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Bruce Curtis (lefl) and Scott Franz at arraignment

Legal lynching By MICHAEL GROBERMAN

B ruce Curtis has been in jail for Over four years. a Canadian prison, he will no proceedings of the United States . . crime he has committed. I have urg- He has sixteen- -years left.- He attends. Q w n s loZter be to appeal his con- . ed, and will continue to urge the

vlctlon. Hatfield Lyi3n says the CUI- External Affairs spokesperson government to support his petition 9 ,

University by correspondence, from his New tis family is still waiting for the Out- Rejone Dodd repeats her minister’s for Clemency.” Jersey Drison, Bordentown. come of the current appeal, and Dosition: “We have a role to Dlav Hatfield Lvon. the Toronto

than judgement, was processed through a ed prior to the transfer. And in a Government of Canada, bu-t the and on the few community college Canadian prison Curtis would have government does not officially sup- courses offered in the Prison- He

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trial which did not even address his charge, convicted of the oDDortunitv to aDDlv for dav DOrt that Detition. writes poetry and short stories. a crime he did not commit, and given the maximum passes - to &end university, a Mary d a r k , a spokesperson for Jennifer Wade, who is in cons-

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I 1 T H E U B Y S S E Y Friday, September 12,1986

Feds are VICTORIA (CUP) - The

federal government is not acting decisively enough to prevent a nuclear catastrophe off the B.C. coast, says a member of the provincial legislature.

Referring to U.S. plans to ship 12,000 kilograms of nuclear reactor waste through the Strait of Juan de Fuca, New Democrat Robin Blen- c o e s a y s , “ W e c a n n o t underestimate the seriousness of this issue, when we are.dealing with plutonium, the most dangerous commodity in the world.

“Without a detailed assessment of safety precautions and. a full public disclosure of shipping

Dogs bat t I TORONTO (CUP) - A con-

troversial battle between the Toron- to Humane Society and the Univer- sity of Toronto will directly affect the quality of education and health care in Ontario, says the chair of the university’s animal care committee.

David Mock has been at the forefront of a heated public debate over whether or not the Scar- borough City Council should halt the supply of stray dogs sold to U of T for research.

Mock says ignorance is the main reason for strong public protest over the use of research animals in

plans,” he said, “the Canadian government should insist the shipments do not go ahead.”

Blencoe said the shipments could begin later this month, depending on a U.S. court case seeking to bar the cargo from travelling through the strait, which separates Van- couver Island and Washington State.

Blencoe said he has been asking both federal and provincial environment ministers about the wastes since January, when the U.S. Department of Energy an-

’ nounced that Hyundai Line would take 18 lines of used nuclear fuel rods from Taiwan to the U.S.

ed, over for research.

“All we want is for; researchers to s t o p u s i n g r a n d o m - s o u r c e animals,” said Best. “Owners tend to be passionate about their pets. . .they trust that their animals won’t go to research and will let them free if there is a chance that they might. Purpose-bred animals allow for research but don’t disrupt the community.”

Mock dismisses Best’s suggestion as unrealistic.

“The quality of research will suf- fer if we have to rely solely on purpose bred dogs,” Mock says. “One reason is that it will cost us $l.OOO

mainland. He wants more information on

the safety of . the 25 tonne steel waste containers, as each would hold about two kilograms of plutonium, with a radioactive half- life of 24,000 years, among 700 kilograms of fuel rods.

“The casks have been tested to withstand temperatures of 1475 degrees Fahrenheit (802 degrees Centigiade) for up to one hall hour,” he said. “But many petroleum products burn at higher temperatures . . . and many ship fires regularly burn for six hours of more.”

Blencoe said the federal response to his questions has been “weak and wimpish”. In April, federal environment minister Tom McMillan said Canada had voiced its con- cerns, but added that “the U.S. has the right t o use the strait even for the shipment of such potentially harmful cargo.”

Beverly Pinnegar, a Vancouver- based Greenpeace official, said she was particularly worried about winter storms, and cited the exam- ple of an oil tanker which sank i;n the strait last December.

“If a cask containing nuclear waste goes underwater and leaks, we are going to have to deal with the contamination indefinitely,” she said. “Our position is the spent fuel rods should be kept safely contained in above-ground storage in - . . .

university facilities. per dog instead of the current Taiwan “This issue has allowed a lot of $100.’’ Pinnegar and the final destina-

misconceptions to emerge,” he Mock adds that purpose-bred tion Of the Went is %wan- said. “By hitting at the question of animals are also unsuited to North where dog sales, the Humane Society is research. “We need a genetic mix the uranium be reprocessed trying to elicit people’s sympathy because we are not going to perfor further use in while the for their pets. However, we don’t form the surgery practiced here on plutonium be extracted for use pets in research. If a.citizen br- ings in an animal to be put to sleep, it will never be given to us. Our subjects are strays that would have been killed anyways.”

University official Stephen Lindt said none of the animals experience any pain during the various experiments.

“Eighty per cent of all dogs are used in acute experiments where absolutely no pain is felt because the animal never wakes up,” Lindt said. “For the remaining tests, dogs are given painkillers as would be given to a human. The emphasis is on humane treatment at all times.”

Though much of the debate so far has focussed on animal rights, Stephen Best of the Humane Socie- ty says the real issue is one of animal control. Best wants U ~ > t -1 to rely o n animals bred specifically

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1 Friday, September 12, 1986 T H E U B Y S S E Y

Strangwav calls college meeting By EVELYN JACOB

President Strangway told senate members Wednesday the university plans to organize a meeting with B.C. college heads to discuss enrolment limitations.

The president’s remarks were made in response to a controversial April 23 senate decision to restrict the number of college transfer students to UBC.

College heads were angered at the time of the announcement because they had not been consulted by the university prior t o the senate decision.

The president said the university will review enrolment issues with colleges and universities, and called

for closer dialogue between the educational institutes.

“We want to ensure that the colleges know the university’s position on enrolment limitations,” said Strangway.

John Waters, president of the In- stitute of College Educators, said he welcomes the university’s efforts to improve communication with the colleges, but said Strangway’s announcement is just the start towards dialogue that should have begun much earlier.

“UBC should realize that colleges, universities, and institutes in B.C. all belong to one system. We should all be working together to e n s u r e s t u d e n t s a c c e s s t o

Work-study raised The Ministry of Post Secondary

Education will provide $720,000 for the Work-Study Program this year at UBC which represents a 500 per- cent increase over last year’s budget

‘‘I suspect (the ministry) is becoming concerned with students with high debt loads,” said Byron Hender, UBC director of awards and financial aid.

“The government shares the university’s belief that work study, in addition to limiting student’s debt, provides an invaluable opportunity for students to obtain career related work.’,’

The university also contributes to the Work-Study fund but has not yet announced how much its por- tion of the budget will be.

Under the work study regulations, students are permitted to work up to a maximum of IO hours per week a t wages ranging between $6-8 per hour.

All service and academic depart-

of $110,oO0.

ments on campus can submit proposals for work study positions.

Eligible students must be enrolled in a minimum of nine units and must demonstrate financial need beyond the amount assessed o n their Canada student loan.

Students will be accepted into the program when they receive their loan assessments.

Students who meet the criteria’of work study may apply for the program by attending work-study drop-in sessions which will be held Tuesdays from 2:OO t o 3:30 p.m., and Fridays from 9:OO to 11:30 a.m. at the financial aid office.

“The drop in gives students an opportunity to present special cir- cumstances and gives out-of- province students an opportunity to participate on the same basis of B.C. residents,” said Hender.

Because of the increase in government funding, Hender expects work-study jobs will remain available well into the fall.

A minutefor peace Tuesday, September 16 has been

named International Day of Peace, and students and faculty alike are asked to take a minute of their time at 12 o’clock noon to observe silence in the name of peace.

This symbolic action will be observed by people across the world. It is a project of the United Nations called A Peal for Peace and requires no formal gathering. Students can stop for a moment wherever they are and think about peace.

AhIs Dresident Simon Seshadri

In 1981, the United Nations General Assembly declared the third Tuesday of September be officially observed as the Interna- tional Day of Peace. By 1985, public observances were held in London, Geneva, San Francisco, Dallas and Metro Toronto.

Following the moment of silence, there will be a moment of sound where church bells will peal a message of peace and hope. In other areas, the noise will come from car horns, train whistles and door bells.

education,” said Waters. “For colleges to succeed,

students must have some security of transferring to universities,” he added.

