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Engineers face extr’a costly tuition hike by Don R a m y

The proposed 18.8 per cent tuition hike at UBC will create considerable financial stress for most students, but perhaps to none more so than those studying engi- neering.

Why? Because along with sticking engineers with the in- crease,theBoardofGovernorsalso wants to remove a per-credit fee cap, which currently stands at 40 credits.

As a result, a typical engi- neering student will have to pay more to take on a heavier course load. And with the increase, the cost per credit will jump from $62 to $78.

In fact, a fourth year electrical engineering student, who now pays $2350 a year in tuition for 48 re- quired credits, may face a $3500 fee for the same credit load next year, not tomention the additional $300 to $400 worth of books per semester.

And it will be the same for most other engineering students as they typically enroll in an extra six to nine credits compared to students taking full course loads in Arts or Sciences.

The Board will be making a final decision on the increase and adjustments this Thursday.

Not surprisingly, reaction to the fee hike among engineering students and their representatives has ranged from mild concern to anger.

“It’s completely nuts!” said Andrew Bishop, a first year PhD student in electrical engineering

Board ofgovernors student rep Derek Miller warned that the hike will mean some students will have to drop out of engineering.

Moreover, Engineering Un- dergraduate Society vice-president Christa Greentree said matters won’t be helped by the government’s refusal to increase the annual limit on student loans, which currently sits at $7200.

Association for Engineering

Women president Chlrista Cormack said she’s usually met with a stunned silence whenever she mentions the increase at meetings.

‘[The students] all thin’k it‘s too much. Eighteen per cent :is too much,” she said.

While Cormack says tuition fees can’t be frozen, increases can be introduced more gradually.

”You could have a more efi-

cient university . . . and get in- creased support from the govern- ment instead of liip service around election time: she said.

‘It‘s amazing how the NDP likes to push i t5 commitment to pcmt-secondaqr education when i t needs the support of 40,000 stu- dents.”

Other proposals, according to Greentree and Miller, could in- chde reducing the engineering

under graduate credit load from 160 credits to a normal 120 credit load.

Conversely,anexceptioncould be made for the engineers so that the credit cap could actually be maintained at some level.

However, the former would require a complete restructuring of the engineering program while the latter might provoke accusa- tions of unfair treatment from the

- other faculties on campus.

Other proposals include tap- ping into the special fund allotted to UBC b,y the provincial govern- ment for ,the engineering faculty in order fa subsidize tuition fur- ther.

The AM§ is planning a rally Thursday starting at 12:30 in the SUB Plaza followed by a march to the BOG offices at the Old Admin- istration building.

It’s an unholy tiny Tory terror!

by Fmancer Foran wlth CUP flles The UBC Young Conserva-

tives have failedin their campaign to cut The Ubyssey’s funding.

They were unable to secure enough signatures on a petition to force a referendmi.

Of the 1054 signatures col- lected by the UBC Young Conser- vatives, only 984 were found valid when the AMs met in an emer- gency session on Friday to discuss the issue.

However, further checks on the signatures could have been done. And it is estimated that the petition may, in fact, have as few as 800 valid signatures.

The anti-Ubyssey drive may be part of an “anti-political cor- r ec tned campaign launched by the national Progressive Conser- vative Youth Federation.

UBC Young Conservatives vice president Jason Saunderson said, I f s not often that so many students show enough interest in something to sign a petition.

‘I think this shows a groundswell of support among students for choice in a democratic vote.*

“It‘s an opportunity for this [student] society to save a p a t deal of money for ita members. The intention is to alleviate the burden of subsidy from the

students,” he said. The current levy is about a

dollar per student and represents about one third of the paper‘s bud- get for 50 issues a year.

Although the petition to axe The Ubyssey’s student subsidy has failed this time around, the cam- paign may not be over. Saunderson said the petition galvanized many student fadions and a coalition to end The Ubyssey’s subsidy will form in the near future.

Saundereonisalsorunningfor office in student government. Al- though he said ending The ubyssey’s subsidy remains one of his personal goals, he denied that he and his slate, Students for What‘s Right, would use ofice for an anti-ubyssey campaign.

The activities of the UBC Young Conservatives may be part ofanation-wideToryyouthagenda to take over student governments in Canada, according to a docu- ment released by the Young Re- formers earlier this month.

The document, entitled Pro- gressive Conservative Youth Fed- eration Post-Secondary Strategy for 1992-1993, outlines the need of the federal Tory party’s youth wing to “build a sustained network of student activists that may be mo- bilized for conservative projecta..’

The three-pronged plan in- cludes an “anti-pollitical correct- ness campaign” to ‘ W e over the intellectual debate on campus from the organized left“; including an organized attack on the Canadian Federation of Stud’ents; and stu- dent government takeovers.

Coincidentally, the UBC Young Tories’ campaign began in early September, after Saunderson

-returned from the National Cam- paign College in Ottawa. The sum- mer College is where members of the PC youth wing gather to ’learn campaign skills,” according to Saunderson. Saunderson’s first letters to The Ubyssey echoed the document attributed to the PCYF.

In the letters, the paper is described as a left wing political machine” which tries to change

the “way bou] think by insisting on, implementing and supporting Political Correctness.”

PCYF post-secondary directar Justin Brown denied that the document is party policy.

‘It is (1 document that was submitted to me, but it is not our official policy,” said Brown. ‘We didn’t spend any money on it or act on it and we didn’t release it.”

