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VOLUME 75, Number 9
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October 6,1992 N.E W.;S
Anti free-traders join Chiefs union on No side
by Frances Foran
Free Trade Opponents and the
Union of BC Indian Chiefs have
joined forces against the Charlottetown accord and the "unlawful"
process leading to it.
David Orchard, chair of the
Citizens Concerned about Free
Trade said, "Canadians are being
asked to go to a polling booth and
vote on a document that no Canadian has yet seen and will not
see.
"Not only is there no final
legal text, there is no final text at
all. All we have is this unsigned
report and there is no binding
commitment to the written text at
all." The published text does not
meanmuchjOrchardsaid, because
the Charlottetown accord contains
60 items yet to be negotiated by
the first ministers.
Orchard shared the concern*
of other opponents of the accord
that ratifying the Charlottetown
accord will not dispel but rather
confound the "constitutional
wrangling."
"If they get a yes vote then the
premiers and Mulroney can go
back and complete their mangling
ofthe constitution, and there will
never be a chance to vote in the
final text, because there won't bea
second referendum. Nobody has
told us what is wrong with the
current constitution let alone the
necessity of entirely rewriting the
law ofthe land."
The Union ofBC Indian Chiefs
and CCAFT are joined in the *NO'
camp by the Native Women's Association of Canada who argued in
the Supreme Court in August that
the constitutional process was undemocratic. The court ruled that
the constitutional process violated
the Charter Right to freedom of
expression by denying the Native
women's group a seat atthe constitutional talks.
A court injunction lodged by
NWAC to stop the referendum has
been stalled to allow input on the
matter from the four recognized
Native groups.
Barbara Wyss, vice-president
ofthe NWAC affiliated BC Native
Women's Society, said the four
Native groups support the accord
because they helped create it. The
main contention against the accord held by NWAC and other
women's groups is that the accord
substantially weakens the Charter Rights of disadvantaged groups.
UBCIC president Saul Terry
said the accord is a blueprint for
David Orchard speaks out against free trade and the Charlottetown Accord. ELA|NE Griffith photo
the extinguishing of land rights
and treaty rights.
"What is being put forward is
a termination policy, and inherent
self-government is the vehicle to
sell this termination. We are being
asked to give up our land and live
under the law of Canada and then
negotiate it back in bits and pieces."
"The referendum process is
unlawful and doesn't give full information regarding the proposal.
Even on that basis it must be rejected," Terry said.
Orchard, who worked with
Manitoba MLA. Elijah Harper in
defeating the Meech Lake Accord,
said the new constitutional deal
will broaden the wealth gap among
the provinces. The Charlottetown
accord allows the provinces to opt
out with compensation from federal
programs, leaving each province
to replace them without standards
to regulate the programs across
the country, he said.
"We believe that [the
Charlottetown accord] will lead to
ten balkanized provinces, not a
unified country at all. Combined
with the Free Trade Agreement
this document will weaken the
East-West ties that hold the
country together, and it will lead
to the dissolution of Canada."
Orchard said the no side has a
"David versus Goliath" contest
with government's Yes campaign.
He said the federal government's
$7 million advertising campaign
will be "polluting the airwaves"
and predicts that by mid-October
all television-viewing audiences
will have been exposed to 13 referendum commercials in one week.
Turner predicts
students to vote Yes
by Rick Hiebert
John Turner predicted yesterday that Canadian students will
strongly vote Yes in the constitutional referendum later this month.
"I think they will vote yes,
more than Canadians as a whole
will," the Liberal MP for Vancouver-Quadra (UBC's federal riding)
said after a speech in SUB yesterday. "It will be very close nationally,
but I would guess that there is a
strong Yes majority on campuses.
You'll see a solid Yes there."
Turner, the former head ofthe
national Liberal party and a former
Prime Minister, may be biased,
however. He is one of the more
prominent Yes supporters in BC,
and has travelled with Esquimalt
NDP MP Dave Barrett to speak in
support of the Charlottetown accord.
"I do think that students at
universities will vote Yes, not
necessarily because I am a Yes
supporter, but because that is what
I am picking up from speaking to
them," he said.
"I feel that students are
smarter than people in general,
they are more careful to read and
think and ask good questions. They
are more likely to read the constitutional documents and understand why this is a good deal,
without being swayed," Turner
said.
"Ifound, duringthelastfederal
election, that it was students who
were mostly likely to have studied
the US-Canada free trade agreement. Fm finding that of the students I speak to about the constitution. They have thought about
the issues," he said.
In his speech, Turner called
the deal "a typical historical Canadian compromise," eliciting a
little laughter from the audience.
Although he's not in favour of national referenda (he deems them
contrary to the "British political
tradition"), he says the referendum
will "give the public a chance to
endorse a united Canada."
"I don't think it's a bad deal
and I think BC came out very well,"
Turner said. "Everyone engaged
in give and take, and there were no
winners and losers."
"This country has gone
through a self-flagelation in recent
years with this [constitutional]
debate," he said. "The consequences of a No vote are not going
to be academic, they are going to be
real. I predict that if Canadians
vote No, they'll wake up the next
morning saying What have we
done to ourselves?""
He did not feel comfortable in
predicting what would happen if
Canadians voted down the accord,
he said in an interview conducted
after speech. But during his speech
he sai d he feared that international
investors would pull funds from a
Canada they deemed unstable politically.
