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Campus daycare in crisis By STEPHEN WISENTHAL ren, not all of whom will use daycare. She describes the cooperative man (raising funds for) daycare," adding ties have started on campus even U BC's daycare is thriving but time Another Acadia co-supervisor, agement and separate individual id she hopes other parts of the campus though the need has continued to is running out to find a new place to James Hutchinson, also likes the entity of the facilties as a crucial fac such as alumni and staff will help. grow. There has been a move to put it. daycare building he works in, one of tor. "I'm concerned that we maintain "Parents who are paying $300 - build more daycare ever since then," The childcare at UBC is known several in the same area to the south that individuality," she says. 500 a month for daycare cannot he says, adding for the last several across North America and beyond east of campus. He appreciates the "That's the reason why some of raise enough to build a new build years UBC daycare has been com but the 1940 vintage army huts that custom work such as half walls and them are considered the best in the ing," she says. pletely full with a long waiting list keep the rain off the children's heads other play areas which parents have city," she says. "Our staff are very Holubitsky says the current push equal to the number of spaces. will have to be abandoned in two built over the years but still wants to good and they like working here; for new daycare buildings started For the moment he is sticking to and a half years by order of the fire see it replaced. there is a low turnover." after 1983 when the fire marshal fundraising to replace the existing marshal. "They're falling to pieces," he says. She adds the location by the en gave the buildings a "five year only daycare. But if Don Holubitsky, a UBC "It would be nice to have new build dowment lands is ideal for bud and extension" following $200,000 in "What we are trying to do is graduate student and daycare fun ings." tadpole hunting expeditions which work to bring them closer to fire within a limited budget of $1 million draising comittee of one, is correct, UBC Daycare coordinator Mab enrich the day for children. code. replace all the existing facilities in UBC should have a $l million day Oloman looks after 11 separate day She has her own list of problems Daycare first appeared at UBC in the simplest construction that will be care centre by early next year to care units including four centres for with the existing facility, starting 1967 when parents set the precedent fully functional," he says, adding replace the decaying huts. children 18 months to three years with the plumbing which has no of forminga non-profit society under money for expansion can be raised Holubitsky, who also sits on the old, five for ages three to five, a pre pressure. "You can't clean your hands the provincial childcare act called later. Board of Governors and the AMS school for three to four year olds and and brush your teeth at the same UBC Kindercare Society. This was He says less than one per cent of Capital Projects Acquisition Com an after school centre for University time," she says. followed by Acadia, Units I and II, students have a child in daycare at mittee, says the AMS has already Hill school students. Of the approx Last December the staff in some Canada Goose, Tillicum, Summer any one time but it is still a worth guaranteed $350,000 for new day imately 275 students in centres she of the daycares found rats eating the of '73, Lilliput, and Pentacare day while student project. care buildings from the CPAC re manages, about 225 are in buildings corners off the mats, added Oloman. cares and finally University Hill after "I think students can support it serve fund and he expects the other which will have to be abandoned by She says she is "really grateful to the school care, founded in 1976. because it's a socially enlightened $650,000 from various sources to be 1987. AMS for taking up the challenge of "Since 1976 no new daycare facili- project." raised within the next few months. Sixty per cent of children in day Acadia Daycare co-supervisor care have student parents while 20 Judy McMurter likes the large, col per cent are faculty children and the ourful complex of remodelled army remaining 20 per cent are children of huts with a big yard where she. along staff. with three other co-workers, looks "I have asked the faculty associa after 25 three to six year old children. tion and the unions to become in "1 think this is the best (facility) in volved in funding the daycare," he the city," she says, adding the ample says. inside and outside space make it He says he thinks the funding will ideal for looking after active kids be in place this fall. and probably couldn't be replaced in "One of the main support groups a new building. "I personally like has been the Alumni Association. thi-ild facility better ... when you They are considering the proposal of want o stick a nail in the wall you funding daycare with matching dol can." lars to the ($350,000) student contri The bu'ding she is in. which only bution," he says. passes fire inspection because of AMS designer