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Tuesday, March 10, 1987
Published by the Students' Society of McGill University
Volume 6, Issue 21
Students Condemn FAE’s, Demo Next Monday by Chris Flanagan
As five active members of the Little Red Wagon settled into their second day of occupation of Vice Principal (Research) Gordon Maclachlan's office, a more subtle mode of protest was being carried out in the Union Building. The Ad Hoc Committee for Responsible Research held a press conference to promote awareness of the weapons research at McGill and to drum up support to end a fuel air explosives (FAE) contract that McGill has had with the Department of National Defence for the past six years. "W e are launching a petition which w ill be presented to the Board of Governors meeting on March 16," explained David Schulze, Graduate Student representative to the Board of Governors. "W e're asking the University to put a halt to this research; this is research to create a better way to kill people and This is not an appropriate use of the University's funds." Fuel Air Explosives are chemical weapons that use the air, rather than an detonating agent, to ignite. The intensity of the blast has been described as "2-3 times higher than that required to kill 99 percent of the population." FAEs were used by the United States Army in Vietnam and although the claimed purpose was for the defoliation of trees, the Times of London reported in 1975, that FAEs left "hundreds and perhaps thousands of corpses ove zones of several acres." Victims are said to die of asphyxiation as membranes of the lungs are ruptured. According to Lee Iverson, member of the Senate and the Ad Hoc Committee, the research into FAEs is not only an "issue with a clear moral objective," but also a breach of international trust by the Canadian Government. "Canada has signed a number of treaties which forbid nations to research chemical weapons with offensive or destructive uses," said Committee Member, Marc W ills at the Press Conference. Those in favour of continued FAE research argue that FAEs are used for defense purposes only, such as in the clearing of mine fields. The important issue in the offensive versus defensive argument for FAEs is the question of detonation. McGill Professors R. Knystautas and j.F. Lee, of the Department of Engineering, are working on a contract with DND for the "Study of formation and detonation by turbulent mixing and transition from deflagration to detonation." FAEs have faced several detonation and spreading problems, which if overcome, would make the weapon much more effective and much more deadly.
Anthony Paré, Responsible Research Committee members and founding member of M cG ill Employees for Nuclear Disarmament, expressed hisdesire to establish research ethics committees. "W e would like to see a research Committee in each department that w ill decide whether or not any research is ethical, said Paré. Ideally all research would have to be passed by said committees." Paré has met with indifference and opposition to this proposal in the past. He approached the Board of Governors in 1984 with a petition signed by over 300 staff members but was told that BOG did not address "personal complaints". Paré told The Tribune that the Board of Governors felt the issue was "to o p o litica l" and "to o deep a question". McGill Students' Society is fully supportive of the committees efforts to eliminate offensive weapons research at McGill. "Last Tuesday, a resolution was passed which condemned FAE research at M cG ill," said Stud Soc President, Paul Pickersgill.. "S tudents' Society is
formally calling a resolution which condemns and opposes the research." Pickersgill is optimistic that the Board of Governors w ill react to this protest in the same manner as they did to the Divestment issue of last year. "The Board rarely deals with a resolution put forward by the students," David Schulze stated, "but hopefully a precedent was set last year, when they approved divestment." The ad hoc çommittee and the Little Red Wagon however, are in no way connected. "W e were not consulted by the members of The Little Red Wagon," Schulze said of the occupation but he did not concede that the two shared the same goal. One occupant of the Dean's office is David Lennox, who told The Tribune: "W e want to stay until our demands are met but we could not be moved out by force before then." According to a second occupant, Robert Todd, of Concordia University, the only demand they have is "the cancellation of the contract". To acheive continued on page 3
Sign of the times. Protesters occupying V.P. Machlachlan's office were forc ed to leave early Monday morning with the help of ten policemen. Demonstrations against FAE weapons research will continue as planned.
C an didates O u tn u m b e r S tu d en ts Inside by Michele Dupuis "I'm sorry for disturbing your lunch," apologized Andrew Dinsmore, Student Society's Chief Returning Officer, when he announced the commencement of Wednesday's all candidates meeting. Most of the students present in the Mc Connell Engineering Building's Com mon Room ate lunch with their backs turned away from the candidates -and talked among themselves as the can didates addressed the group and answered questions. The all candidates meeting is a pre election tradition at McGill, as is the students' lack of interest and participa tion in the event. While those in atten dance at Wednesday's meeting did not pay attention, Thursday's all candidates meeting (there was one yesterday as well) was a repetition of last year where Tribune coverage noted that the can didates at the meeting outnumbered observers, including the press. At Thursday's meeting, Marc Wills, a leader of last week's student protest against Fuel Air Explosives Research in the Engineering Faculty sought the opi nion of the Presidential candidates on this "hot potato." "I think it's dangerous, telling Pro fessor Lee (one of the professors conduc ting the research into a detonation device for the controversial weapon) what he can and cannot do in a universi ty atmosphere — it's anti-academic," Presidential hopeful Ian Brodie said. The other four candidates; however, stated that they believed that academics should take responsibility for the im plications of their research. "Basically, I've always been against that kind of thing — just today I signed a petition," said Presidential candidate Keith Foun tain.
A questioner from the floor asked all the candidates to plainly state their policy in relation to tuition fee increases. M o st c a n d id a te s fa v o u re d a "legitimate" increase; a fee increase that is combined with an overhaul of the cur rent loans and bursaries programs which would ensure accessibility to education for all students. According to Presiden tial candidate Daniel Tenenbaum, such an increase is "inevitable."
