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Temps hit hard bybookstore's cost-recovery plan

by Douglas Quan

If you thought morale in the UBC Bookstore wasbad now, it will only get worse, a two-year employ-ee of the campus outlet is warning.

Stephen McIlvenna says plans by managementat the bookstore to drastically reduce the numberof casual employees like himself will put a tremen-dous burden on an already overworked staff.

"It's a sinking ship, that's the general feeling," hesaid.

The Ubyssey has learned that the UBCBookstore's two dozen casual workers will eitherlose their positions or see significant reductions intheir hours in an effort by store management tosave $700,000 in expenses this year.

According to the bookstore financial directorDebbi-Jo Matins, the staff reductions, while unfor-tunate, were the "financially prudent" way to go inorder to help offset an unforseen slump in sales thisyear.

"The market's tough, so we're going to keep our-selves lean," she said.

Matias added that she considered cuttinghourly staff only after having examined all the waysshe could cut from operating expenses.

While the number of job losses is unknown,Matias said all the store's hourly employees will beaffected.

"Someone who works 20 hours a week, we'regoing to try and get away with them working four,"she said.

A cost-recovery plan was ordered by UBC vicepresident finance Terry Sumner at a meeting withbookstore director Debbie Harvie earlier thismonth.

Sumner told the Ubyssey, "Unless we take cor-rective action as soon as possible, we could be in asituation where we'd have a loss for the year"

The bookstore's '98/'99 budget projects $33 mil-lion in sales, an $8 million profit on those sales, and$500,000 in net income.

As it turns out, the bookstore is slated to make$30 million in sales and a $7 million profit fromthose sales . But rather than try to recover the entire$1 million shortfall in profit on sales, Sumner toldthe bookstore it only had to come up with $700,000and thereby make $200,000 in net income.

For Mcllvenna, the number crunching is morethan overwhelming, and he worries that the focuson reducing costs could take attention away fromimproving customer service.

"That's all [management] cares about now—sales figures. Period."

McIlvenna may not be the only employee ques-tioning the direction of bookstore management.The results of an employee survey commissionedby the bookstore recently shows that less than halfof all employees have confidence in the currentIeadership of the bookstore.

The MarkTrend study suggests, "this lack of con-fidence could be connected to business vision anddirection, as only 41 per cent of employees feel thebookstore's current business vision/direction isclear."+

SIKKEMA'S SPRAWLING SAVE : UBC goaltender Jon Sikkema goes diving across the crease to rob a LethbridgePronghorn in the Birds' home opener this weekend . UBC lost 5-4 on Friday, but recovered to post their first winof the year by a 4-0 score . Sikkema posted a shutout as UBC upped their season record to 1-3 . However, theweekend took its toll on the already injury-riddled Thunderbirds, as centre Geoff Lynch was lost to a serious ankleinjury Friday'RICHARD LAM PHOTO

see "UBC offensive in home opener" on page 6

Closure near in 1995 Poli Sci fiascoRice refused to comment

At the same time that Rigo and Ricebrought their charges of discriminationagainst the political science department tothe commission in 1994, their complaintswere the subject of a larger investigation byVancouver lawyer, Joan McEwen.

The university commissioned McEwen toconduct an investigation after 12 graduatestudents complained to the dean of graduatestudies of "pervasive racism and sexism" inthe political science department

In her report, released in 1995, McEwenconcluded that there was a basis for the stu-dents' allegations, and also deemed the uni-versity's response to those allegations inade-quate.

Following McEwen's recommendations,the university immediately suspendedadmissions into the political science gradu-ate program.

(It was reopened by the graduate studiesdean later that fall).

Both McEwen's report and the university'sresponse caused a furore within the faculty

of arts. Many professors felt the report lackedbalance and worried that academic freedomwas being stifled.

McEwen refused to comment on therecent decisions of the BC Human RightsCommission.

But political science professor DonaldBlake, who headed the department at thetime of the investigation, said he was relievedto hear of the dismissals.

"[The commission decisions] indicatethat there was no reason for people to feelthey would be discriminated against in thisdepartment on the basis of their race orgender. And that continues to be the case ."

Blake also challenged the university torevisit its response to the McEwen report.

"The university is going to have torespond publicly once the information is outthere that the complaints were dismissed,"Blake said.

Pavlich said it was premature to say if theuniversity would review the actions it under-took in 1995, but said it was something theymay consider.+

by Douglas Quan

UBC is one step closer to closing the books. on the 1995 political science fiasco that crip-pled that department's image and dividedthe university campus.

The Ubyssey has learned that the BCHuman Rights Commission has dismissedall complaints of discrimination against thepolitical science department by former grad-uate student Lorraine Rigo.

The commission has also recommendeddismissing the complaints of another formergraduate, Carol Rice. But rather than respondto the recommendations, Rice withdrew hercase.

That move, according to UBC lawyerDennis Pavlich, inhibits the university fromgetting a degree of finality on the matter.

"We want to make sure that that with-drawal is a with-prejudice withdrawal,"Pavlich said . "We would not want this issueto be brought again before the commis-sion ."

Rigo did not return the Ubyssey's calls and

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she advocated for the right of students to make their own choicein establishing new student fees through the Student TechnologyFee referendum (1997), and the Athletics and Intramuralsreferendum (1998).

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Researchers clamour for new funds

Two weeks after UBC received a $50 million donation for research funding from UBC alumniStewart Blusson, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has approved funding for onehigh-priced UBC research proposal and put 10 more under consideration for funding.

"At the end of the day we're all feeling pretty pleased with ourselves," said Richard Spratley,UBC's director of research services.