Michael Kingsmill, special expensive fire retardant paint a U BC architecture student who has on the walls, will be among the first been working with daycare designs, daycare units demolished when con is enthusiastic about the potential of struction starts this fall on a new the daycare project. student family housing development "It's probably the most exciting on the site. The housing project will project I could imagine," he says. replace 20 existing units with 164 "It's parameters are being a child." See page 2: UBC new ones with up to 216 more child CHILDREN.enjoying daycare juice and cookies Page 2 The Summer Ubyssey August 14-20, 1985 UBC daycare units will each maintain separate identities From page 1 block along Acadia Road and each vement of parents in the manage design decisions have been reached. money when we know the users are, He has done extensive research daycare unit will be 1800 - 2000 ment of their own daycare. If the Alumni Association executive dir- • contributing," Spinner says. into design requirements for child square feet in inside floor area, building is "like an institution it ector Dan Spinner said he is delight Daycare committee chair Neil Rise care and praises the quality of care at roughly the size of a three bedroom promotes an attitude that whenever ed with the daycare proposal and brough, UBC associate" vice-pres UBC. house. By law each 18 months to there's anything wrong you just look his organization is quite interested in ident student services, says "within "It is a facility of high renown and three years unit must have no more to the big caretaker," he says. the project but wouldn't decide ex two months we should have the final you have to do equal or better," he than 12 children and at least three actly what to do until a committee (funding) committments that we One plan he mentioned is to create says. "You can't just put up ATCO staff and each over three unit can meeting in early September. need." a street pattern through the site with trailers." have 25 children and four profes "If it wasn't for the students tak different buildings along the way. He says the provincial law calls sional staff. He said he had received a letter of ing the initiative here then we would "We could develop one house as a for three square meters per child The law won't allow more than encouragement about supporting day be having a very difficult time." town hall... another as a fire station inside and seven outside but he is three units to be joined together and care from President pro-tem Robert He says he is certain alternate in an environment that is a safe "using a design standard of almost Kingsmill says he wants to keep all Smith but added it would be better.if facilities can be found for the Acadia replica of the real thing." three times that." the units separate so they can main users and connected bodies such as daycare when they lose their build The space for daycare is a long tain their individual identity. Kingsmill doesn't see starting im faculty and staff chipped- in. ing in the fall. "It's a lot easier for us to raise rectangle about the size of half a city He wants to maintain the invol mediately and points out no final He pointed out UBC has the larg est daycare of any university in Canada. Graham, a child at Acadia day care, said he liked the saws, the By hook or by crook, by hammers and the wood axe at the crime or by slime, the Ubys centre. His mother said. "I'm really sad sey is gonna get you. You this build ing is doomed."add ing she had only been associated with Aca think frat house initiation is dia for a few months and was very tough and demands a great impressed. 3iK party atmosphere, well ONLY AT come and check out our FELUNI'S overly friendly pledges. Just WILD ooze on up to SUB's room ELEPHANT'S i 241 k and meet the return of FOOT SOUP the living ed(itors). If you (When available) i don't there'll be malodor ous staffers after you. So join...you'll sleep better for it. 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Knauff. students who'plan to return to dents criticized both the federal and 'The best student assistance pn-- I'd guess enrollment will decline 'We're not back to Happy Days school soared to 18.5 per cent last provincial governments for the ris e.am is a summer job that allows especially for first-year students," he Are ilere Again, but the figures a re a month, leaving 22,000 students with ing number-of jobless students. students enough money to be self- said. little bit of good news that the stu out summer work. "It (the increase) points to the fact sufficient," he said. The latest unemployment figures dents of B.C. will be glad to receive." Statistics Canada reported 7.000 that the Challenge '85 job program The student venture Capital more students were unable to find has failed to employ the number of Loans program was also condem- work in July than in June. As of July students it promised to."The joint med by Hunt. there were 119,000 students in the federal-provincial program had "It gives students a chance to go labour force, 97,000 of whom had aimed to employ 95,000 students. bankrupt in the summer; then they found work and 22,000 who re Hunt also slammed the provincial mained -memployed. can