The McGill Tribune Vol. 07 Issue 12

Tuesday, November 24,1987

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Ttif MCGILL TRIBUNE Published by the Students' Society o f McGill University

Volume 7

Issue 12

What’s On Tuesday

November 24,1987

speaker as well as traditional Japanese drumming. 6:00pm, Faubourg Ste-Catherine 2nd level.

•Department of English Visiting Lecturer Series:

•McGill Crossroads: meeting

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•Amnesty International: has its weekly letter writing meeting for new & old members at 7:00pm in Union 425.

Wednesday •McGill Outing Club: General Meeting, 7:30pm, Stewart Bio Bldg., S 1/4.

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November 24,1987

The McGill Tribune

News Free Trade on the Edge

by Ian Harrold

C ontroversy Surrounds R eferenda

by Mariam Bouchoutrouch Accusations are flying between the Arts aand Science Undergraduate So­ ciety and the Students’ Society as a result of confusion over referenda regulation for committee campaign conduct on the Students' Society fee increase and the Graduate Student Amendment referenda questions.

Alex Nerska, ASUS VP Admini­ stration, has received reports that Daniel Tenenbaum, Students’ Society President, campaigned illegally in McConnell Hall during the referenda period (Oct. 28-29). According to Tenenbaum, “after polls are closed, you are allowed to put out pamphlets.”

However, Jennifer Fraser, Science Rep. to Council, claims that all posters must be taken down and campaigning stopped by midnight the day the refer­ enda opens. “You’re still not allowed to campaign once the polls have opened,” she said, “maybe he [Tenen­ baum] misinterpreted the rules.”

Referenda spending also caused confusion among the different committees. Fraser, a member of the “No” committee for Graduate Student Amendment, charged that the commit­ tee had had trouble getting the neces­ sary funds for its campaign and that its opposing “Yes” committee overspent.

“SSMU spent money with no limit (while) we’re still waiting for a re­ fund,” she commented. Christina Sbrocchi, StudSoc Chief Returning Officer, asserted that there was no limit on spending, but she set an unofficial ceiling of $1500 for the Graduate Stu­ dents Amendment committees. The only guidelines set down in the regula­ tions were that both “Yes” and “No” committees were to receive equal amounts of money.

The “Yes” committee for the fee in­ crease had unlimited funds (there was no regulated spending limit), and there was no organized opposing committee.

“The Student Council has to call for an opposing committee if there is none.

They did not call for one since the (StudSoc) constitution changed over the summer, no one knew (what the new regulations were),” commented Sbrocchi. Despite repeated inquiries, the Tribune was unable to acquire an audit of the committees’ expenditures despite promises that these were being prepared.

Lee Iverson, PGSS Rep. to Coun­ cil, had wanted to set up a “No” committee to campaign against the Studsoc fee increase. Iverson felt that the “Yes” committee “was spending too much money without an organized

Safe Sex and Jelly Beans

by Ian Harrold In an effort to promote awareness about sexually transmitted diseases, students are being asked to participate in the second “guess the number of jelly beans in the condom” contest, with the possibility of winning prizes ranging from concert tickets to passes for movies and sports events.

According to Nicole Parisé of Stu­ dent Health Services, STD Awareness Week is being held to heighten aware­ ness of such diseases as chlamydia, gonorrhea and acquired immune defi­ ciency syndrome (AIDS).

Information booths sponsored by Health Services and by the Comité SIDA Aide Montréal will distribute pamphlets and provide answers to questions students may have. Later in the week, representatives from Merck, Sharp, Dohme, a pharmaceutical com­ pany, will be on hand to answer ques­

tions relating to hepatitis. Aids - you are not immune, a video presented by Kappa Alpha Theta, and STD - SOS, prepared by Vidéo Femmes, will be shown to emphasize the situation. In­ formation about safe sex will also be available.

Parisé said it was hoped STD Awareness Week would “generate concern and force students to take a stand” and realize STD’s are “here and it’s reality.” A November 18th Student Health Services statement released in conjunction with STD Awareness Week stated that of the 414 AIDS cases reported in Quebec as of October 19th, one case was in the 15 to 19 age group, and 95 were in the 20 to 29 age group.

Parisé stressed that STD Aware­ ness Week was a “hand in hand” col­ laboration between Health Services and other groups involved.

dissent on the issue.

Iverson, unable to contact the CRO by the weekend before the opening day of the referenda (Wednesday, Oct. 28), discontinued his efforts after Friday (Oct. 23) under the impression that the deadline for committee registration was over.

Other committee organizers had no problem contacting the CRO as late as Monday (Oct. 26). “I was quite disap­ pointed,” said Iverson, “(It) prevented me from doing anything.” He added that the referenda regulations had been unavailable at the Students’ Society General Office, as he was told that only Sbrocchi would be able to provide them. After several requests, the Trib­ une was unable to obtain the regula­ tions from either source.

The “No” Committee for Graduate Student Amendment also pointed out that the Tribune’s ‘Council Comer’ column and the “Yes” Committee’s advertisement of Tuesday, Oct. 27 were point-for-point rebuttals of the “No” committee's ad. Both ads ap­ peared in the same issue.

Tenenbaum explained that the “Yes” Committee had used handbills distributed by the ‘No” Committee to learn the “No” committee’s arguments ,and claimed that both committees knew what the other was doing.

“I had no idea what they were doing,” said Fraser, who added that the handbills had been submitted to a printer at 4 p.m. Friday evening and that the “No” Committee’s ad had been placed at the same time. The advertis­ ing deadline for Tuesday’s Tribune is Friday at 4 p.m.

Nerska and Fraser contended that there is an election regulation stating that the Tribune is not supposed to ran any referenda articles during the week of an election and/or referenda. Tenen­ baum claimed ignorance of this regula­ tion, stating that the content of the newspaper was the responsibility of the

Tribune.

"Yes, it is true that the Tribune has editorial autonomy," said Chris Flanagan, editorof \heTrib, "but we are controlled by Students' Society, they are our publisher.'Council Comer was their idea and we agreed not to edit jts content at the beginning of the year.

‘Council Comer is like a 'Letter from the publisher' and I don't think it is our responsibility to insure its constitu­ tional validity.”

Free trade is “the thin edge of the wedge that could mean the end of Can­ ada,” according to Lynn McDonald, New Democratic Member of Parlia­ ment and the NDP’s environment critic.

McDonald was speaking to stu­ dents and members of NDP McGill last Thursday and although she had been billed as speaking on the environment and politics, McDonald used most of her time to deliver a selective, carefully prepared tirade against the proposed free trade agreement between the United States and Canada.

Admitting that free trade would mean “indisputable” advantages to consumers, McDonald nevertheless went on to question the impact the deal would have on Canada’s manufactur­ ing and service industries. She consid­ ered the free trade studies done by the MacDonald Commission on the econ­ omy and the Economic Council of Canada to be “vague and outdated” in their support for a deal. These studies, said McDonald, did not look at the service sector, where women in On­

tario, especially immigrants, would become “big losers” under free trade.

The service industries are “very vul­ nerable because (they’re) not competi­ tive,” she explained.

