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THE UBYSSEY Vol. LXV, No. 43 Vancouver, B.C. Friday, March 11,1983 228-2301 JL he store front looks nondescript. Its only distinguishing feature are the words "Help us protect your freedom of choice" beneath the sign Red Hot Video, prominently displayed behind the bullet-proof plastic window. Inside, there are no indications that this is a marketplace for pornography. Behind the counter are shelves of videotapes and a smiling salesperson. A middle-aged man casually walks in. Fumbling for his wallet, he asks to see Red Hot's "Erotic Theme Directory" and chooses a tape which depicts "rape and gang-bang," according to the listing. The tape is quickly and mechanically procured. The man leaves, satisfied that his purchase will proved another evening's entertainment. But the transaction may not be so easy in the future. Consumers of videotapes may soon have difficulty obtaining films which convey images of explicit sex and violence because B.C.'s anti- pornography groups are strengthening their tactics. They have launched a two pronged assault aimed at disrupting the business of Red Hot Video and similar outlets. The B.C. Federation of Women, a coalition of 36 women's groups, is currently stepping up its attack and street action against Red Hot. The federation has vowed to close down every Red Hot outlet in B.C. by the end of this year. They are pressuring the stores in several ways, organizing and educating women and men about the issue and insisting on the enforcement of laws governing pornography. So far, three of original 13 stores have ceased operations and three have changed their names. The Port Coquitlam and Prince George outlets fell to public pressure, while only the charred remains of a Red Hot store in Surrey are left. A group calling itself the Wimmin's Fire Brigade burnt it to the ground in late November. "We are trying to interfere with their business," says BCFW spokesperson Regina Lorek. "We are applying to certain unions not to service them, such as B.C. Telephone, and boycotting Sony, which supplies them with tapes." The federation is planning rotational pickets to give the outlets little notice before they're hit, says Lorek. The BCFW is organizing a province-wide picket tomorrow of all Red Hot stores in B.C. from 2 to 3 p.m., and plan to continue such action until the stores are closed permanently. The BCFW's anti-pornography committee is conducting an educational campaign to change public attitudes. They want to counter arguments used by buyers and sellers of pornography and some civil libertarians that removal of the tapes is censorship and that feminists are prudes. "We don't live in a free society where you can print or read anything you want. Because (the anti- pornography movement) threatens men, they are screaming censorship. They can only argue on a theoretical, abstract basis," she says. Pornography restricts women's freedom of speech and distorts their sexuality, Lorek adds. "We fought long and hard to get reproductive rights, birth control and information about our bodies. Feminists are not anti-sex," she says. The committee is compiling a tape to show the public what Red Hot rents and distributes. Scenes from Young and Abused, Prisoners of Paradise and Water Power will be incorporated. In Prisoners of Paradise, a shipwrecked American sailor on a Pacific island is forced at gunpoint by Nazi guards to rape and humiliate a woman prisoner. Water Power shows an armed man verbally abusing women and raping them orally and genitally. The BCFW obtained tapes through Mark Robert, the owner of Pacific Video in Richmond. In early December, he voluntarily turned his entire collection of 60 pornographic tapes to BCFW representatives. "I have had a few personal friends raped. If by getting rid of my tapes I can save one woman from being raped, it will have been worth it," Roberts said at the time. Since then, committee members have screened the videos for material to take to the police and to use in their educational tape. "I never wanted to look at porn before. But I've chosen to look at it directly, to see why its dangerous and form an analysis," says Lorek. The demonstration tape will illustrate the connection between soft and hard-core pornography. "One definitely leads to the other. Men are looking for women in vulnerable positions and for more 'ex citing says. Lorek realizes the permanent closure of Red Hot stores will only force the sale of tapes underground. But, she argues, it will make the material less accessible and more expensive. It will give women's groups an effective strategy to apply to other porn outlets, she says. "We will have solved the problem of Red Hot Video, not of pornography. We need to achieve' specific goals first." Women involved in the North Shore and Port Coquitlam women's centres have pursued the legal front against Red Hot. Their activities, combined with those of the BCFW, have a "pincer effect" says Jancis Andrews of the North Shore centre. Since April, they have pressured the attorney- general's ministry and local crown counsels to lay charges against the stores. They have written letters, lobbied MPs and MLA's and approached city council members about the issue. Their efforts, and other activities such as the firebombing of three outlets on Nov. 22, led to police raids on 12 video stores in early January. Hundreds of tapes were seized in the raid. And in one home, police confiscated a man's entire stock of 5,000 recorded and blank videotapes. They also found 21 electronic recorder machines. After the raids, a Red Hot store in Victoria was charged with three counts of obscenity. Each count relates to an individual film offered at the store: The Candy Stripers, The Filthy Rich and Bad Girls. The Filthy Rich depicts sexual abuse of a servant, anal sex, rape and bondage. And on March 5, the Red Hot outlet on Vancouver's Main street was charged with 12 counts for distributing obscene material. The charges are against the company, not individual owners. But some women's groups aren't impressed. They charge the raids are attempts to pacify the anti- pornography movement. Although Victoria was chosen as the first site because it had the first available court, women say the charges will not be effective. "I don't think much will happen in Victoria. I'm not impressed with the choice of tapes; they aren't adequate for prosecution," says Jana Taylor of the Port Coquitlam women's centre, noting Water Power and Pretty Peaches, both violent films, weren't used as counts against the Victoria store. "The authorities had to do something to save face and to keep people pacified," agrees Lorek. She says the crown is not using the full extent of the law against Red Hot. See page 7: EFFORTS Page 2 THE UBYSSEY Friday, March 11,1983 Vancouver Vancouver's Hottest Entertainment Spot Bands 8:30 p.m. • B Randywine • Joe Clark 5 • Questionaires CONTINUOUS DANCERS 205 MAIN STREET RED LEAF RESTAURANT Luncheon Smorgasbord Authentic Chinese Cuisine 228-9114 10% DISCOUNT ON PICK UP ORDERS LICENSED PREMISES Mon.Fri. 11:30-9:00 p.m CLOSED SATURDAYS .', Sundays and Holidays '. v^eirjL 4:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. 2142 Western Parkway J UBC Village HOLY COW — " j? 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They finally had control over their own sexuality. "The pill was the dream," says student health services director Dr. Percival-Smith. "Without it, women were shackled." The pill was an important aspect of the women's movement in the early '60s he says. Since then, a tremendous number of women have taken the pill for great lengths of time." Twenty years later, however, the rush to go on the pill is slowing down. Women are becoming fearful of limited and inadequate testing of the pill. They are realizing women's health was not a major concern of doctors or drug companies. "Now, in hindsight, there is a horrifying picture of inadequate testing of drugs like the pill," says Percival-Smith. Annette Clough, Vancouver Women's Health Collective member, agrees. "The pill was only tested on 135 Puerto Rican women before it was marketed," she says. "Some of the women died." "We always discourage women from taking it. There are many studies showing the health dangers to women on the pill." The 10 year old health collective was formed by women dissatisfied with answers doctors gave to their questions about birth control. They were tired of being told to go onto the pill, says Clough. A handful of bright rooms with couches and posters contrast the collective to the rushed atmosphere of a doctor's office. It has resources on every aspect of women's health and specializes in birth control counselling. The pill is the most common and dangerous method of birth control, says health collective member Isobel Kiborn. "We're very cautious about any kind of method that involves changing women's hormones. There's very little information on the effects. Doctors don't really know exactly how the pill works." "We think we know how it works," says Percival-Smith, who once thought the pill was the best method of birth control. Ovulation is suppressed by a synthetic com- |5§ w:i' ""* w*' "*': "*** ^f ** Hf bination of the female hormones estrogen and progesterone, he says. He sits forward in his chair and confesses he once thought is was a physician's duty to protect women from unwanted pregnancies. "In the 30 years I've been practising one of the things which I've really seen change is my attitude toward women. Now I don't tell women what to do — I educate them." Women on the pill are more likely to develop potentially fatal blood clots, says Percival Smith. He dismisses the risks of developing cancer from a combination of the pill and smoking. "Smoking alone is far more harmful than the pill." Other problems which studies have shown to be associated with the pill include: high blood pressure, circulatory disorders, liver and cervical pro- harmful than the pill." Other health hazards which studies have shown to be associated with the pill include: high blood pressure, cirulatory disorders, liver and cervical problems, urinary tract infections and increased risk of viral infections. Side effects of the pill are not important because they are not hazardous to women's health, says Percival-Smith. "Side effects are things which women don't like. They are not risks." Weight gain, headaches, depression and mood changes are common side effects for women on the pill, he says. He thinks for a moment and folds his hands together, finally admitting he doesn't take the side effects seriously enough. "If I was a woman I might feel differently," he acknowledges. Doctors seldom take the time to talk to women about the pill's hazards