The Cascade Volume 8 Issue 6 2000-11-14

A students 'guide to voting in the upcoming federal election. Page 6. Development project in Vietnam

AG Mint erupts

• pzng-pong tourney

By Kris Lind Cascade writer

Despite rudely interrupting the spirited ping pong tournament in the "A" building student loun·ge, the Student Union Society's (SUS) annual general meeting was informative.

Main issues addressed were the Student Activity Center's (SAC) status, the SUS's budget for the 2000/2001 fiscal year, a new building on the Chiliwack campus, and the announcement of UCFV's ombudsmun, Patricia Mongey.

Past SUS president Stephaine Martin raised several questions regarding the SAC: "Can the gym [floor] be used for activities other than athletic events such as dances and concerts?"

SUS president Robin Litzenberger replied that the Student Activity Center Committee (SACC) investigated what type of floor would be best for a multi-purpose facility and determined that, "A wood floor would be most suitable for athletic events and it will accommodate other events."

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UCFV TAKING LEAD IN VIETNAMESE

By Derrell Alary

The University College of the Fraser Valley will be continuing educational development work in Vietnam as part of a Canadian International Development Agency-funded project.

UCFV has already worked in Vietnam with Canadian partners Selkirk and Olds Colleges to implement an experimental/demonstration farm in partnership with Hong Due University, a small university 120 miles south of Hanoi.

As an unexpected spinoff during the last project, UCFV representatives helped their Vietnamese partners with a transition as several junior colleges were amalgamated to become Hong Due University.

"We received extra recognition from CIDA. for helping with that change, which UCFV could relate to as we'd recently undergone the transition from community college to university col-

lege," notes Stinson.

This new project, for which UCFV is the lead partner, will focus on helping large research universities in Vietnam to transfer technology and knowledge to the smaller teaching universities and ultimately to farmers.

"The two large Vietnamese universities we'll be working with do some very good research pertinent to the situation in Vietnam, but the whole educational system isn't that well integrated, so there are problems with sharing that research," notes UCFV International Education director Karola Stinson. "We'll be helping to set up advisory and steering committees, field trials, and other means of improving communication. Connecting with our communities is an important part of what we do at UCFV so I think we'll be able to be of some help there."

There will be some visiting back and forth between Canadian and Vietnamese delegates,

Martin inquired if the SAC's users contract would protect against student user fees and whether or not community groups would be able to rent the facility. Litzenberger stated that, "We cunently have no intention of implementing a users fee and the users contract will protect against the implementation such a fee. Litzenberger indicated that fitness center memberships and gym rental would be available to the community.

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including students. UCFV agriculture instructor Rose Morrison will be involved in this project, as she was with the smaller Vietnam one. Other UCFV faculty will also be involved, as will some students.

UCFV agriculture student Glenn Brubaker of Chilliwack spent six weeks in Vietnam as part of the last project in 1999, helping with the experimental farm, doing research, and making presentations.

"The whole experience knocked my socks off!" he says. "Vietnam is a third-world country, especially since it was devastated by war, but it's a fascinating place. The people are very friendly, despite having been at war with western powers for so long. The experience helped me decide that I want to continue doing international development work."

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CHRISTIANSCHOOLON TOURTO PROMOTECOURT CASE

By Christopher Bolster British Columbia Bureau Chief

VANCOUVER (CUP) -The vicepresident of a private Christian university toured the country at the end of October to promote a Supreme Court of Canada case he says threatens religious freedoms.

While he was visiting Canadian Christian leaders, Guy Saffold, executive vice-president of Vancouver's Trinity Western University, talked to media in five major c1t1es about the British Columbia College of Teachers taking his university to court Nov. 9.

The four-year old legal battle between the two organizations centres on the Christian university's "community standards agreement", a contract which requires students to refrain from extramarital sex, including same-sex relationships. The teacher's college, says this agreem.ent violates basic human rights, and is an inappropriate setting to train teachers.

A fundamental principle is at stake in the next court battle, says Saffold.

"Will public regulatory bodies ·be permitted to deny certifications [or] professional licenses on the basis of religiou_s beliefs and to do so even without producing any evidence of intolerance or unacceptable behavior?"

The rift between the two organizations began in 1985, when Trinity Western launched a four-year teacher education degree program. For ten years their students did a fifth year at Simon Fraser University to receive a provincial teaching certification.

In 1995, Trinity Western applied to the British Columbia College of Teachers (BCCT), the professional certification organization, with hopes of offering the required

fifth year at the Christian university.

In June 1996 the BCCT denied the application based on Trinity Western's community standards contract, prompting the university to challenge the teacher's college in B.C.'s Supreme Court.

On Sept. 12, 1997, the court ordered the BCCT to approve Trinity Western's teacher education degree program, saying there is no evidence of intolerance among their teachers. Twenty-six days later, the BCCT filed an appeal. In December 1998, the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled two to one in favour of the university. Saying the BCCT has failed to produce even "one bit of evidence" of intolerance, the court ordered the BCCT to approve the teaching program.

On Jan. 14, 1999 the BCCT announced that it would appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada.

"The BCCT has been able to cite only vague suspicions and stereotypical perceptions to justify its decisions," says Saffold. "Most Canadians find this kind of thinking prejudicial and offensive. Decisions based on stereotypes are anathema to our laws and amount to discrimination."

Despite two lower court rulings that there was no evidence to support the BCCT's case, the BCCT's governing council has continued to deny approval.

"The standards contract, we feel is not consistent with the values of Canadian society and our human rights legislation," says Douglas Smart, the BCCT registrar.

"We do not have a problem with [Trinity Western] as an undergraduate degree granting institution, but we feel that it is an inappropriate setting for the professional edu-

cation of teachers that will work in the public school system,"

He points to the dissenting judgement in the appellant court ruling as a source of optimism.

In the -ruling, Justice Anne Rowles writes that the standards contract amounts to discrimination against homosexual applicants to Trinity Western.

"This means that a student or faculty member whose sexual orientation i's not heterosexual must in good faith accept that homosexual behaviour is a sin, that it falls generally into the category of 'dishonest or dishonourable practices such as cheating or stealing."'

A professional regulating body such as the BCCT should have the power to set professional criteria for applicants, she writes.

However, Tim Delaney, a lawyer representing the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, an intervenor in the case since 1997, disagrees with the BCCT and argues that this case posses a considerable threat to our current conception of freedom of religion.

• Delaney says that if the BCCT wins its Supreme Court appeal, it could have far-reaching effects.

"It is not a big step to go from saying Trinity Western cannot have a teachers' training program to Trinity Western should lose its accreditation as an university because of its particular worldvi•ew."

Because Trinity Western is a private institution it is not subject to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, he says, so the school can let who they want in.

Following the hearing before the nine Supreme Court justices in November, it is expected a final decision on the matter will be rendered in ·spring 2001.

Student Union A.GM: Issues 2000/01

fees.

Marti.n vehemently opposed accepting the budget for the 2000/2001 fiscal year demanding: "Could you not amend the budget to put more money in legal fees to better handle negotiations for the gym or Student Union building? You should have money available to protect yourselves and have the SAC contracts looked over by an independent party since you represent the student body. Would that not be prudent?"

Patricia Mongey, UCFV Student Ombudsmun, echoed Martin's opinion saying, "because of overwhelming student support for a gym, the money should be there to protect the project."

Currently the SUS had $250 allotted in their budget for legal fees. SUS finance director Paul Gehrmann amended the budget transferring $ 15 0 0 from disc reti on a r y funds to legal fees totaling $1750 for legal

Martin stated that rumours arose which suggest Coca Cola might donate the score clock for the new gym and asked if the SUS seeks corporate sponsorship. Lizenberger responded: "Possibly, the issue of commercial ent1t1es making contributions is being explored." He noted that,Restauronics would not necessarily operate the SAC food kiosk.

SACC chairman Gurpreet Mahi! reported the SAC's construction could begin in early 2001. He stated that building the SAC would not interfere with UCFV 's pond outside "D" building.

Litzenberger reported that UCFV obtained government funding to replace building "A", the aging former motel building on the Chiliwack campus, and that plans for this building are currently under development.

UCFV hosting United Way agency days in Abbotsford and Chilliwack

In an effort to make everyone more aware of the important work done by United Way member agencies, UCFV is sponsoring two agency days, on Tues, Nov 14, and Wed, Nov 15, at its Abbotsford and Chilliwack campuses, respectively. Members of the public are invited to view displays and meet representatives of United Way member agencies. i

UCFV employee pledges are on their way to exceeding UCFV 's goal of raising $20,000 for the United Way this year.

"We think it's important to let members of the UCFV community know who they're helping when they support the United Way," says UCFV United Way campaign coordinator Susan McAlevy. "Having the agencies on campus will also help people decide which agencies to designate their donations to. And we thought the public might be interested too, so we're extending an open invitation."

United Way Agency Day

Tues., Nov. 14, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Great Hall -Abbotsford Campus The following agencies will be on the Abbotsford campus on Nov. 14:

Abbotsford Association for Healthy Aging Abbotsford Community Services

Abbotsford Family Planning Abbotsford Parent Support Circle (BC Parents in Crisis)

Abbotsford Youth Commission

Big Brothers & Big Sisters of the Central Fraser Valley CNIB

Central Fraser Valley Search & Rescue Columbia Christian Counselling Group

Fraser Valley Child Development Centre John Howard Society United Way of the Fraser Valley

Upper Fraser Valley Developmental Preschool

United Way Agency Day Wed. Nov. 15 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Cafeteria lobby Chilliwack Campus. The following agencies will be on the Chilliwack campus on Nov. 15:

Ann Davis Transition Society

Big Brothers & Big Sisters of the Upper Fraser Valley CNIB

Canadian Red Cross

Chilliwack Family YMCA

Chilliwack Parent Support Circle (BC Parents in Crisis)

Chilliwack Social Planning Council

Community Policing in Chilliwack

Fraser Valley Child Development Centre United Way of the Fraser Va'lley

Note: Pay parking (1$ per day) 1s in effect on UCFV campuses.

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Business school named after brewery

MONTREAL (CUP)- Concordia University's faculty of commerce and administration will be renamed after the father of Canadian beer, Canadian University Press has learned.

The decision to call the faculty the John Molson School of Business should become official following a vote planned for the next board of governors meeting on Nov. 15, confirmed Mohsen Anvari, the faculty's dean.

The announcement was planned for later this month, however a confidential Concordia Uni•versity senate document explains that the decision came after a $10 million donation from the Molson Family Foundation and Molson Inc. during the university's last capital campaign.

CASA brain makes its way to Ottawa

OTT A WA (CUP) -The Canadian Alliance of Students' Associations (CASA) recently brought together some of. Canada's student leaders to have breakfast with an unlikely guest -a brain preserved in a glass jar.

On Friday the Hostage Brain tour came to the nation's capital, after having traveled across the country to visit CASA's 18 member universities and colleges.

"It is a model human brain trapped in a glass jar," said CASA national director Mark Kissel. "It stands for every young Canadian mind that is barred from achieving its full potential because of a lack of government support."

As the brain criss-crossed the country, CASA dfstri buted about l 0,000 postcards addressed to local MPs, which students could sign to show their support for increased funding for post-secondary education.

"The message is clear to this government, and to the government that will be after thi·s election -only you can set these hostage brains free," said Kissel. "Only ·you can remove the funding obstacles that stand between our minds and a better Canada."

Kissel said the brain was an effective way to get their message across.

Campus campaigns against too much perfume

LONDON, Ont. (CUP) -Administrators at an Ontario college are worried excessive perfume on campus is hurting people's health.