Saunderson denied having read such a document, but admit- ted he spent last summer editing a PCYFcampaigntrainingmanual. He said the UBC Tory Youth campaign to abolish the Ubyssey’s levy waa a local initiative and had nothing to do with the PCYF. As for his ambitions to student gov- ernment, ‘I wouldn’t call it a takeover,” he said. “I’m running

for director ofexternal affairs, and no one told me to run.”

The activities of the UBC Young Tories have also been dis- avowed by other upper echelon PC officials.

National. vice president (pa- cific)ofthe PC: party, John McLean, wrote in response to an article that appeared in alocal newspaper that ”the opinionel [Jason Saunderson] expresses neither represent the views of the Vancouver Quadra Progressive Conservative riding association nor of the Progressive Conservative Party at the National level.”

McLean also commended The Ubyssey for repeatedly publishing Saunderson’e letters, despite his efforts to frustrate the paper‘s con- tinued publitation.

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Tuesday//Friday 9.30 a.m. - 3.30 p.m. Mon/.Wed./Thur. 9.30 a.m. - 7.30 p.m.

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Elise Brady (Second Year Arts) Paul Marsden (Fourth Year Arts) Regan McNeal (Third Year Science) Jerry Olynyk (Fourth Year Arts) Talman W. Rodocker (Fourth Year Arts) Samson Shui Yan Hui (Second Year Commerce) Christopher M. Sing (Fourth Year Science) Emile C.-H. WOO (l%u& Y ~ m a c e u t i c a l Sciences)

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Winless hockey weekend by Tho Chowman

The UBC Hockey Thunderbirds remain in the Canada West cellar as the Lethbridge Pronghorns left the Winter Sports Centre this weekend with a tie and a win. UBC (4-12-2) falls to seventh place in the conference as Lethbridge (4-11-3) claims a meaningless sixth place.

Both teams have a snowball's chance in hell of making the playoffs.

Saturday, January 16 UBC 4 Lethbridge 4

UBC veteran winger Gregg Delcourt started the scoring at 1:23 ofthe first period, followed

less than three minutes later by centre Brad Edgington, whose shot from the left face- offcirclebeat Pronghornsgoalie Derek Babe.

Lethbridge responded t o the T-Birds' quick start. The 'Horns were led by Greg Gatto's three point performance in the first period. The rugged winger beat UBC goalie Mark Thom twice-first, with a limp- wristed floater from the high slot that went over and past a surprised Thom, and then on the power-play with a deflec- tion from Colin Baustad's shot from the point. Gatto went on to set up Trevor Ellerman on a two-on-one.

Lethbridge's fourth unan-

swered goal came late in the second period from Perry Neufeld.

UBC came alive late in the third period after finally de- feating the Pronghorns' pen- alty killing with a goal by Charles Cooper at 1526.

Less than a minute later, UBC tied the contest with Edgington's second of the night. With a spectacular indi- vidual effort A la Pave1 you- know-who, the speedy forward took the puck from outside the T-Bird blueline, streaked down the left-wing boards, cut to the front of the net and slid the puck past the Pronghorns goaliewith ahthbridgeplayer (see next page)

T-BIrd centew Brad Edglngtm .cord wlth throo and a hatf mlnutem left In regu9atlon to galn a U ovutlmo tlo wlth tho kthbfldgo Pronghorns Saturday nlght. # l 5 Brad Edgln@re, #I Derek Babo.

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I UBC #20 Greg# Delcowt (W), Ldhbrklge n . 5 Mark Woblck (D), #l Derek Babe (a). U tle, UBC VS. LorthkMge. n

(draped over him and another ,trailing behind.

T h a t was the first time I've done that in about ten years: mused Edgington, one (of the better T-Bird players Saturday night.

Sunday, Jan.17 IJBC 2 Lethbridge 3

Kevin Yellowaga's power- play goal at 15:17 of the first period put Lethbridge on the scoreboard, as the pride of Prince George, Darren Kwiatkowsky, was sewingfour in the box for spearing.

Replying for UBC, defence manCasey McMillan'shell-fire power-play blast from the point lit 8:O7 ofperiod two told'Horns goalie Trevor Kruger that the T-Birds were ready to play.

Defensive lapses in the lJBC zone were telling T-Bird

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goaltender Paul Hurl some- thing else. Pronghorn goals by Perry Neufeld and Tim Ritchie put the T-Birds in a hole in the! middle of the third.

McMillan's hustle to bring: the Birds to within one with his second goal late in the third. was not enough, as throughout, the game, UBC's short-cir- cuiting power-play failed to capitalize on key two-man ad- vantages from Lethbridge's parade of penalties.

OfTensive finish continues to elude the team, with the power-play going 2-17 (a pal- try 11.8 per cent) on the week- end, as Lethbridge clicked on 3-11 (27.3 per cent).

An upset coach Coflin said after Sund.ay's loss that his team played just well enough to lose.

"hey work hard for 55 minutes and then make some

serious mistakes. It's aone goal game. They made enough great plays t o win. It's fmstrating," he said.

E'dgington, whose two-goal performance allowed UBC to get away with a tie Saturday night, was held off the scoresheet on Sunday.

"I' think we worked hard today but we didn't have any luck around the net," said t h e 21-year old forward. W e let in a couple bad goals and broke down defensively.n'

He added that the team sees the remaining games as another season, one in which the T-Birds hope to establish a winning attitude for the 93-94 campiaign.

