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UBC planning OUC takeoverniversity responding to government request for plan

by Megan ThomasNEWS EDITOR

UBC is working on a proposed gov-ernance structure for OkanaganUniversity College (OUC) in case thegovernment asks UBC to make theBC interior campus a satellite—butno one has told OUC about the pro-posal or asked OUC students or staffwhether they want to become partof UBC.

"if they are going to be makingsuch a high-level decision about thefuture of our institution I think itwould be only common courtesy toat least let us know,' said DaveWestmacott, OUC student represen.tative to the Board of Governors.

He added that the OUC Board isnot interested in becoming a part ofUBC and instead wants to becomean independent university.

"The Board is against any kind ofUBC takeover,' he said. "It is prettyessential that we retain regionalautonomy."

At the most recent UBC Senatemeeting, Barry McBride, VPAcademic and Provost, gave ,a shortpresentation outlining what a UBGOUC partnership would look like. Hesaid the proposal was in response toa BC government request that UBCoutline how such a partnershipwould work.

"This is a government decision.It is not UBC planning to go in andtake over something,' said McBride.

McBride's presentation saw onepresident and one board of gover-nors shared by the two campuses, buta separate senate for each campus.

"If this happened tomorrow,Martha Piper would be president,'he said.

He also told Senate that basicArts and Science degrees would beoffered at both campuses, whilesome specialty programs such asoceanography and desert ecosystemstudies would be specific to eachcampus environment. He also saidOUC would have its own identityunder the current proposal.

"We would have a very distinctiveuniversity there,' said McBride. "Itwould be not just a clone of UBCVancouver.'

Graduates from both campuseswould also receive the same UBCdegree, much like the University ofCalifornia system that includes ninecampuses around the state and isstill expanding.

_But UBC's proposal does notmean that a decision has been madeon the fate of OUC, said KarenMcDonald, a spokesperson for theMinistry of Advanced Education.

She said she does not know whenthe government will make a deci-

sion, but said it will likely coincidewith the provincial budget onFebruary 17.

Rumours about the fate of OUChave been raging since December of2002 when the BC Progress Board,an advisory body chaired by UBCPresident , Martha Piper, recom-mended to the provincial govern-ment that an existing BC universityextend its mandate to includeKelowna, although it did not men-tion the names of any institutions.

A student representative to theUBC Senate said McBride's presen-tation gave the impression that theuniversity was pitching a bid to thegovernment for an OUC takeover.

"In UBC's proposal the takingover of OUC was sort of a given,'said Chris Ste Croix. "It soundedexactly like we are bidding.'

Ste Croix also said he agrees withthe need to expand university accessin BC but he questions going for-ward with UBC's proposal withoutconsulting OUC.

"The thing that troubles me isthat from what I can tell...little to noconsultation has been sought withthe people either of the region or thepeople specifically involved in edu-cation there,' he said.

McBride declined to share his

See "OUC" on page 2.

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Research team developing E. coli vaccineCow vaccine looksto prevent anotherWalkerton disaster

by Robson FletcherNEWS WRITER

The work of UBC, researchers maysoon reduce the risk of E. coli out-breaks in human food and watersupplies—outbreaks like the deadlyone that killed seven, people inWalkerton, Ontario, three-and-a-halfyears ago.

The team, led by professor BrettFinlay, is developing a vaccinebased on their research. But therewill be no need for people to go tothe doctor for a shot. This vaccine isfor cows.

Cattle are a major source of E.call infections in humans. Cows donot become sick from E. coil, butthey carry the bacteria in their intes-tines and shed it in their feces. Thebacteria can then make its way intohamburger meat or even watersupplies.

"When it rains hard, and the rainwashes the feces from cow pasturesinto water wells and the water's nottreated—some jerk said he chlorinat-ed it when he didn't—then you getan outbreak,' said Finlay. 'Andthat's precisely what happened inWalkerton.'

Seven people died and 2,500 oth-ers became sick after E. colt bacteriainfected Walkerton's water supply inMay, 2000. The town's public utili-ties manager and foreman werecriminally charged and will facetrial early this year.

The E. coli vaccine developed byUBC works by reducing the amountof bacteria shed by cows, making afood or water infection less likely.

But E. coli is particularly danger-ous because it only takes a tinyamount to make you sick. Ten bacte-ria are enough to cause illness inhumans. Salmonella, by contrast,takes 10 billion.

But tine new vaccine / r) /1,4

used widely to be effective, saidFinlay.

"There's huge pressure to get thisthing out there,' he said. "Both theUS and Canada want to vaccinatelots of cows, and quickly.'

In his research, Finlay examinedtwo particularly virulent strains ofthe E. coli bacteria, known asenteropathogenic E. call (EPEC) and

ten erohemorrhagic E. coil (EHEC).EPEC is the number one cause of

death due to diarrhea in the world,killing nearly one million peopleevery year. Most of the victims arechildren in developing countries.

EHEC is the version of coif thatinfected the Walkerton water supply.

It causes a bloody diarrhea that canresult in kidney failure. Childrenand the elderly are most susceptible.

Finlay discovered exactly howthese strains of E. coli attach them-selves to human intestines.

After being consumed in food ordrink, the bacteria make their wayinto a person's intestinal tract.There, they attach themselves to theintestinal wall by dragging long,,hair-like structures that Finlaydescribes as microscopic °grapplinghooks.'

Once in contact with an intestinalcell, the E coli pierce the cell with

See "Vaccine" on page 2.

Bursaries$2.4 millionoverbudget

by Jonathan WoodwardNEWS EDITOR

UBC gave $2.4 million more inneed-based financial aid to studentsthan expected last year in order tomeet increased demand for money,university documents show.

The deficit comes at the sametime that substantially more stu-dents are applying for bursaries andhas, prompted UBC to re-examinehow its commitment to studentaccess to a university education iscarried out.

"[The] increase in the amountawarded reflects the increase in thenumber of eligible students andhigher levels of unmet need,' said areport \ to the UBC Board ofGovernors.

Once a student has exhaustedavailable funding from govern-ment student loans, he or shebecomes eligible to apply for bur-saries from the university. Thismoney is meant to meet 'unmetneed': money that a student does-n't have and that the student loanprogram won't supplement.

See "Bursaries" on page 2.

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OUC students concerned aboutlack of government consultation

Correction: In "Board of Governors race declared invalid" in the Friday January 30 issue of the Ubyssey,it was erroneously reported that The Right Choice slate had prior knowledge of election results. The RightChoice had no prior knowledge of election results. The Ubyssey regrets the error. •

"OUC" from page 1.

senate presentation slides, sayingthat they are too preliminary tobecome public.

"We want to inform people ofwhat is going on but we don't wanttoo much of this stuff sitting outthere because it is very prelimi-nary stuff,' he said.

It would be nice to see a deci-sion soon on the matter, addedMcBride. "The longer there is

"Vaccine" from page 1.

a "molecular syringe' and inject abacterial protein called tir. The tirproteins float to the surface of thecell, and protrude. They then attachthemselves onto receptors on the E.coli bacterium called intimin.