To combat the problem, Fanshawe College is planning an information campaign called the Three R's of Fragrance. The slogan? "Rethink, respect and reduce."

"[Excessive perfume] has become an issue," .said Linda Clarke, Fanshawe's manager of occupational heath, safety and security. "Ther,i: are individuals who are chemical-sensitive. It is causing them ill health effects and they are looking at a resolution."

The argument is that fragrance is 97 per cent composed of undisclosed chemicals, some of which cause multiple chemical sensitivity. However, critics s.ay chemical sensitivity isn't a real medical condition.

Clarke has made up signs that will be posted around the college to raise awareness of the issue. There's also a public folder on the college's computer network where she'll post reports, articles and other information.

"We're considering issuing a services guideline, which will give direction to people in case there's a situation where they feel someone is wearing excessive perfume which causes them ill health effects," she added.

Carleton students confront Stockwell Day

OTTAWA (CUP) -Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day was confronted today with an impromptu crowd of 150 students after a member of Carleton's student union discovered his presence on the campus. Students surrounded the exit to the building Day was in after learning that the party leader had discreetly booked a visual recording studio to prepare for the leadership debates later this week.

The party leader was confronted by Christa Peters, a vice-president with Carleton's student union, amid the shouts and jeers of the growing

crowd

"I was in the right place at the right time because I just turned around and there he was," she said. "I think he was just looking for an exit and not expecting us."

Peters had the opportunity to ask three different questions, though she didn't feel the answers Day provided were satisfactory. Peters asked Day about his party's platform on federal transfer payments, the Alliance's willingness to create a system of national grants and the party's controversial support of an income contingent loan system.

"He skirted the issues, he wouldn't commit to anything," she said. "It's unfortunate that we had the opportunity to ask questions but didn't receive any answers."

Peters handed Day her card and invited him to schedule another visit to Carleton to discuss these issues, which she feels are the three most important election issues facing students.

The student union found out about Day's presence on the campus shortly after noon. Two hours later, there was a growing crowd of students chanting and waving placards.

"As soon as we started yelling, the numbers of people just inflated," said Carleton student Stephanie Goodwin, who was among the first at the scene. Goodwin said she was nearly run over as she attempted to block Day's staff from driving away.

After Day retreated into the building, students blockaded his vehicles for 30 minutes. Day was forced to leave by another exit.

Jason Burn ham, a co-chair of Carleton's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Centre, said he felt that Day had no place on campus, unless he was more willing to discuss the issues facing students.

"Stockwell Day shouldn't be using our facilities during an election campaign at all," he said.

Burnham said that Day's impromptu appearance was nothing other than a token appearance and that he should have been willing to speak to the crowd at greater detail.

"He wasn't looking for anything other than a photo-op," said Burnham.

Day's press secretary didn't return phone calls by press time.

Students boycott poppies to counter "discrimination'' in local legion

By Jon Bricker The McGill Daily

MONTREAL (CUP) Some McGill students won't be wearing a red poppy this Remembrance Day in protest of a policy that denies veterans in religious headgear entrance to many legion halls.

Santbir Singh, a student and an organizer for McGill's Anti-Racist Action and Sikh Students Association, is one of a handful of students boycotting poppies being offered up on campus in exchange for donations to the Royal Canadian Legion.

He says Legion Hall No. 6, the local hall responsible for poppy sales at McGill, is -among the halls with a policy against religious headgear, such as the Sikh turban or a Jewish yarmulke.

"I have a serious problem with buying poppies to support a legion that promotes discrimination based on religious practice," said Singh. "World War Two especially was a war against fascism. It's sad that the people who fought f.o~ that now seem bigoted themselves."

But yesterday, within an hour of a call by Canadian University Press to RCL national headquarters in Ottawa, a letter was on its way to Legion Hall N·o. 6, threatening that if the local branch didn't change its policies, it might be shut-down.

"They have been served with a letter from our president," said Di.ane Rogers, who works at the Royal Canadian Legion's provincial headquarters. "This is against the policy of the legion and against human rights."

Yesterday's decision to take action against Legion No. 6 is considered bound to re-ignite a debate that first came to the fore on Remembrance Day in 1993, when four turban-wearing Sikh veterans, including a former LieutenantColonel, were denied entrance into the Newton Royal Canadian Legion hall in Surrey, British Columbia. That led directly to campaigns by the World Sikh Organization and Canadian Jewish Congress not to buy poppies from legion halls that would not admit individuals in religious headgear.

The following year, an RCL national convention saw the failure of a motion on a bylaw that would have forced all 1,700 legion halls to admit individuals i n re I i g i o us headgear.

But RCL public relations chief Bob Butt says the RCL national office has since taken steps to respond t6 criticism.

He said that although the bylaw was never passed, a policy decision was made in 1994 that all legion halls had to admit veterans in religious headgear.

"Times have changed," said Butt. "Telling people to take off religious headgear is clearly discriminatory and legion branches that choosing to ignore the policy, do so at their own risk."

And although most halls have lifted the ban on religious headgear, a handful remain the subject of ire from many in the Sikh community who say that being asked to take off their turbans goes against their faith.

"People who wore their turbans fighting valiantly on the front lines in both World Wars are now being told they can't even wear their tur-bans into some legion halls," said Anne Lowthian, executive director of the World Sikh Organization's Canadian arm. "It's an embarrassment to the rest of Canada that legions are so unrepresentative of what we fought for."

Not admitting veterans wearing turbans is tantamount to denying the important role Sikhs played in World Wars One and Two, she said.

According to Lowthian, Sikhs accounted for about 35 per cent of the British Commonwealth Army's India contingent in both World Wars, while Canada was represented by a Sikh regiment in the Second World War. Lowthian added that Sikhs in the military also chalked up 12 Victoria Crosses, more than any other religious minority group.

But John Wildman, president of Montreal's Legion Hall No. 6, said he doesn't see what all the fuss is about.

"Nobody gets to wear anything on their head when they come into our legion hall. If you wear headgear, you're out of order," he said. "I don't think this is about religion at all. Taking off whatever you're wearing on your head is a show of respect for everyone that died in the war. 11

Butt added that he thinks poppy boycotts are inappropriate.

"The poppy is a national symbol," said Butt. "Of course people have the freedom not to buy a poppy that's what fighting the wars were about, but boycotting pop pi es al together doesn't address the misguided policies of a handful of legion hal Is."

Proceeds from donations go to ailing veterans and struggling families of former service men and women.

But Singh says the Royal Canadian Legion's response this week to anti-headgear policies at Legion Hall No. 6, shows how effective boycotts can be.

"The goal is to get them to change their policies. If there is a wide-scale boycott, I think they'd be forced to do that come next Remembrance Day," said Singh.

Prof looks at technicallyputting off having children

By Laroux Peoples The McGill Daily

MONTREAL (CUP) -For most women, having children comes at a high cost to their career. But it may not have to anymore.

Dr. Roger Gosden, a specialist in reproductive biology in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at McGill, is working on a "career pill", which expands wornen's reproductive years. This pill, a form of birth control, would delay menopause by preserving the egg supply of women over 30.

"Many people want to defer having a child. Those would be the people this pill could help," said Gosden.

The research is far from over. Gosden suggests that it has just begun and could take 10 years before the pill arrives on the market.

What are the benefits of the pill if developed? According to Gosden, it is possible that the pill would enable "fertility to be better related to the biological age of the ovary."

This means that the pill would enable women to produce eggs that stand a better chance of being fertilized. This would be possible because the ovary would remain in its most productive stage for a longer period of time.

Suzanne Staggenborg, a McGill sociology professor, says some broader issues need to be examined alongside research of Gosden's type.

"The culture of the workplace needs to change," argued Staggenborg.

Although women in North America are gaining greater flexibility with their jobs, she says workers still get judged by how much they work. Cutting down hours that men, as well as women,

work would shift family responsibilities in ways she thinks many men would support, particularly those interested in having families.

Gosden argues that reproductive technology research should be judged by his peers alone, who may have a better grasp of the broader moral issues involved.

"If we are successful, the pill will help women to conceive from their own eggs," he explained. "Due to the poor q u al it y of eggs or menopause women often have to resort to egg donors. There's an ethical dilemma for you."

He points to the fact that eggs in the US are very expensive to suggest that there are ethical issues at eve.ry turn with reproductive technology.

Company turns water into fuel

By Julian Cheung The Gateway

EDMONTON (CUP) Have you ever wished that you didn't have to pay for gas? Soon, filling a gas tank might be as cheap as pouring a glass of water.

The WaterGas unit, developed by the Edmonton-based company FT Canada, and marketed by Sustainable Development International, is tentatively scheduled to undergo testing at the University of Alberta during the second week of November.

The WaterGas machine basically "uses electricity to generate hydrogen and oxygen gas in a two to one ratio from water," according to Lew Mansell, vice-president of FT Canada.

What makes this machine different from existing electrolytic units is that it uses less power, and so more energy can be converted into fuel rather than being waste heat, said Harold Jahn, CEO of Sustainable Development

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International.

Another advantage of the WaterGas apparatus, says Mansell, is that unlike other models, it can produce fuel "on demand." This means that there is no need for fuel storage all you have to do is to fill the WaterGas tank with water, turn the unit on, and wait for fuel to be produced.

Mansell said that their first target is to integrate the WaterGas technology with tractor-trailer engines for trucks.

"There are 1.7 million tractortrailers in Canada, so it's a big market," he said.

The unit could also ·be adapted to supply electricity to houses, which may potentially phase out power grids. Other potential uses include vehicle acceleration and welding.

The development of water-based electrolytic units did not really take off until earlier this year, when a previous patent expired. Since then, there has been a freefor-all to develop and patent the most efficient design.

Breakthrough

research

in killer T cells

By Jon Dunbar and Vianne Fung The Gateway

EDMONTON (CUP) -Just four and a half months after University of Alberta researchers made headlines in international medical news, they've done it again.

University professors have made a breakthrough discovery in the workings of the body's immune system, which has applications in treatment of cancer, organ transplants, and auto-immune diseases like diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.

The team is led by Chris Bleackley-, Who is considered one of

the world's leading experts on the immune system's treatment of infected cells. The other members are Bruce Motyka and Greg Korbutt.

Korbutt is an expert in cell transplants who played an important role in the diabetes research that attracted international attention in mid-May.

This latest discovery arose from research examining the cytotoxic T lymphocyte, or killer T cell, which plays a significant role in ridding the body of viral cells.

For years, researchers have been puzzled by how some cancerous cells have been able to evade these killer cells. A normal, healthy cell has a surface receptor that allows the killer cells to bond to it, but the University of Alberta researchers have discovered that some tumour cells have the ability to remove these receptors and keep the killer cells out.

"We are looking at whether or not our killer molecule can bind to [cancer] cells," said Motyka. "Sometimes it's called the kiss of death."

With this research, Motyka hopes to Iearn how to improve the effectiveness of killer T cells.

In laboratory transplants, the researchers found that without the receptors, the cells were allowed to live in foreign tissue a finding that has significant relevance to organ-transplant procedures.

Currently, between 50 to 60 per cent of organ t~ansplants fai 1 because the body rejects the foreign tissue.

Several years ago, Bleackley drew international attention when he discovered Granzyme B, the active enzyme in killer T cells that destroys the unhealthy cells.

The findings of Bleackley's team have been published in the current issue of the medical journal Cell.

"Our study is a basic research finding," said Motyka. "It's still early, and a lot of experiments have to be done."

front UCFV partners up in Vietnam

project and who will be project coordinator for the new project, says her work on the last project was very valuable professionally and personally.

