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M M^^i^SeCUlity Operatio n Jiangwmmmr Zemin Canada the 4 freedom workers rigi ' genoci f People's MUX^^_^^^^^^^ ^ nflinisfii j^gSVS political prisoner^ AustrahJMember economi nugrahon neoliberalism Tiananmen Square Consmmis building*" O %OYCllllC 11 PPpPlllliwilies^^^TlBii^SiiiifliKorea • ¥# * * represMiim C!llfpat SflOUS Vancouver minimum wage human capital secret service Sustainable development ffpifn oi Indigenous dislocation WTO market place/m veViallSm NGO common around Thailand APEC ^Rw^ji^ij^fM A bnct history ot ArLv 3t Ubt Jan 8,1997—Then UBC President Strangway announces March, 1997—Board of Governors (BoG) rejects a motion, pro­ UBC will play host to the APEC Economic Leaders posed by the two BoG student reps, to not hold APEC at UBC. Career a^sseemente 'If you don t Meeting (AELM) on November 25. The announcement is j know where you are goingyou may made at a UBC Museum of Anthropology reception dur­ Jan, 1997—Students at UBC | end up somewhere else" Vocational ing the Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF). The form APEC Alert, a grassroots \ testing will assess your "career self reception is disrupted when activist Jaggi Singh is campaign against APEC and May, 1997—Work begins on renovations ! (Interests, Needs, Aptitudes and forcibly removed after attempting to present an the use of UBC as a venue for May 21, 1997— to the atrium of Norman MacKenzie i Personality) and give you direction Indonesian delegate with an East Timorese flag. a portion of the conference. AMS motion to House, the official residence of the \ and information about educational The group stages several oppose UBC's deci­ President of UBC. The $400,000 project is j programs. If you are planning to protests throughout the Spring sion to host AELM paid for by the federal government. ! enter college or a training program Sept-Oct, 1997—AMS sponsored Student Summit on the as well as a series of public fails to get the two \ a career assesment will benefit you. Asia Pacific. The summit features weeks devoted to human forums and debates. thirds majority it I MaximunfeeisS 160.00 536-4277 rights, the environment as well as economic issues. needs to pass. ! fax 536-7133 Sept 22,1997—Two UBC students, also May 22, 1997—The Graduate Student Society (GSS) miimm members of APEC Alert, are arrested for Council passes a motion opposing UBC's unilateral deci­ Oct 31, 1997—Three more student members painting an 'APEC Free Zone' around the i EIJ5CTROLYSIS (permanent hair! sion to host the AELM. !removal) $25 /hr. 307-8348 (leave) of APEC Alert are arrested for writing anti- Goddess of Democracy. The students are \ message). 17th and Burrard j APEC slogans on the atrium of Norman released later the same day after being MacKenzie House. The protesters are charged charged with mischief. APEC Alert mem­ with mischief and forced to agree not to bers continue to expand the zone into Nov 17,1997—APEC Alert are joined by students from protest at the President's residence as a con­ October and no further arrests are made campuses as far away as Washington in a tent city SOCLU. WORK STUDENT, FEMINIST dition of bail. It is four nights before the last of for painting. (called Demoville) outside the SUB. SEEKING INPUT ON THE NEED FOR the students agrees to the conditions. POST-i*BORTION SUPPORT. If you have experienced emotions (grief, loss,etc.) after having an abortion, Nov 14,1997—GSS agrees to vacate the Graduate Student Centre for the AELM after the RCMP provides them with and feel that you could have ben­ evidence that the building can be legally appropriated. The RCMP will not be using the building, but argue that it efited from post-abortion coun­ needs to be shut down for security reasons. selling or support, I am interest­ ed in your story. Our conversa­ Nov 25,1997—AELM to be held in the Museum tion will be anonymous, confiden­ Nov 19,1997—APEC conference begins. THE UBC of Anthropology and leaders invited for a lunch tial & sympathetic, since I have in Norman MacKenzie House-the official resi­ come to this project through per- HUMANISTS' tTSW» dence of the UBC President. APEC-Alert plan to j sonal experience. Beth, 9am-9pm Nov 24, 1997—APEC Alert T-.-wi>B*aJW5t-.Sl««aAf^= continue the student walk-out and 'crash the \ 687-0859, or e-mail summit' by walking from the Goddess of plans a student walk-out and \ [email protected] Wnat is Democracy to as close as they are able to the alternative APEC teach-in. Museum of Anthropology. MATURE NON-SMOKER NEEDS Humanism? 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AEEC__ _™ya^YssEY^Rip^^bvgMB£g2LJ22Liai November 21, 1997 • volume 79 issue 21 Editorial Board Special Coordinators Douglas Quan and Todd Silver Coordinating Editor Joe Clark News Sarah Galashan and Chris Nuttall-Smith Culture Richelle Rae Sports Wolf Depner National/Features Jamie Woods Photo Richard Lam Production Federico Barahona APEC. what you see is all you get The Ubyssey is the official student newspa­ Late next Tuesday afternoon, sion, and everything to do with dispute, landmines... that CNN's Bernard Shaw can per of the University of British Columbia. It is published every Tuesday and Friday by Prime Minister Jean Chretien and schmoozing over Canadian They will not want to acknowl­ give his newscast from a loca­ The Ubyssey Publications Society. his buddies from the .Asia Pacific spring water. edge the precedence financial tion other than Atlanta or We are an autonomous, democratically will emerge from the great hall in We put this special issue gain is taking over human rights Baghdad. run student organisation, and all students the Museum of /Anthropology. No together to provide a forum for and the need to deal with an And even if it wasn't just are encouraged to participate. doubt they'll be smiling. the news and opinion that haven't Asian neighbour that now looks about appearances, even if Editorials are chosen and written by the Ubyssey staff. They are the expressed opin­ They'll liiely read off a series made it into Vancouver's main­ more like 18th Century Europe. APEC leaders sat down and— ion of the staff, and do not necessarily of declarations to broaden invest­ stream media diet. We've tried to They will not want to discuss God forbid—talked about sub­ reflect the views of The Ubyssey ment opportunities and areas of cover the issues that haven't the Tiananmen Square Massacre, stantive issues, all they'd be Publications Society or the University of cooperation—all in keeping with made it to the aAPEC table. We the Dili Massacre or the occupa­ concerned about is how to British Columbia. want our readers to think about tion of Tibet. improve their own respective The Ubyssey is a founding member of the goals set out in 1994 to elimi­ Canadian University Press (CUP) and firmly nate trade barriers by the year what's really happening on cam­ But in. fact none of these issues positions in the world. adheres to CUP's guiding principles. 2010 (for developed countries) pus next week: there's more to will be discussed because the Next Tuesday, throngs of All editorial content appearing in The and 2020 (for developing coun­ APEC than photo ops and trade Museum of Anthropology is not UBC students will be implicated Ubyssey is the property of The Ubyssey tries). deals. the place for contentious debate. in APEC. Unfortunately many Publications Society. Stories, opinions, pho­ tographs and artwork contained herein Then they'll pose for the We hope you'll look beyond the It is not a debate. It is not a nego­ will skip their classes and head cannot be reproduced without the media, who really wants to get immediacy of the conference—the tiation.