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2/THE UBYSSEY December 1,1989 NEWS -V" Auditor tackles AMS accounts by Joe Altwasser Lee would not reveal which Kottmeier, director of finance, out internally. As long as they let complete. UBC's student council was accounts are to be examined in was replaced by Mark Brown, the information out at the end of "Students will have full in­ muzzled by their legal counsel on the audit which will begin Mon- president ofthe commerce under­ the audit." formation on the issue after the Wednesday following an extraor­ graduate society. audit is completed and council dinary meeting called to deal Brown will act as director of has the opportunity to adopt and with an impending audit of cer­ finance for Kottmeier who has implement the recommenda­ tain AMS accounts. taken a temporary leave of ab­ tion," he said. Davis and Co., the AMS's le­ sence. Peat Marwick, the firm gal counsel, suggested an infor­ No reason was given for which normally conducts the mation moratorium on the de­ Kottmeier's leave. He could not be AMS year-end audit, will per­ tails of the audit until it is com­ reached for comment. form the investigation. pleted and results are released. Some students are concerned This decision to use Peat Council voted unanimously the AMS is witholding informa­ Marwick was also affirmed Wed­ for AMS president Mike Lee to be tion about the audit. nesday night. the sole spokesperson for the "Personally I don't have Lee said there is a marked AMS on the issue. much faith in the AMS," said difference between an annual Lee said the motion "was Gareth Davies, arts 4. audit and a special investigative necessary mainly to affirm my "This bothers me that they audit. role as the provider of informa­ are not telling me what they are "A special investigative au­ tion.'' doing with my money. Any wrong­ dit differs from a regular audit in "I can't comment on it (the doings or perceived wrong-doings that it looks at perceived weak­ audit) until the individual audit­ should be made public." nesses which have been identi­ ing firm has finished the audit," Jason Gadd, history 4, said: fied by others and considers the hesaid. "If their are any wrong-doings seriousness of those and makes "Apart from ensuring the in­ they should be let out to the pub­ reccommendations if appli­ tegrity of the AMS is upheld, it lic. It's our money and we should cable." would be unfair to any people in­ know what's happening to it." "A regular audit is per­ volved to release information Mike Lee Some students, however, Kari Kottmeier formed annually by the auditors until the irregularities have been agreed with the information ban. and verifies that the financial verified and their full extent has day. Alan Price, science 5, said: "I Lee said the results would be statements are fairly repre­ been determined." In a second motion Karl don't mind. They have to sort it made public as soon as the audit is sented," said Lee. New tuition hike hushed

by Chung Wong Governing Boards of Universi­ Silence from the President's ties and Colleges. Office on the upcoming tuition "It's got two columns— hike has students worried that myths and truths—that is from there will be no recourse to nego­ the administration's perspec­ tiate the increase. tive," said Bird. "From the stu­ "I've been trying to set up a dent perspective, you simply simple five minute telephone call switch the headings." with President Strangway for the "The pamphlet represents last couple of weeks but have had the perspective from a university no luck," said Tim Bird, student financial analyst. A financial representative on the Board of analyst doesn't look at a stu­ Governors. dent's pocketbook—hejust looks "My original prediction for at the university's budget. The the tuition increase was origi­ student perspective is not nally five to seven per cent, but brought into perspective in the this secrecy concerns me. It could "Truth" at all." mean up to eight and nine per Myth number seven says cent now," said Bird. that "when college and univer­ The president refused to sity presidents are faced with comment to The Ubyssey about cost increase, they raise tuition the tuition increase. to make up the difference." Bird said students need to In response, "Truth" num­ pressure for negotiations with ber seven says that "presidents Strangway before he presents his and trustees are extremely care­ tuition proposal December 18 at ful when making tuition deci­ the next BoG meeting. sions—each increase in tuition is "We've got to convince Presi­ the result of detailed, often ago­ dent Strangway to change it now nizing deliberation by the insti­ before December 18 because once tution's board." the proposal hits the table at the AMS Tuition Taskforce meeting then it's going to be fifty chair Joanna Harrington times more difficult to amend the pointed out the lack of a justified increase." arbitration system between the According to Bird, their se­ BoG and students. Row, row, row your boat but don't swim in the stream. SARAH NAOMI CLYNE PHOTO crecy is unusual. "Ifs really undemocratic— "From my experience the we're not involved," said Har­ student board representatives rington. "(BoG has) closed meet­ Referendum may refund SRC and the most prominent student ings whereas other universities politicians have usually been have open meetings." by John Gray compel the AMS to call a referen­ be donated to the AMS bursary privy to what the increase would "TTiere are 15 BoG members dum soon so he can take advan­ fund. most likely be well in advance. and only two student representa­ Students may soon be lining tage of the upcoming AMS execu­ But according to AMS presi­ This would give us a chance to tive members," she added. up, not to pay more fees, but to tive elections. dent, Mike Lee, there may be formulate a decent argument. But she noted students receive a rare monetary refund if a "If we can put a question complications. "Once a decision is publicly should not only focus on BoG referendum sponsored by RJ. (regarding the refunding of SRC "I know of one group of stu­ announced there's all kinds of alone. "We can't just blame Moorhouse, Arts Undergrad Soci­ money) on the January election dents that is right now circulating factors that come into play that BoG—they'll say the province ety rep on student council, comes ballot then we can save the AMS a petition to call for a third and were not there before—issues isn't paying enough. And the to fruition. the time and expense of arranging final referendum concerning SRC. such as loyalty." province will say BoG decides. So The petition calls for a refer­ another referendum. "The two petitions may be UBC Vice-President Bruce we really have to focus on both." endum to refund the $30 fee col­ "We have already spent too presented in the New Year when Gellatly acknowledged the tui­ Students are also apprehen­ lected from students in September much time and money arguing they will obviously be at cross tion issue to be quite "sensitive" sive over the university admini­ for the building of the Student about this already." purposes. At this point the council but maintained the presi dent has stration's attitude toward stu­ Recreation Centre. The Alma Moorhouse said the only real will have to make a decision about yet to reveal any elements con­ dents. Bird noted that UBC Mater Society is holding more expense that could arise would be the petitions. If we were unable to cerning this year's tuition pro­ raised tuition by 30 per cent in than $800,000 in trust. any extra staff the AMS business come to a decision then it would posal. 1982-83. "We have a moral responsibil­ office would have to hire to deal have to be submitted to student At the beginning ofthe year, "Last year they (the provin­ ity to return that money to its with long lines of students want­ court for their decision." however, Strangway distributed cial government) increased the rightful owner," said Moorhouse. ing to pick up their cheques. Both Lee and Moorhouse a pamphlet to all BoG members budget by seven to eight per cent. "Ifs like holding a wallet." According to a rough draft of agree if the money is not used for called Truths and Myths about They were very generous. But Moorhouse hopes to get the the question, Moorhouse is pro­ the SRC then it should be returned Tuition, written by the Washing­ UBC still came around a 10 per thousand signatures necessary to posing any money left unclaimed to students. ton D.C.-based Association of cent increase."

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WHO WILL LIVE AT HAMPTON HOW WILL THIS DEVELOPMENT WHAT WILL THE MONEY PLACE? AFFECT THE ENVIRONMENT? GENERATED BE USED FOR?

• Not students. • Highrises three times as tall as the • According to the Administration, • Not new faculty. trees will be right beside the the money will be used for capital • Not staff. Pacific Spirit Park. funding. • Condos will be sold at market value • A brick wall will be built alongside the • It could be used for student housing (aprox. $500,000 each) Acadia Park Daycare. but no guarantee has been given by • Highrise units will be rented at • 1600 commuters will be driving on UBC's Board as Governors. prevailing market rates for luxury and off campus everyday, contributing apartments. to Vancouver's pollution and traffic • Hampton Place is targeted for congestion. WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN "empty-nesters" who already own • Hampton Place could be helping to THE PLANNING? property on Vancouver's West Side. alleviate the pollution problem by • No student housing has been housing students, staff, and faculty • Many experts were consulted, but included. on-campus. those affected by the development • Many current faculty members have (students, faculty, staff, the expressed concern that Hampton Musqueam Band, and other Lower Place will not be affordable, for Mainland residents) were themselves or for incoming faculty. insufficiently consulted.

YOU CAN EXPRESS YOUR CONCERNS BY SIGNING THE STUDENT PETITION AT SPEAKEASY, MAIN CONCOURSE, SUB AND BY WRITING TO THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS AND PRESIDENT STRANGWAY.

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4/THE UBYSSEY December 1,1989 CUP FEATURE U