'We're just trying to build for next year. You can't think about [losing] or you're nevex going t o win another game," he

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January 19,1993 THE UBYSSEY/S

Is grunge - dead? by Jams-Jason Lee and Stephen Smegelskl

MONTREAL (CuP)-In last “A 10cal label put w t a lot of s;uff. It &ame November’s Vogue fashion section, avery marketed sound. The label itself created Nirvana members p o r d in a designer thesouncLNirvanadonotsoundlikeMudhoney denim fashion spread. who do not sound like Tad.”

The current issue of Amrding to Andrew Smith, Mademoiselle features a entertainment editor for The

credited as having single- handedly given birth to grunge.

“It’s not too much diffaent from the similarscenesthatha]3penedinAthens. Georgia and M v o l i i , Minnesota,” explains Silverman. “With Nirvana, thingsbecamealotbiggeralotquicker.”

Within a yea:, ‘grunge’ has become the music industry’s favorite buzzword. The team ‘loosely refers to a sound best described as 70s hard rock dis with a punk attitude.

Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are cited as major inlluences of young gnmge bands.

In terms of visual style, fl-1 shirts and long, unw.mshed hair are the going on dealing with thc distinguishing trademarks. grunge scene. People are

In terms of attitude, it’s basically sart of surprised. Ask a lot “I don’t care, I just wanna party!” of people and they’d say

But the musical trappings m e i s d e a d . AskSub-Pop. associated withgnmge arenotparticula It’s all MTV these days.” tothe-.

fashionable level of .uncleanliness, the music offers unexpec tedchord changes and pop without a key or a clue.

The music has a relationship to the scary Stravinsky and Charlie Parker. Both artists challenged and re-invented their musical forms Iuith biting attacks and dissonance, like so-called grunge musicians.

So if grunge is a made up style, who are its makers?

‘This stuff s m d out about four- and-a-half years ago,,”says Silverman.

No kidding.

Looking past grunge’s clothes and them to be the first

into grunge movies (Cameron Crowe’s Singles) and fashion (hlarc Jacob’ Perry Ellis spring collection).

In one deft marketing move, alternative culture was once more denied by the mainstream. The counterculture has been sanitized and made not only acceptable but stylish-eg. Kurt Cobain’s well-publicized heroin addiction. We are witnessing the recuperation and exoneration of Disney

negative effect on smaller bands. “A lot of the little labels are dying bccause

ofthema~s.”heass~ed.“Peoplearemoving here to get signed. It’s l i e what happened in Manchester. All the big clubs, like Candy, charge bands to play. If labcl scouts arc out there, bands will pay. That’s not how it was when it began.”

The trappings of grunge arc not limited to Seattle though. Record exccutives are filling flights all over the contincnt looking for the next Nirvana.

When Halifax p u p Sloan were rcccnlly

signed for $1 million to Geffen Records ( r d y absorbed into the MC4 Records empire- samelabdasNirvana-themedia quickly anointed Halifax the second-~~ming of gnmge.

“What’s happened is that people (the media) will see three bands in. an area and they’ll call it a scene,” notes Sub-Pop’s silverman.

When asked about whether there has been any kind of grunge

Seatde :scene and their northern neighbors in Vancouver, The Daily’s Smith had some positive words.

“I don’t know about Canada. Vancouver is one of the better places t~ open up next as a scene. It’s sort of like San Francisco.”

Vancouver is a likely candidate to be the next Seattle because: it’s like San Francisco? Hmmm....

And what of the future for new gningeless bands?

‘‘A lot of bands get overloloked,” says Sub-Pop Silvenrtan.

‘There are all these bands like Flop (from Portland, another

f3eetradiehappeningbetweenthe

Polrtland band to have a grunge sound.”

Ubtimately, Silvernmn feels the scene is dying down

‘The label (Sub-Pop) is looking to other places to expand,” heexplains.“It’simportantnotto trap yourself in onc sound.”

The context of this countorcultural musical movmcnt has movcd h m the pcriphcry to the ccntcr. Grunge has cntcred thc mainstream.

The Marquis de Sade and avant-garde earsplitting :: a fun night at the Grunt

G by Dale Sawyer

ibson Les Pa& Marshall theduotouseandabusetheirheirinstnanents amps-rhe set-up that greeted in any way they thought could accelerate

the patrons attending Paul Dolden and the pieces’ progress, not necessarily in Ron Samworth’s performance at the ways that would totally satisfy the Grunt Gallery on the from night of directives of the Geneva convation. January13thforebodethesortofevening This was no new age crystal- whae one might find meself whirled dangling hippie space jam however, as into the eye of a furious moshpit. their offcolour comments towards ard

about each otha between pieces s e n l e d

MUSIC to remind, while it’s clear that years of Paul Dolden and Ron Samworth past work (and possibly millions of Grunt Gallery (209 E. 6th) lives) by the individual paformers were January 13 being drawn upon to maximize the

aesthetics and the challenge to the “Garage rock” \NU the ironic listener their music presents, Dolden

