@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 "2015-08-27"@en, "1998-03-03"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0126868/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ ferendum e GSS will decide soon ether to join the CFS limbic batde tough, but to Vikes in playoffs ising y would 'Geers hoist a Bug atop the Garage funky puccinis since 1918 A done deal at Acadia as faculty ratify a^eement by Michael Nash The Athenaeum WOLFVELLE (CUP)-Months of intermittent talks, bickering, and threats of a strike have finally drawn to a close as Acadia University's faculty voted convincingly to ratify a new collective agreement Negotiations were on and off at Acadia since last September, and student frustration with the pace of talks led to numerous actions including a sit-in at a university building, nonpayment of tuition and a march through the streets of Wolfville. Through tremendous solidarity and hard work, we have finally achieved a fair and decent contract' said Jim Sacouman, president of Acadia's faculty association. Faculty accepted the administration's salary offer, which provides for a five per cent increase retroactive to last November, and two per cent increases this July and in July 1999. The contract also calls for more extensive and more detailed career development reviews for faculty. Both faculty and university President Kelvin OgiMe say lhe agreement was very much a product of compromise. '[Tjhere are... potentially good outcomes of this agreement for all concerned,' he said. Administration approval of the agreement is imminent Acadia students also stand to benefit from the new contract Proposals brought forward by Paul Black, president ofthe Acadia Student Union, to include students on a number of university committees on which they previously had no representation have been incorporated into the collective agreement These include a review committee, which deals with promotion, tenure, and renewal of faculty positions, and a finjinrial information committee. Black was allowed to sit in on the foculty-adminis- tration negotiations, which is believed to be a first in a university faculty labour dispute.* RAW POWER!!! The World Wrestling Federation brought its particular brand of entertaintment to the Garage last Friday night. The good guys and the bad guys slugged it out, surrounded by adoring fans and a security fence. Not surprisingly, several crowd scuffles broke out throughout the evening. (SEE PAGE 7 FOR FULL STORY), richard lam photo Referendum madness hits the AMS by Chris Nuttall-Smith UBC students will be asked to go to the polls for a third time this term when the aAMS brings three proposals for fee increases to student referendums this month. One referendum will ask whether students support an optional $12 increase to replace money for student bursaries declared illegal last January when the university lost a court battle over ancillary fees. UBC had to refund about $800,000, half of which had been targeted for needy students. aAnother question will ask whether students support $3 annual increases to the $ 130 Athletics fee; the fee would rise for five years to $ 145. The third question will propose a Student Legal Fund; each student would pay $ 1 into the fund each year. Council executives say the vote will likely be held March 16 to 18. But the running joke among many student councilors last Wednesday when they voted to hold the referendums, was whether the exercise would be futile. Student referenda are notoriously difficult to pass here, and referenda that ask stu dents for extra money are even more difBcult The Athletics fee increase commanded the most debate Wednesday, as it started as a motion to avoid a referendum. UBC's vice president of student and academic services, Maria Klawe, asked council last month to suspend its policy against fee increases without prior student referendum approval. But council avoided deciding the issue during last month's AMS election campaign, and during that time several of the smaller councils at UBC, Arts, Science and Engineering among them, voted in support of the fee increase. By the time the issue came to council Wednesday, many of the councilors had already decided. "With the cost of a Big Mac a year we're allowing people who represent us to excel in sports, and if they're lucky, to represent our country at the Olympics,' said Jason Murray, the Arts The running joke among many student councillors last Wednesday was whether the [referendum] exercise would be futile Undergraduate Society president But a slim majority of councilors found the fee question too important to decide without a referendum. "I have trouble beheving that Athletics is the university's highest priority,' said Michael Hughes, a GSS representative, recalling substantial budget cuts Athletics lias taken recently at university hands. Jessica Escribano, also from the GSS, argued against the increase, saying UBC's Athletics fees were already among the highest in Canada. She also argued that suspending the student union's referendum policy to support a fee increase would be hypocritical in the wake of the AMS-supported court fight that saw the society arguing against tuition and ancillary fees, precisely because they were set without student consultation. Council decided after a lengthy debate to bring the issue to referendum. Klawe asked council last month to endorse the increase in See 'Referendum' on page 3 2 THE UBYSSEY • TUBDAY>l,iRGH '3i;t9$fji ubyssey staff, meeting MRWSHMIR .i.i.i.iaiHiiur-*. WRCUP wrapup Board meeting Jamie! elections women's issue the ugly office udder business Wednesday, 12:30, sub 241k I TRAVEL - teach English: 5 days/40 hrs I (Mar 11-15) TESOL teacher certification : course ( or by correspondence). 1,000 's i of jobs available NOW. 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Student Service units include: Awards and Financial Aid, Disability Resource Centre, International Student Services, Student Health Services, Student Resources Centre, Women Students' Office, and all aspects of the Registrar's Office. We would like to hear from students and are particularly interested in the following questions: •What works best about Student Services'? •What is the most frustrating aspect about Student Services? •What single action would improve the way you get served at Student Services'? Please send your written submissions by March 9, 1998 to Byron Hender for review by the committee and external reviewers. Please indicate if you are a student living on campus or if you are commuting to the University. Byron Hender (hender@unixg.ubc.ca) Secretary, Student Services Review Committee 123-6328 Memorial Rd. Vanouver, BC V6T 1Z2 Fax: 822-8194 OR Attend the Forum! There will be a forum held with representatives from student service units in the SUB conversation pit on March 12th - bring your questions and concerns straight to the units! The review committee and external reviewers will be present to hear the student feedback. HAVE YOUR SAY QUESTION #± Whereas UBC Athletics and Intramurals contribute to the social and personal lives of UBC students; and Whereas the University has decreased funding to Athletics and Intramurals while the costs of these programs have increased; and Whereas an increase in student funding will allow UBC Athletics and Intramurals to continue current programs and services; I support the implementation of a $3 per year increase, not to exceed $15 over 5 years, to benefit UBC Athletics and Intramurals. QUESTION #-2. Whereas the University's Board of Governors passed in 1997, on the recommendation of the President's Office, a new tuition fee increment to the Student Aid Fund of $12.00 per year; and Whereas the BC Supreme Court has ruled that the action of the Board of Governors and the President's Office contravened the Tax and Consumer Rate Freeze Act, and is therefore illegal; and Whereas the University is under a court order to refund to all students the $12.00 increment for the Student Aid Fund ; and Whereas it is important to aid financially needy students, and to promote the civil right of equal access to education for all, notwithstanding the illegalities committed by the Board of Governors and the President's Office; I support a $12.00 increase in the AMS fee, refundable upon request, to financially aid needy students. Note: 100% of these funds will be dispensed as bursaries to UBC students. QUESTION #3 Whereas student interests are best established in a court of law; Whereas there currently exists no organisation for the sole purpose of providing support for, often costly, court cases brought by and for the students of UBC; Whereas the Student Legal Fund will be established to fund cases to improve education and the accessibility to education at UBC; I support the collection of $1 annually as a student fee to be put towards the Student Legal Fund, this fee shall be refundable to individuals upon request. COME MARCH VOTE 16-18TH THE UBYSSEY « TlffiSDAK MARCH 3U/I '^' ANALYSIS: Referendumania at UBC Haf*-1 by Alex Bustos Referendums are becoming an increasingly popular way to gauge student opinion at UBC— but actually passing one on this campus is difficult In fact, a comparison of Canadian universities has revealed that UBC has some of the toughest by-laws in the country governing student referendums. For an AMS referendum to pass at UBC two things must happen: at least 10 per cent of the daytime student population must vote yes— this assures quorum—and more yes votes than no must be registered. The quorum rule was created to stop a minority of students from holding the campus hostage, explains Desmond Rodenbour, policy analyst for fhe AMS. 