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Terry Zwigoffs critically acclaimed adaptation of Daniel Clowes' comic is an occasionally cruel, often funnyand always wry look at life after high school. Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson star as best friends who revelin scorning just about everything. Look for people doing stupid stuffIn the background and Steve Buscemi asa slightly unsettling record collector.Tickets are $3

Night of the Hunter playing at the Pacific Cinemathéque, Friday and Sundayat 7:30pm, Saturday at 9:30pm.

Robert Mitchum busted out of his leading man mould to play a violent Southern con man in this 1955thriller. Mitchum is terrifying and the film, told mostly from the perspective of the children he is chasing,has a nightmarish quality that is sure to stay with you. Enjoy!Tickets are $5 for students with membership

SPORTS Women's Volleyball vs. Calgary at War Memorial Gym, Friday at6:15pm and Saturday at 8pm.

Enjoying a four-game winning streak and the return of middle blocker Kaley Boyd from the national team, theBirds are ready to take on their toughest opponents in Canada West, the 10-0 Dinos.

Men's Volleyball vs. Calgary at War Memorial Gym, Friday at 8pm andSaturday at 6:15pm.

After a terrible 1-9 record in 2001, the men's team desperately needs a win and the Birds have a good chancethis weekend against the 5-5 Dines, Calgary is the only team the Thunderbirds have beaten this season.$2 gets students into both the men's and women's games.

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football coachby Scott Bardsley

On December 13, when most of them werestill busy with exams, UBC's football playerswoke up and found out that the man whocoached them for the past three seasonswouldn't be returning for a fourth. JayPrepchuck, the head coach of the footballteam, had made a difficult decision the nightbefore and announced his resignation.

Prepchuck, who coached football atWindsor High School for 11 years and wonthree provincial championships in his lastfour years there before taking over at UBC,said his decision to quit came from a desireto be closer to his family. His busy scheduleas head coach at UBC left him little time tospend with his two daughters, who attendelementary school in North Vancouver.

Prepchuck's stint with the Thunderbirdsstarted well, but the team's fortunes havesteadily declined. In 1999, his first season,the Birds made it all the way to the CanadaWest final. But they dropped tofourth in theplayoffs the nextyear and in 2001, missed theplayoffs altogether.

His leave of absence from the NorthVancouver School Board and his three-year

contract with UBCwere both set toexpire this spring.He is expected toreturn to coachinghigh school foot-ball.

UBC quarter-back Zack Silver-man said he under-stands Prepchuck'sdecision and that,after UBC's terrible2-6 season in 2001,a new outlook maybe best for theteam.

'I think [Prep-chuck] made a per-sonal decisionbased on his familyand I have to totallyrespect that,"Silverman said.

"As far as thefootball team goes, maybe a change is appro-priate anyway. We didn't have success lastyear, and not to say that if he came back this

year we would-n't have suc-cess, but maybea new coachcan bring some-thing good tothe table that'llhelp us."

'It's too badit ended up likethis, but youhave to look for-ward,' saidreceiver DanLazzari. "It's anopportunity tostart off cleanafter the disap-pointing seasonwe just had andmaybe getsomethinggoing next yearwith the newcoach.'

UBC Athletics is expected to hire a newcoach at the end of January. In the mean-time, defensive coordinator Jerome Erdman

has assumed the role of interim head coach.Speculation about a replacement began

shortly after Prepchuck's announcement ofresignation. University of Saskatchewancoach Brian Towriss and ex-SFU widereceiver Jacques Chapdelaine, currently aCFL assistant in Calgary, are two of thenames being thrown around, but the mostlikely candidate may be a more familiarface.

Dave Johnson coached the Thunderbirdsduring the 1998 season. He resigned follow-ing a physical fight with his assistant at arestaurant in the UBC village in March 1999.Johnson is now the defensive co-coordinatorat the University of Calgary and is one of thetop candidates for the position at UBC.

"I have a great deal of respect for coachJohnson,' Silverman said. "Obviously there'sthe unfortunate incident a few years ago, butif anybody's grown and learned something,it's him. I'd love to see him back."

Johnson told The Vancouver Sun that hewants to be a head coach again and thatUBC is one of the few schools he would con-sider. He did not say whether he wouldtake the job currently available if it wereoffered to him.

