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Some dace I5ke home m Thirteen months after taking list, she was persecuted-her photo was going around-she ary. Reporters and camera operators wanted interviews

courier for the guerillas,” she explains. “She was put on a black A BIG MEDIA HULLABALOO FOLLOWED MARIA INTO HER SANCTU-

refuge in the basement of a saw military people bury bodies of guerillas in a cemetery, and close-ups, but the attention made some feel uncom- and her nephew was kidnapped.” fortable.

death squad beat and tortured a woman she worked with. weeks,’ says Linda Ervin, Trinity United’s in-team minister.

Immigration to reverse its made her way to Canada in 1990 and applied for refugee sta- A year and a month later, ~ r v i n admits she never thought tus. In August 1993, her claim was rejected and by December the family’s stay would last this long a few weeks, a month 1995 all appeals had been exhausted-Maria and her five

Vancouver church, a In fact, Maria fled El Salvador in 1980 after members of a We saw ourselves on TV almost every mght for a few

Salvadoran family waits for Maria was 18 at the time. We weren’t used to that as a church, so some people were Residmg illegally in the US for the next ten years, Maria land of curious about why we were doing this.’

deportation order. kids, four b o k in the US and one in Canada, were ordered out

Barsallo is quick to add that Maria’s past political persecsu- SOMETIMES MARIA B-oNA FEELS LIKE SHE’S FALLING MART. tion has never been doubted; her story was not rejected by the

if her family will be allowed to stay in Canada. The uncertain- ty is % its toll; it haunts her Illghts and makes her cry when she’s awake.

Maria’s supporters meet once a month to offer their support, write letters and report on what progress-if any-they’ve made. Today, they want to organise a small party for Maria’s eldest daughter, Julie, who‘s turning 13 soon.

Alicia Barsallo, a UBC law student, leads toqht’s meeimg. For a while every- one’s mood is upbeat; the group resem- bles a wine and cheese reception. T h q s change, however, when it’s time to review the letters received over the last month.

Maria breaks down and starts to cry. “No good news, bad news,” she says, get- tmg up to leave the meeting.

Maria is referring to the Department of Immigration’s latest letter, suggesting she return to the US-her dlegal home for ten years until 1990-and then apply to the Canadian government for refugee status. Her three-year-old Canadian son can remain in the country, the letter reads, but Maria has to leave. It’s the only way.

Barsallo asks Maria not to leave the meehng. “We want you to be aware of what we‘re doing” she says.

by Federico Araya Barahona* ofthe Country.

She wakes not what’s going to happen, Immigration and Refugee Board, We are not dealing with an

Maria nods but does not return.

WHEN A FRIEND OF MARIA PHONED TRINlTY

maybe, but not a year. ” H ~ ~ is a antral Stdl, she believes this is

a battle that needs to be Amelkan who was not fought. “Maria would fit

doing verv well so- ‘women at risk under Y . nomically-t,ough she the United Nations defi-

nition, but that hasn’t was Working-sMQ even been considered,”

that she a case, about the case, Barsallo What’s important

she’s genuine- points out, is that it’s [telling] Canadians: brought an issue into

the public eye that was I be Sahradoran thought to be dead-the

and I IIIW be dark, but belief that immigration,

reject me.” w+E~. She adds: “Here is a

Central American who --ALICIA BARsALU) was not doing very well UBC LAW STUDENT economically-though

she was worm-show- ing to the rest of Canada

that she has a case, she’s genuine ... [telling] Canadlans: I may be Salvadoran and I may be dark, but you’ve got to look at my story before you reject me.”

By t a k q a stand, Maria has sparked a debate that wdl not easily go away, Barsallo explains. “She has gotten the churches talking about immigration, she’s got some unions thmlung about it, some school principals are talk- ing about it-she’s got people interested.”

