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Peeping suspect apprehended in SUB by Sarah Galashan and Chris Nuttall-Smith

A man caught peeping into a woman’s stall in a SUB wash- room yesterday has been released from police custody on the condition that he stays away from IJBC.

“As I left the stall I saw a blue bike helmet and a pair of eyes peeping in on the woman next to me,” said a woman who works in the SUB.

The woman-who didn’t want to be named for safety rea- sons-said she asked two other women for help after seeing the man look over the stall. One woman went into a stall and allegedly caught the man spying on her over the side of the stall.

The man was held for a few hours and released Monday night. RCMP Constable MJ. Semeins said the man wasn’t charged Monday because police were still investigating, but said charges should be laid by the end of January.

- The three women confronted the suspect as he was leav- ing the washroom and with the help of a building custodian and Michael Swan, AMs facilities development manager, held the suspect and called the RCMP.

“He just looked at us like we were confused,” said one of the women.

The suspect is alleged to be the same man confronted in a similar incident in the same washroom last Novem- ber.

‘The woman who made the complaint in November saw the suspect from Monday’s incident once he had been detained. “Oh yeah, his image is burned into my skull, I’ll never forget it,” she said.

Swan said the suspect-who is not believed to be a UBC student-will be barred from entering the SUB.

In a memo to SUB staff released Monday afternoon, Swan described the man as 5’7, about 130 lbs, with a dark

complexion, short brown hair and an unshaven face. In both incidents the culprits were described as wearing turquoise bicycle helmets.

Swan was told in November about the first incident but didn’t write a written report because he didn’t have a good enough description, he said.

But the woman who reported the incident to Swan said yesterday she was angry Swan didn’t file a report or d o r m the RCMP.

When asked Monday about the November incident, both the SITB proctor, who is the building carefaker, and an official from Safewalk said they hadn’t been inform- ed.

One of the women who found the suspect in the wash- room said from now on she‘ll go to the washroom with a friend, adding, “It’s nice to finally put a face to someone who‘s been an ongoing concern.” Q

FILE UNDER F 54-40 rocks Science Week in the SUB last Friday. See page 6 for a review. RICHARD LAM PHOTO

Free-speech lawyer demands retraction

by Melanie Nagy

The Canadian Free Speech League and lawyer Doug Christie are demanding a retraction and apology from UVic’s student newspaper, The Martlet.

In its November 7, 1996 editorial, The Martlet alleged that Christie had booked a room at the Victoria public library to spread his contro- versial views.

Christie is well-known for having defended a number of high-profile figures inchdingJim Keegstra and Ernst Zundel. Zundel was convicted of spreading false news about the holocaust in 1985; Keegstra was found guilty of willfully promoting hatred against Jews.

The Martlet received a letter from Christie giving the paper 30 days in which to retract the article and apologise for suggesting that League members are responsible for promoting hate.

The letter also advised the paper to “seek legal advice.”

Andrew Lupton, the Martlet‘s Editor-in-Chief said the paper is tak- ing the letter very seriously, but will not retract the story.

“Our Board of Directors has looked into the issue and our staff is behind us, so we w d stand firm and uphold our statements,” he said.

”The ultimate irony of the issue

is that if Christie was a true

free speech advocate,

he would not be asking for us

to retract our opinion,’’

ANDREW LUPTON MARTLET EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

No apology is necessary, he added, because having taken the legal advice Christie recommended, the paper decided its comments are legally defensible as fair comment.

Christie declined comment when contacted by The Ubyssey, saying he would “never talk with a student newspaper, because there is no pos- sibility of fair and impartial journalism.”

The Martlet says it has received support from Victoria’s Jewish com- munity. “Members of various Jewish groups have expressed to me that they are very concerned about what Christie promotes and stands for,” Lupton said.

Here at UBC, Hillel House’s Program Director Rene Ragetli said the organisation has been following events involving Christie. “[He] uses the issue of free speech as a blind to legitimise his views,” Ragetli said.

Christie’s 30 day deadline for The Martlet has expired, but the paper says it has not had any further contact with him.

“The ultimate irony of the issue is that if Christie was a true free speech advocate, he would not be asking for us to retract our opinion,” Lupton said. 9

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Tim Easley, College-University Consortium than society's needs. OTTAWA (CUP)-The line between Ontario's Council co-chair and universities and colleges is starting to blur president of Lambton 'We can let the college do what it with a series of joint programs for students College in Sarnia, says aimed at combining elements from each type the projects' goal is to does best and the university do what of institution. give students easy access it does best. [It is] critical for both to degrees gained from studying at partnered col- instruction provided at

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David Marshall, president of Nipissing University, a h t s by mplementing such pro- jects, there is a danger of both types of institu- tion losing their focus.

