Wong, Armstrong on board By GEOF WHEELWRIGHT Brito were winners while at the Politicos Glenn Wong and Bruce Gardner tops senate poll, Watts, MacMillan building Andrews and Armstrong were elected as student Wong polled highest. representatives to the UBC board Two other elections were held of governors Thursday, easily Short, Niwinski and Smith follow this week for law senate candidates defeating law student candidates and the science undergraduate Carlos Brito and J. Vian Andrews. society fee referendum. And Anne Gardner easily topped Don Thompson won the law the polls in the student senator race senate seat while Tuesday's SUS fee with 1,157 votes, followed by Doug referendum passed with 296 votes Watts with 852, Brian Short 799, THE UBYSSEY in favor and 64 opposed. The Chris Niwinski 785 and Geoff referendum was short of quorum Smith 625, according to results by 150 voters. SUS was forced to 228-2301 released from the UBC's registrar's Vol. LXI, No. 41 VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1979 hold the referendum because a office. similar one last year also failed to Wong had a wide lead over his indication of students' opposition for Davis' resignation and students student position," Armstrong said. reach quorum. closest opponent Armstrong; he towards recent board actions such will be meeting with him Tuesday to Wong said one thing he wants to The first board of governors polled 1,041 votes while Armstrong as the expulsion of student board discuss his performance as housing stress is the necessity for openness meeting for the new representatives mustered 903. member Paul Sandhu. director. on the board. is Feb. 6, and new senators will not One surprising election result was "I hope that Dr. Kenny and "It's quite possible we will bring "It's a publicly funded in­ attend a senate meeting until April. the remarkably small number of other board members take note of up the whole subject of his (Davis') stitution and the students have a students who turned out to vote. this election," he said. competence," Armstrong said. right to know (what goes on at the Most newly elected student Only 1,740 ballots were counted Armstrong said he and Wong will He said possible tuition fee in­ board meetings)," he said. senators said they saw a need for in the senate election while 1,759 probably bring to the board's creases and the ejection of Sandhu Wong and Armstrong polled the more student caucus solidarity. students filled out ballots for their attention the actions of housing are other issues he and Wong want most votes at all but three of the 13 According to Niwinski, a veteran favorite board candidate. director Mike Davis in a recent to bring up at the first board polls on campus. At the civil and senator, the person elected as Armstrong said he thought his Gage Towers incident. The student meeting. chemical engineering building and caucus chairman will have a great election and that of Wong was an representative assembly has asked "You'll see a more unified the law building polls Andrews and effect on the success of the caucus. 23 of 2,300of 23,000 With 23*000 UBC students, a quorum of 2,300 was needed to hold Thursday's Alma Mater Society general meeting.— but only 23 people appeared. fhe meeting, held in SUB ball­ room at noon, was to introduce a new constitution to students and to vote on whether or not to adopt it. AMS president Paul Sandhu criticized the supporters of the new constitution for the expense and time the AMS had to spend on reviewing it. Much preparation was needed for the special general meeting when there seemed to be no visible support for it, he said. Sandhu said Thursday the AMS spent more than $1,000 on legal fees to review the legality of the new constitution under the pro­ vincial Societies Act. Several hundred dollars were used to advertise the meeting, as required constitutionally, in The Ubyssey and an untold amount of money went to pay AMS office staff td arrange the meeting, type up —peter menyasz photo documents and maintain SEAMY SIDE OF Alma Mater Society politics is demonstrated as newly- members Glenn Wong and Bruce Armstrong and senators Geoff Smith correspondence with lawyers and elected student politicos exert influence on Ubyssey to run their photo on and Chris Niwinski. Celebration in Pit marks second time in week that students. front page. From left, well middle of road actually, are board of governors Smith has used pressure to get his picture in paper. "The thing that disappoints me is that they can get a petition signed by over 1,000 people and only 20 people show up for a Broadbent slams foreign investment meeting," said Sandhu. By TOM HAWTHORN He said because of the lack of Hebb Theatre that Canada will be Broadbent also warned that B.C. 60 B.C. fish processing plants and people at the meeting he seriously The federal government cannot in serious economic difficulty if could lose control of its fishing and control two of the top three." doubts whether or not students protect the economic interests of Canadians do not regain control of fish processing. The Canadian Development Cor­ knew what they were signing when Canadians because foreign interests the natural resources base. "Japanese capital has started to poration, a federal corporation they signed a petition last fall control Canadian resources, federal "Ontario is about to become a move into the B.C. fishing field, established to aid businesses with endorsing a new AMS con­ NDP leader Ed Broadbent said 'have not' province and the reason and has now invested between $20 capital grants and loans, has not stitution. Thursday. is that the branch plant structure is and $40 million. Japanese interests made enough funds available for "It is obviously not the way to Broadbent told 500 people in seen to be uncompetitive," he said. have now obtained shares in 12 of B.C. fishermen and this has forced change the constitution," he said. them to accept Japanese capital, "It's what I expected," said Broadbent said. constitution mover Brian Short of Go directly to jail, do not pass BCRIC "Canadian fishermen, both as the general meeting's poor tur­ fishermen and processors, have nout. By PETER MENYASZ for the Canadian Penitentiaries Service, was not so attempted to get capital from the Short said "Thursday the For once, people on welfare might be just as well off certain. banks and failed. Nor did they get it students who signed the petition as the people in prison. "Under the regulations, a person has to go to the from the Canadian Development did not show up because they What do they have in common? Similar status as bank to apply for the shares and has to go back to the Corporation." knew another constitution potential shareholders in B.C.'s Resource Investment bank to pick them up," said Loughlin. The CDC has created 20,000 proposal would be coming up and Corporation. It is not likely that the Penitentiaries Service will jobs, but half of those were created support it instead. release all of their inmates to allow them to get their outside of Canada, he said. People enjoying the state's hospitality in either pro­ He said those who signed the shares from the bank, she added. "The CDC is operating like any petition realized before the vincial jails or federal penitentiaries may not be On Wednesday The Ubyssey learned that some of eligible to receive the five free shares offered by the other multinational. It has meeting they would not be able to B.C.'s underprivileged citizens may lose their welfare provincial government last week. forgotten its central task. get 75 per cent of the 2,300 benefits if they accept the Social Credit government's "We should ensure that B.C. student quorum to support On first enquiry, a source in the attorney-general's offer of the five free BCRIC shares. The gift would be fisheries and processing plants be office said that there should be no difficulty in ob­ Thursday's constitutional considered an asset, possibly pushing welfare owned and controlled by the people proposal. taining the shares for prisoners that want them, as all recipients past their allowable asset level and leaving of B.C." A hearty crowd of 23 AMS one-year residents of B.C. are eligible. them ineligible for social assistance. Broadbent said even Third World hacks, engineers and curious But Eila Loughlin, public relations spokeswoman See page 3: BCRIC nations were serious economic See page 3: JAPAN See page 3: MEETING Pago 2 THE UBYSSEY Friday, January 19, 1979