'The quorum law ensures that members of the society have control of the society,' said Rodenbour, 'and that the council, and directors, aren't satisfied with a couple of people (voting).' Those referendum restrictions as well as frequent student opposition to large fee increases have UBC administrators shying away from putting fee increases to student vote. A university-run vote last spring on a proposed $90 fee for campus information technology failed with four students voting against, for every one vote in favour of the fee. Referenda held during the January AMS election to raise AMS fees and to support a campus family counselling service failed for lack of quorum—3100 yes votes. And only last month, 3,037 students voted to renew the lease ofthe Thunderbird Shop on campus, more than three times the number of no votes. However, the referendum results were nullified because they fell 73 votes short of quorum GSS to vo The Thunderbird referendum follows a UBC bend: since 1990, 18 of the 25 referendums held on campus have been cancelled because of a lack of quorum—including a January 1990 referendum calling for a change in the quorum by-law. But at the University of Alberta, all that's required to pass a referendum is a simple majority. "There is no quorum law in our by-law,' said Andy Grabia, deputy returning officer for the University of Alberta Student Union. At Dalhousie University in Halifax, where voter turnout has been ais low as five per cent, a referendum is considered valid regardless of how many students vote. And at the University of Manitoba, where there is no quorum rule, one solitary voter can decide a referendum. "What we require is a simple majority of yes (or) no votes,' said Richard Bevan, chief returning officer for the University of Manitoba student union. "If the no wins by one vote fhe no side wins.' Queen's University, which like many other universities has no quorum requirement, hasn't had a referendum nullified in recent memory. "At Queen's we have had no problems with referendum," said Conrad Schickedanz, internal affairs commissioner for the Queen's student society. Student politicians at UBC, however, say A comparison of C-.ti..: .-Jil mm^m&ss has mwm^ that UBC has some of the toughest by-8aws in the countiy governing student J>. they aren't in any rush to tackle the quorum issue. "I don't think the quorum regulations have come into question" said Vivian Hoffmann, aAMS president Also, students here have passed some referendums. They voted to support an independent Ubyssey newspaper in 1995. They've also supported a new child care bursary, a redistribution and small increase in recreation fees. But the Societies Act, the provincial statute governing student unions, can be blamed for making those successful referendums the exception, rather than the rule. According to the Act, a referendum or meeting must be held by any society seeking to raise their fees or change their by-laws. In addition, quorum must be assured. In other words, every student union in British Columbia is legally required to have quorum in their referendum procedures. But the law doesn't specify a quorum level, such as UBC's ten per cent At Simon Fraser University, quorum is calculated by counting the total number of voters, not just the yes votes. "(At SFU) you need five per cent of students to show up at the ballot box and vote," said Scott Perchall, resource coordinator for the Simon Fraser Student Society, "and whoever wins, wins." Back at UBC, students are faced with one of the toughest referendum laws in the country. And if history is any indicator, UBC will see little change through a student vote.*?* m-£ grfr>4-- Mon to Fri 8am-9pm Sat to Sun lOam-Gpm *1 "^ C 1st copy 8l'2x 11 single sided additional copies %9 |C ^ from same original %9 ^J Ub) Discover the Friendly Competiti ft 650 Jobs from over 120 of BC's leading technology companies. T-NET BRITISH COLUMBIA www.bctechnology.com $6.95 All Can Eat Presents Mon.Wgd.Fri. Fish & Chips Tues.Thurs. 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Laura Bennion was in no rush to step off the ice after the UBC women's ice hockey team was bounced from the playoffs, losing 5-0 to the New Westminster Lighting in Game Five of their Lower Mainland senior women's ice hockey semi-final. So she just stood along the boards of Queen Park Arena in New Westaiinster, talking to a Lightning player long after the Birds walked into their cold locker room. .As she and her friend exchanged words, Bennion pointed to her wobbly left shoulder which she'd separated in Game Three, also a 5-0 loss. 'I was not in game shape,' she'd say afterwards. But Bennion, who also suffered from flu this Sunday morning and only played a few shifts, does not make excuses. She prefers to face the facts the way she plays: headsup and head-on 'I have not decided what I am going to do next year yet' says Bennion as she leaves the bunding her hockey bag hanging over her healthy right shoulder. 'It is going to be very diffi- LAURA BENNION is the founder of women's hockey at UBC After years of growing pains both the team and Bennion now look to the future, richard lam photo RlneliriA- red nrnQc She handles the P"c* sheJ"™^es,, career in medicine; she shoots-sh? ™r°n" No doubt about it, Laura Bennton ts a bona fide winner. BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY cult for me to give a full commitment to this team and I am not keen on giving a half commitment' As of now, a 'crazy' medical school schedule stands between Bennion and another year of playing for the team she founded in 1994 and coached for the first two years. 'Arguably there would not be women's hockey at UBC if Laura hadn't started the program,' says Steve Mathias, current UBC head coach and long time friend of Bennion From Day One, Bennion has always wanted to do more for the sport she loves. She and others lobbied the CIAU (Canadian Intervarsity Athletic Union) to recognise women's hockey as a varsity sport and, in an uncharacteristically wise move, the CIAU listened by staging the first ever university championships held this past weekend in Montreal. Bennion would have liked to have been there, but the Birds didn't make the pilgrimage to that hockey mecca after their 1-1-1 showing at the first Canada West tournament held in Calgary. Of course, they probably would have done better had Bennion not separated her shoulder only three days before the team left. But Bennion was not going to miss being part of history. She dressed for all the games and though she played little, she did all the things she herself and her team mates have come to expect 'She is a great individual who is a super role model for everyone in the dressing room,' says Mathias. 'She brings tremendous amounts of leadership,' adds rookie Tanya Marlyk. 'Just look at her tonight She is injured, she is sick, but she comes out and does her part Whether it is four shifts, one shift, or whatever, everyone looks up to her.' They will have to find somebody else soon and fortunately, there will plenty of candidates as this young team matured a lot over this past season. UBC started strong to post a solid 6-8 record by the Christinas Break. The season however took a serious downturn after the break as UBC went 1-8-1 over the next ten games. Why? Mathias tiiinks the team struggled because of conditioning and lack of goals (UBC lost six games by one goal margins during those ten games) and as the season ended, the Birds found themselves in fourth place, meaning they would face a New Westminster team which lost only one game in the 24 regular season game. Nobody gave the Birds even a small chance. But they proved everybody wrong as they pushed the heavily favored Lightning to five games. This alone was more than a moral victory for a team which finished thirty points behind the first-placed lightning. 'I think we can walk away from this part of the season successfully whether we win or lose tomorrow's game,' said Mathias just hours before Game Five. Any illusions of pulling an upset were dashed by the end of the first period with the Ligh"bning leading two-nothing. New Westminster would add three more goals to right an embarass- ing situation. But give credit where credit is due. The UBC women's ice hockey program seems to be healthy and on the right track in Year Four of its existance. 'We gotta be happy with what we got,' says Mathias. "We don't have the luxury of going out there and just picking any player to play for us. They gotta come to UBC and balance it with a course load.' "There is a growing curve that every team has to go through and our team has become more and more a varsity squad each year,' Bennion says. 'Everything is in motion and the wheels just have to keep going. So I feel confident that the team is going to keep growing and it would be nice to be part of it again in some way. Whether it is a player next year, or may be as an assistant coach, or as a coach in the future, or something. I think I'll be back at some point It'll just be a matter of when.' By the time Bennion leaves the building, she no longer carries her hockey bag. Her boyfriend JP offers to carry it for her and she willingly accepts. But she still leaves on her own terms.* THE Birds season ends in thrilling series by Bruce Arthur 'ihey turned in an effort for the ages this weekend. In the end, it wasn't enough to pull off the upset of the year. The men's basketball team, fourth in the Canada West after a 9-11 campaign, pushed the defending national champion Victoria Vikes to the limit, but not over it Victoria won the series 2-1, beating the Birds 78-62 in Game Three played Sunday afternoon in front of 2,000 screaming fans who packed every corner of Victoria's McKinnon Gym for the third straight time. "They took us to three games, and they played great all weekend," said Victoria centre Eric Hinrichsen, who averaged 2 7.3 points and 13.3 rebounds against UBC's undersized front- court. The Vikes will now host Alberta after the Golden Bears upset 'second-placed Lethbridge two games to one in the other semifinal series. .As for the Birds, there is no next game. No tomorrow. Just good-byes. Three seniors—Gerald Cole, Nino Sose, and John Dykstra will graduate this year and head coach Rich Chambers will yield to Bruce Enns, the team's long-time head coach who was on sabbatical this past year. Chambers may be done, but he should get serious consideration for Canada West Coach of the Year as he patched a skeleton crew into a team which deserved to go farther than it did It's been wonderful,' said Chambers, who will return to the high-school coaching ranks after his sparkling one-year coaching stint with the Birds "Everyone's been terrific, and this team..they battled right to the last They've been fabulous.' They were also unrelenting in their pursuit of the unthinkable and some might say, the impossible—beating Victoria twice in the pressure cooker that is McKinnon Gym, a place where the 164 Vikes didn't lose a single game during the regular season Friday's opening game was, without doubt one ofthe finest games played in the CIAU mis or any other year as the Birds pulled out a superlative 83-82 decision which wasn't decided