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Employment grows for UBC grads Faculties report increases By Sheila Hansen

Job opportunities for UBC grads look good and are improving according to recent surveys and future outlooks for the different faculties.

“In the next couple of years, most of the students in our faculty will find jobs after graduation,” said Antal Kozak, associate dean of forestry.

“The student population started to decrease due to the re- cession in the early 1980’s. Today there is less competition for our graduates. In ’87 the employment rate for forestry grads was 77 percent and this is on the increase,” he said.

Kozak’s statement applies to other faculties as well.

Kenneth Pinder, head of the chemical engineering department in applied sciences, reports a 100 percent employment rate for the 52 graduates of ’88.

“This upcoming year looks good,” he said. “All across Canada the numbers in classes have gone down.”

The grads of geological engineering have maintained a 100 percent employment rate for the last few years. think it will continue for a few years to come,” said Colin Godwin, director of the board of study for the department.

“Engineers are increasing in demand. There is a strong focus on precious metals in the mining industry and also more effort towards environmental improve- ment,” said Godwin.

Some graduates don’t have to go far to find work. MacMillan Bloedel of Vancouver will be seeking two electrical, one mechanical, and one chemical engineer next year for permanent positions. They will also hire about a dozen forestry students for the summer.

Commerce students may look forward to higher future employment rates too. At the time of graduation this year, 61 percent of the B.Com. grads reported they had found jobs in their field while

12 percent weren’t looking. For M.B.A. grads, 67 percent

were employed and 11 percent were not seeking work. These rates would have increased as more students found work after graduation.

“Looking at the past three years, the employment rate gets better with each year,” said Grace Wong, the commerce placement director. “This upcoming year will be strong for recruitment.”

Students going into education should consider specializing in French immersion or French as a second language as well as math and science education. According to Murray Elliott, the associate dean of teacher education, teach- ers in these areas are currently in short supply.

“By about 1995 there will be more school kids then ever before in Canada and the US. Those students entering education this year will be in demand by the time they graduate,” said Elliott. The offspring of the Baby Boom generation will probably create a teacher shortage in several years.

Graduates from the faculty of medicine face the issue of where to set up practice as opposed to who will hire them.

“UBC doctors stay in B.C.,” said Willian Webber, dean of the faculty. “There are positions available outside the Lower Mainland. For example, smaller centers are looking more for specialists and less for family doctors.”

Webber added that 20 percent of the doctors in the province are from UBC. The rest are from other universities and countries, mak- ing it “relatively competitive”.

According to the division of health services, research and development on campus, areas of high demand include physiother- apy, dental hygiene, and dental assistance.

Students from the faculty of pharmaceutical sciences may be sure of getting a job upon graduation.

“There is a demand for pharmacists now which has been in existence for several years,” said James O r r , assistant dean of undergraduate programs.

“Some students don’t want to leave Vancouver and may only be working part time. Outside the Lower Mainland they could find full time jobs,” he said.

Gordon Sauder, director of employment relations for the B.C. Pharmacists Society feels that “the secret is mobility. Go where the jobs are. There are ongoing vacancies in places such as Fernie, Salmon Arm, and Whitehorse.”

And there are still more jobs to come in pharmacy. Large food stores are now setting up pharma- cies, such as Save-On Foods. ”These will probably require two full-time and two part-time pharmacists each, due to the long hours these stores keep.”

“More job vacancies are also being created as more pharmacists approach retirement. After World War Two the classes were very large and now these people are considering retirement,” said Sauder.

Based on their most recent survey, the faculty of agricultural sciences has a fairly steady employment rate of77 percent for the last few years. Twelve percent went on to further education and 11 percent were unemployed.

Faculty of arts graduates have the advantage of diversity. “with a liberal arts degree, a graduate is flexible to go into a variety of areas,” said James Caswell, head of the fine arts department. “The computer science student has a particular skill and seeks work in a specific area.” The arts student has more freedom in this respect, he said.

Caswell added that most M.F.A.’s find jobs or continue to get their Ph.D., at which level “it is very certain that they will get a job.“

This trend is echoed by other Arts departments. Politcal science

M.A.’s have an 80 percent employment rate and the remaining enter other professions or get their Ph.D.’s where a 95 percent hiring rate follows. The rate is similar for psychology grads.

Brian Turrell, head of the physics department, commented on the future of faculty of science grads.

“Today there is a big push, at the provincial and federal level, towards technology. There is an increasing demand for science grads and the future looks good,“ said Turrell.

All physics Ph.D. grads suc- cessfully located jobs last spring and the rate was 90 percent for those with their master’s. Other science departments experienced simlar success.

Dentistry graduates may not be as successful with their. job

endeavors. Dr. Laurient fo the College of

Dental Surgeons 0fB.C. said there is now an oversupply of dentists. “Young graduates will have a difficult time in establishing practices in the Lower Mainland, Oka- nagan, or other congested areas,“ he said.

“Today dentists do very. good work which has brought the decay rate down. This, along with the fact that the population isn‘t ex- panding rapidly has created the oversupply,” said Laurient.

Laurient concluded that to counter this problem UBC will be encouraged to cut down on faculty numbers, from about forty to thirty-two students. Another step would be to emphasize mobility to smaller areas, such as Quesnel or Prince Rupert, where there is more opportunity.

Youth seek jobs through university, study shows By Deanne Fisher with CUP files

Canada’s youth are disappointed with their job opportunities because they don’t match their educational experience, a recent survey says.

The Canadian Youth Federa- tion polled 2100 people of age 15 to 24 across the country and found that more than half of Canada’s youth want a university degree and 90 percent of students think their career will relate directly to their education.

But campus employment counsellors say many students are entering university with mis- guided intentions.

