an unusual experience. I soon uncovered a wealth of nasty stories. One in particular had remained in my mind. Picture this: the experimenter switches off the lights. He asks you to relax and to slowly breathe in and out, and listens carefully to ensure that you are following instructions. The lights go on and you are told to sign a fictitious contract stating that you are one hundred percent responsible for your actions and for the consequences of your actions. You are then instructed to write on a sheet of paper, "I hope my girl friend, (her name), gets into a car accident." You protest, but the experimenter simply repeats the instructions. He tells you again that you are responsible for your actions. At the end, he says, "Don't worry, nothing you write has any effect on what happens." He sends you away, having collected his data. So how do you react ? Do you brush it off ? How do you feel later that week when you find out your girlfriend has been in a minor car accident, as this student did ? But the validity of any particular experiment is not the issue here. What we need to look at and question is the judgement (or ethics) of people who manipulate vulnerable subjects. By dealing with university students who clearly care about marks, we are looking at a population that is already under high-risk stress. Undergrads in particular are often still adjusting to university life, to the increased difficulty of assignments, and to their own insecurities. If the Psych Department insists on manipulating subjects and risking their safety, at least they could have the decency to stick to rats. Erin Haddock Squirrely church Your recent article on Rev. Kevin Annett sent me looking for my old high school poetry book. What I have noticed from the quotes and the few sessions I sat in on is how polite and helpfully Christian everyone is. The United Church spokesperson in a letter to Macleans magazine denied they were sending Rev Annett off for psychiatric evaluation to "get" him. Rather they were doing it to help him find a new career. Similarly, the church has installed an official to make sure that the wheels turn correctly at the hearing. The function of Mr. John Jessiman, as Chief Judicial Officer, as I understand it is not to press the case for the church. That role is taken by a paid lawyer. I gather Mr. Jessiman is there to make sure that there are no storms over the Christian waters. Mr. Jessiman has a rich background. He is a lawyer with previous legal involvements with the United Church, a teacher of ethics, and has had his name put forward as moderator of the United Church. As part of his role of smoother of the waters he has offered himself as an agent of Rev. Annett's interests. He graciously offered during the hearing to help Rev. Annett frame his questions so that they will be acceptable and fit within the guidelines of the hearing. And what of Rev. Annett himself ? A softspoken man as well. Unfortunately, he has taken a subversive anti-establishment figure as his role model. After all, you can't throw out the money lender without, as Brian Thorpe says, posing 'a threat to any congregation he might lead." And that has always been the problem of Christianity. They keep disowning the leader. This is why I got out my poetry book to refresh my memory of a poem called the Grey Squirrel by Humbert Wolfe. [The squirrel] is not all he should be, kills by dozens trees and eats his red-brown cousins. The keeper, on the other hand, who shot him, is a Christian and loves his enemies which shows the squirrel was not one of those. W. McCauley THE UBYSSEY, JANUARY 7, 1997 11 Eat it and weep by Orly Givton "Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you." When I was about six or seven, I first heard a song that I've never forgotten. When I thought about what this guy was saying, it just didn't make sense. I thought, why the hell does this guy have this infatuation with meat? How long are the flights he takes when he goes on trips? Wouldn't the meat start to rot? This guy has got to be pretty screwed up or maybe he just really loves the woman he's taking the meat for. Why I didn't realize (until a few years ago) that he was saying me and not meat, I really can't say. I guess I heard what I wanted to hear. Maybe I was trying to make myself feel like being a carnivore was nothing to be ashamed of, or maybe I thought love songs were too boring without a little twist of something or other. The truth is, I was just another stupid kid with stupid ideas. My parents thought I was hilarious. Ha Ha (sarcastically). They wrote down all the weird and funny things I ever said in my childhood book they had. When family and friends came over for dinner, my parents would say, "Guess what Orly said?" After the laughing died down, my brother would say, "Did you hear about the time she had a thermometer stuck up her butt?" Oh, he always knew how to ruin an evening. Anyway, getting back to meat. I never used to dream about meat when I was young. (Not that it's a regular occurrence now). I've had at least one in the past year that I can remember. I was sleeping with my mom because my dad was out of town. I was having this absolutely horrible dream that I was a vegetarian. Me, a vegetarian. Talk about when hell freezes over. Anyway, in my dream, I was with a group of my veggie buds and we were talking about how much we despised meat. We were on a mountain top somewhere and all of a sudden, the sun began to rise. But then we realized that the sun wasn't the sun after all. It was a big, juicy, rare steak in the shape of a sun. I got so flustered that I said, "Fuck meat!" I woke myself up when I said that because I realised I'd said it out loud. My mom turned towards me and disbelievingly said, "What?" I pretended I was still sleeping and turned away from her. God, that was humiliating, although we never spoke about it after that night. You hear all this stuff about meat. One day, it's bad for you and humans aren't built to eat meat and the next day, it's better for you than a Caesar salad and pasta. Who can you trust? I say if you like meat, eat it. Or, as my astonishingly wise mother puts it, "Everything in moderation." Life is too short to be fretting over whether or not to be a carnivorous creature. I'd eat meat over fish any day. Fish is so... healthy... and ew, it came out of a fish. I'm not really a steak and potatoes kind of gal, I'm more of a beef tenderloin and rigatoni person. When I think about those poor animals being slaughtered, and their insides being scooped out, well... I really don't feel any sort of sympathy. I don't know why, I guess I'm just too adapted to eating other creatures to care that we kill them for our own selfish purposes. Even if I stopped eating meat, it doesn't mean that animals would stop being killed. No one can save