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have always disliked pink and as a child I watched more G.!. Jo~ than My Littk Pony. So images on Tv: Afi:er reading Laura Ingalls Wilder's all-around happy teenager. As I've never had any it was only natural for me to skip the whole books, I took to watching Littk House on the serious aspirations to be a doctor, nor astronaut, Bar~ie thing. Prairi~. Even little Laura envied Mary for her nor scientist, nor surfer-girl, that deems me as a I never owned a Barbie nor ever wished to. Yet, blonde hair and blue eyes, and they were sisters. failure yet again, by the Barbie factor. because I watched a lot of Smurfi and Car~ Bears I Quite frankly, growing up Chinese in western I have fai led in yet another way, according to the inevitably sat through countless commercials society has given me a peculiar set of mix-and­ standards of Barbie. I hate to buy things if they are hawking the latest Barbie. match values. And the Barbie factor doesn't help not books. The blatant consumerism encouraged Through the weekly ritual of Saturday morning things. I stand 15 5 em tall (for the metrically by Babs and her ilk never really made any sense to cartoons, it was my distinct rrusfortune to have had challenged, that's 5'2)-not short by any means, me. You would have to be crazy not to want a car Barbie imprinted on my brain as the epitome of just not tall. Compare my legs to Barbie's one-sixth of your own. Barbie has one. Then again, a pink feminine beauty in much the same manner as scale ones and mine are positively stumps. Not to sports car is a little much. Exact!J how many outfits Pavlov's dog. Over and qver again the little girls mention that my hips are too wide by far. It's a with matching accessories does she have in that would brush their Barbie's hair just so, good thing I have small feet, but I could never wear pink dream home of hers, anyway? CAfHY J A Jl\ styling it just the right way, adjust the the killer heels that Barbie prefers. I teeter precari- And speaking of buying things, have you looked ously on 2-inch heels, and ifl actually were to at the price of Barbie lately? Sky-high prices for a wear anything longer I would probably fall and piece of moulded plastic. Never did I see a Barbie CHR\Sf\NA ~OLfZ PHOfOS break a leg. advertised on TV that wasn't the classic Barbie. I doll's already immaculate clothing, and then step Surely it must be every little girl's dream to grow didn't know that there was an Asian Barbie for sale back to admire their handiwork, announcing in up and have a boyfriend like Ken. Tall, dark and until I started researching this article. Browsing the sugary tones bursting with giggles, "Oh how pretty handsome, and he goes everywhere with you when toy department at Eaton's, I found one solitary she looks!" you want him to. He also doesn't mind being the Japanese Barbie. True, the cast of irs features were How pretty, indeed. Barbie, with her long only guy in your bevy of friends and he never not that of the Western Barbie, bur dressed in a blonde hair, big blue eyes with impossibly long objects to you dressing him in clothes that you like. kimono, the doll is removed from the everyday and eyelashes, svelte body in daunting proportions, He is never boorish and doesn't spend the whole therefore a novelty; an aberration from the norm. long legs and incredibly arched feet has long been a afternoon in front of the TV with his friends, What exactly is Barbie trying to say to little girls North American pop culture icon. So it was that a acting like pigs. All in all, Ken's pretty great. Alas, ofWestern extraction? Get breast implants, go child with black hair and brown eyes-growing up poor me doesn't have a boyfriend like that. In fact, anorexic, bleach your hair, buy tinted contacts at a time when crayola still made "flesh coloured" I don't have any boyfriend at all . Guess that makes because only perfect people have any fun. crayons--came to long for wavy blonde hair and me a failure, right? Come on Barbie, let's go party. .p blue eyes. Over the years, Barbie has been a doctor, top­ FOI( f"/IOI(f Of OVi( SPECIAL COLOVI(S Being a bookworm didn't stop the barrage of level executive, astronaut, scientist, surfer-babe and \SSVE, SEE fOVI( PAGE INSERT" lft{erthe* Press 1111•1 U • IIUI 14•1111111 U, 1111 Room 1020-700 Roya!Avenue New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 [email protected] Phone 525.3542 Fax 527.5095 or 525.3505 David Lam Office Room A3107 Phone 527.5805 h< OtMr Pms is Douglas Collegis autonomous student , ... /. T nowspaper. We've been publishing since 1976. The Other Pn:ss is run as an anarcho-syndicalist commune. 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2 January 28 1998 The Othe~ Press News [email protected] Trouble afoot in ·student ·sodety Office Manager fired over "disloyalty''

