Looking for power boost CKDU- Drive for 25 by James McDowell band concert at the Pub Fla comparable to that of other char ast Saturday, Dalhousie's mingo featuring Willy Hop, Sus itable organiztions, not even famed radio station pect Device, 100 Flowers, Black that of PBS. CKDU is local com L CKDU began its third Pond, and others. Saturday, Feb. munity and friends, providing annual fundraising drive. The sta Wth, will be CKDU's benefit radio that is not only alternative tion, which relies on community concert feturing six local bands but specialized. Everyone is funding, hopes to reach this (the Five Loggers and Love of invited to get involved in the sta year's goal of $25,000. Gods, to name a couple) for $5 in tion, and this positive spirit is The collected revenue is used the Dunn theatre. reflected in the upbeat tempo of to maintain equipment and pay The relationship between the Drive for Twenty-Five. Dial the few members of the staff who CKDU and its listeners is not and donate, 424-8812. are not volunteers. The station best known for offerin('alterna tive" programming is staffed by Black History Month and BU~F more than 175 people, only eight of whom receive any kind of payment. Combat racism Past fundraising drives have been successful. Last year more by Tony Tracy As well, BUF assists people than $20,000 was raised, a figure ebruary is Black History who complain of being victim· ~ that makes this year's "Drive for Month, being celebrated ized by racial discrimination by < Twenty-Five" a reasonable goal. F throughout the province intervening for them, especially ~ However, this year's drive has with cultural shows, panel dis in the areas of employment and ~ additional importance. If CKDU cussions, films, and the official housing. Programs for youth and 3 can demonstrate to banks and opening of a Black Cultural Cen seniors are also very much a part tre. One of the main groups foil the student union that it is of the BUF organization. Per 0 financially stable, that it has a assisting the organization of sonal information is treated as S reliable source of revenue, then these events is the Black United strictly confidential. As well, ~ it will be in a favourable position Front (BUF) of Nova Scotia. Taylor says, "BUF is not a racist to go ahead with plans to The Black United Front was organization. We do not ask the Perfonnance artist Janet Noade and tWo spectator/participants increase its operating power. established in 1969 to combat colour of people who come to us last Thursday at the CKDU Art Show, Alternator. The FM station, which operates racism in Nova Scotia, and that's for help, but rather would give in stereo, has a very limited still its job, says Jerry Taylor, assistance to anyone. No one broadcast range at present. BUF's executive director. will be turned away." Although it can reach most of Although much headway has In order to minimize the Beyond Morgentaler Halifax on good days, under less been made since 1969, Taylor effects of racism, Taylor outlines says there still exist many racial by Geoff Stone than-perfect conditions listen the approach that society must effects of legal abortions in clin barriers which members of the take: "firstly, people within he Beyond Morgentaler ics in Quebec and Ontario has ers as near as King's College can be hard-pressed to pick up the Black community must face society must come to the con panel spoke to a packed been performed. daily. Discrimination in hiring clusion that racism is still here, T classroom this past Mon Coffin said the abortion law signal. CKDU now broadcasts practices of employers, housing, and identify it. Then education day on the consequences of the was first introduced not as pro with a mere 33 watts; 7000watts is the desired broadcast goal. By and even the legal system (as has can begin. Economic penalties Morgentaler legal victory. tection for women, but "to safe been shown through the current must be set up for abusers and Panelist Wayne McKay of the guard doctors. Abortions were comparison, Halifax's popular radio station QI04 broadcasts Donald Marshall inquiry) is still racists, and an organization such Dalhousie Law School spoke on already happening in the 1960s all too common in our society. as the Human Rights Commis some of the legal implications of when the law came in." with 50,000 watts, providing a range that extends throughout BUF in many ways is an sion must be given the legisla the ruling, which strikes down Nina Ross of the National "umbrella group", says Taylor. It tive teeth to give out these Canada's abortion law as Alliance for Life said implica much of Nova Scotia. A power increase involves money for has grown to an organization penalties." As well, integration unconstitutional. tions for the -ruling include the with an annual budget of within the school system is a McKay described the majority possibility of new political par upgrading equipment, engineer ing consultations, a new trans $265,000 and nine full-time must. However, this integration and dissenting positions of the ties, such as the Christian Herit employees, four of whom are cannot be just one way. At pres Supreme Court judges. McKay age Party, becoming alternatives mitter, and probably a new transmitter site. At present the based in the group's Halifax ent, Black students are inte said the main reasons for sup for Canadians. She said the rul office on Gottingen Street, and grated into white communities porting the abortion law, stated ing will hasten the decline of the stations' signal is transmitted from a small antenna tied to and schools, but this never by two of the judges, was the fact Canadian family. the rest of whom are field happens in reverse. The media that the right to an abortion has But Nathan Ross, a Dalhousie the top of Dalhousie's physical workers throughout the provin must quit portraying Blacks in a not previously been protected. philosophy professor, said the plant. CKDU's board of directors ces. BUF is funded through negative light. In the past, the The majority view, McKay said, abortion issue must be resolved has given the green light for the government grants, but, says major newspapers have given stated that the law violates sec on a secular basis. Ross said "it power increase, but the station Taylor, "there has been no coverage to negative issues and tion 7, the individual protection would have been ludicrous to must be successful in its fun increase in funding for the past events, but seldom give much clause of the constitution. make this decision without draising drive. John Stevenson, five years". A large core of volun coverage to accomplishments Also, Judge Bertha Wilson, the looking ahead" to the next ruling head of CKDU's public relations, teers helps to keep the organiza within the Black community. sole woman on the Supreme by the Supreme Court on the admits, "without the necessary tions going, and long-term Taylor says "the onus is on Black Court, said the law violated the rights of the fetus. funds, there can be no power fundraising projects are now in people to become active in their freedom of conscience and reli Major Eleanor Johnston of the increase; it's as simple as that." the planning states, as well as a fight against racism and quit gion and that it denies a woman Grace Maternity hospital spoke Stevenson guesses that the drive to increase the number of accepting it." fundamental justice. of the effect of the ruling on the power increase might be as soon paid members of BUF. Taylor envisions a time in Kathy Coffin, national vice hospital system. Johnston said as the summer of 1989. Right now, BUF's main pur which the Black United Front president of the Canadian Abor the Salvation Army hospitals The Drive for Twenty-Five pose is as an advocacy group. will become a major employer in tion Rights Action League, said have not performed abortions for kicked off last week with "Alter They can help people sort out the Black Community as well. CARAL is currently asking for 10 years, and said abortions in nator", an art exhibit of work the red tape of legal problems Feasibility studies have lJeen no new legislation on abortions hospitals involve the choices of exclusively by CKDU staff. and social· assistance program completed and planning is in the until an adequate study of the physicians and staff. 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"We felt we had includes library workers who days at the Technical University made some progress in the areas walked out with the professors. of Nova Scotia ended February 1. we wanted addressed: catch-up The technical colleges' 1200 "Nobody can get everything (pay), working conditions, and students will miss out on a they want", said Mort Rubinger, improved cooperation with week-long study break to mak, administration. up for the lost time. The 103 members of the union The student council remained UBC gives won average salary increases of neutral during the strike. 