Last spring, UBC restricted enrolment to 1,500 for first year arts and 750 to students transferring to UBC from other post-secondary institutions.

Both UBC vice-president of academic Daniel Birch and Dean

Will of Arts said the restrictions imposed will not stop students entering the university because limits in almost all faculties were not reached.

But Birch said 200 high school graduates were not admitted to the faculty of arts this year.

Andrea Robertson, Langara student society president, said the senate’s decision to limit enrolment was a uni la teral act which

discriminates against college students.

“ I hope the university administration will re-evaluate their basis for enrolment limits. Our best students are being turned away from UBC,” said Robertson.

The registrar’s office reported total enrolment at UBC for the 1986-87 winter session is 22,318 students, almost unchanged from last year.

Ubyssey photographer takes picture of adorable little girl at registration. Cutline writer is overcome byemo- tion, cannot write usual acidic, satirically biting cutline, breaks down crying and goes out to devote t h e rest of his life to helping children through registration.

- Steve chan photo

“I hope this will increase awareness of the peace movement in general,” he said.

“The AMS is concerned about the nuclear arms buildup. I hope the campus will get behind this thing. It is something we can all come together on,” he added.

MONTREAL (CUP) - Univer- sities have come up with the perfect solution to their underfunding problems: charge students an extra fee, thinly disguised as a levy for ‘materials’.

Despite the 17-year-old freeze on tuition fees in Quebec, education

Cariboo to collect student KAMLOOPS, (CUP) - After

six months of indecision, the Cariboo College board decided Sept. 2 to back down on a threat to discontinue collecting student fees.

Student council business manager Garry Osborne hailed the decision as an indication of the power of the Canadian students.

“During seven years of being involved with post-secondary institutions, this is the best result I can think of involving students actually working together,” he said.

Since March, the seven member board, appointed by the provincial cabinet had threatened to stop collecting fees and make membership in the student association optional.

Osborne said the board was in- fluenced by 20 letters of support written by other student councils, including those from Carleton, McGill and Memorial universities, in a campaign coordinated by the Canadian Federation of Students.

“The letters made a difference to us and the board,” said Osborne. “We didn’t feel we were working in a vacuum.”

Osborne said the threat to discontinue fee collection was a kind of “student-union busting.”

The board first proposed not to collect fees after an internal report concluded student council services were “little used.” Morrison, a sociology instructor at the college,

minister Claude Ryan has given universities license to collect up to a maximum of $100 a year from each student. Five universities have all imposed similar incidental fees this year.

Luc Rheaume, Ryan’s press aide, denied the fees are paramount to a

council fees later said that “no reasonable person would lend any credence to the (report’s) results,” which surveyed only 33 of the college’s 3500 students.

Relations between the college administration and student council have been poor for some time, Osborne said, with faculty members telling classes t o vote for certain candidates in council elections.

This year, the board was upset with council’s decision to go to court over an $18,OOO accounting error and the lack of a financial breakdown on fees collected from full-time, part-time and vocational students.

direct increase in tuition fees. “Many people think that, but for

Mr. Ryan, there is a distinction between the two kinds of fees . - material and tuition,” he said.

Rheaume said Ryan has provided a “guarantee” that additional charges will not exceed $looper student per year.

Some Concordia students, inter- preting the additional charges as a breach of contract, are threatening to sue the university unless the fee i6 withdrawn. Most students who pre- registered at Concordia will be bill- ed in October.

“The university has set up the contract, it can not decide half way through to change the fees,” said student council co-president G . Scott White.

But Concordia official Lucie Beauchemin said she understands the fees are subject to change without prior notice. Students are being told the academic materials fee, which will raise $1.8 million for Concordia, will go towards the cost of photocopies, audio-visual equipment, computers and lab equip-

ment. Jean-Pierre Paquet, secretary-

general of ANEQ, the province’s largest student group, said only five universities are not charging the extra fee.

“Even if they d o increase loans and bursaries to compensate for the fee, it is only a false compromise and they will only serve to increase a student’s dependence,” Paquet said. “In this way, the government can put pressure on the students to narrow their choices.”

Luc Trepanier of the student council of the Universite de Mon- treal says students are paying a mandatory $40 fee, and have to pay for materials in their classes.

McGill council president Paul Pickersgill said it is unlikely the fee will be withdrawn. “We are going to watch the departments which charge students extra for course materials,” he said. “But we have been promised this will not happen.”

The provincial government has stipulated that the fee be derived from the universities’ “real cost”.

T H E U B Y S S E Y Friday, September 12, 1986

New trail shows off Stein Valley’s beauty VANCOUVER (CUP) - A hik- “When people hike up there and

ing trail nearing completion in see how beautiful the Stein is, B.C.’s Stein River Valley, will help they’ll work hard to save it,” said protect the area from loggers’ Paul George, a director of the chainsaws, say Vancouver en- Western Canada Wilderness Com- vironmentalists. mittee, sponsoring the trail’s con-

Ageless profs- protest OTTAWA (CUP) - Seven pro-

fessors and one librarian who took four Ontario universities to court this spring over their forced retirement are waiting for the decision of a provincial Supreme Court judge.

The eight - three from York University, two from the University of Toronto, two from Laurentian and one from Guelph -claim their removal from staff last summer violated Section I5 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of age.

Though final testimony and documentation was presented in May, a decision is not expected for months, says John Thompson of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, which is sponsoring the litigation. “We’re not too concerned about the amount of time this takes,” he said.

Thompson, a professor at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton and a member of CAUT’s academic freedom committee, said the legal action is the culmination of years of frustration with an unflexible retirement system. “There are a few people who want to work past 65, and who should be able to,” he said.

He said Ontario was chosen to be the province for the test cases because the Ontario Human Rights Code is “unfair,” and may be in violation of the Canadian charter. The Ontario code provides no pro-

tection from discrimination for people over 65.

“(The code) defines age as less than 65. Is the Code offensive to the federal charter? If so, it should be struck down,” he said.

Manitoba and Quebec have abolished mandatory retirement, while Saskatchewan and Alberta have recently moved toward aboli- tion, Thompson said.

The decision, which will set a legal precedent for cases in many provinces, is being treated very seriously by faculty associations: CAUT and the Ontario Confedera- tion of University Faculty Associa- tions are jointly bearing costs of the litigation.

“We anticipate that it may cost on the order of a couple of hundred thousand dollars,” Thompson said. “But we must judge the effects of the decision.”

M a n y a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a n d graduate students say the loss of mandatory retirement legislation would limit the number of new faculty positions. Many universities spend much of their budget on salaries, and some administrators claim more and more money is spent on faculty wages.

However, Thompson said CAUT research has found very few faculty want to work past age 65; rather, most would prefer t o retire early, but can’t because of pension regulations and criteria.

struction 1 0 0 kilometers north of Vancouver.

“We are going to have a trail which ranks with any of the other hiking trails in the province,” said co-d i rec tor and pro jec t co- ordinator Ken Lay.

Under the direction of the Lytton and Mt. Curry Indian bands, Lay supervised 25 volunteers, mostly high school students, in clearing 45 kilometres of the route formerly used by native trappers and traders.

Before the trail’s scheduled completion Sept. 23, the group wants to extend it into alpine areas, make a stream and river crossing and raise $3000 to cover costs.

Michael M’Gonigle, a Vancouver lawyer and political economist in

Simon Fraser University’s department of natural resource management, says B.C. residents are for- tunate to have the trail in southwestern B.C.’s last major unlogged watershed.

“A whole watershed is a unique thing,” he said. “It is a total ecosystem, a living organism - i t is like a mini-planet.”

M’Goninle also said B.C. Forest Product’s intention to log the Stein does not make economic sense, as an SFU study indicates the cost to the provincial government would be $15 million in today’s terms and more over the length of the project.

“The only way to come to grips with the real issue confronting the Stein is to look at the need to for

changing the structure of the forest industry in the province” he said, arguing for more profitable, specialized forest products and a greater diversification of the B.C. economy.

“The mass produced 2 by 4, marketed by multinational companies with no commitment to the long term welfare of the local economy, should be past history,” he said.

M’Gonigle said a study by Vic- toria’s Economic Planning Group shows preserving the Stein for tourism could create 40 permanent jobs and $800,O00 yearly revenue within ten years, as well as having spin-off effects for the industry in other parts of the province.