Jim Chliboyko morning. member" of the society, "without any instructions Flasch was A private auditor from Ernst & Young The DCSS's letter states that the proper documentation or authoriza­ given, he replied "it's has also been called in to look at the ver twenty years of employment problem was nor that Houlihan tion." The memo was sent to Terry not a gag order, it's a suspect DCSS documents. came to an end on the morning informed anybody, but who Houlihan Leonard (Director of Facilities), DC lawyer's directive." Houlihan's firing didn't sit well with Oof Monday, January 26, with the told; Houlihan informed college President Susan Witter, Ombudsperson Contacted late all members of the DCSS, however. An firing of Douglas College Student administration before going to the Stephanie Williams and all DCSS staff. Tuesday, DCSS effort to impeach McEvoy, VP External Society (DCSS) business manager student society Representative Commit­ The Houlihan memo included a President Jaimie Christa Peters, Maple Ridge VP Amanda Merrilyn Houlihan. tee. This constituted not "following pumber of more specific charges. Also McEvoy clarified the ]aimie McEvoy Wheeler and UT representative Paul According to a copy of Houlihan's proper channds of communication," suspect was "another executive member reason for Houlihan's Rosha has been initiated. The reasons for dismissal letter, sigpcd by DCSS according to the termination letter. [who] has received $1200 in duplicate dismissal was a meeting organized on impeachment are largely due to President Jaimie McEvoy and Vice­ Houlihan's actions had consequences honoraria," along with "a loan of $2700 January 20 by Houlihan and attended Houlihan's firing, bur also include President Internal Darryl Flasch, beyond her own firing. By informing the [which] was advanced in honoraria by Houlihan and several members of the charges that the four failed to follow the Houlihan was fired due to "insubordina­ college prior to informing the student hours to an executive without any college administration. McEvoy denies bylaws of the society themselves. tion to [her) employer, failure to follow society about the suspected financial formal contract," Houlihan wrote. that Houlihan was fired for being a One cx-DCSS executive, however, proper channds of communication and irregularities, the accusation "placed in Houlihan didn't accuse anybody by whistle-blower. thought there was more than just failed disloyalty to the Society." The "insubor­ jeopardy the timely remittance of the name in the memo, but it appears she As for the missing money which protocol behind Houlihan's firing. "The dination" is apparently related to an membership dues of the Society." In fingered at least two members of the initiated the firing, "the only facts we DCSS executive were being held accusation of financial impropriety shott, after being informed of any DCSS executive. know for sure is that we don't have any accountable for their actions, and they against an executive member of the suspected chicanery, the college, Houlihan nor only contacted college facts," said McEvoy. didn't like that, they tried to get rid of student society, an accusation which was according to the College and Institute administration about the irregularities, McEvoy also said that the week-old her;" said the source, who asked to levelled by Houlihan. Act, has the power to hold back the bur New Westminster city police, as investigation being conducted by New remain anonymous. The decision to fire Houlihan DCSS student fees they collected for the well. Westminster City Police was now Defending the DCSS's decision to fire apparently rook place over the weekend, winter term, threatening the funds that Speaking to VP Internal Darryl Flasch focused on one individual, a former Houlihan, McEvoy wrote in a memo to over the course of a series of student the society needs for irs day-to-day elicited nothing bur "no comment," but DCSS member who had recently DCSS Representatives that "there [are) society meetings. Douglas College operation. he did confirm that members of the stepped down. According to McEvoy, those who believe they know the law president Susan Witter was informed In a memo Houlihan wrote, dared DCSS were advised to nor speak about the same person was now suspected of better than lawyers and police." after the decision was made, and January 21, she claimed that over $6000 the events of the weekend leading up to being solely responsible for the irregu­ The investigation is ongoing. (> Houlihan received notice on Monday in cheques were cashed by "an executive Houlihan's firing. Asked to specify what larities. Canadian senator visits DC merely a rubber stamp for the laws that every five years. Manning's father, Ernest, as a senator. Homan Sanaie the House of Commons bring to the His views on Par Carney, the BC Preston thought this was the nearest Senate. In reality, they rake a long look Senator who believes that BC should thing, according ro Perrault. Today, When you hear news stories about at the bill and change parts of it so the consider the option of separating from Preston Manning wants the Senate Canadian senators, the public rends to bill works better. Canada, are that her views are narrowed, abolished. picture an old man who is nor qualified Perrault's views on separatists in and that her suggestion was an attempt If you want a copy of A Senate Report for the job, who only cares about Quebec are those of a federalist; he does to build a political base. He also said, ofPost-Secondary Education, just email making money, and never shows up to not believe that Quebec should separate "She is a fine women, but this was not the Senator at [email protected] and Senate meetings. When you meet from Canada. Furthermore, he believes one of her finer moments." give him your name and address so he Senator Raymond J. Perrault, though, that having a referendum every five He also told some ironic stories, like can send you a copy. Or ask one of the you gain a new appreciation for how years should be illegal. He believes that about when former Prime Minister political science reachers at the college. hard some senators actually work. we should nor be dealing with this issue Pierre Trudeau appointed Preston They may have a copy handy. ~ Senator Perrault is nor from Quebec, he was actually born in Burnaby. He graduated from John Oliver Secondary School in Vancouver, then went on to The smator goes to work for you the University of British Columbia, where he majored in Economics and mentioned in any of the major newspa­ Political Science. pers in BC. The media only reports on In 1959, he became Leader of the the negative aspects of the Senate, such Liberal Patty in BC. He was first elected as Senator Andrew Thompson who to the BC legislature in 1960; re-elected spends the majority of the year in in 1963 and 1966. In 1968, Perrault was Mexico, said Senator Perrault. decred to the House of Commons in Senator Perrault also believes that the Burnaby-Seymour riding. On there should be Senate reform. He October 1, 1973, Mr. Perrault was prefers the American system, which is appointed to the Senate. August 1974, distinguished by a Triple - E Senate: it is he was appointed Leader of the Senate elected, there are an equal amount of and sworn to the Queen's Privy Council. sears to each stare, and it is effective. Ill He was re-appointed as the Leader of Senator Perrault does not believe that the Senate in 1980. He was the Leader the Senate should be abolished. His of the Senate until 1982. reasoning is that if there is no Senate, Raymond ]. Perrault has had a lot of Ontario and Quebec will have more experience in politics; he is nor one of power than they already have. There one those senators who shows up to the hundred and four senators in Canada; Robert Nicholls PhD vs MichaelHomerMA chamber once a year. He came to Ontario and Quebec have twenty-four Douglas College on January 23 to talk each, while BC only has six. with students who are raking Canadian Senator Perrault thinks that the media Douglas College llinity We~em Univemty Political Science. Brandishihg a huge is roo harsh on the Senate. For instance, report about post-secondary education, they rake attendance in the Senate, but Perrault read excerpts &om it to the they do not have to rake attendance in Philosophy Philosophy /Theology audience. The report, A Smau &port of the House of Commons. As well, the Post-Secondary Education, was nor media have written that the Senate is Monday February 2, 1998 The Other Press. .Third Floor Student Society Building 100o/o Conrad 2:15-4:00 PM Black Free Sponsored by Douglas College Campus Crusade for Christ

The Other Press January 28 1998 3 News [email protected] THC report makes an impact ... And now the details Jim Chliboyko options for the future of Douglas College at THC: close Douglas College ~--- DC is in this hallway right here "It became an increasingly unproductive in Thomas Haney Centre; an option place." called "ReformingTHC," which "There appears to have been no involves a greater investment of thought enthusiasm within the College for and time and resources into the centre; THC." and an option called "Transforming "Parts of the agreement appear to THC," which would involve something work to the detriment of the College." "radically different" for the centre. "The promises made to residents of Barker's study deemed the first Maple Ridge and Pin Meadows now option, closing down, the least viable for look like empty rhetoric, despite the best Douglas College, in terms of what the intentions of a few individuals." college would lose. Not only would their These ;ue some of the more negative dealings with the Ministry of Education findings of Kathryn Barker, PhD, who be damaged, but there would also be authored the Thomas Haney Centre harm done in their relationship to the Operational Review, the conclusions and community of Maple Ridge-Pin recommendations of which were released Meadows, a community into which they just last month. may never be welcomed again. And the But there is good news-Douglas "TransformingTHC" option was seen "headcounts" would like to see THC College will remain in the Maple Ridge­ to be more of a long-term solution. The close, because ir brings Douglas' other Pitt Meadows area, albeit in a different Reforming THC option seemed to be numbers down. The college, roo, has been at fault. form and with a different focus. the more favoured option. I fe·el sick Susan Witter, President of Douglas Citing pressures from both outside Barker claims that Douglas College's decision making is based on outdated College, wrote that she was buoyed by and within, Barker placed the blame for Steve lsSane assets to the government it wouldn't be the findings. "It is encouraging that we THC's lack of success on conflicts methods and non-student-based long before the existing board is priorities, and that these methods have can now end the recent speculation amongst stakeholders' expecrations, a THE NEW YIN SOCIETY 11'! PORT dissolved and bureaucrats who know rendered THC ineffective. "The about the campus' future and focus on paradoxical decision-making process at Coquitlam, dedicated to the lives of nothing about mental health ruin how to provide the best possible work within the college, and "the logical scattergun approach prevails; offer some the menrally ill, like many other • twenty-five years of hard work. educational service for the Maple Ridge­ inconsistency berween the Ministry's (of programs and services to the public, and charities in BC has received funding It's also worth noting that many Pitt Meadows region," she wrote. Education, Skills and Training) vision see who takes them up," writes Barker in from the government, but it has also Douglas College students in the Specific recommendations deal largely for student-based success and its current the repon. received generous donarions from the Psychiatric. Nursing and :SCrni-lndc:pe11d1 with university transfer courses; students economic vision of success." Though there appears to be quite a bit community. Through hard work, ent Living programs u~ New View to will be able to complete a full first year Barker seemed particularly irked by of work ahead of Douglas College staff pet~vetance and sound financial complete their practicums. of UT at Thomas Haney. As well, the machinations of the Ministry. "It is in attempting to fix Thomas Haney's man2gement, New View has gone Ms. McPhails' meory behind this developmental programs will be literally impossible," she wrote, "to problems, students and administration · from renting a public hall to owning madness is that since the government increased, entrepreneurial and employ­ create a student-centred institution, with seem to be glad that everything is now its own clubhou~ as wdl as two funds all these facilities the government ment courses may be offered, and all the suppon, flexibility, and innova­ our in the open. To quote one of houses and its own apartment block. unilaterally owns them. connections to other educational tion that it requires, while basing Barker's more feel-good conclusions, But wait! The :NDP government is So in keeping with Ms. McPhails' institutions will be strengthened in an educational grants on enrolment targets "Many of these negative facrors, attempting to ~t the assets ofBC - thinking! propose we snatch up effon to improve education in Maple and indirectly placing sole value on however, can be easily turned to positive charities without giving back ownership of Orca Bay for ourselves, Ridge-Pin Meadows. 'bodies in sears.'" Those, Barker said, with genuine enthusiasm and some compensarion. 'This amounts to the since we provide the principle funding Barker came up with three possible who are worried solely about the dedicated resources." ~ transferring of millions of dollars in for the organization. Sounds ridiculous assets to dle g