Although the Mulroney govern­ ment promised that cultural industries would not be touched by free trade, McDonald said the tentative agree­ ment contained a clause which would pit the Canadian and American cultural sectors against one another. As an example, she cited book publishing; whereas present rules stipulate U.S. companies must hire Canadians when doing business here, under free trade “these jobs would go back to the States”, making Canadian branch operations redundant.

McDonald said the American’s chief lobbyist in the area of culture was ex-actor Ronald Reagan, whom she said has raised the issue personally with Brian Mulroney because “that’s what cheers him (Reagan) up”.

On energy, McDonald said the NDP deplores the government’s atti­ tude that “non-renewable resources are

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C ourse evaluations to be published

by Chris Flanagan Arts and Science students, who have laboriously filled out their course evaluation cards at the end of each semester, may finally see their endeavers come to fruition. The Arts and Sci­ ence Undergraduate Society (ASUS) is completing a course evaluation book which will give students a better idea of the organization, stimulation and work load of various courses. The book will be prepared in the spring and summer and will be ready before fall registra­ tion.

According to ASUS President Geoff Moore, there will be one evalu­

ation book for all arts courses, whereas each science department will be re­ sponsible for putting together their own pamphlet.

The cost of the procedure is being covered by both the ASUS and the Faculty of Arts, with the production responsibility lying in the hands of the ASUS and the data collection being governed by the Faculty.

“In obtaining the data for the book, the Faculty will assume the cost of the questionnaire,” Dean (Arts) Sailisbury told the Tribune , “We’ll collect the whole mass and do the processing and continued on page 5

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News Course Outline Distribution To Be Mandatory?

by Armelle Dodman A new policy concerning the distri­ bution of course outlines is presently under scrutiny by the University’s Academic Policy Planning Commitee (APPC). The policy, which will be in­ cluded in the Student Charter of Rights if it is successfully passed through Sen­ ate in January, ensures that a full out­ line of the course material and evalu­ ation proceedures be circulated within the first two weeks of classes. It states as well, that professors will be required to distribute a list of their office hours and telephone numbers.

Although it has been mandatory in the Faculty of Arts that professors hand out such outlines for the past few years, the purpose of this new policy would be to universalize this practice throughout all of McGill’s faculties.

“It will serve to officialize the mass of written and spoken legislation which has existed on this subject in the past,”

continuedfrom page 3 considered a commodity because of market demands”. She said that while oil and gas reserves may last for a few hundred years, that is noth­ ing when compared to the planet’s “astronomical life-span”. McDonald expressed concern over the proposed mechanism to settle trade disputes, saying it forces Canada to prove itself according to U.S. laws. She added that the “prime motivation for free trade is fear of U.S. protectionism,” and claims that hoping the U.S. will become less protectionist is “wishful thinking”.

When asked about Manitoba NDP Premier Howard Pawley’s in-

states Maria Battaglia V.P. University Affairs, who is the initiator of the pro­ posal.

There is some question as to whether or not this will wrongly influ­ enced student’s decision on whether or not to take a particular course - it is only fair for them to know the details of their courses early enough in the semester that they have the option to change.

Although no penalty provisions are included in the proposal, it is hoped that it can be enforced simply by pressure on the part of the students, peers, deans and faculty chairpersons.

“If a professor consistently fails to hand out course outlines, the students can complain to the professor himself, or can take the matter to his superiors if necessary. Each case, though, will have to be dealt with on an individual basis,” claims Lee Iverson, Graduate Student Representative.

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decisive stance on free trade, McDonald said there was a percep­ tion that what was “good for Ontario was bad for the West.” Overall, she said, there would be more unemploy­ ment and more “losers than winners” under free trade. Consumers will benefit by having more “cigarettes, T.V. dinners and chicken” available at cheaper prices, said McDonald but the extra money will not be recycled into Canada’s economy; it will in­ stead flow southward to the United States. McDonald concluded by not­ ing ironically that the government was “getting the country together with the Meech Lake accord so it can sell it to the U.S.”

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November 24,1987

The McGill Tribune

Letters To The Editor

In Defense of Military Research For the past year, the question of military research at McGill has been generating many concerns and discus­ sions around the university. Most no­ table has certainly been the fuel air explosion research being conducted in the McConnell Engineering Building.

Many people blindly favour a total ban on military research at the university.

This attitude creates a problem: the issue is not considered objectively. To be objective, one must take into ac­ count that military research presents both positive and negative aspects to our society. Only then is it possible to understand that a total ban on this type of research is a solution, but certainly not the proper solution to our concerns.

One of the main positive aspects of military research is certainly the poten­ tial industrial and social applications.

Many, if not most of the discoveries generated from this type of research have great applications to our everyday lives.

Consider fuel air explosives

(FAEs) as a first example. It is certainly not an exaggeration to believe that one day your car may be powered by con­ trolled FAEs. This may create more economical and efficient alternatives to our typical gasoline engines. I must point out that typical gas engines pres­ ently work by mixing fuel (gasoline) with air and creating explosions (com­ bustion).

A second example of the industrial and social applications of military re­ search could certainly be taken from the strategic defense initiative (SDI) being developed in the United States.

Research on advanced technologies result in the development of lasers which could find useful applications in areas such as mine and steel industries.

A second positive aspect of mili­ tary research to consider is the potential discoveries leading to theories and fundamental laws. In most cases, mili­ tary research involves domains at the forefront of our knowledge. This pres­ ents challenges of great magnitude for

the better understanding and control of the environment. Such challenges rep­ resent valuable opportunities to many scientists and researchers. As an ex­ ample, consider FAEs once again, but in a different perspective. Some of you may recall that our two FAE research­ ers were dispatched to Mississauga last year where a train containing harmful gases had derailed. Their expertise was useful in anticipating the possible be­ haviours of the gases. This need for

To the Editor:

d en ts’ Council. We share the P.G.S.S.’s belief that graduate students need and deserve greater representa­ tion on Council. However, it was and still is our feeling that this representa­ tion should not be accomplished in a manner that would cause a representa­ tion problem for the undergraduate students of this University.

To retain our right to proper assurances that our representation would be safe­ guarded, we had no choice but to op­ pose the clause permitting graduates to run for faculty rep. positions - subject

continued from page 3 provide the printouts.”

The ASUS has already hired an editor and an assistant to determine the best methods of quantitative analysis and to assemble the book.

The editor, Michèle Dupius, told the Tribune the nature the task to which they have been recruited. “We will be drawing additional conclusions from the raw data, interpreting them and rating them on a departmental basis.”

The analysis will concentrate on the multiple choice questions rather than the open comment portion. “We can’t afford to put in tons of com­ ments,” said Geoff Moore, “unless there is an overall pattern.” Students may be consoled in the fact that the filling in of all those little dots will not be for naught.

The format of the course evalu­ ation book will be similar to that of the 1985 version, the last time such a book was completed.

Phillipe Beaumier

Alternative Journalism

Regarding Julie Godin’s letter which appeared in the November 17 Tribune, I would first like to apologoize for the incorrect names of the drummer and the bassist, which were taken from a package sent to me by the Darned’s promotional team a few days before the concert. Rob Forbes and Frank Criniti must not have had joined

to no guidelines or limitations.

