W5 apologizes for racist report

W5 apologizes for racist report
OTTAWA(CUP) - The CTV
television network apologized pub.licly Sunday for airing a WS program report on international students that has been called racist and
inaccurate.
The apology, which said the program’s figures were incorrect and
lumped together all students entering Canada, comes five months after the CTV broadcast the WS report The Campus Giveaway - the
program
alleged
that
foreign
students were taking the places of
Canadian
students
in university
programs.
The report showed a film of students of Chinese descent on campus
while a voice over said Canadian
students were being denied access to
certainprofessional
faculties. But
of all students shown, onlytwo
were actually foreign students and
the rest were Chinese-Canadians,
members of the ad hoc committee
against WS foundafter
viewing
the film footage.
The apology, read at the start of
WS’s Sunday program, said another program, tobe aired at a later
date, will “let all sides have their
say” onthe international student
situation.
John Helliwell, director of the
Canadian Bureau for International
Education, said Mondaythat
if
CTV continues to move in the conciliatory tone of the apology, those
fighting the program will be satisfied.
“I consider it a major victory,”
he said. “I’m delighted with it.”
WS’s apology admittedthat its
figures, which said there were
100,000 foreign students in Canadian schools, were inaccurate. It
said the program used a process
that lumped togetherinternational
student numbers with those of landed immigrants and students in Canada on special permits.
‘There are 58,000 international
students at all levels, including high
schools,community
colleges and
universities, says Canada’s immigration department.
WS also apologized for what
members of Canada’s Chinese community have called its racist overtones.
“It was never our intention in doing the program to give offence to
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Vancouver, B.C. Tuesdav, March 18,1980
Twothousand people protested
the programoutside
CTV headquarters in Toronto last month and
others launched demonstrations in
various Canadian cities. Several libel suits have been filed against the
network, but it is not yet known if
they will continue.
PROTESTORS
. . . win apology
Hack promises UBC
an exclusive protest
”
Vol. LXII. No. 85
any Canadian community: WS sincerely regrets any offence that may
have been unintentionally given to
the
Chinese-Canadian
community.”
Liz Patterson, director of University of Toronto’s international students’ centre, said she thinks WS seriously underestimated the reaction
the report would get from campuses
and
the
Chinese-Canadian
community.
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228-2301
UBC student politicians say they
will attemptto
duplicateasuccessful
student
demonstration
against increased tuition fees held
Friday at the B.C. legislature.
UBC will sendadelegation
to
Victoria by as early as next week,
said Al Soltis, Alma Mater Society
external affairs officer.
“We’ll be contacting theNDP
caucus and providing them with our
point of view on student fees and
really concentrating on student
aid,” said Soltis.
He said the UBC delegation will
be asking for an improved student
aid packageto offset tuition fees increases.
No official UBC delegation attended the Friday rally, organized
by the B.C. Students’Federation
and attended by students from the
other two universities andsome
community colleges, because Soltis
said “there was no way I wanted to
send someone over there that was
ill-prepared.’’
Federation chair Malcolm Elliot
will meet with Soltis Thursday and
will distribute
information
on
financial issues to students on campus.
The UBC “information lobby”
will occur before the end of classes
on April 3, Soltis promised.
But Soltis came under attack
from federation staff person John
Doherty, who said it would have
been more effective a show of student solidarity if UBC had coordinated its demonstration .with
other universities on Friday.
“All we can do is support what
they do,” said Doherty. ‘‘I guess
it’s important to try and coordinate
our activities more closely in the
future.”
He said he felt that theFriday rally at least got the student point of
view across to education minister
Brian
Smith
and
universities
minister Pat McGeer .
“It went fairly well. There were
between 40 to SO students who
presented ;about 5,000 cards (protesting tuition fee increases) to
Brian Smith and Pat McGeer.”
Doherty added that McGeer said
he appreciated the students’con%e page 3: UBC
VOC referendum passes;
AMs to cough up $30,000
The Varsity Outdoor Club will
start work this summer on cabin
renovations after UBC students approved areferendum last week to
fund the project.’
The Alma Mater Society will give
the VOC $30,000 for renovation of
threemountaineeringcabins
and
construction
aof
fourth
after
students voted 83 per cent in favor
of the grant. A little more than 12
per cent of students voted in the
three-day referendum.
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OUTRAGED ATHLETE storms Ubyssey photog, seeking revenge for thousands of innocent students, campus
cowboys and iguanas libelled and ridiculed in sick attempts at humor in cutlines. Urged on by guilty bystanders,
badminton player Ken Renneberg threatened photog with horrible death but decided instead to condemn entire
staff to five more issues. Supreme court is expected to rule punishment inhumane.
“The renovations will be the first
thing done because the huts need
it,” VOC president PaulHooper
said Monday.Work will begin in
May on the Burton hut at Sphinx
glacier, he added.
The mon.eywill support renovations of a hut at Tenquille Lake and
one at McGillivary Pass, as well as
the construction of a new hut, also
at McGillivary Pass.
The successful referendum will
end the five-year dispute between
the club andthe A M s over the
Whistler ski cabin, Hooper said.
The VOC constructed the Whistler
cabin in 1965 but received no compensation when the society took it
over in 1975.
In 1977 student court ordered the
AMS to pay the VOC $30,000 compensationbut the society refused.
In April 1979 the VOC started outside legal a.ction against the A M s ,
but dropped the suit when the referendum was proposed.
eovernmenh ‘did nothing’ to stop housing shortage
By JULIE WHEELWRIGHT
Summer and inter-session students might
find themselves out in the cold because of the
desperate offcampus housing situation,.a
rental aid society spokeswomansaid Monday.
“If there’s any possibility you can stay
where you are, stay. It’s as grim as it’s ever
been.” Linda Mead, Red Door Rental Aid
Society administrator advises students.
She said the situation will notimprove by
next fall when the largest influx of students
use the Red Door Society. The housing shortage could continue for the next two years,
she added.
“We have absolutely nothing in thePoint
Grey area. We never used to have alot onthe
firmher (Mead’s) suspicions. She’s right,”
West Side but now we nothing.”
have
If said Johnson.
once
students arelucky enough to get a listing they
He added the situation is worse than in
will likely have to compete with 400 others previous years for the 8,000 students living
for the accommodation, she said.
off campus and looking for new homes.
The dropping vacancy rate, lack of hous“I would say it is definitely worse. I think
ing construction and rising rents have com- it’s going to get bad again by the fall. There
bined to produce a critical housing situation have been quite a lot of people around lately
for students, she said.