"It's kind of like climbing a rockwall,' explained Finlay. 'You putyour piton , in and pull yourself up'

Once several of these connec-tions are made, the E. coli is lockedon to the intestinal cell, and cannotbe removed.

"These things are so strong, ifyou rip it off, you tear the cellapart," said Finlay.

"Bursaries" from page 1.

Last year, 5,132 students appliedfor a bursary—a 56 per cent increasefrom last year. Of those, over 3000were granted money according torules set out in the access policy—a68 per cent increase from last year.Total money given out by UBC wasover $11 million—an increase of 72per cent.

"The need was two and a halfmillion dollars greater than wehad anticipated,' said DeborahRobinson, director of UBC recruit-ment, admissions and awards. Shecited both tuition increases andgreater awareness of availablefinancial aid as reasons for theincrease.

The Financial Aid office consid-ered different options to curtailspending, said Robinson, includinga scenario where students wouldhave to pay the first $500 oftheir need. -

"If we hadn't covered the first$500 of need, we would have beenin budget,' she said. "But we didn'tthink that this would have been inthe spirit of the access policy land]there hadn't been any warning, soperhaps that wasn't fair.'

Instead, the Aid office reas-signed about $555,000 from under-used subsidies like the work studyprogram and negotiated with theuniversity to cover the remaining$1.84 million deficit.

°The fact that the universitycame up with the additional fund-ing meant that they really did hon-our their commitment to access forstudents," she said.

But after a substantial deficithow that access policy is imple-mented is under review, says theBoard of Governors documents.

In a current draft of Policy 72,

uncertainty about this whole thingthen the more difficult it is.'

The president of the OUCdent union said she is frustrated bythe lack of consultation with theuniversity-college.

"No one is talking to the OUCadministration or the OUC stu-dents about it- said KarinaFrisque. 'If they had talked to usthey would maybe realise that a lotof OUC students aren't in favour ofthis.' +

The intestinal cell reacts byexpanding towards the latched-onbacterium, creating a pedestal-likestructure, with the E. coli on top.Diarrhea results, and the prognosisis often grim.

°Once the disease starts, there isno therapy whatsoever," said Finlay."It's very frustrating for a physician,because you can't treat it.'

The lack of treatment is whyFinlay says prevention is so impor-tant. Simple precautions like fullycooking hamburger meat and prop-

_ erly chlorinating water can kill thebacteria, but Finlay hopes that thenew cow vaccine will soon cut E.coli off at its source. v

the university's commitment toaccess, post-baccalaureate studentsin programs like Medicine andEducation will be expected to sup-plement their education throughcommercial loans.

About 63 per cent of Medicinestudents receive a bursary, com-pared to less than ten per cent ofArts undergraduate students, saidRobinson. This may represent a dis-parity in how bursaries are allocat-ed, she said. -

'The issue is that you can havesome very high-cost programs thatcan take up all your money. Is it fairto let all the money go to Medicine, orare you trying to ensure that under-graduates get helped?' she said.

Medical/dental students may bebetter able to get loans negotiatedbetween UBC and a commercialbank because of their higher earn-ing potential later on in life, shesaid. This measure may help todeal with the deficit.

But tying education costs toanticipated earnings denies theoption for medical students to per-sue other lines of work where theirearnings are smaller but their jobis as important, said Sam SaintAlma Mater Society VP External.

-If it's so expensive that [it] lim-its the resources that can go into anon-profit [organisation], that'skind of scary. We have to make surethat loan and grant dollars do notlimit the future career path theydecide to take,' he said. -

The problem of increased needmust be rectified by diverting moremoney from raised tuition, he said.

The draft of Policy 72 is current-ly being discussed in a series ofconsultations with students. A finalversion will be submitted to Boardof Governors for approval in March2004. •

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Scandal surfacesin UBC elections

Election marred byvoting irregularities

A new election,same old result

THIS ISN'T NEWS: Ubyssey headlines since 1967. Bungled AMSelections are often the hot issue of the year... every year.

THE UBYSSEY NEWS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2004 3

ections throughhe ages...or,dysfunctional

for a long, long time

THAT FAMILIAR FEELING: Basil Peters, left, shown after winning 1978 AMS elections. He would laterbe convicted of casting ballots for his entire engineering class. NEIL MCALLISTER/UBYSSEY FILE PHOTO

AMS elections a joking matterAMS recommendsBoG election recount

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The Uhyssey to blame IT'S ALL BEEN DONE: We'veno students vote seen today's scandal before.

by Jonathan WoodwardNEWS EDITOR

Student council overrides the elec-tions committee and cancels a can-didate's poster before the electionseven begin. The ElectionsAdministrator is fired days beforepolling is to start. Green electionsstaff are hired that day and trainedhours before votes are to be count-ed. Technical difficulties stop "hun-dreds' from voting. The newElections Administrator himselfcomplains about the procedurebeing °chaotic° and "questionable'Leaks from the committee informcandidates about who is winningand by how much well before votingis over. Ultimately, the Board ofGovernors race is declared invalid.

Sound like news?Well, it's not, really. It's just

another elections day at the AIV1S.Looking back through our archives,the most periodic headline is"Irregularities disrupt elections,""[insert position here] electionannulled' or "Confusion Reigns.° Itseems that when you let studentsrun their own elections, a well-runrace is the exception, not the rule.Here are some examples of Ubysseynews reports from the past fourdecades.

1968: No inhibitions, manUnder the banner of 'human gov-ernment' and with a platform offeelie politics including love, dogsand free dances, Arts Undergrad-uate Society President Stan Perskyran in the AMS presidential elec-tions and won the majority of themore than 6000 votes cast.

Within the week, Persky was dis-

qualified by the AMS on the groundsthat he hadn't been a student for therequired two years and was ineligi-ble—information that was availableto those running the elections wellbefore they began.

1971: Last time, on AMS elec-tions... The headline: "AMS election:legal or not?" broke news of manystudents giving their ballots to oneperson to vote, confusion about asystem of preferential ballots andpeople voting more than once. Aftera long legal battle, the student courtconcluded that the presidential elec-tions did not conform to the consti-tution, and the election would haveto be done again.

Wrote reporter Mike Sasges, "Ifyou liked the last AMS presidentialelection, you'll love the next one.'

1976: 'Where's the secret bal-lot?' Because it was too expensive toprint out voters' lists for eachpolling station, election organisersforced students to place their ballotin an envelope with their name andstudent numbers, so that in the endit could be counted against a mas-ter list. Students who refused towrite their names on the ballotwould not have their ballots count-ed.

'Election organisers have morerespect for dollars than they do fordemocracy,' said a Ubyssey newsarticle.

"This is really bizarre,' saidSandy Om ningham, a law studentat the time. "Where's the secret bal-lot?"

The votes took nearly a week tocount. "A long wait," wrote reporterHeather Walker, 'but it took a whileto undo all those envelopes."

