art. .” nononono the murmur rises in the crowd, “since the se- cond world war.” weapons, he‘...

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Friday, April 2, 1982 T H E U B Y S S E Y -

White-knuckled MacGuigan balks, fades, ducks,

In keeping with the ‘two track policy’ of pressing for disarmament u h i l e m o d e r n i z i n g n u c l e a r

denies, walks, bombs

By DEB WILSON Mark MacGuigan’s knuckles are

turning white. Slowly he grips the podium, surely understanding why he is the only elected Liberal currently standing anywhere west of Winnipeg’s city limits.

The crowd has crammed into Robson Square’s media centre to hear the external affairs minister speak on Canada’s nuclear policy. But they aren’t listening.

MacGuigan drones on about Canada’s unique special am- bassador for disarmament, about the committee which will soon report to the government; staring, fiking his stare away, away from the left side of the room where attention is quickly draining. The left wall divider has opened up, and the nun, with death’s head, black work boots and a sign - No Aid to Nun- Killers - stands pointing at MacGuigan, a couple of punks in fatigues at attention beside.

The crowd is going bananas. The cheering builds, more people squeeze into the room and now there’s 5 0 0 and the chant rises:

“The people, united, will never be defeated.” First, the last 50 ar- rivals and then the whole room ex- plodes, everybody except some of the older, straighter folks, the ultra clean anti-nukers, join the chant. A couple of folks screaming, “shaddup. SHADDUP!” The chair

pounding the gavel uselessly again:rt formica. A new cry: “Mark MacGuigan, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide.:’

I t was only the cl ima of a meet ing where MacGuigan’s credibility began a downwa-d slide from his opening words about Canada’s policy in El Salvador. He’d lost the ball. The crowd had it now. He canned his spee,:h and turned the floor to question,.

* * * * * “Ladies and gentlerner~, I ’ m

always, as a member of the United Nations Association, pleased to participate in its events across Canada . . . There are some people outside who were equally inlerested in the question of El S a h d o r . I would be very pleased to discuss that subject too if there are those inside who are interested.” (capping from the audience.)

“1 see the slogan: Let El S(Avador be El Salvador. That has b x n the essence of our policy from the beginning.” He was doomed. Hisses steamed from the cler n folks in the padded seats. “Lia-,” someone screamed.

“However, since my inidation from you was to speak on the subject of disarmament I propose to direct my remarks to that subject . . .”

MacGuigan’s voice is nasal, hi,, defense of his government’s defence policy wooden and expressionless as he justifies cruise missile testing on C a n a d i a n s o i l , o u r “ s m a l l stockpile” of nuclear arms, the consistent three per cent annual real increase in the military budget, and their apparent contradiction with Trudeau’s four point plan to suf- focate the arms race. Th: $ 5 0 0

MacGUlGAN . . . blanched billion spent each year on arms, compared to $30 billion on world aid i.5 indeed a scandal, “but disarmament is not the place to begin discussing the problem. Disarma- ment, arms control, is a secondary, dependent thing. It depends upon the more fundamental notion of security . . .”

Security is the operative word for countries currently stockpiling arms, says MacGuigan. “We have to create these feelings of security. We have to bring all the countries together to be willing to take up arms reductions voluntarily. He praises the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance, “aimed a t keeping the peace in Europe, and the nuclear deterrent which has indeed helped to keep the world at peace . . .” nononono the murmur rises in the crowd, “since the Se- cond World War.”

weapons, he‘ continues. “we have agreed, in principle, to flight test unarmed, dummy cruisc: missiles in Canada.”

The missiles, he explains, are not part of the current American policy of ‘re-arming’; he speaks that word with apparent distaste.

‘‘Well, thank God,” rays a spec- tator.

“ I t is part . . of . .” “Ya really had me worried there

for a while.” Guffaws ir the crowd. MacGuigan: “These are not first

strike missiles,” “‘Yes they. are.” “These are part of the . . .” ‘‘Yes’’ “Of the defensive deterrents of N4TO.” An angry roar builds before him. “Please . . . let me describe the kind of testing that will occur.”The cruise missk test will take place under joint Canadian and American controls in northern Alberta. “And the reason for choosing Canada is that we can provide a 30 mile wide ctxridor for greater safety.” Laught1:r. “If, uh, the missiles fly about the speed of an airplane they will be accompanied by an airplane and i f there is any problem with the missile they can be killed in flight by the accompanying planes . . . so there is no reason for any kind of concern by the people of Canada.” More laughter.

They’re not buying MacGuigan’s story. And his timing c,ouldn’t be worse. “Canada’s Ihe fifth leading exporter of arms,” shouts a heckler. The minister stumbles: “Canada has been o:le of the leading countries in the world in pushing,” he clips the last word short, “disarmament.”

The crowd laughs. “NO one believes you.”

The questions begin. A woman apologizes for the nastiness of the crowd and asks for rerouting of weapons funding to fulfilling human needs.

A n o t h e r w o m a n d e n i e s

Trudeau’s statement that the Soviet Union has done more to rearm than the U.S.: The U.S. was the first to c rea te the a tom bomb, the hydrogen bomb, the nuclear bomb, the neutron bomb and a range of missiles. “And use them,” shouts a heckler.

“This in the name of peace, MacGuigan,” a woman yells “sucks.” A Comox Valley man asks for an independent foreign policy, for withdrawal from NATO and NORAD, anc for Canada to take a decisive p e a x making role.

“One final thing, and there’s no ifs, ands or buts about this one, the cruise missile isn’t coming into Canada and i f we don’t stop i t here Me’re going to stop i t in the streets.”

The questions and comnlents continue; the doctor, the ordinary citizen, the local politician. Each asks MacGuigan to rethink the government’s policy, to rethink the country’s commitment to NATO, to resign. Each receives a regurgita- tion of current policy.

MacGuigan now denies responsibility for Canadian foreign policy, denies the cruise was ever called a defensive weapon, and denies the crowd represents “the majority of the people in this country.”

“1 had come to listen to you. I have put the time at your disposal. You have chosen to use i t in other ways. 1 am pleased to be here and to hear your views. I don’t think they represent the views of the Canadian public as a whole.”

Preparing to exit, the crowd protests. He hasn’t answered a single question on El Salvador. He peels out a side exit and a small pack of demonstrators and journalists stream out another, and meet him and his aides on the stairs to his Cadillac. These people are angry. A woman screams. “Resign, resign, you are murdering the people with your lies.” There’s scuffling, spit, crumpling metal and the car spins away.

Spitting images focus CBC trial

The CBC froze frames from films s h o w i n g p e o p l e a r o u n d MacGuigan’s limousine, and focused on several people. They then showed a frame from their film of the welfare demonstration at the Socia l Credi t convent ion in November, and focused on several people in that crowd. “A look at some increasingly familiar faces around Vancouver,” was the voice over.

T h e i r i n t e n t i o n , a C B C spokesperson said later, was to show that the same people consistently disrupt demonstrations.

Both McKeown and M(,Intosh felt CBC’s initial coveraze 011

Saturday night was slightly sensa- tionalized. “We’re as guilty as the rest of the press for going for the sensationalist part. I wish we had more of what happened in the building (at MacGuigan’s speech),” said McKeowan.

McIntosh said any sensationalism was “partly the fault of the media and partly the fault of those involved.”

But Ian Mulgrew, the Toronto Globe and Mail bureau chief who covered the event, did not consider

I uesday. The fi.rst five paragraphs in

Mulgrew’s story in Monday’s Globe were concerned with the spitting in- cidenl. and with the lack of police protection for MacGuigan.

“They should have had police outside. He (MacGuigan) came within a hair’s breadth of being physically abused. If there had been police there, you would have seen heads broken” Mulgrew said.

Mulgrew criticized The Van- couver Sun’s coverage of the incident. “The Sun wasn’t even there. They relied on wire reports and but- chered the rest of it,” he said.

But Sun assistant city editor Doug Sagi said Tuesday the paper assigned a reporter to the event. He would not comment any further.

demonstrators . . . disrupted the speech . . . forcing the minister to flee the meeting.”

The next eight, paragraphs dealt with the spitting inciden,:, and the rest of the story only brlefly mentioned the El Salvador rally.

The Vancouver Province’s Sun- day article by Jon Ferry also mentioned the spitting incident, but had m o r e i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t MacGuigan’s speech and the crowd’s reaction to it. However, there was once again barely any mention of the El Salvador rally.

Finally. BCTV’s !Saturday newscast said only 5 0 0 people attended the El Salvador rally there were actually 1,300) and that “spikey-haired youths” disrupted

The commercial media’s reporting of the MacGuigan incident is not the first time they have provided inadequate coverage of such demonstrations of rallies.

I f the commercial media covers them at all, the coverage has frequently been one-sided, unfactual or has ommitted important information or background (last fall’s South Memorial park fight between the B.C. Organization to fight Racism and a Marxist-Leninist front group is one glaring example).

The reporters, editors or pro- ducers at various commercial media outlets either do not know how to report on political rallies or demonstrations - or they don’t want to.

T H E U B Y S S E Y Friday, April 2, 1982

MURDER ON THE ORIENTED PRESS It waa five o'clock on a winter's morning in Syrii and it wea h z i n g l y cold - too cold to be

swing anyone off on the tiny train grandly called the Taurus Exprm. no matter how enrava- gent the eyebrows. But Lieutanant Evan Mclntyn performsd hm job bnvdv, rwphden t m his uniform. ananpting to converse with a men muffid up 10 the earn, of whom nothang waa visible but a pink-lipped n m and the two points of upward-curled eyebrows.

dramatically In the pest week - mysteriwsly due to the stranger's presence. The General's Mclntyre didn't know what it was about, but hm regimer,t, the Fdth Argyles, had c h a m

goan stranger, bnnging a week of curous tensity And then cerlain things had happened. - Gen. Mike McLoughlm's - temper had grown worsa end WOM. and then came thh Bel-

Donald Maclntyra. Ksnn McGa, and Steve McClure commitled suicide, Nancy McRnchle. Stu Morris. PNer Grant. John McPhw. Steve Morris and Don MacDoMld suddenly r e signed, anxbous faces like Bruce Fairlev's, Heather Conn'a end Davld Frawr suddenly losf their anxiety. and certaln military precautions had been relaxed And the General. Lieutenant Mclntvre's own General, hed suddenly looked 10 yeam younger.

A snippet of overheard conversation floated into his head: "You have saved us. OM b o y , ' ' ttm General told the stranger. who anmered to the nams HVphen Poirot. even though his real

can I thank you for coming so far?" A fming reply was made. but the Lmutenant WM still In MW waa Merk Leiren-Young. "You have saved the honor of Her Melaty's army. . how

tw ere not In thm mdodrama. I the dark. Is0 were Carls Pavan. Allen Stawna. Kurt Preimpurger and Lucie Pdletmr, unce

Poirot boarded the train, whlch was due to arnve In Sumbwl the followlng wenlng. He In- tended to stay in the city a few dayl and VM La Sernte Sophim and other sights, while avoiding Goof Wheelwright, the notonous Wong clan of Chrim. MIM end Joe. Craig Yuill and Eve wipod. As tha tiny tram prepared to pull out of Aleppo. freeztng wlnd and all. Murml Draaune

puahed aside the blinds in her deaping car apartment and boked out. She had had lMe deap sim .he lstt Baghdad on the preceding Thundsy 111 was now Sunbyl; her fnends Scott Ranson. Joan 0. Stuchner. b m m c e Penych and Kerry Regmr had thrown a wild parry and

nor Ian nwht on the tram had ahe slept properly. She u w the wagon In conductor, Eric Eg- Steve R N e go1 arraated as a result. Neither In the tram 10 Kirkuk nor In the r(*1 houw at Mow1

train. germon, wander dbcofuobtetv up ttm platform, pick up Polrot's luggege and heave 11 on the

And then the train jerked out of the statmn. and it was tune to d w p again. Only the other panenger. Col. Brian Jonas. ley awake f iu l ly . remembering his trip from India and the friends out of h h pan - frmnds like Miriim Sobrino, Jennifer Ryan and Martln Strong who he should never aeo again.

The next morning, Hyphen arrlved In the dlning car late. as he had but slept a few hours He MW Mund. who impreswd him as the klnd of young woman who could take care of

fact she was. She did not chet much with the colonel. revealed in the light as 11111, lean of henelf wifh perfect easa wherever .he went - stficsnt, sleek. the gowrneu type. which in

figure, brown of &on and J i h t l y gnuled . They acted as arrangers.

away a different impreawn "It's so beautiful. I wlsh - I wish - I wlsh I could erqoy it," she Y N but a few hours later, M. Hyphen cam s c r w than quietly in a corridor. and carried

murmured to the Colonel unhappily. "I wbh to heaven you ware out of all thls." he replied

over. When it's behind ua - than -" through clenched jaw. "Murd. . ." She interrupted ham. "Not n o w . Not now When ~ t ' s all

Poirot Ic(lrcaIy recognized the cool. efficmnt voica of Miu Draaiema. He would remember this later.

Durlng the c r d n g of the Bosphorus. both the other pawengem became very anxious about the posmblity of miuing their tram. the Simpbn Orient Expreru. Poirot was merely ma- sick, hsartlly wishing Miriam Sobrino. Jennifer Ryan. Martin Strong, Mary Price or Nul Parker were there taking his place.

Upon arnving st his hotel. tha Tdretlien. Hyphen tmmediitely waxed hm eyebrows. preen-

desk, he w w several familiar faces through aspidistras - Rosemary Oliver, Man Adamson, ing them to thalr regular magnoficent curl. As he pawed through the lbbby to register at the

Kelly Burke and Hope Crawley - faces too engrosred with their opum deal to me Poirot. The hotel clerk, with a badge which read Tom Hawthorn, East Shit end Dm, prawnted Poirot with a telegram, much to his surprise. It read: "Development you predlned m Kassner case has come unexpectedly Please return immedifely.

thls. Why Kassner? None of h h cases back In England were due to become act~ve. except "Tchaahhl" exclaimed Poirot. much the same noiae as a cat sneezing. It was unexpected,

poaubly L'Affaire Red, with Rob Lazenby. Mlke Day, Lance Balcom and Rob Chlpman under pollce surveillence

pleasure.'' mid M 0111 Tieleman, a dlrector of the Compagnie lnternatlonale de Wagons Lits Suddenly a famlliar voce sounded behlnd him. "Ah, mon vmux, but thls is an unexpected

whoae ecquaintance wRh the former star of the Belgian police force dated back many years.

on the Orient Express. slnce 11 was the faate¶ method back to England A quick explanation followed, and Tieleman promised to arrange Po~rot's passage to London

But the erstwhile dlrector had problems - the Stamboul-Calaa coach was full. an unheard of event for the1 time of year. And ~t wasn't even e pack of journalists - people ltke Bruce Campbell. Randy Frank, Peter Grant. Emmanuel Cook, or Ross Burnen - taking over Final- ly. he discovered that one of the passengers, Svlvla Berryman, had not turned up. so he gave Polrot her berth

who struck hlm as unusual One, Cralg Brooks. was obv~ously a secretary to the other, and Whlle Powot welted In the hotel lobby for the return of hls frlend. he saw two Americens

yet In some ways hls sue remmded the delectlve more of a bodyguard The other. Scott Mc Donald, lwked hka a prosperous prepple. but there we0 a strange flash ~n h s eyes - hke a tger In a cage, or of sheer evil He looked like he wanted 10 call Polrot over and offer him an

journed to the statlon, passlng poor beggars In the street llke Brlan DeGross, Gary Brookfield. assignment, but the detectwe was spared by the return of hts frlend Tleleman Together they

Mlks Battle and Kathy Collms. before srnvmg at the stallon

none other than Brooks. who looked nonplussed to see h m there. but gave I" wtth good Tleleman. as a dlrector of the Ilne. we8 In No. 1 Polrot shared a second class berth with

grace qulcklv. Eggenson put Polrot's luggage up on the reck. a surprlslng move, and wtshed both gentlemen a good nlght before leavlng From hm room the detectlve heard the other passengers board. then qulckly the tram left the station.

Nothong can match the mystery of the Orlent Express Countless thousends of people have travelled ~n n. yet have left no mark of thew passage save a glossler patlna on the furniture. a deeper hollow In the seats and rough surfaces pollshed by use to smoothness Who would haw guessed Ian Tlmberlaka. Deb Wllson, Kent Westerburg, Rob Whlnome and Allce Thompson had passed thn way7 Only the staff of the traln, Glen Schaeffer. Charlone Olson, Barry Steben and Steve Palmer could posslbly errwe at an answer

And so. wtth a great huffing end pufflng and a sudden jerk, the long lhghted platform slid slowly pest the tram. leaving behtnd Dirk Sfon. Anna Petkovlc. Chrlstlne Roberge and Helen

across Europe Yagl to the cold Stemboul nlght The Orlent Express had started on IU three-day lwrney

ly, had breakfasted almost alone, and had spent the mornlng gomg over the notes of the case M . Hyphen was a llnle late In enterlng the luncheon car the followlng day He had rnen ear-

that was recallmg hlm to London He had seen llnlo of Brooks

as he surveyed the full dlnlng c a r "It lends IQeM to romence, my frmnd. All around us are Ha sat wnh Tmleman, and ordered a good meel 'What a scene thls IS," sbghed Tleleman

people. of all classes, of all natmnalnles. of ell ages. For three deys thew people. these strangem to one another. ere brought together They sleep and eat under one roof. they cannot get away from each other At the end of three days they part. they go thelr 08veraI ways, never perhaps to see each other agaln "

(Janet Whyte. Paul Weshlngton, Sue Vohanka or Brad Waugh could have probably told hlm. But msde, Polrot felt somethmg hm frlend satd was wrong, but he dad not know why

had they been on the traln I

send and Lee Wagenast. for some strange reason A bag swarthy man. plckmg hls teeth wlth There was. of course. Brooks and McDoneld, who remlnded M Hyphen of T. J. Town-

gusto and undboutedly a saLBIesmen. we6 Identified 8s Shaffln Sharrft Next 10 hlm set a spare, neat man. Glen Sanford, who had the expressionless dosapproving face of the well-tralned servant Next to hlm was a blg man In a loud sult - posslbly a commerclal traveller - Kelth Baldrey

"You've got to put ~t over BIG," he wes seymg In e loud nasel voice. Polrot's eye passed on to a small table. where, sming very uprtght. we8 a formldable wrsonality. bedecked with

man.) She was also very rlch. At the table nen to her sat MIS Draalsma, wtlh two other rlngs. mmks and hats. the Prlncess Julie Wheekrlght. ("She IS a Russian." murmured Tiele-

women: tall end middle-aged Nancy Campbell and sheep-like, amlable Corinna Sundarerajan. Campbell nanered on incessantly about cats and cers. drlvlng everyone elseln the w m -

partment crazy Obwously e Canadien out to terrorize Europe, Polrot thought. Corinna looked lbka a nurse or a m1wonary. or possibly a comblnatmn of both. McDonald had to be a busl- nessman, but what business the de1ectIve couldn't tell. He didn't like Scott's face.

Burden. AI Banham and Mike Bocklng loved. It errived at Belgrade N 9:15 that night. where- And the tram travelled on, passing the vlllagw where Kathy Ford. Gordon Comer. Pat

upon Tieleman transferred out of No. 1 end tnto the adjoining Athens coach and Polrot moved in, leaving Brooks to snore to himself. The pemngers began to prepare for bed. oblivtous of the very exmtence of Wendy Cumming, Anne Marie Flemmg, Greg Fjetland, Dave balder^ stone, Mike Hirsch and Kate Andrew on the other aide of the world.

the motton. Everything was qumt - he could hear McDonald moving about nexl door. Then Hyphen found it dinicult to go to sleep a1 once. The tram was not moving and he mlssed

a bell rang - l i n g . . . ting . . . ring , . . it rang sohdly. Where was the conductor? Ah, here at last he came, answered a door not far from Poirot's own. He could hear the conversawn: Campbell, in her loud and obnoxious manner, was inisting that there was a man in her compartment and Eggartson had to werch. When he westhrough, Poimt rang. for he was thirsty and wanted some Perimr. Eggemon brought ~t lo him and mentioned that the reason the train was mopped was beceuw a MOW slide had blocked the tracks. "Heeven knows how long we shall be here, betlveen Vincovici and Brod." he wid.

Poirot was lust droppine off agaln when he was woken by a thud. raminlecent of the noose Charknr Campbell made when bangang hi. head against a wall. He sprang up, looked out into

other end, the conductor was seated. It was just past quarter past one. Later he heard a VOIW the cwridor end MW a w o m r l wrapped in a warlet kimono retreating from his nght. At the

call out from MCDOMI~S room. Then he fell asleep. ~ u r d r . It's not a nice word. It's not a word Kevin Annett, Duncan Alexander. Mark At-

tishe, Mike Hirschsprung or even Brian Byrnw would u m in lest. Only on Keith LoVan. Peter Francis and Sandra G d e v .

right handed, 90- mortal, some glancing - all bloody. Sanford. the valet. found him In the morning after burmmg down the locked doors. It was not a PrNlV sbht. It WllS Worse than Arne Hermann In the morning.

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Friday, April 2, 1982 T H E U B Y S S E Y __-

One hundred fashionably dressed Lower Mainland journalists sit in a I1JBC lecture theatre.

Most come from dailv newsn ~~ I lapers or large radio and TV stations. Mark Dowie stands at the front and tells them it’s their job to keep socialism alive in the media. And they listen.

Dowie works on the editorial board of Mother Jones, the largest “alternative” magazine in North America. He broke the story on how Pintos, Ford’s all-American family car, were exploding death traps.

Dowie’s investigation sparked one of the most significant recalls in American auto history. He also broke the story on the Dalkon Shield, the dangerous IUD pushed in American drugstores, and he exposed the sale of hazardous products, banned in the United States, to third world countries.

He has broken new ground in investigative journalism. H e stands against everything for which the commercial media stands. And he does not consider his work or Mother Jones magazine alternative media.

“The press is basically a revolutionary medium. It’s a medium that challenges power,” Dowie says. “It’s always bugged me that publications like Open Road (Van- couver’s anarchist magazine), Georgia Straight (at one time a progressive newspaper) and Mother Jones are called alternative. I think what is now called mass media is really an alternative to what media was intended to be in the first place. It’s the traditional role of media to keep challenging and threatening economic and political ideas.”

Dowie was speaking to student journalists during a November trip t o Vancouver. He was here to speak at a meeting of the Centre for Investigative Journalism, give interviews and promote Mother Jones. But he pushed more than Mother Jones - he pushed the concept of investigative, advocacy journalism.

Dowie says he puts energy into drawing young people into journalism, and encourag- ing young journalists to do investigative reporting.

“I discourage people from going to journalism school because I think you can learn much more on location, on the job, than you can in school.

“You know, in the United States right now there are more students in journalism school than there are journalists. What are all those people going to do? And they’re being taught, with maybe one or two exceptions, by failures in the profession. Chronic failures - people who couldn’t make i t in the newspaper profession.”

“It’s the job of p-ogressive people, either working for left publications or for mass media, to keep socia ism alive as a viable and threatening alternatiie,” he said.

“1 personally don’t believe it’s unprofessional to reveal your bias in journalism. I’m an advocacy journalist and I believe that anybody who is invclved in any kind of controversial reporting, whether i t is investigative or political, is to some degree unavoidably exp0sir.g their advocacy. Not necessarily in so many words, but in the way they select their interviews, select the questions they ask and select the answers that they put in their stories, :he advocacy is there.”

the business management, I grew increasingly frustrated about the quality of investigative reporting. We had a commitment to d o it but we weren’t getting it. I didn’t know how to do i t , I just knew what I wanted to see. And as my frustration g’rew, I finally decided to just get it myself.”

So Dowie wrote a story about the Dalkon Shield.

A friend had been badly injured and became sterile from using the shield. Dowie investigated the manufacturers of the IUD and the expose thiat followed earned him nation-wide acclaim and several awards for investigative journalism.

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‘I don’i; believe it’s unprofessional to reveal your bias in journalism’

The Toronto-born Dowie has formerlv “Because I didn’t. know what 1 was doing. worked as an economist. He h a worked for big and small busirlesses, and in 1975 he set up the business department for Mother Jones.

The newer, San Francisco-based publication was not going LO be another esoteric leftist rag. It’s “state of the art”: slick, glossy and commercially competitive. As Dowie says: it’s a magazine from the left to the center - with a circulation of a quarter million.

Dowie started writing for Mother Jones when he became dissatisfied with the magazine’s level of reporting.

“During the earl:{ days when I was doing

and because I had no professional journalistic training or knowledge, I inadvertant- ly invented a few genres, or sub-genres, of investigative reporting.”

Dowie concentrated on corporate decision- making rather than products and examined things that were legal instead of illegal. Through his reporting, he tried to illustrate problems inherent in the structure of capitalism.

“ I wasn’t deliberately doing that,” he says. “ I realized I was doing that when people came up to me and said, ‘The interesting thing about your work is you’re doing this, and that’s not ordinarily done.’ ”

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Dowie believes a leftist magazine, aimed at the centre, could survive in Canada.

“ I think that a magazine like Mother Jones would d o better in Canada than in the United States. I think there’s more of a market in Canada.” He says Canada has a more socialistically oriented political economy, the unions are more progressive, and Canadian magazine readers are more curious and recep- tive.

The framework for such a Canadian magazine, called Goodwin’s Journal, already exists. Dowie says it has potential, but stressed there are key ingredients for keeping such a publication alive.

“If you’re going to be part of a team of people to start an alternative publication, be i t Open Road or Goodwin’s Journal or whatever, be damned sure that there are people there who can add and subtract and who have respect for managerial skills. So many of these little publications in the United States and Canada fall apart because of basic business strategy.”

Soliciting advertising from corporations is not fun, but Dowie acknowledges that it is necessary. Selling ads for Mother Jones is frustrating for two reasons: hyping corporations contradicts the goals of MotheraJones and it’s difficult to sell ads for a leftist publication.

