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Wednesday, October 21
Friday, October 30
Legal Aid. Free Consullation. 1:30
to 3:30pm. By appoinlment. By
phone consultation 432-8600.
Electronics: Term A Courses End.
Counselling Workshop: Writing
Successful Exams. Noon- 1:30pm.
SWI 1125 (near Employment
Services).
Saturday, October 31
Save the Tiger Walk '98.
Hallowe'en
Monday, November 2
Saturday, October 10
American Marketing Association
Meeting. 7:15am. SA Boardroom,
SA Campus Centre.
United Nations Day.
Contributors:
David Lai. . Greg Hehen,
Erin Garlick, Andrew Dennison,
LizGalgc, Carlos Assuncao,
Carrie Plamondon, Hal Jordan,
Monique Harvey & Paul Dayson
October 26-30.
B A C C H U S Alcohol Awareness
Week.
SA Council Meeting. 5:30pm. SA
Boardroom, SA Campus Centre.
Tuesday, November 3
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Paul Dayson
News Editor
vacant
Arts & Culture Editors
David Lai
Advertising Representative
Liz Gaige
Distribution Manager
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or the editorial collective.
Monday, October 26
American Marketing Association
Meeting. 7:15am. SA Boardroom,
SA Campus CenU-e.
Tuesday, October27
Toastmasters. Public speaking club.
7:00am. SA Boardroom, SA
Campus Centre.
Toastmasters. Public speaking club.
7:00am. SA Boardroom, SA
Campus Centre.
Wednesday, October 28
l.egal Aid. Free Consultation. 1:30
lo 3:30pm. By appointment. By
phone consultation 432-8600.
Counselling Workshop: Coping
with Performance Anxiety. Noon1:30pm.
SWI 1125 (near
Employment Services).
Scholarship & Awards Ceremony.
4' X 4' SOLID PINE DRAFTING |
TABLE with some equipment $175.
739-7390.
BACCHUS
Alcohol Awareness
Week Events
October 26-30
Information Tables in the
Great HaU. MADD, A A , BCIT
Health Services, The Driving
Alternative, B A C C H U S and
ICBC.
Wednesday, October 28
Pumpkin Smashing. A demonstration of the hazards of
impact, with a Hallowe'en
theme. Watch your decorated
pumpkin take the drop from a
60 foot crane. 11:30 - 2:30.
Campus Square.
Huge
D J Booth and
Nursing: Last Day to withdraw in
order to receive a ' W ' on Mocktails. DJ Avi Shack with
'70s tunes and sample mocktails
transcript
served up. 11:30 - 2:30. Great
Hall, SA Campus Centre.
Wednesday, November 4
Legal Aid. Free Consultation. 1:30
to 3:30pm. By appointment. By
phone consultation 432-8600.
Simulated Impaired Auto
Racing. Try video auto racing
while
wearing
simulated
impaired vision glasses. 11:302:30.
Games Room, S A
Campus Centre.
Counselling Workshop: Personal
Development Assertiveness and
Self-Esteem. Noon- 1:30pm. SWI
1125 (near Employment Services).
Friday, November 6
Medical Radiography: Level 1 fee
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NEWS
Alcohol awareness week
focuses on
Paul Dayson
Link Managing Editor
"It will be loud and crazy," said
Jervis. "It will rock the house."
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his year's alcohol awareness
week should prove to be a
highly enjoyable series of
events. One that could put John
Travolta to shame.
The events planned around the
slogan "Stayin' Alive!", have incorporated a '70s theme and innovative
methods of reaching out to students
with a message of responsible alcohol use.
"We're going to prove to students
that they can have a good time without drinking alcohol," said Student
Association vice president of
Student Affairs John Jervis, the
week's organizer.
The centerpiece of the '70s theme
will be a DJ Booth, constructed at
the north end of the SA Campus
Centre's Great Hall by members of
Building Tech.
During the Wednesday three hour
break, DJ Avi Shack — an excellent
'70s DJ — will be spinning the
tunes from the booth while a mocktail bar staffed by various members
of the SA executive and staff in '70s
retro gear will be working the
blenders to produce free samples of
delicious non-alcoholic drinks.
ervis, however will not be in the
Great Hall, instead he will be
'hurling' from a 60 foot bucket
crane onto the pavement of the
Campus Square outside the SA
Campus Centre.
Hurling pumpkins that is.
Dubbed "Pumpkin Smashing" by
Jervis, it will be a demonstration of
the hazards of impact and actively
encourage the participation of members of the campus community.
Seventy pumpkins are available
to be sponsored and decorated
before being ceremoniously dropped
to their doom.
ICBC will be onsite in the
Campus Square with a van providing music.
F
\oT the more technologically or
electronically inclined Jervis
has recruited the SA's vice
president of PR and Marketing
Rafael Atienza to run simulated
impaired auto racing.
Using the linked Indy racing
video games of the Video Arcade in
the SA Campus Centre and
Simulated Impaired Vision Glasses
provided by ICBC four drivers at a
time will be able to discover
silly it is to drive when you can'
even see straight.
T
he glasses will also make a
showing on Friday afternoon
from 3pm to 5pm at the
Elephant. Long time BC Lions
kicker Lou Pasaglia, and possibly
other members of the BC Lions will
be on hand to sign autographs and to
help out willing participants who
can try to 'walk the line' while
wearing the glasses.
Information tables will also be set
up in the Great Hall, some throughout the week. Participating organizations include: Mothers Against
Drunk
Driving,
Alcoholics
Anonymous, BCIT Health Services,
The Driving Alternative, B A C CHUS and ICBC.