Not everyone at UBC shares Spratley's enthusiasm, however. Just ask Elaine Humphrey,UBC's director of the EM (Electron Microscope) facility. "I'm really steamed about this," she saidof CFI's decision to reject her proposal for funding.

Her proposal for a state-of-the-art scanning electron microscope (SEM), at a cost of $500,000,was one of five UBC proposals in the over $350,000 category that the CFI rejected outright forfunding.

Humphrey doesn't understand why. "The new [SEMI would have put us at the top of the

heap. At the moment we're bottom of the pile . . .We would have beenleaders in Western Canada," Humphrey said.

The CFI, announced in the 1997/98 federal budget, is an $800 million,privately-administered fund to create an infrastructure forest research inCanada. It will pay 40 per cent of the costs of approved projects, leavinguniversities to look to government, private sources, and industry dona-tions to pay the balance.

In the CFI's under-$350,000 category, 10 UBC proposals were accept-ed, primarily to purchase single pieces of equipment in medicine,forestry, engineering and science.

Spratley said competition for funding is intense."Things that are trendy are coming from every university in the coun-

try. They've had 18 proposals in applied genomics."What they're going to try and do is look at this on a national basis,

and then allocate funds accordingly."Spratley explained that funding is "based on more than just need ."Not referring to Humphrey's project specifically, Spratley added that

the CFI's purpose is "not renovation, but innovation ."The one UBC proposal in the over-$350,000 category that did receive

CFI funding was that headed by Forest Sciences professor Kermit Ritlandto build a Genetic Data Centre at UBC.

The centre will collect and analyse molecular genetic information inforestry and agriculture . CFI's contribution to the centre will be $382,000.

One high-profile project still in the running for funding is a proposalto build a Centre for Integrated Genomics, headed by Victor Ling, profes-sor in the pathology and laboratory medicine department and DouglasKilburn, of the UBC biotechnology lab.

An initiative funded by the BC Cancer Foundation, Ling said that theCentre will address issues of "how we can use genome science to impacton cancer research and ultimately cancer control' ."

Ling and Kilburn have requested $32 million in CFI funding.Other UBC proposals still under consideration include proposals for a Laboratory of

Molecular Biophysics, a Brain Research Centre, and a Clean Burning Engine Lab.However, whether any of the proposals still under review get approved will remain unknown

until at least January, when the next round of decisions will be made . "It's really very unclear—nothing like this has ever been done before," said Spratley of the CFI process.

Humphrey remains adamant that her research is worthy of funding. She said her proposalalso has obvious medical uses, from attempting to replace a missing gene in the lungs of cycticfibrosis patients, to studying viruses. Genetic science, said Humphrey, needs the resolution andimage quality offered by SEMs.

"We have had at least two top-notch people refuse to come to UBC because we don't havegood imaging. . .because we're at the bottom of the pile as far as the microscopes go ."

Humphrey said she is finding some support within the university. Acting Dean of ScienceDavid Measday has pledged $100,000 in matching funds, and she said she will now look to VPResearch Bernie Bressler for additional funds .*

STEAMED : Elaine Humphrey loses out on bid to get funding for new equipment. RICHARD LAM PHOTO

by Nicholas Bradley

Black to run anti-treaty campaignby Cynthia Lee

Controversial newspaper publisherDavid Black will run anti-Nisga'aTreaty ads across the province in his55 community newspapers tocounter supportive ads sponsoredby the provincial government

Black, recently criticised forinsisting his papers not print edito-rials supporting the treaty, made theannouncement during a debate onfreedom of the press sponsored byUBC's Sing Tao School of JournalismThursday night

"They're lying to us," said Blackof the government ads. According tothe pro-Treaty ads, the Nisga'awould be self-sustaining and pay itscomplete share of taxes.

But the ads are misleading,says Black, because the Nisga'anation is in fact receiving subsi-dies outlined by the Treaty. Hesays that the Nisga'a governmentwill not pay stumpage fees or roy-alties to the crown on mineralextraction, that the band will alsobe exempt from income taxes forthe next 12 years, and face no GST,fuel or sales tax on anything pur-chased by the band for the nexteight years.

For these reasons, Black will starthis own ad campaign.

The announcement comes inmidst of a complaint against Blackfrom the BC government to theprovincial Press Council againstBlack.

In late September, the publisherattracted attention when he made itmandatory his papers not run anypro-Nisga'a Treaty editorials andmade it mandatory they all run ananti-Nisga'a column.

"We're seen as pretty darnresponsible publishers," said Blackin defence of his decision to run ananti-Nisga'a Treaty column by MelSmith, a constitutional affairscolumnist. "Here I am trying tobring out other points of view and[the BC government] is spending $5million on advertising."

Throughout the debate, Blackexpressed how "passionate" he feltabout the Nisga'a deal, saying it wasthe first time in his 23-year propri-etorship he had ever laid down theeditorial line.

Black pointed out his decisiondoes not apply to letters to the editorand opinion pieces . "The buck stopsat the editorial."

But an emotional Steven Tate, anaudience member of the TshiaimpFirst Nations from Prince Rupert,made several statements disagree-ing with David Black's arguments."You've got a big paper.. .but whatabout our voice?"

Black replied : "Your opinion isgreat, but it's not that of an averageCanadian Native."

