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Page B4 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 14, 1990

“There’s an anti-humanist
movement out there, and it’s
growing every day. That anii-
humanist ovement says man is
@ iresposser on planet earth,
that all he does is desecrate the
wilderness, which is some kind
of chapel. They always talk
about it like it was some kind of
cathedral:”” — Robin Taylor,
minority leader of the Alaskan
House of Representatives,
Speaking last month to the Ter-
race Chamber af Commerce. —

Luigi Spumoni, ‘president for
life of: the Italian Union of
Wreckers and Demolition Men,
looksapto the vaulted ceiling
and makes: sweeping gestures
with his hands:

‘Sure itsa nice, alla those
fancy pictures. Michelangelo,
he’s a good painter. But, we

gotta lotsa paintings in Italia —
nice new paintings, not old
fading pictures like-a this. You
ever see those nice-a ones they
sell in Milano: those paintings

of the gondolas or Leaning’
Tower, all ona velvet? Looka

molto bene — real good!”

The fashionably dressed jour-
nalist, dispatched by People
Magazine to cover the chapel
controversy, looks down from
the frescos and through her
designer glasses at the cor-.
pulent, middle-aged Italian. -.

‘So, what exactly is this idea °
you're promoting?’ she asks.

_ Spumoni’s face becomes a
lightbulb, ‘It goes lHike-a this.
We gotta lotta people outa work

. in Florence. Itsa poor city. Peo-

ple needa jobs. They gotta bigga
families: lotsa mouths to feed.”
He wipes the sweat from his

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forehead and continues,

“One night we watcha da
television, ana we see these guys
ina Germany takin’ bricks from

@ wall and sellin’ them as —
_come si dice? — how. you say?”

‘Souvenirs??’.

“Ya that’sa right, souvenirs,
And I say to Mamma; ‘Mam-
ma, thatsa answer. If those dir-
ty bricks from Berlin sell for the
bigga dollar, just think how
much lira we get for a brick.
from /a Cappella Sistina — the
Sistine Chapel!’ Hey, how come -
you not writing this down?”

“Who will you sell them to?” |

the young journalist stammers.
"Oh, that’sa simple.’ says
Spumoni. ‘‘My fren’

People pay big dollars for a
piece of this stuff.’

But. if you. destroy this.

wonderful work of art and ar.
chitecture,. you'll. have
widespread unemployment once
it’s gone.’ Se ‘ :

‘“‘No,.n0, you don’t”

understan’ ”’ shouts Spumoni

Mr. -
Ishiwara, he say bigga market in -
Japan and all over the world, ~

’ much each year. And we hire
‘ painters, nice young fellas that

needa work, They make new

.. paintings,.even make some im-

provements like put pants on-a
some of these guys."
“But Me. Spumoni...”
“Hey, call me Luigi,"’ says
the Latin- with a wink.
“Er..Luigi, then...don’t you
think it will be awfully difficult
‘to take apart. such a delicate
treasure as this without destroy-
‘ing the parts you seek?" -
“No -problem, don’ worry
you pretty head. We use small

-wrecking balls an’ a. lotta

crowbar work. It looka réal bad

‘in-a beginning, real messy, but

artists fix it
while.
The young woman knits her

up good ‘in:a little

will try to stop you?” = es

Spumoni frowns and his eyes.»
darken, “‘Sure lotsa people < °-
wanna take bread outa. our
mouths, We fight them. We say.

to the government we needa ~~

jobs. To the government makin’:

jobs is everything.’””.. |. =
~ “But Mr. Spumoni,’’ . she - -
says after a stunned silence, -
‘People have said Michelangelo

has enhanced and célebrated the

dignity of human beings |
through his unparalleled craft,
and taken his rightful place as.
the supreme Renaissance artist
because of the indelible imprint -
his work has left on the Western
imagination.” . bs
The Italian wrecker ponders -
what he has just heard, ‘‘Nice
sounding words,”” he says at
last, “‘but you can’t eat words,’?

SPORTS NE

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TERRACE STANDARD

Jeff Sharples
Sharples

dealt to
Devils

TERRACE — The Edmonton
Oilers have sold Jeff Sharples’
soul to the Devils — the New
Jersey Devils, that is.

~The Terrace defenceman was
dealt to New Jersey in the midst
of last: week’s NHL trading
frenzy. The Ollers picked up
defenceman Reijo Ruotsalainen
in return. —

The trade was announced
Tuesday as the pro hockey
trading deadline neared.

Sharples had just been sent
back down to Edmonton’s Cape
Breton. farm team after being
called up to warm the bench and
back up the Oilers defence,

He never actually played an
NHL game In an Oilers jersey,
largely due to a shoulder separa-
tion he suffered early in the
season. The injury happened
just before he was traded to Ed-
monton by the Detroit Red
Wings last November.

TERRACE — Uncertainty, in-

juries, drugs — and above all

the never-ending pressure to
perform.

. They're all parts of the pro-
fessional football business that

-. don’t come through in the

television images of heroes

rushing into the end zone for a

~ touchdown, .

’ + “All you see when you're a
kid is the glamour of it,” says
Saskatchewan Roughrider
James Ellingson. ‘‘But it’s just
a ‘business, If you can do
something for them — the
teams and owners — then
you're on. If not, you hit the
road,”
~ Ellingson spoke to students at
Skeena. Jr. Secondary tast
Thursday as part of a visit to
Terrace sponsored by a local
church youth group.