(looking for accommodation) for this time of
But the provincial, federal and municipal year.”
governments knew thesituationcouldJohnson
said students who faceproblems
develop last year and “the:,’ did nothing finding housing should not resort to using
about it,” Mead charged.
commercial rental agencies.
UBC off-campus housing head Dave
“They’re an ongoing problem. People get
Johnson said he agrees the housing shortage taken in by the ads in the paper. I’ve had
is critical. “The only-thing I can do is con-nothingbutcomplaints
about Rentex. I’d
urge people to stay away from those places
again.”
Members of the Gage low-rise committee
charged the UBC housing department is doing nothing to combat the situation.
“I called housing imd asked if it was possible for me to stay in the low-rise (for thesummer) and they told me the conventions are
booked five years in advance and aroom
costs $33 night,”
a
said resident Nan
Ferguson.
,
“As far as students in the low-rise goes,
(housing director Mike Davis) seems to feel
married and grad students can go to (Place)
Vanier in the summer,” said resident Brenda
Mular.
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UBYSSEY
THE
Tuesday, March 18,1980
U of A students char99
Educators ‘illiterate’
EDMONTON (CUP) - Officials
and student representatives in University of Alberta’s education faculty have dismissed chargesthat education students are illiterate.
In early February, two education
students wrote a letter to the student newspaper The Gateway, citing
widespread illiteracy and low standards among their colleagues.
“We are embarrassedto be members of this faculty,”saidValerie
Loov and Joan Schell.
But education
dean
Walter
Worth says the charges do not apply to most students in the faculty.
“I’mnotsurprised
that these
things (illiteracy) occur when we
have 4,000 students in the faculty,”
said Worth. “On balance, though,
they are not typical.”
Worthsaysadmissionrequirements in education are the same as
in all other ‘faculties - a 60 per cent
average in five high school subjects.
Education
program
requirements
mean that most students take more
courses in faculties other than education, he added.
An English course is not mandatory for all education students.
No data is available to compare
current education graduatesto their
predecessors, but school boards say
teachers are better now than they
were five years ago, Worth said.
Worth said that chargesof illiteracy
levelled
against his faculty,
cause unease and concern in education students.
“I’mthe
first to acknowledge
thatthereareproblems
in education. But as far as I’m concerned, I
think allegation of widespread illiteracy is hogwash.”
Educationstudents’association
president Darlene Melnyk said she
agrees the situation has been blown
out of proportion.
“I don’t think the problem of illiteracy is just confined to our faculty,”she said. “However, it appears that the education faculty becomes a focal point when theilliteracy issue is brought out.’’
She said the association has contacted the writers of the letter, but
the group has no specific plans to
push for changes in the faculty.
Melnyk said she supports mandatory English courses for all educationstudents,buttheassociation
hasnottaken
an official stand in
this matter.
“As for theminimal writing competenceexams in the faculty, we
could have a competency exam, but
I’m not sure it would solve the problem of literacy,” she says.
“Being literate is notthe
sole
quality
for
becoming
good
a
teacher. However, it definitely is an
asset.”
Letterwriters LQOVand Schell
still stand by their accusations.
They advocate a language competency exam, quotas in the faculty of
education and a mandatory year in
another facultyfor
all would-be
teachers.
They said they havereceived a lot
of verbal support from other education students. And they claimed the
faculty’sproblems are more widespread than education officials acknowledge.
“I still thinkthere area large
number of people in the faculty
who will not be competent as teachers,’’ said Schell.
Loov adds: “I still believe there is
a definite problem.”
PANGO-PANG0 (UNS) - A
deathlyquiethungover
this tiny
island kingdom today following incidents of violence, rioting and random necrophilia at last weekend’s
ceremonial wall-bashing.
The wall-bashing, an annual ritual where hairy puce blorgs as well
asnormalhairyblorgsslam
their
headsagainsttheWhalingWall,
was marred after outbreaks of sanity during the distribution of soma
in squat brown bottles.
Factionsrepresenting the Easily
UnderestimatedSickoids
andthe
Amalgamated
Fuckhead
Society
disruptedproceedings by flinging
handfuls of zebravomit at blorgs
who, following tradition, were approaching the shrine on their noses
and toes.
Theorthodox
Bedlam Devolutionary Party is reported to be worried about the conduct of its candidate
for
Reichsbureaucrat,
Burn
Themall, who was arrested for flying withouta license after he strafed
the dissident factions with ju-jubes
and nembutals. He was also charg-
ed with flying without an airplane.
Themall,despitecontinued allegationshe
is mentallyunfitfor
sweeping floors, has until now been
the most popular candidate for the
tyrant’s
position
due
the
morethan-usual stupidity of thealways
thick-headed blorgs.
Foreignobservers,trippingover
the repeatedlyviolatedbodies
of
dead blorgs in the muck-filled capital, said a swing to the right could
be feared in the coming elections.
“This is good news for Ambrosia
Dumbcluck.” said one high source.
Another, who was completely
overdosed, spoke of the possibility
of an anarchic-collectivist takeover
of the government. “Of course, no
one would be able to tell if such a
thing were to happen,” he said.
Itwas hoped nextweek’selections would give some indicationof
the fate of the hostages who have
beenheldin
theSlobbovianembassy for over 300 days. Diplomatic
sources have indicated the hostages
will bedeader thanballoons in a
furnace should Themall get in.
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THE’ UBYSSEY
Tuesday, March 18,1980
UBC stays aloof
from downtown
education scheme
B.C.’s post-secondary
institutions are talking about creating an
education centrein downtown Vancouver but UBC apparently has little to contribute to the plan.
UBC,SimonFraserUniversity,
the BiC.Institute of Technology.
the Open Learning Institute, VancouverCommunityCollege,Vancouver
school
board
and
the
Universities Council of B.C. are involvedin thetalks. But theemphasis for the centre will primarily
or technological
be
academic
courses at night for people already
in jobs - courses that UBC does
not offer in downtown Vancouver.
The
institutions
have
been
discussing the project with the provincial education ministry for two
months and have alreadyleased one
floor in a downtown building, said
BCIT spokesman Dick Melville.
Melville said the centre will serve
asafocalpointforthoseinstitu-
tionsofferingdowntowncourses.
He added the institutions will also
gain an information centre.
