VOLUME 124 NUMBER 23 DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY • HALIFAX, N.S. MARCH 26, 1992 Policy revisions break harassing barriers
BY MARIE MACPHERSON ranged from 20 to 30 a year, covering to say 'Yes, you have a right to tell and discover options. The proposal for revisions has been occurrences from sexually oriented someone you don't like this'," says Having a full-time advisor would the result of a two year study and Dalhousie's goal is the elimina verbal remarks to rape. Harris. also mean centralizing information consultation with numerous groups tion of sexual harassment among "Women now know that it is O.K. Currently, there is no sexual har concerning harassment complaints. like the DSU, DAGS, Dal Women's members of the university commu to say 'Yes, this [sexual harassment] assment advisor employed by As it stands now, with the 1O-m em Group, Women in Law and GLAD. nity. Sexual harassment is a barrier has happened to me' and that they Dalhousie, despite the fact that other ber volunteer Sexual Harassment Harris says the final version will be to intellectual, professional and per will not be blamed," says Harris. metro universities have filled such a Committee, a complaint is filed with presented to President Clark in May. sonal development. Where sexual Since 1987, the committee has position. any one of the volunteers. The possi Harris stresses that, "Sexual as harassment exists, the educational dealt with over 100 enquiries. Harris says even if the complain bilityforcomplaintsagainstthesame sault is a trauma, with all sorts of or work experience is compromised. A problem with the current policy ants feel the risk involved in filing a person to be registered with different long-lasting effects from physical to So opens the preamble to the re is that the individual complainant is formal complaint is too high, they volunteers is likely, meaning that an psychological. People mustknowthat port concerning proposals for revi saddled with full responsibility in will have the opportunity to speak important pattern in harassment there is help available here at sionstoDalhousie University'ssexual dealing with the harassment. Harris with an advisor about the problem, could be overlooked. Dalhousie." harassment policy. The 25-page re says, "The institution provides the port, unveiledlastmonthbythe Presi policy and procedures, little else." dent's Advisory Committee on This factor often results in dis Sexual Harassment, includes recom couraging victims from reporting as mendations on how to make the saults. process more user-friendly. To remedy this situation, it has Despite Dalhousie having asexual been suggested that the policy in harassment policy since 1984, stu clude advisory services and informal dents, professors and employees were remedies. slow to use the services. "People can come with a problem, Barbara Harris, the President's or something they think might be a Advisor on Women, says that since problem, talk about it and get some 1987, however, complaints have help. It might be an encouragement Who Dunit: Society denies trashing LSC
BY SHANNON GOWANS between the LSC and the Chemistry building were smashed, costing Over $3 000 worth of vandalism $1,500 to replace. Fire extinguishers The raging reporters of the Blues DVS News Snooze team DAL PHOTO: B. BUCHANAN occurred in Science bujld ings during were set off, doors broken, plants the night of Friday March 6. The uprooted, furniture overturned, and strong enough correlation between DSS crawl," says MacNeil. There is will have to deal with many societies' same night the Dalhousie Science an elevator jammed, requiring out the vandalism and the DSS Pub some confusion over when the win requests made to Bar Services to pur Society sponsored a pub crawl in the side repair personnel to be called in. Crawl to warrant billing the DSS, dows were actually broken. Some chase liquor. Science lounges. Just a coincidence? "It was a general rampage through through the DSU. society members say the windows "I am very upset by this, and don't Bill Lord, physical plant director, the building," said Lord. "The DSS should obviously take were broken before the Pub Crawl want to see it happen again," he said. thinks not, and sent the Students' There is also no doubt some mem charge and figure out what actually began, while others say they were He plans to ensure a member of every Union a bill for the damages to for hers of the DSS were drunk and a took place, and if their constitu still intact after the crawl was over. society intending to serve liquor at ward onto the Science Society. little out of control. Three people ents did it, they have to take re Regardless whether DSS mem tends a mandatory seminar on server Dennis MacNeil, DSS president, were found overturning chairs and sponsibility," said Peter Pottier, bers were responsible for all the van intervention to prevent people from admits some vandalism was caused sofas in the Psychology lounge by the DSU president. dalism or not, problems occurred. getting out of control during society by society members, however much department chair Richard Brown. "We are certain the damage to the "I'm not sure if there will be another events. of it was "just an unfortunate coin The DSS admits some society mem planters, fire extinguishers, and fur pub crawl, at leastnotnextyear,after However, he does not believe the cidence." Meanwhile the DSU bers set off fire extinguishers and niture in the Psychology lounge hap something this major there needs to DSU should have to pay for vandal stands on the middle, having re ripped plants out of their pots scat pened during the crawl and we are be a cooling down period," said ism that occurs during these events. ceived an invoice for $3 000, and tering dirt all over the floor. prepared to take responsibility," said MacNeil. "It would be foolishofBill Lord to bill the DSS accepting responsibility When vandalism occurs the physi MacNeil. MacNeil was only a minor player the DSU for every act of vandalism, for about $350. cal plant generally tries to determine No one in the DSS admits to in this incident, being absent for the the Students' Union shouldn't be There is absolutely no question a exactly which students were involved breaking the windows. "There is of entire event and sober throughout held responsible for every act that great deal of damage was done on and then charge them for the dam ten vandalism in the LSC, it just the evening. He is currently DSU occurs." March 6. Two windows in the link age. 1n this case Lord felt there was a happened at the same time as the vice-president elect. Next year he
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Institute 429-2900 CKou9{5;~ THE GAZETTE • MARCH 26, 1992 • 3 NEWS law school to use wife assault research Computer cow cuts costs TORONTO (CUP)- A University of Toronto law professor BY SCOTT MCCROSSIN is by investing money on energy con environmentally conscious. is developing course material on wife assault that could be used in servation projects. In this budget year Lord says the university generally Ontario law schools. "Sacred cow." alone, $150 000 was allocated for looks for changes with a pay-back Janet Mosher, a professor in the law and social work faculties, is That's how a lot of people have such undertakings. While that may period of three to five years, appar heading a project to develop materials for law professors in first year been describing Dalhousie's Depart seem like a lot of money, Lord says "if ently favouring a quick return on courses, and for an upper-year seminar. ment of Physical Plant and Planning anything, it's not enough." theirinvestments.Someofthetrades The objectives of the upper-year seminar are to educate students in recent months. During the tuition Fouryearsagotheuniversityspent people who work for Physical Plant on causal theories, legal responses in civil and family law, and to fee debate, students levelled com $300 000 on a computer to control had rumblings about that, saying a work on representing battered women in court, Mosher said. plaints the "cow" is bloated, and valu its boilers which heat the buildings. long-termsavingsmakesjustasmuch She said the program will better prepare lawyers for wife assault able tuition dollars are being wasted Previously a manually controlled se sense. cases. supporting it. ries of water, air, and fuel valves, the But Lord says there isn't enough "A large number of lawyers will encounter wife assault in one But Bill Lord, Directoroftheplant, computerized system has increased money available to do every project form or another in their work," she added. "Their ability to deal says these charges are unfounded. He Dal's fuel efficiency by approximately they would like to. And he says with with the issue well is affected by exposure to feminist and causal says his department is a big opera three percent. the way technology continues to theory. A general knowledge helps." tion, with a long list of