or other methods of birth control, says Kiborn." It doesn't take very much time to prescribe a drug. We see a lot of women at the health ' collective whose questions have been dismissed by their doctors." Blake, a 23 year old Vancouver women, was told to go on the pill by a doctor when she was 15. "I walked in, he found out I was there for birth control and he gave me the pill — no discussion. Everybody was going on the pill then. He just said 'You're young, there's no problem,' and told me to go off it in five or ten years." Blake trusted her doctor's advice and went on the pill. Gradually, her skin discoloured and she became more and more depressed. "I had some really bad side effects," she says. "I had dark blotches on my arms and I got really depressed and really moody. I got to a point where it was really ridiculous. I went off it and about two months later I was fine. Doctor's are rarely concerned with the health of women on the pill, says Kiborn. A 1974 edition of Physicians Desk Reference tells doctors the pill might be carcinogenic. "Close clinical surveillance of all women taking oral contraceptives must be continued," says the book. The edition also includes depression as an established side effect of the pill. Twenty-two year old Wietske also had a doctor who was anxious to put her on the pill. He prescribed it for her with no mention of health hazards or side effects. Wietske says she took the pill because it was the easiest method. The really dangerous thing is that it's almost too easy." It is easy for women to take the pill, which takes pressure off men. "In a way, it's even more liberating for the man," Wietske says. "The woman is more permissive because she's not afraid of becoming pregnant. It was almost a burden. Lovemaking is centered on intercourse and you can have it whenever your partner feels like it." A year after she first took the pill, she went to a lecture on the dangers of the pill. "Then I started to think about what the pill really did to my body. I felt bad having hormones in my body that didn't belong there. "I decided to gooff it. I felt really good. I told my boyfriend it was my decision. It was my body." Drug companies ignore risks to women because they profit heavily from the pill market, charges Kiborn. "They encourage doctors to prescribe the pill through tremendous amounts of money spent on advertising and free samples." Smith agrees. "Drug companies marketing the pill have done very nicely. They have made large sums of money." A Canadian branch of Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation advertised the safety of their birth control pills to doctors in 1965. It was a "product of proven reliability and safety," said dark lettering at the top of the page. But tiny letters at the bottom warned doctors of potential health hazards, saying 24 months had been the maximum exposure of women to that type of pill. "Longer use of the drug and the possible effects on organs of the body such as the pituitary gland, ovaries, adrenal gland and uterus must await observations from continuing studies," said the buried words. Although drug companies knew the pill was potentially dangerous they continued to produce and market it in massive quantities. Today, even after a 25 percent drop in pill sales from the early '70s, oral contraceptives in Canada are a $50 million a year business. Information about the pill is increasing, and women are rejecting it for the barrier methods of birth control, says Kiborn. But drug companies have channelled their energies into marketing the pill and little progress has been made in updating barrier methods. Out of a total of $155 million spent world wide on all aspects of reproductive and contraceptive research in 1979, less than two per cent went toward barrier methods. "Barrier methods suffered terribly because of the pill," says Percival-Smith. "Not nearly enough work was done on them." The safest and most effective barrier method is the diaphram, says Smith. This is the method of birth control he recommends. In a comfortable room at the Women's Health Collective, Kiborn gives birth control advice to a young woman. She grasps a plastic model of a woman's reproductive system in one hand and a diaphram in the other. Later, they walk into a room with large pillows and dark walls for an unhurried session on inserting the diaphram. Page 4 THE UBYSSEY Friday, March 11,1983 Ranking kicks By JACK TIELEMAN A good analogy for a typical song by the group Rank and File is the effect of gulping down massive quantitites of white lightning — it goes down fast and gives you a kick, but leaves you wanting more. Rank and File demonstrated the white lightning effect in their lively concert at SUB ballroom March 4. The band's style of music has been dubbed country punk by such respected publications as Rolling Stone magazine. But this label is not accurate. Despite the fact some members of the band were once travelling in punk circles with the San Francisco band The Dils, Rank and File is a pure country band. The crowd was unsure of what to expect when the concert began. But after hearing such songs as Wabash Cannonball and Klansmen, the crowd was won over. The band played a long set and returned for two encores. Their incessant chanting brought Rank and File back for a well deserved third encore. But the band was short of songs and had to repeat material. y QT^Iinis < Tfor2 from 3 to4 CAKE & COFFEE' (per person) MUFFIN & COFFEE' (per person) 'or tea of course! $2.50 $1.25 ^ MONDAY - FRIDAY /I V^? far the back 0/ the village) ^-^ CORKY'S APPOINTMENT SERVICE 731-4191 3644 West 4th Avenue At Alma ■■■■■■■■ The Economical | Low-coat flight plans! From Vancouver Tokyo Seoul Osaka Taipei Manila Hong Kong Bangkok Singapore Colombo $1,1091 1,0991 from 1,189* from 1,069 ■ 1,0691 1,1091 1,399 » 1,6091 1^591 from' from from from from from from • Canadian dollars • Return air • One-ways on request • Contact travel cuts for other money saving connecting flights I From London ! 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Applicants should submit a resume to SUB 238 outlining their related experience in addition to their ideas of direction and goals for this year's edition. APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL MARCH 25, 1983. Warning: Health and Welfare Canada advises that danger to health increases with amount smoked - avoid inhaling. Average per cigarette: 9 mg "tar", 0.8 mg nicotine. Friday, March 11,1983 THE UBYSSEY Page 5 A coward's way of acting out., against what he perceives is the weakest thing in society TBy PATTI FLATHER he young, red-haired constable sits smoking in his office. He is continually interrupted and distracted by other business and each time he offers an explanation and apologizes. The discussion is informal. "I think I would hear about more rapes if there were more," says endowment lands RCMP officer Michael Ryan. Ryan says there were three sexual assaults reported at UBC last year, the same number in 1981, and in 1980 only four. But according to Vancouver Rape Relief, a community funded support group for rape victims, only one in 10 sexual assaults is reported. "The majority of women who call Rape Relief have decided they won't call the police," says Regina Lorek, a Rape Relief counselor. When Ryan is asked about the Rape Relief figures he offers his own opinion — "maybe one in three or one in five" assaults is reported. The differing figures from Rape Relief and the RCMP illustrate wider problems — those of definition and a woman's fear to report the crime to the authorities. But both the police and rape crisis groups agree on this. Reported assaults are usually attacks by strangers. The largest number of those assaults, not reported to police, are made by aquaintances of the victim. Rape Relief believes it is a woman's decision on what she calls rape or sexual assault and does not differentiate between the two. "We don't need to lie about being raped," says Lorek in an angry and irritated voice. Ryan says he feels "the difference in statistics is attributable to the different citeria used in the definition of rape." The criminal code does not make distinctions despite amendments made in January. There are now three categories of sexual assault to replace the former distinction definitions of rape and indecent assault. The implications of the recent Criminal Code amendments are not clear. Ryan says they would be beneficial for policing. But it may be that non-violent sexual assailants will receive lighter sentences, predicted one lawyer at a recent seminar at the UBC law faculty. It is also harder for an accused assailent to claim the victim consented. Under the code, a woman's past sexual history is not allowed as evidence and her testimony no longer needs coroboration. Another result of code changes is that statistics will become less relevant because the definition has changed. In any case, statistics don't destroy the common myths which surround assault and rape. There is the myth that if a woman does not go out alone at night she will be safe. Assaults most often occur in the victim's or assailant's home or vehicle. There is no prime-time for assault and rape; they can happen at any tt®(2aiEta<e time of the day or night. Rape Relief receives an average of two or three calls every day. The "typical" sexual assailant doesn't exist though most are between the ages of 18 and 35, says Ellen Frank of Women Against Violence Against Women. In a study of imprisoned rapists, "the only way they differed from other prisoners is that they are quicker to express anger and they try to live up to macho stereotypes," Frank says. A third myth is that only violent rape by a stranger is assault. Rape occurs with spouses or lovers as well. In addition, physical coercion is not the only means of coercion. Because of these myths, it is hard to determine if sexual assault is increasing. But Rape relief Crisis Line calls have increased 30 per cent per year. This may be because women are becoming less tolerant and more aware of abuses. Ryan suggested the number of rapes and assaults has remained the same. While the debate continues on the numbers, many groups including women's groups and even the police stress prevention. Women's groups such as WAV AW and Rape relief, in addition to helping victims through their crisis line (Rape Relief also runs a shelter), educate the public and push for law reforms. Frank urged women to "defend their personal space. "If you're uncomfortable with a man, you should make it clear. Often rapists assess the vulnerability of the victim." Ryan said part of the solution is "better education of men and women" and "more concern in our community." But Ryan adds "Telling women not to go into the woods doesn't work." The UBC RCMP refers or introduces victims to other victims to initiate formation of support groups, Ryan says. If a woman is threatened with sexual assault, there are several measures she can take, he says. He suggests first talking to the person. If this doesn't work, the woman should move towards other people without alerting the assailant. As a last result violence can be used — gouging the eyes, kneeing the testicles, or using a ring or key as a weapon, says Ryan. There is no simple explanation of violence directed specifically against women. "I always ask why they rape and I've never gotten a real answer. It's a coward's way of acting out against what he perceives is the weakest thing in society," says Ryan. Sexual assault is not a new phenomenon, but it has been hidden in clouded definitions and people's own perceptions. But destroying the myths and taking action are two steps towards stopping sexual assault and rape. Sexy Slacks! consulted, designed, cut & fitted by Steve Samson $85. or 12 pc Wardrobe $1000.00 STEVE SAMSON 718 Robson till 2 p.m. 2934 W. 