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October 19, 1994
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Abbotsford International Airshow
"The Nationalist not only does not see the atrocities committed by his side, but he also has a remarkable capacity for never hearing about them" - George Orwell
David Thiessen, Kathleen Lawry, David Wall, Robin Price, Henry Krause, Travis Crombie, and Ron Dart. ... See Page A7
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Poet's Corner I do not want people to see my weaknesses Weak people Irritate me. And what If I crumble? Then what, does that mean that I'm weak or human? WIii i force my pathetic stories onto others_, and·make them listen to something as unimportant as me and my problems? I don't want that. Haven't you heard? Nobody likes a crybaby. By Robyn Fentle
10 Places to find Stupid People "Stupid is as stupid does." Forest Gump By Sam Chua
The Stupidest people in the world: -Somehow manage to get drivers' licenses and arc always on the road the same time as you. -Al ways park their vehiclenext to yours. -Are always in front of you at Supermarket checkout lines. -Always show up during your shift at work- whether they be customers or co-workers. -Just started working the conveniencestore you frequentwhen you are in a hurry. -Sit next to you at Movie theaters, Concert halls, Operas. -are on the phone at 3am, dialing in die dark and missing the buttons, thinking what a great way it is to get to know new people: perhaps fellow insomniacs. -End up owning professional sports teams: i.e. Baseball, Hockey. -Congregate at rallies and dem<?nstrations,ranting and raving narrow minded views, having not a clue as to why they are doing so. -Usually watch taped re-runs of the Menendez Bros. murder trial
National Soccer Championships November 9 -12 Bateman Park, Abbotsford B.C
Support your Cascades Womens Soccer Team! I<eep your l's open for a Special Announcen1ent
CASCADE
THE DARKEST BEAST
UCFV Student Newspaper 19th October 1994 . Vol. 2 No. 4 RoomE 242, Abby campus. 33844 King Rd. Abbotsford, BC V2S 4N2 854-4529 On the 'Net: Cascade@ucfv.be.ca
The dark boast strains furiously against its leash a wispy thread, nothing more, gilt with gold, glit though old, Shimmering in the Sunahfoe.
Yet, She taunts it still. The Beast, Darker than pitchblend, its coat ruffled, fur standing on end like treos in tho forest. Its eyes, two shimmering pools of blood, rod like tho setting sun. Pupils narrowed, mere specks in its purple irises. The Golden thread that binds it Strains, though yet it holds. And so she taunts it. Furiously tho Ferocious Terror- Black - YES, so black it seems As a HOLE had been torn in tho very fabric of Space. So dark, all light around it seemed to be consumed. Sucked into tho shadowy vortex. Tugging terribly on the tether, str'uggling to be free. tho Beast snaps furiously at its tormentor. Blood and Spit mixed with foam, gush like an obscene waterfall, down it11muzzle. The foamy liquid, a gory cocktail POOLS beneath at its feet. RED-RUM IT SEEMS around and round it goos ... MUR-DER IT SCREAMS FOOLS from every creed The sound of a thousand doath cries. The ground beneath it shudders, cowering beneath it shaking at the sound of its roar. With its feet it tramples, On the earth which trembles. Ten thousand lives ripped asunder, By a bark that drowns the thunder. Its teeth, Ivory swords, bathed in blood clashing and.gnuhingl The awful mettle, Like an army of swordsmen fighting in battle. And while the lino of hold maintains its hold, Again she taunts it And on its breath is the smell of destruction.
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IT hangs in the AIR A stench so putrid FUMES that do rise So revi'les that one re-lives the torment the pain And relief is DEATH - Relief from this LIFE. A million lives, have through the beast, met their ultimate violent Demise ultimately But for today, the beast is bound by a shimmering strand A lino of purest gold Thin as Spiders' Silk. Yet so strong it holds the Beast at bay. And all the while, She taunts it still. A frail old voice calls to her from the di st an c e. Don't taunt the BEAST. Don't be a FOOL. It is evil, as pure as the golden thread that binds it. It will destroy your body, r i p out your heart, c r u s h your soul, Flee from it , See the cord, it is frayed, won't hold for-ever Soon it will be F
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The views expressedin The Cascade are not necessarilyU1oseof the UCFV Faculty. Administration, students, Student Society, or anyone else's for that matter! They were just slipped underneathour officedoor. '
WHO?
We, the Staff, are composedof decticated,warpedinclividualswhohave come together to produce this crazv publication. We are: Editor-in-Chief
BryanSikora Managing Editor
MoniqueMarchant Production Co-ordinators
Kristi Sikora Rob Scholander News Director
MoniqueMarchant Sports Director
BryanSikora Entertaiment Director
DeannaWalker Now Us Director
CarolineHiggins Staff Writers
Chris Stier Camille Fortin
Len Catling Contributing Writers
Colleen Mah, Sam Chua, Melanie Glaim,MichelleDemers,NolanWebb, DallasJ., RobynFentic,ClareGoldman, Bob Campbell, Buzz & Skeeter.Jeff Tisdale,Ulla Vicktor,TravisCrombie, RobinPrice,DaveWall, HenryKrause, Kathleen Lawry, David Thiessen, QuentinO'Mahony,Lee MacCafraidh. Photographers
BryanSikora Pete Hutchison Advertising Director
Chris Stier Do not blame us for anything, for we are only pawns in a much larger
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On the Cover Prominently diaplayed at the Abbotsford International Alrahow, a F-4 Phantom Air Force jet ahowa off it• warea for all to aee and admire. • Photo by Bryan Sikora
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NewCampus Being Built in Mission UCFV continues expansion with Groundbreaking Ceremony By Bryan Sikora Despite the threat of rain, an extraorrunarily large crowd gathered at WindebankSchoolon Oct. 6 to witness the OfficialGroundbreakingofthenewMission Joint Project. Phase One of the project will include a UCFV Missioncampus, 700 seat theatre, secondary school, gymnasium and fitness centre, and a large conference centre. The Mission campus will provide space for 750 UCFV students. These stu<.lcnt<; will have access to academic and vocational courses, along with many new programs "of interest to the Mission community." Speaking at the ceremony were the Hon. Art Charbonneau, Ministry of Education and Dennis Stricfcl, MLA for Mission-Kent. Also having a word were members of I.heJoint Project Committee, whichincludedUCFVstudentDaveConroy and future UCFV student Danielle Norris. Norris, who will be startingUCFV' s lntemaUonalStudies program in the Fall of •95, talked of the "huge impact the campus will have. not only on students,faculty, and staff, but on the communityasa whole. I'm
very proud to be part of Ibis project!" A graduate of Hatzic Secondary, Norris bas been involvedin the planning of this project since its inception. "It's too goodtobe truefinallyhaving a university/college in our community, in my time.'' Dave Conroy, meanwhile, was "tickled pink" when we was asked to speak at the ceremony. Conroy is currently an ABE student at the UCFV's Mission centre, with his eye on a career somewherein the political field. "I was really impressed with the political process. It was enlightening to be involved in such a large project Just goes to show that thingscanwork wheneveryone pulls together." Conroy also noted the benefits that the new campus will have on Mission studenLc;. "With the campus being located in Mission, it will be really conv'!nient and economical for students on the north shore. And with the 37 daycare slots, that will lalce some of the burden off." Scheduled for completion by September 1996,the new UCFV campus hopes to increase the post-secondary participation rate in the Mission area.
"It's too good to be true finally having a university/college in our community"
Breaking the •od at the alte of the new Mission Joint Project, and the new UCFV campu•, are Danielle Norri• (left) and Dave Conroy.
Photo by BrylUI Sikora
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various staffof the St. Mary's Complex. Through these varied professional, and definitely "culinary" activities, U1c graduatingstudentof the Toti-ltbetCuUnary Arts Program can be assured of a well rounded training, centering around teamwork and positive work ethics. The actual program is divided into three levels: Level one- Basic Food Handling, Safety, • Sanitationand Hygene;Level2- lnstitutional Cooking;and, Level 3· A La Carte,Banquet and Buffet. Upon graduatingfrom the 12month program, graduates can expect to secure cmry level positions: as cooks in local restaurants;withcateringcompanies;tourist and convention lodges; work and pleasure camps; and apprenticeships in hotels and restaurants. Some recent graduates have started their own catering companies,or have been recruited by their home communilies to run concessions, cares, and cafeterias. The next intake into this exciting program is January 1995.Interestedwouldbe cooksare encouragedto applywell ahead of time to secure funding and guaranteed placement. So, if you, or anyone you know, want to "Get Cooking" be sure to contact the Toli-llhetCentreat 826-3691,as soonas possible. Just ask for, you guessed it, "The Kitchen".
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Haute Couture and Recycleables Meet on the Catwalk By Deanna Walker Youmayhave tbought tbat tbere was absolutely no use tor empty pop cans,dryer lint,oroldsocks. ButUCFV's Fashion/Design Sludents proved this to be wrong. On Saturday, October 8, at Sevenoaks Mall. firstand second-year sludents of UCFV's Fashion Design programpresentedus wilhlwo fashionshows. The program showedusjusl whatcouldbe done wilh "Trash". Entire wardrobeswerepresentedto us with every article being modelledcontainingbetween 60 and 100pcrccnl recycled material. Among the fashions modelled were a skirt made entirely of six pack rings held togetherwith string and complementedwitb a matchingcoke can shirt, a jacket made from packagingmaterialheld togetherwithelectricianstapeand a blackcocktaildress made from the material you put on your garden to prevent weeds from coming up. You may be asking yourselfwheredid the ideas come from and how long did it talce to complete them? As Tara Johansen (creator of the coke can shirt and skirt, packaging jacket, and cocktail dress) stated, it just talcesimagination. "It startedat the end of last year when the teachergave us a project. We were to find a pattern and aller the material used. She [lheteacherJnever said ithad to be fabricand that's when I got the idea for Illecoke cans." As for how long it took to complete the masterpiece,that was a different story. "It took about a month to complete the shirt. I had lo find Illecans, crush them, put holes in them and then tic them together with leather strands." All of this was done for a low cost and a lot of fun. "I like thingsthat cost me very little but tbat I can gel a lot of fun out of. This projecl was both."
Entire wardrobeswere presented to us with every .articlebeing modelled containing between 60 and 100% recycled material.
Photo By Brya11Slkot11 Tara Johansen (left)and Catriona Belsham model the latest in Coke wear at the UCFV Recycleable Fashion Show. The first and second year etudenta of Fashion Design held their show In conjunction with Community Seivlcea at a local mall.
