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MEDIA

Woman foreign correspondent: courage in China raised her profile

BY EFFIE POW

0’ITAWA-S he once staked out a man at his house. She waited for the man to walk his dog early in the morning.

’Ihat’s what it takes to get to a source, a talent that catapulted reporter Jan Wong from The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business to the paper’s China bureau.

“I love the stmtegizing and getting the story,” Wong said

Wong, now 40, became the most followed journalist in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989. After the: tragic massacre of thousands of students demanding democracy, Wong was arrested by China’s government. Many reporters hid in hotels, but Wong, after being released, pobedmoreintoBeijing’s urban sector. She even travelled to the countryside for reactions, that is until her car was stolen. She later discovered it repainted with a government logo.

Though she surprisingly didn’t secure any national newspaper awards for her daring reporting, she was appointed Globe China bureau chief. Then she became the first Globe foreign correspondent to have a baby on the job.

Her stories since have added colour to the usually dry Globe pages, ranging from Beijing’s dog zoo to a countryside man who could multiply large digit numbers in his head.

“If1 can get there anyone can,” said Wong during the weekend’s national Women in the Media conference.

Sure. That’s what they all say. WonggraduatedfromMcGill’s

Chinese history program and then studied in China where she started assistingTheNewYorkTimes. She returned and studied at the world‘s first purnalism school, established by Pulitzer himself at Columbia University.

She joined The Globe in 1980 after bank reparting for The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal and The Montreal Gazette.

Globe reporter Ian Wong L

BREAKING THROUGH Unlike other local papers, Pow has managed PHOTO BY ROSA TSWG to attract many readers, writers, stories and images of many races.

COVER

Media Mix: A “dramatic change”

B Y B ~ A W O N G psingmQzen,hasbeatenthose foundatanymajorEnglish-language

Pow packs a mean punch. daily in Canada. It is the latest contender in the At UBC, Asians and Indo-

campus newspaper arena. Canadians make up almost 40 per And it may dramatically alter Cent of its student body of 28.OOO.

thefaceofthe resistantnewsmedia But The Ubyssey had until this which has often been accused of year failed significcantly to cover a being exclusively white in staff proportionate number in print. A and coverage. 1991surveyof25consecutiveissues

The controversial biweekly showed that not one Asian or Indo- edition of UBC’s 74-year-old Canadian had been photographed student newspaper The Ubyssey, and only a handful had been hasalready drawnarecordnumber interviewed. Only a handful of of writers and photographers from staffers from these communities UBC’s Asian and Indo-Canadian appeared sporadically in print societies. With Pow, new front page by-

ThegrowingnumberofAsian line and photo credit surnames are and Indo-Canadian staffers, now surfacing for the fmt time in UBC’s

W history- a new m g e s and story sources.

A waste management survey on its second run showed that almost 14,000 of 15,000 copies were picked up, nearly a third

Pow has become the first Canadian student newspaper to successfully attract readers from all racial backgrounds. Whitedominatedstudentpapers

in Halifax, Montreal and Toronto (which has 300,OOO Blacks) are strugglingtoreachtheirlargeBlack communities. But often they have rehinedfrominterviewingBlacks for general news stories.

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greater than regular Ubysseys.

ACTING BIZ

Role call: Not here

“I always consider myself an actor-an unemployed actor, but I’m an actor.”

BY TSUI HO YAN

H E ltvalks on Hollywood Boulevard, the street of his

residence:, the boulevard of his dreams.

But the roles have not been rolling fcr Eric Michael Zee, 26, an American-born Asian actor.

In The Young and The Restless, he played a gangster. In theTVseniesBronxZoo,heplayed aVietnanlesestudent whocouldn’t speak En,glish.

“It’s always stereotypical roles, like either a Vietnamese refugeestrrasoldier,gangstertypes or otherwise the goofy Asian,” said Zee.

“It’s tough,” he said. “I auditioned plenty.”

“Thexe’s just not enough writing for Asian actors..Right now, especially with the economy, jobs are lmd to come by ... if it’s going to be the difference between a white guy getting the job and an Asian guy, it’s defmitely going to go to the white guy.”

Conjiure up an American movie with an Asian lead, the task proves a difficult feat.

The shortage of good roles for Asians in North America has stifled many talented actors’ aspirations, 2ke said

Asians choosing an acting career eventually turn away disgruntled by the lack of prominent parts.

