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The Third Daily
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A Southam Is Born
By GEOF WHEELWRIGHT’
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planning for the third paper. Davey
says there is no coordinated planning “in the formal sense,” and
Haslam says it is “hard to avoid”
not talking to executives at both the
Sun and Province because he is currently working at an office in the
Pacific Press building.
“Yes, conversation with people
in the existing dailies happens, but
it’s not - you do this and I’ll do
that,” says Haslam. “My study is
mindful of theother two papers,
but they are not superimposed on
third ]paper.” It raises a lot o f ques- it.”
Haslam denies there was any
tions,” said Jan O’Brieml. “We
wonder whether they would con- question of collusion between himtinue to publish the othier two self and the two other newspapers’
executivesin order to ensure that
dailies;.”
Haslam says the third newspaper the papers did not have to compete
wouldl not jeopardize eithelr of the with one another.
And Davey says he is quite sure
two
current
publications
and
wouldl, in fact, guarantee job secur- the new paper would have editorial
ity to the employees of Pacific independence from the existing two
Press, the subsidiary that publishes dailies and fromSoutham.“We
The Vancouver Sun and The Prov- haven’t had any problem establishing our independence with Southince.
But
O’Brien
disagrees. “Obvi- am, Thomson or FP.”
Davey denies that the new paper
ously it does. But Southam should
be obliged to operate thetwo papers would be entirely born of an init has and guarantee job security terest by Southam to extend its conthat way,” she said. “Sout.ham al- trol of the daily newspaper marketready has two newspapers and place. “A small independent pubwe’re asking if it’s in the public in- lication would be much more a
terest for them to operate a third creature of the market,” he added.
The Sun publisher also says he
paper, ”
did
not know whether the new paBut Vancouver Sun publisher
Clark Davey says he sees the third per would further chop up the repaper as simply an extension of sources of Southam News Services
Southam’s services to the public Inc. Newsservices from the comand denies that it has anything to do pany are currently divided among
with job security for existing em- the Sun and the Province and Daployees. A third publicaticln pro- vey suggests that the new publicad u d out of this building would tion might leave it that way.
“It may not want the kind of refall to the unions already certified
sources represented by Southam
for this building,” he explained.
O n e sorepoint for both Davey News Services.’’
Despite the fact that executives at
and Haslam is the issue of cooperation with the existing dailies in the
Turn to page 2
Southam I n c h two daily Vancouver newspapers are “just a little bit
pregnant” with an idea that could see
the company give birth to a third daily newspaper in thecity byearly summer.
Although Southam’s representative in charge of the third daily paper scheme will notadmit
it, it
seems the Eastern newspaper giant
is more than a little impressed with
the success of morning tabloid-style
papers in Toronto and Edmonton.
But Gerry Haslam did say in an interview yesterday that heis proceeding with plans to have 500 copies of
a prototypeSoutham Vancouver
daily morning tabloid printed by
the end of February.
libe distributed
The prototype w
“for market research purposes.”
Haslam was not specific about the
prototype’s content and general
format, saying only it was determined “by the company’s first wave of
market research.”
It is ironic plans for theprototype
of a third Southamdaily in Vancouver came to light during the local
Kent commission hearings on newspaper concentration in Canada. If
plans for the third paper go ahead
Southam will have monopoly control of three daily papers in the city.
And that fact does notsit too well
with members of the VancouverNew Westminster
Newspaper
Guild. A spokesperson for theguild
told the commission last week it
would view suspiciously any attempts by the company to set up a
’Birdwatch
\
Thunderbird
hockey
highlights
the home action for UBC athletk
teams this weekend.
Thehockey‘Birdstake
onthe
University of Calgary
Dinosaurs
tonight and Saturday at8 p.m., at
the Thunderbird Winter
Sports
two
Centre. The lasttimethese
teams met, the Dinosaurstook both
games in overtime. UBC holds
down last place in the Canada West
Athletic AssociationwhileCalgary
is in first place.
t
.
.
The rugby team hosts James Bay
Athletic AssociationSaturday
at
ThunderbirdStadium.The
game
will provide the ‘Birds with an excellent opportunity to increase their
stature in the rugby community
becauseJamesBay has beenthe
best rugby side in Canada for the
past five years. Kick-off is at 2%
p.m.
e
.
.
The hockey ‘Birds arenot the only ones to host the University of
Calgary
this
weekend.
The
women‘s and men’s swimming and
diving teams compete against the
Dinosaurs in a meet at the Aquatic
Centre starting at 2 p.m. Saturday.
One member of the Calgary team is
Graham Smith, internationally ranked Canadiannational swim team
members.
e
.
/
who travel to Edmonton for two
games
each
against
the University
Alberta
of Golden
Bears.
The men, who have a 4 4 record,
must win both games to retain any
chance of making the playoffs. The
women are only 24 points out of
first andhope to make up some
ground by picking up their first win
of the season.
. . .
In
other
away
action,
the
Thunderbirds wrestling team is in
Kelowna while the women‘s gymnasticteamgoesagainst
Seattle
University in Washington,
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January 30, 1981, registration will be cancelled and the student concerned excluded from classes.
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.
In theonly other homeaction this
weekend, the men‘s
gymnastics
team competes against the University of Saskatchewan Huskies gymnastics club at the Oaborne Centre.
Time and date unavailable.
A.M.S. Executive Elections Jan. 2930
Candidates for President:Marlea
Haugen
Kevin Twa
Candidates f o r
Menzies
Vice-president:
Charles
. . .
The
men‘s
and
women’s
volleyballteamstravel
to Victoria
this weekend to takepart in the
University of Victoria‘s invitational
tournament. This is an off-weekend
before the teamsresumeCanada
West action.
The UBC women are rankedthird
in Canada.
.
.
a
Also on the road are themen’s
and
women’s
basketball
teams
Peter Mitchell
Candidates for Director
of Finance:
JANUARY29,30,31
Charles Menzies
Rob Swiniarski
919 Robson Street
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to
6 pm, Thursday and Fridaytill 9 pm
Telephone 684-4496
Children’s Books 684-4496
Paperback Cellar 681-8713
Candidates for Director
of Administration:
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Stephen Henderson
Bill M a s l e c h k o
K e v i n Twa
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10 am to6 pm, Friday till 9 pm
Telephone 224-7012
From page 1
Pacific Press have a pretty good
idea of what they want in a third
paper, Haslam claims the company
will not make a decision on whether
or not to publish until early summer. As to whether the company is
afraid a group such as The Toronto
Sun will move into town before
them, Haslam would only say that
“it’s a strategic and corporate quesof my
tion
that’s
not
part
mandate.”
O’Brien has suggested that the
real reason behind the third newspaper is to have an excuse to dump
the Province - which Southam
claims has been losing money for
years.
“The third paper would speed up
the merger of the Sun and the Province, leading to fewer jobsand a
lower class of journalism in Canada’s third largest city,” O’Brien
told the Kent commission. “The second shoe has not dropped yet,but
Southam may well be easing it off.”
But Haslam denies any such
plans. “Jan is entitled to her
views,” he says. “But a n y assump.
tion about the end result of the decision-making is just that - an assumption.”
It’s hard to say whether a Southam-run third daily paper in Vancouver would firstly be permitted
by Y government that launched a
newspaper inqu’ after Southam
gained control o only two existing
dailies and secondly whether it
would survive.
If history repeats itself the life of
The Vahcouver Courier Times-Advertiser Star - or whatever other
name Southam might choose could be very short.
Jane Loftus
Candidates for External
Fulker
Chris
Officer:
Affairs
James Hollis
4255 Arbutus Street
Kevin Twa
(Arbutus Village)
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9
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UBYSSEY
THE
January
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30,1981
Friday,
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Reid Fleming:
I no
milquetoast
city
A DAY LIKE)
I
BY STEVE‘MCCLURE
Do you hate your milkman?
Have youever wanted to runhim over with
his own milk truck?
Or are you a milkman?
If you are, then you’ve got stiff competition, because you’re up against Reid Fleming, world’s toughest milkman.
Readers of thenowdeparted
Gcorgia
Straight will no doubt remember the strange
adventures of thatmost unorthodox ofmilkmen, Reid Fleming. In the dying days of the
Straight his comic antics provided one of the
few bright spots in the legendary underground paper.