1978: Engineering victoryStudents signed a sheet allowingBasil Peters, an engineering candi-date for the Board of Governors, tovote in their place. Peters took thislist to the polling booth at the civiland mechanical engineering build-ing, and garnered 257 of 274 votescast in that box.

All of the students who signedtheir votes away were in the sameWednesday afternoon ° - AppliedScience 251 class, and the hand-writing was the same on many ofthe ballots. Runner-up Fran Waftersgot only 61 fewer votes than Peters.

The university wouldn't standfor the voting "improprieties,' anddenied the newly elected represen-tatives a vote—what they were run-ning for—on the Board.

1984: Drunk and disorderlyThis time, it was "irregularities'disrupting the election. In a ballotbox in the McLeod Building therewere 45 votes cast; on the registerbeside the box, there were 23 stu-dents' names.

But ballot box-stuffing wasn'tthe main problem, according toHelen Reeve, a scrutineer in theelections. "By the time the third bal-lot was being tabulated,' she wrote,"the poll clerks and their supervi-sors had begun to drink.Throughout that evening, they toldjokes that would offend every eth-nic, religious and social minority...

would like to suggest that withother elections the ballots be tabu-lated by an accounting firm, or atleast have a mandatory scutineerfor every candidate, and sober pollclerks.°

1988: Away at the races"Scandal surfaces in UBC elections'was the headline, but the real storywas the astonishing voter apathy:

'A whopping six per cent of thestudent population exercised theirdemocratic right last week as anexciting AMS election rocked thecampus elections derby,' TheUbyssey wrote.

"Though defeated, 'No-vote onthe ballot' is ingesting steroids, eat-ing oats, training hard in Bluegrasscountry and intends to return tonext year's run for the AMS roses.'

1997: Marks the spot The "irreg-ularities' this time was one crusad-ing fourth-year Science studentwho went head to head with the sys-tem and voted over six times.

"It's very easy,' he said, speak-ing anonymously. When poll clerks

marked his student card to showthat he had voted, he smudged itwith his finger—they were usingwater-soluble markers. "Just touchit and it's off,' he said.

He said he knew several otherpeople who had done the same,and another student said that sheknew about seven people whovoted more than twice.

That year, the Board ofGovernors election was decided bya margin of 10 votes.

Present: For better or worseAfter all this, the question must beasked: have things gotten better ifour only problems are leaks in bal-lot-counting and the odd electionsrace re-run? Or are students onlybeginning to understand the chinksin the armour of an electronic sys-tem of voting that lets anyone witha computer vote unsupervised fortheir desired candidate?

Regardless, we look forward tonext year's elections to provide fod-der for our news section. Happyvoting1+

York University puts end to student election sagaby Jonathan Woodward

NEWS

A York Federation of Students (YFS) disputethat saw competing slates fight tooth-and-nailover an election that should have happenednearly a year ago was resolved last week whenthe York University administrationintervened.

After freezing the student society's fundingand assuming control of an election fraudinvestigation, the university allowed executivesfrom the slate Progress Not Politics (PNP) totake elected positions just a few months beforethey must contest their seats again in March.

Last year's spring elections were cancelledthe day before voting was to begin. With elec-tion organisers in disarray and without faiththat a clear winner would emerge from thechaos of "election irregularities' during voting,

the student society did not want to wastemoney on an election doomed to fail, said then-incumbent and current VP External Alan Cam.

"In order to save -$15,000 it was better tocall the election off," he said.

The incumbent executives continued theirterm through the summer until a by-electionwas held in November, which was alsoplagued with disputes: the outgoing councilwould not ratify the election results because ofallegations that the winning slate, PNP, hadoverspent during their campaign.

The dispute was referred to a YFS electionscommittee investigation, which said PNP hadnot broken any election rules. The committeerecommended that PNP be allowed to assumepower, but the incumbent council rejected thisruling, creating a deadlock.

In December, York University administra-tion threatened to freeze funding to YFS unless

election results were ratified."The possibility of orderly and democratic

change must be guaranteed,' said York VPStudents Bonnie Neuman. "I'm starting tohear from many voices that this is a concertedabuse of power and the current group has nointention and had no intention of timely dem-ocratic change.'

When the elections committee results werenot ratified by January, executive salaries werefrozen and the dispute was placed in trustee-ship under a council of college presidents.Their investigation determined that there hadbeen no election fraud and the decision wasthen ratified by council.

"The incumbent executives were the losersof the election, said Cam. "It was not aboutthe council wanting to investigate the matterfairlY, but it was more of a stalling tactic.'

Israeli-Palestinian politics may have played

a role in the conflict, he said, but it may havebeen overplayed by the media.

"Lots of their slate are Arab and a lot of ourslate were Jewish, but it was overly reported,'he said. "It overshadowed the real issue.'

The YFS will have their election run by theuniversity next term, he said, and will look atchanging the bylaws so that the council doesnot have the power to ratify election results.

This situation could not happen at UBC,said Alma Mater Society (AMS) archivistSheldon Goldfarb. hi 1999, many electionresults were doubted by the elections admin-istrator, but Council decided that only theBoard of Governors election had to be re-done.The AMS bylaws were then changed to removethe decision from Council's hands.

"It's a clear conflict of interest to havecouncillors involved in an election voting onit' he said. "It's common sense.'+

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2004 NEWS

THE ASI EXCHAby Dan McRoberts.

NEWS STAFF

Increased awareness of Africa isessential to the improvement ofthe continent's present condition,said famed Nigerian-Canadianjournalist Ken Wiwa last Friday.

Wiwa delivered an emotionalkeynote address to a packed MainLibrary seminarroom. He spoke pas-sionately about hisown personal expe-riences as the son ofactivist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was exe-cuted in 1995 fortrying to organisethe Ogoni people against theNigerian government and RoyalDutch Shell Oil.

have come to see the Ogonistruggle as a metaphor for Africa,'Wiwa said. The Ogoni region isunderdeveloped even though mil-lions of barrels of oil have beenextracted since the 1950s—thesesame problems face the entire con-tinent, he said.

`Nigeria remains trapped bythe corporations that run it and theinternational organisations thatunderwrite this misrule,' he said.'A lack of accountability remainsthe single feature that preventseffective development in Africa.°

During' the early 90s, when hisfather was leading an active resist-ance movement, Wiwa was work-ing as a journalist in London, prac-tising what he described as a 'stu-dious avoidance' of the isiue.

"All my life I have shied awayfrom the burden of carrying mycommunity or a continent,' Wiwarecalled. But all that changed onMay 21, 1994, when his father wasarrested.

social justice.'tion as a writer concerned with'Was the beginning of my educa-

"That moment,' Wiwa said,

Although he was unable to savehis father's life, Wiwa has taken onthe quest for social justice andmade it his life's work. He writes a

weekly column for The Globe andMail, "Without Borders" and hasworked extensively in the Britishpress. He has also produced televi-sion and radio documentary pieceson Nigeria and Africa.

Wiwa views the North Americanmedia with a somewhat jaundicedeye. 'Most people view Africathough the lens of the unselfcon-scious prejudices of the Westernmedia,' he said, reflecting that, asa result, Africa has become syn-onymous with images of starvationand misery.

