WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1994

THERAPY? Interview. page 8 This band from Belfast talks with The Link about their music and lives. ARCHIVES Why worry about Earthquakes? page 3

The first in a two part SPS Series on

Earthquakes and preparedness. High Speed Modems page 6 What to buy and what to do. A tutorial. _ 000544619" ^^Info Superhighway^^ could end privacy of personal information

MONTREAX (CUP) — Have you ever cies are credit reporting agencies, the two filed a tax return? Then you're in largest in Canada each possessing approx• Revenue Canada's Taxpayer Master File. imately 23 million files on Canadian citi• Applied for a passport? You're in the zens. computer memory of External Affairs. "The reports 1 have suggest credit Participated in a demonstration? You may bureau records are notoriously erroneous, be among the 54,000 countersubversion containing incorrect information," said files of the Canadian Security Intelligence Foran. "This can lead to an inability to get Service (CSIS). a loan, a mortgage, a job The possibilities Big Brother has arrived. And he's a in having an erroneous record, which is microchip. transferred to a number of other data From Statistics Canada to the Ministry bases, poses a risk for people." Although the credit agencies guarantee by Christoper Ta^or the right of an individual to review his or her personal file, Foran identified two The McGill Daily weaknesses in the system. "The theory is that you can check the of Human Resources, the estimated 2700 accuracy of the information on your file," data banks of personal information run by he said. "But not a lot of people check 160 federal agencies contain approximate• their records, and if they do they would ly 12 dossiers on every Canadian man, need an interpreter lo decode their credil woman and cbild, raising concem.s that in file. The other problem that occurs is thai the computer age, the individual's right lo credit bureau information is information privacy has become a thing of the past. they've collected from other sources. "These files contain your address, tele• They don't take any ownership responsi• phone number, Social Insurance Number, bility for the records that they keep." where you work, how long you've been Such 'records' may range from com• working there, how much you make, ments on elementary school report cards whether you're married or single, what to the reports of hired private investiga• charities you contribute to," said Sally tors. But often, said Foran, we give up this Jackson, Director of Public Affairs at the information voluntarily. Privacy Commission in Ottawa. "If you Government has privacy legislation and remarkably accurate portrait of an individ• "Look at a VISA application," he said. Stan to look at the details contained in all business doesn't. It's basically a free-for- ual's activities, lifestyle, and interests, "You may not realize it, but you've the separate files, the government knows all." from the people you call to the type of signed a pretty broad waiver of any priva• quite a bit about you." Though the information superhighway cereal you buy at the supermarket. cy rights. You've said to them, you can Given that personal information has is billed as a consumer's dream, its impli• "In the private sector there's no regula• use this information for whatever purpose become a multibil- cations in terms of tion with regards to data matching," said you want, and I can't control it. You have lion-dollar global individual privacy Brian Foran, Special Advisor to the no idea what the uses and disclosures of such information are." business,, critics Critics warn the riglit to privacy are distinctly Privacy Commissioner. "Retailers can warn the right to pri• will be relegated to horse and Orwellian. hook in with retailers [they] can hook in Another diligent record-keeper is the vacy will be relegat• RCMP, whose Canadian Police buggy status on the coming "The mam with credit agencies or insurance compa• ed to horse and nies, and can put together quite a profile, Information Centre (CPIC) contains files supertiighway. concerns are infor- buggy status on the using whatever fi-ansacdons you normally on 10 per cent of the Canadian adult pop• mation manipula• coming superhigh• perform on a daily basis." ulation. CPIC and its American counter• way. tion, information part, the NCIC system, have been criti• being used for purposes about which you "The next technology that we haven't cized for recording arrests as well as con• know nothing, or people assembling pro• INACCURATE got a hold on is the information super• victions, for occasionally omitting case files on you," said Jackson. "And because highway, die convergence of all these sys• INFORMATION developments (such as acquittals or it's an electronic system, it's all done tems," said Jackson. "The whole purpose dropped charges), and for not monitoring without your knowledge or consent." of it is the transmission of information, In many cases, personal information the hirther dissemination of the data they One concern is the phenomenon of and of course it will transport personal contained in data banks is either inaccu• provide. data matching, in which personal informa• rate, incomplete or misleading. information. The problem is that it's In the case of Michael DuCross, a tion in various data banks is combined to going to be a shared network. Particularly censured for their inaccura• make 'super-files'. This provides a continued page 12 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY STUDENT ASSOCIATION LINK CLASSIFIEDS

LINK CLASSIFIEDS... are $5 for a 3 line ad and $1 for each line after-except employ• ment listings for which the first 3 lines are FREE. To place a classified ad contact The Global Number available Unk at 432-8935. on campus thru SA VOLUNTEER POSmONS COURSE OFFERINGS Receptionist Volunteer. An institution Study in Central Europe. University by Dave Sicinski workforce in the near future will find the for the blind requires a pleasant, friendly Credit Courses in Introductory German, Get a job, get a life, get a Global num• voice mail and fax capabilities of this and positive volunteer as a receptionist. History of Central Europe 16th to 18th ber. This is the advertising slogan being number to be an aid in presenting a pro• Commitment 4 brs/wk. For more info call Century and Politics in Western Europe used by local telecommunications compa• fessional image to potential employers. A Greater Coqultlam Volunteer Centre at taught in Germany and Austria available ny. Global Teleworks, in their campaign personal Global number is accessible 24- 524-9808 through Okanagan University College in on the BCIT campus. hoius a day, moves when you move, and Kelowna. Cost is $3,590 and covers Global Teleworks is running the mar• its fax storage and forwarding capabilities MESSAGES tuiton, air fare, accomodations in Berlin keting campaign in conjunction with the makes the tedious task of sending out a and Vienna. For students outside of Desperately searching for friends that BCIT Student Association-which will stack of resumes as quick and easy as a Kelowna, the External; Studies Program graduated from York House & now attend receive a portion of the proceeds in return phone call. will arrange billets for 2 wks spent on BCIT. Contact me ASAP. for its support. Global Teleworks will be operating a campus at Okanagan University College. Tom van Migeni The company offers a wide range of booth in the SAC on Wednesday, March For details and appUcation forms contact Grootreesdyk 23 telecommunications services that allows 2nd. Students inteiested in finding out all Dr. Maurice Williams at Okanagan 2460 Kasterlee you to integrate your telephone, cellular, about this service should visit the booth or University College, Arts Building, North Belgium fax voice messaging and paging services call 893-8030 for more information. Kelowna Campus, Kelowna BC, VIV (tel) 32 14 85 20 76 on your own personal "Global Number". 1V7. Phone: (604) 762-5445 Loc 7332. (e-mail) [email protected] BCIT students expecting to enter the Fax:(604)470-6001 CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY EVENTS

