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By ELENA MILLE R

Unemployment: opinion polls show that most Canadians consider it our most urgen tnational problem, but what is being done about it by all levels of government, busines sand labor? The problem, especially in our own province, does not seem to be going awa y— particularly for the young and for those looking for work in professional, technica lor "white-collar" fields .

Combine youth and would-be professionals and you have the average universitygraduate . Aspiring teachers, lawyers, engineers, scientists and business majors —jus tabout any career you care to think of — are having a tough time finding work in thei rfield . Some period of unemployment or underemployment seems the destiny of most ofus these days .

What does this mean in human terms? A 1983 report by the Canadian Mental Healt hAssociation entitled Unemployment Its Impact on body and Soul concluded tha tincreases in the rates of almost every imaginable personal and social ill : depression ,anxiety, spouse and child abuse, suicide, mental hospital admissions, homicides an drapes, drug and alcohol abuse, infant mortality and heart disease, to name but a few .

In the face of these grim facts, and given the unwillingness or inability of others t ohelp, unemployed people are getting together to try help alleviate some of the stress and

._ . A isolation of being unemployed . A number of these groups of unemployed are helpingthemselves by helping each other exist in Vancouver .

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Their newsletter is called "The New Minor -ity" and they call themselves the "non-trad-itional unemployed" .

They are unemployed technical, professiona land white-collar workers, and they belong to anon-profit society run for and by themselves ,the Centre for the Non-Traditional Unem-ployed .

Joan Vincent, present director and founde rof the C .N .T .U ., explains the idea for the Cen -tre came when she began noticing unem-ployed professionals showing up in the Foo dBank lines, where she worked as a volunteer .That was two and a half years ago, and "th eproblem is still with us," she says .

They are "non-traditional" because most o fthe unemployed have been non-professiona l"blue-collar" workers in the past They cal lthemselves a minority, but Vincent estimate sthere are presently 20,000 unemployed profes -sionals in Metro Vancouver alone, 36,000 i nthe province .

Only 120 belong to the C .N .T .U., which ha sno budget to publicize its existence beyond it snewsletter . Still, Vincent says a fair cross -section of professions are represented in th emembership — including, engineers, archi-tects, computer operators, graphic artists ,accountants, librarians, nurses and journal-ists .

All members, including Vincent, work a svolunteers . Office space at 609 Termina lAvenue is donated by the company whichowns the building. Anyone can drop in ontheir Thursday morning meetings which begi nat 10a .m. But, Vincent warns, the C .N .T .U . i snot really a drop-in centre, a place for drink -ing coffee and airing grievances .

Members are expected to contribute thei rskills to the organization by helping out wit hprojects like the news letter and a planne dconference for the fall . This is a way of keep -ing people sharp and "alive", Vincent says ,and of keeping their professional skills intac twhile they are not using them for paid work .

"We have a philosophy of helping yoursel fin an environment of ideas and energy," sh eadds .

Laurence Lyse is a civil engineer and tech -nician who belongs to the C .N.T.U. Hejoinedsix months ago and says he finds it "helpfu land interesting .

"It's better than sitting around the houseand moping all day," he says .

The Centre operates on a cooperative mod -el, with every member having equal input .

"It's the old story of you get out of it wha tyou put in," Vincent says .

The multi-disciplined nature of the Centre

allows professionals to "tap into each other"and test out ideas . In addition, recent Univer-sity graduates can "plug into the profession"by meeting and talking with people in th efield .

Presently, more male than female profes-sionals belong to the C .N.T .U . Vincent putsthis down to more professional women choos -ing or being forced to take non-professiona l,bs as a way out of unemployment . She calls

.his phenomon "underemployment" (an ex -ample would be an engineer working as a tax idriver or a teacher working as a waitress) .

That women are more likely to end u punderemployed than men is a "product of tra -dition", Vincent says, adding underemploy-ment can be as serious a problem for the pro -fessional worker as unemployment.

"It's not an elitist or snob thing," she says ."Professionals working a 'joe-job' may tend t ooverwork and be perceived as a threat byother workers . "

The C.N.T.U . is not the only support centrefor unemployed people . The B.C. Teacher'sFederation sponsors an Unemployed TeachersAction Centre from its offices at 2235 Burrar dStreet, and the B.C. Federation of Labo rsponsors 28 Unemployed Action Centre sthroughout the province .