fter spending seven While cycling near the Beijing wonderful weeks Hotel, caught up in all the action, travelling through I came upon a charred human Athe People's Republic of China, I body, hanging lifeless from a pe­ arrived in Beijing on June 3, destrian overpass. I suddenly felt 1989.1 had hoped to see the many sick to my stomach. It was the sights of Beijing and its sur­ remains of a soldier. He had been roundings, such as the Forbidden beaten to death, then doused with City, the Temple of Heaven, Mao petrol and set ablaze. A noose had Zedung Mausoleum, and the then been wrapped around his Great Wall. I never did. neck and he was hung up on dis­ Instead, I became a partici­ play, a sickening sign of defiance. pant in history, and the only A few of the English-speaking sights I saw were terrified Chi­ members ofthe mob told me this nese students and civilians in a soldier was getting exactly what state of angered shock after being he deserved. I was told how this betrayed by their government's lynched soldier had only eight promise not to use force on the hours earlier driven a tank over students' peaceful demonstra­ an elderly woman as she was car­ tions. rying her grandchild. Madness Deng Xiaoping's murderous brews madness, I thought. 27th Army Battalion created a I was careful when taking pho­ scene I will never forget. tographs and often leery of expos­ When I arrived at Beijing ing my camera in public. A Ger­ train station following a 36-hour man friend of mine was caught train journey from Chengdu, I while trying to photograph a found myself surrounded by group of soldiers. Two soldiers thousands of young Chinese stu­ chased him, and when he threw dents. A massive pilgrimage had his hands in the air to surrender been bringing students from all they grabbed him by the hair, over the country to Tiananmen then ripped the camera out of his Square for weeks, adding hands and smashed it on the strength to their pro-democratic blood-stained pavement. Though demonstration. After spending he was later outraged at the loss an hour wandering the parking Lights out in Beijing of his camera, my friend was at lot of the station, I finally threw the same time relieved he himself my backpack in a bus whose rived today. Something bad is which I had never seen before. soldier. had not suffered a similar fate. driver had agreed to take me to about to happen." She then van­ Suddenly gunfire let loose. I Just then, a bicycle with a cart By the seventh of June, ten­ the travellers' hostel, which was ished nervously in the congested was only 200 metres from the attached to the back of it came sion was boiling in the streets of two km from Tiananmen Square. streets of Beijing. barricaded square. In panic, I rushing by with two injured Chi­ Beijing. The stage was set for civil I sat in the bus, exhausted In the early hours of June 4, quickly turned my bicycle around nese males in it. One seemed to be war. I was on the top floor of the from the hardships of third class 1989,1 slept peacefully and undis­ and raced off with thousands of in extreme pain, clutching his International Hotel having a look Chinese train travel, but I was turbed in the Beijing Hostel as screaming people, a sound which I side, while the other didn't seem to down toward Tiananmen, when I nonetheless happy to finally hundreds, perhaps thousands, of doubt could ever be emulated. My be in any pain at all. In fact, he lay noticed a single file of tanks pro­ reach Beijing, where I planned to innocent students were crushed heart and adrenalin were pump­ motionless. ceeding east on Chang'an Avenue spend my final two weeks in horrifically by tanks. ing furiously. During the troubled days in towards us. Just then an Ameri­ China. A pounding on the door of my I became worried when James Beijing, rumours were flying can businessman who had been Looking out the window ofthe room awoke me at about dawn. It didn't catch up with me after the around as wildly as bullets. No one sharing the view with me said bus I was surprised to see omi­ was my Scottish friend, Tony, shooting. Later that night I found knew what was happening. Talk of that the tanks were out to enforce nous line-ups of military person­ staring at me in disbelief, his Sony out he had been unable to turn his civil war between the 27th and the 5 p.m. curfew which had re­ nel carriers parked on the main shortwave radio glued to his ear. bicycle around fast enough. 39th armies was looming. Short­ cently been imposed by the mili­ streets leading to Tiananmen "Voice of America" had just given Throngs of frenzied people went wave radio signals from the west tary. According to my watch, it Square. I was aware that martial news of the takeover of Tian­ charging past him, knocking him were being jammed by the Chinese was 5 p.m. at that very moment! law had been imposed in Beijing a anmen Square by troops, leaving off his bike and subsequently ^authorities, preventing anyone Aware that I was at least 25 few weeks earlier, but I did not an undisclosed number of stu­ trampling him. Miraculously, he from knowing how the outside minutes from my hostel by bi­ realize there would be such a dents dead. suffered only scrapes and bruises. world was reacting to the crisis cycle, I ran to the elevator out of presence of armed soldiers. Along with my James, an Aus­ There were reports that bodies that was unfolding. the hotel in less than a minute. I About 10 minutes from the tralian friend whom I had been were being burnt in order to re­ Cycling around the city with jumped on my bike and raced train station I noticed the bus travelling with for some time. I duce the fatality count, and there my camera concealed in my day towards my hostel, hoping I could - driver seemed to be troubled by raced down to the square on my was indeed smoke rising from pack, I wasn't scared of the com­ avoid any confrontation with thej these occupied roads. As I don't rented bicycle. The streets were a various parts of the occupied motion in Tiananmen. I had some tanks. Despite a punctured rear| speak Chinese, I couldn't under­ shambles. Garbage bins were square. An army helicopter was ridiculous preconceived notion tier, I arrived at the hostel safe stand what he was saying to the overturned. Rocks and glass cov­ constantly being flown in and out that because I was travelling with and sound, and breathless. passengers, but he looked wor­ ered the streets. Tires of military ofthe square, picking up bodies of a Canadian passport, I would be At this point I knew I would ried and seemed concerned with personnel carriers were smolder­ the dead soldiers and flying them exempt from the perils of this war not be safe in Beijing any longer.' avoiding the military carriers ing as burnt-out vehicles stood to some unknown destination, torn city. However, when caught I phoned the Canadian Embassy through some crafty detours. motionless. where they could be disposed of amongst gunfire, I quickly real­ and they advised me to get to their Suddenly the bus came to a I was approached by many of without leaving any trace. ized bullets cannot discern the compound as soon as possible. I' halt. Through the driver's ges- the Chinese students and civilians As I was cycling past a hospital nationality of your passport. Then spent my last night in China at ticulatory motions, I understood who desperately tried to tell me of on my way to the east entrance of I was terrified, intrinsically aware the embassy, seeking refuge from he wanted everyone off the bus. the atrocities which took place the square, I stopped at a large of my vulnerability as I passed the horrors that beset the streets As I threw my backpack on my only hours earlier. By putting gathering of people who were lis­ through a city of horrors. of the city. The next morning I shoulders, I saw why the driver their fingers up to their throats tening to the pleas of a doctor who Blood stains and puddles of joined the Canadian escort to the had refused to drive any further. and cutting across in a horizontal was asking them to donate blood. blood were splashed in and around airport, along with about 200; About 100 metres up the road fashion, they were trying to tell me He was in need of a special blood Tiananmen Square. I came across other Canadians who were as there was an enormous convoy of that many of their friends and type which could possibly save the a pool of blood which had obviously confused and befuddled as my-; army vehicles which led almost a family had been murdered. Their life of a young pregnant woman been left by a woman whose white self. full mile to Tiananmen Square. eyes conveyed a fear and anger Who had been shot in the neck by a shoes remained behind. On the way to the airport I felt I was surprised to see citizens saddened. My adventurous, if not mingling with the soldiers, precarious, trip through China laughing, smiling, and sharing had come to an unexpected and cigarettes. This comforted me, abrupt end. But more than that, I seeing these soldiers displaying felt for the horribly oppressed human emotions. I honestly people of China. I thought of all thought at this time that the sol­ I thought of all the the wonderful people I had met diers were merely a precaution­ throughout the country and how ary measure. Certainly they were wonderful people I had met the last few days in Beijing would not going to be used for an offen­ affect them for the rest of their sive attack. They could not possi­ lives. bly do harm to their brothers and throughout the country and As we passed the last of the sisters. stone-faced soldiers, their guns As I stumbled along, search­ ready and alert, I thought how ing for the hostel, I met a Chinese how the last few days in lucky I was to be leaving this mili­ woman who spoke English rea­ tary ravaged country, but many of sonably well. After she kindly Beijing would affect them for the courageous students and gave me directions to the hostel, I people of Beijing would not share asked her if the installments of my luck. Their fate was dismal. soldiers had been there long. the rest of their lives. Now they can only hide and await With complete seriousness she inevitable and inescapable pun­ said "These troops have only ar- by Daryl Krywonis (CUP) ishment.

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6/THE UBYSSEY December 1,1989 NEWS Salvadoran University fights repression by Deanne Fisher doran government. and city peasants alike and has a "The University is very much Hornick hopes to convince 30 and Lynn Marchildon They returned with 25 hours history of being terrorized by the victimized but it's not just a pas­ Canadian student unions to con­ Canadian University Press of film footage — testimony ofthe El Salvadoran government. sive victim. It's a very gutsy insti­ tribute funds and their names to a increased repression on the aca­ After four years of operating tution," he said. "It was very dis­ full-page advertisement in the OTTAWA (CUP) — On the demic community under El Salva­ in exile, its facilities destroyed by turbing talking to them andrealiz- Globe and Mail stating that they first night of his visit to El dor's ARENA government — and the military, the University reo­ ing what people have to go through are "witness to the repression" of concrete plans to bring meaning to pened in 1984. Since the 1989 just beinga part of the university." the University of El Salvador. Salvador, Brad Hornick sister relationships with Cana­ spring election of the far-right AGEUS needs a printing awoke three times to the dian groups that until now, have ARENA party and subsequent in­ Its motto now press, darkroom facilities and an roar of bombs hitting parts been on paper only. tensification of'anti-terrorist' leg­ office so that they can continue to islation prohibiting forms of popu­ of the campus where he "The student movement in reads, "The Univer­ document their on-going battle to Latin America plays a dramati­ lar expression such as demonstra­ save the university. They have stayed. cally different role than it does tions and graffiti, the University's sity of El Salvador been unable to publish a student A week before he here," said Hornick. "Students existence once again faces anhila- Refuses to Die." newspaper since December, ac­ tion. arrived in El Salvador, 15 play a great intellectual leader­ cording to Hornick, and newspa­ ship role. Their autonomy is under Its motto now reads, "The One woman told Dr. Mac- pers are one of their main forms of students were shot during a direct attack by right-wing gov­ University of El Salvador Refuses Queen how a close friend of hers protest. protest over the kidnapping ernments." to Die." "was found one day with his hands Another facet ofthe CFS plan of one of their leaders. And The University of El Salvador McMaster University profes­ tied behind his back, and his eyes involves a national network of considers itself lucky to have com­ sor Graeme MacQueen, along with gouged out, dead on the street." student unions who would receive as Hornick attended two menced the fall semester. two other professors and two stu­ "Two were undergraduates 'alerts' from El Salvador when conferences of the popular "In spite ofthe constant threats dents, visited the university and is and one was a secretary. None of violence erupts or students are movement of trade unions, by enemies of culture, such as the now trying to establish a twinning them as far as we could determine captured. Canadian students military encirclement around the of McMaster and the UES to pro­ were politically active," said Mac- would then respond with tele­ church groups and farm­ University for the past several vide international support. Queen. "They were just picked up grams and faxes of support show­ worker's groups, 18 stu­ months, intended to obstruct the He said the university exists randomly in order to terrorize the ing the government that the inter­ dents were captured by the full development of the Alma "to bring about social change to university and increase the pres­ national community is watching. military. Mater's teaching, research and make a more humane and just sure on it." The University of El Salvador social outreach activities, the society in their society." In con­ Hornick, too, is spearheading relies now on international sup­ Hornick was one of several semester commenced on the cor­ trast to most Canadian universi­ a move to bring more meaning to a port to ensure its survival. The Canadian students and professors rect date as planned," reads a UES ties, the UES reaches out to the sister relationship between the Peace Camp in Defense of UES who went to El Salvador in August newsletter. community to learn from it. One Pacific Region of the Canadian Autonomy brings international to support the student movement Committed to being a "popu­ campus project sees students Federation of Students and the delegates to campus and facili­ and provide protection as an inter­ lar, democratic, free and humanis­ study folklore involving local largest student federation in El tates the establishment of commu­ national and to attend conferences tic" institution with low tuition, herbs to provide alternaitve medi­ Salvador — the General Associa­ nication channels between the and to find ways to help bring an the university attracts children of cine to people too poor to afford tion of Salvadoran University UES and the international com­ end to repression by the El Salva­ the elite, union representatives prescription drugs. Students (AGEUS). munity.

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8/THE UBYSSEY December 1,1989 FRBESTYU* NDP convention offers no heir apparent by Martin Chester speaker. She has significant sup­ national support, must be bilin­ be around after the first couple of group of delegates from his home port at the moment but is not gual, at least to the extent that ballots. province, Saskatchewan. Sas­ The New Democratic Party of likely to build her support at the Broadbent was bilingual, and his Langdon has two handicaps. katchewan will be represented by Canada, in Winnipeg this week­ convention. French was poor. The first is a hereditary disease about 200 delegates. De Jong is an end for their bi-annual conven­ There will be two opportuni­ At present Mclaughlin is which makes his hands quiver and experienced, though low profile, tion, is embroiled in the first truly ties for candidates to build up thought to be leading the race but his voice quaver—disastrous for a candidate who has been in the competitive leadership campaign support at the convention: with only by a short margin ahead of politician. The other is that he is a House of Commons for ten years. in the party's history. the speeches on Friday, or in the Barrett. To win both will have to true Socialist in the old-time De Jong has little support Unlike past campaigns where 'bear pits', a formal series of short pull in supporters of the other Christian Socialist style of the outside of Saskatchewan and little an obvious heir apparent was debates between the candidates candidates as they drop out. CCF's first leader J.S. union support, so he is unlikely to anointed, the present campaign to on topics chosen by the convention The first to drop out will likely Woodsworth. win but he could send a scare into replace the departing Edward delegates. It is vital for candidates be Roger Lagasse, a school teacher Waddell is flaky and has the leading candidates. Broadbent, party leader since to be able to perform well in these from Sechelt with no political ex­ made enemies in the NDP by The second possible spoiler is 1975, is highly competitive be­ two theatres, and this is exactly perience. Lagasse is a throw-away publicly opposing the party's Howard McCurdy, another excel­ cause there really is no credible where McLaughlin is the weakest. candidate, who seems to be in the stand on the Meech Lake Accord. lent orator who has the support of candidate in the race. Barrett, on the other hand, is race primarily to remind the NDP With all this said, there is still the powerful Ontario union move­ The front runners are Yukon a strong speaker and should per­ of its lower class and Cooperative the possibility neither McLaugh­ ment. His prime strengths are his MP Audrey McLaughlin and B.C. form very well in the "bear pits'. Commonwealth Confederation lin nor Barrett will win. Their are Ontario origins, and his aggres­ MP and former Premier Dave Barrett's weakness, however, is roots. Lagasse's supporters will two candidates who, as the front sive nature, which will win him Barrett, who are credible politi­ that he is unilingual. Do not be too not have an impact. runners split the vote, could sneak supporters in the *bear pits'. cians but not national leadership surprised if some questions at the Steven Langdon and Ian in and play the role of spoiler. It would not be too surprising material. McLaughlin is an inex­ convention are asked in French Waddell could play the role of The first is Simon de Jong, an if McCurdy sneaks in from third or perienced politician, has only been just to trip him up. kingmakers. They have enough ex-hippie and committed environ­ fourth place to steal victory as Joe involved in federal politics since It is generally agreed that a supporters to make the difference mentalist, who has the support of Clark did in the 1976 Tory conven­ 1986, and is an uninspiring party leader, if the party wants in a tight final ballot. Neither will perhaps half of the very large tion.

