d I “My advice is to leave with who you came with.”

Vancouver, British Columbia, November 19,1993 I POLICE BEAT

The Pit “The biggest danger

to women on campus” BY CHARLES NHO

UBC RCMP have called a basement pub the greatest peril to women on campus.

‘“le biggest danger to women on campus is the Pit Pub,” said Staff Sgt. Bern Jansen.

While sexual assaults by strangers remain rare on campus, acquaintance rape, which includes sexual assaults by people known only for a matter of a few hours, remains more common.

“With most reports, we’ve found that they’ve almost always started at the Pit,” Jansen said. “My advice is to leave with who you came with.”

Pit staff can kick out the offender at their discretion but intervene only after a patron’s complaint.

Every crime investigated by UBC RCMP is recorded in a thick log book and given a file number. On those dog-eared pages lie the details of everything from campus murders to campus fights. But in response to a university administration request, the RCMP have recently kept a separate file on all sexual assaults.

Theplnposeistohaveareadily- accessible, comprehensive book whichrendersthefullscopeofsexual assaults on campus.

“The purpose of this detailed account is not to scare students,” said Staff Sgt. Bern Jansen. “‘It is, instead, to document just how few of the entries have nothing to do with the horrifying predatory rapes that seem to get all the attention ... I’d say we get maybe one serious

Of the sexual assault cases reportedinthepastyear,thesethree gained media attention at UBC:

In September a non-student entered Gage Towers where he removed his clothing and was eventuallyapprehendedlyingontop of the blanket of a sleeping woman. He was later convicted in c o w of break and enter with the intent of committing a sexual assault.

In October a woman walking homefiomthePitalongAgricultural Road to her residence was grabbed from behind and wrestled to the gromLShethenescaped.Theattack happened in the open late at night.

In March a woman reported a man hiding in the bushes near Main Libmywhotriedtopullhertowards him until she escaped. Police have discontinued the investigation after failing to find the woman at her reported home address.

sexual assault case per year.”

Police are still investigating.

L UBC grads jeff lung and Billy Lau have found a new job. See story below.

TRAGEDY OR COMEDY? LISA W A N PHOTC

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Decking the halls with unusual jobs

T BY MICHELLE WONG

WAS a month before Xmas. And all through the

employment centre not a job was stirring, not even the janitor who was laid off.

The economy Grinch had stolen all the McJobs, leaving stockings empty across the land.

Billy Lau mailed resumes to St. Nick but none were replied.

Then one foggy night, Billy with his head so bright, launched Smiley productions, agreeting card company, with his pal Jeff Jung.

Lau, a UBC biology graduate, hadworkedatShaughnesy Hospital until it was shut down. “No one else would hire me,” he said.

Now with Jung, a recent UBC electrical engineering grad who started a profitable computer

company, he sells colour-your-own cards by word of mouth.

They dmdle animal themes onto ff le cards.

Said Jung: “We’re not utilizing our education to its full potenrial- but then, who does?”

L;au said his university classroom training contributed considerably to his undertaking.

“I started doodling more- especially in psychology, because it’s a little on the dull side,” he said.

While Canadian universities continue to pump out graduates en masse in factory-like fashion, the nation’s soaring double digit unemployment rate ranks highest amongindusaializednations. Many graduateshavebeenforcedtoresort to creative, albeit unusual, alternatives for self-employment. Last summer, two UBC commerce

students started a dog pooper- scooping business, travelling across town with loads of fresh fertilizer in their trunk for sale.

Lau and Jung said they intend to take a huge bite into the expensive cardmarket with theirnovelconcept.

The cards can be drawn to suit personal tastes and OccasiOnS, and the customers do the colouring to personalize the designs.

“The market is very competitive,” said Jung. “However, we’re planning a take-over of Hallmark and, after that, Carlton. Give it a few years and it will be ‘Hallmark who?’”

“We dream up ideas, literally. We see the bubbles on top of our heads and the ideas come from there.”

Their work now includes T-shirts, logos and business cards.

BLOW DART TRIAL

Men die Irom

unknown cause

BY CHUNG WONG

KUALA LUMPUR-Four Malay men are dead but only three are officially dead.

And what has hampered the prosecution even more in this landmark manslaughter trial involving the indigenous Orang Asli in Malaysia is that the coroner has failed to find the cause of death despite admitted confessions.

The Orang Asli, Malay for Native People, claimed they used poison blow darts in self-defense to shoot at a landowner’s goon squad of six knife-wielding men. The squad allegedly bullied and injured villagers in Jeli Kampung near the Thai border during an attempt at forced relocation. But the Jehai tribe had used natural poisons from indigenous tree barks and roots usually used to hunt monkeys, poisons which are not looked for in standard city poison detection tests.

