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Nicaraguan students continue struggle by Cathy IRichardson VICTORIA (CUP)- Maria Ramirez i s the president of the National Union of Nicaraguan Students (UNEN). On March 7, she was interviewed in Managua by a mem.ber of an international team of oi5server11 during the February Nicaraguan elections.

1 centre, right and far-left parties, IJNO, defeated the Sandinista government in the second free elections since the Sandinish revolution in 1979.

The ofice of the National Union of Nicaraguan students lies in the barrio Colonia Miguel Bonilla, on the outskirts of Man- agua. It is near the National Nicaraguan Autonomous University (WAN).

painted IJNEN logo takes the form of a rifle.

Ramirez, UNEN’s president, we help students fold pamphlets which wi’ll be distributed on vari- ous campuses.

The pamphlets announce an emergency meeting of student councils and deciare students will unite to defend the achieve- ments of the revldution. Other activists are busy counting thousands of bus tokens, which look like red poker chips. They are given free to students-ne of the many benefits the Sandin- istas brought to student life.

Ramirez finally arrives and we go into her ofice. The light is broken and there are no high- tech copiers or computers. In spite of the minimalist infra- structure, the Nicaraguan Student Union is one of the most effective ;and well organized in the worldl.

ing thousands of students to demonstrate with a few hours notice. As well, students are one of the most outspoken groups in Nicaraguan society.

busy attending emergency meetings with faculty members and administrators. Since the election results were announced, there has been concern about the future of education in Nicaragua.

Nicaraguan students elect their representatives to UNEN annually from the classrooms and from the faculties (equiva- lent to course unions). Every two years there are elections for the national executive. A candidate cannot serve more than one term on national executive and may run as an independent or as a member ,of a party. The last elections returned all Sandinista candidates to the union’s executive.

university students in Nicara- gua. This was a major achieve- ment of the 1979 Sandinista revolution. Before that time only select wealthy citizens had access to univerlsity education.

On the side of the building, a

While waiting to meet Maria

They are capable of mobiliz-

Ramirez explained she is

There are no tuition fees for

Nicaragua’s constitution

says ‘access to education is free and equal for all Nicaraguans.’ Students pay a nominal registra- tion fee of approximately $2, half of which goes to UNEN fees.

Student leaders are con- cerned about the new economic policy which may come into effect in May 1990. It is likely the new government of the United Na- tional Opposition (UNO) will re- introduce stiff tuition fees.

Many students may not not be able to continue their studies. Students are also afraid the UNO government will cut student subsidies for living expenses and school supplies.

As well, there will likely be no more free bus tokens. Child- care programs are also on the list of programs to be axed. - Many students have made it clear they will not let the social conditions be pushed back to those of the Somoza era.

Ramirez said the change in government will inevitably strengthen the student move- ment. Many students voted for the UNO coalition (formed of 14 parties ranging from the commu- nists to the far right) because they believed there would be an end to the war, the draft, and the US embargo, she said.

Ta3 many students the larger threat to the entire social network was unanticipated. The present generation of students often come from families histori- cally denied access to any education.

R.amirez said she believed some students are “politically unsophisticated” and far too trusting of UNO.

voted for the UNO there will be large demonstrations and joint student action to defend our edu- cation system. This may be a good political education for many students who think that the UNO has good intentions,” said Ramirez.

The first somber indication of social regression is the return of landlords from the days of Somoza, attempting to evict people from they land they used to own.

for the UNO because they long for peace and better economic conditions, have now realized their !and and homes are in jeopardy. These same people who voted for the UNO have vowed to defend their property with arms.

the N-icaraguan students as well. Many students are in the reserves or the militia and have made i t clear they will not let the social conditions in their country be pushed back to those of the Somoza era.

There are great fears this

“Although many students

Many campesinos, who.voted

This may be the case with

may happen if the newly elected president Violetta Chomorro’ succeeds in reducing the army and reinstating the National Guard.

The Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) was born out of UNEN in the ’70s when a handful of students took to the mountains to fight a guerilla war alongside the campesinos against Somoza’s national guard.

Today there are Sandini sta youth groups on university cam- puses. Although Sandinista ‘can- didates won the UNEN executiue positions with 64 per cent of the vote, UNEN is a democratic or- ganization. UNEN leaders fight for the rights of all students, not just Sandinistas.

Ramirez said there have been no incidents of political sabotage from opposition forces on campus. “Once elected all members work together to advance the platform of the elected body.”

areas in which UNEN disqrees with the educational policies; of the Sandinista government. Uni- versity autonomy has been EL focal issue recently. Through a long series of discussions with the Education Minister great steps were taken towards granting individual universities autonomy in the area of aca- demic regulations, exams, entrance requirements and policy.

The biggest academic prob- lem facing Nicaraguan universi- ties is the lack of textbooks. In some faculties there is one text- book for 880 students. The text is kept by the professor and in&- viduaI students have to make copies.

sult of the U.S. economic em- bargo, but Ramirez said groups such as Tools for Peace have been helpful’in sending supplies.

ganize a worldwide drive for textbooks. They are looking to Canadian student associations for help, including the University of Victoria student council and the Canadian Federation of Students.

