VOLUME 83 ISSUE 7 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2001 NOT AS SEXY AS THIS SINCE 1918

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NO CLASS TODAY! Commerce students—and other kids with courses in Angus—had to study outsideon Monday while "HAMMER; the RCMP dog, searched their classrooms for bombs. SARAH MACNEILLMORRISON PHOTO

by Ai Lin Choo

Annoyance: that was students' andprofessors' general reaction to yes-terday morning's bomb threat inUBC's Henry Angus builrline Whilesome people took advantage of thefree time to sit in the sun, manystood around, frustrated by the day'sdisruption.

The Angus building, which hous-es UBC's Faculty of Commerce, wasevacuated at about 9am on Mondayafter an anonymous 911 callwarned that a bomb was set to deto-nate in the building at 9:45am. Nobomb was found in the three and ahalf hour search that followed.

Campus RCMP Staff SergeantBarry Hickman said that after receiv-ing the call, university administratorsand Campus Security were contactedto ensure that the Angus building wasevacuated and secured. A dog squadthat specialises in detecting bombson premises was also called in, andthe fire alarm continued to ring fromabout 9am until noon.

Hickman said that theVancouver police traced the phonecall to the Broadway Skytrain sta-tion, but were not able to establishwho made the call.

'We listen to the tape and try anddetermine.,.anything from therethat we can work with that may giveaway [the caller's] identity, or pur-pose, or agenda,' he said. 'We'll beinvestigating that phone call.'Hickman said that he believed thecall was made by a young male.

Michael Ward, a professor in themath department, said that whilehis class was disrupted, he under-stood the necessity of a thoroughinvestigation.

'My class was sort of sabotaged,but there's nothing really I can doabout it,' he said. 'It's got to be somehoax of some sort or other, but youjust don't treat it lightly.'

But Commerce professor TomRoss, who was lecturing when thefire alarm went off, called the evacu-ation 'a nuisance.'

'Obviously they have to be care-ful, he said. am annoyed I guess,and these are obviously days inwhich we are just a little more nerv-ous and sensitive about things likethis, and someone's just probablyplaying on our fears, either as somecruel joke or to make a point that weshould be afraid.'

While some cited the recent terrorist attacks in the US as groundsfor concern, Hickman said that hedid not feel there was any reason toassociate yesterday's threat with ter-rorism. He added that while heunderstood people's recent nervous-ness, bomb threats actually happenquite frequently on campus.

'Each fall around exam time,during the first part of the yearwhen exams start to occur, there issome regularity with respect tobomb threats and that goes onthrough the year,' he said.

According to Hickman, there wereabout five or six threats last year.

Meanwhile, some students saidthey were annoyed at the lack ofinformation that was given to them.

'We stood outside for about halfan hour and they told us that theywouldn't let us back in until one, andthen they roped off the area,' saidDerek James, a fourth-year financestudent, on Monday morning. 'Wethought it was a fire alarm so we leftour stuff in there. I need my keys.'

James and another fourth-yearfinance student, Blake Hinton, werestanding outside the building wear-ing suits. They had expected toattend a career presentation by rep-resentatives from Ernst and Youngat 11:30ani yesterday.

'We don't even know if it's beencancelled because we talked to thepeople that organised it and theydon't even know what's happened,said Hinton on Monday. 'So we

don't know what's happening backthere, we're just going to wait to seewho shows up.'

Hickman said that he did notknow exactly why students were notinformed about the bomb threat,but that it was probably partlybecause security officials did notwant to create panic.

He added that while there was noreason for immediate concern, theuniversity is still being cautious and

a debriefing will most likely follow.'We have taken further precau-

tions with the staff and we haveinstructed the instructor employeesto report anything unusual or suspi-cious upon their return to their class.In the future, should any unusual orsuspicious activities occur in class oraround the campus, they will contacteither Campus Security or RCMP,and we will assist and deal with themanner,' Hickman said..

by C^trss 5r e herd

Over 3000 peopleeople gathered in front ofthe Vancouver Art Gallery on Sunday

fternoön to hear speakers discuss a,eaceful end to - international ten-

sions which have emerged since ter-rorist attacks: destroyed the WorldTrade Centre two weeks ago.

We're here today to send a mes-sage to others, and especially ourpolitical leaders, that we must changethe direction we find ourselves headed in,' said Shannon Daub, the open-ing speaker at Sunday's peace rallyand a volunteer with End the- ArmsRace (EAR)the peace and disarma,ment organisation which planned the.,event -

'War, hatred, racism and the lossof thousands more innocent lives'are not the answer to this situation,'she said."

Daub said that EAR felt the rallybecame necessary as the cones" --quences of the terrorist attacks started "•-.to sink in. On. September 11, twohijacked planes crashed into the twin.towers of the World Trade Centre,destroying them both; a third hijacked

plane dew into the. Pentagon, and afourth crashed in Pennsylvania beforereaching its target

'The language of revenge, punish-ment and retaliation were very quickto come, and that's when we startedto feel that we had to do somethingthat would give a voice for people tosay, 'Look there's another way to dothis, we have to stop the script of vio-lence,'",' said Daub.

'Peace is possible but it will neverbe achieve& through war,' said EARstaff member Gillian Skeet

Muslim, Christian, and Jewishspeakers joined other peace activiststo discuss several issues surroundingthe attacks on the US, and to considerpossible responses. Riadh Muslih, amember of the Arab CommunityAssociation, urged the crowd to con-sider the many different reasons torespond peacefully to the terroristattacks in the US.

"We as a country should distanceourselves from the aggressive, venge-ful policies of the United States,because that could bring terrorism toour doorsteps,' he said.

Many of the speakers at Sunday's

rally spoke out against statementsfrom US President George. W. Bushthat people are either with the US oragainst it, and that there is no middleground.

'All of you standing here are ter-rorists by [Bush's] definition, becausehe said, 'If you don't agree with mypolicy you are on the other side,"said Muslih. 'We are not terrorists.We want peace and justice.'

Libby Davies, MP for VancouverEast, agreed.

'Mr Bush has said that there areonly two choices: 'You're either withus or you're with the terrorists.' Wereject that,' she said. 'We know thatthe third choice is to bring justicethrough the international communityand international law for the perpe-trators of these crimes.'

Themes of international justiceand international law were broughtup throughout the rally.

'Our response must be within therule of law. Those responsible shouldbe brought before the InternationalCriminal Court in Rome,' said Skeet

See "Peace' on page 3.

WANTING PEACESpeakers, including UBC professor DrNandita Sharma (above), spoke out against US retalitationat Sunday's End the Arms Race rally. CHRIS SHEPHERD PHOTO

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Meningitis comes to Uby Ai Lin. Choo

A UBC student who became ill with meningitis B earlylast week is not a health risk to the UBC community,according to Vancouver health officials.

Patricia Daly, deputy medical health officer of theVancouver/Richmond Health Board, said that becausethe disease is only transmitted though sharing saliva,UBC students should not worry about being at risk.

Daly said the health board has been working closelywith UBC's Student Health Services to ensure that thosewho came into close contact with the patient are admin-istered antibiotics.

The student, who has not been identified due topatient confidentiality, has been infected with meningi-tis B, a different disease from meningitis C, which brokeout in Abbotsford earlier this year.

"Meningitis B doesn't usually cause outbreaks...Itusually occurs sporadically,' said Daly.

