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volume 77 issue 12 Tuesday, October 17, 1995 Soggy Trekkers fight the cuts by Chris Nuttall-Smith They came on foot, on skate boards, in strollers and by po lice escort. In a remarkable af front to student apathy, hun dreds of umbrella-toting stu dents, faculty and staff from UBC, Langara College and lo cal high schools braved the rain last Friday to 'Trek for Educa tion' and fight cutbacks to post- secondary education. A group of about 150 trek kers met at Connaught Park in Kitsilano, grew to over 800 people en route and walked to UBC to send the government a message that students will not bear the weight of cuts to fed eral transfer payments. "It was pouring rain and we had 1,000 people trekking up to UBC. Today we showed the provincial and federal govern ments that we are very serious about keeping university educa tion accessible to all Canadi ans," AMS Coordinator of Ex PHOTO CHRSf*JTTALL-SMTH ternal Affairs Dave Borins told SCORES OF STUDENT PROTESTORS fill the streets of Kitsilano at last Friday's Trek for Education. The Ubyssey. growing out of reach of some Borins, who organized the students and said faculty must march, said the goal was to call support students. "I think it's Wage gap shocks researchers upon the federal government to important that faculty and stu end corporate tax breaks and dents come together to recog by Douglas Quan He expected no differences, but cause of their immigrant status. subsidies instead of cutting edu nize that faculty depend on ac A new study on the salary gap the research proved otherwise. UBC sociology professor David cation funding, and to ask the cessible education for their between whites and visible mi The Pendakurs found Canadian- Schweitzer says Pendakur's conclu provincial government to legis jobs, and students should have norities suggests that Canadian born males of a visible minority sion is not enough. According to late a limit to tuition increases. the right to an education." employers have some explain earn 10.2 percent less than their Schweitzer, income differentiation Trekkers screamed "hey hey, Long time UBC activist ing to do. white counterparts. is usually based on jobs and educa ho ho, tuition hikes have got to Nancy Horseman said she Earning Differentials among "That's big," he said. "Such dif tion, a "structured inequality." go," and "Stop the hikes" as couldn't believe the Trek's turn Ethnic Groups in Canada reveals ferentials cannot easily be Given this study's measures to they walked towards a rally out. "I've never seen anything that white, male immigrants shrugged off on cultural differ control for language, schooling outside the SUB. like this since the sixties," she earn two percent less than their ences, langugage skills and edu and occupation, Schweitzer said, As shoppers poked their yelled over the noise of the white Canadian-born counter cation quality." "there seems to be a hidden mes heads out of store windows rally. But when asked if the parts, while immigrant males of Eric Wong, director of the BC sage that there are cuscriminatory along Broadway and Tenth Ave, demonstration would have any a visible minority earn fifteen multicultural education society, practices being combined with, they were greeted with signs effect on government policy she percent less than their white agrees with Pendakur. He said perhaps in the realm of ideology, and banners reading "Stop the said; "No. Not at all." male counterparts. "too often, our conclusions are a form of racism." Madness" and "Philosophers Horseman said students can Krishna Pendakur, an assis drawn from casual observations." Pendakur emphasizes, how are rolling in their graves." not expect one march and rally tant professor of economics at Wong says the numbers con ever, that the results are "not Ironically, a few banners for to affect university administra Simon Fraser University co- cern him because they suggest that proof." He conceded "you could the low-budget trek were made tion and government policy. authored the study with his "certain attributes like education still think that [the differences] are from ripped sections of a ban "Eventually this kind of protest brother Ravi, who works in the may, in fact, not be the equalizer due to something left out of the ner used to promote last year's is going to have weight, but this federal government's Canadian we think it might be." analysis, some kind of unobserved $40,000 flopped "Spirit" cam corporate mentality is just on heritage department. While he The study is based on 1991 cen variable." paign. the go and there's no stopping "expected to see that immi sus data. 150,000 cases from six Women immigrants of a vis One high school student who it right now. But when the kids grants earn less," he didn't ex major cities were examined and ible minority earned about seven would only identify herself as recognize that, they'll fight re pect to find such a large gap used to compare the wages of Ca percent less than white Cana Jen, said she probably wouldn't ally hard." between white immigrants and nadian and foreign-born males dian-born females. Visible mi be able to go to university if the But Desmond Rodenbour those of a visible minority. and females, aged 20 to 64, who nority females born in Canada, government allowed tuition to from Langara's Student Union He says it is not a new fact that are a visible minority, with those however, earned about the same double. "Unless I want to pay was more positive about the fu visible minorities earn less than of white, Canadian-born males as white females born in Canada. for student loans for the rest of ture of post-secondary education. white people in Canada, but "[the and females. Dr. Schweitzer expected wider my life, I just won't be able to Rodenbour drew raucous ap differences] have commonly In the full report, no interpre percentage differentials among afford school," she said. plause from the rain-drenched been blamed on...immigration tative analysis was made beyond women. Pendakur suggests the Langara English department crowd with a poem inspired by status. The natural test of that what Pendakur says is the study's smaller gap can be attributed to member Roger Holdstock his favourite professor, Dr. is...do Canadian-born visible mi "rejection" of the misconception females in general already being agreed the cost of education is Seuss. norities earn any less?" that visible minorities earn less be at the lower end of the payscale. Ubyssey Staff can vote! 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THE PIT BURGER BAR Veggie Burger for the price of a beef burger POLITICAL SCIENCE UPDATE: BLUE CHIP COOKIES Juice "rejuiced" from $1.68 to $1.43 plus GST The Faculty of Graduate Studies defeated the motion to reopen the Political Science Department of Graduate Studies. The Faculty of Graduate PIE R SQUARED Pizza slice for $2.25 Studies passed a motion (with an overwhelming majority) to support Dean 8:00 to 1:00 am, Tuesdays & Thursdays Grace and his efforts towards a university free from discrimination and harassment. 7:00 to 11:00 pm, Sundays. GST included. If you share the goal of improving the climate at UBC and of promoting change throughout the institution, please support efforts to address issues of SUBCETERA A different chocolate bar each week for 75 UBC Senate will facing a motion to reopen the Department of Graduate THESE FOOD & BEVERAGE OUTLETS ARE Studies of Political Science on Wednesday, October 18th at 8:00 pm in the auditorium in the Curtis Building. 