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“There is little that is sacred to a scanner.”

Different students

BY KAREN YOUNG, KAREN GO AND MICHELLE WONG -

T HE library line UP in South Korea begins before Earlier a 19-year-old student jumped to her death from her

apartment in November after a poor showing in school. Another student died of self-immolation after she failed an exam.

These two young women are among dozens of stress-related yearly student suicides in South Korea. They cracked undex the national entrance exams pressure for top South Korean universities.

For a three-month pexiod of ipshi jiok or “exam hell,” several million students cramup to 20 hours a day as the December 22 exams dedine approaches.

Anyone who sleeps more than four hours fails exams. Many students will practice quizzes as part of their breakfast ritual.

Even a 98 per cent high school average will not ensure those coveted university spots. Only the top 25 per cent who successfully completed the nine-hour test will move on to the top universities.

Those who fail the exam will fail to find good emplopenL Almost every year Korea’s students have earned top science and

mathmatics scores on intemational placement tests, fuelling the mion to better its standards.

Canadianstudentsincomparisonusuallyfareafulltenpercentage points behind as in they did in the 1991 International Assessment of Educational Rogress for 13 year olds. But unlike their Korean counterparts, they have considerably less university entrance worries.

Still B.C. educators want to dramatically lessen student pressure: as part of B.C.’s controversial Year 2000 program, pre-university g r r l d e levels will be abolished and so will marks for what used to be Grades 1 to 3.They are considering scrapping marks until Grade 10.

At the implemented “Primary Level” which groups together all students until Grade 3. report cards have only comments called “mlecdotal reports” but no marks.

The Intermediate level will group together grades 4 to 10 next year and Graduation Level will group Grades 11 to 12 by 1995.

Provincial and scholarship exams in Grade 12 will continue. ‘The latest draft for the Year 2000 program indicated that the

phasing out of (letkr) grades will be optional for the Intermediate level.” said education ministry spokesperson Gerald Morton.

Morton said “it’s very unlikely” that letter grades would be stricken from final high school years.

But the push for the high letter grades show no s i p of receding in homes headed by parents used to Asian education systems.

One third-year UBC studen& a St. George’s School graduate,

‘Deadly’ BY S’IEVE CHOW

B LACK-CLAD men and women of all ages meet at a

basement at UBC every Tuesday and Friday night, carrying on an ancient Chinese martial arts legacy.

In full-flight “light sparring,” Wing Chun kung-fu exhibits the pt>tentialforutterdevastationasulua- quick, powerful hands move intuitively in threatening blurs, politely breaking short of full impact.

Wing Chun means “praise the springtime,” but the harmless title

discipli.ne at UBC belies the deadlier aspects of the art.

“Don’t call it self-defense,” said Dr. G.K. Khoe. a chemical eingineer who instructs Wing Chun at the Asian Centrebasement. “Youdon’t want to apply it-it’s too deadly.”

Khoe compares its deadliness to

“If someone takes your wallet, you don’t want to mow him down,” he said. “It’s ux, much.”

The master has preserved this ancient martial arts system for a decade,, during practices that have become weekly rituals for his students.

that of an “16.

Khoewastnrasabbaricalfrom Holland in the early 1980s when approached b:y a group of 12 Vancouver resi.dents who wanted to learn Wing Chun.

He was initially reluctant to teach the discipline, but wanted to pass on his knowledge to another generation, Tlhe AMS Internal Wing Chun Kung-fu club has now prospered into its eleventh year andremainstheonlyChineseAh4S martial arts club.

SEE PAGE 7 Martial spirit on campus PHOTOI BY SlOBHAN ROANTREE

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Annual General Meeting of the Alma Mater Society

Wednesday, February 17,1993 Student Union Building, Room 206

12:OO p.m.

AGENDA

AMS Interim Financial Statements as of 31 December 1992 Auditor's Report - Financial Statements as of 30 April 1992 President's Annual Report General Manager's Annual Report - Review of Business Operations 1992

1.Be it resolved that Peat Marwick Thorne be retained as the auditor for the Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia for the ensuing fiscal year.

