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Vancouver's newest Whisder bound bus service is looking for enthusiastic, outgoing people to make up our For more information, visit promotional street team. This is a part- Men's basketball aims to win national championship time position, hourly pay + incentives. Room 23 in the SUB Please e-mail your resume by November [basement] or call 822-1654. 3rd to Emma at [email protected] visit us on the web at www.snowclub.ca by Eric Szeto steals leader for the Thunderbirds, During Villaneuva's absence in r SPORTS EDITOR led Canada West in assists per the pre-season, Yu stepped in and I game last year. This season he will emerged as a legitimate weapon off I They don't resemble Larry, Curly be expected to produce shjiilar nu the bench. .' 2138 WESTERNfi\Rf opstmg^ngpi^„p<_8s. ^^fnoCrC^J mw€m Huband. Come to SUB Huband. UBC women's So far this pre-season, UBC hasn't "If you only have one way to score, Room 23 with a felt the pressure of other teams. In teams can scout that and attempt to can of food for the basketball hopes to the Raptors Invitational last month, take that away/ said Huband. "It Food Bank and the Birds dominated. They finished makes it more difficult to defend/ win another national first, but not before they embar On the outside, fifth-year captain you will receive a rassed Ryerson 77-23. Sheila Townsend will be a threat. double pass to a title "We let up on the press in the sec "She's our most experienced play screening of: ond half. They were disorganised... er/ said Huband. "We rely on Sheila they were missing easy lay-ups/ said to make us better, keep us organised YA£ fiUIC CSI by Eric Szeto third-year guard Kelsey Blair, who with what we're doing on the floor/ SPORTS EDITOR finished last season third in scoring, The Birds will sorely miss Carrie Preview second in rebounding and third in Watson and Amanda Beers, both of Screening: Hunting season has begun in the CIS. field goal shooting in Canada West. whom departed after last season. Monday, With every team gunning hard "She's poised...regardless of what Letah Beck sees this as an opportuni for the national trophy, the UBC situation she's in and she enjoys ty for others to step up. November 8 women's basketball team will have competing. She's been our tough "I think a lot of people are step at Tinseltown. it tough defending their champi est rebounder," explained Huband. ping up in those roles and we're onship. "She's able to be an inside threat and having a bigger effort this year. I First come, first served. Coach Deb Huband, CIS coach of have that kind of inside-outside think there's a lot of team effort/ While quantities last. the year last season, knows that this attack and it's made our team said Beck. season won't be a breeze. stronger/ The Birds first games of the year IN THEATRES "Because of last year, we have a Blair and co-captain Letah Beck are against Calgaiy today at 6 pm target on us and [the rest of the CIS] will make them an unstoppable low- and on Saturday against Lethbridge NOVEMBER 12 will be coming at us with no trouble post combo, but success will also at 6 pm. Both games are at War getting psyched up to play/ said depend on a balanced attack, said Memorial Gym. • PAGE FRIDAY Friday, November 5,2004 3 Way Out West Oct 28 by Jesse Ferreras CULTURE WRITER DoN't Lo Bristol, in the U.K., is a power plant for musical tal ent It has produced such electronic artists as Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead. In addition to these international music artists, Bristol has also turned out Way Out West Consisting of key boardists Nick Warren and Jody Wistenoff, as well as vocalist Omi, drummer Damon Reece (formerly Up there of Massive Attack and Echo and the Bunnymen) and bassist Joe Allen (formerly of Roni Size), the with Aristotle group is currently touring to promote their latest album, Don't Look Now —their first release since Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without 200 l's Intensify. A Pause Dance music has undergone a great transfor playing Nov. 6 mation over the past decade: just seven years ago, at Pacific Cinematheque it was commonplace for a dance track to hit #1 on commercial music charts, but that has changed by Ritu Kumar due to much classification within dance music. CULTURE WRITER "There are so few dance hits now/ commented keyboardist Warren, "five or six years ago, if there Most prominently known as a social was a great dance record made, be it trance, or activist, Noam Chomsky, a linguist house or whatever, then everybody played it, by profession, is nothing less than a whereas now, it's so split up into genres. You're modern-day guru. His work over the either a trance DJ or producer, or techno or house past fifty years has made his or progressive or anything/ Way Out West refuses name synonymous with left-wing to conform to a specific genre of electronic music, American dissent and has awarded shunning the trend towards DJ's spinning records him with more than twenty hon at shows and instead are in favour of playing their ourary degrees. In Noam Chomsky: tracks hve with keyboards, drums, and vocalist all Rebel Without A Pause talented in tow. "On stage we've become slightly less elec director, writer, and editor Will tronic/ adds Wisternoff. Pascoe zooms his lens in on the Due to an unfortunate lack of promotion, Way However, by the end of the set, the two-member which stunted the otherwise beautiful vocals of famous educator providing perspec Out West, along with openers Supreme Beings of group jacked up the tempo just enough to get the Omi the lead vocalist, the band played great tive into the man himself. Leisure, put forward a valiant effort for a devoted crowd pumped for the main event Way Out West, Way Out West's latest album is