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Loh, Greg Davis and Kris Obertas. her one night, soused on Jack Daniels, In the muffin shop John Duthie, Penny Katherine Vogt went to join but Nikki faxing out messages to Australia. Churchas, Tara Shioye, Rebecca Bishop Patel stopped her, explaining that it was Katherine Monk understood. She too and Otto Lim watched MTV and talked not realistic. was trying to break out the entropy that on their cellular phones. They ate organic "Just say no," said Nikki. Effie Pow oozed creepily out of the T.V. screen. She food but weren't vegetarians. No way watched movie sequel after movie sequel, lost hope when she heard I mei da Marcos anyone was letting them into the 90s. in despair. The anarchators wouldn't leave singing Feelings on the radio. Ross McLaren had a plan of his her alone. The Trump-killers wanted her "But he smashed the record after­ own. "Live off the land. Self-sufficiency help too. She already had over-committed wards," cried Deanne Fisher frantically. before the 90's nudge us into a nether­ her time, working as a desktop publisher Martin Chester returned, with Trump on a world." Parminder Parmar, Liz Nunoda, and surrogate mother all at one. She stake. But his wife was still alive. Luis Steve Chan and Kevin Hams Joined up. remembered Harold Gravelsins' words: Piedmont appeared wearing Ivana Red Steve burst into tears, realizing he'd have "Youll never leave behind the margaritas, lipstick, showing ofT her thinner thighs, to sell his car, and Olivia Zanger ran over rap music, cajun food and Madonna video." chattering happily about the benefits of to comfort him. Ian Wallace fell in love Effie took crack and listened to Dr. liposuction. Julie Roberts reported that 14 with Olivia and bought her a dust-buster Ruth on the radio. She was a wipe-out. governments had been smashed so far and as a present. "Back to the 70s," cried When the anarchists found her she was there were still 17 shopping days till Olivia. reading U.S.A. Today. Christmas. Lorraine Schober gave up on Franka Cordua-von Specht raised One ofthe articles tod the story of the environment Wendi Shin and Hao Li the blind and giggled, looking embar­ Heather Logie, who had lived alone in a said "Love will save us all," but Dale Lund rassed, with an unfurled thingy in her cave in Northern B.C. for 18 years. A replied. "Get real." hand. She joined the mysterious faction. Lisa Doyle, Jennifer Lyall, Joanne • AfeftX- ********* Get them early this year - Nielson, Esther Besel, Carla Maftechuck and Carol Hui followed Franka and sat at we have a great selection! her feet, eating sushi mysteriously. Laura J. May sat alone, listening to middle aged rock stars on her CD. player. 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12/THE UBYSSEY December 1,1989 N£WS Students condemn styrofoam cups ONE HOUR by Mortika Delmos "Our basic purpose is to rid financially motivated," said Pond. Are UBC students environ­ students ofthe idea that we live in Though they are not rid of mentally conscious? a disposable society," said Young. styrofoam, Blue Chip Cookies is When asked in a recent sur­ In doing so, students will be pre­ leading the way on campus with vey put out by the Student Envi­ pared for the 1990's when the the sale of $3 plastic portable cups. ronment Centre (SEC) whether environment becomes an even They have already sold out. An­ students would like to see a reduc­ hotter issue, he said. other shipment of 2,000 cups will tion in styrofoam cups on campus, According to Young, the be arriving December 1 to be sold 99 out of 100 students said yes. spread of information is the only at $1 each. Styrofoam cups are made way to reduce the level of igno­ In order to target new students with chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), rance in our society. He said reduc­ next September, the Student a chemical agent that contributes tion of levels of harmful toxic Environment Centre hopes to find to the deterioration of the ozone agents and non-biodegradable an outlet on campus willing to layer, which in turn is the earth's products is not enough, and that distribute a larger number of port­ only protection from harmful ra­ elimination must be sought as the able cups. dioactive rays emitted by the sun. solution. On September 16, 1987, 24 James Young, a member of Eighty per cent ofthe survey's countries, including Canada, the SEC, said CFC-free cups are respondents were willing to pur­ signed the 'Montreal Protocol', an improvement but not a solu­ chase reusable portable cups and which states their intention to tion to the problem because the carry it for their use on campus. reduce CFCs by one-half by 1990. cups made with CFCs release Two-thirds did not feel a financial highly toxic pollutants when incentive, such as cheaper (port­ "This gives weight to the aver­ burnt for disposal. If not burnt, able) cups, were even necessary. age citizen to dispute the govern­ the cups will sit in landfills for an "People are doing this because ment on environmental issues," estimated 150 years before bio- they are concerned about the envi­ said Ellen Pond, a co-ordinator at degrading. ronment, not because they are the SEC. International aid program for students 10TH and Alma Location Only by Alan Nichol wondering what tomorrow would Participants go through a se­ Tired of just hearing about bring," said Dave Briggs, a ven­ lection weekend in which they 3665 WEST 10™ AVE. environmental and Third World turer in Malaysia. learn first aid, cooking and how to issues? Frustrated by all the talk? Volunteers say intimate con­ build shelters. They are selected Youth Challenge Interna­ tact with other cultures has a way on their ability to communicate PHONE 736-5669 tional (YCI) is a new organization of putting the good and the bad of effectively, to work with others currently seeking participants for their own into sharp relief, and and to remain positive under often projects in Guyana during 1990. most participants come back home gruelling conditions. YCI have initiated community with a better understanding of The weekend prepares par­ service projects, ranging from Third World issues and of them­ ticipants for tasks such as helping building schools to undertaking selves. field doctors perform eye surgery, immunization programs, in Chile, "I firmly believe the unique building a school or teaching chil­ Cameroon, Kenya, India, Paki­ nature of the Youth Challenge dren how to recognize the symp­ stan and Malaysia. Scientific ex­ International program has al­ toms of typhoid. periments investigating ecosys­ lowed me to experience tremen­ YCIvolunteersmustbe Cana­ tems and conservation have also dous personal growth while reach­ dian citizens between the ages of been conducted in many areas. ing and inspiring others in ways 17 and 24 years. There will be a "We found two new species of which otherwise would not have presentation about the program bird that day...I lay awake listen­ been possible," said Doug Whitty, Friday, December 1, at 2:30p.m. in ing to the sounds ofthe rain forest, from Toronto. SUB 215.

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December 1,1989 THE UBYSSEY/13 Friday The spirit of coward is brought to life by Nadene Rehnby the cast doesn't seem to think so. wives play off each other bril­ and Denise Dyson They are tired and lost as they liantly, creating a dramatic and rush breathlessly through their humourous tension from which EVER has such a terrible lines, seemingly unaware of the the entire play benefits. N first act been able to other characters. The accents, John Moffat's Charles was pull itself together by the final bumbled through on fast for­ the worst part of that lifeless curtain with such vivacity and ward, come across as completely first act. Fortunately, this only spirit. unintelligible at times. Both cast makes his later re-emergence all and audience seem to be eagerly the more significant and appreci­ THEATRE awaiting first intermission. ated. Lines that fell flat, usually Blithe Spirit The play comes a long way because they couldn't be heard, Vancouver Playhouse during the following two acts. A metamorphoses into some strong Until December 23 power struggle between Mrs.C- moments toward the end of the the-ghost and Mrs.C.-the-living play. There is no question ofthe results in an awful predicament What director Larry Lillo sheer brilliance of Noel Coward's for the husband that is fresh, fails to do with his actors in the Blithe Spirit. The play is su­ alive, and funny. The actors first act is not reflected in his Make History preme escapist entertainment: capture the essence of Coward's larger vision. Set, costume and Written primarily for a wartime script, giving excellent perform­ lighting work skillfully together. by Bradley Dickson sounding. In addition to the subtly cautioning the crowd poor sound quality, some of by making reference to the audience, it is reckless about ances and delivering well-timed In particular, set and lighting 54-40, Canada's answer such serious issues as death, yet their early songs seemed par­ loveliness ofthe theatre. lines with both eloquence and designer Douglas Welch and to U2, were 'welcomed home' witty and sturdy enough to grab humour. costume designer Phillip Clark­ by a fairly enthusiastic ticularly devoid of life: Cha- After finishing with a onto an audience, completely Nicola Cavendish serves up son successfully create a stun­ audience Friday night at the Cha, for example, was little terrific version ofthe new engrossing them in its humour. the medium, Madame Arcanti, ning, ghostly yet graceful, image Orpheum. more than a dirge. song Baby Have Some Faith, which Phil Comparelli But the first act in the Van­ with relish, meeting and sur­ of Elvira. Welch's stage is well- However, as is usually prefaced with an experimen­ couver Playhouse production is passing many difficult challenges planned: As well as being both MUSIC the case with this band, tal and effective guitar intro, boring, boring, boring. The plot is and creating a character that pleasing to the eye and workable lifelessly established: a country 54-40 with Ultima Thule things got better as they went the band came back with astonishes and delights. It is not for the cast, it also contains a few doctor writing a book on the Orpheum along. If their older tunes stirring renditions of their surprising that Miss Cavendish, surprises of its own. sounded tired, the material occult invites a medium to his -M* November 24 previous hits Walk in Line a well-loved Vancouver actress, from their new album, Fight and One Day in Your Life. house to observe the "tricks of has come so far. Her perform­ Blithe Spirit is a sophisti­ cleaves ballroom Having spent part of this for Love, was anything but. the trade." During the seance, he ance is perfect. cated comedy, yet it is one that Journey, a song reflecting They then brought out recalls the spirit of his dead wife. year playing in Russia, the their opening act, Ultima Goldie Semple as Elvira can be enjoyed by all. Stick band brought back with them band leader Neil Osborne's Wife number two is under­ plays the evocative, playful wife through the first part ofthe association with Amnesty Thule. Both bands then standably not impressed. An assortment of their fa­ a souvenir of their travels— collaborated on an extended, to Wendy Thatcher's practical, Playhouse production; the second opening act Ultima Thule, International, was a turning Coward's script is good, but power-hungry Ruth. The two half is well worth the waiting. vourite numbers was in­ point in the show. freestyle version of 54-40's cluded in their musical from Estonia, who performed own Standing in the Way, by Greg Davis manifesto, including The Best a professional, if not particu­ Next, the band played a electing, thankfully, not to It was an evening of in­ Waya, Southern Mark Smith, larly inspiring, set of original, 'video set,' playing the songs play something more pro­ trigue, joy and madness. The Mr. Odd from their Spooky English language songs. that have been made popular found, anthemic, or by Woody Jazz Butcher Conspiracy, album, and Bicycle Kid, my If nothing else, Ultima by television airplay of rock Guthrie. England's eclectic rock favourite track from the new Thule proved that music videos. One Gun and Miss "You're going to see ensemble, infiltrated the LP, Big Planet Scary Planet. indeed knows no cultural or You were greeted with history made tonight," Mysticism drawn down recognition, a few fans even Commodore Ballroom on Lot 49 whipped Butchy's political bounds—even Osborne told the crowd, going so far as to toss a few by Catie Pickles than a few kindred characteris­ Catholic. Tuesday to execute their fans into a crazed, throbbing mediocre music. But the referring to the playing devious plan to destroy the musicians themselves were flowers onstage, a la the together of Canadian and Es­ tics. Using a "journalist's You begin to adopt an dance, and everyone was video. OW. Heavy. The return objectivity," and armed with a anything-goes attitude when moral integrity and sound slamming to the raucous affable enough, particularly tonian bands. Then, having apparently to psychedelia and quasi-scientific method of such desperate elements are mind of Canadian youth. Caroline Wheeler's Birthday the energetic drummer, who But any potential pom­ W been roused by remembered mysticism? Out of a mist of analysis, Marron draws down united within one book, however Present. Alice Cooper's got played with a wide variety of posity was defused by the objects, including his skull. TV images, and realizing that incense and up from the glow of some surprisingly unsurprising comprehensive it attempts to be. MUSIC nothing on these boys. musicians themselves, who When 54-40 took to the these scruffy gentlemen played loosely and with candles comes this sign-of-the- elements. This is a shame because there is Jazz Butcher Conspiracy The band played no less really were the same ones times account of the state of the The friends ofthe planet he more than a hint of something than three encores, in which stage, they were plagued with obvious enjoyment. It was a Commodore Ballroom they had seen on MuchMusic, astral plane and other cosmic deals with are decidedly earthy, bigger and deeper behind the Pat Fish first emerged with a sound problems, which is a fitting conclusion to an eve­ November 28 a few of the younger members matters in Canada. feminist, and aware they're prac­ general awareness that Marron cigarette and a tall can of shame in such an acoustically ning that, despite a slow of the crowd were compelled ticing an old religion in a new taps into. First of all, The Stoaters, beer. fine venue as the Orpheum. start, ultimately gave one to clamber onstage. As usual, age. At the same time these It is being heralded that we those bastions of corruption 'This is the sensitive The vocals and guitar were their money's worth. Besides, PRINT the security were overly people are very ordinary, at are about to enter a new age. and moral disintegration," smoking part of the show," he not loud enough, which how often does one see Witches, Pagans, And Magic rough, and Osborne rebuked points teetering on the brink of The Age of Pisces, which com­ opened the show with a quipped. "I smoke, you rendered many of their songs history made at a pop con­ In The New Age them, while at the same time boredom. Another sprinkling are menced with the birth of Christ, revolutionary assault of watch," he said, as he started unintelligible and hollow- cert? Kevin Marron Celtic rock. into the essential, and oh so Seal Books Toronto, 1989, simple crooks, into offering cut- is drawing to a close. It is an age The term Stoater is collo­ appropriate Partytime. $24.95 rate curses and plastic pentacles which has witnessed the separa­ from their seedy business tion of man from God, good from quial Scottish for someone In light of recent events ventures. evil, male from female and enamoured by his looks. in Eastern Europe, the JBC Author Kevin Marron lets us Decked out in navy blue did a version of B.B. Gabor's float along with him as he The witches represented pride people from nature. Artillery jackets from the old Moscow Drug Club, and then explores the lives and obsessions themselves on being able to At this very moment we're in century, they sure lived up to lit into a romping version of of witches, elves, pagans and sa­ operate within a religion that transition en route to The Age of their name. They unleashed The Devil is my Friend. The tanists. has freedom from hierarchy and Aquarius, of the water bearer, vibrant, exciting sounds—a masses raved and rallied like This book is as much a per­ rules at its centre. Or rather which will be a time of peace and dynamic mixture of guitar, Czechoslovakian protesters sonal journey for Marron to dis­ some of the covens and societies unity, occult knowledge and bass, drums, accordion, and and shook the bloody ball­ cover what forces he sways with do. A number of witches hold ESP. People will feel at one with electric mandolin. Aye! 'Twas room floor. as it is an attempt to cash in on lowly opinions of the beliefs and each other, the earth, and the practices of others. Marron is universe. foot-stompin' music to evoke For the grand finale the the current upsurge of interest in the demons and derelicts of band ripped into King of Joy, things with magical connections. able to rub his hands with glee at To this optimistic account, ages long past. a tune written in 1987 by The reader is often left to waft the petty squabbles, triviality Marron concludes that we derive After a brief repose to some mad Scotsman, I've along clinging to Marron's coat- and lack of depth which he our power and truth from slug down some more brew, forgotten his name now. They tails, absorbing considerable in­ encounters. whatever we believe in. Sadly, he the Jazz Butcher and his left the crowd in throes of sights and the commonsense, Some witches Marron gos­ claims that in his journey he has comrades emerged on stage, ecstasy, the final score: JBC well-read approach which siped with are willing to concede stripped away the veil of mystery enveloping the crowd with „ 1, Vancouver nil. After the Marron brings to a potentially that politics are a form of magic. from magic to reveal something melodic spacey sounds of a cheers showed no sign of sensationalist topic. Others liken spells to prayers quite ordinary: will power or goal telecaster. Patrick Fish is the subsiding, Lenin jumped back A rational interpretation of and a few attempt to scientifi­ actualization. Jazz Butcher, and with his out to take a snapshot ofthe the so-called New Age Movement cally rationalize intuition by But hang on. Wasn't this band they are collectively audience for KGB files. Then fcV is offered, along with a critical reference to the workings of supposed to be a book about CHUNG WONG PHOTO known as the Jazz Butcher the others came out, throwing analysis of the people who are brain cells. witches, pagans and magic? Conspiracy. grapes into the sea of waving h/V casting the circles and encoun­ One of the most startling Alternative lifestyles? Where's The JBC could be a front arms, and sang a quirky tering the curses. contradictions uncovered by this the difference and excitement for some Marxist cell, what. Everly Brothers song. _-$_ What Marron conjures up is book is an entity Marron inter­ gone? It appears that intercon­ with the bass player's beret La,la,la, it was a happy a glimpse into the lives of a views called Alf. Alf claims to be nection has led to its own and the guitarist who looked time, a bloody nonsense time, diverse array of individuals who a witch, reflexologist, palmist, circular downfall. like (and was referred to as) a fun and fishy time, a big appear to cluster around more exorcist and devout Roman Lenin. and scary time. Just the tops.

