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six of them to ty's inability to pay higher salaries to

sors replacing retired commerce an dAmerican universities .

persons so qualified has contributed . business administration faculty, bu t

Compensation stabilization com- to numerous faculty resignations ."

that salary increases have become amissioner Ed Peck agrees faculty are

greater priority .leaving UBC and said that is why the

But UBC vice-president academic

"This is only a small step in meet-government granted the raise . "I am Daniel Birch said the extra funds are

ing differentials," he said . "It is notpresenting a six percent average in not enough to keep professors from

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UBC. eavng .He said the six percent increase He said the extra funds were orig-

will allow the commerce and busi- finally budgeted to pay new profe sness administration department t o"cannibalize" vacant teaching posi-tions caused by faculty resignations .Thompson estimates that more tha n$1 million is needed to raise facult ysalaries to A competitive level . Hesaid he is "satisfied that the universi -

UBC commerce and business ad -ministration faculty began negotia -

Circus stars tow nk pump and rhetori c

no instant solution . I would sit dow nand talk to the leaders of the univer -sities and listen to what they have tosay . "

Former Vancouver schoolboar dchair Kim Campbell said the peopl eof B .C . believe education is veryimportant . "Education is•an invest-ment in human capital," said Camp-bell . She added she plans to makeemployers part of educational plan-ning .

There was a lot of rhetoric abouteconomic renewal .

Health minister Jim Nielsen sai dB .C . has come through "tough eco-nomic times" and must progressfurther . "It's time we made a daringexperiment in free enterprise and b ythat I mean real free enterprise," h esaid .

Saanich mayor Mel Couvelier sai d"I am a town pump kind of person . "

By SVETOZAR KONTI C

The AMS hiring committee ha sdecided to evaluate its summer hir-ing process for the first time .

Tina Gilmartin, AMS hiring com-mittee chair, said the evaluation swere made to discover the effective -ness of the new system in which non -A MS executive members coordinat esummer projects .

This summer the hiring commit-tee opened AMS positions to al lstudents because "a couple of themembers (of last year's executive )did not work to a level of satisfac-tion," said AMS president Simo nSeshadri . As a result, Sandra Jarvis ,a fourth year microbiology student ,was hired to coordinate the foo dbank .

Seshadri said he remains convinced

that student council took the wron gdirection in opening up the posi-tions . "My gut feeling is that counci lshould return to the previous sys-tem," he said .

In a memorandum to the hiringcommittee, Seshadri said becaus eCarol Pedlar, the external affair scoordinator, was not hired this year ,she is working on various jobs an dhas put practically no time into he r

City says more transition houses neededBy EVELYN JACO B

The Women's Saving Action won a victory last Tuesday when Vancouver City Council promised to meet wit hthe minister of human resources to convince him of the need for another transition house in Vancouver .

City Council passed a resolution Tuesday stating that a delegation of council headed by Mayor Mike Harcour twill meet with human resources minister Jim Nielsen to "convince him of the error of his ways," city social planne rVicki Morris said Friday .

"We will wait until the government has made a cabinet shuffle before we set a date for a meeting, which wil lprobably be in late August," said Morris.' City Council took on the responsibility of seeking funding to save Transition House last year, after a provincia lgovernment decision to close the centre for battered women and their children .

Neilsen rejected a city proposal in June which called upon the Ministry of Human Resources to participate in thefunding of a city-operated house .

The advantage of having the city on their side, said Ellis, is that it keeps Transition House in the "politica llimelight . "

"The clout of the city adds to the clout of women and the people of Vancouver," she said .But Morris said city council has no direct power to change the government's decision . "In terms of power, we

have the power of influence and that's all," said Morris ."We represent the voters of Vancouver, and major delegations and groups have approached us expressing thei r

concern about Transition House . But we are not prepared to fund the whole project . It wouldn't be appropriate, "she said .

Nielsen said in June he preferred a more suburban area fqr Transition House . According to M H R, the new housewill be located in Surrey .

But putting a transition house in Surrey will not help battered women in Vancouver or alleviate the city's sever ebed shortages, said Megan Ellis, spokesperson for the Women's Saving Action .

"There are problems finding battered women shelter all over the province . It's not a question of Vancouver andSurrey being in competition with each other," she said .

Ellis said a government decision to put a transition house in Vancouver would be a purely political decision ."The province has made a mess of the whole thing to date," said Ellis.

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merit increasecommerce and business administra -tion faculty salaries will not preven tfaculty from leaving UBC for betterpaying jobs, a professor of com-merce and business said Monday .

Mark Thompson called the in -crease "ludicrous," and said it wil l

not significantly raise the "dismal"salaries that faculty are currentl yreceiving .

"Junior faculty members," sai dThompson, "are living in basemen t

~suttes . ..

By STEPHEN WISENTHA L

WHISTLER "If you aren't a fre e!r ` enterpriser, don't apply . "

The BC Social Credit party i shosting a twelve ring circus at th eglitzy Whistler resort north of Squa-mish this week to choose a successo rto Bill Bennett, the province's pre-mier since 1975 .

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AnalysisThe candidates are saying little of

substance about anything eve nless is being said about education .Most of the candidates are strongl yin favour of higher education, lowe reducation, lower unemployment ,fewer socialists, better medical car eand a great climate for Free Enter-prisers, as party members and thei rsupporters are referred to in al lspeeches .

But about the only policy menti -oned in issue forums yesterday wa sGrace McCarthy ' s proposal to mak eall welfare recipients reapply fo rbenefits two weeks after she assume soffice, a course of action whic hwould, she said, cut the welfare roll sby fifteen percent .

In an interview Tuesday, likel yfirst ballot leader Bill Vander Zal msaid it's up to the community todecide how to spend post-secondaryfunds, and not a university commit -tee . "It does not fit well with my ideaof democracy" to leave the decisio n

+ to the university, he said . He adde dliberal arts are important but govern-ments need to priorize courses i fthere are limited resources .

In a morning forum on socia lissues, he said throwing money a tperceived problems in educatio nwon't solve them .

Other candidates echoed thi ssentiment .

Bill Ritchie, who plans to tak eover as education minister if h ebecomes premier, said : "We mus t-

see that education funding receivesthe greatest return in excellence ."

Said Stephen Rogers on educa-tion : "Quality is a function of howwell you did the job, not how muc hmoney you throw at it ." He addedB .C. needs a skilled, well trainedwork force . "Health and educationare not luxuries — they are invest -

ments . "In an interview, John Reynold s

declined to make specific educatio npolicy comments, adding "there is

lions in March with the compensa-tion stabilization commission whic hresulted in a July 17 decision to allo-cate funds to the dean of commerce .

The money comes from a contin-gency fund for replacing retiredfaculty and will go mainly toward sjunior professors . The increase srange from zero to 28 percent, re -presenting a six percent average .

portfolio . "When September arrivesand school starts, this person wil lonly begin to learn her area o f

responsibility, " he said .Seshadri added it is more desira-

ble to pay executives than it is to paysummer project coordinators .

Seshadri said he has difficult ywith non-AMS executive represent-ing the viewpoint of the AMS . " Arecent example of this is the foodbank project . While the special pro-ject coordinator has jurisdiction over

the project, how fully can she spea kon behalf of the AMS?" he said .

Jarvis said she feels like a guineapig : "There is a lot of pressure in-volved . I know that if I don't do wel l

it may directly effect the chance ofother non-AMS people being hiredin the future . "

Jarvis said she also feels she adds anew perspective to the AMS . " Idon't know what has been done her ebefore so they're getting a view froma student who represents students,"she said .

