The McGill Tribune Vol. 05 Issue 24

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T H E MCG I L L T R IB U N E Volume 5, Number 24

Published by the Students' Society of McGill University

Wenesday 2 April, 1986

Senate approves Ombudsman, Tables EEGGS

by Adeeb Khalid M c G ill w ill soon Have a U niversity O m b u d sm a n . At its m eetin g last W ed n esd ay, Senate passed a motion recom m ending to the Board fo G o v e r­ nors that it appoint "a respected m em ber of the M c G ill facu lty" to this position.

Th e debate on the Term s of Reference of the position was, how ever, tabled.

These are to be considered at the next m eeting of Senate, and in clu d e the fin an cia l side of the matter.

Th e resolution, m oved by Students Senators Robert W ilso n -S m ith and James G ree n , com es as the culm ination of longstanding student dem ands for the appointm ent of a U niversity O m ­ budsm an. Cu rren tly, grievances are heard by the D ean of Students or by the S tu d e n ts' S o c ie ty (StudSoc) O m ­ budsm an.

How ever, W ilso n -Sm ith and G reen argued that in their resolution that both of these positions are "v u ln e ra b le to conflict of interest situations." Th e ir resolution calls for the appointm ent of a faculty m em ber w ho has "garnered the acq u ain tan ce and respect of the U nive r­ sity staff and student body" during his or her tenure at M c G ill.

Th e issue of the expenses incurred proved co n tro versial. Altho ugh all speakers saw the notion of the O m ­ budsm an as laudable, m any faculty m em bers o f Senate spoke unfavourable of the expenses involved.

"It is a laudable m otion but it takes aw ay m oney from a ca d e m ic opera­ tions," D ean of Arts M ichael M axw ell said. "It is im perative that we don't put m ore m oney into adm inistration when w e are so short of m on ey."

Student Senators, however, spoke of the a cad e m ic benefits the appointm ent w o u ld p ro vid e . G ra d u a te Senator Ram esh Singal argued that satisfactory g rievance procedure w ould "re lie ve pressure on students, and im prove their acad e m ic perform ance."

G ree n spoke of the necessity of ensur­ ing due process of all com plaints. "T he U niversity rarely has the opportunity of doing so m uch good for so little m o n ey," he said.

A cco rd in g to the Term s of Reference proposed by the movers of the resol u-

tion, the $10 ,0 0 0 stipend was to be financed jo in tly by the"adm inistration and students, with StudSoc, the various faculty societies, and the M c G ill Association of C o n tinuin g Education Students paying half the cost.

EEGGS Senate also tabled debate on a motion to recognize the Electrical Engineering

G raduate Students' Society (EEGGS) and to receive its constitution. A second m otion asking for the U niversity to c o l­ lect fees for the new society w as also tabled. Th e constitution has been refer­ red to Senate's new ly formed Standing Com m ittee on Student A ssociation C o n ­ stitutions.

E E G G S has been trying for som e time now to get the U niversity's recognition.

T h e society has been incorporated under Q u é b e c's Bill 32 under w h ich

they started looking into the constitu­ tio n s of e v e ry little 2 0 0 -m e m b e r associatio n," he said.

Although the E E G G S representatives had been given speaking rights, the m o­ tion to table was passed before they co u ld be exercised.

In other business, Senate received the new StudSoc constitution approved by students in a u niversity-w ide referen­ dum last M onth.

CFRM By-laws Approved By Council

39 Steps frontman, a deathly variation of the Cult, see page 6 Photo — Ezra Greenberg

D issid ent D epicts Life In The USSR

by Bilguisse Visram O ce a n ia , Thoughtcrim e, and the Thoughtp olice seem ed synonym ous to life in the Soviet U nio n , as it was described by V la d m ir B ukovsky ad­ dressed the issue of hom an rights, or rather, the lack of hum an rights, in the Soviet U nio n . A Soviet dissident w ho spent m any years in and out of prisons, p sy c h ia tric in stitu tio n s, and e x ile , Bukovsky depicted a social situation w h ich m ade the large a u d ien ce grateful to be C anad ian .

"I believe it goes far beyond hum an rights violations; it's exterm ination," said B u ko vsky of the C o m m u n ist governm ent's treatment of civilia n s. He spoke of a "non-free, non-dem ocratic country, w here fear becom es ingrained in the peop le.”

Th e hour-long lecture addressed the governm ent's efforts to crush the growth of the hum an rights m ovem ent in the country. Bukovsky told of how Soviet citizens because of the harsh consequences facing p olitical activists in the Soviet U nio n , try desperately to b eleive Soviet propoganda, and to ra­ tio n alize the actions of the C om m unist regim e. H e depicted a population a m o n g s t w h ic h a lc o h o lis m an d sch izo p h ren ia are ram pant, and w hich lives by the motto of "thin k one thing, say another, and do a th ird ."

A cco rd in g to Bukovsky, Soviet society is based on co llective irresponsibility. " W e becom e a cco m p lices in the crim es

a n y student group can gain accredita­ tion and the right to have the university co llect its fees.

Several Senators spoke against the m otion. Arts Senator M ark W a rn e r was. con cern ed about the precedent the co l­ lection of fees w ould set and its im p lica ­ tions for student solidarity.

"T h e group in question is far too sm all for us even to listen to. It w ould be a waste of tim e for both Senate and the Com m ittee (on Student Constitutions) if

of the State, whether w e want to or not.

You either becom e involved in mass m urder (the crim es of the State) or be m urdered."

B uko vsky's ow n generation was described as one in w h ich silen ce, inactivitiy, and accep tance bred a very strong feeling of c o m p lic ity . Th e ultim ate result was an overw helm ing need to attempt som e change or reform.

H en ce, the growth of the hum an rights m ovem ent. Bukovsky pointed ot the Soviet interventions in both H ungary and C ze ch o slo va kia, as statements, not on ly to the outside w orld, but e q ually, to the restless Soviet population. "Yo u cannot appeal to com m on sense or m ercy. T h e y w ill do what they w ant."

H e referred constantly to "the terror" w h ich is exercised by the Soviety governm ent, through various scare tac­ tics. Th e use of psychiatric hospitals as political prisons, is amongst the most p o p u la r an d d istre s sin g . " P e o p le w ouldn't m ind losing their lives, but not their m inds."

The oppression of the Russian people seemed even m ore futile, w hen Bukov­ sky dism issed the Com m un ist ideology as obsolete, cla im in g that Khrushchev had probablt been the last Soviet leader to really b elieve in C o m m u n ism . A cco r­ d ing to Bukovsky, the Soviet U nion has evolved from a nation based on Socialist ideology, to one based on the ever-present threat of w ar—a threat issued by the governm ent itself.

"It's very frightening. You don't know about the past or the present, but the future is given to y o u ." T h is O rw e llia n tone pervaded Bukovsky's entire lec­ ture, but he closed on a hopeful note, telling of a m eeting he had had, m any years ago, in Paris, with a discouraged Po lish dissident. Th is friend had lost any hope for political reform in his country, o n ly to return to Poland three years late, to find thirty m illio n people m arching under the b anner of Solidarity.

by Brian Todd Students' C o u n cil em phasized the im ­ portance of student representation at the "n e w " Radio M c G ill (CFRM ) when it passed the by-law s of the station last w eek.

Said Arts Representative to C o u n cil M aria Lang, in support of her m otions to increase student m em bership on the ex­ ecutive com m ittee of the new station, "It's our duty to tinker with it (the b y­ laws). It's our last ch an ce to m ake sure it represents the interests of students."