Maria Ramirez has a message for Canadian students. “Sadly we are a country that; must live in many years with a war, with two US. invasions in our history. And now the United States government must fight with us and wants to make the revolution disappear.

”Canadian students can help us by helping keep our revolution alive. Students can do many things. More concretely you can help us with our book campaign. In Nicaragua we make duo- copies with ink run-offs. I have confidence that we will have student solidarity now and in the future. We think we can have peace and in this peace we v d l fight to have the FSLN in government.”

Ramirez said there are lnany

The shortage is mainly a re-

The federation plans to ‘or-

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Students bashed bv brokers MONTREAL (CUP)-Univer- sity students were arrested by the busload at the Montreal Stock Exchange last Tuesday amid alle- gations that brokers attacked them, started fistf3ghts and broke a chair over one student’s head.

Two students were taken to hospital, bleeding from the nose and ears.

Montreal constable Jacques Patenaude said 178 had been charged with trespassing with in- tent to cause mischief, failing to co- operate with police, “and possibly one or two with assault.” Pate- naude said more students will be charged.

The students’lawyer says 280 were hauled in. No brokers were arrested.

“Traders pushed the students back. They were incredibly vio- lent-I didn’t see it, but someone told me one guy attacked with a chair. Everybody was eating knuckle sandwiches,” said Mon- treal radio journalist Philippe Marquis, who joined the protest and was arrested.

Agroup of 350, mostly Univer- site de Montreal students, went to the exchange to ask business to pay a one per cent tax on earnings to go toward university education. The action was in response to Quebec’srecent doublingoftuition fees.

Marquis said the students climbed up to the fourth floor stock exchange offices on Rene Levesque Blvd. just before the 4:30 closing time.

Fifty students actually made it onto the trading floor after two students, disguised in three-piece suits, opened the doors for the rest.

“It provoked the rage of the trad- ers,” Marquis said.

The students were pushed back, joining their colleagues’ sit- in in the lobby. Marquis said po- lice in full riot gear arrived within ten minutes. A few escaped down emergency exits, the rest were arrested.

The students filled paddy wagons and two city transit buses. It took an hour to unload them at the central police station in Old Montreal.

Marquis said he expects a municipal court summons in four months. By 9:30 p.m., 58 students had been processed and released, according to the students’lawyer.

”It’s fascist,” said a shaken Andre Gagnon, president of the UQAM arts and literature stu- dents association. Yt’s the first time in the Quebec student move- ment that massive arrests were made.

“The actions are really dis- turbing the patronat (business leaders). It’s very significant,” said Gagnon. “It doesn’t bother them when people quit university but when we put our feet in their temples, they get mad. For them, education of the people is not important, money is everything.”

About 1000 students marched in Montreal March 18th to protest Quebec education min- inster Claude Ryan’s plan to raise university tuition fees 130 per cent over the next two years.

College and university stu- dent associations representing about 90,000 students are on strike this week to protest the planned hikes which would take effect in September.

Cascade of plastic. Bottled water served to G l o b e ‘90 delegates with no plans for recycling the plastic. Many of the companies at the conference “are the people who will benefit from pollution’’ said Robin Round from UBC’s Student Environment Centre who collected 250 of the bottles to

Prosecutors want fine by Nicholas lonides

Prosecution rested Monday evening :st student court during the case against the Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS) for their March 14 nEUSlettre.

The nEUSPettre has been charged with containing racist, sexist, and homophobic material.

Natives Alan Price and Daren Winegarden, UBC law students who are prosecutors for the case, said the publication is discrimina- tory on the basis of race, gender, and sexual orientation.

Prosecution has asked the “EUS be overseen by the AMs [Alma Mater Society] for one year and fined $16,000,” said Price af- ter court.

The $16,000 fine would be

“spent on programs and actions that promote tolerance as opposed to fostering hatred and discrimi- nation,” said Price.

W e also asked that the court amend the EUS constitution to include a definition and a prohibi- tion of discrimination.”

Prosecution also asked court to recommend the EUS pay the fine instead of having the $32,000 EUS fund withheld.

But in the President’s (Strangway’s) Report to Senate dated March 21, it is written, I have Tnstructed that the collec- tion of fees for EUS shall be stopped immediately and that publication of all EUS material be halted until there is a commit- . ment to abide by its own policies.”

The President’s report said, “I am directing the student disci- pline committee to develop rt, =corn- mendations.” “In doing so, I am asking them to consider suspen- sion of those students directly involved.”

Price said they [prosecution] have recommended that there be no expulsion but, “we do suppofl the eight month suspension.”

“Right now, we are only deal- ing with the (EUS),” said Price.

Student court will reconvene on Thursday at 12:OOp.m. t c l deal with the EUS.

At 3:30p.m. disciplinary pro- ceedings will be heard against EUS members Martin J. Sikes, Heiko Epkens and Eva Marie Wehrhahn.

