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"These weren*t even people anymore. e a IF

From page 1 If he didn't watch himself, he'd

end up with an ulcer. Then, one in- cident, the first in months, could turn him into a paranoid, quivering piece of jelly. Night watchman at a 7-1 1, a healthy paycheque, and an early retirement. Maybe that would keep the old lady off his back too. Lowry was so engrossed in these thoughts that he almost didn't hear the radio go off.

"Yeah?" "Get your ass over to the Ar-

mouries as fast as possible! There seems to be some sort of a riot go-

ing on over there!" Oh, man, what Lowry didn't

need was to have to bust up another brawl by himself, he thought as he fired on the siren and pulled out on- to Wesbrook Mall. What he couldn't have imagined was the shambles that would greet him at the Armouries. The few people that remained were no longer tittering in the Hallowe'en fashion. As Lowry stepped into the room and flipped on the lights, he froze in shock. There must have been 30. . . bodies

garbage. . . . laying amidst the beer cups and

argument, laughter and hard work The Ubyssey's ghost story commit- tee chose its favourite ghost story. The winning story was chosen because it fit the requirements and because it was judged to be both readable and entertaining. The committee chose The Stalking by Kelly Stubson as i ts second favourite tale and An Uplifting Halloween Tale by Sharon Fletcher as its third favourite tale. If space

in this Friday's Ubyssey. I f Joanne, Kelly or Sharon so desire, they can enter the maelstrom, SUB 241k, to receive the prizes the winners have been promised: a dinner for two at Fogg and Suds, $10 towards dinner at Fogg and Suds and a press night dinner with UBC's own loveable Ubyssey staff. To all those who entered but did not win, thank you for entering. We received more than 20 entries and enjoyed reading them all.

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These weren't even people anymore. The macabre sight was all the more creepy because all were dressed in ghoulish fashion, throats, eyes, chest shredded beyond human form, with a blanket of drying blood like a shroud thrown over them. Not one moved. I t was clear that the living had vacated this place of massacre.

Lowry stumbled back outside and, leaning against the wall, suc- cumbed to the convulsions that overtook him. He couldn't possibly re-enter the building. What the hell for? He had one very real thought to get back into his cruiser and get the hell out of this entire town. At least, he figured, he could lock himself in his car and wire for help.

Stumbling sickly, he made his way back to the car and slumped in-

side. He opened the window and leaned his head out to get some air, hoping he wasn't going to pass out. One thing was certain; Lowry was definitely quitting now. He tried to battle further nausea, inhaling slowly. What Lowry did not know yet was that he would never work here again, for just as he reached for his radio, his silence was forever ensured. So totally exhausted and numb, Lowry didn't see the scurry of attackers for the open window, and was not aware of his cries into the otherwise silent, still night.

* * * They say it took over eight hours

to clear the campus of its evening's grizzly affairs. Poor Mrs. Mark and Sue in the library, Brian (reduced to, a lump of bones and flesh under some shrubs near B-lot). and many

more dozens scattered crazily about the campus. They also say that it was the most gruesome of mass murders in North America to date.

The students of UBC had been reduced to terror, and still they avoid the dark areas of the campus for fear of stumbling on yet another undiscovered corpse. I t is reputed that George Pedersen, president of UBC, personally printed in The Ubyssey's next issue an apology to all friends and family of the deceas- ed for their nightmares to come. Oh, and a small headline, overlook- ed by most except maybe Craig and a few others who have yet to be able to come to terms with their own

"Science reps are still looking in- to the mysterious disappearance of six laboratory rats, missing since Hallowe'en.''

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Bv ROBERT BEYNON tion closure o f t he facility. the centre as key problem. Neil Risebrough, associate vice The university has said it The curtain is about to drop on president student affairs, sent the

close the centre since May when it GSS a letter last week saying the took it over, froze its assets, and

UBC administration represen- university will close the centre or laid off catering employees.

UBC’s graduate student centre.

tatives did not attend a last minute revoke its liquor permit i f the GSS meeting with the graduate student and the administration cannot Risebrough could not attend the society executive Monday to reach an agreement by Thursday. meeting due to personal reasons, his forestall a threatened administra- The letter cited bartender hirings at secretary said, adding he might not

even be on campus today. trol to the GSS. CiSS secretary Brian Baine said Frank Frigon, GSS external af-

Risebrough’s absence was unfor- fairs coordinator, said a takeover tunate considering how little time might be better because then the ad- there is before the threatened ac- ministration would be forced to tions. dea l d i r ec t ly w i th g radua te

is as good as closing the centre,” Frigon said administration claims Baine said, “because we won’t be the centre must be closed because able to fund the centre’s upkeep if the GSS is breaking union contracts we ‘have to end Friday beer nights.” regarding the hiring of non-union

He said the GSS must reconsider bartenders is false. “We can hire the situation since Risebrough non-union staff for periods shorter could not make the meeting Doug than four hours a day,” Frigon Low, Alma Mater Society vice said. president organized. Thursday Risebrough said the

If the university closes the centre, centre had to be closed down if the the GSS will consider legal action GSS did not stop breaking union against the university who they say agreements because the CUPE local is breaking a 1982 agreement. The is threatening to take the case to ar- agreement transferred centre con- bitration.

