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Strike nears end? The Dalhousie Faculty Association reached a tentative agreement with the University's administration on Tuesday. . >News pg 3 Beloved basket a I nter & Ron coach cut win appeal > Sports pg 12 Anna Hunter jumped up and cheered when she found out her and slate-mate Dave Ron were reinstated to the DSU presidential race on Thursday. N > ews pg 4
TroubleSum FourSum Sum41 's favourite pastime: snatching all hotel furniture from their guitar tech's and recreating replicas of his room in the hotel lobby (down to the last article of clothing). No piece of furniture is spared. >Arts pg 11
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Tired of doing your taxes? Do them quickly ana easily online with QuickTaxWeb. Link from www.thedsu.com. Your T2202A is also online at Dal' s Web for Student web page IlQ.ER.P.AIRQh! ... ______... PHONE494-6400~sod~ho the GAZETTE March 28, 2002 NEWS 3 Deal reached · strike over? Classes tentatively set to resume April Fools' Day by tyler kustra the gazette the Dalhousie Faculty Association "It's absolutely binding. This letter announced. Therefore, she said, network has got to stop," he said. bargaining unit and Dalhousie's speaks to the actual replacement a media blackout that both sides Lewis said everyone at To the relief of 14,000 board of governors must approve of members, the maintenance of agreed to is sllll in affect. Dalhousie is happy there's a tentative Dalhousie students, professors began the agreement before classes can complement." Earlier, she said the university deal. · voting Thursday, March 29, on a resume. Wainwright said the DFA was administration could not agree to the 'The university, and I expect tentative agreement to end the four The faculty will be voting from "generous" in allowmg the university DFA's proposal on complement. [Dalhousie] president [Tom] Traves, week old faculty strike. 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Thursday at DFA to decrease complement by up to 12 "If the union's staffing is pleased we 'vc reached an 'Tm pretty excited that it's headquarters. The board is meeting professors. demands were accepted the agreement." over," said second-year health at noon. He added that after I 0 months umversity would be required to hire Travcs was unavailable for education student Stephanie The two sides reached a of negotiations the DFA was professors when it did not have the comment. Needham. ''I'm going a little sttr tentative agreement on March 25, victorious. money to pay them and, in some The agreement also contains a crazy living in residence." with the help of provincial mediator 2.8 percent raise each year for faculty Third-year philosophy major Milton Veniot. They had been "We won this strike. Unfortunately we and the members. The DFA had been asking Dave MacDonald echoed her continuously negotiating for five for 3.4 percent increase in the comments. days. students had to pay a great price, but the first two years and a four percent 'Tm relived. It's been too The deal contains a letter of future of the university is the better for it." increase m the third. The university long." understanding, requiring Dalhousie - DFA president Andy Wainwright admimstratton offered a 2.6 ratse Dalhousie Student Union to employ at least 760 full-time percent each year. president Shawn Tracey exploded faculty so long as its operating budget The pay hike mo\es the mto dance upon hearing the news does not decrease, after accountmg "We won this strike. cases, to htrc professors 111 faculties umvcrsity to the middle of a pack of the deal. for inflation. Unfortunately we and the students with declinmg student enrolments." of I 0 similar umversities across the He added, however, that with The DFA had been fighting had to pay a great price, but the she said. country. Dal had previously been professors on strike and classes for staffing levels - known as future of the university is the better A professor. who wished to ncar the end. cancelled since March 4, the deal complement - to mcreasc by 18 for it." remain anonymous, said the union The senate. Dalhousie's highest was long overdue. positions during the course of three Dalhousie public relations broke the university administration academic hody, ts meeting Thursday ''I'm upset at both sides for year contract. manager Stacey Lewis said she since the admimstratton agreed to at 4 p.n . to approve changes to the taking so long to come to an "The mediator said he viewed wouldn't comment on details of the guarantee complement. academic t1mctablc. exammat10n agreement," he said. [the letter] as a guarantee." DFA agreement because the results of "In strategtc terms it has dates. and course requirements Both the 772 members of president Andy Wainwright said. the ratification vote ha,·e not heen shown the hoard or governors that it Classes arc tentatt\CI) set to has to change and that the old boys resume on Monday. Apnl I. Hunter and Ron · Back in the race wtthm one dollar of the maximum the fines were unwarranted because by caitlin kealey allowable fines to which the room it was an accident on their part. the gazette clapped and cheered. The ruling They should IMve heen more leaves them standing at $159, careful, but given the computer Anna Hunter jumped up and meaning that they cannot garner crashing and how crappy Wcbmail cheered when she found out she any more fines when the stnke is , we decided it wasn't deliberate and her slate-mate Dave Ron ends and campaignmg resumes. and that it would be equitable to not had been reinstated to the DSU "We were both pretty happy stop them from their performance prestdcnttal race on Thursday and excited that they \Otcd tn our 111 the elections." evening. favour," said presidential-candidate In an email, Chief Returning Hunter was in the process Hunter. Officer (CRO) Antka Adckayode of having a nap on the floor of Hunter and Ron said they states that the election will take Tom Traves' outer office when arc planning on doing the forum place three days after school goes Ron entered. He silenced the room but, for the most part, they will back. There will be a two-day and told Anna to wake up. With a be playing it safe. Toth, the chair campaign period but with no grave look on his face he informed of the appeal committee said that pestering allowed. everyone that he had just received based on the facts the committee "Campaigning was over on a phone call from the chair of the decided to reverse the Elections March I st. We arc allowing this judicial board, Krisztian Toth. Committee decision. time however because of the strike. these posters down. Many of the is working on ways to ensure The room was quiet, even the The team was fined over Since it is only for two days candidates used up their poster students come out and vote. They Dal security guards seemed to be $75 for an email that went though, it is too short a time to allowance. We will be sticking arc going to be posting to the is2 listening. out minutes after the official be able to regulate the posters up a poster with the candidates' aecounts and putting up banners, Ron then broke into a huge campaiging curfew had expired. properly and with everything we pictures and blurbs though." sending out announcements to grin and announced that they had "They were reinstated based now have to do, we do not want During the campaign period societies and they will also have been reinstated. The judicial board on explanations from them [Hunter to run around the campuses 24 there will he a forum in the SUB between four and six roaming had decided to reduce them to and Ron]," said Toth. "We decided hours before elections to take all lobby. The Elections Committee balloters. Sutntner Make Your 3 LOORS
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"student voice" reverberate inside the administration's ear until their auditory nerve bled so much they were forced to clot the hemorrhage by ending the strike, It failed. ot because It couldn't have worked, but because tt never reached its full potenttal. It Ia~.: ked the real strength of 14,000 pissed off students who were willing to stand with these 20 or so campers and tell the university what they really thought. With so much indifference among students, and contrasting views, all students had little say in ending the strike and the Camp was seen as a strange commune of weird hippies with a confused agenda. Students who rejected the cnt ampmcnt did so because they didn't understand what all the different objectives were. Eventually, it became a center of student derision, a misunderstood determine the success this mini group left to spoil in a lield of lost by christopher a. walsh But now, looking at this vacant Since then, nobody had a village had. If it was meant to raise potential. As Golding wrote about camp travesty bureau chief pasture, one can't help but think restful sleep. Somebody was always the gazette this commune was doomed from on patrol, armed with a walkie public awareness about student another mini-civilitation, "Here the beginning. talkie and the sick sensation that concerns through limited media at last was the tmagined but never Five to six. That's what my It started out with the right their peaceful commune would coverage, then it succeeded. But fully realized place leaping into the watch says, only it's too light out intentions - a small camp set up forever be in danger, if not from the if the real intent was to make the real world.'' to be that early. Inside the Gazette to remind the administration that cold, then from the constant threat bureau tent, it's bright orange students are the ones in the middle of dipsomaniacs. and the stagnant stench of musty of this bitter, tedious labour dispute But as with most communes, wet blankets is thick. There arc and that they support the DFA on the real danger to its existence came people outside talking, but nothing staffing issues. from within. These bastard children coherent... is that somebody pissing "If it means that it's raising of Dal were publicity hungry. And in the snow? morale on the picket lines, that's when that publicity started to die When This IS Camp Travesty on a really great thing," said Helen off, they looked at each other with Thursday morning, Day 18 of the Trcmethick, a Dal student and the same ravenous eyes that Jack • faculty strike. Fifteen centimetres devoted camper on the eve of the from Lord of the Flies must have of snow have fallen through the Travesty collapse. "And if it means had when he discussed killing pigs. night and most of the morning. that the board of governors arc still At five to six on Thursday March was 1t People arc frantically tearing down looking out their windows at us, 2 I, with the strike's resolution miles their tents, or what is left of them, that's a good thing too, bccau e this away, Camp Travesty decided to and running for adequate shelter. It is a serious issue that needs to be bash its skull in with a rock and is actually 11 a.m., and stepping out negotiated quickly." head for more affable surroundings. of my tent, this looks like another When the camp was first They had one publicity stunt left at due? failed commune. established, about a week into the Dal president Tom Traves' office So where did this whole strike, part of the agenda focused on that morning. Revelling in the heat, experiment like others of its kind go other issues facing the university. twenty protesters spent the night in wrong? My watch died at 