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600577324 November 8,1995 INSIDE...

CFML's listeners page 3 & 5 Broadcast dean cites survey to show The Alcoholic BCIT's radio station does have an Tourist audience.

The Darl

Entertainment page 6 - 9

To win at the races page 11 A neglected athlete the small jock• ey trains to control 1100 lb. horses News scavengers since 1965 in a quest to win the races. page 9 SA Campus Centre Twenty-one million officially epens blaokmrds or eating crows To hatch a crow A black rainbow Bent in emptiness Over emptiness But flying

— Ted Hitches BY GREG NESTEROFF itchcock would have been proud. Early each morning and late every Hevening they can be seen congregating on campus. Then again, they're not exactly invisible during the day either. They Utter the soccer field and pepper the sky — the latter being an especially accurate description since from a distance they look Uke specks of pepper. It is impossible to watch them without thinking of the classic suspense/horror film The Birds. They're city animals, so you get the feeling "They discover it and teU all their friends," she that it doesn't make any difference to them says. They aren't finicky eaters either. whether you're around. They might give you a "They're pigs. They'll go after anything. bad-ass look (they are adept at doing tfiis), but They're meat eating scavengers, so diey're also raUier dian flying away, they'U just walk a few going after mice — they dive bomb for them." paces ahead. They are more eyesore than real nuisance, They're black crows — distinguished of however. Other than arriving in droves. course, from magenta, taupe and teal crows — Themmen says the birds haven't caused an> and there are thousands of them. major disturb.ances thai she's .aware of. No one The reason for their mass exodus here, how• has h.ad their eyes pecked out. ever, is not immediately apparent, and more Also making BCIT their pemKineni home than a bit disturbing. It's the litter. are a gaggle or n^'o of geese The crow's place in die food chain, as wiih "They used lo be by the creek, but thc\ many other birds it seems, is to eat the refuse started wandering," Themmen says. Now the> Dignitaries incluiling BCIT president Brain Gillespie, Board ol of humans. And according to Cmdy Themmen, bide much of their time on the patches of gr.xss Governors chair Arun Garg, MtA Joan Sawicki, SA president Michael the supervisor of custodial services for BCIT, on die cast side of campus. "But they should be Bretner, SA executive director Stephen Miller spoke at the huildings on campus diere's as much garb.age outside as going away very soon for the winter. They've opening ceremonies. there is inside, read the great hall. stayed late diis year for some reason." Speechs were followed hy the unveiling of a donor plaque at the main "We've tried to contend with it, but the sm• Like the crows, they've been behaving entrance to the building and a cermonial cake cutting. dents don't seem to care," she says. "You try to themselvos. No reports to date of rogue geese Another plaque dedicated to students and SA employees was pick up as much as you can, but always around wandering about. No secunty w;imings issued. unveiled later in Ihe evening at a small gathering by SA president diis time of year Uiey arrive." In the back of die mind, however, there is Michael Bretner. WiUingdon Avenue is as near crow heaven one nagging thought: just how much cxcrcmenl PAUIDAVSONPHOTOS as exists. Not only is there BCIT to feast on, do our feathered friends produce? but the giant McDonalds is just down the road. Us something probably best left unchecked. THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY UNK CLASSIFIEDS CAMPUS EVEN1S LINK CLASSIFIEDS-, are $5 for a 3 line ad and $1 for each line Wednesday, November 8th your success & happiness. Come I'hiirsday, November 23rd after—except employment listings for which the first 3 lines are & enhance your future, 7- Coping with Mid-term Blues. Toastmasters Int'l Sunnse Club. FREE. To place a classified as contact The Unk 432-8974 8:15am. SA boardroom, SA Counselling Services workshop. Your ability to communicate Campus Centre. SWl-1125. 12 to I:30pm. effectively is directly related to EMM Environmental Edacation Take Pride: BCIT's group for your success & happiness. 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CIT president Brian of the few who faded die couise Gillespie sat in for the «as a woman who was released B firet portion of die regular from prison to attend. She vio• bi-weekly Student Association lated her parole widiin the first meeting, Oct. 23. During his week. presentation he talked about the Atkinson said he fell, howev• future of BCIT in relation to er, even she could have succeed• new technology and new pro• ed in the program had diere been grams that will be affecting more on-campus facilities to post-secondary education in help her cope. coming years. Although BCIT doesn't end He also brought up the immi• up making any money from the nent Canada-wide tuition project, Atkinson said, "The increase. "There's good reason money saved from social ser• to be concerned," he said. vices through training and "There's no doubt [fees are] employing one student would going to go up. How much we pay for a whole class." don't know " (Twenty-five to A related program for Firsi 50 per cent is the range that's Nations students will begin in been batted around most recent• January, fiinded by Ihe Ministry ly-) of Human Resources. Answering a question, • Council okayed the SA GUlespie agreed that one of the web page, being set up by CFML surprisingly well listened to; dean says biggest problems would be deal• Technical Sciences chair ing with second year students, Thomas Tong and computer stu• by unk Stan a survey to be carried out at reduced cost by whose tuition would also go up, dent Nick Berrit. If the SA is CFML has a tiny audience. either marketing students or another broadcasting but they probably didn't budget aUowed to use the BCIT facih• Oh yeah? statistics class. for it when they came. "We ties, which is almost certain, it That's not what the numbeis say. Several related asides: always let people know, whether won't cost a thing. If they aren't, Last issue, a Link story asked how Ustenership • The broadcast program is the cover story of die they reaUze it or not," he said. "I it'll be $1,000 for soft^jre of the campus station could be improved, based October issue of die trade magazine Broadcast & don't know why I inherited five instaUation. on the premise that few were mmng in. Technology. Inside is a two page spread written years of the downside, while The Operations In a letter published in today's issue, Brian by Antonson at the magazine's request, explain• John Watson had five years on Management scenario, involving Antonson, associate dean of broadcast communi• ing some of the facihties and equipment added in the upside. That's hfe, I guess. 42 former students who are cations, says that a 1992 survey conducted by sec• the last year, alongside another photo. Gillespie said tuition has suing BCIT, is getting deeper ond year broadcast students as part of their statis• • BCIT alumni did very well at the annual been going up regularly, but Students are taking their side lo tics course showed CFML "was well known as Webster Awards, Nov. 1, which recognize excel• never by diis much. "Maybe if the media, although BCIT has the campus station at BCIT, and surprisingly well lence in print and broadcast journalism in BC. diey raise diem enough, no one made a settiement offer listened to." Altogether, BCIT-ites were nominated in four wiU go to school anymore," he • In his regular report, SA of the eight categories, and made up over one- said and then paused. "Just kid• Executive Director Stephen ' Full text of tlie dean's letter, page fifth of the total nominees: Stuart McNish of ding." Miller reiterated comments to BCTV (and ex-LiViteter) for Best TV Reporting, Other notes from the meet• made during an interview on A copy of the survey hadn't been located at for a segment called "Astronaut Kids," Wayne ing: CFML on potential toition hikes. press time, but Antonson told The Link diat while Wilhams of die CBC Evening News (along widi • Fran Addnson, co-ordinator "If students don't want their he's hesitant to quote figures, he remembers Pnina Bloch) also for Best TV Reporting, "Sex, of BCIT's Fresh Start upgrading tuition to go up a tremendous about a 60 per cent recognition factor. Boys and Videotape," Moira McLean and Mike program was guest, and did a amount, they have to go to the "That's people saying not only that 'yeah, Clarice of CKNW, for Best Radio Reporting, for presentation on the success of Board of Governors, not just that's a radio station I listen to,' but also diat it's tiieir coverage of the Stanley Cup riots, CharUe the first four classes to complete with a letter," he said. "When die BCTT campus station. It's sometimes been the Smith of the Georgia Straight (another ex-Link it since it began two years ago. Sea Island students protested assumption of classes that because the telephone staffer) for the Barry Lando Science and Although the classes have two years ago, 110 out of 110 doesn't ring off the wall, that there's no one hs• Technology Award, "Who WiU Re-Offend?" and been small, ranging from eight showed up. After that, every• tening, but 60 per cent is a remarkably high fig• KeUy McClughan of die CBC Evening News for to 14 people, die success of the one's tuition went up ten per ure." Best Feature Reporting, "Easy Prey." program has been remarkable. cent except theirs." He also Antonson goes on in the letter to say that "[i]f McNish, McLean and Clarke were also win• "It's been working like a mentioned he'd had a request to the Link were to sponsor a proper survey, con• ners, and McClughan tied with Vancouver Sun charm," Addnson said. set up a hair salon in the campus ducted using standard statistical methods, it might scribe J.P. McMartin. Seventy-five per cent of the center. find . . . that there are a lot of folks out there who • Antonson recenUy sent a memo to Vancouver first class have found work, as • Re: the seemingly endless ping listen to CFML daily." magazine, which as reported last issue, had a have 92 per cent of the third pong table snafii. SA president Mike Bretner said nothing has (An aborted survey by The Link mentioned in sidebar glossary accompanying a story about TV class, and 100 per cent of the changed. The used table is in the the story asked nine smdents whether they would news in the Lower Mairdand. One of the terms, second and fourth classes. Many Great HaU, and the new one in like to have CFML pumped into the student cen• 'Pimple Parade,' was said to mean recendy-grad- came in knowing little or no the Student Activity Center, ter's great hall, but eight didn't know what CFML uated BCIT TV smdents. English. awaiting approval to be moved. was — the caveat being that only students were Antonson's response was published in the Addnson also told the meet• "We have other things in life, ya asked, nol necessarily the station's target audi• November issue. "I thought you might be interest• ing about the varied back• know," he admonished. ence.) ed in die 1 16 graduates of die program who have grounds of the enrollees. One was an Argentinian who worked Nexl meeting, which doubles The Link phoned several Vancouver marketing gone on to work in Vancouver and Victoria tele• as an interpreter during the as the Annual General Meeting consultants for an estimate on the cost of a proper vision markets," he wrote, enclosing a list of Falkland's war. another was a is Nov. in Council Chambers, survey. To ask 1,000 Lower Maiidand adults two them. "I'm sure I've missed some, but we're right Haw.iiian who couldn't adjust to second floor, new studeni ceii- yes-or-no questions, prices varied from $1,640 lo proud of our 'Pimple Paraders!'" He's since been the time shift, and would fall irc, now sporting a couple of $3,750 — a wee bit out of the range of the current getting messages from TV grads working in the asleep everyday at 10 am. One spiffy new signs. budget. However, Tlie Link still hopes to sponsor industry, thanking him.

