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This is a paragraph from the introduction to The Saturn-OwnersCookbook. And where, you might ask, did I procure such a hot item?Why, at the Lower Mainland's Saturn family reunion and car rally, ofcourse . Being a member of the Saturn family is like having a mem-bership to a yacht or tennis club . For all three, you've gotta shell outaround $20,000 . The Saturn advantage though, is a "kinship" thatlasts a lifetime, or at least as long as your car.

Saturn : a different kind of company, a different kind of car . Youremember the commercials, right? The one where the womanbreaks her leg and needs someone to drive her home from thehospital? Well, if you can't recall, she phones her Saturn dealer-ship and they come to her rescue, driving her home along a wind-ing mountain road, the sunset a-glowing away in the background.The commercial leads one to ponder— do Saturn people not haveany friends or relatives to take them home from the hospital? DoSaturn owners have any friends at all? "Oh yeah, there's thatguy who sold me my car." Is this logical?

No. Well let's get one thing straight : Saturn attracts a "dif-ferent" type of car owner. I mean, these car owners andleasers got up on a Sunday morning for an 8 :30 am car rallyand Saturn family gathering . Did I mention this took place ona Sunday? The rally goers seemed to be mostly couples intheir thirties and some older people (the men with o .h-so-close to convincing comb-overs ; the women sporting anarray of clip-on earrings) . In essence, you have 300 peoplewho have nothing in common but their vehicular choice,spending the entire day driving, playing, chatting, and eat-ing with each other. Perhaps they hoped to find otherslike themselves, others who have a passion for beer-freebarbecuing, wasting gas, and historical Richmond sight-seeing tours . How sad is this?

You might well ask how I got an invite to this broo-ha-ha .Well kids, I'm a member of the Saturn family;rather, my mum is and she lent me her car for theday. She, after all, has another (real) family to spendtime with . And why did I want to go? For the same

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There wasgood food, car-nival games, adixieland band

could drink

at driving standard).We'd come expecting the worst and the worst

was what we got . At the white-walled, white-tiled,Mr. Clean-white dealership, we were issued ourfatigues and ammunition : Saturn T-Shirts (mineread "pilot," Chris's read "navigator," our nametags, our cookbooks, our Saturn antenna balls,and all the glazed doughnuts and Sunny Delightwe could handle . Let me say it again— we weregiven Sunny-D to drink . I wonder if Saturn andSunny-D ever thought about embarking on ajoint family values advertising campaign.

We were then given directions to LansdowneShopping Centre where we were to meet ourbusses, and be shuttled to our secret barbecuelocation . Yes . . .secret . Perhaps the Saturn com-pany has fears of becoming the victim of inter-national espionage, possibly headed up byToyota secret agents hiding in the comfields,notebooks in hand.

Once at the parking lot (marked by Saturntents and flags) we were greeted by about 10cheery Saturn employees dressed in yellow T-shirts, offering us more Sunny-D and enthusiastic,Saturn-oriented conversation . They asked us aboutthe features our car had, the fuel economy, and ourgeneral happiness with the vehicle . I made a com-ment about the standard transmission being a bit ofa pain in the Richmond traffic . To this comment, theemployees chortled in delight . My navigator Chris andI, at that point, succumbed to peer pressure anddonned our sparkling white, size large T-shirts . Whoreally wants to be the black sheep of the family?

Milling about the Lansdowne parking lot, the mostdisturbing site, besides the block-like architecture sur-rounding the mall, was members of the family trying tomake their T-shirt fit better by tucking them, rather tight-ly, into their shorts (which characteristically reached the

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punishment)and I arrived at theSaturn dealershipon Minoru Blvd inRichmond aroundnoon to register forthe barbecue (thisafter a somewhatscary drive, beingthat I ain't so hot

wearers' armpits) . There was also theissue of fanny-packs. Never in my lifehave I seen so many fanny-packs on semany people in the same_ atr Ce, lm not

sure if it was Richmond or theSaturn people.

On the bus, we took oilseats behind some elders ofthe clan and listened `to theirenthralling conversations aboutold Richmond families . Whenthe bus finally stopped we werein the middle of most ruralRichmond . Amidst the corn-fields and ditches lay theSaturn Barbecje. We heard itbefore we saw it. Now don'tget carried away- it wasn'treally that rowdy; but therewas a dixieland band playing.My navigator and1 smiled ner-vously ; what the hell were wedoing there? But it was toolate . We had no way out!Four hours . Four whole, longhours until the shuttle busreturned.