"Personally, the experience was exciting, invigorating, and spiritual. I have been both inspired and humbled by the people I met through the project and awed by the beauty and spirit of Vietnam. Professionally, I have learned about Vietnamese agriculture, society, and the Vietnamese post-secondary system, and I've been able to offer international experience to students.

"I really believe that UCFV should be involved in projects such as this," Morrison· comments. "It is a service to our students, it's super professional development for our facul-

ty, and when there is goodwill with our developing-country partner, synergy happens. The fruits of our first project have been a delightful surprise to all the partners!"

Stinson says that participating in in ternational development is a good investment for Canada, both economically and ethically.

"One of CIDA's priorities is to help the poorest of the poor, and Vietnam certainly qualifies," she notes. "But Vietnam is going to continue to develop rapidly and will be an important economic partner for Canada. Projects Ii ke this promote goodw i 11 between the nations, help us to demonstrate models of good governance and effective education, and enriches the lives of the Canadians who participate."

The problems plaguing Canada s health-care system

By Bren Simmers The Martlet

VICTORIA (CUP) Alison Fox quit nursing in Vancouver in 1992, three years before Chretien's Liberal government made the deepest cuts to provincial transfer payments since the birth of national medicare in 1966. Even then, she was disillusioned with the medical establishment because of the socio-economic factors that make people sick in the first place, and was unable to provide the kind of care she wanted to give.

Although trained in holistic medicine, Fox foµnd herself spending much of her time handing out drugs, a common response to illness in a medi-cal system rooted in symptom management. As Fox points out, we need to start asking ourselves where sickness fits in with family history, stress patterns, and lifestyle.

Fox chose nursing because she enjoys taking care of people, tending to both their physical and emotional needs. But in two years, she recalls only three instances when she was able to spend time using massage or therapeutic touch to relieve a person's pain.

In today's hospitals, there is little time for that kind of care, but Fox says she has seen its benefits first hand.

Alternative medicine is inching its way into Canada's traditional health care system. You used to have to get a doctor's order for physiotherapy now massage is partially covered under BC medical.

"An informed and active consumer movement can change· things and has," says Fox. Patients are asking more questions and are becoming more aware of their options. Still, if a person wants to access alternative therapies in Canada right now acupuncture, homeopathy, hypnosis or naturopathy they do so at their own expense.

The doctor is out

Dr. Eric Freedman, a Victoria pediatric urologist and considered one of Canada's top-notch doctors left Victoria three weeks ago for a better life in New York State. Private hospitals and clinics in the United States offer bigger pay cheques and better equipment. He says frustration with his working conditions motivated the move.

"After 15 years of training, I am unable to do my job," he says. Lack of funding to hire support staff such as nurses and cleaners, have reduced his access to hospital operating hours to as low as six hours a week.

"Everyone is doing a different job than they were trained for," he says. Hospital staff are overworked and morale is low. "This should be an ~xciting time to be a doctor, with new developments in technology, but we're unable to do our jobs." With a young family and a career ahead of him, Freedman says he can't afford to stay in Victoria. Doctors used to belong to the

upper-middle class, a compensation well deserved for their years of training, says Freedman, but now they are feeling the economic pinch. In the States, "peo.ple need you and they reimburse you. Money is part of it, but it's the level of satisfaction you get for doing the job you're trained to do with the right equipment."

Health care critic Michael M. Rachlis argues that the problem isn't so much a shortage of doctors as it is how they are paid for their time. He believes doctors and specialists are moving away from comprehensive care, such as prevention and phone calls, because they're not paid for it under the current system. When a doctor has 10 minutes to see a patient it is impossible to provide this kind of care.

For students without primary physicians, drop-in clinics visit do little to address health concerns. Stress, poor eating habits, lack of exercise and poverty are at the root of most student illnesses. Unfortunately, in the current health care system, not even your regular doctor has time to talk to you and help you figure it out.

"We won't have many family physicians in the future," says the University of Victoria's health services physician Dr. Robert McDonald, a general practitioner who has worked in Canada for the past 11 years. "They're often dealing with complex, multiple pathologies yet they get paid the same as a person treating colds and flus.

So how can we keep good doctors and nurses in Canada with the ability to provide adequate care? "There's just not enough money in the system," says Mc'Donald. "And it leads to burn out." B.C. 's budget offers $1.6 billion for doctor's services.

The doctor's bill

Doctors are currently paid on a fee-per-service system. They receive a certain fixed fee for each job they complete in a day, creating a system that rewards doctors for providing as many services as possible. rather than good patient care. Most provinces are struggling to address this by coming up with alternative payment arrangements that allow doctors to spend more time with patients. B.C. has seven pilot projects underway right now, under what's called the Primary Care Demonstration Project.

Rachlis argues that switching over to salarybased integrated health centres would solve problems in rural areas. The vision is that generalists and specialists form a team, and get paid a salary with benefits to attract doctors to rural areas with fewer physicians and even fewer specialists. But not all critics agree.

Freedman believes that money motivates most doctors. Switching to salaried pay would control the budget, but would result in a collapse of the current system. Doctors would work regular office hours, have leisurely lunch and coffee breaks, instead of their usual 60-hour workweek. More doctors would be required under a salary system, due to a shorter workweek. And doctors, says Freedman, is what we're

already short of.

Money can't possibly be the prime motivator keeping nurses working in Canada. According to the B.C. Nurses Union, the starting wage for a nurse in December 1990, was $18.23 an hour, inched up to $21.40 an hour as of September 2000, equating only to a $3.17 wage increase in JO years. The wage paid to nurses' aides, however, has jumped from $13.10 to start to $20.25 in the same time frame.

In the current set up, doctors and nurses have two distinct roles, with doctors at the top of the hierarchy in terms of responsibility. Nurses are paid to care for the patients for whom doctors provide diagnosis and treatment. You can't advocate for nurses to be more l.ike doctors in both practice and pay without providing the proper training, says McDonald. "Most physicians would have a problem with nurses having the final responsibility without being bound ethically, medically and legally to accept that responsibility on their own."

A poorly monitored system

Victoria is currently short 200 full-time nursing positions, and 40 on-call positions. Back in 1993, nurses in B.C. predicted the current labour shortage, calling it the "quiet crisis," because nothing was being done about it. Kathryn May, head of the University of British Columbia's (UBC) nursing school, believes that "had plans been put in place in '94, it wouldn't have happened." According to Lorraine Gillespie, president of the Registered Nurses Association of B.C., without nurses, health care is at a standstill. She believes -the only way to increase the number of nurses is to offer "competitive recruitment incentives and compensation." When the B.C. Nurses Union contract expires next year, there will be tough bargaining ahead.

Imagine an active man in his 20s. It's his last year of university. While playing hockey, he falls on his tailbone and ruptures his bottom disc. His doctor prescribes painkillers. He goes to physiotherapy. Nothing helps. It is pa'J1iful to sit through a SO-minute lecture. Six months later, his doctor refers him to a specialist. He is put on a waiting list for surgery. His number, 17, a digit as arbitrary as a I 00-spot wait list for a class that will only fit 50. It isn't reflective of anything, really. Some people on the waiting list have already had the surgery. Others are on three waiting lists at the same time.

In 1998, Health Canada produced a report criticizing waiting lists as capriciously organized and poorly monitored. It concluded that waiting lists are instruments of misinformation, propaganda and general mischief at worst, as they aren't standardized or monitored: Morris Barer, director of the UBC Centre of Health Services and Policy Research, is one of the authors of the study that says waiting lists are "owned and managed by individual physicians."

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Freedman is not afraid of privatizing our health care system, so long as the decisions stay in the hands of the practitioners. "We're scared that we can't afford to do things [in a private system] but it's happening already. We don't have access to new technology or new drugs because !hey're expensive. We have to pay for it."

He believes there is room for a parallel system or privatization of certain services. He says that some can and will pay for quality health care. Health care, says Freedman, was originally started to cover the costs of major illnesses or accidents, so that people wouldn't go bankrupt. It wasn't designed for colds, or check-ins. "If people want that kind of care, they are going to have to pay more for it like in the US." At the same time, he argues that "the welfare state is here to stay. Some people will ai-ways need free health care, but will free health care be as good as private health care? The answer is no."

Tips on Preventative health-care

I. Learn about nutrition. Eat foods as close to their natural state as possible.

2. Sleep at least eight hours a night.

3. Walk or ride to school. Leave the car at home.

4. Use herbs and essential oils to boost your immune system and relieve stress. Take Echinacea when you first feel a ·cold com ing on. Spread lavender oil along your hairline to relieve a headache instead of using Aspirin.

5. Drink lots of water, most headaches are from dehydration. Our cells communicate through water so if you're tired or stressed out, drink more water.

6. Nap. A 20-minute nap after studying will help you retain information.

7. Using coffee or sugar for energy catches up with you by actually depleting your chi. Green tea is much healthier for you.

8. Learn about your vices and their impact on your health, and the community at large. Manage them.

9. Balance is key. Allow room for all activi ties, relaxation, exercise and work. Don't let one area dominate.

10. Make health your first priority. Without it, you can't do anything.

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A politics students guide to voting

Student voting rate In elections declining

By Phillip Todd , The McGill Dai I y

MONTREAL (CUP) University students will be among the least likely to cast a ballot in the upcoming federal election Nov. 27, according to voting trends.

Although there are a variety of estimates as to exactly how low the voter turnout among 18 to 24-yearolds is, most political analysts are in agreement that the rate is well below the national average and, what's worse, it's in decline.

While the national level of voter participation in the 1997 federal election was 67 per cent, James Hale, a media representative at Elections Canada, believes the turnout rate for voters aged 18 to 24 was somewhere under 50 per cent.

Michael Conlon, chair of the Canadian Federation of Students, presents an even gloomier picture. He said this demographic's participation level is only 20 per cent.

Because voters don't indicate their age on their ballots, precise figures are impossible to obtain.

Conlon said a sense of disillusionment brought about by the lack of satisfactory political options deters younger voters from turning up at the polls.

"There is a complex problem of peop Ie who fee I cynical and di sen franchised by the whole process," said Conlon. "If you look at the options that we have in front of us in this election, they're pretty depressing. The two parties that seem to have a realistic expectation of winning are the Canadian Alliance and the Liberals. I think a lot of students feel that is not· an inviting prospect."

Conlon said he is convinced that higher student voter turnout could have a significant impact on the upcoming federal election and that students do have the potential to contribute to real change.

"There were several ridings [in the last election] that were very, very close with universities and colleges in the riding and more voter turnout for students might have changed the outcome," said,Conlon.

"We, as an organization, feel very strongly that students need to exercise their right to vote because it's the most direct message they can send to politicians about the kind of job they're doing on post-secondary education issues."

Conlon said there needs to be a larger effort to target youth voters, but that can't be done over a five week election period.

"I th i n k there needs to be a st rateg y on renewing people's fundamental belief in democracy and, to be honest, I think it's a problem that

extends beyond youth."

McGill political science professor Jerome Black, who has done research in the field of voter participation, said one of the reasons youth don't vote is because they feel that casting a vote is an ineffective vehicle for political expression.

"Young people, particularly better educated young people like students, are more uncertain and more skeptical about participation and the value of the political process in realizing change," he said.

But Black does not see skepticism as the sole cause of lower participation levels for younger Canadians.

"Students are more likely to be mobile as they pursue their educ a- • tional opportunities, so they don't have the rootedness of people who are older and are confronting different sorts of life situations, they don't have families, they don't have mortgages, that sort of thing," Black said.

Black also points to the procedural complexity of voting-out-riding as being a major disincentive for students studying away from home. For example, Canadians attending McGill whose permanent residence is outside Montreal must send an application to Elections Canada in order to receive a mail-in-ballot before getting a chance to vote.

