(Y PLANET OF THE ARTS The winner of the Planet of the Arts Short Story Contest is Kelly Constabaris, for her entry A Very Short Tragedy. ‘= Congratulations Kelly. Honourable mentions went to John Whistler for his / Made Adobes This Summer, to Sandra Lockwood for her A King and His Castle and to Lowell Morris’s White Trees 140° . Prizes will be awarded to win- ners in a yet-to-be-determined ceremony. In recognition of their contributions, all entrants will receive an E.C.C.A.D. T-shirt. Excerpts from Sandra Lockwood’s and Lowell Morris’s stories will appear in next months issue. | MADE Anos TAS SUMMER. THIS \S pS EXCITING AG THEY Gor. AN ADSBE Two ADEE OE AN AdoBE BEING PVLL 7s Avery Short tragedy SummerS it was one of those lazy sesame when the energy was low low down to the ground, time waslumbering in that syrupy wey that onl y comes » gettinyon your nerves. It was that kind of feeling, you would have done anything, anything when the atmosphere is cold but the air drips insistently at all just for one of those intoxicating Lreathsnothing was too densening, vr you could have stooped to any eee guts were chwenemx 9 peer ese churning. . but somedwhere down there, deepdown inside, you knew—and it was only you that did—— yourealgt true motivation. selfish — hard, thats what you were, and iwas not willling, iwas not rea@y, ivasunable to stand .umrepgom unending demands, unyielding to any ones wants or needs other den oe ute you would wander amctrtixxxx aimlessly, your direction was irrrele¥ant, and where you went wx you wreaked havoc. i could only stand by in impotence to $ stop you ‘a) you were inclined towards sweet smelling aftfer shave b) you wreaked havoc where you went it was hell and yet it wes all in vain: Five weeks after summmer had come and cone, you were hea@ingeast towards ADOBE THE HoRI2WW} lTwo AVo PRETENDING | [IN CANADIAN] JONE higesd NOT Rea ART J OF THE OTHER the home of your fat sister in law. you were side swined ty a mack truck your scooter rolled over and down into the raving ravine they call Sue: I guess i*m missing you abit C your scooter it vent up in flames and now i thinks that mayhe, sust mayhe i could learn to forgive you your indiscretions. now that it is too late and PROPPED PrQoge ADOBES yovare dead, the end. JOHN WHISTLER. «elly Constabaris The following story is true. I wish it wasn’t. It shows that City Hall isn’t the only ridiculous bureaucracy around here. Sometimes it’s a hard life being an art student. It’s hard to find work that pays enough to be worthwhile doing and at the same time close enough to the college so that your day isn’t spent travelling hither and yon. It seemed clear to me when I first came here last year that the solution to the problem was to find work in the school. It would be ideal. Money work and art work under one roof. I considered my qualifications. I had 20 years experience as a photographer. I had more than 5 years experience working in the printing trade as a typesetter, cameraman and film assembler. I’d had my own computer for 5 years. I can maintain a darkroom, clean and maintain automatic processors, square up and refocus process cameras, fix plumbing, etc... It’s true that I was learning to be an artist- but I already was a technician. As I expected, there were already people working in most of the good jobs. But, I found that the Graphic Design Department had a typesetting machine that nobody really knew how to operate. Having taught myself to use many typesetting machines I was sure that I could master the Graphic Design machine in no time. When I approached Ken Hughes, the Graphic Design chairperson, about demonstrating the machine to students, he said, regretfully, that experience had revealed that Foun- dation students like me were too busy to be able to cope with a job as well. Maybe next year I thought. Later in the year, the Planet of the Arts formed itself and I signed on as a typesetter. We made arrangements with the Graphic Design Department to use their machine to typeset the paper, and presently I found myself learning the in- tricacies of a CRTronic 100. During the summer, having a couple of issues of the Planet of the Arts under my belt, I felt myself qualified to seek work on the machine. I phoned people who had adver- tised specifically that they needed workers with experience on the CRTronic. Two that I contacted were amazed to find that I actually knew the machine. Sad to say, one company folded and the other was too far away - so no job. Still I was encouraged for my prospects for working at the school on the machine in September because nobody else knew how to run the machine. September came and I spoke with Ken again. He was happy to use my services and offered me a job (at $5.00 an hour) typesetting for the Graphic Design students. He made it clear that I was not to instruct the students. He said