Wiwa encouraged those inattendance to move beyond thosesources of information and worktowards a more active approach toinforming themselves aboutAfrica.

The speech marked the end ofAfrica Awareness Week 2004 atUBC, and although conferenceorganisers were pleased with thepositive response, they said UBChas much to improve on in termsof supporting African awareness asan institution.

Internationalism, a pillar ofUBC's TREK 2000 plan, is not recog-nised enough on campus, said

Veronica Fynn, aUBC student andmain organiser ofAfrican AwarenessWeek.

"This pillar isdefective in thatone of the greatest

FYNN continents [Africa]is forgotten,' Fynn said.

The organisers have drafted apetition challenging the universityto provide a greater focus onAfrican affairs in curriculum. "Theonly course offered on Africa is astudent seminar I teach," said Fynn.

Wiwa said such initiatives couldhelp to create the more knowledge-able, active population that isessential to helping ensure abrighter future for Africa.

'There is a network of fair-minded people that crosses allboundaries, and that networkgrows an the time,' he said. +

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NOT THE HIP HOP BEER GARDEN: Africa Awareness week oncampus saw many performers like Veronica Fynn dance to themusic of Brenda Fausi, a well-known South African singer. Otherevents included a round table discussion by Minneh Kamuau, anHIV/AIDS spokesperson, a coffee house at the MASS space thatdrew a diverse crowd to sample African tea and a talk by Dr NjokiNathani on African indigeous knowledges.The week was madepossible by a diverse group of volunteers and UBC's InternationalHouse. PETER KLESKEN PHOTO

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Call for an African studies programStudent society passes motion to lobbythe university for more Africa courses

BET YOU THOUGHT WE WERE DRUMMING: Master Kwasi's circletakes a break from playing the Mbira during the Afrofest celebra-tion in the SUB ballroom last week. PETER KLESKEN PHOTO

by Paul EvansNEWS WRITER

There is a serious need for anAfrican Studies program at UBC,said a student society executive.

While UBC offers regionallyfocused programs on LatinAmerican studies, European stud-ies and Asian studies, there is awhole part of the world that isexcluded from the curriculum,said Laura Best, Alma MaterSociety (AMS) VP Academic.

"I think it's really importantthat at an internationally

renowned university like UBC...theeducation and curricula reflectglobal issues and global citizen-ship," said Best.

Both the University of Calgaryand York University have Africanprograms, said Best, who called forUBC to join them as the only uni-versity in BC that offers an Africanstudies program.

But UBC does have a significantnumber of classes that involve thestudy of Africa, said Neil Guppy,the associate vice president of aca-demic programs at UBC.

The university currently offers

15 Africa-related courses, as wellas the Africa Study Program, wherestudents can go on exchange toAfrica and take courses offered in afield school there.

"It is not that Africa is an invisi-ble part of our curriculum, but itprobably should have moreemphasis,' said Guppy.

The problem is that UBC wouldhave to divert significant resourcesto get faculty that could offer goodinstruction, added Guppy.

Should the university choose tomove in this direction, it shouldmove slowly, said Yvonne Brown,manager of international initia-tives at UBC. She proposed start-ing with several courses in variousdisciplines, then proceeding to afull-blown program. New facultyhired for the program should bethose with African specialties,including Africans themselves,she said.

Tyler Hislop, a third-year com-merce student, said African cours-es should be offered and appropri-ate funds allocated provided thatthere is sufficient demand.

Best pointed to the largeturnout for Africa Awareness Weeklast year as an example of thedemand.

"We have every indication... thatstudents are interested in takingcourses on Africa," she said.

UBC Professor Gloria 04-euziri, who teaches a Caribbeanand African literature course, saysthat there is a strong demand fromthe students in her class for morecourses on African literaturedespite a decline in the number ofthose courses.

want it to be known that stu-dents want (African literaturecourses) but it has been reduced,'she said.

Onyeoziri also said that in arecent survey given to students,the demand for African andCaribbean literature courses—com-bined—was second only to thedemand for courses on Europeanliterature.

On January 15, AMS councilpassed a motion proposed by Bestthat gives her permission to begindiscussing possibilities for Africanstudies with the UBC administra-tion and various departments.

Best conceded that with all the"bureaucracy" involved in makingsuch a program, it will probably besome time before any classes areoffered in the curriculum. +

by Jesse Marchand

Just what does the Super Bowl mean to Canadianviewers? Sure, for Americans it is the culmination ofa year's worth of hard work. It is the diligent supportof a favourite team that ends in the ultimate show-down, where neither team has home advantage. Withfans in Houston split on who to cheer for, it is obviousthat thousands of Americans made the pilgrimage tofollow their favourite team. For the locals, it was atough choice between backing aSuper Bowl favourite or cheering forthe underdog.

But even for the Americans, is itreally about the football? In pre-gameconversation with my significantother, we remarked how the SuperBowl meant a great halftime show and fantastic com-mercials. Having not watched NFL football all season,I accused him of using the Super Bowl as an excuseto spend Sunday drinking beer and eating beef

But has it ever been anything else? Men andwomen alike have long been admiring the antics ofthe so-called "iiber-hot" NFL cheerleaders. The star

studded cast of the opening and half-time ceremoniesare also an indication of just how much planninggoes into the events surrounding the game itself.Even the Grey Cup buys into the hype, having NoDoubt and Bryan Adams add Canadian flavour dur-ing half-time. But the memories taken home from theCFL were not the antics. For those who cared, it wasthe Edmonton Eskimo's win.

For North Americans watching the NFL, howmany of them heard about Janet Jackson before they

heard who won? And how many ofthem cared about the Patriots or thePanthers anyway?

With all of the media blitz cover-ing Janet Jackson's "accidental'breast revelation, did the love forthe sport get lost?

So caught up in Jessica Simpson's voting-equals-partying "metaphor, Aerosmith's pathetic tribute tothe Columbia astronauts and of course the nudity byboth a streaking fan and pop stardom, most mediaforgot to mention that Carolina Panther JakeDelhomme tossed a 85 yard long bomb made into atouchdown by Muhsin Muharamed--raaking it the

longest touchdown toss in Super Bowl history.Or the fact that New England Patriot Torn Brady

won two Super Bowls in three years. Much less thestruggle that saw no touchdowns for the whole firstquarter, and ended with a Patriot field goal m the lastnine seconds of play, stopping the Panthers from get-ting the chance to win in overtime.

But that's the Super Bowl: a careful balance of ath-letic ability and spectatorship. The heart of Americansport and a true reflection of American pop culture.

While the athletes will remember those on-the-field moments, what will we remember? The lovabledonkey who became a Budweiser Clydesdale? Maybe.Janet Jackson's barely covered nipple? Most definite-ly. In the end, the Super Bowl memories are no morememorable for most viewers than the MTV videomusic awards.