“A central downtown education
centrewouldprovidethepublic
with an information area on Lower
Mainland
education
institutions
and their programs,’’ he said.
Enrolment in BCIT night courses
17
hasincreaseddrasticallyfrom
courses offered in the original program to a current 50, leading to the
interest in a downtown facility.
SFU also offers night courses in
rented facilities close to thecity centre to 439 students while UBC offers off-campusnightcoursesat
Britanniacommunitycentreand
other locations.
UBC
administration
representatives said theyare surprised by the
announcement and offered no comment on thedowntowneducation
centre proposal.
UBC feedemonstration
scheduled for Victoria
From page 1
some
questions
student
onfinances
and student aid through NDP MPs
cerns,buttold
thedemonstrators
in the House of Commons, Doherty
they
would
have
to wait for
a A .
federal-provincial task force on studentfinancesreportbeforeany“Thenextstep
is that we’re going
changes will beimplemented.totryandarrangea
meeting with
McGeer was one of the architects of McGeer and Smith. We’ll also be
the
task
force’s
formation.
approaching
college
and university
Doherty said he told McGeer that boards for support.’’
he
expected
only
cosmetic
Soltis said the externalaffairs
“housekeeping
changes”
will
be
committee
was hindered in preparrecommended in the report.
Student demands include a $450 ing for the demonstration because
the previous officer, Valgeet Johl,
increase of maximumawardsfor
student loans, an annual costof liv- failed to produce a promised report
ing increase and a re-adjustment of on studentaidforUBCstudent
politicians.
parentalcontributiontablesand
“Valgeet Johl did an education
forcedsummersavings
as indications of a students’ financial stan- study and it hasn’t been made
availableyet,”
Soltis said. “It’s
ding, Doherty said.
The NDP caucus agreed to raise been kind of holding us back.”
a disruptive force
Canadian University Press
ASimonFraserUniversity
student
politician
deliberately
disrupted and undermined the B.C.
Students’Federation’sprotest
at
the B.C. legislature Thursday, officials charged yesterday.
Doug
Fleming,
SFU
student
societyexternalrelations
afficer,
tried to persuade
students
to
demonstrateatthe
legislature inBCSF’s
stead of participatingin
lobby of MLAs for changes in the
studentaidprogram,saidfederation staffer John Doherty.
A nfde d e r a t i ocnh a i r m a n
Malcolm Elliott saidFleming and
of Victoria
several
University
students
heckled
universities
minister Pat McGeer and prevented
himfromspeaking
to BCSF and
other students.
“They
(Fleming
and
other
students) allowed McGeer to look
better than he was.” Elliott said.
“After Fleming’s displayon Thursday I feel he’s totally out of touch
with the concerns of the students.”
Elliott said Flemingand University of Victoria students asked questions
unrelated
federation
to
demands, which enabled McGeerto
avoid
answering
BCSF.
Elliot
charged that Fleming was not serving the interests of SFU students.
“It’s importantforstudents
to
realize that their external relations
officer represents them for all offcampus liasion activities,” he said.
“Theofficershouldhave
a clear
the
understanding of where
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SEARCH FOR ROOTS left Irving Fetish stumped and out on limb after branching
out Monday. F&
wm barking up wrong tree but, touch wood, will
be turning over new leaf and sprucing up
act by solving knotty
problems.
Fetish pines for alder brother, but last time they met they beat each other to pulp.
U of 0 tuition rise sparks boycott
OTTAWA(CUP)
- University
of Ottawa students will stage their
third mass boycottof classes tomorrow to protest tuition fee increases.
They also plan a fee boycott in the
fall.
At a general assembly last week
500 students pledged
morethan
supportforastudentfederation
plan to boycott the 7.5 per cent fee
increase set for next fall.
Students at the general assembly
saidthey will notacceptanyincrease, although the university has
decidednot to increase fees more
than the mandatory 7.5 per cent ordered by the
government.
(The
Conservativegovernmentgranted
universities permission to increase
tuition by up to an additional10 per
cent if they wished.)
University of Ottawastudents
plan to organize a bus trip to the
Ontario
kgislature
in Toronto
March 27 to join in a province-wide
protest against cutbacks and fee increases.
Feminists demonstrate
to protest violence
students on his campus are coming
from.
After
the
general
assembly
a
“I think the student bodyof SFU group of students tried to occupy
WINNIPEG (CUP) - Two hun- year when ,about 300 people marchshouldwakeuptothefactthat
ed in -30”,weather to save Osborne
people
chanted
“We
want
the university registrar’s office, but dred
Doug
Fleming
no
is
longer
House, a jeopardized home forbatstreets withoutcreeps,”and“Yes
the administration quashed the atrepresenting
them,
but
leading
women.
Osborne
House’s
tempt with a threat to call in police means yes and no means no how- tered
them.”
to remove students from the build- ever we dress and wherever we go” funding WiIs subsequently retained
But Fleming said the federationis
last week to protest violence against after these and other outcries.
ing. Student
protestors
occupied
nottaking a strongenoughstand
Public reaction to the march was
women here.
the office in a protest last month.
againsttuitionfeeincreases
and
Womenwearing armbands with mixed - from good-naturedand
faults in the student loan plan, adStudents will be urgedto pay only the insignia of wen-do, a women’s malicious
questions
about
the
dingthatnothing
is gained from half their tuition at fall registration self-defencemethod,patrolled the march’s
purpose
to cheers and
discussions “behind closed doors.” and withhold the $75 increase when march.Policewatchedthemarch
taunts from passing cars.
of BCSFhas
“Theleadership
they pay thefinal instalment in Jan- from the other side of the street.
The march was sponsored by the
become
bureaucratic,”
he
said. uary, said student federation presiWinnipeg Committee Against VioThechantsechoedthoseheard
“When so many attacks on students dent Anne McGrath.
on International Women’s Day last lenceTowardsWomen.
are occurring in tuition fees and
fnancial aid, the federation should
take a forceful stand.”
Fleming
said
he
went
to
McGeer’s office withabout 25 UVic
The committee, chairedby SFU geographydepartSimon Fraser University, flushed with excitement
and SFU students after the lobby
to
ment head Michael Roberts, said
he is worried the
Over
recent
newspaper
reports
acclaiming
its
coming
ask
him
about
the
federation’s
BurnabY university lacks malY of the Social amenof age, is considering a posh drinking hole for its
demands,butsaidtheminister’s
ities that typifyolderCanadian
universities. He
ellite.
door was locked.