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Mid-season snapshotWhich teams are hot—and not

GIRLS RULE, BOYS... One of the above teams sucks, butUBYSSEY FILE PHOTOS

by Scott Bardsley andSarah Conchle

Some of the young men and _women on UBC's varsity sportsteams are poised for success,while others are pretty well atthe bottom of the barrel, at leastright now. Here's a quick lookat how the currently competingThunderbirds are doing in themiddle of the season.

The EliteSwimming

No school has ever won fivemen's and women's nationalchampionships in a row, butthe Thunderbird swim team isset to do just that. To date,coach Tom Johnson has beenleading the team to another suc-cessful season, winning firstplace for both the men's andwomen's teams at the CollegeCup in November. The T-Birdsboast top swimmers such asOlympians Brian Johns andKelly Stefanyshyn: Johns wontwo events at FINA World Cup IIlast November; Stefanyshynwon a silver at World Cup IV inShanghai last December.Barring the unlikely possibilityof these athletes becomingcomplacent, the swimmers willput on quite a show for studentsas UBC hosts the. CIS NationalChampionships during readingweek, from February 22-24.

Carrie Rodgers. Adams was named aCIS Athlete of the Week, and isranked fifth in the country for herthree-point shot accuracy. Returningfrom the beaches, the Birds fly toManitoba on the strength of a 5-3record. If the women, currentlyranked fifth nationally, want tohave a shot at the NationalChampionship, they'll have to find away to overcome the mighty SFUClan, who've had a perfect 8-0 sea-son.

The RestMen's Volleyball (1-9)

Things weren't supposed to workout this way. With players like cap-tain Chad Grimm, whose kill scats

are seventhnationally, themen's volleyballteam has the raw

1 talent to wingames—lots ofgames. But themen stand at amiserable 1-9,and that recordwon't help withthe team'sbiggest problem:confidence.Though it maystill be numeri-cally possible forthe team make tothe playoffs, allthe team can real-ly hope for now isto save face.

two don't.

The LeadersWomen's Volleyball (6-4)

Plagued by injuries, the women'svolleyball team started off its seasonon a disappointing note. ChristineBonish, who led the team in kills lastseason, is still out of action, butthings have turned around: thewomen were on a four-match win-ning streak when play stopped forthe winter break and are nowranked fourth nationally. 2002brings the return of star player Kaley

Boyd, who spent the fall monthstraining with the national team. Theteam is one of UBC's strongest post-season contenders, but the Birds areup against some tough competitionfrom the Calgary Dinos, who areranked first nationally and boast aperfect 10-0 record.

The Middle GroundMen's Basketball (4-4)

The men's basketball team is asolid group. Kyle Russell leads the

team, and is fifth nationally in scor-ing. 2002 brings a new startingpoint guard: J.L. Crowe graduatePaul Naka. But, like the women'svolleyball team, the men's basket-ball Birds face tough competition.They'll have to beat SFU (7-1) tomake it out of the Pacific division,and then they'll have to contendwith Alberta (9-1) and Brandon (7-1).

Women's Basketball (5-3)Although the wothen's basketball

team just spent a sunny week in Cuba

over the Christmas holidays, the sea-son hasn't been all sunshine. Afterlosing the season opener to a feistyTrinity Western squad, the Birds suc-cessfully beat their longtime rivalsfrom Victoria and went headlong intobattle with SFU. Despite losing twogames to the imposing Clan, andfalling suddenly to eighth place in theCIS national rankings, the women'steam bounced back to end the yearon a four-game winning streak, high-lighted by standout performancesfrom veterans Charmene Adams and

Men's Ice Hockey (2-8-4)Expectations this season for the

men's hockey team weren't very highand compared to where the team waslast year (1-11-2), the Thunderbirdsare doing better. But with only twowins in 14 games, the team is set tostay out of the post-season. Their roadrecord is especially atrocious—itstands at a pathetic 0-6-2.

Women's Ice Hockey (0-6)0-6. Ouch. *

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by Nic Fensom

I've been thinking a lot lately about how unbe-lievably weak Lord of the Rings was, or is, orwhatever. Basically, you're in the theatre forthree hours, watching nothing but the same thinghappening over and over.

Like, at first Frodo is like, "Why do I have thering? I don't understand. What is the point?' andthen the wizard is like, "You must, Frodo,' andthen Frodo is like, 'Yeah, okay,' so they go off for,like, ten minutes on this trail through the woods,or ice, or caves, or whatever, and then the dumb-ass hobbit makes some noise and then millionsof demons or whatever show up. And then thebunch of them manage to kill off the millions ofdemons!? Yeah right! They should have beendead like 20 minutes in.