“,And revoking the liquor permit students.

Law attackscuts K . a w students voted Friday to money,” Stowe said.

subsid.ize the cost of keeping the Stowe said as well as allocating Law library open extra hours in the funds at Friday’s general Nomnber . meeting the LSA set up a committee

At ;a general meeting of the Law to organize a protest to UBC’s Students Association the member- president in conjunction with other shil) ratified a deal between 1-SA ex- professional faculties including ecutive and the law faculty to ex- medicine, engineering and phar- tend the library’s hours. macy.

L.SA ombudsperson Theresa “We should have replies from the Stowe said the association’s agree- other faculties by Thursday,” ment 1.0 pay the law faculty half the Stowe said. costs of adding five hours of library tim,e per week was a dangerous but But Elaine Mah, Alma Mater

unavoidable precedent. Society council member and

Stowe said some students are Medical Students Union represen-

unable to complete factums - tative, said the medical students

special reports which require texts voted to only support the law stu- on re:jerve at the Law library - dents’ protest in principle at their

because the library is open 15 fewer Monday night meeting. hours per week than last year. She said the MSU did not see

S,to,we said the LSA tried to find how supporting the law students’ funding in numerous other ways protest would help their own but could not. She said the associa- demands for more library hours a t tion approached the faculky and Woodward library and at Van- UBC: president George Pedersen c o u v e r G e n e r a l H o s p i t a l ’ s but neither could find the $1,400 re- biomedical branch library. quired for the extra hours. Mah added, “We’re trying to

“WI: didn’t need that much avoid this kind of confrontation.”

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Pulling back Sometimes you have to draw

back a bit. Sometimes it hurts, sometimes it

is embarassing, but sometimes drawing back is the only thing t o do.

This is true in the case of the graduate student centre. Last week t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n t o l d t h e Graduate Student Society they will close down the centre if administra- tion and the GSS do not reach an agreement by Nov. 1 regarding some contentious points.

At this Doint the ultimatum aD-

between the GSS and the ad- ministration that has waged since last May. But the battle should not end with this ultimatum.

A Monday meeting organized between the administration and the GSS fell through. Neil Risebrough, the administration’s representative, failed to attend the meeting. Another meeting should therefore be organized.

This probably is not possible before Nov. 1, the day on which the university said it would act. So the university should not act then.

If the university would behave in

GSS to discuss its ultimatum. To d o less is to admit they are only operating from a powerful position with expediency in mind.

And when the administration does meet with the GSS it should explain a few points before it closes the centre. It should explain why it has refused to allow the provincial ombudsoffice t o investigate the case and why its calculation of the centre‘s debt vary considerably from B.C.‘s auditor general’s calculation of the debt.

A third party should be brought in and the problem should be

pears to be the last salvo in a bat& good faith it would meet with the cleared up cleanly and fairly.

THE UBYSSEY October 30, 1984

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ed Dense Coutts. Rory Allen. Charlle Fldelman. Peter Burns. Robert Beynon and Monte Stewan as ”We c a n hear Someone’s mother maklng rad and green nbbed Jello almost half a mlle awayl” churl1

the mushrooms began to take effect “Glass IS a supercooled Ihquldl” chorused R c k Klem Chris Wong. Dave Stoddan. Erbc Eggenson and Kelly Jo Burke In harmonlous unson lalthough nobody seemed 10 gwe a sthl. Eventually. the mass hystena subslded and the Blorgs of the Blah began tu chant “We’re all ugly fans.” Such IS lhfe m Pango Pango.

Just where was The Ubyssey on Oct. 18? On Thursday Oct. 18, In-

tramurals celebrated its 65th an- niversary of the Arts ’20 Relay Race. Attendance records were broken once more and everyone who took part had a terrific time. Again, UBC’s intramural sports program retained the title of being host to the largest intramural event in Canada. The Vancouver Sun was

there. The Province was there. Even BCTV was there. Simon Fraser University participated as did two high schools.

More importantly, almost 200 UBC student teams took part. The only organization not in attendance t h a t d a y w a s U B C ’ s o w n newspaper, The Ubyssey. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

You call yours the university newspaper?

When you find world politics and international events more impor- tant than major events which occur right under your nose, in the very community you profess to inform and represent, you obviously show your lack of priorities.

Over 50 people volunteered many

hours to organize and run this ma- jor undertaking. Over 1,500 people took part in the relay, the universi- ty’s president included. By doing so, they proved that this campus does not, as you like to profess con- tinually in your articles, possess an apathetic nature void of spirit. I argue that it is your organization with its illogical slate of priorities

Ubyssey suicide not answer to arms race The UBC “peace” club and The

Ubyssey are to be condemned for advocating the suicide “option”. as an answer to the growing war danger. Their assertion that people have “no say” in the arms race and the war preparations being under- taken by the bourgeoisie is not at all true (“Peace club seeks new stock for cyanide solution” and “Shock- ing,” Oct. 23).