VP External candidate Francis Lacombe did not agree. Lacombe sees a re-working of the funding formula used by both the federal and provincial governments as a solution. "If tuition fees go up, it should only be as a supple ment" to the new system, he said. During Thursday's question period, the VP External candidates expressed very different attitudes about McGill's continued on page 3
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U n iversity to H o ld Funds: PGSS by Jennifer Mori The Post Graduate Students' Society voted last Wednesday to place their fees to the Students' Society in escrow until the PGSS comes to an agreement with the Students' Society regarding its membership, pending the results of the PGSS referendum to consider negotiated secession. PGSS has yet to approach Senate and the Board of Governors concerning the proposal to have the university hold their funds. If no agreement is worked out between the two student societies, the funds would be released to the PGSS in October. "This is designed to hold the Students' Society to negotiation,” said Stephen Fraser, PGSS Speaker and newly elected Graduate Rep to Students' Council. "There is a big temptation to stall (on the part of StudSoc) and this is a test o f good faith." The PGSS attempted to get constitu tional amendments regarding propor tional representation for faculties, a new StudSoc executive m em ber (VP Graduate Student Affairs), fee reductions for graduates proportional to use of Stud
Soc facilities, and bi-monthly meetings between PGSS and StudSoc executive presented at the Feb. 24 Council meeting. The PGSS did not provide proper notice of motion to the Students' Coun cil, thus preventing the PGSS from get ting the amendments on this week's ballot. Fraser attempted to appeal the notice of motion ruling to the Students' Society judicial Board but the hearing was cancelled. According to Students' Society President Paul Pickersgill, there w ill be a hearing this week to determine whether the Fraser hearing w ill take place at all. The Students' Society executive can didates addressed PGSS Council, forego ing usual prepared speeches to answer questions about their position on PGSS secession. All the candidates but Jordan Waxman (Pres.) expressed a desire to keep the PGSS within the Students' Society and to try to negotiate an agree ment. Waxman felt that the PGSS might be better off as a.separate organisation. When asked about their opinion on proportioanl representation by Mark Readman, PGSS VP University Affairs,
Ian Brodie, Randy Flemmings, Daniel Tenenbaum (Pres, candidates), and Fran cis Lacombe (External Affairs) agreed with it in principle with reservations about the size and manageability of the Students' Council. Fountain (Pres.) claimed that the new VP Graduate Stu dent Affairs would handle graduate in terests while Waxman (Pres.) and Steven Lightfoot (Internal Affairs) supported it, "even If Council became a zoo." On the fee question, all but Brodie agreed with fee reductions conditional upon completion of the facilities usage survey. Brodie was the dissenter, claim ing that Students' Society membership means more than services, citing such intangibles as external affairs representa tion. The PGSS also voted to oppose fuel-air research at McGill. Although the con sensus was that McGill should not be associated with this kind of research, doubts about the judgement were raised. "It's difficult to make a judgement about a supposed motive for research," stated Geneviève Tanguay, PGSS Presi dent. "M cG ill did not accept the con tract necessarily for defence purposes.
M cG ill is a public university and should accept public research." "It takes away the individual resear cher's right to make a living," added J.1 Sheppard, Chemical Engineering Rep. "If ethics get involved every time we have research there are serious implica tions for research and development at M cG ill." Producing a copy of Monday's Daily, Chris Lawson, Daily news editor, rose and appealed to the PGSS to support the Daily fee increase. "The Daily is a tabloid," said Lawson. "It has an 80% advertisement ratio and has had no substantial fee increase for the past ten years." "It is no longer a question whether you like the editorial position and prin ciples of the Daily," added Joe Heath, Daily co-coordinating editor. "It's a mat ter of survival, whether or not you want an independent autonomous newspaper on campus." According to Heath, if the fee increase passes, the Daily "w ould be able to publish another fifteen issues and decrease the ad to copy ratio." We continued on page 3
W H A T ’S ON
The M cGill Tribune Tuesday, March 10, 1987
TUESDAY
Tuesday, March 1& • Liberal McGill presents John Nunziala at 5pm in Union B09/10. All welcome! For info, call 933-8976. • German students who are visiting Europe this summer are invited to attend the International German Summer School in Rostock, GDR. For info: 768-8001. • W illiam Mclvanney, a Scottish poet in residence at Simon Fraser this year, w ill give a reading of his poetry at 4pm in Arts
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R E F E R E N D U M Annual Referendum will be held March 6 - 12, 1987 on the ques tion: y
Do you agree to mandate the Post-Graduate Student Society (PGSS) to negotiate autonomy tor the graduate student members of the Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) subject to the following terms: a) Membership fees currently paid by graduate students to the Students ’ Society of McGill University will be paid to the Post-Graduate Students' Society. b) Services currently provided by the SSMU that benefit graduate students, such as Clubs; Legal Aid; will be funded by direct transferpayments negotiated by the PGSS with the SSMU c) New services as determined necessary to support the needs of graduate students will be implemented by the PGSS with the funds previously given to the SSMU as Membership fees. These services might include: Travel Services; Day Care; Symposia Funding: Scholarship Funding. d) That the PGSS would be recognized by the SSMU as the sole representative of all graduate students at McGill Univer sity. The SSMU would not be in a position to speak for all students at McGill University unless leave had been given by the PGSS.
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For information on "Y e s ” and / or "N o campaigns, and the referendum itself, con tact: Brian Farrell. Chief Returning Officer, Thomson Flouse, 392-5959, 392-5899. 392-5351
REGULAR POLLS' Tuesday 10 March: BMH :4-7 pm). Union Wiison (Social Worn Tnomson House (4-7 pm) Wednesday 11 March: BMH (4-7 pm). RVG (11- am-2 30 pm;, Bronfman. Education. Leacock. McConnell Engineering, Thomson House (4-7 pm), Strathcona A&D, Union, Dental Clinic (11 am-2 30 pm) Thursday 12 March: Arts, Bronfman Burnside. Cnanceüor Day Hail Leacock. McConnell Engineering. McIntyre. Redpa^h Library Stewart Biology (South Block), Strathcona Music, Union, Birks
7pm in Stewart Biology Bldg. Rm S 1/4. Sponsored by the Islamic Cultural Network. • Forum National presents Bob Rae, O ntario NDP, in the Moot Court of the Faculty of Law at 1pm. (3644 Peel) • Shame, with Liv Ulman, w ill be shown in L132 at 7:30pm. Admission, $2. Presented by the McGill Film Society.
FRIDAY
Friday, March 13 • Stanford Musaka w ill speak on "Epistemology of the New W orld Information O rder" at noon in the Centre for Developing Area Studies, Seminar Rm 100. • Dirty Harry, directed by Don Siegel with Clint Eastwood, w ill be shown in L132 at 7:30pm. Admission $2.25. Presented by the McGill Film Society. • Dr. Pierre Chartian of the Research Institute of the Canadian Red Cross w ill speak on "Integration of Exogenous DNA in Mammalian Cells" at noon in Rm 705 of the McIntyre Medipal Sciences Bldg.
• The 29th Hungarian St. Stephen's Ball w ill take place o Saturday March 21, 1987 in the Grand Salon of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. Guests on honour w ill be the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney and his wife. For more info (and reservations): 739-0432.
• Academia Day presented by the Physiology Students' Association. Find out about your options from 2 to 5pm in the Howard Palmer Theatre of the McIntyre Bldg. • McGill Christian Fellowship presents John Kyle (Director iit Urbana), on Life as a Mission in Leacock 232 at 7pm. Fret ’
SATURDAY
Saturday, March 14 • Stranger Than Paradise, starring John Lurie, w ill be presented in Leacock 132 at 7:30pm. Admission $2.2.5. Presented by the McGill Film society. • FHil lei Student Society needs English and French volunteers to aid immigrant students with their school work. Physic^
tutor volunteers at the high school level are also needed. For info: 845-91 71. • The M cG ill Squash Club is having a tournament members only at 12 pm at the Currie Gym. Sign up: 254-8607.
SUNDAY
Sunday, March 15 • Anglicafi worship at Christ Church Cathedral. 8am — traditional, 10am contemporary Eucharist with choir and sermon, For info: 392-5890.