“Say there’s 20,000 white guys, blond-haired, blue eyes and

20,000 white guys there’s hundreds of roles whereas for the Asian guys there’s only two or three a month.”

That propelled Zee, a 1985 USC gmd, to relocate in 1989 to Hong Kong where he began earning a $lo00 a day acting in commeric.als.

“I did all kinds-everything from telephones, to pizzas. to ice cream, to cakes. and clothing,” said Zee.

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UBC to launch television station BY KAREN YOUNG

AND GORSHARN TOOR

C OUCH potato vidiots who are bored with ABC, NBC,

CBS. and Fox may soon find a new alternative in UBC-TV.

UBC will launch in January its own television station, one that may eventually expand into Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.

Two video monitors are slated fortheStudentUnionBuildingwhile others may later be placed in Hebb Theatre, Buchanan Building and Sedgewick Library.

The initial $15,000 cost of UBC-TV will eventually inflate to $104,000 far a full operation.

“It is nota huge expenditure to be involved at the grassoo~s of somethingwhichcouldpotentially turn out to be a gold-mine,” said AMs executive Caireen Hainert.

A “charter member“ needs to pay an annual $2500 fee to sit on UBC-TV’s controlling board of directors.

‘mboardofdirecmdoesl’t want every single student group to be able to have representation on the Board of Directors,” Hainert

Parkade car thieves stopped in speed trap

BYKARENGO

S ToLENcargoodswere unexpectedly discovered by

UBC RCMP as they nabbed two thieves in a routine speed trap.

Cons. Greg Bishop stopped a 1!B2 Nissan 24OSX on campus at 11:30 pm last Tuesday after he spottedapassengerswitchingseats with a speeding driver.

The original driver’s license hadbeensuspendedaftertoomany speeding tibts.

Bishopthenfoundareplica.38- calibre gun, stolen radar detector parts, a rear spoiler, wire c u m , pliexs and a screw driver.

“Itwasjustcircumsu,”said Cons. Bishop.

The goods were stolen from a carparkedatUBC’sNorthParkade whose windows were smashed.

Bishop said the two suspects l a t e r ~ n f f X s e d t a n O t h ~ C X W ”

in theft on campus.

Death of a UB STAFFREPORTER

The lights are out for UBC’s

Day by day, pieces were cut down.

First the limbs on Nov.10. Two days later the tree was gone.

The tree had s t o o d on its own before UBC‘s Main Library for seven decades.

longstanding sequoia tree.

Two 18 year-old men from the Lower Mainland were arrested and will appear in court January 11. Charges are pending.

UBChasfaCedanincmin car thefts during the last month, Bishop said.

’Thecarsthataremostusually broken into, are Hondas, VoIkswagensandNissans,”hesaid.

“Stereos are targeted and anythingthat’sleftlooselikeCDs.”

“During the winter season arem more vehicle son cam^" kadded.

Students should report suspicious parking lot activities to the RCMP.

Police also arrested a UBC student Nov 7 who allegedly set his own car on fire at the campus’ Memorial Road underground garage.

Firefighters extinguished the fm before it got Out of control and police are viewing it as a potential insurancefraud.

C heritage tree Then campus planners tried to

“preserve” the giant landmark. Instead, they killed it.

They built aconcrete box around its base and filled it with woodchips to prevent people from leaning against its trunk.

They cut off the giant’s surface mots to make room for cement. Within a year, the tree died.

Its Christmas lights will not shine this year.

television system allows free use for any student.

The monitors are stationed in the cafeterias and along SFU main enclosed building Quad designed by Arthur Erickson.

And the SFU administration paid the entire cost.

The Burnaby campus recently replaced17moniu>rswith$850each for new ones.

UBC-TV will first operate from AMs Intramurals which can write, script, shoot or edit any show.

Hainen: said she will most likely

T H E FINAL CUT: Chainsawers removed the last bits of UBC’s famed PHOTO BY ROSA TSENC Sequoia tree in front of Main Library on Thursday.

In the wake of a nightmare: UBC remembers the “murdered” BY GORSHARN TOOR

Kristallnacht,November9,1938. That day was the start of a

nigh- which culminated in the Holocaust.

