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THIS WEEKS CONTRIBUTORS Derek Leschasin News Editor Yumimi Pang • Caitlin Crawshaw • Carmen Barnett • Sarah Doyle • Michael Banias, • William O’Donnell • Andriy Michalchyshyn • he fate of a long-time past fourteen years, the Theatre said. Christine Esselmont • Ed Cheung • Bryna Osborne Village landmark Department has been staging its If the Gas Station Theatre closes, the Hallam • Paul Wedel • Mike Lewis • Whitney may have serious productions at the Gas Station Theatre. Theatre Department will be left without a Light • Aldona Dziedziejko • Eric Warwaruk • consequences for the viable venue to perform in. Smaller David Garvey • Andrea Collins • Patrick future of the University venues do not have the space and Faucher • Paul Ryan • Rhys Kelso • Mike Pyl of Winnipeg’s Theatre equipment the department requires. Program. “Right now I While larger venues do exist, The Uniter is the offi cial student newspaper of the University T of Winnipeg and is published by the University of Winnipeg The Gas Station Theatre, which has Babcock says that most of their Students’ Association. The Uniter is editorially autonomous operated for over twenty years, is in stage time for the year has been and the opinions expressed within do not necessarily refl ect those of the UWSA. The Uniter is a member of the Canadian danger of closing its doors in 2005. booked. University Press and Campus Plus Media Services. The Osborne Village Cultural Centre, don’t have a The U of W Theatre Building is SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES, LETTERS, PHOTOS AND the not-for-profi t organization that runs due to have a stage in place for the GRAPHICS ARE WELCOME Articles should be submitted in text or Microsoft Word format to [email protected]. the theatre, has put the building up for near future, but Babcock says that Deadline for submissions is noon Friday (contact the section’s editor for more information). Deadline for advertisements is sale, claiming that the theatre is not solution” even if all the funding were in place, noon Friday, six days prior to publication. The Uniter reserves fi nancially sustainable. it would be at least two years before the right to refuse to print submitted material. The Uniter will not print submissions that are homophobic, misogynistic, The Gas Station Theatre’s closure students would be able to perform racist or libelous. We also reserve the right to edit for length or style. would have a direct adverse affect on the “We consider it an extension of on it. theatre program at the U of W. For the university facilities,” says Tim Babcock, There is a possibility that the Theatre Acting Chair of the Program could be restructured to run over CONTACT US » General Inquiries: 204.786.9790 Theatre Department. the summer months, when the ability to Advertising: 204.786.9779 “Its loss will be diffi cult obtain a larger venue would be assured, Editors: 204.786.9497 Fax: 204.783.7080 to replace.” but Babcock says that this would not be a Email: [email protected] Babcock stresses sustainable solution. THE UNITER » that staging these “It would leave students who want to Room ORM14 productions is an work in the summer unavailable.” University of Winnipeg integral feature of the However, the Board of Directors for the 515 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 theatre program. While Gas Station Theatre has encountered courses do include opposition to the proposed sale from its COVER IMAGE some theoretical own membership, as well as members of aspects, “the strength the local community. of our program is based Supporters of the Theatre have formed on our faculty and the a group dubbed “High Octane”, and are practical work that we currently working with community and Photo by: David Tan do.” business leaders to try and create an “It’s very signifi cant. alternative plan for the sustainability of the Right now I don’t have a solution,” Babcock » Continued on page 04 02 DECEMBER 02, 2004 » CONTACT News Editors » Derek Leschasin & Vivian Belik E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497 NewsVOTING DATES: Monday November 29th — Thursday December 2nd LOCATION: Second Floor Centennial Escalators from 8:30 a.m. — 7:00 p.m. *Bring your STUDENT CARD! UWSA By-Election Ends Today
Jacob Serebrin Beat Reporter
he University of Winnipeg Student Karen Korchinski Oyebola (Bola) Oyenuga Nathan Sawatzky Tammy Andrejowich & Cory Bellhouse Association (UWSA) Education Director candidate International Students’ Director Candidate Arts Director Candidate Arts Director Co-candidates is holding a by- election this week to “The poll is open until 7:00pm and is open to all U of W students” fi ll four positions not made it a top priority to get quite tall and you can see me around abroad. The pair feel that “learning student groups to fi nd out their Tfi lled in the spring general election. international students involved. all the time.” To which opponent takes place inside and outside the priorities and needs. Currently open are the positions of “I want international students to Bellhouse replied, “Nathan says he’s classroom,” and want to “help “ I e s p e c i a l l y w a n t t o b e a c c e s s i b l e Arts Director, International Students get involved in the UWSA decision tall, well there’s two of us.” people participate more in to student groups…I look forward to Director and Education Director. process,” she says, adding, “We Bellhouse and Andrejowich, the university.” Andrejowich says the working with them.” While the positions of International can’t just sit on the sidelines.” She co-candidates for Arts Director have two will be able to provide double Unfortunately Karen Korchinski, Students Director and of Education says that international students run their campaign on the premise the representation for arts students candidate for Education Director, Director are uncontested, UWSA often feel isolated and not really part that, according to Bellhouse, “two and that “the two of us, we’re going was not able to speak to the Uniter by-laws still require the candidates of the university, something she people are better then one.” to be equally involved.” before press time. Like Sawatzky, to be subject to a yes/no vote. Arts wants to change. Oyenuga also Andrejowich says she wants to Sawatzky, who is also running for she also wants more microwaves on Director is the only contested wants to lower fees for international “enhance campus culture.” If Arts Director, made getting more campus. Korchinski also wants position, with Nathan Sawatzky students. elected, the pair plan to put up microwaves for students and consistent grading in education and running against the team of Cory For the contested category of posters throughout the school in working with student groups top hopes to work with the education Bellhouse and Tammy Andrejowich. Arts Director, the representative for order to communicate plans and priorities of his campaign. When department. On Wednesday, November 24 the the two-thirds of U of W students ideas to students. Another project asked what set him apart from his Voting ends today (December 2), candidates spoke to students in who are in Arts, there seemed to be the co-candidates want to work on opponents Swatzky replied, at least and is located on the second fl oor Riddell Cafeteria. The uncontested much overlap of the themes of is the development of an international partially joking, “microwaves, they’re near the escalators. The poll is candidates made speeches followed making the Arts Director(s) exchange program for U of W not talking about that.” open until 7:00 p.m. and is open to by a brief debate between the accessible and working with student students. While Andrejowich More seriously Sawatzky says all U of W students, including candidates for Arts Director. groups. The debate was also acknowledges it may not be possible that since he’s “one person, that Collegiate and concurrent students. Bola Oyenuga, candidate for marked by humour from both sides. to get such a program in place, she makes things more efficient.” Students wishing to vote will be International Students Director, and At one point, when talking about at least wants to set up a process to Sawatzky says his main strategy is required to present their student an international student herself, has accessibility, Sawatzky said, “I’m help students who wish to study to work with the school’s largest card.
U of W Students Celebrate Buy Nothing Day
Vivian Belik News Editor purchasing food from the Chartwells menu or dining for free on the food ometimes the they had to offer. The group set up best way to fight their free feast no more than ten feet insurmountable away from a buffet table in the forces is by cafeteria that was selling Christmas doing nothing meals to students and staff for $4.95. at all. On Serving up antics and music along NovemberS 26, unofficial with their homemade grub, EcoMAFIA Buy Nothing Day, activists in members didn’t have to try too hard Winnipeg and across the world to convince ‘customers’ to stop by made a concerted effort for 24 their table. hours to slow down the daily “The food is really good and, well, hamster wheel of consumerism. a lot cheaper than the food inside the At the University of Winnipeg, cafeteria” commented Nick Laporte as part of a week-long Buy between bites of his vegetarian chili. Nothing celebration, the “There’s a whole line up [in the environmentalists, students and Mall security made it quite clear, “Last year we lasted at least university’s EcoMAFIA group cafeteria for the Christmas meal] and others from around the world who as they have done on previous Buy an hour,” says Melissa Bennett, encouraged students and staff to a whole line-up out here and I think are concerned about global Nothing days, that protestors are not describing how the group this champion the age-old DIY ethic that’s brilliant!” sustainability and human rights join welcome at Polo Park. Less than year was less organized and less instead of spending money to Buy Nothing Day was set in together in symbolic protest to half an hour after they entered the able to spread their message of feed already bloated corporate motion thirteen years ago by a mindfully spend time with friends mall, Proven and many of his cohorts unethical consumption to Polo bank accounts. To help students handful of concerned activists on and family rather than spend money. were promptly thrown out with little Park shoppers. wean themselves off of their debit Canada’s west coast. Using the In the late afternoon of November to no explanation from security Even though their anti- cards and greenbacks, EcoMAFIA popular anti-consumer magazine 26, EcoMAFIA joined forces with personnel. consumer message may have organized workshops that taught Adbusters as their vehicle for members of the University of “This is private property,” spat been stopped short and perhaps students everything from beer- exposure, these activists catapulted Manitoba Environmental and one of the security guards, refusing lost among a sea of wrapping making to knitting. The week of ‘Buy Nothing Day’ towards worldwide Recycling Group (UMREG) to bring to describe to a handful of activists paper and mistletoe, the activists awareness and information- infamy. The specifi c date changes their message of good cheer and and media what sort of illegal remained in good spirits. sharing culminated in a lunch- each year but it always comes on the anti-consumerism to the harried activities the group members were “It was fun,” says Shane hour giveaway of free food and day known to retailers and shoppers at Polo Park. engaging in. Peisch, an EcoMAFIA member good cheer on November 26, in economists as ‘Black Friday’ – the “People were pretty receiving of The dealings with security guards who came out of the mall smiling. honour of Buy Nothing Day. day after American Thanksgiving our ideas. We talked to them and at Polo Park didn’t stop some Buy “It’s great just to go into a place Parking themselves outside of when consumers and retailers dive gave out some Christmas cards,” Nothing advocates from re-entering like that and not buy anything!” Riddell Hall at lunchtime on Friday headlong into a frenzy of Christmas said Jonathon Proven. “The only the building to test their luck, but it afternoon, EcoMAFIA provided shopping. problem is that the security offi cers did fuel criticism from one EcoMAFIA students with the choice of On this day, activists, here are assholes!” member. DECEMBER 02, 2004 03 , 2004 Derek Leschasin News World News Report News Editor
Democratic Republic of 01 Congo— United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan gave a statement last month confirming that 04 the UN is conducting investigations into allegations of sexual abuses committed 02 by UN staff last spring, Reuters reports. Annan said that there are about 30 cases being investigated, some involving the 03 sexual abuse of minors. Both military and 01 civilian UN staff are involved. The UN is currently operating with about ten thousand military and civilian personnel in the country, trying to maintain peace after a conflict between ethnic militias that has killed approximately 50 thousand people since 1999.
United States— According to a story from 02Wired News, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is set to begin a review of how the vote count in the November Presidential election was conducted. However, the GAO’s investigation will have no impact on the election results. According to the GAO, an investigation had already been in the works, but given the Gas Station Theatre in Jeopardy petitions from Democratic members of May Leave Theatre Program without Performing Space Congress and ordinary voters, the GAO will be expanding its scope to look into many specific irregularities that were reported. Since the election, there have been reports from across the country that electronic voting machines failed to count all votes, or counted votes for the wrong candidates.
Burma—BBC reports that the military dictatorship of Burma has announced that
Photo by: Wade Andrew 03 Continued from page 02 it will be releasing thousands more inmates » from its prisons, bringing the total number theatre. The theatre has until January 1 of prisoners freed in the last two weeks to back out of the sale. of November to over 9,000. The regime “There is a plan, it will involve transition has said that the inmates were “wrongly and investigation, but we do have a arrested” by the intelligence agencies. turn-around strategy in mind,” says Some are questioning the government’s James Gordon, a spokesperson for the commitment, however, noting that only a group, noting that the fi nancial records few hundred prisoners had been released members have seen are years out of as of November 24. The government has date. blamed the delay on difficulties in “We don’t feel they are in anywhere processing the freed prisoners. near the trouble they’re reporting,” he On the same date, there had been twenty said. political prisoners released, some who had According to Babcock, members been detained since the late 80s. Well- have been told that the potential buyer is known activist for democracy, Aung San the North West Company, which is Suu Kyi, is still under house arrest and affi liated with a number of retail chains, there are no plans for her release. including Giant Tiger. The Board is acting on the authority Winnipeg— of a vote held in July 2004, but High NewWinnipeg.com Octane says that there were irregularities 04reports that Chris Buors, about the vote, noting that membership local marijuana advocate and leader sales had been frozen prior to the vote, of the Libertarian Party of Manitoba, and that inadequate fi nancial information was sentenced to six months in jail last had been provided to members. The Wednesday. resolution to sell the theatre passed by a Buors was arrested and charged in August single vote. of 2002 when police found 30 marijuana High Octane is claiming that the result plants and hydroponics equipment in of the vote is not legally valid, due to Buors’s home. Buors claimed that the these irregularities. plants were being used for the Compassion There has been a drive to sell more Club, a group he set up to help medicinal theatre memberships, which would marijuana users obtain the drug. mean that all new members can participate in voting on the sale of the According to a report from the BBC, the building or any other issues. In the past World Trade Organization has given the go- week, the Board agreed to set up a ahead for a number of countries to impose meeting on December 14, in which trade sanctions on the United States. The members will vote on two proposals: to sanctions are in response to the Byrd replace the current Board of Directors, Amendment, which helps US firms to and to halt the sale of the theatre. appeal over trading practices they deem Gordon says he is tentatively confi dent unfair. about the outcome of the vote, especially Most of the $150 million in sanctions will with the drive for new members still come from Japan and the EU, though other ongoing. countries, including Canada, will be “We’re confi dent we’re doing all the imposing sanctions of their own. right things,” he said. 04 DECEMBER 02, 2004 » CONTACT News Editors » Derek Leschasin & Vivian Belik E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497 Religion and politics do mix: Manning Politicians shouldn’t ignore faith, former Reform party leader says agreement faith and politics that we can keep the faith Manning’s rethinking of the Finally, Manning revealed By Yumimi Pang don’t mix, but are kept in “two dimension in this (case) in faith-politics interface. There is his mantra of the day: “Be The Ubyssey (University of separate watertight watertight compartments, in the public’s demand for higher wise as serpents and British Columbia) compartments.” moral relativism?” said Manning. ethical standards in business harmless as doves.” He used Second, Parliament actively “We may not know the right and government, and the the biblical quote repeatedly ANCOUVER avoids moral and ethical issues way, but the way we’ve been changing attitude of the courts to illustrate his point: when (CUP) - like abortion and euthanasia, he handling (religion and morality) that are “pushing back” when seeking to incorporate - Canadian said. Such issues will inevitably has been inadequate.” given the task to legislate what religion into politics, the path politicians lead to religious values and Other countries have much Parliament tries to shy away of subtler means is preferable need to open back to the avoided mixture of more closely linked political- from. and advantageous. their eyes to faith and politics. religious systems. The Qu’ran Manning does not have an Politicians should take the religiousV and moral issues, “You believe what you guides the foreign policies of all-encompassing panacea to religion-politics issue to former Reform party leader believe, I believe what I believe over 50 member-states in the the current situation, but simply heart, especially after the Preston Manning said at and as long as we respect one United Nations, said Manning. a modest proposal: to say it’s recent U.S. election, where the University of British another, it’ll all work out and In the United States and United okay to talk about spirituality social conservatives and Columbia Nov. 22. that’s the depth of . . . what Kingdom, the faith perspective and religion in relation to evangelicals have been Manning, a longstanding (politicians) say, if (they) are is also much more politics. credited with providing Bush member of Parliament and forced to say something on pronounced. There are three ways to with victory, he said. founding member of both the moral issues,” Manning said. “Like it or not, these peoples’ legitimate the discussion, “There are these deep Reform party and Canadian The approach worked faith perspectives are probably according to him. First, religion cultural, moral and spiritual Alliance, said politicians don’t somewhat until Sept. 11 and in some way or another and spirituality must be values and if you pretend know how to combine their what Manning called the “violent infl uencing their foreign policy,” demonstrated to be part of they aren’t there, like the faith with their work and have intrusion of misguided faith.” said Manning. “And at least (we reality. Next, there is the need Democrats did,” said developed two key ways to “I was in Ottawa at the time should) try to talk about it to get to elicit the help of eminent Manning, “you will miss a avoid doing so. and raised the question in the a better understanding of it.” persons to create change from chunk of that society.” First, there is the tacit House: can anybody here say Two factors are key in the top downwards.