Then after they kill off the millions of demons,Frodo is like, "What is the point? I can't doand blah blah,' and then the wizard talks to birdagain and then Frodo decides, 'Yes, this is okayafter all. I will do it,' and then they continuealong and then more demons come. It's just anendless cycle.

And then like three hours have passed and itshows him and the hobbit preparing for a tan-dem journey to the next place. And then themovie ends? Nothing was resolved. Weeeaaaak.

Also, the wizard was in jail atop that tower and

he called in some big bird to fly him to freedom.So why didn't he call the big bird back to fly themall around, instead of getting crippled by thisother shit, walking? They could have just as easi-ly flown to the demon lair pad in, like, 17 min-utes. Maybe throw in a wind storm to spicethings up or some demon birds to rough themup, but that's it. If the producers had done that,the film would have been a clean 36 minutes,max.

Also, did you notice that they would just sitaround and talk in the middle of some sketchypinner bridge where they could easily fall to theirdeaths. So they just sit there even when it's total-ly obvious that something is going to come alongand try to rock them. And then-what a surprise-they are under attack and the bridge starts crack-ing and falling apart! And where are they again?In the middle of the sketch bridge!! And it is onlywhen the bridge starts really breaking that one ofthem says, "Ruuumm, you fools!' What's up withthat? Like, they're still taking their time, chillin'on the bridge while this is all going on. Shit

If they had their conversation after they got offthe sketch-ass bridge, the wizard wouldn't havedied. But that's not really important because heprobably didn't really die anyway. He'll comeback somehow. Wizards always come back.

And another thing is anyone else a little con-cerned that a movie with an almost exclusivelymale cast portrays evil as a giant fiery vulva?Forget about demons, it's flaming vaginas thathave these guys terrified. +

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The worth of aREADING PICTURES: A HISTORY OFLOVE AND HATEby Alberto Manguel(Knopf Canada)

Alberto Manguel writes big books. Not thickbooks with lots of pages, but books with bigideas. The titles say it all: A History ofReading The Dictionary of Imaginary Placesand his latest, Reading Pictures: A History ofLove and Hate.

Astonishingly, Manguel's books manageto avoid hubris, winnning him numerousawards and critical acclaim. In his latest bookReading Pictures, which was nominated forthe Governor General's Award for non-fic-tion, Manguel turns his sights to the world ofart, looking at 12 different images-fromPicasso's "Weeping Woman' to a mural of abattle fought by Alexander the Great.

He looks past the superficial, examiningeach piece as a reader of pictures, looking forthe subtext, the stories, the meaning behindthe work, much like a literary critic wouldpick apart a novel. It is an often trickyapproach but Manguel gets by through sheer

by Greg Ursic

My university roommate 'Tom' was a genius, a gangly 17-year-oldwith a photographic memory, a penchant for missing classes and aflawless mastery of several different musical instruments. As theaxiom says, however, there is a fine line between genius and insanity.I soon learned that Tom was prone to fits of manic self-destructionand substance abuse. The last I heard, he was doing freelance workfor Rolling Stone, had been published in several well-known literarymagazines, was dabbling in heroin and was undergoing heavytherapy.

Mathematician John Nash was another troubled genius. His find-ings shook the foundations of economics and earned him a Nobelprize. Amazingly he did this while struggling with paranoid schizo-phrenia. The success of A Beautiful Mind ultimately rests on RussellCrowe's ability to capture Nash's tortuous journey.

While studying at Princeton, John Nash is recruited to work for theUS Department of Defence, where he becomes enmeshed fn a shad-owy netherworld of spies and conspiracies, losing touch with thosearound him and also losing his grip on sanity.

Crowe is riveting. The harder Nash struggles to crack the cosmo-

logical code, the weaker his grip on reality becomesand Crowe captures this masterfully. He balancesNash's quirky brilliance and pathos as he dancesbetween reality and insanity. Crowe pulls the viewerinto this crumbling world and avoids becoming thestereotypical slobbering 'madman.'