The Unemployed Teacher Action Centreopened in April 1983 in response to th eincreasing number of unemployed teachers i nthe province, explains Terry Kellington, avolunteer at the Centre .

Kellington helped organize a hiring fair las tmonth, bringing up representatives fro mschooldistricts in Texas and California . 3,000B.C. teachers came to be interviewed at thefair . Over 4500 unemployed teachers are regis -tered with UTAC, and estimates of tota lnumber of unemployed teachers in the pro-vince run as high as 10,000 .

"The people from the States said they ha dnever seen such high quality professionalslined up for work," says Kellington, addingmany B .C . teachers were hired .

As well as organizing hiring fairs, UTACkeeps up a regular job board, holds work-

snops to upgrade teachers' skills, and offers anumber of counselling and other services t oteachers . Kellington says "it is usually veryalive down here," with up to 12 volunteersworking on a given•day.

One of these volunteers is Les Gallus, anartist and would-be art teacher . He say sUTAC provides a "supportive work environ-ment" which will make the transition t oemployment, when it comes, smoother . But hesays prospects are grim for most teachers, andsome are looking as far away as Africa to findwork.

The Unemployed Action Centred, althoughsponsored largely by the B .C. Federation ofLabor, are open to "anybody who is unem-ployed, or who anticipates being unemploy-ed," says Gerry Miner, coordinator for th eBurnaby UAC .

The UACs have a general assistance pro -gram which provides debt counselling, life -skills counselling, referrals and other services .In addition, volunteers will act as advocatesfor people having to appear before tribunalsin order to receive unemployment insuranc eor Guaranteed Annual Income for Nee dmoney .

Miner estimates almost half his Centre'swork is spent in the advocacy role, while th erest is counselling . He is somewhat critical o fthe counselling offered at Canada Employ-ment Centres, calling it "inadequate" .

Since opening in October, 1983, the Bur-naby UAC has tripled its clientele volum efrom 60 per month to 200 recently . Miner feelsthat with proper advertising this numbercould easily triple or quadruple . Yet in Febru -ary of this year the federal Tory governmen twithdrew its funding of UAC coordinatorswhich it and the previous liberal governmenthad undertaken up to that time . Since then theprovincial labor movement has vowed to kee pthe UACs going .

Whether sponsored, as in the case of th eUnemployed Teacher Action Centre and th eUnemployed Action Centre, or independent ,as in the case of the Centre for the Non -Traditional Unemployed no one seems t odoubt that these support centres provide avaluable service for the unemployed .

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Unions oppose efficiency reviewBy DEBBIE L O

UBC administration has ordere da professional efficiency review o fthe university's non-academic area sbut campus unions are skeptica labout the usefulness of the firm'srecommendations .

"I don't think highly of it," sai dTed Byrne, a member of the Associ-ation of University and College Em-ployees .

Byrne said Ritchie and associates ,the firm hired by the university t oconduct the study does not "under-stand" the work on which they ar emaking recommendations .

"They don't specialize in the areathey are studying," he said . "Theyare only looking at the length of tim eand not at the kind of work . "

He said the firm was conductinga"time and motion" study as part o ftheir process, which includes timin g

r ►̂ washroom trips to improve efficien-cy .

"Malty members are worried anddon't feel they've been able to partic-ipate fully in the review," he added .

Byrne said the improved mail ser-'vice two weeks ago was due to the

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of Black South Africans Friday wit ha protest march in front of the Roya lBank's B .C. headquarters on Wes tGeorgia .

The Friends of Winnie Mandela ,named after the black South Africa nactivist and wife of jailed activis tNelson Mandela, was formed by tw oVancouver women, Suzanne Haw-kins and Deidre Maultsaid, on Jul y27 .

Maultsaid told the audience of 5 0people at the protest that her grou pwould heed the call of Black Sout hAfricans to encourage through ac-tion the imposition of internationa leconomic sanctions against the apar-theid regime .

She said the Royal Bank an dmany other large Canadian firm shave massive investments in Sout hAfrica, and it is their duty to "kee pthe responsibility to the Black citizens of South Africa and make repa -

F-s. rations to them . "Zayed Gamiet of the South Afri -

▪can Action Committee was please dto see the protesters because "it is n olonger enough to condemn aparthei das immoral and unjust . "

"The South African governmen t▪ is immune to that kind of appeal .