Court adjourns for lack of defense by Franka Cordua-von Speck right and were advised to seek He said, “I was surprised

An act of generosity by stu- legal counsel. “They did not call a court was so quick to reject a mo- dent court yesterday saved the lawyer until today (Monday).” tion for adjournment since defense Engineering Undergraduate Soci- Former EUS president Skott clearly was without representa- ety from testifying in defence of Kent said he only found out he was tion.” the nEUSlettre and postponed the subpoenaed on Friday. He said, Dixon said he did not under- trial until Thursday. W e contacted our lawyers who stand how court could have pro-

After the prosecution pre- were unavailable on the weekend. ceeded knowing that the defence sented thceir case against the con- Today was the first day we could had difficulty securing legal coun- troversial newsletter, the five meet with them.” sel . judges of .the court decided to stay The court’s explanation of But according to EUS presi- the case when the defense said their initial decision, however, dent Darren Sanders, UBC legal they could not proceed without found no sympathy with Dixon. continued on page 8 legal counsel.

B.C. Civil Liberties Associa- tion president John Dixon, who was present at the trial, criticized Food war rages on the manner in which it has been handled so far. by James DoIan each resident to expand the cur-

“It’s a good thing they re- In alate reaction to a petition rent meal plan in operation at cessed until defence could contact signed by incensed Totem Park Totem. legal representation,” said Dixon. residents, UBC Food Services This expanded plan would “But legal representation should decided yesterday evening to pull allow the students to use -their have been present to hear the case their budget proposal from the meal cards at the SUBWAY cafe- first hand.” agenda for today’s board of gover- teria, Magda’s, a small canteen in

According to the AMS nors’meeting. Totem, as well as the current To- Constitut:ion, each member of the Totem park residents, how- tem Park cafeteria. societyisentitledtobe defendedin ever, are fed up with UBC Food TPRA vice-president Sabrina court by am active member of the Services and will continue to take Gill objects to the lack of student

At the outset of the heruing price increase for food a t Totem asked for these changes. We’re the three engineers who com- Park residence. furious about the complete lack of prised the defence asked the court The Totem Park Residence student input. Hopefully, we’ll get to delay the trial until they could Association (TPRA) executive enough response to make :Food seek legal advice. council estimates over 600 resi- Services scrap the plan. We’re

The .prosecution and court dents have signed the petition going to fight this all the way.” initially rejected the request, cit- opposing the increase. The peti- TPRA also accuses food serv- ing an AMs by-law which states tion was sent yesterday morning ices ofusing ‘‘bully tactics” to pres- that any motion to adjourn a trial to the board of governors, demand- sure Cam McNeil into giving to- must be received by the court 24- ing action from the board. ken approval to the plan. McNeil hours in advance. “It’s a crock,” said TPRA was TPRA President at the time of

Mathers said, “Rules provide they Services are trying to ram uneces- “I wouldn’t exactly say it was should prlesent their reasons for sary ‘conveniences’ down our signed under duress, but there is a not being prepared to proceed a throats. I’dratherhave the$400in general feeling that Cam was day before the hearing.” my pocket.” forced into giving approval to the

informed ‘on Wednesday of their planned to use the extra $400 from continued on page 8

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Clerk of the court Jessica president Justin Meilkem. “Food the proposal’s construction.

She said the engineers were Food Services originally proposal,” Meilkem said.

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In the first match, the Chi- nese led from start to finish and never gave the Canadian team an opportunity to exercise their supe- rior size.

The second match was a see- saw affair with the Canadians going out to an early 10-3 lead only to see it swallowed up by a combat- ive Chinese squad who evened the score at 11. The Chinese come- back was squashed and the Cana- dians held on to win 15-11.

The match broke the Chinese team's spirit and the remaining two matches took just over 30 minutes to complete.

Canadian player, Randy Gin- gera, was outstanding and deliv-

some team members were injured. The main aim of this tour in Can- ada was to prepare for the upcom- ing Asian games this fall.

For the Chinese team, Van- couver is the fourth stop on their tour and they have played previ- ously in Calgary, Edmonton, and Victoria, all of which were Cana- dian victories.

Although the match was pub- licized very little on campus, there was a strong contingent of main- land Chinese students in atten- dance.

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Scullers scull skillfully by Sandra Stephanson

UBC rowers fared well at the UBCNRC Spring Invitational Regatta against formidable com- petition from the University of Victoria, Western Washington University and Simon k a s e r University this past weekend.

The UBC rowing birds pulled off two first place finishes in the women’s junior varsityAight- weight eight race and the men’s junior VarsityAightweight four plus coxswain.

In brilliant sunshine and with a slight afternoon head wind, the UBC lightweight women’s eight rowed a strong and steady final, pulling away from WWU in the last 60Om of the 200Om race.

Coxswain Sharon Spinder said, We really pulled together, I’m really happy with our perform- ance and that we were able to fi- nally beat these crews.”

UBC’s winning time of 7:39:08 was a decisive six seconds before WWLJ and 11 seconds ahead of the UBC women’s junior varsity crew.

The junior varsityAight- weight men’s four dus cox race was easily won over an inexperj from SFU.

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Both UBC’s men and women had to contend with the super rowing power of UVic, who walked away with victories in the men’s and women’s heavy eight races.

“he UBC women’s heavy eight settled for second place-ten seconds out of contention.

“Our goal was to beat U. Vic and unfortunately it didn’t hap- pen. We had a strong start. We’re working on getting faster for next weekend‘s race in Victoria,” said varsity rower Suzanne Flemmina.

