The McGill Tribune Vol. 05 Issue 13

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The McGill Tribune • W ednesday 4 December, 1985

by Jenny Henderson and Louisa Taylor

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3 • DROP-IN AT NEWMAN - W IT H Rev. C hris Ferguson, from 10 a .m . to 12 p.m . at 3484 Peel St. For m ore in­ formation call 392-5890.

• CHRISTMAS POTTERY SALE- until Thursday, from 9 :3 0 am to 4 pm in the lobby of the Education Building.

• LIVING O UR FAITH GROUP a bring-your-own-lunch group discuss­ ing C hrsitian faith and personal responsibility, at 3484 Peel St., from 1 2 pm to 1 pm .

McGILL NIGHTLINE - w ill open during exam tim e until D ecem ber 19, for in­ formation about the exam schedule or moral support. C all 392-8234,M onday to Friday from 9 pm to 3 am and on Saturday and Sunday from 6 pm to 3 am . Nightline reopens on January 6 .

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WEDNESDAY, DECEM BER4 • BIBLE STUDY - “ Living the Life of our Kingdom, N o w !" At the Newm an Centre, 3484 Peel St., from 4pm to 5pm . For m ore information call 392-5890.

• POST GRACUATES STUDENTS' SOCIETY - G eneral M eeting at 6:30 pm at Th o m p so n M cTavish St.

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THURSDAY, DECEM BERS • STUDY TIME - G o hom e and study for your exams!

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3521 U niversity St., at 10:30am . For m ore inform ation, call: 392-5890

KIM MONDAY, DECEMBER 9 • ALTERNATIVE FILM NIGHT - in the A lley at 9 pm.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6 • BUBBLE BASH - Celebrate the last day of classes at a 4 floor extravaganza in the U nion Building, from 9 pm to 3 am . Adm ission is $3 to all events.

Editor-in-Chief — Brian Todd Assistant Editor — M elanie C lu lo w Entertainment Editors—Heather C lancy and Barbro D ick Features Editor — Stephen Hum News Editors— Adeeb Khalid and M ichael Smart

Photo Editor — Ezra Greenberg Sports Editor — Frank Young Production Managei — Jacki D anylchuk Ad Manager — Jack Berry

Contributors: Laila Abdalla, Kelly Beaton, Ting Chang, Lionel C h o w , M ichèle D upuis, Peter D uval,

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M elinda H am , Jenny Henderson, Tom Inoué, Q uendrith Johnson, H in rich Kaiser, Neil M ilton, Rollin L.T. M ilroy, Morgan Roth, Louisa Ta ylo r, Kalli V arakilis, Jordan W axm an, Daron W estm an, Sophie W ilso n.

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The McGill Tribune • Wednesday 4 December, 1985

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Cam pus G rits Tackle Tories Photo - Ezra Greenberg

by Jenny Henderson Is Canada an International W im p?

And w ho can w e blame for our Big Bank Blunders at home? These w ere the two questions of the day on W ednesday afte rn o o n , as rep resentatives of M cG ill's Conservative and Liberal par­ ties met for a formal debate.

The audience w as dom inated by fiery Liberal supporters, and the debate turn­ ed out to be m ore of a crossexam ination of the Conservative party on its first anniversary of being in power.

The issues of Canadian sovereignty and the bank failures w ere the tw o main subjects debated; how ever the four par­ ticipants took the opportunity to e x­ pound on a num ber of subjects and even to quote a little Shakespeare.

Liberal representative O livie r Lam er began w ith a predictable introductory statement w h ich listed the faux-pas of various Conservative federal ministers since last Novem ber, including the gaf­

Mark Yakabuski, Tory

fes of form er Fisheries M inister John Fraser, M inister of Justice John Crosbie and Secretary of State for External Af­ fairs, Joe C lark.

In a vo ice rem iniscent of Joe C lark, C o n s e rv a tiv e re p re se n ta tiv e M ark Yakabuski denounced his opponent's points as “ a review of petty issues that demonstrates a lack of interest in the problem s of C anad a.” H e outlined the C onservative's "chang e in d irectio n ", w hich has restored a " n e w mood of econom ic confidence in the c o u n try ".

Shades of M ulroney.

Yakab uski's colleague James O 'N e ill ignited the debate over matters affecting Canadian sovereignty. He defended the Conservative governm ent's stance by pointing our assertive steps taken re c e n tly to sa fe g u a rd C a n a d ia n sovereignty. W e did not support the A m ericans with the Strategic D efence Initiative (SD I), w e do not support the contras in Nicaragua and w e "probab ly w on't have to go to the W orld Court

M cG ill M ay Ask $100 Xerox Fee

by Ting Chang and Michael Smart The U niversity is presently consider­ ing the institution of a special "ch a rg e " to raise student fees independently of the provincial governm ent. The pro­ posal w as revealed last w eek in a report of the Senate Budget and Planning Comm ittee.

The report recom m ended that, after approval by the Board of Governors, M cG ill would charge every student $ 1 0 0 per year in addition to tuition fees.

This is obstensibly to cover the costs of photocopies, dittos and other materials w hich may be handed out or used in class.

Costain Resigns

The

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Reevaluates

by Melanie Clulow Internal rumblings at the McC/T/ D aily are pressuring senior staff m embers to take a long hard look at the direction and structure of the new spaper.

Last m onth's resignation of Supplement Editor Richard Rosensweig and the m ore recent resignation of Features Editor Robert Costain have sparked some soul-searching at the D aily on the eve of its seventy-fifth anniversary.

In his letter of resignation, Costain w rote, " m y level of com m itm ent to the paper has suffered as a result of what I feel are deep problem s w ith the direction, operation and general tone of the p a p e r." H o w ever, in an interview the Tribune last w ee k, Costain w as adamant that unlike Rosensweig w h o has left the D aily entirely, he has o nly resigned from his editorial postion, and w ill rem ain on the D aily staff and on the Priority and Planning Com m ittee. H e hopes that his letter w ill be "taken in

the spirit in w hich it w as w ritte n ," as constructive criticism , rather than as a diatribe against the D aily.

Costain cites the D aily's defensive attitude and disregard for student opinion as the new spaper's m ajor flaw s. In addition, he wrote, "although the D aily is procedurally dem ocratic, in practice this is hardly the case. Staffers, especially new people, w ho disagree are bullied until they finally give up and agree.

Those w h o dissent often have the statement of principles hung over their heads like some holy w rit against w hich they have blasphem ed." Costain worries that w ith the high turnover of new staff, there w ill be few er experienced core staff members to take o ver operations next year.

He advocates a less-dogmatic journalistic style and an increased considération of the view s of the D aily's readership. In C ostain's vie w , the Daily

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Cam paign Launched

by Adeeb Khalid Students' So ciety and the PostGraduate Students' Association (PGSS) are launching tw o post-card m ailing cam paigns directed at the federal governm ent w ith this w ee k's issue of the Tribune.

PG SS is worried about cutbacks in the funding granted to the Social Sciences and H u m an ities Research C o u n cil (SSH R C ). It has sent out letters to graduate students' associations across Canada asking them to support SSHRC in its lobbying efforts in O ttaw a.

Com pared with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research C o u n cil (N SERC) and the M edical Research C o uncil (M RC), SSH R C is vastly under­ funded. "O th ers a je sw im m ing w hile the SSH R C is d ro w n in g ." said Sebastion Saba, PG SS V .P . U niversity Affairs.

O f so m e 1 9 ,0 0 0 elig ib le M .A . students, only 103 receive grants. D o c­ toral students fare o nly m arginally bet-

ter; the success rate is only 15% , onethird that of N SERC. According to Saba, these cutbacks are surprising considering the governm ent's com m itm ent to jo b creation, "N o t to recognise SSH RC as job creation is short-sighted," he said. According to PGSS a retirement boom between 1991 and 2005 would create the need for 87000 new researchers. Underfunding of the SSH R C now could provide a shortfall of trained personnel then and "p la c e the w hole university research system in p e ril."

StudSoc, on the other hand, is con­ cerned w ith the cutbacks in the funding of the Canada Em ploym ent Centre on cam pus. According to Luc Joii-Coeur, StudSoc V P External, the cutbacks w ould mean the loss of tw o positions at the centre and the curtailm ent of ser­ vices. " T h e Centre w ould then only of­ fer jobs to student’ 'ho have already

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Since the com m ittee has called it a "ch a rg e " rather than a "fe e ” , M cG ill is not bound by the provincial govern­ ment to lim it the am ount dem anded. By im plem enting this $ 1 0 0 charge, the ad­ ministration w ould be taking matters in­ to its ow n hands and generating as m uch as $3 m illion in revenue, depen­ ding on the num ber of students the charge is levied on.

H ow ever, there is no indication that the $ 1 0 0 figure is based on an actual estimate of the cost of give-aways to the University. M any students opposed to the charge see it as an attempt to in­ crease general revenues rather than to recoup legitimate costs to the U niversi­ ty" I haven't seen any studies" of the costs of pedagogical freebies, said James G reen , the president of Students' Society w ho sits on a com m ittee w hich reviewed the proposal. "T h e y wanted a thorough study done before it w as im ­ plem ented—but I haven't seen one y e t."

C o m p tro lle r Ron K u ran o ff, w h o chairs the Student Fees Policy Com m it­ tee, said the adm inistration "felt it ($ 1 0 0 ) w as an average cost across the U niversity" but admitted no formal audit had been performed.

Kuranoff granted that costs w ere pro­ bably m uch higher for Science and Engineering students. But he pointed out that "a n y revenue derived (from the charge) is going right back to the depart­ m ent" the student is enrolled in, so the levy w ill not have redistributive effects.

He also said that, in m any cases, ex­ isting charges for course materials w ould be abolished.

Student Senator Lilani Kum aranayake feels that instituting the charge would be "ve ry w rong. It w ould m ake M cG ill more like a private institution whose fees are determ ined by its adm inistra­ tion rather than by the governm ent, as is the case for every other Canadian u niversity."

Senator Robert C raw hall conceded that there is validity in asking for more m oney to ensure the quality of educa­ tion. "H o w e v e r, I don't agree w ith the w ay they are doing it. Th is matter has been very unclear. The adm inistration is keeping the w hole issue very quiet.

"T h e d anger," says C ra w h all, " is that once the university is allow ed to charge students in this w ay individual faculties and departments w ill likely do the sam e. It's easy to see that Engineering or History might decide in future to de­ mand separate 'charges' to cover their costs, w hatever they may be.

"B a s ic a lly , m y objection is that the adm inistration is m aking the cost of education higher at M cG ill than at any other university in Q uebec. This means that they are taking a social policy into

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(over our A rctic claim s) since the A m ericans are quite good friends of o u rs," said O 'N e ill.

Liberal Lanier's rebuttal condem ning M ulroney's willingness "to betray his own old age pensioners in order to open doors to other co untries" drew passionate cries of "Sham e! Sham e!" from the m ore m oralistic of the spectators.

The second subject of bank failures evoked stong w ords and vehem ent opposition from both sides.

Liberal representative Karim Rajani delivered a slick and persuasive denun­ ciation of the governm ent's handling of the bank failures. "L o o k at this 'new Canada' of the Conservatives: two banks have collapsed, one has been forced to merge, and others are seeking political a id ," he said. "O tta w a was suckered into a deal (by the banks) because of pure amateurism and now O ttaw a is saying: 'For stabbing us in the back, w e'll back you u p ."

Rajani added that the C abinet's deci­ sion to appoint a Suprem e Court justice to head a royal co m m issio n in­ vestigating the bank failures has under­ mined the im partiality of C anada's jud iciary.

In response, Yakabuski repeatedly spoke of the failures as one of a num ber of problems "inherited from the Liberal governm ent". He indicated that parlia­ ment had to pass a special act to authorize the saving of the Canadian Com m ercial Bank last M arch.

Yakabuski also accused the Liberal opposition of engaging in a "w itch

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Karim Rajani, Grit hunt" in calling for the disclosure of lists of depositers of the bailed-out institu­ tions.