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"It looks pretty hard core . . .the ideaof abortion is ugly as it is . I certain-ly wouldn't compare an abortion togenocide. . .1 wouldn't support thistype of advertising."

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But the novelty of children's games quickly wore off and so we surveyedthe rest of the territory : a sea of people in white (owners) and yellow (staff)Saturn T-shirts, tables with bright, plastic table cloths, more games, and afew newer model Saturns on display. The smell of barbecued meat lingeredripe in the air.

In the line for grub, cleanly scrubbed Saturn employees with wholesomegood looks greeted us cheerily and asked us if we wanted our buns toast-ed . We rustled up our vittles and sat down with a couple of pleasant look-ing women in their late 20s.

We began chatting . Heidi and Susan were their names, and this wastheir first barbecue . From the get-go, Heidi was clear that she was lookingfor something in particular:

"Do you think the owner of this estate (and the Saturn dealership) hasa son?" she asked with a giggle and a knowing glance to Susan . Chris andI exchanged knowing glances too . Within the Saturn family, blood ties areimportant . Then the natural question-what kind of Saturn do you have?Heidi's was a '95 . She went on:

"I like the lines of the '97 way better and wished I'd held out," . Whatcaught me off guard was that she'd noticed my car in the Lansdowne park-ing lot . . .it's a '97 (back in '97, my sister had just crashed my mum's pre-vious car and I guess the Saturn adsreally spoke to my mum) . Susanseemed a little embarrassed :

owner of this estate"I don't even own a Saturn,- I'm (and the Saturnjust the navigator." Well, we at the

Saturn family are very welcoming and dealership) has ason?" she asked with a giggle and a know-tried to make her feel better despite ing lance to Susan.her shortcomings . After all, Chris and IRichmond can be a confusing place exchanged know-for a Saturn owner and sometimes a •

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lthin the Saturnintegral part in calming the driver, family, blood tiesapplying a damp cloth to the stresseddriver's brow, and of course, navigat- are important.ing through mini-mall parking lots andover ditches . Chris and Susan beganto bond over their common inferioritycomplexes.

For the remainder of our timetogether, we discussed the merits of various Saturns, the new models, andthe performance of cars past . A different kind of car-a different kir„'1 of carowner.

Face painting was next . The only image that the staff had been trainedin painting was the Saturn logo (the mark of the devil?), everything elsewas ad hoc . I went for a bunny on my cheek, while my navigator had hisface transformed into that of a tiger's . After that, people kept asking if hisname was Tony. ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ho, ho h000-0000h . We Saturn peo-ple are renowned for our humour.

After some mini-golf (kicked ass there too ; another characteristic of theSaturn people and other less intimately-connected suburban rejects), wejumped into the back seat of one of the newer model Saturns on the rotat-ing platform . There we met a 13-year-old named Dallas . Dallas, with freck-les, glasses, and Umbro shorts he'd outgrown long ago, was silent whenwe asked him (jokingly) where he was taking us (he was driving) . Chrisrepeated the question, and Dallas turned on us sharply and pointed outthat there was no key, and that this was a display car. Duh.

That evil spawn of Satan then locked the doors and lowered his back-rest . The glee in his voice was apparent as I squawked desperately andtried to shift out of the seat's path . We somehow escaped through the tinythird door of the three-door coupe . Later, we saw the young Lucifer honkingthe horn of the coup just as other Saturn people leaned their heads in toinspect the engine.

It was finally time for prizes . The "entire family" sat in a hush, waitingfor the "emcee" to name the winner of the rally (the rally involved drivingaround over 50km of Richmond, trying to find playing cards to comprise ahand . The person who had the winning hand won the rally) . A very pleasedwoman went up to claim her prize : a golden golf club . The losers seemedhappy for the winner, but underneath those cheery faces and smiles, whoknew what they were thinking.

Afterwards, we just lay in the sun, as the crowd thinned and the tablesbegan to be rolled away, plastic table cloths still taped down . Sadly, it wastime to leave. What could these people hope to go home to after spendingthe day with such a well-oiled, well-functioning family, void of the problemsof money, career, and child rearing? We waited on the curb for a good 20minutes pondering over this question, before it occurred to us that wemight have missed our last shuttle bus back to Lansdowne . But then weheard a rumble- it was the staff bus! We got to ride all the way back to themall with the Saturn employees!!

A whole year must pass before the next barbecue. A lot can happen ina year ; we could move, we could sell the car, we could crash the car . Wouldwe ever experience this type of bonding, this type of family closenessagain? Certainly not with a Ford or a Volvo or any other car . Saturn is dif-ferent. They care.

