THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE DF TFRHMHI nnv SAFETY, PROECTION, SECURITY One stop shopping in UNK new security office CLASSIFIEDS By Anna Goater the office is meant to be "up Underneath ttic walkway, by front, and out front," lo promote the SWl TnT, a new building awareness and use. The building LINK CLASSIFIEDS... are $5 lor stands The office grew quietly a 3 line ad and $1 lor each ljn« is centrally located, with higher after-except employmeni lisUngs and quickly Uke a mushroom, in visibilily. It's open 24 hours a for which the firsl 3 lines are just over two months. The nb- day, seven days a week. One FREE. To place a classified ad bon cutting ceremony took place commissionaire will be on duty contacl TTie Link at 432-8935, on January 25, m the presence of at all limes. Ihe Board of Governors and The location makes it an ideal Wynne Powell (the Chairman). meeting area. The security The new building houses the building is close lo the main Mens Red Wallet, Director, Safely Officer, Security BCIT entrance on Willingdon, so Reward. Officer, Industrial Hygienist, it's convenient to wait inside if President John Watson openning ttie new security office. 936-9187 WHMIS Coordinator, someone is coming to pick you M GOCOWSKI PHOTO Commissionaires, Secretary, and up. Also, knowing that a build• the Student Patrol Coordinator, ing IS open at all times with a The Security office also issues commissionaire on guard allows CAMPUS EVENTS keys for BCIT and will eventual• one to feel more confident walk• ly be Ihe home of the Lost and ing across the campus at night. of BC^T', V "P*" ^'^ advertisement of events and functions on all Found. The new building will promote ; DUS mid H? r ^ '••-"PP"' off at The Link offices or sent through cam- Why a new building? Ed safety and security awareness at j pus mad. Deadhne for the next paper, published February 23th, is Thurs. February 17th Baye, the Security Officer, says BCrr. ! Wednesday, Februan 16 localion call Mark (432-8964) or and awards will be made after Goixlon (434-5734, local 5301). judging of all projects at an expo• Stress Management Strategies. sition at Science Worid. Projects Topics of discussion will include; Tuesday, February 22 must be completed by June 30, what is stress?, identifying com• 1994, For more info call Jud) mon stress for students, recogniz• Movies: "Before Stonewall" and Hndlay at the Teclinoloey Cenire ing physical, behavioral and emo• "Forbidden Love". Gays and tional cues of stress, strategies for 432-8952, Lesbians at BCIT. A couple of coping with stress in your life. Lesbian/Gay history classics. 12:30 - 2pm SWl Rm 2595. Pre- lutro to Assertiveness. Topics of 4:30 - 6;30i)m, SAC boardroom. register al Smdent Services (SWl discussion will include: wh.at is Rm 2300) or drop in on die day. assertiveness.', benefits of being For more info call Heather Hyde Friday, February 25 assertive, recognizing aggres- 432-8432. sive/p.a,ssive behavious(s), identi- Pub nighl at the Rnyal (1025 fytng some areas lor pef,son,Ll Granville!, 8:00 pm If you assertiveness devlopmem, 3:10 Monday, February 21 haven't expenenccd the Royal, 5pm SWl Rm 2595. Pre-regiAlci now is your chance. This is THE at Student Services (SWl Rm Gays and Lesbians at BCIT's downtown, after-work watering 2300) or drop m on the day. For 2nd .\nnual Valentine's Tea. hole. Crowds of people, a fun more info call Heallier Hyde 432- Celebrate LOVE, whatever that band and sardine dance floor, lots 8432. means to you.There is no orienta• of dykes and everybody else. tion test. The WHOLE CAMPUS Look for Ihe table with the dis• Thursday, March 3 IS V/ELCOME. Last year's was crete BCIT banner. If yov want to our best event, with the Pres,, caipool or need a chaperoue call John Watson, tn attendance Take a Deep Breath Health Mark (432-8964) or Gordon (434- Fair. Check out your lungs widi Treats and tea and coffee. Be 5734,5301). brave enough lo come and min• spirometers and smoke analy/eis. gle! 12:30 - 1:20pm. SE12 rm. Gel the latest info on: allergy Monday, February 28 204 idenlifaction, control ;uid treat• ment; .and lung hiuards and treat-

ir vou d hke a booklet about Jack Oaniel s Whiskey write us ttete in Lynchburg Tennessee 37352, USA 94 Solutions: Student Design menLs; BQTs work to eliminate GALA BCIT general meeting. Competition in .Assistive Devices and control asbestos on campus; What do you want from this AppUcarion Deadline. Lookmg respiratory safety products to try TALK TO AN OLDTIMER m ^nchburg, group?! Come out in numbers that for creative soluuoos to problems and infomiation, and how lo quit Tenncs,sce and you'll probably hear a story reflect our presence on campus. facing persons widi disabihties as smoking. 9ara - noon. JW Inglis about Jack Daniel's. 12:30 - 1:20pm. For meering a marketable product Cash pnzes Cafeteria. Our townsmen love to tell how Jack REC & ATHLETICS Daniel settled here in 1866. And how Lem Motlow and seven generations of AEROBICS SESSIONS Advertise in... Lynchburg whiskey makers never Moming: had reason lo leave - nor to alter Mon, Wed & Fri 7:15 to 8am our founder's original methods Noonhour: Mon, Thurs* Fri 1 That's why today's Jack Daniel's 1:40 to 12:10 has the same smooth taste as it Mon 12:40 to 1:10 ^1 did back then. Which, lo a Jack AflernooD: Mon, Tues, Wed &Thurs Daniel's drinker, is the nicest 4:40 to 5:25 pan of the story Step Classes: Call 432-8974 Mornings; Wednesdays Noonhrs: Mon 12:40 Fri 11:40 Afternoons: Tues & Thur^ for rates JACK DANIEL'S TENNESSEE WHISKEY

2 • Fobnwry 9, I 994 EDITORIAL About this issue As you re:kl tliiuiiy,!; The Link's SexiKiliiy Issue you are going to fiiul a great deal ot tlie coiiient is ilevoted to gays, lesbians and bisexuals while very little addresses or discusses heterosexuals. This has been done for a reason. BCIT can be a rough environment on anyone socially, but more so on gays, lesbians and bisexu• als. For gays, lesbians and bisexuals BCIT's cam• pus life is most often about being silenced, exclud• ed, and confronted with messages of hate-subtlely expressed in casual converstaion or on the wash• room walls. It is a place quickly left. Only in rare cases is someone willing to put themselves on the line to confront this. So let's face it, BCIT is as straight as a hot rod• der's dream-as far as the eye can see A feat of engineering that has blasted away evidence of nat• ural contours that would create bends. Much of this issue has be dedicated to giving voice to these contours that are being bla.sted each day on this campus. (With 16,000 students, staff and faculty passing through these halls there is going to be a substantial minority of people-approximately 1,600-who will be homo• sexual.) They deserve a voice on this campus, as do all of us.

BCIT, however, excels at creating futures and is quick to adapt to change. Tliis is a reason for hope. And there is evidence of change. It is BCIT that has created Gays and Lesbians at BCIT (GALA), a Gay bookstore still disccrimination and harassment policy that covers sexual orientation and the voices in this issue of fighting censorship XkieLinL. . The Unk n The Student Ne'^spaper of the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Published bi-weekly by the BGT Student AssocioHon, The Unk circulates 5,000 copies to over 16,000 student? and staff. and discrimination Conhibutors Damascus Roy, Michael Welter, Brian Rice, Karen Odenwald, by Niva Chow odier mairJand bookstores. bia. Tim Reeve, Kevin Mok, Dia Richardson, Richard Havlik, Steve Everett, Books are commonly held at Kelly Head Anna Gooter, Erica Szczech, Gordon Handford, Vancouver(CUP) — Like The recent seizure of mail Mark Miller, Anna-Lisa Jones, Trent Houg and Paul Dayson. somelhing out of Bradbury's the border where they are sent to Little Sister's from Fahrenheii 451, censorship and inspected and reviewed by senior Penguin Books in Ontario last Manaqjng Editor the destruction of books are officials of Canada Customs. December has increased the Paul Dayson occurring under the supervision According to Fuller, she was told interest in Little SLster's story. by a Customs official that Litde Shident Editors of die federal govemment. "Who regulates die borders of Damascus Roy, Dia Richardson LitUe Sister's Book and Art Sister's receives "special treat• whal we read?" questioned Emporium has had problems ment." Fuller. Canada Customs claimed Adveiiising Representolives with Canada Customs since "The way that the Customs the opening of ihe shipment was Michael Welter, Doug Amelia tariff act is sel up, the system is "an accident." 1985. Little Sister's manager As an member of Canadian University Press (CUP), The Unk adheres to Janine Fuller feels lhat delays such lhal we have lo appeal each Little Sister's is fightingback . CUP's Statement of Principles and affirms that the student press in Canada and seizures of their shipments, individual s-^izure with court They took Customs to court on has a unique role in society as a voice for social justice. To this end. The and the opening of some of dieir dales for each magazine lhat is several occasions, and were post• Unk will not publish material deemed by the editors or steering committee mail, have occurred because the seized". Fuller said. poned each time for several lo be sexiil, racist, homophobic, or in fxxjr taste. The result is increased eco• monlhs. According lo Fuller, ihe store has been "identified as The views expressed in The Unk are noi necessarily those of BCIT, the being targeted for inspection nomic problems for small busi• scope and cost of the court case Student Association, or the editorial collective. because we are a gay and lesbian nesses which cannot survive escalated subst;miially each time bookstore." lengdiy legal disputes. the ca.se was delayed. "Odier bookstores that aren't "There is also a social stigma "At first the case would have labeled gay or lesbian are not againsi exposure. We fell the real been $5000-$ 10 000, wilh one encountering problems with the issues weren't being covered." week in court," she said "Now it same books," Fuller said, refer• she said. would cost al least $200 000 ring to books like Penguin's Fuller stated dial the focus on with Iwo months in court." gay and lesbian bookstores is due 3700 Willingdon Avenue Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2 Heroiica, a collection of Tel: 432-8935 Fax; 434-3809 women's erotic fiction sold at to discrimination and homopho•

February 9, 1994 • 3 THE UNK'NEWS Income Tax Act under fire for discrimination by Tarvo Evord Section 52 o( the Constitution Act VANCOUVER (CUP) -The C.inadian 1982 will tie used to challenge the consu- Income Tax Act is set to be challenged bs tutionality of sections ot the income lax the largest trade iimon in the nation on die act which cont.iin the definition of grounds that il violantes Ihc Charter of "spou.se." CUPE says that denying equal Rights and Freedoms. rights 10 same-sex panners violates sec- As it stands now, die Income Tax Act lion 15(1 I of the Canadian Charter i^i forxs us, or an> employer to discrinunate Rights and Freedoms. against lesbian and gay employees," said CUPEs pension plan is registered Canadian Union of Public Employees under the Income Tax Act. providing tax national secretary-treasurer Geraldine deferal ad\ antagcs-employcr and employ• McGuire, ee contributions to the plan are dediictable The Income Tax Act, which defines and mcome earned on investments made "spouse" as someone of the "opposite in the plan are tax free. sex" for the puipose of pension plan regis• Revenue Canada informed CUPE dial tration, is being challenged by CUPE, The if they included same-sex partners for the case IS 10 begin Aprd 26 in Ontario Court purpose of survivor benefits, their palii general division. could be dergistered, which would end tax "It's about time we changed an archaic deferal advantages for all of its 4n8,(X)0 MAQUINNA RESIDENCE IS LOOKING oul-o date system so that we can acco• inembets. modate the diverse needs of all Revenue Canada now says that not Canadians," McGuire said. "Lesbian and only iiension plans bul ben^'lit plaasdo not FOR RESIDENCE ADVISORS gay workers are required to make the meet the current requirements of the same contributions lo Ihe plan and they Income Tax Act for .all t;ix advantages il should no longer be denied their pension FOR SEPT. '94 - MAY '95 diey include same-sex partners. rights."