The bourgeoisie wants to per- suade the people to withdraw from the growing movement against the imperialist war danger and give them some breathing room from the mass demonstrations and pro-

Yes for CFS It should come as no surprise to

UBC students to know that the quality of education at this campus and across the province has undergone a steady erosion over the past few years. A UBC degree is no longer worth what it once was.

There is an organization of students that is dedicated to fighting these cuts and making students’ voices heard: the Cana- dian Federation of Students. UBC students will have a choice to make in November about whether or not to become full members of the federation.

If you are interested in promoting the “yes” side of the referendum, or would like more information about the CFS, there will be a forum in Buchanan A204 this Thursday at 12:30. As well, the “yes” committee will be holding a meeting this Friday at 12:30 in SUB 213. Be there if you care.

Lawrence Kootnikoff CFS yes committee

732-5045

tests. One way of doing this is to represent themselves as genuinely interested in peace.

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney does this. He has said that peace is his “number one” priority, and all the while he and the bourgeoisie cry on escalating their preparations for war. The “wisdom” of the peace demagogues is that the people should leave it to the “experts,” the ambassadors and negotiators of the two superpowers, and they will look after achieveing peace.

Another way of quieting the peace movement down and leaving the bourgeoisie a free hand to prepare for war is to sow despair and dejection among the people, telling them that their efforts are futile, and that ultimately suicide is the only option left to them. This is the way of The Ubyssey and the “peace” club.

But the “suicide option” reflects the logic of U.S. president Ronald Reagan, Soviet leader Constantin Chernenko, and Mulroney. It is they who grow nervous and con- template suicide when they are fac- ing the revolutionary struggles of the peoples of the world. From the Philippines to South Africa to Afghanistan to India, from Europe and Britian to Canada, the U.S. and Central and South America, the people are dealing with the danger of imperialist war and the attacks of the clients of the two superpowers by stepping up their mass struggles in a self-sacrificing manner.

Suicide by cyanide capsule is a ritual of the SS and other Nazi war criminals. Hermann Goering, it must be remembered, took poison rather than face the anti-fascist

forces who were about to judge him.

The fact is that we d o have a ‘‘say” in the war danger being organized by the bourgeoisie, the pessimism and fatalism of The Ubyssey and the “peace” club not- withstanding.

The “suicide pill” proposal should be rejected. We should step up the mass struggles against the war danger and not give the super- p o w e r s a n d t h e C a n a d i a n bourgeoisie a moment’s respite. The “suicide option” is an attempt to allow the warmongers a free rein, to petrify and slow down the grow- ing opposition to the danger of war, and we must never concur with this.

Allen Soroka law library

that lacks campus spirit. When such a high-charged cam-

pus event occurs, one with so rich a history and so vital a purpose, it is your duty to report on it.

Granted, many negative things are happening on the UBC scene, such as budget cuts and the like. But the intramural sports program and its dedicated staff, just like many o ther ind iv idua ls and organizations on campus, proves that some positive things are hap- pening on Point Grey as well. Report on these! Apathy does not become you. Rick Thomas

UBC: intramural sports program S t u f f n o t e : A Ubyssey

photographer covered the event and The Ubyssey run a photograph on the news page in the Oct. I9 issue, with a cuption saying the event took place.

Gaaaaaaaaa Regarding the recent spate of let-

Gaaaaaaaaaa . . . ters concerning heavy workloads.

V. Bareau F. Duncan

M. Eby W. Fajber

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The grass is greener . . . - Varsity sports vs. grass tennis

courts: three varsity teams were discontinued this year, while 10 others saw their entire budgets taken away.

Amidst this grief we see four grass tennis courts being set up at UBC (“Tennis court transfer still mysterious,” Oct. 26).

To the point - the cost of this might be peanuts for board chair David McLean but to those people who no longer have a varsity team it means a great deal.

The board of governors and the responsible people in the athletic department should set their priorities straight. Surely 13 varsity teams are a greater asset to this university than four grass tennis courts which only can be used in the summer, when the majority of students are not on campus.

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All UBC students should be deep ly conce rned w i th t h i s misallocation of scarce resources in a time of restraint. An explanation of this decision by the board of governors is required.

Simon Hoogewerf science 3

Ian Gillespie Ole Anker-Rasch

commerce 4

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Tuesday, October 30. 1984

US. discredits Latin-elections T H E U B Y S S E Y Page 5

By RICK KLEIN The American government is

condemning upcoming elections in Nicaragua because its interests in the area are better served militarily, said a university professor and author Saturday.