Jennifer Connelly is lyrically beautiful as Nash's wifeAlicia. The beginning of their relationship seem dubiousbut she leaves the viewer with no doubt that Alicia isNash's only link to the real world and that without hen hewould probably be languishing in a medicated stupor insome asylum. Connelly gives Alicia a soul, wringing every-thing she can from a tragically weak script that does herand her role a disservice.

While the acting and direction in the film is exceptional,more attention should have been paid to the editing and pac-ing. Several sections lag unnecessarily, notably the scenesexploring Nash's madness. They could have been cut downwithout lessening the impact In addition, Crowe's accentwhich is hard to peg, slips a few times. The biggest problem isthe marketing the trailers are deceiving, leading viewers tobelieve the film is a cloak-and-dagger thriller when it is somuch more, one of those rare films that will appeal to bothcasual moviegoers and cinema fans alike. •:*

also a wanted man. To Manguel's credit thegenius of many of these artists-Carravagio,Picasso, Aleijadinho and others-shinesthrough brightly.

Manguel's beacon-like intellect can beclearly seen in Reading Pictures. The chaptertitles in the book are simply audacious: "TheImage as Understanding,' "The Image asPhilosophy,' "The Image as Memory.' But hedoesn't let us down, and each is crammed fullof ideas, keen insights and, most importantly,unanswered questions.

Criticising this book's shortcomings is dif-ficult, because Manguel has already done so;Manguel himself admits that this bookignores the rich traditions of Islamic art, notto mention those of Asian, Africa and count-less other societies.

I would love to read Manguel's insightsinto pornography, graffiti art, advertising,and dozens of other manifestations of thevisual in our lives. Can all of this be fodderfor Manguel's next book? We can onlyhope so. •

-Ron Nurwisah

THE ROYAL TENENBAUMSat theatres everywhere

by Ron Nurwisah

Director Wes Anderson and writing partnerOwen Wilson write the best characters.Remember plucky and precocious geniusMax Fisher from Rushmore and the emotion-ally stunted millionaire Herman Blume, orthe thieves Dignan and Anthony from BottleRocket?

The Royal Tenenbaums, Anderson andWilson's latest project, continues this fine tra-dition. At the film's start, we are introducedto the Tenenbaum clan, a highly dysfuncdon-al family with three highly gifted childrenwhose talents are sadly wasted, exploited bythe children's father, Royal Tenenbaum.

As adults, these three bright children aretormented and disturbed. Financial wonder-child Chas is a nervous widower, obsessedwith the safety of his two sons. Tennis starRichie wanders the seas aboard a freighterafter a career-ending nervous breakdown.Adopted sister Margot, an award-winningplaywright, hasn't written a play in years and

is in a loveless marriage with a stuffy psy-chologist. The Tenenbaum family, it wouldseem, has been scattered to the wind untilRoyal returns to the family he has not seen inyears and announces he is dying of cancer.The family soon finds itself reunited as Royaltries to make up for the years of neglect andpain he inflicted.

Wilson and Anderson have lovingly creat-ed the characters in The Royal Tenenbaums.The washed-up trio of geniuses is charminglyunique. Gwyneth Paltrow's Margot, for exam-ple, has hidden a smoking habit for 22 years,wears a wooden finger and had a week-longmarriage to a Jamaican pop star. DannyGlover, who plays the accountant/love inter-est of Etheline Tenenbaum, the children'smother, is dapper enough to resemble a coolKofi Annan.

The characters are also where the film'sweaknesses can be found. Ben Stiller's por-trayal of Chas, the angry son, is about as sub-tie as his red Adidas tracksuit, whilePaltrow's sullen, suffering Margot isn't veryconvincing or different from the semi-tragiccharacters she plays in other films.

The jokes, too, aren't always as subtle as

they could be. The recurring run-down'Gypsy Cabs,' the scampering Dalmatianmice littering the Tenenbaum home andChas's morose dog should be hilarious, but-director Wes Anderson hits us with themrepeatedly to make sure we get the jokes.The subtle humour that littered Rushmoreisn't present here. Charm should be some-thing that comes naturally. When forced itjust feels artificial.

Fortunately, Gene Hackman's portrayal ofRoyal Tenenbaum doesn't have this problem.The scheming, amoral Tenenbaum patriarchis a delicious character that Hackman playsperfectly. His exchanges with the film's othercharacters are some of the film's bestscenes-unforced and freewheeling. It is inthese moments that we. see this film's truepotential.