EveryU1ingcreated was each students own idea. Not only did they use unique materialto make theirproject,but theycreated Illepatternas well. The project stretchedtheir imagination to lhe limit, there were no rules except that everything had to be made o{ recycled or recyclablematerials. · What the students of UCFV's Fashion Design program proved to us is that a Uttle imagination;mixed with a liltle trash, could be t11efashion wave of the future.
UCFVThreesoine Teaching and Touring Vietnain UCFV Press Release lbrcc UCFV students who were babies when the Vietnam War was raging will be traveling to Victmlmthis fall on a peaceful mission. Viola Grieve and Deena Brazeau-Rubuliakof Abbotsford, and Josh Clarke of Yarrowarc lakingpart in a teachingprogram sponsoredby lhc British ColumbiaCentrefor InternationalEducation in pannership wilh MalaspinaUniversity-College. The trio spent the month of September at Malaspina in Nanaimo, learning about teaching English as a Second Language and internationaldevelopmentissues, as well as undergoingan orientation about Vietnam. They'll spend October and November in Hanoi, Vietnam, teaching English and immersingthemselves in Vietnameseculture. The program received some financial support from the Association of Canadian Community Colleges. Grieve, Brazeau-Rubuliak,and Clarke also received $1000 each from the Asia Pacific Foundation. The two women participantswere sitting in anthropologyclass last spring when a , flyer announcing the program was passed around. "I said, 'Viola, we've got to go, let's do it!"' recalls Deena, who is enrolled in UCFV's International Studies program. "We'd studied the third world, but this was an opportunity to go and get some hands-on experience. We will experience poverty and hardship, but hopefully we'll be wiser for it." Brazcau-Rubuliakhopes to earn a degree in InternationalStudies and continue to work in tl1cfield. Grieve is consideringteaching English in Thailand after getting her feet wet in Vietnam.
News Flush A reminder from Facilities Services Frequentlypersons other than the physicUy challenged make use of the handicapped washrooms on campus. Please remember tbat, while you may easily use the handicapped washrooms, thephysicallychallengedoftendon'thave
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the optionof being able to use the regular washrooms. The number of specially fitted washrooms for the physically challenged is limited. Please respect the useof the handicappedwashroomsfor the physicallydisabled
If You are from Chilliwack, Mission, Hope or Agassiz, we want your contributions. Call the Cascade at 854-4529 collect to find out more. WE WANT YOU!
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Human and Student Rights On Campus Amnesty Group brings awareness to concerns from around the world By Bryan Sikora There is a new sight to he seen just past Student Services on the Abby campus• a glass display case has been erected. Not just any display case, but a display promoting Human and Student Rights. The project, which was initiated by the UCFV Amnesty foternational Group almost six months ago, was completed when the group met the evening of Oct. 7. The case was filled with various ethnic artifacts, and more importantly, information regarding human rights concerns around the world. Information regarding existing student rights policies at UCFV a.re also available. Many of these UCFV policies are inadequate and out of date, but people must become ·aware of the ; content of these policies before .:,a ci5 lobbying for change. "The fact that only 1 in every
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2,600 people in Canada are connected with Amnesty International, whereas in Denmark, the figure Iscloser to 1 In every 230 people, is for us a serious concern," said Amnesty member David Thiessen. "We live, whether we are aware of it or not, in a very Isolated country, "We thought a permanent display would be the best way to help increase our awareness of global and local concerns." "Lack of exposure to human rights concerns, particularly in the mass media, is something UCFV, as a university, must begin to take more seriously." The display also contains many books on human rights that can be purchased at the UCFV Bookstore, as well as videos available from the Media centre. "A thank-you must go out to Dr. Peter Jones and Jim White for their efforts in bringing this project to completion," added Thiessen.
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Wednesday, October 19, 1994
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DOMINATION! Tsunami alert as UCFVWomen Cascades wash out BCIT 5-0 By Len Catling
The women's CCAA National Soccer Championships are being hosted by the UCFV Cascades. This event, which you won't want to miss; is being held Nov. 9 • l2 at Bateman Park In Abbotsford. The games will be held on three international-sized pitches, with plenty of parking and seating. Also for your convenience, there will be a concession for when you work up that appetite cheering the Women Cascades to victory. More Information will be available as the tourney draws nearer, but mark your calendar now, for this ~ one event• not mentioning the party• that must be attended. -Deanna Walker
Tbe Lady Cascades have transformed into a spasmodic flood deviantly submergingopponents. Thea~piringaccountantsfromBCIT resembleda lone sandbag facing a tsunami in their 5-0 humiliation by UCFVat the Bumaby campus. Once again the UCFV offense proved Midas traumatizing BCIT defenders with undaunted pace and anticipation. 22 minutes into regulationhalfback Gill Horsefield stung the mesh with a 20 yard strike, putting the Cascades ahead for good, 15 minutes passed before Striker Allison Slane put a loose ball behind the BCIT keeperto double the lead. UCFV's domination was never threatenedasSlane convertedon a breakawayearlyin tilesecond half following an impeccable through ball by Tanya McCracken. The BCIT fullbacks played on a level somewhere between Rush Limbaugh and traffic pylons as Jill Beauchamp and
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Chargingpast a BCIT defender,JIii Beauchampmakesher way to front of the net. The 1 team went on to destroy BCIT in a lopsided 5 - o win, at BCIT,
Jody Kohls did the final two pieces of damage. Beauchamp scored on a.15 yard heat-seekerwhileKohlswas on tilefinishing end of some intricate UCFV passing. Credit must also go to the Cascade defensewho get scoredon as oftena5MoU1er Teresa. How far can this learngo? Judging by the way they've systematically.
dismembered thei_ropposition thus far, lifeboat,; might be required at the CCAA Championships. lbe flood rages on. CCAA National Women's Soc¢ Championships,hostedby UCFV,talceplace November 9-12, at Bateman Park in Abbotsford.
Guesse Wrong Missed penalty shot; Cascades fall 2-1 to BCIT By Len Catling UCFV Men's SoccerTeam bave hit a brick wall.
After losing lhc previous week the Men Cascades were stunned2-1 by a BCJT team who were more opportunistic than · superior. Toivo Hutikka lit the scoreboard22 minutes into the contest after some vigilant mid fielding by ·Ryan Perry and Harroon Ali. The celebrationwas cut short though wben in the 30th minute UCFV keeper Colin Amason was injured in a goal mouth ·collision. Forced to leave with a fractured skullArnason's back-upJamieDopsonwas victimized for the tying strike before be could scrape tile rust from his boots. Once again the Cascadescontrolled the match but were let down by poor finishing. In the 80th minute UCFV were handed the game when Mike Hofer was cut down inside the penalty area. Striker Bmd Peterson stepped up to . the spot and fired a shot that could have bubbled paint BCIT Chris Brizca chose the correct way to lung andpulled the baJI in. The Cascade miscue was a mortal foreshadowof ensuing disa-,tcr.In the 90th minute BCff rjpped away the life support .ofUCFV wberiDopson and defenderRyan Ward crossed paths and left an ocean of goal. The shot rippled the twine and once agrun the Cascades saw victory cackle and
fly&Way. The Ca11cadeslater clashed against 1WU on October 6, playing to a 0-0 draw.
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Photo By BryanSikoru The UCFV Women Caacadearally around Coach Sandy Chambers (forefront) during a rec1nt practise. The team roster, aa well as the men'steam's, have been finalized in preparationfor the upcoming94/95 aeaaon.
Basketball Rosters Have Been Set Final cuts have been made on both basketball teams. The UCFV Cascades men's team consists of Troy Guze, Ken Kleindienst, Sean Colina, Greg Falk, Jeff White, Len Jarvis, Tim Bartel,SteveCavanagh, Sean Coulter, Chris Spence, and Ron Tamis. The UCFVCascades women's team consists of Nicole Schubert,Carol Vinson, Denise Rebman,Laura Brassington,Brandee Fort, Sue Parke, Paula Begley, Megan Thomas, Shandia Cordingley,MarU1aCraig, and Ann Kranenburg. All home games are played at the ClearbrookCommunityCentre. Come out and enjoy some excellent ball, win some prizes, and enjoy the post game party. Watch for more details, I don· t know how our MEL'S mountain biking trip will go it w~ great OUTDOOR yet, butI'I'll11betbetthat ttiere was 40 people and we trashed on ADVENTURESI.hetrails.
I'll bet 3 people were injured and we all got really muddy,bull can't say forsure! Coming up is the last October hike 10 Harrison's Look Out Peak (Oct 22). All
levels welcome, just dress according to weather and bring a lunch. To RSVP call 8537441 #4255 or 856-908_5. - Melanie Glaim
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Ab bots£ ord International Airs how The Abbotsford International Airshow essentially began in 1962 as a local attempt, by two farmers, to promote a flying club. Today it is behind only London and Paris, the first and second largest air and trade shows in the world. While many in our community seem to take great pleasure in this growth, others, as reflected in last summer's local newspaper dialogue, have come to find it a serious concern. This Cascade Special Report is dedicated to providing a public forum, however small, for some of the issues behind this growing concern to be permitted a voice. - Editor.
Photo by Dtivid Thiessen
Proteetor Travis Crombie pasting a picture of war victims on a U.S. military aircraft during this past summer's Abbotsford lntetnatlonal Alrshow.
Is This, then, the Impotence of People Raised On Fear ... - Peter, Paul, and Mary By David Thiessen This past summer a friend of mine (Travis Crombie) and I decided to respond to Illemitilaristicnature of the Abbotsford Airshow in the most appropriate way we thoughtwe could • byengagingourselvcsin a potential act of civil disobedience. We went to Ille airshow on AugusL 13 and proceeded,after steppingover theboundary markers, to paste pictures of innocent war victimsover the nosesandbodiesof various military aircraft. My purpose in doing this (I speak only for mysclt) was somewhateclectic. In a sense, l held within me a faint hope that people might begin to see, through the picturesand the words imprintedon them, that lhe vast majority of humanity is not ''protected" or ''freed" because of these machines. Military technology and stockpiling have increased to the point of sheerludicrousness,and worldpeace,in the process, has become a fainter and fainter dream. Accordingto ProjectPloughshares, thirty-fivefull-scalewars raged throughout the world last year, the majority of which were engaged with weapons whose manufacLuring h,L~ becomeintricatelylinked to the"stability"of ourFirstWorldeconomy. The air and ,tradeshow provides us wiU1a portrait of how this works. Particularly during lhe last eight years, the trade show aspect of U1eairshow (every second year) has been selling • on demand · couples military equipment and technology to some of the worst human rights abusers in U1eworld. In 1989 (the only year I have info. about) 37 of the Canadian exhibitors at the airsbow were military conlractors, eight of which were among the top 15 Pentagon contractors in U1eworld (we desperately need to think about why U1isinfonnation is so hard to come by). While local businesses,as well as some local charities, look forward to Uuee days of increased revenues, the participationof brutalregimesin theairshow provides the foundation for much of I.be growth•s momentum. It is economics entirelycut away from any notion of ethics.