the world. No one can save all the cows. You can go ahead and try, but I guarantee you aren't going to get anywhere. So, as the saving goes, "Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you." Words to live by. ♦ Interested in Law (School? Don t miss an opportunity to meet with the Admissions Advisors from the UBC and UVic Faculties of Law Date: Tuesday, January 14,1997 Time: 12:30 pm-2:30 pm Place: UBC Faculty of Law - Room 101 "-vi-;:- ft% -i:i iiNiiiUvjiiTTJiLfjiTgrimra | l We have classes starting r^ A P MCAT 701 - January 15, Wednesday MCAT 702 - February 2, Sunday MCAT 703 - March 4, Tuesday Our classes will start Saturday, January 4 There will be 10 classes on Saturdays and Mondays February For the January Test We have classes starting Thursday, December 12. For the March test we have classes starting Saturday, January 25 Exam Date: February 15, 1997 Classes start January 14 and will run every Tuesday and Thursday until February 1 1 CO D »- o "5 ■e *■ M •iK CM *» ill o c £ O ■=* a a> CM » o o a. D a < To register for any Kapian course call 734-8378 1 2 TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1997 i^iyijijL IJA^C THE UBYSSEY Documenting Vancouver as Hollywood North KEN MAClNTYRE-ffffl. VANCOUVER [WHITECAP] I was but a wee lad visiting my buddies in Shaughnessy when one of them pointed to a nearby house. "That's where they filmed The Changeling," he said. I had not seen the film nor, for that matter, did I even know what it was—but the thought that someone had made a movie in my hometown left me in a brief, yet lingering, state of awe. That sense of awe would grow throughout the 1980s: The Province printed letters from "Moses"—i.e., Charlton Heston, here in town making Mother Lode; Tom Selleck chased Gene Simmons through a futuristic Vancouver in Runaway, the third of his attempts to start a feature film; Sylvester Stallone filmed First Blood, the first of his Rambo movies, in Hope before buying 500 boxes of Kentucky Fried Chicken for the extras in Rocky TV and letting them all go bad outside Exhibition Park; the newly-built BC Place was plainly visible in a scene supposedly set in Germany in The Neverending Story; Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez had a hit smash with Stakeout; and Jodie Foster won her first Oscar after getting "raped" in Delta in The Accused. By the time John Travolta drove a taxi down Georgia Street for his umpteenth comeback attempt in Look Who's Talking, I was beginning to lose track. Vancouver has become the world's third- largest production centre, and the impact of seeing the words "made in Vancouver" in a local review has worn off. Thankfully, there are those who keep tabs on these things for us, and Ken Maclntyre distils all the essential information into his new book: which films have been made here, in whole or in part, where they were filmed, and even how non-industry types can crash a shoot and catch films in the making. And how up-to- date is this book? Well, you remember all those Patrick Stewart sightings we had last August? The film he was in town for—Smart Alec—is in here, as is Alicia Silverstone's Excess Baggage. In some ways this book reads like a cinephile's tourist guide, tending towards a high "ooh" and "aah" quotient—this is most evident in the list of restaurants where one is likely to bump into famous people—but it's also got some handy indexes, including a list of every film made in British Columbia. (BC had a thriving industry between the World Wars thanks to England's protectionist laws; American companies came north to make "quota quickies," but in 1938 the laws were redefined to exclude films made in Dominions such as Canada; only one film was made in the whole of the 1950s.) But for all the historical perspective, Maclntyre has his pulse squarely on current trends: he spends 42 pages listing every single location for every single episode in the first three seasons of The X-Files. For particularly mobile fans, this chapter could be the perfect resource for X-Files scavenger hunts. Go ahead, get some friends, start a car rally. Bonus points to anyone who catches—or gets caught by—an alien. In the meantime, I'll be looking for a copy of Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge (19 71) so I can see Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel discuss their sex lives outside our very own SUB. They don't call it the Alma Mating Society for nothing. —Peter T. Chattaway Mister Sandman a cure for insomnia Barbara Cowdy-M/str? sandman [Vintage] Reading Mister Sandman is a little like waiting for the bus: you're often left wondering in irritated anticipation just when the ride is going to start. Yes, the book has its fair share of eroticism and sexual tension, and yes, Barbara Gowdy has tried her best to show that an eccentric family can be a functioning family, but at times the characters seem to lose their integrity within the novel's labyrinth of sexual confusion. The Canary family itself is a fairly motley crew: a homosexual father and a lesbian mother manage to live in relative contentment with two daughters and a brain damaged grandchild which they raise as their own. One daughter, Marcy, is wild and promiscuous, while the other, Sonja, lives with the secret that her sister Joan is really her daughter. Yet no one seems to seems to be aware of any inherent problems, and if they are, their concern isn't believable. The general lack of sympathetic (or even charismatic) characters is painfully emphasised by the outrageous story line. While two of the main characters deal with their homosexuality, the reader is left with one looming question: who cares? At various points, the plot fizzles into a metaphorical cloud and it becomes difficult to believe that such stale characters are capable of experiencing any kind of passion. Despite Gowdy's reputation for animating her characters through their sensual identities, the energy this book creates never develops beyond the carnal, and the reader is left riding on waning waves of interest. But some credit must be given to the few bright spots in the novel. The family believes Joan, the youngest, most intriguing character, is telepathic, not mentally disabled and possibly the reincarnation of an older, wiser soul. Locked in a non-verbal world, her sensitivity to sensory stimuli and her unique perspective gives Gowdy an extra element to use to decorate her characters with beautiful imagery. Unfortunately, the scant development of this enigmatic character's personality only adds to the novel's disappointments. Weighed down by a lack of three-dimensional characters, Gowdy's alluring imagery serves to decorate lifeless statues rather than bring spirited human beings to life. —Penny Cholmondeley f 7 Will he jump? Should he? 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