“It requires a good education to get a job, but just because you have an education doesn’t mean you’ll have a good job,” said Ken- neth Kush, director of UBC’s student counselling.

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“career illiterate” and need to “plan a career and not just look at a degree as the end of it.”

“A degree in today’s economy is a stepping stone,” said Kush.

The survey showed only 44 percent of university graduates find their education relates to their career.

Gordon Fox, manager of UBC’s Canada Employment Centre said Arts and Science students experience the most disappointment.

“we find the problem with people in Arts is they haven’t thought in the last year what they’re going to do with it,” said Fox.

’You have to think about what you want to do with (a university degree) rather than just going for the sake of going,” he said, adding that students who go on to gyadu- ate work “just for the sake of taking it” often end up overqualified.

‘With Science, you’re looking at lab type work, and there’s not a lot in B.C.,” said Fox.

But Fox said job placement for Arts graduates is not too bad, list- ing banks, life insurance compa- nies, the government, and retail trade as some of the more frequent employers of Arts grads.

“They’re getting work,” said Fox. “But we’re not doing as much with them as we’d like to.”

Both Fox and Kush said a university degree should not be considered job training but that it is still valuable. “Often what one gains through an Arts degree is to be an articulate person,” said Kush. “The mistake we make is that we equate university education with community college. A university education is designed to educate you.”

Kush stressed the diff~ xrence between straight employment, a vocation and a career. A vocation is something“you are called to”, he said, “but a career is a path.”

The counselling centre in Brock Hall provides career counselling in individual sessions to about 6000 students, said Kush. An additional 3000 are helped in workshops.

But Kush said not enough students take advantage of career counselling services and equate i t with high school guidance counselling. “It’s a lack of understand- ing,” he said.

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Native students unite OTTAWA( CUP)-Desperate for more input into the fate of their education, native students have formed a national lobby group to protest additional government cutbacks in their funding.

At the same time, more than 200 students at the Canadian Federation of Students conference in Ottawa in early November-where the Native Stu- dent Federation of Canada was formed-called for the resignation of Bill McKnight, minister of Indian and.Northern Development.

We’s out of control and the amount of consultation he has done has been zero,” said CFS chair Beth Brown.

In June, McKnight announced a federal consultation process aimed at changing the financial aid program for native students. Since that time, the “consultative process” has come under fire from almost every

Meanwhile, members of the negotiation were meeting in a downtown hotel, brought together at the request of provincial conciliator Gordon Keeler. The long-awaited return to bargaining table came as a result of a meeting between executives of the Dalhousie student council and provincial minister of labour Terry Donahoe.

Talks broke off aRer 15 hours, with the faculty association rejecting the board’s proposal for binding arbitration. The two sides are haggling over wages.

Student strike dwindles MONTREAL (CUP)-Striking Universite du Quebec a Montreal students were back in class November 17, but 2000 students across town at YUniversite de Montreal say they won% give in.

The province’s student coalition, l’hsociation nationale des etudiantes et etudiants du Quebec

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in the coun- general strike November 13, saying it was a “ s t r a t e g i c

c o m m i s - sioner Phillip Stewart said the national group was created to organize a nation-wide response to the government’s closed door policy.

“Considering that the first draft of their analy- sis is a secret document, it’s ridiculous,” said Ste- wart.

“The consultation was feeding us information and taking nothing back,” agreed Oscar Swanson, president of the Native Indian Student Union at UBC.

Besides cutting funding to eligible native students from $7,432 to $4,800 a year, the new proposal would chop the number of months for which native students can get funding by half.

Funding for daycare, special lab clothing and tutorials will be eliminated. And a native’s choice of schools will be limited since the government will only pay for tuition costs at the post-secondary institution closest to them and has substantially reduced travel allowances.

Dalhousie faculty strike reaches second week HALIFAX (CUP)-The Dalhousie University senate convened on the university’s tennis court No- vember 14.

The senate’s strange meeting venue, rallies, sit- ins and letter campaigns marked the second week of the 700-member faculty strike at the Atlantic’s largest university.

Members were to pass a resolution that all courses still being taught must be re-offered to students who refuse to cross picket lines. But the meeting was cancelled “in order that the integrity of the senate be preserved,” according to an official on the university’s board of governors.

Ignoring the ‘cancellation’, faculty and student representatives on senate gathered on the tennis court after finding the door to the meeting room locked. Although quorum was achieved and the resolution was accepted, the administration announced i t does not consider the motion legitimate because of “insufficient notice”.

A rally organized on November 15 by the association of physical, health, education and recreation students drew almost 700.

Students surrounded the administration building and began shouting, “One, two, three, four, we don’t want a strike no more. Five, six, seven, eight, sit down and negotiate.”

pause”. A three-day strike in October at 32 colleges represent- ing 100,000 students dwindled November 2 to an in- definite walk-out of 54,000 students and 20 colleges and universities.

Arts, literature education and social science students at UQAM refused to extend the two-week strike for loans and bursaries reform by three days at a general assembly.

But sociology, social work and theology students at U de M are still on strike. Criminology students are expected to vote to strike soon.

Anthropology students, who have been picketing since November 2, suspended their strike for a week while students drop courses and write mid-term exams.

‘Geers apologize for AIDS spoof in paper OTTAWA (CUP)-Outrage over an article in their newspaper that ridicules AIDS victims has forced the engineering student society a t Carleton University to apologize and pledge money to AIDS research.

The anonymous article-which parodies an information pamphlet distributed by the Carleton health department-appeared in the ‘Vena Con- tracta’and refers to AIDS patients as “degenerates of society”, calling the acquired immune deficiency syndrome “Anally Infected Death Sentence”.

