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by Trina Hamilton Shell was doing business in South Africa during the apart­ Local activists are seeking to hit Shell heid regime—were quashed by Canada where it hurts—the bottom line. the Supreme Court. ^ The Ogoni Solidarity Network has The city resolved, "...not to been organising weekly demonstra­ do business with Royal Dutch/ tions at Shell gas stations since late Shell and Shell Canada until October. Royal Dutch/Shell completely At issue is Shell Oil's Nigerian withdraws from South operations. Environmental destruc­ Africa." Shell Canada subse­ tion in Ogoniland—the Ogoni are one quently took the city to court of Nigeria's indigenous peoples—and and in 1994 the Supreme ties to the military government have Court of Canada ruled that been well documented and reported. But the resolution was not with­ Shell Canada has repeatedly denied com­ in the jurisdiction of the plicity with and responsibility for the city as defined by the actions of its parent company. Vancouver Charter, effec­ The Ogoni Solidarity Network's position tively renouncing the is that if Shell Canada is serious about envi­ city's ability to think - _ ronmental and human rights, it should pub­ globally, act locally. licly repudiate its parent company and After studying the case history inttpria change its name. ofthe 1989 resolution, the Ogoni The Network has failed to convince some Solidarity Network has drafted a people to turn away from Shell Canada sta­ new resolution they believe will T' ^ / tions. At one of their weekly demonstra­ circumvent some of the complex tions a passer-by remarked: "Why should I legal arguments that hindered the care what's going on in Nicaragua?" last resolution. Presumably the demonstrators would Specifically, they have attempt­ agree that he should care about what's ed to link the concern for the dev­ going on in Nicaragua, but more important­ astation in Nigeria to the ly—in Shell's case—he should care about Vancouver's jurisdiction to "pro­ what's going on in Nigeria. vide for the good rule and govern­ Sid Tan, director of the Sierra Club ment of the city." They argue that Lower Mainland group and member of Shell's actions have "harmed the the Ogoni Solidarity Network, assert­ morality of Vancouver citizens." ed that "human rights and environ­ They have also attempted to draft a mental atrocities should concern avoid discriminating against Shell Aft, . everyone as members of the human Canada by targeting all "corpora­ ft, */ species, and even more so when we tions or individuals doing business can do something about them." within the City of Vancouver which council is aware have explicit and resolution documented ties to environmental T he boycott campaign presses and human rights abuses in any on, and while the two-hour weekly part of the world that would consti­ that would demonstrations may turn some tute an unlawful act or violate the prewnt helling out a boycott

