As Her Acid Raindrop Tears Fall Sleepy Town By Hardy Friedrich These times big hotels move into nature like numbers on a bank account. Far off on the northern coastlines, oil rigs reap and pour from life-sustaining ecosystems as if they were a morning coffee. Structurally yes; humans are the greatest creatures - such visually appealing monuments to ourselves as that big bridge in San Francisco, those two towers that fell down in NY, the hard thin steel, crossing itself in Paris... etc. Stop, before you become a machinist’s beam and a crack in a politician’s beaming smile. Do well and you'll have a nice room overlook- ing a mountain and river that once beheld one of the greatest natural ecosystems never known to man. At the cost of the environ- ment the real political backbones go to work and penetrate the dry cracks of her surface to destruction, while the good folks in town are all wrapped up complaining daily about gas prices so they cannot see beyond the Over The n’t mean it isn’t there. The framework of the capitalist control tactics is becoming as complex as nature herself, and both work silently through our daily lives. Wonderless inhabitants rise from the grave each morn- ing and stalk downtown streets, and further than all four horizons nature has been replaced by concrete and storefronts and cars so that no one thinks they need her anymore in their little simulated city worlds. They cannot see her; therefore, she has no purpose. Sadly, she does not offer unlimit- ed weekend calls or a DVD player for $5 with any purchase over $100. Tranquillity and a sense of nature can be experienced from the park across the street from the mall, where a grande-venti-superwhatever Starbucks can be enjoyed on a trek across the perfectly shorn grass. And some will survive entire lifetimes thinking that head- ing out into the country means going north of South Ave. Sad or strange? Can the cycle be reversed? Come - let’s try, let me feed Members of NUGSS and judges for UNBC idol got on their stuff together and got on stage to belt out their rendition of Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison. UNBC idol took place on the January JANUARY 28, 2004 neon signs. This is governmental piracy... ; pai you to her. and just because you cannot see it, it does- OND ATION J. ARMAND BOMBARDIER J. ARMAND BOMBARDIER INTERNATIONALIST FELLOWSHIPS ‘ #2 25 Fellowships of $10,000 each sz Third Competition — Academic Year 2004/2005 # Application Deadline: March 15, 2004 Guidelines and application forms: http://www.cbie.ca/bombardier/index_e.html Building Canada’s Global Future Open to all disciplines of study. the goal of the fellowships is to build a cadre of young Canadians who can play a leading role in today’s knowledge- based global economy and thus contribute.to’the prosperity of Canada and to society worldwide, Interested candidates must hold at least one university degree, show outstanding academic performance as well as personal suitability and present a clear study plan or a combination of study and research or work at an institution abroad. Fellowships are sponsored by J. Armand Bombardier Foundation, a private foun- dation created in 1965 to perpetuate the memory of the life, achievements and social and humanitarian work of Joseph Armand Bombardier. . Te program is managed by the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE). For further information, please contact: J. Armand Bombardier Internationalist Fellowships Canadian Bureau for International Education 220 Laurier Avenue West, Suite 1550 Ottawa, Ontario K1P 529 Tel: (613) 257-4890, ext. 934 Fax: (613) 937-1073 E-mail: SMelanson@cbie.ca CBIE+BCEI Canadian Barean for International Bdycation Bureau canadien de 'éducation internationale to battle it out for some cash prizes. 15 and16, and featured some of UNBC’s most talented and outrageous singers giving it their all Petition against Anti-abortion group Submitted by the Women’s Centre Many of you might be aware that an anti-abortion group was on campus January 21st. Many women stopped by the Women’s Centre to express their outrage with this group being permitted to have a presence on UNBC campus. The information presented at their booth was highly offen- sive (i.e. shame-based information about “killing babics”). The Women’s Centre would like to assure the UNBC community that steps are being taken to address this issue head on. UNBC administration is on board and has agreed to look at procedures/policics around table/cvent bookings at other university campuses. While “freedom of speech” is important to uphold, there also the cxists “the right to be free from discrimination”. The anti-abortion group crossed that line on Wednesday. The Women’s Centre is looking to garner support for this issue; Petitions have been distributed around campus on Thursday, January 22nd. Please find a petition and show your support by signing it! Freedom of Opinion is important too An anti-abortion group set up a table to promote their cause at UNBC on January 21st. Now a petition is circulat- ing UNBC that demands anti-abortion groups not be allowed to book table on campus. I have a real problem with this. I am pro-choice, but I also believe in a little con- cept called freedom of opinion. The pro-life group was not _ aggressive. I passed the table several times as I went about my day, and they did not bother me at all. Because I do not agree with their cause, I chose pot to/approach them and read their literature. If you know that-a group’s causc is going to offend you, then why the hell would you bother stopping at their table? That I sincerely hope that the UNBC administration will continue to allow a diverse range of groups to book table on campus. To start sclec- tively disallowing people from booking tables at UNBC is a horrendous’ violation of freedom on campus. If you don’t like what they have totsal, don't stop at the table. It's that simple. ' By Anonymous Freedumb _ “of ines and dots behind forgotten signs we call an alphabet. they cauterize the wound. By Earson Gibson And precision weapons are so precise Ink is liquid telepathy, the blood of history and pens are weapons of thought exchange only dangerous to those who want control over their nations prose like a ring through the bull’s nose. with city block blast craters at blackmail prices, who can resist the heavy hand of liberty weighted with air pressure and the fire of the righteous? And now that Iraq is free we won't have to pay for it, we can just...take it.