4 January 28 1998 The Other Press ..,.. .. '' I HAVE A DREAM '' AUG. 28, 1963

bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are satisfied as long as our children insufficient funds in the great vaults of are stripped of their selfhood and opportunity of this nation. So we have robbed of their dignity by signs come to cash this check, a check that will stating "for white only." We give us upon demand the riches of freedom cannot be satisfied as long as a and security of justice. We have also come colored person in Mississippi to his hallowed spot to remind America of cannot vote and a colored person the fierce urgency of Now. This is not time in New York believes he has to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to nothi~g for which to vote. No, no take the tranquillizing drug of gradualism. we are not satisfied and we will Now is the time to make real the promise of not be satisfied until justice rolls democracy. Now is the time to rise &om the down like waters and righteous­ dark and desolate valley of segregation to ness like a mighty stream. I am the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the not unmindful that some of you time to lift our nation from the quicksands have come here out of your trials of racial injustice to the solid rock of · and tribulations. Some of you brotherhood. Now is the time to make have come from areas where your justice a reality to all of God's children. I quest for freedom left you would be fatal for the nation to overlook battered by storms of persecutions the urgency of the moment and to underestimate and staggered by the winds of I am happy to join with you today in what will go the determination of its colored citizens. police brutality. You have been down in history as the greatest demonstration for This sweltering summer of the colored people's the veterans of creative suffering. freedom in the history of our nation. Five score legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an Continue to work with the faith years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. that unearned suffering is shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Nineteen sixty-three is not an end but a beginning. redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to will be able to join hands with little white boys and Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a Those who hope that the colored Americans Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream great beacon of hope to millions of slaves, who had needed to blow off Georgia, go back to Louisiana, today. been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It steam and will now be go back to the slums and ghettos I have a dream that one day every valley shall be came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of content will have a "Now is the time to rise of our modern cities, knowing engulfed, every hill shall be exalted and every their captivity. But one hundred years later, the rude awakerung if the from the dark and desolate that somehow this situation can mountain shall be made low, the rough places will colored America is still not free. One hundred years nation returns to and will be changed. Let us not be made plains and the crooked places will be made later, the life of the colored American is still sadly business as usual. valley of segregation to the wallow in the valley of despair. I straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed crippled by the manacle of segregation and the There will be neither sunlit path of racial justice:' say to you, my friends, we have ~d all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, rest nor uanquility in the difficulties of today and This is the faith that I wm go back to the South the colored American lives on a lonely island of America until the tomorrow. with. With this faith we will pe able to hew out of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material colored citizen is granted his citizenship rights. The I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted the mountain of despair a stone of hope. prosperity. One hundred years later, the colored whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the in the American dream. I have a dream that one With this faith we will be able to transform the 'American is still languishing in the corners of foundations of our nation until the bright day of day this nation will rise up and live out the true jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful American society and finds himself an exile in his justice emerges. meaning of its creed. We hold this truth to be self­ symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will own land. So we have come here today to drama­ We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, evident that all men are created equal. I have a be able to work together, to pray together, to tize a shameful condition. In a sense we have come heavy with· the fatigue of travel, cannot gain dream that one day out in the red hills of Georgia struggle together, to go to jail together, to climb up to our Nation's Capital to cash a check. lodging in the motels of the highways and the the sons of former slaves and the sons of former for freedom together, knowing that we will be free When the architects of our great republic wrote hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the one day. This will be the day when all of God's the magnificent words of the Constitution and the as the colored person's basic mobiliry is from a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day children will be able to sing with new meaning Declaration oflndependence, they were signing a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land ofliberty, of promissory note to which the heat of oppression, thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the every American was to will be transformed Pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let fall heir. This note was a into an oasis of freedom ring!" promise that all men, yes, freedom and justice. I And if America is to be a great nation, this must black men as well as have a dream that my become true. white men, would be four little children will So let freedom ring from the hilltops of New guaranteed to the one day live in a nation Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty inalienable rights of life, where they will not be mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the liberty and the pursuit of judged by the color of heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let happiness. It is obvious their skin but by their freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of today that America has character. I have a Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous defaulted on this dream today. slopes of California. promissory note insofar I have a dream that But not only that, let freedom ring from Stone as her citizens of color are one day down in Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from every concerned. Instead of Alabama, with its hill and molehill of Mississippi and every honoring this sacred vicious racists, with its mountainside. When we let freedom ring, when we obligation, America has governor having his lips let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, given its colored people a dripping with the from every state and every city, we will be able to bad check, a check that words of interposition speed up that day when all of God's children, black has come back marked and nullification; that men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, P"ro~estants "insufficient funds." But one day right down in and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing we refuse to believe that Alabama little black in the words of the old spiritual, "Free at last, free the bank of justice is boys and black girls at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last." lj>