His opponent in the debate,Robert Mason Lee, a print journalistand broadcast personality, said thereis a substantial difference betweenletters to the editor and a published

editorial since a letter only reflect oneindividual's point of view "There's abig a difference as the gulf separating

al from negotiations.The pact which would have

established international rules oninvestment between its 29 membercountries—has been on life support

is going to happen [next]," saidCouncil of Canadians chairMaude Barlow, who traveled toParis to help lead internationalprotests against the MItI,"Everything is up in the air.

the facts from truth."I believe in a multiplicity of

views. When a proprietor comes in

or a long time, and Ithink its fair to say no one knhow to bring it to closure."

Leaders of the anti-MAI move-ment, however, are not celebrating

every 23 years . . .they're not taking aneditorial position, they're taking avendetta." :•

victory."What we have to remember is

that the MAI is going to be activein other venues like MEG., and theInternational Monetary Fund, ,said Tony Clarke, co-author of thebook MAI and the threat toCanadian Sovereignty.

The proponents of the MAIthe big transnadonals-are prob-ably going to go underground fora while and there'll be a periodwhen we don't hear anythingabout it and then suddenly it willsurface again ."

Concern about the MAI origi-nally arose in 1997 when a confi-dential copy of the draft text wasleaked over the Internet.

If it had been signed, the MAI

by Jeremy Nelson

Critics say the pact would have

prairies Bureau Chief threatened the sovereignty ofindividual states by placing too

VICTORIA (CUP)---Four years of much power in the hands of

high-level discussions in Paris on multinational corporations.

the Multilateral Agreement on After the collapse of 'theInvestment {MAI) ended last week talks, Canada's Minister of Trade

with the host country's withdraw- Sergio Marchi indicated he want-ed to move the MAI from theOrganisation for EconomicCooperation and Development tothe World Trade Organisation.

'I think the WTO is the mastersince May 1998, when lingering dis- of its own house," said Marchi,putes between the countries and alluding to the fact that the WTOmounting public opposition forced has a better track record when ita suspension of the talks.

Negotiators finally pulled the

comes to successfully negotiatingagreements.

plug last week when France

American negotiators took a

refused to return to the table, citing different view-deep-seeded concerns about the

"I don't think we would envision would have given expanded pow-lack of labour, cultural and envi- moving this negotiation effectively ers to large businesses, including

ronmental protection in the MAI.

into the WID," US trade spokesper- the right to directly sue any gov-

"Negotiators have no idea what son Jay Ziegler told the GJvbe arul ernment that passed a law limit-Merit "These negotiations have been ing their ability to make profits.

The MAI also would have pre-vented governments from passingany new labour, envirgwuuentel arcultural protection for a 20-yearperiod.*

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bias halt inquiryCOUNTERATTACK : APEC inquirychair Gerald Morin (left) refut-ed allegations last week thathe prejudged the outcome ofthe hearings. An RCMP officerclaims he overheard Morin ata Saskatchewan casino lastspring tell fellow gamblers hethought RCMP over-reactedduring the APEC conference.Students' lawyer CameronWard (below) said the timingof the allegations—broughtforward by governmentlawyer Ivan Whitehall—wassuspicious.RICHARD LAM PHOTO

"Can someone explain to me what's goingon?" asked David Malmo-Levine last Fridaymorning as he stumbled into the room of theAPEC inquiry shortly after 8 :30.

As the student complainant—one of onlya handful to testify so far in this inquiry intothe actions of RCMP officers—jostled hisway through scores of media scrums, hefound, the seats usually occupied by threeRCMP Public Complaints Commissionpanel members empty. It became apparentsomething wasn't right.

Indeed, something was wrong at the closeof the three week-old hearings Iast Friday . Ashas happened many times before, the inquirywas sidetracked by allegations of bias.

However, this time allegations did not tar-get the government, but the chair of theinquiry, Gerald Morin.

RCMP Constable Russell Black, of Morin's home-town Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, claims that while hewas off-duty last spring, he overheard Morin tell fellowgamblers in a casino he thought police mishandledprotesters at APEC by using pepper spray on them, andthat Morin said he knew what his decision was going tobe at the end of the hearings.

Blacks RCMP statements—which some observerssay could derail the inquiry forgood—were delivered to com-mission counsel Chris Considinelast Thursday morning by govern-ment lawyer Ivan Whitehall . Afterconferring for two hours, thepanel decided to cancel that day'ssession, but wouldn't say why ithad done so.

Then at the start of Friday'shearings, Morin announced hewas adjourning the hearings forthree weeks to allow the FederalCourt to investigate the allega-tions.

Reading from a preparedstatement in firm and measured tones, Morin alsodenied "unequivocally" any wrongdoing.

"I have not prejudged. I will not prejudge thesematters . I will judge only after all the evidence is in,"Morin said.

"I am confident I can continue to chair this hearing ."

After the adjournment, RCMP lawyer GeorgeMaclntosh said he would ask that the Federal Courtquash the hearings.

But the complainants and their lawyers chargedthat the federal government and the RCMP wereinvolved in a whitewash, and questioned the timing ofthe allegations.

"I'm concerned Whitehall has approached thepanel privately. . .clearly with the intention of pullingthe plug on the hearings," said Cameron Ward,

lawyer for over a dozenstudent complainants.

"I suspect the govern-ment is feeling the heat,feeling nervous abouthow close we're getting tothe truth."

Reform MP and criticof the solicitor generalJim Abbott called thetiming of the allegations"suspicious" and reiterat-ed his call for a new, inde-pendent inquiry.

In his official state-ment, Constable Black

says his memory of Morin's comments was sparked bythe firestorm of opposition attacks against the govern-ment following allegations two weeks ago thatSolicitor General Andy Scott prejudged the outcomeof the hearings .