WarnsPhilipInternational Weiss:of Increasing studentsHolocaust Anti- could Survivor face Women and Peace-Making Semitismmassive tuition hike at U of A Discussed at MLWSC’s Speaker Series Current st udents should be exempt from Scott de Groot Senior Beat Reporter simultaneously at the international level has 23.5% increase, st udent leader says o an audience of students been an effective strategy in many and faculty assembled for instances. the second installment of the The case studies Snyder presented were Margaret Lawrence Women’s compiled largely from her own research into Centre’s “Revolutionary women’s peace organizations, for which she Women Speakers Series,” conducted a series of interviews with African TDr. Anna Snyder of Menno-Simons College women in the mid-1990s, and participated in spoke on the important role of women in the the 4th UN World Conference on Women in peace-making process. Beijing, China in 1995. The results of the By Caitlin Crawshaw Focusing primarily on Africa, Snyder research can be found in her latest The Gateway (University of Alberta) highlighted several African women’s publication: “Setting the Agenda for Global organizations that have made contributions to Peace: Confl ict and Consensus Building.” DMONTON (CUP) -- hoping the university will implement the the continent’s ongoing struggle for peace. The While Snyder’s research area has now International students at the change through a grandfather clause in Association of Mozambique Women for Peace become recognized as an important one, University of Alberta may which current students would face the (AMWP) was one of these; due to its tenacious this was not always the case; when she face a tuition hike of nearly same tuition increase as domestic and innovative efforts, political violence did not began working on her doctoral dissertation 23.5 per cent next year if students, and incoming students would disrupt Mozambique’s first multi-party at Syracuse University in New York, she a proposed fee increase pay the 23.5 per cent increase. democratic elections in 1994. received little support from the Faculty of comesE to fruition. According to provost Carl Amrhein, Enlisting the help of Social Sciences. Currently, international undergraduate the amount of the increase is not civil society, the AMWP “People really didn’t and graduate students at the university pay confirmed, but is currently being drafted petitions calling “To me, it is a quite know what the 157 per cent more than domestic students. discussed by the university’s budgetary for non-violence, which heck I was talking about. International students pay a differential fee advisory committee. He said the proposal were signed by very important They just didn’t get it,” on top of standard tuition, amounting to is a means to compensate the university’s thousands; and it Snyder said. “You could nearly $12,000 a year for most undergraduate core operating budget deficit. organized large-scale fi eld of study” talk about women in programs. Last year, the U of A also lost around peace marches, where development or women If the administration’s proposal goes 50 professors, after losing 100 professors large crowds took to in violence, but they through, international undergraduate over the previous eight years, he noted. the streets. didn’t understand what women and peace students will pay another $2,700 to study at “We are facing, as an institution, a Snyder also recounted the work of women’s was all about.” the U of A next year. Both undergraduate very serious erosion of our core teaching organizations from Somalia, Burundi, and Not discouraged by this, she spoke with and graduate students from other countries capacity in the tenure-stream Senegal that have employed peaceful the Chair of the Women’s Studies, who will pay 200 per cent more than Canadians professoriate, the heart and soul of our techniques in hopes of resolving violent encouraged her to continue. “To me, it is a will. institution,” said Amrhein, adding the confl icts. For instance, a group of Burundian very important fi eld of study,” Snyder said. Next year’s proposed tuition increase for dean of science is expecting to lose 30 women decided not to cook or perform other Snyder now teaches a course with U of domestic undergraduates is 5.75 per cent. professors next year. domestic chores for their husbands until they W’s Confl ict Resolution Studies Department, For student union president Jordan Blatz, “We are looking for all reasonable, promised to stop participating in the country’s called “Women and Peacemaking.” It such a large and sudden tuition increase is principled ways of increasing revenue. It ongoing genocide. And in Somalia, a group of examines women’s defi nitions of peace, the unacceptable. is a principle that international students women, dismayed by a deadlock in peace contributions of women to the peace “We can’t expect them to handle such a are expected to pay some large measure negotiations, burst into the conference room movement and mediation, and Snyder’s own large increase in one year,” he said, adding of the true cost of their education,” he where it was taking place and announced they research. after contacting international undergraduate added. would fast until the delegates reached an The next installment of the MLWSC’s students to let them know about the proposal, Amrhein noted the international agreement. Their efforts were not in vain; the “Revolutionary Women Speakers Series” he has received 300 e-mails from concerned student differential fee has not increased following day, the deadlock was broken. features Dr. Keith Louise Fulton and UWSA students. in the last six years. The provost added Snyder also dealt with the efforts of women’s president Sarah Amyot, who will be “I’ve opposed this proposal very strongly he opposes grandfathering in a fee peace organizations to lobby at the international discussing the meanings of December 6 from the beginning,” said Blatz. increase for equity reasons. level, which have included appeals to African events in a presentation entitled “The Garden Current students from abroad had no way “We don’t grandfather any students governments and the United Nations. While Among Us: Of Women Born,” on December of predicting the increase when they chose from tuition increases,” he said. acknowledging the importance of grass roots, 1, 2004 in Room 1L06 during the free to attend the U of A, he maintained. Blatz is local-level action, she posited that working period. DECEMBER 02, 2004 05 , 2004 Comments
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n an 11 November piece, .],” for the reasons metioned above – that responsibilities. If you want to play the I endorsed the claim that the oath is a symbol of a bygone age— a game, you have to play by the rules. Bloc Quebecois MP Andre few things should be brought to light. For instance, the Governor General Bellavance’s refusal to distribute Regardless of Mr. MacDonald’s hope cannot simply decide one day that Canadian fl ags to people in his that the institution of monarchy “will soon because she isn’t a fan of the Speech riding lacked class. Last week, be dead and gone,” the fact remains the from the Throne, she isn’t going to do it
AshleyI MacDonald defended Bellavance Queen is today our head of state. An oath anymore. Nor can all the members of Cheung Edward by: Illustration on a few grounds: Bellevance’s refusal of allegiance to the Queen of Canada is the House of Commons decide that was a personal choice based on history essentially an oath of allegiance to the they think the Senate is an outdated and ideology, the oath of allegiance to Canadian state. Neither Mr. MacDonald, institution and so proceed to make the Queen is an outdated anachronistic nor Mr. Bellavance’s discomfort with that legislation without it. Not as individuals, IN THE HOUSE: symbol of a bygone era, and Quebec fact changes it, nor does should it serve but as occupants of public institutions, Nationalists have no choice but to take to undermine the seriousness and they have accepted certain QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS BY OUR the fi ght to their enemy in the House of signifi cance of such an oath. Bellavance responsibilities. This holds true of Bloc REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS Commons but at the same time cannot knew what he was swearing when he MPs as well. compromise their separatist principles. I took the oath. How is it that Mr. Contrary to what Mr. MacDonald The following are questions posed by the opposition parties in the House of would like to take a moment to respond MacDonald has the authority to proclaim asserts, this is not equivalent to saying Commons last week. Hansard for the entire proceedings of the House of Commons can be accessed at www.parl.gc.ca to these claims. an oath of allegiance to Canada they “must subordinate their politics to There is a lot to be said for meaningless? When a witness commits that of the presiding state.” They understanding history, both in terms of perjury in a court of law, saying that the continue to be free to advocate whatever CONSERVATIVE understanding why a given situation Bible, or whatever else they swore on, no political positions they like in and presents itself, and how we might resolve longer commands their respect, does not outside of the House. What they have to Mr. Speaker, it. However, understanding the historical justify their providing false testimony on respect is not the position of the Hon. Stephen Harper (Leader of the Opposition, CPC): yesterday hundreds of thousands of Albertans went to the polls to exercise government, but the procedure by reasons for why such and such a thing is the stand. their democratic right to choose their own representatives, in this case for the way it is does not absolve us of the Of course, Bellavance never had to which decisions are made in Canada. If the Senate. They are tired of the Prime Minister’s excuses. Even the member responsibility of dealing with the problem take an oath to Canada, or did he? This is they want to refuse to recognize the for Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont does not buy the Prime Minister’s at hand. Sure, Bellavance’s actions are the idea behind Mr. MacDonald’s third validity of Canadian law and the position on this issue. informed by a history and an ideology, so claim. Quebec Nationalists must take parliamentary process, that’s another Will Mr. Democratic Defi cit fi nally agree to put Alberta’s elected people in matter, and I doubt anyone that were those of Hitler, and so are those of their views to Parliament and are thereby the Senate as he promised the Premier of Alberta? Viktor Yanukovych. Just because forced to take the oath. They are not, extremely opposed to Canada would democracy has historically had a tough therefore, taking the oath of their own run for federal offi ce lest their run confer Hon. Anne McLellan (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public time in the Ukraine does not mean that free will. This is an argument I don’t buy. any sense of legitimacy on the system. Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has made it plain, as have others of us on the government side, we, the international community – or There is no imperative whatsoever for Bellavance, along with the rest of the that we are indeed committed to Senate reform. However, we are not going Bloc, is obviously not in that camp. even the Ukranians for that matter - Quebec Nationalists to sit in the federal to accept piecemeal Senate reforms that ultimately would disadvantage cannot make an evaluative claim about parliament. If Quebec separates, it will To come back to earth, however, the provinces like mine, the province of Alberta. whether Yanukovych’s usurpation of the be through a referendum, not an act of parliamentary process will go on despite Ukranian government constitutes a good Parliament. The PQ and Premier Landry Mr. Bellavance’s inability to separate his The provinces have created a new body called the Council of the Federation. The Prime Minister and I have both suggested that the Council or bad act. All this to say that while are doing more for Quebec separation individual principles on Quebec of the Federation might be a very useful vehicle for the provinces to begin nationalism and his duties as a public Bellavance’s actions may be informed by then any Bloc MP will ever do in their shared work on the complete reform, meaningful reform, of the Senate. history and ideology, these things to do capacity as MP. servant to respect the parliamentary not preclude at least the possibility that This is not to say that there aren’t system that enables his right to protest he made the wrong choice in taking the some advantages for separatists to Quebec’s participation in the Canadian BLOC action he did. I will return to the question having a party exclusively concerned federation. Bellavance could easily have of whether he was right or wrong a little with Quebec’s interests in the House of justifi ed providing Canadian fl ags to his [Translation] later on. Commons. Namely, that federalists will constituents, as many of his Bloc In response to Mr. MacDonald’s claim be robbed of the chance to be seen colleagues have, without compromising Ms. Denise Poirier-Rivard (Châteauguay—Saint-Constant, BQ): Mr. that it is absurd to believe “that his representing the interests of the people his separatist principles. What he did Speaker, Quebec producers who raise cull are dependent on a single slaughterhouse serving all of eastern Canada, which sets prices and might [Bellavance] allegiance to the Crown is of Quebec. Fair enough. But coming into was not illegal. It wasn’t the end of the start looking elsewhere if a fl oor price is set only by the Government of world. It just lacked class. assured by his swearing of a pledge [. . parliament brings with it certain Quebec. UWSA— December 6th Day of Remembrance Vigil Does the minister recognize this is a possibility? Does this not prove to him Despite many gains made by women, that his intervention is necessary, since this is a matter under his jurisdiction and he cannot remain indifferent? some startling facts remain true. Women • Dr. Lloyd Axworthy, in Canada still have a one in two chance of President, The University of [English] experiencing physical or sexual violence Winnipeg in their lifetime, make up the vast majority • Amanda Goldrick-Jones, Hon. Andy Mitchell (Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Lib.): Mr. of the nations poor and homeless, and President, The University of Speaker, I am quite glad that the agriculture critic for the Bloc has informed the House leader of exactly what the issue is, and it is slaughter capacity. continue to make less for every dollar Winnipeg Faculty As she pointed out, the diffi culty is that there is only one source or one earned by a man doing the same job. Association place that the cull cows can go to, so an initiative that will allow for the Funding for groups working towards • Jen Porter, Coordinator of creation of additional capacity and allow for a competitive environment for equality and social justice remains scarce. the UWSA Womyn’s Centre that capacity is the long term solution to that issue. Last year the province of British Columbia cut all funding to women’s centres in that Please stop and spend a moment on province. Monday to refl ect on the phenomenon of NDP n December violence in our society and to think 6,1989 14 women The University of Winnipeg Senate about how, in remembering we can Mr. Bill Siksay (Burnaby—Douglas, NDP): Mr. Speaker, media reports were shot and acknowledged these facts when they create positive change. note that Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s exotic dancer program has killed at l’Ecole recognized December 6th as a Day of seen a dramatic increase in the number of Romanian women who apply to Polytechnique Remembrance last year by declaring that work temporarily in this fi eld in Canada. in Montreal “there be academic amnesty for Sarah Amyot In the past, the department has stepped up enforcement measures with Osolely for being women studying in a assignments, papers, participation marks, President- University of regard to this particular program due to the concerns about the exploitation non-traditional field. Since this time, and attendance marks for that date; that Winnipeg Students’ Association of the workers involved. December 6th has been nationally no tests or exams be held after 3:30 p.m. recognized as a day on which we stop to on that date; and that classes operate on December 6 Could the minister outline what measures are being taken to ensure that commemorate this event and pause to a normal schedule for that date.” Day of Remembrance Vigil workers admitted under this program are not part of the global traffi cking of women, that their rights as workers are being respected and that they are reflect on the phenomenon of violence Monday, December 6, 2004 not subject to exploitation while in Canada? against women in our society. This year This year in commemoration of December Foyer of Eckhardt-Gramatté marks of the 15th anniversary of this 6th The University of Winnipeg Students’ Hall 3:30 p.m. Hon. Judy Sgro (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Lib.): Mr. horrific event and it is as important as Association (UWSA) and The University of Speaker, I can assure the member that any time we talk about exploitation ever that we work to ensure that the Winnipeg will be hosting a vigil at 3:30 of women or traffi cking in women, these are things we take very seriously. We make sure that all of us at this end of the House are doing our jobs and lives of these young women are not p.m. in the foyer of Eckhardt-Gramatté moving forward in making sure that we are protecting the women in this forgotten. Hall. Remarks will provided by: country. 06 DECEMBER 02, 2004 CommentsCONTACT » Comments Editor » Daniel Blaike E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SHOULD CANADIAN DEFENCE BE NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL? Illustration by: David Tan RECLAIMING CHRISTMAS