Vancouverites away from Shell's conscience, psychological well-being, and draft resolution to all of the cities and pumps, activists are turning to moral principles of the citizens within the municipalities who will be joining municipal governments to make an City of Vancouver.' Vancouver to submit a co-operative Request Vaitmer City even bigger dent in Shell's pockets. for Proposal for the 1997 gas and diesel Shell Canada currently holds an contract. exclusive contract to supply gas and his resolution may be the only chance Will this effort have any effect? diesel fuel to the City of Vancouver. the Network has to prevent Shell from Tan points to the outcome of a March eoiicilfroi The deal expiring on May 31, 1997. being awarded the next contract. Council meeting of the City of North The Ogoni Solidarity Network has Sid Fancy, Manager, of Purchasing Vancouver, explaining that while council decided to lobby city council to pass a Services for the City of Vancouver, respond­ did not pass the resolution proposed by the selective purchasing policy resolution ed to initial inquiries about the contract by activists on the grounds that it is still legal­ that would prevent Shell from being acknowledging that as it stands now, ly contentious, members unanimously purchasing awarded the next contract. Such resolu­ "Council has authorised the Manager of agreed to instruct staff not to buy Shell tions have been passed by various US Purchasing Services to accept the proposal products. While legal concerns may prevent cities including Oakland, California, and that will provide the city with the lowest many municipalites and cities from passing also by the State of Massachusetts. overall cost." the Network's resolution, the mere tabling City council's attempts, however, to The Ogoni Solidarity Network has sent of such resolutions may add fuel to the boy­ Shell prodocts. adopt such a resolution in 1989—when their detailed legal justifications as well as a cott campaign.* 2 THE UBYSSEY, APRIL 2, 1997 Visit our w^bsit^ at www.chrvslerqrad.com for your chance to WIN... Tech fee campaign heats up the by Sarah Galashan calling for a yes vote. 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President's office sit-in ends by Ian Gunn FIND US on the 2nd floor ._,_ _ ji»"«*i^^ Behind CIBC Bank After six nights holed-up in the UBC 224-6225 University Village president's office, eight graduate stu­ 2174 W. Parkway dent protesters called it quits last Vancouver, BC Wednesday morning. The students had been demanding the university roll-back a 310 percent increase in new international graduate student fees and give all students more say in fee issues at UBC. From the steps of the Old Administration Building protest organ­ iser Jonathan Oppenheim told a group of more than 40 supporters the efforts had been worth it. "We've mobilised a huge amount of support and shown UBC what they can and cannot do. We've built a network of dissent, not just here but across this province and across Canada." He said the protest had achieved its main goal of forcing UBC's administra­ tion to listen to student concerns and give students a say in policy decisions at the university. "There's no way [the administration! will be able to act in this irresponsible manner ever again," he said. "We've really shown them how students and staff and faculty feel on these issues. Next year they're going to have to have no differential fees or else they're going Serving the UBC campus to see this thing happen all over again." But UBC's vice-president academic STUDENT PROTESTERS say good-bye as they leave Strangway's for over 25-years and acting president Dan Birch said the office last Wednesday after a six-day sit-in. RICHARD LAM PHOTO We are back! Good Food, Low Prices! sit-in had little effect. Only with its conclusion, he Paul Ramsey, announced earlier this month that the said, could meaningful discussions between students province's freeze on tuition fees for domestic stu­ B-8 5728 University Blvd. Fat in or and administrators take place. dents would be continued for another year. But he University Plaza "I don't think they have achieved their goals through made it clear that the freeze will not extend to foreign the sit-in. But then sitting in is, perhaps, an entertain­ students. International Food Fair 13KG Oil* ment; it draws some attention, but from -my point of Education ministry spokesperson Michael Vancouver, BC V6T 1K6 Tel: 222-1311 view it cuts off communication; it doesn't facilitate it." Lancaster said there was little chance the govern­ The protesters were told, he said, that no negotia­ ment would step into the dispute. "UBC's Board of tions on any issue would take place until the students Governors have the right and responsibility to set Open Monday to Saturday 11:00 am to 10:00 pm left the president's office. fees," he said, adding that the government is unlike­ Oppenheim conceded communication was one of ly to reverse a decision that does not directly contra­ the main reasons for ending the sit-in. "We did feel dict government policy. we had a gun pointed to our head and we couldn't And UBC's Dean of Graduate studies, Frieda have any more progress while we were in there. Now Granot, said the issue has moved beyond the fee OPIESMART that we're out we can get on with the legitimate increase itself. G Copy process of negotiations." "We are working very hard now, since we didn't But it seems unlikely that much will change on the win the first round, to try an offset the tuition fees...to Centre international graduate student fee issue.. try to secure financial assistance and tuition fee UBC has no plans to revisit the policy, Birch said, rebates." Full/Self-Serve Photocopiers which has now been confirmed by the Board of But Oppenheim warned that unless students see Full/Self-Serve Colour Copiers Governors at three separate meetings. "It was con some movement on the issue, there will be more Self-Serve Computer Rentals firmed at meetings in December, February and action here at UBC and elsewhere. Digital Colour Output (Laser) on Self-Serve March," he said, "which amounts to a first, second "Keep an eye out at SFU. Keep an eye out at UVic. 8-y2" x 11" copies and third reading." Keep an eye out across Canada. Because if there is no Large Colour Output (Inkjet) Nor is the provincial government likely to step in movement by government or administrations then Binding & Finishing Services to help. Minster of Education, Skills and Training, you'll see people going into offices all over the place." • Desktop Publishing Mon.-Fri.: 8-11 Office & School Supplies Sat. & Sun.: 9:30-6:30 Pick-up & Delivery Services Tel: 222-3189 UBC criticised for hosting APEC Faxing & E-Mailing Fax:222-8136 by Douglas Quan summit, arguing the importance ties do we have for these 18 lead­ of Canada's "policy of engage­ ers to get together to talk about The divide between the university ment" with the leaders. human rights?" he added. and students opposed to the 1997 He added that while economic Slonecker said almost all of Neighbourhood conference on Asia Pacific development and trade liberalisa­ APEC's 18 members have been Economic Co-operation couldn't tion are the focus of the summit, involved in human rights abuses; be wider. those with concerns about human it is a process of a country's evolu Mini Store-All Inc. This was evident at last rights will have plenty of opportu­ tion, he said. "None of these coun­ Thursday's university-sponsored nities to be heard given that tries have a clean, pure slate." public forum on UBC's role in the media from around tlie world will The entire APEC summit lasts November summit. While UBC be attending. from November 22 to 26, and will Store • your representatives talked about There will also be an Non- be held at the Trade and preparations being made to host a Governmental Organisation con­ Convention Centre. However, on day of meetings on campus, a ference dealing with human rights November 25, the leaders will belongings jp? for handful of students questioned issues running at the same time hold their meetings at the hosting the leaders at all because as the summit, he said. Museum of Anthropology. of poor human rights records in But another student, Gurpreet UBC Event Coordinator Eilis some APEC states. Singh Johal, argued that human Courtney said there should be the /summer-or longer! "How can we invite people rights still should have been put minimal disruption to students' involved in human rights abus­ on the APEC agenda. "If Canada routines. However, access to Rose es?" asked Katja Cronauer of doesn't put human rights on the Garden Parkade will be blocked 10% discount with APEC-Alert. "The university is agenda, they're being hypocritical off that day. inviting dictators." because [they've said] one of their The last summit UBC hosted valid student card UBC Public Relations Director, key concerns in the Asia-Pacific is was in 1992 between US 436 West 2nd Avenue Vancouver B.C., V5Y1E2 Charles Slonecker, defended the human rights. President Bill Clinton and Russian university's decision to host the "How many other opportuni­ President Boris Yeltsin. • 572-2622 If you want a good job, you need real skills. The B.C. Government can help you get them. With B.C.'s most comprehensive youth skills training and job creation program ever. 