Yet even if we know nothing about right to self determination(Vietnam,Laos, the airshow as a mecca for aims sales, we Panama, El Salvador,Nicaragua?). should still be questioning why so many Have we really become so First World nations like the USA, Brazil, wonderful, so perfect that all 1cts of civil Italy, France, Britain, and many others, disobedience can be justified only in the would incur substantial costs to merely past? Of course, tbc temptationhere is to entertaina fewFraserValleyresidents. Are respondUiatourpoliticalsystemhasaveQues we really so naive as to think that the for "proper'' dissent, tJ1at"due process" is Pentagon, the largest military/industrial the only legitimate fonn of protest. The complex the world bas ever known, would responseof airsbowpersonnel to its critics care at all about • in itselfamicrocosm entertainmentin the of our "due process"• "Have we really become so Fraser Valley? It is seems to suggest not virtually self- wonderful, so perfect that all acts otherwise. After evident that there is immense pressure of civil disobedience can be an agenda from newspaper justified only in the past?" (propaganda) at reporters for "a slake? Yet very few comment", the people I know, whether students and airshowpersonnelwent on record(CBC)to professorsal UCFV,or familyand friDnds, say that U1cy''would not respond - in any seem to have stoppedand rellcctcd on why way • too any of the protesters concerns". lhe airshow,in itspresentfonn, mightexist. 'Ibis does not just mean that they would It wasultimatelyU1isrealizationthat refuse to talk to the actual protesters, but pushcdmeon. Mycourseofaction became, also meant that they would refuse to talk in a sense, the only way for me to purge my about Uicissuesthe protesterswere raising, own soul of not only the sheer imp01cncyI even to television or newspaperrcpor1crs. felt in seeking venues for change, but also Both of our local papers, on numerous the intensityof fear I felt in contemplating occasions, sought a response from the this fonn of protest. Why, I thought, was I airshow to allegationsfrom protesters,and so afraid to "break the law" - at least in not one of their phone calls were returned puhlic'!Havewe,as a people,reallybecome (for confinnation call Russ Akins at The snch utterly private beings that we simply News).Neitherdidairshowpcrsonnclreturn cannot stand up • in public • and face the callsfromThe Provinceor The Sun. Rogers status quo? Have we not in the process, Cable offered to air a puhlic debate on U1e sanctified national law 10 the status of a issue: again, not even a ncgative response. dictatorialdeity? Havenot lawenforcement Not even a letter. officersbecome,in variousways, the demiWhatI.bismeansto me is I.batairshow gods of our society? I lave we simply management have finally internalized,or forgotten (cultural amnesia) that not only become, what they sell. The airshow used did Christianityemerge a.s,m illegal sect, to respond, when questioned about its activities,that"businessis business:human sought after by the Roman Empire, but every institutionwe take for granted today rights (to life?) is human righK" Today it was erected upon the illegal efforts of docs not even bother to respond. Is U1erca dissident'>.The scientific efforts of Bacon correlation here? Keven 'farrant, the first and Descartes were deemed illegal. So too pilot to ny a mission over Baghdadduring were the efforts of Luther, Calvin, and theGulf War,commentedto TheTimesI.bat MennoSimons.Slaveryabolitionistsfought what ''the protesters do not understand is their struggle illegally, as did America, a thatthemachinerytheyarcprot.cstingagainst nationthat foughtfor Independence(1776), is whatis givingthemthe freedomto speak." and that, in many ways, today legitimates Evenif we ignoreTarrant's incrediblybrutal the destructionof its own foundations- the linkageof militarismand free speech,what
he, and thousandsof ot.bers,do not seem to understand is that any authentic dialogue involves al least two participanLS.When one parly - particularly the party U1alis holdingall the power - refuses to dialogue, "freedom of speech" becomes little more than a platitudeon which Uicpowerfulcan "legitimately"build their private visionof an empire. The rnostcrucialquestion we might thus begin to ask is why the majority of us would never think to raise these questions on our own · and why this may not bot.her even us. Up until a few years go, I never gave any of this much thought. Who, then, arc we really listening to? For all our pride in individuality and freedom we seem to have, as Thomas Merton once said, completely renounced thinking 'tor ourselves. We arc, it seems, generally contentto turnon a switchandbe comforted by the vapid,but self-assuredslogansof the speakerwho - we hope - is speakingfor U1c wholenation. We pat ourselveson the back for defendingIlleKuwaitianmonarchy,hut we ignore and prolit tremendouslyfrom Suharto's Indonesianregime,and the huge oil n:scrvesit gainedfromitsbrutalinva~ion of E. Timor • or by ignoringthe atrocitiesin China in order lo be able to invite it to purchaseour "wares" at the airsbow? How deliberately, or c~ciously, can we then say that we live our lives? While we like to honor many who, at one lime, refused lo submit to those in p0wer (July4th?), we neverthelessinsistthatthose we honor all be dead! Whatever is safe, on the other band, supportedby the status quo, and predictablebecomes, as it always has, that which is both right and true. To really recognize that "heresy" is both a religious and secular phenomena- and lllatwhat we sec as "law" is often merely a human construct that represents the most serious human deficiencies - must mean U1atal somepointinour liveswe willfind,mrselves refusing to bend our knee to the empire or state. I, for one, will no longer allow the statusquo to dictate my behaviour- nol ftir the airshow or anything else.
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.,War 1S about By Kathleen Lawry · The summer I was fourteen, on the daypriorto lheKitchcner/Waterlooairsbow, the pilots practised outside our home in the countrysidenear Guelph, Ontario. We bad not been told that they would do this. It was a sunlit day, a day for celebrating life. My mother and I were winking away the afternoon lassitude, sippingcoffee at the kitchen window,while we watched my father mow the lawn. We smiled at each other as he wove the lawn moweraround the killdeer nest, carefully • injurya few feet away. The hum of my father's mower was suddenly subsumed by another noise, a pounding,inescapable,motor driven noise Uiat escalated in intensity so quickly it seemed lhat it would consume us, destroy . us. I turned to my mother in terror, only to findmyself shockedout of my terrorby I.he
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"the sound of an airplane rushing earthward can only mean one thing, the promise of continued terror and suffering for them selves and for others." utterdesolationin her face.Whenthe person to whomwehave alwaysturnedin moments of need cannot respond to us, we grow up quickly. My mother, shaking and gasping, clutched my hand, imprinting marks that would not fade for even an hour. She was comple1elyunable to heed my anns around her. For a minule, forever, we stood like this, until the noise abated, and my mother returned to her eyes. I helped her to sit down, and placed her hands about the warmth of her coffee cup. Tears slipped over her face. 'That,' she said, 'is what it sounded like when they dropped the bombs on us.'
And so, for the first time, my mother talked to me about her war. About her father, who spent 17 hours in tl1e water during· WWl, holding onto a piece of drifrwood,until he was rescued. About the friend who was with her father, and let go to drown. About being a war orphan in the north of England, away from her family. Aboutherbestfriend,whodiedwhen Illeshockwaves froma bombsent aknitting needle through her neck. About her sister,who, at 16,married amanshehadknown fortwoweeks,because neither of tllem might live another day. About curfews and about walks she
would talce around the marked off areas where no one would go. 'War is about victims,· she said. This is what I think about when I hear Ille airplanes at the Abbotsford Air Show, the victims. To millions of people wbo lived throughW.W.11,like my mother, and to millions of people who are alive in war tom areastoday,the soundof an airplane rushing earthwardcan only mean one thing, thepromiseof continuedterrorand suffering for them selves and for others. The celebration of might al the Abbotsford Airshow is lamentable, as any pre-supposes that the past and potential victimsof warhaveno dignity,nohumanity. Rather than teachingour children to venerate instruments of destruc1ion, we should teach them to weep before them,and to work towards a day when our world might find itself without them and without victims.
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PEACE-ARTS FESTIVAL By Henry Krause We live in a violent and strife-filled world: - violence and abuse in families
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"Together Against Violence" - intoleranc.cand hatred between races and cultures - religious intolerance • damage and violence done to our environment - international violence and militarism in many countries - crimes and violence against individuals and society As Christians we believe tllat Jesus calls us to be reconcilersand peacemakers, to bring the love of God to our neighbours and to our enemies. The Peace-ArtsFestival is one way to do this. Our desire is that the festivals willbe a way to find creativealternativesto violence in all its manifestations,from the personal to the international, from attacks on humanbeings to the destructionof God's wonderful creation. The "Peace-Arts Festival" has its roo'5 in the MennoniteChurch community.
Since 1986 there have been annual events focusing on international peace and reconciliation. The last two years have seen a larger festival celebrating the Arts and Peacemaking. This year the festival was broadened to include other Christian tradilionsin the planningand runningof the festival. The festival is held on the same weekend in August as the Abbotsford International Airshow as a way of proclaimingthe good news of Christ in the midst of a weekend that is filled witll the sightsand soundsof manydifferentmilitary planes and aircraft. The festivalpresentsa way of seeing the world that docs not include militarism and the need for weapons of mass destruction, but rather seeks to celebrate diversity,creativity,and love of neighbour, The festival is supportive of an airshow tllat promotes civilian technology
and celebrates the many examples of humanities' ability to make "wondrous flyingmachines". It is opposed to Illeuse of militaryplanesand aircraftas entertainment. Thefestivalis a meansof articulating Ille 'way of peace' using a varietyof means. Through various meaus such as the visual arts, drama, writing,film, music, and so on, as wellasthroughworkshopsand the written word, the Christian response to violence can be explored. Althoughthe festival is grounded in a Christian understandingof peace and the love God has for all of creation, this does not preclude otllers from the broader communitybeinginvolvedin various ways, sharingtlleirinsights,visionsandcreativity.. Join with us next year as we come '7OGETHER AGAINSTVIOLENCE" Aug. 12-14.
