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Page 2 Dalnousle Gazette Thursday January II Reagan re-elected John Lennon's murder Andy Warhol died Garfield media bullshit clearcutting e w s Labour Board called in CKDU fires sales manager by Sandy MacKay individually, but he made it clear manager of SUB operations. that he was not open to any assist Shields says the station has On December 15, fifteen min ance. There was a dramatic already started looking for a ·new utes after the draw for the Mazda decline in on-air sponsorship sales manager, as well as a new Miata, CKDU's station manager during the raffle," said Shields. programming manager. Pro fired Sales Manager Steve Balyi Balyi admitted ad revenues had gram Manager Lex Gigeroff has from his job. dropped while he was promoting submitted his resignation, Station Manager Paul Shileds the draw, but he felt the amount although his departure has said that Balyi's dismissal was not of money the station was pulling nothing to do with Balyi's a direct result of any problem in from ticket sales more than dismissal. with CKDU's draw, but due to an compensated for the lack of ad Although Shields is confident ongoing performance problem. revenues. he had just cause in dismissing Balyi has asked the labour board "There was a dramatic decline Balyi, he said "We're glad it's up to look into his dismissal, and is in ad sales, but they never went before Labour Canada now, seeking legal counsel. An enquiry below the level they were at when because they'll be able to give us is pending. I started working at CKDU. We an objective decision whether or "He was let go for four reasons: were making $1700 a day from the not our cause was just." incompetence, dereliction of draw, and that's a lot more than Balyi feels the real reason for duties, deliberate attempts to we make in a week of normal ad his dismissal was not incompe misrepresent CKDU to our sales." As well as increased tence and poor performance. "I clients and, finally, for insubordi revenue, Balyi felt his efforts on had the audacity to stand up and nation to the station manager and the draw raised CKDU's profile complain, to stand up for my to the board of directors," said in the community "and that is rights. The idea is that once Shields. worth more than any money." you're an employee there, you Balyi feels he was wrongfully Both Balyi and Shields said forfeit your legal and civil rights, dismissed. "When I came here 20 CKDU sold about $50,000 worth and that's bullshit. I don't know months ago, CKDU had no of tickets, and expect to have 30 exactly what I'm going to do records of their sales," said Balyi. per cent of that total in profits. now. I don't want to do anything "I developed a concept of the sta Balyi feels CKDU's treatment precipitous." tion for the business community, of him was too harsh. He was to the point where it was no banned from the radio station, Through the haze of accusa longer considered a 'kiddie radio and the rest of the Student Union tions and misinformation that Check your numbers kids! station'." Balyi claims to have Building. "I was banned not only surround the affair, both Balyi The winning numbers for CKDU's raffle are: raised the sales record of CKDU from the station, but from the and Shields admit the whole lst prize, Mazda Miata: 02701 143 per cent in his first twelve conselling offices, from the cha thing could have been dealt with 2nd prize, Zenith Laptop Computer: 04037 months on the job. plain's office, from the cafeteria differently. CKDU will be hold 3rd prize, a Long Weekend in the Big Apple: 21312 Shields said part of the prob and from the unemployment ing a meeting for staff and volun 4th prize, a year's supply of Coke: 00078 lem was the drop in ad revenues office as well," said Balyi. teers soon to answer questions Only the fourth prize has been claimed so far, so search through during the draw. The complete ban from the and to see if the volunteers have the pockets of your coats for that ticket. You could be a big winner "My feeling is that he took on SUB is going to be lifted soon, any concerns dealing with this (or maybe just a big weiner). more work than he could manage according to Steve Gaetz, general case. Workers' voices get national exposure by Padraic Brake back in the morning," said tment to an Issue at the First McKiggan. Atlantic Film Festival in 1981. HALIFAX (CUP) - A film that After the lockout, McKiggan Burger and McKiggan went had it's funding cut by the said, the producers formed the back to the late nights at the film National Film Board half way Fish or Cut Bait Collective to board to update the film to through it's production phase make sure the film was finished. include the 1980 province-wide will be shown on Vision Televi Gene Barrett, a professor in the strike by inshore fisherman in sion on January 17 .. department of sociology at Saint Newfoundland to change the 400- Fish or Cut Bait chronicles the Mary's University, has written of year-old system of fish merchant struggle by inshore fishermen to Fish or Cut Bait: "I can say exploitation. unionize and the Maritime unequivocally that this film fills In March, 1989 the producers Fisherman's Union fight for col an important gap in the provin completed the extended version. lective bargaining rights. It was ce's social and labour history. In Copies of the film were bought by produced by Bill McKiggan and what I see to be a trend to roman all of the Maritime provinces Tom Burger. ticize the formation of the union, boards of education and "This film is the first ever this film offers a much needed universities-.. which gives the inshore fisher dose of realism." In September, 1989 the Fish or men their own voice to say what The first version of the film was Cut Bait Collective asked the happened," said McKiggan. completed in February, 1981 and local CBC affiliate to show the In 1980 the National Film includes footage of the sixty-day film but their request was denied. Board cut off funding mid-way Lockeport Lockout, 1939, the Saleem Ahmed, director of tele through production after view Canso Strike, 1970, and the tear vision for CBHT in Halifax, said, ing the rough cut of the film. The gassing of over 200 men, women "The Fish or Cut Bait program Board claimed the film had "no and children by the RCMP dur does not meet the CBC Journalis ing the peaceful Caraquet, N.B., tic Policy guidelines." heart and no soul" according to McKiggan said, "The CBC and demonstrations of 1978. McKiggan. NFB are in collusion with multi McKiggan's unwillingness to The filmmakers do not attempt nationals to control the sea, but change the focus of the film to glorify the union leaders or the we are still hopeful that they will landed. him and Burger on the struggle. They use the people that air the program so that as many marched, starved and were gassed E.Rit::A PAR..C <() lllClO streets after the NFB refused them people as possible can view the to tell the story of the formation access to editing equipment. film." "We ended up sneaking iH of the Maritime Fisherman's The Fish or Cut Bait Collective through the bathroom window Union and the fight for bargain is planning a demonstration on for two weeks after everyone had ing rights. January 16 at 11:00 am outside gone home for the night and Fish or Cut Bait won an award the CBHT offices to demand that clearing out before they came for Uncompromised Commit- they air the program. menudo US embargo on Nicaragua sinking of Rainbow Warrior California Raisins Nato flights in Labrador Thursday January 11 Dalhousie Gazette Page 3 n e w s Equity Officer to tackle the monolith by Jeff Harrington ular. Between 1984 and 1989, an faculty distribution within the Law, which appoints women tration is "in the process of average of 29 per cent of faculty Dalhousie Faculty Association unless a man is "substantially finalizing a response" to the Dalhousie will soon be on the appointments were women. show poor female representation more qualified." No men have recommendations of the MacKay prowl for someone to supervise "I think that, as a whole, the (at the level of professor and asso been appointed since the 1986-7 task force. Clark said Tuesday the implementation of its long process has been weak.," said Bar ciate professor) in the Humani year. that he met this week with overdue new affirmative action bara Harris, Dal's new status-of ties (15 per cent), Management Dal does not keep figures on members of the black and Mic policy. women coordinator, on Monday. Studies (6.8 per cent), Law (14.3 the number of visible minority or Mac communities, including the The task of the new "Employ "Just the results are monitored. per cent) and Preclinical Medi disabled faculty. Black Canadian Students Associ ment Equity Officer" is to The only time you can express cine (11.9 per cent). Outside the "There are certainly not very ation and the Dalhousie Univer "reverse the historic under disagreement is at the end, which bargaining unit, the figures (at many indigenous blacks (in the sity Aboriginal Students representation on Dalhousie's is problematic," she said. the professor level) are even worse faculty), and there are absolutely Association. Clark said that, fol faculty and staff of women, abo While a number of depart (Humanities- 0 per cent, Science- zero MicMacs," said law profes lowing more consultations, "we riginal peoples, visible minori ments, such as Nursing, Dental 0 