> USC Archives -ie: LCil TH J E Vol. LXIX, No.^ Vancouver, B.C. Friday, March 13,1987 ^^^^^ Students fear suite crackdown By TIM McGRADY neighbourhoods. ner, confirmed Kilgour's statistics occupied by a non-family member remedies for the "enormous social UBC students living in basement Citing statistics from the City but said probably all these extra in a neighbourhood zoned for single problems" involved. suites may be targeted in the city's Planning Department, Kilgour said suites were illegal. She said by her family residences. The only acts council has passed crackdown of illegal suites, says a that 33.1 per cent of the dwellings in department's estimates there were But McAfee said, "Council has so far is a prohibition on the inclu­ member of the Vancouver Tenants' the Point Grey area have been 22,000 illegal suites in Vancouver no intention of turfing out the 20 or sion of second kitchens in new Rights Coalition. "converted to include at least one but called this statistic "academic." 30,000 people who live in illegal housing starts in the city, said Suzi Kilgour said "tenants are be­ extra suite." When "the number of illegal suites." McAfee. ing harassed" by landlords who ask While noting that not all of these suites is over 500, a serious move to She said "the worst cases are Kilgour said her coalition ap­ them to keep their curtains closed are illegal suites she said her coali­ (shut down) illegal suites causes the dealt with first," and that rooting proves of this measure because, during the day and to keep lights tion has received many calls from vacancy rate to drop to zero," she out students who live in illegal "new houses don't provide affor­ off at night to prevent complaints students worried about the said. suites is not a high priority. dable housing anyway." crackdown. The term illegal suite describes an But she said the Non Partisan by neighbours who want to retain City councilor Carole Taylor said Ann McAfee, City Housing Plan­ unauthorized secondary residence Association is ignoring the crux of the sanctity of single family "many students are boarders, and the whole problem which is the pre­ boarders are legal throughout the sent dearth of low cost housing. city." She said that a boarder dif­ fers from someone in an illegal suite Caroline Rigg, AMS co­ in that "they're not living in a total­ ordinator of external affairs, said ly separate duplex." she was not aware of any students complaints, but if numbers war­ Taylor said the City's five-year rant, she would be willing to present time frame to crack down on illegal a brief to City Council outlining suites will give the city time to seek students' concerns. Groups say Carling O'Keefe ban not over By EVELYN JACOB the company before we end our Student council voted over­ boycott," said Mary McAlister, a whelmingly March 4 to remove members of SFSA. Carling O'Keefe products from At the March 4 meeting, some signs it erected a year ago in SUB council members wanted the mo­ advising students of its South tion tabled until Statistics Canada African links. But some anti- confirmed Carling's sale to a non- apartheid groups say their boycott South African interest, but the mo­ of the company is not over yet. tion was defeated, said Don Isaak, Council decided to erase AMS director of finance. Carting's name from signs in the Asked why council voted to go Pit, The Gallery Lounge, and ahead with the motion, Isaak said Subcetera, after the Toronto-based the decision was made based on Rothmans Inc. sold its 50.1 per cent common knowledge of Cartings' interest in Carling to the Australian sale reported by major newspapers. conglomerate, Elders IXL. He said the decision brings to an But Vancouver lawyer Zayed end a "costly, ineffective and Gamiet, who is also a member of misdirected boycott," which had — dan andrews photo THIS IS WHERE tenants of Gage low-rise apartments say they will be living in the summer if they are forced out the Anti-apartheid Network Com­ little effect on sales (in the Pit and of their suites. Although many are grad students and study year round, low-rise residents must move out by May mittee, said the organization will Gallery Lounge). 