So . Is Saturn a different kind of car? Not really. Is it a different kind ofcompany? Yes, because it has a warped obsession with family values andcommunity spirit . As such, it manages to attract a very specific type ofowner. The name says it all : "The Saturn People" from a more gullible andwhitewashed planet than ours .v

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Strike Campus readies for GAPnot there for the GAP people,we're there for everyone, stu-dents included ."

Morley has been in dis-cussion with certainAmerican universities GAPhas visited, and said thatalthough there have been vio-lent demonstrations at otherschools, it is the studentswho are most as risk.

"These people pack upand go on their merry wayafter their display week isover and it's the students,the people here locally whoend up having to deal withthe ramifications," he said.

"We don't want to seeanyone get incited into doingsomething where they'regoing to face a criminal inves-tigation ."

Morley noted that theRCMP would investigate anycomplaints that were lodgedabout GAP and its activities.The BC Human RightsCommission has not yetreceived any complaintsabout GAP, but is also pre-pared to investigate any com-plaints .

POSTER : Pro-choice poster found on campus.Although no pro-choice club TARA WESTOVER PHOTO

at a summer meeting . By press time, however,

CUPE locals 116 and 2950 took jobaction Wednesday morning to drawattention to the potential chaos thatcould occur if support staff at UBCdecide to strike . Commuters corning tocampus by car, bike, or foot were greet-ed at all campus entrances by CUPErepresentatives distributing leaflets toprotest the university's handling of con-tract negotiations. Similar actions weretaken at BC's three other universities.Contract talks between CUPE and UBChave resumed with a mediator from theLabour Relations Board . Meanwhile, atthe Alma Mater Society (AMS) councilmeeting Wednesday evening, council-lors voted unanimously to support theright of students not to cross picketlines should a strike occur on campus.Nathan Allen, AMS coordinator of exter-nal affairs, called the motion "prettystraightforward," saying that students'political beliefs should be respectedand supported. Councillors also agreedto pressure the university to refrainfrom penalising students for workmissed during astrike.

The AMS approved funding for an anti-discrimination campaign set to begin in

October. $6000 from the External andUniversity Lobbying fund will go towardsfunding the "Not on our CampusChallenge that will include workshopsand displays . This campaign is to bringmore respect among different groups of

people," said Emmanuel Adjei-Achampong, an AMS at-large commis-sioner who heads the project . Another$13,000 from the same fund will gotowards paying for speakers, workshopmaterials, promotions and media ads forthe campaign. Although there was somedissent expressed regarding the amountand manner in which the money is beingallocated, most councillors were in fullsupport of the initiative . Bev Meslo,AMS Arts representative, said the cam-paignwas a case of "minimal costs formaximum return ."

Timor demonstrationsDemonstrators protested in front of theIndonesian consulate Wednesday in aneffort to encourage the Canadian gov-ernment to push for the immediatedeployment of a United Nations (UN)peacekeeping force in East Timor. AaronGoodman, a master's student at UBC'sSing Tao School of Journalism, wasamong the protesters . "We're con-cerned because the UN is sending apeacekeeping force in, but it's not thereyet and the massacre is still going on,so we're pressuring the Indonesian gov-ernment and the military to stop thegenocide ." Goodman, who was an inter-national observer in East Timor for fiveweeks, was accompanied by activistsfrom Amnesty International and theEast Timor Alert Network, They are call-ing for an independent commission toinvestigate crimes against humanity inEast Timor. In addition, the group wouldlike humanitarian aid workers to havefull access to tend the thousands of

East Timorese who have fled or havebeen forcibly displaced from theirhomes . The protesters were planning tooccupy the consulate, but decided notto . Another demonstration is plannedfor Saturday at the Vancouver ArtGallery .+

by Nicholas Bradley

Despite growing protest, the US-basedGenocide Awareness Project (GAP) is almostcertainly coming to UBC . And as oppositiongains momentum, the controversial anti-abor-tion exhibit is raising concerns about security oncampus.

Although the details have not been finalised,the university, the Alma Mater Society (AMS),and the RCMP are confident that GAP will be atUBC the week of September 27.

GAP's planned display consists of a collec-tion of 13-foot high signs which consist of graph-ic images of aborted fetuses, as well as con-centration camp victims, lynchings, and otheratrocities . GAP equates abortion to such acts ofgenocide as the Holocaust, slavery in theUnited States, and ethnic cleansing in the for-mer Yugoslavia, among others.