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UBC ALMA MATER SOCIETY ALMA MATER SOCIETY Prepared by your student society Prepared by your student society - STUDENT SOCIETY OF UBC JL STUDENT SOCIETY OF UBC The Ubyssey Tuesday, October 17,1995 news Grad Studies council votes to keep poli sci closed by Sarah O'Donnell environment as 'Red Guards' and UBC's Dean of Graduate 'dissidents,' and to dismiss Studies received an overwhelming genuinely concerned women vote of confidence last Wednesday scholars as 'hysterical feminists' is when the Faculty of Graduate to debase efforts to encourage Studies (FoGS) council defeated a much needed change." motion to reopen graduate Grace reminded FoGS council admissions in the political science that more than three years had department passed since the initial complaints The 43 to 9 decision is a strong of racism and sexism in the show of support for Dean John political science, and said Grace, who may face a tough battle department had done little to this Wednesday as the university's address the problems previous to Senate considers a similar motion the admissions embargo. to reopen admissions. The Dean warned of the Students attending the meeting consequences of prematurely openly applauded as Grace spoke lifting the admissions ban, saying [ »p i *^ by Desiree Adib these vandals are stealing night The Koi at Naitobi Memorial time swims, they are not the o Gardens are mysteriously fishnappers. disappearing from their pond. Although staff twice reported Koi are rare Japanese carp missing fish to the RCMP, police worth anywhere from $200 to have no leads. $10,000 each and are considered "We have no leads or suspects one of the Gardens' most right now," said an RCMP valuable treasures. spokesperson. There are currently three "It's a great shame really," said "suspects" for the "crime": Botanical Gardens Director raccoons, heron and humans. Bruce MacDonald, "because it's Their respective motives are not just the value of [the fish] food, food and money. that's important but the "In March there were 35 Koi enjoyment people get from in the pond, and by late August seeing them. only eighteen were counted," said "The odd thing is that it hasn't Gardens Gatekeeper Veronica. really happened before. This year "We usually know when the has been the first [when the fish raccoons have eaten them have been stolen]. I suspect that because fish carcasses are found, we've had these fish for 20 to 25 and since March we have only years." recovered three [of 17] carcasses." For now, staff say they will put The Naitobi Gardens grounds up a 'No Trespassing' sign outside crew has found broken bushes, the Naitobi gate. They can only &'&•* clothes and smouldering hope it will be enough to deter 'A™ PHOTO: DESIREEADIB the thieves. ENDANGERED SPECIES: UBC's koi are being snapped up by fishnappers campfires left by trespassers. Staff, however, believe that while Students still sardined into buses by Stanley Tromp the door to let more in," she said. downtown, it's very crowded." Students packed into "I thought that was really In the past three weeks, badly overcrowded buses will have to dangerous. And he drove slower corroded sections of the rear wait for relief while 28 old BC because it was full, so I was five frames of trolley buses—such as the Transit buses await repairs. minutes late for class." rear axles and suspensions-have Transit spokesperson Trace Nicos Fassler, second year arts, weakened and fallen off. The buses Acres said students can continue was luckier. Taking a diesel bus were bought in 1982 and have a (Sjor to expect delays and overcrowding direct from West Vancouver, he 20 year life expectancy. y contest fed "r- jT,»d ehrwu until full transit service to UBC said he can always find a seat "But BC Transit has plans to buy . ferocious ""^reformers resumes at the end of this month. when I take the number 9 or 10 more diesel buses in January. "With so many buses in repair, F .UW*66*!!-Factor* •^eCtiei^S council certain runs may be cancelled, like at high volume 'trippers,' which are '' 'c/\. °ft, Paper Towels and Tissues 3 short runs during rush hours," >W . pean °f h*%& shuffler ^ Acres said. "So with a UBC bus * Use a cloth tea towel or rag for clean-up f eee you may have a ten minute-wait instead of a six minute one." instead of paper towels. First year UBC science student * Use a cloth handkerchief instead of tissues Francine Perrault said she's had to grin and bear it. 4f^ (it's nicer for your nose too). Winners of both the story and graphics contests will t / j cm. yia^int,^t,UI lUCS US Will "The bus was so crowded at >nd funky prizes -- submissions to SUB 241K 7:30 in the morning that when ^W% UBC Waste Reduction Program on or before Friday October 27th y A people were jammed against the "•*••• Tel: 822-3827 • [email protected] door inside, the driver still opened W Tuesday, October 17,1995 The Ubyssey news Native rights forgotten by Quebec seperatists by Samer Muscati tion, those protections could be problems gaining the trust of The agreement extinguished constitutionally obligated to pro removed by Quebec at any aboriginals in Quebec and con the native groups' traditional ab tect native rights, and the Cree OTTAWA (CUP) - Quebec time,'' the report says. vincing them to separate because original rights in exchange for are considering legal action to sovereigntists will need more Allen Gabriel, head of com of past hostilities by the PQ to compensation, but cannot be force Canada to protect those than a mere referendum to munications for the $60 million wards treaty and aboriginal amended without the approval rights. achieve independence from commission, said that he has rights. of the federal and provincial gov The Cree and Inuit will each Canada, say some native lead received no political response on In the 1970's, the Cree were ernments, and the aboriginal hold separate referendums on ers. They will also need the go- the study from either the federal forced to allocate large segments, peoples. Quebec sovereignty before the ahead from aboriginal nations or Quebec government. of their land for mega-power Namagoose said if Cree rights rest of the province votes. The within the province, or John Bray, director of com projects. were extinguished, then Que- texts of the questions will be re Quebec's claim should be munications for Indian Affairs Bill Namagoose, executive beckers similarly extinguished leased later this month. deemed invalid and rejected by and Northern Development, director for the Grand Council their rights when they surren Cree and Inuit land claims Canada and the world commu said the federal government of the Cree, says his people's dered to the British at the time currendy represent more than nity. would not issue any comment connections with their lands of the conquest of 1760. half of the province. A new royal commission re until the commission submits its have existed for thousands of "They have absolutely no David Cliche, Quebec Pre port reinforces that view, and final report early next year. years before Quebec and moral or legal ground to take mier Parizeau's special adviser states that the federal govern However, Indian Affairs Min Canada even existed. Cree land with them. We have a on native affairs, has said an in ment should resort to "whatever ister Ronald Irwin announced He is bewildered by PQ treaty with Canada," he said. dependent Quebec will retain measures it deems necessary" to last May that the federal govern leader Jacques Parizeau's claim "The Cree nation is being kid it's territorial integrity, and that protect Quebec aboriginal and ment would honour its constitu that the federal government's re napped . . . you can't just stake his government would not re treaty rights in the event of a tional responsibilities towards sponsibilities to the Cree were your claim on the globe and spect the outcome of any refer unilateral declaration of inde aboriginal peoples and that they terminated with the 1977 James make a country." endum that gives aboriginals a pendence by the province. would have the option of stay Bay agreement. Namagoose said Canada is mandate to secede. The federal government ing in Canada with their territo should take appropriate action ries, if the province separates. 