This activity is the kind of languag ethat they understand ." He statedthat the efforts of anti-aparthei dgroups around the world were work-ing and cited the Bank of Nova Sco-tia's withdrawal as the official dis-tributor for Krugerrands (Sout hAfrican gold coins) in Canada as alocal example .

"The purchase of Krugerrands isthe purchase of South African goldin the most direct way . Once they ar epurchased, the money earned servesas very useful foreign exchange forSouth African industries . Now th esales of the Maple Leaf coin (Cana-dian gold coins) are for the first tim ein excess of the sale of Krugerrands .This is the effect we are having . "

Gamiet concluded that the actionsmust continue to "state unequivo-cally what side of the struggle we ar eon so that the white minority will b e

▪ forced to see that their apartheidcomes with a price that the world i sno longer prepared to pay . "

National Black Coalition of Can -ada president Delicia Crump als ospoke of the need for concrete actio non the issue of apartheid . "Canadasupports the policy of multicultural -

return of the mail routine to its orig-inal method after a two week tria lperiod of the efficiency recommen-dations .

"It is an expensive review," h eadded .

Byrne believes the money the uni-versity has spent on hiring the out -side firm would have been bette rspent on increasing worker wages ."We could have used our own res-ources to conduct the review," h esaid .

Bill Kadey, business agent for th eInternational Union of OperatingEngineers, said they have been "lef tin the dark" about the results ofmany of the efficiency recommen-dations .

"We consider ourselves alread yshorthanded," said Kadey .

He said his department's wor kwas limited to "breakdown mainte-nance" at the present time and ther ewas no specific routine within th edepartment on which to make effi-ciency recommendations .

Kadey added the money could bewell used in other areas such a swages .

ism, a policy entrenched in our con-stitution . External Affairs ministerJoe Clark has often condemned th efascist regime in South Africa but h ewill not support meaningful mea-sures to bring the apartheid syste mdown," she said .

Crump questioned the effective-ness of "constructive negotiations "with the white minority and calle dfor the immediate recall of the Can-adian ambassador to South Africa .She also committed her group to th eendorsement of the proposal foraction put forth by religious leaderDesmond Tutu which calls for ser-ious international pressure to b eapplied to the regime in Johannes -burg to force reforms in their rac elaws .

The protesters then marched i nfront of the entrance to the Roya lTower and the doors of the Roya lBank branch . Protesters were en-couraged to continue their supportfor black South Africans and werereminded of upcoming rallies in-cluding a protest at a Vancouve rradio station at which Krugerrand swill be sold on the air .

The Friends of Winnie Mandel acan be reached at 872-8212 .

George McLaughlin, vice-presi-dent of local 116 of the Canadia nUnion of Public Employees, saidworkers "can only do so much work . "

"Buildings are not getting cleanedto the standards as they used to be, "he said .

"New full-time workers have notbeen hired for the past three year s

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B .C. students from Victoria, Bur-naby and Vancouver are meetingtoday to discuss a protest against theprovincial government's decision t oremove visa students' Medical Ser-vice Plan coverage .

"We think it is discrimination fo rother students who have much t ooffer B .C .," said Terry Hunt, Cana-dian Federation of Students pacifi cregion chair .

because of the university's hiringfreeze despite the new building swhich have gone up on campus,"said McLaughlin.

The firm was asked by the admin-istration to conduct tests to discove rmore efficent ways of doing non-academic work on campus and ha sbeen at UBC since the spring .

Hunt said students from all th einstitutions will collectively revie wtheir individual protest work to dat eand then they will "see where wewant to go working together . "

The provincial health ministry cu tMSP funding for visa students an dworkers on August 1 and only offi-cially notified Simon Fraser Univer-sity administration last Thursday ,said Lisa Price, an organizer for th eSFU Teaching and Support StaffUnion .

She said the provincial govern-ment refused to officially notify theTSSU of the government's sudde ndecision because it said the unio n"had no interest in the subject . "

The TSSU has filed a petition t oget a court injunction on the minis -try's decision and a court date ha sbeen set for August 29 .

Rory McBlaine, president of UB CInternational House, said he will b e"participating in trying to get thing soff the ground," to protest the gov-ernment's decision .