responsibili Dalhousie bums approximately 11 improve, it is impossible to stay com ties. That list includes over 90 build million litres of oil every year, which pletely on top of things anyway. Penis pulled at Acadia ings, parking lots, classroom adds up to about $1.5 million. A There are many areas on campus scheduling, heating, and security. three per cent savings is therefore a where both money and energy can be WOLFVILLE, N.S. (CUP)- Acadia University's student What's more, Lord says, is that his substantial amount, over $50 000. saved.LordpraisedCEAG,theCam newspaper was denuded of some copy last week by its printer. department has been dealing with At that rate, the system will pay for pus Environmental Action Group, The Mar. 12 edition of the Athenaeum included a graphic of an the same cutbacks as the others, de itself in five to six years (referred to as for some of their recommendations. erect penis with a caption that read, "Sexism rears its unprotected spite the fact the "we tend to get beat the "pay-back period"). After that, CEAG recently estimated Dalhou head. Men: Use Condoms or Beat it. AIDS kills women." The over the head a lot" with criticism. it's on to even greater savings for sie could save thousands of dollars graphic accompanied an article on safer sex. Lord,alongwithDal'sManagerof both Dalhousie and the environment. per school year by turning off lights Athenaeum business manager Dave Matthews said a Kentville Engineering Services Peter Howitt, As well, improved steam-trap and when classrooms are not in use. Lord Publishing employee told him the company removed the graphic was only too anxious to conduct a ventilation systems installed in re says suggestions like this are always because it contradicted their corporate standards and ethics. tour of their department's compound. cent years cost the university welcome. Matthews said the paper couldn't use another printer. Along the way, some of the methods $150 000 each, but both have an Lord also expects the criticism of "The option of going to another printer didn't really exist Lord's department has used to deal expected pay-back period of three the Physical Plant will continue into because it would have meant going to Halifax, which neither time with its cutbacks were revealed to be years. New lights installed on Studley the future. Perhaps it is deserved, nor money would have allowed," he said. very interesting, for budget-makers Field use one-third the energy of perhaps it is not. Bill Lord says either The graphic has been widely distributed by the AIDS Coalition and environmentalists alike. their predecessors, another example way, he's prepared to handle it. to Unleash Power, and been reprinted in other student newspa has Lord's department is cutting costs of how it pays for the university to be pers, such as the McGill Daily. Matthews said the paper substituted another graphic, although he said the decision was unfair and reduced the impact of the safer sex message. Acadia University sociology professor Gary Kinsman agreed. Kids come to classrooms "It is my sense that heterosexual men on campus are poorly BY LYNN MACMICHAEL need a space where we can drop our certainly a major problem. We must educated (about AIDS) and don't see that they could be putting children off during class hours." continue to put a greater emphasis women at risk," he said. Kids and school don't always mix. Most of the students in towards an accessible child care sys "The graphic had a clear context, and, by removing it, Kentville A group of 25 student parents Warburton's class were empathetic tem," said Scott McCrossin, Chair Publishing diluted the message of safer sex." gathered in the SUB Lobby last week towards the situation. Warburton felt person for SUNS. Kinsman said sometimes it is necessary to offend in order to to shed light on the growing prob his classmates " ... were quite recep He liked Child Care Awareness communicate a message effectively. lems faced by student parents today. tive, but it stops there. They don't Day" ... becauseitpublicizedthechild Caroll Daniels, lawyer for Acadia University, said the publisher "I need affordable child care. My have children, so they can't relate." care problems students with children was within its rights to yank the graphic in order to avoid an major concern is the cost of child Child Care Awareness Day was are faced with if they want to attend obscenity charge by police. care and long waiting lists fora space," organized by Students' Union of a post-secondary institution." Other "Free speech is not absolute," she said. said Mark Warburton. Warburton's NovaScotia(SUNS)andtheirmem post-secondary institutions in Nova But Brian Iler, an attorney for Canadian University Press, said two children are waiting to get into ber schools. "Child care for students Scotia participated such as Acadia, charges were unlikely because the graphic was not "an undue the University Children's Centre at has long been overlooked, but it is St.-F. X., and Saint Mary's. exploitation of sex" as defined by the Canadian Criminal Code. Dalhousie. "In the last three months Controversy swept university campuses last spring after student we have moved only three spaces." newspapers reprinted a guide for safer sex for gay men, originally Warburton's family does not run in the paper at Memorial University in Newfoundland. The qualify for government assistance. Halt lemmings Muse was threatened with criminal charges, and papers across the But as Warburton commented, "My country published the article in a show of solidarity. wife and I make too much money for BY BRUCE D. GILCHRIST Blaine Kent for the position of presi a subsidized space, but considering dent by nine votes, but Scott's run York spies on its student workers we will have to pay $200 a week, how In a tightly contested race, first ning mate John Yip lost out in the can we afford thisr' On the average, year student Todd Scott has become Vice-Presidential race to Kent's run TORONTO (CUP) -A union executive says York Universi it costs $18.25 a day per child for the president of the Dalhousie Asso ningmateAranDoiron. Doiron, who ty's practice of hiring investigators to spy on student parking lot child care. ciation of Biology Students (DABS) won on the strengrh of his aggressive attendants is the worst he's ever seen. On Child Care Awareness Day, and his primary concern is to "stop approach, beat out Yip by a slim "I don't know of any place ever, not in this country, where they some students brought their children the lemming effect within the Biol margin of only four votes. do this to this degree," said Walter Gosley, president oflocal1962 to class. The inclusion of their chil ogy Department." The testiness of the election cam of the United Plant Guard Workers of America, which represents dren at classroom sessions served to The embittered Biology Depart paign and the confrontational can York's parking lot staff. show students that there is a growing ment has seen the consistent loss of didates' meeting mirror the divisive Two students and one full-time employee have been fired this problem with child care. Warburton its best professors and constant class ness that presently exists within the year in connection with undercover investigations. In 1991, three brought his two children, Emma and .reductions. DABS offers students an Biology department. Students have students were fired due to evidence gathered during surveillance, Madeline, to class with him. opportunity to voice their anger and endured overcrowded, poorly run but they were reinstated after filing a union grievance. Warburton said, "Other students frustration at the "dismantling of a cl~sandmassivereductionsinstaff. According to Gosley, the investigators often pose as parking commented on how well-behaved wonderful department," says Scott. Scott says that "Complement reduc customers and try to talk attendants out of charging them. Employ my children were, but that was be It was the biggest voter turnout in tion is no compliment. It's a slap in ees are also monitored by people who watch them through binocu cause I was keeping my children oc DABS history as 65 ballots were cast. the face of Biology. The influx of lars from nearby buildings. cupied." Warburton found it diffi The election was a tight race and communication at all levels from the Pam MacDonald, executive director of York University, said the cult concentrating on the lecture featured a confrontational all-candi students up to the top administration practice is part of annual11-uditing procedures done "to make sure because he was trying to keep his dates meeting, which resulted in an and the Dean of Science is needed. cash handling procedures are followed." children quiet so they would not unexpected splitting of the election My role is to listen, to take the con disrupt his classmates. "It is difficult teams. cerns presented and organize them, taking your children to class. We Todd Scott beat out opponent CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 4 • MARCH 26, 1992 • THE GAZETTE