SI’ITING IN THE BASEMENT OF HER CHURCH, OUTSIDE THE common kitchen that’s become her kitchen, Maria looks like a woman who’s taken her last stand. She says her

United Church 13 months ago, some- MARIA BARAHONA and her five kids have defied their deportation order, sparking a daughter Julie came up with a plan to show &ation needed to be done, quickly. debate that will not easily go away. CHRIS NUTALL-SMITH PHOTO what it’s like to live in a church,

Maria and her family had less than two Why don’t we invite them to spend a week with us,’ weeks to leave Canada, their refugee claim having been reject- economic refugee here, she says. the girl suggested, ‘and that way they can see that it’s not ed by the Vancouver Immigration and Refugee Board. The “I read the decision, and the decision &d not say Barahona nice.’ move to seek sanctuary, Maria adds, was a last resort to stop lies,” she adds. Maria smiles for a second, then a tear rolls down her face. the Canadian government from forcing the family back to El Accordmg to a news release Barsallo prepared, the board She wipes it so quickly that it’s hard to say whether it was ever Salvador; a Had Mary of sorts. estabhhed that Maria had, in fact, been persecuted in El there in the first place.

Time and time again, Maria says El Salvador is a place she Salvador. Her claim was rejected , however, because guerilla ‘I’m scared,’ she says. ‘Everyday I wake up wondering, cannot return to, no matter what. In Central America, she supporters were no longer being persecuted; officials felt the what’s going to happen to us... they’ll kick us out, you adds, there are people with long mer-ories. people who will army wouldn’t be interested in Maria’s past 13 years later. think?’ remember her from before. Her brother, who was deported The decision disturbs Barsallo. The reporter sitting in front of her shrugs. from the US and ‘&sappeared” days after arriving in El “My response to that is, how do you know? Are we in the ‘I can’t go back to El Salvador,’ she adds. ‘I need Salvador, is a constant reminder of what can happen to for- business of rislung people’s lives because we don’t feel she Immigration to understand that’d mer guerdla sympathisers. will be in danger? What makes them so sure? Why should we

Her fears are well-founded, Barsallo agrees. “Maria was a go with their belief?” * no dation to Maria Barahona

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A fledgling association of BC and Yukon stu- dent unions is reportedly gaining strength, despite a rocky start and objections from the Canadian Federation of Stcdents.

Lisa Moffatt, chair of Langara College's Students' Union, said the BC Yukon Students' Association (BCYSA) formed last summer as an alternative to the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) and its relatively expensive membership dues. There was a need, she said, for a network where student unions could col- lectively address education issues.

"We decided to have this network where there wouldn't be any [internal] politics, there wouldn't be any herarchy, all it would be was regular meetings of student associations from all across British Columbia to discuss prob lems at their campuses and then to learn from other peoples' tribulations and successes,a Moffatt said.

But Langara's Student Union never joined the BCYSA and doesn't plan on doing so any time soon. Reports of political infighting turned Moffatt and Langara off the BCYSA shortly after its inception.

strike new organisation The organisation has proved attractive to essentially ineffective," Gardner said.

some however. The BCYSA charges member The CFS, however, has also come under fire schools $800 per semester, while the CFS's lately. dues are more- than $6 per student per semes- "I don't think this is an association 1 ter. Currently, the BCYSA is made up that's going to seriously impact of five BC colleges, students in a positive or negative including Vancouver Community College's way in this province-it's going to King Edward Campus, be uninfluential and essentially University College of the Fraser Valley and Kwantlen College. MICHAEL CARDNER

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ineffective."

BCYSA co-founder BC CFS CooRDlNAToR and co-administrator Kathryn Fleetwood said the organisation focus- es solely on educational issues like provincial funding and accessibility to post-secondary education. Dues pay for administration, faxing and postage, but organisers are not paid, she said.

The 'Yukon' was only recently added to BCYSAs name when University College of the Yukon expressed interest in joining. Several other students unions have also looked into the organisation, Fleetwood said.

"[Langara] dropped out of CFS in '92 and as far as I can gather it was the best thmg the Langara Students Union ever did," said Moffatt. 'We were paying the CFS about $68,000 a year and all we were getting was posters every couple of months, a newsletter here and there-in terms of organising and action we did that just as well or better than any CFS campaign that's ever come out of their ofices," she said, joining in a recent chorus of student unions dissatisfied with the CFS. -

I The CFS's BC coordi- The UBC's Alma Mater Society is not a

success9 a chance to network "we Will not even touch the B n S A nator, Michael Gardner, member of the CFS but joined its rival, the and an opportunity to make friends in a non-pledging broth- because it's so controversial right said the upstart BCYSA Canadian Alliance of Student Associations

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LANCARA COLLEGE STUDENT UNION student associations form A M s Coordinator of External Affairs Allison a separate organization, Dunnet said Wednesday that while the AMs is but I don't think this is an not interested in becoming a BCYSA member,

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APEC ECONOMIC SUMMIT

Trade edipses human rights at UBC by J. Clark

News that UBC will host Pacific Rim leaders as they forge the world’s largest free trade zone has drawn both criticism and praise from the UBC community.

