March 21st is the lntematinal Day For The Elimination of Racism

Strike at U.B.C. Disrupts Students Lives by Sharon Undores

Students that live on campus at the University of British Columbia have been hit hard by the strike. Place Vanier and Totem Park residences are facing some changes duetothecutdownofhousekeeping and food services.

Students have been encouraged to keep living quarters cleanandstudentadvisorshavebeen offeredscabjobs-cleaningandsitting at the front desks.

In a confidential memo dated March 12, Carl Cooper, residence life manager for Place Vanier offered work to students" Also the campus is looking for some late night security people if you are interested please let me know."

As well the memo claims that students that do scab work now will have an advantage when summer jobs become available.

''We had a housing and conferences managers meetings,[ sic]

Suzanne Nickles director of conferences said that any advisor [student floor advisors} who works the front desk or does garbage will have a huge advantage when applying for conference jobs."

One advisor said: ''Despite insurance about advisors who work the front desk having an advantage, the residence life manager was quick to warn thatthenamesoftheadvisors who have done these jobs are to remain confidential."

Front desk clerks are being paid $15 an hour, $2 more than the entrance rate for the CUPE position. ThelndustrialRelationsComitteehas ruled that advisors are allowed to do this work. George McLaughlin, president of local116 said:"The labour code in its present form is totally weighted against victims. By allowing replacement workers (ie. scabs) and also restricting secondary picketing, itmakesitverydifficult[forunionsJ." In a memo to all Place Vanier

residents, dated March 13, Cooper said:"Ifyou would like to make some money, the caf is looking for some dishroom people, this is a paid position."

A residence advisor is said '1thinktheyarestronglyencouraging advisors to break the strike. I think theuni versityplans to keep the union away as long as possible. They are keeping the entire management infrastructure at work to ensure essential and operations, I think they are trying to weaken the union."

Sheryl McNeil, a Totem resident at Kwakiutt House said ''Floor advisors are doing front desk work. Julie Underwood [residence life manager at Totem Park} is hiring residents, advisors, whoever wants to do the work to take out the garbage."

Underwood said in a letter dated March 7 that :"Housekeeping services will be stopped. This means that the floors will be responsible for keeping their common areas clean.

We need the assistance of the floor members to help move the garbage ... if any common area is deemed to be unacceptably dirty, the floor will be assessed."

Assessment, is a floor fine. After Underwood was informed that a CUPE lawyer said her demand for cleaning was illegal, Underwood encouraged students to help with housekeeping in a memo dated March 10. Gage Residence are also hiring student advisors and encourage students to clean up. Stephanie Palfy, a Totem Park resident in Nootka House said the cutbacks are noticeable,

"There was no toilet paper this morning in my bathroom. The main lobby and back stairs in my buildingareanabsolutemess. Dirt is piled upon the sides from a week of shoes trampling through and not being swept.

In the cafeteria somebody dropped a muffin on the stairs, a few people squished it in and it was left

there for a couple of days. At the bottomofthestairsfrom the cafeteria there were stacks of dirty dishes. They'veprobablybuiltup over a few days.Normally housekeeping would take care of dish collection outside of the cafeteria", Palfy said.

McNeil said "In my house and another house, about 300 people went for two days without hot water. I don't know what's wrong with the heating but we didn't have any last night. Some people haven't had heat for a week on my floor."

McNeil and Palfy said that food prices are going up and cheaper items are running out sooner because ofacutinselection.Somevegetarians arefindingtheirdiets very restricted.

Palfy said residents are confused as totheirri~Z;htsandduties. Palfy added ''You [residents} are not obliged to do anything out of the ordinary, your rights are exactly as they were before the strike."