Friday, February 25 ' Monday, February 28 Intro to Assertiveness. Topics of Fair. Check out your lungs with discussion will include: what is spirometei^ and smoke analyzers. Pub night at the Royal (1025 94 Solutions: Student Design assertiveness?, benefits of being Get the latest info on: allergy Campus Events is a calen• Granville). 8:00pm. If you Competition in Assistive assertive, recognizing aggres• identifaction, control and treat• dar column open for the haven't experienced the Royal, Devices Application Deadline. sive/passive behaviour(s), identi• ment; and lung hazards and treat• advertisement of events and now is your chance. This is THE Looking for creative solutions to fying some areas for personal ments; BQTs work to eliminate functions on all of BClT's downtown, after-work, watering problems facing peisons with dis• assertiveness devlopment. 3:30 - and control asbestos on campus; campuses. Submissions hole. Crowds of people, a fun abilities as a marketable product. 5pm SWl Rm 2595. Pre-register respiratory safety products to try should be dropped off at The band and sardine dance floor, lots Cash prizes and awards will be at Student Services (SWl Rm and infonnation; and how to quit Link offices or sent through of dykes and everybody else. made after judging of all projects 2300) or drop in on the day. For smoking. 9am - noon. JW IngUs campus mail. Deadline for Look for the table with the dis- at an exposition at Science World. more info call Heather Hyde 432- Cafeteria. the next paper, published CTete BCIT banner. If you want to Projects must be completed by 8432. Wednesdav March 9th, is carpool or need a chaperone call June 30, 1994. For more info call March 5 -10 Thurs. Marcli ,'rd. Mark (432-8964) or Gordon (434- Judy Findlay at the Technology Thursday, March 3 5734, 5301). Centre 432-8952. Women and Resistance. 6th Take a Deep Breath Health Annual International Women's Week Film and Video Serie.'i. Presented by the National Film Board aiKl the YWCA. WiU fea• ture recent releases from Canada, Britain, the US, Tanzania, Niger and Togo including NFB films: Why work for peanuts Forbidden Love and Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, as well as Return Home and Long Time Comin'. when you can sell them? Show times are 7pm and 9:30pm nightly and a matinee at 4:30pm on Saturday, March 5 and Sunday, March 6. Admission is by donation ($3). Limited child- care subsidies are available through die YWC\ (683^-2531). Shows at Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St., Vancouver. Slartiiij; vour own liiisinc.vs is one way to guarantee Centres, Canada Employment Centres lor Students, any Cinematheque membership is not branch of the Royal Bank ol Canada or the National Bank voursell a job this summer. required for this event. II vou're a rull-tiine student returning to school this of Canada. lall aiul legally entitled to work in Canada, Challenge '94, just come to us with your idea, and we'll sec what the gosernineiit ol Canada's summer employment program we can do about putting you to work for someone you lor students, is ofleriiig loans ot up to $3,000 to help really like. You. vou start a business. Call toll-free: Details are availaiile at any hraiieh ol the Federal 1 800 361-2126. 9/ liusiiiess Development liank, Canada Employment

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2 • Febivary 23, 1994 NEWS • THE UN, Mining Itome:

Why we sSiould be student loan bankruptcies by Stu Clark because they don't have a job, it j body, including counselors from may be for a number of olher rea- j high school, diat this was the way worried about REGINA (CUP)—Like a grow• sons. You can't make a direct lo go, and people don't have big ing number of university gradu• correlation between the student payments. I didn't know I'd be ates in Canada, Jamie Milligan's loan and die bankruptcy. It could ! stuck widi Uiis now," she says. education didn't end at a convo• be their Visa, and their Bay card, ; "The government should have cation ceremony—it ended in a and their Eaton's card, and the known 1 couldn't pay off my bankruptcy court. car they bought," says Salloum. loan. They should have explained SHAKING AND QUAKING This is ihe first in a two part "If 1 could, 1 would rehim my "The people who have trou- ! what 1 was getting into." BENEATH THE EARTH Safety, Protection & Security loan and my education and get a blcs repaying their loans arc the • MiUigan says bankruptcy was job as a waitress," said Milligan people who don't communicate [ not her favorite option—it was Right in our backyard, off the minutes after a judge granted her with us. If someone lets us know her only option. by Anna Gooier coast of BC, a slab of the a conditional bankruptcy. they are having problems, we try | "I'm stuck now. I'm bank• The main problem with Earth's crust called the Juan A former University of to find a way lo help them." ; rupt, and my bardcruplcy I owe earthquakes is that they seem de Fuca plate, is trying to sUde Regina student, Milligan was But Jamie Milhgan disagrees. $10,000, which is a fair number. to happen at the most inconve• under the North American forced to declare bankruptcy About 95 percent of her debts I'm not disputing that 1 shouldn't nient times and produce the Plate, which is called subduc- when she couldn't make Ihe min• were fi-om student loans, and she j be paying back some of my loan, most unfortunate circum• tion. The lower slab, or plate, imum payments on her $40,000 says she tried to communicate. but I have a conditional dis• stances. If Earthquakes only is being pulled back into the student loan. Widi no job and two "I contacted them [the loan charge. I'm bankrupt until that's happened in uninhabited Earth's core, which constandy children to feed, she had no way office] over and over, but you paid. 1 have no credit. And I'm places, they wouldn't be so sucks old crust in at some of raising the almost $600-per- really can't get past Ihe secre• stuck until that is paid." threatening. However, they places and generates new crust month payments. tary," she says. "Then 1 contacted Milligan is currently paying have a nasty habit of disrupt• at others. When the descend• the debt mediation board and her remaining debt out of her ing large and busy cities. ing plate gets stuck, the ener• So she declared bankruptcy. diey wouldn't talk to me because gy can build up for centuries. And Milligan is not alone. UIC payments. She hopes to find Canada, has been die lucky I owed too much money." "Then suddenly the plate jars Over 4,500 students in Canada a job, any job, before her unem• recipient of a great many fair free. Earthquakes occur declared bankruptcy last year She expects even more stu• ployment ntns out in six months. sized earthquakes. In this cen• almost daily, releasing stress because of student loans. That dents to go bankrupt in the future. In retrospect, she says her tury there have been eight and strain in the plates, as they number accounts for over seven Especially single parents. i university education wasn't earthquakes with a magnitude try to push their way past each percent of all Ihe personal baiik- "Those students with two or \ worth it. greater than seven on the other. Most of the quakes mptcies in Canada last year. three kids—and they're single : "If a 19-yeaT-old single modi- Richter scale. An event of occur more than 10 kilomed-es Brady Salloum, director of parents—how can diey pay more er asked me what lo do, I would magnitude 7.3 occurred near underground and aren't repayment of student loans in than $600 a month.'", asked tell her to go work as a waitress the east coast of Vancouver noticeable. Three or four Milligan, who was a single moth• She will end up better off than Island. The effects were felt Saskatchewan, doesn't diink the quakes a year are big enough er during most of her university me" through out Vancouver, the statistics show the real story to be felt but they seldom do career. Lower Mainland and behind the bankruptcy problem. any damage. Historically, the "1 was 19 when 1 started uni• Vancouver Island. Thirty "Some of those people Pacific Northwest has a dam• versity, and I was told by every-j schools in the Courtney area declare bankruptcies, not only aging earthquake every 10 to V^ad to be closed because of the earthquake damage. 15 years. The last major earthquake in this area hit Emotions run hiigi_ i The concentration of peo• ple in a given area and the Seattle in 1965, 29 years ago: quality of building construc• 'vVe're due for a large earth• quake pretty soon. Unk sexuality issue tion will govern the number of fatalities and damaged build• Shaking of the earth can by Unk Stoff v/ith CUP files is rare in mainstre.im [publica• issue. ings. The largest recorded cause a phenomenon called Offended. Outraged. tions]." It is perhaps because of this earthquake in Canada, with a liquefaction. This is when a Disgusted. Joyous. The last issue Members of Gay and Lesbians attitude one gay student wrote in magnitude of 8.1, occurred off subsurface layer of sand is of The Link generated strong at BCIT said Ihey loved the the issue, "Being gay at BCIT is die Queen Charlotte Islands in disturbed so much that it ceas• reactions on BCIT's campus. issue. like driving a convertible in the 1949, caused little damage. es lo form a solid subsoil and The fact Ihe issue contained Welter's opinion was echoed rain: you might try to freely becomes a liquified mess. Alaska experienced a huge mainly articles discussing homo• by some students attending a enjoy yourself, but in a climate The surface layer, which may earthquake in 1964, with a sexuality was the reason for meeting with the staff of The such as diis, you're going to get be a silty clay, floats on the magnimde of 9.2, with only a some of the emotions, while oth• Link on Wednesday, February pissed on. obviously, it's time for loss of 131 lives. However, in liquefied sand. This top layer ers expressed concern over a 16. Some felt diat sexuality had a change." could start to buckle, bend and 1985, Mexico City, which has piece explicit lesbian fiction in no place in the paper or campus Link Student Editor Damascus crack. Liquefaction may hap• a population of 18,000,000 the paper. life. Roy said questioned the campus' pen in Richmond and the people, an Earthquake with a Second year Marketing stu• Link Managing Editor Paul dedication to a free press on Fraser Delta, which has the magnitude of 8.1 occurred, dent Michael Welter said, "I'm Dayson said, "The removal of campus comparing the reaction perfect soil conditions for this resulting in 9,000 fatalities. In not personally opposed to graph• sexuality from die campus will in to ABC's refusal to air an to take place. 1986, an earthquake with a ics descriptions of sexuahty, but effect enforce a continued episode of Rosanne that included magnitude of 5.4 occurred in Understanding and prepa• this issue contained a lot that assumption of a heterosexual a lesbian kiss. "What these peo• San Salvador, causing 1,000 ration for earthquakes is the was purely gratuitous." nomi at BCIT." ple want to see is nothing but fatalities out of a population best that anyone can do, and Many lesbians believe Ihey Others at the meeting with shiny happy faggots—who act of 1,400,000. Soviet Armenia many self-help advice guides have the right to interpret their The Link staff opposed Ihe Uke heterosexuals," he said. with a population of over exist. Emergency own sexuality—to create their paper's sexuahty issue because it The issue was taken lo Ihe 2,000,000, suffered an earth• Preparedness Canada is an own sexual imagery. Graphic raised homosexuality—which Burnaby RCMP. At press time, quake in 1988, which resulted excellent organization to con• sexual imagery gives lesbians they labeled as "perversion" and two weeks later. The Link has in 25,000 fatalities. A high tact for more information visibility, community and power. "luinatural" on a religious basis. still not been contacted by the concentration of people and regarding earthquakes and Paula Wellings, of LitUe Sister's The Link has also heard pohce and assumes they are not poor quaUty housing spell dis• what to do in the event of one. books in Vancouver, agrees and reports of students discussing pursuing any case. aster in the event of an earth• said it is an "opportunity to see participating in gay bashing since quake. our sexuality represented, which the publication of the .sexuality See letters page 4