Fleming drank on the job,
swore at his customers, told his boss to fuck off, took time
off work to sit at home andsmoke dope,
and generally behaved in themost obnoxious
manner possible. Certainly not your average
milkman.
Fleming’s creator, David Boswell, has now
published a 32-page collected edition of Reid
Fleming. The collection is revised, updated
and is another in a long Line of underground
comic art from Vancouver.
Boswell is the opposite of his unruly creation.ThesoftspokenOntarian
saysheis
pleased with the response Reid Fleming has
received.
WITH CAPTAIN COFFEE
. . . boredom.
“Fifteen hundred have been sold so far,”
says Boswell. “It’s been out for three months
now and it’s bem selling fairly steadily.”
What got a normalperson like Boswell into
the sick, degenerate world of underground
comics?
“I worked in a numberof small companies
after college. For example, I worked as a
cable installer for a while. This is my kind of
backhanded tribute to these jobs.”
“I never wanted to identify with people
like those in my comic strips. They are humorous yet potentiallydangerous because
they’re mean and frustrated and they hate
their job. Basically Reid isa prettydespicable
guy.”
Frustration is onethingthat
comes out
clearly in ReidFleming’s character.He is
constantly at odds withhis crewcut supervisor, Mr. Crabbe, andalways finds away to
make him look stupid. Another character in
the bizarre world that Fleming lives in is the
totally burned-out Lowell Cooper, or Captain Coffee, another milkman at Milk, Inc.
“Captain Coffee is a real person,” says
Boswell. “Lowell Cooper is his real name, he
still has a Beatle haircut and he’s 40 years
old. He’sbeen working for the same company for 25 years and he’s a zombie. he just
kind of gets in people’s hair.”
Boswell was working as a darkroomassistant in Toronto beforehe plunged into thearcane world of comic books. “I hated it,”
says Boswell of his darkroom days, “hut I
was encouraged by people to draw.”
He started out in 1977 by drawing Heartbreak Comics featuringLaszlo,a kind of underground failed Valentino who lusted after
Constance, his femme fatale. Boswell mailed
the strip to theStraight and soon was getting
$20 a page.
Laszlo was well received and when promised $100 a week Boswell decided to come to
Vancouver. But when he arrived three weeks
later he found the Straight’s business manager had just left town.
‘‘He left Vancouver the same day I arrived
so I was an unknownquantitytothe
Straight. I had been promised SlOO a week
and theguy who had promised it had left. He
was at the end of his tether and I was at the
beginning of mine.”
All was not well at the Straight.
“I was met at the airport by Bob Mercer
(then the Straight’seditor); hiswife, and
Doug Bennett, who was working on the paper at the time. We went to thebar and they
told me how awful thingswere at the paper.”
“None of them had been paid for weeks.
Those were the dark days of the paper. But
Bob gave me a raise and I started to do It’s
News To MebyBud Lanson, which was a
column of general weirdness.”
But the Straight was notorious for giving
its employees a raw deal.
“There was a change in the politics there
and basically Mercer and I and some others
weregiven theshaftafter
having worked
therefortwoyears,”
saysBoswell. “Now
I’m freelancing as a commercial artist and illustrator as well as working on the next edition of Heartbreak Comics.”
Boswell says his training in film is useful
when drawing a strip. One can see how he
treats each panel like a film frame, the action
flowing neatly from one panel to the next.
Boswdl says that his advice to young artists is to “deliver pizzas, just in case - get an
experience of a real trade. But I don’t know
where you’d go to get stuff of this nature
published now the Straight has folded. I just
sent stuff all over the place.”
And as a special note to comic fans: there’s
a new HaroldHedd in the works. Hedd’s
epic adventures are classic Vancouver hippie
lore and this time will be printed in color in
Germany where “comics are big,” according
to Boswell, who’s been working with Hedd’s
creator, Rand Holmes.
BOSWELL
. . . otmnge drwmr of milk.
MEDIA:
Monopolization focused on Cable IO
By CHARLES CAMPBELL
The problems that come from
media monopolization are appearing in the television industry as well
as in the newspaper business. Right
now the problem has found its
focus with Cable 10.
Premier Communications, the
company that provides you with
cablevision, is obliged to give their
subscribers community
oriented
programming on channel 10. But
like paying taxes, it is something
these companies d o only because
they have to, and like taxes if they
can get away without paying, they
will.
You can watch the problem any
night of the week on any cable-served TV. It’s not that community programming nced be inherently boring, it’s just that Cable 10 employees have to use equipment that
doesn’t work, andare helped by
volunteers that don’t know how to
work it. There is a great deal of potential in community programming
that has not been exploited.
When Premier and Cable 10 were
taken over by Canadian Cablesystems last year the Canadian Radio
and Telecommunications Commission allowed it because the eastern
giant promised significant expansion of community television services on Cable 10. Butit appears
that Canadian Cablesystems may
partially fulfill that commitment by
withdrawing other community services that already exist.
At present Canadian Cablesystems operates five neighborhood
programming offices and a central
building will serve everybody better. But that’s not true.
Carver
said he will fight any attempt to
eliminate the neighborhood offices.
Sandra Buschau, the Premier
public relations director, said that
they made no commitment not to
close the three Vancouver neighborhoods. When asked if they intended
to close the Vancouver offices she
said that “they had not discussed it
specifically.”
MartinTruax, Cable 10 general
manager, says suggestions the Vancouver offices might be closed were
completely unfounded. “We worked very
closely
with
Canadian
Cablesystems before they made
their application to purchase Premier. They have the best intentions.”
Canadian Cablesystems also promised studio facilities to the Richmondand Burnaby centres. They
are scheduled for completion in
August and December respectively
and will be outfitted using outdated
equipment from the main studio on
While some Cable 10 employees a temporary basis.
believed that Premier was commitAsked about the quality of the
ted to maintain the three Vancouver equipment the new studios will reoffices, Carver said this is not so. ceive, Buschau says, “the nature of
“There won’t be 15 new employees the equipment for the mini studios
at Cable 10. One salaried position will naturally be limited by the
from the central studio has already number of square feet in the buildbeen allocated to Richmond. But ings we have rented.”
there will be some new positions.
Truax says nobody knows what
“It’s very important thatthere be kind of equipment the Richmond
neighborhood programming offices and Burnaby neighborhoods will
even if they’re just offices in a com- get. “The only thing that we’ve demunity centre. The number of cen- cided upon are the budgets.”
tres should be increased. CommunAs for thecontinuing issue of
ity access would be impossible if monopolization, Truax says the
there is only one centraloffice. The CRTC is not concerned about the
rationale they’ll use is thatone
adverse effects of ownership of
studio in the greater Vancouver
area. They promised to increase the
staff at the Richmond and Burnaby
neighborhoods by seven and eight
respectively.
But Vancouver East programming director Rob Carver says,
“the future of the Vancouver neigborhood centres is up in the air.”
He says that thenew staff for Richmond and Burnaby may come in
part from the closure of the three
centres.
. .”
You can
watch the
problem
any night
of the week
MEDiA
. . . monopolization right on your
B.C. cablesystems by an eastern
company.
YOU can expect that no matter
what Canadian Cablesystems’ longrange plans are for the Vancouver
neighborhoodprogramming
cen-
TV set.
tres, no real cause for concern will
be created until after this year’s
CRTC hearings. That’s when Ganadian Cablesystems is expected to
apply to purchase the other major
B.C. cable company, Cablewest.
Canadian realism
By JULIE WHEELWRIGHT
A young woman stands, looking
into a steamy popcorn maker, its inner light illuminating her face. Her
beige coat falls in soft folds around
her lithe body; her hair is captured
in an awkward knot by a bright red
ribbon.
Photography is one method of
capturingthe visual detail of our
daily existence and transforming it
into the incredible. High realism is
another, and superior art form.
Paul Duval has recently published a book with a collection of reproductions that examines the history and 13 representative contemporary Canadian realists. The text is
readable, the information is interesting and the pictures are clearly,
beautifully reproduced.
PFLUG
. . . routine images combining order and telling humanism.
HOUNDIN
FiELD
crafted paintings.”