Who won those awards this year? I don't know,but I do remember that Britney kissed Madonna—for some reason kissing Christina didn't matter asmuch. Funny what we North Americans deemimportant •

—Jesse Marchand is the Ubyssey Sports Editor

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But on Saturday, something amaz-ing happened. The Birds beat theirfour game losing streak and garneredthe most UBC goals in a game this sea-son—winning 7-5. While the gamestarted with a Regina goal, it didn'ttake long for UBC to tie it up and con-tinue making points. But a penalty inthe third started a bad chain reaction

that led coach Milan Dragicevic to callthose minutes 'the worst 14 minutes'of the season. "I thought we col-lapsed: said Dragicevic about thepower play goal that UBC allowed theCougars.

He credited the five goals scored byRegina to 'mental mistakes' causedby UBC over-confidence and the win tothe lineup change which saw CaseyBartzen, Steve Bonney and MikeGough each get their first goals of theseason.

The T-Birds stay home next week-end to take on the number one rankedAlberta Bears. Currently the Birds sitin the last playoff spot Maintainingthat position would make it their bestfinish since the 1997-1998 season. •

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NO HOW, NO WAY: Third-year T-Bird Jordan Yu stops at nothing tokeep possession from the hungry Victoria Vikes in their last chancefor regular season rivalry.The Birds only play two more teams thisseason before their playoff fate is sealed with the final CIS show-down happening in Halifax, Nova Scotia in March. NIC HUMEITHEMARTLET PHOTO

Top of the slopesThe return trip from Washington was ahappy one for the UBC alpine ski team.The giant slalom on Saturday sawTrevor Bruce taking second place, PaulBoskovich placing third and JoshAnderson taking ninth to place theirteam first overall. They continued thehot streak on Sunday finishing secondplace in the slalom.

The ladies fared a little worse forwear, finishing eighth overall in thegiant slalom. But Kim Webber, JoannaRosenfeld and Shelane Wiseman kickedit into hi . 11 gear on Sunday, placingthird overall.

The teams head to Idaho this week-end before taking off to Montana for theregional championships.

They're in, they're outTaking on the team just nudging themout of playoff contention, the women'sice hockey team did half as well asthey'd hoped. Edging out the LethbridgePronghorns by a 4-2 score the T-Birdsmade it into a playoff spot for the firsttime this season. But those hopes werequickly dashed on Saturday , as thePronghorns nabbed them 2-1, inchingone point above'the Birds and leavingboth teams where they started beforethe weekend. Playoff hopes now hingeon two UBG wins and a Lethbridge lossagainst the last-place Manitoba Bisons_over the next two weekends.

Scribes shut-outFor the sixth straight time in a row theThunderbird men's rugby team slaugh-tered their opponents. Sitting secondoverall the T-Birds had no problemannihilating the ninth-place Scribes by a76-0 score at Wolfson field. The Birdshead to SFU this weekend.

Ergnormous resultsUBC provided some tough competitionfor teams competing in the CanadianIndoor Rowing championships held inVictoria on Sunday. With 452 competi-tors each racing 2000 metres in differ-ent categories, the competition wasfierce. With over six competitors out of22 racers all finishing in the top 15, theT-Bird women's novice team faced theergometre with skill. UBC's HeatherAllyn took first place just 2.5 secondsbehind UVic's Suzanne Brooks withAlicia Burke and Kari Streufert round-Mg out fifth and sixth. Kitt Turney land-ed second in the women's senior B cat-egory and Paddy Knox took first in themen's senior B.

With eight competitors in the men'snovice,- Team UBC finished with fivecompetitors in the top ten. AndrewZucker pulled in first place for the Birdsat 6:30.6, with Darryl Hol and AaronPaas taking third and fourth. The men'ssenior B lightweight also saw high place-ment with Andrew Poole taking` thirdand Rich Cotter and Dave Hansford insixth and seventh. David Strasser fin-ished high for the senior A lightweighttaking second place. •

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The UBC Thunderbird basketball teamsput their fans and coaches throe . h a lit-tle bit of stress over the weekend. In theend, the women managed to right theship in time to leave Victoria with thePacific Division lead they came in withand the men managed to keep hold oftheir playoff spot.

"We knew their game plan and it wasexactly as we anticipated,' said UBChead coach Deb Huband about Fridaynight's game against fourth-rankedVictoria. Those words made the Fridayresult all the more shocking asthe Thunderbirds were absolutelycrushed 79-54.

The Vikes were simply brilliant ondefence for 40 minutes, pressuringevery pass and contesting every shotthat the Birds attempted. UVic made ithard for UBC to get past midcourt onnumerous occasions.

Friday's result left the Vikes andThunderbirds tied for the PacificDivision lead with the Vikes holding a16-point advantage. UBC would have towin by 17 or more points on Saturday toregain their advantage and that's exactlywhat they did, reclaiming the divisionlead with 75-56 victory.

UBC's success came from their con-scious effort to spread the floor andmove the ball quickly to neutralise theVictoria defence.

Victoria tried to keep the game dose

but a 19-1 run early in the second halfturned the game- into a lan her. Thisnight, it would be UBC's turn to put upthe sparkling statistics, shooting 54 percent overall with T-Bird SheilaTownsend recording 25 points.

Huband was disturbed by UBC's firstloss but remained positive, 'I'm happywith the split. It was important to getourselves going M the right direction, soI look forward to next weeks practice.'

The men's team faced an oppositesituation, winning 95-85 on Friday andlosing 62-61 on Saturday.

Friday's, game was close with UBCblowing a 17-point half-time lead and let-ting the Vikes come within three, but italso recorded a career high for CraigRollins who scored 30 points for UBC.

The next night would be Victoria'sturn to put their coach through somestress. The Vikes had a 58-37 lead withten minutes to play but UBC was notbothered and slowly cut the deficit to 62-61 with a minute left. Fortunately forVictoria, they were able to weather sev-eral Thunderbird attempts to take thegame.

With both SFU and Trinity Westernbeing swept on the road, the PacificDivision remains as close as possible.SFU leads with a 10-6 record while theother three teams have identical 9-7records'.

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SwappingLiving the goldenThe prisoners at the Burnaby

Correctional Centre for Women(BCCW) file briskly into the visitingroom. From the moment that BettyKrawczyk appears, it is obvious thatshe is the odd woman out. Her whitehair is in stark contrast to the youngfaces that fill the visiting room.

Krawczyk's dress mimics herDimmer: simple and honest. Theunderstated lines that crease the cor-ners of her eyes and mouth accom-pany a content expression. Her softand inviting appearance in no waysuggests that she is the same relent-less activist who stood steadfast inthe direct path of Hayes' loggingtrucks only months earlier.

Krawczyk was arrested for theseventh time on May 8, 2003. Shewas charged and convicted for dis-obeying a civil lawsuit commencedby Hayes Forest Services, aWeyerhaeuser subcontractor.Krawczyk, along with other environ-mentally minded women and men,spent many weeks from late Apriluntil June blocking an access road toWeyerhaeuser's tree farm license 44,located in the Walbran Valley.

On September 19, Krawczyk wasconvicted of contempt of court Shewas then held in the BCCW withoutsentencing until October 14, at whichpoint she was sentenced to sixmonths jail time, not including thefour and a half months she hadalready served.