3.2, 3.8, and 3.75 per cent over While the collective agree the next three years. Before the ment states that only salaries are Free settlement, a full professor was negotiable, Rubinger said a com making $51,515 a year. mittee will now be looking into Union representatives had working conditions and other choice asked for six, six, and six per cent issues faculty or administrators VANCOUVER (CUP)- Women hikes. This would have brought feel should be addressed. at the University of British full professor salaries to just Union representative and Columbia could soon have over $77,000, in line with the architecture professor Tom access to on-campus abortion industries and Ontario engineer Emodi said the &trike's real issue services as a result of the ing schools which union offi was the quality of education at To celebrate the forthcoming Chinese New Year, the Dal Supreme Court's January 28 rul cials say are luring Ph.D. holders TUNS. TUNS Chinese Student Association presents the 30th Anni ing that decriminalized non away from the university. versary and Chinese New Year Banquet '88 on Saturday, therapeutic abortions. According to a 1987 survey Emodi said that at least seven February 20th at 7:00 p.m. in the Mcinnes Rm. of the Dal SUB. "We could seriously consider sponsored by the Association of of the last 18 departed teachers Tickets are available at the SUB Inquiry Desk. doing our own" abortions at UBC Professional Engineers, left for higher salaries and better if free-standing clinics are legal members in Atlantic Canada working conditions. He said ized, said Percival Smith, direc make between $34,000 and many go to Ontario's big four tor of Student Health Services. $53,0CXJ a year. universities -Western, ·water The 50 to 60 students per year Over 90 per cent of members loo, McMaster, and U ofT-and requesting abortions through voted in favour of the new con huge conglomerates like IBM AI OS education the health service have been tract, which took 19 months to and Lockheed. ST JOHN'S (CUP) - Memorial the poll. referred to Vancouver General I and Dalhousie universities have But campus gay and lesbian or Shaughnessy hospitals. continued from page 1 renovated apartments. set up AIDS committees to edu- groups are concerned that there An abortion service was consi works for establish a business in Taylor believes that the sup cate the university community are no represetatives of the gay dered in 1980, Smith said, but Halifax which would employ a port of volunteers within the about the disease and establish community on either of the cam- "we were told no" by the hospital number of Blacks, who as a group Black community has been very policies on campus AIDS cases. pus committees. administration. suffer twice the employment good. He points to volunteers "Our priority will probably be "Even though AIDS is not a "I don't think women from rate of whites per capita at the involved with specific projects, students, since they tend to be at 'gay disease', the homosexual UBC should have to go to (Van present time. Taylor emphasizes such as Upfront, a show on an age when they are likely to be community has been dealing couver General) or Shaughnessy. that a "self-help economic plan is · Halifax Cable TV which dis experimenting with new rela- with it since 1981, which is UBC is a community in itself. a must" and employment strate cusses lifestyles and issues in tionships and m.ultiple partners. seven years more than the uni- You should be able to get care in gies must be developed. the Black community, as well as We want them to be able to versity has, so the gay commun- your OWn community," said Pat As far as current issues affect showcasing the talents of make informed and responsible ity should have a valuable Brighouse, spokesperson for ing the Black community, Tay Blacks. As well, there is a volun decisions about their lifestyles," contribution to make," said Ron Concerned Citizens for Choice lor point~ to the Donald teer tabloid newspaper, The Rap, said Dr. Russell Harpur, director Knowling, president of MUN's on Abortion. Marshall Inquiry and the which was begun by Taylor and of Student Health Services at student lesbian and gay Lynn Percival, spokesperson Uniacke Square Regeneration noted local author George Elli Memorial University of New- association. for UBC Health Sciences and Project. In March and April, the ott Clarke, and is now under the foundland (MUN). Harpur said the lesbian and Shaughnessy Hospitals, said it Marshall Inquiry will begin to direction of Mark Daye and Cha The eight-member MUN com- gay community's head start on was too soon to say whether the look more at racism and discrim rles R. Saunders. Taylor says mittee was struck in December. education means they represent health service can get abortion ination within the legal system, much care is taken in seeing that The Dalhousie group, set up last less of a problem. facilities. and BUF intends to take part in The Rap is not simply a propa summer, has already released a "The actual groups to be Darlene Marzari, New Demo the discussions. They intend to ganda wing of BUF, but rather an policy on AIDS at the university. represented on the committee crat MLA for Point Grey, said present a policy paper which has independent paper which can The Dalhousie policy states were also discussed, and there she would support abortion ser been worked on by many BUF freely express the views of the that the university is committed was no way to represent every vices at UBC. members, and the BUF lawyer Black community, even if it to "individual rights (including group in the university comun- Both Marzari and Brighouse will question witnesses and call means criticism of BUF at times. confidentiality) and true regard ity. The homosexual sector was said the services should be free. witnesses during this part of the The Rap is a tenant in the BUF for community public health not the only one ommitted," Har- (Students) are part of the most inquiry. As well, Taylo'r suggests office on Gottingen St., and there interests". pur added. vulnerable group in terms of the possiblity of "informtion ses are good working relations AIDS cases will be dealt with Health officials on both cam- income," said Brighouse. NDoc sions" to inform the public about between the two organizations. on a case-by-case basis, the docu- puses are aware of students or tors should be funded by the pro BUF's role in the inquiry. Taylor says Mark Daye "has ment states. staff testing positive to the vince, not by women who can't The Uniacke Square situation taken the paper, which had good MUN's Harpur said his com- antibody. But there are as yet no afford to pay." is very much related to the des intellectual content, and added a mission will look at issues like cases of AIDS or AIDS-related But B.C.'s Medical Services truction of Afric ville in the 'people's aspect' to it," making it confidentiality, whether to complex (ARC) at MUN or Plan will not cover abortions not 1960s, according to Taylor. BUF more accessible to the Black allow an AIDS sufferer to live in Dalhousie. deemed medically necessary by does not want to see a repeat of community. residence, informing cleaning The AIDS virus attacks the a hospital therapeutic abortion what happened in Africville, Taylor sees BUF's role as an staff, and whether infected staff body's immune system, leaving committee. with the community being per organization which can aid in should teach. victims susceptible to any infec- "For the time being, we are ask manently displaced. Many of the long-term change through rais "If you can't change attitudes tion. The disease is often fatal. ing hospitals to set up a struc same people who were relocated ing consciousness of the Black at a place like this, where can ARC is a less severe form. Cur- ture to determine whether a from Africville, or their children, community, helping to educate you? That's our one hope," said rent medical evidence suggests procedure is medically are the ones who will be dis society about the destructive Dalhousie committee chair AIDS is transmitted through required," said B.C. Health Min placed as a result of the Uniacke ness of racism, and offering prac Rosemary Gill, a physician at semen or contaminated blood. ister Peter Dueck. Square project. BUF is fighting tical options and solutions to the university's health clinic. Campus health clinics should "Someone's going to have to for the fair treatment of these removing the barriers which pre Gill wants to concentrate on take a more active role with the challenge (Dueck's policies)," people, and is working with the vent Blacks from participating education. The committee students who visit them, says Marzari said. "The personal and Uniacke Square Tenants' Asso fully in society. The Black com shows AIDS education videos Bill Ryan of the Halifax Metro religious views of a small minor ciation to attempt to secure a munity must be informed of its and is currently preparing a sur- Area Committee on AIDS. ity and the personal views of an written agreement with the rights and assertive steps must vey which will ask students and "Students are more sexually individual minister cannot be government that when the be taken to eliminate the nega staff about their sexual practices active than. any other group. All inflicted on public trust and the buildings are fixed up, these peo tive impact of racism. Taylor and knowledge of AIDS. The doctors should be asking public's right to medical ple will be given first priority in concludes, "it's a building committee has no budget, and is whether their patients are pra<;, treatment." being able to move back into the process". relying on donations to finance tising safe sex." · The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday, February 11 , 1988 3 Well give you $L500 to go write to the top in business. Here's your big chance to or less on one of six treasury manage Student VVriti.ng Awards" brochure impress Canada's top financial ment topics, and you could win. • The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday, February 11, 1988 abortions as difficult as possible Since then, there was a candle-lit to obtain. These tactics, such as pro-life vigil in front of the Vic making abortions elective toria General Hospital and Where to now? surgery, which means being put • approximately 200 pro-lifers pro The pro-choicers are celebrat woman's health. on a 9- to 10-month waiting list tested in front of the Sheraton on ing with caution and pro-lifers The highest court in Canada is lin other words, no abortions) the weekend, where Prime Min are lobbying in protest since the forcing politicians to deal with may not be legal. In BC., Premier ister Brian Mulroney was attend Supreme Count decision Thurs an issue that many of them Bill Vander Zalm has ruled out ing a Progressive Conservative day, Jan. 28 struck down Cana would prefer to ignore. When the medical coverage for abortions convention. da's abortion law as unconsti ruling first came down, politi unless the woman's life is in It is a confusing situation tutional. Either way, the cians were very quiet about what danger. right now, and pro-choicers are decision has been made, the law it would mean, and many of After this Supreme Court rul right to be cautious in