One sun-burnt face, N one ll-told-you-so, a few ABBA songs, and a side order of veg­ etarian orgasms to THEUBSSSEY go, please. Founded in 1918 Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, March 31,1992 Vol 74, No 44 Mohawks under police siege A school boy, age ten, cuts model or "sounding board" for the students each day in school is not easy. his finger to dab blood on a draw­ "I'm still having a hard time myself ing of his people, who are all coming to terms with what happened here," dead. In his words, "that's what she says. "We, as teaching staff, are going through stress therapy to work it out for the police want." ourselves." A 17-year-old grabs a broom in a fit of rage and turns his RACIST RAGE classroom into a mock battlefield. There is also the memory ofthe anti- Mohawk rage that shook the adjacent He machine-guns invisible po­ francophone suburb of Chateauguay during lice and politicians while his the standoff. The Kahnawake Mohawks classmates cry. occupied and barricaded the Merrier Bridge in solidarity with the Mohawks at A four-year-old girl in the Kanesatake, preventing many Chateauguay front seat of a car routinely ducks residents from getting to their jobs in her head at the sight of any po­ Montreal. lice cruiser. She asks her mother Mohawks were beaten up outside their territory, chased from local shopping malls if the police have gone so she can by gangs of non-Natives, and picked up and sit up. tortured by the SQ. Mobs tried to storm the barricades and called for an all-out army by Norman Nawrocki assault on Kahnawake. reprinted from the McGill Daily "The children don't understand the Canadian University Press burning of effigies, the stoning of their people, of their families [by Chateauguay The stories go on. But these are not car that had bought gas on the reserve. They stopped for one reason or another." residents]," Lahache says. children from Belfast or South Africa. They pulled over the driver and asked her if she Lahache says one Mohawk refused to Nor could the children understand he­ are from Kahnawake, the Mohawk commu­ knew she had bought gas from Native peopl e. give his name to police when he was stopped licopters full of soldiers with guns ready, or nity not far southwest of Montreal. They are "They asked her if she realized she while walking down a road. military jets flying low over the community. the survivors of what some Natives call "the could have been raped or robbed by the "He was hauled off to the police station, Deer thinks the unrelenting police in­ Canadian crisis at Oka." Indians," Deer says. "They didn't realize held over night and charged with assaulting timidation is meant to break Kahnawake's Two years after the explosive 78-day she was Native." The RCMP has denied the a police officer," Lahache says. "He's still in spirit. standoff over Mohawk land at nearby story. court over it." "When we reported the incidents to Kanesatake, the 5,000 Mohawks of In another incident, the RCMP pulled Lahache says the 34 teaching staff at Claude Ryan [Quebec's public security Kahnawake now live under a virtual police over a volunteer human rights observer the school are trying to make the school day minister], he wouldn't believe us,"Deer says. siege. They face unrelenting harassment by working with the Mohawks. When she asked as normal as possible for the children. But "All he wants is for us to take down our the RCMP and the Surety du Quebec (SQ) for the officer's name, he refused. the constant police presence make it hard to checkpoints." who patrol their territory. "But when she pulled down her visor to get their minds off what happened two There are nowfour Mohawk checkpoints Although the community itself is a "no- show him her official papers, he told her summers when Quebec called the army in ringing the entrances to the village of go zone" for the police, Mohawks say the that he just had to give her a ticket for doing after the SQ botched a raid on the barriers Kahnawake. Each consists of a little wooden RCMP and the SQ have turned Kahnawake 70 in a 70 km/h zone." at Kanesatake. And only now are teachers guardhouse, a concrete roadway barrier, into a pressure cooker of institutionalized Deer says the incident is only one of noticing that students are experiencing the and a handful of Mohawks standing guard. racism by terrorizing the population. dozens of stories told every week by after-effects of Oka. Hand-painted signs nearby warn, "No RCMP Kenneth Deer, the editor and publisher Kahnawake residents. "Students are drawing pictures of sol­ or SQ access allowed." Visitors to the village of the Kahnawake community paper, The But SQ spokesperson Andre Blanchette diers and cops, guns, knives and graveyards are politely asked about their destinations, Eastern Door, says the three highways that says only seven per cent ofthe people stopped all the time," she says. "They aren't turning the purpose of their visit and how long they cut through the 25-square-mile community by police on the three highways are Mohawk. to violence against each other, but they're intend to stay. are "the most heavily-patrolled roadways He could not provide the exact number of SQ angry with themselves for not being able to Deer says the checkpoints, though anywhere in Canada, if not in North officers patrolling the Kahnawake territory. do something." symbolic, are an assertion of Mohawk sov­ America." Lahache saw her 17-year-old son ereignty. "Butfor the Canadian government, Deer says police constantly stop SCHOOL'S OUT grapple with a Canadian soldier during one theyYe a pain in the side." Mohawk vehicles for random roadside Pauline Lahache, a Mohawk artist and of the army's forays into Kahnawake in The police used to try to get past the searches. teacher at the 200-pupil Kahnawake Sur­ 1990. She heard him yell at the soldier, "You checkpoints, but they don't often bother "Ifs "put your two hands on the wheel vival School, says it takes her five minutes tear-gassed my mom, you're trying to kill anymore, Deer says. Instead, they throw and don't move,"" says Deer. "The police will to drive to work. Every day, she sees four my mom." the Canadian Criminal Code or traffic laws then ticket Mohowks for low air in the tires, patrol cars in either direction. "In his eyes," says Lahache, "he was at the Mohawks every chance they get. for dim taillights, for snow on the windshield, "Every day, no less than two or three trying to protect me." Meanwhile, negotiations with the gov­ for anything." Mohawks are pulled over in their cars by the In her classroom, students will some­ ernment over land claims are at a standstill Anyone who passes through the terri­ RCMP or the SQ," she says. "They're parked times break down crying, talking about how and Mohawks are on trial for the Oka crisis. tory or stops at any business is a likely all the time across from the school. Every­ they are willing to die to defend their land. And the police will not go away. target. Deer says the RCMP once followed a one, students and staff, is afraid of being Lahache says the pressure of being the role When it's just one more night of police violence by Norman Nawrocki "I got out of our car to ask the driver [of husband kept yelling at them to leave her Lahache and Deer were both charged MONTREAL(CUP)—Herthree-day-oldbaby the SQ car] why he was driving like that, alone, as they beat him. with assaulting a po lice officer and obstruct­ girl in her arms, the 31-year-old mother was trying to kill us," she says. "He yelled at me, Finally, she was shoved into a police car ing an officer in the line of duty. On January homeward bound after leaving the hospital pulling at my arm. I told him I had a baby in and it spun off, siren wailing, the driver 6, after several court appearances, she and behind. Beside her, at the wheel ofthe car, my arms, that I had just got out of the occasionally slamming on the brakes so she her husband were both tried and convicted. her husband was beaming at the newest hospital. I showed him my hospital bracelet, would lurch forward in the back seat. One of They were both sentenced to 15 days, "ex family member. but he kept yelling at me, hitting me." the SQ officers took his gun, turned around parte"—neither they nor their lawyer were But what should have been a joyful "My husband yelled at him not to hit me, and waved it in her face, saying he would use present in the Longeuil courtroom (their occasion for Wilma Lahache and Philip Deer not to touch me or the baby. But the SQ it on