Edward Herman said the San- danista government of Nicaragua does not conform to American ideas of world order. The Reagan administration urged elections

believing they would not be held, so they could call the Sandanistas dic- tatorial. When the Nicaraguans agreed, the U.S. response was to d i s c r e d i t t h e e l e c t i o n s a s undemocratic.

“The Americans are simply waiting to find a pretext for an in- vasion. If you look at historical events in Latin America, whether in G r e n a d a , G u a t e m a l a , t h e Dominican Republic, or in Chile,

the U.S. did not hesitate to use arm- ed force or covert activities to replace legitimate popular govern- ments with regimes that more close- ly reflected American interests. The writing is on the wall.”

Herman spoke to 300 people at the Robson Square media centre B S part of a special panel or1 elections in Latin America. Herman charged election conditions in Nicaragua, while not perfect, are far better

PETER PUMPKIN PONDERS precise meaning of life after discovering ”Pumpkin pie, recipe” in UBC card catalog. Pumpkin was at loss t o explain entry, found while looking for ancestral roots. “And now I have found something I can sink my teeth into,” said Pumpkin just before being run over by run-away book cart.

Hunger striker demands fmnsfer OTTAWA (CUP) - The 53-year- old mother of one of the “Van- couver Five” is appealing to the federal government to transfer her sone from Archambault prison near Montreal to a penitentiary in his native B.C.

Agnes Stewart, who left her school teaching job in B.C. to lobby Corrections Services Canada of- ficials, wants her son to be moved immediately.

“ I don’t want him to die from his hunger strike. It’s reaching a

dangerous stage,” Stewart said in an interview in Ottawa.

Stewart started his fast Oct. 6 in protest of his July transfer from Kent penitentiary near Vancouver to Archambault. He wants to be returned because he is thousands of miles away from his family and friends and does not speak a word of French, the main language of the institution.

Stewart pleaded guilty in June to the bombing of a B.C. Hydro power plant on Vancouver Island

and received a six-year sentence for his part in the action.

Stewart said her son was transfer- red without any warning. After repeated attempts by letter to find out why he was transferred, t’he mother said federal corrections ser- vice officials told her he was mov1:d because he is considered a “security risk” at Kent, a maximum security prison. The authorities also told her Doug had to be separated from tlhe other members of the group and from his home territory.

“ I think none of their reasons a.re

than those that existed for the U.S. sponsored elections in El Salvador. Heinz Dietrich of the University of Mexico said it is necessary to place events in Nicaragua in context. Nicaragua is a country under siege. The CIA has armed a farce of 15,NK) “contras” that is fighting an undeclared war against a legitimate government. Still there is an elec- tion going on with press freedom a n d n o r m a l c o n s t i t u t i o n a l euaranitees.

El Salvador and Guatemala, “mere formalities for international con- sumption.” These elections produc- ed outcomes little different from the despotic rule they were suppos- e d to c h a n g e . “ T h e s e “democratic” elections are meant to convince the American popula- tion that the governments of US.-placed goons are popular.”

NDP justice critic Svend Robin- son (Burnaby) called on the Conser- vative eovernment to rethink its

Said Dietrich, “you can compare this 1.0 events in Canada, when in 1970 a few bombs in Montreal resulted in the imposition of !.he war measures act.

position on the Nicaraguan elec- tions. “I think Canada should be s e n d i n g o b s e r v e r s t o t h e Nicaraguan vote. External affairs minister Joe Clark is sending a messaee to American interests that

Herman called recent elecrions in we will not rock the boat.” Y~

George finds hope l JBC president George Pedersen sified their resource base enough

says he has found a positive side to but have relied completely on recent post-secondary education government funding sources. But restraint in B.C. this is changing as community,

“.4part from the obvious bad business, and industry links with news, fiscal cutbacks and myriad education are strengthening, he other problems we confront in ad- said. minisIration seem to have also created a climate receptive to change, innovation, and leadership at all levels,” Pedersen told the Pacific Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions (Officers Convention in Victoria Sunday.

Pedersen said universities must definitely take advantage of this new climate to create leaner, more effective operations. Pedersen did not sa.y if this meant cutting faculty or staff.

Peclersen said in the past univer- siti,es and colleees have not diver-

“Academic organizations have shown a capacity to respond to the problem of fiscal restraint and to diversify their bases of support,” Pedersen said, adding the financial crisis is not over yet.

UBC hired a new vice president development and community rela- tions this year and other institutions have created similar positions to at- tract private funds.

The challenge of restraint, said Pedersen, has given universities a chance to reappraise their goals.

U of W library reopens justified,” she said.

kilonrams. As of Oct. 25, Doug lost 12

WINNIPEG (CUP) - The Uni- versity of Winnipeg has re-opened its library on Saturdays despite no help from the provincial govern- ment in easing the library’s poor finances.

The U of W took drastic measures in September t o reduce the universitv’s financial woes, in-

hours this year due to budget cuts, affecting evening and weekend hours at all libraries except Sedgwick. The Law Students Association and the law faculty are bringing back some law library hours through donations but are planning a protest.