NOVEMBER 8, 1995 • THE LINK • 3 EDITORIAL

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"OK buddy, take it easy." ^S] dents are there? "Shut up kid, like you Hmm, do you think the know what the hell your talk• staff would mind walking ing about." two and a half feet from 77i« Unk is the student newspaper of the British Columbia Institute of "Excuse me. Would you Technology. Published bi-weekly by the BCTT Student Association, their cars lo class? OK The Unk circulates 3,500 copies to over 16,000 studente & staff. mind repeating diat." BY JOHN SCHENK dien, what about two feet? "Take a seat." Hmm. what do you think Contributors: "Look pal, just let me out ^^^^VlMJ of the idea of charging Jeff MacDonald, Brian Rice, John "Schcnky" Schenk, Krista Aselford, here." The door opens and out I up is. You know I'm so sick of students for parking when they Greg Nesteroff, Andrea Cobham, Uri Ziskind, get. "Oh, and by the way you'll Steve Pettit, Anna-Lisa Jones, Gieg Helten & Paul Dayson asking the bureaucrats for their could just as easily walk from hear about this.", I shouted. answers to questions regarding home? Managing Editor: Turning I saw his snicker and parking, transportation etc.. Lets Hmm, what say we put the campus Paul Dayson could think of only one thing — face it their not die ones who have in the middle of no where? ASSHOLE. to park three fuckin' miles away Hmm, do you think we can get Studont EdHor: Well folks, yet another beautiful from the campus. Instead, I decid• John "Schenky" Schenk away with serving non-nourishing day on the darkside. Thanks to ed to compile a list of the ques• and expensive food around cam• Entertainment Coordinator: recent changes in my 'maison's' tions these bureaucrats were asking pus? Where el.se could they possi• Brian Rice location I have been forced to take themselves prior to their ingenious bly go for food? New* Coordinator: the illustrious, comfortable and decision maldng. Here it goes; Hmm, what did you say my job Greg Nesteroff most stylish BC Transit system — was again?(Oh yeah, thanks) Advertising Representative: namely the stinkin' bus. IVEVER Hmm, do you think students would Hmm, what say we all stop feeding Jeff MacDonald in all my life has anyone ever been like to start school earlier than Ihe students bull and do something as rude to me as Captain Transit of when they were in high school? constructive for them? What, HEY As a member of Canadian University Press (CUP), The Unk adheres to the #25 bus. The guy was a com• How about 8:30am? - whal do you mean I'm lircd.' CUFs Code of Ethics. To this end r/ie tinl: will not publish material plete and total jerk. 1 don't want to deemed by the editors or steering committee lo be Hmm, how long do you lliink ii "iou can't do lhat! Hey, come sexist, racist, homophobic or in poor taste. disclose aU of the details because I takes to walk three mdcs? b.ick... am going to work on a 'real' news Hmm, do you think students would TTie views expressed in The Unk arc not necessary those of BCIT, the story about this one. 1 assure you, leam more if we tum off the lieat? Well, that's the way it goes. Student Association, or the editorial collective. faithful fans, that if it's the last Hmm, do you think aluminum Hey I got a question. 3700 Willingdon Avenue thing 1 ever do 1 am going to watch portables would suffice? Bumaby, BC VSG 3H2 this son-of-a bitch bum. Besides, I Hmm, what do you think about Hmm, what would happen if we all Tel: 432.8974 kinda like doing that. designing the campus after San decided to boycott this place? Do Fax:431-7619 1 This lovely experience got me Quinten? you think they would have jobs? so pissed that it hit me just how Hmm, do you think 100 computers (sorry, that was two questions). pathetic BCIT's transportation set will be enough? How many stu-