Reconsidering our Entertainment By Robin Price Canadians live in a world that is surrounded with violent images. We are exposed to these images tllrough various mass media outlets that sensationalizeacts of brutality and bloodshed. The lines between reality and illusion are blurred as we watch, wilh a numb sort of satisfaction, the "Real Live Drama" of "COPS" or ''The Gulf War''. In these "images" flesh and blood people, in the fullness of the tragedy of their lives, become mere statistics to be used for ratings, profit, and entertainment. When I think of the AbbotsfordInternationalAirshow,this is whatcomes to mind. Every Augustwe welcome,withopen arms, and for our entertainment,not only the same highlyefficientkilling machines that recently strafed and killed thousands of innocent Iraqicivilians,but actuallyalso attempt toreplayelementsof World
War Two with shows like i•Tora,Tora, Tora". Instead of the bombing of Pearl Harbour being solemnly rememberedas a symbol of what we as humans are capable of, it is billedas the re-creationofa "thrillinghistoric event". No bodies, no blood, just a lot of fire, smoke, and noise. No context. Once again the lines between reality and illusion blur: war becomes a game of sorts, a Nintendo or a Sega. History becomes myth while myth is shown as history. Violence becomes fun, fun becomes violence, and we become......? It is high time, I think, that we as a community begin to put some serious thought into what we are allowing to infiltrate our mindsbefore we end becoming• unconsciously- the very things we most hate. It is time, in fact it is long overdue, for constructive approaches to community sponsored entertainment.
The Cascade
Wednesday, October 19, 1994
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Expoting the death that surrounds these military kllllng machines, Travis Crombie pastes a poster of human corpses to an American jet amid Airshow onlookers.
"Those who fear to make the sacrifice of love will have to fight" ByTravis Crombie
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'Jbe day was alreadyhot as we entered the entrance gatesand walkedthroughthe airfieldtowardsour objective. Dave and I were nervous;the tannac shiveredin U1c middayheat. Sightseersand securityswept by, obliviousto their surroundings, as we moved steadily closer to the militaryplanes on display. The smellof burnt grassandjet enginefuel filledmy nostrils, and I gagged as the smell filled my head with images of burnt bodies. The Blue Angles thundered overhead,passing so close to me that the hairs on the nape of my neck stood on end. It was as if I could feel a bomb dropping, about to explodearoundme at any instant,annihilatingeverything. I have never had such a frighteningreactionto such sounds before. The whole atmosphereof the airshow was like a macabrefestivalin whichpeoplebowedbeforetheawesome and terrible technologyof human making. I was biased,of course,entering into the festivalfor the sole purpose of defyingit, and this, no doubt, modified my perceptions. But the expressionon the faces and the gleamin theeyesofpeoplearoundmetoldof theirunthinking and uncriticalacceptanceof these great objects of might. Dave and I began to pastepicturesof corpseson the
The whole atmosphere of the airshow was like a macabre festival in which people bowed before the awesome and. terrible technologtj of human making. war planes;peoplelookedon incredulously.many seemed to ·say by their stares: "How dare they disturb our day of fun!", or "can they do that?". One man, I recall, read the caption on one of the pictures:''Those who fear to make the sacrificeof love will have to fight". It was only by supplyingthe dead bodies to this festival of war lhal our love for others could be vouchsafed. It soundsstrange,I know, bl\t by showingthe death that lies behind the glossy surface of thesemachines we hoped to invoke love in others; the kind of love that challengesinjusticeand sufferingin its searchfor a way out of madness. PerhapsI. too, am a littlemad fromalwaysseeingthe cruelty and exploitationbehind the glossy surface,not just of our militarytechnology,but of our first worldculture as a whole; and I would not deny the charge that this one
sidedness is an incompletepicture, but it is a part of the picture of our society, a part that we have easily and consistentlyignored, lllc very act of being thoughtful in Ulcscmatters may well be U1cfirst step towardsa fuller commitmentto humanity. Let us keep in mind the dead and the livinga~wc ask why wc glorifyall thatkeeps us from lovingone hear its call to justice; let us ask seriously and critically why we support the 3rd largest military airshow in the world, and what human cost that supportentails. Reviewing the events of that day, one image in particular returns to me: as we were leaving, our task complete, I caught a glance of one of the pictures we had pastedlyingcrumpledon the groundunderU1cbellyof ajet. It was a symbolthat could sufficefor all. For how often has U1atcrumpledpicturebeen a reality,a humanlifecast down bytheviolenceunleashedbyunthinkingtechnologiesguided by unU1inkinghands? We shouldcarry such imageswith us as next year's Abbotsford international Air and Trade Show begins to loomon the horizon. Only thencan we beginto confrontthe inner significance of military display, or guess at the dimensionsof suffering which cascade wiUlthe lift off of each new militarvattraction.
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Ramboism and the Abbotsford Airshow Airshow more about war than entertainment.
ByRonDart If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has his foot on the tail of a mouse, and y~ti say that you are neutral. the mouse will not appreciate neutrality.
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Bishop Desmo11dTutu Beware of your sham impartialiscs, wolves in sheep's clothing, simpering honestly as they suppress.
RobertLouis Stevenson The rhetoric of pluralism simply legitimizes the monistic fact.
George Grant Tora! Tora! Tora! returned,yet once again Loamuse and cntcrlain the 235,000 plus spectators Lhal Lurncd up al U1e AbbotsfordAirsbow.Tora! Tora! Tora! reenacted, in a safe and sterile way, lhe violence of the Jap,mese llltack on Peat! Harbour on Dec. 7, 1941. The surprise allack (although there are many who question thal assumption) killed 2,403 soldiers, sailors and civilians and wounded 1178. The facl U1also many lumed up to watch this event to be replayed, lends lo justify the argument that the Airshow is mueh more about jingoism and war than some harmless family entertainment. Tora! Tora! Tora!, though, bas a more subllc message; it's a cullural icon lhat reminds us of our victimizationand the need to remain vigilant against the enemy. And how do we remain vigilant and protect our intlaled and indulgent way of life?through the military. The Japanese auack on Pearl Harbour was consciously directed
at amililary installation. But on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, the U.S.A. dropped atomic bombs on civilians;200.000 died in Hiroshimaand 140,000in Nagasaki.Early in the same year (March9-10, 1945),Superfortressbombers auacked Tokyo and killed 120,000. The faclthat we vaporizedciviliansat Hiroshima and Nagasaki should arouse some sense of disease within our collective conscience. War and violencearenOlsomeU1inglo gloal over, much less be enterlained by; il is tragicandmuslbe lamenled.·nie AbbolSford Airshow, unfortunatdy, panders to the aggressivedeathdealinginstinctsby inviting someof the most violentand sleekestkilling machines into the Valley. An advertisementin the AbbotsfordClearbrook-Matsqui Real Estate Weekly (July 29, 1994) says Backdroppedwith theboomingguns and bombs of actual Japanese Zero bombers, and an exciting narration, Tora! Tora! Tora! will be an unforgettable Airshow spectacular... In flight displays of the massive B-1 bomber and the A10 ground auack fighter display U1eawesome powerof military muscle. Is this the message we wanl locmwey?- Ulc awesome power of military muscle. The article, ~ost as a fleeting afterthought, mentions 'vintage aircrafland a family area wiU\entertainers.' TI1e'largesl Airsbow in North America' is aboul slrulling, Rambolik,cmilitary muscle, and military muscles means deaU1and carnage lo those who dare to opp0sc our ambitions. The AbboL"ford Clearbrook Times (July 27, 1994) caplures the intent and mood of the airshow. At the Airshow aviation entertainment for the family includes... Hying displays of the B-1 Bomber that will lilerally shake the ground,
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declared lhe Airshow 'Canada's national airshow'. Some have suggcsled Ulal lhe 'Abbotsford lnter11ational Airshow is arguably the biggesl and best Airshow on earth.' The frightening t"aclthat 235,000 plus will thoughtlessly and uncritically I assume we are supposed to he Uuilledby arrive, ample coppers in hand, lo be amused such a potential welcome- 'shaking the for three days, speaks volumes about our ground' and 'lethal weaponry'. This, I macho cult~re. Wlien economics drowns suspccl, isjust what family entertainmcnlis out the voice of ethics, when might beats au about. We arealso supposed Lobe proud downright and when of the fact that U1cUS action replaces Blue Air• Force reflection, we, as a Angels will make people, cullUre and lheir only 1994 civilization dwell in appearancein Canada the dusk of an era. in the Fraser Valley. 235,000 or more The Airshow turned up at lhe Hot.line emphasizes Airshow. 250,000 the facl lhal lhe appeared at the Airsbow will have a Chrislian concert 'lop notch stress on Sonfcst.Where have comfort and those commi!led convenience'. I Christians gone wonder, though, how when they are called comforlable or lo protesl the cqnvenient it would substantive evils of be for those who have our age? 8,000 were felt the firepower of forlunale enough to anA-lOThunderbolt, auend the Mission aB-1 Bomber, F-117 Folk Festival. How Steallh, a B-52 many of those will, in the spirit of folk Bomber, a CF-18 Hcimel,a CS Galaxy, a prolest, stand against the militarism of U1e Cobra hclicoplcr or an F-15 on their flesh and bodies. Most ofUlejels and bombers Airshow? I suspect very few! 60,(X\Q ll1atwill be al the Airshow were made lo kill eagerly passed through the gates at the and des1roy;themillions,indeedthe billions Agrifair. Where do all these people go spenl on their design and creation were not when amusemenl ends and serious for our amusemenl and enlertainmenl. I responsibilitybegins? Perhaps H. Arendl' s suspect thal if the immense power of the "banality of evil" is the best Lennlo apply lo American military refused lo appear al Ule Ibissordidand dysfunctionalstale of values. A.irshow,we would have a non-event The AJU\oughwe Iamenl the increase of facl lhal Canada, the U.S.A. and Britain violence on our streets and lelevision screens,weare mostkeen,eager, and willing tend to be melop pert"onners,and thal the U.S.A. ($277.2 billion), Brilain ($_35.2 lo invile the most powerful and polent billion) and Canaoa{$9.6biluouJ wfthiu violence makers inlo the valley lo amuse the top 10% military spenders in the world, and entertain us. It is ironic that each shouldconfinn to usour hawkishtendencies. autumn, ProLife will pack both :;ides of The flyingdemonstrationsand static South Fraser Way (the main street of displays at lhe Airshow, for the mosl parl, Abbot,;ford), but few of those protesters celebralelhedubiousvirtuesofwar,violence will tum up to protest the Airsbow; the and brute force as a means of resolving connection between militarism and lhe serious conflict Wc need not tum our beads abortion of life is obvious for those who loo far lo the dislant pasl lo see how Ule have thoughlmuch aboul il. lt is somewhat mililary protccls our Slralegicoil inleresls amusing lo hear the howl of protest against in the Middle East. As a result of the war the rise of crirneand inadequatepunishment with Iraq in 1991, 200,000 citizens of Iraq for crimes in our local area, yet an eerie and were killed, more than 1 million Iraqi ominous silence hovers over the Valley children are still seriously malnourished when lhe Airsbow arrives; the military bas and 100,000 are seriously ill, and many of killed more innocent civilians and broken U1oseare likely lo die. The 'lurkey shoot' or international law more than any petty blue as Colonel..Richard 'Snake' While said, collarcriminal. Butwecryouttobeamused referring to the war in Iraq, "It is almost like by the pyrotechnicsof the god of War. Mars you flipped on the light in the kitchen at (the Roman god of war) becomes incarnate night and the cockroaches slart scurrying, in a visible way for three days each year in and we're killing them", speaks volumes Abbotsford. Thousands will tum out with aboul the value of bwnan life that is not of their tents, mobile and molar homes lo worship al the shrine. Then, the pilgrimage us. We should be concerned about the appalling condilions in Rwanda and oirer, they will relurn borne for anoUler Burundi, but we should rcali;:;cU1althe ytar. Others, more cynical of Mars, will carnage we have left behind in Iraq is protest by their nott-allcndancc or leave intimalely connecled with the bard steel Lownfor a few days. A few, though, will stay and make theirpresencefell as a symbol killing machines thal will momenlarily of oppositionlo Mars; Ulepriest an acolyles amuse us at the Airshow. Anyone who has been targetedby any of the killing machines of Mars, the new Sanhedrin, will conspire that will titillate and tantalize our senses at lo silence the opposition,bnl the opposition, regardless of numbers, will stand their the Airshow would not be so eager lo grcel these technological Trojan horses ground. 1995promises to be an interesting year; the Air and Trade Show will be in uncritically. Abbotsford, and it is 50 years since lhe In 1969, Prime Minister Trudeau bombing of Hiroshima aud Nagasaki. the A-10Thunderbolt ground auack fighter that appears 10 defy gravity with its lelhaJ combinalion of maneuverabilily and weaponry.