As the crow d witnessing the debate w as co m p o sed p re d o m in a n tly of Liberal supporters, most of their ques­ tions w ere targeted at the tw o Conser­ vative contenders. At one point, the m oderator Professor Dale Thom son, had to call for less "discrim ination against the Conservatives.

After the brief open question period, each side delivered its closing state­ m ent. Yakabuski spoke for the Conser­ vatives and re-emphasized his earlier point that they had "turned the c o rn e r...in the interest of C anad ians." " W e are not in bed w ith Ronald R eagan," he said, soothing the ap­ prehensive crow d.

R a ja n i w a s m o v e d to q u o te Shakespeare in his closing statement.

He sum m arized the Conservative ap­ proach as the "ta le told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

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The McGill Tribune • W ednesday 4 December, 1985

4 NEWS Foreigners For D inner M cG ill has alw ays been the Canadian U niversity with an international flavour and appeal. O ver the past few years the Q uebec government has legislated fee increases for international students till now they are ten tim es that of Canadian students. This has caused a decrease in international students attending M cG ill, but it has also brought an increase in what M cG ill is trying to do to help these students adjust to Canadian society.

O ver the summ er a group of M cG ill staff, students and administrators got together to see if M cG ill couldn't do more for international students. U nlike m any other com m ittees, this one didn't just churn out paper, but started some brand new projects.

A special invitation has been extend­ ed to all international students to e x­

perience Christm as in a Canadian hom e. The four groups that have joined together to sponsor this "hospitality program " are the Graduates' Society, the Students' Society, the C haplaincy Service and the M cG ill Society of M on­ treal. All international students have been m ailed a personal invitation and M ontreal fam ilies and M cG ill faculty and staff have been asked to participate in this program. (If you wish to par­ ticipate or w ould like m ore information about becom ing involved with the pro­ gram , c a ll A lc id a Bisso nnault at 392-5890).

Th is is not the only program this group is trying to set up; they would also like to start some sort of "b u d d y" system for international students.

The Department of English Students’ A ssociation extends Best H oliday W ishes to students, staff, faculty & administration R obert A ndrew Bev

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Photo - Ezra Greenber

Squabbles among student politicians were brought into the open at last w eek's Senate meeting when one stu­ dent leader demanded that his associa­ tion be represented on all Senate com ­ mittees.

Senate approved the motion of H arvey Litvack, president of the M cG ill Association of Continuing Education Students (M ACES), giving M ACES the power to m ake nom inations to all com ­ mittee positions designated for the C o n­ tinuing Education students.

Until this year, appointments of all student representatives w ere made by Senate on the recom m endation of Students' C o u n cil. Th is year, however, in its struggle for autonom y from Students' Society, the Post Graduate Students' Society has gained the right to nam e graduate representatives. Litvack has sought the same pow er for his association.

It w as not im m ediately clear what ef­ fect the Senate motion would have on appointm ent procedures, since no stu­ d e n t p o s tio n s w e r e p r e v io u s ly designated for C ont.Ed. students. O ne student senator suggested that all com ­ mittees with three student seats would

be guaranteed a C o nt.Ed . represen­ tative.

Litvack's motion incurred the opposi­ tion of undergraduate senators w ho feel that Students' Society should continue to m ake the nom inations. M ark W arner, an undergraduate Arts representative argued that " if w e m ake such excep ­ tions, then other student associations might follow the trend and nom inate their own representatives to Senate.

"N om inatio ns of this kind should be made by Students' Society, w h ich is not only for undergraduates. It is for everyone. I think w e should all w ork w ithin the caucus instead of fragmen­ ting into separate bod ies."

Graduate Student Senator Robert CrawhaH pointed out that Continuing Education students do not belong to Students' Society, he argued that those students w o u ld not have Senate representation unless the appointments w ere made by M ACES itself.

W arner w as later highly critical of the decision. He observed that " a com m it­ te e c o u ld b e fo r m e d w it h o u t undergraduate representation" since Students' C o uncil currently nominates C o n t .E d . s t u d e n t s as w e l l as

undergraduates to some comm ittees.

Litvack said he w as surprised by W arner's oppostion to the motion, " s i n c e w e 'v e b e e n c o m p le te ly cooperative with him all along."

Senate also discussed the recent M ACES fees referendum . It w as re­ quested that the Senate acknowledge the results of the referendum held from Novem ber 16 to 23. Continuing Educa­ tion students w ere asked if they would support a fee levy of $5 per course taken through the Centre for Continuing Education and/or affiliated depart­ ments.

A sim ilar referendum had been held in September during registration but w as eventually rejected because of voting irregularities.

The second referendum held in Novem ber resulted in a clear show of support for the $5 fee. The adm inistra­ tion is now satisfied with the validity of this plebiscite and it w as passed by Senate. The next step would be ratifica­ tion by the Board of G overnors and the passage of a resolution permitting the collection of the $5 fee at the D ecem ber registration for Continuing Education students.

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An Editor's Note

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by Rollin L.T . M ilroy w ere reversed. The response to Rollin's question, "W h a t is the song you worked on with him ?", should be " I C ru m b le ', one of M ike's so n g s..." A lso , the tw ins in the group are M ike and J Aston, not M ike and Jason.

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Tuesday Dec. 3; 1985.

For more information contact the PGSS Nomination Committee

Library Hours Extended

by Michele Dupuis To help students gear up for exam s, the D irector of Libraries, and the Area Librarian and Students' Society have joined forces to extend library hours in M cLennan and Redpath Libraries.

Last spring M cLennan w as the only library w hich had extended hours, and the hours w ere extended only until m id­ night. H o w ever, there w as such a response from students that Area Librarian, C lark Evans admitted that he w as "su rp rise d ". Subsequently the ad­ ministration decided to lengthen the ex­ tension.

V ice President U niversity Affairs, add­ ed that extended library hours w ere m ore useful than the previous system of keeping the cafeteria open all night. The libraries offer better lighting, more room and better opportunity for quiet study, she said.

M im ran agued that it w as w ell worth the approxim ate cost of $2000. H alf of the bill w ill com e from the Students' Society and the other half w ill com e from the lobrary budget. The cost con­ sists of added m aintenance and security charges during the extra hours.

Since extended library hours are con­

sidered necessary during the exam period, Mimran stated that next year StudSoc w ill likely lobby the Board of G overnors for the costs incurrred by this service.

Th e extensio n begins Saturday, D ecem ber 8 and ends Th ursday, D e c e m b e r 19. M o n d ays thro ugh Thursdays, and Saturdays the libraries w ill be open from 8 :3 0 a.m . to 10:00 p.m . O n Sundays the libraries w ill open at 1 0 : 0 0 a.m . and close at 1 : 0 0 a.m .

Library service hours w ill not be extend­ ed h o w e v e r.

Read The W riting O n The W all

by S. Seagram Th ey're washing the graffiti o ff the walls o f M c G ill U niversity. (It's a scan­ dal, it's an outrage, at the very least it's a stro y....)

Th is is a story about w om en's graffitti—about the thought-provoking, valu e­ blasting discourses that grow in that most private and most public of all places—the toilet cubicle.

Adm ittedly, most of the graffiti in M cG ill's w ater closets for the fairer sex are m ere banalities and platitudes—the same aguments, the same questions, the sam e a n sw e rs. No fre sh n ess, no enlightenm ent.

And yet—there is a certain appeal to all this graffiti. O n e gets small ch u ckle of pleasure from reading it—akin to the gossipy appeal of reading “ personals" directed to total strangers, or the con­ tinued adventures of M ary W orth and M ike D o o n e sb u ry...So m e bathroom stalls becom e classics, small closets of delight to w hich one can retreat each day and catch up on the newest merits of fem ale lovers, or whether one should sleep in the wet spot...

"W o m e n 's graffiti” produces pro­ longed public hearings that w ould put male graffitiests to sham e—or at least make 'em blu sh ...(W h at you are. miss­ ing! Alice-in-W onderland arguments that go round and round with out going anyw h ere, sent off into a w h o le new dim ension of the "fem ale realm " by an innocent non-sequiteur...)

W hen the idea of an exposé of w om en's bathroom graffiti first cam e up at the Tribune, there w ere some choice bits of graffiti growing across the w alls of our M cG ill water closets.

M cG ill's corps of custodians have recently been cracking dow n on graffitiart in the bathrooms, how ever, and so some of our most priceless w orks have been wiped out of existence in the prime of their life. Th us, the angle of this story has been forcibly changed from the graffiti itself, to the sad, sad tale of its inevitable demise.

A source from w ithin the Building Ser­ vices departm ent, w ho wishes to re­ main nameless (and w isely so ...), told the Tribune that janitors "go nuts about graffiti". Arm ed with PRESTO , the Super Cleanser with the pow er to wash off m arker, pencil and even ink, janitors w ork nightly to erase the ever spreading m enace of washroom graffiti.

H ere, then, for the sake of illustration and posterity are some of the graffiti presently gracing the w alls of our bathroom stalls: First a sample from M acLennan library on the queen of bathroom graffiti topics: —Stop abortion at the source: Sex education, available birth control, and a society that doesn't discrim inate against single pregnant wom en!

A n d in response: —Yo u 've got to be kidding!

—Bravo!

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A n d on graffiti itself: — Each tim e I write they wash it aw ay For whom do I pen m y thoughts?

For w h y do they erase them? (hold your stom ach, it gets worse)

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U —This is what w e should aim for, but in the m eantime w e have to give . ourselves a cho ice.

—W hy should society discrim inate against single, pregnant women?

—It shouldn't, but it does!

—C onsider adoption: your child has the right to a life of her ow n, and your body w ould rather give birth, natural­ ly, than have it's insides vacuum ed out!

—A ctually the m orbidity rate from birth is m uch greater than from first trim ester abortion.

—There are always tw o sides to the argument, so w h y don't w e think of another topic to debate! Rem em ber, truth lies in the m iddle, w hat's necessarily right for one isn't right for another!

W rite to see them erased The poignant idioms of my soul

O ' that these words could last an eternity then what a mess There'd be!

A n d on the subject o f sex:

—M cG ill dykes are the best, but the straight girls are the worst.

—Rationalisations are more important than sex.

—You obviously haven't met M ike —M ike's a smart guy!

—W h o 's Mike? And what does he do???

—W ho gives a 'fuck' what he does

—Som ebody tell m e something new that hasn't already been said or writ­ ten on the w alls about this issue.

—O .K . Did you know Shetland ponies have earlobes?

—I've got diarrhea.

W ritten in th e S tu d e n t U n io n bathroom s, shortly after custodians p er­ form ed massive P RESTO m anoeuvres on som e o f th e finest graffitti p ro d u ced this year: —Tabula Rasa - any comments?

—Yes. W ithout something to read, go­ ing to the 'bathroom ' is no fu n ...S o w ho m ever is resp o n sib le ...p lease, knock it o ff!...A G R EED ?

A n d on the sex differences: —M en's graffitti: "F u c k Linda' —W o m en's graffiti: " is it really feasible to think w e are all products of our society, or is that sim ply an excuse?"

D raw your own conclusion.

How I Got Arrested in Ottawa And More

by Daron Westman O n M onday, N ovem ber 18, w hen hundreds of M cG ill students w ere pro­ testing loudly in favour of divestm ent outside the Adm inistration Building, I w as sitting quietly by m yself in a jail cell in the first of the three sub-basements of O ttaw a's new police station. W hat w as a nice boy like me doing in a place like that?

At 8 :0 0 that m orning I w as standing with a group of peace activists on the sidew alk in front of the Lester B. Pear­ son External Building. W hen the traffic light in front of us turned red and the cars stopped, five of m y associates w alk ­ ed out into the street and sat dow n.

done by Canadian com panies, but ac­ tually said that such research should be encouraged. Further, Canada's con­ tinued m em bership in the North Am erican Aerospace D efence agree­ ment means that w e cannot help but be dragged into the implem entation of Star W ars.