their cele no longer exists, and until Parlia them are doing what they can to ing, free-standing abortion clin bration and to continue pressur ment draws up a new law, things work against the ruling. Ontario ics are legal, and the Canada ing the government and are sort of up in the air. is the only province thus far that Health Act guarantees universal lobbying so that the new law, has stated abortions will be access to basic medical services. when it's finally drawn up, will The old law was struck down covered by Medicare , while This is not under provincial leave the decision to have an as unconstitutional by a 5-to-2 other provinces are either saying jurisdiction. abortion where it should be - vote because it was decided that they will not cover the cost of Here in Halifax, there was a with the woman. arbitrary and painful delays in abortions as a medical service, or celebration of the ruling Friday, obtaining abortions threatened a using technicalities to make 29 at the Grand Parade. Big-time party hacks throw party by Paul Paquet to the hilt and impeccably blares out as Brian rushes the when you grow up?" vaguely "Moonie-esque" to me, I've read my HunterS. Thomp groomed. The atmosphere in the stage. For a moment I can see a "There sure are a lotta New but I don't say so out loud. Politi son, I know how these stories are ballroom is uncontrollably vision of Brian, decked out in foundlanders here tonight." -cal virginity and integrity are far supposed to be written. Don't sedate. animal skins and spandex, hair Finally it's my turn. I thrust too rare as it is. bother with the whowhatwhy John Buchanan enters the bal- permed and halfway down his out my hand to meet the leader I accidentally spill some red whenwhere of a Nova Scotia Pro lroom amid wildly contrived back, regaling a thousand of a major industrial power. It's wine on my notes and decide to · gressive Conservative Party cheers. Everyone, though, is immaculate PCs with his ver- the moment of truth, my one wander. General intoxiction Convention. Straight journalism waiting for the Main Attraction. sion of "Panama", the crowd opportunity to directly input the seems to have seeped its way would miss the point. Get to the I head out into the halls and wait responding with the Hitler system. throughout the Sheraton. I find heart of the matter. And the for Brian. A number of grim- Youth-style fist-waving endemic "Best of luck, sir." an argument about free trade. heart of the matter is hard-core faced Security Clones pace to rock concerts. The image is "Thank you." Lots of huffing and puffing. I politicking of the backroom var about, looking more like lawyers not incongruous. Fink. notice again just how expen iety, complete with enough free and accountants than like goril- I don't catch much of the Hjaving cowered away from sively these kids are dressed. I booze to drown several small las with guns. A couple of news speech. I could just as easily my one big chance, I head up to make note of it and move on. I Central American countries. guys and a few dozen party hacks have pretended to have been the hospitality suites to avail remember interjecting with Crashing the PC Convention hover about. I fiddle aro;.lnd with there and made something up myself of the free booze and see some kind of anarchist slogan wasn't terribly difficult. I just a camera I brought along as part without being too far off base. if I can spot some hard-core polit before I left, perhaps to compen walked right in, stopping to of the disguise. Actually, the Brian makes a stand on Ethics. icking instead. sate for missing my big chance gawk briefly at three separate flash doesn't even work, but this Brian thinks Free Trade is a good The secret, it seems, is not to with Brian. groups of demonstrators, each seems like the thing to do idea. Brian is going to make the have too many drinks in one hoping to give Brian Mulroney anyway. Maritimes rich again. So on and suite, because this exposes your As I'm staggering downstairs, I an earful. The prime minister Brian is late. People are stir- so forth. gluttony. So I have scotch and find myself smack dab in the sidestepped them all by coming ring. The Big-Time Party Hacks One of the cops does his best water, screwdrivers, and beer in middle of several drunken Board in through the back. Neverthe inside the ballroom are padding to keep an apparently intoxi- one, rum and coke, more screw of Trade types, jabbering about less, a very persistent group of out their speeches, or so it cated man away from the festivi- drivers, and wine in another, and the "drug epidemic". When the about a half dozen pro-life/anti seems. Standard poli-babble is f!~:S· I watch this carefully so it goes. first lull appeared, I told them, abortion activists hang on tena often hard to distinguish fro91 /j be.. c~.•.pse I have visions of Chi I decide to start interviewing sotto voce, that from my expe ciously in minus ten degree unadulterated bullshit...... ·.· .:<[~ti(!/Ji 1968, running through my people before my sobriety com rience among today's youth, I weather for another few hours, 4,. pletely disintegrates, and look could personally vouch that long after the union-activists ~ ~'; ~ ,,.,.~· t,,,_ r ifrii:..~· t ·~,\0 ~ for The Young People, the ones deranged reefer addicts were have gone home to see if they got who do all the scut work that is deflowering good Christian on the evening news. ~~ .,~~ -----·-='··"· beneath the Big-Time Party virgins. I get in and wander about. e. , hacks. Many of the under-30 , ... ~~. :A.'(...... · . ,,../.""J .,...... ~ lll.\1' . That's what I intended to say, When people ask, I tell them I'm ~ ~ #f~~r .:s '"~ ~ crowd weren't even PCs, but anyway, although I think my lips the Atlantic Bureau Chief for Finally Brian swings by, tou~ . 'Wip;i. The cop, however, man- interested observers hoping to were unable to handle sotto Canadian University Press. I tinely enthusiastic, shaking tQ~~ "'St~'e'd to engage the gentleman in acquire insights. They were dis voce. Everything must have even toy with the idea of trying hands that are thrust out at bini conversation, which probably appointed. No insights here. come out like "deranged refer ads to officially register as such so I I pretend to take a few pictur~lt · served the purpose far better One particularly distressing defwing good Chist vegins", can get a little blue ID card and "Did anyone see my flash go than cracking his skull open delegate was named Kim. She since I got no response from hang out with the other hacks in off? No? Rats!" would have. vehemently denied the fact that them at all, not even a puzzled the media room. It then occurs to But I do get what I was looking But watching this exchange, being baby-sat by Brian influen stare. Looking back, this is prob me that they probably have for. A middle-aged executive as it turns out, leaves me in a ces the way she votes. Surpris ably just as well. Going out of some kind of Official Hack List, type has turned to his wife, giddy prime position to greet the Prime ingly, I believed her. Indeed, it one's way to be a jerk is pretty which I certainly wouldn't be on. with excitement, hand out- Minister as he leaves the astonished me that anyone liv reprehensible, even under the So I wing it. stretched and immobile. ballroom. ing in the jaws of the political guise of discovering truth. "Are you an observer?" "This touched him!", he I begin wondering what I system could escape the cynical "No, I'm press. squeals. should say to him when he land-mine that naturally comes By this time great waves of "Oh. Where's your card?" I make a quick note of the inci- shakes my hand. A number of with so corrupt a territory. inebriation were beseiging what "My card? Why, it's ... hmm, it dent, because This Is What It's tantalizing possibilities present Kim hopes to end up in was left of my voluntary motor seems to have fallen off." All About. themselves. Ottawa someday, and our inter reflexes. I could see room for I make my way into the bal John winds down his polemic 'Taxation is theft, Brian." view is punctured by friends things to get really ugly, so I lroom for the big rally. PC Youth and announces "Let's have a "NATO kills, Brian." passing by and saying hello. Kim picked myself off the hotel corri stages a demonstration of its great big Nova Scotian round of "So what's the deal on these is already well on her way. She's dor and headed home. All the own, carrying little blue signs applause for the prime minister Quebec ridings, Brian? Can you heavily iuvolved with the PC · while it kept occurring to me and chanting the mantric names of our country, the Right Honou- get a franchise or what?" Youth in her riding and has that, in some undefined way, of their leaders in Halifax and rable Brian Mulroney!" The Prime Minister, however, attended leadership seminars staggering down Barrington Ottawa. These aren't shabby Suddenly the music switches has developed a patter of his where she was taught organizing Street at two in the morning was NDP-type demonstrators, either. from Maritime Traditional to own. skills that could be passed on to what the political process was This is tomorrow's elite, dressed Synth Metal. Van Halen's "Jump" "So who are you gonna vote for her fellow partisans. It all sounds Really All About. The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday, February 11, 1988 5 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL BIOPHYSICS Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies In · Biophysics Milk and honey attract pestilence ever upon them. They must Cancer Biology and Medical Physics But this is not the worst hard by David Deaton carry their pass-books at all Active University /Research lnstHute/Hospltal Environment ship. Two-thirds of the Palesti times. Competitive positions for programs leading to M.Sc. and Ph.D. (Part I of this article was pub nian labour force actually work within the borders of Israel. Does this description remind degrees for students with a background in Physics, Engineering lished in the February 4 issue of They have the jobs that Israelis you of another