THE MCGILL TRIBUNE Published by the Students' Society of McGill University
Volume 7, Issue 11
Students Show Solidarity in Québec City Demo by Michèle Dupuis and Kate Morisset
Gert's crowd goes beserk in final seconds of Atlantic Bowl thriller jy Ken Muss Chuck Petitpas for President! PeItpas nailed the winning points hrough the uprights on a 40 plus yard leld goal (I’m sorry I was just too :xcited to get the correct yardage) with ust 3 seconds remaining in Saturday’s Atlantic Bowl against the St. Mary’s Tuskies, giving the Redmen a miracle 50-29 victory. The Red and White won he Robert L. Stanfield Trophy and a rip to the Vanier Cup in Toronto for the tational championship next Saturday, heir first trip to the Cup since 1973. Watching the game in Gert’s, with a jacked house, the McGill faithful were jnce again treated to a fabled come back. Two weeks ago the Redmen ;ame back from a 24-7 halftime deficit igainst Queen’s for an astonishing 2714 win. On Saturday McGill led 19-14 at the lalf, after St. Mary’s had thrilled their tome crowd with a major score on their
first drive. McGill came back in the second quarter with a blocked punt by Wally Sordo, allowing Richard Babin to pick up the loose ball and run in for the touchdown. Then the Redmen es tablished their bread and butter - the running game - resulting in a one yard touchdown by Michael Soles. The game evolved into a chess match. Redmen Head Coach Charlie Baillie elected to kick the ball off, rather than receive, to start the second half, hoping to pin the Huskies deep in their own zone. The defence did the job, giving McGill good field position. The Redmen defence shut down the much vaunted quarterback Chris Flynn and the Huskie offence forcing St. Mary’s head coach Larry Uteck to pull out all the stops. A fumble on a punt return in the third quarter gave St. Mary’s excellent field position inside the Redmen 40. On third and one, Flynn faked an inside handoff and
lobbed a 25 yard pass to tight end Briar Smith for a 21-19 lead. Gerry Ifill put McGill ahead onct again plunging from the one yard line after defensive end Alain Delorme hac forced the second of two Flynr fumbles. Then late in the fourth quarter Uteck called for a fake punt and Jim Fitzsim mons rambled 69 yards for a touch down on the misdirection play. The score was 29-26 after a twopoint conversion. McGill drove dowr the field giving Petitpas a 25 yard at tempt to tie the game. Petitpas missec and it looked as if McGill’s seasor would end in disappointment. Despitt the miss, McGill gained a precious single point, cutting the St. Mary’s leac to just two, 29-27. On the ensuing series SMU electee to pass the football instead o f trying tc run out the clock. Uteck was still play-
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Council Session: Fermenting Discontent by
Angela Chapman
Student Council brewed over a University Centre alco hol policy and stewed over the imminent secession o f the Post Graduate Students’ Society during last Tuesday’s meeting. In response to a question from Chris Alexander, VP External Affairs, Councillor Jennifer Fraser, who cam paigned against the graduate amendments to the StudSoc constitution, pleaded that, “It was never the intention of the ‘No Committee’ to force a secession,” adding that the Committee was formulating an alternative proposal to offer PGSS. Lee Iverson of PGSS claimed that secession was inev itable as PGSS had decided before the referendum to do so if the amendments were rejected. “We are now acting in una nimity (to get out of the Students’ Society)”, he declared, adding that this constituted a “de facto rejection” o f other possible amendments to keep PGSS within the fold. Iverson formulated a Students’ Society Constitution secession amendment which would permit the secession, but left the meeting early, apparently unable to get the nec essary four signatures needed to present a motion to Council.
Minimum Beer Prices Council’s attention then focused on amending an alco hol policy for the Union. In an effort to encourage the ball room events to include a designated driver program, Alex ander proposed a $1.25 minimum price for beer when such a program is in effect, otherwise the minimum is to be $ 1.75. While Students’ Society executives supported the conserva tive minimum hailing it a barrier to “mass consumption”, destruction to the Union, and potential law suits, other coun cillors viewed it as “excessive over-regulation.” “We run this building; we have a right to set a mini mum,” Daniel Tenenbaum, StudSoc President, told Coun
cil. “Excessive drinking causes damage to the building,” he added, citing the destruction of the condom machines. Opponents were quick to question the correlation be tween the price of beer and excessive drinking. Fraser pointed out that beer was selling at $1.50 the night the con dom machines were destroyed. Lobbying for a special pro vision to permit a “Happy Hour”, she concluded, “Let the market decide.” “If beer prices had been $1.00, they would have stolen the toilets as well as the condom machines,” retorted Shahir Guindi, Law Senator. Reaching a compromise, the amendment passed retain ing the minimum of $ 1.25, yet permitting a special minimum o f $ 1.00 during the first hour of an event.