Jarvis also agrees it is advantage-ous for the AMS to hire an executiv ebecause they have been in officesince February and know the system .

"However, my advantage is that Ican spend one hundred percent o fmy time on a project . Executive shave a lot of time devoted to th eexecutive function but not as muchtime for the job," she said .

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AMS president criticizes new hiring

The Summer Ubyssey

July 30—August 5, 1986

Hie successful applicant shoul dhe able to chew gum and say "nocomment" at the same time .

U BC's hiring committee is comb-ing the country for someone to fill anewly created position replacing th eacademic and student services asso-ciate vice-presidents .

Alma Mater Society presiden tSimon Seshadri said 11 BC ' s hirin gcommittee has so far received 3 5applications for the position and ha sreduced the list to what UBC presi-dent David Strangway called a "shor tlist . "

Seshadri said the committee i spresently examining four candidates .

"We'll have interviewed three ou tof four people by the end of .Jul' ." h esaid .

Neil Risebrough . associate vice -president of student services an dCyril Finnegan, acting associate vice -president academic, will he replace dby a vice-president of student andacademic services .

city hall yet, but I assure you th eminister will look at the ne wproposal . "

Savalle said the province opene dtwo centres for battered women thi syear The Salvation Army's Kat eBooth House and Act 2 and no whas a total of 100 beds in the greate rVancouver area .

He said the province is openin gfour new transition houses — two o nVancouver Island, one in Surrey ,and one in Dawson Creek .

According to Savalle, there is a naverage of 14 beds vacant in lowe rmainland transition houses per night .

"It's simply not true that transi-tion houses are full all the time," h esaid .

But Ellis insists there is a chroni cbed shortage despite contrary re -marks by Savalle . She said the occu -

Terry O'Malley, head coach of th efamed Notre Dame college midge tprogram of Saskatchewan, has bee nnamed coach of the UBC hocke yteam .

O'Malley has played for thre eCanadian Olympic hockey teams a swell as playing hockey for th eKokudo team in Japan for eigh tyears .

O'Malley has a B .A. from Manit-oba and is currently working on amasters degree in history . He wa salso appointed a director of th eAsia-Pacific Foundation of Canada

pied house was full even with theextra help of the Salvation Army .

According to both Ellis and Mor-ris, Vancouver has fewer beds avail -able for battered women than an yother major city in Canada .

"If Vancouver women are force dto go to Surrey for shelter, they wil lhave to leave their friends, famil yand doctor . They don't need theadded stress," said Ellis .

But Savalle said a 20-minute tax iride to Surrey is not too much to as kof women who would be "happy t oget away from their assaultiv espouses . "

Ellis said the ministry has bee nsending women to motels becaus ethere is nowhere for them to go i nVancouver .

-Savalle confirmed Ellis' charges ,

but said motels are only used for on e

as a result of his experience in Japan .U BC's athletics department ha s

appointed two new head coaches fo rits varsity ice hockey team andwomen's volleyball team .

Donna Baydock, 28, a forme rmember of Canada's national wo-men's volleyball team, has bee nnamed head coach of the women'svolleyball team . She has also servedas the head coach for the powerfu lUniversity of Manitoba Bisons fo rthe past five years .

Baydock holds a UBC master o fphysical education degree .

or two nights before an appropriat eshelter is found .

"It is not an unreasonable choic efor women to accept more beating sthan to go to a motel on Kingsway,"said Ellis .

"We are not willing to wait until awoman is beaten to death befor efunding for the service becomes pol-itically necessary," she said .

Still, Ellis said she is pleased th ecity will impress upon the provincia lgovernment the need for services fo rbattered women in Vancouver .

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Transition House remains in limelightFrom page 1

But Hugh Savalle, assistant dep-uty minister of human resources ,dismissed allegations that a decisio nnot to fund Transition House wa spolitically motivated, citing finan-cial reasons instead .

"The province has only so muc hmoney to spend on transitio nhouses," said Savalle .

According to Savalle, the provinc espent $500,000 on transition house sin 1979-80, which increased to $3 . 2million in 1985-86 .

When asked to say whether theministry would fund a city-operate dtransition house in Vancouver, Sa-valle said he "could not give a nanswer at this moment . "

Although the assistant deputy sai dthe ministry had already committe dall available funds for this year, h esaid "1 haven't seen a proposal fro m

New vice-president neededFinnegan is replacing Don Rus- office . Finnegan oversees the librar-

sell, who is on leave from the ics and the computing centre . Rise -university .

brough said he will not make an yRisebrough has been in charge of comment until the position is filled .

student housing, student aid, the Seshadri said no date has been se tcounselling centre and the women's for the committee's final decision .

New coaches hired

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SUMMER 5EENEJuly 23, 1986

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•our office — main floor of SUB, opposite the candy counter . We are thereMonday - Friday, 10 a .m. to 3 p .m. Phone 228-4846

Music for aSummer's EveningConcerts at 8 p .m. in Music building Recital Hall .These concerts are presented through the efforts o fthe Summer Session association, the UBCdepartment of music and musicians' union local 145 .

Thursday, July 31 :Music for Strings and KeyboardsBach, Stamitz, Bube rTuesday, August 5 :Music for Solo PianoMozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schuman n

Summer SoundsWednesday, July 30 :Horns `R' Us

SUB PlazaFriday, August 1 :Hollyburn Ramblers

SUB PlazaWednesday, August 6 :Trombones To Go

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Free films presented at 7 :30 pm in IRC Lecture# 2 in Woodwar d

Wednesday, July 30

SplashThis Academy Award nominee for best originalscreenplay unfold an unusual tale about Allen Bauer ,a successful young businessman, who feels love ha spassed him by . Then — Splash! — he falls into theocean during a boating accident and is rescued by abeautiful girl . And, you'll fall hook line and sinker forthis contemporary comedy about a man and amermaid!

Friday, August 1

Return of the JediThe third episode of the famous "Star Wars" series .Luke Skywalker and his rebel forces, with a little hel pfrom some "furry friends " , meet Darth Vader, TheEmperor and the Imperial Warriors in a fina lshowdown . (Cinemascope)

Wed., August 5

European VacationFasten your seatbelts . Batten the hatches . Hold

tight . The Clark Griswalds are on vacation again .

Thei international comedy starts when Clark, hiswife Ellen and their teenage kids, Audrey and Rusty ,

win what is supposed to be a deluxe tour of the Ol dWorld on a T.V. quiz show . Fired up with joie-de-vacation, Clark (Chevy Chase) is determined tovideotape the entire trip for the family archives .

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Group accuses cops of hit and runBy EVELYN JACOB

The Vancouver Peace Flotilla Co-alition may soon have a legal battl eon their hands, after police, theyallege, purposely caused damage t oa vessel and ignored two protestorsthrown overboard while demonstrat-ing against U .S . warships, a memberof the coalition said Friday .

In a statement prepared by th ePeace Flotilla Coalition, CherylSoroka said "the police, after pur-posefully ramming the sailing vessel ,Tiki, refused to give the boat assist-ance when specifically asked by tw oother vessels in the Flotilla . Thi salmost caused-the death of, or injur yto, crew members thrown into thewater. "

But Vancouver police dismissedallegations of ramming and said theTiki and other vessels protesting thepresence of U .S . warships were "ha-

rassing the free passage of U .S.naval ships ." They said the damagecaused to the Tiki would have beenworse if the police did not intercept :the protest Thursday .