. The 26-year-old slot back on
Saskatchewan’s defensive line

. was on the Roughriders’ 1989
Grey Cup champion team. Last
year was his fourth season in the
league, and the first in which he
got considerable playing time.

, When he was first drafted by
Saskatchewan in 1986 he found
making the CFL was “‘a dream

. come true.”’: But with ex.
“perience comes wisdom. —

7? "The: public’s perception of

pro. football — fun, easy. work

in exchange for gobs of money
and unending fame and glory —

FAST BLADES

FENDING OFF the sword attack of his instructor,
karate club competitor Joe Zucchiatti is one of
several club members going to dapan for two weeks
at the end of the month to meet their masters, The
Terrace swordsmen are trying to earn black belt
Status in laido — the art of drawing the sward.

ife not all TDs

“All you see when

you're a kid is the
Blamour of it. But it's
just a business, If you
can do something for
them — the teams and -
owners — then you're.
on. ff not,
road.”

_ Many as 25
you hit the”

he said. ‘You have to really like
football to play the line. I won’t
do it — it’s just not warth it.’

He said the quest for perfor-
mance leads many to steroids
and other drugs. “They'll do
anything they can to make it,””

Ellingsori told students he has
never taken steroids or any
other performance-enhancing
drugs, although he estimated as

players do.

‘» The pressure to perform —
‘. from friends, family, coaches
and themselves — make many

"players willing to trade their

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James Ellingson

just isn’t true, he says now.
And that’s just for the players
who do actually make it.
.*Ninety-eight per cent of the
other guys who want to make it

don't,”’ he said. “Very few guys .

actually make it,”

For those that do, life doesn't:
always live up to the TV images...
Pressure on players at -the

training camps is incredible, he
said. “It's dog-eat-dog. There
are iwo. guys fighting for every
one job. Fifty per cent: of the
hopefuls are cut at training
camp."” : foe,
_ That- kind of uncertainty

leaves even good players with |;
virtually no job security, he’
‘said, And. team owners::and->

coaches rarely tell. players
what’s in store for them. .

_ “Management refuses to tell
you the truth about your own
future,** he said. ‘They say
you're doing great. Most
players on all teams have ab-

' solutely no trust in the manage-

ment.” oo,

Yet the owners demand 100
per cent loyalty from. the
players, he said, and the
hypocrisy of that leaves many
players jaded.. ot
- - They feel pressured and force
themselves to the very limits of

their «bodies, * he said, often.

résulting in. injuries.

For the offensive line, foot-
-ball-is more about ‘‘permarent

headaches -and-neck. Injurigs;”*

_- health for a few seasons of
glory, he said,

- "They should definitely be
banned,’’ he said, But he said
every time the players vote on
whether to introduce random
testing, the proposals are
defeated by a huge majority.
CFL players aren't paid near-
ly as) much as their ‘NFL
counterparts, he added. Since
the average Canadian player
earns $65,000 a year, and his
pro football. career, lasts on
avetage only three and a half
seasons, most realize they must
plan beyond football.
«: “But a lot of guys think foot-
ball is going to last forever," he

.fidded.“'Some guys. pour thelr

hole ives into it —.and when
that “falls apart, they. fall

per cent of CFL.

SFU’s

date

with history |

TERRACE — Michelle Hendry
and the Simon Fraser University
Clan are headed for Tennesee,
and a rendezvous with history.

Their sudden death playoff
win in women’s university
basketball action gave the
Clanswomen their first-ever trip
to the 16-team national cham-
Pionships — which get under-
way Friday,

Thursday’s victory was just
one more dazzling chapter in

the 1990 Michelle Hendry story... k ar
~ player-of-the-year, for the

‘second consecutive year.

The Terrace centre — who
has gone from Caledonia Ker-
mode to the Canadian national
team in two short years — made
it look easy, hooping 33 points
in 25 minutes,

The performance, sort of
average by Hendry standards,
gave SFU an 87-55 stomping of
Oregon's Pacific University in
the Clan’s most important game
ever,

Average, because she has
averaged more than 30 points
per game since the playoffs
began. In SFU’s vital 68-62 win
over Western Washington
University the week before, she
scored 30 despite being triple-
teamed and having the flu.

That game gave the Clan their
long sought-after district title
and now with their win over the

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district 2 champs, they are
heading for Jackson, Ten-
nessce, site of the National’
Women’s Basketball Tourna-
ment. ‘

The next mission for Hendry
and Clan is to dunk the Univer-

Awards
so far:

* NAIA district’ 1

® District player-of-the-
week four times.

® Sport B.C.’s 1989
university athlete-of-the-
year, ,

® League leader in scor-
ing and field goal percen-
tage, also for the second
consecutive year.

sity of Minnesota Friday night.
The district 10 champions have
a tough 26-5 record and are sure
to be formidable opponents.
But SFU has a 28-6 win-loss
record, a 13-game winning
streak — and a wildcard named
Michelle Hendry,
We'll be watching.

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Roughrider James Ellingson busy signing autographs after speak-.
ing to students. about life as a professional football player,