Lang proposed three am endm ents to the by-law s. Th e first m otion increased the num ber of students-at-large on the Board of Directors from one to three and reduced the num ber of Student C o u n cillo rs to one from two. M edical Rep N e ill W right com m ented in favour of the m otion, "If w e're paying for the station, we should have m ajority co n ­ trol (of the Board of D irectors).”

Th e am endm ent w h ich effectively gives students m ajority control of the Board w h ich is "em pow ered to make all decision s and take all actions on b ehalf" of the station, was passed by C o u n c il easily.

Lang's second and third am endm ents dealt with the Executive Com m ittee of the station. Th e first am endm ent added a student m em ber to the Executive Com m ittee.

An additional clause w ou ld have denied the Executive D irector of the Students" Society (StudSoc) of his vote on the com m ittee. James G re e n , Stud­ Soc President, argued against the m o­ t io n . " T h e E x e c u t iv e D ir e c t o r represents the interests of students."

Lang did not, however, agree with this line of reasoning. "From m y vie w ­ point, there's no w ay that he represents students at large." N eill W right echoed this sentim ent, "I don't like the prece­ dent w hereby the Executive D irector of the Students' Society represents the

students." Th e clause den yin g the Ex­ ecutive D irector a vote was defeated but Lang was successful in her attempt to add a student m em ber to the C o m ­ mittee. Th e Executive Com m ittee co n ­ trols the d ay-to -d ay operations of the station. s In her third am endm ent, Lang again tried to stress student representation on th e E x e c u t iv e C o m m it t e e by establishing quorum as three m embers in clu d in g one student. (The Ch airm an and Secretary of the Executive C o m m it­ tee are elected from the Board of D ire c­ tors w h ile the Station M anager, a fu ll­ tim e em ployee, is hired by the Board of Directors.)

Ram esh Singal, G rad u ate Senator, supported Lang's m otion but w ished to strengthen it by adding a Student C o u n ­ c illo r to the Executive, a m otion w hich was defeated. Said Singal, "I don't like the idea of non-students controlling the executive."

G ree n arguing against the motion sug­ gested that "T h e Board of Directors w ill now be in the m ajority students, if they want students they can elect students to office as Secretary."

Lang's m otion was put to a vote w here a tie resulted. Keith D enm an, as C h air, was thus able to vote for the first tim e this year and the m otion was car­ ried.

No SIR am endm ent was suggested after current Station M anager MarthaM arie Kleinhans explained, "A lthough it's a good thing and several stations have it, the m ore recently licensed sta­ tions don't. Th e C R T C seems to have sw ung aw ay from this. T h e y have to know that som ething that is set-up is go­ ing to last."

C o u n c il lost the requisite tw o-thirds m ajority necessary for approval of the Students' Society by-law s late in the m eeting and they were thus tabled until the next meeting.

Lilienthal Decries Zionism

by Adeeb Khalid "T h e continuous hankering of the m edia over the H olocaust forms a co ver-up over what is going on right now in the M id d le east," said Alfred Lilienthal at M c G ill last W edn esday. " T h e m edia has played incessently on the them e of one of the ugliest episodes of hum an history, but I don't see what that has to do whatsoever with what is happening in the M id d le East now ."

Lilienthal, author of "Israel's Flag Is Not M in e" and of the books W hat Price Israel? and The Zion ist C o n n e ctio n , was speaking on "Terrorism in the M iddle East: Th e D o u b le Standard." A Jew him self, Lilien thal was careful to distinguish Judaism from Z io n ism . "B e ­ ing a good Jew does not in volve na-

tionalism for Israel," he said.

From this perspective, he offered a historical survey of the current problem .

"H isto ry does not support the conten­ tion of (the Zionist) claim to 'their' Palestine," he said, pointing out that ten of the tw elve original tribes of Israel had disappeared. " H o w can one cla im des­ cent from that sm all group? Th e over­ w h elm in g m ajority of the present-day w orld Jewry is descended from Zhazars w ho converted to Ju d aism ," he said, citin g anthropological authority.

"Repression and suppression co n ­ tinue in Israeli-o ccup ied territories but we don't hear about it," Lilienthal said.

Israel kjlled 385 people in its raid on Beirut in 19 8 1 , m ore than the num ber of casualties it had suffered from Palesti-

nians in the entire period of its ex­ istence, he pointed out.

"T h e obnoxious law of the British rule in Palestine, w h ich allow s for a six month arrest without trial, is applied by Israel on the W est Bank."

Yet, North A m erican m edia seldom point that out. Instead, we are offered vastly oversim plified pictures of the pro­ blem . " W e all suffer from label-itis,' a disease W estern civiliza tio n m ight fall into," Lilienthal quipped. Con flicts are reduced to b lack-and -w hite im ages. "In the M id d le East, we now have the 'v ic­ tims of the Holocaust' versus the 'ter­ rorists'." " W e must rem ove the word 'terror' from ou r discussion of the M id d le East, continued on page 9

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m um Wednesday, April 2 Women's Union — Final Meeting.

D iscussion of plans and goals for this sum m er and next year. A ll w elcom e.

U nion B uild in g. Rm. 4 23. 4:30.

Educate to Liberate Day — W e a r your button.

McGill Ski Team Election Meeting — 6:00 in Room 408-409 of the C u rrie G y m . An im portant election meeting w h ich all m em bers must attend. Arrive on tim e or lose you r vote.

McGill Film Society presents — The Third Man at 8:00 p.m . in the U nion Ballroom . Free adm ission. Snacks w ill be sold.

Carl Beigie — speaking on Free Trade.

Part of A IESEC's international speakers program . Beigie is director and chief econom ist of D o m in io n Securities Pitfield. Leaco ck 1 2 at 4 :30 p.m .

Around the Fireplace — conversation and hot choco late with Rev. H elm ut Saabas and Rev. Fr. Andreas D esypris at 3484 Peel. At 4:00 p.m.

IIIIIa T 8 (n follow . 3:00 p.m . in Leacock 13 .

Presented by the PoliSci Students' A ssociation and the Com m ittee of H istory of the Philosop hy of Science.

Bible Study — Not just Yes and Am en.

Leader C h r is F e rg u so n , Presbyterian/U nited C h u rch C h a p la in ­ cy. 7 :3 0 to 9:00 p.m . at 3 5 2 1 U niversity St. (Saint M artha's-in-the-basem ent).

Reflections on the MacDonald Report — A lecture by Dr. Albert Breton, Econom ics professor at the U niversity of Toronto. 8 :30 p.m . in Room H -9 3 7 of the H a ll B uildin g, 14 5 5 de M aison­ neuve Boulevard W est

m y Sunday, April 6 Worship — at Saint M artha's-in-thebasem ent. 10 :3 0 a.m . at 3 5 2 1 U nive rsi­ ty. Brunch follows.

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Around the Fireplace — Conversation and H ot C h o co late with Rev. Helm ut Saabas and Rev. Fr. Andreas D esypris at 3484 Peel St. at noon. ^ Live Jazz — in the A lle y with Faculty of M usic students. 9:00 p.m . Free adm is­ sion.

Tuesday, April 8 Drop-in-at-Newman — with Rev. C h ris Ferguson. 9:00 a.m . to 1 1 :3 0 a.m .

C h a p la in c y Service, 3484 Peel.

Friday, April 4 Radio McGill Executive Elections — N om ination s close today for these posi­ tions: Station M anager, M usic Director, M usical Program m e Director, Informa­ tional Program m e Director, C o m m un ity A ccess and Educational Program me D irector, Sports Director, Production D irecto r, Program G u id e Co-o rdinato r, Tw o Reps to Board of Directors. Elec-

Thursday, April 3 P.C. McGill — Annual Executive Elec­ tions. U nio n B uild in g, Room 4 25 -4 2 6 at 5:00 p.m.