The engineers’ pledge was made November 17- two days after a coalition of 23 local, provincial and national groups saidit wouldfile acomplaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission against the society.

At a Carleton student council meeting the week before, engineering society president John Duck and newsletter editor Bob Bowerman agreed to council’s demand that they print an apology and retraction for the article.

“I don’t think the article is at all funny now,” said Duck. ”If we had it to take back, we certainly would.”

Volunteer for the coalition will start a petition a t Carleton to stop funding of the engineering society and revoke its ofice space.

”I don’t think all engineering students are Nean- derthals,” said Pierre Beauline, a Carleton student who is involved in the protest against “this malicious piece of hate literature.”

“I know a lot of engineering students don’t want to fund this kind of trash through their students fees. I’m sure most students don’t want to pay for this kind of hate-mongering.”

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Arts challenges ‘Geers By Catherine Lu lates that if the engineers lose,

The Engineers are expected to they must write 20 poemsin praise accept a challenge from the Arts of arts students and the Arts fac- Undergraduate Society today to ulty. collect the most cans of food for the If the arts students are de- Vancouver Food B k k .

Greg “Flea” Smith, Engineer- ing Undergraduate Society vice- president, expected the EUS to formally accept the AUS proposal and said, “we’re not going to de- cline a challenge.”

An AUS letter said the engineers “are good at being big blow- hards and drinking beer, but we (the AUS) want to see if they can actually do something of conse- quence.”

The collection begins today and ends on the last day of classes.

The AUS wants to promote awareness that “there are some people who don’t have a lot,” according to the letter, which stipu-

feated, they must donate 40 beers to the charity of the engineers’ choice, and the AUS president, Mike Lee, will write a letter to the engineers, The Ubyssey, and other campus publications “conceding the Engineers’ superiority.”

Sylvia Russell, executive director of the Vancouver Food Bank, said the food will be greatly needed due to the recent $50 cut- back in welfare. For some people, the reduction will mean the inabil- ity to buy groceries, she said.

‘We may see more people in December than we have in some time,” said Russell.

Russell estimated 2600 to

Student aid needs student input

By Deanne Fisher The province’s ailing

student financial aid system is in need of change according to UBC Arts student Andrew Hicks, who is being given the opportunity to provide input to the minis- try of advanced education.

Hicks is part of this year’s Provincial Govern- ment Standing Committee on Student Financial Assis- tance and he is asking for student input on problems with the student aid system.

“I’m just learning the ropes. I want to talk to people,” he said, adding that he has never applied for a student loan himself.

Hicks said he knows of problems with the appeals process on student loans that he would like to see changed.

”If you appeal, you don’t get any money until the appeal has been dealt with. That’s a real problem,” he said. Some students do not appeal for more money because they cannot afford to wait for the money, he said.

Hicks said a 1987 study showed B.C. ranked lowest of the ten provinces in terms of how much the provincial government disbursed in financial assistance.

B.C. students got $198 in provincial financial assistance per full-time equivalent student in 1986-87. Stu- dents in Saskatchewan got $1674, Quebec $1368, New- foundland $1367 and On- tario $448 in comparison.

Hicks said he thinks B.C. is now ranked eighth of the ten provinces due to some improvements.

Hicks also said scholar- ships and bursaries do not rise with inflation and he would like to see that change. ”I think it would be good if it were tied to inflation,” he said.

He would like to see students involved in the appeals process and is un- happy with the tax put on student loans.

Hicks was recommended for the committee by Alma Mater Society president Tim Bird, who in turn recommended him to president David Strangway and Stan Hagen, Minister of advanced education and job training.

The first meeting of the committee is scheduled for Thursday and students who want to speak to Hicks can reach him through the AMs or the Arts Undergraduate Society.

3000 people line up at the food bank every week. With each family having an average of 2.5 members, this means that about 65,000-75,000 people obtain their food from the food bank.

“The supplies are low again,” Russell said adding that public donations decreased after Thanksgiving.

Russell said she hoped the donations to be as substantial as possible because the pre-Christ- mas distribution will have to last the recipients for two weeks. Also, she noted the importance of early contributions to ensure that the food will reach families in time for Christmas.

’We distribute on the 21st of December ... and we don’t distribute again until January,” she said.

UBC’s Alma Mater Society established its own Food and Development Centre Board in 1986 to provide students with “emergency food supplies”, %oun- selling” and “basic economic and nutritional education,” according to student council documents.

In March of this year, Jan Redekop was selected to be the centre’s co-ordinator. But the committee has been completely inactive.

AMs vice-president Carolyn Egan said Redekop “showed sig- nificant interest, but nothing‘s been done with it.”

Redekop, a second-year Agn- culture student, conceded that nothing has been done on the committee.

Arts students can donate canned and other non-perishable goods in bins in the Buchanan Block A foyer, Buchanan lounge, the Geography building, and the History lounge on the 12th floor of Buchanan Tower. AUS treasurer Andrew Hicks also hinted that Santa Clausmaymake an appear- ance during the drive.

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By Robert Groberman

The Musical Society of UBC died a quiet death last year when no volunteers came forward to replace the club's departingexecu- tive.

And if not for UBC math professor Nathan Divinsky calling an organizational meeting last week, UBC's oldest club might have ended its run after 73 years.

Now, according to newly elected producer Sara Levine, MUSSOC is "a new club with new ideas and new blood."

Known best for its annual production ofa Broadway musical, MUSSOC has become synony- mous with Oklahoma or Fiddler on the Roof. Following last year's production of Merrily We Roll Along, MUSSOC found itself in an organizational and financial mess.