The Royal Tenenbaums is a good film butdoesn't have the ingrained qualities thatgreat films seem to have. The film at times isself-indulgent in its eccentricity and heavy-handed in its charm. These are not criticalflaws, but they're just enough to prevent fullenjoyment of this otherwise funny andrich film. •

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In a typical Manguel essay, readers don'tknow where they'll end up. Take the book'sfirst chapter on Van Gogh's "Shipping Boatson the Beach at Saintes-Maries' as an exam-ple. Before the essay is over, Manguel willmention Plato, William Blake, the English artcritic John Ruskin, Gothic cathedrals andManguel's own childhood mentor, Jorge LuisBorges. This is just in one essay; imaginewhat it is like reading 11 more chapters.

To the uninitiated, it sounds daunting, butManguel can also spin a good tale, a qualitythat makes all his facts and references enjoy-able.

His chapter on the Brazilian sculptorAleijadinho is a good example. Aleijadinhosuffers from the painful condition of por-phyria as well as leprosy. Manguel paints anamazing picture of the artist and his subver-sion of the Christian images Aleijadinho wascommissioned to carve.

Or read Manguel's harrowing account ofthe operatic life of Carravagio, one of 17th-century Europe's most famous artists and

The Ubyssey sees the futureWell, we have officially rung in the new year. It's2002. And you know what that means? You canfinally use that calendar from 1991 again! Justwrite 2002 overtop of all the 1991s and pastephotos of your current fave music group on topof all the photos of Paula Abdul or Boyz II Men.Now you're all set for the next 12 months, andyou didn't have to spend a cent!

No, wait. A calendar can only prepare you forso much. To be truly ready for the new year, youneed to familiarise yourself with the UbysseYspredictions for 2002. We have consulted our on-staff psychics fordetailed predictions of the daysto come in this brand new year. Here's what'sahead in the year to come:

-After years of work, UBC students finally get acheap universal bus pass. Knock on wood.

-Students saving money on transit will insteadspend their cash on higher-priced English 112classes after the tuition freeze is, well, thawed.Gordon Campbell's office, look out!

-Brown--the new orange. Be a fashion 'do andinvest in a few key brown pieces to bring your2002 wardrobe Up to date.

-Brad and jen? Splitsville. Oh come on, as if youweren't getting sick of seeing their sticky-sweet, smiling mugs all over every magazine atthe grocery store.

-Lights out for 13iab Hope and the Pope. Phew!

Now you can stop white-knuckling the arms ofyour chair every time you watch either of themteeter across the TV screen.

-Tom Cruise? So gay!

-2002 chic? Everything lesbian.

-Nuclear war is narrowly avoided. We hope.

-The National Post. It just gets worse, if it doesn'tfold. Not to mention the Asper's obscene policyof forcing their papers across the country to runnational editorials. We predict revolt

-The new Star Wars film? Thumbs down! TheUbyssey has received word that *NSYNC is tocameo in the new flick—and they won't be dis-guised as Ewoks either. George Lucas, whatwere you thinking? Count us out. -

-Vancity is Funcity, held on January 4 in the SUBBallroom and sponsored by the Ubyssey andCiTR, is the coolest concert...EVER!!

-UBC men's and women's swim teams both wintheir fifth National Championship in a row.

-Dogs out, ferrets in. Those crazy weasels takethe coveted spot as 'Man's Best Friend' in 2002.

-.-After the introduction of their 'first job' wage,the BC Liberals take the exploitation of youngworkers further and start providing tax cuts to

businesses using child labour.

-The Liberals take our satire seriously and ourabove prediction becomes government policy.Gordon Campbell's heart is officially measuredat two sizes too small.

-Bubble tea? So 2001. Hip '02ers go vintage anddrink milk

-Osama bin Laden: out of the cave, on to the talk-show circuit!

-Stockwell's second run for the leadership of theCanadian Alliance is as amusing as past Day dis-asters, although not as- novel. More Jim than apolitician in a wetsuit!

-Prime Minister Jean Chretien announces hisplan not to retire after his current term, sayingsomething about not wanting anyone to wreckthe comfortable 'groove' he has molded into hischair in the parliament

-Still experimenting with facial hair, Al Goregrows a handlebar mustache.

-A new Alma Mater Society executive is electedearly this year. No one notices.