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14/THE UBYSSEY December 1,1989 December 1,1989 THE UBYSSEY/15 liillliiliilli A chat with Eric Nicol

RIC NICOL says "Humour is a bitch "Some of the younger people, there seems to mistress." His mistress, though, has be a bit of a renaissance there," he said. "Your gen­ done very well by him. The famous eration appears to be split, in my mind, between Canadian humourist who has a regular those who are really going back to the printed column in The Province hasn't done word with some relish and a sense of discovery and badlEy at all for someone who freely admits that he those who are lost because in high school, they planned to teach French for a living. never learned to cope with the language and they prefer the video type of stuff." INTERVIEW Canadian humour, Nicol once argued in A with Canadian humourist Herd Of Yaks, had the lowest status among the Eric Nicol arts in Canada. "You only have to go into the bookstore to find "I'm a frustrated teacher. I was going to be a the humour usually on the shelves beside the chil­ French teacher. When I took the MA at UBC...I dren's books. I think that's probably the most was just writing the column for The Ubyssey for graphic and tellingillustration of it. People sort of the fun of it. It was not a career thing. I didn't feel that humour is basically silly and it's just one intend to make a career out of it." cut over Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and all Nicol wrote a column for The Ubyssey from the rest of the kiddie stuff." 1937 to 1941 and 1945 to 1948 under the pen name "There isn't a great deal of Canadian humour. of "Jabez". His column The Mummery took a hu­ When you say Stephen Leacock, you've almost ex­ mourous look at UBC campus life. Nicol went from hausted the list," said Nicol. UBC to writing for CBC radio and television. He "We are really halfway between the Ameri­ then acquired his Province column, which he still cans and the British. There's a certain self-depre­ continues. ciating tone in Canadian humour that I think is Along the way came over thirty books, the quite British." latest of which is Dickens ofthe Mounted, a "It doesn't have the robust freewheeling series of mock letters supposedly by Francis style ofthe Americans, but we do have what Dickens, the you'd call third son of country famous humour or novelist Char­ broad humour, les Dickens. the humour of Francis, the exaggeration dark sheep of that you'd find the family, more out in the voyaged country than around the you do in the world in city," said search of ad­ Nicol, who feels ventures that there is "an aw­ would make ful lot" of re­ him famous. gionalism in He wound up Canadian joining the humour. North-west Mounted Po­ "We on the lice and West coast are served for probably pretty twelve years far out," said on the late Nicol. "It's very 19th century difficult to be Canadian humourous in praries. British Colum­ Nicol got bia because it's the germ of tough to top the the idea from current events." his editor, Nicol still en­ Douglas Gib­ joys doing his bons. "(The Province col­ idea) wasn't umn, but it terribly at­ does have its tractive at all challenges. "For at the begin­ one thing the ning because column appears it obviously in the op-ed meant a hell page. That sets of a lot of a certain re­ Eric Nicol I01ANDA WEISS PHOTO quirement to work which I've always avoided my entire life. me. It means that I can't go drivelling on about My entire career has been based on avoiding collecting string," he said. work and I've done pretty well up to this point." "I still enjoy writing humorous personal es­ Nothing daunted, Nicol entered into over two says about things that have gone wrong in my life. years of research into the life and times of Francis That's been the basis of my sense of humour. Yet, Dickens, in particular the history ofthe Mounties the really zany stuff that I used to write when I and the background of the Dickens family. He was young no longer comes as quickly to me. I visited archives and talked to experts who would think the old brain cells are beginning to atrophy help him accurately portray Dickens. Fortunately, a little bit and unfortunately one becomes too no normal biographer has approached the subject, logical and the reasoning starts to take over from so Nicol had a clear field. the certain berserk inspiration that is necessary Nicol said that as he got to know Francis for the really wild stuff that I used to love writing," Dickens, he began to empathize with his lack of Nicol said. "That's why I like to write a humourous success in the NWMP. He compared Dickens' rec­ treatment of a serious issue." ord with his own failures as a member of the Nicol likes reading the work of other humour­ reserve officer corps in WWII. ists, like the people who write for Punch, Erma "I think (the book) is a little bit novel in the Bombeck and Garrison Keillor. "Woody Allen is a approach to the Mounted Police, that is instead of hero of mine," he said. "I read Woody Allen before having someone like Nelson Eddy, the usual terri­ I sit down to write my own stuff, just as a paceset­ bly heroic figure on the horse in the sunset, we have ter." somebody who was a failure in the mounted po­ Though not all humour, particularly that lice." which depends on filth, vulgarisms or crudity, Nicol also feels Dickens ofthe Mounted helps meets with Nicol's approval, he feels there is good point out the "magnificent work" of the early humour still coming out. He thinks some televi­ Mounties, when compared to the "American mys­ sion writers, like the ones who write Golden Girls, tique ofthe revolver" and the "slaughters" ofthe are coming out with good material. American natives. "Humour is a bitch mistress. There's no doubt Nicol added "I'm interested to see how many about that. It's so easy to become lazy and to kid people will tolerate this book, because it's quite oneself that what one is doing is funny and good. wordy in terms of contemporary humour. It's not a I have to keep checking myself all the time against quick fix." my standards." by Rick Hiebert

16/THE UBYSSEY December 1,1989 ENTERTAINMENT ••_•*..„.. Misfit Mountie is witty stuff

By Rick Hiebert Nelson Eddy wouldn't have been a natural for The Francis Dickens Story. Francis, the third son of novelist Charles Dickens, was a bit of a misfit.

PRINT Dickens ofthe Mounted By Eric Nicol McClelland and Stewart

He had a problem with drinking. He wasn't very brave. Some­ what deaf and fat too. Not the sort of person that would make a stereotypical Mountie ofthe type that is immortalized in those old movies that had Eddy warbling "I am calling youhoohoohooohoohoo- hoo" to an awestruck Jeanette MacDonald. Francis wanted to get out ofthe shadow of his elder father and thus travelled the world in search of adventure, joining the Bengal Mounted Police and the North-West Mounted Police. Dickens was a Mountie for 12 years, almost from the inception of the force. Unfortunately, he left little record of his adventures. That is, until Vancouver humourist Eric Nicol began to use his imagina­ tion. Nicol has written a mock autobiography of Dickens ofthe Mounted in the form of letters to the Butts family in England. The book is based on nearly two years of research and study of the life of NATIONAL ARCHIVES PHOTO this atypical member of the force. Eric Nicol says the bearded man right of center in this photo with a sword, pillbox Dickens, the book postulates, was eager to amass "enough thrill­ hat and gloves that resembles "a stumpy looking Charles Dickens" is Francis ing tales of perilous predicaments among the painted savages (I be­ uicKens, our hero. lieve they call them 'dance hall girls') to ambush a London pub­ lisher." He didn't quite make it out of his famous father's shadow, but Francis Dickens is suitable grist for Nicol's mill. The book stretches things a bit by assuming that Dickens met Sitting Bull, Louis Riel and Harry Flashman, but it is great fun and evokes the late Victorian era nicely. Dickens' adventures as a Mountie are often amusing. Nicol has captured the mind set and writing style of Dickens' era quite well. Dickens, who Nicol says "was a very literate man", acquires a pleasantly wry and reserved British sense of humour through Nicol's prose that often serves as a pointed afterthought to the society and events of the time. The character of Francis Dickens appears to mature and mellow as the book goes on, which is a nice touch. He becomes a very sympathetic character by the end ofthe book, particularly with the comments on the treatment ofthe native peoples ofthe Prairies that Nicol attributes to him. It's not Shakespeare, but it does compare well with Nicol's earlier work. It is a little hard to read for those not used to reading the Victorian English style of writing, but Dickens of The Mounted is Plaque honors certainly worth the effort to read. I can just see Nelson spinning in his grave.... dead writer

Eric Nicol has written over thirty books, won three Stephen Leacock Awards and produces a regular column in The Province. These are pretty neato tricks for someone who is dead. You laugh? Well, a plaque in Brock Hall is fixed in the wall across from the Women Students Office, paying solemn witness to the memory of the former Ubyssey staffer, who wrote humour columns on campus life under the nom de plume Jabez. The plaque, erected in 1947, says "In loving memory of JABEZ (Eric P. Nicol). Beloved campus humorist, who for a full decade gave to his fellow men the priceless gift of laughter." The gentleman who has been using Eric Nicol's name for the past few decades, says the plaque was a result of a 1947 prank of his late friend and fellow Ubyssey hack Les Bewley (who went on to be a provincial judge and a Vancouver Sun columnist). "He was a very whimsical fellow. He just got this notion that one day he was going to raise a plaque to me. Why, I don't know. All I know is that he stood at the bottom of the stairs in the old ad­ ministration building, jangling a can full of change and collecting about a hundred dollars," said Nicol. Bewley took the cash down to Birks and had the plaque made. "He declared that he was going to have an unveiling. By this time everybody, includ­ ing me, really didn't know what he was up to and no one was happy about it, but he was persistent." "He got (then UBC professor) G.G. Sedgewick to come over and actually unveil the plaque. It was a very small gathering, around lunchtime and he was fed up with the whole thing too and figured it was some kind of lark. All he could do was tear the cloth off the plaque, mutter a few obscenities and stride out back to his classes," said Nicol. "I think that what Les had in mind was to create the idea that Fd already died," said Nicol. "That was the general implication ofthe plaque, that I'd long since passed from this world. I think he was trying to make more space for himself in The Ubyssey." Cutthroat Ubyssey staffers. The tradition continues ... DAN ANDREWS PHOTO Rick Hiebert The plaque

