Kuehn on the NDP’s future Behind the scenes at the N DP son to vote for me”, he tells sev-

“I’ve not asked a single per-

Leadership Convention. by Ian Gunn

Donovan Kuehn can’t make it down the hall without being stopped. He is walking along the hallway at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre towards the floor of the NDP leadership convention, and every few steps somebody wants to shake his hand and thank him for running.

An anti-nuclear activist re- minds Kuehn that nukes have sadly fallen off the NDP agenda, a youth delegate in leather pants and Doc-Martens wishes him well, a prominent cabinet min- ister tells him he has ‘hit the nail on the head’ with part of a

their political idealism and diffi- cult questions to support the man deemed the most electable by the Party.

Kuehn is voicing some of those concerns. It is a fact not lost on the editorial writers at The ?hncouver Sun. The weekend edi- tion applauds Kuehn as the “one candidate [who] has dared to re- fer to the suppressing of debate within the party. In challenging the powerful, Mr. Kuehn better exemplifies the spirit of party saints such as Tommy Doug1 =...than any of the ‘suits’.’’

“We need to stop speech, and a life member who bringing in populist proudly announces that he is 82 thanks Kuehn for his efforts to legislation that bring the party back to its social conscience. There is even a baby to kiss.

The 26 year-old UBC Geog- raphy student, part time Safeway clerk and leadership hopeful is smiling under the mop of hair that makes him easy to recog- nize. He is polite, and-to all out- ward appearances-having the time of his life as he says hello to dozens of people who are full of enthusiasm and encourage- ment, but who will, with only 23 exceptions, all vote for someone else as leader.

In the course of the three days of the convention it becomes clear that most people are genu- inely pleased to have Kuehn in the race. He says the things the young left are supposed to say; a comfort to the many delegates who seem to have swallowed

targets the poor.“ -Donovan Kuehn

Kuehn’s main platform is op- position to the NDP Govern- ment’s BC Benefits legislation. It runs contrary to the social demo- cratic legacy of the NDP, says a pamphlet bearing Kuehn’s smil- ing face on the cover, and is bad news for both young people and the poor.

“The program,” Kuehn tells the convention in a speech on Friday, LLhas targeted those who are least able to protect them- selves. We need to stop bringing in populist legslation that targets the poor.” The applause is mildly enthusiastic.

But where Kuehn is serious about his political ideology, he is more sanguine with his back- room politics.

eral reporters. “I’ve laid things out and said ‘Here I am. This is what I stand for. I’m looking for votes,”’ but I haven’t actually asked anyone for their vote in so many words. That’s the way I operate and it’s something I’m proud of.”

It is impossible to get a pre- diction of his delegate support from Kuehn, but a couple of the six or seven members of his cam- paign team quietly venture guesses in the 30 to 50 range. Whatever number Kuehn has swimming privately in his head as the results are read, it is higher than the 23 votes he actually gets. Seconds after the an- nouncement he tells a radio re- porter’s microphone that 23 votes is slap in the face.” Ten minutes later, his reaction has become “bitter disappointment,” and within an hour simple “dis- appointment” and a little embar- rassment at the ‘slap in the face’ comment. Most people in the convention hall-delegates and media pundits alike-seem to think the result is in-line with the voting mood of the room.

Vaughn Palmer, columnist for The Vancouver Sun says that he thinks Kuehn acquitted himself well.

“What was tough for Donovan,” he tells ne Ubyssey, “is that his message is not the most welcome thing right now while the party is trying to stress unity, so he was pretty coura- geous there. But I’ve had several people say that they hope to see him in the Legislature, and I think he’s the next generation of the party.”

DONOVAN KUEHN does a little self promotion sloBHAN mANTREE

Palmer’s belief in Kuehn’s po- litical future is shared by Kuehn himself. By the end of the week- end, Kuehn is telling the press he is “seriously considering” a run for the NDP nomination in Vancou- ver Point Grey. It’s between h m and longtime social activist Jim Green. The decision, says Kuehn, will come in a few days. “Not that I have to have party support to run

for the nomination,” he says “but at the moment there are people who do want me [to run] and peo- ple who don’t. We’ll know by the end to the week.”

Until then, Kuehn says he’s eager to catch up on his courses, pay off some of the $2,500 in bills the campaign ran up and return to some form of anonym- ity as a student.

UBC Food Group taste-tests fast food idea by Chris NutaIl-Smith

A UBC Food Group survey is asking students in some UBC residences to list their favourite fast food chains-just in case the food group decides to open a fast food franchise on campus.

The surveys, distributed to about 4000 students in Place Vanier and Totem Park, asked residents if they would “like to see more fast food chains, such as McDonald’s at UBC.”

“I don’t have any definite plans to bring in a branded concept like [KFC or Tim Horton’s], but I was just wondering if it ever happened for example, what would students

like, what are their preferred brands,” said Food Group Direc- tor Christine Samson.

Samson says any decision to open a fast food franchise would involve consultations with stu- dents, an advisory committee and the university administra- tion. “It’s not something that I would bring in unilaterally over- night,” she said, adding that fast food franchises run by the Food Group would have to be staffed mainly by unionized employees.

The Food Group, which holds a monopoly on campus food serv- ices outside the SUB, operates about 24 outlets including coffee

and snack shops, a full service res- taurant, residence cafeterias and mobile catering trucks.

Several Canadian universities, including Guelph, Lethbridge and Carleton have on-campus fast food outlets run by campus food services.

Samson said many fast food companies would like to see their franchises at UBC. “We’re always being approached-people are always selling and we’re a prime customer,” she said.

But the president of UBC’s Student Environment Centre Mark Brooks says the Food Group should be wary of court-

ing fast food chains. “The reason for that,” Brooks

said, LLare the same reasons we oppose McDonald’s coming to the Village; things we believe are health issues, environmental is- sues, corporatization and animal rights issues.

“They should solicit the input of the university community as a whole, because I think the re- sponse from the larger campus community would be quite ddfer- ent from the response of residents who are mainly first and second year students,” Brooks said.

But Place Vanier Resident’s Association president Son-ja

Rossteuscher welcomed the idea of on-campus fast food chains. “It’s a good idea because it’s an- other option. f ight now UBC Food Services all over campus are the same thing, and at least with a franchise you have to live up to set quality standards,” Rossteuscher said.

Rossteuscher says many uni- versity students would support a franchise run by Food Services. “There’s tons of people in resi- dence who go to McDonald’s or Subway at least once a week.”

Samson says the results of the survey will be released in a few weeks.

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on the corner of Hastings and Carrol St. stands tall, red and empty, with a message painted boldly across its windows: “This building is ours-Save Wood- wards!”

The plea, issued by the Down- town Eastside Residents Associa- tion (DERA), was prompted by private developers’ plans to turn the site into high-priced condos and commercial space-demol- ishing the symbolic heart of the Victory Square neighbourhood in the process.

DERA and other downtown eastside advocacy groups have lobbied hard for government- subsidized social housing on the former Woodwards site since the building closed in January 1993. Private developers anxious to “re- vitalize” the area with market housmg won out, however, and in July 1995 the city of Vancouver approved Fama Holding Ltd’s plan for 353 high-end condos and 250,000 ft’ of retail and commer- cial space.

The proposed “upscale” rede- velopment was immediately chal- lenged by DERA and the Carnegie Community Action Project. While most agreed the building needed to be revitalized, DERA worried that once private developers seized hold of the area’s historical centre, the rest of the neighbourhood would follow.

“It is obvious that Woodwards is creating a black hole in the middle of the city and this neighbourhood,” explains DERA Executive Director Barb Daniel, “it’s just that we want it to be revitalized, not ‘steam- rollered.”’

The site’s $160,000 condo suites would be unattainable for the mainly low income East Hastings community, DERA adds, potentially driving the area’s existing residents out in a text-book case of gentrification.

Gentrification, explains UBC Geography professor David Ley, is a process of “managerial and professional people moving into the downtown core and displac- ing the existing poorer commu- nity.”

Ley and others worry that the downtown eastside will go the way of other gentrified locations like Yaletown and Gastown. “Gastown today is what people worry that the downtown eastside will be like in ten years time,” Ley says.

He says upscale development tends to force land prices up, cre- ating further pressure for more redevelopment.

“This will include existing rooming houses and single resi- dency occupancy hotels,” says Ley, “and owners of those pre- mises will be forced to sell them.”

Ley is quick to add that the question is not one of gentrification versus ghetto- ization; despite popular miscon- ceptions, Vancouver’s downtown eastside is actually fairly stable, with 40 percent of residents hav- ing lived in the area more than ten years.

“This counters the stereotype that a lot of people have, that this area is one of transients and drift- ers,” Ley says. “It’s actually a well-established and stable com- munity of the poor.”

Fama consultant Chuck Brook says the developers don’t intend to turn the area into another Gastown. “My vision of Victory Square is not some funky gentrified cabbage town, and it’s definitely not Gastown,” says Brook.