-After an experiment by third-year biochem-istry students goes wrong, UBC's administra-tion is overthrown by gigantic, hyper-intelligentsquirrels. i•

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 2002VOLUME 83 ISSUE 26

EDITORIAL BOARDCOORDINATING EDITOR

Duncan M. McHughNEWS EDITORS

Ai Lin ChooSarah MacNeill Morrison

CULTURE EDITORRon Nurwisah

SPORTS EDITORScott Bardsley

FEATURES EDITORJulia ChristensenCOPY EDITOR

Laura BluePHOTO EDITOR

Nic FensomPRODUCTION MANAGER

Hywel Tliscano

- COORDINATORSVOLUNTEERSGraeme Worthy

LETTERS/RESEARCHAlicia Miller

The Ubyssey is the official student newspaper of theUniversity of British Columbia. It is published everyTuesday and Friday by The Ubyssey Publications Sodety.We are an autonomous, democratically run student organ-isation, and all students are encouraged to participate.Editorials are chosen and written by the Ubyssey staff.They are the expressed opinion of the staff, and do notnecessarily reflect the views of The Ubyssey PublicationsSociety or the University of British Columbia.The Ubyssey is a founding member of Canadian UniversityPress (CUP) and adheres to CUP's guiding principles.M editorial content appearing in The Ubyssey is the prop-erly of The Ubyssey Publications Society. Stories, opin-ions, photographs and artwork contained herein cannotbe reproduced without the expressed, written permissionof The Ubyssey Publications Society.Letters to the editor must be under 300 words. Pleaseinclude your phone number, student number and signature(not for publication) as well as your year and faculty with allsubmissions. ID will be checked when submissions aredropped off at the editorial office of The Ubyssey, other-wise verification wit be done by phone."Perspectives" are opinion pieces over 300 words butunder 750 words and are run according to space."Fraeityles" are opinion pieces written by Ubyssey staffMembers. Priority will be given to letters and perspectivesov4 freestyles unless the latter is time sensitive. Opinionpieces will not be run until the identity of the writer hasbeen verified. 'It is agreed by all persons placing display or classifiedadvertising that if the Ubyssey Publications Society fails topublish an advertisement or if an error in the ad occurs theliability of the UPS will not be greater than the price paidfar the ad. The UPS shall not be responsible for slightchanges or typographical errors that do not lessen thevalue or the impact of the ad.

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Tin late,' screamed Sarah MacNeill Morrison. It was 9:30am onThersdayJanuary. 3, and she was very/ate for the first day of class.She ran out of her apartment and there was Ai Lin Choo and LauraBlue waiting 'Where were your they screamed. We have to go orDuncan McHugh and Julia Christensen will kill usr Me trio pan-icked and turned around to see none ether than Ron Nurwisah andGraeme Worthy fighting each other with giant plastic swords whilehobbits Greg Ureic and Scott Bardsley and a very wizardly EmilyChan chatted- about how nice the weather was. 'Something's notright,' Sarah said as she ran away. All et a sudden she saw NixFensom and Flywel Tuscmo crossing a very sketch bridge. 'RIM,you fools,' Pellagra said Sarah did just that. She ran and rani andran until finally she got to the Ubyssey offices where she bumpedinto Sarah Confide and Helen Body. We're a 22 page paper todayand we have no copy, they said to her. 'What? That can't be right.It's all a bad dreamt-And that's when she woke up..

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BC's teachers: Avoice for childrenWho speaks for the children? I haveheard this asked by parents upsetabout cancelled Christmas con-certs. Good question! Have parentsbothered to inform themselvesabout the issues that would causeteachers to make such a difficultdecision? Or are they content tobelieve that the current dispute issimply about teachers' salaries?

Have they written in protestthat, in some districts, elementaryschool counsellors have alreadybeen cut back and, will be cut fur-ther if the proposed contract isaccepted? Have they voiced theiropposition to reductions in servic-es and support personnel to spe-cial-needs students? Do theyrealise all children will be affectedif the employer removes caps onthe number of special-needs chil-

dren per classroom? Have theyspoken out about the fact that inmany districts an elementaryLearning Assistance Teacher (LAT)is hired part-time for a school ofover 400 students? The unionwould see one full-time LAT to 200elementary students, while theemployer wants to remove all guar-anteed ratios for all specialist sup-port teachers. Finally, have theyasked why, if teaching is such acushy job, 40 per cent of new grad-uates leave the profession withintheir first five years?