The club's debt had become unmanageable, sending MUS- SOC into financial paralysis. It is only with the Alma Mater Society's decision to put aside the club's debt indefinately that

John Stefaniuk cites increasing royalty fees, lack ofbox ofice reve- nue and poor management for the debt.

Levine and Stefaniuk want to extend their club's activities beyond a single, annual production, and their membership beyond a single cast. They will offer musical workshops and sing-throughs of show scores, both designed to include more people in the club and to improve members' performing abilities.

They do not want to cater exclusively to music and theatre students, but to students from all departments who would like to perform.

W e want all those people who did high school musicals, and now they're in Math," Levine said.

With the help of a loyal alumni and an enthusiastic new membership, MUSSOC will produce a revue show this year, trac- ing the club's lengthy history a t the university.

It would appear that MUSSOC's near-death experience has motivated the club to assess - MUSSOC can continue. itselfandmake somemuchneeded

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Vikings storm Mainland by Joe Altwasser

UBC’s female basketbirds lost a double header to cross strait rivals University of Victoria Vikettes on the weekend with poor shooting costing the ‘Birds the two games.

The opening game k i d a y night witnessed Victoria edge UBC 62-59 in an exciting match.

But the ‘Birds shot only 33 percent from the field and 62 percent from the line-figures that won’t winmosthigh school tourna- ments. Certainly, they wouldn’t knock off one of the hottest teams in the country.

UBC coach Bev Smith was content with the defensive play, but said the team “must shore up the offensive part of the game.”

Raj Johal led the T-Birds’ at- tack with a spectacular 28 points and was helped out by Tessa Valg‘s 12. Joanne Nutini led UVic with 16 points but four other Vikettes also scored in the double digits showing the great depth of the squad.

The second game saw the ‘Birds play better ball, especially in the first half which ended in a tie. The final score ended 66-51 but Smith claims the game was much closer than the score indicated.

Again, shooting was the key to the ‘Birds demise, managing only a paltry 37 percent. The problem, said Smith, was that the ‘Birds could not adjust to the zone de- fense the Vikettes threw up in the second half.

Also Smith says the ‘Birds =made poor shot selection and were often hesitant,” because of the larger, intimidating size of the

Vikettes. In an unrelated note Smith is

not happy with the time the women’s matches begin. The women’s game usually starts at 5:45 p.m. which Smith feelsis very inconvenient. “Most people are just getting home from work or school at ths time and you have to rush to get to the first half,” she said.

The result, Smith said, is that it is tough to eet mode out to our games. Gmith”al& noLd that UBC is the only university in the West that operates with this time sched- ule.

The UBC women travel to Calgary next week to play the Dinos on Friday and Saturday. Game time is 6:30 p.m.

The UBC T-Birds were a both a disappointment and disappointed in weekend action against their B.C. rivals the UVic Vikings. The ’Birds dropped a pair against the Vikingslosing 78-61 on Friday and 84-83 on Saturday in a thriller.

On Friday the ‘Birds shot a miserable 32 per cent from the fieldcommittingmanyturn-overs. The ‘Birds were no match for the Vikings led by the brother tandem ofSpencer and GeoffMcKay. Geoff led the Vikings with 18 points. UBC was led by Perrie Scarlet who finished the game with 17 points and received the praise of coach Bruce Enns.

The match on Saturday might have been played in another gal- axy with the ‘Birds losing at the wire 84-83 in a contest that could

have gone either way. Victoria was again led by the McKays who ac- counted for half of the Viking points. UBC was led by Mike Clarke with 22 points.

The game was a tight one throughout and the result was a, “major disappointment,” to Enns. Either side could have won, but unfortunately, “everything hinges on a small decision,” said Enns.

Enns was referring to the last minute excitement in which W i c was awarded possession on a play in which he felt could have re- sulted in UBC free-throw. U-Vic scored the winning basket. on the

Enns, summarizing the play of the ‘Birds said, “??he two key stats to beating Victoria are re- bounds and turn-overs.” Enns said the ‘Birds did well on the boards, but “turned over the ball too much.”

Enns was also not particularly pleased with the shooting of the ‘Birds but he feels that it will improve as the season progresses.

The ‘Birds were also not without controversy this weekend. UBC lost what may be their most talented player, Aaron Point, who left the team for personal reasons on Friday according to coach Enns. Enns was disappointed with the loss of his self-described most talented player but noted that it is difficult for an athlete to stay on a team if he ”cannot make the commitment.” Point could not be reached for comment.

The ‘Birds also journey to Calgary to play the Dino’s who are the top ranked team in the country.

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Soccer with a difference By Sean Kelly

Soccer coach Tom Chan’s shrill whistle is silent for the moment as he shouts out his in- structions for the next drill.

Then the action starts again as the panting players knock the ball around looking for a shot on goal. The concentration and effort is intense but the chatter and laughing never stop.

Finally the ball is blasted into the netting and the conquering scorer raises his crutch and pre- tends he is firing a machine gun at the sprawling goalkeeper.

These players are amputees but their game is no less challeng- ing than conventional soccer.

In fact, i t is even more physi- cally demanding in many ways because the upper body and hands must support the weight of the body when running and when the foot is kicking. Many who tried out for the team found it too strenu-

The loss of a limb is tragic but rife isn’t over,” according to manager Allan Hart. “Playing soccer is good rehabilitation. It gives the guys more confidence and in-

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creases awareness of what we can do.”

The Pentland Unipeds, as they are unofficially named, or the Vancouver Amputee Soccer League, was founded in 1986 by Hart who lost his leg in a logging accident 10 years ago.

He was turned on to the con- cept by a Seattle man, Bill Berry, whose full-time job is promoting amputee soccer around the world.

