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FEATURE -t Fine arts on cutting block?, p.7. ARTS -t Oh what a feeling! Dancing on the ceiling!, p.8-9. SPORTS ---+ Following the bouncing aze ball to the AUAAs, p.l2. Vol. 128,!\;o. 19 DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY, HALIFAX, N.S. Thursday, February-29, 1996 Two more SUB employees lose jobs BY DANIEL CLARK position. Restructuring, not job performance, given as explanation The students hired will be ini Two more full-time employees tially trained by Pat Martin, head have been let go from their duties can handle it." is directing the search for an Ex a co-operative experience.·· of technical services. in the Student Union Building The plan of the restructuring ecutive Administrator, but once Leech agreed. "This man knows everything (SUB). is to reduce the full-time staff to that is done, we will be ready for "This really a great opportu about this building," said Leech. This time. Joan Bradley, SUB a bare minimum of six core posi any change." nity for the students." he said. "He trained both Joan and Ronnie. Reservations, and Ronald Farrell, tions. The former position of Gen "I have always been a big sup "Not only to get a job. but also to and they couldn't be in better SUB Night Manager. were released eral Manager has been split porter of student jobs," said Cox. receive valuable management ex hands." in the name of restructuring. between two positions: Executive "I want to put a student in every perience." Cox regrets that Farrell and Both were in their first year of Administrator and Director of possible student union position. It The students who will fill the Bradley were let go. and said that employment in the SUB. Marketing. The other positions to will provide valuable experience vacancies will become part of a they have been helped with place "It wasn't a performance is be held by full-time employees are to the student, and can only ben two year apprenticeship program. ment and recommendations. The sue," said Dalhousie Student Un Executive Assistant. Manager of efit the union. We will choose the There will be a senior student who exact details of their respective ion (DSU) President David Cox. Bar Services, Facility Operations most dedicated and the most ex will leave at the end of the year. compensation packages are being "We have less money to work with Manager. and Accountant. perienced person. ot to under and a junior student who will be kept confidential. than in the past, so we have to "We are still trying to fill one mine the business program, but I tutored to succeed the senior stu Neither Bradley nor Farrell tighten our belts." position." said Leech. "Dave Cox be~ieve that we are offering them dent into the second year of the were available for comment. Previous employees that were fired by the DSU were SUB Gen eral Manager Steve Gaetz. who was fired in September, and Bar Six men found guilty in frat beating Services Manager Deborah Brown, who was fired in January. But the circumstances are dif ferent in this instance, said Leech. Watts more than ready to move on "They both did a solid job," he said. "It had nothing to do with BY SAM MCCAIG case isn't about race." had a brain injury; that's a ma expected." Ronnie or Joan. They are both Andy Doyle, president of jor injury, it's not like a broken Watts agreed that his life has reasonable people who under And life goes on for Darren Watts. Watts' Phi Kappa Pi fraternity, leg." changed because of the incident. stand our need to restructure." On Tuesday, February 2 7. the agreed. Despite the hardship caused, "It has to have a great impact There is not only a financial six men charged in the brutal ''I'm disgusted with the way Watts sees no gain in brooding on you," he said. "But I try to savings with the restructuring, beating of Watts in September, people have made it out to be a abuut ills misfortune. maintain my traditional ways. I but also the fulfilment of a cam 19 94 were found guilty of aggra racial issue, when it's not," he "Getting extremely angry try to not let it affect me, taking paign promise, said Cox. vated assault. said. "It was mostly the defence would do no good for me, the case, into consideration the limits." "We were elected on the plat Two were also found guilty of lawyers ... they attempted it in the or anyone else," he said. ''I'm try Right now. Watts is happy to form that we would re-evaluate aggravated assault on John courtroom, but the judge got fed ing to look beyond the case and travel the territory that most the way the DSU has run and Charman, and two were found up and told them to move to an at my own life ... go to school. and other university students are pres we're doing that," he said. "First, guilty of aggravated assault on other line of questions. The issue just do what I can normally." ently experiencing. we tried to perform the job of Rob Gillis. had nothing to do with race." But with the physical trauma "I just want to wrap up the General Manager through com Cyril Smith, Spencer Dixon, It is not the racial issue that is of the beating and the two week semester on a strong note and I'm mittee, but that didn't work, so Stacey Skinner, Damon Cole, on Watts' mind as he continues coma that followed, "normal" has in the market for a summer job now we're trying this, and I be Herman McQuaid, and Guy his road to recovery. changed for Watts. like a lot of my friends." he lieve that it will be most Robart are presently in jail await "As far as the legal aspect is "He's not who he was, but he laughed. "It's a matter of getting effective." ing sentencing. concerned, it [the end of the trial] has come an incredibly long way," the pieces together academically; Cox responded angrily to the While he can take some satis does represent some sort of clo said Doyle. "He's probably come I'm looking at grad school and suggestion that there may be faction from the verdict, some of sure," he said. "The health issue further already than anyone ever then maybe medicine." problems with year-to-year con the issues that were raised dur remains. and there are different tinuity and that there may be a ing the course of the trial disap emotional issues that I'll have to lack of full-time staff to handle pointed Watts. get through with help from my Researcher denies possibility the transition. "The case and the judgement family and friends." "That is a very selfish opinion," has sometime$ been pursued as a According to Doyle, injuries of ·human testing he said. "I don't buy that. A stu race issue and that really disturbs sustained in the beating have left dent can learn just as much as a me," he said. "The race element Watts with trouble sleeping, sei BY ERIC SOUAIR insulin-producing pig islet cells full-time employee. These are is disturbing. It casts a lot of nega zures. and on medication. into diabetic monkeys, paving the smart people who came to this tive light on the local black com "It'll probably affect him for the TORONTO (CUP) - Officials at way to a possible end of insulin school with good grades. They munity and that disturbs me. This rest of his life," said Doyle. "He the University of Toronto are injections. In a November article, checking into allegations that one Sun told a U of T student news of their researchers is heading to paper that he was seeking ap dsu election candidates China to conduct medical experi proval to begin testing on ee t ese names. ments on human subjects with humans. out university approval. Following publication of the President, Vice President teams earn them. Love In early February, the Toronto Star article, Sun denied the pa Danielle Boudreau & Milton Howe Star reported that physiology pro per's claims, saying the story was John Cullen & Andrew Simpson hem. They will be fessor Andrew Sun intended to a fabrication. John Killam & Tanis Knowles conduct experiments on humans "I would appreciate it if you Brad MacKay & Katherine Hannah our leaders. in China, bypassing Health don't write anything," he said. Lee McKinnon Pederson & Dana Munroe Canada approval for use of hu Concerns have been raised that Aaron Poirier & Mark Farrant hoose wisely ... man subjects in research. Sun may be attempting to take Joe Tratnik & James Beddington "We are checking into this with advantage of the Chinese govern the leadership of the faculty of ment's lack of regard for human Vice President Academic/External medicine," said Patrick Gutteridge, rights, possibly resulting in re assistant to the vice-president of search being performed on pris Marcus Lopes ... and check ou Chris Lydon research at U of T. oners or on subjects who have not 't\s long as Dr. Sun holds an given informed consent. the excitin appointment at U of The is bound "We are talking about respon Vice President Community Affairs by U of T policy. He must submit sibility here," said Dora Nipp, a Carman Barteaux electio a human subject research review member of the International Coa John Boyd that is acceptable to the lition for Human Rights in China, Jeff McNeil supplement i university." "and the Chinese government has Steven Parsons Sun made headlines last fall not shown a lot of responsibility next week' when he successfully transplanted to its people in many ways, par- ..