Handina over of the gavel and brief " statements by the incoming AMS President.

All members of the Alma Mater Society are invited and encouraged to attend. Refreshments are available.

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Taming the tiger

BY HA0 LI

FOUR YEARS AGO many young Chinese left their eumomically-ravaged homeland in droves for a better life in the West

Today fewer people are leaving Cbina as they now relish a life that is drastically different from the one that drove them to the Tiananmen square protests: cars, VCRs, dance parties and karaoke bars have now become attainable thrills.

Before when an energy-drained China was bled by hyperinflation, its impoverished citizens watched cormpt politicians drive large cars and make big bucks. Now regular people are taking their turn at the wheel and making the cash.

China’s government has effectively calmed its people with better living standards and an entrepreneurial spirit

Cars are hitting the streets as fast as factories can produce them. And motorcycles, color TVs, VCRs and video cameras line store front shelves in several rows.

Former student Jeyne Chan, a pro-democracy activist in 1989, recently conducted a business visit in China and says the mood has changed remarkably in her homeland

“The only thing people are takingaboutishowtomakemoney,” she says.

Though the nation’s human rights record still rates as the worst in Asia, Chan says, ‘Nobody cares that much about the democracy movement.

‘The life there is apparently a lot better than three or four years ago. You can do whatever you want as long as it’s not demonstrating on the street.

“I think that people have begun to realize any turmoil wiil hurt themselves eventually.”

That lesson was learned when international economic sanctions aimed against China’s government effectively punished its people.

UBC graduate and former mainland China graduate student JiangWei,nowafmcialconsultant in Vancouver, says China’s people are currently mesmerized by opportunities they never hadbefore.

“IthinktheChinesegovemment h learned a lot from the 1989 event. That is why they give people more economic freedom. Democracy will prevail in China eventually with better living standards.”

Since China started its intemtiod open-door economic reforms in 1979, its G m National Producthasgrownatayearlyrateof nine per cent, one of the world’s fastest.

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Caught on the call by an ou.tsider

Said one North Vancouver scanner enthusiast: “It’s better than TV. I spent Halloween night listening to the police... once I heard a friend of mine become witness to a stabbing; ... it was a total fluke.

“I even heard Jimmy Pattison’s house was sprayed with gun fire three or four years ago. No one was hurt but it sour~ded like someone had a grudge against him.”

Police officers will often use pay phones to avoid eavesdroppers on serious cM~es.

Almost one million Chadians own scanners, including

Eavesdroppers prey on wireless phone users PHOTO BY ROSA TSENG

drug traffickers and thieves. Roughly the same number own cell phones. B.C. has about 130,000 cell phone users and the number is expected to double in two years.

Radio Shack scanners are altered so they may not pic:k up cell phone calls but experts say only a slight alteration can convert them for eavesdropping.

Communications Minister Pemn Beatty proposed last month to change the Radio Communications Act and the Criminal Code so that maximum fines of $25,000 and prison sentences can be handed to eavesdroppers. Cell phone companies have even lobbied for scanner bans.

But hard-core electronic eavesdroppers aren’t despairing. With some basic know-how, a solder gun. they can make a scanner from old TV parts.

E-mail :intimacy: uncensored material - Friendships s u e made between Internet. His E-mail message sent news daily in English to more

:BYPINGNAN~SHI- strangers. And sometimes even reached UBC faculty who were than 20,CW E-mail subscribers marriages. People write without fear. Puzzled mer his plight. world-widle. During China’s 1989 People answer without fear. E-Mail lets people know student demonstrations, CND kept

theCableNewsNetwork-sigded money-poor, time-rich student could at any corner of the world: Said Qiaobing Xie, a UBC Phd the f i news of the Gulf War to ever have,” said Carleton University alt.desert.storm W a s an electronic student: “‘Whenever our E-mail Vancouver by triggering a global student Wen Bing in an E-mail news bulletin for the Gulf war. system broke down, I felt like I was electronic computer message. interview. ”It is the best thing since sliced blind and deaf.”