Nazis descended upon Jewish homes, synagogues and shops and bumedordesrmyedthem.Thepolice and fire departments were ordered not to respond to calls.

“TodenytheHolocausthappened

is to deny that thybmb was dropped on Hiroshima,”said Alex Hart,organizerofUBC‘stenthyear Holocaust Awareness Week.

“Free speech is not free hate,” he said in the wake of David Inring’s arrival in Vancouver.

Irving, a British academic recently convicted in Germany for hate mongering, had claimed the Holocaust was a hoax. His entry two weeks ago into Canada was short-lived after police arrested

him. Rudolf Vrba escaped Auschwitz in Hart called ‘UBC’s Holocaust 1944andreportedthehorrifcevents

Awareness display last week an at concentration camps to a Jewish “antidote” for 1.ies dispersed by council in Hungary. But the MYS~YCXS of the Holocaust. information, he said, was witheld.

“More students were provoked Vrba called the camps huge and moved,” said Hart of the Irving institutions of murder and robbery incident. “It raised their awareness.” and he objects to the use of the word

Week occurs in April, but UBC “htermination is a word you students wanted it to coincide with use for killing coachroaches, not Kristallnacht humans,” he said. “These people

In 1-1, Holocaust Awareness "extermination."

UBC pharmacology professor were murdered.”

hpny stolen from victims was used to pay the soldiers and others who did the actual killing.

‘Ihe murderers were primarily motivated by theft, Vrba said told a panel at Hillel House last week.

With the recent rise in neo- Nazism in Germany and “ethnic cleansing” in the Balkans, Zac Kaye of Hillel House said, Holocaust Awareness Week has been made “more pertinent and poignant.”’

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D carriesthedissonanthoardsintothe heart of Vietnam.

A young white woman leans lazily along the railing at the feny 's front, a fedora shadowing her face. Within a respectful distance, a man sits silently in a glossy black limousine amidst a pack of rust-

He is the mysterious man, the leadactorwhomostmoviereviewers chose to ignore.

In a crisp white linen suit, he 1 OWN the muddy Mekong walks past the masses. sliding a River the tattered fm raft cigarette fiom his pocket

He is also Chinese. Isthisadream? AnAsianman

in an English movie who is not a

The lead is Tony k g , a Hong Kong film star, who portrays the title role in Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Lover. Slick and

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This notice is a call for nominations lor full-time students to run for eledion lor the fdowiigpositii:

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playboy persona onto the screen. The popular h u n g helped

draw almost a full house, m m than half Asian, for the film's Vancouver Cam opening on Friday.

The Lover, based on French writer Marguerite Duras's best- selling autobiographical novel, L' Amant, depicts Dum' 1929 affair in Saigon as a 15-year-old school- girl with a rich 27-year-old Chinese

Duras, a film-maker herself, refused to cooperate with A n ~ u d

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U.S. actor Michael Zee, 26, (second from left) poses with Iackie Chan during the Hong Kong film-maker‘s birthday.

From front page - “I was recognized alot from Asia and they are still big on the star as an actor financially,“ he said.

my commercials.” systemoverth~,”hesaid.“Astudio Zee recently decidedl to return Zee’s big break came when will sign up a person and turn them to Hollywood to finish his masters

America’smostfamousAsiiactor intoas tar.. theycreatepeople ...there degree a! UCLA where he stays JohnLone(l%eLastEmpenx,Year is very little auditioning.” fnxn9am.untilllp.rn.,amixture of the Dragon) hired him to play a Unlike in America, Zee no of studies and rehearsals. gay man in the historical epic longer had to wait tables while he “I always consider myself an Shanghai 1920. pmUd an acting career. actor,” he said. “An unemployed

“It’s a lot less formal over in “In Hong Kong I was able to survive actor but I’m an actor.”

The Lover’s lead actor a rarity from previous page

physically weak “financial affair: An Asian man making low whom she saw as a competitor. minority” which owns nice with a white woman.

Annaud, to avoid the property. He, worldly, paris-educated controversy of sex with minors, “It would take four of me to wealthy by inheritance, hicompellec dterecltheageofDuras(JaneMrlrch) beat you up,” he says. “You really by her sultry innocence, her race to 18, and her nameless Chinese don’t know how weak I am.” She, pow, fatherless, from ar playboy has become 32 Like F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s uncultured family seeks solace i~

Name of the Rose, Quest far Fire, es ta te~ theQl inese~power The Lover weaves racia and The Bear was the first foreign in his society. tensionsstemmingfromthecouple’: feature film-makerever to shoot an Lronically, he cannot reverse the entanglement site in Vietnam. dkwped, for he is Chinese. The inter-racial clombo ma!

