lack History Month special pullout supplement inside "An irresponsible press... will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. —MALCOLM X ubyssey bed ridden since 1918 by Federico Araya Barahona RICHARD LAM PHOTO some UBC players may find their way to the Sydney Olympics. It's TANYA PICKERELL IS AT A CROSS- clear, it would seem, that Reimer roads, but you would never know would assemble a national team from watching her tonight. using some of the parts from his Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen winning UBC engine. Tanya does Spirit' blasts through the PA as the not see the connection that clear­ Birds warm up before facing the Vwstty voleybal ly, though. Manitoba Bisons. One after one, Reimer is no ticket to the they spike the volleyball over the .star Tanya Pickerel national team, she points out. The net, missing at times, but mostly familiarity can cut both ways. hitting. This is a team on a mis­ "He knows my potential, "but he sion and Tanya's no exception. also knows my weaknesses," she She jumps up high, all fired up says. and focused, and buries the ball. chases a Besides, she adds, Reimer is "Go Tanya!" screams a team­ not the type of coach that would mate. Pickerell acknowledges the take her just because he knows support and rolls up her short her. sleeves to her shoulders. Does he have no feelings? Showtime. The Birds play it dan­ "He has feelings," Tanya gerously tonight and fall behind answers, laughing, "you can't put twice before coming back to that in the paper— Tanya Pickerell steamroll over Manitoba. Their says..." record improves to 13-1, a nation­ What Tanya does say is that her al championship is a little closer priorities have changed over the tonight. All in a night's work. last year. She got engaged recently— "He's a great guy"—and she also thinks her body needs a year off ODDLY ENOUGH, TANYA PICKERELL from competition. was supposed to play varsity bas­ But there's more. Tanya has been ketball. It wasn't until the summer thinking about going into education, after grade ten that she started play­ possibly coaching. ing volleyball. And even then, it was "My plans right now are getting a fluke. A coach saw her play and con married," she says, "and getting into vinced her to give volleyball a tr} the faculty of education; get my degree Tanya would eventually learn the and then I'll focus on volleyball after game quickly enough to participate in that." the provincial summer games. The national team, she adds, offers But it wasn't easy. "I didn't know no guarantees. She could get cut three how to play," she remembers, "and I months before the Olympics, and see was really lost out there." Her team . ' three years of work slip away from her. mates, however, consistently encouraged Then again, there's the possibility of her and helped her learn the game by the playing pro in Europe. And there's also end ofthe summer. beach volleyball in California. From that point on, Tanya never looked "I'm in a position where nothing is really back and concentrated on volleyball. hcl for me," she says, "I'm not guaranteed to "In grade eleven and twelve, I never really get into education, and I'm not guaranteed to knew what exactly I wanted," she says. "I just make the national team." This is the first time, knew I wanted to play volleyball." Tanya admits, she doesn't know where life is Seven years later, tlie two-time Canada West leading her, where eveiything seems like a gam­ All-Star says she has no regrets. Volleyball was the ble. right sport for her. Volleyball observers seem to agree. servbio it IN THE MIDDLE OF A PHOTO SHOOT, TANYA SAYS HER grad photographer didn't like her very much because THIS IS TANYA PICKERELL'S LAST YEAR OF VARSITY VOLLEYBALL, she kept smiling, ruining serious poses—grads are sup­ which means this is her last chance to win a Canadian uni­ posed to ponder the future seriously. versity national championship. The Birds came close last right Four months away from her university graduation, year—finishing third. Tanya Pickerell is seriously thinking about taking a year Tanya wants to win. watch from the bench and scream, a frustrating exercise for off. "Getting a national championship is the difference someone used to being in control, contributing. "I have never had a school life," she says, adding that between an A+ and an A," she says, adding that even a sil­ "By the second day, you're like, get me on the court- she doesn't feel like a student at UBC. She feels like an ver medal at this year's nationals would be disappointing whatever it takes," she says. It took time, and now she's athlete who plays for UBC. It would be nice, she says, to for her. This is her last chance, no next year for Tanya back, chasing that national championship, concentrated v- study at the library, instead of in the team room before Pickerell. This is it. ball glory. practice. But "it" almost vanished last November when Tanya "I want a gold," she adds. "I want a win." Tanya Pickerell will probably take a year off at the end of severely sprained her ankle. this season and the rest of her life will come after that. But, The injury, which sidelined her for two months, reduced first, there's this crazy championship she really wants to Tanya from athlete to spectator. Suddenly, there was little BIRDS COACH DOUG REIMER WILL TAKE OVER CANADA'S win. she could do to help her team win. All she could do was Senior NationaLTeam,this year, raising expectations that She's got her heart set on it. • 2 THE UBYSSEY, FEBRUARY 7, 1997 news Inf I grad student fees rocket by Sarah Galashan and Scott Hayward repairs and less money to do any copying," Neuman said. It's official—the Board of Governors has tripled The majority of people on Senate, however, felt that tuition for new international graduate students to UBC had a responsibility to the international students. Classifieds $7087 per year. "I think it's imperative for the university to recog­ Despite opposition from both the Senate and the nise the role of graduate students," said Dean of For Sale Employment Opportunities Dean of Graduate Studies, the BoG voted Thursday to Graduate Studies Frieda Granot increase fees for current international graduate stu­ Granot said she also worried the fee increases One Way Ticket to Toronto on the dents' by 24 percent this fall. 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