December 1,1989 THE UBYSSEY/17 That holiday thin;

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S tangle of bushes cross powdered donuts, potato chips prefers landscapes to animal and my path as late afternoon grows and plates of cheese, vegetables, floral studies and points out her for into the last evening of Novem­ cold cuts and sushi. Somehow favourite painting, "Midnight ber. I glance up for a moment food seems out of place. temple bell woke the ship below." CHRISTMAS and see the Asian Centre's grey Goldman points to one Circulating the room a final roof between black evergreen painting with a house perched on time, I leave the majestic and trunks. a mountain ledge and says, "It lofty mountains behind and step Inside, the walls of the audi­ would be nice to sit in that house out into the crisp night. torium are covered with Chinese and contemplate the magnifi landscape paintings by Ng Yuet cence outside." I wonder if Lau. whoever is in that house is eating. ART In a small adjoining Ng Yuet Lau room are a mixture of The Geological Museum has a huge selection of natural crystals Asian Centre animal and floral paint­ for sale for the person who has almost everything! Priced from ings. It is a departure $5.00 to over $2,000, each specimen has a descriptive label. The landscapes are domi­ from the sombre, distant Proceeds support new acquisitions. nated by mountains painted in mountains. Many ofthe The Collector Shop Is located In the Geological Museum near the black, grey and sometimes blue animals featured are dinosaur's nose, and will be open at the following times: ink. Blue mountains are dotted colourful and whimsical by the occasional house or specks and I am reminded of a Wednesday Dec. 6 1:30 - 4:30 of white cranes. Ethereal and madcap tea party of Wednesday Dec. 13 1:30 - 4:30 dreamy, they float in pools of fog. animals. 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FRIDAY DECEMBER 1 FRIDAY DECEMBER 15 Hi). LIKSIU: Til Go. The/RE from T.O. and they're playing with the Swagmen More good loud times at the Arts Club. at the Arts CLub. M's Tiir UKle: Hard Raclc Miaers At the Railway See 'em at the Railway. TEACHING AT THE GEOLOGICAL CENTRE oATURDAY DECEMBER 16 SATURDAY DECEMBER 2 OF BRITISH COLUMBIA At the Pump Ckristais Gift beief it cucert Ranch Romance At the WISE Hall 1882 Adanac St. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 56 (NECHAKO) at the Centennial Theatre. 'Tis the season! LOCATED IN VANDERHOOF, B.C. SUNDAY DECEMBER 17 Sn Weis & Nyetz WILL CONDUCT ON CAMPUS INTERVIEWS ON at the WISE Hall. Tal_-ictioi=Zero FEBRUARY 24.25.26 AND 27 Cheer and dap for posterity, a live video recording at Club Tie Nervns Fellas al The Last Wild SIB Soda. FOR 1990-1991 EMPLOYMENT.

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BMONDAe thereY o rDECEMBE be doomeRd t4o geekdom. At the Town Pump, of Daybreak Parade ad SHE course with Black Earth At the Railway. SHE returns and we are glad. Piaaet af Spiiefs aai # *6!. CLOSEST BYCYCLE SHOP TO UBC THURSDAY DECEMBER 21 Indigo Girls at the Ridge. GreeiHuse. A Christmas Party at The Pump UMtA evetyono a ve*y WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 6 CiTR's Tape-A-Mania with THE METHOD 11pm CiTR FM FRIDAY & SATURDAY DECEMBER 22-23 *JfU**y KMUttmat/ JL

My Na Faa's Ckristaias Shaw 'ON THE .• ; COMPLETE - This time it's at the Arts Club , SPOT FENDER - LIGHTING Relive highschool with aging has-beens. Jazzmanian Devils At the Railway 1NSTALATION ;••* SYSTEMS ; SUNDAY DECEMBER 24 >' . Mon - Fri *• .;' on wit* *34.99 THURSDAY DECEMBER 7 ADayiiPariiGraiiCeitralStatim, Ni FOB Facing tbe 1980's Catherine Wheel Experience it at 86 Street. Let them help you cope at the Railway. SiBid Bitcbers Live MerrMONDAy ChristmaY DECEMBEs R 25 on CiTR at 11pm. Stay home. at the Arts Club Seymour. Almost a guaranteed good time FRIDAY DECEMBER 8 TUESDAYS WEDNESDAY DECEMBER _o-27 The Grin Factory (Formerly After AN) The Dots At the Town Pump These women can rockabilly with the best of 'em. At the Railway. SUNDAY DECEMBER 10 THURSDAY DECEMBER 28 BICYCLE STORES They're from Toronto and they're playing Club Soda. No Hear stuff from their great new album at the Town MONDAY DECEMBER 11 Pump. OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK 4387 West 10th Avenue Picasso Set Hear 'em live on CiTR at 11pm. It's a cassette release party!!! At the Railway!!!!! 222-8200 FRIDAY & SATURDAY DECEMBER 29-30: We Also Have A Fully Stocked Service Department at Christmas The Beatles of Surrey spread Xmas cheer for 64 Fannycars ALLAGESattheCultch. They're fun and they're from Victoria. Enjoy a night at the WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 13 Arts Club. Tippy-A-(ioGo's Folk Hour SUNDAY DECEMBER 31 Worfo'ff97vrJ.ear»Jt?a* At tne Railway. The Death of 19B9 with Curious George At the Arts Club. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 57 (PRINCE GEORGE) Brain Damage The Last Corvairs Invites you to Subject yourself to it at the Town Pump. at the Paramount. join in THURSDAY DECEMBER 14 The Demons James 'Blood' Ulmer At the Yale. Working for Learning It's diatonic funk from NYC at the Pump. In HoElowheads an. Hoka Live British Columbia's Northern Capital on CiTR at 11pm. Prince George School District is one of British Colum­ bia's largest and most progressive school districts. We The few, the proud, the Ma... are anticipating vacancies for teachers at all levels for (ahem) the 1990-91 school year. Representatives of the district will be interviewing on The few, the proud, The Ubyssey! campus in March. (actually, we'd prefer The many, the proud, The UbysseyT Drop by SUB 241K today.) Interested applicants are asked to obtain an applica­ tion form available at the Canada Employment Centre in Brock Hall. Deadline for application is January 10th, 1990.

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December 1,1989 THE UBYSSEY/21 CHRISTMAS buying an alarm clock: journey to another world by Steve Conrad between a wall of flash dining temple of garishness. A forest of Santa wasn't rings,a toilet with a toungue room type clocks and a glass phony trees populated by bronze welcome around -^p_>k^ slopping over the bowl,GI Joe While shopping for an alarm counter of jewelery, evidently camels and mechanical mani­ those parts. ^ *)kjd junk.... clock the other day, I was struck very happy to be there. kins. Fragile things everywhere. —The kids just got ' £$9 Toy Mercedes and Porches by the most revolting —I'd like to buy a quartz alarm I stopped to chat up an older too excited with {•$*§? for budding executives. Go-cart apparition.Red wrinkly and clock, I said. couple perusing the plastic pines. Santa and toys in the _/Q|;3f sized ones with shiny paint and squirming, a stuffed Santa hid —How much would you like to —Lovely, aren't they? same place, explained ^^JA\ real gas motors. behind a corner and wagged his spend? She was happy as a —Yes, but expensive. a helpful sales- ^2*jJ A paying customer came to bell at unsuspecting escalator spider reeling in a bug. They exchanged a knowing woman. ~ w. take away my guide, so I was left riders. —Its not a luxury item. glance and sighed, shouldering But still there to admire the $4800 playthings. The plastic bell —It could be, she said as her be- the burden of holiday festivities. must be a problem Worth more than my car. was /^^*\ /-tv mute but jeweled hands gestured across Some salesman had probably with pesky kids, I Pretty conspicuous consumption the (X>\^ wJSJsb piped-in the case of frippery in perfect convinced them that an artificial probed, ever digging for a story. for a tot. carols f& anc time with her spreading grin. tree was the best long term use —No, there aren't that many One of the fellas stocking the the 7f 7_____I^V^P^. . lew* d —No, I meant I didn't want it to of their Christmas dollar. kids in here really. But a lot of shelves seemed to agree with me leer of the Cr?^-r-J ) p°-y- be a luxury item. I saw Santa's still vacant the adults get out of hand in thinking that any kid driving ester effigy 1 jjMTWf tolled Had I spoken vaguely or was throne; I saw boxes full of mini- playing with the toys. one of those snazzy things down clear enough, j she a madwoman? Probably just Santas. I wondered about the lo­ —What are some of their the sidewalk would have to be Whole* ^^_» wreaths a little caught up in the Christ­ gistics of having a lot of fidgety favourites? prepared to fight for his wheels. trees and garlands mas spirit. impatient children around so She showed me to the For something as good as a mini- of tinsel, angels aplenty, fake She rolled up the red carpet much breakable stuff. I saw battery operated plastic jumbo car, lots of kids are willing to lanterns and lots of Christmasy like a snake's tongue. angels averting their eyes jet. It made a loud noise and it play dirty. clothes in smart green and red —The inexpensive ones are over heavenward in yuletide rapture. pretended to take off, she said. According to the other motif. Christmas was coming. there in the corner. It's self I saw mechanized carolers Strange for parents to like a shelver, some rich guy had been Nobody else on the lift serve. With that she waved me forever writhing in mid syllable. battery toy. Then again, the par­ talking about buying the Mer­ seemed to find anything funny on like an earwig. I saw enough. ents' interest won't last any cedes for his son. The kid was about the decor. Laden bags and I managed to find the cheapo Next I visited Toyland. longer than the batteries. supposed to have a train running overcoats hung humourlessly. section and get an alarm pretty Would they be in a snit be- The jettling was plenty loud through the house and every­ There were presents to be easily, but I still couldn't help cause Christmas alright. It is beyond me how any­ thing. bought. wondering about this Xmas stuff. Street one could be foolish enough to I could have believed that I had thought it a bit much Had the snakelady thought I snagged give their children a shrill repro­ story if I had tried, but I didn't that there was fake snow splat­ was buying the clock as a gift? Santa? duction of jet turbines at a time want to imagine in a spoiled brat tered allover the store windows Some kind of a way to express Was there of year when hangovers are likely causing a traffic jam indoors, so I in Mexico—it seemed so much my love. How mean hearted she , a scandal to happen. Is Christmas maso­ went home to « try out my phonier there. Of course, it must have thought me. brewing chism? alarm ^JrJ^ clock. doesn't really snow much inside I was hooked—I had to see there? Boisterous though it was, the Bay either. more. I went looking for the My the jumbo wouldn't move. Not being much of a shopper heart of Christmas. mudrak- —The batteries must be going and not at all a TV watcher, I Christmas Street seemed as ing dead, she explained apologeti­ hadn't been giving much thought good a place as any to begin my dreams cally. Those men were really to the gradual coming on of the quest. At 8000 square feet it is were playing with it a lot yesterday. festive season. the largest such display in town, dashed It didn't work anyway, so we the manager later told me. It when the sales moved on to other favourites— I found a saleslady nestled took two months to set up this staff told me Barbie intimate lingery.rocket