“Madison Avenue defines us as what they call a hostile climate for advertising,” he says. “But in this economy and in this culture if you’re going to compete in the magazine business you have to do i t , damn i t , and I wish we didn’t have to do it. Mother Jones does not allow its advertising to take up more than one third of the magazine.

The publication is run by a collectively operated editorial board, takes measures to ensure that women have a majority in positions of authority, and gets most of its copy from freelance writers. Dowie says the magazine is being hit hard by the current recession, but expects i t to survive.

And while Mother Jones might survive, current social structures might not. Dowie believes we are witnessing the end of capitalism. Even though the right-wing appears to be thriving in the United States, Dowie says the election‘of Reagan and the rise in conservative legislation are symptoms of capitalism’s decline.

“The reason that’s happening is because capitalism is unavoidably declining. It’s the paranoia of the corporate right as they watch their system eroding and their power eroding.”

But he cautions: “Capitalism could evolve to a worse system, conceivably. 1 mean the death of capitalism doesn’t mean the arrival of a great economic system.

“It’s not a matter of optimism or pessimism - capitalism will die. It’s dying.”

New mag hits pavement By ARNOLD HEDSTROM and wrote poetry. But the editors say Vancouver Streets is a modest

SHAFFIN SHARIFF the magazine has no pa-ticular quarterly, Produced at the A M s Vancouver Streets, Vancouver’s political stance, and is open to sub- COPY centre. Production Costs for

newest alternative magazine, was mission from writers in aI genre the first issue amounted to $300. conceived a, cold and rainy January who want to express their thoughts. The editors have recouped the night, in Cafe Madelaine, on West “People seem to think the two capitol Costs from the sale of a 10th. objectives are mutually exclusive. limited run of the magazine.

It wasn’t conceived until Fraser They are not,” says co-editov Karen Vancouver Streets is currently Easton found Robert Gore sipping Romell. The other editor is Kyong- sold at various book Stores and his hot almond milk, reading Prism Ae Kim, who also wrote an article outlets, including MacLeods on International. Fraser had strolled in in the first edition about the writer’s Granville Street, Duthies, and Spar- with a copy of Mother Jones. role in society. tacus books on West fourth,

It was a perfect combination - In terms of the journal’s general Even though Vancouver Streets like peanut butter and milk perspective, Romell says, “‘We are has only begun Publishing, Easton chocolate. Hershey’s peanut butter interested in well-articulated discus- boasts d ~ ~ t national distribution. cup was born. Sion.’’ Adds ~ ~ ~ ~ 1 1 , “when The magazine is on consignment in

Now that Vancouver Streets is a started it, we didn’t want to imit it, Calgary and Montreal bookstores. reality, Fraser recounts the moment but let it take its own coursc.” “We are not chauvinistic, and not of climax. “YOU were interested in “We want to direct our journal only in terms of genre; we are not a strictly literary magazine, and I to the broadest possible audience centered in Vancouver. Our first was interested in politics,” says and we want our audience to par- edition had Poetry from Poland,” Fraser to Robert, sitting across the ticipate in it,” says Gore. he adds. Distribution in the Soviet table. The editors Stress Var.couver province Of Ukrainia is a distinct

Streets is a synthesis of their two The magazine was financed with the A wide distribution Will ensure a aspirations. Easton, for example, editors’ own funds, but he.ving a wide variety of submissions, the wrote a n editorial on Solidarity’s subsidy from the Canada Council is editors hope. “We don’t have a set struggle in Poland, and elaborated a possibility after four editions are Policy on contributors, but we d o on his experiences in Poland. Gore published. encourage new writers whose work

The first issue of Vancouver Streets is not a UBC publication. Possibility.

VANCOUVER STREITS . . . commentary in journal format is good quality material,” says Interested writers can send their Gore. material to Vancouver Streets, P.O.

But Streets wouldn’t turn away Box 46697, Station G , Vancouver, Atwood, or any established writer. V6R 4K8.

Easton refuses to confirm that any established writers have con- Easton’s assessment of the first sulted Vancouver Street; about magazine was* “The reader’s asked

priority is to good, unknown lemon.” which is not to be confus- writers who want their work ed with differentiating between a p published,” he says. ples and oranges.

future submissions. “Our first for a banana. and we gave them a


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September to face good times, bad times and vile rag times. But before they even entered their first lineup of the month, several events had taken place during the summer of ’81 which were to shape the coming year.

The constitution debate dragged on, Pier B-C was being dragged down and finding housing - any housing - was a drag. At UBC tuition fees had increased, as had Pit prices.

But the most important event, for UBC students, was the 18 per cent salary hike awarded to faculty by arbitrator Richard Bird, closely followed by a 15 per cent raise for Canadian Union of Public Employ- ees members.

Administration president Doug Kenny immediately implemented a freeze on hiring and equipment purchases, and sought funds from the provincial government to make up the anticipated $7 million shortfall.

There was good news too: solici- tor general Robert Kaplan promised the public there would be no more RCMP spying on campuses, the SUB cafeteria was renovated into the high-tech SUBway, Charles Redden was hired as the Alma Ma- ter Society’s new general manager, and A M s vice president Peter Mit- chell decided to resign for academic reasons.

S E P T E M B E R Then came September, and the

crunch began. First, the Bank of Montreal closed one of its two branches on campus, and transferred its student loans department out of the remaining SUB branch to a “convenient” Pender and Granville location. The bank said it was for students’ convenience; students charged that it was due to the bank’s desire to get out of the un- profitable student loan business -

University’s $1 million shortfall, a result of a 17 per cent faculty pay increase. SFU too joined UBC in asking Victoria for a grant to cover the loss. The only good financial news was a special $1 million grant from Victoria for the faculty of applied science to aid the expansion of the engineering program.

But strangely enough, senate decided to approve enrolme:lt restrictions into the faculty.

And in the real world, the Rolling Stones announced their date in the Seattle Kingdome, and Stones fever began to rise.

O C T O B E R The following month i ; marked

by cuts and protests. The UBC administration quietly axes 2 0 6 teaching assistant positions; the Social Credit government, in a leaked memo, tells universities to scrap their arts programs; SFU hikes its fees 22.7 per cent; and 5 , 0 0 0 protest education cuts in Halifax.

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hiring outside contractors, breaking tenure agreements, and opposing the SAE for its “radical” approach.

The engineers deposit a four-ton cairn in the middle of Pacific and Burrard, and common nuisance charges are laid, including one against EUS president Lance Bal- con]. A record number of teams enter the Arts ’20 race, and The Ubyssey manages to snag a first in the independent men’s category. And Rolling Stones fans get their fill with not one but two shows Oct. 22 at the Kingdome.

Student politics remain fairly stable during October, with only the election of Pat Chow to vice president to mark any significant change in council. The only other ripple is the appointment, instead of election, of a senator at large, a dangerous precedent according to student board member Chris Niwinski.

Union politics, however, are on the rise, with the A M s employees contemplating strike action and the

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teaching assistants unior bargaining Throughout the month the cuts talks with the administration falter- continue at UBC. The secret cost- ing. cutting criteria are leaked, but they

,And last but not least, the board are of little help to the faculty of ed- commits an unprecedented move ucation which faces a $800,000 cut when it rejects senate’s recommend- - indicative of the low priority all ations to implement enrolment re- education is being treated to. In the strictions in applied sciences and midst of all this, Doug Kenny finds sends i t back to senate for further time to send a letter to each indi- consideration. vidual student, cautioning him/her

0 v E IB E put an end to it,” he said at the against cheating. “I’m just trying to

November came in u,ith a roar. time. “Even one student (caught Vancouver protested the presence cheating) is too much.” of the nuclear-powered aircraft car- National interest focused on rier USS Ranger., letters began UBC briefly when 300 natives OccU- flooding into The Ubyssey on the pied the Museum of A n t h r o p o b y abortion controversy, senate is out- for more than a day to protest the raged at the board’s rejection of its Liberal government’s Policy of erlrolment restriction re,:ommenda- “genocide and ethnicide.” Follow- tion, and the board - instead of ing that was a special Ubyssey issue approving an anticipaled 15 per on cults and fascist organizations, Cent tuition increase - ominously particularly the KKK, which was to delays its decision to Its January arouse tremendous campus debate meeting. and action.

Cuts, both rumored and real, And, oh yes, the computer ret- spur the faculty association into an ords on students were all destroyed emergency meeting where they at- in a freak accident that later turned tack the university’s firing plans out to be a fake accident, with Out- and secretive actions. Arts attacks raged response. former arts dean Kenny, arts dean Robert Will attacks a IJbyssey re- D E c E M E porter, trying to steal hi:, notebook, There was some good news and everyone attacks federal finance some bad news in December. First, minister Allan MacEachen who an- UBC demolished SFU 33-1 in the nounces a probable $6 billion cut in Shrum Bowl and the event would EPF, and provincial fin.mce minis- have have been a complete success ter Hugh Curtis attacks the federal government, claiming ils cuts will force a $400 tuition hike.

Student council remains compar- atively inactive, leaving rnuch of the anti-cutbacks fight to the SAE. AMS president Marlea Haugen is accused of having greater allegience to the UBC administration than to students.

The TAU, on the other hand, is very active. I t rejects the administration’s final offer, and calls a strike vote for the beginning of De- cember. The AMS employees settle with the AMS. Six Association of University and College Employees members are laid off.

Off campus, students begin fight- i n g the cuts. Douglas C’ollege students lock out the campus, and students throughout the province hold rallies and demonstratiox Nov. 26 arid 27.

had anyone attended. And Doug Kenny’s retirement, effective June 1983, was announced.

The bad news was that the TAU voted in faker of strike action. and with the administration’s intransi- gence on wages, a strike was more than likely in the new year. And, following exams and the departure of students, the Acadia Camp solar houses were torn down. The direc- tive was authorized by housing director Mike Davis, who had mysteriously resigned just three weeks before the event.

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Hasek, modern humor By BRIAN JONES

Although published almost 50 years after his death, the stories compiled in The Red Commissar remain relevant to the political and social problems of society today. Hasek’s originality, humor, and satire is a welcome change from the dry political commentaries that have come to dominate modern discussion.

The Red Commissar is a mixture of short fictional stories and autobiographical sketches. Hasek’s real life antics are just as amusing and original as those of his characters.

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In the course of his stories, Hasek somehow manages to intelligently yet tastefully ridicule religious rites, the law, society’s concept of justice, the education system, love, marriage, authority, business, and monarchy.

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Although not in chronological order, the stories in The Red Com- missar get more political, and more hilarious, toward the end of the book. The innocent and naive

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Hasek is a t his best in the last series of stories, compiled under the interesting title “The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law.” In 13 stories, Hasek manages to ridicule society’s ideas of democracy, elections, political parties, and freedom. But rather than simple condemnation, H a s e k s u p p l i e s a t h o u g h t - provoking analysis of society’s shortcomings. Perhaps his major achievement is that his offerings are as relevant today to the Western world’s system of democratic capitalism as they were to the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the early part of the century.

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Western neglect prolongs Eritrean war By ARNOLD HEDSTROM

The war in Eritrea is an almost forgotten

For more than twenty years the Eritrean people have fought a constant battle for national liberation from Ethiopian rule and centuries of colonial occupation by Turks, Egyptians, and Italians.

“The war has been hidden because the West no longer has an interest in the area,” says Eyob Goitom, comparing the war in his country to that of El Salvador and other Latin American countries.

Goitom is from Eritrea and is working towards a master’s degree in geography at UBC. He left Ethiopia in 1975, one year after the military take-over of Haile Salassie’s American-supported dictatorship. He is sponsored in Canada as a student and refugee by the UBC committee of the World University Service of Canada.

Before leaving Ethiopia, Goitom studied at the university in the Ethiopian capital of Ad- dis Ababa. “That was 1975,” he says. “A lot of Eritreans protested and left the country. Students were not looking for a change of masters. That is what happened - a change of one repressive government for another.”

Since 1974, the Ethiopian Durgue (the pro- visional military government) has mounted six genocidal offenses in Eritrea. In the latest attack this February, more than half of Ethiopia’s 240,000 armed forces were deployed in the territory. The forces are sup- plied and advised by the Soviet Union, Libya, Cuba and South Yemen.

Four million Eritrean people are fighting four large powers says Goitom. Until 1973, the war for national liberation was a hit and run guerrilla-style battle. But since then, the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF), fights an open and conventional style of war as well as the guerrilla battle.

“There has been a lot of destruction to homes. People have left their homes; people like myself. I don’t know where you could find a country without an Eritrean refugee,” says Goitom.

The “hidden” war is being fought without help from the West. Instead, through indirect aid from the European Economic Communi- ty,says Goitom, the West is supporting Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a drought-stricken country which receives international relief. But some food and supplies go to Ethiopian soldiers.

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The EPLF gets weapons from two main sources. Supplies and weapons come from groups supportive of Eritrea including women’s groups and other liberation organizations. A large number of weapons used by the Eritrean forces are captured from Ethiopia and its all.es. In the current offensive, Eritrea captured about 100 T-54 Soviet- made tanks and Luge quantities of other arms.

“With an uncdmmitted force, a lot of weapons,” emphasizes Goitom, “have been captured.”

Ethiopians are also oppressed by the Durgue. The war uses resources for destruction rather than economic development. Most of the cash crops go to the Soviet Union to pay for weapons. A recent report in the Globe and Mail said 753 Ethiopian soldiers were killed and many captured. War is

ERITREANS . . . captured Soviet tank used in liberation war

wasting both countries. But the Eritrean war is more than a quest

for succesion from Ethiopia. In both Ethiopia and Eritrea, people are fighting against imperialist-backed fascist dictator- ships. In Eritrea EPLF also works t o reconstruct society, end feudal structures and regain national identity taken away by years of external influence.

In 1896 Eritrea fell under Italian colonial rule. The colony was totally seperate from Ethiopia. But in 1941 the British occupied Eritrea as part of the allied strategy t o defeat Italian fascism in North Africa and Europe. The country remained a British protectorate until 1952.

In 1952, the United Nations decreed that Eritrea become a federated state together with Ethiopia but with a separate government. It was not too long after, that Selassie dissolved the Eritrean constitution and government.

‘‘I remember when 1 was in school. They (the Ethiopians) ordered all textbooks gathered and burned. Even private books were ordered burned,” says Goitom. Selassie also imposed laws against the Eritrean languages, culture, trade unions and legal system.

Since 1961, the Eritrean people have been fighting for political and social revolution.

,The early struggle lacked an ideological basis but through the Liberation Front the struggle has been expanded to include social development.

The ELPF’s social program includes economic reconstruction and social change. The Eritrean’s are also working to end the feudal social system. Part of their program includes upgrading the status of women and educating young people. Goitom says 35 per cent of the Eritrean fighting forces are women.

“The movement is more than fighting,” says Goitom. “It is hospitals literature and a self-run people’s war.”

Despite 20 years of war, the Ethiopian government still maintains that they will win the war. Since gaining power in 1974, Ethiopia continually declares to have eliminated the EPLF. The Durgue denies they are planning further attacks in Eritrea. A high-level Ethiopian diplomat, according to the Globe and Mail, said in February, “This is ridiculous. We’re waiting for them to give up.”

COUP behind martial law in Poland

By CHRIS WONG “The state of war will not last one minute

longer than is necessary. ” - Polish prime minister and military leader, General Wo- jciech Jaruzelski in his 1981 Christmas address.

“General Jaruzelski is a long time military man, and that means a long time communist. He has been for decades apart of the military appartatus of the entire Soviet bloc. I f there is no rebuilding of the communist party, the army may have to continue in the saddle for many years to come. ” - University of Toronto political economy professor, Gor- don Skilling.

Jaruzelski declared martial law in Poland on Dec. 13. Today, more than three months after this declaration, military rule is still a harsh reality in the country.

Alongside the repression of thousands of Solidarity sympathizers through the military rule, Poland has been beset by an economic crisis of serious proportions. Debts totalling $21 billion, and a widespread food shortage have crippled the country.

But despite world protests which include economic sanctions, Jaruzelski and his regime have stood steadfast in defence of

their actions which successfully crushed the Solidarity movement

The question remains: Was the Soviet Union, which intervened in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia n 1968 to stop reforms against the communist system, at work again in 1981 in Poland?

“It is quite inconcriveable that the Polish army could have acted independently without the approval, consultation and advice of the Moscow military c o r mandi’Gordon Skilling said at a Vancover h t i t u t e lecture Saturday.

Skilling, a specialist on Eastern European politics and active in the field of human rights, said an indirxt form of Soviet in- tervention was most likely aimed at Poland.

“But it was a much more desirable one from.the Soviet point of view than a direct military invasion,” he said. “It avoided the very high costs of a Soviet invasion.”

Many people in the western world have misinterpreted the events in Poland, said Skilling.

“It has to be recogrized that this was much more than the establishment of martial law. This was a military coup. It was.a takeover by the military comparable to that of Guatemala or Bangladesh. ”

“One can hardly place the blame for the establishment of the military dictatorship on the so-called extremist demands of Solidari- ty. Rather, I would put the blame on the future of the rulers I O grasp a program to take leadership in the reform movement ,” he added.

In condemning Poland’s present military regime, Skilling clained the “dirty work” has been done not b) the regular Polish army, but by the securii y police.

“They have been the ones, on the whole, who have gone into the factories, the mines, and the shipyards a l d have killed Polish workers. It’s only within the military framework of the martial law system that the

security police have been able to do their dirty work.”

The Solidarity movement began as a means to organize trade unions in Poland. But as its ranks swelled to 10 million members, it became clear they were seeking outright reforms, not merely as a trade union, but as a “political force of great magnitude and influence,” said Skilling.

He stressed the precedence of Solidarity. “This is the first time in Eastern European history that the working class as a whole advanced into the center of the stage as the major agent of change.”

“It was almost as Marx predicted it, except that the workers were not rising against capitalism, but against a deformed form of socialism.”

Skilling cited the Catholic church as the only force in the country that can remain publicly opposed to the military regime.

“The church has shown n o sign what- soever of retreating from its support of the reform movement. It’s a church though - it can’t play politics in the usual sense.”

The West missed an opportunity to support the Solidarity movement before the im- position of military rule, Skilling charged.

“I believe the West made a very serious miscalculation and an error of policy prior to the establishment of martial law, by failing to work out with the Poles, and in agreement with the Sovret Union if possible, a massive program of aid to Poland.”

Based on the regime’s performance to date, Poland’s troubles will continue said Skilling. “The present regime has shown no ability nor even willingness to deal with the economic crisis other than the enormous increase of prices that was introduced after the establishment of military law,” he said.

Skilling predicted there will be a major shock to the communist system in Eastern Europe.

“One can safely say that during the forty- odd years of communist rule in Eastern Europe, the system, with one or two exceptions, has been in a state of almost constant crisis. Eastern Europe is impatient - one country or another will explode very shortly.”

SKILLING . . . West misinterpreted events in Poland

T H E U B Y S S E Y Fridav, April 2, 1982

January tense for all 1-7 From page 7

month. After talks break down during the Christmas break between the union and UBC, the TAs vote to picket the campus Jan. 22, just four days before the SAE-organized Black Tuesday.

The month is tense for all con- stituencies. There is still n o word from Victoria on whether UBC will get a grant to cover the $7.4 million shortfall, although the Socreds decide to allow universities to go into debt to buy out tenured faculty.

An arsonist is on the loose at To- tem, and the partially constructed Home Economics building is discovered to be tilting.

The Trotskyist League club or- ganizes against The Ubyssey, claiming the article published in Novem- ber on the Ku Klux Klan is only a platform for the Klan. A small group circulates pamphlets and posters and occupies The Ubyssey office for two hours, shouting and impeding.

And then the sky falls down with the announcement of the retrenchment committee’s report. The bot- tom line is that $7.5 million will be pared from an already lean budget - less money than was spent on the shelved Pier B-C project. The cuts include: $500,000 from the arts faculty; $600,000 from the library’s operating budget; $3.7 million from non-faculty budgets. including $ 1 million from Physical Plant; $1.9 million from the faculty budget; and a recommended tuition fee increase of 30 to 33 per cent.

A $5 .2 million grant for the medicine faculty turns into a hot potato - McGecr says UBC can use the funds at its own discretion to allevi- ate the cuts, Kenny says i t is ear- marked for the faculty and he has not been told otherwise by the ministry. I n the end, i t is left with the medicine faculty.

Between the committee’s recom- mendations and Black Tuesday is a period of relative calm - further

cutbacks are announced every day, the TAU seeks campus support for its strike, and student senator and board of governor representative Neighbourhood elections are held.

The calm is broken, though. by Mini-Storage I the TAU’S decision to cancel. the strike and settle for 15 per cent and a weak union security clause, a decision which angers many of the 1 grouDs on campus who supported - . and DreDared for the strike.-Three

march across campus to bury quality education at the entrance to the Old Administration building -just hours before the board decides to raise tuition an average of 32.8 per cent and impose enrolment restrictions on engineering.

The same day, Dave Dale and Ron Krause are declared the newly elected board representatives and Sharon Provost, William Milosevic, Michael Shepard, Bob Summerball, Stephen Henderson, Chris Fulker and Ken Freeman are elected to senate.

Yet another election was held at the end of the month, this time for AMS executives and two referen- dums, SUB renovations and the funding of a Public Interest Re- search Group. The good/bad news, depending on how you feel, was: president, Dabe Frank (former SUS president); vice president, Cliff Stewart; finance director, James Hollis (former external affairs co- ordinator); administration director, Terry Cox (incumbent); external affairs, Cynthia Southard. PLRG, renovations and a ballot box were smashed.

The month ended with council gearing up to deal with the on- slaught of engineering week and the notorious Lady Godiva ride, decid- ing to ask the RCMP to arrest Lady Godiva if she indecently exposes herself.

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Friday, April 2, 1982 T H E U B Y S S E Y ____

Sports sputter to stop By SCOTT McDONALD

Last year’s football team was one of the worst. This year the opposite is true.

UBC captured the Western lnter- collegiate Football league title with a 7-1 record. The ‘Birds were led by the strongest defence in the country and the best rusher in the country.

The defence was anchored by Rob Waite, drafted by the Calgary Stempeders, Bernie Glier, Don Moen and David Singh - drafted by the B.C. Lions - and Mike Emery and Jason Riley, who were

picked as Canadian all-: tars. Emery was picked top defensive back in the Canadian Inter- collegiate Athletic Union.

The offence centred around the running exploits of running back Glen Steele. Steele was the top ground gainer in the country, named to the Canadian all-star team and picked Canadian rookie of the year.

UBC lost in the Western final 11-8 to the University of Akerta, the eventual Canadian champions.

The football team finishec. the

year with a 8-3 record. This included a 33-1 shellacking of Simon Fraser University in the Shrum Bowl.

The women’s field hockey team was another successful first term team. UBC captured the Canada West title for the second year in a row and then went on the nationals where they finished third.

UBC finished with seven points to eight for the University of Toronto and UVic. in the round- robin national championship.

Toronto, tied with UBC 1-1 in the round-robin, won the national title.

A team that started our great and then died was the soccer team. The ‘Birds went 3-0-1 in the first half of the season and 0-3-1 in the second half. Danny Sudyeko a.1d Alan Sigurdson were named to the second Canadian all-star team.

Even though Sudyeko and Sigurdson will be back nexl. year the team will still struggle. Thc offence %as anemic and this wil. not be helped when Bruce Biles, this year’s top offensive player, graduates.

Basketball? Yes, basketball was played at UBC - when UVic, Alberta, Calgary and Saskatchewan visited War Memorial. It was not a good year for UBC’s teams. The men finished the season 15-17 and the women were 0-20. The men were lead by Bob Forsyth who was UBC’s male athlete of the year. The women’s stalwart was Kathy Bultitude.

Things will be different next year. Although Forsyth will not be back the ‘Birds will be. Pat Viest and Lloyd Scrubb, two first-year players, were impressive b), the end of the season.

Next year. will also mark the first time in 20 years that Peter Mullins will not be the head basketball coach. Mullins is taking a sabbatical, so Bob Molinski will take over for the year. This wil. be very beneficial for basketball at UBC because recruiting is not one of Mullin’s strong points. Molinski is a very successful high school coach and should be able to attract top athletes to UBC.

The women did not get blown out a:, badly as they did last year. The

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UBC athletics finally changing By SCOTT McDONALD

Twenty years ago UBC had no choice but to be one of the best athletic schools in the country. There was no recruiting because there was no competition for student athletes. I f someone wished to compete in B.C. at the university level, they went to UBC.

Things began to change in the mid ’60s when Simon Fraser Uni- versity opened. SFU offered schol- arships and started attracting athletes who would normally have gone to UBC. The UBC sport hurt most was football. With a diminish- ing base of local talent to draw from, the better athletes headed for SFU because the football program

there was becoming known as a stepping stone to the pros.

UBC fell another step behind in 1976 when the University of Vic- toria changed its attitudes toHards athletics. UVic split its sports into two levels. Level one sports were to have major emphasis and the scbool tried to acquire the best cozches possible and upgrade its facilities, so these sports could compete with the best in Canada. The second level sports would not be promoted as intensively and would only (:om- Pete locally and in the nor thww.

While SFU and UVic were taking these measures, UBC was continuing on a bureaucratic path.

With its incredible range of

sports, UBC athletics ran the whole gamut from good to bad. The athletic department could not provide direction because it was too busy just keeping the bureaucracy afloat. University athletics had changed and UBC had not changed with it.

Obviously this was not the case with all the teams at UBC, but i t was with the department as a whole.

In the summer of 1980 the UBC athletic department was revamped in an effort to return UBC to the position it once held. Bob Hind- march became the director of athletics and sport services and Rick Noonan was appointed men’s athletic director. Previously, one person filled both roles.

While this creates another level of bureaucracy it also enables Hind- march and Noonan to direct their efforts in a specific area.

The women’s athletic department is also benefiting from the reorgani- Lation. Under athletic director Marilyn Pomfret, home 1’s athletics is now able to better promote itself both on and off the campus.

Women’s athletics made some major coaching changes thl-ee years ago, when Sandy Silver was hired as the women’s volleyball coach and Gail Wilson was appointed full time field hockey coach.

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junior varsity team was probably better than the varsity because some players preferred to play with the junior team.