her. She did not know if she would live lawyer had given them the wrong trial date). turned into another scene of police violence. officer said, "What do you expect? You're or die. Two days later, they were jailed. After On the night of October 29,1991, they Indian."" "Outside the station," Lahache says, filing an appeal, both were released on bail. were driving home to Kahnawake through Lahache says he tried to hit the baby, "they beat me, lifted me by the cuffs and left The Montreal judge said she was astonished Chateauguay when the police tried to cut off but she moved out ofthe way and he hit her me on the ground. Then they threw me into to hear about the ex parte sentencing. -»* their car three times. in the stomach. She kickedhim in the leg and a cell." Now, Lahache says she is terrified to "They'd slam on their brakes in front of ran. She was able to pass the baby to another "I could hear my husband pleading with leave her house alone. And since the inci­ us but never try to stop us," Lahache says. woman who was by the roadside. Shetoldher them from down the hall, telling them I just dent, she says police stop her and her hus­ When Deer turned off the highway onto an to take the baby to her mother's, while the gave birth, not to hurt me. But they didn't band all the time. Once, when their car was exit, three police cars boxed them in. An police chased her "like a swarm of bees." care." The police called an ambulance only hit in a parking lot, she decided not to report RCMP car blocked the road ahead, another She ran in circles, trying to get away, after her husband insisted. The next day, at it. pulled alongside and a Surete du Quebec car until they grabbed her and slammed her into another hospital, doctors put a brace on her "All they'd say to me is, What do you came up behind them. a police car, cuffing her behind her back. Her injured arm. expect, you're Indian.™ Correction The story entitled "Scabs cleaning dirty residences" in the March 24 issue of The Ubyssey contained an inaccuracy. A CUPE lawyer was consulted in regards to Julie Underwood's (Residence Life manager at Totem Park) letter dated March 7, but the lawyer did not spoof issue. .. 1MA**A to the end °i^ directly speak to Underwood, as stated in the article.

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2/THE UBYSSEY March 31,1992 NEWS Student cycles through BC for recycling by Graham Cook "We will be doing different since then organizing it," Parfitt members are past participants in As well as office people in things at each stop, tailored to said. the Canada World Youth exchange Vancouver, the core group expects Alison Bain was fed up with community needs," Bain said. The choice ofbi cycles as amode programme, and CWY provided other people to join in their cycling "lip service" about environmental "There will be educational work­ of transport was an obvious one, office space and other support for trip for different parts of the jour­ issues, and felt like she was getting shops, popular theatre, and differ- Bain said. "It's environmentally the group. Rocky Mountain Bi­ ney. nowhere sittingin classes studying. ent actdvitiesin wilderness spaces", sensitive to use bikes, and I think cycles has provided the bikes for "Hopefully well fill the roads Starting May 12th, Bain will she said. it illustrates part of our message the trip. Some plannedfundraising with bikes," Bain said. definitely be getting somewhere: Depending on the amount of which is to show that you can start projects includes raffle ticket and 1,800 kilometres around BC, to be organization in different commu­ with simple things to solve envi­ t-shirt sales, and a planned benefit Further information on exact. She was recently chosen as nities, the group will be linking up ronmental problems," she said. dance on April 13th at the Town Wheels of Change can be obtained a participant in Wheels of Change, with local naturalists and envi­ The sixmembers ofthe Wheels Pump. from their temporary office at a bicycle tour aimed at action and ronmentalists, but the focus will of Change core group are Maya "I think ifs going to be a great Canada World Youth, and by con­ awareness about environmental be on youth. Gislason, Graham Jacobs, Craig success, but we still need volun­ tacting the UBC Student Environ­ issues. "Our biggest hope is that our Anderl, Katherine Weiler, and teers and other people who want to ment Centre. The intention i s to show youth tour will be a spark for further Bain and Parfitt. Some of the support the project," Parfitt said. and their communities the links action. The focus isn't just linking between environment, develop­ up with local groups, but also try­ ment, and social justice issues on ing to reach a large group of people local, national, and global levels" to help them figure out environ­ saidBain, afourth-year Geography mental issues for themselves," she Student investigates young queers student at UBC. said. by Rick Hiebert describe and think of themselves." mentary on the same subject. "Ifs a fulfillment of a lot of The learning process is also A UBC graduate student What happens in high schools Segal thinks the recent up­ things I've always wanted to do: expected to be two-way, Bain said. wants to look at how the attitudes could profoundly influence the fu­ swing in attention to these people environmental work, interacting "Well be taking back as much and beliefs of young gays, lesbians ture self image of young gays, les­ may be due to the increased social and seeing how others feel about or more than we put into the and bisexuals are shaped. bians, and bisexuals, Segal said. power of gays. environment and development is­ project, and our capacity to leam Alan Segal is looking for vol­ "A lot of our own identity in "The more gays and lesbians sues, and making change through will be magnified in the native unteers in their late teens and early society depends on what we have as a community act to gain their action instead of just studying," communities that well be visiting," twenties to participate in a survey been taught. Schools go through own identity, the more we want to Bain said. Bain said. for his education doctoral thesis. an entire process of trying to cre­ look at our own pasts, our own The tour will begin with a two The project was conceived in Although he has not gotten ap­ ate identities that reproduce adolescences and our own youth," week orientation in which the six the wake ofthe Youth '92 Confer­ proval yet from UBC to research society's norms," he said. he said. core participants—four women and ences, which were organized to get his thesis, he hopes to be allowed "There will have likely have "Refusing to acknowledge two men—will get to know each youth input for the upcoming to pursue whyyounggays.lesbians been a lot of negative experiences, these people as a separate group of other and will prioritize the vari­ United Nations Environment and andbisexualshave the beliefs they but one person's definition of a adolescents in the past was a way, ous environmental issues they will Development Conference in Bra­ do. negative experience may be very in a sense, of keeping them invis­ be talking about. Wheels of Change zil. "We wanted to take more "It looks like it may be a very different than another's. The same ible," he said. "Now, we're trying to plans to cycle 60km a day while grassroots action than the sorts of exploratory form of research," event, say taunting by classmates, give them a. sense of their history travelling and will stop at at least things that came out in the con­ Segal said. "I'd like the volunteers may cause very different reactions so they can develop voices of their 11 communities along the way. The ferences," said Mindy Parfitt, one to talk about their reactions to and feelings from different people." own." tour will travel East to Kimberly, ofthe six core members. events that happened to them that The study may be part of a Segal hopes to have the re­ as far North as Hazelton, West to "We brainstormed ideas last shaped their sexual identity. I want growing trend of looking at young search for his doctoral thesis, if he the Haida Gwai'i (the Queen September, and out of it came the to know how these episodes affected gays, lesbians and bisexuals. David gets permission to go ahead, fin­ Charlotte Islands), and will end in idea for this tour. We've been their philosophy on life, their Adkin ofthe National Film Board ished by the end of this summer. Courtenay on Vancouver Island. working pretty much full-time feelings about society, how they is currently finishing a film docu­