«M orning worship with Presbyterian/Umted Church Lampuministry, followed by brunch at St-Martha's-in-the-Basement For info: 392-5890.
MONDAY
Monday, March 1b • Anglican Chaplaincy, student and staff Eucharist even Monday at 12 noon in the Newman Centre, for info 392-5890. • Faculty of Arts at M cG ill presents Douglas Johnson of tht
University of London, who w ill speak on "The Dreyfus Case G uilt and racism in 19th century France" at 6pm in Leacock 132. • McGill Cheerleaders hold practices every Monday at 9pn in the Currie Gym. Everyone welcome!
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Gerts. Sponsored by DESA. Free! • Open City, directed by Roberto Rossellini, w ill be shown n the Ballroom at 7:30pm. Admission free. Presented by the M cG ill Film Society. • Dr. S. Lehnert of the Montreal General Hospital w ill speak of "Zenografts for the Study of Human Tumor Radiosensitiv ity" at 5pm in Room 705, McIntyre Medical Sciences Bldg. • The Montreal Sexual Assault Centre urgently needs volunteers. Please help. For info: 934-4504. • AEPCQ Exhibit in McLennan Library until the 22nd, presen ting 40 French cultural periodicals, go and browse around! • McGill Players' Theatre and M cG ill contemporary Dance Ensemble present "The Definition of Dance" at 8pm in Players' Theatre until March 14. Tickets $4 and $6. For info392-8989. • AIESEC presents Nazima Mohamed on "Conducting Business in the Third W orld: The Other side of the sotry, Bronfman 178, 4:30-6.
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WEDNESDAY Wednesday, March 11 • B.N.N Generali meeting w ill be held at 4pm in Union 425/26. All members are asked to plearse attend. For more info drop by the office, Union 404. • McGill Choral Society is holding its annual elections. Nomination deadline is 8pm. For more info: 286-1125. • Project Ploughshares open meeting at 6pm in Union 107/108. Much exciting news, inspirational happenings to be discussed. All welcome. • I n Pursuit o f a new relationship with nature, a discussion with Michael Bloomfield on Environmental Ethics. Join the McGill Student Pugwash at 7:30pm in Room A-09 of the Mc Connell Engineering Bldg. • McGill Industrial Relations Association presents Daryl T. Bean, national president fo the Public Service Alliance of Canada. He w ill speak on Public Service Collective Bargain ing Legislation at 12 noon in Bronfman 451. • Planet o f the Apes filmfest every Wednesday at 7pm in
Thursday, March 12 • McGill Crossroads présentes Prof. Broadhurst who will speak on "M ilitarization in the Developing W o rld " at 7pm in Union B09/10. All welcome!
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Alternative Career Day Offers Options by Michael Sharpe For all of you soon-to-graduate students out there who would like to find a job with a little more challenge and meaning than is offered by many of the’ more conventional occupations, there is an event coming up which just might change your life. ^ On Thursday March 12th, McGill Stu-
dent Pugwash w ill hold its first Alter native Career In fo rm a tio n Day. Representatives from a number of dif ferent organisations, consulting firms, and institutes have been invited to give presentations showing just what it is they do, and what sort of background and ex perience are appropriate for a career in the field.
Most of these organisations are well off the beaten track of the traditional job search. They are associated (directly or indirectly) with such activities as: educa tion, health and agriculture in develop ing countries (non-profit organizations such as CUSO); the innovation and transfer of appropriate technology (the
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reputation like Harvard," he said, "I think we can stand on our ow n." All candidates, except Horvath stress ed the importance of the ability to speak French in their capacity as VP External since the position w ill require them to interact with the French language unviersities and coalitions in this province. "It's essential," said presidential can didate Chris Alexander. In their speeches on both dates, the candidates for VP Internal stressed the amelioration of communications bet ween student society and the students. W hile Terry Sbrissa suggested the initia tion of a newsletter after each council meeting to disseminate the results of their decisions, Matthew Ruane stated he would "use the Tribune" to provide students with needed information. Those who were not in attendance at either meeting were: Kathy Assayag (Arts Senator), Ward Brown (Arts Senator and Radio McGill Board of Directors), James Donahue (Arts Senator), Dave Bate (Radio McGiJI Board of Directors), Joshua Fellman (Radio M cG ill Board of Directors), and Chris Gardner and Richard Tattersall, both candidates for management Senators.
Brace Institute); environmental con sulting, genetic counselling and energy conservation. Many of them do a con siderable part of their work overseas, especially in underdeveloped areas. This is not a recruiting drive, but rather, an opportunity for interested peo ple to find out about some of the possibilities for careers in these and
related areas. The various presentations and displays w ill take place in Leacock 232 between 9am and 9pm on March 12. A detailed schedule of the day's events w ill be distributed around campus early in the week, so keep your eyes open and come find out about what you could be doing this time next year.
FAE Controversy continued from page 1 this demand, "N on violent, direct action is the only successful technique." An additional protest to FAE research took place on Friday, March 7, when about 40 McGill students rallied at Dawson Hall, the banner-waving, slogan shouting group marched across campus, gathering support along the way. Petitions are also being circulated throughout the campus, which w ill be presented by the Ad Hoc Committee at the March 16 Board of Governors Meeting. Police broke up the occupation of Maclachlan's office at one o'clock on Monday morning. Robert Todd, onw of the ousted occupants and member of The Little Red Waon, told the T r i b u n e that anti-FAE action will continue at the Roddick gates. Union Building, and in front of Dawson Hall in order that the protest "not lose momentum." "We did accomplish something," said David Lennox, "People know about the issue now." There will be a mass demonstration against weapons research in front of the Administration Building on Monday, March 16 at 2:30 pm during the meeting of the Board of Governors.
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continued from page 1 involvem ent w ith in Quebec and Canada's student movements. One of last year's candidates for Presi dent, Titi Nguyen, asked the candidates to outline, in French, their feelings on McGill's position in the Quebec student movement. John Horvath, who refused to respond in French, stressed stronger ties with other universities, especially Concordia. "M cG ill has never co-operated very much in the past," he said. Horvath of fered to respond to the question in either German or Hungarian. W hile Francis Lacombe stated that he felt that joining the Quebec student society coalition ANEQ would be "easier than forming our own students' coalition." Chris Alexander rejected that motion stating that there was a "clash of interests" between ANEQ and McGill and that he did "not think (that) we have a place in ANEQ." Vincent Poirier rejected ANEQ and all other coalitions. "M cG ill has a world
PGSS continued from page 1 would also be able to increase the number of pages and buy desperately needed new equipment." "W ould the fee increase affect the Tribune!" asked Readman. " it would affect the Trib greatly," replied Heath. "W e presently do thier typesetting and if Daily Typesetting
closes they w ill have to go off campus." Heath mentioned that the cost of typesetting for the Tribuen would dou ble. "StudSoc w ill have to vote a massive increase to the Trib or raise StudSoc fees." In other Council business, PGSS voted representatives to various committees, received executive reports, and learned the identities of next year's executive, all acclaimed.