"Students may find it difficult to steer themselves through the different obstacles and do the necessary paperwork and phone calls in order to make sure that they can exercise their vote," said Black.

Elections Canada, the nonpartisan governmental agency responsible for encouraging overall voter participation, has tried se v era I in it i ati v es aimed at increasing youth turnout, including targeted enumeration in areas of high mobility, such as neighbourhoods with large student populations.

The organization has also created a youth-oriented Web site, as well as advertising campaigns to inform students and young people about the voting process.

Even though Elections Canada is attempting to make it easier for young Canadians to vote, the larger problem of alienation from the political process remains to be adequately addressed.

But, as Black notes, if students do not show up at the polls come election day, they should not be surprised if the po Ii tic a I est ab Ii shmen t fails to take their concerns into account.

'.'You 're not guaranteed a response if you participate," said Black, "but you're guaranteed a non-response if you don't participate."

A Student's Guide to Voting in the Federal Election

By Philip Todd, The McGill Daily

MONTREAL (CUP) With the federal election only weeks away, many students are wondering how to make sure that their vote counts. Here's how you can make sure that you will have your chance to vote.

How do I know where or if I am registered?

Approximately 12 days after an election is called, you should receive at your 'ordinary residence' a voter inform·ation card (VIC) in the mail. If you do not receive the VIC, you need to contact the returning officer for your riding to ensure that you are registered. The addresses and telephone numbers of the returning officers for all ridings are posted at the Elections Canada website, www.elections.ca. If you don't know the name of your electoral district, call 1-800INFO-VOTE to find out.

How do I vote if I am residing outof-r/ding?

Voters must vote where they are registered, which in most cases is your 'ordinary residence.' Your ordinary residence the place you call home is the place where you intend to return when away from it, studying or travelling.

If you are living away from home, you will need to vote by special ballot. There are two ways you can apply to vote by special ballot:

o If you have Internet access, you can download or simply print the Application for Registration and Special Ballot. It is located at w ww. e Iect ions.ca/ e Ie/ s pe/fo rm_e. h tml

o If you don't have access to the Internet, you can request the Application for Registration and Special Ballot from Elections Canada in Ottawa. Contact them by mail, by telephone or by fax at the address below.

it out, and mail or fax it to Elections Canada in Ottawa. Remember to include photocopies of the relevant valid identification: either a single document bearing your name, address and signature, or a combination of two documents, one with your name and address (i.e. a utility bill) and the other with your name and signature (i.e. an I.D. card).

Elections Canada should immediately send you a personalized voting kit on receipt • of your fax. Follow the instructions in your voting kit precisely.

Mail your ballot to Elections Canada in Ottawa early enough that they will receive the ballot no later than 6 p.m., Ottawa time, on polling day, Nov. 27.

How do I vote if I live in my permanent home?

Wait to receive your Voter Information Card (VIC). It should arrive at your residence approximately 12 days after the election is called. The VIC. tells you if you a,re correctly registered to vote and also tells you where your polling station is located.

If you can't make it to the polls on Nov. 27, advance polls will be held ten, nine and seven days before the election. Consult your VIC for details.

If you are not registered, you can still register as you vote on election day, assuming you provide valid identification, such as a driver's licence or one piece of identification showing your name and addresss, and another showing your name and signature.

Contact Information for Elections Canada:

phone: I 800 463-6868 fax: (613) 954-8584

mail: Elections Canada, 257 Slater Street, Ottawa Ontario, KIA 0M6

Once you have the application, fill internet: www.elections.ca

British Columbia ups minimum wage

By Andrea Milek , Ubyssey

VANCOUVER (CUP) Minimum wage earners in British Columbia are enjoying the benefits of an additional 45 cents an hour, with the minimum wage increasing to $7 .60 this month.

But the B.C. government's decision to increase minimum wage is receiving mixed reviews from economists.

David Green, an associate professor of economics at the University of British Columbia, and· co-author of a study that examined the effects of minimum wage in B.C., Alberta, Ontario and Quebec, said minimum

wage is a useful tool in anti-poverty and anti-inequity policies.

In his study, released last year, Green and co-author Michael Goldberg determined that full-time workers in B.C. must earn at least $8 an hour to clear the poverty line.

The New Democratic Party's minimum wage legislation will see minimum wage increase to $8 per hour next year.

"A basic standard of society seems to be that if you work full-time you ought at least to make the poverty line," said Green.

Problems plague Canada's health care

By Bren Simmers The Martlet

VICTORIA (CUP) Alison Fox quit nursing ·in Vancouver in 1992, three years before Chretien's Liberal government made the deepest cuts to provincial transfer payments since the birth of national medicare in 1966. Even then, she was disillusioned with the medical establishment because of the socioeconomic factors that make people sick in the first place, and was unable to provide the kind of care she wanted to give.

Although trained in holistic medicine, Fox found herself spending much of her time handing out drugs, a common response to illness in a medical system rooted in symptom management. As Fox points out, we need to start asking ourselves where sickness fits in with family history, stress patterns, and _lifestyle. 1

Fox chose nursing because she enjoys taking care of people, tending to both their physical and emotional needs. But in two years, she recalls only three instances when she was able to spend time using massage or therapeutic touch to relieve a person's pain.

In today's hospitals, there is little time for that kind of care, but Fox says she has seen its benefits first hand.

Alternative medicine is inching its way into Canada's traditional health care system. You used to have to get a doctor's order for physiotherapy now massage is partially covered under BC medical.

"An informed and. active co.nsumer movement can cha·nge things and has," says Fox. Patients are asking more questions and are becoming more aware of their options. Still, if a. person wants to access alternative therapies in Canada right now acupuncture, homeopathy, hypnosis or naturopathy they do so at their own expense.

The doctor is out

Dr. Eric Freedman, a Victoria pediatric urologist and considered one of Canada's top-notch doctors left Victoria three weeks ago for a better life in New York State. Private hospitals and clinics in the United States offer bigger pay cheques and better equipment. He says frustration with his working conditions motivated the move.

"After 15 years of tra1n1ng, I am unable to do my job," he says. Lack of funding to hire -support staff such as nurses and cleaners, have reduced his access to hospital operating hours to as low as six hours a week.

"Eve·ryone is doing a different job than they were trained for," he says. Hospital staff are overworked and morale is low. "This should be an exciting time to be a doctor, with new •developments in technology, but we're unable to do our jobs." With a young family and a career

Minimum Wage

But Roslyn Kunin, a consulting economist, said that increases to minimum wage adversely affect employment.

"The business community [in B.C.] is appalled. It is another reason for people to not start small businesses and to not hire people," she said.

While Green agreed that an increase in minimum· wage can lead to some unemployment, he asserts that the

ahead of him, Freedman says he can't afford to stay in Victoria.

Doctors used to belong to the uppermiddle class, a compensation well deserved for their years of training, says Freedman, but now they are feeling the economic pinch. In the States, "people need you and they reimburse you. Money is part of it, but it's the level of satisfaction you get for doing the job you're trained to do with the right equipment."

Health care critic Michael M. Rachlis argues that the problem isn't so much a shortage of doctors as it is how they are paid for their time. He believes doctors. and specialists are moving away from comprehensive care, such as prevention and phone calls, because they're not paid for it under the current system. When a doctor has 10 minutes to see a patient it is impossible to provide this kind of care.

For students without primary physicians, drop-in clinics visit do little to address health concerns.

Stress, poor eating habits, lack of exercise and poverty are at the root of most student illnesses.

Unfortunately, in the current health care system, not even your regular doctor has time to talk to you and help you figure it out.

"We won't have many family physicians in the future," says. the University of Victoria's hea·Ith services physician Dr. Robert McDonald.,a a general practitioner who has worked in Canada for the past 11 years. "They're often dealing with complex, multiple pathologies yet they get paid the same as a person treating colds and flus.

So how can we keep good doctors and nurses in Canada with the ability to provide adequate care? "There's just not enough money in the system," says McDonald. "And it leads to burn out." B.C. 's budget offers $1.6 billion for doctor's services.

The do[tor's bill

Doctors are currently paid on a feeper-service system. They receive a certain fixed fee for each job they complete in a day, creating a system that rewards doctors for providing as many services as possible, rather than good patient care Most provinces are struggling io address this by coming up with alternative payment arra-ngements that allow doctors to spend more time with patients. B.C. has seven pilot projects underway •right now, under wµat's. called the Primary Care Demonstration Project.

Rachlis argues that switching over to salary-based integrated health centres would solve problems in rural areas. The vision is that generalists and specialists form a team, and get paid a salary with benefits to attract doctors to rural areas with fewer physicians and even fewer specialists. But not all critics agree.

Freedman believes that money motivates most doctors. Switching to salaried pay would control the budget, but would result in a collapse

effects are often exaggerated. "What we're really talking about here is not actually laying people off. We're talking about some slowdown in employment gains as a negative side of the impacts, but on the positive side· there's actually more money being delivered to low income earners," he said.

According to the B.C. president of the Canadian Union of Public Empioyees Barry O'Neill, raising the minimum wage helps to stimulate the B.C. economy.

of the current system. Doctors would work regular office hours, have leisurely lunch and coffee breaks, instead of their usual 60hour· workweek. More doctors would be required under a salary system, due to a shorter workweek. And doctors, says Freedman, is what we're already short of.

Money can't possibly be the prime motivator keeping nurses working in Canada. According to the B.C. Nurses Union, the starting wage for a nurse in December 1990, was $18.23 an hour, inched up to $21.40 an hour as of September 2000, equating only to a $3.17 wage increase in 10 years. The wage paid to nurses' aides, however, has jumped from $13.10 to start to $20.25 in the same time frame.

In the current set up, doctors and nurses have two distinct roles, with doctors at the top of the hierarchy in terms of responsibility. Nurses are paid to care for the patients for whom doctors provide diagnosis and treatment. You can't advocate for nurses tu be more like doctors in both practice and pay without providing the proper training, says McDonald. "Most physicians would have a problem with nurses having the final responsibility without being bound ethically, medically and legally to accept that responsibility on their own."

A poorly monitored system

Victoria is currently short 200 full-time nursing positions, and 40 on-call pos1t1ons. Back in 1993, nurses in B.C. predicted the current labour shortage, calling it the "quiet crisis," because nothing was , being done about it. Kathryn May, head of the University of British Columbia's (UBC) nursing school, believes that "had plans been put in place in '94, it wouldn't have happened." According to Lorraine Gillespie, president of the Registered Nurses Association of B.C., without nurses, health care is at a standstill. She believes the only way to increase the number of nurses is to offer "competitive recruitment incentives and compensation." When the B.C. Nurses Union contract expires next year, there will be tough bargaining ahead.

Imagine an active man in his 20s. It's his last year of university. While playing hockey, he falls on his tailbone and ruptures his bottom disc. His doctor prescribes painkillers. He goes to physiotherapy. Nothing helps. It is painful to sit through a SO-minute lecture. Six months later, his doctor refers him to a specialist. He is put on a waiting list for surgery. His number, 17, a digit as arbitrary as a 100spot wait list for a class that will only fit 50. It isn't reflective of anything, really. Some people on the waiting list have already had the surgery. Others are on three waiting lists at the same time.

In 1998, Health Canada produced a report criticizing waiting lists as capriciously organized and poorly monitored. It concluded that waiting lists are instruments of misin-

"All of that money is poured back into the communities and small businesses at higher quantities," he said.

But Suromitra Sanatani, vice-president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses' B.C. and Yukon· office, said the increase comes at a bad time, when B.C. is just recovering from a weak economy.