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Health care delivery, which to have a very positive effect on drastically cut funding for research of health and welfare, have been He said that although UBC concerns incidence of disease and research at the university." into alcohol and drug abuse, ac­ reduced by "at least a third." currently has six big projects under disease rates, is the other area hit by Spratley said he was enthusiastic cording to UBC research ad­ "There is a drastic cut in the way in health services research for major cutbacks, Spratley said. about the provincial government's ministrator Richard Spratley. amount of money that's available," which funding is guaranteed, new (Both health care delivery and drug contributions, especially in the area Spratley said Wednesday that he said. "What it means is there is a grants for research into drug abuse abuse come under the health and of health and welfare, but added welfare program.) that it would only partly make up "This is a program that puts for lost federal funding in that area. close to a million dollars a year into Federal cuts have been causing UBC," he said. problems at other Canadian The cutbacks are not just part of universities. Two University of a general trend resulting from poor Manitoba researchers have been economic climate, according to forced to accept appointments Dennis Vance, associate dean of outside Canada because of govern­ research in UBC's faculty of ment funding cuts for their project. medicine. Overall federal funding U of M sources said one of their for all aspects of medical research researchers had been researching will be increased to $68.5 million the relation between hypertension from last year's $63 million, he said and heart disease but had quit Wednesday. because the project was stalled "I think the climate in B.C. is indefinitely. improving," said Vance. Margaret Saw, the federal He said the provincial govern­ assistant deputy minister of health ment has recently started to direct services, said the declining support money from the lottery fund into for medical research was necessary medical research. given the state of the country's "It just started in the last four economy. Traffic head tows university's line By DAVE Van BLARCOM young chaps want to take it to Members of UBC's administra­ court, well and good. If they win, tion do not foresee any changes to well and good," he said. current policies of towing away the "If they feel there should be a cars of owners who have not paid new policy, they should take it up parking tickets. with the administration," Hannah said. Dave Hannah, superintendent of traffic and security, and Erich Vogt said Thursday one solution Vogt, vice-president of faculty and would be to build more parking student affairs, said Thursday that spaces, adding that there was a there are no plans to change the shortage of funds for construction regulations despite the intention of of parking structures. two law students to challenge the "We are in the process of policies in court. negotiating for a large new parking structure. We would have to build THE SHOW MUST go on, but Alma Mater Society president Paul Sandhu, left, can't see why. Sandhu chaired Darrell O'Byrne, law 3, and one where the hospital is being AMS special general meeting attended by about 23 of UBC's 23,000 students at noon Thursday. Quorum needed Malcolm MacLean, law 1, said built," Vogt said. The structure was 2,300. The meeting, was forced when engineering undergraduate society president Brian Short, seated right, Wednesday that they will challenge would not be included in the presented AMS with 1,200 name petition calling for new constitution — to be adopted by vote at meeting. in court the validity of the traffic funding for the hospital itself, he regulations as well as the authority said. of the university to tow away Vogt said he could not support a vehicles, even if the regulations are policy of refusing to register 'Japan buying out fishing' valid. students who have not paid parking Hannah said that although the fines. From page 1 Broadbent said in an interview interview. The seats would be particular issue challenged by the "There is a reluctance to penalize competitors with Canada because after the speech the NDP wants all distributed according to a per­ two law students has not been people academically for something multinationals like International exports of capital by large com­ centage of party support, like the tested in court, the university has which is not academic," Vogt said. Nickel Inc. (INCO) exported panies to be reviewed and only West German system, Broadbent successfully fought a number of He said there is a fine line bet­ capital from Canada. permitted if certain benefits are added. past court actions arising out of ween library fines, which may be "We're being threatened by guaranteed to Canada. The NDP would also call for a towing incidents. related lo academic activity, and Third World nations who are "There is a need for an overall moratorium on expanding nuclear "We've won the cases so far. If parking fines which may not. selling their natural resources sense of national purpose that is energy so that a royal commission cheaper than we are," he said. linked with the national economy," could examine the environmental "Other nations have had the he said in the speech. and health aspects of the industry, leadership to say a country he said. BCRIC banks on jail shouldn't live from election to Canada needs a stated national policy so that instead of exporting Broadbent said opposition leader From page 1 Once again, a decision will have election. That is not the way to oil and natural gas, it exports Joe Clark's statement that the Pro­ Loughlin also said that the Peni­ to be made on whether or not B.C. galvanize a people that want to be finished petroleum products, gressive Conservatives would tentiaries Service as yet has no residents that are in jails or peniten­ serious about their country." Broadbent said. negotiate a sovereignty-association official position on whether or not tiaries outside the province will be A branch plant economy with agreement with a separatist Quebec The NDP would abolish the inmates will be eligible for the eligible to receive their free shares. massive foreign investments makes government was a "very serious Senate and increase the House of shares, but added that a legal People in jail need not lose hope, it impossible for Canada to mistake" to make before Quebec's Commons by 100 seats, he said. opinion on the situation is currently though. The regulations for compete with Third World nations upcoming referendum. being sought. eligibility for the shares includes an with similar resources and cheaper Twenty seats would be given to When questioned on this point, appeal provision. labor, he said. each of five regions, he said in an the source at the attorney-general's With a little luck, criminals will office admitted that it might be a join welfare people and old age problem for the prisoners to pick pensioners in receiving special Meeting short of quorum up their shares at a bank. consideration regarding the free will receive even less voting at­ From page 1 She felt that there might be a shares, and participate in the tention than campus elections, he passersby appeared for the general solution, though. program that premier Bill Bennett added. meeting. A quorum of 2,300 "If there's no time limit, then the feels is so important for us all. people, who had to arrive within a Short said the student repre­ people could pick them up after "It is their opportunity now to half hour of the meeting's official sentative assembly had been given a they're released, unless they're in own something that can grow in start, was needed for the meeting to chance to discuss the new con­ for 20 years," she said. value and help contribute toward formally convene. stitution but had refused because But according to the information the growth of our economy and Short said he will now work on a they were happy with the current released by the provincial govern­ province," Bennett said in the referendum by petition, which will document. ment in their announcement Jan. official government announcement. require a 75 per cent majority and 11, applications for the shares must at least a 10 per cent voter turnout. "They've had their chance," he said. be completed by June 15. The referendum will concern a If this regulation is upheld in all Oops 2 The constitution discussed would revised version of the new con­ cases, then those in prison will not In Thursday's story "Colleagues have reduced each faculty's repre­ stitution. be able to get their shares, even hit arts prof" we incorrectly quoted sentation to one student, the un­ But Sandhu said he doubted after they are released. a source as saying that no one in the dergraduate society president BROADBENT no Joe Stalin Short would get the turnout The information released by the political science department because only about 1,500 students within the faculty. Current repre­ deemed professor W. J. Stankie­ sentation is by faculty population. "Clark's statement is the most provincial government also states voted in the recent senate and board serious mistake made by a political that "people who are ordinarily wicz's behavior unacceptable. The of governors elections. The con­ It also would have taken 16 of the leader in modern times. I think Joe residents but temporarily absent source actually said no one deemed stitution issue is far less widely 17 student senators off the SRA. Clark made a very serious from the province" are also Stankiewicz's behavior as ac­ known by students and therefore All currently sit on the assembly. mistake," he said. eligible. ceptable. Page 4 THE UBYSSEY Friday, January 19, 1979 TELL THE OTHERS UE'VE Facts of life GOT SOME ttORE TO A new crew, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, has been elected to the senate and t-eaw on THIS fERfc! board of governors. No doubt they are brimming with optimism and with ideas on how to change the world, but there are a few facts of life they should know about politics on the university's senior governing bodies before they enter the arena.

The first is that not everyone wants them there. Many senior board and senate members still feel students have no place on these bodies and are resistant to proposals from their younger and more inexperienced colleagues.

The second is that their conceptions of what the senate and board should deal with will differ significantly from that of the others. They serve different consti­ =10 tuencies and come from different backgrounds.

On the board the new reps will have to deal with board members who think that body should operate like a private corporation's board of directors. This will emwvad pose difficulties for the rookies as they try to serve their voters and the board at the same time.

The board's rules on secrecy, for example, will make it particularly difficult for student members to fulfill their vows to keep their constituents informed.

However, students may be more fortunate this year than previously, as the two new reps, Glenn Wong and Bruce Armstrong, appear able to work together, making a united front possible.

A united front is also important in senate where student representatives have often been intimidated by the experience and knowledge of the senior senators who dominate campus politics.

If a strong student voice is to be heard on this body it will be vital to have an ef­ fective caucus organization which will be able to pool the collective talents of stu­ dent senators in order to direct and coordinate student input on senate issues.