Lubicon Nation Recognized In other business. Council approved a motion to form an Ad Hoc Committee on Native Affairs with the primary ob jective o f organizing protest against McCord Museum’s decision to participate in the “Spirit Sings” exhibition. The Lubicon Lake Indian band have called for a boycott o f the event to protest the violation of their land claims and Native rights. Council elected Arts Rep. Mark Cameron to the Committee. An Ad Hoc Committee on Underfunding was formed and Rye Symons and Shahir Guindi, both Senators, were elected to it. A motion to commission the construction of a $25,000 ramp to the University Centre was postponed. Sam Miller o f Access McGill recommended the action, pointing out that, “The University is in the process o f evaluating both space and wheelchair access in the building.” Science Senator Alix MacLean protested that the Uni versity has done two such studies already and that students’ should now take the initiative. At present, she said, “The Union exists as a private club for those who can walk.”
“Solidarité” was the battle cry as over 2000 students from all over Québec, marched towards L’Assemblé Nationale in Québec city last Thursday evening. The marchers went to the pro vincial capital seeking reform to the loans and bursuries program. The current policy states that for a student to declare him/herself inde pendent, he/she must have completed ninety university credits, and/or be married, and/or have worked for two consecutive years, taking into account parental incomes. This automatically excludes most CEGEP students. Chris Alexander, VP External of Students’ Society, stressed that the current policy o f StudSoc states that, “any student who leaves home, and declares him/ herself independent, should be recog nized as such by the government.” ANEEQ called upon students to boycott their classes and demonstrate in Québec City. Twenty seven CEGEPs and universities responded by levelling strike mandates and partici pating in the demonstration.
According to Alexander, organizer for McGill, the demonstrators sought three major demands: to have student input into the reform process, to make reform an election issue in 1989, and for the Minister of Higher Education (Claude Ryan) to disclose his loans and bursuries policies. The march began at the Plains of Abraham and proceeded along La Grande Allée to L’Assemblé Nation ale. The sub-zero temperatures did not seem to phase students who chanted “Ryan salôt, le peuple aura ta peau!” Alexander said the march was an “unqualified success.” Daniel Tenen baum, President o f Students’ Society was enthusiastic about the unity of the crowd, stating that, “CEGËPs and uni versities, ANEEQ members and nonmembers, francophones and anglo phones joined together for an issue which concerns us all.” When asked what StudSoc plans to do in the upcoming weeks on this issue, Alexander said he was “planning a general assembly on the issue,” as well as talking with other groups on campus like graduate students who have differ ent needs and concerns.
O utcry on Arts U nderfunding by Mark Piibe Last Tuesday, in an unprecedented display o f student-faculty solidarity, the Faculty o f Arts committee voted unanimously to endorse the idea o f a ‘teach-in* scheduled for Monday, N ov. 23. This event, organized by Arts stu dents with faculty support, will consist o f a series o f discussions aimed at com batting the growing problem o f underfunding in the Arts Faculty at McGill. Said Jonathan Goodman (Arts and Science Undergraduate Society VP Arts) after presenting the motion to the committee, “This is the definitive state ment that we (the Faculty o f Arts) will no longer be the victims o f systematic underfunding within the University.” It has been common knowledge for some time that McGill University is severely underfunded within the prov ince o f Québec. Many do not realize that the Arts faculty at McGill suffers not only the burden o f governmental underfunding, but also the inequitable policy o f distribution within the Uni versity itself. O f the apparent bias against the Arts Faculty, Dean Richard Salisbury asserts, “It has been incorpo rated into the McGill planning process.