March21£tl~~J~!~!:!~Jn~ny A l gue like to provide you with a list of ways to wish people of all races peace and goodwill in their ------........._ native language. Gaelic (Sassanach Dialect)­Slan Laiz-Good Health Slainte' -Cheers ! Hebrew­Shalom-Peace (be with you) Arabic­Salaam-Peace(be with you) Hindi­Shanti-Peace Swahili­Uhuru-Freedom/Liberation Latin(We know it's supposedly a dead language, but it's just sleeping-really) Pax-Peace French(Y es Canada's "Other" official language- we know there are tons more founding languages but no one in the office speaks Haida, Cree, et al.lf anyone out there does know haw to speak them please drop us a line.)Anyhoo French­Bon jour-Hello Comment cava- How are you? Salut-Cheers! Of you're stuck for more you did worse than us in Grade 9 French class) Polish­poko'j-peace Spanish 'Ola ! Commo est ta ?-Hi ! How are you Que Pasa- What's Happenin' ! Collective Note: If we missed your language please let us know. We are interested in being able to wish goodwill upon all our sisters and brothers on this funky planet called Earth.Remember what Martin Luther King Jr. said: "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; Love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; Love illumines it. From all of us at the O.P.- Slainte'-Shalom-Salaam-Shanti-Uhuru-Pax-Salut-Pokoj-Que Pasa ! and oh yeah, Cheers! .

Apathetic Turnout For Multicultural Week

some events were good, but they were due to personal contact from the organizers. Many of those who attended werecamefromoutside the college.

by lmtiaz Popat.

Douglas College students don'treallycareaboutissuesofracial equality or racial justice.

Turnouts at events during the recently organized Multicultural week and First Nations awareness week were dismal." We had to around making announcements in classrooms to get people to attend some of the events," said Klause Michealson one of the organizer of the Multicultural week.

Although the turnout at

"Its unfortunate, most people don't feel the need or don't care enough to go to one of these events," saidHaroonKhan,a theatre student.

"I saw the posters and banners, but I didn't find the time to gotoanyoftheevents, that'smyown excuse and my own apathy," said Neil Art, a second year arts student.

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When you wish upon a ~r-of David To all outward appearances

andactionsl'ma white, heterosexual male. Therefore, I have no reason to claim any kind of oppression at all.

Inwardly, however, I am part of an invisible minority. I am a Jew. Pund I am invisible because unless I make an effort to wear the accoutre­ments of my culture, or present my­self as a member of this minority, I can hide.

Pund Jews have been taught to hide. We've been conditioned by history to keep our identity and cus­toms to ourselves, because to do oth­erwise has been dangerous. Pund, believe it or not, still is.

My culture is one that many people do not recognize as a culture. I belong J.9 a_ people that, even by members of the Jewish community,

are not recognized as a people. A widespread opinion is that Jews sim­ply have their own unique religious beliefs, but as far as a cultural iden­tity, we are recognized by where we come from.

Yet this is modern phenom­enon, and it is wrong. There is a label for discrimination against Jews­anti-Semitism. For some reason, by giving this a name it becomes sanc­tioned, or forgivable, or something.

I dunno, to tell you my bias, I am sick and tired of Christians, and Christianity. Living on the West coast. I am in a serious minority. I am let out of classes for all Christian holidays, there is Christmas break, Easter break, etc ... I ·can attend religious studies courses-most taught either by Chris­tians, or with a comparison against

Christianity angle. I can participate in school plays like Godspell or the like, and if any Christian reference is made, I can assume that it will not be explained to the class, everyone knows and believes in the Bible, right?

You know, modem society can be very anti-Semetic, and most Diaspora Jews have gotten used to it. I know I am used to it. I don't wear the traditional Jewish garb because I don't want to be considered different or strange. I don't wear any buttons or march in any pro-Jewish rallies because I'm afraid of being labeled. Unless someone tells me, I can't eas­ily identify my Jewish brothers and sisters.

Most Jews in North America came here in this century to flee per­secution and extermination in Eu-

rope. When wetalkaboutthis weare told thatbasicallythat'sallin the past and we should stop talking about it, and that Jews in Israel are just as bad as the Nazis, and therefore all Jews nowadays hate Arabs and therefore we've given up any right to em­power ourselves.