There wdl also be prizes for those
who get involved such as tickets to
the Canucks, jackets, t-shirts and
gifts certificates are available to be
won by participants and volunteers.
Jervis is still looking for volunteers for the various events and can
be contacted through the SA offices
in the SA Campus Centre Or at 4328600.
Association's Annual General Meeting approves audit
P
rice Waterhouse Coopers'
audit of the SA's finances
for 1997-98 was accepted
Paul Dayson
unanimously by Student Council
increases
in fundraising for
at the Annual General Meeting
held October 19 before the coun- Shinerama, a partnership with
the institute for the United Way,
cil meeting.
The auditors said, their audit , increased influence academically
dated August 26th shows the SA through its research into exam
with a "powerful balance sheet" and testing fairness and progress
and that the organization is "in towards resolving the question
of a fast food outlet in the old
excellent shape."
The S A ' s operations have Annovation computer location.
This year, Diebolt said, the
proved profitable, according lo
the auditors, because of the work SA will be working on addressof SA staff and a high level of ing the need for a student comvolunteerism in the organization. plaints policy which does not
SA
president
Stephen restrict the rights of students,
Diebolt, in his president's report lobbying to obtain a seat on the
said the SA made substantial Board of Governors, improving
advances during the year with the Set and Tech Rep system.
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campus cleanliness, and continuing to look for a recreational
property in Whistler.
' The SA will be looking at setting up course and teacher evaluations the results of which would
be available to the entire campus
community.
• Planning
for
Student
Assistance Fund events is underway. A raffle is planned for
November with a semester's
tuition as one possible prize.
What Diebolt dubbed, the
"Zany and Fun Task Force" has
also being convened and will
report back at the next meeting
with ideas for
Student
Assistance Fund events for the
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Winter Term possibly including
a 'Pajama Jammy Jam' at the
Elephant and the revival of
Winterfest as fundraisers.
Winterfest, held in February,
previously featured such spectacles as dunk tanks.
• The American Marketing
Association raised concerns
about the need for a policy governing the promotion of events
on campus — particularly 'for
personal profit' parties — and
postering. A committee will
report back at the next council
meeting with recommendations.
• Pepsi and the SA will be holding joint promotion with mountain bikes and snowboards being
drawn for in SA operations such
as the TNT stores and the Brown
Bag cafe.
• The SA is going to be conducting a Millennium Survey to
ask students what kind of millennium projects they would like to
see.
• The S A ' s T V information
screens are being spruced up and
given a new look. Watch them
to keep yourself informed about
coming events.
The next council meeting will
be on Monday, November 2 at
5:30pm in the SA Boardroom,
Campus Centre.
OCTOBER
21,
1998
NEWS
Education too expensive, could
lead to a two-tier society
JEFF POWER
Canadian University Press
ST. JOHN'S
he chief commissioner of
the Canadian Human
Rights Commission says
Canada's post-secondary education system should be more
accessible to all students who
want to go to school.
"I think it's too bad education
today is so expensive and that
many students get out of school
with such a heavy burden that
they can spend a part of their
working life paying back what it
cost Ihem to gel an education,"
said Michelle Falardeau-Ramsay
at Memorial University last
week.
She also a system that's not
accessible lo everybody is unacceptable in Canada.
"The danger is that we will go
back to the days where there
were two categories of people,"
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said Falardeau-Ramsay.
"There were those who were
able lo get an education, and
then, obviously, as a result would
be in a position of leadership, to
be in a position where they could
influence things — and people
who were unable lo get one and
had no influence in society."
Falardeau-Ramsay's public
lecture was the second-last stop
on a seven-stop tour of Canadian
universities commemorating Ihe
50th anniversary of Ihe United
Nations' adoption of the
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
The commissioner, who has
worked for the United Nations
and was appointed to the post in
1997, focused her speech on the
stalus of human rights in the 21st
century.
She said while there have
been significant progress in the
area of human rights over Ihe
past 50 years, "we have only lo.
read Ihe daily headlines to realize
that human rights violations are
sdll commonplace in many parts
of the globe."
And although Canada is a
global human rights leader, she
said, il still has a way to go
"before the (U.N.) Declaration's
vision is a reality for all
Canadians."
One major area of disappointment has been the recognition of
human rights for aboriginal people, she said.
She pointed to Ihe contrast
between Canada's number one
ranking on a U.N. list of Ihe best
places to live and a recent government report that shows the
standard of living on native reservations is closer to the bottom of
the list, below such countries as
Thailand and Mexico.
Falardeau-Ramsay says the
problem corresponds directly
with poverty, anoiher area which
saw Canada receive a low grade
from Ihe UN.
"(Poverty) prevents people
from exercising their rights in
society," she said.
Racial harassment and discrimination and disabled rights
are olher areas that require
action, she said.
"Everybody speaks about the
deficii, aboul monetary matters,
but not so much about the wellbeing of the community," she
said of federal politicians.
"The type of democracy we
have is so fragile. We're blessed
to be in a country where we have
the rule of law, where we have
all kinds of safeguards and also
where there are many structures
that allow for protection of those
rights," added FalardeauRamsay.
"We have to be very, very,
cautious nol to lose lhal. In order
not to lose that we have to make
sure we maintain il in the eye of
the people, in general. And also,
the politicians of Ihe government."
Library implements new
system, Y2K bug a factor
CARLOS ASSUNCAO
Link News Reporter
I
f you don't know what the Y2K bug is, you've been living under .i
rock. Y2K means Ihe software Ihe library has been using would nol
handle dates later than 1999. That wasn't the only problem wilh
the old system: il could not interface wilh olher databases, produce
statistics, no backup in case of system crash and so on.