McGill Film Society presents — The African Queen in con ju n ction with the M c G ill Masters of Scie n ce in N ursing C o lle agu e sh ip . A ll proceeds go to ch a ri­ ty. Adm ission is $2.0 0 . Film at 8:00 in Leaco ck 1 3 2 .

Politics of Romanticism — H auke Brunkhurst, professor of philosop hy and sociology from the G oeth e U niversity in Frankfurt. Free w ine and cheese to

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Letters To The Tribune To the Tribune: It is unfortunate that the staff of the D aily was im peached by the student referendum . H ow ever, the vengeful and insulting tone of the M arch 19 D aily serves o n ly to reassure the paper's har­ shest critics that im peachm ent was justified. I personally found the snob­ b e ry and p re su m p tio n s of m oral superiority on the part of W eston et al thoroughly offensive. I don't believe that those w ho voted YES on the im ­ peachm ent question wanted to "K ill the D a ily ." I believe on ly that they wanted a better paper; one that is sensitive to the issues referred to by W eston et al but also sensitive to the spectrum of view s on these issues w ithin the M c G ill com m unity. Just because one disagrees with the shrillness of the D aily does not m ean that he is any less concerned about "so cial injustice, racism , sexism, hom ophobia and other crim es against h u m an ity."

Th e readers of the D aily have express­ ed their d em ocratic decision . It was an unorthodox and unfortunate treatment of free speech at M c G ill. Such a referen­ dum should not be repeated. H ow ever there must be some w ay of seeking a better b alance between the desire for accountab ility to the students w hose fees finance the D aily and the need to protect the paper from political abuse and intim idation.

Th e solution, I think, is to have the D PS Board (w hich all of us elect) ap ­ point the paper's m anaging editors, bas­ ed on m e r ito c r a tic ra th e r th an id eo logical criteria. Th is w ould not usurp the staff's editorial discretion. Th e Board has alw ays controlled the D a ily 's pursestrings and has not abused this power to influence the content of the Daily.

I urge the new staff and Board to co n ­ sider develop ing new m echanism s to better serve the dual goals of jo u r­ nalistic autonom y and accou n tab ility to the D aily's readers. I b elieve that responsible Board control can allo w for both.

In closing, I am sorry that the volunteers of a M c G ill paper had to be im peached. Th e staff of the D aily have invested m uch com m itm ent and energy in the paper. T h e y should be com m end­ ed for the unique and provocative co n ­ tribution to the M c G ill co m m unity. But M c G ill students have expressed their o p in io n . It is now tim e for all of us to en­ courage a new D aily staff to reshape the paper into something we can all sup­ port, even if w e don't alw ays agree with what w e read in it.

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To the Tribune: Th e follow ing letter was sent to the D aily on February 7 on the assum ptiopn that the D aily's legitim acy rested on its com m itm ent to publish the letters of students with a variety of op in ion s. Th e point of this letter w as not to attack cur­ rent m em bers of the D aily 's staff, but to suggest that the problem s w h ich emerg­ ed in connection with them are in­ herent in the Statement of Principles on w h ich their editorial p o licy was based — and on w h ich future editorial p olicies w ill also be based. Firing the staff has not solved the problem . Rethinking the Statement of Principles m ight do so.

A p p a r e n t ly t h e r e 's w id e s p r e a d dissatisfaction with the D aily. I'm not a lo n e . Rather than w ra n g le over specific issues raised by the D aily's co n ­ tent, I want to com m ent on som e underlying problem s raised by the con­ troversy itself.

Yes, I'm one of those w h o think the D aily should be more 'representative' of its constituency. But no, I don't mean that the D aily should con duct opinion polls before p ublishing anything. Nor do I m ean that the D aily should present

'balanced' coverage by publishing two opposing view points on every issue.

Editors of the D aily m ay legitim ately take an y position they want on any issue. That's fair enough. After all, those w h o d is lik e the D a ily 's p o litic a l ideo logy are at least th eoretically free to change it by jo in in g the staff — or they can write letters and expect them to be p ublished. W h at I do m ean by 'representative' is that the D aily should reflect the nature of M c G ill as an academ ic institution. U niversities are in ­ tellectual laboratories — or at least they should be. Th e answer, then, is to help students exam ine ideas critically. A c co r­ ding to the Statement of Principles published in the D aily for February 5, the student press must "c ritic a lly sup­ port the aim s of groups serving as agents of social ch an ge.” T h is sounds very edi-

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Is ASUS Worth Having?

Frequently these days, the ca ll for less governm ent echoes through our society and its m edia. For m any of us, it's a call w h ich rings somewhat hollow , and so to vo ice concern at the bureaucratization of student govern­ ment m ay seem a little presposterous. Nevertheless, it seems appropriate to evaluate what M c G ill students actually receive from the roughly. $60 they pay a n n u a lly to the m yriad of student organizations that represents them.

Thus, it was interesting to note that the new ly elected executive of the Arts and Scien ce U ndergraduate Society plans to offer less rather than m ore ser­ vice s to its students next year.

President-elect Rye Sym ons, com m enting on the Big Brothers/Big Sisters orientation system instituted this year by the A SU S, suggested the program "w o u ld be better handled at the departm ental le ve l." W a rd Brown, the new vice-president Fin an ce, also advocates delegating A SU S responsibilities. He feels departm ental associations should have control over student course evaluations because "A S U S control is too cum b ersom e." V P Arts M a rk H o ld er con curs with Brown and indicates vaguely he w ould "heighten aw areness" of students to the ASU S. It's refreshing to see student p olitician s w ho are not in clin e d to guard je a lo u sly the power of their offices. But one must w onder what w ill be left for the A SU S to do. A S U S executives typ ica lly engage in a frantic search each year for w ays to spend student m oney. Most d isco ver that su bsid izin g parties (the graduation ball in particular) is the sim plest w ay to avoid em barassing budget surpluses; m eanw hile, this year, student jo u rn a ls—w h ich have been burgeoning in the last tw o years—have had their budgets cut back.

Indeed, it is difficult to see what is an appropriate role for an organization representing constituents w ith such disparate interests as Arts and Science students. O th er faculty associations like Engineering M anagem ent and the sm aller schools serve a far and involvem ent in the associations' activities.

Th e roles of other student organizations, too, are m uch better defined. The Students' Society operates the U niversity Centre and represents student con­ cerns to the U niversity and to governm ent; departm ental associations act as liason between faculty and students and provide m ore specific services like lectures and the student jo u rn als; and, for better or for worse, the D PS brings students the D a ily four tim es each week.

There is no sim ila rly w ell articulated responsibility for an interm ediatelevel organization like the ASU S. Indeed, w e are led to co n clu d e that the A S U S should be dissolved and its budget disributed am ong the departm ental associations. Barring this, how ever, we have a word of ad vice for H older, w ho wants to raise students' consciousness of the ASU S: better to keep a low profile and hang on to yo u r keys to the executive washroom .

as a m ajor role of the student press.

Justice and truth are closely related, but they're not synonym ous; the form er is dependent on the latter. I can o n ly co n ­ clu d e that the editors of the D aily feel no need to seek truth, as such, because they think they already know it. Behind m uch of what I read in the D aily is the false — and dangerous — assum ption that the truth is obvious; the im p lica ­ tion, of course, is that anyone w ho doesn't see the truth as the D aily does must be stupid, or ignorant — or evil.