The inquiry is set to resume on November 16 .4*

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Former sessional suing UBC

FORMER UBC sessional Gary Arbuckle (left) says the contract he signed with UBC was nevervalid . He has retained Vancouver lawyer Ayman Nader (right) to launch a lawsuit against the uni-versity. RICHARD LAM PHOTO

by Daliah Merzaban

The treatment of UBC's sessional lecturers and the validity of their contracts will be questionedin a lawsuit to be filed this term by former sessional lecturer Gary Arbuckle.

Arbuckle, a sessional lecturer in UBC's Asian Studies department from 1990 to 1997, wasblacklisted from the faculty of arts last year after Dean Shirley Neuman alleged that Arbucklehad breached UBC's conflict of interest policy. Arbuckle denies the charges.

It was while reviewing his legal options with Vancouver lawyer Ayman Nader that attentionshifted to the contract Arbuckle had signed with the university.

According to Nader, the sessional contracts are invalid for a number of reasons . Onecomponent of the suit will focus on the inactive role sessionals play in negotiating theireight-month contracts.

"The contract actually isn't signed by both parties—the sessionals and the university—it'sjust signed by the university," said Nader.

"It's almost always sent to the sessionals after they've started working. That's not a law-ful contract."

But Mary Russell, president of UBC's faculty association, said that it's not just session-als, but all faculty who have unsigned contracts. She said that the UBC Board of Governors(BOG) appointment notice is considered to be the legally binding document that lays outthe terms of the appointment . "That's the way it's been historically."

Russell added that there is a delay in the sending out of the notice because BOG meetings areonly once a month.

In addition to the BOG notice, there is a sessional agreement between the faculty associationand administration outlining the conditions of appointment and reappointment, and a state-

ment of duties provided by the individual departments.Nader will argue that since the contracts are invalid, it can' be assumed tha

sessionals are continuously employed, and must therefore be compensated futhe summer term of no work.

"They're not paid for a term in which they're not teaching and thatwhere I say the university owes them either a lay-off notice or pay in liesof notice," Nader said . He added that this payment would probably be on

or two months' wages.In addition to the contract matter, Nader will also raise several other employment issue

including the three or four courses sessionals must teach, depending on their faculty, in order tbe deemed full-time employees.

"In order to save money the university won't simply have one contract for the three [erfour] courses for a full-time sessional," said Nader. "What they will do is provide that seesional with three contracts, making the sessional appear as if he/she is working as a parttime sessional as opposed to full-time ."

Nader said these are "abusive employment tactics" because part-time sessionals, winteach only one course, are not covered by the faculty association agreement, which provides job security and benefits.

Russell did not deny that this type of contracting does take place, but said that the number dcontracts does not have bearing on whether a sessional is considered full or part-time.

"It's just the [course] load that counts—it's not the number of contracts," Russell said.The lawsuit will also address work done by sessionals outside the terms of their agreement.Nader says sessionals sometimes work after the end of their contract in order to address

students' concerns regarding the course.With the new sessional agreement, ratified by full-time sessionals two weeks ago, ses .

sionals will receive an additional $200 for marking an exam after the contract expires . ButRussell said this has not always been the case, and she emphasised that new provisions stillonly apply to sessionals teaching two or more courses.

She agrees the old agreement was problematic."I think in crafting the new agreement there was some implicit recognition that the old agree-

ment wasn't working. That's fair to say."•3

Study states that students pay too muchby Alex Bustos

Ottawa Bureau Chief

OTTAWA (CUP)—University graduates inBritish Columbia are paying the full cost oftheir education, a new study by the CanadianCentre for Policy Alternatives argues.

In a paper released last week, Universityof British Columbia Economics professorRobert Allen says post-secondary educationin BC is not—contrary to popular belief—heavily subsidised.

In fact, Allen's findings suggest some BCgraduates pay up to two-and-half times thecost of their undergraduate degree.

According to the study, the first of itskind in Canada, students pay for their diplo-mas in two ways : tuition fees and taxes frompost-university employment.

Using UBC figures, Allen concluded thattuition fees for a four-year bachelor programat the University cost on average $11,480.

Taking data from the 1991 census, the

professor then points out that universitygraduates earn substantially more thanthose without post-sec-ondary education.

He concludes that BCgraduates pay $50,000 morein net taxes than non-uni-versity graduates over theirworking lifetime.

This tax figure—whichincludes income tax,Canadian Pension Plan con-tributions and employmentinsurance payments—bal-loons to $120,000 for maleswith an engineering degree.

If tuition fees and taxes areadded, females pay on aver-age $61,066 and men $74,376.

In contrast, providing four years ofundergraduate study to females costs thegovernment $28,469, while the costincurred by males is $30,099 .

From the numbers, it is clear that educa-tion pays for itself in the long run.

"If what I'm saying istrue, then students arealready paying theireducation in full, and toincrease fees would beovercharging them andlimiting access," saysAllen, whose study lendsfavour to calls for zerotuition.

"My hunch is that thisoverall conclusion. . . alsoapplies to the otherprovinces."

But Mark Milke,Alberta director of the

fiscally conservative lobby group theCanadian Taxpayers Federation, says Allenoverlooks the fact that low tuition levelssubsidise the rich at the expense of the poor.

At present, tuition fees hi Canada cover

roughly one-third of education costs."It's an interesting [study], except that it's

still absurd to think that a son and daughterof a millionaire should be given the sametuition break as someone who earns$20,000," says Milke.