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So What is a Residence Advisor Anyway? over art exhibit OTTAWA (CUP) — A University of sense of the word, and is not suitable for Saskatchewan graduate student may be exhibiuoii," Residence Advisors are mature, resourceful and perceptive people expelled because of the content of an art Since his suspension, Lcller has had exhibit he displayed in a smdent gallery. who genuinely enjoy taking an active leadership role with students. his scholarship revoked and has lost his Christopher Lefler has been suspended Living in rent free private apartments connected to the residence diesis advisor. He is also forbidden from from attending classes since November entering the campus. 26. On Feruary 6 the university's disci• R.A.'s are the "front line" of the residence operation tfeam, and assist In a memo obtained by the student pline board met to consider a recommen• in the development of a positive, academically-oriented, residential press, Browne recommends lhat Lefler be dation from university vice-president expelled on three grounds — because the community. Patrick Browne that Lefler be expelled. univeisity could be sued by a 'Uiird party" Tlie board made no decision that meeting for the exhibit, because llie letters are "a and hits indicated it will discuss the case serious invasion of privacy into the pri• funher. BCIT hjll time students, staff, faculty and alumni are eligable for R.A. vate life of an individual," and hecau,se positions. Applications are invited from singles and couples. Lefler's art exhibit included a universi• Lefler ignored Browne's instructioas not ty binder containing two letters which However, because of lack of faciliites, applicants with children can• 10 alter the exhibit after the letters had reveal lhat a prominent Saskatchewan been seized. government official is a lesbian. not be considered. 'The situation has been handled abom The exhibit was intended to reveal Uic inably," said gallery curator Elizabeth govemment official's hypocrisy by "oul- McKenzie. "Tlie administration has react• These positions offer an excellent opportunity for personal growth, if mg ' her. Lefler said in an interview. "Her ed so virulently against Christopher He you are interested, please pick up an information package form the govemment IKIS done so many things to obviously represents some kind of real hann the lesbian and gay coniiiiunitics," tlueat 10 tlieni." Housing Office, located in the Maquinna Residence |SW11), or call he explained. "She was killing us widi her Lefler's exhibit, which was confiscated silence." 432-8606. by uiuversily officials, was not returned Shortly after the exhibit opened on until he reported lo the police that it had Nov. 22. universily officials entered the been stolen. gallery and removed the binder. Lefler Application (deadline is Friday, February 25, 1994 of 4:30 p.m. University officials have refused to later attempied lo replace the letters on ai speak to the media about the matter. least one occasion. Lefler, who said he is now on welfare, A series of written exchanges and feels die university's actions are an exam• meetings wtth universit>- officials ensued, ple of "how the heterosexual umversity and Lefler was repeatedly ordered to environment acts to repress homosexual refrain from any further action. voices • He claimed tlial the uiuversily is "Not only is material of this nature worned about ""the embarrassment and offensive." wrote Vice President Browne, humiliation [of Ihe government official] who has not returned calls from the because of fundmg fortbe fumre. They're media, "it does not constiwte art in any worried about economics." 4 • Febrvxiry 9, 1994 THE SEXUAUTY ISSUE • THEUNi Cervical cancer: health and women by Anna Gooter cervical cancer seem lo he al a higher risk Okj>' women. I know it's preilj unap• of developing cervical c;uicer. but il has petizing, itie ttiouglil of gettmy n p.ip nol been determined wli) thai is the case. VALENTINE'S smear done, but it is the simplcsl and The male partner's age at having first fastest way of testing for precancerous .sex, smoking habits, number of sexual and cancerous cells. Note the word pre• partners and if he has visited proslimtes LUNCHEON BUFFET cancerous. The Pap smear is a preventa• also may affect relative risk. Wives of tive measure lhat detects abnormal ceUs men wiih cancer of the penis are at at a stage wtien the threat of cancer can increased risk in the development of cer• Featuring "Pasta Mania" be easUy removed. vical cancer. The cervix is the neck of the uterus, which is a small, pear-shaped organ Treatment localed in a woman's pelvis. A doctor, in First, the important thing is to deter• Monday, February 14, 1 994 a maner of minutes, gently removes cells mine die extent of the disease before the from the cervix and places them on a course of treatment is decided. The Pap 1am - 130 pm glass slide which is sent to a laboratory. smear, colposcopy, and cone-biopsy •These cells are then examined under a determines the extent and severity of Town Square D microscope. In most cases, the cells are abnormal cells. Colposcopy is a type of normal. However, in six out of every microscope used to examine the tissues thousand, the cell don't look normal. of die cervix and vagina. A cone-biopsy (including GST) When this occurs, the test is repeated is when a cone-shaped piece of Ihe cervix Only $4.99 and, if necessary, further examinations is removed for smdy. are made. OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS & STAFF For less invasive types of cervical can• cer, "cryotherapy" is used, a procedure Statistics that freeze-bums away the lesion. 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The dis• Canada, die total number of new cases in advantages of laser therapy is thai it may 1993 is 1,300. be more painful Ihen cryotherapy and may cause thermal d.iniage lo nssue mak• Who's at Risk ing it more susceptible to invasive can• cer. OPEN HOUSE A high incidence of cervical cancer For more invasive forms of cervical occurs in: cancer, two mediods of treatment can be presents used-conization or complete removal of • lower socioeconomic groups the uterus. Conizarion may be employed Last Chance for Romance • smokers in the same way as a cone-biopsy; for •blacks diagnosis and to determine the extent of •Hispanics the lesion. Conization can also be used •women who had many sexual part• to entirely remove the lesion. Conization ners and who have become sexually is slighdy belter at preventing recurrence active before 17. of cervical cancer al Ihe same site than laser dierapy (95 percent vs. 90 percent The occurrence of cervical cancer has success rale), but it also increases die risk also been Urdced to the presence of viral of infertility. Removal of the uterus is a infections. Herpes simplex virus type 2 very severe form of treatment, but (HSV2) has been shown to be carcino• ensures that cervical cancer can't spread genic in animals. Women with cervical to odier organs. The Dating Game cancer usually have a higher incidence of antibodies lo HSV2, which means that How to protect yourself Taps Pub these women have probably been exposed to HSV2 at some time during 1. Don't smoke. Friday, Februa-y 25, 1994 their life. The human papillomavirus 2. Havt regular Pap tests. 8:30 pin - 1:30 am (genital warts), is sexually transmitted, 3. Use barrier-type contraception. and some strains have been associated 4. Eat recommended daily allowances of with the development of cervical cancer. vitamin A, beta carotene, & Vitamin C. Tickets $5 Also, the history of a woman's sex 5. Limiting die number of sexual partners. partner can increase the risk of develop• 6. Start sexual activity at a later age. Available at Student Association Office ing^ cervical cancer. Women married to & Copy Centre men whose previous spouses have had Prizes and Free Admission for Contestants

Fobmary 9, 1994 • 5 THE UNK •THE SEXUAUTY ISSUE Being out at BCiT: it just depends •••

"Ever tried walking down tlie hall holding hands? Try it with someone of the same sex one day and see people's reactions."

"I'm out to everyone on campus. What amazes me is that it doesn't seem to make any difference-positively or negatively. But I'm glad to report that there have been no adverse comments or feedback." Mark Eric Miller By Gord Hondford • Come out, conic out, wherever "It's frightening being gay and in the clos• you ure . • This call |iut a sausfying et. But it's more frightening seeking end to the kid's game of hide and acceptance from peers. I found GALA seek. It acknowledged that you, itK' hider, had consummate skdl at seclu• offers a little light to this darkness. It has sion and subterfuge: you had slumped the potential to be "sunny" with more sup• die seeker. It was a badge of recogm- port from people who feel like I do." Lion: we couldn't find you, we want to get on with the game, we want you in the game. Your prize was to "Mostly positive. Examples? It was a 4 issume the power and threat implicit colleague (straight) who introduced me to in the job of "it", the seeker Bul this playing al seeking and being sought, Mark Miller; the m.eeting was the spring• at loss and resurrection, undergoes a board for starting GALA BCIT. Smdents twist for a lot of kids as they move ! of mine that are aware seem reasonably into adolescence. They now hide out of fear, perhaps out of loathing, and positive, have asked appropriate gay-issue they don't anticipate the relieved questions, seem to regard my orientation dehghl that fills and greets the "out• as ju.st another piece of information about ing" of the successful "hiders" of me. Not so positive? Well, a few men childhood. These young people already know that they're diffeieot - with whom I had had chatty, affable rela• queer maybe-that at some level they tions chilled out noticeably, .nt least tem• are the target of the jokes or taunts of porarily, when they discoveied I was gay. their peers. The pervasive sense among adolescents lhat Ihey are The general climate here is 'chilly". Few transparent - an open book for the men I encounter here that I presume are world to read - tends to persist for gay (that old "cruise alert" is always on) these kids. A few embrace this aspect of themselves, hook up with those will be comfortable enough to say Hi or who are a little when it comes to chat." buckling soci.al expectations, and get Gordon Handford on with their lives. Most back away al least iem|)orarily :uid put th:ii part of diemselves into the closet "BCIT hasfinally accepte d women into its And then diey come to BIT. We traditionally male dominated institution. pride ourselves on being a no-non• Congratulations! But it fails drastically in sense sort of institution. People come here to get jobs We're not into welcoming gays. So being a dyke here questionmg the system but learning has not been the most wonderful experi• about il and how to gel ahead in it. ence. Hey, I paid my $987 to come here, I This tacit acceptance of what "is" can carry a lot of baggage, one piece of think I should be able to have some fun which is die percepdon dial as well as and not feel like I have to hide!" being "straight ahead", B,C,I,T. is plain "straight". I've heard campus mates say "Why do a "Being gay at BCIT is like drivLng a con- lesbian/gay/biscxual supplement? venible in the rain: you might try to freely There are no gays at B.C.l.T !" And enjoy yourself, but in a climate such as I think diis misconception is particu- lariy suong on die North Campus or this, you're going to get pissed on. maybe just more noticeable because Obviously, it's time for a change," the trades tend to train in an envu^on- inent that is much like the current workplace. But B.C IT isn't These are comments made by some of "straight" any more than any other the people in attendance at the last broad sample of humanity. For diose meeting of G.\LA-BCIT in response to who identify themselves as lesbian, gay or bisexual it's just a litde more the question "What's it like for you closeted. being gay or lesbian at BCIT?

6 • Febrae.ry 9, 1994 THE SEXUAUTY ISSUE • THE UNi Attitudes towards difference •whal level are you now'.' • at what level would you like to be'? • at whaf level is your daily environment? /" \ Nuturance Gay men and lesbians are indis- pensible in our society. Views 000 Ihcm wilh genuine afl'cciion and delight. Acts as an advocate for Ui gay men and lesbians.