By Carmen Barnett
Uniter File Photo — March 9, 1973 recently came across a picture of myself stalwartly bitching, complaining and defying all the when I was five-years-old, on Santa’s way (“Ha! Ha! Ha!”) with all of my friends who boast lap at the Bay downtown. I vividly recall the same frustration and disdain for the season. By Sarah Doyle the mechanical elves working in Santa’s I wonder who we think we are fooling. We have The Silhouette (McMaster University) workshop on display from the frosted become the epitome of a generation tragically losing exterior of both the Bay and Eaton’s, the track of family conviction, whether feasting on gefi lte AMILTON (CUP) Canada has come to be known for its ideals arrayI of festive lights that glowed beyond the heavy fi sh, turkey, paella or K.D. Beyond the layers of what -- Missile defence of outward thinking leadership and humanity, winter exhaust of downtown traffic, and following we have grown up to defi ne as the harsh realities of and malfunctioning as demonstrated by its strong reputation for the bright yellow footprints through the department life; beyond the consumerism; more than ever, we all submarines are two international peacekeeping. Th is reputation store that led to Santa himself. I had fully believed need to hold on to something. No matter where we Canadian military requires a functioning military. Some oppose that this red-clad stranger in the fake white beard come from, if only for one season or one night a year, matters that have military investment on the basis that war is bad was going to grant me my Christmas wish that beneath our tainted exteriors, isn’t that what we all attracted media attention this fall. Taken -- that we should set the pacifi st example by year: I wanted my parents back together. That was really want? It is this time every year that I consider together,H they illuminate a possible, and disbanding our military completely. Some of nearly twenty-five years ago and I remember it like the idea that faith in something, anything, cannot be questionable, shift in Canadian philosophy. these same people advocate for international it was yesterday. Although that particular wish was such a bad thing. If the goodness we feel about those Canada is under-investing in its military intervention in Sudan. Shoring up our eroded never granted, even the memory of believing in around us in our times of climbing murder rates, while basking in its reputation for peacekeeping, military is not about promoting war; it’s about something feels wonderful. terrorism and senseless third-world slaughter, is and is considering an agreement that will include promoting peace. Th e focus of our military in It was a few years more before I realized that the limited to one measly season of the year, I want to us in the U.S. missile defence system. Th ese the post-Cold War period has come to be less whole Santa thing was a farce. Eventually, I determined embrace whatever I can get. With each year that goes policy directions demonstrate a potential shift about national security and more about that like Santa, there were plenty of bogus Gods who by, I want more of it to embrace through the year, away from the Canadian ideology that has led us international security. were just as negligent. Now as an adult, like many even if it has to be packaged by Hallmark, served to to take on international responsibilities, and International security protects us in the sense from my generation, I have modest interest in carrying me by an alcoholic uncle, or barked at me by means towards an ideology that values military that advanced peace protects everyone. It attacks on my family’s religious values at Christmas or any of a long-winded Christmas Eve church sermon. I protectionism. problems of violence closer to their roots, instead other time of the year. Perhaps this is a defence - need to make peace with the Christmas season We need to choose our direction. At the of remaining aloof and only confronting violence mechanism resulting from too much disappointment, part-timer disguised as Saint Nick who forgot to tell moment, our policy is hypocritical: Canada the at a nation’s border. A peacekeeping military is but I have little faith in much anymore. In our fi ve year-olds that their orders were a little too tall and proud peacekeeper has a peacekeeping force an internationally minded military, and instead generation of quick-release, fast-paced everything, it for neglecting to explain that some things happen for with leaky submarines and helicopters that only of letting Canada become an insular, paranoid seems that plenty of us have become a non-committal a reason. work sporadically. According to one Queen’s presence on the international stage, it gives and self-indulgent bunch who, even in the hype of our I am blessed to have my own child and through University study, if the Canadian government Canada a role of active leadership. activism and philosophizing for the greater cause, him, get to relive the awe and wonder of trusting that doesn’t upgrade military funding, personnel and Supporting Canada’s military would have been so liberated that we no longer see the there is something more substantial to this season equipment, the military may not exist within as obviously mean directing funding from other trees for the forest. than nostalgia itself. Through him, I remember when little as 15 years. If Canada signs on to the priorities, but in a country hailed as one of the More and more as I get older, I worry that I only even just the simple act of wanting something with all missile defence system but ignores the need for best places to live, the resources for helping to make my way through family holidays because I think of your being, and dreaming about that something increased military spending, this hypocrisy may raise the quality of life outside Canadian borders it is the right thing to do. It would break my was, itself, worth more than receiving it. To trust that be resolved at the cost of Canada’s peacekeeping, certainly exist. If global welfare is a Canadian grandparents’ hearts to watch me break the chain of there was goodness in mankind, being happy in the and of the philosophy behind it. concern, some of these resources should be tradition before their very eyes. I worry that my life- moment, surrounded by people we love: this is the Protectionism goes against the grain of directed towards a viable military able to fulfi l long efforts which defi ne why I believe in nothing will magic of the season. Maybe this year I will fi nd some peacekeeping. Missile defence may sound like both a strong peacekeeping role internationally, eventually have to succumb to my desperate secret conviction to carry it through the entire year. pacifi sm, but it would shift our position to that and Canada’s responsibilities as a part of the wish to believe in something. While I am disgusted Meanwhile, I watch as my son takes his turn of a bystander. Pacifi sm should be about United Nations. with the marketing and commercialism that defi ne the whispering tall orders to Santa, somewhere not-so- spreading peace. Canada obviously can’t solve Far from fostering peace, the missile defence holidays; while I feel my soft-spot for nostalgia is well disguised in my contempt for the season I envy all the world’s problems, but this is not an system will antagonize a host of countries being exploited; while I feel that celebrating Christmas his trust in this pimple-faced kid to whom he whole- indication that we should sit on our hands, opposed to it, and as many fear, could precipitate means little more to me than a family get-together to heartedly spills his hopes and dreams. I have been complacent under the protection of an invisible an arms race. Th e Canadian image could swing be grouped along with thanksgiving and funerals: I given the opportunity to feel it all again through missile blanket. (Complacent under the from international leader in peacekeeping to continue to participate. I still take great pleasure in innocent eyes and the liberating imagination of a child assumption that missile defence would, against international troublemaker -- forwarding self- lighting a Christmas tree ( I refuse to call it ‘holiday as untainted as my own were some years ago. And all proof and probability, work -- and that it is interests at the cost of relatively aff able tree’) with Bing Crosby wailing in the background. I what a terrifi c feeling it is … any old day of the year. If not merely a last-ditch bid on the part of Canada international relations. love spending copious amounts of money on gifts for it is not considered politically incorrect to say so, for cosy relations with the U.S.) It is also worth Even if there’s a reasonable hope that it those I love just because I can. 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lot of catching up to do! Aquarius – You will suffer a severe 7-12: You’re doing pretty well. People passing you in the street probably 02. I’m scratching my ass right now case of writer’s block any time you sit down assume that you’re a skank, but your lifestyle may not necessarily refl ect your and no one notices! This is great…ahh… to work. Don’t bother. Since you’d rather look. Keep at it - try wearing less clothing and engaging in casual love affairs that’s the spot. Oh shit, I think she saw just go eat chips and watch TV, why not do it? It’s not like you’re any more productive more often. me... sitting at your desk staring at nothing, 13-20: Yowza! Congratulations, you are offi cially a skank! Your day-glo tan, pretending to think so that people won’t scandalous attire, and casual attitude toward sex are all manifestations of your 01. I like chicken, I like liver, meow mix bother you. social insecurities and possible psychological issues. meow mix please deliver.
Pisces –You have recovered from Janet Mowat HOW TO DEVELOP A SENSE OF HUMOUR TIP OF THE WEEK: whatever cold you had last week. Though you may be unsatisfi ed with your current work situation, job offers will soon come If a prof ever assigns a paper and says that it has to be 1,000 words, ask if fl owing in by the hundreds and you will have you can hand in a picture instead. Think about it. your pick. Diseased rodents fi gure prominently in your future. 010 DECEMBER 02, 2004 CONTACT » FeaturesFeature Editor » David Pensato Features E-mail » [email protected] Article Tele » 786-9497 FEATURE ARTICLE TEMPORALITY: MANDARIN ORANGE CHRISTINE ESSELMONT
Th e circumst ance and commentary of a merch guy and a seasoned troupe of musicians, made up of one bitter New Yorker and six prairie men, all hell-bent on to taking West ern Canada in the name of the almighty Jah.
very November/December, enjoy its goodness. That’s a few more there is a palpable academic minutes to ponder life, instead of getting tension that overtakes the fatter. The mandarin teaches us about University. The computer pleasure from a process. labs are busier, the grey Although these more practical room is full, and it seems characteristics all contribute to the asE though everyone’s in the library, trying to mandarin’s appeal, they also teach us much finish their last-minute readings. Naturally, through their nature. Do you doubt that a this is due to the nearing deadlines, final mandarin could have a nature? It seems to presentations, and the beginning of our me that their little orange bodies clearly preparation for final exams. It’s the time exude a spirit of defiance to the realities of of year when we dutifully retreat to our autumn. When nature seems to be dying or little orange and yellow library carrels, plan succumbing to the long hibernation, the elaborate, caffeine-induced study days, and mandarin and its bright exterior provide find ourselves playing games of endurance contrast, and emanate a sense of enduring with our bodies and minds, testing their optimism. Mandarin oranges are, of course, limits due to academic realities. also associated with the holidays and winter Coinciding with this potentially stressful break, and so, naturally bring with them a time is the re-entrance of the mandarin sense of anticipation of gatherings with orange into our hectic lives. I admit to family and friends, holiday food, warm knowing nothing of the intricacies of the fires, and a general sense of well being. worldwide mandarin orange market, but all Unfortunately, just as quickly as they I know is that around mid- November, stacks enter our lives, the mandarins make a quick of cardboard treasure chests faithfully exit. Even though people search out a appear at my local grocery store, each replacement for their newly-founded enclosing a precious cargo that helps me get mandarin addiction, tangerines and navels through my term. Even though I know that just don’t fill the gap, and chasing after their each year the mandarins will dutifully pleasures turns out to be a futile endeavor, arrive, it’s somehow still a bit of a surprise especially if one thinks that they will provide to see that they do in fact still exist, after any kind of meaningful substitute. I’ve their long absence from our refrigerator decided that there’s really no choice but to shelves. It’s as though there’s an annual accept the sad fact that the mandarins will rebirth of the mandarin orange where they soon once again enter the realm of non- once again enter the realm of existence just existence. Maybe the situation can be in time to be exported to us students, and redeemed if we try to glean wisdom from just when we need them most. the pain of their sudden exit. Maybe the Admittedly, most of us go through life nature of the mandarin market is an unwitting thinking of the mandarin orange as little gift, to help us learn about the fleeting more than a handy, citric snack. But the nature of pleasure, and to realize that the mandarin orange has virtues more than mere anticipation of a short-lived pleasure might convenience. Its fruit is substantial enough be more satisfying than unhindered access to satisfy your need for energy, but its taste to that which we initially think to be novel, is light enough to provide excuse for further but grow to see as merely commonplace. breaks to interject into your studying. While Mandarins are a largely unexamined it’s true that chocolate bars may be just as autumnal gift, providing energy, optimism, convenient, and provide instant energy, the and lessons in temporality. So, over the next mandarin doesn’t stoop to this level of few weeks, I’ll be hitting the books, drinking instant gratification. Instead, it requires lots of coffee, and enjoying my mandarins, that you peel its stubborn exterior, and willing, though reluctant, to let them go methodically break apart each inner piece to when January rolls around. DECEMBER 02, 2004 011 , 2004 feature article Fe