The Other Press January 28 1998 1 JJARE OUR LEADERS. ACTING OUT OF PERSONAL Editorial INTEREST OR SOCIAL CONCERN?" WELL, IT IS THAT TIME AGAIN, AND WE HAVE PRODUCED another l~vely colours special issue. Well it isn't really by Ruby Isaac an issue. It is more of a pull-out, as you can you see. lT A Jhen I hear of First Nations agencies or leaders being called This time around, once again, we got a colourless r V V into question about their motives, many questions come colour issue. We tried ... we tried real hard to get colour to mind. First, are they special interest groups, with 12' Pole Commissioned by in it, but to no avail. So we made do with what we specific agendas that do not include the best interest of all First had. We tried to make this issue a little more multi­ Nations, or are they looking out for the interest of the public? Are cultural, and we had some additions from different they being open and inclusive to the public whom they are supposed people of different nationalities to write for us. With to represent? Sadly enough, there are a number of cases where Aveda Corporation of the support of some nice people from Burnaby organizations claim to be working in the best interest of th~ public, Mountain to Aldergrove, we created an informative but when people try to receive services or obtain information from coloured issue, talking about old news, new news, such organizations, the acceptance of their requests is narrow and dead news, alive and kicking news. Included in this exclusive to those involved in making decisions. . Minneapolis. Carved by Fah issue are a few pieces relating to the upcoming Black The part that burns me is that these people ofren represent power History Month. Starring off we have the famous "I and authori ty-something First Nations people have learned to not have a Dream" Speech by Martin Luther King. We also question or challenge (Thanks to Colonizati on and Residential Ambers have added some local Black History Month pieces. Schools). Unfortunately, this leads to the same paternalistic decisions T he Association of Students of African Descent, also being made FOR many by FEW Again, the First Nations people are known as ASAD, from Simon Fraser mercifully sent us being told what they need, instead of being consulted and given the information-about their association as well as the Afro opportunity to have input on what THEY feel they need. News sent us information about Saltspring's first black During colonization, the Europeans told us what was best for us, teacher. So we hope you enjoyed this issue as much as and we had no say. Today, some First Nations political leaders, we enjoyed breaking our backs making it. organization leaders, directors, and presidents, etc., continue to community, the? you SHOULD have a right to see this information. oppress the people by telling us what THEY think we need. But we We need to ask ourselves, "are they following their own goals and no longer have to accept this rype of diaation. QUESTION guidelines?" EVERYTHING! Yes, we need to learn to trust, but we must ensure If not, then we need to question them about it. It may be that they Production ~ Gweny Wong- [email protected] we do not become naive either. Do not take it as the gospel just off track and need a community member like ~ Michael Pierre- op_wt:[email protected] have just got a little because someone else says this is what is best for you! We need to ask ourselves to help steer them straight again. I believe that it is ok to be ourselves, "Does this feel right? Are my needs being met? Is my critical-not cynical. Being critical to me is to QUESTION ifl am Johnson C. H . Tai, Karneka Headley of ASAD, community happy with these services?" What are the organization's getting what my leaders say they are giving me. To be cynical is to just Michelle Lee Williams of The Afro News, Ruby goals and objectives? Do they concur with the needs of the commu­ ASSUME that I'm not. Isaac, David Tam, Kristina Holtz, Monique nity? If not, then get involved! Go to a meeting, and invite others.who By speaking up, we are taking care of ourselves and our community, Tamminga, Holly Keyes, and Anonomous share your concern to join you. Check out the policy manual and and letting our leaders know that we have not left them to forge ahead mission statement. If it is a public interest group or organization for the on their own. A&er all, power does come in numbers, right? .p Assodation for Students of African Descent

&jkctiom on the journry: Looking Back to into the future. The films, to be the eyes of three members of a Black In an effort to raise awareness about bring together students of African Move Forward january 23, 1998 presented on February 11th and community in Toronto. the need for a Studies in African Heritage descent and to provide opportunities for How did we get here and where are we February 25th, March II th and March "The series will extend beyond the Program at SFU, the f.ssociation also forming alliances and friendships. between going? These are few of the questions 25th at the Harbour Centre Campus, confines of Black History Month," produced a series of 12 lectures, inviting students from Continental Africa and members of the Association for Students will follow the explains Karneka speakers locally and across North the Diaspora, ASAD aims to foster of African Descent (ASAD) at Simon journey from Africa · ''Leaming a17out our past does not Headley, ASAD America to speak on a variety of issues. academic excellence and to address Fraser University (SFU) ask themselves to the Americas and 17egin and end in Fel7ruary.l7ut is a president. "We have Lectures included 'African Art and Art of common goals and obstacles, while during Black History Month, and all include Sankofo, the made every effort the African Diaspora,' by Melinda promoting intellectual and cultural year long. story of an African­ continuous. ongoing process of self­ over the years to Mollineaux of the Emily Carr Schoo\ of experiences. With this in mind, ASAD will present American model's awareness, growth and development." create learning Art and Design; 'Afrocentricity', by Our journry: Looking Back to Move journey to Africa and experiences Molefi Kete Asante, from Temple Contact: Forward, a series of films selected take though time; Hogan's Alley. the previ­ through a variety of activities. Learning University; and 'Educating African­ Kameka Headley. the viewer through history to the present ously undocumented history of women about our past does not begin and end Canadian Children,' by Ms. Yvonne Association for Sttttknts ofAfrican Descent day, speaking "to the importance of of Vancouver's Black community from in February, but is a continuous, Brown of the University of British (604) 944-5985 or [email protected]. looking to the past, and learning about the 1930s to the '60s; and Rutk, a ongoing process of self-awareness, Columbia. one's history, before making the journey representation of today's reality through growth and development. Formed in the summer of 1992 to John Craven Jones: Saltsp ring's first teacher

By Michelle Lee Williams John Craven Jones came from a sometimes called. was a three-man school board which Almira Scott (who was also an Oberlin remarkable family: His father Allen was To this mountainous, wild but included Abraham Copeland, a Black. grad) and they moved to Tarboro, North born a slave. He bought his own freedom beautiful island came John Craven The Board asked repeatedly that John Carolina, where he taught for the next while on a plantation in North Carolina. Jones, a widely admired and respected Jones' teaching be officially recognized 25 years. He reportedly also became a All through his life the concern for a good man. The Black settlers built an and that he be paid a salary. His teaching lawyer during that time. education was foremost in his mind and unbarked log cabin in 1861 which commitment had left no time for him to In 1911, after four years of retire­ as a free man he tried to establish a school served as schoolhouse and church. John even farm his land, and he had to ment, Saltspring's first teacher died of for Black children in North Carolina but taught school here three days a week depend on the parents of his students. blood poisoning in Greensboro, North local whites burned it down three times. then walked a long and dangerous route John Jones was, after all, a college Carolina. He was 80 years old. He moved hi s family to Oberlin, Ohio, to Begg's Settlement where he taught the graduate and he did hold a first class There are no available pictures of)ohn where fo ur of his sons graduated from white children for three days. His teaching certificate. The Government's Craven Jones, but, until a few years ago, Oberl in College. Three of them, induding dedication and commitment being (as slowness to recognize his profession and on a wall o£a hotel on Saltspring Island John, came to the Northwest during the was his father's) to the education of pay him for his services was disgraceful. there was a large mural depicting John gold rush. John stayed on Saltspring young minds. He was to teach all the Finally 1869, after nearly ten years of Jones teaching little children. The mural Island-his brothers William and Elias children on the island, both Black arid unpaid work, he was officially appointed included an inscription. moved on to the mainland. Elias White, for nearly 10 years-without any and thus paid a salary of $500.00 per The inscription read: eventually returned to the United reportedly turned down a request to form a pay. While travelling from one area to year. He was also suggested as a possible Say!! States-William spent the rest of his life Black colony on the island, favouring another he was often sniped at and candidate for the House of Assembly in Withottt Any Pay as a dentist and mining investor in the instead an integrated settlement. He gave occasionally beaten up, but he did not Victoria, but he declined to run for the For I 0 years to teach school Cariboo. his approval to settle the island, July 26, let anything deter him from his office. One must be dronk or a fool Saltspring Island was uninhabited Crown 1859 and authorized 29 settlers ro pre-empt vocation. He returned ro Oberlin in rhe mid john C. jones was neither land in 1859. Governor James Douglas had land on Juan Island-as Saltspring was The first elected body on Saltspring 1870s. At age 51 in 1882 he married He was a teacher THE OiliER PRESS IS LOOKING FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR NEXT QUEERS & WoMYN'S SPECIAL ISSUES Su.bmission dead li nes for the QUEER & IWD issues is eight am . on Monday, Feb. 2 & Feb. 23. Please address the articles with your name and number on a printed copy and a floppy disk to the Other Press, Rrn 1020, New FEB.ll &MAR4FOR West., V3L 5B2, Fax 525- 3 505, Em ai l: [email protected] uglas.bc.ca