February 23, 1994 • 3 EDITORIAL Top 20 things BCIT needs (1) another smoke belching tower to 'improve'the view (2) lesbian erotica in the curriculum (yes, The Link is not the place for 'that' kind of material, the class• room is) (3) more 3 mile hike parking places (4) morality lessons in the curriculum (preferably taught in conjunction with lesbian erotica) (5) skater dudes on BCIT's Board of Directors (6) a nude beach along Kyle Creek (7) a REAL campus radio station where students can play music they LIKE , (8) tackle line dancing at Taps (somebody had to come up with the idea) (9) a fruit stand (now that everyone has found new and wild things to do with bananas, see items 2 and 4) (10) CENSORSHIP!! (11) more body piercing (12) financial aid office attached to Taps (save us the walk) (13) mandatory poetry reading in the Engineering tech• nologies Pornography does us gay people have had the heal job of dealing those parts of the (14) ATMOSPHERE!! not belong in Tifie Link turned up. reaction lhal may have been (15) a liquor store (see item 14) Students in our group have hurtful 10 gay people. The issue described variations on the sce• of naming and confronting hos• (16) A REAL 'skid row rag' to satisfy the obvious Trying to pass off the sexuali• nario of silenUy watching, in the tility towards homosexuality is penned up needs of students and staff (see letters to ty articles in the last edition of greatest discomfort, the uproar as complicated and confusing as the Link as either entertaining or The Link) amongst their fellow students. we want to let it be. Because its informative is a complete farce. This ranged from comments OUR issue, it starts with being (17) proliferation of Styrofoam "Three Fingers Willamena" is about what a piece of garbage honest about who we are (com• (18) a swimming pool our case in point. We couldn't this sexuality issue was, to ing out) and asking for a bit ot care less if this article was direct• threats of going on gay bashing honesty from others. (19) Food with the grease ed towards gays, lesbians or het• rampages. The impact on me Of course that's only reason• (20) salmon in Kyle Creek (it might happen yet) erosexuals!!! It was blatant was far milder but still disturb• pornography smut that has no able in an environment where ing. I walked into a class that although you may be uncomfort• place in a campus news publica• appeared to be unanimous in Jho Unk is The Student Newspaper of tU British Columbia Institute of tion. Send them off to Fenihouse able, you aren't al real nsk. In Technology. Published bi-Nweldy by the BCIT Student Association, Jho Unk their righteous indignation about theory dial describes BCIT. We circulates 5,000 copies to over 16,000 students and staff. Forum, where ihe readers will this particular article ("Creating appreciate it much more. have anti-discrimination policy, The Lesbian Erotic; Lesbian Sex we have mechanisms in place lo Contributor! Andrea Read Stories"). My timid, "Well, you deal with it, we have commit• Damascus Roy, Michael Welter, Brian Rice, Karen Odenwald, Tim Reeve, Lochlin Jay Krauss didn't have to read it" was Kevin Mole, Dia Richanjson, Richard Havlik, Steve Everett, Dave S icinski, ments from the top levels of Anna Gooter, Erica Sczech, Joson Heath, Trent Hoog and Paul Dayson. Gregg Anderson rejoined widi "It shouldn't have administration. That means we been there in die fust place. If can share "gay persons burden'' Managing Editor they were trying to make us feel with others. Who? The faculty PaulDayson Concern over image belter about Lesbians , it sure for starters: ITS PART OF backfired" And the LINK'S student Editors Your newspaper is a "school" THEIR JOB to maintain a posi• framing editorial, lhal I had Dia Richardson, Damascus Roy newspaper not a "skid row rag." tive woiictng and leaming envi• thought so reasonable?? A sec• Your choice ot" topics and ronment for their students, ALL Advertising Representatives ond student commented "It was articles are totally disgusting. their students. And what about Michael Welter, Doug Amelia O.K. 'til I read die editorial!". I the students?? They're'going to I will never read another one opted for thai old liberal democ• As a member of Canadian University Press (CUP}, The Unk adheres to school with gays, diey're going of your papers. Is this the kind of ratic line "Well, express your CUP's Statement of Principles and affinns tfiot tfse student press in Canada image BCIT wants the public to 10 work with gays, hows'aboul has a unique role in societv as a voice for social justice. To this end, Tfie Unk concerns! Write a letter lo the see? I think not! they just COPE and get on with v/ill not publish material oeemed by the editors or steering committee to be editor." the really important things?? sexist, racist, homophobic, or in poor taste. A BCIT female staff member Any diversity (rehgion, culture, Hold the phone, Gordon! race, sex, etc.) car be seen to rob The views expressed in The Unk are not necessarily those of BQT, the P.S. John Walson: What "concerns"? What the hell Student Association, or the editorial collective. die workplace or make it richer John, have you read "our" does "concerns" mean anyway?? and more interesting. school newspaper lately? My use of this mushy, positive- sounding term was a cop-out. I So, to end where 1 began, Ed. Note: please in future sign was giving the message thai Thanks to die LINK for having your name to letters you submit. somehow its fine for people to the courage to reacquaint us all jusl re.id and react. "This seems with the fact that this campus has Link meant heat for 10 have re,illy upset you. Why?" a long way to go before it can would have been more to the claim to be a safe and positive 3700 Willingdon Avenue gays point. place for all its members. The Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2 work of achieving this reason• Tel: 432-8935 Well, Thanks a heap LINK! able expectation has to be shared Fax: -134-3809 "Creating The Lesbian Erotic" Because of your choice to pub• sure kicked loose a lot of stuff! by all of us. lish dial Lesbian erohca lots of As a gay person, I did a terrible Gordon Handford