get a student loan and go bank government for limitingits contri- rupt in the winter." An increase of 7,000 unemployed returning students is large but not unusual for July. Statistics Canada Sports not topped include some high school students in Students returning to UBC this tween the AMS and the-administra- its definition of returning students. fall will be slapped with a $32 athletic tion have been harmonious so far "A lot of high school students fee imposed by the board of gover but many of the administrators have come on-stream (into the labour nors, but the Alma Mater Society been absent during some of the force) in July and that increases the and the university administration meetings because they are on va unemployment level from June," still have not set up an athletic coun-' cation. said Joachim Knauff, an economist with regional economic services, a cil to monitor the spending of th'is Riseborough said the structure of branch of Employment and Immi money. the council still has not been gration Canada. "Presently, the council is not in specified. formal existance," said Duncan " I entatively, there may be equal Knauff said that the size of the Stewart, AMS external affairs co representation from the students, labour force always increases in July ordinator. alumni and administration," he said. and that the level of unemployment He said both sides are still nego In June student council decided goes up with it. "But the overall tiating and are hopeful that the not to sue the administration over unemployment rate has probably council will be operating by Sep the board imposed fee. Instead, gone down from July of last year." tember I. council decided to form an athletics said Knauff. Neil Riseborough, vice-president council to control athletic program Statistics Canada bears Knauff student services, said negotiations budgets because of potentially high out. In July of last year, 1 I 1,000 are presently going well but added legal fees, the loss of goodwill with returning students were in the labour council will mostly form in October. the university, and the slim chance market. Of these 21,000 were unem "The board of governors will of obtaining any tangible benefit for ployed making an unemployment hopefully approve the budget by students because to the board's rate of 18.9 per cent, 0.4 per cent September. However, the board power. higher than this year. The actual does not have a September meeting, Simon Seshadri, director of ad number of unemployed returning therefore it probably will not be ministration said, "We're going to students has remained constant. formed until October," he said. work to form the council as quickly Last year of a total of 173,000 Riseborough said meetings be as possible." returning students, 21,000 were with out work in July. This summer there are 183,000 returning students and Korean hockey here 22,000 are unemployed. By RUSSELL SLY It appears that the Koreans do Duncan Stewart, Alma Mater most of their "cooking" in their daily Society external affairs co-ordi- hoi the University of Korea practice schedule, which includes nator, said he expects the high national hockey team and their two-a-day workouts on-ice, fol unemployment rate to have two coach. Kim Saeil, hockey is very lowed by an exhibition game lined major results. serious Business. And perhaps that's up by the UBC hockey school. Students who fail to get summer why these South Koreans stand to The team wakes up at five a.m. jobs will take on greater debt loads. gain the most from an exchange visit each morning to have breakfast. "Having to declare bankruptcy upon between the far eastern country and They then dress and drive to the graduation is not fun." said Stewart. players here at UBC. UBC winter arena for a morning Stewart also forsees trouble for The Koreans arrived in Vancou skate at 1 1 a.m. That is followed by a unemployed students who for wha ver July 19 and have been doing a lunch, then it's back to the rink by tever reason either fail to receive a Yawning man wonders if humans can photosynthesize. fie worries combination of workouts, intra- 3:30 p.m. for another workout along student loan or qualify for a loan that he may be energized enough to learn something this summer. He squa*d games and a series of exhibi with various scrimmages. They retire that doesn't cover the full cost of has already soaked up nutrients via the roots extending through the tion games with local Bantam and for the day at I I p.m. tuition. bench. Swimmers are upset at him for draining the outdoor pool. Midget-class players. Organizers say the purpose of the month-long visit is to improve upon the hockey skills MSP removal surprises visa students and workers of Korean players, from skating to least nine months before," he said. team play. ing that MSP would be cut." said universities. By DEBBIE LO Carlos Schrezor, a U BC visa student Schrezor is also concerned for his As part of the agreement, a team The group thought ol turning to The provincial health ministry's who will be left without medical other children who were born in of players from UBC will tour the the provincial ombudperson but the quiet decision to remove Medical coverage because his wife is preg Canada