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by Robin Yeatman of what religious people shouldbe like. "Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a good per­ PARADISE LAST: THE CHILD MURDERS AT ROBIN HOOD HILLS son," says Sinofsky. "It's what you do the other six Plagiarism Apr 4-10 at the Ridge theatre days of the week that counts." Misrepresentation Both directors questioned the guilt of the accused All Cases Murder has always been a fascinating topic; the more from day one. They believe that the lack of physical evi­ gruesome, the better. Paradise Lost: The Child dence presented in court was completely inadequate CLAYTON BIJRNS Ph.D. 222-1286 Murders at Robin Hood Hills examines the trial of grounds to convict the teenagers. "We still have to have three teenagers accused of the brutal murders of evidence other than hearsay to convict somebody," says three eight year old boys. Co-director Bruce Sinofsky Sinofsky. "We felt that they didn't get a fair trial. If I was spoke to The Ubyssey about the various dungeons on the jury I couldn't have convicted any of the three." and caverns he discovered while making the film. Sinofsky uses the OJ. Simpson "fiasco" as an Sinofsky and co-director Joe Berlinger first example ofthe miscarriages of justice in the United became interested in making the film in June 1993, States. "We always talk about justice being blind. It's when they came across an article in The New York not blind. It focuses on the dollar bill and the amount Times concerning the murder case. of power and influence that the defendant or their "What intrigued us was the cult angle the article attorneys have." Many people of West Memphis, liv­ took," Sinofsky explains. The murders were suppos­ ing in trailers parks or run down neighbourhoods edly committed as a part of a Satanic ritual by three don't have the money, power or influence sometimes teens: Jessie Misskelley, Charles Baldwin and necessary to win in court. Damien Echols. Sinofsky believes that the extreme bias "We thought, let's go down there and sensationalism ofthe press had and look into the human condi- a definite effect on the jury pool, and on the outcome of the trial. Paradise Lost criticis­ es the press for these :•„ very reasons. "We do a a me* :: have a responsibility to present both sides of the truth, and tion, let's see what -. never once, from kind of an environ­ ment creates such a e do have alresponsihiUty situation." to present both sides of Initially, it looked NO MORE like a cut-and-dry the truth, and never case. The police, as once, from the d0 we got there well as the press, were to the day the trial ended, did HANGING completely convinced of the guilt of the three any reporter (and there were boys. Sinofsky was not so confident in their culpability. dozens of them) ever question AROUND "It occurred to us within a day the guilt ofthe kids. or two that there was a bigger story AIRPORTS. than what was being presented to the public," he says. the day we got there to the day the trial ended, Never do it again. Soon after their first trip to West Memphis, did any reporter (and there were dozens of them) Get home with Canada's best student fare offer. Sinofsky and Berlinger presented the idea for their ever question the guilt of the kids. In their minds film to HBO, who loved it: they had complete funding they were guilty and that's the way they reported it." for Paradise Lost within a week. They dove into their Although Sinofsky and Berlinger are also a part of work, spending countless hours interviewing the the media, they believe they handled their power in a Vancouver/Kelowna one-way many people who had something to say about the more evenhanded manner. "We're not attacking to: case. This extensive list includes the accused and these people," he says. "Ultimately we do want people their parents, the parents of the victims, the defense to watch the film in the theatres and on television, Toronto/Hamilton $155 lawyers, the prosecution, even people on tlie street. but we handle it with a sense of dignity and propriety It was a long, challenging process, which took an that other people don't do." Winnipeg $115 emotional toll on the entire crew. "Person by person, Most people seem to agree. All the participants in family by family, eventually we got access to all of the film were able to see the final product, and none Ottawa $165 them. Some took two weeks, some took two days, of them regretted their contribution. People on both some took two minutes, some took nine months." sides of tlie case felt they were portrayed in a fair Reservations accepted only within 48hrs of departure. But all that time was a small price to pay for the manner. In fact, Sinofsky and Berlinger are more Must pay at time of booking. Fares are non-refundable, non- many touching, memorable moments the two direc­ than welcome to return to West Memphis this sum­ changeable and seats are limited. For 12-24 years of age, valid tors caught on film. "We spent a lot of time with the mer, where they hope to start filming another feature student photo ID required. Taxes/AIFs extra. Prices subject to people. Perhaps for every hour we film, we spend on the murder case. This film won't sit on the side­ eight hours not filming," Sinofsky reveals. "A bond, a lines so much, but will be more proactive. They hope change without notice. For new bookings only. trust, a knowledge of each other, a kindness towards to get an FBI profiler to look into the case and come each other develops, and that allows to get some very up with a more satisfying conclusion than the EDMONTON • * intimate moments that you see on film." "•OTTAWA Memphis court's verdict. 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"He's general public, were it not for the likes of NWA, Ice first ever gig, incidentally, was in Vancouver. In \,mcouver for his one-man Smokin Word always been a strong influence on me professional­ Cube, or Tupac Shakur, who sang about the horren­ "We toiled in the '80s," he laughs in hindsight. Tour—a grab-bag show of spoken word, stand-up ly, and privately," Franti concedes. In particular, dous condition of blacks in the ghettoes at a time "We were so poor, after our shows we'd introduce ii>medy, and personal history—Michael Franti, Franti hopes to emulate Marley's topical dexterity. when nobody cared to listen?" ourselves to some audience members and ask if ii'.'liteous leader of acclaimed soul/hip-hop outfit "Marley wrote from the heart. 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WEST 10TH OPTOMETRY CLINIC screen again with Josh Hamilton, Dr. Patricia Rupnow, Optometrist her With Honors co-star. Kelly admits the decision was General Eye 4320 W. 10th Ave. rather abrupt, but she likes working Vancouver, BC with Shum. "Mina's got a great and Vision Care (604) 224-2322 vibrance. She's very excited about her work. She loves what she does. Great sense of humour. And my belief," she adds, in an odd gender switch, "is the director is the father NOT SURE WHAT YOU WANT? of the film, and all feelings on the You've taken all or most of your chosen degree and set are coming from the director, want more information on career options. and she gives off great vibes." You have an active interest in people; You are mature and energetic. The crew is still abuzz over Kelly's Irish dancing at the WISE You would like a career where you help people Hall the night before, but she laughs solve their problems in life. it off. "I think I'm going to have to go We offer... back and teach them a few things about ceillidh dancing," she says, though it's not clear whether she Canada's First Psychiatric means to instruct her crewmates or Nursing Degree Program the WISE proprietors. at Brandon University t last, Mina Shum. For a Brandon University offers a unique baccalaureate degree program "vibrant" director, she seems that leads to