1 .Photo Coordinator in protecting aboriginal rights, He added that aboriginal but only after consultation with people have been living in Que Wanted: 2.Production Coordinator native groups, says the study re bec for 10,000 years and have leased Sept ember 15 by the the right to self-determination. Royal Commission on Aborigi Aboriginals claim they should Photo Coordinator nal Peoples. be able to redraw Quebec's bor The main duty of the PHOTO COORDINATOR is to coordinate the Some of these actions may ders if the province separates. availability, quality and placement of photos with the layout and include denying Quebec recog They maintain that only they nition as an independent state can choose whether to join a new design production department. and lobbying the international nation of Quebec or remain in community to do the same, as Canada. well as instructing federal offi The Cree Nation has taken an cials to disregard the declara active role in the referendum tion, states the study. debate, since Quebec indepen Production Coordinator The federal government dence could make their plight would be responsible for pro in the province even more The main duty of the PRODUCTION COORDINATOR is to tecting aboriginal rights because bleak. facilitate and coordinate the design and production of all editions safeguards currendy in the Ca Last month, the Cree flatly of The Ubyssey. nadian constitution would disap rejected a provincial govern pear with Quebec sovereignty. ment invitation to help draft a "Even if Quebec included new constitution should Que- The Ubyssey Publications Society is seeking one individual to fill the position of PHOTO COOR protections of aboriginal and beckers vote for independence. DINATOR and one person to fill the position of PRODUCTION COORDINATOR on treaty rights in its new constitu The Parti Quebecois have had the editorial board. The expected time commitment for each position is at least 60 hours per week. Candidates will be screened by a special commit tee on November 1st. The final selection for both positions is by secret ballot between November 2nd and 8th with all Ubyssey staff eligible to vote. All candidates must submit a position paper by October 24th. The position paper should indicate the position desired and include a written or graphical explanation of why that position is desired. VANCOUVER TRADE & CONVENTION CENTRE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20,1995 • 12 NOON-9:00 P.M NEXT SET OF CLASSES START Get all the information on law • Alberta • Calgary schools at one convenient place and • Dalhousie • McGill Section 509-Saturday, Oct 28 time. Admissions professionals from • Osgoode Hall • Ottawa major Canadian Law Schools will be • Queen's • Saskatchewan in attendance to answer questions • Toronto • UBC • Victoria To register or for more information and distribute application forms. • Western • Windsor call 734-8378 999 CANADA PLACE , VANCOUVER KAPLAN The answer to the test question. The Ubyssey Tuesday, October 17,1995 news : •£gjg*~ ,#**Kf Jf\> <0**mwf> SCOTT HAYWARD PHOTO MUSICAL CHAIRS has become a popular pastime among the masses of students in some Science classes. The music has stopped, can you find an empty chair? AMS OPEN MIKE SESSIONS: Science classes ready to burst Students stay silent by Michelle Zeleschuk Heather Svendsen, another grade eleven marks and four by Simon Rogers ter a communicative link be First year science profes biology student, said her pro grade 12 marks. Government cutbacks to tween the Board of Governors sors are lecturing to packed fessor signed the forced entry The change may give high post-secondary education may and the student body, to create classes after UBC's faculty of form of large numbers of stu school students the incentive to have been on evervone's a university community that science enrolled two hundred dents not yet registered in her focus on academic courses in minds at the last AMS-spoh- embraces students." more students than it ex class. As a result, "some classes grade twelve; however the long sored open mike session, but Board of Governors repre pected. such as Human Nutrition's lec term effects will be extremely few students were willing to say sentative Heather Hermant sug Science exceeded their an ture in the Woodward Building high student GPA's, raising the much about it. gested that it would probably ticipated enrollment of 1,300 have up to ten people sitting number of applicants accepted Last Wednesday's session take students a while to get used student by over 200. in the aisles because every seat by the faculty. drew a larger crowd than the to the monthly meetings and to Animal biology student Col is occupied," she said. UBC Admissions says the AMS' last open mike attempt feel comfortable about voicing leen Campbell was told by her The influx is a result of a change is intended to bring in September, but students their concerns in public. professor that "registration change in UBC's academic re UBC's entrance requirements were still reluctant to get up and "UBC students arc basically [was] down his year," despite quirements this year. The admis in line with other universities. speak their mind. apathetic and for the most part the fact her lab class doesn't sions office now considers only SFU and Uvic have been us Most limited their participa don't care what goes on on cam- have enough chairs for every four grade twelve marks rather ing the four grade model for tion to signing petitions plead pus because they're not in one. than the previous system of five some time. ing that ihe Federal House of formed," she added. "The only Commons and B.C.'s legisla information they get about the tive assembly put students' con university is from what they cerns first. read in Ihe Ubyssey." A Typical Student Association Meeting According to AMS Vice A date and topic for the next President Namiko Kunimoto, open mike session, to he held the monthly student forums are sometime in late November, has A Question from the die AMS' latest attempt to "fos not yet been announced. Floor, to the Grad. Rep... Hey Joe, Review of Student Health Services Did you get the students the A committee chaired by Dr. Carol Herbert, Head of the Family best deal possible on our Practice Department in UBC's Faculty of Medicine has been established to conduct a review of Student Health Services (SHS). Graduation Composite Yearbook The committee's terms of reference are: • To review and make recommendations on: the mission, & Personal Portraits? vision and goals of SHS; the quality and scope of service provided by SHS; the staffing of SHS given the size of the UBC student body and the apparent demand for service; the indicators being used to assess quality of service and cost effectiveness; and the management and operational The Answer Is Simple... the Grad. Rep. knows that you can't afford to structure for SHS. pay $50.00 of your hard earned cash before even seeing your Graduation • To identify the key challenges facing SHS and the Photographs. opportunities for change. • To recommend courses of action to enhance the strengths But at EVANGELOS there are "NO" hidden fees or charges, and eliminate any weaknesses of SHS. just Quality, Value and Service. • To comment on how the unit compares to other units with similar mandates. It's your Money, you have worked for it, so check out EVANGELOS, 5 min. The committee will welcome written submissions from individuals or groups. Submissions should be received no later by Car, 9 min. by Bus, and 20 min. by Bike. than October 27, 1995 and should be addressed to: Diane Kent Secretary, Student Health Services Review Committee Evangelos Photography c/o Registrar's Office 2016 - 1874 East Mall 3156 West Broadway Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1 (across from the Hollywood Theatre) Fax: 822-5945 e-mail: [email protected] Students with an interest in Student Health Services are invited 731-8314/732-3023 to an open meeting with the Review Committee on park your bike in our rack Thursday, November 2 from 1:30 to 2:20 pm in IRC #3. Tuesday, October 17,1995 The Ubyssey Donovan