Sanatani suggested instead that the working poor could be helped out by targeted tax credits.

formation, propaganda and general mischief at worst, as they aren't standardized or monitored. Morris Barer, director of the UBC Centre of Health Services and Policy Research, is one of the authors of the study that says waiting lists are "owned and managed by individual physicians."

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Freedman is not afraid of privatizing our health care system, so long as the decisions stay in the hands of the practitioners. "We're scared that we can't afford to do things [in a private system] but it's happening already. We don't have access to new technology or new drugs because they're expensive. We have to pay for it."

He believes there is room for a parallel system or privatization of certain services. He says that some can and will pay for quality health care. Health care, says Freedman, was originally started to cover the costs of major illnesses or accidents, so that people wouldn't go bankrupt. It wasn't designed for colds, or checkins. "If people want that kind of care, they are going to have to pay more for it like in the US." At the same time, he argues that "the welfare state is here to stay. Some people will always need free health care, but will free health care be as good as private health care? The answer is no."

Sidebar on self-care:

l. Learn about nutr1t1on. Eat foods as close to their natural state as possible.

2. Sleep at least eight hours a night.

3. Walk or ride to school. Leave the-. car at home.

4. Use herbs and essential oils to boost your immune system and relieve stress. Take Echinacea when you first feel a cold coming on. Spread la.vender oil along your hairline to relieve a headache instead of using Aspirin.

5. Drink lots of water, most headaches are from dehydration. Our cells communicate through water so if you're tired or stressed out, drink more water.

6. Nap. A 20-minute nap after studying will help you retain information.

7. Using coffee or sugar for energy catches up wifh you by actually depleting your chi. Green tea is much healthier for you.

8. Learn about your vices and their impact on your health, and the community at large. Manage them.

9. Balance is key. Allow room for all activities, relaxation, exercise and work. Don't let one area dominate.

lo'. Make health your first priority. Without it, you can't do anything.

Craig Riddell, a professor of economics at UBC, said that the minimum wage's negative influence on employment is not immediate and that it does affect poverty positively. However, he said the increase is a "crude tool."

"You would like to have an antipoverty tool that's very targeted on the poor and most of its effect go to help poor families. In the case of the minimum wage, some of it does, some of it doesn't," he said.

81Letters to the editor lcascadel

Dear Editor, HELLO I SENT THE BELOW E-MAIL TO THE PRESIDENT AND I WAS WONDERING IF THE CASCADE COULD INVESTIGATE ...

HELLO MR BASSFORD

I AM A UCFV S-'TUDENT HERE AT THE COLLEGE AND HA VE BEEN FOR SEVERAL YEARS. I AM VERY SURPRISED AND ANGRY AT HOW EXPENSIVE THE TEXTBOOKS ARE IN THE BOOK STORE COMPARED TO OTHER STORES FOR EXAMPLE, CHAPTERS,COLES,BLACKBOND ... I KNOW THAT THE BOOKSTORE CANNOT COMPETE AGAINST PLACES LIKE CHAPTERS BUT WHEN I PURCHASED MY BOOK AT THE UCFV BOOKSTORE FOR $110.00 AND WHEN I WENT TO THE CHAPTERS WEB SITE I FOUND THE same book

WITH THE edition FOR $55.00 AND THAT WAS THERE REGULAR PRICE!! AND WHEN I WENT TO ANOTHER SMALL STORE I FOUND THE same book WITH THE SAME EDITION FOR SEVERAL DOLLARS LESS!! I KNOW THAT THE BOOKSTORE HAS TO INCORPORATE COSTS SUCH AS WAGES, HEA TING,LIGHTING ... BUT PA YING AN EXTRA $55.00, WELL SOME IS WRONG AND THAT WAS FOR ONE OF THE 9 BOOKS I PURCHASED AT THE. BOOKSTORE, WHICH MEANS IF I HAD NOT SUPPORTED THE UCFV BOOKSTORE I WOULD HA VE, PROBABLY, SAVED A LOT OF MONEY. MR BASSFORD

1. WHO 'OWNES' THE BOOKSTORE OR WHO KEEPS THE PROFITS THE BOOK STORE MAKES?

2. DOES THE BOOK STORE PAY ANY Editors note: To preserve the writer's angry voice. the letter was left as is.

To the Cascade:

Parking Services has received a few complaints from the neighboring street residences and businesses regarding students parking off campus. Would it be possible for the student paper to print some information to students regarding parking. A little section in the paper regarding "parking tips" might be helpful in spreading some info. Some items to post for the next issue ...

I. Parking Services would like to inform the general student population that wish to use the transit system, that you can purchase subsidized bus passes from either the Abbotsford and Chilliwack Bookstores at a reduced cost. I believe it is a savings of $5.00 from the actual full price.

2. We would like to remind students that choose to park off campus, to respect the property of neighbori'ng business, churches, residences, and city streets. It is important that you park in a proper manner and follow all parking regulation signage. We have seen vehi-cles towed from both King Rd, McKenzie Rd, and College Drive because vehicles are either parked in the wrong direction or have parked in, or close to, "No Parking"areas.

3. Any towing of vehicles that occur off campus is performed by the Municipality, not UCFV. If you find that your vehicle has been towed from the side streets surrounding the college, please come into Facilities Services (B244 in Abby, A 118 in Chwk) where we. can provide you with a contact name and number for any City-related towing.

4. Please note that all parking along McKenzie Road is a "NO PARKING ZONE". The City regularly patrols this street for vehicles parked illegally.

5. UCFV rents out the church parking lots on the corner of McKenzie

Dear Editor,

I have repeatedly attempted to get news of the Pagan Students' Association's activities into The Cascade. I wrote a notice about the club which I submitted in August for the first issue of The Cascade, in hopes of attracting new members and starting the club off with a bang._, It was not published. wrote a notice about our founding meeting

Rd & King Rd (Canadian Reformed Church), and the corner of King Rd & McCallum Rd (Central Heights Church) to allow for overflow parking and students who do not wish to pay park on campus. Please note that you may park in the main parking lots at either location, however, the east side of the Canadian Reformed Church, close to the building, is reserved for Church e-mployees. Please respect their wis,hes by parking only in the main parking lot, not the areas close to the church building itself.

6. Parking Services has also been notified by Finnegan's/King's Crossing, that the owners will be towing student vehicles found parking on their property who are not paying customers. We recommend that students who are parking off campus utilize the overflow church parking lots, instead of this place of business. The large number of students parking at Finnegan's/King's Crossing prevents customers from finding adequate parking space and is therefore affecting their business.

7. Just a friendly reminder that students with 2 or more outstanding parking violations. against their vehicle are eligible for towing if found in violation a third time. If you have I PVN = warning, 2 PVNs = places you on the hot list and eligible for towing, 5 or more PVNs = eligible for a letter of reprimand to clear your outstanding fines within one week or you could be placed on an "Automatic Towing" list. We recommend that studen~s come into the Facilities Department (B244 in Abby, All8 in Chwk) to pay their outstanding fines. Each PVN costs $10.00 to clear. Payments can be made in CASH, CHEQUE, or MONEY ORDER. If your vehicle is towed from UCFV property, you can be looking at a towing charge of $65 to $8Q dollars, in addition to any outstanding parking violations against your vehicle. Contrary to popular belief ... If you are towed off campus, this does not clear off ALL your PVNs, the only way to clear any outstanding PVNs is to pay them off at

which you informed me was too long and so I edited it down to under 50 words and resubmitted it. It was not published although I came into the Cascade office to make sure that it was" there and hand delivered a copy.

Part of the mandate of the student newspaper must be the promotion of student clubs and activities. This appears to not be part of your agenda as editor.

SORT OF LEASE FOR THE SPACE IT OCCUPIES?

3. WHY ARE UCFV STUDENTS IN ABBOTSFORD, MISSION, CHILLIWACK, HOPE PAYING A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY FOR. THEIR TEXT BOOKS, COMPARED TO OTHER COMPANIES?

I SHALL ALSO BE ASKING THE SAME QUESTIONS TO THE BOOKSTORE, THE CASCADE NEWSPAPER, THE UCFV BOARD, AND THE LOCAL NEWSPAPERS

PLEASE RESPOND TO THESE CONCERNS WE HA VE

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME A UCFV STUDENT

Facilities Services. It is cheaper to pay off your PVNs, than to be towed from UCFV property.

8. A Security reminder over the last two months, we have noticed a number of accidents and break and enters occuring off campus. Security Services would like to remind everyone to keep valuables locked in your vehicle's trunk if you are leaving your vehicle unattended. It is also wise to use various security devices on your vehicle to prevent vehicle thefts. If you find that you are a victim of such a crime, please report to the Facilities Department as soon as possible to report the incident. At that time, we will be able to assist you in notifying,the proper autho{ities. This woula also apply to any motor vehicle accidents that occur off or on UCFV property. It is best to report these incidents to Facilities Services, where we might be able to provide you with some direction.

9. The Student Safety Patrol and Security Services are participants in the 'WalkSafe program. We are available to provide security escorts on campus, and to the neighboring city streets and overflow church parking lots. If you feel uncomfortable walking to these locations at night, please remember that we have personnel available to provide security escorts to your vehicle. You can request an escort from any student patroller (the individuals wearing the bright orange vests), any security officer, or you can call 855-8176 to arrange a walksafe.

10. Any students wishing more information about Parking, Security, or the Safety Patrol at UCFV can pick up brochures at Facilities Services, or check out our website at: http://www. u cfv. be. ca/security/

Thank you for your time, Adam Bodnar, Security Assistant University College of the Fraser Valley

cascade staff

Sarah CONNER -editor-in-chief

I will continue to submit notices about the Pagan Students to The Cascade because it is a student club producing events open to students. Eventually you may see fit to publish one of them.

Yours sincerely,

Samuel Wagar Chair, Pagan Students' Association of UCFV

Jessica .DANYLCHUK sports & ar~ editor Kathryn FRIEBE photo editor Dave PETERS production

The Cascade is the UCFV students' free press. Editorial content in 100 per cent separate from the students' governing body, the UCFV Student Union. The Cascade is published sixteen times per year, from September to April. The Cascade has a circulation of two thousand papers, distributed through out Abbotsford, Chilliwack and Mission. The Cascade is a proud member of the Canadian University Press, a national cooperative of university and college newspapers. The Cascade follows the CUP ethical policy concerning material of prejudicial or oppressive nature.

Dean Huston managing editor

Christopher BOLSTER news & feaures editor

Cascade contributors

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Desiree Mayhew Tasenka Kushner Kris Lind Beth Kelleher

A Student's Worst Nightmare: Can It Ever Become a Dream?

By Lana Gold

It's the one. thing that every student dreads. It is the cloud on our weekend horizon. It is the fly that never fails to land in our drink. It's the thing that looms closer while students block it out to keep from stressing-out. It is the essay.

But just not any essay. It is the long, research-needing, text deconstructing, I-haven't-a cluew hat-the-pro fe s so r-i s-ta lk in gabout essay. And you can't runaway from it. You can't dodge its sticky claws by taking different courses. Just when you think you're safe for another semester, the professor with gleam.ing eyes slaps it onto your desk. You can kiss your weekend goodbye.

The Chief Says ...

The sense of community and pride felt for one's place of schooling is surely disgusting at UCFV. Yes we all attend, some of us even enjoy a class or two, but it seems no one is apt to call UCFV home.

Do you remember watching movies in high school in which the hero

Of course, this essay has to be the most boring creation to date. That is, once you finally interpret what the professor is asking of you. Can't essay topics be a little fun? Can we ever read the topic and go "Alright! Something I can bang off in a couple of hours"?