He said he thought BC Premier Mike Harcourt, widely derided for.not sticking up for BC's
interests, was a positive force at
the negotiations, and that was also
how the Ottawa, Ontario and
Quebec delegations to the constitutional talks felt.
Turner also suggested that
voters pass judgement on the proposed accord, and not the politicians bringing the deal forward.
"I never thought I would ever
say this, but he is the only Prime
Minister we have," he said. "You
can always get Mulroney or
Harcourt later at the ballot box.
Separate that from this issue."
Native education explored
by Lucho van Isschot
First Nations educators are
calling for a more human, more
spiritual approach to teaching.
The 1992 Mokakit Conference on First Nations education
held at UBC last week, however,
was about much more than education—it was also about ways
of knowing, and about incorporating First Nations' philosophies into academic research.
Akeynote address was made
by UBC alumnus Ethel Gardener, who is going to Harvard
to continue her studies in education at the doctoral level.
She said, "Heart and spirit
are very important, and very
much a part of thiB conference—
in just about every aspect ofthe
conference that I participated in."
Gardener emphasized the
importance of incorporating
spirituality and emotion into scientific research in particular.
"We have talked a lot
about science, and about
spirit and love in science. If
we don't get those things
back into science, weVe
doomed," Gardener
warned.
Another keynote
speaker, Carl Urion, a
Metis instructor from the
University of Calgary,
spoke urgently about the
need for autonomy and integrity in Firet Nations education.
He said, "Despite tremendous advances in research
in Native education in the past
20 years, we are still in a state of
crisis. And our crisis is deepening."
Urion said in order to overcome this crisis it is necessary to
train more First Nations teach
ers. He also said that First Na-
tdons communities be permitted
to run their own schools is imperative.
"Our job, I think, is to research operational and educational programs that emphasize
teaching from the heart," he said.
*We can't deal with [the issues of] autonomyandintegrity in
Bim ply political and social terms,"
he concluded, "because we could
build the greatest political systems and social structures and
still not survive as a people."
Several hundred people from
New Zealand, North and Central
America came to participate in
the three-day conference.
Among the many other
speakers featured at Mokakit
was Oscar Kawagley, who discussed issues of concern to First
Nations educators in Alaska.
Jennie Joe, a Navajo physician, made a presentation on
health and Fi rst Nations peoples
entitled "American Indian Concepts of Wellness and
Unwellness."
There were too many other
excellent speakers and presentations at the conference to mention.
. Gardener described the conference as a "booster shot" to First
Nations people working in education.
October 6,1992
" ^ ^.^ ^ philoBophicai WOrk that propels
by NuBya Presaey
Caryl Churchill's
Mad Forest is billed
as "a play from
Romania'' and con-
as a pioneer in tne stuay m iinguu.**.«-.,"». ■..•■=...- r----;-- —-y^ _ ,*r ^ work Because earns itself with the
^i^ho^^ . HvesofBucha.ast
these states can no longer openly coerce their citizens ^* ™ ** "™' ^JJSb as an institution, one controlled, not J—*- J "-
TMsisnohalf-baked conspiracy theo^omsky^
f -.
by Ian Lloyd
surprisinf-dy.-by the people who own it
Electric.
residents during the
•; December 1989 revolution
in Romania.
A,
.fter
getting lost I found my way
to the PNE to see the Master of
Moan. T-shirts, posters, programs
and buttons, all with his face on them,
you could see them everywhere. Lilies
were in full bloom and everyone wore black
plaid and Docs.
MUSIC
Morrissey
PNE Forum
Monday Oct. 5
mmmmm=$m
THEATRE
Mad Forest
. Studio 58, Langara Campus
October 1-18
AIDS enters the movie because it has to, lending a depth and credibility to a less than
deserving film.
An exploration of alternative sexual practices runs parallel to the wham-bam-thanks-
now-get-lost sex that predominates. One character uses telephone sex hotlines to get off,
but when one of his partners suggests that they meet to consummate their conversation', he
hangs up. One of the truly original scenes in the film is a mini-classic of voyeurism in
which three people watch each other masturbate, each in his/her separate apartment: the
ultimate in safe sex.
While there is some cynical commentary on the young artsy-hip scene (one character
explains that he's an artist because "it's a good way to make a lot of money"), it is
mainly a non-editorialized trip down a chain of sexual connections.
AIDS then takes one participant and we begin to count back and see how many
people have been infected. The links in the chain present a very scary understanding ofthe disease's domino effect.
AIDS becomes the final, brutal judgement of our generation's
hedonism.
Director Temistocles Lopez has created an interesting series of
vignettes; however, the dialogue is so scrappy that, although _
it has its moments, the film fails to be truly stimulating, sidestepping its potential for new insight
into sex in the 90s as it skirts the issue of
AIDS.
Damned Salvation
The film combines an "anti-celebrity" biographical approach with film of Chomsky^lectures
aid interviews. This is intercut with "propaganda" f-ta^from^anou^sour^s, including
Enough about what the overly-fashion conscious were wearing,
let me tell you about the opening band.
Gallon Drunk made a brief appearance and delivered a harsh, ambient sound
which was highly distorted. Scott said," [They] were really cool for five minutes."
Sandy said, "Kindahard to understand., .and they hurt my ears." The truth was revealed
in these comments, but it was only an opening band.