Frankly, I can't rem em ber reading anything in the D aily w h ich took seriously a n y positions other than the continued on page 9

tying, to be sure, but what can 'critica l­ ly' mean in such a context? Th e im p lica ­ tion seems to be that students should be critical (in the com m on sense of the word) of groups other than the ones supported by the D aily. That isn't the sam e as criticism (in the sch olarly sense) w h ich is applied in particular cases to the act of thinking itself. Th e D aily wants to convert people, not to make them th ink about ideas.

A cco rd in g to the Statement of Prin­ cip les, "the m ajor role of the student press is to act as an agent of social ch a n g e ." A noble goal, indeed. But I'm astonished to find not a single unam ­ biguous reference to the pursuit of truth

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by Andrew W illiam son Everyone, I im agine, has been in a position at least on ce in his life, when he has sat b ack and said, "M y C o d , w hat am I doing here?" Unfortunately, such was m y predicam ent last Thursday e vening at the M ontreal debut of To ron ­ to's Cats C an Fly in the U nion Ballroom .

First of all, 'C u rio u s Billin g of the M onth' award goes to the (mis)match in g of C C F with opening locals 39 Steps. If the C C F boys are the type you'd g lad ly bring hom e to meet mom over lu n ch , then 39 Steps, to paraphrase Mr. A lle n in his latest film , w ould probably end up having m om for lu n ch . At least that's the im age they'd like to convey.

Look closer, though, their hard stares at the au d ie n ce are tem pered by even harder stares at their instruments. W hat is m ore, the lead singer's frustrated m eanderings are d ue not to the pent-up angst of youth, but probably o verin ­ d u lg en ce before the show.

Rum our has it that 39 Steps have closer links with current hype sensation The Cult than just touring with them .

A p p aren tly their frontm an was once part of the e m b ryo n ic Southern Death Cult, and the Big G u ita r Sound of The C u lt pops up with 39 Steps again—and again, and again, and...

Potentially interesting outbursts were detoured som ew here in the m ixing board and it a ctu a lly took an effort to recognize a cover of " G lo ria " .

W h e n trying to m ake out the un decip h erab le lyrics, I found I w as safe in substituting the word "death" and its d e riva tive s instead. Th e attempted ca ca p h o n y w h ich w ound dow n the-set w as greeting with polite applause from the several dozen w ho saw the set through: Patti Smith would have sm iled (contrary to p opular belief, 39 Steps' lead singer is not Patti Sm ith—she had m ore arm pit hair). A com m ent thrown out in m id-set: "T h is stage is pretty b ig " —that w as s a rc a s m :" y o u can alm ost get lost on it" —that was w ishful thinking.

W hether the a u d ie n ce num ber a c­ tually sw elled for m ain event Cats Can Fly or if people just decided to emerge

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from hibernation in the depths of the shadow s, it's hard to say, but it seems as if they got their m oney's worth. Th is is said in light of the fact that M itchell James, Peter A lexander, D avid Ashley, and Eddie Zeem an w ere ob viously preaching to a converted congregationtheir first w id e ly played single, "F lip p in ' to the A S id e ", and fo llow -up "Lies Are G o n n a G e t Y o u " , w il have attracted m any.

Th e rest of the set w as m ore of the sam e—live ly rhythm varying now and them from the norm , and com petent guitar w ork backed by safe keyboards and bass. H ow ever, their cheerful, ef­ fervescent stage presence m ade them that m u ch better than o ve r the w ireless—there was even success with the old "le t's-all-clap -o ver-o ur-h e ad ss o -w e -k n o w -w e 're -h a v in g -fu n " tric k.

A ll in a ll, they cam e across as nice boys p laying n ice m usic for nice people, and taken on that level there's not m uch room for criticism .

H ow ever, a n y A& R m an can take four clean cut lads with m in im al creativity and m usical skill, give them C E G E P haircuts, sent them off to Eaton's ju n io r fashion departm ent and w in a place on the C a n a d ian content playlist on most A M and FM stations. If yo u're in a band, polish yo u r sound and looks to_ the point of nausea and m ake sure you get produced to death in the studio and you, too, and jo in the flighty w orld of Platinum Blonde, H oneym oon Suite, and Cats Can Fly.

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by Sue Motyka Ginger and Fred, the latest film from Italian director Federico F e llin i, is som ething of a paradox: it is an assault, yet ch arm ing at the same tim e. Using techniques and them es present in m any of his previous film s, Fellini presents us with a view of W estern society that is none too pleasant.

O n a basic level, the subject of the film is television (as a representative of the electronic m edia) and its presence in society. Th e question of its effect is not dealt with d irectly, but rather im ­ p lied, and this approach m ay account for the charm of the work. In true Fellini style, the absurd elem ents of the world surrounding us are pushed to the forefront and m ade to speak- for them selves. In w h ich other recent film can w e find loo k-alikes of Ronald Reagan and T e lly Savalas (Kojak) shar­ ing a cigarette in the lobby of a hotel in Rom e?

A s the film begins, w e meet a character on ce part of a d u o w ho per­ form ed the routines of Fred Astaire and G in g e r Rogers in cities across Italy. A p ­ propriately, as the character com m ents, the pair took the names 'G in ger' and 'Fred' them selves to have greater ap­ peal to the Italians w atching the film s of Astaire and Rogers. G in g e r com es to Rom e to appear, with Fred, for the first tim e in tw enty-five years on an Italian T V program . Not two m inutes into the film , Fellini first presents us with a series of im ages the type of w h ich w ill reoccur throughout the film : G in g e r w alks throught the crow ds in the train station to find a giant replica of a pig hanging from the ce ilin g . A m erchant dressed as Santa C la u s scream s out, "Free sausage and lentils!"

O n the bus w h ich takes the per­ form ers of " W e A re Proud To Present" to their hotel, w e meet a group of characters sim ila r to those o f other Fellini film s: freaks, deviants, and those w ho are shunned by conventional society. A m ong the performers are a set of tw ins, sixteen m idget M e xican dancers, look-alikes of Kafka, Proust,

W o o d y A lle n and a transvestite portray­ ing Rosalind Russell. W h en asked by a reporter w h y she has decid ed to com e out of retirement and appear on the show, G in g e r sites "T elevisio n 's m agic sp e ll".

Fe llin i's message can be interpreted as an iro n ic com m ent on this statement, a com m ent w h ich often borders on be­ ing vicio u s. Th e m edia, predom inantly television , are everyw here in the film : at least tw o thirds of the shots contain at least one television set per frame. Th e im ages on these screens run from an ad w here a fem ale sells sex - blatantly - as w ell as o live oil, to a gam e show w hose six fem ale contestants must d ecid e w h ich spaghetti sauce is best. The other m ed ia hardly fare better. O n e of the funniest moments o ccu rs in a scene w here a jo urnalist questions Fred: she fires our seven questions, back to back, w ithout bothering to wait for a reply.

Th e absurd elem ents abound , but the most painful are those in w h ich the characters 'real' lives are show n as be­ ing m ore absurd than anything possible on the screen. O n e third of the w ay into the film , G in g e r meets her Fred. The m om ent is aw kw ard as both must com e to terms with the fact that both they, and society, have changed. G in g e r sees the television show as an o p p o rtu n ity to indulge in some sentim entalism and nostalgia; Fred sees it as an opportunity to condem n the id io tic elem ents of television and its role in " T h e System ".

H e says he wants to "re b e l" and tell the au d ie n ce of the show that they're all sheep. H ow ever, nothing in the film com es off quite as it was planned.