goes to bail out Uncle Fonda, Craze meets Nadja in a lo The Film Festival was such a lovely party ... pity to see it go ... we miss you already ... come back soon cal bar and they explode in pas sion ending with a transforming Yoichi also inserts humour into members of either side do not go to the Kootenay town of New Den tural relationships that weave awards for best costume design: I If you can enjoy a fine piece of film. An effective and grotesque Marks (Japan) Nothing Personal exchange of bodily fluids. otherwise dark scenes, such as very far among the sea of hatred ver, along with many others. It across our country. Director Anne did not spot any beehives, false morbid, bizarre humour, this film picture from Graham's point of (Ireland) False serendipity abounds in the by Jordan Robinson when a corrupt businessman as we find out during the course traces the relationships between Wheeler and the others involved eyelashes or bellbottoms; people definitely fits the category. Set in view, this film blends successfully fairly predictable script. Where leaves his couch and casually by Hugh Gefring of the film. The efforts of the few the Japanese families and their in The War Between Us remind us on the street are dressed in nine Britain in the sixties, Graham dark comic humour with a first Sai Yoichi's brutal detective Pulp Fiction had fully separate sto walks out a nearby window to his are, however, laudable. Nonethe next door neighbours as prejudices that the answer lies in the past and ties attire. Young is a fourteen year old chem person look at the angst of a sorry thriller is intriguing, yet ultimately ries, Nadja takes one story and death. Like Lynch and De Palma, Directed by Thaddeus less, Nothing Personal is, if noth are overcome, understandings are the resolution lies in individual Despite the mistakes and the istry buff who lives with his fam sociopath. puzzling. Following a haunting O'Sullivan, Nothing Personal tries to split it up. Faux philosophi Yoichi is clearly aiming to shock, ing else, a testimony to the evils reached and friendships are understanding. ambiguous moments, the film does ily in a small flat. After being opening scene where a young boy cal rambling is another ingredient as evidenced by the way in which chronicles the harsh reality of life of ingrained hatred. Owing to the formed. have some interesting scenes, such falsely accused and then abused walks down an isolated snowy in Belfast in Northern Ireland in Nadja (USA) in the bitter stew of Nadja's caul a slow motion shot of Hiroyuki's success of this film it is more than Considering the writer. Shan as the one in which Paul (Julien by his parents, Graham decides to road away,from the car his par 1975. The story revolves around Portrait Of A young dron. Almereyda raises the inter girlfriend being blown into midar, likely to come back to Vancouver non Gibbon, had such a delicate Rassam) rubs Michelle's knee in a slowly murder his father, step by Joe Soroka ents have just committed suicide the lives of family man Liam Kelly Girl At The End Of The esting idea of the sense of imper- a hail of gunfire ripping a hole theatres. subject to deal with, the script was theatre. Even more stimulating is mother and sister. He slowly poi in, the film shifts to present-day and Kenny, a leader and hitman 1960s In Brussels Director Michael Almereyda manence in a vampire's eternal ex through her torso, is repeated in extremely well crafted. This, along his later seduction of Michelle, sons his parents' food, experiment Tokyo where rebel Detective Goda for the Loyalist movement. Two of makes a noble attempt with Nadja, istence, "the pain of life is the pain flashback three times. with solid performances, results in (France) played to Leonard Cohen's ing each time with a different com (Nakai Kiichi) is breaking the strict the bigwigs of the opposing move The War Between Us but it's not without its faults. The of fleeting joy," but fails to develop It's no wonder that Detective a film that has the ability to move 'Suzanne'. bination of elements procured from rules of Tokyo police investigation ments seek to obtain a truce be (Canada) by Janet Winters vampire genre has enjoyed a it or any other issue fully in any of Goda ends each day in a ritual of the audience both backwards in The plot becomes confusing, but the local alchemist. Ironically, be as he struggles to find the connec cause they are fast growing weary cause he is the family's "chemis comeback in recent years, and as the monologues. scrubbing his shoes until they by Alison Luddit time and elsewhere in emotion, to Chantal Akerman's portrait of somewhat amusing, when tion between the similarly styled of the ever increasing violence. try genius," the doctor assigns him a consequence Almereyda treads gleam with whiteness, cleansing relive history. Michelle (Circe), a fifteen year old Michelle's lesbian tendencies to But perhaps the worst spice in savage murders of a lowlife thug to take care of their medication. familiar territory. Unfortunately, he the whole r-agu are the totally mis the soles and his own soul of the Nonetheless, the violence and History can mean so little until Perhaps the film's most impres girl coming to terms with her sexu ward her very beautiful buddy, and a justice minister in different does not cover much ground. gore of Tokyo's dark underside. the hatred are evidently deeply there is a face put on it. The War ality, leaves many unanswered Danielle (Joelle Marlier), become After another family member placed and barely funny attempts sive element is the way it handles The story begins with Nadja, parts of the city. ingrained in the minds of nearly Between [/stakes the Japanese in questions. The film's puzzling end dies, Graham is picked up by the at black humour: SNL writers seem the inevitable changes in attitude, more apparent. However, this played respectably by Romanian- Like all good movie cops, the all levels of Belfast society. Even ternment in BC during World War ing compliments the laughable police, convicted of murder, and to possess the characters at points. A Shadow you Soon especially in Peg (Shannon awkwardly portrayed twist threw born Elina Lowensohn [Amateur], stonefaced Goda must cut through the very young are drawn into the II and gives it just this: faces, mistakes in direction, production put in a hospital for the criminally The acting is decent, and in the Will Be (Argentina) Lawson), the main non-Japanese the entire show over my head. A a vampiress soaking up the atmo much red tape before he gradu desire for revenge. Regrettably, names, a place to live. It acts as a and the characters' peculiar insane. A wonderful example of a case of Nadja's brother and her character. Her awakening to the stronger flow was desperately sphere and some blood in New ally comes to a partial understand this desire to quell the other side reminder of, and for some an in behaviour. sociopath, Graham convinces the servant Rainfield, actually pretty by Knut Ivanov injustice of the families' situation needed to fill the many gaps in the York City. We meet Martin Dono ing of the relationship between the occasionally results in street troduction to, this complicated and It is almost impossible to take parole board after a couple years good. Fonda carries himself like a is a gradual process, not a one- storyline. van, who recovers from a boxing mentally disturbed young mur Is this film Highway 61 set in battles and riots. Nothing Personal painful segment of BC history. this film seriously when tourists on that he is reformed. At first, he re poor man's Dennis Hopper, awash night wonder of an epiphany, that lesson gone bad only to learn from derer, the blackmailing of former Argentina? spares little of the graphic nature The War Between Us is a sensi the streets of Brussels are staring ally does seem reformed, but then in Hopper's patented wild-eyed ailminates in her tearful question The young Poisoner's his wife Galaxy Craze that