that a job was coming up in October for a person to demonstrate the machine to students (at $12.00 an hour), that he was putting my name in for this job but that he thought that I might not get the job because the school had a policy of not hiring students. Sure enough, I found out several weeks later that I didn’t have the job. Some person from outside the school had been hired. (Damn! Too Bad! I thought.) But the person who had been hired didn’t know how to operate the machine. They were in the same position as I had been six months earlier, a competent typesetter faced with a new machine. Ken wondered if I would demonstrate the machine to this person when I was working on my Thursday nights. Sure, I said. Be happy to. The more I thought about it though, the more absurd the situation got. Here I was being paid $5.00 an hour to dem- onstrate the machine to someone who was paid $12.00 an hour to demonstrate it to students. It made me laugh. It still makes me laugh. But there is an ugly fact hidden in this comedy. The fact is that the school didn’t hire me for that work, solely because I was a student. That’s unfair discrimination against me, pure and simple. I should be allowed to apply for work here based on my qualifications for the job and not be disallowed because I’m a student. And the fact of discrimination is not the worst. That fact is a statement that the school as an institution has a very negative impression of students... So negative that they see nothing wrong in discriminating against us in such a blatant way. A blanket policy of only hiring students for exceed- ingly low-paying work speaks volumes about the institu- tion’s attitude about us. I’ve done some preliminary investigation into the back- ground of this issue. I’ve found that the people who work at the College have formed themselves into various associa- tions. There is the Faculty Association and the Administra- tion Staff Union and a Studio Assistant’s group and so on. These groups seem to have turf wars with each other and this discriminatory policy has arisen in the context of these wars. It’s clear that since students weren’t a force in these wars their interests got trampled. I think this ugly policy of discrimination should be dropped. I think it would be an easy thing to post advertise- ments for technical work in the school to give qualified stu- dents a chance to apply. I’m not proposing to take anyone’s job, but I don’t like being muscled out of the chance to com- pete freely for available work. Martin Hunt NNANAAANANAANAANAAANANANAANARAANAANAANAANAANANAANANARARA RARER RRR (Y PLANET oF THe ARTS SHORT. STORY, CONTEST 3c: ry The winner of the Planet of the Arts Short Story Contest is Kelly Constabaris, for her entry A Very Short Tragedy. Congratulations Kelly. Honourable mentions went to John Whistler for his / Made Adobes This Summer, to Sandra Lockwood for her A King and His Castle and to Lowell Morris's White Trees /40* . Prizes will be awarded to win- ners in a yet-to-be-determined ceremony. In recog! their contributions, all entrants will eceivean E.C.C.A.D. T-shirt Excerpts from Sandra Lockwood's and Lowell Morris's stories will appear in next months issue. oc | MADE Ang HS SUMMER. THIS 1S BG EXCITING AS THEY Ger. Toto ADEE Tene. AN AdSBE AN ADSEE | BEING PYLE = IAN ADOBE | |THE Honizu} I Two Aoges PRETENDING |} IN CANADIAN] JONE on TOP INT 1 GE ART ee Sen! Where % Avery short -tmgedy SurnerS it was one of those lazy segsgarfe when the energy was low low dom to the grouni, tine wasluntering in that syrupy wey that onl y cones shen the atmoephare 4s cold but the air drips Sneistmtly | setetnen your nerves. It was that kind of feeling, you would have Gone anything, anything at all just for one of those intoxicating treathsnothing was too deneening, i” you coud have stooped to any level...20%5 guta were chaocbyet atari ruming. ut sometshere down there, deeniown inside, you Fnew-and it was only you that dié— yourealgl true rotivation. selfish and hard thats what you were, ant ivas not willing, ies not ready, ismsumble to stan? omogam sweneing Sones, imyleléing to any ones wants or resis other than Your Om you would vender ainitions ainlessly, your direction vas irrelevant, ane where you went vx you wreaked havoc. 