The new system is web-based, therefore il's accessible on any computer which has access to the internet. To gel lo Ihe catalogue, you
must first access Ihe Library's web page at hltp://www.lib.bcil.bc.ca/
and Ihen click on Library Catalogue. At this point you'll be at the
Main Menu page where you can search the library catalogue, reserve
material, check your record for overdue material, make suggestions or
search olher libraries.
This new system is just one step in a process of moving BCIT's
library towards "a sophisticated and integrated state of the art technology lhal will provide seamless entry to sources of information." To
find out more about off-campus access to services or any help using
the new system contact the Library Information Desk at 432-8371
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OCTOBER 21, 1998
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NEWS
Students glum about Sprint's unlimited calling plan
Consumer's organizations criucal of company's lack of client noUf Icatlon, continued TV ads
KAREN RAWLINES
Canadian University Press
CHARLOTTETOWN
print Canada's decision to
cut off its unlimited-calling
plan isn't ringing well in the
ears of students and consumer
rights groups, who say they
weren't given proper notice the
plan would be cancelled.
The enormously popular plan
entitled subscribers to unlimited
calling minutes after 6 p.m. on
weekday and all day on weekends
to anywhere in Canada for $20
per month.
For student customers studying far away from family and
friends, the Sprint Canada deal
offered a way to stay in touch for
less.
"It really made a difference,"
said Melissa Doucette, an English
student at the University of Prince
Edward Island. "I could talk to
these people every day."
Clay Purves, a University of
Winnipeg history student, also
got a lot of mileage out of the
plan. He used it to speak with his
brother in Alberta and with
friends who went to school in
Ontario and BC.
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"It was nice to have a cheaper
way to stay in touch with friends
and family . . . to stay in close
contact with people I wouldn't
have otherwise had that kind of
close contact with," he said.
But despite high customer
demand — or rather because of it
— Sprint Canada discontinued
the plan and replaced it with a
modified version effective Oct. 5.
Early into the offer, which was
introduced last July, customers
were met by busy signals or
recorded messages when dialing
through to long-distance numbers
A bright new
place to sweat
due to network congestion.
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"The unlimited savings plan i
resulted in a new competitive j
marketplace, with all of our major
competitors announcing similar
plans to ours," wrote Philip Bates,
president and chief operating officer of Sprint Canada, in a prepared statement.
"These plans have shifted residential calling patterns and the
overwhelming response to these
plans has meant some customers
have experienced difficulty when
they have tried to make long distance calls."
"If a company offered something, and better demands than
they were expecting followed,
then they would be expected to
bite the bullet," Hilliard said. "It's
like they've offered steak, and are
giving the customers beans."
She also says the adaptation of
the plan was not properly
announced, so Sprint Canada
should offer some kind of consumer redress to those who didn't
receive notice of the change.
"Customers have to be notified
before running off enormous
bills."
Purves, who has decided to
return to his local provider for
long-distance service, says if it
Sprint is now offering cus- weren't for reading about it he
tomers a plan with a similar concept but different bottom line. wouldn't have known he was
Instead of unlimited minutes per paying for a different service.
"If we didn't have a newspamonth, customers may now talk
to anyone in Canada for up to 800 per subscription we wouldn't
minutes under the $20 charge, have found out about it," he said.
with additional rates of 10 cents "I think they (Sprint) could have
phoned us — they have our numadded per subsequent minute.
ber."
Jennifer Hilliard, vice presiCritics say the fact Sprint
dent of policy and issues of the
Consumers' Association of Canada continued to air television
Canada, is not impressed by commercials for the unlimited
Sprint's decision to end the deal plan close to the time the plan
after only a few months of offer- was cancelled added to the confusion.
ing it.
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CARLOS ASSUNCAO
Link News Reporter
fter six years, the spot
once home to the old
3CIT pub. Taps, is opening again, this time for the purpose of getting in shape. The
new weight room in the student
activity centre (SE16) has been
open for a few weeks and is free
to students of BCIT.
The new 6500 sq. ft. weight
room is a considerable improvement to the old weight room. In
addition to being wheelchair
accessible, it's much brighter
and has 16 new pieces of equipment: four new treadmills, ten
new bikes, two new rowers and
much more than I'm willing to
list here. The equipment room
will also be moving to a room
adjacent to the weight room. The
open hours of the weight room
are 6:30am to 10pm Monday to
Thursday, 6am to 8pm Friday
and 9am to 4pm Saturday,
Sunday and holidays.
The room where the weight
room used to be is now being
used to facilitate activities like
aerobics and ballroom dancing.
To find out more about what the
activity centre has to offer call
432-8287 or just drop in.
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OCTOBER 21, 1998
ARTS &
CULTURE
A comedic action adventure in
post-apocalvMi
America
HAL JORDAN
Link Arts & Culture Reporter
D
oes Vegas need a new king? Well,
apparently Lost Vegas, the postapocalyptic city of t^s Vegas does.
This is Lance Mungia's latest film, an
HSX Films Production. Here is a mysterious sword slinging, guitar strumming hero
who happens to be on a journey to Lost
Vegas to become the next King of Rock
and Roll.
FILM REVIEW
Six-String Samurai
Opens in Theatres October 30
This film is a hilarious farce, where the
Russians conquer America and the King
Elvis dies. So every guitar picking, sword
swinging loner, including Death himself (a
Rob Zombie look-alike) venture across the
wastelands with Lost Vegas in their sights.