description offered. by Dolden and Samworth were aware that immediately pre-show, as much a humour coupled with a casual on- commentontheappearanceoftheyoung stagedemeanorwerenecessaryinor~ musicians facing the audience while to avoid generating another wielding the abolve-mentioned overbeatinglyacademic atmosphere :for instruments of “old-school” cochlcan e standing-room-only audience assault as on the sub-comfortable (well, there were only 8 chairs). temperature in the gallery that The theoretical rantings wouldhavebeenjustassuitable portion of evening, which for creating the ambience of consisted of a discussion by the folks’ workshopcum- Dolden on the literury sOn/daughter’s teen zit validity of the worb of WSpraCtiSeSpace. the Marquis de Sade

as well as readings

possibly havebeenofferedby anyoneof somewhere by the authority figure of the insufferable J i y Page wannabees his choice, also helped to downplay the currently available for any takers. ‘serious’ tone present at many olhcr

and theoretical rantings” was a Aw hell, there’s bcer available at demonstration of the range of feels- most of these things so it’s up to’you from crystalline beauty to (and your pocketbook) how stuffy and windtunnelloid fury“that could be repressed you’re gonna fcel. achicved with a coupla guitars, a cello, The admission charge was very a violin, and a whole whack of outboard reasonable (less than $4) (okay, $3) and effects and pedals, including the 8- the musical experience is one I’m second pedal delay so heartily endorsed doubtful I’ll be able to forget for a good by the individual performers.

Dolden was a musical My advice: check these things out. Arb &alleries, certain

nightclubs, and venues such as the Glass Slippcr (r.i..p.)

shimmering icef dcdicating presenting roaring engines. an music on the edge, celestialpattems. while should bc regularly Samworth anchored prowlcd by anyone

interested in hasingsounds

t h a t and blazing transcend runs that seemed to tiart randomly, or thc usual conventions. should I say chaotically, across the NC. 1’11 bc on t h ~ lookout lor I ~ C

frequency spectrum in a way not next soiree whcrc Doldcn and normallycontrollcd by thoscof human Samworth get ill with Lheu electric descent. guitars, Echo-Pluscs, and rcfincd

semi-improvisational. format to allow Ooh la la.

This “evening of controlled noise avant-garde music gigs.

The 9Qt minutc show used the clitssical literature

Dildos don’t shc W hentheword with a sweater over it, and his

“dildo” waa used in the spa~se. and you will have a play Lips Together, Teeth picturcofthetypidaudiena Apan.Iwassurethatthe~wmty mcmben for thenight. baldhcaded,middleclrssWest Van-typea I counted from the THEATRE b a l m y would be ahodced. Lip Together. Teeth Aprt

Luckily. the -tly The Vancouver Playhouse conaervative audience at the V a n c o u v e r Playhouse was more liberal- minded than I imagined than to b e . B l d j U R W of a bald, though fit. 57-year-old ~ m t i n a t u r t l l

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Theam company The Vancouver PlOyhOUSC until January 30

NOI only waa there salty language (although the word ‘dildo” wyu atoned for by a refcnnce

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by Nl& same sentence). them waa alrcl cleavage. 1 mean the upoaure cf a bosom because of ;I

revealing top wom by Chla Haddock (Goldie Semple). lhir ador stole the firat a d (a least).

Ihe set, representing the patio of a Fire Island, New Yo& beach house and ma including a smdl swimming pool, was of top quality. However, I found the set’l colouring to be tou monochromatic-a beige- brown, unvarnished-wood

To puaml further with production detaila. t h e

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by Lucho van kschot R rnompson’s moods

milicking drunken bliss. and back again.

experience. Cathartic, maybe. But not exactly

swing from violent, vulgar depression to

I couldn’t 3ay that the concert was an uplifting

uplifting.

MUSIC Richard Thompson Vancouver East Cultural Centre Wednesday, January 13

Thornpan’s words and music blow the lid off of the ordinary and the mundane, and expose the dkturbii truths which motivate us.

When he sings, ‘I’m Gonna Break Somebody’s ’ Heart Tonight,’’ it is a truly disturbing, albeit honest, admission of frustration and anger. In many ways, it is also a cry for help.

On his current acoustic tour. Thompson is accompanied by Danny Thompson (no relation) on the stand up bass.

This bare-bones approach worked perfectly. It the ideal medium for Thompson’s twisted *fig. Through most of the 70-minute set, I hung on

:very poignant phrase. By contrast, Thompson’s in-between song 4 was casual and light-hearted. Itwouldhavebeengreattoseehimwithafull

i,andtohavebeenabletogetupanddance. Still, it was one of the betta shows I’ve seen in lg time, and I hope he comes back to Vancouver L

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POETRY Traversing Realities January 16 & 17 A.ungh cultural society

I by Stan Paul

ith the strictness and formality found at UBC lecture halls, Traversing Realities brought together diverse writers for a poetq and ~ o s e reading last weekend.

ckaccountants The ~rch-m John Hddock wescllothedinpinkprrnuranda white ]go shirt. Even the most egregious pvep never would indulge m such a shocking look.

d e n d from t b i a costuming solecism.

In LTTA, playwright Tarauce McNally pmscnu a nmtraditionalview ofthesetwo middle-aged het couples spending a Fourth of July weekend in the midat of a gay canmunity.

One of the women’s brothcn. thc ennvhilc owner of the hW* hal died of AIDS-

ThemAbilityoftheprodudion

kind of elegaic. fare-thee-well tone permeating the play. That is. we feel the dead

others in his predicament. are

the heu they have known and yes, spumed.