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Friday, September 12, 1986 T H E U B Y S S E Y

AMS hiring process criticized Bv SVETOZAR KONTIC the committee in the fall it just isn’t A M s executives hired the previous

Non-AMS executives should not be hired for Ah4S summer positions, the student society director of administration, said Thursday.

“When you consider how much time it takes to train a regular stu-

worth it,” said Martin Cocking. The AMS hiring committee hired

a non-executive member this year for the first time t o co-ordinate summer projects which include the food bank.

year was a major reason why the hiring committee decided to hire a non-executive.

“The hiring committee thought an outsider would force the others to work harder. That is not true,” he c = i A

dent who won’t be involved with Cocking said theinefficiencyofthe AMS e x t e r n a l a f f a i r s co- I.% o......

President calls committee on senior fellow question

By EVELYN JACOB President Stangway has struck a

committee to look into stricter guidelines for the hiring of senior fellows at UBC.

The committee was formed after the controversial appointment of Social Credit civil servant Norman Spector to the previously unheard of position of senior fellow, which was made without faculty consultation.

Spector has since secured the position of secretary to the cabinet on federal-provincial relations.

Strangway said it is important to have “properly understood criteria for nominations of senior fellows.

The committee chaired by vice president of academic Daniel Birch, will recommend to the presiden terms of “reference and style’ for screening prospective candidates. Strangway said, however, the of-

fer of a teaching position at the university has not been withdrawn and Spector may still accept the post in 1987.

Faculty association president Barrie Morrison welcomed the president’s attempt to impose more stringent hiring regulations and said a more open procedure faculty appointments is needed. “It is important we have some device to protect the univers i ty f rom

demands made by politicians to have their family and buddies appointed to faculty positions,” said Morrison.

H e said Strangway received severe criticism by faculty on the Spector appointment and now wants to ensure more consultation is made before senior fellows are appointed.

But Morrison said Strangway is still obliged to hire Spector if he decides to accept the position and said he would possibly be appointed as a honorary lecturer instead.

“It would be the president’s way of bringing back normal procedures to an extraordinary appointment,” he said.

U of T policewoman assaulted TORONTO (CUP) - The through the plate glass window of a

assault on a University of Toronto campus building on Aug. 2 when policewoman last month has ques- she refused to let a student and her tions about protection of campus husband enter a campus building. security staff. She suffered a dislocated shoulder

Officer Judith Niles was shoved and cuts requiring 25 stitches. Niles first refused entry to a U of

PANGO-PANG0 (UNS) - T student who did not have proper Hairy puce blorgs on this tiny island identification for admittance to the kingdom are expecting a tiny, scaly building. The student returned with baby coated in green seaweed in just her husband and was again refused seven short months. entry. The man refused to leave,

Sweat-in-a-jar Bonetick sat by and a scuffle ensued, in which the rocks counting white spots on near- man allegedly punched Niles twice, by crabs. “Bloo €3100’’ snorted the sending her through a half-inch- jar. “A scaly boy or a slimy boy.” thick glass window.

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Security personnel on most cam- puses are not armed. “We are in- -

ordinator Carol Pedlar who was not hired this summer, said it is reasonable to leave jobs open to members of the student body who have valid proposals of their own. “But I don’t think people should be hired to put other peoples ideas into practice because that is stealing,” she said.

Pedlar said she was elected to the position of external affairs co- ordinator on the basis of her pro- posal for a food bank at UBC and was angered because Sandra Jarvis was hired to oversee the project instead.

“Sandra has done a good job but there is no more reason to believe that a non-executive will do a better job than an executive,” she said.

Pedlar said she is having difficul- ty adjusting to her new position as external affairs coordinator this year.

“I’m still learning. If 1 have been able to be around all the time I would have done a lot more and learned by doing,” she said.

A M s president Simon Seshadri said there is only a short-term gain in hiring non-AMS executives.

“If you hire a non-executive, what happens if they leave? Hiring an AMS executive is a long term investment that benefits everyone,” he said.

Seshadri said that last summer’s problems were due to certain individuals not doing enough work and not the hiring system. “The key lies in monitoring the hiring pr?,cess which is a difficult thing to do, he added.

Sandra Jarvis, summer food bank co-ordinator said non- executives should be hired because they give a perspective other than that of the AMS.

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We're slowly climbing out of the medieval slime pit at UBC, but ever so slowly. Our university persists in some of the most antiquated, inefficient methods of registration and course evaluation in the country. A t other universities students mail and phone in pre-registrations to waiting computers, at UBC we take time off work and spend it in long, long, long, lines. Rumours hint that by next year however we too will join the 20th century with computerized registration.

UBC also boasts a unique fifteen point grading system as opposed to the more familiar decimal method. This has been traced back to the first registrar whose confusion arose from his fifteen toes. We at the Ubyssey cry "for shame, for shame".

Modern notions of access to education break down at UBC when confronted with limited enrolment courses. At ' other universities like McGill, no ceilings are placed on enrolment levels for undergraduate courses; teaching assistants are hired to handle the extra load. UBC's tuition fees almost double McGills, so the solution isn't in higher fees. It's in more provincial funding, starting with a responsible alloca- tion of federal transfer payments.

UBC motto is "Tuum est" - "It is yours", but recent registration rituals remind us it isn't.

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Letters Secret Agent

argument foolish It is fools like Hugh Richards

that jeopardire o u r freedom i n the democra t i c uo r ld . A l though Richards claims that he is a Liberal and a humanist, his letter t o the Ubyssey concerning the game Secret Agent clearly demolistrates that he has an acute lach of understanding concerning the meaning of either o f these \+urds. Before touching the paper with his misguided pen, he might have considered the ramifica- tions ot' his argument.

To begin, our friend Hugh could at least have collected correct fact5 to support his complaints. Two ex- amples of incorrect evidence come to mind. I t is ludicrous for Hugh to assume that the prize money for the game is $7,000 when the posters advertising the game set the figure at $ 5 , 0 0 0 . The entry fee is not an absurd $45, as Hugh claims, but instead $20. Since his letter starts with blatant errors such as this, Hugh's remaining points become ques- tionable.

I f Hugh cannot collect Gmple,

concrete eLidence, one wonder5 i t he is able to collect his thoughts and present then1 coherently. Nevcr- thelesr, i t one has the grace t o werlook Hugh's factual errors, one notices that he is al,o unable to make a simple phone call. Although (here is a name and number on e\ er) Sexet .Agent poster, Hugh cons ide r s t h i s " shadan! reference". %'ell Hugh, it's an easy matter t o make that call; i f you had, kou might have learned correct facts.

At the end of his amazing letter, Hugh cleverly contradicts himself twice. He claims that anyone who promotes the game is little better than an uneducated criminal. One must presume that good Hugh is unaware that his article promotes, to its reader's attention, the game Secret Agent.

Finally, in his closing sentence, Hugh condones censorship whilst praising freedom and democracy. One *onden i f Richards knows what freedom means.

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the past. In fact, he shot at Scott while Bruce was visiting.

On July 4, 1982 Mrs. Podgis let the boys into the house late at night when she felt it was safe and made up a bed on the sofa in the living room for them to share. . . Unnerv- ed by the constant tension and threat of violence, Scott felt they should be armed. Scott therefore loaded 2 rifles. (Bruce had never handled a gun before and didn’t know how to load one.) They slept head to toe on the sofa with the guns between them. In the morning they were planning to drive the family van to Nova Scotia to wait for the situation in New Jersey “to cool”. (Bruce didn’t have a return place ticket as Scott had told him when he invited him that he would be driving to New Brunswick to make arrangements for starting at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, and could put Bruce on the Saint John ferry.)

The morning of July 5, 1982 Scott got up and told his mother he

, was going to take a shower upstairs. He took his gun with him because his stepfather had shot at him the last time he’d been upstairs. Bruce was still dozing on the sofa when he heard several shots ring out upstairs. Panic stricken, he grabbed the gun beside him and ran for the back door. Mrs. Podgis, also hear- ing the shots, ran from the kitchen. Bruce and Mrs. Podgis collided in the narrow corridor from the kitchen and back door to the living room, running in opposite direc.- tions, and the gun discharged. Mrs. Podgis sustained an abdominal wound running obliquely downward from the right side to the left hip. Meanwhile, upstairs, Scott had shot his stepfather in the head.