4 • THE UNK' NOVEMBER 8, 1995 CFML best the opposite. Students lem for visitors, as they conducted a survey come in the main entrance judged by grads according to all profes• and now have lo be direct• sional parameters as part ed via an external road in the industry of a Statistics course. This over so many speed involved a random sample bumps that one has a Greg Nesteroff's aiticle of hundreds of lower headache by the time they "CFML: BCIT Radio — mainland homes, and the can find a parking place, a A station seeking an audi• results showed that CFML classroom, office or the ence" in the October 25 was well known as the reason for which they edition raises a number of campus station at BCIT, entered the mirror maze. and surprisingly well Us- queries — and they I also not that buses tened to. I myself have deserve to be addressed. now find die Square a very heard CFML playing on CFML is indeed convenient place to turn store PA systems, have BCIT's campus station around. The regular bus received many comments and has been since 1982. It parking area is also behind from Usteners, and I know is indeed available on a useless barricade which students have been "audi• campus—via a technique prevents buses parking tioned" and hired by known as "carrier current" and restricts access to broadcasters who tuned in where the signal is carried more automotive shops. to hear them in a live on the electrical power This barricade is open all broadcast situation. Thus, system. Radios in relative• day to accommodate all die station meets its man• ly close range to power the vehicles that have to date and exposes its stu• lines can pick up the sig• enter on a dady basis. nal, albeit a poor one due dents to the largest possi• here everyday. The same daily. And reading the If there is or was a to the technology ble audience. I don't mean Maybe the decision — in truth — cannot be posters on the walls in pedestrian problem, no involved. Moving from to demean any BCTT audi• was made to protect the said of CFML. Much of Broadcast Center would projected over indulged one to whom I have spo• one "grid" to another ence at aU, but this greater CFML's music has a hard• point up die fact that more form the Elephant bar. ken knows of it and with requires transmitters and exposure is very important er edge to it. It has in the than a hundred of the voic• Even they will stay inside the extra traffic now fiin- couplers which, frankly, to us. past been on BCIT's hold es and faces we know in the winter. neled past the Inglis build• cost a lot of money, thus, As for the issue of feature and this resulted in from radio and television ing there is more of a it has never been our With this blockage, CFML being played in complaints. Fuzz guitar in the Greater Vancouver problem due to the deliv• intention to even attfempt deUveries are now a hassle cafeterias, etc., we must just doesn't cut it with and Greater Victoria mar• ery vehicles parked on die to deliver a signal as the Purchasing depart• remember that CFML is some people. So BCIT kets got dieir starts here at road and the forklift tmcks throughout the campus ment still requires trucks just one of dozens of sig• made the decision to carry BCI'l". Hundreds more to come in. Physical Plant coming in and out of the and the various power nals the could be listened other stations that don't work behind the scenes in reeds service vehicles, the buildings. Maybe the grids diat exist here. to in these areas and no play that kind of music. the broadcast and related Food Processing depart• pedestrians are smarter by So why do we have the one can force Ustenership We must remember the industries. CFML worked ment requires deliveries the time they walk down signal there in the first on anyone else. If the per• markets for which we're for many of these people, from the Pilot Plant, Pulp to the Inglis building. If by preparing them weU for place? Because — as the son in charge of die radio preparing our students. and Paper have deliveries, we have to turn the cam• their careers in broadcast• article states — we use Ukes CFOX, diey'II tune CFML's programming the garbage trucks have to pus into a walking mall ing. CFML as a "learning in CFOX. If die next per• generaUy reflects the kind pick-up. Couriers and then the road by the Inglis tool." Being a legally son in Ukes CFML, tiiey'U of air sound you'U find on It's doing the same foi Postal Service need entry. building should be closed licensed and transmitted tune in CFML. If the hundreds of stations today's classes. The Automotive program also. It will make as much signal gives us access to CFOX person comes in throughout western Brian Antonson brings vehicles in and out sense as the present clo• cable FM. Thus, our again, they'U hine it back Canada. We bend things a Associate Dean AND what a bout safety, sure. CFML signal is carried to CFOX and so it wiU go. bit by having a harder Broadcast as for fire truck entry. I have spoken widi stu• throughout the Lower Aggressive lobbying by edge to some of our Communications With some more dents and staff who feel as Mainland cable systems at radio students to have only music, because we are thought and input Goard I do that die blockage is a 104.5 FM, and our stu• CFML played might help, sensitive to the needs of Way would have been left poor decision and serves dents — who are training but I doubt it! In any case, our students and the fact Road closure open, by ordy closing the no useful purpose. This for the real world of mar• each class has ample that some will end up makes no sense newer by-pass road from road closure is following kets much larger dian just opportunity to promote Us• working at stations that English St. to the Square, the usual procedure of the campus of BCIT — tenership across the cam• leaving the Main entrance play this music, but we Goard Way has been "we know what is best." are thus exposed to a pus. Some do this more of BCIT a diroughway. If would be abrogating our closed top try to turn the How aboul a vole so die potential audience well in than others. These days, Goard Way was "one responsibilities as an edu• Square into a pedestrian students and staff can excess of a million per• I'm seeing signs promot• way" to the East past die cation institution if we mall atmosphere. The make suggestions as lo sons. The article makes a ing CFML in various areas Square it would make for were to train our smdents thought or lack of it what is best for campus, comparison to UBC's of the campus. Maybe odi• reasonable access and to operate with a format behind this was most inad• before decisiotis to spoil il campus station CITR ers aren't seeing what I'm sense. that appeals only to the equate as we do not have a are taken. which is licensed as a seeing. core age group that attends satisfactory road system at The Limited access John K. Soutter campus FM station broad• One quote refers to the BCIT, because it simply BCIT and blocking Goard now makes it a real prob• Food Tech Department casting an alternative style "hold" feature on BCIT's does not reflect the vast Way has now made it of programming. Well, telephone lines and says "I audience that is pro• more of a problem. they have a different man• don't see why they play grammed to by diese hun• Shortly after the rains Le't'ters to The Link date and are not associated CFOX or KISS when diey dreds of stations. And of Fall and Winter will with any industry based could by playing CFML." those are the stations in The Link welcomes leuers bul they should be come and students wdl not training activity. We are. I doubt CFOX would which our grads will find under 300 words and submitted on disk as a text file, come out into the Square. make it to die hold signal. work. with an accompanying hard copy, or typed and dou• The article states "hs- Even in the good weather KISS and QM-FM do, and ble spaced. Your full name, affdiation with BCIT tenership is small." One If The Link were to when functions were orga• that's because they play (program and year) and a phone number (which will quote says "Nobody Us• sponsor a proper survey, nized in the area diey were "light, adult contempo• not be printed) should also be included. tens to die bloody station . conducted using standard poorly patronized. The rary" music. There's noth• The Link reserves the right to edit for clarity and . . ." I'm not sure of the statistical methods, it weather situation will last ing on their signals that brevity. source of diis information, might find — as did the 'til may and then one might jar or irritate the but a survey conducted by 1992 experience — that month later students are Send them through campus mail, drop them of at thousands of business peo• second year radio students there are a lot of folks out off campus fro the sum• the SA oflice or push them under our door. (We're ple who are place on hold in 1992 determined just there who listen to CFML mer. working on getting a mail slot for it.)