Anddespitebeing surrounded “This is a wonderland of bread,” said Zuofeng Li, a CND recently launched the by tanks ordered by the Soviet networking where youdonot have to University of Washington world‘sfirstChineseelectronicnews Union’s 1991 coup leaders, ]Boris spend a penny.“ researcher. weekly Citlled Hua Xia Wen Zai Yeltsin’s electronic mail passed Adds UCLA student Zhao Hua: It takes only a few minutes to which circulates among 10,OOO uncensored to the outside world as “Itkeepsmeaway hTVanddraws send E-mail from UBc to almost readers. the insurgents controlled state me: closer with m;my friends I never anywhereinthewwlkvenChina It is very difficult to control the television. radio, and newspaFm. really met.” and Cuba. The sender mails a flow of information, however.

ThepowerofE-mailalsohelped Hua equates his electronic m-ge from a computer linked Recently UBC investigated the US President Bill Clinton who sent mailboxtothe”rin,gingofthephone,” via telephone lines and satellite to distributionofpornographicmaterial his address electronically across the It makes people fix1 wanted. another computer. on Usenet which houses all the news America. Ideally-suitecl for the inhibited, AUBC Uercanpurchasea E- groups. About 15 news groups

The revolution has just begun. the aunosphere of E-mail excludes mail account which is h d e d u p to channel sex mail. A couple deal Carefree teenagers and the the visual and audio prejudices of InterNet. the US-based E-mail strictly with pornography. But E-

twenty-something group see E- face-to-face dialogue. Intimate pioneer Connecting 108 nations. mail was designed the to be void of mail asafree-for-allanything goes feelings canberelayedtoacomplete E-mail can send text in my censorshil>. playground for writing. stranger without visual barriers. language,pphicsandevenvoices. By the year 2000 E-mail users

E-mail, short for elecaonic Before fatally shooting several There are three forms: Person-@ expect the possibility of mail, hasgivenbirth toan invisible facuItymembed;stfallatConcordia person, bulletin board and wide simultaneDusly watching a movie anarchic global village where university in Mom&, engineering distribution used by electronic with aperson living on the Amazon anythingcanbesaidwithabsohutely professor Valeri Fabrikant sent a magazines. River and chat face to face with no policing. All you need is a blanket call for help to the 800,000 Thevolunteer-run ChinaNews them at the same time on the screen. computer linked to a modem. hostsofE-mail’sProrld-widenetwork Bgest (:m) has for four years

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LONE individual”tI0t “It is the greatest thing a lonely, instantaneously what is happening Chinesesrudentsoverseasinformed.

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I ALMA MATER SOCIETY 1 ! 1

THE GRAD CLASS COUNCIL is now accepting Proposals for the

1993 GRAD CLASS GIFTS

Proposals must:

1) Be as specific as possible

2) Include the following information: name of group requesting funds number of people working on project name of a contact person (include telephone #) who will benefit from the project description of the project in detail a summarizing paragraph including the most salient points the amount of money requested sources of other funds if applicable.

There is a limit of one proposal per particular group of graduating students.

There is a upper limit of $3,000 for each proposal.

Past projectslgifts included anything from a student garden to a talking book fund for Crane Library - be creative.

Each group must be prepared to give a short presentation of their idea to the members of Grad Class at the end of February.

The deadline for proposals is 4:OO p.m. Wednesday, February 17th, 1993 and is final. No proposal will be accepted after this date.

Proposals will be received at SUB Room 238.

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P!ease contact Thrasso Petras, c/o SUB 238, 822-3971 if you have any questions.

Body distortions exposed: Katherine Gildav's Famine Within

BY LAUREN DAVIS feelings of ineffectiveness and low self-esteem. The Famine Within looks at how these fears and beliefs are reinforced by society's promotion of an unrealistic body ALL. thin, with

bin breasts and no .

weight back to an inherited "set point," four in five grade 4 girls still diet in California.