The varsity heavyweight men’s eight finished third, nine seconds off W J and 17 seconds behind the veteran U Vic crew.

The annual pilgrimage to the San Diego Crew Classic Regatta has been postponed indefinitely for UBC rowers.

They will have to settle for competing in the Oregon State University and University of Vic- toria Dual Regatta to be held March 31st and April 1st in Victo- ria.

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No defense conffnued from page 3 clinic did not take their case be- cause it presented ua conflict of interest.”

No representatives of the UBC legal clinic could be reached for comment.

Dixon said i t was outrageous that the EUS’s request to seek legal counsel from UBC legal clinic Friday was rejected.

“Everyone has the right to a fair defence,” he said. “Adequate representation is the bedrock pro- cedural right of the system.”

Chief justice of student court John Anderson said court recon- sidered their initial decision to adjourn after the engineers told court they were not ready to pro- ceed with their defense.

He added that the delay has given the EUS an advantage in preparing their defence because of the decision to let the prosecution proceed yesterday.

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Members of Food Services have been unavailable or have refused to comment on the stu- dent’s opposition to the proposal.

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“Could that someone be

Brecht the red ...” In the past month two plays

of EIrecht have been set on stage at the Vancouver universities: The Good Woman of Ssu-Chuan at Simon Fraser University, and Herr Puntilla and His Servant Matti at UBC. What can be the reasons why Brecht is being shown at University theaters? Is Brecht now a‘klassic” playwright to he analyzed to death by aca- demics?

Brecht planned and wrote his short stories, poems, and plays to let workers know how power was being wielded and used by bosses to opress them. Brecht’s theatre does not intend to preach about exploitation and pretends to save the exploited by malung platonic statements, but makes everyone in the audience become a critical spectator of the events unfolding on stage. Brecht’s epic theatre is more than entertainment.

What is Brecht doing at the University? Have the scholars taken Brecht out of the context of class struggle and fossilized him in the academic world where a few experts will decide what are the right (socially acceptable) and. wrong (socially deplorable) ways tointerpret Brecht’s works? This could well be the case. None- theless this would be the least dangerous of the consequences of taking Brecht out of the popular theatre and secluding him into the places where those in power educate and entertain them- selves.

Both The Good Woman of Ssu-Chuan and Herr Puntilla and His Servant Matti were pre- sented as entertaiment, Brecht without the critical edge, without offending the burgeois. Nice im- age,s, no content.

The Good Woman of Ssu- Chuan emphasized, for reasons that were never made clear to anyone, Shan-Te’s passion for a pilot that is after the money her tobacco shop holds. This obscured the main message of the play, a capitalist cannot be a good person and run a succesful business at the same time, profit and kind- ness are mutually exclusive. The Good Woman of Ssu-Chuan also presented us with stereotypes of water sellers, barbers, prosti- tutes, pilots, servants, moth- ers.... Isn’t there enough imagi- nation lett at universities to look at the world in new and interest- ing ways, instead of using the shalllow and boring representa- tions that Tv provides us?

Herr Puntilla and His Ser- vant Matti was better produced, and closer to the Brecht spirit that I enjoy. Nonetheless it was mos,tly an entertainment play where emphasis was in good act- ing and good music and not in critical thinking. Both plays remained somehow critical of society’s afflictions not because of the directing and acting, but in spite of i t and thanks to Brecht’s extraordinary talent.

Is this the direction in which North American University the- atre is heading in the 199O’s? It is hard to believe that “world class” universities can’t do better at staging Brecht than presenting him as pure entertainment.

As an analytical tool Brecht’s theatre makes power and its uses explicit to its audiences. With this audiences can understand power and its manipulations and break power relationships and promote equality. Unfortunately this tool is a two-edged sword. Tho;se who yield power might be yielding in unconsciously, with- out realizing the full implications

of its reaches. If power wielders analyze power intimately in the way that Brecht presents it they will understand and use it more fully. I believe that this is the worst consequence of showing Brecht in power elite circles as simple entertainment.

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Reader disagrees I am saddened by the heart-

less attitude reflected in the let- ter by Jeremy Cooperstock that appeared in last Friday’s Ubys- sey. He concludes that the women who worked together to produce the Tuesday, March 13 issue of The Ubyssey, which was dedicated to women’s issues and eloquently succeeded in enlight- ening many readers about strate- gies for overcoming the unfortu- nate barriers that alienate the two genders from each other, were merely concocting a “witty satire.”

It is tragic and shameful that anyone should find funny the op- pression and suffering of women.

His suggestion that these women are not serious demon- strates his hostility towards and his inability to empathise with a major group within our society who suffer undeserved victimisa- tion. “he Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upholds plain common sense in decreeing that it is neither fair nor accept- able to discriminate against per- sons because of their race, reli- gion, colour, or gender. Any no- tion that women in general in our society do not face gender dis- crimination that puts them at a disadvantage socially, economi- cally, and politically arises from either profound ignorance or out- right falsehood. Often men self- ishly deny the existence of injus- tice and resist reform because the system errs in their favour.