Four men died during the incident, ‘out mysteriously the accused are charged with “culpable homicide not amounting to mwdcr” for only three deaths: Ismail Che Noh, 51, Yahya Sulong, 42, and Haji Dollah Yaachob, 50.

The trial, which will set a precedent for future disputes between new land claims and the Orang Asli, is set for January 6 in theKotaBahruSessionsCourt.Land applications have soared recently in Malaysia for regions not earmarked for the Orang Asli. However, many Orang Asli tribes have not moved from their traditional settlement areas.TheJehaiconflictinJe1iisthe firstviolentNativeresistanceagainst new landowners in Malaysia. There are only 870 Jehais in northern

A local entrepreneur has paid bail for the 9 accused Orang Asli food gatherers, who range in age from 18 to 68.

The case has garnered a heightened profile after seven of Malaysia’s top defense lawyers including former Bar Council PresidentRajaAziz Addruseteamed up to defend the Orang Asli free of charge. Prosecution lawyer Haniff Awang then stepped down to make way for senior deputy’ public prosector Amin Firdaus Abdullah.

The defense lawyers are confident they will successfully reduce the charge to involuntary

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City politics: To wards or not to wards BY ELLENYEUNG

~~

M AYORAL candidate Libby Davies is ap

pealing toalienatedvancouverites by proposing a regional voting sys- tem similar to federal constituen- cies for future elections.

Under thecurrent system,resi- dents vote for all the candidates, granting densely populated neigh- borhoods more political power for their community interests.

Under the proposed ward sys- tem, voters would vote for only one candidate for their home ward,

westcomerofVancouverhcon- tinuingtodominatetheelectionout- comebecauseofthehighvoterturn- Out there,” COPE candidate Davies said.‘”lkDowntownEastsideises- pecially neglected.“

Shesaidthecurrentsystemputs candidates from low-income neigh- bomoodsatadisadvantagebecause oftheirneedtofundacampaignthat would appeal to the whole city.

“The present at-large system of electing politicians favours in- cumbents and people with money,” Davies said

In three referenda on wards, theiastonein1988,morethan50 F n t voted in suPp0rt“just short

‘Wads Would prevent the south-

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Libby Davies of the 60 percent required to pass.

NPA mayoral candidate Philip Owen, independent candidate Bob Seeman, and Davies agree a ward system would give voters fairer rep- resentation in council-but Owen thinks Vancouver needs another ref- erendum to decide the issue.

ernment changed the Vancouver Charter to allow council to dodge a referendum. a move Owen called a

“‘cowardly way of avoiding respon- sibility.”

Owen said he and most NPA candidates are in favour of a ward system, but he wants another refer- endum, which he estimates would cost about $500,000.

Meanwhile,DaviesandSeeman accuse Owen of hypocrisy.

This J ~ n e the provinciai gov-

Bob Seeman Seernan argues that provincial and

national referemda require only 50 percent plus one to succeed and pre- vious referenda results show that Vancouverites want wards.

Owen said HQI& need to be recon- sidered by a new commission be- cause of “significant changes to the face of Vancouver” since the last commission in 1988.

Owen points to new developments in the Frase€ Lands, coal Harbour, Yaletown, and Concord Pacific’s development on the old Expo lands.

SmanandDavieswantthewards implemented in time for the next civic election in 1996. Both said an- other referendum is not needed

Daviespromisestodrawnewward boundaries after talking t o p p l e in the grassroots level, instead of delay-

Philip Owen

ing the pmcess like Owen. “Owen is undermining the ward

system,” Davies said. Seemansai&“Democracydelayed

is democracy denied” COPE will have an advantage with

the ward system because they will win more seats from the Eastside, according to Seeman. But Davies isn’t womed about wards benefiting

another. - ” “Iamnotconcemedwithwhowill

get elected, because the ward system is a m a democratic way of electing politicians,”Daviessaid.“Therewill be m a accountability in council.”

TheGreenParty,asmallforcein Vancouver politics that do not yet haveanelectedrepresentativeiscall- ing for “mixed-member representa-

anyparticularcandidateorpartyover

Godzdla takes a charge at city hall BY BIANCA ZEE

AND GRAHAM COOK

W HILE Davies, Owen and Seeman may be the

names you first associate with Vancouver’s current mayoral race, theRwillbe2oothersonsaturday’s ballot. Does Wretched Ethyl ring a bell? Sandy Beach? Godzilla?