UBC pays tribute to past women's dean and ex-Ubyssey editor

A former dean of Women at UBC and a former Ubyssey editor are among the 14 Ca­ nadians who will receive honorary degrees from UBC this year. Margaret Pulton, the 1977-78 dean ofthe Women's Undergraduate Society, and Joe jy Schlesinger, a political correspondent for CBC and X^chlesinaer television news, will be officially recognized '9 •* the JU... this spring. Fulton is a retired English professor who was the president of Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax from 1978-86. Born in Vienna (1928) and a former Asso­ ciated Press writer in Prague, Schlesinger Tme UBYS&MY was based in Berlin, Washington, and Paris v**urw: \:s\v w VMWV*;^ «.<\, -st'^p,\v. •*;-!*•<•: between 1974^92. He was the Ubyssey editor- BURSARIES AVAH *o> in-chief in 1952-53. Schlesinger also took a Treasures Of TfHe Far last leave of absence to run for AMS presidency andfinished a close second (at a time when the Exhibited At New Gym The Ubyssey was published three times a T • >?" - '<»*»«ure Van* week and the editor was a member of student council). Journalist Allan Fotheringham, who wrote a Ubyssey column called Campus Chaff, has said Schlesinger stuffed the ballot box to get Fotheringham elected as Ubyssey editor-in- chief in 1953. Other recipients thisyear are artist Doreen Jensen, architect Phyllis Lambert (director of the Canadian Centre of Architecture), nurse Lyle Creelman, writer and former hockey player Ken Dryden, writer Louis Cha, pub­ lisher Mel Hurtig, business types Minora Kanao, Peter Bentley, Peter Buckland, and

S»tt Hutchison, Sports Editor, qove in UBC academics Peter Larkin, Anthony Scott, side information on athletic troubles in O Crfy Editor Myro Green coordinated oil news and Anne Underbill his column "Huddles with Hutch" To coverage ot compus events When not screening aether with Associate Editor Al Fother- Honorary degrees were first presented in faculty edition* or writing for the Province Myra • First year or, the P„b, McGtllite Ed inghom, Hutchison wrote practically the trained new reporters to take desiV positions in 1925. The call for nominations is sent Parker filled Executive Editor's position, and whole sporfs paae for the whole season. t/6vsse> emergencies acted as E-l-C during elections. throughout the academic departments and advertised in UBC Reports, but anyone may HE University session 1X2X3 saw ihe painful con­ When the lirst issue of the papsr went to press few old nominate a person for an honorary degree. T valescence of the lihissey .titer several austeritv u'ars sellers were left to manage affairs in the Brock basement. and one livelv season with Les Armour. For the first Submissions are reviewed by the Tributes Sports writer Brian Wharf. C.U.P. Editor Sheiia Kearm, Committee of Senate and the final list of nominees is approved or rejected by Senate. The number of people honoured varies each year.

March 31,1992 THE UBYSSEY/3 'iX'*,', FEATURE Doin' it right: one woman's quest for orgasm TORONTO(CUP)—/ must PENIS-LADEN boys. Orgasms were natural. They is perhaps the only place in the dreds of other women) confess to have been around five when I were a matter of pride. Teenaged world where the clitoris is even the same predilection for tubular discovered that rubbing the PAGES boys got drunk and had contests more obscure than in the pages of legumes. Next time you eat a veg­ little bump where the pee came to see who could shoot his cum the the porn mags. Teenaged boys, etable, think about it. out felt really good. As they say, So that was my idyllic child­ farthest. Great writers described those paragons of sexual subtlety I should probably clarify here hood. When I hit puberty, things the orgasms ofthe prurient young who treat cunnilingus like kind of that by fucking vegetables, I don't it was the beginning of a beau­ started to go downhill. As far as I male in mind-numbing detail. contest to spread as much spit as mean the vegetables themselves tiful friendship. could tell from extensive reading Take this passage from Philip possible over the female genitals were the source of pleasure. The of the vast selection of porn and Roth, for example: in the minimum amount of time. clitoris is always the place to be I can honestly say that for erotica our culture has to offer, It's a muggy day in the sum­ when a woman wants to cum. The most of my childhood, my clitoris women did not have orgasms. In "Then came adolescence— mer of my 14th year. Fm spending zucchini or carrot or whatever just and I had a rollicking good time. the porn canon, the clitoris was half my waking life spent locked a passionate afternoon languish­ makes those vaginal contractions By some miracle of Masters and (and still is) a mysterious and elu­ behind the bathroom door, firing ing on the Peter Puck sheets of my a little bit more fun. Johnson and Parent Effectiveness sive subject. My friends and I my wad down the toilet bowl or grade 10 boyfriend's bed. This brings us toanothe r myth Training (PET, ironically enough), combed the penis-laden pages of into the soiled clothes in the laun­ I jerk him off repeatedly. "Ohh about women's sexuality which my parents managed to avoid the Penthouse Forum for months. dry hamper, or splat up against baby ohh ohh baby, baby..." Obvi­ seems to have a lot of currency: the screaming hell and damnation ev­ Women were everywhere writhing the medicine chest mirror, before ously suckled on the pages of Pent­ vaginal orgasm. I have never in ery time my hand happened to and wiggling under the massive which I stood in my dropped house, he jams a couple of dry my life had a "vaginal orgasm" and wander to my crotch area. (Inci­ phalluses of men with names like drawers so I could see how it looked fingers up my vagina every now Tm convinced that there's no such dentally, Fve always wanted to Long Dong Silver, but none of them coming out." and then in the hopes that Fll erupt thing. Thus, Fve always been in­ thank them for leaving my sexual­ ever actually came. into spasms of ecstasy. I stare at credulous of the whole male "big ity relatively unmangled, but IVe Was the clitoris a part of the Maybe not the most poetic the ceiling and think about getting cock" complex. never quite known how to broach anatomy that no one else had? description, but at least it was together later tonight for some real the subject. Once, one ofmycharming high Were we the only ones who, there. fun with the zucchini my mother school dates was so proud of his throughout our childhood, spent What did teenaged girls have? bought for Friday night casserole. penis size, he decided to comer me many happy hours in the bath­ A busty Jackie Collins character in the washroom just to display his room showing each other how we oohing and aahing as a square- JOYS OF THE nine-inch wonder. I barely escaped "did it"? Had there been some kind jawed millionaire worked her with my gag reflex intact. of atomic explosion in our nipples over for the umpteenth CRISPER It doesnt matter if a man has neighbourhood that had time. Big deal. I mean, nipples are 20 inches—if there's no clitoral left us with these okay, but they really aren't the Vegetables were the saving stimulation, there's no fun. And strange but fun place for action as far as cuming is grace ofm y teen years. Those years lefs face it, penises are remark­ body parts? concerned. when the detachable shower nozzle ably badly designed to do that. If I was one ofthe lucky ones. A loses its charms and you begin to you really want to know what kind ^A-Xv^-JT'""^ were much lot of my friends had never mas­ long for something more, but avoid of a lover a man is, take a gander at H>*X£** easierfor turbated and didn't even know sending away for The Arouser his tongue and fingers. whatcumingfeltlike. "Orgasms?" ("Eleven inches of pure vibrating cried my best friend in grade ten. pleasure!") because you can just "You dont get those until you're picture your mother accidentally 30 and married or something." opening the package. Carrots, zucchini, cucumber, parsnips: I fucked them all—and then returned them to the veg­ etable crisper. Masturbating with vegetables may sound weird, but ifs not all that unusual. Several of I stare at the ceding and thinks my friends (and Fm sure, hun­ about getting together later tonight for some real fan ivith the zucchini my mother Bought for Friday night casseroCe. "Oh, yeah, it was great.