a Bachelor of Science in Psychiatric Nursing and pretty fazed. Time is short, eligibility for registration as a Psychiatric Nurse. mshe onl y has a few minutes to talk before she's called away. "They're If you already have courses toward a Bachelor of Science or other going to call me back. Lunchtime is University degree, applicable courses can be transferred to our called by someone else. They just program. Enrollment is limited. put food in front of my face and tell me what the schedule is." Please contact our-Program Coordinator for more information: let. (204) 727-7456 or (204) 727-7409 / Fax: (204) 728-7292 A Unlike the semi-autobi­ e-mail: [email protected] passenger on ographical Double Happi­ by Peter T. Chattaway ness, Shum's new film BRANDON UNIVERSITY set centres on a bank robbery It's lunch break on the her own gone wrong and a hostage Psychiatric Nursing Coquitlam set of Drive, She situation turned roman­ Said, the new film by Mina Shum, and we're waiting tic. For Shum, the new film is a wish fulfillment in Department of Nursing arid Health Studies more ways than one. Brandon University, 270 - 18th Street for a chance to talk to the director. It's been almost Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A9 two years since Double Happiness became one of a "I think we all want to get taken hostage, occa­ Brandon College established 1S99 * Brandon Unmersity chartered 1967 handful of indigenous films to last more than a week sionally, from our boring lives—or our exciting lives! in Vancouver theatres. Drive, with 75 sets, a $2.2 But whatever they are, we always want to change million budget, two relatively high-profile American channels. It's always been a fantasy of mine. I love it THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA stars and the promise of an action scene or two, when someone else orders for me, or takes me to promises to be even bigger. some show I would have never gone to see on my St. John's College But first we talk to Steven Hegyes, when he isn't own." St. John's College is a new residential graduate college that will taking calls on his ever-beeping cellular. Hegyes— Shum also relishes the chance to direct a more focus on international research themes and issues. The College like Shum, an alumnus of UBC—has made a name action-oriented film. "I've always wanted to shoot is the realization of a dream held by local and international for himself as a producer with a knack for juicy dis­ stuff that girls weren't told they were allowed to alumni of the former St. John's University in Shanghai (SJU) to tribution deals. Double Happiness was one of the shoot—break glass, crash cars, shoot people, all that revive the spirit of their alma mater. SJU was operational first Canadian films to open simultaneously in stuff. Nice girls tell stories about people who sit between 1879-1952, with a renowned international reputation Canada and the United States, a strategy Hegyes has around a dinner table, and I've already done that, so as one of the most prestigious and influential universities in repeated on Lynne Stopkewich's Kissed, set to this time I wanted to do China. Its alumni can be found in key posts on both sides of the open April 11. something that was Taiwan Strait, in Hong Kong, Singapore, and on every conti­ "It was a shameless promotional leverage," he really challenging, nent. Continuing in the tradition of its namesake, St. John's Colle;ge will strive to build bridges between different parts of says. "It helped us to have Siskel & Ebert give us ve always shoot it in anamorphic, two thumbs up the weekend before we opened. «A and come out with the world, serving as an intellectual and social centre for (American distributors] New Line spent $60,000 wanted to shoot guns ablazing." graduate student and senior scholar residents, and for other on the trailer for Double Happiness. Well, there's Shum had originally members of the University of British Columbia and wider no Canadian company that would ever spend stuFF that girls peppered her script community who share the scholarly objectives of advanced international studies. Its aim is to create a vibrant international $60,000 on a trailer, ever, because they just weren't told they with cultural identity don't have the market to support it." jokes, but she took community in which students from different parts of the world Hegyes, who's also executive-producing Bruce were allowed them out when she had will learn from each other in a collegia! setting. to switch her leading Sweeney's upcoming Dirty, has turned to UBC for to shoot St. John's College is located on the west side of the University volunteer help in the past, and he hopes to con­ actress. To her sur- of British Columbia campus, close to ocean and forest. The tinue fostering a relationship of sorts between prise, Shum found the College is being developed in three phases, with completion of his alma mater and the industry itself. script had improved Phase I by Sept. 1, 1997, and anticipated completion of Phase II "The film school and the film industry were total­ now that she wasn't imitating her first film so much. in 1998 and Phase III in 1999 on the 120th anniversary of the ly foreign to each other when I was in film school," he "It actually turned out to be a better script without the founding of St. John's University. Upon completion, St. John's says. "They didn't have any kind of association. There Asian references in it, and if Sandra had come back College will have accommodation for 170 residents and will was no real screening for student films, either. When to do the film, I would have given her the new script include several lecture facilities, seminar rooms, as well as I started there, I came down to the Robson Square to play." dining facilities, lounge and social areas, and a landscaped Media Centre for that year's screening, and one of American stars, action scenes on 75 sets, and a open air courtyard. the film profs ran around the corner ten minutes late foray into the bank-robbery genre—Drive, She Said Upon completion of Phase I, the College will accommodate 35 with four or five films under his arm, dangling away. sounds almost too mainstream to be true. Can it still graduate students, post doctoral researchers and visiting There were, like, six people in the audience. I be as personal as her other films? The answer, for scholars. In addition to these residential members, there will be thought, 'Boy, we gotta work on this.' So Lynne and I Shum, is an emphatic yes. a number of members from various academic units on campus started Persistence of Vision, and now we're think­ "It's so autobiographical now, I think people are and from the wider community who will enrich College life as ing, if we make enough money, of establishing some going to come up to me and ask if / was ever taken non-residential members. kind of PoV award to help out the people who are hostage! But if you want to draw parallels, that's doing it, 'cause it's a lot of work." sort of what's happened to me. I was taken hostage Applications for graduate student, post doctoral researcher and by Double Happiness and all the press, and I've visiting scholar residential as well as faculty, graduate student Ill egyes leaves to take care of business, and come out of it now and learned to like myself and post doctoral researcher non-residential membership are I U I Moira Kelly pays our table a visit. Today, she's again. welcome at any time. Residency in Phase I of St. John's Collge UJ wearing what she calls her "Annie try-out "You go through the media circus and you have to will commence on Sept. 1,1997. wig"—a bouncy, bright pink mop—so we can't take rediscover who you are, because everybody's telling her picture. you who3'ou should be. There's no time for any philo­ For further information or to receive Shum invited Kelly, who has been in everything sophical discussion when you're only allowed to do a Call for an application form, please contact: from Chaplin to Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, to soundbite. 'Lunch is over, Mina, you've gotta go back Susanna James, play the lead when a scheduling conflict with HBO and go direct your film.' So in the middle of that membership St. John's College prompted Double Happiness star Sandra Oh to back thought, I'm gone." phone: 822-0533, fax: 822-5802 out a mere two weeks before filming began. Kelly And, with that, a production assistant beckons her applications e-mail: [email protected] liked the script and jumped at the chance to share the back to the set.«> 1 2 THE UBYSSEY, APRIL 2, 1997 environment