Page4
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Aiex Colviiie, “hypnoticand
High Refllsm in Canada
by Pan1 Duvnl
Publicrbedby Clarke, Irwin
and Company Ltd.
$19.95
High realism is defined by Duval
as a special kind of pictorial art
which is characterized by objectivity of vision, sharpness of definition, precision of technique, accuracy of detail.
But Duval asserts that realism is
more thanjustthe
photographic
capturing of images. High realists
use.nature as the starting point and
bring their own highly personalized
visions into their art.
One such example is Eric Freifeld
who paints theold
houses and
streets of his boyhood Edmonton
whether he is in Vancouver, Cannes, London, New York or Toronto. Freifeld uses objects to express spaces people share, abuse or
love.
superb6
In one of his well-known paintings, Roses are Red, Freifeld deT H EU B Y S S E Y
.,
I
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..
picts the inside of a decaying farmhouse. “It speaks of the lives of
people who lived there and all the
associations of those lives,” he
says.
Another well-known Canadian
high realist isAlex Colville who has
won international acclaim for his
work. Colville’s acrylic paintings
express a loneliness and a sense of
alienation.
One of his most striking works is
January. A hooded man seen from
the shoulders UP, stands against a
snow-stark lands&pe. A woman,
with her head turned, looks out
across the empty, white fields.
There is something haunting
about Colville’s ordinary images
that mere detail does not capture.
The figures appear in suspended animation, almost frozen and yet they
are not stiff and cold.
Duval, unlike many collectors,
does not completely overlook the
works of Canada’s female artists.
JANUARY
Christiane Pflug, whom Duval calls
“the most isolated and singular,”
of this country’s realists, is included.
Pflug often painted a world we
all know; childhood. A small
blonde doll with a necklace of
bright wooden beads sits in a black
wicker chair, gazing blankly; a
young girl sits with her back to a
bright kitchen and stark, grey metropolis; these were all part of
Pflug,s world.
Though she died at a young age.
Pflug made a significant contribution to her art form. “Rarely has a
Canadian artist taken such routine
material and created from it such
compositions combining order and
telling humanism.” says Duval.
But unfortunately she and Charlotte Schreiber are the only women
artists mentioned in Duval’s books
although many women appear as
subjects.
. . . dispiays Aiex Coiviik’s haunting quality.
Fflday,
January
30,1981
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,
I
,
I
lette
break up:
without
the beat
”elen
MARY JO KOPECHNE
Friday, Jsnuary30.1981
yagi photos
. . . ”we’re golng with our hearts.”
transferring the power of live performance totape,the
Modernettes adapted superbly.
I was skeptical when I was first
exposed to Teen City despite the
fact I’d seen the Modernettes perform well at UBC. Aftera few
hearings, I told a friend I’d heard
the best rock’n’roll record released since Elvis Costello’s My Aim
Is True.
Hewasskeptical
too. But a
monthlaterheboughtthe
Teen
City EP.He
allowed that my
judgment could be close.
In November the band began to
have problems.Thebar
circuit
wasclosed
to them andother
bands because ofthe audiences
they attracted andthe
Smilin’
Buddha-East End hall circuit was
becoming a dead end, with more
new bands vying for the attention
of a diminishing audiencealong
with established groups.
A member of another band told
me afterwards the Modernettes
had failed to stay together well
enough to grow.“Theyweren’t
JOHN ARMSTRONG . . . already with another band.
doing
anything.
They’d
made
Buddha or some east end hall, their record and everyone had
By VERNE McDONALD
drew mixed reactions from serious heard it. Whentheyplayed,you
“This is strictly cotfadential,
heard it again. Theyweren’t getThis is just between you and me. listeners. Mary Jo Kopechnewas
ting together to practise new
still
finding
her
way
into
the
comThis is strictly confidential,
songs,
sometimes
they didn’t
plex windmill style of Armstrong,
Don’t tell ’em we’re going to
practise
at
all.”
by
now
called
Buck
Cherry,
and
leave. . . ’’
MacAdams: “We were stagnat”John Armstrong the trick of mixing a sound system
ing.”
was
still
a
murky
secret.
The greilt Rock’n’Roll Revival.
Mary:
“We
went
with
our
You used to hear it on theradio
It took six months, an amazing- hearts.”
whenever they were about to play ly short time for a band trying to
Armstrong:“This
is our last
Chuck Berry or Eddie Cochran in- present its own material, for opin- set. This is dedicated to . . . all the
stead of some bullshit fromthe
ions to change.
people
who
came
in on guest
latest
rock/disco/soft
It was anunusualopportunity
passes and evenwhen it cost us
new wave factory. Every once in a to watch a band evolve close up. three
bucks
each,
we didn’t
whiletwo
or more hack bands Theywent through the problems mind.”
would do covers of classics at the of lacking tightnessand consistThey
played
Gary
Taylor’s
sametime
and itwas
another ency, finding
effective
arrange- RockRoom and it was a family
‘rock’n’roll revival’ forupto
a ments for original songs, and facaffair. Theyplayedwell.Mary
few faddish months.
ing audiences confidently.
parodying a rock star’sstrutting
There hlave only been two reMeantime,
Vancouver
was with humorous elegance.
Macvivals of rock and roll. The first undergoing a minor renaissance of A d a m attacking the drums with
can be dated from the releaseof
locallly produced music.
Bands
demonic merriment and viciousPlease, Please Me by the Beatles, that were at the Rock Against Ra- ness, Armstrong displaying the art
the other I place at the beginning diationconcert,DOA,the
Sub- of throwingoff casualwindmill
of the RockAgainst
Radiation humansandthe
Young Canadi- chords and looking like he’s deconcertat Vanier Park in Van- ans, were recording. New venues
stroying the guitar while he carecouver September, 1979.
forthe newmusicwereopening
fully controls it, then breaking inThat was when the K-Tels were continually. The Vancouver Comto clean solos that remind you of
the first to get on stage after three plication anthology, on which two
George Harrison if he’dbecome
hours of (delays caused by police
of theModernettesare heard as ChetAtkins on some amphetawhile thousands stood ankle-deep members of other bands, was sell- mine-inspired evening.
in mud, and, without a word of ing out printing after printing.
Art Bergman, the intenselead
introduction, while the ubiquitous
The
Pointed
Sticks went to guitarist and vocalistwho
once
drizzle began again, caught every England to make an albumfor
was the nucleus of the K-Tels/cold, tired,wet person’s attention. Stiff Records. Things were lookYoung Canadians joined them on
“ L e t ’ s g o t o f u c k i n ’ ing up. The Modernettes producstage, the only person in VancouH A WAII. ”
ed an EP of their own in Vancou- ver whocould drive aguitar as
Now thattune is almostuniver.
hard as Armstrong or harder.
versally
known
in Vancouver.
They played bars in California
It was 1:30 a.m. Thursday morNow the K-Tels are called the and Alberta where
the
people
ning.
Young Canadians, or, rather, didn’t care for bands thait played
were called the Young Canadians their own music. Theirdelmo tapes “Nothing to do in this fuckin’
town
because they’ve broken up.
attractedinterest,but
no conJust drink’n’drink and then fail
The
Modernettes
were there tracts.
down
that day and at the time
were bareThe Pointed Sticks returned to
Girls
are ugly and it always rains
ly a band. Now the Modernettes Vancouver,
their
Stiff Records
No
matter
what happens, the kids
aren’t
band
a
because
they’ve
dealgonesour.Here,theSubare
blamed.
broken up too.
humans and theYoung Canadians
of were discovering that EP sales of Soon I’m gonna be
Beginning of story.
End
story.
5,000 or more still meant being in With a million just like me
But in between. . .
Teen city: It’s the only place to be
debt to the studio.
My first glimpse of the ModernThe Modernettes’ E P did well. Ten thousand teens can’t be
ettes wasin a warehousesomewrong. . . ”
Where other bands had difficulty
where near Main Street. John
Armstrong, power guitarist,and
John MacAdams, manic drummer, weretrying outa bassist.
They were noisy, very noisy.
The
bassist was lost. I ended up paying
for the beer and arriving late for
an appointment
the
next day.
For a l’ong time all I heard of
the Moderrnettes was a friend calling to th,e drummer at parties,
“Hey, you still making noise with
those people?” EventuallyMacAdams,
already
labelled ‘Jughead’ by punks, procured a place
in a house and practisebegan in
earnest.