Criticizes the lack Of faci1itie:s for the comfort and
The proposed “university club” will Cost about $1
“The mass lobby wem ahead in
contentment of important visitors.
million and be open to all members of the university
the morning as planned,” Flemm“Mostfaculty live a considerabledistancefrom
community,
according
to
a
report
compiled
by
a
ing said. “Many of those that went
thecampus which makes even personalentertainnine-person
SFU
committee.
with us to McGeer’s office were
ment of visitors awkward,” states the report.
also involved in the mass lobby.”
But membership dues
be a’ high a~ $270 for
Thereport,forwarded last week to SFU president
Morethan 40 studentsfrom 10 the privilege of using the club for one year. The reGeorge
Pedersen, says entertaining visitors on camport admits: “We fully recognize that most members
colleges and universities across B.C.
pus is “crucial” for effective communityrelations. It
attended the protest against the cur- of the club will be from the faculty and staff.”
a sense of tradition
statesthatbettermoraleand
rentstructure of thestudentloan
Unless students CanCome UP with the $150 initiaamong faculty and staff will then be easier to build.
plan.
the new club as beneficial
tion fee and $10 a month, itis unlikely many will be Roberts’ committee sees
The students lobbied MLAs and
educationministersMcGeer
and
Smith for changes in the eligibility
requirements forstudentaid,as
well as for a halt to further tuition
fee increases in the province.
It’s sherry and caviar timeat SFU
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UBYSSEY
Tuesday, March 18,1980
THE
Poor reporting
backs bigotry
I
"Oops, sorry. Really, we're quite sorry. Never meant anything
like this to happen. I mean, there we were looking for some good
story ideas for the start of the school year and we happened onto
this bit about how all the . . . er . . . foreigners were taking over
Canadian universities and. . . well, the boys just got a littlebit out
of hand."
The CTV network finally got around to apologizing on the air
Sunday for the blatant racism contained in the W5 show's report
The Campus Giveaway, which clearly stated that foreign students
were depriving Canadians of a university education.
That they did apologize is of little surprise, their errors being so
blatant, so incredible and so lacking in factual basis.
But to use an already ovenworked cliche, the damage has been
done.
The report's statementsgo well beyond simple error, the kind of
thing one might expect in The Ubyssey, or,say, the Christian Science Monitor. The show's producers and reporter Helen Hutchinson, fully aware of the ramifications of what they were broadcasting,presentedhorriblyinaccurateandpoorlyresearched"facts"
about foreign students in Canada.
That individuals in our society adopt similar bigoted views is one
reflection of our society.That a major network, and suppasedlythe
country's most experienced journalists, could be duped into believing the racist drivel they presented is disgusting. And frightening.
The showpannedshotsofcommerceandotherprofessional
classes filled with supposedly foreign students, a fact which they
inferred. When a group decided to check the national origins of the
students, they discoveredthat all but two in attendance during the
filming where Chinese-Canadians. Simple enough. Too bad W5s
producers
lack
this
simple
investigative
urge.
It would
have
prevented the promotion of a whole lot of stupid ignorance.
"I had to shoot him, he was singing out of tune."
UBC selfishly disregarding. estate's land value
The cloakofindifference
and
secrecy surroundingtheapparent
sale of the beautiful Rockwoods Estate near Whytecliff Park inWest
Vancouver has raised a furore
among concerned citizens in the
area of the estate. This is once more
an example of breach of trust and
responsibility by authority.
As has been reported in the VancouverSun and other papers, this
estate of approximately four acres
was a gift of the late GeneralOdlum
to UBC; this was well reported in
the papers at the time. General Odlum stated that it was "for the promotion of. intimate and intensive
studies in the fields of fine arts, letters and world affairs, and specially
approved student activities." Since
then, with the exception of a period
when it was used by the extension
department 20 years ago, it has
been minimally cared for and largely unused by UBC.
Theestateholds
rare trees and
has a long waterfront to it;its beauty has been a source of pleasure to
Arts week was profitable,
non- redundant success
I'd like to thank everyone who
made arts week such a success: Suk
Sihota, Mike McKinley, Paul Yaskowich, Dave Jefferys, Brian
Roach, AndreaDemchuk, Lisa Peters, Suzanne James,Mark Crawford, and Jack Hittrich for their efforts in organizing the week; Dean
Will for condoning us by attending
our barbeque; Brian Short
and
Craig Brooks for being such good
sports.
I'd also like tothank theoffice
staff of the Alma Mater Society
businessnot
office
for
screaming at
us while we bothered them for purchase orders and printing all week.
Their patience is appreciated.
Finally, I'd like to thank all the
arts students who participated in
the week, especially those who donated money to the CFOX Children's Hospital fund. Through your
efforts, we raised close to $200 for
the hospital fund.
Thanks to everyone for making
arts week such a non-redundant
success.
Bob Staley
arts vice-president
II THE UBYSSEY
March ia,i98o
PublishedTuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays throughoutthe
university year bythe Alma Mater Societyof the University of
B.C. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and
not of the
A M S or the universityadministration.Member,Canadian
University Press. The Ubyssey publishes Page Friday, a weakly commentary and review. The Ubyssey's editorial office
is
in room 241K of the Student Union Building. Editorial departments, 228-2301: Advertising, 228-3977.
Co-Editors: Heather Conn and Tom Hawthorn
Heather OConn was green with envy. Here she was, hesd oi her cbn and having to watch her biner
cross-officeenemy Tommy O'Hawthorn gloat after winning th.c m u d Unicorn, for being the B a t Dressed-Leprechaun-Of-The-Year. Wee Tornmy danwd a poor mbn d a jig. That j w t made poor
Heather puke, sending great globsof green all over C ~ * M P m r Q M r y l d and Gwy O B r o d r f i d s
copy of Leon Uris' Trinity, which they were reading to kill upicbm d munrlvr k i n g llbgitirnete
sons of a Hungarian freedomfighter, and not really Iriah at all. C
N dd~JuU. OWhootwrIght .quatted in the corner, puffing on her shillelagh.She too had on- b n n cbn I&,
but m
a
t
r
p
ip
e
dof her
title along with he^ dignity after losing a pot of gold to a "anger in a w p gam.V a n OMcDwuld
had warned her. "Never play near a rambow. That's what I uid. But did you IbtmY' he u k c d in hm
thick brogue, which covered his Scottish accent. "Kisl my green an," dw uvpped back. That awoke
the mad shaman Keith OBaldrey from a trance. He claimed to v
leatop an actual Bbmsy Stone, and
said he used it to practice ancient ritualsof eerie witchcraft. Hi8 eyr g l u m d . "I too w u anno, until
the Irish Rovers started playing
downstairs." Kevin Finnegan(no " 0needed hen) belched. and opened another can of green
beer. "1 remember when these get-togethen had more
Thank God I've
nly got a f e w more to go to." he sighed, and belched again.
people.
d
hundreds of people who walk
around it each day, and many residents have specifically come to live
there because of their belief that the
estate would remain forever some
kind of institution for learning.