Again, students may be fortunate in their choice of senators this year as all of them have some experience in student politics and know the issues well. Letters Davis says door open to students In the last week, several of the associations have a clear should use the residence association the implementation of this respect concerned and will continue to pro­ allegations have been made mandate to discuss all issues or as their communication vehicle to for the residence community. In vide an appropriate way for the regarding my management attitudes complaints as well as to make the student housing and con­ most cases, standards committees residence community to set limits of and my attitude towards the be­ recommendations at these ferences department. can function effectively to de­ behavior that are reasonable and havior of students in residence. Un­ meetings. The associations also My attitude towards behavior of termine the extent of involvement protect the rights of all parties in fortunately, I have been .misquoted have direct access to a senior students in residence has always of individual(s) in a situation. any dispute. and conclusions have been reached residence advisor in each area, who been that students in residence Standards committees listen to I have an open door policy for all by bodies outside the residence in turn, initiates discussions outside should respect the rights, safety and arguments and descriptions about students, both in residence and system without, I believe, any the regular meetings. property of others and maintain a incidents and have the prerogative those off campus who have efforts being made to hear both This system has, I believe, been standard of behavior which reflects to call witnesses and individuals questions about the residence sides of the issue. I would like to successful for all concerned this this respect. (I have never said that who may have been involved. system. It is unfortunate that in the take this opportunity to reply. year. My only concern with this individuals are guilty until proven Once the standards committee latest discussion on residence living, Any examination of the student system has been when external innocent.) meets, the housing department gets neither I nor my staff were con­ housing and conference depart­ channels have been used for Standards committees, made up into the process only after the sulted before decisions were made. ment's organization and procedures complaints or suggestions. In my of peers, have been set up in each standards committee submits its Michael Davis will, I believe, indicate an opinion, all residence students single student residence to assist in recommendations. This method of director organization that allows for and assessing behavioral incidents has, I student housing and requests as much input as residence believe, worked successfully for all conferences department students are willing to give. Rotten rentals The management system clearly r allows for input from residence Now that the cat's out of the bag, Rentals) appeared to be condoned Kill mouthy morons students via the residence the rentalsman has backed off. by the rentalsman. The tenant associations' participation in the You may recall that in my per­ involved fought back by taking Kill. Are there people in any of In addition, a large number of single student and family student spectives article of Jan. 5, I showed them both to B.C. Supreme Court. your classes who make you teaching assistants lead these coordinating committees and the how certain questionable practices They were to have gone before contemplate murder? Are you at discussion groups, and while they budget committee. The presidents of a UEL landlord (Balfour the court on Jan. 11. But only one the stage where you foam at the are usually very competent, they working day after my article ap­ mouth and scribble obscenities on lack the authority to stop these peared, the rentalsman had an un- your desk? Fear no more, help is clowns from babbling on. precedently abrupt change of heart. on the way. It is virtually impossible to What can be done about these The tenant received a phone call people? Well, you can always try saying that an "erroneous" spend any amount of time at THE UBYSSEY university without encountering at the "Scope" approach. You decision had been made and that it JANUARY 18, 1979 least one of these pathetic know, the mouthwash — show had been reversed in her favor. them this article and pray that Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughout the This tenant was lucky to have the creatures. They seem to have ^his university year by the Alma Mater Society of the University of insatiable need to be noticed and they will get the hint. It is by far power of the press behind her. and away the most preferable and B.C. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not of the Other tenants in the row housing of usually have something totally AMS or the university administration. Member, Canadian irrelevant to say on any given least painful method of getting the the Kings Road area are not. For message across. University Press. The Ubyssey publishes Page Friday, a week­ example, one woman has been subject. ly commentary and review. The Ubyssey's editorial office is in evicted so that renovations may be This dearth of constructive ex­ If showing this article to the room 241K of the Student Union Building. Editorial depart­ made to her home. However, the pression is compounded by a offenders themselves does not ments. 228-2301; Advertising, 228-3977. Residential Tenancy Act requires tendency to elaborate at length on work, you might try taking the issue up with your professor. Ask Editor: Mike Bocking that the evicted tenant be given first these non-thouchts and it is the choice when the house is re-rented. i arc piol'esMir indeed who has the around your class to see if there is Quick as a hare, Geof Wheelwright and Verne McDonald ran into the Ubyssey office and slammed a consensus of opinion and then the door behind them. "That was a hair-raising experience," they panted. "Who's thair?" asked Vicki Balfour refuses to do this and so is presence ol mind io squelch these Booth and Mary-Ann Brunoro. "Are you haired of hearing?" inquired Peter Menyasz. "No, she's just once again being taken to court. time wafers ask your professor to com­ splitting hairs," said Julie Wheelwright. Red-haired Heather Conn and receding-haired Jeff Rankin Where will it all end? Tenants are This situation i* most serious in municate the feelings of the class stared with wonder at Tom Hawthorn, whose hair curled in luxurious tendrils around his shoulders. Bill directly to the offending party. Tieleman and Gregory Strong looked up in time to see Ross Burnett open the door a hair's breadth and fighting tooth and nail with limited ili*:u«iii>n groups where a portion quietly slip out. "Hair today, gone tomorrow," they sighed. "Whair is he going?" asked Larry Green resources for rights which should be ot vour total giadc is. allocated for Whichever approach you try, and Robert Jordan. "You hair-brains," said Mike Bocking and Doug Todd. "They're off to the hair- stress tart, hecause there is a Kttle port! And staffers who aren't going there should come to the filing session at noon today!" blaired taken for granted. The rentalsman, participation Having one of these Wendy Hunt, Murray Helmer and Simon S. Danes. meanwhile, idly stands by and lets it jeiks in a tiUcu.v-.iori group is bud iif ihese people in all of us, and us Wait Damn-You suddenly announced she was hairrified to realize there would be a clipping party to­ happen. There's a terrible flaw in enough, but with Iwoor more, the the »a>in.u goes, there but for ihe day at noon in The Ubyssey office. But Bill Tieleman and his hairem shocked her even more when they the system. And it looks like it's the oppuriuniiic> lor any constructive giace of (iod. . . . announced a bonyfyde punk party would be held the same night. Other staffers went bald in shock as Kevin McGee they read the details on The Ubyssey door and promised to bring wigs to the next day's festivities. office of the rentalsman. debate ate practically eliminated. Mark Rogers V Friday, January 19, 1979 THE UBYSSEY Page .5 Letters Gage residents stay guilty until.. • Recently Gage residents received rule of housing thinks it can get he failed to go over and prevent the at a hockey game that night come Leave the envelope at the front a blue form letter signed by two away with as residences are not occurrence. and explain his involvement in the desk or drop it in a campus mail (no students — Mike Mooney and under the landlord-tenant act. They state that it is an accepted incident? postage needed) box. Patricia Davis — stating the "fair" The last quote, making reference standard at Gage of mutual re­ May I suggest two methods for 2) Tell your floor rep what you attitude of housing with regard to to living in an apartment building, sponsibility. I never remember Gage residents to fight this think of the incident and have the unfortunate incident at Gage of couldn't be farther from the truth. signing an agreement to be stupidity. him/her pressure for reform at the Dec. 5. It is my understanding of Canadian responsible for other people's 1) Write a short note asking next GCC meeting. In this letter it stated, "it was law that if a drunk person assaults actions. Mike Mooney, president of the If any Gage resident has been decided that having some people someone in apartment 105 of a Also the letter states that it was Gage community council, and co­ forced to produce physical evidence take responsibility for their large apartment block, the resident decided to hold all those present re­ signer of the letter, to send an to prove their innocence, I would behavior, or what they allowed to of 104 cannot be charged because sponsible, so how can a person out apologetic letter to all Gage like to know about it. Leave a note occur in their quads is better than residents, else resign immediately. in Box 150, Gage, giving me your no one taking responsibility. Put your note and your copy of name, phone and quad so that the Furthermore it was decided that it Vote for vulgarities the blue form letter (if it is still extent of this violation of civil was appropriate to hold everyone around) in an envelope and mail to: liberties may be gauged, and responsible in the quads until in­ Upon reading last Thursday's age, a time before . . . but no. Mike Mooney further possible action (maybe even dividuals who actually threw the article on punk rock, I decided to The first group didn't have a president legal) on the part of the AMS may