The exact site for the display is still undeter-mined, but it will be surrounded by a row of bar-ricades, with 25 GAP employees—whomAssistant Director of Campus Security MikeSheard dubbed "professional agitators"—onsite.

AMS vice-president Maryann Adamec saidthat UBC is currently negotiating with GAP todecide where the exhibit will take place . GAP'soriginal request to locate the display on KoemerPlaza was rejected by UBC because the layoutof the pavillion in front of the library does notallow people to avoid the display.

GAP is instead trying to set up on the southSUB plaza, in the space used by Storm the Wall.

Dennis Pavlich, UBC's legal counsel, couldnot be reached for comment by press time.

At other university campuses it has visited,GAP has been met with violent responses . AtOhio State University in 1998, for example, astudent was arrested after trying to slash thesigns with a knife, and a student at theUniversity of Kansas was arrested for driving hiscar into the display.

Sheard said that because GAP told the uni-versity that they will need security, UBC is nowliable if it doesn't fulfill this need.

Corporal Jeff Morley, of the UBC RCMPdetachment, noted, however, that "if we'rethere, it's not as their bodyguards, by anystretch.

"Our role on campus during that week is tostand by to keep the peace and to investigateany criminal activity that might occur, but we're

by Richard McKergow and Krishna Lalbihariethe Varsity

TORONTO (CUP)—Demonstrators crowded infront of the Indonesian consulate in Toronto lastweek to protest the violence in East Timor.

Passing motorists honked in support of thenearly 100 activists, which included students,members of the Portuguese community, andUnited Nations (UN) workers.

The demonstration followed the UN'sannouncement to pull out of East Timor afterdays of escalating bloodshed sparked by theisland's recent vote for independence fromIndonesia.

"There are currently clouds of black smokehovering over East Timor as the Indonesianarmy follows a scorched earth policy," saidevent organiser Maggie Helwig, a researcher forCanadian Action for Indonesia and East Timor.

"We want to get the governments of theworld to impose stringent sanctions onIndonesia until the Indonesian governmentallows a multinational peacekeeping forceinto East Timor."

Unofficial reports estimate the death tollin the former Portuguese colony to be in thehundreds.

The violence in East Timor stems from aUN-sponsored referendum held on August30. Approximately 98 per cent of 450,000

exists on campus, a group called Students forChoice (SFC) has been formed in opposition toGAP, a project of the Center for Bio-EthicalReform, an American organisation which claimsthat abortion is a form of genocide.

"They have a right to be here in terms of freespeech, but if they're disseminating hate litera-ture, then no they don't," said Erin Kaiser, SFCorganiser.

The RCMP hate crimes division is looking athate literature case laws to determine whetherhate crime laws can be applied to the abortionissue, according to Morley.

There is some confusion about who invitedGAP to UBC . For an AMS club to invite a group,25 per cent of the club's membership mustvote in favour of doing so.

Stephanie Gray, president of Lifeline, UBC'spro-life club, said that at least 25 per cent of itsmembers voted in favour of bringing GAP to UBC

registered voters are estimated to have par-ticipated in the referendum process, despitea bloody campaign mounted against pro-independence movements by pro-Indonesian forces.

According to the referendum results, 78 .5per cent of East Timorese voted in favour ofindependence from Indonesia.

Following the vote, pro-Indonesian militiaslaunched a bloody campaign against the peopleof East Timor.

Although Indonesian President B .J . Habibiehas stated he would uphold and endorse theoutcome of the historic referendum, results arenot scheduled for ratification until November.

"I call on East Timor society and the wholeof the Indonesian people to accept the fact sin-cerely and patiently," Habibie told theAssociated Foreign Press (AFP) last month.

- Ian Smith, an electoral officer with theUnited Nations Assistance Mission in EastTimor, who recently returned from the EastTimorese capital Dili, spoke to the crowd inToronto of his recent experiences.

"Anarchy has broken out," he said . "Themilitia is everywhere . I helped 3,000 peopleregister to vote, and 2,990 voted . Six of the 10who didn't vote were too sick, two fled, and twodied . But I'm sure many of them are now dead ."

Smith stressed that East Timor needs UNintervention .

neither the Ubyssey nor the AMS was providedwith the minutes of this meeting.

In addition, for AMS insurance to apply, anAMS club must sign a contract with the visitinggroup . Lifeline has not yet signed such a con-tract . Gray said that she had not been told bythe AMS that signing a contract with GAP wasnecessary.

Gray called their involvement with GAP "aninformal agreement ."