The results are now reaching crisis proprtions, and the high quality of education we have provided is threat ened.” He adds that it it ‘going from bad to worse,” and that there is no shortage o f figures to support the Dean’s claim. The student to professor ratio, at an estimated 22.9 to one, is one o f the highest at McGill, and is 35% higher than the average o f all the other facul ties combined. More alarming is the fact that this ratio has been increasing every year for the last five years, while almost every other faculty has shown an overall decline. In addition. Arts has suffered the largest percentage drop in funding per student of all faculties last year. Profes sor Aronson o f Anthropology is in censed. “For years we have been the patsies o f the University, its willing victims. We accepted and internalized the precept that Arts students are cheap to teach, and that we are bound to accept all o f the students sent to us without deliberating on the conse quences for the quality of education.” Goodman is equally vehement. “If this pejorative trend continues unabated.”
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A Future in Arts by Megan Parry
Last Thursday, Viviane Lunay, Ex ecutive Director o f the Canadian Fed eration o f the Humanities, spoke at McGill on behalf of the Humanistic Studies Program. Her discussion fo cused on the advantages of a liberal arts degree over a “specialized” major, and the employment opportunities avail able to graduates with such a degree. “The less specialized you are, the better your chances,” she said. “What’s attractive about liberal arts majors is their broad base, as opposed to people in management, for example.” The only area where prospects for liberal arts degrees are not good is within the academic sector. Lunay described the poor lot of today’s “lost
generation of gypsy scholars” who are struggling to make ends meet. For this reason, Lunay concen trated her discussion on the non-aca demic sector (government, corpora tions, teaching, etc.) where employ ment opportunities have actually in creased for liberal arts majors in the past decade. “People following this type of study are not wasting their time,” she emphasized. “They are employable.” Speaking against specialization, Lunay citedaU.S. study which showed little relationship between one's uni versity major and one’s career. "Lots of corporations are willing to train their employees on the job,” she added.
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Tuesday, Nov. 17 •Giant Movie Poster Sale: Today and tomorrow in Union 107.
•Americans Abroad: General meeting at 4:30pm probably in their office but they didn’t tell us. •Twilight Retreat: “Making Chris tian Choices.” Newman Centre, 3484 Peel, 398-4106. Supper at 6:00pm (bring your own; drinks provided).
Wednesday, Nov. 18 •Québec Public Interest Re search Group (Q-PIRG) organiz ing at McGill, presents Travis Plunkett, Asst. Legislative Director o f New York PIRG. 7:00pm, Macdonald - Harring ton Bldg. Rm. G-10. Info: 848-7410. Come and get involved! •McGill Outing Club: General meeting, 7:30pm, Leacock 232. 3986817. •McGill Drama Program presents Ibsen’s A Doll's House at 8:00pm in Morrice Hall Theatre. $4, limited seat ing, reserve at 398-6578, or take your chances at the door. Performances until Saturday night.
Thursday, Nov. 19 •WUSC Caravan:
Sale of thirdworld handicrafts on its cross-Canada tour. Today from 10-5, tomorrow from 10-6 in Union 107/108. Come and browse!
•Newman Centre: El Salvador: The Seeds of Liberty. Film with guest speaker Glynis Williams. 3484 Peel, 398-4106. Free! But at what time? •Animal Lovers: Public seminar
with Dr. Robert Mendelsohn “The Futility o f Animal Experimentation in Medical Research.” 7:00pm, Hall Bldg., 1455 deMaisonneuve O., mez zanine level.
Friday, Nov. 20
•International and Canadian Stu dents: A cordial invitation to attend a pot-luck dinner and social evening at 6:30pm in Diocesan College Convoca tion Hall, 3473 University. Sponsored by McGill Christian Fellowship. For more info, 341-5803.
•Math Anxiety?
Dreading stats? 3 session workshop with student coun sellor and stats prof. Starts today from 12-1. 398-3601: sign up now. •Developing Area Studies: pres ents Ihab Hashim on “The post-Nimeiri Sudan: End o f an Era?” 12:00 at CDAS, 3715 Peel.