The police said the Tiki "made a -dangerous run at the U .S. Horn, andran into the port side of a Vancouve rpolice boat which was sailing paral-lel to the U .S . warship . "

Two people were thrown into thewater as a result of the impact, Van-couver police inspector Maurice Col lsaid Friday in a prepared statementby the Vancouver police, Ports Can-ada, and the RCMP .

Asked to explain television new sfilm which clearly showed policeboats ramming the Tiki, the tight-lipped Coll replied, "the police didnot ram the boat." He offered noother explanation for the action .

A Ubyssey reporter was aboard

one of the vessels which the polic eattempted to turn around by run-ning into the side of the boat, th esame time the Tiki and the policeboat collided .

Pressed by the Ubyssey to explai nthe action, Coll refused to comment .He accused the Ubyssey of asking"very defensive questions . "

But Barbara Stowe, a member o fthe Peace Flotilla Coalition, said th e -more than coincidental timing of th eaction was planned by the police toblock the view of news cameras an dreporters who were aboard the vessel .

"They (the police) got the pres s. out of the way," said Stowe .

At an earlier protest on July 3,Stowe said the RCMP attempted t oblock the view of the anti-nuclearbanners by placing their boats i nbetween the coalition members' sail-

oka said, and heering laying charges also for injuryand damage to the boat .

gressively" towards the coalition ."At our last protest, a member Stowe said the Vancouver Peace

heard the ramming of a boat which Coalition has a good case against th emade an enormous noise," said police because they have evidence o f

Stowe . "He told the police that some- ramming on television film .

one was in the water but they told

"The city can't escape publicit y

him to get out of the way and to like this," she said . "They'll have t o

mind his own business," she said .

do something . "

Despite attempts by the UbysseySoroka said the group contacted to contact Mike Harcourt's office ,

mayor Mike Harcourt's office on he could not be reached for comment .July 3, to complain about the poli-

Meanwhile, Stowe said she is as-ce's behaviour, but since then, relations founded by the police action, andbetween the police and the peace flo- said "(the police) had their actio ntilla coalition have deteriorated .

coordinated and knew what they"The police act like this to frighten were doing all along . It really scares

people not to get involved in the me . I only hope the television statio ndemonstrations," said Soroka .

, holds on to its tapes . "

Inspector Mike Farren of the Van- The Vancouver Peace Flotilla —couver police marine division said an organization of concerned citi-the coalition has a "perfect legit- zens and members of The People' smate right" to protest against U .S . Front, The Green Party, Greenpeac ewarships, but on the July 3 protest, and other peace and church group sStowe said, the police were "coming — staged one in a number of pro -toward us in zodiacs which looked tests Thursday against the presenc elike an act of aggression towards of nuclear-armed and nuclear-cap -us ."

able U.S . warships in VancouverThree members aboard the Tiki harbour.

reported injuries but none were

The 7-week-old coalition wa shospitalized .

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formed after a U .S . nuclear-capableThe Tiki crew members plan to ship entered the harbour during the

lay charges against the police, Sor- Peace Festival on April 19 .

ing masts .She said Thursday's event was not

the first time police behaved "ag-

EI Salvadoran asks~;or Canadian support

By RICK HIEBER TMarxist guerillas trying to over -

throw the Duarte government of E lSalvador are struggling to win peace ,but need North American help, saida member of the Farabundo Mart iFront for National Liberation .

Salvadoran radio broadcaster sRoberto Guiterrez and Anna Aleci aPortio spoke to an audience at FirstUnited Church last Thursday in an

photo don andrews attempt to raise moral and financia l"DAMN THE PROTESTORS! FULL STEAM AHEAD!" bellows hoary Vancouver police captain as su

"The s for ehe FMtN .These are people who are strug -patrol boat prepares to ram anti-nuke sailboat . gling for peace in a country tha t

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reality of war,"need support."

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The 27 year-old Guiterrez ha sEducation Services Coalition has

been the official representative o falso promised to work on the pro- Radio Farabundo Marti since Feb-

ruary . In the 1970s, he became in-volved in revolutionary activity a spart of the opposition to the 197 7national elections in El Salvador.

Guiterrez helped create the guer-rila radio station to provide infor-mation to Salvadorans about th ereality of life in El Salvador, and t opromote the activities of FML N

Minister requests more money forarts from government and business

By SVETOZAR KONTI CThe federal communications minister called upon government and business to increase funding for the arts at a

conference last Thursday at U BC .Flora MacDonald told an audience attending the World Conference on Arts, Politics, and Business that th e

plight of artists in Canada must not be ignored . She said the Bovey Report — the result of a federal task force o neducation which recommends increased funding for the arts mostly in the form of tax breaks — should b erecognized if the financial demands of artists are,to be met : -

"Whether this is accomplished through grants, through taxes, through private philanthropy or other means, i tmust be done . Without the artist, the whole edifice is undermined," said MacDonald .

Hoping to continue the objectives of predecessor Marcel Masse, MacDonald said her first goal is to "raise th eprofile of culture within the government in itself," and to "give culture its rightful place as an area which no party o rgovernment can ignore ."

She said the communications ministry has already inserted cultural issues into specific agendas of man ygovernment departments, and as a result, some $28 million was spent this year on employment and trainin gprojects in the cultural sector .

According to MacDonald, a 1984 study of the Toronto International Festival showed a nine dollar admission fe einjected a minimum of $44 million into the Canadian economy .

The communications minister said she was pleased to speak at the conference on the "vital question" of art sfunding in Canada .

"Funding is the fuel that sustains the artist," she said .

By SVETOZAR KONTI C

The Canadian Federation of Stu-dents is organizing a task force o n

the sad state of student aid in B .C .College and university students ,

boards of governors, and facultieswill hold hearings on campuses t o

listen to complaints about studen taid .

Stephen Scott, CFS Pacific Re-gion executive officer, said the fal ltask force will lay the groundwork

for changes to the student aid pr ogram . "B .C . has the worst studen t

aid program in Canada, and it's get-ting .worse,"said Scott .

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The provincial government slashedfunding to student aid in 1984, re-

placing grant programs with an all-loan program . Government alloca-tions decreased from $33 million i n1983 to $12 million in 1986 . Alberta,

in comparison, spends $105 millio non student aid each year .

Scott said the CFS will send aformal report on the task force t o

post-secondary minister Russ Fraser ,although prior attempts to meet with

him have been unsuccessful . "Frase ractually wrote us a letter and saidthat we shouldbe thanking him fo rthe commendable job his ministry is

doing," said Scott .The CFS has commitments fro m

both the College Institute of Educa -tors Association and the Union of

Faculty of Colleges in B .C . to partic-ipate in the hearings . The Defend

ject, which includes the VancouverRegional Municipal Employee s

Union, the B.C . Teachers Federa -tion, and the Canadian Union o fPublic Employees .

Scott said the task force will be"constructive" and "an agenda forchange ."

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guerillas .As a war correspondent in centra l

El Salvador, Guiterrez covered thekidnapping of President Duarte' sdaughter .

According to Guiterrez, "there i san acute confrontation" betwee n"mass movements" and the Duart eregime . He said a small, dominantclass has control of the nation . "We(the FMLN) attempted to reac hpower through election, but wewere frustrated and were forced t obegin armed struggle," he said .

Guiterrez said Duarte's policie sare an expression of U .S . policies .He said the economic decisions o fthe Duarte government are define dby the International Monetary Fun dand the World Bank .

"Duarte came into power lying t othe people when he promised a demo -cratic, peaceful end to the conflict, "said Guiterrez . He said the Duart eregime does not want a peacefulsolution to the struggle in El Salva-dor that the FMLN advocates .