He says Fama is aware that “the next stop after a single occu- pancy residence is homelessness, and nobody’s objective is to force out the poor people of downtown eastside.”

The desire for a compromise involving both social and market housing may be realized with

former Premier Mike Harcourt’s recent announcement expressing the provincial government’s in- terest in becoming a partner in the development project.

Negotiations are now under way- between the city, the prov- ince, Fama and the community to decide on a mixed housing structure for the old Woodwards building.

DERA’s Barb Daniel wel- comes the provincial govern- ment’s intervention. “It’s a damn good thing that Harcourt got in- volved, because otherwise [Fama’s development plan] was not going to happen,” she says.

Daniel is confident that public

pressure would eventually have forced the developers to realize that their marketing plan wasn’t feasible.

“It was obvious to everyone that if people were going to buy the condos, they Lvouldn’t be wel- come in the neighbourhood,” she says.

IVith negotiations now under- way, Daniel says the community is “thrilled” to be a part of the plans.

Fama says i t is also pleased with the recent decision. “It does in some ways reduce the risk for us,” acknokvledges Brook.

For the time being, the pace of ,qentrification has been slowed.

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Activism Winns out by Kevin Drewes

Paul Winn, one of Vancouver’s most prominent anti-racists, was among several Black community leaders involved in February‘s Black History Month activities.

Winn was eager to discuss h s

sq, begmmg with IS first racial ex- perience as a nine-year-old living in Toronto.

“There was this barber shop around the comer,” he said, “so, I went in and the guy told me he couldn’t cut my hair because my hair would dull IS scissors.”

Although the experience affected Winn, it dldn’t even compare to an incident he read about five years later.

“There was this kid, fourteen, the same age as me, who was accused of whisthg at a whte woman. That night, some men came into his grandparents’ home, in the South, dragged h m out, kdled hun, tied a heavy weight around his head with barbed wire and threw h into the river.”

Reading about the brutal attack left Winn feeling as if he hated all White people.

“I hated the fact that they could do that to someone and

~- battles a g a m t racism with 7?u ubys-

PAUL ‘#INN stands against racism. DESIREADIB PHOTO escape without penalty,” he said.

The injustice spurred Winn to become an activist. He won his first moral victories at a North Vancouver high school, battling racist principals, track and field judges and girlfriends’ parents.

“I was leaning on the shoulder of a p-lfriend,” he said, “and the principal knocked on the window, called me into his office, and said to me that ‘From now on, when- ever you are speaking to any woman in this school, I want you to have a distance of three feet between you.”’

To fight back, Winn decided to tum the restriction into a joke.

“I walked around for a week with a yard stick. It caused such a furor that he was pissed off with me.”

Winn worked in a lumber yard after he graduated from high school. He also volunteered to teach North Shore children before becoming a social worker.

Winn, however, did not stop at social work. He held posi- tions in Nova Scotia’s Black United Front and the depart- ment of Correctional Services, before earning an advisory po- sition with the Ministry of Multiculturalism in the late 1970s.

It was t h ~ ~ advisory position that allowed Winn to prepare and fight legal cases. But, there was one prob lem.

“I kept getting my butt kicked by lawyers,” he said.

Winn was losing his battles be- cause he didn’t know the rules, so he went back to school and got a d e gree in law, whch enabled hun to work at the British Columbia Law Society.

In 1961, Winn described Ca- nadians as “closet biggots”- a de- scription, he feels, still applies to- day. “[Canadians] usually don’t do things overtly. They do things behind the scenes that affect

To defeat closet bigotry, Winn suggests education. However, he acknowledges the difficulty of at- tempting to change people’s atti- tudes.

“Unfortunately, as long as rac- ism is rooted in attitude and thought, and as long as we can- not change this thought and only combat racism with the threat of sanction, closet bigotry will con- tinue to survive.”

In the meantime, however, Winn has one thing to say to all bigots: “I am who I am and that is the way it is.”

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Ontario government more “intimidating” than student protestors, the CFS and others say

TORONTO (CUP) - Mem- bers of Ontario’s legal community say the intimidation charges laid against four Toronto students for their part in a recent protest rep- resent a government crackdown on dissent.

Peter Rosenthal, a University of Toronto Mathematics professor and criminal lawyer who has rep- resented numerous peace and so- cial activists, says the use of this charge represents the Ontario government’s attempt to stifle dis- sent.

“This government has taken a hard line against protest, and this is one more example,” said Rosenthal.

Rosenthal says the atmosphere in Ontario’s legislature has changed notably since the Conser- vatives were elected. For instance, he says, all people wearing anti- Tory buttons are prevented from entering the legslature.

Shraz Rawat, 23, from Ryerson Polytechnical University and Charles Kernerman, 24, from U of T, Michelle Vladislavova, 18, from Central Technical School and eighteen-year-old Jesse Black Allen from Western Technical School were charged under Section 51 of the Criminal Code with intending to “intimidate the legslature.”

The students were also charged with brealung and entering and mischief. They were released on $1000 bail.

In the Criminal Code, the in- timidation charge follows “Acts in- tended to alarm Her Majesty or break public peace” and precedes sections concerned with “sabo-

tage,” “mutiny” and “desertion.” The charge carries a maximum

sentence of fourteen years impris- onment.

Lawyers acting for the students say the charge may biolate the Ca- nahan Charter of Rights, whch p re tects people’s right to protest.

Howard Ruble, who is represent- ing Vladwlavova, says protest does not necessanly constitute intimida- tion.

“To intimidate versus protest are very different things. This section is more relevant to situations where there is a clear case of ex- tortion, for instance, if someone threatens to blow up the legislature if a vote doesn’t go a certain way,” he said.

I think what the government‘s doing

is saying, ‘Don‘t fuck with us because we will screw you to

the max“’

-Marc0 Santaguida

Though Roland Semprie, one of the two Toronto police detec- tives responsible for laying the charge, says he could not say why the charge was laid, he maintains the decision was not made by the Attorney General’s office.

“I laid the charge. The buck stops here,” Semprie told report- ers.

“There are a lot of laws that are not laid on a regular basis. But they are on the books.”

Some student groups, like Ryerson University’s student coun- cil, condemned the damage to the leplature.

“We don’t believe in the use of violence to acheve political means,” says Frank Cappadocia, an execu- tive assistant at RyeSAC. “Th~s is a major setback to student govem- mentsin Ontario.”

Student councils from both the University of Toronto and Ryerson Polytechnical University each pledged $1000 to help repair the damage to the legslature, while Niagara College’s student council chpped in $500 and the Ontario Community College Student Parlia- mentary Association added $250.

But accordmg to the president of the U of T’s student council, these charges carry a warning to students.

“I thmk what the government’s doing is saymg, ‘don’t fuck with us because we will screw you to the ma,”’ said Marco Santapda.

Sandra Neil, one of the protest’s o rpze r s , says the waist-hgh metal barricade installed h s fall by the Tory government tempts people to try and get past it, &e waving a red flag in front of a bull.

Canahan Federation of Students Ontario chair Heather Bishop also sees the barricade as representative of the Harris government’s anti- democratic policies.

The CFS has denounced the in- timidation charges and have set up a legal defense fund for the four stu- dents.

“The heavy-handed use of the

criminal law against these shldents is the clearest demonstration so far of the government’s systematic sup- pression of democratic rights,” said Bishop.

And she says if the charges are the result of over-zealous police officers, then the Attor- ney General’s office should step in and reduce or dismiss the charges.

Alan Borovoy of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association says the charges could discourage lawful

‘‘This is an outcome much to be regretted in a democratic society,” he said.

He adds the association has sent a letter to the Attorney General‘s of- fice asking h m to intervene person-

But Winnie Ng of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women says the charges will only fuel more protest against the gov- ernment.

“This is not going to intimidate us. This is going to get us more or-

ally.

and non-violent protests. ganized,” she said.

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- sports - T-Bird runners compete at CanWest finals by Scott Hayward

UBC Cross Country coach Marek Jedrzejek boasts that his team is a middle distance power- house-despite not having a proper running track.

Jedrzejek .said west coast weather provides year-round training, while the trails and parks on the university endowment lands are better than any artifical facility. “[It’s] one of the best you can find in North America. It’s like a mecca for runners,” he said.

This weekend, UBC was in Edmonton, Alberta at the Canada West finals. The men placed fourth overall and the women placed fifth in the seven team competition

Jan Kanngiesser and Peter Daubaras won gold and silver medals in the men’s high jump. Jeff Schiebler, who has already met the qualifying time for At- lanta in the 3000m, shaved more than two seconds off the Canada West record he set last year,

taking the gold medal with a time of 8:09.65.

“Those standards are very, very tough to achieve, you have to be a world class athlete,” said Jedrzejek, who will be the Canadian coach at the world championships in South Africa next month.

UBC’s program is also devel- oping a core of young talent that includes Leslie Gold and Randy Moody.