Scott testified at the trial that he decided to go to Texas to discuss his next move with his sisters there. He enlisted Bruce’s aid to clean up the house and move the bodies into the

‘ van. Scott drove the van (Bruce had never driven and didn’t kno-w how) to Pennsylvania where the bodies were left in a park and on to Texas where they were arrested. Bruce Curtis refused to make a

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with statement without a lawyer. Two New Jersey investigators flew to Texas to question Franz. Scott Franz made a similar assertion and, according to Jan, Tyrwhitt in her Reader’s Digest article of November 1985, Franz was given the number of the local bar association which he called. His name was taken but they never called back or sent a lawyer. Four hours later Franz was convinced to waive his right to see a lawyer, and he made an official statement.

After explaining that he’d shot his stepfather in self-defense, Franz states (from Tyrwhitt’s article): “The next thing I heard was another shot. Then I heard my mother groaning or crying. I stayed upstairs for a couple of minutes and then I went downstairs and saw her laying between the dining room and the bar room in the doorway. Bruce was standing there, screaming something like ‘what are we going to do?’ At first I said I didn’t know, and then I said ‘We got to get rid of the bodies’.

When asked if he knew why Cur- tis had shot his mother, Franz stated “He said something about being afraid.”

The sworn statement was signed at 2:05 a.m., Monday July 12, one week after the shootings.

The boys were flown back to New Jersey and were arraigned. Bail was set at $250,ooi) each. Neither family could afford it.

Curtis and Franz have been in- carcerated since they were arrested near Dallas on July 10, 1982. .

They were indicted on August 24, 1982. Neither Franz nor Curtis would be attending his first-year university registration, just two weeks away. Franz was charged with the murder of Alfred Podgis and abetting the- murder of Rosemary Podgis. Curtis was charged with the murder of Rosemary Podgis and abetting the murder of Alfred Podgis. Both were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and theft of Alfred Podgis’ van. The two spent the next nine months in Monmouth County Jail, sleeping on mattresses in the hallway, awaiting trial.

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shot Podgis in self-defense. Curtis’ defense was that Rosemary was shot accidentally as a result of their collision in the hallway.

According to David. Hayes, a Toronto writer whose book on Bruce Curtis will be published by Penguin this October, Chaiet, the prosecutor was then, and is today still convinced that the two boys, togethr for one harrowing week before the shootings, consciously decided to kill Al and Rosemary Podgis.

Hayes draws attention to Chaiet’s view of the facts: “He sees two boys together for a week, bringing guns into the house, and two killings in seconds of each other.”

According to Franz’s original statement, Franz decided to bring guns into the house. He loaded the guns, gave one to Curtis, and before going upstairs the morning of the shooting, said to Curtis:

“If Al tries anything, like shooting at me, then I’m going to shoot back. If you have to go out of the house shooting, go ahead.”

Franzhadalsostatedithadbeenhis own idea to clean up the bodies, and to drive to Texas where he wanted to break the news of his mother’s death to his sisters.

Chaiet had virtually no case against Curtis. Curtis had never been in trouble before, he had never handled a firearm before and he had no motive to kill Mrs. Podgis. When interviewed by Jan Tyrwhitt in December of 1984, Curtis said: “Of course I cared that she should live. She was a very nice person and she was always very kind to me. I didn’t want to harm her.” The angle of entry of the bullet that killed Mrs. Podgis (from 15 cm to the right of her navel into her left hip) suggests the rifle had not been aimed.

Psychiatrist Harry H. Bhnt concluded, for the defense: “In my opi- nion he fired the rifle in a startled reaction and the path of the bullet as well as the fact that he was not used to firearms make me feel that the shooting was certainly uninten- tional. I think that Bruce was total- ly at sea, h d he reacted to his friend’s actions as a follower.”

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E U B Y S S E Y

WITNESS. TO HELL By ROSS McLAREN

South Africa and violence are so closely related that one rarely receives a shock when the latest black deaths are announced. Newspapers provide figures and ex- planations, but ghastly as these tales are they fail to jolt our numb- ed senses.

Witness Directed by Sharon Sopher and Winnie and Nelson Mandela Directed by Peter Davis at the Ridge Theatre Sept . 12-16

The films Witness to Apartheid and Winnie and Nelson Mandela, however, succeed where the newspapers fail. These hour long documentaries transport the audience into the hells that are the South African townships. Witness and Mandela expose the townships for what they are, battlefields in a civil war.

Witness to Apartheid, filmed by Sharon Sopher, an American, during the. 1985 state of emergency, documents the experiences of black and white South Africans.

Since whites have not yet been visibly affected by apartheid Sopher emphasizes the blacks’ story. She documents the routine torture of black political detainees.

On the streets the favourite police weapon is the whip. Sopher films police running amuk in black crowds, indiscriminately whipping and beating men and women.

Witness makes it clear that the South African government has no plans to share power with the blacks. The government has given

the security forces a carte blanche to quell black discontent. Hence the obscene abuse of humanity that Sopher documents.

The consequence of the government’s decision to violently sup- press discontent is that fewer blacks believe peaceful reform can SUC- ceed. Of the blacks Sopher interviewed, all believe violent means are necessary to destroy white rule. Even the self-styled leader of the black people,.Archbishop Desmund Tutu, cautiously embraces violence as a political weapon.

Unfortunately, Sopher does not interview those.blacks who will be responsible for organizing the wholesale murder of the whites. Tutu and Joseph Nkondo, of the United Democratic Front, are the only public figures interviewed. No leaders of the African National Congress speak.

Sopher also does not answer the question of why it is that most of the people who agitate for change are youths. She notices most of the victims are young but does not question what the older population is doing to initiate change.

Still, these failings are understan- dable given Witness’s format. Sopher wants an emotional response, not an intellectual one. Thus, much of the documentary is filled with pictures of broken bodies, heads beaten soft with lead pipes, bloody flesh wounds and the inevitable scars from police whips.

Sopher turns the audience into witnesses of South Africa’s violence’.

Mandela, in contrast to Witness, is analytical. Mandela’s director, Peter Davis (who worked as resear- cher on Witness), eniphasizes the

story rather than the pictures. Davis recounts the rise of the ANC and the lives of Winnie and Nelson Mandela. He begins with the 1956 treason trial of Nelson Mandela and others. .Then he documents the first ANC bombing attacks on government property and the subsequent 1962 trial of Nelson and seven other saboteurs.

Once Mandela is jailed, Davis cuts to Winnie Mandela and ex- plores her life. Alone before the camera she talks about her job as a social worker in Soweto, and about the poverty in t.he townships.

She tells what it is like being mar- ried to a “cause”. Then, she recounts and relives 20 years of men- ta l and physical torture. Sixteen months solitary confinement, one bombed house, a d forced exile in- to the Orange Free State are among the hardships she recalls.

Davis’ film is an excelle.nt over- v i ew o f t he an t i - apa r the id movements origins, and a good overview of Winnie Mandela’s life. Yet, Davis leaves important questions unanswered. For instance, what type of society does Winnie want in South Africa: communist, socialist or capitalist? Does she believe in sharing power with whites?

As well, Davis portrays Winnie as a black leader but he does not ex- amine who her supporters are. Like Witness, Mandela succeeds visually but suffers for its limited analysis.

However, the content in both films is enough to make them ex- c e l l e n t d o c u m e n t a r i e s . T h e premiere Sept. 12 is a benefit show for Oxfam. Winnie and Nelson Mandela director Peter Davis will be at the theatre Sept. 12-13.

Salvador - good and bloody By DUNCAN STEWART

“Salvador” is both a well made movie and a well intentioned movie.

Directed by Oliver Stone (Mid- night Express, Year of the Dragon), Salvador attempts to recreate the events of 1980 as seen through the eyes of a sleazeball American journalist, played by James Wood.

Let me warn you though, don’t head into the theatre expecting another movie along the lines of “Under Fire”. “Salvador” is no paean to the wonderfulness of the

American journalist, and it is a much more violent movie. Bloody death is everywhere.

The film conveys a sense of life in El Salvador, frequently punctuated by sudden and unpredictable acts of violence. It is difficult to know how accurate this impression is.