O f course, our action had only limited media exposure and virtually no impact on the operations of External Affairs. But as a rallying c ry , as a first step in what w ill surely becom e a growing campaign of civil disobedience against Star W ars, it h a s im p o r t a n t p r e f ig u r a t iv e significance. It is a first sign that m any in the peace m ovement have grown beyond relying only on m arches and petitions and are w illing to draw on the rich traditions of non-violent protest.

This w as the sixth tim e that I have been involved in civil disobedience ac­ age and have com pleted their studies tions, but even I w as am azed by the for at least 9 months. Furtherm ore, you broad spectrum of people involved in must be starting a com p any w hich w ill this action. The 28 of us cam e from not be com peting w ith the public sector M ontreal, O ttaw a, Toronto, Peter­ or be seasonal in nature. These basic borough, Kingston and Kitchener. Very criteria should pose no problem to the few w ere university students; I w as one average new M cG ill graduate, since of the youngest people there. The you w ill need about 9 months to average age of participants must have organize your venture properly. been between 34 and 38, even when O n ce you have a venture in mind and you include the thirteen year-old boy have done som e basic m arketing and the three sixteen year-old girls who studies and thought it out fu lly you can w ere arrested along with their parents. begin applying. Th is requires going to M anpow er and obtaining and com ­ Four wom en arrested w ere old enough pleting the proper forms to the best of to be m y grandm other. H alf of the peo­ ple arrested w ere people taking part as your ability. This may require some fam ilies. basic accounting w o rk, but don't sweat W e w ere driven to the police station it, help is on the w a y . Help is in the and separated into groups of men and form of a consulting firm such as Inw om en. W e w ere photographed with fogrants on Peel Street. Th ey w ill assist the policem an w ho had arrested us, and you in doing the studies and com pleting then w e w ere put in our individual cells the forms so that your proposal is w ell to await processing. This w hole process structured and presentable. Further­ m ore Infogrants is paid by the G overn­ took about ten hours for everyone in the group, so most of our tim e w as spent sit­ ment for providing this service, so there ting in our cells (this gave me the oppor­ is no charge to you. Th is all done, you tunity to note that the food in O ttaw a's subm it your application and w ithin two jail is of better quality than that in M on­ w eeks a response w ill be forthcoming. treal jails—w hich hasn't changed since In addition, gaining acceptance is not the O ctober C risis—, but M ontreal gives difficult. To date no serious applications one more food). have been rejected. And according to Processing w as quite sim ple. W e Kevork Meterissian of Infogrants: "Y o u r chances of getting the grant are very • w ere allow ed to keep our w allets, glasses and shoe laces (all of w hich very high if your project is well Montreal police take aw ay), but not prepared, w ell researched and you belts or suspenders. W e had our finger basically know w hat yo u're d oin g." In prints and new mug shots taken, and fact the program is still quite rich, and w ere then asked for a w id e variety of in­ has been considerably overlooked to fo rm atio n -n am e s and addresses of date.

As they w ere dragged aw ay one by one by the police, the rest of us took their places. In all, twenty-eight people w ere arrested for backing traffic up all the w ay to Parliam ent H ill for almost an hour.

The point of our protest w as to call on the Prime M inister to say a real " n o " to Canadian participation in Star W ars. His public relations " n o " has been proven to be nothing but a face-saving m easure. The Conservative government has refused to prevent universities and private com panies from w orking on Star W ars research; in fact, the government not only refused to deny federal sub­ sidies to Star W ars research projects

Aid For Entrepreneurs

by Paul Vendittelli Last W ednesday, the new ly formed M cG ill Entrepeneurs' C lu b hosted a lec­ ture titled "M o n ey for N othing?". This lecture informed students on the loans and grants available to young people in Q uebec hoping to start their own business.

N ew graduates are too often scared by the assumed com plexities of setting up their own com panies. Th ey fail to realize that self-employment is neither idealistic nor the sole dom ain ot management keeners. And the Q uebec government, in response to this, has set up som e very attractive programs to en­ tice new graduates to get out and make it happen for them selves.

The most exciting of these is the Young Promoters program. This grant, started just last July, offers some very s u b s t a n t ia l a m o u n ts o f m o n e y .

Sp ecifically, $8 ,500.00 over tw o years per venture partner to m axim um .of three partners. Thus you could receive up to $2 5,00 0.00 from the plan over tw o years. N ow this is a "C ash flo w defi­ ciency g ran t", m eaning the government w ill provide funds to cover your operating losses up to the stated m ax­ im um . H ow ever, this represents only a technicality because, as business w ill soon teach you, all you need to do is "C o o k the books" until you have lost this amount on paper.

H o w ever there are some basic criteria w hich the entrepeneur must meet in order to be considered. The partner, or partners, must be less than 30 years of

relative, friends, em ployers. W e w ere even asked to w rite out the letters of the alphabet and the num bers from zero to ten—to identify us, I suppose, if w e should ever write threatening letters to the Prim e M inister. O f course, w e refus­ ed to give anything but our names and

addresses (all that one is required to give by law ). W e also had to point out to them that w e had the right to call a law yer; this right is usually granted w hen you request it, but often you are not told you have the right.

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Hejira Live in '85

by Kalli Varaklis "H e jira on Stage", an evening of entertainm ent, prem iered on Saturday night in the A lley. The program, written and peformed by w om en, w as a celebration of the publishing of the W inter 1985-86 issue of H ejira, a jo ur­ nal of w om en's art. The evening, w hich included poetry readings, dance, mime

and com edy, also afforded H ejira the opportunity to present some of its material and talent, and to increase the general a w a re n ess of H ejira and w om en's art.

The m ajority of the audience w as in­ itially com prised of obvious Hejira sup­ porters, friends of the performers.

H o w ever, as the evening progressed,

Interview

Gary Clairman of Lucky Jim tributions. W e're at the point now that

by Jacki Danylchuk w e reject ninety percent of the Lucky Jim's was started last October material w e receive, because w e just by three McGill students. It's a journal don't have enough space for it all. of "strangely neglected topics" in the form of stories, poetry, essays and JD —Is there a story behind the title L u ck y jim 's jo u rn a l o f Strangely drawings. The Tribune spoke to editor N eglected T o pics?

Gary Clairman at his St. Denis head­ G C —Its from a really funny book by quarters last week.

Kingsley Am is, about an M A student at university and all the procedures and JD — H ow did Lucky jim 's get started? p re te n tio u s n e s s he f a c e s . T h e G C —A good friend of m ine, M ichael "strangely neglected to p ic" is his G randastein, w as back for his second thesis: The econom ic influence of the year at M cG ill after travelling in developm ents in shipbuilding techni­ Bolivia and Nicaragua with Canada ques 1450-1485.

W o rld Youth. I w as in my third year in English. H e and I had talked about JD —W h y did you w ant to start a new starting a jo urnal. W e got together magazine? with W illiam H all and started working G C —I wanted to start something new because there w as something missing on it. I started going to readings and in the m agazines I had seen...there approaching people whose w ork I lik­ w ere no feelings. Art for me is about ed and asking them to give us poetry intense experiences and emotions. for the first issue, in return for a copy There has been so m uch, maybe too of it. M ike used to write letters to m uch em phasis on form . I think it can other m agazines. That's how w e got also be seen in society, in the em ­ contributions from the States and Bri­ phasis on appearances: " If it looks tain. Bill designed the co ver and the good it must be g oo d". M ore m ean­ graphics. Each cover is different, ingful things have been neglected. they're all made by hand. W e sup­ ported ourselves com pletely. The JD —W ould you say that Lucky jim 's is politically involved? three of us took m oney out of our pockets and split the cost. W e made G C —M ike w as very political, and I tw o hundred copies of the first issue think that the tw o of us have a socialist outlook. By that I mean that w e have They all sold out. W e published a to face responsibility, because the Christm as issue and another one in w ay w e live is partially responsible for the spring. Things really got going. W e continued on page 12 started getting tons of mail and con­

curious spectators w andered in and w e re inco rp o rated into an everenlarging, appreciative audience. The show began with some powerful and pensive poetry by Robin Potter. This w as follow ed by a dance act performed

by Georgia and M elanie, w hich w as a series of synchronized m ovements to m usic and w as an am using parody of the typical perception of wom en by m en. Th is w as com plim ented by an in­ triguing m im e by Elizabeth Alderton, done to Laurie Anderson's " O h Super­ m an ".

O n e of the highlights of the show was a series of skits and impromptus per­ formed by the w om en's faction of T h e a tre S h m e a tre , " U n d e r w ir e d " .

These six young wom en demonstrated their talent and w it by dealing with some of the idiosyncracies associated with w om en, done w ith hum our and w arm th. Th eir success can be attributed to the fact that they w ere genuinely fun­ ny, but also because the subjects they covered w ere done in such a w ay that every m em ber of the audience could identify with them.

"U n d e rw ire d " is made up of Alisa Palm er, C atherine Bainbridge, Jo-el Berg, Elise M oser, M arlene Blanshay and Rebecca Posner. Th ey w ill be per­ forming on D ecem ber 4 at the 'Rising Su n', and if Saturday's perform ance w as any indication of their talent, it w ill be a show w ell worth seeing.

There w as another poetry reading, a fte r a sh o rt b r e a k , by S u san M endelsohn w ho also read a short story entitled 'The V io lin ist', in w h ich she w as able to capture com plex sentiments and com m unicate them to an enrap­ tured audience.

The last poetry reading w as not a typical one; it w as a reading of poetry

by M anaging Editor Deanna Young set to m usic performed by Lionel Corcos.

The poetry w as anecdotal and very powerful and the interesting music com plim ented the poetry so w ell that this atypical poetry reading w as enor­ m ously successful and enjoyed. The

heiiR à inside interview with Anne McLean W ondeur Brass

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show closed with a brief, light-hearted by the Students' Society; they seek fun­ m im e by Elizabeth Alderton. ding from M cG ill faculties. Although the Hejira is an independent interest journal promotes w o m en's art, it is group at M cG ill and attempts to m ain­ directed at M cG ill students of both tain a com fortable rapport between the sexes. C opies w ill be on sale this w eek M cG ill m ilieu and the M ontreal enviro- for tw o dollars around cam pus at noon ment. Hejira is able to retain an in­ hour, and w ill also be available at dependent status as they are not funded second-hand book stores in the area.

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"B e ijin g is the fastest growing city on Earth...there is no street in the city w here you can stand and not see eight or nine construction cranes every direc­ tion you tu rn .” stated W illiam H inton.

H is tone of voice, w h ile not elegiac, w as hardly enthusiastic.

As its m odernisation drive picks up m om entum , the face of C hina is chang­ ing once again, in a revolutionary fashion. W estern observers w ho adm ited the social experim ents of the Peo­ ple's M aoist era seem to be amongst those most disturbed by Party boss Deng Xiao Ping's econom ic policies.

Speaking recently at M cG ill on "th e changing face of the Chinese coun­ trysid e," Am erican author W illiam H in­ ton voiced some of their concerns.

W illiam Hinton is one of the best placed of the latter-day "C h in a H a n d s".

He first visited C hina in 1937 at the age of seventeen w h ile w orking as a jour­ nalist in Japan. Hinton returned to C hina in 1945 with the United Nations and w as in the country during the critical period of the c ivil w ar between 1947 and 1949.

After the Com m unist victory, Hinton rem ained in C h in a. His docum ent of those years, FanShen, is a "m asterful ac­ count of social and political chang e" in Long Bow , a Northern Chinese village.

W hen he returned to the United States in 1953, H inton's passport w as rescinded. He w as unable to return to C hina for seventeen years, until the passport regulations w h ich prevented him from travelling w ere successfully appealed by others such as Paul

Robeson in the Suprem e Court.

A self-described "partisan of co­ operative ag ricu ltu re ", Hinton had so m e c r it ic a l w o rd s fo r D e n g 's "C h in e se style so cialism " "It's been dif­ ficult to understand or sym pathise with the reforms (of Deng)” remarked H in­ ton.