The women’s team will finally have a good recruiting year. Most of the good high school players d o not want to go to UVic, which has won three straight national championships, because they know they will not play for two or three years. at UBC these players will get a lot of floor time starting in their first year.

Hockey is another sport that is being rebuilt successfully. Since the early ‘70s hockey at UBC has hit hard times. The last two years have been especially bad. This year was not great standings-wise, but very successful in terms of direction.

A new coach, Jack Morris, was hired and he has proven to be a s t r o n g l e a d e r a n d t e a c h e r . Recruiting has also improved. The school is going after players from major junior teams like the Victoria Cougars and Seattle Breakers. There will be two players from the Cougars and one from the Breakers playing for UBC next year.

Next year thtre will be one and maybe two national volleyball championship teams on campus. The Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union championships will be here and, as host, UBC is automatically invited.

Why does UBC look so good for next year? It beat Calgary two out of three matches after Christmas and Calgary walked on the eastern teams in the nationals. UBC is also a young team and will not lose any players to graduation.

UBC placed Chris Frehlick and Paul Thiessen on the second Canada West team and Brad Willock on the first team. Willock was also named to the ClAU second team and has been asked to tryout for the national team.

The UBC women will also be strong contenders for the national title next year. Like the men, the women did not have a very good start to the league. I t also took them longer to get it together and i t was not until the last tournament of the year before UBC started to defeat the top teams.

UBC is losing Carol Pollock and Collen Cole, a second team Canada West all-star, to graduation. Tara Senft was named to the first Canada West team and UBC coach Sandy Silver expects Senft, Karen

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Top male and female athletes of the year For outstanding achievements

The winner of the Bobby Gaul Memorial Trophy for the nale athlete of the year was basketball player Bob Forsyth.

The Gaul trophy goes to the, top athlete who has high acad:mic marks and is in his fourth yea].

Forsyth has played for the varsity basketball team for four years. Three of those years at centre.

Each year he has been the team’s leading scorer and he finished his career as UBC’s top all time point getter with 2142 points.

At 6’ 5” 215 Ibs. Forsyth i:; the smallest centre in the Canda ‘West league. Despite this disadvar tage Forsyth has usually been able to outplay his opponents.

Forsyth’s top game this year was against the University of Winr.ipeg whee he grabbed eight rebomds and tossed in 38 points.

Winner of UBC’s Sparling Trophy for female athlete of the

Thomasson. Assistant coach Ken Radford

said Thomasson was instrumental in the success of UBC’s swimming team. “She is the major reason for the success of the women’s team as a whole,” he said.

Thomasson, honored at a UBC women’s athletics awards banquet in March, is a member of Canada’s national swim team and a triple gold medal winner at the recent Canadian collegiate championships.

She established herself immediately in university competition by going undefeated in any individual races in each of UBC’s dual meets. Then in the Canada West conference Championships, held in Calgary in February, she won the 200 metre individual medals in new record time, won the 100 metre freestyle, placed second in the 400, and swam on two of

F O R S ~ H . . . top male y e a r w a s s w i m m e r R o l l d a UBC’s second-place relay teams. THOMASSON . . . top female

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RCMP deals, AMs apathy lead to lock out of gears

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F E B R U A R Y The month begins ominously

with the Lady Godiva ride, and i t quickly becomes clear that the RCMP decided to ignore the ride. EUS president Lance Balcom ad- mits a "deal" was made with the RCMP, and AMS president Marlea Haugen is criticized for delaying council's letter, which contains the request to arrest Godiva, to the RCMP.

The law students association wo-

men's committee, together with other campus groups, file a complaint with the B.C. ombudsoffice, citing the failure of the administration, RCMP and human rights branch to deal with the ride and the Red Rag.

And the cutbacks continue, with sports programs the latest victim. But finally council decides to join with the SAE in fighting the cuts, pledging an era of "new cooperation." The move comes not a minute too soon, as premier Bill Ben- nett announces a 12 per cent freeze on funding increases, and the hope of a $7.4 million grant to cover UBC's deficit dies.

Planning begins on a massive protest march for the next month, [he same week SFU announces cuts totalling $ 1 million, including the football and track and field programs. UBC announces 46 layoffs in the Physical Plant department - 45 of the workers women. Resi- dence rates are hiked 15 to 20 per

eviction from the Acadia Camp daycare centres. B.C. Institute of Technology students are hit with a 25 per cent tuition increase.

All in all, a most depressing month. M A R C H

- With the never-ceasing cutbacks

fading into just another part of the UBC landscape, March focussed instead upon the EUS's Red Rag. Two off-campus groups asked the association of professional engineers of B.C. to take action against the society - the action appeared shortly thereafter, in the form of a letter chastising the undergraduate society. But in between came the most dramatic move in the annual controversy - the UBC administration padlocked the doors of the EUS office, the Cheese Factory, in- definitely and EUS president Lance Baicom announced that the Red Rag was dead.

And another chapter in the ongoing saga of professor Julius Kane

UBC sports and more sports From page 1 1

Blair and Kelly Meechan to be her team leaders next year.

Rugby had a very weird season. UBC started off the year w i p a tour of Ireland where they went 4-1-1. Most teams that tour Ireland are fortunate to win half their games.

uBC also ended the season on a positive note. I t was the middle part that was a little scary. UBC had a poor season i n Vancouver league play and did not c a n e close i n McKechnie Cup play.

The season ended with UBC u i n - ning the International Invitatwnal tournarnent at the University of

have been named to the Western Canada team, with Russell as cap- tain.

Patti Sakaki led the gymnastics team to excel in college gymnastics. The women's team finished second in the Canada West meet and second in the Canadian championships.

Saskaki was the-overall winner in both meets.

The swimmlng and diving teams had good coaching and the result5 \houed it. The men finished fifth i n the country and the women second.

Best pertormancc at the nationals uas turned i n by swimmer Khonda

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been trying to add to the quality coaches i t already has. The athletic department will also t ry to make i t easier on some of these coaches by reducing their teaching loads so they can spend more time coaching and recruiting.

There are still some rubbish coaches here. You can tell who they are by looking at their records and seeing i f there is upward movement, or just oscillation depending on who happens to play on the team that year.

Several coaching changes took place this year. Jack Moores took over the hockey program from Bert Halliwell, who returned to school back east. Boris Klavora was appointed the rowing coach and Bob Molinski will handle the men's basketball team while Peter Mullins takes a sabbatical.

After one year at the helm Moores has been asked back, which is fortunate because he is already starting to turn around a dismal hockey program.

Hiring Klavora is the first step toward returning rowing to the level i t once held when i t used to win

medal, in the Olympics. Now the athletic department must find the funds to insure the rowing teams have adequate equipment. Klavora is a former member of the Yugo- slavian national team and is now a Canadian national coach.

The worst move the athletic department could make would be not rehire Dale Ohman as the men's volleyball coach. Ohman is a masters student who graduates this year, and the athletic department is trying to find the funds to keep him on next year. Ohman is developing national and international players and it would be stupid not to rehire him.

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was named the women's team of the year.

The women's curling team was largely ignored by the press even though i t won the Canada West title and the gold medal at the B.C. Winter games.

A UBC athlete who was an all- American? The UBC skiing team competes in an American league and skier John Hilland was named an all-American for winning the skimeister award at the U.S. national championships.

The men's team finished second at the championships out of 125 [cam\.

was added when an investigation committee decided to suspend him for 18 months without pay. The decision came five years after Kane was accused of using research grants and UBC's computer for personal profit, two years after he was served a three month suspension and convicted of theft, and one year after Doug Kenny decided to dismiss Kane but instead formed a committee to deal with the matter.

More notoriety came to UBC with The Ubyssey's coverage of a speech by math professor and Van- couver alderman Nathan Divinsky, where he slammed pregnant single women, saying "No one asked her to uncross her legs." The affair was extensively covered in the commercial media, and although Divinsky wrote a letter to clarify the situation, it did not satisfy his de- tractors.

One week later, the long-awaited Day of Protest arrived. More than 1,000 students filled Vancouver's downtown streets, 300 of them from UBC, to protest the cuts and make the public aware of the problems facing education. The Vancou- ver march was matched by protests across the country: 600 in Victoria, 3,500 in Edmonton, 3,000 in Mont- real and 3,000 in Toronto, to name a few.

On the lighter side of campus life, students stormed the wall again, although one man later regretted it after leaving the site with a broksn leg. Thousands participated in the arts week apathy day, and slightly fewer in the law students tricycle race.

But controversy still simmered on campus. The graduate student association moved on autonomy, seeking to gain control of the Grad centre, but was opposed by the administration and a small group of grad

students. An independent management report found that the administration had mismanaged the grad centre, and after the grad student opposition was found to have published fake letters in The Ubyssey, grad students voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new constitution and autonomy for the society.

Also trying for autonomy was The Ubyssey. But the final tally after a week long referendum showed that while support was present for editorial autonomy, quorum was not reached to carry the decision. Students opposed financial autonomy for the newspaper.

As the month drew to a close, students found that summer jobs were scarce, job seekers numerous, and the decision to cut $5.7 billion from EPF a guarantee of higher tuition fees and less aid. "I may not be back i f I don't get any money this summer," said one student.

T H E Y E A R This past year is marked mostly

by funding cuts and increasing student awareness and protest of them. Month after month, further cuts were announced, proposed or modified, but by the middle of Feb- ruary students appeared to be almost inured to their consequences, until the March protest revived vo- cal interest.

Despite the threat to its very existence, though, student life continued much as i t always had, marked with political spats, triumphs and pratfalls and the annual events such as storm the uall, boat races, and tb Arts '20 race.

But i t next year's cuts are an)- thing like this year's, i t may well be that student life will take a far different turn. and one that seems to be only tor the horse.

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Friday, April 2, 1982 T H E U B Y S S E Y ”

Paula ROSS: a Sunday’s child “The artist is like Sunday’s child - he

alone sees spirits. But, after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them,” wrote Goethe in one of countless attempts to justifv and explain the ways of the artist to society.

By FELICIA ALLEN Paula Ross, founder and choreographer of

the Paula Ross Dance Company and an 18 year veteran of the Vancouver dance scene, has devoted her life to interpreting the spirits. The depth and breadth of her insight over- whelms many a theatergoer. We enter a world of dance that is breathtaking. Ross probes the universal wound in all of us.

One of the most singularly impressive aspects of Ross’ work is that the viewer does not remain a mere observer. We become the embodiment of a reality that we hesitantly move into, that we feel in our depths.

Ross has reached her choreographic prime and is receiving nationwide acclaim. The interview was held at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre where she recently finished an engagement.

Your name has become sjnonymous with Canadian dance, the reviews have been excellent, you’re working on a film - you’ve blossomed into an exciting and creative choreographer. Has i t been a struggle?

Yes. I would like to think the struggle isn’t over yet. The primary sense of the struggle has been the lack of room necessary to choreograph. We weren’t working in a theater like the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. We began by performing in our theater cubicle space at the studio on West Broadway.

This led to the audience, the dancers and myself becoming uncomfortable with the en- vironment where the performance was. It simply wasn’t big enough. Therefore I’m en- joying the whole repartie of it here.

How old were you when you first began? My formal training began at the age of six.

I was on the road at fifteen. At the age of 24 I decided to choreograph and came home. 1 have been here ever since. The most purely creative time in my life was probably when I was a kid - six, seven, eighL years old. I’ve always tried to redefine that throughout rny teens to my 50s.

What are the themes, feelings and ideas you’re trying to express in jour work?

I don’t think they’re translatable. We started years ago by calling i t visual poetry because i t seemed to be catchy. At that time 1 wasn’t quite sure what I was looking for in communication. But now I’ve changed the visual poetry world to universal tribal metaphor. I’m trying to communicate sen- sibilities and feelings that don’t have words for me.

Being part Indian, how extensive is jour use‘of Indian images and symbolism in your work?

I don’t have any knowing sense of Indian symbolism in my work. Artistically, I express myselffor myself. We’re living in a world SO

strong and small. There are so many varying degrees of inhumanity and so many different issues. One’s breedinz doesn’t have a lot to do with any of i t . Of course I am very interested in Native rights but 1 don’t think one necessarily has to be a breed Indian to feel strongly about Native rights. To some extent Indian symbolism probably appears in my work since 1 feel strongly akin to my family, not to natives per se.

Your work has been criticized in some quarters as having a quality of “suppressed violence about it.” What is your reaction to this criticism?

I don’t have one. I think most things have to d o with the society we have built and most things are suppressed. Including the architec- ture. We have grown a 250 year old spillover of cement on the North American Continent.

To express ‘suppressed” in the theater is pretty wonderful. That a dance can express that without it being through the intellect but through a unit as a kind of metaphor, I’m pleased. If they are pertaining to Coming Together - ( i t does show suppressed violence.)

I wouldn’t like to hear that comment with regards to Paulatics, Embracable You, To An Unseen Friend or one of the lighter pieces. They aren’t really lighter are they? But they have a different loving quality i n them.

You mentioned that sou have a famil). Mow do you manage financially to keep the

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company alive and yourself going? Is there government funding available? Is i t suffi- cient?

My feeling as an artist is that I cannot blame the government and its funding, nor the public, i f I choose to do an art while having three kids and not a lot of money to raise them.

I think as a pro’essional woman 1 have to take my lumps in the same way as i f I were a mere choreograph-r and single. I t has been very difficult but .o this point in time there has been no other way to do it. In a lot of funding areas you must bring in 25 per cent of the box office n order to get the money you need. I am n3t in control of that. My mandate is to choIeograph to the best of my ability.

Yes. I think that the designing of c o l o ~ ~ r and wardrobe is visually very important. I don’t believe in sets. I like to play with shapcs and ephemeral qualities that don’t last. Just like structures in dance only last for minutes. I like that feeling of minutes.

In Strathcona Park it seems to me that there was an interesting use of symbolism in the sense that the female dancers were weap ing long, flowing capes and the male dancers, the masks. What was behind that?

I don’t know ,what’s really fully behind that except for my vacations in Strathcona Park. But I d o have an over-simplified sense of how 1 see many women. I see women a.s having a pure gift of civility. Men have a gill of diplomacy.

I have a confession to make. As an audience member on four successive evenings, my understanding of your work did not become fully developed until after the third viewing. Then i t was love at first sight! Is this unusual?

I think that i f someone sees my work four or five times they would find the metaphors almost irresistable. However, a lot of the audience of the Paula Ross Dance Company come once and they don’t give it another shot. Out of the audience that comes on first viewing, we’re ma!,be getting 15 to 20 per cent of them in the Ensuing visit. I n the third and fourth viewing it’s down to maybe five but those five per cent are there all the time.That’s how we’ve stayed alive all these years.

Would you say that people toda? are more aware of dance?

I don’t see how. Why? Well with technology and money being the

way it is . . . I just don’t see enough dance. Dance was a pure, expressive form reflecting how the family and 2verything in the past got itself together. I don’t feel that our society, with all the distracti Ins coming in on people, could be as keyed t o movement.

Tell us about the company and its structure. During the pa!,t 15 years, you have frequently changed dancers, except for a few, such as Leslie Mano.ing . . .

Anne Harvey and Don McLeod have been with the company f3r nine years. .411 of the dancers in the company with the exception of one in this season h:,ppen to come out of the training at the school The Paula Ross Dance Company cannot b: discussed as a dancer learning technique.

Some people becc me permanent members and stay with it like Leslie. It’s wonderful because we’re all g i n g the same way and that’s what holds us together.

What else besides instructing the dancers does your job as chcreographer invohe? For example, do you do the lighting and costumes?

ROSS . . . alive and well in Vancouver

One can deal with the beauty of Strathcona Park in other essences when men, under the form of diplomacy, who have power and play a chess game, because of their civility, have a tendency to react to situations like that compassionately.

At one point in the piece the men are gently enveloped by the women’s capes and we see men and women unifj into one: a complete. Visually this presents an image of the women as protectors . . .

I don’t think it’s as much the protector as i t is this re1ation:ship between men and women since the beginning of time. It never ceases to astonish me how molded we are. The simple fact of the matter is that during 40 years of life, most of which I have spent married, one realizes that through the struggle of one man and one woman you can see a struggle through everything.

One sees where the trouble and emotion and misunderstanding can come about. On a macrocosmic scale 1 think that we’re all pathetic; that we can’t feed the children of the world. Maybe that’s where the frustration comes from in a lot of my work. It makes me desperate that children can starve to death.

Tell me a little bit about The Bridge. The costumes are magnificent, exuding mystery, sharpness, cogtrast. What inspired you?

I want to be able to share a fun way to dissipate a very strong pattern. Webster’s dictionary says choreograpny is the design ot dance. Some of the designs in my mind can be very, very fascist. They can be so stronnlv developed and so precise that the preciseness doesn’t act as the metaphor of communication for one little thought or feeling. Between the dancers and myself, I wanted to take this immense look in costume and play with i t . Knouing it’s only a dance; making i t very human in the end.

Every season I have a different piece. Do you have a favorite piece?

Which is i t this season? 1,’s Strathcona Park. 1 am really thrilled at

the response to Strathcona Park. It is a piece without music, reflecting the elegance of the performers. Its strings are so concentrated that if the artist drops those strings on the floor, it becomes an unbearable 15 minutes of boredom. The dancers hold it and they have not let i t drop. To see eight people care very much for a work and not drop their strings is to me a wonderful gift.

The upcoming film. Tell us about it. It’s very exciting. I don’t know which

category the film fits into but David Rim- mer and 1 have had a very exciting year on i t . Co-operatively, it’s been magic. We have done Coming Together, you know, choreographing a two minute circle, I5 seconds to the angle, all 360 degrees and its got to be there! Condensing it to IO minutes whereas the theater performance is 30 minutes.

Then tnere’s another part that started as Strathcona Park but i t is not Strathcona Park . . . at the moment I can only think of i t as Red Is The Colour Of My True Love’s Roots. 1 don’t even know why I say that except i t makes people laugh. Maybe I heard it in showbusiness years ago but 1 think it’s such a wonderful title. I t deals with Strathcona Park and living in B.C. Coming Together is a blockbuster on the film, Red Is The Color Of My True Love’s Roots is quietly significant visually.

Being an 18 year veteran of the Vancower dance scene, khat does i t mean to live on the West Coast?

I’m happy here. I belong here. Maybe that has to do with the sea, the mountains, my people or watching the town change. 1 really feel it’s mine. To have a dance company on the West Coast. financially, administratively and everything is madness! 1 mean I’m mad - 18 years of madness. I mean how do you keep a dance company that long? But that is what people don’t understand. 1 didn’t keep the dance company going, the dance company kept itself going all that time.

For the first 12 years we had no funds, but our halls were always full. 1 was not very honed in those years but I was very creative. That held. The dancers would hang in as long as they could, having to work day jobs and then doing night rehearsals. The dance company will always be here as long as there are dancers who can struggle for it and 1 can be of service to create dances for them. But I cannot foresee in the future allowing the elements to exist that would make the company into an institution. That’s a very dangerous wire to walk on.

What happens when Paula Ross decides to retire?

I wouldn’t like to see my choreography carried on because 1 do have a feeling which sounds a little bit naive, although I don’t mean it to, and that is I don’t believe in death-dances. I like what the (George) Balan- chine company did I O the Firebird. I like to think of all the things 1 d o as being in little periods of time. The performing a n is precious. Precious meaning it doesn’t have a self-life. As long as there is a relationship where dancers want to dance my work and people will come and see it, i t will stay very healty and very alive. Films and video, that’s a totally different kind of communication but it isn’t the same as live. I mean, ‘Go home and watch i t on television you can see i t closer’ - that kind of mentality is taking over. People are accostumed to the great sets. Technology has made i t so that you’ve got great equipment for the ears and everything. That’s wonderful, but it’s not as wonderful as the real thing. There’s nothing in this wor/d like sitting in thefront row watching a live performance! Film and video, those are different changes in vehicles.

To coin a phrase, is dance well and alive in Vancouver?

I think dancers and choreographers are alive and well in Vancouver. 1 don’t know about the other arts. But I do know that 1 am alive and very well in Vancouver.

Anything else? Yes. 1 would like to add that when I first

started choreopgaphing we wouldn’t have been able to manage without the UBC Alma Mater Society that brought in dance performances to the little theatre by the cafeteria. The students that were interested in the arts would invite us to perform there, fight for money, extra lighting, a gallery show to go along with i t for us, without the help of those students in ’ 6 4 u p . . . we wouldn’t have gotten, we wouldn’t have been able to . . . there wasn’t any place to perform.


Food for thought in Andre dinner

GREGORY. . . Andre

By SHAFFIN SHARIFF In My Dinner with Andre, two men who

haven’t seen each other in years sit down for a dinner conversation, and talk about life for more than 100 minutes. The illusion is that these are real individuals, not screen characters following a very clever script. For half the appeal of My Dinner with Andre is the subtle theatricality that goes on between the two.

Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, who wrote the film, and who as Wally and Andre are the central figures in i t , have a delectable prospect at hand: to treat the audience to a modern Platonic dialogue, a dialectic in which the non-verbal communication is as important as what is being said. My Dinner with Andre must be one of the most impressive films ever made because of what i t does with film structure.

But at first glance, Louise Malle’s film appears to-have the least innovative structure, after all, what is so special about having a two camera set-up and cutting back and forth between the two men as they have a fine meal and talk about their experieces? Everything because My Dinner with Andre is no ordinary meal - and no ordinary film.

Both Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn belong to the theatre. Gregory was once the Manhattan theatre project’s acclaimed direc-

as actor and character

tor, whose production of Alice in Wonderland ran for over five years in New York. Wallace Shawn is a writer who has had five plays produced, most of them at Joe Papp’s public theatre. Shawn and Gregory are friends, and what they have constructed in My Dinner with Andre is a thinking man’s joke, an elaborately clever game friends sometimes concoct at parties to fool everyone.

My Dinner with Andre Written by Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory Directed by Louis Malle Playing at the Bay

The pretense for the film is Wally’s first meeting with Andre in more than four years; he is anxious, uncomfortable. Even before he meets Andre, he expresses concern about their scheduled dinner date. “The whole idea of meeting him made me very nervous,” he says. “ I mean I really wasn’t up for this sort of thing. I had problems of my own.” H e may even be feeling guilty about seeing An- dre. “After doing my play, something had happened t o Andre.”

The Andre Wally sees is not the same man he knew four years ago. His first words to Andre are, “You look terrific.” Andre

undercuts him immediately: “Well, thank YOU, I feei terrible,” he says.

As Wally and Andre sit down for dinner, the purpose of the excercis becomes clear. I t is elaborated in Andre’s story about his experiences in Poland with Jerry Grotowsky, the great director, who, like Gregory, left the mainstream theatre to set up the fringe groups interested in improvisation. “What you are doing, in fact, is asking those questions that Stanislavski said the actor should constantly ask himself as a character - Who am I ? Why am I here? Where do I come from? and Where am I going - but instead of applying them to a role, you apply them to yourself,” he tells Wally.

These are the questions the two figures ask themselves during the course of My Dinner with Andre. Andre and Wally are Laurel and Hardy figures transplanted in a near- Beckettian world. The physical differences between Andre and Wally initially make them seem like stock theatrical figures whose features reveal their personalities. Shawn’s dumpy demeanor and jovial face make him out to be immensely likable and identifiable; he’s the Everyman figure set up as a foil for Andre’s esoteric narratives about redefining the human self. Andre, on the other hand, is ascetically slim and intellectual - the modern guru who once abandoned the city and went to Tibet to live in a monastery.

When Andre pauses during his narratives, all Wally can say is “uh-huh,” “Yes,” “Right,” and “Mm-hmm.” Wally doesn’t pretend to be bewildered because he is stupid. Rather, his “brief” remarks become biting satiric comments on Andre’s spiritual spools. To Wally, Andre is so caught up in trying to live life spiritually, he’s off on a tangent, saying things that frequently lose their cohesiveness. When Andre suddenly says, “ I really feel that everything I’ve done is horrific, just horrific,” he astounds Wally, whose first response it, “My God - but why?” Wally is the materialist, the Epicurean to whom comfort is an electric blanket.

For the first hour, Wally ‘says almost nothing; he lets Andre do the talking. Wally starts talking when Andre asks him if he ever expresses his feelings about what people say to him, and then i t is Andre’s turn to listen to his friend. The conversation soon turns to art, and the theatre’s social function. ‘‘I actually d o believe that the theatre can be very important - it can actually help people come in contrast with reality,” Wally says.

Andre and Wally are characters on film, not people captured in a documentary about two friends having a conversation. Although much of what is said in My Dinner with An- dre is, in the final analysis, fictitious. Part of the confusion of character and actor is obviously intentional. Andre’s statement about Stanislavski and the necessary interior in- spiration for the actor is a clear allusion

The thesis behind such an approach is that Andre and Wally have become performers, actors who are giving a performance as well as indulging in one between themselves. But what the film has to say about such pretense is important. Even in this deliberate play acting - and one can just imagine how much fun the participants-screenwriters had with the material - truths emerge. Andre may sound pretentious and hollow, but he makes an impression on Andre. The last lines of the film come from Wally, who says, “When I finally came (home), Debby (his girlfriend) was home from work, and I told her everything about my dinner with Andre.”

Almost nothing in Andre’s arguments is particularly original, but their effect is sur- pr is ingly enl ightening and thought- provoking. Sometimes, i t takes us a moment to catch the drift of Andre’s narratives, and we feel lost - like Wally. It is not that we consistently identify with Wally, because part of the film’s pleasure is that it very neatly distances us from both characters and com- pels us to look at them objectively. This is what film historians frequently like to call “degree zero” (to paraphrase Jean-Luc Godard) in describing the effect New Wave films have on viewers.

We feel with Andre when he makes a pas- sionate plea f o r a new theatre movement. “Plays are great. but what kind of plays are appropriate today? It’s very confusing. Because, for instance - for instance, I think if you put on serious contemporary plays by writers like yourself,” he tells Wally, “you may only be helping to deaden the audience in a different way. 1 mean, there was a time when contemporary plays of a certain kind would have had a prophetic function and would have been warnings to people, but now I think there has been such a degenera- tion, and the world is so dnrk and cold, that even those works which once were outcries against darkness can now only contribute to the deadening process.”