Appreciation Diversity in people is a good diiag > and gay men and lesbians are part of llial diversity. Willing 10 con• front homophobia in oneself and odiers.

Admiration Being gay .ir lesbian in this society i.akcs strength. Open to examining one^s own homophobic altitudes. 0 Support Gay men and lesbians deserve leg.ll and civil righis. Regardless of one's own comfort with homosexu• ality, people should treat others fairly.

Acceptance Heterosexuals need to make acco• modations for gay and lesbian sex• ual identity. Here anodier's identity isn't given die same value as one's SEXUALITY IS A nize and accept this aspect of our night as they went for coffee on own. ie: "I don'l even think of you culturally varied community. But a PRIVATE AFFAIR! Davie. No other minority group in as gay; you're just a person" student can/will go through his •Vancouver is subject to this level of whole exposure to our programs overt and violent attack. Heterosexuals don't flaunt it, without ever having a heterosexLst Tolerance don't have "Het Pride" marches, so perspective questioned. "There are GLAD TO BE GAY? Homosexuality is jusl a pha.se of why do gays? Two points. First, no gays or lesbians at B.C.I.T.!" development that many people go hets do flaunt it: diey walk around Ihrough and that most people Self-knowledge and self-accep- brazenly holding hands, they sit on ••grow oui of." Thus, gays and les• CUTE TO BE QUEER? lance are recognized in religion and knees, they even kiss! Pretty minor bians must be protected and lolor- stuff, but all n.sky behavior for gay philosophy as a joint wellspring of Freddy Mercury, David Bowie, ated like children.. people. Second, the claiming of a peace and energy. "Coming oui" is Elton John, Mick Jaggar, all have homosexual identity is no different Ihe first experience of working from cultivated sexual ambiguity to add lhan the claiming of a heterosexual the center of Iheir needs and under• Pity depth and danger to their persona. one. It requires the rituals of standing for many gay people. It can Gay men and lesbians are some• For us mere mortals, homosexuality courtship, the support of one's peers, release energies lhal were tangled in how bom dial way and should be makes hf^ a more challenging expe• ceremonies for the broader commu• deception of self and others. This pitied. The goal is to help these rience than it might otherwise be. nity. So "coming out" deserves spe• self-affinnation allows the individ• poor individuals be as "normal" as This can create the sensitized per• cial space and respect. B.C.I.T. is ual 10 get on with the important possible. spective of the perennial outsider the only campus in the lower main• work of hving which includes form• and be a springboard to creative land that doesn't have a student ing nurturing relationships, having energies. It can also generate the Ofganization to support its lesbians fun and working hard. And despite stress and anguish that expresses Repulsion and gays. A case can be made that it the monstrous AIDS plague ih.it in itself in the reported 2 to 6-fold Gay men and lesbians are sick, is more important for gay people to Canada is still a "gay disease", com• increase in teenage suicide amongst crazy, immoral; and sinful which be out at B.C.I.T. than elsewhere ing out can be rich, empowering, and gay youth. Woody Allen's crack to [ justifies changing or eliminating because we train more managers. exciting. And being homosexual is the contr;uy, being bisexual doesn't them. Attitudes that get established or at probably more acceptable now lhan double your chances of a date on least supported here can have an il has been in modem history. It's Saturday nighl. At be.st, we're just incredibly broad ripple effect. 'What well past tune lhal die B.C.I T. com• people. At worst, bemg homosexual better place to address one of the munily recognized and embraced is a life-threatemng status: talk to most pervasive and hurtfiil forms of this aspect of its heterogeneous com• die three young men who got bashed sexual harassment and what easier munity. (that included a knifing) last Fridax„ way to deal with it: simply recog•

February 9, I 994 • 7 THE UNK • UHE SEXUAUTf ISSUE

Sexual orientation discrimination HOW TO prohibited by law in BC COMBAT HOMOPHOBIA In the summer of 1992, the 10 Ihe public, discriminate provincial govemment acted on a against gays or lesbians in the promise it had made during ils provision of thai service unless election campaign. Bill 63, is helerosexua there are justifiable reasons for T amendmg die BC Human Rights doing so. Act to include scxu.al orientation Research indicates that If individuals feel that they as a prohibited grounds for dis• approximately ten percent ol have been discriminated against crimination was passed into law. Ihe populalion is lesbian or in employment, tenancy or BC is now one of a number of receipt of service from a public gay. provinces dial includes Ihis pro• facility, complaints can be filed vision in their Act. For gays and with the BC Council of Human Avoid onti-goy jokes lesbians Ihis means that an Rights within 6 months of the and conversation employer can be held liable if he la,sl incident of discnmination. or she refuses lo employ or con• If individuals feel they are This perpetuates Ihe discrimi• tinue to employ someone being discriminated against nation and serves lo further because diey arc gay or lesbian. isolate those who are still because of sexual orientation, It also means that the employer BCIT's Harassment and coming to terms with their ori• can also be held hable if discrim- entation. Discrimination Policy offers a mation on the basis of .sexual ori• way to resolve Ihe problem. entation has an impact on any Questions or requests for assis• Create on atmosphere term or condition of employ• tance can be addressed to the of acceptance ment. Harassment and Discrimination Landlords can no longer deny Advisor at 451-6721. Openly inviting positive dis• gays and lesbians the right to cussion of alternate lifestyles. occupy a space open to normal BCfT Harassment and tenancy, nor can public facdities Discrimination Advisor Confront homophobic who customarily provide service remarks and statements

When others use words like "queer, fag, dyke" in a deroga• tory way. challenge this by confronting lhat person's atti• First anniversary brings tude towards gender orienla- tion. Be a role model growtii, GALA events Show through your words and This fall was frustrating for chance and magic and can't hap• your actions that lesbians, all concemed. We had lost the pen widiout a mysterious ""criti• gays and bi,sexuals are human central core of members from cal mass", Bul we are optimistic. GALA events beings first—by including last year lo Ihc mixed blessing of (As a gay person the alternative Ihem ui your activities and by graduation. Gordon and Mark to optimism may be despair.) Monday, Feb. 14, I2:,30 - 1:20 chance. This is THE downtown, showing them you accept had little time and free energy. after-work, watering hole. tiK-m and llieir orientation. Most students were wondering if NAME CHANGE?? THE SECOND ANNUAL Crowds of people, a fun band llicy were going to survive final GREAT GAY VALENTINE'S and sardine dance floor, lots of Acquaint vourseif with exams let alone worrying about We will soon be altering our DAY TEA. Held in die roman• dykes and everybody else. Look the lesbian, gay dieu- social well-being. Smdents name to make room for the tic surroundings of SE12 - 204. for the table with the discrete and bisexual communily and staff who bravely showed up bisexuals in the crowd. Heck, Celebrate LOVE, whatever that BCIT banner. If you want lo 10 Ihe few meetings we had we've already gol one avowed means to you There ts no orien• carpool or need a chaperone call Become aware of issues relat• probably felt confirmed in their and incorrigible bisexual in Ihe tation test. The WHOLE CAM• Mark (432-8964) or Gordon ing to lesbian and gay rights, suspicions lhat perhaps Ihey group! Tlie details have yet to PUS IS WELCOMED. Last (434-5734,5301). the problems faced when wore the only gay person at be sorted out (e.e. GALAB- year's was our best event, with "coming out of die closel" .and BCIT! BCIT? GLB-BC1T7 GALABA- the Pres,, John Watson, in atten• Tuesday, Mar. I, 4:30 - 6:30, dance (maybe Ihis year with a the difficulties of ""beiiig-oul" But Ihis IS a brand new tcini BCIT-^^"?) bul the principle is SAC boardroom. how and Cupid's wings'?!) on campus. Become familiar and, boLstercd up by die unflag• clear and shared by our group. Treats and tea and coffee. Be with al least some of die posi• ging support of our Student People who are accepting as a After-class moiies - This time :i bravo enough to come .ind nnn- tive aspects of being lesbian, Association liaison person Anna- rich part of tliemselve.s some couple of Lesbian/Gay history jile! gay or bi,sexual. Lisa Jones, who has poured in aspect of llieir sexuality that classics. "Before Stonewall" ideas, energy, and orgamzational doesn't find easy social valida• docunienl.s the damig things gay Feel good about yourself skill, we are optimistic for the tion and thai isn't expressed at Monday, Feb. 21, 12:30 - 1:20. people were doing before the rel• springi Our first meeting this somebody else's cost, these peo• atively recent and increasingly Resc;irch has shown that peo• term was very encouraging. ple should be able to assume GALA BCIT general meeting. accepted gay revolution marked ple who have a solid self- Five new people turned out. acceptance .and support from our What do you wanl from Ihis by the Stonewall not of 1969. esteem and a positive identity That puts us .at about a dozen - group. They shouldn't have group?! Come out in numbers "'Forbidden Love " (NFB) is a are less likely to promote or nol a social revolution but a nice fight for il, here at least. Of dial reflect our presence on cam• lighdy leavened look al die con• believe prejudices and far nucleus. What most want is sim• course there are limits lo the pus. For meeting location call tortions artists have had to go more likely to let go of stereo• ply a bit of a haven, some recog• number of names that can be Mark (432-8964) or Gordon through to present love between types once they are confronted nizable, friendly faces, a chance accommodated before the title (434-5734, local 5301). women to a modem audience \\ ilh contrary evidence. to socialize widi others without a wags the group but we wish to These should prove interesting whole bunch of tiresome cha• been seen as inclusive rather Friday, Feb. 25, 8;0«pm. whatever your orientation: rades, WHEWI Of course this th.in exclusive. everyone welcome! If wc arc sort of social chemistry is only Pub night at the Royal (1025 starving we can always order in partly organizing. The rest is Grnnvdle). If you haven't expe• a piz7.a and share the cosl. rienced the Royal, now is your i • Febrvjary 9, 1994 THE SEXUAUTY ISSUE • THEUNi WHAT IS

Homopliobia is nearly everywliere in our society. It's not just the typical examples: someone out on a Friday night with a baseball bat looking to beat up gays, oi the land• lord who evicts a tenant upon finding out they .ue gay or lesbian Here are some examples of homo• phobia:

Looking at a gay man or lesbian and automatically thinking of then sexuality, rather th;m seeing liimAier as a whole, complex per-

Changing your seat in a meeting because a gay man or lesbian sits in the chair next to you.

Feeling repulsed hy public displays of affection between gay men or les• bians, but accepting the same affectionate displays between heterosexuals as O.K.