After doing the polka during intermission, it was time to witness the melancholy maniac. After
. In this Canadian premiere,
Chui-chill has chosen to lay empha-
„. a sis on an Eastern Bloc issue pres-
"the US and Canadian defense departments, a New YorkTiir.es public relations newsreel. ently very trendy in the media: that
and the carefully censored news footage ofthe GulfWar. . of the "black" or illegal market.
The filmmakers delight in "re-contextualizing" Chomsky s words, placing his characters are. shown bribing doctors
image everywhere from the aforementioned video wall to a TV screen in a i»au » with aie^i fa return for better care,
^vS^^^
ering, andat firstitleavesaviewerwondenngwhatcanbodone. The films
second half, however, saves the viewer from depression. Profiles.of
alternative media outlets around North America suggest that
Chomsky's dissident view is not as isolated as the mainstream
media would have us think.
Chomsky's belief in the power of "ordinary people to
realize the truth, and to fight against oppressive institutions, provides some hope that we can all follow a course
of "intellectual self-defense". The film leaves us with
° sense that there is much work to be done, but
that by "taking responsibility for the predict
and art school directors are given other
gifts in return for admittance to higher,
education.';.'''.'.
■" Churchill consistently presents this
issue as a source of tension between generations, with the older generation upholding
the chanting was loud enough, he graced the stage with his presence. His presence was awe able consequences of our actions," asChomsky
inspiring, [the crowd even cheered when we stood still.] . puts it, we may yet effect some change.
- l He began to sing, but you couldn't really feel his haunting voice. Somewhere through the digital {for more about Noam
filters, miles of audio cables and thirty foot high speakers, the essence of Morrissey was lost. His music lost Chomsky, and an interview
its personal appeal, it became an act on a stage. Even though his lyrics hit so close to home, the five show was as with the dire°tor8 ofJManu-
personal as a TV show. I treat his lyrics as if they were psalms, but I didn't like the dilution a live show gave to his facturing Consent, stay
songs. tuned for the Ubyssey
I am not a diehard fan, but I hold a lot of respect for the man. His live show was an impersonal, rehearsed feature medio issue,
presentation. Its only spice was his teasing the crowd by tearing his shirt, then turning off the lights. The only encore produced
two more songs, and that same feeling of emptiness.
The only consolation was the fact that I heard his moan louder than I had ever heard it before. It turned the steamy arena into
a shivering wasteland of melancholy tremors. The entire crowd seemed to shiver in unison as his moan turned their spines into jello. There
aren't many people that can do that to me, I guess that is what makes Morrissey what he is.
That haunting voice channeled all that depressed energy into an audio projection. It was a deeply moving experience, but his music is a
personal music experience; listen at home.
November 6th).
the illegal market diver the protests ofthe
young people.
•• The play contains a good deal of sexist
language. One character, Lucia, is loaded with .
negative energy and associated with such faults as
materialism, Americanism and even (oh no) premarital sex. She is constantly reviled by male
Characters, with lines like, "You're a slut, Lucia."
One hesitates to say whether this represents
unprocessed sexism or a mimetic description of sexism.
One wants to give the woman playwright the benefit of
the doubt. However, the production itself highlights the
abuse while refusing to focus on Lucia's resources in the
face of attack and is thus very sexist.
The play is mostly about "normal people," no doubt to
show the effects of male politics on "average citizens" in true
scientifico-journalism fashion. Everyone in this piay has a job
they really care about, everyone is heterosexual, and no one is
alienated from the drug rituals of their culture, ,
Ultimately, hampered by its own gender and class politics, this
political" play doesn't get very far.
by Colin Maycock
Religious
zealots of all
stripes will not
like this film.
Civilized people
will.
VANCOUVER
FILM FESTIVAL
ANGEL OF FIRE (Mexico)
Hollywood theatre
Directed by Dana Rotberg
Ostensibly, Angel of Fire
illustrates the impossibility
of redemption for the
perpetrators of mortal sins.
On this level it depicts a
bleak reality in which the
sinners are punished beyond
the call of justice by the
inexorable progress of events,
overseen (presumably) by a
vengeful God.
The narrative concerns
Alma, a young performer in a
circus/brothel (suggestively
called Fantasy) who is
impregnated by her father
the clown. She leaves (Fab-0
running away from the
circus) and quickly joins a
travelling religious
troupe. Led by a
matriarch and her son,
who she feels is a
prophet, the religious
show moves through the
apocalyptic landscape of
the squatter settlements on the outskirts
of a city, collecting
names and adding them
to the Book ofthe
Righteous (for a price).
The Prophet,
Sacramento, falls in
love/lust with Alma, and
recognizing the impropriety of his desire,
engages in all manner
of suitably auto-
flagellatory rites. Alma
miscarries due to the
brutality ofthe
matriarch's purification
rites and is quickly
returned to the circus
(ah, the return ofthe
prodigal child).
In this way the film
questions the viewers'
notions of sin, and by
extension, right and
wrong. On the one
hand, there are the
representatives ofthe
holy order praying for
and preying upon the
outcasts and the weak—
the ones who truly
deserve to have a heaven to go
to—and on the other, there are
the midgets, the clowns, the
whores and other symbols ofthe
fallen and damned.
Yet, which is worse? The
apparently consensual union of
daughter and father or the
sadistic excesses perpetrated by
the matriarch on and through
her son in the name of righteousness. One could argue that
both the father and mother are
the real sinners and that the
children merely serve as vessels
that suffer the ultimate consequences of their respective
elders' wrongs.