5:55a.m., The group was calling for a tuition Traves' chambers demanding their Upgrade your reading, around the same time anyone awake freeze, the end of corporatization voice finally be heard. Of course, it at Camp Travesty was beginning to on campus, and an increased wasn't- the administration refused writing &spelling skills. seriously doubt the future of this student role in the making of to discu s anything. quiet demonstration. university policy. By day eight, the In the end, it's difficult to Walking along University encampment had executed three Downgrade your stress! Avenue with our tents in our hands protests and organized a rally. and frceting rain pouring down, Despite reassurances that I asked Adam Squibb, one of the spirits were high, there was a campers, if this was in fact the end general feeling that they were not. of Travesty. Signs of paranoia, dementia, and Call us "Don't say things like that, malnutrition were evident as one today to man," he said. "This isn't over poor sonofabitch, facing the grim yet." reality of the chill and possibly his book a One look at the grounds own death, pulled out a knife and suggests otherwise. No tents have began mumbling incoherently about FREE. been there since last Thursday; only the cold "bringing him down." screenmg. the bare grass under the removed This nervous tension seemed nests remain, like freshly dug burial somewhat understandable. Besides plots. But if this place looked like battling the sub-zero temperatures, a cemetery on Thursday, it was a the commune had been raided Frank G. Lawson fertile breeding ground of ideas earlier in the week by a drunken Career Information Centre before. Howe Hall infantry who era hed Things happened here. It tents and pillaged the countryside. 4th Floor spawned actions and ideas like the One of the attacks ended with a Student Union Building lie-in, the sit-in, and the "firing" female camper being punched in of the Dal board of governors. the face. 494-2081
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While American Ambas actor the United Nations, then-ally Saddam Hus ein was granted American agricultural Complicity Daniel Patrick Moynihan, maneuvered behind the scenes aid after destroying crops with his gassing of the Kurds - in to stall the UN process of forcing Indonesia to give up East Timor, the US gave no food to mitigate their weaponry. its "naked aggression" (NYT), Suharto and his American Throughout the starvation and terror, American Ambassador to Genocide weaponry drove 90 percent of East Timor's population to Indonesia Edward Masters "deliberately refrained, even of 600,000 into the jungles with outright massacre and within the walls of the State Department, from proposing Kissinger, Suharto stunning brutality. humanitarian aid to East Timor, waiting until the generals in Moynihan, the lauded diplomat and dove, reflected Jakarta gave him the green light," distinguished Indonesian and East Timor on the bloodletting in his memoirs: "The United States scholar Benedict Anderson testified before the United wished things to tum out as they did and worked to bring this Nations. about. The Department of State desired that by jon elmP.r the United Nations prove utterly ineffective the gazette in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with fter three decades of terror, destruction, murder, no inconsiderable success." and mayhem, the tiny island of East Timor will A Moynihan continues by citing reports officially gain independence from colonial pillage in early that within eight weeks of the December May 2002 - the fruits of a struggle that left more than invasion more than 60,000 Timorese had been 200,000 Timorese dead. killed, "almost the proportion of casualties Barely the size of Prince Edward Island, East Timor is experienced by the Soviet Union during a willfully ignored island in the "Indonesian archipelago". the Second World War," he wrote. The 'no When the Portuguese "handed over" the island in 1975, inconsiderable success' to which Moynihan visions of native independence and self-rule for the Timorese alludes is that within a year "the subject were swiftly darkened by Indonesian president General disappeared from the press". Who needs Suharto. conspiracy theories, all one has to do is Fresh off a coup that was achieved through the wanton consult the official American record to find killing of some 500,000 Indonesians (mostly landless the appalling. peasants), in what the New York Times rightfully called While 90 percent of the Indonesian In d j ~ n "staggering mass slaughter" and the CIA said was "one 0 c & an weaponry was American - in direct violation of the worst mass murders of the 20th century", Suharto of legislation preventing such armament sales gained the praise of Washington for his liquidation of except in cases of 'self-defense' - the bullets communists who the CIA said could not be defeated by that were tearing up largely unarmed Timorese were made The conquest led to the deaths of I /3 of the East Timor's democratic means. right here in Canada, part of a $2M contract that Trudeau 600,000 people and 'permanently' displaced about as many Then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara inked just weeks before the '75 invasion. Canada, never more. Yet, as Moynihan seemed to boast in his memoirs, informed Congress that American aid to Suharto had "paid too far behind our American masters, went so far as to host the American media chose to completely ignore the tory. dividends", and "encouraged the army to move against an 'arms bazaar' in a Jakarta hotel during the Indonesian "When the atrocities peaked in 19';"8, there were literally the PKI (Communist Party)". Thus elaborating a nefarious army's 1984 "Operation Clean Sweep", a mission mandated no stories," noted media critic Noam Chomsky, citing alliance between Washington and one of the most brutal "to crush the opposition without mercy." the media's blind focus on Pol Pot's "Killing Fields" in dictators in a century marked by brutal dictatorships. Cambodia, taking place at the same time. As the Timorese prepared for independence in The price East Timor paid for the power-politics of December of 1975, General Suharto entertained an official The bullets that were tearing up American "realism" became obvious in 1999 when the state visit from American President Gerald Ford and largely unarmed Timorese were Clinton administration cut-off military aid to Indonesia, his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "We want your who in turn withdrew immediately from East Timor, understanding if we deem it necessary to take rapid or made right here in Canada, part of paving the way for a UN-administered vote on Timorese drastic action," Suharto bluntly declared at the opening of a $2M contract that Trudeau inked independence. their meeting, according to documents recently made public he lead-up to the independence vote brought vivid by the National Security Archive at George Washington just weeks before the '75 invasion. Treminders of the earlier atrocities, as Indonesian Univer ·ity. troops sacked and burned the capital ofDili in an intimidation "We will understand and will not press you on the or Kissinger (whose three volume memoir doesn't campaign that this time caught the attention of the issue," President Ford said, a equally aware of uharto's Feven cite East Timor in the index), selling weapons international media. definition of 'drastic', as of the fact that after the setback to the murderous regime against Congressional approval In the months leading up the August vote, some 5,000 of Vietnam US national interest, "had to be on the side was simply realpolitik. As Kissinger angrily told a staff people were killed by Indonesian troops and 250,000 of Indonesia". meeting upon returning from the pre-invasion meeting with squeezed across into neighbouring West Timor. Indonesian Suharto: "I know what the law is, but how can it be in the US military commander in Dili, Colonel Tono Suratman, warned An army document ordered that national interest for us to ... kick Indonesians in the teeth?" well before the vote, "I would like to convey the following: Besides, as Kissinger stated in an internal memo, "we would if the pro-independents do win ... al: will be destroyed ... it "massacres should be carried out be able to influence the reaction in America." will be worse than 23 years ago." from village to village after the As well, the Foreign A sistance Act could be bypassed, When the Independence vote was finalized in May of Kissinger said: "It depends on how we construe it; whether 1999, an army document ordered that "massacres should be announcement of the ballot if the it is in self-defense or is a foreign operation." Given that carried out from village to village after the announcement pro-independence supporters win." Indonesia is the world's fourth largest country (200-plus of the ballot if the pro-independence supporters win." million), and East Timor about 600,000 people, Kissinger's The document continued by stating that the independence movement "should be eliminated from its leadership down Kissinger was even more professional: "We understand bravado is an apt description of the intellectual climate and to its roots". the problem you have and the intentions you have ... lt is how it affects policy-making. As a result, the sickening brutality of the Indonesian In the face of these unrestrained terror tactics, the important that whatever you do succeeds quickly," he said, courageous people of East Timor ended a quarter-century of acknowledging possible "spin" problems in the US if the military went virtually unchecked - save for the resolute subjugation and atrocity by voting overwhelmingly (almost affair dragged on. Kissinger explained to the despot: "We FRETILIN guerrilla resistance - as troops raped, ransacked, pillaged and murdered men, women, and children without 90 percent) for independence in August of 1999 - even as would be able to influence the reaction if whatever happen , smoke from their burning homes filled the television footage. happens after we return (to the US) ... If you have made discrimination. When ammunition ran low during the 1978 In a few weeks, the enormous underdog of East Timor will plans, we will do our best to keep everyone quiet until the offensive "children were smashed into rocks" said one survivor. At this time, the Carter Administration swiftly embark on true independence and self-rule, ever so deserved President returns home." after the horrors of the colonialism. That official meeting in the Indonesian capital Jakarta approved a new batch of weaponry - luckily President took place on Dec. 6, 1975 - barely 16 hours later the Carter was able to keep his mythology of Mr. Human As for the impunity of the war criminals responsible Right because the atrocities flew below the integrity of for the disaster, it is worthwhile to defer to Chri topher Indone. ian army invaded the island of East Timor by land, the American media. Hitchens, author of The Trial of Hem v Kissinger: "What can air and sea, equipped with billions of dollars in American The Timorese who escaped the murder were committed one say about countries and cultures o corrupt and depraved materiel setting off one of the great hidden tragedies of to concentration camps or simply tarved to death in the that they will give succor, and even acclaim, to tho e who the 20th century. mountains. Unlike in Iraq in the 1980s, when America's murder without conscience?"