distinct from The content of the film is success crowd of approximately 100 fans. At first it seemed hit the stage accompanied by a background video their previous work, although as before, they offer ful in balancing the two halves of as if the gig could have been written off as unsuc projection of the gorgeous 1992 concert film a wide range of sounds throughout Combining Chomsky. While providing an up cessful, but the small crowd helped, make for a J^al& which provide close portrait as accounted by his unique experience. Supreme Beings of Leisure, the scope of their distinct brand of electronica. The emotional vocals has made this album an ethereal wife, his contemporaries, and his famous for their track "Under the Gun," opened the appreciative crowd hit the floor almost immediate combination of diverse electronic music from a fans, Pascoe staggers personal acc set with a number of tracks that might have been ly, grooving to a wide range of styles, from the ethe group of adventurous artists aiming to transcend ounts between longer chunks of a more appropriate to the atmosphere of a Massive real club hit "Mindcircus/ to the jungle rhythms of the trend towards spinning records at a booth Way lecture and a more intimate ques Attack show—particularly their brooding remix of "Fear* and finallythei r closing track, "Anything But Out West plays their music exactly as they produce tion period. From this we get the Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night" You/ Despite the poor quality of the sound system, it—Hve and intimate. • sense of humanness and a glimpse into the reality of Chomsky. Modestly questioning why any one would want to hear him speak, after having just been introduced as one of the top ten authorities among which included Karl Marx, Lenin, The Take Aristotle, and the Bible, Chomsky now playing at Tinseltown jests at the idea of himself as a mes senger. by Levi Bartnett For those who are not familiar CULTURE STAFF with Noam Chomsky's work, he has authored enough books to fill a book When is Naomi Klein going to give us some case, with topics ranging from media answers? I read her book Fences and Windows, control to the Middle East conflict to which claimed that a positive response to the 9/11. His social and political opin globalisation debate was being crafted at the ions can be credited with radically annual World Social Forum in southern Brazil. altering and educating the masses. Hugo Chavez was there, Noam Chomsky was Popular, worldwide, Chomsky dares there, Brazilian president Lula was there, but to project that which governments nothing came of it. Klein writes frequently about and mass media attempt to hide and the problems with global capitalism, saying, as ignore. As his wife Dr Carol Chom the Brazilians do, that "Urn outro mondo e pos- sky puts it, "People are hungered to sivel"— another world is possible. But when is hear another analysis than the one she actually going to show what that world they usually hear/ looks like? So who should go see this film? I wondered this going in to see The Take, the Everyone! Love him or hate him, new film written by Klein and directed by her hus Chomsky possesses the unique abili band Avi Lewis. The film focuses on the Move ty to present things simply as they ment of Recovered Companies in Argentina and are. He does not fuss with intellectu places hope in Argentina's new president, Nestor ality or intricacies, but presents ideas Kirchner. the factory's equipment for scrap. The workers democratic decision-making, profiting where oth in meaningful forms that are easily The Take opens with Klein doing interviews have another idea. This is where the film takes off. ers thought no profit could be made. popularised. He has empowered and attempting to offer alternatives to the current Led in part by talo, a now unemployed father of Lalo's straggle is great for the film and will keep and motivated people to recognise system of international finance. No one on TV talk two young girls, the workers hold watch over the you interested throughout the 87 minutes of The and change the world around them, shows will listen to her, so in 2001 she and a film factory until they can get permission from the gov Take. However, as an explanation of globalisation and at the same time provides real crew head down to Buenos Aires amid financial ernment to reopen the factory under worker own the film fails. It criticises Argentine president intellectual credence to the voice of chaos caused by a misguided IMF plan for Ar ership and control. Each worker will be paid the Carlos Menem for striking deals with the IMF, but dissent gentina. same amount and there will be no bosses. It's a doesn't show why these deals are responsible for The Vancouver premiere of Noam "Welcome to the globalised ghost town," she neo-Marxist dream. And for other companies factory closures, only that Menem opposed letting Chomsky Rebel Without A Pause will says, where "the rules of capitalism were being bro in Argentina, it's worked. In factories across workers re-open their shuttered factories. So watch ken by the system itself/ Banks refuse to give peo Argentina, workers are occupying and running this film for its heart—a depiction of workers' strug be at the Pacific Cinematheque dur : ing the Amnesty International Film ple their money so that the government can pay off their own shut-down businesses without the con gle to join the market system via the slogan Festival, on now until November 7. its debts. trol of bosses or owners. It is an attack on capital "Occupy, resist, and produce/ The men are broken See www.amnesty. bc.ca/filmfest for In the process, a factory is closed while the ism itself, showing how many of these recovered without jobs, and for them it is a struggle, above all, details. • workers go without pay. The owners want to sell companies work with completely equal pay and for dignity. • IF PAGE TODAY 4 Friday, November 5,2004 5 Do You - Suffer A Bushleague election in Heinzsight by Alex Leslie FEATURES EDITOR photos by Michelle Mayne From Acne? The election [drinking] game: a shot per swing state helps the medicine so down BLU-U PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY IS THE ANSWER No Drugs! 