The Lover beautifully Even his lover who has have caused viewers morc ~ S a i g o n ~ F r e n c h c o l o n i a l sharedintimatemomentwithhim discomfort than the abundance o Vietnam. The city, ravaged by a war says, “I don’t like Chinese,” as he sex scenes. that ended two decades ago, still thumbsrhroughlargebillstocover The young woman’s hil! retains sparks of its past their expensive meal. simply Bccept the man because o sophisticah in Annaud‘s film. Thecharacmarenameless, his wealth.

Annaud surrealistically as in Bertolucci’s classic Last Whenhetakesthemtoa Wptures the din Of unsuspecting Tango in Paris, perhapsparalleling expensive dinner, they gorge on t h c passersby as the movie’s couple the insignificance of their food, barely glancing 01: uttering 1 makes love in a shabby mom in personalities. word in his direction. Saigon’s Chinatown. The crux of their affair hangs It is only when the checl

The Chinese man satirizes on an inter-racial carnal desire. arrives that they glare unanimous11 stereotypes of Asian men, the The Lover has a rare film at him.

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UBC’s Dean Richards breaks past Huskies defence

T-Birds hit the blues PHOTO AND STORY BY BONNIE-LYNN HOLTER

The UBC Thunderbird hockey team extended their losing streak to seven games after a loss to the University of Saskatchewan Huskies.

The T-Birds were impressive early in Friday’s game, out-shooting the Huskies 15-8. But excellent goaltending by the Huskies kept the Birds out in the cold.

The Huskies beat the Birds 8 4 with more physically aggressive and disciplined team play. The Birds could not capi tah on several power plays and were victims of defensive emns.

The usual dynamic goaltending by UBC’s Mark Thorn was at a loss to the precision shooting of the Huskies. The only shining star of the T- Birds this weekend was Bill Parkinsan. The second-year player was able

Saturday, after licking m e wounds, the T-Birds came out a more determined team. Haying a more physical game, the T-Birds were within striking distance of a win. keeping the game tied into the third period 3 - 3 on goals by Brad Edgiin, Jeff Watchom and Charles Cooper.

Late in the third period fatal defensive errors gave the wirming power playopportdty to the Huskies. They held on to a 4 3 lead and then to score two more late goals. winning 6-3.

This weekend the Thunderbirds host the University of Manitoba BisonsSatrrrdayat7pnandSundayatlpm.Theyhopetobre$rthislosing streak and tie the Bisons for fifth place in the Canada West Divsion.

to dig deep and score two goals and two assists.

Pow packs a punch COVER STORY from page 1

P OW’S staff attributes its succeis to the paper’s

Its PR-motivated masthead, unlike any other in Canada, show photos of two dozen staffers so readers might recognize them in public.

Although Pow does not have an affirmative action program, the paper has noticably interested a large number of Asian and Indo-Canadian women.

Ubyssey staff previously attributed a shortage of editorial participation from these communities to its gruellingtraditionalall-nightproductionsand,likethose in other papers, its cliques which are primarilhwhite.

Pow shifted The Ubyssey’s production to the daytime which freed its editors to train and support new staff.

Pow also uncovered issues specific to a large population.

Gorsharn Toor said she was attracted to a story about Asian adults who live with their parents printed in Pow’s first edition.

“It covered issues that are not normally covered,” said Toor. “Pow attracts more people who would normally not be interested in pining a newspaper.”

Toor had casually conversed about the paper with her classmate Effie Pow, without knowing she was one of Pow’s dozen editors.

Toor, who had been hesitant to pin a newspaper despiteherdesire,saidthefrontpageofPowanditsstaff have not intimidated people of any race from joining.

‘There is nobody with a checklist saying you have to be a certain way,” said Toor, now a Pow reporter.

UBC grad student Ha0 Li. a long-time Ubyssey photo technician, more senior in experience than any currenteditor,hsdnotwrittenasinglenewsstoryforhis student bosses despite having been a professional ~ForPow,hehasalreadywrittensixstariesin three issues and develaped a large campus following.