Gold’s running career had humble beginnings in her native

Richmond last month. Moody won easily while Chris-Bakaljto his right) came second. SCOTT HAYWARD PHOTO

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Montreal. After failing to make it onto several school teams, “I went out for the cross country team because they would take anyone, and so I started running that way,” she said. “Now I just can’t imagme not doing it.”

Jedrzejek has watched Gold develop in Vancouver. “This year she just exploded. She is ranked number four in the country [in the 1500m1,” he said.

“I think her chances are pretty good because she is a good kicker and her 800[m] times are quite competitive.” She combined with teammates Catriona Morrison, Catherine Bacon and Laura Wiggin to win the gold medal in the 4x800m relay event.

Gold, who balances her train- ing with a full course load in con- servation biology and a part-time job, is training to make the 01- ympic trials in Montreal this year. Beyond that, she doesn’t know how far her running will take her.

“In terms of how far I want to go, I never thought I’d get to ths level, so I can’t really say,” she said. “Whether it’s just recreational road running or continuing to do track in a serious way, I just always want it to be part of my life.”

Moody, a forestry major, was lured to the west coast after train-

ing at the University of Lethbridge for one year. He is also striving to make the Olym- pic trials in Montreal, and his coach believes he has the poten- tial to qualify. “I think it will be tough to qualify for Atlanta, but he is young,” Jedrzejek said.

“[Pacific Spirit Park] is like a

mecca for runners.“ -Cross Country coach

Marek Jednejek

Moody took the silver medal in the 1500rn, the bronze in the lOOOm and shared the bronze in the men’s 4x800m relay this weekend. He had already made the CIAU standard in the 1500m and 3000m, and his 2:26.07 in the lOOOm in Edmonton qualifies him for the 1000rn, but hasn’t yet decided which events he will run at the CIAU championships.

At a nationaljunior champion- ships in 1993, Moody learned to size up the competition. That event featured one very highly rated runner. “Everybody just en- tered a whole slew of events and waited. After he made his picks, they made theirs,” he joked.

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WOMEN‘S VOLLEYBALL:

Birds earn wild card b h to nationals by Scott Hayward

After chasing the Saskatch- ewan Huskies out of town in the semi-finals, UBC’s women’s vol- leyball team succumbed to the hometeam U of A Pandas in last weekend’s Canada West finals.

Despite the loss, the Birds’ sec- ond place Canada West finish assured them a wild card spot in this weekend’s eight team na- tional championship in Toronto.

The T-Birds pounced on a nervous Husky team early in game one of their semi-final match at War Memorial Gym, opening up a 12-1 lead en route to a 15-4 victory. In game two they jumped out to an 8-0 lead and cruised to a 15-5 win, before polishing off Saskatchewan 15-4 in game three.

UBC’s offence was spread out as Canada West’s top kill-getter, Joanne Ross, left each game early nursing a sore ankle. Her eight lulls on the night were matched by teammates Tanya Pickerel1 and Kim Perree who both hit the ball with more authority than they have all year,

Saskatchewan came out stronger in the second match, but were beaten 15-6 and 15-9 in games one and two. They made a spirited comeback to steal a 15- 12 win in a back and forth game three. The loss, however, was a wake-up call for the T-Birds who came back to win 15-6 and ad- vance to the finals.

“It was just a matter of execut- ing,” said Perree. “They were doing some pretty amazing digs.

We just couldn’t seem to put it away. ”

Reimer attributed the loss in game three to a combination of a last ditch Husky effort and a lack of killer instinct on the part of the Birds. “I think what should have happened when Saskatchewan played better like that, we should have been able to meet the chal- lenge,” he said: “They should have gotten more points, not the whole game.”

The win set up the final against Edmonton, who won the first match 3-2 (10-15,15-6,15-13, 11-15,24-22). “[Game five] was the longest rally point game I’ve seen,” Reimer said. It took 24 minutes, and UBC had six chances to win while Alberta had three.

WOMEN5 BASKETBALL:

Vikes trounce Birds in semis by Scott Hayward

After securing the last playoff spot in Canada West on the final night of regular season play, UBC fell to the Victoria Vikes during last weekend’s semi-final series.

The Birds played their last home game against the first-place Vikes. They needed to either win that game or hope that last place Saskatchewan could knock off Lethbridge to secure a fourth place finish and playoff berth.

Although UBC‘s coaching staff knew Lethbridge had lost their last game, they didn’t tell the players. “They were highly moti- vated to play against Victoria,” coach Deb Huband said. “We

didn’t want to have that affect their game.”

The T-Birds came out strong and toppled the Vikes 68-64, en- suring themselves a trip to the post-season. Unfortunately, UVic ambushed the T-Birds last week- end on the Island, winning 95-48 Friday and 75-46 Saturday.

UVic overcame an early UBC lead Saturday to go ahead 24-16. The Birds’ tight defence kept the Vikes to the outside, forcing them to take low percentage shots, while their offence clawed back to 26-23. Rut Victoria shifted the momentum with two quick turn- overs that widened the gap to 41-30 at the half.

“They know that we have trou- ble with full court pressure and they pressed us for 37 minutes of the game,” Huband said. UBC turned the ball over 26 times compared to UVic’s eight.

The Birds’ top scorer Kim Phipps ran into foul trouble on some questionable calls and was held to just four points on the night. Phipps and three point spe- cialist Michelle Davey are gradu- ating this spring.

The Vikes kept UBC’s offence at bay in the second half, while 6’2“ Kristine Brown controlled the boards and Lisa Koop put up nineteen points to give Victoria a 75-46 win.

MEN‘S BASKETBALL: .Birdmen advance to CanWest finals by Wolf Depner

Anything can happen in the playoffs, no matter how unthink- able.

And the unthinkable almost happened this weekend at War Memorial Gym when the Calgary Dinosaurs, led by fifth-year guard Richard “Speechless” Bohne, al- most bounced the T-Birds team from the Canada West playoffs.

The odds were against the un- ranked Dinos in the best-of-three semi-final series since the Birds were ranked first in Canada. The Dinos barely squeaked into the playoffs and were blown away the last time the two teams met. .As expected, the T-Birds swept the series, but were pushed to the limit both nights.

With the sweep, UBC advances to the Canada West final and will host the Alberta Golden Bears. They also clinched at least a wild card spot for the CIAU champi- onships in Hal~fax next month.

Bohne, Canada West’s leading scorer, knocked down scores from all over the court, leaving the partisan crowd in awe. He racked up 46 points Friday-not quite enough to beat the T-Birds

in a 143-133 double-overtime thriller in front of 1000 fans.

With Calgary trailing 108-1 11 and 5.1 seconds left in the game,

JeffJohnson nailed a desperation trey to send the game into the first five-minute overtime period. With 4.6 seconds left, the Birds still had a chance to win the game, but John Dumont’s fifteen foot base- line jumper fell short at the buzzer.

The Birds could have avoided OT altogether if they had shot better from line. It was only fit- ting that the best free-throw shooter Curtis Mepham saved the Birds by draining a huge trey fol- lowed by two from the line to tie the score at 124 apiece and send the game into a second overtime.

“We really didn’t have much going at the time, so I figured had to shot it. They were sagging so far off me,” he said.

But the Birds almost lost as a lay-up by Din0 Craig Newman rattled around the rim before it spun out with time expiring.

It was all UBC in the second OT, outscoring Calgary 19-9. However, Friday’s outcome was too close for comfort. “A lot of people are saying we took them

lightly. I don’t think that was the case,” said John Dumont, who lead UBC with 37 points. “We just never put them away.”

The Birds couldn’t put the Dinos away the next night either. They stunk it up yet again from the charity stripe, shooting just 34.8 percent in the second half. “Right now, we are really strug- gling from the line,” admitted a frustrated Enns. “I wish I knew what it is.”

Bohne continued to sting the Birds, scoring a game-high 42 points. “He can make a mess of our defence,” Enns said. With the Birds struggling from line down the stretch, Calgary hung around till the bitter end losing 102-96.

Saturday’s game marked the end of Bohne’s university career. Considered to be one of Cana- da’s fmest collegiate players ever, he will now pursue pro options in Europe and South America.

The Pandas came out stronger in the second match to win 3-1

“It sounds crazy to say that we underestimated a great team, but in some ways we did,” Reimer said, noting the Birds made ad- justments thinking that the sec-

(15-4,13-15,15-4,150).

ond match would be similar to the first. “We never got on track.”

However, UBC still advanced to the eight team CIAU champi- onship in Toronto this weekend, ranked fifth in the pool. "This team is defdtely good enough to be at the nationals,” Reimer declared.