'[The projects] explore the boundaries and edges between the college and university expe- rience," he said. *By working together we can let the college do what it does best and the uni- versity do what it does best. (It is] critical for both to retain a unique identity.'

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Comm students show assets by CUP staff

MONTREAL (CUP) - Business stu- dents from across the country showed their commitment to acad- emic excellence by shaking their wet breasts and damp penises in front of a crowed Montreal bar last weekend.

The Sixth Annual Under- graduate Business Games brought over 800 students from 1 1 univer- sities to Montreal to bring future Canadian business leaders togeth- er for academic and sporting com- petitions.

One of the “highlights” of the sporting competitions was a wet T- shirt and boxer short competition held in Montreal’s Colosseum dance club.

The competition resulted in widespread condemnation of the games organisers.

“I think wet t-shirt contests are degrading,” said Sharon Selkirk, the secretary of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs.

“I think we should be portraylng our next generation of leaders as professionals. I don’t think [the games] are emphasising the seri- ousness of our new business lead- ers of tomorrow. I can’t see how this will help them.”

But Alia Del Bianco. president of the game’s organising committee, doesn’t feel the contest interferes with the unifying spirit of the games, adding that students who feel uncomfortable or offended can leave “They don’t have to watch.”

Del Bianco also said was sepa- rate from the business and sport- ing competitions of the day, and the results of the wet t-shirt contest had no effect on the awards handed out at the end of the weekend.

The goal of the contest is to bring students together in a friend- ly, competitive atmosphere, she said, emphasising that the contest is just a harmless social activity.

“The girls are wearing their bras, it’s not anything disgusting. It wasn’t meant to be a message of any kind. It’s just there to attract people to Montreal.”

Concordia’s Associate Dean of Commerce, Danielle Morin, echoed Del Bianco’s sentiments that the contest was separate from the business-oriented events of the day, and added she hoped the games would not be overshadowed by this contest.

”I think the message (organis- ers) wants to give to the conzmuni- ty is that they are a welcoming envi- ronment.”

Del Bianco a k o added th~? event “is great exposure for Concordia.”

Twenty-one year old Jason Carriere is in his first year of Commerce at Concordia, and although he didn’t shake any drenched body parts, he supports event organisers, and feels the com- munity is overreacting to the event.

“I’m sure [the organisers] want- ed it as an ice lxeaker,” he said. ”It’s not degrading to women, men are there too. No one’s forcing any- one to [participale]. If peoplle don’t like it they can just leave.”

Coordinator of Concordia’s Women’s Centre Natalie Leveille said she was disillusioned with the event, and saw little enjoyment in wet t-shirt and boxer short contests, under any circumstances.

“I’m surprised and a bit shocked,” she said. “As students we have a responsibility to act and react within a political and social context, even in the name of fun.”

Leveille dismissed the notion that it was an event promoting equality among the sexes by having a wet boxer contest as well, and said that women’s bodies are con- sistently subjected to scrutiny, examination and degradation, while males bodies are not.

“It’s a lame attempt at balancing things out with the wet boxer con- test. Women’s breasts and male genitalia are completely different,” she said. “The ramifications for women [participating] are much greater than for men. Men are rarely made to feel degraded for their body parts. And women are.”

Concordia’s Dean of Students, Donald Boisvert, said aLI the partic- ipants are adults, and are therefore responsible for their own actions and intentions. He said he does not have a place to directly interfere with the organising of the games, or the policing of social activities organised during the evening. However, he added that the wet t- shirt contest was inappropriate.

“If (the organizers) had dis- cussed it with me, I would have raised questions about the inappro- priateness of the event,” he said. *:*

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OTTAWA (CUP)- An unlikely coalition of university admin- istrators, professors and students have put aside tlleir past dlfferences and asked the federal government to revamp its delivery of student aid.

The group wants the federal government to introduce new student-aid grants, interest relief on loans, opportuni- ties for work-studies and tax relief measures.

The coalition includes the country's two national stu- dent organisations-viewed by many as political polar opposites.

This is the fwst time these groups have worked together and for some of the partners involved the joint proposal spbolises the end to a bitter war over student aid policies.

"It's not only a proposal on student aid, it's a peace treaty," said Don Savage, executive director of the Candian Associz- tion of University Teachers, one of the coalition partners.

But for the student movement, peace may not be that easy to come by. Instead, it seems, this coahtion may merely indi- cate a change of tactics for the two organizations who remain locked in struggle to gain students' membzrship.

Founded in 198 1, the Canadian Federation of Students spent almost 15 years as the sole student lobby group in Canada, while the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, formed less than two years ago by students disenchanted with the CFS, has since been chipping away at the membership.