Gilday looks at what today's perfect body symbolizes with the help of psychotherapists, a social historian, an anthropologist, a MD and a bio-medical researcher, who say, words and images associated with themodem"supenvoman" are: "tall,thin,carriesabriefcase.knows exactly whatshewants,independent, status, power, has a lover-but doesn't need him."

Most feminine traits and emotions are now seen as negative qualities. Women reject the image of their mother for that of their father to be taken seriously in a man's world.

For women who grew up with the law guaranteeing equal rights, the "beauty myth" is a new form of oppression. The film suggests the message they receive is: you can have equal rights and access to opportunities as long as you have therightbody,aslongasyoubehave. as long as you don't show weakness

The Famine Within (1990,W min) is a well-structured and intelligent investigation into society's obsession with thinness and the "perfect" female body.

Canadian filmmaker Gilday explores how these concepts are enforced and undermine women's self-worth, often leading to the debilitating disorders of anorexia and bulimia.

She weaves interviews of shocking information with touching

media is unattainable for most women, as well as unhealthy.

Chris Alt. sister of "super- model" Carol Alt, weighs 165 and models larger-sized clothing. As an anorexic earlier in her career, she saw a picture of Karen Carpenter before she died of the same disease. Alt's reaction was this:

"I thought she was lucky to be that skinny when she died, and I w o n d d how I could get that skinny without dying."

".. x-... The student, the mother, the

professional may appear to be "perfect" and "in control." but her real needs are denied, the inner person is starving.

Dying To Be Perfect (Eileen Hoeter1988,30min)givespersonal accounts of three women who physically starved themselves. MollyandErintalkabouttheirbouts with anorexia The story of Darlene, who died of the disease, is told by

personal accounts by women struggling with these disorders.

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Prisoner rights activist Claire Culhane spoke on Canada's penal system at the Access to lustice Conference at UBC's law faculty Saturday. PHOTO BY BARRY BUTWNOWSKY

Chan triumphs politically R

BY LILLIAN AU instability they have left behind in said he will also look out. Asia that they're now so reluctant Chan's parents, both leachers,

hard to earn freedom for That is thedilemma Even in Revolution in 1949 and became strangers whose voices have been muntriesoutsideCanada,Chinese penniless. silenced by the barrel of a gun. politicianshaveonly wonelections "In Canada, we have to let the

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AYMONDChanhasfOUght to get involved." flied China during the Communist

"Canadians don't realize how with Chinese support. fortunate they are to be able to partcipateinthedemocraticpn>cess." said Chan. "It's like a treasure that m a i n s undiscovered."

The Hongkong-born Chan, 42, who works at UBC's TRIUMF, entered public life in Vancouver when he started the Vancouver Society in

~ Support for Democratic Movement, a

gmupforTiananmenSquareactivists. locally-based globe-trotting lobby

Chinese government know the free world is still watching," he said.

His wife Maureen Chan is relieved that he will be spending more time in Canada.

'"There was always acalculated risk when he went to China," she !raid. "He would be detained for a !few hours by the government, and 'you can't predict the Chinese government."

Gim Huev. who ran for She said her husband "

Recently the soft-spoken Chan Vancouver Cit; Council in 1986 sometimes weeps while he speaks emergedvictoriousatafeddLiberal and 1989, said: "You will never of his recent experience in China. Party candidate election against Herb win an nomination if you focus "He is still heartbrciken about Daliwal to represent Richmond, your energy on the general public. the situation. It's the idealhat China

renting abooth at Aberdeen Centre, a first because they support and trust Raymond Chan flew to China Richmond retail mall dense with you." in 1990 to console families whose Chinese traffic. He also rented a bus Huey, however, lost because children were imprisoned for to drive voters to the nomination of mediaflack he received for his participating in the Tiananmen meeting. campaign tactics: like Chan, he Square demonstrations.