Nasty WASPs on a bummer. and middle-agedoncr at that. ia an over-riding theme of 4 s . ’ E a main theme. and its catty exposition, rather limit rhcplay’sappeal (Tncidentally, the modemist sterility of the

brothadpernaps

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architecture does nothing to help LIIC

play’s appcal. The V a n c o u v e r Playhouse ia unpleasant to 1x in.)

All I can say on the plua side is that the AmCriGan

themes evoked by the culminating Fourth-of-July fimworkr as well as by tlhe r e f m a s to Thomas Jdfemm and the Long Island-style consumer culture, are d m s h i q and even slightly exhiluating.

Traversing realities-sponsored by the Rungh cultural society andTSA€l publications-enabled listeners fiorn all backgrounds to be athmed with some of the conflicts immigrant men and particularly women face when crossing their .social and cultural boundaries. There were three featured artists for Slunday evening.

Yasmin Ladha. enjqyed, was skilled in acting tlhepartoftheder.Shediscussed1 with relation to her Indo- Muslim heritage.

story coll.ection called the Lion’s “Readerji.” in a conscious

directly involved in her creation of

book’s first stcry “Beena,” a story of a of her role as a woman as well as her

the Asian Studies department) in a

Eiterature.

relationship with Allah.

control over her life. She has

€mks on a recent trip. pesented much stronger expressions of her political theories. The main course of the evening began with her readiig of a petition against “the rising of fascism

in India-in the name of God.” Her somber criticism of male dominance, “white politics. and the industrialized world’s dominance of the third world,” were covered in excerpts from her work.

The climax of the evening was when Bannerji treated us to an unpblishcd work entitlcd “MY mother and the Moon.”

Inremembranceofhermoth~herprosedemibodtheshatteringofhcre1tlerlymoth~’sfailhwhen “he Americans landed on the moon toreveal that on the other side of death there isnothing.”They only found it dark and empty: there were no lost souls. She said of herself that thc reason why she does not write love poems is that she has “so much to do before she gets the privilege.” -

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U of A paper charged with anti-Semitism (YITAWA (CUP)-The University ofAlberta's student newspaperhas refused to apologize for publishing a cartoon that Edmonton Jewish groups call anti-Semitic.

The cartoon, which appeared on the editorial page of the Jan. 5 edition of the Gateway, depicts an Israeli soldier pointing a gun at the Virgin Mary cradling baby Jesus in her arms. The caption reads What if ... Jesus was born in 19921"

Six complainta relating to the cartoon were filed last week with the university's student council.

"his is purely anti-Jewish," said Sid Indig, executive diredor of the Jewish Federation of Edmonton. "It perpetrates the 'Christ Killer' myth which has even been repudiated by the Church."

Indig and other Jewish groups wanted the Gateway's editor-in- chief, Karen Unland, to apologize to the Jewish community in the newspaper's Jan. 13 edition.

While expressing regret at the

Unland stated in this week's edi- tarial, that the cartoon had only meant to criticize Israel's treat- ment of Palestinians and had been

The editorial said the paper stands by the cartoonist and his intent in the creation of the cartoon. Unland said the paper received about 20 phone calls and five or six people who showed up to complain in person.

Student union vice-president Jolanda Slagmolen said Unland and managing editor Malcolm Azania would be called to appear before the student union's press committee this week.

Shesaidifthecommitteerules an apology is in order and the newspaper refuses to print one, both editors could be fired.

Ever since the Jan. 5 edition hit newsstands, Unland and her volunteer staff have been over- whelmed by letters and a flood of angry phone calls from irate read- ers. .It's very stressful." said

misinterpreted.

been reasonable, (but) two or three have been abusive. It's hard to take."

The cartoon was drawn by U of Astudent Ahmed Hussein, who has contributed about eight draw- ings to the newspaper since Sep- tember.

In the cartoon, the soldier says, "F'irst we had to shoot three wise guys trying to cross the River Jor- dan, and now we find you having an unauthorized gathering past curfew!" Another caption at the bottom of the panel says, "That ain't very kosher, is it?"

U of A president Paul Daven- port slammed the cartoon a t a Jan. 8 board of governors meeting, re- ported the Jan. 9 edition of the Edmonton Journal.

"I find the cartoon to be offen- sive and not appropriate to an in- stitution which is committed to tolerance and understanding for people of all backgrounds," said Davenport. The board voted to send a letter to the newspaper con-

community's angry reaction, Unland. W o s t phone calls have demning the cartoon. " "

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Riots, film galvanize black students r

by Karen Neustadt ORLANDO, Fla ( C W C U P ~ l - lege campuses throughout the United States celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday Jan. 18, marking the end of a year of un- precedented black empowerment fuelled by the Loe Angeles riots, and inspired by a film about the life of Malcolm X.

Racial incidents and institu- tional neglect brought a fluny of peaceful protesta, sit-ins and dem- onstrations by African-American students, some of whom say they have a powerful new sense of iden- tity and purpose.

Some studenta suggest the re- surgent interest in Malcolm X clothing, hats, buttonsandT-shirts is connected with feelings of disen- chantment with current black leadership.

"People are more aware oftheir heritage. I think people are finally beginningtorecognize we don'thave to sit at the back of the bus, that we are a viable presence; said Iyailu Noses, director of the African- American Cultural Centre at North Carolina State University at Ra- leigh, N.C.

'It is empowering," she added. Moses said that black students

at NCSU are learning to "maturely approach" the school's top adminis- tration in a way that would not have been possible a decade ago.