It can be difficult for a man to directly perceive that as a result of the explicit oppression that a woman faces, her world view and everyday experience is funda- mentally different from his. If we cite only a few of the instances in which women suffer unjustly as a result of their gender we see that in general they are subjected to a higher occurrence of violent acts committed against them by men as opposed to the reverse, that they have difficulty obtaining treatment and pay that equals that of men in many employment situations, and that they lack political representation that is proportionate to their relative numbers in our population. Obvi- ous conditions such as these must lead us to see that the feminist revolt against the institutions that maintain this imbalance of power is justified. Even so, Mr. Cooperstock may cruelly and smugly deride women who ear- nestly and sincerely strive to encourage a new and healthy mode of interaction between women and men, but his conde- scending arrogance serves only to intensify the harm that he does not comprehend and that has already done unspeakable dam- age within our ailing society.

I do not believe that we men would perpetrate the injustices that we do if we truly knew the pain that we cause in doing so. As a man now appealing to other men, I call on us to awaken our compassion and work together to bring an end to the victimisation and oppression of those to whom we should show respect, grati- tude, and love: womankind.

Daniel Fretts Faculty of Arts

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Welcome to the second annual Ubyssey “Oscars” fo the most interesting events, people, and places on campu and the world beyond. The envelope please ...

Best actor: student representative on the Board c Governors Mr. Tim Bird who has lent his chameleon-lik support to almost every backward stand the AMs ha proposed this year. Believe us the list is long.

Unfortunately, we cannot give out a best actress awar because there are too few women in high profile positions B UBC to choose from ...

Best supporting actor: BOG chair Peter Brown for hi delightful portrayal as a..uhh...businessman. What rang6 what depth, hoorah.

Best supporting actress: former ombudsperson Jessic Mathers whose integrity kept the AMs more honest b, bringing the AMs backroom politics into the forefront t students, where it belongs. She would make an excellen AMs president.

Best special effects: The first of many awards, Th UBC Real Estate Corporation for the spectacular fire an smoke they put on for the residents of Fairview/Acadia a their Hampton Place development during the Thanksgh inglong weekend. The result was front page coveragein th weekend edition of The Province and another black-eye fa a corporation turning new ground in development tactic

Best sleazy political tactic: To president George Bus’ for attempting to erase the wimp factor by invading th Central American powerhouse Panama. Yes, George yo are no longer a wimp.

Honourable mention for best sleazy political tactic UBCREC for the delightful job they did in alienatin almost every community group on campus and Point Gre and for their lack of consultation in the months precedin the development.

Worst screenplay: The UBC ‘Geers for their moroni publication the nEUSlettre. The only thing funny about th publication is the miscreants who write it still believe it t be funny. Actually, i t is appalling.

Hypocrites of the year: The UBC administration an the local media for their reaction to the most recent publj cation of the nEUSlettre. The horror, the horror, what th hell do you think those yo-yo’s have been writing about i their shit-hole paper for the past 50 fucking years. It hasn’ been intelligent. The horror, the horror. You guys make u wretch.

Stupidest political move: The new AMs for their p u ~ chase of $33,000 computers which have little utility excep for term papers. They should be given to the library.

The most hazardous waste award goes to The Vancou ver Stunned’s in-house columnist Nicole Parton. Beside wasting trees this inane strip belongs in the comic sectiol (right beside The Family Circus) where the audience woull probably be more in tune to the tripe that flows out of he brain. Please get rid of this person. She does not enhanc the reputation of your paper, our city, or journalism.

Best role model: F’remanure Bill Van Der Zalm. Hi wholesome good looks, weasely manner, doublespeak, an car salesperson smile make Mr. Bill a veritable champi01 of Socred slime and a great role model for all aspiring youn, politicians in B.C.

Best salesperson: President Strangway for selling u down the river, promoting elitism and inaccessibility of, university education. This year he sold us on a researcl university. Last year he sold us higher tuition without thl anger that has hit Quebec. Think about that one.

Most pretentious award: The Ubyssey. Who else? ”

THE UBYSSEY March 27,1990

The Ubyssey is published Tuesdays and Fridays through Dut the academic year by the Alma Mater Society of the Uni. dersity of British Columbia. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not necessarily those of the university administra tion, or of the sponsor. The Ubyssey is published with the proud support of the Alumni Association. The Ubyssey is B member of Canadian University Press. The editorial office is Rrn. 241kofthe Student Union Building. Editorial Department, phone 2282301; advertising, 2283977; FAX# 228-6093 Extra! Extra1 Ubyssey beer garden brings death and desrructionl Read all about it in SAC.