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SUNDAY MASS 3J_ BY VICTOR BIGIO Many students today look forprac- •00 D M tical,hands-onexperiencetoaccom- 4• r. • panytheirtextbookknowledge.One such experience took place on the ROOM 301 5• U• B • Dalhousie campus the week of Feb- ruary 27. DAILY MASS, TUES. & THURS.12:30 1bat week SIX Dal commerce stu FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT UPCOMING EVENTS I dents participated in a contest to OR FOR CONFIDENTIAL ASSISTANCE, raise money for charity. The contest 1 PHONE 494-2287 l was sponsored by Levi'sand involved CHAPLAINS: ELIZABETH FITZGERALD planning and executing a public re ~~======F=A=TH=E=R=B=R=I=A=N=D=U=G=G=A=N======~j lations campaign for the company. "We had to make sure that we were original, and that management 1992/1993 would like it, but mainly that stu dents would enjoy it," said Paul COUNCIL POSITIONS ~J Mackinnon, a member of the Dal NOW OPEN ~ team. The team, one of eleven finalists in the national competition, chose the theme "when it's 501 it's time for The Dalhousie Student Union is now accept fun." They sold door-prize tickets ing applications for the following positions for the and set up a surf board simulator at 1992 11993 school year: the Grawood. "We were quite happy because we were able to stir up interest with the Treasurer surfboard," said Scott Boone, one of the event organizers, "a lot of stu V. P. External dents hadn't tried anything like that TORONTO from $209 AUSTRALIA from $1139 before. And of course we created awareness for the product we were MONTREAL from $155 AMSTERDAM from $628 V.P. Academic trying to promote." VANCOUVER from $508 HONG KONG from $1349 Communications Chair Proceeds from the door prize tick CALGARY from $457 LONDON from $578 ets were donated to the stay in school ST. JOHN'S from $162 TAMPA from $384 Community Affairs foundation. The above fares are subject to availability and advance purchase "We wanted to be able to give rules. The fares vary according to departure date and are in effect Member at large another organization a little public Mar. 10/92. Fares are subject to change without notice. ity while we had the spotlight," said B.O.G. Representative team member Joe Grimes. Bermuda The funds will be put into the Director of Dal Photo Young Adult Career Centre at St. Direct air from 470 Patrick's High School. limited availability Apr. 25, May 2, May 16, & May 23 Editor of Pharos Yearbook l11e campaign is now over and the White Sands cottage from 799 ppdbl. winner will be announced sometime Bermuda small properties from 1079 ppdbl. Chair of Student Council in April. Hamilton Princess from 1399 ppdbl. All inclusive Harmon Club from 1879 dbl. Student Advocacy Director Up, up and away On March 25, Beverley Myers Secretary receivedaphonecallfromNipising University of North Bay, Ontario. The secretary on the other end Applications can be picked up/ dropped off: thanked Beverley for Dalhousie's Donation of a group of helium Student Council Offices filled balloons which had travelled from Halifax to North Bay. Your ticket to the 21st Century Room 222 S.U.B. When Beverley hung up the phone she turned to Karl Smyth, who happened to be dropping by, The Information Management Department, For more information and told him the story. Coinciden Mount Saint Vincent University, offers a Contact the Dalhousie Student Union tally, Karl had remembered losing a groupofDSUballoonsattheChar Bachelor of Applied Arts (Information Man- ity Ball on Feb. 8. agement) which provides education in in "If I had known that the bal formation management and integrated of 494- 1106 loons would reach someone else I fice systems. The 20- unit degree has a co would have attached a message to Deadline for applications -April 3/92 send money," Smyth said. op option.
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BY JERRY WEST "We got a lot of fanmail when Degrassi ended," said Saysanasy. "Peo Two of the stars of Degrassi Talks ple were saying things like 'teenagers were in Halifax Friday to promote don't really have abortions or smoke what CBC calls "television at its drugs and jump off bridges."' most honest." It is to combat attitudes such as StacieMistysn, whoplayedCaitlin these that Degrassi Talks was designed on the Degrassi series, and Siluck in its frank documentary style. Saysanasy who played Yick, were on "We're trying to be as open and a promotional tour for their new gutsy about issues as we can," said program. Mistysn, "that seems to be the only Degrassi Talks is a series of docu way to get people thinking." mentaries on the problems of being a The shows have accompanying teenager. The material for the shows books, available at local bookstores, comes from interviews with Cana which examine the subject matter of dian teens, conducted by the Degrassi each episode in greater depth. The stars and their super8 video cams. cast ofDegrassi Talks are also making "Because it would be pretty in public appearances, selling posters in timidating if a huge camera crew a fundraising effort for the Kids Help were to stop you on the street and Phone. start asking questions," said Mistysn. The Kids Help Phone is a national The show is intended to help teens toll-free number that anyone under and the people who deal with teens twenty can call to talk about any type to confront the reality of the prob of problem. The number is 1-800- lems in their lives. 668-6868. "Degrassi Talks" to G~ette DAL PHoro: B. BucHANAN Good ol' Winnipeg policing TORONTO (CUP)- A Uni Folkes said he made his way to his John said one officer told a crowd versity ofWindsor athlete has lodged girlfriend's room, at which point the of athletes gathered at the station to a complaint against the Winnipeg officers kicked in the door as he was "go back to your country." police department following an inci closing it. They pushed him face As the crowd ofathletes formed in dent at a recent national track and down onto the bed and arrested him front of the station, an officer came field championship. for disturbing the peace. to the door and ordered the crowd to Carl Folkes was arrested when two leave, pushed an athlete and punched officers broke up a3:00 a.m. party in An John in the face, according to John. IF 11ll it«» rru ~ the athletes' hotel that York Univer John returned to the hotel and sity athlete Dexter John says was officer called police headquarters to lodge a (6) () () alrril CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 and to voice these into the proper CL00ED channels. This includes supporting Your tuition is a the professors of the department." Scott and Yip are the authors of a on April 1st and 2nd DEDUCTIBLE EXPENSE. highly critical and yet solution - offering repott on the state of the first for annual inventory You can collect your T2202 from year biology foundation program, which is having over one hundred (no fooling) Student Accounts, enrolment spots axed next year and which is presently without a non Arts and Administration Building. sessional professor and lab instructor available to teach the 1993 half of Thank you . the course. I TOLD YOU so! \JE 5HOULP,VE STAYED SOUTH A FEW EXTRA 'NfEKS' ~' . Teach your children well fter working on the Elementary News this week Awe discussed the Dalhousie University School \ '( and how non restrictive their system is. The school doesn't have grades, the children are divided into three groups. It struck me that not only were children labelled with grade numbers in my school, they were also divided into dumb and smart classes. At one point there was a special class for all of the problem learners in the school, regardless of age. While this special class may sound similar to the DUS, it's exactly the opposite. Instead of being freed from labels, those children were lumped together, isolated from the rest of the school, and told by everyone that they were inferior. I know that the rationale for this type of move is so that all of the children can receive the type of individual care they need. I also know that this often doesn't happen. Children who are labelled slow learners lose their self esteem and they rebel against the teachers who denigrate them. Calling a child a problem is often enough to make that child a problem. I know. I have a learning disability called a gross motor problem. I was lucky enough to be diagnosed at an early age, so when the teachers tried to put me into special education my parents had enough information on their side to keep me in the main stream education system. From time to time though, I would come across a teacher who thought I was just a slow learner who shouldn't be in the smart class. Then I became a problem. But I'm not basing my entire opinion on my own --·-- experiences. Some kids I grew up with were taught that they were brilliant because they were good at studying, or because their parents forced them to. The