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many Afro-Nova Scot1an? You bet. "It IS that small but determmed group, act1ve 1n every nat1or., Global apartheid's local implications The proposed sewage treatment plant is privately run by a composed of individuals who regard warfare, the manufacture French multinational (Suez Lyonnaise-dcs-Eaux) that "has a shady and sale of arms, simply as an occasion to advance their The onslaught of neoliberal globalitat1on and its attendant track record with respect to environmental protection and health personal interests and enlarge their personal authority ... How policies of trade liberalization, privatitation, and mcreascd corporate concerns. Some of their offences include conviction for bribery, IS it possible for this small clique to bend the will of the power have been deemed ''global apartheid" by South African pollutiOn, and h1gh rate hikes" (from Central Halifax Commumty maJOrity, who stand to lose and suffer by a state of war, to activists for their continued oppression of communities of colour the serv1ce of their ambitions?"' Association Petition). All th1s despite HRM's own Halifax Harbour -Albert Einstem, Letters to Freud, 1932 around the world. Solutions Advisory Committee recommendation of a publicly-run Indeed, on a global level. it is apparent that Western imperialism solut1on to the harbour clean-up. In fact. 6 of the 18 recommendations "The soc1etv that will orgamze production on the bas1s C'f and those who benefit from it have erected a system of barriers from Harbour Solutions have been 1gnored by HRM in locating a free and equal association of the producers will put the (racist immigration laws and requirements) to prevent the free the "shit factory''. as residents have begun calling the proposed whole machinery of the state where 1t will belong mto the movement of people, whilst capital and the rich have free run of plant museum of antiqUities, by the side of the spmning wheel the world to invest. divest, and capitali1c wherever and whenever The ignored recommendations mcludc: public participation and the bronze ax."' - Freidrich Engels, Origin of the Fam1ly, Private Property and they please. Exploitative workplaces, degraded environments, and transparent dccision-mak1ng. proceeding on a step-by-step the State, 1884 and state repressiOn continue to plague the global South, for the incremental approach, having a flexible and comprehensive vis1on sake of massive profit reaped by transnational corporations and and links to other development planning, presenting the public "No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberat1on their local elite allies. with various options for site location, and having a publicly unless the means used to further 1t be Identical m sp1rit and Yet, one need look no further than Halifax to sec the local controlled facility. tendency with the purposes to be achieved. Revolution IS version of this scenario: has the Afro-Nova Scot1an community of Additionally, no study on the health 1mpact of the proposed the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's Africville, bulldozed by the city of Halifax in the 1960s, its residents plant and its processing of residentiaL industrial and institutional inhumanitv to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves."' relocated, ever received compensation? No. waste has been done. This. rn turn, begs the question: arc our -Emma Goldman, "Mv Further Disillusionment in Russia"', Are First Nation fishers and loggers dcmed their treaty rights city councilors completely ignorant of the need for health impact . 1921 to a modest livelihood, as massive clear-cutting of NS forests and assessments, or arc they s1mply beholden to the bottom line? "mining" of the seabed by corporations like Irving and National Sea The sewage treatment plant is already meeting stiff commun1ty "What has been worthwhile in human historv - the oreat make it clear who has control of this Tory government? Yes. resistance, with calls for cessation o:· further action plans until achievements of physics and astronomy, of ·geographical Is the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) planning to place residents concerns arc addressed. No one in the North End wants to discovery and of human healing, of philosophy and of art - has been the work of extremists- of those who believed in the a proposed Sewage Treatment Plant mack-dab in the middle of sec the Halifax Harbour remain polluted, hut why should the cleanup absurd, dared the impossible."' North End Halifax (Barrington and Cornwallis), in an area that disproportionately impact already marginalitcd communities and -Herbert Read, To Hell With Culture, 1963 would disproportionately impact low-income residents of Halifax, a French multinational make money on the situation? Smacks of environmental racism. ------I+Ui~'-#.i·rold Letter In re ponse to the continued Gazette coverage of A short guide to Depleted Uranium Now that the US military and authorities know the the strike issue, I feel it necessary to offer a differing implications of DU, will they stop using it in other countries? If opinion. Though I can appreciate the concern and the As reports begin to surface from Afghanistan about sanction on Iraq arc there because of the so-called "Weapons of views expressed with regard to the strike issue, I feel the American use of depleted uranium (DU) in the popular Mass Destruction" that the US is obsessed about, then what as though the actions of a select few are garnering "bunker buster" munitions, a brief introduction to the material is DU that is used by the US') Can we ever stop the US from the majority of the attention. Everyone may be is worthwhile. using such deadly weapons? Until when is the US going to entitled to their own opinion, but should we as a Depleted Uranium - waste from the process that produces abuse its power and do whatever it wants to other people and student population be expected to rally behind such uranium - is a highly toxic radioactive substance first used by other countries? idealistic views? the US during the Gulf War (Operation Desert StOrm) in Iraq in As Martin Luther King Jr. said, "A nation that continues I speak specifically of the apparent bias towards 1991, then in Bosnia in 1995 and once again during the Kosovo year after year to spend more money on military defense than Camp Travesty and its member . Our paper should conflict (Operation Allied Force) in 1999. on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." be Our paper. There should be reports on our feelings The amount of explosives carrying DU dropped on Iraq The US has approached that level an. I we have to stand together as a collective majority. Though it may be important on the first day of attacks arc almost equivalent to the explosive to stop the violence, war. usc of weapons, oppression. hate. to express the views of those at the "Camp", one power of five to seven Hiroshima-sited atomic bomb. When revenge and try to achieve the most important element of important issue is being overlooked - Us. I do not aerosol particles of DU are inhaled into the lungs after hitting humanity -justice. believe that these people represent the population's its target. it can remain in the body for up to ten years before -Aym £1-Dewory majority. any health problems arc detected. I am in complete agreement that the strike must DU enters to the bloodstream and can circulate throughout come to an end, but the rest seems almost arcical. the whole body causing severe health prol:ilems including We arc students at Dalhousie University. not the leukemia. lung and bone cancer, dcplet1on of the body's immune "Rainbow University" for flower children. system, pulmonary and lymph node fibrosis, genetic defects, How can the university eliminate its ties with hepatic dysfunction. cardiovascular d1scases. malnutrition and the large corporations of Canada? Just look around eventually death. Many of these symptoms have been already our campus, can you see the new buildings - how detected among many Iraqi veterans and Gulf War veterans. DU about the one entitled the McCain building. These also has the ability to pass through the placenta of a pregnant buildings have been brought to you by the word for woman. and cause damages to the fetus. Access 1,500 NFB films today: corporations. In an era when taxes arc being In the south of Iraq, deaths have increased significantly continually cut. the government can no longer be among adults and especially among children under the age at the click of a mouse!* expected to provide at the same level it may have of five because of cancer. According to UNICEF. it has been previously. Though no one is saying you must agree recorded that there has been ma.Jor increasing child mortality with the corporate ideal, we need to get funding from 1989 to 1999. It has increased from 47 per I .000 live somewhere. hirths 1n 1989 to I 08 per I ,000 in 1999 Also, according to a The next issue I would like to address is that of UNICEF survey 1n 1999. death of children under five years old the support offered to the DFA. I don't believe it is increased from 56 to 131 per 1.000 children. in the best interest of students, in general, if we are Depleted uranium is a threat to life. a VIOlation to human to s1dc with one party over another. I do support the rights and a major violation to international law and international Free unlimited access Faculty on ccrtam issues, but I must confess that I treaties. A 1977 Protocol to the Geneva Convention prohibits support the BoG on others; it is unrealistic to assume means of warfare that causes widespread, long term and severe Full-screen image that the "needs" of the Faculty will he met without damage to the natural environment and to civilians. Before the Instant streaming harm thrown to the students. Gulf War, the US authorities warned that the usc of DU "could" True, it is important to have competent have potential health and environmental consequences despite professors, but as our recurring theme will tell you, this Geneva Convention. there is a price. The price in this case will be set upon Following the damages that took place from the Gulf War, the students through increased tuition. Also, though the United ations Human Rights Tnbunal called upon states it may be important to replace Faculty with full-time to "curb the production and the spread of weapons, chemical profs, this again becomes costly to the students. weapons, fuel-air bombs, napalm, cluster bombs, biological This entire discussion uncovers flaws in the two weapons and weaponry contaming depleted uranium." However. most prominent ideas of zero tuition and/or tuition this is not what happened as DU was used later m Bosnia in freeze. How can it be expected that, in the crisis that 1995 and again during the Kosovo conflict in 1999. is our economy, the government would find money to fund a free education system? One need only to look to the sister issue in MARG MONDAYS politiCS, health care; if the government can't find the money to address the needs of the sick, how can they featuring completely fund education? Even this notion of a tuition freeze will not come without repercussions. Take BC. they are now coming off a tuition freeze, ''Pretty and the students there are now "paying the piper". It is 1mportant to remember how an economy works; Archie'' inflation is always fluctuating, even at its most stable no cover For more lnfonnaHon: point. www .nfb.ca/cineroute By freezing tuition you will simply be postponing the inevitable. Is th1s to say tuition is The place to party not escalating at an alarming rate? No, but I do not Monday night. *A National Film Board of Canada believe this is a long-term solution. online pilot project available only Though idealistic views are ever present in AT~ t.. t;1IA TMtL in Canadian institutions with a a university setting, they arc most often not that 5680 Spring Garden Rd. CA*Net 3 broadband connection. of reality. -james shears ' 8 ARTS & CULTURE March 28, 2002 the GAZETTE Domesticating AGNS