The CFS currently represents 55 student associations consisting of 375,000 students, while CASA has 163,000 student members from 13 different schools.

Both organisations say the new student aid proposals reflect their own policies and neither admits to having compromised to produce the document.

"A lot of [the proposals] are based on our campaign strategy," said CFS national chair Brad Lavigne. "We've been [worlung on] this all year."

But Matthew Hough, national director of CASA, seems to think otherwise. According to Hough, "[the d o c u e n t ] is very much a reflection of CASA policy."

Hough says the CFS is currently presenting a much soft- er h e on this and other issues than the rigid left-wing line it is known for.

"[Lavigne] is coming forward with more moderate rep- resentation on some policies," said Hough, whose own organization has been called a neoconservative mouth- piece to big business by its many critics.

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known for their right-wing views-a conference the organi- sation would have denounced just a few years ago.

In his address, Lavigne reiterated the old-and contro- versial-CFS belief that tuition fees should be abolished, but quickly pointed out that the organisation no longer includes this goal in its literature.

At the same h e , Bough's decision to work with the CFS stands in sharp contrast to his work this year, hhich includ- ed a number of press releases denouncing CFSendorsed protests and demonstrations.

"I've always said I'd consider working with [the CFS] if the time and situation is right, but I didn't th.mk it would happen this quickly," Hough admits.

It's unclear how much impact the proposals will have on the government.

The package's largest effect may be the one it has on the groups it brought together. For Canada's student move-

ment, that means i d e n w g who has the most to gain from the partnership.

The CFS azd CASA disagree, however. Lavigne says putting the two organisations side by side

only benefits the CFS, under whose guidance, he claims, the student movement is still solidly united.

'When.you compare [the CFS and CASAl you reahse that you don't need another group that's working on a handful of issues," Lavigne said. "CASA's marginal participation doesn't hurt the CFS and it's in our interest to Illustrate ... the Merences in the ability to make an impact."

But the legitimacy that CASA has gained from being a coalition partner may prove to be more than the CFS antic- ipated. As Hough said on Monday when asked whether the partnership would be good for CASAs reputation, "We're star- to become a stakeholder in Ottawa, that's where we're meant to be." *:*

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Kenneth Branagh must be nourish- ing himself with ”the food of love”, for his rendition of Shakespeare’s great play Hamlet resonates of a true, passionate adoration for every word in the text. Not one line left out, not one character left unexplored, not a lapse in intensity in all three hours and 58 minutes. This film is so deca- dent and rich in alacrity the Bard himself would be proud.

Branagh moves Hamlet away from the traditional medieval setting into the lush 19th century, suffusing the senses with elegance and luxury. This is a Hamletwhere royalty means opulence, where velvet in deep tapes- tries abound, where gold and marble and oak proliferate at an astounding pace. AD this as a backdrop for the

grand, almost sacred lines of one of the most acclaimed plays of all time.

As for his portrayal of the Danish prince, Branagh breaks new ground, replacing Ai. iaoping, melancholic Hamlet of so many other films with a Hamlet that is driven, choleric, furi- ous, human and real. Branagh also steps purposefully away from the typ- ically Freudian approach of most actors. Nowhere in the text does Hamlet express any desire for his mother; instead, he focuses on the sexual relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia (Kate Winslet), an avenue unexplored in other films.

Hamlet is also blessed with a splendid cast, for the most part. Charmingly, some of the smallest parts are played by the masters, such as Charlton Heston, who makes an impressive Player King, and John Gielguds moving cameo as Priam. It is refreshing to see Timothy Spall (Secrets & Lies) as the portly

Rosencrantz, and Brian Blessed’s Ghost is as chilling as his ice-blue eyes.

However, other cast members can be criticised, whose performances, no less than incongruent and dissat- isfymg, detract from the Gnal prod- uct.jack Lemmon makes a laughable, jarring Marcellus, while Gerard Depardieu’s token Reynaldo is point- less. Silly Crystal’s muddled, ever- changing accent draws too much attention to his overly jovial Gravedigger, similar to Michael Keaton’s comic overkill in Branaghs Much Ado About Nothing.

This dramatic, sexy rendition will draw you into the seductive world of Shakespeare‘s drama. Branagh has undoubtably produced the most definitive performance of Hamlet to date. If this movie doesn’t sweep up half the awards at the academy this year, it will be a greater tragedy than Hamlet itself. 0

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MOIST

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Waiting in line for this all- Canadian triple bill, surrounded by teenagers in backwards base- ball caps and reeking of mouth- wash and hairspray, I began to wonder if I was in the right place. Had I mistaken a highschoo! gym for the Coliseum? No, no, this was the right place, unfortunately.