U ltim ately, the film rem ains a biting attempt to present the vulgarity of crass com m ercialism best exem plified by A m e rican television. It is also very fun­ ny, as Fellini has a w ay of presenting these elem ents so that w e can laugh at them . Television is everyw here, and Fellin i m akes us m ore aw are of that fact.

Like the bum in the last shot of the film , w e m ay be turned aw ay from the screen...but it is there.

Umayok Hypnotic

by Heather Clancy There's been a bit of m urm uring lately about the legitim acy of the Montreal m usic scene. W in n in g the adulation of hom e crow ds can often be m ore sim ple than gaining the attention of "le m on de". Th is has not daunted the am ­ bitious young band U m ayok w ho had their first clu b gig last W e d n e sd a y and Th ursd ay at Balattou (4372 St. Laurent).

U m a yo k is a percussion-based group

le a n in g h e av ily tow ard Latin and A frican rhythms. Th e brothers Séguin (M ichel and Marc) and H an s Longpré create a cohesive sound. Th e ir name, Inuit for reincarnation, was found w h ile leafng through a book. Still, it has relevance to their m usic. T h e y w ish to create a new sound by b u ild in g on revived tribal rhythms. Th e group was jo in ed by M c G ill student D a vid Bata on lead guitar for the two evenings. H is presence was a result o f their intention to incorporate the m elo d ic rhythms of guitar and bass with their solid percus­ sion.

These are talented percussionist, rely­ ing on hands, cru d e sticks and even elbow s to create their m usic. M ichel and M arc were the most charism atic of the lot (they even cap italized on the b a c k g ro u n d rin g in g o f the c lu b telephone, m aking it part of the set).

B asically, the brothers performed duos on the lam b (a congalike drum covered with a lam bskin), and the beng beng, another od d ly shaped drum . Bongos and congas were also used. Th ey were not above sharing instruments, and in their first song, "Les Petits Enfants," continued on page 8

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by Rollin Tilton Milroy Ask people from M ontreal about O r ­ chestral M anoeuvres in the D ark and yo u w ill probably hear about the great show they put on a w h ile ago at som e club . A sk people w ho w ere born in the U SA the same question and chances are, you w ill be met with b lank stares; at least until last fall. Th e difference in at­ titude C anad ian s and A m ericans have tow ards this English duo was one thing w h ich singer A n d y M cC lu sk e y spoke about w hen I interview ed him at the Parc Hotel. Th e duo w as in town to open for the Thom pso n Tw ins.

Som e d ie-hard fans have accused the band's last alb u m , Crush, of being w im ­ py pop. Despite this reaction, or m aybe because of it, Crush w as their first record to earn w ide-spread com m ercial success in A m e rica. Th is new -found recognition has been enhanced by the recent Pretty in Pink soundtrack, on w h ich O M D recorded the lead single.

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was, W h y ? W h y was O M D opening for som eone else, e sp e cially a band of such dub io us ab ility as the Thom pson Tw ins?

A n d before that, the disastrous Power Station tour. M c C lu sk e y has no problem with people w h o yell sell-out, because it isn't and he know s it. " W e thought it was tim e to be hum ­ ble and go out there and be an opening

I th in k C a n a d ian s have been a bit more cosm opolitain in their m usical tastes", says M c C lu sk e y about our at­ titude tow ards O M D 's m usic. But what is it that m ade us m ore receptive to their h e avily synthesized sound that the Yanks (his term) m issed? T h e singer thinks the fault lies with a record co m ­ pany that did not realise what it had.

act for som ebody that could draw a big crow d in places w here w e couldn't play. I m ean, fine, w e can have a crowd in M ontreal or N ew Y o rk or L.A ., but anyw here else, forget it."

And how has their h u m ility been paying-off? "It has proved to be quite va lu a b le a ctu a lly". T h is success he at­ tributes to O M D 's ability to write sim ple

Th is has since been rectified; M c­ C lu ske y and his partner Paul H u m ­ phries left Polygram and signed A& M as their North A m erican distributor, a change the band seems very pleased with.

songs that appeal to almost anyone on som e level. "P eop le w ho have heard O M D have g enerally liked it", he says, all h um ility aside.

T h is surface sim p licity of O M D 's sound has caused som e people to a c­ cuse the band of putting lollipops in its synthesizers' disk drives and getting the sam e out of the speakers. But as anyone w ho has listened to their songs knows.

W h e n O M D passed through eastern C anad a with the Thom pso n Tw ins' tour, the autom atic reaction in every city

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Th e m usic's pleasant m elody is often a c­ com p anied by stark or serious lyrics, like '88 Seconds, In G reensboro' or 'In­ ternational'. "I think a lot of ou r songs belie the effort that is put into them by their surface sim p licity. I th ink lyrica lly w e like to put in m ore than a nice rhym e ."

M an y of O M D 's songs are conceived sim p ly by M cC lu sk e y's interest in w ords. Not necessarily what they m ean; often he jsut likes the sound of a word w hen you say it. Exam ples, please? " Enola G a y. O b v io u sly I was in ­ terested in the psychology of dropping bom bs on people and aeorplanes nam ­ ed after your mother. But Enola G a y was just a great phrase to sing."

"I use heaven all the tim e. It is a good substitute for the word love. I went for four years w ithout ever using the word love in a song, then I sort of cam e to it.

A n d arms, I went through a stage where I used the word arm s a lot. I just get into w ords".

But don't get too excited if you think M cC lu sk e y w ill be one of the great poets of our tim e. I got the feeling he w ould rather open for a Loverboy world tour than to have his lyrics dissected "lik e some boring poetry". H is m usical p h ilo so p h y w ould never allow such perversion. "I loathe and despise poetry. But I like words. I like to sing them . I like to say them . I like the sound of them in m y head w hen I sing them.

T h e y w ere written to be sung."

Crush, the title of O M D 's latest alb um , is another exam ple of M c­ C lu ske y's word fetish. " W e wanted to c a ll the album Crush long before we even gave the song 'Crush' the title. It is just a strong word, and I suppose I thought it suited the album because

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there are som e quite strong em otions on the a lb u m ."

Despite these strong em otions, Crush has been accused of lackin g the power and energy of the band's earlier efforts, e sp e ca illy 19 8 4's lu n k Culture. M c­ C lu ske y takes these accusations in his typ ica lly d ip lo m atic style, p layin g both sides of the fence.

I th ink two things w ould contribute to people saying that Crush is tam e, but I w ouldn't say it was. O n e is that the in ­ strumentation is m ore conventional than w e have used before, in terms of guitars and drum s and things like that.

And second, I think the production, w h ich was largely in lfu e n ce d by Stephen Hague, was very m ellow sounding. It is the first album w e have ever done w here we really allow ed the producer full rein. I think his sound is a little m ellow er than w e w ould have m ixed it. W e w ould have left m ore jagg­ ed edges and more rough and empty bits as w ell. H e padded things out m ore and m ade them fu ller."

A 60 m inute vid e o titled Crush-The M ovie. It is a collectio n of videos, inter­ view s, and can d id studio shots. Th ey also contributed m usic to the sound­ track of a m ovie called Play For Keeps, but M cC lu sk e y voiced som e undertainly about if and w hen it w ill be released.

Being a band w h ich likes to later their style on each new record, O M D 's next release m ight be more to the likin g of old fans.

M cC lu sk e y thinks they w ill return to p r o d u c in g t h e m s e lv e s , s a y in g "p a ra n o ia sets in " . And if this m ovie venture pans-out like it did for Sim ple M inds, look for O M D to return to being a h ead lin e act, with the success and recognition the deserve.