This movie is not an unbiased portrayal of Central America. It is making a definite .political state-‘ ment, condemning the Salvadoran right and especially the United State’s support of a repressive

regime. The performance of James

._Wood is bang on. He behaves con- sistently, if not always admirably, and emerges as the voice of cons- cience amidst the confusion. He goes head to head with the US Departments of State and Defense, and tells them that their support of the Salvadoran regime is Un- American and Un-constitutional. Heavy stuff!

The point of view of the movie is See page 15: SALVADOR

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Balla: the art of war efficiency of modern machinery as a new aesthetic ideal.

This new aesthetic was held by the Futurists to be most perfectly expressed in the act of war, with which made the fullest use of technology. The literature prepared for the Vancouver Art Gallery ex- hibit merely hints at this connec- tion. Instead, Balla’s superbly crafted works are left to speak for themselves, something the early Futurists with their mass publicity and multi-media “happenings” would never have allowed. Lndeed, Futurist events throughout Italy

Balla’s strokes frclsh in ,graceful curves from

source points, like swirling wind or the

blurred path of a burnished lathe.

before the First World War often resulted in audience riots and resul- tant arrests, adding to the movement’s general notoriety.

The exhaustive retrospective Futurism0 e Futurismi, which open- ed in Venice last May, signals a recent willingness in the art world to consider Futurism’s Significance in modern art in spite of its controversial past. Although clearly a minor counterpoint to the Venice show; the works at. the V.A.G. are an excellent representation of Balla’s ac-

- the tricolori - in solid intersec- ting forms resembling plough-tips and apostrophes. In Deceptions of May 9th; Deceptions of War the tricolori is threatened by Ominous black and dark brown shapes; the white is greyed. In Forms-Volume of the Cry “Viva L’Italia”, Balla uses blue as the symbol for optimism. It surges below the tricolori and forms a canopy above.

The same blue is featured in rounded solids beside spiky black knife edges in the 1923 oil Pessismism and Optimism. Balla’s symbolic use of colour-is most ob- vious in Mutilated Trees (1918), where curved black edges slice through a deep “forest” of green:

Balla’s earlier studies are less concerned with such didactic portrayals of struggle. Freed from the heavy- handed colour symbolism of later works, the pre-war oils and temperas are fresh and elegant.

Works such as Line of Speed (191 3) successfully confront the problem of how to represent speed I

and motion over time and in space within the confines of the fixed plane of the canvas. Balla’s strokes flash in graceful curves from source points, like swirling wind or the blurred path of a burnished lathe. But Balla layers his work like multi- exposure photographs, and the i n - fluence of early photo-motion studies by Muybridge and Marey is particularly evident.

These are splendid works, yet the traditional gallery presentation removes them from their political context. The V.G.A. could well have interspersed ph.otos of the Futurists. Dosters of the events.

Playwright and director Jack Sheriff has written a unique type of drama. Bordentown resembles Greek tragedy with a spoken chorus, and classic courtroom re- countings of the black and white era. The bare set, comprised of eight chairs and an unnecessary video screen, jaw an intense show told through mime and straight nar- ration.

Sheriff’s Bordentown is an exercise in charity, but still an exercise

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bothersome. Why was the in- vestigative reporter played by the youngest looking cast member? Why was the judge in the end played by the microphoned, off stage Sheriff and not the school boy chorus that had until then played all the minor characters including a judge? The greatest weakness, however, is the singularity of pace. The dialogue ranges from passionate melodrama to hyperactive melodrama. Like .small doses but

By TONY ROBERTS The stage is flanked on either side the time conscious Westerner, the closely resembles a human being in On. Tuesday night the usually by musicians playing traditional imagery is fast paced and exciting, nature: he is neither malicious nor

placid Asian Centre auditorium woodwinds and strings. These allowing the audience to grasp each fearful and is ridiculed by everyone. erupted with Eastern spiritual classical forms are complemented movement spontaneously. In despair, Oni travels to the moun- energy. by ambient washes of synthesizers Onstage, the play unfolds as a tains seeking solace among the

and drums creating a vibrant series of small, but crucial scenes trees. musical backdrop for the Perfor- linked together by a common In the forest Oni encounters thc mance. theme. Bekkanko-Oni is the name sorceress Yamagaka, the legendary - ~ ~~ ~ ” ~ ~~~~ While Noh and Kabuki are slow of the Dlav’s Drotaaonist. a naive. mistress of the mountain, who i c

Bekkano-Oni Tamagawa University Dance and m a m a w o u p 8:30, Sept. 12 and 13 Xerox International Theatre

The Tamagawa University Dance and .Drama Group of Tokyo per- form a unique blend of Japanese classical and modernist theatre in their production of Bekkanko-Oni. The show is a sensual explosion of music, movement and color - an emotionally stunning spectacle.

Borrowing techniques from the traditional theatrical dremas of Noh and Kabuki, the Tamagawa troupe pave synthesized ‘ the Japanese folkloric play with Western new-wave theatre flash.

Although entirely in Japanese, the story is made coherent to the average “gaijin” through helpful English narrative.-inserts .that up- date twists in the plot.

developing and often wearing for simple-minded ogre. Oni more disappointed with Oni’s un-ogrelike “ . I

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behavior. She orders him to clean the graveyard as punishment. Unperturbed, Oni laughs and tells her that for him, the bones are little more than candy.

In the village below lives a blind girl named Yuki. Yuki’s father, Oto, is a hunter who enjoys killing animals, especially birds. The negative energy Oto’s senseless slaughter has created is reversed by nature and transferred to the next generation of Oto’s family. Hence Yu’ki is blind. This concept is consistent with the Buddhist belief of universal reciprocity. Evil deeds create an imbalance in nature. Balance is restored when the deed rebounds to plague the evildoer. In base Western terminology, “you gets what you pays for”. Unfor- tunately, it is the innocent Yuki, not Oto, who is punished by nature.

One day Yuki and Oto visit mother’s grave. Oto, drunk on sake, leaves Yuki at the graveyard. and goes hunting, eager to kill more animals. Bekkanko-Oni, asleep in the graveyard, is awakened by Yuki’s lamentations of her miserable t f e in the village. Feeling sorry for her, the ogre carries her

emotionally rivetting is the in- credibility of the crime and all its characters, and the massiveness of injustice that sees Curtis only one fifth through his sentence after four years in Bordentown prison.

And what a mad story it is. In 1982, Bruce Curtis was a quiet, intelligent, eighteen-year-old Nova Scotian loner. Today he sits in a New Jersey prison.

When Curtis’ friend Scott Franz invites him down to his parent’s

Curtis believes him. This, however, is just the first nibble on the smorgasbord of lies Franz offers and Curtis accepts.

After eight days of lunacy - Franz’s stepfather was a violent gun toter, the entire story speaking volumes for gun control with rifles in trucks, under beds and under pillows - Franz kills his stepfather, and Curtis fleeing the house accidentally kills Franz’s mother.

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off into the mountains. Upon returning from hunting Oto finds Yuki missing and sets out to search for her.

As you might have guessed, Yuki eventually falls in love with the ogre and three months later, they marry. Oni describes to Yuki the beautiful mountain scenery and her desire to gain sight increases. Oni consults Yamagaka on how to cure Yuki’s blindness. Convinced of the ogre’s devotion to Yuki, Yamagaka discloses the presence of a special herb that can cure Yuki’s handicap. The ogre sets out at once on his mis- sion .

Meanwhile, Oto, believing that Oni has devoured Yuki, grabs his rifle and vows to take revenge on the ogre. The birds in the trees augur something tragic lies ahead.

The play’s climax is both ironic and tragic. Oni, fatally wounded by Oto’s bullet, delivers the herb to Yuki and she gains her sight. Her first glimpse of the living world is one of her dying husband. Grief stricken, she is aghast to find that it was her father who shot her husband.

. . Yuki is so disturbed, that in a fit

of anger she is transformed into a, terrible being full of hatred and revenge: an ogress. In a spectacular flash of light and flowing sinews the ogress takes revenge on her husband’s murderer. The play ends and the audience swallows hard.

ekkanko-Oni is captivating. The costumes, brightly coloured and sharply patterned, explode with primal energy. Like the vibrant Kabuki, one feels immersed in an e v e r - c h a n g i n g , s h i f t i n g kaleidoscope of color and movement. Unlike Kabuki, however, the supporting cast in the background is constantly brought to the fore- ground to dance and interact with the principal actors. The effect is powerful. The complexity of each movement by an individual is only surpassed by the unifying flow of the whole cast.