country? Dr. or Computer Sciences, Chemistry, Biology, Genetics, Immunol the Dalhousie Gazette.) Zayid did not flinch fr0m com Israel has "good" reason for will not stoop to take. Their ogy, Biochemistry or related sciences. paring Israel with South Africa holding on to the Territories. wages are enough to keep them AREAS OF RESEARCH: molecular biology and genetics, immu in its tacit policy of apartheid. Gaza and the West Bank provide alive and that is all. Those who nology, radiation biology, stem cell biology, control of gene Both regimes practice ideologi lucrative sources of tax revenue. attempt to organize tr~de unions expression, cell differentiation, metastasis, carcinogenesis, cal racism. Both regimes shoot Twice as much tax money comes are arrested for subversion. experimental chemotherapy, radiation treatment, electron down children in cold blood. out from these impoverished During the day Palestinians microscopy, electron spectroscopy, diagnostic imaging using Both regimes enthusiastically areas as goes into public services toil in the land of milk and X-rays, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and ultrasound. support each other. Israel is there. As the ultimate indignity, honey. At night, they return to Felloswhips are available for all successful applicants. South Africa's largest supplier of Palentinians are made to finance their barbed-wire ghettoes. The Enquiries or letters of application to: arms. Some of those arms may their own occupation. eyes of military surveillance are Graduate Secretary well be nuclear. 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That would be a problem, at the end of his letter- are gay. others can never understand, but but I doubt it's the case. upon an unstable, often volatile must respect. Well, that article by Barry But it seems to me that I'm being What is a problem is that, termed a threat and a menace to mixture of two opposing forces: Let's not get so caught up in Moores in the Dal Dispatch of 'third, Moores says "It is not in the hitchhikers of the world - reason and emotion. Oftentimes the larger philosophical ques December 1987 certainly opened up a can of worms. the best interest of any group to and I don't even own a car!- just we are tempted to believe that tion of Right and Wrong that we pretend all their members are beGause I'm gay, when it's gener life would be easier if we could begin to overlook the human, In a nutshell, he wrote an arti cle, two people wrote letters to categorically without fault ... we ally gay men who feel threatened subdue one side of our nature essentially emotional, intrica must realize we are equal in our by straight men. and allow free reign to the other. cies involved in deciding what is the Gazette condemning him for When the lack of knowledge part of it, and he wrote a letter wrongs". None ofthegaypeople I And yes, I will sign my name. right or wrong in a given know are trying to imply that makes a rational choice difficult, situation. back to the Gazette condemning Robert Matthews lesbians and gay men are fault Treasurer, Gays and Les we are more likely to accept the I. Fearon the writers for condemning him. validity of a choice based on So here's another volley, and I less. Quite the opposite: the pol bians at Dalhousie intuition or faith. When a situa Part II hope it's among the last. itically active gay men and (GLAD) tion becomes too confused emo · His complaint is that the lesbians I know have to keep tionally, there is a tendency to Francophone letter-writers chastised him for telling people that the gay popu rely on the logic of science for an mentioning among the hazards lation has much in common History must answer. rebuttal of hitchhiking "a homosexual with the general population, Therefore, I can understand looking to score". While that including the same faults and be respected To the editors: foibles; that gay people are no how one might be seduced by the In reply to the letter of may indeed be a problem (I've better and no worse than anyone To the Editors: apparently objective logic of the Georges Merinfeld last week, I never hitchhiked so I don't really else. But no, Mr. Moores, the fact It would seem that the letteJ kind of argument Ms. Towler am very pleased that my articles know), that wasn't the point of is that we are not equal in our penned by Miss Goodman in the presented in her letter last week. have been entertaining. Accord the letters. Their writers were wrongs: the vast majority of Gazette of last week was written It is easier to tum the debate ing to Merinfeld, the franca angry that he was implicitly rapists, for example, are hetero from a position of ignorance or over abortion into a scientific : phones on campus have found comparing "a homosexual look sexual men, and the vast major perhaps only lack of understand question (i.e. When does human them extremely humourous. ing to score" to an axe-murderer. life begin?) than it is to attempt I'm angry, too. First, he paints ity of child molesters are ing. It is well and good to lament With such encouragement, I heterosexual men. to reconcile the conflicting emo reassure Mr. Merinfeld that he himself (a straight man) the vic- oontDmed on page 12. tional reactions we have toward can surely expect more of the tim and gay men in general the lC~ mother and child. same. Although arrangements aggressor, when in fact it is gay 4 However, in reality, both emo · have now been made to have 4 men who often face violence at :·~ tion and reason are indispensi futur~ articles edited by franca the hands of straight men. Very, ~ ble: without reason there would phones, it is not clear that this very rarely does a gay man attack be no law; without emotion will satisfy Rene Merinfeld. The or rape a straight man (even there can be no compassion. For best solution for the alleviation "today's meek and mild hitch better or worse, these forces of his obvious irritation is for hikers" mentioned in Moores' must be balanced if we are ever Mr. Merinfeld to come up to the letter). to reach a viable solution to this Gazette office and help us edit Second, he says he is "not the problem. For this reason, I dis the arti c1 e s him s elf.Thi s will only male who has been proposi agree with the statement that "If ensure his high standards of tioned by a male driver .... I the foetus is in fact human life, excellence in French composi pointed out a real problem". abortion is no less abhorrent tion are maintained. I would add Exactly how big is this real prob than closing the doors to our that such editing would take less lem? Is it biuer or somehow hospitals . ..." Women who are than half an hour of his time more important than the faced with making a personal every week. number of female hitchhikers decision are people, not institu- Paul Creelm.an who are assaulted by male driv- Cold weather got you down? Spirit at an all-time Jack Oamers Tennessee Wtuskey t• represenled tn Canada by FBM Ot ,ltllt>ry Ltd . Brafl't 11m 0 11ar low? Break away from the GENTLEMEN like Leonard Grogan and son winter blues and show your true, bright colours - Dal William make jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey. colours, that is, good ole black and gold. They also make good country music. And do it in style, with an authentic Dal jacket. 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B3H 4)2 902-424-2460 If you 'd like a booklet about Jack Damel's Whiskey, write us here 1n Lynchburg, Tennessee, 37352, U.S A The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday, February 11, 1988 7 hen Secretary of State David Crombie asked for student ~J what we would actually get,'; says loads coming out of bachelor programs. on student aid held its first meeting in Robin Hamilton, SUNS executive officer. But even if the figures are right, a $10,000 December. input into the federal government's. student aid program, "An all-bursary program is consistent debt load is nothing to gloat about. "Everybody in that meeting agrees it he should have been prepared for an earful. with the policy of SUNS. But we wouldn't "If 80 per cent of out students have a would be appropriate for Canada to have a suggest it because the government would debt load of $10,000 and we are patting national bursary program"" says Tony Students have a lot to say about the bursary program, says Howard. just ignore it," he says. ourselves on the back over it, then we can Macerollo, chair of the Canadian Federa· flaws of the current Canada Student Factors which contnbute to the high In 1984, the Social Credit Government just forget about it as a country,• says tion of Students and a member of the Loans Program and they have been eager cost of administering a loans program in B.C. eliminated bursaries and replaced Rompkey. committee. to present alternatives to the federal include the number of loan recipients, them with an all-loan program, cutting In the Atlantic provinces, there are no "But there must be opposition out there government. But their suggestions number of guaranteed loans, interest the student aid budget from $33 million statistics available on student debt loads, or it would have been implemented amount to more than a few changes to charges paid by government, defaults to less than $3 million. and student leaders say that's an indica already. This is why I am concerned that federal policy: student groups across the based on 18 per cent federal rate, and a Student groups in B.C. launched an tion that the provincial governments this (the national advisory committee! is country want Canada to take a hard look remission program that reduced aca extensive lobbying effort during the pro don't care. just another mechanism being used to at just who deserves a post-secondary demic achievers' loan payments. vincial election campaign in the fall of "We simply don't have the reaserch in keep us quiet," says Macerollo. education. Howard says for every $2000 loan it 1986 which contributed to positive the Maritimes. The only research is what Macerollo says the government repre They want to see a change in the makes, it costs the Canada Student loans changes in the system. The government we ;tt SUNS have done and there's only so sentatives in the Group are researching assumption that underlies government program $1000 in interest charges, admi adopted several of the students' recom much research a student group can do on various projects, including the cost of a policies and university admissions regu nistrative expenses, tax reductions mendations, such as a debt ceiling of a $27,000-a-year budget. It shows lack of full bursary program for a February lations - that post-secondary education claimed by students, and other related $12.,000 and grants for a student's first government concern when we're the only meeting. is a privilege to be extended only to the expenses. two years of study. ones doing any research," says Hamilton. 