Another friend claimed Cum was running down my to have had an orgasm while dancing with her legs in rivers!" 15-year-oldboyfriend at the Halloween masquerade. Yet an­ other friend(wh o be­ lieved touching her own genitalia was so disgusting she could barely put in a tampon without gagging) mea­ sured her orgasms by the amount of fluid she produced. "Oh, yeah, it was great. Cum was running down my legs in rivers!" I was dubious. The only women I knew who came like that were the onesin the pages of Playboy. "Yeah, but how did itfeeir "I dunno. Okay, I guess. Pretty good." It didn't sound like an or­ gasm tome . "But was it sort oflike a build up and then kind oflike a sneeze?" "Not really..." And on and on it went, the search to define the female or­ gasm. Masters and Johnson couldn't do it. Neither could we, and again I have to point out that it must have been easier for teen­ aged boys: You rub your dick, some white stuff shoots out. You've had an orgasm. Easy.

4/THE UBYSSEY March 31,1992 "rymjr- ARTS/SPORTS $',£ Cronenberg's antidote to cerebral constipation by Morgan Maenling CRONENBERG: The fascination CRONENBERG: Ifs not anything restrains other things that are responsibility returns to us imme­ is in everybody else's avoidance of you can really take credit for. Ifs there. diately. Ifs a scary thing to think UFFERING fromth e irregu­ the topic. There are very few mov­ probably partly genetic and partly of. Slarity of cerebral constipa­ ies made that have gynecologists environmental. People say, "Boy, Do you believe in God? tion? In need of an enema to relieve in them. I think it exposes a lot of you've got a weird mind..." and I You sometimes dance around the those cognitive blockages? Re­ anxiety and sexual strangeness say that I think everybody has a CRONENBERG: I think Tm al­ issue of 'misogyny...alluding to men quiring an antidote to mental about the way our society is set up weird mind and is equally able to most biologically incapable of be­ and women having different agen­ I j astrictions? Try Cronenberg's Own: and thafs why I was interested. make the kind of connections that lieving in God. I think ifs very das. r Laxitive ofthe Mind. Ifs not gynecologists so much as I do. But most people suppress it, probable that we are alone in the CRONENBERG: Well I know, but -*. While Cronenberg may con­ the phenomenon of gynecology. are afraid of it and don't exercise universe and a lot of sci-fi people much the way you think my films ceive and give birth to his films, Everybody thinks of it in sexual it. really hate hearing that. But I might dance around the issue of they rapidly mutate into a virulent terms, in the abstract. By the time theyVe adults, think ifs conceivable that the earth misogyny, attribute, lets say, my life form of their own. ifs withered away. But I think is it. characters attitudes to women, to The director who gave us Well, the instruments., those lovely, people, in their dreams, if they And that we are the only ex­ me. And Fm saying no, you have Videodrome(1982), The Dead creative instruments that you would only allow themselves to dip ample of our particular kind of got to understand, I don't make my -* Zone(1983), The Fly(1985), Dead invented...I thought, well, isnt that alittleintothatunconcious stream, intelligence that exists. And I think films from that place. „ Ringers(1988) and now Naked the way it is for women, anyway. would probably find the most the only meaning in the universe I have tob e freet o create char­ * Lunch(1992), has synthesized his The way they're treated by the amazing metaphors and images is in the human brain. I don't think acters who are not me. If there's a own genre of philosophical-sci-fi- medical profession. and connections. But most people there's a God or a system outside character who truly believes that horror films that delve into our are so locked into the sort of official us that is somehow delivered to us men and women are a different deepest fears. CRONENBERG: Well...I think reality that we're all given as part that we should live up to. We have species, lefs see what happens. While other films in this genre there's truth in that. Although I of our culture that ifs drained to do it ourselves. Where does that lead us? >~J" inspire externalized, objectified happen to think its pretty even- away. Thafs scary, most people don't Ifs not a statement of belief horror, Cronenberg's nightmares handed. I think the medical pro­ Mir6, the Spanish painter, said want to accept that. Ifs too much on my pari:. And I think thafs * lurk within. It is the mark we fession treats everybody badly. Ifs it took him forty years of painting responsibility and it leaves too where the difficulty comes in. Tm cannot beat: ourselves. set up to be a system, a dehu­ to get back to where he was when many possibilities for huge error. inviting my audience along on a manized system. So, I dont think he was painting at the age of five. But of course, even the fact that sort of dream-like, philosophical In Dead Ringers, could Bev and ifs exclusive to women. Ifs always Ifs just stripping away all of the there are many religions and many enquiry and Fm not setting myself Elliot Mantle have prevented their difficult and ifs a strange thing extraneous structures that are put versions of God, the errors are up as somebody who knows the >- <**" premature departure if they had that you're doing. Ifs an intimate on us, and that we have to live enormous anyway, so I don't think answers. But I might have an in­ been able to disentangle them- thing, medicine in general. Surgery with, but it sometimes kills and we could be worse off. To me, the teresting question... """•»• selves? Or, was it because they were is very intimate. I mean more in­ trying to separate that eventually timate than se—gynecology is. led to their untimely demise? More intimate than sex...ha, ha.. CRONENBERG: Bev and Elliot CRONENBERG: Well, it is!... „.v were not unique amongst the WeVe talking about physical inti­ couples. I don't think they could macy, not emotional. But, I mean •"".». have lived apart because to say you can have a doctor handling they could have lived apart, would your heart. Literally. And yet be to say that they were different there'saneedtodistanceourselves. people. But they weren't complete If you distance yourself too much, enough people. I think that was then you dehumanize the whole ^ _,• the problem. process. For me, my scientists and doctors are really my artists. *». Are you afraid of death ? They're the ones who have some kind ofvision , some kind of drive to CRONENBERG: Yes...to imagine understand the human condition. non-existence before we were born. And if it goes wrong, ifs easier to Ifs a little hard, somehow, to con­ understand things when they go