5:30 pm region directly affected by 9/11 is not voting mine told the class that his brother, a Texas religious biases and long-held attitudes "Could you put that corkscrew on my 9:41 pm President for the next four years. No Cream! When we arrive at the election party, no for the incumbent who supposedly defended resident, had called to say that his neigh behind. "I wanted. something more, you head and twist it?" "But what the Hell difference does it make?" "If he wins, this was the worst party ever," swing states have been announced and the them from that great tragedy—but that those bours were holding a prayer meeting for know." Electoral votes are reported. Bush, 197; Uneasy silence. someone says as we leave. drinking has not yet begun. The TV is on in such high-risk areas for terrorist attacks as Bush. Kerry supporters, in the meantime, by I understand. There is a maddening pow- Kerry, 188. The optimism of this news is We do not know now, but the game is CNN, as it will be in near perpetuity for the Wisconsin and South Carolina feel the need. and large chose to depend on things like erlessness in watching the map being cov counteracted by the switch to CNN and the 9:50 pm already over. next six hours. The CNN election-coverage A girl stumbles into the room and out intellect, evidence and logic—though these ered more and more by states favouring re-appearance of the glittering stars and Having given in to the obvious superiority of f REJUVENATION CLINIC screen is heavy on the red, white and blue; again, leaving trailing behind her the phrase: things are admittedly super, they are not Bush. The culture divide is there, drawn out stripes that mask the reality of the worsening Republican voters' methods, a group has The following morning several old white men sit around a half-moon "If Bush wins...I don t know...I don't know..." supernatural. A definite weakness. not in black and white, but in red and blue. situation. Then, the mood swings upwards started a prayer circle on the floor. "Dear John Kerry concedes defeat at Boston's table, bantering with Wolf Blitzer who stands "We didn't pray hard enough!" someone This election summoned the largest voter again: someone's just arrived with a box of Lord, please save us from the idiocy..." Lost famed Faneuil Hall, stopping twice during over them, looking sombre and juut as old 6:03 pm stretched out on the floor cries. turnout in years, but it seems that not only double-stuffed Oreo cookies. "To go with the somewhere between despair and a need to the speech to avoid being overcome by tears. and white. The people in the room watch the "Based on exit polls, Kerry should win "I didn't pray at all!" comes the reply. Democrats took the initiative to act out in double-stuffed ballot boxes," a drinker quips. laugh, I can't tell if this is amusing or not He addresses those who contributed to the screen intently. "I need more access, more New Mexico." A preliminary poll reports that Below the drinking and pointed, sarcastic their interests. The outraged activism of The CNN anchors begin to discuss the And behind the CNN window, the guy with Democratic campaign: "Don't lose faith; information!* someone holding a laptop Kerry is leading by 40,000 votes in mentions of CNN's coverage format (white youth and minority groups has been met by Showdown States. I don't recall John Way the Vote or Die sign is still there.; the sign is what you did made a difference. And build cries from the carpet Then they call out the Pennsylvania. stars; red banners; blue banners) there's a the conservatism of Church groups. The divi ne being one of the dead celebrities who still upside down. ing on itself, we go on to make a difference current electoral votes: Bush, 102; Kerry, 77. The CNN pundits lean concernedly over highly unpleasant awareness that this night sion pervaded every broadcast and printed endorsed a candidate in this election. Ohio is still hanging in the balance, another day. I promise you: That time will There is a mild groan—but, still, it's too early their desk, carefully discussing their host of isn't going the way we had wished. source leading up to the election—not only though the current polls aren't looking prom come; the time will come; the election will to tell, isn't it? Isn't it? "projections/ "exit polls," "what-ife* and "tea regularly political reads like Harper's and 8:08 pm ising. Fox News is reporting that Bush has come when your work and your ballots will 102. 77. Figures in the numbers game leaf prophecies." Larry King performs an 6:32 pm The Economist, but popular magazines like "It is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and already won Ohio and is only one electoral change the world. And it's worth fighting that is the American election process. To win, inadvertently flawless impression of a prey Bush wins Mississippi a state that has voted Rolling Stone. fury, signifying nothing." vote away from winning the presidency. for." a candidate must draw the winning number ing mantis as he reaches his skeletal head by 83 per cent to ban gay marriage. Electoral The latest issue of the rock magazine con —William Shakespeare, Macbeth "How is that possible?" I ask. "Because Fox is According to a story in October 30 The of electoral votes: 270. Then that candidate forward. votes: Bush 170, Kerry 112. But, I'm tained a direct appeal for Kerry votes. run by Republicans," a guy on the floor Globe and Mail, Hazel Allison, a real-estate gets to sit in the White House for four years Behind the CNN results desk there is a told with hopeful enthusiasm, Ohio, Penn "Haven't we been hoodwinked enough? 