and are also ineligible foi University of Korea in August 1986 position in the province of B.C. is Services Plan coverage for visa stu nant and all the private companies MSP coverage because the ministry So far. the visit has been dubbed now vacant. Current MSP premi dents and workers has not escaped they have contacted so far have has said that they assume the status successful by both U BC hockey offi notice from the B.C. public. ums are about $204 per year for a refused to take them. of their parents regardless of their single person and $324 per year for cials and the South Koreans, who "The rules were broken unilater own citizenship status. come from a country where ice families. On private insurance the ally and there was no official warn "Notice should have been giv! ;at The definition of a B.C. resident hockey is low on the sports totem- cost increases to $324 per year for has not been clearly defined by the pole. single persons and more than double A provincial government which "In Korea, it (hockey) has the to $792 for families. charges visa students taxes and does popularity of a Class B sport and is Many have also renewed their Loans to be off ered on campus not consider them residents when not very well known, either," says MSP by mail and were upset that All three campus financial institutional will handle student loans they apply for MSP coverage said University of Korea coach Kim. they were not notified of the possible this fall. Schrezor. "The big sports in South Korea are change in policy before renewing The Teacher's Credit Union and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Schrezor nas still not been offi (in order): Soccer, baseball, basket their plans. Commerce have both Handled student loans at their UBC branches cially notified of the health minis ball, volleyball...and then maybe "1 have already paid and renewed previously and will continue doing so this year. try's change in policy. hockey." my MSP," said Schrezor. "They The Student Union Building branch of the Bank of Montreal will At a meeting between students have accepted my money but 1 have There are also no professional handle student loans temporarily in September. from UBC, SFU and UVic last not received any refund yet." leagues in Korea, says Kim. The best Branch manager Barry Hersh said they decided to return the service Wednesday question was raised as players usually end up playing for for three weeks to UBC students to "maximize customer services." to the extent of the health minister's "Who protects you against the one of the better college teams, like The Bank of Montreal decided about two years ago to only accept authority to change policies. government," he asked. Hyundai University or the Univer student loans at their downtown branch in an effort to "centralize" "Because of the system he is able The SFU Association of Univer sity of Korea. their student loan operations, said Hersh. to do it (change policy) without any sity and College Employees Union, Overall, the Koreans say they have Hersh said two people will be available to handle the student loans apparent accountability," said Tom local 6 has filed a petition to get a enjoyedtheir brief stay here in Can in Septemberand urged students to have their university registrations Ewasiuk a member of the SFU stu court injunction on the ministry's ada. "Vancouver is a very beautiful validated and to make sure they have their eligibility sched ule received dents council. decision and a court date has been city." said Kim Kisan. a 19 year-old before going to the bank for loan approval. Rosemin Keshwani, UVic AMS set for August 29. The group hopes to have many supporters present at economics majorat the U. of Korea, Duncan Stewart, Alma Mater Society co-ordinator of external president, said the provincial govern the hearing. and a member of the Korean na affairs, said," with the Teacher's Credit Union coming in the Bank of ment's decision shows, "an obvious tional team. Montreal is frightened and is making a move to attract more business sentiment in B.C. against visa stu "It is hard to defend ourselves if Kisan said the mountains sur and prevent accounts from being transferred to the TCU." dents and foreign students because we don't have support from Canadi rounding the Vancouver area are The TCU was asked by the AMS last year to establish a branch at they are considered a burden on the ans," said horacio de la cueva. presi somewhat reminicent of his native UBC because the Bank of Montreal was unresponsive to AMS tax payer." dent of the UBC Teaching Assist country. However, the soft-spoken requests to keep their student loan handling services at UBC former She added foreign students ha->e ants Union. "We have to convince Korean defenceman said he doesn't AMS president Margaret Copping has said. also been discriminated against in i.ie government that trade partner like Canadian food, preferring the B.C. because of the high differentia; ship comes with people and not just "cooking back home." fees imposed on visa students by rhoney," he said. Page 4 The Summer Ubyssey August 14-20, 1985