AMS constituency commissioner MatthieuMaftei said that, in all probability, it is too latefor Lifeline to sign a contract, leaving the clubuninsured for the event.

Meanwhile, SFC claims it is already facingopposition . Kaiser said that SFC posters arebeing torn down as soon as they are put up.

Gray said that she, and Lifeline, did not knowanything about the postering .v

"We have to make sure people under-stand that what's happening now is that thisis genocide by the Indonesian military . Thisis the organized killing of as many people aspossible," he said.

Although Smith and Helwig both say theCanadian government needs to offer muchstronger support to East Timor, they agree thatCanada has played a very positive role so far inprotesting the bloodshed

"Canada has taken a fairly leading role,not an insignificant one," said Smith, refer-ring to statements made by Minister ofForeign Affairs Lloyd Axworthy and PrimeMinister Jean Chretien, who both condemnedthe violence and' called for an internationalpeacekeeping force.

Penny Howard, a Canadian Federation ofStudents spokesperson attending the rally, dis-agrees, saying that the Canadian governmenthas not met its responsibilities.

"We want to make sure that there aren't fur-ther betrayals by the Canadian government,"she said . "The Canadian government helpedmonitor the referendum, and has many buskness interests in Indonesia," she said.

Several Canadian companies have businessinvestments in Indonesia, including the Bank ofNova Scotia, Toronto Dominion Bank,Bombardier, Manulife Financial and NorthernTelecom.

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Sancho's Revenge: The FurtherAdventures of Don Quixoteat Main DanceSept. Al

by Julian Dowling

Most people know th story of Don Quixotede la Mancha who sets off across Spainwith his squire, Sancho Panza, to rightwrongs in the name of the peerless Dulcineadel Toboso . But where do a good knight andhis squire go at the end of the twentieth cen-tury?

This production puts the infamous pair ina mental hospital . Here, they're monitoredby three chain smoking, pill-popping doctors,Francis (Tom Jones), Skintos (KristineSutherland) and Stucco (Jen Cane) who rusharound the stage like the cast of ER onspeed . The irony is that the doctors, whoscheme to participate in Don Quixote's fan-tasies, are just as crazy as the knight-erranthimself. Call it One Flew Over the Cuckoo'sNest a la Cervantes.

From the moment Don Quixote (Markullerton) turns a toilet plungerInto a sword, the audience isdrawn into his world of menacing windmillsand evil sorcerers . Nothing is quite what itseems, and sanity depends on your point ofview.

Fullerton is well cast as the Knight of theMournful Countenance . Tall and lanky withbug-eyes and sunken cheeks, he brings justthe right amount of melancholy and chival-rous determination 'to the role . Jodi-PaulWooster is suitably gullible as the faithfulSancho . Sancho comes to see the "truth" inhis partner's fantasies, even recounting hisown adventure with a black-tailed and glass-stomached brown mor j,. r—a vendingmachine down the hall.

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tiding himself, that he was indeed thecount.

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East Timor: a long time in comingTwenty-four years is a long time . Most UBC students haven'teven been alive that long . Twenty-four years.

The violence, the bloodshed, and the horror that we've allbeen watching happen in East Timor has been brewing for all ofthe last twenty-four years . Since 1975, when East Timor wasinvaded and annexed by Indonesia, over 200,000 citizens havebeen killed—a number confirmed by Indonesia this year . That'sover a third of the original population . If those numbers werereplicated in Canada, the death toll would number approximate-ly 10 million . In the United States, it would be over 80 million.

These are huge numbers that we're watching add up . Andover the last two weeks, that's all we've been doing—watch-ing. Just like we've been doing for 24 years.

These past two weeks, horrifying as they have been, arejust a coda to a legacy of terror and blood . This has all hap-pened before . Nothing happening in East Timor should comeas a surprise.

So why on Earth has the international community been sodreadfully ill-prepared and so slow to act?

For twenty-four years, "Free East Timor" has been a handy"activist" cause, catch phrase, and bumper sticker sloganslapped on Volkswagon vans . But that's all . The mediaignored it. The Canadian government ignored it . Canadianbusinesses made Indonesia a favourite destination for invest-ment dollars, and East Timorese citizens kept right on dying .

The United Nations has been calling upon the government ofIndonesia to "withdraw without delay all its forces" from EastTimor since December 1975, but has done little else . Twenty-four years is a long time to look the other away.