It would appear instead that the
Cressey Development Corporation
intends to build 19 houses on this
beautifulacreage,
andthat UBC
has, like PontiusPilate, callously
washed its hands of all responsibility towards the gift. No "For Sale"
sign was ever put up on the property, no hint or indication given to
the residents of sucha sale until
they received a registered letter
from Cressey informing them ofthe
option and intent, instructing residents to get in touch with the West
Vancouver council if they had any
comments to make.
The residents have flooded the
council with letters and phone calls
protesting the plan; the council was
obviously astonished and shocked.
Letters to the president of the university and the board of governors
have received responses that could
charitably be described as stoneyfaced andindifferent, i.e. that it
was "out of their hands and a matter for the council to deal with."
One wonders if thestudentsat
UBC are aware that a piece of property at present available to them for
Ligh't up
your bike
A note toall the lightless wonders
travelling the UBC cycle path:
WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE? Now
that you've spent upto $250 for
your trusty bicvcle. how about uutiing another $io to $20 to equip it
with decent lights. This will help to
preserve both it and yourself. Will it
take a collision to persuade you that
front and rear lights are a necessity
for night riding? There are several
brands of reliable battery and generator bike lights onthemarket.
Your cycle shop can help you
choose.
David Conn
a variety of uses will have been irretrievably lost to them and their successors; does taking "a responsible
business attitudetowards
it (the
property)," to quote Brant Ducey,
director of information services to
the Vancouver Sun justifythis? Not
in ouropinion, nevertheless it is
now in the hands of the developers.
The suggestion is that the profit
made from the sale of the property
would go to the completion of the
Norman MacKenzie Centre of Fine
Arts. Were the trustees of the original gift informed of this? Did they
acquiesce in it? One may ask what
possible benefit will that create for
the residents of West Vancouver
and the North Shore.
How many of us could utilize
such a centre, however delightful
for UBC to have it, when increased
population not to mention the notoriously irksometrafficproblems
crossing Lions Gate bridge inhibit
communication with UBC and enhance the need of the North Shore
for its own centres of culture and
pedagogy.
UBC clearly does listen to organizations which call for their cliffs to
be repaired, they do listen to groups
who work ceaselessly to ensure that
the endowmentlands are retained
as forest and parkland for the people of greater Vancouver. We insist
that it is time that they also listen to
the people of the North Shore and
keep the trust that General Odlum
put in them. Heloved his house and
his estate, and he thought he was
giving, as indeed he was, something
beautiful to UBC to be maintained
this way in perpetuity. That was the
intent of his gift. His trust has been
betrayed.
We urge you, the students atUniversity of British Columbia, to add
yourprotest andtodemandthat
UBC live up tothis sacred trust. We
ask that we be told publicly that the
estate has been offered to either the
provincial government, or Capilano
College, or SimonFraser University, or a theological college, or
some othereducation institution for
educational purposes; atthe very
least UBC should promise that, if it
is sold, they would make sure that it
was not soldwithout theattachment of careful riders about its use.
In view of our lack of success in
eliciting from the board of governors of UBC even the slightest acknowledgment of their moral duty,
we would ask you, the students, to
bring all possible pressure on theresponsibleauthorities of your university to ensure that this lovely little estate is not lost forever to the
people of British Columbia.
J. Buitehuis
.)-
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Tuesday, March 18,1980
THE UBYSSEY
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I
I
No Nazis in South Africa
I wholeheartedlyagree with your perhaps if
we ignore it, it will go
editorial statementso f March 7 that away.”’
of this opinion I am
Inview
“stereotyping of ethnic groupsis ignorant,dangerousand
epitomizes amazed that you published the stereotyped racist remarks attributed to
moral ineptitude” and that “when
suchsickening stuff is printed we Paul Wee by your reporter Nancie
cannot shrug our shoulders and say Suzuki on March 6.
Canadian voters
delude themselves
In a system that pretends that the (While it is true that the search is
state doesn’t control the economy, also for future oil supplies, it is ripoliticians can at best be leeches. In diculous
that
these
companies
our system politicians are not only should earn profit on money they
leeches but also socially counterpro-didn’t risk in the first place.)
ductive, not because of the illusion
With this in mind the outcome of
the federalelection was never in
central to our systembutbecause
theyusetheirinfluence
to help doubt. The voters of Canada said
those sectors of the society that are yes to our economic and political
supposedly outside of government shell game where deception is king.
control.
Canadafinds
itself in a moral
The oil exploration tax credit in- vacuum and is trying to isolate itself
centive is just one example of pol- from the rest of the world.
Theultimate result is economic
iticians using their influence (in the
form of actual tax dollars) to the collapse. The house of cards comes
materialgain of privatecorporatumblingdown andafar
greater
tions. This paradox could be easily disruption of lives and property occleared up if only the state took it curs than would be had if only we
throw
out
the
psuedoupon itself to risk its own capital in would
search of whatevergains it would capitalist system we now have and
accrue.Atpresent
the oil com- started building a system for a onepanies involved in frontier explora- world future.
Mark V. DeFazio
tion are risking
the
taxpayers’
graduate studies
money in search of future profits.
My personal experience in South
Africa was that the gas station attendants
without
exception
were
black and I have never heard one
shout “Heil Hitler.” I consider this
remark to be racist and demeaning
tothe
well-mannered.gentlemen
gas station attendants of South Africa, who happento be black by accident of birth.
Theremarkthat“manySouth
Africans come from German backgrounds”stereotypes theGerman
people who I have always found to
bepleasant and friendly on many
visits to Germany.
It would also appearthatthe
speaker confused South Africa and
Namibia,since it is Namibia that
hasmanyGermandescent
settlers
since it was a German colony until
the First World War. Additionallyit
is South Africa which is known for
its gold reserves, whilst Namibia is
bet.ter known for diamond and copper mining.
