The Cascade Volume 4 Issue 3 1996-10-09

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Middle East Injustice -Page 3 This Issue's Sign That There Is A Conspiracy Among Us -Page 2

News - Page 2 to 5 Opinion- Pages 6 to 9 Editorial- Page 10 Letters to the Editor - Page 11

The University College of the Fraser Valley Student Newspaper

De - Evolvin since 2,000,000 B.C.E. This Issue is dedicated to Mr. Pete Hutchinson

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developed for housing and I want you to visit this place, this kind of Only a ten minute uphill walk place, before it is dismantled. I gave me refuge from the exhaust- sorely wish you could visit this choked streets of Abbotsford, but kind of place anytime and anymore importantly, from the trials where you need a breath of soliof life which we all face and lend tude. to exhaustion. The green leaves Green spaces are increasingly cleared my consciousness, the air rare or marginalized and have was fresh and once again I felt failed to become retreats for the recharged and alive. The trail mind and body. That piece of petereq ahead and I was met with manicured lawn with a park bench ... A precious and literally an enormous rockface. Small unceremoniously placed on the lifesaving part of my early childcaves had been carved out by comer of Peardonville and hood were long periods spent years of rainfall and the trees Clearbrook will not suffice. Such living in the deep woods. Being stood with an eternal guard. 'parks' are created at best, for able to step outside a household aesthetic value, and at worst, an Walking around the bottom in riddled with the unhealthy appesome of the caves, gnarled roots odd piece of land that is not tites and actions of wounded began to take on the faces of old economically viable. It seems the adults and into a completely weathered trolls.

I could see the point of a park has been missed: uncontrived environment that felt faces of the earth gnomes grinparks are for reflection, to connect whole and natural, unforced and ning their crevice smiles.

Have I with the world which came before brimming with life to which I stirred your soul yet? us, yet which we have stemmed knew I too belonged was a crucial I guess I feel some need to from. In my opinion, for all our part of my ultimate survival. It environmental conscience, real explain the reverence I feel for was directly from the Earth that I recieved healthy nurturance in my these breath-taking natural cathe- green space has not been revered. drals. Most of this land is being The solace of McKee Peak can young life. (quoted in The

not compared to the fluorescent din of your local mall. It seems, to many North-Americans, that parks are merely recreational, places only accessible by car and then, only once in a while, and I have met people (you know, the ones who use their middle finger gratuitously) who could use an urban detox every evening.

To leave my home, with a small backyard trail, to live in a box without access to anything else but surburbia, I cringe. To think that one day after the dinner dishes are done I will have nowhere to think, nothing to look at that is not made by people. I will have no place to wipe the dust from my mind. Canada is so young and dynamic, we could set the pace in urban renewalsustainability. We do not have to settle for a Starbucks coffee and a view of the parking lot now. (to be continued in the next issue- Ask for it by name!)

Bureacrac At Its Most Pathetic Thinking this would not be a major problem, Mike went to the hope everything will go smoothly. admissions office to transfet: from After a summer of toiling for Ssection 'A' to Section 'B'. The tuition, relaxing on vacation, or 'registration personel' told Mike babysitting your television, the he could not transfer the course. last thing you need are problems Instead, Mike would have to at school. withdraw from this class and then Mike Love, a fine arts student re-enrole himself into the same at UCFV, was hoping for a hassle- class, in a different section. By free day on Tuesday, September 3, changing sections this way, Mike but he realized he wanted to would recieve onl 75% of his change the section of his photog- money back from withdrawing, as raphy class.

Onthe first day of classes, you

the other 25% is kept for 'processing fees', if the student withdraws after the scheduled registering time. Mike would then have to pay more money to re-enrole himself into the same class, which he just withdrew from!

Confused over how complicated this process was, Mike talked to his professor about the situation. His professor thought the entire process was bizare and made a personal appearance in the

admissions office. She straightened out the situation; Mike was able to transfer sections without losing money or the hassle of having to withdraw and re-enrole himself.

The 'registration personel' listened to the professor but not the student. Students do not want to have to drag their professors to the admissions office every time they think they are being swindled.

This Issue's Sign That There Is A Conspiracy The Clam Chowder Incident: One day we both decided to eat Campbell's Chunky Clam Chowder for supper.

Chris had bought his at Costco while I had purchased mine at the local Save-On Foods.

Upon comparison we noticed the labels illustrated very different versions of what the chowder consisted of. Chris's (see diagram A) was more of a soup, with small chunks of potato and clam meandering around in a bow 1. My label (diagram B) however, was a depiction of real chunks of

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clam and potato- almost a bit much in my opinion. Upon furthur investigation, we noted that the ingredients, weight and all that sort of stuff was the same-only the picture differed.

So we opened both cans up, poured the contents in similar bowls and compared.

We found that the consistency of the Chowder was almost exactly the same; neither too runny or too chunky, just plain stew. Now, maybe this seems trivial, but why the hell did they have to give me a can depicting steroid-like foods and Chris gets a can of runny soup?

We know why. Do you?