ceive of yourself as being dead, wrong. once you've been alive. So it's ^ definatelyaproblem.Noquestion... Do you think you know how your films come across? Does the artist -*> Does it bother you that a lot of always know exactly what he or she women find your films difficult to is communicating on every level? watch? CRONENBERG: No...absolutely CRONENBERG: Well, Tm not so not. It would be really boring ifyo u sure that thafs true actually. More did. What happens is that in in­ "*" than men, lets put it that way. A terviews, for example, you are . r, lot of men found even the first forced to be analytical about things "•*' scene of gynecological examination that you are completely intuitive in Dead Ringers very difficult be­ about when you were doing them. cause, of course, men don't ever If a film is good, if a piece of art is see that, or are exposed to it. They good, it will evoke many responses. ^ prefer to ignore it. What makes the difference between What's your fascination withgyne- those who create and those who ""* •*• cologists? don't? Let's drop the puck for national unity by Mark Nielsen regional differences that various sections ofthe country have been I have an idea that Fve been fabricating in order the gain more developing on various bathroom leverage in the endless constitu­ walls around campus and now I tional talks how about this? feel it is ready for publishing. So We could have a full-blown here goes. tournament featuring teams rep- Over the resenting years we've Ontario, tried any of a Western number of for­ Sports Rant Canada, the Cronenberg caresses "Sex-Blob" with a few friends hanging around. mulas and ap­ Atlantic prov­ proaches to­ inces, the ab­ tional champion Brock Badgers 90- first-year guard Dave Picton the career of Jackson, arguably wards solving this never-ending original nations and the North. 82 March 22 in the semi-finals of started shooting the lights out, one ofthe best players CIAU bas­ national unity crisis we've had. It sure would add a whole new the four-day CIAU men's basket­ draining 18 of his 22 points from ketball has ever had. But accord­ But we've never tried the one ap­ meaning to the Canada Cup. Of ball championship in Halifax, Nova three-point range helping to open ing to stories in the Sun and the proach that makes us truly Cana­ course, there's always a chance Scotia. up Brock's inside game. Province the next day, he was giv­ dian—namely our ability to skate the Russians would win it. The Thunderbirds had built With Brock in the lead, Jack­ ing returning players some advice and shoot. •Anyway, while I have all this up a 13-point halftime lead but son committed two quick fouls and for the 1992/93 season. In other words, how about us­ room, and since I write the sports were also in deep foul-trouble. was out of the game with 5:38 to The career may be over, but ing our national sport to solve our here, maybe I should fill you in on Fifth-year players J.D. Jackson play. Little more than a minute the legend, and the legacy lives on. national problems? Thafs right— what has happened in varsity and Jason Leslie both had three later Leslie fouled out. •Jackson and sprinter Lori a best-of-seven series between the sports since the strike occurred. fouls each as the Thunderbirds had Jackson finished the game Durward were named UBC Ath­ best hockey players in Quebec and The big story is that the UBC trouble keeping their up-tempo with 24 points while Bob Heighten letes of the Year. the best in the rest of Canada. Thunderbirds were impressively game on track. got 17 points and 12 rebounds. Better yet, in reflection ofthe dispatched by the eventual na- In the meantime, Badger's It was an inauspicious end to

March 31,1992 THE UBYSSEY/5 Editorial Do-it-yourself- editorial Due to the pressure of mid-terms and essay deadlines, we are inviting you, the reader, to write your own editorial. Just fill in the blanks—or, if you need a good laugh, ask some friends to fill in the blanks without telling them anything other than the kind of word you need. Then read the editorial out loud. (name of politi­ cian), has done it again. His/her bla­ tant disregard for all (adjective) and (adjective) (plural noun) astounds us all. Last week, when she/he had the offensive The Ubyssey welcomes letters on any Issue. Letters must be typed and are not to exceed 300 words In length. Content which Is judged to be libelous, homophobic, sexist, racist or factually Incorrect will not be published. Please be concise. (plural noun) removed Letters Letters may be edited for brevity, but It Is standard Ubyssey policy not to edit letters for spelling or grammatical mistakes. from the (adjective) Please bring them, with Identification, to SUB 241K. Letters must Include name, faculty, and signature. (noun), we applauded. These oblong Dear friends... and enable students to fin­ What I actually said was that still is full of right wing, anti- monstrosities made -ing (verb) 30,000 elite 'minds'! ish the year. We believe that EUS—the well known sexist, communist, and anti-intel­ academia mismanaged? in those cases where there racist, and homophobic so­ lectual crap. A core of man­ a nightmare for (noun). scapegoat employees. has been misunderstanding ciety on campus—did not agers have to be trained in But we are appalled at his/her recent that some form of mediation represent the whole of the engineering schools—being Eli J. Martin be available, and that flex­ engineering students; that an executive in EUS may decision to withdraw the funds meant Arts 3 ibility be extended in favour they are a minority of bigots not be a plus in the academic ofthe students. who fit very well within the community but it sure looks to (verb) shiny, new, The Chaplains existing power structure in good on your resume. This is (adjective) (noun). Instead, Be friends... Association at UBC this university. I emphasized going to be my analysis of that there were a large the existence of a cult such she/he is using the student funds to it's healthy number of engineers who as EUS, unless someone bring in a speaker on (possible The strike by support English gets supported the workers in the proves to me that Ohms law staff (CUPE Unions 116 and strike but were intimidated somehow leads to bigotry. speech topic) for the student politician. 