until Hinrichsen, the reining Canada West Player, missed the second of two free throws with no time remaining in regulation. The night belonged to the spectacular Nino Sose. He came out firing, Mtting three-pointers from as fer away as Nanaimo, and finished the first half with 20 points to lead all scorers. He had to be outstanding—UBC's second-leading scorer Gerald Cole didn't play Friday due to back spasms. aAfter a slow start, the Birds played inspired ball in the second half, pushing their lead as high as eight UVic made their move midway through the half with Hinrichsen bulling his way inside for twelve straight points. But when UBC's John Etykstra fouled out with nine minutes left, and when Joel Nickel joined liim four minutes later and Victoria holding a seven-point lead, the outlook looked bleak for the Birds. UBC responded behind the sangfrois shooting and clever defense of guard Dave Buchanan, who faked, dipped, and twisted his way to 16 second-half points after only two at the break. And when Sose nestled in a fadeaway, pullup, free-throw line jumper while leaning to his left with the 6'6' Hinrichsen and the 6'7" Colin Martin aiming at him and one second left on the shot clock, it seemed UBC could do no wrong. Indeed, UBC led 81-77 with 20.1 seconds to play, and inbounding on their own baseline. The pass, however, skipped past a diving Buchanan out of bounds, and Victoria's Aaron Olsen made two free throws after being fouled immediately. Then the world went mad. Beau Mitchell spotted freshman Nick Seredick streaking downcourt on the inbound, and wheeled a baseball pass down- field. But Hinrichsen deflected the pass with his monstrous wingspan, snagged it in the air, and laid the ball in, tying the score at 81 and sending McKinnon Gym into the stratosphere. But Seredick was still upcourt. .And so open Buchanan's heads-up pass found him all alone for a tough layup, putting UBC up by two. Victoria had one last chance. They gave the ball to Hinrichsen, who missed through a hail of bodies. But a foul, called with no time left, put Hinrichsen on the line for two. The crowd exploded and UBC called their last timeout to ice big Eric, who calmly swished the first free throw to cut the lead to one. The second, though, bounced long and wide. "We're not celebrating,' said Dykstra afterwards. 'We came here to win.' And if the Birds were to take the series, it had to be Saturday night. They came out playing sharp, near-flawless ball. Nickel dominated the backboards and Domenic Zimmerman scored a quick 11 points to give the Birds an eight point intermission lead. The Vikes came out with buzzsaw intensity in the second half to lead 56-40 with under ten minutes left to play. With Cole playing through his sore back, UBC kept chipping away at the lead and as the night before, Buchanan and Sose led the charge. Sose hit two 25-foot threes in the final minute, but it RICH CHAMBERS coached his Birds to their maximum, they step down with heads held high, martlet photo wasn't enough to overcome Hinrichsen's 19 points and 13 rebounds, as UBC fell 78-74 in another fantastic game. The Birds then went into Sunday's third and final game with Cole's back stiffening up, Sose's tendinitis-riddled knees aching and Hinrichsen waiting. UBC started strong again, scoring the first eight points. But Cole picked up two quick fouls and an inexplicable technical in tbe first four minutes. Things went downhill from there and UBC trailed by nine points at the half. The Birds never recovered and despite 23 desperate points from John Dykstra in his final collegiate game. 'Victoria just had too many weapons, and Hinrichsen was just a bear,' said Chambers. 'These guys played their asses off for 40 minutes, but we just don't go that deep. Hey, no regrets' Said Sose, who finished with 14 points,"Maybe it was fatigue. Maybe it was just the impact of the whole season." But what a season it was.* Bird women swept by Vikes in a span of 115 ]osing#3 after r^itraiiet-tat by Bruce Arthur Victoria star Lisa Koop finally busted out this weekend, and in so doing ended the season of the women's basketball team. Koop, held below her 22.5 points scoring average in four meetings against UBC this season, exploded for 27 points Friday and 24 Saturday as Victoria swept the Birds out ofthe playoffs for the second straight year, spelling the end of the Birds' nnr.Pr-prnmiJ-.--ig season. Victoria will now play Calgary in this week's Canada West final. 'It's like a repeat of last year,' said forward Jessica Mills. 'If we'd known [what was wrong], we would have changed it" The weekend was like a microcosm of the entire season. UBC started strong both nights, but the offense bogged down badly as the game wore on. There was no balance on the offensive end, and there were mental lapses. On the other hand, they displayed the trademark work ethic they brought to the gym all year long. It just wasn't enough. "At the beginning of the year, we were relaxed, we were confident, and we just played,' said graduating forward Laura Esmail. "a"\\s fhe year went on, we played less and less together. It just kept breaking down.' Friday night, the Birds came out flat, and paid the price. Esmail was the only offensive threat with ten quick points. Mills barely touched the ball, but post Erin Fennell made up for Mills' absence, scoring eight points. "At the beginning of the year, we were relaxed, we were confident and we just played. As the year went on, we played less and less together. It just kept breaking down." Laura esmail, ubc forward Ball movement started off smooth and active, but unfortunately stagnated by the intermission and Victoria entered halftime with the lead. Birds' head coach Deb Huband stalked off the court looking like she was chewing rusted nails. The second half was much the same. Victoria rode the near-capacity crowd of McKinnon Gymnasium and cranked up the defensive pressure to thump UBC 70-51. Saturday, the Birds came out with their season on the line. They battled throughout the first half, stymying Victoria with a matchup 2-3 zone, while Esmail fought tenaciously to get to the rim. The half ended with the teams tied at 29. UBC came out of the locker room feeling like they had a shot at an upset But the Vikes adjusted, getting open jumpers and easy layups to grab a 16 point lead in under eight minutes. The Birds, to their credit, rallied back behind Roj Johal, who had 21 points, six assists, and four steals in her last game for UBC. Esmail, another graduating senior, capped off her career with 15 points. But Koop answered every UBC challenge with 24. J J. Rawlinson, who held Koop down all year, had extremely sore knees and had difficulty with Koop's drives. UBC gave it all they had, and will now head into the offseason with only two starters reftu*ning, and lingering doubts. "I can say 'what if about every single dung we did this season," said a disconsolate Mills. "And it's not going to change anything.'* HieIjIP WANT-e d We need, a few good, people to help out in the following areas Student Administrative Commission: enusres that the SUB is a safe, interesting and useful place for students. SAC regulates bookings and security in the SUB and oversees the 200+ AMS clubs and constituencies. University Commission: Do you want to play an active role in the issues which shape this campus? Join the University Commission, the AMS' task force in university- wide issues like academic policy, safety and student housing. External Commission: there's a big world beyond the UBC gates. UBC students have an active role to play in post-secondary issues, student loan programs and alumni relations. Help to carry the voice of the students to the outer limits. Finance Commission: Finance is more than just keeping the books in order. It's about helping student groups prepare budgets, assessing grant and loan applications, fundraising, ensuring students' awareness of financial issues effecting them. Communications Team: It's a two way street: collect input on student concerns and get the word out on AMS initiatives and decisions. Poster design, staffing info tables, and pamphletting are all part of it. Budget Committee: Determines funding allocations to all AMS operations. We are looking for the 'everyday' student perspective. Tell us what you are looking for: We are always looking for students to participate on AMS and UBC committees. Frequency of meetings ranges from weekly to semiannually. Extensive knowledge is not required, the majority of committees are seeking the 'average' student who has a willingness and interest in the topic at hand. An example of some of the issues discussed are: transportation, safety, technology at UBC, community planning & housing, academics, quality of education, etc. Please submit your resume c/o SUB 238 to the Vice-President. Detailed descriptions of all above positions are available from AMS Volunteer Services and the AMS Executive Offices, SUB 238. MSS PROGRAMS PRESENTS THE Bt§ FaT ?H Buy & MARCH 11,12,13 SUB CONCOURSE CHECK rr OUT DO SOME SHOPPING DO SOME SELLING RENT A TABLE jm mis'-" of wiRsro CALL US @ 822-6273 | Excellent JOB OPPORTUNITIES at the AMS 3 So you need a job over the summer and during the school year ? But you want a job that will challenge your skills, help you gain new ones, and allow you to assist other UBC students. Well look no further - the AMS is proud to announce the following openings in its student services: • Director, JobLink: JobLink is the only student-run campus employment office in Canada, providing a link between employers and UBC students. Also to be hired: JobLink Assistants (2) Applicants for the JobLink Director position will be automatically considered for the assistnat positions. • Director, Speakeasy: SpeakEasy Peer Counselling and Information provides peer counselling on a drop-in or telephone basis for students in need. • Director, Safewalk: The SafeWalk program involves student volunteers walking anyone between any campus destination after dark. • Director, Student Discounts: AMS Student Discounts is a student service that liaison between intramural teams, clubs, constituencies, and other UBC organizations with clothing wholesalers and promotional companies. • Director, Used Bookstore: The Used Bookstore acts as a consignment agent by providing the framework and support for students to buy and sell used textbooks. • Director, Ombudsoffice: The Ombudsoffice can assist you with difficulties dealing with one of your professors, lab instructors, or teaching assistants or areas of academic discipline or faculty guidelines. Also be to hired: Ombudsoffice assistant positions (2). Applicants will be automatically considered for the assistant positions. • Director, AMS Orientations: Orientations is designed to introduce nt w students to UBC. In spring, representatives visit local high schools and give seminars on how a prospective student should prepare for university ir the fall. Also to be hired: Orientations Assistant (1). Applications for the Orientations Director positirn will be automatically considered for the assistant position. • Director, AMS Volunteer Services: Volunteer Services provides opportunities for students to serve the community and AMS and explore career options through volunteer experience. • Director, Tutoring Services: Tutoring Services is an education project of the AMS and is partially funded by the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund of UBC. • Inside UBC Coordinator: We need someone to design and edit our AMS dayplanner/resource guide. Experience with Adobe Photoshop, Pagemaker, and Illustrator needed. Detailed job descriptions are available in SUB 238. Please submit a resume and cover letter no later than noon (12:00 pm) on Thursday, March 18th, 1998 to: SUB Room 238 c/o Neena Sonik, AMS Vice President STUDENT SOCIETY OF UBC ""AMS UPDATE student input makes it happen ■ j* * * -#- -» * * THE UBYSSEY • TUESDAY MARCH 3, 1998 . £f # ¥ -.../ -aC,— ■,/*■■» .