They were noisy, very noisy.
Visiting meant
turning
the
stereo up loud enoughto drive pedestrians to the other side of the
street. There was no way the howl
from the speakers in the
heavily
sandbagged basement could be
listened to.
The first gigs, atthe Smilin’
JOHN MacADAMS . . . “we were stagnating.”
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Twisted lives and ugb
By ERIC EGGERTSON
W. D. Valgardson writes about
ad, sometimes twisted lives of a
the s
very small section of Canadian
society. He describes how people of
Manitoba’s interlake region struggle with and against each other to
scratch out an existence.
money removes the possibility of
escape, which is probably why most
of Valgardson’s characters behave
like cornered rats,” she writes in
her essay Valgardsonland.
The“rats”
in Gentle Sinners
fight back, and we can only hope
The tension between the boy and
iociety remains taut for most of the
story, but there are breaks of
freedom that show an optimism not
present Valgardson’s
in
earlier
work. His three collections of short
itories, Bloodflowas, God is Not a
Ccntk SiaDen
By W.D. Vdgudson
Obcroe, $7.95
The land is unforgiving, the people more so. In Gentle Sinners
Valgardson departs from his proven
success in short stones to thenovel
form. And he docs a good job of it.
The story is simple; Valgardson’s
style is spare, almost stick. A boy,
Eric, runs away from fundamentalist missionary parents and arrives
at thedoor of his uncle Sigfus’
shack. Though neither is talkative,
their indirect communication leads
to close friendship.
Eric falls in love with Melissa, but
her guardians,two power-hungry
monopolists, thwart him. In his despair he finds his uncle’s respect.
The novel moves slowly, with an
evenness that captures the mood of
life in this, one of thecountry’s
most depressed regions. Eric is
never free todo what he wants.
Society presses in on him and
demands that he conform.
Loulou gives blues
By SHAFFIN SHARIFF
Loulou is aquiet, low-key film
about a married woman who falls in
love with a carefree, unemployed
ex-convict. But because they express their love in deliberately deadpan tones, whatever tension their
affair might have generated is quietly deflated, and thefilm becomes an
annoying flat tire.
I
Loulou
of them change little during the
film. Loulou remains a carefree
soul and Andre a selfish lout. Only
Nelly undergoes a subtle but visible
change;
however,
we never
understand why he continues to put
up with Loulou or why she decides
to abort their baby.
Loulou’s bewilderment at Nelly’s
abortion matches ours. But we
could care less whether or not
they’ll get back together again after
theabortion.
At the film’s end
we’re only too glad to leave their
lives forever.
Director Maurice Pialat aims for
a realistic narrative of Loulou and
Nelly’s relationship by being an im-
I
Starring IsPbelle Huppert and
Gerard Depardieu
Opening today at the Bay
Gerard Depardieu is the title
character,
Loulou,
a handsome
small-time criminal and womanizer
who is attracted to Nelly (Isabelle),
a distraught young woman who is
fed up with her husband’s jealous
and violent outbursts.
I
Loulou and Nelly
meet
in
a
crowded night club and spend the
night together after her husband
Andre (Guy Marchand) assaults her
physically. The next morning, Andre throws her out of their apartment and she goes to livewith
Loulou in a hotel room.
Nelly continues to work for her
husband’s small advertising agency,
supporting herself and Loulou on
her salary. When Andre asks her
about thearrangement, she cooly
replies, “I’ve got a job, he hasn’t.
I’m the one who pays and that’s as
it should be . . . I prefer a loafer
who fucks me to a rich guy who
bugs me.”
As the film progresses and Andre
begins to disappear from Loulou
and Nelly’slives,itslowly
breaks
apart. Some conflict is still present,
but it’s so understated and prolonged the audience becomes bored with
the characters.
Thepotential
conflict between
Nelly’s middle-class values and
Loulou’s carefree attitude is quickly
diffused.Thecharacters
keep to
themselves and reveal little about
their personalities to us.
Loulou and Andre are stock
characters. Our initial impressions
one’s in love anymore, everyone’s
breaking up.” Pialat tries to prove
two
individuals
with different
backgrounds and values can create
a life for themselves, against what
we might initially judge to be insurmountable odds.
The emphasis is not on if they’ll
succeed but rather how they’ll succeed. Pialat’s contention is that
Loulou and Nellywill have fewer
problems than one might imagine.
By the end of Loulou, we’re left
with a simple observation that
could have been conveyed more
economically: opposites attract.
Isabelle Huppert
and
Gerard
Depardieu are amiableperformers
but together,they don’t connect.
%
t
GENTLE SINNERS.
Fish Inspector, and Red Dust,
relentlessly show a life devoid of
tenderness. Gentle Sinners proves
that Valgardson’s view of life is not
totally bleak.
Margaret
Atwood
describes
Valgardson’s view as realistic. “The
c l i m a teex p o s et hs e (mh i s
characters) to danger, the lack of
~
From the Llfe of
the Marionettes
directed by ingmpr Bergman
Varsity
ANDRE AND NELLY
partialobserver. But he detaches
himself and us and prevents us from
feeling anything about or for the
characters.
There is no dramatic conflict between Loulou and Nelly until the
end of the film. Pialat wants to
avoid moralizing, but by allowing
the droll characters to s p e a k for
themselves, herobs them of interest.
They
remain
appealing
characters, but without substance.
Loulou’s theme is the antithesis
of Andre’s statement that “no
. . . too low-key.
Huppert, last seen
in
Jean-Luc
Godard’s unforgettable Every Man
for Himself, gives the kind of
passive performance Godard required of her, which isn’t quite
right for this film. Nelly’s role requires an actress who exudes more
warmth than Huppert, or a director
who demands more emotion from
his actors than Pialat.
In oneshot, a dejected Andre
picks up a saxophone and plays the
blues. After seeing Loulou, one is
tempted to dothe same.
stark Canadian novel.
they win in their struggle against the
“evil forces.”
Eric has all the tenacity of a
wolverine, but we sense that his actions are justified. His parents, and
his lover Melissa’s guardiansare
such bastards that Eric’s guerilla
tactics seem laudible. His anger
isn‘t uncontrolled, it’s righteous
Bergman dabble1
By HEATHER CONN
The red was positively luscious
butthe black and white was just
plain bland.
It went from blood to nearbanality.
I
.
Ingmar Bergman’s striking color
symbolism, so familiar in previous
films, dies a quiet death in his latest
movie, From the Life of the Marionettes. This film is shot almost exclusively in black and white, with
little of the deliberate color juxtaposition Bergman has used in the
past.
But the short openingsequence is
stunning, and rich in its texture of
facial close-ups and crimson, decadent
surroundings.
prostitute
A
with blood-red tips and fingernails
is caressing a client, who, without
warning, becomes
violent
and
strikes her. Clad only in black-red
panties and shoes, the prostitute
flees into a red strippers’ showroom
and crouches behind a makeshift
bed.
There, she squats motionless.
waiting and breathing rapidly while
hiding from her potential killer.
The delay in action hereis excellent,
building suspense and tension. Suddenly, a r m s lunge for her neck from
behind, she struggles, and then is
strangled.
This
first
scene
color
in
represents the film’s present time
frame. The events before and after
all
the
murder
are
then
almost
documentedin
black and white,
providing an inkling of the killer’s
psychological make-up. They appear as if in suspended animation,
lying unexplained in the killer’s
head; the chronological time lapse
is provided, as if from a psychiatric
report.
We learn that the killer Peter
Egermann, played by German actor
Robert Atzorn as described byhis
psychiatrist, is a“talented,
conscientious, charming man.” But he
is plagued by dreams of killing his
wife; he glorifies and thenobjectifies her as victim in his fantasies.
We discover that he is alatent
homosexual grappling with the
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THE
UBYSSEY
Friday, January 30,1981
1
anger; the anger of the avenging
angel.
Valgardson’s short stories examine a theme and come to a close
in an economical fashion. In the
novel, he takes the time to dwell on
subplots. Eric’s relationship with
his uncle Sgfus is a mixture of pride
and affection.