Deng's régime is pursuing a policy of a m ixed econom y, closer to the "N e w D em o cra cy" first articulated by Mao in the 1940s. " A m ixed econom y is in­ herently unstable" he said.

He w as particularly upset about the p rivatisatio n o f m uch of C h in a 's agricultural land, and the breakup of m any of the co-operative farms. The co­ operatives w ere "u n iq u e in H isto ry", he asserted, " to have in a short tim e, built a new social system ."

H e hinted that there w as an effort underw ay by the new leadership in Bei­ jing to discredit the Da Zhai ethos. Da Zhai w as a model com m une set by Mao Zedong in the 1960s. Hinto claim ed that Da Zhai itself w as a success, but conceded that unim aginative attempts at imitation led to failure elsew here in the country.

Hinton w arned that the agricultural reforms w o uld mean frustration for C hina's am bitious birth control program in the c o u n try sid e . " A s farm ing becom es divided into fam ily units, then it w ill becom e harder and harder to en­ force one child-per-fam ily." Already, said Hinton, the government has been forced to m odify its goal to two children-per-fam ily in the countryside.

As new econom ic opportunities arise so too w ill speculation, asserted Hinton.

H e cited the exam ple of a peasant in the Long Bow of FanShen w ho recently secured a loan to build an iron mill near the village.

Hinton speculated that the new econom ic policies w ill lead to the "p ro ­ letarianisation" of the countryside as new ly-rich peasants begin to hire labourers to w o rk their land. " T h e first peasant in C hina to buy a car owned 12,000 ch icken s. He undoubtedly has em p lo yees." Hinton said.

Hinton com pared the new burst of eco no m ic activity to the disastrous "G re a t Leap Fo rw ard ", M ao's cam ­ paign in the 1950s to build "backyard ste e l m il l s " th ro u g h o u t C h in a .

"A g ricultu re is suffering as people pur­ sue other opportunities."

Furtherm ore, prim e agricultural land is being m ismanaged, H in to nsaid. "New housing is going up on prim e land and grasslands in the North are becoming deserts due to o ver grazing. The enviroment is under attack ." Hinton com ­ m e n te d . T h e c o n stru c tio n boom throughout C hina is endangering the country's forests he said.

But Hinton took comfort in some re­ cent developm ents. H e claim ed that some key co-operative farms w ere resisting privatisation, and he cited the demonstrations mounted last month by students in Beijing as a sign that large segm ents of C h in e se so ciety are dissatisfied with the current party line.

The demonstrations, anti-Japanese in nature at first, soon becom e a wideranging protest over various aspects of governm ent policy.

"C h in a w ill alw ays be d yn a m ic" said Hinton w ith hope.

Your Xmas Required Reading

by Stephen Hum and Damn Westman A ll in all M arx w as wrong; he never took Christm as into acco unt. W ithout it, there's a good chance that the entire structure of industrial Capitalism might collapse. According to the Fortune 500 Christm as shopping books are the num ber five gift of the season, after ties, sox, sweaters and shoe polish. W ho'd have guessed it: Gutenberg w as a m ov­ ing force in history? So, with com ­ plim ents, The Tribune presents some

M y G randm a

holiday stars from Gutenberg's G alaxy, the tw elve books of Christm as.

Julio Cortazar, w ho died in Paris last year, w as one of Latin A m erica's most distinguished w riters. Also an a c ­ com plished jazz m usician, Cortazar left behing a rich body of w o rk noted for the sustained passion of imagination.

Cortazar is best remembered for his novel H o p sco tch , but, like his fellow Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, Cortazar w as a master of the short story. The col­

T h e M o n s te r

McGill Grad Writes Book

by Heather Clancy It's hard to say exactly what a university degree w ill gain you. Try as you might to find it, there's no fine print on a diplom a w hich guarantees you a job. It becomes sim ple to drift through classes, m ethodically earning a m ark on your transcript. Som etimes, however, a person may get m ore than he or she suspected from a course. So discovered H um anistic Studies m ajor Ascher D avis, w ho has recently published her first bo o k en title d M y G ra n dm a th e M onster.

M y Grandm a the M on ster is described as a "w itty and endearing child ren's sto ry." Dubbed a "p ictu re b o o k ", the text is supplem ented w ith original artw ork by Ann Pow ell. Pow ell is know n for her previous w o rk on the Ms. Beaver trilogy by Rosem ary A lliso n .

D avis o riginally conceived the story for a 300 level C h ild ren 's Literature course at M cG ill taught by Professor Ronald Reichertz. T o fulfill a fifty percent paper requirem ent Davis decided to w rite a book, preferring the creative ch o ice for the paper topic.

Th e m anuscript w as sent to be considered for publication at the suggestion of the teaching assistant for the course.

The W om en's Press, in Toronto, took interest and offered D avis a contract.

T h e story d e als p rim a rily w ith "generatio nal m ix in g ." T h e young heroine finds it difficult to understand her grandm other w ho seems to be "alw ays in m y w a y .” Then one day the tw o find that they do tread on com m on ground; both adore the thrill of the game "M o n sters." The girl learns to accept her g ran d m o th e r's p re se n ce , realizing that she really isn't so different from herself.

In the original version , the grand­ m other dies at the co nclusio n. The published edition finds the older wom an still alive. Th is seems m ore effective. The association m ade previously m ay cause young children to relate the gro w ing re la tio n sh ip betw een young and old with death, making them hesitate in their exploration of the generation gap.

Titles are important for children's books. Th ey must com pel the adult to buy as w ell as tantalize the ch ild . M any children can sym pathize with the thought that a figure w h ich takes aw ay from fun is a m onster. The parent w ill be struck by the im plications'of this title as opposed to something like Peter Rabbit.

Success has furthered Davis' hopes of becom ing a writer. Better know n to her friends as Pam D avis, she has adopted the nam e "A s c h e r" because she feels it important to have a som ewhat androgenous name. The potential reader w ill have no preconceived notions of the author's view p o in t w hen approaching a book. She derives the nam e from the last name of the grandparents, from w hose side she claim s she gains her creativity.

D avis plans to w rite short fiction, this tim e for an older aud ience. She wishes som ehow to com bine the voices of Margaret Atwood and W oody A llen . At first glance, this is an odd pairing, H o w ever, she adm ires what she refers to as the dry w it in both w riters. She intends to aim her m aterial at this audience.

M y Grandm a the M onster, "id eal for three to seven year olds,” is now ava ila b le in paperback from The W omen's Press, 229 College St. To . M 5T 1R4, for $3.95.

lection B lo w U p contains some of the best w riting that there is. O f particular note is “ D istan ces", the diary of a w om an belonging to the ruling class of an unnamed Latin Am erican country w ho is so overw helm ed with guilt that she exchanges places w ith a povertystricken double in Budapest. In blen­ ding restraint and passion, hum our and mystery, Cortazar w as peerless.

A lice Adam s, a resident of San Fran­ cisco, is the author of five w id ely ac­ claim ed novels (Careless Love, Families and Survivors, Listening to Billie, Rich Rew ards and Superior W om en), but her books of short stories, w h ile less w ell know n, are by far her best w ork. O f these three volum es (Beautiful G irl, To See You Again, and the just published Return Trips), the second collection, published in hardcover in 1982 and in paperback in 1983, is probably the most p o w e r f u l. To S e e Y o u A g a in , demonstrates Adam s' ability to unders­ tand and portray the often contradictory em otions of human beings with subtlety and intensity. The title story describes the upsetting yet comforting feeling ex­ perienced by a middle-aged teacher w ho becom es enchanted with one of her young students and derives hope for her mentally-ill husband's recovery in tim e b e c a u s e o f th e p r o m is e represented by the young boy.

Some of the best stories in Fables o f Bunsw ick Aven ue, the 1985 first book of short stories by Edm onton native Katherine G o vier, the author of the novels Random D escent and Going Through the M otions, have this same concern for the im pact of tim e. "G o in g to E u ro p e", the story of tw o ex-college roommates w ho decide to travel to Europe together and discover that they no longer have anything in common and m aybe never did, is a poignant ex­ am ination of the changes and con­ tinuities in the friendship between the tw o wom en.

The South has risen again. A new w ave of writers is emerging from south of the M ason-Dixon line: their ranks in­ clude Bobbie Ann M ason, C lyd e Edgerton, Anne Tyler and C harles Portis.

Ed isto is southern w rite r Padgett Pow ell's exciting first novel. Powell docum ents the efforts of a boy in South C arolina to escape his m other the "D u ch e.ss'"s determ ination to make him a w riter. The locale is deep south, distilled, com plete with swam ps, forests and a funky black blues bar. Dom inated

by the narrative vo ice of Simons Ever­ son M anigault, the book's preternaturally literate child-hero, Edisto blends the n e rv o u s in t e llig e n c e o f H o ld e n C aulfield with the delicious w ryness of Eudora W elty. In prose tinged with the colour of the bayou, Powell speaks as clearly to the alienated of today as Sal­ inger once did to the Silent G eneration.

Another powerful w ork of fiction from the south is Leigh Allison W ilso n's first book of short stories. From the Bottom U p won the Flannery O 'C o n no r Award for Short Fiction in 1983 and is proof that the tradition of Southern G othic writing is alive and w e ll. The best story in the book, "T h e R aising ", is the story of a not-very-bright w om an w ho moves through life on the strength of trite and banal platitudes until she and her hus­ band adopt a street-wise orphan w ho fails to conform to her Saturday Evening Post image of what a child should b e and violently shatters her illusions.

The awarding of the 1985 Novel Prize for Literature to C laude Simon should d raw attention to the generation of French writers w ho emerged in the nineteen-fifties. Most probably aren't in the mood for perceptual gymnastics re­ quired to read one of Sim on's w orks (he pioneered the non-novel—no plot, no character developm ent), but there are others w o rth reading. M arguerite Duras' The Lover is near the top of the list. Best known as a film w riter (Hiroshim a, M on A m ou r), Duras has a writing style marked by carefully co n­ structed, evocative im agery. The Lover is a semi-autobiographical story of a girl's childhood in the polarized society of French Indochina and her love affair with an older non-European m an.

Draw n out in a spare, classical style, The Lover depicts the chasm of emotion and motivation between the loved and the lover.

Laurie C o lw in , the N ew Yo rk author of three novels (Shine on , Bright and Dangerous O b ject, H a p p y A ll the Tim e, and Family Happiness) and the book of short stories The Lone Pilgrim, is also aw are of how unexpected the patterns of people's lives can be. Most of the love relationships in her second book of stories, Passion and A ffect (originally published in 1974 and reissued in the Penguin Contem porary Am erican Fic­ tion Series in 1984) feature men inex­ plicably draw n to w om en w ho fascinate them even though they and the passions they incite, are totally unfathom able.

" A Road in Ind iana" deserves special mention as a story that captures the sub­ tle madness that can creep up on wom en in unsatisfying relationships, w h ile "C h ild ren , Dogs and Desperate M en" exam ines the same madness in men.

Being slightly unhinged as a result of one's romantic relationships becomes almost a w ay of life in the short stories of Ann Beattie, the N ew York author of the novels Chilly Scenes o f W inter and Falling in Place. Her third book of stories (the first tw o w ere Distortons and Secrets and Surprises) w as published in 1983 to great critical acclaim . The Burn­ ing H ouse is an am azing depiction of the psychic toll that life and relation­ ships can take. "T h e C inderella W a ltz " , in w hich a man leaves his w ife for another m an, and "D e s ire " , w hich ex­ plores the dynam ic between a divorced man and his young son, show how close to the surface m adness lurks, even w hen it is covered over by the polite rituals of modern life.

Madness is even more exp licitly an issue in Sharon N elson's book of poems M ad W omen and Crazy Ladies. This is her fifth book of poems, but only the fourth, Blood Poems, is likely to still w id ely available. M ad W omen and Crazy Ladies is an unjustly ignored m asterpiece of C anadian poetry. The ti­ tle poem is a dom estic monologue delivered by a w ife that becomes a veh i­ cle for expressing all the injustices done to wom en by our society and the madness to w hich wom en can be driven. "Farm Report", the story of a wom an w ho leaves the farm to escape the vio lence of her husband, is another moving poem in w hich Nelson turns the everyday facts of w o m en's dom estic ex­ istence into a powerful myth about the status of wom en in society.