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Professor J. A. Duff will relinquish his position as Director of the Centre for Continuing Education on June 30, 1987. An Advisory Committee for the selection of his successor has, therefore, been established. The Director supervises and administers the program s, budgets, and activities o f the Centre for Continuing Education. Candidates are required to have appropriate scholarly and ad ministrative experience and should have a special interest in and knowledge of part-time studies. Facility in French is desirable. Nominations to and applications for, as well as comments about, the position are invited. These should be addressed to Dr. S.O. Freedman, Vice-Principal (Academic). Room 504, F. Cyril James Building, prior to April 15, I987.
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. Where the incom ing student senator is not available, the outgoing student senator fo r the faculty involved w ill be the only alternate.
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An alternative is not eligible fo r election.
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There w ill be no replacem ents to this meeting fo r incom ing student governors who are unable to attend.
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McGILL ANATOMY STUDENTS’ SOCIETY — President -V ic e -P re s id e n t (academic) — Vice-President (social) — Treasurer — Secretary
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President Vice-President Treasurer Directors (4) Secretary
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Pot’s Defence Offends To The Editor: Pierre Pavlenyi seems to think that "hum our" is a good rationale for the ex istence of the Plumber's Pot. The humour he finds in that publication can only be a function of his sick mind. He makes the claim that since father, mother and dentist jokes are deemed alright by a limited proportion of society, then racist, sexist and homophobic jokes must therefore be alright as well. In dividuals who are into dentist jokes would probably not hesitate to relate that joke to their dentist - can the same be true of the printed hatred of the Plumber's Pott O f course not! Pierre Pavlenyi's analogy is inane. The Pot is not merely "poking fun", as Pavlenyi suggests,rather it singles out visible minority groups and promotes derogatory and stale stereoptypes of these groups, thereby spreading hatred. The majority of the engineers (white males) may tolerate the Pot but it is questionable as to whether they enjoy it (and pathetic if they do). The only form of McGill life more wretched than the engineers who tolerate the Pot, are the ones who produce it. Finally, Pierre Pavlenyi suggests to those of us who are against the Pot and all othere such racist, sexist and homophobic publications that if it offends us then too bad because "n o one is forcing you to read it". Well Pierre, if so meone plasters the billboards of Montreal with flyers that read "Pierre Pavlenyi is a total shithead" <in French and English of course), then don't be offended because you don't have to read it - eyen though it's true! Cameron D. Eckert BSc. '86
Plumbing The Depths of Humour To the Editor: The Plumber's Pot boys continue to dig themselves deeper, I see. Now Pierre Pavlenyi wants us to accept that all humour necessarily offends someone. Oh? If so, that's news to me, but in any case, things don't need to be that way and should not be. Given this, a racist, misogynist, homophobic, and otherwise offensive scandal sheet like the Plumber's Pot should bite the dust and fast. I can take my lumps as well as anyone, but I will not pTit up with being treated like just another member of a group some bigoted Pofbrains happen to despise — ia my case, "faggots" and arts students, but for others " g irls ," "niggers," and so on. I don't care about in c id e n ta l o ffe n sive n e ss; Eddie Murphy's fag jokes don't even bother me. But I have no tolerance for the deliberate maligning of minorities which has been the eternal cornerstone of the Pot. A rag like the Plumber's Pot is simply incompatible with McGill in the latter 1980s. Its existence is untenable. I doubt that most engineering students really do want to pay for the trash of the Pot —
and gay . and .lesbian engineering students, not to mention women and blacks in engineering, surely derive no pleasure from paying to be insulted. There is no virtue in obnoxiousness. There is, moreover, no defence for the Plumber's Pot. Shut it down now. Joe Clark
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Overseas Workers Warned To the Editor: There is an organisation on your cam pus called AIESEC whose main function is to set up overseas jobs for students. An admirable goal, however, I travelled to Europe several years ago for a six month job arranged by AIESEC only to find that this job was not available. I returned to Canada too late to start my final year of studies, was out several thousand dollars and never received as much as an ex planation from AIESEC. I am only now completing my studies. I must stress that this incident happen ed several years ago and I do not wish to blame in any way the present ad ministrators of AIESEC whom I trust are more competent than their predecessors. Mistakes can happen, however, and so I
strongly urge all students who are con sidering an overseas job through AIESEC to take the following precautions: 1) Always contact the employer yourself to confirm that the job does in fact exist and they are expecting you. A simple telephone cal I or letter can save you a lot of grief and money. 2) Get a written committment from AIESEC to reimburse you for travef ex pense if you get to your destination to find that your job either doesn't exist or has been misrepresented. If AIESEC has faith in their placement service there should be no hesitation in providing you with such a guarantee. Yours sincerely, Barry Lizmore
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Apologizes Again To the Editor: In the February issue of the Plumber's Pot, a photograph of Mary Gendron's face was superim posed over a photograph of the body of a nude woman. The editors of the Pot wish it to be known that the resulting photograph was NOT Mary. We apologize to Mary and to her family for printing this without her knowledge or consent. We regret any embarassment or damages suffered by Mary as a result. Signed, Bob Moses Neil Koury
In Memoriam M cG ill has lost someone very special in the person of J.C. Weldon. W hile he was often embroiled in the politics of McGill and the larger world, he w ill be remembered by those of us who knew him, those whose lives he touched, not for his politics, but for himself. To his students, this influence was imparted in the classroom, the hallways, and in his office as he followed his calling as a Teacher. At the head of the class, he commanded one's attention through the force of his personality and intellect far more than through the occasional repri mand. Nonetheless, he did not demand agreement on all points and he welcom ed debate. Professor Weldon engaged in it with imagination, wit, and irony, but never malice. The students who have had courses with him remember him for his lectures, which is remarkable con sidering the grueling one hundred per cent finals he gave. Personally, he in spired me to read literally thousands of pages which I would not have read otherwise. Weldon was a man of princi ple — principles which were more en compassing than bureaucratic infighting. As an advisor he told me, "I gon't give a damn about this burearucracy." It was through the people who knew him, not through the institituions in which he worked, that he affected the world most. Because of that, our loss is felt all the more widely. Clayton A. Sweeney, Jr.
To the Editor: ! am writing to you in order to provide' more information concerning the PostGraduate Student Society referendum to be held in the following days. The referendum is held as a result of a report submitted to PGSS council (and available at the Thomson House Library) on the situation of graduate membership in SSMU. The report revealed an impor tant disenchantm ent o f graduate students towards the services provided by the SSMU. This was not new since this issue is about 25 years old. Two solutions were therefore possible: im prove substantially the relations with SSMU, or secession. In good faith PGSS proposed four changes to the SSMU con stitution which we think w ill also im prove the overall situation of SSMU.