Where queer anger conies from Not asking about a gay to die pohce man/woman's In recent years there has been a rise of 11. From having to come out to large num• 27. From finding out homosexuals where male/female lover, new lesbian, gay and bisexual-or queer-mili• bers of people about my sexuality at one killed during the Holocaust and it never although you regularly tancy resulting in the birth of organizations time having been mentioned in history classes such as Queer Nation, Nation Rose, Outrage 12. From getting drunk to avoid die stress ask "How is your girl• 28. From finding out that widi the collapse of •and others. These are the result of a simmer• everytime I come out to a large or per• friend/boyfriend?" when Germany they were not released but kept ing boil of an anger that is becoming a raging sonally important group of people you run into a heterosexu• interned as criminals to "complete their one as a new generation of queer youth come , 13. From having to leave volunteer work for sentences" al friend. of age. Understanding these groups means ' lesbian and gay groups off my resume understanding die anger and die socictial sit- ( 14. From mming down relationships because 29. From knowing people who have died of uations diat cause that anger. I didn't want to deal with the baggage of AIDS Thinking that if a gay man The list below is a sampling of die some a closeted relationship 30. From knowing the govemment should or lesbian touches you he of the sources of one person's anger: 15. From having to tell my parents I'm not have done more sooner before AIDS or she is making a sexual stiaight became a crisis in my community. advance. 1. From never being told anything about 16. From having to ask myself if I risked los• 31. From waiting to see gay and lesbian rela• tionships portrayed on TV my sexuality in school ing diem if 1 did 32. From only seeing gays portrayed as KLssing an old friend, but 2. From not being able to tell anyone about 17. From having a friend tell my brother my either victim orvictimizerin films. my first relationship and lover sexuahty before I did being afraid to shake 33. From wanting to hear a queer love ballad 3. From having to go through my conftision 18. From knowing my mother is uncomfort• hands with a gay man or on the radio. ( about my sexuahty alone able with my sexuality lesbian. 34. From knowing I have no guarantee that 4. From feeling self loathing when I first 19. From walking friends to dieir homes to feel safer insurance or pension benefits would ever realized I wasn't straight be shared with the life partner 1 choose Feeling that a gay man or 5. From knowing many others like me 20. From having abuse screamed at mc on 35. From knowing if 1 loved someone from lesbian is just a killed themselves as teenagers die street 21. From walking friends to their homes to another countiy I couldn't marry them so man/woman who couldn't 6. From reading "die fag" on the badiroom diey could live here widi me feel safer find a woman/man. wall and knowing diey meant me 36. From knowing that censorship of expres• 7. From having to sit quietly by while 22. From having a roommate lock himself in his room for two days after being sion my sexuality is most often legal someone said diey hated gays because I stabbed because he was gay 37. From having to be an advocate for gay Stereotyping gay didn't feel safe enough to say anything and lesbian issues males/lesbians as promis• 8. From having to tell people my sexuality 23. From being hit with a baseball bat 38. From sometimes feeling powerless to cuous, "recruiters", sepa• so I don't have to go through that again 24. From a gay friend telling me he was b.\shc(l three times in one night deal with il all 9. From wondering if someone will stop ratists, or radicals. Using being a friend if I "come out" to them 25. From not feeling safe on the streets those terms accusingly. 26. From knowing that none of us reported it 10. From having it happen Febrx ,9. 1994 • 9 THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SCENES OF GRAPHIC SEXUAL FiaiON AND MAY OFFEND SOME HE LESBIAN EHOTIC: LESBIAN SEX STORIES

by Rachel Rose, McGill Daily

MONTREAL (CUP) — The debate and backgrounds. The more literary- Her breasts were as incredible as I had about lesbian sexuality seems endless. window. "How much is It?" The sales- minded of you will prefer Jeanette dreamed them to be. Always tucked Do we have sex at all? Do we have long dyke replied, "Oh yeah, that's a hot new Winterson's latest, Wrinen on the Body. beliind those great shirts. But now dicrc sessions of foreplay? Do wc imitate het- Item. It glows m Ihe dark and conies in And who could forget dial lovely scene she was her breasts before me. My cro.sexual sex? Do we like SiM? Do we llitec iizes." She reached into a drawer in Zami where Ihc young Audre Lorde eagerness to suck iheni was my onlj h.itc S &M? Do we try to have feminist and picked up the mcdium-si/ed one. and her lover Afrekcle experiment wilh concern at that very moment. I reached sex, whatever that is? Is lesbian sex I warned I'm nol sure what I wanted fmit, out and cupped them. more spiritual, more profound, more or maybe 1 knew too well. She came "I took the ripe avocado and rolled it I squeezed her nipples gradually, gen- loving than het sex? What about casutU over and ran the dildo over my inner between my hands until Ihe skin Ue lo hard, until .she screamed, imtil she sex, anonymous sex or lesbian sex thigh This dyke was the one I had became a green case for the soft mashed lost her breath, 1 put my tongue in her clubs? Do lesbians really have multi- always fantasized about She made iiie fmit inside,„lhe oil and sweat from our moudi, licked her lips and bit. I put my orgasmic sex lhat can la,st for dn\.s at a cuni nighl alter night. She rubbed il bodies kept the fruit liquid, and I ma.s- fingers in between her legs. time, since they against me harder. "Can you close Ihe saged it over^ Then I diought, "Condiments!" I ran store. I really need a deinoastr.ition lo anTniT^defin: ^he onl, safe s.alement .o make is '^^^'^^-^^ to the kitchen and grabbed everything in convince me of my purchase." 1 said. die time of die sex 'hat there are as many forms of y°"' sight. Chocolate, honey, cayenne pep• "Sorry, babe," she said "I really breasts... a man• act through his lesbian se.\ as there are lesbians. per, ban:mas. I was finally going to do can't close the store. But I guaraiiiee tle of goddess it. erection? Do we - you this dildo is wordi die money." She pear dial I slowly I thought about how the laste .and feel lifted il all the way up my leg and niciely iniilale die oppressive simcturcs licked from your skin." of each of these would combine with pressed hard on my cunL I tightened my of the racist, homophobic and sexist Clearly, lesbian desire is coming out Rebecca's sweet cunt, with the feel of legs and let out a gasp despite myself I society in which our sexuality devel- in all its complexity. Even more excit• her sweaty and luscious skin She was wanted her now, whedier die store was o\vd> Wliat do lesbians DO in bed? ing than reading lesbian erotica is writ• waiting for me. her legs teasiogly open or not. ing it. Women everywhere are writing spread as 1 entered Ihe room. Her eyes She became aloof, perhaps leasing The only safe statement lo make is their own stories, making iheir own bnghtened at the sight of the ban,anas me was a pan of die sales pilch, "Will dial there are as many forms of lesbian zines and videos, and loving il, 1 belong and I could hardly keep the dripping lhat be cash or credit?" ,she murmured. sex as there are lesbians. It will come as to a lesbian discussion group lhat from my cunt from falling on the floor, a This was one hell of a saleswoman. no great shock that the lesbian erotic recendy experimented with wrihng our trail of lust "Cash," I said. I has been violently suppressed for cen• own erorica. through my bed- Queers (lesbians, gays, bisexuals began to wander turies. Images of women's sexuality Since we are a large group, we wrote have been manufactured by and for ihe anonymously, each of us starting a stoty ^""^ . and transsexuals) are some of fhe around the store, satisfaction of straight men. To believe and passed them on for others to work .J.nll''^'**'' innuential sexual pioneers. '^^'"8 'o cool we can entirely separate lesbian desire on. What came oul was fascinating, Z-rT^X When we don't see what'^we want ---rkal from the socially oppressive context in very funny and at pomts downright hot which desire is learned is politically flavour, pertiaps a Or need, we create it ourselves. the pom videos. Here are Uiree of those stories. Keep in nice sage and naive. mind that each paragraph was written A mixed selec- rosemary mix. No, I discarded every• lion, I felt a hand caressing my back While no sexual practice or partner by a different person. diing except the banana. I peeled it and side. I jumped so far I almost knocked provides a recipe for political liberation, rammed it into her cunt. Il disintegrated over the video display. diere is certainly a place for women, for on its way in and I was forced lo lick The hand continued its journey up my lesbi.ans, lo stretch, lo reclaim, lo create, Bananas are a and suck to clean her off She writhed thigh and discovered that there were no 10 appropriale discourses of desire. girl's best friend and moaned. The banana proved good panties under my short latex skirt. Tlie Many of us are woiking to challenge Ihe lubricant and I drove my whole fist into hand could feel how wet and shck I was male hegemony of the erotic/the pomo- I had thought about Rebecca for her waiting cunt. I fucked her hard as Then I fell a strange kind of heat. It graphic. Lesbian sexuality is ours! If we months but had never let myself beheve she screamed and twisted, cumming radiated up my thigh and then I felt don'l Idie what's out there, we can do no she reciprocated my feeUngs. Talking to hundreds of times. somethmg thick and hot in my pussy. It better than to produce our own. It's fun, her always made my heart beat faster must be die neon dildo. Oh, it felt sooo It's subversive, and il's very powerful. than usual. My heart was pouncUng as I That Dildo in the Window good. I wanted this for so long. Then I lay beside her and let myself start to Queers (lesbians, gays, bisexuals and realized thai a crowd had gathered. transsexuals) are some of the most believe. I let my hand roam to her prac• On a dark, dreamy night, I was walk• And much to my chagrin, I realized influential sexual pioneers. When we tically b.ald head, pretending il was only ing down the street. Suddenly a pink that she had her baseball cap out on die don't see what we want or need, we cre• friendly. She responded and moved her neon dildo caught my attention — just counter. Il was fillmg fast with quarters ate it ourselves. Lesbians today have a hand up my leg, over my hip, what I needed. I felt homy :md unag- and dollar coins. This was a sales• great variety of lesbian manufactured I gasped. My lustful dreams might ined picking up the dildo and playing woman par excellence, but 1 didn't care. sexually explicit maleri.al to choose just come true. I leaned over and ki.ssed with this women's btxiy m front of me. I let out a deep groan as she fucked me, from. Check out Susie Briglil's uka her hard on the mouth. She responded I decided to buy Ihe dildo. As I one hand moving around to finger my Susie Sexpert) anthologies Herotica I by quickly grabbing and stroking my walked into Ihc store, a ver) ,mracnve cht She pumped hard and (xs\ and I let and //. which are some of the best col• breasts. She was a lol less shy than I butchie dyke asked, "Can I help you?" 1 oul anoUicr deep groan as I came. The lections of hot erotic wnling out there had thought. blushed and said in ,i shaky voice, "I audience cl.ipped. I figured she would for women of any and all persuasions Much more attentive and so there. was admiring lhat neon dildo in ihe sphi the profits u ith me

10- F«baKiry9, 109.1 WE ARE PRINTING THIS PIECE BECAUSE...