It is the Tamagawa troupe’s abili- ty to isolate each moment as an in- dependent quality, apart from any sense of past and future, that gives the production an inexpressible something that is uniquely it’s own.

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The prosecution entered no that Podgis had been shot in his psychiatric assessments of Bruce sleep, Chaiet had Fillinger, the Curtis at his trial, nor did it address pathologist who performed the the e n t j point or angle of the autopsy, prepared to testify that bullet. All they had on Bruce Curtis Podgis was killed by a contact was his activities after the fact, and wound. the fact that Franz stated he had not Hayes believes Chaiet knew he cocked Curtis’ rifle when he loaded had Franz for murder, but Chaiet it. The police investigators did not also knew if he tried Franz, he pursue the questioning of Bruce would have no case against Curtis. Curtis in Dallas, only Scott Franz. The only way to build a case against

The case against Scott Franz was Curtis was to have Franz testify much stronger. It was Franz’s con- against him. Franz was to be tried tention that he went upstairs to before Curtis. If Franz was acquit- have a shower and took the gun ted, Curtis would never even go to because Podgis had taken a shot at trial. If Franz was convicted, it was him the night before. He went unlikely he could be convinced to upstairs to the bathroom. He left testify against Curtis. Chaiet’s only his gun in the bathroom and walked route to getting two convictions was down the hall. The door to Podgis’ t o plea-bargain Scott, before his room was open. Rosemary had , trial, into turning state’s evidence.

.risen earlier and was downstairs ’ On March 1, two weeks before cooking the boys’ breakfast. Franz the trial date, Chaiet met with Scott looked into the room. When Podgis and his attorney, Thomas Smith. saw him, Podgis reached for the ri- Chaiet discussed the forensic fle beside the bed. evidence, Fillinger’s position on the

Upon seeing this, Franz stated he contact wound and the ‘fact that returned to the bathroom, got his Franz had returned to Podgis’ room rifle (a .30 calibre Winchester) and with a gun instead of fleeing in the walked into Podgis’ room. There he face of Podgis’ threat. says he asked Podgis why he shot at After the meeting, Smith advised him the day before. Podgis replied Franz to consider a plea bargain. it was because Franz had been steal- Smith enlisted Chaiet’s aid in trying ing his mother’s jewelry, then fired to convince Franz. Chaiet offered his rifle at Franz. Franz ducked Franz a lesser sentence if he pleaded behind a bureau within the room guilty to murder. Franz agreed after and cocked his rifle. Podgis shot at a series of initial refusals. the hidden boy two more times, and Suddenly the prosecution had a it was then the dog ran from the witness, Franz’s guilty plea was room, causing Podgis to turn to entered, and Curtis’ lawyer, look at the door. . Michael Schottland, had a much

At this point Franz ran for the different case on his hands. He had door, pointed the gun, closed his two weeks to prepare, during which kyes and pulled the trigger, glimps- time he received daily discovery i n g blood spattered on the wall as reports of how Franz had now .he passed out of the room. altered his story.

The bullet entered the back of Schottland had had an easy case Podgis’s head, behind an ear, and to this point. And this new witness, was recovered from the lower of a known liar who had changed his two pillows Podgis has been sleep- story at the eleventh hour, right ing on. after a plea bargain and before his

David Hayes explains that foren- sentencing, had little credibility. sic investigators found blood and Schottland would .have to deal

‘ brains in the pillows which had been basically only with who had cocked beneath Podgis’ head and the spray that rifle that killed Rosemary pattern of the blood on the wall in- Podgis, or if it had malfunctioned. dicated the gun had been fired from There was also the fact of a ten- above. Says Hayes: “In order to page journal Curtis had written a blow this guy’s brains down week before going to New Jersey through two pillows, you can’t, which had been found at the Podgis shoot level from across the room” house by investigators. It contained

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story, accuses Curtis the depressing, Kafka-esque musing of the tragically confused mind of an eighteen-year-old, just after the suicide of his close friend. An ex- ample: ‘‘I am mad, insane, as I have always waned to be. I want power. I do not want to.die.”

In addition, the final passage of the dairy was a description of homosexual intercourse. Schottland knew the prosecution would use the dairy in cross-examination, and he was I concerned that his quiet, unassuming client, weak and still in shock from his ordeal might go silent and be unable to address the prosecutor’s accusations. Schot- tland decided not to call Bruce as a witness.

The trial began March 14, 1983. Two charges were dropped, so Bruce was charged only with the murder of Rosemary Podgis and the theft of the van. The prosecution contended Curtis was the evil mastermind behind both killings, and that Scott Franz had fallen under his influence.

The prosecution first showed the jury gory videotapes of the after- math of Podgis’ death in the ups ta i r s bedroom, and s t i l l p h o t o g r a p h s o f P o d g i s ’ reconstructed head at the morgue.

Schottland objected that this evidence was irrelevent to his client’s charge of the murder of Rosemary Podgis, and was pre- judicial. Judge Arnone overruled the objection.

Franz took the stand and explained how Curtis’ had initiated their bringing the guns into the house, and the disposal of the bodies. Although he had already pleaded guilty to the murder of AI Podgis, he would not admit on the stand that he had killed Podgis on purpose, During cross-examination, Schottland asked him:

“Did you plead guilty to murder because your lawyer told you to or because you were guilty?”

Franz: “NO” Schottland: “Neither of those

reasons?” Franz (motioning to Chaiet):

“He advised me to.” The prosecution’s ballistics ex-

pert, holding the. rifle with which Curtis shot Rosemary Podgis, explained how the lever action rifle re-

quires that the lever below the barrel be pushed up and purposely held up against the barrel of the rifle, or it will not fire. In his demonstra- tion, he let the lever hang loose and, to display the safety feature, pulled the trigger. The gun fired. The prosecution had confirmed Curtis’ .explanation of the gun’s firing accidentally.

The defense called in expert witness Dominic DiMaio, the former chief medical examiner for New York City. He indicated that there was no way for Fillinger to determine whether or not Al Podgis was killed by a contact wound: “There is no bum, there is no powder deposit, there is nothing.”

Judge Arnone charged the jury, telling them their choices were murder, aggravated manslaughter, reckless manslaughter, and aquittal. He did not indicate that, in law, they could find Bruce negligent and still aquit him. Also, he offered a very confusing explanation of the differences between aggravated m a n s l a u g h t e r , a n d r e c k l e s s manslaughter, reckless being the lesser crime.

When the jury left, Schottland objected. The charge to the jury was incorrect. The defense had based its case on a negligent but not guilty scenario. Schottland .was overruled.

Twice the ju ry reques ted clarification of their choices; never did Judge Arnone indicate that an aquittal could include negligence and poor judgement.

Bruce Curtis was found guilty of aggravated manslaughter and given the maximum sentence for that crime.

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CHILEANS call for

Sanctions Now 1 1 1 1 1 1 . By John Gushue

and Melinda Wittstock Canadian University Press

OTTAWA (CUP) - While South African Blacks call for economic sanctions designed to top- ple the apartheid regime of Pieter Botha, Chileans anxious to oust dictator Augusto Pinochet , are now beginning to take up the call for divestment as the 13th year of Pinochet’s bloody rule approaches.

cluding the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank - the foreign governments to halt all loans and aid to the troubled regime, says Paul Mably of Oxfam Canada’s Ottawa Chile solidarity group. “Right now, the Inter- American Development Bank and the World Bank are both considering loans to the regime, so a campaign has been launched to lobby both Canada and the U.S. to stop the loans,” he said.

Mably says Oxfam, which recently organized two “union tours” to Chile to “link Canadian unions with their Chilean counterparts,” interviewed Chileans from all walks of life and asked them if they wanted economic sanctions.

“We asked slum dwellers, campensino farmers , unions, women and students, and just about all of them said sanctions were necessary to oust Pinochet,” Mably said.

Chileans also want North Americans and Western Europeans t o b o y c o t t C h i l e a n f r u i t s , vegetables, wines, and manufac- tured products. Canadian solidarity groups are beginning to take up their call.

Rick Jackson, an employee of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) who lived in Chile for two years and visited Chile for a week in May, says the CLC has had a continuous

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Canadian University Press OTTAWA (CUP) - It might be

‘goodbye Santiago, hello San Diego’ for Chi lean d ic ta tor August0 Pinochet, i f the United States government gets its way.