Spooks Never cry wolf, unless you are an American border guard trying to stop subversives like Farley Mowat from crossing the 49th parallel southward into the land of the free. In the aftermath of Mowat's brush with the long arm of the CIA Ritchie distresses unions blacklist, too many Canadians quietly sat back with a smug reassu rance that although the the US may suffer from collective insanity, There has been a high degree of We are also distressed by the way Canadians are level headed, types who don't go in for any of this their old system after the efficiency public silence from the university the review is being conducted, and in B-movie cloak and dagger stuff. tests proved to be a failure. administration regarding the work particular the lack of consultation Also surprising is Don Holubits- After all, in Canada, you can always be sure whether or not you are being done on campus by the Amer with our members, the people who ky's comment, in the July 31 article, on 'the list'. All you have to do is go down to your nearest RCMP office ican firm Ritchie and Associates. do the work. that the Board of Governors "had or, if you can find them, the CSIS, and merely ask if they have a file on The two short articles in recent edi Your article of July 17 blames the heard of the efficiency plan". I would you. If you don't have one, they'll open one right away. tions of the Ubyssey (July 17 and problems in Campus Mail on a hope, with something of this magni Maybe this could become a new fashion. No citizen should be with July 31) do nothing to clarify the "sudden swell of ...mail", and the tude, that the Board would be well out their CSIS file! Political activism aside, if every Canadian were to situation, and in fact are misleading. "departure of three mailroom staff informed, and even involved in the make themselves a member of the good old dissident club, then not on vacation". It is our understand It would have been wise to discuss decision. Ask him again. only will the feds not know who to intern next war, but they'll collapse the matter with the unions that rep ing that all of the problems resulted under the paperwork in meantime. Ted Byrne resent the workers who are the sub from a test run of one of Ritchie and Union Coordinator Sounds fine to us. jects of this review, and not just the Associates' recommendations: a re AUCE Local One Administration. You would do well routing of campus mail went back to to check your own files - Ubyssey We're gonna set those bastards reporter Stuart Colcleugh was work ing on the story as early as March of this year. MHateDecrepithorriblemiserablebumn We've been able to find out very We don't like it. mnnnnnn. We don't like it one bit. little about Ritchie and Associates. In fact we are darned upset. It really pisses us off. In fact if it doesn't What little we have discovered has THIS IS A TEST OF stop we'll just ... ooooh... we'll just ... well you know. , THE CARTOON Any more of this and we .... we won't take one little bit more. been less than reassuring. Steve PUBLISHING SYSTEM Vodi, business agent for the Interna Oh boy, are we ever ticked off. tional Association of Machinists, If we were any angrier we might burst. This must stop pretty damned Lodge 2413, told us that the result of soon, or we'll get really mad. We'll hold our breaths until we turn a collective blue. We will we Ritchie and Associates' review of V_ Ward Air was the privatization of really will. ramp services, and the lay off of half You'd better stop or else you'll be in big trouble. of his bargaining unit (250 people). ZE W (Snarl) We've just got to stop it! - The University has given us many H verbal assurances that the purpose of the review is not to reduce the workforce, but to improve efficiency. THE UBYSSEY They also assure us that if the result of the review, contrary to its inten August 14-20, 1985 tion, is reduction of the workforce, 'PLEASE DO NOT ADJUST any lay offs will be handled fairly, YOUR NEWSPAPER. The Summer Ubyssey is published Wednesdays throughout and in full consultation with the the summer session by the Alma Mater Society of the Univer unions involved. But the absence of sity of British Columbia, with additional funding from the any public statements makes us ner Walter H. Gage Memorial Fund, the UBC Alumni Association, vous. There has been nothing, for and the federal Challenge '85 program. Editorial opinions are instance, in the U BC Reports stating those of the staff and not necessarily those of the university the purpose of the review, the costs, Z*L? administration, or of the sponsor. The Ubyssey is a member of and the extent. Canadian University Press. The editorial office is Rm. 241 k of the Student Union Building. Editorial department, phone 228- From what we have been able to TH 2301/228-2305; advertising, 228-3977 find out, this is nothing but a plain "No, honestly, I really can't tell the difference between Stephen and Debbie," David Ferman old fashioned time-motion study, said. "You mean Stebbie Losenthal," Stella Wong commented, "I thought they were only one complete with stop watches. We UBC professors should person " With tears in her eyes Betsy Goldberg admitted that Victor Wong wasn't that tall blond hunk she sighted in that cathedral in Milan, besides she had been convinced for a while that it was don't understasnd how the Univer