You're Graduating ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM NOW WHAT? Nigeria's Ogoni get Shelled IF YOU ARE: Shell Oil has no problem with tries, 40 percent of its oil spills • passionate about the arts from 1982-1992 occurred in • a good organizer devastating developing countries Nigeria. • a persuasive promoter like Nigeria, writes Scott Pegg, a During that period, more PhD candidate in Political Science than 1.6 million gallons were • energetic and creative spilled from the company's • looking for a challenge and member of the Ogoni Nigerian operations. Many of • able to leap tall Solidarity Network. these spills have never been buildings in a cleaned up. In some cases, they single bound by Scott Pegg have just been burnt off, reduc­ ing huge parcels of once fertile then consider While the term genocide has been diluted in recent land to enormous piles of dead Edmonton's years by imprecise use, racism has suffered the black gunk. ARTS ADMINISTRATE opposite fate—instead of being used too widely, the If you don't think racism is PROGRAM—an term now suffers from being applied 'too narrowly. involved, imagine the response if In essence, racism is most often defined so nar­ innovative, 10-month Exxon had just set the Valdez oil rowly that it only includes the most extreme mani­ spill on fire and left the remnants certificate program. festations of this phenomenon. If it's not state-sanc­ sitting on Alaska's coast line. tioned apartheid or Bull Connor turning the dogs But the consequences of envi­ For more information, WRITE to loose on school-children in Birmingham, then it ronmental racism do not stop at Arts Administration Program, GMCC, doesn't count as racism. devastation of the land. Profits 10045-156 St. Edmonton, AB T5P 2P7 Canadians are especially susceptible to this nar­ from Shell's environmental ra­ DR. OWENS WIWA Grant MacEwan or CALL (403) 497-4410 or 497-4415, or row idea of racism. The 'kinder, gender' Canadian cism serve to prop up Nigeria's military dictatorship. Community College E-MAIL: [email protected] self-image often fools us into believing that racism There's a great scene in a British documentary on somehow magically stops at the 49th parallel. Ken Saro-Wiwa where he is talking to a British farmer Witness the vitriolic reaction to track star Donovan who has oil on his land. Saro-Wiwa asks him where the Bailey's comments on racism in Sports Illustrated. It pipelines are and the farmer tells him how much care comes as no surprise, then, that most Canadians are Shell took to ensure that they were all buried under­ THE UNIVERSITY OF reluctant to consider environmental racism. ground so as not to disturb the pastoral landscape. The wryly-humorous Saro-Wiwa then BRITISH COLUMBIA asks him where the British army was when they laid the pipelines. The farmer is incred­ REGISTRAR'S OFFICE ulous. Why would the British army ever be involved in such a matter? In Nigeria, though, Shell pays the Nigerian military to accompany its construc­ tion workers. On more than one occasion, such military units have indiscriminately Registered students may pick up fired on civilians with deadly results. Oil accounts for about 90 percent of registration guides for Nigeria's annual foreign exchange earnings and 80 percent of the federal government's 1997 winter session: revenue. Shell operates the largest joint ven­ ture in the country and produces about 40 percent of Nigeria's crude oil output. 7 * *ri! to 11 April UBC STUDENT PROTESTORS demonstrated outside a Vancouver When Shell's environmental destruction &00 am to 7:QQ pro Shell station last November, UBYSSEY FILE PHOTO of Ogoni led to mass popular opposition against its presence, the company respond­ Brock Hall Lobby I witnessed that reluctance when Dr. Owens ed by requesting and paying for the assistance of Wiwa, an international environmental and human Nigerian police and military units. rights activist, came to Vancouver to speak about the Subsequentiy, more than 2,000 Ogoni civilians Valid AMS Card Required plight of the Ogoni people in Nigeria. have been killed, dozens of villages have been burned Dr. Wiwa, the younger brother of murdered writer and thousands of refugees have been produced. and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa, On 10 November 1995, following the conclusion argues forcefully that the wanton devastation of the of a laughable kangaroo court, the Nigerian dictator­ Niger River Delta by European and American multi­ ship hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni national oil companies is a classic case of environ­ activists for non-violentiy protesting against the activ­ mental racism. ities of this irresponsible corporation. Though he was speaking before largely sympathetic Two of the 19 other Ogoni leaders presently await­ audiences, you could feel a tension enter the room ing this same fate were originally arrested by Shell's GateOne campus christian forum when he introduced the topic of environmental racism. own security force. What exactly is 'environmental racism'? In essence, After almost two years of denials, Shell has finally it is a hypocritical policy of double standards-the admitted to making field allowance payments to the application of one set of standards by multinational Nigerian military. In two separate instances in 1993, corporations to Western Europe and North America, the company admits paying military units who were while employing greatly reduced and devalued stan­ present when Ogoni civilians were killed. dards in the developing world. It is the fact that the policies behind these double standards are conceived, "We either win this war to save our executed and justified almost exclusive­ land, or we will be exterminated ly by white business leaders and direct­ ed at countries inhabited by people of because we have nowhere to run to." colour that brings the charge of racism. KEN SARO-WIWA Perhaps the best-known form of EXECUTED NIGERIAN AUTHOR/ACTIVIST environmental racism is the interna­ tional trade in toxic waste—waste that is produced in the western world and shipped to some The Ogoni and other groups in the Niger River of the poorest states in Africa. Delta suffer today from the combined depravations In the case of tlie Ogoni, the main perpetrator is of environmental racism and military dictatorship. the Shell Petroleum Development Company, the For them, tlie stakes are clear. As Ken Saro-Wiwa Science: God's Thoughts or Nigerian subsidiary of Royal Dutch/Shell. At some put it shortiv before he was murdered, "We either Just Details? sites in Ogoni, Shell has been open-air gas flaring win this war to save our land, or we will be extermi­ around the clock for more than 30 years. nated because we have nowhere to run to." Speaker: Rikk Watts of Regent College According to tlie Nigerian group, Environmental For Canadians, however, the stakes are also clear. Rights Action, up to 76 percent of the gas from We can stick our heads in the sand and pretend envi­ plus jazz recording artists Nigerian oil wells is flared. In tlie US, not even one ronmental racism doesn't exist or we can try to do percent of oil wells are flared. In the UK, only four something about it. One way to start is byjoining the Christine Duncan and Bob Murphy percent are flared. international boycott campaign against Shell Oil. In developed countries like the UK and US, oil Here in Vancouver, the OSN has been protesting Sunday, Apr. 6, 7:30 PM pipelines are buried. In Ogoni, pipes run through vil­ against environmental racism at local Shell stations \Regent College (University Blvd/Wesbrook Mall) lages, coming within metres of individual dwellings . for 19 consecutive weeks now. To get involved, Although Shell operates in more than 100 coun­ please e-mail [email protected] or call 873-8554. • THE UBYSSEY, APRIL 2, 1997 1 3 environment