per cent, Management Studies- sor Wayne Mackay Tuesday. will immediately put measures in ties and the disabled." Hygeine, and Social Work are 0 per cent, Dentistry - 0 per cent, MacKay chaired a task force place to deal with these issues." Whoever gets the job has a hell exempt from the "reporting and Clinical Medicine - 1.9 per last year on Dalhousie's accessi The new affirmative action of a lot of work to do. procedure" because more than cent). bility to minorities, especially policy pledges "fulfillment of Dal has had a "policy for half their faculty members are Since 1987, the percentage of indigenous Nova Scotian blacks employment equity ... in all increasing the proportion of female, other departments are women appointed in these areas and MicMacs. aspects and all levels of employm female faculty" since 1983, but its chronically male. The most has remained low, with the nota According to Dalhousie Presi ment." But, as the new Employ impact has been less than spectac- recent (December 1987)figureson ble exception of the Faculty of dent Howard Clark, the adminis- ment Equity Officer surveys the administrative pyramid, he or she may well heave a sigh of discouragement. December 1987 figures on the A MESSAGE TO ALL distribution of administrative positions by gender show that, excluding the (highest) positions of vice-presidents, deans and GRADUATES , _ administrative directors, 58.5 per cen1 of administrators were women. (There are nine classes of administrators below these posi tions.) However, 78 percent of the adminstrators considered "below gare P.~~~~~m PRESENTS mid-range" (level 5) were women, while 61 per cent of administra lors "above middle range" were A Review of Memorable Moments men. Ten of 11 level 8 adminstra tors were men and all seven of 1he "rth (unbeknownst to you) top-paying level 9 administrators • Life's most important mom~nt - Bl r vir inity (unbeknownst to Mom) ($53,528) were men. Dalhousie does not monitor • The most memorable- Lo~mgJ;~ sch~ol (despite your hormones) adminislrative hiring, or the dis • Biggest surprise- Gra~uatl~~ (~espite your bank account) tribution of minorities or the dis abled in 1he administrtion. • Most challenging - Umver~l y a (despite the hangover) In the upper echelons, the • Most significant - Graduaton ~ar~iage (despite statistics) I ·ghts) employment equity officer·could • Most satisfying tor Paren ~ - newborn (despite the sleep ess m have ei1her a heyday or a nighl • Most touching moment - our . mare. Every senior administra tive position (president, VPs, . . forever in your collective deans, registrar) is held by a man, ll these moments will hve ith Mom - 0 with the exception of the regis trar, Gudrun Curri. ~~~!~~:s~ 8~~~~: those mo;n;":::~~ :::;!:~ ~'::=d~, will capture your "There are no female deans, no· Garey Prldham, the You~~ to :e reflected upon tor years to come vice-presidents," said Harris. "In terms of academic admin most Memorable Momen TRAIT FOR STARTERS stration, there are no women, no blacks, or other minorities. When YOUR GRADUATION POR you look around, you see faces that are male, faces that are rin s an artist's eye tor lighting and ~r~=~~~~=e while," she said. "At 1he present time, 1hat is To each sitting, Garey b p~de in his work has kept G~~~TION true," said President Clark. Clark of subject. For 21 yedars_, ing talent guarantees a G_RA said he has searches underway to - ach His awar -wm .ll be pleased w1th! fill two deans' positions. that the Visit Garey "II is certainly my hope that at ~ci~~RAIT mostsc~~~~~ ~~BELIEVING! Pridh:~ow least one of the positions (will be As Ripley always sald,r le St. And see what he has done tor your filled by someone who is not a white male). But it's really in the Photography at 1586 A gy TTING APPOINTMENT' it's hands of the selections commit Grads. 03 tor a GRADUATION Sl knows she deserves tee," he said. The MacKay task force has Or just ca5l~ 42~~~ur Mom wm love you !~r lt. ~~~Y aU that she'll see of recommended that 1he Board of only $11. an . ey can buy ... Its pro " Governors include blacks and the best Grad Portrait mon d r books, classes and papers.. . MicMacs. At present, there are 17 you once you're out trom un e women, one black and no Mic Macs on the board, which has 53 members and one vancancy. 902 422 9103 Clark said he hopes to begin 1586 argyle street advertising for applicants for the
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Page 4 D•lhouale -GueHe Thursday January 11 John Buchanan shit in Halifax harbour phobias, phobias phobias Salvador Dali died Samuel Beckett died e w Test base being built U.S. itching to' claim Arctic sub shortcut by Eleanor Brown claim. mental groups tried unsuccess A nuclear accident in Dixon such as the Russians (have),'' she " There wasn't any logic fully to stop construction of the Entrance, just north of the Queen said. OTTAWA (CUP)- The United behind the arrest and seizure of base in November. Charlo!!e Islands, would put In 1985, the U .S. Navy released States seized two Canadian fish trawlers in Canadian waters," A Washington newspaper 38,000 B.C. residents at risk, said a list of accidents involving its ing trawlers this summer to lay Ful!on's aide David Garrick said. recently quoted unnamed sources Ful!on, who is the NDP environ nuclear weapons since 1965. claim to a 20-kilomerre strip of " There's lots of resources saying the Navy was referring to ment critic. There were an average of 30 a water it wants as a shortcut to under there that are certainly the Sea wolf. It said the navy needs It is U.S. Navy policy to neither year. Alaska for nuclear auack subma worth protecting, or trying to a site far enough away from the confirm nor deny the presence of And, in November, the U.S. rines, an NDP politician is make a grab for," he added. "But "noise" of civilizasrion to rest the nuclear missiles aboard their navy ordered an unprecedented charging. it's nor logical, going across a ul!ra-quier Seawolf properly. craft. 48-hour halt in operations for all Jim Ful!on says the subma friendly border. There must be In a recent interview, American External Affairs public rela vessels. rines will use the shortcut another reason." navy Senior Chief Gene Romano tions officer Patricia Low-Bedard " We've had this recent rash of through British Columbia to get While the U.S. navy has not said the Alaska site "would also said the Canadian governmet accidents which makes me say, 'Is to a testing base now under con confirmed that it will rest the Sea- be capable of testing anack sub isn't worried about a nuclear acci there something we're overlook struction in Alaska. marines," but he refused to com dent in Alaska. ing? Are people gelling careless?' The $35 million base will do ment further. "There is a system of port visits It's our responsibility to take a sound testing on nuclear In November, U.S. District where Canadian authorities can careful look," said Admiral Carli powered and nuclear-armed Tri Court Judge Joyce Green ruled board and satisfy safety measures sle Trost, chief of U.S. naval dent ballistic missile submarines that the navy may have violated (are being met) ... but the Ameri operations. and, critics charge, the Seawolf U .S. environmental protection can safety record is excellent. As of mid-November, 101 peo 'sreal!h' auack submarine laws and scheduled further hear They haven't had an accident ple had died this year in U.S. navy accidents. At $1.7 billion per vessel, the 0 ings, al!hough she did not stop with a nuclear powered vessel Seawolf is expected to be the most 0 the base's construction. 0 sophisticated and silent subma The Foundation on Economic <• ~tt 11~ iii iii iii" i i .,i"l Trends, acoaliri:m offivegroups, C.·····<• ···········--~ ············ •> rine ever. In wartime, the subs are <• ett#l. c;.a.t ., to arrack the Soviet navy, ro keep wants a permanent injunction the seas open for U.S. troop trans wolf at the Behm Canal base, it against the base. ~: --li ~!I!IJ()--Paas-/G()--Pd 11-- :; port to Europe and Asia. told a U.S. District Court judge it The base's opponents include <• LV •> needed the base " to measure the the Tongass Indian tribe, sport The base, to be completed m