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Underfunding... continuedfrom page 1 he urges, “the terms ‘M cGill’ and ‘mass education’ will be synonomous.” It is within this crisis context that the idea of the ‘teach-in’ has come into being. Professors o f Arts courses in all departments will instruct their students to proceed to Leacock 232 between certain hours (as yet unknown) on Nov. 23 for their lectures. The subject will be underfunding and the courses of action open to the faculty for improv ing the situation. Besides being a plan ning session, the ‘teach-in’ is intended to stir the awareness o f the Québec gov ernment, the McGill administration, the students, and the general public. Goodman is confident of the outcome o f the event. “The unity o f the faculty and students already shown virtually guarantees the impact o f the ‘teachin’.” Considering the expected turnout o f educators, local media, and provin cial M NA’s, the ‘teach-in’s’ impact should be significant. The only remain ing factor is student attendance. “Grassroots support is crucial.” claims Goodman. “We need every student in Arts, as well as anybody who is con cerned, regardless o f faculty.”
...Arts Degree continuedfrom page 1 “ Specialization...quickly becom es outdated. The principles involved are far more important.” For this reason, the majority of management programs in Canada are modifying technical training to allow for more arts courses. Lunay described liberal arts majors as “capable generalists” who possess important qualities employers look for: the ability to work independently, written communication and problem solving skills. Although liberal arts majors may be generally weaker in technical and administrative abilities, employers admire their “global per spective,” employers said. Lunay cited a long list o f possible careers for liberal arts majors in the book Life After Liberal Arts. She added that knowledge o f French is a big advantage in the job market.
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The first term of office of Dean David C. Smith of the Faculty of Education comes to an end on August 31, 1988. An Advisory Committee to review the Deanship has, therefore, been established in accordance with the Statutes. The Dean of Education supervises and administers the programs, budgets, and all activities of the Faculty. Appropriate scholarly and administrative experience is required; 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), James Administration Building, prior to December 15, 1987.
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The McGill Tribune Tuesday , November 17,1987
Agreeing to Disagree: Senate on Military Research by Jennifer Mori Senate voted last Wednesday to table all amendments and motions con cerning the Joint Board-Senate Committee Report on Military Re search Contracts until Senate recives a new recommendation on the procedure of registering and approving ethically controversial research. Senate’s difficulties in two previ ous sessions of debate concemedthe ambiguities of the original committee recommendations and the problems raised by a related amendment requir ing researchers to declare the possible harmful consequences o f their research to the Vice-Principal Research, who would assess the applications and for bid the research if it was found to have “unacceptable consequences.” The senators debated the impreci-
Sorry... As a result of late night editing and stupid celebrating o f the Redmen vic tory over Bishop’s, the football story , “Redmen Conquer Bishop’s and the Elements” contained a word which was unintentionally racially offensive. The word had no relation to the article what soever, but was typed in complete idi ocy. Ken Muss had nothing to do with the implementation of the word and iheTribune regrets any feelings of racial discrimation on his part. TheTribune also regrets the insult it has paid to its readership with the appearance of the word. TheTribune understands the responsibility the media must shoul der and will endeavor to undertake more professional editing practises to make sure that something as serious as this never occurs again.
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Letters Je Me Souviens... To the editor, With regards to the editorial ap pearing in the November 10 edition of iheTribune. When eulogizing a promi nent politician it seems natural to emphasize his achievements and con tributions to society. The obituary for René Lévesque that appeared in the Tribune, however, bordered on deifi cation. The article failed to mention the man’s characteristic disdain for English-Quebecers. Let it be remembered that René Lévesque led a party that attempted to break up Confederation and imposed one of the most discrimi natory pieces o f legislation in Cana dian history. The myth that “a nation of French people (was) ruled by a clique o f insen sitive English Montrealers,” ignores such historical factors as a repressive French Catholic Church and medieval family values. Political power has always rested in the hands o f the major ity. (Every Quebec premier since John Jones Ross in 1884 has been a Franco phone.) It is only when power falls into the hands o f oppressive bigots that trouble begins. If “English Quebecers are more confident than ever,” why have so many moved their families and businesses out of the province? If Quebecers are “more tolerant than ever and more enriched by the differences and similarities they share,” why does Bill 101 continue to exist? René Lévesque may have been admired by many but the bottom line is that he and his party have always represented the extinction o f English Quebec, the
sion of terminology, whether or not the amendment applied only to military research, bias in the assessment proce dure of the applications, and the addi tional paperwork that the amendment would entail. A new committee including the Vice-Principal Research, the Univer sity solicitor, one of the proposers of the amendment, and one member o f the original Board-Senate committee will draft a new recommendation. Present ing new arguments, Dean Belanger of Engineering stressed that as McGill is publicly funded by, “those who believe military research anathema and those who believe it a patriotic duty,” McGill has no right to dictate what research is unacceptable. He also stated that, “pro fessors should be as free in their labs as they are outside McGill.” forced assimilation o f other minorities, and general intolerance of all things non-Francophone. Je me souviens ... aussi.