Leaders from more than 20 Asia Pacific nations will attend the APEC summit in November, including delegates from China and Indonesia, countries notorious for their poor human rights records.

The summit, to be held in the Museum of Anthropology, will deal with economic cooperation and free trade in the Asia Pacfic region.

AMS Coordinator of External Affairs Allison Dunnet argued that, while some of these countries may be strong economical- ly, their human rights records are a cause for serious concern.

“I’m offended and I think all students are offended, because we are inviting mur- derers into our museum,” she said.

But AMS Director of Administration Jennie Chen argued students stand to bene- fit from the summit.

“I see it as a great opportunity for stu- dents,” she told The Ubyssey, “especially for groups llke the Pacific Rim Club and inter- national relations students.”

Chen concedes that there are serious human rights issues with some of the nations, but “like the AIDS conference, this provides a chance for people with concerns

to have them expressed in a forum where there is the chance for informed discussion and media attention.”

UBC President ‘David Strangway wel- comed the announcement and defended UBC’s participation in the summit.

“You have to decide fundamentally whether you are going to be partners in the dynamics of what is going on in the Asia- Pacific region,” he told The Ubyssey, adding that “it is a wonderful occasion for UBC to be the host to the leaders of these great eco- nomic centres.“

The value of the summit for UBC, Strangway said, “is not about money. This is about being part of a very interesting area with all kinds of complexities. It’s about helping us to learn.”

Dunnet, however, said she has trouble seeing the educational value of the summit. ”APEC has nothing to do with the exchange of student ideas,” she said. “It has to do with the exchange of cash.”

Activists also questioned Strangway‘s motives.

“We don’t think it is appropriate that UBC host the butchers of Beijing,” said Jaggi Singh, a spokesperson for the anti-APEC group Active Resistance.

Dave Jago, also an Active Resistance member, said APEC is all about economics.

“Strangway looks at this and sees pres- tige in it for UBC and he sees money in it for UBC,” Jago said

UBC PRESIDENT David Strangway shares a moment with Quzhen Zhu, head of the Chinese delegation at the reception hosted at the Museum of Anthropology. RICHARD LAM PHOTO

Wednesday’s announcement was made Strangway, listed in the agenda as the offi- during this week’s Asia Pacific cial host of the reception, told The Ubyssey Parliamentary Forum (APPF), one of a that UBC would be footing the bill for the series of preliminary conferences leading event. up to the summit in November. Strangway also stressed that Wednesday

A reception for the forum delegates was night’s events were an excellent way to p r e held at the Museum of Anthropology, fol- mote academic and student exchange, lowed by a dinner at the First Nations although no student or faculty representa- House of Learning Wednesday night. tives were invited to the reception. @

Security forcibly by J. Clark

Oysters were not the only thing on the menu for guests of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF) Tuesday

Activist Jaggi Singh was dragged in a head lock from the reception in UBC’s Museum of Anthropology.

A visibly shaken Singh said he was angered by the inci- dent. “It’s not surprising, but how are you supposed to feel when somebody just comes up to you and puts you in a choke hold and you haven’t done anything,” he said.

Startled foreign delegates looked on as a plain clothes police officer confronted Singh, ripped his press accredi- tation from his neck and attempted to escort the activist from the building. When Singh refused to leave before see- ing the officer’s badge Captain J.W. Loran of the RCMP, with the help of two UBC security guards, put Sin& in a choke hold and carried him outdoors.

Once outside, Captain Loran threatened to charge S l n g h with trespassing and place him under arrest if he did not leave the museum grounds immediately. S l n g h refused to leave untd the officer identified h e l f . At h s point Captain. Loran showed his badge and Slngh left the proper- ty, but not before lodging a complaint against Loran with campus RCMP officers who had arrived on the scene.

“In China and Indonesia people in plain clothes come up to you and grab you and throw you out of buildings. In Canada you can’t do that,” said Singh.

Singh was asked to leave after attempting to present the East Timorese flag to an Indonesian delegate to the forum. Indonesia has occupied the island of East Timor

night.

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since 1975 and is accused of numerous human rights abuses against the East Timorese people.