4 • February 23, 1994 OPINION'THELINi IO percent figure questioned by G.Thiessen Norway: a 1987 nation-wide random Illegal Thoughts For years the gay rights movement has mail sample of 6,155 adults aged 18-60 sough! safety in numbers citing research found 0.9 percent of males and 0.9 per• by Jason Heath lunch? on human sexuality done by Alfred cent of females had homosexual experi• Congratul;Uioiis to the Surrey UKUi My next heralding bravo goes out Kinsey during the 1940's and 50's. ences within three years of the survey arxl recently acquitted of double murder. to Nova Scotia. A resident there was Activists seized the double-digit value 3.5 percent of males and three percent of The charges were laid last week fol• recently acquitted of sexual molesta• that gays constitute ten percent of the females had ever had any homosexual lowing the stabbing deaths of two tion charges. According to ibc defense, population. Policy-makers and the press, experience. women. the man can't be tncd. Evidently, the including this newspaper (see the page 3 According to die murderers' testi• accused is deal" and d

F^njary23, 1994 • 5 THE UNK • FEATURE 1 High Speed Modems a tutorial

by Nicholas Fong, P.Eng 28,800bps. Do not be mislead Class 2 faxmodems. Class 1 by the phrase: "throughput up is a set of well established and As our society is rapidly to 57,600bps", it is only an well-defined, but has more Practic^l.O^rating stiitting towards the "electron• indication of transient perfor• features. The fax portion of ic super highway" paradigm, mance under ideal conditions faxmodems comes in either (widi data-compression proto• 9600bps or 14,400bps. It is the modem has suddenly taken (1) Read your modem manual and col enabled). Also, most expeaed diat the next genera• on an unexpectedly important find the following commands. modems today are faxmodem, tion of fax machines will be role. Use markers to highlight the 3 a 9600/2400 faxmodem is sdll migrating to 14,400bps. The public at large is still groups of "AT' commands that a 2400bps data modem (the ignorant of modem technolo• To achieve optimal data are important: gies, yet the day is approach• 9600 refers to the fax), do not communications, you should be deceived by the number set your modem's speed, ing fast that there exist a • to enable/disable error-pro• 9600. error-protection protocol and modem at every desk and in tection every household. Error-correction protocol: data -compression protocol to tlie preferred protocol is V.42, match the modem on the other Today, there exists a large • to connect only at 2400bps, the next preferred protocol is end. Many communications installed base of new and old or at 9600bps, or negotiate MNP-4. Look for these words software try (in futility) to modems from different highest speed on its own-to on the modem. Some modems help you by allowing you to modem manufacturers (some "prefer MNP" or to "prefer do not have any error-correc• specify an "initialization modems are good, some are V.42" (this command is dif• tion protocol (this is equiva• sequence" - a one-line com• bad). When modem commu• ficult to find, you have to lent to driving at night without mand that sets up yoiir nication speeds were primarily read through the entire man• headlights). modem. However, this 1200bps and 2400bps, things ual to find it. Some modems method assumes that you only were relatively calm and sta• Data-compression prottKol: do nol have this capability al communicate with one ser• ble. However, with the arrival the preferred protocol is all). of 9600bps, 14,400bps, V.42bis, the next preferred vice. That is a very bad protocol is MNP-5. Under assumption as we shift into the 19,200bps and 28,800bps (2) Before you dial into another ideal conditions, V.42bis can new paradigm. For example, modems in terge quantity, die computer, find out whether the achieve a 4:1 compression in the Lower Mainland of BC situation becomes much more modem on the other side has ration on certain data stream, today, there exist 6 municipal• complex for the average com• error-correction enabled or not. thereby making the "effective" ity library on-lme access, each puter user. An analogy of Enable/disable your modem's speed much higher. If the data requiring a different setup of today's mixture of modems: error-correction accordingly. stream is already compressed, your modem (See the example imagine a super highway with• Although your modem manuals V.42bis will not attempt any below). out speed hmit, there are all says your modem will "fall compression to save process• A wide-spread misconcep• kinds of vehicles traveling at back" to no error-conection if it ing overhead. These ideal tion about modems is "Hayes night: tri-cycles, bicycles, cannot establish an error-correc• conditions seldom happen compatible". Most modems horse-carts, Chevrolets and tion if it cannot establish an with real life data. use the basic Hayes command Mercedes Benz, some with error-correction link - this is not Some modems will mislead of ATDT 555-1212 to dial. headlights, some without. To always the case because the you with words like "MNP However, that's roughly make things worse, telephone modem on the other side may Protocol with Software" or where compatibility ends. lines were designed for voice not be able to "fall back". communications only. "Software MNP" - those are Manufacturers went in all Telephone companies only plain modems without any directions on the more impor• (3) If the modem on the other side "guarantee" reliable 2400bps error-correction protocol but tant command: enable/disable can only talk MNP (e.g. most data communication on "data you can "simulate" the error- error-protection protocol, set datapac public dial-in modems), quality" lines. Users are on protection protocol using the maximum operating speed, set your modem to "prefer their own when it comes to software supplied. Simulating enable/disable data-compres- MNP". Your modem manual 9600bps and higher data com• MNP error-correction protocol sioa Even different models of will tell you that it will try to munications. using a specific software Hayes modems today do not establish a V.42 link first, and if severely restricts your choice implement each other's com• The purpose of this article that fails, it will try to establish a of communications software mands closely. "Hayes com• is to give you an insight of the MNP link. In practice, it seldom and it is definitely NOT a wise patible" modem is myth. confusing world of modems does - it usually falls back to no- choice. and how to deal with it in a It is unfortunate that the error-correcuon or simply hang• practical sense. Most modems today also basic element of the electronic up when dialing to a MNP-only When it comes to accessing have fax capability. The super highway (affordable modem. modem, there are oidy three phrase "Group ID fax" is not high speed modems) began basic items that are important: very illuminating to users widi such a mess. The follow• (4) If the modem on the other side is basic speed, error-correction because all fax machines ing section win help you in a an older 2400bps modem, then protocol and data-compression today are Group III. It will be practical way to make the best you may need to set your protocol. a few years before a signifi• out of the very confusing modem to "connect only at Basic speed: there is a cant number of Group 4 fax modem world. 2400bps" to establish a good choice of 2400bps, 9600bps, machines appear on the mar• solid link. 14,400bps, 19,200bps, and ket. Then there is Qass 1 and