There seems to be a resur­genceinZionism bashing, and equa t­ing Judaism with Zionism and Israel with Zionism. The argument goes like this-Zionism is really Arab­hated, and racism, and that's all itis, and it is wrong for a socially aware person to think otherwise, and even though the U.N. decided that Zion­ism is not racism that's just the pow­erful trying to pull the wool over our eyes. This viewpoint is especially being taken up by those who con-

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sider it hip to support the Intifadah. I support the Intifadah, Israel is not doing right by the Palestinians, and I can not condone its actions against the Palestinian people. However, I support the Intifadah on the basis thatthePalestinianshavea right to be treated as human beings, not on the opinion that the Jews are evil. I will agree with anyone that supports the Intifadah from an educated base fo­cusing on human rights issues. I will fight and disagree with anyone who attacks Israel from an uneducated or anti-Jewish perspectiveand will de­fend Israel tom y dying day as being the only safe place in the world for Jews. I believe Israelis a Jewish state, and that blanketly condemning Is­rael withoutlookingattheotherplay­ers in the screwing over of the Palestinians (Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The U.S., hell even Canada, among others) is anti-Semitic.

Punotherscarythingisthatall the age-old and traditional anti­Semetic beliefs are alive and well in the world today, and are even jok­ingly perpetuated by Jews them­selves. I've been told by a Jewish friend of mine that really Jews have no right to complain about anything because we're all wealthy. Ok, that's an example of the Shylock image of the middle ages when "all Jews were penny-pinching moneylenders". Then there's the wonderful belief that still exists, and I am not making this up, thatJewskilled Christ, and there­forelasaJew,ampersonallyrespon­sible for his agony.

All Jews are not in the upper echelons of the power structure. Or out to take over the world. Or rich money grubbers.

There are countries that I can not work in or travel in because i am a Jew. There are groups of people in Canada that actively want me exter­minated because I am a Jew.

We have faced the Spanish Inquisition of 1492, we have faced fue Romans, Assyrians, Egyptians, Byzantines, Crusades, Pogroms, Holocaust, and fuousandsof years of people trying to kill us off. Some­how, some way, Judaism has man­aged to survive.

You know, I'd just be happy if it wasn't assumed that everybody loves Christ, and that I'm going to hell because I think Jesus was just his guy, you know? I'd like it if people dealt with the issue of human rights in Israel rather than those evil Jews. Pund I'd like to have some way to identify other Jews. Maybe I shouldn't be so afraid of wearing a Jewish symbol or clothing in public, I don't know. When the major his­tory of your people is one of hiding and persecution, thehabitcanbea bit hard to break.

-Matthew Johnson

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Ballots or Bullets? Mar. 17th marks a historically significant referendum for South

Africa. This referendum is not just significant because it is a vote on whether or note to abolish aparthied but because there really isn't much left to decide.

The black vote has been in for years.Biko, Mandela and others have made it clear. The Nazi vote is in. They have been promising war if DeKlerk and his reforms win. The Conservatives will win if DeKlerk loses and the blacks will take up arms.

The choices on voting day are simple: War, War or War. The referendum will only determine who starts it, how long it will last, and who will suffer most. The day of change by ballot was missed in South Africa.Mar.l7 will be the day of change by the bullet. -Angus Adair

Ending Canadian Aparthied

While South Africans are voting to take racism out of their constitution,~dians are entrenching it into theirs. We are told that we are all equal in Canada under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. However, if you are English or French, you have more rights in Canada then the rest of us.

The proposed new Canada clause recognises the existence of the First Nations, the English and French settlers and immigrants from other continents. However, it prioritizes these groups. For some reason, the English and French are more important then the rest of us.

1 t's great that finally the Canadian constitution will recognise the existence of First Nations and their right to inherent self- government. However, their distinctiveness is . not recognized. Only Quebec is "Distinct" from the rest of Canada. Other parts and societies in Canada cannot be "Distinct" from Quebec. The vastly different languages, cultures and laws of the First Nations are not distinct enough for Canadian politicians.