The flying demonstrations and static displays at the Airshow,for the most part, celebrate the dubious virtues of war, violence and brute force as a means of resolving serious conflict.
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A special thanks to David Thiessen for his work coMorqinatingthis Cascade Special Feature,and to all those who contributed. - Ed.
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Entertainment "Let's give these tickets to some kids." Junkhouse's Tim Wilson speaks with Nolan Webb about the music scene. What direction has the tour taken? We're up to tour wilh Stone Temple
Pilots in Europe, I don'l know if we're going to get it or not. We arc definitely going to Europe. We're going back lo cross Canada completely and then we' re flying t.o Europe. Has the tour been draining so far? It's been a year on lhe road soil's kind of been endless. We first did a lour to introduce ourselves and the album. We did a tour wiU1U1eWallons and we did a tour witllSoul Asylum,lhen we did our own tour again. Right now, yeah il's draining. We just got back from Australiatwo weeks ago, home for four days and tllcn oul to Calgary to start this tour. We take vitaminsand I've stoppeddrinking the way I was and I kind of try to eat right. So you;re starting to feel healthier.
Yeah, well you go through periods where you start drinking and your just riding on tl1ebooze and all of a sudden you fucking wake up one day and you're twenty-five pounds overweight and you feel like shit. Youcan'tsurvivelivinginhotclsanddriving in vans and flying around and not eating correctly because you just.fall apart. It must be a hard life night after night. It's kind of a stupid life but it's a job and it's somethingthat l' ve been working at for seventeen years, waiting for someone to FIie Ptu>to clap.
Enjoying their aucceaa from Auatralla to Canada to Europe, Junkhouee la extremely conecloua •to not compromise themselves musically•. Back from Australia,Junk~ousa la currently touring Canada, with a new album coming for the Spring of '95.
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North Side of the River? You Better Believe It! Name-the--cat contest hasn't expired, but the cat has. By Michelle Demers Occasionally I gel lhe craving for a goodcuppajoe. Especially on Sunday's at about two in the afternoon. Satisfaction of this Java craving once meant a pilgrimage lo lhc corporate Mecca of the coffee bean, Starbucks,but no longer. Mission can now boast two bean mills to satisfy even the most hardened caffeine junkies. The newest care on the block, GrabA- Java, boasts sublime lattes under lhe leadership of cx-UCFVcr David Perralt. Haven to both ends of tJ1egenerational spectrum, the medley of grey and green hair provides a nice contrast to the original artwork on the walls and the somewhat eclecticmusiceminatingfrom the speakers. Frugally speaking, Grab-A-Java's prices arc exactly whal you'd wanl them to be, cheap. The muffins are tasty and rumor has it that cheesecake may soon be making a welcome appearance. Now, lhe whole cafe experience would not be complete without the poetry
It's been pretty successful the last year or so though.
The lastyear's becnrcall~ucccssful, it's been. the most successful year of my career. I never thought I'd be able to fly around I.heworld to Australia and play ·to crowds withthe samenumbersand inicnsity of lhe crowd tonight. It's like "Where tne fuck did these people come from?" But they buy the album and they hear il on Ille ·radio. What gave you the success this time around?
I think it's the exposure, and a conscious decision when we pul lhe band togelher to not compromise ourselves musically and to try to be jusl a little bit different and take chances wilh ourselves insteadof falling into the seven-day-a-week bands that we•ve been in before.
reading and new up and coming bands playing tl1eirwares on Friday and Saturday nights. (and you lboughl Starbucks )lad it all) from all of you closet Longfellow's and Whitman's, be wants any prospective Vedder's and Downie's to share what their What do you think about being described friendsare tired of bearing, honest examples as a heartland or working mants band? It comes from where we are and the of creativity. attitude we have about working... To find Mission's newest venue for Does it have anything to do with being coffee/music/poetry/dessertget to Mission. from Hamilton? Yeah, I think it has everything to do Go up Grand Street and tum lefl on Seventh. Gettingto Missionis your ownresponsibility with being from Hamilton. It's a blue• as I am not the pied piper. Grab-A-Java is collar town. I grew up beside Toronto, a nestled in beside Mac's but just follow the town that\ don't particularly like. I don't music.and the crowd if the whole concept of like Bay Street, I don'llikc British-ness,the conservativeness, Ille British rule and the lhc other side of the river confuses you. Yuppiesor fuckingconservatives.Hamilton Open letter to the fool who smashed is like lhe poor cousin, it's always U1e my cat all over my road. Hope your death is underdog and there's jusl a lot of good as painful as the one you inflicted on my cat. thinking people lhere. It's just a tough Rol in hell, loser. fucking town. Ob ycall•Michelle's name the cat contest no longer has a cat to name, so instead the contest has been changed to - Name thejerk who smashed Michelle's cal and win some beer. (Bastard and Loser have already been submitted.)
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What do you think of playing out here?
I love it. The joke in the band is that tllcylet us come to B.C. and to AustraHaand Europe and we get to play guitars too. It's like a fucking joke. What do you recommend for people that are plugging away right now?
Be honest and be musicians. Be happy where you arc. Wa'i that a Grandmaster Flash that you had in there tonight?
Yeah we just got the tape. We were in Kelownalast night and during the day we bought some tapes and one of them was Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. We've been pumping it all the way from Kelowna all the way to Vancouver. The message is just great. I really believe that honesty in whatever you do in your life in relationships or music, art or literature or working in U1eSteel Company honesty is lhe great trial in your life. Like Johnny Cash said, "When I was bad I wasn•t all bad and now that I'm good I'm not all good, but at least I'm 1rying." What did you grow up listening to? A.M.radio. The GuessWho, Gordon
Lightfoot, The Stones and the Beatles. Nat King Cole and Charlie Parker. What do you think of the Canadian scene right now? I lhink it's probably asproductiveas
it's ever been. Canada has to watch its ass all lhe time. The bands, the musicians the industry gets really cocky about itself and it rewardsjtself a lot more lhan it should. We don' t'dig awards thalmuch. We were up for a Juno last year and I was walkingthere with my kids and we bad our tickets and 1 said "You know what, why don't we go LO I.he Hockey Hall of Fame," because it was right across the street and my daughter wanted to see the Stanley Cup. I said "Fuck," I do say fuck too, "let's give tllcsc tickets to some kids." So I gave lhem my tickets and they ended up silting in lhe seventh row with The Tea Party and all these bands. It's like st.op patting yourselvcs on the back and just get out and play. Tl1e real musicians on the night of the Junos arc usually out playing in bars somewhere. '!bat's my atlitudc, it's nol cocky, it's just lhat Canadian music should concentrate on working and nol on licking each other's assholes. Who do you like that's playing right now?
There's one new band every week. I like the Dave Rave Conspiracy, the Skydiggcrs, shit, the Blue Shadows, Art Bergnamm, Crash Vegas. There's a band from the Stales called G Love and Special Sauce that I love and I really like Ille new REM album. How soon till the next album?
We're going to record it when we come back from Europe, probably after Christmas, in January, and then we'll go lo Australia in February and we' 11come home and tour Canada in April, so I guess in midMarch or April.