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Injustice

B Paul Becker people in our world who have not strength to speak out about danThe fundamental problem given into the conform-at-allgers to humanity it comes from one encounters when trying to get costs political reality that plagues his very human concerns. people involved, to look beyond most of society. His actions are Vanunu wrote to Ron Dart the superficial dogma we hear the kind that many people dismiss "This letter is for you and for all every day, is to provide concrete o~~s\v \0 f ~~.t'r'l\l hl"I'{\.I)ith~ ~ Ctl\\), fl\bill -ViiHoWt'ii:.· evidence of control and subversion. In a society taunted as l Low\~ 1\vrll)-S'vJU ~Cl li1\l,.)J lt~\{v IS \--vr extremely free, it is difficult to ~\)U.·W"'~ ~v1 ~\\ ~MSt\J\1u Q~e L~)\alJ)(b1--(}01nmi, understand what life would be like under a less than subtle ~ur'rc \1\ v~)\Ll);)L,Y (})ll.l&, ,'lb~ ~ ~\~~ ~)h,I\J_ ·:_4~ Ut\ government. UCFV's own Ron 10Jl~ Is Tut, Str.J\nd luv.vlOV( ror}~ U(~-Dart recieved a look into this 'other-world' two weeks ago, in oUV/(pm,! r~~ LL'f\butwbl-t lJt, ')'\bw f//l{t the form of a letter.

The author was Mordechai \'u,~ mt Cv\jSI Vanunu, a political prisoner being "fN, O,~ held in Israel and after viewing ~t) I~ lS $o0-~ul woy\Jo.ve,'<v\ 0-e ~ £V~ the actual letter, it is justifiable to say that this man's plight must be 'fl\~ 'fll~st,l!v\l \;Jts\ul\ ~lftJJl~~ltl1 a.~t heard in all forms of media. ]I~y 0-tltrJ $i,lrrt>tJ\VoJ.1 ~~h w \~ Vanunu, a former nuclear technician who made Israel's secret Wt .UI~ \ 1s.

ISMl '<11,;I nuclear capabilities public in the ~JtfNJC'f~\tc (}G\-h, \T \S Cl\ Q~~y\MJ~ "jtlu1sh Ydl~lfl\. ~clu.r 80s, was kidnapped from Rome by the Mossad (Israel's secret \'v\icYtt 'tl\ort "1\1 ~votliw uit service) on September 30, 1986. ~•t"''\ \1 JS\ l) \1._., I According to an Amnesty International release, Vanunu was "tried 0(,l;~~~ho-tp~~t~1llM0vtJ'fll~ uu 1.s\~ in total secrecy, charged with 'treason' and 'espionage' and into the realm of legends, myths those who are interested and sentenced to 18 years imprisonand heroics. We often say "I working on my release ... (and) ment." He has since been held in could not do that". I believe it is sending your love and support to conditions that are described as important for everyone to know help me overcome this unbear"cruel, inhuman and degrading". that Vanunu is just a man, not able, cruel life : now nine-and-aVanunu is one of those some god and that if he has the half years since they kidnapped

me". At this point in his letter Israeli officials blacked out Vanunu 's writing, apparantly hiding his description of his kidnapping and subsequent judicial process.

These facts illustrate very much how Israel is not the ideal Jewish state that can do no wrong.

Vanunu went on in his letter to condemn Israel, blaming his own country and not the Palestinians, for the civil unrest in the Middle East.

Ron Dart mentionned that Vanunu was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by last years recepient Joseph Rotblat. In any event, Vanunu 's efforts have served humanity in a positive way, forcing each and every one of us to take a look at our own state with a more scrutinizing eye.

Canada was largely responsible for India's development of Nuclear Capabilities according to Vanunu.

In the end, we must recognize how one man has altered the course of history, forcing Israel to tarnish its politically correct reputation by admitting that it too, was part of the nuclear club. For more info on Mordechai Vanunu please see Ron Dart or come into the Cascade office.

to which I say simply this; shoes seem to be an irrelevancy beyond thier initial use in life so why would people pay such close attention to such a thing? Believe me they do take notice.

During large portions of the summer I went barefoot. While I was being barefoot everybody noticed: people who normally

role to many of us that to see someone not participating seems somehow wrong. People took great pains to prove to me that being barefoot was unhealthy and dangerous. I would take great pains to point out that you learn how to walk when barefoot in such a way that you do not take the ground for granted. I pointed out that shoes have a tendency to cont' on page 5

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fair institution within the last few years would be hard pressed to agree with me. In years past, before the lovable, old "motel" was forlornly cast aside in favour of modernization, students could not help but be energized by their surroundings. While I would argue that writing a final exam with a ski parka, mittens and a scarf on is neither pleasant nor productive, I would also point out that during its glory days the "motel" had its high points; specifically, it promoted integration and invited students to stay on campus and get involved in all aspects of college life - activities as well as academia.

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would be unable to remove the rivets attaching their eyes to the sidewalk would see my feet pass through their field of vision and ninety percent of the time would quip "forget your shoes?". Perhaps they merely were looking for an excuse to break the ice but I doubt it. The fact is that such trappings have such an important

Where Art Thou Chilliwack

B Lori Nelson After spending many long years emersed in a life of academia at the Chilliwack campus, it was with mixed feelings that I recently made the move to the "main drag" in Abbotsford.