It remains our belief that graduate stu­ dents cannot adequately represent undergraduate interests on Council.

We propose to the S.S.M.U. and the P.G.S.S. that a joint committee of all our organizations be formed to settle our differences and strike a new amendment deal satisfactory to all. We believe that the goal of a united and cohesive student body in the form of a united Students Society is an important one and we are willing to help see that it becomes a reality.

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this University’s research community for the pressnt and for the future by creating a precedent. It is certainly not the proper solution and the argument that this type of research is a totally negative contribution to society is not objective. I do not claim to have a proper solution to our concerns about military research, but an objective view of the advantages and disadvantages is certainly a step in the right direction.

To the Editor:

"No” Committee Explains Undergraduate Objections There has been much controversy over the ultimate goals of the joint A.S.U.S./ E.U .S./M .U.S. “No” Com mittee formed in response to the Constitu­ tional Amendment question of a num­ ber of weeks ago.

The members of this committee would like to take this opportunity to clarify our reasons for opposing the question in light of some recent comments from P.G.S.S. and S.S.M.U. representatives.

It is well understood that graduate stu­ dents are underrepresented on Stu­

experts clearly shows that military re­ search does have a place in our society.

It can lead to the elaboration of theories and, potentially, fundamental laws of great use in the understanding of our environment. Environmental disasters such as the one in Bhopal last year could be contained or even avoided as a result of better understanding.

Clearly, a total ban on military research at McGill will not accomplish anything besides hurting significantly

Members of the Committee

the band when this package had been printed, or perhaps the promotional team itself did not themselves know who the real drummer and bassist of The Darned were. Regardless of the merit of my sources, the fact remains that I do not own, nor have I had the chance to listen to a single Darned album, and that until this clarification I did not have the correct names for their drummer and bassist. The fact that I knew very little about the band and its music, however, does not seem to me to be a reason for my not covering such a concert. True, I have little knowledge of country music (if it is a question of “cow-punk”, however, I have written reviews of concerts by struggling punk bands such as Hysterical Blood-Noise and the Sleeping Pug-Holes, receiving, ironically enough, a letter of gratitude from the Pug-Holes), but a genre-blind look at how a band can perform live is in my opinion valuable. I went to this concert with an open mind and no prior knowledge of the band’s sound or per­ formative capabilities. The article was an account of my personal opinions of The Darned, live, at Station 10.

Whether or not they cut one good album or a million good albums, their concert at Station 10 was terrible.

Feedbacks, foul-ups and bad mixing,

Frank Weimer President MUS Clarissa Marra MUS Rep. to Council Peter Chema President EUS David Tracy V.P. Finance EUS V.P. External EUS Mary Gendron V.P. Administration Alex Nerska ASUS Arts Rep. to Council Nancy Coté Science Senator Alix MacLean Jennifer Fraser Science Rep. to Council

coupled with both lack of “cow” and lack of “punk”, must have been disap­ pointing to even the most die-hard of Darned enthusiasts.

My (lengthy) description of Station 10 and of the audience in attendance that night was too good to pass up, and before the show I took advantage of my good seats to accurately record the details of the scene. Since the review was to turn out to be unfavourable for The Darned, I used this descriptive portrait of the entire evening to pump a bit of humour into an overall negative review — humour which obviously hit dirt in Julie Godin’s lectorial garden.

The idea that if “reviews from genuine journalists” are favourable, those of amateurs should follow is absurd, and I should point out that professional qualifications are not what a student newspaper is about. A student newspa­ per is the vehicle through which stu­ dents can learn, polish off, or perfect their newsreporting skills as well as put some input into their university com­ munity. If you want the opinion of professionals, read the Gazette. The Tribune might carry some shockingly opposite impressions, but I for one think this is good.

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by Terry Sbrissa After an amazing information cam­ paign on loans and bursaries, which sensitized students to the system in Québec and planned reforms by the Bourassa government, the Students’ Society will now be tackling the issue of underfunding. We want to ensure that students know and understand exactly what underfunding at McGill means. A large portion of this week’s Council meeting will deal with the is­ sue and next week a General Assembly will be held to hear students’ views on this very important issue.

Closer to the home front, i.e. the University Centre, some interesting changes have occured. Gert’s is now offering draft beer as well as all-beef hot dogs...for those tired of pizza. The Alley now opens at 8:30 a.m., Monday to Friday, for all early-birds on cam­ pus!

After an extended debate in Coun­ cil, the minimum beer price for ball­ room events with designated driving programs will be set $1.25. We hope this will be an added incentive for re­ sponsible drinking.

The long awaited space study of the University Centre has begun and will include a review of building signage and accessibility. Hopeful outcomes will be better access for disabled stu­ dents, better signage to offices hidden on the fourth floor, and an alleviation of the overcrowding problem. Results are anticipated in early January.

Finally, in the last few weeks the number of recognized interest groups has increased by four with several more in the works, bringing our grand total to 57!!

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Arts & En

Mermaids - Something to Sing About

by Ja so n A rb u c k le The first thing you notice about Polly (Sheila McCarthy) in I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing is her hair. Tufty, pumpkin orange. Next you notice her eyes. Expressive ostrich orbs.

It seems those two assets alone could carry the new Canadian Cannes awardwinner. And combined with director Patricia Rozema’s flair for the lyrical, the film soars.

Polly is the definitive flake - “or­ ganizationally-impaired”, as a previous boss put it succinctly. A temporary with “Person Friday” secretarial services, Polly is assigned to a Church-cum-art gallery in downtown Toronto. The cura­ tor, Gabrielle (Paule Bailangeon), is superbly polished - an immediate foil to the daffy carrot-topped Polly.

But Gabrielle, like the audience, falls for Polly’s clumsy charm and makes her a permanent secretary. Their relationship is nurtured by Polly’s in­ fatuation with her boss’s finesse and by Gabrielle’s interest in the simplicity of her secretary. “With you,” Gabrielle says of Polly, “I can work.”

Polly’s world, highlighted with be­ guiling black and white interludes of fantasy, does seem ideally simple. She lives alone, with no career aspirations, but a hobby - her photography - enables her to live as contentedly as a queen. The photography wallpapers her apartment and has the joyous, uncomplicated qual­

ity of an amateur’s abandon.

Such deep satisfaction with her work makes any question of its quality irrelevant. It is in this sense that Polly is in complete contrast to Gabrielle, who is shattered by her own lack of talent: “To want something your whole life and know you can never have it,” she de­ spairs. Director Rozema toys with this theme of talent versus personal satisfac­ tion with shades of irony and tragedy.

Sheila McCarthy’s Polly is at once full of depth and simplicity. Her ecstatic adventures of the mind are purely ro­ mantic, but when Polly becomes emo­ tionally crushed, McCarthy wields the character with devastating insight.

Thankfully, Bailangeon manages to sculpt some curves into her initially flat role and the irony of the relationship between these two characters - the heart of the film - has much truth to tell.

The film is not perfect, but Polly’s moments of self-reflection provide it

I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing reflects a promising trend in the Cana­ dian film industry. No longer does Cana­ dian talent fly immediately south of the border and no longer is that the only passage to public and critical acclaim.