“Havingotherpeoplelearnaboutnewspapersatthe same time with me is not as intimidating,” said Li.

innovations and fresh content.

Pow, unlike regular Ubyssey editions, can have: an unlimited number of unelected editors, who simply volunteer, receive training and work in the daytime with writers.

“At abasic level all these people wanted to hang out at a newspaper, and hope they just might get the chance to learn,” said editor Effie Pow.

But the launch of Pow has been beleaguered by backlash. Hostilities directed at the paper have ignited racial tension, and soured Pow’s relations with its primarily white parent, The Ubyssey.

In summer meetings, tension escalated between Pow supporters and incoming Ubyssey editors who initially greeted the project proposal with silence.

“After the idea was proposed, there was nobody saying anything about it for 10 to 15 minutes,” said Pow photo editor Cheryl Niamath, who has also reported for The Ubyssey.

Round-robin talks eventually started but the uncertainty of support from Ubyssey’s powerful elite hung ii the air like lingering cigarette smoke.

Editors and old hacks have traditionally had the

Effie Pow, the project spokesperson, said she was shockedbyeditopialsupportfromTheUbyssey.Butshe believes Ubyssey editors allowed the Pow initiative only in response to the paper’s historic racism.

‘‘“hat’s guilt,” said Pow who added, relations are still tense.

But Ubyssey editor Frances Foran flatly denies any powerplay on the part of any editor.

“The Ubyssey is run on a democratic b a s k n e vote per person,” she said. ‘There is no way we could have enticed people to vote against it.”

However, a few months later in Pow’s third production, Foran and two Ubyssey editors intervened

greatest power of influence at The Ubyssey.

People wanted to hang out at a newspaper, and hope they just might get the

chance to learn

on a Pow editorial supporting a disabled Black Ubyssey reporter who survived an assault during a domestic disputq in public. The editorial was pulled.

“I don’t know if t h i s issue is between the Ubyssey and Pow,” said Ubyssey editor Lucho Van Isschot. ‘There was a heated discussion among some Ubyssey sraffem and m e Pow staffers, and an awkward consensus was reached about the editorial. But there was no vote on it.”

In the US.. racial tension has gripped dozens of newsrooms which have had an influx of Blacks who want to change news coverage. But in Canada, few papers have encountered similar tension. Most Canadian English- language papers have been racially homogenous.

Pow is the first paper to have a large number of staffem who are not white in a newsroom with a primarily white elite.

A FTER its second issue, several readers also pegged Pow as solely an ethnic voice though half the issue’s stories and photos focused on whites.

And Ubyssey editors have criticized Pow staff far reserving their enthusiasm and energy strictly far Pow.

They say Pow staffers should show up to weekly Wednesday noon-hour Ubyssey meetings and contribute to The Ubyssey.

“I would like to see Pow overflowing with more people wormg on 1z ana ulose people wmmg LO meeungs, wu editor Foran. “That would benefit it.”

Said Ubyssey editor and Pow contributor Yukie Kurahashi: ‘’Pow has served to hgment Ubyssey staff members and Pow participants.”

“Butit’sgoodforsolicitingnewwritmand’IheUbyssey could learn from that.”

Though anyone can be a Pow editor, Kurahashi said Pow is “hierarchical” unlike The Ubyssey which has five editors who are each paid a $2500 honorarium.

Pow “is so informal that it’s hierarchical,” she said. “Chung does a lot, a lot, a lot of the work so he gets targeted for the responsibility.”

Pow editor Chung Wong has no apologies far Pow. which he says is still evolving with each edition.

“In four editions we have had more front page and accumulated by-lines and photo credits from Asians and Indo-Canadians than The Ubyssey has almost had in its entire 74-year history,” Wong said “It’s about time, these people were originally banned from The Ubyssey when it fmt began.”

“We’ve also covered every major campus issue from crime to sports,” he said. “If The Ubyssey’s editors would recognize more of Pow’s new staff, call them, talk to them, then maybe they would come to meetings and contribute.”

Gorsham Toor has already called a support meeting far several new Pow staff. About a dozen new staffers attended her orientation meeting.

“It’s nice to have a person show you around,” said Toor. Pow is on the verge of creating support clusters, small

coopt ive teams which include at least one editor, one writer and one photographer. These clusters generate story ideas, share resources, and produce stories together as a team.