by quentin cgse.y the gazette
Six local artists, a bronzed set of drums, heavy metals and a NSCAD student resembling a walking piece of futuristic Viking art combined last Friday night to create the opening of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia's (AGNS) newest exhibition - Domesticate. A large crowd, including a NSCAD student sporting a flashing red and green Viking helmet, turned out in support of the six artists whose work combined to form Domesticate, an exhibit whose main theme centres on "the human separation from the natural world." The artists involved have focused on Western Culture's ability to create its own environment, and on Art you can do at home. the blurred reality of commonplace items. The exhibit Requires a decapitated coyote and a hat. emphasizes the duality of everyday materials when used as art. Artists Erik Edson and David Diviney approached the subject by addressing the rift between humans and animals. Diviney provided one of the most clever pieces in the exhibit, a decapitated coyote with a red wool hat pulled over its wound, entitled"!#@&#!#". Shelly Rahme's untitled sculpture looks like a roofing job gone wrong. Rahme uses a combination of materials, including roofing shingles, to produce a large, black Traps for tougher sloping structure with streaks of red that catches the eye lobsters. upon entering the room. Lyla Rye and Sandy Graham approach their interpretations through a metal medium. Graham's two pieces, entitled "Traps" and "A Cord" are the most noticeable of the exhibit. "Traps" resembles an ordinary stack of lobster traps that could be found along any stretch of Nova Scotia coastline. Graham's second piece, "A Cord", is a rectangular steel frame, filled with many evenly cut cylinders, reminding the viewer of a large wine rack. "My two pieces are part of a trilogy, the third piece was presented in a show last summer," said Sandy Graham. "They are monuments to a Maritime way of life that we no longer connect directly with, but see ourselves still related to." Graham is a professor who has been teaching metalworking at NSCAD since 1984. Both pieces are made of hot dipped steel, Graham's speciality, and a material he enjoys working with. "The process of constructing with steel is also a Maritime tradition. The dull grey colour changes with Not mentioned in the article, time and makes you aware of the process of ageing," he but hey, its pretty cool. said. "It is reminiscent of the bitter winters, grey skies and Keith Moon's metal drum kit. grey ocean of the Maritimes." Also on display at the AGNS is sculptor Greg Forrest's exhibit, "Heavy Metal." The AGNS Artist-in Residence created his centrepiece, "Drum Kit" by bronzing a full drum set. He based his work on photographs of the scattered arrangement of legendary Who drummer Keith Moon's drums after a concert. Ray Cronin, AGNS curator of contemporary art, describes the work as focusing on "the > Q) intersections between high art and pop culture." (/)co (.) You may have missed the NSCAD Viking lingering c around the complementary beverages, but there is still .E Q) plenty of time to catch both exhibits. Greg Forrest's Heavy rr:::> Metal runs through June 23 in the Education Gallery. > .D Domesticate is on display until June 16 at the Art Gallery (/) 0 of Nova Scotia. 0 s:: a. Mixing art and free booze. the GAZETTE March 28, 2002 ARTS & CULTURE 9
They Aren't Just They're Swollen Members return to Haltfax
br molcolm kempt the gazette
"What's new with you since the last time we talked ... ?" The question draws a hearty laugh from Swollen Members' Prevail. The first interview - from five minutes earlier - fell victim .to a faulty tape recorder. Chilling with fellow MC's, Madchlld and Moka Only, the slightly taller half of Canada's newest hip-hop sensation, took time out to call before a late night show in Banff, Alberta. Having narrowly missed an earlier bus ride to the mountain for some snowboarding action, the west coast wordsmith didn't mind repeating his thoughts on touring with Bif Naked, dropping dope rhymes on wax and spending his childhood with Nelly Furtado. "Her and I and Moka grew up together in Victoria, we're from the same posse, I guess you could say," explains Prevail with another laugh. "She used to just like, hang out with us and we would roll around together, beat-box and freestyle. It's cool to see that she's still got a real strong hip-hop element in her music, which is why I think our live shows mesh so well together. She's still got that real, raw hip-hop energy about her." The Grammy-winning chanteuse will be embarking on a spring tour with the Swollen Members and K-OS that touches down in Halifax next month. The two acts will share the stage on April 12 at the Metro Centre and collaborate for a unique performance at this year's Juno Awards how in St John's. Having recently wrapped up a fall tour with Project Wyze and Bif aked, an opening slot on Furtado's Burn In The Spotlight tour will undoubtedly expose the band to a whole new demographic of possible fans. But can these hip-hop heroes handle the transition from tiny clubs to massive stadiums? "I think you just have to recognize the size of the venue," says Prevail. "When it switches from being an intimate show with 600 people to an arena jammed with 17,000 fans, you've got to be making sure that you're getting out to those people and the energy is going strong. You've got to be pushing it a couple of thousand people back rather than just a couple hundred. Just figuring that out, I think that we've got it dialed now." With talk of stage dynamics and touring schedules safely on my dictaphone, the focus of the conversation shifts toward the new album. The eagerly anticipated sophomore effort, Bad Dreams, was released in September of last year to rave reviews. The latest single, Fuel Injected, recently rocketed its way into top spot on Muchmusic's video countdown. Such financial and critical successes make the future of Swollen Members seem infinitely brighter than the gloomy themes that drive their music. From the vampire-filled hit video to the 'only after dark' recording sessions, the Swollen Members project an image of both occult obsession and shadowy intrigue. Why would a successful hip-hop group named after a genital euphemism stray from the usual sex-and guns approach of conventional rap to preach about demons and nightmares? "I think it just flows from our personalities and the energy that we get from one another," says Prevail of the dark content of their recordings. "We are able to speak about some things that a lot of hip-hop groups don't speak about. We talk about things that a lot of people are thinking about and those people are saying, 'Other people are having these thoughts too, and they are putting it on wax'. We try to balance the dark things we talk about with some lighter material as well, and add a few more party vibes. We think it's important for people to not only get a message, but to also have a good time. Trying to cover it all, you know." . . This west coast outfit will surely have 1t all covered m 2002 as they bounce crowds from Nanaimo to Newfoundland with Nelly Furtado. Check out the 18 solid tracks on Bad Dreams and head down to the Metro Centre for the big show on April12. . . And if you love hip-hop but hate chick pop, JU t go to listen to the opener and bring a discman for the rest_. Her mere presence will guarantee a few swollen members m the audience. ~1~0 ______--"'A-=R,._,_,T'-"S"'----"'&=--....:C~U'-"L,._,T,_U=-....R_,_,E=------.-:M~a::::.:.r.:::..:.ch..:...::28, 2002 the GAZETTE
Suicide released their debut self-titled album in 1977. six years after they started performmg together. The .. 'StJi-.;ide •ere rebellious "Ghost Rider" and "Rocket USA" captured their punk energy while "Girl" and "Cheree" made for some softer more introspective moments. "Frankie Teardrop" is the tJitin•cate 111Jnks the most intense song on the album, a ten minute look into the desperate state of mind of a young factory worker. the droning repetitive keyboards and Vega's lyrics and vicious l•e-.;catJse e\-en screams make for a truly original and powerful ptece ·~ of art The song became a favourite of the Boss. Bruce the 111Jnks heated then• Springsteen. Suicide's second album was released in 1980 produced by Suicide fan and Cars leader Rick Ocasek. Less confrontational and cleaner than thetr debut, the second album contains some of their best songs. ''Shadan" and the smgle "Dream Baby Dream" (which was added to the re-release) are very pretty songs, while "Harlem" and "Mr. by ryan delehonty Ray" are as intense and pOignant as anything on their first Vega was a sculptor who didn't consider music until seeing album. Suicide's first two albums have been re-released on the gazette Iggy Pop perform in 1969. Pop's influence is evident in the Mute Records. Each is now packaged as a 2-cd set, disc one extreme confrontational performances that Vega became features the original album with bonus tracks, then a second Suicide certainly weren't the first punk band, but they famous for. They were unlike anything at the time, no guitars disc of other material. The first album comes with an extra have a legitimate claim of having coined the term along or drums, just the two of them on stage. Rev hidden behind disc containing a 1978 Suictde performance at CBGB 'sand with virtually inventing electronica. A 1971 flier promoted his electronics and Vega leather-clad pumping his fist in the the mfamous "23 Minutes over Brussels" performance in thetr art gallery show as a "Punk Mustc Mass". Before that atr, provoking the audience, often to violence. Belgium. The second album comes with a disc of Suicide's "Garage Rock" had been used to define the loud aggressive For years. they played every dive in lower Manhattan first rehearsal tapes from 1975. mustc being made by kids all over North America and before getting shows at CBGB 's and becoming a fixture at Why Be Blue was released in 1992 and is considered the UK. Martm Rev and Alan Vega were punks from the Max's Kansas City. They immediately polarized audiences, the worst of the Suicide albums. I hated it after the first streets of Brooklyn and the Bronx who formed Suicide few people really liked them, and most instantly despised listen, and it has since grown on me little. They've lost their with only a drum machine, $10 Japanese keyboard and them. Vega believed the harsh reaction came from people edge on this album, and have employed a totally new sound, Vega's Elvis-like drawl. Rev played eerie, hypnotic drones leaving the streets and going to a Suicide show to be once again produced by Rick Ocasek. This is basically of discordant keyboards and synthestzers while Vega sang, entertained only to have the gritty streets thrown back into Suicide-lite, a pop album. It begins with the title track ranted and shouted out nco-beat lyrics he described as their faces. The electronic noises weren't easily dige tible, featuring some bad white-boy rap from Vega, reminiscent of New York City Blues. They became the inspiration for and Vega sang of New York, its people and their suffering. Malcolm Mclaren's horrid duck rock. a style that owes more dozens of electronic acts, mostly British, including Soft Riots frequently broke out at Suicide shows and It became to auctioneers and square dance callers than old-school rap Cell, Erasure, Throbbing Gristle, and Cabaret Voltaire very hard for them to play in the United States. Luckily artists. The album get a little better after that although I among many others. a few artists liked them enough to bring Suicide on tour would only recommend it after you've consumed the rest Rev and Vega met in 1971 at The Project of Living as their opening act. Suicide then managed to incite riots of the Suicide catalogue. Arttsts. Alan Vega had established the Project with before the audiences of The Ramones, The Cars, New York As new generations learn of their work Suicide has government funding as a 24-hour art space that housed Dolls and Elvis Costello; this infamous show was recorded reunited occasionally to tour Europe or wherever else they're galleries, jazz bands and other artists. Martin Rev played and titled "23 Minutes over Brussels" which ended with called to. They have toured often in the past few years and keyboards in a jazz band that played the space, and he and the audience snatching the microphone. chairs crashing are now completing their first album of new material in a Vega quickly became friends. Often finding themselves on stage as Rev and Vega ran to the back and general decade. Set to be released next month it's anyone's guess homeless the Project of Living Artists also served as shelter. pandemonium. as to whether they've regained their edge and will make an album as innovative and important as their early work. AND THE COOL KIDS WILL SE ... or just release another lacklustre effort like 1992's Why Be Blue. Even if their new album is a dud. the first two albums Thursday MCJr