Smooth-Talking Racism Perhaps the greatest lesson learned by those who attended the evening with South African Ambassador to Canada Glenn Babb in Douglas Hall on Thursday is how neatly packaged a racist can be. He spoke the finest English of anyone in the room and effortlessly defended every single one of his arguments with solid fact and figures. The feeling among those leaving the room at 9:15 was one of shame. We did not know nearly enough specific facts about South Africa with which to combat the ambassador. Throughout over ninety minutes of questioning, Babb was not pinned-down once. Perhaps we w ill now try to learn more about the realities of apartheid in order that we not fall victims to pesonal ignorance again. An observation must be made concerning Randy Flemming's asinine assertion that freedom of speech is something relative. If freedom of speech does not belong to everyone within what we dare to call a "free society," then it belongs to no one at all. It is true that such a freedom does not mean that one is obligated to invite such people as Glenn Babb to speak. However, if such a person is granted an invita tion, then such an invitation must be respected, regardless of how strongly one may disagree with the views that might be expressed. Boyd Holm es
1. Bimonthly meetings of the ex ecutive members from the two societies. 2. Proportional representation per Faculties on SSMU council. 3. The creation of a Vice-President Graduate Affairs on the SSMU Ex ecutive. 4. Membership fee for graduate students which is proportional to use. Those changes were presented at the last council meeting of SSMU (Feb. 24). SSMU council refused to consider them until the next meeting pretexting pro cedural problems. Because of deadlines our referendum w ill have to take place, however, a mandate to negociate autonomy does not mean it w ill automatically take place. Graduate students could still play a role in SSMU given the necessary tools. If SSMU starts to cooperate with graduate students we w ill hold back on secession. I believe that the March 10 meeting is SSMU's last chance to prove that they have good faith and truly want to see the graduate student population as part of their membership. It may sound like an ultimatum to SSMU, but as I mentioned earlier, the problem is more than 25 years old and it is time something con crete is done about it so that it can be put to rest. G eneviève Tanguay President of PGSS
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Babbspeak Unappreciated At Douglas Hall by Boyd Holmes "1 come not to praise apartheid, I come to bury it." These were the words of South African Ambassador to Canada Glenn Babb, who spoke to students in the common room of Douglas Hall last Thursday night. Although the identity of the speaker had been kept secret from most hall residents until Babb entered the room at 7; 15 (they had been informed only that a speaker on South African would be com ing), rumours had been circulating at least since the weekend that Babb would be the speaker. These rumours reached the ears of McGill's South Africa Committee late Thursday a fte rn o o n . A b o u t ten members, complete with placards, stood in the Hall courtyard and shouted anti apartheid slogans at the room in which Babb was rumoured to be having his (residence) dinner. When Babb began to speak, the Com mittee members shouted more slogans from outside the common room. However, the protestors were almost en tirely ignored by those inside, and no more noise was heard from them after about 15 minutes. Attendance was restricted to those liv ing in Douglas Hall; about ten members of the RCMP ensured this and were responsible for keeping the protestors outside the building. However, reporters from the Daily who did not live in the Hall, were admitted, as was student senator and presidential-hopeful Randy Flemmings. When asked how he manag ed to bypass the security guards, he replied, "M ainly because I'm Randy Flemmings." Before introducing Babb, Assistant Director of Douglas Hall John Hale ex plained his reasons for making the con
troversial decision to invite the am bassador. According to Hale, many of the students in the room were not fully informed about the situation in South Africa, and had never had the opportuni ty to hear the other side of the apartheid issue. Hale completely rejected the no tion that to listen to Babb's views would be to give consent to apartheid. As in telligent adults, he noted, we did not have to be told_by the student press what the correct answers were. After this night, declared Hale, 200 out of 20,000 would have heard the other side of the issue. (In fact, there were closer to 160 people in the room.) Babb spoke for about fifteen minutes before the room was opened up to ques tions. According to Babb, the crisis in South Africa was "a dilemma that faces not just us, but all of you.” He then gave a brief outline of Afrikaaner history, and implied (without ever actually stating) that the instituting of apartheid in 1948 had been a mistake. The problem, accor ding to Babb,-had been how to deal with a multi-ethnic society. One could at te m p t e x te rm in a tio n , e x c lu s io n , assimilation (as in the United States), the creation of a cultural mosaic (as in Canada) or partition, which was what happened in South Africa. The govern ment of South Africa, according to Babb, was moving to end apartheid while at the same time allowing the various peoples of the country the right to selfdetermination. Babb concluded that the greatest source of the problems in South Africa is that "the white man is becom ing Africanized, the black man is becom ing industrialized." Shortly after questions began, Flemm ings was granted the right to make a short speech. He objected to the fact that the identity of the speaker had not been
made known in advance, and stated that the views of those who wanted to see McGill invest in South Africa "are trying to creep back into M cG ill." Flemmings also stated that the right to freedom of speech was "relative" and "does not ap ply here.',' He concluded with a plea for the students to take what they were go1 ing to hear "w ith a grain of salt." Flemm ings left midway through the question and answer period. When one student asked Babb a ques tion in what appeared to be a French ac cent, the ambassador responded in French, which the majority of the poeple in the room presumably did not unders tand. Babb gave a highly abbreviated summary in English, but the brevity of the summary was unsatisfactory to most people. When another student asked about the literacy rates in South Africa for whites and blacks respectively, Babb replied that 83% of the whites were literate and 65% of the blacks. He then added that Concordia had discovered last year that 50% of its student body was functionally illiterate. One person asked about the prospect of government negotiations with the outlawed African National Congress (ANC). Babb responded that ANC would be welcomed at the negotiating table if its members renounced violence as the means through which to achieve change. Throughout the evening Babb conced ed that there were indeed major pro blems in South Africa; "perhaps we've got more warts than any other nation on earth." But he also accused the media of exaggerating problems in his country, and of giving less attention, to worse situations in other parts of the world, -such as the famine in Ethiopia. He then praised his government for having eliminated mpre discriminatory legisla tion last year than the United States did in the 20 years after the 1954 segrega tion ruling, Brown versus the Board of
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The ambassador's diction was heavily peppered with metaphors, alliteration, analogies, historical anecdotes, percen tages, jokes, poetry and quotations from Machiavelli and Alexis de Tocqueville. His command of facts and figures made it virtually impossible for anyone asking him a question to pin him down on any particular point. Babb's judgments were further reinforced by a large number of right-wing pamphlets and periodicals dealing with South Africa, which were made available free-of-charge on a table at the back of the room. It is perhaps significant ter note that throughout the event the vast majority of residents remained quiet and sullen. Vir tually the same students were vocal and angry when Dean of Students Irwin Gopnik spoke to them to January 15 about the proposal to lim it the number of students returning to residence.