Despite U .S . claims that the Duartegovernment will survive, Guiterrezis optimistic about the future of th eFMLN .

Anna Alecia Portio, a member o fthe FMLN who joined Radio Vere-cemos after involvement in El Sal-vador's illegal Communist party, sai dshe began her career in radio to tellthe people of El Salvador about th esuccess of t`,e FMLN .

Radio Verecemos, said Portio,plays anti-government songs andprovides a service to link draftee swith their families, and broadcast sguerilla training workshops .

"It is a radio of the people, to servethe people," she said .

Portio said Radio Farabund oMarti and Radio Verecemos needmore sophisticated and update dequipment to boost station signal sand to prevent U .S . jamming .

Guiterrez asked North America nsupporters to "tie the hands" of th eReagan administration in support ofthe struggle in El Salvador.

Roberto Guiterrez will be speak -ing at 1 :30 p.m. on Wed . July 30 a tthe Ubyssey offices, Rm . 241k, SUB-

July 30—August 5, 198 6

By ROBIN ADDISON

The rest of the cast used portabl etoilets _

In that season of financial extrav-agance, Vancouver playwrigh tMichael Mercer's new play, Good-night Disgrace, received its stagepremier under Leon Pownall's excel-lent direction . The play, whichchronicles the relationship betwee nnovelist Conrad Aiken and his youngprotege Malcom Lowry, impresse dcritics across the country, and pu tNanaimo on the theatre map in itsfirst season .

Technical director Michael Cun-ningham, who worked the first an dnow third season, remembers th esuccess of that first year : "This wa sthe place to be — it was the ne wfestival, and we had wonderful house sall summer long, with 250 to 27 5people each performance . GoodnightDisgrace was one of the most exitin gplays to happen in Canada . Morefor that, than anything else ; the sea-son was a smash ."

But in spite of the .success of theseason, the festival lost $100,00 0that year . And the following yea rproved dismal.

The budget was slashed for th esecond season, to under $300,000 .Pownall made the artistic mistake o frunning Goodnight Disgrace again ,instead of doing something new .And there was no name star t oadvertise . The season only lost abou t$5,000, but a festival lottery, designe dto reduce the debt, lost anothe r$100,000 . At that point it appearedas if the festival would go belly-up .

The festivalcould no longer affordto keep Pownall on as full-time artis-tic director. City Council was nevergoing to match its first year grant o f$50,000 (it gave $15,000 this year) ,and the budget for the entire nex tseason (the current one) would b ejust over $200,000 . Pownall, in offer-ing his resignation, said a seaso ncould not be run on such a smal lbudget .

But is appears he was wrong.Pownall's approach was to spend alot of money, and act as if the festiva lwere already well-established . LynneBowen, a volunteers who has beeninvolved since the beginning, said, " Ithink he came in here personall yambitious, without the idea of start-ing small and growing . He left quit ea lot of people glad he left . "

Pownall is gone now, and the fes-tival has a new artistic director ,Janet Wright, an actress and direc-tor who directed Children of a Lesse rGod at the Arts Club last year, andwho played Martha in Vancouve rPlayhouse's Virginia Woolf las tNovember.

Bowen thinks the festival has foundits ideal artistic director in Wright :"Janet has managed to avoid the'city' approach . (Pownall) wanted t obring in a lot of outside people .What's happened this year is wha tshould have happened in the firstyear . There are local people in th eproductions . The people of Nanaimocan identify with their festival . "

Michael Cunningham agrees ."There is a big change in the direc-tion of the festival . It is more corn-munity oriented than with Leon . "

By MICHAEL DELOR Y

Itwas with a grimace that I firstaccepted the fact that Jitters, aCan-adian comedy at this summer'sNa-naimo Festival, was the story of th epeople involved with a play . Book sabout writing, TV shows about T Vstars, and movies about fictiona lfilm stars have always struck me a smuch too easy a gimmick.

Well, despite using a play-within-, a-play, Jitters is a well put-togetherand extremely entertaining comedy .The characters and the actors wh oplay them work well together, an dkeep the play interesting and involv-ing for the audience, even during the •times that more serious issues arebrought up . The characters are ener-getic and the audience become squickly interested in what is going t ohappen next between the faded sta rand her obnoxious and overbearin gmale lead, or where and when theneurotic actor playing the priest i nthe play will have his next crisis .

Jitters opens just before the firs tpreview of the new play, The Car eand Treatment of Roses . As Phil ,Richard Epp immediately comes t obe the focus of attention . His per-formance is thoroughly enjoyable a sthe neurotic actor who wants every-thing to be perfect for the big-timeproducer who will be in the openin gnight audience . Given several excel-lent monologues and floriously ener -getic battles with other cast mem-bers, Epp takes on the part wit hgusto and gives the most enjoyableperformance of the evening .

Tony Bancroft's role as Nick, the

rude and inconsiderate stage man-ager, is another treat . Most of hi sbest lines come as the disembodiedvoice over the PA system . In person ,the conflicts he gets into because ofhis complete disregard for actors 'tender feelings bring out the energyin the rest of the cast .

Allan Zinyk does an excellent jo bas the young actor trying to lookcool and experienced but unable t ohide his basic keenness and enthusi-asm for everything .

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As the director, Bill Croft some -times seems to be straining too har dto be the nice guy . Some of his linessound as if they are read straigh tfrom the script he is often holding ,and the tenseness he shows as a wor-ried director comes off more as stif-fness in his role .

Marie Stillin gives a fairly stand-ard performance as the fading star .trying for a comeback . In the play-within-a-play she does a good job ,looking just a bit nervous . Unfortu-nately this carries over when sh eplays the actress . All four of theactors suffer the same problem: thei rcharacters in . the play carry ove rwhen they are simply playing thei ractor characters, and this confuse sthe audience .

The real disappointment in thi splay is Robert More in the malelead . Many of his best lines are wea-kened when he cannot let go of hi sgenerally bombastic character to ge tin what should be an off-hand re -mark or a quick jab at one of th eother performers . Credit here goe sto everyone else in the cast for pul-

ling his jokes off for him. His per-formance as the father in The Careand Treatment of Roses is evenworse, complete with a wholly unne-cessary . and horribly g arbled "Ital-ian" accent . I laughed out loud whe nhe got rave reviews read in act three .However, he does work well with the'rest of the cast, and does not spoi lthe play as a whole.

While Jennifer Clement, playin gthe prop and set designer; is miffedwhen the play's newspaper revie wignores her contribution, it is hard to

ignore the excellent prop, set andlighting work of Alison Green in thereal thing .

Jitters is a light and very funn ycomedy . Between bursts of laughter ,though, the playwright puts forwar dopinions on many aspects of Cana-da's theatre scene, and the problem sit faces . These comments are cleve rand suitable, never whiny . They pro -vide some of the best lines in th eplay : "Where else but Canada can a nactor be successful all his life and di epoor and anonymous?"

According to Sister X, my grade10 English teacher, Shakespeare' s"A Midsummer Night's Dream" i s

he greatest . plays ever writ-. used to constantly lectureabout the play-within-a-play struc-ture, so much that we often cameclose to mutiny . Nanaimo's Shakes-peare Plus version gave me simila rfeelings — by the end, I was abou tredly to run screaming out the door .

The story runs something likethis heseus, Duke of Athens, ha sjust announced his engagement t oHippolyta, Queen of the Amazons ,and plans to celebrate the weddin gshortly . The mood is broken withthe arrival of Egeus, an Athenia nnobleman who is upset because hi sdaughter Hermia loves Lysander, ayoung Athenian, instead of Deme-trius, the man she is supposed t omarry .