'They are in the best position to do gifted and the wealthy. L'Association nationale des etudiantes The Saskatchewan government more In British Columbia, students are more that," says Macerollo, "and they are also in Although "accessibility" is a catch-all et etudiants du Quebec (ANEEQI sup than doubled funding for student aid in heavily in debt than the rest of their Can the best position to blow it out of propor phrase that student politicians have potts the conversion of student loans to its June 1987 budget, but replaced bursar adian peers, with 21 per cent of students tion. So we are going to look at what they thrown around for years, today they are bursaries, saying it will actually cost less ies with "forgiveable loans". Repayment with loans owing more than $12,000 com come up with and work from there. We talking about total accessibility in the for the government to administer than of these loans depends on financial status pared to the national average of 13 per are giving them the benefit of the doubt form of a government-funded education. student loans. and academic performance. cent. that they want to see improvements in They propose a system that offers non Lyndon Surjik, the CFS Saskatchewan "B.C. has some the worst student aid the program as much as we do." repayable bursaries and grants instead of The major cost covered by the govern· chair, points out that the repayable por program in Canada, but there have been Sheena Weir, the chair of the Ontario student loans. And while government ment is the interest paid on the loan tion of the loan has doubled before a stu been some significant improvements in Federation of Students, says policy officials may quickly dismiss the sugges while the student is still in school. Stu· dent gets to the "forgiveable" portion. the last year," says Stephen Scott of CFS. makers have to look beyond the expense tion as "financially unfeasible", student dents only begin to repay their loans six ''This means the average student on the ln response to the student aid crisis, barriers that keep students from getting a groups have some pragmatic reasoning to or eight months after leaving school. student loan program will have a total the Secretary of State has established an post-secondary educatiOn. back up their proposal. "It costs the government 40 cents inter ~t of $23,000 up from $12,000 under the Advisory Group to review the federal stu- . "There is this attitude that if students BANK "The idea of an all-bursary program is est when it lends $1 to a students," says Mtf system," he says. dent assistance programs, made up of pay for education themselves, it will not unrealistic at all. In fact, it makes Jean-Pierre Paquet, an executive of \ Escalating student debt loads have representatives of national student mean more. It's just not true. As the sys good economic sense," says Stephen Scott, ANEEQ. "lf the student remains in school prompted the federal government and organizations, bankers, university admin tem is now, rich students' parents pay for executive officer of the Canadian Federa longer than three years, the cost of the students to take a harder lo<¥ at the stu istrators, faculty, and government. their education. NOTES tion of Students - Pacific Region. interest rises until it actually costs the dent aid situation in Canada. "Student loans have served us well in "And even though we have a student "Loans are costly to administer because government 80 cents to lend a student In October, the Secretary of State and the past 20 years. But there hasn't been a aid program, we haven't changed the the government pays for the interest. $1." the Council of Minister of Education major review of student assistance in social climate at all, so we still hae an Student leaders say an all bursary They pay when a student defaults, and Paquet says the amount paid by the released a report on student debt loads recent years," said Mary Meloshe of the elitist system. There is still an attitude funded education is more feasible than 123,000 students have defaulted. The government is even higher when one adds which indicates that 28 per cent of final Secretary of State's Student Aid that you don't deserve to go to university administration of a loans program creates administrative costs and the expenses year students with Canada Student Loans Directorate. if you are from a lower-class background. the present system. But can they con a bureaucracy which"is costly to mam incurred in trying to recover the loans. had debts of $5000 to $10,000 in 1985-86. David Crombie wants the advisory Nobody tells you that you have every vince the government? tain," Scott says. While student groups are looking for Another 9 per cent, or 19,488 students, group to make recommendations and he right to go to university," says Weir. "And if you have people graduating full-bursary programs or increased bursar had debt loads of over $10,000. expects to introduce improvements to "We need better student aid programs. I with $12,000 debts , they are not buying Ies at the very least, provincial and federal These figures include federal loans the student aid program before August know lots of people who couldn't afford to BY BETH RYAN AND MICHELLE LALONDE cars and getting mortgages and starting governments are increasing the number only. The study estimates that provmcial 1988. He says he's particularly concerned go to university. And even if loans are families and keeping the economy going. and amounts of student loans while cut loans add another 12 per cent to the with low-income borrowers, part-time available, you can't expect people to take Instead, it's a drag on the economy." ting back or even eliminating bursaries in number of students with debts between students, disabled students, and those on debts when they come from a home life The students' society at Simon Fraser many provinces. $10,000 and $15,000 and another 8 per with special needs. where a $1 000 loan was a debilitating University in Burnaby, B.C., has studied In 1981 -82., Nova Scotian students cent to those with debts over $15,000. But Rompkey suggests the government prospect." the costs of implementing an all-bursary received financial assistance that was SO The study also excludes Nova Scotia and must totally rework the program instead William Rompkey agrees. program instead of an all-loan program in per cent loan and 50 per cent bursary Newfoundland, two provinces where high of implementing "band-aid" solutions. "We have to start looking at education B.C. and found only a minimal difference Now it's two-thirds in loans and only a summer unemployment usually means "We can't just make changes to the as an investment, not as a privilege. We m the cost. And financial administrators third in bursaries. Loans were increased high debt loads. penphery. We have to look at education should face up to our responsibility as a at universities and colleges in the pro by 100 per cent while bursaries were William Rompkey, a Liberal M.P. and from a different perspective," says society that requires an educated popula vince shared that conclusiOn, says Ste increased by .008 per cent, according to post-secondary education critic, says he Rompkey. tion. We should be willing to fund that phen Howard, a research coordinator for the Students' Union of Nova Scotia was surprised that the figures were not "Something that worked in 1964 just education. the SFU student society. (SUNS). higher. ain't gonna work in 1987. In 1964, stu "We should not be demanding indi vidu They determined that it would cost "We'd like to see more than $2200 in "Those figures don't concur with the dents had no problem getting summer als to be educated to function in this $17.5 million to administer an all-loans bursary, but it's a compromise between I""!!!!~~Hres I had, which indtcatcs that most jobs or a job after graduation, even m society and then expect them somehow program and $20 million for an all- what we think would solve the problem students had $12,000 to $20,000 debt Newfoundland." The Advisory Group to deal with the debt," says Rompkey. CANAOIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS ·- · · ·· - . _.. · . . . ·,-..·. ' . 8 The Dalhousie Gazet1e Thursday, February 11 . 1988 The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday, February 11 , 1988 9 ·.;,.:~~~.,b.';..;(~ -",~~t.