UBC President David Strangway, official host of the reception, refused to comment on the decision to remove Singh but said of the protest that “we live in a society where those things are okay and people are free to demon- strate and show their feelings.”

Singh said Thursday that he plans to pursue legal action against Captain Loran. @

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S record straight In an unusual twist, the actors and filmmakers who put Ghosts of Mississippi together were unavailable for interviews, but one of the real-life players talked to The Ubyssey about the fdm and the trial on which it is based.

by Peter T. Chattaway

GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI at Cineplex theatres

Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot dead outside his house. It took 3 1 years and three trials-the first two occurred in the 1960s and ended in hung juries-before his assassin Byron De La Beckwith was found guilty of murder and sentenced to prison.

The third, and successful, trial has now become a movie, Ghosts of Mississippi, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin as Bobby DeLaughter, the assistant DA, and Whoopi Goldberg as Evers’ widow Myrlie Evers-Williams.

Ironically, the transition to film began when southern author Willie Morris asked DeLaughter to check Morris’ arti- cle on the trial for accuracy. That obsession with accuracy has carried over into the hype surrounding Reiner’s film, but DeLaughter, talking to The Ubyssey from a hotel in New York, spends a fair chunk of the interview pointing out places where the fdm exercised some dramatic license: “As Rob explained to me, it’s not a documentary, it’s a movie. There are some liberties that have been taken.”

However, some of the more outrageous story elements, such as DeLaughter finding the 3CLyear-old murder weapon in a gun collection belonging to his father-in-law, a former judge, are true to life. In the fdm, DeLaughter makes the dis- covery after he and his first wife, Dixie (played by Virginia

w problems didn’t flow over into those relationships, and to the extent that the movie shows that Carolyn [the mother-in-law] would prefer that I not be in the house and that sort of thing, that is not true to life. She’s always been very gracious to me. And in actu- ality, that event occurred while Dixie and I were still married, so there was no conflict at all.”

DeLaughter also regrets that the movie, which paints De La B e c h t h (James Woods) as a Bible quoting racist, never showed the more positive side of faith. ‘During that time, there wasn’t but one other alternative and that was to say a lot of prayers. And probably if I had had the authority to say, ‘I want one scene to convey one thing that did not make the final cut,’ it would be a scene to illustrate that in some way.”

DeLaughter says it has been “a very surreal expe rience” to see his life, including his divorce and remarriage, translated to the big screen. Dixie’s dia- logue was based on an interview between her and the fdm’s producers. “I tried staying out of that aspect of it,” DeLaughter says. “The idea of having, really, any of my personal life on the big screen was rather unsettling, because I’m a rather private per- son. My wife tells me all the time that I keep t h u g s to myself too much. But I thought that the message of the case was worth the unsettling feeling. I had some discussions with my children about that, and certainly with my wife, and we were pretty much prepared for it.”

Any loss Of privacy must have paled next to the THIS IS AN ACTOR; THIS IS NOT THE REAL GUY: Alec Baldwin poses for bomb Scare that had his family fleeing to a in the camera while Bobby DeLaughter, the real-life (and presumably

the middle Of the night‘ That was the Only threat he camera-shy) assistant DA he plays in Ghosts of Mississippi, talks to encountered during the trial, though the film includes other incidents, such as a note left on a the media about the trial that convicted the assassin of black civil

smashed windshield, that DeLauehter insists are rights activist Medgar Evers. v

also fictitious. very sensitive to the notion that I’m some sort of lone, cru- Reconciliation and a desire to avoid personal conflict are sading warrior. I’m not. This was a team effort. It involved a

recurring themes throughout the interview-qualities one lot of people, black and white, working together to reach a might not expect from a Drosecutincr attornev. common eoal.”

I “AS Rob [Reiner] explained to me, DeLaughter isthus somewiat reticencto discuis

it‘s not a documentary, it‘s a movie. namely, that it isjust another one ofthose films in

There are some liberties that have from a martyred black leader,

been taken.“

the main criticism that has been leveled at Ghosts:

whch a privileged whte hero steals the spotlight

“I certainly think there is fertile ground to fol- low up on any of these other matters, particularly

Madsen), have separated, and Reiner plays the scene for its concerning the life work of Medgar Evers,” DeLaughter says, humorous conflict. But DeLaughter insists it wasn’t quite but he notes that Reiner, as a white man, did not think he like that. could do Evers’ story justice.