Tom Parry U3 Poli. Sci. and History Michael Boire Graduate Management
Oh Darned! To the editor, After reading Dan Mellamphy’s review of The Darned’s record launch at Station 10 (in the November 10th issue of iheTribune ), I had some very serious questions with regards to the qualifications o f the “music reviewers” who chooses to write for the Tribune. Mr. Mellamphy’s article clearly expo ses the fact that he knows nothing about: a) the Montréal music scene, b) the band he was “reviewing”, and c) music in general. He claims that Sta tion 10 is an “over thirties” bar, and yet brings as much receptivity and back ground to the music as the average over-fifty civil servant. In fact, he does not manage to describe, or even evalu ate 77ie Darned’s music, choosing in stead to tell us about how he “sat there with some friends and some beer”, and how the guitarist “looked strangely like a dying chicken”. His writing talents allow him to summarize the entire evening’s music as fitting into the “neither-terrible-nor-great-category”. What a perceptive, knowledge descrip tion! Mr. Mellamphy claims that he could not distinguish between the “endless sameness of blues tunes squealing” from the stereo system, and The Darned’s own songs. Perhaps that is because he is entirely unable to iden tify any o f the aforementioned music, and has absolutely no background on the subject. His mention of “hokey stage antics” is gratuitously bitter, especially since Mr. Mellamphy knows so little about the band he is
Senate voted to limit entrance scholarships to first degree under graduate students, barring previously eligible transfer students, undergradu ate professional program students, and second degree undergraduate students. 73 students will be affected to the tune o f $30,000 per year. The faculties af fected will be encouraged to develop their own scholarship programs and money from McGill’s general bursary fund will be available to students from these faculties. Dean Cruess o f Medicine resented, “the patronizing attitude encouraging faculties to raise money when they’re already working hard,” but approved the “transfer o f general bursary fund ing to the faculties.” Science Dean Roger Rigelhof re marked that, “McGill doesn’t have
much funding for entrance scholar ships and the gap is growing between us and other universities.” M cGill’s entrance scholarship ceiling is $2500 while that of most other universities is $3 to $4000. Engineering Senator Phillipe Beaumier asked Dean o f Students Irwin Gopnik what the University could to do about destruction o f prop erty in the residences; specifically the annual food fight and water fight. “The citizens o f residence have to be the main enforcers,” Gopnik an swered. He commented that if nobody complained, nothing could be done. “The right way to start is in the regulat ing body o f residence,” he said. In other business, the Students' So ciety and McGill Daily fee increases were approved.
trying to review. He names Mike Pas ternak and Howie Roher as being members of the band, when neither of them has been playing with The Darned for over two years! Frank Criniti and Rob Forbes are the bass player and the drummer ofThe Darned', they were the ones who recorded Hoarse Opera, and who played on Friday. If Dan Mellamphy had stayed for the second set, or had payed some attention to the concert, instead o f watching people “strut to and from the wash room”, he undoubtedly would have realised his mistake. He claims that he has “heard it all before, but unfortu nately it’s been better”. Nothing in his review supports this statement; al though such distorted assertions are designed to portray Dan Mellamphy as some kind o f an authority, his affecta tions are quite transparent. Finally, I would like to add that The Darned are (sic) a popular band in Montréal, and that the combination of unusual musi cal talent (particularly Steve Burliuk’s
guitar palying) and unpretentious song-writing (Donna Lee Marsh is a singer aand songwriter) has earned a great deal o f respect from their peers, such as Three O’clock Train andWeather Permitting (assuming Dan Mellamphy has ever heard o f these Mtl. Bands). They have also drawn many favorable reviews from genuine journalists, such as John Griffin and Mark Lepage o f the Gazette., I would therefore instruct the Tribune to choose someone who has a minimum amount o f musical knowledge and street credibility to tackle the demand ing task o f writing music reviews.