Realistically, the move was to be expected - students wanting to fulfill their BA majors with a wide variety of upper division courses are left with little choice. However, as I spend more and more time here in Abby, I'm beginning to feel as though something is missing, and that something, I realize, is the "Chilliwack experience".

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Today, if you were to find yourself at the Chilliwack campus do not despair - if you feel like you've been transported into a dark abyss, remember you are not alone. On my last visit to the campus (last week) I could not help but think it is slowly evolving into a ghost town. The physical distance between the old and new buildings may not be great, but there is a void nonetheless.

The faculty and administration offices, as well as the library, are completely cut off from the main student traffic. The new student lounge, while completely furnished with all the comforts of home (a brand new Sony Trinitron

TV and VCR to boot!) just doesn't provide the atmosphere needed for students to interact with one another.

We can spend all day in class or in the lounge watching the idiot box , but at the end of the day we would still know nothing about each other - and that is truely a shame. For as much as post-secondary education prepares you for the job market and the quest for fame and fortune, it's greatest gift is the one that cannot be taught - the value of comradre and friendship. And at this point in its existence, the UCFV Chilliwack campus has failed miserably.

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of the FRASER VALLEY Election of Student Representatives to the UFVC 8oard and the University College Council Results of Call for Noninations University

University College Board Area Represented

Nominations

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College Council

Area Represented

Nominations

received

A student elected by students from the Eastern region Paul Becker - acclaimed

Representing the Student UnJon Society - a student taking majority of classes in the Eastern region none

A student elected by students from the Western region Sharon Grant Jason Proulx Clayton Rutguist Terry-Lynn Stone

Representing Students in progrw:ns- a student enrolled in a certificate diploma program none

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Bection to the Board Position:

A student elected by students from the Western region

Candidates:

Sharon Grant · .Jason Proulx Clayton Rutgw.st Terry-Lynn Stone

Who may vote?

Students whose are taking a majority caIIlpus may vote.

of their courses at the Abbotsford

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Monday,

21 October

to Thursday,

24 October,

9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

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Polling booths will be open at the Admissions Mission campuses only.

and Records offices on the Abbotsford

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Sharon Grant

Clayton Rutquist

I'm Sharon Grant, candidate for the Western representatjve, and to the question "what qualifies you for this position?" I reply "the facts speak for themselves." Prior to becoming a full time academic student I graduated from the Office Careers 'program, Mission campus. This gives me some insight into the needs of certificate students and faculty. Further more, since becoming a member of the Faculty of Arts I've supported myself by working in the Art Department, and as clerical support for the Student Union. The former has allowed me to become familiar with the concerns of the fine arts students and faculty, and the later has given me insight into the general needs of the student body and the inner workings of a democratic system. I believe that I can bring to my position as student representative an unusual breadth of knowledge regrading UCFV's diversity of programs and students.

1 have been nominated to represent the student body of UCFV's

Western Region on the Board of Directors. Most of the students at UCFV don't know me as this is my first semester here. My background includes 1 I/2 years at SFU, and work experience ranging from fast food, to ski instructing, to farm labour, to Safeway. I feel that I bring a wide range of experience and insight into being part of a large organization. If elected, I plan on working to preserve the very aspects of this school that brought me here, such as a very high quality of education, excellent progPa.ms, and reasonable costs. I also believe in creating and maintaining a community environment at UCFV in order to maximize student life outside of classes, and to foster a positive attitude towards learning. I want to be the voice representing you on the Board of Directors.

Terry-Lynn Stone Jason Proulx Dear electorate, The reason I would like to represent the student body is that I feel that the student body needs a strong representative to speak for students during the budget cuts. I will do my best to prevent this board from passing any unfair tuition increases. It will be my mission to keep students informed about board decisions that directly and indirectly affect students access to post secondary education. I will bring to the attention of the board any concerns that the students may have. I will do my best to find out what the student body feels needs to be changed to make UCFV a b.etter university.

I have served on the Board of Governors for the last 18 months. I am currently in my third year of an arts degree, majoring in English. I am active in many aspects of student life at UCFV. I am on the Student Complaints committee which, hopefully, will report within the next few weeks. My priorities centre around student access to UCFV as well as maintaining the highest level of support for students so that they are all able to leave UCFV a well respected education in the shortest possible time with the least possible debt load. My intention, should I be re-elected, is to continue my student orientated mandate. I respectfully request that students from the western region re-elect me.

Vote 21 24 October

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HEH MISTER GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY SISTER! B Lisa Chew advantagous for women. Men benefit greatly from a society that concerns itself with the health, wholeness, and safety of women.

Every man has a mother and most have a daughter, sister, friend, or significant other. The increased well-being of these women can only improve the lives of the men This was my favourite of who care about them.