6 • February 23, 1994 ENTERTAINMENT • THE UN Kid Champion, Cub supply iieavy music by Adrian Bolden CONCERT REVIEW I stiowed up early at the Starfish The Smugglers, with Cub & Room only to find that the first band, Kid Champion. Kid Champion, wasn't going on The Starfish Room stage until 10:15. Oh well, what's new. Kid Champion started their set right on time. They put on a good show with their heavy guitars and ethereal vocals. Whoever mixed the sound did a great job. For once the Sensible vocals were not buried under the guitars. There was a 'prose' reading band has between songs, the most impressive Keality Bites part being that Brady kept drumming all the way through it. The middle of everyone the story was pointless, however the into consumerism beginning and ending were good. by Damascus Roy ing but she couldn't act if you set her hair After one of the fastest set Reality Bites is a film version of Seinfeld on fire. It's not that she's particularly bad, laughing changes I have ever seen, and some with a few differences. This crowd's hipper, she just can't compete with her briUiant sup• smarmy comments from one of the less successful and living in Houston, porting cast. owners of Mint Records, Cub was by Jeannelte Arfliur Texas. This film is about as Generation-X as it on. Ah yes Cub, die band that proved As usual Sensible Footwear put on gets. Wry and cynical almost to Uie end, it's that if you are cute enough you can a brilliantly humorous show. Best an orgy of one-liners, great put-downs and do anything. They even had some FILM REVIEW moment— dropping in on a support soon to be cliches. new Valentine's Day stickers on Reality Bites, group for the Phallically Challenged It's also a shameless promoter of smok• hand to please the masses. starring Winona Ryder, Ben Stiller & with GI Joe, Magic Earring Ken, Ethan Hawke ing. Tobacco company execs must be in Lisa was wearing her usual 'white and John Wayne Bobbit. tears; they couldn't have done a better job trash' dress, ( she even hemmed it The movie chronicles the lives of four promoting Marlboros if they had directed for the concert ) . Valleria started CONCERT REVIEW friends: Leiaina (Winona Ryder), Vickie die film ttiemselves. drumming stiffly, but she loosened Sensible Footwear (Janeane Garofalo), Troy (Ethan Hawke) Not to be outdone is Coke. Diet Coke up after a few songs. It stiil amazes Van East Cultural Centre and Sammy (Steven Zahn). had more screen time than some of the sup• me how she drums like that. Robyn Leiaina tias just graduated and is working porting actors. was positively grimacing whUe play• One might think that only at a job she hates. She's videotaping a docu• I couldn't help but feel cheated. For ali ing David Carswell's ( of Smugglers women would relate to Sensible mentary ctironicling the lives of her hapless the pretensions to 'never selling out to the Footwear's unique brand of femi• fame) guitar. Grant Lawrence of the companions and there daily struggle to corporate devil' tliis movie did so big time. nist humour, but surprisingly the Smugglers even joined in on one make some meaning of it all. There were too many zoom-ins towards the men in the audience laugh longest song. Leiaina finally gets her break when she ashtray and far too many Coca-Cola cameos and hardest. Out of embarrassment Unfortunately I had to leave starts daring Michael, a video executive, to let me think that this was anything but a perhaps? before the Smugglers came on, but played brilliantly by Ben StiUer. He likes big fat marketing ploy. Due to the heavy couise load at I'm sure they put on a good show. I her piece and wants to market it. Will she If you like a witty, well-paced our hallowed school, this reviewer have seen them several times before, compromise her artistic integrity? Generation-X movie then by all means go did not stay for the second half of and they always kick severe musical Along the way Troy, who spends the bet• see Reality Bites. But spit the cynical, the show, which was the Flirtations, ass. ter part of the movie trading barbs with exploitative corporate beasts in the eye. an all-male a cappella group from I found the Starfish room to be a Leiaina, must decide whether to confess his Stop smoking for a week and go buy a 24 Toronto. Is it se.xist that I chose the great venue, the staff is actually nice, love or lose Leiaina to Michael. pack of President's (Thoice Cola, if enough female over the male part of the and the volume is not too loud. Hawke and Garofalo are manic and fiin people do it film-makers might think twice show? as Troy and Vickie. Winona Ryder is sweet before pitching products on celluloid. ... again. Ryder is beautiful and heartbreak•

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February 23, 1994 • 7 THE UNK • ENTERTAINMENT

offer is that they're honest. 1 would never by Sieve Everitt company people from outside Belfast tend back of my mind. not to travel there. They don't want to be consider myself a great lyricist, but The world is fucked and so am I, UNK: Stop It You re Killing Me could be in the city because they think it's going to because it's honest it stays valid. Before, maybe ii's the other way round, I can't seen through the eyes of an existentialist; be dangerous. So if you're from there and we'd write about any subject matter bui seem to decide. Domestic refugees, sink in bom alone, die alone, so take responsibih- you want to get noticed, you have to go die songs began to get more personal. the same boat as me, we suffer alone, and ty for what happens in between. these days I don't wanna go home. Idiots somewhere else to play. If you're deter• LINK: What drives you to just continue ANDY: Yeah. The only thing in life that authority, promising equality, so where is mined, it makes you even more deter• Uving hfe in general? you own is yourself Even to get really the land of the free? Stop it you're killing mined. crass about it, the clothes that we're wear• ANDY: Fear. 1 love music, 1 love doing me. LINK: A lot of the songs have a religious ing are made by other people. The only what 1 do, but it's a fear of becoming stag• Stop It You're KUUng Me, theme to them, like Hellbelly or Lunacy thing that you really have is your own nant. 1 always want to be doing some• THERAPY? Booth. Where does that stem from? mind, and your own sense of self-respect. thing. ANDY: Religion is such a suong influ• The turmoil that the three members of LINK: Do you still write music even LINK: What specifically is it in your life ence in freland. I was very young when this band have seen and lived through, is whUe you're touring? that helps you continue? beyond the comprehension of probably first exposed to religion, and when you're everyone reading this article. Andy, seven years old, being told that unless ANDY: Yeah, the entire lyrical content ANDY: WeU, 1 diink because of the fact that I'm lucky enough to be in a band. It Michael and Fyfe, known collectively as you're good, you're going to be cast into for TROUBLEGUM was written last year gives me a place to vent some of my fins- THERAPY?, come from Lame, Northern the pit, a lake of fire, it sent shivers up. It while we were touring America. You do get reflective because you're meeting so nation. When I worked I used to see guys Ireland, just outside of Belfast fucked me up an awful lot when I was many different people and styles of cul- who would work all week, get drunk and Their new album, TROUBLEGUM, is growing up, constantly thirdcing I was mre, you really begin to lealize how small dien beat their wives. I think they didn't a collection of hard, affected songs, both going to get punished for my sins. and insigiuficant your life is in the scheme have any form of self-expression for a lyrically and musically. The song. Stop ft LINK: Do you have any peace with the of things. true balance. Music will always give me You're Killing Me, is "a sarcastic end of life? some sort of avenue. Northern Irish phrase, meaning stop giv• LINK: Do you feel that your lyrics are as ANDY: No, not at all. At the end of the ing me false promises about changing valid as your music? LINK: When does music end for you? things, because you're not", according to day, I'm still not sure. It's not something ANDY: Well the only thing 1 have to ANDY: When music becomes a chore. Andy, die lyricist/singer/guitarist. that dictates my life, but it's always in the When the business becomes too serious. The fact that they are from Belfast is a Right now music offers the challenges huge influence on the lyrics Andy writes, dial keep me abve. and most of the songs are bitter social commentaries on the isolation and alien• ation that is a result of the society the The crowd was large. The tights were band lives in. They are fascinating explo• low. The music was LOUD. THERAPY? rations of a society that most North played a 45 minute sel that touched on Americans see only through the eyes of songs from Iheir new album as well as the media. This takes away the harsh real• some of Iheir older material, and was an ity of die struggle there, and turns the peo• obvious crowd pleaser. Some incredible ple from being real to being nothing more bass work from Michael and a hard, hard, than a statistic. hard drum sound from Fyfe powered Ihe Besides the lyrics, the new album is an music. Andy's frantic guitar work and a amazing collection of hard, fast explo• strong voice fed their stage presence widi sions of music. The listener is bombarded a lot of fuel. with heavy bass and drums, that fonn an During Ihe song Nowhere, a song about extremely tight rhythm section. Andy's the futility of most people's lives who guitar work is jangly at one moment, hard simply spin Uieir wheels and gel nowhere, edged the next, not unlike the band was broken up in the middle of it by Andy Husker Du. yelling at the security. Some fan was They played a show on Valentine's day doing what Andy considered harmless, at the Commtxlore, and I caught up with but as he described, it was a "se'.iseless Andy before the show. show of testosterone" by Ihe security The fans were there to have fun and THERA• PY? was going to make sure that diey did LINK: Is getting out of Belfast a difficult and received their money's worth at the thing for a band? same time. ANDY: Because a lot of people are scared about the trouble in Belfast, record