his crazy members of a highly unorthodox Well, not really, but Hector of these fierce riots and their in tively molded story of a Japanese into the camera, evidently fasci he has an accidental run-in with old coot persona, and actually ing, "how did all this happen? How Handbook uncle (Peter Fonda) has just been university alpinist club and Olivera's A Shadow You Soon Will evitable consequences. family who are evicted from their nated by the fact there is a movie his old friend Thallium... bears a striking resemblance to did I get in the middle of this?" arrested for driving a stake through MARKS, a group of violent extreme Be is a road movie set in the wind Pacifist sentiment among a few home in Vancouver and shipped being shot and they are going to (U K/Germany/France) Robert Carradine's senile Kane. It is a question that many Ca Graham's warped nature is con someone's heart. Of course that left-wing student demonstrators. swept pampas of Argentina. The be in it. Oops! And couldn't the Ztfddjfa has its share of setbacks, nadians today might ask them by Jenn Kuo sistently exposed during the course heart belongs to Nadja's father, Except for Hagiwara Masoto's main character, known only as producers have budgeted to hire and it almost overcomes them. It selves of the complex mesh of cul- of the film, and it is especially hi who may be Bela Lugosi's quint eerily convincing portrayal of the "the engineer" (Miguel Angel Sol), extras? Who has ever heard of a young is much better than the standard larious if you can handle rather essential Dracula. When the cat's dazed young killer, Hiroyuki, the returns to his homeland after years kid pursuing a career as a poi fare at your local Blockbuster, so This story takes place in 1968 morbid humour. (After his mother away the mice will play; when rest of the performances in MARKS spent exiled in Italy. The film opens and probably won't win any soner? Well, if you haven't, then dies, he decides to bury her in a rent it if you get the chance. Af easBj are merely adequate. The compel with him hitchhiking in a barren «»re 9 let this movie be the first true ac walnut coffin "because she had byj fllSA) ling but complex plot, based on a wasteland trying to find work. ^RQo count of one such person. always liked walnuts.") novel by Takamura Kaoru, com The film's highlights are the The painful misunderstandings This is ft_- pensates somewhat for these flat eccentric characters he meets a of youth are also portrayed in this performances but the film's mean along the way: a gypsy fortune dering, uneven flow and the al teller, a gambler, a drifter, soccer- ALLIANCE most total absence of a soundtrack playing priests and a mute rocker THE do little to tighten the film into a and his girlfriend who are trying ^out"^let b°* S:aZ2ot9' taut thriller like Seven or to get to Cleveland. The most CiTR Manhunter. memorable character he meets is MOVIE flave d Qt m k 0 deVVi and h.-- eclarM ™ ""Native* * *9*eKT?, '«9ht* * 101.9 fM Definitely not for prudes, MARKS Coluccini (Pepe Soriano), a con art UaIs K Y Jej totew-^she*;™-. ! ^e Uitaah as ahn ' *ia Ie *"dj,or n will most likely be remembered for ist and retired circus performer. ns *vees +***&& * V present: shet wWcfi; **Uher -**•' The 1 Pervert its unbridled sex scenes and ex Coluccini has an unshakable zest Can»Pai, se. fittedHBa l9 /0W e cessive brutal violence. A sweaty for life and an impish propensity * '* **S|.de, r Wtt|ietfc lsi evvas This • -r.'«j scene involving Hiroyuki and his for getting into trouble. Pose 0Ctt <* Vole*r »9onZr girlfriend gives new meaning to The sense of emptiness that Ceandsev!!L*ejf, a,es«'P- TIRSTlMfRtW^S^rtOJcE* \JOWTtfttft HRfc) the term locker room sex. Another - enveloped Argentina after the fall VICTOR ARGO scene lasts fifteen minutes and in of the military dictatorship perme e THE «»e cr, ******seriouSeiS.? «%*, GIANCARLO ESPOSITO tercuts three scenes of continuous ates the atmosphere. While this b ts a a MICHAEL J. FOX stomach kicking, crowbar pulver film doesn't really go anywhere, ffay«ex,n. . *ePedo iiii» * 9ay *e*£?H0,6 te . * W"oiirou* s** * o/ MOVIE D **-on. and MELGORHAM izing and vicious headbashing the quirky and endearing charac JIM JARMUSCH comparable to that practiced by ters we encounter along the jour SOCKED HARVEY KEITEL Sailor Ripley in Wild at Heart. ney make the trip worthwhile. rJMV MADONNA •ion-TheOrp ***** S&r Son haj. LOU REED ffU,nea 0rad0 ROSEANNE ssr-^TCRS pS«a? ^as MIRASORVINO other LILY TOMLIN i 1 0 Ho ,V? MALIK YOBA bethel- * - **rt*fich "Mtiat ive The Film Festival -«M may be over and all, but that hasn't stopped this humdinger of a movie... Student Leadership Safe Unlike Haynes' first feature Poison, whose subversive / Conference opens Oct 20 at the Ridge and Plaza theatres perspective was tempered by an ironic (and captivating) has a heightened chemical sensi visual style. Safe is shot cooly, like science fiction. The by brett josef grubisic tivity which is, in turn, part of an environmental Alma Mater Society landscape he investigates is as strange as the moon's. illness syndrome. Her world is poisoned and she can SELF SERVE Safe is difficult to enjoy. But enjoyability is not really part of For most viewers, the world under Safe's gaze is, well, no longer live in it. A weekend getaway of speakers, What: its mandate. Todd Haynes, its writer and director, has claimed safe and comfortable. In fact for many, the life of its cen Once diagnosed, her sickness accelerates. Soon COHIPUTCH presentations and workshops..but don't that he made his film ambiguous and hard to digest because so tral character, Carol White (Julianne Moore), would seem she is unable to leave her specially fitted room un rlc.lTMS forget the food and fun! much contemporary American cinema gives easy answers in idyllic. She lives with a supportive spouse and well-be less acompanied by an oxygen tank. iew comedy by neat packages. Safe is thoughtful and cool, an unsettling con haved child in an affluent Californian suburb. She drives Unable to remain in her toxic suburban environ Mac - November 3-5, 1995 per hour 'ANG and PAUl AU5TE When: templation of identity, hysteria and spirituality. a Mercedes and follows a routine that consists of lun ment, she flees to a New Age retreat in Mexico, which (pro«rated) MIU\IAX(tLMS.iiii»,iriisimsirEiIRN*HmlmHLPR0Dlim0SKii!m»Tic«kiiiNDF'cU0Sfta.Fm»W«H»AN6«rAULWMa cheons, aerobics and shopping. is where she remains to the film's end. 50< 600 dpi b/w "BLUE INTHE FACE* VICltttASCO ClANCAlLOE&OSnO MICHAEL J. EOX. SIHHENGEVEDON MLLG08HAM IAIE0H4l«ISJIMJ«MljSCHHA!VEy|*i6. Where: AMS Whistler Lodge "~"7A LOUREEDJOSEWNHitSASORVKO LBTPMU!tM*L»W»i'craiK HEIDI LEVTtT iomviB!w«iaAUt«*«ilOVV14miu™iiafeBiaiJItt51ffltl Like a heroine in a Victorian novel, she is infan Watching Safe, you expect certain conventions to Laser Prints EDJTOI OiRlftUPHEIt THJifSEN 'wammmrsiaam ADAH HOLENDER, A.S C nici-im unoitn. HARVFt KEITEL BOt FVEK^KK HARIH WG&i^tltt / r»upra»nGRiC]OH?.a« PETBNEWMAN DIANAFHLljUfS BiirenViAYNE. The Ubyssey Tuesday, October 17,1995 ultur Trust James Cameron to save the day? Pshaw! Strange Days attention to detail ensure success. ingly simplistic at the Granville 7 and Cameron always delivers. statement on eth Oakridge Yeah, all right, he's an asshole ics and race rela by John Bolton and a chauvinist, and admittedly tions. his work is flawed in some re Kathryn Bige- It is my troubling duty as a film spects, but who can dispute the fact low is really not a critic to report that Strange Days that, ten years later. Aliens remains great director, and marks the further sinking of the a strong contender for the best film she's the one re modern action film into a simmer of its kind, with the Terminator sponsible for the ing stew of shit. films not far behind? numbing visuals, It is the latest in a long, rather Why am I so mad? Well, typi dragging dramat recent line of movies whose mak cally after seeing a film such as ics and sloppy ers