Louie Malle, once an assistant to Robert Bresson, has his master’s understated style of filmmaking. Who could not like the subtle and illiterate allegory in his prekious Atlan- tic City? It may take you a little while, to realize it, but My Dinner is an elaborately structured film. For example, every course in the meal is brought at a particular time in the convesation - the progression of the dinner is directly proportional to the progression of Andre and Wally’s discourse. And the waiter who serves Andre and Wally appears to have no real function at all as a character, but he is exactly the kind of man Andre fears humani- ty is becoming. The consistently tortured look on his face confirms Andre’s observations about the state of urban man.

After seeing the film, you may feel inex- plicably exhilarated, compelled to tell friends and colleagues about your dinner with A n - ’

to Andre and Wally. dre.

f Clark’s Porky’s big hog-like Red Rag By SHAFFllri SHAHIFF

Imagine yourself reading the Red Rag.

Imagine yourself reading the Red Rag despite the warning on the cover.

Imagine yourself laughing at jokes inside the Red Rag.

Imagine yourself liking the Red Rag and thinking I t a harmless little publication.

I m a g i n e y o u r s e l t l i k i n g Porky’s.

Porkj‘s Directed h> Boh Clarh Plajing at Odron

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Porky’s is a ne\\ ,:cjIli<’dy directed by Canadian Bob Clark. whose previous credit< Include Murder by Death and l’ribute. To hear Clark talk about h i > film, you’d think Porhy’y u a s j u s t vulgar version of American Graf- f i t i . I t isn’t.

Porky’s, which attempt\ to deal with a group of adolescents, takes as its premise the notion [!:at hack in the O OS, back in the good old days, young men \\ere “\sild,

crazy,” and fervently heterosex- ual - as movies of the age and the latter beach blanket bores tried to convince us. The men of Angel Beach - talk about echoes of nostalgia and bad movies - continually engage in outrageous sexual antics. They visit Porky’s, a strip joint-brothel, get kicked out, and then take revenge and display their homegro\sn, all-American machimo. Boys were still bovs bach then.

The lack of awareness for the social milieu of a period is appeal- ing and more than a little disturb- ing. Porhy’s is \o caught u p i n its o u n sexual antics, ii pays little attention t o the 1.AueC i t i s pro- moting.

As Clark has stated, Porky’s is a “rites of passage” mo\ie, a film about growing up as a young American in the ’50s . “The milieu in which I grey u p \\ab sexist. racist. and that’b the world I’m t r y i n s to reflect,” he rccently told a g r o u p of North American C U I - lege press uriterr i n L.os Angeles. “The mythology of the cra has

much r e l evancy a s Greek mythology,” he says.

Seeing Porky’s though, you’d never realize that Clark had anything more serious in mind than graphically depicting a few adolescent fantasies on screen. There is a an outrageous shower scene in the film that is bound to leave most of the audience in stit- ches, amazed at the film’s daring versintilitude.

What is most offensive about Porky’s is its portrayal o f women. Despite Clark’s valiant attempt to defend the film, it is clear that the film perpetuates sexual myths about wornen that most men probably accept. Becauie Porky’s i s a comedy - and not a subtle one at that t o o - om: i h iihcly t o enjoy its humor and loose a n x e n e s s of this film’\ itereotypical por- t raya ls . T.he ma jo r f ema l r characters i n Porky’s 31-e all n y n - phomaniacs; for example, one is a high school senior who embar- rasses her date for wearing a cnn- rraccptive, another is a gym tcacher who wailr i n [!le men’s locker room and finds the men’5

gym strips intoxicating; and another, Miss Beullah Ballbricker (Nancy Parsons), is the moralistic, frigid instructor who lashes out passionately at the end of the film.

Also, the film deal5 with anti- semitism by having as its token Jewish character a young man \sit!] a prominent, wealthy family, and a flashy red Jaguar that set\ him apar t f rom a l l ot!ler characters. He is aixj the imark one who teachcs the gentiles t h e

right way to seek revenge against Pork) ’s. Who ever said Jews aren’t wealthy, skillful, and smarter than any gentile on the face of this earth?

C o m i n g out of a downtohn L,4 theatre o n a Saturday afternoon, most writers found the film offen- \ive. a f e u thought the film had funn:; parts, but a!l were inclined to rii\miss the film, saying i! \va\ pur.c.1; I‘or rhe Stripe; crowc!. Thc:, yaw i t too much credi:.

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White‘s

By JULIE WHEELWRIGHT Recently many women novelists, forgotten

by mainstream publishers in their own time have been “rediscovered” and reprinted. One such author to resurface is Antonia White whose novels were first published in 1933.

The four novels recently reprinted by Lester and Orpen Dennys follow White in fictionalized biography from age nine to 23 through her school girl days, a bad marriage and mental collapse. White began Frost In May, her first novel, when she was only 16. Of the four, it is her most intriguing novel, giving an unusual perspective to the classic school days stories.

Nanda Grey describes her life at an English Catholic convent for young girls in the 1900s. The Five Wounds is a highly regimented institution where Nanda’s life is regulated in everything from the novels she reads to the “Christian” positions for sleep. Any devia- tions from the exacting norm are severely punished through a system of deprivation and guilt.

“Nanda would have liked to stay on in- definately in the quiet chapel, but there came the business-like click of Mother Frances’ ‘signal.’ Already she was learning to obey.”

And during a visit with her parents only five days after coming to the school, Nanda blushes scarlet when her mother remarks o n her new hair style. “Nanda had been at Lipp- ington long enough to know that personal vanity was the most contemptible of all sins.”

The children’s days are punctuated by prayers and patterned after the ritual life of the community. Every small sin is noted by the nuns and the children are publicly scolded for them; every child strives for an Exemp- tion, a week free from imperfection.

“As a result of all this, Nanda developed a nice sense of piety. She really did begin t o live all day long in the presence of the court of heaven.”

She even learns t o dress according t o Christian modesty; even in the privacy of her cubicle she never allows herself to be entirely naked. She washes with cold water instead of hot, cleanses her mind of any vain thoughts, all in the presence of the watchful sisters.

Even friendships between the girls are discouraged and Nanda is forced to spend her time with her rivals to strengthen her character. But instead of fighting against the system, the girls seem to grow within it. At the age of nine, Nanda is grappling with complex questions about the dilemas of Catholicism and enjoys the mental exercise, but they never completely break her spirit.

characters plausible and real The indoctrination is so thorough that

when Nanda is expe..led from the convent it is because she has written a novel about sinners who are converted to the faith. Unfortunate- ly the sisters find the novel in its infant stages; where Nanatla has only described the sinful acts of her characters before reformation.

When Nanda is expelled, she is overwhelm- ed by a sense of gui.t which culminates from the ingrained thoughts and actions of the community. Sacrifice is the over-reaching spiritual food.

In one scene, the girls are taking their afternoon walk, each with their tea time treat of stale bread with jam. In her excitement, Nanda drops her br,:ad in the dirt.

“Mother Poitier stopped and picked it up; then exacting a rusty penknife from her enormous pocket, she ca:efully removed any peb- bles from the bread and jam and held it up with an inviting smile.

‘Now here is a nice little penance for someone,’ cried Mother Poitier gaily. ‘Who would like to eat this nice bread and jam. In the seige of Paris our holy Mother and her nuns ate bread evm the rats would not touch.’ ”

‘comes home from school because her grand- father has died.

“Everything that happened to Clara in The Lost Traveller is the sort of thing that happened to me, though many things are changed and many invented. I wanted The Lost Traveller to be a real novel - Frost In May was so much my life,” White writes in the preface.

The second novel incorporates Clara’s relationships with her mother and father who earlier remained peripheral characters. Clara’s mother flirts with an Irish school teacher who is employed at her husband’s school. They discuss Lheir love for each othr but never consomate the relationship.

Clara’s father, who was previously depicted as a cold intellectual, becomes a much more human and sympathetic character. It is his fierce love for his daughter which drives him to deal with her sternly and here remains the household patriarch.

Clara goes to a new school’and is teased unmercifully by the other girls about her in- ability to play game and her academic ex- cellence. She is forced to choose between the two rival factions; the Brainies and the Hear- ties, and she remains an outsider.

CLARA . . . White‘s heroine grapples with theological dilemmas

“Mother Guillemin had laid down the school rule that, dwing their first years, the children were to be gently coaxed into good and pious habits 3y a system of small rewards. If small children came to associate what was morally good with what was physically pleasant, the good habits would become fixed and remain in after years.”

Nanda’s friend Clare is a stark contrast to her role as “baby theologian.” Clare is warm, sensual and delights in disobeying the rules. Her very corporal presence goes against the grain in the cloistered community.

“Clare’s touch embarassed and delighted Nanda; it gave her the queerest sensation in the roof of her mouth. Why was it that when everyone else seemed just face and hands, Clare always reminded one that there was a warm body underneath her uniform?”

Nanda is confused and continues to puzzle about the dilemma between a corporal and spiritual existence long after she leaves the convent. In her third novel, The Sugar House, she is married but wants to have an annulment. It is interesting that the word “sex” never appears

In the second no\el, The Lost Traveller, the character has changed her name and aged. At the end of Frost In May, Nanda returns home disgraced with expulsion from the school. In the sec’md novel it is the beginning of the first world war as Clara Batchelor

When she gradua.tes from school, she is restless with her oppressive life at home. The house is ruled by her father and Clara is bored with her adolescent life, but luckily she receives a job offer.

A generous, wealthy Catholic family looking for a governess for their child “who desperately wants someone to play with,” comes to the rescue. Clara travels north to the family estate and lives with the mother and child in a blissful cloistered atmosphere.

But tragedy strikes and unfortunately White handles the episode with heavy hands. The jealous, faithful housekeeper attempts to murder Clara when she realizes that the son Charles has died in an accident.

As a solution to the guilt which she feels is overwhelming her, she agrees to marry Hughes-Follet, the childish war veteran who completed the nursery trio with she and Charles. But the wedding never takes place because Clara’s mother wisely persuades her to forget it.

White’s second novel does dot have the insight and intrigue of her first. The days spent at Lippington, the regimentation and mystery of Catholic ritual is recounted without need for fantastic plot or drama. Nanda’s intellectual grapplings, her pseudo- sexual relationships .with her friends and the wrap of guilt she grew up with make a far more interesting novel. Clara’s distress seems contrived by comparison.

By EVE WlGOD Of the first three books in her series, White

considered The Sugar House (1952) to be the best. The book’s strength lies in White’s acute sensitivity in both the descriptive passages and the plausible, engaging dialogue.

Clara is now soundly enmeshed in her first love affair. While travelling with an acting company, she corresponds with pompous, self-preoccupied Stephen Tye, who is in another troupe.

The whole affair is rather one-sided: Clara is deeply infatuated, and Stephen strings her along by mail for several months. Finally, he condescends to come and visit her. Their s t r a i n e d r e u n i o n i s h a n d l e d w i t h psychological skill reminiscent of Ibsen. The dialogue is simple:

“Do you think I’m a heartless character, Clara?”

She said slowly: “I am inclined to wonder sometimes. Not that it matters, I suppose.”

“If I laugh at you, don’t 1 laugh at myself? If I torment you, don’t I torment myself more?”

“Something in his tone jarred her. The words sounded like a line from a play. He spoke them as if listening t o the sound of his own voice; almost as if he might repeat them, trying a different inflection.’

White’s awareness of the subtle nuances in a conversation, shown not only her dialogue but also by incisive narrative comments throughout, gives the characters their three dimensions.

Betrayed by Stephen, Clara turns once again to Archie, with whom, four years earlier, she had broken off a marriage engagement at the last minute. When he first reappears in her life, she is confused and repelled.

Here again, White displays her knack fol detail, no less evident in her descriptive passages than in her dialogue:

‘Her whole body seemed to harden against the ugly young man who sat with his head bent forward, staring at the mess of cigarette ends among the crumbs of his roll. Coldly she noted every detail of his appearance that ir- ritated her; the large, slightly inflamed nose that looked, from an angle, like a clown’s; the flakes of scruf on his untidy red hair.’

Before we have time to think how it could happen, Clara marries Archie. (This is not a slip on White’s part, but rather a reflection on Clara’s degree of desperation.) The rest of the story focuses on their ill-fated marriage, doomed from the very start when Archie becomes irretrievably drunk on their wedding night.

Archie is well-intentioned, but his alcoholism and child-like lack of responsibility lead the couple directly into‘ abysmal poverty. The ‘sugar house,’ Clara’s and Ar- chie’s claustrophobic marital abode, seems like a theatrical set to Clara; no more than an extension of her former acting experiences.

The bills pile up, Archie’s drinking increases, Clara’s motivation to write declines. The bleaker reality becomes, the more unreal her life seems:

‘The pink walls and blue check curtains mocked her with their arch brightness . . . Those pink distempered walls had the texture of sugar icing: she was reminded of the sugar house in which Hansel and Crete1 were trapped. ’

See page 29: NOVELS

T H E U B Y S S E Y Friday, A ~~

“THERE WAS, AMERICANS WERE FINDING, ONLY DARKNESS AT THE TUNNEL’S END”

By PAUL KAIHLA If you look too deeply

into the abyss, the abyss will look into you.

”Nietzsche “Tonight . . . I want to speak to you of

peace in Vietnam, and Southeast Asia.” So began the nation-wide television address in which Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th president of the United States, announced he would freeze U.S. troop levels in Vietnam, and seek a negotiated settlement with the North.

It was March 31, 1968 and the war had not been going well from the White House perspective. The United States had an army of 543,400 in South Vietnam to guarantee “security” in the region. The air force flew a daily average of 5 0 0 B-52 bombing missions over the H o Chi Minh trail in an attempt to slow guerrilla infiltration from the North. Until recently a majority of the American public really believed “progress was being made in Vietnam.”

But everything changed early in 1968. The U.S. marine outpost of Khe Sanh came under siege in January, and every night for two months agonizing reports of how many had died that day in the bitter fighting were broadcast into American homes. Then on the eve of Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, 80,000 Viet Cong insurgents suddenly appeared within cities all across South Vietnam and began a simultaneous attack.

The two attacks demonstrated that little “progress” was being made in Vietnam, and public opinion reversed. After Khe Sanh and Tet a majority of Americans questioned if the war really could be won and whether the cost was worth it. Even before, in the fall of 1967, 50,000 people had demonstrated at the Pentagon. The next spring, the house of representatives passed a resolution that Congress immediately review U.S. policy on Vietnam. And when Walter Cronkite called for a negotiated settlement, President Johnson, watching the news in the Oval office, purportedly

In the same address Lyndon Johnson shocked even his closest aides when he said he would not seek re-election to a second term. The war was said to have torn him apart.

Johnson escalated the war in Vietnam to protect his cherished “Great Society” legislation, consisting of civil rights and social welfare bills, from a right-wing reprisal in the house if he “lost” Vietnam. But from the beginning he felt trapped, and said, “If we get involved in that bitch of a war, my Great Society will be dead.”

In the end, Vietnam made the man elected by the largest landslide in U.S. history a one- term president.

These events surrounding the turning point of American involvement in Vietnam occurred when most of this generation of university students were under I O years old. It is likely that most of us hadn’t even begun paying attention to international events at the late stage of Richard Nixon’s “peace with honor” address in January 1973.

Clearly this generation didn’t witness the events of the Vietnam War, except perhaps on a subliminal level. We are the children of the ’70s who came to voting age with the ad- vent of new wave, Jimmy Carter, and the “age of scarcity.”

Films such as Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter and Coming Home, offer a general sense of the horror and injustice of the war in which two million Vietnamese and 57,000 Americans died. But questions remain.

How did the United States get drawn into the quagmire of Vietnam and make such CO- lossal errors for such a long period of time? During its 20-year involvement the United States spent $140 billion of its national resources on a hopeless cause. How was the world’s wealthiest and most technologically advanced nation stalemated in a war against a country which had one-tenth its population, one-seventieth its land area, and a gross national product that was 400 times smaller?

The United States comnlitted more than half a million troops to the war in Indochina,

JOHNSON SAYS HE WOWT RUN; HALTS:NORTH VIETNAM RAIDS; BIDS HANOI JOIN PEACE MOVES

Lyndon Johnson “. . . in the end he lost the most “

turned to an aide and said, “If I’ve lost Wal- and dropped eight million tons of explosives ter, I’ve lost Mr. Average Citizen.” (quadruple the amount used in the entire Se-

Thus, the president’s announcement of de- cond World War), but was continually frus- escalation on March 31 wastantamount to an trated in achieving its objectives. admission that the administration’s policy on But the most important question of all is Vietnam had been bankrupt. In the words of what lessons do the answers to the previous aide William Bundy, they had come to realize questions entail for this generation, and for, “there was not a military solution that was the older Ones who don’t seem to have under-

United Stdes ard the American public to Michael Maclear’s The Ten Thousand Day carry it through.” Indeed the United States’ War provides an excellent overview of the problems had begun when it tried to impose a conflict. Based on the television series of the military solution on an essentially political Same title aired on PBS and NBC, Maclear problem. has made an ambitious attempt to write the

1 possible within the political capacity of the stood what Vietnam was all about?

definitive popular history of the Vietnam war. Like the television series, the book is composed of interviews with many of the principle participants - former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, General William West- moreland, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Daniel Ellsberg, Jerry Rubin and Alexander Haig, to name a few.

The Ten Thousand Day War begins with an episode which, when viewed in retrospect, seems a strange quirk of history. It tells of the encounter between the first American soldier assigned to Vietnam in April, 1945 and Ho Chi Minh. Ho Chi Minh, founder and sym- bol of the Vietnamese independence movement, had travelled the world looking for support for his cause, and thought communism offered the best path for his people. But before anything, he was an ardent nationalist.

When Ho Chi Minh was imprisoned by the Chinese Nationalists for being a communist, the United States secured his release. He even did some intelligence work against the Japan- ese for the Office of Strategic Services after- ward.

During the war Ho Chi Minh organized a ragtag band of guerrillas, the Viet Minh, to fight Japanese occupation of his country, which had superseded the 80-year-old French occupation in 1940. With the U.S. now shar- ing similar objectives, they sent Major Archi- medes Patti to aid and train Ho Chi Minh’s guerrillas. In just one month Patti’s team trained 200 future leaders of the Viet Minh!

When Japan surrendered on Aug. 10, 1945, the Viet Minh declared Vietnam independent with themselves as the government. The United States was the only foreign government given a place of honor during Inde- pendence Day ceremonies.

Ho Chi Minh sent a message to the Ameri- can people through Patti: “The Vietnamese love the Americans . . . we look to you because of the history of your revolutionary war. You promised so many things after World War I and World War I1 . . . the Viet- namese would never fight Americans.” In the final report of the OSS before i t disband- ed, it recognized Ho Chi Minh as Vietnam’s only legitimate leader.

Maclear points out with ominous forebod- ing how the U.S. would ultimately rotate 2.8 million troops through Vietnam and fly 350,000 bombing strikes to stop Ho Chi Minh’s movements. Repeatedly throughout 1945 and 1946 Ho Chi Minh cabled Washing- ton asking for recognition, citing the Atlantic and U N Charters on self-determination. He received no response because events were moving the United States away from supporting the indigenous sentiments in Viet- nam.

The French, anxious to reassert themselves as a great power after humiliating defeats in World War 11, reinstalled Emperor Bao Dai in the South, and rejected Ho Chi Minh’s call for a “one-Vietnam’’ referendum in 1946. The hostilities degenerated into eight years of war which ended with the climactic defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. After the defeat the Americans gradually replaced the French, but did not heed the lessons the French learned in fighting the Viet Minh.

The idea the French had at Dien Bien Phu, after a frustrating seven years of fighting the guerrillas and suffering 74,000 casualties, was to draw the enemy into conventional battle where the French would surely triumph. SO they set up the bait, the garrison at Dien Bien Phu.

But they ignored the oldest rule of military strategy - always take the high ground. The garrison was in a valley vulnerable to artillery, but the commander confidently announced the Viet Minh did not have artillery.

Maclear provides a detailed account of how the Viet Minh spent months fortifying the surrounding hills for a siege of the garrison. Thousands of peasants on bicycles carried rice to the soldiers through freshly hack- ed jungle paths. And to the ultimate dismay

of the French, 200 Soviet and Chinese artillery pieces were hauled manually, by rope, in- to the mountains.

Beginning in March, 1954 the Viet Minh artillery pounded the French for 5 5 days. After the French surrendered they signed the Geneva Accords along with the Viet Minh and six other signatories, partitioning Viet- nam and calling for a referendum on unifica- tion within two years. The Accords did not establish a political boundary, which helped leave the road open for another 20 years of conflict.

Because of the scope of Maclear’s book, he is not able to del\e very deeply into the broader questions of why the United States went from its 1945 position of supporting self-determination for the former colonies to combating It. Many say the United States experienced its first Vietnam in China, though not o n the same scale. The United States had supported Chiang Kai Shek’s nationalist forces in the civil war against Mao Tse Tung’s revolutionary army.

As the civil war heated up in the immediate post-war.period and pressure mounted on the United States to do something, one after another of the greatest generals, such as Matt Ridgeway and George Marshall, and the best minds at the state department, such as John

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UBC Purports editor Albert Burlham interdiews a smiling studcnt about cond~tiorls at UBC. Studq,~ ts had the usual enthusiastic response to class size, course c7uality and rapport with the Adrvinistration. " I 117 iust sirlging in !he ruin," sang the cheerful student, syrrlbollically folding umbrella to demotlstrate that students C R I I withstand t l l r , current bout o f ' bad weather" to h ~ t post-secondary education. Students ut UBC are getlevally very witty atld h a p p , ~ .

Bachelor of money making available from Socred school which will replace frivolous Arts education

Undergraduates interested in receiving monetary benefits from their studies will be able to enroll in a new program designed to encourage entrepreneurs, a corporate representative announced Wednesday.

Amway (Canada) Vice-president Whirling Dervish called a news conference to present the company's plans for a four- year program in entrepreneurial skills, sponsored by Amway and run through UBC .

Vice-president Dervish described the program, which would result in graduates receiving Bachelor of Science degrees in Money Making, as "a boon to the free enterprise spirit that epitomizes all that is good about this province." The Money Making degree is styled on a entrepreneurial work/study program offered at the University of Southern California.

"The idea is to create businessmen with

the Right attitude toward running a business," Dervish told an audiencc of three senior University officials. "Ir. their third and fourth years the guys would be running their own businesses."

radicals on campus who always find fault with even the noblest ideas, Vice- President Dervish told the officials that some women would be allowed in the program if all the spaces weren't taken up by "enterprising J'oung men."

Amway would not try to influence the program once the University takes it on. "We just want to be able to provide guidance when it is needed," he reiterated. "We could help set up some of the first years with their own Amway franchises, for instance," he declared unprepossessingly .

The program would come into etfect next September, with 15 students. "If there's a real rush, we may be able to get a few fast food operations going here," Dervish expostulated. "A little competition would really help this campus," he further added.

News of the pctential program was greeted with approval by the Board of Governors. The Eloard members, many of them esteemed businessmen themselves, commented that incentives were necessary

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to get students motivated in building up the stagnant provincial economy. "One often hears complaints from the Arts facldty and that scurilous rag The Ub.dssey that we aren't doing enough for them" one Board member commented. "Well it's good to hear that some students will be able to take direct action to solve our problems."

The member, who preferred that his name not appear in print, also said classrooms that were being wasted teaching frivolous subjects like Classical Studies and English might be put to better use by entrepeneurs, who after a few easy lessons could open pinball arcades, bawdy shops and a hotel in Buchanan Building. "That building is underutilized," he added.

Amway representatives have asked President Douglas T. Kenny for space in one of the University's many buildings. Buchanan would be fi.ne, they chirped, but the Museum of Anthropology would be much better. President Kenny will announce his decision this summer, when no radicals are around to complain.

Self defeating high standards to be replaced by cheaper, more realistic ones

Budgetary retrenchments are causing minor inconveniences at UBC this year, but the University is not sacrificing high standards, President Douglas T. Kenny announced recently.

has purchased $80,000 worth of 20 foot- high light standards to replace the highly impractical ones presently in place. President Kenny cited the change as "a step toward further enlightening students for less money."

The lights replace the lower three- pronged standards which, depending upon whether they had plastic or glass covers, cost between $40 and $2,000 to replace - and they were frequently abused by basketball players and people on stilts.

In a further effort to cut costs to the bone, President Kenny decreed that more information signs would be posted around campus. Last year the existing referential directional designators (signs) were replaced at a cost of only $2,000 each. Several signs were moved several feet for as little as $800, to facilitate easier visitor positive responses.

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Gnus flash! Typo endeers elk to food committee, antlers keep it out of mystery stew

Consternation ensued at the most recent meeting of the President's Advisory Committee O n Food Services when it was discovered that an elk had been appointed to the committee.

Just as committee members sat down to discuss possible changes in menu at the Old Auditorium Cafeteria, a 1,200 pound elk entered the room and took the place held for the committee's newest member, who no one had yet met.

resulted in the elks receiving her notice of appointment. The original appointment was made to Anne Selke.

After committee members calmed down they proceeded with the meeting, and the elk began to contribute her comments. Her unique perspective so helped the committee in coming to its decisions that it was decided the elk's appointment would stand.

Selke sit on another committee.

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The committee recommended that Anne

UBC Purports April 1, 1982

Lavatory librarian gets in shit over complaints A long-standing mystery has been

solved at Main Library. For years an anonymous library employee has been answering student complaints and questions left in a box by the card catalogues, and signing her name Jocelyn.

Recently some library outsiders began to question just who "Jocelyn" was.

In investigating the matter, Ombudsperson Grey McMatter discovered that Jocelyn was actually an 87 year-old former employee of the Library who has been hiding in the women's lavatory every

night since she was forced to retire in 1965.

this library and all those students," Cora Bookbinder said after being discovered. "Each night I've gone through the complaint box and offered my suggestions. It's my way of helping out," the grey-haired granny said from her compartment in the loo.