8 • F<.bmary23, 1994 ENTERTAINMENT* THE UN SwerveDriver: Album: 1 Live:0 by Steve Ever'rtt Hartridge. 7oo many folk in the middle ihey don't Whatever the case, this is a band that wanna swerve 'gainst the rails. produces music that is great lo listen to in Girl On A Motorbike, a car, on a walkman, or in the privacy of SWERVEDRIVER your home. Jagged, hypnotic guitar work is their speciahty along with the inate abil• The above iyric couldn't be further ity to translate the concept of speed into Casting Call! from die truth for the four piece bnnd from lislenable music. Oxford, England. This is a band with a Last Train To -Satansville, is a tune sonic sound that is truly their oun. Their from the darker edges of life about a 1991 release, Raise, started the myth diat woman who's left, and the man who their music and driving are synonomous. dreams of killing her. Definately a rela• Their latest release, Mezcal Head, could tionship gone wrong. continue this myth although it's one tliat My personal fave, is the song. Girl On the band may not be completely comfort• A Motorbike. It's a tune that transcends Ihe able with. cd formal. When you listen to il, it's easy to forget that you're listening to music. It CONCERT / ALBUM REVIEW seems more that you're part of something SwerveDriver grander. Close your eyes and you can Comniadnre Ballroom escape your existence for awhile. Monday, February 14 They were the headliners at the Commodore on Valentine's day, with "People have made a little too much of THERAP'V? opening for them. Don't Miss Out! the connection and the press continues to Unfortunately, because of the hard-edge of fuel the idea", says guitarist Jimmy THERAPY?, SWERVEDRIVER's music Maquinna Residence is Looking for got lost. If a mellow evening of music was in store, they should have had a different Residence Advisors for 1994/95 band open for them. The fine sound of die band was lost during the performance and they looked dull in comparison to THER• So What is a Residence Advisor Anyway? APY?. However, if you're looking for an Residence Advisors are mature, resourceful and perceptive incredible listening experience in your car, on your walkman, or in the privacy of your people who genuinely enjoy taking an active leadership rolei home, Mezcal Head is a definate keeper. with students. Living in rent free apartments connected to the residence, R.A.'s are the "front line" of the residence operationj team, and assist in the development of a positive, academic^ ally-oriented, residential community. ^

BCIT full time students, staff, faculty and alumni are eligable; 70's Disco Night for R.A. positions. In the case of BCIT staff preference will be The Commodore, 870 GranvUle St. given to those who are interested in residence life and student' EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT CABARET presents activities, and who have completed a diploma, degree or'. Mardi Gros Dance Party The Commodore, 870 Granville St. Ud equivalent program. ; Thursday Feb. 24, doors 8:30 ednesdays i Bands appearing that evening are Applications are invited from singles and couples. However, ] Noah's Great Rainbow, Spirit Merchants, Omnibol and Yellow Belly. because of lack of facilities, applicants with children cannot be i Dance considered. I Muy Calientel Party ! The Commodore, 870 Granville St. 1 Friday Feb. 25, doors 8:30 These positions offer an excellent opportunity for personal i Starring BC Salsa, Tropicana, Shango growth. If you are interested please pick up an information • Ashe package from the Housing Office, located in f^aquinna; THE DEAD MILKMEN with guests Possum P-xon Residence (SW11) or call 432-8606. The Town Pump. 6' ;er St. Saturday. Feb. 26 Application deadline Is Friday, February 25,1994 at 4:30pm Philadelphia's . jad Milkmen have Specials recorded seven albums. Their latest, Nol Ricliard, But Dick., introduces new ideas, Galore! yet still keeping the music charged at Rock, Disco, Alternative high levels. Anything Goes... KING APPARATUS The Commodore, 870 Granville St. Appearing Marcli 2: Saturday Feb. 26 With special guests The Bounty Doors 7:00pm Hunters. Tickets $12 in advance. INFO LINE 434-3100 DOWNCHIli} BLUES BAND The Commodore, 870 Granville St. 6200 Block Kingsway, Bby Saturday March 5, doors 8:30 (atGllley)