seem to think audience excite Strange Days, I would wish James compositions. ment and interest can be built up Cameron had been involved. Tragi Blame the editor, and sustained through rapid fire cally, Cameron himself must take Howard Smith, for editing, seemingly random camera much of the blame, as writer and not allowing a angles, and a barrage of alterna producer. single shot to last tive rock as invariably blaring as The central concept—an addic longer than three it is derivative. What about pac tive new entertainment, the sexual seconds and ing? Plot? Humour? Hell, what and criminal misadventures of real Graeme Revell for about a kernel of originality or in people taken "straight from the ce the steamroller spiration? rebral cortex" and experienced via soundtrack. No one does escapism better direct brain hook-up-is interest Ralph Fiennes, than James Cameron. His films are ing. But the screenplay is bad. Bad one of the best ac "There, there, Ralph, the next movie'll be better. technically amazing and genuinely dialogue. Bad drama. Bad ending— tors working to exciting. They can deliver a rush a groan-worthy, desperate de day, is sadly miscast as lowlif e ped bad guy in 77ie Crow, rounds out year, and it represents a danger that is truly unique. Granted, it all nouement. And the promising, dler Lenny Nero. Angela Bassett is the cast. ous downward trend in the quality comes down to manipulating the original premise is forgotten as the given nothing to do as Mace, Strange Days has a few sparks and craftsmanship of a serious and audience, but only great care and film becomes some sort of disturb- Lenny's limo driving ally. Juliette of invention, but the film is gener significant art form. Lewis is predictably bad (she even ally oppressive, ugly and boring. When James Cameron can't sur sings - oh, help), and the abso With a few exceptions, it is the last render the goods, the future of es Fringe hit comes to UBC lutely awful Michael Wincott, the major action film to be released this capism looks pretty grim. Sonofabitch Stew even kind. For example, she was at the Dorothy Somerset willing to risk her own life nursing until Oct 20 at 12:00 noon miners stricken with smallpox, at by Andy Barham a time when smallpox was a dreaded and little understood Sonofabitch Sfewtook the Fringe scourge. Festival by storm last September, Deb Pickman's acting is first rate. selling out every performance well When she assumes the persona of in advance. It's an intense one act Calamity Jane, it's as though the *y\ play about Janet Pain, a heroine- real Calamity Jane is there in the worshipping women's studies prof theatre with us. She spits, swears who is obsessed with Calamity and swills her way through the Grouse Mountain Jane. performance in a manner befitting The set is stripped down to its her real-life heroine. bare essentials, since this is a one- My only quibble is with the The Peak of Vancouver person play in which Deb Pickman main premise: namely, that the switches rapidly from Janet to Jane real character is Janet Pain, a be and back again with the subtlety leaguered university prof who's of a gatling gun mowing down a about to lose her tenure. This dis group of renegades. In the process tracted from what I thought should of watching Janet lose her sense have been the real story - the life of self, as well as her job, we gain and times of Calamity Jane - and some insight into the real Calamity added an unnecessary complica * Jane: a loud, coarse, brawling tion to the plot. 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Tuesday, October 17,1995 The Ubyssey opinion Students, Grace finally get well-deserved support When the Faculty of Graduate Studies (FoGS) coun It is ofthe utmost irony that Dean of Arts Pat Marchak others have suggested, the few bad apples should have cil voted against the motion to reopen graduate admis has criticized the report for its methodological flaws when been asked to resign long ago. sions to the political science department, they did UBC an overwhelming majority of these alleged flaws are a It is about time professors stopped shielding their own students a favour. direct result of the terms of reference she helped create. and realized that students with different points of view By backing the only individual with political clout who The terms of reference were written by a faculty that are not just a nuisance. Departments should welcome a has consistently put the interests of students ahead of intended to use the report to exonerate one of its prize diverse range of views and a cutting edge curriculum. grandstanding professors, FoGS is finally giving Dean departments. When it got more than it bargained for, it The mainstream press has managed to get people all John Grace the support he deserves. The university sen cried foul. Their rhetoric is wearing thin and the hypoc hyped up by bashing "political correctness" and "hys ate should pay close attention. risy is showing through. terical feminists." It may make for colourful editorials, As divisive and controversial as the last few months Until FoGS'recent decision, attention has focused on but it does a grave disservice to the issues at hand. have been, UBC should not "just put this whole McEwen the perceived shortcomings of the messenger at the ex Hopefully FoGS' decision is a sign the tide is slowly thing behind it," as some have suggested. The McEwen pense of the message—a basis for allegations of systemic turning and cooler heads such as Grace will eventually report raises real questions that will inevitably have to be racism and sexism within the department does exist. prevail. answered. University officials should use this opportu Philosophy professor Steven Savitt was right to point It is easy for professors to cast themselves as the latest nity to revitalize the department and demonstrate its com out a basis for allegations does not necessarily mean they casualties of the "moral violence" perpetrated by femi mitment to the people it is supposed to serve—students. are true, but these were the terms of reference Ms. nists and minorities. It is more difficult to actively listen Critics of Grace and McEwen have argued they failed McEwen was given. to students' concerns, wrestle with complex issues of the to follow due process. Where was due process 1210 days If the political science department's problems are not changing face of university campuses and to try to reach ago when the first student brought complaints forward? systemic, as acting Department Head David Elkins and a common ground. October 17.1995 letters fact they are incompetents? I from running in elections, voting, ^ubyssey volume 77 Issue 12 feel just in calling this writer AMS-Coke and just generally caring. If Min. wage ignorant and incompetent students' cynicism prevents The Ubyssey is a founding member of Canadian University Press. based on what they wrote. For response them from participating, no The Ubyssey Is published Tuesdays and Fridays by The Ubyssey economics example, they wrote that some In the October 6th issue of new ideas will be generated, Publications Sodety at the Ufltvetshyof British Columbia. Editorial I am writing in response to companies "exist solely to The Ubyssey several articles were and old " regimes" will never apkiloiue>?ressedarctrioseoftfiei^^ the editorial minimum wage exploit our workers." No written about the Cold be challenged. ^^uni>^i^xkn\iiiitr^cMor^MttUM3^BrSod^y. is still minimal. I was company on the entire planet Beverage Deal. I appreciated Many councillors were Editorial Office: Boom 241K. Student Union Building, shocked at the profound exists solely to exploit Matt Thompson's coverage of working hard before, during, €138 SUB Blvd., UBC V6T1Z1 level of ignorance displayed workers, they exist to make the "Coke" issue as well as his and after the meeting to ensure tel: (604) 822-2301 fax: (604) 822-9279 by the writer of that article. money. The minimum wage is coverage of the last