NOVEMBER 8, 1995 • THE LINK • 5 ENTERTAINMENT - THE LINK Innovative sounil, neither East nor West

byOavId Lai New Music For Asian Instruments, Further East Furtiier West, is the most culturally influ• enced live music I have seen in many years.

CONCERT REVIEW New Music for Asian Instruments Vancouver East Cultural Centre October 20th Presented by Vancouver Pro Musica, groups of musicians — the Gamelan Madu Sari, the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble, the Khac Chi Ensemble and Silk Road — per• Silk RoaitQiuXia He.SMrteyYaaii amazing dexterity, her delicate brane held in the moudi, resulting formed an excellent show. New in fantastic sound effects, resem• works by Kenneth Newly, Paul fingers played the Pi pa with both speed and style. Masterfully bling a wa-peddle for a guitar. Plimley, Randy Raine-Reusch, These soimds are not possible on and Zhuo Rul Shi were per• played by Shirley Yuan, the Erhu(Chinese violin) produced any other form of violin. The formed widi great prestige along Dan T'rung is a suspended bam• with some more exquisite tradi• frequencies that were most extra• ordinary and astovmding. Their boo xylophone, expertly played tional master pieces. Beautiful and with great traditional style, traditional instruments from combined talents captivated pas• sionate new innovations of both producing sounds of water. China, Vietnam and Indonesia The following performance were massaged by the delicate Oriental and Western music. Both members were beautifully featured Randy Raine-Reusch. hands of well-experienced play• He performed a very contempo• ers. dressed in traditional Chong Sam (Chinese dress). rary piece, that was bodi intrigu• Beginning the evening, the ing and spell-binding. His exper• Gamelan Madu Sari was com• Next up was the Khac Chi Ensmble, traditional music from tise on the gu zheng(23 string posed of 12 members, westerners long zither) was captivating to who play traditional music and Vietnam. This group featured! Khac Chi and his lovely wife.? watch. His playing seemed to music written by westerners for take the audience on another Ngoc Bich. Khac Chi, a master eastern instruments. Some of the journey all together. exotic instruments were the gong, of the Dan Bau, played this To explore the cross-cultural gambang(wooden xylophone), amazing one string zither, with differences, the Khac Chi rebab(two string violin), incredible skill and imaginative Ensemble and Silk Road then suling(end-blown bamboo flute), iimovation. jammr^d togedier on a metaphysi• and the kendong(drums). They Ngoc Bich, an eloquent vocal• cal meditative contemporary started with an intricate traditiott- ist, specializes in the Dan Bau piece by Randy Raine-Reusch. al piece, and played again at the and other rare instruments from end of die show, with Bom Again Vietnam. She displayed her tal• Continuing the evenings musi• Needle Dancers, a new piece by ents on the Dan Ko Ni and the cal adventure, the Vancouver Paul Plimley. This was truly a Dan T'rung. The Dan Ko Ni is a Chinese Music Ensemble per• collective effort by all members, unique two string violin, with Uie formed with brilUance and ener• which paid off with mesmerizing players mouth replacing resonat• gy. This five member ensemble beauty. ing chamber. Two pieces of silk played with immaculate precision and beautiful tones. Silk Road, in contrast with the run from the bottom of the Gamelan Madu Sari, are two pro^^ two strings to a This evening widi New Music fessionally trained musicians m e m - For Asian Instruments, was truly from mainland China. Qui Xia unforgettable, exploring and cre• He played the Pi ating understanding between pa(Chinese lute) Eastern and Western cultures. with The unimitable performance captivated the audience with natural melodies that pleased the ears and soodied the soul. I higlily recommend experi• encing these performerj when diey return, for musi• cal nourishment and spiri• tual inspiration.

6 • THE LINK • NOVEMBER 8, 1995 THE LINK. ENTERTAINMEN Panych's um\i urn? Comedy comeif; with sou!

moiliciaii du lhat?" Kemp his lost his job, given up his hfe to be widi her. She's eating "Idee a team• ster" and he's wasting away. He unravels his own past to reveal why he has come to her bedside, rambling over subjects from sex ("WTiile the other boys were teaching each odier lo French ki.ss, 1 look a vow of paralysis - what else was an 11 year old transvestite lo do?") lo Catholicism ("I had no idea miser)' and self-loathing could be a reli• gion.") to rude and funny com• ments about pets, chddren and the postal system. The seasons pass. Summer tums to autumn, autumn to winter (Auntie has started a major knitting pro• ject. Kemp is going crazy.) He examines his relationship with her and begins to by Judy Winter reveal the httle boy inside, then abruptly He marches bacIc and forth across the offers to do her obituary , whittling his stage like Basil Fawlty, long and gawky way down from "You left a legacy of BRAIN RICE PHOTO with his natty suit rucked up under his love" to "You left." armpits. He stops abruptly, blurts out, Spring returns and she's still here. "Yes...well." And he's off again, deliver• Passive euthanasia verges on active, div;n ing a flawless two-act monologue on life, the tide tums and a play wtiich began as love, sex, pets, religion, sex... and the harsh, black humor grows full of warmth, advantages of a quick snuffing over a lin• love and hope. gering death. The set creates an aura of abandonment wid. buckling walls set at an angle, yel• THEATRE REVIEW lowed newspapers covering missing win• ,te understand, Vigil dow panes, a stack of dusty antiques and John pilots us home. We feel good. Arts Club, Revue Stage ashes of roses hghting. Yet in the centre October 26di - November 25di of the stage, on a revolving platform, the quilt-covered bed is clean, soft and invit• Kemp, played by Alan ing. Williams, is a nephew who has When you get lo the heart of VIGIL . been called to his Auntie Il's not a nasty litde comedy ai Grace's bedside for a final all. visit. The aunt(Margaret Barton) is his constant com• panion, a silent observer of his curses, complaints and self-analysis. She sits primly in bed in her cozy flannel nightie and meets even his most brutal suggestions with hardly more than a raised eye• brow. The old lady has two lines to /' deliver during the course of VIGIL yet she manages to draw Ihe audience's compas• sion like a magnet. The trouble is. Auntie isn't dying fast enough. As she careful• ly appUes lipstick to her powder pale lips, Kemp asks, "Why don't you let the