Ruth Fahlman, a close friend of Doug’s who came to Ottawa from Vancouver with his mother, says support groups in Ottawa, Mon- treal, Vancouver, Toronto and other cities in Ontario and the Prairies are pressuring the govern- ment for Doug’s return to B.C.

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Page6 T H E U B Y S S E Y Tcesday, October 30. 1984

Steroid use on increase The use of anabolic steroids is in- ficer at the 1983 Pan American have used, or are thinking of using,

c r e a s i n g a m o n g c o m m u n i t y G a m e s in Caracas, Vanezuela, steroids as a means of improving athletes, the director of the B.C. which saw numerous athletes dis- athletic performance. sports medicine clinic said Wednes- qualified for drug use. So far the clinic has received calls day. Those games have gone down in from several parents, coaches, and

Speaking on an open line radio history as the most drug-marred athletes who have concerns about program, Jack Taunton said high a th le t ic compet i t ion . Severa l steriod use. Most of the calls to date school atheletes are starting to use a t h l e t e s - i n c l u d i n g N e w have suggested that athletes are steroids. Parents and coaches are Westminster’s Guy Greavette - leaning towards using some form of advising athletes to use the synthetic lost their medals after testing reveal- artificial stimulant, he said. hormones, he added. ed the athletes use of anabolic According to Taunton, steroid

Taunton was chief medical of- steriods. use has increased among “recrea- Taunton, along with other sports tional athletes.” He claimed people

medicine experts across the coun- use steriods to improve muscle tone try, have launched a campaign and just to bulk up, and not solely

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The sports medicine clinic has set themselves - can cause impotence, up a new hotline for athletes who brain damage, and paralysis.

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Davis evolving new directions By CHRIS WONG

Jazz, like any other creative art f o r m , is constantly evolving towards new, unproven directions. While the commercialism of the eighties is tempering current efforts to achieve originality and innova- tion, previous generations of jazz hipsters pioneered numerous Styles and techniques that remain vital elements of the music.

Most of those pioneers have played their final choruses. Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus were brilliant ar- tists who shaped the face of modern j w z - all are history, kaput, resting in collective peace.

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A few early pioneers still remain such as Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey. These artists have essential- ly plowed on with the same musical approach for the last three decades. Yes, their music has always been in- spired, exciting and totally compe- tent, but they were not among the few who totally rethought their music, and introduced new con- cepts and ideas.

One such musician, who will be appearing at the Q.E. Theatre tonight, is trumpeter Miles Davis. His name conjures up visions of a far out jazz God, whose unique per- sonality and playing cause him to be revered by the masses.

Indeed, no other figure in con- temporary jazz has been more im- itated than Miles Davis. That is, a horde of young trumpeters in search of the hippest sound around, have undoubtedly turned to Davis’ well recorded legacy for inspiration. Any aspiring horn player hoping to one day achieve brilliance must first as an undisputable prerequisite study and ananlyze his lengthy con- tribution to jazz. Who better to look for direction than the creator himself.

He was a member of Gil Evans’ nine piece Birth of the Cool band that set the trends for west coast jazz. He went on to join Parker and the other jazz rebels to create the definitive bebop style - a style that embraced a radically new rhythmic and harmonic conception.

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On the album Kind of Blue, Davis anticipated the sixties avant- garde directions with his excursions in modality - improvisation based on modes instead of chords. His final innovations were in the jazz- rock fusion genre, probably the most controversial change of his en- tire career.

Controversial simply because many critics d o not consider fusion a true form of jazz. The Illustrated

Encyclopedia of Jazz lists In A Silent Way as the last Davis record of any worth to jazz fans. “Although labels are arbitrary, Miles Davis’ subsequent output is of little interest to the jazz record collector,” writes the author.

Attitudes like this towards Davis’ fusion music are common. At his last performance in Vancouver at the Queen E., a substantial portion of the audience walked out after the

first 115 minutes, unmoved by the extentied improvisation based tunes booming out of the amplifiers on stage.

They didn’t realize this thin, gaunt little man on stage is not content with musical stagnation. To expect Davis t o still play the old standards he first recorded with Parker in 1945 is like asking Beethoven to compose another Fifth symphony 10 years after the

fact. Davis is a creative genius. As a

gifted performer, composer and band leader, he is naturally restless, fidgety and not content with stick- ing to the norm. It’s true, electric guitars and large amps are now part of a Miles Davis concert. But jazz purists need not fear. Davis will never abandon his roots -he’ll just pull them up and rearrange them a bit.

Special effects fashion Solide success By CHARLIE FIDELMAN

Michel Lemieux the high-tech magician put on a spectacular show with his newest creation, Solide Salad, at the Vancouver Cultch last week.

Some call him Montreal’s top performance artist or Canada’s answer to Laurie Anderson, while others label him a self-indulgent man who plays with expensive toys on a stage.

Despite labels, Lemieux is a one- man show combining music, move- ment, lighting, and sculpture who keeps his audiences on the edge of their seats. The performance ranges from the technologically complex t o the humanistic and simple. There are 11 songs in the show and each one leads to the next.