‘The only thing about that that is different is my mother- In any case, one can hardly blame DeLaughter for the in-law-really, all of my in-laws-and I have always gotten decisions made by Hollywood, and he says he would have along very well and still get along very well. Mine and Dixie’s preferred to see his colleagues get more attention. “I’ve been

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That team effort continues, he says, in the work of organ isations like Mission Mississippi, which are working towards racial reconciliation in the south.

“I’m not going to tell you there’s no racism in Mississippi any more-there certainly is--but it’s not going unchecked, and it’s much less than what it used to be. We have more black elected public officials than any other state in the union. We’re undergoing tremendous economic growth right now because we’re no longer fighting one another; we’re pulling together and trylng to reach a common goal of prosperity. I think the races live more in harmony and more closely in proximity with one another in Mississippi and the south than a lot of places I’ve seen in the north.” JJ~

THE UBYSSEY, JANUARY 10, 1997 5

‘Music to his madness by Alison Cole

SHINE at the Caprice and Fifth Avenue theatres

When love is obsessive and life is lonely, it can tear your mind apart. So goes Shine, based on the true accounts of red-life prodigy David Helfgott.

Portrayed by a trio of exceptionally talented Australians (Alex Rafalowicz, Noah Taylor and Geoffrey Rush) over a span of three decades, Helfgott is brought to life as we witness the events that led to both the tragedies and the fulfillments of this unique genius.

~ As a young child, David is ?rained by his PolishJewish father, Peter Helfgott (The Power of One’s Armin Mueller-Stahl), as a pianist with the potential for greatness, an opportunity denied to Peter in his youth. The stern and demanding father forces his son to succeed in this promising career, but he forbids David to accept a scholarship at the prestigious Royal College of Music in London. The adolescent David, played by the dashingly cute Taylor (flirting), responds by rebelling against his father, who thereby disowns the son he so domineeringly cares for.

In EqJand, David maintains an obsessive commitment to the piano and, more specifically, to conquering Rachmaninoffs ‘Piano Concerto No. 3,’ a 45-minute piece that supposedly consists of over one million notes and is deemed the most difficult in existence. Ths, combined with his father’s enduring influence and a lack of human compassion, drives the young David to a mental breakdown, whereby he retreats into his own world of scattered thoughts and dementia. Committed to a mental institution for about the next ten years, the once acclaimed virtuoso is forgotten and buried from society.

A decade later, David emerges as a man, portrayed by distinguished stage actor Rush. Still lost in his fragmented mind, David gradually pieces his life back together, and one can observe the eccentric personality that this transformed musical genius now possesses.

Rush does an absolutely superb job of interpreting the idiosyncratic character of Helfgott. His performance is somewhat reminiscent of Dustin Hoffman as Rain Man, as well as Lenny in Of Mice and Men - a delicious combination of innocence and goodness laced with a subtle brilliance. One understands both the intensity of his per- formances (played by the real-life Helfgott) and the joy he finds in jumping on a tram- poline in near nakedness.

Mueller-Stahl’s brilliant performance deserves praise as well, as he successfully exhibits a compelling portrayal of Peter Helfgott’s “killing love.” One can only imagine the concentration and energy that went into duplicating this version of the real David‘s father.

Limited to 105 minutes, the film’s hasty build-up to David’s breakdown failed to convince me of its realism. However, some enterprising techniques compensated for this. These included recurring thematic imagery, the creative use of slow motion to magnify David’s perspective and, most interestingly, the presentation of the film in ”concerto” form. This fdm is constructed like the ‘Rach 3’ concerto at its heart, consisting of alternating fast and slow ”move- ments’ and centering around the char- acter of David, who signifies the solo ‘piano’ of the piece. Such obscure yet dramatic symbolism could easily be PLAY M E LIKE YOU PLAY YOUR PIANO: Lynn missed, but its presence still makes a Redgrave and Geoffrey Rush star as Mrs. strong statement. and Mr. Helfgott in Shine.

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Come visit Marvin’s room ... by Robin Yeatman

MARVIN‘S Roolu at the Fifth Avenue cinema

Rich as strawberry cheesecake, and satisfylng as actually finding the needle in the proverbial haystack, Marvin‘s Room is a gem to behold. This poignant story touches on every tender human emotion reachable by the medium of film. Blessed with a moving story and a winning cast, there is no choice but to bask in its shining warmth.