"It makes far more sense to charge stu-dents the full cost of education, but providegenerous assistance for those who can't pay. "

But according to Maura Parte, BC chair-person for the Canadian Federation ofStudents, Allen's study provides ample rea-sons to eliminate tuition fees.

The problem with Milke's argument ofHarrison and Milke, argues Parte, is that hepresumes "only the individual benefitsfrom education."

"What's important about Mr. Allen'sstudy," says Parte, "is that it suggests societyas a whole benefits."

In addition, Parte says there's no guaran-tee an income-contingent tuition systemwill give benefits to those in need . v

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Singh sets recordby Bruce Arthur "Wasn't that nice? We needed one of those,

too," said interim head coach Dave Johnson, whosaid that UBC needed to rebound after lastweek's 47-13 loss to the Calgary Dinosaurs.

Singh and his offensive line were dominantPol, Aaron Barker, Chris Paterson, Stu Masi, andfirst-year backup Damon Stoetling (playing for abanged-up Bob McNeill) dominated the line ofscrimmage, while Singh went shooting throughthe massive holes. But UBC's offensive line still

feel they can do more."We feel that we're play-

ing well, but we could do somuch better," said Barker."But we really wanted[Akbal] to get that [record]tonight."

The game turns UBC'sseason into a one-gameseries . With Saskatchewanbeating Calgary, UBC mustnow defeat the Huskies

November 6 at Thunderbird Stadium to make theplayoffs . UBC is 0-9-1 against Saskatchewan intheir last ten meetings, and lost a 38-34 heart-breaker in a Saskatoon rainstorm earlier thisyear. So to get into the playoffs, UBC has to exor-

The UIcise some demons before a long-awaited game . Canada

"Now, it's the big one . We got this game done, ily favourbring on Sask. I'm not going to look ahead, but Saturday.we'll have them two weeks in a row if all goes scored allwell," said Pol .

UBC willAnd UBC's emotions will be running high .

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Paterson of the team's feelings. "You know, we'reso close two years in a row—a last-second field

MEN'Sgoal last year, and a last-second touchdown thisyear, and it's right there. It's right there. We'll be The men'sready for Saskatchewan ."+

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Akbal Singh is the thing.The UBC tailback ran for an astounding 272

yards and three touchdowns to break both theUBC and Canada West records for single-seasonrushing yards Friday night, as the 5-2Thunderbirds trounced the 0-6 University ofManitoba Bisons 53-14 . The win sets up a do-or-die final regular season showdown next weekagainst the University ofSaskatchewan Huskies.

"We're going to be in for abattle," said an exhausted Singhafter the game. "No doubt aboutit, we're going to be ready toplay."

Singh's season totals nowstand at 1,296 yards . He brokethe existing Canada West con-ference record of 1,260 set in1994 by Manitoba's DominicZagari, as well as smashing predecessor MarkNohra's UBC record of 1,216 yards set last year.

"The only record that I'm worried about iswinning," said Singh, who gave his offensive line-man plenty of credit. "You could pretty muchdrive a Mac truck through those holes ."

"Akbal's the kind of guy that's going to leteverybody know about his o-line, and I can't sayenough about the guy," said right tackle DavidPol . "Obviously, he's a great player."

The game was decided early, as it took theBirds all of 14 seconds to score . On the openingkickoff, wideout J. C . Williams handed the ball todefensive back Matt Young on a reverse, andYoung went 95 yards for a touchdown to open thescoring. The Birds scored three more first-quar-ter touchdowns en route to an early 28-0 lead.

"The only recordthat I'm worriedabout is winning:'

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UBC RUNNING BACK

HEAD AND SHOULDERS ABOVE: UBC tried to soar above the competi-tion this weekend, but instead wound up falling to earth, as theirundefeated season was broken. The Birds came away with a tie anda narrow loss in their final home weekend series . RICHARD LAM PHOTO

UBC women gearup for playoffs

by Sara Newham:

e UBC's offence isn't theem.the Thunderbirds are havinge putting the puck in the net, itmy didn't show Friday andlay night against thersity of Lethbridgehorns . UBC, now 1-3, man-t total of eight goals in the 5-4-0 split this weekend at thellerbird Winter Sports Cenlre.Itt the second period of Fridayloss that UBC ran into penal-

uble ; that cost them the 3-1Lethbridge opened up theig, with a goal in the firste of the game, but UBC camewith a vengeance to score threeiwered goals. The 'Hornsl to within one early in the sec-Ind then got the tying markerpower play.re had a little lapse, and mis-turned into goals on us. Thathappen," said UBC forwardWilliams ..the third, the Birds came out

strong and tried to rally, but wereunable to overcome the deficit bythe final buzzer.

"We're a team that's going tohave to work hard every night . Wecan't get outworked by the otherteam," said fourth-year forwardCorey Stock. "It's always a onegoal game coming in to the thirdperiod. We've just got to find away to win in the third period"

UBC lost more than the hock-ey game on Friday night. Duringthe second period Geoff Lynch, inhis first game back from a groininjury, collided with the Horns'Derek Robinson along the sideboards. Lynch laid on the ice,gripping his ankle for a fewmoments before being helped offby teammates.

"Geoff Lynch looks to have aserious ankle problem . That couldbe a long-term problem," con-firmed head coach Mike Coffin.

The Thunderbirds had a muchbetter outing on. Saturday night, asthey came out strong and controlledmuch of the play. And unlike Friday

night, it was the Birds who got thefirst goal—Sandy Hayer put the puckpast Lethbridge goalie ScottTollestrup at 6:56 of the first period.