NOVEMBERS, 1995 ' THE LINK • 7 NEWS'THE LINK Elastica: OK... but for the bucks cheated by the length of the by Andrea Cobham of surfing and slam-dancing at the front of the stage especiaUy, show which consisted of songs Due to a persistent friend's but as Justine Frischmann, the from their album and only one encouragement, I found myself lead singer and guitarist even new song (that they announced), at the Elastica concert last remarked, everyone was really especially after paying Ihe Saturday night at "The Rage". I weU behaved. I'm not sure what $18.50 ticket price. think when she first told me she was expecting, but it would The opening band was a about this concert, she forgot to have been neat to find out! group called Loud Lucy who are mention that the group was a currently releasing their first Bridsh punk band, but anyways, I guess I was expecting album entitled Breathe. Their I set out to my first "puiik con• somediing really alternative and sound reminded me of early ; cert" with an open mind. strange, but the people in the audience seemed pretty normal Pearl Jam, and I thought they ] to me and the concert didn't played a fairly good set — | CONCERT RHniW seem aU that different than any despite the intermittent feedback ' len !• rtaht Alison Matmews. Patti Allen and Sheila Moore are three Elastica IncamaUons al one woman's life as a 92-year old looks back. others I had been to. I liked the from the sound system. The Rage soUd sound of Elastica's music Unfortunately, what these guys October 28di — especially the bass which lacked was stage presence. was really prevalent throughout There were long pauses of One woman's look at Elastica is a band made up- aU their songs — and I appreci• silence during some of their primarily of three women and ated the way die band interacted song changes and I have no idea one male drummer who just with the audience and each what the lead singer was trying two former selves released their self-titled first other during the show. They to prove during dieir last num• album this year. My first even managed to keep them• ber. He suddenly began thrash• Directed by Glynis Leyshon, impression of the band was ing around on the floor and by John Schenk selves fairly composed when the play explores the Ufe and * "Hey — they're kinda cool!" bassist Annie Holland slipped smashing his guitar up com• If this is any indication of times of an ailing 92 -year-old I ActuaUy, better make diat my during one of the opening num• pletely out of the blue — I can'l this season's lineup at The woman as reflected in her for- \ second impression. My first bers and baled on the floor — remember the last time I saw Vancouver Playhouse than we're mer selves. Her struggles are ' would have to be LOUD! I got apparently the stage was slip• anything more "rehearsed!" I all in for a teal heat Three Tall with that of what she once was caught up at the front of the pery. have a feeling though, that with Women, the premiere produc• as a youth, a middle-aged stage directly in front of the some more experience, these tion of the season, was brilliant. Unfortunately, Elastica woman and who she is today. speakers as the band was com• guys could go somewhere and I played for only 35 minutes Edward F. Albee, the play• ing on stage and when they fuUy intend to go out and buy THIAIREREVIfW before leaving, but came back to wright, designed the production began to play their opening their CD. Three Tall Women number, I was literally blown a suprisingly forced encore and to reflect aU three women at die Overall 1 thought the whole Vancouver Playhouse off my feel by die bass. (I think played two more songs. I diink same time and on the same show was pretty good and had Oct 19-Nov 11 I'm stiU feeling the vibrations everyone, myself stage. Watching just how ticket pnces been a little less, coursing through my body to included, felt different this woman was, at I'd even consider it a worth• this minute.) pretty different times in her life, while night! his message was clear — As I looked around the what we are cannot deter• club during the show, I mine what we might couldn't help but notice become. Only Ufe, and aU its that diere seemed to be a experiences, can achieve greater number of guys this. Such a storyline at the show than girls. aUowed for there to be both I had wondered earli• humor and sadness in the er how the band same breath. would be received, as diere are so few The cast were nothing mainly female less than seasoned profes• bands out in the sionals. Patti Allan, Alison music scene, Matthews and Sheila Moore but the audi• worked die stage with clear ence really confidence and poise. Each got involved of the actresses held a clear in die music sense of their character's right away personality. However, There together they presented the was lots audience with a uniformed impression of the single main character. Definitely not a simple task. Three TaU Women is a play which can be enjoyed FRIDAY by people of all ages. Though time is running out. MOV. 1 O I suggest taking one night THE COMWOOORB before the 11th and treating

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8 • THE UNK' NOVEMBER 8, 1995 THE UNK' ENTERTAINMEN J