1. find it disturbing
that
you
would wish these remarks and inaccuracies to be communicated to a
wider audience than the 23 who attendedthemeeting.
Allan E.
Letters
should
be
signed
and
typed.
.4lthoughaneffort
is made to
publish all letters received,
The
Ubysseyreserves the right to edit
letters for reasons of brevity, legality, grammar or taste.
God frowns on ‘sinful gays’
By CHARLES VENHUIZEN
It’s beensaid that if God had wanted us to be
homosexual he would have made Adam and Steve,
not Adam and Eve. There are a great number
of
students on campus who take odds with Mr. George
Hermanson’s notions, as explicated in his article on
human sexuality, concerning homosexual behavior,
both on religious and philosophicalgrounds. As a
Christian, I will attempt to refuteon biblical grounds
his thesis that homosexuality is normal and not immoral, especially sincehe bases his thinking on a certain interpretation of God and the Judeo-Christian
scriptures.
rituals of his Arab neighbors. Needless to say, we live
so these rules
in a different cultural context today,
are irrelevant, but the criteria on which the laws forbidding homosexuality and numerous other acts
were
based have not changed because they are not drawn
fromcertainculturalbackdropsbutfromhuman
nature itself. And who can prove to me that basic
human nature haschanged over the past twoor three
thousand years?
Having established a case for calling homosexuality sin, let me balance it by saying that people participating in homosexual acts arenot“weird”
or
mentally ill, but are quite normal. (By “normal” I
mean that theyare
spiritually nodifferentthan
anyone else whose life is not committed to God.) To
give suchpeoplethelabel
of “homosexual”or
“gay” may be unfortunate.To beconsistent we
should.labe1 those committing other sexual crimes as
“adulterers” or “fornicators”. The point is that deHermansondiscardsthefundamentalinterpretawell as other sins result from a life
tion of the Bible for a more relative one in view of viant sexual acts as
that is not in tune with its Maker.Homosexuality
our society’s
supposedly
more
“enlightened”
itself is not the problem. It’s merely one of the many
understanding of humannature.Theimportant
question is, “Is a literal interpretation of the Bible manifestations (albeit one of the most abominable)
tenable for us who are so far removed both culturally of rebellion in a life that is not submitted to God.
and temporally from the Semitic and Graeco-Roman
Obviously there are good reasons for God
to speak
ancient worlds?” It is! We can confidently state that definitively againsthomosexualpractice.
It conGod chose to reveal to us himself, his designs for us, travenes his perfect designs f x a man and a woman:
and a pictureof our humaness (includingour sexuali- that being the total union of their sexual, emotional,
ty) through
myriad
a
of human
experiences,
intellectual, and spiritual desires, and so provide the
thoughts, and struggleswhich are preserved for us in means for the perpetuation of the human race. Even
literary form.
the physical shapes of thesexualorgans and their
This same God affirms the
validity of these notions corresponding functions-of the two sexes scream out
to those whobelieve. Simply put, whenyou ex- against homosexual practice. Listen, what if the maperience God’s incredible love and forgiveness, then jority of peoplesuddenly“discovered”that
their
you will be convinced of the truth of the biblical sexual orientation was now gay. It would certainly
assertions. And if certain scriptural notions like the pose a serious threat
to the family, already an encreation account fly in the face of scientific “truth”, dangered species in North America. How false it is to
then why are there so many scientists who believe? say that gays are given their sexual orientation. There
The fact that an honest differentiation of empirically is absolutely no empirical evidence for this. This is
verifiable fact (such as Newton’s second law) from
just one of the diverse scapegoats people create
to rid
mere hypothesis such as any evolutionary theory of themselves of the responsibility and accountabilityto
man) will reveal no contradiction to biblical asser- Godforthethings
[:hey do,say,andthink.
You
tions.
might just as well say “the devil made me do it.” If
What then of seemingly strange rules in the Mosaic Hermanson’stheory is correctthenapersonfor
law code, such as a warning against eating pork and whom the desireto steal or to have poly-heterosexual
anotheragainsttrimmingone’sbeard
in acertain
affairs is overpowering or psychologically motivated.
way? To committhesedeeds
was just asmorally
Many people, though, have ceased trying to justify
wrongashavingahomosexualaffair
was forthe
their conduct and have begun to regard it as belongHebrew of the 11th century B.C. The problem arises ing within the domain oftheir rights, especially when
when we fail to grasp an adequate idea of the difthey receive the active support of secular and even
ferences between two cultural contexts. The Mosaic
religious sectors of our society. This is certainly true
law of abstention from eating porkwas given against of many“out-of-the-closet”
gay people. Nevera backdropof poor hygienic habits and poor cooking theless, it is God’s perspective, not man’s, which is
methods on the part of the Jews. God was concerned thegoverningfactor on questions on moral issues
with their health. The rule against beard cutting was thatconfront us. And what is all this talk about
given because for a Jew to cut a space between his
rights? Ultimately, the only rights we have are those
beard and his hair probably meant thathe was identi- given to us by God, and a homosexual lifestyle is
fyingwith asimilarpracticeenacted
in thepagan
clearly not one of them.
MUSIC/UBC
TUESDAY, MARCH 18
1230 p.m. Old Audkorium
PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE KennethMoore,director.MusicofGauger,Firth,Kraft
and,Colgrass
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19
1230 p.m. R.cltal Hall
WEDNESDAY NOON-HOUR CONCERT, Pro A m String Quarmt, Norman Paulu,
violin; Martha Frances, violin; Richard Blum, viola; Pnrw Karp, cello.
THURSDAY, MARCH 20
1230 p.m. R.cit.1 Hall
FRIDAY, MARCH 21
800 Recital Hall
UNIVERSITY SINGERS,James Schell, director. Musicof Brahma, Ravel 8 Chatman.
MONDAY, MARCH 24
800 p.m. SUB Ballroom, UBC
4th ANNUAL ”EVENING AT THE P O P S , UBC Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble,MartinBerinbaum,director.UBCChamberSingers,CortlandHultberg,director.
”Marches from around the world“. Tickets available at the door, or in advance at the
AMS office.
The
A.U.S.
cordially
invites
all
students, advisees, colleagues, friends
and acquaintances of
TO A
on the occasion of her retirement as
Senior Faculty Adviser in Arts.