objects were identified. It is an check things out myself name. "I guess we're the special Gage Community Council be contemplated. accepted standard in Gage that the (masochistic as this may seem). The guest," says the woman with the Box 827 Craig Brook > occupants of a quad — as in an doors of the Windmill opened at guitar. They begin to play. Clean, Gage Towers science SRA representative apartment building — are 9:30. Yes, the cover charge was solid sound. "So you think you're responsible for the type of behavior $2.25. free?" she sings. Ear-splitting that takes place within their quad." Yes, Jerry Useless, safety pin volume? The Yes concert at the Further on the letter states "a through his cheek, was there. Once Coliseum was louder. The drummer joint decision was made by inside, I felt that the decor, the takes over as vocalist. housing, the advisors and the atmosphere, was vaguely familiar "As you can see, we are not CWCHCITCE cDcW[ARiF ^OO^S G.C.C. president (sic) to act im­ somehow. Memories of a different men," she says in a British accent. mediately by sending out the first "You're not Devo!" someone specializing in science fiction and fantasy letters, holding everyone present in shouts. But she does have the identified quads responsible." Earth to something to say. "England, Eng­ 4374 CW 10th cAcVcE..cSJ4cNCOcUcVcERj, Let us look at each one of these land, I hate you but I want to go quotes individually. The first quote home," go the lyrics, tastefully Davis, tune done. 228-8223 basically states that if there are 10 Hours 10-8 - Sun. 1-5-^ guilty parties, but you cannot find And what of the crowd? Some them, it is alright to tell 50 people are standing by the stage, some are that they are guilty, as this 50 is in please sitting by their tables, all bound to include the 10 really In the Jan. 6 Ubyssey housing responding to the music. No guilty. director Mike Davis was quoted as violence. No vulgarities. 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INSIDE PAGE FRIDAY KUROSAWA — his films analysed • KRAPP'S LAST TAPE - inside Beckett DREAMSPEAKER — powerful movie and books • SUPERMAN — comic book character dies in film AUTUMN SONATA - Bergman's latest reviewed • VSO — successes and failures DEVO — de-evolves on stage • POETRY — student works showcased TANYA TUCKER - packaged for sale • RANDY HANSEN - Jimi Hendrix re-lived \film criticism i Filmmakers owe debt to Kurosawa ihe"Emperory By WENDY HUNT at a print of a Martin and Johnson jungle To the western world Akira Kurosawa is picture. They were impressed by the animals, the Japanese director. This spring Cinema 16 especially by a lion on the prowl. Kurosawa will be showing some of the films which have said, "Well, Mifune, that's Tojomaru. Make won Kurosawa critical acclaim and con­ the human like an animal." Toshiro Mifune, tinuing popular support at home and abroad. an actor who appears in many of Kurosawa's films, made his role of the bandit Tojomaru He also tried to commit suicide a few days as lion-like as possible. before Christmas of 1971. A housemaid In the same way the role of the woman in found him slumped in a half-filled bath. His Rashomon was based on a black panther neck, elbows, wrists and hands had been seen in a movie in a downtown Kyoto slashed in 21 places. theatre. As Kurosawa observed, the per­ Kurosawa's films are as popular with other formances of animals in jungle pictures are filmmakers as they are with audiences. If somewhat removed from the Kabuki imitation is the highest form of praise, then technique. Hollywood is bending over backward for An innovative director, Kurosawa ex­ Kurosawa. perimented with new filming techniques. In the battle scenes of The Seven Samurai he American westerns used superpowered telephoto lenses to move Rashomon which examined truth and its the audience into the fray. many faces became The Outrage, a most He also began using a multicamera unusual western indeed. The Seven Samurai technique, shooting one scene was the blueprint for the less ambitious simultaneously from several angles. Magnificent Seven. The tight lipped hero of Kurosawa could cut directly from one Sergio Leone's spaghetti western, A Fist Full perspective to another without stopping the of Dollars, was modelled after Yojimbo. action. Kurosawa's chambara or sword films ". . .This has allowed me to have both translate well into American westerns. This is continuity and to integrate into the film the not just coincidence. Kurosawa owes a debt precise moment when one actor feels himself to this genre and has acknowledged its in­ to be inside the skin of the character ... it is YOJIMBO Toshiro Mifune as the original "man with no name" confronts ar fluence on him. for the same reason that I use the long lens a The essential ingredients in both the cham­ lot, for the distance permits the actor to in his attention to composition and later Kumonosu-Jo, The Castle of the Spider's bara and western are identical. A man with forget the camera more easily. ..." color. Web, is Kurosawa's version of Macbeth, his weapon sets himself against the world. The years of 1950 to 1965 saw as great an released here as Throne of Blood Kurosawa Before the war the Japanese film industry Emperor Kurosawa outpouring of energy and work as his earlier uses stylistic devices remembered from a Noh had laid down a tight, successful pattern for Shooting at a ratio of 10 to one means that years. It is from this period Cinema 16 has drama he had once seen. The scenes with the sword films. Kurosawa had the imagination much of the footage ends up on the cutting drawn six films to show on campus for Series witch, the make-up worn by the wife of and talent to break this mold while seemingly room floor. But Kurosawa knows what he III featuring Kurosawa. Washizu, the Oriental Macbeth, the to remain inside. Rashomon captured the wants and makes sure he gets it. He exercises Ikiru is set in modern Japan. Kanji background music and the general timing of Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival a great deal of control over his films from Watanabe, a petty municipal official intimate scenes are obvious to students of assuring Kurosawa of international script to editing. He has earned the nickname discovers he is dying of cancer with only six Noh. These elements were deliberately in­ recognition. Tenno or Emperor although the people he months to live. The emptiness of death cluded as an experiment. This same recognition is ironic in light of works with do not spread it. frightens him as much as the emptiness of his Rashomon and its exploration of reality and Kurosawa has been a prolific filmmaker. life. Guns and swords what one believes to be real. Critics often The opening of Rashomon in 1950 marked He flings himself into pleasure and then Their appearance at all is most unusual for stated that the acting style in this movie was his twelfth picture in seven years of directing. seeks comfort in companionship. Neither Japanese films. Film is still considered to be influenced by Kabuki and even the Noh, In 1936 he left the Doshusha School of fills the void he feels has been his life. He a foreign medium and the gulf between it and classical forms of Japanese theatre. Western Painting where he had been finally decides to force a playground through native classical theatre is rarely crossed. Kurosawa eventually stated, "I haven't read studying since leaving school. When he the rigid bureaucracy of which he has been a The sword is as much a part of the samurai one review from abroad that hasn't read realized he would never make a living as a staunch supporter all his life. This act, legend as the man himself. The gun is to the false meanings. . ." When pressed he painter he applied and was accepted to the beneficial only to others, redeems gun fighter as the sword is to the samurai. Its revealed the true story. apprenticeship program at PLC Studios. At Wanatabe's life in his own eyes. mere presence is enough to mark a man. One night in Kyoto just before shooting 26 he began his film career as an assistant Filmed in 1952 Ikiru held a special The first shot of Yojimbo exploits and started Kurosawa and his staff were looking director. His early training as a painter shows significance for Japan. The war had emphasizes the importance of the sword. A weakened the old traditions which had given man stands with his back to the camera shape to daily life. Kurosawa told people that against an undefined background, a sword in life has the meaning you give it. Ikiru — to his sash. Everything has been said about this live fully is the goal, not only exist. man. Yojimbo are itinerant swordsmen who Kurosawa is best known for jidai-geki. find employment as assassins or bodyguards. These are period films of Japan's Middle The amused, contemptuous hero of Ages. During this time the samurai rose to Kurosawa's 1961 film arrives in a village and prominence, figures of fear and adulation. Kurosawa brings to life a feudal society. Characters are formed by their environment and in turn act upon it. Seven Samurai The Seven Samurai or Shichinin no Samurai was finished in 1954 after 18 months in production. Red Beard, another Kurosawa epic was in production for two years. The Seven Samurai recounts how ronin, literally "men on the wave," swordsmen who owe allegience to no man help a group of peasants defend their village against bandits. They aire masters of their craft yet they join the villagers for only a bowl of rice. Old and new, humor and pain, courage and fear, hope and resignation, life and death are blended together to form an organic whole. Character is not sacrificed to plot. Kurosawa balances these elements for a film of perfect proportions. The Seven Samurai was also the most expensive film made in Japan up to that time. This was because most of the scenes were shot on location. The original length of the film was 200 minutes, but it has never been shown in its entirety outside Japan. One hundred and sixty minutes is the length usually shown. Regarding a third version edited for the Venice Film Festival Kurosawa said, "naturally no one understood it. They all complained about the first half's being confused. It certainly was. The second half the Venice people liked well enough because DODES'KA-DEN . . . least known of Kurosawa's films and a rambling exploration of that only had a few minor cuts which as a THRONE OF BLOOD . . . Kurosawa's power the intense day-to-day life of shanty-town dwellers in Tokyo. matter of fact, helped it." devices from Japanese Noh theatre. Page Friday, 2 THE UBYSSEY Friday, January 19, 1979 \film criticism Cameron's dreamspeaker opens doors on distant cultures