Some of the other magical techni- ques involved f luorescenc’e . Lemieux used a whole sheet of material soaked in the substance I:O

trace an eye with a flash light and then himself in various poses by flashing a series of lights.

The pace is fast. There is no time to separate the hightly stylistic visual images - all graphic in con- tent and structure. But because he wants the show to be a communica-

French, English, and a Germanic gibberish.

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sophisticated children. “ I want to be the taste in your

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Solide Salad begins with a slide I show and Lemieux emerges from the screen wearing white geometric forms and becomes a moveable screen tha t b lends in to the background like a chameleon.

The music is familiar, something one can hear on the local FM sta- tions, and something one can put a handle on in the new performance art, a situation without traditional cues for its audiences. And although Lemieux tries to involve his viewers in a piece using fog, mir- rors and lights shining directly on their faces, the effect remains: Lemieux, the one-man magician show.

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By MONTE STEWART UBC was in a “must win situa-

tion.” “We knew we had to come out

on the go from the opening whistle - which we did,” said men’s soccer coach Joe Johnson of the final game of the Canada West season.

After failing t o sew up first place Friday afternoon, the ’Birds lam- basted the Saskatchewan Huskies

7-0 at 0. J. Todd field Saturday to win the Canada West title. It was UBC’s first ever men’s soccer championship.

Under the unique national play- off structure, only the first place teams from the Canada West, On- tario and Quebec, and Atlantic Conferences qualify for post season Play.

“We knew we had to come to the

Huskies early,” said Johnson. “Scoring a few more goals was just icing on the cake.”

Mike Malana scored the only goal the ’Birds needed to d o in the Huskies. The second year com- merce student headed, home a long cross from the corner as the ’Birds persistently bombarded the Saska:t- chewan box.

J o n a t h a n P i r i e a n d K e n t Burkholdter each notched a pair o f goals while Ken Mulleny and Paul

ISPORTSI Dalla Lana also netted singles. The ’Birds blew their chance to

wrap up the title on Friday, bowing 3-2 to the Alberta Golden Bears. Jos Adam’s goal with less than two

\ - minutes remaining in the game pro-

UBC hosting field hockey UBC, last year’s winner of the

Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union Women’s Field Hockey Championship, is hosting this year’s tournament.

Six field hockey teams - two from each of the three Canada Con- ferences: the West, Ontario- Quebec, and the Atlantic - begin round-robin play Thursday on Warren and McGregor fields.

The six teams are divided into two pools. In Pool A are Victoria, No. 1 West, St. Mary’s, No. 1 Atlantic; and Waterloo, No. 2 Ontario-Quebec; UBC, No. 2 West; and the University of New

Brunswick, No. 2 Atlantic in Pool B. Both pools play each of the teams

in their own pool once, for a total of two games on Thursday’s schedule. The two top teams from each pool then advance to semi- final action on Friday and the re- maining two teams are eliminated from further play.

St. Mary’s University objected to an earlier draw where UBC would face the top teams first. This was revised to UBC’s advantage.

The team’s first game on Thurs- day is a1 12:oO against UNB. This will be UNB’s second game of the day after a match against York

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Should UNB lose to York and then be beaten by UBC, UBC automatically advances to semi- final play on Friday, regardless (of the result of their 3:oO game against York.

Coach Gail Wilson said she is concerned about converting scoring opportunities into goals, something the team did not do well against Victoria in the final game of the last CWUAA Tournament to weekends ago.

Gridsters fumble way to loss By MONTE STEWART

It was like a funeral march. T h e T h u n d e r b i r d s w a l k e d

solemnly off the field last Ftiday night as their woesome Western In- tercollegiate Football League season came to a close at Thunder- bird Stadium. The Alberta Golden Bears defeated the ’Birds 28-9 before a sparse and partly costumed crowd.

Already out of the play-offs, the ’Birds entered the game intent on revenge - Alberta shaded UBC 8-3 last month in Edmonton - while the Bears were salivating over a possible first place finish. The Bears moved into first place probably for good.

Jeff Funtasz reaped havoc on a UBC defence that did everything it could to make up for a mediocre Thunderbird offence. The Alberta running back romped for 254 yards and two touchdowns on 31 carries.

The tight Thunderbird defence kept the score low until a miscue by Randy Jamieson tu rned the momentum in Alberta’s favor. Jamieson fumbled while trying to return a punt in the second quarter Alberta recovered the ball on UBC’s nine yard line. Moments later, Funtasz trotted into the end zone. The ’Birds never recovered after that major.

Glenn Steele ran for the ’Birds only touchdown late in the third quarter. Ironically, the major was set up by a fumble recovery when Danny Rousseau dropped the ball while trying to field a punt.

Several ’Birds might have played their final regular season game in a UBC uniform. Several fourth year players have become eligible for the Canadian Football League draft. Linebacker Greg Kitchen and of- fensive lineman George Piva have used up their five years of collegiate eligibility.