-~~~~~-8'~. . . Haitian voodoo flops by Ian Johnston tices, particularly a drug used to exhibited in his films Nightmare be Serpent and the Rain simulate death. An American on Elm Street and Last House on bow is director Wes pharmaceutical company wants the Left. T Craven's (A Nightmare the drug and sends an intrepid And, indeed, Serpent is pep on Elm Stieet) first hesitant doctor and explorer to poverty pered with these types of scares, attempt to leave the confines of stricken Haiti to get it. Instead, many of them wedged uncere the horror genre. And while the what the doctor finds are brutal moniously into the plot in fanlil film is no masterpiece, it is Crav murders, magic, love, and prema iar dream sequences: It's as if en's most consistent movie in fif. ture burials, not necessarily in Craven doesn't trust his teen years, and a welcome that order. audience to sit still for character change from his usual slash-and The suspense film is not that or plot development. He chooses shriek teen epics. big a reach for Craven, who is a instead to lapse into horror The Serpent and the Rainbow proven master at the "jump out cliches to jolt the audience out deals with Haitian voodoo prac- from behind the tree" frights of its seats every ten minutes. This is too bad, since the plot has a lot more to offer. The char acters, particularly the young doctor (Bill Pullman), are well drawn and bring believability to the strange action. As well, Craven has immersed his movie in the Haitian culture and people, giving it a look of disturbing plausibility and misty foreboding that affects the A zombie of the genre audience far more than gratui tous violence. There are moments (quite a habits and fails, making The Ser since Last House on the Left in few moments, in fact) in Serpent pent and the Rainbow more a 1972. Old habits die hard. that stay with you lo~~ after roller-coaster ride of frights than Craven may still need a few more you leave the theatre. But much a well-plotted suspense film. years and a few more films to of it goes for nought, as Craven It's a noble failure by Craven, reach his status as a "legitimate" strains to leave behind his worst who hasn't made as good a film director. Memoirs of a· ghost town by Scott Neily White, the play showcases the Eldritch, population seventy, his week, Dalhousie talents of the students of the and like most near-ghost towns, Theatre Productions is Theatre Department in a sto'ry decreasing. The action takes T presenting The Rimers of that can by favourably described place in the spring, summer, and Eldrich by Lanford Wilson in as a mosaic. fall of 1947. The story follows TRAVEL CUTS HALIFAX Studio One of the Dalhousie The setting of the play is the the small-town existence of Student Un1on Building Arts Centre. Directed by Ian midwestern American town of Eldritch and the consequential 424-2054 Dalhousie Un1versity mentalities and dishonesties Halifax. Nova Scotia B3H 4J2 that are stereotypical of people who live in a dying area. The mE TRA\'H CO!'tPA.."Y OF mE (A.-.;AD!A.-.; FEOERATIO!'i OF STI.:OEl'TS WIL[)~ WACI\, £ play is told in a stream of con ~..,TRAVEL CUTS sciousness fashion, with conver W()~l)~l?t=UL! sations skipping back and forth -----... Going Your Way! through various periods in time. Thursday Night is continued on page 11 Student Night Free Admission with valid I.D. ~- DALHOUSIE THEATRE Students will live in college and PRODUCTIONS attend one of six accredited courses presents selected from the areas of English Literature, Drama, British History, Art History, Classical Literature, and Political Science. THE RIMERS In addition to daily class-room study students will participate on several OF scheduled field trips as part of their formal course work. A varied program ELDRITCH* of extracurricular activities will further by Lanford Wilson enrich the experience and is included in the total cost. Directed by fan White For a brocbure and further information please call Susan Walker at: STUDIO ONE Blyth~Company February 1 0 to 14 68 Scollard Street, Toronto *Contains language or sttualions Canada MSR 1G2 421-1038 Reserva1ions RequiTed which some may find ollenst.e. Tel. (416) %4-2569 TICKETS (800) 387-5603 Ontario c::. DAL ARTS CENTRE BOX OFFICE 387-1387 Canada 1567 Grafton St., Halifax Above the 42nd St. Cafe 424-2646 10 The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday. February 11, 1988 NEW RELEASES, Pop that sparkles by Scott Neily you don't have the opportunity .lthough the population to surround yourself with other Sinead O'Connor: of Canada is relatively musicians you can be your A small, it is not hard to own sideman. It gives you flexi The Lion and the Cobra find Canadian talent, and bility. But when you're alone, the Quebec native Michael Breen is thing is, you have nobody to give byToneMeeg together. She wrote all but one an excellent example of that you feedback, to bounce ideas off Those music fans who saw son& produced it, and worked on fact. Raised in Nicolet, Breen of. Sometimes you need that Sinead O'Connor's video "Troy" arranging all of the titles. She began playing guitar when he extra spark to make lt click, that on TV recently are probably as was also pregnant at the time. was 13, but did not join a band chemistry. But the main advan happy as I am for the album The This woman has a lot of energy! until he was 22. After moving to tage is that you don't have to Lion and the Cobra (Chrysa There is a refreshing variety of Montreal, he found playing in a fight others to get the song just lis/MCA) to come to the record styles on this album. The arty group was not excatly conducive the way you want!" stores a couple of weeks ago. If drama of songs like "Troy" are to his songwriting abilities, so he Variety is the keyword when it you don't have it yet, I strongly balanced with a few good pop left and began to concentrate on comes to describing Breen's Michael Breen: No longer out recommend that you buy it. This tunes ("Mandika" is a good one), his own material. debut album. Ranging from the In the rain is the best album I've heard since a dose of electric guitar & syn Multi-talented Breen wrote all danceable "So Long" and the ring album. Although he is not con discovering the Throwing thesizer rock ("Jerusalem") and the music on his self-titled debut ing guitars of "Face to Face" -to sciously trying to follow in the Muses last year. For those who the beauty of an Irish ballad or album from Alert Records, and the high-energy "SOS Emotion" footsteps of Bryan Adams and haven't listened to any of her two ("Never Get Old"). It is played many of the instruments, and the power of "How Will I Corey Hart, Breen is definitely in music yet, I'll tell you how Sinead's ability to sustain so too - guitar, keyboards, and Know", the album covers a the same category and will likely superb she is and why, but I many distinct styles that makes drum programming included. myriad of styles that are promi become one of Canada's more won't compare this album to any this album so tempting to listen The first single, "Rain", scored nent in today's music scene. visible pop stars. other - her sound is unique. to (over and over). You don't have high on music charts across the Although the music can be eas Michael Breen is currently to be in a specific mood to put on country, and the second single, ily termed "commercial", Breen's touring Eastern Canada and will / " the album, because she doesn't "How Will I Know", is making endurance and passion under· be showcasing at the Crazy focus on only one sound like a respectable progress. "I asked line the basic quality of the Horse until February 14. band such as Cocteau Twins Tom Berry, my manager, to tend to do. release this song because it's a because of their basic familiar The strength of the music is at passionate song for me," says Memoirs ity. Because of the simple piot least equal to the power of Breen. "It was a bit to please me, line, saying any more could give Sinead's voice. She maintains a because I knew this song wasn't continued from page 10 away the ending. remarkable vocal range that is like "Rain". It's doing well and However, the jigsaw puzzle for Overall, the production was difficult to describe with simple it'll grab an audience for sure, mat requires close attention be very well done. The acting was adjectives so I'll use a simile (are but it's not as obvious." paid on the p-art of the audien~~ good all around, and Geoff you ready?). Imagine that Breen considers himself to be and the presentation subtly McBride as Skelly, the town her Sinead's voice is like a bird that one of those songwriters who draws the viewer into the story. mit, gave an exceptional perfor is acending higher and higher up relies heavily on instinct when By the end of the first act, the mance. The set was almost the vocal scale, and then sud it comes to songwriting. pieces of the puzzle fall neatly surreal and the telephone pole in denly with no warning swoops Although he would prefer the into place and the audience is the centre of the stage acted as a down the scale at an alarming luxury of being able to write given a few clues as to the possi focus for the lonely, isolated feel rate. This takes place within the entirely in the studio, like ble outcome of the story. of the town and its characters. space of fifteen beats! Incredible, Eurythmics' Dave Stewart, he Although the soap-opera events As a demonstration of the tal you say ... listen to the album feels it is very important, though in the play can be somewhat ent in the Theatre department, and you1l know what I mean. difficult, to carry the original shocking because of the intense, The Rimers of Eldritch is excel Each song has an interesting intensity of a demo of a song into brutal realism, the dialogue and lent. The play is running until story or feeling behind it: of rela a recording session. He went actions are not really offensive Feb. 14th in Studio One. tionships, love and/or lust, polit into the studio armed with ten The Lion and the Cobra is ics, and folklore. Listen to her songs for his record, but ended Sinead's first album; her power 'lyrics, her music, and her voice; up setting five aside, favouring ful vocals are just the beginning this exceptionally talented ·songs written shortly before or of her role in putting this record artist is well worth the time. during the recording of the album. ''I'm a really instinctive person. The thing is that you have to be true to yourself if you Clannad:Sirius feel for a song. Call it what you more of a rock feel to it, which want, studio or emotion instinct, by Scott Neily could make them reasonably it's the same thing," Breen notes. he Irish band Clannad accessible for AOR and MOR "Sometimes you can never relive have just released their radio programming. While Sirius the spirit and the feeling of the T entry into the 1988 does follow the general sound of original demo version of the music scene, Sirius (BMG/RCA). the rock tunes found on Macalla, song, or recapture the intensity Although the band (composed of the absence of the Celtic influ of a song you may have written a siblings Maire, Ciaran, and Pol ences that the band has long year ago or more. I find it very Brennan, and their twin uncles been known for is rather hard to go back and redo a song Noel and Padrag Duggan- clan annoying. There are only two that you've already put every nad means family in Gaelic) has songs on Sirius that feature Gae thing into- it's too mechanical. been releasing records for some lic in the lyrics, and the entire You need that adrenalin rush. I time and have enjoyed a fair album features music that is think there's a greater purity in amount of popularity in their essentially mellow rock, not recording that way." native Ireland, it was not until much different from what is Breen has his own 8-track the single "In a Lifetime" was found on every radio station in yecording studio where he writes released off their 1986 album the country. much of his material. Although he prefers to write alone, he finds Macalla that they began to gain While Maire's voice is as beau that the isolation is not always international recognition. tiful as ever, the basic similarity helpful. 