8:19 pm replies (objectively). agent and long-time Republican volunteer in surrounded by his closest allies, making floor-to-ceiling window that shows a large sylvania and California have yet to be Haven't we learned our lesson? It is hard to An act of sedition is suggested—driving down Florida, begged to differ: "We better find decisions that affect all of us at the most gen crowd holding various signs in support of the declared. And California is 55 solid electoral accept the idea that our president has misled to the Peace Arch and attacking the border 9:59 pm another country, if [Mr. Bush] doesn't get in. THEiZMEKK* eral and basic levels. To wit general—the candidates—an election circus. Kerry & Bush, 249, Kerry, 195. Someone yells: "I I fear the Holocaust and I fear for the safety conditions under which it is appropriate to Edwards. Bush & Cheney. Four More Years! want to swallow a knife!" of this country." go to war; basic—my friend told me that he A lone ranger stands at the edge of the The last sliver of hope has departed the I walk through campus and watch people Antan-fGhekl'ftiQv was prevented from mailing Walmart-bought crowd. His sign reads, simply, "Vote or Die." room; from this point on, the mood descends marvel at the results—the fact that Canada's Hallowe'en candy to his girlfriend living in He is holding his sign upside-down. ^progressively into abject depression. the US due to biohazard laws. Obviously. "How long 'til they annex Canada?" sen, by a startling margin Those mini Aero (anthrax) bars are a major 6:10 pm Music begins to play from a laptop on the million votes, a President who has made dis November 3 io 1 a,. 2X>0$ risk. One can't be too careful these days. Updated electoral votes cast a pall over the floor. honesty a national policy by (misleading his As the states light up red or blue on the Mem-Sat 7;30pm room. Bush, 155; Kerry, 112. "How is this Save yourself^ serve yourself. World country to a war that has killed 100,000 checkerboard-like map and anchors cite end happening?" someone moans. serves its own needs, listen to your heart Iraqis to date, made aggressive moves less projections, the game-feel of it all can Kerry is down by 400,000 votes in Florida bleed dummy with the rapture and the towards banning stem cell research, abor overcome the solemn sentiment that history and up in Pennsylvania, one of the laptop revered and the right right tion and same-sex marriage, blurred the line is taking place. So we decided to design a people sprawled on the floor report Wolf "How is it even closeT between religion and politics to an indistin game of our own. Blitzer continues to adamantly deny the con- Locking in, uniforming, book burning, guishable smear, passed legislation that cur The rules: Drink every time Bush wins creteness of predictions. The networks are blood letting. Every motive escalate. Auto tails civil liberties and debases the American one of the pre-selected "Could Kerry possibly stepping carefully to avoid a repeat of the motive incinerate. Light a votive, hght a Constitution, battled peaceful dissent, given win this?" swing states. 2000 media disaster. "It's still early. Early, candle. tax breaks to the top two per cent, instated The pre-selected states: Florida, Ohio, early, early../ votes of gay-marriage-approving, stem-cell- us. It is against everything that we have been guard—then vetoed. "Yeah, Kerry sucks, but Bush sucks more. policies that provide back doors for clear-cut Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Bob Woodward appears on the screen. research-favouring, pick-up-trucks-are-aes- taught about the presidency and against In Florida, 97 per cent of the polls are Why don't people understand that?" ting and increased air pollution, banned Wisconsin, New Mexico, Nevada, Virginia, Half of the journalistic duo that revealed the thetically-ofifensive, liberal grace. what we most dearly want to believe. But the reporting that Bush has secured the state. Two It's the end of the world as we know it It's _drug imports from Canada, cut education, Colorado, Washington, and Oregon. Watergate scandal in the early '70s that I begin leafing through Jon Stewart's facts leave us no other conclusion." guys near me have a discussion: "Want to play the end of the world as we know it and, most importantly, compromised the The drinks: Osama Gin Laden, Scotch on forced President Richard Nixon out of office. recently-released book, America (The Book): the Bush game?"; "What's the Bush game?"; "It's almost as we're if waiting for the trust of not only the American people hut Iraqs, Bloody Mary Cheney, Swift Boat Woodward's account of the Bush administra A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction. The 7:00 pm "We both pretend we're George Bush and house to burn down." their strongest historical allies in the inter Veterans Vermouth, Fallujin and Tonic, tion's decision to invade Iraq, Plan of Attack, book contains a map of the US inviting the After an extensive struggle with channel- punch each other." They proceed accordingly. It's the end of the world as we know it national community. Condoleeza Rye and Coke, Zell Miller Ge has become a Bible of sorts (we have one too) reader to colour in the states—red for changing technology, the TV is switched to After several minutes of play, one groans, "the and I feel fine. My friend, a Canadian student living in nuine Draft, and Jack Daniels with Move- for the anti-Bush movement In the conclu Republican, blue for Democrat Helpfully, CTV where Jon Stewart's The Daily Show is pain we feel now will be nothing compared to "We are." New Zealand, emails me to say that she and On.Organic pineapple juice. sion of his book, Woodward asks Bush what most of the states are already filled in. The presenting "Election '04: Prelude to Recount" the pain well feel tomorrow." her international friends gathered on the Come to the The outcome: To be determined, but it'll he believes the outcome of the Iraq war will few swing states that remain are those that The mood in the room takes a sharp turn Another suggestion: make Canada the 10:30 pm grass outside to watch the election cover Ubyssey office be messy. be, reminding him that history tends to oper will decide the presidency. I look up at the upward. It's not only because this is come 51st state, thus instating 30 million voters The count in Ohio is narrowing. 