Bill Vander Zalm BMWs Royal Weddings bobby sands Gretzky Great Lakes water theft program short hair Thursday January I I Dalhousie Gazette Page 5 w s Unbleached is the best buy CUP Briefs Dioxins, a chemical family info rhe air, ro evenrually fall on and have even appeared in breasr wirh 75 members, are some of rhe wafer and soil. milk. mosr lerhal poisons ever creared. Many paper companies are Buy unbleached paper pro Qay Game• given go loreItt Even small amounrs can rrigger a changing rheir processes, bur ducts whenever you have the wide range of heahh effecrs, dioxins are srill pervasive. They chance. A demand creared by you, by Rkk Hiebert including supression of rhe are in all bleached (whire) paper the concerned consumer, could VANCOUVER {CUt>} - The Vniversity of British Coh,tmbi~'s stu .immune sysrem and binh defecrs. producrs, such as paper rowels, make a difference ro the paper dent CQunc;il .has thwwn its support behind the l990 Cay Games • The growing dioxin conramina-• wriring paper and paper napkins. industry. The cound l v6ted.22 td tw() to welcome the games in tesPQnset<> ads rion of rhe environmenr has con Ahhough Canadian law bans from Pollution Probe Foundation plaooj in local daili~ by ~ local Chdsdan leaders denQundng the cerned Nonh American scienrisrs any dioxin residues in food a! all, reprinted with permission gam~- :Eight oouncill.ors: abl\tained. since 1980. rhey recenrly showed up in card "lthou~t with an ilie.,l'legat,ive pttblicity tqe~~~;j' Gantes have been Found in rhe effluenrs from rhe board milk conrainers and in rhe receivQJ-g. it was ntlctsliatY f()r the sttJdent C9J.ln<:tl at Ul«; to strongly papermaking process, dioxins milk inside rhem. Residues are wd(Q:ftle tht;: gay romm.u~hY to ~;;am~us," said ro1.1ncll aetutive conraminare rivers and lakes; gar commonly found ar low levels in EE Officer Van~ Gearyi ·; bage incinerarors release rhem fruir, meal. eggs and vegerables, Th¢ university rejected ~ ptoposal to bring tM games to UBC in continued from page 4 nex1 week. He said preference Sept~ber 198ft . { FoiJQWtng rhe d«ision. IJBC ~idenl David Sttangway sasid the HEY! Wanna have fun and not wake up wirh a headache? Come will be given to someone from ttniversity .should not "haye an infotm~l ident i ry with ap issue of such apply for a Gazelle staff position. These exciting jobs, among Dalhousie, but thar it may be orhers, are open: necessary to advertise elsewhere. c:onttoversy' '. Bqt the bOard reversed its decision :in january l989. The affirmative action policy SQme stw;l~ O)u:nclUots l'tgt"eed with mol ion. but ~sid dw rouncil News Co-ordinator stipulates rhe employmenr equity officer must be a visible minority, wasn't the be$t gt()pp .to deal with the is$ue. Production Manager an aboriginal person, a woman or ''It's out of our lllandatef althou~ if's. cenainly <>f a .amcem to disabled. university stud~nt ~riups-,;t S<:i~nce stud~t rormcllrep 1\.ti GiJligson said. "We sh()Uld pt TORONTO (CtJf} ...... Students and ;faculty at the University of 'l'on:mto w.e Uflkt that rwm~ in the Earth Sciences Centre have been r:fJ DSU POSITIONS OPEN named aft~r ~rome of (;al1~a·s ''major polluter$," .·.,· .. Graduat¢ students anduof~sSoJ:.s in FwesttY11n And Much, Much More! • 7he mandate of}"('' is to pro ride cm1.mltatire sen•ice and deep discounts on Microcomputer purchase to university . Page 6 Dalhousie GazeHe Thursday January II e d i t o r i a I Have we forgotten? Natalie Crouteau, the name is our ways. And it starts with me, forever engraved on my heart. She and each and every one of you. I was one of the fourteen now must nor allow those nameless nameless women killed on women to have died in vain. December 6 in Montreal. There must be something I can I know what you are probably learn, some action I can take to saying. " Enough already. I'm prevent this tragedy from reoc sick and tired of hearing about curring in another form. that. It was just one isolated inci But what can I do? The prob dent involving a madman." But it lem seems hopeless with no end was not an isolaled incident. Ir in sight. I can get involved, I can will reoccur. In fact it is probably try and change something. There reoccurring at this instant. Some are many agencies and organiza where out there someone is being tions in Halifax where I can start. raped, or a lover beaten, or a job is Here is a list of a few of them, denied to a woman, or someone is ranging from band-aid crisis cen afraid to walk the streets, or ... the tres to long-term citizen advocacy list is endless. groups pressing for social So what now? It is January II, change. and it has been over a month since Please get involved. The invol the killings occurred. Enough vement can be as personal as time for the wounds ro begin to questioning your own beliefs and heal, and the faces to blur. What values or it can involve working remains is our anger at not only through an agency. The impor this incident but at a society in tant thing is that change which such an outrage can. happens. In order to achieve happen. action TAKE ACTION!!! Please So what now? Now we have to don't let them die in vain. take action! We have to change Shannon Gowans • Veith House 453-4320 • Adsum House 429-4443 • Services for Sexual Assault • Bryony House 423-7183 Victims 455-4240 • Women's Employment • Men's Coalition Against Vio Out reach Centre· 422-8023 lence to Women 453-4320 ,, I It's not a surprise in a society like th IS These friendly guys have a need that one out of ten women will be institution, and kills 14 women. unhappiness. by Rachel Gray to make jokes about women violently attacked by the men In the hallways, he mainly This all seems very clear. Is it reprinted from The Varsity being raped. The language they who share their beds and their ignores men and hunts women. not obvious who he intended to use for joking about rape involves lives this affects me differently In the classroom, he separates the kill? Who is dead? W.hat is up for (CUP) - We should not be hav gang bangs, kicking her teeth in than it does my brothers. When women from the men before kil debate? ing this discussion at all. There and tying her down. How much my friends talk about being raped ling them. At some point during can be no doubt. It is time to make Now, there are those who time would you want to spend I know those boys at Queen's the carnage he rails against femi the connections about all of these would have us believe that this is with these friendly guys? Have have never thought about what it nists. He turns the gun on himself things. the work of a sick and demented they ever considered the \VOman is like to be a woman in a woman and dies with a suicide note in his A man carrying a new semi mind, and that it is an isolated who is raped - a real person - hating society. They haven't had automatic rifle walks into a tradi pocket which identifies women incident. There are those who being gang banged, tied down to. Don't you think it's time they tionally male-dominated and feminists as the source of his would have us believe that this is and given a mouth full of broken did? a human tragedy with no more teeth? As long as it's okay to make bearing on women's lives than on If rape jokes are acceptable jokes about rape, the "thing in men's. There are those who agree material now, is it because Montreal" should not shock us. It we live in a sexist society, but who women are safe; safe from rape, illustrates the hatred and violence say that "this thing in Montreal" sexual harassment and assault, that is accepted and justified and has no place in a discussion about exploitative images that use our joked about. For women who violence against women because bodies to sell cars and beer, safe have been raped, who are beaten violence can't be qualified from violence at home and on the in their kitchens, who walk home according to sex. street, ... safe from murder? These at night knowing the keys On the campus at Queen's Uni boys don't have ro think about gripped tightly in hand are a poor versity a bunch of self-proclaimed rape and therefore it's fine to joke defense, who feel hostility "friendly guys" feel misunder about it. because of the way they dress, or stood. They say, "No means kick What is not their conscious the work they do, or the inde her in the teeth." They say, "OK, ness, their experience, is not their pendence they seek or the conven so it may have been in bad taste concern. And if I don't take a joke tions they reject ... for all of us but it was just a joke. My dad says about suffering and pain and vio women this is not a shock. It may that worse things happened in his lence and hatred then I'm the one be our worst nightmare come days there. It was a prank. with the problem - not them. true, but it should not be a shock. Queen's is a great university. When I walk home at night I Rachel Gray is a History grad What are they complaining am cautious and quite often uate studerzt at the University of about?" afraid. When statistics tell me Toronto. Thursday January II Dalhousie Gazette Page 7 the war on drugs Horowitz death of Claude J utra the Skydome Reagonomics, to boot greed and hatred notice it at all. Events have a begin unresolved Toronto-based writer and hr'"'"''1r" ning, middle and end. This sense of enigma, 'Who did it?' was answered June Callwood pointed out repea closure, the feeling that things have the next day at a highly-charged tele Lepine's actions stem from a cult been neatly tied up and explained, vised press conference. whose tolerance of jokes about gives form to chaos. Television, radio, and print news and wife-battering reflect a deepl reprinted from The media's response to the brutal media moved at a frenzied pace to find ingrained acceptance of these, and t The Link murder of 14 young women at L'Ecole biographical m::tterial about Marc rights of men to control and h Polytechnique falls into this trap. The Lepine. The question soon became, women. Canadian continual re-telling of all the gory 'Why?' as journalists and commenta In Montreal, at the vigil that University Press details of the story, point by painstak tors searched for the 'key' to why night, feminists were called down ing poin~. structures it in a way people Lepine murdered the women. The fol speaking. Nobody wanted to hea can easily identify with, since we are lowing Sunday's Montreal Gazette about how these murders did all quite familiar with the horror story feature was simply titled, "WHY?" in simply happen at the whim of lumberjack coat genre. huge three-inch-high type. deranged mind, but were the ...... ,.~.