Sigfus never forces him into the
servitude
from
which he
has
fish
escaped. A clandestine
poaching trip secures the bondsbetween them and relieves, momentarily, the tension building up over
Eric’s other affairs.
In anothersubplot
Eric meets
Larry, a mole-like character who
hordes
junk
an
in
inherited
warehouse. Always the scavenger, 0
Larry tries to leech onto Eric. f
Frustrated byEric’s refusal of in- ‘i
timacy, Larry becomes obsessbd
with revenge. His actions might
seem unrealistic somewhere else,
but in the relentless oppression of
the small town Larry’s sadism and
parasitic qualities are the natural
(or
unnatural) results of a twisted mind
turned in upon itself.
~
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;
7
’
Tending to stick to dark themes
of good versus evil, Valgardson pits
Eric against Melissa’s guardians
and Larry. At times he makes
things seem too easy. When and if
Eric defeats theevil forces all things
w
l
i be put right.
Ifwe could see the evil characters
more complex terms, Valgardson’s novel might be more effective.
Not only
does
Eric see things
1 polemically, - we can accept his
wish to see people as being either
with or against him - butthe
1 whole novel becomes a conflict of
opposites,
with
little
middle
,
!in
1
~
ground.
:
But as a story of a boy growing
up and encountering love, hate, oppression and freedom, Gentle Sinners is a powerful tale. Valgardson
‘writeswith assurance and skill. His
description of scene is minute, concise, and mood inspiring. We never
doubt the position of his characters
inthedark
drama, andthe story
builds gradually to a resolution of
both
the
external conflict, and
Eric’s inner conflict with himself.
thought that only by murdering a
woman can he truly possess her. His
murder as dream-fulfilment is apparently triggered because the proqtitue’s name is Katarina, the same
as his wife’s.
Peter and his wife (Christine
Buchegger) are both shown absorbed in their work; she’s an independent fashion co-ordinator who likes
to drink and he’s a bespectacled
a
businessman operating
from
tomb-like office.
Bergman portrays their relationship with hisfamiliar themes of selfdestruction, psychological torment,
turmoil and inter-personal struggle.
They’re both seen as sexual misfits.
children who don’t want to grow
up. Their conflicts are filmed showing the necessary tension and
anguish, but somehow it’s just not
like the old Bergman style.
The Swedish film director could
be accused of selling outto the
popular “sexual quirks” theme of
many films. His previous movies
masterfully unveiled experience in
the form of a r t ; he capturedthe
vengeance and guilt trips of family
conflicts.
But this film hits onthe
old
Friday, January=, 1981
BLIND DOC WATSON
. . . plays real country music.
Doc plays young
music for flash. He played the most
By CHARLES CAMPBELL
Everybody is familiar with those demanding runs of the Beaumont
Rag with precision equal to the
reviews of legendary performers
that begin by saying: This hallowed morepondercusnotes of Roll on
great is getting old but he still Muddy and T far Texas.
But ponderous is a relative word.
manages to put on a fine show. It’s
Even when the lyrics to a song were
alway said as if there is beginning to
be some doubtabout
his com- slow, Watson’s guitar sounded like
a country
symphony
the
in
petence.
Not so Doc Watson. Last night at ‘background.
Most of the songs he played were
the Commodore he played younger
familiar ones. Country classics like
than I have ever heard him play. He
I Wish I Was In Dixie; songs with a
certainly picked his guitar younger
blues flavor like Milk Cow Blues,
than the two men who accompanied
him, though in years they would be and folk songs like Fruit of the
Vine.
half his age.
T. Michael Coleman and Cliff
He played Tennessee Stud,the
Miller are guitarists worthy of Jimmy Driftwood tune that conDoc’s company, but there was no verted this one time country music
doubt who was the master when hater to theWatson way of life, and
Doc exercised his fingers and stretfor those who thought that nobody
ched my mind on the last break of approaching 60 could possibly
Black Mountain Rag.
understand rock and roll he Dlaved
Had anyone flat-picked that fast an Elvis Presley medley; -Tuttibefore? Anywhere. Anytime. If frutti, Whole L’ot aShakin’,and
Blind Doc could see his fingers he’d
Blue Suede Shoes. He did more
choke.
with those songs than Elvis everhad
The modulation of every note the talent todo.
was perfect at every speed. Watson I
Maybe you simply have to be that
didn’t sacrifice the subtlety of his 1 old to have learn,ed how to play that
fast.
0
.
Doc’s son Merle who usually accompanies him on guitar did not
appear last night. He in
is
the
hospital with a pair of broken
theme of frustrated male sexuality
hands, but it’s expected that he will
and female victimization. There’s
be playing again in a couple of
even an eerie Hitchcock like scene
months.
which
in
the wife Katarina is
silhouetted
nude
against
the
bathroom door while her husband
hides in the shadows with a
demonic look in his eyes.
There goes the
neighborhood
By BENNElT LEE
Remember how outragedl you
were at the rent the landlor’d was
asking for that first dingy basement
suite you looked at last fall?
No self-respecting person would
pay that much for such a dump,
you told yourself as youwalked
away. I3ut after days or weeks of
scanning classified ads, making
phone calls and scrambling from
Kitsilano to SouthBurnaby, you
wound up,out of sheer desperation, palying even more for an even
dingier basement suite.
Now ’ you’re outraged because
that first place you looked at is
beginning to look like . . . well, a
bargain.
Buy, Buy Vancouver
North Shore Neighborhood
Headlines Theatre
House
If you were victimized ina similar
scenario. take heart: dramatic, fastacting relief
is
close at hand.
Headlines Theatre, a new company
attuned to topical issues, knows
what you went through anti will
give you an entertaining and
therapeutic view of the
current
housing crisis in their first production, BUY, Buy Vancouver.
Despite some rough edges ata
preview performance,
the
show
comes across as a funny but critical
look at the problem from the tenant’s point of view. The script - a
collective enterprise by members of
the company - combines some
zany satire and musical buffoonery
with some sharp political observations on the reasons for the crisis.
The villains are - you guessed it
- landlords, with the federal and
provincial governments coming in
for more than a share of the abuse.
The latter especially stirs the company’s creatfie juices, and results in
two of the best loony tunes in the
production;
the
country
and
western sendup I Dreamed I Was in
Socred Heaven and the purring
softshoe, Chabot, Chabot.
A non-profit
theatre
company
consisting mainly of Equity actors
Headlines Theatrestarted
with a
grant from the Canada Council ExplorationsProgram.Part of those
funds have gone into the script’s
research and development for this
first show, which they hope wilh be
followed by others based on
newsworthy issues.
The official opening for Buy,
Buy Vancouver will be at the North
Shore Neighbourhood House on
Feb. 3, but it will also play twice at
the SUB auditorium here. The first
performance will be on Feb. 4th, at
11:30 a.m. andthere will be a return
engagement Feb. 17th at 7:30 p.m.
Admission is by donation.
Dynamics a virtue
Bergman’s film here does not
reach the same levels of heightened
intensity apparent in his other
works. Perhaps it’s because the
movie is filmed in Munich, with
Germanactors new to Bergman’s
style. There is not the same sense of
shared closeness and perception
between actors that one felt with Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in
Autumn Sonata.
But the acting overall is still captivating. Walter Schmidinger is excellent Tim,
as the
long-time
homosexual friend of Peter and
Katarina. He’s
a
self-professed
“childish, old man,” loving but
jilted, who secretly wants Peter for
his own.
This film is for
hard-core
Bergman fans; it’s enjoyable but
disappointing.
By KERRY REGIER
“Jiminy Cricket’’ whispered my
companion as Max van Egmond
walked onstaged.Indeed, his outsize grey bowtie, balding forepate,
and easy smile made van Egmond
appeara
little like the cartoon
character;
but
the
recital that
followed dispelled such impressions.
Singing last Saturday at the UBC
Recital Hall under the auspices of
the Vancouver Chamber Choir, van
Egmond gave a recital accompanied
by local talents Linda Lee Thomas,
Roger Cole,andChristopher Catchpole; respectively keyboard,
oboe, and cello players.
Van Egmond is best-known for
his recordings of baroque works,
and he did not disappoint. Opening
with three Bach ;arias, including the
familiar Bist du bei mir, he continued with a program of generally
lightmusic
- no fireworks, no
mighty weltschmerz passions, but
THE
UBYSSEY
simply :Friendly, intimate music.