These candidates and several others are running for mayor in the wake of new rules which make it easier to become a civic candidate. Prospective candidates now need only two nominators’ si- to getontheballot,andthereisno longer a registration fee.

With the change in rules Brian “Godzilla” Salmi of the Gnu Demo- craticRhinoRefotmFklysawan apportunity. In an article in the local newspaper Terminal City. Salmi de- scribed how he and his friend N w leon realized, in a drunken stupor. the possibility of flooding the may-

oralballotwiththenamesofa1OOO ordinary people.

He called up several friends to etlcourage them to run, including many in local rock bands.

One who answered his request wasCharmianBullen,thedesignateri spokespenon of “Wretched Ethyl,” a name on the mayoral ballot and also the name of Bullen’s rock band

‘We’re running far mayor be- cause we saw it as an opportunity to make a statement against the general decline in democracy,” Bullen said, “It seems to be the rich and powerful who are elected into power and I’m a musician with no collateral.”

Wretched Ethyl advocates “the greater distribution of wealth and a better app.oach to the social system becausewhatworked2Oyearsagois not working now.. . . We would like to see more of a collective system with more cooperation between the rich and the poor.” she said.

Another rock musician who took

Greens want Chmese

up Godzilla’s ( c a l l was Sandy Beach, a SFu student pursuing a teaching certificate and a member of the punk band Pigirrg Youth Gang.

Initially, he jumped onto the mayoralty race without much fore- thought, thinking he would be one of many fringe candidates.

“Then I started geuing all these letters and calls and interviews and I’m in the puhlic eye and I’m think- ing, ‘interesting,”’ Beach said.

“It was funny to start off with and then BCTV phoned up and wantdtodoaninterviewandIdidn’t know ?what to tell them so I said I’m foreducation, school and parks, but I didn’t know, so I said ‘oh well, I guess :I should say something.’“

BCrV quoted Beach as saying the system was“a farce,” and now he is worried that the publicity given Salmi and the other “fringe” candi- dates may lead to a tightening of the electoral rules.

“It’s just that next time, because

of the publicity, it is going to be a large nomination fee that will limit it to businesses or large organizations, and I don’t agree with that,” Beach said

Some of the lesser-known can- didateshavepinedtheraceformore mercenary reasons. ”The Captain,” aka. John William Kut, is running to raise the profile of his second- hand goods business. The Captain’s slogan is “Revitalize the Spirit of vancouver.”

Kut said, “My first mate Dave askedmetorunformayorthreedays in a row, saying it would be good for business and f i y I said ‘what the heck, why not””

Godzilla Salmi himself is run- ning for mayor and pushing to break VancouverofffromCanadanadaandjoin it with Japan. In a ceremony at the Japanese Consulate on Wednesday, Godzilla presented agift to the Japa- nese people and apologized for the atrocities he’s commiued in the past.

to be official language BY GRAHAM COOK

T HE civic Green party wants Vancouver to make city

hall more accessible to the growing

nese an official second language.

cilities for city documents and pub licmeetingsintoChinesesaidAndy Telfer, council candidate in Saturday’s elections.

‘We’re always getting new immigrants.Whatitcomesdownto

citizens, and in Vancouver, that means servicing Canadians who

Chinapopulationbymakingchi-

Thepartywantstr;lnslationfa-

isthatyouneedtoseaviceyour

speak Chinese,” Telfer said. He compares city hall to

Chinatown where there is an array of banking and other services available inchinese.

“If a Chinese person walks into cityhallandwantstotalktoacoun- cillor there is no service in place.”

Non-pamSan Association may- oral candidate Philip Owen doesn’t thinktheissueisanimptonefor Vancouver’s Chinese community.

“I haven’t heard one Asian per- son suggest that Chinese should be an official language. I think they’re the ones that should bring the issue forward. I’ve been on council with

SandmWillcing,andnow(NF’Acan- didate) Maggie Ip and none of them have ever suggested it,” Owen said

Libby Davies is running for mayor under the Coalition Of F” grmive Electors (COPE) banner. She said the Green proposal is well intended but does not reflect Vancouver.

“I have a problem with choos- ing one language as an official sec- ondlanguage h a multilingual city,” she said

Davies mid COPE would for- malize: transhaion services for all common languages in the city.

Vancouver City Clerk Maria

ture of current services. No facilities are available but

m e documents are translated. “All Vancouverites should be

communicated with in a language theyunderstandandinamannexthey understand,” she said

But she admitted that Chinese- speakers might have difficulty get- ting a translated version of a planning document for their neighbourhood.