92 per cent age—in parallel to ours in Vancouver, theirs ate in cycles, and is measured by outcomes. in SUB Room 23 "Douchebag of liberty!"—a sudden com screen—the coloured map on CNN can bare dy—it's because this, though satirical, though who will always vote Democrat polling shows Bush has 51 percent, Kerry 49. progressed with increasing despair. She ment from the floor, as Wolf Blitzer "History," Bush replies, shrugging. "We won't ly be distinguished from the one in my The room has deteriorated into a quagmire marvelled at the ability of Americans to cast with a on of food often in disregard of the actual facts, is actu On CNN, Jeff Greenfield is overlooking announces that 15 states will close in six know. We'll all be dead." hands, printed months before. ally honest Al Sharpton comes on as a guest another batch of figures, theorising. "And of questions about the value of democracy their votes in favour of Bush, en masse, after for the ftx>d Bank minutes. The tone in the room is hopeful. Utah (another five votes) goes to Bush. No and reasons, intensely: "If Bush wins tonight, remember, folks, these aren't projections, ("why can't the world vote on this?*). the spectacle of the debates. "To vote for to receive a Then, the surprising news that Bush is lead 6:15 pm surprise—the drinking is now only to dull the it'll be first time he was elected." these are what-ifs...please do not email or CNN pundit Aaron Brown concernedly Bush is to sit back, watch a monkey argue complimentary ing by 400,000 votes in Texas. "Texan flick Alcohol rests in large clear, copper and chest oncoming pain. Stewart sits at his news desk on the write!" "If this state goes blue, and this state wrinkles his moony face. with Voltaire/ she wrote to me, "and to double-pass to ers!" The tone in the room remains hopeful. nut-brown bottles around the room, waiting The minutes begin to pass more slowly. screen, smirking, and his satire is closer to goes red, then..." "I've got another projection going on/ choose the monkey." But the evening is just beginning. to be consumed. Bush is up 400,000 votes in ^"JUOHtTTHE the truth, informs me more, than the "seri Shortly thereafter, CNN announces that comes an angry voice from the floor. "The Thanks to the US electorate and the US The results are arriving. Countdown. Michigan. Kerry's leading in New Hampshire. 6:50 pm ous* coverage. The political situation is now Florida has gone to Bush: 27 more electoral wOrld is fucktarded. That's my projection." electoral vote system, the monkey is in On the screen, Rudy Giuliani answers The guy sitting next to me tells me drunken- so absurd that all one can do is laugh, and votes. Bush, 246; Kerry, 188. I'm offered a power for the next four years. The effects can Preview questions with careful modesty about the ly ofhis disillusionment He wanted the voter then weep. tall drink and I take it 10:55 pm not be accurately predicted; they will only be Screening: 6:00 pm possibility of a Giuliani presidential ticket in initiative in Colorado to pass. He wanted CNN reports that it's come down to Ohio. revealed as the current administration Results begin to arrive from New York, the future. "[Bush has] kept the country safe/ more acceptance of gay marriage. He wanted 8:00 pm 9:40 pm The Buckeye State's electoral votes can't deems appropriate. America has spoken and November 8, which is voting overwhelmingly Democrat he says. people to think through the issues in this "Let's go burn the US consulate!" be decided tonight—the world will have to the outcome may not be reversible hy any 7pm at Granville 7 Fascinating, someone comments, that the Earlier in the day, a sardonic professor of election, for a change, and maybe leave their The liquor is now flowing healthily. Kerry wins Oregonl Loud cheers. wait until tomorrow to learn who will be the means—not even alcohol. • cinemas. /»(. t ». I A H « K While quan&fcs ijil IN THEATRES NOVEMBER 12 t*mfmimm**.mv\mHtM-mmrWm**w*w»#*mmmm*¥#m *& ~«v~-~» COVER PHOTO Nic Fensom Return to daylight hours take place in afternoon/evenings majority of people are sheep, fol Daylight Saving Time all year COVER DESIGN then in the morning, why have we lowing the whims of current trends round. Saskatchewan doesn't play Paul Carr turned our clocks back and aban without ever thinking about their with clocks, so why do we? Perhaps Why, exactly, have we turned our doned Daylight Saving Time just actions and the impact they have if a large enough group of citizens EDITORIAL GRAPHIC clocks back? Before we turned our when it's needed the most. Why on society. Joel Libin join together and stop changing clocks back last weekend, the sun waste our precious winter sun The reason I changed my clock clocks back and forth every year, set around 6pm Saturday. But now, light at dawn when most are too is so that I'll be in keeping with the we could stay on Daylight Saving after we have made the change, it sleepy to appreciate