Febrvjory 23, 1994 • 9 E»c:iT \\/a6TE.liNc

The lona life of styrofoam

So you're on your way home and you drop into the dell for takeout because you don't feel like cooking dinner tonight. Chances are, only one thing is going through your mind as you stuff die Styrofoam contain• ers under your arm: your stomach is growhng and you can't wait to gel home lo eat - so the thought of how harmful this container is to Ihe environment is buried somewhere in your trash bin al home. Well, it's lime to ignore your stomach for a hide while, and lake a 'green' ini• tiative. After all the stomach growls will go away after you feed yourself. But the ozone hole will not get smaller and nei• ther will the enor• mous number of Beyond Re€y€Hng landfills. KAREN ODENWALD Packaging Achieving tlie 50 percent Goal does actually have some endearmg qualities, one of which is conve• by Tim Reeve thus far demonstrates that we can the fundamental principles of sus- nience. However , there is a bad side to everything and lainablilily: resource conservation 1994 is a critical year for the 3R's make changes dial better die environ• so you have to examine all sides before you decide to ment. Even the Recycling and protection. Program at BCIT. The campus is use it. Department is undergoing significant BCIT currently recycles around close lo achieving a 50 percent This process is commonly referred to as life cycle change. This .spring, responsibility 35 percent of the 1500 metric tonnes reduction in soUd waste. And while analysis. With something like Styrofoam Ihe cycle for recycling will be transferred from of garbage that are produced each we should be proud of the success to starts with the manufacturing of it - exploitauon of nat• the Student Association to Physical ye;tr. We are recognized for our recy• date, we must also recognize that the ural resources and pumping out of air pollution in the Plant. cling program. But il wc are to hardest work still lays ahead. BCIT production hne. Then you have the volume of these The Smdent Association will now achieve the 50 perceni waste reduc• must begin promoting die ideals of a containers going out to retailers and olher manufactur• turn its attention to the unportani task tion goal by 1995, then we must start conserver, not a consumer, society. ers so you can get your take-out Chinese food conve- of promoting Reduce and Reuse ini• projects that reduce and reuse wastes. This won't be easy and will niendy pre-made for you. Then you finish your dinner tiatives to the campus community. We cannot get there by recycling require many changes in Ihe way the and the only place lo dispose of this container is die They, more than recycling, embody alone. campus operates. But our progress trash bin, because it certainly won't recycle. So it sits in Ihe landfill for hundreds of years without decompos• ing. Multiply that by mdhons of odiers which also pile up and diere you have our garbage problem. Pretty ugly picture, isn't it'.' Kudos to Clark Cook and Grant Douglas, tally self-righteous student who doesn't have die guts lo So as consumers we have lo buckle up and SHOW Communications Insiructors who took advantage of tell their friends to clean up after themselves and use the that we care by saying no lo unwanted packaging. In Computer Resources' Academic Services' offer to pro• recycling and waste bins on campus. Leaders of Germany it's common for consumers lo tear off excess vide printing orientation for their classes, thereby saving Tomorrow or Wimps of Yesterday's Planet??? packaging in the store and ask for money off Ihe bill. If Iheir studenis hours of confusion and frustration and at the Europeans can put Ihe pressure on why can't we the same time reducing substantially the amounts of wast• A thousand Kudos to Craig MacMillan, VP. Studeni North Americans? ed paper due lo printing problems in BCIT's micro labs. Affairs, for promoting unbleached recycled paper to his Next time you're in the deU, take the initiative and From Mike Evans. instructors and encouraging them to use it!! Reach for ask for your dinner in a plastic reusable container, or Unbleached!! From Craig MacMillan. else spend the time and have a nice home cooked meal. Heaps of Compost to all those students in the SAC who Kudos around the table lo BCIT's Environmental It's definitely worth it. continue lo leave bottles and cans Uttering the tables and Awareness Committee for supporting Ihe Recycling floors of diis common area. You're welcome lo Uve in a Department's "Reach for Unbleached" campaign. Setting pig sty at home, but gel widi Ihe program while you're a positive example for the rest of die campus is what this here on campus. committee is aU about. RECYCLE A recycling bin full of Compost to every environmen- Send your Kudos and Compost to the Recycling Deportment and be automatically entered into our monthly draw for a free backyard composter and other cool prizes. YOUR UNK Include your name, progrom and phone number. Enter rww for January's drowjl

FebrvKJry23, 1 994 • 1 0 EXECUTIVES ' THE UNi

Who should you go to willi a problem? What opportunities have you been missing out on? Who slionld you thank for a pleasant change to campus policy or planning? BCIT men's indoor

Executives often seem to work away in little seen musty offices, too often without the knowledge of those they administer. soccer takes bronze With this new section The Link hopes to give the student, and staff at Congratulations to the BCIT men's University's powerful offence. The final BCIT an increased awareness of executive action, asking execeutives indoor soccer team La.st week ihcy took score w.-is a disappointing 8-1 for Trinity to explain how they serve the campus. In this way The Link hopes it the bronze medal in the college indoor The Cougars rebounded from Iheir loss will aid and assist students, and others in the campus population, Futsal championships. in the consolation match. Facing second The finals were held last Friday at through a better campus experience. placed Okanagan College, BCIT played Capilano College wheie the fourth placed with a vengeance, stomping die boys from Cougars faced first placed Trinity die interior 10-3 and clinching the bronze Ian Grantham, Western University in a semi-final match. medal. SA VP Marketing & The Cougars started strong with an Collin Thomas ended the season as Public Relations early goal but fell to Trinity Western team scoring leader with twelve goals.

As Vice-President of Marketing and Public Relations I do several different Cougars alive, spiking tftings around campus. My primary duty involved raising money for Cystic by Trent Houg two, but tapered off towards the end of Fibrosis. Shinerama diis year raised over BClT's men's volleyball team is so the night. While Mcleod was cooling his $17,000 with the help of more than 250 close to advancing to post-season play heels, John Zuk carried on the attack and student volunteers. they can literally taste it. began slamming them down at the Also I represent the students on the As the men hit the floor Friday Royals. Alumni Boaid, Child Care Committee and evening at Douglas College their fate lay Defensively the Cougars looked pretty attend every student association meeting. in their own hands. The scenario was sound as well. Two huge blocks by This year I have also volunteered to be quite simple, win and there is another Middle Blocker Dwayne Ferguson in Director of Corporate Sponsorship for the night for volleyball for BCIT. Lose and game two, and in game four, kept BCTT Open House Committee. In my spare the rest of die season is academic. within striking distance, before getting time I am also a full-time student in be done such as dances, Blood Donor clin• Since the whistle blew to signal the their offence back on track. Marketing Management Technical Sales ics or otherwise drop by SA and let us start of the '94 campaign, the men's team Opdon. know we can help .put with posters etc... The Cougars used a variety of serves have strolled onto the court 16 times. to keep the Royals off pace tiirough out Another facet of my job is to maintain The elected student executives are Thus far the Cougars have played some the contest positive lelations between ttie faculty, stu• there to help you and represent you should excellent matches against some very for- "We used the lob serve quite effective• dents and the general public. This is a you require our help or representation. Our doors are always open so drop by the rrudable opponents . ly tonight, but as you saw we are prone to very important job as it is the public who SA offices in the SAC and see what we While Saturday night BCIT were on it as well," said Cougar coach Fred ultimately hire us. are all about. their home turf home court fanfare was Lafleur. If there is any pubUcity on campus to almost non-existant. This didn't seem to If the team can survive one more bodier die men's team. weekend without a lose, die Cougars wdl But, it did seem to bother the women, find themselves shding through the back John Watson, as they continued their disappointing sea• door and right amongst the BCAA play• son with three consecutive loses to the offs. BCIT President Royals of Douglas College. This weekend the Cougars will play The men's squad faired better. The host to the Kodiaks of College of New As President of BCTT, my ongoing pri• Cougars roared and chewed up the Caledonia. The Cougars tiave yet to face ority is straight-forward: to make BCIT Douglas College Men's squad—squash• the Kodiaks this season so they aren't the best institution of its kind in Canada. ing any Royal hope of Douglas College quite sure what to expect, according to It's an exciting time for BCIT and for making it to post-season action. Lafleur "If we get a split at home we BCIT students as our vision for the future Offensively the Cougars were lead by should go to the play-offs," he said. continues to take shape, with new campus the in your face power hitting of Brian The play- offs start March 4th and end facilities, a proposed new Downtown Mcleod and John Zuk. Mcleod started the on the 6th. Education Centre, new course offerings in barrage of devastating spikes in game Maple Ridge and Langley, and die antici• pated approval of our new technology degree. RECREATION & ATHLETICS Campus renewal continues enthusiasti• cally, as you may have noticed on your THERAPEU-nC MASSAGE CLINIC INTERMEDIATE GOLF CLINICS way to classes. Numerous projects are Learn body relaxation Emphasis will be on tion shift centred in the Eraser Valley, nearing completion and others are well through massage stroke improvement we've started to deliver our job-oriented underway. A new Safety and Security Postponed to Saturday February 26 Saturday, March 26 or Sahirday April 3 programs there through part-time and office opened in January, and BCIT is 10 am to 2 pm 9:30am to 4pm evening offerings in Maple Ridge and eagerly awaiting the opening of the $12 per person at tt>e Langley Golf Course Langley. Connector Building providing needed $32 for 8 hours of lessons administrative space and faculty offices. Through the dedicated efforts of SCUBA LESSONS plus $ 12 for balls and green fees At Open House April 8 and 9, we hope numerous individuals, support for BClT's $175.00 Some sets of clubs are avaiable dirough to break ground for the new Student Bachelor of Technology degree has con• Includes: All equipment (incl. all BCIT Recreation and Athletics Campus Centre, a campus focal point diat tinued to grow to the point now where wc personal gear), 5 2-hr classroom will be a meeting place for the entire anticipate government approval. sessions, 4 1-hr & 1/2 hr pool ses• CO-ED SLO PITCH SOFTBALL BCIT community. In the works for years, it will give stu• sions, 5 open ocean dives, and Division "A" Monday After extensive planning, we're set to dents a practical degree option in post-sec• PADI certification. Division "B" Tuesday give our Downtown Education Centre a ondary education. Developed in concert Wednesdays March 23 to April 20 Division ' C" Wednesday new home showcasing BCIT in downtown with business, industry and government, it Ocean dives begin the weekend after Division "D" Thursday Vancouver. With an increased presence will be a valuable real-world credential, Classroom sessions 7:30 lo 9:30pm Games 5:15 - 5:45pm (rain or shine) downtown, we'll be better able to take our combining advanced academic learning Pool Sessions 10 to 11:30pm Begins Monday March 28 tiaining to students and industry. with important practical skills. $20 per team As the Lower Mainland grows, BCIT Minimum 12 players per team grows with it. With a significant popula- DROP BY REC & ATHLETICS IN THE SAC FOR MORE INFO