Alcoholic^^^ TourIst >ISK JOHN SchENk

...Lausanne. Turns out Lausanne is I guess you might say I was feehng a buried in the Swiss Alps along the border litde stressed that day. After a hot shower of Lake Geneva — Right On. Huge and a short nap I felt amazing. Lucky for armed forces. His Ufe was AXION FUNK coner, huge haul and I was on my way. me they sold beer downstairs so 1 structured and he followed Funkcronomicon The ride down wasn't anything lo terribly grabbed a Sixer and parked it on the patio others' leads. Shaggy's (Axion) exciting. Basically I boarded the train and oul front. music is the same. His "Wot Da Hell Is Up?!" passed out. When I awoke I was standing You know, if there's one thing that all work was only bearable Funk beats, with universal in a small Swiss village — SHIT, I my travels have shown me il's that a per• when the track was ambient tones. Produced thought. Just how the hell am I gonna rip sonality is one way lo meet people. Beer extremely radio-friendly by Bill LasweU, this fiink it up around this joint. I was Ihe is another. I was meeting a lot of people or more laggamuf&i root• music album is exploring Alcoholic Tourist and this was my vaca• really quick. Il couldn't have been more sy. the farthest corners of tion — I'd find a way. lhan a couple of hours before we had all For genuine dancehall futuristic funkadelia. Damn my backpack was heavier than the patio tables connected, a tonne more jams, check out Beenie Combining fiink and jazz BEENIE MAN a sack of bottled beer (Yeh, hke I'd be beer, and about 15 people all getting Man. If you buy Shaggy's masters, George Clinton, Be«iiie Man carrying that for long), as I walked — smashed. There was 'Dave die American' CD for the catchy Bootsy Collins, Sly Stone, Island JamaicayPolygram YES, I WALKED — to the beach. widi a whiny accent who talked constant• "Boombastic" song, you Maceo Parker, P-Funk Hold on shouts my system, you are a ly about how he was getting married must have money to blow. guitar legend Eddie Hazel, SHAGGY thirsty young man. I went for a beer. Get when he relumed and would like to get (ND) and Herbie Hancock plus Boombastic laid before he does. There was 'Francois many more. This CD this, what the Hell is the obsession diat Virgin the Belgian' who knew more about beer should be in the player at the Swiss have widi Ping-Pong. Forget it than about life. There was 'Sweetcheeks all times for progressive — I'll get to diat later. Following the steps of and her pal', two Aussies who gave even funkadelic enthusiasts. So anywho, there 1 am at the beach dancehall artists like me a run for my money when it came to This is a double CD hungover, sweaty, tired, dirty, thirsty and Shabba Ranks, Chaka drinking — Don't worry, I'm the one album, featuring a total of with a headache the size of a '78 Demus and Pliers, and who's here writing Ihe article. Plus a 16 tracks — about 93 min• Thunderbird (?). I slam down my pack, Snow, we have two new whole ragtag of other characters, too utes —, some instrumental unzip (the sleeping bag), and dive for the releases from Beenie Man many to mentiorL and others lyrically first time into Lake Geneva. DISGUST• and Shaggy looking for fiinked. ING is one of several words I used! OUT OF BEER?! That's not funny! our attention. Yes ~ they Sure enough we were but 1 assure you not CD 1 blasts off with You'd be better off to bathe in a grease fall under the same musi• for long. I can't remember the name of Order In The Universe, a trap than in diis bloody place. I always cal category. No - they the bar but what I do remember are the favorite of mine, and trav• had this vision of the majestic, Perrier couldn't approach it more induced, free flowing mineral wanna be concrete, yes that means permanent, DOUG E. FRESH els through the multi- differenUy. mountains of Switzerland — what a Ping-Pong tables. Give me a break, Play dimensions of funkicidal Judging by Beenie bloody disappointment. Well enough of what's with dial? Anyhow, it gets pretty Gee Street/PolyOram cosmology. Strong pulsing Man's CD cover, Usteneis crazy from here. After a few rounds of p- bass vibrations fill tbe this I thought. I have to get a place lo should expect a take-me- crash and a dozen beers — that's exactly ball, and a few more brews, I found Doug E. Fresh goes spaces with an array of as-I-am approach to his what I did. myself getting more of Lake Geneva dian back. He and Slick Rick other instruments, hke the music. Expectations met. There was one Youth Hostel and there I bargained for. Simply put when you came out with The Show turntable, Hammond Firstly, his Jamaican- was one room. Buddy who worked the have about six really drunk travelers, approximately ten years Organ, congas, violin, gui• accent was so strong he desk A.K.A. 'King Larry of the Swiss none of whom know each other, and one ago. The song is consid• tars, saxophones, trumpet, would make Olajuwon feel Alps' possessed a mondo jerk complex. gets a crazy idea to go for a swim in Ihe ered one of the bricks that tuba, and cowbells plus like "Big Country" Mess with The Alcoholic Tourist — a buff (My idea — noooo), well you know. built the house of rap. The samples and more. Reeves. Knowing this, I warrior trained al the Link's private insti• Damned was it cold! song was an invitation to TTiis is truly the border• didn't feel so bad and tution for the insane and impoverished — The next moming I was not only hung party Brooklyn style. line between the reality of began focusing on the a man who can build furniture from Kraft over, tired and freezing from the night Where is my ghetto what should be and what music itself. The produc• dinner (that has already been chewed), a before but I was having a sort of cultural• blaster? Doug E. Fresh and could be. Bill LasweU has tion work is uncompro• knight who has slain the attitude and self ly bizarre day. 1 guess you could say that company created a song so done it again, combining mising all but forcing you respect of Jeffy boy (insider's joke) — 1 warned to do somediing besides drink seemingly unstructured some of the grand masters to flex your hips and bob Just try me Chico! Here's how it went; beer (well it was 8 am) so I figured I'd go aiKl made it sound so flaw• of sound and style. Think your head to one of the "Hey, got a room?" to a museum or somediing. I strapped on lessly arranged. I don't and act now. Funk or programmed drum loops "Yip". my sliebooues and sel oul for... know how he did it. It was flunk. In Ihe words of Sir against will. "Excellent". the shit. (Paul , if this lan• Ueb of FunkadeUa, "Free Looking at Shaggy's guage seems to vulgar, Your Mind and Watch CD cover, listeners should substitute: It was da Your Ass, B-4 All This expect easy-going- bomb.) II still is. Comes To Pass". (DL) crossover-pop. Expectations met. Before He wants to bring you Shaggy became a per• back in Ihe day with his former, he was in the curreni release Play. Doug E. Fresh tries hard to get his groove on. In the end, diis CD came off tired and predictable. It leads me to believe lhat this will be the last time we hear from him. Il ^^^^^^^ makes me sad knowing he has created better work in the past. II makes me sad. (ND)

NOVEMBER 8, 1995 • THE LINK • 9: THE ENVIRONMENT i

Are you "Banerv-Safe"? Energy and Environment:

m Greg Helten Duracell and In the 1990's peo• Eveready, offer Doing the saving at home ple use batteries fair environmental safety and a far more than ever down your ther• superior perfor• byUriZisKind before, because we mostats at bedtime mance in most Canadians use more energy have more devices and when no one is appUcations com• per capita than any other people and more portabihty. home. Lowering the pared to zinc car• in the world, and the third According to thermostat just five bon batteries. biggest energy hog is the single Everyready Canada's degrees can add up LiUiium batteries famUy home. There is a lot diat marketing director to a 14 per cent are the most envi• you as an individual can do to Jay Pohl, the house• reduction in energy ronment-friendly, spare the environment, increase hold battery market — consumption. in Canada grew by almost nine but more expen• comfort and at the same time cut 3. Reduce your hot per cent over the last year sive choice. your energy bills. We can cut water demands. A alone. Pohl said the Walkman 3/ Whichever batteries you energy consumption by 20 to 30 quick, hot shower is still the number one driving use, don't mix new batteries per cent and resultant environ• uses a lot less water force in the battery market. with old. The new batteries mental damage by employing and energy that a Citing an Everyready study, try to recharge die old ones simple letrofit measures. bath in a full tub. Pohl said that last year in and their hfe is cut signifi• 1. Seal air leaks, add insulation Minimize runring Canada 111.4 million batteries cantly as a result. and upgrade your windows. The hot water while were sold with 81 per cent of 4/ Most importantly, DON'T key steps are caulking and doing chores in the households buying 13.4 batter• THROW USED HOUSE• weather-stripping all the spots kitchen. When you ies per buyer. HOLD BATTERIES INTO where warm air escapes. Check need a basin fiiU of THE GARBAGE. Store and the air leaking sites: basement This poses a huge problem warm water, plug then safely dispose of them. siU plate, exterior electrical out• for the environment. Nfany bat• the sink first and Landfills aren't designed to lets, windows, pipe and wire teries contain hazardous mate• dien add hot to cold cope with hazardous materi• entrances, vents, attic hatches, water cycle, but it uses a third rials, including cadmium and als, and incineration puts doors, and fireplaces. rather than adding cold to hot. less energy. Avoid partial loads mercury, two well-known dangerous toxics into the air 4. You can save energy substan• and clean the Unt filter between toxic elements. About a third 2. Acquire a habit of turning — the same air you breath. tially by managing tietter your loads. of world cadmium consump• This is the case here in appliances. Always load and 7. Lighting: Choose fluorescent tion goes into batteries. Burnaby, because a large unload a fridge as fast as you and halogen lamps over tradi• Surprisingly, according to Recycling portion of our waste is can, so that a minimum of cold tional lighting. This will save Pohl, rechargeable batteries incinerated. air escapes. Defrost regularly as you lots of money as energy u.se pose the greatest environmen• cans is big, it cuts die operation costs, due to is substantially decrease. Use tal risk when thrown away, buildup of frost. Adjust your ordy as much Ught as you need because they contain more Where to bring used house• fridge to the most energy effi• for ttie purpose. Save die bright cadmium, a know cancer-caus• hold batteries: green, cient diree degrees Celsius and - lamps for reading or working. ing agent, than non-recharge- Drop them off at BCIT's 18 degrees for freezers. Turn lights off as soon as you ables. On the other hand, using central stores any TNT loca• husiness Vacuum the cooling coils at die are not using them. Keep all rechargeables reduces the tion. They have special collec• back of the fridge at least twice a bulbs and lampshades clean. The number of batteries you throw tion buckets that are picked up Up to 100 billion beverage year, as grime can lower effi• grubbier they get, the less light away. Rechargeable batteries by Bumaby municipal staff. cans are used in North America ciency. they emit. can be recharged as many as OR you can drop them off at every year, according to Craig 5. In cooking, use the right sized 500 times, and although more A&B Sound; Black's Camera So think of all that money Foster from Wastech Services pots and as litde water as possi• expensive to buy, recharge• and Photomaster's in the you can save and instead use il Ltd. Recycling programs capmre ble. Don't preheat your oven, ables work out to be cheaper in Brentwood Mall; Burnaby for entertainment, travel and 64.7 billion cans, which are unless necessary and then only die long run. General Hospital; Blacks other fine things in life. This melted down at 18 beverage can for about 10 minutes. Try to Camera and Japan Camera in way you wdl also help our envi• recycling plants. (In Canada, six cook several dishes at a time. Eaton's Centre; Fire Hall ronment and at the same time So what can you do? billion cans are recycled each Turn off the oven a few minutes Number One on Sperling off year). Recychng returns about 1 improve your health and your 1/ Use plug-in power rather early and let the trapped heat fin• quality of life. than batteries whenever Canada Way; at the Bay, billion tonnes of metal to the ish the cooking. Coastal Sound, Shopper's resource loop. possible. Manufacturing 6. Laundry: a warm wash cycle Drugmart, Japan Camera, batteries can take 50 times Recycling cans is good for get clothes just as clean as a hot more energy than they pro• Grand & Toy, and the environment too. You can duce. Photomasters in the Lougheed make 20 cans out of recycled 2/ Pick die most suitable to die Mall; Save-On Foods and the material wiUi the same energy it appliance you're using. administration office at Station takes to make one can out of Alkaline manganese batter• Square, and finaUy, at die StiU new material. Recycling one alu• ies, made by companies hke Creek Depot. minum can saves enough energy to run a TV for four hours. At BCIT, we recycled over 75,000 pop cans last year. The Call the money goes to die SA's Student WANT TO MAKE YOUR MARK? Student Association's Assistance Fund for students in need. Keep on recycling! VOLUNTEER FOR THE S.A.'s Enviro-Line (Editor's Note: Don't forget to go ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAM. 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Boston Celtics: With with Oliver Miller Dana Barros, Pervis and company. They Ellison and Eric NBA Preview might surprise us all. Montross they have Sao Antonio Spurs: Life at the gallop; something to build on With a centre like — but not with coach David Robinson a Link interuiew with a top jockey M.L. Carr. they'll be OK but loosing Dennis Rodman Orlando IWagic: With Shaq at 330 lbs, will kill unless the forward power commit• the ever improving Penny Hardaway and tee (Will Perdue. Brad Lohaus. Carl by Ryan Deyone more depth behind them look for the Herrea. J.R. Reid and Terry Cummings) Jockeys may be the best unknown ath• Magic deep in the playoffs again. can step up. letes in the world Philadelphia 76ers: Losing Dana Barros Houston Rockets: The returning champs They rarely get any credit for their woik hurt this team, but with Stackhouse, are set with the addition of veteran power and more times than not they are blamed for Dumas and Weatherspoon they'll win forward Marie Bryant. He can plug in both the outcome of a lost race. some games. No playoffs unless Shawn forward and centre, and with the rest of Jockeys spend nearly seven days a week Bradley plays like a real NBA centre. the crew re-signing they "three-peat". masteiing their trade in hopes of becoming a New Jersey Nets: With no real centre and Utah Jazz: Greg Ostertag may be the champion jockey. Derrick Coleman's attitude — and bad steal of the draft. Witli