Patricia Mirwaldt director of Student HealthServices, said that occasional cases of meningitis B arenot uncommon. She said that in BC, between 35-50cases are reported every year.

"Most of us will have the bacteria in our bodies andnot be affected,' she said, adding that medical research

has not yet determined the reason for this.Mirwaldt said that, other than maintaining good

health and hygiene, she can't suggest any other preven-tive measures. She said that students should avoid shar-ing drinks and cigarettes, and engaging in other actionsthat involve sharing saliva, like kissing.

While several clinics, offerering vaccinations againstmeningitis have been held in Totem Park and PlaceVanier residences, the vaccine does not preventmeningitis B.

Students living in residences were urged to receivevaccines after the meningitis C outbreak in Abbotsfordin August this year.

But Mirwaldt said that even though the vaccine won'tbe helpful in preventing meningitis B, it is still recom-mended that students who are not already vaccinatedget the shot

The Vancouver/Richmond Health Board Travel Clinicis providing vaccines for $120. Under UBC's Alma MaterSociety/Graduate Student Society Health and Dental Plan,students are covered up to $150 for vaccinations per year.

Approximately 300 students received the vaccineduring the clinics held at residences, while another 20to 30 students have gone to the travel clinic since thebeginning of this semester.

AIDS Walk calls for awareness and fundingby Azar Mehrabadi

Lack of funding and public aware-ness were the two major concernsfor participants of this year'sVancouver AIDS Walk.

The estimated 7000 people whoattended the walk at Stanley Parkincluded not only participants whoare HIV positive, but people whosimply wanted to come out andshow support

The walk, held on Sunday atStanley Park, featured music andcolourful balloons which created acheerful, upbeat atmosphere andput a different spin on many seriousissues surrounding HIV and AIDS,including finding a cure, fundingpeople who are living with the dis-ease, and promoting prevention-education in Vancouver and theLower Mainland.

Last year's AIDS Walk raisedalmost $500,000 for the BCPersons with AIDS Society (BCPWA)as well as other AIDS and HIV organ-isations. The money raised was usedto fund education, housing andadvocacy programs, and to help HIVand AIDS patients access certainhealth treatments not covered bygovernment or private health plans.

'I think that one thing to keep inmind throughout the whole thing

here is that there are a lot of peoplewho are not getting proper medica-tion, proper advocacy, or properhousing, and that raising money forHIV and AIDS is not directly for acure but maybe for helping peoplehave [greater] quality of life,' saidJessica Anderson, a staff member atYouthCo, an organisation helpingyouth living with HIV and AIDS.

Supporting people who have HIVor AIDS has become such a part ofmany people's lives that some par-ticipants said they attended AIDSWalk, without even really thinkingabout why.

"It's just so much a part of ourcommunity that we don't thinkabout why we do it, we just would doit,' said one member of Betty, amusical theatre and jazz band performing at the AIDS Walk. "We allknow people who have been affectedby AIDS, who are living with it now,who have passed away. So givingback to our community seems likean important thing to do, and like anecessary thing to do.'

Other members of Bettyexpressed concern that AIDS may befalling out of the public eye as therehave been fewer publiciseddeathsrecently. People no longer find AIDSas shocking as they used to, but peo-ple at the AIDS Walk were hopeful

that the event would help bringattention to the deadly disease.

'When people come here, it'stalked about..openly like any otherdisease,' said Tara Nargang, who satat the AIDS Vancouver table duringthe AIDS Walk. 'People are givingout condoms and talking about pre-vention,. and some people are [HIV]-positive and talk about that. So Ithink it's bringing it closer to home.'

Many of the walk's participantsand fundraisers have been support-ing AIDS Walk for years and taketheir fundraising very seriously.

only raised $120 this year,said Mike Smith, who was partici-pating in his second VancouverAIDS Walk on Sunday, having previ-ously participated in the TorontoAIDS Walk for six years.

Anika Altiman, a UBC studentstarting her Master's of Educationthis year, has participated in theAIDS Walk in Guelph for the pastthree years, but this was her firstyear in Vancouver. $21 of the $71she earned in pledges came fromher own pocket; the rest, she said,came from staff and professors inthe Neville Scarfe Buiding, the UBCEducation building.

The total amount raised atthis year's AIDS Walk is not yetavailable. +

GET BACK, YE BAFFLED STUDENTS! Nothing like yellow police tape and a bomb threat to draw a crowd. Confused students hung around the potentially explosivebuilding, many of them confused as to why they couldn't go to their Commerce, or psychology, or biology classes. No bomb was found and Angus was saved.SARAH MACNEILL MORRISON PHOTO

Rugby Birds start badly_12y Scott Bardsley

The UBC women'srugby team got off to abad start this seasonin Vancouver PremierLeague play, with acrushing 2 7-7 loss toJames Bay onSaturday.

With some aggres-sive scrums, JamesBay scored a try in theopening minutes. UBCjust didn't seemawake early on. At onepoint, theThunderbirds madefour passes in a rowwhere the receiverslipped up on thecatch.

UBC didn't seemto wake up until thesecond try wasscored against them.With a quick pass toTeresa Jackson, UBCset up its one greatplay of the game.Jackson charged theJames Bay line andbroke free, dashingdown the last 20metres of the field,dodging one lastdefender to score UBC's first and only try of thegame. With a conversion, UBC brought its score up toseven.

But James Bay had the game sewn up before the firsthalf was over with another try just a few minutes later.The second half was a rout for UBC. Try though they did,they couldn't put any more points on theboard. The game ended as a 27-7 loss.

New coach Spencer Robinson was bluntin his post-game team meeting.

"That sucked; he said. Robinson wenton to accept full responsibility for the loss,saying he hadn't prepared the team wellenough.

"We were taken aback by [James Bay's] aggressivenature and we didn't really step up to match them in thatdepartment..You always lose in a contact sport if youdon't,' he said. 'We never really got any momentum going.'

Team co-captain Sabrina Celms also said that theteam needed to be more aggressive.

'People today were hesitant going into contact It's alot of people's first time playing at a varsity level andthey were nervous and didn't have confidence, [but that]

confidence is going to come.'The team has been weakened by the loss of eight of

its starters from last year, including Cherlyn McKay—one of their top scorers—and by a lack of experience.

'We've only had three weeks of practices; said Celins.-Most sports get together at the end of summer and start

their training, and we just started ourtraining _Once we learn how each otherplays it's going to be a big difference.'

This is Robinson's first season asThunderbirds coach, but he is well pre-pared. Last year he coached theCanadian under-23 team. He alsocoached the provincial women's rugby

team for four years and helped start UVic's rugby pro-gram in the early 1990s. He currently works as a fire-man, coaching the Thunderbirds in his off-hours.

The Birds seemed to take the loss well. Instead ofmoping after the game, they talked about the things theyneed to do to avoid a repeat of today's game.

Robinson is optimistic. To improve, he said, theBirds need 'better coaching and more hard work, butthey have it in them.' •

UBC Football "whomped" by Rams

UP THERE: James Bay and UBC compete for the ball. The Birds' debutgame of the season did not go well. NIC FENSOM PHOTO

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REGINA—UBC simply didn't have achance. The Regina Rams struckearly against the Thunderbirds andmercilessly continued the onslaught.Six minutes into the opening quarterthe Rams had amassed a 14-pointlead on their way to a 59-21 victory.