Miss Bookbinder said she had trouble adjusting to life in hiding, but soon settled into a routine that has kept her feeling

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Vanguard to sell popcorn Filmsoc hot to trot

In a surprise move M'ednesday, UUC -1lm Society announced i t was merging .with the Trotskyist League club t o mprove its schedule o f tilms tor students.

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President Douglas T. Kenny disgusted at rag, fires the vile Ubyssey staff

UBC President Douglas T. Kenny announced today he is firing all the newly elected editors of Tlre Uhyssey student newspaper.

His statement followed a year of coverage that Dr. Kenny termed "vile, reprehensible, and outright disgusting." The staff will be replaced by former Alma Mater Society president Marlea Haugen, Dr. Kenny said.

"I am sure that Marlea will provide strong leadership to the paper, and loyalty to the university administration," Dr. Kenny said today.

UBC Purports can say all these things that Dr. Kenny is saying today, despite the fact this paper was printed last night, since the editorial policy of this paper is written in Doug Kenny's office.

Filmsoc chair Dusan Maltmilk said the move will be beneficial t o all concerned, since no one on campus believes that either Filmsoc or the Trots have anything of real value t o otfer students.

"It's like two wrongs making a right," he explained.

Maltmilk said the merger will strengthen Filmsoc's ideals of collective filmmaking. "Filmsoc started the idea of collective filmmaking and then those New Wave shitheads came along and stole our idea," he elaborated.

Maltmilk insisted that the ultra-leftist group would not use Filmsoc's production facilities to make propogandist films.

But Trots spokesperson Candu Wishywashy blew a different horn. Wishywashy, whose threatened bid to join The Ubyssey editorial collective failed because he forgot about nomination deadlines, said, "Filmsoc will change its name to Trotssocs, and everyone will have a trotting good time."

venture would be I Was a Teenage Soapbox.

Outgoing president Doug Kenny expressed concern about the merger, but assured students he would instruct the Board of Governors to wait 25 years before doing anything.

The groups announced their first co-

fulfilled while earning her a meagre living. She told Ombudsperson McMatter that she rummages through the wastebaskets for lunch bag leftovers, and steals the odd chocolate bar by poking her gaunt arm up the vending machines in the basement.

longevity to students' bad eating habits. "They eat Twinkies and throw o u t fruit and sandwiches," she said.

She became quite ill during a lean period in the summer of 1977 when she polished off a bowl of rat poison,

Miss Bookbinder attributes her

thinking it was outmeal. "I'm sure the librarians would have left a note warni me if they'd known I was around," Mi: Bookbinder confided selflessly.

Now that "Jocelyn" has been unmask the Library must decide whether to tak any action against her. Head Librarian Neville Smith said he thought an arrangement could be worked out.

"We may be able to give her her owl cubicle, if she promises not to steal an) more chocolate bars," Librarian Smith told UBC Purports.

Profs go nuts over research development

UBC research scientists have cracked a tough nut. Professor of Agricultural Sciences Browning A . Legume announced Wednesday that research conducted on campus over the last three years has led to the development of a peanut containing only one nut rather than the traditional

"I have often wondered at baseball games and in movie theatres about the peanut's bi-nut nature," said Legume. "What evolutionary quirk of fate led to the peanut's stereophonic existence? This led me to speculate that the development of a mono-nut might shed some light in this hitherto ignored problem."

Universities, Science and Technology minister Pat McGeer said in a telephone interview that he is a strong advocate of this kind of research. McGeer, who is in fact a professor at UBC and a renowned neurologist, talked of the research's wide ranging implications.

"Most people don't notice that things often come in twos. Anything science can do to inform us about the reasons for this can only be most valuable. The structure

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of the brain for example is similar to th; of the peanut. I haven't yet examined Professor Legume's data but I'm hoping there will be something there that I can use.

McGeer said he is very interested in finding out if people can function with half a brain.

Legume reacted strongly against suggestions that his research has no important economic benefits although hc admitted that the traditional two chambered nut saves slightly on shells. "The mono-nut will create a revolution light nut snacks!" he declared.

"The development of the mono-nut is the most important discovery in agricultural science since the developmet of the gasless bean in 1977," he said.

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A lot missed after Agi prank A student prank ran awry last week

Nhen a group of agriculture students stole :he University's new $3 million parking lot 2nd mislaid it.

Campus Security Officers noticed the :hree-level structure missing last Sunday norning after checking the Asian Centre 'or intruders. "We're not sure whether :hey took i t (the parking lot) Friday or Saturday," Traffic and Security Director right (Ty) Money explained to UBC Purports.

Apparently the disappearance of the Jarking lot, which has not yet been used, vvas caused by agriculture students trying :o outdo the engineering students, who Tung a Volkswagen from the Lions Gate Bridge in February. In an unofficial zomment, agriculture student John Cruickshank said the parking lot was accidentally misplaced somewhere Jetween the Asian Centre, where it was removed, and the top of Walter H. Gage Residences, where the students planned to put it.

jeveral times, and can't understand where It's gotten to," Cruickshank admitted. "As soon as we find i t we'll be sure to return It. It's just a joke, okay?"

"We've been back over the route

Professors take a trip for a week

Although most students will be in class lext week, many professors have indicated they may not be able to make i t . This situation came to light after registrar Kenneth Young revealed that classes end April 8, not April 2 as indicated in the UBC Calendar.

A number of professors made plans to be out of town next week, and many of them will not be able to reschedule their outings. Faculty Association Acting Under-secretary in Charge of Finding O u t What's Going On, Dr. Pork Chops, told UBC Purports that about 75 professors booked a charter flight to Reno, Nevada for the week and could not get refunds.

"We understand how some students may feel, not having anyone there to beach them, but it doesn't seem fair to ask :he professors to cancel out now," Dr. Chops commented at Vancouver lnternational Airport Thursday. "If mything serious comes up we can be eeached at the Hilton," he called out from he airport waiting room.

Registrar Young recommended that ctudents who arrive at class and find no xofessor take notes anyway. "Most xofessors don't say much that makes iense anyways," he advised.

YBC president Douglas T . Kenny announced today he will be accepting a ,rosition as a talk-show host on CKNW radio after he leaves the university presidency next year. Kenny was accidently caught b y UBC Purports photographer Albert Banharn during an audition at the station's New Westminster headquarters Monday.

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budgetary restraint were hailed as "positive forces in the fight against creeping inflation," by University Vi,re- president Michael !;haw.

In his continuinp battle against no: enough money for too many costs, the President deigned to enlighten the University community about the new plan to improve access to the campus. President Kenny announced to one j.ldecl journalist working for UBC Purports the allocation of $500 lor the constructicn of ramps for handicapped students and cyclists. 'An additicmnal $125,000 was made available for road work linking the university to the outside world. Reserve funds of up to $50,000 may be freed up for cutting down trees on University Boulevard.

that President Kenny's actions were commendable. "Without further information I must conclude that Doug's got his shit togethe:," the former chairman of MacMillan Bloedel said recently.

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Hockey star Gretzky says he plans to return to school, but will Oilers let hirn, and what about the shopping centre?

Canadian hockey hero Wayne Gretzky brought Edmonton Oilers owner Peter Pocklington to his knees and UBC men's athletic director Rick Noonan to tears of joy when the magician of the frozen ponds announced he was retiring from pro hockey to pursue an education at UBC in Slavonic Studies.

degree he wanted and lhreatened to take the (Great One's shopping centre and Gretzky's pet Dave Sernenko away. Gretzkv countered saying he would preter the JBC Village tc tb.e shopping centre and was having trouble buying raw meat to feed Semenko anyway.

Gretzky was offered every academic- athlctic scholarship but Noonan said Grelzky couldn't get the Frank Gnup award because the award for best first year athlete only goes 10 football players. The humble God said he has accomplished everything in the NHL and wants a challenge .- like passing English 100. Because Wayne's foregoing his salaly, he intends to work in the Pit like other athletes to pay fo,r school. Oiler coach Glum Lather was drinking with Den:ly Boyd and was unavailable for com nent.

Pocklington offered to buy Gretzky any

English 100 to be cancelled

UBC's Senate passed a resolution Wecmesday that eliminated English 100 as a requirement to graduating from UBC.

President Douglas T . Kenny said "I applaud the move on the part of Senate as i t w111 save a lot ot money, not that we face retrenchment or anything, and as i t will now be easier for students to graduate, and get out clf here."

studmmts will now have to write out the first three lines of The Cat in The Hat in less :han ten minutes. Coles notes has an edition on the Seuss classic in the works.

The incoming head of the English department, Professor Ian Ross, said it may create problems, "We will have to retrain professors to enable them to correct the new exam." Ross added that he a;so applauds the decision. "I applaud the decision," Ross said.

"11 the president applauds the decision then I applaud i t but don't quote me on that until I talk to hirn," Arts Dean Robtrt Will said.

gotta take the course, all UBC students am well at English cause they went to high school like me," Dean of Applied Science Martin Wedepohl said. "I applaud the decision because clapping's fun," the gregarious Wedepohl added.

To prove competency in English,

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Bookstore Hours The k ookstore will be clos,ed Wednesday and Thurrday for no particularly good reason. This will annoy all of you who read this notice whict won't appear until hiday.

Faculty Club Exhibition The E'lender in Modern Abstract Art. Mixed Medi.1 Works by Washy Bloosh are on display at the Faculty Club until April 7.

Photographic Exhibit ion Pictules that aren't big enough (6x6 f t . ) by Arthur Ericson of places he likes. On permanent display in a building he designed. Civil and Mechanical Engineering Budding loung:.

Faculty and Staff Gold T o u r n a m e n t The 26th annual UBC Faculty and Staff Gold Tournament takes place , o n Wednesday, April 7 and fuck classes anyway at the University Golf Course. All UBC faculty and staff, ac!ive, radioctive and retired, are invited to tee off from 9:30 a.m. t i l l hell freezes over. Dinner and bDoze thrown in tor an extra $11 on top of the ridiculous sum of $9. Call Doug Whittle at 228-5407 or your favorite servant at the Faculty Club.

Healthy sperm shown swirrlvlirrg in Aquatic Centre recerltly. Reseurchers estirnute that unless more s p e r m develop fitness-corlscious uttitudes. tllcrc could be populutiorl problems i n future. Research corltinues. Donations gladly urcepted.

Nuclear power may be part of campus

Nuclear weapons are to be built on campus starting this summer according to UBC President Douglas T. Kenny.

President Kenny said an agreement has been struck with the federal Government to construct live warheads o f up t o 5 megatons in an unused physical plant building.

be capable of eradicating the entire Western Hemisphere, weren't worth discussing.

Kenny said the explosives, which will

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Faculty members arzd other verbosc' pedantic creatures wishing more information about the followirlg rant grants should consult the Admmistrutiorz Research Rant Deadlines circular which is available in far too bloody many departmental and faculty offires and motel rooms. If further information is required, call 228-3652 (external rants and outcall bodysagei or 228-5583 (internal or indigestive rants).

The Vancouver Board of Trade Tirade Faculty Prize is awarded as rarely as possible since the business community is such a bunch of cheapskates. But if you have distinguished yourself in the past six months with exceptional ranting and stupidity, the filthy lucre specialists may consider you worthy for this indeterminate financial award. Professor Divinsky, you should apply by April 15, or you will be out of luck. University Research Grants 1982: Limited funds but lots of free computer time are available to faculty members good at lying, looking innocent, and having impartial boards of inquiry acquit them of stealing. Make lots of money while under suspension! Sincere faculty & instructors need not apply. The deadline is April 15, and any citizen kane apply. Note: All external agency graht application forms must be signed by the Head, Dean, Dr. R. D. Spratley and any close friends the applicant may have. Applicant is responsible for sending form to agency, after which he can be as irresponsible as he likes.

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WONDAYS 12:30 p . m . ~ Mini-Concert: A spotlight o n lands that wdl be on CITR's playlist now that .ve've aced o u t CJAZ for good: This week ~

AC/DC. 3 p .m. -. Melting Pot: Why this can be ?referable t o simply rolling i t . 1:30 p.m. - Everything Stops For Tea: Vobody's signed up for this airspace so we're Sonna have two hours of dead air so we sound :lever and artistic. 7 p . m . - Beatoff: Sleazy commercial entertalnment Joe wouldn't let us talk about m t i l after we got by the CRTC. 3 p .m. - Mini-Concert: We've got a collection Jf really warped 45's that we thought i t would De kind of existential to play on the air. ?:30 p .m. - 1 a.m. - The Top 40 Show: With popular AM radio hits by greats like Barry Llanilow and Christopher Cross so we can get more listeners. 11 p.m. - Final Vinyl: We play the last record left in the broadcast room after the janitors :lean i t up.

TUESDAYS 12:30 p . m . - Air Raid: The psychic we hired has predicted a nuclear attack. 3 p .m. - Coming Out On Campus: Famous :ampus criminals tell you how t o beat the rap In forelgn countries and how to retain your job forever with tenure even I f you have embezzled everything but the new Xerox machine in Doug Kenny's olfice. 5 p .m. ~ Thunderbird Report: Reports and ~nterviews o n The Vancouver Canucks chances In the playdt\. Wayne Gretzky's records and the Whitecaps h<>pe\ t o r this year ~~ campus iports bc)re u \ t o l l .

> : I 5 p nl Inzight: We try a n d tlgurc < , u t how t o get t h e s ta t ton t o broadcast stereo I t

the paper chps holdmg up the transducer ever give u u t . 8 p.m ~ Mini-Concert: Debra Harry ~ will her 5011) c c l r w r w o r k i t \he forget\ t o bleach her hair? 4 p.m. ~ Airstage: A radtn drama w t t h lots <)t \ l ammmg do(>r\ 5lrens and people trying t o torce bad accents w e 5ugpest tun ing Intc, CKLG t < > r '1 c < ~ u p l c < ) I huurs . !1 p.m. ~ Sales Wails: AMS ad otttce representattve rcc<>rded crying over tact there are n o ad dollc>rs In a nun-commercial station and begging t o r immediate appeal t ( > CRTC.

THURSDAYS 12:30 p . m . ~ News. We used t o read The Ubyssey but now we're gonna read The Sun and Province. 6:lO p.m. - CITRs Weekly Editorial: We come out tn support o f cutbacks 'cause the real world thinks university students are just a bunch of spoiled bourgeois brats anyway, and we need listeners. 6:15 p.m. - Until We Get Bored Chimera: We don't know what the word means either. 8 p .m. - Mini-Concert: Spotlight on Innovative local bands like Loverboy and Doug and the Slugs. 11 p.m. - Ghosts of CITR Past: Come back to haunt us 'cause we're gonna announce that alternative rock is dead and synthesizer computer disco is where it's at.

FRIDAY 12:30 p.m. - We Study For finals. 3 p.m. - We Tell You We Had Technical Difficulties at 1230. 6:15 p.m. - We go to dinner and then to The Pit. 8 p.m. - Dateline International: Why people should take Ronald Reagan more seriously. 11 p.m. - Two hours of rock free commercials.

SATURDAYS 12:30 p.m. - Quicki-Concert: We play country music at double speed so Dolly Parton and Conway Twitty sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks. 4:30 p.m. - Rage and Teens: Pretty fashion perspectives with special interview with Muffy Brandon and Calvin Klein. 23:30 - Isn't metric time weird?

ncredibly stupid and boring events during the a m e period, material must be submitted not ,ater than 4 p.m. on March 25. Too bad you're reading this on April 2, suckers.

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The Chris Bird Creative Writing Scholarship ~ An annual scholarship in :he amount of approximately 5 per cent of ihe biggest libel award in Canadian History from the income of a fund established under the auspices of the Vancouver Bar Association from contributions by members of the bench and the bar, has been established to show our appreciation for the people who make lawyer's work interesting. (Available in the 1982183 winter session). The Pat McGeer is Wrong Award - A one t ime only award of $100 to whoever can find a country that treats its universities better and $66.66 to anyone who can prove Harvard really does pay profs better wages than UBC. Established on a d a r e o n the Webster show. (Available to anyone who can afford the phone bills). The Pacman Proficiency Bursary - A grant in the amount of $500 (in quarters) will be made to the s tudent who shows the greatest aptitude for conquering computer games during final exams. This award was established by Atari for the 1981/82 Winter Video Olympics. The EPF Alternative Grant - The government of Canada has made available 2,000 new grants to students in the amount o f $100 just so you can't say they never did anything nice for students. The Molson's Engineering Grant - Don't worry, we'll just check the crests on your sleeves and ask around t o h n d out who ' s bullshitting. The Robert Will Arts is Good But Has no Relation to the Real World and certainly isn't as Much Fun as Being University President lmmemorial Scholarship - $100 t o any student who can explain how arts can get you a job and an addi t ional $100 to anybody who can come up with a reasonable campaign strategy for a future education minister. The Bob and Doug Canadian Culture Grant - This grant has been made available by the National Identity Committee of Canada and the Federation of Quebec to any s tudent who can prove kil l ing more than three people who have used the words "hoser" or "eh" more than twice in a single conversation. The Adam Smith loves Karl Marx Limited Bursary - an annual scholarship in the amount of $500 (a bit less than half your tuition if you're lucky) has been made available through a Socred front group to economics students showing a profound interest in correct politics. Karl Marx is Better than Adam Smith but We're not P inkos Grant - An annual grant of $500 has been made available through an NDP front group to political science students showing a profound interest in correct politics.

Send notices, bombs and junk mail to Information Services, 6328 Memorial Rd. (Old Administrators Building). For further information call any number you like except 228-3131 because Jim doesn't like the noisy telephone bells in the office and they make his head ache.

The Vancouver Institute Saturday, April 3 The literary practice of necrophilia

Shaw's Brain. Dr. Martin Wedepohl, UBC .

Both lectures in Lecture Hall 2, Woodward Instructional Resources Centre at 8:15 p.m.

SUNDAY, APRIL 4 Linguistics Colloquium. How to Identify Bilabial Frickatives in Southwestern Wales. Dr. Ian Goch, University of Northeastern Wales. Hebb Theater, 7:30 p.m.

SUB Films Eegahl Admission is $1. Auditorium, Student Union Building, 7 p.m.

Concert and Coffee House Free concert and coffee house featuring the Vancouver gospel group Judas and the Sexy Sinners. Sponsored by IVCFCCMLCMCCFCCCF. Partyroom, Student Union Building. 8 p.m.

MONDAY, APRIL 5 Animal Husbandry Seminar The Effect of Light Entertainment on Levels of B Complex Vitamins in Holstein-Freisan and Herford Crossbreeds and the Implications in Terms of Modern Dietary Needs. Professor D. Jersey, University of Guelph. Room 102, Lasserre Building. 12:30 p.m. (not noon!).

Philosophy Seminar Reality and the Perceived Event: Is Our Presence in a Lecture Hall a Physical or Merely a Mental Reality. Dr. Bertrand Russel. Room 222, Brock hall, At your convenience.

Leon and Thea Koerner Philosophy Lecture Moral Dilema in Modern Society: The Relationship of Double Bubble Bubble Gum to the Wrapper. A discussion on the significance of people who read the cartoon before chewing the gum, as opposed to the people who read the cartoon after chewing the gum. Doug Kenny, a very concerned person, UBC. Room 126, CEME. 5:04 p.m. BYOBG.

No Matter Seminar. A study of Martin Wedepohl's Brain. Dr. Michael Shaw. Room 160. MacMillan Building. 3 p.m.

Christian Campus Ministry. Why I Hate Doonesbury. Rev. George Hermanson, the radical preacher who can talk to the young. Lutheran Campus Centre. 6 p.m.

TUESDAY, APRIL 6 Sociology Workshop. The Group Encounter. No leather, bring your

own rubber gloves. 11:30 p.m. UBC Aquatic Centre.

Comparative Literature Lecture. There Are Big Words, Then There Are Small Words: Multisyllable Grammatical Formations for Utilization in Monolithic Writing Endeavors. Dean Robert "Squeaky" Will* Professors and graduate students only. Buchanan Penthouse. 7:30 p.m.

Medical Genetic Rounds. Why There Are No Medical Genetic Squares. Dr. David Suzuki will not attend. Fourth Floor Conference Room, Acute Care Hospital. 10 a.m.

Biomedical Lecture. In Vitro Replication Directed By a Cloned Bipodial Organism. Will be followed by limited discussion of the argument against the moral apptosvh. Sldo sn ouylinr og s ptohtsm got swrlrtsyrf frbrlopmrny. Dr. Patrick Steptoe IIIV, University of London. IRC 1. 1 2 3 0 p.m. (not noon).

Chemical Engineering Seminar. Activated Sludge: Kinetic Model, a study of UBC Deans and Administrators. Dr. David Suzuki, UBC. Faculty Club Bar. Happy Hour.

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Patton Davies, declared the situation hopeless.

While Mao’s forces in the countryside had high morale and the support of the population, Chiang’s armies in the cities were cor- rupt and factionalized. After the inevitable disintegration of the nationalist forces in 1949, the Truman administration was accused of “losing” China by not intervening militarily. Later these accusations would be exag- gerated by Senator Joseph McCarthy into charges that China was “lost” because the state department and even the administration was riddled with Communists.

In a way the chickens came home to roost for the Democrats, who had expanded the ideological dimension of the Cold War with the Truman Doctrine in 1947. It asked that Americans join in a global commitment to fight communism, and was used as a ploy to get budget-slashing and isolationist Republi- cans to approve increased defence expenditures and ]military aid to Greece and Turkey. It also helped boost the popularity of the president, but at the cost of a rigidity and conformity which would pervade U.S. foreign policy for a quarter-century.

The Korean War in the early ’50s* solidified: absolutely American perceptions of national liberation movements in Asia and elsewhere. The Cold War paradigm of a monolithic

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Communist world was reinforced whe:? the Chinese intervened on the North Koreans’ behalf. The view that the Communist ag- gressor could be properly dealt with by the use of force was corfirmed. And the U.S. was drawn into the region militarily, Iconmil:- ted to defending not only Korea, but Tziwan and the Gulf Islands with the Seven1.h Fleet..

With the Eisenhowtx administration came statements such as, “The freedom wc dcfend in Europe is no different than the freedom we defend in Asia.” The administration ulder- wrote the French war against the Viet Minh by more than one billion dollars in an effort to contain Chinese expansion. (It has been estimated that the French spent in ’Vietnam what the U.S. gave it through the Marshall plan.) Eisenhower and his secretary iJf state, John Foster Dulles, ignored the fact thzt Ho Chi Minh was anti-Chinese, and agreed to an allied proposal afteI the war to replace Chinese troops in the North with French troops. Maclear describes him as “angrily rounding on pro-Chinese elements in his go\- ernment: ‘You fools! Don’t you remember your history? The last time the Chinese came they stayed one thousand years. The French are weak.’ ”

But with the increasingly interventionist

United States into its ]nost damaging and humiliating war.

Perhaps what guaranl.eed deeper U.S. involvement in the war more than any other thing was a morale-boosting excursion by vice president Johnson to Vietnam, at Ken- nedy”s request. Johnscm, reluctant to go to Vietnam, was reassured by Kennedy: “Don’t worry L.yndon, if anything happens to you Sam Rayburn and I will give you the biggest funetal Austin, Texas ever saw.”

In Vietnam, Johnson campaigned among the villagers, and gave Diem personal assur- ance!, of American support. Johnson became perscmally involved in the issue. He called Diem the “Winston Chmchill of Southeast Asia.” (Later asked if he really believed that, Johnson answered, “Shit man, he’s the only boy we got out there.”)

Maclear places great importance on the work of Doris Kearns, who worked on John- son’s memoirs at his ranch: “The leader of the free world admitted to his biographer that his decision to comnlit America to war in Asia was essentially based on maintaining publi,: approval. Johnson felt he was trapped from the beginning by the Eisenhower- Kennedy rhetoric of America as the global policl;:man and that his domestic goals and political base would be lost in any perceived

to be happening because of a radar malfunc- tion.

In an interview with Maclear, Ellsberg says, “Johnson wanted to underline by bombs, by a little killing, the threats he was already making to Hanoi.

“At the same time he didn’t want to reveal the threats which did indeed foreshadow an endless war of enormous proportions. So Tonkin Gulf seemed to give him the perfect opportunity to carry out a little bombing while not suggesting it was part of a larger program of bombing - which it was.”

This largef program of bombing was code named Rolling Thunder. The idea was to use superior U.S. air power to put pressure on the North to stop its activities in the South, without having to use troops. But troops had to be sent to protect the bases, and then more troops were sent to back up those troops. Most of the guerrillas in the South originated there. The North didn’t begin sending troops down the Ho Chi Minh trail in significant numbers until the U.S. entered the war en muse. By escalating the conflict, the U.S. created what it was trying to stop.

So Rolling Thunder would escalate. In the next six years, 2,235,918 tons of bombs were dropped on the Ho Chi Minh trail in an attempt to stop guerrilla infiltration.

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policy of the Eisenhcwer administration, as exemplified in Iran and Guatemala, rhe U.S. moved to train and equip a 243,000-member South Vietnamese arrny after the French ex- odus. The U.S. threw its support behind Ngo Dinh Diem, a Catholic aristocrat in a c’oun- try where over 80 per cent of the population were peasants and Blddhists, as their man for prime minister of South Vietnam. In 1955 Diem won the post with 98 per c’ent of the vote in an election rigged by his bsrother’s goon squads. Diem biutally represse’d all opposition, especially t ?e Buddhist agitators. As attacks increased against the regime in the South, the United States sent 300, advisors and increased financi,d aid to preserve freedom and democracy in Southeast .Asia.

With the’coming-ol’the Kennedy adninis- tration, many saw the promise of a new age in American policy. Perhaps the country could now move away. from the simplistic Cold War assumptions of the Eisenhower and Dulles years, and adopt a more imaginative approach to the world. The charismatic young president had attracted some of the most brilliant intellects of the nation to his administration - McGeorge Bundy, dean of Harvard, Robert MacNamara, president of Ford Motor Company, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., John Kenneth Gaibraith, and Ted Soren- son. David Halberstarn called them “the best and the brightest” in his book of the same title.