'When I was working on Although the song had some of the songs somehow lessens the demo to get a deal, it was excellent, haunting qualities by the impact of her excellent like, 'What's going on outside my itself, it was the presence of U2's vocals. An enjoyable album for studio! I didn't listen to much Bono that gave the tune the background music, a lyric in the intensity to make it as a charta song "Many Roads" nicely sums other music because I didn't want to be too influenced by oth hie single. up the band's direction on Sirius: Evidently, the band has taken " ... many roads lead to nowhe ers. I wanted to be the most I could, to stick to my roots/' he a liking to international success. re/and all the places look the Their new album definitely has same ...." says. "It's great, because when The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday, February 11 , 1988 11 The way to learn French? In Normandy, where it all started, the intensive way (6 hours of this end, Dr. Zayid called for the less than Jews, have the right to actions. Historical fraud cannot classes a day) plus living with a Pestilence complete and unconditional live as citizens among their own be tolerated. It can be asserted French family. Give age, level and continued from page 6 withdrawal of Israeli forces Gaza kind. They too deserve a that fraud is akin to deliberate time available. Or. Zayid did not leave his lis and the West Bank. "Pal<:stinians national home. inaccuracy or misrepresentaa Transfer credits. teners without hope. There is a ·are a people. We have the inalie By evening's end, Dr. Zayid tion of fact or generally held Special rates for Canadians. (Fall solution, he affirmed, if only nable right of self-determination had made his audience see that opinion. If Miss Goodman can session.) Israel would pay heed. Palesti on our own land." the Middle East coflict trans overlook the gender or race of an The French American Study nan people want only what Jew Finally, Dr. Zayid asked that cends all bounds of religion or animator, then perhaps she can Center, B.P. 176, 14104 LISIEUX ish people have claimed for Israel accept of Palestine what it ethnicity. So long as we value also see past the use of Lee themselves: a homeland. Cedex (France) Ph.: 31.31.22.01 . grants to Jews all over the world: justice and human decency, the Enfield Mark II rifles (Great War Towards the achievement of a Law of Return. Palestinians, no Palestinian cause must be our issue) for the soldiers to use in cause. drilling rather than the period black powder muzzle-loading arms that were used; or perhaps History she would accept the use of a continued from ·page 7 breech-loading World War II the social structure of the mid- Howitzer as the Noon gun. The PURDY'S WHARF 19th centure; however, it cannot changes in history would not be be changed., The changing of his tolerated by even the most ignor tory is not to be tolerated. Hitler ant of tourists and Miss Good and Stalin changed history and man, university educated, Keegstra and others like Ross are should not tolerate them either. attempting to do it now. If Miss In this same vein, some thing as Goodman would like to be innocent as the gender, race, or placed in the same historical and even height of the animators· social class as tht:se men, that is cannot be altered. It is an insi entirely her choice. However, I dious fraud. would caution her against such Jeffrey Reed Un ghetto culturel, eh? par Paul Creelman deau a ecrit, "C'est precisement La Nouvelle-Ecosse est-elle parce que les Canadiens fran~ais devenue un ghetto culture!? La sont une infime minorite en Novelle-Ecosse, une province Amerique du Nord qu'jls doivent presque unilingue anglaise, ne refuser de se laisser enfermer regie pas les films francaise par dans la boite quebecoise." C'est la loi parce que les sanctions pro une raison qui peut etre anglaises reste avec les paroles appliquee aux provinces The management of PURDY'S WHARF HEAD SHOPPE would like to welcome three du premier-ministre John Bucha anglaises unilingues aussi. Pour new stylists to our salon. We are pleased to inform students that these stylists will be offering nan, qui faisait la politique aux quai est-ce que les Neo-Ecossais our student DISCOUNT PRICES every day of the week until APRIL 30, 1988. Students Acadiens en anglais, il y a nous quittent pour les Etats quelques annees. Quand on lui a save 40-50% at our salon. Unis? demande pourquoi ill'a fait, M. Pendant Noel, j'ai rencontre Buchanan a repondu: "Je ne parle l'ami d'un ami qui veut partir pas le francais. Toutle monde le pour vivre a Boston. Peut-etre, si sait." Surement il ne veut pas il y avait une culture mains dire qu'il ne parle pas le francais close ici, il resterait content de pour raisons politiques. Mais vivre a Halifax. c'est vrai que le seule joum~l Voir David Peterson, qui a fait Acadian de la province, Le Cour beaucoup pour le bilinguisme en Tier, reste plutot Liberal dans sa Ontario, et qui a ete interviewe politique. par La Presse a l'egard du traite Au Quebec aussi, il y a un du libre-echange, apparement en milieu unilingue, mais un fran~ais . Contrairement a M. milieu unilingue fran~ais qui a Buchanan, il parle fran~ais pour pousse le gouvemement Queb les joumalistes. Brian Mulroney ecois a proteger la culture fra aussi a lutte pour le bilinguisme. n~aise avec la loi 101 et autres. 11 y a quelques semaines Mulro Maintenant, il y a une loi tatil- ney a congedie un des ministres .. lonne qui regie les films au d'etat pour les communications Quebec. Selon Lysiane Gagnon parce que le ministre ne pouvait de La Presse, les amendements a KIM GRANT PETER MOREAU FRANCINE BOUCHER pas faire les communications en la loi ont ete votes "en catas fran~ais. Meme s'il y a un envie trophe" avant Noel, disant qu'il pour une culture ouverte et plu faut traduire les films en fran~ais ralistique au niveau federal, il - Present this coupon and be eligtble to win 6 months' worth free hair care in our special dans un temps raisonnable et les reste un Quebec qui veut s'en "StUdent Discount Program" draw. montrer en meme temps que la fermer dans le fran~ais . version d'une autre langue - Valid only at PURDY'S WHARF LOCATION. Aussi en Nouvelle-Ecosse, les (comme I'anglais). Cela signifie parolc:;s en fran~ais sont vues que les films americains arrive avec le meme soup~on que les Name of Entrant ______rant en meme temps qu'a Paris - republicains americains reser un delai peu necessaire. Address ___~------vent pour Boris le minet. (11 y a Phone ______(home). ______Beaucoup de films ne seront queques annees le McGill Daily jamais traduits non plus, en rai a porte le nom de son mascotte, son de la nouvelle loi. C'est tres Boris the Kitty, symbole de Ia grave pour la culture du Quebec. politique radicale.) Mais apres SALON HOURS Ce pas en arriere est un pas vers des centaines et des centaines une culture unilingue comme on d'annees de fran~ais au Canada, MON, TUES, & SAT- 9:00-8:00 le trouve en Nouvelle-Ecosse. WED, THUR, & FRI - 9:00-8:00 il devrait etre reconnu en Don't hesitate- call C'est une regression a l'annee Nouvelle-Ecosse. Peut etre John 1966 quand Pierre Trudeau a Buchanan lui-meme peut @f{[DI A_hh, ~he:S@'~ity of Y.jffth. 1b travel in whichever Looking for ways to escape? Head out with a friend. directi()O the"iWmdblQWs. · o plans,_ . - Canadian Airlines International. No reservations. . ' -· , s~~ The spirit takes wing. lYe.. ,, Canadian Airlines Internationai Where bigger Is definitely better. welcomes aboard the footloose traveller with this special offer: Students' Day those under age 22 travelling is economy class on a stand-by basis THURSDAY can save up to 50% on the regular airfare for any flight within Canada. Special rates for students. That gives you a lot of ways to FOR LATEST save. Because we fly to more Canadi n SNOW REPORT towns and cities in Canada than CALL any other airline on this continent. Canadian Airlines International 423-8526 or 455-9922 Night Skiing tll10 p.m. Monday through Sunday •14 The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday, February 11, 1988 THU 11 Medicine Professor Carol Smillie will lecture on The health education strategies used by cancer control agencies in FILMS Australia at the MacMechan Audito ri-:Jm, Killam Library, at 7:00 p.m. The Best of the Best A Decade of Award-Winning Com mercials plays for the last time Technology tonight at 7:00 and 9:15 p.m. at The Dalhousie Alumni Asociaiton Wormwoods, 1588 Barrington St. is sponsoring a lecture with Dr. Bob Fournier entitled Is Nova Scotia ready for new technology! at the Great Hall, University Club, at 7:30 February 11 to February 18, 1988 p.m. Admission is free. For more info, call 424-2071. HAPPENINGS MON - 15 BENEFIT for Nicaragua Dinner and Dance will be held at the Pub Flamingo f1om GALLERIES in support of the African National FILMS 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. Sponsored by Congress. 