The life journey of a protester

What is most curious aboutKrawczyk is why at 75—when mostgreat grandmothers are embracingretirement to garden, play withgrandchildren and socialise—she ison the front lines of the fi ;IA to saveBC's forests from logging. During vis-iting hours at the BCCW, Krawczyktold me her life story.

Krawczyk was born in southernLouisiana at a time when womenwere still considered second-class cit-izens and the Baptist Church was thelaw of the land. She was married at16, gave birth to three sons and wasthen divorced at 22. She has sincemarried three more times and hadfive more children.

Krawczyk seems both delightedand confused by her multiple mar-riages, as if she can hardly believeshe has been married and divorcedfour times. She pauses and thenstarts to laugh, "I was astonished to

find that I was a better man than anyof them weret

When Krawczyk speaks, hersouthern drawl is soothing, like thecoo of a grandmother putting chil-dren to bed. Her intonation is warm,and she laughs with her head backand mouth open—a deep belly Ian .h

In her book, Clayoquot: TheSound of My Hear( Krawczyk relatesher experiences to the integration inthe deep south, when many parentsand members of her church didn'tfeel that black children should beallowed to attend school with theirown children. Krawczyk remainedadamant that the only differenceswere skin deep. She protested out-side of the elementary school in herneighbourhood. As a result of herresolve, she incurred the fury of herless enlightened neighbours.

Only some years later the war inVietnam began, and again Krawczykfound that society was operating con-trary to her own values. In 1966 sherelocated to Canada in protest of thewar with her third husband.

It was with her fourth husband inBritish Columbia when she wasstruck by the women's liberationmovement and was again movingagainst the grain of society.

Through the ups and downs ofKrawczyk's tumultuous life, she wasdisillusioned again and again untilshe found herself alone in CypressBay on the., west coast of VancouverIsland. "In Cypress BaY, all cametogether. I wasn't a socialist feminist;I was an eco-feminist"

At the age of 60, Krawczyk was liv-ing in a secluded A-frame, tucked into the forests of Clayoquot Sound. Shehad lost faith in religion, governmentand family.

Cypress Bay was a chance to ques-tion her outlook on life and it was theforests of British Columbia thatanswered back. For the next 15years, Krawczyk's life focused on herfight to preserve the forests of BC.

Krawczyk's life has taught herover and over that the only thing tobe trusted is what she knows in herheart And despite all the disapp-pointments she has remained opti-mistic about the future.

"The way nature has evolvedthere are innate checks and balances.Nature will prevaill' Her echoingwords are interrupted, -Always,always nature will prevail."

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Women in the Woods

"There should be two priorities inevery decision-. the development andwelfare of children and respect forthe earth.' As Krawczyk speaks hertone indicates that there is no otherway to see it "The way we treat theearth is the way we treat women andchildren. The way we treat the earthis the way we value life.'

Krawczyk has recently founded anorganisation called Women in theWoods. Their mission statement(written by Krawczyk) is indicative ofthe relationship she has with theforests of British Columbia. "Wedeclare that as women, as mothers,grandmothers, daughters, sisters,nieces, aunts and friends we have aspecial interest in the preservation ofOur life support systems, as womenare and have been, historically speak-ing, moderators of society and stew-ards of the land.'

Krawczyk's eyes begin to sparkleas she talks about Women in theWoods. "We have two goals, oneminor and one major; the first is tostrike down the injunction habit, andthe second is to answer the question,'To whom do these forests belong,the government, Weyerhaeuser or tothe public?' Krawczyk pauses, allow-ing her words to linger. "We say they

belong to us. We have not only a rightbut a duty to protect them.' Herresponse is not forceful or angry butsteadfast like a deep-rooted tree.

' We want to see all of thesetransnational companies out of theforests of BC and replaced by locallymanaged community co-ops that willdo selective logging and the proceedswill stay in the community.'

The wisdom of the elders

Krawczyk's commitment is a char-acter trait she attributes to her moth-er who was a strong influence on herlife, although they didn't always seeeye to eye, especially when it came tosubjects like religion. Krawczyk isabundantly grateful for the wisdomthat her mother imparted. She ten-derly recites the lines her motherconveyed to her: "To thine own selfbe true.' Far her, these words oftenlistened to but hardly heard, area mantra—instructions on how tolive a life.

Her commitment to fightingagainst the destruction of BC's forestis truly a commitment to her ownethics. It is the result of an unwaver-ing belief in her own judgment Herstrong sense of self is echoed in theway she holds her body. She sitssquarely with her chin high andspeaks calmly

Although Krawczyk is adamantabout the state of BC's forests her

desire for change is not limited to theenvironmental realm. Being over 65she is legally considered a seniorcitizen—a term that Krawczyk feelsneeds improvement She prefers theterm elder.

"'Elder] has a ring of dignity aboutit that 'senior citizen' doesn't have,'she says.

Krawczyk is troubled by the role ofseniors in society. "Elders used to benecessary, now elders are redundant,we feel -unnecessary and threatened.It is difficult to live respectfully.'However, it appears that old age suitsKrawczyk. She has molded herselfinto a matriarch. 'At 75 you look ateveryone like they are children, nomatter what their station, be theyCEOs or premiers.' A mischievoussmile spreads across her face, as ifshe knows that nothing could infuri-ate Gordon Campbell more.

Life in prison

Life in the BCCW has not beeneasy for Krawczyk. She is separatedfrom her friends and family, and theliving conditions are often less thanadequate. There is little privacy anda quiet moment is an exceptionalprivilege. Nonetheless, Krawczyk hasfound a way to make the best of hersituation. She has learned to singand drum with the NativeSisterhood. She is also in the processof writing her third book, which

focuses on the lives of the women inthe BCCW. Some of her fellowinmates are closely involved, andhave contributed their ownstories.

One would suspect that prisonlife would be intimidating regardlessof your history, but Krawczyk doesn'tseem at all disconcerted. She hasfound the ultimate defence to dis-ruptive and rude prisoner behav-iour. "I do the grandmother thingand they have no defence,' shechuckles.

Krawczyk's release from theBCCW is scheduled for April. Herimmediate plans are already set instone; she'll head to MonkMcQueen's restaurant for boiledshrimp. After that, the Women in theWoods have discussed the possibilityof a tour in Europe. But as Krawczykrelays her plans for the future, asheepish smile swells acrossher face. "If I'm not back in jail,'she adds.

Krawczyk is an anomaly. It isn'tcommon to come across an individ-ual who fractures the definitions ofso many stereotypes: author, activist,grandmother and prisoner. Hertrack record would suggest a heavyhitter—someone who could handlemultiple jail sentences, angry log-gers and irritable judges (and shecan), but with the wisdom and wit ofa stubborn grandmother.