-.■fli*:. "J.. ■:*, ;*«.-& .-» ^^ .--:a? WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION Friday February 27 at the Garage by Federico Barahona Stone Cold Steve Austin is a stocky monster. He walks into GM Place acting like he owns the place. Tonight you would flunk he does. The crowd cheers the loudest cheer of the night and some rush to the floor to touch hiin, pat him on the back as he approaches the ring. Some redneck guy, a bad guy, waits for him, mocking tlie crowd, but as soon as Stone steps into the ring, he steps off, scared shitless. This guy is a wirnp. Stone, on the other hand, is the man. Stone is a good guy, and he's ready to fight. He climbs the ropes on a corner of the ring and he stares at ihe camera flashes exploding from every corner of the arena. Stone smiles, this warrior—World Wrestling Federation kingpin—knows he's going to kick ass tonight. He's going to slap you, he's going to slam you, he's going to jump you, he's going to humiliate you—tonight, your ass, his foot- he's going to beat you up so bad. Call it a date. The women sitting behind me scream and slap their laps. "Stone, baby," mey yell. Stone is ready to fight, and they have to drag the wimp back to the ring. The fight goes someihing like this. Stone gets the shit kicked out of him for a while, the bad guy pulls every dirty trick in the book while the crowd boos him enraged. "You lucking homo," some faithful scream. While Stone is on the floor, fights, real fights, break out in the crowd. The cops move in quickly to break them apart which only creates more boos from everywhere. A guy fights a choke hold and as he's being dragged away, out of the arena, he pumps his fist in victory. The crowd cheers, and this seems to bring poor Stone back to life. He catches a break and proceeds to beat up the redneck like crazy until the redneck's girl friend, some leathery video vamp, gets involved and smashes a chair on Stone's back. The crowd warns Stone—"Watch out!!!" they yell in desperation—but it's too late. The redneck continues to beat the shit out of Stone Cold, ihe man, the warrior, the good guy. Some start to worry: Can a bad guy win? Can he? The ref pounds the floor once, twice, but then Stone bounces a bit and the count stops. Anywhere else, this fight would be over, somebody get an ambulance someone's dead type of thing. But this is the WWF—"Pure entertainment value," a fan explains to me in the washroom—and this fight is not over. Not by a long shot'man. No way. Stone recovers again and choke holds the redneck, brings him down, one, two, three— now it's over. Stone wins, the crowd cheers and mocks the bad guy—"Cry pussy, go on, cry pussy!!!" The girlfriend climbs onto the ring and taunts Stone. Now, Stone is a good guy, he doesn't want to do anything, he's not about to hit a woman, but do not provoke hirn. The bad guy is on the floor, defeated, so the fight is over, right? But the leathered vamp won't let it go. The crowd boos her. Then she tries to punch Stone, but he reacts so fast, kicking her—umph!—and slapping her silly—one, two, three, four. That's right, he gives it to her good. The crowd loves Friday night at the Garage (ABOVE). The (LEFT). RICHARD LAM PHOTOS it Everyone, every single living thing, claps and cheers louder than ever. Fights break out in the stands again. Stone pumps his fists and walks out a winner, still the reigning WWF champion, the announcer proclaims. 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I'll ■.■.-'•.■; V* Ewerw year ^ February a ned W&lkswagen Now serving at Located Across from University Hospital in Regent College, the byildiog with the green roof! !_ Good for one < 3 FREE '_ 8 oz. cup of Torrefazione Italia Coffee! **o o Write us a letter fG&ma hat somewhere it shouldn't. Why do the Geers do it anyway? *■' ■a law -3 a*"* .•• * •*_-* -ft'1 <\\- '■fe fr .1 ■'.*■ - *'■ \\,\\ ■' *? ■ "O* ■- ■ i■ ■*.««■. -i.^--^ ** booz-E ,J *al L _ > - I ■'»."■ *->.-*.S^£& &*■?. *i*Sjn*- by Jo-Ann Chiu Friday February 6 began like any other for Gillian Smethurst, a secretary with UBC's engineering faculty. The telephone rang. "Good mornin0 Chemical Engineering Deoarbnent," said Smethurst. "Hello, this is Mark at GM Place," the caller replied. "There's a car on my roof." Smethurst burst out laughing. So did Mark. Sometime in the wee hours of Friday morning, a group of chemical engineering students had placed the UBC Engineers' signature red Volkswagen Beetle on top of GM Place, along with the sign: "GEERS 1, CANUCKS 0". Mark knew it was Chemicals because "CHML" was ■as m #1& g? «* JP i.?r ,**■...* v.** «» painted on the vehicle. Apart from wanting it down, however, Mark wanted to know a little more. "I'd just like to find out how they got it up mere." It's the same question that so many others have asked " over the years. Getting an . answer, however, is a lot tougher. If they revealed how a stunt was done, the engineers argue, then anybody could do it. There would be no more mystique. Meanwhile, they operate their "student projects" in a kind of Mafia-sryle secrecy and loyalty. All proposed stunts must be approved by the Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS) executive before they can be executed. Engineering students looking to initiate a stunt must first submit a written proposal detailing their idea. For the safety of all students involved, they must document anticipated procedures, calculations, as well as safety and security precautions. Manuscripts often include free-body diagrams, time estimates, budgets, even back-up plans. As a result, the EUS executive knows exactly who is doing it, what is going to be done, how* and when. Part of the job description for Martin Froehling, second vice president ofthe EUS, is to screen all proposals before presenting them to the executive, checking for potential safely hazards and any other information student engineers may have forgotten to include or must rewrite. "It's also to show they know exactly what they're getting into," adds Froehling. crane." He says student engineers fry to avoid using such contraptions when placing Volkswagens because it would be "cheating". The Chemicals crew met at one on Friday morning and got to GM Place at three. For a "student ^ro^ect" to be considered successiui several, criteria must be met 'the stunt must be safely executed, no one is to get hurt, and there must be no damage to private property. "That's the one thing you take special care on," says Rico. "If you put a Bug on GM Place and break 15 windows in the process, then it shows no ingenuity, no execution." While engineers get involved with the projects partly for personal satisfaction, they also do it for Ei"^ineeririg Week, or E-Week. llie purpose of E-Week, which happens every year in early February, is not only to showcase the faculty's activities to the school, but is also to harness a club com- . petition for the different majors, such as electrical, rneciuuriical, civil, or chemical engineering. The week consists of various contests, anylhing from the creative "True Engineer Competition" to the bizarre "CooMng with '•'a.-" ,.* v ■**■ i"'-*1 * '.■: # *,^ .'V Beer" cook-off. Points are awarded to the top winners, ranging from as low as 25 points to as high as 150 for a first-place finish. The club which accumulates the most points at the end of E-Week is declared the '■winner and receives a trophy at the lavish Engineers' Ball, usually held at a posh hotel on Saturday night at tlie close of the week. Depending on the qualify ofthe stunt, a good one can earn a club up to 200 bonus points, since not all clubs will submit proposals for student projects. Besides the bit of media glory and bragging rights, a good stunt can make a difference in a club's outcome at E-Week. Friday morning is the deadline for putting up stunts, which is why many of them are often executed simultaneously in one night Not only did the chemical engineering students put a Beetle on top of GM Place on the Friday morning, but the frat team, called "Fwat," placed a red Volkswagen at the summit ofthe roller coaster at the PNE as well, as if ready to swoosh down 75-feet on the classic amusement park ride. A fourth-year chemical engineering student, "Rico" is the spokesperson for the 11-member crew responsible for the GM Place bug, placed sometime after 3 AM on Friday morning. He is too exhilarated from the early morning's victory to be catching up on sleep. Hanging out in the Chemical Engineering Club's clubhouse, located in the basement pit of the Chemical Engineering Bunding, Rico is greeted with high-fives and congratulations by peers as they walk in. "We originally wanted BC Place," reveals Rico. "But the roofs too high. We would've needed a helicopter or a Adam, a fourth-year engineering student has been compared by one peer to Egghead Junior from the old Looney Tune cartoons, the brainy little bird with humungous eyes and glasses. Adam requests that his Engineering major not be revealed because it would be too easy to identify him Adam is not wearing his glasses today. His eyes are bruised purple from winning the Belly Flop Contest at the Aquatic Centre the day before, all part of Engineering Week festivities. T have more bruises on my stomach," he says. Not all stunts execute the way they were planned. Adam and 14 other friends had proposed to deposit two full size concrete cairns, the UBC Engineers' signature !