If French or English are not preserved in Canada, they will exist outside Canada. However, if any of the First Nations languages are not preserved, they will be extinct. Our Governments don' tsee the important of preserving the FirstNations'language, culture and history. However, they feel it's important to entrench language duality. While English and French are protected by "Minority Language Rights", 53 distinct First Nations languages nor the other settlers' languages are giving minority language protection.

So things might change in South Africa, but they sure as hell are not changing here.

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by Angus Adair Twentyyearsagoon]anuary30th1972 full of Wilford's paras roared into the fleeing

what had been a civil rights protest in civilians. TheParasdeployedinmilitarypredsion

l nd ld b · ,;. and preceded to follow Land Commander Ford's Derry,I~e a wou . . ~com.eantn,amous edict of shooting any male of military age. All loss of tmwcent etvtltan life. The event thirteen civilians to die that day were men and would become known as Bloody Sunday. onlyonewasnotofmilitaryage.Hewasoneyear The evidence, of eye witnesses and of old. photographs,suggestsadeliberatemilitary Only 120 yards from ~eeling soldiers, Michael strategy conceived and implemented by Kelly met the first fusillade of bullets, :md. God, three hiuh rankinu British officers. The s?ortly past 4 pm that day. The comb~natio? of

. . o· . 0 • • hve rounds and rubber bullets bemg fired offieta~ c~ncluston of the. Widgery Inqutry, produced a "mingling sound". As a result only commtsstoned to t;Xamtne the even_ts of thosefutilelytryingtohelpMichaelknewhehad that day, suggests tt was a freak accident. been hit. The second fusillade hit three boys The assertion of this article is that the standingnexttohim.Theyneverknewtheywere Widgery Inquiry at the very least erred in under fire. All were aged 17. it's conclusion and attheworstco-operated in a government cover up. Here is the evidence the Widgery Inquiry didn't consider. The civil rights march planned to march from Creggan through the Bogside to the Guildhall Square. Both wings of the IRA had been told by the march organizers that there were to be no guns brought on the march. The IRA agreed and in fact, realizing that the Creggan would be virtually void of people during and vulnerable to Britishinvasionand arms searches ,stayed behind. to protect their stronghold. British Army Land Commander Ford knew this and devised a plan to draw them out into the Rossville Street area, which was a more favorable urban battleground for the British troops. His plan, assisted by Colonel Maurice Tugwell ( asenioroperationsofficerinDerry)and Lt. Colonel Derek Wilford of the 1st Battalion of the Parachute

Regiment, was to use the civilians in the march that day as bait. The march ecountered barricades in Williams street and retreated from the riot police. At 3:40 pm , as the crowd retreated a British army sharpshooter used his vantage point to fire upon two marchers on thefringeofthecrowd. He hi tan old man and a boy in the legs and one of them was furthered injured by ricochet. Ricocheting bullets at targets is not an uncommon practice for British troops in Northern Ireland as it makes ballistic ID very difficult. Land Commander Ford anticipated that this would be enough to provoke the IRA forward to engage Wilford's Para's who were prepared to attack. The IRA never received word until it was

over. The march back to the Creggan was too far on foot and contrary to Ford's

suspicion's there weren't even a few armed IRA volunteers in the

crowd. Ford had allowed twenty

minutes for the IRA .,..._._ __ to arrive. At 4:00

:::;::..-. ...... ..,~ ..... ~ pm four Saracen

"It was like in that film 'Soldier Blue' , where this boy's face suddenly disintegrated. Well, Barney McGuigan came out with his hands raised in supplication and the next thing half his face disappeared." were the words Barry Liddy, a British Army war veteran, used to describe the shooting of Barney Me Guigan as Me Guigan ran to help a young boydyingfromgunshotwounds. Barry Liddy was sheltering a priest at the time and had just pulled a young girl from the paras line of fire. Pictures in the newspaper ''The Sunday