As I Mother Earth started off their set with the first two singles off their new album, I began to dread the worst. The bands first four songs were weak and the sound crew miked the drums far too heavily. But once the group had played the obligatory radio tunes, they loosened up and real- ly began to build momentum. The band added a bongo drummer, and with the accompaniment of tribal percussion, including an incredible five-person percussion instrumental, the group gave a high energy show that didn‘t let anyone down.

By the time Moist hit the stage one might have thought the moshing highschool jocks would have been exhausted by I Mother Earth’s incredibly fast-paced set. But these kids were in shape. The crowd rocked and pogoed as one throughout their hometown heroes’ set.

The sound crew stiU hadn’t adjusted the drum levels and the

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i C result was a full-hour kick- drum solo with barely audi- ble vocals and a few guitar riffs leaking out from behind the clamour. Their bassist seemed to be enjoy- ing himself despite the fact that no one in the building could hear a note he was playing (apart from a daz- zling two-note solo that gave us I one reason to thank the sound crew for not turning up his juice).’

But I must admit I was somewhat distracted from the rest of the band by the keyboardist’s headbang- ing. I was actually quite concerned for his safety; he frequently looked like he was going to smack his head on his keyboard. I guess their singer, David Usher, was thinking the same thing, but instead of warning his bandmate, he decided to get it over and done with by grabbing the poor, keyboardists’s hair and smashing his head against his instrument for him-not once but three or four times!

This wasn’t the first of the front -.man’s violent actions however. This par- ticular incident occured only after he had grabbed his tistical and simply pathetic and the band changed pace, bassist’s hair once or twice, attempt to sing while surfing the grooving into ‘Billie Jean’ which attempted a diving tackle at an crowd-along with the WWF ‘was undoubtedly the highlight of innocent roadie and jumped on Championship bout onstage-cre- the night. Despite the bands idi- top of his guitarist while the poor ated an absurd intensity that cli- otic antics on stage, their perfor-

guy tried to continue maxed as the band broke into mance was solid and their hook- his solo! ’Enter Sandman.’ Fortunately the laden tunes left the crowd smil-

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RUNNING THE RACE? Father Tim Farley (Tim Dixon) gets ready for another hard day of, uh, creative pastoral visitations in MASS APPEAL.

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but Mass Appeal just may be the best play Pacific Thea- tre has produced since mov- ing into their current premis- es a few years back. Not since Cotton Patch Gospel have they put on a show as simul- taneously entertaining and challenging as this.

Mass Appeal begins on a strongly political note, but director Jeremy Tow wisely steers his actors away from the petty s p e e c w g that peppers B d l Davis’s play. Instead, he focuses all efforts on bringing the characters to f d , three-dimensional He.

For example, it would have been all too easy to make Father Tim Farley (Tim Dixon) the buffoonish butt of Davis’s satire. He likes atten- tion, he plays coy power games with the monsignor, and he coddles his congrega- tion so they can keep him comfortably employed and sipping ample amounts of sparkling burgundy. What’s

more, he blithely admits all of h s without any apologies.

But Dixon doesn’t play Farley for the cheap straw man he could so easily become. Instead, Dixon makes hxn a richly detaded human being, moving effort- lessly from humour to nostal- gia to panic to anger and back to humour again. His flexible temperament is matched by an equally expressive face, fuU of tics and quirks that catch you by surprise, and a roly-poly charm that gets past all your defenses while, at the same time, helping you to see through his. This is the stuf f Jessie Awards were made for.

Mark Dolson (Georgia Straight cartoonist Dirk V a n Stralen), the feisty seminari- an who challenges Farley’s “song-anddance theology,” is a little harder to figure out. He’s a iirebrand, obviously, but if he’s so opposed to the church hierarchy, why is he trymg to join it? V a n Stralen offers no clues at f ist .

For most of the first .act, Van Stralen does little more than raise his voice, prance about the stage, and stab the

air with h s hands. When the monsignor calls Dolson’s sexuahty into question, Van Stralen’s swishy, mocking entrance reveals nothing of the desperation that ought to be driving his character by now. At times like these, the performance is all mask and no face.

It’s only in the minutes before the intermission that Dolson lets h s guard down and Van Stralen begins to really dig into the character’s psyche. When, in the second act, Dolson puts on the cleri- cal collar and, somewhat shockingly, begins to play the power game hunself to save his job, Van Stralen finally gets the chance to respond to Dixon with equal depth and warmth.

The two are ably assisted by an effective, minimal use of props, lights and set design-with one glaring exception. The towering pul- pit, which bulges out from the east wall, blocks the view for anyone sitting on the the- atre’s southeast side. If this is meant to show how pulpits come between priests and their audiences, the point is made all too well. et.