Glenn Steele and defensive back Bruce Barnett are virtually assured of being drafted or retained as one of the B.C. Lions’ territorial pro- tections. Defensive end Cary Lapa may join a CFL team as a free agent.

Calgary regained a share of first place with a 22-12 victory Saturday over Saskatchewan. The Bears and

Dinosaurs have 6 - 1 records with one game remaining for both teams.

A lbe r t a t akes on w in le s s Manitoba this weekend while the Dinosaurs stage a rematch with the Huskies in Calgary.

The Bears, the only team to defeat Calgary this season, have a

better points for and against record than tile Dinos’.

The ’Birds finished the regular campaign with a 3-5 mark for their first iosing season since 1980. This Saturday at 1:OO p.m., the club will close out the 1984 season with an exhibition game against Montana Tech at Thunderbird Stadium.

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vided the margin of victory. After left for Africa with one of the trailing: 2-0 early in the contest, the players who played for UVIC, ’Birds bounced back to tie. namely Ian Baird,” said Johnson.

UBC and the University of Vic- Two players, Frank and toria Vikings actually finished in a leading Rob Shelley, were in- tie for first but the T-Birds gained jured in Friday,s match, Iuele with the title by virtue of a better points a cracked cheekbone. ,,We,re just for and against record.

J’ohnson said he was not pleased Johnson, ,,and bring in a couple of going to have to adapt,” said

with the tie because the league in- young players.,, dicated it would suspend UVIC’s wins - UVIC used two carded The Birds face the national semi- players from the Canadian national final contest against Concordia tearn. The league then reversed its University in Montreal this Satur- direction, claiming the players were day. The ’Birds must win to qualify eligible. for the national championship at an

“‘The national team . . . just undetermined Atlantic site.

Soccer women tops

Coached by Bob Allen, UBC finished the round robin tourna- ment )undefeated. The most signifi- cant victory occurred Saturday when Ithe Birds shut out the Univesi- ty of ’Victoria Vikettes 3-0.

Union rules stipulate at least three conferences must participate in a certain sport before national cham- pionships can be held for the sport. Since only Canada West and On- tario universit ies compete in women’s soccer at the varsity level,

The Thunderbirds dominated there will be no national finals for mo!il. of the play in the final contest. the women’s team.

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RAB -q By ERIC EGGERTSON .., ,i,- ifid

There was an occupation in East Van- couver this summer. No hostages were taken, though a few demands were made.

For 75 days from July until September, as few as two znd as many as 60 people in- habited a ramshackle settlement of tents on a small patch of land perched between Van- couver harbour and the Downtown Eastside. North Shore commuters could see the multi- colored collection of tents from the Seabus, but few of them knew why the tents were there.

It was the Create a Real Available Beach camp-in on Vancouver Port Corporation land at the foot of Main Street.

Don Larson was one of the campers. For the past 27 months he has been a member of CRAB. He, with other local residents, have been waging an ongoing campaign for a waterfront park in the low-income Downtown Eastside.

Their demands to the federal Crown cor- poration are simple. They want to meet with the Port. They want a say in the use of the last piece of waterfront property in the Downtown Eastside that isn’t part of the in- dustrial wasteland of container terminals, docks and factories. They want to pressure the Port management to make good on its promise of “a waterfront park with full public access” in the area.

Getting agreement on the need for a park has been CRAB’s easiest task. Vancouver Ci- ty Council and the Parks Board have both approved motions calling for a waterfront park in the Downtown Eastside. Politicians, including federal energy minister Pat Carney, in whose riding the park would be, and Van- couver East NDP MP Margaret Mitchell, pledged strong support for a park. The Downtown Eastside Residents Association and the Vancouver Waterfront Coalition, a collection of 30 community groups and unions, support CRAB’s proposal.

But turning that support into parkland has proved to be a long, frustrating process.

Larson fears that Port planners left to themsleves will squeeze a tourist-oriented

park between several other developments on the site, leaving residents without a place to relax, watch the activity of Vancouver’s har- bour, and maybe dip their feet into the water.

“We see a seniors area for the park,” he says. Eighty per cent of area residents are seniors. “And an area for children. More children are moving into this area for the first time. There would be walkways, covered benches, trees and grass, maybe even a covered fishing pier like the Elliot Bay Park in downtown Seattle.”

Larson has a realistic idea of the residents’ needs - he lives there and works at Carnegie Centre, a focal point for the com- munity’s social activities.

From the pier people could see the working harbour, tugboats going by and the freighters being loaded. “There are 20 kinds of birds down there. The park could have a natural bird marsh so you could enjoy seeing them,” Larson says. “We’re not against the Port and the jobs it brings, but what’s the use of hav- ing a job i f you can’t get down to the water and see the natural beauty there?”