Consequently Lysander and Her-mia.deeide to run off together, flee-ing to the forest where Oberon an d.Tita n ia, . king and queen of the fair-ies, rule . Finally, to thouroughl ycomplicate and confuse things, thewoods are further crowded by th earrival of Nick Bottom and his friendswhe %rerehearsing a play which theyh :r' t° Perform for Theseus an d

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atypical William S . ,sorts of complicationspint and earthly world s

1 spells and incantationsright, left, and centre .

"I have set Shakespeare's wonder-ful moonlit events in a timeless gar-dery reverberating with echoes o fancient, modern, and celestial spaceand time," says Pat Armstrong inthe director's notes . This must be th ereason for the costumes which defi-nitely-reflected the small budget al -lotted to Shakespeare Plus this yea r= .itwas as if the actors had beentold to being their own — kind o flike a grade school production .

Puck, played by Jennifer Clement ,would be well done but for a fewminor details . Puck is supposed t obe a- sprite, an almost unearthlycharacter composed of somethingother than earthly compounds. So

then why do we have such lines as "Igo like a flame" (leap offstage . . .loudTHUD . . .stage and set shake) .

D A Midsummer Night's Dream i san ambitious undertaking for thefestival — it seems that in this casetheir vaulting ambition is most defi-nitely oeerleaping itself and suc-ceeding in doing little but a flyingnosedive into the mud, turning th eDream into a nightmare . . .Sister Xturn in her grave if she knew .

Thus was had Theseus and Hippo-lyta appearing in what I presum ewas Athenian war garb ; Helena, i nwhat seemed to be a seventeent hcentury milkmaid's outfit ; and Ly-sander in his sweat pants, whileHermia and Demetrius seem to havestepped straight out of the hippi egeneration.

Meanwhile Puck and four assorte dfairies look like they came straigh tfrom the set of the Rocky HorrorPicture Show, complete with hairand makeup that could only be des-cribed as incredibly awful . Finally ,to top it all off, the "Athenian "workers arrived in Elizabethan perio dcostume which would have bee nfine, only they were wearing glassesand leather sandals.

The director, Pat Armstrong, mus thave slept through the auditions forthe play, so hopelessly miscast aresome of the major characters . Her-mia, who is supposed to be one ofthe most beautiful women in th ekingdom, does not fit the role, whil eHelena, who should be rivallingHermia's beauty, is equally inept .

The sad news here, folks, is thatDanielle Turner as Hermia and KarinKonoval as Helena, together withtheir respective lovers, Mike Stac k(Demetrius) and Andrew Kavada s(Lysander) are the strong points i nthe play . The relatively minor partsof the Athenian workers are alsowell portrayed — they provide some .much needed comic relief.

Robert More and Marie Stilli nvery effectively ruin what could b eone of the most sensuous relation -ships ever written . And of the fou rfairies ( Moth, Peasblossom, Cobwe band Mustardseed), only Dave Win-stanley suits the script .

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By MICHAEL GROBERMANAli, to be in Nanaimo in the sum-

mer . . .a brewery sponsored bathtu brace, the fragrance of the pulp mill ,Nanaimo bar (and bars), and, o fcourse, Shakespeare .

That's right, Shakespeare . Andten years from now, Nanaimo mayeven be known for its theatre festi-val, as are Stratford and Niagara-on-the-Lake today. But that is in thefuture . The Nanaimo Festival —Shakespeare Plus, is now in its thir dand least memorable season . It hasfinancial problems, community prob-lems, and identity problems . But it isin its third remarkable year, and it i sbeginning to exude an air of per-manance .

This season presents three differ-ent plays: A Midsummer Night' sDream, Side by Side by Sondheim,and David French's Jitters . Thereare shows every night but Monday ,until the end of August.

Each evening, two hours befor ecurtain, a group of local volunteer sarrive at the new theatre on the hill ,at Malaspina College . There arefold-away writing desks on eac hseat, if you care to take notes duringthe performance . These volunteerspoint to what is making this new,long-shot festival gel . Although i nits third season, this is the first i nwhich the community has been s oinvolved in every aspect of produc-tion, including performing .

Three and a half years ago, mem-bers of the Malaspina College facultyapproached Leon Pownall, a Van-couver actor/director who had di-rected at Malaspina, and asked him .if he would be interested in creatinga theatre festival in Nanaimo . -

Ross Fraser, a member of the ori-gial committee, and still on the boardof directors, recalls, "We felt this fes-tival could confer significant finan-cial benefits on Nanaimo, and per-haps transform Nanaimo into a des-tination for tourists, like Ashland sand Stratford . "

The festival received a $140,000grant from the department for Re-gional Economic Expansion . Thefirst season's budget was $550,000 .In that year, artistic director Pow-nail brought in his very expensivefriend Ron Glass (of Barney Mille rfame) to add a name to the program,and to consume funds . Glass receivedhis own house with swimming pool ,and the only backstage bathroom .

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In spite of the half-filled housesand tiny budget, Cunningham i ssure the festival will finish its season.There is always a question of whethe rthe festival will carry on or not . A tthe moment, it has not received aCanada Council grant . Board mem-ber Fraser explains, "We did appl ythis year, but did not get a grant . I fwe want funding we'd have to dosomething that they saw as reall yinteresting in a cultural way . We'dhave to commission a play . Jane tWright is very keen on the idea o fcommissioning a new Canadian play ,specifically a west coast play . I thin ka lot of us would like that to be thehallmark of the festival . "

Shades of the success of the firstseason are obvious in this desire ofFraser and Wright to provide ashowcase for a new play, like Good -night Disgrace back in the summe rof 1984 .

A dull artistic season like the oneit is currently presenting cannot hel pthe Nanaimo festival . It should bestaging odd, slightly off-the-wal linteresting new approaches to Sha-kespeare, and certainly showcase newCanadian plays . The acting com-pany is young, and it should staythat way. Young talent is cheaper ,more creative, and often as good asthe more expensive, older type . AndJanet Wright looks like the perfec tperson to pursue this end .

One complicated problem facingthe festival is how to endear itself tothe people of Nanaimo. Fraser notes ,"There are people in the communit ywho understand that a festival builtover a number of years can be thebasis of an industry — and there arethose who don't understand . Weneed an artistic director who reall yknows how to develop communit ysupport . Janet is very highly regardedhere . She has a lot of strength . "

Mayor Graeme Roberts, a found-ing member of the Board of Direc-tors of the festival, supports Sha-kespeare Plus: "It brings dollars int othe community ; and it adds to thecultural base of the community . Oneof Nanaimo's problems in the las tnumber of years has been a need t oupgrade its own image . "

Area MLA Dave Stupich got int oa lot of trouble when he said he'drather represent a town known fo rits Shakespeare than its bathtubs ,but his implication, that Nanaim otourism needs more than one wee kof festivities, is astute . VolunteerBowen echoes him, "We want to giv etourists more to see than bathtubs . "

Stillin, Zinyk and Epp . . .really rathe

Whole is greater than parts

By DEBBIE LO

The car door slams, and we're offto Nanaimo for the ShakespearePlus Festival . We're late, but thank sto the not completely reliable ferryschedule we make it from UBC to .Horseshoe Bay terminal in 45 min-utes exactly.

We also sampled a Nanaimo ba rin a waterfront bistro . Not spectacu-lar though it contained all the neces-sary ingredients . Other establish-ments wearied included MG's wher eyou can wait for up to 45 minutes fo ryour order to come, and Alice's, asmall town restaurant which make sgreat pancakes .