really Pat Quan. "Garbage," Faith Jones exclaimed, "that was EXPO not a Milanese Cathedral.' sity can justify this kind of expen Either way Ian Weniger admitted that he and Eva Busza would probably prefer it if Expo was in sive, outside review, when they have Milan, but James Young made a good argument for Saturn. Rick Klein argued that Saturn would quit griping, face reality also be a good place for most of B.C.'s forestry companies, but it was not until Elena Miller pointed a large body of competent managers out that the solar system was an unmollested natural wonderland that he admitted that Reagan and administrators, and abundant If the best UBC professors can do ground in the academic dollar game. could learn a thing or two about ecology if he went to Saturn to see for himself (especially, if Robert Beynon was around to flog some decent PR out of the visit.) Mo, Winnie and Stephanie had a better resources in the area of business is simply threaten to resign, OR It's time they took positive action to idea: namely that the whole US administration should be processed through the Peak typesetting administration. By our estimate, they resign for that matter and go else correct the fiscal wrongs levelled at equipment. Etan Vlessing pointed out that Nancy Reagan would look a hell of a lot better in 9pt have already spent about $700,000 where to teach, then perhaps they Helios bold than the risque black undies Russle Sly popped through the white house mailbox them. The time for intellectual bitch around Xmas time. "How 'bout that typesetters' black hole," Camile Dionne queried, "we lost Jim on this study, and at a time when deserve the bitter treatment meted Martin in there last production night, maybe Gordon Clark should go have a look." Lise Magee was they claim they do not have the abil out to their profession by the anti- ing is over. Professors should now skeptical. When Adam Quastel went to investigate that left margin crash we thought Robert take the walk into reality — with Chown had orchestrated from inside the hole, we didn't see him until Helene Wisotzki found him ity to pay wage increases or incre intellectual Social Credit govern in the ununlockable lockers in the Ubyssey office four days later Cal Rosenberg would have spent ments. If the purpose is not to reduce ment. draw services. How can they stand more time worrying about the black hole problem if he wasn't busy searching Vancouver for the Husky House diner Monte Stewart materialized in the after deleting himself off the Peak VDT the workforce, then how will the sav For the past three years, U.B.C. being bullied and sullied so long? screens. "In the final analysis." Mike Dennis conjectured, "I suppose it was Laura I saw three ings achieved by this review be ade professors have whined — no more, Charles Mayer weeks ago somewhere on Stephen's desk." Stephen said he wasn't sure, but she might be in the quate to even pay its cost? just complained they were losing Educ5 -to-be-filled file. "I'd have to check." August 14-20, 1985 The Summer Ubyssey Page 5 Japanese exhibit is fascinating and exquisite By DAVID FERMAN with scholars and philosophers who ing and exquisite. With sensuous aspects of nature. By a gust of wild wind Ancient Japan dominated the Van used them as tea ceremony armrests. lines and extraordinary detail the For example, the lotus was vener Ranetsu couver Museum two days this week. In the seventeenth century the sen artists created beautiful images — a ated by Taoists and Buddhists, and The evening's centrepiece was the A Japanese Evening, a fund-raising cha tea ceremony and the arm rests frog perched on a lotus leaf in mother the crane, a Japanese favourite, was Noh theatre standard performance, event, offered a sencha, or tea utensil became a part of Japanese life. The of pearl, flying insects with fluttering seen as the patriarch of birds and a Hagoromo. It tells of a heavenly exhibit, an East Asian theatre arti scoop's artistry improved when the motion carved from plain bamboo. symbol of longevity. Some works maiden who loses her robe and with facts exhibit, a Noh theatre demon Japanese introduced ivory, copper, The exhibit's lone shortcoming were highlighted with poetry. it her chance to return to heaven. stration, and a Japanese banquet. mother of pearl and silver to the was a lack of facts. The information A single leaf - A fisherman has taken the robe The sencha scoop exhibit show standard bamboo building material. given was sparse but fascinating. It Just a single leaf has fallen and just as he is about to take it cased Zen influenced spiritual art The scoop's ornamentation included explained the centrality of certain And was swept away breathless home the maiden finds him and begs istry. calligraphy, landscapes, plants and for her robe's return. After the wo Sencha scoops are curved foot animals, characters of myth and SAT??