The Rams were led by a strongperformance fromquarterback DarrylLeason. Playing onlythree quarters,Leason had 19 com-pletions in 34attempts for 364yards, and scram-bled for 27 yards on two runs.

UBC coach Jay Prepchuk saidthat he had told his players that theRams, ranked first in the CanadaWest conference and undefeated sofar this season, would be a formida-ble opponent

`We told our guys all week thatwe're playing against a good footballteam. I honestly don't think you'regoing to find a better quarterbackperformance than what you sawtonight from Darryl,' saidPrepchuck on Friday night. 'He's got

the complete package. He feels thepocket well. He runs well.'

'I don't know what happenedtoday,' said UBC first-year offensivelineman Max Ivanov. "We're just adeveloping team. Most of us on the[offensive] line are second- or first-year players. We're going to have tosuck it up and maybe we can dosomething for the playoffs.'

But Prepchuck said that hebelieves there are

' some positives to theloss.

'Right now we havetwo fifth-year playerson our team,' he said."[The losses this yearcan be taken] as a pos-

itive experience, but it certainlydoesn't help getting whomped likewe did. If you look down the futurewe have some really good playerscoming up.

"For us at UBC it's difficult sometimes because of our tough academ-ic standards and requirements toget players in. We can get only fiveor ten per cent of the players werecruit because of our high graderequirements. That makes it a realchallenge for us,' he added.

'The effort was there,' said UBC

wide receiver Dan Lazzari. "We'rejust having problems containingtheir big plays on offence. Theirdefence did well, and we weren'thonestly expecting them to do thatwell...We just got down early and itwas tough to get back into it'

Lazzari was one of the few T-Birds who had a good game, catch-ing six passes for 83 yards and atouchdown. T-Bird running backAnsari Soroush also performedwell, picking up 91 yards on five car-ries.

According to Prepchuk, the teamwill be better prepared for theirhome game against the Universityof Manitoba Bisons on Friday, start-ing at 7:30pm.

Manitoba is currently rankedsecond in Canada West

'I told the guys that the Manitobagame next week is going to be just asdifficult They have a physical offen-sive line...Their receiving corps iscollectively the best in Canada West,or maybe the nation. Defensively,they have all those veterans backthat have played so well for themover the years. We just have to staypositive and keep working hard anddevelop a game plan that's going towork," he said. •

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Field Hockey Birds dominate tournamentby Scott Bardsle

In the strongest performance of anyUBC team yet this year, the women'sfield hockey team absolutely domi-nated the first Canada West tourna-ment of the season, shutting clownthe competition with four solidwins.

The team started the tournamenton Friday against Manitoba, tradi-tionally the conference's weakestcontender. According to fourth-yearsweeper Laura Balakshin, however,Manitoba has noticeably improvedthis season. Those improvementsweren't enough to stop UBC though,as the Thunderbirds ran over theBisons 3-0.

Next, it was on to the home team,the Calgary Dinos, on Saturdaymorning.

'[The Thunderbirds had] a reallystrong start with U of C, which inthe past has been a problem for us.We come out slow,' said fifth-yearmidfielder Stephanie Hume. "Butwe came out hard. Our second halfwasn't quite so good.' But even withthe Birds' weaker second half,Calgary was no match for UBC, whowon 2-0.

Balakshin said that by theirSaturday afternoon game against

the Alberta Golden Bears, the Birdshad fixed the few problems they'dhad against Calgary in the morning.

`We ended strong in the secondhalf,' Hume said. 'We started doinglittle passes in between team play-ers, which was something we werehaving problems with in the firsttwo games.'

And they won 3-1. After theirimproved play in that win, UBC gotready to challenge . UVic, which, inthe words of Balakshin, is 'tradition-ally the strongest team, UBC's archrival.'

'[We had] a great game againstUVic. We just did our little passesand played our little game and dom-inated. It was a really fun game,'Hume said.

With a 3-1 victory over UVic, UBCswept the tournament, claimingfour wins and no losses. All of theBirds' wins were strong, with UBCalways finishing at least two goalsahead of the competition. This tour-nament firmly established theThunderbirds as the toughest fieldhockey team in Canada West.

Hume attributed the team'sstrong showing this weekend togood team cohesion.

- "We played really well as a team.Our first game was bouncy; we were

getting our bearings. But by our lastgame we played our game, weplayed as a team, we moved as ateam, we were able to do our passesand get the ball to the forwards andcommunicate really well. Wemeshed,' she said.

'We don't just have a strong 11[on the field], we have a strong 15players. Everyone on the team isable to do their job and do itwell...When it was hot out this week-end we rotated subs out all the timeand no one came in feeling out ofplace.'

New player Stephanie Smithproved herself as a top member ofher new squad: in every game, shescored UBC's first goal. Havingplayed for SFU during her undergradyears, Smith is now at UBC to studyoccupational therapy. Hume saysSmith complements the team well.

'Having her score our first goalsis great because, in the past, one ofour weaker points has been that wecan dominate a game, but [not be]able to score, and she's opened thescoring every time,' said Hume.

Coach Hash Kanjee said that withthe loss of six of their players fromlast season, the team is now a youngone. The team has only one fourth-year player and one fifth-year player.

"The good side about only havingone fifth-year is I'll only lose onenext year, and I've only got onefourth-year, so I'll only lose one thefollowing year,' joked Kanjee. "Thisgroup, I'll have them together for aminimum of three years, so if I can'tdo anything with them in threeyears then I probably need to re-evaluate my job.'

With such a phenomenal debut,one can only wonder what heightsthe team can reach by their thirdyear with Kanjee.

"Steph Hume [the lone fifth-yearplayer], aka Barney, is actually comeinto her own. She's the team cap-tain; she's going to be a real teamleader on and off the field,' he said.'She's got great speed. She's reallymatured as a player.'

Kanjee also highlighted the talentof midfielder Stephanie Jameson,who has recently joined the nationaltraining squad.

The team has more to be excitedabout than just its weekend sweep.The Birds are also excited about theconstruction, now underway inThunderbird Park, of their oft-delayed new synthetic playing turf.

'The new turf is supposed to havebeen going in for so long now thateach successive group of players has

been like, 'Ohl There'sgoing to be a new turfsoon! There's going to be anew turf soon!' But nowthat it's actually, going init's great," Balakshin said.

The team preparedwell for the season with apreseason trip to Hollandin late August, where theygot tips from Dutch play-ers—some of the world'stop field hockey players—on how to play the game.The team has also beengetting some extra prac-tice playing in theVancouver league.

The Thunderbirds nexttournament is at Manitobafrom October 5-7. Expectgood things. •TAKE AIM: The UBC women's field hockey team pratices early on Saturday. You're probably still in bed, sleep-

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NO BUS Translink's financial problems have meant cuts across the region. EMILY CHAN PHOTO

UBC Parking Ratesemain Frozen

by Brian Liu.

A circulating rumour that the price of parkinghas increased at UBC is untrue, but it highlightsstudent resentment toward the expense and dif-ficuldes of bringing a car to campus.

'Ifs really expensive,' said undergraduatestudent Percie Yiu, who has bought parkadepasses at UBC for the last four years. Its toughto have to pay so much for a parking pass whenI'm already paying so much for tuition:

Eight-month parking passes for UBC studentsrange, from $383.04 to $601.92. Graduate stu-dents and UBC faculty and staff can buy amonth pass for $770.64.