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The men’s basketball did what they had to do last weekend: sweep a two game series against the struggling and injury- ridden Calgary Dinosaurs to grab sole possession of second place.

“us weekend marked the first time this season the Birds won back-teback home games and only the second time they swept a Canada West opponent this season.

Judging from the weekend, the team is slowly smoothing out its rough edges after an inconsisttnt 6-4 start, although the Birds still need to improve in the rebounding depart- ment.

Five Birds scored in double-figures as the Birds ripped the Calgary Dinosaurs 1 16-83 Friday night.

The Dinos took way too many risks in the defensive end and simply couldn’t get any stops when they needed them against the Birds who shot 60‘70 from the floor.

The Dinos were also without their big guns. High scoring rookie Kyle Russell and centre Josh Goertzen, last year’s Canada West rookie of year were both out with season-end- ing knee injuries.

With Goertzen not in the lineup, John Dykstra and Eric Butler had plenty of room to roam the low post and vacuum the boards. The Birds’ strong inside game softened up the Dinos’ perimeter defence and UBC took full advantage, attempting a season high 28 shots from beyond the arc.

Sose made three each. Dykstra hit four treys while guards Gerald Cole and Nino

The Birds took a 58-45 halftime lead into the locker

room and opened the second half with a 15-4 run to push their lead to an insurmountable 24 points.

Dykstra did the most damage dur- ing that stretch with eight points to fin- ish with 2 1 points. Cole led all UBC scorers with 2 5 points while Sose was third with 19.

Alan Gibb and Canada West scoring leader Navie Sekhon tried to keep the Dinos in the game with 2 5 and 19 points respectively, but the Birds’ defence was too tough to crack.

“We really did a good job stopping their transition,” said head coach Bruce Enns. ‘‘I am really quite pleased that we’re consistent on defence.” Enns added that Friday’s game was probably the best game the Birds played all season long.

Saturday night, however, it was Calgary’s turn to play some defence. The Birds needed two clutch free throws from Eric Butler and a strong rebounding game from Brady Ibbetson to put the 3-9 Dinos away. ” I

The Birds felt Calgary’s defensive pressure early on and only led by three

GERALD COLE drives past Calgary‘s Alan Cibb Saturday night as the Birds swept thl Dinos. RICHARD LAM PHOTO

halftime. UBC was also”hampkred by foul trouble as four intensity when they take on the top-ranked Victoria Vikes starters were each Dlavine with three fouls earlv in the sec- this weekend.

JJ RAWLINSON lost this battle Saturday night-and the T- Birds failed to make a move in the playoff race63. RICHARD LAM PHOTO

VmBird Droppings The men’s volleyball team, ranked ninth in Canada, stole the hronze at the Classic Digs Tournament in HaIifax as they defeated the third- ranked Montreal Carabins 3-1 (15-13, 15-8, 1416, and 15-9).

Power hitter Mike Kur;r led the Birds with 39 kills against Montreal and was named a first-teanl all-star. Both the women’s and the men’s team will resume regulaj- season action when they host thl. Regina Cougars. 4*

B-Bird women slowly sinking by Wolf Depner

It’s time to sound the alarm and get all hands on deck. Playoff hopes are sinking slowly but surely for the women’s basketball team after they dropped two games to the Calgary Dinosaurs over the weekend.

The Birds have now lost five out of their last six league games and are in danger of missing the post- season for the first time since 1956/87.

UBC, now in fifth place with a 4-8 record, is six points behind third- placed Calgary (7-5) and hvo points behind Lethbridge (5-7) for the final playoff spot.

The Birds could have made a move against both teams over the past two weekends, but now face a long uphill road towards the playoffs that will see them visit tough teams in Victoria and Alberta.

And winning there won’t be easy if they continue to play as poorly on offense as they did this weekend.

"We're. having a hard time scar- ing and sometimes when we see zone, we just freeze up and get a lit- tle bit tight,” said Birds head coach Deb Huband.

“We don‘t have too many players right now who are comfortable to take thr range shot and we’re not that comfortable getting the ball inside .... It’s just a real passive form of basketball that we are playng right now.”

Blame Friday’s 55-49 loss on ice- cold shnotinp. The Birds were a chiL1- ing 2 5% from tht. floor i n the seronti half m i , pdging from tJw way t i i t ,

thtx,v ~ w r e throwing u p ire hlocks,

you could have thought they were building an igloo around the Calgary basket.

The Dinos, meanwhile, shot a siz- zling 56 percent in the second half and could do no wrong. Erin McAlister could do no wrong. The veteran centre, who was ordinary in the first half, turned it on down the stretch.