**' '. ■: .■•.. '•■*".■*' a 1*-J*,.f snow-E '•"'.<• f *. '"*. is*. ■. la*,*- .- ■ <■ V'-t •>■** M " ■ r. • .->■ . .i- , •■* .; -n. ' V. a*""--* ^,-» "** *.- * . * a, j •*. . " ':■'--' - ■*: :->.':-' »"■ ■"*"■*! —"a. "■■*■" i , J. 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Unfortunately, it turned out that six separate groups of Engineers had already come by Lions Gate, drinking on the bridge ("a federal offence", Adam points out) and putting up banners, until they were sent away by highway patrol officers. By the time Adam's crew arrived, there was "too much activity" on the bridge and they had to abort the project Instead, one cairn was deposited on 10th Avenue and the other on 16th Avenue. Adam had a third cairn on riand, so they dumped it outside the Education building on campus. It was promptly painted over by loyalist Science students, who replaced the red Es with blue Ss, before the day was over. Adam says UBC Engineers may be pushing the limits with future bridge locales. City officials appear to be getting more conscious of E-Week, he says, and realise most pranks will occur during that week, so they are patrolling the major bridges more often during that time. "We probably could have chosen another site," he admits. "If we could do it again, we'd go somewhere else." "M", a fourth-year civil engmeering student, was a member of the group of six that put the Volkswagen on the PNE roller coaster. The group approached executing the stunt in a manner similar to approaching schoolwork: they knew when the deadline was for two weeks, but didn't do anyf*hing about it until the day before. At noon on Thursday, they had called a local car dealer for a Volkswagen shell, ie the car without the engine and transmission, and picked it up at six-flurry. Luckily, the bug was already red, or M's team would have had to shell out $70 for two gallons of red paint Funding student projects does not come cheap. Purchase of "vehicular exoskeletons", paint, safety gear, and equipment rentals all adds up. Rico's GM Place Bug cost $400 to place and M's Volkswagen came to under $500. Adam's cairns were a whopping $800, and that was despite having the concrete donated. The money all comes out of the students' own pockets. However, if a stunt is successful, there are opportunities for financial assistance. After picking up the Bug from the car dealer, M and his team brought tlie vehicle over to a mechanic shop where one team member works. They spent the next eight hours preparing the Volkswagen, mostly stripping it—that is, removing the floor, seats, dashboard, and wheels. They spent another hour pamting Es on the car, firtishing at three in the morning. Finally, they headed over to the PNE, three cars leading, followed by a truck with a trailer pulling the bug, safely covered. It was nearly four by the time they got to the Roller Coaster. A news segment on BCTV suspected the vehicle was transported by foot M won't comment, saying only, "It was very hard - and dangerous." Tc add to the pressure, underneath the roller coaster, M explains, was a livestock pen. "Goats, llamas... they were scared. Every time we walked by, they would back away." Around six in the moniing, Rico and his mates mforrned two local radio stations and let the news spread from there. Part of the fun of tlie projects is getting a reaction from the media. The rest of Friday morning is spent tallying with his friends which media has responded, including a phone call by the Globe and Mail. There is also the task of contemplating which TV interviews to accept and collaborating who will set their VCRs to tape which news programs. But what newspapers and TV don't report, the EUS points out, are the safety precautions UBC Engineers take with stunts. When engmeering students graduate, after all, they will be working as real engineers, and will be directly responsible for public safety. While UBC Engineers stress the motto "Remember: no one gets hurt," they also cite the examples. The roller coaster Beetle was securely strapped to its place to prevent any dangerous slippage. All cars hanging off or over bridges are carefully secured to ensure the vehicle will not break from its chains. Similarly, the area beneath the 1996 library Volkswagen was roped off. "Just in case anyone was actually stupid enough to go and stand underneath it," explains one student engineer. Reactions of general observers range from amusement to annoyance. Whether the public likes it or loves it, they have not heard the last of the engineers' stunts. Beginning next month, UBC engineers and their history of student projects will be featured as one of a 20-part series of 90-second promotional commercials on BCTV, entitled "Legends of BC". The slots will air for the entire year during morning and afternoon talk show hours, mduding Oprah Winfrey. So how are the UBC Engineering stunts done? The classic Lions Gate Beetle in 1982. The Rose Bowl Steal in 1992. The GM Place Bug in 1998. The thing about Mafia- esque secrecy is, you have to prove yourself before you can get in on the stunts. Once you're in, you become one of them, and you don't tell.** 10 HE UBVaSEY • T-JC ,OAV, MAHCH 3, ?9g? of the Hostelling International Prize E¥aws at the UBC VALENTINE'S FA!H Srand Prize - Chris Saran (Ski Weekend For Two @ Hi-Whistler) Dave Evans (Red Mountain Ski Package @ HI-R0Ssiand) Kyra Pi-etzer (Whistier/Blackcomb Ski Package @ Hi-Whistler) For more information on travelling the world w& HostaDing International or our Ski Packages, call: 604.6S4.7in. ext. 347 or: www.hihostels.bc.ca - — HOSTELLING INTERNATIONAL Classics 3 With The Anatomy Of Medical Terminology (Only at Discount TextBooks, in the Village behind CIBC) 'TAKE THE CREDIT! Your Future in Professional Accounting or Finance BCIT's two-year program in Financial Management will fast-track you into a career in professional accounting or financial planning. If you have a University Degree in ANY field you may be eligible for direct entry into the 2nd year of Financial Management. NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR FALL'98 For further information please contact- Dick Dolan Associate Dean Financial Management Tel: (604) 432-8898 E-mail: ddolan@bcit.bc.ca Web site: www.bcit.bc.ca BRmSH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TFrHMr., ™=v fSSSUV27R SYMPHOkY ORCHESTRA at the Orpheum by Alison Cole A gala of pop classics and other works was on the palette of the VSO's 'Paintbrush and Baton' program last Friday night as the orchestra took the audience on a voyage through the colourful history of music Doubling as an art history lecture, the evening's bX'JT en^n£ed by engagin8 Productions between pieces by Brian Foreman, of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO), and conductor Clyde Mitchell. Images projected on the giant screen above ^e stage illustrated the music being performed and added to each of the pieces' unique tone The first movement of Mozart's 'Symphony No 40' m g minor, a symphony which was never performed duru^ Mozart's lifetime, brings back vivid memories to me of msprrational 'wake up' music. What is usual- IrZtf\\m^eTy aTite ^P*™ though lacked a ££££?^b°yan(ythatIwascravingTheorchestra's mterpretation was a weak one-much less stimulating £sttrd to set me out °f bed * ** ^ s r^f -Sf OTCheStra soon ^mpensated with the next ?,l \\ , SBCOnd andante cantabile movement to Tch-ukovsky s 'Symphony No. 5,' dispensed with the oTs wye? ** r°mafc period Tbe ~-K solos, which were passed around from one instrument to another, evoked an ardent interpretation that brought my companion to tears. But nary a tear shed from for the following piece on TZZTthussfs fe^-p-iudeSpKSS; ™3 T Tms ^Pf8810^^ music was first composed for piano, but then later orchestrated. Its beauty and delicacy of the flute and harp, interlaced wSn fe harmonies of the low brass and strings might have moved me to tears, had I not been S*entifting on scribbling notes for this review The highlight of the evening came in the form of Mussorgskys celebrated "Pictures at an Exhibition' Any program touting the notion of artistic imagery should be obhged to include this classic grand-oelv^e With the exception ofthe end ofthe first "Promenade" movement-when the booming percussion drowned out die^strings interesting descending sixteenth-note runs-the symphony performed an almost flawless rendition of excerpts from the piece. Pulling off the difficult melody passages ofthe "Market Place at Limoges" with smoothness and such confidence and fervour exemphfied^ by tbe trumpets in the moroS Catacombs one could easily identify with the artistic miages -hat Mussorgsky had meant to procure sniln Strrti°n °f ** Pr0gram appropriately scorned up the potpourri of sound with works by several acclaimed Canadian composers. Especially mSE^T? ^^^osev Stewart Granfs 'San. Black Sketches and North Vancouver's Michael Conway Baker s movement "Mountains" of his piece th^Tf a?8 Li°nS' Gate' ^ ** a tone Poem worthy of its descriptions of "Misty Morning" and "Storm over Moresby reminded me a lot of Tobias Picker's The Encantadas.' listed by Mitchell's sharp and concise conducting, lhe VSO interpreted it with incred- ble tone colouring. The latter piece, commissioned by themayor of Vancouver, featured lots of lyrical brass and strings intertwined in long flowing lines, and a beautiful piano solo. Think: movie theme music and mountain imagery. This may sound cheesy, but trust me it was nice to listen to. The concert ended with a brash move into the Mission Impossible" theme as an encore-complete with pictures of non-sensical psychedelic patterns on die screen. A two-and-a-haK hour lesson' encompassing seventeenthl century Handel to contemporary pop TV tunes went, beyond my expectations for a fulMrne night ot musical education.