‘Eyes melted, skin expbded, everybody‘s dead,’ xreamed Frarka Cordua-von Spech~,

drurkenminorsdrankfmm(SAC-su~~ed)boalesandspatfromthebaleonies.MichaelBooth runningfmmthefhmingSUBbuilding.SunoundedbytheSACsecurityswatteam,hordesof

was f im to start the riot, throwing arms to all staffers. ‘For the tenth time, NO we won? wpe the bar!’ said Joe Ahwasser, making no a!tempt to stop the foamy flood. Etlie Pow and Dale Fallon cried tearfully, ‘Luckily SAC security came to saw the day.’ Rebecca Bishop, still shaki~,wasreIievedtoIeammwtUbysseystaffhadsurv‘Ned.’’Wealmostbstthemall,”said Martin Chester, sniffling. Keith Leung was shocked. ‘II was like, wow, total chaos, I man all the furniture got smashed to s h l there was this big bonfire in the middle and AMS types kept gettingchudtedin.~youaskme,d~lowingUbysseybeergardensisn’tenoughlTheyshould

shing~eelthey’daccidentlyle~thenightoftheparty.’Weknewit”saidAussem.Can’ttrust allbeshotrErnieSteQrandTedAussem,rummaggedthmughthecharredremainsforthe

those journalist types. Get them off the keyboard for a night, and hel l breaks loose.” The Ubyssey terrorists, led by Victor Chew Wong, went on a rampage of the SUB, spraying the walk with beer and refusing to distrbute beer tickets, throwing mobtov cocktaik (open beer wimTheUbysseyafbmeimide)atthepac~istSACsecurityteam.HaoLiandXuanNgocalled the fire department, as Don Mah and David Loh ran to the balcony, dumping cases and cases offullbeerontothepani~edcmwdsbebw.SandraStephansonduckedunderadeskjustas another bomb exploded, causing major structural damage and killing, oh, hoardes. The Pope gave an early Saturday morning service for Rick E. Bear, whose bcdy was never recovered, while a USGeneral surveyed the wildeyed partytnorgenwho’dcaused the riot, handing out application forms.

‘Waitr cried Najene Rehrby, “I was there, it didn‘t happen that way! We danced, we sang, we had a f e w been.’

But we all know, if SAC security says it happened. IT MUST HAVE. All staff riitenand other hooligans (especially the ones who are a little confused about the SAC security report) are cordially invited to attend this Wednesday’s AMS council meeting.

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strong disapproval of the March 14th EUS newslet- ;er .

The newsletter’s savage 3igotryignited a deep pool of ?ain and anger among tar- Zeted groups, especially unong Native students. Stu- lents Council showed soli- larity with these groups at ;heMarch21stSpecialMeet- ng.

All of us look forward to a time when prejudice based 3n race, sex or sexual orien- htion, along with the verbal 3xpressionof such prejudice, no longer infests our society. We need to be careful, how- jver, that we penalize dis- :riminatory actions rather than the expression of opin- Lon.

We need to take a sober look at the measures that :an properly be taken in re- sponse to an offensive publi- :ation. The right to free axpression, guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Liberties, surely ioes not mean only the right to non-offensive expression. Disciplinary action against che EUS could open the University to a civil liberties suit.

Page 20 of the 1989/90 UBC Calendar states:

“Central among these rights (of members of the University) is the freedom, within the law, ... to engage in full and unrestricted con- sideration of any opinion ... Behaviour which obstructs Free and full discussion, not mly of ideas which are safe and accepted but of those which may be unpopular or even abhorrent, vitally threatens theintegrity ofthe University’s forum.”

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ministration nor the AMs would wish to become guilty of such behaviour. Halting the collection of EUS fees, as punishment for the expres- sion of abhorrent ideas, is contrary to the letter and the spirit of the statement on Page 20 of the UBC Calen- dar.

There can be absolutely no question of banning any publications, financial pen- alties, the suspension or ex- pulsion of students from UBC or any other reprisals. Punitive measures will cre- ate a climate at UBC which makes the free expression of highly unpopular views appear dangerous.

Such measures will have other negative effects as well, without really curing the evil they are meant to address. They will unjustly punish all engineering students for the misjudgment of a few. They may remove financial sup- port for the many construc- tive undertakings of the EUS. And they will come across as vindictive acts of repression which won’t erase prejudice from people’s minds and hearts, but inten- sifyantagonismsoncampus.

Racist, sexist or homo- phobic bigotry at UBC must be countered by the voice of reason and corrected by help- ing discriminated groups in positive ways - not by turn- ingengineering studentsinto scapegoats. Several repre- sentativesofNative students have stressed the same point.

These thoughtsexpress, not a consensus within the AMs, but my own honest judgment about a difficult situation. I trust you will consider them, knowing that both of us feel deep responsi- bility for the good of UBC.

Yours sincerely

Kurt Preinsperg AMs President

Serves ‘ right

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Finally ... some disaster has taken place; the edito- rial staff of the nEUSletter must now tiptoe on creaky floorboards.

I am sympathetic with the First Nations members. It’s unfortunate that they were directly insulted.

But, a t the same time, I am glad that the March 14, 1990 issue has made such publicity. Maybe now there will be a decrease in disgust- ing jokes and pictures in our newspaper.

Roberta Cameron Bio-Resource

Engineering 2

Read Ayn Rand I agree with UBYS-

SEY’s March 20th editorial that Capitalism and Envi- ronmentalism are incom- patible, or more fundamen- tally that the “growth-ori- ented” mentality is incom- patible with “concern for the environment”: the latter is profoundly evil, the former uncompromisinglygoodand pro-life.

Now let’s get straight what Environmentalism in its pure form advocates: Mother nature has value in and of itself, apart from human ends and purposes, and should therefore be obediently cherished.