The idea was born in Seattle five years ago when amputee Ron Bennet was walking to his car as his kids were playing basketball. The ball rolled towards him and because he was holding crutches he couldn’t pick it up. So he kicked it.

There are two teams from Washington State but right now the Unipeds are the only team in B.C. A team from Vancouver Is- land is in the works and a Lower Mainland League could follow.

But for now the Unipeds have enough players for one outdoor team and two indoor teams. They play Seattle about once a month and Hart is quick to point out that they haven’t lost to them in about the last 10 games.

They also compete every year against teams from Calgary, Cali- fornia, England and El Salvador in the International Challenge Cup in Seattle. Next year teams from theU.S.S.R. and Israelmight participate.

Hart laughs as he remembers a game in the tournament against Los Angeles. The Unipeds goalie, Keith, lost an arm and a leg below the knee in a motorcycle accident. When he plays in goal, he wears a prosthesis under his sweatpants so it’s hard to tell he’s missing a leg.

“This big guy kicked the ball and Keith stuck out his artificial foot. He stopped the ball but the ball broke his foot right off and it stayed inside of his sock. He was lying on the floor with his foot at a funny angle. This guy didn’t know that Keith had an artificial leg. He said, ‘I kicked that ball hard but I didn’t think I could do that! Did I do that?’”

Donations can be made to the Vancouver Amputee Soccer League and the team is also looking for a trainer. If you can give some time to the Unipeds contact Allan Hart at 596-0789.

: GAYS AND FSBIANS : their matches on Friday and Saturday. UBC won at 4-0. The women are tied for third with as- * end in Victoria. The men swept the Vikings in both first place with Calgary. Both teams are undefeated

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undetermined shoulder injury. Coach Terry 0”alley hopes it won’t keep him out of next week’s nrtion.

0 The UBC hockey ‘Birds pronged the University Without question this year‘s edition of the T- of Lethbridge over the weekend, winning 4-3 Satur- Birdsis the strongestinrecentmemory. The last time

0 day and 5-2 Sunday in the Pronghorns’ home rink. UBC earned a play-off berth was in 1975 when most

0 SATURDAY, N O ’ 26TH- 8:@@ P-M- West, one point behind second place University of Strong goal-tending from Carl h p p , disciplined 0 The wins put UBC in third place in Canada of this year’s T-Birds were in elementary school.

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Canadian seeks answers to the Israel situation

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E ma Paris is a nice, liberal, Jewish woman from

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“I wanted to experience Is- rael directly, beyond the propaganda and counter-propaganda that depicted that country either as a reincarnation of Paradise whose leaders could do no wrong, or as the abode of war-lusty evil- doers who could do no right.”

Fair enough. In a region stewing with war and fanaticism, where dogma is eroding the pre- carious hold of discussion, a few sensitive souls are necessary to help us sort things out.

The problem with The Garden and the Gun-the title refers to the Zionist dream of “settlement and regeneration” in

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a context of physical security-is that Paris more often resembles a bull in a china shop than an observer. Her ideological bent is usually wide enough to permit an empathetic treatment of the Palestinians and Israelis she meets. (“I was,” Paris writes, “...a humanist ... with a deeply felt commitment to Jewish history and an equally deeply felt commitment to human rights.”) But she is sorely afflicted with a syndrome common to liberal spectators. The material she wrestles with seems so volatile, so full of turmoil and contradic- tion, that she just doesn’t trust her readers to find their own frame of reference.

What we get, then, is a traipse around Israel and the West Bank through the eyes of Erna, who barges in every third paragraph or so to remind us what we should be thinking about the people she meets. Beyond being painfully obtru- sive, this perspective simply isn’t interesting or fresh enough to hold us.

This is especially true whenever the author’s formidable flair for cliche enters the picture. “I was a traveller in time, dropped into a secret universe whose

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language I did not know and which excluded me today and for eternity,” Paris writes of a Sabbath meal with an orthodox Jewish family in the West Bank. In Jerusalem, she muses: “...this street must have looked much the same in the time of Jesus, as he made his way through the market among his fellow Jews.” At the frontier with Lebanon: “The border road hid death and shadowed secrets .... The very stones and trees that lined this road hid death.” And on the West Bank: “Fear was creeping over me like a slow, inexorable tide.”

Entire sections of The Garden and the Gun are riddled with such cringe-worthy stuff. Nonetheless, there’s much of interest here.

Issues are debated and schisms articulated in Israel with a fervor that few societies can match. Sometimes almost despite herself (and sometimes, to be fair, as a direct result of an honest desire to understand her subjects’ motives and dreams), Paris gives us glimpses into this fractious, vocal, and earthy social landscape. Paris’s treatment of the resurgent ultra-orthodox trends in Judaism is intriguing. Many of the orthodox adherents she interviews are immigrants from the US., and they ably articulate their reasons for turning from a secular “western” world-view to the undiluted Jewish faith of their forebears.

portion of her book to the generation gap in Israel. To her mind, the ascetic Zionist ideal, scratching subsistence out of the barren land, is increasingly being replaced by the gun-toting settler with his West Bank condo and Palestinian Arab underlings, or the material-minded youth who leaves his or her kibbutz to carve a niche in the wider world, away from Middle Eastern tensions and bloodshed. The most memorable portraits, predictably, are those of the older generation: the two aging kibbutzniks who reminisce about life under the British mandate; the holocaust survivor who has devoted his life to transforming desert irrigation techniques.

day politics, there are not many to be found. This, of course, is re- vealing in itself. Palestinian representatives, mistrustful of the foreign scribe in their midst, mostly give her the standard public relations line.

not a particularly interesting book by a not particularly interesting writer. Its sole advantage-and its redeeming feature-is that its subject commands an enduring fascina- tion.