The footsteps of last year’s Oscar nominee, Decline of the American Em­ pire, are being followed by Montrealer Jean-Claude Lauzon’s Night Zoo and it was Mermaids which opened the Toronto Festival of Festivals this year.

I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing deserves to be seen, not on the grounds of patriotism, but for the sake of pure enjoyment. If you haven’t seen the film yet, catch it at Centre Ville or Complexe Desjardins cinemas.

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By M a rk H yland The final chords of a tune called Away crashed through Café Campus and signaled the end of The Bolshoi’s all-out battle to win over its audience. In the crowded aisles, limbs trembled and hips moved, but the club’s crammed seating prevented the physical outburst that the music demanded. In the end, as the English group wrapped up their first

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The two-year old quartet features Trevor Tanner as lead vocalist and gui­ tarist, Paul Clarke (keyboards and back­ ing vocals), Nick Chown (bass) and Jan Kalicki (drums). They’ve just released their third album (entitled Lindy’s Party ) in the U.S., with the Canadian release date to follow shortly. The band’s previ­ ous efforts on vinyl have met with con­ siderable success: A way was voted no.2 single in a U.S. college radio survey and their second album, Friends, was num­ ber one in Spain for a while last year.

They draw solid crowds in England and Europe and have had a baffling success in Brazil, with several sold-out shows on their first visit.

There’s the record company hype for you... but if you didn’t make the show to judge the band for yourself, here’s a bit

It's grab bag music ... of a run-down.

Fade the wallpaper-dance-musicfiller, and enter Tanner, clad in requisite Rock Star black and white, alone with guitar. Imposing as he is, with heavy clompy boots and wild shocks of black hair, he breaks the ice with his full, controlled voice, and sings: “In Amster­ dam there’s a sailor...”. Amid the wan­ dering but insistent chords, and the fog of dry ice that shrouds the drums, the rest of the band drifts onstage. They nod readiness but betray nothing of the bar­ rage of sound that is to follow.

Suddenly it begins: Tanner is in mid­ air, rolling his eyes at you, and drummer Kalicki attacks skins and cymbals with a ferociousness that threatens to send portions of his kit skittering across the stage. Paul Clark’s keys are not an addi­ tional layer, but a blended, integral part of each song, and along with Chown’s punchy, driving bass lines, they make The Bolshoi’s sound surprisingly clean and undiluted. It’s grab-bag music; each song is assembled piece-by-piece, ac­ cording to the whims of the individual players. One tune can be completely different in style from the next. The least that can be said is that the music is

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by Michael Murray Sooner or later, it seems every pro­ duction company has to do the Hamlet You can’t escape it, Hamlet wow, what superlatives trail dûs play.

It’s the regular New York Yankees of plays. It cannot be ignored. It has to be dot». The rally question is how the hell to *k> it. The play’s around for some 380 years, and a lot of different have been tried in those 380years...Sowhat do you do? How can you make your production innova­ tive? These are the questions Players* Theatre grapples with as they attempt the Hamlet thing.

So the first thing they do is have die cast greet you with a bunch of lu n atic drunken garbling. I’m hying to find my seat in the darkness, and the whole cast is scattered around the stage, howling and playing pattycake. Two horrify­ ing words come to mind: avant-garde.

I shudder, but no they’re only trying to set the mood. Af­ ter all. dus is a play about insanity.

There’s this chain mail contraption hanging from the ceiling. It looks an awful Ira like an oversized birdcage.

This is Hamlet's house for most of the play. Isolation. I get i t (Perhaps a slightly pedantic approach - most of us are aware of Hamlet’s isolation.) Ham-

let is always on stage in this product lounging about in his birdcage in ex tential misery white the rest of the p f takes place around him. It’s not until final act at Ophelia’s funeral that i birdcage falls to the ground and Ham : out to confront Laertes, fina his

whatever.

Shakespeare is always a challen Halfway through the first scene I v a sure I was doomed to fine acts of confu sion. How quickly we forget what team in school (and damn. I forgot Coles notes). But it got easier and

play ran smoothly and coherently. Mi

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by K a rl G en est Not many people can boast to be a university professor and a radio broad­ caster. McGill lecturer Judith Ritter is one of the few who can. Anyone who isn ’t in her Effective Written Communi­ cation course can listen to her on Side by Side, a CBC radio show (AM 940) every Saturday night at 8:08.

Side by Side is best described as an eclectic and refreshing offering. It is

different from any other radio show ir that songs are paired together on almosi any basis imaginable. For instance, Jane Siberry’s Dancing Class might follow Van Morrison’s Ballerina. Or a 1950’; Johny Cash western single could be pit­ ted against James Taylor’s contempo­ rary version of The Man Who Sho\ Liberty Valance. As the show covers ar extremely wide range of musical styles the potential for musical pairs is virtu ally unlimited.

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But alas, Hamlet is a long {day and midway through Act HI, i was about to go mad with restless­ ness. My bum had gone num b, my stomach was growl­ ing from hunger and I was in tire throws of a brutal nic f it Inter­ mission came as Tom Waits played Clap Hands ov er the speakers: “ Sane, sane, they’re all in­ sane...’ . Clever. Aral we all filed out to have our cigarettes ami jam potatoechips into our m ouths while sat alone and miser­ able in his cage

by Alan Guty “I reached out to touch your eyes, but they were covered up by your thighs.”

These words may sound like lyrics from Wayne Newton’s Greatest Hits, or the latest NBC mini-series, but don’t stop reading yet. It’s just the famed Roman, Gluteus Maximus, singing to those he loves at a Roman orgy. Actually, it’s part of The Frantics latest comedy show, which hit Club Soda last week (without the infamous Mr. Canoe Head).

The Frantics are a four-man comedy team, originating in that other big city eight years ago. They return to Montréal

now for the second time this year, fol­ lowing the release of their new album,

Boot to the Head.

The Frantics’ popularity began with a weekly radio show on CBC that be­ came popular enough to evolve into a television series called The Frantics: 4 on the Floor. Success in television was shortlived, or rather, it wasn’t lived at all. Only thirteen episodes were filmed and only a fraction of those ever made it on the air. Back to radio, The Frantics began a new series,The Frantics Look at History, which has resulted in their current tour across Canada,The Frantics

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•laidjacket and flashy wide tie, he is the omplete incarnation of my grade 12 Calculus teacher. Doddering around. nt and circular rhetoric, completely inomprehensible in his logic. Just like my 'alculus teacher.

I also like the way Rosencrantz and

one of the highlights for my sensationalistic sensibilities. And then everyone dies and the play is over.

Perhaps the greatest testimony to this production is that it nms for three and a half hours and doesn’t feel that wav at all.

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The dangerously thin Paul Chato is a former advertising director and Rick Green once taught physics to glassy­ eyed tourists at the Ontario Science Centre. Dan Redican used to be a pup­ peteer before moving to a different field of the entertainment industry, while Peter Wildemen cultivated his talents at Toronto’s Second City Workshop.

The plot (for lack of a better word) of the latest show is simple enough. It’s the history of the world - not exactly an easy subject to tackle in a two hour period.

