The Cascade Volume 10 Issue 9 2002-09-11

CASCADE

Volume IO• Is~ue9

1I September2002

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Edito,.,..ln·Chief

Beth.Kelleher

Managing Editor

Jessica Danytchuk

News and Features Editor

Kyle Webb

Arts and Entertainment Editor

Mary Glasgow

Photography /Graphics Editor

Jeff Baillie

Production/ Design

Conrad Skuce

btian Tjopk~rna

Staff Wrltf!rs

Darren Fleet

fohn Luzia

NjcoJcPecenka

contributors

Abr<\siveJ

Anthony Buckley

John Barker

Natalie Vennecr

The Cu~cudels \he UCFVstudent~'free pre~s.(t pt'ovldesa foru111for OCFV~tu• dentsI() lrnvetheirjournaJislilpublished. It 11lsouct:$as the tllternotlvepress for the Fn1surV11llt:y,The Cosc11cle ls fu11dcd with UCPVstuili.ritfllnd1tTiie Cuseado is publi~llodtwice monthly.'l'he Cui;cude has a clrcuJ(ltionof I!i()() Md i~ distributed throu~outAbbotsford,Chi!liw11c11. 11nd(\1ission.Tue Ca~cadeis a mwnb<tr of the C11na<.liµnlJrtivcrsi~yPre~s,II uatiotinlcovporativeQf 7Z11niv~rsityand collcjjc 11ewspapersfrom Victotiato St. J()hil's. The Cascade((,\low~th¢ 011P pth1culpolicy cooeet11lngrnaterialof ,1 prejudiclulor Ql)PteSslvenatllt'e.

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Editor's Note

by Beth Kelleher

' Hi! Welcome to the second issue of 1he UCPV Cascade! I hope you all enjoyed our first pre-issue. We realize if was short a11dnot up to the standard of journalistic excellence that you're used to from your talented and inspiring Cascade crew. It was a trial run of sorts and I think we've got many of the kinks and glitches of both our new software - as wcll as working with each other - figured out.

As you have probably already realized, (or just plainly don't care about), last year's independent Toque staff have joined with the Cascade staff for the 2002 I 2003 publishing year. Although we may appear to be a random and motley bunch, at closer assessment, we also form one large and uniquely talented learn of writers, editors, and graphic designers that promise lo dclivcr a better-than-ever year's worth of UCFV news, opinion, entertainment, sports.

You may notice that this issue raises some controversial issues. This was our intent. As students at a university-college of higher learning, a student newspaper should be a place where ideas and

thoughts can be aired and shan.:d with relative freedom. We do not expect you to agree with every opinion expressed; in fact, .is a staff, we do not even agree with each other most of the time on opinion-pieces. The articles which appear in the Toque section of this issue (and in future issues) are all opinion pieces that reflect the opinion of the original author only, and not the collective opinion of

the Cascade, UCFV, or any of its associates. We'd encourage you to write letters to share your our opinion on the is ues raised here as well as on other issues that you feel could be discussed in this forum.

Moreover, with the divergent passions, hobbies, disciplines, and backgrounds that we all represent, we each bring a new perspcctivc to the Cascade, that together will help us bettcr represent y(>U,the diverse student body of UCFY. (It also makes our weekly meeting a rather high-energy, interesting time ) We invite and encounige anyone interested in contributing thoughts, ideas or work-to-be-published to stop by our office and introduce yourself (our office is located in A226). There's something for everyone friends (rcally, we're not as "out thcre" as we sound sometimes ) and getting involved is a fantastic way to meet new people and make new friends! So take a study.brcak! Grab a coffcc. Get comfortable! And have, a good read! Talk to you again soon! ~@1-

What is Wrong With This Picture? September 11 Tribute

If you wander past the Student Events board at the west entrance of A building (Abby Campus), you will be inundated with a list of possible clubs and associations that WANTYOU to participate! However, there is an obvious absence on this board: The Pride Network's message posting has been torn down.

Lettel'1!to lhe editor mutt be double• ~pacedund ty"ped,Letters will111$0be uccc_ptcdvlo e-01/lilonly if they meet the necessuryrequirement$118outllned in this section.The Casoudctci.ervesthe right to ¢dlt letter!/tu the editor for clarity and le11,1h.Onlr one letter per wti(Cf 11111.Yappe~t i11any giv,;n addition.The Caseadewill hot pri,ntany ,etters that (;01\tlllnrods!, se~Jdt,tmtnophobio or lil)elc,usconient.the W(itct•~n11tnellhd 111µde11tµu111hermust b\1submittedwith eaeb letter.Lettersto !hi)editor mu~tbe • 40() wotds if hitertdedfor print, Opinion~exprc~~ d1.1Qntneccesari)y 1:qt1~·tthatof the collegeSUS,Ca~cl.UJ¢ ft_aff. or collecllv-,

As none of the other signs include room numbers or times on their postings, the possibility of some student grabbing the sign in lieu of copying the information is effectively negated. That leavesone very real and very disturbing possibility: some misguided, small-minded, intolerant jerk took offence and ripped it down.

Well, good for him/her.

Attention Meanie! By ripping down that posting, you are promoting intolerance and hate. That's not the attitude and expression a perfect learning environment should foster. I hope you're proud of yourself.

To all students, staff, and faculty September 11 will be a difficult and sad day. Many of us will need some time to rern.iriisce, grieve, or talk to others. UCFV has two rooms reserved for students, faculty, and staff to remember and honour the victims of September 1 l.

The rooms will feature American and Canadian flags, flowers, and a television for news coverage. We will also provide a book where people can write down their condolences and thoughts, to be sent to the American consulate.

The rooms will be open on Wednesday, September 11, from noon until 6:30 p.m.

Chilliwack Campus: A110 Abbotsford Campus: A235

You Are What You Watch,Part 1 Children, Victims of Television's Capitalist Agenda

hy Jessica Danylehuk

Two small children are ~itting on the living room noor only five feet from the television set. lt i~ Salllrday morning so naturally they are watching cartoons. Super hero 'Magnificent Melvin' begins mtacking his arch-enemy, the infamous 'Mr. Mudness'. fists arc 11ying,feet are kicking and mouths arc growling. Suddenly our small boy watching television tunis 011his kid sister. "Take that!" and he karate chops her across the nr111.The mother wonders why her children arc so violent.

A filken year old boy is relaxing on the couch as he watches Julia Roberts seduce Richard Gere in the Channel 12 Saturday movie. This isn't anything new to him. as just about every Clrnnnel 12 Saturday movie contains a surplus or sexual and suggestive scenes. Parents wonder why teen pregnancies are still on the rise.

A twelve year old girl is clutching a pillow lo her chest with her eyes glued 10 her ravoritu soap opera. She watches in awe os the camera zooms in on the aclre 's flawless skin. The actress is brushing her long, nowing, blond hair. Cute hoys sutn1und her ns they get a closer look at her teeny bikini and 100 pound bulld. Medical officials wonder why there are so many anorexic and bulimic women.

II 's not a new concept that television is successfully taking over lives. It hns been crcming u m:inufactured society since lhe 1!JSO's.Most specific.illy, North Americ:rn~ have been walking around like .wrnbies since the days of "Amos and Andy" and "T Love Lucy". Television has helped turn us imo a <lcspcrately stagnant society. Our children are constructed from a never ending assembly line of useless visu.il ancl audio stimuli. And wha1are we, as a society, doing ahout i1? Nothing. becausecorporate America is telling us not to.

They are telling us not to by feeding billions into the corrnpt media system, allowing more fluff programmiHg so more advertising can be sol<l to lhe kiddie demographics of their choice. They are telling us not to by buying each other out, making it impossible for anyone without an anny or billions of dollars to infiltrate. They are telling us not to by brainwashing our kids - the generation which will have to fight the biggest battle against this corporate rule. Billion dollar enterprises are educating our children, through o smart block box • the television.

111l 998 the VS Dcparlmcnl of Commerce reported that of all the homes iI1 the US that

hnve elecLricily, 99.5 percent also have television sets. Luckily, in Canada, this figure

is slightly i()wcr, but only by ti couple of percentage points. Virt1wlly every per son ln Ihe US has access to television. More importantly though, this stati,tic shows IhaI a few powerful people arc controlling wlrnt is on television, ,ind therefore have access to the minds of everyone in this Coutltt•y.

According tn the AC Nielsen Con1p:my, 95 percent of the North American populmion watches some amount of

lelevision every day. Nearly every person i11Canada and the United States gets a daily dose of television, which Rhowshow much or a habit the medium has become fol' the citizens of these countries. The AC

Inner Workingsof Your TelevisionSet

tu or<lcr to understand how and why telc\'iSion affects us. lt is impt~r· lant Ill have a basic un(Jerstn.ndingof how a tclevisinn set works. Philo ratnsworth w:11- a t'armor whn ulso had a gn.:utundcrslanding ot elec• tmoics. One day artcr plowing his field in Iowa, he noticed the neat liMi- he hud cut through hi~ fidd. He then reulizctJ that mug11eticliclds could \lirecr a be11111 of elel.'lrons 111,:ross un image, u111i:line ul ht0Im• und th~ rcsultiug sig.nal!i, !'ired ,H M dcctmn sc11siliw !-,:rcen, wrndrl mesh Htl fn~l thrtl ihc h11nwr1~yt: wt,ultJ pcrcciv~ u cnnHnt,uus pk111rc.Tn be ,mwe exact, lhc irnagcs we sec M 1hc tol~vi.~iu11scIcl:l11nru flashing al n rt1Ic 11f thiny times per sccoutl. C,1thndl.l-n1yguns in thi: hacl,.,of the tule11ii-i11nCtCIJIC the he,1111l\f elcc:Iro111,th11tj:- fired QI phni1phnn,i11sidc the:tdevi!-.I011scrc'-~11.Th.:sc M,unsurc (X>W~rcdhy 25,000 volts in color tel()Visinn sets. Whc11the1.:utho<lc-mys hit the phus1>hor:-. in the iicrceu, th~y glnw red, gree,1, :m<l blue und ll m(wing piclure is shown on the :..~~en This Is the slime way that fluurosc;el11light i~ proJu'-'l:d, tolevi~ion light is flll<JNS\;eti'tlight.

1'hc !1111\ingpicture Ji; actuaJly crente<lby _th1:scrc,:enflm,liing al JO times p1:rsci.:ond./\i.:c:01·<ling to some lcadfog ps}chulogi11tl'Iwith bnck,groundsl11hypm>lisn,, this does in fact hove hyrnoti1h1$ effetit ()I\ viewel's. 'l'heenvlronm~ntthi.1tw:itchln,gIc:lcVi11itmorcmcs,.dll.l'k room,eyesstill, 11tld11:11U1rY hody, ntckcrins light. i,outtdc1.1nt1HMd to a narmwrange.i/1conducive\()a tntns.

Nielsen Company also reports that the average child between the age of two and ten watches a1 least four and ;1 lwlf hours per day.