Careful phrasing and delicate
shading of dynamics were v a n Egmend’s chief virtues. His ability to
produce aclear,soft
pianissimo.
and the controlevident in his messa
di voce (or held note, louder in the
middle and softer at the end.5) was
enthralling.
His stage presence and dramatics
were in keeping with the gentle softness of his voice. Many people smile
frequently onstage, nervously, but
van Egmond was completely comfortable. He was having furl, and
the audience could feel it.
His voice did have a restrained
quality which sounded as if he was
not allawing his voice to reach full
volume. Itwas a pleasant effect.
but it was also mildly frustrating. It
may hane been due in part to a
slight excess of chest-tone a n d lack
of coloring head-tone.
The roundness of his voil:e accommo,dated itself well t o the
general fun, because it made his
voice sound friendly and disarming.
The accompanying ensemble was
similarly attractive. Oboist Cole
was particularly interesting with his
skipping
light
tone.
Cellist
Catchpole was perhaps an unfortunate choice, as his concept of
baroquecontinuoappearedas
an
endless series of slightly detached
notes, all the same volume; not offensive, but merely boring.
The small size of the audience
must be noted here; only about 40
or 50 people showed up. Pavarotti,
for example, is no better as an artist, and yethe could fill theOrpheum. This happens because
Pavarotti has a public relations
staff which puts him on national
television; an Italian teddy bear
whom everyone loves.whilevan
Egmond just sings. Apparently
singing just isn’t enough; one must
sing for Johnny Carson.
Page 7
I‘
U
The sound of a union going down fast
really only one weapon to use in negotiating
ForUBC’sfledglingteachingassistants’
a collective agreementwith their employers.
union,
yesterday‘s
vote
against
possible
strike action means the TAU is no longerin a That weapon is the strike, the withdrawal of
theirservices, until such time as anagreestrugglefor a first contract with theadment is reached.
ministration.
a
When aunionentersnegotiationsfor
It is in a struggle just to survive.
new contract, or in this case for a first conTAU officials have played down the very
real threat their union faces. But the fact re- tract, the only thing compelling an employer
to bargain in good faith is, quite simply, fear
mains that the vote against possible strike acof job action. Nothing else.
tion is a green light for the UBC administration to crush the TAU.
To think that anyemployer,including
a
TAU negotiatorGlenPorter
pretty well kindly universitylike UBC, has anyother considerations is incorrect.
summed it up whenhesaidtheunion‘s
bargaining clout has now ”disappeared.” To
So when TAs said theywouldn’t walk out
understand
the
implications
of
the vote to support their own demands, they effecthough, it’s necessary to understand some tively unilaterally disarmed their union.
If the administration indeed signs a conbasictradeunionism,something
that isn’t
tract with the TAU that does not include a
taught here.
Employees,
whether
they
be
Polish
union security clauseit will be mostly charity.
shipyard workers or white collar clerks, have And the administration will also be counting
on the unionto disappear very soon anyway.
A union that can’t win concessions for its
membership is of no value. And to win concessions, the membership must be willing to
back up its union. At UBC it wasn’t.
Partoftheproblemlies
in B.C.’santiunionlaborlaws.Firstcontractregulations
allow non-union members of the bargaining
unit to vote on a strike, eventhough they obviously don’t support the union.
Once the union is established, of course,
non-union employees have no say in union
matters.
Unfortunately that doesn‘t totally explain
the situation. With about 500 members signed up, the TAUshould have been ableto rally more than 272 people in favor of possible
strike action. Clearly some membersgot cold
feet when it came to actually fightingfor
their rights on a picket line.
Get reasonable
Tuition has gone up 13 per cent. Resident fees have gone
up 18 per cent.
to enjoy the someFood is slated to go up 15 per cent. Students are paying
what dubious privilege of attending UBC and still the administration and
bureaucracy do everythingtheycan
to impede the u s e of overpriced
facilities.
Letters
Vile rag disgusts senator
Let me say that I am disgusted
attheoutright
favoritismyour
raghasshown
towardscertain
candidates in this election, and,
generally,
towards
certain
The administration is wrong if it assumes Gage residents won’t mind
ideologies and point of view.
having 4,000 peoplepass through their living room every day. The
I am tired of reading what is
residents have conceded
that they are powerlessto stop thecafeteria movrapidlybecoming nothing more
ing into Gage, but their demands for compensation, extra security and althanaunion
newsletter.Why
ternative facilities are reasonable, even to the corporate buffoons attached
doesthe paperseem toattract
to UBC.
only thediehardNDP/socialistlfeminist types?
Sometimes students canbe justly criticized for unfair demands. But this
The Ubysseyis not supposed
not one of those times. TheGage community council has takena reasonthoa vaeniyd e o l o g i c a l
able attitude in its negotiations with food services andthe administration.
guidelines for its writers to
Maybe it‘s time for the other side to dothe same.
follow, yet from my past exI
periences
in
writing
forit,
know that that is not true. If it’s
not
socialist,
don’t
print
it . . . that seems to be the
general guideline.
I’m not against socialism; it is
January 30.1981
a desirable thing when applied to
some issues, but conservatism
and
a statusquo approach is also
Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughout
the
bestin some areas. You at The
university yearby the Alma MaterSociety of the University of
Ubyssey, in your
ideological
B.C. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not of the
straitjacket, refuse to realize
AMS or the universityadministration. Member, Canadian
this.
University Press. TheUbyuey publishes Page Friday, aweekYour paper endorsed two canly commentaryand review. The Ubyuey’s editorial office is in
Tuesday’s
didates
in
room 241K of the StudentUnionBuilding.Editorialdepartissue . . . why are they the only
ments, 2 2 8 2 3 0 l ; Advertising, Z8-3977.
two to appear on that edition’s
front
page?
What
is this
Editor: Verne McDonald
“platypus” farce? How come
last weekthey statedthat they
would
resign if elected, and now
”Thls is the Vancouver medii issue:’ Friday editorsSteve McClure and Julie Wheelwright proclaimed
they deny it in Tuesday’s paper?
to the stunned staff. “What’s a media?”Cherbs Campbell naked Shaffin Sheritf, hoping it was some
sort of exotlc mushroom. ”A medium,“ corrected the ever-vigilant Glen Sanford. But Bennett Lee,
to know
They don’t
seem
Helen Yagi and Kerry Regier disagrcted.“Looks more like e m a l l i w than
e
medium,” they said. David
sense
or
whethet to talk
Robertson took the question to Mike Bocking and Kathy Ford, said to be vbiting mediums, but they
could only conjure vague image8 of Bill Tieleman. Pat Burdat asked Nancy Campbell. who seemed
nonsense, but one thing is sure
average enough, but she didn‘t have time. having to be at work on some astronomical body the next
as hell true . . . 1’11 betthey’re
day. Verne McDonald was too busy being interviawed by the eleCtr#ceye about a publicity hound.
Finally everyone gave up on figuring out what highway dividers or fermented honey had to do with
trying to sneak into
office
newspapers and just c a l l e d it the Vancouver extremim issue.
through
the
back
door,
and
Pity the poor Gage resident. Livingin three shoeboxes, trappedin a quad
with a sextetof people, Gage studentsnow see four lounges - open living
space on a campus which offers little - blithely taken over by food services with no consultation, no compensation, and no guarantees.
THE UBYSSEY
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The future for the TAU appears bleak at
thispoint.Iftheadministration
follows its
usual cut throatpolicies
in dealing with
employees it will probably attempt to smash
theunionsoon,perhapsbyreneging
on
previously negotiated terms.
If it wants to though, it can be more subtle, letting the union have a contract without
a security clause. After a year of a union contract, during which there will be a large TA
turnover,probablymanyTAs
will ask why
they even have a union.
If so, it won‘t last
long.
Perhapswe’re wrong. Quitefrankly,we
hope so. TAs at UBChavebeen getting a
rawdealforyearsanda
union istheonly
answer to that problem.
But more likely the administration has won
another battle against studentsat UBC. And
as usual, it stinks.
THE*UBYS.SEY
whentheygetin
there you’ll
have more of the same from
them. Yet you
endorse
such
idiocy.