But it's not as if Canada didn't do anything. Hell, they sus-pended the sale of arms to Indonesia on September 14,1999. Well, wow. The Liberals were actually reinstating theban imposed by the Conservative goverment in 1991, whichthe Liberals lifted in 1993 . The US and the European Unionsuspended arms sales just days and hours, respectively,before we did . Fucking great work, everyone . You know,Indonesia probably has all the arms it needs by now. Checkthe pictures from Dili if you disagree . The last two weeks ofgenocide, arson, and death were all it took for Canada to dothe right thing . Unbelievable.

Thankfully, a peacekeeping force is finally ready to arrivein East Timor: 8500 soldiers—largely unwanted by the EastTimorese—are heading into utter anarchy. This could beworse than Kosovo . Much worse. For starters, the Serbianmilitary withdrew as the UN peacekeepers advanced . In EastTimor, the Indonesian military and the UN forces will worktogether under a unified command.

This spells disaster. Allowing the Indonesian military toremain at the scene of their crimes is both insane and unac-ceptable . But the international community is blithely accept

ing it as a condition of being allowed to enter East Timor.In the recent referendum, nearly 80 per cent of the East

Timorese voted in favour of independence . On August 30, therewere warnings that the situation could explode out of control.The history and precedent was there, the situation was incred-ibly volatile, and yet the international community was stillshocked at the level of violence . But no one was ready to stopjust looking and act. Night after night the situation worsened,and day after day the world barely inched towards doing some-thing . We saw pictures of a young East Timorese man run fromsoldiers and get shot in the head . We watched his blood seepinto the gutter, and only then did we suspend arms sales.

If East Timor was closer to Europe, would the same apa-thy have been tolerated? Or was Timor ignored and aban-doned because it's tucked away, safely out of sight fromNorth America? And would Europe and North America havelooked away for so long if East Timor were comprised oftelegenic, English-speaking white people? Sadly, probablynot . It's sick, but probably not.

The only ray of hope in all this is that East Timor, aftertwenty-four years of occupation, will probably—maybe?--befree from oppression sooner rather than later . The fact thatthis tiny, peaceful nation has to wade through blood to getthere is tragic . That the rest of the world conspired to makeit that way is worse by far . v

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Are sessionals being shorted on benefits?by Gaik Cheng Choo

Whenever we see the tired UBC slogan "Think About It" wethink about how much the university has sunk into public rela-tions to woo students, especially international students, tocome to UBC . After all, they now pay three times the tuitionCanadians pay. Make no mistake : this university in the '90s isall about economics . In light of this, I think it was completelyappropriate that the Ubyssey ran two articles, "Validity of ses-sionals' uniorf"drive scrutinised end "Students take over thepodium," on the same page in the S pteniber 7 issue . l wartto point out how these twosepai lie e . nt 7 are related in ini -r-esting, political ways that concern UBC students, ses idnalsand faculty and should not be ignored.

In the first article, Mary Russell, president et i i LI F.~cally

Association, tells us that there is no difference between eel itsessional and tenure-track faculty do . But if there is indeed liedifference, why are sessionals not given the same benefits andrecognition as tenure-track professors? Why are sessionals paideven less than teaching assistants to do more work? Why arethe tables turned on the Sessionals Organising Sessionals inthat we are now being — scrutinised" when it is the FacultyAssociation's hasty actions and motivations that should bequestioned? Who should be put in the hot seat for not doinganything for sessionals (part-time and full-time) for 20 yearsthen suddenly having a change of heart when threatened by theunion drive this Spring? Why does the article focus on the "valid-

ity" of the union drive when it is the Faculty Association's appealto the Labour Relations Board which has effectively stalled theunion drive? Perhaps we should ask what the FacultyAssociation has to lose if sessionals form their own union : part-time sessionals make up two-thirds of sessional lecturers.Since part-timers have been so kindly allowed to join the FA,they have begun to pay monthly "dues" for as-yet-unnamed andto-be-worked-out "benefits ." To put it crudely, think about howmuch money the FA will lose if sessionals break away.

How the Wight of sessionals is related to the article on the~ludaot led experimental e-.eases . Ibis boils down again to the

Un i economics

l the way a pres'ieious alt rnetionaiiy led institution Ire UBC will pr t on the backs of i i u-,ients and lowly sessional I have non ing acainst making to

dents n rn :r lent and democratising iI wr3y classes are runun carnpus, in fact, I am sure that the UC-Berkeley program,eon] which these courses are modelled, sprung out of the rad-ical student movement during the 1960s . However, as currentstudent activists will readily acknowledge, the 1990s is a dif-ferent political climate altogether. In the midst of funding cutsto higher education and social programs, when even discus-sion groups are as impersonal and large as 30 students andtuition and fees are not shrinking either, we should be wary ofthe economic motivations of the university in supporting suchstudent-led courses . After all, Think About It : students are pay-ing to teach themselves.