7:30 p.m. at the Mcinnes the Halifax Tools for Peace and Dalhousie Art Gallery Room, Dal SUB. Advance tickets River's Edge CKDU-FM, the benefit will include The Ninth Dalhousie Drawing Exhi only, available in rm. 214 of the SUB plays at Wormwood's, 1588 Barring music by Arauco, Henry and the bition is a bi-annual series of artist or the Red Herring Book Co-op, 1555 ton St., at 7:00 and 9:15p.m. through Hamburgers, and the Latin Laddies. curated exhibitions which explore Granville St. Thursday. Tickets, $4, are available at Kelly's the definitions of drawing and its use Hard Day's Night Multicultural Night Roxanne on Barrington St., Red Herring Books by contemporary artists. The artists A benefit showing of the classic Bea TUNS International Students pres This romantic comedy starring Steve on 1555 Granville St., and CKDU in this exhibition are JocelyneAllou tles film will raise funds for the ent Multicultural Night at the Martin and Daryl Hannah plays at FM, 4th floor, Dal SUB. Tickets at cherie, Andrew Dutkewych, Trevor YWCA's international programs and TUNS Gymnasium. Prepare for an 8:00 p.m. in the Mcinnes Room, Dal the door are $5. Gould, Nicole Jolicouer, Paul for Bryony House. The film shows at exotic dinner, exhibitions, and stage SUB. Tickets are $2.50 for students, Lacroix, Nell Tenhaaf, Serge Tousig 7:30 p.m.in the Mcinnes Room, Dal performances. For tickets, contact $2.00 with CFS Studentsaver card, nant, and Carol Wainio. The exhibit SUB. There will be a Beatles look Wat Tang Ooi at 429-8300 ext. 2163 and $3.50 for general public. begins Feb. 13 and continues until alike contest before the movie at or 429-5969. March 20th. For more info, call 424- 7:00 p.m. Admission is $4. THU 18 2403. Corner of Coburg and LeMarchant. POETRY Soho Kitchen Art Gallery MUSIC Recent works by Bonne Bobryk are MEETINGS currently on display. The exhibition POETRY READING consists of colour photographs of the Dan Hill Libby Scheier Gazette West Indies and Nova Scotia and is performing at the Cohn audito of Toronto :will read from her rium at 8:00p.m. Tickets are $14.50 The Dalhousie Gazette meets in continues until Feb. 28. 1582 Gran works in the Art Gallery of ville St. for students and $16.50 for the gen room 312 of the SUB at 4:00 p.m. Saint Mary's University at Come along and see how you can get eral public. For more info, call the 8:00 p.m. Admission is free. Cohn at 424-2646. involved in Dalhousie's student newspaper. . GLAD MEETINGS Gays and Lesbians at Dalhousie meets at 6:30p.m. in room 314 ofthe Gazette TUE 16 SUB. Anyone is welcome to attend: The Dalhousie Gazette meets in you don't have to be a Dal student. room 312 of the SUB at 4:00 p.m. Come along and see how you can get FILMS involved in Dalhousie's student On art and artists newspaper. SAT 13 Four Artists: Bruce Nauman, Eva LECTURES GLAD Hesse, Robert Ryman and Susan Gays and Lesbians at Dalhousie Health Ed Rothernberg will be shown at the meets at 6:30p.m. in room 314 ofthe Ms. Jeannie Barteaux, a Dalhousie SUB. Anyone is welcome to attend: Dalhousie Arts Centre at 12:30 p.m. Health Education internship stu you don't have to be a Dal student. WORKSHOP and again at 8:00p.m. in room 416. dent will be speaking on Quantita Admission is $2. tive Evaluation of an Organ Time Management Donation Education Program in Atlantic Canada at 12:05 to 1:05 p.m. The Atlantic Word Processing Asso LECTURE in the Studley Gym classroom, Dal ciation is sponsoring a workshop on housie University. Time Management at the Public Services: Archives of Nova Scotia in the FRI 12 Does taking in each other's laundry Audio-visual rm. Members $5, non Dentistry actually cause growth! will be the members $10. To register, call Dentists, dental auxiliaries, theme of the Saint Mary's University Melissa at 425-8770. members of the dental community LECTURES Lecture Series at the Halifax Main and prospective students are invited Library from 12:00 noon to 2:00p.m. to attend the Annual Student Table THEATRE History FESTIVAL Clinic Night at the Dalhousie Den Luise White of the History depart tal School, beginning at 7:00p.m. For The Rimers of Eldriteh ment will give a talk on Prostitution more information, contact the Dal by Lanford Wilson is presented by in Colonial Nigeria at 2:00pm. in the Chinese Spring Festival housie Dental School. Dalhousie Theatre Productions. The Sociology Lounge. sponsored by the Peoples Republic of WED 17 play is directed by Ian White and is Psychology China Student Association. An art Disarmament playing at Studio One at the Dal Dr. R.K. Murphy of State University exhibition will take place at 10:00 Farewell to Arms! The Current housie Arts Centre through Saturday of New York at Albany will discuss a.m. At 7:00p.m. the festival beings, FILMS Nuclear Arms Race and the Current at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets The assembly of a single nervous sys including folk songs, films, dances, Possibilities for Disarmament will are available at the Arts Centre Box tem at 3:30 p.m. in room 4258/63 of games, and snacks. Tickets are on Reckoning be the subject of a talk by Simon Office. For more info, call424-2646. the Life Science Centre. sale at the International Centre for Part five of this film series about the Rosenblum, Political Affairs Coordi Political Science $5 apiece. For more info, call 424- Canadian economy can be seen at nator of Project Ploughshares, at the Prof. Colin Campbell, Georgetown 7077. the National Film Board, 1571 Atlantic School of Theology at 7:30 WORKSHOP University, Washington, will be dis Argyle St., at 7:00 and 9:00p.m. This p.m. cussing Political roles of senior part focuses on the Canadian government officials in Advanced exchanges in the stock market Math &. Science South Africa There will be a native math &. Democracies at Saint Mary's Univer Solomon Nkiwane will be talking on . science education workshop at sity Student Union Building, 3rd Chernobyl .suN 14 Destabilization in Southern Africa Hensen College on Feb. 16 and 17. floor (room opposite elevator), at This Soviet eye-witness videotape of in Historical Perspective at 2:00p.m. For more info, call Tom Batiste at 3:30p.m. the Chernobyl catastrophe (April 26, in the Sociology Lounge. 1986), filmed on location, can be 424-8868. SKI-A-THON seen in room 224 of the Dal SUB at Tutoring 7:30p.m. Biology Preparation and practice for TOEFL, FILMS Dr. Margarida Krause, Dept. of Bioi· the test of English as a foreign lan The Arthritis Society ogy, University of New Brunswick, guage, is every Tuesday from 5:30 to is holding a cross-country ski-a-thon Apartheid The Family Game will discuss The role of small RNAs 7:30 p.m. at the Atlantic Region at the Oakfield Golf and Country A Witness to Apartheid in South This Japanese comedy plays at in gene expression in rm. 244, Life Orientation Centre. For more info, Club to support arthritis research. Africa will be shown in the Green Wormwood's, 1588 Barrington, at Science Centre at 11:30 a.m. call 420-5526. 7:00 and 9:15p.m. through to Sunday. For more info, call 429-7025. Room of the Dal SUB at 12:00 noon. The Dalhousie Gazette Thursday, February 11, 1988 11 TOWARD AN EDUCATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY The President's Symposium on Undergraduate Education Dalhousie Arts Centre March 3- 5, 1988 THURSDAY, MARCH 3 FRIDAY, MARCH 4 SATURDAY, MARCH 5 9 to 9:30 a.m. Undergraduate Teaching 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. The Goals of the and Learning in the The Undergraduate Symposium Classroom and Laboratory Student Body: Issues of Dr. Howard Clark, 9 to 10:30 a.m. Accessibility, Quality and Presidwt and Vice Cltancellor, Dalhousie Research and Teaching: Retention Ur1ivmity Complementarities and Kryr•olr Sptaktr: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Tensions The Purposes of Undergraduate Education 10:45 a.m. to 12 noon Workshops Highlighting Keynotr Speaker: Dalhousie's Teachers and Innovative Approaches to Learning and Curriculum (Concurrent) 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Student .Le.arning and Rosemary Brown, Development Outside the Rulh Wyn Woodward Professor of Womrn's Classroom (Parallel Sessions) 5/u,{ies, Simon Frasrr Univrrsity ami Former Mtmbrr of /Itt Brilislt Columbia l.tgislalurr SESSION 1: Preparing for Self-Directed 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Samuel Jay Keyser, Associatr Provost for Educational Policy and and Lifelong Learning Panel discussions Programs, MassachuStlls Institute of SESSION 2: Technology The Potential and Limitations Shaping the Future of of Learning Technology Dalhousie's Undergraduate 10:45 a.m. to 12 noon SESSION 3: Program Panel discussions: Issues in Measurement: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. What Dalhousie undergraduates Teaching Evaluations and should learn and how they should Measuring Changes in Presentations from droelop. Student Learning and Discussion Groups Development 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. The Undergraduate 2:45 to 4 p.m. Concluding remarks Curriculum of the Future The Contribution of Extra Where do we go from here? Curricular Activities, Howard C. Clark, 2:45 to 4 p.m. Presidml and Vict-Chancrllor Student Views on the Residential Life and Undergraduate Experience: Student Culture to Assessment and Visions Student Learning and Development 4 to 5:30 p.m. "Reflections on Student Life at Discussion groups Dalhousie" For symposium participants Robbie Shaw, Smior Viu·Presidmt, National Sta Produds and fonnrr Viu-Presidtnl (Finanu and Administration), Dalhousir Univrrsity "The Purple Paint and Green Jello Show" A s/udrnl rrour on campus lift· a/ Dalhousir. 4 to 5:30p.m. Discussion groups For symposium participants A display of learning technology is available for viewing throughout the TECHNOLOGY Symposium in the Sculpture Court and ltaiiways of the Arls Centre. Symposium For more information, contact FAIR participant> are welcome to browse and fry out the equipment. The Public Relations Office Dalhousie University 424-2517 The President's Symposium is open to all members of the community.
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