UBC goalie Jon Sikkema earnedhis first shutout of the season.Sikkema was especially goodwhen the Birds were killing penal-ties, often picking the puck out ofthe air with his glove to make thesave. The defense helped him outby grinding along the boards,making hits, and clearing the puckdown the ice whenever they gotpossession.

The Thunderbirds offense wasalso potent for a second straightgame, as first-year forward NilsAntons led the team with twogoals. Coffin, though, singled outthe team's defence, and said hewas pleased with the team's effort.

"They deserved the win," hesaid, and Williams agreed.

"I think overall the effort wasthere . That's basically the onething the team can control is theireffort level, and I think we hadthat here ."r•

by Vincent Lam

If frustration bred virtue, thenevery player on the UBC women'ssoccer team would have had halosover their heads this weekend.

Playing the SaskatchewanHuskies Saturday and theAlberta Pandas Sunday, UBC'swork ethic and determinationwas reminiscent of elves onChristmas Eve—but their effortsyielded little more than a lumpof coal. The Birds came out oftheir final homestand with a 1-1tie with Saskatchewan and theirfirst loss of the year to first-placeAlberta. The Birds are now 2-1-5and in third place in the CanadaWest.

But even though UBC was notable to earn a win this weekend,head coach Dick Mosher is con-fident in his team's ability goinginto the playoffs.

"Our players know that wecan compete. There is nobodybetter in this league that is betterthan us," he said. "I think thatyou're going to see a differentteam in the playoffs.

On Saturday, the Birds were intop form. As a result of earlypressure, the Birds drew firstblood and opened the scoringthanks to the smart play of Kim

Spencer. However, Spencer'sgoals would prove to be the onlyUBC goal all day. With only twominutes left in the first half, theHuskies tied the game up, andthe Birds and Huskies played to a1-1 tie.

UBC did have excellent scor-ing chances, including a free kickby striker Ros Hicks that deflect-ed off the crossbar with two min-utes left in the game, but badbounces and questionable refer-eeing prevented UBC fromchalking up a point in the wincolumn.

"It felt like it was twelve play-ers on eleven with [the referee]on their team," said a frustratedHicks.

Sunday was just as exasperat-ing. Alberta opened the scoringwith a blistering shot from pointblank range, and Birds goalieSian Bagshawe had no chance.And while the Birds exertedsome excellent offensive pres-sure late in the game, their effortwas not enough to put the ballbetween the pipes in the 1-0 loss.

The T-Birds travel toLethbridge and Calgary nextweekend to end the regular sea-son. And hopefully, those haloswill start to translate into somewins.+

MEN'S RUGBY

UBC women's rugby team won the first evera West fmal in thrilling fashion over the heav-oured University of Victoria Vikings 22-17ay. The Birds were led by Cher McKay, whoall four tries on runs of 50 yards or longer.

rill now travel to Hamilton for the inaugural;hampionships in Hamilton November 12-15Master.

N'S SOCCER

en's soccer team remained in third place at 4-the Canada West after this weekend's games .

The T-Birds opened Saturday with a 4-1 romp overthe Saskatchewan Huskies in which Cam Prenticescored two goals, while Nick Hopewell and SteveMcCauley tallied one each. The men then droppeda close 2-1 decision to the conference-leadingAlberta Golden Bears on Sunday . UBC's Aaron Keayscored his fourth goal of the year for the Birds . UBChits the road to end the regular season next week-end against Lethbridge and Calgary.

MEN'S VOLLEYBALL

The UBC men pummelled Regina to open their1998-99 season this weekend . The T-Birds didn'tdrop a set, as they won 3-0 on both Friday (15-2,15-13,15-3) and Saturday (15-9, 15-8, 15-11) . The Birdstravel to Alberta next weekend . Mike Dalziel andVictoria transfer Jeff Orchard were stellar, combin-ing for 59 total kills . v

)l Lethbridge Pronghorns goaltender Scott Tollestrup stops UBC's Grant Kerr by a skate onay, but the Birds took the game 4-0 anyway. RICHARD LAM PHOTO

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excruciating minutes of the sound crew poking andprodding. But soon after, SCOTS finally came on thestage and began to shake it on, and by their secondsong they had the crowd bopping along to theircatchy guitar riffs and downright humorous lyrics.

SCOTS blazed through their set, throwing songafter song at what was clearly a happy audience . Theyplayed crowd favourites like "Banana Puddin" ' and"40 Miles to Vegas" and threw in some surprises.There was a song dedicated to fried chicken (whatwould a SCOTS show be without fried chicken?) and,complete with Mexican wrestling mask, a musicaldedication to wrestling star Santos.

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What if Jesus had descended tohumanity but instead of Bethlehem,landed in the deep South? CottonPatch Gospel takes up this query, andwhat results is a down-to-earth,hokey play.

The play does not preach thestory of Jesus, nor does it have theintention of recruiting newChristians . What Cotton Patch Gospeldoes is tell a story about Jesus the

Messiah in a modem and humorousmanner, in a way that will appeal toordinary people. It is a good produc-tion with a toe-tapping, hand-dap-ping, head-bopping musical score,as well as wonderfully harmonisedvoices and instrumentation.

However, throughout the play, Ifound that my experience greatlycontrasted with the rest of my the-atre companions. Punch lines suchas "Baptists are always attracted tonew buildings" moved most of theaudience to uninhibited laughter,while I sat puzzled. As I lookedaround throughout the duration ofthe play, I saw an audience that wastransfixed by the performance. They

were laughing loudly, extremely ani-mated, and energetically clappingtheir hands along with the musicwhile I sat bored and, at times,bewildered.