~ ..... and baseball The murders threaten established As in Horror films, where expert manifestation of deeply held --•cap, the dark patterns of thinking about the place of opinion/knowledge is sought to find attitudes. "Calm down," one man figure stalks up the hill women in our culture, the dominant out how to kill the monster (ie. to a woman who wanted to speak out to the main campus view of a liberal society which believes wooden stakes, silver bullets, daylight, in an exchange captured by CBC building. Dri.ven by for in fairness and equality. It is unthin t'tc.), so too the media dragged out Yision. As always, women were told ces beyond his control (a kable to many that Marc Lepine's 'experts' to offer their opinion~. be silent when anger and rage at th bad childhood, rejection murderous rampage is the logical, murders were more fitting. by women, failure in life albeit extreme, manifestation of ... you get the picture), deeply ingrained sexist discourses in NOTHER ASPECT OF he goes on a deliberate our culture. " .. a feminist 'read Horror genre is its sexual Aside from the clear lack of judge objectivity, there is nonetheless a very Another problem with the coverage and calculated killing This is why Marc Lepine must Ing' of the events of text. Whether it's Freddie Kruger ment shown in running this shot, if narrow terrain upon which meaning was the constant close ups of grie.ving rampage, hunting down become a monstrous creature in order . assaulting a nubile young co-ed, or December 6 Is not only to spare further pain in family is created. In this case, a feminist 'read family. This incredible invasion of young women in a cele for us to make meaning of the situa vampires biting helpless maidens, or members and friends, what is truly dis ing' of the events of December 6 is not private grief makes for great televi brated technical college. tion. As a Freddie Kruger type, he even possible within even the vulnerable baby-sitter being turbing about this image is the way it even possible within the limits sion. The only really moving parts of After killing 14 women becomes simple and understandable. stalked in an empty house. the limits mapped out is coded almost like a porn photo. mapped out by the media. the funeral were the moments of com he turns the gun on him "BASTARD," as the Montreal Daily In every case, the very passivity and by the media." The young woman is seated in a Instead, the government and the plete silence, and the two brief read self and blows his head News cover headline screamed out. helplessness of the victims creates (:hair, with her head and one shoulder · church took over using their own ideo ings by women students. It ts amazing off. Rather than systemic sexism, which what Williamson calls a 'frisson' in thrown over the back of the chair. Her logical language to control the poten that in the more than two-hour-long our culture as a whole is responsible the audience. FeaJ; is sexuali1ed, as is long hair hangs down, while her tial for meaning in the massacre. The service, in honour of 14 students mur If you were anywhere for maintaining, the murders become the innocence of the victims. · throat is exposed and vulnerable. For funeral became a state-run affair, pre dered because they were women, only near a radio, television the product of a single deranged mind. The media accounts of the massacre or newspaper last - anyone familiar with pornography, sided over by no less than 80 male two women spoke. Lepine was a battered child. played up an· these elements, to the this shot is strangely familiar. The clergy. The radical potential in When one looks at the context in month, you 'II realize changed his name from Gamil Gharbi horrified yet insatiable curiosity of the erotic undercurrents of the shot could mourning these women was eff~c which the funeral was framed - 80 • this is not the latest plot audience. The premier, the mayor, when he was 18. He could not relate to not have been lost on either the photo tively squashed as we were told by Car male clergy presiding, mostly men to yet another teen hor women. He was rejected from the even the prime minister all invocated "As always, women grapher or theeditorsl producers at the dinal Gregoir~ that the murders were speaking, male dignitaries in the front ror/slasher B movie. the youth and innocence of the armed forces. His CEGEP psycholo ontreal Gazette and the CBC. "an act of God," thus beyond the con pews - it is obvious what is happen The murders are real, were told to be silent gist remembers his sudden withdrawal victims. only a significant shift Another strong element of porno trol and responsibility of men. ing on the terrain of meaning making. when anger and rage from school as "strange." All of this The gory telling of details about the graphy's coding is the playing upon occurs in the meaning of worked towards Lepine 'snapping,' massacre, complete with elaborate dia these murders in their re at the murders were the voyeuristic fantasies of the specta and commilling his crime. grams of the killer's progress through telling by the media. Part of the pleasure of being a more fitting." This explanation fits easily into three floors, all played to this desire. comes from the knowledge that dominant discourses around women, These are all codes of representation image you are viewing is both We try to make sense danger, and sexuality. Lepine which we often unconsciously thentic, yet unable to return your of events in our everyday becomes an 'evil' incarnation, which respond to, so used are we to seeing TheMontreal Gazette photo was lives through what Ray "The construction of the monstrous Judith Williamson dj(ferentiates from them re-created on the screen as taken unawares, with the curtain still mond Williams calls is a way of explaining all ills, rather as moral values such as right and wrong, fictions. ble in the frame. This only "structures of feeling." a child will say Mr. Nobody spih the because these are framed within One photograph, taken by Montreal heightens, at an unconscious level, the Everything from media milk," writes culture critic Judith human activity. Good and evil are Gazette photographer Allen Mcinnis, of the viewer. I monitored four stations during the Close up of Cardinal Gregoire. Cut to reporting to, everyday Williamson. "It mitigates against the absolutes beyond the control of depicted one of the murdered women funeral - CBC Newswatch, CFCF, a close up of Brian Mulroney. Cut to a conversations become systemic nature of problems, focusing human beings. Thus, once again, it is sprawled in a chair. CBC television Quatre Saisons, and Tele-Metropole. slow zoom into one of the caskets. In a structured by narrative blame instead on a particular possible for men to abdicate any also had a short piece of video footage Both CFCF and Tele-Metropole win very real way, through the manipula and imagery. It's become scapegoat." responsibility for the murders because of this same scene. The photographer the prize for obnoxious colour com tion of representation, the massacre of so natural a way of see That Wednesday evening, the night they stemmed from 'evil,' something had to climb on the backs of two stu mentary during the funeral broadcast. ing and interpreting of the murders, the media was already beyond their control, rather than from dents and shot through a crack in the Their coverage resembled a sporting these women had been colomzed by things that we hardly busy framing the tragedy in the terms curtain to get the shot. patriarchal institutions. event, with non- .d!riSi~iliillifii~ Worth the wait I e t t e r s Dear friends, gentle readers and all other komrades: when they automatically attach Letters to the editor must be male references to doctors and Balance lawyers (as Barbara Frum did Racist TYPED while interviewing a female doc DOUBLE-SPACED I was repulsed by the article tori), that they do not mean to To the Editor: "Drawn from the Fire - Child discriminate. Nevertheless, they Nuri Katz's commentary (Nov. and SIGNED with a ren of the Intifada" in the Nov. are contributing to the perpetua- 30) was extremely disturbing. Mr. 30th edition of the Gazette. Not . tion of a sexist society in which Katz wonders if the potential TELEPHONE NUMBER. only was the article sensationalist males are considered the norm, reunification of Germany will be (a full page dedicated to drawings while females are the supple the beginning of an age of peace of injured and dead children from ment, the incomplete human that They must also be devoid of and freedom for all. He seems to one side of a political controv was begotten from Adam's rib. doubt it. He writes that the possi RACISM ersy), but it was also unbalanced. Changing language does not bility of a united Germany wor If the Gazette chooses to further guarantee the end of sexual dis ries him. Then, in an attempt to SEXISM the glorification of the Intifada's crimination; we don't think any explain his worries, he reminds victims -a protest that has need thing short of change in attitudes us of the atrocities committed by and HOMOPHOBIA lessly chosen violent rather than and understanding can accomp the Nazis 50 years ago, events non-violent civilian disobe lish this. Therefore, in the mean which occurred when Germany dience, and that is directly linked time, we must do what we can to Try to be was a "unified entity". Clearly with the most malignant interna recognize the legitimate position the implication is that we have WITTY and tional terrorist organization