Febrvao'23, 1994 • II THE UNK • FEATURE

Information superghigiiway GET A JOB... GET A LIFE... Continued from poge 1 data on four individuals to the local newspaper; or studied, as in Sweden, GET A GLOBAL NUMBER... Native Canadian, incorrect information where for 20 years sociologists examined on his computer fUe led to his wrongful 15,000 people without dieir consent, by integrated UUphone, ctUularJax, voice messaging, caU forwarding, paging service and much more... arrest and detention in a U.S. M.irine probing government files. prison. He was released five months later Given these dangers, Fierheller says after the error was the handling of per• discovered. sonal information Police files also should be guided by raise questions certain principles. about trans-border "People data flow. Because should be able to of agreements with determine what •20% off BC-TEL long distanc* rotas Interpol and die FBI information is • Bo occouibU 24 hours a day, (vory day (whose computer there," he said. •Whon you movo, your numbor movos with you contains dossiers on "Secondly they • No mon hassles walling for important calls eight million should be able to •No moro lost mossogos Americans, and is check what is fliere, • No nood to constantly update your rosumo accessible to 64,000 and thirdly there • Easy to uso police agencies should be an nationally), detailed ombudsman to go to CALL US NOW! information on if you think your 893-8030 Canadian citizens is information is being often transmitted The Canadian situation is at abused." mtematiooally, thus least superior to that of the US, Although falling outside of many privacy prin• where the government possesses Canada's privacy ciples are already NUMBER four billion files on citizens, and regulations. codified in the "the only number you'U ever need." Sizable dossiers where 84 per cent of federal data Privacy Act of on individuals can banks have no legal mandate to 1984, Its effects are iilso be accumulated collect the information in their limited because of three factors: the by methods of sur• possession. veillance. The power of the National Security Privacy Agency in the US, for instance, has the Commissioner is purely advisory, the pri• FRUSTRATED BY computing ability to interpret and analyze vate sector is not covered (except in 70 per cent of all the telephone, telex, Quebec, die first province to enact such JOB HUNTING? data and radio transmissions generated on legislation), and the individual's access to COR Associates Ine is a recognized leader m career marlteting die planet. The technological capabilities information is limited by the powers of CDR Professionals trom the lollowing backgrourxJs have recentty ertgaged our services; of the totalitarian governments of George federal agencies. VJKMVW. S.C. Orwell's 1984 are, essentially, already in "While the Privacy Act gives (610 1040W GwrguSl 'Senior ExeortJves * Managemeni * Finance/Accovntlng V6E4H1 ' Sales/MarfceUng * Hiafi Tech ' Education effect. Canadians an impressive array of access * Human Resoorces ' Consufting * Engineering ' MllJlary rights," Privacy Commissioner Bruce Ciigini. Aia. If you need ^^elp securing a professional position or to expedite your ABUSING INFORMATION Phillips wrote in his 1992 report, "it also /18M. 801 • 6m A« S W search call today lor a confidential appointment I2P3WJ Pf ofessiorwl outplaccn^etn services ate also available gives government institutions a vast arse• (4031 Call for a confidential appraisal interview (604) 688-4404 "The ability of the computer to col• nal of exempting provisions to defeat EdmoMoa.lUU. lect, organize, and distribute information them." (1010.10303 JasiK'Avt ISJ 3N6 lends to enhance the power of the bureau• The Canadian situation is at least 14«3142W)2M cratic structures who harness the comput• superior to dial of die US, where the gov• loniBlo. Ontirio er to achieve their goals," wrote David ernment possesses four billion files on 11920 121 King Si Wesi M5H3T9 Burnham in 'The Rise of the Computer citizens, and where 84 per cent of federal I41SIIW-2123 Ifflfililff State'. Critics claim that detailed govern• data banks have no legal mandate to col• ment knowledge on individuals inherent• lect the information in their possession. ly leads 10 pressure to conform. As was But, wrote Phillips, concerns about the said during the US Senate's examination efficacy of Canadian privacy protections of privacy rights: remain. "The chiUing effect of pervasive sur• "A society which casually accepts the veillance will inevitably destroy any soci• existence of dossiers of unknown accura• SHOWROOM AUTO GROUl* ety's capacity for dissent, non-conformity cy in unknown haixls on millions of indi• and heterodoxy. Subtract these elements viduals, and with no right of access or AUTO BROKERAGE from a liberiarian democracy and you correction, is a society which is reckless• have totalitarianism." ly indifferent to preserving that most BUSINESS CAREER OPPORTUNITY A frightening picture was painted by basic privacy right: the right to some con• trol over what others know about you. George Fierheller, chairman of ITAC, an You can earn $250.00 plus per deal on any make or model organization which recently held a con• Yet this is the simation as it now stands." ference in Toronto to discuss the ramifi• The fear remains that with present of new cars or trucks. Build your own team and use O.P.T. cations of the information superhighway. computing abilities, the desire of business "The concerns are not as much about and government for personal information (other people's time) to earn much more!! what is happening as about what may will go unchecked. happen," he said. "When you run into As die head of a New York City inves• CALL NOW AND START TODAY huge computers, it opens up more and tigative firm said: "Privacy is an absolute more possibilities for abuse." myth. When you're bom, the first thing Such abuse includes information being they do is take a footprint and fill out a Call Frank at 649-8558 or Stephen at 878-0238 stolen, as in the 1986 theft of Revenue birth certificate. You go to a doctor, diey Canada microfiches, containing personal keep medical records. You go to work, data on 17 million taxpayers; mishandled, you buy a car or a house, there are more as when the Canada Employment Centre records. Your hfe is continuously open." in Samia, Ont., mistakenly faxed detailed

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