The Frantics put things together in a series of short sketches lasting no longer than a few minutes each and making use of simple props and sound effects.

Always in shirt and tie, they manage to project hilarious scenes such as the play by play description of the human (horse) race, groupies of Jesus, the modem Roman orgy and Joan of Arc on The People’s Court.

Despite some opening night prob­ lems with sound and an audience with about as much personality as a root canal, The Frantics were a huge success.

The constant barrage of one-liners was enough to leave everyone laughing and misquoting their jokes all the way home: “Erik the Red...No, it’s just a rash.” I guess you had to be there.

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The McGill Tribune

Pondering Soviet Economic Reform

by Marie Paule Labbé Alec Nove, renowned economic his­ torian from the University of Glasgow, presented a sobering look at the chances for success of Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms last Monday afternoon.

The Soviet economy is in a pre-crisis period and radical change is essential, according to Nove. Official sources say the situation is worse than perceived by the West and admit that even the CIA has overestimated the actual Soviet standard of living.

Central planning can not chum out a comprehensive blueprint for growth every year. The system is too complex, too corrupt and too unmanageable.

The chronic economic problem is exacerbated by a heavy defense bur­ den, the exhaustion of natural re­ sources, and an insatiable, inefficient agricultural system. The U.S.S.R. needs contemporary modernization instead of the despotic Stalinist version which Nove equates to that of Peter the Great.

Gorbachev’s reform calls for a new balance between planning and the market, with increased emphasis on the latter. The existing allocation system would be scrapped. Orders will be de­ termined by negotiations between buyers and sellers, leaving suppliers free to produce according to customer

demands.

Prices would also be subject to nego­ tiation. They are presently set accord­ ing to cost and then left unchanged for years without reflecting supply, de­ mand or opportunity costs. This has led to shortages of the undervalued prod­ ucts.

Full economic accountability will also help create competition. Gone will be the subsidies to firms operating at a loss; management will be elected and wage levels will depend on the finan­ cial success of enterprises. “Co-ops are encouraged to compete with state en­ terprise which are themselves encour­ aged to compete with each other.”

However, the competition which is heralded as the great econmic impetus terrifies the average Soviet manager who is unaccustomed to negotiation or responsibility and is not trained to take up the new role. Marketing is a task few have attempted: the word does not exist in the Russian language.

Suggestions that some unemploy­ ment is necessary for labour flexibility and financial discipline are intolerable to many officials. Tying wages to profit is controversial in a country where one is “used to getting a set wage regardless of performance.” There is also the risk of “aggressive envy toward high earn­ ers on the part of the ordinary people.”

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springs from its conflicting goals of loosening the government’s grip on the economy while maintaining the power of the party. Gorbachev believes strengthening the market will lead to stronger socialism, but few Soviet offi­ cials agree.

In order to assure continued support, Gorbachev must simultaneously re­ form the system and show a marked

increase in growth rates and output.

The risks are high that the chronic excess demand for consumer goods will outstrip any increase in produc­ tion. People will pull their savings from hiding and stockpile goods. The result­ ing shortages and higher prices will breed discontent and fuel opposition to reform.

The obstacles to reform are great since the Soviet economy is one with

much inertia. If past history is to be of any indication, the failure of all previ­ ous attempts at reform set a sad prece­ dent.

The west can do very little to help as this is an internal Soviet problem. The best it can do is welcome any change because the kind of society that will emerge from the reform process, ex­ plained Nove, “will probably put a low priority on expansionment ambitions.”

Fiction’s Own Brand of Reality

by Mike Crawley Noted Canadian writer Timothy Findlay talked of the role of fiction for the reader and recited a recent compo­ sition at McGill last Monday night.

Findlay ’s speech, which drew over 250 spectators, was the last of the semester in the Literary Imagination series, sponsored by the Department of Eng­ lish and Consolidated Bathurst. The crowd responded appreciably to his long story and short discourse and Findlay reciprocated, demonstrating his pleasant, gentle disposition.

Dr. Lorraine York, assistant profes­ sor of English, stated that she had un­ consciously planned “a series with a theme: the various ways in which the realms of politics and literature may intercept, may enrich each other.” With respect to this, York declared that she “could not have wished for a more appropriate, more apt final speaker.”

She described Findlay with words such as “moving”, “breathtaking”, and, of course, “Canadian”. Dr. York then

much of this is real?”

“There’s always that need to connect everything with reality and we’re los­ ing touch with fiction as such.” He added, “We miss what fiction is really about - that it is about reality, but it is not about absolutely real people. The people are real unto themselves in the work. The wonderful contribution that fictional characters can lend to us [is that] we recognize, in their qualities, qualities in us.”

The story itself is in Findlay’s usual style: polished, insightful, sprinkled with dry wit. He has a powerful ability to veraciously transfer the real world to the written page. His writing is alive yet he refrains from pretentious wording and heavy-handed imagery. Phrases like “Bragg could smell a whole biog­ raphy of odours”, “he also noticed that her fingernails were chewed” and “we have not been told that some people seek each other out to be destroyed” are but a few examples which demonstrate Findlay’s perception and talent.

passed centre stage to the author, whereupon he launched into an amus­ ing Toronto restaurant anecdote to loosen up the crowd.

The lengthy short story read by Find­ lay was, in his words, “work in prog­ ress.” He cited the benefits of present­ ing such writing to an audience “just to see what happens.” He continued, “But also it’s important...because I’m sort of moving into a new area of explora­ tion for me. And oddly enough, that particular area is the here and now.”

Previously, most of Findlay’s novels, including the acclaimed Famous Last Words and The Wars, have been of an historical nature.

Bragg and Mina is the title of the story Findlay narrated. It is a warm, slice of life piece, describing the rela­ tionship between the title characters.

Stewart Bragg recollects during an air­ plane flight following the death of Mina Joyce. Findlay said that the tale acts as a good example to answer a question he constantly hears: “How

Comment jy Mike Crawley "...an inability to realize that comn omise is better than the confrontation >ou get instead. We’ve got a large resilue of confrontational thinking iround. mostly fuelled by fear." -

scoff at the charge that they frighten the other: “How could anyone possibly think we’d attack? We’re such wonder­ ful people.” Thus the arms race be­ comes a deadly “keeping up with the Joneses” as neither side dares let the other “get ahead.” jwynne Dyer.

There is a severely debilitating Closer to home, our own country social phenomenon which pervades faces a similar issue with the battle >ur world on every scale, from the between french and english. Anglos in ntemational to the individual. Fear. the english provinces cry, “Don’t give Everyone is afraid. No one trusts anythem so many rights cause they’ll only >ne else. Nobody wants to be vulnerwant to take away ours.” This leads to ible. The ensuing buildup of walls acts english domination. Francophones in is the ultimate source of many world Québec moan, “They want to destroy jroblems. Until we as humans learn to our culture and language so they can ear down these walls, the entire planet have power over us.” Hence, Bill 101. vill suffer from divisiveness and an- Minorities throughout history have agonism. been repressed for a fundamental rea­ Internationally, the problem is ob- son - the majority feared them. If trust rious. The east is afraid that the west were more abundant, equality would be vill attack, so they refuse to reduce more easily accomplished. heir arms. The west fears attack by the The cop who shoots an innocent 1feast and thev too resist, Yet both sides— vietk»-or- the ordinary citizen who—

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A New Wind from the East?

by Colin Cameron Glasnost and perestroika are terms which we are hearing a lot these days, but their meaning has been open to vigorous debate in both east and west.