in of women in society with rhe cause to worry that a united and the world today, the Palestine same rights, respect, and oppor strong Germany may repeat the GRAMMATICALLY Liberation Organization -then tunity as men. crimes of rhe Nazi era. This stance let it at least glorify the victims of V. Nguyen cannot be acceptable, for it carries CORRECT all sides. Let it include the Israeli H. Nguyen with it a strong element of racial victimes, the Palestinians accused P. Sarson discrimination. of cooperation and negotiations Keep it with Israel, and the members of Certainly rhe Holocaust, in all LESS THAN the Intifada. irs horror and tragedy, must never By the very gravity of the injus Actions be forgotten. But Mr. Katz is not tices performed by all sides of the using this opportunity to remind 500 WORDS conflict they demand balance and us of thar. He not only recalls rhe Dear Editor: a full comprehension of the his past, he wants to talk about the Love, yer editor We wish to comment on the tory and the present reality. This future as well. He says rhar he discussion entitled "Minorities feels "some ambivalence ar rhe article dealt with neither, and I Ignored in Pamphlets" (Gazelle, sincerely hope that in the future prospect of a united Germany", November). Mr. A. Beals the Gazette will forego such that he is "wary" and even that he applauds the affirmative action fears the possibility. reprehensible material. efforts of the Law School, and Concordia University Barbara Leiterman "challenges the other profes Mr. Katz writes that a unified siopal schools at Dalhousie to do Germany could have "enormous Graduate Fellowship rhe same". impact" on the "future of the The Maritime School of Social world and irs economy" and this Work has had an affirmative makes him "very skeptical". He Value: $7,500 to $10,000 Words action program for over 15 years. goes on ro explicir~y link a) his Application deadline: February 15, 1990 This consists of: dislike of rhe prospect of a strong Announcement of winners: April1, 1990 Dear Editor, • active recruitment of students united Germany to b) rhe crimes Commencement of tenure: September 1990 or January 1991 We applaud the Women and from the three major regional of the Nazi regime, which hap Law group fort heir effort in deal minority groups (Blacks, Mic pened in the context of a strong ing with the problem of language macs, and Acadians); united Germany. This implies For details and application forms, contact the Graduate that if Germany becomes too Awards Office, S-01, Division of Graduate Studies, discrimination. It has always • an elective course (now required) on Cross-Cultural powerful, we might see the rise of Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, been a sensitive issue for us and Issues in addition to the incor the Fourth German Reich. Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8. Tel: (514) 848-3801 for other 'fellow" women stu dents, yet when we raise the issue, poration of relevant materials The Nazi regime in Germany we are confronted wth charges of into all classes; 50 years ago arose out of a unique being extremists, hard-liners, and • a standing committee (Com set of historical circumstances. ~Concordia nit-pickers. Or worse, we are dis mittee on Racial and Ethnic Naturally, these circumstances do ~UNIVERSITY missed as uptight feminists with Affairs) consisting of faculty, not exist in Germany today. absolutely nothing better to bitch students and community about. As trivial as it may seem, representatives; If, therefore, one fears that the we cringe whenever someone • a new faculty position specifi re-unification of Germany might FEBRUARY 1 8 2 0 inadvertantly uses the so-called cally designated for a member result in something like Nazism, - generic pronoun "he" as we of one of the three regional then clearly one does not believe would cringe when the terms minority groups; that the Third Reich grew out of a "nigger" and "chink" are used. • a Micmac B.S.W. Program specific historical situation. We fully realize that when people designed for Micmac students Instead one believes that the Ger use the pronoun "he", or when (since 1984) which has incorpo mans, as a people, are somehow • Ba~d on Quad they refer to a "policeman" rated considerable input from predisposed to cruelty and evil, Occupancy instead of a "police officer'', or the Micmac community on that there is something inher design, personnel and curricu ently vicious about them which lum decisions; waits, under the surface, for an • ongoing activities, student opportunity to break loose. This supporters, and special events is clearly a racist attitude. l> related to issues of race and 6 ethnicity. If we fear the reunification of With such an affirmative Germany because of a bloody and action program, the M.S.S.W. has tragic episode in its history, then set a standard for other profes we ourselves are guilty of this implicit racism. Atrocities sional schools. BACK PAGES Bessa Whitemore against humanity have happened Secondhand and Rare Books Co-Chair, COREA in many countries, throughout Bought and Sold. 1520Queen St., Halifax, N.S. Attention, dear Gazette staff! Screenings and reviews of all sraff 423-4750 positions will take place at the next weekly staff meeting, Tuesday 10,000 + Books in stock. ar 4:30 p.m. Come and grill your favourite ediro;! Good rimes promised for all. Page 10 Dalhousie GazeHe Thursday January II Jim and Tammy Bakker EXXON Valdez fear and loathing mussels factory freeze trawlers prairie drought I e t t e r s history. Although many of us, in ignored and threatened with our place and time, are brought • were in the van during the acci dismemberment. dent .... up to think of the Germans as Derril Robinson There are a lot of other out historical "bad guys", surely it standing concepts, but if I tried to goes without saying that they are a people who are no more predis analyzed them all the Gazette Shhhhh ... don't tell anyone, but the gazette is now accepting posed to evil than we are would have to have a special submissions for the .... ourselves. issue. However, I suspect that the printing of this letter is sufficient Anke Uebel Distorter shame for the Gazette. I don't Dear Editor: want to destroy their reputation II was a great pleasure to realize totally, so I'll end here. Portable Gay/Lesbian Reader! that my article about Hardial I remain yours, sincerely, a Bains, the National Leader of the malicious distorter, Ignored Marxist-Leninist Party, was read Piotr Trela by at least two people, Charles the gazette has traditionally celebrated Dear Editor: Spurr and G. Brown (Letters to Valentine's Day by publishing a special I am writing concerning the the Editor, Ocr. 5 and 26). edition featuring news and views of a lack of support and knowledge of I found both letters very stimu woefully under-represented segment of our the Dalhousie Transition Year lating. G. Brown took "careful population. · Program. Even though it has notes" during Bains' speech and Left out been around since 1969, I find found my article to be "nothing myself repeatedly telling people but malicious distortion". It is Dear Editor: about ir. The program was exciting because I took "careful As a first-year, left-handed stu designed 10 give people in the notes" too and my article was dent at Dalhousie University, it is Don't submit to homophobia! black and native communities, based on these notes. This fasci my observation that left-handed who perhaps do not have strong nating phenomenon may be the students are being discriminated Do submit to the supplement! academic backgrounds, a chance first vital proof for the theory ()f against, with respect to the at a secondary education. The parallel universes! II seems that number of left-handed desks in program tries to slowly ease the in my universe the Leader said the classroom. • news stories • fiction two groups into university life, something else than he did in the Out of the four of my five • features • true confessions mixing them with the other stu universe of G. Brown. classes which have one-armed • graphics • comics dents, and preparing them for the If, however, we could not split desks, only 16 out of the 414 desks • photos • information next year. the universe, maybe at least we occupying these classrooms are • poetry • community calendar Dalhousie has not yet realized could split the Leader, II seems left-handed. This is an incredi the importance of this program. that Brown listened to Dr. Jekyll, ble 3.86 per cent of all the desks Otherwise, it would not have while I spotted there Mr. Hyde. available to students. Through been talking budget cuts. Instead, I agree with Brown that West personal observation, I have also it would be thinking about how ern countries have some responsi found that approximately 15 per Submissions due Friday, February 9 at 3 pm. 10 expand, following the example bility for Poland's situation cent of the students in my classes Drop them by the gazette office, 3rd floor of other universities. The Univer today. I also agree that problems are left-handed. These numbers SUB or the GLAD mailbox at the SUB enquiry desk. sity of Toronto, which has of my country are due to lack of clearly prove that the availability For more information the created a transition year program, "any principle of sovereignty of left-handed desks to left Gay/Lesbian Reader, phone the gazette at 424-2507 and the University of Saskatchewan's