But Danny Ho, assistant director of 1113C parkin„and access control, said that with the excepdon of R-Lot—a parking lot by StJohn's College that 'raised itsyearly pass by $8 to $400—the cost of parkingcampus has remained the same this year.

'Aside from one of our small lots [R-Lot],which has 85 spaces, we have not raised the costof parking at UBC,' said Ho. 'In fact, we havelowered the hourly rate of meter and parkadeparking from $2.70 an hour to $2.50 an hour.'

But even after having being told that parkingprices have remained unchanged for over 10,000parking spaces on campus, student sentimenttowards parking at UBC is negative. One of theissues currently being raised by students is the lack

of spaces available for those who do want to pay."Finding spaces is hard," said Science under-

graduate student Joyce Cajucom. 'And if you goduring peak hours, finding a space or trying toget out of the lot is like, impossible, because ofthe line-ups.":-

But expansion of parking spaces or the devel-opment of a new parkade is currently not onUBC Parking's agenda.

"UBC Parking has no plans on expanding thenumber of parking spaces available due to tworeasons," said Ho. 'One of the reasons is that UBCdepartment of transportation planning, which isin charge of allocating the land for parldng, is hy-ing to minimise the number of parking spaces inorder to encourage the use of the transit system:

One of the goals, of UBC's Trek 2000 pro-gram—the university's document outlining itsgoals for the 21 st century—is to reduce the traffic of single occupant vehicles by 20 per centfrom 1997 levels, and to increase public transitridership to UBC by 20 per cent from 1997 lev-els, by November 2002.

Ho said that high levels of non-compliancewith pay parking is another reason why parkingspaces at UBC will not be increased. Ho saidthat only 70 per cent of students issued a park-ing violation pay their fines.

"Compliance with pay-parking is definitelyone of the main issues facing UBC Parking and

Access Control,' said Ho. "We employa large staff of parking enforcementofficers, but it's always been an issue.

. Realistically though, there will always.be people that are non-compliantwith pay-parking, and unfortunately,this loss in revenue is sharedamongst those who do pay for park-

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The budget for expansion ofparking at . UBC comes directly fromrevenues generated through pay-parldng and enforcement. Low lev-els of compliance have underminedany immediate plans to create addi-tional parking spaces,' he said.

High parking prices also reflect.Parking's loss of revenue from peo-ple who do not pay, Ho added.

Ho said that UBC Parking is cur-rently reviewing the cur rent needs of ,the UBC community as well as the ; •current supply of parking on cam-pus, and that there. is. room forimprovement or for future develop-ments. He added that UBC Parking iscurrently working with theRegistrar's office and the Student .

SANTA'S BROTHER?, mA wants the guts the park Services Centre to parking tickets toing guy, leaves on their windshield. NIC FENSOM PHOTO students' transcripts. +

GONNA WALK? If you haven't experienced a late-night ride back to UBC on a bus crammed with loud, drunken, and occa-sionally vomiting students, do it soon. UBC's bus loop won't be seeing late buses after October 15. EMILY CHAN PHOTO

Trek program working towards transport goalsby Sarah MacNeill Morrison

If the four-month Lower Mainland transit strike did anything at all, itmade residents question the future of transportation in Vancouver.'How am I going to get to school or work?' suddenly became a prob-lem with fewer solutions.

Cycling, carpooling, buying a car, hitchhiking—these are some ofthe many solutions to immobility that university students came upwith during the strike. And while UBC's Director of TransportationCord Lovegrove doesn't like all of these options, now that the strike isover, he's still trying to get people who travel to the university think-ing about their mode of transportation.

Lovegrove is in charge of the university's Trek program, the trans-portation section of Trek 2000, the document which lays out UBC'svision for the 21st century.

"The overriding global concern was to reduce air pollution andimprove health and safety for, not just the campus, but the region,towards sustainabilty," said Lovegrove.

One of the most ambitious sections of the transit plan is to createa U-Trek card, which would provide all UBC students with a mandato-ry, subsidised bus pass—the U-Pass.

In the last academic year, 2000-2001 Alma Mater Society (AMS)Vice-President External, Graham Senft, worked with regional trans-portation authority Translink to implement the bus pass, but whenthe former NDP provincial government decided not to collect a $75vehicle levy from Greater Vancouver Regional District drivers, addingto the transit authority's already massive funding problems, plans forthe U-Pass seemed far off..

But Lovegrove is still hopeful.'The U-Trek card is still alive and well in our minds, even if it's not

in someone's wallet yet," he said.According to Lovegrove and Kristen Harvey—current AMS vice-pres-

ident external—the university and the AMS are currently discussing a

plan with students, and expect to have a proposal by November.'If we can come up with a plan that is both amenable to the stu-

dents and the administration of the university, we'll take that plan toTranslink and see what the result will be,' said Harvey. ,

But the U-Trek card is 'more than a bus pass,' said Lovegrove. TheTrek program is planning parking bonuses for people who car

BIKES, YAYI UBC's Trek program wants to encourage moresustainable transportation, like cycling. NIC FENSOM PHOTO

pool;,more showers and bike racks for those who cycle to UBC, and aprogram to guarantee students who are stranded at campus a freeride home.

And with all of the problems facing public transit, car poolingseems to be the best solution.

Two-person car pools are great; we love car pools of any kind atthis university,' said Lovegrove. But he said that the Trek programwas pushing to fit more people into cars.

'We know that the vast majority of people seat five people. We wantnot just more carpooling, but larger car pools; he said.

According to Lovegrove, the Trek program's main goal is toreduce the number of heavy trucks and single occupancy vehicles(SOV) coming to campus. The university set a target of reducing SOVtraffic to UBC by 20 per cent, and increasing the number of passen-gers travelling to UBC by public transport by 20 per cent, between1997 and 2002.

The university has experienced a growth of about six per cent instudents since 1997 but, according to Lovegrove, by the fall of 2000,UBC had reduced the number of SOVs arriving on campus by 10 percent, and had seen a 25 per cent increase in transit ridership.

'We've surpassed our target in transit ridership increase, andwe're halfway to our single occupancy vehicle target,' he said.

But Lovegrove said that the number of transit-users would havebeen even higher if Translink—currently facing a annual deficit of$40- to $50 million—could afford to put more buses on the road.

"If we had the buses, we could put another 30 per cent of peoplecoming to UBC on the buses," he said.

And what about the future? Will the future include a monorail driv-ing students up to their classes?

'The Skytrain to UBC is a long-term strategy,' Lovegrove said. 'Wehaven't given up on that; it's still in our [Strategic TransportationPlan]. We're reserving corridors for it It's just a matter of wehope, when.' +

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by Sarah MacNeill Morrison

After a four-month bus strike this sum-mer, Vancouver transportation userswill face further inconvenience whenTranslink makes cuts to bus service onOctober 15.

Facing a $40 to 50 million annualdeficit, Translink, the Lower Mainland'sregional transit authority, voted June 6to cut almost one-quarter of bus service.

The cuts to the late-night service areof particular concern to many, with stu-dent representatives worried that cutswill deny accessible transportation tostudents working and going out at night.

Currently, the latest bus leavingdowntown Vancouver is the number 10to UBC, which leaves downtown at 3:42am. Starting October 15, no bus willleave after 1:40am.