31 to make way for conference-goers. "They are running a hotel," said geophysics masters student John Hole. not call off its official boycott of "The few people who read the Girling until it confirms that Elders signs just bought another kind of is free of any South African links. beer," he said. He said a report in MacLean's Cartings' name was removed Research funding to increase magazine dated March 9 suggested from signs after the council meeting Elders could have South African in­ without opposition from students, WATERLOO (CUP) — A federal- enhancing our prosperity, they are tribute to the federal government's terests. according to Isaak. provincial agreement on a national vital to our national sovereignity," $800 million share of the U.S. space "We're looking into the com­ Former AMS director of finance science and technology policy is on­ Mulroney told an audience of station project. pany (Elders). So far we haven't Jamie Collins reported in ly a few weeks away, Prime students and faculty members. The task force, consisting of found any South African connec­ September of last year that Carling Minister Brian Mulroney said dur­ Meanwhile, a three-person respected members of the academic tions, but it's possible that it may" sales to the Pit Pub and Gallery ing a recent visit to the University of government task force has conclud­ and corporate research com­ he said. Lounge are about $270,000 annual­ Waterloo. ed that the federal government was munities, also said the NRC's UBC's campus anti-apartheid ly. Carling also sponsors During an afternoon visit to the justified in cutting $20 million from valued five-year plan has not been group, Students for a free Southern undergraduate societies, frater­ Waterloo campus March 4, the National Research Council's jeopardized by the cut, described as Africa, has also said it will not stop nities, and clubs activities at UBC. Mulroney said Ottawa and the pro­ budget last fall. The task force also "not painless". its ban of Carling products until it is The University of Victoria's stu­ vinces will soon sign a National sided with the government in order­ "There can be no doubt that it is convinced Elders has no South- dent council ended a 16-month Science Policy Accord. He said this ing the NRC to find $74 million painful to have to eliminate pro­ African interests. boycott of Carling products on agreement would be the blueprint during the next five years to con­ grams," the task force report reads. "We want more information on March 2. for a national strategy for increas­ ing the country's performance in research and development spen­ ding. UBC Study reveals long-term effects of drug Canada currently spends 1.28 per cent of its gross national product on By SVETOZAR KONTIC fects of diethylstilbestrol, and un­ drug was found to be associated spotting during pregnancy, R&D, less than half spent by such DES, a controversial drug ad­ covered some disturbing facts. with a rare form of vaginal cancer previous miscarriages, or if the trade competitors as Japan and the ministered to prevent miscarriages Nevin said 97 per cent of the in the daughters of women who mother had an RH negative blood United States. in pregnant women over three daughters of women who used DES took it, said Nevin. type and the doctors thought she While Mulroney condemned decades is still having effects on show side effects including genital She said, the drug, a synthetic might miscarry, said Nevin. Canada's performance in research later generations. tract abnormalities and a 50 per estrogen product, was given to She said although the risk of off­ spending, he blamed the private sec­ Molly Nevin, a fourth year nurs­ cent greater risk of developing cer­ women between 1941 and 1971 and spring developing vaginal cancer tor and provincial governments for ing student at UBC, has been con­ vical cancer. was supposed to stop miscarriages. from the drug is low (about 1.5 in not taking initiatives of their own in ducting a directed study on the ef­ DES was banned in 1971 after the It was given to women who had every 10,000 daughters develop it) R&D. The Conservative govern­ there are an awful lot of other pro­ ment itself has weathered intense blems in daughters and sons. heat from the education and scien­ UBC 'Birds advance to semi-finals Nevin calculated that the women tific communities for restricting The UBC men's basketball team Mustangs. strong performances. The UBC receiving DES were given an growth to or cutting research spen­ broke out of a tight game with a last Top scorers for the 'Birds were team was also hampered by the average of 31 miligrams of estrogen ding, in line with federal restraint quarter scoring flurry yesterday, ad­ Aaron Point and J.D. Jackson, absence of starter Eric Kristiansen, a day, a dosage 1,000 times higher policies. vancing to the semi-finals of the both with 19 points, Kevin Mansen left at home with a virus. than the amount a woman would Mulroney said Canadians must Canadian Inter-university Athletics with 15, and Mike Clarke, who The victory extends the 'Birds' receive in a birth control pill today.