and self-reliance". And I like his handed students is highly dispro ask for Padraic or Erin. Nursing and Legal programs, the highly original metaphor for portionate and discriminatory. University of Western Ontario Poland as having been "placed If a student happens to be left Graduate School of Journalism's on the dinner platter for lcarv handed, then it should be possi communications program for ing". But please let me remind ble for him or her to be given a native students, and the Univer everyone that the restaurant was left-handed desk. As a left-hander Skiwear sity of Manitoba's access pro called Yalta and the dish, though myself, I find right-handed desks grams are just a few examples. All served by American and British rather uncomfortable and incon of these universities have realized waiters, was consumed by some venient. Having to reach across SALE my body to write down informa that minority groups cannot be one else. It wasn't Western capital Up to SO% OFF on selected items denied an opportunity at a secon that killed thousands of Polish tion for notes or tests makes me dary education, which is the cor after the war, who monopolized feel somewhat awkward in the nerstone of equal rights, and also all authority and brought an eco whole writing process. an obligation under the Cana nomic reform capable of ruining Unfortunately, it is only dian Charter of Human Rights. even the richest country within a through luck that I ever get oneqf TYP students were chosen few years. these rare desks and this ~ because I have to take a few extra according 10 their potential suc Concerning more recent cess. There are 24 spots available; events, the responsibility of the moments to actually spot one. last year there were 100 appli Western capital is not that they Rather than having this situation cants. The final students were gave credits, but that they sup occur, it would be much easier if picked according to their per ported them with a sick economic more of these desks would be UNIVERSITY sonal interview, aptitude test, and political structure. The West made available. SIDRTS academic background, work his ern capital was like a hockey One possible resolution could tory, and references. Black stu manager who gave money to a be to add a small box on the infor mation section of registration dents chosen for the TYP usually coach knowing that the coach receive full funding for the first would buy steroids for the players forms requiring you to indicate whether you are right- or left Maritime Campus Store year, depending on their individ instead of buying them skates. handed. This could easily go ual needs. The black and native When, in the end, the players 6238 Ouinpool Rd., Halifax beside the box in which you indi students who are successful in revolted and fired the coach, all Retail423-6523 Wholesale 429-3391 cate your gender. From here, the obtaining a B average or better get the manager has to say is that is numbers of left-handed students Open Thu1'3. Eve 'til 8pm, their tuition paid for in the fol no more money for skates, that could be known and the number lowing year at Dalhousie, or a let the players will have to train bet of left-handed desks could be ter of acceptance at almost any ter and earn some money. allotted to each classroom acord other university. I would like to congratulate ingly. Simple enough! The program is a chance for Mr. Spurr on the really profound I'm sure I'm not alone in the those without the opportunity or knowledge of the Polish situation idea of increasing the availability means to achieve a secondary edu which helped him put Solidarity of left-handed desks. There are cation. Such is a major ingredient and the Community party in the bound to be many more upset lef necessary for obtaining a success same box and blame both of them ties our there. I feel that raising ful job today. Programs such as equally for the crisis. This is a this issue could be one way of these have a far-reaching effect on very bright idea. Now, if a prison making this problem known to the welfare system, and the com van were to cause an accident, the all - and a possible starting January 15 8 pm. Mcinnes Rm. Monday nights munities around. This program court should find both the driver and the carried prisoners guilty. point for the resolution. and programs like it should be John Killeen Admission:~ with CFS Studentsaver Card $3.50 University Students recognized and commended, not Isn't this logical? All of them $4 General Admission Thursday January 11 Dalhousie Gazette Dynasty and Dallas murder of Diane Fossey the National Enquirer land development good old capitalist spirit Page 11 r t s What's next for Stallone? hadn't seen the first Rocky, I'd videotape. He had a very small not even making it into the Well, to Sylvester Stallone, who by Matthew Rainnie probably think what she thinks ... role as a punk who harasses twenty top-grossing films of the reputedly makes over $10 million that Stallone is a really stupid guy Woody Allen on a subway in the summer. However, it is much bet per film, money seems to be all When I told a friend of mine with big arms who couldn't act movie Bananas and was also fea ter than some of Stallone's other that mailers. that Sylvester Stallone wrote even if he ware possessed by the tured in the cult classic Death films. It is an action movie, but the screenplay for Rocky in ghost of Olivier. But I've seen Race 2000. Then came Rocky, the character Stallone plays, three days, she said, "Well, it Rocky, and this is a guy who can which Stallone would only sell to Frank Leone, is a somewhat ordi showed." When I said I was play a real, human character as producers Irwin Winkler and nary man who is thrust into Rosebud talking about the first Rocky, opposed to a fighting machine. Robert Chartoff on the condition extraordinary circumstances, an not the more formulated, less So why doesn't he do it? These that he play the title role. They idea which contradicts that of . . . worth a listen interesting sequels she said, Stallone quotes from Halliwell's wisely accepted. Then came the many other Stallone films. Leone "Well, they're all the same." Filmgoer's Companion should three other Rocky films (a fifth is is a well-liked inmate serving the last portion of his time in prison. When I said that Rocky won provide an answer. ''I'm a very on the way), the three Rambo by Bob Keeler the 1976 Oscar for best picture, physical person. People don't films (of which First Blood is the That's when the sadistic Warden beating out All the President's credit me with much o( a brain, so first) and a great number of other, Drumgoole (Donald Sutherland) Roland Blinn- Rosebud Men, Bound for Glory, Net why should I disillusion them?" - less memorable, action roles has him transferred to Gateway, work and Taxi Driver, Across The Ice The side stern window Has a cross in it Poetry All of which is aluminated From behind. DeVito is vibrant It casts a path of light Drifting Away Across the ice That stands between by Gum Blansten The hull and the shore. I dream dream dream How low can hur.nan behav I shall never awake Do you remember iour sink? How can a marriage I will sleep forever What used to be so warm founded on love and honesty And dream What used to live there degen~rate into a war of lies and Pleasant things Before the storm belligerence. These are the ques Like when your were A mind of many tions pc:>sed by actor/ director Good to me A mind of mine Datmy DeVito in his new film So you will always be A walk through the garden The WM of the Roses. here with me, In the valley of time What is ttuly amating about Not so far away The icy frozen water De Vito is that he is not afraid of Now Between hull and shore of mind showing the base and ultimately I have gone to sleep Vis ions passed through the ridiculous things humans do to And cannot porthole each other in the name of reven Be Before every amazing crime ge. He even manages to overcome Woken. All of which is aluminated Hollywood conventions that From behind. would dictate a happy ending for Louann M.R. Scallion John Rosborough the main characters. It is this con· A PlCfURE viction that makes De Vito one o{ PERFECT NAMlAGc the most interesting and vibrant • filmmakers today. With a biting text to work Anderson alluring from, the two stars excel in their roles as a married couple who, while climbing their way up the best and most venomous perfor atmosphere. Considering this is mance of her career. by James Hrynyshyn the New York performance artist social ladder, find that Jove has only his second directorial fea with a penchant for cryptic abandoned them along the way. ture, it is remarkable that he has The actors norwithsmding, it Laurie Anderson - Strange monologues and electronically All of the performers, including found.. such a unique cinematic is DeVito's mastery of mood that Angels altered anything. But for those DeVito as Douglas's divorce style. Although so far he seems fond of her avant garde musings, attorney, eagerly plunge into makes The War of the Roses such interested solely in dark come (CUP) - Twenty-six seconds it will be something of a disap· their juicy roles, revelling iP the a fascinating film. With his excel· dies, it is perhaps through his into her fifth album, Laurie And pointment. Anderson ventures nastiness of their purgatorial lent use of lighting and strange unnerving eyes that we will see erson shocks the music