Dalhousie Gazette welcomes letters to the edito.r. Letters shou.ld n~t exceed 300 words in. len.gth Other kids came to regard themselves as stupid and should be typed and double-spaced. The deadline for letters 1s Fnday noon before publication. because they had no discipline, or because they Letters may be submitted on Mac or IBM-compatible 3.5' disk. couldn't learn as quickly as others. I LEnE RS One very dear friend of mine has grown up Too many Gazettes completely gone from the and with other groups, and His entire snivel was based thinking that his intellectual capacity is sufficient SUB on Friday at 5 p.m., de allow them to read and re on "having to choose between To the editors: only for day to day living. In spite of his quick wit spite the numerous other pub spond to the argument given, Castro's 'benevolent dictator and his creativity my friend has no faith in his ability The environment supple lications which distribute in i.e. the free expression and ship or elite-ruled Canada."' ment (Mar. 12) made me real to learn. the SUB (many times right trade of ideas. I could under (James inferred the latter quo ize the hypocrisy of the Ga on top of the Gazette stacks). stand not publishing a letter In fact I've watched many people learn and solve tation was mine). zette. Recycling, recycling, in Pandora if it was sexist or I'm not aware if he is always problems over the years. I find that the only real Panning Pandora recycling ... that is all I hear demeaning towards women, this unethical, or if he is an tools they seem to need are an open mind and a bit about. Why does everyone for To the editors: but preventing an opinion aspiring mainstream journal of confidence. So if I ever find myself teaching get that reusing is better? Share I am writing to respond to different or not, from being ist. I resent being anything to children I think the first thing I'll try to your Gazette. And best is re Ms. Gowans editorial (Mar. published just because it is manipulatively misquoted to teach them is that they have no limitations. Hope ducing. How about the Ga 19) entitled "Giving up the from a man seems to be noth satisfy his fantastical courtship fully everything else will flow from there. zette's circulation of 10 000, power of privilege." While I ing short of discrimination, of Gazette readers. Jerry West when only about 1 000 are agree that it is important to or if it is not, then it could be Nevertheless, put to such an picked up. "Printed on 100% give underprivileged or op seen by some as such. I think ultimatum, I would also choose recycled paper." Well, recy pressed groups a forum to that because of this decision, Canada. Amongst my reserva cling takes energy. The excess voice their concerns, I do not Pandora will become merely tions would be sharing a coun copies of the Gazette, let's ap think that it is a good idea to a publication that preaches trywithsuchanarrow-minded, proximate 9 000, are not waste deny access to that forum by to the converted, doing noth moral-invalid. free. members of a privileged ing to help the status of I have a certain measure of THURSDAY, MARcH 26, 1992 • VOL. 124, No. 23 Is the reason for this a bi group. If we are to truly stamp women. I also believe that a respect for conservatives who zarre CUP rule? Because it 1s out discrimination and op dangerous precedent has been oppose Cuba's political CoNTRffiUTORS CUP EDITORS cheaper to print more? To en pression it has to be done set which may lead to a limit economy yet recognize its MICHAEL MACDONALD EDITORS JENN BECK tice/deceive advertisers? Is the with cooperation between all on the positive and benefi achievements. Ray Cline, ROBERT CURRIE MARY JANE HAMILTON MIRIAM KORN Gazette printed in the spirit of groups. Excluding men from cial expression of ideas. C.I.A. Deputy Director during commercialism? publication in Pandora will PAID GINN MARY LITTLEJOHN Ian Wissler the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, The excess printing has no only serve to alienate a large MIKE GRAHAM WoMEN'S BUSINESS Wayne Smith, former head of RON THE PIZZA GUY defence so why bother trying group of men who are con Reactionary hormones LIAISON the U.S. Interest Section (Em ADVERTISING to defend it. cerned about or want to help To the editors: JOANNE FRY MIRIAM KORN bassy) in Cuba, and Robert JOANNE'S MUM MANAGER Disappointedly, the status of women in soci P.E. James' response (Mar. MeN a mara former Secretary of ALEX DOW MARIA PATRIQUIN ARTS EDITOR Irfan A. Mlan ety, and it will do nothing to 19) to my response to a re Defence and World Bank Presi BRUCE GILCHRIST JENN BECK 494-6532 help against negative atti sponse to my article (Jan. 30) dent-these right wingers still Editor's Note: According to ED DOWELL tudes towards women that on Cuba's current crisis is yearn for a capitalist Cuba but SPORTS our delivery person an average KEN HWANG currently exist. It may even another brilliant display of today recognize Cuba's suc EDITORS TYPESETTER of only five per cent of the JANICE CLARKE encourage it, who knows? reactionary masturbation. cesses and oppose intervention. SUZV KOVINSKY Gazette's 10 000 circulation is SCOTI MCCROSSIN ROBERT CARLSON If this is to be a truly equal Although I'm flattered to STEVE MILLS not picked up. The very last MARIE MACPHERSON and democratic society, we have been so stimulating, his issue of the Gazette was almost SHANNON GOWANS CALENDAR have to express our ideas to political naivete bores me. CoNTINUED ON PAGE 14 JERRY WEST EDITORS TltRD FLOOR STUDENT UNION BUILDING MICHAEL GUSHUE NATASHA RYAN The Dalhou1ie Gazelle is Canada's oldest college newspaper. Pub announcements is noon on Friday before publication before publication • The Gazelle of STEVE WADDEN MIRIAM KORN DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY lished weekly through the Dalhousie Student Union, which also com (Thursday of each week) Submissions may be left at fices are located on the third floor of the 6136 UNIVERSITY AVE prises its membership, The G1zelle has a circulation of 10,000 • As the SUB Enquiry Desk c/o The Gazelle • Commen SUB Come up and have a coffee and tell a founding member of Canadian University Press, The Gazelle ad tary should not exceed SOOwords. Letters should not HAUFAX N.S. us what's going on. • The views ex 1 heres to the CUP Statement of Principles and reserves the right to exceed 300 words No unsigned matenal w1ll be pressed in The Gazelle are not neces 83H 4J2 refuse any material submilled of a racist, sex1st, homophobic or accepted, but anonymity may be granted upon re sarily those of the Students' Union, the THE GAZFITE IS PRI?-tTED ON 100% RECI"CI.ED PAPER (902) 494-2507 libelous nature Deadline for commentary letters to the editor, and quest • Advertising copy deadlme IS noon Monday editors or the collective staff. • J I... DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL, HALIFAX, N.S. VOLUME 1 • NUMBER 2 • MARCH 26, 1992 W.W.F by Michael Kirk I went to a wrestling match. My second cousin took me. His name is Jack. The match was February 8, 1992. I estimate 1 The Kingfisher 000 people were there. It took by Sarah Smith place at the Metro Centre. The In early spring the male matches were Macho Man vs kingfisher courts. The male Jack the Sack, Undertaker vs Sid hovers above the female and Justice, Bret the Hit Man Hart vs lands on her back to mate. He The Berzercker, Jim Power vs holds onto her neck with his Kato, Tomahawk vs Skinner and beak and flaps his wings to keep last but not least the Beverly his balance. After mating the Brothers vs The New Founda eggs start to grow inside the tion. It was fun. I enjoyed it very female. The female lays about six much. The wrestlers were kind of white eggs in the nest. The eggs funny. hatch in three weeks. The chicks are naked and blind. Their Making Bookbags parents feed them with small by Danny Brauer fish. The Middles are making book bags for the book to be carried to Bird Feeders Making FeH and from school. First we cut out by ]ullian Crick by ]eanna Greene a template. Then we put it on a The Middles made bird feeders because we are studying birds. Friedemann helped us with them. We used The Middles made felt. Tim's piece of felt and cut the felt the wood and nails. One of them has a one-way mirror so we can see the bird but the bird can't see us. mother came in to help us. She same shape as the template. brought a bag of white wool, and Then we did the blanket stitch [l~~~t!~!JI~S~ put us in three groups. We had to all around the piece of felt until dye one layer of wool and put it on top of a layer of white wool. cloth.it was sewedThen weonto got a apiece thin of piece ~~~!