By WENDY HUNT Both are dreamspeakers. When Peter is that isn't possible in visual images. The ending isn't really different at all. No evil can overcome the power of a forcibly returned to the centre, he hangs "The same things happen for the same Dreamspeaker, and if the initiation is himself. reasons, but with prose you can explain that painful, the rewards are great. There are This is as far as the CBC production which was going on inside peoples heads. those on the Island whose eyes see through directed by Claude Jutra goes. In a com­ With film you can only show what they did the sea, whose ears hear past the wind, and pelling manner it outlines the blind and because of what was going on in their some are men and some are women. impersonal ways of white society. The emphasis is on the negative side. heads." There are those who can calm the angriest Tern Eyos Ki and the Land Claims sea and soothe the most hurting soul, and To a great extent the differences in the Question is the second short story. It some of these are men and some are women. story and the program are due to a lack of money. provides a humorous complement to Dream­ There are those who know without ever speaker. having to be told and some of these are men "Without a huge budget for optics and Listening to Tern Eyos Ki tell her story of and some are women, and there are those special effects we couldn't handle Sisiutl and bunnies and bombs is much like listening to a who will Endure and some of these are men the director made some decisions," Cameron good friend ramble on, not able to get a word and some are women. said. "They obviously worked, the film has received wide acclaim." in edgeways and not really caring. Dreamspeaker and Tern Eyos Ki and the The novella goes further and examines the "The silent Indian is a myth of TV and Land Claims Question positive values of love and caring within the movies," said Cameron. "They start out By B. A. Cameron framework of native Indian culture. about land claims, then go on about their Published by Clarke, Irwin The program presents the old man and He grandfather's brown shoes he bought at T. Who Would Sing as two individuals. The E. Eaton's and two days later they get back Dreamspeaker first reached the public as a book adds depth to their cultural to the point." CBC drama a couple of years ago. A gutsy background. These two characters present a And the point is Indians see many in­ and straightforward production, it is very new way of thinking. cidents as being interrelated. much like the woman who wrote it, B. A. A monster is chasing Peter and is trying to Tern Eyos Ki is funny and shocking. She Cameron. suck out his soul. In white society psychology speaks from her cultural values which are Born in Nanaimo Cameron has lived there would explain this phenomenon as an ex­ different from the values of white society. for most of her 40 years. Vancouver Island tension of Peter's own sickness, a fantasy Her frank account of the mating habits of the has been her home and its people her source llagersin great cowboy tradition. real only to him. village dogs is outrageous. It makes kennel of inspiration. Indians have given it a name: Sisiutl, a breeding look prissy. >ceeds to pit the two opposing forces, both Reading and writing have always been two 1, against each He then sits back to enjoy great passions, but her career as a writer did fun. not get off the ground until eight years ago. ied Beard, Akahige, 1965 was Kurosawa's When her third child left for school, she : period film. Noboru Yasumoto, a proud dusted off the typewriter and began working ing doctor is sent to work under the fierce full time. Four years ago Canadian film­ i Beard in a public hospital instead of maker Daryl Duke, took her under his wing ting the more socially acceptable job at and taught her the ins and outs of writing irt. During his painful education the scripts. It has been only a couple of years ciple learns from and is profoundly since Dreamspeaker won the Etrog, inged by the older man. Canada's Oscar, for Best Screenplay. Curosawa chose to express the bonding Currently Cameron is transforming ween Red Beard and Yasumoto through Gabrielle Roy's classic novel, The Tin Flute sic. A central motif from Brahms is into a TV mini series. "I'm very excited ociated with Red Beard. As Yasumoto about it and very honored," "She is ds value in dedication and responsibility, one of my long-time favorite writers." motif is associated with him as well. It is On the side Cameron is digging up some ibute to the relationship which is growing appalling research on child abuse and incest. ween them. "I don't know if this will be a novel, novella, short story, film, or what, but I'm Compassion working on it anyway. It'll be 'a thing' until it takes its own form." Curosawa hones the teacher/pupil re- ionship to a fine edge in Red Beard. He kes a broad statement on the brotherhood man. Man being the weak creature he is, jds to learn humane ideals from leaders ong enough to share their strength with lers. T0PF6 DREAMSPEAKER ... a frightened, angry boy finds refuge with Indian spirit world.