"A lot of Chinese people don't too, ljusseti voters from Said Chan: "Many of the want to rock the boat," said Chan, Chiitown. "It's within the law to families I[ met were not aware their who hopes more Chinese will buspeoplein.It'stheoldfas~oned sonordaughterwasgoingtospend participate in politics. way." the next 15 years of their lives

"It may be because of the lack of As most Canadian politicians confined to a cell. They 'were never democratic rights and political increasingly focus inward, Chan notified."

Chan's campaign had included You must rely on your own people is in such chaos."

CentreandTheNationalFilmBoard (666471.6).

I Aftex the films, the audience ~ flooded the panel with questions.

Most wanted to help remedy eating disordersandknow how those in the f h reached recovery.

Unfortunately, the panel of two filmmakers and two therapists was not as qualified to answer these questions as it could have and should have been.

Cynthia Johnston is the mniinmrofEDAWandtheEating DisorderResourceCentreof British Columbia which has the best information on where to get help and how to help. It is also a source of literature and films on the subject.

Johnston says that EDAW has encouraged people to ask for help. During the first three days she

received almoss 300 calls. For an under-funded, one-woman operation she k swamped, proving the need for ~reater resources for eating disordier awareness and treatment

statisticsclmdaestimatesthat for 1991 in B'C. there were 542 women suffering from anorexia and 4,876 from bulimia. "These are conservativefigurw,"saysJohnstm. "basedonth0se:whoweknowabout and that fit. into the strict psychological definitions."

The Famine Within states that 1 in 5 young women suffer from eating disorders. Studies quoted in The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolfe indicate that for college women this figure is much higher, that between one third and one half have suf€erd firom either anorexia or bulimia

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Five positions on the Student Administrative

Commission are available.

Johnston is quick to point out that it is not only womlen who are affected. Approximately 5% of tho,se affected are men and of these hal:F are gay men.

EDAW was designred to make people aware of the prevalence of eating disorders and the societal pressures to control one's body and to make a move toward its poster slogan:"lBreakingFree ... Celebrating Our Natural Sizes."

An important message to sufferen of eating disorders is that you are not alone. And that eating disorders don't "go away" with willpower. Experienced help is needed to overcome them.

For information a n i 1 a friendly voice contact: Eatin,g Disorder ResouroeCentre,St.Paud'sHospital, 631-5313.

The Student Administrative Commission (SAC) is responsible for implementing the policies of the Student Council. Each member of SAC: is re- sponsible for a specific portfolio.

For further information, please contact Caireen Hanert, Director of Administration, in SlJB 254 at 822-3961.

Please deliver your resume to Terri Folsom, Administrative Assistant, in SUB 238 by Monday, February 22, 1993.

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Advertising: Lyanne Evans, 822-3978 Newspaper Design: S.J. Ahn 822-6681 Arts Editor: Yukie Kurahashi

Photo frenzy Exhibit features UBC's bes STAFFREPORTER

P I c r u R E T H . I S . I Salgado, Capa, dams and Leibenitz. They would be Proud.

These photos should win awardsToobadabookhasn't published these photos, printedfromUBC'sveryown photo Society. It would be an instant seller and a boost to campus morale.

But for now they're on exhibit for free at SUB Art Gallery,theUBC'sbestphoto society exhibit in recent history. They're are some gems and a broad range.

TakeastrollbyMalcolm Duffs "Spilt Milk" a surreal- you-can-feel it pic. Next to it, there's the Big Pop.

Peter Kao'smulti-phol Andy Warhol stylize sequence of Beluga Whalr at the Vancouver Aquariw is a main attraction. Kao a l s features dramatized r u ~ landscape.

The exhibit which en( thisweekalsofeatmPow own Rosa Tseng. Herpictu of three women intertwine carries an interestin spiralling motion. Her phol of a veiled face may be up fc an award in photo circles.