It would be easy to construe several rally cries at last week's the requested absence of men for first annual Take Back The Night WAS wA~1<1fi .. ~lwN .. ~~1NE,Ei.i SrR.eEr TO!.IJ<ARDS Ml{ AP~rttm, the walking portion of this event rally. I would not have attended 'Wij!M I HO'µ~b. A flei! ·~. 'TR,#(.K ~EtilN(> ME) KE.~t'IN<,./j\V r'll\te, as unnecessary division. The walk this rally and march, had Paul not portion of Take Back the Night is lines that an women's assigned it to me. You see, I'm not our friends and ~6~inhabitors of a crucial symbolic act whereby movement will draw will be ones this great community.

Change is an outraged man-hater seeking to that connect men and women (in a women walk through the streets in absolutely neccesary! scream my rage throughout the the night confidently and without Whenever a movement tries more whole ancl healJhy way) streets of Abbotsford. Neither need of male escorts. Men were were the 100 or so women who .·.· welcomed and encouraged to hadquietly but confidently gathparticipate in the rally portions of ered at Matsqui Centennial Plaza. the evening and their support for It seems that I too had bought the ,1 the unescorted walk was apprecistereotyped image of how a f ated. concerned, and yes angry, woman The women gathering at the would stand up and say she'd had Ii Take Back the Night event were enough. not only taking a symbolic walk.

Enough fear for her safety l Many women have had to make on her own streets-in her own 'TtiOt.l&+tT l'D O ~'l.fii:::r HtM use of services such as transition home!

'1..NIN&-\JP A ON/:.WAV S~B.."T', !R,Ct,e.DA~c~ll>lb 'nt~ StoCJ<; houses, women's centers, and Enough shame for the fact s V,/t,;;'Clt(Nu, .() ft N {) ,=,:ot.t.et tl<::>w N 'T'rti crisis lines. By gathering in a that she was born with appealing TR:!'T• \.I!... ~€'.t> combined voice, we were saying sexuality! that we value and need services Enough of subjecting her rather than divide them. The to create change, there is the such as these to thrive in our needs below those of others! women who I listened to, and inevitable potential for division society. The women gathered also Enough of having her walked with, did not seem to and antagonism. This is particugave voice to the many women concerns patronized! encourage divisive thinking. larly true of issues that appear to who are not allowed the freedom Do you know what it's like to feel draw lines between genders. The Women's safety is not only to choose to attend rallies such as hunted? Strong words from a song this. Believe it or not there are by the Cowboy Junkies. It had many women in our community never occured to me to think in whose activities are controlled by these terms before I heard this someone other than themselves. song. Even still, at first it had These women need to see that seemed so -well harsh. How can they are supported-not ignored the brutal act of violence and rape and not distained. One of the not be responded to with equally women who spoke at Take Back brutal honesty? It is no overstatethe Night, said it best when she ment that women's thoughts are asserted that it is "our God-given often dominated by plans and t.boG-"if!D right to live safely and without ideas on how to protect themj Cooi.oANC Sf>AT C•N '1tf& fear," as it is the right of every w1NCcw r-.v,~ selves against the potential hunter person (woman, man or child). who hides himself in the guise of Shoes for Shawn cont' culture bacteria and are no more "healthy" than being without. Many people still felt they had to advocate for shoes.

It is a well known fact that we have a consumer culture and therefor I surprise you not with this writing, yet while many of us bewail this fact we still won't excuse those who are being barefoot amongst us. To us they are not being barefoot they are being "without shoes"; they are "wearing barefeet", or they are "wearing no shoes" at all.

My final point is this, that while we complain about the lack of freedom in this world and while we deride consumer culture we are not so concerned that the average person can just choose not to

participate: we still demand thier endorsement of our ideas. The ideology is so deeply ingrained that we can not even look at an alternative without describing it in the biased language of the initiated.

The non-industrial world to us is still "primitive", a society with some facsimile of democracy is "free", and the man with no shoes is found to be "without a sole". There is something under my feet regardless; it is called the Earth, and if being barefoot puts social pressures on me then so be it, at least I am a little closer to what I need- that firm if somewhat minimal foundation.

There is so little we really need to face the future and with that in mind I'll keep trying to put my best foot forward.

What Is School?

What would you say to a person that did not go to school?

Would you say school is a place to reach out and tell people about their experiences in life?

Would you say no. it's a place for people who would like to grow in mind and soul?

Think about what school is?

School is a place where you can become friends and help each other out in each others education.

School is a place where you can ponder what you need in life to reach your goals.

School is a place where you can experience and learn about different cultural environments, then you can use it for what it is worth.

-Matt Delorme

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Rants, Raves, and Assorted Reviews B Nolan Webb It's high time to let the cat out of the bag; many UCFV professors can't teach worth a shit. This semester, I'm fortunate to have a decent few from an otherwise sorry lot. I vehemently feel that professors should be required to take some sort of extensive teacher training. The situation is so bad that some of the professors are now known campus wide as being simply bad jokes on the student body. I understand that the situation is not much better at other universities, where cottonheaded researchers are still dragged in as part of their teaching requirement to lecture on material that they don't have the slightest bit of interest in(imagine how the students feel). It's one

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thing to have failed at whatever aspirations these PhD's may have had, but to make teaching your reluctant alternative is positively shameful to the entire school system.