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22/THE UBYSSEY December 1,1989 cz UTTERS alarmingly loud sarcasm and to be reading this right now, let me Student slags much practiced humor. YEAP! give you a piece of my mind: scumbag thieves She's humored alright: HA-HA- I DON'T LIKE YOU VERY HA!!! MUCH. IN FACT, I'M BEGIN­ Picture this: Main Library, This is a good one. NING TO DISLIKE YOU, ALL OF 1988, PQ level. Picture this: Buch. B., 1989, La­ YOU, A LOT. A poor student is desperate. She is dies' Washroom. Ifyou really have to, go prac­ wildly rewriting a major History The above mentioned student's tice your profession somewhere paper, already due, because her lunch bag. which was left on the else, instead of ripping off our original copy got stolen with a sink while she goes to do her neces­ pathetic students. briefcase, when her car was bro­ sity, disappears with the speed of And ifyou happened to be an ken into not long ago. But soon she lightning. even poorer student than I, then *^7^;?^^ discovers that the worst was yet to i_*»l**5»«w«l!|S*«a^^ She's scared. ask me personally for some lunch come: Her purse, which was se­ She's finally verified the fact that money, for a new briefcase with curely placed under the chair, someone is definitely out there, research papers, or even for a new Comfort & Joy suddenly disappears from the determined to make her life miser­ 35 cent eraser. I would be deeply scene, without a trace, without a able. She has no lunch that day. moved. I'd even consider your re­ sound, without saying good-bye... The poor victim is me, I con­ quest. I may share with you my The purse is found later on, be­ fess. And I also confess that I'm peanut-butter and pickle sand­ tween book stacks, but without the sick and tired of these incidents. wich on dark rye. wallet, without the discreet and I'm sick and tired of being the SHAME, SHAME, SHAME cute carry-case of tampax. consistent target of there inci­ on you!!! Picture this: Sedgewick, 1989, dents. Fm so sick; I fear to step out If your mother knew whatyou silent area. ofthe house or step into libraries. have become, she'd be experienc­ The same student-now a poorer I'm so tired; I don't want to keep ing severe monetary deficit by student- goes to the water foun­ my part-time job anymore, solely now, caused by over-consumption £T tain to alleviate an excruciating to support these thieves, to replace of Kleenex. No one sells as many headache with Tylenol. She re­ car-windows they break, to pay for Take a hike my boy, may well Levis as we do. turns to her seat, two-minutes library books they steal from my be my gal! Get a job, get a wife, later, only to find that her half- car. take a bath, pick your nose. Do At $39." they're a perfect gone 35cent eraser has abandoned YOU. YEAH, YOU, THE anything but just, just don't fit for the student budget. its owner, involuntarily, eraser- THIEVES; bother me anymore... napped forever. I hold you responsible for the crea­ The sick and the Tired, Available at: The owner is mad. tion of a, once adorable, library- Se-Ra Alma Choo But soon her anger turns into an phobic-monster. If you happened Arts 4. mark'/Work WW But then Omar Diaz jumped up, looking disconcertedly like Michael Douglas, and UJcQfhou/c screamed, "It's been the decade of greed. I know, I'm a salesman. Let's wipe out greed! Kits Downtown Let's put a stake through the heart of Donald Trump before the decade deconstructs!" 2674 W 4th. 560 W. Georgia Alexandra Johnson snorted in disgust, Ted Aussem, Dan Andrews, Saski Ages, NOTARY PUBLIC Pauline Matt For all your Notorial, Secretarial and Typing Services. • Resumes • Morgages • Wills

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Ralliers blast judge Generation Hip By Dean Mag fieri Monday afternoon there was visible minorities, invisible mi­ nation. Isitworthwhiletorallyfor a rally in front ofthe Court House. norities, and even a pair of proto- Van DerHoop's removal when we Anger over Judge Van DerHoop's economists. The protest itself know that mind-sets such as his suspension of an 18 month sen­ consisted of songs and stories. The are rife, even dominant, in the tence for a man guilty of sexually songs were of hope, the stories seats of power in Canada? What's abusing, raping, a three year old mostly of incest, and they, too, the point? child resulted in the unexpected: were spoken in hope. Perhaps half Perhaps the point ofthe rally activism. The provocation was a dozen incest survivors spoke to was as much to shout, "Off the considerable; Van DerHoop sus­ us and the media, so that their Bench!" as to show the three pended the sentence because the hundred gathered that women accused had been drinking, was need not be guilty, that a victim of tired and the child was sexually Perspective incest need not keep-it-quiet-and- aggressive. Yes, this happened. shut-up-you-asked-for-it-anyway, Yes, this year. Yes, right here at truths could show us a wider that women can create their own home. I had the same reaction. So, truth, that sexually abused chil­ life-world, that the power to op­ Monday afternoon, I braved the dren are victims. One survivor pose domination can be drawn rain and showed up downtown declared, "I was not guilty, I am from within. This is empower­ expecting to find a scattering of not guilty, and I will never be ment. And this is important. umbrellas and some tired guilty!". Her certainty was tre­ I am male. I cannot take part sloganeers, but hoping for more. mendously empowering. in the consciousness-raising of Hopes are not always in vain. Power is the issue here. Men women if it is to be effective. lean, About three hundred people have in our society the power to however, stand witness. Mon­ turned out for the rally, which was transfer guilt from the guilty to day's demonstration showed the organised by WAV AW (Women the innocent. And surely a three strength and numbers of those Against Violence Against year old child is innocent. Do not screaming for justice. I hope Jus­ Women). Though this was a fool yourself into thinking Judge tice is served. I hope this child women's forum, I emphasise that Van DerHoop an aberration; his grows to know that her innocence " -ScXS-l T^iP£-, »Jfyfc/_. jJej-ev c^ r^_-r s»T*e&r. three hundred people were decision was extreme, but none­ cannot be turned to guilt by any­ three—a veritable cross section, theless marking a boundary of a one. including women, men, children, more moderate structure of domi­ Krishna GRAPHIC: THE CHARLATAN sincerest gratitude to the gentle­ to Jerry Franklin who is consid­ mural Sports organized activities. Woman given hard man from Hillel House who said he ered a leading expert on the an­ Reader discovers I feel it would be more responsible "hope[s] Insha'Allah [if God is cient forest ecology of the Pacific of Ubyssey to recognize these par­ time willing] that there will be salaam Northwest, ancient forests ensure The Ubyssey is ticipants by providing more infor­ I am writing regarding the [peace] between us", and to the low levels of soil erosion and leach­ mation about the program. mistreatment I received on No­ young Jewish woman who con­ ing. Increased erosion and leach­ shortstaffed Dean Desrosiers vember 16 at Hillel House. The soled me in the rain and offered ing which can increase the turbid­ As a representative of UBC Student Director, Intramural Progressive Zionists and Hillel her apologies for the immature ity or muddying up of drinking Intramural Sports program I'm Sports House presented a panel discus­ behaviour of those two men. water is associated with clearcut shocked at the lack of coverage and sion entitled "War or Uprising" H.M. Hassan logging. Drinking water with a disregard for the Intramural concerning the Palestinian Inti- Arts 2 higher turbidity rating is harder sports program on this campus. Students hurt fida. Having read their invitation to keep free of harmful bacteria. The Ubyssey has provided little or grass in the November 15 edition of the Come on guys, this It is really stretching the no coverage to the vast array of Ubyssey, a friend and I attended truth to say that sixty-two percent recreation activities that the pro­ Does one have to be a prac­ what we thought would be an in­ is getting silly of the ancient forests of Vancou­ gram offers to the students, fac­ ticed horticulturalist in order to formative discussion. However, I ver's drinking watersheds are in a ulty and staff of this university. appreciate the recent landscape did not anticipate that I would be My use of the word "trollop" reserve protected from logging, as For example, the week of remodeling between the new park­ verbally assaulted by two narrow in a recent letter has upset Mark Mr. Christie claims. The fact is a November 13th to the 18th saw ade and the SUB? For those who minded men (these men were not Keister and sent him off on what great deal ofthe sixty-two percent the wind up to the Handley Cup have not yet noticed, the concrete on the panel). some have already called "The ofthe watersheds that is in the no- Soccer League. The Ubyssey obvi­ parking lot of previous years has Near the end of the discus­ Great UBC Slut Hunt." In his logging reserve couldn't be logged ously felt that such an event was been replaced with a grassy sion, one of the verbal aggressors November 28th letter of response, anyway! This area is mostly high not newsworthy. When one promenade, complete with trees made a racist remark concerning Mr. Keister defines the word "trol­ elevation, steep, rocky land cov­ hundred university teams play and benches. In September, as the Arabs, which he thought would lop" as "a pretentious term for ered in scrub, rock and ice. The soccer in BC Place Stadium for a sod was being laid, I asked myself solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. •slut'." remaining 38 percent ofthe drink­ week it seems no one really cares how long this new environment This man pronounced that ALL WRONG! *ding* But thank ing watersheds that is open to who won or even if such an event would last. But to my dismay, as Arabs are like children and need to you for playing. logging contains virtually all of occurred. I don't think for a minute soon as the protective fencing was grow up; therefore it is necessary Per The Pocket Oxford Dic­ the lush valley bottom and lower that this is true however, the taken down, students began to impose changes upon them. To tionary of Current English, a"trol- slope ancient forests, the forests Ubyssey printed nothing in re­ trudgi ng ignorantly over the fresh my horror, this fanatic suggested lop" is a "disreputable girl or most critical to providing a safe gards to this event which affected turf. Soon, their habitual paths that they (Arabs) be placed in woman"; flip...flip...flip... "dis­ clean supply of drinking water to over one thousand students. were recreated and the new sod camps! Camps? Excuse me mister, reputable" is defined as "discredit­ the people ofthe GVRD. Another gleaming example of had been destroyed. I'm not ask­ but what did you have in mind, able, of bad repute, not respectable Somehow Mr. Christie has the lack of informative coverage of ing you to become overjoyed at the rehabilitation camps perhaps? in character or appearance" which become confused and come to the events is the Day ofthe Longboat. sight of new turf but some of us This notion of camps doesn't sound fits the satirical context of my conclusion that the watersheds What is Day of the Longboat you would like to appreciate it before it too much like Hitler now, does it? phrase, "treacherous trollop", are being clearcut on a 500 year ask? Do you really know? It's the is ruined by your ignorance. I told this man that I was without ever even vaguely allud­ rotation basis, that is to say that most unique Intramural Sporting Martha McMahon appalled at his ideas. He immedi­ ing to the sexual morals of the trees that grow up after logging event in Canada, if not the world, 3rd Year Arts ately started pointing his finger at upstanding AUS Councillor in­ will be allowed to grow for 500 where ten person teams paddle in me, which nudged my shoulder a volved. years being logged again. The fact voyager canoes from the Jericho couple of times, and actually de­ To those past English Instruc­ is the GVRD logging plans show sailing centre to Jericho beach and nied that he said Arabs should be tors of Mark's who, having read his that the rotation for the drinking back. So what's the big deal? Well, Attention ... put in camps. Yet, he went on to erroneous epistle, are trying to watersheds is between 72 and 79 over one hundred teams partici­ say that when someone is sick, decide if they should admit failure years depending on the area. This pated in the event this year yet the that person has to take an aspirin and kill themselves in a most dis­ is the same rate of logging that Ubyssey barely made mention of "Concerned and thus, the same analogy can be gusting manner: Buck up, maybe occurs in industrial forests outside it. I'm scared to see what happens applied to the Arabs' "sickness". someone will buy him a dictionary of the drinking watersheds. when Storm the Wall and the Tri- Citizen" and By this time, I was surrounded by for Christmas. The assertion that clearcut athalon approach, I hope the a few people, including the second Bill Allman logging decreases the forest fire Ubyssey notices the noise at least. verbal aggressor. But the second the UBC Law 2 danger goes against experience The UBC Intramural Sports man did not support what his Former History Rep, AUS and common sense. The fact is that program has the privilege of pro­ comrade said about camps. Oh no, distributor and Proponent of Function­ when the ancient forest is roaded viding and organizing recrea­ Mr. V.A. the second was quite ally and reduced to logging slash, tional pursuits for the University frank about the way he felt to­ Literate Arts Students small trees and brush, the forest community. We do not take this of Campus wards other Arabs and me, for he fire danger increases. challenge lightly. Each year we bluntly said, "You Arabs can all go We at the Western Canada strive to run our programs more to hell" and gave me a cordial Ecologists reply Report, Wilderness Committee feel that efficiently than the year past. Our shove towards the door as I was I would like to comment on clearcut logging the ancient for­ major difficulty is dealing with the leaving Hillel House. please some ofthe information presented ests of our drinking watersheds enormous growth of the program. To those two men: I don't as fact by Dave Christie. should cease immeadiately until a Volleyball saw 199 teams register know your names, but I will never The claim that Tonya full public hearing can bring out for first term, the largest ever. We contact us, forget the hatred that was implicit Zadoronzny wrote the letter to the all the facts. We feel that the high­ sincerely feel that the students of on your faces as you irrationally editor as a representative of West- est and best use of the ancient this university value our program we want to spat out your anger towards a se­ em Canada Wilderness Commit­ forest in the drinking watersheds and that the people who partici­ lected group of human beings. tee is not true. is to provide our clean drinking pate gain a sense of involvement speak to Furthermore, I can assure you The claim that clearcut logged water now and into the future. We and pride in this institution; not to two, that no one would ever treat forest land produces water that is believe that clearcut logging is mention have fun. We need the you in such an abominable man­ as clean as water that is produced putting our water supply at severe support from as many groups on you. ner, as you treated me, ifyou were by an ancient never-logged forest, risk. campus as possible, including the to come to any ofthe M.S.A. func­ is also not true. The fact is, ancient Yours truly, Ubyssey. Over 5000 students par­ The Ubyssey tions. forests produce extremely high ticipate on a weekly basis in Intra­ I would like to express my quality drinking water. According Joe Foy, Director 24/THE UBYSSEY December 1,1989 OPINION All must be the same Endgame: the last