Gays and Lesbians are bombarded with hetro media images. Television, movies and the print media extoil the virtues of 'straight' sex. Where does that leave those who aren't 'mainstream'? Offended? Perhaps. Excluded? More than likely. Now ask yourself this question, when was the last time you heard gays/lesbians asking to ban media's constant stream of hetro loving (READ SEX)? No, we're not running a piece of hetro erotica. There's plenty on the tube, even if you don't have cable. We're run• ning a piece of lesbian erotica because lesbians have the same right to see images of themselves in the press as straight people. 'This kind of stuff doesn't belong in the newspaper'. Fine, then where do we put it? In some obscure pamplet at health services? It isn't taught in class so where on campus can we breach the topic. Not safely and inoffensively so as not to ruffle feathers, but frank talk in plain language. The blond woman with WUlemena smUed at campus student newspaper is the only medium (sad to say) Three fingers in me. Maybe 1 could have them both, on campus to get the word out. Willamena tonight, at the same time. It's O.K. to be Lesbian, and if you read the following 1 sat down, ordered a coffee and con• passages you might realize it can be fun too. Hetro fantasy I waltzed into die local dyke cafe/bar. tinued to daydream. The atmosphere there is always a little First Willamena pulled and twisted is everywhere in the mainstream media. By printing this imimidating. So many women, chatting my nipples and the blond woman teased piece we're saying there's a place for lesbian fantasy. Not .ind eating. A sudden silence always me with her fingershghd y ruffling my in some dingy unseen place of shame, but for all to see and overtakes me. muff and then rubbing her finger quick• accept as natural. Silence - nothing like the night ly against my clit. They look me down before. 1 remembered the moans and and forced me lo service diem, diree fin- Besides you might leam something. What it feels like cries, bellowing from my gut, our bodies geis in die cunt of one and mouth on the to be queer and feel good about it. That you're not the only bathed in sweat. Willamena knew how cUt of the other. one in the world who thinks that way. lo get me going. I succumbed to the power of being Why forget and ignore the outside world when you She would whisper in my ear, with controlled, being forced to obey. Whal her husky voice, tell me how siie would more could I do but pump all three fin- come to BCIT. Sooner or later you're going to have to deal like to slowly tease me with her soft geis harder and lick deeper. 1 had bolh with me. Your lesbian lab partner. Your dyke grandma. warm touch. She would caress mc with of them at my mercy. We're all around you, you can't escape. So deal with it! her soft lips, run her fingers through my While my daydream overtook me, It's your choice to read on or tum the page. No one can hair, laugh carelessly as her hands Willamena went to dance wiih the explored my intimately secret contours, blond woman. I watched them giggling force you to read something you feel is offensive. But my shoulders, ribs,stomach . and caressing each other's backs. They what's so offensive about the way people are? Then she would kiss me delicalely by kissed long and hard and turned to look the fireplace. I never minded. The fire at me. Their eyes were fixed on me as wa.sn'l going — it was summertime and Willamena's hand roamed on that 1 jusl went wild having my hands locked woman's ass. over my head. Widi my eyes blijulfold- I approached diem and nonchalantly od, 1 never knew where her mouth asked how they were doing. No sooner would nexl meet my skin. I tried lo said, we were on our way lo a dark cor• guess, to anticipate her tongue between ner. I felt Willamena's hand on my my legs, to imagine where I would next breast as 1 was quickly introduced lo feel her teedi. her new companion. I did not waste ume I shook myself out of my daydream and cupped the nearest breast 1 could of last night's events and scanned the find and slipped my hand down lo cafe. There was Willamena and she was Willamena's sound firm butt. Could talking with another woman. "Play it this really be happening? cool," I diought. "Don't be jealous." The

February?, 1994 • 11 THEUNK* THESEXUALfTYISSUE Fun with A bisexual sets Woody Allen your "straight" about Saturday by Paul Dayson "humour" in Woody's "joke", isn't might be a deterance to relationships? il? Some bisexuals sleep around The heterosexism insulls nie .V "fm a practicing heterosexual..l}ut some don't I'm not interested in constant barrage of hcierosexual fingers bisexuality immediately doubles your "anything that nioves"-excepl Ihe images, role nio

THE HORRIFIC APPROACH: These sick people Just pashin the time prey on a child's innocent sexuality and abuse tliem. An abuser once used Ihe defense in court that the by Steve Everitt should be obvious. Complain if you cares..."? How far past, "gee. I Idee three year old giri was sexually aggressive and that What is the definition of Piission? want, but bfe is here and now and it's your shirt", do you gel? was why he molested her. The judge bought into his Is Passion some flavor of yogurt, good not going away. How is your family? The conversa• story. only before die due date? Is it merely So what about Pission'' tions are very one-sided once diey'rc Idling what you do, not unlike the love Instead, how do your job prosjiects gone. Which is the right approach? I tliink we all know' a grocery store feels for a car? look? Do you care where you work, or How's the weight loss program.' (A lhal the Ixst one is definitely nolright bu t it will still WeU 1 don't really care much about if you even get a job? Due to die fact favorite among New -year's resolu• affect the child's sexuality. A lot of these children < it anyways. Personally, I don't think dial Ihe job market is more than tight, tions). will themselves grow up 10 tie abusers. Informed] anyone cares anymore. businesses don't need more employ• The passion necessary to gel adults wiU usually chose the sensible approach and' It basically comes down to your ees, they need individuals who care dirough hfe depends on the individual. let dieir children enjoy diemselves. view of life. I mean, will it be worth about whal diey do. Some people feel life just gol in die How we were raised determines if we as adults living for 80, maybe 90, years. Do you Oh sure, you pick bad eggs off a way of somelliing more importanl, are die gigglers, the blushers, the abusers, the com• want 10 be living in a seniors resi• chicken ranch conveyor belt, but do while others died wiih Ihe smile of pletely shocked or comfortable when die subject of dence, with your pension paying the you diink about die healdi risk you're fulfillment on their face, knowing it masturbation comes up. The completely shocked bills, waiting for something lo hap• helping avoid, or are you just "pickin' was all worth it. probably stopped reading this article after the first pen? eggs"-.' Do you feel passion for the purpose paragraph. So what is masturbation? According lo John Oldham, in his book. To A But, back to Passion. of your existence or should we talk Ihc Oxford dictionary: Friend, stated, "all your fortune lies When you're out with die buds, do about die eggs agam? masturbate: Produce sexual orgasm (oO by manual beneath your hat", highlighting what you think "yay, were out, who stimulation of genitals etc., nol by sexual inter• course. LEHERSTOTHfi/NK Ttierc is even a market m devices lo help people niaslurbalc. There are artificial vaginas for men and vibrators for women. Of course you can always 1 really love my hometown. But I have sal, tight lipped Ihrougli classes. A fellow student's sexual ori• .siimulalc yourself by hand, ttien you don't have to more lhan that I loved leaving it. many classes listening lo sludents entation was called into question by a worry atiout replacing the batteries. Some women Why? Because, I thought il was a sling anti-gay insults at each other. I group of students who. empowered by prefer a nice massage with ttie shower head. community filled wilh an excess of recall one situation wliere a person in a group sihiation. chose diis person lo MiLsluibadon is also probably llic one diing that narrow minded people who lived to my class asked his friend if he was belittle and humiliate publicly. humankind has in common. I'm sure, as much as stereotype and discnminale against all going to invite tiis "bum chum" along Terribly upset, he confided diis lo me some of us hale to admit it, that mosi of us have other kinds of groups. on an outing. Although he is an intelli• I was shocked and appalled lhat grown masturbated al some point in our lileume. It proba• Getting away to the "liberal" big gent person who would probably never men and women could be so cruel. bly fell good too. Maybe nol as great as the real city was a huge relief. Unfortunately demean a black person by caUing them It is die careless jokes said widiout thing ..sex., but it felt good. Isn't lhal really what 'hberal" ends when you walk into the "nigger", he seems to find it socially thought to who may be offended and masturbadon is, a substitute for sex, and since we all doors of BQT. This school is filled acceptable to openly insult homosexu• occasional displays of homophobia have il in common what is ttiere lo be ashamed with intelligent individuals who per• als. wtiich send the message that homosex• aboul. form academic wonders on their Sometimes careless jokes tum into uals are not welcome at BQT. exams. Which makes me wonder why malicious attacks intended to hurt so often, diey fail lo diink before they someone. I had the misfortune to wit• Anonymous speak. ness such an occasion in one of my

12 • F«br^xiry9, l<^ OPINION* THEUNi Wishing on a star

by Michoel Welter to that of 15 million tons of high explo-j one now. ing to a N.A.S.A repon submitted to die ll was a clear moming, perliaps a litile sive. j Well, you might say, so what? There's American Congress last year. cool for a late June day. The famier look The earth is continuously bombardec^ nothing we can do about il, and anyway As for whedier we can do something a break from his labours and rested by objects, most of them liny chunks ol what are the chances of me being in die about il comes down to whether we are against his plough. Gazing to the north he dust and rock. Usually they bum up in the way of one? In reply 1 would say wrong prepared lo do something about it. If an did not know lhat his worid was abinil to upper atmosphere and give us "shooting and wrong, and please allow me lo incoming asteroid is spotted e:irly enough change. stars" to wish upon. 'Those are called explain,,. it is emirely feasible to send up a w;ir- Without warning the sky lit up in a meteorites. Bigger ones, maybe the size For a moment 1 will return to thei hcad, explode it close by and knock the bUnding flash, the heat burning the hairs of a car or even a bus, Siberian event. The aster-, asteroid off it's course by a few cmcial on his face and hands. Then the shock- don't always burn up oid that struck diere was, fractions of a degree We have the tele• wave came: it hfted him up like a feather entirely on their trip OPINION relatively speaking, a scopes, we have Ihe technology, but do and threw him down like a brick. He down, and the chunks lighlweight. There are we have die will? didn't know what had happened, but he dial hit the ground are called meteors. i hundreds and probably thousands of The one set of people dial can really knew he was lucky - he was alive. The one lhat exploded over Siberia^ asteroids of much greater size that regu• do something about it is the American The year was 1908 and the Siberian was a whopper, probably 80 metres ia larly pass through earth's orbil. One of govemment but they, like most people, famier had wimessed, from a distance of diameter, and is classified as an astcroidJ them, sooner or later, is going lo hit us, have traditionally ignored the problem 125 miles, the most awe-inspiring and Fortunately the big ones don't come too when it does the effects wdl be globally ("Don'l be ridiculous - it's science fic• devastating of natural disasters: the often, but they do come, and when one cat;isUophic, tion ") It would seem though that they impact of an asteroid. The blast had lev• does you don't wanl to be around to see Just over a year ago an asteroid four came to ihcir seases when Congress was elled 2000 square kilometres of forest, it. Statistically speaking we can expect to miles wide came vvittiin an astronomical pre.sentcd widi die 1993 N.A.S.A. repon, and die Shockwave was picked up on seis• see an 80 metre asteroid hitting some• hair's breadtii ol slamming into the earth. and much needed fimds arc finally lieing mometers in America. It was later esti• where on earth every 50 lo 100 years, Had it done so a quarter of the world's apportioned lo :ivcn ihis frighlemng, and mated that the explosion was equivalent which means we're pretty much due for population would have perished, accord• very re:d, threat. 421 imERS TO THE t/Nff