I can count on two hands the number of profs I've had(out of over 30) who have offered any sort of inspiration, style, or charisma within the courses they teach. These proud few had classes captivated by their obvious love for the course, regardless of students' interest in the actual course material. How shameful it is that many professors rarely lift their heads from their notes during their sleep-inducing drone, not once offering a human being from the other side of the table. Isn't a decent education what we are

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results are published for all the · students and faculty to see. This has proven both popular and effective, especially in increasing professor responsibility and accountability.

I would like to sincerely thank those professors who consistently put forth 100% efforts and constantly try to improve their teaching skills. You are the ones we look up to and appreciate, and with whom we look forward to attending classes. You are the ones we will remember when we are selecting majors or graduating. And to the many profs in the other category, I have nothing further to say, because you probably don't care enough to read this anyway.

Babble

B Sascha Keane As the two brothers are Joel and Ethan Coen and they are the brilliant clock film-makers who brought us films ticks on such as Blood Simple, Millers towards Crossing, Raising Arizona, Barton the Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, The publishShawshank Redemption, and ing Fargo. In a way, it's kind of hard ._________ ___,hour, I sit here on the lawn eating gummy to describe these films because they are so intricate and their bears, listening to a Joan Osborn storylines usually follow the album, and watching my cats Kona and Chaos chase butterflies standard narrative conventions of while I try to decide what to write the Hollywood machine, but in about for this issue. You see, I've reality they are anything and been surfing at Sombrio beach on everything but standard or averVancouver Island for the last four age.

It's a tough choice, but I days and in the rather lightwould have to say that my headed frame of mind that I've been in, I somehow totally forgot favorite movies by Joel and Ethan that I was supposed to be heading Coen are Barton Fink and The

to a movie theater and writing about a current film. Luckily for me though, Paul Becker, the editor and emperor of our glorious newspaper, told me that he would take mercy on me this one time and overlook my incredible floundering misconduct because I don't deserve punishment for engaging in a spiritual quest. He would spare my life, and not send me to the dungeon, if I could come up with an article that has some sort of relevance to my column and so here it is.

What I would like to tell you about is two brothers who in many ways have dramatically changed the way that I view and appreciate film. -Two brothers that are among my all-time favorite film-makers and that are an inspiration to myself and an integral part of the reason why I've decided to seek out filmmaking as my own career. These

paying the big bucks for? Could we not just spare the professor the trouble and read straight from the textbooks ourselves at home, sparing us the commute and registration fees?

So whats the positive solution to this mess? It seems to be a selfperpetuating system set in permanent motion. It could change, though. I especially like what some Ontario universities have done to weed out their "worst of the worst". Student Unions there have passed out surveys at the end of the year, giving the students opportunity to give out letter grades to profs based on specific teaching skills. And in stark contrast to the confidential, foradministrative-eyes-only crap surveys that we have here, the

Hudsucker Proxy. Barton Fink, staring John Turturro and John Goodman is set in 1950's Hollywood and is a dark and entertaining satire on the absurdity of today's American movie industry.

It's storyline (as well as most of their films) is incredibly humorous while dealing with bizarre and evil forces such as murder, contempt, frustration, and madness.

The Hudsucker Proxy, with it's incredible cast of Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, and Charles Durning, is also a satire of epic proportions, but instead of mocking the film industry, this movie pokes fun (and a cautious eye) at big business, corporations, and industry.

In The Hudsucker Proxy, Joel and Ethan Coen break down the entire American dream and capitalist society and show it for what it really is- a cruel, merciless machine that contmls us instead of being controlled.

These are only two of their absolutely amazing array of artistic (yet mass appealing) films.

If you have never seen any of these films, I highly advise that you go out right now, rent them all, lock yourself inside of your house, pop some corn, turn off all of your lights and your telephone, and ready yourself for and amazingly humorous, enlightening, frightening, wacky, and bizarre film experience.

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God?

Charlton Heston, are you B Simon Lan eler

Welcome to the future.

Biological warfare has decimated humankind. Los Angeles is a ghost town where Robert Neville tools his convertible through sunlit streets foraging for supplies. And makes damn sure he gets undercover before sudown, when other "survivors" emerge.

encompassed every character he ever played, Heston could be called: The Capable Man. He could do anything, because the story (not the audience) demanded it. HE was not a whiner. He was the ultimate, hard line, stubborn, proud, insightful, charismatic, muscular, skilful, and ageless king among princes of all men. Why he never did Henry V, I don't know, I just hope he tries Lear someday -for all to see.

The best thing was the way wrought great acts of good and responded only with a ,eaningful his characters dominated people, evil upon the world: destroyed the silence. You see, Heston's characI'd like to control people the way Ten Commandments, blew up the ters are usually saving us from he does. "Just do what I tell you." world, cured the plague, painted ourselves. Maybe we're sinning, You see, Chuck never put the Sistine chapel. or we've atomized the human up with other people's crap. Take Go to your local video world, or we've opressed some his treatment of Landen, in the stores, find Charlton Heston Jews, or plagued the world with classic, Planet of the Apes, for movies, watch them. Heston madness. The Omega Man steps example. Boy, he really laid into originated the tough-guy onein, chastises us, and either saves that guy. He took what was worst liner. It started with "Oh, my us or wipes us out. in Landen 's hubris, told him what God ..." and the gnashing of teeth. If he were to take one name that he saw, and laughed in his face.