it? Now, we'll rest of you who all did. When I ask Time all year round because I real sets around 5pm. In December the spend the next five months dri any one person why they did, their ly can't see any benefit of last week sun will set around 4:20pm when ving home and eating dinner in tadian response is the same as mine: each end's clock change at all! versilv it could only set around 5:20pm if the dark. individual did it because of the we had left our clocks alone. Sorry if this offends anyone, but Canada Port Sato» Agmnwnt Nionbwr 40S78022 action of others. —Tony Roy Since more human activities I'm starting to believe the vast I think we should stay on Barber, White Rock in :__^*SVfi*£i'c.i^ :WM'K?OT ^gife4fe:i'.s PAGE FRIDAY Friday, November 5,2004 Starbucks magnate addresses students Operations and Marketing. fair trade is about,* he stated, explaining mitment that is difficult for many students Audience questions The public has lost the ability to trust that this was a controversial viewpoint in the to make. One audience member, a current large corporations because business community. Starbucks employee, said she found it diffi "businesses [have] let [the Starbucks buys coffee beans at a "premi cult to balance both school and working at company s policies consumer] down,* he um price,* supporting the third-world coffee Starbucks, and as a result, has made a deci explained, adding that busi farmers, and "does more for developing sion to quit. ness "rules of engagement countries than any other coffee chain,* At the talk, the student asked Schultz if he by Sara Norman have changed from the including giving vaccinations, supporting would reconsider this rule for students, but NEWS STAFF past," and that companies schools and providing loans, Schultz added. Schultz explained that the minimum hours now need to conform to The topic turned to the company's were already lowered from twenty required The chairman of Starbucks spoke at the their clientele. Customers employment of students, with Schultz hours per week. Schultz recommended that Sauder School of Business on Wednesday, are "performing a cultural explaining that Starbucks employees, who the employee see her store manager, and SCHULTZ discussing the changing relationship be audit* and making more are called "partners," are the foundation of stated that there may be some leeway on the tween corporations and consumers and conscientious choices in which companies his company. rule. advising his audience to follow their they support. The company's US employees receive The most important element in a suc dreams. One alumnus from the Sauder School of health insurance even if they are only cessful business is to follow your dreams, Howard Schultz described his path to Business asked why people should support employed part time, and after one year of concluded Schultz. becoming Chairman and Chief Global Starbucks instead of the "little guy." Schultz work, they receive "bean stock* through "Entrepreneurial ideas, thoughts and Strategist for the international coffee chain. responded by describing how Starbucks Starbucks' Stock Investment Program. dreams will be challenged along the Schultz, who came from the poverty-stricken buys its coffee beans using the principles of However, employees are required to work way...But before you give up, make sure...you "projects" of New York, bought Starbucks in fair trade. a minimum of sixteen hours per week don't look back in the rearview mirror and 1987 after working as the Director of "I completely absolutely embrace what regardless of school commitments, a com regret that you gave up.* • Former columnist sings praises of National Post by Will Keats-Osborn explained, "was not really that out to be an important national meetings. The National Post was, with a sense of humour, said Cobb. NEWS WRITER interested in national political story. The story was "a signal of "supplanting Parliament" as the Scott Feschuk and Paul Wells, stories." intent," and "Unite the Right" official opposition of the Liberal two of the newspaper's promi The National Post, one of In a new book, Ego and Ink: The became a rallying cry for reform, government, he explained. nent reporters, were instructed by Canada's national daily newspa Inside Story of Canada's National according to Cobb. Describing the National Post's White to "go to Parliament Hill, pers, has had a profound effect on Newspaper War, Cobb details the "The uniting of Canada's two maxim as "irreverence," Cobb list have some fun, be irreverent, kick Canadian politics, according to relationship between the'National conservative parties was to be the ed several issues that were seen as ass whenever you perceive it Chris Cobb, a former sports Post and the Globe and Mail, and newspaper's political mission," he coverage priorities by the newspa needs kicking, but above all, don't columnist for the newspaper. to a lesser extent, the Toronto Star. said, adding that the National Post per's former managing editor, be boring, and make political Speaking at the School of Within a year of its creation, the had become a "thorn in the Prime Kenneth Whyte. reporting fun." Journalism on Wednesday, Cobb, National Post was "starting to exert Minister's side." Items on the list included the This irreverence, along with an who is currently a feature writer an influence on the goings-on "Jean Chretien had already "lack of democratic accountability" unprecedented awareness of polit for the Ottawa Citizen, discussed around Parliament Hill,* Cobb decided to hate it, and called of Canadian Parliament, taxes ical issues, set the newspaper what he called the National Post's said at the talk, adding that Conrad Black numerously and at "which were too high,* the "brain apart from others, stated Cobb. assault on the one-party state, and John Bryden, a Liberal Member of various points on the globe and at drain* to the US, the "bloated, Though the National Post is "un chronicled the evolution of the Parliament at the time, appealed to various times of night to say so," insufficient bureaucracy" of the doubtedly right- wing," "politically newspaper as a dissenter in Can- the Liberal caucus to start taking he described. United Nations, critical analysis incorrect* find "set out to annoy adiaripolitics. notice of theNational P&st/n^cWise' of "InW Supfei&e ~C6l^~^8FtIie" In his discussion, Cobb ex it "wasn't going away.