stinking, twin-headed serpent. It's not just in Cameron gives us a glimpse into the your mind. It's real. spiritual world once more. Old Woman "Fear has many faces," said Cameron, Knows. She has a gift of sight into matters "and for Peter it all focused around slithery which are hidden from the rest of us. things, things he couldn't grab hold of, She says that a village woman who has has things that slipped out of his grasp the way had several miscarriages must not go to pre­ life had eluded him. natal care. The Indian women realize that "I believe in Sisiutl. I've seen him. Only pre-natal care is worthwhile. They also know when I saw him he was a 'her.' I believe in about Old Woman. The baby is born and Tsonqua: her scream is so horrendous you'd lives. have to be a simpleton to not be afraid, but if How does Cameron know so much about you can hear that scream, feel fear and still Indians? "They live all over this big rock and believe, she will bless you the way Sisiutl have been my friends, neighbors and does. 'adopted' family for most of my life," she "I have known the Earth Witch, I spent said. B. A. CAMERON . . . Island author. years seeking her and it wasn't until I found "I don't think you 'get' insight. It 'gets' her that I found a special peace and self- you. You suddenly feel things behind your Cameron is not bound by any one literary acceptance that has made life wonderful ever eyes and between your ears and they link in form, although she prefers poetry and since." with your belly button and you 'know.' scripts. Death figures strongly in both book and "The Nootka people at Ahousat have been "I didn't decide to turn the script into a program. But the book does say that death is very kind, very helpful and very loving to me story," she said. Dreamspeaker started as a not final. At the end of the show the suicides and have shared greatly, giving of their time, story but it was taking too long, too many give it a feeling of absolute finality. The their hospitality and their past. I feel totally things were burning to get out and the film- book goes on to reunite them in a spiritual at home there; I feel part of them." script form was quicker, more compact and world. This gives the book an almost Cameron covers a lot of ground in Dream­ fit the immediacy of the feelings I was triumphant ending. speaker and Tern Eyos Ki and the Land having." Television requires that characters actions Claims Question. She opens the door to Dreamspeaker and Tern Eyos Ki and the be judged by what we consider their motives a distant culture and leads us into peoples' Land Claims Question was recently released. to be. We add the veneer of our culture to minds. It is Cameron's first book and contains two theirs. In this way we eviscerate Indian Once inside we discover how limited our novellas. culture. own horizons are, how restraining and Dreamspeaker recounts how a young boy, Cameron makes clear the character's engrained our own prejudices have become. Peter, escapes into the forests of B.C. from motives in Indian terms in the story. So much so in fact that we no longer the rehabilitation centre where he was in­ "I continued with the novella because I recognize them as such. We accept them as stitutionalized after setting a school on fire. can explore things in prose that I can't ex­ the norm. Sometimes we need someone to ndering of Macbeth incorporates stylistic Peter is befriended by an old Indian and his plore in film," she said. shake us up. B. A. Cameron is a shaking type mute companion. "The internalization is possible in prose of person. Friday, January 19, 1979 THE UBYSSEY Page Friday, 3 FAMOUS •BRASS TARGET* PLAYERS theatres