Another fem inist w riter to note is Toni Cade Bam bara, a black w om an born in N ew Yo rk C ity w ho has published one novel (The Salt Eaters) and tw o books of short stories. The second collection w as published in 1977 and reissued in paperback in 1982. C alled The Sea Birds A re Still A live (her first book w as Gorilla M y love), it is an excellent exam ple of the marriage of political concerns and art. "T h e O rg anizer's W ife " considers the problem s of m ixing love and politics, w hile "T h e A p p rentice" and "Bro ken Field R unning" look at the question of m aintaining the sixties' en-

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The Students' Society Congratulates the following students on their appointments: Committee Student Discipline Committee V.P. Academic Committee

Appointed François Longpré Steven M athew s M ary-Liz W ile y Steven M athew s Ken W agner

B of G Joint Ad Hoc Cte to Jennifer draft regulations concerning Beem an Sexual Harrassment University Bookstore Committee

Museums & Collections Committee Senate Cte on Timetabling and Student Records University Residences Committee

Eric B erco w itz M arie Davis Stephen Smith John Terauds Lorraine Chesterm an Ron Leber Patrick Baillie Titi Nguyep Steven M athew s Brent Lundy

Ad Hoc Cte on Mature Students

Lew is Lutter Y v o n n e Pitula D iane Selesse G le n n Fong

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Where's The loe Beef?

by Melinda Ham No, this is not an advertisement to head dow n to W en d y's to pick up another burger. Th is is an invitation to see Joe Beef, a sizzling play being per­ formed by the Black Rock Theatre C om ­ pany at Player's Theatre this w eek. Your appetite for witty, hardhitting theatre should be satisfied.

A uthenticity is the beef of this perfor­ m ance. O n ly three of the actors are pro­ fessionals. Th e rest are am ateurs harvested from our own M ontréal soil.

This play is an anglo-working class inter­ pretation of the history of M ontréal. As Joe Beef says, "T h is play does not pre­ tend to be n eu tral." It is an angry pro­ test, a raw exposé of the injustices and hardships the w orking class actually suf­ fered. To m ake this bitter pill palatable to the audience, it is coated in satirical hum our, yet the message is in no w ay disguised.

David Fennario, nationally acclaim ed for Balconville and M oving, digs back into his ow n Anglo-Irish w orking class roots in Pointe Ste-ClaireA/erdun to create this piece.

Fennario has recreated Joe Beef w ho w as an actual tavern ow ner in the m id­ nineteenth century on the Lachine C an al. Joe Beef had the patient ear that listened to all the grievances, fears, and hopes of the w orkers building the V ic ­ toria Bridge. Appropriately, this is the scene for the play. Y et, this is not a phony stage-prop bar. Before the show com m ences, the audience can pur­ chase their ow n beer or w in e , and ex­ change a jo ke with Joe Beef (George . Beriault).

Then the play begins. There is no rise of the curtains. The lights don't even dim . The characters just w alk on the stage and introduce them selves.

History is reduced to sim plistic terms, bad guys versus good guys. The villains are the "fo u n d in g " fathers of M ontréal

Federico Hidalgo as John Molson stands out as a conniving hypocrite as he opens up his Bible and pulls out a bottle of his own brew . Then he leads a hilarious satirical dance: "Y o u r ceiling is leaking, the landlord wants your rent, have a brew ...N o thing 's going to turn out right no matter w hat you do ...so have a b re w ."

Susan Leger Tapp as J.C .C . Abbot emerges as the strongest fem ale per­ form er w ith her portrayal of this w icked factory oppressor.

The w orking class, on the other hand, is a faceless mass. It takes on various collective personas ranging from a French mob led by a raging Papineau (Joel Silverstone) to picketing union w orkers to soldiers on the Plains of Abraham w ith hockey sticks as guns.

The Black Rock Theatre Com pany's collective perform ance is a genuine pooling of talents. Each m ember of the com pany plays m ultiple roles. The b a c k d r o p , th e c o s t u m e s , th e choreography w ere all generated by the m em bers. The result is the high energy and enthusiasm of a political rally, highly motivated by Albert Nerenberg (former editor of the M cG ill D aily).

Th is is the core of the Black Rock Theatre's philosophy. Th ey strive to develop "artists as activists." David Fennario believes m uch of today's theatre is "ju st another com m odity...to be consum ed by a m iddle class that on­ ly co nsu m es."

Joe B ee f doesn't w an t us to go home w hose names still live im m ortally: and forget about the evening. It points O gilvy, M olson, A llan , M cG ill, Abbot. out M ontrealers' mistakes in forming These entrepreneurs parade around the stage in the "C ap italist D a n c e ," w ear­ unions and bowing our heads to the W estm ounters. There is still a need in ing black top hats and capes, and gold 1985 for a m ore organized working dollar signs dangling on gold chains, class. Joe B ee f plays D ec 5-8, and if w h ile th ey d e cid e h o w to best popularity dem ands, 12-15, at M cG ill m anipulate the w orking class to make P la y e r's T h e a tr e , S tu d e n t U n io n even m ore m oney. All these "bad guys" Building, at 8 p.m . Call 487-6266 for are portrayed as ruthless, oppressing reservations. m en, yet as distinct individuals.

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Ceasefire: Artists For Peace

by Quendrith Johnson FR ID A Y , D EC EM BER 6 th Les Artistes pour la paix (Artists for Peace) w ill present more than 50 performing artists in a benefit for Q uebec youth. Held at the

Theatre A rleq uin, on the south side of Ste. Catherine between Berri and Beaudry metro stations, the event is named "C ease fire" to m ark the official

closing of a fundraising drive for Fondation Jeunesse 2000. All performances are in French for more information call 284-2000.

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For tkose unable to attend, an abridge version of tbe annual Spirit of Christmas address: It’s been a great first twelve issues (general applause). W ith your continuing commitment, the second semester should be just as good (general discontent), if not better. (Uproarious applauses). In any case, on with the free food and drink! (M ass charge for the libations table laden with good cheer).

Film s Next Semester

by Hinrich Kaiser The M cG ill Film Society has revealed its program for next semester. Kevin D avis and C o . have decided to surpass the level of showing m ovies for enter­ tainm ent only. Th e new approach com ­ bines education and classics with the foreign film category and "blo ckb uster" screen plays.

O ne m ajor change w ill be the free screening of film s on W ednesdays in the Ballroom of the Student Union Building. D iscussion w ill fo llo w the conclusion of each film . This option at­ tempts to accom odate less often screen­ ed film s such as Sergi Eisenstein's Bat­ tleship Potem kin, Ingmar Bergman's Persona, or O rson W elles' The Third Man. In the regular series, the foreign film lover w ill be able to enjoy some good feature length film s su ch as Das Boot (W est G e rm a n y ), C lo sely W a tch ed Trains (C zecho slo vakia), Last M etro

(France), o r M osco w Does Not Believe in Tears (Soviet U nion).

A large num ber of never forgotten classics w ill shown throughout the term . O f particular interest are The Man W ho K n ew Too M uch (Afred Hit­ ch co ck), Cat on a H ot Tin R o o f (with Paul N ew m an), H o w To M arry a M illionaire (with M arilyn M onroe), and the ever popular Casablanca.

O n ly one musical film made the agen­ da, but w hat better w ay to greet the first month of spring than with M y Fair Lady.

Encouraged by the success of the Star Wars series this semester, the Film Society plans to show tw o during the next. The Star Trek episodes w ill be shown from January 16th to 18th and the M ad M ax trilogy w ill follow January 30th to February 1st. O ther featured films include Rom ancing the Stone and the latest Jam es Bond Adventure, A V iew to A Kill.

by Neil Milton Christm as Eve and yo u're dreaming of a w hite Christm as (and you don't mean just the salt on the roads). You meander to the turntable and touch the needle to vin yl in anticip ation o f that old crooner's v o ice ...w h e n what to your wondering ears appears, the rapid beat of a drum?

Unw ittingly, you've discovered the latest rendition of the old Irving Berlin classic by Doug and the Slugs. This ver­ sion of the tune does for Bing's tim eless rendering what a dance rem ix does for a

popular song. H ow ever, one can't help but be attracted-to this clean, danceable version, the band clearly has fun with the tune. Although it's hard to com pare him with Bing Crosby, Doug Bennet does a nice job w ith the lyrics. The flip side of the single gives shower singers an opportunity to sing along.

This novelty piece w o n't threaten Bing's throne, it m erely brings to this classic a livelier presentation of the sen­ tim ent found in Berlin's song.

O n Sunday, Novem ber 3, two local bands, the Joy C hildren and Th e Pink Zone, performed at Café Cam pus. Very m uch a 'meet the press' affair, the highlight of the evening proved to be the bar itself rather than the bands.

Café Cam pus, 3315 Q ueen M ary, is quite close to the U niversité de M on­ tréal, how ever it is by no means inac­ cessible from dow ntow n. It places a heavy influence on live m usic, often providing a forum for local bands to reveal them selves. Spacious and spar­ tan with good sound and view ing , it is an attractive venue. C om bine this with a friendly staff (owners, as it is a cooperative) and clientele, it is an ex­ cellent place to see a small show . An energetic, exciting band would be truly stunning to see in such a locale, unfor­ tu n a te ly, th is w a s not the case N ovem ber 3.

The first band of the evening w as the

Joy C hildren, and their performance with a slight tw ist: the front man, J .D .P .j w as most aptly described as bad. Dress­ plays bass. They feature political lyrics ed to kill in Platinum Blonde style they dealing with such lofty issues as ter­ w ere evidently m uch more concerned rorism and nuclear w ar, but the mar-, about their appearance than their riage of m usic to lyrics is som ewhat dis­ m usic. Th ey posed pretentiously on jointed. Th eir sound is quite m ellow, stage and played long boring songs that com m ercial in fact, and it fails to co n­ all sounded alike. Th eir light show w as vey the emotion that one feels is sup­ a very w elcom e distraction though like posed to accom pany the lyrics. Though so m any other bands, The C ure for in­ there w ere some good strong moments, stance, they displayed a penchant for most notably the songs 'Change Planet' shining excessively bright lights into the and 'Influence' and the guitar w ork of eyes of the audience. Burning out peo­ G abriel Botts, the bulk of the material ple's retinas is not terribly endearing, w as disappointingly bland and needs and as the band did little else that w as, some added venom . The band also they w ere not w ell received. Lam en­ lacks an interesting stage presence: they tably, the band appeared to be blissfully w ere hardly electrifying to watch live. ignorant of this fact.

There appears to be potential within Next up, and far superior, w ere The The Pink Zone but at the present there a Pink Zone. Also a M ontreal band, their lot of m ore exciting acts in M ontreal. approach w as very different, though The next tim e such an act plays at Café they also need to im prove if they are to Cam pus by all means go. com pete with the m any good local acts.

The Pink Zone are a three piece band

Improv at Le Steppe: A Comedy Cure-All

by Laila Abdalla Im provisational com edy is one of the m ore difficult forms of com edy. It depends very m uch on audienc par­ ticipation, and not just in term s of laughter and applause. Ideas, sugges­ tions and verbal cues are all necessary for any im rpov to succeed . Improvisatio n a g ro up s th e re fo re w o rk on establishing a good rapport w ith the au­ dience as m uch as they do on their various training routines.

Tw o im prov-com edy groups perform ­ ed on Sunday, N ov. 24th at Le Steppe, 5175 Park. Le Steppe is the perfect set­ ting for im rpov-com edy. It is a sm all bar with a small ''stage off to one side. It is frequented by a m ellow university cro w d , and there is a relaxed, unhurried

sense to the place and the people w ho w ork there. Because it is so sm all, and the audience so receptive, the informal art of im provisational com edy becom es almost easy, or so Sundays performers made it seem.