industry further into the realm of popular marriage. Turner is partiwlarly camera angles, DeVito creates a the 1990s and the true nature of by introducing the radical twangs music than ever before, using believable and gives perhaps the suitably dark and ominous the beast called humanity. of conventional guitar. such surprising devices as rhym Anderson has used guitars ing schemes and choruses. And this storm, this storm is stage. for politicians - as is currently before, but usually at the hands of Many of the tracks recall her called Progress. Fortunately, the woman is still happening - to decide things ex-King Crimson maniac Adrian earlier efforts, proving she still The failure of Strange Angels thinking and her lyrics are as about art." Belew, who prefers flexible fret· has a sense of humour. The wit of lies in Anderson's inability to alluring as ever. Her latest stage Chances are she doesn't really boards and knife-and-fork picks. "Baby Doll" echoes her last steer clear of normality. Some show, "Empty Places," deals believe it, bur that's the beauty of To hear a normal guitar - a album, Home of the Brave. compositions are just too predic primarily with poverty and Laurie Anderson -you're never sound somewhere between Mark "The Dream Before," while a table and her vocals have lost - homelessness. A few pieces have quite sure what she's getting at. Knopfler and Bruce Cockburn - bit sweet for some tastes, retains how do you say - the edge. made it onto Strange Angels and Last night I saw a host of on one of her albums is the musi Anderson's early 80s preference Anderson has admitted taking the album prospers from the angels and they were all singing cal equivalent of full frontal for talking her way through what singing lessons, an incompre inclusion. different songs. And it sounded nudity on an episodeoftheCosby anyone else might pur to a hensible move considering the Anderson recently told the like a lot of lawnmowers mowing Show. melody. disarming innocence of her Christian Science Monitor that down my lawn. Strange Angels is the most The storm keeps blowing the former voice is a major reason for "it's not the artist's responsiblity To that extent, Strange Angels accessible offering to date from angel backwards into the future. her success off the performance to point to politics any more than upholds the tradition. Archbishop murdered as mayor watches from aisle by David Deaton the film about his brief tenure as own council of bishops - look remains a pacifist. It is better to of cinema. The Salvadorean archbishop of El Salvador, he ing like a board of directors die than to kill, he declares. government continues to show It's not every screening at comes indeed to represent a mar minus the pinstripes- warn him To one of his priests-turned that it will do literally anything Wormwood's that the mayor of tyred people. that he is "aggravating the revolutionary he exclaims, "You to stay in power - with Ameri Dartmouth introduces the film. Romero, convincingly por situation." are not defending, you are attack can acquiescence! One million The occasion last Friday was a trayed by Raul Julia, at first Romero does not ignore such ing! And you'll lose God just as dollars a day still goes to a regime benefit showing of Romero, seems an unlikely hero. Bookish, implicit death threats, he accepts they have." that alone would keep Amnesty sponsored by Oxfam-DEVERIC, ailing, a church functionary with them. Refusing to bless the latest It's a grave accusation. Not International busy. Tools For Peace, and the Salvado patrician tastes, he undergoes a presidential stooge, it is made since the films of Costa-Gavras Those fortunate enough to see rean community of Halifax. Pro remarkable transformation once clear to him that he is living on has the military been so portrayed Romero, now ending its run at ceeds will go to Emergency Aid he has been appointed spiritual borrowed time. as sheer, unmitigated evil. In Wormwood's, were reminded for the people of El Salvador. leader of El Salvador. Instead of being cowed, nightmarish sequences of torture that good and evil - not "left" Mayor John Savage added his Romero takes his job seriously. Romero becomes personally lib and massacre, this evil exultantly and "right" -are the forces ulti own eloquent testimony to the Soon, he not merely identifies erated. He tells the president to triumphs. mately at work in the world. violence and injustice still grip with the poor and oppressed, he his face that democracy in El Sal Romero doesn't escape melo Romero suggests that none of us ping this tiny Central American champions them in a decidedly vador is a farce. In his nation drama at times, expecially at the can escape choosing. Watching country. political context. wide radio broadcasts he asks the inevitable finale. When death the life of this good and gentle The murder of six Jesuit priests "You are the Church. You are President of the United States to comes for the Archbishop, it man should help one in the suspend further aid to his coun comes in slow motion, the chalice by a military death squad last the people of God," he tells his choice. try, aid which he says only lines taking forever to fall to the floor. November caps a decade of atroc persecuted parishioners. "Jesus is Oh, yes, the benefit screening the pockets of murderers. It's a gratuitous touch in a film ity in which more than 60,000 crucified again in you." was a great success. A full house! At the same time that Romero that naturally evokes pity, horror, Let it be noted that in the full-to Salvadoreans have perished. Not surprisingly, Romero's denounces the military, he stops and outrage. overflowing audience Mayor Archbishop Oscar Romero, advocacy does not sit well with short of blessing armed struggle Life in some countries may, John Savage contentedly sat in who was assassinated in 1980, is the ruling class whose puppet against it. To the bitter end he however, have the moral crudity the aisle. the best known of the victims. In they expected him to be. Even his cruise missile testing Lebanon Thursday January II Dalhousie Gazette Page 13 Computer viruses Mulroney again end of Bloom County Phillip Rushton neon r t s Dal .hockey remains in second place The story of rhe game was the Melanson, a fourth year vete by Gordie Sutherland net." revealed that star defenceman The opening frame was the Paul Kleinknecht had opted to sensational hat-track perfor ran was impressed by the team's UNB4 Dal3 kind of period that one might leave Dalhousie for school mance of team ,captain Craig turn around from the night expect from two teams that had related reasons. The loss of Klein Morrison. Morrison earned before. "We were a !itt le rusty last The Dalhouste Tigers srarted been off for the last month. There knecht is a big blow to the Tiger player of the game honours by night coming back off the month the new year with their first home were a great number of missed defence. spearheading the Tiger offence. layoff," he said. "We were click loss o~ the season. passes and play was slightly The former Oshawa General ing today and everybody was The University of New Bruns slower than usual. DaiS St. Thomas 3 (Ontario Hockey League) figured more disciplined team-wise, not wick squeaked by the Tigers 4-3 On Sunday afternoon the Tig- in six of the eight Dalhousie just in raking penalties but in The Tigers came out flying in on Saturday night in front of 800 playing our positions better. the second period, scoring two enthusiastic fans. The loss evened The Tigers held first and goals in less than four minutes. the Tigers record at 4-4. The Red second period leads of 2-0 and 4-2. Dalhousie's two goal lead Devils improved to 7-3-l. The The game was significantly dwindled to 3-2 when Murchin host Tigers were outshot 34-27. closer than the final score would son scored a power play marker at Dominic Deluca, Jim Landine, indicate. In fact, the Tommies 13:23. The Red Devils added the Danny Altherr and Ken Murchin trailed by only a goal with fifteen equalizer at 17:57. son scored for the Red Devils. minutes left in rhe game. Then Murchinson played last season Griffith, a former Buffalo the Tigers exploded for four with the Dartmouth Fuel Kids of Sabres draft pick, was frustrated unanswered goals in just over five the Junior 'A' circuit. by the collapse. "We basically fell minutes. The Tigers had four Brad Murrin, Kelly Bradley apart," he said. "We scored three power-play goals while the Tom and rookie Mike Griffith replied quick goals on them and then we mies scored twice with the man for the Tigers. Bradley and thought we could coast for a advantage. former Halifax Blue (Nova Scotia while. Ten minutes later it was Goaltender Pat McGarry Senior Hockey League) Bill 3-3 and all the guys got down." stopped 33 shots en route to rhe Wiseman had two points each. The Red Devils scored the only Tiger victory. McGarry had a The Red Devils scored on their goal of the third period and it was busy second period facing twenty first shot of the game. The goal enough to win the contest. The Tommie shots. "He kept us in came seconds after UNB won a game was evenly played and there," stared Melanson in refer face-off deep in Dalhousie's end. really could have gone either way. ence to McGarry. "At rhe end of Defenceman Dominic Deluca The Tigers had several missed the second period he stood up and shot a knuckle puck that simply opportunities. "We simply