Friday, 21st March,
4-6 p.m.
in Buchanan Lounge
CAREERORIENTATION
FOR WOMEN
PANEL DISCUSSION
ON
Women Working
In The Media
PANEL PARTICIPANTS
MOIRA FARROW
Reporter, Vancouver Sun
WENDY STRAZDIFJE
CBC TV‘s “Pacific Report“
KAREN’WILSON
CBC Radio Music Producer
JOY METCALFE
Publicist
Friday, March 21, 1980, 12:30
Buchanan Rm. 2238
SPONSORED BY THE WOMEN STUDENTS OFFICE
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Intramurals
THURSDAY
noon.
SUE 113.
ORAD FINE ARTS COMMlTTrE
Rhodri Lacomk apemkm on T u r n and architMun, m.Larm 102.
CSCE
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PROGRESSIVECONSERVATIVE YOUTH
P r w k c t i o n IMplry, 4 p.m.. th.Pit.
.
LSM
Mary R i b y WMlU on Jwtice and penorvl l i i
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BAY PEOPLE OF UBC
Film - In E k k urd Whiu,
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THE DINER
noon. SUB 212.
Akber Ladha apeaka on The human mind,
SUE 215.
AMS ART OAUERV
noon.
PROORESSIVE CONSERVATIVE YOUTH
Club
SUE 215.
UBC POlTERY CLUB
Nomination8 for '8)"81 executive, noon. SUE
election.. noon.
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WE ACCEPT CHARGEX
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251.
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Election of '80'81 executive, noon, SUE 211 or
St. Mark's CdIoge.
UBC SAlLlNO CLUB
WOMEN'S COMMIHEE
Lesbian drop-in, 1:30 p.m., SUE 130
TOASTMASTERS
Final
moefino.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 21st
Sewing U.B.C. end West Point Grey
for the last 20 years.
General meeting.
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Closed Sun. 6 Public Holidays
4556 W. 10th Ave.-224-1912
7:30 .D.m.. MacMillan 278
EAST INDIAN STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION
Movie time and mesting, noon. SUE 125.
VOC
Slide ~rerenlatwnon hiking in South America,
noon. Chem. 250.
Place: FACULTY CLUB
WOMEN STUDENTS' OFFICE
Pawl diacunion on Women working in the
media, m n . Euch.
2238.
TICKETS: 59.00 - AVAILABLE IN ROOM 210
WAR MEMORIAL
Wvne and cheaut retirement paw for K. T.
Erwrley. 4 p.m.. Buch. lounge.
QAV PEOPLE OF UBC
Coffee houut, 8 p.m..,Fat Cau et 1375 Robson
All Students, participants 8 escorts welcome
st.
KAOS KLUE
Organuat#onalplanning for ascraurination of 86
and
midnight, Old Admin. 101.
99.
Hot flashes
Wme to voice
u Vote, m v8to
Ah,
spring,
when
a UBC
student's thoughts ever do turn and
return tothe
elections because
there's so many around.
Today the Science Fiction club
will elect new leaders to meet those
troublesome aliens who are always
asking for executive types. Votes
will be cast in the fourth dimension
at noon in SUB 113.
But tomorrow will be the biggest
day for democracy. The Progressive Conservative Youth will carefully and judiciously choose a free
enterprise executive at noon in SUB
215. Also on Wednesday, members
of the Newman Catholic Centre will
seek divine inspiration in choosing
temporal leaders. Ballots will be
available at both St. Mark's College
and at the meeting noon in SUB
211.
COMPLETE
BIKE
TUNE UP!
Focus '80 rather
than
say
Alpha-?-Pi is raising money for the
Arthritis Foundation for Research.
Students pay $2.50 and others
$3.50 at 7 p.m. tonight to see what
the smartly dressed flapper will be
wearing in the new decade.
People in the greatest and latest
in sartorial adornment will be
showing their stuff at the Old Auditorium. It's about time you got a
new T-shirt and toga.
38 point check
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Forget the Colorado River. The
realGrandCanyon,seen
by very
few so far, is on theStikine River in
northern B.C. Maybe very few will
ever see the 50-mile-long gorge because B.C. Hydro wants to puttwo
dams on the Stikine.
A recent Sierra Club workshop
with representatives from more
than six communities affected by
the dams unanimously opposed
construction and called for preservation of the Stikine as a free-flowing river.
Irving Fox of UBC will be giving a
slide presentation on the severe environmental impact of thedams and L
discusses
B.C.
Hydro's resource
development policies at 8 p.m.,
March 24 at Robson
Square
theatre. Admission is $1.
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Are you unhappy because you
keep on going to dances at UBC
and spend half the nightwondering
why no one's dancing? Well, International House is putting on a barn
dance that will be right up your
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UBYSSEY
Mullins
- tom coach
-
-m-
- - -
Thunderbird
basketball
coach
Peter
Mullins
has
been
named
coach of the year by the Canada
West UniversityAthleticAssociation.
Under Mullins this year's men's
basketballteamfinished
third in
Canada West, narrowly missing the
playoffs.At the beginning of the
Season UBC had been picked to go
nowhere dueto inexperience and
lack of height.
UBC haswon two national championships under Mullins. who was
the Canadian national team coach
for three years.
Meanwhile, the University of
Victoria Vikings won the Canadian
Interuniversity
Athletic
Union
championship
on
the
weekend,
dropping theUniversity of Brandon
Bobcats 73-65.
In four league games this season,
Victoria'slargestwinningmargin
aminst UFK was seven wints.
PANGO-PANG0 (UNS) Thousands of hairypuceblorgs
yawnedin excitement atthe local
snerfball team, the Yahoos, battled
arch-rival
Washington
Houyhnhnmsforsixteenthplace
andthe
honor of being walloped in the first
round by the Bull Street Broadies.
Meanwhile further excitement
was stifled over the arrival of the
local heroes, theHubcaps,whocamp
have come to rival even the Yahoos
in front-office backstabbing. Under
the spirited guidance of head blorg
John Worst the Hubcaps get their
first chance tonight to demonstrate
how far the mighty have fallen.
Martial law is expected to control
theenthusiasm which will remain
unbridled when the
hardheaded
Pussycats
assemble
for training
in a few months.
MULLINS . . . gets honor
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TECHNIQUES
Speaker: Dr. Lorette Woolsey
Director, Women Students' Off ice
THURSDAY,
MARCH 20th, 1980
12:30 - 2 P.M.
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‘TA union guarantees a fair workplace’
On Thursday andFriday of this
week, TAs, markers andtutors
will have the
opportunity
to
decide if they will gain the legal
rights that come from being
represented by acertifiedunion.