Along the way, Buddy (our hero who
looks like Elvis Costello or Buddy Holly)
is infected by this whining 'kid' who distracts our hero's concentration and cool.
There's a cracker surprising twist when
our hero, the kid and Death meet their final
match. Buddy is so cool in his tuxedo and
blue-suede shoes as he manages his infection, swings his sword like the new
American Samurai and still picks his 1957
strata fender guitar.
Buddy, alter-ego Jeffery Falcon, has
starred in over 15 other HK martial arts
action flicks and has over 20 years of martial arts training. He is a multi-talented
writer, actor, director and production
design. This is his American film debut.
Lance Mungia met Jeff Falcon, and
their twisted imaginations began to brew
something of the unusual. This is Lance's
feature film, on a shoe-string budget, and
all together with a real eclectic class of
actors, Six-String Samurai evolved from
the cameras. Lance began Ihis film as his
undergraduate thesis and has recently graduated from L.A.'s Loyola Marymount
University and has written several screenplays. He has released two shorts, A
Garden For Rio and Wilted. A Garden For
Rio has won many awards, at the
Temecula Valley Film Fest, the Fort
Launderdale Film Fest and from the
Chicago International Film Fest.
There will be a soundtrack released by
Russian-born rock'n'roll artists The Red
Elvises. This is a real slap-stick comedy,
and if you may get a little twisted maybe
you'll laugh all along the way through the
deserted wastelands of Death Valley with
this samurai.
In tlie know pop
aficionados pack
Hatfield show
ANDREW DENNISON
Link Arts & Culture Reporter
T
his was Juliana Hatfield's first appearance in
Vancouver in at least a year and she was still
able to bring a respectably sized Tuesday night
crowd into the dark confines of the Starfish.
CONCERT REVIEW
Juliana Hatfield
At The Starfish Room
October 6
Hatfield and her band males (I didn't know that
Harry Connick Jr. plays the drums!) put in a full
length set of songs played lo perfection. A good portion of the material was off of her new release "bed",
but there were also plenty of older hits and more
obscure gems including a Blake Babies cover.
This was a worthwhile show for any in-the-know
pop aficionados out there.
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OCTOBER 21, 1998
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ARTS & CULTURE
Plan to drink?
Plan ahead.
Have a
(m/ertet tin Cafe
ERIN GARLICK
Link Arts & Culture Reporter
W
here the heck is
Smokey Joe's Cafe?
You know the place,
small but cozy, filled with cigarette smoke and familiar music.
Songs like "On Broadway",
"Hound Dog", "Lxive Potion #9"
and "Stand by Me" are nightly
favorites in this cafe, which is
currently stationed in the Ford
Center in Vancouver.
who was subliminally programmed with Elvis music while
in utero, I knew a lot of the tunes
and those I didn't I did find quite
amusing. Even when I couldn't
sing along, my foot kept tapping
to the infective beat, and I was
entertained by Ihe dancing and
costuming. Smokey Joes Cafe
was in no need of fanfare or
many props; the music carried the
show through its entirety.
The tiny cast of only 9 actors
did an amazing job of rapid costume and character changes and I
THEATRE REVIEW
believed I was in Ihe cafe for
Smokey Joes Cafe
most of the show. But there were
At the Ford Centre
a few glaring technical problems.
Tuesday, October 6
Terrible sound was a significant
Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musi- disappointment. When the male
cal production of oldies favorites, lead enters the stage to the initial
all written by Jerry Lieber and notes of "Stand by Me" every
Mike Stoller. 1 had the interesting woman in the audience is waiting
pleasure of seeing it on opening to hear the all important lyrics....
night, Tuesday October 6. I "When the night has come", and
didn't really know what to we were all in for a major letexpect, but I was. mostly down. His mic wasn't working!
impressed by this new experi- We missed the first few words
ence. Being one of those kids and the magic of the cafe illusion
GiUnEPLAII
for a safe
ride home
was broken. There were also a lot
of obvious lighting problems with
spotlights appearing in odd places
at strange times. The second half
of the show was a lot better than
the first, with more dancing and
overall believability. A nice
change from the norm in musical
theatre was the live band, situated
out of the orchestral pit and aclually on the stage, sometimes in
plain view, but mostly behind different set pieces. Numbers like
"Love Me Don't" and "Teach me
How to Shimmy" really captured
the 60's esque feeling of the
show.
The icing on the cake happened during the finale bows,
when Stoller himself took the
stage to acknowledge the show
and thank the cast for their
efforts. 1 think with a few more
nights of practice and time to'
work out Ihe technical kinks, this
show could be a very entertaining
evening out for an older crowd i
like Mom and Dad.
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Fantomas' needs lyric sheets
(Mr.Bungle), Dave Lombardo (ex
slayer), and Buzz "King Buzzo"
Osborne (The Melvins).
The performance lhat they put
bet you're probably wonder- on was, to say the least, interesting. The overwhelming talent of
ing who this is.
Mike Patton, also known as Vlad
Drac, really came Ihrough on
CONCERT REVIEW
Saturday night. 1 heard words,
FANTOMAS
more like sounds, come out of his
at the Starfish Room
mouth that not only have 1 never
October 17
heard before but also could not
FANTOMAS is a new hard- understand. The rest of the band
rock band started up by Mike also did an excellent job.
The music seemed lo revolvej
Patton, lead singer of Mr. Bungle
and former lead singer of Faith around Dave Lombardo, the
No More. The other band mem- drummer, who also did an excelbers
are
Trevor
Dunn lent job.
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The performance lasted for
only an hour but that was long
enough.