Through all the trials and tribula-

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"When you trust your own judg-ment and realise you can't controlothers, you can only control yourself,it is spiritually nourishing. You knowyou can't control the outcome. Thatrelieves the burden and there is noburnout,' Krawczyk smiles knowing-ly. "The future belongs to itself.' +

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2004VOLUME 85 ISSUE 34

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EDITORIAL BOARDCOORDINATING EDITOR

Hywel TuscanoNEWS EDITORS

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need an adverb, exclaimed Sarah Barton. Jenn Cameronwas quick to respond, 'How about 'skatelioard'r MeganThomas shook her head, 'That's an adjective you idiot(' Sarahrealized she wasit going to get far with her game of Mad Labsat this rate. She decided to enlist the help of her imaginaryfriend, aptly named Basil (Oregano swam' ded her too much ofpot). Unfortuately, Basil wasn't much smarter than the rest ofthe Ubyssey and he decided to El out the blanks with names hethought sounded funny. The end result was barely worthy of theeditorial section.

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ies, deceptionand failure'Canada's leading edge,' the newslogan for UBC, will be on everyUBC letterhead, website and busi-ness card before the year is out.Martha Piper's catchphrase 'ThinkAbout It has been on Imagine UBCshirts for years. The Iona Buildingof Vancouver School of Theologytricks potential students into think-ing that they'll be studying first-year English in a grand castleinstead of Buchanan.

These are fairly innocuous (andlet's face it: 'Canada's LeadingEdge' is silly) compared to the mostrecent branding effort by thisimage-conscious university: toimprove UBC's rankings in theprestigious Maclean's magazineuniversity survey by manipulatingclass sizes without considering theeffect on students' educations.

In November, we reported thatUBC had stagnated in its fifth-placeposition in the Maclean's rankingsheavy-weight medical/doctoral cat-egory—an unceremonious slidefrom the second-place finish in2001 after standards were changedto reflect class sizes.

Fifth place is a slap, and UBCwas red in the face. Despite anoth-

er 30 per cent tuition increase lastyear, class size continued to balloonover the point-gathering breakpoints set by Maclean's. Somerather incriminating e-mails wereexchanged discussing ways to°adjust capacity°—Marthaspeak forlying to students about the numberof people a classroom can accomo-date. Rankings were only based onterm one, UBC discovered, and byshuffling heavy-enrolment coursesto term two, ta-dal UBC's class sizesare—technically—smaller.

This is a pretty superficial meas-ure. This would trap some studentsinto spending extra time andmoney attaining a degree toimprove rankings in a magazine, toincrease the university's attractive-ness to future students, only to putthem through the same debacle.Limiting class sizes would artificial-ly limit the number of students whocould major in, for example, lin-guistics. Splitting classes into small-er groups taught by grad students orsessionals decrease the access bystudents to professors, and pro-foundly hamper a student fromcompleting a degree on time. Theystated that students wouldn't know

the difference.It's easy to single out certain

professors for their vocal sugges-tions and speculation in the e-mailsquoted in recent news, but theFreedom of Information requestunveiled an eight-month effort bysenior administrators and depart-ment heads to systematicallydeceive. While some of themseemed a bit aware of the possibleeffects on students, none' was work-ing in our interests.

All of this is contrary to univer-sity access policies and crosses amoral line when students pay more

and more for an education. It is dis-turbing when the administrationcares more about annual rankingsthan student enrichment and satis-faction.

Students weren't tricked by'Think About It', and we won't betricked by 'Canada's Leading Edge.'Despite all the plans for deception,UBC ranked last in the class sizecategory for upper-level courseslast year and llth for first- and sec-ond-year classes, Maclean's rank-ings weren't deceived. Martha,what makes you think that studentswould be? +

LETTERS

by Jo McFetridge

Why is everyone so surprised tolearn that the AMS Election is a totalclusterfuck? Why do people thinkthat this is a new occurrence? TheAMS Elections have been riddledwith stupidity andpoor judgment foryears—and I'm nottalking about stu-pidity on the partof the ElectionsCommittee. I'm talking about thechronic stupidity of the AMSadministration.

How about the obvious prob-lem that seems to have balloonedto epic proportions this year: hir-ing the Elections Committee toolate. This has been a problem atleast since my own tenure. I washired in November of 2000, withonly three weeks to hire an entireElections Committee, train thecommittee and then organise ahuge election beginning in earlyJanuary. Hired so close to electiontime, I simply did not have enoughtime to organise an election.Somehow we managed to pull itoff at the last minute, but it cer-tainly wasn't a fun experience.

The AMS administration, by hir-ing elections officials too late, setsthem up to fail and ensures thatthe elections are unstable, tumul-tuous and, of course, ridiculous.

I long ago recommended, ashave many Electoral Assistants(EA), that the Elections Committeebe hired- much earlier in the year,such as by the end of September.This has never been implemented,despite how easy it would be todo so.

In the case of this year's elec-tion, more time obviously should

have been spent searching for asuitable candidate for the EAposition. If Sundeep was "imma-ture," as has been alleged, per-haps this would have been discov-ered earlier—like maybe beforethe election started? Or how about

this: maybe if he'dbeen hired earlierand provided withsome training, ormaybe a ChiefReturning Officer,

he would have had a better idea ofwhat to do.

When I applied for the post ofEA, it was the least desired job inthe AMS. On my first day of thejob, a candidate from the previ-ous year's election gave me ashirt they had made in honour ofthe last EA, which said, gotflicked over by the AMS ElectionsAdministrator, and all I got wasthis lousy t-shirt." I shit you not.The job sucks. Nobody likes you,you work crappy hours, you getlittle respect and your authority isalways challenged.

As for the issue of student apa-thy, well, maybe students wouldbe more eager to vote if theyknew their votes wouldn't beoverturned on a stupid technicali-ty brought on by the idiocy ofAMS administrators who thoughtit was a good idea to hire possiblythe most important magistrate atthe last freaking minute!

If these elections results areinvalidated, it will be the mostrevolting thing that I have seen sofar in AMS elections history.Think of how it will appear: scan-dal over AMS council dominatedby Students for Students (SfS)executives firing the EA at the lastminute; scandal over SfS-execu-

tive poster-yanking; scandal overleakage of elections results. Now,the first year that StudentProgressive Action Network(SPAN) sweeps the elections by awide margin, all of a sudden elec-tions results are to be overturned?Doesn't look so good, no matterhow you justify it:

Let me tell you all that thereare always plenty of electionsirregularities, despite theElections Committee's bestefforts. These problems are notnew: weird hiring practices, weirdposter complaints, leaking of elec-tions results, candidates whiningthat results aren't fair. Theseproblems should not be used tojustify the overturning of theseelections results, because they arenothing new to the process!

The students have spoken:they want SPAN, for better or forworse. A lifetime of campaigningwouldn't have saved poorSpencer Keys from the Sad Fate ofthe Independent Candidate.

Apparently some students justwant the choice between card-board cut-out right wing slate Aand cardboard cut-out left wingslate B—is this democracy? I thinkit's ineptitude. Perhaps you jok-ers would prefer a dictatorship?

Oh yeah, and who's the wienerwith the stupid idea that ElectionsCommittee members should get a$1,000 cash bonus for every sub-sequent referendum or election(or by-election) that they run afterthe AMS elections? I'll let youguess what I think about the con-sequences of that idea. No really,Think About It.