Whyhave
the socialist opinims of
Andrew
F. Metten,
Richard Szeliski, and the like
completely
dominated
The
Ubyssey for months? You constantly give theTAU coverage
without
ever
questioning
whether a big union is better
than a big administration.
Last week you came to the insane conclusion that 89 spoiled
ballotsmeanta
mass student
boycott of the elections . . . out
of 33,000 students?Comeon!
As for myself, why am I cona “B.C.
s t a n t lt ye r m e d
separatist,” evenwhen separatism is not the issue? Surely you
don’t thinkthat it’s unpopular
to be one. . . I waselected to
senate despiteyour
campaign.
Just
because
there
was no
NDPer running is no reason to
tell us that the other candidates
leave you “utterly bewildered.”
I am sick of TAU, feminists,
socialists, “student
radicals,”
unionsandthe
women’scommittee. Oh yes, whyis it that
almost everytimeyouinterview
an average student it is a student
fromthe women’scommittee?
Coincidence?
If you and
your
Platypus
cuckoos really think that you are
“progressive,” you are deluding
yourselves. I may not like right
wingers, but they do have a few
good ideas; take your collective
heads out of the ground, drop
the bindingideology, and start
either beingnon-biasedin your
reporting or start allowing more
than one point of viewinyour
paper.
Chris Fuiker
arts 3
Senator disgusts
Summary
abolition
aof
democratically-certified union,
and of SAC, part of our own
democratic
structure.
Random
firings of secretaries. Running
fora position that “should go
the way of the
passenger
pigeon”
because
“I’m
interested”. Such gems as:
“I don’twant to be in the
NUS
(National
Union
of
Students)” - no mention of the
AMs or students in general, just
“I”.
And, from earlier writings.
“We are the sheeple” - exfor nonpressing
disdain
separatists, and “Go home” addressed to anyone from outside B.C.
I won’t name any names;
however, I will ask the obvious
question. How many joke candidates does one election need?
Richard Summerbell
grad s t u b 2
Friday, January 30,1981
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Multinationals just thetool of superpowers
It is obvious from Mike Down’s
letter (Jan. 20) that he has missed
the point of my letter in The
8) concerning
Ubyssey
(Jan.
research parks.
Down has apparentlyended up in
the trap which almost all critics of
“the world system” fall into. He
assumes that the “multinationals”
are the root
of B.C.’s economic and
environmental problems. At best
this is an oversimplification.
The plunder of our resources and
the boom-bust pattern of our
economy is not due solely to the
p l o t s of sinister
corporate
magnates. Ratherthan
being the
cause of foreign domination,the
multinational
corporations
are
merely thetools
with which the
Western economic powers, namely
the United States, Japan and
western
Europe,
impede
the
development of secondary industry
in B.C.
The actions of the multinational
corporations seldom depart from
the desires of their parent states. Instead of being isolated fromone
another, the interests of these companies and those of their home nations are closely interwoven.
The governments of the major
economic powers realize that these
corporationsare an indespensible
means bywhich to channelother
nation’s resources into their own
economies.
Since the governments of the major “free world” states are popularly supported, then they merely
reflect the
aspirations
of their
Godiva oppresses
It is argued by proponents of the
Lady Godiva ride that a brief
display of naked woman atop a
horse is great cheap entertainment
and is in no manner an intended insult to women. What they fail to
realize is a very fundamental issue:
the Lady Godiva ride simply serves
to symbolize the institutionalized,
day to day oppression of women
throughout the world. The fact that
such an activity is promoted by
crowds on a university campus
more than adequately illustrates
that
there
are
needed radical
changes in the outlook of our “man
centred” society.
Let us examine just a small sample of the injustices perpetrated
against women in our society. Very
few female students are able to walk
between various campus locations
at night without a great senseof
fear. Likewise very few women feel
secure to report incidents of rape to
the very judicial system that is supposed to protect them. Almost all
women have tolerated some form of
sexual harassment at one point or
another in their life. Even the flippant comment of adrunken man
reflects the socially engrained
nature women’s
of
oppression.
Whether overt or covert (asin most
advertising), sexual harassment of
women is far
too
prevalent.
Through the extensive sale of pornographic material, thenotion of
women as sexual object is intensified. Denied is the prospect of
women as a sexual subject with an
independent sexuality.
Before we see judicial changes,
will a few prominent judges and
politicians (most of whom happen
to be men) have to be harassed or
raped? Do we really wish women to
adopt an attitude favoring the notion of males as pornographic objects as a possible solution to the
present injustices directed against
women?
The perennial Lady Godiva ride
reflects how slow any progress
toward justice will be unless today’s
students
(tomorrow’s
leaders)
realize that the rights of women are
no less significant that the rights of
other oppressed groups. Certainly
the Lady Godiva ride does nothing
less than symbolize the subjugation
of women in our society.
Najib Babul
pharmacy 3
E. Charlotte Copas
arts 4
peoples. Rather than being the victims of the multinational corporations, the citizens of the major
powers are at least the tacit allies of
their home based firms. Thus itis
foreign business, not private enterprise, which is the enemy of B.C.
Down’s implication that all of the
people of the western world are being harmed by the “world system”
just doesn’t hold water. If one
observes the close relationship between the Japanese government and
that country’s private sector then it
is obvious that Mitsubishi and other
such congolomerates are acting in
the interests of Japan’s prosperity
and prestige.
The well documented activities of
the American based multinationals
in Chile revealed the power of the
American government’s extraterritorial laws, particularly when they
are used to make these firms comply with United States foreign policy.
Hence the mulitnational is an effective mechanism bywhich
the
people of an economic power can
assert their will or perspectives
of t h e
upon
the
people
corporation’s host state. The same
is true of all transnational interest
groups (‘public’ or not) who set up
subsidiaries in weak states.
I f some sort of formal world
order was created and Down’s wish
for disarmament was realized, the
problem of foreign domination
would still he unsolved. It is a certainty that the nations withallof
the industrial mightwouldbe
the
ones dictating the terms of peace.
And no doubt there will still be
people trafficking in sensationalism
with their predictions of “mutated
monsters” escaping from research
parks. Come off it, Mike:. You’ve
been watching t o o many 1950s B
horror films.
S o whether disarmament produces a liberal, fabian or Marxist
system. B.C. will continue to be a
hewer of wood and drawer of
water.
Therefore,appealsfordisarma-
ment and good will on the part of
the economic powers will
never
solve our problems. Only by asserting its authority at home will B.C.
gain power and respect. The
technologies produced by the
research parks, be they military or
civilian in nature,canonly
contribute to these ends.
James C. Burdon
science 3
The lady isn’t sexist
I object to your continued reference tothe annual Lady Godiva
ride as a sexist act. Some opponents
of the ride say that it symbolizes the
explloitation and repression of women.
I fail to see why it isfelt the event
symbolizes repression, but I can see
how it may symbolize exploitation.
However. exploitation is not a dirty
word. It does not mean taking unfair advantage of another’s assets.
I feel our talents and phlysical attributes are assets to be exploited by ourselves - to our best advantage. And, toour mutual advantage,
we exploit those needs of other
whic:h we can satisfy. The employer
expboits the employee’s ne’ed for incom’ejust as the employee exploits
the employer’s need for skills or labor.
Lady Godiva was hired because
she is attractive. She simply exploited her looks and the desire of others
to look at her. What is wrong with
that., and why do you insist she represents all women? Obviously she
does not represent unattractive women. I understand the engineers of-
fered her a fun andeasy way to supplement her income. Any inference
of genuine economic or other coercion is indeed tenuous.
I feel the real reason for opposition to the ride is resentment to our
culture’s stress on beauty and material possessions which, self-evidently, are not equally distributed.
This resentment causes a reaction
against any manifestation of beauty
or wealth that
unfortunate
or
underconfident people may
feel
they are gauged against.
Everyone is blessed in some way,
with looks, skills or whatever, and I
don’t think there is any point in decrying an ostentatious event such as
a beauty pageant or the Lady Godiva ride on the basis of sexism.
Thatrationale is as absurdasthe
complaint of a jockey that basketball detracts from his value as a human since its standard of height is
unattainable by him. And likewise,
there is no point in cursing your
parentsfor providing you with a
less-than-perfect set of genes.