Don't get me wrong because
I'm a big fan of Faith No More
but Ihis is nol for me. I'm mostly
alone on this one because the
concert was enjoyed by many and
received many great reviews.
Everyone came to the concert not
knowing what to expect and from
my observation many seemed
shocked and amazed.
FANTOMAS does not have
an album available right now but
should shortly. Let's just hope
they add some lyrics to thatj
DRINKING DRIVING
COUNTIRAnACK
OCTOBER 21, 1998
ARTS & CULTURE
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HOOVERPHONIC
Blue Wonder Power Milk
ADDICT
Stones
(BMC Music)
Marlt, James and Lulce
are improbable biblical
names for three of the
members of the group
called Addict. With the
release of their first album,
"Stones", Addict establishes their sound as a well
versed British band. These
four talented guys are less
influenced by The Beatles
and more by Canada's
Screaming Trees. Addict
has a very Soundgarden
esque feel, and the groupis
tunes really gel well together. The band writes songs
exploring the human psyche, balancing an equal
number of darker and positive cuts. Addict communicates the sense that life
isn't all dark and painful
while maintaining a grungy
feel. Mark Aston, lead
singer, says, " A s for
America, we intend to
spend a lot of our time
there. Not to sound like
we're ass kissing, but we
really do enjoy America.
Try keeping us out!"
fi/vtii! .ili-w^cKioi
BIG BAD V O O D O O
DADDY
Self-tilled
(Coolsville)
This is the band and
music from the movie
Swingers. This type of
music is presently getting a
lot of attention and becoming very popular and trendy
again. Those that it's
Erin Garlick infecting are buying right
into the culture of the '50's
style, attitude and appearance. Swing is coming in
again, making that full circle, a kind of revival, like of
the '30's, '60's or '70's and
even the '80's. BBVD are
all about having fun, smoking cigars and drinking martinis
with
olives.
Sometimes 1 think it's very
excluding, it reminds me of
ARNOLD
a richer class, and those
Hillside
without money or attitude
(Columbia)
could never get into the
A fairly mellow 3-man clubs or join a kind of
band named Arnold. A scene. The music is sly,
basic name for a basic band slick and groovy, play the
that made me feel a bit game and you're in. The
sleepy. Their sound ranges piano twinkling away, the
from Radio Head to Pink horns beltin' it out and this
Floyd to Beck and they ultra-cool, ultra-lounge
have a fairly soothing qual- singer, all giving it personity to the majority of the ality and rhythm. If you
ballad like tunes on their like the swing culture,
" H i l l s i d e " album. They you'll sure to pick up this
kinda reminded me of a release. BBVD have visited
bunch of drunk guys jam- Vancouver before and are
ming around a campfire. sure to return, it's primarily
What else can 1 say about aboul just having a good
Arnold? They weren't very lime and not worrying about
original or distinctive in anydiing, letting it \oose.
any way, but they did have
HalJordan,
a cute cartoon bunny on
their CD cover.
Erin
Garlick
OCTOBER 21, 1998
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JOCELYN
MONTGOMERY
WITH DAVID L Y N C H
Lux Vivens (Living Light):
The Music from Hildegard
Von Bingen
(Mammoth/Attic)
Sometimes you jusl have
lo take that step, and try
something totally new.
Jocelyn's voice is beautifully angelic and gothic. It has
the softness of a mother and
eerie-ness of a dark angel,
that is enhanced and heightened by David Lynch's
haunting soundscapes.
Jocelyn's dark soprano
melodies intertwine with
David's ambient soundscapes, to create music for a
church or holy place. The
drones in the background
were originally supplied by
monks.
The music can recall Ihe
sounds of the heavens, or
bring you into a state of
quiet darkness. The songs
comprised here are modem
interpretations of work by
the 12th century feminist,
Hildegard Von Bingen. She
was a German nun, who
was highly respected for her
power and knowledge as an
expert in herbal medicine
and natural science. She is
a controversial cult figure,
and an inspiration to many.
This rare release breathes
modem life into Hildegard's
work from die past.
(Sony Music)
Hooverphonic. Even the
name sounds dreamy and
surreal. A lot like the feeling Ihe songs communicate
on their most recent album,
'Blue Wonder Power
Milk'. When Alex Callier,
(chief songwriter
of
Hooverphonic) dreamed up
the milk expression, he
simply liked how the words
sounded, nothing more. But
during production in
Belgium, Alex decided that
Blue Wonder Power Milk
was a magical elixir, a sort
of metaphor for anything
you enjoyed focusing on in
life. It became a healthy,
rejuvenating potion that
helps an individual transcend whatever il is that
drags Ihem down. Thisalbum does much of the]
same. Very reminiscent of |
the older Depeche Mode!
sound, Hooverphonic is a!
spacey, airy group, who;
have added live elemenlSr
like trombones, strings and
drums to Iheir mostly preproduced music. 'Blue
Wonder Power Milk'. It's
good for what ails you plus
a whole lot more.
and rhythms carry you
Ihrough to the end of Ihe
album. The opening track
Get Higher is a very catchy
dance pop-rock song, wilh
impersonations of Ronald
and Nancy Reagan lalking
about drug use. It can be
very humorous and is an
overall excellent UK dance
party album to play wilh
many friends hanging out
indulging in the delicacies
of life.
HalJordan
EMBRACE
The Good Will Out
police radio transmissions.
Cypress Hill rap and rhyme
aboul rumbles, skunky
since, guns and egos.
Named afler Cypress Ave, a
street lhal runs through
Soulh Central LA. Nothing
but hardcore gangsia rap,
and that's what they're best
at. Here's a quote from
'Steel Magnolia', "...that
lakes a 14 shot clip, you
expecting an army?..No,
jusl
a
division...'