of metal rock and everything it entails. "We were all into heavy metal when we first started Connecting Flight out. Cone (Bass) was more of an ACDC kinda guy, Derik (Gmtar/ vocals) was kinda like the Guns N' Roses type, NSCAD's Upcoming Design Exhibit Steve was Metallica, and I was the darker death metal guy and no one ever told me that metal went out of fashion . So I just wore Pantera shirts and red wristbands in anger, and by sorah caroline jones god greg merner then the rest of the band sorta turned me on to punk music. the gazette Eventually our two musical styles mixed and I realized by sarah jone steele other types of music existed in the world." the gazette Last spring, after extensive brainstorming, planning, and preparation, The rest is history. the graduating Communication Design Honours students at the Nova Sum 41 has transformed into a thriving punk band Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) agreed to a theme for their Taking love advice from a rockstar is like hiring a that has rendered solutions for the rising pop style that has upcoming gallery show. Lesley Palfreyman, a participating student, says model as a nutritionist- you would have to be a complete been dominating the music industry. that it's the first time the class was given a unifying topic. idiot to listen to what they have to say. Strangely enough, "To tell you the truth, we really don't give a shit . "Last year was the first time they had an exhibition and it was very Sum 41's guitarist, Dave Baksh, may actually be worth about pop bands, we'll give ya some music to listen to dtfficult to come up with a voice for the gr•>Up because everyone had listening to. other than pop cause pop is gonna weed itself out by dtfferent destgn problems so it was difficult to say what the name of the "Promise rings are bullshit and there comes a time [producing] more and more shitty bands." show. It ended up being 18 Papers." when ya gotta dump someone," he says. Words to live Another group attempting to rid the music scene . T.he exhi.bition entitled Connecting Flight, addresses various design ?f the pop invasion is Treble Charger, which is lending by. tssues tn relattons to the theme of air travel. 13 Communication Design Baksh is taking some off time at his new apartment Its lead smger, Greg Nori, to Sum 41 for production of students will present individual projects based on a semester-long their new album. He will be lending his experience and in Ajax, Ont. after a lengthy day of shooting for the new study of the topic. video "It's what we're all about" for the long awaited knowledge to these fa t rising newcomers. "It's exciting," says Palfreyman. "We're under construction for the relea e of the film Spiderman. ''I'm kinda in awake "We trust him over anybody in the entire music actual exhibition installation now. It somewhat resembles an airport, zombie state right now." Regardless, he obliges with an business, we instill a lot of faith in him and we think each student has focused on something that has to do with air travel. enthusiastically conversation about Sum 41's plan to hit he' an awesome producer, everything that he's done has There's one on travel guides, one on signage, another has to do with Halifax for the third time, this trip is at a much bigger ounded so amazing." traffic control tower. It's been something to keep us tocrether for the venue, The Forum. Baksh reminisced about the last time Sum 41 has even found time in between coast to group exhibition." "' he hit Halifax with the band. coast touring and album producing to comprise a DVD, Every student presentation will focus on a particular area of air . "We played for some music festival like a long hopefully one of many to come, chock-full of live concert travel, beginning with an explanation of his or her subject, followed ltme ago at The Pavilion or some place like that. We've footage, rare Sum 41 commentary, and feature films and by a description of the design piece. Talks will range from the general, been to Halifax twice but we should have been there home movies put together by the band members. such as airline corporate identity and airplane seating comfort, to the more," says Baksh. "All the movies wind up having the same plot in the more specific, such as the packaging of air itself. Presentations will last end ... we all say hey, let's make a Kung-Fu movie." One would think that with crazy concert dates in approximat~ly 30 minutes each. Each talk will be followed by a question Germany, Australia, and the UK that Sum 41 would be penod, useful to those unfamiliar to commurication design. eager to branch out and reach superstar status in the 0mJu ~ ffiftB Communication Design focuses its efforts on the clear States where their somewhat generic rock trends would communication of ideas and information visually, stressing content thrive, but they are actually quite content where they Sum 41's favorite pastime: Snatching all the hotel versus form. are presently. furniture from their guitar tech's room and recreating "It's a great experience. It's a great way to learn about "You know it doesn't really matter to us, we just replicas of his room in the hotel lobby { down to the last article of clothing). communication design and to see what we do," says Palfreyman . wanna keep on having fun with what we're doing," says "People mostly understand what we do as graphic design but it's Baksh. "If it comes it comes, we're not expecting It but if it No piece of furniture is spared. As for the inflated mouth pictures that adorn the front more than that." come it's not like we're gonna complain." of "All Killer No Fillers'" Cd cover. Students study rhetoric and semiotics - the study of patterned While they are not anticipating tardom, Sum 41 is "That's when ... urn someone stood behind each of human communication behavior. NSCAD was the first university in receiving much acclaim for their latest album All Killer us with a pole and they kinda .... uh shoved it up Canada to offer this and set the bar for design institutions across the no Filler. They received Juno nominations for best album, our ass." country. A maximum of 20 students are accepted into the Bachelor of best group, and best rock album. The Junos slated to take Where did Sum 41's name originate: "Derek and Design (Honours) program annually. Applicants must submit a portfolio place April IS in St. John's,Newfoundland. Baksh is quick Steve say they started the band 41 days in the to the design committee to gain entrance. summer but that's bullshit ... it was only invented so to point out that the band is more stoked about playing the The exhibition starts April 2 at 5:30 in the Anna Leonowens Gallery we wouldn't have the name" Final Notice ... we Junos than being nominated. and runs until April 6. "It's really just about the experience ... and the after don't even like the band's name." The boys marital status: "Dove and Cone hove Student presentations will take place on April 3 and 4 in the party" he says. girlfriends, Steve likes to get beat up in bed, and NSCAD Merkin Gallery. To learn more, visit the Connecting Flight Aside from Sum 41's achievements in the punk rock Derik ...... Derik is ready." webstte at http://mtchaell.nscad.ns.ca/cd2002. Free for the public, and realm lies four band members who began as worshippers because it's free they are looking for any sort of sponsors. Wa ssu penni ss i stas? by jodi mogliero forgotten about being finalists for the the gazette YTV Junior Achievement awards back in 1997. Girls are made of sugar and spice All jokes aside, or at least on hold, and everything nice- Newfoundland's the the girls have been having a delightful, Ennis Sisters seem to be the epitome of splendid adventure touring with Canadian this classic rhyme. Take away the three singer/songwriter Jann Arden. The Ennis brothers, the parents, and that annoying Sisters have been fans of hers for years maid and you'll have the music industry's but having never even seen a live show version of The Brady Bunch. they are ecstatic about touring with her. Maureen, Teresa, and Karen are "After her show, you just feel like Newfoundland's folk singing, Dolly Parton you know her somehow, and she's so loving, wholesome and sisterly trio who funny," gushes Karen. "It's an emotional probably bake cookies and play family rollercoaster throughout the whole show monopoly in-between writing songs. Okay, and we're learning a lot from it." that may be a little harsh. Just because After signing on to Warner Music they play happy folk and traditional music, following their Traditional Group of have a normal family life and don't rip the Year award at the 200 I ECMAs in each others hair out doesn't mean they Charlottetown, the group wi II get a chance should be made fun of. Yeah ... sure. to meet more of their idols at the annual "We got all of the fighting out of Juno Warner Music dinner party. the way in our teenage years. We're best "We're going to be sitting in the friends," says Karen. same restaurant as Alanis Morrissette, Their rise to the top began in the The Barenaked Ladies, and Great Big mean streets of St.John's where they Sea - all these people are going to be were discovered when they sang for the right across from us," Karen says with Welcome Wagon for Pregnant Women. bated adoration. "We're going to be just Well, that was at least their first "gig". in awe." They were discovered in 1998 when The sisters are going to be heading playing at the ECMAs in Halifax. This back to their hometown for the Junos would mark their first performance off the in April, where the show sold out in an rock. From that success came a Christmas impressive 70 minutes. The girls are -~ special- Christmas on Ennis Street (which looking to add a Juno to their mantle -···-· sounds strangely like Nightmare on Elm alongside their ECMA . Their nomination w:~~~IF.;;;a-._ Street), and a gig on Parliament Hill for brought the same surprise to these modest Canada Day. Their self-proclaimed "best girls as the call about the Jann Arden shows" were in North Carolina where gtg. they played in front of audiences of up "The day we found out that we to 60,000 with Mary Chapin Carpenter were nominated the neighbors must have and the well-endowed poster-girl, Dolly thought we were crazy," laughs Karen. The Enms Ststers will be continuing Parton. "She's such a legend, it was their run with Jann Arden and promoting breatht· king," say Karen. "One of the their new less-folk-more-pop album, highlights of our career." She must have released in last October.