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MAIN FLOOR 222-2254 BALLET UBC JAZZ Spring Performance SATURDAY MARCH 12, 1983 8:00 p.m. Asian Centre Auditorium FOR THEATRE INFORMATION CALL 687-1515 OMON rMarMl BEN KINGSLEY1 70IV1IVI SHTOUCK rjll°<*»"™«a ■'* VOGUE 918 GRANVILLE 685 5434 Dustin Htiffman CORONET 151 GRANVILLE 685-6828 dlJNDAR DUNBAR at 30th 224-7257 GANDHI (mature) CHARLES BRONSON M, , ANDREW STEVENS Wf MON. TO SAT. It 06 4:00 1:00 SUNDAY *:00 IM OQEON 881 GRANVILLE 682-7468 Warning: Some gory violence & nudity. B.C. Dir. AT 2:15. 4:10. 6:06, 8:00 10:00 ^TOOTSTF"! lC^L^ir (MATURE^ warninq: !r""w"y OCCASIONAL VERY COARSE LANGUAGES' C. DIRECTOR CORONET 2:00 4:10 7:10 1:40; DUNBAR 7:10 9:40 PLUS SAT.- J SUN. 7:00 CORONET 851 GRANVILLE 685-S828 VARSITY 224 3730 4375 W 10th Jessica Lange WARNING: SOME VERY COARSE LANGUAGE, fNUDITY AND SUGGESTIVE SCENES—B.C. DIRECTOR Coronet: 1:40, 4:00. 6:40. 9:15; Varsity: 7:15. 9:46 At 7:15. 9:16 DROAdWA' WARNING: 70 7 W. BROADWAY Occasional swearing coarse & i 874-1927 suggestive language. B.C. Dir. SOPHIE'S CHOICE /u<«J3\ WARNING: SOME VERY COARSE \MAlV3HJ LANGUAGE AND SUGGESTIVE DROAdwAV SCENES—B.C. DIRECTOR 170 7 W. BROADWAY 074-1937 AT 7:00. 9:40 DARK CAMBIE at ltth 876-3747 ex THE EXTRA- (G€H€&ALj coarse L*NOUAaE-B.c. Terrestrial oirector 7oi\/iivi j cfmco j tutu. AT TM |;M >>LUS SAT ^UM tm a>T^o™»™ Page 6 THE UBYSSEY Friday, Mai Jazz artist makes it in mans world By CHRIS WONG "/ quit school as soon as I was 15 years old and went to a trade school where they taught me to be a dishwasher. I thought I should learn what to be in life, what part of society needed me. So, I thought — washing dishes or being a secretary — and finally much, much later I found that I could play music and make that kind of an exchange with society. — jazz composer, pianist and vocalist Carta Bley. "I've proven myself but my parents still try to discourage me from this life and suggest that I return home to teach music . . . Discipline and hard work doesn 't have a sex gender. I don't rely on my feminine sexuality to get over. — jazz trombonist Janice Robinson Gaining recognition in the competitive, male oriented world of jazz has been difficult for women musicians. They have to prove themselves as legitimate jazz artists as well as overcome traditional attitudes and stereotypes. "I don't rely on my feminine sexuality/' But attitudes are slowly changing as people realize women are equally competent in the music field. One jazz singer who has benefitted from the changes is Kate Hammett- Vaughan, an up-and-coming figure in Vancouver jazz circles. "I feel like I've been fortunate," says Hammett-Vaughan. "I'm living and working in a fairly enlightened environment. I haven't had to deal with a lot of the garbage that people in the past had to." As a vocalist and woman in jazz, she is continuing a long tradition started by such legands as Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald and Bessie Smith. Their initiative and determina tion paved the way for future woman jazz artists. "There was a discrimination problem people had been fighting for years. It's only been in the last 50 years that women have come to the forefront," she says. She notes that many well known women contributors to jazz have been overlooked. But she is encouraged by the receptive responses she has received from male musicians. "People were just amazed that so many women could do it." "Most of the men I deal with are open towards thinking of me as a musician, a working partner." Hammett-Vaughan is a member of two unique Vancouvr jazz groups, Gettin' Off Easy and Badazjazz. She and two other female vocalists lead Gettin' Off Easy, while Badazjazz features eight women vocalists. "People were just amazed that so many women could do it and have so much fun," Hammett-Vaughan says. She speaks forcefully and with complete sincerity. She conveys the sense that jazz is not a competitive art form between musicians or between men and women, but a chance to enjoy oneself. The formation of Badazjazz created a close-knit community of jazz singers, she says. "We weren't aware there were other women dealing with the same problems and the same walls to get over." And one of the problems Hammett- Vaughan and vocalists like her are dealing with is making enough to live on. "I'm really poor," she says bluntly. She is not exaggerating. Walking up the steps of her home, one gets the feeling it is the humble abode of a punk rocker, not one of the city's finest jazz vocalists. HAMMETT - VAUGHAN hip vocalist in humble abode — cary rodin pho Feminist fights porr By MURIEL DRAAISMA Jancis Andrews is determined to stop the spread of video tapes which depict violence against women. She has waged a year-long legal war with Red Hot Video, but won't give up. A member of the North Shore women's centre and Amnesty International, Andrews views hard-core pornography as sexual agression aimed at women and children. "Violent porn is misogyny. It uses videos or magazines as its means of expression and therefore can be seen as hate propaganda," she says, her slight British accent giving her an air of authority. As for soft-core, Andrews calls it "con- Book documents pro-life movement By BRIAN JONES In 1973 the U.S. supreme court voted in favor of abortion on demand. For over a decade pro-choice activists had been pushing for liberalization of American abortion laws. When they got it, their opposition began to organize more enthusiastically than before to outlaw abortion. Enemies of Choice chronicles the struggle of various pro-life organizations in the U.S. But it is far more than a study of the pros and cons of abortion. Rather than discussing' various ethical arguments, author Andrew Merton concentrates on organized anti- abortionists' philosophy and tactics. Enemies of Choice: The Right-To-Life Movement and Its Threat to Abortion By Andrew H. Merton $6.95, 225 pp. The book examines religious groups as much as pro-life groups, since they are often one and the same. The most immediate and vocal opponent of abortion on demand was the Catholic Church. Less than one month after the supreme court ruling, American bishops announced that "any Catholic involved in any phase of abortion would be subject to immediate excommunication." This ruling affected not only women, but also doctors, nurses, counsellors and administrators. Merton's criticism of the Church is extraordinarily harsh, almost vicious. The approach has its drawbacks. A practising Catholic who ventures to read the book will be immediately put off. But at times Merton succeeds in relating the hypocrisy and ruthlessness of the Catholic Church hierar-. chy. For example, he tells of a New England woman whose child the Church refused to baptise because she supported a pro-choice activist. By the late '70s, the Catholic Church was assisted in its anti-choice work by Protestant fundamentalists, whose influence and popularity had risen dramatically. The cooperation between the different groups supports Merton's basic theme — that abortion is a religious issue. Their actions indicate they want other Americans to conform to pro-life beliefs by making abortion illegal. This is most blatantly displayed in the anti- choice movements' decision to become "political action groups," which are part of the American electoral process. Such groups target certain politicians for defeat because they are either pro-choice or do not openly support the anti-choice movement. This type of political activity has become more common and powerful with the rise of the New Right and the election of Ronald Reagan. The combination of the Protestant fundamentalists with the Republican party has lessened the influence of the Catholic church in the anti-choice movement. Pro-lifers are now characterized by their conservative views — by their desire for a "return" to sexual morality, the sanctity of the family, the fear of and reverence for God, and the return of women to traditional roles as wives and mothers. Merton believes Pro-lifers are threatened by women's demands for greater freedom. Merton can be unnecessarily gruff and condescending, and tends to assume the reader will agree with him on what he sees as an obvious point. He sometimes does not treat the abortion issue as a complex one. For Merton it is simple — abortion is not murder, as pro-lifers claim, and it should be legal and available. tempt propaganda because it perpetuates the myth that women are sex objects." A front page headline, "Hard-core porn store opens in North Van," caught her eye last year. She had recently see Not A Love Story, a national film board documentary on pornography, and was angry that an outlet selling obscene material was setting up shop in her community so she wrote a letter of protest to the newspaper. She and a friend rented a few Red Hot films to see what the outlet sells and find material to take to the police. In one of the films they viewed, Expensive Taste, a rich woman bored with her life pays a man to rape a virgin. They took the videos to the local RCMP, who later seized five films from the North Vancouver store. The police decided two — Young and Abused and Expensive Taste — contravened the Criminal Code's provisions on obscenity. Andrews says they expected a prosecution but no action has been taken yet. The other three films were excused on the grounds that the acting was poor quality and the plots were unbelievable. "These concepts of acting and story line have nothing to do with the Criminal Code. They just weren't interested," she says. When Andrews and her friend demanded to know why the crown counsel wasn't going to prosecute, they