I am reluctant to strike aboutmoney, but I will shut schools andtake to the streets before I allow thisgovernment to take away "essentialservices' to the most vulnerablechildren in our system. Who speaksfor the children? I do! With all of myteaching colleagues! We lookbeyond missed Christmas concertsor volleyball games to issues that

will affect children for life.In any strike there are inconven-

iences and I am sorry for that. Butperhaps if parents joined our voicesand spoke out against these clawbacks, this dispute could be settledquickly and we could concentrateon doing what we love: providingthe best educational opportunitiespossible for all children.

—Linda Chamberlayne1977 UBC Education grad

Special Education TeacherKelowna BC

Poppy prowessOn behalf of the executive andmembers of West Point GreyBranch 142 of the Royal CanadianLegion, I would like to express sin-cere thanks to all the students whohelped make our recent PoppyCampaign a complete success.

Our member, Evan Minty, whois also a UBC student, organised theboxes for the residences and alsoarranged for our room at theStudent Union Building and park-ing passes for our members. Also abig thank you to the ICON ImagingConcept Group who in betweenclasses went out canvassing aroundthe campus.

The senior members of ourbranch who have done the canvass-

• ing at UBC since it began are nowgetting beyond it even though wehad a number of our 70- and 80-years-'young' assisting.

Once again, our hearty thankyou to the faculty and students fortheir help. Drop in and say helloand join in our events.

—M Helen CrowePoppy Campaign Coordinator

The Royal Canadian LegionWest Point Grey Branch

The Ubyssey Readers' SurveyINSTRUCTIONS Would you like to see more national news coverage?

yes or noOPINION SECTION

Help us help you. Give the Ubyssey some feedback and make us a better paper.

HSBC is now thebank for tuition

fee paymentsEffective 1 December 2001, UBC has changedbanks. Tuition fee payments will be handled by theHSBC bank. You will no longer be able to maketuition fee payments at any branches of the Bank ofMontreal. All other methods of tuition fee paymentwill remain the same. To get more information onthis change, or to review the other methods ofpayment, you should go to the following website:

http://students.ubc.ca/financelfees/

If you want to know what fees you owe, you canview this information online. Go to students.ubc.ca,link to the Student Service Centre and fog in withyour student number and PIN. Select "Fees" fromthe Financial Account menu. If you have any ques-tions about your fee status, please call EnrolmentServices at 604-822-2844.

Tuition fee paymentswill be handled by theHSBC bank. You willno longer be able tomake tuition feepayments at anybranches of the BankofMontreal.

You thought about doing it all

Maybe .you've wanted to do itsince first year.

This January, work up the gutso follow your dream.

Volunteer fo the Ubyssey.

culture meetings tuesdays, 11 :30prnnews meetings tuesdays, 1 2: 30prnstaff meetings wednesdays, 12pm

or stop by the office—room 24 in thesub (behind the arcade). we're alwayslooking for more help.

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Where is our coverage lacking?

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What aspect of the paper do you particularly enjoy?

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Rate the attractiveness of the paper(1 being ugly, 5 being gorgeous)

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How can the design of the paper be improved?

Do you like the full-page graphic cover for the Page Friday?

DISTRIBUTION

Did you know the Ubyssey and Page Friday are the samepublication?

yes or no

Which edition of the Ubyssey do you pick up more often?Tuesday or Friday

Where do you pick up the Ubyssey?

Where would you like to pick up the Ubyssey?

Do you use our website?yes or no

How could we improve our website?

Do our editorials adequately represent the universitycommunity?

How could we improve our editorials?

ADVERTISING

Do you support boycotting advertising from the followingtypes of companies or organisations:

boycott tobacco ads yes or noboycott military ads yes or noboycott CSIS ads yes or noboycott hard alcohol ads yes or noboycott oil company ads yes or noboycott escort/bathhouse ads yes or noboycott pro-choice, anti-abortion ads yes or no

Is there other advertising you would not want to see inthe Ubyssey?

OTHER COMMENTS

Thank you. Feel free to add any additional comments.

PRIZES

Include your name and e-mail address (on a separate pieceof paper, if you prefer) and you'll be entered into a prizedraw to take place on Jan. 16. Prizes include books, CDs andmovie passes.

How could our letters section better represent the universitycommunity?

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1.Mall it to us. Our mailing address is as follows:Room 24Student Union Building

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