The Ubyssey will review Pow Wednesday Nov. 18

starting at 12:30 pm. Those interested should

attend the meeting. I

Asian clubs clarify story We would first like to

express our appreciation for your paper's attention to minority issues. However, upon reading the article "Asian Club Boom: 300," we found many misleading points in the article which may give the careful reader a distorted view towards our clubs.

First, we would like to clarify that the Asian clubs are on good terms with each other. Moreover, there is no more rivalry between the clubs than there is between the different departments of engineering. In fact, over the past years, OUT clubs have actually worked together to organize several events. We also want to stress that the tern '%anmaclub" was not used by any club to describe the Chinese Varsity Club. We despise this racist term used to describe an individual who is "yellow on the outside and white inside."

Second, we feel that it is very arbitrary to differentiate the clubs on the basis of the languages spoken by their members. Language is not a responsible way of categorizing Asian clubs because the members vary widely within each club. It is an over generalization todescribehian clubs as Cantonese or Mandarin based and to characterize their members as mostly illiterate or only having a basic understanding of a language. Furthermore, many members belong to more than oneof the clubs mentioned in the article. This substantial overlap makes the use of language proficiency to classify Asian clubs illogical and inaccurate. We feel that our clubs can be best distinguished by the different kinds of events that each clubs organizes.

Finally,thereareafewincorrect facts about several clubs in the

article. These are not important individually but in conjunction with the misleading tone, we feel that Asian clubs were misrepresented to the UBC population. We hope that POW will be more thorough in the reporting of our story in order to give a more accurate picture of the UBC Asian clubs.

Samson Hui Dragon Seed Connection Marcus Lai Chinese Collegiate Society Amy Lee Taiwanese Association Jiun Loy Singapore Raffles Club Quinnie Pak Chinese Students Association Mellissa Tong Chinese Varsity Club Alex Yu Chinese Christian Fellowship

This week at UBC MUSIC

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AT JACK DANIEL'S DISTILLERY, we are blessed with an unusual cave and special ironfree water.

Not many distillers have a stream of cavespring water that's flowing just outside their door. But that's what we possess right here in Jack Daniel's Hollow. And we've used it to make our Tennessee Whiskey since 1866. Just watching this old stream meander along is a nice way to pass idle moments. Discovering how it flavours Jack Daniel's, we believe, is the nicest moment of all.

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“Money is replaceable. . .

if you lose your culture

though, it is gone forever.’’ story and photos

by CHERYL NIAMATH

New music fromAncient Cultures One of them is a UBC forestry prof. Several are engineers. MOA as their fans have increased

A couple are professional musicians. And one is an attendant steadily.Thebandharalsoplayedat in a campus parking garage. Vancouver’sFirstNightNewYear’s

Eve celebration among other city They are American in the America. They utilize unusual venues. CBC‘sSrereo Morning and

broadest sense, hailing from Chile, combinations of wind, string, and Disc Drive have given airplay to Peru, Guatemala, Mexico and percussion instruments to produce their first album, Acoustic Mirage. Vancouver Island. lyrical, textured music with African Flutist Baeza, the group’s newest

“I came to Canada to bring my and European influences. member, has only a vistor’s visa in Chilean culture here,” said flutist The group last performed at Canada. Leonard0 Baeza of Ancient UBC’s Museum of Anthropology Baeza feels immigration

The Vancouver musical group museum’s Musz*cofResisfme series Canada because he has little money. performs music based on pre- which celebrates 500 years of “Peoplewhocometothiscountry Columbian folk culture of the resistance to European colonialism with lots of money are allowed to Andes. Their music, however, is in America. stay,” he says. “If you have money, not common, even in South That was their fourth concert at it doesn’t matter what you do.”

culture-s. earlier this month as part of the officials willnotallow him tostay in

Baeza said musicians and other creative artists wishing to live in Canada should be given special status.

“Musicians shouldbe treatedlike business people,” he said. “We have something to give culturally to Canada. Money is replaceable ...if you lose your culture though, it is gone forever.”

PHOTO EXHIBIT Cheryl Niamath will have an

exhibition called ”Written in Stone” at Cafe S’il Vous Plait, 500 Robson Street, from Nov 17 to Dec 16.

Vibraphone player A n g e l Araos at MOA

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