Julie C. Godin, Law U1
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Atlantic Bowl Classic
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ing the percentages by throwing deep witha minute and ahalftoplay so that if the pass was intercepted it would be as good as a punt. Flynn threw deep and Denis Touchette intercepted giving BryanFuller and the rest of the Redmen offence a final chance. With 1:22 remaining, Fuller guided the Red and White into Huskie territory frominside their own 20 on five passes: one on thirdandtento Bruno Pietrobon, another on third and three to Claude Bourgeois, a thirdto Michael Soles, and two to Courtenay Shrimpton thereby settingthe stage for Petitpas indiedying seconds. Head Coach Charlie Baillie said laterthat the Redmen hadpractised the two minute offence each week and that if anyone could poll it off it was Fuller. Offensive lineman Louis Olivera said of the last minute, “I don’t remember any of the plays, I just blocked the man in front of me. Fuller was in complete control, he was great.” Entertainment, excitement, and naillead changed hands eight times! Out-
McGill bounced in B-ball Invitational
standing performances abounded. Alain Delorme, Vince Gagné, Touchette, Soles, Fuller, Ifill, Shrimp by Jamie Alden In last weekend’s Redmen Invita ton, Pietrobon and of course Petitpas tional basketball tournament, the were spectacular for McGill. For St. Mary’s: Fitzsimmons, Flynn, and Bishop’s Gaiters led by the strong per formances of David King and Pierre Smith all starred. Huskie Q.B. Chris Flynn lived up to Tiblin, took the inaugural eight team his billing. He is anabove average pas tourney 77-48 over the Trois Rivières on Sunday afternoon. King, ser with superbperipheral vision anda Patriotes the tournament’s most valuable player scrambler/runner extraordinaire. He passed for three T.D.’s, one when he said following the game, “we had a great was seemingly destined for a 20 yard tournament.” Our team has a lot o f depth loss. For all his greatness, Larry Ring, this year, the guys know their roles and McGill’s Defensive Coordinator, w e’re really playing together.” The found the answers andadjusted so that tournament featured all four schools in Flynn really wasn’t a factor in the sec the QU AA, and though the performance overall o f the Quebec schools was im ond half. When the game was on the line, pressive from the national standpoint, when McGill had to come through McGill placing behind Concordia, Bish they did. That’s the mark of aChampi ops and Trois Rivières was not encour aging. onship team. The Redmen finished a disappointing Next week the Tribe battles for Ca fifth overall, despite apprearing as con nadian University football supremacy against the U.B.C. Thunderbirds who tenders in their opening round match-up haven’t lost agame intwo years. Fuller with Laurention. Against a Voyageur stated that the teamwas"quietly confi squad that relied soley on the three point basket, the Redmen controlled both ends dent” about their chances.
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of the court in defeating the Voyaguers 81-77. The Redmen led at halftime 3830, and in the second half led by David Steiner’s 23 points, and Patrick Arsenault’s dominating play, they pre vailed for the triumph. The contest was by far the most exciting o f Day 1 of the Invitational. The game was highlighted by solid defence in the paint that quelled any semblance o f an inside game for Laurentian. Arsenault and Jame Simon both took their turns swatting Lauren tian shots, much to the delight of Red men supporters. Gavin Slethaug had the shot o f the day for McGill, a blind layup over his head in the second half. Saturday afternoon’s sem i-final matchup against the Trois-Rivières Pa triotes was a different story. In front of what appeared to be an all-partisan Trois Rivières throng at our home court, M cglll never was in the basketball game. Trois Rivières quickness and agressive 1-3-1 zone defence took McGill out o f their running game, and forced the Redmen into taking difficult shots during much o f the game. The Redmen forwards, minus the injured Paul Brousseau(out with a possible frac tured wrist) and Mike Millman, were manhandled by Trois Rivières’ tandem pair o f Alain Truchon and Paul Boutin to the tune o f 39 points. Truchon, with his excellent leaping ability was especially effective for the Patriotes. The final score, despite David Steiner’s game high 28 points was 71-57.