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A Personal Indictn The by Tanya Van Valkenburg "A re there many Dith Prarts? Yes there are, but some, they cannot survive." Anyone who has never seen the movie, The Killing fields, w ill probably not have heard of the original Dith Pran; however, no one who has seen it is likely to forget him. Last Monday M cG ill was honoured by a visit from Dith Pran, whose journalistic covering of the fall of Cambodia to the communist Khmer Rouge forces, and his subsequent survival in a forced-labour camp of that regime, was powerfully reenac ted in the award-winning movie. Audiences around the world inc hiding the USSR have been shown The Kiliini> Field*, for it is characterized by a notable lack of political and/or ideological orientation, and its historical value is <(implemented by the themes of friendship, love and the w ill to survive. The movie documents PranN friendship with Sydney Schanberg, the New York lim e s correspondant for whom he was inter preter; there is a wonderful quality of strength in his bond with Schantrerg and other foreign reporters, and later in his love for the young son of a Khmer Rouge. These aspects transform the viewing of an overpowering and psychologically disturbing movie into a memorable experience. Pran came to McGill to stress the Cambodian story in its entirety, without its "hollywoodization,” the purpose of which was to make it suitable (or 'stomachable') for Western audiences. It runs as follows: Cambodia tried to stay neutral in the Vietnamese con flict; however, in 1970 a change of leadership was ef fected in Cambodia, in the hope that they could force the- North Vietnamese off their tiorder, lieing used by the Viet Cong to train troops and to hide themselves. U|x>n the Viet Cong's refusal and their subsequent advance towards the capital (Phnom Pehn), the Americans, who were friendly with the new Cambodian government, forced them to withdraw. The Viet Cong them went deep into the* countryside and recruited the Khmer Rouge, propagating the idea that the new Cambodian govern ment had sold out to the Americans. In 197T the Vie! Cong turned the war over to the communist Khmer Rouge, who had become a strong force. The* Khmer eventually took power in April 1975. Dith Pran was in Phnom Pehn when the Khmer Rouge entered, ushered in happily by a people who were tired of having their country ravaged by a war (ought between foreign powers. He described the1 occupying forces as, "looking like something from a distant planet." Soon after their accession to power, they began wha! Pran in-
by Joel Goldenberg jean Paul Harney, leader of the provin cial New Democratic Party in Quebec, spoke at McGill on Thursday, March 5. The speech, which was presented by NDP-McGill, covered the provincial party's plans for Quebec, if elected. Harney began by describing NDPQuebec as the first major social
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democratic party in the province. Tf, party was founded in September 1985, two months before the provincial elec tion that re-elected the Liberal govern ment under Robert Bourassa. Harney remarked that his party felt they could best organize themselves in their infancy by contesting that election. Concerning NDP Quebec's relation ship with its federal counterpart, Harney asserted that his party can influence the federal NDP as to party policy, but that the federal party cannot influence NDP Quebec's political direction. Harney also stated that his party's aspirations in clude enacting a policy of full employ ment with a fair distribution of income. Furthermore, Harney felt that Quebec should have its own economic policy in relation to the rest of the continuent. Hr cited Scandinavian governments as ex amples of successful economic policies in which a fair distribution of income ex ists. As for Quebec's place within Canada, Harney stated that his party supports federalism and that Quebec should re main a part of Canada. However, he also stated that Quebec should have its own written constitution as opposed to the unwritten one under which the provint e presently functions. Harney committed his party to en couraging governments at both the pro vincial and federal level to govern more democratically through consultations with the public on such issues as cruise
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Photo Tosh Hurrv. logy: "(hey wanted to „ ani! start tram zero evacuated, including ■lier tuais were found only way to survive, >wn." Passing himself g millions who ended ■condi I ions were es taciated Pran sneak a ted secretly; I wish I he said enviously, rpers, rats, snakes,
leaves...which were absolutely essential lor survival.' Eight year old children and old people were put to work: justified the Khmer Rouge, "you're lucky that the Khmer Rouge came to (tower: everyone has a job. You kttow, in America...many people are unemployed." During this holocaust, which lasted until the North Vietnamese, liberated the country in 1979, between two and three million |moitié (of a total population of seven million) were killed. How did Dith Pran survive? Partly, he explained, "you've got to be smart and know how to deal with these iteople,” doing tilings which you know are wrong, such as lying and stealing, in order to survive. As Impor tant to Pratt's survival, he believed, was his faith in his destiny and his religion. His underlying message: "you wield good w ill, and someday somebtxfy is going to help you." One aspect ot Pran's discussion which was rather unsettling for some in the audience was his seeming trust in and dependence on the West as arbiters and eradicators of global evil. "The only way ypu..can stop this war (which continues between the exiled Khmer Rouge and the now dominant North Vietnamese) is, I believe, that the Westerners or the American govern ment can start to be mediators." More disturbing still were his frequent references to some of the Cambodian villagers as being "low er class," and his seemingly elitist attitude which implied that the death of the intellectuals and city people was more of a Iragedy than that of the people in the country side, who were also less educated than the city people and were consequently more easily "brainwashed" by the Khmer Rouge. "The Vietnamese people were lucky that more intellectuals could escape...We lost a lot of educated people, politicians..." Furthermore, in relation to the Khmer Rouge themselves, he states that certain things they did, in cluding evacuating the patients from the hospital, "tells us one hundred per cent that these people are crazy." I le gave the inherent craziness of each individual person as a rather unsatisfying reasoning behind why people in the countryside, inc luding a large number of children, would join the Khmer Rouge in rebelling against the ex isting government. Perhaps it is just that, being a city per son, he does not understand the poeple in the Cambo dian countryside. Dtth Pran is now a photogra|)her tor the Now York Times, and has recently been appointed Goodwill Am bassador to the United Nations.
Johnston Briefs Students On 'Grim Finance' by Bruce G rundison
McGill is just beginning a financial upswing after ten years of decline, Principal David Johnston told 25 students and staff in an open address March 2, sponsored by the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society. Johnston began his brief address by telling the small audience that as a mid-sized university with over 23,000 full and part-time students, McGill aims to achieve excellence in each area of study. "If we can't do a particular area well, we shouldn't do it at a ll," he said. McGill is special place to grow" which demands "high standards so that students develop a philosophy for life," not just proficiency in a particular subject. The "grim finances" Principal Johnston reported included a 30 percent.decrease in the university's government operating grant coupled with a 20 percent increase in the student population over the past 10 years. He commended university employees for "getting by with slim amounts of staff" and minimal expenses during this financially tight decade. McGill's administrative expenses are among the lowest of all Canadian universities, currently comprising 6.8 per cent of the total budget. More positively, McGill's research funding has increased 50-55 per cent during the same period, making McGill the leading university in Canada in terms of research grants per professor. While reseach stimulates both professors and students, it also creates a financial dilemma, the principal said, as research grants usually must be matched dollar for dollar with extra administrative costs in the university budget. Principal Johnston also admitted that student fee increases would have little impact on McGill's deficit, as student fees constitute only seven per cent of the total university budget. He maintained that McGill must seriously look towards other income sources, such as the M c G ill Advancem ent Programme, which as made "a significant contribu tion " to the university's financial situa tion. In response to questions concerning the international student fee differential and its effect on international student enrollment, Johnston remarked that McGill "must continue to seek a more reasonable approach" to ail fees, and to
international student fees in particular. It has been six years since the fee differen tial was first introduced, which requires non-Canadian students at McGill to pay up to ten times more per credit than Canadian students. During that time, in ternational student enrollment has drop ped 65 per cent, although that decline is now reversing itself. International students currently make up about 10 per cent of the total student population. W hile universities must always "be very vigilant about not neglecting undergraduate students" and becoming overly specialized, the principal said that M cG ill can be very proud of its in structional quality. McGill offers a uni
The principal also praised student in volvement in university affairs. He rank ed McGill with Harvard, Queen's and U of T.as having >a "first class student government" which shows even greater promise of the the future.