Downtown Nanaimo, about fourstreets long, contains bookstores ,hotels and nick-nack shops but sadlynot many craft stores . We only man -aged to find two .

We're among the last ten people toscurry on to the car ramp. Allow at

least an hour for travelling time i fyou plan tomake a trip to the termi-nal . Ferries run on the hour from7 :00 a .m . to 11 :45 p .m. daily, with acost of $4 .00 per person and $19 .00for a car and driver .

The S"a;i{ lde can be exciting,refreshing and romantic, and theview of -' an and supernaturalB.C. is unbeatable. We find the half-hour journey the best cure fo rinsomnia. The ship's P.A. announce -ment has been updated for Expo —i tcontains polite pleases and thank-yous from a musical male . voice .Upon arrival in downtown Nanaim oyou will see a big neon F and abowling sign. Yessir, this town ha s— count 'em — two theatres in th eFiesta cinema, and a bowling alleyfor locals tetourists to enjoy.

We stayed at the Tally Ho famil yhotel, adv 'ised on the back of the

festival program. Reasonably pricedat $60 for a double-occupancy room,it was clean, neat and had a pool .But if you don't like brown flora ldecor, you had better look elsewhere .

Tourist attractions include TheBastion, Nanaimo's landmark loca-ted at the foot of Bastion Street, sev-eral parks, a- museum, a waterfrontpublic market and a petting farm .

We checked out the Market (likeGranville Island but less trendy, fewe rstalls and smaller crowds) and tw olocal night clubs which were simila rto Vancouver's Tommy Afrika's bu tolder and tackier.

The journey to the college tor th efestival is an adventure as even in atown the size of Nanaimo we man -aged to get lost . We made it wit halmost no minutes to spare an dfound good seats in the second rowfor the first performance on Friday .

Tourists sample Nanaimo bars

The Suinmer Ubyssey

July 30-August 5, 1986

.Arts aided at arm s length

The 1986 Social Credit convention . An entire towncrammed with card-carrying . Socreds — do we haveto write about this ?

Whistler, yikes! Twelve disciples and an entiretown of faithful decide who gets to be the chef at ou rlast supper .

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The candidates can be neatly divided into threecategories: Bennett's cabinet ministers (and Bu dSmith), Bill Vander Zalm, and the also rans.

The cabinet ministers are perhaps the most absurdgroup, certainly the most hypocritical .

They all denounce the Bennett era of contronta-tion, and look the camera straight in the eye whil epledging a less strife-torn B .C .

Incredible? Yes. Unbelievable? Well, considerin gGrace McCarthy has been the most virulent, unyield-ing anti-labor minister in the entire Bennett cabinet ,that Brian Smith would rather have his hair cut byMacMillan Bloedell than negotiate with B .C.'s natives ,and that Bud Smith is attacked by his own party fo rrepresenting big city Ontario conservative interests ,claims of being nonconfrontational ring as true as Bil lRitchie's boast of being a contender .

Of all the cabinet ministers, it is probably Jim (I'm alover- not a fighter) Nielsen who would make the bes tSocred leader . Unfortunately, Nielsen also belong swith the also rans .

That leaves Bill Vander Zalm . Vander Zalm at leas tspeaks his mind, and his mind is rooted in "Christia nvalues" . Christian values no doubt refer to crusades .Crusades'against welfare, the public service, trad eunions.. .the list goes on .

Life under Vander Zalm is. hard to imagine . Ourswould no longer be a culture but a horticulture . Lifewould be simpler, ah yes . We, like those who havelived under other famous extremists, would b ereduced to an agrarian society . .

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By JEFFREY SWARTZ

The choice between "armslength"and "hands on" funding for the art swill determine whether a "quango"will be necessary as participants in apublic forum on federal arts suppor tdiscovered last week at UBC.

The forum was one of the high-lights of the 1986 World Conferenceon Arts, Politics and Business, whic hbrought together an illustrious as-sembly of artists, businessmen, senio rbureaucrats and politics to conside rthe theme of "Support for the Arts :Philanthropy or Investment?"

Sponsored by the Community ArtsCouncil of Vancouver, the confer-ence included panel discussions o nthe arts funding agencies, artisti cintegrity, as well as the dilemma ofCanadian cultural sovereignity .

A "quango" (not a. rare cros sbetween a kangaroo and a koal abear) is a typically bureaucratic ac-ronym for a _ "quasi-autonomous-non-government-organization". I nthe realm of arts funding, the Can-ada Council is this country's mostnotorious example .

As the directors of the arts coun-cils of Great Britain, Australia, an dOntario explained to last week' sforum, the originally British princi-ple of quasi-autonomy, or "arms-length," was established to minimizethe propensity of politicians to usearts funding for propagandic pur-poses, to have their "hands on ." "I nshort," commented Sir Roy Shaw, aformer director of the British Art sCouncil, "armslength means that hewho pays the piper does not call thetune ."

The British "armslength" model ,established in direct contrast to Naz iand Stalinist use of the arts for pro-paganda, has since become the stan-dard for most arts councils in th eCommonwealth .

Even the United States' Nationa lEndowment for the Arts was inspire dby the British example, . though a ssometime NEA consultant Herber tShore explained, the bureaucrates e"armslength" is unknown south o fthe border, and senior positions i nthe NEA are political appointments .

perspecti©ezPanellists such as Andrea Hull ,

director of policy planning for th eAustralia Council, were quick t opoint out the real importance of th eforum and the conference in genera lwas that budget deficits and pressureon-governments for fiscal accounta-bility has put the principle of "arm-slength" funding at risk .

Although visiting politicians, in-cluding Vancouver mayor Mike Har-court and federal communication sminister Flora MacDonald, prom-ised to maintain existing support fo rthe arts (and in Harcourt's case ,increase it), conference participant swere continually reminded that sig-nificant increases in financial sup -port might well come from the pri-vate sector .

David Rockefeller, making a brie fappearance at a reception at the

Faculty Club, reminded the confer-ence that meaningful business sup-port for the arts was both recent andhard won. Recent studies, such a sone made for the City of Vancouver ,reveal that corporate giving amount sto less than ten percent of total artsfunding.

In response to these studies, art sbusiness alliances are such as theVancouver Partnership for Businessand the arts are being formedthroughout the Western industrial-ized world . The Vancouver Partner-ship has over 240 business and art sorganizations as members .

The conference also featured play-wrights John Gray and Sharon Pol-lack speaking on artistic freedomand integrity in the face of new busi -ness funding and American cultura ldominance.

The event closed with a dramaticreading from conference chair Mayo rMoore and an exclusive video inter-view with John Kenneth Galbraith .

Jeffrey Swartz is a UBC student o nsabbatical, who is fascinated b ybureaucracy in the arts .

How sad it is that in addition t oMr . Seshadri's many deficiencies w emust now add rapid memory loss .Really, Simon, is it incomprehensi-ble to you that you were elected t olead, not wait to be pushed ?

I refer to your recent, incrediblyerroneous comments on South Af-rica . May all intelligent, concerne dhuman beings pause, out of kind-ness, before dismissing Seshadri as afool . He simply fails to recogniz ethat it is not incumbent on student sto take. stands on issues before coun-cil is expected to act .

Elected responsibilities are not ab-solved by making unfounded accu-sations against your electors .

I remind you that in April I spok eto council on the issue of Sout hAfrica- memory loss aside . Simon ,while Blacks and whites die in Sout hAfrica fighting for justice, the issu eis far from "dead" on the UBCcampus .