------12 SPORTS ''Beloved'' coach cut Distraught players alledge AD swung the axe by tyler kustra "He's not only a good year." the gazette coach, he's a great person," team Benny says that McGarrigle co-captain and fifth-year player and Scott never got along and that's He's Dal 's second longest Benny Edison adds "He's solid, why Scott cut the coach. serving coach, has won their he's strmght forward, he's honest. "Coach has h1s own opinions. only-ever men's basketball He cares about his players more The athletic director feels coach championship, and is out of a job. than anything in the world." challenges his authonty because Dalhousie University refused The players petitioned to he doesn't just conform to to offer a third contract to Tim athletics director AI Scott and the everything." McGarrigle on Monday, and his vice-pre ident of student services McGarrigle would only players are distraught. Eric McKee - who made the say that Scott "had different Athletics Director AI Scott Coach Tim McGarrigle "It really sucks," says Oreine decision to cut McGarrigle - to ideas of where the basketball Davis, a point guard/shooting rehire him. program should go." He refused conference play-offs this year after was unavailable for comment. guard whose has played on Scott and McKee refused. to elaborate. a two year hiatus. McGarrigle says wants to McGarrigle's team for two seasons, "There is only so much we Two years ago McGarrigle Dalhousie public relations return to his team as oon as and was last year' team MVP. can do," Davis says. McGarrigle decided to recruit young players manager Stacey Lewis won't say possible. He has hired a lawyer and "Coach is more than a coach to a was pleased that his players and built the team over a length why the university didn't offer says, "I'm leaving all my [legal] lot of us. He takes care of us. He's did this. "They supported me of time. The process was just McGarrigle a third contract except options open." like a father figure. He's there for I 00 percent and said they were starting to pay dividends as the to say his rapport with Scott had In the meantime, Davis is me. It's just outrageous that the concerned about what was basketball team won an invitational nothing to do with the decision. just waiting for his favorite coach athletic department doesn't see happening. They wanted me back tournament for the first time Lewis refused to discuss the to return. that." and wanted to play for me next since 1997 and returned to the details of their relationship. Scott "Hopefully, they can bring
the home team. Boston was able changes would just make the game to put another one in the twine, much better. On the other side of Joe's first NHL game with Bonvie picking up an assist. the coin some of the things that The final proved to be 2-1 for the I was really impressed with the by joe leblanc Thursday night, I got the chance to game started off great for the seven Bruins and propelled them into game were the talent levels of the gazette see these two fine hockey players of us who made the long trek first place in the East. All in all, the players, and their phy 1cal play in the HSBC arena, the home down from Nova Scotia to watch my first NHL game was rather size. I was also impressed with the Who is Dennis Bonvie? Well, ice surface of the Buffalo Sabres, the game. Within the first three fulfilling, especially since Bonvie atmosphere in the arena; it was if you are a true Nova Scotia as they played host to the Boston minutes of play Bonvic had gotten completed two thirds of the Don just nothing like I have ever seen hockey fan you would know that Bruins. It was a big game for both in to a fight (which I must admit Cherry hat trick (a goal, an assist, before coming from a small town he is a fellow Nova Scotian. How teams as the big bad Bruins were he pounded the other guy, like a and a fight). At press time, the in Cape Breton. 20,000 screaming about Glen Murray? Well, he is battling for the overall lead in hammer on a nail), and Murray Bruins were still in first place in fans, a large jumbo-tron to sec just another one of our great local the Eastern Conference, while the had already had a couple of good the East and are a definite Stanley replays, and a great light show hockey players who made it to Sabres were in a dogfight for the sconng chances. Cup contender. were just a few of the things that the big show. Fortunately, last eighth and final playoff spot. The The rest of the game was However, after watching the would make me want to go back pretty tight checking as both Olympics on television this game to see the NHL live. goalies made some b1g saves seemed to be missing a few thmgs. Once the game was over Flying home? throughout. However, midway I personally think that the NHL the group of us braved the bone Need your vehicle shipped? through the ccond period one of game would be well off to remove chilling Bu;falo wind and jumped Boston's snipers. Sergei Samsonov the red line to make the game more back in our van to start our trip Who can? EastCan. scored a highlight reel goal as he open, and exciting for the crowd. back to Syracuse. Exciting, as the Fo r all your carrier needs. beat two defenders and then the The Sabres/Bruins game was really game was this was just the start of a Buffalo goalie. not that offensive oriented, as the great trip to the States as everyone The final half of the game scoring chances were limited for would attest to "the best was yet to was dominated by the Sabres as both team . Another change that come." As impressed as I was the Special student rates they proceeded to tie the game, I think would benefit the NHL NHL, the 30,000 people watching available Call for and seemed destined to win. would be to enforce the tag up and cheering on college basketball more info rmation. Nevertheless, Bruins goalie Byron offside rule, and the hurry up was even more impressive but that Dafoe held the fort and shut down face-off procedure. Both of these is a whole other story.