1 Independent" show Liddy holding a white handkerchief. It would beshotfromhishands as he attempted to get Father Bradley to the barricadeswherepeoplewheredying. The Paras had sent a message. No Mercy, No Surrender. Bernard Gilmour would watch as ''half the flesh on the lower part of [a] boy's back came away in the blast'' as a para would shoot a young boy at point blank range. A boxer who lived in the flats engaged the troops with his fists. Even his skilled fists were no match for the butts of the paras rifles. Just at the moment they had subdued him his life was spared. The paras who had just smashed the boxer into the ground were distracted briefly by a young boy who had seen them shoot at Father Mulvey , oneofthemanypriestson the march that day. The boy shouted "Shoot me but don't shoot the priest''. The paras obliged and shot him through the leg. One of the most horrific events that day can only be politely described as sadistically cruel. The circumstances surrounding the death of Mickey McDaid are so nightmarish they would behardtobelieveifnotforthefactitwaswitnessed byseveraldifferentindividuals,indudingpriests, the Head of The Knights of Malta and an lTV film crew. John Begley was the first to see the apprehension of McDaid. As he lay in the street , taking what little cover he could he shouted to the man behind him that they had "got young Mickey McDaid" The mother of Michael Kelly, the first boy to die that day, watched through a window which had been blown out by a soldier that had fired on her sister. ShewatchedasMcDaidand two other boys being forced into a Saracen carrier. An lTV film crew would show this footage and Margaret McDaid would wrongly conclude her brother was safe. The paras fired CS gas inside the carrier. The British military's knowledge of the effects of CS gas was not limited.CS gas had been "tested" on human beings in Vietnam and Cyprus. The British Government replaced the use of tear gas with the

March 17, 1992

use of CS gas knowing , as their report on CS stated, that" a concentration of between one part in ten million and one part in a million is enough todriveall but the most determined person out of the area." Clearly, the concentration inside the carrier would have far exceeded that concentration. All British troops who use CS are well aware CS gas produces "extreme burning se~ation. o! the eyes and copious flow of tears; coughing, diffic:uJt breathing and chesttightness; involuntary closmg of the eyes plus sinus and nasal drip; nausea and vomiting''. Given it's effects and it's extreme concentration inside the carrier, it came as no ~,..-

surprise when Me Daid andoneofthe others stumbled out of the carrier. The last boy was slow to

a.t of the carrier but bolted for safety .He never made it. All three were lined up facing a wall and shot in the back, for attempting to escape. They were then dumped in a pile in the back of the carrier and as the carrier drove away McDaid's body fell out. The driver didn't even stop. He would drive all the way to the barricades and pause before he returned to retrieve McDaid. A witnesstothiseventran to get Father Irwin. She insisted that there were three boys in the back of the carrier and despite the insistence of a soldier that there weren't any boys in the carrier Father Irwin ran past the para.

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iry Didn't Consider The woman, of course , had been right. When Father Irwin opened the rear doors of the carrier he saw the l:xx:lies of McDaid and the other two " piled like bags of spuds on top of each other in the back." Thenanotherpriestarrived.FatherMulveywould later state that, ''Mickey Mc:Baid was lying on top. When I tried toshifthimfrom the top to get attheothershe was still warm. I couldn't lift them off the bottom boy whowaslyingfacedowninapoolofblood.Ifthat boy was not dead when he was put in[ the carrier] he would have suffocated because of the position

he was in" Later examination

of the body would reveal

that the boys tongue had swollen enough

that he

my h a v e

suffocated to death after

losing ronsdousneD.Had

he not been treated so callously his life

might have been saved but now all that oould be done was for Father Irwin to ready himself to perform the Last Rites-

for the fifth time that day. As the two priests emerged from the carrier The Head of The Knights of Malta arrived and the soldiers on hand barred him from administering medical aid .. One and a half hours after they had been shot , having been forcibly denied medical aid, Father Irwin and a Dr McCabe finally saw the three boys admitted to the hospital- the morgue. Once again