But because of the many crises of his first year in office, such as the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Kennedy didn’t have the confidence to depart from the policies of the past. When guerrilla activity increased in the South, and Diem’s regime became even more repressive and cor- rupt, the Kennedy administration responded by sending 4,000 Special Forces commandos, and then later 10,000. In the end, David Hal- berstam says, “they lost it all.” The administration, first under Kennedy, then under Johnson, took the final steps in heading the

failure of this foreign policy.” Maclear compares the tactics used by

Johnson to prevent “failure” as the foreign policy equivalent of’ Richard Nixon’s Water- gate: “The deception ( c ~ f the public and congress for political self-preservation.” The best example of this deception is the Gulf of Tonkin affair.

The official versim (of the incident is that the d,:stroyer Lester P. hdaddox was attacked by three North Vietnarnese torpedo boats in internatilonal waters on Aug. 2, 1964. When it was later joined b:y the C. Turner Joy, both destrioyers reported they had suffered unpro- voked attacks in international waters. This secorld attack was used as a pretext to launch a reIl.aliatory bombing strike against the North’s pi1 depots at Vinh.

Thus,,in the-United States’ first direct action in the war, 10,per cent of the North’s oil supply was destroyed in 10 minutes. When the president was told I.he smoke had been seen ]rising 10,OOO feet at Vinh, he remarked, “I didn’t just fuck Ho Chi Minh; I cut his pecker off.”

Th1:n the administration used the attacks to get Congress to grant the president wide powers in terms of deploying troops and ordering bombing strikes. Johnson never mentioned any intention of escalating the war, even though the Pentagon had already drawn up extensive bombing plans. Rather, he argued that Congress should pass the resolution quickly, that “we were going to face this little country of 17 million people with the great might of the United States, and they will clearly be inclined to settle, and there won’t be a war.”

What actually occurred in the Gulf of Ton- kin, ;is revealed by Dan.iel Ellsberg and the Penta.gon Papers, was that the two destroyers were actually inside North Vietnamese waters, running covert raids against coastal facilities. The second attack, the pretext for the bombing of Vinh actually only appeared

Michael Maclear was one of the few West- ern journalists who visited North Vietnam during the bombing. He provides a fascinat- ing account of how the people still managed to survive and fight a war. Troops .moving down the trail would eat only rice, wild roots and leaves. Political cadres were assigned to each platoon to maintain morale. Base camps were constantly shifted. Pontoon bridges could be collapsed and hidden in 15 minutes with the warning of approaching planes. A corps of 50,000 youths constantly rsepaired the roads after the bombings.

The entire countryside was mobilized. Ar- tillery had been scattered deep in the mountains. With such a defence, it is estimated the U.S. killed only one infiltrator for every 300 bombs it dropped, at a cost of %14O,OOO.

Maclear, describes how entire cities literally went underground. He describes the city of Vihn Linh, “a complex of villages which had burrowed 30 feet beneath its former location along the ‘Demilitarized’ border. Linked by tunnels. this community was officially said to number 70,000 people and to extend for several hundred kilometres. For successive years these people tended the crop land and repair- ed the border supply routes at night, and abandoned the earth’s surface by day to the ceaseless air strikes. Children born below the earth were cradled in cots in the wells of deep shafts where the light hardly filtered; they were carefully exposed to the sun for a few minutes each day.”

The United States has estimated that roughly 200,000 civilians died from the bombing of North Vietnam. Hospitals and schools in city centres were not spared. One province, Ha Tmh, was bombed 25,529 times - about one air strike every 90 minutes for 1,500 days.

In mid-1%7 defence secretary MacNamara wrote President Johnson a portentious memo: “There may be a limit beyond which

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Chicago 1968: ”The police marched across the field swinging their cIuI>s and chanting ’kill, kill, kill”

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Road is open for more ‘Vietnams’

From page 17 many Americans and much of the world will not permit the United States to go. The picture of the world’s greatest super power killing or seriously injuring one thousand non-combatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.”

Yet at any suggestion of a bombing halt, Johnson would say, “Bombing halt. 1’11 tell you what happens when there is a bombing halt. I halt and H o Chi Minh shoves his trucks right up my ass. That’s your bombing halt.”

Meanwhile in the United States, and elsewhere, anti-war demonstrations grew in size and number. Most people were beginning to believe that i f the U.S. was really fighting for freedom, they were helping the wrong side. Civil rights groups, the Students for a Democratic Society, the Yippies, the Black Panthers, and later the Weathermen, joined in the anti-war fight.

The brutal tactics of the police in repressing the social protest, parallelled the oppression of North Vietnam by the same U.S. government. The battle lines became confused. The war was brought home; America became the guerrilla society. This became clear at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, when 25,000 police and National Guardsmen swept through Grant Park, viciously attacking some 5 , 0 0 0 demonstrators.

Jerry Rubin says Chicago “was an education about Vietnam, about oppression in the ghettos, about the whole use of physical force to solve social problems. By forcing America to over-react at home we were spotlighting the over-reaction of America in Vietnam.”

But the most tragic over-reaction would come on May 4, 1970 when National Guardsmen opened fire on demonstrators at ,Kent State University i n Ohio, and killed four students. Days earlier, the president had called demonstrators at Yale, Berkeley, and Stanford “bums.” In the ensuing pandemonium after Kent State, 450 campuses were closed.

From the time Nixon took office he was only concerned with “saving

face” in Vietman, He continued the bombing campaign, removing many of the restraints of the John- son years, to gain a military edge for bargaining purposes. Although he grad-ually withdrew troops, Nix- on also ordered a catastrophic invasion of Cambodia. The cosmetic “peace with honor” the administration presented in 1973 didn’t last more than two years. Saigon fell on April 30, 1975, 10,000days after the first American soldier went to Viet- nam.

Much more could be said about Vietnam. In his conclusion Maclear suggests the road is open in the U n i t e d S t a t e s f o r m o r e “Vietnams.” For us it is important to remember that the U.S. didn’t win the Vietnam War because it is a culture obsessed with techno-fix solutions. And techno-fix solutions didn’t work against a whole society with a long history of “uncom- promising nationalism” committed to fighting a total war. The troop levels competed with the North Vietnamese birth rate. With every bomb dropped, the resolve of the North Vietnamese people became firmer.

It is important for this generation to note that H. R. Haldeman, former Nixon aide, says in The Ends of Power, that the anti-war demonstrations effectively restrain- ed Nixon from extending the bombing even further and using the atomic bomb.

With the situation in Nicaragua and El Salvador being pitched in the old Cold War paradigm, it is essen- tial for the public to take to the streets to prevent another Vietnam.

The present secretary of state, Kissinger protege Alexander Haig, said of the savage 1972 Christmas bombing of Hanoi: “1 would have hoped we could have gone a little longer.” He’s always said that Viet- nam “was more of an East-West issue,’’ and that the U.S. “should have dedicated the full range of its national power to bring about a successful outcome.” But perhaps what is creating more panic than anything else about the possibility of another Vietnam, is that people are recalling that often quoted statement of the current president, regarding the war - “ l f i t takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with.”

American ballet By LAWRENCE PANYCH

The Pennsylvania Ballet completed a four day visit to Vancouver Sunday evening. In all, some eight different ballets in four separate programs were presented.

The programs were cleverly organized so that each had to be seen in order to cover all eight ballets. Such a ploy could very well have been infuriating if it wasn’t such a pleasure to watch this company perform.

In spite of financial difficulties at home and a disappointing turnout at the performances here, the company was in fine form. They are indeed a very able bunch of young dancers. The women in particular excel in both technical and dramatic ability.

The ballets presented a variety of dance, from the modern and avant- garde to the old and classical. In the latter category was the second act of the ever popular Swan Lake. Tamara Hadley as Odette, Queen of the Swans, was a sheer delight. She danced with stunning sensuali- ty. Her every movement spoke with feeling. Hadley’s performance alone made an evening worthwhile.

Also on the program was Moor’s Pavane, a classic of contemporary dance based on the story of Othello. This work, created in 1949 by the

modern dance pioneer Jose Limon, was if nothing else at least interesting as a museum piece.

Moor’s Pavane is a ponderously dramatic ballet. There is much wrenching, grasping and knashing of teeth. It may have been the first time the open hand was used for dramatic impact, and Limon certainly made use of it wherever possible. The style of this ballet is perhaps a bit heavy but it is very effective as dance drama.

A particularly popular piece on the program was Margo Sapp- ington’s Under the Sun. It is a fairytale ballet inspired by the mobiles of American artist Alex- ander Calder .

Under the Sun is a beautifully constructed ballet. It is colorful, sensitive, humorous and sensual. A specially commissioned score by composer Michael Kamen adds further to the effectiveness of the piece. Again it was Tamara Hadley whose exceptional performance as Corolla made the ballet memorable.

Other ballets on the Vancouver tour included Scotch Symphony and Square Dance by George Ballanchine, Joyce Houlton’s Galaxies and an anarchistic modern piece by Senta Driver entitled Reset- tings.


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T H E By CHARLES CAMPBELL

In The Legacy there is a wooden box with the figure of a raven on it. On lopsided the wing humanoid of the face. raven But there if you is a L E G’ A C Y look at the face as a profile the feathers of the raven’s wing become a beak and the once humanoid The suc’cess of North west coast Nndian art features transform themselves into

- ~ those of another bird.

These visual puns are an impor- is finally undeniable, the problems tant characteristic of north west coast Indian art. The Legacy: Con- are simply inevitable. tinuing Traditions of Canadian North West Coast Indian Art currently on exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology is brimming with consummate examples of the art’s complex style. One might think that the tradition has finally secured its future and is no longer threatened.

But Indian art is not as healthy as exhibits like The Legacy might imp- ly. There are many faces in this art that are hidden by its overt success.

Most of the problems lie in the form of its popularity, which is par-

old material. The museum’s budget for acquiring new material is less than $2,000 per year.

“The Vancouver Art Gallery, by excluding this art, is denying: the individual artists the measure of credibility that collection by a public gallery provides,” Young says.

And because the conccrns of museums are not primarily as thet ic but anthropological there remains

down 8111 your hands and knees. Thal’s unfortunately typical of museuns.

“Tht art is caught i n this peculiar situation, not so much here but in other nuseums, it’s s:Jbservient to the ide:, of trying to recreate the life processcs of these people.

“ I don’t understand why it’s not just ccmnsidered primairily an art form. 1 don’t understmd what an anthropological apprclach to it is

JIM HART. . . carves replica of Masset pole

tially rooted in white guilt, and has resulted in a patronizing tourist-like curiosity rather than serious critical appreciation of the art’s complex heritage.

“Artists are working against a tradition of selling art to tourists that goes back over a hundred years,” says David Young, owner of the Bent Box Gallery. This climate, which has Haida carver Rober t Dav idson wonder ing whether people buy his art because it is good or because of the color of his skin, is of great concern to Young.

The pigeon-holing of north west coast Indian art - as folk art, important only in the context of the culture that produced it, is a problem that is not only confined to public attitudes.

Young explains: “Right now we have a situation where the National Gallery in Ottawa and the Van- couver Art Gallery specifically ex- clude Indian art from their acquisition programs. The National Gallery says that’s the function of the Museum of Man and the Van- couver Art Gallery says Indian Art is the preserve of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.”

But when Young informed Museum of Anthropology director Michael Ames about the Art Gallery policy, i t was news to him. Young was told the museum’s policy in terms of acquisition is not to buy new material at all but to buy

no public arbiter of what is truly valuable as art.

In a hall in the Museum of An- thropology after a press con: terence to reveal the designs of some an- cient houseboards, artist Bill Reid discusses the problem. “One of the differences between an art gallery and a museum is that a lot of stuff that would be discarded as having no aesthetic value whatsoeve!. is still included here.” - “Artists are working against a tradition of selling a r t to tourists that goes back over a hundred years. ’ ’

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lack of concern for aesthetics, Reid points to an exhibit in The Legacy itself. “This box’s design is fiepen- dent on your being able to see all four sides of i t . But you ca.1 only see about one and a half i f you ger

really -- you study the societal conditions that produced it - but that’s the same thing t’ilat’s studied in any art history.”

Another problem faced by north west co.ist Indian art grows out of its highly stylized nature. First of all the apparent repetitiveness in- timidatis people and discourages a critical approach. Reid adds that it makes It easier for somebody to produce something that appears to be the real thmg. “Because the rules have been set down it’s not that difficult. . b y competenl draftsman can do It. It’s what YO’J bring to i t that’s important.”

He says there is alway! a danger of reworking the forms in unexciting ways “There are pedestrian works i n the 13th century anti pedestrian works i n the 20th cmtury. I’m responsible for some of’ them.”

Youn;: concurs, saying his own objectivl: is to try and !;eps!rate out the good material from the hollus bollus. “Right now I O U have a situatior where you hav? six true artists and 194 technicians. There are a 101 o f people wh8D are just manipuljting old designs.” Young goes 1.0 the back of his jouth Gran- ville ga:lery and returns with a magazinc that shows lhree nearly identical prints of sea otters. There is even a carving i n The Legacy obviously derived from one of those

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behind the Totem Park residences tiaida carver Jim Hart leans on the polc he’s carving and muses about t h e inhibitions that a higb.ly stylized art form place on the arti.jt. He emphasizes [he importance of working from a firm understanding of the classical forms, motioning to his work, which is itself a tcopy of a 19th century Masset pole. He points out that there are very f:w people who are really familiar with the Haida tradition - he rlames Bill Reid and Robert Davidlion. Hart feels a lot of Indian artists would bene f i t f rom tha t k ind o f understanding. “A lot of guys, they’re good carvers but they don’t know about the tradit:ions. They don’t care about the ar’. of what they’re doing.”

Another factor !hat contributes to the profusion of mediocre art is thal: i t is economically important to many people in need. But of course, as Hart points out, there is a dilemma. “My mother produc,-s a lot of commercial stuff. She re,aily doesn’t kmw an awful lot about what she’s doing but she turns a good buck doing that. So who’s to come along and say ‘What the hell do you think you’re doing?’ ” It’s a problem made that much larger by the fact that the critics are usually white.

The damage that can be done to the credibility of Indian art by com- mercialism has never been more evident than i t is in the current print market. Some dealers wcln’t touch north west coast Indian prints because of lack of standards. “What’s limited about a limited edition of 600?” one dealer asked.

David Young shares thc concern. “There’s been a rather \‘ast inflation of the size of editions. This is primarily because of pressure from the tourist market which wants cheap .prints. The only way to sarisfy an artist who wants more money is to print more, whereas the real test of quality is to raise the p r m . ”

He says that standards set in 1977 to limit editions to 200 and print only on high quality rag pap’x are being slowly eroded.

This problem is not hellped any by thc fact that white prints are the mosl: marketable Indian art; they are for many artists simply a source

of income that allows them to d o other things. Certainly this is the case for Bill Reid, whose own prints were some of the first to be mass marketed.

“Printmaking was never my main interest, but they help pay for other things - the pole at Skidegate (a volunteer project for a Haida community in the Queen Charlotte Islands) and this work for the museum (recreating the de,jigns of old houseboards). I also hope to be able to do some research and writing, things which don’t provide any income.

“This sounds terribly altruistic but 1 started making prints because my metalwork prices were getting high and people wanted something R they could afford. So I put those things on the market for twenty bucks. There were big editions, 600 prints. That’s how the phenomenon began. I t was a very strange occur- rence but 1 was happy to take advantage of i t . ” And take advantage he has. His editions of 200 prints sell out before they are produced at $1000 each.

“The morality of the whole thing is confusing. Without thinking about i t I’d say I sometimes wish I’d just stuck to contemporary jewellery-making that has no social implications and doesn’t involve a people in such dire economic need.”

Jim Hart appears more inlerested in the pole he’s carving than in the fact that there’s a little exploitation. “Prints are bread and butter work for a lot of artists. There’s commer- c i a l i s m i n a l l a r t . E v e n Michelangelo had people telling him what to do and political hassles with the families he worked for.”

The dilemmas remain for the artist. Should one throw money our the window in the name of artistic integrity? Should one seek ;he approval of a predominatly white art i

community and abandon the Indian heritage that spawned the art to begin with, or should one produce only for the Indian community and contribute to the folk art image that handicaps the tradition. In between of course is the distasteful spectre of ‘professional’ Indians dancing for a white community - willing parties to the superficial patronage that serves only to ease white guilt.

Perhaps the thought occurred to some printmaker when he tucked the face of some raven/trickster under the wing of another bird that the pale face of entrepeneur would emerge from that of the Indian artist when he took his work to market.

In any event, the faci that there is a legacy of problems is at least testimony to the gathering strength of the revival of north west coast Indian art. Twenty-five years ago nobody was interested at all.

KILLER WHALE. BOX . . . Bill Reid’s legacy in gold


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"TO BE OR NOT TO BE?"

Junior faculty need a 'fair A l o w murmur may sometimes

be heard above the gentle rustling o f poison ivy which encrust the tirne-hailowed halls o f learning and scholarship at UBC. This plaintive

' sigh is "thing5 ain't (are not) what they used to be" and is emitted by faculty members recently denied tenure. These miserable creatures are referring back t o some more idyllic time they b e h e occurred in the misty past when, they allege, most faculty obtained tenure.

Seriously, i t seems likely that

'The faculty association is i n a most unusual position. It is largely composed of persons who have tenure, some of which are sitting on senior committees H hich pass judgement on junior colleagues. Naturally enough, conflicts may arise between what a department., 5chool or faculty may perceive as being in the best interests of their group on one hand, and on adcising a candidate how best to prepare for the tenure deliberations, on the other hand.

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I creasmgly dltflcult to obtain tenure. I t seems equally likely that the faculty association w i l l be unable to help them. The association may, unfortunately, find itself following the same road as certain major

e unions (e.g., Teamsters, United .4uto M'orker5) i n that 5enior members protected by tenure will \tay at UBC while junior, n o r v tenured members iTlay l o ~ e their jobs.

wishing to join the hall of fame or notoreity - tenure - only have one "crack of the nhip." That is, i f they fail once, they cannot apply again even i f their curriculum vitae is much stronger the following year. Indeed, evidence of good teaching, research e tc . may come in NoLember of the same year a candidate is being considered and to be too late for consideration. I t i \ !hub <;iti<ci [ii:it such candidates hi. ad-

vised of shortcomings that they may have well before their "time is due" and that they be given a fair chance to improve their record and even to resign i t their particular case is black.

l~etters I This, I and others believe, is not

happening in certain cases. There is a certain irony to this. For instance, some of one's senior colleagues may criticize a candidate for not habing published work done at UBC in fully refereed journals. These same souls may, themselves, not have published anything in journals for years, nay decades. Part of the problem is that several of the statements enshrined in the conditions of appointment handbook (agreed to by the faculty association and the board of governors) are open ended. For example, it states somewhere that scholarly activity will be judged by publications, peer reviews . . . unfortunately, the former is now being interpreted by senior committees as being publications in refereed journals and, furthermore, that such publications be based on work done at UBC (not elsewhere).

For a person trying desperately to achieve some reasonable balance betheen teaching, research and other work this is a very critical point. While unfortunately teaching ;n the wide senses of the word is the highest priority, candidates will be forced to literally publish or perish - to push out research matrial for premature publication in a refereed iournal. In any went . these peopls \ ~ , o u l c l h n ( \ u \ \hat :onitiClitss

Preppies live Once upon a time, in a really pretty city, there was a big happy com-

munity just west of Blanca Street. The cheery students who went to school in this protected green spit of land were contented with their simple lives.

Wearing cardigan sweaters, plaid skirts and alligator shirts and top- siders, these jolly young spirts had fun at frat parties, participated in in- tramuralsports and had an all around swell time at the big university.

Mommy and Daddy gladly paid their expenses, throwing in a few extra dollars whenever necessary. A lucrative job was waiting around the corner, and it was just funky times until then. But wait - some of these cheery young youths glanced at a newspaper one day. El Salvador, cutbacks, nuclear disarmament. Where the hell have we been, they asked.

They found out more, met other concerned students, and soon they were concerned themselves. But they were branded leftists because they acted just like those who lived left of Blanca.

This is not a fairy tale. This is a real-life horror story. Our economy is in dire straits, we are close to nuclear annihiliation, and innocent people around the world are victims of torture and genocide. But UBC students are awakening from the dormant decade of apathy and selfishness which has prevailed until now.

Last fall, it appeared that there would be a continuation of old times. Few students were concerned with cutbacks, and even fewer with the rising fees. Student council and the university administration assumed their usual roles of not providing leadership in students' best interest.

But some concerned students decided they had had enough with all the bullshit on campus. New groups were formed who put forth fresh and practical ideas. Support mounted as rallies and marches attracted large groups of students, unseen since the days of the 1922 'Great Trek.'

Students also joined in the movement against nuclear disarmament and signed petitions, joined advocacy groups, and protested against impen- ding moves towards a nuclear war.

Students rose up against the provincial government and demanded that post-secondary education be given a higher priority. Education ministers Brian Smith and Pat McGeer blushed.

The people tore the alligators off their shirts as they realized that there was a world beyond the green spit. They've traded their alligators for protest signs ana they've adopted new sayings: "You say cutbacks, we say fuck off."

The moral of the story: old dogs can learn new tricks. As is evident in the action of the past year, students can once again retain a powerful voice in university affairs.

But unless this student awareness continues to grow In momentum, all that has been accomplished this year will have been a wasted effort.

Show some concern for the state of this university - it's a matter of life and death.

chance' at tenure reasonable evidence of scholarly activity.

My purpose in writing the above is not to argue for the old times to be resurrected again but to ask that junior faculty all get a fair chance. I also wish to acknowledge the hard work of past and present executives of the faculty association. But, unfortunately, the Last majority of faculty very rarely attend an association meeting. Whispers of

contemplated applications for unionization (now denied to us by one of the best known association members, a Dr. Paddy McGeer) does bring out faculty from the hoodwork. Without a stronger faculty body, the Meak and non- tenured may continue to be pushed away from Point Grab and surroun- dings.

Same witheld by request

THE UBYSSEY' April 2, 1982

Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughout the university year by the Alma Mater Society of the llniversity of B.C. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not of the A M S or the university administration. Member, Canadian University Press. The Ubyssey's editorial office is in room 241k of the Student Union Building. Editorial departments, 228-2301; Adver- tising, 228-3977.

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board. The doctor, Dr. Doug Schmldt. sald the death occurred between 12 and 2 a m , and a broken watch In McDonald's pajama pocket was stopped at exactly 1 15 B.ooks nor Sanford were not upwt at the death.

snow "The murderer IS st111 with us on the traln." breathed Tieleman Although the wmdow I" McDonald's room was open, there were no footprints on the

garet Copplng. Fred Bannmg, Chns Edley. Carl Lum and Kevm Mullen all expect It. but they If thls was a propr novel, thls space would now be taken up wnh bulldlng suspense. Mar-

ate gomg to be disappomted. Instead. to please Graham Hall, Colleen Humer, Shella Munro and Verne McDonald, we are golng 10 pretend a sudden whimsey has overcome P4 Hyphen and he knows what has happened

wrne 11 and have a decent masthead?" whme Paul Kroeger, John Knowles and Dale Kelm. "Boo. unfaw." shout Greg Mtttag. Gene Long and Len Lauk "Why not have Arladne Oliver

B r ~ n g on Miss Matple and fuck P o w . " grumble Chns Galnor and Ralph Maurer "Jello?"

want to know the endmg Harry Hertscheg and Tony Jochlln couldn't care less. but they'll be Dawd Marwood, Sean Lafleur and Lawrence Kootnjkoff haven't read the book, so they

patlent and s a y quiet to please Michael Kernaghan. Rob Guzyk and Paul Kalhla. D. J. Hauka. Bas11 McDonnell, Roseanne Moegan. J m McElgun and Warren Hardtng weren't around to vote on the decislon.

ped on and off a1 Belgrade. or all of the passengers had done it. Scml m ' l VNV nia PN- There were two solutions: none of the passenger8 had &me It. and th. m u r d a n h.d *ip

son and had killed a lot of people before, and hiden there wen 12 pap* to cur). QR ** sentence of death he had wriggled out of before.

The sl~p between Miss Draawna and Col Jones m what gave 11 all away. If tl'N~ knrr rch other. everyone else could too.

"Hawna Dlaced my solution before "ob. ~ hare the honor to retire from the caw. . ." M. - . Hyphen sald grandly.

a m and I've b w n dolng th~s for 12 hours Leave me alone Everyone, all 145 of them, booed "What kind of a lousy endmg Is thls?' Go 8.My. ll'a 9

And then there were none

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Letters Bill and Socred boys create summer ‘slave labor’

I am a first year student at UBC, and am presently seeking summer employment. On March 22 my search took me to the campus employment centre, and that is where I found the job posted of good show representative for tour- ism B.C.

The requirements of this job were numerous: the applicant must be a fulltime university student; must be nineteen years of age; must have access to a vehicle; must be able to deal with the public; and be well groomed. Also, he/she must be outgoing, friendly, and have excellent communication skills, as the position includes press interviews and meetings with dignitaries.

All these requirements I meet because of my past employment and theatrical experiences. Indeed, the position seemed to offer excitement, intellectual stimulation, and good work experience. My en- thusiasm dropped, however, when I came to the last sentence on the job description: ‘The rate of pay is $3.65 her hour’.

Due to provincial cutbacks, my tuition fees are going up approximately $400 next year, making

them a total of around $l,o(x). Fur- thermore, the cost of my wsidence room and board is rising by $400, totaling about $3,000 for next year. On top of these fees are extra expenses like books, entertanment, transportation, and personal costs; thus I expect my total expenditures

will add up to about $5,000 next year.