'I think there is a revival of interest in our culture, and it is being translated into students tak- ing more of a responsible role in addressing issues that were incor- rect," Moses said.

For example, 65 black NCSU students recently staged a sit-in at the college radio station to protest its programming policies.

The students-who requested more prime-time hours for African- oriented music-crowded into the broadcast booth and adjoining lobby for about two hours.

The demonstration was scheduled after students ap- proached the station's general manager and were told no changes wouldbemadeinthemusicformat.

Black students at the Univer-

sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently used new-found cloutincludingavisit from film- maker Spike Lee, who made the movie W c o l m X"-to convince officials to build a free-standing black cultural centre.

While black studenta debated the wisdom of a separate facility, a consensus was finally reached and Chancellor Paul Hardin en- dorsed a plan in November for the centre, which will include agallery to display African-American art.

Tim Smith, a UNC football quarterback and member of the school's Black Awareness Coun- cil, said watching television cov- erage ofthe Loa Angeles riots last year changed his life. The vio- lence erupted aRer the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King.

'I don't remember this, but my mom said I just sat transfixed, saying over and over, 'I've just got to something, l've just got to do something ...'

'It is obvious (since the riots:) that students have become more aware of their treatment," he added.

The two North Carolina campuses weren't the only ones to confront racism directly.

In early November, 200 black: students at the University of Rhode Islan'd demonstrated when they learned that a Malcolm X quotation carved in granite on the front ofthe school libraryhadbeen edited to omit a reference to %ghting the white man."

The students were also angry the quote was paired with one from Thomas Jefferson, a US president who owned slaves.

At Alabama State University at Montgomery, a predominantly black college, thousands of stu- dents took part in a demonstra- tion demandinglower parking fees and a vote on the board of trust-. ees.

Football players boycotted! games, and as many as 1,000 or the 5,500 students filled the halls

one p in t . Student leaders say black

students are searching for their place nn history.

TheMalcolmXmoviehasjust come out and a lot of' students are trying to find out more about themselves and their history," said R a d Hoxie, chairman of the stu- dent-run University of Texas In- stitute for the Healing of Racism.

We need to t a k e responsibil- ity for our own racism and hope that it will be contagious so that others will emulate us," Hoxie said, noting: that the Los Angeles riots also spurred many 13tudents into action on the Austin, Texas cam- PUS.

There have alwaysbeen black organizations on campus, and they have heen doing projiects on black issues, but we are now fortifying old values," he said.

Hoxie meeta with a group of students each week .whose goal is to fight racism on campus. The institute professes that education and communication are the keys to wiping out a generation of rac- ism.

Butinstitutionalracismisonly a piece of the equation, say black students who have responded dur- ing the fall semester la racial slurs by protesting until at public apol- ogy was made.

At the University of Califor- nia at Loe Angeles, 200 black stu- dents marched in October to de- mand that the student government stop funding fraternities after media reports focused attention on racist and sexist lyrics in Theta Xi and Sigma Phi fraternity songbooks.

UniversityofGeargiastudenta protested the Same month when it became known that a Pi Kappa Phi fraternity handbook included the phrase 'no niggers."The presi- dent of the fraternity apologized publiclly, although thefraternityis appealing its suspension.

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January 19,1993 Canadian University Press

The Ubyssey is published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Alma Mater Society of ths University of British Columbia. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not necessarily those of the university administration. or of the sDonsor. The editorial office is mom 24lKofthe Student Union Building. Editorial Department, phone 822-2301; advertising, 822-3977; FAX 822-9279.

Adrian Desfosses slowly crossed the boundary into oblivion, a deep dark swirling mist into which Nicholas Delany and Don Ramseyhad already surrendered themselves. “Help, Help,” cried Lucho van Issochot as Siobhan Roantree pulled him behind her into nothingness. Denise Woodley had to think quickly. Grabbing Steve Chow and Sam Green, she ran off down the pink gdded road in search of the antidote. Mark P. knew where it was but, even standing on the edge on the great nothing into which he had been swallowed, Yukie Kurahashi could not quite hear his words of wisdom. Paula Wellings with her super stereo mike saved the day, pulling the rescue party with her onto Mark P.’s magic carpet. The complex organic compound which Hao Li said was the antidote looked like large pink globs of spider on the side of the bottle. Patrick Shu took the bottle and hurled himselfthrough the gateway, watched by Doug Ferrisand Frances Foran. Dale Sawyer added salt and Stan Paul found the pepper. A large apple pie appeared in the office and was promptly devoured by a hungry Miranda Alldritt. Then the hole was gone and all the people came back to live happily in Bill Dobie’s dream.

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Tuition protests work!

You may think that tu- ition protests don’t do much good. No matter how many students show up, it seems, those in power will do what they want, tuition will go up obscenely, and no good will come of the shouting, the placards, and the speeches.

“hat’s wrong. In No- vember, a relatively mall group of a few dozen stu- dents walkedinto the Board of Governors meeting and spoke their minds about the Administration’s proposed 18% tuition increase. They told their stories, then leR.

As a student member of the Board, I stayed in the meeting. Surprisingly enough, the other Board members took what the students had said quite se- riously. Most of them were students here once too, and understood the plight of those of us who can’t afford another $350 or more on our fee statements.

They listened to the

students’ tales - presented rationally, with a minimum of accusation and vitriol - and had no choice but to think that just maybe we had a point.