It was as if I was in Sundayschool and Cotton Patch Gospelhad been put on for us kids tolearn about Jesus. It isn't that theplay is too preachy, it's just therewasn't any enlightenment or newinsight . If a new slant on the life ofJesus is of interest, than this ener-getic and intelligent modernadaptation is worth catching . But,all Cotton Patch Gospel held forme was the same old story in adifferent package .+

their own unique take on the apoca-lypse. There's Patrick (McKellar), who'sintending to spend the evening inquiet, solitary contemplation. There'sCraig (Callum Keith Rennie, his usualedgy self), who's decided to have asmany different sexual experiences aspossible before the apocalypse.There's Sandra (Sandra Oh in wide-eyed, panic-stricken mode), who's try-ing to get home to commit double sui-cide with her husband, and then

~'s Patrick's sister Jennifer (SarahPolley), who's partying like it'sDecember 31, 1999 . Which it is.

So chaos descends and everybody'sfending for themselves. As the filmprogresses, the characters criss-crosseach other's paths, knowingly and

unknowingly, each attempting to get the most out of theirpersonal finale as possible. Nothing's over too serious forMcKellar to take a run at, whether it's Sandra's commit-ment to killing herself before the end,Craig's sexual feroc-ity, or Patrick's personal tragedy. And that's the charm.Last Night never pushes itself as a big movie and so itcomes off without the requisite, self-conscious 'arty-ness'of so many other films, it slides on by, and when the enddoes come, you can't help but wish they'd just had a littlemore time. Because, when the end of the world arrives,nobody's boring anymore. +

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With Last Night, there are several things to he thankful for.There's the fact that writerldirectorlstar Don McKellar isa brilliant filmmaker. There's the fact that he hasn't fledthe Canadian flint scene for the warmer climes ofHollywood . And then there's the fact he has a sense ofhumour. If there's anything all those end-of-the-worldfilms needed, it was the ability to tell a joke or two.

Part of the Haunt et Court "2000, Seenby. . ." series of films (which also includedHal Hartley's disappointing Book of Lift),Last Night is the Canadian look at theend of the world: all dark humour, inde-cision, and bittersweet memories. What,exactly, the end of the world constitutesisn't the point. All we're ever told is that atmidnight, the world is going to end andthat's that.

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Let the MAI's carcass rotThe MAI is dead . Long live the MAI . Well, notreally. After four years of on-again, off-again,largely secret negotiations, the 29 membercountries ended their talks in Paris, saying thatit couldn't be done.

The Multilateral Agreement on Investment, ifyou haven't heard, is a free trade pact that wouldempower large corporations but could have thepotential to cripple the ability of countries toenforce things like environmental regulations toprotect local culture from the American monolithor labour standards.

Unfortunately, silly things like social programsor a clean environment seem to matter less toOttawa than the gross domestic product . Eventhough talks for the moment are dead, Canada isworking hard to expand the power of the MM . Bymoving talks to the World Trade Organisation, as

Trade Minister Sergio Marchi suggests, the dealwould involve the 138 countries of the WTO,including many developing nations.

The prospect of huge US corporations sud-denly having expanded access to these countriesisn't good . What developing nations need is local-ly-based economic development, not invadingNike sweatshops or US fast food joints.

So why is Canada supporting this deal?Perhaps our national sense of global inse-

curity is flaring up again. We just can't handlethe fact that our big brother to the south has allthe really cool toys, while all we have are cleanwater and plenty o' wood.

Most Canadian companies have never had theability to compete on a global scale. We just don'thave the economic resources to keep up with thebig boys from the States. So we tag along with big

brother, embracing big trade deals like the FTAand NAFTA.

Maybe the government hasn't learned thatCanadians don't want free trade. In wake of theAPEC fiasco, that shouldn't have to beexplained . Unfortunately, the media has dis-torted the message of the APEC protests . Itwasn't about pepper spray. It really wasn't evenjust about human rights violators.

It was also about globalisation . US interestshelped put Suharto in power, remember, andthe impetus behind that was to protect theinterests of US corporations.

Let the MAI crawl away and die in peace.Instead, maybe the Canadian governmentcould spend some time taking care of its peo-ple. Taking care of international business inter-ests instead just isn't enough.

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Alex Bustos was taking a bath, when DaliahMerzaban came in and said she had to pee.Nick Bradley was washing his hands, whileCynthia Lee sat on the laundry hamper andwatched Richard Lam shave. Bruce Arthur wasbrushing his teeth and Sarah Newham flossedand gargled. Vincent Lam was smelling up theplace and John Zaozirny wouldn't turn downthe radio. Ronald Nurwisah was blow drynghis coffee and watching Megan Quek shaveher armpits. Ali Thom and Dale Lum werewhipping each other with wet towels, andFederico Barahona couldn't stop them . TomPeacock stayed out of the bathroom, butDuncan McHugh couldn't help checking outthe commotion. When Todd Silver opened thedoor, Sarah Galashan spilled some water. Ofcourse, Douglas Quan slipped and shatteredhis elbow.

No fundsfor APECterroristsBecause of the federal gov-ernment's refusal to fundUBC violent APEC terror-ists : and, the public's refusalto voluntarily fund them aswell, NDP's Svend Robinsongoes on another of his sillychildish tirades.

The demonstratorsshould ask their communistaffiliates—the NDP and themob media for help.Everyone should put theirmoney where their mouthis, eh Svend?!

Or, better still why don'tUBC "career students" dosomething useful for achange like going out andgetting a job to pay their.own bills like everyone else

has to do instead of expect-ing government to keepthem until they die.Enough! It's time to sweepuniversities of all para-sites—that includesdemented profs also . Thesaving would balance ourbudget!