were told it would be too expensive and difficult to prove the tapes were obscene. And they were assured by the local crown counsel's secretary that Red Hot would be asked to remove the two tapes considered illegal. Frustrated by the authorities but determined to get the violent tapes off the shelves, Andrews and the North Shore women's centre began to pressure the provincial attorney- general. They complained to local ML As, wrote letters, made numerous phone calls and even sent telegrams. It was to no avail. Attorney-general Allan Williams did not take any action. But they continued their efforts. They successfully lobbied city council members to pass a resolution urging Williams to enforce the law governing pornography. They began to educate the public about the issue and enlisted the support of other women's groups working on the Red Hot problem. A coalition of women's groups finally sent a formal complaint to the B.C. ombudsman office to protest the ministry's failure to enforce the code. They charged the attorney- general has neglected "his mandate of pro- h11,1983 THE UBYSSEY Page 7 Women on the move in Grenada By SARAH COX The plane jerked to a halt beside a wooden building on Grenada's tiny runway. The pro- pellors whirled to a stop. A group of Canadian visitors quickly ducked through the plane's doorway into the sweltering afternoon sun. Airport workers clustered around a blaring radio in front of the solitary building. Cheers from a broadcast of the third anniversary celebrations of Grenada's revolution blasted into the air. The workers looked up and pulled themselves away from the broadcast, disappearing into the building's darkness. "Welcome to Grenada, Isle of Spice," said a sign with peeling paint beside the runway. Outside the airport people walked lightly along a roadside decorated with colourful banners. On the way to the hotel the dilapidated Austin squealed around curves which cut into the Carribean mountainside. "Build the revolution," urged a billboard next to a carob tree. Grenada's revolution is now four years old and thriving. Known as the Quiet Revolution, because only three people were killed, it happened overnight when leaders of the popular New Jewel Movement learned of prime minister Eric Gairy's plans for the group's imprisonment. The NJM acted immediately. They burned the barracks of Gairy's small but repressive army and seized the radio and police stations. Opposition to Gairy's corrupt regime seethed for years before the People's Revolutionary Government came to power March 13, 1979. Half of Grenada's 100,000 people were . store tecting women and children from hate propaganda spread by Red Hot Video." Andrews says the attempts to stop pornography aren't censorship because the law states the tapes depicting violence against women are obscene. "It's entrenched in the law passed by parliament. Censorship is a red herring put out by the pro-pornographers to confuse the issue." Andrews describes herself as a Christian feminist. She believes her faith gives her the strength, patience and determination to keep fighting pornography and to overcome her frustration with the legal establishment. "The fight has been so dismaying, especially in the beginning. It was mostly my faith that kept me going," Andrews says. Following the November firebombing of three lower mainland Red Hot stores by the Wimmin's Fire Brigade, and the police raids in January, two stores were recently charged, one in Victoria and another in Vancouver. Andrews says she is pleased with those charges but will continue to pressure Williams to fulfill his mandate. "Women's groups are organizing even more to fight this stuff. We established an anti-porn network where women's groups can get together periodically to focus our attack. We're trying not to dissipate our energies." unemployed. Education was not subsidized by the government and agricultural production vital to the economy was decaying. For women in particular, conditions were unbearable. Unemployment among women was 12 per cent higher than the national average, and many women were illiterate. Anger and frustration with these discriminating conditions led many women to oppose Gairy's government and work for the NJM. "We sold the illegal party newspaper under vegetables in our baskets in the market," says a document from the National Women's Organization. "We pushed the same newspaper under house doors at night along with pamphlets. We hid the printing machine, we raised funds for the party, we hid the leadership in moments of crisis." "Women were tremendously oppressed under Gairy's dictatorship," NWO president Phyllis Coard tells the Canadians at their hotel. It is late afternoon and the rich smell of coffee and cocoa drift through the open window from a neighbouring farm. Coard leans back and smiles. "Women were tremendously oppressed/' Half of Grenada's homes were headed by women who support their children by themselves, says Coard. "In Grenada, people usually marry after they have children." This culture pattern developed when Grenada was a British colony and marriage between slaves was forbidden. Now it is economically unfeasible for young people to set up a home. A woman often continues to live with her parents after she has children, says Coard. "Most women are very tough and self- reliant as a result. They can't depend on men." Coard talks cheerfully about the changes prime minister Maurice Bishop's government has made to Grenada. "Since the revolution there is no longer any job discrimination. "There is a big spread of women into jobs as professionals, road workers and labourers. One woman is driving a bulldozer at the site of the new airport. Gradually, women are coming into these professions." But a move to make 26 bus driver jobs in the new public transit system exclusively for women backfired, says Coard. "Men voted overwhelmingly in favor," she says. "But we couldn't find one woman to drive the buses. Traditionally, women have not driven in Grenada." The government is trying to change people's attitudes about what women can do through educational work, says Coard. "Women will not come forward and play a more dominant role in this society without educating people." Grenada's educational system advanced rapidly after the revolution, says education minister Jackie Creft. "Under Gairy's regime, opportunities for education were very elitist. Literacy for women was not a priority." Creft disappears behind a desk piled high with papers. She pulls out a poster and holds it up. "Education — a right not a privilege," it says. Bishop's government is providing women with equal opportunities for education. "We have a free books and uniform programs to provide for the poorest children," she says. Creft speaks softly but confidently. When rain begins to beat the greenery and flowers outside her office window, she walks to the window in flip-flops to silence the downpour. The opportunity to be education minister has been exhausting but exciting, says Creft. Time is divided between office duties and driving around the island to talk to teachers and inspect the still overcrowded schools. "Some of the primary schools are quite dilapidated. I have to carry a pair of rubber boots when I go to look at the toilets.'V But Grenada's children are eager for schooling opportunities despite crowded classrooms and deficient plumbing. Girls no longer stay at home to help their mothers; they are as eager as the boys for books and information. "We have workers who encourage parents wants to be labelled counter-revolutionary," she says. Generally speaking, rapists are punished. "Again, the reason is moral pressure. A man who rapes a woman is really in for a hard time in the community." When Gairy was president, one-sixth of Grenadian women were given hormone injection for birth control, even though the drug was banned in North America. Coard is still angry about that government initiated program. "They hadn't even done any testing. They didn't do follow-ups on the women who took it." A women's right to choose to have an abortion is accepted in Grenada. Abortion is illegal, but it is easily available for women who face unwanted pregnancies. "Abortion is definitely not an issue," Coard says. "Everybody feels it should be available to those who want it. Everyone knows who the particular doctor is." The PRG have drastically altered conditions for women in Grenada and are reinforcing these conditions through Grenada's legal system, says Coard. Two major achievements are the adoption of the principle of equal pay for equal work and a maternity leave law. "Every woman has the right to paid maternity leave," says attorney general Miles Fitz- patrick. "There are criminal sanctions for SCHOOL CHILDREN — aarah cox photo equal opportunities for education to send their children to school," says Creft. "Many children, especially girls, stopped going to school because their parents couldn't affort to send them under the Gairy regime." Grenada's small size helped secure other basic rights for women since the revolution. Rape and assault are uncommon, says Coard. "We are encouraging women's groups to put moral pressure on men who beat women. Everybody knows everybody else and the sense of shame is very great. If men act against this they are contravening the basic principle of the revolution. Nobody employees who don't grant leave — fine or imprisonment." Progress has been made despite a U.S. government propoganda campaign to destroy Grenada's valuable tourist industry, says Fitzpatrick. But Grenadians refuse to allow threats from the U.S. stop them from working toward free education, low unemployment, and equality for women. "We want to involve women and men all around in a re-thinking of their roles in society," says Coard. Efforts to stop pornography continue From page 1 "They can shut the stores down on suspicion while they are being investigated," she says. But because pornography is a multi- billion industry, the law isn't being totally utilized, she says. Lorek says charging individual tapes is a long process and will not be effective because owners aren't involved. But Andrews says the North Shore women's centre is pleased with the charges laid against the Vancouver store because Water Power, which is particularly obscene, was singled out. "We're watching with interest," she says. Frustrated with the Attorney-General's failure to charge more outlets in B.C., the North Shore and Port Coquitlam centres are turning the pornography issue into one of human rights. They will still pressure Allan Williams to enforce the code, but they have decided to pursue the human rights angle to gain greater public support. The centres approached Charles Paris, chair of the B.C. human rights