Link does shoddy offering the Neil McQueen after our moming session in the talgic is a locale that teams with Memorial Award which was Moving Sea Island joumalism classroom. Our unsuspecting aviation :ictivily. Being so close offered and awarded to a person facilities would be eyes were not prepared to take in to the action of an active airport showing leadership in a waste the vastness of a real life, lull allows students the chance to This letler is in response to Recreation and Athletics. size hangar. The appendage of a leam how to conduct diemselves the misguided editorial in the In a newspaper based on BCIT's Sea Island Campus Vickers 'Viscount airliner is the in a real life environment. It Wednesday, January 26, 1994 cheap shots and irresponsible located on 5301 Airport Rd. has first thing lo greet you. Tt .sils edition of "Tlie Linli'. eiKiblcs students to live :iud journalism, articles such as this been home to student.s and staff proudly encompassing one quar• breath aviation every day of The Link has managed to take one, which is based on little fact, since 1987. This, however, may ter of the hang;ir space remind• dieir academic careers. Here the small excerpts from a discussion are par for the course. In an soon change. The lease on Sea ing us of the day when its four classes can see all a.spects of the with many considerations and attempt to fill space The Link Island is up for renewal and Rolls Royce turbo prop engines industry they have chosen to trivialize the issue of the Silvia has, once again, proven their probable increase, therefore, made il soar through the sky. pursue. Also as an added bonus Leung Memorial, lack of writing credibUity by not chances are die lease may not be Anc! as our eyes followed the it places sludenls smack dab in Let's look at die facts: researching the facts and fully amended. great arched ceiling to the other the middle of lulure employers. The Link reports that the gar• understanding the issues at hand. The attitude of the students end of the building next to the Although still on airpori den idea was deemed unaccept• If anyone is to blame for towards the issue is dial the pre• three yellow Harvard military property the new location would able because "it would draw too "bastardizing" the events. The sent facilities are excellent and trainers we caught glimpse of be far away from the general much attention lo the event". Link is the culprit. And Link that moving would be a great the only existing prototype of aviation that surrounds the pre• This is flatly untrue. The final staff Silvia Leung died tragi• expense for no apparent reason. Lockheed's Jelstar. Looking fast sent facility which is a key decision had nodiing to do widi cally on January 24, 1993 not Each of us can look back and even as it sits chalked and ingredient in the Iraining of drawing "attenlion". We felt the January 21 as you so inaccurate• remember the first day of classes redied. future A.M.E., Avionics and garden would be vulnerable to ly reported. at Sea Island when our instmc• The present campus is a spa• Structures technicians. vandalism and a tree could The Smdent Assocation tors first led us into die hangar cious hangar fifled with aircraft Bob Lambrianidis largely maintain itself and at the that range from high tech lo nos• Sea Island same time be tasteful. Tlie Link then asks why we commemorate Silvia Leung's If It's Laughter You're After... death in the first place. The SA feels that her death was a Don't Miss The World's Funniest tragedy and we respect her memory. We feel we could this and Most Amazing Stage Show! by planting a tree which symbol• izes growth and future. We want to show students that we have not taken her death lightly and have taken steps to promote greater awareness of safety and security on campus with pro• grams such as the Campus Patrol. On die issue of honouring ihe WEDNESDAY FEB. 16 V TO SUNDAY FEB. 20 unfortunate death of Neil TWO SHOWS SATURDAY 6:00PM & 9:30PM McQueen. Every person is an ALL OTHER SHOWS AT 8:00PM - QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE individual in Ufe ;md death and TICKETS S16.50-$19 50-$22 50 (S/C) STUDENT AND SENIOR DISCOUNTS should so be remembered. Proper research would have 280 - 4444 shown that the SA commemorat• ed Neil McQueen's memory by YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER REVEENI

February 9, 1994 • 13 THEUNK* ENTERTAINMENT THE

OP to t»e»«

by Steve Everht MILES: The creative side is quile a self• Maybe I could live by my wits. Tlie ish diing to do and we gel our pleasure eight-hour day was impossible, yet almostfro m it, but we're inio pop music and everybody submitted lo it. And tlie war,eve n though there are disguises to he everybody was talking about the war inworn , 1 find the live atmo.sphere eniertain- Europe I wasn't interested in world his•mg. Al least. I'm entertained by il. tory, only my own. Whal crap. Your par• enls controlled your growing-up period.LINK : What do you ihink of bands ihn Ihey pis.ied all over you. Then when youfollo w in your footsteps musically? were ready lu go out on your own. the others wanted to slick you into a uniformMILES : Well, a lot of really horrific so ynu could gel your ass shot off. bands have formed as a direct result of HAM ON RYE, Charles Bukowski being mfluenced by us, and we don't, but we do gel off on slagging olher bands, Miles Hunt, lead singer and lyricist of even diough I don'l ihink anybody appre• The Wonder Stuff, finds great value in the ciates 10 see it. writings of Charles Bukowski, a Los Angeles skid row author, who parallels MALC: Il's a veo' easy thing to do. But his life experiences through the eyes of we do like to bitch about things just like his literary aller-ego, Henry Chinaski. The people in ever>' other walk of hfe. sanie could be said of Miles; die man dial can be seen dirough his lyrics and his on• LINK: How is touring around die world? stage persona, parallels the type of person he is off-stage except for one glaring dif• MILES: It's funny really. In America, ference. The abrasiveness on-siage is you get complete strangers coming up lo completely opposite lo the sofl-spi>ken, you in a hft in a hotel, and they say, "Are gentle demeanor he portrays when con• you guys in a band?". I just wanna say, fronted on a one-on-one level. "No. I always wander around other coun• I had the privilege of interviewing tries widi 15 of my males". Miles and guitarist Male Treece, prior to Iheir February 2nd show at the MALC: I suppose il does look absurd Commodore, as well as a private chat when you wander around widi dial many Miloj Hum. Male Troec.. Mortn Giliu, Marlin Ball and PaJ CliBord *>• re<:ip« for Hi. Wond«r Stuff. after the show. 1 call it a privUege because people. as when Paul wrote it. about? If that was the end result of thai 1 have been a huge fan since die release of woik we just did, somediing's gone very, Iheir first EP, It's Your Money I'm After LINK: Does music still excite you? LINK: What about the amount of drugs very sadly wrong somewhere. Baby, back in 1988. Since then Ihey have in music? released 4 full-length albums, including MALC: Yes, especially at die moment, in their newest album. Coaslruction For Tlie Ihe last year or so. There a lol of English MILES: It was quite shocking when we Modem Idiot, as well as die soundtrack lo bands coming through lhat do excite me, first started. I thought it was this mythical After die interview, diey )Krfomied for Ihe movie. Welcome To The Cheap Seats with a lol of energy. diing dial only the lop rock bands did dial, over an hour :uid half playing 24 songs, II all sianed widi Ihcir indictmcnl of bui then il started showing up backstage. and 1 was thoroughly impressed wiih ihcir MILES: There's always sniff there, it jusl Slock. Aidcen & W.atcmian, a group of I've always stayed away from it, I OQVCT skill and etierg)' level. Il had to have been depends how wdhng you are to dig it out record company exec's who created two dioughl it was a veiy thrilling diing lo do. one of the best shows that I've ever .seen. If you just rely on ihe music press in members of Ihe exceedingly pathetic But 11 docs serve a really good purpose .as The anger, the lhi'ughlfuliic-.s and ihe Britain, you're probably not going to find music business; Kylie Minoguc and Rick well, cause of course it kills people. The detail of dieir songs came across in cvei) yourself being that sausfied. There's been Astley Their song, "Astlcy In The people who are gobbing off about how note. a lot [of] studio-based electromc music, Noo.se". feamred Ihe line, "I wouldn't kill trendy and artislically useful it is, I'm After ttie shou I found Male and N'lile which doesn't really do anything for me, you. even if you paid me ", and dius began quite glad dial ihese people do ii cause die and sal down and talked wilh Ihem. The, that's why I would say dial it's been very Iheir anti-establishment reputation. quicker it brings about iheir demise. Ihe bodi diought that die stiow w.as not very stagnant lately. I'm very old fashioned; 1 They continued dieir careers widi such better. good, but 1 reminded them dial they've like bands that jusl gel up there and play. longuc-in-check songs as, "Give, Give, probably played 200 shows a yeai tor die Give Mc More, More, More", "30 Years LINK: 1 wanted to ask you aboul the last 6 years and thai they can lell when LINK: When do you feel dial you write In The Badu-oom" and "Radio Ass Kiss". song. "Hush", on your new album I pic• dieir off, but an audience that sees them your best? Most of their songs dealt with die conven• tured an indictment of the press, and mrn- maybe once every 2 years, will still tions of life and die ills of English society, ing Ihe tables on reporters, "What are believe lh:it it was a wicked show. MILES: Dreaming. It's when you wake along wilh the reprehensible nature of your worst fears?". The conversauon I then had with them greedy, lying women who were along for up with an idea, I've done dial once! We won't make il to die p.iges ol iliis papti somennies fall victims of our own lazi• Ihe ride unul die money ran dry. Bui let's MILES: It's a bit wider than that really. but it jusl coiilinned iny taidi in this band ness, when we haven't spent ume wridng I'ast-fonvard to today. It was written aboul ;i really bad nighl I and the lyrics they present on their new malerial, but we've survived il. had. A few years ago someone dragged albums. Their newest album LINK: There has been a common thre.ad me off to see Guns and Roses and I Construction For The Modem Idiot, icp- LINK: You did a cover of The Jams' Ihrough all of your albums, of lies and thouglil I would go for the comedy value rcseiits all diat is decent and real in this "Thai's EniertainmenI" Do you think that disguises and having to put on a face to We had just been cut for three weeks world. And it proves die statement ihai it IS stUl as relevant today as it was in the please everyone. Why don't you just form doing a promotional tour. And 1 looked al ivliles sings on ihe song. On The I

U • Fiinxiry9, 199-4 ENTERTAINMENr • THE UNl2 Sixth cmnual festival siiows women artists by Jeanette Arthur

WOMEN IN VIEW FESTIVAL

Women in View was founded in 1986 by a group of professional theatre artists to showcase work by both emerging and estabhshed women artists. The Link was there lo share in their sixdi annual festi• val, January 22-30. 1994 at various loca• tions in Vancouver Mad about Barbie

Jeraiifer Martin wrote and performs this one women show . It took me a while to realize where each of die tliree scenes were occurring. She alternates between her therapists office, the stage where she performs her stand-up comedy routine, and at home where she plays widi Barbie dolls. She does however use the dolls to make some very teUuig state• ments about how women in our society view their bodies. In one scene she enacts an encounter group between six Barbie doUs. Barbie #1 is trying to con• vince Midge that Barbie #2 has put on weight. Midge has to switch bodies with #1 to convince #1 that they all have iden• tical bodies. Mad About Barbie has ils funny moments bul 1 found it otherwise quite tedious.