Okay, so we, the generation of satisfaction of feeling superior to tions. Ask, for instance, why the moment - death the post-modern world have about the polluting plebes. Don't use Ubyssey isn't printed on recycled 20 years before all the things we've bleach, non-recycled photocopying paper or why it isn't recycled after by Chung Wong looked at. I could only grip her flushed down the toilet come out of paper, disposable containers or it is used. Society hid itself from this hand repeatedly to replace the our faucets. Why not kill some diapers, chemical cleansers, or Finally, in order to save our reality. In the city streets, life hugs she could not receive. time in our last few years and try CFC Styrofoam. In other words, diseased planet, we simply have to continues as usual with humans When her speech was recov­ to do something about it? Before stop doing everything that your stop buying things because it uses trying to achieve for themselves, ered, I nervously asked her, af­ action takes place, however, you doing now. Accept no compro­ too much energy. Unless, of relating to other humans through ter a dialogue which included a must first realize that everything mises - even though compromises course, you think it is fair that 25 their 'odd' ways. But when your how do you feel question with a you (and your ancestors) have million Canadians consume the lifetime partner in crime is about what do you expect answer, if done up until now has been evil same amount as 1 billion of the to die, a deep cut gnaws at your she could smile. In her affirming and destructive. Once you have world's poor. Ask yourself if all the stomach— response, I recognized the accomplished this, you are ready Perspective things you buy are worth the envi­ beauty there still within her, to reshape your life and the lives of will inevitably find you. For in­ ronmental damage they produce. Through the emotional haze and realized all the work done millions of strangers. Try strang­ stance, wiping your butt is pretty Is a copy ofthe Province worth the I try to recall. had meaning, had worth. ers first, it's easier than friends. much a compromise because you destruction of B.C.'s forests? Energetic She Now here's what you do: you use toilet paper which is produced (note: it takes more than 45,000 people. Sharp had not yet decide that a revolution must take with chlorine and that chlorine is trees to produce one edition ofthe dress. Glamour­ Freestyle been shat- place and that all environmentally summarily returned to the ocean Sunday New York Times). Is the ous lights— tered inside. dangerous products must be de­ when you flush. convenience of driving your car to singer—dinner...club service. But in our society we are not stroyed. For starters, your car Okay, so what if you follow school worth the destruction ofthe We are guests. trained well to see beyond the must go. It, combined with every this program and make your life as atmosphere? Remember that eve­ Across the long table, she surface which has become a other vehicle on the road, is re­ pure as recycled paper? Will this rything we buy, from organic smiles at me. blinding plane. sponsible for 80% of Vancouver's save the world? NO. So you must apples to auto parts, are produced It seems so distant from the Her roommates faced a dif­ smog as well as melting polar ice take the next step of changing with the help of non-renewable scratches of poverty, yet before ferent fate—but all the same in caps, declining world food produc­ everyone else's life (while making fossil fuels. me is a reminder—an individual the end, I guess. They are left in tion, and Third World hunger. yourself the bane of their exis­ For the world to survive we of hope who drove me out. It feels loneliness segregated from the (One might think that the current tence). Ask coffee drinking strang­ need a paradigm shift of con­ good to see her again. The images rest of society; at nights some environmental crisis was created ers on the street if they know about sciousness. And because the world begin to wash out. Ifs midnight scream. Until eventually, they by Roman Catholics) Ride your CFC's and the destruction of the economy is based on market de­ suddenly (why?). I have a reun­ die. They are without company, bike and feel like a martyr. environment. Be obnoxious. Soci­ mand, the shift must begin with ion with another longtime friend. without opportunity to interact, Besides acknowledging the ety eventually transforms the consumer. That means indi­ I walk to her. Excuse myself. No and kept in their hidden place. obvious problems that screw up through individual pressure to viduals like you and me. words audible through music. I the environment (say, pouring conform. Therefore, making gar­ But just remember that when gesture. She nods, smiles. I leave toxic sludge down your toilet) try bage 'uncool' is the first step to it's all said and done, you're just her with the others. I will see her to be creative in deciding what eliminating it. People who have one person in a big world and you again. No words that night. No harms the ecosphere. Don't use blue smoke coming out of their car probably can't make a difference words...no words. No glass shoe. "The milk is sour," she said to paper towels in the washrooms at can be spat on, kicked or beaten. after all. Probably. The image quickly me. "Don't worry,"responded the SUB. Avoid all plastic at the However, the best approach is to P.S. If you live in an apart­ dissipates...leaving me alone. nurse," she always says that. I supermarket and bring your own quietly let them know that they ment and need a place to bring The call came a couple days tasted the sour milk, and was grocery bags. Let people know you are destroying the environment, your compost, I have a giant ditch later. "She fell," a voice said, reminded of a passage from Or­ want an alternative. Ifyou have to thus allowing them to be con­ in my backyard. Contact me "She's in the hospital...a stroke." well's 1984: eat at a take-out restaurant, then sumed by their own guilt. through the Ubyssey. I suddenly found myself in a bring your own plate. People think Secondly, you have to shake Peter Scott desolate room, frozen in the still Winston: How can I help seeing your crazy and again, you have the people up and ask tough ques­ History 3 air. what is in front of my eyes? Two Her face was bashed in, de­ and two are four. formed. She had no left cheek. O'Brien: Sometimes, Winston. Her body had shrunk to half of its Sometimes they are five. Some­ size, paralyzed on the right and times they are three. Sometimes Got time for a sermon? going blind. The smell of vomit they are all of them at once. You lingered. There was my partner must try harder. It is not easy to lying on the bed, motionless. become sane...You are rotting In attempting to defend his as valid as Leviticus 18:22. Now on homosexuality. Did Jesus see it I stood fragile. away...you are falling to pieces. stance, Newcombe points out that you either apply the dictates ofthe that way? Jesus had a little say­ For days, I created new ways What are you? A bag of Jesus never condemned homo­ Bible uniformly or you admit that ing, which He used often, some­ of providing stimulus to improve filth...look into that mirror. Do sexuality. But Newcombe's asser­ laws like Exodus 20:20-21 and thing about more tolerance being her health; it drained my soul. It you see that thing facing you? tion that an absence of condemna­ Leviticus 18:22 are not carved in shown for Sodom in the day of would feel like 0 x whatever life I That is the last man. Ifyou are tion implies acceptance is, of stone. Could it be that you are judgment than for ... whom? Not could give. But the feeling, I real­ human, that is humanity. course, nonsense, and quite a few willing to enforce a strict interpre- bigots, surely. ized later, was only a result of my people wrote in to The Ubyssey to One writer of The Ubyssey expectation which adhered to After two years, she is para­ point that out. Yes, there were said that "if homosexuals are who she was, and deviated from lyzed to the neck. She eats quite a few letters. And these Bible Perspective members of a Christian church, who she could be. Acomplex form through tubes. She urinates thumpers pointed their stubby then if s a sad commentary on that of prejudice. through tubes. She cannot fingers at Leviticus 18:22 and church."The Bible says that God is tation of some parts of the Bible In this room, she was no speak. She can barely hear; she proclaimed that the Bible does no respecter of persons. Appar­ but not others? That would make longer able to shield her human­ can barely see. She may only indeed condemn homosexuality. ently, God had to teach that lesson you a hypocrite, wouldn't it? ity, package herself in some atti­ think and breathe. Her body is Of course, they are right. to Peter several times (Acts 10:14- I've got an idea. To avoid the tude or mode for social accep­ now down to a third of its origi­ 15; Galatians 2:11). This point has And since the Bible is, after sin of hypocrisy, why not take out tance. She had no walls. Uphold­ nal si ze. To reach her so she may to be made loud and clear, because all, the Word of God, all faithful a full page ad in The Vancouver ing any barriers around me, feel me, I can only touch her fore­ there is one important fact that is Christians are bound by its dic­ Sun and agitate for the legaliza­ shielding myself in any way, head. But I realize the last thing consistently lost in the hoopla: tates, and should accept its black tion of slavery? After all, the Bible wouldhave denied her existence. I want her to remember is love— sexual orientation is not willfully and white statements as the final says ifs okay. And while you're at I asked myself if it was the ego or not loneliness. chosen. Are you listening? Ifs not word on moral issues. Is this your it, promote polygamy. No. Despite pride that held up my own. like being addicted to alcohol. No view? Fine. Lefs see where it the fact that the guiding light is Whatever it was, broke down one chooses this "alternate life­ leads. Turn the pages of your Bible green, polygamy and slavery are blind. To be equal'—I always Author's Note: Samuel Beck­ style", no one is socialized into it. the Exodus 12:44: "Every man's no longer in vogue. Thank the Lord was with her. ett's play title Endgame refers to Orientation is fixed along a spec­ slave that is bought for money..." for that. a chess game at a stage where all trum and itis not reversible. Some Oops! Wrong verse. Turn to Exo­ It is still open season on gays, the remaining moves are inevi­ people are straight, some are bi­ dus 21:20-21: "When a man strikes however. And leading the crucifix­ table. He focused on the morbid sexual, some are gay, and they his slave, male or female, with a ion party are a bunch of ignorant, relationship society held with stay that way. One orientation is "Nurse...Nurse...Nurse...Help rod and the slave dies under his narrow-minded bigots who have the decrepit, the aged, as they as immutable as another. Nature me...help me...help me..."—No hand, he shall be punished. But if transformed themselves into the became discarded garbage cans. produces a lot of variety, and not answer. This is the replacement the slave survives a day or two, he ministers of Christ (II Corinthians We place individuals in these all of it is welcome. we have set aside for them for our shall not be punished; for the slave 11:13). Are you going to tell me independence. Imagine yourself states in rooms of alienation; we is his money." Nowadays, most that if the Bible had specifically Knowing this, when I read I as one of them. The patient next to initiate inevitable moves. Moves people would call this manslaugh­ proclaimed tolerance for homo­ Corinthians 6:9-11, I see God's you cries and shouts at night. In which are catalyzed by our soci­ ter, or murder. sexuality, that these letter writing final answer. God puts His Holy the daytime, you see a white ceil­ ety's lack of true integration and Are the dictates of the Bible Bible thumpers would now be Spirit upon repentant homosexu­ ing. You search for a hope to live the non-existent family structure inerrant? Or is there a certain championing gay rights? What a als and, yes, even upon repentant on. The doctor, the social worker, which has lead to ultimate psy­ expediency in them, a partial load of bull! There are plenty of bigots. It's there in the Bible, for tells you hope will heal you. You chological alienation. They are yielding to popular will? What did agnostics and atheists who detest all to see. How about that! Homo­ search, but you are in an empty placed there left to die, in a place Jesus say to the Pharisees about homosexuality as much as these sexuals in God's church! I'm not room. This is where your society we ha ve left for them for the sake the law of divorcement in Deuter­ saved fag bashers. Let's face it. saying that they didn't opt for celi­ has lead you. of our progress. But how much onomy 24:1? "For the hardness of People don't dislike homosexual­ bacy. And promiscuity was defi­ longer as a society can we torture your heart [Moses] wrote you this ity because the Bible condemns it, nitely out. But ifyou think that the Isolated from her familiar the psychic walls of these indi­ precept" (Mark 10:5). So there is they use the Bible to justify their sexual orientation of these people world, in a room with zero stimu­ viduals? Everyone will eventu­ an earthly influence working in bigotry. was somehow changed, you're a lus, her face, webbed in her ally go through this ultimate the Bible as well as divine inspira­ mile offshore. I hear a fire crack­ These people see homosexual­ corpse, had the look of suffering, state. Few come to terms with it tion. Do you think that the ancient ling, bigots. ity as a grave sin. And the city of like an opera singer whose voice until it happens—it's too late Israelites were any less homopho­ Sodom is upheld by the some as could not be heard. And was not then. bic than people are today? the exemplar of wickedness, and Name Withheld The factis, Exodus 21:20-21 is its destruction as God's final word Arts 4

December 1,1989 THE UBYSSEY/25 Ho, ho, hmm WAS THE NIGHT* BefoBE CHKASTMAS Well here itis again the annual Ubyssey Christmas gift list where all the "goods", the famous of campus, the province, and the universe are faithfully delivered. WHEN Hi*- ClAUS WAS CxNEM A CbSE OF ReN-iTf.

To President Strangway — A new set of Mechano for his endless building projects.