Both the employees concerned
and the general student body at
UBC will benefit if the Teaching
AssistantsUnion
wins the vote
later this week.
At this time, these employees
have no voice in determining their
working conditions. If theTAs
and markers win the right to be
represented by the union, all the
various cumbersome and possibly
apathetic levels of the administration will be required by law to
recognize their voice, and will
have to talk to them on an equal
and responsible basis about their
wages and working conditions. As
academic employees, we want the
samekindsofprotections
and
benefits enjoyed by other unionized workers: a grievance procedure
for unresolved problems, clearly
defined and equitable hiring and
dismissal procedures,
advance
notice of employment, protection
in case of illness, safety guidelines
where applicable. We want equal
pay for equal work. There is no
good reason why pay rates should
be different from one department
tothe
next.
Our working conditions are
students’learningconditions.
If
we have to teacha labor class
with more students than last year
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Union will bring TAs
into modern society
It hascome time for teaching
assistants to consider the consequences of their choice in the upcoming vote on unionization. It is
almost inconceivable that at least
the required majority will not vote
“yes”. Rational people, isit
assumed,act
in theirown
interests. After all, all but the most
blatantly anti-union opinion is
agreed that unions’ benefit the
members they represent, if no one
else. And besides, although some
of us have it pretty cosy, is it not
time to unselfishly set aside particular arrangements and advance
the cause of equality for all TAs?
Without indulging in horror
stories about strikes, itis
worthwhile to imagine the likely outcome of a“yes”verdict.One
complaint has been that TAs are
paid more in some departments
than in others. Another is that pay
isless than what was promised.
We may therefore expect that the
administration will somehow be
pressured to make the present ad
hoc determination of pay more
“rational”. In the simple minded
notions which prevail so tiresomely often on campuses, in government, and in union halls,equity
will be confused with equality of
pay, which willbe haggled over
according to conlplicated formulae. Will this result in closer
approximation to the ideal of pay
commensurate with work done?
Not on your life. It will result in a
new arrangement of inequalities,
just as it has elsewhere. It will
result in a highly bureaucratized
and antagonistic process more
cumbersome and rigid thanthe
present one.
A less narrow conception of
equity would consider that other
guest so commonly absent at the
equalizer’s dinner table: those
who lack not only the “benefits”
of unionization, but those of TAships at all. Let’s face reality: the
amount of money available is
limited. Pay will not be equalized
downwards.Nor is it likely that
our would-be local will voluntarily
accept arollback,which,
with a
static or shrinking budget, would
be necessary in order
to
accomodate more or even the same
number of TAs as atpresent. This
would be an
unnatural
and
monstrous perversion for any
right-minded toiler.
If there areunhappy
consequences to apparently benevolent
actions, it would be unfair to let
the benefits go unmentioned.
Leaders and organizers can revel
in that most heady of euphoria,
the
power
of altruism. As
members of a union, TAs will get
to practice a kind of modern rite
of passage before moving into the
corporate society. Training in
whinning “gimmie”, after
all,
may prove the most valuable we
have acquired in our university
careers.
James Lettermen
now jobs
TA
graduate
studies
in the same number of hours as being inan adversarialrelationlast year, someone is going to suf- ship with the administration. We
fer. Either the students are going justwant t o gaina voice as an
to receive less individual atten- equalpartner in establishing our
tion, or the TA is going to have working conditions. We arean
less time for his or her own work. important and responsible part of
of the university community, and we
Better safety conditionsare
concern to both TAs and students are a reasonable group of people.
in lab classes. Advance notice of There can be no strike unless the
amointment will enable a TA to union membership votes to do so.
Noone can order us to go on
better prepared.
strike. Ninety-five per cent of the
Some
people
have
expressed
be
mcernthat
if there is a TA contracts in Canada with bargainnion, there will be a strike. The ing units the size of UBC’s are setossibilities should not be exager- tled without any kind of job acrated. W:: don’t see ourselves astion.
If you are a TA,tutoror
marker, cast avote in favor of
having a voice with which to speak
about our working conditions.
Vote yes for union representation
this Thursday and Friday.
Judith Mossof
L
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Brian Lawson
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UNION PAMPHLET.
. . TAa burdened by workload
Union could spell s-t-r-i-k-e
I’m a teaching assistant and I
wanted to say something about
the proposed TA union. All TAs
shouldcarefullyconsidertheeffect of the union and thepromises
that they are making. For example, the union wants to even out
salaries
between
faculties.
However, each faculty
has
a
limited supply of money and that
demand
could
result in lower
salaries in all faculties or fewer
‘
people being hired in some or all
of the faculties.
How do we get the university to
meet our demands? strike
A
would result in the TAs not working andnot gettingpaid. If the
strike lasts any length of time, and
it might have to in order to get
results, theTAs could standto
lose a lot more than they would
ever gain.Afterall,
the term of
employment is only seven or eight
Foreign TAs will benefit
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Foreign teaching assistants can
benefit froma TA union. Since
teaching assistantships and financial assistance are not guaranteed
by the university, foreign students
are in an even more tenuous situation than other students. If their
employment is notguaranteed,
the threat of automatic deportation looms. Dismissal by an
employer givesyou no recourse
with the immigration department.
The TAU wants to protect the
of
numbers
available, and to insist that decisions about who gets these jobs
are madeearly enough so that
foreign
students
can
plan
reasonably, and with some security. A union is the only legally binding collective force that can ensure promises.
I encourage all foreign TAs to
vote yes on Thursday and Friday
in the certificationvote forthe
TAU!
Malcolm Kennard
foreign TA
months for most TAs so a loss of
just one month’s payrepresents
better thanten per cent of the
total earnings.
Those TAs that depend on the
income to pay rent or second term
fees could find themselves a little
short. That’s not what I call job
security, yet the union says it will
work for better job security.
Let’s face it, being a TA is not a
lifetime career nor a full-time job
and it shouldn’t be considered as
one. I agree that there can be a lot
of work for some students, but
how much more work is it than
most other part-time jobs thatpay
the same?
Notonlyshould
we examine
that goals of the union, we should
also consider what it means to be
part of a union.
I strongly urge all TAs to think
carefully about the consequences
of unionization. Are the possible
gains worth the price we must
pay? We don’t have toform a
union just because other universities have unionized.
Christine Third
THE WESTERN MBA
THE UNIVERSITY of
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