FEATURE ARTICLE UNION TROUBLE BREWING AT STARBUCKS BRYNA HALLAM CUP FEATURES BUREAU CHIEF While the coff ee company has an aroma of social responsibility, Starbucks ICTORIA (CUP) –– “What’s wage if they support the union. disgusting? Union busting! What’s workers attempting to unionize discover it’s no easy task In a June 1 press release, the Industrial Workers outrageous? Starbucks wages!” accused Starbucks of using scare tactics to intimidate Chants fi lled the streets of workers, claiming: “Management has been Manhattan Aug. 28, as hundreds interrogating certain workers about the union while marched to protest Starbucks’s spreading misinformation about joining.” Vactions against workers trying to unionize a single Despite all the efforts by Starbucks to keep their store. In the middle of the crowd was Daniel Gross, workers from joining a union, the National Labor the main organizer of both the drive to unionize and Relations Board issued a decision in favour of the the march. Then he disappeared, arrested by police union July 2. They were to be allowed to vote in a and dragged away in what the Industrial Workers of union certifi cation election. the World union characterized as Starbucks’s But on July 28, the labour board decided to hear bidding. an appeal from Starbucks questioning the store’s Gross was charged with resisting arrest, among right to unionize. The company wanted all of the other things. Anthony Polanco, a barista at the stores in downtown New York — 50 in total — to be Starbucks store at Madison Avenue and Gross’s co- required to vote. After the board said union organizers worker, was arrested at the same time. Their arrest would have to wait to vote on their union until the end prompted the union to release a statement later that of the appeals process — which could last up to day, questioning whether it was a coincidence two of three years — the organizers decided to withdraw the most active organizers of the campaign were their request to vote on instituting a union, realizing arrested. they had to change tactics. Gross agreed, questioning why police broke up a Polanco said the workers would continue to peaceful protest of 200 people in the fi rst place, and organize, but realized “they did not have a chance for whether the New York Police Department’s legal representation.” involvement was a show of force intended to break This isn’t the fi rst time Starbucks employees have the union. fought to join a union. The protest came three months after workers at In fact, before Schultz and a group of investors the 36th and Madison store in New York City bought out Starbucks in 1987, workers in the company submitted union cards to the Industrial Workers, were members of the United Food and Commercial Image by: Dave Pensato becoming the fi rst Starbucks store in the United Workers union. Within four months of Schultz taking States to try and join a union. » over, workers voted to leave the union. It was another Although Starbucks’s 2003 Corporate Social the Starbucks Foundation has made more than 800 coverage isn’t even an option. fi ve years before the roasting plants and warehouses Responsibility report states “Starbucks recognizes grants totalling more than $8.5 million US to projects “Middle-of-the road people often point out that followed suit. our partners’ right to unionize,” many people are serving low-income and at-risk youth. Starbucks is better than some employers,” said asking why, if that’s true, Starbucks is fi ghting Schultz has long recognized the importance of Gross, 25, an employee at the 36th and Madison Workers in a roasting plant in Kent, Wash., against the bid to unionize in New York. his employees to the image and success of the store and the main force behind the move to unionize. attempted to reorganize in 1999. According to union When Howard Schultz, chair and chief global company, agreeing part of the Starbucks product is “This is true,” he admitted, but pointed out many offi cials, that attempt was also met with resistance strategist for Starbucks Coffee, heard one store in in fact the workers — the friendly faces behind the workers live below the poverty line and suffer from from the company, with key organizers and supporters New York City was thinking of joining a union, he coffee machines. repetitive strain injuries. being threatened with job loss. called the news “very disappointing and disturbing.” “There’s no doubt in my mind that the success of Polanco said he hurts constantly from working The struggle to unionize was still ongoing in In a voicemail message sent to New York City our company, the low level of attrition, the loyalty of the espresso machine. “I suffer from pains in my wrist September 2001. Don Goodson, a worker at the plant stores on May 19, 2004, just one day after workers our customers, the productivity and the responsibility all the time,” he said. “Some days I can’t move my and union organizer, was penalized for missing work submitted union cards to the Industrial Workers, that our people have within the company has added wrists.” as a result of the Sept. 11 attacks; he was stranded in Howard Schultz emphasized how he and other signifi cant value to what Starbucks has done in the “You can be pouring 160-degree milk,” Gross Texas, unable to get back to Washington. The union Starbucks “partners” — company lingo for its marketplace,” he said in a radio interview with said. “Not a day goes by where scalding-hot liquid claims he was targeted and punished because of his employees — had built a company based on, as he KaiserNetwork.org — part of the Henry J. Kaiser doesn’t hit you somewhere on your hands or arms.” history of supporting the union. said, trust and respect. Family Foundation, a non-profi t, private operating Despite the complaints of Gross and Polanco, In September 1996, workers at fi ve Vancouver “When we wrote the guiding principles,” Schultz foundation that focuses on the major health care according to company spokesperson Audrey Lincoff, stores joined the Canadian Auto Workers union. said in his message, “we very deliberately put issues facing the United States. a nationwide survey of Starbucks workers indicated a Twelve stores in B.C. are now unionized, and they are creating a great work environment and treating Schultz credits his childhood — his father worked satisfaction rate of 86 per cent. the only ones in the company. Jef Keighley, everyone with dignity and respect as our highest in a diaper factory and the family had no health “We respect the free choice of our partners. We spokesperson for Starbucks’s unionized workers, priority.” insurance — with shaping his desire to extend health don’t have a role in the decisions they have made,” noted, as in New York City, Starbucks resisted the As proof of the company’s commitment to its benefi ts to as many employees as possible. said Lincoff in an interview with New York Daily News efforts of its Canadian workers to unionize. Rumours employees, Schultz was quick to point to Starbucks’s But according to the union, the majority of in May. “But we believe that what we offer in terms of job losses may result if a union agreement was number 34 ranking on Fortune magazine’s 2004 Top workers can’t afford to take advantage of the benefi ts a total pay package and the work environment is the ratifi ed circulated through many stores. 100 Places to Work list, as well as the fact the offered to them. Baristas in New York have a starting best possible.” Gains made with the fi rst contract included company offers health care coverage and ownership wage of $7.75, well above the state’s $5.15 minimum The company’s efforts to stop the single store seniority as a key factor in shift scheduling, maternity in the company — in the form of shares of stock — to wage. But none of the company’s baristas are full- from joining a union didn’t stop with a plea from leave and a 75-cent per hour wage increase. Soon both full- and part-time employees. time employees, making it diffi cult for them to make Schultz. In the fi ve months that have followed the after the approval of the contract, Starbucks Since the fi rst store opened in 1971, Starbucks enough to contribute to the 401k retirement and initial vote, Starbucks has appealed the results of the announced these gains would be applied to all B.C. has created a socially responsible image. In addition health plans offered to them. In addition, the health vote to form a union, and has allegedly bribed stores. As a result, the company stated, the only to the benefi ts it offers its workers, the company is plan is only available to employees working an workers with pizza dinners and Mets tickets and difference between union and non-union stores is also involved in community projects, and since 1997, average of 20 hours per week, meaning for some, threatened to push employees down to the minimum union members pay union dues. Shari Mallinson agrees. Mallinson started working at Starbucks not long after the fi rst stores unionized, and worked at one unionized store along with two ADD CENTRE non-union stores. She saw no difference between the stores, and notes, in her experience, the union “protected slackers.” “I don’t really think there’s any reason to have a Problems Paying Attention and Concentrating? union,” she said, adding in general, working conditions at Starbucks aren’t that bad. She also points out Diffi culty Managing Your Stress Level? there are people in the company to take complaints to, reducing the need for the involvement of a union. We can help with two targeted training That may have once been the case, said Becky programs: Milos, but things have changed at the company. Milos worked for the company on and off in both Victoria and Vancouver for four years starting in Neurofeedback for Attention & Concentration. 2000. In her opinion, recent moves to make things move Biofeedback Training for Stress Management. more smoothly business-wise — including training and deployment based on how McDonald’s operates Research Proven Ability to Increase GPA. — are coming at the expense of baristas. In general, she feels conditions at the stores depend on the managers and how far they’re willing to go for their employees. “At one store, there was no need for a union, because there was a mutual respect,” she said, noting that manager has since left 701 Pembina Highway tele: 897-4493 addcentre.mb.ca 012 DECEMBER 02, 2004 » CONTACT eatures Features Editor » David Pensato E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497
the company, unhappy with the direction the company despite their marketing image of a corporation with a was taking. conscience.” Before she herself left the company in June 2004, Before the un-strike, Starbucks management she heard rumours from her manager the company claimed based on a market study, wage increases was trying to schedule baristas for less than 20 hours were not warranted and that none would be given. per week in an effort to curb the costs associated When the job action ended three and a half months with health benefi ts — a move she characterizes as later, Starbucks once again gave the benefi ts won by “disgusting.” the union — this time a 40-cents-per-hour cost of Keighley argues Starbucks does not mention the living increase — to all its workers in B.C. fact that, unlike at non-union stores, seniority is a key The company claimed the wage increase was factor in scheduling hours of work, that employees in based on a market study and it had nothing to do with union stores are entitled to be scheduled for two the union. Launi Skinner, then Starbucks regional consecutive days off rather than split days off, or that vice-president for western Canada, even warned union stores have access to an effective grievance employees not to believe the union if they claimed to procedure. be responsible for the raise in wages. In addition, Keighley said the company is “union- Back in New York City, Gross and Polanco remain busting” with wage and some workplace conditions optimistic despite the obstacles they’ve faced — and negotiated by the union and Starbucks are used for will continue to face, if Vancouver is any indication. the company’s non-union Vancouver stores as well. Although nothing has moved forward since the “In effect, we have and are bargaining for protest, workers in New York are continuing to improvements for all B.C. Starbucks employees — organize. both union and non-union — based on the strength What it comes down to, says Gross, is the of our unionized stores.” company is “not including the baristas in the For example, in the middle of negotiations with tremendous, almost unparalleled, success.” the company in 1999, the union held an “un-strike,” And working for a company that brought in record where workers discarded their khaki, black and white net revenues of $4.1 billion US in 2003 — and dress code for street clothes, and fl aunted tattoos according to Forbes magazine, Schultz himself took and piercings, all of which are not allowed under home over $2.5 million US in salary and benefi ts last Starbucks’s dress code. The action was in response year — it doesn’t seem unreasonable for workers to to a standstill in contract negotiations between the ask for a bigger slice of the profi t pie. company and the union. “We remain steadfast in our belief that Starbucks “Starbucks are trying to break the union and we workers deserve better,” said Polanco. “A poverty aren’t going to let them,” said Keighley at the time. wage is not suffi cient to live a decent life. The union “They’ve taken a fundamentally anti-union stance, is here to stay.”
DECEMBER 02, 2004 013 , 2004 PublicFeaturesPUBLIC Domain DOMAIN SERIES SeriesTHE ENEMIES OF BOOKS"¤" THE ENEMIES OF BOOKS Collectors
WILLIAM BLADES 1888
Bagford the biblioclast .–– Illust rations torn from MSS.–– Title-pages torn from books.–– Rubens, his engraved titles.–– Colophons torn out of books.–– Lincoln Cathedral–– Dr. Dibdin’s Nosegay.–– Th eurdanck.–– Fragments of MSS.-Some libraries almost useless.–– Pepysian.–– Teylerian.–– Sir Th omas Phillipps.
FTER all, two-legged and Colours. Many 3 inches square: the “Titels en Portretten gesneden naar P. P. Rubens voor It is quite common to find in old MSS., especially depredators, who floral decorations are of great beauty, de Plantijnsche Drukkerij,” and it contains thirty- fifteenth century, both vellum and paper, the blank ought to have known ranging from the XIIth to XVth century. five grand title pages, reprinted from the original margins of leaves cut away. This will be from the better, have perhaps Mounted on stout card-board. IN NICE seventeenth century plates, designed by Rubens side edge or from the foot, and the recurrence of this done as much real £6, 6s. himself between the years 1612 and 1640, for various mutilation puzzled me for many years. It arose from damage in libraries These beautiful letters have been cut publications which issued from the celebrated the scarcity of paper in former times, so that when a as any other enemy. I from precious MSS., and as specimens of Plantin Printing Office. In the same Museum are message had to be sent which required more do not refer to thieves, early art are extremely valuable, many of preserved in Rubens’ own handwriting his charge for exactitude than could be entrusted to the stupid who, if they injure them being worth 15s. each.” each design, duly receipted at foot. memory of a household messenger, the Master or the owners, do no harm to the books I have now before me a fine copy of “Coclusiones Chaplain went to the library, and, not having paper themselves by merely transferring them Mr. Proeme is a man well known to the London siue decisiones antique dnor’ de Rota,” printed by to use, took down an old book, and cut from its broad from one set of bookshelves to another. Nor dealers in old books. He is wealthy, and cares not Gutenberg’s partner, Schoeffer, in the year 1477. It is margins one or more slips to serve his present need. do I refer to certain readers who frequent what he spends to carry out his bibliographical craze, perfect, except in a most vital part, the Colophon, I feel quite inclined to reckon among “enemies” our public libraries, and, to save themselves which is the collection of title pages. These he which has been cut out by some barbaric “Collector,” those bibliomaniacs and over-careful possessors, the trouble of copying, will cut out whole ruthlessly extracts, frequently leaving the decapitated and which should read thus: “Pridie nonis Januarii who, being unable to carry their treasures into the articles from magazines or encyclopaedias. carcase of the books, for which he cares not, behind Mcccclxxvij, in Civitate Moguntina, impressorie next world, do all they can to hinder their usefulness Such depredations are not frequent, and only him. Unlike the destroyer Bagford, he has no useful Petrus Schoyffer de Gernsheym,” followed by his in this. What a difficulty there is to obtain admission occur with books easily replaced, and do not object in view, but simply follows a senseless kind of well-known mark, two shields. to the curious library of old Samuel Pepys, the therefore call for more than a passing classification. For instance: One set of volumes A similar mania arose at the beginning of this well-known diarist. There it is at Magdalene College, mention; but it is a serious matter when contains nothing but copper-plate engraved titles, century for collections of illuminated initials, which Cambridge, in the identical book-cases provided for Nature produces such a wicked old biblioclast and woe betide the grand old Dutch folios of the were taken from MSS., and arranged on the pages of the books by Pepys himself; but no one can gain as John Bagford, one of the founders of the seventeenth century if they cross his path. Another a blank book in alphabetical order. Some of our admission except in company of two Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries, who, in the beginning is a volume of coarse or quaint titles, which certainly cathedral libraries suffered severely from College, and if a single book be lost, the whole of the last century, went about the country, answer the end of showing how idiotic and conceited depredations of this kind. At Lincoln, in the early library goes away to a neighbouring college. However from library to library, tearing away title some authors have been. Here you find Dr. Sib’s part of this century, the boys put on their robes in the willing and anxious to oblige, it is evident that no pages from rare books of all sizes. These he “Bowels opened in Divers Sermons,” 1650, cheek by library, a room close to the choir. Here were one can use the library at the expense of the time, if sorted out into nationalities and towns, and jowl with the discourse attributed falsely to numerous old MSS., and eight or ten rare Caxtons. not temper, of two Fellows. Some similar restrictions so, with a lot of hand-bills, manuscript Huntington, the Calvinist, “Die and be damned,” The choir boys used often to amuse themselves, are in force at the Teylerian Museum, Haarlem, notes, and miscellaneous collections of all with many others too coarse to be quoted. The odd while waiting for the signal to “fall in,” by cutting where a lifelong imprisonment is inflicted upon its kinds, formed over a hundred folio volumes, titles adopted for his poems by Taylor, the water- out with their pen-knives the illuminated initials and many treasures. now preserved in the British Museum. That poet, enliven several pages, and make one’s mouth vignettes, which they would take into the choir with they are of service as materials in compiling water for the books themselves. A third volume them and pass round from one to another. The Dean Some centuries ago a valuable collection of a general history of printing cannot be includes only such titles as have the printer’s device. and Chapter of those days were not much better, for books was left to the Guildford Endowed Grammar denied, but the destruction of many rare If you shut your eyes to the injury done by such they let Dr. Dibdin have all