Both groups had in the past been af­ filiated with the Theatre Shmeatre w o rk sh o p . T h e Th eatre Shm eatre league helped in teaching them and providing them w ith the courage need­ ed for public perform ance. The Dawson Im prov League w ere, in fact performing for the first tim e, and Insta Theatre for the fifth. the title of the presentation w as "T h e M edical S h o w ", and it w as operated by a " d o c to r". The audience w as asked to register its applause by coughing, clear­

ing its throat, and saying " a a a h " .

The doctor also chose the various "g am es" the groups w ere to play and described them to the audience. Some games w ere m ore successful than others. " F re e z e " , for instance, seemed to flow w ell for both groups. This game consists of tw o actors w ho are ordered to freeze in a postion. O n e actor would then be replaced by another actor, and he or she would then switch the scene arbitraily. People w ent from yaw ning to describing how big the mouse w as, and from looking for a contact lens to racing in the wrong direction. Neither group had a n y d if f ic u lt y fin d in g o n e outrageous situation after anotehr.

Less successful w as "H ig h and Low Status Professions” . Th is game had two

actors competing as the most and the least accom plished professionals. Tw o very competent plum bers, and tw o very incom petent dog-catchers w ho could only catch fish. Both groups seemed to have difficulty com ing up with new ideas w ithin the skit. H o w ever, one of the Daw son Im prove League was superb as a nervous dentist. He was ge­ nuinely funny, and he w as quick enough to think of witty repartee as w ell as act the absolutely incom petent den­ tist. Th is young man deserves to far in com edy.

Although both groups are to be com ­ mended for their efforts, the Dawson Im prov League deserves an extra pat on the back. Th eir initial nervousness before a live aud ience soon gave w ay to

a genuine enjoym ent of their own per­ form ances. Th eir joie-de-vivre was in­ fectious, and their perform ances m ore off-the-cuff and spontaneous than those of Insta-Theatre. The latter, it seemed, had developed certain catch-words and techniques w h ich often defeated the sense of im provisation. Th eir individual perform ances w ere m ore polished, and unfortunately, in improvisational com ­ edy, that can som etimes be a curse in disguise.

Both groups, ho w ever, w ere amusing and are definitely recom m ended for a night of dispelling exam-stress, w hich should be striking in full force just about n o w ...

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Love and Rockets Live M isfire

by Rollin L.T. Milroy O kay , maybe it w asn't the concert of the year. So sue me. W hen Love and Rockets left the Spectrum 's stage for the fourth, and last tim e on N ovem ber 27, all I could think about w as how m uch m y back hurt. So m uch for a month of anticipation.

The first thing the crow d o f'ab o u t 1000, most with hair done by HydroQ uebec and skin paler than an old cor­ pse, noticed w hen Love and Rockets took the stage w as that they didn't recognize the song. Alright, they're try­ ing something new . Ehh, not bad, not good. Th ey then launched into the first three songs of their debut album , in the same order.

The shared vocals of Daniel Ash and David J did not start out w ell, but these things are usually forgiven for the first fe w m in u te s. U n fo r tu n a te ly , th e forgiveness ran out before the voices kicked in.

The aud ience w as not really ready for this concert. M any of the people seem ­ ed to know only the band's single, 'Ball of C o nfusio n', and as some astute critic warned them, the rest of the band's m usic is very different. As it w as, most of the people ended up trying to angle their head in such a w ay that would most dim inish the pain of A sh's searing guitar.

Ash has established a reputation as an energetic and dynam ic performer. This is a guy w ho smeared flourescent paint on his ribs to m ake them glow w hen he played with Bauhaus. O n the other hand, David J, the bass player, has never been know for anything m ore energetic than shifting his weight from one leg to the other. And you can't ex­ pect drum m er Kevin Haskins to enter­ tain the people—he w as too busy trying to keep his arms under control. So the responsibility of front-man falls on Ash, w ho should have no trouble with the jo b . But at this concert even the shoulder pads that exaggerated his breadth could not support the demands of inciting energy in the crow d. Not un­ til the encores did he approach his potential, but it w as tw o little tw o late.

Alm ost half of the one hour concert w as com prised of unreleased m aterial.

The band did not identify any of these songs by nam e, but I think 'The G uitar Is So Loud That Blood From Ears Is Run­ ning Dow n M y N eck' would be ap­ propriate for several of them . Thankful­ ly, Ash performed alm ost half of the concert on acoustic guitar, w hich lowered the decibels a few notches and improved the overall sound.

For some reason m any people at the concert w ere expecting to hear some Bauhaus songs. I can't think of anything

worse than these guys playing Bauhaus material without Peter M urphy. Ash and J have appealing and com plem entary voices, but they are not match for the skill and presence of M urphy. Luckily they restricted the show to their own material (but they did indulge in some teasing by playing a few chords of 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' during 'Ball of C onfu­ sion').

The unadvertised opening act w as a five m em ber band called C inem a X. O n e friend of m ine said they reminded him of Corbeau, another w as reminded of Eurythm ies, and I w as reminded of Au Pairs. W e all agreed-they reminded us of som eone else and w ere unable to exist as an independent and individual act. As m y colleague Kate said, 'They lack any subtlety'.

Love and Rockets w as a disappoint­ m ent. Instead of doing one encore of three songs, they did three of one each.

That w as stupid. Th ey played 'Ball of Confusion' and the Tones on Tail single 'G O !', so people at least heard two songs they recognized. The lack of keyboards w as a serious flaw in all the songs—they would have provided a necessary balance and flow to the m usic. You w ere better off being a trapezoid than being at this concert.

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G ene loves Jezebel The W aterboys The Pogues Love and Rockets ‘ The Lucy Show Xym ox Shreikback Depeche M ode The Cure G race Jones Severed Heads Cocteau Tw in s The Relacem ents Blue in H eaven ‘ Singing Fools The Fall The Kane G ang ‘ Fair W arning » G o Four 3 W ire Train

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This is the sea Rum , Sodomy and the Lash Seventh Dream o f...

Undone C lan o f Xym ox O il and G old It's called a heart (1 2") Head on the door Slave to the Rhythm (12") C ity Slab Horror The Pink O paque Tim A ll the G ods Men C all M e Lucky This nation's saving grace Bad and Low dow n W o rld of.

You are the scene Debut Between Tw o W orlds Com piled by: Dougla* R. Hylton M usic Director

• Special mention should be made o f "Su n C ity " w h ich w ill be N ° through Christm as this year.

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Reading List continued from page 7 thusiasm for political activism in the more tired years of the late seventies and eighties.

Bam bara is one of the fourteen authors interviewed in Black W omen W riters at W ork, a series of widerang ing in te rv ie w s c o n d u cte d by C laudia Tate, a professor of English at H ow ard U niversity, and published in 1984. Some of the other authors includ­ ed are Audra Lord, Maya Angelou, G w en do lyn Brooks, Nikki G io van ni, Toni M orrison, N tozake Shange and A lice W alke r. All of the interviews are valuable for the attention paid to such questions are the relationship between politics and art, as w ell as purely political questions and questions of pure writing craft.

John Edgar W idem an is the 1984 w in ­

ner of the PEN /Faulker A w ard . He w as a Rhodes Scholar, but his roots are deep in the Black Am erican neighnourhood of Hom ewood in Baltim ore, w here he w as born, and tim e and again his fiction goes hom e. The Hom ewood Trilogy: Damballah, H idin g Place, and Sent for you Yesterday is amongst the most stirr­ ing and w elcom e prose in Black Am erican writing today. The trilogy, tracing lives of several generations of H om ew ood, takes on an almost epic quality with its birth to death cycle of lives touched by pain and grace.

W id em an's language is vibrant and his sensibility contains the rhythms of bar rap, and night trains. W idem an is also the author of Brothers and Keepers, a m oving meditation on currents w hich led him to O xford and his younger brother Robby to life imprisonm ent.

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H oliday H appenings In The City compiled by Heather Clancy and Barbro Dick As the end of classes approaches and the threat of tedious studying en­ croaches, students m ay look for that one last chance to procrastinate. As cam pus settles down for its long w inter's nap, alternate food and enter­ tainm ent must be found. Below are some suggestions for a release from your "p ap er p riso n ."

RESTAURANTS The tim e for gourmet experim enta­ tion seems a thing of the past. Let's face it; studying takes priority.

To spice up a " c h ili" day, you might decide to go M exican. Tw o restaurants close to cam pus are El Coyote and Carlos & Pepe's.

El Coyote, 1202 Bishop Street, offers a 2 for 1 Happy Hour five days a w eek (M onday through Friday). Its menu of­ fers student specials including a ham ­ burger platter and a taco platter, as w ell as the cho ice of six hom em ade sauces.

O n w eçkend s, the restaurant opens later and stays aw ake until the early m orning. For ten o r m ore people, the restaurant is w illing to m ake a deal on group rates.

Carlos & Pepes, 1425 Stanley, also features a 2 for 1 Happy Hour from 4:00 to 7:00 p .m ., seven days a w ee k. During this tim e, tacos are a m ere 994 and main courses start as low as $3 .1 5. Tor­ tillas are on the house. For nacho lovers, C arlo s & Pepe's offers a dish known as Supernachos; a huge platter of tortilla chips covered with melted M o n t e r e y J a c k , C a lif o r n ia - s t y le • guacam ole dip and sour cream . Q uite a snack for tw o people, this dish is $5 .9 5.

Like El Coyote, Carlo s & Pepe's has a sauce option for no extra cost. Both restaurants offer the cho ice of "E l Scorch o " for the m ore professional M exican food eater.

Back to the basics, the Peel Pub, 1107 St. C atherine, can't exactly be classified as ethnic. O pen from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm , they offer some interesting specials attractive to students. M onday, through W ednesday, a pitcher of beer is only $4 .5 0. Everyday, dinner specials vary between $2.00 and $3.25. An entertain­ ing respite from the library!

CLUBS For a rise in spirts, one might sam ple

The Comedy Nest, 1234 Bishop, w hich offers six com edy shows a w eek. O n Fri­ day and Saturday, tw o perform ances are offered at 9:00 and 11:00 pm Sun­ day's show begins at 8 :3 0 pm. Thursday is Student N ite, with a 9:00 pm show costing $3.00. This month the C lu b is featuring the follow ing com edians: D ec 5-8 Johnathon Katz (a fre­ quent guest on The David Letterman Show) Dec 12-15 BarrySteiger (from N ew York) Dec 19-22 Jerem y Hotz (from Toronto) Also am ong M ontreal's mainstream of entertainm ent clubs are a num ber of places in w hich it is possible to preview up and com ing or novelty bands.

Tatou, 3519 St. Laurent, features live, danceable bands every night, satisfying fans of new w ave , rocka nd rhythm and blues. Happy H our is every day from 5:00 to 7:00 pm with special prices on beer and margueritas. There are also food specials as lo w as $3 .2 5. A list of artists w as not available for during the exam period. H o w ever, information can be obtained by calling 845-4337, or by reading one of th eir m any flyers posted throughout the city.

A variety of m usical talent m ay also be found at The Rising Sun, 286 St. C atherine, during finals. For those w ho favour rhythm and blues, The H oods w ill be playing on D ecem ber 5. The island beat of J.R . Express may be found there on D ecem ber 7th. Scab and U ltraviolence, of punk orientation, w ill

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m ake th e ir p re se n c e k n o w n on D ecem ber 8 th. Friday, the 13th w ill give you m ore than you bargained for w ith: D e to n a to rs, H u m u n g o u s, P ro b lem Children and Block Parents. Every M on­ day evening lends its ear to the "B lu e M onday Jam Session ." The Jim m y James Band plays D ecem ber 9th. For more information and ticket reserva­ tion, call 861-0657.