According to the strict professor handbook (section C article 35B), fun is not allowed. No essays san<;tioned where a student can be somewhat creative. Just the usual, run of the mill, boring, factual, essay. So factual, it seems that students must do at-least two drafts. One draft to write the essay the way we want to write it, and th.e second draft, to remove every trace of humour, sarcasm, and interesting comparison that does not belong in a "formal essay".

stood -proud and fought with integrity for all that was their school? Did you not assume that you too would one day feel so attached to your own educational institute that you would fight to the death with anyone daring to don any clothing that promoted another school while on your campus? Even though UCFV logo clothing appears on students and faculty alike at a record high, why do so many of us wait for the day we can transfer to a "real" school?

School spirit is an oxymoron at UCFV. I along with others involved

The result: a teacher's dream. "Honey, this essay is kind of dry, can you pass me a gllss of water?" To date, there has only been one interesting essay I've written. But after spending the best 2 nonstop hours of my life writing it, my weekend looming free and clear before me, I sat back and wondered what I was doing wrong. There had to be a catch. Essay writing was not supposed to be this fun, creative, and enjoyable. What was I missing? I then spent my weekend worrying over it.

Underneath the layers of "do's" and "don'ts" of essay writing, there is still a creative side of, us. We just don't get to use it very often. Thankfully the arts department regularly dips the pen into the inkwell of individual personality.

with the Cascade would like this to change. We believe UCFV and its students have the potential to create a community on campus. A student newspaper has the opportunity and obligation to become the mortar between the bricks of its college. The Cascade is in position and willing to take on this challenge. We are developing ideas to unite students ·for a common good. It is the mission of the Cascade to represent the interests of all UCFV students. We feel that together we can make UCFV something to believe in.

Something ought to be done. A com-

Otherwise I would think we are all bound for a robotic future: "Please insert facts and necessary paper processing please collect essay from compartment below. Thank you. Have a nice day." Why can't written pieces of work be as creative and self-expressive as a painting or sculpture?

The formal essays just keep coming. No matter who stands in the middle of the tracks waving their arms and shouting, the essay train is still going to bowl us over. I'm sorry to say that what cures the professor's insomnia forcibly deprives half the student-population of sleep at night. The sad conclusion is that the whole process will start over in a couple of weeks. So party hard when you have a chance, the cloud on your horizon is looming ever closer once again.

munity on campus must be esta·blished to keep up with our growing school and the pace of the world. We should rally together on issues we all support, such as the SE-2 controversy or the status of the UCFV gym, in an effort to make our school the best it can be: a comfortable home and a competitive educational institute for its students.

Keep an eye open for the small and steady steps the Cascade will make to bring us all together for the sake of UCFV and everyone who is part.

Ask Auntie Anne

Dear Auntie Anne,

I am a full time student and new to the school. I am desperately shy, but want to meet people. The problem is that I cannot get over my shyness and so finding friends comes really hard for me. How can I meet people with out freaking out?

Shy and Lonely

Dear Shy and Lonely,

It is perfectly understandable to feel shy in new surroundings: So why not find a place that is familiar to you? Join a school club that interests you. This will give you the opportunity to feel good about yourself, so you will be confident making new friends. If you use to be involved with the Human Rights movement, look into Amnesty International. This would be a perfect way of meeting new people that share similar interests with you. Take a look at the school web page for a list of school activities and groups. There are a lot of new students to UCFV who are in similar shoes. It is hard making a transition. If you still feel ill at ease about your situation, try talking to someone at Student Services. Those kind folks are there to help. Good Luck ....

Dear Auntie Anne,

I am a 19 year old gay man. My classmates do not know that I am gay. They are incredibly homophobic. They tell gay jokes and say, "Thats so gay ... " in negative manner. I am ashamed to say it, but I have yet to call them on it. I am not ready to come out. But I cannot stand their crude remarks anymore! How can I let them know that they are not funny with out letting them know I am gay?

Pissed Off

Dear Pissed,

Well I would be pissed too! You dont have to tell anyone about yourself. Just say, "Hey, that kinda crap isnt funny."

Homophobic starts with language. No one should have to put up with hate talk like that. If you feel you cant speak to them or if it persists, let.the school know. The academic policy covers harass m·en t. and that is harassm en t.

Ask Aunte Anne anything Concact here at cascad e@u cfv. be .ca

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE of the FRASERVALLEY

An update on your Student Activity Centre

Thanks ... to you!

UCFV's new gym/student activity centre, scheduled to open next fall, is the first building at UCFV to be partially funded by student fees.

Students approved a $15 per semester fee to help fund the building in a referendum. The fee will be paid by all students for 10 years, for a total of a $1 million contribution.

Other funders

• The total cost of the project is approximately $3 million.

• The Ministry of Advanced Education; Training, and Technology: $1.4 million in funding.

• UCFV: $250,000 in proceeds from the legacy fund, created by students eight years ago to fund special projects at UCFV, and with $350,000 from cash reserves.

-Timelines

Plans are to:

• Go to construction tender in January 2001

• Break ground in early Spring 2001

• Complete construction in Fall 2001

More than a gym

• The UCFV Student Activity Centre will consist of a regulation size gymnasium (approximately 800 m2), ancillary gym spaces, a fitness centre, a student lounge, recreation office, games area, food kiosk, and general circulation areas. The size of the whole centre will be approximately l,700m 2

• It will be located in close proximity to the south side of Building D.

• The gym will provide a long-awaited home court for UCFV's men's and women's championship Cascade basketball teams.

• It will also be a major social centre for the Abbotsford campus, and will be used for activities such as intramural sports, dances, fashion shows, art displays, fitness classes, personal fitness training, ceremonies, and informal socializing.

• The building will be sited and designed in a way that will allow the addition of a second regulation size gym in the future.

Floor plan

What will it look like?

NORTH ELEVATION

Architect's drawing of the new activity centre.

Who's involved?

• Architect: Downs/Archambault & Partners architectural/ planning firm.

• The Capital Projects division ofUCFV's Facilities department is overseeing the project.

• A building contractor will be chosen this spring. ••

• Departments and groups involved: Student Union Society, Athletics, Kinesiology and Physical Education, Student Activity Centre planning committee.

FITNESS ROOM RECEPTION 158.7

STUDENT LOUNGE 106.2

CIRCULATION 187.1 GYMNASIUM 807.5&

GAMES AREA 44.9

MECH. ELEC. 41.3

FITNESS STORAGE 9.9 REC.OFF. 18.2

TOTAL GROSS

MEN'S WC 19.6 FLOOR ARE~ = 1723 sq.m.

GYM. STOR. 23.0

TEAM CHG. #1 62.6 TEAM CHG. #2 62.6

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sports

ISport Canada gives more funding

By Andre Motuzas Interrobang

LONDON, Ont. (CUP) -With the announcement that Sport Canada will provide $120,000 in funding this season to the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association (CCAA), colleges across the country can breathe a sigh of relief when it comes to transporting student-athletes to national championships.

Of course, it comes six years after all funding was cut off, and is still only 60 per cent of the sum that used to be given to the colleges, but for now, it's a good first step.

"We've really been working with a self-sufficiency approach for the last six years, relying on a lot of corporate and business sponsor-

ship," said Fanshawe College athletic director Mike Lindsay. "If we can stay on a trend where it returns to a more secure level, that will be great. But for now, we'll continue to lobby corpo'rations as well for sponsorships."

The Secretary of State, (Amateur Sport), Denis Coderre, announced the return of partial funding on Oct. 3, and an increase in 2001-02 from $120,000 to $150,000. The majority of that money will be utilized in a national travel pool that will subsidize travel of student athletes to ,national championships.

CCAA president Allan Ferchuk viewed the announcement as recognition of the role of college athletics in Canada.

Cascade Basketball Undefeated

By Desiree Mayhew

Kelowna may be wine country, but it was a case of sour grapes for the hosting Okanagan University College Lakers when the Cascades came to town on the Nov. 4 weekend. In the first league game of the season, both UCFV teams incurred wins to start the season with 1-0 records, and left OUC with something to whine abo.ut.

Women Record: 1-0

Right from the initial jump ball, the game was a clear picture of hunter and hunted. OUC didn't stand a chance against the rapid-fire threes that Rachel Peters. shot off, and while it was a low fouling game, it was definitely high-energy. At halftime, UCFV was up 40-15, and continued grow in the second half. 'By the end of regulation, the women won t~eir first game of the regular

season with a score of 76-36. Cascade Rachel Peters contributed with 2 I points, a 11 threes, and shot 70% for the night. Cassie Born added 15 points and Tanya Campbell another 12.

Men Record: 1-0

UCFV got the first basket of the game, a three pointer made by Aaron Wells. From there, the men continued their momentum, building a 44-31 halftime lead. Losing steam near the end of the fourth quarter, the team struggled to maintain their advantage, but a number of personal fouls called against OUC in the closing minutes rebuilt the lead. UCFV won the game with a 78-62 final. Top scorers for the Cascades were Devin Reeve with a huge 28 pojnts, followed byAaron Wells with 14.

A note on the BCCAA .

The UCFV Cascade basketball teams play in a league know as the BCCAA, (British Columbia College Athletics Association) which is a branch of the CCAA (Canadian College Athletics Association). The league consists of most of the smaller colleges and universities, who do not have the desire or facilities to be part of the coveted league that SFU and UBC play in. Having said that, the BCCAA is home to ten teams from around the province. This season we will see each team play in eighteen regular season games. The first tournament at the end of the seasbn is the provincial tournament, in which the top 8 teams in the league play for a chance to advance on the national tournament (more on this later in the season). So come on down and catch a game or two.

Soccer Season Finished

By Jessica Danylchuk Cascade Writer

The final three games of the season saw both of UCFV's soccer teams win one game and lose two. This finalized the women's regular season record to three wins, three ties, and four losses. The men's team finished with 2 wins, one tie, and seven losses. Neither team advanced to the playoffs.

Congratulations goes out to Cascade forward Laurie Blakeway who finished the season as lead scorer of the conference with nine goals in ten games.

"Future sport development planning will consider the role that colleges and univers1t1es play in regional and national championship delivery and in sport initiatives," said Ferchuk.

Lindsay was a little clearer on the subject.

"Our sports infrastructure in Canada starts with our youth," said Lindsay. "Funding at the post secondary level is critical to maintaining an elite level. In our case, Fanshawe has perennial goals for national titles, and this will defi-_ nitely affect resources and costs."

Not coincidentally, the announcement came on the heels of the Sydney Olympics, where Canadian athletes complained about funding

for CCAA

issues when asked to explain a disappointing showing by the team as a whole.

The CCAA has lobbied extensively for the return of funding, and the colleges see this partial funding as at least a preliminary success.

"The financial resources will assist with the ongoing development of the national program and will have a profound affect on our intercollegiate student athletic program at Fanshawe, and will help to further solidify the Falcon athletes' attempts at reaching the national championship level," said Lindsay.

And if colleges can maintain a corporate sponsorship base as well, that may well be the best-case scenario for all athletes involved.