“We might give them a copy of the English document and ask them toaskafriendwhospeakschineseto translate it, because we always have to be mindful of the dollar.”

Rick Scobie, deputy director of

tion.” Green council candidate Andy

Telfer said the mix-member system would combine the at-large system, which favours smaller parries like his, with ward representatives.

The Greens warn that a ward sys- temwouldbelikecurrentfederaland provincialelectoral systems, in which the popular vote is often skewed by riding divisions.

For example, the Conservative and Reform parties eac h received 16 per- cent of the popular vote in the last federal election but now have two and 52 seats in the House of Com- mons respectively.

Owen also said the mixed ward and at-large system is a possibility, but Davies said it would not work.

“It creates a two-tier system that defeats the purpose of the ward,” Davies said

Owen said the ward system would be more bureaucratic and would lead to the neglect of issues that affect the entire city.

But Davies said his claims are groundless.

‘Whathappensincouncildepends on the quality of people elected,” Davies said

Even with an at-large system, there mightstillbepeoplewhodon’tknow about all the issues of the city, she said

Wretched Ethel

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The Captain

range for a staff member to interpret if they know ahead of time.

He said the department has not had a lot of complaints regarding a lack of formal services for Chinese speakers, but admits that may be because of a communication prob lem.

“I’m not expecting this depart- ment would take any initiatives with- Out a wider corporate policy to pro- vide that service everywhere, in the police department, health or engi- neering,” Scobie said

Kinsella said the city is improv- ing policies with an accessibility pro- gram for the current election and a permanentworkinggrouptodevelop SMpoliCy.

The city has also hired simulta- neous interpreters for some public meetinas. Kinsella said

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Punjabi market sends Sidhu to community concerns.”

Sidhu said he wants to ensure fiscal and social responsibility, and work towards a safer, healthier city, promoting “the security of Vancouver, as well as health issues and the environmment.”

His campaign literature says that he stands for “innovative housing initiativesandotherimportantsocial programs.. . environment-friendly initiatives.” and a “balanced common-sense approach to neighbourhood and city-wide issues.”

A push for the arts and safety BY JULE LEE

F RANCES Wasserlein is running for city council with

the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) slate. She said that civic duties havealwaysbeen an emphasis for her because of her community work.

Wasserlein said her work with the local women’s movement showed that city politics were important to the community structure. She has worked with the police and wornens’ shelters and is particularly concerned with safety issues.

“As a lesbian, I want to protect minorities. We should take a good long look at what it’ll take to make Vancouver a safe place. Safety is an importantissueespeciallyinregards to minorities, children, seniors, for everyone.

“We need to understand that solutions may not be necessarily in morepolicebut inunexpectedpiaces such as neighbourhood cooperation and responsibility,” she said.

Wasserlein is also active in the local arts community, including her

work as volunteer coordinator for theVancouverFolkMusicFiestival.

“I want to see the city take a positive developmental role in the artsandculture.1believethatwithout a vibrant cultural sector, people will lose their voice since I believe that cultural expression is our voice.”

She also stated that neighbourhoodinputisofmuchcivic importance.

“I want to implement ideas based on neighbourhood participation, as I really want to stress their participation. We should recognize the important role residents play in decision making,” she said.

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DOCUMENTARY

P-ilms Iocus on Iamilies BY ELLEN YEUNG keeping Mona's secret living

arrangement from the father. So, the e m Home, written and three Shum women sit around a table produced by Michelle and laugh in Chinglish-half

Wong, is a retrospective look at the Chinese, half English-about sacrifices of Wong's grandparents waiting for the right moment to tell whocametocanadaseveraldecades father. ago. Mina humourously calls her

The personal documentary father"stableandsensib1e"butreally shows Wong's return to her meaning her father is boring and hometown, where her grandparents inflexible. Many pictures of the settled. My great-grandfather was patriarchareshownandvignettesof also a gum sun lo ("gold mountain Lawrence Welk and other old men guys" who came to North America are told, but the father never speaks. in the 1900s) so I can relate to In the film he is unaware Mina is Wong's guilt of having encouraged documenting him. One can only the cultural and generational gap. wonder what his reaction was when

7T.e years of working in their the NFB documentary was small cafe in St. Paul, Alberta is not completed. over for the grandparents in their Because the fatherneverspeaks, 80s. Return Home shows the we assume the father is cold and hardships the Chinese pioneers had unforgiving. His reaction might be to endure, which built a niche in milder than what the women contemporary Canadian society. anticipate, but the audience never

Wong's relationship with her Shum generalizes that grandparents. In this first film, Wong traditional Chinese men are unfair predictably concludes that her by having her mother and grandparents do care for her and grandmother tell of their former their love was manifested physical and mental abuse by her differently. grandfather and his mistress.