~~~~~; Bird Models We used Koolaid for dye. We had of cloth and sewed it down the blue, purple, red, and green. middle with a sewing machine by WiUie Perkins The Middles are studying birds After we made the felt we dried and that was the handle! Then -~~--~~ it and then we cut out designs on so we made clay birds. We made pieces of paper. Then we traced anotherwe did another piece of handle. cloth (that Wt. got;~~;~~~~~~~ vultures, eagles, penguins, blue jays and a yellow bellied Solstice the designs on the felt and then coloured) and put a handle on ;;:::~~~ by Tooe Day we cut it out. We sewed the felt each piece of cloth. Then we sapsucker. We made scenes for the birds too. I celebrate Solstice. It is a on some cloth and we're going to sewed the two together and we celebration for the sun. You light make the cloth into book bags. were DONE! candles and you get some presents. We have a big feast. s t_ i c K y fl ,) \ ]\._) .:, r ~ \ft/e (_ u-\- Ou +PCQO M Pyo0'\ . ~Pe Y tree5 Pet a.. L ~~O--N d.· Pt1f O------(\rcoL iN fHemtOa..L D~N d,_ Pu:..t CA :Jte m ON TT-Ie S; b ~N j_ P\kf WQ t ev t"' Yo v \Jo.N+ ; N THe_ 8!:\_&[o._'WN o [)o_.Ni H oY' ) 2 • Elementary News • March ...,.,.,,. ,.,.,•,·,•,·,·.v.w.·.-·.v.•,y,•,y,·,·,··················--·····W·····W·""·'··················'•'-""•'"-"•'•'•'.... -.-.·.·.·········--..... -.-...... -... -...- ..· .·.·.·.·.·.·.·.··············-.······························-.·················-·.·.·.26~ ---. ~-~.:.: ,w.·.· ·········"''''•""•'"•''•' • '•'•'• •' • '•'"""·"-'" • ' • '"-"•'•'•'•'•'•'•'•'•'•'"-"•""• ' • ' • ' • ' • ''''""""· ' • '•"•'•'' • '• ' • '•'•"-<•W.Wo'•'"-""""• '• ' • ' •'•'•'•'"'•'"-" •'• '•""•'•''•""•' '• '' • ' "'•"'-"•' '"'• '"-"• '•'•""" '" ' '""'""''' ''""""'''•'•"-'" •'••• ' •' •'"-" -'"·'""•'•'•"-'"• ' •'· "~"'"'' The Gold Mine A Short Story by Timothy Kusalik Once there was a gold mine. AsK JuLIA Someone was working in it. He saw a ghost. He ran out. The people ran out of the town. The ghost haunted the town. A person went into the town. He was scared to death. Another person went into the town. He was scared to death as well. Another person who wasn't Advice Column afraid of ghosts went into the by Julia Lapidus town. He trapped the ghost in Dear Julia, the gold mine. The town was I have a very bad problem. My never haunted again. brother is mean to me. How can I get him back. From, Midnight Match J. A Short Story by Alexandre Dardanne Tremblay Dear J, It was the middle of the night Say give it a break, or try to and a stroke of lighten ing hit the Baseball Card Phenomenon ignore him. Tell on him. power source and the lights went by Amol Venna From, off. There was a very big house at Baseball cards are very popular because of the good prices and good players. People also like collection for Julia Elm St and I almost forgot it was money so they choose baseball cards because they are worth a lot. I recommend baseball cards if you are P.S. Please write back telling Friday the 13th. Next thing I going to collect cards. Baseball cards are very popular at D. U.S. because people just started collecting. what kind of things he's doing. heard was a scream, then a blast. Dear Julia, I did not want to look back but I have trouble reading. my head just turned towards a From, burning house with a bleeding s. person screaming half through a I, window. I screamed DearS., L. I can help you at shared and I ran home reading. I was doing the same as aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa you when I was 6. I went to bed but I could not From, sleep. I had a nightmare ? Julia ------~ J Dear Julia, I have a problem cuz I do scrappy pictures. From, L. Dear L., I like your pictures. I drew like that when I was 6. From Julia " ' Dear Julia, I am going on a three hour drive. Can you tell me what to bring? From, A. Dear A., You can bring a Walkman. Bring a canteen. From, Julia Dear Julia, I have a problem. I am going .BI to a new school and there are no I~~ kids I know. What should I do? 11f From, I I ! M. \ Dear M., Visit the school. See if there are some kids on your street and meet them. From, Julia AUmmerlck by Johanna Hoyt There was an old lady from Spain She liked to walk in the rain She went for a walk And saw a great clock Oh that wet old lady from Spain Elementary News • March 26, 1992 • 3 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo•oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooLO.OOoo ooooooooooooO.... Oooooooo oo oooooooooooooooooooo o oo ...... ooooo oo•ooooooooooooooooo o oooooooU,.OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOooooooooo oooooooooooOooooooooooooooooO.-,.ooooooooooooooOooooooooooooooooooooooooo 0 ...... THE JOKE CORNER Johanna Hoyt The Famous Five • A Book The Spaceship Michael Kirk Review A Short Story by Colin Fuller NicoManos by Pranat1 Periyalwar One day an alien spaceship Ceilidh Day Five Run Away Together is was hovering above the Empire about four kids and one dog. The State Building. Then the 1. Why did the turtle cross the road? dog's name ts Timothy. There are spaceship took a bucket of raw Because it was the chicken's day off. two boys and two gtrls. The two noodles and dumped it all over boys names are Julian and Dick. the roof. Then the spaceship 2. What time is it when five devils are The two girls names are Anne started shooting doughnuts at the chasing you? and George. In this adventure building and it turned into Five after one. Anne, Julian and Dick have gone Barbies red Ferrari and started to to visit George. When they go to fall. It fell on the Empire State 3. Why is six afraid of seven? visit George her mother is ill. Building. The building started to Because seven ate nine. The hired a new cook whose fall! It toppled over onto the name is Mrs. Stick. She is very street. A thirty foot Barbie came 4. What do you call a sleeping bull? mean to them. Mrs. Stick has a out of the Ferrari and took out a A bulldozer. son of her own named Edgar. She wad of gum and threw it at a also has a dog, Tinker. All four passing cab. There were tanks 5. Whatdoyougetifyoucrossalaband children and Timothy hate coming from all direction. Barbie a dog and a door? Edgar. They call him names like opened a door in her stomach A Labrador. Stinker. When they do this Edgar and Ken came out with machine becomes furious and throws a guns and grenades. Everybody 6. Who do you call if a bunch of killer couple of stones and calls George ran in terror. Suddenly the flies attacks you? Georgie Porgie pudding and pie. Barbie exploded. There were A swat team. One day they were out on a walk pieces of Barbie and Ken and the when George's mother got so sick Ferrari everywhere. 7. Why didn't the chicken cross the that she and George's father had road? to go to the hospital. George, French and Music Concert Because K. F.C. was on the other Julian, Dick, Anne and T imothy by Angeline Thibodeau side. had a shock when they came On Tuesday, February 25 we home. Edgar was sitting in had a French and Music Concert. 8. Why did the turkey cross the road? George's father's couch. George The Youngs sang songs about Because he didn't want to be a was wondering where her mother waking up and going to school. chicken. and father were. She soon found They wore their p.j.'s, and had out that her mother would be in homemade puppets. The Middles 9. Where does a snowperson hide its The B.Ed Students the hospital for a week. The sang songs about school and money? by Bartholomew Furrow Sticks were being mean to them some wore insect costumes. The In a snow bank. For 5 weeks some B.Ed students came to our school every Friday. Two so they ran away to Kirren Island. Olds sang songs about school and were studying with two children from D. U.S. Each group had a topic There they have an adventure. said some feminine and mascu 10. Where do sheep go to get their hair to work on, but some had a range of subjects. They went with us on They save a girl and finally the line words in French. After the cut? short trips and we usually came back late. We had a lot of fun with Sticks get arrested. This is a good concert there was a potluck To the baa-baa shop. them and really enjoyed it. book. dessert. It was good. THEME WORD SEARCH New Words by John George Hendry by Sarah Rosenberg Each day we learn a new word :~ from a calendar. Here are some t r t v Ll 1 t u r e }{ 1 examples: Unbridled, addle, s e s n i d s Lt g q y a hector, figment, scalawag, e h d i a e q g w g 1 m slipshod, hackneyed, n s r w n 1 s s r s f i jabberwocky, and backlash. My t i i 0 t s p i d e r n favourites are jabberwocky and e f b y f s e n e e e a slipshod. Jabberwocky means k g ~ -~ r c h i c k s t f nonsense, something that doesn't c n a b h a i c t y t 1 make sense. Here is a sentence i i n m i h u m a n u 0 with jabberwocky in it: The songs rock stars sing are r k q e c s k i h g b w jabberwocky. Slipshod means c a t a p i 1 l a r g e r careless. Here's a sentence with g g r a. s s h 0 p p e slipshod: I don't want to do m 0 s q Ll i t 0 j 0 h n slipshod work. I hope you will use these words. insect sapsucker ant nest spider catapiller mosquito f 1 Ol-ler birds. cricket vulture e g gs chicks plant kingfisher embryo Editors: ToveDay bones butterfly grasshopper animal Tara Perkins John Hendry CeilidhDay Angeline Thibodeau Sarah Rosenberg Johanna Hoyt )eanna Green Photographers: NicoManos 'timothy Kusalik Amol Verma Peter Hoyt Alexandre Dardanne Michael Kirk Tremblay Colin Fuller David Kusalik Alec Munro Nicole Gawetski Sarah Smith Sophie Brauer Danny Brauer Daniel Gerrard RttpOrter.: Lay041t: r...;~ Willie Perkins Arnot Verma ~ ;;.p,;. ~ P .t!t' ;1 Julian Crick Johanna Hoyt ... - ~ , -.,, Julia Lapidus Julia Lapidus Bartholomew Furrow Jeanna Greene Pranav Periyalwar Angeline Thibodeau 4 • Elementary News • Mar ch 26, 1992 ,•,-,...... ·,······························· ··················-·.