2000-01 Basketball Profiles:

UCFV Men

Name: Kevin Dielman

Nickname: (none given) Number:12 Height: 6'3" Year/Program: 3rd, Bachelor of science

High School: Abby Christian # Years Playing B-ball: 10

Favorite Breakfast: Pancakes Future Plans:Unknown Personal hero: Aaron Wells

Name: Ryan Michael Haviland

Nickname: (none given) Number:20 Height: 6'11" Year/Program: 3rd,general studies

H i g h s c h o o I :A b by C h r i s t i an

# Years Playing B-ball:7

Favorite Breakfast: bacon and eggs Future Plans: doesn't make any, likes to live in the moment

Personal Hero: Matt, the "roomie"

Name: Sean Michael Horner

Nickname: Horns and The Rev Number:#9 Height:5'10" Year/Program: 1st year, general studies

High School: WJ Mouat # Years Playing B-ball: 13

Favorite Breakfast: Muslix Future Plans: graduate with a BA in philosophy before going on to graduate from seminary

Personal Hero: Jesus Christ

Name: Logan Kitteringham Nickname: L-Train, P-Town Number:21 Height: 6'4" Year/Program: I st, Associate of Arts

High School: Walnut Grove

# Years Playing B-ball: 7

Favorite Breakfast: banana and bagel

Future Plans: be a teacher

Personal hero: Butta B

Name: B,en Neufeld N ·i c k n a m e Butta B Number: 15 Height: 6'0" ·Year/Program: 2nd, kinesiology High School: MEI

# Years Playing B-ball: 15

Favorite Breakfast: bacon and

eggs Future Plans: make "dollas" Personal hero: my mom and dad, Magic Johnson, Jesus

Name: Brad John James

Petersen Nickname: B-Rad Number: 7 Height:6'2" Year/Program: 2nd, general studies

High School: WJ Mouat

# Years Playing B-ball: 11

Favorite Breakfast: Waffles wr strawberries + whipping cream OR leftover cold Chinese Food Future Plans: obtain a degree in kinesiology

Personal Hero: Michael Jordan

Name: Devin _Brentwood Reeve Nicknames: none that are publishable Number:30 Height: 6'5" Year/Program: 2nd, Kinesiology

High School: Stelly's

# Years Playing B-ball: 7

Favorite Breakfast: omlettes Future Plans: be a chiropractor Personal Hero: his little brother Jason

Name: Brian Robinson Nickname (none given) Number: 5 Height: 6' I" Year/Program: I st, general studies High School: Pitt Meadows

# Years Playing B-ball: 6 Favorite Breakfast: white and fluffy pancakes Future Plans: unknown Personal hero: Brent "Quido" Sedo

Name: Bryson Tiedeman Nickname: Big Sexy Number: 2 2 Height: 6'10" Year/Program: 1st year, NIA High School: Pitt Meadows

# Years Playing B-ball: 12

Favorite Breakfast: Lucky Charms Future Plans:unknown P er so n a I h er o : 'Pete

Name: Anthony Toth Nickname: (none given) Number:! I Height: 5'9" Year/Program: 3rd, kinesiology HighSchool: Sardis

# Years Playing B-ball: N/A

Favorite Breakfast: Pancakes Future PI a ri s: 's po r'is therapy

Personal Hero: none

Name: Mark Turner Nickname Turnz Number: 3 I Height: 6' l" Year/Program: 1st year,general studies High School: WJ Mouat

# Years Playing B-ball: 7

Favorite Breakfast: eggs, hashbrowns

Future Plans: play ball Personal hero: my dad

Name: Peter Damien Wauthy Nickname (none given) Number: I 0 Height: 6'3" Year/Program: I st, general studies High School: St. John Brebeuf

Years Playing B-ball: I 0 Favorite Breakfast: Bacon Future Plans: be a sports medicine doctor Personal Hero: Michael Jordan

Name: Height: 6'8" Year/Program: 2nd year, general studies High School: W J Mouat

# Years Playing B-ball: 5 Favorite Breakfast: sausage and egg McMuffin Future Plans: play pro ball Personal hero: Magic Johnson

Name: Mike McLaverty Nickname: Ciau Number: 00 Height: 6'6" Year/Program: 2nd, general studies High School: WJ Mouat

# Years Playing B-ball: 8 Favorite Breakfast: omlets Future Plans:unknown Personal hero: N/A

Name: Brent Sedo Nickname: (none given) Number: 23 Height: 6' I" Year/Program: 1st year, general studies High School: Walnut Grove

# Years Playing B-ball: 5 Favorite Breakfast: bacon and eggs Future Plans: unknown Personal hero: Brian Robinson

Name: Aaron Wells Nickname Bubba Number: 32 Height: 6'5" Year/Program: 3rd year, kinesiology High School: Maple Ridge

# Years Playing B-ball: IO Favorite Breakfast: eggs Future Plans: Unknown Personal hero: Kevin Deikman

2000-01, Basketball Profiles:

UCFVWomen

Name: Lauren Marie Alonzo

Nickname: Gootes Number:10 Height: 6'0" Year/Program: , I st, general stud-

High School: HD Stafford

# Years Playing B-Ball: 8

Favorite Breakfast: waffles w/ strawberries and whipping cream

Future Plans: be a teacher, travel to Italy and the world

Personal Hero: Steve Nash

Name: Height:5'11" Year/Program: 1st,. general studies

High School: MEI

Years Playing B-ball: 7

Favorite Breakfast: crepes Future Plans: get married, have. kids, be a PE teacher

Personal hero: Kobe Bryant

Name: Natilee Brown ·•· Nickname: (11one given) Number: 7 Height: 5'5" Year/Program: 2nd, general studies

High School: Heritage Park

# Years Playing B-ball: 10

Favorite Breakfast: eggs, bacon, toast

Future Plans: to become an elementary school teacher

Personal hero: my mom

Name: Lindsay Strickland

Nickname: (none given) Number: 5 Height: 5~" Year/Program: 2nd, general studies

High School: Belmont

# Years Playing B-ball: 10

Favorite Breakfast: crepes with strawberries and whipping cream

Future Plans: be a teacher, marry a hottie, travel the world

Personal hero: mom and dad, Michael Jordan

Name: Tanya Jane Campbell Nickname: T-Dawg Number:20 Height: 5' 11" Year/Program: 2nd, general studies

High School: Walnut Grove

# Years Playing B-ball: 10

Favorite Breakfast: eggs, bacon Future Plans: be a history teacher, coach, travel, have a hot husband and lots of kids

Personal hero: my mom and dad

Name: Dawn Alice Freda Gosselin Nickname: Whitie ' Number:13 Height: 6'0" Year/Program: 2nd , Liberal Arts ,,,,High School: • MEI

# Years Playing B-ball: 6

Favorite Breakfast: Sonny's eatery breakfast special Future Plans: marry a tall man, have 8 kids and start my own b-ball team

Personal hero: Coach Sandy

Name: Nicole Hill Nickname: Nie Number: 21 Height: 5'5" Year/Program: 3r_d, general studies

High School: Chilliwack

# Years Playing B-ball: 11

Favorite Breakfast: Froot Loops Future Plans: be a physiotherapist and work.with prosthetics

Personal hero: Michael Jordan

Name: Stephanie Ann VanDeWalle Nickname: Pipes ••Number: LI Height: 5'10" Year/Program: 1st, general studies

High School: Thomas Haney

# Years Playing B-ball: 9

Favorite Breakfast: Waffles with strawberries

Future Plans: get a job I like, have a hot husband and be happy

Personal hero: my mom and dad

Name: Annemarie Jayne Krygsveld Nickname: Annie Number: 15 Height: 5'8" Year/Program: 1st, science

High School: WJ Mouat

# Years Playing B-ball: 6 Favorite Breakfast: Shreddies with chocolate milk

Future Plans: get my degree, become a physiotherapist, go to Australia and Kenya Personal hero: my mom

Erin Jennifer Lee Nickname: (none given) Number: 9 Height: 6'0" Year/Program: 2nd, Bachelor of Arts

High School: WJ Mouat

# Years Playing B-ball: 15 Favorite Breakfast: pancakes Future Plans: win the lottery, travel around the world with my hot husband Personal hero: my mom and dad

Name: Shiloh Letiza Minor Nickname: Shi Number: I 0 Height: 5'7" Y ear/ P r o g-r am : I st, media and communication

High School: Heritage Park

# Years Playing B-Ball: 7 Favorite Breakfast: Crepe's with lots of garden-fresh fruit Future Plans: graduate with a Bachelor's in MACS Personal Hero: "Definitely Ayn Ran!"

+Name: Rachael Brooke Peters Nickname: (none given) Number: 2 2 Height: 5'6" Year/Program,:. 3rd, kinesiology •

High School: Heritage Park

# Years Playing B-ball: 9 Favorite Breakfast: scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, toast w/ peanut butter and jam Future Plans: team trainer Personal hero: none

Name: Kalisha Ann Reid Nickname: Blackie Number: 4 Height: 5'6" Year/Program: I st , general studies

High School:Thomas Haney

# Years Playing B-ball: 9 Favorite Breakfast: Reeses Puffs Future Plans: to be a good wife and have babies Personal hero: Joel Silvestri (none given) Number: 14 Height: 6'2" Year/Program: 3rd, Bachelor o science

High School: New Westminster # Years Playing B-ball: I 0 Favorite Breakfast: Campbell's Soup Future Plans: get Bachelor o science, teaching degree and joins the peace-corps Personal hero: my mom

Canadian Bad.asses: Head.stones Attitude Give

By James Clark Cascade Writer

Canadian rock anti-heroes, The Headstones, touring in support of their new album Nickels For your Nightmares put on a crazy cougar laced rock extravaganza at the Comodore Ballroom last Thursday. Before the show I caught up with the head Headstone, Hugh Dylan and we had words. "It's great, I love coming to Vancouver, it's the last few days of our tour and we can really let lose and have a great time." After seeing the sweaty, stocky, trenchcoat-clad midget spit, antagonize, and jump on the crowd, I knew that "let loose" was a huge understatement.

We'll get back to the performance in a minute. I know you are all very anxious about the midget comment and the spitting, but understand friends, in spite of Halloween being over, there were many more freaks both on and off the stage. Like a candy striper that has been pinched by war amps and other assorted geriatrics far too many times the crowd was anxious, pissed off, and a little scared. At the same time, like the previously mentioned striper, we were a little excited that people still like us even though were dressed like a blind Wal-Mart personal shopper. Consisting of mostly older, and may I add rude, grown up teenage jocks an·d their biker girlfriends, the crowd was almost as entertaining as the bands. I guess that I should talk about the other two "special guests" now.

Is Default good? The question repeated over and over in my mind. Later I repeated it to "some guy". He responded, "Default rocks, I work with their bassist": definitely an impartial observer but for what it's worth they're not that bad. Picture Creed as bouncy teenagers that are still learning to play their instruments. Pretty simplistic power chords backed up by a fast and low bass twang and double kicked bass drum is the "Default" sound. They share it with a million other more successful heavy rock bands. Here's the part where the reviewer says

Vancouver

something nice. Potential, that's what they have. When they gain a little more confidence, talent, and diversify their songs a little more, they cou~d be famous like Gob and the Mathew Good Band (Implied sarcasm). Let's review: their music is pretty good for a band that's just starting out and they are nice guys; polite would be the word. The bassist also works with "some guy".' If you like that kind of thing then buy the album.

By the time Default had finished their set, the Commodore was pretty full and still pretty sober. It was time for the Unhand to annoy everyone. GWAR has a gimmick: they dress up in funny costumes and cut heads off of big latex monsters and pour fake blood onto the crowd. The Unhand also has 'a gimmick, they dress up in silly retro seventies costumes and imitate The Who and Led Zeppelin. Their guitars were so loud that they drown out any chance of hearing the lyrics. It was like being at a jam session in someone's basement, everyone trying to oneup his friends with faster and more complex guitar riffs. I was there at sound check; it was no accident that they sounded like that. The Unhand also said stupid things like "We're here to par-tay too-niii-te" it must be a New York thing·be·cause it did not go over well with the Vancouver crowd. If That Seventies Show had a band, and the show were copied by another network and the knock-off show sucked, the Unhand would its band. Dear Unband: The seventies are over let them go. Sincerely, James Clark.