The Port, in its master plan for the area, recognizes the need for a park. But the plan lists a dozen other potential uses for the land, including moorage space for pleasure and fishing boats and a possible Expo 86 develop- ment. To get the park they want, Larson and the hundred members of CRAB must mount political pressure, and make it clear the needs of the community are more important than the needs of other groups.

Larson, sitting in his Downtown Eastside apartment, describes the two year struggle that promises to last a while longer. A mouse pops its head out from the kitchen wall.

“There are 10,ooO low-income people down here,” Larson says. “They’re mostly elderly, living in these tiny, steamy cockroach-ridden rooms, and they only have one park. And Oppenheimer Park is only one city block. The baseball teams dominate it.

“We’re saying we need a second park for this community. The Downtown Eastside has the lowest percentage of park space of any

community in Vancouver. In the west side of the city all you see is green space and sand. Then you come to the east side and see in- dustry.”

Parks Board planner Peter Rutgers agrees the area is “park-deficient.’’ “Oppenheimer Park is one of the most heavily used parks in our system,’’ he says. “ I f we had another park it would get used.”

Libby Davies, a former parks board member and current Committee of Pro- gressive Electors alderman, sees the CRAB issue as a political dispute over the use o f a piece of land. “Is i t for public use or develop- ment?” she asks. Davies feels it is more im- portant people have a place to go down by the waterfront.

Of CRAB she says, “People have banded together to fight for what they really need,” adding CRAB is taken seriously as a lobby group. I f CRAB hadn’t gathered very broad support, the issue would have died long ago, she says.

“They have taken one issue and educated people about it. They’ve learned how to use the system.”

Support for a waterfront park is widespread, but CRAB supporters must keep up constant pressure, enlisting the aid of politicans, residents and the media for their cause.

The latest move by CRAB supporters was to plant a 35 foot spruce tree on the site - a gift from CRAB to the board of the Port Corporation. “It’s a symbol of the spirit of co-existence between the Port and CRAB during the 75 days of camping there,” Lar- son explains. He adds wryly, “ I t being a gift makes it harder for them to bulldoze it.”

LARSON . . . not asking f o r moon.

At a meeting two weeks ago CRAB organizers planned a parade to the Port Cor- poration offices and a vigil until the Port agrees to another meeting and citizen par- ticipation on planning boards for the Port’s land. The vigil will take place today and Wednesday at the Port Corporation’s office at the foot of Granville Street. “ Y o u have to use symbols to make your point,” Larson says.

T h e Port C o r p o r a t i o n h a s b e e n remarkably silent lately. A federal govern- ment directive banned any comments to the press on any subject until the new Tory government has had time to review policies. A Port employee who requested anonymity

would only confirm on the telephone that the land is owned by the Vancouver Port Cor- poration.

C i t y p l a n n e r T e d D r o e t t b o o m acknowledges the change of government makes no plans for a park have been con- firmed with the Port. “The actual definition, size, and type of park are still uncertain. The Port master plan refers to the difficulty of ac- commodating resident wishes for “touching access” to the water, and recommends view- ing areas set back from the waterfront. No one knows what plans the Port is making behind its veil of silence, but the possibility of a scaled down park, ignoring community wishes, is very real.

It is no accident that Downtown Eastside residents have to band together and lobby for a three-block stretch of waterfront park when residents of the West End and most of Kitsilano and Point Grey have direct access to waterfront parks and beaches. The low- income east side has traditionally been less active in civic politics than the more affluent residents of Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale and Point Grey. That imbalance has led to a three decade dominance of the parks board by the NPA, a collection of business types and l a w y e r s w h o h a v e s e e n t o t h e i r neighbourhoods while ignoring the Eastside.

CRAB is a sign that times are changing. The Downtown Eastside, lacking representa- tion on the parks board, has instead formed a lobby group to fight for credibility.

I t has been done before - a similar battle was won against City Hall and developers. This fight was to save the land on Georgia Street at the entrance to Stanley Park from becoming a massive hotel complex.

The only difference between Devonian Park, as it is now called, and CRAB, is that CRAB has no lawyers and doctors pleading their case for them. CRAB does have the sup- port of city council, giving them some leverage against a Port Corporation that con- sideres rerouting industrial and commuter traffic through the Downtown Eastside an appealing prospect. Council, with its base of support in the community-oriented, left-wing COPE party, would be loathe to rezone the area for heavier traffic flow or an Expo 86 spillover project while ignoring the clearly- stated wishes of the Downtown Eastside residents.

Larson claims the Port values the proposed park land at $120 million. And with the restructuring of the local National Harbours Board into the Vancouver Port Corporation, there appears more emphasis on running the Port as a profitable company. So plans for the Port land can go two ways, as Libby Davies says - for public use or for develop- ment. The residents are clearly in favor of public use. But can they convince one area of government - the federal Port Corporation - to acquiesce to the wishes of another area of government - Vancouver council and parks board?

Don Larson is hopeful. “We’re not asking for the moon. The Port put in about 18 acres of landfill down there, we’re just saying they should give something back to the people.”

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