If this experiment works, think of how much money UBC will

save, not hiring sessionals or unionised teaching assistants,and getting the course coordinator, also a fellow student in thesame course, who will have done all the research—collectingmaterials, putting the course proposal together, etcetera,etcetera—essentially, the work that sessionals and tenure-track professors normally do, for free . Work is work, and unpaidwork is unethical.

According to the article, the tuition paid will go to "develop-ment and support costs, and the associated faculty mem-bers h I ask you, to does more work for the course? The stu-

nl nJrse coordinator or the alrc , silaried "associatediuculi men d ei ;?'' And v .I D are Ire "independent readers"

I i i ,ill e chess the papers? The students themselves? Paidii ir1 et ;? Associated faculty members?'' There has to be aoetter alternative to democratise classrooms and encourageindeper ter{ ; and/or collaborative research and thinking at anundergraduate level if there isnt one already. For example,international students paying $723 for 3 credits would be reluc-tant to register in such a course . So how can this type of coursebe open to everyone who is interested in doing independentwork? Directed studies are already offered as upper levelcourses where students have one-on-one meetings with a pro-fessor once a week . And s/he has to do most of the planningand work under the guidance of a paid instructor.v

—Gaik Cheng Choo is an International graduate studentand part-time sessional instructor

It's not abortion that's offensive : it's so-called "pro-life" peopleby Joyce Arthur

So the American-based Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) iscoming to UBC to display pictures of aborted fetuses, blacklynching victims, and Jewish Holocaust victims . all to oorreincopeople of the "genocide" of abortion.

You can be sure that CBR's graphic display will feature nngory pictures of dead women lying in a pool of their coin bloodafter a botched illegal abortion . There will be nary whisperabout the 80,000 women in the worldwhii still die every yearfrom unsafe, illegal abortions, and the hundreds of thousandsmore who are maimed or injured . Also, don't expect them toacknowledge that their 19th century Christian forebearers usedthe Bible to vigorously defend slavery, or that Hitler was a pro-fessed Roman Catholic who was also "pro-life ." Such peskyfacts are irrelevant to anti-abortion activists.

Instead, most anti-abortionists operate under the delusion

that fetuses are far more important than any fundamentalhuman value, including the lives and rights of women, the alle-viation of human suffering, freedom of conscience and religion,and of course, truth itself. That's why most anti-abortionistslook the other way whenn d etors are sbot .uead by eet mistsin their movement . It's v:hv they're ind+fierent toihe plight ofJeepr I h i vrpni~n hu re their lives to set an abortion It'sv~hy litre re (bilious a, the suffering of minions of abused of,e ealt:d entire , in thiruohout IlsI

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t core m le their nee,mould . Its why they spout hatred ; lies, and misinfonnutionabout abortion and its practitioners . And its why they thinknothing of exploiting and trivialising the tragic history of Jewsand blacks for their own agenda.

In fact, you can bet that CBR and the organisers of thistasteless demonstration are entirely unaware of the sheerinsensitivity and offensiveness of their actions . Of course, they

want people to be offended, and people certainly will be, butnot because of any aborted fetus pictures . Jews and blacks willbe insulted at the ignorant comparison between their peoples'horrendous suffering and the life-saving blessing of legal, safeabortion . Won rep will be angered by the complete negation oftheir lives . their freedom, and their humanity.

Dunn let these anti-abortion demonstrators fool you withtheir spin on ethics and genocide . To them, women's sufferingis simply invisible, their lives expendable, and their rights incon-sequentia~l . I t s no coincidence that the same can be saidabout the sle .cooa p er's attitude to blacks, and the Nazis' atti-tude to Jews . Because underneath anti-abortion rhetoric lies afascist disrespect for the human rights of a large part ofhumanity..

—Joyce Arthur is the director of thePro-Choice Action Network

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DOING SWIMMINGLY: Jessica Deglau's rise hasbeen phenomenal, and she just keeps rising . TARAWESTOVER PHOTO

Jessica Deglau has drifted with life's twists and turns sinceshe was six, and so far, the waves have been going in theright direction.