But if you follow his career, you Cronenberg movies. Of course, I'm biased. For I have the greatest hero hollywood ever offered.

He is Charlton Heston. He has used other names: Moses, BenHur, Michelangelo, El-Cid, the Omega Man; and he has survived countless adventures: earthquakes, wrath of God, mining the mother lode, enslavement by apes, enslavement by Romans! He has

"On this planet it's Easy!"

-From the tape jacket of The Omega Man, starring Charlton Heston.

Sometimes I think that "young people" today have stupid role models. The cast of FRIENDS don't look too bright, you just try landing them on a planet of human-hating apes, and see how any one of them handle the situation. Why risk those cuties, they'd all die like secondary characters. Grisly, creative deaths, the sort you see in

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Between wash loads we sat on the dryers and had a serious conversation. Thinking back, I could remember a collection of times that I had let my mind spin with the laundry. Many things can be learned from washing your clothes.

I was in the eighth grade when my mother told me I had to start. Our machine lived in the basement next to the furnace. The spiders kept it company. They lived in the lonely socks and undies that always got trapped behind the dryer. These socks aren't forgotten, they just cease to exist until they are pulled back out of the darkness. Like thoughts that lie behind the curtain in my mind, they are dragged back out when it is time to be put to use.

I remember being afraid of the dials on the washer that looked like tiny roulette tables: warm wash, cold rinse, hot-cold, cold-cold, cottons, wash and wear, delicate. Combinations seemed limitless so I learned to gamble and bet on new settings every

link softness with homosexuality?

Do males just need stronger cloth to hold up their penis? The answers are blowing in the dryer.

I was very young when I had to start taking on my own responsibilities, laundry included.

But only weeks ago, when I had that conversation with my girlfriend, I realized I had never done the laundry in my life. That was when she told me of her friend that had become pregnant, and her story hit me really hard. The pain involved in having a boyfriend abandon her. Parents feared too much to be told. Parents who will never know they had a grandchild.

A friend's tears stained far deeper than blood on the abortion table blanket. This is the dirty laundry that my girlfriend helped to wash.

The awful truth is that some of it will never come clean.

Now when I do my laundry, I do it much more seriously. I find irony in stories I've read about men and women who "scour the Earth" searching for the secrets in life. I have found my secrets in t_helaundromat and I do my laundry without complaint.

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get underwear dirty from the Doing my laundry led me to inside. If this is the case, why not bigger questions in life than flip it inside out and get an extra cottons and knits. I would lean day of wear? back on the dryer, and think of My girlfriend carries her how silly it is to do two or three garments in a big blue hamper. At loads of laundry a week. I still the bottom I find her panties and wonder if body odor is really as I'm forced to think that our important as television tells us. A underwear may really be an Neanderthal man could roam underwar. It is not the kind of around all month in his loincloth, underwear I'm accustomed to spilling blood and flinging mud. seeing every day. Unlike boxers The only way his fur would be or briefs, this woman wears silky washed was when he fell in the little panties that have to be river.· Cavewomen might have fluffed, not dried. They swirl and bragged to one another about the curl in pretty laces and feel like strength of their caveman's odor. stitched flowers. I've never tasted Since this time, man's cerebrum women's underwear, but my other has repeatedly grown in size to senses urge me to say it tastes like hold greater amounts of knowlcotton candy. It looks like edge, but was a memory of frafeminity incarnate. Just putting grance forgotten? An accepting my face to them makes me feel understanding of ambiance belike I'm coloring outside the lines came omitted over a thousand of my own sexuality. I question generations. the importance of clothing in I remember throwing my keeping male and female roles underwear into the wash and intact in society. The girls in realizing that "gonch" (as it is school never seemed to be more called in our family) plays a big delicate or tender than the boys. role in the lives of people who But still my briefs feel like steel choose to wear it. The entire wool against the willow-soft purpose of constantly washing my snowflakes of thread that pillow phallic coverings was puzzling. and pamper my partner. Is this an My jeans keep my gonch sealed, unconcious statement about and therefore it is impossible to equality of the sexes? Do men

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loves the CBC B Simon Langeler Balls, I think it's a disaster! It makes the CBC, we don't want to pay for it, no difference to me that we warned it is not representative of us as a that it was coming, it still sucks, and sepererate culture. The guy then says it's bad news for Canada. he never listens to the CBC. ObviThe CBC has always worked as ously, since he seems unaware of the an equal forum between the provmonumental French side of the CBC. inces. As late as 30 years ago, CBC If it weren't for the CBC, I wouldn't radio was the only station available know enough to care about Quebec, to the Northwest Territories that gave the Maritimes, or anything east of an idea as to what was going on in Ottawa. Then a sharp guy from the rest of non-frontier Canada. It's Ontario calls in with one of two been as important as the railway was opinions that I think spell out the We did but build his pedestal, a during confederation for making all situation. John Allen says to Rex narrow and a tall one. points feel a part of the whole.