Phil Bennett, UBC graduate stu-dies society president, said the deci-sion is especially bad for student swho have medical conditions, suc has pregnancies, and are left withoutmedical coverage because privatefirms are not willing to carry peoplewith pre-existing conditions .

Carlos Schrezor, a UBC visa stu-dent from Argentina in metallurgi-cal engineering, has MSP coveragewhich will run out September 30 .

His wife is pregnant and is due i nOctober; because of her conditio nshe is deemed ineligible for medica lcoverage by all of the private com-panies they have contacted so far, hesaid .

"I have the choice of taking my

Bruce Gellatly, UBC vice-presiden tadministration and finance refusedto reveal the cost of hiring the effi-ciency experts .

"We don't have the particular skil lto do the tests in a proper fashion, "he said .

The other campus unions couldnot be reached for comment .

family home or paying for complet ecoverage," he said . "None of them Ihave money for," said Schrezor .

The minimum one day hospita lstay costs $700 if the procedure i s"normal" but if there are complica-tions the cost rises to $5000 . A fligh tback to Argentina is a minimum o f$2800 for their family, he said .

Schrezor believes the ministry' sdecision is "unjust completely . "

He said the provincial govern-ment's policies are inconsistent whendefining a B .C . resident because he i sconsidered a resident when he pay staxes but is told he is not a citize nwhen applying for MSP coverage .

"I won't tell Argentinians to com ehere any more," said Schrezor .

He also believes he is being unfairl ytreated because he is helping th eprovince doing research for the B .C .economy as part of his job .

Duncan Stewart, Alma Mater so-ciety external affairs coordinator ,said the provincial government i s"picking on one of the poorer seg-ments of our society . "

"At this time in B .C., there is agreat deal of prejudice against for-eign students," he said . "It makes i teasier for the Socreds to take awa ythe basic right to quality medica lcare . "

Stewart said there is a public per-ception that foreign students do no tcontribute anything to the provinc eand are a drain on B.C.'s economy .

About 4,000 students and worker shave been forced to seek coverag eunder private plans by the ministry' sdecision .

Provincial health minister Ji mNielsen said they were "cleaning up "the system by changing the minis -try's policy for visa students an dworkers .

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Profs lobby for wage hikeFaculty salary negotiations for the upcoming academic year are

continuing . Both faculty association president Sidney Mindess andacting vice-president academic Don Russel were quietly noncommit-tal on the negotiations' progress .

"We asked for a total (increase) of about five percent," sai dMindess.

The increase would include increases in career progress, equity ,anomaly, merit allowances, and an adjustment for faculty at the lowe rend of the scale, he said . "We are trying to negotiate the magnitude ofthe increase is any, and the manner of distribution . "

At Simon Fraser University the board of governors has approve dthe administration's proposal for a faculty salaryfreeze next year . Th eSFU faculty association withdrew from negotiations when the admin-istration insisted on a faculty salary freeze, Mindess said .

Mindess said he couldn't see the same thing happening at UBC ."We'd go through arbitration rather than walk out," he said .

Another difference between the two universities is the faculty a tUBC has faced a salary freeze for the past two years, he said .

"The mood is not great . Faculty are getting upset over the freeze .The past is beginning to hurt; it's not just this year ."

Economics professor Gideon Rosenbluth said faculty are losingground .

"If we don't get anything were worse off than ever . There should bemoney even if it's only career progress increments. Our actual salarieshave been decreasing over the past three years."

When asked what another year of frozen salaries would mean toUBC Rosenbluth said, "The quality of faculty is always reflected bysalary scale . People who have opportunities to go elsewhere g oelsewhere ."

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Grads need jobsUnemployment in B .C. presently On the surface, that doesn't soun d

stands at between 14 and 15 per cent too bad . But statistics can be deceiv-of the workforce . Some people believe ing . How many of those 36 per cen tthe real rate of unemployment (in- who continued studying did so onl ycluding those who have given up because they knew job prospect slooking for work) stands close to 20 were so bad "out there"? And of th eper cent . This number includes an 53 .2 per cent who sought employ -estimated 36,000 professional work- ment, how many found work in thei rers, including 10,000 unemployed field ?teachers .