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Th e addition of bass and then guitar to the percusssion was somewhat aw kw ard. M arc Séguin on bass had n oticeable static problem s during their first set, and som e of the bass lines just didn't properly m eld with the percus­ sion. D avid Bata's addition of lead guitar cleared up the problem a bit, but the band needs to strive for m ore com ­ p atib ility w ith in th e ir co m p o sitio n .

T h e ir vocals also need rehearsing as

Umayok Hypnotic co n tin u e d from page 6 they frantically beat on each other's drum s. Another strong num ber was “ M o z a m b iq u e ” ( p r o b a b ly t h e ir strongest in terms of vocals). Th is was strongly accom p anied by H ans Longpré on w oo dblock, or "the log "; and instru­

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U m ayok has m ore than a little w ork to do before it becom es a hot co m m o d i­ ty on the clu b circuit, but it seems as if it is w illin g to m ake the effort. T h e y have no illusion s about the road before them.

Th is debut (so to speak) should get them notice. T h e y have a strong grounding in their percussion. Th e ab ility to hyp­ notize with their rhythms, and if their m usic is a little different, it should serve to m ake the band m ore intriguing.

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Letters To The Trib continued from page 5 one being espoused — even if o n ly to refute them with logical argument. N or can I recall reading anything w h ich seriously exam ined the author's own id eo logical presuppositions — even if o n ly to defend them through rational argum ent. S in ce hum an beings are finite, of course, absolute truth can't be know n; all the m ore reason for some acknow led gem ent of the com plexity of every problem and the inadequacy of every ideology.

A cco rd in g to the Statement of Prin­ cip les, "the student press must use its relative freedom ...to exam ine issues that other m edia a vo id ." Yes, that's a good idea. But the authors of this d o cu ­ m ent were confused. These other m ed ia don't a void issues raised b y the D aily. I've seen countless television pro­ gram m es and newspaper articles on South Africa, the Palestinians, abortion, gay people, fem inism , A ID S , and so forth. Th e y just present them from points of view w h ich often (though not always) oppose those of the D aily. W hat they do avoid — as does the D aily — is truly critical analysis of the ideas and assum ptions m ade by people on all sides of every issue. A n ti-intellectualism is ram pant outside the university. In adopting the very sam e m entality — albeit for different purposes — the D aily abandons the possibility of m aking a distinctive contribution to student life, and of providing a real alternative to television and other newspaper.

I suspect, though, that the m ain reason for so m uch hostility toward the D aily is em otional rathçr than in tellec­ tual in origin. In saying this, I have no intetnion of trivia lizin g the matter.

Th ere are som e very good reasons for feeling angry after reading the Daily.

Speaking for myself: I don't like being harangued. W hat I resent is not the D a i­

ly 's political ideology, as such; I can allo w others to disagree with me — even w hen my fees pay for them to do so. In fact, though, I often agree with the general position of the D aily (even if not alw ays for the sam e reasons). W hat I do resent is the self-righteous and co n ­ descending attitude of the Daily. I re­ sent being treated as a ch ild w ho must be told the difference between right and wrong, but I also resent the sanc­ tim o nious tone of those w ho seem to be addressing o n ly two classes of readers: m em bers of their ow n entourage w ho need m oral support in their battle against evil; or m em bers of the unw ash­ ed hordes w h o need to be 'saved' from error. Con seq uen tly, even w hen I agree with the gist of an article, I still feel angry at being m anipulated. If the D aily really wants to engagé students intellec­ tually, it should treat them w ith respect instead of contem pt.

In co n clusio n : As a m ajor organ of co m m un icatio n in an intellectual com ­ m unity — and that's what a university is — the D aily ought to p rovide intellec­ tual challenge — not m oralizin g ser­ m ons. It could begin by providing p o litic a l analysis — not p o litic a l rhetoric. Because the 'correct' opinion on a n y given issue is alw ays m ade for m e by the Daily, I can o n ly regard what I read as propaganda. In itself, pro­ paganda isn't alw ays a bad thing; after all, the propagation of any idea — even the noblest — is propaganda. There's a place for that in this w orld. In a universi­ ty, how ever, there's a real need for som ething else: a true intellectual discourse. Th e student press, therefore, should represent som ething other than the op in ion s of even the most idealistic preachers.

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Lilienthal continued from page 1 since neither side has clean hands in the matter. Th e man w ho brought terror in ­ to the M id d le East was M enachem B egin ," Lilienthal said.

"T o ach ieve justice and peace, the M id d le East w o u ld re q u ire c o m ­ prom ises by all concerned, and the right to self-determ ination of the Palestinians w ill have to be accep ted," he said.

Lilienthal envisions a future with two states in the area, brought about through negotiations conducted under guarantees from the U N , the U nited

States, and the Soviet U n io n ; the states w ould coexist as "e arlie r in history, w hen Arabs and jew s lived together, o n ly on an equal basis."

H e recognized that the "p ow er of p oliticians to barter for Jewish votes (in the U .S.) rem ain s an o b s ta c le ," e sp e cia lly in the face of a very w ell organized Z io n ist lobby. " A free and open debate, in w hich people w ho speak out are not p enaliz­ ed" w as the im perative seen b y Lilien ­ thal.

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by Frank Young " B a s e b a ll is a r e l ig io n " —Bi "S p acem an ” Lee Som e p e o p le love Bill Lee, w h ile o th e rs —Joh n M c H a le , Jim F a n n ­ in g —hate him . Baseball fans at M c G ill w ere given the opportunity to decide for them selves last W e d n e sd ay as the "S p acem an " spoke in front of a crowd of about 500 in Leacock 13 2 .

For those w ho don't know the legend of Bill Lee, a refresher course is in order.

Lee spent almost ten years with the Boston Red Sox. H e was, in fact, the most successful lefthanded starter in Bosox history. D u e to frequent run-ins with the m anagem ent in Beantown, Lee was traded to the M ontréal Expos for a jo u rn eym an infielder nam ed Stan Papi.

After 3 good years with the 'Spos, Lee was released due to the fact that he spoke out against team m anagem ent w hen Rodney Scott was cut. After being thrown out of the m ajors, Lee played for Longeuil until that particular league went belly up. Bill Lee now m akes his hom e in Shediac, N ew B unsw ick where he still plays baseball on a regular basis.

W ed n esd ay was the first warm day of the year, and as such it was a perfect d a y to d rin k gin and tonics outdoors. By the tim e of our interview, I was in an ad­ vanced state of tipsiness. Fortunately, the Spacem an had been e n jo yin g the d ay in the sam e m anner. Interview is perhaps a m isleading term for what tra n sp ire d , as Lee strolled dow n m em ory lane between com m ents about the state of the w orld, and the deep significance of baseball.

Lee began by com m enting on his years with the Expos. Although he is not bitter about the circum stances leading to his departure from M ontréal, he still

w onders about the intelligence of the Expo brain trust. Labelling ex-M anager Jim Fanning an "an al retentive c h ild " w hose d ecision to pitch Steve Roges against R ick M onday in that infam ous 19 8 1 playoff game caused the 'Spos loss. Lee also had harsh w ords for the C a ry Carter trade. W h ile cla im in g there w as no anim osty on the team for Carter—" T h e (Expos) got along all the w a y " —Lee asserts that the m edia were partly to blam e for the trade. Th e Expos w ere all of the "sam e tem perm ent, w hen one p layer dies, the w h ole team d ie s". Th e Spacem an wasn't surprised that Carter w as traded, as he doesn't think too highly of Expo m anagem ent's baseball know ledge.