Anotherpersonaldocumentary Mina insists the three Shum Me, Mom, and Mon, directed by womenare independent and strong- Vancouverite Mina Shum, satirizes willed, yet they are still reluctant to the traditional Chinese father, who break thenews to their father. If they thinks he is in control but is only are so much in control, they would made to think so by the women have known exactly what to say to around him. win him over. The mother, however,

Mina's 20-year-old sister, summarizes the three women's Mona, has been living with her attitude by insisting that you boyfriend in Montreal. The film sometimes have to "lie in order to revolves around the conspiracy of survive."

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Return Home is also about knows.

THEATRE

Diva to death in 5 quick beats BY MARNIE MACEWAN

AND LUISA RINO "

T HE walls of the dusty mse sitting room begin to

bend and creak under the pressure as the haunting song of the whales intensifies. One hole appears in the wall, then twD- soon an overpowering cascade starts to fill the room. Lyle raises his wine glass to toast his emancipation from this aquarium, his life.

So ends Whale Riding Weather.

issues that have gone unspoken for Y"

Lyle refuses to face any reality. He has locked himself in his apartment for years, blocking out the rest of the world. Blinding himself to the disintegration of his refuge, he ignores his inhumane living conditions and those of his 20 odd cats which he keeps locked in a large pen.

changing his own condition, is complicit to Lyle's defeatism. Lyle says to him: "You've

Auto, by refusing to risk

Universally, the play addresses the fear and vulnerability inherent in human relationships. Specifically, however, the relationships are among men and the play deals with characters coping with the stigma attached to loving another man. For that reason, this is an important and political play.

"I'm afraid for this world and of this world and this world is afraid of me," says Lyle, who finally releases his hold on a life he despises when he yields to ~~

The screeching of a car echoed accommodated me. YOU should be Auto, letting him w s e n d the by the screeches of an effeminate, given the fucking Order of Canada has-been diva, are the opening for deciphering madness." SEE PAGE 6 notes of the play. Lyle, sprawled shirtless, stretched out on a threadbare pink chaise longue, drunkenly Spits wadean- epigrams and licks excess sherry University Copy Centre off his ever 'present bottle. His Alma at Broadway presence permeates the room. #2,3701 W. Broadway, Van., B.C.

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Auto, who, back to Lyle, sits at a desk in his underwear, obsessively rolling cigarettes and downing canned beer . , Auto's unexerciced, soft body and long, unkempt hair and brooding silence make him seem an incongruous companion for kyle. The introduction of the young and overenthusiastic Jude, Auto"s new lover, betrays the tacit agreement between Lyle and

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Entering a virtual reality BY DAVID BUCHANAN

T One evening around 1 lpm, 1 magine walking through the moms bf your dream

home before the foundation has even been laid. With Rheingold found a tick on his rirtual reality, you no longer have to imagine. daughter's head.

Howard Rheingold, technology guru and journalist, led he audience at the Orpheum last Sunday night on a magical nystery tour through the corridors of virtual reality. restrictions placed on them in the future?

Presently, to enter virtual reality, an individual straps on Another controversial aspect of this future techonology I rather ugly-looking piece of headgear, with the even uglier might allow you to come home at the end of a frustrating day lame of Facesucker, along with a special pair of gloves, for at work, enter your virtual reality Holodeck and shoot your

a n simulated environments, such as walking through a to-be- (simulated) boss to death! built house or cavorting in a cave that the person has never But Rheingold did not limit his discussion to virtual seen. reality. Set up on stage was a mobile telephone, computer and

theUniversityofNorthCmlina,adisagreementarosebetween HedemonstratedtheWELLcomputernetwork,ofwhich the architects and the future occupants concerning the location he is a member, to the audience. He talked about developing of a wall in a building that was under design. Gentle persuasion a large group of acquaintances through this network. was called for. Sometimes they even help each other out.