Either way, and with the
finesse of a truly delightful
tragedy, the main protagonists
die: Sacramento slits his wrists
and ends up spread-eagled
across his workbench—what a
superb tableau: Christ crucified
by his own desire—and Alma in
the inferno ofthe burning big
top.
So there you have it. Angel
of Fire is a fine film with a
wicked sense of humour. Yes,
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major and potentially turgid
themes, it maintains a sense of
proportion via its liberal
application of vicious ironies
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Hockey
T'Birds win Husky Invitational
UBC Thunderbirds defeated Lethbridge Pronghorns
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Husky Invitational Hockey
Tournament. Scorers for the
final game were Dave Bond,
Lance Johnson, Casey
McMillan and Darren
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swept the tournament with
wins over Regina 6-5 and
Calgary 9-6 previously.
UBC is 5-1 in preseason
play, with a pair of win s against
the Red Deer College Kings and
a loss to the Hamilton Canuks.
The TBirds open their 28
game conference scheduled at
home on October 16 & 17 with
a two game series against
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Soccer
T'Birds Sweep at Home
Women
The UBC Thunderbirds remain undefeated at 5-0 with a
win over visiting Calgary and
Lethbridge last weekend.
Kristine Vaughan, Jodie
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Nancy Ferguson each scored a
goal over the 4-0 shutout ofthe
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shutouts.
Men
The T'Birds conference
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weekend sweep over visiting
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Lethbridge Pronghorns. Doug
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the Pronghorns 5-0. UBC's only
loss this season was against
Victoria, when the Vikings
ended UBC's 48-game winning
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.October 6,1992
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Why do we get high?
It is Drug and Alcohol Awareness Week at UBC.
Substance abuse is a problem at UBC. But we have to ask
ourselves, why? Is it a simple matter of choice, of just saying "No* to
drugs and alcohol?
We are constantly encouraged to take drugs to relieve what
pains us. Are you seasick? Here's a couple of gravol. Got a headache?
Here's some aspirin. Got the sniffles? Here's some decongestant. Life
got you down? Here are some anti-depressants. Feeling a little out
of control? Take some lithium.
We are never encouraged look for the causes of our pain —only
to treat the symptoms. We are taught to rely on medical doctors, and
to tie ourselves up in pharmaceutical straight-jackets. It can become
rather confusing when the same doctors who tell us not to smoke pot
or drink beer are peddling even more potent narcotics.
With a culture that tells us that it is better to medicate for
instant relief rather than be anti-social—whether due to illness, or
the blues—ifs no wonder that drug and alcohol abuse is a major
social problem.
But the "just say NO to drugs* campaign, and others like it, are
trite and condescending. Instructing people to "just say No" helps us
avoid investigating the social forces that cause people to turn to
drugs. The message to "just say NO* uses the illusions of self-
determination and "free will* to make us believe that individuals
who use drugs are weak—even though this is a culture that glorifies
the quick fix solution. It is, therefore, mistaken to blame individuals
for internalizing the lesson of a drug-promoting culture.
The message is everywhere; that pain and troubles should be
dispelled before they interfere with one's daily duties. And the truth
is most people in Canada, and most students, cannot afford to take
time out to get well, or to sort through personal problem s. Most of our
teachers, our employers and, even, our friends probably wouldn't be
very understandingif we chose take time out to heal ourselves. So we
find ourselves forced to carry on, to suppress the pain.
And if you consider what kind of drugs are illegal and stigmatized, and which are considered acceptable, you realize that what is
really "illegal" is to be in a state of consciousness that maybe beyond
mechanisms of social control. Hallucinogens are taboo because the
user abandons consensus reality. Nicotine, caffeine and alcohol are,
on the other hand, acceptable because they do not interfere with the
individual's participation in "reality* In other words, you can be an
alcoholic and a smoker, and still appear to be a "responsible* citizen.
It is not enough to be aware ofthe effects of drugs and alcohol—
we must also be aware of what pains us, as individuals and as a
society.
theUbyssey
The Ubyssey is published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Alma Mater Society of the University of British
Columbia. Editorial opinions are those ofthe staff and not necessarily those ofthe university administration,
or ofthe sponsor. The editorial office is room 241K ofthe Student Union Building. Editorial Department,
phone 822-2301; advertising, 822-3977; FAX 822-9279.
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heads at him. Steve Chow wu too busy toning out on the Mac to notice anything. But Sam Green tried to ealm Martina nervee, Lucho van Inelut was the first to feel the effects, and had
to he down for a minute or two, Francea and Paula Wellings wouldnt admit it, but they were beginning to feel it too. Ian Lloyd felt etrai«e, bubbling, giggling feeli-*** well up in hia throat
and, ooon thereafttf. he lost control of himself altogether. Steven Chan couldnt be bothered to join in, and decided, instead, to go for a walk with Cart* Farrel and Stephen Garv-sy. Back in
the office, Graham Cook was trying, in vain, to do some homework. 1 dont get it," he said. This stuff usually makes me so lucid and insightful. "Cool," observed Colin Maycock. "Yeah, way
cool," agreed Rick Hiebert Denise Woodley then said, "You think that's coei you shoijdd check out this red panel's
tiying to figure out which were the stars, which were the planes, and which w«^ the ftmnyhttleHghUthat were floating around in her heaiPh^
LaahathataH of tha tights were spaeeaMp**-, hut wh-mliiatdidntwtyk.th-^
waant laughing. "Hey, the 60s are over," she mused. In a huehed tone, Stan Paul aaked, "Hey, ia it just me, or has it been 8:17 for a long, lot* timer Ela3ne Griffith snickered, informing
Stw that twelve hours had passed sinn Stan had kraked at ta
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asleep for several hours, woke up and asked, "What's the matter with you people? Are you on dn*a or somettringT We just grinned guilty grins.