Everyone but crazy oldSvend Robinson knows thatpepper spraying isn't as badas being hit with a baseballbat.

The NDP serve no usefulpuporse in today's society.All they do is waste taxpay-ers money with crazyschemes like backinghuman rights because thedictators at the UnitedNations say so. The last timewe looked, Ottawa, not thesewer Capital of the worldNew York, was the Capital ofCanada. Out!

Rights aren't humanwhen you're told—24 hoursa day what we must think,

say and do—that's calledCOMMUNISM . Wake upCanada and give the UNwho are responsible for themess the world is in todaythe boots, along with theirleftist supporters.

The NDP are dippy aswell. Now they want us tobelieve the Dick Procterstory. You know that NDPcharacter who heard voiceson the airplane. It soundslike he was on a trip—all ofhis own!

Mary PrinzVancouver

Vendettasare notmisconductAh vendettas are so inter-esting. First Sheri Tanakaclaims that a professor

has plagiarised her work.An investigation ensues,and the charges are foundto be groundless. Thenthe student comes upwith a new complaint,that the professor wasunethical in doing reser-ach. Again, this charge isinvestigated and found tobe groundless . Not satis-fied, the student takes thecomplaint to the fundingagency, which will almostcertainly again find thecharges groundless.

As part of this vendet-ta, the student gets herlover cum husband tomisrepresent himself andthe university to aresearch subject, in ques-tionable ethics here?Ethical behaviour is atwo-way street. Graduatestudents are expected toconduct themselves ethi-cally as well . Ms . Tanakawas acting as a translator.

If she was assisting a pro-fessor whose "commandof the Japanese languageis extremely limited" didMs. Tanaka then fail in herduties as a translator? Shehad to know that researchwas being conductedsince it was funded, andshe is not denying thatshe knew that . Why didMs. Tanaka not convey toMr. Kaizawa the nature ofthe encounter, if shebelieved he did not knowit? Was she not ethicallyobligated to do so?

Since she didn't, whymake such a fuss now?The answer is simple : thisis about personal feelings,not about professionalmisconduct.

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Former American ambassador James Blanchard's book, Behind theembassy door: Canada, Clinton, and Quebec, could not have been madeavailable to Canadian readers at a time more tortured by emotion,rhetoric, political opportunism and confusion about the state of theCanadian nation.At a time when the RCMP's response to anti-APEC students at theUniversity of British Columbia has resulted in such an easy coupling of thewords "third world", and even'Asian", with "dictatorship", oaemay hope for some restoration ofperspective from Mr. Blanchard'saccount of the American securityagents' mistrust of "clumsy"RCMP officers during the U.S.Presidential visit to Ottawa in 1995.

While the Canadian mediaremains only too eager to publishletters from Indonesian securityofficials seeking to know if they might be allowed to shoot Canadian pro-testers, Mr. Blanchard's book quite clearly documents how it was a pres-idential visit from the world's loudest democracy, and Canada's largesttrading partner, that resulted in an RCMP policy which subsequentlymade it possible for foreign agents to bring arms into Canada and,indeed, to question the adequacy of Canadian security forces when itcame to protecting visiting dignitaries.

While the Indonesians, with their terrible record in East Timor, mayhave been characteristically callous and blunt, Mr. Blanchard's accountsuggests that the Americans, in 1995, were simply unresponsive andforceful. Indeed, while the RCMP did set clear restrictions on theIndonesians during APEC, and even deported a couple of their guardswhen they were found attempting to mingle with the protesters, Mr.Blanchard, an American, remembers how, in 1995, the "whole of Ottawafelt like it was being invaded by U .S . Forces". Moreover, he clearly out-lines an incident when the Americans were so intractable in theirdemands that one crucial planning meeting between the RCMP and theAmerican officials simply ended bitter and unresolved.

Neither can one relegate arbitrariness or brutality to "third-world",

'Asian" or any other chosen brand of "dictators" alone. For we do notneed Mr. Blanchard's book to remind us of numerous instances whenAmerican security forces have not hesitated to eliminate individuals orgroups, either surreptitiously or with characteristic free-world rhetoricand military flamboyance, whenever the preferred world order hasseemed somewhat threatened . The cruise missiles fired so recently intoAfghanistan and Sudan were not the result of any American negotia-tion with any other security agency. What makes matters even moreludicrdus and distasteful is the instant support shown to America by its

traditional Westernallies, includingCanada, and theUnited Nations'refusal to respondfavourably to Sudan'srepeated pleas for anindependent interna-tional assessment ofits alleged chemicalweapons facility.

. While I remain vehemently opposed to guns, especially foreignguns, on Canadian soil, I realise that policies which allow foreign secu-rity agencies to bring arms into Canada shall continue to be in place aslong as so-called "non-violent" protesters tear down security fences, orthreaten to commit citizens' arrest on visiting heads of states who,however despicable, are protected by international treaties whichCanada, along with most other nations in the world, is obliged torespect. Such acts on the part of Canadians only lead to situationswhere powerful bodies, such as the American security forces, will con-tinue to find a legitimate excuse to undermine the jurisdiction of theRCMP. And while I join the protesters in their condemnation of formerIndonesian president Suharto and of genocide in East Timor, may I usethis occasion to urge Canadians and my fellow members of the UBCcommunity to think twice before apportioning quick blame to themore dramatic, obvious and, therefore, easy targets alone . +

Arnab Guha is a member ofAPEC University Forum at UBC.

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