* writers began to receive anony "Chretien government's use of ty of opinion, he emphasised. Its plained that before former Can- One front-page article in the mous tips from "senior bureau public funds for political pur success can be measured by the West News corporation owner newspaper, which claimed "plans crats who were working on policy poses.* influence the newspaper has had Conrad Black founded the National were afoot...to unite the right in that they wanted the government While these issues received a on governmental policy. Post in October 1998, the only Canada,* was a story that the to adopt" and the newspaper's sto lot of attention from other media "The right is united just like national newspaper in Canada was Globe and Mail declined to run ries were used as fodder for the outlets, the National Post set itself Conrad Black and his National the Globe and Mail, which Cobb several weeks earlier, and turned opposition in next-day Parliament apart by approaching the issues Post wanted it to be," he said. • 3 1950 West Broadway THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Vancouver, BC iopiesPlus 604-731-7869 w w w. co pies p I ui. t a UBC COPY fl :l M AG I ti G,. ; ,:'C fE; ;.'N ••; J. :,R.; E NEW XEROX 2060 8V2XII. 28lb w each side Digital Colour Prints 49. ea. 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"It involved looking at impact on his students in his time NEWS EDITOR in Calgary and went on to become a school, said Slaymaker. problems that involved all of at UBC, said Slaymaker, using professor of law "His general contribution was humanity, and involved looking at a quote from one of Head's Dr Ivan Head, the founding direc at U of A. that he was the first real example the sustainable capacity of not just students. tor of UBC's Liu Institute for From 1968 to of global citizenship," he said. states, but of regions and of the "Ivan, I don't have adequate Global Issues, died of cancer on 1978, Head ser "The president pf course, Martha globe as a whole." words to thank you. It's more than Monday at age 74. Head, who had ved as special as Piper, has picked that up as one of Head's global view challenged an inspiration or an ideal that you been at UBC since 1991, was sistant to Prime her main themes and a lot of stu the traditional view of citizenship, have given me. It is a sense of instrumental in bringing about a Minister Pierre dent activities are focused on glob he explained. knowing to look higher and to focus on global citizenship, said Trudeau, advis al citizenship right now." "Global citizenship—that phrase believe that there is a purpose in Olav Slaymaker, a geography pro ing on foreign In addition to playing a major is interesting, because when we our work and a hope for the fessor at UBC. policy. Head went role in the establishment and think about it, citizenship implies a future," said the student. HEAD "He immediately started to on to become Pre building of the Liu Centre, Head's connection or a tie to a state," said Head's contributions to UBC work on the idea of a global studies sident of the International Dev ideas and outlook on the distinc Job. "What we were saying I think will leave a valuable legacy, said centre,* said Slaymaker, adding elopment Research Centre in Otta tion between global and interna there is the issue of responsibili Slaymaker. that Head's vision was achieved in wa in 1978. tional issues had a lasting effect ty—as Canadians, and more specif "He was an inspiration to a lot 1997 when he was named the first After coming to UBC in 1991, on the campus, said Dr Brian Job, ically as educated individuals at of people and he was, for us, a director of the newly-created Liu Head taught at both the Faculty director of the Centre of Inter UBC, [citizenship] should be used model of how to look beyond the Institute. of Law and the Department of national Relations. responsibly in the UBC context to immediate Canadian context and Head was educated at the Un Political Science and was the chair "For Ivan, the notion of global advance solutions to these global see what needs to be done in the iversity of Alberta (U of A) and at in South-North Studies. His involve- meant the need to look at problems problems." world." • Students fight for future of UBC Farm re-designation. They need verifica cucumber, cabbage, kale, pumpkins by Carrie Robinson tion that the area is not required for and squash. NEWSSTAFF academic use," said Henney. "Part of the reason that Sprouts Some students feel that UBC even exists was because we wanted Faced with the looming possibility Farm is already a fundamental com to have an outlet for students to sup of UBC Farm's re-designation, sev ponent of their learning experience port the Farm and to have easy eral students are advocating the at UBC and it should be preserved access to farm products," said Elana importance of the contributions for that use in the future. Cossaver, president of the Food Co and the opportunities for involve "The goal is to...make it so that op, the group that runs the store. ment the Farm offers the commu the farm is such an integral part of Sprouts opened in September, nity. campus that [UBC] wouldn't consid and is owned and operated by stu