RIVERS AND STREAMS in BC are under attack from pollution. Pristine waterfalls may soon be a thing of the past. RICHARD LAM PHOTO Urban streams threatened by Kersi Regelous redirected through underground said he was encouraged by the culverts. initiative, but wants to ensure Urban streams are among the "Streams face a lot of threats," that it is progressive and effec­ most threatened waterways in said Mark Angelo, vice-chair ofthe tive; he also wants to see the British Columbia, according to an Council. "As Vancouver has devel­ urban stream issue addressed. • annual list of the province's top oped over the last century, the pri­ :|; ten most endangered rivers. . ority has been on growth and ifflli:iillll The list, released by the urban development. Streams Outdoor Recreation Council of BC, were looked upon as an obstacle said that problems associated to be overcome." with urban development such as As a result, the city of culverting, pollution and habitat Vancouver has few natural loss are the main reason for the streams left. Steps, however, are damage. being taken to bring back some of the streams that have been cov­ "The priority ered over, such as Tatlow Creek on Point Grey and Hastings Creek by has been on growth the PNE grounds. and urban development "I think that the rest of Streams were looked upon the Lower Mainland can learn from what has hap­ as an obstacle to be pened in Vancouver," overcome." Angelo told The Ubyssey. "It's important that we pro­ MARK ANGELO tect the rivers that we do OUTDOOR RECREATION have, but we must also look for COUNCIL OF BC new ways to restore waterways that have been lost." AIDS Vancouver FEATURING Many of the streams used by In its recent throne speech, salmon species for spawning and British Columbia's provincial rearing have been lost due to silt government introduced plans to from construction sites and the form Fisheries Renewal BC, a removal of streamside vegetation. project devoted to protecting the Others have been paved over or province's fish resources. Angelo Tickets on sale Marcin7 at UBC SUB BOM Office Big Sugar Driven by the sun or charge by phone: by Noelle Ibrahim never be possible due to surface TicKBtraastep 28JHJ444 One step Beyond area constraints, but "to show that $10.50 lipst 1000/$12.50 alter In the basement of the Hennings solar power can perform." $15.00 day of event building, physics student Andrew Driving strategy includes a tac- • Pluto Booth is carving shiny metal into tical computer, a light-weight Pteture ID iwtfred t or Dzzr. conical shapes with a mysterious aerodynamic build and low loss greasy apparatus. engine, all of which ensure effi "Engineers do all sorts of ciency. Mudgirl things," he says. "People think What's the big deal about min­ we're just pencil pushers but it's imising energy loss? Well, it's not true." hard to win a race when your vehi­ When he assembles the assort­ cle is supplied with the power of a ed metal components I see the cre­ household hairdryer—all cars in ation resembles a wheel—a very the race use clean, renewable lightweight wheel, to be specific. solar power. The wheel belongs to the first UBC's car uses photovoltaic Canadian collegiate solar car team cells, like the ones in your solar- west of Ontario. Last September, powered calculator. An array of the project began under the man­ cells gathers energy from sun­ agement of Andrew Booth and light, and an eight square metre Matthew van Wollen, two fifth surface area is required to gather year Engineering Physics stu­ an adequate amount of energy. dents. UBC's team consists of This is the primary limitation of about 20 engineering students, the vehicle. but Booth says this size is still rel­ Another constraint facing the atively small—some collegiate design team is the universal teams can have several hundred limit—budget. Although extensive members. fundraising has been done both on The team's car will compete in and off campus, Booth says about a four day racing tour from $40,000 more is needed before London, Ontario to Montreal this the end of May. Students can help May. Victory requires an efficient out through the Adopt-a-Cell pro car and a sound driving strategy. gram by donating $10—the According to Booth, the pur­ approximate cost of one ofthe 750 pose of the project is not so much cells used to power the car—and to apply solar technology to every­ you can adopt, as your special cell, day automobiles, which may any one from the car's array. • 14 THE UBYSSEY, APRIL 2, 1997 ubyssey