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jcratic Government lissile testing. After completing the speech, Harney elded questions on a number of issues. >ne issue concerned the federal NDP d their lack of support of workers' auses in strike situations. Harney, in sponse, stated that his was the only tajor political party to lend support to te workers at the Manoir Richelieu after tey were locked out. Concerning the language issue, larney stated that Quebec should gislate in favour of the linguistic mairity while "maintaining the...minority nguage g u ara ntee s in the orrstitution." As well, Harney stressed ie importance of possessing a cohesive ansfitution for the French language that ould be "o ut of the reach of politi,an5." He also criticized the return to a end of unilingual English-speaking by veral employees who deal with the ■neral public in Montreal. He pointed ut that Quebec has provided for the in o rity A nglo pho ne p o p u la tio n trough such institutions as schools and ospitals. Harney was adamant in stating his par''s concern for a clean Canada. Accoring to Harney, the dumping of toxic wastes into Canada's rivers is "o ur worst nvironmental problem...worse than cid rain.” The NDP-Quebec party position on bortion, according to Harney, is that it tould not be a part of the criminal ode, thus rendering it legal.
que university experience by bringing together students not only from other parts of Canada, but from over 120 other countries, adding to the opportunity for a well-rounded education. The entire ci ty can benefit from McGill's eclectic composition, he said, because McGill provides the possibility of making Mon treal "a kind of Paris" with a true sense of participation in the global village.
Harnèy stated that his party is opposed to increased free trade arrangements with the United States. According to the latest Gallop polls, the NDP-Quebec provincial party has the support of 14% of the voting popula tion in Quebec. This result contrasts greatly with the 2% support the party had in 1985.
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by Robert Costain The mid-winter blahs w ill be relieved for many this week as a result of the New Music Festival occurring at both Club Soda and the Union Ballroom at McGill. This year's festival, the second in as many years, is perhaps the largest gathering of up-and-coming Montreal music talent ever assembled for one event. In eight days spread over two weeks, local promoter Duncan Mac-
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Tavish and Co. are showcasing twentyfour Montreal bands, none of which have yet been signed by a major recor ding company. To date, the festival is showing that Montreal has much to offer in terms of accessible and innovative^ music. It is also showing, through the dearth of record releases being peddled each night, that Montreal has the potential for
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a healthy independent record label. Many of the bands have vinyl releases out, and have been able to manage without the help of a major promoter. Not all the bands at this year's festival w ill make it big, yet there is no denying that there exists a wealth of talent in the city waiting to be tapped. The Festival kicked off this past week ith a four night run at Club Soda up on the Plateau. Despite exorbiant drink
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by (ennifer Henderson Rhythmic. Pulsing. Hypnotic. Kodo is all muscle, sweat and disciplined move ment. You can feel the reverberations of the taiko drums within your skull, against your chest, along your spine. But the sound is only half the show. A Kodo performance is a truly physical drama. On stage at Theatre Saint-Denis last Thursday night, Kodo's One Earth Tour was a rare spectacle — a thrilling jux taposition of ancient Japanese ritual and a modern message. Kodo founder Tagayasu Den's mission was to preserve the past traditions of Japanese performing arts, which he saw as threatened by cultural erosion. Cen tral to his vision of the old spirit was the taiko drum, a symbol of the rural com munity in ancient Japan, where village limits were determined by the farthest distance at which the taiko could be heard. One Earth Tour carrier, a message of peace: by taking the sounds of the taiko to people around the world, Kodo
strives to reueiine me world as one village. The Japanese group originates from the remote Sado Island, formerly a place of exile in the Sea of Japan. Founded in 1971, Kodo's communal band of dropouts from modern Japanese society live a sort of self-imposed isolation: In order to master age-old arts, they con sign themselves to a monastic daily routine that includes a spartan lifestyle, drum practice and running at least 18 miles a day. Company director Toshio Kawauchi explains that the art of Kodo requires drummers to have the stamina of marathoners, and no wonder. It takes a lot of muscle to shake the walls of an auditorium for 100 minutes. Traditional Japanese culture was a martial one in which the body was pain fully brought to the apex of strength even as the mind was subjected without question to feudal authority. This cult of strength Lingers on in Kodo. Kodo drummers literally attack the drums. With concentrated energy and
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The Suicide is the story of Semyon Se myonovich Podsekalnikov (played by " T h e S u i c i d e " b y M ic k o la i E rd m a n Shawn Goldwater). Depressed about his D ire c te d b y A lb e rt M e re n b e rg perpetual unemployment, degraded by M a r c h 5 ,6 ,7 - 1 2 ,1 3 ,1 4 8 :0 0 p m his wife's salary, meagre as it is, and 4 2 9 7 S t. L a u r e n t discouraged about life in general, he R e s e rv a tio n s 2 8 9 - 9 7 2 5 decides to do himself in. His family is V o l u n t a r y C o n t r i b u t i o n $ 4 - 5 .0 0 understandably upset. A neighbour leaks Joseph Stalin did not think Nikolai Erd- the word of the impending suicide to man's play The Suicide was funny. He representatives of different groups that was wrong. It doesn't sound like it feel hard-done-by in the "N ew Russia" should be funny, but if you go see it per and soon Semyon no longer lacks en formed next week by Theatre Shmeatre, couragement. They start banging on our you'll see what I mean. hero's door and asking him to kill This was Erdman's second and last himself in the name of: the intelligentsia, play. It was banned in rehearsal in 1931 w o m e n , b u tc h e rs , po stm e n , and the young playwright was sent into themselves, art, etc.. Drunk with his new exile shortly thereafter. The,play is still found celebrity status (and beverages banned in Russia. _____ __________ continued on page 10 T h e a tre S h m e a tre p re s e n ts ,
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determination they pose like cobras waiting for the kill. And when they strike, it is a lightning attack. In a strenuous half-sit-up position, they fling themselves on barrel-sized drums so low to the ground that the* drummer had to hug the drum with his legs as he sits on the floor and fights it with club-sized sticks. In a piece called Monchrome, rhythmic patterns are woven with highly irregular ones, developing spirally to a climax of spectacular echoing volume. Then in a matter of seconds, the thunderous sound falls to the barely perceptible noise of a quiet,rainstorm. Sometimes movement is restrained as if some repressed store of primal energy was about to be unleashed. In a piece called Sho, the perfect synchronization of taiko and voice creates a feeling of dense space, as if life had stopped in the space of an instant. The space between sounds, sometimes stretched, sometimes shrunken, is as captivating as the sounds themselves. K o d o 's ex p e rim e n ta tio n w ith theatrical dance is somewhat less cap tivating. In a demon sword dance, mask ed dancers cast a spell over bad spirits with their stamping feet. In another dance based on an ancient painting, masked dancers pretend to be various animals, shuffling and slithering towards the drum. The end result is an odd brand of slapstick comedy. But it is the o-daiko, a 900-pound drum carved out of a single block of wood, that leaves the lasting impression. On a raised platform, a drummer on one side beats out a basic rhythm over which the main player improvises freely. Wear ing nothing but loincloths and headbands, they attack the drum feverishly, arms slicing through the air, back muscles straining in the effort. Both drummers and listeners become one with the sound and rhythm-of Kodo, the Japanese symbol for "heartbeat."