Oul.Sidc the home, childt'cn arc also exposed 10 television in lhc classrooms. Realizing tJ1atchildren spend twenty percent of their time at school, Corporate America developed an approach to reach this captive student audience.

Student Lounge Update

by Darren Fleet

What's up with the student lounge? Is it open, or not?

The sem.i-official word from the SUS office is that the lounge will be completely operational soon. ln the meantime, it is still open for sitting and atmosphere, but if you are looking for food and strong drink, you will have to wail just a little bit. longer.

Dave Melenchuk, the General Manager of the SUS, says, ''Right now we are waiting on the liquor license. 1t has already been sent to Victoria, and it is in their hands now."

By providing schools with "Channel One" closed circuit television, they force children to watch Ii !'teen minutes of corporately funded advertising each morning. In retu111,the school is given funding and electronics from the corporate source. Good deal or what?

When this much time is spent gazing at meaningless video and audio, what is the effect on the viewer?

Humans h:am by imitation, it i1. the most fundamental way of gaining knowledge. Babies learn to speak, walk, cat and cvcry1hing else by imitating parents and others. This c0nlinucs into adulthood. Whenever we are being taughl something, we arc shown how ii is done m1d then we imitate what we just saw. lt is against all logic to say that we don't imitate, to a certain degree, the images we see on televisio11.

It i here that corporations shape our children ·s thoughts, desires, opinions, likes and dislikes. We are constantly being shown the latest clothing styles, U1elatesl music, the eoolcst lingo lo use, and many other things by the media. We are also constantly being shown violent acts, sexual denotntion, and beautifol people.

Are the images we see on television teaching us anything positive? Would you want your children to emulate the stereotypical characters they see on the evening sitcoms or even the evening news? How selective are yt)ung children about what and who they imitate? Can anything be done about Corporate America and its stronghold 011 the television culture it has created? Something to think about.

The lounge is going to be opcrnling un<ler a beer and wine license, and will be divided into a drinking and restaurant section so that those under 19 can still enter the lounge to use the games and watch the video screen.

John Besler, SUS president, has expressed his apologies on the delayed operntion due to "a few speed bumps ov~r the summer."

But fear not students, the drink to sooth your exam stresses is corning soon that's all that can be said for now.

Mums-to-be still needed,by UCFV nursing students

UCFV Community Relations

Scptem bi.:r 3, 2002

lf you're a pregnant woman who will he having her baby in Abbotsrord or Chilliwack hospitals Lhis rail, you're in high demand by UCFV nursing students.

Volunteer mums and their partners are urgently needed to help educate a nursing student while receiving extra support during their pregnancy and labour.

Mothers-to-be who will be having their babies in the Fraser Valley this fall arc once again invited to help a UCFV nursing student learn about pregnancy and childbirth from the patient's perspective. Women having their babies at MSA or Chilliwack hospitals are eligible for this program.

Morn than 120 students have had the opportunity to "shadow" a pt'egnnnt woman through doctor visits, prenatal classes, labour and delivery, and the postnatal period through the Mumsto-be program over the past decade.

"It's been a won<.hirful opportunity for

our students. Tt gives them a chance to experience the- pregnancy and birth process up close fron, the perspective of the mother and her family," comments p1·ogram eom'dinator Joflnna Hirnschall, or UCFV's Nursing department.

The students complete Lhis component of the program before they study the theory of mnLcrnity nursing and before they take "clinical'' training in maternity wards.

Women who are due between September and December and who will be having their babies at Chilliwack or MSA hospitals are eligible to participate in the Mums-to-be program. ff you agree to participaltl, Lhe student nurse will meet yo11(and your partner if applicable) for a "get to know you chat'', come with you on one visit to the doctor, come with you to one p1·enatal class, give you and your partner support during all of your labour and delivery, ond visit you afterwards.

For more information, or to volunteer, call UCFV's Joanna Hirnschall at 604- 795-2833, or 504- 7441, local 2833, .ind leave a message.

WANTED

The International Education Department is seeking Canadian Students to be International Conversation Partners with the International Students currently studying at UCFV for the Fall semester

We can't offer to pay you but. ..

You will have the opportunity to make new friends

You will gain valuable resume experience

You will get a letter of reference from us (great for applying to PDP)

We will buy you food and drink occasionally

You are invited to come along to all activities

UCFV Welders create Mine models for benign minefield

UCPV Community Relations

Where do you go in the Fraser Valley if you need some realistic but harmless land mines'?A company with that very question found the help it needed at the Universily College of the Fraser Valley's Trades and Technology Centre.

Environmental Mapping Canada is a private company developing airborne sensors that can providi.: unique and detailed information on J\:aturnsand targets buried in the ground. One of the usesfor this technology is the mupping of buried mines, in order to facilitate deactivation.

EMC, based at the Abbotsford Airport, wanted to test its technology and calibrntc its equipment on a facsimile of a minefield it is creuting in a field near the uirport. Company president Roger Vickers found the help he neededto create the mine models in the Welding depnrtment at UCFY.

Students and instructors, working from images of real mines, fashioned 30 harm• less but realistic wux- filled mines to be buried in the simulated minefield.

Harv McCullough, UCFY Director of 1hdes and Technology, was happy tq help.

''Port of our mandate is to assist industry whenever possible in order to develop and enhance the local economy," said

McCullough. He hopesthat the relationship with EMC continues and involves UCFV Aircraft Structural Repair I students in the future, perhaps in helping with equipmenl mounting.

EMC only recently relocated to Abbotsford from the U.S., and Vickers has found a wam1 welcome from both the city and the university college.

"I hope this project was just the tip of the iceberg with regards to our relationship with UCFV," he said. "As our company grows we' 11be look.ing fur all sorts or trained technicians and prugrarnmcrs."

If you like, and are interested in meeting people from other cultures, then here is a great opportunity for you

For more information

please see Kathryn Garcia in the International Education Department (B223L)

All that is required of you is that you help an International Student with his or her English one or two hours a week

Canadian University Press (CUP) National News Student groups united, CFS not invited McGillturns down donation to

by Adtlm Grachnik, Ottawa Bureau

(CUP)

fen student lobby group~ rrom across the counn·y have unanimously released five declarations addressing post-secondary education, but lhe largest national group was left out of the proceedings.

At u Montreal conference, co-hosted by the Canadian Allia11cc of Student Associations (CASA) and La Federalion Etudiante Uni versitaire du Quebec (FEUQ), leaders reprcsenLin£,over 700,000 students united and called on the Liberal government lo address, sky-rocketing tuition, dcrngulation, federal trnnsfcr payments and the inclusion of education in free-trade agreements.

"OUSA Joesn't have a written position on this, but we're against privatization :.111dderegulation. IL weakens institul ions, brings in a spectra of piivatir,ation and u two-tier system:· he said.

''llfwe allowJ private institutions to come to Canada to set up shop, they cau take public money. We're against education in trade ugrecmcnLsit's lo scary a proposiLion," said SLevenson.

Addillonally, the group calkd 011 the Federal Governml.lnLLo increas<.!funding for post-secondary education, "lo a level no less than the constant doll:ir value of the funding in 1993-94," the declaration, obtained by Canadian U1liversity Press, read.

study right-wing novelist

MONTREAL (CUP)

McGill University l'ejected i1

$I.SMalumni donation forthe creation of a chair in the philosophy department for the study ur Ayn Rand, a novelist who preached radical individualism and whose philosophy has influenced many right-wing politicians.

Shapiro.

1'rernblay had made the proposaJ in 1999. but the project was 001Isidcrcd unlikely from the beginning. An internal nssesstncnl of the university's philosophy department notes Lhnt Rand ''has had little direct influence 011 academic political theorists."

However, the conference didn't have the input of the Canadian Federation of Students

In 1993-94, Stevenson said, the Federal Govcmmcnt gave the provinces $2.9 billibn (CFS) - largely because thD national group wasn't invited.

·'CFS is pretty left-wing. They havo some harsh statements about tuition," said CASA communications coordinator, Erin Stevenson. "We couldn't Ihave I come to a consensus with them. What we wanted to achieve, lweJ couldn't have achieved."

"[OurJ position 011 tuition is clear and non-negotiable with other groups," said Ian Boyko, CFS national chairper on. "T heard there was a request by a few schools that we be there."

Canad, n Federatlo. of Students

for post-secondary education. However, she snid, when the Liberal government came to power, post-secondary education funding was lumped logether with health care nnd social spending under the Canadian Health and Soclal Transfer (CHST). In 1995 $7 billion was cul from this new fund, resulting in less funding for post-secondary instituti~ms.

Currently, t11eCFS estimates, the government hw; cut over a billion dollars out of post-secondaryeduc.ition since 1992.

Gilles 1're1nblay, who gniduated from McGill in the 1950's had offered to bequeath the money to the university in his will. in exchange for the endowment of a permanent professorship to teach Rand's philosophy. Tremblay describes Rund's philosophy as ·'practical," and having "some connection with tl'te average guy on the street."

Carmen Miller, McGill's Dean of Arts, rejected the idea in January, claiming that such a poRiticrn would be ''too temporal and restricLive in scope."

Principal Bemard Shapiro ngrees. ''We can't just sell our souls for ~he sake of being richer," said

R11nd's novels, including A1l11s Shrugged and The Pountninhead, have endorsed egoism, minimalist government and laissez-faire capitalism, and have made her the heroine of extreme right-wing groups in the United Slate~.

''CFS is pretty excited tlrnt other student groups are starting to take on the FTAA [andJ more student groups are coming onto the tuitiot1 fight. (It's] not easy to do it by ourselves." sHit.lBoyko.

''CFS has its own forums, lhi wasn't clone out of spile for anyone said Jantcs Meloche. executive director of OntariCJ Univcr~ily Student Alliance [OUSAJ, one or ten provincial groups attending the co11rcrencc,where the declarations were released. "There will probably cotne a lime where we can ~it down with them.''

The most contentious declaration, according ln Stevenson, called on the Pederal Goven1111entto do an indepcndent research on the impacts of the inclusion of education in FTAA, OATS and Chapter I.i of the NAFTA1.

''The general consensuswas that pcople anaiagai115t putting cducali~m on any free trade agreement," said Meloche.

The other three declarations called on tuition to be both affordable and regulated by Lhe Provincial Guvemment, for ancillary fees not to be used as u rcplaccmem of tuition and it opposed differential illitibtt foe levels within 811 ihSLituLion.

Each provincial group will pre ent the declarations to their respective provincial educmion ministers and CASA hopes Lo deliver them to Finance Minister John Manley, whom Stevensonexpects to meet with in November.

Other groups attending the conference were the Novu Scotia Student Advocacy Coalition (NSSAC), New Brnnswick Sn1dentAlliance (NBSA), College Student Alliance (CSA), University of Manitoba Students' Union (UMSU), Council of Alberta Univen;ity Students (CAUS), Albert.1 College and Technical TnstituLes SLudent Executive Council (ACTJSEC) and the University of British Columbia Students' Union (UBCS).