Ostertag in tandem It's a tough road as they have to be of a heart — the nets will straggle like the 94 - with Felton Spenser at centre. Karl very light weight with the average being 95 CUppers. Malone. John Stockton, Jeff Homacek and between 105 and 120 pounds. Some riders New York Knicks: Adding Don Nelson now Chris Morris one can expect the play• are fortunate enough to be this weight natu• as coach is good but can they play his md• offs — but an early exit. rally, but most aie not. It is so important to lion miles per hour offense and stay Denver Nuggets: The Nuggets arc stacked this year with the addition of maintain their weight that some flirt with healthy? Where's the bench? rookie Antonio McDyess and the old crew eating disorders from not eating, sitting in Miami Heat; Bringing in Riley will of Mutumbo and Abdul Rauf. These guys 150 degree temperatures to sweat off weight improve the Heat and spaik for that pretty drab offense with the addition of Rex could be some real danger. and always watching what they consume. Chapman and Euro import Pedrag Dallas Mavericks: An up and coming After all this they still have to have the team with the three J's: Jim Jackson, track and started working horses and from Danlovic. Playoffs maybe? strength to control a 1100 pound racehorse. Jamal Mashburn, and Jason Kidd. The there I started riding in races. Washington Bullets: The Bullets are starting to to get the pices together with Mavs have added Cherokee Parks. Loren Link: What would be a day's work for die deal that brought Mark Price. If they Meyer, veteran point guard Scott Brooks Imagine riding a racehorse at 45 to 65 you? didn't listen to the older and wiser Scott and power forward Lorenzo Williiuns in miles per hour — with nine other jockeys Skiles last year why listen to Price? the mix. Playoffs are inevitable. and horses doing the same thing — and then Wilson: A day of work would consist of get• Indiana Pacers: The Pacers basically Minnesota Tlmberwolves: With Laetner. bang! 'Vour horse falls and you hit three ting up at 4:45 am, heading to the dack and stood pat over the otf season which could Rider. Doug West and Terry Porter die T- inches of diit at 60 mUes per hour and still find as many horses to get on as possible — hurt them with others improving. But Wolves have some good players. Gugiiota have to get out of the way of die oncoming which roughly consists of eight to twelve Larry Brown is a crafty coach with some• and Sam Mitchell will help but they will horses. Injuries can never be foreseen, but horses per day. Then I walk around and do thing up his sleeve. struggle until Kevin McHale becon;c.N- unfortunately the dangers of the sport has pubhc relations work. And if there are races Charlotte Hornets: The trade to get coach. Watch out. been the cause of lost lives for some and I go back in the afternoon or evening and Kendall Gill was a good move as Hersey Vacouver Grizzlies: The Grizzlies have paralysis for others. ride. Hawkins never fitted the Hornets' offense some good players in Benjamin, Scoti. and with Zo, Muggsy and Grand Mama Blue Edwards and Antonio Harvey but Link: How do you keep the motivation look for the Hornets lo make some noise. they hav-e a new head coach ajid a bunch going? Look for rookie George Zidek to make a of guys who couldn't score 20 points in a Dave Wilson is die champion jockey at Wilson: The drive to win is the main moti• big splash. night in an empty gym. Vancouver's Hastings Paik Racecourse. vation because you have to work hard to get Chicago Bulls: The Bulls are the team to Seattle Sonics: The Sonics have lots of those mounts. So the harder you wo± in the beat now they have rebounding star and pluses: Kemp. Schrempf amd now The Link: How did you become a jockey Hershey Hawkins. Most of all, Sonics gol moming the more it pays off in the after• funny haired Dennis Rodman to comple• and was it difficult pursuing it? a blue collar woricer to do the rebounding noon. ment the styles of Kucoc, Jordan and Pippen, and defensive work that no one wanted to Dave Wilson: 1 started off with a trainer Link: What is it like for a jockey financial• Cleveland Cavaliers: The Cavs traded do — Frank Brickowski. named Frank Barroby — walking horses to ly? their most consistant inside player for Dan LA Lakers: Armed with Nick Van Exel. cleaning stalls. I went to the faim and start• Majerle and a stiff, and their starling point Eldcn Campbell, Valde Divac and Cedric ed exercising horses. Then I went to the Wilson: You can make money if you work guard Mark Price for a future first round Cebailos, 94-95 coach of the year Del hard, sure there are struggling riders but if draft pick. Wilh the additions of Bob Sura Harris and Corrie Blount from the Bulls you have confidence and try your best you from Ihe University of Florida.and Harold will get back into showtime. can make a good living. Miner the Cavs will be a litUe more excit• Phoenix Suns: The addition of "Hot Fraser River ing but not any better unless Daugheity's Rod" Williams will further help the Suns Link: What are the highs and lows of your back is back. dominate the court as will a healthy jockey career? Manning and Barkley. Atlanta Hawks: The Hawks have been champion to Golden State Warriors: With Catling. Wilson: The lows have been the suspensions playing well in preseason but have many MuUin, Sprewell and Hardaway. plus question marks on the front line as Grant I received for failure to keep a straight rookie Joe Smith this team will keep the speal( at BCIT Long is the only Hue player al the power course in a race but when these animals are a show on the road. The problem is for forward position. The backcourt is set Finn Donnelly, the young, champion strong as they are it's tough to always keep coach Adleman; how is he going to spread however. swimmer who braved a 1325 kilometer them straight. Some of the best moments his minutes around? Milwaukee Bucs: With Glen Robinson, swim down the Fraser River for three weeks have been winning stakes races — a couple Vin Baker and now rookie Shawn Respert Sacremento Kings: It is hard lo down in September will be coming to BCIT to of $100,000 races) and winning five races in look for something this year. Except cen• play some of the Kings' talented young• give a one-hour talk and shde show on his a day but the best moment was when I won the Sovereign Award as die most outstand• tre there are no holes.. sters —but trading Spudd Webb or adventure. Detroit Pistons: Wilh co.ich Collins and Brickowski? ing apprentice rider in Canada. He was accompanied by a number of peo• company the Pistons have a chance lo do Portland Trailblazers: The Blazers are ple including some excellent photographers. Link: What would your words of advice alright tliis year with Thorpe, Dumars, rebounding big :mie adding Rnndolph The show promises to be visually stunning, be to any aspiring jockeys? Houstopn amd some rookies they could Childeress, Dononio Wingficid, aiul as well as inspiring. It was a great undertak• just surprise us. European star Arvidas Sabonis. ing that did a lot to increase awareness of Wilson: To be patient. Be quiet, listen to Toronto Raptors: Isi.->h Thomas h.is put LA Clippers: they may not be a very tal• die problems that plague the Fraser. what the older riders have to say to you. as together a good mix of players and if they ented team but they hustle and try hard aiJ The event is sponsored by Staff Social they will generally give you information that play hard they'll win iheir share. The B.J. the time. Rodney Rogers help after last Qub and die BCIT Staff Society. It's open will do nothing but help your career. If you Armstrong deal to the Warriors was a steal year's dismal season. to staff and students. Wednesday, don't Usten they won't help and you won't as Carlos Rogers will be good. Alvin November 22 12:30-1:30 in SW 1205. get any better. Rotjertson returns after a year hiatus and •

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