2January 28 1998 The Other Press YOu may be walking o~ century old graves . ~ unknowingly I I

he Chinese have been in New stopped. have to remember now, that some of I JUST WANTED AN ORANGE oranges for a long time so she had an Westminster since the early The way that was explained to me at a these [stories] have to do with the fact .. . • orange. But she said that it was never 1860s. Most of them were meeting in Victoria-by a Chinese man, that these [bodies] were Chinese. So you I think the mam thing that comes up d one wtt· h 'h a.1 h a.1 I roo k an orange firom when we talk about the way a lot of the h ch· '" lured by the Fraser River Gold I should say, who had studies this. He put that belief aside and say 'OK, that's . t e mese grave. stones have come to me from people c h · · d · '- · Rush which brought thousands of said that it got to the point where the racism.' Then you look for reason. There . .L h I ror anyone w o zs znttrest~ zn ~eamzng wh o went to p Iay m ute o es or to b · h C"'- · · · people of various nationalities and generations had moved along, and a lor is an element of truth to [the stories]. If h [th fu al] th h. more a out t e mnese zn New Westmzn- ethnicities to British Columbia. At one more younger people were saying, 'This you are not burying people very deep watc e ner s • ere was not mg ster, the New Westminster Museum that any of these people were being point in time New Westminster boasted is home! So why are we going there there are stories and reports in th"e malicious about. I remember this one Archives (521 -7656) has a sizable display not just one bur two Chinatowns! [China]? This is home.' And you mix newspaper that you could smell that section on the topic. ~ person said to me, 'they were really nice The original Chinatown was located that with the fact that the wars were on cemetery. So it may be that we are only oranges!' She said she hasn't had any near the foot of Mary Street (present day and it wasn't easy to just put everything burying three feet [deep]. You find 6th Street). A second one was in the on a boat, and send it to China. That comments in the paper. There is even a "swamp," a mini~m:_ wetland area just practice stopped. couple of accounts when they sent the west of the corner of 8th Street and There are stories to do with that. This ciry health guy up because you could Columbia. The second Chinatown was is the first weird story. I have nor had smell the cemetery. So if it is warm and rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1898, and this confirmed yet but I hear these the body is decaying not far from the went on to become a thriving commu­ stories repeaterlly. Somewhere after surface, it may not have been very niry, second in size only to the China­ WWII, so these bones have been stored good." town in Victoria. for a long time. They were obviously But what happened to the Chinese ready to be shipped but never went. And FUNERALS WITH A PARTY after death? New Westminster ciry somebody did find a couple of large ATMOSPHERE curator, Archie Miller, picks up the story rooms full of boxes of bones. I never did from here: hear what happened to any of them. But "If an European had a long funeral this story still buzzes around. These procession then it was probably very THE CEMETERY bones were boxed and never did go." quiet. The Chinese, on the other hand, would have a big parry! There is a "The Chinese cemetery in New picture of [a funeral] where there is lots Westminster in the 1860s, when the ciry GRAVEYARD IS OUR of music involved in it. You go on a was just starting, I am nor sure they PLAYGROUND parade then go on to the cemetery. would have buried Chinese at that time. "Up in the high school site, [the There is another picture I've seen, that it I would think they were buried at the Chinese] would dig up the graves and is almost like what I see wolll:d be a same area as the New Westminster high pick up all the bones, box them all very Chinese festival with a dragon. In the school sire. There was going to be a carefully and properly. They didn't stuff I've.seen and read they talked about cemetery up there but I don't know always fill the holes in. I talked to people fireworks. They talked about big where a Chinese would be buried at that who remember going in there and they banners, and noise makers, and all kinds time because it was supposed to be played in the holes. One woman who at of things. So you know there was Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist. that rime was a lircle girl said that they ceremony going on. Particularly if they If the Chinese person was Methodist would play war. Because you had all marched right up through the centre of or Presbyterian he probably would have these holes, you could jump into and the town and headed up to the cemetery been buried there. I would think they then shoot each other. She said they up on the hill. I had one man tell me probably did bury them up in the area were always playing jumping in and out that he watched this group go. He said there if there was Chinese who died at of the holes because there were holes all he was a teenager, and he didn't know it that time. There was another early lircle over the place." was a funeral. And all of a sudden he cemetery that was from where we are . could hear all this music, and drums, right now at the museum. It was actually FORGOTTEN GRAVE SITES and thought it was kind of strange. rwo blocks towards the Parrullo Bridge Someone told him it was a Chinese along Agnes Street bur I know who was "There was another story. Obviously funeral. So he followed them all the way buried out there and there is no one in some of the graves weren't dug up. And I up to the cemetery, and then they all there from the names that would be had people tell me that when they got . starred coming back down again. They Chinese. up ro ... oh boy, let me think now... they went down to Chinatown near the So, I think early on if someone would be talking about almost the corner ofTenth and Columbia. There Chinese died they were probably buried Second World War. There was a military was a great big parry! And he said he was · up on the high school site just in a camp on that end of the site. Now the sitting there, he is White like I am, and random area. In time, I'm not really sure cemetery is gone bur obviously some of he said no one cared. Everybody was when it starts but I know it becomes to the graves weren't all dug up. Because having fun, and there was food and be referred to as a Chinese cemetery. when they would be digging and doing drink. There was a big parry to the And all my information has it toward things for the military camp they would dearly departed! Everybody was the corner of 1Oth Avenue and 8th come across bones. This one fellow said included. Lots of other people went in Street as opposed to being in the midrlle that they remember seeing dogs running there who were Whites. They went of the block. There was a cemetery for... around with these bones so they ~em down into there and were welcomed. I refer to it as white but that's not fair running after them gathering [the because there were other people in there bones] up, and burying them some­ FOOD FOR THE DEAD (AND but I have to make it different from the where." Chinese cemetery. So you have the rest THE ALIVE) PICKING UP THE PIECES of the communiry, Europeans for "Lots of people from both the [high example, there were people who came "I talked to people who remember [the school site] and the Fraser cemetery from the asylum. high school site], and also Fraser, when recall food being placed on the graves. There were people who were in what early on there would be a group. A When I get to talking to people about it, was known as the pest house. A pest group would arrive to dig. up the grave. with old people who were young back house is a place where they used to put They dig up the grave, then everyone then, I got a number of stories from people when they had a contagious would be sirring, picking up the bones. people who would say they would watch disease to isolate them. So that was One man said that he was sure that they the funeral and then go over and eat the toward the middle of the block, school had chopsticks to pick up the small food. And he said lots of people would board area, the Chinese one would be pieces. I don't know if it is true bur it do it. It's nor supposed ro happen, I down toward Tenth avenue. It would be could be because I have the same story know." I probed cautiously, 'would that there until well into the century. Some from Fraser. l guess that is very much be after everyone was gone?' "Yes, yes," of the information they told me that it second nature. I might use a spoon or says Miller. "Everyone would go and a was closed down early. Others tell me it fork or garden trowel to pick up bunch of things were left there and was still there a couple of decades into something. [The Chinese] might just go [youngsters] go over to eat the fruits, eat this century. I don't think so. I think it and pick [the bones] up [with chop­ what was there. People do those things. was closed down fairly early." sticks]. Because it would be easy. People would remember these things because One of the great little lines you hear. .. is HOMECOMING AFfER DEATH they were different. It's a difference of that a person goes up to a Chinese grave. "Most of the stories to do with the culture. Nothing wrong with it. It is Like a person of my colour. A good, Chinese cemetery have to do with what rather interesting." White, Scot. And [he] goes up and says, people who were at that time youngsters. 'who do you think is going to eat that? I had one lady recall that [the SMELLY GRAVES? The person's dead. He's not going to eat Chinese] used to dig up the bones, pack "A lot of rhe graves, from what I that.' Then, the Chinese person turns Chinese Family in BC, late 1800s them up and ship them back to China. understand when they were digging up and says, 'well, you pur flowers on the Photo Credit: Victori4 :A History in Photographs Then berween rhe First World War and the Chinese graves is that they weren't grave. Do you think they are going to the Second World War, the practice very deep. There are stories. Bur you smell [the flowers]?'"