Campus-wide handbook raises ire among Jewish groups

TORONTO (CUP)

rhis year•~ edition or a popuh1rstudent publication l:ontains a controversial dedication th111hasangered Jewish groups on campus.

The Anti-Calendar is a suI1tmary of i..:t>un-;eevalu~ utions-the feedback profe~sors receive from their students every year via a paper questiollnairc handed out in 1he last weeks of class. Published by the Arts and Science Student Unit)n (ASSU). it h11slong served as a source or advice on course content.

13uta passageon the inside front cover procl.iim.-;the Anli-C\1lendar is "Dedicated to the memory of the Innocents,Afghanist.in nnd Palestine, murdered."

According Lo Terry Buckland, the editor ol' the Anti-Calendar, the dedicalion came about Hlmost at random: "t just picked two areas of Lhc wodd," he said.

am ASSU has received calls from students asking if the dedication expresses sympathy only for Palestinian victims of violence.

''I think it's a horrible, horrible ,mempt to marginalize the Jewish community at the U or1·;·saicl Prank Dimnnt, executive vice-president or B'nai Bt"illl Canada, a Jewish advocacy organilaliott.

Buckland denied Lhat the word "Palestine" was intended lo exclude Jewish victims of ten'0fisL auacki.. "When I wrote it, I didn't think of it that way, I must tu.Imit. I still dnn'i ," hesuid. "Thul 'i; not Whal I meant, that's not what I implied.

''If they're going to highlight the Middle Bast, it should have been dedic.ited to all victims of terror in the Middle East," said Lisa lsen Bouma!, di1·cctor of Jewish campus life for kwish Campus Services.

"How could they be selective about cert.iin victirns of ten-or nnd not others?" she a ked. ''1 think it's going to raise a lot of cyi..:brows.It's not a positive thing."

Buckland said he had received several calls complaining about the dedications. Several students told him that the Anti-Calendar should have mentioned the World Trade Center attacks.

UBC over-enrolls again

VANCOUVER (CUP)

The UniversiLy or British Columbia (UBC) h!ls accepted more studenLsthan the provincial government will fund this yeiir ancl some critics feel this a sign or the continuing decline in the quality of education at the school.

Last year, UBC accepted more than 1,000 students over the funded litrut because the interim mark for UBC acceptancewas set too low. This year, UBC has once again accepted students beyond its admission quota, this lime in an attempt 10 keep new student enrolment relatively equal from year to year.

"Although our over-enrolment is going to be up. it will be stretched over four years:· said Rilgistrnr Brian Silzer. "We've reduced the 11cwstudent imakc this year reinLiveof last year. but il i~ still going to he a liute over the ideal."

Alma Mater S~1dety (AMS) President Krisl1;:11 Harvey is concerned lhat over-enrolment will become a long-term trend at UBC, on<l thal the university will consisteutly aC'ccpl sludcnts over the quota suggested by provincial funding levels.

The provincial gove1·nmen1 receives funding from the federal government's Canadian Health and Soci&I Tn111sferto give to post-secondary institutions. 'The institutions are granted funding depending on the number of Fl.1ll-Timc Equivalent (FTE) stuclenls that they arc expected to serve. as determined bv orevious

years' enrolment figures. The FTE figure is meant to ensure lhat an appropriate number or classes arc offorcd and prnfcssors are hired.

The AMS feels the university's decision to admit more stude111s Lhan its PTB qL1otacould affect students' education.

"Recent enrolment practices pl.ice the quality of education at UBC at risk,'' stated the AMS in a resolution passed al ils .Jun.c5 Council meeting.

"When we accept more students than we have funding," llarvcy said, ''(then:: is aJ conccrn of students having to take a reduced course-load because they can't get the courses they need.''

Kristen Harvey acknowlcdgcclthat greater enrolment could increase a.:cessibili!y to UBC. Huwewr, she said, increasing the number of student.~beyond FTE funding is not a real sollllion.

''The real sol11lion Is increased core funding, be it increased funding from the province or the federal govcmn1c11t.That is lhc solution. nul accepting more students beyont.1Lhegrant that we currently have."

Trojan

Artlc:;lesPolley

l'\11opinions expressed in this newspaperare those of the original author. They do, not necessarily reflect those of The Cascade, UCFV,and Associates.

Controversy!

by Nicole Pecenka

Well. school has not even started yet and alI·eady there is disscntion .imongst the ranks of the ''toquescadcrs." We face a controversy and an ethical dilemma because the Canadian University Press (of which the Cascade is a member) approached our

line? Everyone at this school is entitled to hi!. or her opinion, and everyone has 1.lirferent values and moral. lf we sIart boycoL• ting ads based Qn what WE consider to be moral. we arc inviLing criticism from our fellow students who may take issue with other ads with which we (as the newspa• per) have no prohlem.

Thirdly, is it possible that an •·evil corf)orate power" mighl aclually (g:t~p!) <losometJ11ng beneficial for the com• m11nity?1ley. it has been known lo

happen. For paper, aski11gus to run an ad placed by du years, Benson and Hedges offered us the Maurier. This cigarette company is ins1i- Symphony or Fil'e, bringing in millions

toting a granl program for Arts students, of dollars Lo local businessesas

and wishes to makelhe program known Lo tourists flocked to Stanley Park UCFY students. So the question arose, do and surrounding areas to watch we want to accept money from a company the fireworks. Du Maurier has 1ha1ha made a fo1tunc selling a deadly brought us the Jazz festival for substancelo our fellow sLUdents? many years now, injecting a

Here is my lake on the situtition:

Firstly, the cigarettes come with a very large (and rnther disgusting) warning on the package, and cigarette ads come with a warning from U1eSurgeon General right alons the bonom. The Govcniment of Canada has no pl'oblcm collecting a hefty Laxon each and every tobacco product sold, part of which (we hope) is used lo educate the general population on the dangers and potential health risks of smoking.

As college students, we arc expected to be critical thinkers, making our own independent decisions - we are not a bunch of impressionable seventh graders here. If a person is going to look at this ad for a scholarship program and think, "Htnm a du Maurier scholarship - I think l should take up smoking," then they are likely such idiots thal they would find any excuse to start smoking.

Secondly, who arc we to decide what is morally or ethically acceptable?

Alcoholism is a tragic disease,yet we will run ads for nightclubs and for the concerts held there. Speed kills too, yet there is a rather large advertiliemcnt for a car company on the back page of this very issue. Many people have a problem with the Abbotsford Air show - how many of those same people would object to us running ads for the Canadian military? And finally, the routine consumption of meat and dairy products is proven to lead 10 diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, allergies, obesity, osteoporosis, and yes, even CANCER will we refuse to run advertisementsplaced by restaurants,too?

Mv noint is. where would we draw the

lil!lc l.Jitof cultnre into our sum mcnimc i.chedule of Greater Vancouver events.

I will digress here for a moment and concede that a few scholarships will hardly compensatefor the many people in our hospitals dying of lung cancer, emphysema and related disca:.es. But come on! No one ried them <lown and forced them to take up such a filthy habit, and now• adays, as I have already stated, you cannot open a magazine or turn on your television without learning about the dangerous consequencesof smoking.

Finally, the issue of finances and practicality rears its ugly head. A long time ago, in a land not so far away, the Cascade signed a contract (no one knows who it was) to accept any and all ads so why change Lhat? It has been suggested that my viewpoint on this issue is pragmatic and opportunistic. Thal 's probably true. l am a cynic, so go figure. The bottom line here is this very basic fact: The Cascade is a poor newspaper, and we need all the cash we can get. UCFV is a small, and consequently, poor institution, and ma11y of the students here could also use some extrn cash. DuMaurier is offering both parties accessto cash.

Tn case you haven't figured it out already, I think that we should run the ad. As an arts student and therefore, a potential du Mauricr grant candidate, I would have to say that if a cigarette company wanted to give me cash to finance my education, I, for one would not complain about it.

Warning

H you are easily offended, intolerant, or closed-mindedthen it is advisable to skip past 1heToqve within this newspaper.The Black bars on top of the paper designate it as the Toque.much like the black pu$sy-oatthat designates Ftated~Rfilms.

CorporateAdvertisingin PublicSchools

by Kyle Webb

I decided to voic:c my concems abo11tthe Du Maurier ads in our paper for a myriad of reasons.Not becauseI necessarily think they're wrong, but because T'd like lo sec more debates of Lhis nature go on. My first instinct is that it i'l wrong-or ''bad'' or "hannful'', whaIevcr you want to call it-based on what eigarcllcs arc. Cignrcllc!> arc wrong. nre they not? They kill people nnd cost us billions of dollars in hcalthcnre expenses. not lo mentioll untold suffering on the part nf viclims and their families.

One person to ren1ainnamelessLold 111cthat cigarettes help numerous people through sires~. depression, ond simply the trials of life; I hardly 1hink.this is true. The benefits (if there are any) an; intangible and the ttegatives are so hrutaliy concrete; why do almost all smokers say they w.int to quit or

to huge tobacco multinationals to allow them to popularise their addictive drug?

The trend these days agninsl cigarette ads and companies is to get society to realise that it's bad for us. A lot of work has been done over the ycm·s 10 get it to this poi111. but still so1ncof us see the issue as ru1issue of individual choice. noL one or overnll social well-heing.

Making ~moking illegal h, like nrnking anything ilh.:gnl. 11 docsn't solve the problem. They tried that I wilh all other drugs and alcohol already We could make dri11kingDrano illegal. hut ifyo11 were bent 011 it. there':..probably no way of stopping you frnn, dniI,g it. Smoki11gcigarettes with all its Loxins is almost as slllpid as dri11ki11~ Drano, just a much slower way of doing i1proh,1bly with some of Lhcsame chemicals in il too. The anti-smoking 111ovemen1 is not advocating a moral CIA or anything, it's just trying to eradicate stupidity or at least help ligh'1e11the burden of the mistakes people have made or the misfortunes they hnve suffered at the handsof others (namely big tobacco, in this case).

Why do you think the Canadian senate just released a report recommending the decriminalization of marijuana use? The problem cannot be solved through punitive measureson users. Just like marijuana, the problem of cigareue use should be tackled by education and by legal proceeding against its pushers. Our ad here al the Cascade i8 saying 10 all of you - as is the Jazz Festival and Symphony of Pire - that i;moking and tobacco companies are still alright for our society. They get their image out there and implicitly (subliminally) make you think it's acceptable, if' not for you to smoke, then at least for your dad, mom, brother, sister, friend, or the people at the bar or restaurant.

have tried in the past then if it's so bloody good for you?

Aside from the actual heallh implications of smoking, there arc the issues concerning advertising or this deadly substance,Firstly, what are we doinl? concedine our ad soace

One final note about the Du Maurier ad: what docs this say to students when we let a tobacco company fund someone's education? ll is a further intrusion of private companies into our supposed "public'' education system. I thought the government was supposed to fund public schools last time 1 checked.

Slow Bullets?