2950) is now over. It has gold star into crossing the picket lines. Siavash Alamouti been a time of tasting for the What nerve! Thank you very much These students were obvi­ Electrical Engineering UBC community. As UBC for the short article by Carla ously not represented by the Chaplains, we believe that Maftechuk about the En­ EUS—most of whose mem­ the time for healing and re­ (same name of politi­ glish grad students' confer­ bers proudly crossed the All media is building must begin if we ence in your March 3 num­ picket lines. EUS did noth­ cian) obviously has no respect for are to have a community harmful ber. However, there is an ing during the strike to rep­ based upon mutual respect, (plural noun) rights to (verb). error in the article which I resent those students who cooperation and commit­ With the experience of would like to correct in order honoured the picket lines. We wish upon him/her eternal ment to a common goal. 20 months of stay in Canada to set the record straight. Instead, they chose to take advantage of the strike to behind me, I would safely (form of torture). We call on all 1. Any attempt at re­ The original idea for the get out of the token repri­ put my bet on the former venge must be replaced by conference began in the En­ (adjective) students to fight back! Show mand imposed on them by one. Everybody knows that dialogue and understand­ glish Department's Gradu­ the administration for pub­ the articles in any of the up at (place or event), pull ing. Workers need to be wel­ ate Committee and it was lishing hateful and racist mainstream news-papers in comed back into offices and organized by the English down your pants, and (verb). crap in their rag. Apparently, former USSR were biased workplaces across campuses Department and the in one ofthe AMS scab meet­ and one-sided, so the people Make the (politician) wallow without bitterness or re­ programme in Comparitive crimination. ings, one engineering stu­ were skeptical about the Literature. authenticity and purpose of in the (noun) he/she has so 2. Healing must include dent had suggested that the The Centre for research the news items. North the healing of personal an­ council members should happily ignored. If we (verb) in Women's Studies and American media is supposed ger, fear and disappoint­ wear a red jacket for a day to Gender Relations very gra­ to be free, and hence people in solidarity, we will triumph! ment. That must begin with experience discrimination ciously helped us bring our believe the articles to be open dialogue. We need to against engineers. First of keynote speaker, Professor balanced and authentic. But recognize that tensions and all, the majority of engineer­ Patricia Clements, of the alas! they are getting a bi­ THE UBYSSEY frustrations have been high ing students do NOT wear University of Alberta, to the ased and stereotyped por­ on both sides, and there red jackets. Secondly, the red campus. Suggesting that the trayal ofthe events. If any­ March 31, 1992 should be an opportunity to jackets do NOT represent "women's centre expressing body has any doubt, the ar­ The Ubyssey is published Tuesdays and Fridays by the deal with these. engineers. The red jackets interest...got [the graduate Alma Mater Society ofthe University of British Columbia. are about years of racist, ticles published in the news­ 3. We need to create a committee] going" in orga­ Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not neces­ sexist, and homophobic tra­ papers about the recent better atmosphere and sys­ nizing the conference is sarily those of the university administration, or of the ditions propagated through strike in UBC clarifies it. tem for conflict resolution in wrong. sponsor. The editorial office is Room 241K of the the future labour issues. The ritualistic right wing tradi­ The Centre's support Student Union Building. Editorial Department, phone present system avoids the tions and the red rag. The Joyis Thomas was very welcome and made 822-2301; advertising, 822-3977; FAX 822-9279 real issues of any dispute, red jackets are about de­ Civil Engineering a significant contribution to and focuses on the survival meaning women by the sex­ The Ubyssey Is afounding membe r of the success ofthe conference, ofthe fittest and destructive ist tradition of Godiva Ride. Canadian University Press but the impression your ar­ strategies of manipulation. The red jackets are about ticle leaves is erroneous. The UBC Depart­ Raul Peschiera the scissors snipped pains­ We hope a group made up of encouraging gay-bashing. ment of Creative The red jackets are about takingly at Toenail Paul Dayson. He yelled, all parties will undertake to Writing present The examine this labour dispute, John Cooper years of discrimination. That "Holy Carla Maftechuk manicure, don't push and make recommendations Assistant Professor is why red jackets are not Best of Brave New my cuticles around." Turnip Sharon lindores that will insure such action English popular in this university— Play Rites, six origi­ was destined to have fabulous vegetarian is unnecessary in the future. even in engineering depart­ nal short plays by orgasms. Corn-on-the-cob Dianne Rudolf 4. It is important that ments. The same applies to UBC Creative Writ­ the university move quickly The cult an all-white KKK outfit. showed Jonathan Wong how to utilize greens. Finally, I would like to reit­ ing students, April 2, Graham Cook stewed up Rick Hiebert and to clarify the situation of of EUS 3, 4 at the Presen­ students. We are aware that erate that engineering is not Wong Kwok Somethin'or^Rother and This is a response to Pat an ideology, tradition, or a tation House, 333 some students are under the Williston. Pat, I am the guy M.Maenling in a big pot for .3am Green to impression that selected way oflife. Engineers do not Chesterfield Avenue who you claim "identified have a common political be­ taste test. Linguine Lucho van Isschot lusted faculty members have indi­ himself as an engineer" and in North Vancouver. cated that they do not intend lief. Nevertheless, for years for green beans to play with Rutabaga Paula "expressed his disgust in all engineering schools have Wellings and Tomato Paul Gordon. Mark to comply with the policy. We engineering students." Now, are personally aware of been used to breed managers $8/adults. $5/stu- Nielsen shot and scored with a cucumber and think about it. Do you seri­ and bosses. It is natural that many students who misun­ ously think that anybody in dents, seniors, un­ said, "I've played with an eggplant or two in derstood the situation about a cult such as EUS be formed employed. Reserva­ their right mind would be­ to reinforce the extreme right my days." Oh, glorious salad, Effie Pow. attendance at classes and lieve this? Do you seriously tions 986-1351 Info responsibility for material wing agenda of their future believe that I would spit in employers. It was not an 874-9734 Editor* covered during the strike. my own face? Next time you Paul Dayoon • Sharon Undaraa • Carta Maftaehuk Every effort should be made accident that every issue of Raftl Poochlera • EffloPow try to misquote someone the red rag used to be and Photo Editor • Paul Gordon to alleviate student anxiety, please workatitalittlemore.