The would-be occupants convinced the architects to One evening afound 1 lpm, Rheingold found a tick on strap on a Facesucker and have a virtual walk through the his daughter's head. His wife phoned the pediatrician-he building. Lo and behold, the architects changed their minds logged into WELL. Before the doctor could return the call, and repositioned the wall. I someone on the computer network had advised Rheingold

will know of the "Ho1odeck"-a large room where three- Rheingold spoke ofone WELL member who announced dimensional holographic images are created and humans on the network that hisson hadbeen diagnosed with leukemia. freely interact with these forms. This is a version of virtual Doctorsand nurses on the network helped him understand the reality that is not yet technologically feasible. disease and the medical procedures associated with it. Parents

All sorts of fascinating implications arise with such empathized with him. After some time, the boy's disease went technology. For instance, in one episode of Star Trek a into remission. character completely created by laser beams in the Holodeck Another member fell into a coma while travelling in actuallybecomesconsciousanddemands nottobeannihilated! India. Fellow members got together and arranged to uansport

of the first time he experienced the eerie sensation of seeing his Even after two and a half hours on stage, Rheingold own body at a distance from himself in virtual reality. eagerly answered the endless questions from the audience. He

He also mentioned the social implications of this is an educator extraordinare who has spent the past 25 years technology. Already airplane pilots who use sophisticated writing for and lecturing to popular audiences. The world of simulators are not allowed to drive for a certain period of time science and technology needs more Howard Rheingolds to afterexitingthesimulator. Willvirtual reality users have such satisfythethirstofthemassesforsuchfascinatinginformation.

Rheingold is overflowing with wonderful examples. At modem.

Readers familiar with Star Trek: The Next Generation what to do and the tick was removed.

Virtual reality can also be disorienting. Rheingold spoke her to a Western hospital.

THEATRE FROM PAGE 5

cage of their relationship. The only thing keeping Lyle in this world is Auto-once gone, Lyle is able to cast off the alcohol-induced semiconsciousness, in which he has been and dies.

play by Nova Scotian playwright Bryden MacDonald to Vancouver after its Toronto premiere at the Factory Lab Theatre. Touchstone's David Roberts is the first set

Roy Surette and Allan Gray have brought this new

designer to realize the troubling stage direction that demands water to break through the apartment walls at the play's closure.

Surette's direction inspired intense emotion without having the actors dip into manipulative or stereotypical performances. The simplicity and honesty of the production provide a refreshing and thought provoking night at the theatre.

MI. 75, No.19 Pow Friday, Nmmber 19,1993 7

Japanese students putting; on the Rits Even though the Ri t sumeh-

UBC exchange program is in its third year, most of the studentsfrom Kyoto are still unknown on campus, even to Main librarians.

Naoko Ishii, an editor of bi- annual student magazine Ritsumei Review, randomly interviewed three Rits students in this year’s program to reveal their life at UBC.

BY NAOKO ISHI

One day I went to Main Library

“I’m from Ritsumeikan,” I said. But the librarian didn’t under-

stand that I was a student at UBC and, with an embarrassed look, he asked me which faculty I was in.

“Well, we’re in the special pro- gram for us,” I said, trying to be helpful, but the librarian was only more confused.

Most Ritsumeikan (“Rits”) stu- cientssharesimilarexperiences.Now I. can say I am in the faculty of education, but most people don’t know the exchange program.

Since 1991,100 students from Kyoto have come to Vancouver for theUBC-RitsumeikanAcademicEx- change Program. which focuses on English and crosscultural studies.

to ask about my lost card.

They live in Ritsumeikan-UBC House -nea rTo temPi th 100 non-Japanese students, including other international students.

Hidefumi Sakai, 20, wants to improve his conversational English skills during the program.

“I also want to experience a life in different cultures,“ said Sakai, an English-American literature major.

“But the special residence is not very good for us. We’re always with Japanese students-we tend to de- pend on them.”

Kame Imayama, 20, and Jun Okamura, 21, both international re- lations majors, share similar views.

Imayama, an independent woman, thinks the program is isolat- ing or limiting for some students.

“I want to find out myself about such things as adaptibility to new surroundings,” Imayama said, “but I can’t find out for myself because I am with 100 Japanese students.”

Imayama worries about safety at night, whereas others complain aboutcanada’s expensivecigarettes and candy.

This isn’t Okamura’s first en- counter abroad.

“I joined an international semi- naratOklahomaUniversitylastyear, and the good experience brought me

I U to UEiC.” said the basketball freak. Okamura and Sakai haven’t seen building we cannot experience Ca- OkamurawenttoOklahomawith20 t h e i r b u d d i e s s i n c e O h y m a nadian student life.” students for two months of ESL last still meets her buddy weekly to play The lesson plan, which includes

“I want to broaden my way of Sakai says “our interests don’t and crosscultural communication, thinking,” Okamura said. match. I used to try to meet more does not appeal to the students. The

spring. tennis or have dinner. fourclassesofacademicwritingskills

% students chat with friends they meet at residence, sports clubs or social events held by the Japan Exchange and Pacific Rim Clubs. However, it is hard to establish close friendships.