McAlister scored twelve points, snagged up three boards, and other- wise suffocated the Birds’ inside players who once again didn’t con- tribute along the offensive boards or on the scoresheet.

While McAlister finished as the game’s leading scorer with 20 points, it was Bird Laura Esmail who seemed to have that title wrapped up at halftime.

She scored 17 in the first half- her average game total. But as usual, Esmail was pulling the Birds’ cart all by herself. When she sputtered in the second half, missing all but one basket, no one stepped up to pull the flapping Birds from the mud.

Not one of Esmail’s teammates scored in double figures and only Trixi Cruz came close with nine markers.

Saturday‘s night game was

almost identical to Friday’s game. The Birds played another out-

standing defensive game and held the Dinos to a season-low 54 points. Unfortunately, the Birds only scored a season low 46 points in the loss.

For a while, however, the Birds played with confidence in the offen- sive end and went to the charity stripe fourteen times in the first half alone. But they converted only six free throws, a big reason why they trailed 30-2 7 at the intermission.

The Dinos then mixed up the defence in the second half and the Birds couldn’t adjust offensively. Things got worse when second-year centre Jessica Mills, who had eight rebounds, fouled out with little more than six-and-half minutes left.

With Mills gone, the Birds lost all presence on the boards and in the low post against McAlister and Leighann Doan who was Calgary’s top scorer with 13 points and eight rebounds.

Laura Esmail led the Birds in scoring with 14 points.

The Birds will travel to Victoria this weekend for a tough two-game series against the first place Vikes, who have heaten UBC in their last four meetings. 0

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10 THE UBYSSEY. JANUARY 28. 1997

JANUARY 28. 1997 f volume 78 issue 29

Editorial Board

Coordinating Editor Scott Hayward

News Ian Gunn and Sarah O'Donnell

Culture Peter T. Chattaway

sports Wolf Depner

NationaVFeatures Federico Araya Barahona

Photo Richard Lam

Production J o e Clark

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Emily Mak eased the lights down as TheJo-Ann Chiu Express took the

stage. 'Are you ready to Andy Barham?' Melany Nagy screamed into the mike. They were. Chris

NuttalSmith fainted. Wolf Depner and Richard L a m knocked skulls.

Atop a speaker, Federico Barahona undressed. Joe Clark exhaled strong-

ly through his Geoff Urton, and Afshin Mehin inched away. Onstage, Faith Armitage bit the head off a live

Neal Razzell as Sarah Galashan ground out a heavy Kichelle Rae

rhythm on her Paul Kamon custom guitar. Christina Lees, wearing a

shining Bruce Arthur costume, har- monized with t he leatherclad Peter Chattaway. With the Scott Haywards wearing off, Stanley Tromp trashed

his drum kit. Prepared, Robin Yeatman assembled another. Behind

a giant paper mache Sarah ODonnell, Theresa Chaboyer shot

John Zaozirny with a 9mm Ian Gunn.

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Take a look in your own backyard Campus safety was, as always, a promi- nent feature of the recent AMs election campaign. Even candidates bereft of ini- tiative or imagination knew they were safe trumpeting a commitment to increased student safety. Because it undeniably needs significant improve- ment.

Just yesterday a man was arrested for allegedly peeping at women over bath- room stalls in a second floor washroom in SUB, about 20 metres from the AMs offices.

A man fitting the same description was alleged to have done the same thing in the same washroom in November of last year.

The victim reported the November incident to the AMs, but little, if any, action was taken. No warnings were

issued, no signs posted on doors and nei- ther Safewalk nor the building caretaker can remember being notified. The report was filed and apparently forgotten.

Other matters were on the agenda. Such as campus safety, ironically enough. The AMs was in the midst of an $8000 campus safety campaign designed to focus students' attention on the university's woeful underfunding of safety initiatives on the rest of the cam- pus.

But this campaign, while laudable and enjoying the universal support of the politicos running headlong for elected office, missed the AMs's one opportunity to dramatically improve student safety, without any of the lobbying, quibbles over jurisdiction, or fights against uni- versity bureaucracy that various election

posters touted their candidates' enor- mously varied abilities to deal with.

They could improve safety in their own Student Union Bddmg.

They could provide, for instance, round-theclock security, every day of the week; or better lighting in the dim hall- ways upstairs; or emergency buttons con- nected to campus security in washrooms or other potential problem areas; or even hallway mirrors at corners.

While things may be fairly safe around the AMS coffee machine, more than a few women are afraid to visit the bathroom without a buddy, or even walk the vacant halls of SUB at night.