Kristen Harvey, Alma Mater Society(AMS) vice-president, external, said thatthe student society sent a representativeto the Translink board meeting to speakagainst the motion when the cuts weredecided on. Harvey also said that shewould continue to speak against it.

I've been approached by quite a fewstudents on a personal, individual basiswho expressed concern [about thecuts]," she said. 'It's definitely a concernof mine, and we'll be bringing a motionto the upcoming [AMS] Council meetingregarding all our lobbying efforts.'

'The biggest priority is definitely the1:40am end time, because students whohave jobs and work late at night in orderto help finance their education need tohave an affordable ride home,' Harveycontinued.

'1 [also] think that this will encouragepeople to drink and drive, but...in termsof students—for those who work late andfor those who are out late—they have noaffordable ride home, and I think it'scompletely irresponsible to have busesend at 1:40am'

UBC students who go downtown on aregular basis worry about the impactbus cuts will have on their lives.

It's not good because we'll have totake cabs and cabs are so expensive, andif we're going out to clubs, they end attwo, and we'll have no way to get[home]," said second-year arts studentJessica Thompson.

'It'll affect me when I want to go outdowntown and go to clubs and stuff;she said. It'll just mean that have topay more, lose money out of my pocket—I'm a poor student."

Fourth-year student Nancy So saidthat the cuts would really affect her lifepersonally as "the only thing to do atnight on campus is to go to the barsdowntown.'

But the bus cuts—recent and future—have had other, serious impacts on So'slife.

`I'm in Science and I know a lot ofstudents who have labs past four or five,and I can't take the bus homebecause the bus that goes by myhouse stops, so I drive, becauseI can't get home at nielt:

So said that her lab goesuntil six, and her bus ends at5pm, so she started driving.

Gordon Lovegrove, UBC'sdirector of transportation plan-ning, said that he had been rep-resenting UBC in discussionsWith Translink, and is very wor-ried about the planned cuts.

'Obviously it's a concern ofUBC that transit cuts not bemade at all anywhere, any-time,' he said.

Lovegrove said that he hadbeen trying to talk to Translinkabout extending the hours onbuses departing from UBCwhen there are special eventshappening on weekends.

But according to DavidGeddes, Translink mediaspokesperson, this doesn'tseem like a viable solution.

"We're cutting services tomatch revenues, generating$40- to $50 million will mean

drastic cuts, and very soon; explainedGeddes.

'15 to alper cent of all bus servicewill be reduced; no old trolley buses willbe replaced; roads that would translate toTranslink for operating and maintainingrepairs will be transferred back to munic-ipalities; no new road work maintenanceprojects will be undertaken; there will beno new Millennium Line to start up; andno rapid-transit expansion—those are thereasons why cutting services to match theservices is what it is.'

But Executive Director of the BetterEnvironmentally SustainableTransportation Association (BEST),Dave Thompson, said that while heunderstands Translink's financial prob-lems, he is still concerned about theupcoming cuts.

'Our view on it [is] that we shouldn't

be cutting bus service, we should be get-ting more sources of finance for thetransit' system, and cuts are just notacceptable. The obvious result of this isthat there's going to be probably a fewmore people drinking and driving and afew more cars on the road, it's just notgood for anyone,' he said.

fully understand Translink's finan-cial situation...but I think they've got toStart looking outside of the usual placesfor funding to support the transitsystem,' he said.

Translink is required by law to bal-ance its budget The transit cuts becamenecessary after the former NDP provin-cial government refused to collect a pro-posed vehicle levy, which would havecharged all local vehicle owners $75annually.

Lovegrove said that in his discus-

sions with Translink last week, he hadseen a presentation on the city ofLondon, which he feels Vancouvershould emulate.

'In London, England the bus serviceis 24-hour, seven days a week, and that'swhat we should be. We're not there, wehave a problem with funding,' he said."More money needs to be found, anduntil it is, something has to be done, andthe default is bankruptcy, which theycan't do.'

But Lovegrove added that the univer-sity campus will not face cuts as severeas those in other parts of the LowerMainland.

'UBC has been, for the most part,protected from the cuts because we douse transit so much...and we make themmoney in the rush hour. So when itcomes down to cuts, it's the outlying

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QU SI ROCKS WHILE C ill,sCalylistD SHRUGSQUASIwith the Magic Magiciansat Richard's on RichardsSept 21

Where the hell were you? Quasi playedRichard's on Richards last Thursday tothe smallest crowd I have ever seenthere—and I blame you. Perhaps it wasbecause Brassy was playing later in theevening just a few doors down at theStarfish room, although those with ticketsto Quasi could get into Brassy for half price.Maybe it was the rain, I don't know.Whatever the reason, Quasi deserved a larg-er, more excited audience than the one ithad.

Portland's Quasi is ex-spouses Janet Weisson drums/saccharine vocals, and Sam Coomeson keyboards, playing the occasional guitar andsinging sombrely. Weiss is also a member of the ever-popularSleater-Kinney, while Coomes (ex-Heatmiser with Elliott Smith)plays keyboards with Built to Spill. Although Quasi has never

gained the level of recognition that Built to Spilland Sleater-Kinney have, Weiss and Coomesoffer intelligent and creative music equal in cal-ibre to their more commercially successfulcounterparts. -

Thursday's crowd seemed to reflect ageneral reluctance to widely embraceQuasi. The energy in the bar was low andlistless, and aside from one very eagerdancer, there were few people on thefloor. Weiss even offered to give a free T-shirt to the first person who would standin front of the stage.

It wasn't until near the end of theshow that Coomes gave much in theway of commentary for the audience,and it took until the encore for the

audience to reveal the full extent of theirappreciation for the band. Coomes and Weiss said little

throughout the show, and most of their vocals were overpow-ered by the keyboards and drums which made me feeldetached and somewhat less interested in the performance.They did manage to compensate for the lack of verbal commu-

nication with an energy-infused performance, however.Coomes often had his keyboard-in-a-home-made-case rockingas he played it with hands, feet, knees and, briefly, his crotch.Weiss, as usual, played with an astonishing mix of power, graceand jiggling.

While Weiss seemed entirely confident in her playing,Coomes stopped and restarted several songs because he wasunhappy with how they sounded. He warned us that, as the firstaudience of the tour, we were the guinea pigs that would hearsome of their least-played material, and that this show wouldlargely determine what songs were to be abandoned for the restof the tour. If Coomes and Weiss decide to take the advice of oneaudience member, the rest of the tour will see more of Quasi'solder material as well as stuff off of their latest release, Sword ofGod, released on their new label Touch & Go. Hopefully Quasiwill find fuller and more energetic houses in less rainy cities.

Oh yeah, the Magic Magicians opened for Quasi. Maybe thetwo words together operate like a double negative, becausethey didn't seem magic and they certainly weren't magicians.While they might have been a good opening act for a conven-tional rock show, they lacked the kind of musical. quirkinessthat would have complemented Quasi's style. I would haveenjoyed one of those rabbit tricks more. .+

CLUB GIVES ALTERNATIVE FILMS A CHANCEby Gen Darwin

CELLULOID SOCIAL CLUBat the ANZA ClubSept 20, continuing monthly

Tucked away on the corner of West8th and Ontario Street is theAustralia and New ZealandAssociation (ANZA) Club. Not just awatering hole, the ANZA Club alsohosts one of the most ecletic alterna-tive cinemas nights around—TheCelluloid Social Club. The club givesan opportunity for short films, oftennot seen by the public, to bescreened.