Each has about 10 non-Japa- nese acquaintances but only two or three with whom they discuss per- sonal lives, love and womes.

Imayamasaid“itishardwhenit comes to communicating and to get over shyness..”

They stay up talking all night withJapanesefriendsButOkamura also talks wiff 1 a Korean student, one of his closest friends. After being teased one night, Okamura told his friend to leave him alone-which the fiend refiused 6do.

“I waspleased because it means he thinks much about our hiend- ship,“ Okamura said.

The buddy system of the pro- gram has paired Rits and UBC stu- dents. Buddies began by meeting everyday,but now they seldom meet except for occasional social events.

often; but I’m now friends with a mom-mate.”

He is sharply aware of being in a foreign place when his friends o r mom-matesareabsent“1 feel lonely in different surroundings when I’m alone in my mom.”

Rits students have all classes in the residence. They can take UBC classes with a 580TOEFL score, but few achieve this level of proficiency.

“It is easy to go to class because the classrooms are close,” Okamira says. “But shutting ourselves in this

KATSURA YOKOJIMA PHOTO . . .-

studentswantmorepracticalEnglish classes like ESL instead of concen- trating on communication theories. ” a n y students have complained and the program office has recently cir- culated questionnaires on lesson plans and instructors.

Although they face difficulties none want to rem to Japan. How- ever, Imayama says to live in Canada she would have to experience more of Canadian life.

“I wonder if I could grow here. I think I should work on it more.”

The new Bethunes4madians workm in C h a

and astatue erected m hisknory. ardKingbosssaidR0wuswell’s~- “After I had to retire, I didn’t Fifteen years after the Cultural ence guarantees favours and better want to spend time doing nothing,”

Revolution other Canadian names treatment in restaurants explained Irwin. are becoming extremely popular “Whenever we go out together, “I chose a small city in China among China‘s citizens. there always people co-g to us becaw I felt that if1 stayed in a large

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U city I would spend my time with foreigners. I come to here so that I can know people in China. Later I didgettokmwmanyChinesepeople, not only people from my university but also in the city.”

He was one of the few Canadi- ans to go to China in 1989 after the Tiananmen incident.

“I arrived in August and many of the foreign experts had withdrawn in June. All the hotels were empty

eigners on the streets of Beijing. “My first impression about

Chinawasthatpeopleseedtobe arguing on the street all the time,” laughed Irwin. “But after I got to some feeling and appreciation for the language, I found out that the people were not arguing at all. I started to like the rhythm of the language.”

After four years of teaching English at the Linfen teacher’s col- lege, the only university in a city surrounded by mountains (popula- tion 320,000) and in one of China’s poorest provinces, he has developed a warm relationship with his stu- dents.

‘They are so friendly and treat me so well no mauer where I go. TheylookaftexmeandI’mlikethei fathers and need to be looked after.”

nadian culture to students, many of whomarehrwalareas.

”TheythinkCanadasoundslike abeautifulcounhywheretheywould like to visit. But one woman said she

and YOU could hardly ~ e e any for-

IrwinisalsotryingtoteachCa-

doesn’t think she wants to live in somewhere that she is not entirely surrounded by people.”

Irwiniswtplanningtoreturnto Canada yet because he loves to teach.

“OfcourseImissmyfamilyand I’m always happy to go home each year and spend time with them. But I have been here long enough that I feel I have some family in Linfen as well.

“It’s like a second home in someways. I feel a certain excite- - ment when I’m coming back here. I will stay until I can no longer move uound”

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Caynor Yeung, 2nd year UBC law, thumbs through her factum. LISA WAN PHOTO

FROM PACE 1 manslaughterandpleabargainaone evidence. It was later revealed that The Orang Asli say developers day sentence to be served during Mohamed Tazar Man arrived two tried to intimidate them off their courtday.Theaccusedhavealready hornaftertheallegedincidenttook land on April 26, right after they served a month while in custody. A place andphotographedonly Orang bought it. When the Orang Asli conviction for the manslaughter Asli holding blow pipes. refused to move a confrontation charges can draw a maximum 10- Asecond wimess,a&eacherwho erupted resulting in a 19-year-old year jail sentence and a fine. reported the incident to the police, Orang Asli man’sarm being slashed

Asidefromthemner’srept, had apparently fingered only those and an elderly village chief injured theprosecutionhas sufferedsevd holding blow pipes. They were all after being pushed to the ground. pretrial twists and turns. A key eventuallyarrestedandcharged. The Only then were the blow darts used. wimess. apolice photographer, was teacher, however, was not present Four Malay men later died with no originally thought to have during the incident but had only apparent wounds. photographed incriminating heard of i t

8. MOVED GRANT RHODES:

“That SAC freeze the accounts and bookings of the following clubs for two weeks effective November 8th, 1993 until said clubs submit complete executive lists, membership lists and budgets for 1993/94

k j f to the SAC Secretary.