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Laurentian defender, Danny photo by Lucas Liepins not getting any rebounds, and our de fence has to make some improvement,” said Schildroth. We’re playing too wide open and we have to get more leadership from our point guards.” The team did appear tired in the last two games of the tournament. The spark and intensity that has been the key to the Redmen success this year, simply wasn’t there against either Trois Rivières or UPEI. “The team was tired, but that’s not an excuse: we simply did not play well”, said Schildroth. One obviously high point for McGill was the
by Dino Smiljic Certainly a well-balanced team is destined to go far, right?. In the case of the University of Victoria Vikings, this credo was realized by their 3-1 win over the feisty Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks. You want depth? Well, when Steve Czecchi came off the bench to replace an injured teamate, he made the Golden Hawks notice great depth by scoring a goal late in the game to put the nail in the coffin. Tournament MVP Scott Sieben, who scored the Vikes first goal, said, “No other team can pull a guy of the bench like Stevie (Czecchi), and have such a quality player”. Player of the game, defender Greg Kern, pointed out that WLU was “clearly at a disadvantage in the air”. That translated into the Vikings winning continued consistent play of David Steiner. He was the leading scorer in the tournament with 90 points, picking up his second all-star award of the year. There will be no time to breath for the Redmen, as next week they head down to the United States for games against St. Michaels and Colgate. Two weekends from now they will play their first league game of the year against the same Trois Rivières Patriotes on November 27th. This matchup will be an important be ginning for what will be a long road ahead to the QUAA championships.
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the University of New Brunswick with a 1-0 final score. In the Redmen game, WLU played an excellent ground game and went ahead by two goals before #10, Carlo Gualtieri, put the Redmen on the board with under six minutes to play. Chances were fairly frequent for both sides but fine goaltending kept the final tally to a minimum. This ignominious end to a fine season was disappointing considering McGill's impressive 10-1-1 season. The Redmen hopes were high going into the match against Wilfred Laurier but the Golden Hawks brought to an end McGill’s home domination. McGill placed six members on the eleven man QUAA all-star team: for ward Jeremy Prupas, sweeper Hugh Quennec, defender Ivan Verdurmen, forward Louis Kostantopoulos, keeper Kosta Kouremeno and striker John Hayward, who led the league in scoring for the third consecutive year. Hayward was also named second team all-Cana dian.
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The McGill Tribune Tuesday , November 17,1987
Jimmy James - Master of the Blues by Mike Murray Everyone gets the blues. November is as good a time as any. It’s cold, it’s grey, neglected work abounds and money is scarce - damn scarce. So I sit in my filthy apartment on a Saturday night and think it over: Is there any thing to do with virtually no money? After checking under every sofa cush ion and cashing in all my empties, I come up with the sad total of $2.83. Things don’t look so hot. It’s a real lousy, in-between kind of amount,
$2.83 is. Waves of depression set in. Yep, them blues sure can get awful blue. But wait - the Jimmy James band is playing at Gert’s for only $2.00! Hmm, .83 cents left over, enough for a game of pool. Things don’t look so bad any more. Usually the only thing $2.00 will buy at Gerf s is a skunked beer or a slice of intestinal irritation claiming to be pizza. But Jimmy James, hell! I was ready and willing to have those blues shook loose.