As opposition to Pinochet’s brutal regime mounts within the country, the Reagan administration is preparing to extend the same arms that welcomed former Phillipines tyrant Ferdinand Mar- cos last winter.

Three weeks ago, anti-Pinochet guerrillas seized a top-secret letter written to the Vice Commanders of the Chilean armed forces by John Calvin, Chief Commander of the U.S. army’s Southern Command in Panama, and released it Sept. 3, according to a telex from the Havana- based Prensa Latina to Oxfam Canada’s office in Ottawa.

In the letter, Galvin is quoted as saying “Pinochet is finished from a strategic point of view . . . the U.S. will welcome Pinochet as a guest . . within the next two months.”

“it’s quite amazing,” says Paul Mably of Oxfam’s Chilean support group in Ottawa. “There’s no doubt that the overthrow of Marcos in the Phillipines and Duvalier in Haiti have been instrumental in uniting and strengthening the opposition to Pinochet .”

Mably says the strength of the opposition is probably the reason the U.S. governments’ increasing reticence to support Pinochet.

“For the first time all sorts of groups - students, teachers, doc- tors, lawyers, old people, urban slum dwellers - are fighting Pinochet,” says Rick Jackson, an employee of the Canadian Labour Congress who recently came back from a week-long visit to Chile.

“There is a time bomb ticking away down there,” he said.

Sept. 3 and 4 saw a national work stoppage in Chile. “No kids are going to school, none of the stores are

open and the truckers aren’t t ransport ing anything,” says Mably. The strike, organized by a coalition of I8 trade unions, student groups and professional associations called the National Civic Assembly, is aimed at “closing Chile down.”

On July 2 and 3, the first national strike of this kind was called. Mably said it was a “tremendous success” and noted that the opposition to Pinochet’s dictatorship was unified for the first time since the U.S.-sponsored coup d’etat on Sept. 11, 1973 that overthrew the democratically elected socialist

government of Salvador Allende and put Pinochet in the National Palace in Santiago.

During the 48-hour work stoppage, at least eight people were killed by the military and 1,OOO were arrested.

Mably says just about everyone in Chile is now opposed to Pinochet. “There is a high level of discontent in Chile among all sectors of the population. And, it’s not surprising considering that one- t h i rd of the popu la t ion is unemployed, illiteracy is returning, health care is absolutely inaccessible to the majority of the population,

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Even the “moneyed classes are now opposed to the regime,” says Mably. “The economy is so unstable now, that those with money won’t invest. Not only that, but many of the banks and companies are going belly-up.’’

Jackson says the dictatorship is “losing every day.” Pinochet is responding to demands for a democratic government “with an iron fist.”

Despite the opposition, Mably

thinks Pinochet will “probably pull a Somoza” if the U.S. doesn’t in- tervene.

“He’ll hang on as long as possible and probably take revenge on the population before moving to Paraguay,” just as Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza did in 1979 as the Sandinistas were on the verge of overthrowing him.

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By MICHAEL GROBERMAN Underground meets practically-

mainstream at the Vancouver Fr- inge Festival which begins today in Mt. Pleasant (that’s in Vancouver).

The Arts Club is there, but so is Persephone and Hades, an audience interactive experience which could last anywhere from two minutes to four hours, depending on the audience. It would seem that a slow

audlence might be encouraged to participate, rather than spending five dollars to see a show end in just minutes.

Fringe Artistic Director Joanna Maratta has spent most of her artistic career acting, directing, and t each ing i n Vancouver ’ s underground, alternate theatre.

“Mainstream theatre has to plan ahead. They have audiences to cater to and must plan shows to ensure box office success.”

N o t so a l t e r n a t e t h e a t r e : “Typically what happens in alternate is groups and individuals create ad hoc companys to try new projects.”

Maratta speaks of a side of Van- couver theatre rarely glimpsed by people not in the artistic community. “There has always been a lot of alternate, challenging theatre,” says Maratta, “the problem has been that they’re in places where they need more exposure. Au- diences need to know this theatre is there. It may not be on Granville. Island, but in the oddest places. That’s what The Fringe is all about.”

And that’s what this festival is all about - bringing a wider Van- couver audience to the oddest places, figuratively and physically speaking. This, the cutting edge of theatre arts, is being offered to an audience steeped in - or starved by - Neil Simon and the Broadway musical.

For a minute this past summer it looked as if the show would not go on. Both the Federal and Provincial governments denied their promised funding in June. But Festival sup- pliers and venues encouraged Maratta to go ahead anyway. They

details on all of the shows at all of the ten venues around Broadway and Main.

Opening ceremonies are tomor- row, September 13, at ten o’clock in Guelph Park at 8th and Scotia.

a fundraising effort, and a petition asking that the funding be restored. The petition worked. “ I t told us something about arts,” says Marat-

ta, “Artists need to speak for themselves.”

This year’s Fringe boasts over 400 performances by 100 different groups and individuals. And what kind of criteria determine who per- forms and who does not? “April 30”, says Maratta. “Applications go out in January and the deadline is April. By April 30 all one hundred spaces were filled, and we had a waiting list of thirty.”

This year’s Fringe includes the new Fringe Club, downstairs at Vancouver Tonite at 315 E. Broad- way. This hangout for actors people who like to look at actors, and actors who like to look at people, will be open every day of the Fringe from 2 p.m. until 2 a.m.

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Shukupure‘a King C u r : Sept. 14, 18, 19, 12 Se pent‘s Tooth. a n adaptat ion of

noon, Heritage Hall. V o l c r of Vancouver - Cat and Mouaa Tales:

Celebration of Vancouver‘s Centenary. Sept. 15, 11 p.m.; Sept. 16, 9 p.m.; Sept. 20 , 21. 2:30 p.m. Brushanski Studio (164 E. 11th).

Sept. 1820, Firehall Theatre E. Cordova. Opening Doors, Vancouver’s East E n d 8 p.m..

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gave her mother 40 wacks, when she saw what she Blood Relation.: Liuie Borden took an axe and

had done, she gave her father41 Sept. 17-27. 8 p.m. Freddie Wood Theatre, UBC.

TV study in embarassmentofogy, transferred to the Fawlty Towers: Three episodes of John Cleese’s

stage. E p.m.. Sept 18-20 Vancouver East Cultural Centre.

lected by Renato Berilli. Sept. 15 10 Oct. 3, Simon lSuB Auditorium ‘4 Fraaer Gallery ISimon Fraser University). Hannah and Her Sister., 7 and 930 p.m., Sept.

agmativeplayinyourchild. Sept. 16.7 p.m. Sept. 16, The Ridge ‘lEth and Arbutus* “mi’ Surrey Arc Gallery 1961: Sept. 18: Mandala and Witness t o Apartheid. 7:30

Icona in poatmoderniam: ten Italian artists’coi-

Imagination and play: H~~ to encourage im. 18-21: Jewel of the Nile 7 and P.m. tial Bauhaus painter, Sculptor, graphic artist, Photopmpha of bulo Moholy-Nagy: influen-

28, PrNentatIon Houae 1333 Chesterfield Ave.. N. typographer, filmmaker and photographer until Oct.

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partraits by Vancouver amst, until Oct. 2 6 , Presen- Chick Rice, the inviaible portrait: Anticiinical

tation Houae. The Romantic landscape Now: works by nlne

young art#sts, until Sept. 28. Surrey Art Gallery 113750 88th Ave., Surrey) 596-1515/7461 Inexpenswe ways to make play malenals. 7 p.m. Sur-

Play M s t e r l k t o make a t home IIavel 11: Learn

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palntlngs, prlnts, documents, and model shtps IO open the Vancouver Maritime Museum. Sept 17 Salvador’s sirnplicities I 11905 Ogden) 7364431

Colour In lewellry Sept 18 10 Oct. 19, Cartwright The Medium is Metal the Theme is Colour:

6041687-8266. Gallery 1141 1 Cartwrlghr, Granvtlle Island1

Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery.

Tango Argentine: Broadway hit. 8 p m. untd

The Judith Marcuse Repertory Dance Com- Anna Kllorlkams: brlyhlly abSrraC1 0115 unlll OCt 12. Sepr 14, Queen Elizabeth Theatre,

9 ‘ 8 **, From page 8 a little simplistic. With the excep- tion of the American Ambassador, all governmental Americans are .close-minded and hawkish in the ex- treme. They are caricatures and ex- ist solely as symbols of all thal the director !eels is wrong with Ronald Keagan’s America.