Aquaculture Club Bhangara Club Christian Science Organization Commerce Community Programs Economics Students Association First Year Engineers HASK - Croatian Students Society Inter-Fraternity Council Latter-Day Saints Students Assoc

Marketing Association Metals and Materials Engineering Mining Personal Computing Club Reform Party Students Society Sororities of UBC Sports Car Club Stamp Club Windsurfing Club

NOTE: Those clubs failing to submit these materials during the two-week freeze period will be deconstituted without further notice.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact Grant Rhodes in SUB nn 252, tel: 822-5466.

UBC MOOT REVIEW

Cahoots in moots BY BRENDA WONG

T he mock court debates held by UBC law

students are an unlikely mix of solemn rituals and lighthearted silliness.

Yet in the most recent year, somehow UBC has produd the best law student debaters in the nation.

On this day as Miles Baumgartner introduces his team of counsels and outlines a boating accident case, his two friends in the audience put their thumbs to their noses and waved their fingers in a Three Stooges salute.

On TV Lawyers are often thought of as posturers who dazzle juries with wit and persuasive logic. But such confidence does not come automatically. It’s done through mock trials like this one where UBC law students learn the ropes around the courtroom.

They debate the general facts of cases in first year and argue actual contract, property, civil or criminal law cases in second year.

The students get a chance to hone their courtroom skills during second-year “moots” or mock debatesjudgedbypracting lawyers and other law students.

Persuasive skills are not the most important element of an impressivecourtroom performance, but the ability to anticipate and defend all the issues that UnexpectedIy arise is essential.

For first yearstudents whomay not be as skilled in determining the secondary issues, handling the judge’s verbal volleys may prove most daunting.

“It can be very nerve- wracking,” said Gaynor Yeung. a secondyearlawstudent.“Youdon’t know what the judges will ask you.”

The judges scrutinize every rhread of the counsel’s apparently seamless argument. And sometimes that means the counsels are interrupted every few minutes for clarifications.

Baumgartner opened his presentation with interpretations of maritime law,butwasquicklyasked to expand on the relevance of his generalizations to the boating accident.

His nerves were clearly rattled as sipped his glass of water and gazed steadily at the trio of black- robed judges seated in front of him.

The crux of Baumgartner’s argumentwasthattheboatwasreally in federal jurisdiction, and not subject to any provincial law-but

the argument lost most of its credibility after judge John Lenaghan pointed out its flaws.

Baumgartner’s co-counsel Mark Short, who looked like a nervous choirboy in his black robe, did not fare much better. He tried to convince the court that the plaintiff, as an experienced sailor, did not take reasonable care for her safety after seeing the poor condition of the boat

But Short was reduced to shuffling his copy of the factum and listening to judge Sandra Benson’s lengthy argument of the facts of a supporting case. Ultimately he had toconcede that he did not extract the same facts from the case as she did.

During this poor performance. the other team of students looked expectant,tryingtoreadthejudges’s disposition and calculating how it could work in their favour. After Short’s weak performance, counsel ScarletMcGladeryhadabrainstorm, scribbling madly to advance her position.

Typically the rebuual is the tense and anticipated climax in the courtroom proceeding. But in this debate McGladery knew her team had an advantage because Baumgartner and Short’s weak arguments almost gift-wrapped a favourable decision for them.

In a loud and clear voice, the diminutive McGladery stated that she and co-counsel Dan Moore will not respond to the appellant’s case, preferring to argue their case on its own merits.

On TV Lawyers are often thought of

as posturers who dazzle juries with wit and persuasive logic. But such confidence

does not come automatically.

Then she proceeded to argue that the boat is subject to provincial laws as a houseboat, and that there is a trend toward federal and provincial laws co-existing together. Judge Benson questioned her to provide evidence of this trend. She calmly asked for a minute to think about it, and then rattled off a few examples.

McGladery may have had an unexpectededge with theappellant’s weak performance, but she clearly had nerves of steel and plenty of composure to skillfully handle the judges’s questions.

Althoughtherearesolemncourt robes and genteel customs such as addressing counsel as“my honorable friend,“ the atmosphere is distinctly adversarial, as the lawyers jockey for credibility by anticipating the judges’s pointed inquiries.