Some tend to downplay their signifi­ cance, others express doubts about their being able to sur­ vive the test of time, while still others are filled with enthusiatic optimism. After spend­ ing six weeks travelling and staying privately in the G.D.R., Czechoslo­ vakia, Hungary and the U. S.S .R., my third trip to Europe in seven years, I would like to share my understanding and im­ pressions of these poli­ cies.

Literally translated, glasnost means public­ ity, but the term open­ ness seems to be pre­ ferred by Sovietologists.

In my mind, both words are necessary for an accurate description. For too long, many of the U.S.S.R. ’s most seri­ ous problems such as slow economic growth, absenteeism, shoddy con­ sumer items, alcoholism, rising infant mortality rate, decreasing life expec­ tancy and drug abuse were either ig­ nored or worse still, denied. This credibilty gap was painfully apparent to every Soviet citizen. There finally seems to be an understanding on the part of Soviet leadership that recogniz­ ing these problems, discussing them publicly and broadening the number of participants debating possible solu­ tions are prerequisites to overcoming them.

The changes are easily apparent to anyone who has followed Soviet media over the years. Two years ago, very little in the way of self-criticism could be found, except perhaps in low circu­ lation academic journals. Today it is quite easy to read or hear about the abovementioned problems. Some of this criticism even hits longstanding untouchable topics; for example, in the Moscow News of June 14 an article appeared entitled “The Right to Vote Without the Right to Choice,” a very critical analysis of the Soviet electoral system. The revelations about Cher­ nobyl, despite a forty eight hour lag, were remarkable in terms of frankness.

(I wonder if our nuclear industry could have been as frank so soon.) The hor­ rors of Afghanistan, examples of KGB abuses of authority and criticism of aspects of the military could all be found recently in Soviet media. Even the Soviet national hockey team has not escaped the barrage of criticism!

Culture and the Arts have been ma­ jor benefactors of glasnost. Andrei, a 21 year old rock musician with whom I stayed in Moscow, for example, is now able to play a number of street concerts with his band “Last Chance”. The Leningrad group “Aquarium”, under­ ground until very recently, is now pro­ ducing albums. In Stalin’s native re­ public of Georgia, I witnessed the newly released film “Pokeyeniye” or “Repentence”, a chilling parody on the dictator’s life. The film, made five years ago, was so horrifying that much of the audience was filled with tears. At an international conference of physi­ cians in Moscow, Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko in front of Soviet televi­

sion cameras quoted Boris Pasternak, equated Stalin with Hitler and called for the abolishment of both the Warsaw Pact and NATO. All of these examples would likely have been impossible not so very long ago.

My impression now is that Glasnost

system, judiciary, media, education, health care, military, state security apparatus (KGB), culture, etc. Some major moves have already been made such as the law permitting individual enterprise and self-financing coopera­ tives. State approved “private” busi-

candidates than positions available (a new concept in the U.S.S.R.).

The results of these réévaluations in terms of perestroika still remains open.

Acquaintances of mine in Kiev, who are small time black marketeers, for example, asked at every frustration

is a very real, significant and positive policy providing at least some sem­ blance of democratic expression. Sur­ prisingly perhaps the most impas­ sioned support I heard for this policy came from Czechoslovakia and the G.D.R. where as yet, very little selfcriticism can be found. I was told that archaeologists digging up East Berlin in one hundred thousand years will be intrigued to read that it was perfect!

The old guard leaderships of Husak and Honecker pay lip service in support of changes in the U.S.S.R., but seem unmotivated to introduce similar changes in their own countries. Ironic as it may seem, while Czechoslovak authourities are said to be censoring certain issues of Pravda, a doctor in Prague and a secondary school teacher in East Berlin, both with whom I stayed, are now looking to the Soviet Union as a model for their countries to eventually follow.

The other new word perestroika translates to mean reorganization or reconstruction. What exactly this will bring is much less clear. It can perhaps most easily be seen in the leadership itself: since February of 1985, over half of the republic party chiefs and over half of the Politburo and Council of Ministers have been replaced.

At present, it seems as if the entire society is under réévaluation: econ­ omy, international relations, electoral

nesses may now receive licenses, pro­ vided all employees of the cooperative receive the same salary.

International relations are also being characterized by a more energetic ap­ proach to arms control. Examples in­ clude the eighteen month unilateral nuclear test moratorium, conceding to ignore British and French intermediate range missiles in the present arms talks, and the call for on site inspection of all space launches to prevent the militari­ zation of outer space. The Soviets also seem to be indicating their desire to pull out of Afghanistan with the intro­ duction of the policy of national recon­ ciliation. Other interesting yet unortho­ dox proposals are being put forward such as the new Warsaw Treaty mili­ tary doctrine passed last June. It calls for the removal of all Soviet and American troops from foreign soil and the simultaneous disbandonment of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, in favour of an all comprehensive security system to combat international terrorism. No doubt many people are skeptical of all this, but even former French Prime Minister Raymond Barr suggested “instead of testing weapons, perhaps we should test Gorbachev and his pro­ posals.”

The electoral system is undergoing change as well. For example, elections to local Soviets last June differed on a regional basis. Many regions saw more

(such as waiting for a bus or on show­ ing me local shops), “Where’s per­ estroika?” They, like the bus driver who confuses his passengers by allow­ ing his bus to carry three different num­ bers, and like the woman receiving bottles for deposit who, despite a long

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line, insists on taking a break, are the ones who will in large part answer this question. Even if the leadership has the best of intentions, unless the average citizen can be motivated to change, very little will come of perestroika.

Will glasnost and perestroika sur­ vive the test of time?

Anybody who is fam iliar with the U.S.S.R. cannot help but be impressed by the potential of that country. Despite its rich resources and its educated popula­ tion, it is still back­ ward in many re­ spects. This is a po­ tential turning point in the history of the nation. Western pol­ icy can have an influ­ ence by helping glasnost and per­ estroika to survive and prosper, or it could contribute to turning the clocks back to the era of stagnation (or worse).

The former would no doubt be better for the interests of security of both east and west. The question remains open, however, as to which way our leaders will decide to push.

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November 24,1987

The McGill Tribune

Drugs in Sport: Shooting for the Stars

by Sarah Gualtieri If we were informed we could not se­ lect an athlete taking steroids, we sim­ ply wouldn’t have a team.” Dr. J.P O ’Shea, Exercise Physiologist,and member of the U.S. Olympic Weight­ lifting Committee, 1987.

The useof steroids in sports is alarm­ ingly widespread. We tend tothink that this is a relatively new phenomena in light of the media attention steroid use has received in the past few years. Carl Lewis’ accusation that Ben Johnson is a steroid user, is just the most recent case of an athlete being questioned about drug use. But steroid use and abuse is not an 80s development.