This month's installment includ-

ed a number of films from the 48Hour Film contest The premise ofthe contest is this: simple teams aregiven an 'inspiration package' con-taining a location, a prop, etc., andare given 48 hours to write, film andedit a ten-minute film. It certainlysounds like fun and, judging from thefilms, it must have been.

The first film was Olivia, a three-minute film directed by Gabe Kouth andwritten by his brother Sam. The filmwas a simple, laugh-out-loud mono-logue exaggerating a childhood obses-sion over Olivia Newton-John and it setthe lighthearted tone of the evening.

Olivia was quickly followed up byfour entries from the 48 Hour Filmcontest: Robert Wenek's Rip Off,Jason Margolis's Hope andRedemption: Nightcam Uncovered,and Jacqueline Samuda's The Sky'sthe Limit, and Mackenzie Gray'sLow. The first three films were entertaining and fit the humourous toneof the evening.

The next film, MacKenzie GraysLow, was much mom serious thanthose preceding it Gray, the director,even mentioned that he wanted a 'sen-sual and literate' film and plans toredo it spending more than 48 hours!

One of the highlights of the eveningwas a nominee for best short film atthe New York Lower East Side Filmfestival. Deborah Burns Fig.1 followsa businesswoman, who loses articlesof clothing throughout a bad day at theoffice. The film definitely talks aboutour tendency to feel shame whennude and equates this with the feelingwe get when placed in an uncomfort-able situation. Through creativeimagery and excellent camera work,Burns also pokes fun at the politicsand games that are played in officesand in society.

The night ended with a film that

was close to home, another entryinto the 48 Hour Film contest calledThe Box Shot at UBC, the film was apleasure to watch. Drew McCreadieand John Murphy, who were the leadactors and wrote the script, were bril-liant. With the right balance ofhumour and polish, it was hard tobelieve it only took them two days tomake the film.

The Celluloid Social Club willdefinitely be worth another visit.For only $5 the uninitiated candelve into the world of Vancouver'salternative film scene and come outloving it •

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_-The fund is available on a need-basis from the AMS and GSS*. To apply,visit us online at-www.gss.ubc.ca by October 15 th , 2001.*The application for reimbursement requires detailed financial

Laugh all the way to the bank!- .The AMS and Travel Cuts are proud to bring you Laffs@Lunch

Back by popular demand - Laughs at Lunch. De-stress and get ready to face the rest of theweek at this free event every Wednesday at noon. Come and join us in the Norm Theatre ininformation. the SUB and watch the great line-up of comedic acts. You will be treated to free admission,

and the first people through the door will get free pop and popcorn. What more could you askfor?Tile want your input

The AMS, your super Student Society, wants to know what we can do foryou. We are in the process of creating a multi-year plan to optimize the Like alternative music?programs, services, events, businesses and advocacy that we offer you. Xfm Thursday evenings at the Pit Pub kick off on September 27thOur first step will be to create a closer bond between the students andthe student governmen t The Pit Pub will be featuring a new evening of weekly entertainment every Thursday night.

Xfm radio personality "Dunne? will kick start the first Thursday series on September 27th,

P questions:ingfollowtheoninputyourusgivePlease hosting live from the Pit DJ booth. There will be a bunch of prize giveaways such as: CD's, T

• Where should the AMS be headed in the next few years? shirts, and Travel-Cuts prize packs. Hey, you never know! -

• What should our strategic goals be?• How can we best fulfill our mandate? AMS / UBC United Way Kick-off Event• How can we provide continuity to students and yet be flexibleenough to make changes?

Sept. 26th - your chance to win a brand new TV!

• providewecanHow inrestrictivebenotyetonirectid our This super popular yearly event is designed to inform students about the United Way. Come to

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band and guest presentations from your UBC President, Martha Piper, and your AMSPlease e-mail your comments or suggestions to Krissy Price, Assistant to the President, Elan Kazemi. For more information contact the UBC United Way office at:President, at: pres-assistant@ams.ubc.ca or multiyearplan@ams.ubc.ca united.way@ubc.ca or Evan Horie: vpacademic@ams.ubc.ca.

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by Tessa RichardsonFREIGHT TRAIN LANDat the Western FrontSept 19

Freight Train Land, a hip-hop opera, is the brainchild of C.RAvery and the third opera he has produced. True to the title, itdelivers a freight train of music, visuals and social commentary.

This production had a second run recently at The WesternFront, after receiving a warm audience reception during itsfirst run this summer. The Western Front is a terrific venue fora production of this sort. The building is unassuming and,from the outside, looks more like a set of shoddy apartmentsthan a playhouse; but inside is a quaint and wonderful theatre.The stage is on the same plane as the audience, creating anintimate atmosphere that is conducive to crowd interaction.

The audience's attention was caught immediately by agiant, and rather shocking, projection of George W. Bush givinga speech on the recent crisis in

America. My reaction to this obviously new addition to theopera was more disbelief than anything else; I still can't reallydecide whether it was in good taste. Other references t4 the'war on terrorism were made throughout the production and,whether in good taste or bad, they were in keeping with theunderlying theme of peace, love and unity.

I didn't know exactly what a hip-hop opera would entail. Iexpected to have to pay careful attention to dialogue and deci-pher an onslaught of Ebonics and tongue-tying gangsta rap.Instead, I was relieved to hear a cornucopia of toned-down hip-hop and R&B. Through this musical medium, the actors por-trayed many seemingly stereotypic roles, but still allowed usshort glimpses into many of the social injustices found in anymajor city. Prostitution, racism, welfare fraud, human equali-ty, abortion and homelessness were among the many topicsaddressed in this ambitious production. The pace of the per-formance left the audience breathless and meant that some ofthe minor details were difficult to catch or understand, but the

play's broader message remained completely clear.The musical and improvisational ability of the cast was of a

high calibre and Avery has earned my respect both as a musi-cian and as a playwright. He participated in every aspect of thisproduction. Not only did he write Freight Train Land, he alsodirected, sang, played the piano and, last but certainly notleast, treated the audience to a mixture of beat-boxing, spokenword and harmonica between each scene. All eyes were fixedon him as he produced sounds from his mouth that didn'tseem humanly possible. As said in the opera, 'there's nothingmore inspiring than watching someone doing what they love.'

The play left me with a whirlwind of thoughts to contem-plate. The almost cheesy 'peace and love' ballads that broughtthe opera to a close made me smile. As the play ended, the castpulled members of the audience to join in the singing anddancing. Though I'm not normally one to participate in thissort of thing, I suddenly found myself joining in, caught up inthe moment. •3

Morphby Rob Nagai

RIFFRAFFat the Havana theatreuntil Oct 6

Riff Raffis an amazing debut play forLaurence Fishburne, an actor morereadily identified with big sci-fiblockbusters. The play provides anin-depth look at the inner city andthe pervasive culture that troublestoo many young African Americanmales in New York and many otherAmerican and Canadian cities.

Co-director Kim Hawthornededicated this play to her cousin,Kenderick Deshawn Little. In1996, Little was chased down andstabbed to death in Newark, NewJersey.

'This play is for him,' shewrites, 'and all the lost boys of theinner-city who find themselveshanging out on corners, trying tobe cool, shooting the breeze, andshooting one another. They toohave a story to tell.'