Paula Waitings • Lucho van Isschot •
Editors
Yukio Kurahashi
• Sam Orson • Francos Foran
No censors
I am writing both to
express my outrage at the
recent AMS Council edict
banning the distribution of
certain publications in the
SUB and to remind The
Ubyssey editors ofthe message emblazoned on their
door - "NO CENSORS".
On Sept. 16, the AMS
Council voted to ban the distribution in SUB of all publications except, in part,
those that; "..(P)rovide a
service to AMS members;
cover issues that are of direct concern to AMS members (i.e. campus issues,
post secondary education,
etc.); use proper containment for distribution in
SUB; be UBC operated and/
or UBC student operated;
be specifically directed at
and oriented towards AMS
members.*. One ofthe publications affected by the ban
is the Campus Times.
Having regard to the
Coundl's above criteria for
distribution, a comparison
ofthe Sept. 22 issues of The
Ubyssey and the Campus
Times was revealing. Of
The Ubyssey's 20 articles,
only 6 were such that they
could reasonably be construed as relating to "issues
of direct concern to AMS
members..." as required by
the AMS edict. By contrast,
of the Campus Times' 24
articles, 21 of these had
The Ubyssey welccmes letters on any issue. Letters must be typed and are not to exceed 300 words in length. Content which is judged to be libelous, homophobic, sexist, racist
or factually incorrect will not be published. Please be concise. Letters may be edited for brevity, but it is standard Ubyssey policy not to edit letters for spelling or gramnatical
mistakes. Please bring them, with identification, to SUB 241k. Letters must include name, faculty, and signature.
(conservatively defined) direct relevance to the UBC
student community. I invite
all students to do the same
comparison if you question
my informal test.
No matter what proportion is found in a given issue,
I find it difficult to conceive
of a construction ofthe AMS
ban which would hold The
Ubyssey as more relevant or
representative of students
than the Campus Times. It
is also worthy to note that
the Campus Times publishes
without the $45,565.79 direct AMS subsidy The
Ubyssey received last year,
or the more than $45,000.00
of our student fees it has
requested for this year.
Rather than protecting
its huge investment in the
"not for profit" Ubyssey
through veiled censorship,
the AMS should be re-evaluating the merits of putting
all of its student newspaper
dollars in The Ubyssey's
basket.
I do not know by what
and thus publications ought
not to be banned for political
or business reasons.
Peter Epp
Law 3
Don't cry wolf,
chicken little
When Chicken
Little ran around claiming
that "the sky [was] falling",
he must have taken lessons
from our Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister is labelling people.who oppose the
deal as "enemies of Canada",
and warning of disastrous
consequences if Quebec were
to separate. I agree with
Mr .Mulroney that if Quebec
were to separate the
reprercussions would be
devastating. However, the
Prime Minister is not dealing with the actual intent of
the plebiscite. The question
is not "Do you agree that
Quebec should stay in
Canada?" or "Do you. agree
that Canada should remain
united?" The question refers directly to the "agreement" reached on August 28,
1992. I would suggest to
Canadians that they look at
the deal that they will be
voting on, rather than the
far fetched, scare tactics of
the "yes" side. In 1990, when
Meech Lake was close to collapsing, the very same Prime
Minister warned that the
country of Canada would
crumble if Meech Lake was
not ratified. To everybody's
surprise, the country is still
intact!
Perhaps Mr.Mulroney
has confused his children's
stories. To my knowledge it
wasn't Chicken Little that
cried wolf.
Ryan Jaye
Second Year Arts
Invade The
Ubysseyl
The UBC Young Conservatives' frustration with
the bias of the Ubyssey is
understandable, but their
method of attack seems
needlessly destructive and
inefficient. They could
change the newspaper in a
more productive manner by
contributing to it, rather
than by petitioning for aref-
erendum to stop the AMS
funding.
As a former copy editor
of Excalibur, York
University's main newspaper, I've seen that publication and others at York
drastically change their
content and policies in less
than a year, simply because
a small group of volunteers
took control. Instead of trying to disband the few channels of communication open
to the UBC community, the
Young Conservatives should
infiltrate the staff of the
Ubyssey and ensure that
their views are more adequately represented.
If the Ubyssey is as desperate for volunteers as most
campus newspapers, anyone
who plans to sign the petition for a referendum should
consider instead this more
insidious tactic, which —
unlike a referendum —
guarantees results.
T. Roberts
Graduate Studies
Question time
now
As one of the two
students elected to sit on the
UBC Board of Governors, I
should really apologize for
not making sure that the
faculty housing project near
Acadia ["Development UBC
style: build first, ask questions later" (Ubyssey Oct. 2,
1992, p.3)] was given sufficient public consultation was
filled to capacity within a
month. New faculty at UBC
often find it difficult to afford houXig in Pt. Grey -
one of Canada's most expensive residential
neighbourhoods. The housing will cost the University
(and thus the students) no
money in the long run.