Unquestionably, Diane Keaton steals the show as Bessie, older sister to Lee (Meryl Streep). At long last, Keaton has managed to shed the dazed, flaky image she’s had since Annie Hall. She is heartbreakingly genuine, without being too good to be true. The story begins when Bessie, a gentle, nurturing woman whose life work has been takmg care of her ding father (Hume Cronyn) and aunt, discovers she has leukemia. The need for a bone marrow transplant prods her to contact Lee, the sister she has- n‘t seen in 20 years, as well as the two nephews she has never seen at all.

Obviously, this dysfunctional family has problems, and the reunion is both p a i d and uncomfortable. However, the eventual catharsis makes for touching and oddly humorous interactions. Streep’s performance as the unlikable yet endearing Lee is equally convincing. Her relationship with delinquent son Hank (Leonard0 DiCaprio) evokes a raft of emotions. DiCaprio shows he can hold his own, often conveying much in very few words.

This film is especially admirable is the way this film does not use Bessie’s illness as ameasy road to suck the audience in with its emotions. We don’t see Bessie wast- ing away in a hospital bed, croaking out eloquent last words. Instead, the film explores everyday situations, conversations and realisations. T h s results in forgive- ness, resolution and acceptance, which are very refreshing, positive themes.

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President Strangway was proud to announce Wednesday that UBC has been chosen to host the APEC summit in November of this year. The summit wdl bring leaders from all over the Pacifk Rim to UBC, as they take the next step towards the worlds largest free trade zone by the year 2020.

It is a summit, supporters say, that will bring economic benefits to everyone involved. But while some individuals and corporations may well prosper from the new arrangements, the average Pacific Rim citizen will never see the wealth gen- erated by free trade. Just ask the workers in the Mexican maquiladoras.

From a public relations standpoint the summit is obviously a coup for UBC. It will ensure that the university gains a higher profile internationally and will no doubt bring in a number of top researchers and their funding. But Strangway insists host- ing the summit 'is not about money, [it] is

bloodied hands about being a part of a very interesting area with all kinds of complexities. It's about helping us to learn."

But what are the lessons UBC students are to learn from this summit?

We learn that Canada has made the dis- appointing choice to value networks of wealth over basic human rights. They have already forsaken the East Timorese for the price of the Candu reactors sold to Indonesia last year. And the APEC summit is just another step down the slippery slope of support for brutal regimes in Asia.

We will also learn that the UBC admin- istration gives only lip service to democ- racy. They allow a statue to be erected in honour of the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre, but at the same time welcome the perpetrators of that crime to our campus. What do organisers plan to do? Throw a blanket over the statue while the delegates pass by?

China and Indonesia, although the most infamous, are certainly not the only examples of countries with questionable human rights records attending this sum- mit.

But ideally the administration of this university would never have offered to host this summit to begin with. As a n aca- demic institution, UBC should be teaching the lesson of the value of freedom and human rights. The fact is, in several of the delegate countries, this editorial could cost us our lives or our freedom.

'In the final analysis, what's life about? It's about relationshps,' Strangway said.

We agree, but when you enter a rela- t ionshp you accept the other for who they are. You can't go into a relationship expecting you'll convince your partner to change their 'bad habits.'

By welcoming these countries onto our campus we are implicitly saying we approve of their actions. Jf

letters AMS fee hike is hypocritical As a matter of personal opinion I have always opposed unjustified increases in fees imposed onto students. We have experienced in the past unreasonable sudden increases of 1 5 1 in tuition fees. But recently, students have l o b bied against proposed increases to ancillary fees by the adminis tration. However I know that costs tend to go up in time, thus we must pay our fair share of those services. Before any hikes in fees are passed down to stu- dents, we must be certain that the funds requested are of an essential nature and that they are in line with inflation. The proposed $1.50 fee increase pro- posed by members of the AMs does not follow this criteria. The A M s intends to hold a referen- dum askmg students to support a $1.50 fee increases of which $0.50 will go towards the Walter Gage Memorial fund and $1.00 towards the A M s Clubs Benefit

Fund. If more information was provided on it I would be less skeptical about the fee increase, but what concerns me is that tb is a critical year for students in terms of fee increases. In a time when some AMs members are devoting intense energy and time to lobby the administration and the provincial government to protect essential tuition and ancillary fees from unjustified increases it may be considered inconsistent behaviour for some members of the AMs to ask its constituents an almost 4% increase in their AMs fees. Allow me then to suggest to the AMs that they work together towards a more consistent policy in regards to fee increases at leist until the ancillary fees issue is solved. Due to current economic circumstances it seems to me that those students behind the fee increase could not have c h c sen a worse time to request more money from the student popula- tion.