By now the crowd was powered up by Default, and the Unhand made them angry, so they were it was in a perfect mood for the Headstones. You can tell that the Headstones are Canadian because although they share the badass "rock" image with bands like Kid Rock and Social Distortion, they are polite. Smiling, using his please and thank yous peppered in with the occasional pardon me, Hugh Dylan was the perfect gentleman during his interview. The nice guy/badass image extended onto the stage too. When

an unruly crowd surfer got pulled over the barrier and was being escorted out, Hugh piped up in his defense, "Put that boy down. That's a good Canadian boy." Sneers, saliva and 'the bird' are accompanied by some flattery and high fives. It's a Canadian thing. For those of you that don't know Nickels for Your Nightmares, it is the fourth and best Headstones album. The anger of the outsider, of what it's like to be another face in a faceless crowd comes through in the lyrics .and it is a perfect accompaniment to the gritty guitar and bass sound. Although being one of the most successful Canadian rock albums of the year, Nickels for Your Nightmares is a poor carbon copy of a sound that has to be heard live: The anger and sorrow of Headstones' music comes through so much better in person. The Headstones have an extreme dedicated fan base because the crowd kne-w· all the songs from all the albums and they were allowed to sing them while Hugh Dylan was taking his many crowd surfing adventure breaks. "I love playing here ... the audience is great. We have four albums out now and in the eight years that we've bee·n doing this [we] have grown up and now they bring their kids, that's dedi-

cation." Two encores later, just to show that there were no hard feelings, they brought out the Unhand and Default and everyone forgave them. F**k you, the last song of the evening became a battle of the bands, and then a big inflatable middle finger was inflated just in case we didn't get the message.

I almost forgot the midget thing. Hugh Dylan is short, m/lybe five foot five, even though his receding hair style adds acouple of extra inches. Is that relevanct-?,.On it's face maybe not. But when you ·consider that all of the acts I've interviewed this year are all about the same size, this leads you to speculate that there is some kind of conspiracy afoot? Anyway, the concert was super good and if the Headstones come back to town, you should go see them.

By Kris Lind Cascade Writer

Indeed,

One interesting aspect o(the show was the use of hand-held microphones by the main players providing a refreshing reminder that this is a rock and roll show. The band should be commended because their playing was tight and energetic.

It is unfortunate that by the time this Cascade issue becomes available, this production is finished. This was an outstanding, high-energy production that I recommended to many of my friends, but I didn't find out about it until near the end-of its run.

Neil Minor's charismatic portrayal of Frank N. Furter seemed to leap off the stage and attack the audience. Other notable mentions include Joe Davies' performance as "Riff Raff", Heather Feeney's "Columbia", Heath Whitelock's "Brad Majors", and Christi McAllister Arellano's "Janet Weiss".

Canadian films to from I receive feds

rrore cash

But sane say the funding discourages the production of indie films

By Jeff A. Werner The Martlet

VICTORIA (CUP) Canadian Heritage Minister Sheila Copps announced last week that the federal government is doubling the funding for Canadian films, but not everyone is pleased.

That's because some say the money, an increase of $49 million, will discourage the production of independent films. As part of the announcement, the federal government will reward Canadian filmmakers for bringing in cash at the box office and a new "performance-based" criteria for funding to Canadian filmmakers was also introduced.

future. This has raised concern that blockbuster films will be favoured when it comes to receiving financial rewards, and will only fuel an already billion-dollar industry.

Funding for films from private Canadi,an and foreign investors totalled $633 million in 1995, according to Statistics Canada, yet only $3.6 million of the new government funding will be spent on nonprofit and "low budget, directordriven'.' projects.

"It's unfortunate, this twist. It's too bad," says Gerald La Belle, president of the Canadian College of Film & Acting in Victoria. He feels many of Canada's best films are independent ones, not usually found in the-

The better a film performs at the atres. box office, the more funding its producers will receive in the "If I want to see a good film on

Friday night, I turn to channel 28," he says, referring to Showcase, the national cable channel that often runs alternative, award-winning cinema.

But La Belle also feels the new government funding will "create more awareness of the film industry" and indirectly affect the private film college by providing more jobs for graduating students.

Canadians average 3.3 v1s1ts to the movies per year, a comparably high average among developed countries. Yet the 35 feature films produced in Canada last year only accounted for two per cent of our box office receipts, reports a recent Canadian Heritage news releas_e.

$37 million alone spent on convincing people to watch it. Canada's average film budget is around $2.7 million, with $150,000 spent on marketing.

"This policy will offer us more homegrown choices in local theatres," said Copps.

The funding will also help Canadian distributors carry more Canadian content in local cinemas.

Eighty-five per cent of the funding increase will go toward production and marketing· costs. Advertising will be specifically increased with a target goal to capture at least five per cent of the market in Canadian theatres within five years. If you can find

A typical American film costs $76 million to make, with an average

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Lenny Kravitz "Greatest Hi ts"

Lenny Kravitz, my friends -and I have determined, falls into a category we have termed, a S 4 • 4 0 artist. Kravitz earns a spot in this category, not due to the similarity of the music of the two acts, but because they both consistantly release good lead singles for their albums. However, there is precious little else worth while on the albums. Upon purchasing the albums of a '54-40 artist', you basically feel ripped off because they only seem to write good singles. Fortunately, there is a way to alleviate the pain of buying an album from one of these artists: you can patiently wait for the artist to release a greatest hits album.

U2

"All That You Can't Leave Behind"

The title of this CD gives an accurate description of the band: they haven't been left behind, in the music industry. U 2 has been around for a ·long time, before my time, actually, which probably accounts for my lack of knowledge about the group's history. However, as my musical tastes continue to expand, so does my knowledge of these "older" groups.

Lucky for you, .I won't bore you

Limp Bizkit "Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdo~ Flavored Water'

After the smash success of Significant Other, Limp Bizkit has returned with the same style of aggro-rock that they are famous for. Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water is a continuation of their trademark yelling,, loud guitars and drums, as well as a little "DJ-ing". There is,

Cherr_y Poppin Daddies "Soul Candy"

Cherry Poppin Daddies (CPD) are normally a high intensity, upbeat swing style group. However, the new release, Soul· Candy, provides one with a wide varity of tastes and styles. If you seek the sound of swing, you will only find a select few songs of such in this album. "Soul Cadillac", "So Long Toots", and "Uncle Ray" are great songs that have kept up with the

Mark Knopfler "Sailing to Philadelphia"

Since their emergence onto the music scene in 1997, Mark Knopfler -Sailing to Philadelphia CD review Mark Knopfler, the ex-frontman behind Dire Straits, has released his second solo album, coming four years after his impressive Golden Heart, album. Knopfler's recent attempts at scoring movie soundtracks (everything from The Princess Bride, to Wag the Dog) have been well done, and per-

Music on trial

When it comes to reviewing a greatest hits album, the job is easy. You don't usually have to describe the sound because anybody who would contemplate buying the album knows how the artist sounds. Therefore, all you have to do is debate on the songs that ate included, excluded, and any new material.

There is only one new song, "Again" which is a classic Kravitz ballad. If you haven't heard it yet, you will, soon enough. The fifteen tracks on the album are a good mix of his first five albums. His latest album "5" contributes the most songs (four), including the Guess Who's cover "American Woman". Since I only bought his first two albums (Let Love Rule and Mama Said), the only glaring omission is definitely "Fields of Joy", which is probably his best song to date. "Built This Garden for Us", and "Flowers For Zoe", definitely could have replaced

,•. , with a biography on the group, other than to say _that the group has clearly experienced great success in their twentytwo years in the business of music and entertainment. Their new album, All That You Can't Le a v e B e h i n d, U 2 continues to build on that lucrative history.

Part of that history, thought, was being a band with

the bland "Black Velveteen", and "Heaven Help", but beyond this nitpicking. I can finally play a Lenny Kravitz album and not feel like I was ripped off.

political concerns, and making music that was intended to change the world, or at least contribute to higher levels of social consciousness. Upon the release of their twelfth album, U2 has angled away from that, preferring to simply make music that comes, from the heart. The album's songs contain softer melodies which are pleasing to the ears, or at least my ears. Basically, it's a good pop album. The recently released, "Beautiful Day" is a perfect example of the types of songs found on the album, and probably one which most people have heard by now.

By Darrell Alary 3.5 I 5 records

-···Searching through the lyric booklet, I found my real feelings on living in Abbotsford all my life: "You love this town even if it doesn't ring true/You've been all over and it's been all over you."

Looks like it's another success for U2. I guess some things you really can't leave behind.

By Tasenka Kushner

however, a little less yelling on this album, but don't expect Barry Manilow.

Even though they brought the noise factor down, the quality is still high.

Expect intense guest appearances by artists such as X-zibit, Redman, Methodman, and DMX which undermine Limp Bizkit lead

singer Fred Durst's abilities due to their superior lyrical skills. If cursing is what you're after, then this album is what you are looking for. With a total count of 48 f**cks on the title track, your mother will sure to be hunting down Durst with a bar of soap.

After the recent success of "Faith", Limp Bizkit has remade the chorus of the Nine Inch N a i I s' song "CI o s er" in their first offering entitled "Hot Dog". If there is one song that you shouldn't miss on this album, it is Swiss Beats'

4/5 records produced "Rollin"', arguably the best rock/rap collaboration of the year.

Altogether, this was a good album, although not quite as hardhitting as I had hoped for, but by far not disappointing.

By Haydes

expected quality that the CPD has provided thus far.

Unfortunatly, with special thanks to The Mighty Mighty

Bosstones, Suicidal Tendencies, Green Day, No Doubt, and the Warp Tour, there's no wonder that CPD have beeff influenced towards a harder, more "rockerish" style.

Don't get me wrong, I truly, enjoy and respect a few of these groups, but they just don't have the swing groove that CPD usually provides.

CPD seems to have an internal struggle with God that is definitely apparent in the song, "God is a Spider". This song is a perfect example of an. attempt to escape from deep-rooted soul searching. Even the title Soul Candy foreshadows the entire album.

The song "Grandma!" sounds a lot like a mixture of an acid trip and Hootie and the Blowfish. Also,

4/5 records if you like punk rock you'll like the song, "Irish Whisky".

CPD's new style has potential to grow on you and Soul is an adequate album. However, my warning to the listener is: if you are expecting a great swing sound, you will, (as I was) be disappointed and frustrated.

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By Abby Swing King

2/5 records

haps indicate where he should be heading.

Sailing to Philadelphia again showc a s e s Knopfler's interesting and accomplished guitar playing, on his distinctive sounding stratocaster, but quite often the effort seems to be fruitless. Intelligent and literal lyrics are one of Knopfler's trademarks, and they are present on all thirteen songs on this album.

Unfortunately, there wasn't the same effort put into writing these songs that would make them worth a second listen.

1960's and I 970's legend James Taylor is a guest vocalist on the title track, and Celtic Folk / Music innovator Van Morrison can be found on the somewhat wearisome "The Last Laugh".

"Sailing to Philadelphia" does many things well, but unfortunately does not hold interest very well. Most songs blend, unnoticed into the next, creating a continuous, bland album. The opening track "What It Is" is the strongest and

most distinct song on the album, but there just wasn't enough songs like it to follow.

For those who were big on 1980's radio, or a nostalgic junky, the rating of this album may seem low, but there simply isn't much of a reason for this album.

By Darrell Allary

1.5 / 5 records

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