Lee's m ind seems to m ove faster than his mouth at tim es, as the conversation s w itc h e d from O ly m p ic S ta d iu m ("lo o k s like Paul B u n ya n 's w ife's bidet"), to the writings of Nostradam us ("a prophet") to the object of life itself ("for all of your body parts to w ear out on the sam e d a y"). O n e subject that kept cropping tup, how ever, was baseball. Lee is a fan w ho cares deeply about the game, yet at the sam e time he is too intelligent a man to have any illu ­ sions about M ajor League Baseball in the 1980's. W h e n asked about C o m m is­ sioner Peter Ueberroth, Lee stated that he was hired "b ecause the owners knew that he could m ake them more m o n ey". A ccordin g to Lee, Pete Rose is a "carn ivo re w ho could eat Bar-B-Barn ribs m orning, noon and night."

W h en asked about drugs in baseball, Lee rem arked that "m ost players do drugs to get la id ".

W h ile Lee has not sym pathy for Ueberroth or the ow ners, he is not against the fines that have been levied on players such as Keith H ernandez.

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Th is is due to his deep love of the game, and h is b e w ild e r m e n t at th e hypocritical b ehaviour of players like H ern an dez and D ale Berra.

At this point, the inteview moved upstairs to Gert's, and the Spacem an held court. W h at follow s is, as near as I co u ld tell, the W o rld A cco rd in g To Bill Lee. Steve G a rv e y. " H a s T id e com ing out of both ears".

Dw ight G o o d e n : " H is pitches are like nerve gas".

O n the basis for his problem s with m anagem ent: "I'm Rom an C ath olic, Irish and I d rin k a hell of a lot, a very volatile co m b in atio n ."

O n Nature: "Y o u can't fuck with p h ysics".

O n being traded to M ontréal: "I died and went to heaven".

O n G o d : "I saw him C le ve la n d . It's tough to see him in C le v e la n d ."

O n Libya: " W e (the USA) really pick on the big guys".

O n the proper fines for drug abuse by players: "T h e y should kill their first born".

O n the next President and V ic e President of the U SA: "M e and H unter S. Th o m p so n".

O n the ow ners: "T h e y have to tem per their m oney with consciousness."

O n Roberto Clem ente: "the greatest player ever".

I got the im pression that Bill Lee could have gone on like that all night, but his

Bill “ The Spaceman" Lee tosses the words around now Photo — Lionel Chow w ife arrived to take care of him , so the conversation w as ended. O n e gets the im pression from talking to Lee that the o n ly reason that he isstill not pitching in the bigs is because of his unorthodox view s and behaviour. W hether this is true or not, the fact rem ains that he is an

intelligent and entertaining man whose love for the gam e is exceeded o n ly by his concern for the rest of the w orld.

Judging from the response of the crow d on W e d n e sd ay night, Fanning and M c H a le are probably the on ly people in M ontréal w ho don't like Bill Lee.

From Under the Bleachers

they cam e into the league. that anyone can rem em ber, but they

by Frank Young 6) M innesota Tw in s. See the 1st com ­ seem ed to be bu ild in g a great team.

Praise be to G o d ! Baseball season is Th e n , in typ ical C u b s fashion all 5 of m ent on the M ariners. fin ally here. Baseball m eans spring, 7) Texas Rangers. Sam e as the Tw ins, their starters sustained substantial in ­ warm weather and U nder the Bleachers o n ly the Rangers do not hit well ju ries last year. W ith a partially healed Baseball Preview . anyw here. team and som e excellent hitters—Sand­ So, without further ado... berg, M o relan d —C h ica g o w ill chase the National League W est: A m erican League East: Mets.

1) Los A ngeles Dodgers. You can bet 1) Toronto Blue Jays. O .D ., so I'm a 3) St. Louis C a rd in als. I know theylittle biased. V e ry biased actually, but the house on this team to w in in the won the Series last year, but they also w eak W estern d ivisio n. W h e n a team w hen you look at the com plete rosters got rid of a man w ho w on over 40 has 4 of its 5 starters in the top 11 in ERA for the d ivisio n , this is the o n ly logical gam es in the last two seasons (Joaquin as the Dodgers did last year, they are ch o ice . Stieb, Jim C la n c y and Bill A n dujar). Although they are left with b asica lly an unhittable team . O rel HerC a u d h ill are cap ab le of m uch better som e good pitchers and som e great sh iser, Fe rn an d o V a le n z u e la , Bob things than they did last year. Th e same players, history seems to indicate that W e lch and Jerry Reuss com b in ed for a applies for W illie U pshaw , and Lloyd the previous year's cham p w ill sink.

6 4 -17 record last season. T h e y w ill be M oseby. Th e o n ly question here is Jim y 4) Ph ilad elp h ia Phillies. M ight be up jo in ed by Rich H onneycutt (3.42 ERA) W illia m s , the new Jay M an ager. and com ers, but not this year. or A le jan d ro Pena (injured all of last W illia m s has been with the clu b for 5) M ontréal Expos. Th e battle for 5th year, but the 1984) ERA cham p) in what years, and he know s how to handle the in the N .L. East w ill be a dog fight all is beyond question the best starting Jays young stars. So there. year, with the punchless Expos barely 2) N ew York Yankees. W h at a rotation in the game. edging out the Pirates. Just a little per­ disgusting team. W hat a bunch of over­ 2) San D ieg o Padres. Th e Padres have sonal note here. I still do not.understand rated and spoiled w hiners. M aybe I'm four good starters and a decent bullpen. the Expo fans w ho have either m ade fun exaggerating a bit. D on M attingly, Ricky Unfortunately, San Diego w ill have pro­ of the Toronto Blue Jays or have said H enderson and D ave W in fie ld cou ld be blems at the plate all year. O th er than that they are glad that they lost because the three best players in baseball, but T o n y G w yn n and G a rry Tem pleton, San that m eant that they didn't m ake it far­ the rest of the Y an kee hitters range from D ieg o is below average at every posi­ ther than the 'Spos. The o n ly w ay that a v e r a g e -W i 11 i e R a n d o l p h —to tion. the Expos w ill finish w ithin 2 0 w ins of abysm al—Bobby M eacham . Although 3) Houston Astros. Th e Astros scored the baseball m ed ia has been hyping this t the second most runs in the league last" the Jays w ill be if the Jays are w iped out in a p lane crash. team , rem em ber that the m edia is based year. Th e ir pitching is passable. Th ey 6) Pittsburgh Pirates. C a n 't pitch, hit orin the big apple. w ill about 80-85 games and no one w ill field, but they have the best coke con­ 3) Detroit Tigers. If Frank Tan ana can care. w in som e gam es, and if D arrell Evans 4) C in cin n a ti Reds. Pete Rose couldnections in the m ajors.

A m e rican League W est: can hit again, than the Tigers could possibly be a good m anager, but every 1) Kanasa C ity Royals. S in ce I refuse tim e that he steps to the plate, he is hur­ challenge. to say anything n ice about this team , I ting his team . D ave Parker is the Red of­ w ill let it stand at this.

4) Baltim ore O rio les. Conventional fence and the pitching is suspect. Rose 2) - C h ica g o W h ite Sox. Th e Sox tradedlogic says that the O rio le pitchers can't m ight hit .240.