Heavy fv1etal:Music or Life?

by John LuziH

l-lc.1vy Met.cil.'1 1 he. very words conJute feat, lmithinsand <.lisguslin the minds of musl of this tochuo-rap-rcick-hop/ BritneySpearsgeneration, II' yqu :.ire()11~ of these people, stop tending 110w.If you nre curious enough to lenrn, rend on. Okay, now lhal the posers 11regone, welcome to the Word of M(ltul.

Now l'm really i;ick of red-h111wearing J2 year old punks tind fake plastic Huiegirls telling me that m(.ltaj is boring ;md ''nH the Sl!Olc.''L~1yoff tl')eocstasy,raver, ~111c.J try li~teni11g10 some music that i1wolve1>instn.1menl8:METAL,!!! l

N(iW the fivemain pillarsof metalare Heavy Metal,Thrash Metal, De4thMetal, Black Meti.l,artd ProgressiveMotal.

HeavyMet.ii is the old scMc>I,which was begun by Blai;k Sabbath,biwk in the late 60'$, Tne Beast a11dthe Priest canw foll.owing in their footstep$. By this, I mean lron Malden and .JI.id.asPriest.Then,c1111wthe 1011des1band on the fncc o1'the phmet: Manowar.

l'ht'oi$h MetnJis the style of Slayer:l"Mt,Loud and Hi:trd. ThrMh Metal is probablythe fastest mcrnlin the btisiness ond is perfect for firing \IP a big moshpit inlo u near-frenzy. Black Mct!1I,the dark horse of metul, is rnw, undiluled, and eviL Black Metuf was spawned i11the Scillldiuaviau north (md .is also referred to as 0 Northom .Darkness.'' P4st bass, screaminglyrics that you tan barely understand, and scre1m1ingguhar. fl wa~ my privilege to watcJ, hnn'!ortnl

play in Ge1·mauy.ono of the "lnner Circle'' in Norway. The Inner Circl¢: was respon:-ilblefoi· various Hots of ·•mnsical terrorisin''in NorwAy, like the bombing and b\1rning of

tour busc!l of p(lpul!tr bttnc;lsa]l(JJ thlnk nl least one church burning, Thctt.\ is a subcntegory of Blnck Mc~lll called NeoSat:micBlack Metal.Needlcsll to say,it is far 1Mrc distµrbing thnnthe mainstuff.

Ol.lt1tpMolal is characteriz-.edby lhe;ideep growl vocal.~,111J fHSt playing, along with deep and he~1vydnirns that really stufl<J()ut; more so than 1;1lmos1i1ny other form of metal, C~nnihal Corpse, HypoCl'isy, Dying Fetus. Destruction are all stund•outbands from the Death Metalgonre. Now in Death Metal, you also have regional varieties.Brazilian Dcatl), Southern American Death, Australiiv1 Death, und Swedish DMth am an examples {)f rcgiMal vari..ities vr De:ith.Now Prog, or Progre1>siveMetal; l can't !ltty too much ab()l.ll it, cause I don't listen to much of it. As the name ::;uggests,it is how tnctal is chauging.Jt encompMses conoe1?1!llbums,weird !lidc prt)jects (111dthe rest. 1i1cru thut'$ ttll I fee:Ilike wriling ahoul the vari9u~ genres, Now lt)duy. you huvo to se:!lrchJong atid hard tQ find good metal, cause most or the really sood stuff comes from off this contlnent. Japan, Scantiinavfa, Germany,Brazil.ano n few other Europea1,continents produce the besL That being sai<l.thetc arc a few k>calband~thut crank out runlly fontas• tic RLU,ff.I'll limit 111yse1fio Me pl1-1g: J I.nche:sOt'mood. H yC1ugel a chunce to see them, go. They totally rock.

Nc,w,the deadlineh11s<.:Onie, , ur\J gone, uud I l'llllSt send iu I.hi$articl<:tJuick

Par king at UC FV! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

by Darren F'leel (au1hor's note: read as a narration. Pay allcntion lo the pum:luation, or lack of, and read slowly. fl is h1le l ,1111tired.)

Welcome back to UCFV. Hope you brought your fists becauseyou may have to fight for that parking spot. How many or you have hac.J this scene: you're running a little early for school, yes early, so you stop in al Timmy Ho's al lhc Chevron overpass to pick up a bagel and a double-double to go. All is going well; you still have 20 minutes 10 get to dass and you can smell the heated evangelical air ofUCFV only 400 yards away. You blurt your order into the machine and lake your place 2 inches off of the bumper in front of you. Of course, ,it this point. Murphy'sLaw has kicked in and by the time ii is your tnm to Jct your

rnom:y l,tlk at U1ewi11dow,Uic lady, girl, guy, teenager, thief, whatever, whoever, is taking your money, has come to the realization that they have forgouen to put your bagel in the toaster. Now you will only an·ivc on time schcc.lulc 3-minulc wail. You sit there in y()Ur car, assuming the shame upo11yourself for someone else's misLake.You realize thal Lhere is no point in getting mad because you used to work in the service industry too, so you just sit there with a docile look on your focc hoping that the people in Lhecar.. behind you aren't thinking, "For the love of all hurnltnity, is that guy ordering donuts for the whole damn factory."

You calm your nerves and anger on the knowledge that two wrongs don't make

a righi-, You l.ike ., hit for tellm. You decide that it is not tbe end of the world. If you find a parking spot ii should all be ok. You accept your karma anc.l round the corner out of Timmics, onto Lhe highway, and turn right onto King Road. You hit the red of course, you hil the next red of course, a rig decides to turn rigtu across your lane to deliver furniture ot 8 in the morning, of course. Fuming rage. Punch steering wheel. Notice the line up at the parking ticket machine. Look al lhe clock. Look ,1tlhe line, Look ::it the clock tower. L.ook at the line, Look at the traffic jam. Look at the clock, your books, and your time. You're late, your class, your li11c ailtl begin to S-W-E-AR.

Parking at UCFV !!!!!!!!!!!!!

RetrospectivePerspectiV.eson September 11

by Beth Kelleher

An awesome tragedy? A sign of the times? A war crime deserved? Or merely the memory of a slight faller in our own (lumanily?

On the one-year unnivcrsary of Scplcmbcr 11, millions of Americans and global citizens worldwide will stop and reflect on an event that shook and is now shaping their id1mlily.

However, apart from the general consensus lhut 9-11 will forever remain embedded in the pages of history, there is little agreement as to the exact extent of its significance for us here and now, and for years and generations 10 come.

Michelle Grcsb,·cel awoke about IO minutes before the crush, pul c.>nher uniform and headedout the door into the blue and white cruiser parked in her driveway. Anticipaling another slow Tuesday of catching up on paper work ul the ol'llcc, she hadn'1 even bothered lo grab breakfast or pack a lunch. "They'll be plenty of time to stop for coffee on the way'' shc'd thought, "and ii might be fun LOgrab lunch with the boys."

When her radiu began to buzz en-route, she glanced at the clock and almost ignored it by virtue or still being 5 minuics early for her shift. She hadn't the slightest inkling thal a single call could change so much that that date would mark Lhe headstones of her p;,irtner,father, 3 close friends and hundreds of co-workers.

"The f .ord has said that in the last days, there will be man) wars ancJrumc)rs c)I"wars," Reverend Kent thundered from his pulpit, Sunday, Scptcmhcr 16. "And we ha c seen with our own eyes thnt Babylon lhc Great h.is r.,IIcn! This is a sign, my friends. This is a sign of the timt:s ,"

Becky While sat in a pew midway down the isle. She never sat too near the hack as she loved to watch the expression· on the preacher's face as he spoke, but rarely chose a spot loo near the !'runt as she relished exchanging waves and with the filllc hoy who usually sat across the isle. But today she noticed neither. Today everyone was hushed and solemn and Rccky prayed silently the whole sermon through. For what, exactly, she wasn't sure, but the mere thought of such an event signifying the imminent end of lime frightened and awed her.

Yitszick lshm1e ate matza and \~inc on the rug of his brother's hovel in Afghanistan as the shouts became louder in the stl'cel below. He could've seen it coming: America receiving some of the s:1mcfire used to hurn so many nunAmerican innocents. He knew that many US citizens died. They were likely someone's fathers and mothers and even nai"vechildren, but it angered him to know that millionsperhaps even billions or pcuple worldwide would see the events through American media, as un unwarranted allm;k on the heart of America. What made the flesh and blood or a US citizen more valuable than that of his countrymen?

He did nol know, and no one granted him the right to his

the lshnac brothers toasted high , and listened to the barely cloak.cd cclehrdtions in the street hclow. !

In the wake of the falling ashes over Manh;iU:.u1, Sanehci. Mcndene1., a 10-ye,u- old Bolivian immigrant child slept on a mat on the floor of the two-room Hal his family shared. He would not hear of the event until hours latcI· when his mother returned from the corner store after counting out her dimes and nickels for milk where she asked the shopkeeper the reason for the sirens and commotion on the street. He merely pointed LO tl1e cr.ickling television on the counter where a Spanish newscast replayed the Twin Towers' falling, over and over again. "This too shall pass," he commented.

Schools were closed in Sanchez' neighborhood ror awhile and he was asked not to play in the streets while vol umeer and re 'Cuc crews worked, but well before the dust :,eulcd, lhc , lives of Sanche1, and his family ' returned lo normal. They had lift!. They had each other. They had food and shcllcr II is indeed debatable ' whether they ever <leviaLed from normal at ull.

Most people remember when~ they ' were and what Lheywere doing when : planescrashed in Lhe'f\vin Towers, or at least where they where when they : heard the news. While some claim it has hud an obvious and direct impact on their lives, these p<.:oplcarc in the: minority.

Most people also remember wher they were when Kennedy was shol a d whenCanadabc::i Russia in hockey in I 976, and it is h hly improhnblc tMI either of these events played a dircdt role in the lives o more than a handful.

A wise philosopher once said, "histo • is wtillcn hy those who believe in its power.'' If this is tr c. then hutnanit) srill has a choice whnLwe want to do with e~ent-;like Sept~mbcl'I 11.

September 11 prohnhly meant sn, cthing unique an different to each person who was to ched by it. ft likt:I affected everyone lo extremely diver9,cnl degn.-ci-:,It u painful Lmgedy to some, a blunt remi ~i.Jerof all we hflVI: to be th,1nkrul ror to others. t-or some, i may ha\lc even ht..-cn divine retribution. Whal it wus and , U!in't roujd never l'IC fully summari,1,ed.

secret smiles, but as Lhcmalla and wine came around again, Yes, innocent people died; this happen, every da). Yes,

there is a lime to mourn; but there is ali;o a time to mol'e on and be gratcrul thal we have all we do and that we have allowed what could he a tragedy lo bring humunity together. Yes, many feel that there is something of spiriluat and eternal significance hchind the event. but these arc only theories that no one but God alone could prove. And Yes, America suffered los~; yet they arc still one or the wealthiest, most privileged nations in the world.

So should we remember? or course.

Will lil'e go 011?

Should it?

It already has.