APRIL 2, 1997 • volume 78 issue 44 Editorial Board

Coordinating Editor Scot! Hayward News Ian Gunn and Sarah O'Donnell Culture Peter T. Chattaway Sports Wolf Depner National/Features Federico Araya Barahona Photo Richard Lam Production Joe Clark rhe Ubyssey is the official student newspa­ per of the University of British Columbia. It is published every Tuesday and Friday by the Ubyssey Publications Society. We are an autonomous, democratically run student organisation, and all students are encouraged to participate. Editorials are chosen and written by the Ubyssey staff. They are the expressed opin­ ion of the staff, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Ubyssey Publications Society or the University of British Columbia. The Ubyssey is a founding member of Canadian University Press (CUP) and firmly adheres to CUP's guiding principles. Al! editorial content appearing in The Ubyssey is the property of The Ubyssey Publications Society. Stories, opinions, pho­ tographs and artwork contained herein (annot be reproduced without the expressed, written permission of The Ubyssey Publications Society. Letters to the editor must be under 300 words. Please include your phone number, student number and signature (not for publication) as well as your year and faculty with all submissions. ID will be checked when submissions are dropped off at the editorial office of The Ubyssey. oth­ erwise verification will be done by phone. "Perspectives" are opinion pieces over 300 words but under 750 words and are run according to space. "Freestyles" are opinion pieces writ­ ten by Ubyssey staff members. Priority KICKING CORPORATE BUTT: UBC Culture Jammers symbolically portray dollar a day, while Michael Jordan has a multi-million dollar contract will be given to letters and perspec­ tives over freestyles unless the latter is the plight of child labourers in countries where corporations take with the same company. time senstitive. Opinion pieces will not advantage of cheap labour. The protest was part of the week-long Corporate Butt-Kick Week be run until the identity of the writer has Children working for Nike in South East Asia make less than a put on by the group, RICHARD LAM PHOTO been verified Editorial Office Room 241K, Student Union Building, 6138 Student Union Boulevard, Vancouver, BC. V6T 1Z1 tel: (604) 822-2301 fax:822-9279 Business Office Crippled Statue, being a UBC student anymore. administration make these prob­ which suggest that Canada is Room 245, Student Union Building Each day as I get off the bus, I lems worse and worse for the presently very multi-cultural and advertising: (604) 822-1654 a humiliation am greeted by a crippled statue average student. One thing your universities have simply failed to business office: (604) 822-6681 and reminded of her humiliation. readers might like to do is join acknowledge an actual societal I am unsure as to whom I should I have experienced this for over a the SEC (the Student Environ­ shift away from what might be Business Manager address this letter, but I would month now and I hope that this mental Center). Despite its AMS termed 'Anglo-Saxonism.' Fernie Pereira just like to say how outraged and short letter, although late, will affiliation, this group has been Advertising Manager This mirrors a split in the larg­ horrified I am at the current sight somehow help to expedite her active in protesting the erosion of Jarnes Rowan er multi-cultural debate, in which of the Goddess of Democracy out­ repair and her restoration to her UBC's former ideals. Perhaps Ms. writers frequently wish to play to The shooting of Joe Clark s music video side the Student Union Building. rightful place of honour. Scott would consider taking her both sides. They cannot decide if way about to commence. The penultimate As a proud UBC student of the energy and idealism to SEC head­ rork star had enlisted the talents of Sarah more is to be gained by empha­ Galashan and Scott Hayward as directors. local Chinese community, I am Sara Wong quarters in the SUB. sising and vilifying the 'main­ Charie Cho was onset as the worry-set pro appalled that someone could 4th Yr. .Arts stream', or by suggesting that a durer and Peter T Chattaway was the art mutilate the statue in such a fash­ director who kept insisting on an ever pre J. Boucher European mainstream no longer sent Christian/Star Wars motif. "Luke is a ion. Nothing is sacred anymore. a^rts, Class of 1988 exists. Thus, these incompatible Jesus Christ figure'!", he insisted as Wolf I am tempted to believe that University "sucking views exist side-by-side unchal­ Depner interjected that the Ewoks were sim the same people who label the lenged. ' ply the spawn of Satan. Sarah O'Donnell and corporate dick" Ian Gunn had been strung up in the air as the statue the "Goddess of Hypocrisy" Where is the Kiwi Two further points present inevitable sacrifices, while Federico are responsible for this act of van­ Victoria Scott's Perspective piece themselves. First, it was very cun­ Barahona rouldn t understand the appeal of dalism. Perhaps I am wrong and Shakespeare? any of it Richard Lam was at tlie camera (March 24, 1997) was totally bril­ ning of you to advertise an article awaiting the commands of Douglas Quan, I am more than willing to stand liant. It glowed with passion and I recently perused your 'Racy as 'what they didn't teach you in the bitchy third AD, who was awaiting the corrected, but as it stands, those energy, and everything she said Issue'. The tone was what one History 12'. Canadian history, of commands of Keri Regelous, the bitchy sec­ people are the only people ond AD, who was awaiting the commands of was so right. has come to expect from your course, is taught in Grades 9-11. Jo Ann Chiu, the bitchy first AD, who was out inclined to make a mockery ofthe To the Strangways and Pipers newspaper. However, it inadver Incidentally, I was taught about at the moment Richelle Rae. the PA, was sim student sacrifices of Tiananmen of the world, university is indeed tently served an important pur­ many of those events. Second, I ply bored out of her mind while Andy Square in 1989. Notwithstanding Barham lectured her, and Paul Kamon and 'all about sucking corporate dick'; pose by illustrating the schizo­ was interested to hear that an Pauio Santos Javier drank too much coffee. the mutilation of the statue, I just the humanities exist, not for the phrenia that afflicts many writers English student is advocating Robin Yeatman was nowhere to be seen simply do not understand the enlightenment and development on multiculturalism. Those arti­ reducing the amount of time while Harper Haddin was too busy chasing logic of branding the goddess after the handsome actors. Susan O'Donnell of students' minds, but for pro­ cles that were critical of the cur given to Shakespeare, Milton, and was new on the set and a bit bewildered, "hypocritical" if she represented viding job skills. Young people rent state of cultural relations in Chaucer. She quotes 90 percent while Noelle Ibrahim, Trina Hamilton, and hope and justice to the students who want an education and who Canada (eg. 'When the Main­ as the amount of an English Scotl Pegg were just glad to be extras on set in Beijing. By demeaning her, you Wesley Chiang was walking out the door, don't have rich parents have to stream Says No' etc.) implicitly or degree dedicated to those authors. wbenjohn Zaozirny arrived and decided that are demeaning everybody who live in damp basement suites, eat explicitly suggest the existence of If this is so, it is simply because it was ail just a bit too much. stands for democratic rights and I inadequate diets, and ride on BC an Anglo-Saxon mainstream 90 precent of English literature is think I speak for many students Transit's 'garlic wagons'. And I'm majority which (apparently a footnote to these authors of true when I say that such a "label" is glad I'm not the only one who because it is influenced by a and pervasive genius. Please tell just plain insulting. The goddess finds the new Koerner library biased press) is closed-minded me when you find a post-colonial has been humiliated and shamed Quiadian 'crazy (and) fucked up'. and responsible for all manner of New Zealand Shakespeare. University by Canadian students supposedly inequality. This is in sharp con­ ftess believing in identical principles. I've been on campus in one capacity or another since the trast to such articles as 'I want to Matthew Mosca Perhaps I need not be so proud of study literature, not Britain's Canada Post Publications bales Agreement Numbet 0732141 early 1980's, and I've seen UBC's 1st year Arts op/fed U.S. CITIZENS What happened to the environment? DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE GENERALLY REQUIRED TO FILE A 'We are here to document the denly everybody began to take equally threatening and omi­ U.S. TAX RETURN EACH YEAR? end of the world." Thus spake Global Warming seriously—the nous. But they will all seem pret­ Carl Chaplin, a hardnosed five hottest global temperatures ty academic if we don't tackle the reporter from a BBC news crew since we started keeping records environmental problems con­ in Amman, Jordan shortly after occurred between 1987 and fronting us. Having a high paying WE HAVE OVER 13 YEARS Saddam Hussein's troops evacu­ 1993. job will mean absolutely nothing EXPERIENCE IN THIS FIELD! ated Kuwait. During this entertaining if there's no food to buy with the Environmentalist, painter and event, we were advised to stay money we're earning. As a former biologist turned peace inside with windows and doors species, we do face extinction, US/CAN INCOME TAX PREPARATION activist during the Gulf War, tightly sealed (despite soaring late not in some nebulous netherland Chaplin went to the Gulf Spring temperatures), to remove postulated for a far distant future FULL BOOKKEEPING SERVICES with Randy Thomas, all dothing and shower immedi­ in some esoteric Darwinian evo­ founder of the Save ately on returning home, and lutionary space, but in our own Georgia Strait Alliance thoroughly wash or or discard immediate future. BRING IN THIS AD FOR A our clothes. We were also We may not be as fundamen­ 10% DISCOUNT advised not to eat fresh leafy tally aware of it as we are of other foods or drink fresh milk, and crises confronting us, like unem­ to take iodine supplements to ployment, poverty and homeless- prevent thyroid cancer. ness, but the environmental cri­ Radiation warning signs went sis is upon us. We may survive RICK BENNETT •/fr a year earlier. Like up on children's sandboxes and this century. Our children may 8c ACCOUNTING SERVICES LTD. Greenpeace, they everybody was advised to stay off not survive the next one. made a doomed bid to the grass for the next 30 years. —Andy Barham 104, 1199 West Pender Street Vancouver, BC Canada V6E 2R1 stop a pointless war Arcane scientific terms like Telephone: (604)801-5747 Fax:(604)801-5787 before anyone got killed. Bequerel (a measurement of Fat chance. The vast roulette radiation) entered the lexicon wheel of western democracy was of the vernacular. Farmers in turning, and the spin doctors of some districts of Sweden were our declining civilization had advised to forget about farm­ thoroughly demonised Iraq for ing for a while—a long while as the benefit of our otherwise som­ it turned out—since Cesium nolent masses. The Soviet Union 137 has a halflife of about 30 had imploded and America years. And in the best spirit of needed a new enemy. Free Enterprise, the milk The departing Iraqis made Europeans were being advised good on Saddam's promise to not to drink was rapidly being Student Bush Nights! set fire to the entire Kuwaiti oil converted to powdered milk to fields—practically the whole sell to Third World countries country—and the dense, choking desperate to feed their citizens. ...Exclusive savings of 50% off forvancouver smoke was blowing all the way to How well I recollect the the foothills of the Himalayas in experts telling us the fire in Canucks & Grizzlies games Nepal, several thousand kilome­ Chernobyl could not be put out. Surprisingly enough it ters away. On TV, it did indeed HCOUV look like the BBC crew was docu­ was, with a lot of help from kVA Cft menting Armageddon. When Western Europeans desperate Red Adair, legendary oil well to see an end to the two- firefighter from Texas, saw the pronged cloud of invisible scope of the disaster and con­ particles raining down on cluded that there was no way we them from the clear skies could put the fire out—it was just overhead. too damned big. The fires in the Gulf were Up until the Gulf War, the put out, largely by Canadian state of our deteriorating envi­ teams who either hadn't ronment had been flavour of the heard Red Adair's remarks, or month, issue-wise, for almost two had failed to understand them BRING IT ON. Come on in. years, following a couple of local properly. The mess is still oil spills and a severe drought in waiting to be cleaned up but the great North American the sorry state of our belea­ Vancouver Canucks Vancouver Grizzlies Wheatbelt in 1989. There's noth­ guered environment has fall­ ing like having a mess in one's en right off the political and vs. Phoenix Coyotes own backyard to stir up local social agenda. Without a vs. Houston Rockets interest in these things. major crisis, it's hard to focus Wednesday, April 9th @ 7:00 pm Jeff Gibbs started the our attentions on something Sunday, April 6th • 12:00 noon Environmental Youth Alliance in as nebulous as impending 1990 in response to the environ­ environmental doom. vs. Portland Trait Blazers mental crisis and wholesale pub- For those earnest high he interest in it There was so school students who once Thursday, April 17th • 7:00 pm much interest among high joined the EYA and are now school students that the EYA about to graduate from uni­ took off like a rocket, holding its versity, the fact that they can't first big conference at Kitsilano find jobs after graduation High in 1990. impresses them with a In the late 1980s we began to greater sense of urgency than hear about a hole in the ozone ozone holes, climate change, Tickets start from iust Tickets start from iust layer over the Antarctic. 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Ukraine, it began vomiting economic crises facing us as clouds of radioactive debris into we approach the millenium, ORCA BAY the upper stratosphere's wind- most of them brought about by (POUTS * INIIITAINMINT belts and spreading into Europe. the globalization of capital and o Discount applies to prices ranging (ram $24 75 - $53 00 lor the Grizzlies, and $40 25 4 $47 75 only lor Ihe Canucka Limit ol lour We'd just had some of the the freeing up of international tickets per student per game while quantilies last. FYices include GST but are sub|ect to applicable service charges. Oder only good hottest years on record and sud­ markets. And they all seem lor games listed on this llyer Offer cannot be combined with any other promotion Voting for a better th learning environment April 9 - 16 The Student Technology Fee Question Do you support the implementation of a student technology fee of $90 per year for a full-time student?