the death toll rose. Barry Uddy had served in the British Army in

Palestine and Korea. He had seen death before. Once again he had a front row seat. Uddy watched as a para came running round the comer, firing. The bullets found and killed a 30 year old man across the street from Uddy. Father Bradley had seen enough butchery. He grabbed the para's gun."ForGod' ssake haveyounotdone enough damage today ?'' he implored. The para shook the priest off and shouted back ''Move or you're dead" but due to the roar of people dying around them, neither man knew whether they had heard, ''Move and you're dead "or ''Move or you're dead". Their lives hung on· one word. Luckilytheparagotmorespecific. ''Up against the wall ! " They turned to face the wall and as they did so they saw four boys. "For God's sake ,don't run or they'll shoot you" said Uddy. He grabbed one of the boys by the arm. Several days later a red haired 16 year old named PatrickMcGinleywould turn upinUddy'shouse to thank him for saving his life. The other boys

would tum up shot, in an alleyway. Just as Uddy had fearfully anticipated; they had

worked as a bartender at the pub on the base at Fort George. They knew Liddy as well.They especiallyknewofaspecificproblemhehadwith hisinnerearwhichleads to vertigo. They exploited this knowledge to it's full potential.Uddy had savedlrishlivesthatdayandinretumwasbeaten until he lostconsciouness,revivedand then beaten till he blacked out again. The sadsitic treament of civilians was even more evident in the case of a boy named McLaughlin. He was made to stand over a heaterforoverthirty minutes with his head close to the heat. Then one of the paras came over to him and with full force punched him in the groin. McLaughlin fell and hit the ground so hard that his head made a loud noise as it hit the concrete. Staff Seargeant WilkinsonoftheColdstream Guards grabbed the

run and they had died. trooper. ilhirteenwerenowdeadbutthehorrorwas 'We don't want a heart attack in this place" he JUSt beginning for those they had left behind. said. Several hundred civilians were taken Unfortunately his opinion was not shared.

prisoners that day. Two priests, Father Another para picked the boy up and asked him if Bradley and Father 0' Keefe, were assaulted he wanted a drink. The boy, dehydrated and in

duringtheroundup.FatherBradleywasfinally shock, weakly replied ,"yes". The para told released but Father O'Keefe would be struck in Mclaughlin to open his mouth. He complied. The the stomach with a rifle butt several times. His para then spat into his mouth and laughed."I'll requeststogowithFatherBradleywereanswered tell you now , if they were dying in there, I only with pain. Two people who had arrived at wouldn't even wet their lips" the scene to provide medical aid to the wounded The "softening'' process was over. Interogation were, themselves, brutally attacked by the paras. then begun. It was now 8:15pm, four hours after One was forced into a Saracen carrier and rubber the massacre had begun. bulletswerethenfiredinside.Herequiredtwenty As the prisoners were interogated they were eight stiches. asked to show their hands. After holding barbed One of the most disturbing pieces of evidence wireforhourstheirhandswerecutandfilthy.The

involved the media. An lTV film crew filmed police officer present said ''Your hands are dirty. McDaid's death yet only the footage which That means you werethrowingstones"Noother

showed him getting inoto the carrier made explanation, even the obvious torture, was allowed the news. Also, Barry Uddy observed nine as an explanation. All prisoners that were badly cameramanstandingoppositetheprisoners injured were given summons. It was clearly withtheircamerasonthegroundinfrontof evident that the Britsh were in the process of them in a pile. He was very specific and criminalizing their victims. They were all put up

adamant about this. Not a single member of against a wall and photographed with a themediawasbraveenoughtoopenlymention paratrooper.These photo's would be used to