* 4 . siiq bi i4 ten 5 u v;*^ v*> Musical medioricty CABARET at Studio 58 by Holly Kim It is unfortunate when the result of a performance does not add up to the effort put into it. And even more so when the performers are students. The production of Cabaret by Studio 58 is an example of that misfortune. It's not that the whole performance is bad, but certainly the bad overwhelms the good and the performance never gets to that point where it pulls the audience in completely. Set in 1930's Berlin Cabaret centres around an American writer who comes to Germany to write a novel. He meets a girl and falls in love. The girl gets pregnant and to support her, he unknowingly involves himself in the Nazi operation. It's a 1960's musical and it has been performed around the world. But this performance didn't meet my expectations. I didn't like the make-up, costuming or than lack there of. The 200 theatre is small, and there is less than five metres between the audience and the performers. Every detail is noticed and a lot is exposed. Adding up to little more than unnecessary shock value in the end. Choreographer Shaun Phillips does a good job of providing the actors with interesting movements but unfortunately the dancers never get beyond the point of mediocre. And their poor timing did not help an already sagging performance. The German and British accents were too large a challenge for most of the actors. They lost the accents occasionally and when they did do a good job they were hard to understand. Jeff Meadows gave a notable performance as Herr Schultz. For most of the musical he played the part naturally. His accent was perfect, his behavior, that of an older gentleman, and his delivery was made with perfect timing. He stood out far and away as the funniest performer in this ensemble. Their effort to make this musical amusing was valuable although not enough to make the whole thing work. Musical is a hard medium to conquer—I understand that. But I still say that's no excuse.♦ Love in the strangest places LA COMTESSE DE BATON ROUGE at Fifth Avenue Cinemas '■ '•. ;by Alec MacNeill-Richardson Andre Forcier a cree un voyage fantastique et. surreal ayec son dernier film. La Comtesse de Baton Bmige. Realiseur des films Une Histoire Inventeo, et Le Vent du Wybmiiig, Forcier raconte l'histoire dun jeiine realiseur. Rex I-rihce, qui tnmbe en amour avec une feihme a b.irhe, Paula Paul. "Nominee pour dix prix de Genies, c'est.un film brilliant dans son narration el en utilisant la genre d'un film dedans un autre. Or for vdu English folk who. read those subtifles, it's prett*/darn good. It is movies like this one that make you realise film, is an art form. It is not just entertainment, pulp for us to feast upon and forget Neither is it meant to simply over awe us with overblown special efFects. Good filmmakers will make you forget the time, where you are, what your name is, the fact that the movie's in French and you're no longer read ing the titles. The key to Folder's success is that the story comes first The medium of film is simply used to ted us that story. Hex Prince (Robert Aubert), ayoung starvhig filmmaker, in his search for film stock is guided to the Great Zenon (Frederic Desager), me famous Cyclops of Belmont Park. It is mere mat he meets and falls in love with the most beauti ful of bearded women, Paula Paul. Unfortunately for Rex. it happens to be Paula's last night in town before, she leaves for New Orleans. Six months later, Rex finds himself searching for the Circus of Happiness in the back w juds of Baton Rouge. Forcier uses the film within in a film genre to great effect We are introduced to the older Rex in the beginning, and learn later he has just released a film about his tragic love affair with Paula, the countess of Baton' Rouge. Forcier uses narration up until the reunion uf Rex and Paul i before switching lo Rex's later film version. The effeil is quite surreal as Rex is given an objective view intQ the drama of his own life. The tineniatography and music only help to reinforce the fantastical sense of the film. At one point as the Comtesse and Rex are {Shout topart company for the first time, "quiet sax music starts up. The couple embrace and begin to dance. Al the same time the saxophone player is revealed to be in the station beside them. This is one oi many examples in which. Forcier is able to bring about a perfect visual blend of both reality and fantasy. LaComtessedeBaionRougeisnotRhBrd- core art film. You do not need to know ."the subtleties of Fe-Bini or the complexities of Bergman to appreciate this movie. Torrier uses his medium to impress upon you the experience of Ms story, not to showcase his talents, So while the masses continue to Une up for Titanic, break from the fold and enjoy the magic of La Comteisse.^ Scrambled angst for everyone SCRAMBLED ANGST Sugar Refinery by Ronald Nurwisah It might've been a third grade assignment or a love letter we would rather forget—we've all written poetry in our lives. A few poets get success, becoming published, receiving fame and adoration. For those of us who never quite made it there is Scrambled Angst The concept is simple enough: give local writers and musicians a venue to vent and get their poems heard. Thepooloftalentat Scrambled Angst ranges from surprisingly good to really awful, but what the writers may lack in talent they make up for in honesty and the ability to have fun. Take Dean Worth, a bike messenger who writes poems on topics ranging from Christmas to how BC Transit is trying to kill him. The poetry fives up to the name Scrambled Angst, with poems dealing with the morning ritual of bagel-hunting to 50's sitcom Leave it to Beaver. Not all the poems inspired chuckles; many were genuinely heartfelt and dealt with serious topics. Curtis Petrie, co-host of the event wrote about the injustices that face women and children today, while another poet paid homage to Pablo Neruda in a poem entitled "Ode to a beautiful nude." Interspersed with the poetry were several musical acts. The first saw Curtis Petrie singing a song entitled "Orange" which dealt with no smaller a topic than existence itself. The next musical act saw local musician Jack Harlan singing and strumming his way into the second break with a half-dozen of his highly Dylanesque pieces. I have to admit that I did have preconceptions of poetry readings as very exclusive gatherings among the literary elite. Scrambled Angst is on the other end of the spectrum, very laid back and very open minded. The next Poet Laureate likely wasn't in the building, but poets and musicians had fun doing what they love.*> Kissing a Fool is a sloppy endeavour KISSING A FOOL At theatres everywhere by Holly Kim I don't know how Hollywood movie producers manage to make dumb movies like this one, Kissing a Fool. More disturbing is that they seem to have an endless supply of this mind numbing garbage. Kissing a Fool is a story of how two people eventually find their way to love. There are two best friends who manage to get themselves in a whole lot of trouble. Max, a playboy sports reporter played by Friends' David Schwunmer, and Jay, a sensitive writer (Jason Lee) who can't get over his ex-girlfriend Sam. (Bonnie Hunt). It's obvious from the beginning that Jay and Sam are meant for each other. But just like all those other Hollywood movies with well-dressed, extremely stupid beautiful people, everyone but Jay and Sam knows that they are perfect for each other. Jay introduces Sam to the playboy, and they fall madly in love and are engaged within two weeks. It then hits Max that the woman he loves may eventually have an affair. So he asks his best friend to try to seduce his fiance to see if she is really in love with him. Of course, in the course of all this, both of them start to fall for each other. And very conveniently, Max has an affair with another woman. Jay finds out and the whole thing blows up. And eventually everyone who should be together end up together. In other words, it's like thousands of other boring movies that Hollywood manufactures every year. I don't understand why they even bother putting together a movie like this. This is nothing more than a generic romantic comedy. There is absolutely nothing special about the camera work. Good acting is completely non-existent The characters are all so interested in looking beautiful on the screen that they ruin the flow of the movie completely and are extremely awkward in their roles. There are some funny lines from time to time, but they aren't smart enough to make the movie interesting. It's just a whole bunch of beautiful well- dressed dumb people i-unning around being really stupid. Please save your money. Don't bother going to see this one.<> 12 THE UBY5SEY • TUESDAY, MARCH 3. 1997 *§ %* * Buy any one of our general books (non- texts} from February 23 to fiiareh 21,1998. ■ Write a one-page review ofthe book. 1 Enter your review with your receipt by March 21,1998. 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Galaxies of remainder and sale book bargains f slashed to the core! Astronomical savings also on • Computer hardware & software • Stationery supplies • Art & design products • UBC sportwear & souvenirs Trek to our coordinates Weekdays from 9 AM to 5 PM, Saturdays from TO AM to 5 PM CARTER CRANKS OUT THE KIDDY POP Aaron Carter SELF TITLED (Attic Records) Does this Hanson-reject really need to follow in the footsteps of big brother Nick (ofthe Backstreet Boys)? Not that the music isn't annoyingly contagious, but it's hard to imagine his pre-pubescent voice blaring out of anyone's boombox. Then again, there was The Jackson Five and a little boy named Michael... Considering it sounds like the latest Alvin and the Chipmunks release, this little tyke is actually kinda talented for his age. The songs are happy and brainless, with remakes of New Kids on the Block's 'Please Don't Go Girl' (identical to the original but not any better) and The Jets' 'Crush On You" (harder, with more of an edge, if you can imagine). Good toe-tapping, head-bopping tunes for the kiddies! —Alan Woo ij-r" ryas still lacking SOLD FOR A SMILE This Starr t#bs. Garrison Sitarr EIGHTEEN OVER ME (Getters) Imagine JpiAi-1 drunk and on acid, anc you h.ivp the crooning -sound of Gamsra Starr on her debut album Eighteen Over Me Vidner able and tortured, Starr carries the olemonUiry-yetprotound fyrica like petals in a hurricane Cabin music muni wjh words of senu-wisdom helps to suck vou in at hie get go but thp flavour fade<- faet as nin<« tears in her hepr arc cried Siddled mostly with slow tempo bar room