Dreamsof the Boss, Airport Security, and a Little Ma~le Leaf Sewn to My Backpack

by Abrasive J

First of all I woulcl like lo the welcome back all the students who bought me a beer last semester.As l'or the rest of you who didn't, Go fu there is still time to cornpcnsnle as I am in my final year at UCfV (the bu,nholc of CanadiaJ1 lJnh'ersitics). To make direct donations Lo my worIhy cc1useI can often be found wandering aimlessly in the Finnegan's beer store parking lot ror hours on end I,ctwcett classes.The proprielor ( rhymes with Pcspisitn) or this line cstablishmcnt has thought of erecting cardb<>ardcut-outs of scar) Amcrican dictators, prcscm and pasl, to prcsumahly make me flee as birds do from a scarecrow.

His plons, I assure, you arc all in vain und I suspect he is 1101aware of my true "kryptonitc" which I will reveal ll1 you in complete secrccy Don't tell a soul. Rcmembcr I am with the pseudo-prcssand I can make your lll'e a literary nightmare. Just ask any of my ex girlfriends, who, for the most part, arc all losers.

Anyways. my hidden weakness, whi h<dl$Orientsmy mill and will send me into a state or pa, le, horrilic foar, Ufll llight is any music performed by a r. Rruct.:Sprtngsldn. (l suppose America's vcr~inn or Sil) pin' 'Ihm Connors,) As I begin my take off into the biller likii::- \\ith J\nll American (establishment) Airlines, the pilnt Hh1rt1-hi:-hlah blahs and I think of Bruce and his patriotic smile.

''Wa) l(i go Boss!" You're definitely u ''Proud American" who has come out or the \~oodwork with a heart wrenching new album inspired by September 11th with only one goal of cashing in big. Aren't movie soundtracks your bread and butter. Bruce? Sorry Lo all you sLupid redneck fans Thesoss,afl&r I'm donewith him,

mt! there. I apologize, I wasn't aware he was donating ull his proceeds to victim relier. Yeah whntever.

At this point I would like to do a brief rc,,icw of Mr. Springstein's new CD entitled Rising.

It's complete shit I (Like all his albums.) Thank you rur your time Nc,l topic.:.

While on th\! topic of American inllucnees, I thinf- now is a great moment for reflection. So, at this time I would like to ask Mr. George W. Bush to pll'asc look into a mirror and try to honestly say withc)ut <.:.-.,ekingup, "I um nol a terrorist" over and over again. In the immortal wore.lsor his father I wuuld like to add, "Betcha can't."

As thc 1st anniversary())" the darkest day in U.S. history speedily approaches like an airplane crashing into your Dreams

Continued next page

Civil Libertiesin a Post September 11 World

by John Barker

''Those who would give up liberty for security deserve neither" - Ben

Fra11kli11

This week, we observe Lhe one-year anniversary or Lhe Septembe!' 11 attacks. Exactly one year ago today, 3000 people were killed by terrorists in what's being called "the worst atrocity committed on American soil." The aftermath of this terrorist attack, however, is undermining the founding principles of the ''land of the free."

One of the first actions done in response to September 11 was the passing of the Patriot Act. This viral piece of legislation grants broader authority to police in regard to conducting wiretaps and email monitoring, an action banned by the constitution. ll allows rederal authorities to conduct searches, without notifying those involved in the investigation. Jt allows for labeling of vocal protesters as ''domestic terrorists.'' Actions that could brand groups of protesters ns terrorists have already been taken by Operation Rescue, the flLF, and Green Peace. The act grants the FBI 11cccssto business,pcrsonnd, medical, lr!,IVd, library and educational records without the consent or the businessor lhe individual. H also allow~ police officer~ to side step the requirement for a seal'ch warrant if it "1n.1y seriously jeopardize an investigation," a direct violation of the fourth amendment of the Constitution of the United Stalcs. One sedion Lhal was (Urnnkfully) rejected was a piece that would make copyright infringement a terrorist act. Combined with the Digitiil Millennium Copyright. Act (which considers talking to a group about copyright protec-

TY room, I wtiuld like to point oul a few changcs in Olli' Canadian lifestyle as we llght this very popular idea known as "Terrorism."

I have personally expcrienced a few of these changes over the summer as I left on vacation to visit my folks in Omario. Yep, you guessed it! I'm gonna talk about airport security. To make a long story sho1t,Twas being processed through the Abbotsford airport cattle gates to he loaded onto an Air Canada Tango (budget airline) Aight bound for Toronto with a stop over in Kelowna. T checked one big bag m the main counter and was asked a few questions by a hice lady with a colourful scarf. These questions have apparently been asked in American airports for a number of years. Since 9/11 they are rnand:uory in Ci1nadaeven on Provincial flights. [ can see on International flights but my first stop was Kelowna. I'm not sure but 1 would imagine few Taliban de ire to bomb Kelowna. The three questions arc as follows:

1) Did you pack your bags yourself?

2) Are you aware of all Lhecontents in your hag?

3) Have you left your b,1gs unattended for any extended arnount of time?

My verbal re ponses somehow didn't match up with my mental ones,

I )yes (No, rny rno1herdid you stupid bitch. l'm a 32-yearold idiot who ca11 't put tilings i11loa containcr like the lab monkeys do on the naturc programs.)

2)ycs (Actually, no Did I or didn't I pack my annl bead collcctiun ?)

3)110(Oh thei,earen't my bags ma'am. They ore my friend, Abdul's)

I slid 111y C'arry011 bag into the x-ray machine and proceeded to walk through the metal detector, J was

The Taliban(as seen here) are very hard to spot not eveu with an untrainedeye at the airport. checked

tion mechanisms copyright infringement, punishable by 5 years in prison), this bill woul4 aio.an already immense, subversive enteitainmenl 1nth,1st1·y i)'l ft:irther est,1hlishingits clominru1cein the We$te1 n w rld.

(income tax was instituted to pay for World War I, yet nearly 100 yeru·s later, and we still pay it) and once the world is safe for monolithic symbols of American imperialism again, these wiretaps, and wainnt less search and seizures will be moved on to preventing the next big thing du jour (think: war on drugs), and perlrnps,you will be one of the targets.

More actioP$J6 ensure l.}1~'. ctfety'of AttieriJJaarc the setting up of' in1'om1,111t l iflM, r~tni)'li,cent of Sti;ilin and lhe East Gertnit!1Sthzi. Pho, e ntlrober~~arebein1:, , e up in the United tat.ell(ilnd 9{1itelikely Ganaclaandtlte-O~ as well), which E,ll'!.'·d~signedfor the sole. purpose of inf0~ming the govem.trtentof,P. Ji;ttiM t~ l~'.'\foketi."Th.e pote1Jtialfor abttsi; of thi i.~stem is greai Neishbors like,tp sm • e the Pirsl they came for the fourth amendmen{, ga ja'? (~arijuanl\ fintds terr ri~111;or so the u11ti-dmgads f,,At\cll did not speak out, becausel didn't deal drug$. would h e us bl¼li~ve)J{ he g: s 0.(1,Y,dt1fnerves one day 'then they came for the Fifth Amendment, why nol tu.rn b'lmiftl?;$v'e11tul,!Y•• ,s9re ''1 WJign could, • nd I was silent because I owned no property involved in be lautlobua1thf!t'cha, e~ publici•peroepi;ionabbut tuming crimes. people oj $/:.I·mch tb'af t&e putilii.: 6~ao lJti~k of it as a Then they came for the sixth amendment, gc>Qdic,le11, l,l). lit t,eot,le 'in for liltle things. These arc the And l did 1101protest becausel was innocent. •vqf'y thin 9al lhe McCarlhy era propaga « denounced Th~n they came for lhc ~ccondamcndmcnt, Communi i, ~·, 1 I And I said nothing becauseTdidn't own a gun.

'£{~s not neccssai:i1) lhe US goverlJJ:11nt that is pushir1g Lowards the 1984,-esqueBig Brother State. ln theory, the US government represents the will of t,)le people. This push to totalitftJi~jsi;n is a dirccl rcsuJt 9hrying lo please those people ''j$t want to '7es,i i:f' fl daunting, if nut impossible ta k, com,iclering the mlture pf ;errorism). Now, not only do Wt: neetl t<' fight the pattot11.zingattitude of the likcs of AshC{ott arld Bush Jr, Wl,l need to ft~ttt the unconscious attitude/..hf ow· fellow citizens who arc ready and willing t:o give up liberty for protection. Governments don't traditionally return prerogatives they've seized

Dr,eams

Contft\lle~ trom prevtoutf»lge

by the person with the squelching radiation baton when r heard t·o my left, "Excuse me sir!" Instantly two large men with nke hats ancl moustachesseemedquite interested in my bag which was now apparcntly slllck in lhe sec-through machine. "There seem:,;LObe a large cluster of metal in your bag sir!"

Shit. my handgun! Wait a second I'm Canadian. Calm down. I'm noi allowed to carry handguns.Lucky for me. Fffewff

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[ looked on the monitor and my bag looked like an alien ultrasound. Coloured lines and little orgun-like things everywhere. and then right at the top r noticed something familiar. l exclaimed, "Hey lhcre's my lunch!" wilh whimsical delight and lhe man with Lhemoustacheseemed very unimpressed and actually frowned. I proceeded to open my bag and I quickly found the offensive object. It

turned out to he my house keys. How odd.

ActuaJly it was a tiny little knife whh a

one-inch blade attached to my key ring. The

T end this with something I dug up on the lntemet not I 5 minutes ago

And then Lheycame for the first amendment, And 1 could say nothing al all.

-Unknown, based on Martin Neimoeller's famous ·'Pi!'st 'fhcy Came for the Jews''

For those of you th(lt don't get it, the 4111amendment prevents unreasom1blesearches and sei;,;ures,the 5th prevents seizure of private property withotH just compensation, the 6th gives right to trial by jury and right to assistance by counsel, lhc 2 nd is the right lo bear arms, and the 11rstis the right to free speech.

ecided to call the whole thing off with a nod lo my follow Tnliban friends. We agreed it1silence. they'll be other moments I thought. Mayb<c: my connector to Toronto?

n my return to Abbotsford, I was aydrcaming about trading my kt1ife for something even better when l sifted through that large box full of • thcr wcapous. Maybe 1 could get a real Swiss Army knifc in return. or maybe a nice Jillie miniALUrebrass letter ope11er.T dreamed of this and of a day when a funnyman wilh a moustache will :.hine a flashlight up my asshole before T board a flight to seerny Aunt in Brandon Manitoba. If I lose all my freedoms to paranoia.at least I'll have one thing. My Dreams. Dreams like the one where 1 can fly overseasand I don't need to have a Canadian Jlag sewn to my backpack.

Better [00~1ng fnan You

Nam(!;l<imburl.Y Prugra111:

Ycnn3r-d man told rne he must promptly con(iscate the weapon. but I could get it back when I retumed. They apparently hold items for one month and l would have got it back ifl wasn't on a suicide mission. No, really.

So 1 zipped up my bag and carried 111yone litre sporL~bottle full of hydrochloric acid (or w,1s it purified water?) wward~ my wailing plane bound for lhe metropolis of Kelowna.