Many students recognize tha thuman rights is a global concern ,not a Point Grey privilege . Howtragic it is that our president must be

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dragged — kicking and screaming— into the twentieth century .

Simon, for the sake of your fello wmen and women, take a stand . Neg-ligence will win no kudos . But above ,all, please stop demanding the un-elected to assume the responsibilitie sof the elected .

Just in case your memory has failed

I feel I must comment on the sa dstate of our potentially stunning rosegarden .

While recently enjoying a Sunda yafternoon cycle, I happened to fin dmyself at U BC for the first time sinc eleaving in April. My exploration sfound me leisurely cycling throughthe ghost-town of Buchanan bloc kand subsequently I rolled up to th eRose Garden .

I was appalled . Tourists clicke dtheir cameras at a background o fdead flowers which have obviouslybeen totally neglected for some time .The variety of rose shrubs is truly

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you again, Martin Luther King wassuccessful . You could rise abov eyour own apathy and intransigenceand put this campus firmly behindthe cause of human rights .

Seize the initiative ; for a moment ,pay the price of being in front .

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admirable and their possibilities fo rthe garden to be stunning at this tim eof year .

Does UBC have any gardeners o nstaff? Despite the temperatures thi syear, surely they would know tha tthe dead flowers must be trimmed i norder for the new beauty to flourish .On a campus that is perhaps one ofthe most scenic in North America, afew hours of clipping is surely not

much to ask to maintain the beauti-ful potential of this garden of rose .

Valerie Harri sArts 3

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Debbie Lo and Janice Irving were gorging themselves on Rice Krispie squares and cheap plon kunderneath their car when Ron Yamauchi crawled up, quipping, "those Slimecreds can sure pu t

on a convention, eh?" Meanwhile, Ed Mou and David Ferman, disgustingly blotto, were flying astolen Van der Slam blimp around the Lion's Gate Bridge . Camile Dionne and Corrine Bjorge,refused a ride, decided to borrow a Howitzer from Victor Wong to shoot them down . Jennifer Lyallshrieked as Michael Groberman backed into her, spilling a jar of Gracie's industrial strength hai rdye on her . Svetozar Kontic started to mop up the dye with Evelyn Jacob's hair while Stephe nWisenthal consoled the sobbing woman : "But fluorescent orange looks SO good on you!" In th epress tent, Neil Lucente and Dan Andrews were fighting over who would set tophotosreph th e

new premier, but Rick Hiebert wasn't coming out of his trailer until he'd grown sideburns an dlearned to smoke a pipe. . .News Flash! Stephanie Smith and Helene Wisotzki, ace typesetter and photo tech, refused t otypeset staff box unless we mentioned them : so we did.

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Professor says earthquake comingBecause of the difficulty in fore-

casting earthquakes, major citie shave had to look at preventativemeasures .

Dr . S . Cherry, a professor of civi lengineering and associate dean o fgraduate studies at UBC, says th euniversity has a program at graduat elevel for "earthquake engineers . "

With one of the largest and mos tsophisticated earthquake tables i nthe world, engineering students ar e

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Imagine a city of glass and steel .Buildings thrusting into the sky an dblocking out the sun. Downtow nVancouver .

Now picture a tremble and buckl ein the earth — a seismic yawn . Tow -ers shivering and bursting into shard sof slicing glass .

Fires racing through the city . Hun-dreds dying .

Downtown Vancouver .Vancouver is sitting on a seismic

gap similar to the one Mexico Cit ywas sitting on before its major quak ein September of last year, says Bil lSlawson, acting head of the geo-physics department .

Based on the theory of plate tech -tonics and seismic gaps, researcher sin the geophysics department at U B Cthink an earthquake will hit th eLower Mainland. It may happe ntomorrow, or not for another 200years . Slawson, however, is quite a tease with the inaccuracies of seis- 'mic predictions .

"When you're dealing with th eearth, it's four and a half billionyears old . A dayin our life is instan -taneous in terms of the earth's life .The key to understanding these thing sis the relative-time factor, " say sSlawson .

The relative-time factor . Therei nlies the rub . In an age where there is acause for everything and almost al -ways a pill to cure it, society is yel -ling for accurate predictions fro mtheir seismologists .

Scientists that study earthquake sface a peculiar problem . Their ex-periments require a testing and re -testing of information, but so muc hof their work relies on being at th eright place at the right time and hop -ing that an earthquake hits .

The seismic gap theory of earth -quake prediction suggests the tec-tonic plates under the earth's surfaceare continually sliding and pushingeach other .

Minor tremors occur to relieve thestrain but in certain areas, referre dto as seismic gaps, a lack of signifi -cant seismic activity indicates tha tthe strain in the earth's crust is stil lmounting .

Vancouver is believed to be sittin gon one such seismic gap .

The last major earthquake in th earea occurred in 1946 on Vancouve rIsland and registered 7 .3 on theRichter scale . An increase of one i nthe Richter magnitude reflects a ten -fold increase in the seismic wav eamplitude .

In practice, no earthquake large rthan 8.9 has ever been recorded .Before that, the last major earth -quake occurred in Chilliwack in 187 2and was felt as far north as Quesnel .

According to Slawson, the seismic ,gap is believed to extend from Cali -fornia to the Queen Charlotte-Islands .

But knowing that a seismic ga pexists, and predicting when it wil lbecome active are two differen tthings . There can be difficulty eve nfinding where an earthquake ha soccurred .

A few years ago, Washington Util -ity spent over $ I million looking th ethe exact location of the Chilliwac kearthquake, Slawson says . Engineersbelieve it originated somewhere i nthe northern Cascades .

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Twirling Thais tantalize touristsBy PHILIP DE GAGN E

The opening night performance o fthe Royal Thai Ballet could only b eadded to by the presence of HisRoyal Highness, the Crown Princeof Thailand .

The evening began with the Tha iPiphat ensemble : traditional wind ,string and percussion instruments ,playing the Thai national anthe mand greeted by salutes from th emembers of the Prince's persona lguard .

These traditional Thai musician sthen began "O Canada", resulting i nan unprecedented display of nationa lfervor as everyone in the theatreleapt to their feet singing theiranthem .

Following a dance and song o fbenediction was a medle of That

folk occupation dances . The move-ments of these mundane dances (i nfour distinct styles), reflect the prim -ary labours of each region : the teaharvest, panning for precious ores ,farming, and the digging of bambo oshoots . One of these looked suspi -

ciously akin to square dancing . Inthe same vein as this creation was adance in pantomime and a fol kdance expressing joy and happiness .

In the words of one theatre-goer ,these presentations were "not unlik ea tourism brochure, saying 'com evisit beautiful Thailand ' . "

The highlight of the evening wa sthe Khon Drama dance theatre base don the Ramayana epic of Hind umythology . This is a highly evolved

dance form which combines the fou rregional styles seen earlier, alon gwith shadow puppetry and all th eskills of gesture and movement see nonly in glimpses through the fol k

dances . An art form from as early a sthe 15th century, if one suspends al lWestern preconceptions of dance ,its experience is truly amazing . Th e

word khon means masked, andthough not all characters wear masks ,those who don't keep their face sexpressionless .

Though facially frozen and with-out words, such attention is paid t odetail in the pantomime that move-ments make meanings clear . It is a nelaborate expression in which th emovement of fingers and toes are

as much a part of the dance as thebody and the dramatic posturing .This entailed some enthralling feat s

of precision patterns of dancers bal-anced atop each other . Symbols o fpattern and movement, clear even t osomeone outside the culture, liv eintegrally within Thai ballet .