Protests not only let the Board know that studenta disagree with the Administration’s proposals, but also get media publicity - which usually gets the general publicinvolved. And when the public is involved, the provincial government - which provides most of UBC’s funding - must also take notice.

If sufficient pressure is brought to bear on the Ad- ministration and the Board, and from enough different directions, there is a good chance that they will change their minds and reconsider what constitutes a reason- able fee increase. Unless a large number of students speak out, however, very little can be done.

’JXs’I%umday(Janua~y 21)at12:3OintheSUBPlaza a rally will be held, followed byamarchtotheUBCBoard of Governors meeting at the

Old Administration Build- ing near Sedgewick Library. If you think 18% tuition in- creases are out of line, you should attend.

Derek K. Miller Student Board of

Governors Member

PCs slam pretenders Iamwritinginresponse

to the article that appeared in the Sunday edition [ofthe Vancouver Courieredl con- cerningefforts toremove the student funding portion of The Ubyssey budget.

I have not yet seen cop- ies of the communication between The Ubyssey and Mr. Saunderson nor the wording of the referendum, but I want to assure your readers that the opinions he expresses neither represent the views of the Vancouver Quadra Progressive Con- servative Riding Association nor of the Progressive Cpn- servative Party at the na-

tional level. I th ink tha t The

Ubyssey should be com- mended that it has repeat- edly published Mr. Saunderson’s letters even though he is attempting to frustrate The Ubyssey’s ability to continue publica- tion.

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Progressive Conserva- tive Association

Short on stats Jennifer Johnson’s re-

view of David Suzuki’s lec- ture contains the startling statistic of 50 000 species per day being extinct. In my notes, I wrote down 6 species per day, which works out to under 2 000 species per year. Which is the correct etatie- tic?

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game After reading your full

page feature on the gulf war in the January 15 issue, I hadan almostoverpowering urgetowriteyouaverynasty letter.

I wanted to say some- thingalongthelinesofvou hypocritical bastrards! Who the hell are you guys (and guys) to splatter your front page with this nonsense about the despotic United States picking on innocent Iraq? Do you really believe that Mordecai Briemberg, the unacclimated leader of the Society for the Politi- cally Misguided, is a source to be quoted for journalistic accuracy?And where did you get all those god-awful sta- tistics-from Saddam’s Most Excellent World Almanac and Book of Facts? .

’I mean really, who are you trying to kid? Where were your articles con- demning the atrocities tak- ing place in Yugoslavia (real

ones, in fact). Why have you never written about the Red Army’s intervention in the Republic of Moldavia? How come you shy away from dis- cussing China’s bloody occu- pation of Tibet, its continu- ing efforts to quell democ- racy, and/or Beijing‘s nasty habit of proliferatingnuclear technology to Iran? And why not condemn Germany’s rather lack-lustre response to neunazism (you know, the Hitler thing and all...).

“Of course, putt ing down the United States is a lot more fun than serious journalism. And you get to talk to some really neat people others tend to avoid. But, hey, Bolsheviks will be Bolsheviks.”

After deep consideration while washing the bird droppings off my car, I de- cided that it would be best not to send you such a re- sponse. Instead, I now plan to help those forces working to dismantle your socalled newspaper in any way I can.

See you at the SUB 241K renovation party.

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UBC honours past prez with a dangling modifier by Borut aogola*v.ni.

I During my last visit to the Uni- versity of British Columbia, I also went to see the inside of the Walter Gage residences. In the lobby, I also took a close view of a bust of the UBC's past president Walter Gage, who was apparently very much re- spected and liked by almost every- one at UBC. When .I was reading the text on the memorial plaque below the bust, the following sen- tence attracted my attention: uAa a member of the Faculty, his high standard of teaching was recog- nized. when he received the first

modifies the possessive pronoun, "his" in the above example, w~as called in one book %e classical example of a dangling modifier". Using dangling modifier, which seems to be one of the worst of- fences against the English lan- guage, on a memorial plaque seen18 quite an insult to the memory of a university president, especially when one considers that one of the tasks of a university is to educate its students in the proper usage of the language.

However, this is not the only insult to the memory of the Presi-

her university studies if hidher mm~nand of the English language, as evaluated on the l3asis of such an essay, is found to be lacking.

Now is these mistakes c8n not be to'leratedin students'essays how is it possible that nnistakes of the same kind obvious1,y are tolerated when originating from the UBC Administration, very likely the Senate, to whom certainly higher standards should apply to first- yearundergraduates.Ibe1ievethat such a situation rairles an interest- ing legal question. Does the UBC Admistration have the right to en-

'Mast& Teacher Award'." force any requirement There was something in this sentence that did not sound

concerning: the UBC stu- dents' command of the English language, when

ing" that was h member of itself is obviously lackinn the Faculty". I have always though dent Gage that I found. On another

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"his high standard of teach- the UBC Administration

that only well qualified ind iv idd scholarscouldbecomemembersofa university's faculty, and that high standard of teaching was but one of theessentialqualificationsexpected from such individuals, albeit quite often not met by a number of them.

Hut, to repeat, English is not my mother tongue, as is quite likely ala0 evident from the present letter; so I remained wondering whether the above syntactical construction was not one of the peculiarities of the English language, and hesitated to write anything about that. (If it was the matter of finding errors committed in my subject: physics, the situation would be different. I have written already twice about the errors in high-school math- ematics commited in their publica- tions by some professors of the UBC Physics Department; incidently, I was not alone in doing that).