LaM arr Hoyt two years ago, and Britt possib ly perform as poorly this year as 5) Atlanta Braves. Th e Braves have a Burns this year. Hoyt is now in a drug they did last year. I w ouldn't bet on it. new G e n e ra l M an ag e r in B obby rehab centre, and Burns m ay never 5) Boston Red Sox. Aw ful pitching is a "T ra ito r" C o x and a new m anager in pitch again. T h e y still have an average Red Sox tradem ark. Power hitting is also C h u c k Tan n er. Tan n er could n't get the starting staff and a great reliever in Bob a staple of Bosox life. Th is year's team Pirates to perform, and although he has James. Th e thing that sets the Sox apart has both and a lo ck on 5th. a little bit m ore talent in Atlanta, the from the A ngels and A 's is their hitting, 6) C le ve la n d Indians. Th e big surprise Braves are going dow n fast. D ale M ur­ led by the aw esom e H arold Baines, the here is that C le ve la n d still has a m ajor phy and Bob H orner are terrors at the Sox can score runs. A solid 2nd. league team , con sid erin g the frantic ef­ plate, but with a pitching staff like this, 3) O a kla n d A's. An average team from forts to get the Indians out of O h io . forget it.

Then again, no one ever said that the In­ top to bottom.

6) San Francisco G iants. By a m ile.

4) C a lifo rn ia Angels. O n e great d ians were a m ajor league team. reliever, D o n n ie M oore and that's 7) M ilw au kee Brewers. H o w the National League East: about it. Th e Angels have a lineup m ighty have fallen.

1) N ew York Mets. I hate this team, stocked with over the hill players like So it w ill be the Dodgers against the but they are a w ell b alanced team that Reggie Jackson, Bobby G ric h , Bob Mets and the Jays vs. the Royals. Look has a great pitching staff and hitters that Boone, G eorge H e n d rick and D oug for the Dodgers to stym ie the Mets and range from decent to aw esom e. W ith for those Jays to w reak a terrible D e cinces. Forget this team for the next H ernandez, Carter and Strawberry in vengeance against the scum bags from three years. the m id d le of the lineup , the Mets w ill K .C . In the series it w ill be the boys from score a lot of runs and edge the C ub s.

5) Seattle M ariners. Bat pitching and Toronto, and Expo and Y an kee fans can players w ho hit w ell on ly at hom e? The 2) C h ica g o C ub s. You have to love the eat their little hearts out all winter.

M ariners have been like this ever since C ub s. T h e y haven't w on a W o rld Series

THE MOP AND PAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1986

Art historian makes

by Jay Scott, The Mop and Pail’s brilliant virtuoso film reviewer The camera caresses bright balloons as they careen upwards into the evanes­ cent blue sky and sledgehammer sunlight of a spring afternoon. Below, amidst the muck and shmuck and dogshit of an April thaw, ignorant armies clash and baby gorillas parade by in parasolled perambulators.

A new film called A M ovie Called Life, the directorial debut of Harvard Art History professor Henry Hum­ phrey, has reared its horrific head. It is an interesting, surprising, engaging work, much like an earnest thoughtful exchange between Schwarzenegger and Schopenhauer. Such vivacity, death, gore, intimation, art and playfulness!

Like pink-neon quiche dangling from the kitchen ceiling at a neighbour’s par­ ty, A M ovie Called Life is odd yet ac­ cessible, pretentious but meaningful.

It is needless and impossible to outline this film’s tortuously intricate and incoherent plot, if only to say that it features cameo appearances by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Burt Lancaster, the second floor of the Louvres, and Dennis Thatcher. A M ovie Called Life is as

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hypnotic as a Mondrian painting and has the kick of back-country Kentucky moonshine.

You don’t understand a single word of what I’m writing? That’s okay because I know a lot about movies and aesthetics and I’m telling you A Movie Called Life is a real whopper of a film.

I’m paid to gush and goo like this. You read it and think I’m either immensely clever or a real asshole. You’re probably right on both counts...My reviews are a sickly sweet icing smeared across the marble cake that is this establishment Toronto newspaper.

Anyhow,...A M ovie Called Life is Fellini at the ballpark, Wallace Stevens eating cotton-candy, Pierre Trudeau shaving his legs with Neet. This film is irreverent, amusing, provocative. This film reviewer is a genius, endowed with a breathtaking facility with the language, corpulent with humour, dandily dithering with detail. Go see A M ovie Called Life\ Clip out my film reviews and collect them. Write the Globe to get an autographed picture of ME. Love me as much as I love myself.

Good movie title, eh?

SPORT M a rty

com es

Sports With Marty Dork When the Toronto Maple Laffs in­ stalled Don Baloney as coach, he was signed to a 3 year pact. The contract ex­ pires tomorrow, and according to Baloney, “Da ’andwriting’s on the

BASEBALL

MARTY DORK _______ 1 . / ball.”

Leaf Dictator Harold Walleye refuses to comment on the situation, but he did tell me “get your little ass out of here you stupid goof.” The ever cryptic Walleye has said that to me before, and after the last time he did, Coach Void

u p w it h s o m e

Smith was fired. Stay tuned.

Look for the Blue Jays to trade their entire pitching staff to the Expos in ex­ change for Youppi. Jay General Manager Fat Gillick confirmed this move when he told me “Yeah, right you Dork.”

Violence in hockey has reached such epidemic proportions that I was at a game the other night when a boxing match broke out. No, that’s not right...I wa at a boxing match and a hockey player walked out. That’s not it.

Forget it.

Look for the 1996 Summer Olympics to take place in Winnipeg. When I call­ ed Olympic head honcho Avery Hemmorhage at his home in Geneva he told me to “go ahead and write it, Dork.”

Look for the Toronto Argonots to change their name to the Toronto Muttonchops. When I called Argo General Manager Leo Gohell he said, and I quote, “ Sure, Dork, it’s true” and then he hung up.

No matter what you read, Playne

Leafs lose 9th straight, make playoffs

by William Hugetongue The Leafs lost 15-3 to the New Jersey Devils last night, but they still made the playoffs.

Detroit’s loss means that the Leafs are in the playoffs.

They haven’t been in the playoffs for 4 years.

New Jersey scored a lot in the first period to go ahead 4-0.

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reknowned for the quickness of my mind, and in that spirit, I deftly scooped up the mess in question, opened the win­ dow and, unleashing a hearty cry of “ God save the King” , dropped McKen-

Six more goals in the second period put them ahead 10-0.

The Leafs scored some goals late in the game.

Too little to late.

Coach Baloney said “Dis team is been playin’ gooder den last year.”

Perhaps he’s right. There were 15,000 at the game, which was won by New Jersey 15-3.

zie’s contribution to the war effort onto the Nazis.

Truly a great day for Canada.

Respectfully yours, Major Eric “Buddy” Thornton (Ret.) Trenton Home for the Aged

Greedy is not the best player in hockey.

Believe it.

Look for the Montréal French Cana­ diens to make a major trade soon.

Coach Eva Perron is none to happy with the play of Chris Nylon, Sieve Penny, Bob Gooney or Chris Chillout. “ I’m going to make dese guys practice ’till their legs fall off,” says Perron. “As far

h o t t ip s

as I’m concerned, dey’re all on de trading block, even Lafleur.” When I told Perron that Lafleur had been retired for over a year, he chased me out of his office with cries of “ I’ll kill you Dork.”

Look for dead Flyer goalie Peelme Lindbergh to join the Leafs. Leaf G.M. Gerry MacNamoron had been trying to

obtain Lindbergh for years, so imagine his surprise when Flyer head honcho Slobby Clark called him up to offer Lindbergh to the Leafs for a first round draft choice. MacNamoron agreed im­ mediately. Perhaps he should have read the papers that morning. If he had, he would have noticed that Peelme had died the day before.

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