I refer you to the title essay of Ayn Rand’s book “The New Left: The Anti- Industrial Revolution” for an analysis of the essence of Environmentalism.

At the root of this phi- losophy is the profoundly mystical view that man is a highly abnormal child of Mother Nature-ruthlessly able to permanently con- quer his surroundings and

natural evolution. Man is seen as an unnatural bypro- duct of nature, intrinsically at war with it. H u m a n activities “spoil” the Envi- ronment. Who should win this war given this meta- physics? Like a child should obey his parents, so man should submit to nature and not try to impose his values on it.

Hence Environmental- ism’s venemous hatred for Capitalism. Capitalism values man’s life as an end in itself and as the only proper standard of value, andlets man free to discover the best way to live his life according to his nature. Capitalism is intrinsically selfish, and does not accept the question: “what is good for nature, trees, and fish?”; rather, it is the answer to: “what is good for man as a rational, natural entity?” Don’t take technology and material progress for granted; in reason, an un- compromisingly pro-man viewpoint dictates that it is proper to conquer nature, to produce, to change the world around us, not mind- lessly, but according to the dictum “Nature to be com- manded, must be obeyed.”

Stephan Weaver Engineering IV

“We are, in general, a left wing paper from a Canadian perspective, which in America would probably be cornmu- nist.” “Ubyssey editor Joe Alt- wasser in the Western Washington University paper The Western Front Web. 27, 1990).

Smash the bourgeoi- sie. Join The Ubyssey. Room 241 K, SUB.

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Trip in poor taste Dear Mr. Wilson of "ravel Cuts:

I am astonished that you shlould be advertising China as "an excellent destination to visit as well as study in these times of change." Are you not aware that only eight months ago thousands of students were massacred in a most gruesome manner in Peking? Since then thousands of students and other young people have been herded into prisons and concen- tration camps, forcefully brain- washed, tortured, executed. If- as you put it-"China continues to evolve" it is in a direction opposite tothat of the rest of the communist world. Would you have promoted travel to Ceausescu's Romania? To invite Canadian students to travel to China sends the wrong message to the murderers of China's students who continue to hold that country in the grip of terror, and are bound to soon meet the fate of their friend Causescu.

Are considerations of aca- demic solidarity and common morality of no relevance to a travel agency .purporting to serve the travel needs of the academic com- munity? Surely you could find some genuinely "excellent" desti- nations for student travel in the Pacific Rim.

Rene Goldman Assistant Professor

Debate continues Mr. Ron Norman (March 6 )

attempted to equate the activities of businessmen, specifically em- ploying workers, with the activi- ties ofgovernment. Such a danger- ous ignorance of the English lan- guage and of human relations cannot be left unchallenged.

In a free society, no one is forced to deal with any individual or organization. Parties can only deal with one another by mutual consent. The activities of busi- nessmen (employment, purchas- ing, and selling) involve two or more parties who exchange values by mutual voluntary consent for mutual benefit. These are not ac- tivities involving exploitation or force.

In order to exploit by force, one requires a gun, a government, or both.

The distinguishing character- isticofgovernmentisthelegalized use or threat of force. Govern- ments levy taxes with involuntary finesandimprisonment (i.e. force) as the punishment for non-pay- ment.Governmentsinterferewith the freedom of men to trade by controlling ideas, capital, and products which they arbitrarily determine to be harmful to the 'pu'blic good'. Governments initi- ated the use of force in the Tian- amin Squares, Auchwitchzes, Soviet prisons, and Latin Ameri- can dictatorships of the past and will continue to do so in the future. The degrees of the violations of individual rights vary but the dis- tinguishing characteristic re- mains the same.

Yes Mr. Norman, there is a difl'erence between managing a corporation and governing a na- tion. Words have meanings. They represent definite concepts. Why do you wish to avoid definitions?

Mr. Norman's is unwilling to accept "a language which harbors such a distinction [governing vs. employing] ..." becauseitis"a1ittle too discreet and circumspect ..." It appears that the evasion, obscur- ing, and destruction of concepts are the domains of Mr. Norman. A world where men communicate in defjinite terms does not permit him to expound opinions which are nothing more than whims and wishes with no justification in reality. Confusion allows him to

Can you believe thk? I accldenly hand in a letter to my grandmother and my philosophy prof glver It a B+.

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link the virtures of the free ex- change ofvalues with the crimes of government.

If the reader were to accept Mr.Norman'sviewoflanguage, he has already won the battle. A ra- tional argument cannot succeed when the issues and language are sinking in a quagmire of vague definitions. Such definitions per- meate our culture and even dic- tionaries have become a weakened defence. This state of affairs suits the irrational, emotional, catch- all-phrases of Mr. Norman per- fectly.

Kevin Haidl Science 1

Confront them The engineering nEUSlettre is one example of discriminatory expressions on the UBC Campus. They must be confronted! As a member of the community at UBC your voice can be heard. By writ- ing letters to your Faculty Advi- sor, Advisor, Ombudsperson and to President Strangway we will be accepting responsibility for im- proving our community. Instead of being part of the problem, be part of the solution.