·.·.·.·.·.•,·,·.·.·.·,•,•,•,•,•,•,•,,·,·,-.·,··························································-.-.·.·····--.-.·.-.·,·.-.·.················ ...... - ...... ,...... ,...... , ...... ,.,., ...... , ...... ,.,•,• ,•,•,•,•,·,-.-.-.-...... ,·,·······················-v.·.-.•.•,•,•,•,-.•,•,•,·,-.·.-.·.-.-.·.················-...... · .·.·.-.·.·.-.·.-.·... -.·.··········"'•">...... Passover by Sarah R osenberg Passover is a holiday for the Jewish people. It's a time to think what happened a long time ago. Here's the story about Passover. The Chicks Long ago the Jewish people lived by Tara Perkins in Egypt where they were slaves The Olds hatched some for the bad King Pharoh. One chicks. We incubated them and day a little boy was born. His everything. It was very exciting. name was Moses. When he was We incubated them for 21 days about two months old Moses's (which is how long they have to family put him in a river so he stay in incubation). We had 18 would not get killed by Pharoh. eggs, but when we candled them Then a princess came along and (which is putting the eggs on a saw Moses floating in the river. bed of cotton on a bright light) She took him out of the river anc we found that 2 eggs weren't told her father who was Pharoh. fertilized and 1 died as an But she did not tell h im one embryo. thing which was that she found After the chicks hatched they him in the river. She had to have didn't come out dry, they came someone to take care of Moses so out wet because they were in a his family offered to take care of wet sac. In the movies that we him. So they took care of him watched it said that it takes a few Bones until he was two years old. In hours before they are dry, but it by Ceilidh Day that time they taught him that The Old Ones are studying bones. We have bones of a mystery animal, or at least it was a mystery but we took almost 2 days before our he was Jewish so when they gave have already guessed what it was, a seal. We thought it could have been an otter but it wasn't. We are little chicks were dry. him back to the princess he knew try ing to accomplish a very hard task. We have to make a model of a seal with ch icken wire and fi t the seal Our chicks hatched on that he was Jewish. Lots of years Tuesday, February 18 and by bones where they go. passed and Moses grew older and Friday we were allowed to let older, until he was a grown man. them run around on the floor. Then God spoke to Moses and They have gone to a farm now. said " Go to Pharoh and tell him let my people go. If you don't let my people go God will give you ten plagues." And that's what Moses did . But each time Pharoh just said no, until the last plague was over when Pharoh finally said OK, I had enough. The \~ 1~ ~SPL ~11: N& Jewish people went into the desert for forty years and received -:::::;::::.:;.:=~--- ~- the TEN COMMANDMENTS. On Passover we eat a bread with no yeast called matzoh, and bitter herbs. T RA0SPL-A,~\D lceCapades we by Michael Kirk I have seen some funny things but nothing can ·compare with the lee Capades. It started like S_c;f\ o ~o~~·s this. My mom and sister and my cousin had tickets and I was scheduled to stay home, but when my dad went to get the tickets he got one for me so I , t\f\ ke I He f\\ went and it was hilarious. My 0 favourite thing was when Denoe was the Hammer Man. It was at the Metro Centre on February 13, 1992. I think you might like G-ROVV the acts. First the golden anni versary ball, then the world of Hanna Barbera, next Barbie at the Big Top, and after that in the centre ring World Class W res ding. Also the Explosive Russian Cossacks, coming next inside the lee Capades Computer, then the Little Tramp, Mr Debonair, Reflections of the Future and the grand finale, The lee Capades ~nt~ . Ensemble . ,, a./10 'we t.oDK t.l)e .Frv..-1: O...,f'"l 0 c~ lr hG~f -. I tori ,)-r-o f' Lfl.;w' f S , Dalhousie University School is a we PI' UIIO \JJT" rr we private school for children aged five to ten. It is located on the Dalhousie campus in a building it shares with the School of Education. Elementary News was published by the Dalhousie University School with the assistance of Dalhousie Gazette. SoPhre Special thanks to the staff at the Dalhousie Gazette for their interest and support Paved Way is a celebration of urban chic phere. The confessional simpliciry of BY ROBERT CURRIE written in chalk. Brass-framed col ourphotossitonshelves on the other the text is juxtaposed agairiSt the RECISE, ORDERED banality walls, pictures of urban icons like rows of competently maintained is the visual signature of the wooden butterflies and Beware of lawns, mid-priced homes and middle outer city - not downtown, Dog signs, and row after row of boxy, class conformity. not suburb. Its the sort of envi spare houses. A danger in documenting banal Pronment that makes graffiti seem out The text on the sidewalk tells a ity is that one risks succumbing to it. of place, even a child's chalk family history as familiar as the archi Paved Way comes very close to this. scrawlings on a sidewalk. In Paved tecture. Repressed mother, frustrated The outer city, in MacKenzie and Way,aphotoinstallationattheNova father, rebel sister all appear, from Poile's vision is a pretty bland place, ScotiaPhotoCo-op'sPhotoGallery, the perspective of the alienated son: and the installation expresses this. Colin MacKenzie and Craig Poile Bring up the topic of But can boredom hold a viewer's examine the visual and social exist family and I think only of attention? MacKenzie's images and ence of the urban fringe. myself. I let them !i~Je with Poile's text break no new ground, but the father/mother/sister/ do convey the contradictions of the EXHIBITION brother they' Une~Jer world of straight streets and twisted PCit~edWay have, while I look for relationships. The Photo Gallery kin in a stranger's Paved Way, with photography by Two photocollages dominate the eye. Colin MacKenzie and Text by Craig installation from opposite walls, one The orderly architecture obscure Poile, is at the Photo Gallery, 2182 an image of a house, the other of a a disorderly (or to use the term of the Gottingen St, until April 5. Open power meter. Between them runs a week dysfunctional) family atmos- Fridays and Saturdays, 1-5 pm. sidewalk of concrete slabs with text :1:1: I G collect the body. Under this storyline BY JOANNE FRY the adventure begins. ]:3( OR THOSE OF YOU who A strong follow-up to RoadkiU, haven't yet discovered Worm McDonald's first major film, High wood's Dog and Monkey Cin way 61 has lost the B-grade presenta ema, there is no better time than tion but kept the distinctive humour F of its predecessor. The film is rich now to check it out. ~ with parody and off-the-wall dia FILM logue. Highway 61 Only ina film by McDonald could Wormwood's you meet an evangelical Satan that Highway 61 is entering its second barters for souls with capital he has A and final week of showing at Worm earned playing bingo. Or a couple of wood's. Directed by Canadian Bruce rock and roll lovers that hunt chick McDonald, Highway 61 follows the ens in their mansion to be served for dinner. y adventures of Jackie Bangs (Valerie Buhagiar) and Pokey Jones (Don Absolutely nothing in this esca McKellar) as they cruise to New pade is predictable. It is this aspect Orleans along the highway made fa which makes McDonald's films so mous by Bob Dylan. appealing. After discovering a frozen body in Events that befall} ackie and Pokey his backyard, barber/trumpet player are rather irregular in comparison to Pokey becomes a local celebrity in the every day life with which most of Pickerel Falls. EnterJackie, ex-roadie, us are familiar. Pokey, however, is typicallyCanadianinmanyrespects. Get on your corpse and ride who claims to be sister of the corpse. Wormwood experience which in His rambling speech and manner, the least abnormal character in the 61 With the purpose of delivering film, yet she held the lead role. cludes great popcorn and a cozy thea "Jeffery" to a New Orleans funeral, and down-to-earth approach to life makes him an identifiable character. 