And that man can shake. All through that place heads were bobbing, shoul ders reeling, tongues wagging, pool cues were being transformed into gui tars, and we were all thinking: “Yeah, this is alright. This is just what I needed...” It’s so easy to forget just how damn good a guitar can sound in the hands of someone who is truly talented. Playing with just a three piece band (guitar, bass, drum), Jimmy James had all the the room he needed to remind us. The
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raculous appreciation of her sacrifice, and his actual reaction to the disclosure, provide the setting for the crisis in which Nora confronts the reality of her marriage. “... it seems as if I’d lived here like a beggar - just from hand to mouth. I’ve lived by doing tricks for you, Torvald.” The turning point in the play has made many women, fron the Norwe gian Society for Women’s Rights in 1898 right up until the present, hail A Doll’s House as a feminist document. Ibsen, however, was quick to disclaim the support of women's rights as his object. “To me, it has been a question of human rights,” said he. All the better. In this particular play, nevertheless, Ibsen constructs and destroys the feminine stereotype, all-pervasive at that time, of women as hysterical, irrational and wholly de pendent creatures. For example, ac cused of a “hysterical feminine urge to make a noble sacrifice,” the strongwilled Mrs. Linde (Kim Binsted) re plies, “Have you ever found me to be hysterical?” A childhood friend of Nora’s, she has derived joy from work ing all her life to make ends meet. Nora, however, has never been given the freedom to think for herself, having been passed from her father’s house, and her role as his doll-child, to Torvald’s house, and her role as his doll-wife. continued on page 7
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Joseph Brodsky: Poetry , but no Politics by Boyd Holmes “A thousand-li-long road starts with the first step," as the proverb goes. Pity the road home does not depend on that same step. It ex ceeds ten times a thousand li, especially counting from zeros. One thousand li, two thousand li a thousand means “Thou shalt not ever see thy native place.” And the meaning lessness, like a plague, leaps from words onto numbers, onto zeros especially. -Joseph Brodsky “Letters from the Ming Dynasty” (translated by Derek Walcott) Over three hundred McGill stu dents, professors and members of the Montréal community were present on November 9 when a particularly distin guished speaker, poet and essayist, Joseph Brodsky, read from his poetry in the Stuart Biology Building. Brodsky is this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Bom in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky dropped out of school at the age of 15. He then worked as a manual laborer, stoker and metal worker while learning English and Polish and writ ing poems. In 1964, charged with “social parasitism”, Brodsky was sen tenced to five years of forced labor on a state farm. Pressure from within the country secured his release after he had served only eighteen months of his sentence. Nevertheless, government authorities continued to view him as a parasite and, in 1972, Brodsky was deported. He has since lived and taught in the United States, and is now an American citizen. Brodsky was speaking in this year’s Literary Imagination Series. He
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recited, largely from memory, six of his poems in Russian. Although most of the audience probably did not under stand the language, he defended his decision to read in Russian on the grounds that translation does “awful damage to poems” and he did not want to compound the damage by adding his “accent to the injury.” Prior to Brodsky’s reading of each poem, Lor raine York, Assistant Professor of Eng lish, who is responsible for the Series, read the English translations. Later, due to an audience request, Brodsky read an additional poem in English. Brodsky recited his work with in tensity, often with his tone of voice gradually building as a poem pro gressed. Those expecting to hear a political Russian writer in the manner of Alexander Solzhenitsyn were sur prised, however, to find him reading on such subjects as loneliness, love, win ter and exile. “He is definitely not a political poet,” Assistant Professor of Russian Tatiana Patera later told The Tribune. According to Patera, Brodsky believes that poets should not interfere in politics, just as politicians should not interfere with poetry. During the forty-five minute ques tion period that followed the hour-long reading, Brodsky was asked about the Nobel Prize only once. He replied that he hoped the award was not “tffe kiss of death.” When another person inquired as to the causes for some Russian émigrés to return to the Soviet Union, Brodsky responded that they went back “simply because they failed... and people are allowed to fail.” Brodsky then stated that he himself preferred life in a democracy to life under “a Kremlin tyranny.” At another point in the question period, he expressed hope concerning Soviet promises to publish much currently-banned Russian litera ture in the Soviet Union; the promises include the possibility of printing some
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...A Doll's House continued from page 6 Ibsen also questions the morality of law, which disregards the motives in volved in a crime and, by a technical ity, denies Nora the right to save her husband’s life. A brilliant social state ment by a master craftsperson. A play is either enhanced or de stroyed by directing and acting, and in the case of director Penny Farfan ’s pro duction, both are awe-inspiring. All parts are played convincingly; Mrs. Linde and Anne-Marie the nurse (Ruth Marshall) are especially lively. Darrin Behr plays an appropriately self-cen tered Torvald, and Moyra Hewlett as Nora is simply outstanding. She gives Nora an authenticity which is very dif
ficult to achieve, given the magnitude of her transition at the end of the play. The insightful casting that went into this production deserves special mention. It forces anyone who has known the play previously to see the characters in new dimensions, by drawing on particular qualities of the actors to emphasize the subtleties of each role. This is especially true with the characters of Torvald and Krogstad. To Torvald, a character usu ally portrayed simply as selfish and somewhat weak, Behr brings an air of weaselish opportunism. Krogstad, on the other hand, brings a certain softness to his role as villain. He is perceived more as the victim of an unforgiving
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