We Murphy: "-I think that the state of -Tleilaxu saying from The are the only country in the world the CBC is the symptom rather than Poetry of Frank Herbert. with such a media, uncensored and the disease. ["Good point,"says Rex] have you ever heard of unbiased. The CBC was the first and It's a symptom of the slow destruction Stan Rogers, who wrote Canada's best of radio and television. It stood of Canada. The death of the CBC is official folk song, "The Northwest as an example, charged with exposjust the death of one more of the Passage?" Have you then heard of ing to the people the identity of the institutions that makes Canada the bridge that is to be built to Prince hulking landscape of Canada. Did different from the rest of North Edward Island?- a lot of old-world you know that arranged marriages America, or different from any other types are pretty scared of it. Have were until recently still hip in P.E.I.? country. ["Mm-hm!"agrees Rex] This you ever seen kick-ass movies about Or that half of Manitoba is Native threat to its survival is just a sympthe historic Tin-Pot Navy? Do you North American? I bet its 50/50 out tom of the complete lack of interest think the Air Farce is actually funny? there, no shame, especially if your that people seem to have in their Will you ever buy one of Gilmore's not a CBC listener. Why would country." Allen also suggested that albums? Do you get any of the gags anybody over here care, who' s going the strangled CBC adopt the procefrom Double Exposure's "The to tell us? dure of Britain's BBC, a separate tax Socred Years?" Do you care if Rex Murphy's Cross Country upon interested parties, civilly Quebec stays and screws us, or Check-up, CBC radio, that's who. At collected, but not regulated. I think leaves and screws itself? When I pm, Sunday afternoons, Rex interthat's a good idea. He offered that you've asked yourself these quesviews callers and special guests on a we are "-<:onstantly getting distions you will know if you think the different topic that is relevant and tracted from the attention to the CBC should survive or fade away. worrisome to Canadians today. Last future of this country, by continuThe Canadian Broadcasting Sunday I tuned in and heard a forum ously getting involved in the future Corporation just got a 30% cut to on the CBC itself: Should the CBC of Quebec." Allen left the debate funds across the board, in every survive, or should it be cut off? asking, are we all bickering in one section. More cuts are due next year, Almost right away, Rex gets a call room of a building, while the whole for the Government is'slowly weanfrom a separatist from Fredericton, building is burning down? ing from the CBC to cut the deficit.

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Among them was Hugo Harvey, from Alberta. He also hit the nail on the head. He said the CBC television doesn't relate to Canada's youth.

The government is cutting it because people don't make it known that they care about it. If the CBC just can't draw watchers and listeners, then its position is indefensible. If the CBC wants to stay, it has to adapt in time with the rest of the country. Since it has not (not yet), it must take its hits like everything else in the fight against the deficit.

I think the CBC is good for Canada, especially in the fight against the bigger enemy of national dissolution. To cut the bonding element of Canadian culture creation now, of all times, is a really stupid idea. So, in the words of Sigourney Weaver, in her award worthy performance in ALIENS, "Hudson! Pull yourself together, because we need you and I'm sick of your bullshit!"

I've got a proposal. A run for the CBC, to take it into the next millennium, that it may survive privatization with its virtue intact. We set up marathon runs to raise awareness and petitions to Ottawa and the CBC itself: give it to us with a dowry, and a system by which we can support it.

The first run will be in November, from Chillwack to Abbotsford.

In the words of Bill Paxton, in his award-worthy role as Private Hudson in ALIENS, "I'm on it!"

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111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111■11■11111111111111111111111111111111111111111 here 1s a naked guy on the cover. A naked guy on the cover! Can you believe that there is a naked guy on the cover? Now, I guess you are wondering why he's there. The answer is simple:to prove a point. I am willing to bet that most people read this editorial specifica11y based on the fact of its title and obvious reference to the front cover photo. Nothing's Shocking. Indeed, you believe that I am completely incorrect, as the naked guy has got you pretty riled up. Maybe you are offended or even worse you are hunting for me, to give me a piece of your mind. Before you dis-

assemble me and give up on the Cascade, listen to what I have to say...

Within the pages of this very same paper is an article about a man named Mordechai Vanunu, and I bet you haven't read the story yet. It is a story about injustice. It probably doesn't suprise you at a11to hear of the man's plight. It probably doesn't shock you like the naked guy does. It is common knowledge that injustice occurs around the world. Everyone knows that. What can you do?

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the nude picture that you may forma11y complain. Of course, you have a right to complain if it offends you, I welcome the criticism. It only serves to prove my point if a bunch of people come storming in, looking for my scalp. Meaning, we get upset about things like nudity, a biological fact of life, while some poor man or woman rots in a jail for being a humanist, that is for caring about people in general.

What if you directed that angry energy into something creative rather than destructive? We can't a11be Mordechai Vanunu, or Mahatma Ghandi, Malcolm X or Noam Chomsky, but we can fight our own little battles. Being part of a grassroots organization is lending your little grain of sand to the whole bag of cement mix. Being aware of the power to organize and fight injustice as a group is one of the most inciteful experiences I have encountered (not that I have been around long) and I recommend you take a stand every once in a while.