The story, centred, aroundthree males hiding out after abotched drug deal, finds Mike'20/20' Leon (Gerry South) and

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Billy 'Torch' Murphy (Ron Selmour) trapped in aburned out, derelict crack den. The ripped, tatteredcouch, broken windowpanes and graffiti-coveredwalls set the gritty inner-city tone well.

20/20 and Torch have called upon Tony 'TheTiger Murphy (Dean Marshall), an old acquain-tance to help them .through their troubles. Secretsare revealed, allegiances are struck and in the endthe irony of the 'life' catches up to them all.

Each character works with hard-hitting, realisticand graphic dialogue and an equally powerfulstory. With equally good roles and lines, no charac-ter dominates the play. The genius behind thisscript is that the audience is as engrossed in each ofthese gritty characters as they are the next. Whetherit is 20/20, Torch, or the Tiger, each one at differenttimes is a perpetrator, victim or nurturer to theother. Through these dynamics, the characters arestill able to maintain humour in spite of their som-bre circumstances. -

The lines and dialogue are clear and concise,and despite the severe language it is easy to followthe action. The interactions between the charac-ters flow smoothly from one scene to the next, driv-en by the intense subject matter and the sharplanguage. -

In the end theplay's motto, 'too much time, toomuch crime' becomes truth. I left the theatre feelingthat I had witnessed a crime, and seen a slice of the_difficult lives that many are forced to live with. +

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EDITORIAL BOARDCOORDINATING EDITOR

Duncan M. McHugh

NEWS EDITORSAi Lin Choo

Sarah MacNeill Morrison

CULTURE EDITORRon Nurwisah

SPORTS EDITORScott Bardsley

FEATURES EDITORJulia Christensen

COPY EDITORLaura Blue

PHOTO EDITORMc Fensom

PRODUCTION MANAGERHywel Tuscano

COORDINATORSRESEARCH/LETTERS

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Translink? More like TranstinkWith the eventuality of war weighing on every-one's minds, we need to be reminded that thereis other news happening. And who better toknock Bush and bin Laden off the front pagethan another hated organisation: Translink

Despite a four-month service disruption thissummer—a disruption that could have beenshortened if Translink had complied with amediator's proposal that they were eventuallylegislated to accept—on October 15, Translink,the Greater Vancouver transportation authority,will be going ahead with substantial cuts to tran-sit service.

Translink may very well be in a tough posi-tion. They are legally obligated to break even andthey are faced with a major cash shortfall. Fine.Still, one has to be surprised by Translink'salready notoriously bad judgement. Due to "lowridership,' buses leaving downtown after1:40am are being cancelled. Our question is, hasTranslink seen how full these buses are?

It's our experience that there are lots of prob-lems with late night buses: drunken obnoxious-ness, motion sickness, overcrowding—but lowridership? As if. We've been left behind becausebuses are too full more often than we've foundhalf-full buses. These buses are essential to any-one who wants to go out at night but can't affordor chooses not to operate a car. In 'no fun city,'as the local media has dubbed Vancouver, reli-able and extensive transit is essential to keepingour city vibrant and accesible.

Furthermore, late at night is the hardest timeto get around without the help of transit Duringthe day you can work out a carpool, ride yourbike or even hitchhike if you can't take transit,but all of these alternatives become harder andless safe late at night

What are people who can't afford cabs sup-posed to do? How about people who have towork until after 1:40am? These aren't the bestpaying of jobs. Wait staff, bartenders, along withmost people who work late-night shifts aren'tnecessarily irreplacable in their jobs either. Formany of these people, if they can't make it to andfrom their job, they won't have one.

What about the danger of having peoplestranded late at night? Vancouver rapidlybecomes a less accessible and safe city to manyonce bus service cuts are implemented. Peoplewho find safety and security in a reliable transitsystem will suddenly be faced with a city that ismuch more closed-off to them. People who arealready nervous being out late at night are goingto be even more so without affordable, late-nighttransit

And do we have to remind Translink, or ICBCfor that matter, that bars close at 2am. Considerthe money that's gone into Counterattack, thedrinking and driving prevention program. Hell,consider the money that's gone into advertisingCounterattack. Would it not be terribly retro-gressive to take away the most viable measure toprevent drinking and driving?

Vancouver City Hall has recently begun inves-tigating the possibility of allowing bars to remainopen until as late as 7am. This was done in aneffort to reduce the swell of clubbers that getdumped onto the street when bars and clubs shut-down. It's proven more prescient than they couldhave known. With nowhere to go, the kids aregoing to be forced to drink, dance and debauchuntil the morning buses kick in around six.

Translink should look to streamline the restof their service rather than slice off the end oftheir service day. They've already started look-ing at reducing #10 and #41 bus service to bet-ter coordinate with the #99 and #43 respective-ly. How about not spending $80,000 a piece on -bus shelters for the new #98 line? How aboutscaling back Translink's ridiculous administra-tive structure, one with a board of directors foreach transit 'company,' i.e. one for Skytrain,Seabus, buses and the West Coast Express com-muter train?

And perhaps it is time for Translink to checktheir heads a bit on the whole point of a transitsystem. Is this not supposed to be a public serv-ice? Is it not supposed to open the city up? Makeit more accessible? Make it more people-friend-ly? But really, just as we all suspected the transitstrike would last long, I think we all suspect thatTranslink won't give a damn about the reper-cussions of their actions. They'll simply contin-ue to disappoint those to whom they should bemost accountable, transit-users themselves.*

LETTERSSurviving survivor'Reality shows seem to be the thingnowadays. From the comfort of ourhomes, we are lead to believe thatas television spectators, we aregoing to get a peak into real lives ofpeople just like us. The so-called'average people' we watch on theseshows are in a race to the endwhere there is a lofty jackpot Thefun comes from watching all thesepeople fall apart at the prospect ofmoney, and in this way, their 'real'personality is revealed, no holdsbarred.

We are now bombarded withads for new types of 'reality shows'on a daily basis. What began as aninteresting new venture has turnedinto a redundant attempt on behalfof television producers to cash inon a false premise. There isabsolutely nothing real about thesetelevisions shows. The atmospherethey take place in is staged, and thepeople who participate in them gothrough a lengthy interviewprocess to make sure they are 'tele-vision-friendly as I call it The factthat there is a camera monitoringtheir moves 24-7 changes how peo-ple act Think about it, can you seri-ously say thatyou would not change

your habits or actions in the least, ifyou knew that a camera was watch-ing your every move? The sacredthing about real life is that it isunwatched at times, and privacy iseveryone's secret. Moreover, inreal life, we are not isolated some-where, unable to leave in a race towin a few bucks.

This is not to say that I did notjump on the reality bandwagon inthe beginning. I must admit I gothooked on the first Survivor alongwith everyone else. I rememberwhen on campus, at the mall, dur-ing dinner conversations and atparties, the word was buzzing.What would happen next week?When would Sue lose her cool? Whowould last until the end? It wassomething fresh, something differ-ent from the average sitcom, soapor talk show we were used to.

Instead of leaving a good thingalone (or at least, giving us time tocool off from the bonanza of thefirst one), television producerswent nuts. Immediately afterSurvivor, another one was filmedand plans for future ones came intoplay. Now Survivor even seems tobe old school, out the back doorwith yesterday's trash. New 'realityshows' now take place indoors as

well as out Heck, they even havereality shows based on manufactur-ing music groups now. Urn, let'sremember where Sugar Jonescame from, shall we?