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to the radio and I had never seen any of her videos so I assumed she was some piece of I do not know where she is from and disposable arty trash. I do not care because all I want is to know if I was wrong. &ili: was indeed one she would consider hangingout or dragging of last year's best recordings lhat I in with me. Hername is Liz Phair and if you discovered too late to place on my own do not know who she is then youarc missing previouslypublished list (apologiesalso go out. oullo PJ Harveyfor RjdOfMe(Island)for To be honest, it was not through my the same reasons - better late than never). own exploring that I discovered her, hut The album combinesa pop mentality with a through her debut album, Exjleio GuyvH!e focuson betterlyricsand lesstypicalmusical (Matador Records), being placed at many hooks; which translates to an album that critics "Best oC' lisL~for '93. I do not listen may sound trite at first, but becomes more
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powerful with each listen. 1994 is a new year. 'lllings have happened. She toured, dealt with stage fright, and made a new album. When I heard that Whlp-Stnart(MatadorRecords) was being released, my palms began to sweat. They did not stop (two weeks later) until I had the CD in my moist little hands, thj':nthey did shake. Would it suck? What could she do? Why am I telling you all this instead of writing the review? "Chopsticks" leads off the album with the simple piano piece playing while
Hip To Be Canadian - Tragically Hip By Michelle Demers Only in the StatesItell you. That's right, only in the states could Canada's hottestband with their numberone selling new album not be known by the bouncer who was working their security at this littleout of the way club. Sad but true, the bouncer at the tragically hip concert last week in Seattle didn't even know who the band was, never mind that the band's latest album is currently number one on Canada'srecordcharts,thatthebandwould sell out Seattle's 900 capacity Under the Rail Club ten times over had the concert been anywhere in Canada but hey, that's O.K. It's O.K. that thisprimeexampleof backwaterAmericannationalismwith the YankeeacccnttwohoursovertheCanadian borderdidn' l know who the hip were. For
me, it made the band that much more Canadian. It's 0.K. that their presence in the States doesn't illicit the same response asit does northof the border. Concertssuch a~these bring together those Hip fans who would literally travel across borders to sec one of their favorite bands. It's O.K. that 850 of the 900 people at the concert were Canadians celebrating the golden boys of the Canadian music scene. There were flags and Leaf jerseys, and maple leaves to attest to this celebration. It was a live Molson Canadianad. We were Canadians. Gord Downie is a Canadian. As the concert began, his haunting voice started with grace, developedthe courage to say hi to HughMacLennan,made the voyagefrom a greasyjungle to New Orleans and ended up with liltle bones. As Downie sang, cavorted, read his bible and shot various demons in his closet. the band labouredon
with the crowd enjoying the fruits of their labour. At the end of the night as I and my compatriots caught up with Downie and the band, we had a chance to chat with themand inquire about their own sense of nationalism. Their guitarist replied that whenon the road, the Hip wereperformers that happened to be Canadians. Performers, that would never deny their roots. As Gord Downie was ~bout to board the bus lo go back to the hotel I wondered out loud what the inspiration was that encouraged the erratic and somewhat off the wall stage presence of the Hip· s front man. Gord looked at me and answered"ll' s the powerof the music, baby." Thanks Gord. Thanks for thelesson in politics,music and culture. Thanks for beingCanadian.
Phair!
Phair details a casual sexual encounter at a party. Try singing lhis one witl1your mom around! A good beginning: typical Phair fashion with the sexualityof the song being enhanced by the innocence of U1emusic. I breathed a sigh of relief. It ls U1attype of security that scares the Hell out of you when you get pulled out of it by the next track, the first single, "S upcmova." Hookheavy, energetic,sexy, and quite possibly lhe best single of U1is year (tying with The Cranberries' "Zombie"); just try not to fall in love with her as she slides across lines like, "Your kisses arcas wicked as an M-60 / And you fuck like a volcano/ And you' re everything to me." "Support System" is another catchy tune that does not try as hard to catch you, but does anyway. From iL~whistling bridge to the synthesizer chorus, Phair defies all basicpop motivationsand createsa structure that slights the "verse-chorus-verse" mentality that only becomes visible after a few listenings. It is impossible to pick favouriteson this album because everything is so good and the styles change wiU1such incredible ease making the choices that much harder. I will say that Liz Phair is the most exciting voice in pop music today, and that if ~is album docsnot spur her onto the stardom she deserves, then maybe I will meet her in a downtown club, someday. Ycah, right. Besides, this album is going to be biggerand morepowerfulthanthecollective frustration generated by all the other guys who buy this album (if you know what I mean - wink. wink).
RANTS, RAVES, AND ASSORTED REVIEWS
Canadian Sounds Abound; Grab A Note! Nolan Webb figures it's about time the local kids are given half a chance I thinksome of you need to get your heads out of the mass-mediasand and have a look at what's around you in the music community. l constantly hear the opinions that there's just very little talent in tbe Canadian music industry or that it's too underground to be readily accessible. First of all, ·youmay not particularly enjoyall the varied talentsof such musicians as Big Sugar, The Tragically hip, The Tea Party, Sarah McLaughlin, Loreena McKenniU,I Mother Earth, The Rankin Family and hundreds of others, but I think you wouldhave to be a musicalignorant not to at least acknowledge lhat there is great talent coming out of this country right now. Certainly,every Canadianmusician alive (except Bryan Adams, Celine Dion and Rush) will tell you that the number one problem with tbe Canadian music industry today is lack of media coverage. FortunatelyMuch Musichasoffered much of its airtime for the developmentof new Canadian talent, but r-adiois, for the most part, a dead zone. So that leaves live shows as our primary source for music, which is good as every musician will tell you that it's the only true source of music. There is an abundanceof concerts to attend in Vancouver. For example on one weekendalone I took in twenty bandsincludingSlowburn, The Watchmen, Junkhouse, The Gandharvas,The Tea Party,RymesWith Orange, Annette Ducharme, Pure, and Colleen James, all for a grand total of less than a god-damned Aerosmith or
G~ns'N'Roses ticket. AU that I'm trying to say is that I don't give a shit if you don't like most Canadian music. Just don't stereotype Canadian music and tell me that it's all either underground or folk if you haven't even made the effort to hear the crop of new Canadian talent. That is plain ignorance. Some Reviews... Barenaked Ladies Maybe You Should Drive (Sire/Warner) When their debut album, Gordon, was released it was their humorous and light sounds lhal appealed to the thousands that supported Canada's favourite new rock band. But this lack of seriousness in the majority of their lyrics and vocals seemed to create a lack of passion and feeling as most of U1esongs ended up being simple and non-dynamic. 'lllis second time around, it seems that the labelbig-wigshave pulled the reigns on their comical edge. Now normally I would have applauded such anobviously talented band in their move towards more serious music, but it seems that the Ladies have fallen short in their vocal passiononce again. With the possible exceptions of maybe "Jane," "Everything Old ls New Again," and "Am I the Only One" this album is bland and flavourless. And this will continue to leave tbem in a category far below Blue Rodeoand SarahMcLaughlin and their respective brands of passion. This album, including even the
before-mentioned songs, exhibits the stereotypical characteristics that Canadian music is so often plagued with: simple, acoustic, and light. I thoughtwewerebeyond theperiod where Canadian music was synonymous with a general folk-sound, exuded by the likes of Bruce Cockburn, Joni Mitchell, and Anne Murray. EvidenUyit's hard for some of us to let go ofour rootsand progress to bigger and better things. Leonard Cohen Cohen live Considering the fact that I enjoyed his previous release The Future and also that I am a big fan of his poetry, I fell that this would be a sure bet to be a decent album. Wrong! This album absolutely sucks. It is the worst crap U1atI have listened to since U1eeighties. The lame-ass Paul Shaefer-like keyboards and the female background singers leaves Cohen's questionable vocal talentsoundingmore akin to a Vegaslounge singer. If this is what he sounded like at the Orpheum last year, then I'm sure glad that I didn't shell out $50 a p0p to sec him. LoreenaMcKennittTheMaskand the Mi"or When I first picked the CD out of my Mother's collection, I asked myself exactlythe samequestionthatyouarc asking yourself; "Who tbe hell is she'?" After probing further into the album information and act.ually listening to the music, I have found out that she is, without
question, the least-appreciated Canadian musician today. Her music liessomewhere in the general vicinity of Enya but with much more development, representing a largely ethereal-world encompassing both Spanish and Celtic influences. Her voice is absolutelyimpassioned and magical, and in all honesty this music lies alone, unsurpassed talent-wise and lyrically. The Ma.'fkand the Mirror will evoke emotion and bave a lasting and profound effect upon your musical perspective. WatchmenIn the Trees To many, The Watchmen may be a foreign name. It seems, though, that there is a wave of excitement summnding this Winnipeg group and their second album that even the most American-pop-oriented music fans will not be able to escape. What's particularlyintriguingaboul this groupisn't necessarilytheirgreat brand of Canadian-guitar driven rock, a la The Tragically Hip, but the enchanting and powerful vocals of Danny Greaves. TI1is sound, coupled with the great achievement that was their debut Mclaren Furnace Room, landed them a deal with MCA that should ensure them deserved widespread success. Specific tracks include the relationship-sorrow of "Boneyard Tree," Ute life's batUcs of "34 dead st.," and a splendid tune called "All Uncovered." (See next issue for an interview with Watchmen lead singer Danny Greaves).
The Cascade
Editorial
Wednesday, October 19, 1994
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Speak Easy: Put Your Voice to Your View It is very amazing how so few words can create such a profound response. Buzz & Skeeter's article "Simply Sublime" in the last issue of the Cascade (Vol. 2 No. 3), created such a response. The many Letter's to Ed. can be seen page A 14. It is very encouraging, as an Editor, to see such a huge response to controversial material in a newspaper issue. It has also caused us to ask ourselves some serious questions. The Cascade Editorial Policy definitely needs to be reviewed. With this in mind, censorship must be addressed. An author of a "Letter to Ed." touches on this subject. Censorship can, and is, a dangerous tool of the media. Do we, as an editorial team, censor the submissions that we solicit and receive from writers that contain material that may offend someone somewhere? What is offensive and in poor taste to one, is not offensive and not in poor taste
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to another. Everything is open to various interpretations. But what is the final cut? Freedom of expression also falls under this category. As an author with an opinion, there are few absolute limits which one must adhere to. Other than those few, the rest fall into a grey area, where the editorial team of the newspaper must ultimately decide. Being a student newspaper - "one of the last bastions of free speech" where do we draw the line? There are many restrictions that are placed on what one can and cannot publish. Anything that is racist, sexist, hateful, and prejudicial come to mind. Once again, what, and who, determines an article to be one of the above? Enough about restrictions - what happens when an incident occurs and readers are upset? There is always a number of people who will voice their opinions when they disagree with something. And rightly so. In
this case, a number of letters were received by myself, Editor of the Cascade. Apologies and retractions are the usual way to go in a newspaper, but is that enough? Would it not be in the best interest of all to learn more about where each is coming from? We all have so much to offer each other! From this, a better understanding of each other can be developed. As the cliche goes, walk a mile in another's shoes ... I extend an open invitation to all to write to the Cascade with your opinions on feminism, masculinism, and humanism. Also, attempt to answer some of the questions posed above regarding censorship. The Cascade will publish as many of the replies as space permits in each issue, until your views have been presented. I only hope that I, and many others, will be able to gain some insight from this debate surrounding the Cascade.