Apocalyptic punches of
cross-cultural references
that blend logether like
hashish and BC flowers.
Tracks like 'Looking
Through the Eye of a Pig',
'High
Times',
'Dr.Greenthumb', 'Dead
Men tell No Lies', and
'Clash of the Titans' are just
a few hits of this chronic
release. Cypress Hill lakes
on sounds of hip-hop, rap,
punk, skate thrash and
metal, and always return to
their true hip-hip roots. Lift
this release and inhale some
chronic smoking legends
and lest Ihe limits.
www.cypresshill.com
(Universal)
In February 1998,
Embrace received a Brit
award nomination for best
new British band, and wilh
lhat nomination came notoriety lhal Ihe band members
themselves had not exactly
anticipated. Embrace is a
new band from England,
attempting to reach the
acclaim of fellow Brit
bands like Oasis and The
Verve. Embrace's debut
album, "The Good W i l l
Oul", is a passionate entry
onto Ihe music scene. Their
emotional, realistic portrayal of the trials of life is
effectively conveyed with
this effort. Their sound is a
of
power-chord
Erin Garlick mix
melodies and ballads built
wilh strings, horns and
decent vocals. Embrace had
a tight new sound that will
take them far in the music
business. The disk debuted
at #1 in Ihe U K , and
although they're no Spice
Girls, 1 Ihink we'll be hear-!
ing more good things from!
Embrace in the fulure.
David
Lai.
POSSUM DIXON
New Sheets
(Universal)
This album screams
80's. Not that that's a bad
thing, it's jusl very apparent that they listened to old
alternative bands during
Iheir formative years. The
pal 1 listened lo Ihe album
with couldn't repress the
80's flashbacks he kept
attempting to prevent. The
13 new songs on "New
Sheets",
Possum Dixon's
B L A C K GRAPE
Erin Garlick
3rd album won'l change
Stupid, Stupid, Stupid
your life, bul they may jusl
(Radioactive)
give you the itch to return
Shaun Ryder is the seed
that vacuum cleaner you
inside Black Grape, from
just bought in exchange for
England. He has produced
a remote control airplane.
an album that merges the
Or maybe not. Think about
hardness of rock with the
it for a second and forgive
thrill of dance culture in
yourself. This could be
Peter Gabriel's Real World
good and maybe a revelaStudios in Badi. It is a slick
tion in its own way. Or
production of profane sonic
maybe not. In any case.
vocals, with hard beats, ele-, CYPRESS H I L L
Possum Dixon won'l drag
ments of dub and pop-rock. TV
you down, even if the
It sounds like a traffic jam (Ruffhouse)
cheesy name turns you off.
of samples and sounds, a!
See no Good, Hear no
blender of noise and confu-' Good, Speak no Good. This And in Ihe immortal words
of my mom, don'l judge a
sion.
If
you
listen
carefully
David Lai
fall's release is produced by
you hear a sample of the DJ Muggs from the Soul book by its cover!
Magical Mystery Tour, ele- Assassins. Known and best
Erin Garlick
ments of the Stones for their samples from
(Lonely), and feel die beats
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ARTS &
PRIMUS
Rhinoplasty
(Interscope)
Supposedly just a filler
between
albums,
Rhinoplasty is an intense,
suspenseful filler of thick,
phat basslines and intertwining lyrics and rhythms. Les
Claypool
(from San
Francisco) is still releasing
some excellent material for
your ears and stomach, even
the theme song for
SouthPark. Bass beats you
not only listen to, but also
feel. This is an enhanced
CD, sure to bring you to
your sense's knees, craving
and praying for more, or
less. Why has Primus
released this album of cover
tunes? Has he lost all creativity and originality?
They are all excellent songs
that you can just groove to
with the flow of tight phat
bass notes and rhythmic
beats. This gave Primus an
easy opportunity to go into
studio and just have fun covering material by their
favorite artists that have
influenced Primus's sound
and this also gave something
to their long awaiting fans..
Listen to these covers of:
XTC, Peter Gabriel, Stanley]
Clarke, Jerry Reed, Thej
Police, Metallica, there's,
also a couple of original
Primus tunes and bonus;
tracks. Extra extra enhanced
CD for your buck.
for the documentary life of
a hobo. You've got 60's
stuff, wacko crappy 90's
stuff, and weird stuff that
really just isn't music.
Apparently the diverse
compilation was an effort
by Jesse Peretz (the motion
picture's writer) to have the
soundtrack consist of songs
his female lead would
choose from her singles collection as expressions of the
shifting moods of her infatuation. Uh, yeah. There are
songs with some pretty
sweet vocals by stars like
The Pumpkins
Billy
Corgan, The The's Matt
Johnson, The Cardigans
Nina Persson and Liz Phair,
but the mix just doesn't sell
as the eclectic sound it was
meant to be. Maybe it
would all make sense to me
if I had seen the movie, or
even heard of it, but unfortunately I haven't, so this
album didn't work for me.