Finally, I should
take the opportunity to tell
you that new student housing is planned for construction on the northernmost two
B-lots in the near future.
Planning is underway, and
now is the time to get involved in the process.
I can be reached in
my office: SUB room 230B,
phoned at 822-6868, or sent
electronic mail at
dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca.
Derek K. Miller
Student Member
Board of Governors
Scientific fraud
With a new pharmaceutical reseach facility
being considered by UBC
and Merck-Frosst, UBC
continues its grand tradition of vivisection. As species differ so in their reactions to drugs, animal research is simply scientific
fraud. And a lot of it happens here at UBC. Research
on cats of human eye diseases, is still be done here
for the past 20 years. These
diseases do not occur in cats.
Drugs tested on
animals often cause dangerous side effects in humans, including birth defects, degenerative conditions and death. It is in our
best interests to be informed
and practice preventative
and natural medicine rather
than depending solely on
highly refined and often
dangerous drugs.
The pharmaceutical industry is a multi-billion
dollar one. It is not interested in preventative medicine, how would it make its
billions?
Lisa Penny
1st year Arts
We want you to
come to our BZZR
GARD'N Sub207
4-8pm Friday
With love.
the Ubyssey
14/THE UBYSSEY
October 6,19$2 What's wrong with Canadian interest groups?
by Stephen Garvey
"Bullshit propaganda*,
"cycle pigs", "we don't bother
with permits or shit like that*,
"we shouldn't have to asks
anyone's permission, to walk
the streets for this and we
dont....", ^Get your racist, get
your sexist, get your
homophobic laws off my body."
Reading these emotional
phrases, and sentences, one
may feel like I do, that there
are a lot angry people in
Canada. And actually, people
have a lot of reasons to feel
indignant, especially over
ubiquitous discriminations,
sexual and mental abuses,
rapes, repugnant pornography, and government coercion.
These vile, and utterly repulsive occurences in Canadian
society, I dont dispute. And
not surprisingly, I believe they
need to be put to a stop immediately. However, what I have
a problem with i s the way these
issues are addressed!
A common theme in these
quotes mentioned above is extreme language- "Bullshit",
"Pigs" - and total self-interest
thinking- "We don't", "We
shouldn't?, "Get your...". Canadian society was originally
based on John Locke's philosophical writings front the 18th
century promulgating that society should be founded on a
fair, and equal playing field
for all. Shockingly, society today has become a selfish jungle
in which interest groups claw,
spit, punch to get their issues
heard, addressed ,and to get apiece
ofthe government's purse, thereby
circumventing normal democratic
routes. Submerged in astronomical
debt and deficeits, and functioning
in a inefficient, corpulent state,
government is slowly giving into
interest group pressure to solidify
and maintain it's own waning
power. It's a deplorable
development which will
ultimately lead to a fragmented, suppressed society, in which tljp real losers will be the working
core of Canada, as usual.
Fundamentally, I
support the role of interest groups;
people getting together and making an issue pertinent to society,
aware toall.Thislaudable activity
is highly valuable to any society
because it keeps people honest,
and encourages progress. Nevertheless, interest groups in Canada
have become compeletly self-oriented to the point of forgetting
one's own values. This narrow-
minded attitude is dangerous because instead of advancing civil
rights or correcting disturbing realties, society digresses, in most
cases. If these issues were handled
more skillfully, I believe tremendous progress could be made to
rectifying them; however, as soon
as a person or group fights a violation on a similar level as the
aggressor, their dignity and self-
worth, and therefore all progress,
are swept away like dry sand on a
windy beach.
I am not advocating that
community awareness activities
such as the women's "Take Back
the Night March* are wrong, quite
the contrary. I believe it's the interest group's role and purpose to
helppeoplebecomeawareofabuses
and atrocities. But name calling,
"cycle pigs*; discriminating against
others with reverse discriminations is not the way to go because
the public ignores such petty, and
Freestyle
severe words and actions.
What people and interest
groups have to realize is that we're
all in this life together; and therefore, working together as opposed
to against is the most logical, and
practical approach to do. Also,
people should not judge in terms of
sex , colour of skin, racial origin,
income level but how a person acts
and thinks. So vociferous cries like
"cycle pigs" is totally fatuous because obviously not all police people
are cruel people at heart. Lefs
remember that we're all human
beings trying to make the best of
this dynamic thing called life, although it may seem the contrary.
If interest groups stood by
their values: compassion generosity, kindness,...they would undoubtedly make dramatic
progress in improving decadence
in society. People listen to virtuous,
honest, sincere people not angry,
hot tempered, overly emotional
people. By lowering yourself to
somebody else's amoral actions,
your integrity is thrown out the
window. In contrast, standing by
your values, people will listen to
you andperhaps respect you. That's
the first step to change; you cant
Bhove opinions down people's
throat, and expect slavish obedience.
So for, you've been readingmy
ideas; but now, let's consider some historical leaders that have made a prodigious impact on society, and
the world.
GANDHI, KING, DALAI
LAMA,MOTHER
THERESA
What do these people have in
common? Why were/are they able
to unite millions of people to causes
for the betterment of the world,
and make substantial progress for
humanity?