their Caxtons for a School. The schoolmaster was to be held personally books was the result, and more than counter- collectors, you may, to a certain extent, enjoy the “consideration.” He made a little catalogue of them, responsible for the safety of every volume, which, if balanced any benefit bibliographers will collection, for there is great beauty in some titles; but which he called “A Lincolne Nosegaye.” Eventually lost, he was bound to replace. I am told that one ever receive from them. When here and such a pursuit is neither useful nor meritorious. By they were absorbed into the collection at Althorp. master, to minimize his risk as much as possible, there throughout those volumes you meet and by the end comes, and then dispersion follows The late Mr. Caspari was a “destroyer” of books. took the following barbarous course:—As soon as he with titles of books now either unknown collection, and the volumes, which probably Cost His rare collection of early woodcuts, exhibited in was in possession, he raised the boards of the entirely, or of the greatest rarity; when you £200 each in their formation, will be knocked down 1877 at the Caxton Celebration, had been frequently schoolroom floor, and, having carefully packed all find the Colophon from the end, or the to a dealer for £10, finally gravitating into the South augmented by the purchase of illustrated books, the the books between the joists, had the boards nailed “insigne typographi” from the first leaf of a Kensington Library, or some public museum, as a plates of which were taken out, and mounted on down again. Little recked he how many rats and rare “fifteener,” pasted down with dozens of bibliographical curiosity. The following has just Bristol boards, to enrich his collection. He once mice made their nests there; he was bound to others, varying in value, you cannot bless been sold (July, 1880) by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson showed me the remains of a fine copy of account some day for every single volume, and he the memory of the antiquarian shoemaker, and Hodge, in the Dunn-Gardinier collection, lot “Theurdanck,” which he had served so, and I have saw no way so safe as rigid imprisonment. John Bagford. His portrait, a half-length, 1592:— now before me several of the leaves which he then painted by Howard, was engraved by Vertue, gave me, and which, for beauty of engraving and The late Sir Thomas Phillipps, of Middle Hill, and re-engraved for the Bibliographical “TITLEPAGES AND cleverness of typography, surpasses any typographical was a remarkable instance of a bibliotaph. He Decameron. FRONTISPIECES. work known to me. It was printed for the Emperor bought bibliographical treasures simply to bury A bad example often finds imitators, and every Maximilian, by Hans Schonsperger, of Nuremberg, them. His mansion was crammed with books; he season there crop up for public sale one or two such A Collection of upwards of 800 and, to make it unique, all the punches were cut on purchased whole libraries, and never even saw what collections, formed by bibliomaniacs, who, although ENGRAVED TITLES AND purpose, and as many as seven or eight varieties of he had bought. Among some of his purchases was calling themselves bibliophiles, ought really to be FRONTISPIECES, ENGLISH AND each letter, which, together with the clever way in the first book printed in the English language, “The ranked among the worst enemies of books. FOREIGN (some very fine and curious) which the ornamental flourishes are carried above Recuyell of the Histories of Troye,” translated and The following is copied from a trade catalogue, taken from old books and neatly mounted and below the line, has led even experienced printers printed by William Caxton, for the Duchess of dated April, 1880, and affords a fair idea of the on cartridge paper in 3 vol, half morocco to deny its being typography. It is, nevertheless, Burgundy, sister to our Edward IV. It is true, though extent to which these heartless destroyers will gilt. imp. folio.” entirely from cast types. A copy in good condition almost incredible, that Sir Thomas could never find go:— costs about £50. this volume, although it is doubtless still in the The only collection of title-pages which has Many years since I purchased, at Messrs. collection, and no wonder, when cases of books “MISSAL ILLUMINATIONS. afforded me unalloyed pleasure is a handsome folio, Sotheby’s, a large lot of MS. leaves on vellum, some bought twenty years before his death were never published by the directors of the Plantin Museum, being whole sections of a book, but mostly single opened, and the only knowledge of their contents FIFTY DIFFERENT CAPITAL Antwerp, in 1877, just after the purchase of that leaves. Many were so mutilated by the excision of which he possessed was the Sale Catalogue or the LETTERS on VELLUM; all in rich Gold wonderful typographical storehouse. It is called initials as to be worthless, but those with poor bookseller’s invoice. initials, or with none, were quite good, and when sorted out I found I had got large portions of nearly twenty different MSS., mostly Horae, showing twelve varieties of fifteenth century handwriting in Design - A - Cut Latin, French, Dutch, and German. I had each sort bound separately, and they now form an interesting 2nd Floor Portage Place PH. 956-4784 collection. Portrait collectors have destroyed many books by abstracting the frontispiece to add to their treasures, Student Discounts and when once a book is made imperfect, its march to destruction is rapid. This is why books like Atkyns’ “Origin and Growth of Printing,” 4o, 1664, have become impossible to get. $2.00 off Haircuts When issued, Atkyns’ pamphlet had a fine frontispiece, by Logan, containing portraits of King $5.00 off Cut & Style Charles II, attended by Archbishop Sheldon, the Duke of Albermarle, and the Earl of Clarendon. As portraits of these celebrities (excepting, of course, $10.00 off Colors the King) are extremely rare, collectors have bought up this 4o tract of Atkyns’, whenever it has been offered, and torn away the frontispiece to adorn their Sundays: 12 - 5 PM collection. This is why, if you take up any sale catalogue of One Double Discount With Coupon old books, you are certain to find here and there, appended to the description, “Wanting the title,” “Wanting two plates,” or “Wanting the last page.” 014 DECEMBER 02, 2004 Features a typical day on the edge of the world A WINNIPEGGER IN NEW ZEALAND A Winnipegg Theer Sun in & Lemon New Tree Zealand
PAUL WEDEL Paul Wedel is from Winnipeg and is spending the year in New Zealand. Each week, he writes about his experience for Th e Uniter. Last week, he talked about the marvellous weather and job-hunting. Th is week he gives us a glimpse of a typical day at the south-east ern-most edge of the world
n the thirtieth of the day in downtown Wellington. I think it is November, I am sitting one of the coolest cities I’ve ever visited. Th ink in a pair of khaki MEC of a cross between Montreal (without French) shorts and a black Pedro and Vancouver (without the Attitude). Don’t the Lion t-shirt on a get me wrong: there is some Attitude here. new lawn chair facing Seventy-nine dollars for a t-shirt? Two-seventy the sun and a lemon tree. Beside me, Leigh is for a sweater? I guess I won’t be shopping at stretchedO out on a deck chair and reading Alice “Area 51” anytime soon. Although I am Munro. It is exactly eleven in the morning attempting to ignore my bargain-hunting and the many children who attend the Early Winnipeg shopping ethos and loosen the wallet Learning Centre, located next to and behind strings, I must draw the line at a seventy-nine our back yard, have fi nally retreated into the dollar t-shirt. blue and yellow and red painted wood building. Leigh pointed out yesterday that she is Th eir laughs and screams and general delight beginning to acclimatize to the odd prices for
woke me up this morning at half past eight, and Photo Paul by: Wedel things here. Twenty-four bucks for a used DVD they have been outside all this time. Earlier, is beginning to sound reasonable. And I » they were singing a song in Maori– they all defi nitely enjoy the thirteen-dollar 12-pack. knew the fi rst line and sung with confi dence, Downtown Wellington is what downtown but that was all. Th eir teacher who played guitar Winnipeg would look like if there was no such stopped; I could not hear his instructions. But thing as forty below. In about 100 shop fronts, soon, he started up again and the fi rst line was there will be only one that is empty. Along belted out with more enthusiasm– a group of Cuba Street, there are no cars permitted, so kids singing with bravado is a sweet thing– but hundreds of pedestrians fi ll the brown again, their unison disintegrated by the second cobblestone walkway among the buskers who
line. Leigh and I laughed. Photo by: Paul Wedel play just out of earshot from one another.
I swear my ears can just detect the crash of » And now, less than a month away from the ocean in the distance. Th e surf yesterday Christmas, the clear air breaks through pink was the largest I’ve seen at Lyall Bay, though we and orange clouds at dusk. Each day, it is have only been here for two weeks. We watched protects the road from erosion. Even on a Monday • • • warmer than the one before. Tomorrow a large group of surfers– dedicated men and afternoon, there are dozens on the beach and in morning, I’ll repeat my little ritual with my women all encased by black rubber wetsuits– vie the water. It’s six in the evening now; the udon noodles book, deck-chair and coff ee beneath the yellow for the best wave along the rock wall that are boiling, and the stir-fry is sizzling. We spent sun and lemons.
DECEMBER 02, 2004 015 , 2004 Culture CONTACT Arts Editor Jo Snyder E-mail [email protected] Tele 786-9497 Arts» Arts» » && Culture» Classical Music: Bridging the Gap between Young & Old
students and piano teachers said they would probably go presented over 500 free concerts and are not primary concert- to a concert if they knew more lectures. This series will reopen in 2005 goers.” The solutions to this about the series. Well, here is in the newly renovated Centennial problem have seemingly a little more information. Library. Virtuosi series was established been exhausted. Many The University of Winnipeg in 1991 as a partnership between the Jo Snyder articles have been written is fortunate to have something CBC and the University of Winnipeg. In Arts and Culture Editor about the death of classical like the Virtuosi Concert series 1993 the series moved to Eckhardt- music. The myth of having to right here on campus. The Gramatte Hall, where it has been lassical music “dress-up” has been Virtuosi Chamber series is providing the campus and community is something debunked. But still, classical co-presented by CBC and the with world-class concerts ever since! arguably music is something that University of Winnipeg. It is Maybe it’s best not to think of unappreciated demands attention and the only series of its kind in the classical music as something that in contemporary sitting quietly. Is it possible country. This is remarkable doesn’t relate to young people. Strub youth culture. this isn’t something our given the University of noted that in Europe, many university CReally, when you think about it, generation is interested in? Winnipeg doesn’t even have a students attend concerts and show flowing melodies, the loud quiet Wo! uld we attend more music program. In addition, it interest in classical music. And, as I sit dynamic made popular by Nirvana, chamber music concerts if is a CBC featured series. here listening to the Swedish hardcore and even the sheer volume and we could stand around Virtuosi concerts are all taped band The Refused, it seems that there intensity of the lowest lows and talking and drinking beer for national broadcast over is a musical relation: There are many highest highs, are all elements found while the orchestra played at the CBC. layers using different sounds and in classical music. So why are young an amplifi ed volume? The The history of the series tones, intricate parts written for people disinterested? New Music Festival often goes all the way back to 1980 stringed instruments, crescendos and Harry Strub is the artistic director fi nds a younger audience, when the University music decrescendos, and grand fi nales. And, of the Virtuosi Concert Series here at however Strub points out and arts committee started as with all intense music, the live the University of Winnipeg. He that “strangely it doesn’t spill presenting lunch time experience is the most satisfying. acknowledges that the chamber music over into the other series.” concerts, with free-admission audience “tends to be older people. The Virtuosi series also attempts to attract had heard about the series, and out of for the whole University. In 1985 they Virtuosi Concerts is honoured to present the Chamber music audiences tend to be a younger audience by offering student that four, one had attended a concert. presented their fi rst paid admission 100th concert since 1991, co-presented by CBC from forty and up. Depending on the rates on tickets and advertising heavily on More than half of the students are evening event with pianist Angela Hewett. and The University of Winnipeg featuring Karen musical environment, like at a music campus. This has helped, he says, but the interested in classical music. The common (It was one of Winnipeg’s most successful Gomyo, violin, with William Wolfram, piano, school, there may be some younger numbers are still low. association, of course, are the most recitals of the decade.) In 1990 the music Saturday, December 11, 8:00 p.m. Eckhardt- people there, but in general it seems Arts contributor Mike Lewis decided recognizable names: Beethoven, Mozart, committee developed “Skywalk Concerts Gramatte Hall, University of Winnipeg. FREE hard to attract young people to to fi nd out what students thought about and Bach; although, for one student, and Lectures” at Winnipeg Centennial PARKING behind the CBC building off Young Street. classical music recitals and chamber classical music and the Virtuosi series. Clockwork Orange came to mind when he Library. This was comprised of twenty Pre-concert wine-tasting in the lobby @ 7:30 p.m. music, even though they appear to love Informally approaching students on thought about classical music. However, concerts and lectures a year, lectures Ticket prices $27/$25/$15. 24-hour Ticket Hotline the music, there are thousands of piano campus, and using a small sample, he the most interesting point of this utterly provided for free, by the University of 786-9000. students all over the place, but piano found that only four out of ten students unscientifi c study is that all ten students Winnipeg faculty. Since 1990 they have The Plight of the Indie Band Part 1: The Passion Behind the Why on who you ask, ranging from the song bathed head to toe in sweat and your of an audience and keep it. And Mike Lewis writing process, to playing live, to the whole body is crying out for a they’ll do all they can to achieve simple enjoyment of working with other comfortable bed. that end. If you’ve never been Blood. friends and musicians. This is regardless of whether there’s there, if you’ve ever said “It’s cold A callous tears itself free as the Crafting a song is no easy process. one person or one hundred people in outside, I’m tired, I think I’ll stay bass player runs raw fi ngers over cold It requires complete vulnerability and attendance. Consistently small turnouts home tonight,” then you’ve truly uncaring metal strings. brutal honesty. An afternoon of song for shows can certainly be discouraging, missed out on one of the most Ache. writing can leave a musician cracked especially to younger musicians who passionate experiences you’ll Every joint in the drummer’s body and empty in a quivering heap on the are new to the scene. There are any ever witness. screams in blissful agony with each fl oor, rife with the pleasure and terror of number of negative experiences that You don’t believe that? earth-shattering impact. being so open. Or, if done in a group can go into performing live. Until you’ve Doug McLean of the Pain. setting, can draw people together like lugged a set of drums through knee- Paperbacks, and formerly the Querkus The smoke from a patron’s cigarette nothing else can. The feeling that high snow in -40 degree whether, you Bonaduces, has been at it for is pulled into a singer’s bruised and comes from eye contact with your can’t possibly understand what over a decade. He responds with war-torn lungs only to be scraped fellow band-mates in mid-groove is musicians go through. It’s not easy. one of the most eloquent answers across frail vocal cords in a blood- unlike any other. Trevor Whatman, bass That said, there’s still a sense of ever, “I play music because I love curdling howl. player for the Saucermen, puts it best, optimism to be found in a situation that music. I love it desperately, I owe This is an average night for an “It’s one of those intangible experiences, would grind most others under its heel. my life to it, and I will happily independent band. where you just need to be there.” To Greg, sound engineer for the repay that debt. Apologies if that Every week in Winnipeg, scores of Jahmeel Russell, vocalist/bassist for Collective Cabaret and singer/guitarist sounds overly dramatic, but it’s musicians gather together in dirty, run- Projektor, hails the freedom to “make of the band High Five Drive, the most really true! I love getting the down, buildings to play before a panel the music you want make” as