.e. , *~\\\\\\”“ “, . TRlXlE CRUZ races in for a lay-up. She led UBC in scoring with eleven points both nights in their losses in Victoria. SCO- HAYWARD PHOTO

“All five people on the court “We wanted to take care of our for Vic want to go at you, they own business and make sure that want to take the ball to you,” we were winning the games that Huband said. “They don’t have we were the better team, and be enough balls on the court, they’re able to compete against the all calling for it.” tougher teams,” she said. “I think

“On our team, we’re waiting that we competed with the for one or two people to do it for tougher teams, but we dropped us, and if those one or two peo- some games that we shouldn’t ple aren’t performing then we just have dropped.” come to a halt.” She is also pleased with some

Looking back, Huband had of the younger players who are mixed reviews of the team’s per- developing. “A lot of our first year formance this year. “We wanted players have shown good poten- to make the playoffs and we did. tial and that’s promising.”

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"They're not really criminals, but

- Bottle Rocket movie poster

m e n Wes Anderson and Owen Wil- son graduated from the University of Texas, where they had taken a playwriting class together, they weren't really Nmmakers. But they had a dream.

everybody's got to have a dream."

So, finding thenseives with '5-1 apart- ment to ourselves and a lot of free time," they wrote up a screenplay about a bunch of young guys who had a lot of free time on their hands and dreamed of becoming successful criminals. Oh, and two of the characters are out-patients from a mental hospital. Contrary to what the press kit says, though, Owen Wilson (who also plays Dignan in Bottle Rocket) insists that the story is not even remotely autobiographical.

"We actually just wanted to do our own little fantasy-action movie," he says. "We wanted to do a comedy that poked fun at real action movies, you know, like Heat or something like that. We made this movie for guys who go and see those kinds of movies and fantasize about be- ing those action heroes."

Once the screenplay was written, the two cast their friends in the lead roles, including Owen's brothers, Luke (who plays Anthony) and Andrew (Future Man), and began filming in earnest.

They financed it themselves, which meant they were forced to stop filming 15 minutes into it after they ran out of money.

Determined to finish the project, they did what any young, enterprising would- be filmmakers would do: they added a (brief) closing scene and called it a short. They then entered Bottle Rocket in the Sundance Film Festival, where it came to the attention of veteran Hollywood producers Polly Plan and James L. Brooks, who have collaborated in the past on movies such as Say Anything and The War of the Roses.

"We were really lucky because Kit Carson, who is a screenwriter and pro- ducer, and also a fam- ily friend of ours, helped get the video of our short onto their desk," says Wilson. "After that, we were able to get some money to make it into a feature, which was our original intent."

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really started to dream, and Bottle Rocket film instead of school. I've learned most was elevated from a 15-minute black & of my film techniques from watching films white short into a feature-length, Holly- and also had to learn a lot as I went wood-produced, mock fantasy-action along." movie. Their good fortune continued It turned out to be a good investement. when the script fell into the hands of Like Bottle Rocket is a solid debut effort; it's Water for Chocolate's Lumi Cavazos and often highly amusing and it's success- veteran actor James Caan ( m e Godfather, fully almost too silly. It's exactly the kind Misery), who agreed to play key roles in of mock action-adventure flick that you the movie. ~ would expect a burich of twentysome-

Anderson admits to being a little ner- things to make. The dialogue is snappy vous about directing the veteran actor. and the antics are admittedly, well, just "I'm used to directing people who are my plain stupid. But that's the point. friends, or volunteers, and so it was kind For instance, of weird to direct someone that had so much more experience.

"He had a lot of good ideas a€ter read- ing the script and was really enthusias- tic. He came up with a lot of cool ideas we added to the film."

A philosophy graduate, Anderson says he has never had any formal training in directing. "I basically spent all my money on making the short version of Bottle Rocket and couldn't afford [film school]. I wanted to go, but it was just a matter of

there is a scene in which they are rob- bing a book- store (stealing books like Job Opportunities For Today's Youth, natch) and Dignan sports white .tape across the

: Play about second chances needs, well, a second chance Later Life as joy. Together once at the Vancouver Playhouse ' again, what will be- until Mar 9 come of these two

by Bryce Edwards ships in the Boston Harbour night?

Ever find a piece of your past Gurney's take on in a place you never expected? Ever pulled open the confusion of middle age a long dusty drawer and seen, lying there, the and second chances is at X-wing fighter you got for Christmas when you times touching and effec- were ten? The one you'd forgotten about, that tive, but the play's move- once was the apogee of your days and com- ment is anti-climactic. Just panion 01 your dreams? Later Life by A.R. when a scene starts to roll, Gurney looks at what would happen if that we are faced with yet an- X-wing fighter was a beautiful middle-aged other comical interlude with woman named Ruth. one or more of the twelve

Ruth appears at a Boston cocktail party at- characters that are split be- tended by Austin, a pin-striped gentleman of tween actors Nicola Caven- impeccable manners and stilted good taste. . dish and Tom Wood; they They have met before, in the dim-lit past, and play other party-goers rang- missed a chance to fall in love. Since then, ingfrom a deliciously hilari- Austin has lived in constant fear that a great ous power-lesbian to a

bridge of his nose as part of his disguise. "Why the white tape?" one of the others asks. "Exactly," he says, triumphantly.

The boys also resort to using mirror signals and making birdcalls to commu- nicate, while going by names such as "Scarecrow" and "Bird Dog." All in all, silly stuff. But a lesson gets learned by the end of the story and everyone ends up relatively happy, which is close enough to being autobiographical ih and of it- self, whether or not these guys want to admit it or not.

tragedy will befall him if he ever dares to stick touching Southern couple in his head out of his shell. Ruth, meanwhile, has the twilight of their "later life." Enjoyable though undemhelming. Despite this, Haley is ewe- lived her life on the edge of chaos, marrying they may be, these interludes often detract c i a y well-suited to Play the forlorn Austin, with and remarrying, collecting heartbreak as well rather than add to the narrative. The flow is a gentle air and hangdog face.

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Cavendish splendidly Depth of insight is served over-easy, as calm revels in her menagerie of and comfortable as a meal at a family restau- characters, while Wood is rant. You get exactly what you paid for, and somewhat frantic and one- leave feeling satisfied, but unmoved. What pur- note in hisvariousporBay- pose is there to this anemic entertainment? ais. Performances from Gurney's play almost has one benefit over most Sheila Moore as Ruth and other work-it is subtle. The problem- is, the Robert Haley as Austin are playwright seems to have confused subtlety solid and assured, but the with quality. Just because, you are saying it intensity of their life- quietly does not mean you are excused from chanwg decisions lack- Saying anything worth hearing. Overall, Later ing towards the finish. The Life is only mildly enjoyable; sadly, not on par whole exercise becomes with the previous productions of this season.

annoymg. Later Life is subtle fluff, if there is such a thing.

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SHORT LIST of PROPOSED GImS 1996 GRADS! Please look over all nine (9) and vote for up to four (4) choices at the A.G.M ! Council The Annual General Meeting You can DROP IN anytime

I (AGM) will be Fri. Mar. 1st '96- between 12:30 8. 5:OOpm. in SUB Rm 206. FREE BEvERages & SNACKS!

GIFT. Computer Scanner, 16 Yegs of Memory, & Software. GIFT: CommunicationPosting Boards GIFT: One Set of Computer Chairs (4 total). ESTIMATED COST: $ 285 t 00 for FNS Lounge & Student Use. ESTIMATED COST: $800 00 - $1000 00 PROPOSED BY: The Arts Undergraduate Soclety (Underground Paper). $ l5Oo O0 PROPOSED B Y The U B.C Law Revlew Society.

PROPOSED B Y The Famlly & Nutrltlonal Sclences Undergraduate Society.

BLURB: (Apple One Scanner '' Megs Of RAM Photoshop o, ''lustrator BLURB: (a serles of buiietin boards for poshngs and communications ~n the academic journal "UBC Law Revlew" and a practltloners gulde to Brltlsh BLURB: The Law Revlew Soclety IS a non-proflt organlzatlon that publishes