Steroids, while only recently reach­ ing the public eye, have beean integral part of training regimes since the early 50s. Steroids, or more precisely ana­ bolic steroids, are synthetic drugs that duplicate the muscle building qualities of the hormone testosterone. Steroids increase the rate of protein synthesis, which in simple terms means muscles get bigger faster. How much faster?

One clinical study measured an in­ creased average of 1.3 cm in calf,arm and thigh widths over a six week pe­ riod. The first reported use of steroids in international competition was in 1954 at the World Weightlifting Cham­ pionships in Vienna. By 1972, reports from the Olympic games revealed that 68% of the athletes involved in strength related sports had taken steroids. Re­ cent reports reveal that a startling 90% of international calibre athletes in­ volved in such sports as weightlifting,

track and field, football and bodybuild­ ing admit to steroid use.

If seeing is believing, one would certainly believe that steroids work.

Tampa Bay Buccaneer’s football player Steve Courson is a case in point.

Courson’s size is overwhelming to say the least, at 6’ 1" and 285 lbs. This is not to say that size and strength come only from steroids. “Wait until you get eve­ rything you can from your body natu­ rally,” says Courson. When this is not enough however, the steroid route is in his view a necessity. Recalling his first year in college, Courson said, “I knew at the time I had to do alot of work(to improve my game). I knew I had to go on drugs.”

Despite personal endorsements like this, there remains a high degree of uncertainty about the drug’s overall effectiveness. Clinical evidence is surprisingly inconclusive because of the variance in how the drug affects different individuals. “It would cer­ tainly simplify things if we could tell athletes that there is no benefit to be gained fron steroid use, but I don’t think we can do this.,” said Dr. Duncan Macdougall, professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, a leading au­ thority on steroid research.

The only seemingly demon­ strated fact in using steroids is an in­ crease in muscle and body weight. Perform­ ance is an altogether different matter.

Increased muscle mass does not neces­ sarily enhance performance, that is, speed, agility and co-ordination. Big­

ger is not necessarily better, yet for particular sports such as weightlifting and football, the risk of not using ster­ oids is a risk of not being the best. As one football player summed up the issue: “Let’s face it. You see a guy’s bench press go up 20 lbs in in one week.

You know he’s taking steroids and you know they’re working. Youdon’twant to be left in the dust.”

Many physicians and athletes as well realize that there is a significant mental encouragement when steroids are used. The athlete usually feels more aggressive and willing to train harder..

As Courson maintains: “When you’re in the middle of the juice, on a cycle, you feel like you could bench press all day.”

The most serious debate surround­ ing steroid use is the issue of side ef­ fects. The short term consequences of steroid use are fairly well established.

Acne is common, as is a decreased production of sperm among men, and is a increase in the masculine qualities of women. Sterility is often reported, and as Dr. Tellier, director of McGill Stu­ dent Health Services said, “When a guy’s* main concern is being big and muscular, he usually doesn’t think that his testes are too small.”

It is the long term effects of steroid use that are of particular concern to physicians and sports officials. Liver disorders and increased blood pressure are all too often manifest signs of ster­ oid abuse. Furthermore, the possibility of cancer is a gloomy prospect, but a real one for high dosage steroid users.

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For the dedicated, highly competi­ tive athlete in search of that extra edge; that something extra that means the difference between first and second, steroids are an alluring prospect. The success of steroid use in sports is based on some convincing evidence, and also

the testimonies of athletes who attrib­ ute much of their success to steroid use.

The use of steroids as a “bigger, better, faster” agent in the pursuit of athletic prowess in the short run may prove beneficial, but in the long term may prove to be a very dangerous mistake.

McGill Apathy turns to Frenzy: Chalk one up for the Crazy Dogs

by Jamie Alden In my two years at McGill as a stu­ dent, I have found myself continually groping for a plausible explanation for the student’s lack of interest in McGill athletics. “People are just too con­ cerned with material and intellecual self im provem ent,” I thought.

“There’s no advertising, it’s all the Athletics departments fault,” I said.

Then a depressing realization came to light. Maybe, just maybe our sports are too boring.

Boring, Hah! Surrounded by the impassioned multitude of McGill fa­ natics at Gertrude’s Saturday after­ noon, witnessing the momentous thrashing of U.B.C, an astonishing 4711 victory, I just sat there with a smile on my face. Not just for McGiil ath­ letics, or for Québec in general, or even for the athletes themselves, but for the student’s of McGill, who have had a chance to be part of, nay we say, the greatest victory in McGill sports his­ tory. This wasn’t apathy. Can you call 1000 students making the trip to Toronto apathetic. Or how about a pack of frenzied hounds at Gertrude’s cheering every play, and even the commercials. Then what ensued, a victory parade through the Redpath library, chanting ‘Reeedmeeen’ at the top of our lungs, sending weebles scurrying for cover. No, that’s not apathy. That’s full-fledged, rump roasting, bum-toasting , high-fiving excitement.

So why the change. Sure everybody likes a winner and McGill football certainly had a winner. Yet it’s more then that. Its called personality, that special something that makes particu­ lar teams or players stand out from the crowd, an intangible quality that both stimulates and satisfies, impelling in­ dividuals to thirst for victory with others' peril a secondary concern.

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Someone like a Jeff Leonard, one flap down, loping slowly around the basepaths, or William ‘The Fridge Perry’ slamming his way through a defence too stupid to get out of the way, or Tiger Williams with the old gun in the holster routine. These an­ tics we can all relate to, and that’s what invokes a feeling of attachment.

Without the media and the hype, many of these vulgarian tendencies deep inside true fans would never be willingfully stimulated. Why is it when a team reaches the public eye somehow or other a crazed sportswriter mulling through his or her game notes says, “Hey, how about the Crazy Dogs?” And so a christening, and an ensuing proliferation of canine ten­ dencies in our supposed civilized players. The fans eat this stuff up. An energy builds that feeds on itself, and before you know the synergy between both the fans and the players is so strong, they both think the Super Bowl is within reach.

Pre-game rituals, game-time ritu­ als, and post game antics are all parts of sport that even those w ith little or no knowledge about the game can relate to. ‘The Crazy Dogs’ had this kind of personality that satiates the cravings of our imaginations.

When my Dad from Vancouver phones to tell me about Chuck Peti­ pas’ field goal against St. Mary’s, I realized something special was hap­ pening. These guys are playing some damn exciting football. Mike Soles with both power and grace, Bryan Fuller with his uncanny intesinal for­ titude, Floyd Salazar with his bone­ crushing hits on helpless wide receiv­ ers, and best of all A1 Lekun staring the CTV camera in the face and chew­ ing up good of Milkbone Dog Biscuits with the zealousness of a teenager.

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Crazy Dogs chew up Thunderchickens

by Chris Flanagan “It was just another ordinary game.” said Redman centre A1 Lekun of the most decisive, most one-sided, most bone-crunching victory in the history of the Vanier Cup. The McGill Redmen clobbered the UBC Thunderbirds 47-11 in Saturday’s match for Cana­ dian University football supremacy.

The deciding factors had to be the hard hitting tenacity of the entire Redmen squad. The Crazy Dogs, the defensive line, the deep backs, the containment team and of course the Fuller, Soles, Iftll and Sordo connection hit UBC hard at every possible opportunity, destroying their usual game of finesse.