The Other Press January 28 1998 3 Rosa Parks: The Montgomery bus boycott history

"I felt just resigned to give what I could to protest against the way I was being treated."

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks of December I, 195 5: Parks took the bus of Parks' trial, bur Martin Luther King, a nervous breakdown, and in 1957 t / refused to give up her seat on a bus to a because she was feeling particularly tired Jr. and other prominent members of moved to Detroit, where Parks' broth white man who wanted it. By this simple after a long day in the department store Montgomery's black community realized Sylvester, lived. There Parks continue act, which today would seem unremark­ where she worked as a seamstress. She that here was a chance to take a firm her work as a seamstress, but she had able, she set in motion the civil rights was sitting in the middle section, glad to stand on segregation. As a result, the become a public figure and was often movement, which led to the Civil Rights be off her feet at last, when a white man Montgomery Improvement Association sought out to give talks about civil Act of 1964 and ultimately ensured that boarded the bus and demanded that her was formed to organize a boycott that rights. today all black Americans must be given row be cleared bec;mse the white section would continue until the bus segregation Over the years, Parks has received equal treatment with whites under the was full. The others in the row obedi­ laws were changed. Leaflets were several honorary degrees, and in 1965 law. ently moved to the back of the bus, but distributed telling people not to ride the Congressman John Conyers of Detroi Parks did not know that she was Parks just didn't feel like standing for the buses, and other forms of transport were appointed her to his staff. Parks' making history nor did she intend to do rest of the journey, and she quietly laid on. husband died in 1977 and she retired so. She simply knew that she was tired refused to move. The boycott lasted 382 days, causing 1988, but she has continued to work after a long day's work and did not want At this, the white bus driver threat­ the bus company to lose a vast amount the betterment of the black communi to move. Because of her fatigue and ened to call the police unless Parks gave of money. Meanwhile, Parks was fined She is particularly eager to help the becatMe she was so determined, America up her seat, but she calmly replied, "Go for failing to obey a city ordinance, but young, and in 1987 she established th was changed forever. Segregation was on ahead and call them." By the time the on the advice of her lawyers she refused Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute fo its way out. police arrived, the driver was very angry, to pay the fine so that they could Self-Development, a training school fi and when asked whether he wanted challenge the segregation law in court. Detroit teenagers. GROWING UP IN A SEGRE­ Parks to be arrested or let off with a The following year, the U.S. Supreme Each year sees more honours warning, he insisted on arrest. So this Court ruled the Montgomery segrega­ showered upon her. In 1990, some thr GATED SOCIETY for her work with the Montgomery respectable, middle-aged woman was tion law illegal, and the boycott was at thousand people attended the Kenned In the first half of this century, Voters League as well _ Center in Washington, D.C., to Montgomery, Alabama, was totally as the NAACP. The celebrate the sevenry-sevemh birthday segregated, like so many other cities in Voters League was a the indomitable campaigner and form the South. In this atmosphere Parks and group that helped seamstress, Rosa Parks. her brother grew up. They had been black citizens pass brought to Montgomery by their the various tests that MUGGED IN HER HOME mother, Leona (Edwards) McCauley, had been set up to On August 30, 1994, the nation­ when she and their father separated in make it difficult for and especially Detroit-was stunned t 1915. Their father, James McCauley, them to register as learn that the 81 year old Parks had be went away north and they seldom saw voters. assaulted in her home. Joseph Skipper, him, but they were made welcome by As well as avoiding young, unemployed African American their mother's family and passed their black-only elevators, broke imo Parks' home, hit her repeat­ childhood among cousins, uncles, aunts, Parks often avoided edly, and stole $53 from her. The grandparents, and great-grandparents. travelling by bus, incident gained even further news Parks' mother was a schoolteacher, preferring to walk coverage when Ramiah Mario Jefferso and Parks was taught by her until the home from work the man who helped catch Skipper afte age of eleven, when she went to when she was not the assault, was himself then arrested fi Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. too tired to do so. allegedly driving the getaway car in an It was, of course, an all-black school, as The buses were a automatic bank teller machine heist was Booker T. Washington High School, constant irritation to months before. til which she attended briefly. Virtually all black passengers. FURTHER READING everything in Montgomery was for The front four rows Celsi, Teresa, Rosa Parks and the "blacks only" or "whites only," and Parks were reserved for Montgomery Bus Boycott, Millbrook became used to obeying the segregation whites (and re­ Press, 1991. laws, though she found them humiliating. mained empty even Friese, Kai Jabir, and Eric Velasquez, When Parks was twenry, she married when there were not Rosa Parks: The Movement Organizes, Raymond Parks, a barber, and moved enough white Silver Burdett Press, 1990. out of her mother's home. Parks took in passengers to fill Hull, Mary, Rosa Parks: Civil Rights sewing and worked at various jobs over them). The back Leader, Chelsea House, 1994. the years. She also became an active section, which was Jet, March 5, 1990, pp. 22+; Septem member of the National Association for always very crowded, ber19, 1994.pp.22+. the Advancement of Coloured People was for black passengers. In between taken to the police station, where she last called off. Yet Parks had started far New York Times, September 1, 1994 (NAACP), working as secretary of the were some rows that were really part of was fingerprinted and jailed. She was more than a bus boycott. Other cities p.A16. Montgomery chapter. the black section, but served as an allowed to make one phone call. She followed Montgomery's example and Parks, Rosa, and Jim Haskins, Rosa overflow area for white passengers. If the called an NAACP lawyer, who arranged were protesting their segregation laws. Parks: My Story, Dial Books, 1992. SILENT PROTESTS white section was full, black passengers for her to be released on bail. The civil rights movement was Siegel, Beatrice, The Year They In 1955 Parks was forty-two years old, in the middle section had to vacate their underway. Walked, Four Winds Press, 1992. and she had taken to protesting seats--a whole row had to be vacated, THE BUS BOYCOTT Mother ofthe civil rights movement USA Today, August 31, 1994, p. AI. segregation in her own quiet way-for even if only one white passenger Word of Parks' arrest spread quickly, Parks has been hailed as "the mother instance, by walking up rhe stairs of. a required a seat. and the Women's Political Council of the civil rights movement," but this building rather than riding in an decided to protest her treatment by was not an easy role for her. Threats and elevator marked "blacks only." She was THE ARREST oF RosA PARKS organizing a boycott of the buses. The constant phone calls she received during well respected in the black community This is what happened on the evening boycott was set for December 5, the day the boycott caused her husband to have