5, and Art) Our proposa1 Is to buy a Scanner lor use wi th the [he FNSC bldg (studenl lounge) where currenfiy there are noposbng boards) Columbla leglslatlon. called the "Table of Statutory Limltatlons" Funding for Underground Paper The Staff at the Underground Will use this Scanner to Our naked concrete wall would llke to be clothed Our lqterlor designers these publlcatlons comes largely from subscribers, however I t IS necessary Input vlsual Images graphlcs. and neat photos for use In the newspaper have suggested a snug flthng garment to accentuate Its cutves and a natural to allocate funds for offlce Improvement Thls glft IS practlcal. necessary. Tne Underground IS the funntest paper on campus, & thls glft w~ll beneflt all fabric to represenl our dedlcatlon to uslng local resource:. This "garment" and woulcl provtde an endurlng beneflt for our organlzatlon &for the Faculty students The Scanner the qusllty & variety of the paper, thereby will be very low mantenance whlch IS the wave of the futlJre. and useful to of Law. Our journal depends upon drawlng volunteers from all Law students, making even more students laugh not only keep the wall warm but also to educate, Inform and Increase student and the commltment of Faculty supervisors Up-to-date faciliiles encourages

tnvolvement In Unwerslty and professional actlvltles Just a mere $1500 for wlder partlclpatlon, and promotes a more professional image for our academic this cork bultetin board, designed by the famous one and only "Plant journals :he Faculty and UBC Ergonomlc. comfortable computer chalrs Operations", would last a llfetlme and will be ,used rnore than once1 would provlde a better workmg atmospherein the office, andwould Increase

efflclencv and producthvlty in publlcation of our academlc journals

GIFT: RealAudio Server-Computer for tnternet Broadcasts. 6lFT: Commemorative Mural in foyer of the SUB Theatre, GIFT: An 'Up to &Ne$ Computer (cap&ie ofDTP& Wpl , ESTIMATED COST: $2500.00 - $3000.W new the Normand Bouchard Memorial Theawe. and subsidy for a Scanner & Laser Printer. PROPOS~D BY: c lTR , 9 f ~ , student ~ ~ d i ~ society of use. ESTIMATED GOST: Grad Class w~ll subsldlze up to $3000.00 (of $5130)

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BLURB: 'ITR has broadcast On traditKlnal forms Of radio 'Or 6o years BLURB: Last s'Jmmer. a dear frlend of the FllmSoc aqd the University BLURB: A computer An Invaluable ald In modern ltfe. in publlshlng a Thunderblrd uBc pfus not heard e'Se make passed away at the age of 25 To Mmmemorate his dedlcatlonto the theatre magazine, it IS a nocesslty, In publlclzing a play, It IS priceless. In runnlng CITR'S Programming Unique. Live radio-t-fnternet broadcast with fLI quality and the club on campus, FilmSoc decided to rename the theatre in hls a club, it IS a gold tnlne. The Engllsh Students' Society lacks a computer sound are now possible and t f CiTR were to use this medium, more people honour By including his visage on a mural, we have t,oped not only to We llmp along as 'we try to enrich the lwes of UBC students We provlde could hear us around the lower mainland and the world We would like to recognize his ever-felt presence at ttte theatre, but also to Improve the cultural opportunltles for them to experience llterature We organlze poetry readlngs. use a Grad class gift to fund the purchase of a server-computer which is aesthetics of ?e campus to the benefit of our movie-goers We belleve that we ald In producing ArfsFest, we provlde representation for Engllsh students

the mural wtll Improve the quallty of the theatre and auglierlt the campus In addtion, we produce aplay, and publlsh amagazlne None of our actlvltles

$3000 and a Grad Class gift would make thls affordable for CITR. experience for all are lhmlted to Engl1:;h students or even to Arts students Instead. we provlde

to malntaln (and improve) our current level of Involvement a forum for any student interested In literature And we require a computer

ESTIMATED COSR $700(current shortfall In budget) up to $3000 00

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BLURB: The Music Department would like to propose the making of securlty JUS "shelters" around campus These are to be used by students to keep BLURB: The BMLQ graduating like to propose the purchase half century Currently practlces require handllng large amounts of mformatlon

BLURB: The pharmacists' trade had developed substantlally in the past

dry from the elements while waltlng for the securlty bus It would also Increase of a computer for student use, At present, fifty (50) students are sharing a on prescrlptlons, dlagnosls, drugs, Insurance, and patlent mformatlon. .he awareness of the securtty bus Students would be vwble to the Securlty 386 computer System to produce lab reports, assignments. papers and PharmaNdIsa newdeveloV"ent I n data technology al'owlng pharmacists 3us and the Bus would be vlslble and more accessible to the students The presentation materials Hlgh utlllzatlon of thls system and the requlrement conf'dent'al lnformatlon access In Order lo deal safe and drug

'undlng may not cover for up to two (2) shelters, but even one ( 1 ) would be for an upgrade lo take advantage of current & future communl'"p",';r; pRer The of Health prepared to offer a simulated teaching verSIOn

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great Perhaps future Grad Classes can contlnue thls gif t ! has produced the need lor a second system A p- If UBC 1s able to provide the necessary equipment, therefore this Grad gift

computer wlll benefit loo% Of the BMLSc students and provide w~ll fund speclallzed PharmaNet computer comrnunlcatlons hardware and essentlal accesslblllty. It w~l l also be used during the summer by laboratory software (cabling modems, and routers) so that future UBC pharmacy students for mathematical. 9raPhlCal and statlstlcal functions. students can become proficient wlth this technology In the Faculty's practlce

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opinion

You should have the freedom to read this editorial T he Diviners, i’he Canterbury Tales, The Joy o f Sex,

Where’s Waldo, i’he Bible, Mein KampJ Ulysses, Brave New World, The Satanic Erses, Catcher in

the Rye, James and the Giant Peach, i’he Apprenticesh$ of Duddy Kravitz.

Have you ever read any of these books? At first glance, it appears they have nothing in common; how- ever, at one time in history all of these works were deemed unacceptable. Some of these books are still under scrutiny.

With this in mind, the BC Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee has organized Freedom to Read week, seven days dedicated to speaking out against censorship and promoting free- dom of expression. It is a week of interest to every- one from librarians to newspaper editors, bookstore owners to customs officers, and most importantly, the reader-you.

Many writers, now considered to be among the world’s greatest literary minds, were initially censored by the mainstream. Little Sister’s bookstore’s ongoing battle with Canada Customs proves that we still have not learned from our past mistakes. Those who chal- lenge the status quo seem to be consistently condemned by those determined to uphold traditional power

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structures. 7 A e Crucible for example, by the well-known American playwright Arthur Miller, was accused of containing “sick words from the mouths of demon- possessed people” in 1982. The challenger said it “should be wiped out of the schools or the school board should use them to fuel the fire of hell.” The seem- ingly benign The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter was removed from schools in London, England because it was only concerned with “middle class rabbits.”

It would be a mistake to think that Freedom to Read Week was only concerned with challenges from the Right. As American librarian Martha Cornog said in LibraryJournal, “it would be easy and convenient ... but it would also be wrong.” Cornog went on to describe ‘La significant number of challenges from what might be called the ‘liberal left,’ the ‘secular humanists’ or the ‘politically correct.”’

It seems every element of the community-left, right and centre-is striving to attain “community stand- ards” in literature. The problem is that everyone has a different set of community standards; if you start cen- soring certain materials, some voices will be heard at the expense of others. James LaRue responded to cen- sors in the Wilson Library Bulletin by saying “surely we

need more books in our l ibrar ies , not fewer .” Another article in the Library Journal about “eleven ways to answer a censor” commented that “if we re- moved every book or magazine that offended some- one, we would serve none of our community.”

Despite constant pressures placed upon North American literature, most people fail to realize that the right to read is as tenuous as ever, because cen- sorship usually manifests itself subtly. It is rare that a book challenge is reported in the newspaper or given much attention from anyone other than the complainant. You don’t see many overt acts of cen- sorship, such as book burnings. Canadians censor slowly, book by book, until a list appears like the one compiled by the UBC Bookstore.

Freedom to Read week is a good beginning, but i t needs to extend its focus beyond words already in print; i t should also be concerned about words not yet published.

As a newspaper this concerns us. We are often forced to grapple with the issue of freedom of expres- sion versus self-censorship.

Ultimately however, as Cornog says, literacy is better than illiteracy, knowledge is better than ignorance and tolerance is better than intolerance.

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On a bright sunny spring day, Scott Hayward and Christine Price were busy weeding their lovely garden. Ian Gunn was talking to Federico Barahona about a new Charlie Cho flower, and where they should plant it. Peter T. Chattaway and Janet Winters were busy plant- ing the Sa& O’Donneu yellow tulips and Wolf Depner pink tulips around the garden. Dbsirbe Adib was biting her nails, whde Chris Nuttall-Smith ;Lte a piece of the Kevin Drewes morning glory. Andrea Gin was transplanting the Wah Kee Ting black orchid from the nurs- ery into a clay pot but Sandra Cheung and Maura MacInnis wanted to water the Edmund Yeung and Kim Wyatt seedlings, so they were watered first. Ben Koh w3s standwin the corner admiring the S i o b b Roantree black rose who was joyously picked by a sweet carillon boy while theJenn Kuo snapdragon waspollinating. Meanwhile,Joe Clark busily sniffed through the bushes.

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Harshly lit Conversation

Pit Several recent columns have

referred to the alterations in lighting in the Main Concourse (and Conversation Pit) of the Student Union Building. In the name of Power Smart almost all the incandescent lighting has been replaced with compact fluorescent units. This was not on a one-for-one basis, but rather a large increase in the lighting level. Wlule the new fLvtures may be more efficient, the total power blll must be considerably highel- than before.

The incandescent lighting w u orignal to the d e s i p In the late 1960s. It was warm, inviting and mellow, and complemented the architecture. Its fluorescent replacement is cold and glaring. The Conversation Pit had a “laid- back” feel to it before, and now appears harsh and less populated during the evening.