“We attacked and we intimidated,” said Lekun, “and everybody peaked all at once.”

Only in the opening minutes did the partisan Redmen crowd at Varsity Sta­ dium have anything to be apprehensive of. UBC quarterback, Jordan Gagner moved his team to the McGill 24 on their opening drive, only to have a sure touchdown batted away by Eric Toupin on the goal line. UBC kicker, Mike Bellefontaine, who had an abysmal day, bounced the 32 yard field goal attempt of the uprights. UBC went ahead 3-0 later in the first but the Red­ men defence shut them down com­ pletely for the next 45 minutes.

Although McGill’s offence came up short in the early going, specialty teams kept the Redmen in good field position.

Chuck Petitpas averaged 38 yards per punt on a cold, windy day, and Redmen coverage kept UBC returns to an average of two measly yards.

The Thunderbirds stuck to their passing game, even though Redmen deep coverage continually frustrated Gagner.

“We knew they had three good re­ ceivers.” Denis Touchette told the

Tribune, “our strategy was to go after them and hammer them.”

Meanwhile, McGill’s offence opted to blast massive holes through the UBC defence with the help of several hungry Crazy Dogs. Fuller completed three passes on the day, two of which led to their first of six touchdowns. At 7:23 of the second quarter, Fuller threw the ball over over the fast-approaching UBC front line, into the hands of Gerry Ifill, who sprinted 25 yards for the major.

The McGill offence turned defen­ sive a few minutes later when Fuller was intercepted by UBC deep back, Bruce McDonald. McGill’s Courtenay Shrimpton nailed McDonald, causing a fumble that was recovered by Mike Soles.

“He didn ’t look like he knew what he wanted to do,” Shrimpton said of McDonald, “so I stuck my helmet into his chest, I stood up, and Mike had

Martlet Express

by Steve ‘The T ex’ Dexter Move over Sooners, here come the Vanier Cup Redmen. Step aside Ten­ nessee and make some room for the 1987 Martlets. There just isn’t enough space on this continent for the best of North America. At last McGill is push­ ing back. No sir we’re staying dry this year... the rest of you can fall in the drink.

As the Redmen signed movie rights to their Cinderella story and contracts for dog biscuit commercials, the 15-1 Martlet basketball squad wrapped up the Concordia/Pepsi Invitational tour­ nament with a twelve point victory over the UPEI Panthers on Sunday.

McGill defeated Ottawa 67-61 on Fri­ day afternoon in the tourney opener. In an exciting one point thriller on Satur­ day, they erased a 15 point deficit to defeat eighth ranked Laurentian 69-68 with the winning points coming with only 8 seconds left, earning a berth in the final against UPEI. In Friday’s contest, Ottawa’s twenty four turnovers were a Gee Gee night­ mare as the Martlets’ full court press rattled almost every offensive manoeuver. Led by guard Tina Fasone’s 18 points, the ladies in red exploited Ottawa’s zone defence by moving the ball rapidly, and creating good shot selections.

While Gee Gee forward Elise Adol­ phe won the player of the game award

with her 20 point performance, first year forward Mirjana “I give night­ mares to broadcasters” Jurcic’s sixteen points, and inside domination on both ends, credited her with CKUT Sports game MVP. In the Championship match, it was former All-Canadian Heléne Cowan who dominated for McGill. Her 24 first half points forced UPEI to key on her in the second half, opening things up for Leah Hayman, Nat Melillo, Mireille Beland and Fasone. Coach Chris Hunter said following the game, “we played good disciplined defence and they had to key on Heléne, which opened things up for everybody else.”

Cowan had 33 points all tolled, and she was just exceptional on defence inter­ cepting passes and blocking shots.

That performance combined with her 33 points against Laurentian should have earned the tournament MVP award, but the selectors saw fit to honour speedy point guard Ria Bahadursingh of UPEI (say that five times fast). Cowan, however, did make the tourney all star squad as did Melillo.

Chris Hunter was quick to say before the tournament that their record was good, but that they hadn’t played that many quality teams. Well coach you can’t say that anymore. This tourney had some of the toughest teams in Eastern Canada and McGill will be ranked in the top ten this week.

jumped on the ball.”

Soles scored from the nine on the very next play. Make it 14-3 McGill with 1:24 left in the half. And that was just enough time for the Red defence to quash another UBC drive, giving Peti­ pas the opportunity to put it through the uprights from 31 yards out. The Red­ men led by 14 at the half.

McGill needed only one offensive play to often the scoring in the second half: a 48 yard touch down run by MVP and Offensive Star of the game, Mike Soles. The sea of red at Varsity Sta­ dium went into a frenzy. It was 2:14 of the third quarter, and the Redmen were

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UBC’s frustration increased soon after when they failed to get a point with a first down on the McGill 10 yard line. An incomplete pass and a punish­ ing tackle by Mark Haugwitz made it 3rd and five from the five. The ensuing fake field goal wouldn’t have fooled a blind man and the Redmen stopped the T-Birds cold.

UBC dug deeper into their play book with a well staged reverse on their next possession but Vince Gagné snuffed their attempt, downing Craig Keller for a loss.

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an emotional Vince Gagné after the game, “it was a long week and I want to go back to Montréal. We peaked at the end, that’s beautiful.”

Petitpas put the Redmen ahead by 24 with his second field goal early in the fourth quarter.

The defence would not let up - David Moffat got his big mitts in the way of a Jordan Gagner pass, tipping it into the hands of Wayne McRae who ran 67 yards for McGill’s fourth major and a new record for the Vanier Cup. “I was concentrating on the ball,” said McRae, “All I remember is cutting left, I don’t remember the rest but it feels good.”

The Redmen then continued to give the frozen fans an action-packed dis­ play of football at its finest. Included in the highlights: Luc Thiffeault snared a punt on a dead run, returning it 43 yards to the eighteen; Gerry Ifill scored two more touchdowns, setting yet another Vanier Cup record; Joff Elkas came in as quarterback and marched the Red­ men 69 yards for their record sixth touchdown; and Bryan Fuller fed welldeserved milkbones to a hungry pack of Crazy Dogs on the sideline.

The T-Birds finally got their only touchdown half way through the fourth but the Redmen margin of victory remained a record-breaking 36 points.

“We didn’t win very many individ­ ual awards,” said an elated Wayne McRae after the game, “but we won the only one that really counts.”

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. . .Bolshoi in concert continued from page 6 upbeat, powerful and never quite what you expected.

“Is it nice to be sitting down at a con­ cert?” Tanner queries, in between songs. “Bonjour, for you french people, nous sommes The Bolshoi....

Do you ever dance? When?... At the Disco?”. He’s an engaging frontman, and a big reason why the band should succeed. He threatens, cajoles and generally manipulates the crowd, and usually gets what he wants. “Yeah, I

had fun with the audience tonight,” he muses after the show, “I had fun.”

“Bolshoi” means ‘biggest’ or ‘best’ in Polish, and the band doesn’t tiptoe around the fact that that’s precisely what they want to be. Paul Clarke says he wants more albums and more tour­ ing, “a comfortable lifestyle so we can concentrate on writing.” Ambitions?

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