Brian Cornish
science 2
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T H EU B Y S S E Y
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HOT NEWS THAT FITS
TAs narrowly
vote against
strike action
UBC’s teaching assistants dccided by a 25 vote margin Wednesday
to not go on strike.
Twohundred
and seventy-two
TAs cast ‘no’ ballots while 247
voted in favor of possible strike action. The TA union called a strike
vote after contract
negotiations
with the university broke down early December over the issue of union
security.
The two sides will go back to the
bargaining table Feb. 9.
The atmosphereatThursday’s
union meeting, where the results
were first released, was “very
g l u m a, ”c c o r d i ntTgoA U
negotiator Glen Porter.
But he said there was definite
sense of optimism for the future of
the union.
“There’s a sense of disappointment and frustration atthe narrowness of the difference (in the
vote). But people are saying ‘let’s
get on withit and build on what
we’ve got,” he said. “We’ve got a
bargaining structure now. We’ve
accomplished a lot. We’ve got a
great base to work on.”
UBC’s administration walked out
of contractnegotiations
early in
December whenthe TAUrefused to
alter its position on union sec’urity.
The union wants all TAs to
automatically become members
unless they takethe initiative to
state they do not want to join. The
administration claims this entails
too much compulsion.
Although the union has lost its
first battle, Porter says union
security will eventually be accepted.
“It will all have to repeat
somewhere down the line - except
for the defeat,” he said.
Porter conceded that this year the
‘no’ vote
means
the
union’s
“ b a rhgacaslionui nt g
disappeared.”
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‘Invest in Chile,’
Loftus says
Jane Loftus. candidate-for Alma
Mater Society finance director, is
featured in a story in the latest Financial Post for her commitment to
investing in Chilean copper mines.
Loftus, a member of UBC’s debating team atthe Intercollegiate
business competition
finals
in
Kingston last week, is in favor of investing money in Chile because the
future in copper mining there looks
promising.
UBC’s team was not concerned
about the Chilean regime’s reputation for ignoring basic human
rights.
Students fight
unfair fees
UBC studentstaking industrial
education atthe B.C. Institute of
Technology are angrily demanding
their money back for
the
SUB
building fund.
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Representatives from the industrial education program told student council Wednesday night it
was grossly unfair they had to pay
for facilities they never had a
chance to use.
They told council that in 1971
UBC students
had agreed by referendum that industrial education
students should no longer pay $15
into the Alma Mater Society building fund. But UBC’s registrar continued to collect the fee.
The students, who take all their
courses at BCIT, asked council to
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return the fees retroactive to 1972.
Council gave the industrial education students its support, and
agreed to send vice-president Marlea Haugen to negotiate the reimbursement with administration
president Doug Kenny.
Finance director Len Clarke told
council at least two industrial education students have withheld their
fees in protest this year.
If the registrar agrees to return
the building fees, the money will
come fromthe AMS reserve fund
even though UBC’s administration
is responsible for the mistake. The
$15 would be returned to each student by mail.
Haugen said she is optimistic the
students will have their money refunded. She also said there is a
chance a non-voting representative
forthe
industrial education students will be placed on council.
Students lose
loanmoney
Student loans and grants are being unfairly rolledback byUBC’s
bureaucracy, the Alma Mater Society external affairs coordinator told
student council Wednesday night.
A1 Soltis cited the case of a student who earned $872 in total earnings over the summer but rounded
the figure to $l,OOO on his loan application form. As a result he will
have $250 shaved off his grant and
$160 shaved off his loan, Soltis
said.
He said several students have lost
money due to “loan over-awards,”
and said students who have suffered
from this should band together in
protest.
Soltis asked the board of governors representatives to investigate the
situation and report back to council.
Students win
conduct fight
Canadian University Press
Simon Fraser University students
are claiming a major victory after
the partial withdrawal of a proposal
for rules and penalties on student
conduct.
A committee on student discipline and conduct will endorse only a
portion of its proposal following
lengthy criticism at a public hearing
on the bill last week. Committee
members agreed the general conductproposal, which would have
given theadministration power to
suspend students who disruptthe
university, “needs more work.”
“We’re not overly enthusiastic
about the university entering into
this area,” said Paul Brantingham,
a faculty member of the committee.
“We may go back to square one, or
square 27 or somewhere in
between.”
Student society fieldworker Hank
Benoit said the society would not
consider the committee’s decision a
trade-off.
“While I’mpleased to see they
have come to their senses, students
shouldn’t accept the implied trade- “ o r n l yarnarnoto photo
off they are making,” Benoit said. OREASE PENCIL smeared on wet glass, glam over stairway of library on
“We still have a number of serious Main Mall. Graffiti undecipherable, information about meaningless scrawl
criticism about the committee’s unavailablein books below.Conceptindiaestible. Removed 8oonafter.
proposal on academic dishonesty,”
he said. “We have been able to conTEACHER INTERVIEWS
vince the committee they haven’t
finished their work. . . It’s going to
School District
(Terrace)
take some time.”
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On
campus
interviews
wil be
conducted
March
9-11
with
graduatingteachersforpositionsintheTerraceDistricteffective
September 1, 1981.Attemptswillbemadetocorrelatetheinterviews scheduled with the number of vacancies
expected in particular
subject field and/or grade levels.
To obtain an appointment please submit
a completed B.C.T.F. application form; copies of practicum
reports,letters of reference anda
detailed resume may be given with the application or
at the interview.Applicationswill,preferably,besubmittedthroughCanada
Manpower on Campus by January 29 but may be sent directly to
Terrace to arrive NOT LATER THAN February 13, 1981.
Brantingham said he was “bitterly stung, by criticisms calling us
steely-eyed fascists.”
AMS shows
SU Bprize
UBC students’ attending
SUB
films this weekend will get a chance
to share student council’s view of
the future.
Filmsoc has prepared a film short
to describe proposed
renovation
and expansion of SUB. A referendum on the structure will goto
students in February.
The film cost up to $450 to
prepare and will probably be ready
for presentation next weekend. If
the film is not ready by then, it will
be shown on thefollowing weekend
according to administration director Craig Brooks.
Brooks said the f i i will be an
“unbiased” representation of the
renovations proposed to SUB.
Students would pay for construction with the $15 building fee which
previously went toward paying off
SUB.
Mr. M. Bergsma,
Director of Instruction,
Box 460,
Terrace, B.C.
vae 485
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Friday
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January 30th
Buchanan Lounge
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The fiim will beshownbefore
every movie shown in the SUB auditorium.
Graduate Studies in
Fine Arts
at York University
Two-year programs in Dance, Film, Music, Theatre,and
Visual Arts lead to Master of Fine Arts degrees at York.
Graduate programs currently include: Dance history and
criticism; Musicology of contemporary cultures; Visual
Arts/Studio art (painting, drawing, sculpture, design,
photography, graphics, experimental arts); Film
(Canadian film production and film studies).Theatre
(performance, playwriting, directing, design,
production) is not offered in 1981.
A Master of Arts degree program is offered in Art history.
For more information, contact: Mrs. Magda Davey,
Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University,
Downsview (Toronto),Ontario, Canada M 3 J 1P3.
Telephone (416) 667-2426.
Undergraduate degree programs and Summer Studies are
available in all five Departments. Contact the
Information Officer, Facultyof Fine Arts,
York University, Downsview (Toronto),Ontario,
Canada M 3 J 1P3. Telephone (416) 667-3237.
DEADLINE
CLASS OF ‘81
Grad Class Gifts and Projects
Written Applications are due today
The proposed Gifts and/or Projects should provide a service
:o the University Community and/or the Community at large.
The applications must include:
‘a) The name of the group requesting funds
b) The nature of the gift or project
c) If it is a gift OR project;
d) The amount sought;
e) A one hundred (100) word description of the giftOR proect and of the planned allocation of any funds granted.
Send applications to SUB Box 118 IMMEDIATELY Presenta,ion to be made by sponsor about proposal at GradClass
;enera1 Meeting.
Grad Class General Meeting
Thursday, February 12,1981 at 1290
Hebb Theatre
Signed:
Grad Class Council
UBYSSEY
THE
January
Friday,
30.1981