this. Journalists that have reported on situations "properly identify " people in court- and in the like Cambodia during the Vietnam War or armed street. conflictsinCentralAmericaknowbetter.Carrying Half an hour past midnight Barry Liddy was acameraismoredangerousthancarryingagun. finally released. His base access had been The prisoners were then: marched to exhaustion, withdrawn but he would be cleared for work the beaten with rubber hoses, and then transported, next day. To Barry Liddy this was not of prime toFortGeorge,incarriers with triangular pointed concern. He was dragging one of his legs behind irons laid on the floor.Once at Fort George they · him. · were again beaten with rubber hoses and made to Bloody Sunday was over but it's memory would run a gauntlet of trained attack dogs. They were last for generations. The killing and the cover ups then made to stand with their hands against the continue So does the fight for civil rights and walls of the containment area. One guard would freedom.. · order their hands up the next would order them The author wishes to thank all his down. Then the first guard would beat them for sources in Ireland for their brave disobeying him, and so it went. The guards efforts to make the truth worked their way up and down the rows of known. Tiocfaioh 'ar civilians jeering, taunting and of course beating la. them. After two hours at the walls they were made to stand with their hands on barbed wire trestles, located in the centre of the room. Uddy, an ex British service man, knew his assailants. He

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Badminters Do Good by Trevor MacNeil

The Douglas Royals BadmintonTeamdidverywellatthe C.CA.A. National Championships

Gold Medalist Chantel Jobin

in Ottawa on March 14, taking home four medals out of a possible five. The team also placed second in the overall tournamentrankings, behind first place Alberta, but ahead of Quebec, Ontario and Nova Scotia.

An outstanding performance by Chantel Jobin, a third-year physical education student, led to her capture of the gold medal in the Ladies' Singles event. She defeated Isabelle de Laurier, of College Ste. Jerome (Quebec), for the title.

In the Mens' Singles event, ChrisTrenholmetookahomeasilver

• medal after losing his final match to !- Mark Lee of Alberta. =; A silver also went to the .3 duo of Sharon Halpin and Adrian ,{ Lee, who were unable to overcome ~ the tough competition from Quebec ~ in the Mixed Doubles' competition. { The Ladies' Doubles pair of

Evy Miki and Rachel Shiv bested the

Ontario team to take home a bronze medal in their division.

Unfortunately, the Mens' Doubles team of Hau Le and Oak Banfacedoverwhelmingcompetition in their semi-final match, and lost to Ontario,ousting them from medal contention. The physically demanding semi-final left them drained, and they were unable to defeat the Alberta team.

In all, coach AI Mawani is veryproudofhis team, ''We had five players experiencing national competition for the first time," he said .

As well, this is the first time ever that one college has represented an entire conference in all categories at the National level championships.

The Royals accomplished this by wiping out the entire competition at the Provincial Championships, held at Malaspina College in Nanaimo on March 7-8.

Women Volley to Loss by Trevor MacNeil

The Womens' Volleyball Team was unable to meet the challengeofchampionshipplay,and were defeated in their semi-final pia yoff round in the Provincial Championship Tournament held at VancouverCommunityCollegeover the March 6-7 weekend.

This loss put them in the running for the bronze medal, but they were again defeated, this time byVCC.

The Royals first best-of-five match was against Trinity Western on Saturday morning, and the Douglas team came out strong, winning the first game 15-11. The TWU team took advantage of eight missed serves by theRoyalsand were able to beat them 15-12 in the second game. Their momentum couldn't carry through to the next game, and the Royals were able to win 15-8.

Game four went to TWU, forcing a fifth and final game to decide the match.

Two contentious line calls against Douglas upset the Royals enough to throw off their play, and the Trinity team were able to snatch victory from our team.

In the bronze medal matchup held that same afternoon,

Douglas faced vee, buttheprevious two-and-a-halfhourmarathonmatch against TWU proved to be too much for the Royals. Although they put up a good fight and went the full five games again, the Royals were unable sustain a strong offence, and lost three games to two.

This is the first time in three

years the Royals have not won a medal.

Staci Martin was named to the tournament's All Star team, and was named to the league's First All Conference team for the regular season. Also named to the All Conference team was the Royals' Donna Furlani.

Royals Lose Squeaker by Trevor MacNeil

The men's basketball team managed to force the best of three B.C.C.A.A Series to the full three games, but finally lost to vee at Langara, Sunday, March 8.

The first game of the finals was played on the Falcon's home court, and was a heart-stopper. Neither team ever had a substantial lead during the whole game, and regulation play ended with the teams tied at 71 apiece. Even overtime was gridlocked at 77, until the last 5 seconds, when Ron Arnold of VCC let go with a hook shot to win the game 79-77 for the Falcons.