Snot, appearing w/ith Soulfly,
Erin Garlick
Oct 22, Thursday
Projekt Four
(members from
King Crimson)
Sinead Lohan
with guests
Nov 3, Tuesday
Firewater
At Richard's On Richards
At the Vancouver East
Cultural Center
Oct 24, Saturday
Oct 30, Friday
Henry Rollins
(spoken word night)
Nov 2, Monday
Marcy Playground
with guests Pure
At the Croatian Cultural
Center
At the Starfish Room
EDNASWAP
Wonderland Park
Nov 1, Sunday
Stephen Fearing
At Ihe Starfish Room
Southern Culture
on the Skids
(Mercury/Polygram)
Sounding like a real
blend of pop melodies and
rock muscle, Ednaswap is a
going to be a band to be
reckoned with. Since forming in L A in 1994, the
group has toured with
everyone from Local H to
No Doubt to Weezer, and
has proved themselves as a
David Lai very tour worthy band. One
night, while on tour, bored
in a sticky motel room, they
composed the first song for
this
album
called
"Wonderland Park." Over
the last few years,
Ednaswap's songwriting
skills have been discovered
and put to use by other
artists. Madonna has covered them ("Sanctuary" on
Bedtime Stories) and most
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Natalie
Music from the Motion recently,
Imbruglia's cover of their
Picture "First Love, Lasl
Rites" Shudder lo Think song "Torn" has been a
worldwide hit. Now with
(Sony Music)
"Shudder to Think" Ihe new drummer Scot Coogan,
soundtrack for "First Love, the band is preparing to take
L^st Rites" reminds me of this album on the road.
the last time 1 hit my head Don't expect them to stay
really hard and knocked quiet for long.
myself unconscious. Not
Erin Garlick
that it sucks, it just leaves
you with a stunned feeling.
We voted that it would be
an appropriate soundtrack
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At the Rage
Oct 25, Sunday
DJ Spooky
At Sonar
Nov 5, Thursday
Dave Matthews Band
with guests
At the Pacific Coliseum
Nov 16, Monday
Big Sugar
At the Rage
Rob Zombie
with guests
Monster Magnet
and Fear Factory
Soulfly
with Snot and
day in the life
At the PNE Forum
At the Palladium
Nov 22, Sunday
Oct 26, Monday
The Chieftains
with Ashley Maclsaac
and the barra macneils
Barenaked Ladies
At the Orpheum Theatre
Al the Orpheum Theatre
Oct 27, Tuesday
Jann Arden
Nov 27, Friday
Al the Orpheum Theater
Laura Smith
At the Wise Hall
Jon Spencer
Blues Explosion
with guests Add N To X
At the Rage
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, appearing at the
Rage on October 27.
The
At the Starfish Room
Dec 4, Friday
Depeche Mode
with Stabbing Westward
At the Pacific Coliseum
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Big ice breaking Off in
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ATTENTIVE LISTENERS:
Deans & Programme Heads Rub Shoulders In Green Class
UBC's Dr. Bill Rees Talked About the Ecological
Foodprint
Kids break up Environment meeting
GREG HELTEN
SA Environmental Education
A
group of rain-coated kids stormed
into a meeting of faculty and staff
at a workshop on environmental
literacy and planning last week. The kids
aged from two to four years old came
with their teachers from the BCIT Child
Care Centre. They presented drawings
that they'd colored with the caption,
"Thank you for thinking of us and protecting the environment."
The NWl boardroom was quite full
with almost 50 Deans, Associate Deans,
Program Heads, Chief Instructors, two
members of the Board of Governors and
other interested people, including
Burnaby-Willingdon MLA Joan Sawicki.
The diverse group let the little tikes melt
their hearts.
They were invited in to make the point
that its the next generation we must begin
to look out for. It's them that will be bearing the environmental and economic costs
foisted on them by people in the latter part
of the 1900's.
The group met to listen to presentations from Dr. Bill Rees at UBC, the codeveloper of the Ecological Footprint concept; Robert Abbott, a strategic business
consultant in the international environ-
After the presentations was a workshop
session exploring what BCIT can do to
take advantage of the opportunities presented by the environmental crisis and
sketch out plans for the coming year, and
look ahead to the future. The event was
organized through the Environmental
Awareness Committee and the VicePresident of Education's office, with support from the Student Association.
After the session, environmental literacy expert Rick Kool said, "It was a fabulous morning. I was very impressed with
the attentiveness of the gang there."
Kool commended BCIT for sponsoring
the workshop, and the direction of integrating environmental protection into the
curriculum and operations at the Institute.
The whole thrust of the morning was
meant to bring the educators up to speed
on the severity and seriousness of the
environmental crisis, and to illuminate the
challenges and opportunities becoming
apparent. This will include using ECOFAIR'99, BCIT's environmental technologies, careers and citizenship exposition on Wednesday, April 14th as a focal
mental field; Rick Kool, a provincial spe- point for our efforts this year.
cialist in environmental literacy and eduFor more information, contact Greg
cation; and Sherry Campbell, BCIT Helten at 451-7060.
Management Degree programme on organizational change.
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on the environment,
and l i k e t o w r i t e ,
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Air pollution killing 900 a year
T
he air in the Lower Mainland
has become so lethal that it's
killing 900 of our neighbors
every year. The total number dying in
BC from bad air is 2,100 a year, and
across Canada the death toll is 16,000
annually.
These stats come from a new report
sponsored by the David Suzuki
Foundation that will be used to urge
politicians to step up the commitments
and timeline to battle greenhouse gas
emissions.
According to Jim Fulton from the
Foundation, the annual cost to human
health alone in the Lower Fraser
Valley was $830 million in 1990, and
is rising ata trend that will reach $1.5
11
billion by 2005.
The researchers found that the
number of hospital asthma cases of
children have jumped 28 per cent for
boys and 18 per cent for girls in the
past decade.
The research and writing of the
report were conducted by Dr. John
Last from the University of Ottawa,
Health Canada epidemiologist Dr.
Konia Trouton, and David Pengelly of
McMaster University in Hamilton,
Ontario.