commission, and ML A Emery Barnes (NDP-Vancouver Centre) to recommend amendments to the B.C. human rights code so that pornography will be considered hate propaganda against women and children. "It's hate propaganda because it's misogyny with video as its medium. We're talking about a new form of social aggression, not just Playboy bunnies," says Andrews. The proposed amendments, ratified by the commission and recommended to the legal authorities in its latest report, would bring B.C.'s code into line with Saskatchewan's, which is much stronger. The commission issued a statement Feb. 1 expressing support of the police action against Red Hot Video and concern "that too many levels of society turn a blind eye to the public exploitations of violence against women and children under the guise of freedom of expression. "Such visual and written material portrays and describes women and children as sexual objects to be violently exploited at will. It is derogatory and demeaning of certain classes of people and therefore clearly contrary to the spirit (if not the letter) of the B.C. human rights code," it reads. Red Hot officials will not answer to the charges. They refuse to talk to reporters while the case is in court. If the legal angle is successful, along with BCFW's strengthened street tactics, the innocent-looking Red Hot store and it's inconspicuous tapes may soon become a part of history. Page 8 THE UBYSSEY Friday, March 11,1983 ^/^o- ^©\ BAA j /^%*3V ttL\^L^^ ^\^^A^W^ sgfr \©<iki^ Sa»** » ^ wr^^^ ^J^^ 0* C J *?lll^^ la** ' /1 ' / i p> IK 1 \^<j\\ \ ^*M W' mi - « Remembering forgets facts By MARK EPSTEIN Chris Iverson concludes her article (Perspectives, March 1) with the words "please remember Beirut." I agree. From the selectivity of the information and misinformation in the letter it is obvious that her memory goes back further than June 6, 1982, when Israel's army entered Lebanon. We should also remember the decade which led to the event, a decade which saw Syrian and PLO forces completely destroy the sovereignty of Lebanon; a decade perspectives which saw one hundred thousand casualties inflicted on the Lebanese; which sat the holy sites of Lebanese Christians desecrated, and which saw southern Lebanon turned into a massive staging area for assaults by the PLO on women and children in northern Israel. We should remember that when Israelis entered Lebanon the local population greeted them as saviours ... we saw this on our TV until the anti-Israel propaganda took over . . . and for the first time in a decade they saw the possibility of regaining sovereignty of their own nation. The article cites, without further identification, an independant group of international lawyers who found the Begin government directly at fault. What is not stated is that this was a self-annointed and self- appointed committee without status or standing with any credible organization or state. Despite that, Israel allowed them to freely enter the country to solicit testimony from whomever they wished. In no rational sense could they be considered an authoritative investigative body. On the other hand, and in direct contrast to the total lack of any enquiry into events at Hama in Syria where literally thousands of people were slaughtered by the Syrian government during this same summer of 1982, or by the Lebanese into their participation in the killings, or by the PLO into the countless attacks on innocent women and children by their forces, this selfsame Begin government conducted a full judicial enquiry for which the state has been lauded throughout the free world as an example to all of democracy in action. It seems strange to me that at a time when Soviet forces are brutalizing the people of Afganistan and repressing freedoms throughout Eastern Europe, at a time when a terrible slaughter is taking place in India, when events in Southeast Asia make the participation of the Americans in the Vietnam War pale into significance, Iverson can do no better than to drag out a 35-year-old letter signed by a group of well-meaning but naive academics, left-wingers and outright supporters of the Labour Party in Israel which was in a direct political fight with the conservative right-wing party led by Begin. Iverson betrays his bias, which he would no doubt like to mask as not being anti-Israel but only anti- Begin, when he ponderously asks "why is Begin permitted to continue?" If she is indeed a student of International Relations I would expect that she has heard that there are still about 20 democracies Where the hell did it go? What the hell happened to the exercise circuit in the mezzanine of war memorial gym? I'm both inquiring and complaining. The circuit was a great work-out for hundreds of students, at no cost. One day last November it evaporated in the concrete dust of construction. Now the dust has cleared but the circuit has not returned. What really irks me is that nobody has informed students as to the status of the circuit. The circuit was provided gratuitously as a service to students. Fine. But once that service was provided and students relied on it, then the body setting up the circuit became obligated to inform students as to the circuit's status after its untimely and unexpected demise. Somebody out there must have answers to the following questions: • what is the status, present and future, of the circuit? • why did the construction in War Memorial, which led to the circuit's demise, take place during the fall-winter terms instead of the summer when fewer students would have been inconvenienced? • what about the $35 I forked out for a locker in the gym in expectancy of the circuit's availability? M. Tessler law 1 left in the world. Israel is one of them and no doubt it will surprise Iverson to learn that Begin will undoubtedly continue just as long as he heads a freely elected government, elected that is, by the citizens of that country, Jewish, Christian, Moslem, Druse, and others. It is ironic that Iverson's article appears in a column entitled Perspectives, a quality which was totally lacking in what she wrote. Mark Epstein is an arts student who obviously has very strong opinions. Perspectives is a column of analysis, humor, wit or replies that is open to members of the university community. Submissions should be typed triple space on a 70 character line. Modern myths "Women's liberation" — a slogan of the '60s. The myth of the '80s. Women are a long way from being treated as equals. Simply acknowledging that women should have the same basic human rights as men is not equality. Entrenching this in laws, or constitutions, is not equality. Equality is freedom. Women want to be free to walk alone at night and feel safe from rapists. Free from images that objectify them and incite violence toward them. Free to choose motherhood rather than be forced into it. A woman walks alone on a dark street. She glances nervously over her shoulder at a fleeting shadow. Feeling vulnerable, her walk quickens. She fears she will be grabbed from behind, forced to the ground, stripped, and brutally raped. An image flashes on the screen. A housewife smiles at her family and at the dreamwhip pudding she has prepared for them. Her husband squeezes her in approval. Like almost all women, she pleases others before herself. The man at the pulpit tells the audience abortion is murder. "Murder," he says, raising his voice. The women feel intimidated and angry that a man is telling them they must go through with a pregnancy, even if it is unwanted. They do not have basic reproductive rights. They are not equal. Women in the '80s do not have simple freedoms. They are not "liberated." And they won't be until men relinquish some of their power. Economic power, sexual power, and general domination. We've come a long way, but we've still got a long way to go. THE UBYSSEY March 11, 1963 The Ubyssey is published Tuesday and Friday through the university year by the Alma Mater Society of the University of B.C. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and are not necessarily those of the AMS or the university administration. Member, Canadian University Press. "Sisterhood is powerful," shouted the great matriachal goddess Sarah Cox through the echoing jungle as she gaily danced with her Amazon sister Muriel Draaisma. Lisa Morry drew her spear and pointed it at monkeys swining in the trees. Peter Berlin, Jack Tieleman and Stephen Wisenthal chattered nervously when they saw the mighty women. "I feel threatened," whispered Robert Beynon to Robby Robertson, who quietly agreed. Behind a rock, the chimpanzees, Neil Lucente, Chris Wong and Cary Rodin male bonded with cries of delight. "Look over here, look over there," shouted Patti Flat her, strolling in on her elephant. All the jungle animals turned to took. "Amazons are everywhere!" The animals panicked and fled. Even lion king Shaffin Shariff shivered with fear. Big hippo Craig Brooks rose from the swamp, took one look at the Amazons and sank into the steamy water with hardly a bubble. Meanwhile, gorillas Arnold Hedstrom, Brian Jones, Glen Sanford and Keith Baldrey slipped into quicksand. "Help us, help us, Sarah and Muriel," they squealed. But the mighty Amazons turned away. "Sorry boys, we don't need you anymore." Letters * The crime is the same' This letter is written in response to one by Ian Dube (Luitjens Reaction) which appeared in the Ubyssey March 4. In his letter Dube attacked the Dutch government's attempted extradition of Jacob Luitjens as character assassination. I was, frankly, astonished to read that because Dube feels Luitjens to be of high moral character and because he is an excellent teacher we should forget the past and decry his exposure in the media. The Dutch legal system, contrary to what Dube seems to feel, is not uncivilized. Trials in absentia are an attempt to gather evidence before the testimony of witnesses becomes less reliable with time or the witnesses die. As much as Dube would like to conclude that Luitjens was not convicted on the basis of firm evidence, we, as Canadians, must conclude when the courts of another democratic nation find someone guilty of murder he is a murderer, just as we would if he'd been convicted in this country. The fact that Jacob Luitjens is a fine lecturer and an inspiration to his students is irrelevant. Yesterday or 40 years ago, the crime is the same. In spue of being an old man nevci likely to pose a lethal threat to anyone again, Luitjens must be made to pay for his crimes in Holland. He must be extradited, not for reasons of vengeance, but to deter the murder of people still living. Thousands of Canadian servicemen did not die so that years late, we should condone the actions of those who would turn on their own