These magnanimous people
have all stood inexorably by their
convictions ofhonesty, compassion
and love, thereby winning the
hearts, and respect of people everywhere. They all had\\have tremendous visionary and selfless
minds allowing them to think in
terms ofthe world or society as a
whol e, while not getting stifled with
self-interested concerns. And most
importantly, they cared about all
people not just their loyal followers or supporters.
Finally, these leaders
have\\had faced horrific circumstances no different from people
today. Look at how Gandhi and the
people of India through non-violence overcame the British impe
rial rule, and events such as the
massacre at Amritsar in 1919.
where over a thousand Indians
were maliciously slaughtered
by the British. Martin Luther
King, and the Black people of
America faced violent racist
attacks, widespread discriminations in all facets of American
society. King was successful
because he believed in human
value, interrelatedness of all
life; he was sincerely concerned
not only for his own people's
interest but all of America. Look
at the Dalai Lama, and the
couragous people of Tibet, who
were satanicly purged from
their homeland yet stood inexorably by their beleifs in compassion, tolerance... winningthe
respect and admiration of the
world. Mother Theresa, day
after day, tends to the impoverished and sick in the gruesome
streets of Calcutta while ad-
mini steringsimilar relief efforts
all over the world, not caring
who the people are, but simply
because "all life is sacred*
Canada is by no means a
paradise as patriarchy, discriminations, abuse, and selfishness make for a distasteful,
repugnant society. However,
widespread problems do not in
most circumstances call for
someone to foresake their values and beliefe. As these truly
beautiful people - Gandhi,
King.Dalia Lama, Mother
Theresa- have most graciously
demonstrated that love, virtue,
and compassion can conquer all
else if you give them a chance.
A letter from your President
October 6,1992
The AMS has recently been informed by the University administration that it is now philosophically opposed to the Alma Mater Society undertaking capital projects and having an equal role
in managing facilities built by students. This means that the AMS would not be able to expand
SUB as was approved in a referendum last fall. It means that even though students initiated and
paid for a large share of the Aquatic Centre, the University wants sole control of the management of the Centre. The AMS would be relegated to an advisory role, as opposed to our role as
an equal partner in the Centre's management for the last 14 years. In general, the University
administration does not want the AMS (ie. the students) involved in managing facilities and
services that we have initiated and paid for.
To be fair, I should point out that the University would be happy to have students act in an
advisory capacity and would be happy to accept donations from the AMS (ie. students), as long
as the University is in charge of the project and can dictate how the money is spent. This is a
radical departure from tradition: the students have always played an integral and equal role to
the University administration in serving students and in the governance of the University.
To completely understand why the administration's position is demeaning to the student body,
one needs to look at the history of the University and at the history of the relationship between
the AMS and the University. Throughout UBC's history, the students have contributed
significantly to the growth and development of the campus.
In fact, the students were instrumental in creating UBC and in making the Point Grey location
its home. In 1922, the students, with support from faculty and alumni, marched in the Great
Trek from the old Fairview campus, near Vancouver General Hospital, to Point Grey to demand
a proper home for UBC. A petition circulated throughout the province collected 56,000
signatures and was presented to the government The Great Trek and the petition resulted in the
government contributing $1.5 million to build the Point Grey campus and the University
officially moved in 1925.
In 1963, the government ignored the University's request for additional funding and more
universities. The AMS then collected 232,000 signatures province-wide in support of higher
education. As a result, the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University were created and
funding for UBC increased.
Additionally, the students have initiated and financed, in whole or in part, almost all the athletic
facilities at UBC. The War Memorial Gym, the Thunderbird Winter Sports Centre, and the
Aquatic Centre were all constructed on the initiative of the AMS. In fact, our contributions to
capital projects remain matched by anyone other than the taxpayers of British Columbia
In 1968, the Student Uu^u Building, constructed with student money, was opened and the AMS
has grown to be the largest student society in Canada, if not in North America, in large part
because of our lease on SUB. We are able to offer a wide range of services to students (for
example, Speakeasy Student Support, AMS Programs, the Walk Home Program, the
Ombudsoffice, and Joblink), employ nearly 400 part-time students (paying them a total of over
$1.3 million in wages in 1991/92), and still have one the lowest student society fees in Canada at
$39.50 per student All of this would not have been possible without a lease on SUB. If SUB
were built today (with student funding), the University's philosophy would dictate that the AMS
could not obtain a lease.
The University administration is now effectively telling the students "Thanks for your time and
money, but we'll run things without you from now on."
We would appreciate receiving your comments on this situation. You may phone me, write me a
note, or drop by my office. Also, we are holding information sessions on these issues and the
upcoming AMS referenda on Thursday, October 8 at 12:30pm and 1:30pm in SUB Room 212.
Please attend if you want to know more or want to ask questions.
Sincerely,
sCtt-is^ C.XX
Martin Ertl, AMS President
Tel: 822-3972 Office: SUB Room 256
"No university in the world I know of owes as much to its students as does the University of British Columbia. That applies not only to buildings... but to participation in the actual operation ofthe University at a variety of levels. This, I believe, is good for the university and good for you, for it is in exercise of that kind that you gain experience and maturity
and become, in a real sense, actively interested in and supporters ofthe University."
UBC President N.A. MacKenzie, 1954
October 6,1992
THE UBYSSEY/15 FEATURE
Palestinian prisoners abused, Amnesty report says
This article was run Friday incorrectly as a freestyle; with our apologies to the writer, it is being reprinted as a feature.
by Nadine Araji
"When you die, knock on the
cupboard," the guard told Amin as
he walked him back to his prison
cell.