1his, however, isonlyasmallgripe. tre. the pair strap the coffm to Pokey's Highway 61 is playing until April For this reason, even the most unbe Highway 61 is one of the funniest worshipped car and begin their wild 2 at Wormwood's Cinema, located _ ... lievable situations seem plausible. movies I've seen for a long time. I ~~rt;lf.!J road trip. at 2015 Gottingen Street at the In fact, my only complaint about strongly recommend this film, espe In pursuit ofthe couple is Mr. Skin Cogswell Street intersection. Phone this film is the lack of character de cially if you missed seeing RoadkiU. aka Satan (Earl Pastko) who claims 422-3700forinformationandscreen velopmentin}ackie.Toputitbluntly, If a hip movie isn't enough entice to have bought Jeffery's soul for the ment, you should at least go for the ingtimes. price of a bus ticket. Now it's time to Jackie was boring. Buhagiar played 12 • M ARCH 26, 1992 • T HE G AZETTE ARTS Spinal Tap strikes again BY MICHAEL GRAHAM The event was a great success and, guitar work and of course Tufnel's in keeping with Spinal Tap tradi expressive solos all came across in PINAL TAP IS BACK! The tion, there was a small turnout, but themoreintensesongssuchas"Break band that transcends metal unfortunately, no puppet show. The Like the Wind", "Bitch School", and myth. The band who brought us Double Deuce Road House was a fine "Christmas with the Devil" to name Ssuch rock anthems as "Big Bot venue (great fish and chips) and but a few. In addition to these three tom" and "Hell Hole". The band hostess/MCA rep. Krista Olmstead virtuosos, Break Uke The Wind also that gets lost backstage and stuffs did a fine job ofgiving away free beer features Slash, Joe Satriani and Jeff their trousers with cucumbers have tickets, introducing the new video Beck. returned! and drawing for prizes. As the CD played, however, the I was dubious about this new Tap diversiry of the new material came "RELEASE" PARTY release. How could it pa;sibly live up through. The band paid some hom Spinal Tap to all of their legendary albums such age to their past with a rockabilly Break Like the Wind as Bramhammer, Blood To Let, Nerve tune, a beatlesque song, and great It has been eight years since This is Damage, Intravenous Demilo, Bent For hard rock. Although we only heard Spinal Tap was released. In the inter The Rent and, of course, SmeU The portions of the songs, I sensed, in vening years the band toured Japan, Glove (all of these are oddly unavail "Just Begin Again" (featuring Cher), lost a drummer and split up. Then able- I am thinking box set). a lot of genuine emotion and sensi their former manager, Ian Faith, bit Everyone was treated to a tantaliz tivity. This album is destined to be the big one. There had been bad ing listen of the new album. Richard come a classic - ranking up there blood between Faith and the band Shrimpton's presence on the cursed with Led Zeppelin IV, Physiad Graf and in a recent interview Derek Spinal Tap drum kit was very impres fiti, Dark Side of the Moon and Sgt. Smalls remembered him ... "He took sive (his twin brother Mick, the pre Pepper. everythingpersonally-includingthe viousSpinalTapdrummer,hadspon (In all seriousness, If you liked the you listen, you'll hear what it really from the quintessential rock band. royalties." taneously combusted during Tap's "Black" album then you will like this is. It's about dogs - about training Derek Smalls: "People ask us 'why Rumours had been flying around tour of Japan). In the fall, the band one-the liner notes alone are worth dogs! The three of us love dogs. did you come back?' and one of the for months about a Spinal Tap reun had put an ad in the paper for a new the price). Read the lyrics- 'You're so fetch reasons, aside from trying to inflate ion. The rumours grew and grew and drummer which read "Drummer died. After listening to snippets of the ing when you are down on all fours.' our wallets a bit, is to try and make a finally the band announced that they Need new one with no immediate new CD, thevideofor"BitchSchool" How can you misconstrue that?" statement about music. We're not were indeed regrouping. The culmi family." Richard is a brave man. was played. This song has been mis T opping off the evening was the heavy metal or light metal, we're not nation of this comeback was realised It was obvious that the founding interpreted by everyone - includ critically acclaimed fil m This is Spinal thrash or industrial or post-this or last week, at the Double Deuce Road members (Derek Smalls, David St. ing the video director who thought Tap. This is the mother of all pre-that or punk-this or that. What House, where a Break Uke the Wind Hub bins and N igel T ufnel) had ma that itneededasex{ist) theme. N igel rockumentaries. It chron icles the we are making is a stand for good old "release" party was held by Dead tured as musicians. Smalls' driving T ufnel, in the official press release, band's disastrous A merican SmeUt he generic rock." Faith/MCA records. bass, St. Hubbins' tasteful rhythm explains the true meaning, " .. . if Glove tour. Quintessential viewing BY JENNIFER BECK he neglects to register as an alien and is interred in a concentration camp. HE POWER OF ONE has PK goes to the camp-cum-prison everything you've ever wanted every day, and is taught to box (!)by in a movie. It also has every an old black inmate called Gee! Piet. Tthing you've ever seen in a This man is degraded and assaulted movie, and everything you've come and ultimately beaten to death by a to expect. guard. The war ends, and Doc leaves PK to his own devices. THEATRE The Power Of One has a range of The Power of One themes that would be familiar to Park Lane even the most distracted audience. Thisexceedinglysentimental jour PK is told by Gee! Piet that he is the ney through South Africa in the "Rainmaker," the one person who 'forties is based on a book written by can unite the tribes of Africa harmo one Bryce Courtenay. The book is niously. Time and again PK angrily listed as being "semi-autobiographi denies the myth - I wonder what cal," and one could only hope so. happens? PK becomes the boxing The odyssey begins with the birth of cham pion of his school, then decides PK, and ends with his decision at age to work professionally - gosh, will eighteen to forego the lure of Oxford he win or loose? PK falls in love with College in favour of teaching English Maria, a naive girl whose Boer father to black township residents. In the refuses to allow the two to see each HAT ARE YOU OOING this April Fool's Day? It's no joke! interim, everyone and everything he other-just to give you a hint on this Dal Photo and Youth Challenge International will be present cares for dies or deserts him. one, it comes complete with a bal ing the Rocky Horror Picture Show in support of both of their This is tragic, yes; but it eventually cony scene, including a Hollywood causes on Aprill in the Mcinnes Room at 10 p.m. convenient trellis. The bad guys meet W Youth Challenge International is becomes such a repetitive recital of FILM & FUNDRAISER justice (of a sort), and the brutality a non-profit, Canadian-based vol misery that even the softest hearts grow impatient. PK's father dies three swirls in a triumphant crescendo to Rocky Horror Picture Show untary work service program that is Mcinnes April 1 days before PK is born. His mother an unlikely conclusion. All this, set Rm., partly sponsored by CIDA. It focuses suffersanervous breakdownandsends exploitatively against the beautiful on community, scientific and medical development in developing coun PK to a boarding school, which is (if seemingly incidental) African tries and in remote areas of the world. ordinarily j ustfascist but which (upon landscape. This August to November, eight Nova Scotians along with 43 other his untimely arrival as a British citi If you have any association with Canadians will be working on several projects in Guyana, South America. zen) takes up Naziism. His Nazi class this movie at all, don't eat anything In order to make this all possible each participant must raise $3 000 . mates murder his pet chicken. His beforehand. As one theatergoer Two of the Dalhousie participants, Bruce Homer and Maria Patriq uin mother dies. opined, "The sight of a Britisher will be holding the Rocky Horror fundraiser so take a little break from PK is then separated from his lov teaching South Africans to recite studying and bring all your friends out to support a good cause. ing nurse and sent to live with Doc, the American Bill ofRights just turned Your support in this and the fundraisers of the other challengers, Maria a friend of his grandfather. Doc is a my stomach." And if that doesn't get Wesolkowska, Hope Moore, Rebecca Staunton, Stephen Creaser, Hilary visiting German who cannot return you, the violence will. Sears and Ja Congratulations to the Dal Tigers - fli'fiDIJ\{@c(Q)(\j)R ~ WfiD~flfiD[Q)fl® ~ WINNERS 5677 Brenton Place of the Pepsi CrossTown Challenge (Next to Park Victoria, extention of Clyde st.) Recommended - "Where to eat in Canada" " ... the best Indian restaurant in Metro FOLLOW THE TIGERS! - The Daily News, Nov 15, 1991 14 • MARCH 26, 1992 • THE GAZETTE -.:,,y.y.-,•.-,•,y_,.. •,,• ,•,•,•,•,•,•,y ,•,y,•,•,•,.. •,• .....-,w,•,-.•.yJ_....',•.•,w,•.v... • ,•,•~N~.·,•,;:,-.•.I'.I'o':. •'.:O:N•'.!!•'•'.