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Congratulations to Dave Conroy for a great job representing UCFV students at the Groundbreaking of the new Mission Joint Project. He gave an excellent speech (short, sweet, and to the point) and his presence at the ceremony symbolized the role that UCFV students have in planning for tomorrow's education. Way to go, Davel Bouquets also to the West Campus Council Member-atLarge, Clare Goldman, who has taken it upon herself to facilitate the gathering of the necessary input required to re-write the Constitution. The more people that can be brought on-line will only make it a less foreboding task to accomplish. The more input received, especially students', will make for a fairer and more representative Constitution. Everyone is encouraged to drop into either student society office (Abby or Chwk.) or call 864-6413 for Info.
Society .East Chair's Message Well here weare atthe half way point of the fall semester, the time sure has Down by fast. As students we are looking hack at what we've done, or not done in our classes, and how this will affect us in December. The Student Society L~in the same situation. Looking back to the beginning of September, there has hcen a lot o.f progress made in areas of our goals as a group and mine as an individual. We are on the verge of completing our firstconstitutiol,I since 1987, as well as presenting a balanced budget, unlike the budget of the college. The approach we took was that of "where can we save expenses" as opposed to" wherecan we spend". However, these two points are only the tip of the iceberg, both campuses have and still are holding regular office hours and meetings.
I am pleased to see the Student Society alive once again in Chilllwack. There is a lot of change that is currently underway, as our new facilities draw nearer to completion, it Is our goal to lay a solid footing for the student society oot only for the next year, but in the years that follow. Based on what t,as been accomplished thus far, I believe ttiat we are oil to a good start. Jeff Tisdale East Campus Council Chairperson
Photo By BryanSikora
Enjoying hi• pizza mote than you can imagine, Jamie Dopson poses for the traditional "Stuffing-your-face" photo at the recent Caacad~tudent Society Pizza Day.
Prophetic Propaganda By Bob Campbell Hey, your friendly, fiendish Chief Propaganda Minister here! When I was elected to the office of Public Information Officer back in Apr-ilI promised to help my fellow students in any way I could. Now I think the lime bas come to follow through on my promise in writing. Many of you have approached me in the hallowed halls of UCFV and inquired ''Bob, just how do I get some free or cheap stuff around here?" Well my children, now il may be told. And Bob sayeth unto the masses of UCFV: CameronRoy,supremedespotof the UCFV Bookstore offers computer software for up
to 65% off he price of other stores like Future Shop. I recently purchased Microsofl's Office package for $190. We here at UCFV can acquire software at a discoumed educational price. While $190 may still be out of the price range for many studenls, it lists al Future Shop for nearly $600. While lhe Office package contains Microsoft Word, Excel, Powcrpoint and Mail, there are also educational costs for smaller u,iits like Microsoft Word by itself and Wordperfect forWindowsforalitlleover$100. Amazing as it seems,it is also rumouredthatCameron (the fellowcheapScotsmanhe is) willmalch any advertised price.
West Chair's Message Well, we had our "annual General Meeting". There wa.~a great student turn out, but it was a tad bias. I want to publicly thank all of the Criminology students who took the time to attend, and tell the rest of you to watch and learn. Hopefully their department will continue to set such an excellent example. The Constitution wasn't voted in, hut that's good. I have to admit, after all of the work in the summer It is a little bit frustrating to have your accomplishment titled a ''first draft''. But in Reality, it is, and that's what we needed. What good is a constitution if ten out of over six thousand students contribute to writing it. Sure we all have the right to vote on It, but who is seriously going to bother. Thus the Constitution "task force" committee, that is meeting every Tuesday at 6:00pm In Al 00. If your an Interested student but this time conflicts with your schedule, let us know ••• 864-4613. As for the budget., we're still working on that as well, and you have your chance to vote on the ne](t draft at the October 18 meeting (6pm AlOO). On a lighter note ••• we have new office hours for October! Come Check them out on our door (E244), or In Student Services. Visit us! Bring us offerings of food! Sleep on our cozy couch! Use us and leave us! Just visit! Until next time ..... Melanie Glaim West Campus Council Chairperson
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Wednesday, October 5, 1994
Lett e rs To Ed . ~~~~~~~ The CASCADE welcomes Letters to Ed. All letters must be typed and double spaced, and include your name, phone#, and student#. All letters wiU be published verbatim.
Simply Sublime Considered Simply Outrageous Filth Reeks of
Disrespect and Ignorance Dear F.d.: I am appalled and offended almost more than I can say. The" Simply Sublime" column by Buzz and Skeeter (UCFV Casscade October 5, 1994) is abusive to wimmin. Although many wimmin can be abusive and unpleasant people, evidence overwhelminglypoints tomenas physically, sexuaJJy, economically, emotionally and verbally many times more abusive than wimmin. The comment.aryin this piece of filth is just another example of misogynist thinkingandopinion.The wimmin-blaming statements in this editorial are obvious and extreme. I quote, "If you actually knew bow lo treat a man with respect, be would treat you with respect as well." The writer clearly implies that if wimrnin would just behave themselves, they wouldn't need to be hurt to keep them in line. The writer also makes use of extremely violent- sounding homophobic insulL-,directedat lesbians. This writersays that lesbians are wimmin who are busy," .. . diddling (ourselves) and lezzing out with like-mindedwomen." The author then goes on lo tell wimmin that we had better, " ... enjoy it, becausea dildo is the closest thing 0 we will~ gel to a man. TI1is type of clisrespccumdignoranceaboutwhatlesbians are all about is sickeningand unacceptable. Lesbians are not necessarily wimmin who have beenbatteredby men, they are wimmin who choose to love other wimmin. Their reasons are as diverse and varied as are wimmin. If I didn't know the dangers of censorship, I would question the allowance of this type of bate-writing in a college newspaper. I just want people lo be aware that many wirnminar~ extremely offended by this.article. Cheryl St.Denis
Look at Today's Church Dear Ed.:
In response to Nolan Webb's Rams, RavesandAssorteclReviews;TheU.C.F.V. ChristianClub. It seems that once again, every time I open "The Cascade" I am subjected to abuse and bigotry. To emphasizemy point I would like to enlighten Mr. Webb on a few things. Firslly, the purpose of any club is to gathertogetherpeoplewithsimilarinterests. The hiking club goes hiking, the theatre club goes to plays, etc. The purpose of the Christian Club is to meet others who have similarlifestyle~and beliefs.DidMr.Webb attend any meetings or does he condemn sight unseen? A debate is a great idea but who will taJce it seriously when it is presented in such a spiteful manner? Secon<ily, Mr. Webb assumes, wrongly, that all Christians are "closeminded" and don't "feel strongly enough
"Beavis and Butthead W annabe's" Dear Ed.:
and having I.hemroll their eyes.
Well, well, there's always one in the crowd. You'd think by now, these ancient attitudes of feminism would disappear, but apparently not! After reading Buzz & Skeeter's article, "Male-HatingFeminists". I see that therels stilloneremaining,whether il is Buzz or Skeeter. Anyway, I'm not going to come off as one of those so.:called female•s who get upsetbecausethe opposite sex has voiced their opinions, I'm merely expressing mine. I myself have nol heard, "menareall oppressive,sexist,racist,macho bastards", in lhe past. As far as I'm concernedanyone can be sexist,oppressive, or racist. Is it possible that Buzz or Skeeter or maybebolhhavehadsour femalerelations in the past and perhaps should invest in Betty the blow-up doll to resolve their problems.
Buzz and Skeeter say that if females actuallytreatedmen withrespect,theywould get respect from men. Well, they deserve no respect with an article like this. They state that they believe in equality and they support it, however in I.he article they definite!y are not showing a mature attitude by using such colourful language and disgusting suggestions. I'm not denying that some people may share their view. However,Beavis and Buttheadwannabe's, if you wouldlike to write an affectivearticle about Feminism, why don't you do a little researchon the topic[yourfriendlylibrarian will give you all the help you need, if yo~ can make it out of your little world). Also, since when do all feminists "diddle" with themselves and "lezz out"? Give me a break! And you call yourself college students. This is a place of higher education, not high school.
This attitude towards feminism is growing very tired! I rnyselfam enrolled in Sociology 220, which focus on the topic of feminism,but also the history of women. It is not a course about how much females hate males and how unfair everything is, however it is a class which discusses the issues about women in a society which is for a large part male dominated. It's a fact. For example, women were not considered as ''persons" under Canada's Constitution until October 8, 1929. It's facis like these that need to be learned. I'm tired of telling someindividualswhat SociologyI'm taking
Furthermore, GROW UP! Sure everyone has the constitutional right lo expresshow they feel, however I feel it does not have to be done in such a distasteful manner. CharlotteWhitton, the first female mayor in Canada said, "Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be I.boughthalf 'as good. Luckily this is not difficult". Obviously, one can see this by Buzz and Skeeter's article, "Male-Hating Feminists". Point proven. Tandy Shephard•T.opmey
Degrading our Moral Fabric Dear F.d.: GAMBLING! This is the most recent ingeniousconcoctioncooked up by our esteemed Student Activities. On•Sept.15, they organizeda full afternoon of it in the Abby Campus cafeteria. Already nowadays the student-agedpopulation is far too vulnerableto excess in the expensivephysical pleasures of alcohol, sports, easy sex, and drugs. So what does our wonderful Student Activities do? Introduces students to another,evenmorewasterfulfonn of excessive,materialisticperversion:Gambling! Not only that, they give our future profit-1reneursa wonderful new idea Loline their pockets and furthurdegrade the moral fabric of this already overly-moneyedsoccity. So hey, Student Activites, think about the side-affects when you cook up moneymaking schemes! Peter Scholtz Repulsed Recipient UCFV 1994/95 Tuition Waiver Scholarship
Ed'sNote: OursocietyIS too materialistic,butdoesfunnynwneycount? The intent of the "CasinoDay" was,accordingto JaneAnti/,ActivitiesCo-ordinator,"to have fun. It was a student event that could includeeveryone. There was no money involved." about their own spirituality." Obviously Mr. Webb has not met many of the strong, commilled Christians on campus. As to being close-minded,I would say that would better describe Mr. Webb's condemnation of something of which he has obviously little knowledge. Thirdly, how Jong are Christians today to be blamed for the past? I don't remember voting for Torquemada in the twelfth century or forcing my religion on anybody,Jetalonethenativesofourcountry three hundred years ago. Why doesn't Mr. Webb look at the Church today with all the time and money spent on helping those less fortunate?