Fo ufo un es E le ctriq u e , 9 7 St. Catherine E., has m uch to offer in the w ay of tension relief. If you've never been there, be forwarned that the predominate dress is black. The club does not lim it itself to m usical talent, as every Sunday an artist is given a chance to reveal his style. A few highlights for the upcom ing w eeks include: Ray C ondo and His D ec 6 H ard R o ck C on ers, an exp erience in ro ckab illy. ($3) Record launch featur­ Dec 7 ing two punk groups, the Nils and Asexuals. ($3) Dec 16 Radio Art Im provisa­ tion $2. A n ex- perim ental form, m em bers of the group create sounds w ith m icrophones and other devices, (to be recorded live!)

D ec 19 Party (Cowboys and Cowgirls) Plans are being made for a "ro llick in g good tim e ."

Dec 20 M ontreal N o w is sponsoring a poetry reading Foufounes is aw ake every evening of the w ee k. Th ere's a cover of $2 on w eekends after the band has been cleared out. Plans are in motion for a N ew Year's Eve Ball (18th-Century style to usher in 1986) For more inform ation, or just to chat with a neat guy, call

849-5484.

O ne might w ant to step on over to Le Steppe, 5175 Parc, to preview a line-up of bands and entertainment during this month. Th e following are scheduled; D ec 5-7 Heart Crim e D ec 8 Insta Theatre - Im ­ provisation b y the Theatre Shm eatre Imp ro v League. C over is

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W e reach our term inus w ith Station 10 at 2071 St. C atherine St. W est. Sta­ tion 10 describes itself as "M ontreal's most arresting live m usic v e n u e ", and is open 3 pm to 3 am . Here are just a few highlights to steal you aw ay from study: D ec 5-7 M odern W orld and The Basics, tw o new bands with their own "pop -ro ck" twist Dec 13 The Cruesom es D ec 14 The Cruesom es and C o w b o y Junkies, the "reigning pyschedelic cham ps" The C ruesom es, play host to Toronto's "psychoblues p h enom enon," The C o w b o y Junkies Dec 20-21 H eartcrim e, "m e lo d ic pop w ith an ed ge" Dec 26-30 The Pink Z one (see article), Rhythm M eth o d , and V O T Days.

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C C —I'm not sure; M ike's death this JD —W hat is the jo urnal's artistic point the situations in the Third W orld , sum m er in a car accid ent has re a lly ' of view?

A frica, N icarag ua...I'm not saying you changed alot. He w as a very good C C — In the first issue w e thought that have to give up everything, but you friend of mine and there w as so much m aybe w e should have an aesthetic have to give back something for what of him in Lucky Jim 's...It w as tragic. statement about what w e believe, but you take. W e w ant to make people I've thought so m uch about it, I think w e never did. W e decided that the m ore aware.

I've reached acceptance, but it has m agazine would show that.

I don't see Lucky Jim 's as a socialist I think it's true that in Lucky Jim 's it changed alot. Every tim e I start w ork­ vo ice, w e don't have a manifesto. W e ing on (the journal) I think about him . doesn't matter w hat you say, but how are just trying to make people aware There is a memorial to him in the you say it. That m ay sound like a con­ that it's up to each individual to make latest issue. tradiction but it doesn't mean em ­ their own decisions. W e publish any It w as alw ays issue-to-issue, even phasizing form. Intensity is what is im ­ political staements. If someone wants then and it still is. W e 're putting portant. If there is an absolute transi­ to w rite something upholding the together an edition that w ill com e out tion from feelings to language without values of fascism , if it is w ell written in m id-February. W e have a box in the a loss of energy then those w ords w ill w e 'll publish it. W e have ad ex­ porter's office in the Arts Building for m ake you feel em otions. That's w hy c h a n g e s w it h m a g a z in e s lik e subm issions. In our last issue, w e great poems, great w orks of art last: Bulldozer w hich is published by mentioned that w e'd be interested in they capture that intensity. It doesn't prisoners, and w ith Reality N ow doing book reviews, and w e 've got a matter that two people may not ex­ w h ich is an anarchist paper. W e don't lot of response to that. Bill is working perience the same feeling, as long as necessarily support their ideas but on a science fiction issue that w ill be they both react. That's just my opi­ w e're w illing to give them a vo ice. W e published as a supplem ent. As w ell, nion. just try to put it all out and let people w e 'll be having a Lucky Jim 's poetry People have said that there's a lot of see it...It would be hard to say that reading at Café Prag in the third w eek obscenity—that kind of language, in Lucky jim ’s shows a particular point of of Jabuary, with a dollar admission the m agazine. That's not a conscious v ie w . W e don't try to. If I went charge, or free if you com e dressed as effort. I think it's because people can through this last issue I don't think your favourite poem. It should be fun. relate to those things.

Th ey com ­ there w ould be anything sp ecifically W e like to have fun w ith what w e're m unicate directly. political. There is a poem about doing, instead of w orrying about be­ Richard N ixo n —it's there because it's jD —W h ere do you see the magazine ing w riters and editors. going in the future? a good poem.

Arrested in O ttaw a continuée! from page S W e w ere all charged with disturbing the peace and public m ischief (crim inal charges w hich can net one jail terms).

W e pleaded not guilty and w ill fight a political trial. O u r trial w ill be some tim e between June and O ctober. W e w ere then released from custody.

It was, from our point of view , an in­ credibly successful action. W hether this w as our first action or our sixth, everyone had stood firm and uncow ed.

No one w as intim idated.

And this is, on the individual level, one of the most important benefits of doing civil disobedience. M any people are afraid of being arrested, afraid of go­ ing too far, of challenging the authority

of the state too directly. As a result, the authorities find them easy to control, and the peace m ovem ent poses no real threat. But, as m ore and more peace ac­ tivists dom esticate the experience of be­ ing arrested,w e may actually be able to becom e courageous enough as a m ove­ ment to actually change something.

C ivil disobedience, both because it has the p o w er to a c tu a lly stop something if enough people act and because it's em powerm ent of the peo­ ple goes straight to the root of the pro­ blem , has to take on the mass propor­ tions of the Am erican civil rights m ove­ ment or of the Indian independence m ovem ent and may save us if it does.

O u r bail conditions included the pro­ vision that w e not go anyw here near the

External Affairs Build ing until the charges against us are resolved in our trial. Th e Justice of the Peace explained that this meant w e w ere barred from a radius of several blocks around External Affairs.

W e w ere planning future actions in O ttawa in the spring, even before our trial, and are considering doing actions in the forbidden part of town to call at­ tention to the undem ocratic nature of the bail conditions.

W h y not join us and act for our freedom and yours, our survival and that of the planet? Contact Project Ploughshares M cG ill in Room 413 of the U nion Building or leave us a message in our box at the Students' Society G eneral O ffice.

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The McGill Tribune • W ednesday 4 December, 1985

SPG Ï5I3 From Under The Bleachers

by Frank Young

Photo-Lionel C h o w M c G ill's D en is Barette takes a shot at U Q T R 's C la u d e G u é rrard

the plight of little Tim m y Hubbard.

H oliday season is just around the cor­ Brian, or "M r. To d d " as w e call him ner, and this is the time of year to reflect around here, is an editor in the classic, upon the events of 1985, If I m ay, I'd gruff Lou G rant style. Yet under the like to share what for me w as the most tough-guy exterior beats a heart of 18 important occurence of this year. karat gold. After he had read the letter, I Although this colum n usually focuses noticed Brian brushing aw ay a tear or on the world of com petitive athletics, tw o. He looked up at me and said the follow ing story deals with the "Fran k , w e have to h e lp ". I knew exact­ human side of non-com petitive sports. ly how he felt.

O n O ctober 17th I received a letter I w alked around the spacious Tribune from a young reader in W estm ount. It offices showing the letter from Tim m y read: to all of the staffers. Assistant Editor "D e a r M r. Young, M y name is Tim m y M elanie C lu lo w read the letter and Hubbard and I am 8 years old. I read wrote out a cheque for $5. Her your newspaper every w eek, and it is generosity w as m atched by most of the m y most favourite newspaper. I alw ays other staff members here. Ad M anager read the sports section first because I Jack Berry, a man fam ous for his frugali­ w ant to grow up and play for M cG ill in ty, coughed up $3 for poor Tim m y. every sport. The reason that I am writing Thanks Jack. Production M anager Jacki to you is the econom y. Daddy says that D a n y lc h u k c o n t r ib u t e d $5 in because of the bad econom y, he can't Steinberg's vouchers so that the Hub­ buy me the pair of C C M Super Tacks bards could buy a Snack-N-Cake for that I want for my birthday. M y birthday Tim m y's birthday. W ild M an Ezra is on N ovem ber 15th. Mom says that Greenbert kicked in $4 and the alw ays Dad w on't buy me the skates because generous Adeeb Khalid gave a case of he is a "ch e a p dog” , but she says that empties to the fund. Even the reclusive all the tim e. I w as wondering if your M ike Smart got into the spirit by giving paper had a fund for needy kids. If you Tim m y his co llectio n of N ational do, could you please buy me a pair of Review m agazines. The grand total that Super Tacks for m y birthday? th e T im m y H u b b a rd Fu nd c o l­ Th ank Y o u " le c te d -in c lu d in g the $ 8 that a certain and it w as signed "T im m y H ubbard " Sports Editor contributed—was $27.97.

W e ll, I'm not too m acho a guy to ad­ O n N ovem ber 3rd, I set out to a spor­ mit that I cried for a long tim e w hen I ting goods store to buy little Tim m y his read that letter. The m ere thought of pair of brand new C C M Super Ta cks. I poor little Tim m y not getting skates for sought out the salesman and asked him his birthday w as too m uch for me to for a pair. W hen he brought them over, handle. In short, I wanted to help.

I thanked him for the jo y that he w as br­ I w ent to Editor-in-Chief Brian Todd inging into a poor W estm ount boy's life. with the letter to ask him for ad vice on I w alked over to the cashier feeling

ten feet tall. "C ash or charge?" she ask­ ed me. " C a s h " , I said. " O .K ." she said. "T h e skates are $ 1 6 1 .5 7 ." " W H A T ? " I yelled . She m erely pointed to the price tag on the skates. I told her that the last tim e I bought skates they w ere $20. She just shrugged. I left the store feeling hum iliated and som ehow cheated.

I w as on my w ay to another store when I ran into my roommate. I told him about what had happened to me, and he shook his head sadly. Then he asked me a question that changed everything. " F r a n k " , he said, " D o you have the ten bucks you owe me?"

W hat could I do? I gav& him a ten.

That left me with $17.97 to buy skates w ith. I w as so fed up with the whole situation by this point that I bought a carton of cigarettes and went home.

Sorry Tim m y, I guess that your pair of skates w as not meant to be. A belated Happy Birthday though.

H appy H olidays everyone.

Last w eeks trivia quiz brought in a flood of entries from all ten provinces and 17 countries. Thanks to all who entered.

The vvinner is...D a n n y Steinberg with a score of 25 1/2. Second place went to the w in n er of last year's quiz G uy D unkerly, and Iona M onk finished third. You can pick up you beer tickets at the Trib office in the U nion base­ ment.

Lots of G uts and G lo ry

by Jordan Waxman W h ile most of you w ere attempting to recover from the G rey C up w eekend, the members of the M cG ill Varsity Sw im m ing Team w ere getting over the two day Invitational Meet that took place last weekend at the C urrie Pool.

M cG ill Coach François Laurin says of the w eeken d: "T h is w as not the key meet. Although w e had a good showing this w eekend, w e are really priming for the Q U A A finals in Feb ruary."

N evertheless, M cG ill had an excellent showing at the Invitational, finishing third in a field of ten. O n ly the U n ive r­ sité de M ontréal and Brock finished ahead of the Red and W hite. O ther teams cam e from Laval, M iddlebury, V e r m o n t , P o ts d a m , N e w Y o r k , Carleton, O ttaw a, Sherbrooke and John Abbott College. Th is year's Invitational marked the first tim e that M cG ill has ever beaten Laval, a team with many nationally ranked sw im m ers.

The M artlets gave an exceptionally strong perform ance, finishing second.