Safety, as they say, begins at home. The AMs could $0 much for its campaign for campus safety by examining its own backyard.

Development and democracy

can co-exist This letter is a response to com- ments made by Michael Goldberg dean of UBC's Faculty of Commerce regarding "local' com- mercial devolpment plans. (January 24, Vancouver Sun)

Said Goldberg: "Vancouver will lose its competitive edge in the global economy if local anti- development forces gain total control over land use ... the provin- cial government should inter- vene to ensure that never hap- pens.' Goldberg was spealung to the annual winter conference of International Shoppers last Thursday in Vancouver.

The dean's comments, arro- gant and undemocratic, put UBC's senior administration in an intractable position, since they're the most publicized of local land developers.

The dean of Commerce is a spokesman for that UBC adrmnis- tration; presumably he would not

ask for abrogation of public rights without &st clearing h s position with the President's Office. Goldberg is in effect saying to the Conference of International Shoppers that UBC - a public body - should have all @ts and free doms in land development, but those who live in neigbourhoods and communities beyond UBC shall not be accorded the same privileges.

If government intervenes in the matter at all, it should be at the request of the taxpayers whose rights to public protest are being denied. It is they, after all, who pay salaries at the University.

Nancy-

AMs candidates need pointy sticks

I appreciate how important it is for the student population to democratically elect its various reps, but I would like to make the following two suggestions to all those candidates who seem so eager to please myself and my fel-

low students: 1) The winners of the elections

get to walk around campus with pointy sticks, picking up all the discarded campaign flyers that can be seen fluttering down West Mall.

2) All candidates shall be required to calculate in their heads the tuition that is wasted when five canhdates hold up an Oceanography class of 250 for 10 minutes on consecutive morn- ings.

I'm just tryLng to be helpful. But then, I'm not in PoliSci, so there's probably some overwhelmingly obvious logic to these insensitive practices that I just can't see

C. Jdhy Monis 2ndyearAltE

Pastergate plot plods on and on...

Recently, a friend of mine was given the job of puttmg up Science Week posters. On Monday, while she was postering in the SUB,

three people approached her and told her that it was useless puttmg up the posters over the election posters because they would tear them down anyway. They then proceeded to tear down a Science Week poster in front of her and throw it in a recycling bin nearby. They stood near the posters and refused to leave until my friend left the scene.

My friend does not remember who the three people were; she just knew that they were in some way associated with some candi- date(s) who islare running in the AMs elections. In no way did she intentionally target a particular set of posters to cover, nor did she even know that she would meet opposition. In a time when canndldates are supposed to be giving students reasons to vote for them, the childish behavour of these three people are only making a mockery of the elec- tions. Surely these people should be setting a better example for us first years.

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The conditions of global trade C anada’s economic ties to Asia have expanded The government’s constructive engagement poli-

rapidly under the Chretien Liberals. The cy is politically necessitated by two factors: the gov- Canadian government and the private sector have ernment’s unconscionably close relations with invested an immense amount of money and energy Canadian businesses (including crown corporations) into capitalising on business oppurtunities in the operating in China and its participation in trade Asia Pacific region, and especially in China. Team orginizations and free trade agreements, like APEC Canada’s trade trips to the East have been remark- (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) and NAFTA ably successful on paper. To date, about 20 bdlion (North American Free Trade Agreement). Former BC dollars of business has been contracted. There is, Premier Mike Harcourt summed up the strategic all- however, a dark side to this success story, for as liance between Canadian business and government Canada’s economic ties to Asian countir ’ a 1994 Macleans article: “politicians are have grown our ability to criticize there to open the doors, business is human rights abuses in these countries there to close the deals.” Canada’s par- has been virtually eliminated. The ticipation in APEC has served only to Canadian government will not risk jeop- legitimise the relationship between big ardizing potential trade deals for the business and the government. In a sake of taking a moral stand on the ethi- recent speech at APEC Business cal treatment of the world’s.peoples, Forum dinner, Chretien urged big as defined by the UN charter on business to set the free trade agenda by human rights. pointing out the constraints to “business