The BC Medical Association, the
BC Lung Association and Canada's
College of Physicians and Surgeons
have all endorsed the findings.
A large iceberg from the Ronne Ice
Shelf in Antarctica has broken free. US
experts says it is the size of the state of
Delaware, measuring 92 miles long by
29.9 miles wide, covering an area roughly
2750.8 square miles. It was sighted by
Mary Keller, a scientist at the National Ice
Center, by using an instrument on a satellite in the Defense Meteorological
Satellite Program called Operational
Linescan Systems. Scientists are taking
the news seriously, saying this may be an
indicator of global warming.
Shell cutunggas
Oil giant Shell announced last week
that they will cut emissions by at least 10
percent from 1990 levels by 2002. This is
in response to the Kyoto climate conference last year in December. Shell says this
move embraces the idea of sustainable
development. In fact. Last year, Shell created a renewable energy unit as a fifth
"core" company and pledged to triple its
investment into solar power, biomass
forestry and other renewables. Although
the Kyoto Conference targets governments of industrialized countries, responses are coming from private corporations
such as Shell and British Petroleum.
Kiwis in trouble
The kiwis of New Zealand are on their
way to extinction, but may be saved if
government support comes for a campaign
by the Forest and Bird Protection Society
to save the kiwi that will cost taxpayers
$100 million (US$54 million) over 10
years. Although the Department of
Conservation, Bank of New Zealand and
the Forest and Bird Protection Society
launched the Kiwi Recovery Program in
1991. the kiwis preservation project has
had only limited success due to lack of
funding. The Forest and Bird Society is
seeking support from community organizations, businesses, and the public. The
kiwi is the smallest member of the ratite
family (which includes rheas, ostriches,
emu, and the now extinct moa). Their are
four known types of kiwis: Great Spotted
Kiwi, Brown Kiwi, Tokoeka, and the
Little Spotted K i w i , which the most
endangered of the four.
EU blocks radioactive
shrooms
The European Union is blocking the
import of radioactive mushrooms from
central and eastern European Countries.
The European Commission is planning to
issue a new regulation after 19 notifications of contaminated mushrooms from
Austria, Germany, and France. Although
the new controls will not be in place in
time, EU countries are being asked to take
voluntary steps to improved screening the
mushrooms. The radioactive mushrooms
have been traced to Ukraine's Chernobyl
nuclear disaster in April 1986. The points
of entry for the products are: Poland,
Lithuania, Romania, and Ukraine.
OCTOBER 21, 1998
I
New board will examine corporatescbool partnerships, Marchi says
ANDREW SUNSTRUM
Canadian University Press
ence in post-secondary education.
"The government is trying to
support your initiatives," Marchi
said of the advisory board, which
will ask businesses for ideas
about how to forge links between
Canada's schools and corporations.
"We also want your advice —
for you to tell us how we can help
you best," he told the gathering
of about 400 business and educaTORONTO
tion leaders at the Toronto
he federal government will
he
Convention Centre.
begin consulting businesses about how the education
Marchi says the initiative
sector can build ties with indusspells good news for schools and
try, the Minister of Trade has
the private sector since Canada's
announced.
"There is still work to burgeoning education industry
has the potential to be profitable.
Sergio Marchi unveiled the
be done and money to be
"Not only is it good business
Education Market Advisory
made."
— but definitely big business,"
Board at an education summit
Marchi said.
last week amid delegates who
Sergio Marchi
called for a loosening of restric"There is still work to be done
Minister
of
Trade
i
tions around private sector influ-:
and money to be made."
"Those companies that ride
this wave will enjoy, clearly, the
benefits and profits beyond anything we've ever seen before," he
said.
Promotional material for the
conference asked delegates to
"continue to explore a $700-billion growth industry for the
finance and investment community."
Delegates at the conference
echoed Marchi's call for more
ties between the private and education sectors.
"In the U.S., there is more
money and eagerness for installations and partnerships, but
Canada tends to take the
Kumbaya approach," said Myles
McGovem, president and chief
executive officer of MC2, a technology-based company that has a
C G A s a r e in d e m a n d . Top e m p l o y e r s f r o m
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"If education becomes
a commodity, there will
be a control by those who \
fund it."
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David Clipsham .
Canadian Association
of University Teachers
But not everyone was pleased
with Marchi's endorsement of
corporate-school links — or his •
presence at the meeting.
Student and union activists j
condemned the minister's atten- j
dance at the second annual
Canadian Conference for the
Investment in the Education-for- i
Profit industry.
"His presence gives a kind of
authority to this," said David
Clipsham, of the Canadian _
Association of University
Teachers.
"I'm horrified by the direction j
of this conference and specifical- ;
ly by the presence of a federal i
cabinet minister," the York I
University English professor said.
Elizabeth Carlyle, national i
chair of the Canadian Federation
of Students, said she too was
offended by the fact that Ottawa
condoned the conference.
"It's horrible that the federal
government is interested in giving education away to the private
sector so they can tear it apart
and make money out of the '
pieces," she said told reporters (
during the conference's lunch !
break.
Carlyle says the summit's lack j
of concern for accessibility, qual- ]
ity and diversity in the education ;
system is a clear indicator of i
what is to come. "The complete I
lack of consideration of the ethi- {
cal implications of the conference i
is really scary for students."
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And she and other critics also I
say the link between education
and the private sector will only i
lead to a lack of diversity in the
curriculum of students.
"If education becomes a com- '
modity, there will be control by '
those who fund it," said 1
Clipsham, who fears research i
will soon be geared solely to the |
interests of the private sector.
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