Some of the ambience could be restored through thr use o f fluorescent lights that arc the same colour temperature as incandescent (about 3400°K). Quite a bit of money was spent

on this project, and the end result looks like an overlit classroom.

Yours truly, A n g u s McIntyre

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Aliens are attacking, Canadians

unite! I f Canada was attacked by

aliens then each “distinct culture’’ would set aside their differences and join in a united front to protect the country. East and West, French and English, people wlth European ancestry and those with Abor ib~a l [sic] would come together to fight for a single purpose. Yet, until that day comes when alien ships blanket the sky we fight amongst ourselves. We struggle wlthin a country the United Nations ranked consecutively as the formeost in the world.

Canada and Canadians were held in such high esteem. When I told people where I was from their voices raised and they seemed to break a smile trying to form an association with me,

“ O h Canada. I know thls p y In Halifax.” Espccially in blorocco where their official languages are French and Arabic, everyone would ask I f I was from Quebec because I could speak some French. Canadians In Morocco seemed to have some special intangible privileges. Upon my entrance the Moroccan police happily waved me through upon seeing the cover of my passport while everyone else received a thorough Investigation. When I was leaving the country and the customs officers were rummaking through evelyone’s bags, one simply looked at my passport and asked which cities I had travelled to. After I told him he said, “You arc a good tour~st, away you go.” and I simply walked on past.

Now I returned home after the referendum, to a country that gained international attention. In Italy I saw the plctures o f rallies on the front page o f the Italian newspapers. 1 remember run- nlng to a newsstand in Kome the day after “the vote” to read the resulb from one o f the few Eng- lish newspapers. I was relieved to know that Quebec was t o rcmaln a part of Canada, at least for now. However I wits abound with unanswered ques-

tlons Lvhy they wanted t o leave. I lovc Quebec and the unique- ness the French culture gives to Canada. In ]!)!I4 I studied French at the Unlversity o f Iaval for six weeks. The people were very friendly to me and I had the sense that they were proud to see me t ry to communicate in French as I was just begnning. Often times, people In stores and res- taurants took on a parental role t q ing to help me. This intcrac- tlon symbolized the key in join- ing the two cultures.

Separation does not bring better association Instead 11 builds animosity and unknowlng. Through open communication we can reach o u t and bndge the two sides. In Western Canada we are so far gcographlcall) and culturally that most people arc ind i f fe rcn t ~owards Qucbcc scparation. The same attitude was taken by sovereignists who felt that nothlng but sepa~-ation could rectify the problem. Until each slde r c c o p m s that we have to work together and cmbrace the other, for the hest lntrrcst o f Canada. I p c s s \vrIl have t o wait until thc aliens attack befol-e wr come together.

Jeff Schaeffler BComm Grad ‘94

University of Saskatchewan

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- opinion - W h at i f ’ Y 0 U r d eg re e university demandmganew spon-

dents had no interest in knowing the why’s. You complained to the

sor teacher. The university refused. You didn’t know that the person

I friends with your sponsor teacher. d i d n ’ t get YO u a i 0 b 7 at the university who refused was

W hat if you thought teaching was opening doors for stu-

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dents; showing them possibilities rather than slotting them into con- venient categories. Maybe you thought teaching should be about discoveries and the active process of engaging students in thinlung, and reasoning; challenging them, rather than demanding they per- fect the ability to repeat facts with- out understanding. What if you thought the determination of a stu- dent’s success was in their under- standmg of ideas and concepts and being able to put that understand- ing to use in their own lives, rather than having them cram for a test with information they would for- get the next day. And what if you thought the measure of your suc- cess as a teacher was in the enthu- siasm and growth of your students and their purposely seeking and demanding challenges for them- selves, rather than being content with the minimum course require- ments and the requisite pass. What if you wanted to become a teacher; a high school Math teacher! In or- der to qualify to enter the teacher training program you needed four years of university, followed by a further year of teacher traning. What if you were told by profes- sors at the university that if you

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completed the training and be- came a Math teacher you would be guaranteed a job? What if you spent those four years studying at university in order to be accepted into the teacher training program? You worked odd jobs to pay for your school and your wife worked in restaurants until she was too pregnant to continue. You were both too proud to ask for any gov- ernment assistance, and too confi- dent of the future you were build- ing for yourselves and your family to begrudge the lack of decent food at times, or the fact that your fur- niture consisted mostly of card- board boxes, and the basement apartment where you lived was more suited for spiders and rodents than humans. You laughed about the time your wife made pizza from scratch and then dropped it on the floor, taking it out of the stove, and that you were both so hungry you sat there on the floor and ate it anyway. Your daughter was born in your final year of school just as you were begmning the required thirteen weeks of stu- dent teaching in a high school. Six more months and it would be all over you would be a teacher, work- ing, malung money for your fam- ily. And then you discovered what teaching was really all about. You

I The situation at the school was

teacher from the high school while YOU to quit. Finally, you had had you did your student teaching. He enough; you threatened to quit was insulting to you and the stu- unless a new sponsor teacher was dents. He humiliated you. He found. The university finally wanted nothinc to do agreed. Your new sponsor

were required to work with a making YOU sick. Your wife told

past students and warned you not to screw things up. He didn’t want to dlscuss philosophy, the reasons, or the why fors’ for doing things. He had a job to do and a curricu- lum to get through and that was it. You tried having the students work in groups, he disrupted the class pushing the desks back into straight lines and warned you not to try that again. You wanted to show your students the beauty and mystery of mathematics to explain how mathematics can be to under- stand the world, and for that rea- son Mathematics must be consist- ent and logical. You were told there was no time for explaining any- thing, and furthermore the stu-

loved for who we ar-just hu rt...

teacher listened patiently to all your theories of edu- cation and lesson ideas and then insisted that you

do exactly as he ’r did in the class- ~”~ ~ room. He used a

stop watch to time your lessons. A les- son must consist of exactly 20 minutes

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I tned to stop my daughter’s tears and answer her sobbing ques-

tion, “Daddy, why can’t I go to Sunday school anymore?”.

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But I couldn’t. Neither could I stop the lies be-

ing spread about me, recover the job stripped from me in an instant, or re-open the food bank that was feeding many children just like my daughter before my church board closed it in the dead of winter.

All of this evil had been done to we, the unsuspecting, the

all blame and anger of our congre- gation, and still “survive” to the end of a week. But we don’t sur- vive. Eventually, we are offered up, like any scapegoat, as a sacrifice to placate the hungry crowd.

t happened to me quickly, and brutally. About six members of

my church didn’t like my sermons and the way I was opening up “their” church to native and poor people. So I was dismissed, with- out any notice, review or even

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innocent, the vulnerable. Suddenly, m y farm

Clare, I was as help- less as she was. I was her father, born to protect and comfort her, and yet I could do neither.

Sitting next to little

We huddled to- gether, daughter and father, victims of people who call themselves “Christians”. People who probably slept soundly that night, after the holocaust they had unleashed.

The wounds from that time are still gaping, though not even a year has passed. I don’t sleep much these nights, nor is my heart uplifted in dream or song anymore. The days are grey, unendmg pain. The wrong has not been undone, the abuse car- ries on. And my daughter Clare still has not returned to Sunday school.

Like me, she carries on, feeling that a buried hurt is somehow gone. But her tears are just below the surface, like a flooded land- scape, her little hopes drowned.

Clergy are trained to be the scapegoat for everyone else’s prob- lems. We harbour a perverse self- righteousness at being able to bear

ping. We had to move out of town, our luds losing all their friends and landmarks. By that summer, we were penniless, living off vegeta- bles at my in-laws’ farm.

Other friends dtdn’t fair [sic] as well. One of them lulled himself in despair at what was happening. Many others have had to watch their chlldren return to having noth-

ing to ;at for days on end now that the church food bank is gone. Still others have seen the church door closed in their face once again.

Perhaps, if this had happened in any place but a church, we would have endured it better. But the trauma we have suffered comes from being stepped on within the “church of Jesus Christ,” where everyone talks about love. It’s a sick joke and nightmare to me. So what must it be like to my children, to their unprotected hearts?

hat kind of people would put my children through

such hell? Not the lund that I want my family associating with, or con- fusing with actual Christians.

The place was St. Andrew’s United Church in Port Alberni, B.C. A whole generation of na- tive children was terrorized by the United Church at its Alberni residential school. The abuse continues, but now i t enc:om- passes the clergy of that church, and their innocent children. And i t will strike again.

What is happening? Why is the sickness going unchallenged?

Who will stop my daughter’s tears, and mine? -Kevin McNamee-Annett is a United Church minister and a UBCstudent.