The author devotes a central

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The end of an era

The election campaign is now over with only history left to decide the fate of our youthful nation. Whether we become the 51st state under Govern01 Brian Mulroney or the stronger, wealthier nation as promised daily and in almost every editorial from St. John’s to Victoria, is left to history to decide.

Although historically the economically sane north-south pull has always been stronger, until now the Canadian public had always been too sus- picious of our southern neighbour to actually entex into a written agreement. This distrust appears tc have changed.

Until now the bulk of Canada’sdifferences in elections have been based on regional, religious, 01 language barriers. This election saw the entry of a new force entering the fray-class.

It was obvious that the debate split the business vote from the ordinary Canadian to a degree rare13 seen in a Canadian election.

The election also saw an unprecedented entry ol the multinationals directly into the contest, doling out cash with a purpose that surprised and offended many.

And if there was ever a good opportunity to sec the effects of a monopoly in action and the power ii can possess, the media provided it during this cam. paign, with the Southam and Thompson chains a1 the helm.

At times, their editorials contained a shrillness that even Kim Campbell would envy. The Globe and Mail, in particular, outdid itself with the publishing of pedantic, patronizing editorials that dictated thf public’s only choice.

The positive result is that at last the first twelvc pages of the Globe and Mail were exposed for whal they are-the veneer for the true “substance” thai lay within. We hope that they at last remove the preposterous slogan about being the “National” paper from thc front page. Not only are they the “National” paper oi only the business class, but they never could give us in the West the hockey scores on time.

The well-timed polls seemed to have only one purpose-to influence the voter. These useless ap. pendages t o elections should be banned for the final two weeks of a campaign as they are in manJ European countries.

The changes continue. The campaign was al. ready American in style. (“Liar”: the official word o the Tory election campaign.) Somehow the though of the Mulroney government questioning the ethic, or morals of anyone or anything is beyond traged; but rather reaches the pinnacle of comedy. The Liberal and NDP flag-waving was only slightl; less unnerving and only succeeded in muddying a1 already cloudy campaign.

Americanization, i t appears, has already be gun.

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What an election shouted SheilaHansen letting it consume her total being before she was interupted by Olivia Zanger and Deanne Fisher who also wanted to partake in the extravaganza. But wait said Chung Wong and Mandel Ngan, “The bloody thing is not real it is only an illusion. “That didn’t stop Sean Kelly and Kathy Monk from giving it their own oral tongue lashing. HAHA squeeled Ted Aussem, “l’ve seen much biggerelections in Germany. “Yes and they are usually more rigid in structure,” noted Adam Jones wisely. “I like my elections rigid,” Laura Busheikan bubblcd enthusiastically. Cathy Lu and Robert Groberman went off together to see about starting their own election. Laurie McGuiness said if he thought hardcnough he got his own. Steve Chan and Joe Altwasser just smiled and nod- ded, knowing that whenever an election is concerned someone gets the shaft.

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Ski club disappoints

Before I came to UBC, heard a lot about the Ski lb and was looking for- rd to going to some good rties. However, I was ex- mely disappointed in the fair and elitist system ~y use for buying tickets . the Whistler Cabin.

Tickets for t he dlowe’en party had gone fore I’d even known they !re on sale, so I vowed to t a place on New Year’s. 8, on Nov. 17, I went to 3C at 4 5 0 a.m. But I was 1 late. I lined up behind out 40 others, thinking at if I didn‘t get a bunk for ?w Year‘s Eve, at least I’d tone for the 30th or 29th December.

If each person could buy ly two t i c k e t c n e for emselves and one for a est-for one of the nights the 28th to 31st, with 56 ds a night, that would be 4beds divided by 2 tickets lich equals 112.

Therefore, 112 people d d get a spot on one of the ime nights, that would be r. However, that’s not the ~y the system works. tere sure weren’t 112 ople in front of me, but by e time 8:OO a.m. came and I name was called, there 1s nothing left but Janu- y 1st.

The way this could ppen is that Ski Club ecutive and the first, say, e people in the line-up y two tickets for each Zht (10 tickets). They also ve their friends’ member- ip cards and buy them kets, without them hav- ztowaitinlineforthreeor lr hours or camp over- Zht. (If you do camp out, d leave your car in B-lot

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people get tickets for all the smugly call ‘banana repub- that C. Szabo wrote that prime nights. The ordinary lics’), and anyone who letter for any other reason person has no chance to thinks that this situation than as a joke. But in case begin with unless they has no political reverbera- you were serious, C. Szabo, “know someone” on the Ski tions is kidding himself. why not visit Wreck Beach executive. Canada can already be next summer. Hundreds of

I think it’s pretty bad properly classed as a “trust disgusting incidents await that some people can get territory” (so called) of the you; they seek to draw you eight or 10 tickets (and don’t US., a shameful state for a in, then shock the hell out of even stand in line) and I nationwithsuchgreatnatu- you. Form a lobby group! couldn’t get even one, after ral and human resources. Close the beach! Close waiting outside for four Sean McIlroy Sedgewick! hours. Arts 2 To me, the sad and dis-

I am speaking for a lot gusting thing is that some- of people who were disap- Sedge strip one so close to graduation pointed that morning when should combine illiberal and Isaycuttheelitistsystem- dispute SOarS self-righteous attitudes make it so that each person with a complete disregard canbuy two ticketsfor oneof I am weary of stupid for what constitutes good the prime nights. They must attitudes. One such attitude reasoning. be there in person to buy can be found in C. Szabo’s Tim Burden them and no holding places letter of Nov. 15 (‘Segde Arts 1 in line. stripper not appreciated‘).

We, the members of the Ski Club, paid our fees to get some privileges-where are they? Give everyone a chance. Otherwise the cabin is monopolized by a few “elites”, and the Ski “Club” is nothing more than a name.