Pacific Cinematheque offers two programs in conjunction with Black History Month

A TRIBUTE TO }EN! LEGON, IN PERSON: }ENI LEGON My Father Has A Problem

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH AT 7:00PM Do you know how hard it is to breathe Dancer and actress Jeni LeGon was a major star of all-black movies-so-called "race films"-in the 1930s and '40s. Some of under a Chinese tiger's philosophy of living? her mainstream Hollywood credits include appearances (usually as a dancer or, as with other black stars of the era, a domestic) Somehow, I hear roar but words in Arabian Nights ( 1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Irving Berlin's Easter Parade (1948) and I Shot jesse james (1949). Wrath is what he feeds me His bitterness melts into a fireball IN PERSON: SELWYN ]ACOB IN THE RoAD TAKEN Coming out from the volcanoes of his eyes. Amazing how a mouth could turn into a beak THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH AT 7:30PM Afraid that the beak is gonna poke · A nostalgic ride through history, The Road Taken documents the experiences of Blacks who worked as sleeping-car porters on right into and through me. Canada's major railways from the early 1900s through the 1960s. This film has received Best Documentary Over 30 Minutes Afraid that any word I come up with from the National Film Board, and the 1997 Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival. will trigger his claws to slash my flesh . Yet, anticipating his limit of tolerating ~·- - FIELDS OF ENDLESS DAYS another philosophy. Fields ofEndless Days explores the history of Canadass black population, tracing its struggles and triumphs over a period of This Chinese tiger seems modest and well-bred almost 400 years. In a series of dramatic.recreations and documentary episodes, the film outlines the presence of Black people But it's his cunning camouflage in Canada from the 17th century, when the first explorers arrived on the shores of the Bay of Fundy; through the day; of the He might just have rabies. underground railroad, when escaped American slaves arrived in droves, only to find that their new freedom meant endless days of working for a pittance; to the wartime participation and activist groups of the first half of the twentieth century. Anonymous

4January 281998 The Other Press California (Sept. 1997). Now kids, don't known for their subtlety of approach but ('Asshole') and Rage Against the worry, all of your favourites are in­ their sinceriry is never in question. This Machine ('Bulls On Parade'), but the BY DIVINE BIGHT cluded: video confirms this statement while key component is the enhanced aspect. The Ghost ofTom Joad simultaneously ensconcing the group in If you have the technology to make it go VietNow the pantheon of astonishing live acts. (don't ask me what you need, but don't People of the Sun Patria 0 Muerte even bother without a current or no less Bulls On Parade Venceremos than a year old Pentium or Mac), then Know Your Enemy EB sit back and enjoy a well presented Tire Me videography of last year's concert, with Bombtrack video clips of some of the key perfomers Zapata's Blood as well as words of wisdom and Bullet in the Head encouragement from His Holiness the Killing in the Name Dalai Lama himsel£ (There is also a Freedom (pssst, hey buddy. This is virtual tour of a Tibetan monastery.) it is a pretry good sign. Keeping the CD the bonus track I was talking about) However, this is all window dressing on for three complete revolutions is also The rest of the tape contains the six for the music. The general take on the a bit of a good omen. Rage Against the unedited videos that the band has made music as a whole is that it is one of the All Hail Discordia is sixteen songs, Machine to date. These are the first vid's worth best dollar value music buys in recent thirry some minutes, of clever West watching in a long time, because the memory. If the roster of performers jogs Coast alterno-pop (sounding occasion­ TheVtaeo performances were recorded especially your interest then don't hesitate: ally like the Odds) (but different) that ony/Epic Music Video for the videos, live in the studio so to purchase. Favourites include Radiohead never seems to stand still, or take itself speak. who turn in a beautiful reading of'Fake seriously. The first track, 'I Love video has me RAGING!! I have But enough about them, back to the Plastic Trees' from The Bends; Pavement Everybody,' contains lyrics (I memorized trampling capiralists under my concert footage. I am a huge fan of Tibetan Freedom who show some not inconsiderable Rock the alphabet/so I could be a space cadet) feet since I first watched this guitarist Tom Morello's innovative use of Power in their very heavy jamming on that nicely juxtapose In spite ofroerything worthy home video. For those who simple elements (e.g. foot activated Concert 'Type Slowly,' from Brightm The II believe in everyone/! do, I do/because of own a few concert videos of their effect boxes as well as switches already Corners; and England's Blur, who you. bands, you should know that on his guitars) to simulate a DJ's Grand Royal Records demonstrate why they're the real Beware: the whole album is like this. current trend in concert film editing turntable scratching or generate some This set hit the street in early December heavyweights in their media fought duel Lyrics such as Bigfoot I doesn't watch t11 I owes much to the MTV Southeast Asian sounding snarling and caught the sweet tooth of the eager with Oasis, caught in the act of aping Sasquatch I doesn't wear a watch ('Bigfoot'), drone, as in the intro to 'People of the record buying public by surprise. By the Beatles' own brand of grandiose rock and one song, whose sole lyric is we punk and splice. This is not the case Sun.' To put it simply, the man kicks sweet tooth I mean that although this gesturing with their own 'Beetlebum.' high in high school ('Rock High'), may seem Rage. mucho beaucoup ass. He's put the "Chi three CD set is very well recorded, it is This set is also one of the best discordant (hence the album title), like they The video contains eleven (although Minh" back with Ho, if you catch my still composed of performances from examples of outstanding live recording, are part of an obnoxious collection of party ten tracks are listed, there is a drift. rock/pop bands, and thus misses out on period (with the exception of the third runes, but By Divine Right does have the live cut) tracks culled from the The song that I find myself watching the "serious music" appellation that it disc from the 1996 concert, which is skill to properly mix it up. Sandwiched four years ofRATM's existence. The most often is all of them. No kidding. nearly deserves. slightly less good). The aforementioned betwa:n the glee are true moments of contains a bonus CD single All of them. They are all great perform­ This collection has one tune from tracks all contain detailed passages that poignancy and an occasional bona fide a new song, 'The Ghost ofTom ances. The editing is smooth and uses each of the performers at the 1997 would have been lost without consider­ grunge crescendo. Its like the class down ' This is also the first song on the mostly long takes as opposed the Tibetan Freedom Concert held in New able care and attention. If you enjoy trying to hide the oo that he, too, does hold Now this is classy, folks. Not only aforementioned jump cuning so in York City last summer. The line-up of these musicians and dig top-notch some thing<; sacred. you get a concert video for the vogue these days. But ifl had to single artists was diverse, within the narrow performances that vastly outstrip their The accompanying press release did price of$14.99, but you also out one song over the others it would be confines of pop, and included such studio counterparts, then belly up to the not shed much light on the band. They a bonus disc included; PLUS you get the supersecret bonus track, 'Freedom.' luminaries as U2, Bjork, KRS I, bar and lay your money down. seem to be a creature of the cabaret, and version of the new song thrown in This is the last song on their epony­ Pavement, Sonic Youth, Taj Mahal, Blur, EB have apparently been around for years. good measure!! What a savvy bunch mously titled debut album and here in Radiohead, and of course the Beastie But, whatever the bios include or omit, guys. concert it is delivered with all the force Boys, whose show this was. The first two By Divine Right the Nettwerk label continues to This band kills live and this video of a bullet from Che Guevara's M-1 to discs feature these artists, as well as the All Hail Discordia impresses through their bands. All Hail the prima facie case for the the skull of a running dogYanqui rest of the groups and individuals from Discordia stands up to the company's ;osecution in the case of RATM and imperialist. Morello is berter known for the weekend, but there is also a third Nettwerk rather tasry standards, which continue to Butchered Boppers. The shows his angular approaches to soloing but enhanced CD with five tracks from the Generally, when various members of the remind the listening public that are the Reading Festival here he takes a lyrical bent and moves 1996 Tibetan concert in San Francisco's Other Press collective keep asking "What domestic animals can be just as fascinat­ 1996), The Pink Pop Festival what was a good song into the category Golden Gate Park (also organized and is this?" about the CD playing in our ing as those from foreign shores. 1994), the Rockam Ring Festival where it can play footsies with greatness. headlined by the Beasties). roomy and comfonable office, without a Jim 1996), and Irvine Meadows, Rage Against the Machine are not This third disc has tracks from Beck hint of derision in their collective voices,