One of the greatel strengths of the exhibit is tl globe-trotting efforts of M, Dalmers sketches slices (

life in China and Malaysi Other photographers haw mvelledfarandwidetobrin an inmesting change in yo views.

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BY PHYLLIS AND ANGELA

KWAN TSANG

T HE fast growth of R i c h m o n d ' s

Hongkong-based restaurants has beleaguered local restau- rant managers who say it is outpacing the population.

The Hongkong-based Floata restaurant group may be typical of the 200-plus ChineserestaurantsinGreater Vancouver.

Manager Philip Lau of the group's fledgling Richmond seafood restaurant says competition has stepped up as "the growth rate of Chinese here is slower than that of new restaurants."

Byopeningtherest at the new retail mall, Parker Place,theFloatagroupjoined a flood of Chinese restaurants which either relocated from Chinatown or added new sites to Richmond's Asian market. The Floata group already has a seven-year-old branch in Vancouver on Main Street.

General manager Lawrence Wong pumped $1 million into interior decorations for the new 8,900 sq. ft. restaurant, where an enormous kitchen takes up a third of the space.

Chef Peter Ip, who has won several international culinary awards, most recently France's Commaderie des Cordon Bleu in 1991, operates the expansive multi-wok kitchen where Cantonese dishes are cooked with Canadian seafood.

"Floata's name is very much spread by word of mouth," Lau said.

The restaurant has diversified its "Hongkong-

style" services to attract more patrons with weekend mahjong rooms and computerized karaoke equipment. Karaokes have been added to dozens of Greater Vancouver restaurants to draw more customers on slow nights.

The Floata, which

employs about 50 people, caters to up to 380 patrons.

The Floata restaurant group also has eight branches in Hongkong and five in China.

"In Hong Kong, it just Dkes two or three years for returns," Lau said. "In Vancouver, it takes almost

eight to ten years. One factor is that costs in Canada are high."

Dishes in Vancouver are nearly double the sizes in Hongkong.

Recently Floata bought a brewing plant in China and has begun to sell their own brand of beer in Hongkong.

Yearly exports jumped from less than $10 billion to $75 billion in twelve years. The economic sanctions imposedtempodyonChina after the Tiananmen Square massacre was merely apebble in its momentum.

Young people were still sent overseas for education and Western businesses swarmed mainland China eager to make a stake.

"Politicscan'tfeedyou," said Tian Yu-chum, vice president of a China sta te owned investment company in Vancouver.

"Gaining democracy doesn't mean the economy will be developed automatically. Take a look at eastern Europe, they have democracy now, but their economy is in chaos."

The government-

employed Tian, in his late 20s. agreed to be interviewed without any conditional stipulations, a signal that the usually secretive Chinese government may be attempting to build confidence with the West. Either that or bait business.

"China has allowed the private businesses and marlcet economies and wrote this down in the constitution." he said. "This was almost impossible four years ago. People know that they have the chance to make money."

One UBC student who recently arrived from China even says, "I don't care whether it's socialist or capitalist as long as it gives people better life, I'll support it ... we are very practical people."

Only about 40 per cent of China's total economy is a product of state-owned

business, a percentage comparable to Sweden, France and Italy.

As China's economy booms and furnishes young Chinese with new lives, those who chose to stay in Canada in 1989arepondeMgaretum.

Carlton University graduate Yu Ling Yun, 30, a financial consultant for AA Management & Services Inc. in Vancouver, has already planned a business in China's ripe market.

"China is like Taiwan 20 years ago.." Yu said. 'The economy is about to take off, and you have to grab your chance fast."

'Though people have a lot of money on their hands, they don'tknow how to spend it because of few available investment channels and inadequate consumer outlets. It gives us a chance to develop our own businesses there."

"Some people are afraid that the policy there might be changed. In myopinion,once the door is opened, it will be very difficult to close it"

However, the growth- related inflation problems which sparked the 1989 pro- democracy movement still

exists along with US $200 billion of unspent cash. Often itisdescribedasa"tigeratting in a cage without a door."