Gail Sherbaniuk

Trade saga continues In “Free Trade Kills the

Arts” (Wednesday, Novem- ber 15th, page 8), reference is made to an organization called “Concerned Citizen’s About Free Trade.” As a bona fide member of this group, I can assure you that its real name is Citizens Concerned About Free Trade, and that it will continue to fight for Canadian independence against American economic domi- nation, even after this particular free-trade arrange- ment has been scrapped.

Canada has more American investment than all of Central and South America combined (you know, all those countries we

The- ietter was-; heart-felt response to something C. Szabo found dismaying; the stupid attitude is that, because C. Szabo found it dismaying, so should the rest of us. Far stupider is the idea that we should legislate against everything that dis- gusts c. Szabo.

C. Szabo, you don’t make it clear what it was that dismayed you. Was it the heavy-metal music? The applause? Long hair? It seems that three years at the university have not given you much talent for reason. In the midst of your rhetorical slop, one single bit of reasoning shines through. Unfortunately, I don’t agree that all occur- rences a t Sedgewick should by unlawful.

Don’t worry, I know what you meant to say. You tried to express your feeling that public displays of inde- cency should be unlawful. They offend you. Hundreds of others, maybe thousands, were as disturbed and dis- rupted as you were. So let’s crack down! Shape up! Leg- islate!

I can’t really believe

Subway smoke smothers As you may well know,

most of the area surround- ing the upper level of the non-smoking section in the Subway cafeteria has been changed from a non-smoking section to a smoking section. Now, the non-smoking section is almost fully encircled by smokers. I find this quite annoying. We all know that smoke rises, and if someone is sitting around the edge of the non-smoking section (where most of the tables happen to b e ) they are bombarded by second hand smoke.

This is not entirely con- venient for someone who’s allergic to or bothered by cigarette smokeandmay get ill. Where are they supposed to sit? Obviously not in the smoking section-they’re gven their own place. But when this place is not what it says it iereservedfor the comfort of non-smokers- then I think some changes should be made.

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lO/THE UBYSSEY November 22,1988

Keepin’ the clouds away

“Are there any quality television programs that educate, en- rich our lives, make us laugh and cry, and portray life realistically?”

People often ask me this question, knowing my disdain for the banal nonsense which fizzes from our television sets every day, pan- dering to the lowest common de- nominator in society, giving us measured doses of comic-strip- violence, telling us when to laugh, and then bombarding us every few minutes with brain-gripping jingles and slogans.

Happily, there is one. This program has earned a

secure position on morning television that has lasted for twenty years. It competes with the glossy game shows and soap operas and still maintains a loyal following.

This is no small feat considering the mesmerizing excitement of game shows. People answering stupid questions and spinning prize wheels while clapping and maintaining a silly grin (probably held in place by Scotch tape or tiny sutures) is heavyweight entertainment.

“This is our champion, Doug Blecky. He likes to collect shiny things that he finds in the street. Let’s give him a warm welcome!”

Then there are the soap operas.Thosemelodramaticmelano- mas that agonize our emotions. And when we can hardly bear it, some woman comes on to allow us a moment to wipe the tears away and tell us how we can get whiter socks.

How this program competes with all that is beyond me.

It keeps a low profile. It doesn’t carry advertising or blow its own horn. Its stars manage to keep their integrity.

Its biggest blunder is calling itself a children’s program.

Sesame Street. I’m serious. It‘s really good.

Sometimes it’s funny and sometimes ya learn stuff. I like i t way better now than I did when I was little. I understand the kench part. And there’s lots of jokes and stuff that kids wouldn’t get.

I started watching it again about a year ago. It’s not the same

as it used to be. There’s lots of neat-o new characters like Placid0 Flamingo (he’s a real finny opera singer), Elmo (he’s kinda silly), Slimy the Worm, the Honkers, the Rhymies and scads more.

There’s also tons of cool new features like Monsterpiece The- atre hosted by Mister Cookie (he’s really Cookie Monster). I liked it when they had Chariots of Fur. And Guy Smiley has a new show called What’s Prairie’s Problem?

They have cool special guests like Whitney Houston and John Candy and Andrea Martin from

people. A Billy Idol puppet sings “Rebel L” instead of the real “Rebel Yell.” That was so funny.

One kinda sad thing is that the human people on the show are getting old. Oscar the Grouch doesn’t have any grey fur yet but Bob is getting grey and David has gotten kinda pudgy working in the store. He took over a few years ago when Mr. Hooper died (I used to love it when Big Bird would call him Mr. “Pooper” instead of Hooper).

Sesame Street is so liberal now too. I couldn’t believe Ernie’s latest performance of the song “Rubber Ducky.” It used to be so cute and sweet. Now he does a reggae version and everybody in the neighborhood actually takes off his clothes and gets into the tub with him (and they’re all nude).

Unlike most commercial television, Sesame Street shows real kids: kids with overbites and bad haircuts who aren’t afraid to scratch themselves in unseemly places the way real kids do.

Sesame Street is for everybody.

Bill Lake, a 42-year-old driving instructor said, “Yes, sometimes I’ll sit down and watch it for five minutes. It puts across a quality message to people - that they should care about others and their feelings.”

SCTV, plus puppets of famous

I tried to interview a four- year-old when it was time for Ses- ame Street to come on but she was too busy laughing to comment.

By Sean Kelly

Right on the button I voted yesterday. As I made

my way across the elementary school gymnasium, a man in a grey three-piece suit towered over me. He looked down at my chest, and told me to remove my button. Therest of the gym looked at me-a law breaker. The horn- rimmed ladies stopped in their stunted steps and stared. My knees quaked, my hands turned white as oysters-the guilt of an electioneer hit me in the gut.