the best satisfying feeling is “when someone opportunity to do all these things of local citizenry who sit silent, thing about being in an independent tells you how much one of your songs with my friends. We get to work watching, judging, while each band band. No one is telling these people meant to them. It feels like I’m not just together and travel the world member goes through his or her own how to put it all together. What you’re wasting my time when I hear that.” occasionally. What could be Projektor deeply personal and glorious hell to do hearing is what moves them. This Short of a heart surgeon saving cooler than that?” what they do. doesn’t mean that as a listener you patients’ lives, where else would you How beautiful is that? That’s They love this. It’s as simple as have to like every song, but you have hear such appreciation for a! job well someone who loves what he that. to, at the very least, apprec! iate done? Nowhere. does. These are people who go to something like that. It’s honesty So why should people be going to Isn’t it about time you got out concerts and stand slack-jawed in pure incarnate, and that’s a rare thing these shows? there and enjoyed the experience ecstasy or move with reckless abandon nowadays. After sharing the stage with with them? as the band plays for them and for Playing live is simply a reason for Projektor at the Pyramid in late October, Some shows to watch out for: them alone. These are people who, living, among most musicians. It’s the Niko Friesen, drummer for Vancouver- High Five Drive will be playing every Tuesday, invade the shores of chance to put the songs to the test and based Motion Soundtrack, offered this December 9 at the Collective their local music shops, tearing open to try and connect with an audience. insight on the situation, “people should Cabaret, and January 7 at the the new CDs with the zeal of a crack- The result can be instant gratifi cation in give themselves a chance to feel good West End Cultural Centre. addict. the form of clapping, cheering, or the and experience something new, and Projektor will be playing High Five These are people have no choice in ever-popular “devil horns.” It can also going to see more live music is a great December 23 at the Pyramid. what they do. As Jeff Konwalchyk, be a painfully unforgettable experience start.” Despite a modest turnout that Keep your eyes peeled for the drummer for Querkus, Patrick Keenan, culminating in the band being pelted particular evening, both Projektor and many, many more shows and host of others is so fond of saying, with all manners of objects at hand: Motion Soundtrack played their happening in Winnipeg this “I didn’t choose music, it chose me.” beer bottles, broken drum sticks, or collective hearts out. December. The melodies, harmonies, and rhythms even the occasional rock. At the risk of sounding like a cliché, In the new year, Mike Lewis get into their heads and they can either Still, when it works, there’s nothing independent bands, tired and hungry will examine the details of running go insane or strap on a guitar and get like it. After a well-performed set, there though they may be, will always put 110 an indie band. We now know why them out. It’s a matter of survival. is a real feeling of accomplishment, like percent into a show. They have to, they do it, but how do they do it So, what is it about playing music you moved someone on a spiritual because like the song-writing process, without starving to death? How is that keeps these people coming back? level. It leaves an afterglow that makes no one is paying them gobs of money it possible and who does all the There countless reasons, depending you forget about the fact that you’re to do this. They have to earn the respect work? The Saucerman 016 DECEMBER 02, 2004 Arts Editor Jo Snyder E-mail [email protected] Tele 786-9497 CONTACTArts» Arts» » & & Culture» Art with Impact at the Urban Shaman Whitney Light Crait uses references to the history of feeling that things are not as they seem. First Nations oppression to speak about Dominating the scene are big city ntering the exhibition, the socially disadvantaged position of his buildings that thrust ferociously upwards. I felt like I had people today. His paintings are clearly of Shrinking into the bottom right corner stumbled into a war contemporary significance, and are derelict teepees, symbolizing decay zone. And in fact, I particularly important for Winnipeg. In in the inner city, and the loss of past had. Rez of War – I’ll life, as in this art, the problems of First values and experience. Here Crait adds a hold you if you carry Nations in this city are evident to anyone touch of sarcasm – one teepee reads Eme is a collection of new works by local who cares to look. Vacant land, any takers? There are artist Roger Crait. They are being featured Crait is showing five works – four numerous indications of the contradictions now until December 11 at the Urban mixed media paintings and one found that the urban setting presents for First Shaman Gallery – a unique Exchange object – that experiment with a variety of The city scene of Not For Sale departs apparently unsophisticated style Nations – prominently displayed logos District gallery that offers exhibition styles. But clearly all are the product of a from naturalist and realist representation. characteristic of Die Brcke and Der Blaue and symbols of capitalist enterprise being opportunities to up-and-coming First passionate artist, as they express deeply Crait uses intense, bold colour in choppy, Reiter is evidence of underlying one example. Nations artists. felt emotion. This quality unites the show unblended strokes. Lines create the authenticity and honesty. It was thought Rez of War accurately describes the Rez of War is an expression of great and demands viewer attention. recognizable forms of buildings, buses, that through both early and neo- picture of society built by the works in anger regarding issues facing First Not For Sale is a painting reminiscent and cars, but in a highly stylized manner. expressionist movements, the artist was this exhibition. The works resonate with Nations peoples. Painting is Crait’s outlet of the works of German Expressionists – a The actual application appears to have able to demonstrate their deepest intuitive anger, resentment, and despair rather to communicate his perspective, an outlet group of artists working in the early part been done with speed. The composition, insights on the subject portrayed.! This than hope. But I found the title of one that overcomes the distance afforded by of the last century who rejected an in fact, smacks of the innocent crayon is precisely what Crait has done. The particular piece to be especially evocative conventional mass communication. The academic approach to art. Not interested drawings of young children, but with effect of rapid, spontaneous production regarding the nature of First Nations concerns of First Nations are familiar to in mere representations of nature, they some sinister content that I will expand thoroughly captures an obvious flow of peoples’ precarious footing in Winnipeg Winnipeggers through news media, but developed art that focused on the on shortly. The use of expressionist deeply felt ideas. – Unfinished Business. Left unsaid is their expression through art imposes a expression of deeper internal emotion. technique, by which I mean technique Not For Sale is a nightmarish vision how that business will play out: redress new dynamic. Crait brings his personal Through formal manipulations and that appears to suggest spontaneity, is an of the downtown, presumably of of past wrongs and renewal in the future, experience to art, opening a window to distortions, the Expressionists were able important aspect in linking the style of Winnipeg, distorted to describe the city or more of the same. the realities of First Nations struggles in to elicit heightened emotional response. Not For Sale with the style of early in terms of First Nations concerns and a way that precludes passive response. Crait’s work shows parallel tendencies. modernist paintings. For proponents, the experience. The image evokes fear and a UNEASY PIECES Aldona Dziedziejko An Artist Profi le: Diana Thorneycroft (Part 1)
iana Thorneycroft’s them on, it does transform them, because AD: I feel that the media portrayed studio in the Exchange they become very much like animals. this exhibit unfairly: they took away your District provides a AD: Looking at your resume- the voice... proverbial playground; body as a subject fi gures quite a lot in DT: Yes, absolutely. with its original tin your work. AD: Let’s talk about infl uences. ceilings, lofty windows DT: Yeah, well, all those were done Who were your mentors back in art Dand rag bag collection of bric-a-brac, over the period of ten years. For the most school? it’s the perfect place to “make a mess part it’s my body, towards the end I DT: I would say, pretty in.” Consorts such as Aganetha Dyck started working with other people’s consistently, Hieronymus Bosch, and and Reva Stone, who share the fl oor, bodies... (laughs). So in a lot of ways the Bruegel. They seemed to be Northern supply extra stimulus. What immediately doll and the rabbit are surrogates for my European artists, more than the Italian. struck me about the sloe-eyed artist is body. The rabbit in Monstrance, and the All the dead white guys. And then how small in stature she is opening the dolls in The Doll Mouth Series. And contemporary artists: Joel-Peter Witkin; massive metal studio door. certainly the Doll Mouth Series was about he’s a photographer. When I saw his Her recent photographic how similar it was to the real thing - the photographs, about fi fteen or twenty exhibition titled The Doll Mouth Series body- the un-canniness of that. years ago--it took me three years to do was shown through September-October AD: You play with people’s inner it--but I actually started working with at the University of Winnipeg’s Gallery boundaries, imagination, anxieties; is that photographs because of him. Back then 1C03, and is subsequently traveling to why they get so offended? he was working with dwarves, and Brock University at St. Catharine’s, DT: Some people get pleasure in people who had limbs missing and Ontario and to Fredericton, New having those things triggered, and some sado-masochists, just all these very Brunswick. Her uneasy photographs and people get pissed off. When I showed bizarre, strange people. He put them in installations warrant anything but neutral Touching: The Self at the WAG, I took a tableaux, and photographed them. public response. This creates a breeding psychiatrist to see the work. It was really Hermaphrodites, and circus people: ground for rampant myths about interesting because he said, ‘What you’re people that were not viewed by society Thorneycroft. On the other hand, there doing is you’re arousing people, and this as normal. They were black and white also exist little known facts about Diana is not necessarily sexual arousal--but to photographs, and they were just so Thorneycroft: her resume is an impressive be in arousal is to feel any kind of beautiful. I would credit him for really nine pages long; she has received sensation.’ But when you think about it, helping me realize a direction in my numerous awards including the Most arousal is one thing you can’t control. It’s work. Outstanding Teacher Award (University your body responding to something, not AD: What about professors, of Manitoba, 2002); she is a pixieish, trim your mind. So people get angry. Not just teachers? woman who doesn’t look a day over towards my work, but any work: “How DT: Yeah, at art school: Ivan Eyre, thirty. Thorneycroft keeps busy: she just dare you...how dare you infringe on my he was my drawing professor. I draw recently designed the costumes and personal space? I never gave you representationally - I mean when my props for the Winnipeg Contemporary permission!” So it’s been really interesting students draw like that it has an Dancers’ (WCD) performance of Othello. seeing the responses. illustrative manner. I teach my students This activity is befi tting of her role as AD: Your art provokes certain to say, “It’s an anal-retentive school of Winnipeg’s recusant artist: she des! igns spontaneous reactions. drawing.” It’s very detailed, very precise- the product, and lets other people play DT: When I exhibited in Medicine - and Ivan gave me permission just to be, out the drama (and they seem to do it Hat there was one photograph of me with you know? I came in with a drawing of a well). a plastic bag over my head, and I didn’t turkey neck on a plate, and he said to I had a chance to sit down with put myself in danger or anything, and one me: “You’re quite normal, aren’t you?” Diana Thorneycroft and broach the woman wanted the show taken down. She He just validated this other part of me. I subject of her body of work. said, “If my ex-boyfriend saw that realize how unfortunate, because so far, Aldona Dziedziejko: Do you want photograph it would have given him ideas it has mostly been men--male artists to talk about the costumes you’re of how to harm me.” And she was furious that I’ve looked to. designing for WCD? Diana Thorneycroft at me, and the gallery. That leap of ‘How AD: How did you decide to DianaThorneycroft: The dance is foundation, but every night it’ll be different. props,” because the dancers have to get dare you.’ I just thought, wow, you need become an artist- what kind of a process based on Othello, and the one I designed I’ve seen the dance about twelve times, used to what we have. I’ve been providing therapy. Well it was sad because she had was it? for before was based on Hamlet. The and every time is different. The dancers them with found objects, props and obviously been hurt by him and was still DT: Well you know, in grade ten, difference between this time and last just go, they just do! It’s sort of like costumes. What I will do for the fi nal one healing. But rather than deal with the real eleven, you think about who you’re going time is that this dance performance is preparing for a major painting, and having is embellish things, and alter things, and issue, she projected it onto me, as if I had to be when you grow up? I was blessed being divided into two segments. The an exhibition of the preliminary sketches. make things from scratch. But at this harmed her. The very fact the she looked with the inability, to deal with math and fi rst six weeks Tom Stroud, the artistic That’s a visual analogy. He tapes every point the only things I’ve made from at that work, it reminded her of her past. chemistry, in a very superior way. I dealt director, is working with the dancers and single session, and he will take the scratch were hooves--there’s a lot of That kind of response I think is an extreme with it: I just never liked it. Actually, fl irted teaching them how to improvise. So the components of that and set that to a animal imagery in Othello, and I made all one. When I showed the rabbit exhibition I with--I think a lot of girls do--with dances that [took place November 19- choreographed piece which will be seven dancers a pair of hooves that they got hate mail from women in America. 21]-- none of them are set. It’s pretty performed next September. So with my will wear...or not! Depends on how they One woman suggested that I commit brave. He’s given them text- I provided work, ! I’ve brought in some things but at feel that night. That actually took a lot of suicide. That’s another extreme reaction Continued on the next page some props, he’s given them the some point Tom had to say, “no more time, making these hooves. Once they put to an exhibition that she didn’t even see. »