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Religious claptrap P.S. I could have quoted want women to have EQUAL­ extensively from some poetry ITY. But if I went to a country I am womyn; hear me roar and all that jazz Fve written, but somehow didn't that suppressed whites I by Dianne Rudolf peer groups and countless other I am compelled to respond think you would consider it wouldn't think that changing I am writing in anticipation sources. Having the power of to Rob Tamaki's opinion piece relevant. the spelling to whytes would do of the inevitable negative re­ self-definition is infinitely bet­ of February 25,1992 ("Sex un­ Dave Thomson a bit of good. Be proud that we sponse to the use of alternative ter than having a social label der god's moral law"), during are women. Don't belittle me spellings of "woman" in The thrust upon us which is a de­ which he asks readers to Wimmin don't by making me feel like there is Ubyssey's March 6 women's rivative of a male root (such as "Please do not disregard my something wrong with my sex. issue. Using "wimmin" or fe/male and wo/man). claims as a religious claptrap..." want equality Don't belittle all the men that "womyn" does not indicate a Changing language in this Well Rob, everything I read I have just finished perus­ support true feminism by sug­ lack of pride in being a woman, way takes us one step closer to in your piece suggests other­ ing the Women's Issue and I gesting that sharing 3 letters how­ becoming wise. First>—The Bible is 2000 just cannot help feeling some­ in a word is repulsive. I can't ever an author­ years old, and quotingfrom it is what nauseous. I am a woman. believe that equality can be one ity on our­ simply preaching to the con­ I am not a womyn or wimmin, it achieved through self-segrega­ spells Freestyle selves, on verted, literally. To me it's a is incredible not to read those tion. But maybe that's the i t . what we piece of fiction that some give words without having a laugh. point. Wimmin don't want Though it may appear a trivial wish to call ourselves. far too much weight to. If you I support feminism, I want equality, they want to take over or pointless literary gesture to In formal writing we are truly knew your Bible, you equality for women, I hate the world! Sorry ladies (oops some, we are criticizing the taught to refer to "he" if we're would discover dozens of quo­ prejudice against any group or that has lad in it) your cred­ sexism 1- - anguage that is part uncertain about one's gender. tations that are diametrically race. But changing words ac­ ibility has slipped. I now of a bigger .vhole. God is referred to as "He," contradictory and, heaven for­ complishes nothing but an in­ wonder what will happen to Prejudice, discrimination whatever the religion. Boys bid (excuse the pun), might even vitation to ridicule. I like being the word human? and violence against women is have toy guns and dump trucks question your faith. a woman. I couldn't give a shit learned and perpetuated as playthings; girls, who are Typical of fanatics, Rob if the word man was in it. I Mrs. Sue Chatwin through the mass media, our just out of infanthood them­ points toward the AIDS prob­ want a lot of men's opinions A woman and damn educational system, our fami­ selves, are taught to mother lem as an indication from the towards women to change. I proud to be onel lies, religious organizations, "babies" who can eat and crap almighty that pre-marital sex like the genuine article. is wrong. Newsflash—sex does The childhood textbooks we not unequivocally equal AIDS have all used depict the boy (or STDs, abortions, and so on). saving the helpless girl from Oh, but I forgot. Your all-loving harm. Even in French we must god is sending this symbol as a distinguish between "mascu­ warning. This god, I presume, line" and "feminine" parts of would be the same god de­ speech (words like "jolie" are scribed in the Bible (that you "feminine"). quote from extensively) occa­ All of these teachings in­ sionally as a ruthless killer. evitably bring all society Finally, Rob, how do you members to the conclusion that explain the Catholic priests, women are destined to rely on bishops or whatever that take men, and that a woman's proper vows of celibacy and end up place is in the home nursing getting convicted of sexually babies, cooking and cleaning. assaulting young boys? Could People say that has all it be that it is not natural to changed now. That women have suppress one's "animalistic in­ finally made it in formerly stinctive desires"? Maybe god's "male-dominated" fields. The moral law is a big pile of reli­ truth is that very few women gious claptrap. reach the uppermost rungs of Perhaps the drop in the fol­ any ladder and most are still lowers of your imagined su­ stuck in dead-end jobs. preme creator is indicative of People say women have people that can think for them­ earned respect. Then why the selves and don't have to fall continued verbal, emotional back on religion in order to deal and physical abuse? Why are with life and some of its harsher Enjoying the Sunday weather at Jericho Beach, comtemplating the the rape crisis centres and realities. next letter to write to The Ubyssey PAUL GORDON PHOTO battered women's shelters still around? Why don't women feel Volunteer for No political safe walking alone at night? sistingthe Chinese community costs exceed their resources. It's not about paranoia, it's Songs of the Heart in Vancouver and the Lower Continuing our tradition of arrangement: the about reality, and the reality is Mainland through its broad supporting diverse charities clear choice is that there is a danger. We don't Our post-secondary institu­ services and programs. and volunteer programs in the want to take over the world, we tions are accused of sheltering One of these services is the past, the CCS. will donate this NDP just want an equal share. apathetic students. This is a Friendly Visit Group, which is year's proceeds from Songs of myth we can shatter. Many composed of volunteer senior the Heart to the Friendly Visit I am writing in response to New Democrats and Liberals. students of U.B.C. participate citizens. Some senior citizens Group. the February 28 opinion piece Chretian's Liberals would not in numerous volunteer organi­ are often unable to venture out- This year the CCS. is pre­ by dillusioned Liberal, E. kill'the deal. McLaughlin's New zations and activities available of-doors independently and paring for the show with the Griffith, who argued persua­ Democrats would. The choice for helping various groups in must face loneliness and mo­ annual frenzy of activities. The sively that the Liberal Party is clear. I invite E.Griffith and the community. The Chinese notony. There are others who objective ofthe CCS. is to en­ has joined the continentalist the many other disillusioned Collegiate Society invites car­ are lonely because they lack courage a balanced student life ranks ofthe Conservatives and Liberals to join our movement ing individuals to undertake a families or friends. The volun­ with numerous sporting and Reformers by refusing to abro­ to save Canada. very rewarding challenge. teering seniors ofthe Friendly social events. This balance in­ gate the disastrous Mulroney Svend J. Robinson, MP Right now, anyone who is in­ Visit Group are active indi­ cludes participation in the Canada-US trade deal. Griffifth Burnaby-Kingsway terested in aiding a very special viduals who assist, befriend, community. This year, as in is of course quite right. But New Democrat External group of people can assist the and support other senior citi­ previous years, the C.C.S. re­ Griffith is very wrong in sug- Affairs Critic Chinese Collegiate Society in zens. They can be found ex­ quires many volunteers and gestingthatno opposition party its production of Songs of the tending themselves and en­ corporate sponsors to make the has taken a "real stand" on the Heart. riching the lives of seniors; their show a success. Last year, Deal. Audrey McLaughlin and For those who are not fa­ presence is felt in a diversity of Songs ofthe Heart raised over my colleagues in the federal The last issue miliar with Songs ofthe Heart, locations ranging from hospi­ $8,000 for the Friendly Visit New Democratic caucus have it is an annual variety tals and retirement homes to Group. With your help, we hope said clearly that a federal New for winter ses­ programme which raises funds individual households. to exceed that amount thisyear. Democrat government would sion 1991-92 for a charity selected by the In order to sustain their ac­ If you are able to volunteer immediately give six months Chinese Collegiate Society. tivities, the Friendly Visit or direct us to corporate spon­ notice to abrogate the trade is Friday, April This year, the CCS. has the Group requires funds to reim­ sors for Songs of the Heart, deal. 3,1992. pleasure of supporting the burse their volunteers for their please feel free to visit us in our For Canadians who realize Friendly Visit Group of transportation costs, to employ club office, S.U.B. 241D, from that the Mulroney trade deal The Ubyssey S.U.C.C.E.S.S. with the pro­ a part-time staff to overlook 11:45 to 1:15 p.m. or call us at and even more ominously the will resume ceeds from the show. The the program, and to cover other 822-6117. If no one answers, possible extension of the deal United Chinese Community organizational expenses. Al­ please leave a message and we to include Mexico is a disaster, publication in Enrichment Service Society though S.U.C.C.E.S.S. provides will be happy to call you back. there is only one hope in the (S.U.C.C.E.S.S.) is a non-profit these remarkable individuals KFong next election. And it is certainly July. organization dedicated to as- with financial support, their Arts 2 not, as Griffith blindly suggests, an "arrangement" betweeen