didn't stopped three or four shots in a fooled goaltender Kevin Stairs. capitalize," said Griffith. "lr's rqw. That could have been the The Tigers managed to tie the like missing a one-foot putt in ers returned to form with an 8-3 goals. difference in the game right game late in the first period. golf. You just can't do it if you thumping of the visiting St. Tho Other Dalhousie scorers there." Tiger Mike Griffith described the want to win the tournament." mas Tommies. included George Wilcox with a goal. "Bill Wiseman worked his The game featured a couple of The win allowed Dalhousie (5- pair and Derrick Pringle, Alan The Tigers record now stands butt off and got it back to Kelly ance of the year after recovering 4) to remain in sole possession of Baldwin and Stuart Birnie with at 5-l at home and 0-3 on the road. Bradley and Kelly fed it over to me from a back injury. On the same second place in the Kelly Division one apiece. Tiger defenceman The Tigers will aim for their first in front of the empty net and I just night as Woodford's return it was just four points behind the lead Brian Melanson had three assists. regular season road victory when shot it in," he said. "The whole key Dalhousie line-up changes. ing Axemen. The Tigers have Responding for the Tommies they rake to the ice against the key to the play was Bill Wiseman First year defenceman Marty two games in hand on the were players Brent Grant, Dan Saint Mary's Huskies on January and the three of us all going to the Woodford made his first appear- Axemen. LeBlond and Phil Huckins. 17 ar 7:30pm. At 41 ,000 feet with The Dal Breakfast Club and Swim Team weed, "just ro test". "Crazy drugs by Sandy MacKay fast Eater (beaded look): How did (a popular Jamaican dish) - the "When my granny flies, she you like your breakfast aboard idea of eating a goat. What? No, I makes special requests for fruit, down there. (If you wanted to) you could get anything you The Dalhousie Women's and today's flightr "Not at all - the wouldn't eat it at home." If, for apples and such, and she gets wanted." Men's Swim Teams came home eggs, that is. Were they still the rest of your life, you had to eat them. My special meal? No, I As well as dealing (no pun last Friday after more than a week alive?" Jamaican or airplane food, which didn't get champagne with my intended) with the local drug of gruelling training in Jamaica. John O'Brien, Dal Swimmer would you chooser "Airplane orange juice. This is my first meal sellers, the Swimmers also had to The holiday training session is and optimistic Breakfast Eater: food, because it has the four main of the day." deal with lost luggage. They left funded by the athletes. This "The eggs? fine. They were good. food groups." How about the The Dal Swim Team spent ten Kingston Airport, but their lug reporter was lucky enough to It's a regular breakfast omelet, prospects for the upcoming sea days in Jamaica, training under a gage did nor. The swimmers I mer catch the teams on the last leg of with low salt. I haven't been sick son? "The women's team is really gruelling hot sun, some of rhe at 41,000 feet were decked our for their journey, at 7:00 a.m. yet." strong. We should have no prob swimmers covering up ro 55,000 the most parr in flashy Carribean Toronto time, on their way back Nigel Kemp, Dal Swim Team lems taking the regional confer metres during their stay in gear, shorts and light shoes. to beautiful Haligonia. Over a Coach and Breakfast Eater: "We ence. Last year, we won dou~le at Jamaica. To protect the innocent, After all that strenuous train specially prepared breakfast, I got these special meals from Air the regional (both women's and none of the swimmers touched any of the sweet-smelling mari ing, it should be exciting to watch asked the athletes various ques Canada, without request. Appar men's teams rook the title). At the juana that locals were offering. the women's and men's teams tions: about their trait.ing ses ently they supply special meals national, we'll have a small team, Apparently, locals were also try performing at the AUAA. They sions, about their coming for groups like ours. We try to get maybe five women, and one or ing ro sell the swimmers "hash starr February 20th and are raking prospects, about Jamaica, but high-protein, low-fat meals." Do two guys. The women's team place here, at the Dalplex. mostly about breakfast. Their you normally eat airplane food? shou1d do well, maybe take 6th, pipes" full of beautiful Jamaica replies: "Well, the omelet's kind of taste 7th, 8th place. The top team? Paul Chui, Dal Swimmer and less, bur that's no reason to turn McGill or Calgary." How about Breakfast Eater: "The eggs? your nose up ar it." the beads? "Yeah, everybody Okay, I guess. That's breakfast Sarah Petrie, new member of picked up some beads. There's a for you." On Dal's prospects for the Dal Swim Team and Break rasta belt. You can see lots of us the year. "We (the men's team) fast Eater (beaded look): How do have them braided into our hair. should do well. UNB beat us you like this airplane food com We'll have the beaded look for the AUs. They starr February 20 at twice, so our record is two-and pared to Jamaican? "Well, ar least two. The · women are 4-0. They here you know what you're eat Dal. II should be an exciting meet ro watch." should take the AUAA no prob ing. The difference is that here lem. Mount A and MUN are the (on this plane) the food is plain. Darrell Dunn, Dal Swimmer top competitors in the women's." Jamaican's pretty spicy. I didn't and Breakfast Eater, on the qual Ali, Dal Swimmer and Break- like the idea of eating curried goat ity of airplane food and service: Page 14 Dalhousie GazeHe Thursday January II Ferdinand Marcos Jim Keegstra end of WKRP Kurt Waldheim Thriller cola wars Skinny Puppy EVENTS Friday, Jan. 12 Seminar: Edgar Friedenberg, Tuesday, Jan. 16 Professor Emeritus, School o Seminar: Here's another one o Education, will be speaking on Seminar: Dal's School for those mind-boggling chemistry Legitimacy as a Social Problem Resource & Environmental Stu seminars with an equally stu in room 201 of the Sociology an dies invites you to attend the first pendous name: Biosensors basej/. Social Anthropology Complex as of a seminar series tonight at 7:30 on Processing of Multi part of the Graduate Seminar. po.m. iri the MacMahon Audito dimensional Parameters from Exhibition: Opening at the Dal rium of the Killam Library. Th Fluorescent Chemically-Selective housie Art Gallery this evening at reputable Per Gahrton will Lipid Membranes. Catch this one Monday, Jan. 15 8:00p.m. is an exhibition of over speaking on the Gree at 1:30 p.m. in Chern 215. 70 paintings, watercolours & oil Spirituality: Eckankar Societies Movement. sketches by ].E.H. MacDonald Party: The legendary Justice of Canada (Nova Scotia) will and the Nova Scotian artists and Rules party is back again this year present a new videotape produc Wed., Jan. 17 teachers Lewis & Edith Smith. at Phi Kappa Pi Fraternity, South tion entitled "Your Universe o This memorable body of work & Robie. Don't sit this one out_ Dreams" tonight at 7:30 p.m. at We want you: Was one of your can be seen till February 25th - you can't say no-one told you the Nova Scotia Archives, 601 New Year's resolutions to get don't miss .it. about it, anyway. University Avenue, corner of more involved around campus? Be more active in the Dalhousie Conference: Here's a unique Robie Street. This free video pres Classes: Finally, the kind of student body? Actually speak on opportunity for Canadians to entation is sponsored by local classes we all love to take, since behalf of the Dal student body? If from Lesbian and hear the voices of people from Eckankar students who will lead we can't fail - Social Dance not, you should reconsider your Rights N.S. will be features. inside South Africa. A conference a short discussion after the video classes. They will help the priorities in life. If yes, welcome ryone is welcome! n South Africa will be held at St. on daily spiritual exercises which beginner dance the basic steps in to the Dalhousie Gazette staff. We Mary's at the Burke Auditorium include dream exercises, soul Forum: As a response to foxtrot, jive, waltz, samba, polka, throw a sort of party every Wed nd the Loyola Building, Saint travel techniques and using Royal Commission on Health and cha-cha. If you're already at nesday night from dusk to dawn, Mary's University, tonight from intuition in your daily life. Fol Care and in order to facilitate citi· the intermediate level, steps & so drop by and help us do some 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. and tomorrow further information, call 464- zen participation in Health Care sequences will be added to all the unforgettable layouts! (Pssr from 9:00a.m. to II :00 p.m. The 1333. Planning for healthy communi above, as well as the rhumba there's free beer & pizza too.) registration fee is $25. For more ties, a public forum has been tango. Fee is $55 per person for II Movie: This week's Monday information, contact Mary organized for 7:00p.m. at weeks (starting today). Call 423- Movie at the Mcinnes Room, 2n Mugyenyi at 420-5613. College, Dalhousie. oln2 for more information. floor SUB, is The Unbearabl Lightness of Being at 8:00 p.m. Seminar: Marian Binkley, Sociol ogy & Social An th Assistant Dean, FASS, Dal, wil speaking on 10 Days, 48 Hours. 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