DECEMBER 02, 2004 017 , 2004 Arts Editor Jo Snyder E-mail [email protected] Tele 786-9497 CONTACTArts» Arts» » & & Culture» » JANA TING CD REVIEWS Roses in Winter Without nary a word spoken, there is a narrative running through this disc, by piano virtuoso Jana Ting. Over fourteen NOT BY CHOICE tracks, Ting explores love and beauty (Maple Music) through the music of composers such Secondhand Opinions as Mozart, Brahms, and Chopin. The narrative concept stems from the loss One word: bleh. This discount store her father, John Ting, and the album knock-off of A Simple Plan lacks what also serves to benefit The John Ting even that adolescent whine-fest Memorial Collegiate Fund and possesses in sub-atomic quantities: A CancerCare Manitoba. The motifs of Simple Hook. From the bad teenage- life, death, and love are illustrated in boy “authentic” hand-written lyrics in the music by sparse moments set the liner notes to denote male PMS against flourishes to create a real sense yearnings to the lead singer’s atonal of atmosphere. Ting’s incredible mumblings, this crap screams “Flush musical talent is beyond question and me! Please! I can’t stand the smell of she appears to be equally confident myself anymore!” Clichéd to the core, with the music of each composer. It is this band is just one more example of also noteworthy that the album was the new rules for establishing Canadian recorded at the Eckhardt-Grammatte culture: try to model yourself on Hall, and it sounds crisp and lively. N’Sync Corporate Music America in ([email protected]) order to establish a market presence in the screaming-pigtail-tween David Garvey demographic, gorged full on its I- can’t-discipline-you-cuz-I’ll-get- arrested wussy parents’ sweat, blood and money. For this band, Originality has defenestrated itself due to the horror of having acid thrown in its once-beautiful face by the green-with- envy Boring Music Formula. ! People will buy Not By Choice, indeed. Eric Warwaruk BOY (Maple Music) Every Page You Turn Concert Review: Boy is a one-horse show, the brainstorm of Yukon-born Stephen Kozmeniuk, The Tragically Hip Diana Thorneycroft who plays everything except the kitchen sink. Compared to Sam Andrea Collins Continued from page 17 play the role of my father and my brother with certain Roberts by deaf reviewers, his music » embellishments. And then augment my body with fake breasts and play the role of my mother and my is much-loved by British bloggers for a n the evening becoming a veterinarian, but I didn’t have the reason: he sounds like a’ bit off the math, or the interest in science. So that slowly sister. So it just became a tool; my androgyny was of November ol’blockee Britishee. Ripping off the narrowed the fi eld, and I could draw, I never took usable that way. The short hair, and sort of muscular hard work of The Who and The Beatles 23 it was art in high school because they never offered it, and fl at-chested. All my life I’ve been mistaken for a to Brit-Pop: the Next Generation Oasis apparent that boy--but it’s not like I go around trying to do that--but and fellow Canadians Sloan, Boy but I just realized I could draw so I started thinking should have at least been able to get the beer sales that maybe that’s the fi eld that I could go into. sometimes it just happens. When I want to be noticed as ! a girl I wear lipstick and earrings: those are the away with some catchy tunes, and it were almost as Then, I got accepted into art school. So it’s probably at the age of seventeen, eighteen, that I visual clues. does. Unfortunately, the only reason high as the ticket sales for the they are catchy is because they have O realized I was going to become an artist. My all been done before. Just check out Tragically Hip concert. The crowd parents endorsed that a hundred percent. They In September, an eyewitness to Thorneycroft these song titles: “People Come On,” buzzed with excitement as the never questioned it, which is really great. My dad addressing her fi ne arts class at Gallery 1C03, I “Same Old Song,” or even “Stars.” first rock concert went underway was in the military, and I think had I been a male couldn’t help but feel a pinch of jealousy. Back in my How about “Yawn” for a song title? art school days in Vancouver, instead of iconoclastic Geez louise, how hard is it to get out at the new MTS Centre. The child, he would have wondered, ‘How is he going to support himself?” but i! t was just assumed that lecturers taking us on fi eld trips, we had drafty from underneath the Who’s giant setup of the new arena was quite I was going to marry someone who would (support ramshackle studios and rodent infestations--our Elton-John-Tommy shoe? It makes impressive. It was exceptionally reviewers want to write stupid puns on me) because that was the paradigm they were plaster creations ended up food for the rats. Nature is your band name, such as: “Boy is not easy to locate our seats and the working with. perverse sometimes, in order to survive, but so is art. small enough! to be a chim-chim- stairs weren’t nearly as steep and Is the intellectual conversion of art images into absorbable form indicative of the spectator’s chim-i-ney sweeper,” or “Boy: it’s time frightening in comparison to the AD: Speaking of gender, I notice that in to grow up.” Another choice fare your work you play with the notion quite frequently. anxieties, pleasures, and memories? Thorneycroft’s steps at the old arena. The sound offered by MapleMusic, that proud Do you want to explain that? art is diffi cult to encapsulate because for many, the Canadian entity that offers music that quality was top notch and the seats end result is often as unpalatable as facing a terra sounds exactly like other countries’ were unexpectedly comfortable. incognita of emotions unbidden. Leitmotifs such as music. DT: When I fi rst started taking photographs Although, they did’nt dry very of myself, there was one photograph in particular, the fear of mortality, violence to the body and decay Eric Warwaruk quickly after I spilled beer all over that I looked at and thought “Geez, I can’t tell if I’m loom large in Thorneycroft’s oeuvre, but are hardly a boy or a girl in this photograph!” Looking at that, the stuff on the fringes of art history. German Dadaist my boyfriend and myself. Of course, I remember thinking, this is something that I could Hans Bellmer’s excoriating doll hybrids come to when the concert began there was THE FATES play with. In fact, my body in certain situations is mind, as do the pa! nels from the king of grotesque (Ruby Moon Records) little time for sitting. Just like the very androgynous, with my short hair--and I’m not Hieronymus Bosch. The most yielding way to Till We Have Faces rest of the enthusiastic audience built like Dolly Parton--and at the time I was approach Diana Thorneycroft’s career is to tweak the defaults of your imagination; to reconsider the animus This trio of songsmiths from Calgary, I was up on my feet, wet, beer- dealing with the issues about family and I thought, you know, I could act male. I could become, and in her art as a startling breach of private thresholds. AB, have assembled a collection soaked ass and all. The Tragically drawing from their substantial well of Hip took the stage around 9:00 talent. It seems the group has a democratic system in place, as each p.m. The show was great and full member has written about an equal of energy. They played plenty of 95.9 FM CKUW Campus/Community Radio amount of songs on this fourteen-track crowd pleasers: Poets, Ahead by full-length. And even with a changing array of writers and vocalists, there is a Century, and Wheat Kings along still a cohesion found throughout (even with some of the! ir newer, more Top 10 CD - Albums with their quick take on the unappealing tunes. After the final Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams). The November 15 - November 21, 2004 sound is mostly acoustic folk/pop with encore, and once my boyfriend a little bit of jazz rhythms and studio had had enough of me yelling, ! = Local content, * = Canadian Content trickery thrown in for good measure. “I love you Gordie!!!” over and When it does get jazzy, it tends to LW TW Artist Recording Label sound not unlike Ani DiFranco, which over again, it was time to call it no doubt they’ve heard before, but a night. Outside the arena it was RE 1 Interpol Antics Matador there it is nonetheless. And even with surprisingly easy to hail (or stumble that comparison, the overall sound is 5 2 Eliott Smith From a Basement. Anti still their own. Though some of the in front of) a cab. Overall it wasn’t NE 3 *Stars Set Yourself on Fire Arts & Crafts lyrics deal with some darker images the best Hip concert I’ve attended, NE 4 Massive Attack Danny the Dog Virgin (‘I got the shit kicked out of me...’ on but it was still a fun experience in Sister Mary), the sound maintains an 2 5 *William Shatner Has Been Shout! Factory uplifting feel and one gets the sense of the new arena. The Tragically Hip’s 4 6 * Neko Case The Tigers Have Spoken Mint being in the Calgary ! studio with songs are so full of patriotism, that RE 7 *Rheostatics 2067 True North them. they automatically create a content 1 8 Saint Etienne Travel Edition 1990-2005 Sub Pop David Garvey crowd. It was an all-together 8 9 REM Around the Sun Warner satisfying musical experience and 7 10 Nick Cave/the Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues. Anti I’m sure many would agree. 018 DECEMBER 02, 2004 CONTACTSports» Sports Editor » Leighton Klassen E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497 Momma Said Knock You Out
was the Nipplegate incident involving JT anybody while up in the stands— only and Jackson (the less crazy one). Stephen “Woo” Jackson did (earning I always knew Ron Artest was a himself a 30-game suspension). Artest little crazy himself (not to mention though, given his previous rap sheet, was bi-polar), so seeing him snap and the perfect scapegoat. In a just world it November 25 run into the stands after a fan would be Jackson, not Artest, hitting the didn’t surprise me. What did, links early. Jermaine O’Neal’s suspension Men’s basketball however, was the fact that up (25 games) was just. Yes, the punch he until then, Artest had shown landed could have put Rocky down for the Wesmen 66 Brandon 88 remarkable, uncharacteristic count, but the fan shouldn’t have been on self-restraint. After being the court, it’s as simple as that. Women’s basketball shoved, almost punched, by Ben Wallace, Artest drew back and Quote of the Week: Rip Hamilton yelling, Wesmen 75 Brandon 72 reclined on the scorer’s table to cool “Get Rasheed! Get Rasheed!” Classic. off. Then, everybody’s favourite sports Admit it, as soon as you heard about The November 26 Every icon — the drunken fan — decided to Brawl, you immediately thought Rasheed second interrupt this moment of Zen by throwing a had something to do with it. After all, he Men’s volleyball week, Patrick drink at him. Imagine for a moment that did lead the league in technical fouls a Faucher breaks down the latest NBA news you’re sitting in class and suddenly some couple of years back. Wesmen def. Regina 3-0 (25- to help sports fans university-wide knob walks in and throws an (undoubtedly 22,25-20,25-19) through the cold, NHL-less winter. E-mail overpriced) cafeteria burger in your face. My 24 second drill: Seattle is now 11-2. This is him (love or hate) at HYPERLINK “mailto: money’s on you picking up the beef and just a temporary aberration — the treys Women’s volleyball [email protected]” making him eat it. Why, then, should Artest have to stop dropping soon, right? Lebron be held to a higher standard? I could name scored a career-high 43 points against Wesmen def. Regina 3-0 ( atching the about 41 million reasons why. Which is what Larry Brown’s Pistons. Not that he was 25-17,25-20, 25-20) Pistons/Pacers commissioner David Stern must have done trying to prove that he should have gotten Fight is like when he relegated Artest to riding pine for more playing time at the Olympics or November 27 looking at roadkill. the rest of the season. anything. When they retired Stockton’s I can’t turn away, As I said last week, Artest wanted some number Monday night, did they attach a Men’s volleyball no matter how time off to promote his rap CD. So the pair of short shorts to the banner? Whard I try. But the beauty of it is that question begs asking, “Did he get suspended Wesmen def. Regina 3- 0 nobody got seriously hurt, so I don’t on purpose?” I don’t know. We are talking Game of the Holidaze: A no-brainer. (25-15, 25-19, 28-26) feel bad about it. Which is a good about a man who applied to work at Radio Christmas day, 11:30 a.m., Pacers/Pistons thing, considering the last time a sports- Shack during his rookie year. His priorities on Sportsnet, followed by Shaq vs. Kobe Women’s volleyball related scandal got this much coverage are shwacked. But even so, he didn’t punch at 2:00 p.m. on ABC. Wesmen def. Regina 3-1 (25- 13, 21-25, 25-17, 25-22)
Rhys Kelso (20-15) Jon Symons (25-17) Mike Pyl (19-21) UPCOMING NFL Detroit over Arizona Arizona over Detroit Detroit over Arizona -Hard game to call. I like -The Cardinals have been playing -Joey Harrington and the rest PICKS Detroit’s offense over Arizona’s. like well, the Cardinals while the of the Lion offense has looked ith Fantasy Football Lions came back positively anemic after a once- HOME moving into the San Diego over Denver to Earth after their great start and impressive start. That being Wcolonization -The Chargers have screwed me have lost 6 in a row. Go with the said, it has been reported that status of fan friendly up before. Lets hope they don’t uhh, somewhat Arizona will start rookie QB December 3 & 4 sports gambling, any bit of do it this week. If the Chargers hotter team. John Navarre. information and resources can win this game I’ll start to will give you an edge on believe the hype. San Diego over Denver San Diego over Denver Men’s basketball (0-5) vs predicting the likely outcome -Last week LT struggled on the -San Diego is ranked 2nd in Regina (4-2) of a football game. So, the Green Bay over Philadelphia ground, but made up for it with 10 the NFL in rushing yards Uniter sports team have -Have to pick one long shot. catches and two allowed. Assuming they decided to offer our voice Although the way the Packers short-yard rush TD’s, and the contain Reuben Droughns, I’ll on what team will come out have been playing this may not Chargers got a near-400 yard take my chances with Jake on top of every week of NFL be such a long shot. The Eagles game from Drew Brees. Plummer who has had, ahem, AWAY football. We’ve structured have already clinched what to Denver looked sloppy on ice his moments (anyone it in a format where we’ve they have to play for? against Oakland, so I’m going with remember his left-handed handpicked what we think the NFC West Leaders. throw that was returned for a December 4 & 5 are the top fi ve games of the Baltimore over Cincinnati TD?) week, which we’ll then apply -There is no way the Bengals will Philadelphia over Green Bay our expert opinion on who put up 58 points against the -Philly’s in the playoffs and it’s only Philadelphia over Green Bay Men’s volleyball (4-4) vs will be victorious and why. Ravens defense. The Ravens Week 13. Guess T.O. really is a -Green Bay has won 5 in a row Regina (0-10) Here are this weeks top fi ve need to keep up with the difference (written before the Monday games. Steelers if they hope to defend maker. My guess is if it comes Nighter). They seem to be a their division title. down to it, the Eagles would rather team that is beginning to peak Arizona @ Detroit face Minny in the at the right time. That being Seattle over Dallas playoffs, so they’ll bring out the said, I’ll have to wimp out and guns against the Pack. take the easy pick at home. Denver @ San Diego -I can’t see the Seahawks being shut down two weeks in a row. Look for them to make a Cincy over Baltimore Cincinnati over Baltimore Green Bay @ Philadelphia statment after last weeks -Palmer threw 3 INT’s last week -Now I know this will not be horrible loss. and still won. This one’ll come another ridiculous 58-48 tilt. Cincinnati @ Baltimore down to D, and the But if last week’s is any Ravens have the best in the indication (which it probably is league. Still, can’t go against the not), the Bengal offense hasn’t Dallas @ Seattle Bengals. shown this much bite since Boomer Esaison. I just have Seattle over Dallas much more faith in Carson -This is why ABC is thinking about Palmer than Kyle Boller. Jan. 6 re-choosing the late season Picks Monday Nighters Dallas over Seattle starting in ’06. And to think, 7 -Talk about disappointment. weeks ago I called Seattle the Both teams were slotted as “likely Super Bowl division winners by many reps of the NFC” or something like pundits at the start of the Jan. 6 that. season. And hey, Seattle is still on top of the worst division in the NFL. But I think I’ll have to go with Dallas, just because someone has to win this Jan. 6 5 game, right? DECEMBER 02, 2004 019 , 2004 CONTACTSports» Sports Editor » Leighton Klassen E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497
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t’s a journalist’s worst Editor Nicholas Hirst said in an nightmare, and a apology column appearing in the nightmare that can publication, which questions why shatter one’s career, the publication decided to publish THE UNITER is always on reputation, credibility, and an apology before Taylor’s case was the look-out for your stories, employment permanently a confirmed one. Hirst also said, “It ideas, humour, and commentary. — Plagiarism. And it’s one act was obvious from various things Ithat has made its way right to that appeared in the piece that it Whether you want to write, draw, the doorstep of one journalist who would not have been possible that or snap photos, whether you spearheaded and built his career the writer had spoken to the person want to cover a story, or know of here in Winnipeg, Scott Taylor. He’s he said he’d spoken to, where he’d a story that you think we should considered by many to be Canada’s spoken to them, at the time it was cover, we want to hear from you. most prominent sports columnist, spoken,” in an interview appearing which is mostly attributed to his on Yahoo News on Wednesday, CONTACT US: with your diverse nature of commentary that November 24, which seems to bring ideas, recomendations, and spans through nearly every major about questions regarding the feedback at sport in North America. He can, professionalism and accuracy of [email protected] and has, talked about everyone from Hirst and the rest of the editing the locals right here in Winnipeg staff. If it was so obvious that to NFL and NBA superstars, the Taylor didn’t speak to the people in ongoing NHL debacle, and the the story, why didn’t Hirst and the politics in every avenue of sport, editing staff pick up on it during while exercising it through radio, the editing process? For this, I TV, and print outlets all across understand why Taylor was shocked Canada. His hard work, passion, at how quickly the Free Press and abundance of knowledge have the lowly act, and the outlet he function. However, taking material published an apology, as he earned him the freedom to comment voluntarily resigned from before outside of quotes that has been expressed in the same story on nearly every sport at his own will they could dismiss him from created solely by a particular author published by Yahoo News. Above and get paid for it -- he truly did employment. And, like almost all is inexcusable, and a blatant act of all, it’s in print; there were credits have the dream job. convicts, he understandably plagiarism. And this is an act Taylor gone undue and quotes modified – But now it’s all over, quick as the defended himself. In his defense he was accused of by some publications no matter where they came from – blink of an eye. claimed that quotes are always that followed the story, and an act which is undisputedly a wrong act, He was convicted, and being a swapped and traded from media which he did not provide an and an act which is justifiably member of Canadian media -- they outlet to media outlet, resulting in explanation or defense for, according classified as plagiarism. It’s just were surely the first to come down their origins – the source that to some of stories I’ve read. The unfortunate that a local icon has on him, and came down they did, attained the quote – becoming alleged modifications he made to had his status flushed down the hard. The first to tear away his unknown. This argument is valid, the selected quotations also were toilet so quickly; but I guess he stripes was the paper he has considering the grounds on which absent of explanation on Taylor’s brought it upon himself and will be dedicated much of his career to -- the Canadian Press (CP), American behalf. On the contrary, the Free adopting a refurbished reputation The Winnipeg Free Press -- the Press (AP), Reuters, and professional Press admits the case will go under as a fraudulent journalist. outlet in which he was convicted of sports teams’ Public Relations a “painstaking investigation,” as