-.',YNNI'... '-'• Y.t.' RISKS OF DEFAULT : • poor credit history; • no further Canada Student Loans; • collection action; • withholding of income tax refund. BE RESPONSIBLE, PAY BACK YOUR STUDENT LOAN Department of the Secretary Secretariat d'Etat of State of Canada du Canada Canada Student Programme canadien ••• Loans Program de prits aux frtudiants Canada ANNOUNCEMENTS The Killam Library will have extended hours from April 6 to April 30 inclu sive: THURSDAY , "'2.6 Mon- Thurs. 8:00a.m. -11:00 p.m. In honour of $alhousieJ$ Carnpu Friday 8:00a.m . -8:00p.m. Awareness W•ek (M:at. 2'1-27)Jes Saturday 11 :OOa.m. -6:00p.m. ignated by D~ Alci6hol and, JM;!,Ig Sunday 11:00a.m.-11 p.m . Awareness~o~~ltteft. a spec1a 'f.}e ~ forman ~j}y 1be. I?)UD.E. yout Freda Wales Memorial Scholarship group i~;sfotted fslJ the SUB at1 pm for any individual who has completed tod~. AI look for display lrc>oths. two years of a program in outdoor t-s~1rt glv~-aways, c~~f$ a~d leadership. Applications available at speaket$.' J1:lp by a~ rt ao(l the School of Recreation, Physical hav& ' e' summe{' i. ... and Health Education, Dalhousie Uni versity. Deadline for completed appli As AAttotthe AfricairS!J itS" tmt cations: April15, 1992. Similar award nar'Sel'ies Dalhousie University, Prof. exists at Acadia University. Those in Julius Adekunie will speak ,on terested would inquire there directly. "Interethnic Economic Relations:..Tile Y Yoruba-Bogu Case" at the International Students Reminder To Multidisciplinary Centre, 1444 apply for MSI or to retain you cover Seymour St. For more info, please age, you must prove that you have not call494-3814. Papers fort he seminar left the province of Nova scotia for can be picked up a few days before at more that 30 cqnsecutive days. the M.D.C. Dal University. 4:30pm. TUESDAY Information on Work/Study Exchange Data base "Sojourn" is available atthe Politics as if women mattered 00 00 29 31 Audrey Mclaughlin and Alexa inventive world of sound, move As a part ofthe Lester Pearson Insti International student Exchange Cen McDonough will be present in the ment and theatre arrives in Halifax in tute's Tuesday Brown Bag Lunch Se tre. Call 494-7077 for more info. Green Room of the SUB from 5- ~.,.)1.,."" the form of TUYO, a Montreal based ries, Robert Clark school for Re The Halifax YWCA has openings for today. Tickets are $10 regular an new music ensemble. The group will sources and Environmental Studies volunteers on the Security desk and for students, seniors or unwaged. For be presenting their unique explora will speak on "Sustainable Develop in child care administration and build info call 423-9217, NS New Demo- " : tions with invented instruments at St. ment and Poverty: The Challenge for ing departments. Call 423-6162 for crats. " Mary's University Art Gallery today at Rio" atthe seminar room of LPI, 1321 more info. 8pm. Tickets are $9 for adults and $7 Edward St. Bring your lunch and help Bpm today the Metro Peace Centre for students and seniors. you rselfto coffee. For more info please Youth Help Line is looking for volun Native Environmental Film Series call 494-2038. teers to work on the phone line. Vol presents: "Dancing Around the Ta In Search of Superman Dal Christian unteers must be able to volunteer 16 Fellowship hosts Church in the ble", at the Grad-House, Dalhousie. ~-~~~"9 hours month and participate in a 40 For more info call the M.P.G. at 422- 111 Grawood, 7 pm . hour training program starting March 1931. Everybody is welcome. 25. For more info call Sue LaCroix at Have you ever had a professor who WEDNESDAY 422-2048. has inspired you to great heights of J learning? Have you ever had a lab "Living With Cancer" an information Students of Halifax Dance's Adult instructor who really made you feel and support group program for can and Teen Jazz programs will present that students are people too? The cer patients, theirfamilies and friends Shades of Spring and Summer, afash Dalhousie Science Society has cre- will meet today at 7pm at the Cancer ion/dance show choreographed by ated the student-version of the Excel Treatment and Research Foundation Penelope Evanse at the Lord Nelson lence in Teaching Award called the of Nova Scotia, Dickson Building, Hotel Ballroom on Friday April 3rd. DSS Giraffe Award. The award in University Ave. For more info please Tickets are available at Halifax Dance, The Department of Chemistry <>t tends to recognize a member of the call Rosemary Kuttner, at 861-4785. 5435 Spring Garden and are $12 for adults and $10 for students and sen fRIDAY Dalhousie presents a seminar entitled Faculty of Science who has excelled "Some History of Free Radicals" at in his/her teaching and has demon- iors. For more info call 422-2006. The International Development Stud 1:30 p.m. Chern 226. Coffee and strated a genuine concern for student With spring just around the comer, ies Seminar Series presents "South doughnuts will be provided a 1:15pm affairs (i.e. to someone who has "stuck and melting snow revealing lots of ern Africa at the Turning Point?" at in room 225. his/her neck out beyond the call of litter left behind, The Clean Nova Scotia room 208-A, McNally Building, St. duty.") This award is not restricted to Foundation is launching a new litter Mary's University. For more info, The social psychological perspec just professors! Nominations and clean-up and awareness programme please call 420-5768. Light refresh tive of Multiple Personalities. A talk voting will take place during the DSS -The Great Nova Scotia Pick Me Up! ments will be served . All welcome . by Dr. Nicolas Spanos of Carleton General Meeting and Elections Mon- This province-wide effort will take University. 3:30 p.m., Rm 4258/63, day, March 30 at 7 p.m. in the Council place from April 25 to May 3. If you 2:45 to 4pm Sexual Assault and the Psychology Dept., LSC. Wine and Chambers, SUB. are interested in co-ordinating a local Law, a presentation by Halifax lawyer cheese to follow. clean-up project call 424-5245 for Anne Derrick will be held in the Henson information. Auditorium, 6100 University Avenue. Sublet Bachelor, corner Spring Gar is kicking off ;xr-1 p fZ!tN f<'/'1 ;M At 7:30pm Campus Sexual Assualt: The Dal Outdoor Club den and Tower, May 1, option to re spring in a BIG way! At 1 p.m. today in An Overview. American policy con new, $450. Phone 422-6542. sultant Bernice Sandier, author of front of the informal footbag fest. ~ ~17ft' f'0 oN "Peer Harassment" and "Campus Tonight: a party at 8pm. at 13?8 7 Plane ticket to Calgary One-way. Fe Gang Rape" will be speaking in the Seymour with Prizes and L1ve Mus1c. male. DepartsApril30. Call425-3908 Weldon Law Building, room 105. Everyone Welcome! vJI·(I+ 1~ or 453-3671 for more info. Special Student Rate (Wed. and Thurs. only ) Your FOR RESERVATIONS CALL number one $27.00 choice. (taxes and gratuity included) 425-1961 Stage North • Stage South ypridham GOOD • CABARET pho t ographer • 1586 Argyle Street , Halifax , Nova Scot i a VIBRATIONS • CRUISE 422·9103 • •• We, the Class of '92, have spent memorable years at Dalhousie University. Along with the academics (remember the "a/1-nighters"!), our experiences have meant laughter, shared smiles and good friends to last a lifetime. As members of the Class of '91 and future alumni of Dalhousie, we realize the value of our r:r-...... degrees will only be as good as Dal's continuing reputation of excellence. We, like the thousands of alumni who do so each year, now have the opportunity to help provide financial support to Dal's growth and development through the Grad Class Challenge, a three-year pledge plan through the annual fund. These seniors have already pledged their support: Margaret H. Gibb, BA Brian J. Hiscock, BSCPI' Chris H. Hyson, BSCPH Metlej Sabah, BA Kimberley A. Kerr, BSCPI' Chris H. Hyson, BSCPH Harvey Urquhart, LLB Trent Laing, BSCPI' Kim J. Legere, BSCPH Lee MacLeod, LLB Brian McGrath, BSCPI' Heather a. Logan, BSCPH Lisa Murphy, LLB Rod W. McGory, BSCPI' Kirk Duncan Gordon Lowe, BSCPH (_ Tracy Pratt, LLB Susan L. Seviour, BSCPI' Kirk A. T. Lycett, BSCPH Amy Parker, LLB Alvin W. Straub, BSCPI' Cathy M. MacAskill, BSCPH Erika Gerlock, LLB Tamara R. Begin, BSCPH Mary E. MacDonald, BSCPH Hugh Wright, LLB Lynda D. Beach, BSCPH Leanne M. MacFarlane, BSCPH Ahmad Fadzil Abdul Manap, BCOM Janis L. Boutilier, BSCPH Diana D. Maduro, BSCPH Julia Clarkson, BCOM Tracy L. Burke, BSCPH Ron I. Matlock, BSCPH Catherine Jane Courtney, BCOM Krista M. Colton, BSCPH Shane L. Pollock, BSCPH ~ Andrea L. Belyea, BSCPI' Margaret A. Cruickshank, BSCPH Christine L. Richardson, BSCPH \ ""'- Heather E Buckle, BSCPI' Michelle N. D'Entremont, BSCPH Stephanie L. Routledge, BSCPH Cynthia J. Danells, BSCPI' Bill Evans, BSCPH Lorraine M. Walsh, BSCPH David S. Foley, BSCPI' Kim A. Gillis, BSCPH Howard C. H. Chen, MD When you are asked to make your pledge ... JOIN THOUSANDS OF ALUMNI, MEET THE CHALLENGE, IT'S YOUR FUTURE lUI Grad Class Challenge \fi' Class of '92 For more information, contact the Development Office- 494-8801