Apparently my flight wasn't ready to board so T went back to watch the security line with the see through machine, wondering if I was the only snsnectedterrorist. It turned out I had co-con pirntors. For example. an eighty yeor old Wolllan had n pair of twccwrs confiscalcd. A nice looking 40-ish woman with perky breasts lost her nail file. An elderly mun losl his miniature letter opener, and I'm sure many others lost their weapons too.

We terrorists come in many rorms trying lo take our implements of dealh aboard the no-frills Tungo Aights 10 destination:. like Kelowna. They recognized me, and I them, us a voice came over the loud speakerprompting me to board the plane. Being weaponless. I

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by John Lu1.iH i,hemhamforash<?www.com

In case you don'l speak Genn~rn. the he.idlirn; means, "We are aJl American." And the worst part is Lhat my version of Microsoft Word just capitalized '"American" .tnd "Microsoft.'' This just goes to show what really happens: even American software is jingoislic. Thi~ is about amerikkkan values, corporate imperialism, and the omnipresent herald of the next. crusade, 9-1 J. I'm going lo explain lo you all exactly why I have a problem with Gc()rgc W. Bush, and his fascist policies. From now on, I will rckr lo Bush Jr. as Shrub. I don't know \i,.hcrc he got lhal m1mc.bu! I lhink il suils him.

First or ull, Shruh wasn't elected, he was appoltllcd by the Electoral College. Thal's right, only 49% of Amcri1.;ans voted ror Shrubhy, yel aflcr lhc vote riasco in Floriua, he somehow emerged as the president. So now we have an appointed leader in charge of the most powerf'ul counlry in lhe wodd, chosc11by lhc interests of the corporations. As a side note, m()sl or the U.S. is going lo be using an open-source compuler voting sy!\L<:m1for Lhencxl election. Can you say "maverick .u1archist hacker ullack?" I hope so. Unfortunately. l'm sure it will be hacked by military computer specialists, and blamed on the mavericks out there. (Anybody hear about the RIAA getting assaulted? Check ii out)

War? He and his good buddy, Dick Cheney. were working with big oil corporations in Mc ·ico. Actually, the)' were either C'EOsor rice.presidents. Coincidental!). they were working rnr Enron and Halliburton. Shrub ha~ lo do his pi:ilriotic duty somewhere else it seems, amassing a huge fortune for his family. Cheney actually pioneered the book, •Keeping and Insider Trading Methods,' that evcntuaJly dropped Enron.

Whal ne~l? Osarna Rin Ludcn of' course. Osama was trained by lhe CIA and was supplied weapons by the U.S. to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan when they decided to invade. At the same time as Osama was being employed by the U.S, George Bush Sr. was one of the top men in the CIA. There is no doubt that Bush Sr. knew exactly who they were dealing with. When 1l1eU.S. cul off support of the 'freedom lighlcrs' in Arghanislan, they got justifiably pissed. Slrangc how when they arc !lghting 'our' enemies, they arc freedom !lghters, and when they atlack 'us,' they arc terrorists.

Now, on l() one of Shrub's main men, Attorney General .John Ashcroft. Ashcrol't is a Christi.in Fundamentalist. He aclllally believes that calico cats are the servants of Satan and he had the breasts of a topless female statue covered up With cloth when he was visiling a university, because depictions of breusts in stone offond him. Normally, someone so obviously insane would be condemned 10a mental asylum ()F made int~>a high ranking church ~,flicial. However Asscrofl i~ still thcru, chipping away at Lhe American Constitution, trying h,mJ to take t1way e~senlial f'reedon1s and rights thal interfere with him and Sl;irub running a lotalilarian theocracy. People like this used to run lhc Inquisition back in the witch burning days, anll I bet 1ha1 Ashcrott can't wail for a return lo 'the good ol' duys,• when he could lorlure and execute pagans like me. That's right. Ashcroft is eventually going to ht:gin hunting for people like me and my colleagues. !'or the obscene crime of not following his chosen religion. That's okay. we're ready.

The lJ.S. is also f1ghling f'or the rights or Afghanislan women. Don 'l gel me wrtmg, I know thul women under T.iliban rule have no righls and arc husicnlly sluvcs anu property. Though, it seems strange Ihm the U.S. g~Lsso pious about the rights of women in Afghanistan. when countl'ics like Saudi Arabiu (which supplies oil to the U.S.) have equally poor (if" not worse) records ror women's rights.

personally leading the fight against evil. and using the U.S. military as his own personal shining broadsword of HOLY LIGHT In purge the scourge of evil frdm lhe face of the planet. Hey Shruh. how many Wl1mcn,md children did the U.S.kill in Vietnam? How many innocent lives did the firestorms toke in Berlin, Hamburg nnd FrankJ'urt? How many innocents did your father k.ill in the Gulf War'! Why did the U.S. drop nuclear weapons 011 popula1io11centers in Japan during WWII? How many women and children will die in your holy crusade aguinst "terror"? My guess would be a 101more than the 5,000 people who died when the WTC dmppcd. But the 5,000 were American lives, probably worth nl least .'i0-I00 non-~merican lives each right? Like most self-righteous ego-maniacs, Shrub docsn·1 care, us long as lhc oil comes in, and the weaponsshipments go out. and Joe keeps his eyes glued tn CNN between bites <)f his Big Mac. II docsn'I matter whal happensanyw.iy, because history is written by the victors. I wonder what it will say aboul this wnr?

Whal arc we supposed lo do about it'/ Keep your weapons in gc>odshape, stock Lip \lll essentials, obtain a ski mask and ca111ouOagef~lligucs. and be ready when the MIA I Abrams tanks roll over that liule strip of border. Now I think I have a heller understanding of how the Polish und Czechs fell when Hitler was in power. It's not a question ot 'if' so much as it is or ·when· (as a siue note, )'<lU ~ire silting in l ).S, Northern C'om1m1ndrighl now. Look ii up; it covers all of North America, 10 protect us against terrorism. Northern Alberta has the one of the richest oil deposits in the world. Shale oil exists where the rocks have ahslirbcd lhc oil, making it up to 1.5limes more expensive to extract. When we fl guru out an celinomkally ,·iablc method rm extracting sh,1leoil, C'an.idawill instantly hecorne one of tlw biggest oil players in lhe world. Do you think our righlCllUS neighbours to the south will simply let us have that, when ii is within marching range of their border? No. lhc) will either be ''invited" 10 protect lhc oil reserves, or lhcy will manufacture a rc.'Uson10 .1ttuck LIS. Weleon1eto the New World Order, built on hate. greed. murder. and war. What did you expect? Paradise'!

Check lhcsc OLILif you already doI1'l know about lhem:

www.gucrriIlanews.com

www.copvici,1.com

www. i ndymcdia.org

Next up, Shrub was convicted of both cocaine possession and Driving Under lhc Influence before he was president. Yet did anyone ever ht:ar ahoul it'! Nol likely, since his daddy cleaned up !hat liltle episode up for him. Don't worry, nmerica, I'm sure he didn't inhale

And guess what Shrubby was doing during Lhe Vietnam

S() why woulc,I lhc lJ.S. appear lo be so angry about the lreatmenl or women in Al'ghnnislan when lhey 1.ihviously don't care about lhc treatment of women anywhere else?

One more cog in the propagandamachine

Now, for the info111ous'yl>U arc with us, or yuu arc wilh the terrorists' speech. Don'l forget lhat the terrorists arc 'evil doers' and part of the 'axis of evil.· Now, Shrub is not just fighting some international terrorist organization; he is

Most or this i,,forrnalion has been given 10 me by people who stay wry active in the media watching circles. Some of lhis is impossihle to prove, bec~rnsethe records have been erasedand some of the websites have been destroyed by government hackers, but ii all fits together once you read enough or ii. Yeah, it's all propaganda in the end, but al lcasl most of this stuff is propaganua from a different perspcctive.

Fuck Herr Bush and Herr Ashcroft! (I couldn't resist, give me a break)

Candles... Catholics... and Christians.

by Oarren Fleet

My Norlhern Irish friend took me to Mass in Aldergrnve la, t Sunday. T had wanted lo check it out for a while. Ever since T met Padraig, Catholics have held a special place in my heart. He and I used to go on therapeutic walks down Canterbury road and allend the six o' clock service in Melhourne. It was in that Australian sanctuary that I had many profound and olemnly joyful experiences.

watch the historical order of Peter the Rock. There is a comfort being in the presenceof a eongregation !hat has roots that arc trnced back to the apostles and not some commune founding European Mennonite.

Ah mass continued, I to !'ling meaning of the cross. I had not IAol'IVtHHl!i~ seen him for over a year; he was my stnff truincr when I wurked with Youth with A Mission. As we walked in the door. T asked Padraig if he thought thi~ was the right place.

The recent media expose on sex abuse within the church has definitely skewed my view of grown unmarried men in robes who s111ilcat young children and mnke the sign of the cross over their heads. The sacraments crept me out a bit ns well bceausc it i-eemed as though the priest had all or the insight. However, 1 did not have the urge to leave as T so often do in the protestant world. After massended, Padraig asked me if I minded if he were to walk around the Stations of the Cro~s.

Padraig has a chin like a crescent moon, and an accent that is the envy of anyone who claims to have limerick heritage. He is also compassionate and wise - n man who understands sorrow and the

·•11ii-.· he saiu gently. ·'there is the good lord .lcs11, nn lhc crnss." lie lirtcd his he.id tow.ml!> the cnii:ifi>. hanging above the allu,. L,11<.:rin Ilic s1'1vicc I stared ;:it tlrnt cmcifi~, won<lcting how they monnged to gc-t to hang so ~till and so secretly. After mass. l went up tu inspect it u11dfound that il had invisible strings.

T was Padraig's protestnnl friend on this <lay,and was prouu to walk into Mass with ,t true ethnic Irish man. Padraig passed me the hymnal and told me the pagi: that the order of the procession was on. As the priest spoke, Padraig took a few explanatory moments to tell me what was going on. I

afung tu uncie11thymn~ written hy sainls aud 111artyrs.Pc11tecostalswould call this ~erVil'c dead, I would call back lo them that they <Ire ignorant and uniformed but that b ,lllothi:r art1ch.:nltugetht>I'.SadI), my vt1ii.:e foiled lo curve around the melodies that seem lo have been writlc11 for P11vurotti,not a c11rio11sand frul>trated protcslitnl. l wa~ glnd when the fom songs of worship were over. 'l'he priest then began lhe sacntmenl und Padrnig passed by my knees in order lo squcct.e i11tothe line up in lhe ah.le. We had this scene years agu, yet it sec111edlike yesterday. I wm. nut alluwed tu partake in communion. My proud eyes watched him as he went through the line to accept the body and the blood. I am like the father, even though I am the son.

At the beginning, mass seemed a bit creepy and 1 didn't really like the look of the priest.