There is nothing real about anyof the 'reality shows' we actuallywatch on television. What is veryreal, however, is the hard coregreed that comes from the source ofthese shows. Not the greed in themanufactured race to win somecash by the people we watch, but thegreed that makes the race possiblein the first place. The television pro-ducers: the creators of reality as Icall it Their greed, constant andongoing, is about the most realthing attached to all these new typesof shows. Now that's a reality, notthe garbage they want us to believe.

—Leila Raft2001 UBC grad

UBC's MP on respond-ing to US eventsThe terrorist attacks in the US onSeptember 11 were crimes ofimmense evil. The scale of the vio-lence and the criminal organisationrequired to commit it, constitute athreat to international peace and

security which must be counteredby a range of new laws, securityoperations, international coopera-tion and force. However, the ends ofterrorism are furthered when itcauses us to react outside of ourdemocratic principles and the ruleof law, domestic and international.

Despite the American tragedy,our democracies stand storong ifwe stay composed, vigilant, unitedand within the rule of law.Domestically, this requires adher-ence to our consititutional princi-ples, criminal due process andstate actions sanctioned by demo-eratically established law. This alsomeans adherence to internationallaw on the use of force, such that itis necessary, proportional to thethreat to peace and security, andprotective of civilians uninvolvedin any military objective.

—Stephen OwenVancouver-Quadra MP

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Churches: spare us your hypocrisy at this tragic ti eby Reverend Kevin Armen

A hundred or so of us were gathered in down-town Vancouver this past week, conducting avigil for peace in the wake of the mountingBush-bin Laden conflict One of the organisersof the event was a young, impassionedAnglican church official who, in his speech,called for an end to "terror and genocide' inthe world, and demanded that perpetrators ofsuch crimes be "shunned by the internationalcommunity.'

-Really?' I asked the speaker later. 'Doesthat apply to all perpetrators of terror andgenocide, or just the politically acceptableones?"

"Well, yes,' he replied. 'It means any groupthat tries to wipe out another.'

'Then you will support a call for your ownchurch to be shunned by the internationalcommunity?' I said to him.

He looked confused.'Your church committed genocide and ter-

ror on Aboriginal people right here in our ownbackyard for over a century," I explained.'More than 50,000 children died in residen-tial schools run by your church, the Catholicsand the United Church.'

His confusion instantly became anger."That's not the same thing!' he blustered.The young man proceeded to educate me

as to why murder committed by churches isdifferent than that inflicted by anyone else:something about 'the best of intentions'and 'misdirected love.' Frankly, I gave up

trying to follow his self-serving doublethinkafter a few minutes. It made me nauseous.

I mention this incident because it reflects aterrible hypocrisy-and myopia—being dis-played by the mainline churches in Canadathese days, as they rush onto the antiwar band-wagon. Those with blood on their own handscannot decry the violence of others. And yetthis is precisely what the Anglican, Catholicand United churches are doing, to their owndishonour and shame.

To give most of these churches' membersthe benefit of the doubt, "they know not whatthey do.' Thanks to anexpensive and elabo-rate cover-up campaignby churches, govern-ment and the main-stream media, the bru-tal facts of the terrorisa-tion and deaths of nearly half of the childrenin Native residential schools in Canada havebeen kept secret. I am continually amazed athow little the average church-goer knowsabout the history and, actions of their owninstitution; how, for example, the Anglicanand United churches ran sterilisation hospi-tals in Bella Bella and Nanaimo for decadesuntil the 1980s, in which thousands ofNative men and women were made infertileby missionary doctors.

Nevertheless, under international law andhuman rights conventions, ignorance of acrime is no defence in matters of genocide.The good citizens of Germany claim to have

known nothing about the Nazi death camps,and yet their culpability in the JewishHolocaust is unquestionable. Why does not thesame standard of morality apply toCanadians?

Fortunately, it does. But this creates an'unfortunate' dilemma for members and offi-cials of the Anglican, Catholic and Unitedchurches, for by associating with these institu-tions, they are colluding in bodies which haveviolated all five provisions of the UNConvention on Genocide, which our govern-ment ratified in 1952. Every dime that these

church-goers put in the

E Sunday collection plate isfunding what theNuremberg Court definedas 'murderous organisa-tions,' even if, in Canadatoday, those organisations

are adorned with a cross and are seen to bereligious bodies.

That collusion is considered a crime underinternational law, and churches aren't exemptfrom judgement and war crimes courts. Thispast year, a Belgian court tried and indicted agroup of nuns and priests from Rwanda whocommitted acts of genocide against their fel-low citizens. Any country that is party to theConvention on Genocide—and there are over120 of them—can place war criminals on trial,including those who aid, harbour or openlyassociate with groups that planned ethniccleansing and genocide...including churchpeople.

So I felt more pity for, than anger at, thefervent young churchman who tried so pathet-ically to justify his own complicity in thatwhich he was condemning elsewhere in theworld. He doesn't seem to understand the con-sequences of what his church has done, and iscontinuing to do, by it's harbouring of thosewho raped, killed and sterilised innocent chil-dren—and by the lies and cover-ups they haveconducted to protect these criminals in theirmidst

Perhaps then, my plea to these churches ismore than a call for them to spare us all theterrible hypocrisy and pain of their posing asgroups opposed to war and murder, whentheir own practices prove otherwise. Idemand, instead, something far more basic:that they do what is right, and surrender them-selves and their guilty parties to theInternational Criminal Court for crimesagainst humanity, as indeed they must underUN Conventions.

For the rest of us, we must ask ourselves ifwe would allow proven war criminals andtheir protectors to stand alongside us at peacerallies and present themselves as opponentsof war and terror elsewhere in the world.

I am sick and tired of all the violence andlies in the world, but nowhere more so thanwhen they appear in our own backyard. Butthen, I haven't been to church in a while.

—Kevin Annett is a former United Churchminister and the current secretary of the

Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada

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If I had to sum up, Facing History, thePresentation House Gallery's current photogra-phy exhibit with one image, I'd pick Gordon F.Sedawie's 'Chinatown," a boisterous photo ofChinese New Year in 1966: two boys about tocollide on a Vancouver street, one strainingunder the head of a dragon, the other blowingfervently on the Scottish pipes, clad in tradi-tional garb.

Cultural mish-mash, yes. But it's also theimage's pink-cheeked vigour and fascinationwith forms of representation that typifies theshow. Facing History Portraits fromVancouver jostles together a broad array of thecity's faces from the last 50 years, from well-known images of Terry Fox and Chief DanGeorge to those of anonymous gas station

by Anna Kinattendants and 1950s' factory girls, and a1971 award-winning photo of a nude family atWreck Beach.

It's the careful genius of guest curator andformer director Karen Love that keeps thedensely packed gallery from seeming over-whelming; somehow all of the 500-plusimages seem individually significant, andtogether make an intimate study of a citygrowing eagerly into its shoes.

The show commemorates the gallery's 25thanniversary and devotes a fair portion of theshow to images of the Vancouver arts commu-nity. Arnaud Maggs's portraits of Vancouverartists (some of whom have pieces in the showitself), a documentation of 1978 exhibits at theVancouver Art Gallery, and dozens of stillsfrom old CBC television shows make the exhib-it self-consciously 'representative,' but neverdoes this feel alienating. David Buchan's lumi-nous 'Canadian Youth' recreates a much-loved

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