The Royals fared better at home in Saturday's game, when they led in the entire second half, to steal victory from vee, winning 80-79.

Two free throws by Tony Pomonis with only seven seconds left, sealed the victory for Douglas. The Royals scoring was led by Tyler Runquist with 14points,andDaveGill with 12 points.

The Royals were not so lucky on Sunday. Great shooting by guard Tony Pomonis kept Douglas in the game. The VCCFalcons started withaninepointlead, buttheRoyals fought back to take a 44-40 lead at halftime.

The VCC Falcons regained their nine point spread, but Douglas fought back, bringing the score to 56-55 with six minutes remaining. vee put on the pressure, and the Royals finally lost 75-79.

Pomonis put forth a good effort, scoring 17 points, and Dave Gill scored 15 of his own.

Ruggers Going to Try For the Gold by Trevor MacNeil

TheDouglasCollegeRugby team fought a grueling playoff battle against Trinity Western University, and, emerging victorious, now advance to the finals to determine the league champions.

Even though the Royals had home-field advantage in the March 11 game at Queen's Park, first blood was drawn by TWU with a three point penalty kick.

Paul Kuhn put the Royals on the scoreboard with a penalty kick as well, tying the game at 3-3. TWU

then completed a Try, worth four points, kicked a good convert for two more points and pulled in the lead with a 9-3 score.

Shawn Mcisaac responded with a try for Douglas, and Kuhn made good on the convert to tie the score at 9-9.

The game remained locked until midway through the second half, at which point Kirk Arsenault intercepted a TWU pass and took the ball all the way to the endzone for the try. Another successful convert by Kuhn gave the Royals a15-9lead.

Both teams played good, hard hitting rugby, and the Royals were able to hold their lead to defeat TWU in a match that was exciting to the end.

The Douglas team placed second overall in regular season play, ahead of third placed TWU, in a four team league. The other teams are UBC, whoplacedfirst,andKwantlen College.

This semi-final win now pits Douglas against UBC for the league championship. The game is to be played Wednesday, March 18, at the UBC Thunderbird Stadium at 4:30pm.

Mens' Volleyball Take Silver Medal by Trevor MacNeil

In Mens' Volleyball action on the weekend of March 6-7, the Royals played in the Provincial ChampionshipsinOearbrookatthe Columbia Bible College. Their first match was against their arch- rivals, the Vancouver Community College Falcons.

The Friday night match

went for the full five games, with the Royals winning the first game 15-9, but vee took the next two 15-3, and 15-6.

Douglas fought back to defeat the Falcons 15-2 and force a final fifth game. Both teams were in fighting form and the game went as longasitpossiblycould,astheRoyals came back from a 12-6 deficit to win 16-14.

Saturday had the Douglas team facing the Trinity Western team for the gold medal finals.

TWU took the first game 15-6, and the Royals, with their only win of the match, defeated TWU 15-10. TWU was able to take the next two games 15-13and 15-9,andcapture the match and the gold medal. The Royals wereawarded thesilvermedal for their valiant efforts.

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Women Dunked by Trevor MacNeil

The weekend of March 6-7 was not a good one for the Douglas College Women's Basketball Team. In a best of three series for the B.C.C.A.A. Championships, the Royals lost to the Frazer Valley College Cascades in two straight games.

On Friday, March 6, the game was close as Douglas was trailing by four points midway through the second half. But early foul trouble by Tilly Woods and an injury to Allison Bower were too much for the Royals to cope with. F.V.C. took the game 72-54.

In their final home game of the year, the Douglas team gave their all, but were finally overpowered by the taller F.V.C. team, losing 72-51.

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Teresa Van Santen was named to the second all-star team for the province. Tilly Woods was not only on the first all-star team, but topped the voting and was named to the All Canadian team. She is Douglas' first All Canadian in 7 years, and thefirstrookieto hold the honour. Tilly Woods (23), battles for the tip-off

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