I have observed that student support ebbs and flows at this institution and it seems that things like Sascha Keane's photo wi11attract more attention than a blatant restriction of civil liberties, a glaring inconsistency to the fact that our world is not truly wholesome.

Activism on and off campus should not be so much a blood-hunt but a statement of refusal. Those who control our world need to hear a unified denial of their actions and motivations.

And it can all start with a naked guy standing on the road.

LETTERS TO TH:E EDITOR

Dear Editor: The first two issues of the Cascade offered plenty of substance.

Considering the new "technology fee" students now pay, it appears contradictory that Internet connections(possibly the "fast food" of computers?) are up and running while required software is not yet availiable. I wonder if the UCFV board is really in touch with students' requirements in this area? Doubling the parking rates and tacking on a technology fee do not take loads of creativity. My personal opinion is that the honorarium paid to board members would be better spent on the salar of a van driver to shuttle

students between campuses.

Teresa Hampel 's article on our environment and its link to our limited transportation options really hit home. We continue to read about punative measures when it comes to discouraging car use, but no carrots are offered.

There appears to be loads of money for roads-$250 million annually from the province, $89 million budgeted from '97 to '99 in Vancouver, and almost $12 million in 1996 in Abbotsford.

Yet, Lower Mainland transit service g~ts cut.

It's patently obvious why inaction is the mode of the day.

After all, with the governments so dee in the fiscal hole, wh 1ve

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up royalties from gasoline sales, property taxes on comer gas stations, and PST and GST revenue on car sales. It's much easier to ignore highway death and injury, rising health-care costs, and the worst air in Canada due to vehicle exhaust(the WindsorQuebec City corridor at least has the excuse of industry adding to its pollution readings.

Real options do exist. Don't

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Grou Messa es Student Union Report THIS REPORT CONTAINS GRAPHIC MATERIAL. SENSITIVE READERS REFRAIN FROM VIEWING. By the time this publication reaches you, the voting for the by-elections of your Student Union Board will just be wrapping up. I hope you took the opportunity to vote for your favorite candidate(s).

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: The Semi-annual General meeting of the Student Union Society will be held on October 15, at 12:00-2:00 in the Abbotsford Campus Theater(B 101). Issues to be raised include a proposed fee increase(and structure change), constitutional amendments, and presentation of proposed SUS budget. If you have questions about any of these issues, please drop by the Student Union office(A213 in Abby; by student lounge in Chilli).

In addition, there will be information/ discussion meetings

held regarding the fee increase/ change. Dates, places and times to be announced(on both campuses )-watch for posters. The fee increase is designed for construction of a Student Union Building, creation of an Ombuds position, the Safe Walk, and more exciting student services. Please bring your questions and suggestions!

Finally, a short reminder to all student clubs: The Student Union offers you money! We will match any amount of money(up to $400) you raise for your club once per school year. However, your club must be a student one. Moreover, you can only apply once a year, so we advice you not to apply until you've already raised $400. The funds availiable for this program are limited, so apply as soon as you reach the desired amount. If you have any questions about this or any other student issues please phone or drop by.

-Jamie Hellewell, SUS President & friend of rodents.

Help Wanted AND desperately

B.A.S.A BULLETIN Presently, the Business Administration Students Association has been very busy planning and organizing their business election for the 1996/97 school year. The last day to get your nominations in was on September 27, so your name could be placed on the election ballot.

Elections will take place in Abbotsford on October 9, 10, and 11 between 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Business Administration Assistants Office. Polling will also take place on October 9 in Chilliwack between 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in the campus cafeteria. Please come out and support your business association and exercise your right to vote.

The following candidates will be running for the following positions:

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The other B.A.S.A. positions have been filled and will not require an election to determine who will have a seat on council.

After the new association is in place on October 12, work will be underway to organize a future movie night, scavenger hunt, welcome wagon and Christmas Party. Please watch for future details, coming soon!

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Dear Editor: I would like to comment on two things in the September 9, 1996 issue of the Cascade.

Firstly, the Cascade gave an "F" to "the Head of the First Heritage Bank Computer Lab ... ".

Gee-the last time I checked, no organization under the name "First Heritage Bank" existed!

Indeed there is a CREDIT UNION located here in town with the name "First Heritage Savings Credit Union" which donated money towards UCFV's computer lab.

Banks and credit unions are two DIFFERENT types of financial institutions. Banks keep their profits for themselves and credit unions distribute their profits among their members.

Second of all, I found the article "When The Comprehension Of Insanity ...... Brings Tranquility," written by Len Catling, to be quite intolerant. Mr. Catling feels we should "shoot [Newt] Gingrich with an elephant gun, after you have forced him to smoke crack." He also feels that Pat Buchanan needs a " ...razor blades and vinegar" treatment with Wu-tang clan.

It is no wonder why so much intolerance and ignorance exists in our society when one reads an article such as this. If any person, whether or not they are conservative-minded, supported committing such sadistic acts to Bill Clinton or Glen Clark, any leftist would rightly label them as a close-minded bigot!

Sinc~rely, Ryan Warawa

Editor's Note: Speaking of ignorance Mr. Warawa, do you even know who or what the "Wu-tang clan" is?

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