To Kurt Preinsperg — A glow in the dark jalepeno flavoured, body condom.

To Vanessa Geary — Tongue floss.

To Sara Mair — A sign making kit.

To Mike Lee — Skip the month of December.

To Andrew Hicks — A paper-sized muzzle.

To Karl Kottmeier — A year's subscription to The Ubyssey.

To Charles Redden — A suit that is not grey.

To Gerry Wan — A new bowl.

To Tim Bird — A new building project.

To Peter Brown — A date with Angela Davies.

To Linda McGillvary — The book: One-hundred The Ubyssey welcomes letters on any Issue. Letters which are not typed will not be accepted. Letters over 200 words Uses For a Dead Cat. may be edited for brevity. Please be concise. Content which is libelous, slanderous, racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise unlft for publication will not be published. Please bring letters, with identification, to our editorial office, To Peter Hamilton — A score keeper. Letters Room 241K, SUB. Letters must Include name, faculty or department, year of study and signature

To Iolande Weisz — A set of voodoo dolls of the The letter "Law stu­ letter writers and LSA President Mike Watt. Here's what men of her choice. A clarification dents blast mental mastur­ we found... bating newsletter" in the Several ofthe letter writers told us that in their protest To The Inter-Fraternity Council — Individuality. Nov. 28 edition of The Ubyssey has caused some concern. against The Informer, they went to the LSA and inquired The letter, signed by a group of thirteen law students, who would be in charge ofthe particular issue that they To Bruce Strachan — His new university in his blasted what they saw as the puerile content of the Law blasted in The Ubyssey. They were told that "•• and own backyard. Students Association newsletter, The Informer, in its Octo­ Steve" were in charge of the newsletter every second ber 31 issue. edition. To Bill Van Der Zalm — A by-election he can win. After the letter was received in early November, I The Informer does not run the name of its editorial Next life buddy. waited to hear from Mike Watt, the LSA President, who also staff in the newsletter. received a copy ofthe letter and would be able to comment Watt said the LSA has four people in charge of The To Mike Harcourt — The keys to Room 156, on the letter's veracity. Hearing nothing, I and my col­ Informer, two women and two men. What happens is that West Annex, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. leagues assumed the letter was all right. the two women are in charge ofthe publication one week The letter, nevertheless, was addressed to and "the two HH____B____i and Geddes are in charge of it To The Ubyssey — Autonomy. "fl______"and Steve Geddes, Editors, The Informer." the other week." After the letter was printed, Steve Geddes visited us, "That particular issue was written and published by To all our readers — Peace, Love, and all that shit. protesting that he had had "nothing to do" with The In­ Ian himself and Steve, so far as I know, had nothing to do former for "the past two months." with it," said Watt. Therefore, although the mistake is understandable, we Watt added that if someone "hypothetically" asked regret that Steve Geddes appears to be the victim of a him who was in charge of The Informer every second week, THEUBYSSEY misunderstanding regarding his role with that particular he'd say "MBand Steve." For your information, Watt also issue of The Informer, with which he has been associated thinks I^^^^^^Band Steve Geddes "do a good job" with November 28,1989 with in the past. We regret that this occurred. The Informer. The Ubyssey is published Tuesdays and Fridays Seeking the truth, we spoke to some of the original throughout the academic year bythe Alma MaterSociety The Ubyssey Letters Co-ordinator of the University of British Columbia. Editorial opinions are those ofthe staff and not necessarily those ofthe university administration, or of the sponsor. The Ubys­ Kurt addresses of the not-so-wealthy. In However.in fact Mr. Geddes the table on December 18, sey is published with the proud support of the Alumni both cases we can see how has not not been associated the difficulty in having a Association. The Ubyssey is a member of Canadian masses the privileged, entrenched with the Informer since its realistic effect on the final University Press. The editorial office is Rm. 241k ofthe in power, can turn every­ first edition of the 1989-90 decision is considerably in­ Student Union Building. Editorial Department, phone Darlene Marzari and thing to their own advan­ term , and was not in any creased. The best chances of 228-2301; advertising, 228-3977; FAX# 228-6093 Tom Perry, our Point Grey tage. way associated with the having an effect lie between MLAs, have asked the UBC I am a member of the edition of the Informer giv­ now and December 18—be­ The 80s couldn't end a moment too soon. In The Ubyssey office Board of Governors for per­ UBC Board of Governors. ing rise to the concerns ex­ fore it is announced. factions formed. They drank Coke Classic out ofthe fridge and argued. 'Before the decade ends we have to anarchate the world!' mission to speak against the Just as I wish to dissociate pressed in the letter pub­ My guess—and it's only shouted Keith Leung, who was one the keener members ofthe Hampton Place real estate myself from any further tui­ lished Tuesday. He is angry a guess—is that the in­ anarchist gang. Szilard Fricska, John Gray, Lorry Jones, and development at the Decem­ tion increase, so I wish to with being misidentified as crease will come in at Sarah Atkinson looked on, aghast They'd never seen an anarchist ber 18th Board meeting. dissociate myself from the one of the Editors of the around five to seven per­ before. But Tonya Z. was simply pissed off. "No wayl" she bellowed, spitted small globs of saliva all over Douglas Harris, As elected student rep­ university's Hampton Place Informer. cent. In light of last year's Evan Jones, Wendy Shin, Laurie Newell, Rajiv Reebye, Sheena resentative on the Board of development. This real es­ I wish to emphasize ten percent increase; the Scott and Christian Raupach. "The 80s was the decade of Governors, I feel obliged to tate deal is environmentally that Mr. Geddes had abso­ financial impact that the Chernobyle, acid rain, global warming and fitness clubs. Gross! make my own perception of destructive, socially short­ lutely nothing to do with the Goods and Services Tax What we have to do before the dawn sets on the decade is save the environment." this development crystal- sighted and morally irre­ offending edition of the (GST) will have on all stu­ Laura Busheikin, Paul Dayson, Warren Whyte, Mike clear. We have wealthy sponsible. Informer.and to apologize to dents; and the fact that Laanela and Corinne Bjorge cast dirty looks at Tonya and people on the Board of Gov­ Kurt Preinsperg Mr. Geddes for any there will be a zero increase surrounded Keith, shouting, "Whose fucking decade? Our fucking ernors using precious uni­ AMS Board of Gover­ distress.embarrassment or in the financial assistance decade!!!* But then Corinne drank a lot of vodka and anarchated money that UBC is to re­ Mark, risking herpes and even AIDS in pursuit of sensual versity land to build luxury nors Representative harm caused to him in being gratification. housing for other wealthy wrongfully associated with ceive next year, an increas­ Nadene Rehnby smiled slightly and pulled the cord on the people. Their excuse? A gov­ Students are welcome to the Informer. ing number of students will blind repeatedly up and down, up and down. Quietly, nicely, she ernment that caters pre­ attend the Dec.l8th Board N.K. Banks be feeling the crunch. started her own faction. It was a mysterious faction. No one knew dominantly to the wealthy what they were about. Hai Le, Aileen McBride, Jolie Ellison, of Governors meeting, at Law Graduate Studies I know that exams and Heather McCartney and Roger Kanno joined her. Jeff Huberman has starved the university 2pm upstairs in the Faculty term papers can knock the pushed Rob Reid and Barb Wilson towards the mystery group. for funds. Club. Please phone 2127 for energy out of all of us at this But then Omar Diaz jumped up, looking disconcertedly like There is a close analogy reservations. Stop UBC time of year; but please take Michael Douglas, and screamed, "It's been the decade of greed. I know, I'm a salesman. Let's wipe out greed! Let's put a stake between UBC's decision to tuition hike the time to write a letter to through the heart of Donald Trump before the decade deconstru­ build California-style lux­ President Strangway, Old cts!" ury mansions and apart­ An apology On December 18, Presi­ Administration Building, Alexandra Johnson snorted in disgust, Ted Aussem, Dan ment towers on campus and dent Strangway will be pro­ UBC, Vancouver B.C. V6T Andrews, Saski Ages, Charles Lugosi, Maeghan Kenny, Mark Howes, Bryson Young, Christian Ice and Andrea Lupini drank UBC's decision to increase With respect to the let­ posing a tuition increase to 2B3, suggesting or demand­ mineral water and dreamed of buying BWM's. "You guys will be tuition fees and other educa­ ter to the Editor concerning the UBC Board of Gover­ ing an increase that you left in the 80s," shouted Dennis Hakle, David Dungate, Denise tion costs at a relentless the Informer which ap­ nors for consideration. consider justifiable. Dyson, Catie Pickles, Debbie Hewlett, Peter Berlin, Robin pace. In both cases, the push peared in the 28 November On January 30, the conttnuMf on aaem 12 EDITORS " for academic excellence is 1989 issue ofthe Ubyssey: Board will make the deci­ Tim Bird Joo Altwasoor • Franka Cordua-von Spocht used to justify financial poli­ Steve Geddes was identi­ sion whether to accept the Student Representative Nadono Rohnby • Chung Won* • Kolth Uung cies that benefit the wealthy fied to me as one ofthe Edi­ proposed increase or not. UBC Board of at the expense of the needs tors of the Informer. Once the proposal hits Governors

26/THE UBYSSEY December 1; 1989 •Mill!

And of people who continue to Last month, members of the the United States have driven Save the elephants purchase ivory products. Convention on International prices down, and reduced the Unlike people fleeing their Trade in Endangered Species demand for ivory products. These Annually 70 000 adult ele­ homeland because of persecution (CITES) voted to designate the efforts are certainly laudable but ...Unless led away, an or­ they have only a limited impact. phan will linger by its fallen phants are slaughtered. But that and economic hardship, the ele­ African elephants as endangered. is not the end ofthe story. 10 000 phants cannot leave their habitat A complete ban on the trade of Any ban will not stop the mother until it collapses from youngsters must die because they to look for a brighter future else­ tusks automatically ensued. deadly traffic. As long as there is starvation or thirst. And a cannot fend for themselves. where. But CITES also permits the profit to be made, there will be mature elephant coming across These figures underlie the Plant eating and the largest slaughter of well-managed ele­ corrupted officials and greedy a carcass, even one streaked magnitude ofthe dramatic reality creatures on land, they live in phant populations. This is because traders who turn blind eyes to the withvulture droppings, will try facing the elephants and some small herds of closely-knit family some Southern African countries butchery. to rouse it to life with a gentle even harsher truths : the de­ such as Botswana, Zim­ Some affected countries have prod of its hind leg- structiveness of human beings babwe, and South Africa adopted tough measures. Presi­ Ted Gup, writer for Time and their inability to dwell in with small poaching prob­ dent Daniel arap Moi of Kenya, for by Hai V. Le harmony with other living lems are afraid of losing ex­ instance, has mobilized the army Such social, gentle animals. things. port revenues derived from and declared war on the poachers, "Nature's great masterpiece," Numbers do not mean sales of ivory. ordering them to be shot on sight. as the poet John Donne called much. They can never convey the units, led by one or two older cows, For decades, indifference and A rather drastic measure. them, today's African elephants total dimension of the carnage, and use their tusks for foraging. profit motives have been the driv­ But even that will not save are approaching extinction. Their cruelty and suffering that are too To some African farmers, the ing force behind the butchery of Kenya's elephants from extinc­ ability to survive in the face of real for those involved. elephants may be a nuisance, big the elephants. The ivory industry tion. human destructiveness has never Whether it is a slaughter to pests that trample their way is one with revenues estimated at The risk of arrest, death, and been more jeopardized, and their control the herds' population as in through farms, leaving behind $500 million to 1 billion world­ imprisonment is small, compared right to live in peace more de­ Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South trails of ruined crops. But they are wide. to the monetary reward. Any long- prived. Africa. Ivory that can net a huge also a valuable, integral part ofthe From factories in Hong Kong lasting solutions to poaching — In the 1930s, Africa had an profit as in Tanzania, and Kenya. environment. and Japan, millions of bangles, without a magic wand — will have estimated 10 million elephants. Or to satisfy the sportsmen's urge They open up water holes in necklaces, and rings are produced, to address the root causes: con­ Now that number has slumped to to kill. the ground with their feet and sold on the local market, and ex­ sumer demand and public igno­ about 600 000. In 1976, 100 000 It's a slaughter done out of uproot trees in dense woodland, ported to the West. rance. elephants roamed the national indifference. renewing growth in the process. Lately, unilateral bans of A change in buying habits on parks of Central African Republic. Of greed. Other animals and plants benefit ivory imports by the major con­ the part of the public may well be Today, there are barely 9000. Of profit. from that. sumers of ivory such as Japan and the elephantslast hope.

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