She has dominated swimming in both the CIAU and inter-national arenas over the past few years . Last season, in herfirst year with the UBC varsity swimming team, she wasnamed a CIAU All-Canadian and CIAU Female Swimmer of theYear. Deglau capped her first year at UBC with six gold medalsin six races at the CIAU national championships, along withCIAU records in the 800m freestyle, the 4 x-100m free, _andthe 4 x 100m medley.

Most recently, Deglau was also busy in the summer com-peting for Canada at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg andthe Pan Pacific Games in Australia, garnering numerous medalsand international recognition in the process . She is a 13-timenational champion . She is currently ranked third in the world forthe 200m butterfly.

And she's only 19.For such a highly accomplished swimmer, Deglau is a rela-

tively inconspicuous person at UBC . She is in her second yearof Arts, and like many students, has an "unknown" major.

"I didn't really know what I wanted to do," says Deglau ofher academic plans. "I'm planning my courses and I'm like'what am I going to take this year?' I'm just taking coursesand getting credits ."

She grew up like many other kids in Vancouver, skiing in thewinters and swimming in the summers . And in one of thoseswimming classes when she was 11, her class was told towrite down their long-term and short-term goals . She wentthrough the motions with a friend.

"For long-term goals, we both had 'go to the Olympics and beon the national team' because that's what everybody thinks ."

Not an uncommon goal for a young girl . However, the differ-ence with Deglau is that five years later, she actually made thenational team and went to the Olympics.

Many dream big, but only the determined accomplish thosedreams. And only the truly talented reach those goals by theage of 16. During her first Olympic experience at the 1996Atlanta Summer Games, she finished an impressive sixth in

the 200m butterfly, setting a Canadian record,and fifth in the 4x200m free relay.

But that wasn't enough for Deglau."I've been coming sixth or so for a long

time at big meets and I decided . . .I'm ready tomove on, I want to get more ."

Surprisingly enough, Deglau's determina-tion and enthusiasm for swimming were notwhat got her started—rather, it was the oppo-site.

"I started when I was about 6 because I[didn't have] a lot of energy, so my mom putme in a whole bunch of things . Thought Iwould like swimming."

Her main activities were skiing and swim-ming, but by the time she was 9, Deglau beganswimming in the winter programs as well . Shewas swimming for 9 or 10 months of the yearand so consequently, "other activities droppedoff, as swimming took more time and that'swhat I ended up with ."

Her training now occupies about 11months of the year, and takes 24 to 25 hours a weekbetween water and dryland training . Over a year, that's alarge amount of time ; over several years, that's a large partof your life . Athletes make many sacrifices to excel at theirsport, but Deglau sees her training time as something to dorather than a loss of childhood and teenage years.

"Sometimes you might think that, but then I have time offand I'll be bored, so I'm like 'I might as well be in the water.'So I don't feel like I'm missing anything ."

Deglau has used her swimming career efficiently thus far,making the national team at the age of 15, competing at theOlympics at 16, winning four bronze medals at the 1998Commonwealth Games, and striking gold at the-Pan AmericanGames at the age of 19.

The Canadian swimmers, with seven members from theUBC team, stole the show at the 1999 Pan Am Games inWinnipeg . Deglau's medal haul included gold in the 200m but-terfly (in games record time), 200m freestyle, two additionalgolds with the 4 x 100m and 4 x 200m freestyle relay teams,

and a silver in the 100mbutterfly.

On top of winningmedals, the Pan AmGames were evenmore poignant becauseDeglau had never reallyswam in a big meet inCanada before.

"To be at the top ofthe podium at Winnipegwas incredible, 'causethey played the nationalanthem and . . .like, it wasso neat. I mean there'sa lot of moments that Ireally like, but just beingup there felt prettyincredible ."

After all, as she says,"gold's the best colour."

"You take things insteps and along the way, [accomplishing goals] happens," saysDeglau, and at this point, she seems to be running up thosesteps and isn't stopping yet. She still wants to go higher.

Deglau's plans for the future include what any swimmerwould dream of—the Olympics . Not only one, or two, but asmany as four Olympic Games are in Deglau's mind.

"-Obviously 2000 right away. Typically people thick in 4-year terms for the Olympics and in 2004, I'll only be24 . . .2008 seems like a long time away but as long as I'mloving it, I'll do it . "

Deglau is anything but a typical person . She is young, buther youthfulness serves as an advantage by giving her moretime to compete. She dreams like everyone else, but shealso fulfills those dreams . She works hard at a sport thatshe "ended up with," and just goes with the flow. And itworks for her.

"I want to do better . And I do whatever I have to do to bebetter. I keep striving to swim faster. . .we'll just see how itgoes ." v

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