If I worked from May to September, eight hours a day, five days a week at the rate specified, my maximum earning:; would be $2,336; not even half of the amount I need to continue my t:ducation. I

Departing student spouts off Within two months I’ll be leaving Guardian publishes an excellent

the hallowed halls of UBC forever. week ly t ha t p rov ides good Before 1 depart, I’d like to make a analytical journalism. few comments about our troubled 2 . The Ubyssey does not provide campus and The Ubyssey. balanced journalism. This rc,sults in

1 . I am very disappointed at the low credibility. A feu more articies lack of journalistic competence 011 K a m p u c h e a , t h e K G R , displayed by The Ubyssey. I t is ap- Afghanistan etc. are appropriate. proximately on par with the local .4s a long time supporter of the commercial rags and that is unac- NDP. I find that the illogixl and ceptable. Luckily the Manchester rehtorical garbage spouted by the .M::!..:s:.s: .:... .::. i...i.: .... : ~ : : ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ : ~ ~ ~ , ~ , ~ ~ , ~ : . ~ : ~ . : ~ ~ ~ : ~ ~ ::.. ;.-.:~::,.~.:h:~~ Trotskyist League and the Commit-

As you’re all aware from reading tee Against Racist and Fascist

The Ubyssey, this is our last issue. Violence is an insult to my in-

Any letters not printed were either telligence.

late, lacking ID, or politically in- 3. When I was an underg:aduate

correct. You’ll have to wait until early ,970s, the graffiti in male in engineering school during the

(unless The Summer Ubyssey pro- Today it is sexual and racist. What posal goes through). has happened to you jounger

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September see Your name in print bathrooms was political and sexual.

<*:g*:.:*:* :.:.:<. 2 1.::. ” :. .:. .;.v..,w.%.xx.:2 __ ...... :... .:. ..:;..$+:. . enlightened students?

‘Science sequences suck freedom flows from faith’ I wonder at the glib way in which

so many science students affirm the secure foundations of their in- vestigations as over against “faith” positions. I’m even more amazed that the philosophers let them get away with this.

I am not a philosopher, but it seems to me that no one does their thinking in a vacuum, or without quite a number of undemonstrable assumptions. Experiment and observation might show that a 10 ton boulder shatters a 10 inch tree contacted at a velocity of 20 m.p.h. The experiment may be repeated with the same result, but this does not validate the conclusion that this sequence of events always produces this result (given the same variables).

If the experiment were repeated 1,OOO times all we would have with certainty is 1,OOO cases of a certain sequence of events by which through habit of mind we might postulate destruction following again from this sequence. But perhaps in the next 10 million cases the boulder would shatter. With the possibility of infinite repetition our study represents no significant trial. Hume showed that it is reasonable

to doubt whether a cause can be known only by its effect. So to all those who would be

thorough empiricists, realize that induction is an independeni logical principle which cannot be :nferred “either from experience cIr from other logical principles, and that without this principle science is impossible” (Russell, H i s txy o f Western Philosophy).

My point is obvious: We all live by faith. Some of us put our faith in science, some in God. Some of us see no reason to oppose the two, since God is truth (but truth is not God). Indeed, it has been cogently argued that the empirical method arose with the reformation.

God upholds the world in accord with His will, and so the world is knowable and, to a large extent, events are predictable. But because God is not governed by necessity knowledge of the world must be gained through observation. The world is both orderly and con- tingent because God is both rational and free. Here’s to science and faith! but let’s understand where we’re worshipping.

Len Hjalmarson Regent College

4. I Irn always mildly amused by the greu reac:ion to Ciodiva’s ride. People are starving to death on this planet m d sonle mental midgets in laa, .,chool waste thei: xecious time w(vt-yillg aboul such a trivial ritual. W’h! don’t they hire some well hung stud (L.;lrd Godiva) and parade him aromd campus on a &.]at. Who the hell cares! Grow up.

5 . Tlere is loo much automobile traffic n the central c,mpus area.

6. Do y o u realize that organiza- tionz like the ACLlJ (American Civil Ltberties Union) would defend the Red Rag.

7 . Ir a recent edition of The Ubyssey, a spokesperson for the B.C. Coalition of Rape Crisis Cen- tres stated that ‘‘We know every man is brought up to believe he can rape, beat or batter us.” There is no doubt that rape is a very significant problem in our present violent society but to make Gwch a statement indicates that the speaker is either (1) stupid or (2) has an emo- tional problem based upon some bad experiences. Most men are decent human beings whl3 respect and love their mothers, sisters and wives/g:irlfriends. Wt:ll, have a good summer.

D. B. Paterson BASc 1973

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mlglht add that I could make more money as a chamberm.aid or a dishwasher than I could in the demanding job of “good show representative.” But d o not mistake me, I am completely in favour of the B.C. government creating summer jobs for students. When those jobs pay so little that iit becomes

impossible for students to continue their education, however, it makes me wonder i f the B.C. government is more interested in creating slave labour for itself, than it is in helping post-secondary students.

Caroline Hilland education 1

‘Ron lies through teeth’

Dead battery sparks An open letter to the director of tr:lffic and security:

This is a formal complaint against the patrol officer w h o refused to lend assistance to ;I motorist in need.

One would expect that the traffic and security division of ‘UBC served a more useful function than to merely issue traffic tickets to poor, unsuspecting students. As the name implied, one would expect an officer working f o r the traffic and security ~ o u l d make I t h i , business to help o u t a motorist with car problems. kvell, 1 had the misfortune of having had to ask a patrol officer for asslhtance!

On Monday, March 29, 1 accidently left my car lights on. B:y the time I got back to my car, the battery was drained and nly car \souid not start. I noticed a t :affic and security patrol car nearby, so I went over and politely asked the officer in the patrol car ~f he could give me a jump to start the car. I even told him that I had my own jumper cables. But did 1 get the door slammed on my face! The guy told me that he can not. And to further add to the insult, he said that he needed the battery for his car radios. I f he did not want to help, he could leave it at that, but to have to give such a garbage excuse was just too much!

The patrol officer did suggest that I ask one of the other drivers for help. Fortunately, a driver of a nearby car heard my plea for help and came to my assiwance.

I would now like tcI ask you to describe to me what exactly is the function of traffic and security, besides irritating the students. I sincerely felt that if I should ask anyone for help, I should at least ask a traffic and security patrol officer. I guesj I was wrong! I was too idealist! I realized 1 have made two grave mistakes on Monday: 1. I was polite to a traffic and security patrol officer and 2. I asked for assistance of a traffic and security patrol officer. I will never make those mistakes again.

Perhaps traffic and security should train their officers how to get along with the people they work amongst. Lending assistance would be a good start.

Peter Yu electrical engineering 4

Smashed sinks spur SUB security steps TO AL.L A M s GROUPS:

Over the last two months, there has been a serious inlxease in the vandalism and abuse of student facilities and privileges in SUB. A mere glance around the building will show four broker1 sinks in the men’s washroom, smashed win- g l o w s , d r u n k e n b r a w l s a n d underage and unwanted non-AMS people coming t o alcoholic functions. AI1 of these problems add up to large sums of money needed for repair and RCMP imervention at rowdy functions.

To prevent further vandalism we felt it necessary to institute a number of new security regulations for various areas in SIJB.

The recently renovated games room has a new policy: no non-

AMS persons under the age of 18 shad be in the games r m m after 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Accompanying this will be rigid checks for AMS identifica- tion at alcoholic functions. Non-

Ah4S members must be signed in as at ‘*‘The Pit.”

!Security a t alcoholic functions is a major concern. We encourage student groups booking functions in SUB to supply their own security within the following guidelines. The absolute minimum number of club selected security are as follows: ballroom - 8; partyroom - 4; 20Y/209 - 3; others - .2.

Failure to provide adequate security (not necessarily minimum) will result in closure of the bar

and/or possible suspension of booking privileges.

In order to protect AMS facilities, a new security team consisting of A M s students has been hired to patrol SUB and to aid the I, proctors in securing the building on weekends. Any club holding a func- t i o n i n S U B s h o u l d m a k e themselves known to these people and help out in order to make all functions run as smoothly as possible.

When making a booking, be sure you are aware of any new security policies. A n y questions can be directed to SAC members or Terry Cox, administration director.

Neil Smith Karen McLeod

SUB commissioners Alma Mater Society


Gears ‘should give a damn for any one’ By BARRY FUNG

I have always looked forward to the moment when I can proudfully claim to be a graduate of the engineering class of 1982. Recently, however, there have been suggestions that this is one year in which that pride is tarnished. This is my response to that suggestion, as well as my explanation or how I will feel when 1 d o step up to receive my diploma.

There is conflict on campus, and it one that has disturbed me greatly. Unfortunately, it is a game that is replayed every year at this time. My dictionary defines a game as “a competition . . . in which the participants play in direct opposition t o

discussion about the Red Rag that inevitably emerges. I have been involved in many of these conversations, but in not one of them was there support for the contents of this year’s Red Rag. Not one. The same applies to the editorial letters I have read.

This is a sentiment that was not readily apparent before. The end result of the dean’s letter is that it has shown me that a large number of the students d o disapprove of the publication.

I suppose I have the dean to thank for that, although I cannot help but wonder if the end justified the means. But reality intervenes, and I find myself asking just how

each other, each side striving t o win and to keep the other side from doing so.” That pretty well describes why each of the participants is in this conflict. In reality, the issues involved make this much more than just a game, but the tactics used by each of the competitors would suggest that it is.

The participants are the dean of applied science, the general public, and the engineering undergraduate society (EUS), representing the engineering students like myself. The conflict? - the publication of the Red Rag, a newspaper that the EUS distributes once a year during engineering week.

The climax of this year’s game was reached with a letter from the dean. In his letter, dean Wedepohl condemned the editors of the Red Rag for putting out a publication which he labelled as being Sexist, racist, and an advocate of violence. More importantly, he also placed the blame for its publication on the rest of the engineering students, regardless of whether or not he or she approved of the Red Rag: “By your silence you have not only en- dorsed the contents but you also share the disgrace to the faculty . . . you wil: have to swallow the bitter pill of having been a registered student in this year of 1982 . . . silence will not safeguard you.”

Like many others, my immediate reaction was one of hurt - not from feelings of guilt, but of anguish. True, many of us were silent, but many of us were not. Some support the Red Rag, while many others do not. Similarly, some methods of protest are loud, while others may be discreet - both can be equally as effective, but it is the latter method, out of necessity perhaps, that most students choose to bring about changes. Never- theless, it is a far cry from being silent, and it hurt to see the dean summarize his students so shallow- ly. This, 1 felt, was one time that the dean was mistaken.

But in retrospect, it was I who was mistaken.

The letter should not have been viewed as a personal insult, simply because that was not its purpose. More likely than not, the dean had

rl) been aware of the growing discon- tent the students had for the Red Rag. He would also realize the effectiveness of peer pressure, be it real or imaginary, in concealing those feelings. Thus, his letter was used as a catalyst to let those sentiments surface. Like a .well played hand of cards, it was a bluff; it was meant to taunt us into breaking out of the status quo. The question is whether he succeeded.

One need only look at the response o f the engineer ing

I students. Yes, there is much angry discussion about the dean’s letter and the approach he took. Over- riding all this, however, is the

many students would have written letters of protest or shown up at debates on the Red Rag . . . before the dean wrote his letter. Before the cheese factory was closed. The answer is obvious.

The dean forced his hand well, and with good intentions. For those who disagree, it is recommended that they weigh their logic carefully - that the letter was meant just as a personal insult, or as a means of getting us off our butts. I t is hard to see the dean, or any sensible person, making conflict for the sake of conflict alone.

That, however, is more than what can be said about a majority of the second participant in this game - the general public. This may be a controversial position to take, but my future profession encourages me to express an opinion if I am witness to a misdeed. The misdeed referred to is the distortion of the issues by many of the people who decry about the Red Rag. For a start, instead of asking how the publication offended the public, perhaps it would be more appropriate to ask how the public came to offend themselves.

The Red Rag was not made to offend the public, simply because it was not meant for the public. That is why its distribution, as far as can be verified, was confined to select people. Yes, the publication may be vulgar, but if a group chooses to confine an offensive activity to where it is accepted, and provided that it is within the law, then what they d o is their own business. They have that right, just as the public has the right to not be offended.

But what can be done if someone deliberately chooses t o be offended, so that an issue can be made of it? 1 feel that is what many of the people who publicly protest have done; I cannot hccept as just coincidence that copies of the Red Rag have found their way to groups that have made it a perennial game of criticiz- ing engineering students.

What I object to is the hypocrisy shown by many of these groups. In their protests, some claim to be pro- tecting the rights of the public, and yet they would violate the engineering students’ rights t o privacy to do so. Others claim that they hope to change the engineering students’ sexist, racist, and violent ways. Yet, if only one of them showed enough genuine concern t o talk to the students, he will quickly find that his protests are not worth a penny. The point is, many people are not so offended by the Red Rag as they are obsessed with using it to achieve their own means.

Furthermore, the Red Rag does not offend just by being in one’s hands; this is decided after a person has read it. But if a person finds it to be offensive, he has the option of not reading it. That is why in my four years of engineering, I have

never read the Red Rag (until this year’s issue was shown t o me by the dean). The important thing is that I had my freedom of choice; I could just as easily have chosen to read it. If the public protestors had it their way, this would not be possible.

Granted, I find the Red Rag offensive, and that is why I choose to ignore it. But beyond the Red Rag, examples of sexism, racism, and violence confront me everyday in the form of magazines, movies, plays, and what have you. They offend me, and I am being consistent when I choose to ignore them as well. Yet where are the protestors of the Red Rag now? If they can be so adamant about getting rid of that single publication, how can they choose to ignore this multitude of public offenses? This infidelity is perhaps why many of the engineering students have come to ignore the preaching of these groups.

Unfortunately, the fact remains that the Red Rag is in the public do- main now. As such, the public cannot be ignored. I am not, however, referring t o Linda Hossie, the Van- couver Sun writer with her distorted views of four-year olds. I am not referring to the radical women’s rights groups, who prepare for combat at the mention of sexual in- equality. No. I am referring to the small minority who are genuinely hurt by what ou r newspaper por- trays.

I t is the people which the EUS, the final participant in this conflict, should not ignore, just as it should not ignore the voice of its membership. On that of a single member - like myself.

Unfortunately, we did choose to ignore these people, and that is why the dean took the steps he did - not so much to punish us as to protect the rights of the people who were abused by the Red Rag. Some of these people cannot fight back

even, but they all have a right to not be offended.

So why did the EUS choose to ignore this group of people?

Maybe it has something t o d o with our motto: “We don’t give a damn for any old man who don’t give a damn for us.” However, what if that man or woman does give a damn? Then in all fairness, I think it is about time that we d o give a damn about what they think, about how they feel.

In any case, the Red Rag is gone now, and many would say that I am flogging the issue with typical 20/20 hindsight. There are still those, however, who insist on keeping the “tradition” alive. What they should realize, is that the Red Rag in its present form is not even traditional. When the Red Rag first started, it was a genuine satire on the pompousness of society. It was

certainly not an abuse of society, as the present publication has degrad- ed to.

It is time that this conflict ended once and for all. True, there are still many problems t o be resolved, both with the dean and with the public, but with the termination of the Red Rag, I think that we have taken a step in the right direction. Sure it was done after a lot of controversy, but the engineers have never “cut and run” in the face of conflict. No, the Red Rag was canned because the engineering students themselves wanted the change. To end these silly games. And for that, I am proud to have been a registered student in the year 1982.

Barry Fung is a fourth year civii engineering student who hopes to graduate this year. Perspectives is a column of analysis, humor, whit and opinion .

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OT foreshadowed Christ One of the risks one runs in formity to the law, He desired

writing for popular consumption is men’s loving response t o His love being misunderstood as a function (Isa. 1, etc.). Responding to God in of reducing some large and tough love always meant loving His steaks to digestible size. children, and so seeking justice (as

I believe that the Old Testament Micah 6:8). It is this that was lost does foreshadow the New, and that passages such as Ps. 22 and Isa. 53 do refer to Jesus. However, I d o not, as a Christian, try to split God into OT and NT versions. I understand Israel’s wars partly as a function of their unique position as God’s people and instrument (in a way no nation today can be), and partly as political ambition. My belief is that some Christians misuse the text and that if they would look

to Jesus’ words first they might avoid problems with the Old Testa-. ment record. Of course, this won’t happen. Their approach to Scrip- ture is inconsistent because it is utilitarian.

No, it was no new commandment Jesus gave. When asked by the Pharisees what the greatest law was He placed love first. As Paul says, one needs no law when one places others first.

But the Jewish religion in the time of Jesus the Jew had become an inflexible system of ritual and legal observance. Even the Old Testament itself expresses less than God’s ideal; Jesus explains the right to divorce (Deut. 24) as recognition of “hardness of heart” (Mt. 19:7). But God did not desire mere con-

and is lost - love is lost because it costs.

Circumcision of the flesh is a relatively easy thing (at least for half the world) - but circumcision of the heart is more difficult (and necessary, Lev. 26:41). It was faith for Abraham (Gen. 15:6;1, in the Christ not yet come, and it is faith .today (in the Messiah Who lives) that makes men right with God, who in Christ met His own re- - ”

Fake letter, apology

The Ubvssev staff would like to apologize to a l l its readm for a fake letter which ran in the March 29 issue.

The letter, entitled Is GSA playing house or playing God, was submitted for publication by Yvonne Hebert, a graduale student in linguistics. The signed names are false.

Hebert had assured The Ubys- sey the letter was from graduate studelits, and she was simrly de- livering i t to the paper due I O time constraints.

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‘Fundamentalists wrong’ The recent letters from fundamentalists have all tacitly assumed that they

represent Christ. They often talk as i f prowding evidence for the Bible or for the resurrection, proved their beliefs.

I disagree. Christ never expressed an intention to become the head of a religious empire composed of his followers, as fundamentalists make out the kingdom of God to be. Rather, this was just the mistaken notion he was trying to correct. He told people, not that God was going to re-establish the throne of David (the organization), but that the kingdom of God was a matter of a person’s behaviour. The man he said was ‘not far from the kingdom,’ was not one of the many who wanted to see him rule, but one

quirements in the law. The Jews looked forward to the perfect lamb and we knew Jews look backward to the lamb who was slain for all men. (Please, no puns about a “sheepish opiate rehgion). Hope this raises the wool from all eyes.

Leu Hjalmarson R’egent College

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Three Stooges given jobs after autonomy loss By ANNA BANANA

Ubyssey Appointments Editor Despite warnings against creep-

ing preppyism and inexperienced leaders, The Ubyssey staff threw caution to the wind Tuesday and elected three new fuzzy-cheeked faces t o next years’s editorial collective.

Affectionately known by the staff as Bumble, Jumble and Mum- ble, or Craig Brooks, Shaffin Shar- iff and Brian Jones, the three new lambs surprised no one with their low-key campaign. “The less people knew about us, the better our chances were,” one of them said off the record. A random Ubyssey poll of the staff later proved that remark overwhelmingly correct.

The newly-elected trio come from very different socio-economic backgrounds.

Brooks, a former Alma Mater Society hack who was thrown out of office in disgrace, is an ex- Progressive Conservative party speechwriter and bagman.

Sharriff was found abandoned as SHARIFF . . . in Keaton drag again BROOKS . . . Big Hack Attack JONES . . . Calgary born and red a young child in a movie theatre and never saw sunshine until he was - - - * - - e ~~

seven years old, preferring the dim light of the silver screen to the 1 harsh, natural glare of the sun. “ A

fashionably dressed and a devoted Problems??? 1 fan of Diane Keaton. His favorite 1 I

1 critic’s critic,” Shariff is always I OMBUDS OFFICE movie is I Was A Teenage Zombie. 4 Complaints!!! 4

m Brian Jones, of course, used to . play guitar in a little-known British

the world record for holding one’s I Room 100-A (Main Floor) S.U.B. I rock ’n’ roll garage band and holds -c Come See Us 4 breath underwater. He is- frotn 8 Phone 228-4846 .) Calgary, but the staff apparently - - - __ - - - - did not hold that against him.

The three headed beast was elected overwhelmingly by the 25 staff people who voted. There were two write-in votes for a Ubyssey sportswriter.

The three promised sweeping changes to The Ubyssey next year. “We’ll right gooder, spel bitter and sweep the office more regularly,” they bleated in unison. “But we won’t paint the walls.”

Letters. Save the barn, UBC history in horseshit

Save the barn! The old horsebarn near B-lot was built in 1919, and has been in use ever since, up until last fall. After it was vacated, vandalism and neglect have allowed it to run down and fall below standards, but the structure itself is solid as a rock (it has a foundation of the same granite as comprises Main library). The building has considerable heritage value, I feel, as well as being a potentially fine part of the landscape if it were restored a little. It also has a number of potential uses, both academic and extracur- ricular. Some of these are being discussed now with the administration by the environmental interest group, the cycling club, and the agriculture undergraduate society. These groups are also petitioning for public support to preserve the old building. If you have a chance, please sign. Save the Barn!

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‘Ordinary people can stop arms race madness’ . -

One of the most ,dire problems :31,000 strategic and tactical nuclear facing mailkind is .the haunting warheads. Furthermore, the U.S. is threat of a‘nuclear war. And,-with. ’producing three new cuclear the present escalation of the arms warheads a day. The Sovie:s have race, this threat is amplified even 21,000 warheads. The national more. security council estimated that in

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Trotskyist league seeks capitalism alternative

The Klan shoots East Indians and beats up leftists in Vancouver; we Trotskyists seek to smash their ter- ror by outmobilizing them through labor/minority action. The KKK are the right-wing terrorist fringe of ReaganITrudeau’s anti-Soviet war drive, which seeks a defeat in blood for all unionists, leftists and minor- ities targeted by dying capitalism.

Pete Baran’s open letter to the Trotskyist league (March 26) dan- gerously equates the Trotskyists, who have the only strategy to fight fascism, with the fascists themselves. In doing this, he caps off The Ubyssey’s recently escalated anti-communist attacks on the Trotskyist League, thereby ultimately emboldening the fascists.

To be consistent, Baran would have to support the outrageous ac- quittal of the Nazis who shot and killed five anti-Klan demonstrators in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1979, for he would share the capi-

Lost student wants answers

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Letters. There’s been a lot of them this year; some profound, some quaintly silly, others just pure shit. But we loved getting them all. We loved throwing some of them into the waste basket, and we loved publishing the ones that conformed to our twisted world view.

talist press’s view that the cold- blooded racist murders wer’s just a “shootout,” equating the fascists with the leftists.

In El Salvadcr, Bar- an’s “even-handedness’ would mean demanding that the gumillas, workers, peasants, and students stop fighting to defend themselves against the imperialist anc, junta backed right-wing death squads, leaving the population completely defenseless against slaughter.

But the targets and victim:; of the fascists cannot share Baran’:. “non- partisan” posture. So we arc: proud to say that on March 20 in P a n Ar- bor, our SL/U.S. c0mradc.s once more initiated (after Detroit, 1979 and San Francisco, 1980) a labor/minority mobilization - this time of over 1,500 - that stopped the Nazis from marching m city hall and chased them off the streets.

And here in Vancouvssr, on March 27, as reformists, fake-leftists, and other anti-communists eagerly sought to prevent, with the cooperation of the cops, the Trot- skyist league’s anti-imperiabst con- tingent from raising its banrer calling for “military victory to 1 he Sal- vadoran leftists,” the class line once again became clear. We alone de- fended the Soviet Union’s socializ- ed property forms against imperialist attack. El Salvador is the front- line of the imperialist war drive to “roll back communism,” from El Salvador to Nicaragua to Cuba and the Soviet Union.

The Ubyssey has clearly placed itself in open support to mair,taining capitalism with all its exploitation and oppression. It has been one of the cheerleaders for the counter- revolutionary Solidarnosc in Po- land, giving - and then defending - a platform for Canadian KKK chief Alex McQuirter (backed by printing a letter titled “Shoot com- mies”), and then fronting for the pro-capitalist FDR in El Salvador. We now have a number oi’ politically serious students seeking us out t6 examine the alternative to The Ubyssey’s liberalism and Trudeau’s capitalism offered by our revolutionary program to end capitalism once and for all..

Andrew Lewiecki Trotskyist league club

Hitch-hiking helpful hints While I am most supportive of students turning to hitch-hiking

rather than paying increased fares to ride the bus, havlng been a student hitch-hiker for several years, I would hope that they would be aware of the potential dangers of thumbing rides with stranger:..

Some suggestions are: hitch-hike in pairs (women particularly); be prepared for the possibility of an assault (take a self-defencc: or mace class); wear or carry some easily visible item which clearly itien- tifies you as a UBC student, example a UBC sweatshirt (some people who wouldn’t normally stop for a hitch-hiker wiil offer rides to students) and; hitch-hike from a position of the sidewalk wllere drivers are not going too fast to stop, and are legally permitteli to make a stop.

You might also consider making a sign showing your destination, which is especially useful for your homeward run.

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minimum of 1 4 0 million Americans 151 indications of a Soviet attack. and 113 million Russiar1.s would die. When confronted with figures

One Poseidon submarine can like this, one can easily comprehend destroy 218 Soviet cities. The U.S. the urgent need to stop the insane has 31 Poseidons. In the 18 months arms race. Yet more often than not, prior to October 1980, the U.S. ordinary people are made to feel as warning systems falsely reported i f the capability of instigating an

end to this nuclear buildup is beyond their capacity. This is simply not true.

All over the world, people are writing letters to politicians, engaging in peace marches, and ad- vocating nuclear-free zones. The preceeding months have reflected this in the large-scale anti-nuke demonstrations in Holland, U.K., Germany and the U.S.

People in Vancouver also get a chance to show their regard for preserving world peace via mutual disarmament. On April 24, the largest ever walk for peace will be held at Kitsilano beach at 12 noon. The momentum of the peace , demonstrations from Europe will manifest itself in Vancouver on April 24. This march brings with itself an excellent opportunity for people from all walks of life to show their disgust for nuclear weapons. Let us all come out and support this walk for peace.

Bhagwant Singh Sandhu biology 4

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Should have sat on grad centre report, says Davies

Two weeks ago, I retained a management consultant to review the food and Jeverage operation!; of the centre. Their report contained some criticisms, and it was felt that although the centre has operated for many years without adhering to commonly accepted policies and procedures in the irtdustry and the university, time had come to consider an orderly process of change.

Also, over the pas1 year, the graduate student associatlon has carefully developed a proposal to revise the constitution and bylaws of the centre in order to better direct it towards its objectives as a student centre.

All this was progressing in a reasonably orderly fashion, with all due emphasis on everybody’s positive contributions to the centre, until the past week.