In Hebron, a prison established by Israel in 1968, Amin
Amin, a Palestinian university
student at Beir Zeit, was being
kept after his arrest on February
2,1992. He was kept in a cell that
was 1.8m by 2m with two other
detainees, and was released February 22,1992.
In Khiam, a prison in occupied
southern Lebanon established in
1985, a 50-year-old woman is tortured in the hope that her screams
will pressure her son into confessing.
In Ansar 3, Assa'd Alshawa,
19, is killed in prison by Israeli
soldiers after he protested harassment.
Hebron, Khiam, and Ansar 3
are among the more than thrity
prisons, detention centers and police stations established by the
Israeli government since 1950.
Prisons such as Ashmoret, Neveh,
Ashkelon, and Nablus were established since 1967. Carmel, Ansar
3, Megiddo and Dvir were established in the late 1980s.
The centers serve as prisons,
as juvenile detention centres and
as a place where detainees can
await their trial. Although the
majority of prisoners are Palestinian, there are Lebanese prisoners as well.
The prisons—eighteen in total—are run by the Israeli Police
Services Authority. Twelve are located in Israel, and six in the Occupied Territories.
Military detentions centres
are run by the army. There are
two centres in Israel and three in
the Occupied Territories.
Five major police lock-ups
hold Palestinian political detainees. Four of these are in Israel
and one is in the Occupied
Territories.
According to a database
project on Palestinian Human
Rights published in 1988, Palestinians are arrested randomly in
their homes, workplace, checkpoints, mosques, and churches.
Arrest orders are rarely presented, and evidence is usually
kept "secret."
When in prison, the detainees may stay up to 14 days without the visit of a family member
or the Red Cross, and up to 30
days without the visitof alawyer.
In a 1992 report that the Palestine Human Rights Information Centre (PHRIC) published,
it is documented that during the
first 30 days of awaiting trial,
Palestinian detainees may be
subjected tobrutal interrogation.
This initial 30 day period is when
the worst physical and psychological abuses occur.
The interrogatiors are usually army members. Methods of
interrogation may include torture
and deprivation to bring the prisoner to confess. The prisoners at
times cannot bear the abuse and
some of them are forced into a
fabricated confession.
In December 1991, PHRIC
published a report which documents eight cases in which electric shock was used on young boys.
Electricity was applied to their
legs, arms, face, and genitals. The
report was later confirmed in
February 1992 by the journalist
Doron Me'iri in the Israeli news
paper Hadashot.
The use of torture is prohibited
by International law, including articles 32 and 147 ofthe 4th Geneva
Convention, and the Israeli Penal
Code section 277.
"The judges are part of the
army," Hanna Kawas, president of
Canada Palestine Association said,
"and they are aware of the torture
and ill treatment that the Palestinians must suffer through while
awaiting trial." But, he said, many
judges maintain the 1987 Landau
Commission states that "moderate
physical pressure" can be used
against detainees.
In a hearing in November 1991,
where prisoner Nidal Assab complained of electrical shock treatment
in Hebron prison, judge maj.
Yonatan Livneh responded that it
was " moderate physical pressure"
and it could not kill a person.
In May 1992, a 44 page report
released by Amnesty International
documented routine torture in
Khiam prison. Detainees, the report said, were being beaten and
doused in water while hung from an
electrical pole. The more than 200
detainees in Khiam were being held
until four Israeli soliders and eight
South Lebanese Army soldiers held
in Lebanon were returned.
Amnesty International stated
that "if these detainees are held
exclusively in order to compel others to release detainees... they are
regarded as hostages and should be
released immediately."
In addition, Amnesty has expressed concern to Israeli authorities about the whereabouts of 36
detainees taken from Lebanon into
Israel without charge or trial.
Both women and men are arrested. As Hanna Kawas said, "as
the Palestinian movement against
occupation, Intifada, evolves, more
women are becoming involved in
the protest and as a result are
arrested." As a result, a section for
women has been built in some of
the prisons such as Hasharon in
Tel Aviv and Neveh in Ramie,
Kawas said.
According to 1992 statistics
released by the PHRIC, often the
detainees die before they reach the
prison, as in the cases of 12 year
old Badr Karadi who was thrown
from a speeding jeep in 1989, and
19 year old Khader Tarazi who
was arrested at home by four soldiers, put on hood of jeep and beaten
with clubs and rifle butts.
Due to the prisons' poor conditions and medical negilgence, some
detainees die before their trials.
Some prisons are very old, as in
the case of Nablus, established in
1967 in a 400-year-old building.
The prisons are also overcrowded.
In the case of Nitsan prison in
Ramie and Ramallah prison in the
Occupied Territories, three ormore
detainees are placed in a cell as
small as 2m by 1.8m.
Detention centres often keep
their detainees in tents under hot
summer temperatures and in cold
winter weather.
Doctors are often denied access
to ill or disabled prisoners, such as
in the case of Raeq Solman, 26,
who diedin 1990followingepileptic
seizure, and Mustapha Akawi who
died in 1992 in Hebron prison from
heartattack. According to PHRIC's
report "From the Field," prisoners
may ask for a doctor, but are usually denied a visit until after their
release or sentencing.
Human Rights organizations
such as the United Nations and
the Red Cross are urging Israel to
hold an investigation onitshuman
rights policies.
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