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This past weekend, watch the mayhem that the last three Tuition in American schools is more Syracuse University and its athletic week smgle elimination tournament expensive hut up until two years ago facility, the Carrier Dome, hosted causes while many others go to or the most an athlete could officially the East regional final, which was watch the Canadian Championships get in a Canadian school was $1500. one of four mini-tournaments held which have been a March staple This has si nee been increased to around the US. Over the three-game for the past 19 years at the Halifax CO\ er to a player's entire tuition. event almost 60,000 people piled Metro Centre. There are many Now there arc limits on how many themselves m to watch the Maryland similanties but there arc many scholarships that each team has but Terrapins defeat the University of differences between the two. most student athletes in the US are Connecticut Huskies and advance First there IS the money. As getting a free ride for their ability to the Final Four. This year, the four with most things, NCAA sports are put a ball in the net. regional winners will converge on dominated by money in so many Another thing is the fans. They the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, which different ways. The cost of tickets were 6,800 fans to watch the CIS holds close to 40,000 people for is so much more than in Canada but final last weekend between the top basketball and as always will be close to if not completely sold out. Thi does not even touch on the best college basketball games ever schools into the NCAA tournament television audience who follow played. The Canadian championship There is usually very little Hockey Tigers win awards the annual March Madness as a the week before had been very good argument about whether or not many perpetual ritual. The atmosphere can basketball but is difficult to begin to NCAA teams are better than many Third-year Dalhousie Tiger right winger Marty Johnston be so intense and must be difficult compare the two. With no disrespect CIS team and this still remains true. was selected as a first team all-Canadian for the incredible for the players to perform. directed at Canadian University Almost every year the question season he put together. The Tigers 5'8" captain and political There is also the game and the basketball players, it is like trying to comes up about how the CIS science major from Gloucester, Ont. scored 24 goals and tallied players themselves. Three minutes compare the junior high and senior champion, Alberta this year, would 20 assists for a total of 44 points in 26 games and was the in to the Maryland-Upon game on school teams. This, however, can fare against the NCAA competition conference leading scorer as well as being chosen the Atlantic Sunday people had already thought be expected as many of Canada's and the usual estimate is a loss University Hockey conference MVP honors. Included in the that they had their money's worth best basketball players arc on the by 15-20 points and that is likely incredible season were two four goal games and the point totals as they game opened with two high measuring stick if they are good accurate. The only real way is to get left Johnston as the second leading scorer in the country behind light reel dunks, and impressive enough to play in the south. This the teams to playoffs and go from national player of the year, Jon Barkman of the Saskatchewan blocked shot. a couple of great year there were over 50 of the best there, although the outcome could Huskies. The Tigers ended the regular sea on in first place and passes and fantastic shooting. The university players in Canada playing likely b<: predicted. March just ends then lost a very tight conference final series with SMU lhat had game did not change from there college ball in the over 350 Division up bei::g a great month to be a games go to single, double and triple overtime. as both teams put on a show that one schools in the US. Of that basketball fan so just sit back and Two other hockey players were rewarded for their is being said to be one of the number at least seven helped their watch. accomplishments this season. Third-year left winger Dan Tudin from Ottawa, Ont was chosen a first team conference all-star while second-year defenceman Jasmin Gelinas was chosen a second team league all-star. JBE IT'S TIME ~\)< INTERNET ~~SERVICES ~ ,..... & TECHNOLOGIES A VISIT HO • INTERNET With Acadian Lines it's quick, convenient and ACCESS pretty inexpensive for Dalhousie students STARTING AT to go home for the weekend. Check it out •••
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soil in their yard, orange sludge TWO LEVELS Operation Negligence seeping into their basements, as A brief history of the Sydney Tar Ponds well as high levels of arsenic and other heavy metals. Sydney cancer 646 18,750 by andrew angus Therefore, it was no surprise rates are much higher than the 63 20,625 and katherine ross the lobster fishery was closed Nova Scotia average: for men, 140 1,473 the gazette down in 1982 in the south arm occurrence of stomach cancer is 10 2,063 of the harbour. Apparently, the 78 percent higher in Sydney than 1 29 Sydney, Nova Scotia has Department of Fisheries and in the rest of the province; for been exporting steel since the turn Oceans believes lobsters and toxins women, occurrence of cervical of the 18th century and many of won't cross the imaginary line cancer is 134 percent higher than the side effects have been plagumg drawn down the middle of the the provinctal average. One would generations of Sydney residents harbour. expect these results, and all the ever smcc. Steel may have brought other studies, to alarm the powers Existing federal guidelines for safe soil jobs to the area but it has also torn Whitney Pier that-be and force them into action. determined by the Canadian Council for an entire community apart. The plant workers, espcctally One would also expect leadership Ministers of the Environment. those new to the country, were from people like Jeff Scott, Nova New 'Made-for-Sydney' guidelines for 60 day Displacing the natives housed in an area of Sydney called Scotia's chief medical officer. ex osures. What is now commonly Whitney Pier. This area of town Ne1ther has been the case. Source - Sierra Club - Atlantic Canada Chapter. called the Sydney Tar Ponds was is downwind from the plant and Instead of pushing the once called Cibou. a Mi'kmaq much of the pollutton from the provincial and federal governments concentration for long-term human related to Sydney's ha1.ardous word that means water. The area facilities would spew out of the to act, Mr. Scott has issued broad exposure to arsenic is 12 mg/kg of waste sites. In order for this around Cibou. now commonly stacks and eventually settle as soot statements to quell the fears of soil. The government has rewritten project to be a success. many called Muggah Creek, was once on the houses of this community, those living around the tar ponds, this standard for Sydney. claiming volunteers will be called upon a summer fishing camp for the far away form the owners and claiming that the high cancer rates the acceptable level at six times to help admmister the survey to Mi'kmaq people. In the wtntcr managers of the plant who lived and other health problems have that amount- 72 mg/kg. This is the local residents over the upcoming months, the Mi' kmaq people on the other side of town. more to do with 'lifestyle choices' case for numerous contaminants months. would settle on a main road leading In January of 1970, 521.3 than with the toxic sludge in Sydney (see chart). As we head toward another into Sydney - a perfect spot for tonncs of soot fell on every square outside everyone's back door. The summer, the residents next to the maintain!ng water access in the mile of Sydney. In a 1974 study government has repeatedly denied People's Health Commission toxtc sludge can look forward to summer. for a trading post in the by Em ironment Canada. it was responsibility for the problem. In response, the People's larger amounts of off-gassing from winter. When the government reported that coktng operations shifting blame onto the victims in Health Commission has been the tar ponds that can make life acqUired. through sale and seiture, produced CmtSStOnS 2,800 !O 6,00() Whitney Pier. formed wtth the help of the in Sydney unbearable. It is time for the Mi'kmaq land on July I. 1899 percent higher than approved The government has Stern\ Cluh of Canada and an effort from all over the province the tradiuon abruptly cnued. The standards. The reports were responded to recent studies dcdtcatcd communtty volunteers. to end the cnvtromncntal and 500 acres of Mi ' kmaq land \lias <;upprcsscd and restricted until the showing extremely htgh levels The purpose of the commtssion humanllanan dtsaster of Whttney gtven without cost to the Dornmton late 1980s \vhcn they \liere finally of arsenic and lead in the soil of ts to conduct a community health Pier. Nova )cottans have, in one - Iron anu Steel Company (DISCO), released - not hy the Canadian Whitney Pier by stmply rcwnting survey cxamtning the health of way or another bcnefi ted ' from hegtnntng a century of abuse of gO\crnmcnt, but by a clectncian, the environmental standards. those ltvtng closest to the Tar the exploitation of the land and both the people and lanu. Donntc MacPherson, who came According to the Canadian Council Ponds- mapping the results to sec peoples of Sydney and thus we all The government across them whtlc rcplactng the of Ministers of the Environment if high rates or mortaltty in the have a responsibility to help with aumtnistcred land acquisitiOn ltghting m a manager's office. (CCEM). the acceptable maxmlUrn community can he geographically the clean-up. by DICCO was part of a larger As the startlmg data piled campaign to remove the Mi · kmaq up in the 1980s, residents of the people from their land Accoruing area began asking more and more to Joseph Gilles. a promtnent questions. eventually tipping ofT Harbour Solutions Project lawyer at the time, the "Indians the beginning of a 'clean-up' or and Negroes were an undesirable the Tar Ponds. Smce the clean-up by lindsay o'reilly that they've really begun to take dass and an embarrassment to the projects have started, $137 million the gazette shape. cttizens of Sydney." The vtcw of dollars of federal and provincial "The project really got tho e in power was best summed money has been spent or In the early 1800s, Halifax movtng after amalgamation. up by the then federal Minister committed to projects to clean up passed a by-law that prohibited because it presented an opportunity of the Interior, Frank Oliver, who the tar ponds, and yet, very little direct discharge of"slops" into city to communicate," says Dr. Tony stated that it was unfair that the has been done. streets. 