And’the portrayal of all the right- wing Salvadorans is unsympathetic, to say the least. I mean, any group that is formed into “Death Squads”, kills archbishops, rapes and murders nuns, and executes people who don’t have their birth certificate on them, is very probably not the best to run the country and receive U S aid. OK, they are evil, wicked, mean,and nasty. But surely. they cannot be as rotten as they we portrayed in this film.

This movie frequently tends towards the melodramatic, and. : even :more frequently towards the dida$tic. On man occasions the, characters on scre are not talking with each other, but are instead l e c - turing.the audience.

Salvador is, altogether, a well- made, and certainly well-meaning, portrayal of an important part of the world. On occasion it seems like a K-Tel “Greatest Atrocities of the’80s”, but according to Amnesty International, that’s probably a pretty accurate picture.

to convince anyone who agrees with Ronald Reagan that they are wrong

This movie probably isn’t gqing..,.

I Curtis play, with death

From page 8 Here Cur1ih i i shocked, not i n t o

sense but into following FranL’s every bizarre command. The two boys clean up the mess, dump the bodies in a Pennsylvania dump and t h e n , a c c o r d i n g t o C u r t i s ’ testimony, drive to Texas to per- sonally explain what happened to Franz’s sister. Five days after the shootings they are arrested in Texas.

After it is proven in court that the gun that killed Franz’s mother most likely we.nt off accidentally Franz changes his story, admits to murder thus turning state’s evidence, and receives a lesser sentence. After Franz changes his story and a myriad of legal injustices are ig- nored by the courtXurtis, who had no criminal record, is found guilty of aggravated manslaughter and given the maximum sentence of twenty years.

Since then Curtis has had a failed appeal and, incredibly, little ap- preciation of how cruel Franz and the New Jersey judicial system has been to him.

The relationship between Curtis and Franz is perhaps the most baffl-

..ing aspect to Bordentown. €C is never explained what their relation-

ship uas based on, though we do learn Curtis was an3 is loyal to Scott Franz to the point of stupidi- t y .

Bruce Curtis is’portrayed as a loyal, naive, stupid, intelligent, crazy neat freak, with the vocabulary of William F. Buckley. This is not’ to ‘say the acting is unbelievable, merely the cir- cumstances. Robert Groberman gives a consistent, likeable portrayal of Bruce Curtis, although his role calls only for horrified confusion‘ and confused horror. Gaalen Engen as Scott Franz plays cruelty, fear, and a slimy two-facedness. If. he continues with the show he could grow to be a character one loves to hate.

After the show Jennifer Wade; a friend of the real Bruce Curtis’s parents, fielded questions from the audience and updated Bruce Curtis’ situation. The Curtis family i s ask-, ing the governor of New Jersey to consider a plea of clemency. Wade shed some light on Bruce Curtis. Yet only Curtis himself knows why the eighteen year old laner.from the Annapolis Valley was not loner enough to resist Scott Franz’s in- vitation.

Blues jam From page 8

sound of their classidslekze of the Stone’s Miss You. One listener quipped “He’s too stoned”, whereupon Buddy Guy replied .‘‘I’M g o m a get wired as a mother”. Witid oq,-not., this man is a hot blues guitarist.

Junior Wells, “the world’s best dressed harmonica player”, slid on a blazing set of. wailing, squealing, howling and purring that set the hatdCore blueo’fans aflame

The band’ played two solid sets, closing down the place just shortly before two a.m. Highlights of the evening included. tin intense jam simply titled Shit, and one of Junior’s better known hits Messin’ with the Kid.

There are sorhe great blues acts appearing in Vancouver. Too bad the following here is so poor. .* Cheers t o the promoters who persist in trying to cultivate a blues scene here. Keep it coming!

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ClTR plans bold

By CORINNE BJORGE Months of uncertainty about

UBC’s student radio station CITR ended Wednesday following the student council’s decision to approve the station’s 1986-87 operating budget.

The decision means the station will be able to hire a full-time coordinator to train volunteers and improve programming. The coordinator will be announced Monday.

“The number of volunteers has doubled in the past year and we don’t have the people power to train them all,” said CIPR chair Rick Anderson.

Anderson said the money usually used to fund summer jobs has been realocated for the coordinator. “We felt we would get better use out of the money this way,” said station president Linda Scholten.

During preliminary budget discussions this summer, Anderson said the AMS appeared to approve of the transfer of funds to hire a coodinator, but regretted the idea when a short list for the position was completed.

“The AMS initially said they thought hiring a program coordinator was a good idea and we

were led to believe there would be no problem securing the position,” he said.

AMS finance director Jamie Col- lins said the committee wanted to review the position within the entire budget.

“The budget committee said no to the position but they were actually looking for a compromise”, he said.

He said the position of coordinator would cost more than could be saved by the termination of summer jobs. Scholten, streamlining this year’s budget, CITR felt they could hire a programme coordinator without asking for any increases over last year‘s budget. CITR has agreed to follow a series of requests agreed upon at Wednes- day’s council meeting including:

;HI increase in membership fees from $15 to $20; a contract tor two nights a week in the Pit; hiring tor the budget period of seken months instead of eight; and an agreement that the position is dependant on ClTR not going more than five per ,cent over budget before December.

Axed campus shows %red priorities

VANCOUVER (CUP) - A decision to close the Maple Ridge campus of the British Columbia In- stitute of Technology reflects the low priority the Social Credit government puts on post-secondary education, says a Canadian Federa- tion of Students representative.

Stephen Scott, executive officer of CFS-Pacific, says the decision is “ultimately the irresponsibility of the government, because they haven’t given enough funds to BCIT.”

“The only decision left with BCIT was what to cut,” he said.

According to administration statistics, the institute faces a $2 million deficit, even after cutting $1.8 million with the closure of the Maple Ridge campus Oct . 3 1.

Scott said the government’s decision to close the facility, currently serving 225 students 45 kilometres east of the main Burnaby campus, is part of a continuing trend to cen- tralize post-secondary education in the province.

Fired president secondary education is less accessi- “The closure will mean that post- . ble for students in the Fraser

rehired as prof will now have to pay more for Valley,” he said, adding students

BRANDON (CUP) - Brandon University staff and students are outraged hy a decision of the university’s board of governors to hire as a professor the man i t fired three years ago as president.

Harold Perkins dropped a suit against the university July 3 when the board agreed to a settlement package worth about $250,000. Perkins was also offered a position in the faculty of education.

Perkins, on sabbatical this year, will also reportedly be receiving all of a professor’s salary while other colleagues on sabbatical receive only 80 per cent of their salaries, in ac- cordance with a collective agreement with the university.

Brandon University senator Alfred Rogosin said he was “shocked and appalled” when he heard Perkins - who once threatened to sue Rogosin following a motion of non-confidence Rogosin seconded - had been hired as a professor as part of the settlement.

“ I find it incredible that after the board had fired him they would hire him back,” said Rogosin. “There is so much in the official documents of this university to make a case for having him turfed out.”

Complaints about Perkins have circulated since he was appointed president i n 1977. He was accused of centralizing poner and harassing the faculty union. In 1980, Perkins became the first Canadian university president to be censured after the university senatc found he had u n i l a t e r a l l y a d m i t t e d a n academical!y unqualified student.

tran5portation or move closer to the Burnaby campus.

“I t ’s just too far to commute.” he said.

He said the trend towards cen- traliLation also motivated the 1984 closure of the David Thompson University Centre in Nelson, the only degree granting institution in the province’s interior.

BCIT official Terry Garner said the closure probably would not have happened five years ago. “There are hard times all over the education system,” he said.

Garner said no programs will be dropped, although some will be relocated outside of BCIT and students can expect delays as in- structional equipment is installed. He doesn’t think the 45-kilometre distance poses a real problem.

“ I think there already students that commute to BCIT from a further distance than that,” said Garner.

The closure isn’t a major concern for Grant Sidnick, president of the BCIT student council, either. He said students were notified of the possibility of closure in May, and his office hasn’t heard any complaints since.

“We’re not actually backing the institution in this move, but we are not going against them too hard,” said Sidnick.

“ I don’t think we should.be jum- ping up and down on the post- secondary education minister’s lawn saying keep this building,” he said, agreeing that a decline in enrollment justified the closure.

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