March 31,1992 THE UBYSSEY/7 NEWS Birth mothers call for change in adoption process by Dawn Bule cate people looking to adopt. when they plan their future to­ "[Our daughter] will meet her why the process was made anony- Except for a few "super social gether. birth mother some day. We're WINNIPEG(CUP)—Birth moth­ workers," they said this aspect If the woman decides to go quite sure about that. We have a ers and couples wishing to adopt was lacking in the Child and through the adoption process she letter from her birth mother to Barbra Langtry, adoption co­ in Manitoba want to have more Family Services adoption process. must see a lawyer and a social give her when she's 18. Or if she's ordinator for Manitoba Child and say in the adoption process. Riches said they "very quickly worker from Child and Family having problems with her identity Family Services, said the agency Child and Family Services do realized" birthmothers needed a Services. well give it to her earlier." has started providing adoptive not usually allow contact between counselling and educational ser­ Adoption Options gets fund­ parents with anonymous back­ the birth mother and adoptive vice as much as adopting couples. ing from the United Way and is Private adoption is expensive. ground information about their family, although children may When a woman contacts supported by a $500 fee for The Jones spent $6,000, with most adopted child. start researching their parents at Adoption Options, "We do not as­ weekend seminars for couples of it going to lawyers' fees. "The experts' feelings in the age 18 if the birth mother agrees. sume she's placing her baby for looking to adopt. The adopting couple in pri­ '60s were heredity was not a fac­ "Susan," a birth mother, said adoption, we assume she's preg­ vate adoptions pays the birth tor in how the youngster turned the agency never contacted her nant," Riches said. Jenifer and Murray Jones mother's legal fees as well as their out. Over the years it became ap­ after the adoption process was fi­ She said they make sure she took the course and said it helped own, but it is illegal to pay the parent heredity does play a big nalized, because Child and Fam­ has explored the options of mar­ them immensely when they mother or anyone else for a child factor in diseases, talents and ily Services' mandate is to help riage and single parenting. adopted privately. in Canada. tendencies toward certain emo­ the children, not the birth mother. Riches said abortion has not Jenifer Jones said she and "Lawyers are the ones who tional reactions." "They should blow up [Child been an option with any of the her husband prefer private adop­ get all the money. It just irks me She says private adoption and Family Services] and start all women that come to her because tion because of the contact with that a girl may need food and would not suit everyone because over again," Susan said. they are too advanced in their the birth mother. "Ifs better when clothes but you can't give her a ofthe high cost involved, and the She said the agency is pater­ pregnancy, or the children are al­ you give a child up to at least cent," Ms. Jones said. risk of a birth mother changing nalistic in its approach to adop­ ready born. know the people. [Our first birth Adopting couples are required her mind after promising the child tion. "It should be more client- The organization is an advo­ mother] got to meet us and we met to get a home study by Child and to the adoptive couple. centered, they should cut the red cate of open adoption, which her family and went toher house." Family Services or pay a private Birth mothers retain custody tape, drop their own agenda and means the birth mother may chose Ms. Jones said they send pho­ psychologist to do the study. rights six months after the child start finding out what people from 70registeredcouple8thetype tos to the birth mother at Christ­ Riches said prior to govern­ is born in private adoption, which need." of religion, race and lifestyle she mas and on birthdays. And they ment intervention in the '40s, is not the case in anonymous Susan said the views of wants in a placement family. have a letter from the birth mother adoption was a private matter adoption through Child and women and motherhood held by Adoption Options then facili­ explaining why she had give up done through family and church. Family Services. social workers at Child and Family tates a meeting of both parties, her child. She said she does not understand Services reflect those of society in general. "For sure there's a stigma to women giving their children up . "*""™*fei* for adoption. Motherhood is man­ datory in our society." She said Child and Family Services tries to keep the family together at all costs. "I have a brother who left his wife with the children. Ifs the same thing I did, but I get the criticism." Susan said she had to fight the provincial adoption agency every step ofthe way to make sure she had an arrangement with her children's placement family that was good for her as well. In her case it meant periods of visitation which tapered off after the children had bonded with then- new parents. She said the social worker from Child and Family Services was uncomfortable with the openness in the relationship be­ tween herself and the placement family. He wanted Susan to get another social worker to represent her side. She said that would set up an adversarial relationship creating animosity instead of understand­ ing between both parties.

Susan said a volunteer run organization, Adoption Options, is excellent by comparison, but she found out about it after she had gone through the Child and Family Services process. She now volunteers at Adop­ tion Options, counselling birthmothers at the agency. Sara Riches and Karen Linde, both adoptive parents, formed Adoption Options in 1989 to edu­ Paddlin' away the waves off Jericho Beach. PAUL GORDON PHOTO Ontario professors' organization attacks harassment policies

by Krishna Rau research, but it does not necessar­ mittee written by Davison prevent professors from teaching group after he learned U of Ts ily agree with his theory. Rushton Ankney, a UWO zoology professor sex or race differences. advisory committee on race rela­ TORONTO(CUP)—A newly- is a UWO psychology professor and SAFS member, defended "This kind of well-meaning tions was "looking into any text formed group of Ontario profes­ who caused an uproar in 1989 Rushton's research. initiative can be carried so far as that might offend any sors says policies combatting when he released a theory which "The data that he has com­ to have an effect on knowledge," individual...There is this atmo­ sexual harassment and racism are linked race to intelligence. piled are far more extensive, con­ he said. sphere of censorship and self-cen­ damaging academic freedom. "We're concerned about a vincing and genetically-based But Madeline Lennon, the sorship." But critics say the Society for number of issues relating to the than are those used in similar president of UWO's Caucus on "(SAFS) doesn't really have a Academic Freedom and Scholar­ traditional role of the faculty analyses of geographic races of Women's Issues and the chair of party line. All it stands for is aca­ ship is perpetuating discrimina­ scholar," said UWO psychology other animals...how simple yet the sexual harassment policy re­ demic freedom." tion. professor Douglas Jackson, the eloquent was his theory, i.e. why view committee, said the group is But Carol Agocs, the chair of The society—incorporated in treasurer-secretary of SAFS. hasn't someone already thought simply using stereotypes to rally UWO's employment equity com­ Ontario in February as a non­ Jackson said the Rushton case of that?" the letter stated. support. mittee, said the group is actually profit corporation—was createdby played a role in the formation of An advertisement by the "The general feeling is that hurting academic freedom. professors at the University of the group, and its decision to sup­ group in UWO's administration the statements that are made "My hope is that the prospec­ Western Ontario (UWO). It now port freedom of research. How­ newspaper, the Western News, seem to perpetuate exaggerations tive members recognize that aca­ claims a membership of 40 in­ ever, U of T psychology professor says research should not be "cur­ and myths about what employ­ demic freedom and quality will be cluding professors at U of T, York, John Furedy, a board member, tailed as socially inappropriate or ment equity and policies on sexual strengthened where there is Waterloo, Ottawa, Carleton and said the group was not "a sort of offensive." harassment are about." equality for groups that are Brock. Rushton defence league." Jackson said the group also "What I find in all this is a underrepresented and poorly The group also says it sup­ But a March, 1990 letter to a feels race relations and sexual ha­ lack of common sense," she said. served by the university," she said. ports Phillipe Rushton's right to social science faculty appeal com- rassment policies can be used to Furedy said he joined the

8/THE UBYSSEY March 31,1992