Maybe Mr. Webb should remember that bigotry is judging the whole by the actions of the few. This paper would hardly tolerate that in the fonn of racism or any other prejudice, so why is the Church an exception'? Honest questions or criticism printed for the sake of provoking thought and discussion are more than welcome, but silly prejudice stemming from ignorance is nor worthy of this publication. Shannon Daly
I think, therefore I am overqualified.
Buzz & Skeeter Part of the Problem Dear F.d.: Just as I begin to think that society no longer puL'!"feminism" in the category of "four letter words", along comes Buzz and Skeeter's diatribe against feminists (Cascade,Oct. 5). His ignorancein matters of equality and feminism is appalling; the violence in his language is frightening. I am proud to call myself a feminist. Contrary to Buzz and Skeeter's perception, my anger is not at men bul at oppressive social structures (oft.endominatedby white males) which perpetuate gender inequality and violence against womeh. The media is one such social structure. I do not object to fair, infonned criticism of feminism; every social movementor theoreticalperspective bas its flaws. What I object to is the use of violen9 homophobic,misogynistlanguage,all froin the anonymous persona of a pseudonym. As the slogan of the 1960s said, "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of lhc problem". Buzz and Skeeter - you are definitely part of the problem. You may think you support equality, but your language tells me otherwise. Jean Ballard-Kent Instructor, Sociology & Women's Studies
We apologizefor ideas conveyed in our column which were not meant to be conveyed. An explanationAND a formal apologytofollow in the next issue. - Buzz & Skeeter
Deadline for Letters to Ed : Monday, Oct. 24 4:00 pm. The Cascade RoomE 242, Abby campus. 33844 King Rd. Abbotsford, BC V2S 4N2 On the 'Net: Cascade@ucfv.bc.ca
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And Now the News CJSA Election/Social By Buzz &Skeeter In this addition of everyone's favouritejournalisticcolumnof greatliterary stuff: THE NEWS (as we'd like to hear it) Hello, and welcome to the evening news. First up in the OJ. trial, who gives a crap? Alllllrighty,then! Now we move on to the issue of Quebec's possilbe separation, under the leadership of pequiste Jacques Parizcau. GETON wrruIT! LEAVE OR STAY! EITHER WAY, HURRY TI-IEHELLUP! And until then, QUIT BITCHING! On the int.emationalfront, it seems that things are still going wild. First, let's look at Haiti. The US has disposed of the "badguys" andshortlywillbe lettinganother bad guy back into power. Official sources
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say it's because the Clinton administration believesthat the Aristide will suck up more to the U.S., or at least fear them more, thus giving the some sort of hold on Haiti. But largely because Americans like having people KISS THEIR ASSES! In other pans of the world, there are lots of wars and conflicts. Many people have died and lots more have been injured. That reallysucks,butsinceitisn' thappening here, you can all just sit back in your lazyboy' s, go on about whata shameit is so your friendswill think you're anOK person and not really give a DAMN! GOOD-NIGHT, and Thanks for watching!
By Clare Goldman On September 29, 1994, a new CriminalJusticeStudentAssociationwas elected. The electionsand the first social of the year were well attended by a range of student-; from 1st to 4lll year. The 1994-95CJSA associationconsistsof the following people: President:John Petropoulos Vice-President:Jill Craven Treasurer:Sean Koch Secretary:Bonnie Rai PublicRelations:Jay Jones SocialCommittee:Jonathan Brcggman Sean Gregson Trevor Grouette Kevin Veldman Membersal Large:David Cumming Samanllla Free Cindy Grant Deana Peters The firstCJSAmeetingon October
Weapologize/orideasconveyedin our column "The World Sucks, But This Column'sCool"whichwerenotmeantto be conveyed An explanationAND a formal apologytofollow in the next issue. • Buzz & Skeeter --
LIFE'S LITTLE CORNER My personal Selection of Wit, Humor, and General, Bitter Sarcasm.
Friends to THE End. Heidy-Ho! By Colleen Mah
Topic # 282: Friends that Mom and Dad wouldn't approve of. Hitler could have been your friend. A possible lunch date. (Or maybe even
your foreign pcnpal.) Have you ever sent fan mail to CharlesManson? Or tried to callTed Bundy collect? My guess is: probably NOT (Welcome to U1egeneral population). Then you probably wouldn't categorize yourself as a "serial-killergroupie" If you happen to see the recent psycho-thriller"NaturalBorn Killers", then you might have a better understanding of what I'm talkingabout. The "stars":Mickey and Mallory (two very disturbed beings), had managed to attract a group of enthusiasticfans,asthe livelyduo continued their killing-spreeacross the United States. This conceptbewilders me. And yet there have been non-fictional examples in which similar cases have/do exisl. (?!#@?*!??)
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Why NOT play with a full deck?! Must we burn the candle at both ends?! Yet to be fair, I have consideredsome pro's and con's of having a serial-killer as your new friend. The best part would definitely be that no one (not even pushy carsalesmen), would dare get on your bad side; because withone word fromyou they could be down in the dirt apologizing,or running to avoid a mouthful of lead. Yet this whole "fiasco" would be like putting faith in a double-edged sword. Luck might run out, and you could accidentally tick your new buddy off. (Insert: Twilight Zone theme song here.) Friends 'Lilthe bitter end, you know. Sorry folks, after careful consideration (I tend to put value on my life},I wouldNOT advisebecomingchums, pals, or beer buddies with a potential or current serial-killer. Sorry Ted, no more late night phone calls. (And I think I'll take a rain check on lunch.) JUST SAY NO. Trust me on this, why, you might even thank me later.
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Lecture Series Lecture I
Kenneth Inniss Professor Emeritus of English, Western Washington University
October 22, 1994 Lecture II The Rev Prof. William Crockett Vancouver School of Theology
November 5, 1994 Saturday evening lectures begin at 8:00 PM in the Fireside Room of the Parish Church of St. Matthew. For more information call John Chretien at 852-2847 or Ron Dart at 853~5967
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4 set the wheels in motion for an inlercsiing year. Several events under considerationincludefonninga wallyball le.tgue, paintball, a Christmas party and new crirn jackets. In addition all those who will be graduating from either diploma or degree this year are encouraged to attend the meeting on OcLOber25 at Noon in J\100, on the agenda is the formation of a Grad committee. In fact, any student who wishes to attend any CJSA meetings is more than welcome. Every Tuesday al Noon in room AIOO(off the ca1) is the place to be. PS. I'd like to say thal this group of very dedicated individuals who have taken time out of their schedules to make life more interesting for ALL Crim sludents. If you canplease offer to help out and show them your support by luming up for events- you' 11have a great lime!!!!!
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Reviewing and Renewing the Vision Apartfrom inquiry,apartfrom its praxis, individualscannotbefully human. Knowledgeemergesonly throughinyentionand re-invention,throughthe restless, impatient,continuing,but hopefulinquiryhumanbeingspursuein the world,withthe world,and witheach other. Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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On October 26, 1994, administration, faculty, staff, and students will gather together to contemplale the vision ofUCFV. By the end of the day, we arc to propose a number of recommendations concerning this vision. Students should play a fundamentalrole in U1edevelopmentof programmesand infrastructures.After aJI,our degrees and the educational experiences we obtain will remain with us for the rest of our lives. 111isis your chance to affect relevanLchange. Auend this day and let your voice be heard. Morning Workshops: 1. Staff Issues: Technologicalchange and its lmpact on Staff 2. 1lle JCAC Process 3. The Future of UCFV Arts & Scitmce Degrees: What they might look like . 4. Community Connections: Our links to those we serve. S. Student Issues (degree options, learning environment, and politics) Afternoon Workshops: 1. Staff Issues: Workload 2. The "Car~r Ladder" for Staff 3. Expanding the Boundaries: New Ways of Delivering Programmes 4. Options for the UCFV Science Degree S. Options for the UCFV Arts Degree 6. Cooperative Education aLUCFV 7. Interdisciplinary Options at UCFV 8. Student Success: How to do a Better Job 9. Regaining our Balance: The Vital Role of Non-Degree Programmes 10. Supporting Educational Excellence: Teaching, Scholarly Activity, Research, and Evaluation To Register,call 854-4529and leave yournamc, phone number, the twoworkshopsyou wish to auend, and whether you'll be staying for lunch. Registrationcloses Friday,,Oct. 21. This option for UCFV students only. For more informationcontact: Jackie Rea (854-1022),David Theissen (evenings8501462), Gwen Coates (852-4942).Lori MacIntosh (792-1290)
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Wednesday, October 19, 1994
The Last Word
Putting A Face On Jack! The Great Activities/Cascade/earls Pumpkin Carving Contest Enier yourself. Enter your friends. Get involved. Hop off your couch. Grab a knife and carve a 'lantern. Prizes, prizes and moreprizesforvariouspumpkin categories. Abbotsford: Contact Jill Harrison @ 853-7441 Local 4255, or come to the Great Hall, Thursday, Oct. 27 between 12-2pm to register. Judging takes place October 28 in the Cafeteria.
It's A 11 Happening Right in Chilliw-ack
Activities Report by Ulla Vicktor Well, we're well into the semester now,bul activitieson the Ea~lCampusarc still going strong. Octoberis a busy month andwehopeyouhavea chanceto participate in some of the upcomingevents. October 17-20th hold the annual Octoberfest. Drop by during the day for a taste of Europe. The 20th will also see a noon-hour comedian. This has been a popular event in the past and, as an added bonus, il's FREE. The comedian will be entertainingin lhe loungeof theChilliwack campus. ThePumpkinCarvingContesttalces placeon October27that noon in lhe lounge. Show your school spirit and enter yourself
Chilliwack: Contact Julia Brotherston @ 792-0025 Local 2509, before October 27 to register. Judging takes place October 28 in the Lounge.
and your friends. The main event of the month on Oclober 28th is the Scavenger Hunt/ Fridayfest. This month·s Fridayfesl starts at 7:30,whenteamswillassemblealtheChwk. campus and begin their drive around town. There is alwaysa lot of excellentprizes for contestants.Oncetheteamshavecompleted theirjourney for the night, they will relurn to a wiener roast, dance, and fireworks which will continue until midnight. Also, keep in mind, every second Tuesdayof lhe monthis BostohPizzaDay. Hope to see you there!
Sega Hockey Tourney Abbotsford and Chilliwack Campuses
Mission: Contact Jill Harrison@ 853-7441 Local 4255, or come to the Main Hall October 26 to register. Judging takes place October 27.
Beginning October 25 Sign up at the Cascade Office, Activities Office, or various sign-up sheets around campus. Information: 853-7441,local 4255 or 792-0025,local 2509
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