Then, at the first opportunity, I ,visited a couple of libraries, and checked a few books, about three dozens, on English grammar. They were all unanimous that the above construction was definitely a no-no, becauseitinvolvessomethingcalled "a d a n g l i n g modifier". "he case, when the modifier, which in the above example is a member of the Faculty", dangles because i t

plaque next to his bust there is at least another mistake. There, a reminiscence of a past UBC sR1- dent is found, telling how this stu- dent was completely broke and ho w President Chge, in his kindness, gave him some money out of his own pocket to help him get over that plight. That narration ends with a quote; "It was quite an expe- rience. I certainly needed it", or something like that.

I have wrtainly never expected that the experience of being com- pletely broke was something that anybody, except a dedicated mm- whist, would need. I would rather expect, and a0 would quite likely everyone else, that a completely broke student would need some money. One certainly wonders whether late President Gage, as a mathematician, would be likely to accept such a logical nonsense as the above question.

One must wonder, further, whether grammatical and/or lo@- calmistakes,likethetwomentioned above, would be tolerated in essays which, as I understand it, all first year undergraduate at the UBC must write to prove their satisfac- tory command of the English lan- guage. I understand, furthermore, that a student cannot continue hid

in this department? Afte; all, does the requirement that the UBC stu- dents display proper command of the English language not prevent some of them to h o m e tomorrow themselves membelrs of the UBC Administration; considering that some of the present members evi- dently would not meet thisrequire- ment; themselves, does this not constituteasortofunjustdiscrimi- nation?

On the other hand, if the mis- takeEl of the above lype are toler- ated in the students' essays then there does not seem to be any rea- son that the studelnts write any essays for the purpose of checking their command of the English lan- guagca. Other than giving rise to unnecessary costs and causing a lotofeverybody'stimetobewasted, the requirement that the students write those essays creates but a false .illusion that u13C makes cer- tain that ita graduates have a proper command of the English language when this does not seem, in fad, to be the case even with some members of the UBC Admin- istration.

Eking only an outsider, I shall leave this matter to the reflection of the UBC Administration and especially the UBC students. After all: ?ILTuM EST.

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Prolmilitary researcher resigns by Susan O'nim TQRONTO(CUP&One ofOntario's top space research facilities, based at York University, is scrambling to deflect criticism after the sudden reuignation of its executive director.

George MacFarlane, executive director of the Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science (ISTS), re- signed after a board meeting last month. In a speech he gave last March, MacFarlane spoke of his dream of seeing Canada become a mejor military space power.

He said the Canadian Forcea needs to have personnel capable of reading infrared photographs deliv- ered by remote sensing in order to improve precision bombing.

The institute would be pleased to develop a series of short courses to teach the Canadian For- to read these images, he said.

Copies ofhis speech were leaked to the media at the beginning of De cember.

Joan Wick Pelletier, associate research vice-president at York and an ISTS board member, said the board was unaware of MacFarlane's speech until its publication last month and was very surprised by his comments.

?His comments are] in conflict with the institution and are an em- barrassmenttotheinstitution ... They do not accurately reflect ISTS," Pelletier said.

MacFarlane was a member of the team which organized the bid to bring the Intcmational Space Uni- versity to York.

Ron McCullough, chair of the boardofISTS,acceptedMacFarlane's resignation in a private meeting. MacFarlane resigned, he said, be- cause he felt hc had lost the board's confidence.

'George MacFarlane was not fired," McCullough said. We ten- dered his resignation and had not undertaken any activity which was

- contrarytotheopenlystated&earch policies of the institute."

AgroupcalledYorkCommunity Concerned About the Future of York wrote a letter to York President Su- sanManncallingfor aninveatigation intotheinstitute.Asoflastweek, the president had not replied. David Noble and Janice Newson-the two professors who wrote the letter- believe MacFarlane was fired.

"It was a failed attempt at dam- age control," said Noble. % made public what ISTS was about."

'"hisillustratesoneoftheprob lems with having these groups on campus. Itis not an acamntablebody, throughorganizationslikethe[York] Senate," Newson said.

The institute is one of seven Ontario Centres of Excellence, each of them partnerships between one or more universities and private com-

It's headquarters are at York, but it works with the Universities of Toronto, Waterloo, Westem Ontario and with Humbcr College ofApplied Arts & Technology. Set up in 1987, it is funded through the Ontario Minis- try of Industry, Trade and Technol- ogy and by commercialization of ISTS research and development.

ISTS has promised not to per- form classified research and to pub- lish all of its research. That is in keeping with the policics of its host universities. It will not, howcvcr dis- close %cy aspects" of the rcscarch until after appropriate documcnta- tion for patent, copyright or d c s i s has bcen filed.

'Classified military research does not fit with what our scientists and researchers or our host universi- tics want to do. The rcscarch that ISTS does is research in acquiring knowledge and data, complctcly sci- entific," said McCullough.

'Absolutclycverythingpcsinto thepublicliterature, andothcrpplc then apply it," he said.

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PROTEST THURSDAY 21, JANUARY RALLY: at the Board of Governors Meeting

MEET: 12:30 in front of SUB (South side)

March to the Old Administration Building. Bring banners, completed petitions, and your friends.

FOR MORE INFO: MICHAEL HUGHES 822-2894

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