council student's voices were being Business Office: Room 245, Student Union Building Being both a student and an an artificial floor that only meeting; however, headlines heard-and ensuring those advertising: (604) 822-1654 business office: (604) 822-6681 employer I have a unique causes unemployment and such as "AMS squashes Coke voices were being treated with Business Manager Ferule Pereira perspective of the job inflation. Only those people Deal Protest" and comments respect Further to that goal, a Advertising Manager James Rowan market. The writer of this with little or no skills earn such as "...should reaffirm motion to be addressed at the Account Executive: Deserie Harrison article makes bold minimum wage. I pay higher student's belief that their next council meeting reads: statements such as "It is a than minimum wage simply student union is dominated by "Whereas there is a significant loss Canada Post Publications Sales Agreement Number 0732141 myth minimum wage because I only want people clueless resume sniffers" only of consumer choice through an increases result in job loss." who are competent Most of work to further alienate the exclusivity arrangement; and The writer obviously has society earns wages above student body from their student *How 'bout a Western theme?* asked Sarah CDomiel, careftiUy saaprag the whereas student opinion is cowshit of her shiny cowgirl boots. The mildly inbred Peter Chattaway broke a never taken a course in minimum wage. Restaurant government I would be the first essential in this matter, be it bmxjoexiB^wMt}emi}^UKkax«^xrswigo(^hMi 10 The Ubyssey Tuesday, October 17,1995 sports UBC hosts underwater hockey tournament by Scott Hayward cific Coast Championship of un This competition helps teams de April, according to tournament went to the Seattle Sea Hammers, Teams from all over North derwater hockey this weekend. termine which players will go the organizer Melanie Johnson. who beat the Vancouver men's America and the Philippines Competition was varied, and World Championships, which are Conditioning was an important team in the consolation finals. fought it out on the floor of the each ofthe three divisions was won held every two years and will take factor in the tournament, as most Andrea Arenovski who played Aquatic Centre in the 1995 Pa by a team from a different region. place in South Africa at the end of teams played eight games over two for the Cape Cod women's team, days. "You're allowed to have twelve also played for the San Diegc people on the roster and ten suit up mixed team which was short ol for any one game," said Cape Cod women. In mixed competition, al men's team captain Kendall Banks. least three of six swimmers in the Most players from his team played water must be women. six or seven games. "In the mixed division, all the The men's division was won teams were really closely by a team from Cape Cod, al matched," said Arenovski. Sari though competition was very Diego, which picked up players tight. "The last game ofthe round from other teams struggled early. robin determined all four of the "It was tough to get the teamwork top seeds for the playoffs," said going," she said. Banks. "Any one of those four The entry from Simon Frasei teams could have won it." University won the mixed com Banks said about one half of petition, followed by Chicagc his team was from Cape Cod, and San Diego. while the rest came from up and The women's division was won down the east coast ofthe US. His by Chicago, with Club Pucker up team beat Club Puck, from the from San Francisco coming sec San Francisco Bay area, by a ond, Vancouver's team came score of 4-0 in the final. "It was third and Seattle came fourth. very close the first half, they were Some competitors watched the pressing us as much as we were. action either from a television on We were able to get a couple in the pools deck which had a feed and that helped." Cape Cod from an underwater camera. Oth dominated the second half of the ers preferred to float in the watei SCOTT HAYWARD PHOTO game and coasted to victory. SPECTATORS enjoy a front row view of the action at this weekend's underwater hockey tournament A live feed with masks and snorkels just out from an underwater camera was provided on the Aquatic Centre deck for those who chose to watch from dry land. Third place in the competition side the playing court. UBC plays in ultimate tournament by Wolf Depner opening game Friday morning. playing conditions, the team found It was an historic weekend for Jet-lag and the lack of sleep, how itself behind 1-6 early in the game UBC's Ultimate Frisbee Team ever, caught up with the T-Birds and were still tiailing 5-8 at half- and for Ultimate in general. in their second game. time. It took an inspired second A fourteen man squad from The T-Birds battled hard half to steal the match. UBC took part in the first ever against the eventual tournament "The team showed a lot of Canadian University Ultimate winners Carleton University character after being down at the Championship held in Ottawa. "Freakshows," but in the end half. All players on the team rose UBC tied for third with McGill were flying on less than fumes to the occasion to make contri University's "A" team in the twelve and lost the intense contest 9-15. butions on and off the field," said team "Open" competition. Tour The Birds went on to soundly team captain Alex Rosenczweig. nament host Carleton beat UVic defeat the University of Water The hard fought victory over by a score of 14-12 in the final Sun loo 15-4 and finish the day with Queens meant UBC faced Geor day afternoon. The University of a 2-1 record. gia Strait rival UVic in a semi-fi Ottawa beat McGill "A" by a score UBC faced Ottawa Saturday nal match Sunday morning. The of 13-10 to take the final in the five morning and despite a solid night's other semi featured Carleton ver team women's division. rest, they received an unruly wake- sus U of McGill "A". Overall, UBC's trip was an en up call. The Birds struggled, but The Birds clipped their own joyable experience despite the hung on for a 15-12 victory over wings in the 4-15 loss, committing travel involved and an embar the GeeGees. They responded to several crucial turn-overs near rassing 4-15 loss at the hands of the early morning scare by thrash UVic's end-zone. UVic in the semi-final. ing McGill 'B' 15-2 in the follow UBC was outmatched by Following a six-hour overnight ing game. Victoria's zone defence and supe Jt: trip with little or no sleep, the T- The 'Birds went on to play their rior disk handling skills in the cold SCOTT HAYWARD PHOTO Birds strolled off the plane and best Ultimate in a 15-11 quarter and windy Ottawa weather. "We CHILDREN appear unconcerned by the presence of a large grizzly outside onto the field to demolish the final match victory over Queen's just couldn't capitalize on our War Memorial Gym during Open House weekend. University of Guelph 15-4 in their University. In less than perfect opportunities," said Rosenczweig. action again Tuesday night at 8 Football Simon Beckow for a third. Saskatchewan Huskies by a score *3 pm against the Seattle Christian TheT-Birds fell to Beckow was the Birds' leading of 3-0. Ken Strain scored UBC's T-BIRD O Athletes, who are expected to pro California State— receiver, racking up 114 yards on lone goal against Alberta and came vide UBC with more robust com Chico by a score of 11 completions. up strong again Sunday with a hat petition. \r-v 38-22 in exhibition Soccer trick against the Huskies. Hockey \jr_\ play on Saturday. The undefeated ^^^ Volleyball The UBC T- ^> The NCAA Divi T-Bird women's £ Tuesday, October 17,1995 The Ubyssey 11 mmm 5ffl»35s«K feature Mismanagement threatens world-class research centre Dan Tencer chronicles a tangled web of administra tive misdealings and corporate give-aways that have nearly destroyed UBC's Biomedical Research Centre. In its nine year history UBC's opted out ofthe BRC and the Fox Biomedical Research