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Play has bun totally grizzly David Tam photos Hungary for home long as they budget! I figured out the costs of coming back Cow to Hungary for a year to graduate, or going back to Vancouver at UBC for about two more years (ifl could get the right courses). Logic showed that coming back to Budapest was the way to go, not to mention it is an experience of lifetime and I would have more fun. Teri Walter exactly the same, bur close enough. This The Canadian dollar goes a long way, was useful information, as then I especially if you sell it to your friends • {'Cimof all, although things in wouldn't overpack with us.eless items. here. Kidding!!! However, they are all J ~~reign countries are different, Now, Debra and Jessica (exchange interested in Canada and love any rype this does not mean they don't students from DC this year) were told of souvenir! Our money is worth more 0 have everything!!! I am saying this much the opposite, or given less over here, therefore when something costs because of my and other exchange information. They pretry much brought a reasonable price here for the HUF students' travel experiences with what we a pharmacy and then some. No joke, (Hungarian Forints), it is peanuts in real were told to bring, and what we thought let's just say that Deb didn't realize that Canadian money. I can go our on 2000 • to bring, abroad. toothpaste explodes at high altitudes, HUF ($14.00 Canadian) for dinner and When I went on this exchange to and it is not fun to clean toothpaste out hit a club and drink beers all night. This Hungary I knew that I was going to be of all your clothes. Not that they didn't just can't be done back home, and trust 0 entering into a different lifesryle, and I think that Hungarians also have to floss me I cringe at the idea of paying a cover knew there were some adaptations to be their teeth, bur they were told to bring charge in Canada now!! made. Simply put, I would have to as much as they could. Just know that the changes in lifesryle change name brands of toothpaste, Like in all countries, certain things are vary, and that although we are in a shampoo, rypes of foods, and almost expensive, and others are cheap! Views different country and around a different everything else to the "European Way." on what is a good price all depend on population, life is still so much the same. I was told to bring only the essentials, what you buy, and how much money You just have to be able to work with what I couldn't live without. I was told I you have to buy it with. Any starving change and know that life is therefore would find equivalents for the rest, not student can get along in any country, as similar around the world. If>

The Other Press January 28 1998 7 It was a travel weekend for all of our teams, and we came back looking pretty good. Basketball VolleYball BctiDn The women's basketball team came away from their rwo-game road trip with a 2-0 record after sropping the Capilano Blues 71-64 on Friday and the Langara Falcons 64-55 on Saturday. Carrie Rogers had 16 points Friday and 24 points and 10 rebounds on Saturday to pace the Royals. Audrey Curran had a monster weekend with 12 points and IZ rebounds against the Blues and 12 points and 19 rebounds against the Falcons. Friday: UCC Sun Demons The men's team finished with a 1-1 record to push their season to 4-7. Friday Jon Fast had 26 points and 14 rebounds Women: 6:00pm. and Mark Craven had 25 points and 16 rebounds as the Royals squeaked past Capilano 77-75. Saturday did not have a Men: 8:00pm. happy ending for the Royals as they were crushed 100-78 by the Langara Falcons. Jon Fast and Mark Craven again paced the Royals with 19 points and 13 rebounds and 16 points and 8 rebounds respectively. Volleyball Saturday: OUC Lakers The women's volleyball ream (number three nationally in the last poll), lost to the Malaspina Mariners in Nanaimo on Women: 2:00pm. Friday 15-13, 13-i5, 15-2 and 15-6. Christine Bonish had 10 kills for the Royals. Saturday at Langara, the Royals crushed Men: 4:00pm. the Falcons, 15-0, 15-2, 15-3. Sabrina Kaltenbach had an amazing I 0 aces and Becki Kosinski had 8 kills for the Royals. The men's team rolled on the weekend, thumping Malaspina 3-1 Friday, on the strength of Ken Kleindienst's 17 kills and Ken Kilpatrick's 15 kills and I ace. The Carnosun Chargers gave the Royals a run for their money on Saturday as Douglas won 3-2. Ken Kleindienst had another huge game, with 18 kills and 8 aces and Darryl McCrady had 13 kills and 3 aces. AU games at the New V\lest This weekend is volleyball weekend at Douglas. Friday the University College of the Cariboo (UCC) Sun Demons invade Gym the New West gym for games at six (women) and eight (men) o'clock. Saturday the Okanagan University College (OUC) Don•t miss it!! Lakers flood the New West gym at rwo (women) and four (men) o'clock.

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