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Page Friday, 4 THE UBYSSEY Friday, January 19, 1979 1 film/classical music j Autumn turns violent By LARRY GREEN other elements of Autumn Sonata cept in one early, extraordinary Autumn Sonata, Ingmar are there. scene at the piano (just as last year Bergman's newest film, is one There is the unwanted Sophia Loren didn't look as sexily destined to be paid homage to as a motherhood of the glamorous marvellous in A Special Day as they revealing, riveting experience by his woman and the loss of the dowdy implied) and in every way she avid followers. woman's own child. The first ap­ stands beside Ingrid Bergman's per­ The film is not a comfortable one pears to be the stronger personality formance. to accept and it starts with an at­ while it is the second who finds the There are faults. Ullman's hus­ mosphere of warmth that is shat­ strength to reveal herself, the con­ band, Halvar Bjork, never emerges tered almost with violence. But frontation of Alma/Eva against past being a loving, blank presence, Autumn Sonata shows at its best Elizabeth/Charlotte, the impor­ seeking as he lacks a real role. He Bergman's talent for the ensemble tance of a letter in relating to the narrates at the beginning and again acting and character analysis that audience undercurrents of emo­ near the end which doesn't really form the base of his "modernistic tions, the disillusioned departure work and when he finally says what period" films. and retreat, child deformity and he thinks to his mother-in-law it is guilt. not very helpful to the film. Autumn Sonata With Autumn Sonata, Bergman Ullman's and the director's A film by Ingmar Bergman discards the gloom of his "dark daughter Linn Ullman plays the Starring Ingrid Bergman and Liv period" and the nagging doubts of child Eva in flashback, and we are Ullman the meaning of life and art in Per­ constantly told how unhappy she At the Varsity: Subtitles sona in order to concentrate wholly was. Yet in this non-speaking role on two women characters in their we see a ravishingly pretty and neat The visit of Charlotte, Ingrid own environment. He achieves this little girl who shows no sign of the Bergman, looking tall and with an almost violent intensity depression or anxiety that usually beautiful, a famous pianist whose which replaces the metaphysical affect one's appearance. There are lover has just died, to Eva, her misery of Persona with a deep well many of these nodding roles — too INGRID BERGMAN AND LIV ULLMAN in nightmarish guilt. of emotions. plain, middle-aged, parson's wife many and they are almost all men lives of nightmarish guilt to be will consider this scathing rawness daughter (Liv Ullman) whom she Sven Nykvist's usual incom­ who do not speak. representative of human conditions to be a classic treatment. Basically, hasn't seen for seven years, starts parable camera work gives the film Autumn Sonata is fascinating to the way, Sunday Bloody Sunday Autumn Sonata is on a level of its pleasantly enough — the kisses, the his own special look and Ingrid watch and disconcerting to (1971) is with its sexual triangle. own and as vintage Bergman it stays tears, the chatter. Early on Bergman and Liv Ullman rise to the remember. Somehow it isn't a great While some people may consider in the mind for a long time. It is an Bergman reveals the undershadings director's intentions with almost classic. It's too heavily weighted on this to be a major drawback, others unforgettable work. of each character as they interact painful accuracy. Their interaction, with each other and tension sets in. let alone their confontation is the Finally they confront each other reason for this film and they meet with their past feelings and Eva the demands with their own mat­ ching talents. Lena Nyman, as Witless Superman wastes mind reveals her hate for Charlotte hav­ ing destroyed her youth with her Charlotte's spastic, forgotten egoism. Charlotte leaves suddenly daughter, is hard to forget. some two weeks work, escapes with as she did thoughout Eva's Most of the critics' attention and some dignity as he is the only childhood, both of them regretting awards have been focusing on In­ member of the cast to play his part their encounter and their lives. grid Bergman. She has already won in a relatively straight way. The structure is similar to the New York Film Critics award Brando as Superman's father Bergman's Persona (1966), a shor­ and with her director, the National Jor-El, and director Richard tish black-and-white mystery that Board of Review Award which was Donners with his generous introduced Ullman in Bergman's also voted to Autumn Sonata as borrowings from Stanley Kubrick, work. Persona was filled with illu­ best foreign film. set a tone suitable for a good sions and searing pain and allegory science-fiction movie, a 2001 or at Reviewers seem to have endowed least a Star Wars. as though the audience's conven­ her here with a star-like blaze that But as soon as Kal-El reaches tions about film-making were she doesn't project and would be earth to begin the real action, the meant to be destroyed as they wat­ out of character if she did. Yet it movie dribbles into banal cliches ched. would be disastrous to assume that and self-conscious slapstick. There But the central story within this Liv Ullman plays any other role are the one liners: A thug on a fascinating canvas concerned a than that of the emotional core of getaway boat gives Superman a psychiatric nurse (Bibi Andersson) the film. futile whack with a crowbar and who confronts her charge, an ac­ Ullman plays Eva the plain wife Superman quips "Bad vibrations?" tress who will not speak (Ullman). as a whole person without making Then there are minority groups. Other than the fantasied absorption her look frumpily undignified or You have to look fast for them, but of Alma the nurse and Elizabeth the ridiculous. She doesn't lood as bad several times when Superman takes actress into one woman, all the as the critics have been saying ex­ off there's a black pointing By VERNE McDONALD skyward, stupified, shouting "Wow," or something even more Superman is marvelous en­ ethnic. There is also an inarticulate tertainment to take the kiddies to, Indian chief profiting from Lex VSO brings new cheer unless you have qualms about Luthor's evil schemes. By ROBERT JORDAN This concerto is still essentially Rachmanioff's Symphony No. 2 is exposing them to racism, sexism There is poetry. Lois Lane as she Nineteen seventy-nine came in fledgling Beethoven. Aspects of his undeniably rather large and and leering bad taste. flies with Superman around the with a roar at the first Main Series later volatile dynamicism are pre­ overstated at times. But the bom­ Never has so much money been statue of Liberty, says passionately concert of the year by the Van­ sent embryonically, but the piece bast is sonorous not brutal and who wasted on minds so small. The to herself,' 'You can fly, right up to couver Symphony. Akiyama con­ still demonstrates a preponderence with even a milligram of sentiment result is a movie that shows off the the sky. . ." ducted. of classical esprit. It was this in his or her soul could not respond spectacular results of a spectacular In most other scenes she drools The concert opener was the world classical spirit which Ax chose to to his sumptuous melodies? $38 million budget, but displays not over Superman's tightly-clothed premiere of Philip Lui's Dis. "Dis- emphasize last Monday. The symphony is nothing if not a groatsworth of wit. body and asks such piercing what?" one might ask. "Dis­ His control in pianissimo performed largely heart-on-sleeve. questions as "How big ... I mean appointing?" "Dis-cordant?" passages was a marvel to behold. The VSO strings sawed their hearts Superman how tall are you?" "Dis-eased?" Every note was sparkling clear and out. The brass filled the Orpheum Directed by Richard Donner Lois Lane's incipient neo- Actually, Dis was all of these. even and beautifully controlled. with resplendent sound. All perfect­ At the Capitol 6, nymphomania is only one example Written in North American Phrase nuance and shading could ly to order according to the nature Guildford, Richmond Square of the implicit sexism of the movie Academic Dissonant style, the piece have been termed state of the art. of the piece. Superman. She has been reduced joins countless others written in this Yet lyricism and robust expression Akiyama's interpretation was The story, makes no attempt from a hardheaded woman to a tortuously obnoxious manner were not sacrificed when musically well conceived, not shirking his par­ to improve on the thin plots of the klutzy reporter who can't spell which are premiered each year but required. ticular specialty (bombast) one iota, comic books and even manages to "rapist" and by the end of the mercifully never to be heard from It was a lovely performance. The but also allowing the yearning devolve a little to a level of theme movie she is a helpless doll, buried again. aura of Ax's wonderful control and melancholy of the soaring melodic and characterization below theirs. alive in more ways than one. Two "restless" movements alter­ sensitivity spread to the orchestra lines to sing its message The cold, singleminded genius Such is Superman's self- nated with a central "gentle" one. reduced in size which did its level uninhibited. The symphony ended Lex Luthor of the original DC four- professed allegiance to "the The final movement writhed, twit­ best to match and mould itself to in a gloriously trimphant swirl of colors becomes a vain, pompous American Way." His final ched and jerked seemingly inter­ his delicately shaded interpretation. sound, the final notes punched out clown, Gene Hackman living under statement at the end of the film is minably until the ganglia finally ran Khachaturian's seldom-heard with emphatic vehemance. a sewer with an idiot and a spoken to a prison warden. "Don't down and the hideous reptilian Symphony No. 2 was to have closed Save for the aural aberrations of voluptuous floozy, Valerie Perrine. thank me, warden. We're all on the thing was still. the programme. Apparently the or­ Dis, this concert was, for the most Lois Lane is played by Margot same team." The apparent enthusiasm with chestral parts were virtually illegible part, quite an enjoyable one. Kidder and transformed from an The end result of all this is which the orchestra, supplemented so with predictable lack of in­ Despite the grumblings over the inquisitive, adventurous reporter hilarity is that much of it is by a battalion of percussion, attack­ genuity, "those who do the choos­ choice of the substitute for the into a batty, brainless version of unintentional and the superb ed the work was about the only ing at the VSO" chose Khachaturian, the Rachmnanioff Diane Keaton's New York girl. special effects are finally the only praiseworthy element in the entire Rachmaninoff's often-heard Sym­ was well performed indeed. Christopher Reeve in the title role interesting thing about this silly, production. phony No. 2 instead. Will Vancouver ears ever be is just as one-dimensionally square trivial movie. After Dis, Beethoven's Piano Why not one of many equally assailed by the undeniable, if less as the original and has probably The opening credits with their Concerto No. 1 had never sounded deserving yet less frequently played familiar, bombast of condemned himself to an entire laser projections qualify for my so beautiful. This sense of beauty symphonies? Rachmanioff's first, Khachaturian's second symphony? career as the wooden boy scout in nomination for the Academy was in no small way aided by guest Martinu's fourth or Sibelius' Not at the next concert anyway, so blue underwear. Award for film titles. Un­ pianist Emanuel Ax's gently and ex­ seventh to name only three? you can leave your ear plugs at Only Marlon Brando, much fortunately, in many ways they are quisitely phrased playing. Judged on its own terms, home for that one. spoken of for his $3.4 million for the high point of a cheap comedy.