Shaun Philips (left) as Peter Van Daan and Laara Sadiq (right) as Anne Frank in Ttie Diary of Anne Frank. Sapelo: time is v/inding up

Sapelo is one of the Georgia Sea Islands where an original slave colony's Anne not Frank enough African traditions and culture have been kept alive through die art of slory telUng. to deUver supplies, she sounded more like by Anna-Lisa Jones I guess 1 will go on imagining how diat Tlic culture is dyeing out as die govern• Doris Day at a sorority luncheon than a This play is based on the writings of was...The Waterfront Theater's produc• ment is buying up the land to make woman straining to bring hope lo people Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl tiiding in tion did not bring to life the complexity wildlife reserves. Diane Ferlaili went to whose fate seemed so grim. an attic for two years in Holland at the and pain of Anne's Ufe. Their production Sapelo to leam die .stones hoping that by time of die Nazi invasion, was myopic—focusing mainly on the The biggest disappointment in terms of jierfomiing them she could keep a small character of Anne, with Uttle view of the performances, was Mr, Frank whose Anne, was a girl filled with wit and piece of this unique culture ahve. tension, fear and hopeles.sness of die war monologue dealing with the death of his optimism. Her effervescent personality Unformnately, die old-timer who was tom times she Uved in. In the play's pro• daughter, Anna, sounded more like an shines through her writing and shadows the repository of the islands stories was gram, the Artistic Director, EUzabeth Ball, entry from the log book of Star Trek: The die tragic situation in which she lived. too old to remember diem. However Ms. says how "important and timely " this Next Generation. Ferlatti was able lo make a riveting and play is for today's audience." Timely, I On a brighter note, one supporting immensely entertaining 90 minute show THEATRE suppose because of the atrocities being actor, Peter Duschenes, who played a tellmg the stories of die people that she The Diary of Anne Frank committed in Bosnia. Important in that it family friend, Mr. Van Dann, created a met on the island. There was Kate A Carousel Theatre Production would show us the waste of the Ufe of one character who reflected real tension Brown, who was 10 years old when slav• so precious... throughout his performance. From his * 1 read The Diary of Anne Frank as a ery was aboUslied, Using only changes of skulking pacing, to his cutting side young girl. 1 remember feeUng ihe frus- Unfortunately, the production fails to hats and coals to depict changes of scene, evoke any sense of indignation about die remarks, to his frenzied smoking, this we .are transported from die barnyard, Us• uaUon of someone my age not being able actor helped to remind us dial he was liv• lo mn and play in the yard, not knowing if horrific treatment and shaming of Ihe tening to an old farmer, to die Iront par• Jewish people. Stronger performances by ing in desperate limes. she would Uve outside of her overcrowded lour where we meet the churchgoing die two people responsible for keeping the Overall, I was disappointed with the apartment, living on rationed food...seeing woman . The mobdity and pla.sticity of famUy hidden, Miep and Mr, Kraler could simplistic, humorous treatment of the die same seven people every minute of the Ms Ferlatti's face enables her to ply con- have developed die sense of fear around story of a young girl, who, despite her day of each day for two long years. I vincingly very differenl characters. One Ihe family being found, and could have unfailing hope, was denied a future due to remember feehng her fear and crying her of the best pieces of ilicatre that I have brought a sense of their own straggle to oppression and hatred. seen in a long rime. I tears.knowing that 1 could never imagine economically and emotionally support a hfe Idee that... eight fugitives. Whenever Miep came up

Febrauiy9, 199.1 • 15 THE UNK* ENTERTAINMENT Ditk's Ace is on Dettones tiie Case by Trenf Hogue trayal of Ace Ventura. He lakes his place among die The bumbling, fumbling Ace best and brightest in the pantheon always gels his man, or in this of great detectives; from case pel. When the Miami provide Dolphins mascot is stolen, they Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirol lo Miss Marple and call upon Ace to locate his Inspector Clouseau, He's Ihe whereabouts. Ace's slick, absurd finest pet detective there is—in style makes him an instant hit surfin' fact, he's the ordy one there is, with the ladies but a flop with the local police force. FILM In die end Ace ends uji solv• Ace Ventura Pet Detective ing die case in a twisled plot dial rage leaves us shaking our heads The From In Living Color fame, laughs are plenlihil. but the plot Jim Carrey comes to the big leaves a lot to be desired. If you screen in his first starring role as go to diis nick expecting a great plot line your going lo come oul by Brian Rice Ace Venmra: Pet Detecrive Jim Carrey is best known for demanding your SS.IiO refund, or A day on llio ocean surfing $4.99 on a Tuesday . But if you consists of much more than the his portrayal of outrageous char• acters, Fire Marshal Bill and die go in feeling depres.sed you will brain splattering thrill of riding leave .shaking you're head wilh a the big breaking tube There's steroid- crazed body builder Vera De Milo on the Emmy Award chuckle. This movie should pro• die preparation, the struggle past pel Jim Carrey (who by the way the breaking waves, the search winning "In Living Color". Carrey brings the same sort of IS Canadian) into bigger and bet• for the ideal location, and the ter things. wait. When the big set rolls in zany comedy to life in his por• Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura. you had better be ready. There is no mercy, you ate engulfed by a sur|irisingly powerful force thai fills all your .senses.

CONCKRT Dick Dale and the Deltones Conmiodore Thursday, February 3

Watching die Dick Dale show I realized I was mnning through a surprisingly similar set of feel• ings. 1 guess surfing was on my mind because the guy playing guitar is dubbed " The King of the Surf Guitar " and started the whole Southern California surf music thing wilh his 1961 hit " Let's Go Trippin' ". Maybe daydreaming my way 10 a wami sunny ocean top was my way of escaping the cold Vancouver fog thai had chilled me on the way lo Ihe bar. Maytie the yawns that crept out while I was waiting for the band to start are siniU;u- lo die fmstrations felt when the big waves are elusive. The Rose Chronicles. Maybe the satisfaction and feel• ing that I was in the right place at Ihe right lime when Dick shot Vancouver band's album has powerful sound through his set are somehow the same as catching die m.agic wave. singer's infiuences must include wilh a very aggressive sounding of beautiful vocals, powerful by Kelly Head album, diough in some parts, tlie music, and intelligent lyrics Maybe I've been studying loo Hailing from Vancouver, Sarah McLachlan and Kate Bush. That's not lo say Thirsk heavy music detracts from the gives this band thcu^ sound ,ind it much and my brain took a holi• Rose Chronicles, has a fresh and day. does not have her own sound, vocals. works well for them. powerful sound in their debut The subject matter of the Rumor has it that the band Regardless, Dick's Last pick• she certainly does, but she sings album. Shiver, songs tend uol to be noticed at puts on a great live show, so ing style which influenced artists with the same mtensity and emo• tion as her two colleagues. limes because of the upbeat check them out. They are slated from the Beach Boys to Hendrix ALBUM REVIEW to Stan a cross-country tout in Combining Thirk's great sound, but more often than not, was evident and the audience was Rose Chronicles early spring so 1 would plan to vocals with the hard driven the theme of the song packs a graced with a glimpse back at life Shiver music from Ihe rest of the band, punch. The band deals with top• catch Iheni soon. Two of their in California in the early 60's, upcoming shows are onFeb. 10 (Richard Maranda, Judd ics like sexual abuse, lost love, The Irto (guitar, bass, drums) The mesmerizing vocals of at SFU and February 12 at the Cochrane, Steve van dcr Wocrdj and finding yoursell pl.ayed a groovy show, I enjoyed lead singer. Kristy Thirsk. can't Town Pump See you theie! Rose Chronicles has come up Rose Chronicles combinarion the dip. help but make you think Ihe

14 • ftimary9, 1994 ENTERTAINMENT • THE UN More power to Bootsauce

Brinain* bock the onti-disco punk 70's

by Kelly Head versial subject matter such as: Pushing middle age, Joey Ever feel like time is passing the Clayoquot Sound, revenge, Shidiead, Ihe bands lead singer you by so fast that you can't religion, and abuse. and guitarist, played a hard, fast by Steve Everitt their way into Canadian culture. keep up? That music, clothes, The band had little trouble and very energeuc show. If you The Show; After talking lo They've obviously spent many and styles change faster than you filling the somewhat small Town missed the seventies music the band a couple of weeks ago. 1 hours practicing, because whal can replace your current discs Pump and die mosli pit was not scene, it wasn't just ABBA and was anxious to see it these guys exploded off the stage was a and shirts? Then you should to be attempted by those not disco, it wa.s also punk rock and could impres.s me as much with tirade of unrelenting guiuir work have been at the Town Pump on fully numbed on the Pump's power trios. Saturday night Iheir live show, as ihc)' did with by Pere Fume, a powerful Saturday night and taken in the excellent selection of draught brought a lot of people back to their personalities. 1 w.as not dis• rliyUim section led b> AI Baculis. and the "sauciest" vocals since D.O.A. show. beers. die 1970'.s. appointed. I'm not Ihe biggest Bootsauce fan but ;ifter seeing Anthony Kiedis, bolted out by Drew Ling. CONCERT them dirow out a Uve show dial D.O.A. with Chixdiggit was loud, nghl, and super hi-fi, I The funk was practically ooz• Warm up band sixzles became a believer in this five Town Pump ing off the mike sland i\nd onto piece band from Moiilreal. the girl-heavy audience The Saturday, January 29 by Kelly Head tained while waiting for DOA. crowd swayed, jumped, Quite often you don't hear Perhaps the best tesUmonial for CONCERT screamed, and puked throughout A common question asked much mention of opening bands this band is they are the only Bootsauce with guests Pillbox the entire show, even though when talking about the show when reading concert reviews, band (including original artists) The CommodoreBallroom Drew kept calling Vancouver with friends was, "is that the but I feel Chixdiggit, one of the diat can make (Jeorge Michael's Friday February 4 audiences "lame" (which of same D.O.A. that has been opening bands for DOA, "Faith" and Brian Adam's course was just a ploy lo get around forever?". Yes it is. deserves to be mentioned. The "Another Lonely Night" worth I've always beUeved that just them 10 scream louder). Their After the opening bands had band, originating from Calgary, listening to. aboul any schmoe can record an versions of "Moanie" and "Love cleared the way, D.O.A. took to could best be described as "Kids The band does not have a album by layering multiple Monkey No.9", pracucally blew the stage a Utde after midnight. in die Hall Meet the Ramones". record label, but they have a four tracks and fooling the listener my eardrums, but I have health There were no introductions, nor Playing humorous and energy song cassette available at their into believing they know how to care so I didn't mind 1 dioughl it tuning of instruments, just an packed songs such as, "I should shows for $5. They have just play. The true test of a band is was a great show and even met a immediate eruption of straight have played football in high completed their west coast swing when diey get onto a stage. Well cute, young thing, which of forward 1970's style punk rock. school", "Wliere's your mom?", and arc heading home, so watch Bootsauce proved that diey have course is what you're supposed Following the tradition of punk and "I Wanna Hump You", the for their rewra. It's a show you worked very hard in digging_ to do at a Bootsauce show. rock, die band dealt with contro• band kept the crowd very enter• don't want to miss.

70's Disco Night comedy troupes. Three English women Tickets are $12.00 in advance. The Commodore, 870 Gronville St. who have been describe as "comedie fem• EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT inist terrorists'. ODDS The Commodore, 870 Granville St. ALANNAH MYIES FLIRTATIONS v/ith SENSIBLE Saturday Feb. 19, doors 8:30 The Commodore, 870 Granville St. FOOTWEAR With special guests BAR STOOL Fridoy Feb. 11, Saturday Feb., 12 VoncoiA'er East Cultural Centre PROFITS. Tickets are $11 00 in doors 8:30 February 9-13, starts 8:00 advance, The flirtations have been described as Widi special guests YOUNG SAINTS. "the world's first and only politically LAWRENCE GOWAN active, multicultural, all-gay a cappella SWERVEDRIVER Vancouver East Cultural Centre quintet.' They have a solid musical back• Soturday, Feb. 19 ground and quite funny. Joining dicni are The Commodore, 870 Gronville St. one Britain's most raved about female Mondoy Feb. 14, doors 8:00 Wilh THERAPY? and MEDICINE.