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SPORTS Redmen Stung, Concordia Prepares For Halifax by Ken Muss Size and strength on defence and speed on offence were the key factors in the 86-63 shellacking in the Concordia Stingers dealt the McGill Redmen in the QUAA basketball championship game on Sunday afternoon. The Redmen were on the hunt for their fourth straight QUAA title while the. Stingers were looking to extend their winning streak to six games as the combatants took the floor before the large and boisterous crowd at the Sir Arthur Currie Memorial Gymnasium. The Redmen took an early 12-4 lead but could not hold it as 6'8" centre Rob Latter of the Stingers ran off 10 straight
points and McGill committed three turnovers allowing the Stingers to take a 20-16 lead. Around this time Bernie Rosanelli of McGill found himself in early foul trouble forcing Redmen Coach Ken Schildroth to match Rookie Bruce McElroy against QUAA first team all-star Craig Norman. This enabled Norman to have a field day from the outside as he led all scorers with 28 points. The Redmen were, however, able to remain only four points behind the Stingers at the half, 38-34. McGill never seemed to get set on offense in the game,, and this really showed in the second half. Poor percentage shots were continually taken
by the Redmen as Concordia forced McGill to the outside and nominated the boards with their big men, Latter and Nick Arvinitus. The Redmen spent just 5 minutes in their dressing room prior to returning for the second half. It seemed like they might be ready to turn the tide as they tied the score in the first minute of the second half but Concordia quickly regrouped to take a 9 point lead after 5 minutes. Marlon Paul of Concordia scored several exciting baskets during this run. McGill refused to quite as W illie Hinz scored 26 points and Clint Hamilton notched 23, but it was not enough.
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ORGANIZATIONS ELIGIBLE TO SEND DELEGATES 1. AIESEC McGill 2. Americans Abroad 3. Amnesty International 4. Arab Students Society 5. Armenian Students’ Association 6. Assn. For Baha’i Studies 7. Black Students’ Network . 8. Blood Drive 9. Caribbean Students’ Society 10. Censorwatch 11. Central America Group 12. Chess Association 13. Chinese Christian Fellowship 14. Chinese Students’ Society 15. Choral Society 16. Christian Fellowship 17. Circle K 18. Community McGill 19. Debating Union 20. Entrepreneur’s Club 21. Film Society
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Concordia Coach Doug Daigneault, who received Coach of the Year honours after the game, had his club playing a very disciplined game. Concordia is notably weak on the bench but his starters didn't get into foul trouble so that
Suicide At The Improv continued from page 9 represented as Vodka) he even dares to call the Kremlin to let whomever picks up the phone "have it." Does his courage really extend as far as suicide? You have to wait till the end to find out. This is a noisy, windy play. Mixed with the hip dark humor is a lot of runn ing and yelling and jumping around. Erdman was big on buffoonery and so, apparently, is Theatre Shmeatre. Russian comedy may seem to be a contradiction in terms, sort of like "designer Russian beachwear." But even I, with my scant knowledge of Russian social history, can see how this play might have set Muscovites howling back in '31 (if they'd been allowed to see it). W hile you, as a person living in Montreal in 1987, might not actually fall off your chair, Shmeatre has done a pretty good job making this play funny to us (I doubt Erdman is responsible for lines like "G o suck a fuse box") without sacrificing the play's historical value, or lessening its current relevance. There are plenty of hoots to be had, and, thankfully, dogma does not intrude in a bothersome way. Prepare yourself for, well, theatre in the rough. The "theatre" itself is kind of like someone's low-rent apartment that's been gutted, there are about thirty
never became a factor. Concordia w ill move on the the CIAU Playoffs in Halifax this weekend McGill w ill hope for a wild card berth to continue playing as well.
folding chairs set before an empty space which serves as a stage. The actors seem to have been directed to affect their best accents. One character has a Southern drawl, a couple of them sound like that mocked-up Jewish guy who does the commercials for "Briskets," and one sounds like Boris Badanov's playmate Natasha. Props and costuming are used only when they can't be avoided. Se myon's wife went through opening night in a T-shirt that read "M otor Head, No Remorse." O f course, none of this"really matters. If there is anything wrong with the play its that sometimes the jokes aren't funny, and sometimes they whizzed by so fast I didn't have time to smile. I wouldn't call this production "uproarious," but its really a lot of fun — as much for the at mosphere as for the play itself. Erdman and Theatre Shmeatre are suited to one another. They both seem to know how to mix politics and guffaws, which is a natural combination, but hard to balance so that the audience doesn't have to spit out an acid flavour. There are half a doen excellent performances Goldwater made an excellent Semyon and Janet Susan Ward who plays his wife Maria should be FAMOUS. Stalin didn't like The Suicide, but if you're the kind of person who is w illing to lay out four or five bucks to see a play somehow well-suited to the address of its venue, you probably will.
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power-play goals in game 1, and two in games 2 and 3. Ironically, M cG ill’s penalty killing unit outscored the powerplay, 3-1. Game 2 gave fans a taste of what was to come in game 4 as a boisterous crowd cheered on McGill in an action packed game. The Redmen opened up the lead early but Trois-Rivières struck back with a pair of goals. Just as McGill was threatening late in the game, Jamie Kompon took a penalty (which should have
ferent as the prime target of abuse was McGill's stats man Earl "ca n " Zukerman who had thrown a Trois-Rivières fan's trumpet on the ice during game 1. Earl had beer and verbal insults thrown at him, and then he himself was thrown down a set of stairs. The fans also had a few choice words for Yves Beaucage and coach Ken Tyler. And then there was a hockey game. It was one that McGill let get away. After letting McGill back from a 4-1 deficit to know the game at 4 the
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