200 years and one smelly Blouin, Manager of Environmental "right of the Indian should be harbour later, we are still grappling Policy for the Halifax Regional allowed to become a wrong to the Cleaning up the Ponds with the problem of what to do Municipality. "Also, the mood whttc man." The first plan was to excavate with our city's waste. was right. People wanted to see In an attempt to deal with the and incinerate the sludge that The city's Harbour Solutions it done." wronged Mi'kmaq, the Federal filled the tar ponds. The federal project hopes to deal with this Blouin predicts that once all government 'relocated' the and provincial government found problem, or at least to ease it. the plants are up and running, the traditional fishing culture to "a $34.3 million dollars to fund the Three new treatment plants are set harbour will be noticeably cleaner worthless plot of swamp, rocks, project. Acres International was to be built within the next six years within a year. and woodland" - land that had hired to lead the doomed project, to treat sewage that now flows, "It will affect a lot of things, no access to water. doomed because the proposed raw, into Halifax Harbour. Blouin says. "Natural eco-systems Not a jellyfish. incinerator was not designed to The selected sites are Herring in the harbour will be improved. How to create a Tar Pond deal with PCBs. After many delays Cove at Hospital Point, Dartmouth We'll also benefit from increased treatment plants already in place In an amazing example of and $20.7 million in extra costs, at the Coast Guard station and tourism, once the harbour is in Bedford and Fall River, Blouin lack of foresight and complete the community was left with a north of Downtown Halifax at improved aesthetically." says it's what is affordable at dtsrcgard for the environmental, pump and an incinerator that was Barrington and Cornwallis Streets. "Maybe we 'II sec recreational this point. He says the plants are DISCO erected both the toxic coke never used for the clean-up. If approved, construction of the activity again at beaches like designed so they can be upgraded ovens and Steel Mill in the Muggah The next proposed plan was Halifax plant will begin this year. Horseshoe and Blackrock and to secondary-level treatment later Creek watershed. The creek enters to cover the tar ponds with slag, Although it's not a perfect the Dingle," says John O'Brien. on. the site at the munietpal dump, a by-product of the steel making solution, as John Batts, a diver in corporate communications officer Advanced primary continues past the coke ovens process, and encapsulate the charge of the marine touch tanks for the HRM. "Perhaps we'll have treatment's less expensive, but it's stte and steel mill, tnto a tidal toxic waste in cement. When at Dalhousie University says, tt is some life back in the harbour." far from cheap. The three plant'\ estuary that is now called the Tar the proposal was presented to a step in the nght direction. 0' Brien describes the will cost ab lut $260 million. Ponds before slowly mtgrating the communtty, it was rejected "We can't contmuc to pump Harbour Solutions Project as "not To pay for the plants, the into Sydney harbour. outright. Nonetheless. a consulting raw sewage into the harbour like so much clean-up as prevention." government has added an extra Muggah Creek has run many firm was presented the $20 million we 'rc domg now," says Batts. "You "We don't want to disturb all charge to bills of central water and different colours over the last contract to handle the project. can see [the waste I when you dive, the toxms and materials there on sewer users. century. from blue to brown to This project was also unsuccessful you can sec it when you comb the the bottom," O'Brien says. 'The 'This way," Blouin says. "it's orange depending on what toxic because there were many more beach-- most people won't dive idea is to cut the pollutton ofT at a 'user pay' system. Rural people chcmtcals it was carrying out to the tonnes of PCBs than expected, ncar the harbour because of it." tis source. Then maybe, over time, who usc their own wells aren't ocean, everything from chemical and PCBs cannot be buried under In the ten years he's been the harbour will begin to naturally affected." by-products to run-off water from federal laws. Therefore, this project diving, Batts has seen up close clean itself out" The cost of water has been the toxtc landfilL Thts mess was had to be aborted. the deteriorating state of Halifax "[The Harbour Solutions stepped up each year for four years. onl) worsened when raw sewage Smcc the fall of 1996. a harbour Project] is the right thing to do," For the average family, that adds was added to the ponds, creating a process has been underway to "I had a dtvcr come up once says O'Bnen. "It's long overdue, about $17 per year, which turns -.. vcntablc stew of chemicals, many select a type of technology that can with a [condom] draped over his and the community wants it." out to be about $70 more per year bcmg carcinogenic. do the clean up and community mask," says Batts. "We weren't The plants will be working at in total. This covers two-thirds of There are over 700,000 accepted. The Joint Action Group even right in the harbour, we were the 'advanced primary level.' This the capital cost, and the operating tonncs of contaminated sediment (JAG), a community group created down a little ways, toward Point means that the sewage will settle cost will be covered by the HRM. now living at the mouth ofMuggah to oversee the clean-up, has Pleasant park. People call them out in tanks, along with chemical . O'Brien says the extra charge Creek, emptying in to the harbour. started the process in the hope of 'harbour trout.' These things have coagulates to aid in the treatment is a small price to pay for the An amazing number of chemicals recommending a technology to nick names now, that's how bad process. The sludge will also benefits thr! will come from the (over I 5,000 lbs. worth) are put in government by March 2003. The it is." subjected to 'ultraviolet project. Batts agrees. to the harbour everyday. Even the process has been slow and bogged Scientists have been studying disinfection.' The entire process "The sea's been kind to us," lobster fishery has been effected. down by delays and many people the effects of sewage in the harbour removes 70 percent of all says Batts. "In Canada we're The lobsters of Sydney Harbour have left the group in frustration. since the early 1920s. Although particulates (suspended sewage blessed with vast natural resources. are 26 times more contaminated In the meantime, thousands plans to clean up the harbour have material) and kills most bacteria. But we can't just keep abusing than those from Boston Harbour, of people have been living in been in the works for decades, While this treatment is not them. At some point, we must be another notoriously polluted area .. homes that have contaminated it's only in the last few years as effective as that of sewage accountable." the GAZETTE DA EVENTS &ACTIVITIES Friday, March 29: Dalhousie Music Deportment presents a special Good What's their problem? Fnday offering of St Matthew Passion ot 7pm inthe Rebecca Cohn Auditorium. Tickets ore $20 general admission, o $10 student/senior, and ore available from the Dalhousie Arts Centre Box Office, 494·3820.
Monday April 1 : With your host, Jodt Magliaro. Critical Mass Big Bike Ride to protest the new Granville Street municipal porkade and Government opposition to the Kyoto Accord. Meet ot 4:45, NS Community College .
Thursday, April 4: In spite of being left bereft of faculty, Dol Theatre and Music students ore presenting ther own version of Bertold Brecht's "Threepenny Fever" ot the Sir James Dunn Theatre at 8pm . Please coli He forgot his underwear. 494·2233 to a reserve o seat of your choKe for Megan the night Donations will be accepted ot the door I like pants. Runs til April 6. Simon
Friday, April 5: The Deportment of Chemistry presents Professor R. -I waste my time ... Bruce lennox: "Making Sense and - Doing engineering. Making Use of Defects in Self - I have no problem. He's from Bermuda so he can't Assembled Films" at 1:30 in CHEM Mia and Maa catch. He has straight knees so 226. Coffee and Donuts will be provided at 1:15 tn he can't bend them. CHEM 225. Bring your own mug. Nick He has got piE lty of problems. A 4·port Level I Shambala He's pretty terrible at sports. Training workshop begins ot 9om. Meditohon Nick workshops will be held Friday mornings from 9om-noon ot 1084 Tower Rood. The cost is $7 5. Call422·2216 ext 34 for more information.
Bluenose Tradition La dies Barbershop Chorus hold their regulnr Where do I start? She took a long time rehearsals ot the Bedford letsure Centre (behind the getting ready. She's a little slow. Bedford legion) ot 7:30pm every Tuesday evening. Jim New singers ore welcome. For more information, She drinks too much. coli Eleanor ot 835·5927 . He's a prick and very sarcastic. Shelly Roberto The Dal Women's Centre, located oooh, trouble in paradise He drinks alone. lya Closoff ot 1229 le Marchant St, is open mondoy·Fridoy. So many problems, such Not alone, just by myself. Volunteer meetings ore held every Wednesday ot a short career. 6pm . Open to anyone looking to get involved or get Roberto Dickey more information. Coll494·2432. CLASS/FIE OS Kit Kat Pizza HORIZON CAMPS are seeking dynamic, For Sole· Packard Bell 486 Comp., 5 GB HD, Donai r, Subs , and Seafood 24mb RAM, 56K modem, Win95, Corel, games, compassiOnate leaders looki~g for the etc. All Discs, Manuals, included. Canon Color Jet 429-3223 425-2229 EXPERIENCE OF ALIFETIME to work with great Printer, Umox Astra Scanner, 15" MONITOR, $325 kids ages 7 to 15. Honzon consists of 5 Coll435·2528 r:sT~~ OUTSTANDING co·ed summer camps located DELIVERY in NY, PA, ME, 8. WV. Positions available in The Alexander Keith's Novo Scotia Brewery is group leading, athletics, theatre·arts, water preponng for it's third season and this is your chance sports, outdoor education, and so much more . to lond o job. We ore seeking individuals with retail, For Info please contact us at...1·800·544·5448 hospitality or tounsm experience. Moil orfox resume to: 14 96lower Water St., Halifax, or www.horizoncamps.com Novo Scoho, B3J 1R9, Fox: (902) 422·1 077, No phone coils please TRAVEL teach English: Job Guarantee. 5 Deadline: March 20, 2002 Buy 16" Pizza with the works for $11. 99 day/4 0hr in· class across Canada TESO Lteacher &get FREE 9" Garlic Fingers cert course (or by corresp.) FREE info pock ACTORS NEEDED · Time Travel on Asset! 1·888·270·2941 www.canadianglobal.net If you hove experience os on interactive tour guide, 16" Pepperoni pizza for $7.75 , hove musical ability and 1ust love to oct, we wont to or two for $13 .99 hear from you. Applicants must be of legal drinking 2med ium pizzas wi th3 toppings for $11.99 Interested in teaching children English age. 3s mall donairs for $5.50 in Korea for a year? You need a university Send resumes and coli for on oppotntment by Friday degree or be in your final semester to apply March 15 to Jennette White, Neptune Theatre School, 2200 CAD, 30 hours a week, free airfare 1593 Argyle St B3J 2B2 (Fox: 429·1211; Phone and housing. For full details email me at 429·3750) [email protected] -...
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Elections have been Extended. Nominations remain open for: DAGS President! oversees the n.Jnnlng ot DAGS a()(! represents it on offldal business. DAGS Vice-President, External: ··Develops r(!$ponses to issves affecting DC!thousie grad students. ·-WorkS wlth national grad stl!dent tobbies and provuxia1 government. DAGS Vice-President, Internal: ··Manages communiCations atl(f sod at events Jot PAGS DAGS Vice~ President, Finance: --Oversees OAGS f1Mnces. and ~pera tlo ns of Grad House Nomination deadline extended until Aptil 2nd, 2002. Election Day is April 9th, 2002 Nomination forms are available at the OAGS office (3nt flt. Glad House) · For more information, contact the C.R.O. Sarah O'Sullivan~ [email protected], Domino's Pizza wacc pts your 420-9999 Dalcardl
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