26 - Friday, December 10, 1993

Coliseum

tour stop

“In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the desert of truth
To the river so deep”’

> By Allison G. Poirier
& ZAP! Contributor <4 -

THE SONG River of Dreams

is only one of many songs by
“Billy Joel performed last Fri-
day. .evening as Vancouver
greeted him with open arms
and screams of excitement.
“-Nancouver was the first
Canadian city Joel visited on
his’ River of Dreams tour,
which has been on the road
_for.the past three months. He
“said he, loves our city and
even’ partied | up here while
performing in Seattle.
Joel put. on a‘ compelling
performance, despite. some
technical difficulties... Only

minutes into. the. first song:

drummer Zachary Alford
broke’ his bass pedal, “Dut in-
Stead of stopping the show,
Joel ‘just Taughed and gave it
to someone in the crowd.

Unfortunately the problems
didnot stop there. Later,
during a song called Pressure,
his -keyboard want haywire.
Again ‘this did not stop Joel,
he just - moved . to another
keyboard.

_ Then his foot pedal, which

‘moved the piano in a.circle,
decided to stick. So he invited
the people in the high blue
seats across from him (the
Yukon he called it) to move
(down south) to the lower red
seats behind -him. What a
guy!

During the entire’ show.he
remained calm and made
jokes whenever possible,
especially “when . something
went wrong.

He was well prepared for
difficulties.

The stage consisted of two
baby grand pianos, one in the
front and one in the back. It
also had two keyboards, one
on cither side and a drum-
mer’s platform which rotated.

. He definitely pleased the en-
tire audience.

.. The audience was mostly an
over-30 crowd; however, I
and many other yeung adults

_ enjoyed. the concert even
though we were just babies
when Joel first started his
singing career.

As he pointed out, we were
just sperm when the song
Pressure was released.

When my roommate invited
me to see Billy Joel, | knew
who he was (of course) but I
wasn’t a big fan. However,
after his outstanding perfor-
rnance, Joel is now on my top
20 list. ~

~ North Shore News

BRAAAKAARAAAALL:
THE ISSUE of turbans in Legion halls has peor

EVI |

caused quite a stir across the country. Some
people say the Legion should set aside its

rules to allow religious

freedom while

others say it should not. What do you
think? Read this week's ZAP! article on
the subject and call us with your opinion.

NEWS phato Cindy Goodman ©

Guys. JUST | want to have fun, and these teens are taking advantage of the skateboard bow! at Seytynn Hall to practise thelr 360-"
degree turns on their BMX bikes. Alex Ford (lef:), Steven Bannochie and Harry Charlie head for the area every weekend to better :

their riding skiits.

MULTICULTURALISM.
HAS become a hot topic in’

Multiculturism,
which was one of the
building blocks of this
country, is fast becoming
something that could easily
tear this country apart.

Canada.

>  ByAslamNathoo <4
ad ZAP! Contributor a

People are now imposing racist
ideas under the guise of true
multiculturalism, and personally it
makes me sick. ;

For those of you who are un-
aware of what
Remembrance Day at a Royal Ca-
nadian Legion, | will outline what
apparently took place. :

The Royal. Canadian Legions
put out an invitation to all men
and women who served in the
First World War,
World War, and the Korean war,
inviting them to come down on
Remembrance Day and honor the
many men and women who died
in the service of their ‘respective
‘countries during those years.

Five men, now living in the
Lower Mainland, who had_ becn
members of the Indian Armed
Forces and had served during one
or more of those wars, decided to
attend the ceremony.

Unfortunately, the building in
which the ceremony was held has

a bylaw stating that all head-dress’

must be removed before entering.
These five men, much to. the
dismay of the security officers on

happened on.

the Secord ,

duty, were wearing turbans.

Turbans are included as part of
the Indian Armed Forces uniform.
The officers on duty insisted that
the turbans be removed, but the
men explained that turbans . are
religious symbols and therefore
could not be taken off.

To make a ftong story short,
these men were denied access to
the Remembrance _ Day ceremo-
nies. _

This is only one example of
such injustices. I am deeply
troubled that something that this
country values so greatly is being
so badly abused.

The other day I was reading a
letter addressed to the -editor: in
the North Shore News, where a
manitalked about
multiculturalism, referring to peo-
ple of European descent. He went
on to say that people originating
outside of Europe shouldn't. be
allowed in this country because
that is multiracialism and is
something that Canada should not
allow.

This type of talk disgusts me.
How can anyone say or think that
multiculturalism only pertains to
people of European stock?
Besides, what gives him the right
io say that people not originating
{from Europe shouldn’t be allowed
to obtain Canadian citizenship?

If he wants to get technical
about who should and should not
be allowed in this country, then he
should go back to wherever his
ancestors originated from because
technically this country belongs to
the First Nation, not European
immigrants!

Of * the people I interviewed, ‘
many held different views ‘on the

situation with regards to the Sur-
rey branch of the Royal Canadian
Legion and this topic in general. -

‘@ M.B.: ‘“‘The point is, ‘they

‘fought the war wearing their tur-
‘bans, many of them died wearing

their turbans. .... Why shouldn’t
they. be allowed to enter the
legions wearing their turbans?"’
@s.D.: ‘‘l am all
multiculturalism because apart,
cultures are ignorant to everyone
but themselves. But together,. they

LAST WEEK we asked what
you thought of vegetarianism.
and the article on that subject
we published. ;
Our family is sboul 90%
vegetarian, we might eat meat
once in a while when we go out
to family’s houses.

I think Margaret Bryant had.
a really good article (North
‘Shore News, Friday, Dec. 3,
page 26). i was realiy happy
about it getting printed. We
need the facts to be shown, not
just people saying that eating
meat is not good.

The picture was good
because it really shows what
kind of pain they (factory farm
animais) go through. I don’t
know why people want to eat
these poor chickens, pigs, and
cows. They are almost people
like us; they just can't talk.

I think being vegetarian is
stupid. How can you live on
just fruits and vegetables? Peo-

for

“realize that there. is m

themselves.’’ © :
@ E.W.: “If those people f felt so
strongly ‘about wearing * ‘turbans,
then they should: have been let‘ in,
but ‘they should have:to’ face the
consequences of breaking the
bylaw.’” ‘

® J.M.: ‘‘Bylaws are,  byla s! If it
states. all headgear. must’. be
removed, then so be it..No matter:
what! |: think that the ‘right deci-
sion was made. If someone walks

_ into .someone’, else’e “house, you

See Heritage page 30

ple. not eating meat because =:
they don’t want to kill animals
is dumb. Other people, will d

it anyway.

If you are a vegeta an
because you don’t like meat:
then (that’s different), but if_
we didn’t like to eat animals,

we'd starve.

1 think everybody deserves. a.
big, juicy, steak every “now and