4 could only stand hy in impotence to $ stop you a) you were inclined townrds sweet smelling aftfer shave >) you wreaked havoc where you went it vas hell and yet it vas all in vain: Five weeks after summer had come ari! cone, you were hea@ingeast tovards ‘the home of your fat sister in law. you were side swined ty a mach truck your scooter rollet over and down into the raving ravine they call Sve" T guess ifm missing you abit © your scooter it vent up in flames and now § think that mavhe, just meyhe 4 could learn to forgive you your infiscretions, now that it is'too late and yovare dead. the end. Xdlly constabaris Later in the year, the Planet ty ‘The following story is true. [wish it wasn’t. Itshows that City Hall isn’t the oniy ridiculous bureaucracy around here. ‘Sometimes it's a hard life being an art student. Its hard tofind work that pays enough to be worthwhile doing and at the same time close enough to the college so that your day isn’t spent travelling hither and yon. Tt seemed clear to me when I first came here last year that the solution tothe problem wasto find work inthe school. It ‘would be ideal. Money work and art work under one roof. considered my qualifications. I had 20 years experience fas a photographer. I had more than 5 years experience ‘working in the printing trade as a typesetter, cameraman ‘and film assembler. I'd had my own computer for 5 years. 1 ‘can maintain a darkroom, clean and maintain automatic processors, square up and refocus process cameras, fix plumbing, et... Is true that I was learning to be an artist but [already was a technician, ‘As L expected, there were already people working in ‘most ofthe good jobs, But, [found that the Graphic Design Department had a typesetting machine that nobody really knew how to operat, If fo use mat typesetting machines I was sure that T could master the Graphic Design machine in no time, ‘When I approached Ken Hughes, the Graphie Design chairperson, about demonstrating the machine to students, hie said, regretfully, that experience had revealed that Foun- dation students like me were too busy to be able to cope ‘with a job as well. Maybe next year I thous! signed on as a typesetter. We made a Graphic Design Department to use their machine to typeset the paper, and presently I found myself learning the in- tricacies of a CRTronic 100. During the summer, having a couple of issues of the Planet of the Ars under my belt, I felt myself qualified to seek work on the machine. I phoned people who tised specifically that they needed workers with exper ‘on the CRTronic. Two that I contacted were amazed to find that [actually knew the machine. Sad to say, one company folded and the other was too faraway -so n0 job Still was ‘encouraged for my prospects for working at the school on the machine in September because nobody else knew how torun the machine ‘September came and I spoke with Ken again. He was happy to use my services and offered me a job (at $5.00 an ‘hour) typesetting for the Graphic Design students. He made it clear that I was not to instruct the students. He said that a job was coming up in October for a person to demonstrate the machine to students (at $12.00 an hour), that he was putting my name in for this job but that he thought that I ‘might not get the job because the school had a policy of not hiring students [found out several weeks later that I didn’t have the job. Some person from outside the school had been hired. (Damn! Too Bad! I thought.) But the person who had been hired didn’t know how t0 ‘operate the machine. They were in the same position as I hhad been six months earlier, a competent typesetter faced with a new machine. Ken wondered if I would demonstrate the machine to this person when I was working on my Thursday nights Sure, I said. Be happy to, ‘onstrate the machine to someone who was paid $12.00 an hour to demonstrate it to students. Itmade me laugh. Itstll ‘makes me laugh. But there is an ugly fact hidden in this comedy. The fact is that the school didn’t hire me for that work, solely because I was.a student. That's unfair discrimination ‘against me, pure and simple, I should be allowed to apply for work here based on my qualifications forthe job and not be disallowed because I'm a student, ‘And the fact of discrimination is not the worst. That fact is a statement that the school as an institution has a very negative impression of students... So negative that they see nothing wrong in discriminating against us in such a blatant ‘way. A blanket policy of only hiring students for exceed- ingly low-paying work speaks volumes about the institu- tion's attitude about us TPve done some preliminary investigation into the back- ‘ground of this issue. I've found that the people who work at the College have formed themselves into various assoc tions. There is the Faculty Association and the Administra tion Staff Union and a Studio Assistants group and so on. ‘These groups seem to have turf wars with each other and this discriminatory policy has arisen in the context of these Jear that since students weren't a force in these interests got trample T think this ugly policy of discrimination should be dropped. I think it would be an easy thing to post advertise ments for technical work inthe school to give qualified st dents a chance to apply. I'm not proposing to take anyon job, but I don’t like being muscled out ofthe chance to com pete freely for available work. ‘Martin Hunt NRA AANA