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WEDNESDAY « JULY 14 - Doors: 8:30pm NAZARETH PLUS GUESTS FRIDAY JULY 16 e DOORS 8:30PM BY POPULAR Nicht Saturda DISCO ae penn bos itnait e JULY 17 « DOORS: 9:00 PM Oo] a=s1 7086s we port y with Antones Recording Artist EC HEEIVE VVELSONI (of the Fabulous Thunderbirds) AND HIS BAND special guests: WAILIN' WALKER BAND THURSDAY e JULY 22 e DOORS: 8:30 PM serbs presents AUSTRALIA'S FAVOURITE PUB-PARTY ROCK Warner Recording Artists WEDDINGS PARTIES ANYTHING with special guests STRANGE DAYS FRIDAY ¢ JULY 23 ¢ DOORS: 8:30 PM TICKETS: At all TicketMaster locations as well as Eaton's and Infocentres in major lower mainland malls CHARGE BY PHONE 280-4444. — the Other Press July 9, 1993 UBC Student Paper Taken Over by Student Gov't Alama Mater Society moves in on The Ubyssey to silence criticism OTTAWA (CUP) — Freedom of the press may be a thing of the past for one of Canada’s best-known studentnewspapers. The University of British Columbia's student government, the Alma Mater Society (AMS), has imposed a publications board to control campus-wide publications. This includes the twice- weekly Ubyssey, which was to celebrate its 7 Sth anniversary this year. The board’s Code of Procedure gives itthe power to review, and theoretically to censor, the content of the Ubyssey and other campus papers, to fire editors, to decide whether staff should be paid, to.shut down newspapers and change their constitutions, and to determine how much office space each paper gets. According to AMS Vice President Janice Boyle, the May 19 decision was made in an attempt to address reader complaints about the Ubysseyand to keep the paper on budget. (The AMS is legally the publisher of the Ubyssey). “The decision is a directresult oflow student pickup of the paper, a $25,000 overrun on the budget, and the editor’s refusal to deal with complaints. The council is in a no-win situation,” Boyle said. “Tf we take action, we are criticized for censorship as a government; if we don’t, we are criticized for being poor publishers.” The board will take over the paper’s offices shortly, and allocate the space to any future AMS publications as it sees fit. The elected editorial staff of the paper have been allowed to use the office temporarily, but their phone lines have been disconnected. They must decide whether they will apply to the board for possible funding as a recognized student paper. Graham Cook, the elected news coordinator for the suspended paper, said he fears the board could be used to prevent the Ubyssey from criticizing the university or the AMS. “The fact is that when you give this arbitrary power [to shut down a paper] to someone, they tend to use it,” said Cook. “And this board will be under a lot of pressure from the university to use it to prevent the Ubyssey from doing what it is "the board could be used to prevent the Ubyssey from criticizing the university or the AMS" supposed to do.” Cook said it is the paper’s job to publish critical and controversial articles. This has been a year of controversy and criticism for the Ubyssey. The paper came under fire lastautumn foran editorial which explained how to cheat the Vancouver transitsystem, written in protest of rising fares. The ultra-conservative magazine BC Report condemned thearticle and suggested that the university expel the editors. A Valentine's Day supplement, featuring sexually explicittextand graphics, resulted in a university residence official leading an advertising boycott. Such controversies are nothing new for the Ubyssey. An AMS publications board oversaw various student publications, including the Ubyssey, from 1915 until the 1960s, when the paper gained editorial autonomy and changed to a collective, democratic staff structure. However, the paper has never been able to achieve financial autonomy from the AMS, despite two attempts in the 1980s. In each case, the Ubyssey failed to attract enough votes in a referendum fora direct tuition levy. Ubyssey staff member Siobhan Roantree says the staff of the paper met with AMS in April and May to work out a plan of action to deal with the problems the paper was facing, including the creation of a constitution. Butthe paper sstaff only found out about the board proposal a few hours before the special council meeting which created the board. AMS Vice-President Boyle claims the board will act in a responsible manner andifany problemsarise there is an appeals process in place. “In the last two years the level of professionalism at the paper has declined and students would not support the paper achieving autonomy, and they [the paper’s staff] know that.” According to Roantree, many of the paper’s organizational troubles have arisen from years of AMS meddling. “ T h e AMS is trying to legislate an end to this problem when it’s a problem they helped create,” Roantree says. “They were paternal... they put pressure on the paper by trying to control us. They would be on us about ads, about day-to-day money matters. They treated us like little kids who didn’t know what we were doing.” Vancouver International Co