The fact that organizations no wMany of these teachers — and exist such as the Centre for the Non -

engineers and nurses and accoun- Traditional Unemployed, the Unem-tants and others — are recent uni- ployed Teacher Action Centre, an dversity graduates. According to a 1984 the Unemployed Action Centres ar eStudent Services survey, of the UBC cold comfort to the unemployed UB CArts graduates of that year, 36 per graduate . They merely point out howcent continued their education, 53 .2 bad the problem is . The solution isper cent sought employment, and 8 .8 not more support centres, but suita-per cent were unemployed .

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The Summer Ubyssey

Page 7

Mozart film failsBy ETAN VLESSING

It would be unfair, of course, to years, Mozart is portrayed as eithe r

The mystique that has lately grown compare The Life of Mozart with

effortlessly composing works of art ,around the music of Wolfgang the more widely known Amadeus, or at his writing table pleading wit h

up

the former being only a biographical

his relatives and few friends fo rAmadeus Mozart is sure to fill the

financial help to offset his mountin g

Robson Square Cinema during Pac- account of the famed composer .

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ific Cinematheque's Mozart on Film And yet, there is no escaping the

debts. The composer's constant plea s

series now playing throughout Aug- disappointing lack of story and char-

for position and favor in thc musica l

ust . But if the screening of Hans acter development in Hans Conrad

world, and indeed his talents as a

Conrad Fischer's The Life of Mozart Fischer's Mozart .

whole, go first unnoticed, and a t

(West Germany, 1967) last Friday

The Life of Mozart opens with a

length unpaid .night is an indication of what lovers recreation of young Mozart's trium- Unfortunately, we receive fe wof Mozart can look forward to, pliant European tour of 17631766 . glimpses in The Life of Mozart o fmany who attend later screenings There are no scenes of any music hall the courtly circles in which Mozar t

will be disappointed .

performances or royal courts . In-

found so little success . Absent is th e

stead, the audience must content

realization that, although Mozar tThe Life of Mozart

itself with endless shots of European was a genius, fa , ahead of his rivalsdirected by Hans Condrad Fischer

splendor, and only occasional cut sat Robson Square

y

in musical talent, he was without th eto Mozart's portrait .

craftiness and shrewd planning soProblems with projection, includ-

Then, Mozart is suddenly seven-

necessary to rise in the courtly world .

ing poor sound quality, plagued this teen and rebellious . No effort is

This clash between genius and world -

mediocre documentary about Mo- made to portray Mozart as the imp-

ly wisdom, so well developed i n

zart and his music . Those who came ish fop he is reputed to have been, or

Amadeus, is entirely lacking in Th e

for the music left early in search of a even as multi-dimensional . The nar-

Life of Mozart .

refund, while those wishing to learn rator only hints at Mozart's "natural

I he Life of Mozart is weakes t

more about the origins and influen- gaiety and love of pleasure", when so

where it should have been mos tces of Mozart's genius left unenlight- much more could have been said .

strong, in the presentation of Mo -ened .

During his later and more prolific

zart's now renowned music, poo r

Corpus is silly nonsense

sound quality ruined what woul d

Habeus

otherwise have been a pleasin gaffair .

By LISE MAGEE

cleaning woman Mrs . Swabb .

It isn't actually the suicide that is and well acted but one would think

Pacific Cinematheque's Mozart o n

Habeus Corpus. The term con-

It does have its moments but this amusing (except for those of us with that, considering the wealth of good

Film series continues at the Robso njures up a variety of images (a cour- is more a tribute to the ability of the morose sensibilities) but he proceeds

dramatic material available, that a

Square Cinema with a selection of

troom scene fraught with dramatic cast than to the script . Philip Sped- to do card tricks and eat a tomato

better choice could have been made .

Mozart's major operas until the endtension perhaps?), but certainly noth- ding is remarkably strong in his lead during the intermission .

If you have a predilection for this

of August . The series is presented i n

ing even vaguely resembling the play role as Arthur Wicksteed and Carol

Habeas Corpus is intermittently

kind of humour, enjoy . Otherwise it

co-operation with the Goethe In

▪ now on at Frederic Wood Theatre . Nesbitt (Mrs . Swabb) illicits some of amusing and certainly fast paced is not recommended . stitute .the few whole-hearted laughs in the

Habeus Corpus

performance .