Febraury 9, 1 994 • 17 \N/A6TLLIhJL Contraceptive Guilt (or it's not Green being Easy) Get lucky? Now the guilt sets in. hole-and the condom looks like an sential greenhouse gas, so consider No, silly, not the pre-marital sex vari• environmental torpedo. On the planting a tree to absorb your emis• ety your mum faded to instill in you- bright, side lalex is a sustainably-har- sions. contraceptive gudt. Yup, your noble vested rainforest product, so that per• The Pill presents a clas,sic case of effort to stem overpopulation may haps your copious usage could lum over packaging layers and layets of Reach for have worsened the ozone hole, the Uie tide of deforestation and save the plastic. The reusable diaphragm gen• greenhouse effect, and the garbage worid. erates only spent lubes of goo, but unbleached crisis. Yessiree, sex is fraught with Then there's contraceptive foam. then, rumour has it a disposable environmental peril. These spermacides are among the diaphragm is coming down the pdce "The f'ulp and Paper industry has recognized the Take the humble condom. Once small number of spray products that A relative newcomer to the con• need for unbleached pulp, and mills have done an excel• hand-sewn from biodegradable ani• still use ozone-layer-zapping CEC's traceptive scene is VCF, a dissolving lent joh of reducing bleaching pollutants. It's hme for mal innards, they're now made from as propellant, because they're rela• film impregnated widi the sperma- BCTT to .show support for these initiatives." slow-degrading latex. There are even tively non-toxic. Aldiough manufac• cide, nonoxynol-9. A 2.5-inch square Tim Reeve, BCIT Recycling Coordinator rumblings lhat the ring at the end turers are looking to other propel- arrives wrapped like a condom. In degrades so slowly that it presents a lants, these lend lo he hydrocarbons the body the film melts, sl.ays sperm, You mighl be surprised to hear praise from a ha7..rd to water creatures-you know, that nol only cause smog, but are and is eventually flushed out. Too Recycling Coordinator for BC's Pulp and Paper indus• picture a sea bird with a condom ring flammable. In the words of ilie US bad the film is a polyvinyl-alcohol try. But according to a recent report issued by the BC stuck around its neck. Worse, as con• Federal Drug Administration's Dr, plastic. -vpn^Hj^HHHH^^BB Environment doms have come out of the closet, die Martin Betinen, "1 w nuld say dial if a Hey, if contracepuon's so prob• ^^^^^^^^^^^H Ministry, pulp marketing geniuses have spmced up person using Uiis fo;im was smoking, lematic, nlc wiUi tluvais to the eaidi, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H are up their their presentation. One brand now they could have a hot time." ,sea and sky, where .ue the cco-pre- ^^^^^^HBI^^^^H act. In comes packed in a purple p!a,stic box Foaming suppositories are a dif• neurs? "Where's the organic plant- ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^H '^^arges that resembles a large m;ike-up case. ferent aminal. Activated hy body heat gel? Who's going to peil'ect the Add to that the fact lhat condoms are and moisture, they operate on llie washable cotton-condom? We greens ^^^^^^K ^^^^k by-product thevulnerabl e to pollution - ground-level same "vineg:ir and b.ikmg soda' pnn- are waiting with crossed legs. ^^^^^^k - J^^^M bleaching process and ozone smog from burned fossil fuels, ciple Uiat caused your volcano model Reprinted from Garbage ^^^^^^B^i^^M^^^H believed by many and ultra-violet radiation dial sneaks 10 erupt in high school. This reaction July/August 1992 ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^B cntists to the in through the stratospheric ozone releases Caibon Dioxide, the quintes• ^^^^^W^ ^^^^H ever ^^^^B^l '^^^^^^H by man - have ^^^^^^B ^^^^^^^ dropped ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ The improvements a recent staff meeting. Collectively, this group is s.i haven't been easy, A diousand sheets of Compost to Craig MacMillan, VP over 2000 disposable cups each ye.u. .ancJ Ilie industry needs Student Affairs, for plastering the c;unpus wiUi posters TIM REEVE pnnied on chlorine bleached paper. The SA Environment our support. Already a Policy specifics the use of unbleached paper whenever Loads of Compost to the organizers of the last AMA bdlion dolliu-s has been speiil on ilic clcan-iip and the possible. Reach for unbleached!! meeting for using disposable cups instead of chin.i from year 2002 deadline lor "zero discharge" of oiganochlo- Forster's Not only is Styrofoam hideous for die environ• rmes is fast approaching. Bul if this industry wishes lo Kudos to Grant LeHuquet, Tom Nakatsuka and ment, it sets a bad business evaiiiple. remain internationally competitive then it must keep Cham Tan, 2nd year 0(K?nition's Managemeni smdenls, pace with technological advancements. for choosing to develop construction waste management Kudos to Claire Webb and Bob Mellett, 2nd lear As coasumcrs it's critical we support these efforts by guidelines for tlie campus as their directed shidies project, Environmental Health students, for assessing the noise using unbleached paper products. Copy paper, coffee BCIT generates more w.asle from constmction than from impact ol the glass recycling process and making recoin- fdlers, and toilet paper arc just some of the unbleached any other single activity on campus. mencfations lor improvements. products that are now readily available at competitive prices, Kudos lo Tom Moore, Housing Manager, for printing Belated Kudos to Stacey Morton and everyone on the BCIT should be using its purchasing power to sup• all the recenl "'Res Rap" newsletters on unbleached recy• Open House Committee who has been nKdang gteen" port m.arkets for these products. It's absolutely hypocnl- cled paper. Great example — Reach for unbleached!! choices for the event Every effort helps ical to expect industry lo spend billions of dollars From Karen Odenwald. upgrading production technologies on one hand, and Kudos to the staff of the Purchasing Department for then refuse to accept their new products in Ihe market• Lugging Uieir Mugs, Every member had their own mug at place on die other. So, if you believe that a healthy and sustainable pulp Send your Kudos and Compost to the Recycling Departnient and be outomalically entered into our .and paper industry is vital to BC, dien it's time to put monthly draw for a free backyard composter and other cool prizes. your money where moudi is. Reach for Unbleached!! Include your name, program and phone number. Enter now for February's drawl!

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Feba»ry 9, 1 994 • 1 8 EXECUnVES • THE UNK SPORTS'THE UNK Wliu should you go to M'illi a problem? Whal opportunilies have you been missing out on? Who slmnld you thank for a pleasant change to campus policy or planning? Volleyball could pay Executives often seem to work away in little seen musty offices, too often without the knowledge of those they administer. dirt for BCIT this year Wilh this new section The Link hopes to give the student, and staff at by Trent Houg his team will find their way into the play• BCIT an increased awareness of executive action, asking execeutivesYes , BCIT h^is a volleyball leam. In offs 'I don'l expect we will have any to explain how they serve the campus. In this way The Link hopes itfac t there are bolh a mens and womens problem beating CNC, but Douglas will aid and assist students, and others in the campus population, te.ani. College may be a bil tougher for our guys. through a better campus experience. Both teams play in the BCCAA confer• ence, consisting of teams from the BCIT is currendy coming off Iwo con- Vancouver area as well as teams from as sequitive defeats against Langara and Lyle Boivin, far away as Prince George and Ihe Trinity. "Our problem seems to he iiiam- SA President Okanogan. sislency,we probably played our best The Cougars volleyball program is matcties of the season this past weekend, As your Student President, I am only in ils fourth year and has mel moder• said Middle Blocker Dwayne Ferguson. responsible to you, my fellow students. ate success to dale. While the leam has Lafleur is happy wilh the way the My first priority is representing you in all only seen post-season action once in its Cougars have progressed this season. "Wc matters of student life. I represent you on existance, diis could be die year die Mens have a good bunch of guys on Ihe squad Ihe Board of Govemors for BCIT, and team hits pay dirt. and we will be even stronger nexl sea• also on the Student Association Councd The Cougars are currenlly in a dog son ". meetings. 1 am also responsible for the fight with die Douglas College Royals for With the demanding programs BCIT interests of the Student Association and the last available play-off spot.With otdy dishes out to its students the Cougars only how it can provide you even better bene• four games remaining in die Cougar's sea• have time to practice twice a week, which fits and services. son, the mens team needs to win both of may hurt the team in die long haul should Being Student President allows me to its upconiming weekend series in order to they make it into post season play. have the opportunity to meet political advance to die play-offs. Cunendy BCFT The Cougars have a date with Douglas political leaders in and out of our commu• sits in seventh place overall in Ihe College next weekend at home, ttien trav• nity. During my two year tenure in office I BCCAA conference standings, parked el to Prince George Ihe following week• have mel Premier Harcourt twice, Gordon Although it is impossible for me to get between College of New Caledonia and end to take on the Kodiaks of CNC. CampbeU and also had die chance to see to know aU of you, I hope dial if you have Douglas College. If you wan't to catch the Cougars in Mikhail Gorbachev. I have also met with any suggestions or critiques you can feel The top six leams in the ten team action they play their last home games of MP's, MLA's and other ministers who free to approach me in the hallways or in league advance to the play-offs which the season on Febmary 12 and 13. Game have a direct involvement in our life at my office. 1 am very grateful for smdent begin on Friday March 4tli. time for die women's team is about 5 pm, BCIT. input throughout the year. It really helps Mens coach Fred Lafleur, is confident while the men hit the floor around 7 pm. My priority for the year was to get stu• me to understand your outiook of things dent voting rights on the Board of and gives me a scope of whal diere is lo be Govemors. To date the Ministry for Skills done. 1 hope to see all you second year and Training has not yet announced if we sludents at the graduation ceremony in have voting rights, but 1 believe we will June. have it by the end of this year.

Neil Howard, BCIT Executive Director of Marketing and Developing

Sometimes 1 feel a little misunder• BLACK SHEEP ADVENTURE TOURS stood. . . . Students might understandably scratch Iheir heads when asking how die marketing and development division fits BCIT into their campus Uves. WeU, the answer is simple: it fits in a lot, from some of the latest equipment they use in class or the Skis Big White shop to die value of the credential they receive when they graduate. at Spring Break Working with the community on and off die campus, die marketing and devel• March 11 thru 13 BCIT blast al Big While 2 days skiiing and 2 nighl3 from opment department brings together four $179 Quad (Doubia/ Twin slightly extra related areas: marketing and coi|>orate ALL TRIPS INCLUDE: relations, alumni affairs, irdormatiun and continue lo provide students with indus• Return luxury coach, deluxe accommodation, tilt lickels. daily hill transfers, unlimited community relations and deveiopiuenl, try-current equipmeni and training. fun and no hassle booftings. All travel escorted by a professional lour guide who will BCIT's fund-raising ami. Together they Al BCIT we're proud of our highly ensure your trip is memorable. You deserve it. work toward an end that benefits every qualified smdents. Using advertising, pub• studeni — enhancing BCIT's image as a lications, special events and govemment DEPART FROM THE SCHOOL PARKING LOT worid class institution and improving the and media relations, this department wdl BOOK EARLY AT PRICES UKE THESE THEY WONT L^ST LONGI faciUties and equipment diat's the back• continue to endiusiasticaUy lake dial mes• bone of BCIT's industiy-recognized train• $50 DEPOSrr BY FEBRUARY 18, 1994 HOLDS YOUR SEAT sage to government, industry and the com• (BALANCE DUE BY MARCH 3 - GST EXTRA) ing. munity. We never forget that BCIT is here to We know our students can meet what• All Bookings are made Ihrough the Courtesy ot; serve the sludents and ultimately the ever challenges the workplace presents employers who hire them. Everything we them — the more employers who know it, NORTHSTAR TRAVEL do supports that direction, which is why the more a BCIT graduate is a valuable #125 - 5665 Kingsway, Burnaby one of the department's priorities is to addition to a company. 436-0963 buUd a formidable volunteer network for So when companies approach with stu• BLACK SHEEP ADVENTURE TOURS increased fund-raising. Our strength is our dent projects — or a job offer — you'll 893-5616 training, and as govemment funds become know how ttey came to diink of BCTT. tighter and tighter fund-raising helps us

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