"Go right ahead." l aid. Padraig is the most Christ-like man I that have ever known-.:ven his silence inspires nic, Before he walked the stations, he lit twu prayer candles. My selfish mind pondered whether or not he was lighting one for me; I suspect that he was. I wni1ed until he wns finished rmtl had swrted his tour around the crus befon: I approached the rack of candles. J remember back in Melbourne when Padraig had first taught me the meaning behind lighting candles for prayer. l have almost wholeheartedly forgotten by 11uw, but l think that it h.ts something to do with fm:LIS• ing. ones thought. much like praying over a picture or a sy1J1holof a loved one. Or, as us Prntest1111ts.praying in front of slrip bars anc.1den:. of sep1in1lion l'rurn Ch, isl. I eagerly waiti.:d my tLlrn tu ~lHrl b11rni11g -.omeor the lea lighls.

Three years ag.o while in Melbourne, I Iii one for my mom and each of my brothers. A year and a hair ago I lit one fur every child at The Love of Christ orphanage in Johannesburg whilst a line up three-yearolds behind me (whom each I had promised that I would let them light u cnndle), fought over who got to gu first alkr me. As I stood before the rack and the matches in that

Police Brutality

by Anthony Buckley

investigation is 1101 being violc11t in any way. Al no point was I inrormed that I was being arre led, or that a section of the Mental llcalth Act was being invoked.

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l a111writing this stury to let t.hc staff and students uf UCFV know of the typi.: of police officers that we have on our Police Force.

At approximately 12:30 A.M. June 29th, 1 called and llsked an ex girlfriend to take rne tO the hospital. She told me to t.ike a cab. T became angry and decided J didn't need to go to the hospital and wem to bed. T had been drinking that evening and was intoxicated.

Around I A.M., My Ex, my mother, and sJsterarrived at my residence. They asked if I had done anything or taken any pills. I replied tJrnt I hadn't and that I wanted to sleep. The first officers on the scene were there to assess the situation. r was asked how I was doing. I replied "I don't have much left to Jive for." The officers said they wanted to take me lo the hospital. I told them I didn't want to go. They said they were taking me to the hospital. T replied that T wasn't going anywhere willingly. The officers grabbed me out of my bed.

I believe that under Canadian law, I have Lo be informed that my rights are changing before an officer can act, especially in a situation where the person under

They grabbed me by my arms. Eventually I s4uim1ed onto the floor where the two officers pinned me down. l demanded that they release me, they were violating my rights as a Canadinn citizen. Another officer arrived and assisted the first two in pi1111ing me lo the 11oor.A forth officer joined the first three and immediately started to assault me along my right side and lower back.

At the time that the fourth officer arrived, my mom, sister and ex were outside talking to the officers. As they observed the fou1th officer entering my residence, they became concerned for my safety. Jn their opinion, the officer had arrived in an aggressive stale. My sister tried to follow the officer into the house. As lhey entered the premises, they witnessed the fourth officer repeatedly striking me. I was left alone once the officers had cuffs on my hands and feet.

I demanded that they release me - my rights as a Canadian Citizen were being violated. l demanded to know what J was being arrested for, as I had broken no laws 1rnd had been sleeping when assaulted. When I asked to speak with the [policcl supervisor, 1 was ignored, picked up and touted out of the house by the officers. ln the ambulance I was on my back on tJ1egurney, my hands under me.

Upon arrival at MSA Hospital, Twasremoved from the ambulance and laid face down on the gurney in the emergency admitting area.

1 immediately started to make a scene so

that 1 would not go unnoticed by others then:. The officers 1nuvedmo down the hall into an empty room. I was transferred Lu a gurney equipped with rewaints. During the process,the officers beat me with their k11t:es in my sides. My sister, mother and Ex heard my crie:- for help. After this second beating al the hands of the officers, I lost all grip on sanity. /\t some point I managed lo bec:C>me pMtially free. T was sedated twice before calming down and sleeping. When 1 woke 111cnext morning in the Psychiatric Ward of MSA Hospital, I was in pure agony. l was denied what I consider necessary medical 1,·ea1ment.As a resuh of medical examination several days later, il has been detem1ined that T suffered si.x broken ribs, a partially collapsed lung and severely bruised liver, kidneys and spleen.

Aldergrove sanctuary, I began to contorn, plate a four-year journey that never seems to end, A shiver went through me. The back door of the church was open and Padraig's two te.i lights struggled to sltly alive. A horrible thought aboul the death of prayer with the extinguishing or the flame went through my mind. I picked up the single and lonely packet of matches; tJ1crc was only lwo remaining. T could not stop thinking of thal line of three-year-olds trying w stick their hands in the f1ame. 1 laughed to myself about promises that you can'I go hack on. I laughed al the love that I felt while in the presence of the dying. I Iii the firs! match and a gust of wind from the door blew it out. I felt beaten and tired like a dying ember. Saddenedand annoyed, l struck the second match and touched it lo the closest wick, The flame wouldn't catch. 1 wuncleredif my dreams were dying. I wondcri:d if there was sickness within me. I tried to catch a flame from Padraig's prayers. A"' I auemptcd to Louch a ca11uletop lo one of Padraig's !fames, the wind climbed up

and blew out hi5 prayers 100. I wondered if thcri.: was a cup un my soul und a ceiling between heaven and I. r walked away as 1ny African nostalgia and doubt began 10 take root. l decided to follow Padraig uround the Stations of the Cross.

the assault from happening. At the hospital. the officer standing al my head during my seeund assault committed an offence hy nut preventing his fellow officers from assaulting me. These arc ouly my beliefs based on my understunding of Canadian Law.

I reel I need to voice my feelings on this issue. I do not feel safe living in Abbotsford with officers on the street who arc prone to violence and feel their position gives them the right assault people when they feel the person deserves it. I am appnlled that such criminal activity is tolerated amongst the police whose job it is to serve and protect.

On a final note, I was reading the Abbotsford news last weekend and noticed the picture on the front page - a couple cops arresting two people for fraud. What fn my opinion and the opinions of my sister, mother and my ex, the officers involved

Can You See the Difference? struck me as odd wus acted out of line it1 their assessment of the situation, the actions they took, and the force used exeessivc in the extreme. The police have not been cooperative in providing the information regarding the officers involved.

The officer who assaulted me initially committed an offence. The Station Commander who was present in the house at the time of the assault also committed an offence by not attempting to prevent

that even though there was no mention of weapons being wielded by the suspects, the officer staucling over the two handcuffed individuals has his gun drawn. There arc lots of these stories to tell about the Abbotsford Police Dept. To me, thef re starting to appear as the local goon squad. Maybe we need to make a louder 1,;omplaintabout how we are treated by the police in our community.

Bif Naked with New World on Fire and Crowned King

Septemher6, '2002

mit1d, l have to quickly plug a bancl whose TheGrassy Knoll show I went to on Monday Tsunami

by Natalie Vermeer

New World on Fire fired things up, stunning everyone, or at le.1stme, and definitely made Crowned King sound even more lame. One thing though. is J wish that the

Uomb- from Cali's 6ay area. If you are into the strong female leads of tlif, with an equally energetic band and lots of oi-Iike shout-.1-Iongsongs, this is definilely u b,111d to check oui. Their new alhum just came out in Canad11on Tuesd11y Okay. but, back to thi,rshow! So the bane! guitarist, Troy, would scream more cos the of Bif Naked got on stage at around 8: backups he did were so amnr.ing. I think 40pm. They managed to shove out all the he should get 111orechances lo show off,

_, 11 hits, hmmm, what are they now: Moment Crowned King of course is not worth any of Weakness,Chotee, Daddy's GetlinRMarmore of a mentio11.It's nice that they came UCFV's back to school bash has attracted tied, Spm:eman, Lucky, I Love Myself Today, all the way rrom Van-City, but the ska-bore people to it that don't even go to UCFV!!! Twitch, I Died, plus a few more. they do is nothing spectacular. And that How rad is that? Thankfully, this time she They definitely exploded with their final MuchMusic song they have er-""""!,----------, didn't tow along her la- song. We're Not Gonna Take IL. It was is the ultimate cheese! I bel mates, liveonrcle~L 5e. mah velous! It is unfortunate; however, just thought of a good word Hehe. that drinking and moshpits aren't always though: if you want to say Whal 1 love about Bif the best of mixc:s. I hope the girl who had ska-punk when you think shows is the energy lhe to be taken away in an ambulance is doing of U1em. how about ska- whole band radiates alright! But all in all, I think this year's k 1 y 1. and how everyone in D' OR' T t' N d I I prun ill.I.... 1s 1en a 10 was a success an 1ope

So now to BifNakecJ:what the band gets their own it got everyone excited to get going back to chance to take some school. Though, l do Ulink the whole school attention. With this in thing would be so much more appealing ir can r say besides the fact that I find it really cool that

there was a show to go to every night after class, just right outside there on the grassy knoll

Incubus with 30 Seconds to Mars

September 3, 2002

Pacific Coliseum

by Natalie Vermeer

Knowing nothing about 30 Seconds to Mars before this show, I was incredibly surprised to find out that the lead singer and guitarist of this band is none other than Jared Leto! Yes: Jordan from My Su-Called Life, that pretty boy from Fight Club, ct al. ll made me wonder if Incubus' lead singer Brandon Boyd is longing for a bit of an acting career, like some other singers who like to show off their abs {Rritney perhaps?'!),and is schmoozing whenever possible with ·'actor-types''.

Yah, this openfog slot for Lncubushad to have been a part of sol/le sort of favour! My friend Jon's reaction was, "Wow! A flock of Seagullsevolved. like, overnight!" He also reminded me of the line from Fight Club where Ed Norton's character had to "destroy something beautiful'', with t11e"beautiful" being Jared's character's Face. This show seemedto be .lared:1·turn to destroy something beautiful: indu~trial music!!! (or whatever label they want to have) The only lyrics I could make out, ironically enough, were,"Do you hear what I'm saying?", but the rest of the songs were just "eeerg'' and ",rnafg" warbles. It seemed like their half hour set was designed for a scene in a movie. They had the looks and moves perfectecl, but forgot that s(1w1d is the most important part to work on!

1'hankfully, lncubus came on stage at 8:30pm. This is when the great struggles to get to the front began. It was fun listening to this girl bchind me tell her boyfriend, "We have to get to the front! Just si1y'Sorry, I have to get lo my

friend.' Jt works!" She was saying it over and over and neither of them even tried to move! lt was just too hilarious. Okay, I'll try to stop being a cynical "old" person.

I had U1epleasure of seeing lncubus earlier this year in Seaule and I never expected them to play a western Canada show, ever! Especially when they didn't come up with the Dcftones "Back to School'' Tour a couple of years back. With my set-list from April in hand, I compared this show with the last time l saw them. Their first • the same order: Circles, Nice to Know You, Stellar, Glass, Wish You Were Here, and Warning. Just before Waming, Brandon started unbuttc)ning his shirt. l round it quite amµsing. No one else in the band found the need to start taking off their shirt! Though l guess they didn't get. to move ,1s much. you know: posing by the screens, all tortured artist-like.