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Sarah Rodgers plays the wall

DOA stall powerful, political, and angryat the Frederic Wood Theatre

flower, spinster daughter, Constance ,

Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus is of the Wicksteed family . Her only

By MIKE DENNIS

drug abuse or racism . The band's exuberance an da Carry On style sex farce that at its concern is the size of her chest and

D .O.A. proved Sunday night at the York Theatre

musical appeal evoked an appreciative response fro mbest has moments of dry British wit that is where the falsies come in

that they are still the most powerful band in Vancouv- the audience . D .O.A. had a hard act to follow .but at its worst hovers dangerously handy . Felicity Rumpers (Laura

er's thriving alternative music scene .

But the hometown boys didn't disappoint . Theclose to Benny Hill . It has all the White) is the nubile young miss

The band, which just returned from a lengthy North good of D .O.A. express started off a bit slow but soo nnecessary accoutrements of a sex whose only concern is the growing

American tour, worked the hometown crowd into a warmed up into the undeniably powerful band the yfarce : frustrated wives, over-sexed size of her belly and finding a father

frenzy as they tore through an hour long set of both are .old men, nubile young girls and for it before all is apparent to the

new and old songs . Turning-in fine warm-up sets were

D .O .A., since their inception 8 years ago, hav eyoung men who are hot to trot, as others . She finds a willing mate in

7 Seconds and Redemption, a local reggae outfit .

matured from a raunchy punk band to a genuine hard601,

well as dialogue filled with innuendo Dennis Wicksteed (Stefan Winfield)

Redemption opened the evening's show, which rocking concert act . And their audience seemed just asand other, less subtle, references to a hypochonriac who will supposedly,

attracted people of all ages, even whole families in pleased with their newer material off their latest L Psex . It is all rather silly.

conveniently die in three months .

some cases . Redemption's music is derivative of tradi-

Let's Wreck the Party as they were with old hits lik e

The plot is predictable and harldy But then it might be rather amusing

tional reggae, however this band performs it in a The Prisoner or America the Beautiful .memorable . It is one of those plots to indulge in a little foolishness with

proficient and enthusiastic manner . Look for them on

Lead singer Joey (Shithead) Keighly showed he i swhere everybody runs around want- his father, the rakish doctor (after

the local reggae circuit .

not only a talented guitarist and frontman, but als oing to sleep with somebody (any- all, he has seen 25,000 pairs of pri-

There was at least a 45 minute wait before late doubles as an evangelist as he donned a preacher' sbody?) other than the one they should vate parts and will at least know

arrivals 7 Seconds from Reno, Nevada, appeared .

garb and treated the amused crowd to a sermon,be wanting to sleep with, or frus- what goes where) .

But it was worth the wait . The young band burst D .O.A. style . All in fun, of course . The band con -trated because the ony they want to

Indubitably the most entertaining

forth with a level of energy rarely seen, even for hard- tinued to reel off hit after hit, and got a well deserve dsleep with wants to sleep with some- part of the performance, besides

core punk bands . Lead singer Kevin Seconds paced encore .one else . It does, of course, get a little Mrs . Swabb's vacuuming sound ef-

frantically about the stage, while his band thrashed

D .O.A. not only have as much punch as they'vemore complicated than that, with fects, is the attempted suicide of Dr .

and bashed around him .

always had, but are also extremely tight musically .the help of a pair of falsies and a few Wicksteed's patient Mr . Purdue

The band only came to a halt momentarily between But it'll be a while before you can check them out fo rpregnancies — but not much. The (Michael Fera) . He comes on at the

songs when Kevin quickly explained the meaning of yourselves, because D .O.A. will soon be heading offonly character with the good sense end of the first Act and hangs him-

the song's lyrics, most of which were railing against to do a European tour .to stay outside of this nonsense is the self from a chanelier at center stage .