Canada‘s response to the Tiananmen activity in the Asia Pacific” so that government Square massacre, on 4 June 1989, clearly demon- could ensure “that the institutions, the enviro- strated our government’s resolve to be a good busi- ment and the mechanisms are in place to promote ness partner with China regardless of the conditions regional economic growth.” The responsibility for of life under the Communist regime. In reaction to the Canada’s economic policies has been all but handed slaughter of prodemocracy student protesters, then over to big business. external affairs minister, Joe Clark announced a hand- The promotion of Canadian values, including the ful of retaliatory measures against China. These id- respect for human rights, has been abandoned by cuded the withdraw1 of government funding for three our government. Indeed, during the Team Canada development projects, the downgrading of trade r e p trip to China in 1994 Chretien would not even use resentation in Beijing and the creation of a 1.5 mil- the term “human rights,” opting instead for what has lion dollar fund to aid Chmese students studying in been decribed as the “much more innocuous phrase Canada. The Conservatives limited sanctions policy ’ good governance issues.’” When the state and big was largely symbolic. The Canadian government cou- business become one and the same certain conse- pled its lackluster measures with official declarations quences automatically follow. The most dangerous that placated the righteous anger of the public, while and damaging of them is that a political orthodoxy is reassuring big business, and the Chinese authorities, created where economic growth becomes the only that no real punitive measures would be considered. valid concern. All other concerns, including democ- After the massacre, Clark announced that “it will not racy, the enviroment, labour standards, and the well- be business as usual [with China],” then added, “we being of people, are automatically downgraded to a must try to avoid measures that would push China secondary status under these conditions. into isolation.” Clark’s political double-speak serves to The improvement of China’s human rights underline the fact that government policy towards record depends upon democratic governments tak- China was being set by ihe interest of big business, as ing strong and meaningful actions to ensure change. they continue to be to this day. Tragically, with big business dictating our govern-

The current Canadian government’s official policy ment’s policy, Canada will be unable to do anything of “constructive engagement,” which assures us that to stem the tide of human rights abuses in China, increased trade d, one day, magically turn military Indonesia, or any other country we are allied with dictatorships into democracies, is a cruel hoax. Its through free trade agreements. Under these condi- real aim, with respect 1.0 China, is to eliminate criti- tions Canada, indirectly and directly, will continue cism of the government’s separation of human rights to facilitate crimes against humanity around the from trade. A separation which has the ultimate world. effect of keeping human rights out of trade talks alto- gether. C. David Jag0

An aspiring philosopher begins to ramble P hilo-sophy can never be mea-

sured by the standard of the idea of the idea of science.” This quotation came out of a period in the twentieth century when one’s philosophy was connected quite directly to a social and polit4cal affdiation. Western philosophy at the time of the Second World War both influenced and was itself shaped by the political climate in Europe.

The Vienna Circle, which advo- cated a scientific approach to phi- losophy, stood in opposition to (primarily) German continental thinkers who incorporated a much more metaphysical dement to their thought. Crudely, on the basis of this split, one could con- sider the discussion in terms of whether Philosophy is a science, or whether Science is a philoso-

But why should this be of any importance to us? And why should we want to read about it in the stu- dent newspaper?

I am told that once upon a time, Philosophy was fundamen- tal to any education and hence appealed to a greater percentage of the student body. This was apparently when the immediate

phy.

question following one’s admit- dents explored their interest in tance to an interest in the field the field. This encompasses more was not “what are you going to do than name-dropping at Starbuck’s with that?” In this setting philoso- - “Oh, what do you think of Jean- phy may be studied because of its Paul Sartre?” It involves a pro- own value, and not because of nar- found and vigorous study of ques- row pragmatic concerns like tions about meaning, about exis- whether philosophers score high tence and about what can be said on their LSAT or not. to know about these.

This, however, is exactly how This is true in philosophy, and philosophy is perceived now: not in some watered-down ver- People in philosophy make good sion, stripped of its value and lawyers or journalists, or burger made to fit a mould of commercial flippers. And philosophy depart- consumption. And a study of this ments are measured in virtue of nature would bring one to the real- how much money they bring in. ization that Philosophy is more

But, as an accomplished clcwly connected to “everyday” philosopher has told me, and cer- life than is assumed. tainly to no surprise, philosophy Significantly, many answers to departments do not produce philosophical question about money. They produce reflective meaning are offered in science. citizens: engaging in a rigorous And some would argue that sci- philosophical process encourages ence will provide the only answers one to more profoundly consider needed, but others suggest that a society; indeed to consider what it critical inquiry into the justifica- means to exist, and how one ought tion of solutions which science to act within a given community. provides is still required. This The study of philosophy, to be debate about the nature of sure, produces good philosophers, Philosophy as a science, exists whch, I suppose, makes for a bet- today as it did in Europe earlier in ter society. the century.

Thus, more philosophical study Sheldon Steed ought to be encouraged at UBC, President of the Phihqdy which could occur if more stu- Students’Association

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Mature Women Students’ Support Group Tuesdays, resuming January 14 (dropin) 12:30 - 1 :30 E “ , Room 207 Brock Hall

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Skills for Dealing with Harassment & Discrimination Thursdays, February 1 3 and 20 or March 6 and I 3 12:30 - 2:20 PM, Room 204D Brock Hall

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