So the /;et continued with Clean nnd then Make Yourself, which occurred in the same spnt in the set as in April. The band performed / Miss You arid Brandon lost his tic. Then, totally prndictably, the couch and lamp came out and they played an acoustic version of Mexico. Brandon and Mike,the guitarist, began to play .1 bit of Neil Diamond'sHeartliRhl,which totally caught me off guard! I heepishly admit tlrnt l wonted to hear the whole song. But before they got Loocarried away with rtostalgia, Brandon introduced I la.m as a song they've played live only 3 times. This wns still acouslic, but tlley weren't sitting on the couch anymore. Then! Bram.Ion lost his shin and we discovered he had less hair than the last time we saw him.

Our verdict was that his shorts were a little too low and left too little to the imagination! He introduced Are You In with the line, ''Music is community.'' He also said that the song was banned in Malaysia becauso it was figured to have sexual innuendos. Was il the song or the vide(l? Hmmmin Artyways, U1eset continued with Ju.l't a Phase, Nowhere Fa.1·1,Battlcstar Scralatchtica, Drive, and Pardo11

Me (".is T burst in ra flames"). A Certain Shade of Greeil. was their last song before the encore and only the t.ccond "S.C.1.)J.N.C.E." album,comparc<l to the 4 played al the April show!

When the hHnd c:nn,e h:1ck for the encore, they played a song no one seemed to know, yet it sounded radio-friendly enough! With a towel on his head, Rrandon sang The Warmth. Then Mike brought out the samisen (or biwa'?), for Aqueou.l' Transmission, and I imagined silting on !he lop of Mount Fiji, playing a bamboo flute while watching birds (or something). The band gradually left the stage at 10;20pm while frogs were ribbitting and ribbilling! l lcft the show, partly in a dreamy daze and partly annoyed with the frog sounds! (They drove everyone out of the Seattle show in the same way)

Overall, I think lncnhus did a finejoh in giving Vancouver the visit we had to wait a little too long for. An excellent mix of rock, funk, scratch, sap, and Japan made for a mah velous evening. Vancouver was also lucky Lohave ,1 less crowded venue 1hanSeattle; I didn 'l have LOstep on as many toes Lo see the abs, J mean, the sixth member of the band'! J mean, to sec the band! Um, yah

Vancouver Theatre Sports and Other UpcomingUCFVTheatre Events

by Nicole Pcccnka

Well, the school year i~ once uguin upon us, and if nipping away for an evening of live entertainment is your idea of the perfect academic avoidance tactic, you will he happy to hear about the great upcoming productions at UCFV. As usual, the.: 1hca1rc department has selected three.:plays to be produced throughout the year, this Limefocusing on a theme of ·•family relationships and their impact on the wider world."

I personally find the <lcpartmcnl's first show of the year lo be incredibly ironic in light of the "Cascade controversy"(see Crossfire m1icle in the Toque section or this issue). The department's first play is to be George Bernard Shaw's moral patable, Major Barbara. This prnduction, to be directed by Ian Penwick, poses some interesting questions about morality and ethics in the marketplace and how they affect society. In this first play, Major Barbarn of the

once again, l am waiting eagerly to sec this production. King Lear is slated to run from March 5-23, 2003.

As all of these productions arc more than a month und a half away from opening night, the department has a few offerings available for students as early as September l8th! Lunch hour theatre in Abbotsford will is in the ledurc theatre at 11:30 am on September 18 and 25, as well as October 2. Three of lhe hit productions from the 2002 Director's Festival will be playing again for your enjoyment and admission will be by donation.

Theatre.:Sports! If you have ever wnlched part of "Whose line is it, Anyway?" and caught yourself laughing, even once, then this is a must-see event for you. The Vancouver Theatre Spo,1s League will demonstrate their improvisntional abilities Friday, September 20th, at 8 pm.

Guys Look Great and Girls are Funny

by Joe McQueen

Ok. I'm freely going to admit something secretive: I'm a sucker for "Chick Flicks". When Blue Crush opened, the first l11inga few of my "girl" friends said was how much they were into surfing, and how badly they wanted to see this movie. As for me, myself, and I. all Lhrec of us have avoided surfing, and most ocean sports for the simple fear of shurks, unfounded or not. But off a group of us went.

And we were impressed. Although Ibis movie won't ever win an Academy Award, il was enjoyable. The males in this movie don't seem to have much in the way of substance, and to upset the scale further, the girl:,; have all the funny lines.

Salvation Army finds herself tested by the "devilish pragmatism" of her armament tycoon father, Andrew Undershaft. UCFY's opening act, which is already making my mouth water, is slated lo run from November 6-24. 1

The second play of the season is a Canadian offering written by David French and directed by Jamie Skidmore. That Summer is purpmted to be a retelling of young love seen through old eyes. Act:ording 10 lhc UCFY theatre depa1tment website, this play is considered to be "a meditatiot1 on what endures or fleeting moments over time.'' That Summer is slated to run from January 15 to February 2, 2003.

The third production is once again from Lhewritings of William Shakespeare. King Lear is often considered lo be one ol'The Bard's greatest works. The play deals with various issues, the most obvious being the betrnyal of the King by his daughters. The play does touch on many more issues than that however, and

Tickct prices are the same as last year and runge from $5-$13. However, donations are very gladly accepted and this is the last year that your donation will be matched by government funding, so if you donate this year, your money will go twice as far: think about it. The ticket prices are available .il the box office, or by phone 604-795-2814. If you consider yourself to be an aficionado of the arts and you never miss a production, why not consider a season's pass? A Flexi SeasonTicket gives you accessto a Friday or Saturday showing of each production, and is only 32 bucks for an adult or $29 for a student of senior.

There are so many things to look forward lo this year with the UCFV theatre department! lf you would like more information on these upcoming events or info on the Theatre department al UCFV, check out their website al www.ucfv.bc.ca/theatre/season.htrnl. You cnn also contact the UCFV box office .it (604)7952814 or Email: theatre@ucfv.be.ca

Technically speaking, I heard a J'umorafter I saw the movie, that the waves were not computer-generated. This only adds to the film's attractiveness.

The soundtrack is something I plan on picking up, mainly for Sheryl Crow's new hit and the song that is feature on all of the previews by Lenny Kravitz.

See the movie on a Friday night: more than li.kcly, unless you're dating a space alien, your girlfriend will dcfinilely want to go. And if your boyfriend hesitates, tell him about the popcorn, air conditioning, and all the girls in skimpy swimsuits.

Grog, Gluttony, and Guilt

By Nicole J;>ecenka

So, Bif Naked is likely already playing as J type this, and r couldn 'L care less. Lf I were to write a Dis-O concert review, it would prob~1hlyre~1d, "iL was vcry, very, loud and l didn't care for it.'' Fortunalcly, that is 1101 what I was considering writing about. I have hcard many forrner Loquers stale Lhal Lhc best writing occurs when one is drunk - that may be true.

Anyway, 1 had a thought strike me as 1 got in line for a free veggie burger after one too many trips Lo U1e beer garden. While the IDSA is very admirably collecting funds l(1 providc clean water and vegetable gardens to a village in Cambodia, lhc SUS is providing free hamburgers to students.

"No big deal,'' you rnighl lhink, but consider this: The amount of grain consumed by American beef cattle in a year would be a sufficient amount Lo feed EIGHT-POINTSIX BILLION PEOPLE for the same period of time! That is more than the population of Earth

As J walked up to the one lonely barbecue with its pathetic pile of tired, uneaten veggiepatties, I thought, wow. I wonder how many people

could hove been fed, and for how long, if no meat was served at all.

If you don't care ahout the abilities of a vegetariim lifestyle lo reed the world, then consider this: Clean water was the second thing the lDSA was hoping to provide to this unnamed village Jn rural Cambodia, clean water is a rnajor issue, as most water supplies arc rivers and streams used for drinking water, bathing. washing, and waste disposal, meaning that they are really good for nothing but the Jailer.

ln the US, raising animals for food caused more water pollution than any othcr industry. While these statistics cannot be compared to those of the Third World, just think about how inuch water we pollute in North A111erica We have a wealth of natural resources th.it would be the envy of' those dying for Jack of food and drinkable waler, yet we contaminate our water with Lhcshit of our staple.

I wandered onto the grassy knoll in time to hear the introduction to a song about ''being pissed off fur having tits and a pussy." I think my original concert analysis holds true for me. Tons of people loved lhe show, bul it was definitely nol my scene.

ucrv Alumni Peter Algrn is currently holding an exhibition in the UCFV art gallery which consists of his sculptural work. The show is uurrcnlly running from the 3rd to thc 16th or Scptc111bcr2002

*Futbal*FuBbal*Football*Soccer*

UCFVSmashedPre5easonTournament

by Ma,·y e. Glasgow

The UCFV women's and men's soccer teams spent n great Lubor Day wcckcnd in the triumphant fields of the annual International Pre-Seasontournament this year. Both teams laid the path to what is looking to be an incredible seasonthis year.

The men's team succeeded m defeating teams from Medicine Hat, Alberta, Okanogan Univcrsity College, and Skagit Y.illey (Mt Vernon). Washington, USA. A slrong offence that included double goaJsby Sean Hayes, Kevin Coors, Mike Short, and Kyle Dickey rallied up a tournament total of eleven goals. which the defense allowed to be challenged by a mere tournament total of

three opposing goals. Also unbeaten throughout. the tournament. the woman's team conqueredopponents from Okunogan University College, Medicine Hat, Alberta, and University College of the Caribou. (Unfortunately further details on the women :I' games were not available at press deadline).

UCFV's soccer teams arc certainly indicating that the school will have much to be proud of out on the green this year. Fnns are more than welcome at games so check out the Community events section for further details on where to cheer on our guys and gals. Just remember: this is not U-1cWorld Cup Final :.o fighting and fireworks on the field are not endorsed! ,

What's Going On... SEPTEMBER

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Sculpture~rt 11how111the Odd Spot Gallety (building A) by Peter 20-20 lntetn:,\tional Week. Check out the TrtternatiomdDevelopmcm Algm Student Association.Featuring a Sarnosa Sale, Hetm" tattooi., lnternationalopportunitiesantl great placesto visit.

11- 13 VolunteerWeekin the Great Hall. Sign qp for a great opportunity to get involved. give back anti learn. Fcatodng Big .Brothers, Volunteer UCFV. the SUS, the Cascade, nnd the Women's Centre.

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Soccer: CascadesV'ii Malaspina College, Nanaimo, Men's: 1pmWomen'i;.:3 pm 24

Soccer: Cascades Vs Capilano College; North Vancouver, 26 Men's: 2 ptn Women's: 12 pm

Soccer:Cascades (men's and w1.')men's)Vs Langara college, Burnaby2pm

Soccet:CascadesVs Langatt.Ct>llege,Burnaby.Men's; 4 pm Women 1s: 2 pm

MovieTuesdayin the Lounge;SAC. Watchfor titles. Pub Night with MLLrphy~sLagh. StudentLounge.

Sculptures by UCFV Alumni in Art Gallery

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