Photograph displays provide insight into lifestylesBy CAMILE DIONNE

Want Moshiach Now! by Paula er's Chassidic Jewish community to

This presentation gives an inside

celebrations of these people .The art menu is raw in two photo- Levine also uses black and white give a refreshing look at the ultra-

look at the lives and homes of somegraphic displays currently on at the photographs as well as artifacts and a orthodox Jewish way of life from a

of the members of the community

The video is very informative an d

Presentation House gallery in North video presentation about Vancouv- Jewish perspective .

and looks at both the rituals and tempered my distaste for the ortho-dox strictness by having some of th eVancouver .

women explaining why they hav eEncounters by Bill Burke is a dis - chosen this life-style . It explains the

play consisting of thirty-four large history and white photographs taken

ry of the Chassidic movemen tas well as giving a practical look a t

in the southern U .S . and Brazil,

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some of the difficulties of maintain -which show ordinary people doin gordinary things . His subjects are not

ing the life style . For example the

good-looking or successful, but or

segment on how to shop for koshe r

Binary people with raw edges still

food in a Vancouver supermarke t

showing .

was especially interesting .

Burke's images capture families

The video at times lacks a Pol -and couples, friends and individuals

ished professional quality and a tfrom all levels of society — a couple

times the life-style it presents ca nin a greasy-spoon restaurant, doc-

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grate on the beliefs held by non -tors at a university hospital, a woman

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Jews, however, the sincerity of th ewith her hair in rollers standing by a

people involved and their obviou sspring with her two children, and an

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fulfillment from the Chassidic life -older black man playing the fiddle as

style compensates for any lapses i na child looks on in wonder .

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the film and leaves the viewer with aThe most striking thing about

positive impression of the life-style .these images is that they reach out to

The presentation raises as man y▪ the viewer with their eyes . Each onequestions as it answers, but it als oseems to tell its audience they have a

story to tell, about a life they have

informs and gives the viewer a cleare runderstanding of the Jewish corn -lived .munity as a whole and of the Chas -Burke's art brings each viewe r

into contact with the humanity that

sidle community in particular . Together the two very different displayswe each know is out there, but some -

times intentionally forget . ing an informative and challeng -The second installation called We

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The Summer Ubyssey

August 7-13, 198 5

Hiroshima: not the way they said it wasBy JAMES YOUN G

Every so often something happens which radicall yalters your life : you travel somewhere, you meet some -one, you read a line in a book and "nothing is the wa ythey said it was ."

For me, my visit to Hiroshima in 1981 was such a nexperience . I didn't go there with any particular idea inmind : the city was simply on the tour I was making o fHonshu, the largest of the Japanese islands .

The day I arrived was oppressively hot and after m yusual confusion with Japanese signs, I boarded a tra mwhich went through the city, along the canals toward sthe minshuku, or bed-and-breakfast where I stayed .

The minshuku was only a couple of blocks fro mboth ground zero and Peace Memorial Park, Hiro-shima's largest central landmark constructed in memoryof the bomb victims .

That evening, when the heat had lessened, I took awalk around the neighbourhood, where I saw the A -Bomb Dome, a skeleton of a building symbolizing th edestruction the entire city had felt . I wondered wh ythey hadn't done the same thing in Europe, leaving afew bombed acres of London or Berlin as testimony tothe effects of modern war .

The next day I visited the Peace Memorial Museum ,where the history of the bomb is told, illustrated b yphotographs and objects which underwent the blast ,and supported by texts in English and Japanese . Iwalked through the story of "Little Boy", the firs tnuclear bomb to be used against a city, moving fro mthe Manhattan Project, to the reason Hiroshima wa sselected as a target, to the flight of the Enola Gay, th eplane which dropped the bomb . The major part of th eexhibit documented the bomb's effects on human lif eand the story of the hibakusha, or survivors .

For me, the exhibits attested to the power of the stil lphotograph. There were two types which really helpe dme understand the nature of nuclear weapons . Thefirst were the photographs which showed the extent o fthe damage to the city, in conjunction with maps a sreference points . These photographs proved a singl ebomb could easily destroy an entire city . I tried tovisualize what the same bomb would do to Vancouver ,while reassuring myself that my own city was far mor esprawling .

When I later learned modern bombs can have 130 0times the destructive explosive power of the Hiro-shima bomb, I realized that Vancouver could also b edestroyed in a matter of seconds .

The other photographs which moved me were thoseof the bomb survivors and the effects suffered by th e

.human body .Although we were required to read John Hersey' s

Hiroshima in Grade 10 English, I had not full yimagined the triple effects of the bomb — the blas tpressure which hurled people through the air an dimpaled them on rubble, the heat wave which vapo-rized those close to ground zero, leaving others wit hgrotesque fatal burns, and the radiation which lef tthousands suffering from the various symptoms ofA-Bomb disease .