But several government initiatives have temporarily tamed this "tiger."

Stock markets were set up in many cities as a means for cash collection. Housing reform are also underway: the state now allows citizens to buy and sell their own houses.

Widespread corruption hasbeenbalancedby reforms which ironically have also equipped bureaucrats with more loopholes to accumulate their wealth.

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Peering at Gastown during high tea at a tea house FROM PAGE 1

The art first left the Shaolin breathing exercises, Wing Chun Temple in southern China-the disciplineentails bare-handed and birthplaceoftheworld'smartialart+ weapons forms, the "wooden about 250 years ago. The temple was dummy" form, and its trademark burned down by Manchu 1ders in "sticky-hands" reflex- 1674 leaving only five survivors. programming mining.

One of them, a Buddhist nun Not a flashy style polluted named Ng Mui, introduced a fighting with high-risk techniques that are system based on snake antd crane uselessin truecombat,WingChun forms of movement. hasretainedanintegrityofvirulent

Wing Chm-the female namesake Though most of the club's of the system-and after more than yearly 50 or so members are two centuries of select students, the Chinese, its martial legacy has art left China in the 1950s for drawn people of other cultures, Hongkong where Wing Chun master embracingCanada'smulti~uhral Yip Man fmt taught it publicly. ideal.

One of Yip Man's fmt ,and best Just as Wing Chun stands students was the scholarly Wmg Kiu, apart from myriad Khoe's teacher. indistinguishable styles in concept

Khoe presents Wing Chun as a and technique, Khoe's following true and complete fighting an, Unlike is unlike any other. some so-called martial arts, it is has The archaic notion of strict not been diluted into martial rowsof tensepractitioners yelling calisthenics or point-sports. and performing motions blindly

Channelled through IBuddist will never be realized at this club. meditation and internal energy Practices have a free-wheeling,

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Ng Mui passed on the art to Yim potency through the ages.

PHOTO BY CHERYL NlAMATH

informalqualityforabetterlearning environment.

And unlike pedar~tic teachers, Khoe is not a domineering, punishing force to b: feared and worshipped.

Instead, respect for this man is garnered in the equality he shares with his students and in his unpretentiousapproach to teaching. The club has becomt: more of a family, rejecting the stifling traditional formalism inherent in other arts.

Passing onto his students the same concepts and techniques that have been shared by generations of teachers and students, Khoe sees the preserving of this "cultural Chinese pearl" as a way of life.

"For Chinese people, the benefit is that they have a sense of how valuable their cultural roots are. FornonChinese, they can have a sense of how rich Ithe Chinese culture was before much of it was lost."

WE NEED

YOUR

INPUT!

T he Senate Ad Hoc Committee on University Resi dences is enquiring into the current academic atmosphere of university residences. In addition,

the Committee is going to make recommendations as to what steps might be taken to improve their academic atmosphere.

This is where you come in. You live in residence. You know what contributes to your academic life and what doesn't. We need to hear it from you. The more we hear from yo"', the more we'll be able to give an accurate account of your concerns.

Do you have suggestions a s to what would improve the academic atmosphere in -your residence? We'd like to hear them.

Everything you discuss with the Committee will be considered in confidence so you can tell it like

Written submissions may be sent to: Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Univers Residences c/o Box 194, Student Union Building 6138 S.U.B. Boulevard Vancouver, B.C. V6T 121

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BEAT YOUR HUNGER WlTM A CLUB.

When your hunger just won't quit, beat it with a Subway Club. It's loaded with ham, turkey, roast beef and free fixin's. Look out wimpy burgers. Subway's Club is the serious 'weapon against big appetites.

Orthoptics carry out a wide range of tests and procedures which assist the Opthalmologist in the diagnostic and therapeutic assessment of patients of all ages with stratlismus, ocular motility problems and related disor- ders of the eye.