ballads thp CD is an alr-gli* expenence wilh .sever il songs Out redeem it from being a complete downer If you're used to friends whining for your afleruoiu. then get ready for some deja vu —Aim Woo comp: for a Smile iMi cates the band hjb >i lot nf promise but it bull doe-.o t quite have the right formula to get ut, wherever it is tlie Gandharvas want us to go If s (Jear from vmgh like "Gonna be bo Lnose" thai the Gandharvas k'tow how to rock 'Gonna be t>o Loose" has an anthem hke quality not seen in rock since U2 However this particular collection of socngu is less experimental hence, less darmg than their first CD There are enough drear-, fillers such as 'Smells." to put one in mind of early David Bowie, nay Aladdm Sane nr (worse) Spare Oddity Indeed, "Waiting for Something to happen/reprise ' despite being an eminently Ltotenahlp sani*; lias an ending which was dearly lilted from Diamond Dogs I would like In say I have faith in the Gandharvas' ability in somedqy get their shit higethcr enough to start produrmg the truly great albums this band is capable of Given that Sold For a Snide is their second go at this game 1 m rather less san guine than I was after the rel-*.uie nf the Gandharva s debut CD -AndjBarium Laika masters inner space exploration Laika SOUNDS OF THE SATELUTES too pure records Sounds ofthe Satellites is perfect music to study to! Veering manically from laid back electronic explorations of inner space vaguely reminiscent of Brian Eno to the sort of warped funk (which never quite managed to grace the airwaves) once put forward by the likes of Gang of Four and Captain Beefheart. It's edgy enough to be interesting, yet easy enough not to disrupt one's concentration while in the throes of attempting to master non-linear dynamics. In this respect as well as the minimalist nature of the music, Laika owes a great deal to Phillip Glass, without in any way sounding like a copy of the Master of Minimalism. Clones Laika ain't! I dare say, Sounds ofthe SatelMtes would render the perfect accompaniment to an electronic cocktail a la Ken Kesey. —Andy Barham culture Original Rasputina RASPUTINA Thanks for the Ether Columbia Records What to say, what to say... In an era when bands like Matchbox 20 and Bush are deemed ahem, "alternative," one simply cannot find a word for music such as Rasputina's debut Thanks For The Ether. And it's not just the fact three cellos, distorted vocals and the occasional drum make up the instrumentation. With song titles like 'Transylvanian Concubine" and "The Donner Party" (a spoken word criticism of cannibalistic pioneers) and a hidden track sung entirely in German, the subject matter here is not only original, but also highly scatological. Singer/Songwriter Melora Creager combines a wry and peculiar sense of humour with the soaring, ecstatic beauty of tracks like "Stumpside" and "Endomorph." IC IS Rasputina also shows knack for finding their voice in other artists' work. They cover Peggy Lee's 'Why Don't You Do Right" and Melanie's 'Brand New Key' with spunk, confidence and, most importantly when covers are concerned, idiosyncrancy. (Have you heard Mana Davis' version of Ani diFranco's '32 Flavours"? My gawd! Call HER shameless.) Rasputina's sometimes use of classical conventions is reminiscent of Tori Amos' DeBussy-like piano melodies. But Rasputina also manages to kick out the jams (well, kick the strings, like in 'Howard Hughes in ways which would give Yo Yo Ma blisters. And despite their predilection wearing corsets on stage and collaborating with the likes of Marilyn Manson and Chris Vrenna, the touring drummer of Nine Nail Inch, they don't get bogged down by the artifice that chokes a lot of goth. At 18-plus tracks, the album tends to lull towards the end. However, though not for all tastes, I recommend this album to those who sigh at the sound of commercial radio sludge. This is original, interesting and, after a few listens, quite addictive music. To preview this album, or at least check out their groovy artwork, you can visit their website at: 'http://www.rasputina com/'* —Duncan McHugh TREK "Leading the Way" March Forth! on Wednesday March 4th Trek to UBC/Go Green Day Raise Awareness (Failing Air Quality/Increasing Traffic Accidents/Need for Better Transit) Hit Our 20% Target (Reducing Driving Alone) Lead the Region (Solve our Health & Safety Poblems) Sign up for the Contest & We All Win! Coffee/Cinnamon bun coupons will be given to morning commuters using environmentally friendly commute modes as a 'pat on the back", at the bus loop, car pool lot, and bike lockers. BC Transit will have extra buses running Come out at Noon to the SUB for Speeches and a TREK around the Campus! 8:00-9:00a.m. Noon 12:30p.m. 1:00p.m. 1:30-2:30p.m. Schedule of Events "Pats on the Back" at the Bus Loop, Car/VanPool Lots, Bike Lockers Coffee/Cinnamon Bun coupons handed out to non-Single Occupancy Vehicles Display at the Goddess of Democracy- Sustainable Transportation Options Hand in Participation Contest Sheets Speeches TREK Around Campus- marchers, bicyclists Route: SUB, University Boulevard, Wesbrook, Agronomy, Main Mall, University Boulevard, Goddess of Democracy Display at the Goddess of Democracy- Sustainable Transportation Options Hand in Participation Contest Sheets Contest Winners will be announced on March 5th in SUB Conversation Pit at 12:30 p.m. Guest Speakers: Dr. Bill Rees on Sustainability Issue & Gord Lovegrove on TREK Program Status Update To Volunteer or for more information: Student Environment Centre 822-8676 or TREK Program Centre 822-1304 www.trek.ubc.ca ■ dfeB Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat du Consei! du Tresor ■ T ■ Secretariat du Canada IF YOU'RE A BRAD, HERE'S YOUR OPPORTUNITY. „„,,■ hu th» Treasurv Board Secretariat, in A new program sponsored by thetreasury do ..|nternship" upon completion of the Internship program. 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V6T 1Z1 tel: (604) 822-2301 fax: (604) 822-9279 Business Office Room 245, Student Union Building advertising: (604) 822-1654 business office: (604) 822-6681 fax: (604) 822-1658 Business Manager Fernie Pereira Ad Sales Stephanie Keane Ad Design Afshin Mehin Wrestlemania XXX. it was a no rules battle royal with winner getting the prized ball and cup. and it was ugly. Todd Silver was the first to enter tbe aing, clad in bis now famous The Killer Bunny' outfit Bruce Arthur, who always covered in chocolate when he fought entered next but Silver ticked him before tossing him over the top rope where he landed on Jo-Ann Chiu, Arthur's manager. The tag team of Alex Bustos and Chris NuttaUSmith. who together were known as Stuart- the worst tagteam name in the history of the WWF- then entered the ring. Chris didn't have a hope as he was blown away from a strong gust of wind from the stadium's air coiaditioning while Alex decided that life back in Ottawa was a better deal than this wrestling thing. The crowd fell silent Beavis and Butthead Wolf Depner and Federico Barahona respectively, walked down the aisleway They pounded on poor Silver. But unbekownst to them. Andy Barham was waiting under the ring with a cinder block. Beavis and Butthead bit it Alec MacNeiU-Ricbanlson never showed and Alan Woo was sick. Allison Cole was doing the colour when Duncan McHugh, the fan man slow ly fell from, the heavens. Too bad tbe stadium had a.roof Holly Kim spent an hour getting him down Ron Nurwisah, the 12 year old phenom. was crushed with a cement mixer on his way to the match while Richard Lam took photos of Joe Clark and Richelle Rae thumb wrestling for the last potato chip. Penny Cnohnondeley bad Jamie Woods in a head- lock, which was strange because they were only waiting in line at the snack bar. Sarah Galashan doesn't watch wrestling but Doug Quan was only too eager. His joy was short lived, however, as bis life was cut short by "The Killer Bunny* who would go on to win the ball and cup.* 1 — f&ot ?£BfLE / cxoo&iH ^£_ Time is right to rethink campus referenda This past year has seen multiple referenda like never before. But like so many other questions put to a student vote at UBC few actually pass and most can't even meet quorum. Quroum: at least 10 per cent ofthe daytime student population must vote in favour of the question for a referendum to pass. This quorum rule, AMS employees tell us, is meant to protect UBC from having its agenda hijacked by a handful of students. But as the recent Thunderbird Shop referendum has demonstrated, this safeguard of democracy is problem-ridden. Even though more than 75 per cent of voters cast their ballot in favour of saving the shop, the store will soon have to leave campus because the vote just fell just short of quorum. But the result was hardly ambiguous—a clear and large majority of students voted one way; in this case they voted in favour of the Thunderbird Shop. Did the AMS' rejection ofthe result on a tec'hnicali- ty (73 votes) safeguard democracy? Hardly. On the other hand, you've got to have some sort of quantitative hurdle for referendums. Eliminating quorum altogether won't help anyone. The answer lies instead in a system that simultaneously defends the university agenda from being controlled by a small group, while assuring that shots at democratic change are not exercises in futility. Rather than remove the quorum requirement, AMS bylaws could simply do with some modifications. Example: if more than 5 per cent of the student population voted, and over two-thirds ofthe ballots casts are yes, the refer endum passes. A review of past referenda results show that rninimising expectations is a reasonable request Campuses across the country provide a range of examples from which we could choose. It's time the AMS took a long hard look at how student referendums are held at UBC. It's only reasonable that measures, like the quorum rule, exist to guard against abuses of democracy but let's make quorum reasonable. In the process, maybe we can make campus life here a bit more democratic. ♦ Canada Post Publications Sales Agreement Number 0732141 Roehm's name on list a mistake In response to Mr. Rick Hiebert's letter to the Ubyssey from February 24, 1998, we, the members of Pride UBC who were involved in the design of the Ubyssey's Pride Issue, would like to apologise for including Ernst Roehm in the list of names that appeared on the cover. Our rationale for having this list was to promote awareness of the diversity of the members of the