San Dee Doxtater Anthropology 2 Daniel Meneley

Law 1 Karen Roblee

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Suffering is BAD The Wate-Hurts" campaign

left out an important issue. In all the talk about the ter-

rible hate and discrimination that goes on in human society, in all the talk about the infringement of the rights of human minorities and women, never was the most wide- spread and abhorantly harmful type of discrimination publicly spoken (or written) out against: SPECIESISM. That is, the tyr- anny of humans over non-hu- mans.

Granted, the types of dis- crimination between humans are all terrible. They must be ERADI- CATED. They are all, however, PALTRY-utterly insignificant and trivially mild-IN COM- PARISON to the DEGREE and AMOUNT of suffering that non- humans are put through by hu- mans.

Women and human minori- ties all, quite justifiably, complain because they aren't given EQUAL rights. In comparison, however, non-humans aren't given ANY rights or granted the slightest degree of consideration: it is con- sidered completely justifiable & EAT them-BURN them-lock them in a box for their entire lives-BRAND them-TEAR their beaks o f f S E W their eyes closed-INFECT them with can- cer, aids or any other DISEASE you desireCTARVE them-line them up and SHOOT them through the head-ELECTRO- CUTE them-IRRADIATE them-POISON them-DROWN them-FREEZE them-DRUG

them-HOLD them in HEAD BRACES for their entire lives- pour DETERGENT and COS- METICS in their EYES and on their skin--TRAP them by their LEGS in steel let-hold traps- ABDUCT tjhem from their native habitat. Basically, it is considered perfectly justifiable to do WHAT- EVER YOU WANT to them. And if there should come a time that the law threatens you with the charge of 'cruelty to animals', while then you can just say that what you're doing is in the inter- ests of science (I guess that's what the NAZI DOCTORS said in WW.11 when they experimented on Jews).

What is required is not equal treatment for non-humans. Rather, EQUAL CONSIDERA- TION. Equal consideration for the well-being of women requires that they be given an equal opportunity to achieve and enjoy the same things that men do. Equal consid- eration for the well-being of pigs may require no more than that we leave them alone with other pigs in a place where there is enough food to eat and room to run freely. Similarly, equal consideration for apes, monkleys, bears, alone with members of their own kind in their native habitat. Considerations such as these are really all that is required but if i t was granted, i t would bring an end to an abhorent and unjustified idscrimination (see: Animal Liberation by Peter Singer).

When we are considering whom is to be granted rights to equal consideration, in the words of Jeremy B'entham, "the question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, CAN THEY SUF- FER?"

The large majority of humans either acquiesce or actively par- take in all or many of the above atrocities. Apparently, hoever, judging from the alck of the repre- sentation fo thie issue, according to the "Hate! Hurts" committee, this simply IS NOT AN IMPORTANT considera- tion. It is well and fine to cam- paign agin:st inter-human hate but when you do so under the banner of a campaign to eradicate ALL hate and discrimination, YOU IMPLY THAT IT IS THE ONLY HATE AND DISCRIMI- NATION THAT NEEDS TO BE ERADICATED.

However, not only is inter- human discrimination NOT the only kind that needs to be eradi- catedbutiti;sNOTEVENthemost harmful and pervasive kind.

It is obvious to anyone who is not completely dead to all sense of suffering that THE VAST MA- JORITY OF DISCRIMINATORY ACTS AGAINST NON-HUMANS ARE UNJUSTIFIABLE and that this is THE MOST PERVASIVE AND HARMFUL TYPE OF DIS- CRIMINATION IN THE WORLD TODAY.

But perhaps the "Hate Hurts" committee did not mean to leave out this issue-perhaps it was just an oversight-I hope so.

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Nightmare vision terminally consuming by Paul Dayeon

T HE world of Terminal City is mad and getting madder.

Sit back. Do what you are told. Go out and buy something. It will make you feel better. Everything will be done for you. Everything will be thought of for you.THOSE WHO RESIST WILL BE SHOT.

FILM Terminal City Ricochet Opened Friday

Terminal City Ricochet is about a world going insane; it is an apocalyptic vision.

A comedy adventure, in the sense of black humour, the film is a nightmare vision of a society on the brink of self-destruction. Ter- minal City hacks itself to pieces much like Lupo the Butcher.

Ecological disaster is evident throughout as %pace junk” rains down on the city which resembles a garbage dump wasteland full of discarded obsolete consumer products. And people ignore it as the sky falls on them. They are told to.

The Terminal Citizens are told to do a lot of things and to do

nothing. Sit back, take it easy and everything will be just fine. Everything will be done for you.

This is the ultimate con- sumer society.

Ross “The BOSS” Glimore is a modern politician. More style than substance. He is a talk show host risen to political office and corporate control. Glimore’s greatest political weapon is television. A combination of Ronald Reagan, Bill Vander Zalm and Morton Downey Jr., Ross Glimore is the ultimate “tabloid politician.” His by-word is POWER, and he sacrifices all to it.

The Truth, Terminal City’s newspaper, and all the other media deny the disasters that befall the city. But then the media is owned by multi-million- aire and mayor Glimore’s Glicorp. Any other uncontrolled media is banned as immoral.

spontaneous rebellious and imaginative art form it is a danger to a stable unquestioning society, Terminal City. Only underground, rock continues to be played, constituting the basis of resistance culture.

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