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lecture, followed by30 minutes of individual, quiet seat work. A prin- cipal from another school ex- plained that these were immature adolescents and that their frontal lobes were not fully developed and therefore they were incapable of thinking. The only to way succeed was to teach exactly from the book and to p e them tests they would all pass. The other teachers were frightened of doing somehng that might be disruptive and bring un- welcome attention to themselves. They had pensions and job secu- rity to think of. Your job as a teacher was to have the students do well on the exams, thereby pro- tecting your job. You were never to dlsrupt the smooth running of the administrative system that had evolved over the past thirty years and you were to never cause prob- lems or additional work for the principal. You do manage to fin- ish your student teaching and be- cause you had forced the univer- sity to give you a new sponsor teacher you received a negative fi- nal evaluation of your student teaching. Despite the negative re- port the head of the education pro- gram at the university personally guarantees that you will have ajob. Satisfied with his guarantee, you complete the remainder of the pro- gram and finally graduate with

your teaching degree. You have a 4.0 grade point average, the high- est possible from the university. Two years later you have no job. The school and the school distnct where you chd your practice teach- ing has made sure that no district would hire you. Some of your classmates were hired, even with- out interviews. They had done lit- tle during their time student teach- ing and the bare minimum to pass the university courses. What they had succeeded in doing was not at- tracting attention to themselves.

W hat if the public education system wanted teachers

who actually had a philosophy behind what they wanted teachers to do and acomplish in the classroom. What if teachers were hred on the basis of their expertise and their commitment to their students rather than a safe record that guaranteed they would not cause trouble to the system? What if administrators really cared about the quality of education students received rather than maintaining a repressive antiquated system that stifled the natural enthusiasm and creativity of young people. What if professors and the head of the teacher education program actually told the truth about the public education system; the fact that there are far too few jobs to begin with and that the system is rife with a petty bureaucracy and incompetence.

After five years of education you do not have the job that was guaranteed to you. You and your wife and daughter still have cardboard boxes for furniture and sometimes you wonder if there will be enough to eat. Few things have changed. You have your dignity and a belief that education should interest, stimulate and challenge young minds. It should show them a world of possibilities and not serve as an expensive refuge for smug self-serving and cowardly teachers practising demagoguery. But this is still a dream. You don’t have a school to teach in. What if everything I have told you is true. What if.. . ? -Robert Newton graduated from UBC with an education degree.

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3eyond a Reasonable Doubt: Kirowing Christ with Confidence

Speaker: Ian Elliot Special Guest A r t i s t : Carolyn Arends

Sunday, Mar. 3,230 PM Regent College (Univemity Blv&Wesbmok M‘

Tuesday, February 27,1996 The Ubyssey 11

Summary of Questions and the Responses from the Panel:

Q I'm taking 7 courses this term which is normal for a 3rd year engineering student. I'U pars my courses but 1 think it's really too much material to digest and learn.

A This issue has k e n rhe s u h p ofongoing examinarion and several curriculum proposdc have come IO Senate. A few years ago we moved from a five year engineering program IO a four yedr program One of the d~f i cu l r i e s lies in rhe accredirarion requirements. Some have suggesred that the "shelf-life'' of informarion, particularly in rhe sciences is only 5-7 years. We really need IO address the issue of how ofren the marerial we reach undergraduates IS used in rhe real world.

Q I'm in 3rd year En 'sh Honours. I can't do 6 courses in a year and it will pro f? ably take me six years to complete my degree.

I don't think the university should be a training area for a job. The point i s to expand your horizons. I think

an opportunity to learn and how to think I think we UBC is moving in the wrong direction. University offers

need to rethink the curriculum. That just isn't happening.

A Much has been wrirren abour generic slills that are required for jobs- cririwl rhinking, teamwork, adaptability, TIC. A knowledge base is important bur we also owe I I IO

the community to train srudenrs in those skills. This concerns the issue ofwherher the university is for teaching or for rraining.

Clearly srudenrs need IO think abour rhe material, not jusr cram ir in. The University should offer opportunities for thinking and we need to rerhink rhr curriculum if that isn't happening.

Q I am a student senator and on the Teaching and Evaluation Committee. With respect to the anti calendars, is it possible to have uniform questions across the campus?

A The Faculty of Science has adopted a tet of faculty- wide quesrions but recognizes that deparrnnenrs may want to develop their own questions as well. It IS dificulr IO

think of a set of questions that would be appropr~are ro all courses in Arts and Science.

evaluations is in respecr to Freedom of Information. One of rhe issues we face w~rh respecr ro insrrucror

Although rhere is a section in the act that says that rhc evaluation of an employee belongs to the employee, the University's position is that release of informarion In J rhoughrful way is appropriate, but each faculty could approach rhe matter in a differenr way. Some rime ago rhe Senare turned down a morion ro require that teaching evaluatxons he published.

Q I an1 an Arts graduate and thought I would never get a job at the end of my degree. I have been doing some career research. It seems to me that career advising should have been a part of my program. I should also have had some background in computing. I just didn'r have time to take any additional electives in computing.

A While career informarion is certainly important, i t ' s not clear rhar i r should he for credit. Our co op programs certainly provide srudcnrs w ~ r h a close look ar porenri.nl careers.

Rodyn Kunin who is an economist and one of rhe members of our Board of Governors recently remarked

you need r o t h i n k ahour the skills required IO do something rhe "...there is work bur rhere are no jobs ..." Sometimes

and then create your own job.

With respect to computing. there i s a publication called a "road map to compuring facilities at U B C which is free. Computer Science 100 provides an inrroducrion IO spreadsheers and word processing and a number of computer literacy courses are offered through Conrinuing Studies.

Q I am both a grad student and an instructor at UBC. What ideas does the panel have about effective evaluation of teaching? We are entering a time of real financial

suffer? restraint. What can we do to ensure that teaching doesn't

A There are many different forms ofevaluation- peer evaluations, reaching evaluations, anti calendars, erc. I f students are facing significant increases in ruirion, rhey will demand more from their instructors.

Teaching is valued at UBC. Today no one i s given

teaching. Deans are required ro report ro Senate on actions renure or promoted without being committed to good

t h y have taken with respect 10 teaching evaluations which

indicare serious problems. There are abour 30-40 problem instrucrors our of more rhan 2000. Following an unsartsfacrory review, some insrructors leave UBC. In some cases the review w a inconsistent wirh previous reviews and needs ro he evaluared IO Jerermine if the result was simply an aberration

A number of departments are encouraging evaluations p r r way rhrough the r e m so rhar students will gcr the bcncfir of the e~.~luations earlier rather rhan wiring until rhe end of rhe rerm. The qucsrions o n rhcse midtcrm evduar~ons are open ended and have to do wirh the effectivcneys of

rhe course. ~nsrrucrion, the pace of rhe nlater~al and the conrenr of

Q Laminations are also a form of evaluation. They should be used as a tool for learning instead of just getting back grades. I'm frustrated that we don't go over the questions that people got wrong. I'm interested in learning, not just getting a job.

A You're righr thar exams are mrended to mezsurc srudenr undersrand~ng of a subject. It does seem imporranr for students ro revicw the exdms in order to understand where they wenr wrong. In English, grades are derermtned

are not usually surprised by their exam results. by writing thar happens throughour the r e m so studenrs

When we run faculty developmenr seminars, the ~scue of grading and feedback comes up. We encourage profs IO give feedback at al l rimes. This is redly the flip side of the reaching evaluarion question.

Q What is the value of "reader courses?" I am in Microblology and the exams are 100% multiple choice. There are so many options for a question that they totally confuse a student. I wrote the exam and thought

I was only allowed to see the bubble sheet. I aced it but I only got C+ . When I spoke to the prof,

A The problem is our ability IO deal with large classes. With rhis kind of test we can cerrainly see where we have been unsatisfactory.

exams, but some feel that while access to rhe old exams Some departments encourage rheir prok IO issue old

may boost a studenr's average, ir discourages breadth of study. ,Many studenrs ask us to publish the answer5 to homework assignments and qumcs . and many profmors feel that it is more important ro respond to d e n t requesrs than protect the material,

Many srudenrs seem to like weekly quizzes since they allow them ro keep on top of the material.

Q There must be a better way to examine students than by using multiple choice questions. Some of the questions seem so mindless.

A ,Mulriple choice qucsr~ons cdn be useful for some things. We really need IO undersrand lxow 10 ute them most effectively

pot? You should write 3 construcrive letter and ler rhc Have you ever communicared your views IO your

prof know rhar you would have found the course material or the exam ro he more effectlve I f 11 had hccn prescntcd i n a differcnr way. Generally faculry members would rarhcr be good instructors and they appreciate getring feedb~ck.

a difference in rhe curriculum. We will make sure rhar rhe department i s aware of the commenrs expressed here today.

We are experimenring in Science 1 and i r 's making

Q I have had problems getting cross-faculty courses. I think studencj really need to be able to interact with other students. Interdisciplinary courses should be available to everyone.

A In the Faculty of Science we have moved a long way

There is a strong push to broaden our undergraduate IO resrrucruring the curricdum to meer those requirements.

degree ro an integrated science program. It is now possible IO do a major in Science dnd a minor elsewhere.