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FORMER UBC students Moe and Herb back in 1977

Friday, January 14, 1977

Former Provincial Environment Minister Moe Sihota and Federal Liberal MP Herb Dhaliwal have been i n the news together lately. But 20 years ago, they start- ed their political careers at UBC. In 1977, both ran for seats on the university’s Board of Governors with five other candidates includkg incumbent Basil Peters. The Ubyssey reported:

The strongest challenge to Peters will come from Moe SihotJ, Alma Mater Society external afhirs ofticer.

Sihota says he opposes a tuition fee increase because it would hinder accessibility to university education.

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by Marcus Gee

Fridajl, January 21, 1977

Students turned out in near- record numbers Wednesday to elect Moe Sihota and Basil Peters as student representatives to the board of governors.

Sihota, Alma Mater Society external affairs officer, \vas svept to power with 1,517 votes, nearly twice as many as Peters, an incum- bent on the board.

Sihota received support from more than half the 2,775 students who voted.

While Sihota was a run-away winner, the fight for the second board seat was close and fourth- place finisher Herb L)haliwal, AMs director of finance, said Thursday he will ask for a recount.

Here are the complete results: Sihota, 1,517 votes; Peters, 81 1; commerce student Gary Moor, 785; Dhaliwal, 771; Young Socialist Joanne Clifton, 442; sci- ence student Bob Salkeld, 338 and AMs returning officer Bob Goodwin, 164.

Polls closed Wednesday after- noon for the senate and board elections but the senate ballots have not been counted. Results are expected today.

“I am opposed to any form of differential fees for foreign or out-of-province students,” he says.

Sihota says the quality of education at UBC is poor, mainly because of the tenure-granting sys- tem. There should be a re-evaluation of the tenure structure, a teaching improvement centre and an anticalendar to evaluate professors and courses, he says.

Sihota says he would push for a bus pass system for UBC students like the one used at the University of Victoria. At UVic, students pay a $30 a term for unlimited use of the bus system.

Ah4S finance director Herb Dhaliwal, also a candi- date, says there is no need to raise tuition fees to main- tain the quality ofeducation at UBC. “Many faculties and departments are run inefficiently,” he says.

Doubling tuition fees would increase UBC’s operating budget by only seven per cent, says Dhaliwal.

He says one of his priorities would be to refinance SUR to lower the annual payments the AMs pays. Students currently pay $15 a year toward the SUB debt.

There should be a reevaluation of the tenure sys- tem, Dhdiwal says. “There is a lot of deadwood at UBC and it seriously affects the quality of education.”

He says his financial experience is his strongest asset in seeking election to the board. “The board needs someone who understands the budgetary process and who knows where to cut back.”

Sihota won a seat on the Board of Governors, while llhaliwal finished fourth. jj

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concentrated on arts and first-year students and they came o u t and \Toted.

“It feels good to sweep the ‘geers off thc slate. We finally broke the ‘geer domination.”

Last year Peters and Rick Murray, another engineering stu- dent, were elected by heavy bloc voting by ‘geers and a low turnout from arts. The vote breakdown for each poll is not yet available.

Sihota said his first priority as student board member will be to work for student control of board and senate elections and a stream- lined election procedure.

“A lot of people are really peeved off about having to put their student number on the bal- lot envelope,” he said.

UBC registrar Jack Parnall now runs student board and sen- ate elections, although the AMs pays students to run the polls. Voters in this year’s election were

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required to place their ballot in an envelope and place that envelope i n a second one bearing their name and student number.

Parnall insists on this procedure so vote counters can check if the voter is a full-time student. Students taking less than 12 units art: not allowed to vote, according t o the Universities Act and senate regulation.

Sihota also said h is landslide \ic- tory means he has a mandate fi-om the students to fight tuition fee increases.

“This gives me a strong man- date to stand up on tuition fees. If I do anything, I will fight to the end against increases.”

As AMs external affairs officer, Sihota helped organize a letter campaign protesting tuition fee increases. More than 6,000 URC students signed the form letter and sent it to education minister Pat McGeer. sf

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