citizens under the cloak of legitimacy lent by a fascist invader. Probably the alarming aspect of Dubes letter was his reference to Jews and the recent slaughter of Palestinians in Lebanon. Somehow Dube seems to feel this is a case of people in glass houses throwing stones. That portions of the Israeli population can find ways to justify the massacre and exonerate those responsible is indeed reprehensible, but, should we decide to forget about Luitjen's crimes, we are no better ourselves. It is true Dube points out, that the media, which picks and chooses it's victims has suddenly made Luitjens' a cause celebre. This is not unjust. It is only regretable that it took so long. Christopher Keller botany 3 Marinated coup foiled In a recent article that appeared in The Ubyssey, the returning officer for the Graduate Student Society, Sean Boyle, called the graduate student executive elections a travesty. He voiced this complaint because council had refused to accept his motion that John Davies and Don Holubitsky be elected by acclamation on the grounds that the opposing candidates, Jan Mennell and Robert Gordon had not signed their own nomination papers, but had instead authorized Godwin Eni, the former graduate student council president to sign on their behalf — an action which Boyle termed a "forgery". However, it should be noted that there was nothing in the society's rules for nomination procedures that disallows such an action. During the course of the council meeting, held on Thursday, March 3, the returning officer and John Davies, in unison, attacked the secretarial candidate in question who attended the meeting, in an attempt to force and manipulate council to disqualify her and Gordon's candidacies in the middle of an election. All of this, of course, took place in the presence of a Ubyssey reporter whom John Davies had invited in order to witness the charade. But, in spite of all efforts to eliminate the two candidates, the council consistently rejected the election officer's desire to see John Davies and Don Holubitsky become the new secretary and president of the Graduate Student Society by undemocratic means. In the light of council's actions, I hail their performance in preventing the elections officer and John Davies from subverting and mocking once again a workable democratic system. In spite of all the slander heaped against the Graduate Student Society and some of its members in recent months, 1 am glad to see that common sense has not been seriously threatened. Once again an attempted coup by these two members of the society has been foiled, a coup, which if successful, would have not only turned the elections into a real travesty, but all graduate students into mere marionettes of the leaders. J. Hernandez grad studies Friday, March 11,1983 THE UBYSSEY Page 9 Good days and other sport Thursday was a good day for the UBC volleyballers at the National Universities Volleyball tournament in the War Memorial gym. The opening day action saw the UBC women win twice to clinch first place in their group while the men won one and lost one and are almost certain to progress to the play-offs which will start this afternoon. The UBC women started the day's proceedings with a fairly easy three game victory over the University of New Brunswick. The score was 15-11, 15-12 15-2. New Brunswick fought hard for the first two games, but after their big second game surge was beaten back they ebbed away without much of a struggle in the third. The women's second match against Laval was a real thriller. The Quebecer's grabbed two games, but the UBC fought back to take a close third game and an even closer fourth. It took an absolute QUALITY SERVICE \ AVAILABILITY Active C age to make the game winning fifteenth point as Laval clung on tenaciously and service switched constantly. After that the momentum swung as UBC wrapped up the match with an easy fifth game. The scores were 12-15, 7-15, 15-12, 15-13, and 15-6. The men were unfortunate enough to draw the number one ranked Manitoba in their first game. They fought hard but eventually lost a wildly swinging battle 2-15, 15-5, 15-6, 12-15 and 6-15. The 'Birds, however, bounced back from this defeat and dismantled Dalhousie later in the afternoon. The score was 15-5, 15-6, 15-5 and that was enough to guarantee the 'Birds a playoff spot. Women capture title For the second consecutive year, the UBC women's curling squad has captured the Canada West title, finishing the round-robin competition with a perfect four and 0 won-loss record. The 'Birds clinched the crown on Friday with an exciting 10-9 victory over the University of Saskatchewan. UBC had defeated Saskatchewan in an earlier game and easily knocked off the University of Lethbridge by 11-3 and 9-5 scores. Unfortunately, there is no national collegiate championship in women's curling but the UBC team of Susan Allan, Tracy Newlands, Dianne Sawecki and Eleanor Gardner have the satisfaction of knowing they are the "best in the west." McGill School of Nursing B.A. and B.Sc. Graduates Unique Opportunity Are you interested in pursuing a professional career in Canada's rapidly developing health care delivery system? A three-year program leading to a Master's degree and preparation for licensure in Nursing is offered to non-nurses graduated with high standing from general arts or science programs. The program, tailored to the individual's background, is designed to prepare nurses for roles in family health care, nursing research and administration. 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Active s all ^MEW comprehensive Fall/AX/inter catalogue is now aivailabley— FREeXoF ^QdARGJE. i . i i \ _ 3070 Kingsway, Vancouver, (15 min. from Downtown, straight up Kingsway) Tel.: 438-3321 Open Friday Night — Saturday until 5 pm AMS COMMITTEE OPENINGS Nominations are now open for appointments to the following positions: — 5 members of the Student Administrative Commission; — Assistant Director of Finance; — Ombudsperson; — AMS representatives to the following Presidential Advisory Committees: • Child Care Services • Concerns of the Handicapped • Food Services Advisory • International House Board of Directors • Land Use • Men's Athletic Committee • Safety, Security and Fire Prevention • Student Placement • Student Services • Traffic and Parking • United Way Campaign • Walter Gage Memorial Fund • War Memorial Gymnasium Fund • Women's Athletic Committee • Youth Employment Program • Capital Projects Acquisitions Committee 1 rep 1 rep 4 reps 1 rep 1 rep 3 reps 1 rep 1 rep 1 rep 4 reps 1 rep 1 rep 1 rep 1 rep 1 rep 1 rep Nominations are also open for one active member of the society other than a member of Council or SAC for appointment to the Budget Committee of the AMS. Recommendations for appointments will be made to Students' Council by the Selection's Committee. NOMINATIONS CLOSE MARCH 25, 1983 All students are encouraged to apply for these positions. Nomination forms are available in SUB 238. (SETA LITTLE EXTRA LV /./" Now you're talkin taste. Page 10 THE UBYSSEY YitOflC Rhthym and Blues All-Stan: these fellows are really modest as you can tell by their title, March 11-12, Town Pump. Amos Garrett: a hot rocker, March 14-16, Town Pump. Under The Moss: lively Irish music, March 11, La Quena, 1111 Commercial. Grupp Centre-America: Latin American music. La Quena. Mike Taylor: jazz piano, March 11 and 18, 5:30 p.m., Arts Club, Granville Island Lounge. Or. J. Band: some very tall musicians, March 17-18, Darby D. Dawes. Phoenix Jazzers: dixieland, Ma i 11 and 15, Hot Jazz Club. David Branter: bring your mitts, scarf, and long underwear for cool jazz, March 16, Hot Jazz Club. Vancouver Chamber Choir: songs of nature, March 11, 8:30 p.m., Ryerson Church, 2196 West 45th, VTC/CBO. Wildroot Orchestra: swinging sounds, March 12, 8 p.m.. Commodore Ballroom, VTC/CBO. Kathleen Isaac/Thomas Schoen: chamber music together with new exhibition "sculpture," March 13, 1:30 p.m., Surrey Art Gallery, 596-7461. Gettin' Off Easy: three of Vancouver's finest women jazz vocalists backed by a hot, sizzling, scorching band (they're nice guys too.) March 13, 8 p.m.. Soft Rock Cafe. Johnny Otis: a rhythm and blues revue, March 15, 8 p.m.. Commodore Ballroom, VTC/CBO. Culture Club: a new quasi-reggae band led by someone named Boy George, March 16, 8 p.m.. Commodore Ballroom, VTC/CBO. Nat Adderley Quintet: one of the hippest jazz cats ever to pick up a horn along with some great sidemen, March 14, Commodore Ballroom, VTC/CBO. Sukay: music of the Andes, March 13, 8 p.m., Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 254-9578. Robert Taub/Gina Bachauer: piano recital, March 16, 12:30 p.m., recital hall. UBC Choral Union: sure beats the GSS for harmony, March 17 8 p.m., recital hall. HoVL£6 Ridge Theatre 116th and Arbutus, 738-5112) March 11-13: The Life And Times Of Rosie The Riveter, 7:30 p.m.; Northern Lights, 8:45 p.m.; Union Maids, 10:30 p.m. March 14-15: The Lady Vanishes, 7:30 p.m.; North By Northwest. 9:30 p.m. March 16-17: Bread And Chocolate, 7:30 p.m.; La Cage Aux Folles, 9:35 p.m. Vancouver East Cinema (7th and Commercial, 253-5466) March 11-13: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man. 7:30 p.m.; Ulysses, 9:25 p.m. March 14-15: Take the Money And Run, 7:30 p.m.; What's New Pussycat?, 9:10 p.m. March 16-17: Fahrenheit 461, 7:30 p.m.; ISM. 9:30 p.m. Savoy Cinema (Main and 7th, 872-2124) March 16-17: Harold and Maude, 7:30 p.m.; The Sunshine Boys, 9:15 p.m. Pacific Cinematheque (1155 West Georgia,' 732-6119) March 11: The Householder. 7:30 p.m.; Shakespeare Wallah, 9:30 p.m. March 12-13: The Lover's Exile, 7:30 p.m.; A Story Of Floating weeds, 9:30 p.m. March 16: Padre Padrone, 7 p.m. March 17: Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, 8 p.m. JExtubifc Mat Harley: fur paintings and primed cars, (he's not exactly one for the conventional). Unit/Pitt Gallery, 163 West Pender, 681-6740. Literary Storefront: Nova Scotia poet Greg Cook doing something few people do these days: reading, March 17, 8 p.m., 314 W. Cordova. SFU Dancers: new choreography, March. 17-19, 8 p.m. and 12:30 p.m., March 19, SFU Theatre, 291-3614. Romantic Comedy: Bernard Slade seems to think romance exists, check it out. Arts Club Granville Island. Mon. - Fri. 8:30 p.m.. Sat. 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. Weds. 2 for 1 at 5:30 p.m. A Musical Evening with Ruth Nichol and Leon Bibb: Vancouver's first cabaret theatre. Arts Club Revue Theatre, Granville Island. Wed. - Fri. 8:30 p.m.. Sat. 6:30 and 9:30 p.m., Tues. 2 for 1 at 8:30 p.m. Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii: a farce by Allan Stratton, Arts Club Seymour, opens March 18. Ticket Of Leave Man: another bourgeois© Victorian melodrama, says Bobby Beynon, Freddy Wood Theatre, 8 p.m., to March 12. The Tempest: by Bill "I love the nightlife" Shakespeare, Q.E. Theatre, Fri. - Sat. 8 p.m.. Sat. 2:30 p.m. Ends Sat. Dylan Thomas Bach: written and performed, by Leon Pownall, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, opens March 11. Timestep: part of the Du Maurier Festival '83, Waterfront Theatre, opens March 11, 669-3410. Trumpets In The Morning: mixes serious and humorous elements, Metro Theatre, 8:30 p.m. Bedroom Force: by Alan anklebone (I mean Ayckbourn), Studio 58, Tue. - Sat. 8 p.m., call 324-5227 for more info. TODAY ASTRONOMY AND AEROSPACE CLUB Guest speaker, 5:30 p.m.. Geophysics 142. IRANIAN STUDENTS CLUB Important general meeting, last meeting of '82 academic year, elections for next year, discussion about summer events, treasurer's report, 2:30-4 p.m., SUB 216. BIOCHEMISTRY STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION General elections for executive positions, all members please attend, especially second and third year students, noon, IRC G53. NEWMAN CLUB Souper douper soup lunch; noon, St. Mark's lunchroom. CANADIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Seminar on student newspaper staff structure, 4:30 p.m., SUB 241k. CITR All candidates brewzcast (election speeches and refreshments!, 3:30 p.m., SUB 233. SAILING CLUB Sailing film, noon, SUB concourse. UNIVERSITY SINGERS Spring concert: Haydn's Missa Sancti Nicolai and other choral works from the 17th to 20th century, 8 p.m.. Music building recital hall. WARGAMING SOCIETY Video-bzzr night, 6-12 p.m., SUB 212. VOLUNTEER CONNECTIONS Anyone interested in gaining job experience or just enjoying yourself through volunteering is encouraged to contact volunteer connections in the student counselling centre — Brock 200. Call 228-3811 for info. MOTORCYCLE CLUB Meeting: nominations for '83-84 executive, noon, SUB 205. SPEAKEASY Student health give info on allergies, noon, SUB ground floor. SATURDAY CHINESE VARSITY CLUB Stu Cuthbert car rally, dinner afterwards, 6-7 p.m., Oakridge Beaver gas station. NEWMAN CLUB 37th annual St. Paddy day talent nite, 8 p.m., St. Mark's college. Phone 224-3311 for more info. INTRAMURALS Buchanan badminton grand Prix tournament of Champions, Osborne gym A and B. Continues Sunday. SAILING CLUB Ever been to sea Billy? days; offering a free sail in our boats; specially towards non-sailors so everyone is welcome, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Jericho beach. Also on Sunday. BALLET UBC JAZZ Annual spring performance, everyone welcome, free admission, 8 p.m., Asian Centre auditorium. BRIDGE CLUB Grand tournament, general meeting, trophy prizes, $6/pair fee, 6 p.m., SUB 212. GAYS AND LESBIANS OF UBC Wine and cheese party, 9 p.m., address in office. CHESS CLUB Club championship, membership, CFC, BCCF req'd., available at site, First trophy, 9:30 p.m., SUB 215. FAMILY HOUSING FILM SERIES Walt Disney's Bambi, 3 p.m., SUB auditorium. RED HOT VIDEO Province-wide protest against violent porn, 2 to 3 p.m., all Red Hot Video stores. SUNDAY ST. MARK'S COLLEGE The third and final eession of Christian approach to sexuality: Sex and Psychology, 7:30 p.m., St.' Mark'a collage music room. Phone 224-3311 for info. CYCLING CLUB Ride, non-members welcome, 9 a.m., between SUB and aquatic centre. UNDERWATER HOCKEY Games. SFU, 10 p.m. U8C aquatic centre. MOTORCYCLE CLUB Sunday ride to Gulf islands, 8:30 a.m., Tsawwasaen Ferry terminal: CHESS CLUB Dub championahip con't., 10 a.m., SUB 215. MONDAY THEATRE DEPARTMENT Senior BFA production: Agnes of God, free, 8 p.m., Dorothy Somerset studio. Continues Tuesday and Wednesday. HISPANIC AND ITALIAN STUDIES Musical recital of traditional Catalan Songs and modern poems by Xavier Rivalta, noon. Music room 338. HILLEL HOUSE/NETWORK Intertaith freedom rally for Anatoly Scarensky — prisoner of conscience in ths USSR, 4 p.m., Robson squsrs. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE Slid* show: Peru with Enrique Merkt, 7:30 p.m.. International Houss Gsts 4 lounge. CREATIVE WRITING DEPARTMENT Public reading by Keith Maillard, free, noon. Buch. penthouss. SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY important meeting, nominations for executive, noon, SUB 215. Friday, March 11,1983 INTRAMURALS McNulty team relays, Harry Logan track. $20 per team. Continues to Friday. FLOWERS — nail lucent* photo for the Queen TUESDAY IRANIAN STUDENTS CLUB Chehar-shanbeg-sooh: Ancient traditional Persian festival on the eve of the last Wednesday of year in Persian calendar (which ends March 21), 6-9 p.m., Ambleside park beach. West Vancouver. CUSO UBC Development education series — a weekly series exploring international development issues — this week's topic: Any Answers — shifting the balance: Canada's role in the global community, 7:30 p.m.. International House upper lounge. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS General meeting, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Lutheran Campus centre, conference room. INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH Film: Hinduism, noon, Asian centre auditorium. CREATIVE WRITING DEPARTMENT Public reading by Audrey Thomas, free, noon, Buchan penthouse. PRACTICAL WRITING LECTURE SERIES Final lecture, James Charles, vice-president administration, Shopper's Drug Mart, on Oral and Written Expression Throughout a Career, all welcome, noon, Computer Science 201. BAHA'I CLUB General meeting, everyone welcome to open discussion on the Bah't faith, 1-2:30 p.m., SUB 207. GAYS AND LESBIANS OF UBC Women only pub night, 8 p.m., info in SUB 239. LAW STUDENTS LEGAL ADVICE PROGRAM Free legal advice, noon-2 p.m., SUB 111. TROTSKYIST LEAGUE CLUB Literature table, drop by for Marxist literature and discussion, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., SUB concourse. NATIVE INDIAN STUDENT UNION Native Indian speaker series — Varna Kirkness: Supervisor of Native Indian Teacher Education program on Cultural messages: do you receive them?, noon, Scarge 100. Native Indian films: Four short films, 1:30 - 3.30 p.m.. Hut 26 (behind Scarfe). NEWMAN CLUB Fantastic fabulous soup lunch, noon, St. Mark's lunchroom. WEDNESDAY NATIVE INDIAN STUDENT UNION Four short Native Indian films, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., Hut 26 (behind Scarfe). SUB information booth, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., SUB lobby. Marie Smalrface Ma rule on The World Council of Indigenous People: Global issues, noon - 1:30 p.m., Scarfe 209. PACIFIC REFORESTATION WORKERS ASSOCATION Dance with the Enigmas and Beverly Sisters, $4, 8 p.m.. Oddfellows hall, Commercial and Gravely. THURSDAY NEWMAN CLUB St. Patrick's day picnic and sports day, wear something greenl, noon. Meet at Mark's college music room. FILM SOCIETY General elections, noon, SUB 247. CUSO UBC Information session - slide show on CUSO in Sierra Leone, recruitment information will be available, 7:30 p.m.. International House upper lounge. PACIFIC REFORESTATION WORKERS ASSOCIATION A talk and slide show about reforestation industry: what kind of conditions you can expect, noon, SUB 207/209. FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT Slide show Land Above the Clouds — Peru, synchronized with South American music. Produced by Juan Enrique Merkt, noon, Lasserre 102. BAHA'I CLUB General meeting, everyone welcome to open discussion on the Baha'i faith, 1-2:30 p.m., SUB 212A. ISMAILI STUDENT ASSOCIATION General meeting and general elections for '83-84, noon, SUB 211. INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH Film: Islam, noon, Asian centre auditorium. DEPARTMENT OF CREATIVE WRITING Reading from Semetic poetry: Hebrew and Arabic, noon, Buch. penthouse. EDUCATORS FOR NUCLEAR DISARMENT Janice Bulman, empowering ourselves through collective action, noon, Computer Science 100. NATIVE INDIAN STUDENT UNION Honorary chief Simon Baker on Coast Salish tradition and culture, noon, Scarfe 100. {id-ffaj-i&r Spikel Setting. Serving. Volleying. ; Bumping. This and more will continue today and tomorrow as the Canadian Inter- university athletic union continues its annual volleyball championship in UBC's very own War Memorial gym. Drop by and watch the bouncing ball. The athletics department wants to see you there I • The quarter finals of the Hot Air Show are at The Pit on Monday, March 14 starting at 8 p.m. The Enigmas, the Beggars, M-86, Arctic Madness, and the Beverley Sisters will perform. The winners advance to the finals on Monday, March 28. Other quarter-final winners include Redrum, Ground Zero, and Actionauts. Come out and support your favorite obscure local band. THE CLASSIFIEDS—^ RATES: AMS Card Holders — 3 lines, 1 day $2.50; additional lines, 60c. Commercial — 3 lines, 1 day $4.20; additional lines, 63c. Additional days, $3.80 and 58c. Classified ads are payable in advance. Deadline is 10:30 a.m. the day before publication. Publications, Room266, S.U.B., UBC, Van., B.C. V6T2A5 Charge Phone Orders over $5.00. 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SIDESHOW '83, the 7th Annual Presentation of Short Plays by UBC Creative Writing Students, Friday, March 11 and Saturday, March 12, at 3:00 and 8:00 p.m. in Hut M-24 (West Mall & Univ. Blvd., UBC), Free. LEARN TO SAIL: Beginners Course or Basic Coastal cruising. 30ft. cruiser/racer. Hands on experience. Registering NOW Feb. Mar. Apr., classes. Don't be left on the beach. C.Y.A. Certificate 734-1675 after 7. Sailcraft Ltd. 30 - Jobs IMPORTANT PUBLIC RALLIES Closing Rally of tha First Congress of the Communist Youth Union of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) Saturday, March 12-6 p.m. 6880 Main Street. Vancouver CeM>rata the 20th Anniversery of the Founding of The Internationalists 20 YEARS OF THE GLORIOUS STRUGGLE IN DEFENCE OF MARXISM-LENINISM, THE REVOLUTION & SOCIALISM Sunday, March 13-3 p.m., 6880 Main Street, Vencouver. Main speeker: Hanfial Bains, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) COMMEMORATIVE MEETING ON THE CENTENARY OF THE DEATH OF KARL MARX Monday, March 144 p.m. 5880 Main Street, Vancouver. EVERYONE WELCOMEI For further information, visit 182 W. Hastings Street, Tel. 681-6020 SET YOUR OWN HOURSI People wanted who would like to lose weight, feel great, and make money too. Call: 261-6323, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 681-5659 4 p.m.-7 p.m. SECURE ALL HATCHESII Divel Divel Divel with the SUB Theatre this week and see DAS BOOT (german with english subtitles). Sailing times are Thurs. and Sun. at 7:00 p.m. at 7:00 and Fri. and Sat. at 7:00 and 9:45. Ufejackets are not included. CRUISE SHIP JOBSI $14-28,000. Caribbean, Hawaii, World. Call for Guide, Directory, Newsletter. 916-722-1111. Ext. BrrtishColumbia. 