LGBT community. The names selected were taken from the Gay 100, a gay historical almanac. We agree that Ernst Roehm was an atrocious person responsible for many heinous crimes. Roehm is clearly not a positive historical figure for the LGBT coinmunity and he should never have been included on our cover. Please accept our apologies. Concerned members of Pride UBC APEC article contains flaws I read with great interest Adam Jones' article 'Dear Dr. Piper" in the February issue of the Ubyssey. While I too feel there was some glaring improprieties on the part of the RCMP, it is important to note a few holes in Mr Jones's argument In regards to the extension of the security zone around the Museum of Anthropology, I feel that given the events in weeks leading up to the aAPEC conference this move was not altogether improper. Jones appears to think that concern for the "treasures inside the museum" was simply an excuse to get protesters out of the way. Perhaps iMr Jones hasn't recently walked past the Goddess of Democracy statue or the plaza of Keorner Library lately, but the painted, progressively encompassing more and more of the campus, beginning approximately a month before the conference. Given the inferred purpose of the zones-to cover UBC entirely- is it not unreasonable to assume that such vandals would attempt to target the Museum of Anthropology, where the conference was taking place? The APEC Free Zones, as far as I can tell, do not wash away, and I am told that the only way to repair the damage to Koerner plaza is by sandblasting or replacing flagstones entirely. One can also to this day see remnants of the posters pasted with glue on the sides of buudings and piecess of sculpture around campus. While I myself am sure that the protesters would know better than to deface the pieces in and around the museum, the RCMP couldn't know the mental state of those involved. I also object to Mr. Jones' theory as to why protesters pulled down security zone fencing on the day of the conference. He states that "the added congestion, and the frustration of protesters" due to changes in the size of the assigned protest site "very likely contributed to the well known...incidents that followed." While the note following the article states that Mr Jones is a PhD student in the department of Political Science, it does not state whether or not he possesses a minor in Psychology or Sociology. Nonetheless, having attended the infamous protest I should point out that the pulling down of the fence appeared to be premeditated, having recognised a number ofthe culprits responsible as perenial campus malcontents, not to mention the fact that the approximately 25 people in the vangaurd of the protest took a ninning start at the fence from some yards away. In closing, I am glad Mr. Jones wrote his article, as it touches upon other, more fectual inconsistencies in the University's policies regard ing the APEC conference and its dealing with protesters. It is only through such mediums of debate that we can more clearly understand issues as important as these. Michael Inwood Second Year Arts Letters to Ubyssey are biiy tactics This letter is in response to four letters, which have recently been published in your letter to the editor section. Three of the letters were written by Craig Jones and one by Donovan Plomp. Two of Craig's letters were published on Feb 13, 1998. One ofthe Feb 13 letters was purportedly signed by 19 students. On February 25, 1998 at a Law School Equity (^mmilttee meeting, Ron Morin said he had not and would not have signed the letter written by Craig Jones and published on February 13, 1998. After the meeting, I went to the Ubyssey news office to find, out who had indeed signed the letter. The Editor apologised for publishing the letter and showed me the original copy of the letter. He said they should not have published the letter with all of the names because Craigjones had made a second draft and not all the signors of the first draft had seen or signed the revised version. The Editor said Craig did not give him everyone's phone number so he didn't contact all the students to see if they would agree to have their signatures on the new and improved version of the letter. This raises the question: Is it legal to change a document after everyone has signed it? Well, one can assume that these students and Craig Jones have "cracked a text" so they probably already know the answer to that Then on February 27, to have Craig write another let ter stating that "one student, Ron Morin, did not see the final draft of the letter, and may have been unaware of some details of its contents" and to call this a "serious oversight" and "a mistake." Well, how about the other students that did not see it, including our new Ombudsperson, Winxie Tse? I sincerely hope that the students whose names were published are more careful with their credit cards than they were with the use of their signatures. The letters written by Craig Jones and Donovan Plomp were simply examples ofthe bully tactics used by people with some power and privilege to isolate and ostra- sise the two women who spoke out While it may have worked in September, such tactics do not appear to be working now. The Law School Equity Committee is taking proactive measures to deal with this current situation. The Dean wrote a public memo outlining his concerns. Our Law Students' Association on February 26, 1998, issued a memo requesting written submissions on equity issues. Unfortunately, our faculty newsletter editors still don't comprehend sexism and continue to publish trash. The last issue was actually published by women and was full of sexual innuendo, jokes and articles demeaning women. Oh what some women will do to belong! So we will continue to struggle with the issues of Equity at Law School, hopefully, it can be done without any more publicity. Darlene McBain UBC Law 2nd year ed. due to time constraints the Ubyssey was unable to confirm that Veronica Franco, Ron Morin, Kathy Murchie, Mandana Namazi, Holly Pommier and Winxie Tse agreed to all the revisions made to the letter in question /"Ubyssey coverage 'unfair,' 'mahcious,' " the Ubyssey February 13, 1998). "WE SHOULD NOT BECOME COMPLACENT IN ASSUMING THAT ANY RESEARCH IS 'FREE OF BIAS' " The medical truth on Abortion by Joeyelle Brandt OK, here we go again. First off, I would like to acknowledge that the nature ofthe abortion debate dictates that neither side can ever "win" the argument Having said that, you might wonder why I am wasting my time that should be spent on my homework. I do not believe that anything I have to say will change the mind of any dedicated "pro-lifer". I write to offer another perspective for those on campus who are struggling within themselves to find an answer to a question which has no easy answers. I would like to address wliat Ms Heathe calls "The Medical Truth." She states that "It has been proven by medical professionals that the life within the womb is fully developed at twelve weeks...[and that] The infant at this stage feels every human sensation.* It was once a 'medical truth" that masturbation caused blindness, that the inferior size of women's brains made them particularly suited for housework, and that leeching had purifying effects on one's blood. And lest we make the mistaken assumption that we are somehow more advanced today, let me point to recent research done at the University of Toronto which apparently "proved" that white people are genetically supperior to black people. As absurd as this study is, we have only to look at who funded it (el eugenics society) to understand how and why it was done. Research is often funded by organisations (such as pharmacu- tical companies, eugenics societies, corporations, etc.) that have vested interests in certain outcomes and we should not become complacent in assuming that any research is "free of bias" or that despite apparently 'statistically significant' findings its results are in any way correct. "Truth" is always subjective. Perspective "Have you ever watched a video that shows an abortion? Why is it so offensive if it only reveals the truth?" In answer, no, I have never seen an abortion video, and I would not choose to. Neither would I choose to watch open-heart surgery. Neither of these procedures is offensive to me, I'm just not into blood. Others I know have seen the procedure, and still managed to retain the belief in a woman's right to choice. Regarding the list of medical risks associated with abortion, almost all of those also apply to giving birth. .Any medical procedure is associated with risks. This does not prove that there is anything inherently wrong about the procedure, it merely reflects that medicine is an art that is still evolving, and is not perfect. Thank you for the list of options for pregnant women. I'm sure it is very useful for all those stupid women out there who couldn't think options up for themselves. Excuse my sarcasm, but you act as though women weren't entirely aware of all these options, as though they haven't already undergone an agonising decisionmaking process. Speaking of options, I can think of nothing more cruel than to remove a woman's option of abortion and force her to carry an unwanted The government might begin restricting what foods women could eat, where they could travel, what activities they could participate in. I can make a distinction between a fetus and a new born baby: one is inside a person's body, one is not. Every child a wanted child, every mother a willing mother. This is what I wish for the world. I want every woman to know that she can choose to have a child or not have a child, and that whatev- It was once a "medical truth" that masturbation caused blindness, that the inferior size of women's brains made them particularly suited for housework, and that leeching had purifying effects on one's blood. fetus to term. As far as the debate over what point sentient life begins at, that is a question for philosophers. There is no straight-forward, correct answer to that question, no absolute proof, and to pretend otherwise is fallacy. However, under Canadian law, one is not a human being until one is born, and any other definition would set dangerous precedents for controlling women's bodies. Let us ponder the possible legal extensions of claiming the fetus as a human being seperate from the mother. 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