* man is reduced to tears and agrees to long carvings that look like wooden everyday subjects. perform a heavenly dance, the fisher shin guards. They originated in China The sencha exhibit was fascinat man agrees to return the robe. Hagoromo was written in the four teenth century and has almost no - Yankees is mild fun recognizable similarities with mod ern western theatre. It was impossi By BETSY GOLDBERG make me feel like highstepping it ble to know exactly what was taking The babies stopped crying soon down the aisle and grabbing a mike. place. after the show began, and I emerged Instead 1 got mild humming and The play begins with a shrill flute three hours later with only two irri even milder toe-tapping. and the entrance of the waki, or sup tating bites, but unfortunately Thea Of course there were a few excep porting actor, in this case the fisher tre Under the Stars' production tions to the otherwise pleasant but man. For what seemed an eternity he wasn't quite musical comedy enough uninspiring tone of the show. Ros- moved snail-paced across the stage. to please a real fan like myself. anne Hopkins, as the devilish Lola, Throughout the play the music and was easily the best performer in the Damn Yankees action was performed at a tranqui- cast. Her dancing was the sort of lizing pace. The final dance of the Theatre Under the Stars stuff every good musical has, and at Malkin Bowl maiden took well over half an hour. her singing, while not ideal, was cer Slowly it dawned on the hypnot Damn Yankees' plot is a modern tainly in the spirit of the original ized audience that the play has noth version of the Dr. Faustus tale, in Damn Yankees. ing to do with broad portrayals of which a man sells his soul to the devil Especially enjoyable was the emotion but is a delicate combina in exchange for a much desired but Whose Got the Pain number, danced tion of mood and meditation. If the previously impossible fantasy. The with Glen Kerr. Another delightful viewer is not put to sleep he/she fantasy of Joe Boyd, a middle-aged performer was Joan Ridley as Sister. experiences the same meditative sen real estate salesman, is to see his Her performance as the middle-aged sation felt in tai-chi. The emotions Milwaukee Brewers win the pennant twitty friend of Old Joe's wife and were conveyed mainly by the shite or from those Damn Yankees. diehard Brewers fan got the only- main actor (master Makio Umew- Thanks to Mr. Applegate, the authentic laughs out of me in the aka) through the fantastic costume, Mephisto of this version. Old Joe is entire show. Unfortunately, the rest subtle movements of hands and feet, transformed into Young Joe Hardy, of the cast ranged from fairly good and the plaintive sounds of a man the shot in the arm the hapless Brew to competently average. singing the role of a maiden. An ers so desperately needed. Ever Damn Yankees is a fun musical example of Noh's subtlety was cry mindful of Joe's "escape clause", with a nice cast and the majority of ing demonstrated merely by lifting a which he may use at any time to the audience certainly seemed to hand to the mask and shading it. cancel the devilish deal and return to enjoy itself. Even a critical and com The Japanese Evening was an eye his beloved wife, Mr. Applegate uses mitted musical fan can enjoy herself opener, but as one would expect the beautiful witch Lola to try and despite the overall lack of real musi from a museum, it was far more keep young Joe in line. cal comedy spirit. NOH ACTOR...as heavenly maiden interesting than entertaining. As if matters weren't complicated enough, Applegate is secretly plan ning to sabotage the Brewers and Bubbleguy brightens week with soapy shapes have the Yankees emerge victorious. But our hero, along with help from By LAURA BUSHEIKIN Both the man and his bubbles a six-pointed star bubble, and even a he shows the passage of air from one his new ally Lola, saves the pennant were delightful. Noddy, using com dodecahedron bubble. bubble into a larger bubble to dis and his marriage and lives happily Last week (August 3rd-11th) was mon five-and-dime bubble blowing Don't worry if you don't know play the laws of air pressure. ever after. officially declared Bubbleweek by solution, blew bubbles in bubbles, what a dodecahedron is; few of the One of the more popular bubbles Such is the stuff of which musicals Vancouver's mayor Mike Harcourt. smoke bubbles in bubbles, nuclear audience members knew until Noddy was the love bubble. Love, says are made. This unusual proclamation was bubbles, a breakdancing caterpillar explained. Even something as ephe Noddy, "is one of the most difficult Unfortunately, TUTS' version isn't prompted by the visit of Tom Noddy, bubble, a Mount St. Helen's bubble meral as a bubble can teach a lesson. tricks." This draws an appreciative quite show-stopping enough. the world's only known performing which had an erupting plume of Noddy is well aware of this and laugh from the adult portion of the I was expecting feisty dance num Bubbleologist, Bubbleman, or, as he smoke, a spinning carousel bubble, a explains to his audience some of the audience. Noddy then blows two bers and powerful singing that would prefers the informal Bubbleguy. tetrahydron bubble, a cube bubble, simplesimplerlawsor laws off physics. For instance, separate bubbles and bounces them gently together till they merge into one bubble. "True love is oneness." Pee Wee Herman rebels against wimpish materialistic yuppies he explains. Noddy is a relaxed performer. He By STEPHEN WISENTHAWISENTHAL dHSQHaBHBHbBl^at ***<5iyr3MM* "A.. ,s^r- has spent years performing on the Any movie where the filming of a street in North America and Europe. Twisted Sister video is interrupted If he doesn't get a bubble right the by several electric golf carts driven first time, he is always ready with a by security guards pursuing a man joke. He encourages the audience to on a tacky red bicycle has to be talk to him and to make lots of good. appreciative noises. Of course the Pee-Wee's big adventure, starring kids love this; usually they are told Pee-Wee Herman, is just such a to keep quiet. The adults, I'm sure, movie. secretly loved it too. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure Noddy spoke of how bubbles re minded him of childhood."When directed by Tim Burton you reach adulthood,"he said,"you at the Capitol 6 are expected to forget everything Herman, who took the nation by you learned and start again from storm with his brilliant appearances scratch, and that's not a very good on Late Night with David Letter- idea. The bubbles are a way of not man, has reached the silver screen in forgetting" a starring vehicle worthy of his temp One woman in the audience was erament. accompanied by her very tiny baby who slept throughout the whole per The marvellous juxtaposition of formance. Half way through she the infantile nature of Pee-Wee and leaned over to me and confided, "I his arch-rival Francis (played by had a kid so that I could have an Mark Holton) with the brutal reality excuse to come to things like this." of the cold harsh world is wonder Noddy has been blowing bubbles fully handled in this touching profile for fourteen years. He has appeared of the moment of crisis in a young extensively on television and radio, man's life. including the Johnny Carson show, and That's Incredible. In all that The bicycle which Pee-Wee must time he has only met one other Bub search forafter it is stolen is clearly a PEE WEE...man in motion motion motion bleguy, an eighty-six year old man metaphor for the lost innocence of young rich Francis in his frantic pur- pish fickleness. ure, abandoning convention to be who keeps a collection of bubbles in youth in North America today and suit of the bike as an object repres But, some good can be found in his own man. jars (some last as long as a year), and his trials and tribulations in his ents Yuppy materialism as epitom the evil Francis nemesis — he wants The advertisement calls it "The works with eight different secret search for the bicycle represent the ized by their slavish demand foi the bike because it is unique in the Story of a Rebel and His Bike," and bubble formulas. But this man is no anguish modern society has gone BMW's. His eventual abandonment world — a trait not present in fashion- it is. longer performing. Noddy tells us through in trying to recover its lost of the bike in the face of fear of enslaved Yuppies. Pee-Wee Herman fans and people with his easy smile that he can make naivete. capture can only be interpreted as Pee-Wee really comes off as a who enjoy an hour or two of silly up all the rules himself; his rules are The rampant materialism of the castigating Yuppies for their wim- Marlon Brando or James Dean fig- inanity will love this wonderful flick. as elastic as his bubbles. Page 6 The Summer Ubyssey August 14-20, 1985
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In 1945, she wasjusta Park. They placed their cranes baby when the world's first atom around the Statue to all the ic bomb exploded in Hiroshima. children who died in the atomic She wasn't hurt when the bomb bombing of Hiroshima. Not just exploded, but ten years later, in 644 cranes... not just 1000...but 1955, Sadako discovered she had millions and millions of pretty radiation sickness. This is a dis coloured cranes, each one care ease that developed in many of fully folded by young hands the people who were exposed to praying for peace. On all these that atomic bomb explosion. paper cranes were the words When she found out that she was engraved on the statue "THIS IS sick and that her sickness was the OUR CRY...THIS IS OUR result of war, Sadako decided PRAYER...TO ESTABLISH that what she wished most for PEACE IN THE WORLD,"and 1 the world was peace. Sadako so the pretty coloured origami started folding paper cranes in crane has become a symbol for her hospital bed, but she lived peace not only for the children of just a few months longer. Just Japan, but people all around the before her death, she held up one world. of her paper cranes and she said, Kinuko Laskey' Also at Georgia and Granville, Sheila Young, of the Women's I nter- "I will write peace on your wings national League for Peace and Freedom, gathers signatures on a peti- * and you will fly all over the tion calling for a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty at the U.N. world," Sadako finished 1300 cranes. Friends knew about her wish for peace so they told their friends...and they told their friends ...and soon all across Japan children were folding pap er cranes in order to make 1000. j In conjunction with the Library display, long-time peace activist June Black (member of the Disarmament Committee of the Unitarian Church of Vancouver) gives away paper cranes at Georgia and Granville.