The real anchorw om en of the team are the Venne sisters; C hantal and M anon, w ho earned nearly half of the M artlet's points. Manon won all three of her races, w h ile Chantal w on one. In addi­ tion, M anon qualified for the national cham pionships in all three events, w hile Chantal broke the M cG ill record in the 100 yard butterfly. " M y goal this ye ar" said C hantal, "is to w in the gold in the 200 'fly at the C lA U 's " .

O ther qualifiers for the Nationals w ere the versatile Cynthia Pincott and Brian Hasegawa, w ho both w on the 100 yard breastroke on Saturday. The final w inner for M cG ill w as Dom inique Berubé in the 100 yard butterfly.

Although Berubé has not yet qualified for the C lA U 's , his strong showing this early in the season m akes him a safe bet to do so.

The only dark spot for the team is the skimpy budget that they have to operate on. Recently, swim m ers w ere forced to buy their own swim suits and sweat-

shirts. To alleviate this problem , the sw im m ers have been holding bake sales tw ice a month in the U nion Building. As the semester draw s to a close, the Varsi­ ty team is preparing for its w eek training cam p in Pointe C laire . Last year, 25 var­ sity swim m ers flew to Lima Peru, so the gruelling schedule of 2 hours of sw im m ­ ing and 1 hour of weight training was eased by the sun and the w arm th.

Pointe C laire is not known for having such weather in D ecem ber. W h y , you might ask, would any clear-thinking in­ divid ual, instead of lying on a sunny beach or skiing down a powdery hill, swim five m iles a day in an oversized chlorinated bathtub? For that matter, w h y get up at 5:45 in the m orning, only to burn off a few thousand calories before anyone gets up? The reasons vary; to keep fit, to discipline one's time and m ind, to better one's all-time best or even to w in the gold. W hatever the reason, th e motto is the same for all sw im m ers—No G uts, No G lo ry.

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Sports Trivia in

by Morgan Roth W ondering what to buy the sports fan w ho has everything? Are you ever caught up in trivia w ars, stuck either for questions or answers? G rosvenor House offers an interesting alternative to the "Sports Illustrated" routine w ith W in­ ners: A C entury o f Canadian Sport.

T h e b o o k , c o - p u b lis h e c d by G rosvenor House and the C anadian p re ss, is sp o n so re d by M o lso n Brew eries in celebration of 200 years in the you-know-what business and a steady devotion to developing and pro­ moting Canadian ath le tics.W inners, is a 146 page soft cover com pilation of photos and short stories submitted by some of Canad a's best known sports w riters including D ick Beddoes, M atthew Fisher and G u y Robillard. W h ile a few of the articles

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com e across as hopelessly trite, others reflect the appropriate proportions of poignancy, w it and rah-rah-rah. Tw o of th e b e tte r s to rie s in c lu d e G u y Robillard's tribute to racer Jacques Villeneu ve and "T h e R ocket" by Terry Scott of the C anadian Press.

The photos alone are worth the price of the book w hich retails for a very reasonable $12.95. The book is filled with vintage press photos taken from C anada's m ajor sports archives and various private collections.

W inners is a good bet for sports fans of just about any age. It's a veritable catalogue of C anadian sports heroes and trivia designed for the sports aficianado. Thanks to M olson, the book is available in French as w e ll, under the ti­ tle Les Etoiles. Keep it in mind for the ho lid ays....

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Op tbe 1st day of Cijristipas ipy true loye gave to ipe... a debt-free Students’ Society on % 12th da? of Christmas m^ true love gave to me .. .

-twelve $5cGill Tribunes -eleven weehs of films -ten months ’til TCQ -90 clubs and groups -eight bands in Gertrude’s -seven council meetings -si*e Network Committees

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W o m en 's Ruggers W rap -u p Season

by C ath erin e Mégias So, yo u've been wondering about rugby...

W e ll, w onder no m ore—this is the final scoop of the season.

The M cG ill W o m en's Rugby C lub has "d o n e goo d" this year.

About a month ago, these valiant w o m e n c o n fro n te d M a r ia n o p o lis , Cham plain, Bishop's and John Abbott in their last league tournam ent held at the John Abbot cam pus. Th ey played C ham plain and Conco rd ia early in the

day, w on both games and w ent on to play John Abbott in the finals.

J.A . dominated the first half and scored one converted try. M cG ill struck back with som e pow er plays in the se­ cond half but w ere unable to get the ball down in the enem y end-zone. The final w histle blew and M cG ill saw one of their few losses of the season. There w ere tears, but most scraped together some sm iles and cheers as they ac­ cepted the 2 nd place trophy.

The following w eekend both the

m en's and w om en's teams piled into two buses and motored down to Har­ v a rd -C rim s o n " Iv y " territory—for their end-of-the-season game.

The wom en played tw o games; the first against the Radcliffe A 's and the se­ cond against the B team . The opening game w as slightly unbalanced as the Radcliffe team seized control, set up great plays and capitalized on M cG ill's m istakes. By the end of the first half they had scored tw ice and the red & white w ere trailing 13-0.

Red hoes Roasted By Ref

by Alex Murphy and Derek Milliker The Université de Q uébec à Trois Rivieres (U Q TR ) dow ned the M cG ill Redmen in a hard fought hockey game played at the M cC o n n e ll W in te r Stadium Saturday afternoon.

M cG ill appeared to have a control throughout most of the game and, in fact, led until the last ten m inutes. Denis Barette put M cG ill on the score sheet with a quick goal nineteen secondes in­ to game, w hile Doug Harrison and M ark Reade chipped in assists on that play. After M cG ill player, John Harris w ent off on a stretcher as a result of be­ ing rammed into the boards by an unidentified flying Trois Rivieres player, the game becam e m uch chippier, with M cG ill holding the advantage of play.

M cG ill w as able to maintain its lead after the first period after scoring at 15:04, and M ike Tschum i stretched the lead to two with two minutes left in the first period, thus negating the U Q T R goals scored m id-way through the first period.

The second period w as still M cG ill's as they increased their lead to three by m aking the score 6-3. As a sidelight, U Q T R played the game under protest after a U Q T R official w as assessed a bench m inor for ’ using unsavoury language towards the referee at the end of the first period. U Q T R had tw o goals back to back m idw ay through the se­ cond period and appeared to be gaining m om entum . H o w ever, M cG ill roared

Postcards Protest co n tin u e d fro m page 3 graduated, not part tim e or sum m er jo b s ," he said. " W e w ere not consulted at all. Youth unem ploym ent is an important issue and the Centre w as producing better results than most norm al job centres, so I don't know w h y it's being c u t."

back with two goals of their ow n: Doug Harrison w as assisted by D enis Barette on the fifth M cG ill goal and D avid D ucharm e rounded out the M cG ill scoring at the end of the second period.

A hockey game does have three periods and this little oversight on the part of the Redmen cost them two valuable points in the Q uebec U niversi­ ty H ockey League. U Q T R scored three unanswered goals in the third and Yvan G enereux scored the game w in n er in overtim e. As part of the usual com plaint

of poor refereeing that most losing teams have after losing a close game, a special note of interest w ill be made here. Th is tim e, M cG ill w as assessed a two-minute m inor in the extra period for delay of the game after a player was tying his skate up on the ice. A penalty call of this low calibere has never been called in overtim e before, so the theory that the ref wanted to m ake a nam e for him self may hold w ater. Perhaps the fan w ho threw beer at the ref and the linesmen had the best response of all.

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Track: Sunday at Laval—M cG ill w on 6 of 1° events. Rosem arie W alker qualified for the C IA U nationals with a tim e of 6.81 seconds in the 50 metre sprint.

Fin a l sta n d in g s: 1. McGill - 43 2. Sherbrooks - 27 3. Laval - 7 Football:

Hockey: M a rtlet R esu lts N ovem ber 22nd R ed m en R e su lts: N ovem ber 30th

want to consult u s ," he said. O n e of these if for the federal governm ent to provide funds directly to the University to run the Centre.

But it all depends on the success of the postcard cam paign. So don't throw them aw ay; sign them and send them on. They don't even require a stamp!

sim ilar charge at the U niversity of W aterloo and the students there are fighting against it. Th e danger of calling it an 'adm inistrative cost' is that w e know it w ill increase every year, in step with inflation. There w ould be no w ay of controlling how m uch they dem and.

"T h is w ould be pretty underhanded w ay to getting around the event that the provincial government does not in­ crease fees. It means M cG ill can get

m ore m oney from its students without further contributions from the govern­ m ent."

Since the Senate does not deal with financial matters, the Senators w ill not be asked to vote on this recom m enda­ tion by the Budget and Planning C om ­ mittee. The issue w ill go directly to the Board of G overnors in January, 1986. If approved, the $ 1 0 0 charge w ould be implem ented in September, 1986.

timidated to speak their m in d s." She went on to add that she too had felt un­ sure during her first year, on the Daily, "not so m uch for political reasons but for lack of exp erien ce." She feels that as new members gain exp erience with the workings of the new spaper, they w ill naturally becom e m ore confident in ex­ pressing their view s. "T h e D aily is a par­ ticipatory d e m o cracy," said W ittstock, "b u t of course those w ho do the most have the most sa y ."

As to Costain's letter of resignation, W ittstock said she had originally understood that he w as resigning for

personal reasons, but w as nonetheless disposed to consider his recom m enda­ tions.

"Th e re is no anim osity between Robert and m yself," said W ittstock. "A s a result of his suggestions, the D aily w ill aim at m ore cam pus coverage, and has vetoed the publication of unsigned per­ sonal attacks, p a rticu la rly in the classified sectio n."

"R obert's been an active staffer for three y e a rs," said W ittstock. " H e represents a m ore moderate point of view , w h ich is good. It w ould be really awful if the paper w ere m o n o lith ic."

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Joli-Coeur has written a letter on the matter to Flora M acD onald , the federal m inister of Em ploym ent and Im migra­ tion, but has not received a reply. He hopes that the postcard campaign w ould succeed in getting M cG ill representatives a meeting with M ac­ Donald.

W e 've m any proposals if only they

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co n tin u e d fro m page 3 must aim to restore its credibility on cam pus by elim inating personal and in­ sulting criticism s both on and off the editorial pages.

"Peo ple have expected the Daily to change and it has remained static," said Costain. "T h e anger I have seen com ing from students toward the D aily is more intense than I have ever seen it."

Daily Editor-in-Chief M elinda Witts to c k c o m m e n te d on C o s t a in 's criticism s. "A s D aily staffers its not in job description to read m inds. The D aily has a really open policy and I don't understand w hy people would feel in­

zoom ing w ho ?"

The bus ride back w as rem iniscent of the m ovie "A nim al H o u se" (complete with rookie runs, elephant w alks and Kangaroo Kourt) and with a few delays and detours to hospitals som ewhere in Verm ont, the squads on the party bus made it back safely to M ontreal.

A w ild tim e w as had by all and some good, hard-hitting rugvy w as played. If enough interest is stirred up, w e w ill be looking forward to a spring season.

W anna play rugby? G et in touch with V icki Karoutas or Catherine Mégias at 937-1200.

In the m eantim e, good luck to our w ing forward Lorie Kiteala w ho w ill be graduating at Christm as and happy holidays to all the ruggers. It's been a great season, see you next year!

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C raw h all is also concerned that addi­ tional session graduate students might be required to pay the fee. He intends to pursue the matter at Senate in January.

Senator Mark Sim mons remarked that, " it is largely an issue of semantics.

I know that they have demanded a

There w as m uch effort at a decent half-time pep talk but the squad just couldn't get it together, although the se­ cond half saw M cG ill dom inating.

Radcliffe w ent on to score o nce more and they romped to a 19-0 victo ry over M cG ill.

After that devastating loss some of the girls decided to dip into the kegs that w ere so generously supplied by the Harvard Rugby C lu b . Later in the after­ noon, the girls played the Radcliffe B's and cam e out on top by a score of 14-3.

Most of the great plays w ere missed w hile this reporter w as busy taking m em orable snapshots. Congratulations to those girls w ho scored, I guess you know w ho you are!!!

The rest of the w eekend w as spent partying, sightseeing and scoping for the perfect "sc o o p " (w ink!) "W h o 's

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