40 — Messages ST. MARY'S Ukrainian Catholic Young Adults Club. Monthly meetings. For more information please call either 255-0841 or 433-8627. 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Inside UBC's Asian centre, where about 700 people waited anxiously for Her Majesty's arrival, anticipation peaked when she didn't make her scheduled appearance -at 11:40 a.m. Frequent gawks at the entrance became common, as the clock on the right side of the room struck 11:45 a.m. — and still no sign of her. Dressed in a dilly dally of suits and dresses — more or less "lounge suits" that the special invitations for the morning demanded — the audience listened to classical Indian music, which at first appeared to be merely the prelude of things to come. Little did they know the music would be the best part of the morning. At 11:50 a.m., the woman in the third row centre looked back at the two plain clothes detectives near the middle exit doors, through which no one cquld have possibly left the auditorium, and said: "Are you formidable?" At least they smiled at her. At 11:53 a.m., came the word: two minutes, the attendants gestured to one another. Large portions of the audience were told beforehand they were to stand when the Queen made her entrance. No one told them when they could sit down. She came in at 11:55 a.m. Attired in a soft yellow skirt suit that had the unregal look of polyester, she was all smiles, and perfectly in the royal pose. Prince Philip wasn't with her, but at least 25 members of the university community were. At the end of the train were Alma Mater Society president Mitch Hetman, who came close cropped and looked as if the scissors hadn't stopped trimming the waving to subjects locks, and soon-to-be-former UBC president Doug Kenny. She walked through the room, listened to the musicians for barely 30 seconds, and exited through the doors at the left side. It took less than a minute for the crowd to realize the moment they had dressed up for, felt priveleged to be invited to, and for which they had waited as much as an hour for, had passed. But damned if they wouldn't get their wasted morning's worth. A rush to the nearest exit door began. Everyone wanted more glimpses of the Queen before she left the Asian centre grounds. "At least she had sunshine," said one member, referring to the unexpected good weather outside. "I'm not a monarchist at heart," said another. They were all monarchists at heart, really. And they had just received a taste of royal treatment. Visit costs UBC a Royal $7,000 Two thousand people crowded sidewalks, stood on chairs and ladders, and climbed trees Wednesday to watch Queen Elizabeth II walk from the Museum of Anthropology to the Asian centre. The crowd outside the Asian centre and in the surrounding area was already thick half an hour before the Queen was scheduled to take her short jaunt down West mall. Dozens of redcoated RCMP, complete with brown broadrimmed hats, kept the crowd behind yellow ropes. Motorcycle police kept buzzing through the crowds on their Harley- Davidsons, and occasionally a helicopter flew overhead. Security men lurked on rooftops. About 200 uniformed and plainclothed police were in the area — two of whom filmed the crowd. The Queen watched native dancers in the anthropology museum before visiting the Asian centre, where she listened to Japanese drummers. As she walked between the two buildings she was greeted with enthusiastic cheering and whistling. After listening to the drummers for about 10 minutes the Queen departed in her motorcade for the health sciences centre hospital. As she walked to her car she was once again greeted with loud applause. "The Queen's visit shows the university on parade, and a very im- They came, they saw, they tabled Student council tabled a motion Wednesday to restructure The Ubyssey and finance the purchase of typesetting and production equipment. The motion, introduced to council by black tie and tails bedecked Ubyssey staffer Arnold Hedstrom, asked council to approve in principle the incorporation of an autonomous Ubyssey Publications Society. The Ubyssey is severely hampered by the poor economy, Hedstrom said, and the proposed restructuring would allow for efficient and less expensive management of the paper. Several councillors were concerned the proposal would give The Ubyssey a monopoly over printing at UBC. But Hedstrom pointed out The Ubyssey Publications Society would provide at cost printing services for all campus groups. The proposal was tabled and council then established a committee to examine The Ubyssey proposal in more detail and report back This weekend UBC is becoming accessible to the masses. The annual open house, this year featuring the health sciences area of campus, starts today at 10 a.m. On display will be medicine, dentistry, biochemistry, pharmacy, home economics, rehabilitation medicine and the acute care hospital. The displays run today until 4 p.m., and continues Saturday from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m., and on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Open house is rotated every three years between the arts and sciences, applied sciences and the health sciences area of campus. Access to the aquatic centre, Museum of Anthropology and .botanical gardens is all free, j to council in two weeks. "Nobody disagrees with autonomy, we're all just scared to do anything," said arts representative Gord Comer. Council discussed the motion for about an hour, during which the debate often became mired in procedural confusion. After one particular suggestion was voted on, several councillors asked chair and AMS president Mitch Hetman what exactly they had just approved. * * * Council approved a $50,000 plan to improve lighting in SUB. Lighting is inadequate in certain areas of SUB, said administrative commission member Tom Grady. "The ballroom is inadequately lit for conferences and exams," he said. Grady said the revenue from increased use of the ballroom will pay for the initial expenditure in four years. The new lighting system will produce an effect somewhat like sunlight, said Grady. » * * Council approved a program that may help student find summer jobs. The Job Link program intends to solicit advertising from students who will pay a small fee to have their names, phone numbers and a small description listed in a publication which will be mailed to prospective employers. Students will be charged $1.75 to place ads. — ian timbariaka photo HELLO ARE YOU there? Ask RCMP types outside Museum of Anthropology Wednesday. "Is the Queen coming from your direction?" "I thought she was coming from your way," was reply over highly sophisticated communication system. Two later purchased megaphones to ensure better communication, after shoe phones gave agents athletes ear. portant part of the university," administration president Doug Kenny said Thursday. But the parade did not come cheap. The short event cost UBC $7,000 for performers and other expenses, said bursar William White. But the UBC population nevertheless showed interest. "I don't see why the Queen's visit should have been so significant, but it was," psychology professor Bob Knox said Thursday. Knox said he attended the event Wednesday. Student Tracy Smith said she went because she thought the Queen was a good person. "I don't know why I think she's a nice lady . . . My mother likes her," Smith said. One man said he went to support his Queen. "The country will end in anarchy without a queen," he said. CITR radio reporter David Firman said he was harassed by police Tuesday night. Two officers came to his home and asked him about a possible demonstration Wednesday. Firman told them he knew nothing about any such demonstration. "One cop said 'Maybe we have false information'," Firman told The Ubyssey Wednesday. "I resisted the urge to reply to that." Police also physically forced a Ubyssey photographer to leave a media area Wednesday while he was photographing the Queen. On Thursday, the Queen and Prince Philip were special guests of prime minister Trudeau, who hosted a gala dinner at Vancouver's Bayshore hotel. The couple returns to England today, after a month of touring in the Caribbean, Mexico, the U.S., and western Canada. The Queen last visited British Columbia in 1971 to celebrate the provincial centennial. Jewish law 'encourages peace' "If there is no peace there is nothing . . . peace is more than any one thing that we can have," said the director of Hillel House Thurs day, quoting an ancient Jewish commentator's interpretation ol peace. Rabbi Daniel Siegel told 30 peo- Forestry fools foul fish and Finn A forestry student prank has soiled the clothing and dignities of two engineering professors and their students. In two separate attacks last Thursday, forestry students shouted the battle-cry "eat my rectum" and sprayed fish fertilizer on engineers, said engineering undergraduate society president Rich Day. The prank was in retaliation for the kidnapping of Omar, the forestry undergraduate society's pet car, said Day. Forestry students went to the civil and mechanical engineering building and Macleod building to avenge the kidnapping, said former FUS president Brian Mcloud. "It was coincidental that they had fish fertilizer with them," he said. The forestry students will have to pay the cleaning bills, said Liam Finn, an engineering professor whose classroom was attacked. "I would like to forget the whole affair because students intend to pay for any damage suffered," he said. Engineering professor John Anderson said he was not offended by the incident. "It doesn't bother me although the students were quite unhappy. The most offensive thing was the smell which lingered all day." Experiments involving semi-conductors suffered about $2,000 damage from the fish fertilizer, said Day. The damage was not as extensive as that, said electrical engineering faculty professors. The prank will not create a stink between engineering and forestry students, Day said. "We are not going to do something equally ridiculous. Our policy is to ignore them. But Omar may wind up somewhere interesting," he added. pie in Computer Sciene 200 that weapons which have the power to reduce all combatants, non- combatants and natural surroundings to ash should not be allowed. Speaking at a lecture sponsored by Educators For Nuclear Disarmament, he continually referred to Jewish law and the importance it places on the maintenance of peace. Siegel said according to Jewish law, anyone who has obtained symbols of success such as a house and marriage should avoid war and stay at home. In such a situation, "a king would have trouble raising an army for an unpopular war," he said. 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