The University is asking all students to help it create a UBC learning environment where all students have good access to the information technology tools and resources they need to succeed in today's world of digital media and information. On April 9th-16th UBC is holding a referendum on the proposed Student Technology Fee (STF). If you have waited in line to get into our crowded computer labs, gotten busy signals while trying to dial-in, tried to get help from the desperately over­ worked staff on the help desk, or searched the campus in vain for up-to-date computers to access the web or play multi­ media CD-ROMS, this fee is for you. All funds would go to projects that directly benefit students. The choice of projects would be made by a committee on which students would have a voting majority and the committee would have represen­ tatives from every faculty to make sure that students from all parts of the university would benefit. Here are short answers to the obvious questions. Additional information appears below and at www.ubc.ca. Send any additional questions you have to [email protected]. I REALLY hope you'll come out and vote!

HOW much WOUld I have to payl $90 per year, which works out to $7.50 per month. What a deal!

How much money would this fee raise and How much money would this fee raise and who decides how it is spent? It will raise $2.7 million/year which will be allocat­ who would decide how it is spent! ed by a committee on which students have a voting majority.

What will I get! Projects will likely include: new and enhanced computer labs, expanded dial-in access, better computer training and assis­ tance for students, docking stations for laptops, classroom IT-instruction equipment and special prices for purchases of com­ puter hardware and software.

Why doesn't the University UBC is already putting several million a year into IT access for students but it's not enough. With the budget cuts UBC is pay for this itself! facing there is no way to allocate any further funds. STF funds will augment, not replace, current University expenditures on information technology support for students.

Why doesn't the University get UBC is constantly working with industry and government to get funds to support student IT access, but what we get isn't someone else to pay for this! enough. We'll do everything we can to leverage the funds we get from this fee to bring in still more from industry and gov­ ernment.

Who chose $90 as the amount The Student Information Technology Access Committee prepared the fee proposal and half its members are students nom­ and were students consulted! inated by the AMS and GSS.The originally proposed amount ($150) was reduced as a result of student input.The commit­ tee's recommendation was approved by the UBC Advisory Committee on Information Technology (ACIT), and proposed to the UBC Board Governors by me (Maria Klawe).

Why have a referendum! The Board of Governors wants to know that you think this is worth doing before it approves the fee. (I sure hope you do!).

How do I vote! Phone (822-VOTE) any time between April 9 and April 16.

Can I vote no! Yup! Just phone (822-VOTE) any time between April 9 and April 16. But I sure hope you vote yes!

Will this fee be tax-deductible! Yes.The federal government recently announced that such fees are deductible.

Maria Klawe,VP Student and Academic Services

STUDENT TECHNOLOGY FEE - BACKGROUND

To improve information technology for all UBC • genera/ information technology infrastructure pro­ How was the $90 fee determined? What are the consequences of not adopt­ faculty, students and staff, ACIT asked its sub­ jects will not be supported by STF revenue except ing an STF? committee, the Student Information Access where these projects are required by a specific Based on the experience of other universities of Committee (SITAC) to consider instituting a STF-funded initiative; similar size and facing similar problems to UBC, Given the Universityis current financial situa­ student technology fee at UBC. SITAC is com­ an STF of $ 150 per year was originally suggest­ tion, the only alternative to establishing an STF • a review committee having at least 50% student posed of ten undergraduate and graduate stu­ ed. Subsequent discussions amongst SITAC is to maintain expenditures on information tech­ members will be established in the third year of dents and ten faculty/staff members from differ­ members suggested that the fee be set below nology at current levels and force students to the program to undertake a rigorous review ofthe ent parts of the University. It was very difficult, $100. In discussing the size of the STF, SITAC deal with the resulting problems individually and initiative. especially for the student members, to accept members had to weigh carefully the ability of simply purchase computer-based services as the idea of ANY fee increase, but after lengthy " and, that the fee will be universal, charged to all students to pay against the decreased services their personal resources permit. This will pro­ discussions, an assessment of the state of stu­ students (graduate and undergraduate) both full- that would be provided by a reduced fee. It was mote inequities in access for students at the dent computing on campus and an investigation and part-time. subsequently decided to establish the fee at University. In addition, this approach will result in of experiences at other universities, SITAC sup­ In addition to student input from SITAC, the $90. Because the $90 covers a full year, it actual­ delays in effective use of IT in the curriculum ported (14 in favour, one abstention) the STF idea of the proposed student technology fee ly works out to only $7.50 per month.The pro­ until such a time as students have provided proposal that went forward to the Board. was the subject of extensive discussion at the posed fee would generate an annual fund of themselves with the necessary resources. January 15th "Your UBC Forum" on student approximately $2.7 million which will be put Moreover, as the use of IT in courses grows, stu­ Principles that SITAC members felt cru­ fees. It has also been discussed extensively by toward student information technology initia- dents will have to endure longer lines to get into cial to their support for an STF included: both the Alma Mater Society and the Graduate inadequate computing labs, more difficulties in Student Society and in their meetings between dialing in to the UBC network and increasingly • STF funds will augment, not replace, current UBC their executives and theVPSAS. In late February inadequate computer training for students. expenditures on information technology support and early March four separate forums were held for students; to discuss the STF and other fee increases and • STF funds will be specifically dedicated to pro­ an e-mail address jects that will benefit UBC students; was established to which students could send • the allocation of STF funds will be made by a questions about the fees. committee having a voting majority of students;