NOVEMBER GOLF IN WINNIPEG Un’fore’seen Warm Weather a Treat for Local Hackers
PAUL RYAN
already mild day seem even more two and one (two up with one hole to gives you a kind of buzz that keeps t was hard to fathom, pleasant. For diehard golfers like us, play). Since golf is considered a you coming back for more. Even if really. A glance at the being able to play this late in the year gentleman’s game by many, (no you have a brutal round, there are calendar told me the is an unexpected bonus. punching the spectators, for little things (a nice bunker shot here, date There are certain aspects of golf instance), we shook hands at the end a birdie putt there) that subconsciously was November 17, but I in November that differ from golf in of the match. get you thinking about playing again, had just called my golfi ng the summertime. The greens Our discussion during the match soon. buddy, Tony, and asked him if he themselves were covered and consisted of the usual trash talk, The sport also requires its Iwanted to play nine holes that temporary greens were put to use, trying to knock the other guy off his participants to be very supportive of afternoon. Strange, I thought, as which required the repositioning of game. one another, even in competition. I once again checked the calendar the hole being cut directly into the Golf, you see, is a game that Sportsmanship is at the very heart of — I was going golfi ng in Winnipeg, in grass. Likewise, the tee boxes had requires a great degree of mental golf. November. branches on them, indicating that concentration. I tell people that golf If my partner makes a nice shot, For the fi rst three weeks of they were no longer to be used. is about 90 percent mental. If you I’ll compliment him on it, because I November, and for most of this fall, Instead, the grounds crew had don’t have positive thoughts know how diffi cult it is to make such Winnipeg experienced an set up makeshift tee boxes, usually circulating in your head for the entire a shot. It also helps him or her gain abundance of above-normal located 25 to 50 yards ahead of round, then you’re going to slip up confi dence, which is very important temperatures. As a result of this where we’d normally hit our drives and your score will suffer as a result. in golf, as I noted earlier. unusual warmth Winnipeg’s golf (on the par fours and fi ves; the par I, myself, have had many rounds go As I look out the window this season was extended considerably. three tee boxes were not as far in the tank because of one or two morning there is snow on the ground. It seemed only fair, though, since ahead). poor shots. It doesn’t take long for It’s hard to believe that ten days ago our spring and summer seasons Tony and I played our usual match your score to infl ate and your I was out “chasing the little white ball were inexplicably cold and wet. — I gave him one stroke on each confi dence to defl ate. around”. That’s OK, Tony and I plan As my partner and I prepared to hole, except the par threes, where Golf is an extremely frustrating on playing in a golf simulator league tee off on the fi rst hole of the south we played “straight up”. The game, game, but it is also very addictive. at the golf dome this winter. You nine at St. Charles Country Club, the as usual, was close, but he fi nished When you hit a drive on the sweet know, just to keep in shape for next sun shone brilliantly, making the me off on the eighth hole and won spot or drain a long breaking putt, it year. 020 DECEMBER 02, 2004 CONTACTSports» Sports Editor » Leighton Klassen E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497 Wesmen Dominated Subpar Effort Drops Team to 0-5 Wesmen Bring Broom Out on Regina, Sweep team 3-0 Photos Andrew Wade by: Photos Andrew Wade by: » »
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he Wesmen point runs, but we were still in o many with Winnipeg guard Erfan rest to the lethal Bobcat and the Regina control and still siding out,” she observers, the Nasajpour keeping his team transition game, as they came Cougars were set said. game could have within two points midway to play again in the second to battle on Friday Cue Andrea Charbonneau, been decided through the first half by frame, highlighted by a fast- night, with a spot who hit her second ace of the in warm-ups. penetrating through some break alley-oop to Purrell. at the top of the game, again on the 19th point of The Brandon lackluster Brandon perimeter With the lead now scraping TPlains Division up for grabs. the set, securing the win for the BobcatsT unleashed a dazzling defense. Forwards Oliver twenty, both teams’ benches Both teams came out swinging Wesmen. array of tomahawks, double- Leslie and Tony Richter also rode out the final ten and fought until the end. The Wesmen played a very clutches, and 360 dunks kept possessions alive with minutes. But the Cougars did not have well-rounded game, limiting their that left the capacity crowd some hard-nosed offensive While much praise was enough to match the strength of errors and capitalizing on most smitten with the visiting rebounding. heaped on Brandon’s fast- the Wesmen as they took the of their opportunities. However, team’s athleticism. “We hung in there early,” break, equal credit is game in three straight sets by there were still some things that Game, set, and match. said Crook of his team’s start, warranted to their defensive scores of 25-17, 25-20, and 25- Scott indicated she wanted to The University of Winnipeg “but then they got away from effort in containing star guard 20. work on. men’s basketball team could us.” Nasajpour. Erfan was held to “I thought it was a pretty “We could have done a better not muster their best effort Those early gaps in the eleven points, well below his solid match,” commented head job blocking, our timing was a last Thursday at the Brandon defense closed. The season average, with most of coach Diane Scott after the little off, and the penetration of Duckworth Centre. A skilled quickness of the Bobcat those coming in the game’s game. “We did a lot of things our block was a little off, but it and athletic University of guards trapped and pressed first five minutes. really well.” really didn’t effect us that much Brandon team made them their Wesmen counterparts “I’d have to watch the film,” The fi rst set was a back-and- and we came back,” she said. pay, routing them 88-66. With into turnover-riddled said Crook, when probed forth battle in the beginning, but Key players in the game the loss, the Wesmen fall submission. The shots that about exactly what the once the scores reached 16-14 included Jocelyne Roy, who deeper into the basement of had been falling earlier were Bobcats did in containing the for the Wesmen, they were able played an excellent game, the Great Plains Division at now rimming out. A porous Wesmen’s leading scorer. to pick up their play and fi nished leading the team with 13 kills; 0-5, as desperation begins to Winnipeg zone had opened “But they were really athletic the set strong, winning 25-17. Andrea Charbonneau with 10 mount in avoidance of another the way for a floodgate of and they changed checks on In the second set the Wesmen kills, along with 15 defensive last-place finish. threes. him all the time, trying to started a little slower, but they digs; and Kristin Brisebois with “They sure played a lot Brandon had blown the make his life difficult. They never let the game get out of 9 kills. better than us,” lamented a game wide open with an tried to wear him down in control, and when they weren’t The Wesmen face off in a distraught Winnipeg head overpowering 20-6 run, forcing him to make some leading, they were never far rematch Saturday against coach Dave Crook. “We didn’t leaving the Wesmen in mistakes, and our guys didn’t behind. Andrea Charbonneau Regina. Coach Scott looks to play well, and they came out disbelief and visibly rattled. do a lot to support him.” came up with a huge ace to repeat her team’s performance and did play well. Our effort “We just didn’t make any As expected, the Brandon score the 19th point for the as well as improve it. definitely wasn’t real good.” shots and we gave them all side of the stat sheet is Wesmen and cruised to their “We want to get some more The Bobcats’ roster boasts kinds of transition baskets,” impressively well-balanced. second set win by a score of of those blocks at the net that one of the most prolific said Crook. “That’s a real Mario Joseph and Tyrone 25-21. got away from us, and maybe scorers in the CIS, fourth- athletic team. When they get Purrell led the way with 15 The Wesmen came out in the not make some of the hitting year guard O’Neil Gordon. into transition, they’re going points each, with Jul Michel third set with all cylinders fi ring errors that we did in bunches.” Against the Wesmen, however, to score.” chipping in 12 and Gordon taking a 14-6 lead, making the Saturday’s game is the last Gordon was just one weapon Winnipeg would never 11, with 7 assists. As for the Cougars look more like kittens. game for the Wesmen until in a multi-faceted offensive really recover. After whittling Wesmen, Richter contributed But the opposition were able to January 7. Coach Scott is attack. Guards Mario Joseph, the deficit down to ten, 12 hard-nosed points from claw their way back into the looking forward to the break. Jul Michel, and Bode Brandon finished the first half the paint, with Nasajpour and game, cutting the Wesmen’s “We need to concentrate on Olagundoye joined Gordon in with another back-breaking Matt Opalko adding 11 each. lead to 16-14. Although the getting the athletes regenerated pacing a fast transition game run, punctuated with a put- The Bobcats also received a Cougars were always close, and then will have to work on our that capitalized on Wesmen back by centre Tyrone Purrell significant boost from their Scott felt her team dealt with the skills and strength in preparation turnovers. at the buzzer that pushed the bench, outscoring Winnipeg situation well. for the tough second half of our The game began at a lead to 53-35. 33-17 in that regard. “We let them get two or three season,” she said. hectic, helter-skelter pace, Halftime must have given DECEMBER 02, 2004 021 , 2004 CONTACTSports» Sports Editor » Leighton Klassen E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497 Bending to the Beats of the Drum Capoeira– tales from the martial art of Capoeira
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apoeeera, capoetta, in concert. Instead of sitting through a spins while my hips are threatening to capa-what??? These mediocre opening band, the crowd of topple me over. In addition to this are are just a few of the people mashed up against the stage the head-rushes and dizziness responses that one waiting to be served up some hip hop accompanying these moves, reminding may get from the fare were rudely parted by a group of me of childhood days spent rolling uninitiated. Capoeira, men and women clad in white pants down a hill. pronouncedC ca-poh-era, is a Brazilian and tanktops. ‘What the hell is this?’ I Oddly enough, the most difficult martial art that is apparently as difficult thought to myself. ‘Have we been thing thus far has been trying to learn to pronounce as it is to perform. invaded by a group of Backstreet the rhythm of the Capoeira movements. Until recently, there hasn’t been Boys?’ But then that familiar drumming The sport of Capoeira is centred upon much of a Capoeira scene in Winnipeg, noise invaded my body and I was once the ‘ginga’ (pronounced jinga), a low- or North America for that matter. again taken back to the beaches of down swinging motion that looks easy Originating in Angola and later Salvador. enough when performed by a practiced Cbranching out to the northern regions As far as I could tell, if there were Capoeirista, but has the powerful ability of Brazil, Capoeira has about four people performing Capoeira in bars to transform a class full of respectable hundred years of history to its name. It down in the Exchange District, then university students into a group of was only until the 1970s, however, that obviously the sport was no longer just arm-swinging monkeys. it became known outside of Brazil. a blip on the radar screen. The last fifteen minutes of the class As a novice Capoerista with only two And so it was that when I saw a flyer is by far the most entertaining (and for months of practice under my belt, I can for Capoeira classes at the University the beginner, nerve-wracking) part of already say, without a doubt, that I’m of Winnipeg a couple of months ago, I the class. It is at this point that hooked. So what attracted me to this was more than intrigued. I found out everybody stands side by side in a roda lesser-known style of fighting, you ask? that the university has a good deal – a circle or wheel-shape - and begins Simply enough, it was the sheer going with the city’s only Capoeira to clap to the rhythm of the drums while aesthetics of the sport that did it for school, Axe Capoeira. For forty bucks two Capoeristas in the middle of the me. The first time I ever watched you get a one hour class per week for roda attempt to outdo one another with Capoeira was on a beach in Salvador, three months; this is just enough time their movements. The roda is similar to Brazil – a city that has practically to teach you the basics and to make a really fast-paced and visually become the mecca for Capoeiristas sure that you’re about as dependent on entertaining game of chess in that both worldwide. Perching myself on the edge the sport as a wino is on his alcohol. Capoeristas are like the chess players of that beach at the age of twelve or What really appealed to me is that the that must be constantly aware of their thirteen, I was hypnotized by the flash classes are always taught with some opponent’s next move. Essentially this of arms and legs spinning and revolving form of Capoeira music in the translates into the more experienced in time to the beat of a nearby drum. It background (whether it is live or Capoeiristas showing off their crazy was practically a spiritual experience recorded drumming), and never fails to kicks and spins while beginners like for me – never before had I seen a leave everybody in the class sweaty myself, desperately attempt to dodge martial art that was capable of and in a great mood. their opponent’s handstands and kicks. incorporating music, dance, and Capoeira involves a great deal of One may think that standing inside of strength in such a skillful and elegant handstands and ground work which the roda feeling like a deer trapped in manner. has made me question my future in this the headlights of a car would turn me Fast forward several years later to sport – as a woman with limited upper off of Capoeira, but instead, it’s only the Empire Club in Winnipeg where I body strength it is difficult to imagine given me a greater motivation to stick! had the opportunity to see De La Soul myself upside-down doing one-handed to the sport. Salve Capoeira! 022 DECEMBER 02, 2004 CONTACTSports» Sports Editor » Leighton Klassen E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497 Photos Andrew Wade by: Photos Andrew Wade by: » »
Facts—History
-Capoeira is a 400-year-old martial art that blends music, dance, singing, and acrobatics to create a holistic approach to self-defense.
-Capoeira was brought to Brazil by Angolan slaves who created this style of fi ghting in order to disguise their self-defense tactics from their slave-owners, who believed Capoeira to be nothing more than a recreational song/dance.
-There is no direct contact in the sport itself.
-In 1888, after the emancipation of the slaves in Brazil, many slaves in Rio de Janeiro formed Capoeira gangs that evidently infl uenced criminal activity. As a result, Capoeira was outlawed in Brazil from 1892-1937.
-Today Capoeira is practiced all over the world. There are currently two different styles – the traditional Angolan style and the more recently developed faster style called ‘Capoeira Regional’.
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