They're hoping that the Farm, er getting rid of it," said Christine dents who would like to see aware located on South Campus Road, Boyle, a UBC Farm volunteer, and a ness of UBC Farm increased. Coss can be viewed as an essential part representative from the Faculty of aver added that she had heard a lot of the ""community- and woii't be Agricultural Science on the Alma of talk about South Campus devel redeveloped. Mater Society (AMS) council. "This opment and she wanted to make The area of South Campus that entails getting more people out sure that people saw the value in includes UBC Farm is designated as there and making the space using the farm. a future housing reserve in the more used. "It is a great resource for the Official Community Plan, though "I think that it connects us to the UBC community because it is an currently there are no specific pro land in a way that we don't get in incubator for student initiative," posals for the land occupied by the city and in a mainstream educa said Cossaver, adding that the Farm the Farm. tion," said Boyle. "It allows us to has created many student volunteer "Redesignation of the farm is gain practical knowledge and expe projects. definitely not in the short term, and riences in ways other than class Farm advocates have turned there is no date set,' said Karly room lectures." their focus to getting people to visit Henney, a community planner from Boyle spent the summer living the facility and promoting aware Campus and Community Planning. with 20 other students on the Farm, ness of its projects. "The current neighbourhood that building structures to make the "At this point I feel that certainly we are planning is for an area adja farm more useful and helping har the potential of the farm is not cent to UBC Farm and there is a con vest crops. The students were en being utilised. This requires stu nection between the new residential rolled in a three-credit course enti dent initiative and that requires neighbourhood and UBC Farm. The tled "The Science and Practice of increased awareness," said Lyle residents could have community Sustainability." McMahon, also a UBC farm volun gardens," said Henney. "In my experience, it's been real teer, and VP Administration for NICE BOOTS: Project coordinator Mark Bomford gets muddy while the AMS. There is a set housing develop ly great as an open space. It clears tending to the UBC Farm, NIC FENSOM PHOTO ment plan for the Northeast portion my mind, and I find it grounding to For the past two years McMahon of South Campus, which does not be getting dirty and doing labour has organised Farm Ade, an annual so that people know that. [UBC students to get involved through include UBC Farm. work," said Boyle. all-ages festival with live music and Farm] is an integral part of UBC volunteering. "The land areas designated on The Farm supplies Sprouts, a family carnival. and an excellent way for students "We want people to know that schedule A will be maintained in' UBC's organic grocery store, with "We want to promote awareness to get involved," said McMahon, the farm is not just a big patch of connection with the university until produce such as tomatoes, lettuce, of the farm and to see fresh faces adding that the Farm encourages grass," said McMahon. • Bora Bora back down understanding," Olson said. The declined to comment on this mat setting where the doctors and RCMP had informed the party ter, referring the Ubyssey to other health professionals of to organisers that they would be stop- Andrew Synyshyn, president of morrow will learn next to re The Royal Canadian Mounted Ping by. UBC's Inter-Fraternity Council. searchers who are discovering Police (RCMP) have retracted pre "Despite the fact that they knew Synyshyn did not respond to future treatments and cures," said vious claims that the Kappa Sigma when we'd be there and what we requests for comment by pr Campbell. fraternity forged a liquor license were looking for, they still had too ess time. The centre will also be home to for their annual Bora Bora bash, many people," Olson said. the Centre for Disease Modelling which was shut down by the police The RCMP then asked that and the Centre for Blood Research, on October 15. everyone leave the premises, and Life Science party 2004 and will accommodate up to 2,900 "They did not forge their liquor the attendees did so without inci students and staff. license," said Staff Sgt. David dent, according to Olson. BC Premier Gordon Campbell op Two lecture halls in the build Olson, commander of the universi The RCMP will be meeting with ened UBC's new Life Sciences Ce ing can hold up to 350 students ty detachment. "I had been told UBC and the fraternities in the ntre Thursday. and contain high-tech audio-visual that initially." near future to discuss remaining Covering 51,000 square me equipment Representatives from Kappa issues, but no charges will be laid tres, the five-storey, $172-million This technology will allow stu Sigma applied for a party per-mit in this case. building is now UBC's largest and dents from UBC to connect to facil for 200 people from the fire \ •#-- X<' -, '."'^V'-.'Syix. "For the most part they are a will allow the Faculty of Medicine ities at the University of Victoria department and the RCMP, Ol house when the RCMP checked in bunch of nice young fellas and I to double its enrolment. and the University of Northern son said. on them at 10:00 pm that evening. hope we can avoid this," said "The Life Sciences Centre takes British Columbia, where UBC has However, almost 600 people "We were maybe intentionally Olson. medical education and research in set up satellite campuses for its were at the Kappa Sigma fraternity misled, or maybe there was a mis Kappa Sigma representatives BC to the next level, providing a medical school. •