I reached up to my overcoat, and felt for my propaganda-laden accessory. There it was...why does he keep staring at me? Gone-it‘s gone now, see? I tried to break the gloom with a wimp- ish smile. It only made me look more guilty.

The polling clerk took my side in an attempt at sympathy. “That guy has been breathing down my neck the whole day. This is a very Progressive Conserva- tive polling station.” “Really?” I asked- little nervous about speaking to an employee of Elec- tions Canada.

The grey-haired crowd grew thicker around me and the clerk. Their canes were poised for a bludgeoning. I played with the little pointy tip on my button, and thought I might have a chance at

ripping some nylons, or giving a pretty nasty scratch on some bifo- cals.

‘Where’s the button?” they asked in unison.

”You mean this one?” I said with the slightest tinge of sar- casm, as I hauled it out of my pocket to their waiting glance.

“Give me that button,” the maninthegreysuitsaid.Therest of the crowd cackled. Alas, I had left my little dog Nono outside the building. He could not help me now-poor Nono.

“There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home ...” I chanted.

My home had been taken over by grey-suited scrutineers. Anditwasn’tjustmybutton-but any button. You see, my button was simply a non-partisan message for peace. Apparently, peace propaganda is not allowed at a polling station-it is too political. But grey-suited scrutineers who wear a partisan label on their person, and sit behind the polling booths are allowed. There is also no limit on how many scrutineers each party is allowed to have present.

Here’s to democracy, and fair process.

By Katherine Monk

CYRUS GORDON Director, Centre for Ebla Research

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

CYRUS GORDON was with the expedition that discovered what is popularly known as King Solomon’s Mines. Currently he is working to restore the Lost Language of Ebla. In 1983, the Syrian Department of Antiquities invited him to examine 15,000 clay tablets from Ebla’s royal archives. A specialist in deciphering ancient inscriptions, Professor Gor- don is proficient in many languages, including Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Egyptian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Hittite, Sumerian and Arabic.

THE PENTATEUCH: Source Criticism of Multiple or Single Au- thorship Wednesday, November 23Chapel Auditorium, at ll:30am, Regent Col- lege

How Has Our Knowledge of ‘Forgotten Scripts’ and of ‘Human Prehistory’ Changed Over the Last 100 years? Thursday, November 24 In Buchanan A-104, at 12:30pm

The Early Bronze Age (3000-2000 B.C.) is particularly crucial to civiliza- tion because writing was developed during that period - writing in the sense of the phonetic spelling out of languages that can be read and interpreted. At Ugarit, around 1400 B.C., the first form of our own ABC’s appear in cuneiform on clay, with nearly all of the letters arranged in the order we retain today.

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Athletes aim for a fair shake Administration is out of touch By Katherine Monk

UBC athletes don’t know what the future holds and how they can make their voice heard, according to John Stevenson, student representative to the Univer- sity Athletic Council.

Stevenson will be holding a meeting with the Women’s Big Block-the only student athletic organization left on campus- Wednesday to discuss where student athletes stand in relation to the administration.

They are tending to choose coaches who generate winning teams, instead of choosing people who care about the all- round athletic and academic experience

““he meeting is more of a question and answer period. The idea is to get people to come out and ask what’s happening,” said Stevenson.

“Being an athlete myself there’s very little communication between the administration and the athlete-students don’t have much chance at participation,” he said.

The problems in athletics began when the Board of Gover- nors restructured the University Athletic Council, Stevenson said in an interview yesterday. The board cut off the student run men’s and women’s athletic councils and replaced them with the UAC, which falls under the administration’s umbrella, he added.

“Even now that I’m on UAC, I’m frustrated at how the administration manipulates the committee,” Stevenson said.

As it stands now, the UAC has five student representatives- approximately .015 percent student representation. And not all of these students are athletes, said Stevenson.

But vice president of student services K.D Srivastava doesn’t .think there is a problem. “If there is a lack of representation, I’d like to hear about it,” he said. “But frankly, I don’t believe there is.”

Linda Diano, ex-president of the Women’s Big Block, said the administration cannot adequately represent the needs of students, as they are not students themselves. She said the situation has not changed since she left her post last year after the dissolution of the Women’s Athletic Council.

“The administration is paid employees, and they have not always been big on student in- volvement, and it is even showing through the coaches. “hey are ‘tending to choose coaches who generate winning teams, instead of choosing people who care about the all-round athletic and academic experience,” Diano said.

Stevenson said he was also concerned about how much information reaches the students, even those on council. Zast year I tried to get an audit done of the athletic department amid rumours of missing funds. It was finished but I don’t know what the report said,” Stevenson said.

“Part of the frustration is that K.D. Srivastava is the man who gets the report of the audit, and he defines things on the audit-and he told us everything was on the level.”

“I’m skept ica l4ut that’s just

my nature,” Steven- son added.

Stevenson said he wanted to start a n external management review of the way athletics is managed, but following the results of the audit, K.D. Srivas- tava found it was not necessary.

“There was no need for a major re- organization, but there will always be evolution,” said Sri- vastava.

Gail Wilson, women’sfield hockey coach and faculty li- a w n to Women’s Big Block, said the Wed- nesday meeting is just one positive way to address the problems which students face.

“we had Joanne Jones (director of women’s athletics) come in and speak to female athletes, and she raised the issue of the UAC and what they did. So the next logical step was to have Bill McNulty (of UAC) to come in and explain the student’s role in the administration of athletics from the point of view of the UAC,” said Wilson.

The Wednesday meeting will be held in War Memorial Gym room 211 at noon, and is open to all students.

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