—Jo McFetridge was the AMSElections Administrator in 2000-01.

S bullshitpolitik A response to Spencer Keys

Spencer Keys, I must first expressmy deepest regards for your tenaci-ty in UBC- student politics; yourdrive and ambition to run as anindependent is an admirable traitthat all too many politicians, stu-dent or otherwise, lack.

I agree withyou that slate politicsin our student elections has erodedthe effectiveness and quality of ourstudent leaders and it is an issuethat must be addressed. Indeed, it isimpossible to prevent people fromworking in teams; your campaignattests to the high amount of workthat is needed for a political cam-paign of any size. Perhaps though,slates should be banned.

Slates allow for less pro-activepeople to run in the AMS elections.It is all too easy for someone to joina slate because their friend is run-ning and not because they have atrue passion to make a difference forUBC students. I feel this was the casefor several of the candidates of thepast election. Without namingnames, I noticed that some of thecandidates really had no opinions oftheir own, they were just recitingthose of their collegues and used theprocessed opinions of the slate'sposter.

Though it may prove difficult toban slates from AMS politics, if doneit will potentially strengthen theAMS by preventing less pro-activeindividuals from entering office.What we need in our AMS council ispeople who have a passion to debatestudent issues and make a change,not just make a cool $20,000. If anelection was full of true and passion-ate candidates, it would cause ourapathetic student body to make edu-cated decisions not based on theflashy, cookie-cutter image postersand hollowness of our currentslates, but on real issues and ideals.

—Ryan PosnihoffArts 3

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Manic Mary Pop ns to the rescueTHE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOTat Studio 58until Feb. 15

by Momoko PriceCULTURE WRITER

According to French playwright JeanGiraudoux, author of "The Madwoman ofChaillot the world will not be rescued from

evil by a sacred, haloed hippy, nor by a troupeof apocalyptic horsemen. On the contrary, oursalvation lies slumbering in the valiant spiritsof the mentally unhinged. It is those eccentricfolk we see colouring the streets of our citiesthat will someday rise up against the soullessprofit-crazed capitalists of the world and bringhumanity back into our greying world.

The general rallying the spirits of the poorand oppressed, is the Countess Aurelie (played

by Samantha Madely) who—with the totteringgait of C3PO, the neon wardrobe of a 19th cen-tury Bjork and the reason of a March Hare—tries, sentences and exterminates an entireclass of greedy oil-drilling corporate elitistsout of her dilapidated cellar in the Parisiandistrict of Chaillot. She and her three disciples,the Madwomen of Passy, La Concorde and St.Sulpice, are all touched with Lewis-Carrollianmadness, that infectious lunacy known for its

playful puns, charming nonsense and pro-found wisdom.

This is not a play for existentialists. Themorality of human action and vice is heldsolidly in place and never questioned.Considering that the play was conceived dur-ing the Nazi occupation of France, this is hard-ly surprising. Instead of bothering to debatethe nature of good and evil, Giraudoux simplyattempts to portray these forces in a stirringpoetic light, and he succeeds with both hon-esty and humour.

Since a sizeable number of characters inthis play are certifiably deranged, one mightexpect to see some really over-the-top acting,full of affectation and flailing gestures.Director James Fagan Tait wisely sidestepsany flagrant over-acting, especially in the sec-ond act, when all four fluorescent-colouredMadwomen come together to hatch theirabsurd world-saving plan.

Although Madely does a fantastic job ofbeing a demented but motherly old bird in thefirst act, the dynamic between her , and theMadwoman of Passy becomes a tad unbal-anced in the second, with Madely's passionatecries overpowering Anthony Johnston's moredocile portrayal of Constance. UnfortunatelyJohnston's restraint, undoubtedly well inten-tioned, resulted in a slightly deflatedMadwoman, lacking the petty fire and zest thatdrives an eccentric old woman.

And although not a member of the crazybrigade, honourable mention must be given toLee Vincent, who plays the Ragpicker. Hisdamning descriptions of the powers that be inthe first act and his cunning stance in theirdefense in the second were mesmerisingto watch.

"The Madwoman of Chaillot' is a hilariousand touching story well worth the ticket pricefor those students who, caught between thearid desert of empty Ashton Kutcher moviesand the heavy bog of hyperintrospective psy-chological dramas, just want to see a mean-ingful tale with a happy ending. +

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ver on servedThe poppers were poppin', the breakers were breakin' and B2K was sucking it upYOU GOT SERVEDnow playing

by Melissa ToonCULTURE WRITER

My first reaction to the You GotServed trailer was familiar laugh-ter. The movie seemed to beanother Bring It On, but this timewith a little (I specify "little') moretestosterone. It was apparent thatthe movie was going to be theusual: racially grouped crews, onefrom the ghetto battling it out withsome ritzy suburbanites. And ohwas I right. The entire movie playson all sorts of stereotypes, fromyoung black boys pushing drugsfor an oversized drug lord to therich white boys that have nothingbetter to do than go around tryingto prove that they're just as down.

Starring in the film are theyoung boys straight off the hotteen hip-hop scene, boy band B2K(Omani "Oraarion° Grandberry,Jarell "J-Bong' Houston, DeMario"Raz-W Thornton and DreuxFizz" Frederic) and MarquesHouston of IMX.

On the frontline are David andElgin (played by Grandberry andHouston) who, with their crew, c-walk, pop and lock their way toprize money and props. But whenDave and Elgin's crew get a chal-lenge from Wade—a thug-wannabe-lite from the suburbs—to the beat of

$5000, and Elgin's grandma'smoney is on the line, you know it'sabout to get nasty.

Just breaking through puberty,B2K seemed to be missing anysense of direction and obvious act-ing experience. It was a cute -attempt from the young crew, butthe end result was weak.

The one actor who was the mostimpressive was Marques Houston.Compared to the rest of the actors,Houston was brilliant and deservesthe award for "best actor amongst agarbage cast.'

Who's to blame for this wreck?Perhaps writer and directorChristopher B. Stokes should beblamed for writing this highlyfunded piece targeted towardsteeny hoppers who are statisticallyknown for throwing away cash.Stokes should stick to marketingand leave the writing and direct-ing to someone who can actuallyfurther people's careers instead ofending thefa.

Despite the disastrous acting, Ihave to admit that the choreogra-phy was pretty spectacular. I wasn'tsure what to expect from the danc-ing and breaking, but knew that ithad better be good since it wasgoing to take up half the screentime. Luckily, the dancing is defi-nitely one aspect of the movie thatis unbelievable, with professionaldancers throwing down moves thatare both innovative and synchro-

nised. And although B2K may nothave the acting down, it is evidentthey are capable dancers.

In the end, if you are into hip-

hop, a fan of B2K or just a personthat has a heart for teeny hoppermovies, you may end up liking YouGot Served. But for those looking

for real acting, drama and overallcontent you might want to take apass on this drawn-out B2K musicvideo—minus the singing. +

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