Friday, January 19, 1979 THE UBYSSEY Page Friday, 5 ^poetry/theatre J

Beckett begs questions Hidden Secrets By GREGORY STRONG of trousers and coat who's tracked Despite the weight of his I asked an old man Stanley Weese's production his entire life onto a series of tapes. philosophical themes Beckett can be what secrets must I look for Three by Samuel Beckett at the Now in his sixty-ninth year, before a master comedian. A great admirer He said Freddie Wood Theatre is a textbook he makes the final tape of his life, of Charlie Chaplin and Buster If you climb the mountain he listens to one that he made thirty theatrical event. There are no sur­ Keaton, early in the play he has and feel prises but the play is an evening of years earlier and finds he can't Krapp slipping on a banana peel good solid work. understand it. and uncorking a bottle and drinking rain and wind and sun At the Friday night premiere In a sense the play is about leav­ it offstage. when you return a man there was a faint hint of perfume as ing tracks, Krapp's name is an ob­ The amazing thing about Beckett awaits you with a gun the women arrived first in elaborate vious scatological note and the idea is that he takes the most difficult that you will see coats and the men later in their of a last tape refers to what is left, and abstract concepts and com­ is no secret. good jackets. The director himself what remains, in Krapp's case only municates them in a dramatic form. sat with his confederates in seats in the pessimism and cynicism of old The issues are still the old cosmic —Simon S. Danes the left aisle. age. ones of man's fate in and place in the universe and Beckett would Krapp's Last Tape is an explora­ "Three by Samuel Beckett" want nothing more than the com­ tion of the effects of memory and Directed by Stanley Weese plete eradication of the self. time on identity. There's a terrific A t the Frddie Wood Theatre And at one of the most moving Tonight and tomorrow night contrast between the doddering old Krapp on stage and the confident points in the drama, Krapp almost achieves a mystical harmony with the world, in a complete spiritual and sensual union as the tape recalls The Street a lost sexual experience where On the street Krapp lay with a woman in a boat. you can see the pigeons "/ lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my head on cruising and squabbling for crumbs her. We lay there without moving. on the clean lean mornings But all around us moved, and mov­ when the children are herded again ed us gently, up and down and from into the chalk dust corral side to side." PAUSE. Krapp's lips move. No of their teacher's mind sound. a handful of flowers "Past midnight. Never knew plucked from the weary street such silence. The earth might be smelling of poverty and yesterdays uninhabited." and the beer from cheap hotels. Director Weese chose to present See the boys there the three Beckett pieces on the same evening worked well as complemen- out of work and out of touch taries although some audience leaning against the walls members at the premiere didn't en­ of some building already condemned joy their evening. they are the same The other two pieces in the pro­ and already know it gram, Breath and Not I were also well done. Breath, is a theatrical but they strut their muscles surprise where a curtain is slowly peacocking the afternoon raised then dropped on a stage full with the smile of the doomed of rubbish while the audience hears and the grin of the ignorant heavy breathing and Not I where dreaming of t.v. women only a woman's red lips are shown on a black stage near a hooded or an easy lay figure. selling what they have Not I is probably the most dif­ for a beer or two look out for the street, kid —guy palmer ficult to understand or even ap­ preciate because it is one of MATTHEW WALKER • Krapp hoards memories on spools of tape. it killed your daddy too. Beckett's later pieces and his style has become increasingly —Simon S. Danes Some people go to theatre to voice of the younger Krapp on tape. economical. The woman's mouth wear new clothes and to see light Beckett once wrote that isolated under the beam of white entertainment. But Samuel Beckett "memory was the great washingline light from which it can't escape is a is one of the most difficult 20th cen­ of the mind." As in Krapp's Last shocking and obscene image. tury playwrights. By the end of the Tape, images from the past, our It's a mind from body split and evening, these people had either left memories, have no more legitimacy typical of Beckett where the outside or were complaining that Beckett than our daydreams because as we world, the beam of light is con­ bored them. age, we continually re-interpret our tinually intruding on an individual's One Death Three by Samuel Beckett, memories. The old Krapp cannot isolation. Beckett sees the mind as a Krapp's Last Tape, Breath and Not understand his earlier selves and sanctuary from the world rather I dare not live too long. 1 is like the playing of some weird, thus his entire being is called into than an instrument to be used in it. terribly personal dream. Beckett's question. Dead men trek work runs completely counter the The Stanley Weese production Student Lesley Wade as the The streets, popular notion of self-discovery. broke no ground in Three by mouth had the difficult task of Their steps "You can't discover yourself, Samuel Beckett, but the direction communicating a high speed Forcing me to feel monologue in an Irish dialect to an forget it." is the implicit message. was accurate and simple. Matthew my dead life "Being," asks Krapp, "remain­ Walker was also a particularly good audience which was largely confus­ ed. But the voice had a strange And theirs. ing.' The words have become choice for Krapp. His British accent bankrupt because there can be no a sense of locale to the play and ad­ fascination and the lips peering out —Simon S. Danes meaningful concepts or even ques­ ded to the personality of the of the white hole were strangely tions stuck in time and space as we character. compelling. are, the void Becket describes, so Walker is a fine character actor Beyond the darkness is Beckett vast and indifferent that even per­ and he has done a great deal of himself pointing beyond the world sonal identity is a dubious proposi­ good work for the Freddie Wood we see, to other mental experiences tion. over the years. He knows how to like a series of Chinese boxes, one Krapp is a slightly comit. .gure. play an audience as well as use inside the other. He offers no He's a failed artist who sold seven­ Beckett's sight gags, and pratfalls spiritual comfort to an audience teen copies of a single novel. He's a yet he didn't lose the poignancy of only the withered olive branch of ARTS balding old man in a badly cut suit Krapp's situation. his resignation to life. Kurosawa films are from a different world BEARGARDEN From PF3 Uzala, while not part of Cinema 16, Although plot takes second place Dodes'ka-den was released five will be shown at SUB in late spring. to characterization, Kurosawa Friday, January 19th years after Red Beard, a con­ In Dersu Uzala Kurosawa again brings all his talents to bear as an siderable length of time between returns to epic proportions. Dersu artist in the use of color. The films for Kurosawa. The 1970 film is a man of nature. He finds a breathtaking beauty of the seasons explored the fascinating but casual kindred spirit in the explorer-sur­ provides a solid yet changing back­ FREE BEARS relationships between poor people veyor Arseniev. ground which highlights the trapped in the Tokyo shanty-town. Unfortunately each comes from a transitory nature of friendship. It lacks the power and chohesive different world. For Dersu it is his GREAT MUSIC force for which Kurosawa had world which is retreating before the Kurosawa looks at people and 4:00 - 8:00 become known. It has not received crush of civilization which will wipe admires them while admitting their much attention even as a work by him off the face of the earth. Even faults. Yet he tempers both judg­ Kurosawa. friendship cannot cross the gulf of ment and film with compassion and Buchanan Lounge Kurosawa's latest film, Dersu time. perspective. Page Friday, 6 THE UBYSSEY Friday, January 19, 1979 Electrical experience turns on local crowd By PETER MENYASZ ing to beat the guitar to death with could be argued that any mildly The only disappointing thing its strap, just as Hendrix did. talented impersonator could do a about Randy Hansen's concert last The only thing missing was set­ reasonably realistic job. Friday night at the Gardens was the ting it on fire. What makes Randy Hansen dif­ audience, or lack of it. The acrobatics were present, too. ferent is the energy that he puts into A small crowd of only about From simple gymnastics like jump­ his show. It was Jimi Hendrix's 1,000 yelled themselves hoarse ing onto the monitors to play to energy that was the magical attrac­ demanding encores of the man pro­ more difficult maneuvers like tion behind his music. There were a claimed as the reincarnation of Jimi backward somersaults while playing lot of great musicians in Hendrix's Hendrix. a guitar solo. time, but few/ that threw so much of Reincarnation or not, Randy Hansen emulated Hendrix's pas­ themselves into their music. Hansen was impressive. sion for getting close to his au­ Judging from the looks of the dience, rushing off the stage and The crowd was wild on Friday crowd, the average age must have prancing through the crowd. He night, and it was Hansen's hard been about 17 years. It would be even made a detour on one such ex­ work and musical ability that drove unlikely to expect most of them to cursion up into the stands, them to a frenzy. remember much of Jimi Hendrix's serenading eager fans with an ex­ After the concert, back in his music, much less the man himself. tended riff. hotel room, Randy Hansen seems a That didn't seem to make much dif­ All of Jimi's best-loved standards little more relaxed. No matter that ference, though. were part of the show: Manic he's not black, no matter that the For those of us that remember Depression, the Star Spangled Ban­ Afro wig has been put aside, the Jimi, Hansen's performance was ner, Are You Experienced, andmore aura of Hendrix still surrounds yigiap^ - Randy Hansen. Perhaps the publicity wasn't enough to draw a big crowd to the concert at the Gardens. Perhaps op­ posing a concert by Devo at the What is significant is that the Commodore was the cause of the songs were almost perfect down to poor showing for Randy Hansen. individual notes. Perhaps the au­ No matter. Those that saw the con­ like reliving a 10-year-old memory. dience wouldn't have noticed that, cert certainly received their money's For those that don't remember, it unless they studied up on Hendrix worth. must have seemed like an before the concert. unbelievable concert. Certainly those of us that grew up There is a po ay that Randy All of the old Hendrix tricks were listening to Jimi's music had to be Hansen will return to do i ;ofr:.;r there, of course. That's what you'd impressed by the precision of the concert in Vancouver in ..ie near expect from an impersonator. impersonation. future. It can only be hoped that Hansen played his guitar behind his Okay, so maybe all of the facets Jimi Hendrix fans and rock music —peter menyasz photo back, over his head, with his teeth of the performance mentioned so lovers will make a greater effort to HANSEN . . . electrifying guitar experience. and ended his performance by try- far are a matter of practice and it watch Hansen's incredible act. Devo asks musical question: Are We Not Men? By MURRAY HELMER Likewise, guitarist Bob Casale paid Devo is a five man team of his own visit when he leapt from the loonies from Akron, Ohio who stage onto a nearby table amidst the have made it their responsibility to bewildered fans, all the while spread the theory of de-evolution strumming away. through music. De-evolution is the The show was fast paced but breakdown of society, or as the short. Mark Mothersbaugh runs a group so aptly puts it, man's rever­ tight ship on stage, allowing sion to pinhead. As crazy as it minimal time between songs. He sounds, this wacky concept at­ leads the group through their tracted two sellout audiences to the choreographed movements, hopp­ Commodore last week to witness ing, spinning and strutting his way the latest phenomena in rock music, through such Devo standards as the group Devo. Uncontrollable Urge, Sloppy, and the Devo anthem, Jocko Homo. With their ludicrous ideas in Comprising the rest of the band mind, I walked into the Com­ are Jerry Casale on bass, Bob modore Friday night with a review Mothersbaugh on guitar, and Allen already written in my head. I had Myers on drums. All members are planned to use several derogatory the product of Kent State's art phrases en route to lambasting a faculty where three films were pro­ group whose only drawing point is duced by Devo Inc. Even in their kindled by absurdity. Unfortunate­ formative years these men were ly, I find writing this review much nuts. One film spawned the more difficult a task than I an­ character Booji Boy, a masochist ticipated. Devo was good. who gains pleasure from sticking Devo is not just another punk act forks into electric toasters. cashing in on a craze. They are a Booji Boy made his first Van­ highly stylized act whose innova­ couver appearance during the third tions to rock music are centered encore, featuring a song from the around a combination of science forthcoming Wiggly World album, fiction and fantasy. It has been the group's second. He sings in a termed industrial rock but the bot­ high falsetto and displays childlike tom line still spells entertainment. qualities, far removed from the nor­ A Devo concert is a major pro­ mal antics of the man under the duction, complete with costume plastic mask, Mark Mothersbaugh. change. Granted, ripping off yellow Devo is a group of individuals chemical-retardant suits to expose whose wide range of talent enables orange shorts, elbow pads, and a them to blend their music with their hockey helmet isn't your average message. At the same time, Devo costume change, but Devo isn't makes music that everyone can your average rock group. relate to. Intellectuals are satisfied Early in the show, lead singer and by lyrics with familiar themes and keyboardist Mark Mothersbaugh inspiration. Musicians realize that literally got to know his audience by all elements of instrumentation are diving headlong into the crowd. adeptly fulfilled. As for me, I'm Then calmly he climbed back just content to sit back and be murray helmer photos onstage and continued his song. entertained. DEVO . . . de-evolution from rock history in Akron, Ohio. Friday, January 19, 1979 THE UBYSSEY Page Friday. 7 Icountry rock[ Tanya teases and pleases By DOUG TODD playing the easier country beat of producer was at work throughout. She has a powerful, melodious What's Your Momma's Name? It was a Texas oversell in the final voice and a natural sensuality, so Tanya Tucker is only 20 years old set-piece when Tanya sang her it's too bad that Tanya Tucker's but she has had a long career that tribute to Texas (it's the closest producers make her put the micro­ goes back to age 14 when she made place she's been to heaven) and the phone cord through her legs and a hit out of Delta Dawn. band and the backstage crew end each song with a Penthouse Unfortunately, overzealous started waving Texan flags and pose because that's when she starts producers got in early on this passing them out to the audience. looking uncomfortable. growing talent and have attempted But her band is skilled, and to make her into a symbol of hard played Heartbreak Hotel and most Tanya "Miss TNT" Tucker's sex. Her posters show her in black other songs with precision and overflow show last Saturday at the leather and erotic poses looking like power. Tanya's clean, strong voice Commodore was part of the a motorcycle queen. was impressive on many pieces and phenomenally popular new country On stage when she sings a rocker, male backup vocalists added a rock sound being put out by people the image almost works, but not novel touch to the show. The like Linda Ronstadt and Waylon enough to make you overlook that boisterous audience didn't fail to Jennings. she is not spontaneous enough to show its approval. make the image believable. Only The bouffant wig of the old The long, two-hour wait for her when she came back for the encore, country look is gone and the show in order that it could be taped did she really seem to relax, move southern twang is going. With live by CFOX radio was relieved freely, and enjoy herself, and then Tanya Tucker it's been replaced by only by a courageous New York she was without the stylized poses. a skin-tight costume and a band comedian who made jokes about that's as good at playing the driving Singing her old country songs she "steel belted radial condoms for rock of Not Fade Away as it is had a natural bittersweet warmth real traction on wet surfaces" and that seemed more authentic for her. then ventured into a series of drug She made known that it was and hemorrhoid jokes. MUSSOC PRESENTS because of these songs that she was up on stage and one could see her Art Carney, in town to make a /jNTTHIlim uniqueness coming through them. film, sauntered onto the stage for To her credit, the soft country fun to plunk out Misty and other image was sometimes effectively tunes on the piano, but most of the combined with the harder rock one, audience hardly , noticed as he when lines like "If my lips were played without a word, stopping dry, would you wet them dear?" only to smell his armpits. TUCKER . . . pretty package packs a powerful punch. JAN. 31-FEB. 10 were combined with "If my needs But the crowd wanted Tanya, portray her as a lusty and ex­ Preview Jan. 30 tegration of country and rock. They were strong, would you lay with and they wanted a hard country perienced seductress. might have seen a more confident 8:30 p.m. me?" But, over-all, the switch from sound to stomp to. So they got an If Tanya Tucker had been able to performer — a performer who OLD AUDITORIUM country to Chuck Berry rock was up tempo, slick show and a slightly develop her personality and her knows who she is. But judging by TICKETS: Concert Box Offices, Outlets & AMS Business Office too manipulated and unnatural. uncomfortable young woman show on her own, the crowd might the applause, the crowd got what it STUDENTS: $2.00 Tues. Thurs. The heavy hand of her MCA whose producers are trying to have heard a more creative in­ wanted.

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