Here were images of charred bodies, mass graves ,children who became bald as they died from radiationsickness, and people who developed keloids, painfu lprotuberances which formed under scar tissue, requir -ing surgical removal .

I left the museum feeling stunned .At the bottom of the steps a group was collecting

money to aid second-generation bomb victims, notrecognized by the Japanese government as authentic

sufferers of the bomb's effects .On the way back to the minshuku, I walked amon g

the forty monuments which stand in the park, in-cluding the Children's Peace Monument, covered wit hgarlands of folded paper (origami) cranes .

The tradition of decorating these monuments wit horigami cranes began when a junior high school stu-dent, Sadako Sasaki, developed "A-Bomb disease" tenyears after being exposed to radiation as a small child .During her illness, Sadako began to fold cranes believ -ing that making one thousand would bring good luck .According to one version, Sadako died before she wa sable to complete the prescribed number, but he rclassmates turned to making them in her memory, t oexpress their desire for peace .

I spent the next few days alternating between sight -seeing and reading two books on the bomb . One wasTale of Gen, an account in comic book form of the wa rrelated with the sincerity and simplicity of a youn g

boy . Gen sees his father persecuted because he refusesto adopt a posture of militarism and to express racis tviews against the Koreans forced to labour in Japanes efactories .

After the bomb is dropped, Gen witnesses hi smother trapped under their burning house, and i sunable to help her .

The other book, Masuji Ibuse's Black Rain, takes it sname from the large sticky pitch-black drops whic hfell some hours after the explosion, contaminatin gpeople with radioactive fall-out . Ibuse details the pro-gression of a young woman's illness, which begin swhen the bomb is dropped and affects her later plan sfor marriage . Her story is set against restorativeimages of life in the country . As I read it, I comparedthe extent of destruction of various neighbourhoods i nthe book with the actual place I was visiting .

I spent my time wandering around the city, trying t odiscover what Hiroshima had become years later .Downtown, I found the typical well-stocked depart-ment stores, and a baseball stadium, home of th eHiroshima Carp . I listened to bluegrass musiciansjamming in a park, talked with the owner of a coffe eshop who visited Vienna to listen to classical musi cand watched some teenage boys performing an Elvi simitation . In other neighbourhoods I found a lus hwaterfront park, and Mitsubishi's heavy industr yfactories .

The local graveyards were scenes of activity as resi -

dents prepared for the 0-bon festival, when the spirit sof dead ancestors are said to return .

I visited the shrine at tht nearby island of Miyajima ,said to be one of the three most beautiful places i nJapan. There the red tori gate rose out of the water a thigh tide . Tiny deer walked around, so accustomed to &altourists that I watched one eat a woman's lunch as sh ewent down to the water to swim . Hiking around the

...Iisland, I encountered a group of monkeys who ha dalso lost their fear of people .

My images of Hiroshima are divided between theones of utter annihilation found in the museum andthose so full of life that I experienced myself . And that

-divided reality is Hiroshima's message to every othe rcity in the world in an age when we now have the

>Hdestructing power of more than a million Hiroshimas ,yet only 7,000 strategic targets .

A message for a time when military planners go o nspeaking of limited nuclear war and dream of outlan-

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dish defense systems that will allow their side to win .The museum is not about a past event, about some -

thing catalogued, classified and preserved for poster-ity . It is a vision of one possibility for the future, afuture we are choosing now, through our choice o fpoliticians, through our response to the problem an dthe priorities in our lives, through the television w ewatch and the toys we give our children to play with .

There are only three possible responses to the mes-sage of Hiroshima.

One is to deny the reality or relevance of the Hiro-shima bomb, a process which must drain more an dmore psychic energy as the commercial media begin to

r tipay attention to the problem .

Another is to accept the reality of the threat, yet d onothing : this must surely lead to heightened anxietyabout the future .

The third is to accept that reality and work to .%--change it .

There are no guarantees ; it is a matter of slowingdown, stopping, looking around and asking what th eplanet really needs . And that response will determinewhether there really will be "no more Hiroshimas" o rwhether the photographs on the museum walls are a naccurate vision of our future .

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James Young is a Ubyssey writer involved with peac eand disarmament issues.

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