Centre Foundation lost its partner. Since (BRC) has developed an interna the privatization, the BRC has tional reputation as a leader in had nothing but bad news. many fields, including genetics In January 1991, BRC's board and immunology. It is a cross-dis of trustees voted not to continue ciplinary institution where spe the contract ofjohn Schrader, the cialists from various fields coop institute's director who had been erate in breakthrough biological specifically chosen for the job five research and pass their experi years earlier. No reason was ever ence to graduate students. given for the firing. The BRC's success can even One ofthe trustee board's mem be measured in dollars-it has the bers was Robert C. Miller, vice- highest per capita funding of any president of research at UBC. A institute on campus, and gener week after announcing Schrader's ates ten percent of the medicine removal, Miller told a group of faculty's revenue. BRC faculty members he wanted But the BRC has been plagued UBC to get "control of the [BRC] by a recent series of resignations building and the people in it." from top researchers. The major Soon afterwards, the finan reasons: the unexplained firing of cially-troubled Fox Foundation John Schrader, the institute's di opted out of the BRC. By March rector until 1991, the lack of a 1992, Vice President Academic STAFF and graduate students outside the Biomedical Research Centre. ANDY BONFIELD PHOTO permanent replacement for and Provost Dan Birch announced of the institute. When UBC took According to Schrader, this the University of Washington and Schrader and an agreement with UBC was taking control of the in control, Birch said Schrader would means UBC has "signed re Ian Clark-Lewis, who was quoted a pharmaceutical company that stitute. One month later, the uni not be reappointed, but could re searchers' and students' intellec in the Vancouver Sun as saying that staff say signs away the intellec versity senate tried to change the apply for his old position, and tual property away." By signing UBC is "by far the worst-run uni tual property rights of professors name ofthe BRC to the Biomedi would be notified of the away grad students' research to versity I have ever been associ and graduate students to a pri cal Research Laboratories. administration's decision within a a private company, UBC set a ated with," left for Australia. vate company. "It was an attempt to obliterate year. The committee did not actu precedent in Canada. No counter-offers were ever The problem's origins can be the name [the BRC] had built ally meet for eleven months. Once BW acquires an intellec made to stop these scientists from traced back many years. The BRC around the world," said Schrader, Although the university told the tual property from the BRC, they leaving the country. Research was originally a subsidiary of the who still works as a researcher at BRC it would have a say in the have no obligation to continue the Technician John Babcock said Terry Fox Medical Research Foun the institute. "The university was hiring of a new director, they were research in Canada Since the BRC "[These researchers] could have dation. Interest in the institute was after the building itself. There was never consulted. Schrader was is receiving $75 million in public been supported here, with the divided 50-50 between the Fox not any serious consideration for one of four possible candidates, funding over fifteen years beginning university's help." Foundation and Burroughs- the institute itself." but after a period of deliberation in 1991, Canadian taxpayers may This scientific exdous has left Wellcome, a British pharmaceuti Meanwhile, the BRC began its Dean of Science Barry McBride be paying millions of dollars for many grad students in a difficult cal company that has never in search for a new director. Before said Schrader was out of the run research that never benefits Cana position. Scott Pownall, a PhD vested any significant amount of giving up control ofthe BRC, the ning. It was "time for a change." dians. And because of its contract student working at the BRC, de money in the institute. Fox Foundation had named The BRC complained to the with Burroughs-Wellcome the BRC pends on the instruction ofjames In 1989, Burroughs-Wellcome Nobel prize winning chemist provincial ombudsperson about is ineligible for private funding. Marth, who recently departed. was privatized, the company Michael Smith as interim director the hiring process. After investi BRC staff argue the ethics of The departures have hindered gating, the ombudsperson con the deal with BW is similar to a the progress of many other gradu cluded the selection process was ate students as well. According to unfair to all ofthe candidates, in Schrader, the damage to the in BLOWOU cluding Schrader. Nevertheless, "UBC is by far stitution is "almost irreversible." the selection process went on un First-class scientists won't come abated. the worst-run to the BRC, says Schrader, because The fact that the BRC lacks a university I of its instability. "The university permanent director is not the has failed to understand this." only problem raising eyebrows have ever been Meanwhile, BRC staff and within the institute. When UBC other medical researchers have took control of the BRC, it also associated with." been petitioning for answers as to took control of the shares belong why no one has been named di ing to Burroughs-Wellcome Former BRC scientist rector, and what the university in (BW). Ian Clark-Lewis tends for the future ofthe BRC. In In exchange for BW's shares, a letter dated Mar. 7, 1995, Vice Michael Smith and Robert Miller President Academic and Provost signed a contract in September recent case is the U.S. When Daniel Birch responded by saying 1991 giving BW a percentage of Sandoz pharmaceuticals of Swit "neither President Strangway nor the profits on Interferon, a drug zerland signed a $150 million I see any purpose by extending the used in the treatment of sickle- dollar contract with Scripps Re correspondence." HURRY! ONLY 25 cell leukemia. The profits are search Institute in California for Despite an uncertain future, the roughly $10,000 a year. first rights to their research, the BRC continues to function. Earlier Reg. $45 Beautiful 100% cotton U.S. Congress struck it down for this year 36 BRC staffers signed a canvas, gold, a steal and only one of In 1989, the accounting firm ethical and legal reasons. last year's styles, colours, and seconds Price-Westinghouse reported that petition requesting Schrader's re at clearance prices. Sale ends Nov. the prospects for Interferon are But in Canada, no actions have instatement as director. 11 or while quantities "very limited," meaning the BRC been taken to investigate the Xeroxes are posted throughout last could soon receive virtually noth agreement between the BRC and the BRC labs as their battle with ing from BW. Burroughs-Wellcome. UBC's administration continues. To complicate matters further, Most of the university The poster quotes Daniel Birch Burroughs-Wellcome received administration's deals have in a letter to the Globe and Mail: facton "first rights of refusal" for all re caused problems for researchers "UBC will not permit its mis search done by the BRC. In other at the BRC, say the staff. Three sion of excellence to be poisoned safflCJWDt ^ words, BW now has the right to of the institute's top scientists re either by intolerance or by a reck look at any discoveries made by cently left to work abroad. Ge less disregard for fair play. We will K00LAH the BRC before anyone else and neticist James Marth left for the act on these principles and we will decide whether or not they want University of California in San be accountable for our actions." the rights to the research. Diego, Ruedi Aebersold went to Oh, the irony. OPEN: Tues-Sat, 10am-5pm 6592-176th St, Unit 102 (5 mins. north of Cloverdale. Nearest cross street 65A) 12 The Ubyssey Tuesday, October 17,1995