In July 1993, two students will begin an intensive 24 consecutive months' training programme at the UBC/ VGHl Eye Care Centre. Students who successfully complete the course and pass the final examinations are eligible for certification by the Canadian Orthoptic Council.

Applications are now being accepted from individuals with a minimum of two years of university studies, and preferablya Baccalaureate degree, with courses in any of the following areas - anatomy, physiology, biology and physics. Candidates should have good communication skills; and be emotionally mature. They should be able to relatls well to patientsof all agesfrom infants to the elderly.

Deadline for applications is March 31, 1993. For applica- tion iorms and information, please write to the Orthoptic Clinic, UBCNGH Eye Care Centre, 2550 Willow Street, Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 3N9. Fax 875-4663.

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BCTTVS M!-JL'NG LEE ANCHORS ON SATURDAYS PHOTO BY ROSA TSENG

Lee in the limelight BY GRACE KFi

B CIV Saturday anchor Mi- Jung Lee. 26, walks through

the leading news station's tall, security-activated glass doors unaware of a disturbing call she will receive that evening.

Just over five feet tall, the station's newest figure zig zags into the dark recesses of a litter-ridden newsroom. In the background, a cluster of high-pitched voices screech on playback and tabloids cloak several computer monitors like fallen leaves.

The UBC English Literature scholarship graduate was recently hired by BCTV from Victoria's CHEK-TV to be a full-time four- day reporter and one-day news anchor.

Lee reviews a few stories making quick corrections and then the lights turn on. The Newshour begins.

At Lee's first broadcast break, the phone rings. One of 750,000 viewers that night calls the station. Unknown to the caller, it is Lee nerself who answers.

"Where's Pamela Martin ( S n V ' s former Saturday anchor)?" the viewer demands.

Lee explains that Martin has switched to strictly weekday anchoring.

The viewer, growing irritated, says, "Yeah, well now they have this chink lady on the air and you can't understand a word she says."

to her." Interupts Lee: "You're speaking

There is a pause. Lee tells the viewer, who has

yet to complain of the phone call being incomprehensible, that she does not appreciate the remarks,

The viewer hangs up with a

final comment 'Well, you are what you are."

Minutes later a flabbergasted Leemustrecomposeherselftofinish off the news.

"I was really angry," recalls the 22-year Vancouver resident.

"It sort of reinforces in my mind the need to have more Asians and more ethnic minorities in the media to just show that we are not going to be on the fringe to go away from the media or stay out of the limelight just because of attitudes like than

As B.C.'s first Korean reporter, the daughter of a Burnaby pet shop owner.Leeadmitsherracehasgiven her a certain regard and access that other journalists may not possess. She said viewers will feel more connected to the news if someone from their community is shown.

Yet it also arouses initial skepticism from some co-workers who feel she was hired only for hex race.

Said Lee: "It bothers me and there's nothing I can do except just prove to them through my own work that race was not the only reason I was hired."

Though sheeamed scholarships as a Toronto journalism student at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, it was her unorthodox job-hunting method that landed Lee hex job in Victoria.

At a Toronto journalism conference ! Lee saw CHEK-'I" general manager Jim Nicholl who was approaching another student for hiring purposes.

'Well,"saidLee,"I'mnotgoing to wait for him to approach me."

Lee swiftly introduced herself and then persistently sent every demo tape of herself to Victoria. Six months later, after also a special visit during Christmas to Victoria, she was hired.

CMAS won't survive the '90s. They'll MANAGE the '90s.

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r UBC AWARDS - Wiam G. Black Memorial Prize

W iniam G. Black Memonal Prize - a prize in the amount of approximately $1,600 has been made a d a b l e by the late

I3. W h G. Bk!. The topic for the essay will be designed to attmct students from all disciplines. The competition is open to students who are enrolled in undergmduate or professional programs and who do not already possess a g d u a t e degree. A single topic of general mture related to~ut izenshipwil lbepr~~tostudentsat thet imeofthet ime of the competition. Duration of the compebon will be two ham. Candidates shoukl bring h: student card for identification.

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