The glitter of the elaborate cos-tumes grabs your attention while th egrace of hand and foot gestures o nthe edge of your vision mesmerizes .The music carries you away . It start sout sounding dissonant to our ears ,with seemingly unrelated rhythms .As the night goes on it sounds mor e

pleasing . Wrapped up in the danc eyou forget the dance, slowly growin gmore familiar with it . When you

once again hear the music, you ap-preciate it more as somehow morepleasurable .

But despite the wonder of theKhon Drama, it is a very sexis tpiece . It limits females to a very con -

strained role . To be fair, however, i tis deeply rooted in Thai traditio nand mythology, following stric tforms for centuries .

Perhaps in the future we will get t osee more of the Royal Thai Ballet ,and see changes reflecting a chang-ing role for women in Thailand an d

the world over . We may increase ou runderstanding of Thai culture as on eof the many forms of artistic expres-sion largely unexplored by Wester n

culture .

Artists needmore emotion

LORI-ANN LATREMOUILLE, an artist from Vancouver, created two of the most spectacular works in th e

Images 86 art show, working in charcoal .

What a source of schtick is ma n

definite message . Dogg's Hamlet be -gins with a series of jumbled scene sof schoolboys speaking an indecipher-able language, and playing with hug ebuilding blocks .

The message is that Shakespear eis sometimes difficult to understand ,but there is a deeper message tha t

.comes out in Macbeth, the secon dplay . Hamlet lasts too long an d

leaves the viewer a little antsy .But the play suddenly moves int o

a full-fledged rendition of Hamle t

with a twist . The actors delive rtheir lines flatly as if they were read-ing them off a script . The lack ofdramatic, emotional effect makesfor satiric humout that makes eve nthe morbid laugh .

who constantly threatens to incar-cerate all the actors .

Here the play addresses the natureof art : what it is and how it is to beprotected . The actors are introduce d

to the indecipherable language men-tioned as a character from Hamle tenters the stage to make a delivery .The inspector is unable to under-

stand the "Shakespearean" language ,and gets flustered. He fails in hi svain attempt to smear art . The actorsmeanwhile converse freely in thei r

new language that protects themfrom ignorant, insensitive criticism .

Art is always an expression in on eform or another . In this "Hamlet "

the dramatic expression is take naway and we are left with somethin ghumourous . This emphasizes wel lthe vulnerability of art . Take awa y

the intelligence, the meaning, an dthe art dies .

The indecipherable language ha sa deeper meaning in that it not onl y

protects, but also allows the art t ofunction without outside interference .In fact, Shakespearean plays coul dnot exist without the language . Sim-

pie, clear and plainly spoken lan-guage does not suffice because it ha sno expression and it is not Shakes-peare's art .

Dogg's Hamlet and Cahoot's Mac -beth are funny plays, but they arealso deadly serious.

By SVETOZAR KONTI C

The Images 86 art exhibition being being held at the Robson Squar eMedia Centre offers great technique but little emotion .

The exhibition features artists from all over British Columbia includingthe colleges and universities .

Two charcoal drawings by Lori-Ann Latrimouille, an artist from Van-couver, highlight the exhibition . Besides being skillful, the drawings displa yboth imagination and feeling .

One of the drawings, called The Release, suits its title well . A statel ygentleman sits on an elegant chair with the top of his head open and fish ,birds, dolphins, and naked women coming out of it . We all think of gettin gaway from the congestion, pressure and pain of everyday life and thi sdrawing suggests release in the cataclysmic form .

Latremouille's other drawing, Roses At Their Feet, shows a bourgeoi slouple on an antique sofa embracing with roses all over the ground . Bot hcharacters have sombre expressions on their faces suggesting the frailty ofour lives much like the life of the rose . Both drawings feature the heavy blac kof charcoal which adds a strong desperate mood .

Another highly imaginitive work is presented by June Thomson, whorecently graduated from the University of Victoria . A Little Mountai nMagic, a woodcut, dabbles in the mystical . The work shows a series of blac kmountains in the foreground with a river flowing through them . Blue moun-tains are in the background while one of the mountains on the right hand sid e

has a face on it .The face looks crazy, warped and sinister while on the top left hand side o f

the work a green bird and trees symbol is naturalistic . The work suggests th ebeauty and ugliness of nature in all its devastating power . The river may a swell be the river of death flowing through the cold blac k

mountains .In God We Trust, an oil painting on canvas by Mark Evans of Sechelt ,

is brightly coloured, surrealistic and animistic in concept . The ghost of an ol dman sits on a green chair while outside the room, through a window, we se ethe same man standing in front of an official-type building . The room is alarge boys' room with an old brown jacket on the bed and yellow walls with agreen window frame . Despite the bright colours there is a sadness in th epainting as the old man seems to be vet another one of society's casualties .

"The work suggests the beauty and ugliness ofnature in all its devastating power . The rivermay as well be the river of death flowingthrough the cold black mountains ."

Finally another U BC artist named Sherida Levy has created a work calle d

Facade with graphite, charcoal and oil pastel on plywood . In foie foregroun dare several images of Roman architecture stacked on top of each other i n

white with a black background . To the right are a series of black shacks wit h

corrugated metal roofs . The work seems to be a symbol of destruction an ddegernation instead of resurrection . It is a depressing painting but not

nihilism .Jane Alexander Ford, Pamela Scott, Edward Thornburgh, Doug Mun-

day, and Stephen Denslow get honourable mention in a show that is goo dbut could have been great with some more emotion and intensity .

It is rare to watch a movie or aplay and actually laugh, but it hap -pens with Tom Stoppard 's Dogg'sHamlet and Cahoot's Macbeth a tU BC's Freddy Wood theatre .

The plays, two one-acts, directe dby Robert Garfat . provides th eaudience with humour, wit, and a

Dogg's Hamlet& Cahoots Macbet hBy Tom StoppardFreddy Wood Theatreuntil August 3

By SVETOZAR KONTIC

A masculine Neil Ingram play sOphelia, Hamlet's girlfriend, wh oprances about the stage in a lunati cfashion, opens a trap door, an d

drops into her grave below the stage .The audience roars when the ghost

of Hamlet's father comes out o nstage dressed Halloween-like in awhite sheet, dragging a huge Styro-foam chain and screaming"Murder! "

Susan is brilliant as a nervous stu -

dent playing Hamlet . She rushe sthrough the lines and mispronoun-ces words . There is always the sens ethat she could play a serious Hamle tequally well .

Cahoot's Macbeth starts off wit ha dramatic flourish as Laura White ,a ravishing, black-clad Lady Mac-beth, takes the stage .

After Macbeth kills the king, thestage lights suddenly go on and apolice inspector, played by Timoth yHyland, enters . The inspector is anarrogant . close-minded characte r

In this "Hamlet" th edramatic expression istaken away and we areleft with somethin ghumorous.

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Phyllis Greenwood, an artist from UBC, has created a powerful paintin gcalled Chair . The painting is of a white rocking chair with a purple seat cove rand a white background . The use of the subliminal to create emotion in wha tappears to be realistic imagery provides a haunting atmosphere . The paint-ing is sombre, with a sense of loneliness, coldness, sterility, and cleanliness . I tseems an attempt is made to make something ugly beautiful, but the residu eof cold pretentiousness still lingers .

Beverly Holden of Terrace does a wonderful nature painting calledTreston . Dead trees in front of a shimmering lake with snowcapped moun-tains in the background conjure up boyhood images of the north and the 3 6mile road from Kitimat to Terrace, immersed in nature .

A painting by Dawn Burn from UVic called Bus Interior conjures- u pimages of countless dreary rides on buses in wet weather .

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