As a courtesy to UBC vice president Michael Shaw, because of his interest i n knowing about “problems,” I sent him, in confidence, copies of the consultants’ reports. To my surprise, he copied them for other administrators and for the three president’s appointees

on the centre’s board of directors. What followed was inevitable: I issued copies to all directors, and to all graduate representative assembly members who are the prospective directors under the proposed new bylaws. This rnuch has become public information and has appeared in the public press as news.

Normally such reports are dealt with by the chief executive officer of an organization in strictest confidence. I apologize for any possible interpretations that might reflect upon the performance of the management and staff of the centre.

In my view, the responsibility is to be assumed by the university, the treasurer, and by the board of directors of the centre, as I believe that you all conduct yoursdves well according to what has been expected of you.

Thank you all for your contributions to the centre. John Davies

chair, grad centre board of directors

‘Only the rich deserve education ’ I fully support and agree with

Brad Watson’s letter of March 19, in which he questions the rationale o f government fundin,g of higher education at the expense of that vast majority of taxpayers who are never directly benefitted by the use of these funds.

:Education certainly ,does confer primarily private benefits, and those individuals should be fully prepared to pay for their higher education costs. The lmajority of people, not born into a situation wherc they can bear such costs, d o not need it anyway; they’re obviously not predestined t o either become leaders or attempt independent judgement. Our fully moder- nized, automated society of the future c;ln only be jeopardized by the promotion of individuality.

I don’t think Mr. Watson has taken his suggestion to its logical conclusion, however. Why should government subsidize amy part of an indiv~dual’s education? Govern- ments spend far more on primary and secondary education than higher education, and the savings incurred by billing these students directly would be tremendous. Those free-loading children whose

families cannot support their education could always be trained, with a few books to stand on (what other purpose do books have?), to operate cash registers, a function far more vital t o society than the strictly private gains of literacy.

When these children grow older, moreover, since they haven’t had the intellectual training t o question and pose alternatives to government pcdicy, things will be much easier

for the elite whose families could afford their education. They won’t have to answer to a public incapable of asking questions. If our future elite are really clever, they’ll keep all the riff-raff busy watching sporting events at one of the dozens of sports stadiums t o be built in B.C. with the money to be saved on education expenses.

Geov Leal Parrish graduate student, political science

Is ‘Zionist’ racist? Your article “Media m:isses Ku Klux Man issue” (March 19) made some ’.

useful points about activities here, but was accompanied by a photograph of a page of Common Sense that raises problems. The page is headlined “Zionist war crimes in Palestine exposed.” The caption reads “Example of racist propaganda circulated in Canada.”

Common Sense is racist, but exactly what is racist about that headline? Surely not the mere use 0 - f the terms “Zionist” and “Palestine”? If the in- ference is that any criticism of Israeli military policy towards Arabs is racist, that will brand N’oam Chomsky, Uri Avneri, Felicia Langer, Elmer Berger and numerous other Jews and Israelis. Palestinians are being killed by Israelis (as well as vice: .versa), and no moral purpose is served by hushing thal: up.

The irony is that Palestinians are victims of an inverse racism because they are not Jews, they are (to put it mildly) disadvantaged in Israel. The und.oubted anti-Semitism, ,of Common Sense cannot excuse Mr. Begin’s war on the Palestinian fact.

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Ubyssey - a different and sacrificial world By CORiNNA SUNDARARAJAN

I’ll always remember that time. I t was different for me than for the others. When I first walked through that door and into The Ubyssey office, 1 sensed I had entered a different world, a world of sacrifice and dedication to high ideals. How else to describe a room plas te red wi th s logans l ike ‘Freedom for Yaco Tieffenberg!’ and ‘Reagan, Bush adesso buon lavoro’, littered with antique typewriters that worked only in time warps and overseen by a very large and very broken clock.

“Uh, have a seat,” said a thin pale slouching gentleman, offering me a broken stool. “The meeting will start in exactly five minutes or i f someone else shows up.”

His name was Glen, a real journalist. You could tell by the red eyes and unmatched socks.

“ I want to work for the paper,” I gushed. “ I read that you needed more reporters and thought i t would be fun.”

A hysterical giggle escaped from u n d e r t h e t a b l e . 1 p e e r e d underneath and saw another thin pale gentleman, but this one had a beard. “Uh, that’s Arnold,’’ ex- p l a i n e d G l e n . “ H e ’ s o u r photographer. You can tell by the camera around his neck.”

I was wondering if that was his darkroom down there when Arnold slid out from under the table and yelled, “Julie! Let’s start the meeting!”

I looked around expectantly for a thin pale woman but when no one appeared Glen shuffled over to the telex and pulled her out from where she’d collapsed. She was even paler and thinner than the other two. She must be the editor, I thought. My heart warmed at this sight of utter dedication.

“ I want to work for tht: paper too,” I chirped in admiraticm.

“Which one?” Julie murmured weakly, wilting into the nearest broken chair. “Tuesday’s, Thurs- day’s, or Friday’s?’’

“Well, all three I guess,” I said as Arnold, who was giggling hysterically again, began taking pic- tures of me.

“No, uh, you see,” explained Glen patiently, “we wouldn’t want to do that to you. Like, each of us here puts in about a 70 hour week, but you’d probably want to go to some of your classes too.”

I was hurt. Did I look too healthy to be taken seriously? I drooped down in my seat and mumbled, “Yes but I thought I could write for the paper during the day a1d take classes at night.”

Julie smiled wanly, shaking her head. “That’s when we go clown to the printers.” I blinked viicantly, always having thought reporters hit the horizontal after watching The National. Julie took a deep breath and began mechanically listing the sordid details of her night life.

“After the copy’s been written and edited, we take it down to the printer’s at night to be ’ ypeset. There we ,design all the pages, supervise the layout, write the headlines and proofread the final version while the printers earn over- time. Then we stop at Bino’s for breakfast, watch the sun come up and go straight to our 8:30 classes.”

“O.K.,” I bargained desperately, I 11 drop my courses and w x k ful l

time for the paper. My education isn’t that important anyaay.” I

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Long way out in Left field Gene Long in his view of The

Ecstasy of Rita Joe typifies the ig- norant, “know it all” characteristic of The Ubyssey’s entertainment critics. The function of a review is to inform the theatre goer on all aspects of a particular production. Long tells us very little about the production itself and, on top of that shows little insight into the message that the play presents. In fact, his criticisms about the native is way off in left field.

His lack of appreciation for the social conditions facing Canadian natives is manifested in his observation. The problem of the native Indian is a very real and tragic one and should not be camoflauged by characters that present a “vision of promise,” because there is none! Just ask Stanley McKay and others who comb the back alleys of Win- nipeg’s core area for drunken In- dians at three in the morning. If Gene Long can determine what “little more is needed” t o modernize Rita Joe’s message, I’m sure Mr. McKay would love to hear from him because the truth is, little has changed over the past 15 years. In fact, the situation has become far worse and The Ecstasy of Riti Joe provides a far. more powerful reminder than Long seems to think.

The critique ends with a most ir- relevent and uncalled for comment on Stanley McKay’s “struggle” with his lines, which proves Gene Long is a bad amateur. Had he done his homework he uould have discovered two things: 1) few elder- ly Indians speak English very well, so it shouldn’t be surprising that David Joe may have been searching

for words he was uncomfortable with; and 2) Mr. McKay has had no formal theatre training; k,e has never acted on stage in his life!

lncentive for social chang:e that Gene Long seems to expect is not possible until the problem is fully understood. The Ecstasy af Rita Joe definitely provides a vivid insight which, unfortunately, most’ white Canadians prefer to ignore.

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finished lamely, suddenly stricken by second thoughts.

“Either that,” offered Glen thoughtfully, “or you could just skip slet:p like us.” Arnold was really convulsing now, so I took this opportJni ty to s tar t hedging discreetly toward the door, carefully sidestepping desks and filing cabinets in case of collapsed reporters. Somehow the ideals of sacrifict: and dedication, seen as pale fle4;h and ragged nerves, seemed less insplrational.

“Well 1’11 just head home now and chink it over,” 1 piped cheerily, backing up through the door and straight into another thin pale lady. This one, however, was very tall and a rmed wi th a burn ing cigarette. I went back to my seat.

“Oh hullo, Nancy,” said Arnold with forced sobriety. “You’re just in time. This student wants to work for the paper.”

“Which one?” she gasped, soun- ding strangely breathless, until I realized I must have ninded her in collision.

“All three!” he shoslted gleeful- ly, leaping onto a taiAe top and stomping madly up anti down.

“Gee, I hope you got some pic- tures,” Nancy remarked, flicking ash !In my direction with new interest. : assured her that he had, noting ‘with some anxlety that his deafening st omping was rousing all the other reporters. They started crawling out from where they had dropped, from under desks, inside drawers and typewrnters, down from shelves, up from 3oxes and in through windows, all yawning and

collapsing into the nearest broken chairs, all very thin and pale, all watching me in silent reproach.

“I’m sorry!” I moaned, hugging my knees and rocking back and for1.h in misery, overcome by this sight of massive suffering. “I didn’t know it was like this. Thc: papers,” I rushed on, “they just appeared three times a week without fail - how could I not take them for granted?” I started blubbering. Nancy lit another cigarette, Julie sigh.ed, Arnold hiccupped and even Glen looked away. The others still stared.

GLEN . . . odd-socked ‘journalist’

I t was a challenge. I was doing something wrong, this wasn’t what th1:y wanted. Not pity, I suddenly realized, straightening up in my seat, not even love, 1 added, standing, up on my chair, and not even

respect, 1 concluded, leaping up on- to the table.

“You want simple recognition!” I howled, stomping up and down hysterically. “You want us out there to know how hard you work!” 1 screamed.

Nancy stubbed out her cigarette. “How you skip classes, drop

courses, sacrifice your career goals and never get a decent night’s sleep!”

Julie blushed. “How you average 70 hour

weeks, spending all day at the office and all night at the printer’s!’’

Arnold beamed. “How you spend your vacations

attending newspaper conferences to keep The Ubyssey one of the besr student papers in Canada!”

Glen patted me on the back. “And how it’s all totally

volunteer work, without salary, without pity, without love, without respect and without - up until this historical moment - recognition!”

The whole room leaped to its feet and started wildly applauding. So- meone broke out beer and with all the rushing, embracing and blushing with joy, they almost looked healthy.

I walked quickly toward the door, away from this world ot sacrifice and ideals. But just for an instant, I turned my face as 1 passed across the threshold and saw Glen and Arnold and Julie and Nancy leaning wearily on each other, sipping with straws from the same bot- tle. They smiled . . . seeing those faces I hesitated, but then at the very last moment passed quickly on.

Bothersome bus stop evangelist lacks sincerity and conviction By CHRIS WONG

Are you seeking a break from the rigors of intense studying? Do you need a new and original place where you can spend your time creatively? Try one of the campus bus stops. There you can view a variety of colorful posters, meet old acquain- tances, m d generally spend a plea-. sant moment away from the campus’ confining cement ~walls.

But recently, I experienced some unpleasant moments at a bus stop, causing me to lose faith in this once venerabie spot. I encountered a woman who originally !;truck me as looking rather haggard, but never- the-less harmless. On the contrary, I was !,eon to find out she was blatanrly disruptive and rude.

A s I was engaging in a conversation at the bus stop, this woman suddenly erupted into a tireless speech which contained such familiar phrases as “moral salvation’’ and “burning in! hell”. A Rice Broocks clone? Almost, but with grey hair and a wrinkled face.

While everyone piled on to the bus, I decided to stay and perhaps find out some intriguing information about the lady. But unfortunately, the time could have been bettler spent partaking i n a much more useful activity such as coun- ting blades of grass.

I asked her i f she had any particular reason for being at UBC that day. She answered by saying that crime is rampant through the streets, and rapidly getting worse. It was her duty to warn people of such evils and offer her moral alternative.

But then I challenged her on her method of communicating. I asked, won’t people just be turned off by a raving and ranting e1derl.y woman who appears overly obs’e:ssed with an evangelical spirit?

‘She proceeded t o cit’e two examples of people who spoke out concerning their beliefs: Anita Bryant and Jimmy Carter. Look at how much they succeeded, she said. As it became obvious to me that

the bustop was no longer im attrac- tive place to stay, I walked and then ran across the street. She followed suit and ran after me with a look of desperation across her face. She plunged some pamphlets into my hands and went off in tiearch of anaother possible convert.

’The cover of one of Ithe pamphlets read, “like tongues of fire.” To me, this is an accurate descrip-

tion of this woman. Her talk was so aimless and meaningless, that I felt like extinguishing her as if she was a candle in the process of burning out.

To put it bluntly, this woman is wasting everyone’s time with her i n e f f e c t i v e a n d b o t h e r s o m e speeches. I stress the word ineffec- tive. People are just not impressed by somebody like he who uses so many words to say so little.

Any moron can stand up in a crowd and preach the righteous laws that we should be following, but where is the sincerity and conviction in their talk? For the most part, this mysterious woman’s method of talking non-stop without barely letting me get in a word, caused me to perceive only utter and complete gibberish.

My message to this woman, whoever she is, is to quit the Jerry Falwell act and get serious. If you want people to listen, talk about how whatever you are professing can be put to practical use. Prove that you are justified in interrupting conversations and chasing students across streets.

Otherwise, stay away from the bus stop so I can once again enjoy a pleasant wait for the bus. Go try your act on the Trotskyists and see how they like it. Better yet, try listening to one of them for more than five minutes without suffering a massive migraine.

From the words of the Bible, “Do unto others what you want them to do unto you.” (Matthew 7: 12) ~”

Chris Wong is a Ubyssey staff member, who obviously likes waiting in peace. Freestyle is column of opinion, whit, rants, and analysis open to Ubyssey staff members. Other members of the university community get to use Perspectives.

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Novels clear and insightful From page 15

White succeeds in portraying the way in which a perfectionist’s mind works. For, like White herself, Clara is the archetypal, self- defeating perfectionist bound for a life of inner struggles and frustration. * * *

Beyond the Glass (1954), the fourth and last book in this series, lacks the steadfastness of The Sugar House. The dialogue here, especially in the first half of the book, is often strained, and often on the maudlin side.

Now, back in her parents’ oppressive household after a painful, drawn-out annulment of her marriage to Archie, Clara begins to feel s m o t h e r e d . H e r l i f e s e e m s altogether directionless, and she

‘They danced in complete silence. An extraordinary feeling of lightness possessed her; a lightness she had known hitherto only in those pleasant dreams where she floated down flights of stairs. hardly touching the ground.’

The two seem to have a.n immediate psychic communication to boot. They are suddenly in a world which no one else can enter:

‘ “What’s happened to us? Have we gone mad? Or is it only me?”

“Me, too,” she said. “ I simply don’t understand.” “Neither do I . ” ’ And so on. It is a shame that the

realism of The Sugar House has disappeared and is replaced by a second rate fairy tale. Richard is the knight in shining armor: level- headed. nature-loving. soli1:itous.

Clara’s mental illness is a depiction of White’s own descent into madness, and of her ten months in an insane asylum when she was 22. The movement from neurosis to psychosis is recounted with amazing clinical expertise, as is the psychotis’s paranoia.

Her gradual recovery from this illness is handled in the same me t i cu lous f a sh ion . C la ra ’ s rediscovery of herself clccurs when she tries to play croquet with some of the women in the asylum. The women have no concept of rules or competition:

. . . . the next moment, it came to her. These women were mad. All those women she saw at mealtimes were mad. No wonder she could make no contact with them. She was imprisoned in a place full of mad people.

Images of glass and mirrors occur throughout the book, and attain their full impact when Clara begins to make the distinction between the ‘Looking-Glass land’ of the asylum, and the other side of the mirror, the real world.

The clarity and insight with which White recounts the horror of mental illness is of the quality which can only be derived from personal experience.

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But it seems that Clara cannot en- dure this sort of stability for long. Besides, White may have felt she still had half a book to go, SCI Clara is once more plunged into conflict and self-doubt.

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Grad Students Get Financial Control Over Own Centre

Members of the Thea Koerner House Graduate Student centre voted by a six to one margin to form a new society Wednesday.

About I 0 0 members at the annual general meeting adopted a new name, and with it a new structure which gives financial control of the centre to grad students.

The new Graduate Student Socie- ty, with constitution and bylaws, takes control May 1. Under the current bylaws the centre is managed by a board composed of admin i s t r a t ion appo in tees and graduate students.

The new society will have a board of directors composed of the GSS

CAMERON . . . Criticisms not valid

executive, elected reps to the faculty and university senate and the elected representatives from departments in graduate studies.

Earlier in the meeting GSC chair John Davies said the auditor general had agreed to do an audit of the centre on the request of the GSC directors.

An independent management consultants report showed possible weaknesses in the centre’s accoun-

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ting, inventory, and cash control procedures. The report also urged a special audit.

Davies said Thursday the real problem is not management, but the society stru1:ture which did not promote good business procedures.

The meeting d S O approved the 1982-83 operating budget, subject to restrictions designed to encourage increases grad student activities in the center.

The major criticisms of the new bylaws were thle size of the new council and board which will be in excess of 100 people and annual renewal of the contract for the centre’s managers.

Physics graduate student, John de Bruyn said the council would be too large to manage the centre compared to the current 11 person board.

De Bruyn also said the contract clause would drive competent management anay from the centre without guarantees of job security.

Rob Cameror., graduate students association president, said the criticisms were valid but not critical enough to stop the grad students from taking control of the centre.

“It’s a positivs? step forward. The ‘centre will be run by graduate students for grad activities,” said Cameron. “If there are things that don’t work we ca:n adjust later,” he said. -

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Wednesday Nuclear Free At UBC

By DOUG SCHMIDT “You may say lhat I’m a dreamer but I’m not the only one. I hope some day you ’I1 join us and the world will live as one. ”

”John Lennon Wednesday was declared nuclear

weapon free zone day at UBC by the Students for Peace and Mutual Disarmament.

Telegrams were sent to NATO’s secretary-generdl and to the Cana- dian representative at the headquarters in Brussel:; asking them to respect UBC’s NWFZ day by not flying nuclear equipped aircraft over the campus.

“What we’re doing is asking students to fill out ballots on the NWFZ-Canada proposal,” SPhlD spokesperson Gary Marchant said Wednesday.

“It is not just the superpowers who are propagating the arms race. Small and medium powers (including Canada) (do have an actwe role in the arms race, even though that might not appear so,” Mar- chant said.

According to blarchant there are ways that these smaller powers can take part in trying to reduce the threat of nuclear war. One strategy is the gradual expansion of the globe’s nuclear weapon-free t u - ritory, that the United Nations proposed in 1978 as a “confidence building measure.”

The following nleasures would be required for Canada to become a I\I WFZ :

no stationing or transporca- tion of nuclear weapons in Canada.

no production of components for nuclear weapc’ns.

no suppol t systems for nuclear weapons.

“Our motto is ‘think globally - act locally.’ We can get our ship in ,shape and then put pressure on other countries,” Marchant said.

Organizers of the day-long event were surprised at I he large turnofit. Hundreds of students visited the displays of poster; and graphics, a slide show and two video film presentat ions and tables of literature on nuclear arms control.

“The displays were divided in;o two sections; one section dealt with the doom, misery, agony, pain and suffering of nuclear war, the other section represented hope, what is being done and what can and should be done,” SPMD organizer Ehilie Smith said.

More than 750 students filled out ballots on the NWFZ proposal.

“The ballots will be sent to Ot- tawa along with thousands of others from acro:;s Canada. The drive for a NWFZ-Canada is an o n g o i n g t h i n g o f P r o j e c t Ploughshares,” M(3rchant said.

The SPMD is very optimistlc about people’s attitudes toward the growing arms control movement.

“We’ve had overwhelming sup-

PotentIial banaraarer Mainland. ’’ Marchant said. universities minister Pat McGeer.

I n - - _I I _I -I - The former education minister who s once urged students to protest the

Although it is possible, or even minister* likely, that the president will come from outside the UBC community, i f an insider is chosen one of the following is , I likely choice.

Peter Peame, an elected faculty member to the UBC board of governors and a long time Liberal, seems a poss ble president. A noted economist, Pearse is regarded as one of the more effective board members.

He has considerable political experience: he was a Liberal candidate and in the 1980 federal election in the Vancouv:r Quadra riding, was head of a provincial royal commission on forestry.

Another probable candidate is Michael Shaw, current vice president academic and provost. Al- though he is not well liked in the university community, especially among students, he may have the cunning and the connections necessary to propel him into office.

Leslie Peterson also has the qualities that would land him on the short list for president. He is a board member and was a cabinet minister in the W.A.C. Bennett provincial Social Credit government, inc1udi:lg a stint as education minister. A well established lawyer and active Sccred, Peterson would support the sl.atus quo at UBC.

Two other possible nominees are James Kenne’dy and Peter Larkin. The former is vice-president of university services and a former

What is inherently evident from this list of probable appointees is that they are all men.

Advisory committee chair J. V. Clyne, however, has stated that the position which will be vacated by Doug Kenny next year is open to both women and men. But the final decision lies with the board of governors; the advisory committee can only establish criteria and suggest a list of names.

Also, student input into the decision will be limited. The 24 member committee has only four students. Student representative Francis Janes said: “Because the students are mobile, and because we don’t have vested interests, we can give d i f f e ren t i n s igh t s ( i n to t he decision).”

The advisory committee will have its first meeting on April 7 to establish criteria to select the president. “Criteria will be sorted and settled, and names discussed,” said Clyne.

“We have received a large number of letters suggesting criteria, and a few names have been submitted,” he said. Clyne added the decision will not, be made until the fall or the end of 1982 because of the paperwork and all the names to sift through. “We have to adver- tise to other universities as well,” he said.

CITR UBC radio goes mainstream on FM102 By CRAIG BROOKS

Late Thursday morning, in a small narrow room on the second floor of SUB, a switch was thrown, and UBC had its own FM radio station.

CITR, around for decades broadcasting over carrier current to the student residences and on Greater Vancouver cablevision systems, is finally flexing its wings’ on Van- couver airwaves on FM 102.

Granted the last avuab le low- power frequency left in the Van- couver area last May by the Cana- dian Radio/television and Telecom- munications Commission, CITR began its first full broadcasting day ‘Thinday with an output of 19 watts from Gage residence’s east tower.

The low-power licence means UBCs long-forgotten station can now be received on Vancouver’s west side, the West End, West Van- couver and other parts of the Lower Mainland without the aid of elaborate cablevision hook-ups.

“People think the time is ripe for a station like ours to exist in Van- couver.” CITR president Jeff Kearney said Tuesday. “People are fed up with commercial stations, we don’t offer commercials, that’s the big difference.”

The station’s format will not change significantly to meet the new

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promise of performance set by the CRTC, Kearney said. CITR will continue to offer a “diverse range of music from a rnuch wider variety of sources,” in addition to campus and regular news and public affairs programming.

“We try to pliiy as much music that isn’t heard on commercial radio. (Commercial radio) restricts the range of music (that can be played),” Kearney said.

CITR vice president Mike Mines said many people have a mistaken impression about music played on CITR.

“A lot of the nusic we play isn’t as bizarre as people make it out to be,” he said. “’We aren’t totally new wave or ultra-progressive or left wing or what1:ver.”

Mines added that many bands on CITR’s current play list are “mainstream” ba.nds in Britain.

“Eventually the (commercial) stations catch up to (the music we have been playing:),” Kearney said. “Now they play the Human League and Simple Minds. Where were they four years ago, when these groups put out just as good, if not better, material?”

“We are bringing more music to) the people,” he said. CITR IS planning to bring its programming to the UBC and Vancouver com-

munities from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m., seven days a week.

Kearney sees nothing wrong with the station setting an “alternative” music policy ‘when many students rnight want conventional formats “If they want the sort of music played on CFMl and CFOX, then

they should listen to those stations.. They make music in slickly presented packages.”

If CITR didn’t program alternate forms of music, it is unlikely the ktw-power licence would have been granted by the CIITC, Kearney said. “The CRTC won’t allow the same things (as is cu#rrently offered to be licensed). they don’t want constant repetition.”

Any UBC student is welcome to join station staff, Kearney said, ad-

ding that the present 100 staff m e m b e r s , f r o m m a n y U B C faculties, pro.vide a good cross- section of UBC student views. Pro- gramming decisions are “very much a group decision,” he said.

‘‘I think UBC students as a whole will appreciate having us.” Kearney said. “The assumptions that students at UItC want to listen to CFMI and CFOX are not necessarily valid.”

The station has been broadcasting on a test basis since March 22, CITR chief engineer Rick Anderson said. While the signal is guaranteed to reach almost all of Vancouver west of Cambie, Ander- son said, “beyond that less than a certain signal strength is received.”

Most reception problems are easily rectified by attaching a dipole antennae, or moving an antennae “a matter of inches,” Anderson said. Due to the low-power, and FM’s line-of-sight signal, reception in a land depression, such as at Fourth and Alma, is severely im- paired he said. Reception is also im- paired in parts of UBC’s Gage residences, where the station’s antennae is located.

CITR would have to set a “full- power” licence to solve the problems, Anderson said. “That would be half 21 million dollars. It’s

not very likely, unless we get half a million somehow.”

A full campaign to inform students of their newfangled radio station will start in .earnest in September, Kearney said. It is too late to start this year, because of exams and summer holidays, he said.

Kearney said the station has no idea how many people. listen to the station on its current cable hook- up. The station is not included on standard industry l istenership surveys since the station does not accept advertising, and such surveys are for the benefit of potential advertisers.

“The phone is always ringing, t h o u g h , ” K e a r n e y s a i d . “Thousands of playl is ts are distributed weekly, and they get picked up (from record stores).”

Under their new licence, the station must meet a “promise of performance,” with the CRTC.

“We must do certain things. A certain per cent of time (must be devoted) to news and public affairs,” Kearney said. “We have to meet those (promises).”

CITR currently operates on a $4O,OOO annual budget, $20,000 of which is a direct subsidy from the Alma Mater Society student council. The station raises revenue by renting its portable sound system to clients and sponsoring concerts. c

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