We have found seminars are a very useful way 10 learn communication skills and how to organize work. We would like IO see more seminar courses hut rhere are difficulties with the large number of srudents in the lower years.

"Teaching & Learning'! held Friday, January 19 th in SUB

Moderator: Maria Hawe PaIWhSa Dan Birch UBCVPAcademic, Barry McBride and Murray

Goldberg Faculty of Science, Susanna Egan Faculty of Arts, Gail Riddell Centre for Faculty ~ ~ e v e ~ o p m e n t , Trevor Presley AMS Annual Review, Blair McDonald Science Undergraduate Society Annual Review, Doris Huang AMSTutoring Service and Lica Chui. sttldem ~ e n a t o ~ .

Q I'm in Psychology and have concerns about marking.

your mark is ofien dependent on who teaches you. Often I haven't been able to see any teaching evaluations and

instructors aren't available after the marks are our. Some

grad school. I think a graduate degree i s pretty well profs just won'r give A 's and it makes i t hard to get into

essential for an Arts student if you want a rob.

Incidentally my comnlents are not resrricted only to

T h e profs say they'll change bur they never do. T h e Psychology. I have had the same problenls in Theatre.

These problems don't occur in all departments. I have problenn is understanding how the marks .Ire arrived at.

had good feedback from English.

A The Faculty ofhrrs is very I q e . While your co~nn~cnts n u y hold rrue for SUII IC departn~enrs. I don'r think r h c y are necessarily rrue for t h e entire I-aculry. I t 's ,Jsc imporr.~nt 10 distinguish herwccn dcparrnlcnrs .~nd i n d i v t ~ l u ~ ~ l ~ . 'Illr proportion o f high grades docs v,try from Aplrrmenr t o ~ieparrment

It is rrur that grading i s a mc.wre bur no nnarrer how I d a m d e n r srudics they n u y not always hc able ro achieve rhc grades rhey feel rhcy deserve Ffforr docsn'r dways equ.nre wirh achievement.

In Science, the I h n ' s officr h a rried r o makc grading practices clear bur we have nor always been ~ ~ ~ c e s s f u l .

In every department the kcy 1s IO make your concerns known. The discussion need not he confronr.lr~onal. but

rather an expression of your d e s ~ r e IO understand and learn.

Q It's sometimes hard to know who to approach so that your grade isn't affected. I had an interim evaluation in one course and the instructor read the evaluations.

A The normal practice is for the Head or Associate Ilran IO hold the evaluarions in a sealed envelope unrxl the end of the rerm when the grades are i n . That way students are prorecred.

Thinking ofmidrerm wal~ations and grding, p r h ~ p s we should encourage the srudenr Senate caucus IO consider rhese general ~ssues.

Q What does the administration feel about the function of the University when it comes down to teaching vs. research? Some profs just want to do research and only teach because they have to.

A We are a research intensive universxy .Ind feel char reaching and research should complemenr each other I don't rhink anyone should be teaching if t h e y don'r rhtnk if's imporranr. Many helieve that research srimulares ruching. lfsomeonc i s a dull instrucror one might ask

q hat i s going wrong w i r h their research.

The University chould he finding ways t u engage more students in rescxch. The suggesrion ha\ hcen m.dc

want IO devote to teaching and rhc anounr to research. that we allow profs r o choose rhe amounr o f rime they

Thar would then he huilr into rhc~r evdunr~nn. Fdculry would clecr 3 specific rario for say .I five year period .her which rime they could reassc5s 11.

Q I am in Engineering and am concerned about the lack of cons~stency between grades for students in different sections of the same course. When the majority of students in one sect~on fail d part of the exam, isn't this partly a reflection on the instructors' ability!

A You're r~p,hr.Tl~c t . l c u l ~ o f . \ ~ t c ~ ~ c c IS prexnrly louklng .II t h ~ \ I ~ I C I n respect ro a s p e c ~ t k coursc. ludy Brown 111

knglish IS .11so IouLtng J I I I with rccprcr IO the first ~ e ~ r English coIIrsc's. TI115 15 a pxt icu lx problem in some cources whcrc thcrc .Ire .I large number of sccrions.

1n\rrucror. Sonic would 5.1y rh.lr an e x m ~ l s o e x a n ~ t n e s thc

' l h c Unlvcrsiry IILL c \ r d ~ l i s l d scverd progranls h r rr ining md tnentorlng ~nsrrucrc~rc rhrough rhe Centre for Fdcul? ~ ) c v c h p n ~ e x n r . \xi, h q w rhar rhcsc courses w d work cow.1rds addrcsvng rhc prd~lcm.

Q I am a grad student and ann obsessed with the ~ d e a of good reaching. I am offended by some of the poor teaching I have seen at UBC. My commenrs are prompted by Dan Birch's remark about LJBC being a research university. There i s not nearly enough focus on undergraduate education. There doesn't seem to be

Anyone who gets hired should have to take a teaching much support for facilities for undergraduate teaching.

course. Finally, I think there may he too many "crusty old guys" with tenure who are no longer interested in 'teaching.

A Thls quesrion hay rased a nun~ber of issues: research vs. reaching. facilities. reaching ~ncrrucrors to redch and "crusty o l d guys". There is a sign over the door of the Board and Senate room which identifies rhr University'c mission: "To be a world rennwncd institution of higher cd~~carion and research." 1 rhmk Ilan Birch (who had to

leave early) nneanr research inrensive and did nor inrenJ in any to diminish rhc focus on undergradu.~tc education. UBC is conmirred IO ourstandmg program5 i n undcrgraduarc cducarion. This IS one of o u r highest priorities.

W i t h rrspecr t o fL11rries we now have a master plan in place and each r o o m will have homeone who is responsible fix tt, We u n ' r f i ~ them dl overni hr bur i r 15 .I rop priori? for the L'ntversin. Having sa~cfthar, one of rhc problems wc II.IYC IS t h a t to tnany rooms have fixed tearing whtch really d o a n ' t encourdge interacrlon. 1 dcn't r h ~ n k th.tr issue has rc:~lly been addressed yet

We do oifer a 4 d . y coursc for ncw faculty members and a rncnror~ng program where ~ r ~ c ~ r e senior professors work with ncw mernhcrs of faculty. There IS more to he done but rhdt 1s a srarr Some un~vrrcities htve programs cpeclficdly dcugned h r profs who have been reaching for 111.1ny yexc. Alrhougln no such program i s i n place at UK:. rhe Centre for F d r y Development o f k r s a number of progrdms &xtgnrd to help dl tnmuctors improve rhelr rea'hing s b ~ l l s .

We h ~ v c lured 450-500 new f.nculry members ovcr the lasr 5 yem. Thcrc .Ire good in\rructors of dl ages ( ~ n c l u d ~ n g m m y "crttsry old guy<' 1

This &,nlogue h a rised rhc i \ x te (IfCOI11Illunicarion. 1 rncourage y o u ro t.Jb ru your p l h m d rcII them whar YOU need. In clostne I wanr IO relrer.tte r h a t instrucrors would rather do a good job rh.ln nor and .are l~kely IO rcywnd IO consrrucrivc cuggesrton\. L

Additional issues raised by the participants' comment sheets:

p Tc.lchers should not he &wed to srare "No one gers :m A in m y c1.m" - when i t t a k a A's to gcr inro gradu.lte school!!

5 There needs IO he more reacher dvailabi l i ry once m a r k have hccn assigncd. dnd c l e x .Iccounrxng fur h o u , 111.1rh were ahulared. Exams should be available to students after being mdrked.

t If URC i s more about learning, not practical career planning (which i s w h ~ t universiryshould be. J I le.^ Arts) i r ioes nor feel that way. URC i s too insrirurional. Borh rhe learning drmosphere and pracrical side x e lacking.

' University and individual faculties are too concerned with presrige. While training for careers 1 essential, there are ors of other skills one should be able to take from university.

b Focus should he on learning/growing. Career progr.1ms should he made available in the faculties

p With respect to eer evaluation, a peer ( meaning a rof in the same department) will be familiar wirh the material, lowever, will nor [e likely to have a back round in e g u c m o n -. ' and pedagogy. It is even 3 greater "specialty" to he able

:valuation. o evaluate reaching. Joint consideration f y a peer and a n eduar ion specialist would provide more meaningful

b I r should be made apparenr to all incoming srudents who they can talk to regarding teacher nlisconducr (i.e.

NitEour knowledge of where ro report, be believed and get action. (Note; Although the Univerrzry Equity Ofice carrnot na propriate sexual comments, touching or abusive language directed ar srudents) - I have experienced a l l of the above

rlwu s uct 071 limited irrjnmation, every complui7rt is wortl~ mrrkirrg because it errubles the Ofice to work with department b u d i n deveiopit~g a profile Ofrepeat offenders on which it may beposJible to act.)